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Post by Adam D. on Oct 4, 2007 20:43:19 GMT -5
Has been added to the Vintage Commercial Fluorescent Light Fixture Gallery...
This is it, the last Publix that I know of to be torn down or modernized.....No more of these Fluorescent light fixtures exist anymore that I know of. Have the building is already torn down. I drove buy to look, and I didn't notice any of the light fixtures lying around. I wonder if they took them down before demolition....
What a shame. The store me and my grandmother use to shop at. she died in 2005.........if anyone has any info on these fixtures, I want to hear it. I did search on google and no such luck...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2007 19:25:59 GMT -5
nice pics adam, i remember what the floors in the older stores looked like too. i'd like to get some more shots of some other retro stores too
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Post by Adam D. on Oct 6, 2007 20:06:16 GMT -5
Thanks....Adam
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2007 1:16:43 GMT -5
Alot of the new publix stores and many others i noticed are using those big round "gymnasium" type fixtures now with the big light bulbs instead of flourecent ones like this  |
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Post by Adam D. on Oct 7, 2007 4:03:30 GMT -5
I've noticed..The ones being built now, they also do away with the drop ceiling...
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Post by Fanman on Oct 7, 2007 9:43:47 GMT -5
Our Publix looked pretty much like the one in the picture that you said was from the 1980s. I don't think that picture is from the 80s, it would have to be mid 90s at least, because the cars don't look like 80s. Your Publix looks like it had been moderenized some. Prior to the remodel around 1998, ours hadn't had much if any remodeling done to it since at least the 80s. It was built in 1962, and had those same light fixtures and big round silver vents.
The green and white concrete floors were terazzo. Our Publix had them and they covered them with gray and white vinyl tiles. The terazzo had rust stains and was in bad shape.
However, the Publix in the next town was built in 1984, and still has the terazzo floors and they are in great condition.
I've noticed many new Publixes and Walmarts, etc have no dropped ceilings and with those big round lights. I don't like it. It's a cost saving measure, I guess.
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Post by Fanman on Oct 7, 2007 9:46:54 GMT -5
By the way, the ones in our store said Southern Lighting on them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2007 12:56:44 GMT -5
yeah the ceilings are just the steel beams now
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Post by Adam D. on Oct 7, 2007 15:39:31 GMT -5
The Publix in the pictures that I took, looked just like that as far back as I can remember, my grandma and me use to shop there before she moved out of her house in 2000. It does look like it has been modernized at some point, it probably was remodeled a little in the early 1980s, I'm guessing. The one we use to live from right up the street looked like the picture from the 1980s. I don't remember if it had those big vents or not. They remodeled in mid 1997....That picture looks like it has some mid 1980s cars in it, and the other in front of the store I can't really tell, but I only did a quick study on the picture before putting it up. The truck maybe a 90s model, but can't tell due to being blocked by another car.....You might be right....
You or someone said that those lights said Southern Lighting on them. I did a search and the only thing that comes up are galleries with fancy lighting...
Adam
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Post by Adam D. on Oct 7, 2007 15:47:07 GMT -5
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Post by Adam D. on Oct 8, 2007 19:52:52 GMT -5
Good news....I was able to rescue two of them off the floor.....Pictures added and Label...Check them out.....Adam
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2007 21:21:10 GMT -5
cant wait to see if they work good still, you can probaly use them as a shop light where you store your fans too. ill let you know tommorow if i can go back with you or not
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Post by Adam D. on Oct 9, 2007 3:29:01 GMT -5
Ya, I would like to go back. I tried going by myself today but the wrecking company was there till dark. I would like to get one more light fixture. But I don't see that happening, by the time it would be safe to go in, the fixtures will probably be gone or smashed up....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 13:15:54 GMT -5
unless they knocked down a few more, not sure though
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Post by Adam D. on Oct 9, 2007 14:53:23 GMT -5
might have by now.....
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