What was your classic indoor Mall favorite stores ?

[Mikey]

Could be from any era and once-off mom and pop shops included.
For me, off the bat I can think of ….

Saturday Matinee Video Store

Sam Goody

The Wall (great for browsing but overpriced for buying)

Walden Books (to check out new Trek manuals and browse nude photography books)

Hallmark Shop (got to look at the new Christmas ornaments)

[B-Lister]

Waldenbooks
B Dalton Books
Coles Books.
KB Toys
K&K Toys
Spencer's Gifts
K-Mart
Aladdin's Castle
Babbages
Mothers Music
17th Street Surf Shop

[Brown Bear]

Readmore bookstore.......Consumers Distributing........Candy Boutique........Hobby Lobby

[Marvelmania]

The Gold Mine Arcade
Spencer's Gifts
Orange Julius
Fifth Ave. Card Shop
T-Shirt Shack
McCrory (where most of my Megos came from)
Super X Drug Store ( A great place for comics and Marx toys)
Circus World
Record bar

[thunderbolt]

KayBee, Disc Jockey, Musicland, BDalton, Spencers,

[cockyhoskins]

Off the top of my head:

Montgomery Ward
Kaybee Toys
Guitar Center (I remember our guitar store having a different name, but I've had the discussion with people over the years. Every one seems to remember it as an actual Guitar Center).
Record Bar (my brother was the manager and got backstage passes to basically any show that came to our city. I met some incredible acts in the 80s.)
Camelot Music
Radio Shack
Spencer's
B. Dalton

[PNGwynne]

Diamond's Menswear--high-end classic mens' clothier, in-house tailoring. I still have and use things from there.
JC Penney's
Higbee's
Monty Wards and Sears at Christmas
Chess King
Churchill's News & Tobacco (certain, ahem...magazines. For the articles.)
Rizzi's Toys--bought many Clash of the Titans there.
Kaybee's
Waldenbooks
B. Dalton
Musicland/Saturday Matinee
York Steak House--really miss it


"My" mall--Rolling Acres, now gone--had Kaybee's & Rizzi's inside, and Gold Circle, Children's Palace, and Toys R Us adjacent. It made for terrific toy shopping, though we still used catalogues a lot.

[Werewolf]

Waldenbooks
B.Dalton
Kaybee Toys
Hallmark
Bergner's
Montgomery Ward

[thunderbolt]

Waldenbooks
B.Dalton
Kaybee Toys
Hallmark
Bergner's
Montgomery Ward

Ohh yeah, Bergners!!! Got more than a couple Shogun Warriors from there.

[powersthatbe]

Kaybees
Suncoast
Walden books
B Daltons
Wool Worths
David Weis
Village Newstand(where I looked for comics,magazines,and sometimes try to sneak into the "behind the counter" adult magazines.
NRM(national record mart)

[Mikey]

I forgot about Spencer's and Suncoast …

Also, Arthur Treacher's in the food court

Did Hallmark shops used to be called Hallmark shop's back then ?

In my local mall we had "The Fifth Avenue Card Shop" which literally was what Hallmark shops would later be.

[Klosterheim]

Walden Books
Kaybee Toys
Montgomery Ward
Murphy's
Sears
unknown toy stores
unknown TV & Electronics store
can't remember music stores
various video game arcades!

[RonnyG]

Warner Brothers Studio Store
Disney Store
KayBee Toys
Waldenbooks (or any bookstore)
Sbarro pizza for lunch

oh, yeah, Suncoast Video

[jwyblejr]

Hess's
Bradlees
Fay's Drugs
Nichols(the one in Oneonta NY was inside Pyramid Mall,both now gone)

[Nostalgiabuff]

Book & Record
Dream Machine Arcade
KayBee Toys

we still have a Spencers in our mall. it's actually fairly large. other than pop culture shirts/hats etc, it is mostly gag type gifts