SECRET VINTAGE 70s WING | Shenango Valley Mall - Hermitage, PA | *PERMANENTLY CLOSED*
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Weird seeing my hometown appear in recommendations while scrolling RUclips
I stopped here about 5 years ago when passing through and took some video of the JC Penney store when I saw how old it was. The mall was already a dead mall but it had a surprising amount of activity for a dead mall. I get the impression that people still loved this place.
Great video . The vintage ads and video of the mall really helps with the history from its opening days to when it started to decline . Thanks for the memories ❤😊
That wing used to house a coffee shop and the arcade up until the mid 90s I think it was when they closed it off. Lots of memories of that mall in the 80s and 90s.
Great video! I spent thousands of hours here, mainly at National Record Mart and Walden's books. We were also regulars at a big diner-type restaurant in JC Penney's. Those escalators were terrifying when I was a tot. Good times.
I remember the diner. I remember my parents seemed to really like it! I do sincerely miss Scotto's.
@@TheSkittlesmcgee Yeah, Scotto's ruled. True italians
They're trying to pump some life into the Clearview Mall in Butler. Time will tell if they're successful.
Oh I remember back to school shopping there. I got my fabulous jean jacked and LA Gear high tops there for sixth grade. 😂
Great video! It sucks to see this mall going away.
Did anyone else notice the sign from outside ad that was spelled JC.Penny? Hmmmmm.... maybe that is why people remember it being spelled as such. Thoughts? BTW, I hate that malls have gone to the side because there was never anything like walking the mall with friends.
You may have found a new Mandela effect example.
I got my first prom dress at this mall. Didn't shop there much unless I was with my grandma. She loved the shenango mall. Memories........❤thank you for this video!
I found Carmen Sandiego! 1:04
Honestly I’m sad to the mall. I wish we could get new development without losing the mall.
And that story about new castle teens arrested at the mall in 1971 shows New Castle people have always been causing trouble here lol.
That's where pocket change park used to be, I always was there playing arcade games and ski ball and universal u used to be next to it
Heh. We had called this place the "Shenango Valley Hallway" for over thirty years.
watching this video I've learned the definition of 'beautiful' is very open to interpretation..
In all the years of going to my childhood mall, which is Woodbridge Center mall in Woodbridge, New Jersey, I can gather that it’s never been renovated except for paint jobs and removing fountains and the Dick’s sporting goods Wing
Neat. Thanks.
Unfortunately the hey day yrs of the malls in the 70s-90s are gone. They're not coming back. Some malls will hang on a while longer but it's clear that the inevitable changes of life are taking a toll, leaving us to remember what was.
Great Video!
very similar to the viewmont mall in scranton
Great video and subbed!!!!!
Sad to see it gone. I knew it's end was coming because driving through the parking lot you would have to swerve around the crater sized potholes. Firestone is still open at the front of the mall parking lot. But for how long?
Hey so a few things
1)It wasn't the mall fighting the city to stop demolition, it was JC Penney's fighting the mall owners to stop any redevelopment of the property.
2)Hickory Township/Hermitage never really had a downtown to speak of, in fact where the mall is now is pretty much Hermitage's downtown, such as it is. You're thinking of nearby downtown Sharon, which is where all the department stores were.
3)If I understand it correctly, it wasn't just JC Penney's that had say/veto power over development of the mall, it was supposed to be a three-way consensus between the three anchors, but because after 2017 Penney's was the only anchor left it was a case of loophole abuse keeping the mall as is.
4)Kauffman's, the store that replaced Strous's, was pronounced "Cough-man's". The fact that we've reached a point where people are too young to remember Kauffman's makes me feel ancient lol.
5)What's your source on the medical office plans for the north wing? You're right that it was sealed in 1997 but this is the first I've heard about plans to convert it to medical offices. For years there have been various theories and contradictory stories floating around the net about why it was sealed. Until very recently the story I'd heard most often was that Pocketchange Park, which was the biggest attraction back there, closed around Christmas 1996. At the same time, Sears was looking to expand, so in February 1997 they evicted the remaining stores, permanently locked the outdoor entrance and sealed the inline entrance (which was between GNC and Rave, those two storefronts are now one space occupied by Maurice's). From there, the story gets murky. All I know is Sears ultimately never went through with the expansion and in March 2004 the mall took an employee corridor linking the restroom hallway to the hidden hallway and opened it to the public, opening the wing once again. After talking to someone who was not working there in 1997 but WAS in 2003 when they decided to unseal it, my new educated guess/theory is that it was sealed in Feb 1997 with the intention of redeveloping the wing, possibly as a movie theater, but the mall changed hands shortly thereafter and the plans were abandoned. In late 2003 new management looked at those storefronts and wanted to lease them...but they couldn't because they'd built Maurice's in front of the entrance. So they unsealed it using the aforementioned employee corridor. After the 2004 unsealing there were two businesses back there: Twice Loved Appliances, which had previously been located in the former Fashion Bug/antique shop, and a Mercer County government office. Over the next few years a handful of businesses would try leasing space back there (hopefully for cheaper rent than on the main concourse lol) and the mall opened a community room back there in the old mall office in 2005. The longest running tenant back there after the reopen was actually a karate school which lasted about 3 years before finally giving up the ghost in early 2010, they were the last tenant to try it back there. (Side tangent here: If the movie theater plans were true I have to wonder if it was Cinema 8 looking to leave Hickory Plaza. They were in the back of the plaza and most of their auditoriums shared a wall with the kitchen of the popular restaurant The Italian Oven. I'm not kidding, 29 years later I STILL associate The Santa Clause with the smell of spaghetti sauce).
The only malls that are still in business are outlet malls, luxury malls like Millenia Mall in Orlando, and novelty malls like Mall of America.
With the housing issues going on, these abandoned/dying malls can be refashioned into affordable housing. There are numerous cities doing this. I know that in Northern West Virginia, they converted the dead malls into office complexes and restaurants.
I disagree. In my community, there are still tons of malls, and they are not all luxury malls. I live in an area with lots and lots of middle-class immigrants…and the mall is filled on the weekends with mom, dads and kids from these immigrant families as well as all kinds of other people. I think these malls are dying in communities that have been left behind but in prosperous, growing communities, the malls are flourishing.
Someone had a foot fetish.. 4 shoe stores on the sign? Lol. And they spelled JC Penney wrong.
Hope awesome Penney's was the final holdout.