Comments on: Mystic Mall; Chelsea, Massachusetts

By: iceman

iceman — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:29:46 +0000

I bought my nintendo nes in that mall.

By: iceman

iceman — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:28:37 +0000

Remember the Mallside Restaurant in the mall. Great wings!!!

By: Caldor

Caldor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:18:23 +0000

@Ashley, there was in fact a Stuarts store in the Kmart space, but the mall originally opened with a Kmart. There was definitely a Deb shop in the mall (its even visible in the 2001 photos!!) but it might’ve closed before you even remember it. You’re right about the other tenants in the center.

You might want to check out this comment on the Woburn Mall, which was developed by the same management firm as Mystic Mall:

http://www.labelscar.com/massachusetts/woburn-mall#comment-93594

By: mystic

mystic — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:28:04 +0000

i can’t believe that this mall has been demolished. the only worthwhile thing i remember coming here for were for the arcade games and papa ginos. man it was such a good time, blowing 20 bucks on that damn metal slug machine and grabbing a slice of pepperoni. it is so surreal now it’s gone.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:24:25 +0000

Hi, I like to make you aware I grew up in Chelsea and do remember when the mall was in its prime however some of your information about this mall is completely incorrect. The mall never had a caldor or KMart in it. The area where the furniture store was once was Stewarts. There was also not a Deb Shop in this mall as well. There was a J. Silver, Weathervane as well. Along with a smoke shop, jewelry store, there used to be a sneaker store, a pet store and an arcade. I’m assuming you must not be from the city had you know that when researching the mall you would have correctly quoted the stores that were apart of it

By: Iceman

Iceman — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:32:43 +0000

The roof deck of the old Kmart and one wall was ok to use. Everything else demolished. Lots of steel was added to expand the building.

By: Caldor

Caldor — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:11:50 +0000

@Jonah Norason (Pseudo3D), It was razed. I’m not sure if the Kmart/Adam’s building was left standing and re-purposed for Market Basket but the entirety of the mall was completely demolished within a few weeks of when the 2006 pictures above were taken.

By: Jonah Norason (Pseudo3D)

Jonah Norason (Pseudo3D) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:31:13 +0000

So did they raze the old Mystic Mall or just gut it?

By: Elli21486

Elli21486 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:00:37 +0000

OK, yes it is old news now that the new Market Basket is open and boy it is huge. It has the new Market’s Kitchen (includes a pizza shop, coffee shop, sushi shop, salad bar, sub shop, Spanish specialty shop, and homemade food shop), a bakery, and a fish deli. I actually took pictures and I feel that it would be nice to put them on here, considering that all traces of Mystic Mall is now gone.

As for the old Market Basket, I heard that they were going to make that into a clothing store but at this time, that is just rumors.

By the way, reading about Papa Gino’s made me remember Pizza Hut. I remember I had two meals there before it was shut down.

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:42:48 +0000

When I saw a Market Basket just off of I-10 in Vidor, TX, I thought “whoa, Market Basket stretches throughout the entire East Coast!” but Wikipedia indicates they are two different companies.