O’Malia’s Food Market at 5550 Fall Creek Parkway Drive North in Indianapolis opened in 1976. Marsh purchased the company in 2001 and the store closed eight years later. The building was eventually demolished. Today, the site is home to Walmart Neighborhood Market.
Abandoned Marsh was my project to stylistically document the Marsh Supermarkets closed by Sun Capital Partners, an investment firm that owned the home-grown company for the final decade of its eighty-six year history. The last Marsh supermarket closed in 2017.
The company’s stores built from around 1980 to 2004 or so were easily identifiable because of their angular greenhouses and dark brick massing. Instead of taking pictures of the buildings, I decided to create 18×24 vector files in Adobe Illustrator, focusing on the complexity of their angles and how shadows and highlights interacted.
Hi Ted:Have you ever seen ‘geological markers’?My folks home
I don’t think I have!
I used to love that O’Malia’s, which had a real neighborhood feel to it. I thought Marsh was a slight downgrade at that particular location, but it was still a nice place to go. The Wal Mart Neighborhood Market is just depressing.
I confess to never stepping foot in an O’Malia’s aside from the one in Carmel once Marsh owned it. I’ve been in a few Walmart Neighborhood Markets, but do my best to avoid them.