Thursday, April 12, 2007

Exploring Bishop's Corner

Bishops Corner in West Hartford is a great place. There are four major complexes built in the 60's that are mixed use office and retail, sometimes with little tucked-away indoor mini-malls with travel agencies and barber shops.

Anyways, there was a mammouth two story Caldor here that was turned into a Marshalls upstairs and a supermarket downstairs. The supermarket was called Edwards. Here it is:


To the side there is a shared parking garage. The giant concrete slabs are supposed to be flower boxes, I think:


Lets take a peak inside!!


Some hobo has set up some furniture there amongst the abandoned shopping carts. How industrious! Lets head up to the top floor of the parking garage where you can get easy access to Marshalls.


Oops! When we got out and walked to the staiway down to Marshalls it was blocked. Full of more abandoned shopping carts, too!


Oh well... There is always this rape-o-matic stairwell that we could go down:



We didn't get his picture, but there was some guy with long hair and a guitar living in there when we visited. He was chased out by an old black security guard. Great work!

So lets walk back around to second level. Here is a little Marshall's waiting area of sorts. Three cool 1970's chairs, a trash can and an ash-tray. The trash can has a sign on it that says "trash only". It makes me wonder why someone would put a non-trash item in the trash and what business is it of the person who taped the note on there?


Finally our journey is complete and we survey the great stuff that Marshall's has to offer. Check out these four foot tall metal rabbit sculptures! Too cute!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Too funny!