Back in February, I wrote about my search for the second Marsh family grocery store, which once stood in teensy New Pittsburg, Indiana. Only fifty people lived there when Wilmer Marsh opened his store in 1928¹, and the only image I’d ever seen of the place was a tiny, blurry photo in the Marsh book Lasting Values. Recently, though, I stumbled across a couple of much better views thanks to SHAARD.

The interior of Marion’s Five Points Mall has been closed since 2019¹, but yesterday, city officials declared Planet Fitness -the mall’s last remaining tenant, which featured an exterior entrance- permanently shuttered due to hazardous structural conditions². The building had deteriorated to the point that closing the gym was necessary for public safety³! With Planet Fitness gone, Five Points Mall is now completely vacant for the first time since the complex burst onto the scene as North Park Plaza in 1961⁴.