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This store is located at 11732 W. Broad Street in Henrico, VA and is located in the Short Pump Town Center. It was built in 2004 as a Circuit City. In 2009, Circuit City closed and this store became an hhgregg. hhgregg closed in April, 2017.
This store is located at 11732 W. Broad Street in Henrico, VA and is located in the Short Pump Town Center. It was built in 2004 as a Circuit City. In 2009, Circuit City closed and this store became an hhgregg. hhgregg closed in April, 2017.
The other two big box stores in the strip mall with Loeb supermarket.
Until I moved to Nepean, I had never been in a Best Buy store in my life.
I still haven't been inside a Linens N' Things store yet in my life.
This block, on the south side of Sainte Catherine Street between Place Phillips (Phillips Square) and Saint Alexandre Street, is a rather long block for this part of dowtown Montreal. (The corresponding north side of the street is broken up by City Councillors Street between Aylmer Street and Saint Alexandre.)
The Future Shop opened at some point in the late 1990s; to be honest, I don't remember what was there before. The ground floor of the building it's in to the east of the main entrance used to be a Pharmaprix, which moved a couple of doors down to Sainte Catherine Street east of Saint Alexandre Street.
The Le Parisien Cinema was still open when I took this film photo in July 2006, but has since closed due to Cineplex-Odeon opening a huge French-language multiplex, Le Cinéplex-Odéon Quartier Latin, on Emery Street at Saint Dénis Street.
There's also Labyrinthe, which is a basement-level t-shirt shop, mainly music-oriented, which also has a small comic book shop attached from which I bought several of my anime t-shirts.
This strip mall and office centre on Clyde Avenue has the most important store in all of Nepean as far as I'm concerned, The Anime Stop (and its parent store, The Comic Book Shoppe), but it also has Bleeker Stereo & TV, M&M Meat Shops, the Local Heroes Bar & Grill, Palason Billiards, Dutch Groceries, and other stores and services.
Panorama assembled in Autostitch.
Mobile phones vying for the attention of customers in a Japanese electronics store. It really was an experience to stroll through the aisles and let the sights and sounds of the various appliances work your senses...
Sofmap Co., Ltd. (ソフマップ) or Sofumappu, a subsidiary of Bic Camera, is a Japanese electronics retailer operating 12 shops around Akihabara. They opened up their main branch, a 7-level Megastore covering 4600m² in 2007.
I was about to give up and go home to rest when I spotted this colourful doner kebab (shawarma) shop in Akihabara, very close to the station. And the man running it was from India and spoke perfect Hindi. I asked him if there was anything else of interest in the vicinity. Good man, he pointed out to one of the side street- I would have missed a very important part of Akihabara and gone back to my hotel had I not asked him. And despite my over thirteen hours of non stop activity, hunger was not something I was feeling then- I was probably too tired for it- so I did not buy a doner from him, These Turkish doner kebabs are huge- I've eaten them in Turkey- and I wouldn't have been able to finish my kebab even if I had bought one. Doner or shawarma is meat on a split, which is sliced and put into pita bread and served with salads, pickles and condiments, rolled up into a sandwich. You can faintly make out the meat on the spit dead centre. This type of sandwich is called doner in Turkey, shawarma in most Arabian countries and souvlaki in Greece. (Tokyo, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
Another look at two of the scores of mostly young men (and a couple of women too) standing outside Akihabara metro station with their faces glued to their smartphones. To copy past my caption to my earlier image (see previous pictue) (quote) Folk on their smartphones outside Akihabara station trying to hook up with someone for the night. Spotting an unusually long line of of men (mostly- I saw only one girl) lined up with their faces stuck to their smartphones. The long line of folk doing this made me think they were looking for scores of a game or a news flash or something. So I very innocently asked one of them what everyone is looking at. He told me in no uncertain terms to get lost! And he did not mince his words. I then asked a passing shopper, a lady. She laughed and replied with a smirk that they are probably trying to hook up with someone for the night. So that is the magic of the Tinder app (or any similar Japanese version of it) at work I guess! (unquote) (Tokyo, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
Sofmap Co., Ltd. (ソフマップ) or Sofumappu, a subsidiary of Bic Camera, is a Japanese electronics retailer operating 12 shops around Akihabara. They opened up their main branch, a 7-level Megastore covering 4600m² in 2007.
Sofmap Co., Ltd. (ソフマップ) or Sofumappu, a subsidiary of Bic Camera, is a Japanese electronics retailer operating 12 shops around Akihabara. They opened up their main branch, a 60-meter tall, 7-level Megastore covering 4600m² in 2007.
Sofmap Co., Ltd. (ソフマップ) or Sofumappu, a subsidiary of Bic Camera, is a Japanese electronics retailer operating 12 shops around Akihabara. They opened up their main branch, a 7-level Megastore covering 4600m² in 2007.
This one, in the parking lot of the Best Buy on Merivale Road in Nepean, is from around 2003, a few years older than the one I saw in the parking lot of Billings Bridge shopping centre a few days prior but still very badass looking.
This is a former T-Mobile store at the Deptford Mall in the Deptford Mall in Deptford, New Jersey.
I'm not sure when this store closed, relative to when this photo was taken... however most of the store fixtures, along with the magenta lights still remain.
Folk on their smartphones outside Akihabara station trying to hook up with someone for the night. Spotting an unusually long line of of men (mostly- I saw only one girl) lined up with their faces stuck to their smartphones. The long line of folk doing this made me think they were looking for scores of a game or a news flash or something. So I very innocently asked one of them what everyone is looking at. He told me in no uncertain terms to get lost! And he did not mince his words. I then asked a passing shopper, a lady. She laughed and replied with a smirk that they are probably trying to hook up with someone for the night. So that is the magic of the Tinder app (or any similar Japanese version of it) at work I guess! (Tokyo, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
Some naughty stuff- and I thought Akihabara was purely the electronic district! Well, electronic could have several connotations here in Akhihabara. One is sales of electronic gadgets- there are plenty of stores for that, the the picture of the largest of them appears later in this album. Then are the many anime parlours, maids cafes, karaoke places and of course video parlours like this one. In fact the Japanese are suckers for electronic entertainment and video parlours and gaming arcades are a dime a dozen in many areas of Tokyo. Many of these are on the upper floors, something I am super ware about, and with almost 100% signage in Japanese, it is prettyclear that these are for Japanese clientele only and that foreigners are not welcome. (Tokyo, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
The sun is setting on Circuit City Plaza. I Guess it is time for a new name.
This photo is of the sign for the Circuit City Plaza in Altamonte Springs, Orlando, Florida.
This one, in the parking lot of the Best Buy on Merivale Road in Nepean, is from around 2003, a few years older than the one I saw in the parking lot of Billings Bridge shopping centre a few days prior but still very badass looking.
Hundreds of electronics shops, ranging from tiny one-man stalls specializing in a particular electronic component to large electronics retailers, line the main Chuo Dori street and the crowded side streets can be found all around Akihabara. However it this this large The Yodobashi electronics mega store which dominates Akihabara. This young ladyhere is promoting Casio products. I took this picture while walking as I did not want to distract of disturb the young lady during her presentation, consequently this picture turned out rather blurred unfortunately. Although the Yodobashi mega store seen here offers everything electronic under one roof, the other shops in the neighbourhood offer everything from the latest computers, cameras, televisions, mobile phones, electronics parts and home appliances to second-hand goods and electronic junk. (Tokyo, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
Photo of Silo Showroom from 1973 Annual Report. I remember going to stores like this before the big box outlets took over.
Ah, now that is more like Akihabara- thank goodness I listened to the guy in the doner kebab stall and ventured here. This is a electronic display in a show window which advertises the Akihabara Entertainment Area. And of course, entertainment in this part of town means electronic and character based entertainment, DVD parlours and karoke bases The character of Akihabara has been changing constantly over the decades and continues to do so. In the last decade, Akihabara has emerged as a center of Japanese otaku (techno geeks obsessed with video games) and anime (hand drawn computer based animation) culture, and dozens of stores specializing in anime, manga, retro video games, figurines, card games, and other collectibles have filled the spaces between the electronics retailers. (Tokyo, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
This photo is of the Circuit City in Waterford Lakes Town Center, Orlando, Florida.
Circuit City's history dates back to 1949. Circuit City struggled to reinvent itself; however, its emphasis on high-priced TVs and a decision to replace the commissioned sales staff members with less skilled hourly employees didn't work out. Circuit City closed its doors for a final time on Sunday, March 8th, 2009.
Update: On Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Systemax Inc. (SYX) completed the acquisition of the Circuit City e-commerce business and launched the "new and improved" CircuitCity.com. Out of the ashes... we will see how this works out.
Time to wrap up my visit to Akihabara electronics district now and head home- its far in excess of thirteen hours that I have been up and about with no respite barring the odd stop for lunch or coffee, so I am thoroughly pooped. Just as I turned some movement on a large video wall attracted my attention. This large and colourful set of anime characters was sliding back and forth from left to right. There were just two or three slides which kept playing in a loop. Colourful, aren't they? Anime is hand drawn based animation aimed at both the young and the old, though people who patronize these joints are usually youngsters Everything is typically Japanese, presented in Japanese and is aimed at the local Japanese, so ageing aliens (as in foreigner) like me would definitely not be welcome here! (Tokyo, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)