Comments on: Meadow Glen Mall; Medford, Massachusetts

By: ce

ce — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:33:29 +0000

@David in Chelsea, MA, the store was called This End Up. It was a chain as there was an outlet in the Maine Mall.

By: Ken Reid

Ken Reid — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:51:04 +0000

This mall seems to be picking up business again. There are two different “open box”/junk stores in there now, one in the old CVS and another in the old Walden Books.

Also a discount furniture chain have moved into the former Old Navy.

There’s also a used book store in the former Harrison’s space. I went last week and it seemed pretty busy for a week day.

By: David in Chelsea, MA

David in Chelsea, MA — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:01:39 +0000

Remember TELLO’S and CHESS KING?!!!

I still remember buying red parachute pants with the zippers all over them from Chess King, back in 1983. I thought I was sooo cool. Yikes.

I used to work at the Kinney Shoe Store in the mall, which was to the right of Bradlees, back in 1987. I am embarrassed to say that I forget the manager’s name, but he was a really great guy.

Oh, yeah, there was a furniture store in the mall at that time that sold very blocky furniture, with a very unfinished wood look to all of it. It was considered very trendy at the time. Anyone remember the name of it?

And, off-topic, but remember the Dapper Dan;s Restaurant at the Assembly-Square Mall?

By: Mattie

Mattie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:45:22 +0000

This is one great mall, it’s just too bad that it’s lost it’s former glory. I will also try to convey some of my memories.I have vague memories of the Coconuts music store, the Papa Gino’s that was there, the time Friendly’s caught fire, the time Oriental Arts and Crafts caught fire, the Wilson’s Leather that was there, when Funcoland first opened, the PacSun that was there, the Bradlee’s that used to be there. I also remember the Express, The K.B. Toys that used to be there, When Gamestop absorbed Funcoland, then moved quite recently, When Coconuts moved to where Harrison’s is, then FYE absorbed it, then FYE closed, then Harrison’s moved from Salem to the mall. I remember the Old Navy (which is where I bought all of my boyhood clothes), the Pay-Half, and Adam’s (which is moving to a bigger store in Everett.), and when Kohl’s opened. The only things keeping it alive are the Harrison’s, Gamestop, and Kohl’s. I was so into this mall, that I used to go there every Halloween to get candy from the store clerks.

By: ashley

ashley — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:04:08 +0000

this mall is great. the panada express is now open and also they have malls like claires, tellos, khols, gamestop and more. i really like shopping at this mall

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:53:01 +0000

wow I spent a lot of time bother here and the assembly Square as a kid. The card store, bradlee’s (I swear half my toys were from bradlee’s haha), the friendly’s and orange julius withe plastic oranges imbedded in the counter.. “dad how’d they get all those oranges in there????” and I remember meeting my dad after work there to eat at York Steak House. I rember when it was revamped to “York’s” and the modernized it and I was bummed becuase I liked the old tacky medievil decor they used to have.

By: Larry Cultrera

Larry Cultrera — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:40:38 +0000

You are all forgeting the Underground Camera stores, they were in almost every mall including Assembly Square and Meadow Glen. The one at Meadow Glen was at the old wing that use to have an entrance out the back (now closed in). I believe when they first built it they were going to expand out the back to another building and it never happened.

By: Caldor

Caldor — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:55:54 +0000

That PacSun store lasted a year or two at most. That photo was taken in 2001 (before Kohl’s even opened) and it was replacing an Express store that had closed. Notice that there’s an Old Navy in the background of that same shot; that store also closed a few years later and was replaced by Pay/Half and then later Adam’s (as seen in the 2006 photos) which is a local, kind of downmarket furniture store.

By: TrickyNicky

TrickyNicky — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:24:07 +0000

Whatever happened to the PacSun Store that was advertised as coming soon in one of the pictures? Did it ever open? How long was it there?

By: Panda

Panda — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:34:58 +0000

John, I recently visited Sea Lion Sushi in Meadow Glen. I found the food to be rather tasteless and bland, myself.