I always think about that fountain when I visit the mall. It just looks so horrible.

Anyone remember the Colonial Park Mall with the sunken in floors? The arcade in the basement of the East Mall?

Wow.

There are no pictures. Everyone is looking for people with any pictures from the 70’s or 80’s. It seems noone took pictures in the mall at that time, unfortunately. I would pay for pictures of the mall in that era.

I am glad to see someone filled me in on the stores that I had forgotten about, namely the drugstore that was near the York Steak house. There was a piano place in between them. I used to bug the hell out of the one guy who worked there by coming in and playing the keyboards all of time.

I had also forgotten about the Roy Rogers, which my grandmother would take me to for roast beef. I remember always loading up my plate with a ton of pickles from the fixins bar.

Man, great times I really miss.

I used to work at the Cap City Mall theater, and like alot of you, spent the majority of my youth and “tween” then later, teen years at that mall.

I was away from it for a while, other than necessity shopping and occasional movies, but then my early to mid 20’s brought me back as an official mall rat.

I have SO many memories of that place.
The record store was originally called The Listening Booth, and was on the corner where Journey’s shoe store is now.
Then it moved to the corner on the end of the main entrance near the old food court and was called Wall to Wall.
Then was called The Wall.
Wee Three Records was at the end of the mall to the entrace of Sears, and is where the Pearl Vision store is now.

I remember the water fountain in the middle of the mall in front of where Macy’s is now.
That’s where you originally came in the front of the mall before they added the original food court.

The decor of the theater is what I remember most.
The dark brown wood textured paneling and the brown and beige floors.
As was said earlier, it ( and the whole mall ) had a cozy feel to it that was just wonderful.

The Supercade also got alot of my dollars and my time.
Then they put the legal contact high nail place in there.
How they sit in there all day w/o passing out, I don’t know.

So many other memories, and things that have been touched on here already.
I’ll have to think more and get back to ya’ll on this!

And btw, the theater was haunted.
HAUNTED!
I’ve had SO many things happen to me when closing that place, it’s unreal.
We ( theater employees ) were never sure if it was the patron who died the first year of the theater in house 1, or if it was the old man who’s land the mall was built on, that was deviously swept out from under his families feet after he died.

Either way, some WEIRD stuff went on in there.

I remember Murphy Mart, then Ames where JC Penney is; the York Steak House, Roy Rogers, Friendly’s, the old food court, Papa Dino’s pizza, they even had Baskin Robbins in there too. Ormond’s was a woman’s clothing store near Sears, People’s Drug was where Old Navy is now and the DEB/JOY shop was also up there as well and then Fashion Bug for a time. There was EnKay Sports, KB Toys, Bavarian Pretzel, Thom McAnn shoe store, CCNB Bank and Harris Savings, Waldenbooks, Wee Three Records and there was a kitchen store too. Wasn’t there a fountain in the middle of the mall by Hess’s? United Artists Theatre was there ( i worked there in the 90’s). It had those ugly pink and green colors that everyone said made it look like a movie theatre in Florida and the big block entrance outside that said “1 2 3 CINEMA 4 5 6″. There were stores that appeared in the 90’s and then disappeared quickly like The MerrygoRound; some Earth store; a store that sold china called “The Mole Hole”; Afterthoughts (which rivaled Claire’s), Lane Bryant and there was a store in the 80’s called Anderson’s that sold men’s suits & tuxedos too. Don’t ask me how I remember all this.

As for the Camp Hill Mall, i remember when it was enclosed for a period of time, Montgomery Ward was on the end, Yummy Gummy Zoo, Wildware, Life Uniforms and Shenk & Tittel were inside and Pathmark was behind it, I remember the Camp Hill Twin and the bowling alley too. Again, don’t ask me how I remember all this.

Yes I remember well the open air plaza. The Muza piped in for that outdoor stroll. The Camp Hill Barbers were located mid center on a frontside corner. Very small square footage before the mall was enclosed. The corner drug store was distinctly ’70’s pharma retail. Kiddie City was a blast running up and down the isles shooting siblings with cap gun rifles still in the package. Korvettes has a great LP record selection. Very groovy those times. And today, “so antiseptic and horribly generic” is spot on. No more mom and pop hobby shops and Kinney’s shoes. CVS and Walgreens have been servicing sick society ever since…

Whoa! Lose the attitude. You’re probably 16 and have no idea what nostalgia means. Go elsewhere to complain.

Dont forget the Bowling Alley in the back and the great arcade that was one of the last stores left before that mall closed. There was a flea market there for years before they tore it down and put up what we now know as the Camp Hill Mall. Even the Camp Hill Mall has undergone changes in its years of being built. There used to be an entire hallway before Boscovs. A record store, A candy shop, a hair salon, jewelry store and pet shop were among the stores in that hallway.

The movie Manequin was partially filmed in Boscovs right before the Camp Hill Mall opened. If you watch one of the first scenes from the movie when Andrew Mccarthy picks up his love interest outside of the store, you can see the B from the Boscovs logo to the far right. Their are many interior shots that you will also recognize. Remember the Record shop they had in the original Boscovs? How about the stereo shop right behind that? The auto parts shop to the back of the store?

My entire existence was based around the Camp Hill and Capitol City malls from 75-95.