Help Us!
You may be wondering what you can do to help move our project along. I’m glad you asked, because there are three easy ways that you can make a contribution to make Labelscar into the best site it can be and help as many people as possible to find it.
1. Give Us a Link
If you have your own blog or website of any kind, the best thing you can do for us is to link to one of our pages. Heck, link to more than one–we’d love that, too. We’re no fools–if we’re putting all this stuff online, we want as many people to read it as possible. The more that people are willing to tell their friends and site visitors about Labelscar, the more that can happen.
2. Send us Stuff
It’s pretty difficult to dig up all of the information for this website. Between the time spent taking road trips to get photos and the time spent researching, it eats up a lot of hours. Furthermore, due to logistics - personal lives, funding limitations, etc. - we can’t travel everywhere and see everything that deserves to be on this site. Even more importantly, this is fundamentally a retail *history* blog, and that means we want to show you things from the past as well as the present. Old malls, old chains, stuff like that–if you have photos and stories, please share them with us. Or even send us current stuff, too. We’ll give you credit and (if applicable) a link back to your own website or blog. In doing so, you’ll keep our site full of great, rare stuff we all want to see.
And even if you can’t help with anything, we’re thankful you’re even reading this page. Creating this website to share our hobby has been great fun, but knowing a growing audience is finding entertainment from it is reward in itself.
on November 6th, 2006 at 6:19 am
I have some mall info for malls in the Houston and New Orleans areas I would like to submit to the site. How do I go about submitting them to the site?
on November 15th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Hello,
I was perusing through Labelscar and was pretty surprised to see a link to my newly-grand-opened MALL HALL OF FAME Blog included in your Directory.
I cannot thank you enough for including this link to my blogsite! I mean, I never even had to send you guys an email to ask you do this.
I have been trying to figure out how to “edit my links” on the MHOF Blog, so that I might include links to other “mall related” blogs and websites. Thus far, I have tried to do this….but apparently I am doing something wrong; the links won’t appear on my blog (I know NADA about HTML codes and the like).
I’ll keep trying…hee hee.
Thanks again.
By the way, if you would like to use ANY of the content that I have created for articles on MHOF (using said material for articles on Labelscar), feel free to do so.
I have done “mini-mallmanac” plan/layout drawings for every mall on my blog. Moreover, I also did artist/rendering drawings for DAYTON MALL and EASTGATE MALL (Chattanooga). I may do more of these, as time permits.
If you ever are working on Labelscar articles for the malls in the Southwestern Ohio area (I grew up there), don’t hesitate to email me. I might be able to help you guys out.
bossanovabear@yahoo.com
or
gamtnman@peoplepc.com
Cheers,
Dennis
Mall Hall Of Fame Blog
on December 12th, 2006 at 5:33 am
I’m visiting a friend in Kentucky next week (Louisville, with likely stops in Lexington and Frankfort), and I’ve been promised dead malls aplenty. I will keep you informed of what I find.
on December 20th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Hey, I’ve been collecting mall maps for several years now. I have Southern Hills Mall, my local mall, Altamonte Mall, Parkdale Mall (it has an NBC station inside!), Vista Hills Mall, Mall at Millenia, and more.
Contact me if you want some scans!
on December 21st, 2006 at 2:35 am
Melbourne Florida checking in here! If you tell me how to submit I might start capturing dead malls instead of landscape art images? A different kind of landscape art maybe?
Brenda
on January 1st, 2007 at 10:35 am
Malls adapting to new trends - recent news story about North Texas Malls
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/16155517.htm
on January 23rd, 2007 at 4:14 am
Picture is of Houston Mall in 1976
I went to the Houston Mall in October 2006. I was rehab shopping for my mother. No, not THAT kind of rehab; she is becoming less and less mobile with her disease.
Houston Mall was opened in 1972 and anchored by WT Grant’s, Sears, and Belk-Matthews. In the Grants court there were Eckerd’s with a lunch counter and a Playland toy store. On the northeast wing was a locksmith, a Dipper Dan and an art store. There was also a card shop. The main court had an Elmore’s discount store, a bookstore, and an Orange Julius.
The center was the most modern in Central Georgia until 1975 when Macon Mall cut its ribbon. Up until the late Eighties it was still a thriving mall. The Galleria in Centerville was the death blow when it opened in 1994. Oddly Houston Mall is attracting a few tenants while the Galleria is a hangout for teens which has trouble keeping stores.
Even at 3:30 PM the mall is dead. Evelyn’s, the dress shop that was too stubborn to leave, is no more. A third of the mall is rented by the Houston Medical Center. This is not a bad idea if the $/sqft sales are high even for spending money on medical procedures. But HMC isn’t the Mayo Clinic or Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
The northeast entrance is no more. Home Decor resides in it, the small stores along the way, and in two or more old stores possibly carved out of WT Grant’s. I remember when my sis and I went to Grant’s and bought a small globe. This was on a Sunday. Eckerd’s is a billing center for HMC and the northeast corridor has Warner Robins Municipal Court and a probation office. A nail place and beauty supply replaced stores near where the old record store and Burton’s shoes once thrived. I forgot there was a southeast wing to the mall. It has a few of HMC’s storefront facilities.
Were I HMC and if no expansion were already planned for the hospital I’d buy the mall and revamp it. Then I would rent it out. Hospitals likely find themselves hurting to make a profit and though Houston Medical Center doesn’t have indigents bleeding them dry it remains a neat idea.
Management needs to market the mall as an office center and fill the hallway with another row of offices. Perhaps they can bulldoze all but the east and west anchors and make a strip mall. Westgate did this but their mistake was remaining commercial in a deteriorating neighborhood.
on January 23rd, 2007 at 6:14 am
What is the deal with the Westgate site? I spent a couple years in Warner Robins(No I was not affiliated in any way with the Air Force) and I always had a sense that the Eisenhower/Pio Nono area wasn’t gonna hold together even with the power center.
Is it just a completely dead power center now? And btw, did they ever add that 4th department store to the Galleria Mall or is it still an empty plot of land?
on January 23rd, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Bob, do you mean fifth department store? Centerville has Belk, Goody’s, JCPenney, Sears, and a plot of land for a fifth store that seems to have never opened. Any idea what it would have been?
on January 24th, 2007 at 6:52 am
I don’t count Goody’s as a true anchor.
Rumor was that Dillard’s was to move into the plot of land. I also seem to recall that Centerville was delayed in its opening and actually had construction stalled at 1 time. Any truth to this that you can dig up?
on January 26th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
here’s a link to the life and death of the south’s oldest indoor shopping mall.
on January 28th, 2007 at 4:34 am
heres a link to a blog i just started, showing most of my collection of retail memoribilia, I would be honored if you would post it on your site and if you could give me instructions to link yours, i would appreciate it…thanks!
on February 1st, 2007 at 5:52 am
I have some great pics of a mall that is now dead and abandoned in Milwaukee . . . Northridge Mall. These are actually photos of the mall from the inside about a month or two before it closed down. I actually have a directory of the mall from 1984 and one from 1992 that I can scan into my computer if anybody is interested. I know the history of the mall, which is very interesting, because it opened a year after an identical mall was built on the south side of Milwaukee . . . Southridge Mall . . . which is still thriving today.
on February 18th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Currently investigating the mall trends per area and researching ways of improving the sale/shopping experience (customer-retailers relation)…
Online browsing/shopping has bent the natural marketing laws our malls used to live by. Today, the mall clientele is under more pressure (time, budget, children, etc.) Naturally turning to a family-friendly shopping solution,
it does appear that staffed indoor playgrounds (e.g., with ballrooms) for young children - offering parents a break in favor of convenient shopping - could bring slow-sale immunity to most of our malls.
Welcoming reactions
on April 5th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
There was a great mall in Lafayette, Louisiana (PRE ACADIANA MALL DAYS) It was very small compared to today’s malls. Mall was called
Northgate Mall. Its still there today, a former shell of itself, but it the 70’s when I was a child I remember my friend and I used to hang out there from the ages of 11 -14. Unfortunately I have no pictures of it but may be able to obtain 1 or 2 from the City of Lafayette, but I will have to look into it.
Original anchors were JC Penny & Montgomery Wards. Mall opened in 1963 I think, I was not born yet. Mall was added on to in the 70’s and 2 more anchors were added Service Merchandise & Bealls.
Stores in 1980 were as follows: JC Penny’s w/ a cafeteria,
Montgomery Wards, Orange Julius, Musicland, REGIS Hairstyles, Driftwood Lounge, The Hanger, Chess King, Emielle Josephs, Bakers Shoes, Shoe Town, Lerner, The Fair, TG & Y, K & B Drugs, A & G Cafeteria, Maison de Hallmark, Keds Shoes, Millers Outpost, Weingartens Grocery Store. New addition included: Morrows Nut House, Great American Cookie, B Dalton Books, Radio Shack, Steuart’s Fashions, Bealls, Sweeney Jewlers, and Service Merchandise
There was no food court in this mall so the eatries were scattered about.
In 1979 Acadiana Mall opened at Johnston Street and Ambassador Caffery Dr. (Used to be called New Flanders Rd) That mall did not kill off Northgate right away. Despite being a bigger mall, very modern, with trendy stores that Northgate did not have, Northgate still held its on through the mid 80’s but when Weingartens Grocery closed about 1984, that was the beginning of the end. Soon after Shoe Town was gone, then Chess King, and so on………
I don’t know whats left inside the mall itself but every store listed above has closed up. The JCPennys eventually went to Acadiana Mall and the Montgomery Wards folded in 2000 with the closing of the chain. The Pennys is now an Albertsons grocery store and the Wards a Home Depot.
on April 5th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Thanks for the info on Northgate Mall. Also, you forgot something - Service Merch at Northgate used to be Wilson’s.
on April 8th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I know 2 malls you should add to your site…. in Kansas City, MO
Metro North Mall
Antioch Center
I have tons of info about them if you need it, and I have a dozen or so pics of Antioch Center also ^-^
on April 12th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
The DeadMalls site has some great commentaries about North Town Mall, a totally dead little mall in Springfield, MO. You might want to add some pictures of it before the Wal-Mart people tear it down. What’s with Wal-Mart bulldozing all the malls in Missouri?
on April 16th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Hi, I’m from Liverpool,NY my father was a long time member of the maintinance dept. at the PennCan Mall from 1989-2001 when Burdick took over and eliminated my fathers job. Anyways I’m a big mall fanatic and I like to collect info and photos of local & malls from all over. I have helped the creator of the PennCan site build a collection of photos. Just about all the 70’s classic photos I have in my possesion I sent through a photo website I created using photoalbum.com. You may view this collection and if you see anything you like, feel free to post it under the PennCan profile page! I viewed the latest post about Pyramid Mall in Ithaca, now I’m gonna have to take that hour drive out there now to see it for myself. Speaking of I have a map that I cut out & posted on that photoalbum that pin points all the malls that Pyramid owns & plans on selling. Thanks
on April 27th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Here is a great link, to show the history of a dead or dieing mall in Macomb County, MI. I read your review About Summit Place Mall which I am familiar with, I actually used to get my son’s pictures taken at the “my photographer” that was there which has now relocated. Universal mall is the mall of my childhood and I have many great memiories there and would love to see some one perserve those for me and future generation.
Thank you for the awesome work you are doing!
Sarah
on April 30th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Hey fellow mall rats,
Was surfin the web and found your site, cool stuff guys, I dig the malls. I used to spend lots of hours at the greats here is SOCAL, my fav always Del Amo. Keep up the good work!
AL
PS I know guys in SOCAL with lots of mall stuff, maybe you and them could hook up.
on May 2nd, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I think you guys would be interested in City Center Mall in Downtown Columbus Ohio. Here’s a link to a recent article about it:
http://www.nbc4i.com/midwest/cmh/news.apx.-content-articles-CMH-2007-04-12-0021.html
It even has video!
Here’s the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_City_Center
My personal experience with the mall is this: When I came to Columbus in 2001 as an Ohio State student, it was “the” place to go, especially due to the easy access from campus. Since then, it’s died a relatively quick death. Last time I was there, I was actually creeped out because it’s practically a retail graveyard. There are SO many vacant storefronts that it’s difficult to even find the stores that are still hanging on. It’s become quite a thorn in the side of the city as they struggle to revitalize this blight right in the middle of our downtown.
I think part of the demise is a result of the bigger, better, more specialized malls in the area that have been developed, particularly Easton Town Center (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easton_Town_Center) and Polaris Fashion Place (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_Fashion_Place). These malls are targeted toward a more high-end crowd.
Let me know if you’d like me to get some pictures of any of these places.
There’s also a similarly abandoned mall called Forest Fair Mall. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/1999/08/15/fin_forest_fair_mall.html
on May 22nd, 2007 at 10:27 pm
I was just at Northgate 5 days ago and it is pathetic. The only store listed above that is open is the maison de hallmark. Only about 15 stores are inside the actual mall and it felt like the a/c was off. Anna’s linens is approx where the tg&y was and the other stores in the mall are urban clothing stores and cell phone stores. Towards the end of the mall are several beauty shops so I lost interest and did not even make it to the other end of the mall. The Albertson’s and Home Depot that are closed off to the mall do great business and had several cars in the parking lot. The new development on Louisiana Ave & I-10 will probably take away the last few customers from the mall and it will more than likely close in a couple of years.
on June 3rd, 2007 at 5:33 pm
I have alot of information for your Monmouth Mall, NJ section, specifically JCPenney. I worked in JCPenney in the 1990’s. Was there pre and post remodel of the mall. Email me with any questions you may have.
And just to add to the information you already have posted, the JCPenney was originally constructed as a JCPenney in 1976. The JCPenney was always a JCPenney, unlike the other anchor buildings that were sold and changed names.
Thanks for your time
on June 17th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Hi there. I’ve already been on your sight for many hours now, and I’m completely enthralled by it. I live in palm beach gardens, florida…where as I’m sure you know is The Gardens Mall. Anyways. There is an ailing mall in West Palm Beach about ten minutes south, The Palm Beach Mall, which is almost 50 years old. There used to be a mall in between the two called the Twin City Mall which was anchored by Sears, Jefferson’s and a third one…closed about 15 years ago, and is now mixed use restaurants, banks, grocery store, etc. I hate the big shopping centers with the mega stores…that are becoming all too popular in suburbia. Also, I noticed you do not have West Virginia in your list. How/where/when can I submit info and photos?
on June 19th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
In the malls of New England link, you are missing one of Boston’s malls…The Corner Mall in Downtown Crossing. Just thought you should know so you can add it to the list.
on June 23rd, 2007 at 12:17 am
no web site….but was looking up what my neighborhoods historical stuff…
I am very close to the old Blue Ridge Mall In KC MO
Guess what is there now..??? A Giant Walmart….and there is already a walmart within a 10 min drive.
I can snail mail photos..its very sad.
I want to move
on July 1st, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Port Plaza (as most people know it) definitely falls into the category of dead malls. This used to be THE place to shop in Green Bay, Wisconsin. A friend and I decided to stop in about 4 years ago and it was depressing to see about 90% of the storefronts empty. It wasn’t a huge shock when they announced the mall was abruptly closing in 2006, as the place to shop now is Bay Park Square.
on July 3rd, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Thanks for the Southern Tier mall update in Upstate NY. Based on that, and the other mall trips that you have had, the next two logical trips would be to either the Rochester malls (which I could help with) and/or the Scranton/Wilkes Barre PA malls, including Steamtown, a large downtown mall built in the early 90’s. Even better, there are malls that have not been looked at here that are on the way to these places (Sangertown Square and FIngerlakes Mall, two of the early Pyramid Designs in the case of Rochester, and the small Southside Mall between Albany and Binghamton NY).
on July 12th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Guys, I found a bunch of vintage pictures featuring the construction, and exterior / interior shots of Valley Fair Mall that was on the outskirts of Appleton WI. This mall is no longer open to the public after an attempt and failure of trying to convert the complex into a ‘youth oriented’ mall.
They claim to be the world’s first fully enclosed, climate-controlled shopping center, but we all know who has that claim to fame. Still it’s one of Wisconsin’s first, that’s for sure.
I visited the mall once in 1993, twice in 1995, and my final time in early 2000. None of those times, did I get any images.
http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=U0&Dato=20070710&Kategori=APCNEWS&Lopenr=707100810&Ref=PH
Should this page of images go offline, I did save the pics locally to my computer for a possible future writeup on the mall for this site (Mall Hall of Fame also did a Valley Fair entry, but it’s buried in their archives). Being from the region, and having family that’s lived in the area since the 1970s, between myself and them, I have tons of information in my mind.
I need to get cracking on Northland Mall as well…..that’s Appleton’s ‘other’ mall.
on July 13th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
The small city of Marquette, Michigan, used to have two malls: Marquette Mall and Westwood Mall. Westwood is in operation, but I believe Marquette closed. There is a car dealer on the site, and I think some fast food. I will be up there next month. Does anyone have any information?
on July 17th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
I’m in Oak Ridge TN right now and there is a mall called something like Rutger Place, but it will be a lifestyle center soon. I’ll try to visit and take pics.
on July 18th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Can you find the exact name please? I can’t find anything on Google.
on July 19th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Caldor, I know another mall in Nj that you probably haven’t even been to or heard of.
It’s the Holiday City Mall in the holiday City development (a giant age-restricted community) in Toms River, NJ. It’s a mini mall, & has no anchors.
It has a Freedman’s Bakery, Silver Threads (a local chain that sells clothes for old people), a vitamin store, a small grocery store, a few banks, a restaurant, a few rea estate offices, i think an antique store, a showroom for some contractor, and a few other places. It’s really bizarre.
It’s probably been there since who knows how long and is packed with tons of old people.
It’s at the intersection of Jamaica blvd & plaza dr (in the middle of a giant development).
on July 19th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
I got some photos and a mall directory of Valley View Mall (aka Tanglewood’s killer). I can send some to you, but you don’t have anything yet.
on August 6th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
White Plains NY has malls worth checking out.
1 GALLERIA
2 THE WESTCHESTER
3 CITY CENTER
I work close by to them, if you post i will ad more info.
COME ON DOWN! Excuse the t p i r reference.
on August 17th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Looking for pictures of the old Twin City Mall located in North Palm Beach.
This mall was built in 1970 and I cant seem to find ANY pictures…
Thanks!
on August 17th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Here’s my site with photos and Information on Lakehurst Mall that stood in Waukegan, Illinois…
http://www.freewebs.com/lakehurst/
I used to go to this mall all the time, and almost all movies I saw in a theatre until recently were at the Lakehurst Cinema. The mall opened in 1971 with three anchors, and started to die when Gurnee Mills was built. It met the wrecking ball in 2003 and the demo crews are just wrapping up demolition of the theatre.
I also have the sign from this mall that stood at the Rt. 120 off-ramp.
on August 20th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Was reading the write-up on Laurel Mall in Laurel, Maryland. It says the mall opened in 1977. I lived in Laurel all my life and was at the mall on opening day. It opened in 1979, not 1977. I was still riding my bike on the dirt hills between the old shopping center and Montgomery Ward in 1977.
on August 23rd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I see from the Delaware posts you were just in the Philadelphia area, or someone was. There’s two treasure you ought to check out. the MacDade Mall in Delaware County, PA on MacDade Blvd. near South Ave. This one has like 4 stores left, a K-Mart (former Woolco I believe) and an Acme Supermarket. It’s still open as far as I know but not for long. The other is Cheltenham Square Mall at Ogontz Avenue (Route 309) and Cheltenham Avenue on the Cheltenham/Philadelphia border. This one’s not doing as bad as MacDade but is anchored by Burlington Coat Factory and Value City, a sign of decay. A Home Depot is also on the property. I don’t know much else about the mall except that the Burlington Coat Factory/Shop Rite used to be a Gimbels a while back and I wonder why it’s come to this.
on September 13th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
I saw your blerb on the County Line Mall in Indianapolis, Indiana. It’s nice to see some history behind this place. I live close to it and have done some exploring of it myself, if there is a way to send you pictures of it’s current state, with the two still existing mall corridors, I would be happy to send some to you. Let me know!
on September 26th, 2007 at 10:17 am
I don’t know if this is the place to post this but I’m driving myself crazy. I’m looking for pictures of the Menlo Park Mall in Edison NJ before the expansion and remodeling that took place in the early 90’s. I have very vague memories of going there in the 80’s since my dad worked in that office building on the south side of the mall and took me there a few times. All I really remember was some orange panels on the ceiling and there was something there having to do with the show “Double Dare” one weekend. Id’ love any information anyone has of the old mall before the expansion.
on October 13th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Hey there, I was wondering if I could help you out by giving you pictures and some press info for Quaker Bridge Mall in Lawrenceville, NJ. I think it deserves a feature
Email me if you’d like me to take pictures.
on October 20th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
This mall used to be my favorite one to go to back when I was a kid, but wow, it’s really fallen since then. As I’d been reading your blog lately I thought maybe I’d send you this information on it, and see if anyone there knows anything more about it’s history.
Charlestowne Mall opened in 1991, anchored by JCPenney, Marshalls, Carson Pirie Scott, and Kohls. I’m not sure on the exact changes that happened, but JCPenney and Marshalls have been replaced by Sears and Von Maur (which is apparently planning to leave after this holiday season?), and there is a Cinema 18 there that I’m not sure was there when it opened. I remember that this mall had a little educational toy store (Imaginarium or something, I believe) in it that I really loved. It even had a little child-size mall entrance to go through. When we were going to the mall I always wanted to go to Charlestowne and not Fox Valley because of this!
The mall is mostly empty now, the city wants the place to just shut down already, and it really is pathetic. The place looks nice enough and all, but it’s just so… empty. Some interesting tenants make use of the place now too. There’s a haunted house that’s there just for the Halloween season- though the near-empty mall is scarier than it is, and there’s a mini-golf place. The Carousel that I remember riding as a kid is still there- I wonder what they’ll do with it when the place closes. It has the mall’s name written on it and everything. But nobody was there riding it. About the only place at the mall that people seemed to be going was the theater. Even the department stores seemed pretty bare (and the Kohls was TINY. I wanted to find some new pants, but no luck there!).
I’m planning to go back in a week or two to get some pictures. I hope I get there before Halloween- I want to get pictures of the Christmas decorations that they are already putting up while beside the haunted house. Christmas is about the only time of year that the mall seems to get many people, so apparently they’re trying to get a head start on that by decorating in the middle of October. I’ll get those pictures to you once I go again, okay?
And to think, I remember when this mall was nicer than the nearby Fox Valley Center (now Westfield Fox Valley). But due to competition with that, the Aurora Premium Outlets, Woodfield, and a slew of big box centers this relatively young mall that drove some smaller ones out of business (Piano Factory Mall and St. Charles Mall, anyone?) is in a tight spot itself.
on October 28th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
I was reading your Jersey mall posts and in the Shore Mall post you commented that you’d seen every mall in New Jersey. From South to North (roughly): Hamilton Mall, Deptford Mall, Moorestown Mall, Ocean County Mall, Burlington Center Mall, Quaker Bridge Mall, Market Fair, Brunswick Square Mall, Woodbridge Center Mall, Menlo Park Mall, Jersey Gardens, Bridgewater Commons, Mall at Short Hills, Livingston Mall, Phillipsburg Mall, Riverside Square, Rockaway Townsquare and not enclosed Roxbury Mall (though it’s still interesting).
on October 29th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
And if you’re checking out those Jersey Malls, find Neshaminy Mall: Sears, Macy’s, Boscov’s, one floor with an excellent Woolworth labelscar arond back. I can provide some history too.
on November 9th, 2007 at 11:47 am
I want to know some more about The Source Mall in Westbury, NY on Long Island. From the website’s directory all I see is a Fortunoff as the chain’s flagship store but also Nordstrom and Saks outlets. It looks like the lower level doesn’t continue the stretch of the mall which looks neat. Anyone have info? Wikipedia says an Ohrbach’s was on the property too at one point.
on November 12th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Here is a tribute site for the late Big Daddy’s Restaurant from Brooklyn and Florida. This site has pictures from the Lauderhill Mall location that was closed around 1977. We are also looking for pictures of any other Big Daddy’s that were known to exist in Brooklyn on Coney Island Avenue in Sheepshead Bay or Miami Beaches Lincoln Road Mall or Washington Avenue.
on November 24th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Hey I found some kool photos that you might want to use for you maine mall artical
Ariel Photo:
http://www.maine.rr.com/Around_Town/features/above/13mall.asp
The two story structure replacing the Porches Department store:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/DSCN4013_mainemallfront_e.jpg
Another Ariel Photo:
http://images.ask.com/fr?q=Maine+Mall&desturi=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maine.rr.com%2FAround_Town%2Ffeatures%2Fabove%2Fwinter2001%2Fpage3.asp&fm=i&ac=1&ftURI=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.ask.com%2Ffr%3Fq%3DMaine%2BMall%26desturi%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.maine.rr.com%252FAround_Town%252Ffeatures%252Fabove%252Fwinter2001%252Fpage3.asp%26imagesrc%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.maine.rr.com%252FAround_Town%252Ffeatures%252Fabove%252Fwinter2001%252Fimages%252Fthumbs%252F27.gif%26thumbsrc%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252F65.214.37.88%252Fts%253Ft%253D6302901293989665124%26thumbuselocalisedstatic%3Dfalse%26fn%3D27.gif%26imagewidth%3D120%26imageheight%3D80%26fs%3D7%26ft%3Dgif%26f%3D2%26fm%3Di%26ftbURI%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.ask.com%252Fpictures%253Fq%253DMaine%252BMall%2526page%253D10%2526pstart%253D65&qt=0
This is the Jordan Marsh (now Macys) Before the Maine Mall was built onto it.
http://pictopia.com/perl/gal?process=gallery&gallery_id=S326647&provider_id=326&ptp_photo_id=339016
on November 28th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Cheltenham Square Mall will be located in Cheltenham Township,
Montgomery County Pennsylvania at 2385-87 West Cheltenham Avenue
in Wyncote,PA with a zip code of 19095 and Cheltenham Square Mall
will get a better area to relocate Cheltenham Township,Montgomery
County,PA and Cheltenham Square Mall will say no to locations to
Philadelphia,Philadelphia County,PA 19150 and Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
will no longer use to locate (Cheltenham Square Mall) and Cheltenham
Township,Montgomery County,PA will still longer use Cheltenham Square
Mall,Forever for life without”Philadelphia,PA” anymore.
Jason Armes
South Philadelphia,PA
on November 28th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Exit 351(PA Turnpike) will be use for the(BENSALEM/TREVOSE)
Interchange will connects with US 1,PA 132 and I-95 in Bucks County,PA
and PA 63 in Northeast Philadelphia,PA will have NJ State Capitol in
Trenton,NJ,Oxford Valley Mall&Sesame Place in Langhorne,PA,The
Neshaminy Mall&Philadelphia Park Racetrack&Casino in Bensalem,PA
APS Workplace in Trevose,PA and Franklin Mills Mall in Northeast
Philadelphia,PA with Hotels Provided in Bucks County&Northeast
Philadelphia,PA area locations. Exit 351 will formerly use the PHILADELPHIA Interchange and PA Turnpike will relocate to the
BENSALEM/TREVOSE Interchange with Toll Plazas&EZ Pass.
Jason Armes
South Philadelphia,PA
on November 29th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Question:
Do you remember the various retailers who put out Christmas album collections including tire stores such as Goodyear and Firestone? I have a JCPenney 1973 album and a Grants album from that time period.
on December 1st, 2007 at 10:39 am
The MacDade Mall in Pennsylvania I posted about recently(ish) is now being used as a movie set. It’s interesting to see fountains and 60s decor again as the movie is set in that golden age of malls. There was rumor that the mall would be torn down and I don’t know if that is still on schedule after production of the movie. Gives an interesting spin to a dying mall.
on December 7th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
I was so sad (and rather disturbed!) to see your piece on the Washington Mall, in Wash PA. Growing up in and around Washington, I guess I never really realized how lucky we were to have TWO great malls (for the 80’s) in one fairly small town. Going to South Hills and Century III (which is still my all-time favorite) were considered “special” trips for serious shopping. But most of my mall time until I was about 16 (1993) was spent at Washington Mall!
In it’s heyday, that JCPenny’s and the Giant Eagle grocery (then at the front of the mall) along with G C Murphy’s (including their really antiquated but charming lunch counter) were real draws. Shortys (in one of your pics) was known for it’s hot dogs and they were really fantastic (and cheap). There was a great pet store called Jerry’s and a Waldenbooks and a Baskin Robbins on the front end. In the back was a popular arcade and a cheap pizza joint that served it the way it should be - greasy and foldable, for it’s thin flimsy crust. Somewhere in the depths of the narrow hallways near the Elby’s (outparcel) was a barber shop that I had my hair cut on more than one occasion.
The best memory I had was during Easter of 1981 where they had a local radio station doing promos from inside. Being the big ham that I was, they thought it was cute when I made a beeline for the microphone where they allowed me to say “Welcome to Washington Mall” for the delight of the shoppers. Adorable, huh? LOL
Anyway, the last I was there (about 1993) it was about 1/2 occupied. The Wal-Mart had opened across the road (JCPenneys side) and the K-Mart Plaza in the front had long been razed. Last I was in town (1998) the Giant Eagle had moved across the interestate) all I could tell from the outside was the the JCPenney’s was still there. And perhaps it will be the last thing to go. I’m glad I still have fond memories of it though. I hope you find this useful! Your site has been a wistful trip but I’m glad someone has kept these commercial icons in their memory. Well done
on December 21st, 2007 at 2:10 am
I love this site and was hoping to find pictures from the 70s of the mall in Trumbull Connecticut … of all the malls I’ve seen and remember I think that was something truly unique, I remember theme areas, like each of the corridors was like a section of Disneyland. I was only 10 when I visited my aunt there and she took me to the G Fox there. Travelling recently in Connecticut I went back to try to find it and all that is there now is yet another messys/Lord and Taylor Shoppingtown, same blandness as everywhere.
on December 23rd, 2007 at 1:03 am
Photo essay: “Mall-aise”, off beat look at malls in America, at:
www.efn.org/~hkrieger/mallaise.htm
on December 23rd, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Hi there - I love the site and want to help. I try my best to visit as many old (and new) malls as much as possible when on the road, and have recently started to take pictures. I also have a collection of about 50 directories (the brochure kind) from the mid to late 90’s and early 2000’s that you may like. They are all from malls in New England. Malls I have pictures of: Rhode Island, Wakefield, Walpole Mall, Westgate Mall (WAY before the newest renovation), and Silver City.
How can I share this stuff with you?
Kevin
on December 27th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Hi,
Inspired by this fantastic site of yours, I took some pics of Rhode Island Mall last week, during the Christmas rush. Apparently, the news of Christmas didn’t make it to the former Midland Mall…and the pics tell the story. Please let me know if you would like me to e-mail you the pics for this site.
Brian
on January 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
The next time you folks come through Central Ohio, there is one mall that is an absoulute must see: Columbus City Center.
There is absolutely nothing there. Zilch. Zip. Nada. No anchor stores (the last one, a Macy’s, opened with the mall as Marshall Field’s, closed last December.) and more coppers than shoppers. This makes taking pictures a bit difficult (during my last visit I was stopped a couple of times and told to put the camera away) It is currently run by the City of Columbus, as its old owners, Simon Property Group, were evicted over the summer of 2007. It’s probably not going to close any time soon (there are a couple of small shops that get good business, as its large parking garage is used by workers downtown) but I’d hurry, because the city wants to re-devellop it. I have a TON of pictures, including several of the million-square-foot Lazarus anchor store, if you want my help. If you want the pics, just email me.
qwert78@earthlink.net
on February 3rd, 2008 at 3:26 am
hello all, there is one i think you will want to know about, its on the border of mexico, yes this big ol long mall has , or i need to say had three blocks all with over head floor cat walks and ground lev curbs walks and yes there is even SMOKING in this mall, but like the ones ya have listed here the mall has closed one block, call that giving in to the store front cus the main ent of this mall faces the rio grand and looks out to mexico across the USA park but its all down hill truly the mall is or was built on a hill and that was for the river to rise and fall but like the malls going away so to have the rushing rivers of spring an summer so now the USA has a nice green park in a place where there is no green for miles and miles the park is, well it just looks unreal, this mall is long and has just a hand full of stores but walk as much as ya want to and see some of the men smoking and wonder wheres that sent, wheres that ,,, funk even, but this mall has a old water cooler system, and step in side from the texas heat and ya almost fall to the ground thanking the spirts , this mall is dim and damp but great for most any one who needs a cool rest away from the boarder town and Texas oven, this mall is off i-35 south , to find it go south to the border then stop and make a right be fore the crossing then ya stay west maybe 7 blocks and you will se the next walk over crossing one block more your in the mll and parking is on down in gated parking lot enjoy and have a blunt or a cig, no pipes no cigars big sign and two guys walk the malls cleaning the ash trays with ease its wonderful to see old life style’s and truly the stores are 99 cent store and wigglys womans wear and a few drug stores and a water store where ya can buy water oh and a rental center that will bring your washer to Mexico for you , Teddy
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on February 5th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Mall update for Houston, Texas
Northline Mall which opened in 1960 at the corner of I45 & Crosstimbers St. was leveled effective last week.
Mall was small, original anchors were Joske’s and Montgomery Wards. Mall also had a Piccadilly Cafeteria. There was a medium sized anchor store in the back of the mall which was housing classrooms for Houston Community College at the time of its demolition, but I have not been able to find out the name of the store. Also I am unsure of all its original tennants other than the anchors and Piccadilly. There was a 4 screen movie theater in the rear of the mall on the outparcel, and I think it shut down the year I moved to Houston, 89-90 and it was demolished not long after. Unfortunately I have no pictures to submit.
Sharpstown Mall/Sharpstown Center at hwy 59 South & Bellaire Blvd has filed for bankruptecy and its last major anchor is leaving. Macy’s will close sometime in February. Store was originally a Foley’s. Mall also used to have a JC Penny, Montgomery Ward, Limited Express, Gap, Lerners and all the major botiques of a mall. It started on a downward decline in the 90’s due to the surrounding areas that became sesspool for immigrants and drug dealing and major crime. The mall is basically a shell of its former self. A Burlington Coat Factory is housed in the former Montgomery Wards building. Mall was originally a 1 story and a 2nd story was added in the 70’s.
on February 22nd, 2008 at 11:38 pm
One mall that would be great for this website is our forgotton Hampton Square Mall in Bay City/Essexville MI.
This mall was built in 1975, and featured Kmart, JCPenny (1990 addition) and Weichmann’s as the main anchors. Currently, nearly every single store is closed. There is an extremely popular Chinese restaurant that has been there for years. The mall started declining with the new Bay City Mall across town in 1991. The Bay City Mall is also declining, and may be dead itself in a few years.
on February 22nd, 2008 at 11:45 pm
http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/forgottenmi/hampton.html
Here is a link to Hampton Square Mall Information!
on February 24th, 2008 at 2:33 am
I was wondering if you or you know somebody that might have a photo of a plaza called Henrietta Plaza which is located in Henrietta, NY (Rochester). I would like to find a photo of the plaza from the 1970’s to show the way it originally looked. Any information or help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
on March 13th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
I need to know where you got your information for the Blvd Mall in Las Vegas, NV. I am trying to make the Wikipedia site for it, and I don’t have any reliable references for the interesting history of this mall. Can you tell me where you got your information?
on March 21st, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Another BARNS & NOBLE is Closing in Manhattan. Take pictures of it
on March 25th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Check out the Fashion Mall in Plantation, Florida (Broward County). This mall used to be all high-end… now you can’t pay retailers to open shop. Still it’s open… maybe the food court has magic Manchu Wok or something. They’ve been threatening to overhaul it for years… we’ll see.
on March 27th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Hello,
I thought you might like to know that I’ll soon be
publishing a book of my photographs of Dixie Square
Mall, located in Harvey, Illinois…one of the most
famous “dead” malls in the world. The photos were made
over a 3-year period, and represent both a thorough
documentation of the mall, and a chance to reconsider
the aesthetics of abandoned spaces. The book includes
over 50 images, plus various historical information
about the mall itself, and will be accompanied by the
launch of a companion website. The target date for
both book and website is late spring, 2008.
I’m considering including a “links” section on the
website, and possibly in the book itself. Would you be
willing to let me include a link and/or printed
reference to your site? If you think anyone on your
contact list (or visitors to your site) might be
interested in my book, you are more than welcome to
pass this information along. I’d also be pleased to
discuss any ideas you might have for cross-promotion!
You may see a sample of my work at Dixie Square here:
http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/trice_christopher_w.php
And here:
http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/trice_christopher.php
Please contact me if I can provide any further
information.
Thanks for your time,
Chris Trice
on March 29th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsbn123/2371592210/
on April 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Hey Caldor or another admin, I posted up two huge posts in the Cherry Hill and Echelon Mall blogs and they never appeared. Could you look through the autofilter? It had a bunch of links (to pictures) so that’s why it never appeared, I guess.