Comments on: Prince Georges Plaza; Hyattsville, Maryland

By: krash1980

krash1980 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:38:44 +0000

Definitely a discount mall.

By: Steve Latter

Steve Latter — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:03:38 +0000

Does anyone know much of the history of Riverdale, Plaza? I remember before in became Riverdale Plaza in the mid-1960s I could get a pony ride for 6 Royal Crown bottle caps.

By: Mister Uptown Himself

Mister Uptown Himself — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:58:14 +0000

Don’t forget about Hot Shoppes. Does anyone remember that place? Maybe it was because I was 2 years old when we would go there and I would always get a toy at G. C. Murphy’s afterwards, but that place had the best food.

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By: Peggy Coleman

Peggy Coleman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:45:55 +0000

I went when it first opened. It had a sewing machine-fabric shop, and it wasn’t covered with an over roof at the time. I recall the dime store, and the wonderful glass painted wind chimes as I walked in.
The counters were still the old fashioned “island” types. And there was an escalator. I vaguely remember a big open field, and a baseball diamond in the general area where it was built eventually. I remember some big red blinking lights from tv or radio towers down toward Queenstown Rd or Kirkwood area shopping center. It had Atomic architecture, as I recall. After the PG Plaza mom took me to a nearby Bar B Que place. Forgot the name. Those days are missed !

By: Malls of my childhood. « Fabianquest’s Blog

Malls of my childhood. « Fabianquest’s Blog — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:42:15 +0000

[...] Malls of my childhood. By fabianquest I haven’t set foot in a mall in years, but when I was a kid growing up outside of Washington, D.C., in the late ’70s and early ’80s my family would visit all the local malls, mainly because wandering around a shopping center was a cheap way for my mother to entertain two kids. There was Capital Plaza, where my father had worked at Montgomery Wards between his stints in the army; Prince Georges Plaza, around the corner from my family’s church, where I would buy model rockets at the Kaybee Toys; Beltway Plaza, where my mother, brother and I stood around for an entire afternoon to see “The Empire Strikes Back” because all the matinees had sold out; and Landover Mall, which was the big kahuna back then, but has now gone to the great closeout sale in the sky. [...]

By: mallguy

mallguy — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:58:49 +0000

It’s right across the street from the Mall, closer than the White Flint Station is to the White Flint Mall….the PGP Metro station is on the Green Line.

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:20:51 +0000

How far away was this from the Prince Georges Plaza METRO station?

By: dangeejay

dangeejay — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:31:37 +0000

Big oops! I meant to say in my previous post that G.C. Murphy closed 40 years after opening at P.G. Plaza.

By: dangeejay

dangeejay — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:35:50 +0000

Hecht’s and G.C. Murphy were original to Prince Georges Plaza when it opened in 1959. Woodward & Lothrop was built and opened there in 1966, just behind Grand Union. Woodies faced the side and back end of the Plaza; Grand Union faced the front (East-West Highway). The 1977 renovation enclosed the mall; the 1990 renovation added a food court. G.C. Murphy closed in 1999, 30 years after opening there; it remained vacant until Target was built on that site. There used to be a Bob’s Big Boy near the entrance to the Plaza; however, in later years, it was moved to the front parking lot before closing. Now, there are Olive Garden and Outback restaurants in the front lot. Metro’s Green line, a Home Depot, and a Giant were built directly across the street, facing the Plaza.

By: EricS

EricS — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:32:37 +0000

Beltway Plaza is usually where the UMD students go for groceries and other stuff unless they live in that new student apartment building that sprang up over there. That’s a huge building BTW. You can see it on a clear day from the lake near Beltway Plaza.

With all the new stuff springing up around the Metro station and the formerly empty parking lost around the office buildings PG Plaza looks like it should be in good shape for awhile to come, assumign none of the developers chicken out. It’s a nice place and not nearly as “GIVE ME YOUR MONEY!!!!!!!” as the Westfield malls aroudn the area.