Hampshire Mall: Foreclosed On & Sold! So Let's Take a Look! Plus, a Walkthru of JCPenney & Jo-Ann's!
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- The Hampshire Mall in Hadley, Massachusetts has been foreclosed on and sold! So, join me and my mom as we take a walkthrough the mall and see how it's doing! I also did a walkthrough of the JCPenney and the Jo-Ann Fabrics store!
Let me know what you think about this mall in the comments!
This was filmed on a Sunday at about noon.
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I used to go to this mall all the time when I was in college! The Target used to be a K-Mart.
YES!
So crazy to see this mall so different , used to be a gamestop and a mom and pop tabletop gaming store in the middle
tried going to that gamestop last month only to find it didn't exist lmao idk what i expected
The same cards and comic store is in that mall. It's been there for 14 years. he does great business? I just talked to him last week
I used to run that very gamestop. The table top store is X-9 Games. The owner is a wicked nice guy!
Game stop moved next to whole foods in the mountain farms mall plaza.
The store didn't move. The hamp mall location was so piss poor managed they closed it, and then gave the bad manager the new location at mtn farms.
I used to bring my kids to this mall all the time. I still live in the area but have not been in that mall for years. I remember Friendly's, CVS, Chess King, Thom McAn, Anderson Little, Media Play. I think the Media Play was in that large arcade.
I miss Media Play!
Yes the big arcade Is now funhub a trampoline and obstacle park used to be media play The good ole days
I miss Media Play as well. I went to UMASS in the 90’s.
Lots of memories at this mall. It was the closest mall to where I lived as a child. Regularly went there well into my 20s. Saw countless movies at the theater. It's amazing how one building can have so much impact on your life.
Nice to see that your mom comes with you a lot.
The Cinemas in the Hampshire Mall were originally an AMC 6 theatres. They, along with the 4 cinemas in the former Moutian Farms mall were the only theatres AMC had in all of New England. Then, in 1999, the Showcase Theatres chain went bankrupt, and AMC acquired most of their theaters in the Boston area. As such, they sold the Hampshire Mall theatres to Cinemark and sold the Mountain Farms Mall cinemas to a developer who then tore them down to build a Whole Foods Market.
Showcase (aka National Amusements, controlling shareholder of CBS and Paramount) didn't go bankrupt... The Redstones sold a number of locations around that time to AMC.
@@LeviRamsey I stand corrected.
The amc 4 was more to the left where the elms store is
Whole food used to be bread and circus.
Who here remembers the “Pot o Gold” appetizer from Ground Round….good stuff
I do remember. I worked there in the lounge. I probably waited on you. I loved our Overloaded Potato Skins and the Blackened T-bone. I hated Bingo the clown (he was a really creepy guy in and out of costume) and "Penny-A-Pound" night where kids paid what they weighed. Parents brought in every kid on the block they could fit in their mini-van. It was horrible. Don't get me started on the endless sweeping up of popcorn off the floor. lol. All and all it was a fun place to work in my 20's while at U-Mass. March Madness was always fun and waiting on Coach Cal was a bonus.
Correction: Hadley, not South Hadley. South Hadley is a completely different town, with borders closer to Holyoke and the Easthampton Mt. Holyoke area
That whole area is a dump.
Focus on the mall. Not the town.
memories dump since they keep coming out of me as i watch this:
me and the homies used to take the b43 here every weekend circa 2010-12. i still think about fuji chen. we would get snacks at the dollar store next to jc penney and sneak them into the movies. at the end of the evening, we would run across the parking lots to burger king and hang out there until the bus came to take us back to northampton
I forgot about the Burger King! I was so bummed when it shut down.
If this mall dates to 1978, a roller rink makes sense. Roller skating was white hot in the late 70s in the Disco era. What's wild is that it's still there! (the shoes are squeaking loud and clear while in the quieter parts of the store, but hey... confusing the algorhythm is a good thing. )
Went roller skating on the second floor as a kid. Interskate 91
My granddaughter went skating there two weeks ago. It's not a dead mall.
@@aeonsbeyond definitely not a *dead* mall, but still feels much more like a strip mall than a true mall. holyoke is the only real mall left in western mass :/
I visited this mall a LOT back in the 80's. I remember a few places from the past. Where PINS took over used to be a Dream Machine arcade. Just above that, before it became Lazer Tag, was a place called The Pewter Pot, a little coffee shop where you could have a snack and watch shoppers go by. The food court was beautiful then, it had a huge statue/fountain with some greenery and a nice seating area. Across from the Ground Round, where the exit is, there used to be a hairdresser and a furniture shop called The Pine Factory. My mom bought a couch and chair set there. There was a Taco Bell, Subway, and a pizza place in the food court. I could go on, there was lots of changes over the years. Sad to see how far it's fallen, looks like it's the next one to go now that the Eastfield Mall is gone.
You can definitely hear your shoes squeaking around the 10:05 mark 🤣. Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where George's suit was making the swoosh noise. 🤣 I think we have all had a pair of those shoes at some point.
Lived 10 minutes from there and havent been there in years! I figured the Umass community was keeping it going!! Usedto go there in the eighties and nineties alot!! They have a walmart right next door and that probably hurt their revenue! Havent been to a movie there in a long time! Nice video, thanks for the memories!
Unfortunately there hasn't been anything of note to shop for there since I was a little kid. That, plus the fact that the Holyoke mall is only about 10-20 minutes further meant that it was only really seen as a glorified Target with a theater for most of my life living here over the past two decades.
When I was a kid in the early 80s I belonged to the Agawam Rollerway speed skating team and we would regularly have matches against the Hadley Interskate 91 Skate team.
I come to this mall every weekend. I game at X9 regularly and go to the movies. I really hope they don't close it. The mall is conveniently located off the bike path. I look forward to coming here for friends and entertainment all week!!
See, I told you, it's not a dead mall.
@@aeonsbeyondmanagement is working hard turning it into a dead mall. Which is actually already there.😂
I used to come there every other Friday. My parents couldn’t pick me up after school until late, so I’d either take the PVTA to downtown Northampton or the Hampshire Mall. Lots of memories…my friend’s 15th birthday at Interskate 91, buying my copy of Final Fantasy 7 at Media Play, or horsing around at JC Penny with my friends while we waited for the next showing of “The Princess Diaries”.
Where the Planet Fitness resides was where thing like a Hallmark Store, a Cards and Collectors Store, a Champs Sports and even a couple of Dollar stores. There was more I'm sure but that's what I remember off hand. Best thing in the mall when I went there on a frequent basis was the Dream Machine. It was a bit smaller than the Eastfield Mall one but still just as good! I also won't forget the Gamestop, the Laser Tag on the upper level next to the roller skating rink, the mysterious old car that was high up next to the cinema back in the 90s and 00s and even the Little Caesar's pizza in the K Mart for a time. The mall will either cease to be or become an entertainment center. Either one wouldn't surprise me at this point.
The Dream Machine at this mall once had a temporary VR setup with a Forte VFX1 headset. I remember playing Duke Nukem 3D with it. I don’t think they ever set that up at Eastfield.
Little Caesar’s at KMart was the best!
I forgot about the car up there. It was a VW bug maybe?
They tore down the Eastfield mall?? Wow…
I lived in MA all my life until I moved down south 3 years ago. Already I’m hearing of some big changes…
The time between Steiger’s and Dick’s was when they had Media Play, which was what Amazon would be like if it had a physical location. They had books, games, toys, movies, CDs and T-shirts. I miss that place.
I use to skate at that rink back in the 80's. Loved that place. I'm actually shocked that it was still there these days. If I remember correctly it was called "Interskate 91" but I'm not 100% sure.
Yup sure was
still is, at least as of a year or two ago. the sign is visible in this video at 19:50
I went to so many birthday parties at Interskate. Roller skates are back. Kids these days said no thanks to rollerblades and they're all about the skates. Maybe Interskate will save the mall.
I can't believe I'm getting nostalgic about a shopping mall.
I loved going when Media Play was there. That was a cool store.
Media play was the store the mall used to have it was amazing
I grew up in the 80s going to the Hampshire and Mountain Farms Malls. Mountain Farms was a super funky place with fun stuff there randomly and a great flea market and place to skate when it became the dead mall.
Basically what I remember were a lot of stores with random stuff. There was a toy store I think where Dick's is now and it was chaos. Nothing was organized you just had to dig around for cool stuff. I do remember the Arizona pizza was a nice big old school pizza place with stools and booths, fried dough and big slices. Tha Latin Grill was a Taco bell, after the steps to the Interskate skate shop was a tiny convenience store and then my favorite store at the Hampshire mall, Same Bat Channel. Across from that was Claire's boutique where I got my ear pierced and an electronics boutique. My other favorite place in the mall, the Dream Machine, a big arcade that held out longer than a lot of stores
I’m old enough to remember when this mall was built. It’s hard to believe how busy it was back then vs how quiet it is now. It is well maintained, although I agree that the JC Penney exterior is in dire need of repair. Jo Ann’s always puts up their seasonal stuff really early, that’s normal for them. And it’s just about always “on sale”, that’s how they’ve always been. Also, those shiny marble floors make everyone’s shoes squeak I bet. 😂
Back in the day the center of the food court had recessed floor with plants and trees all around and maybe a water feature
I enjoyed many an orange julius there back in the day.
I was there for opening day at interskate 91❤. I've seen so many changes
as a UMass alum, I visited this mall often right around the time when it started to be transitioning to an entertainment plex. I graduated in 2021 and gotta say I am surprised that jc Penney and Joanns are still there!! I thought covid would have killed both!!
Laser Tag! I remember that from 80s (the cartoons, as well).
I've always loved the main food court area with the skating rink and lazer tag. Such a unique place. For only $7M purchase price, I could see this place actually remaining open another decade plus.
My wife and I had been very confused about JC Penney stilling be around. I learned last year though that they had been bought by Simon and Brookfield; mall companies. I believe the understanding was that if they were to lose another anchor store like JC Penney in their locations it could cause a cascading effect with rents and more stores leaving. So at the moment they are being artificially kept alive by an infusion of cash. Also I was very surprised to learn there are still over 600 stores!
My wife and I have been in various JC Penney's over the years and just before Covid they had really hit bottom. The past year seems to have it on the rebound (though probably never back to it's heyday) but will it be around for as long as the Mall owners think it helps their business.
My neck of the woods, love this mall
I hated JCP (and Old Navy) growing up lol it was always where my mom took us to get clothes. And then she would get herself some clothes. Felt like I would be trapped in there forever.
This mall was a special treat for us as kids - if we went here, we knew we were in for a treat; this is actually where my mom graciously bought me Kingdom Hearts for the PS2 one lucky evening; and where a GameStop employee sold me a hidden-away LE Persona 4 Arena Ultimax after a rough day at school
I was an 80’s/90’s kid and I loved to go to the malls on the weekend. This generation is so different now. Like I said before, I hate online shopping and miss walking through a mall. This mall was one of the best times of my life when I went to UMASS in the 90’s. That Jo-Ann’s is huge and shocked that Best Buy and Buffalo Wild Wings is gone.
Phew. This was my mall for the longest time. It looks so odd now. Pins took up a whole bunch of smaller shop space. I'm glad the theaters are still there. The candy shop thing across from the theaters used to be a comic shop (Bob's Comics, maybe? I'm not sure).
It's so weird that Interskate seems to be fine! There were several different comic stores in this mall in the past, I miss Waldenbooks that was there, the Ground Round (so odd seeing them using the bathrooms for the restaurant as mall bathrooms... At least if they're not "closed until further notice"). I don't recall what was there before the Planet Fitness but I think that was another spot that was a bunch of smaller stores.
Aceoss the street used to be the Mountain Farms Mall, that also had theaters, which was like a tiny version of the Hampshire Mall, but that got all partially knocked down (or fully, I can't remember exactly) and remade into the large format strip mall for Walmart, etc.
It's so odd seeing all the closed up shops too. This used to be THE hub. Apart from the Holyoke Mall.
The comic book store was amazing.
TOM! Could you kindly please turn down the volume on your squeaky shoes? People are trying to shop and you’re ruining their desire to spend money. If you can’t control your shoes, I will be calling security! 🚨🚔🤣👟
I used to play paintball in this mall back in the day. prolly 02 or 03. the indoor field was awesome when it had the barrel setup. They changed to supair and it was too small of an area for it to work well. Sadly, they were bought out by target or something form what i remember.
i loved this mall so much!! im hoping it can stay open but im doubtful. having a theater there is nice. i go there from time to time.
I used to go to UMASS. Wow this mall has changed a lot. Haven’t been in that area since 2010. There used to be a Friendly’s in there. I loved it. And yes a Kmart.
As a current hadley resident i love the mall and i really hope these new owners have something special planned
Despite living in the area, I've only been into the mall a handful of times compared to like Target and the other strip mall stores. I've been to Inerskate 91 most of those times, the other times were for the movie theater and going there for a friends birthday. It wasn't the best mall when just a little bit longer drive could go down to the Holyoke mall. The pizza place is pretty good tho, but besides that my only memories was either eating at the Subway or going roller skating.
rip sbarro
Yes I loved The Ground Round. Their burgers were amazing!
Total nostalgia here! A lot has changed but the Joann fabrics has remained a steadfast fixture for sure! I used to go in there a long with JCPenney and steigers as a child all the time. Interskate 91 closed for a while but I'm glad to see it's back! There used to be movie theaters under the rink and a food court where I would get orange Julius! And yup that was a ground round for a while! Thanks for the memory jog! Hope you and Mom had fun!
Also planet fitness was a variety of stores, once Hallmark and a dollar tree, etc.
That large arcade was a Media Play for a while - in the 90's. Moondance Comics was located near that Valley Artisans store. That comic store closed early 90's maybe and another comic store opened near the cinemas. The Hampshire cinemas had midnight movies on the weekends including Rocky Horror Picture Show and so many horrible and excellent sci fi and horror movies. I think the Ground Round became another restaurant for a while because I remember going there around 2012 or so. There was a restaurant up stairs where that Skate Shop is now.
There's still an active comic book and card store in that mall. I just talked to the kid last week. He said he's doing great and he's been open for years.
i am so Glade your mommy going with you so i hear your old new shoes too ty for video
The store front that is now Planet Fitness was originally a large Hallmark store and then a dollar type store. That entire mall has churned its store fronts numerous times over the years. Perhaps not unlike many other malls. There was a one time another mall next door where Walmart is. The Hampshire Mall did it in.
That was Mountain Farms Mall, which got done in by Hampshire Mall.
I used to go here when I was in college, mainly for the Target and the movie theater. And I definitely got froyo at that tutti frutti 😂
I believe Dick's used to be an EMS back in the early 2000's
I thought EMS was across the hall from the Ground Round. It's been 20 years since I've been there though.
I hope it’s staying open. It’s mine and my daughter’s favorite winter play spot.
If they closed it I was gonna fly my mirco drone inside. Now I’ll just ask. Bet they’d love the footage.
The name of the roller rink is/was Interskate 91.
Pryimad also owns Holyoke mall as well JC Penney also has a store in holyoke
I first went into that mall about 25 years ago. It wasn't fully occupied even then. Seems to have always struggled. Like so many malls lately, it looks like they are banking on kids keeping it alive with the types of stores that are leasing. Almost every mall seems to be doing that.
Really like the mall, but the lighting seemed dim, which made it look dark in most spots!
I like that they added a lot of entertainment places!
Another great video; keep em coming!
Bruh, you were spongebob walking around this mall that day lol
I hope they keep the theater, was just there this month. It had some special events not available in west springfield.
The Ground Round without any warning just shut the whole thing down (or so it was said, but independently owned ones still lived on) , forgot the date in 2004. At 6pm on whatever day, the wait staff took everyone's meals away from them, and asked everyone to leave. What they ate before the sudden closures was on the house. The one here must've been an independent one.
I literally just looked this stuff up, didn't realize any were still around after the sudden mass closures in 2004.
You take my meal from me, I'll bite.
Haven't heard that name in a long time. If I remember family history correctly, my sister had her 7th or 8th birthday party there back in 1990 or '91. She ordered plate after plate of scallops of all things (hated the things, the mere scent in the grocery store would cause me to gag) she ate so many that she puked at the restaurant.
...Since we're here... years later the story would get retold with me confused as the one who gorged and purged on the nasty things, but that's absolutely impossible as I would have vomited by the time the second forkful entered my mouth.
That ground round closed I believe 2010 the owners said they were just making it by then 2008 recession hit and the mall came in and demanded more rent. I remember them saying they were paying 19 k a month and pyramid wanted 25 k and a percentage of gross the owner said no thanks and they closed. Very sad they got pushed out. Was one of the better restaurants
I worked at that Ground Round in the 90's and later 3 others as I moved across New England. The Hampshire Mall Ground Round was a franchise owned by Mike Ludwick. He managed to hang on a few more years after cooperate abruptly closed all it's stores on Friday night Valentines Day weekend. We received a call from cooperate during the dinner rush instructing us to remove everyone out of the building immediately. We had to tell our guests to leave while they were in the middle of their meals. It was very sad. I worked there for 15 years from server to manager and everything in-between. There are now only 2 franchises left in North Dakota owned by the same owner as of this post. Fun fact, the Ground Round was founded by Howard Johnson's.
The Cinemark used to be an AMC theater. The Pinz space used to be a Just Fun arcade. The Exotic Smokes used to be a Same Bat Channel comic book store. The Joann used to be a Railroad Salvage store IIRC and across the hall was a Sam Goody record store.
Oh wow that's just fun yes it is the same one I have in 90s early 2000 before it closes in Swansea mall in Massachusetts
Also close 😢 three years ago
No, the AMC theater was actually at Mountain Farms Mall.
@@therichard27 perhaps but it was definitely at Hampshire Mall before Cinemark went in.
Railroad Salvage was actually next to Jo An Fabrics in the space where the All In Adventure place is now. Fun Fact. That space was originally going to be the location of the mall's 4th anchor store, Sears. But Sears backed out of the lease less than a few months before the mall opened, so Pyramid had to get a tenant fast and Railroad Salvage went in there. Oh, the arcade that was where Pinz is was called Dream Machine. Just Fun was at the former Mountain Farms Mall.
Loved this mall as a kid
Hampshire Mall has been dead since like 2004 other than the gym and movie theater. Not a surprise at all.
Used to be a few things in the Planet Fitness, in part of it was a Hallmark Cards store, until they closed. American Eagle, Bath & Body was there, Media Play (before defunct), used to play at Dream Machine (long gone) where Pinz! is now. Was a great mall, back in the day. I don't remember the Steigers at all.
I spent many Friday nights of my youth at the Hampshire Mall, and still remember where many stores were located despite the numerous renovations that have taken place. I later worked in the mall from 2008 to 2010-ish.
-Remarkable that this mall is SO dead at this point that even the GNC formerly located shortly before the NAIL Pro salon, as well as the Bath and Body Works formerly located immediately across from the Dick's hallway are both gone. Usually those are some of the final chains to give up the ghost.
- That was, in fact, a Ground Round for a number of years. It opened in the mid-90's and did close sometime around 2011-12. Spent many evenings (and work breaks, regrettably) enjoying appetizers and $3.00 boomer mugs of Bud Light, then going back to work.
- The mall, while not large, seemed much bigger when it was at capacity in the 90's, and even into the early 2k's. You really could do all your mall shopping in this one location while not having to deal with the Holyoke Mall's epic parking lots and numerous entrances.
-The food court was demolished and remodeled in 2009-ish, along with a full floor re-tile, and those of us who were locals and grew up shopping and hanging out there were NOT happy. It was an obvious attempt to modernize the building without completing a full remodel, but it had a retro charm that was gone within a matter of days. There are some great photos of the interior just prior to the "modernization" here:
www.flickr.com/photos/thecaldorrainbow/albums/72157600459107977/with/607808519
In any event, it's sad to see the Hampshire Mall breathing its last dying breaths, but it makes it no different from any other large shopping center at this point.
there's also a empty store front in the back of hampshire mall next to Joanne's fabric but not sure what it used to be
Our texas mall is the last anchor store is closing our jcpenny i could not believe it i am not sure if our headquarters are in Irving tx but i hope others do not suffer the same fate.Your shoes were so squishy.
The mall sure has changed since I last visited! The entrance to the JC Penney takes me back, though.
I used to work for Lindsay Electric out of Brimfield. I wired that Buffalo Wild Wings when they built it. Even did a couple Thristy Thursdays there when Lazer 99.3 would do them .
I stumbled on this mall for the first time ever about a week or two ago.....I'd been about 5 minutes away from this mall hundreds of times in my life since the late 80s and never knew it existed until 2024 and was kind of disappointed I had never been when the mall was more alive. I asked a ton of friends if they ever had family that took them in the 90s and one girl said her parents used to TRY to make their girls do school shopping here instead of Holyoke Mall and that they absolutely hated going to the Hampshire Mall
So cool you got breakfast with Mom! Tell her the Hyundai Kona has the best blind spot sensors. A Fort Washington Way must have if you ask me.
I don't believe I've ever seen a bowling alley in a mall before. I like the way it looks with the dark glass. Was hoping you would take a look inside. Over 18k Tom, we're gonna get that collection video yet! 😁
This looks very similar to the fate of Kyova Mall in Ashland, Kentucky. It's been repurposed into an entertainment center but you can still see a lot of the old mall guts. It's now called Camp Landing. The old food court was reclaimed as a food court for Malibu Jacks.
The outside of JC Penny doesn't look too bad. But it is apparent that any parts of the building with that style of wall they just slapped some fresh paint over all of the old stuff that was already flaking off. That's what you call a 30ft Refresh, it looks good from 30ft away. Besides the sad attempt of repainting the building I like the idea of the in-mall bowling alley and the second floor roller rink. It's refreshing when mall owners put various entertainment venues into the malls along with a good selection of stores. You're not just going there to shop or watch a movie like normal. You're going for other entertainment as well. What's not refreshing is when they keep filling the mall with the same type of store and not adding anything different.
Spent so much time there when I was a kid. Had the best arcade. The theater. It’s so sad seeing how the powers that be have destroyed brick and mortar.
Crazy how there are family houses on the coast that probably go for more than that entire mall.
I haven't skated in 30 years or more, so it would be fun to watch me fall on my butt trying.
Literally grew up in this mall. Sucks to see it go..
Thanks!
Thanks again! I really appreciate it!
JC Penny...and my wife is a distro manager there.. isn't going out of business.. in fact they have reinvested a lot of money back into the store.... JC Penny was Bought out by guess who..>SIMON Malls...so that they could retain them as an anchor store. Don't bet on them going out business for a long time.
What’s it like working there? I’m curious to know what the atmosphere is like.
Thank you for clarifying this. I was just there last week. My friend and I both purchased some clothes. This JC Penney is a nice store.
This place did moderately well when the competition was the mall where the Walmart is. Mountain Farms Mall? That place was scary when stores started dropping out. All I remember at the end there was some kind of gym in there. More than once parked outside the entrance was a red Ferrari TestaRosa (Think Miami Vice-the TV show). Let's see. Scary mall. Dark and dingy. A gym. A Ferrari. Western Mass. Yeah, I'm sure everything was on the up and up. Hampshire Mall was like Disney World in it's heyday in comparison.
This mall has changed a ton since my childhood. The mocha emporium moved out during the pandemic due to the mall increasing the rent by 1,000!
If you stopped and looked at the new layout that the UMass students designed where buffalo wild wings used to be, it's very sad to see.
Joann and fabrics and JCPenney are the two original stores left. I have not seen any information on when this mall is going to be closing.
Joann has always put high prices on things and then put them on sale. Everyone always waited for things to go on sale and buy at the real price. The Halloween stuff ought to be 90% off if it's still there, which it shouldn't be. The stores used to be hopping too when I used to go in. Now it looks like they didn't even have an employee in the fabric department. WEIRD.
I was just at this mall last week, there was an employee in the fabric section, some folks were buying material. My friend and I each purchased something up front. It was a weekday, but people were there.
Nice video 😊
I wanted you to go up those stairs to the roller rink! 😊
I have to say it's a nice looking mall
Growing up I played laser tag and roller bladed there many times at Interskate 91
OMG it is 15 mins from where I live! Haven’t been there for some time. The Kart racing was cool, though. Sad to see it gone.
Hello Fellow Massholes. lol. remember on the weekends they would do the Rock Horror Picture Show in the theater during the late 80's. rolling rink interskate 91was shaped like a phone receiver. going shopping. food court. game room. girl try picking a fight with me once there. good old times.
To the right of the JC Penney entrance was a record store. Record Town, iirc.
I worked at the AMC 6 in '94-95. I believe between the Ground Round & the nail place was a Strawberries record store. There was Walden Books in either the gaming store or sherriffs 'office'
I cannot for the life of me remember what was where PF is.
I first started visiting the mall in 1993 and I remember they had just banned smoking inside the mall and there were multiple signs displayed throughout.
Right beside the JCPenney used to be a dollar store in 2007. That mall is completely different now.
I loved the department store Stieger’s. RIP.
This actually is a pretty cool mall, but it’s sad to see how “empty” it almost feels.
We forgive you for the squeaking shoes! Many of the stores you show are familiar to me as they are also in Australia but the J.C. Penny stores are not and I like seeing them as all my life they seem to have featured in movies, books etc.
I used to be an arcade rat in the arcade there in my teens. Good times.
hi flea bitten adventures the hampshire is a nice small mall & I know you mentioned Buffalo wild wings there is one in chicopee on memorial drive & there used to be a ground round inside the hampshire at the main entrance in the front of the mall but sadly hampshire mall doesn't have much of a food court anymore
ALOT of stores are starting to put out their Halloween stuff NOW! You'd know that if you worked in retail.
JC Penny has been holding on by a thread from going out of business for years. They could go belly up at anytime.
Tom, do you venture out to central/western NY? There's a mall I recently went to in Rochester that was interesting - The Mall at Greece Ridge. It was a one story mall, and in the food court is a two story (!!!) carousel. Great vid as usual.
I believe thats JC Penny's origìnal facade from 1978. I like the retro look.
Looks like the few malls where I live,dead.there used to be 11 malls fairly close to me now there's 3and one just got
Sold and half is being torn down for apartments.
Sometimes I would listen to aphex twin and wander though this weird lil mall
Most craft stores are pretty early on holiday decor. Also 40% off is normal on seasonal items.
Christmas in July garbage that doesn't end till January.
Wow! If I had known it sold for only 7 million I'd have bid on it!! 🤣 Oh well, maybe not! lol
The people who own the mortgage bought it on or about June 21st
As always great video 👍