The History Of Shopping In Roanoke VA (1965-1985)

This is a 20 year history of how people in the Roanoke Valley shopped. Moving from Downtown to Towers Mall, Crossroads Mall, Roanoke-Salem Plaza, Searstown,Woolco, Tanglewood Mall, and eventually Valley View Mall in July of 1985.

[@Eric_200]

So cool. Thanks for this.

[@Mebuggiefan]

Thanks for taking me down memory lane.

[@1KingCoop]

It's absolutely Wild hearing that mention of people remembering nickel and dime stores 5 and 10 cent stores as growing up in the 1930s. Here we are in the year 2022 hearing that is absolutely surreal. Also cool at the same time though.

[@makiarn777]

Ahhhh...the memories.

[@mermaidgirl9232]

So sad that most of this is gone.
Who’s the female news reporter? Can’t remember her name!

[@nickhill8612]

Some great memories there.
Shopping with my mom and grandparents.
My cousins lived in walking distance of Crossroads mall and I would spend the night with them.
We would hang out at the arcade and go to the movies.
Not a care in the world.

[@lunatunes9652]

​@@nickhill8612 I heard they recently opened up an abandoned room inside Crossroads and it was the old arcade and all of the equipment was still there

[@nickhill8612]

@@lunatunes9652
Oh yeah I heard and saw that on the news.
That's pretty cool.

[@33VMUH]

Her name is Kathy Thornton. She was a reporter for WDBJ-TV Channel 7 in Roanoke, Virginia at the time. Later, she was the hostess of a weekday afternoon feature program on WDBJ-TV called "Panorama."

[@BluMango567]

its sad that Woolco was Kmart and the design that it had was still known until BJ's took the design from the old store

[@PrecisionClays]

I had that spy gun!

[@alphaomega8373]

Rome is falling.