Comments on: Wakefield Mall; South Kingstown, Rhode Island

By: sally

sally — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:23:34 +0000

URI isn’t precisely in South Kingstown. It’s 10 minutes down the road in Kingston But, lots of students do live in the area.

I believe that KB Toys location is now closed. I haven’t been to the WM in a while, but according to their website, The Toy Vault has recently opened up there: http://www.thetoyvault.com/ So maybe they took over KB’s spot? Interestingly, The Toy Vault is/was apparently one of the last holdouts at the great and sorely lamented Rhode Island Mall, too. (The website says that location is still open, but I take nothing for granted when it comes to the Rhode Island Mall.)

I love that hideous logo. I’m 30 and can’t remember a time before it existed.

It always amazed me how that tiny, tiny Waldenbooks has thrived, but you have to go to Warwick to get to B&N or Borders. A 25 minute drive either way, and in Rhode Island that might as well be a trek across the Sahara…better to settle for one of the, I don’t know, 3 books they have in stock at Walden’s.

By: Jimmy S.

Jimmy S. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:01:49 +0000

Really love these small malls. I have only been able to find info here and at deadmalls.com. The photos are great. Deadmalls.com left we wondering what the mall looks like.

By: Brad W.

Brad W. — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:33:13 +0000

Stores I remember from Wakefield Mall from when I was a kid (80’s) that are no longer there, and aren’t mentioned here or on the deadmalls.com site: Fayva (shoe store), Donnelly’s (men’s clothes), and So-Fro Fabrics.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:50:09 +0000

The Staples and Fashion bug was originally the Stop and Shop supermarket. CVS was also located inside the middle portion of the mall prior to the expansion which resulted in the space now occupied by WaldenBooks and Panera on one side and chess king on the other

By: Gary Nelson

Gary Nelson — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:06:34 +0000

I thought the chalkboard advertisement was pretty hilarious too. Too bad the mall doesn’t have a fitness center, because then there would also be phys ed in the curriculum.

By: live2shop

live2shop — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:46:34 +0000

Wakefield Mall is dreadfully static, but now there is a Panera in the space left vacant by Catalog Fashion Outlet. Seems possible that the opening of Marshalls in Narraganset was the undoing of CFO. Panera is a floor-through, so can be accessed both from the parking lot as well as the mall’s interior.

The facade is dated and ho-hum, but that’s Wakefiled in general. zzzzzz