Clementon is comin' down!

The former Clementon Acme, which has been abandoned for about 2 decades, is about to be a thing of the past. The property's fate has finally been decided. Check out this Facebook to see the plans.

Inside the abandoned Clementon Acme!

The front wall has come down and it's now time to take a peak inside the old, abandoned Clementon Acme. The pictures below were sent an by Acme Style fan... 

Something must be in the works here. It's hard to believe that these buildings will be converted into something with all of the issues that have plagued the property over the years. Perhaps it is being prepared for demolition. 

The pictures were quite dark but I was able to adjust them in Photoshop for a better look at the back walls. All the tinkering left the photos a bit grainy but at least we can get some better hints at what the interior was like. Certainly in much better shape than the old Grants store. It's quite remarkable that the ceiling tiles look to be in near perfect condition. Every abandoned store I've seen has had cave-ins and serious water damage along the ceiling. The lights were common in early 80's Acmes. I remember them distinctly from the Rockaway Acme before the late 90's remodel. The pictures unfortunately don't give us a definitive answer on what the decor was. Judging from the picture below it may not have even been an Acme decor package. I've never seen these yellow stripes before...

A yellow stripe appears to extend along Produce. Customer Service would have been underneath the lower section of the drop ceiling behind the vestibule. Still not sure when this store closed. I looked through the comments on the original post and no one mentions a date. There was a comment that Walmart is putting one of their Neighborhood Markets here.

Abandoned Acme! Clementon NJ

I have been holding off posting this store for months now in hopes of tracking down more information on it. Haven't come up with much. Lots of Acme Style readers emailed about this eerie location in Clemeton New Jersey. I had seen pictures of it online years ago and was lucky to stumble upon it when I was heading to the abandoned Berlin location last spring.


What I do know about this Acme is that is started out as a ShopRite. I saw a picture online with the ShopRite signage once but have never been able to find that picture again. As you will see below, this store is located right next to an abandoned discount department store. That store started out as a WT Grants and may have become a Woolco. Unfortunately I have no dates as to when any of these stores opened or closed.


The criss-cross gates along the sidewalk were very common in Acmes of the 70's and 80's. Kept the shopping carts from rolling away.


Evidence of the fish-eye sign there to the right with the three boxes. There are pictures on flickr of the sign prior to it being vandalized which indicate that this store had the red oval logo prior to closing.


I would say that this was a larger than average Acme when it took over from the ShopRite.


Entrance on the right would have lead into Floral and Produce. Exit to the left which would have been behind Customer Service. The section in the middle looks like it had a window to post the sales circular and other specials. Another common feature in late 70's – early 80's stores.


I have several aerial shots below that show the ridiculously huge the parking lot was for this shopping center.


Here is the abandoned WT Grants to the right of the Acme. You will see in the aerial shots below that this store was massive in size.


From what little I have read, this shopping center has stood empty for at least 10 years. Efforts to bring new stores in were futile due to various problems with the property which included shoddy construction of these stores and a lack of proper drainage.


The sign up on White Horse Pike. You could almost miss this shopping center as you drove by with the stores seemingly miles back from the road...


The world's largest parking? Just might be. Even in this shopping center's heyday, would this parking lot even have been half full?




Quite a drive there from the entrance all the way down to the Acme! Hope there are readers out there who can provide more details of this abandoned shopping center.

UPDATE 9.24.10: Thanks to grrrkels, we have some interesting new pictures inside... and on top of... the Grants Department Store...

On the roof of the old Grants store.

Looking over towards the Acme.

The rear of the Acme in the upper left.

Now down into the Grants...

Up behind the Acme awning over looking the huge parking lot.