Took this picture yesterday of the now-shuttered JCPenney at Elizabeth City, NC's Southgate Mall. This was one of the 40 that were announced to be closing at the beginning of the year. From what I've learned (mainly from a DeadMalls link and from asajuana's posts), this location originally opened as a W.T. Grant with the mall in 1969; then became a Roses when W.T. Grant began shutting down around 1974. That led to Roses occupying that space until it became one of several Roses to close as a result of being blindsided by the rise of Wal-Mart; with JCPenney (which had moved to the mall in 1985) moving next door two years later.