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The Military Circle Mall in Norfolk Virginia is a mall that is failing to attract the kind of floor traffic and prime retailers it could in its glory days, however isn’t quite a “dead mall” yet. The mall is largely a quiet one, yet it does still attract some regular...
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The Meriden Mall in Meriden, CT is unusual among dead or obscure malls in that it never really had a period where it truly thrived. Rather than a decline into failure as is seen with many malls that fail to keep up with retail trends or find through no fault...
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Now I was born in 1982, which is I believe 10 years after this mall opened. However I can remember this mall very very well. This was an enclosed mall in a busy part of what use to be a hot spot in Hollywood, Florida which is some 20 minutes...
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The Mega Foods shopping center was constructed in the late 1980s. The main anchor store, Mega Foods, was one of the first of the mega warehouse-type stores, and was the largest in Washington at the time. Other stores in complex in the early years included the following: * Drug Emporium,...
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Seattle’s NORTHGATE holds the distinction of being America’s first quote/unquote “shopping mall”. When construction of the center began in the late 1940′s, there already were three post-World War II, suburban-style shopping centers in the United States (these were located in Hollywood, Beverly, Massachusetts and Columbus, Ohio). However, NORTHGATE was the...
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Belle Prominade opened up in 1983 in the westbank New Orleans suburb of Marrero, and featured JC Penney on the north side (which still stands and has been nearly destroyed by vandals and hurricane Katrina.) and D.H. Holmes on the south side later, bought out by Dillards in 1989. The D.H. Holmes opened up a few months before the mall did.This mall was the stereotypical 1980s modern look with lots of neon and dark interior colors.
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Like every Denver suburb, Thornton, Colorado had it’s very own shiny new mall as the town grew in the mid 1960s. North Valley Mall opened On 84th Avenue just east of I-25 in 1967. North Valley opened in 1967 with two anchors, Montgomery Ward, and another unidentified anchor, most likely...
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*Update* 3/8/05 The Outlets USA concept did open in September of 2004, and the Dillards, which was closed and locked when I originally took these pictures was in fact open. Outlets doesn’t qualify as a flea market, according to its owner, because the merchandise the individual vendors sell is new....
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Southwyck was the second major mall in Toledo, opening in 1972. I’m making assumptions (because it wasn’t my part of town) that Lion Store, and Montgomery Ward were two of the three original anchors. When I first came to the mall in 1997, Montgomery Ward, Lion Store, and Lion For...
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Greenville has a mysterious, little-talked-about fourth mall on the south side of town. The mall sits about one mile south of the middle of downtown Greenville, and I’m guessing it opened shortly before McAlister Square. I actually have pretty much zero information on this mall, except for a few facts....
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Opened in 1980, Haywood Mall is your typical regional mall. The mall opened with four anchors: J.C. Penney at the north end, Rich’s and Belk-Simpson across from each other at the center, and Sears at the south end. Somewhat oddly (to me, at least), the yellow pages for 1980 and...
