What Do You Think You're Looking At? #20

An illustrated series on the unexpected lives of commercial buildings

Today’s building, in Bailey’s Crossroads in eastern Fairfax County, Virginia, is one of these. As in, one of those buildings whose exact history is extremely hard to pin down.

I’ve written about Bailey’s Crossroads before—here and here—on the subject of international supermarkets. While I was photographing one such supermarket in a former Toys ‘R’ Us sto…