circa 1961, former Eagal Ford, 711 E. Miner St, Stockton CA.
Somewhere the whole site redeveloped/expanded (a building went up on what was the Eagal outdoor lot), was last Valley Harley-Davidson dealership. Looks like (per Google maps) it spent a decade empty, and was vacant as of 2022.
Nothing architecturally distinctive here, and dont know what's there today.
Does show the evolution of "urban" dealerships from multistory, landlocked boxes, to a lotta outdoor space for inventory, to the suburban behemoths many are today.
What's left behind is the plethora of "white elephants" -- bland-to-grand urban retail "palaces" all over this thread. Some righteously repurposed, some cavernous empty boxes, and many just torn down with no traces left.
TANGENT ALERT
120 years since its inception, vehicle industry still seems to think a BIG SELECTION of new/used vehicles (and associated need for land/buildings, wholesale floorplanning of millions of $$ of inventory, heavy business overhead, etc.,) is best way to sell.
I dunno ... debate for a different thread I think.
2007(below)
2022 (below)
Somewhere the whole site redeveloped/expanded (a building went up on what was the Eagal outdoor lot), was last Valley Harley-Davidson dealership. Looks like (per Google maps) it spent a decade empty, and was vacant as of 2022.
Nothing architecturally distinctive here, and dont know what's there today.
Does show the evolution of "urban" dealerships from multistory, landlocked boxes, to a lotta outdoor space for inventory, to the suburban behemoths many are today.
What's left behind is the plethora of "white elephants" -- bland-to-grand urban retail "palaces" all over this thread. Some righteously repurposed, some cavernous empty boxes, and many just torn down with no traces left.
TANGENT ALERT
120 years since its inception, vehicle industry still seems to think a BIG SELECTION of new/used vehicles (and associated need for land/buildings, wholesale floorplanning of millions of $$ of inventory, heavy business overhead, etc.,) is best way to sell.
I dunno ... debate for a different thread I think.
2007(below)
2022 (below)
