The S.S. Kresge mother store stood at Woodward and Grand River Avenues, in downtown Detroit.
Graphic from https://detroithistorical.org / Detroit Historical Society

The S.S. Kresge in Pontiac, Michigan.

Graphic from https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org / Detroit Public Library Digital Collections

The Salem, Ohio "5-10-25 cent" S.S. Kresge store.

Photo from Salem Public Library

The next two images will be renderings of prospective Kresge units. Above, we see the Levittown Shop-A-Rama store in Pennsylvania. It welcomed first shoppers in 1954.

Drawing from the Kresge Company Annual Report 1953

The future Westgate Center store is depicted here. Kresge would serve as a junior-anchor at Ohio's very first shopping mall, which was being built in Greater Cleveland. Store and mall opened for business in 1954

Drawing from the Kresge Company Annual Report 1953

The Detroit-based 5 & 10 established a store in the Motor City's revolutionary Northland Center mall. This store also opened in 1954.

Photo from the Kresge Company Annual Report 1954 

The standard -1950s-issue- S.S. Kresge store.

Drawing from the Kresge Company Annual Report 1959

The standard store would include a large luncheonette-fountain section. Here, one could order a full, hot meal, snack, ice cream dessert, soft drink, coffee or tea. 

Photo from the Kresge Company Annual Report 1953

A rare peek into the working of an S.S. Kresge shows a typical kitchen at a large store.

Photo from the Kresge Company Annual Report 1953