Comments on: Aviation Mall; Queensbury (Glens Falls), New York

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:05:16 +0000

George, the crafts store you are thinking of was called “So-Fro Fabrics”.

By: George

George — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:53:58 +0000

oh, I forgot. the office area of the Sears was at one time the catalog desk; it was walled off when catalog was dropped. The inside was never really remodelled; they still had 70’s/80’s era striping on the walls, and a portrait of the inside-mall entrance, which was (and still is) at the bottom of a rampway.

By: George

George — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:51:19 +0000

Sears has been rumored to leave Aviation Mall for over a decade, it still hasn’t happened.

I was working there when the logo changed, and they merged with KMart (circa 2005). There was talk then that the Auto center would be moving to the (then-empty) Auto garage at the KMart across town; that also never happened. (KMart store leased the space to a local chain instead.)

I think they needed to replace the signs at the time, which is why the store got the new logo signs; don’t quote me on that because I was just a peon, and you didn’t get the same story from two managers.

Target’s interior entrance used to be a Sam Goody store, and before that a Kay-bee (Kay-Bee moved to the other end of the mall, taking over the space from Circus World, after KayBee bought that co.). I think part of the space that Target took over was part of the old movie theater, not sure. I do recall a crafts store that only had an exterior entrance (my mom took us there all the time) being on that side of the mall as well, and that space also housed a furniture store for a while.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:44:24 +0000

I grew up in this mall and remember how amazing it was in it’s day. Now, it just makes me sad, although it’s not dead by any means compared to the state of other small malls in the Capital District…I guess I just have a soft spot for the old malls that were dark and dingy, lit only by horrible neon…yay for neon!

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:10:21 +0000

Sears is leaving this mall….

http://deadmalls.com/malls/aviation_mall.html

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:30:21 +0000

Denby’s was not where JC Penney’s used to be. Denby’s was located where Old Navy is today.

By: M

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:52:05 +0000

I miss the bridge outside Penney’s … there used to be a wide pond outside Penney’s, narrower in the middle, with a little arc bridge over it. You could walk around easily enough, but as a kid, where was the fun in that? I’m glad the part outside the old Caldor is still there, but the bridge was twice as cool.

Oh, and fyi, Target does have two entrances — you can walk straight through from outside the mall out the other side into the mall.

By: loveminuszero

loveminuszero — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:07:44 +0000

I remember readeing somewhere that there was a Robert Hall Village at this mall at one point? Does anyone know anything about this or where it was located?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:02:49 +0000

Dan, was the Troy Savings Bank at the beginning of the food court? I remember until about the mid 1990’s, there was a Northeast Savings bank in that spot.

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:32:41 +0000

Target seems like a bizarre location…while many mall Targets take over a vacant spot (think Montgomery Ward) or built as a normal anchor, Target wraps around two former entrances, which seems to justify me calling it a “Parasite Anchor”.