Comments on: Vintage Faire Mall; Modesto, California

By: Travis R

Travis R — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:19:26 +0000

Update 03/31/09:

Gottschalks has gone bankrupt! They will start to liquidate 4/5/09! Also Rodgers, an orginal to the mall, has been removed. I have had many good day’s at this mall. It is sad to walk through it and see so many emty slots where original stores once stood.

By: KittenPoker

KittenPoker — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:32:51 +0000

Randy, thanks for the correction. I was 9 when Vintage Faire first opened so my mind’s a bit fuzzy .

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:18:50 +0000

One note of correction to KittenPoker regarding the first anchor store openings, Weinstock’s and Gottschalks were the first Vintage Faire anchors to open on February 12, 1977. The rest of the mall opened about a month later, and Macy’s didn’t join the mall until 1981. The source of the openings are from the archived Modesto Bee on newspaperarchive.com.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:30:49 +0000

Heres a question…once the lifestlye faze gets old, are they going to put roofs over all of the lifestyles that they can and make them indoor malls to keep the cycle going? Just wondering…

By: LC

LC — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:26:26 +0000

Purely by coincidence, I ran across an aerial shot of the site about a week ago on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matt-bearup/2035436819/

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:39:12 +0000

That’s awesome it has a head shop

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:34:59 +0000

I’m waiting to see a piece on the Arden Fair in Sacramento so I can learn a little history. I’ve lived here for about 3 years now and don’t know much about the mall down the street from my house!

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:10:32 +0000

See, about 110° heat…that’s one thing malls offer that lifestyle centers don’t. Air conditioning for the win.

By: SEAN

SEAN — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:06:33 +0000

@ Caldor,

Do you plan posts on South Coast Plaza, Fashon Island or Irvine Spectrom Center?

I hope so, Thanks.

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:42:00 +0000

Yeah, Cali malls are cool, but I do long for the old, New England malls occasionally. And Texas. And Florida. And the South. And the Great North. But we can’t have everything…but I want to contribute a MEMORIAL CITY MALL posting some time.