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Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979, and will be closing its doors forever on September 14, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Looking from one of the back aisles through the food department to the front of the store.
Stagecoach 47166 (YJ05 XNF), an Optare Solo, passes The White House Cafe, Oscar Road, Broadstairs with 38 Palm Bay-Birchington service on the 10th of April 2015.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Another empty aisle, looking toward the front of the store. I believe this was one of the housewares aisles originally.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Looking down the back of the store. Beyond the bicycles (which would have originally been in a special rack right in front of me) is the store fixtures sale area.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Looking down the left boundary of the sales floor from the front of the store. The former pharmacy is just out of this photo to my left.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
The empty back right corner of the store. You would have been looking at an area filled with clothes if this was a month and a half earlier.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
The vestibule leading into the store, taken from the former greeting cards, now patio furniture/furniture/gardening department. On another note, if you look closely at that cop standing at the podium, you see that he's actually texting instead of keeping watch!
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
People, people everywhere!
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Looking into an emptied out area in the back of the store, near the fixtures department. Those double doors in the center of the photo led to the former layaway counter.
Taco Bell
2150 Harris Ave. NE, Palm Bay, FL
Opened 1980. Closed in 1999 when they moved to a new location at 4855 Babcock St. NE, a little south of the closing Kmart. After Taco Bell moved, this became Rico's Tacos and later Sand Dollar Cafe. in 2010, this became Mike and Sue's Chinese and Mexican Restaurant, which is still in operation. Chinese and Mexican sounds like a weird food combination, but I guess it's working here!
Besides the new paint job, this is an incredibly well preserved Mission style Taco Bell.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
The now much emptier left side of the store. The restrooms sign was the last of the department signs that remained on this day.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
A seemingly random shot looking toward the area where you first walked into the store.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Looking from the back main aisle toward where what merchandise was left was being sold. This photo gives a really good overview of the front of the store.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
And yet another photo of the empty left side of the store.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Some of the random merchandise that was for sale. This is as far back as the merchandise sales go, going about two thirds of the way to the back of the store. As you've seen previously, the back of the store is dedicated to fixtures.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Still quite a few bicycles remain. The bicycles were originally located on a special rack in the same location where they are now.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Looking from the former shoe aisles into the emptied out portion of the right side of the store, where children's clothing once was.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Looking down the main back aisle toward the right side of the store. Fixtures are all that remain back here.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Looking toward the right side of the store and the old Kcafe from the middle of the now condensed sales floor in the former clothing departments.
A pile of baskets of many heritages serves the Palm Bay Molly Mutt thrift store.From top to bottom:
Walgreens
Unknown
Walgreens
Home Depot(?)
Publix
The grey one full of cassettes to the right is my basket, which was of Ross heritage.
Taco Bell
2150 Harris Ave. NE, Palm Bay, FL
Opened 1980. Closed in 1999 when they moved to a new location at 4855 Babcock St. NE, a little south of the closing Kmart. After Taco Bell moved, this became Rico's Tacos and later Sand Dollar Cafe. in 2010, this became Mike and Sue's Chinese and Mexican Restaurant, which is still in operation. Chinese and Mexican sounds like a weird food combination, but I guess it's working here!
Right side of the building.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Some of the things that have been accumulating over the years under the now removed shelves, which have probably never been moved since the Big Kmart conversion in the late 90's. The shelves in this aisle were probably just removed earlier in the day since this wasn't cleaned up yet. I actually found an interesting souvenir in one of these piles which I'll share a little later.
I was out in the backyard and as it happened I had a camera with me. Saw this little fellow crawling thrrough the grass and then up our palm tree. Very wasp like but a little searching on Google turned up that this is a completely harmless Oleander Moth. I'd never seen one before this.
Dunkin Donuts
2090 Palm Bay Road NE, Palm Bay, FL
Opened 1986. Exact closing unknown. This was an independent donut shop for a while in between Dunkin and the dentist's office, which opened here in 2012.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
It's sad to see a once bustling place all empty and disassembled like this. This is another view into the back left corner.
There's a Ford T-Bucket rat rod that takes rat rod to heights I've never dreamed of. The owner's shoehorned a V6 Detroit Diesel truck engine into the Model T body. It's an outstanding piece of engineering. You can see and hear this beast running here:
Big thanks to the owner who fired it up for me to hear.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979, and will be closing its doors forever on September 14, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Same area, but viewed from a different angle.
Mrs. Winner's Chicken and Biscuits, Currently Wagon Wheel Pizza
1760 Palm Bay Road NE, Palm Bay, FL
Opened 1983. Closing unknown, but probably around the mid 90's when Mrs Winner's began scaling back their locations, as they no longer operate in Florida. Wagon Wheel opened here sometime in the mid-2000's.
A very nice front view of this restaurant, something I never really got the first time I took photos of this place. They did a really good job making this place look like it was once a house!
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Kmart says, "Let's go fly a kite!" Going from the looks of what's left, not too many people took them up on their offer. I think there were still quite a few kites left on this rack on last day as well. I can't even remember the last time I saw somebody flying a kite.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979, and will be closing its doors forever on September 14, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
The old video game cabinets on the edge of the electronics department. You can see where one of the shelves from the electronics department was taken out.
Mrs. Winner's Chicken and Biscuits, Currently Wagon Wheel Pizza
1760 Palm Bay Road NE, Palm Bay, FL
Opened 1983. Closing unknown, but probably around the mid 90's when Mrs Winner's began scaling back their locations, as they no longer operate in Florida. Wagon Wheel opened here sometime in the mid-2000's.
First of all, thank you l_dawg2000 for helping me identify this place a few months ago when I uploaded photos of it the first time (which you can see here)! This is the old Palm Bay Mrs. Winner's location located right behind the now closed Palm Bay Kmart. I originally uploaded photos of this place back in August during Restaurant Week as a mystery restaurant, and l_dawg2000 was able to solve this one! These photos are a little overdue. After finding out what this was, I went back to take some better photos of this restaurant, but just got to uploading them today. And speaking of mystery restaurants, I still have one left over from Restaurant Week that nobody has been able to solve yet, if any fresh eyes would like to take a look at it here. Since uploading that photo, I've actually eaten at that restaurant, and when I asked the waitress if she knew what the place was previously, she didn't even know what it was!
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979, and will be closing its doors forever on September 14, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Looking from the right side of the store to the left side of the store, from where the checkouts are.
A composite image put together in Photoshop of a few of the night launches from Kennedy Space Center viewed from our front yard.
A side on shot of the equipment. The attachment is a grinder, and the big bulge on the back a powerpack for it.
Forget to upload the misc photos on the scheduled day, on the 2nd week of trying to follow the schedule? I'd never do that. Never.
Somehow when setting up the camera out in the boondock wastelands of Palm Bay I accidentally spun the exposure compensation dial on my X-E2 to -3ev and didn't notice as I started shooting 30 second exposures of the sky.
Caught this one meteor trail while being eaten alive by mosquitos. Was able to recover some of the background sky in post but... Live and learn.
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores.
Looking beyond the kite racks (which marked the end of the merchandise area) toward the former electronics and seasonal departments.
Now that I have a camera (Fuji X-E2) that can do 30 second plus exposures I decided to head out and try some night sky exposures before the mosquitos take over Florida again. This is a 30 second exposure that came out pretty good for the conditions. It was a little too humid and it's really hard to get away from light pollution around here.