Tampa, Florida, 1958

Long before Wal-Mart came up with the idea of combining a department store and a grocery store, J.M. Fields pioneered the concept up and down the East Coast, including Tampa, Florida, where this photo of a J.M. Fields store was taken in 1958. The location is now (or perhaps was) the Floriland Mall, right off I-275. What do you see here? And does this mean in 50 years we’ll be posting photos of modern-day Wal-Mart parking lots to our carspotting series?