What was your classic indoor Mall favorite stores ?

[Mikey]

Back in the day I used to like looking and playing with Spencers weird junk like wave machines, clicking ball thing, and realistic resin sculptures like a pouring beer mug.

Bought a Yellow Submarine cookie jar there once --- sold it for 4 times its price a few years later

[msenger76]

circus world toys
warner brothers store for sure

[SeattleEd]

Don's Toys
Waldenbooks
B. Dalton
Kay Bee
Licorice Pizza
Posters Inc
Miller's Outpost
May Company
The Broadway
JC Penny
Nordstroms

[SeattleEd]

Chess King

Yes! They had the hippest clothes. When the Michael Jackson zipper craze came out all kids went there to get pants, shirts and jackets with all the zippers. Netted shirts made of polyester. In a sense what West Coast break dancers wore.
They had the thriller jacket knockoff there and wanted that so bad. Wasn't leather but polycotton. Never got it.

[pmwasson]

KB Toys
B. Dalton Books
Warner Bros. Store

[mike69]

Hobby Shop
Aladdin's Arcade
Camelot Music
Spencer's
Woolworths
Suncoast
Kaybee Toys

[torgospizza]

Kaybee, Suncoast, Musicland, and Waldenbooks for entertainment; for clothes, Chess King.

[Mikey]

No mall clothes for me -- My clothes store was the fat boy section in Kmart

[jwyblejr]

I can't believe I forgot Hill's. I was always going to one of the ones in Syracuse as a teen.

[megomania]

Aladdin's Castle (arcade)
Montgomery Ward
Orange Julius
Osco Drug (go-to store for magazines)
Electronics Boutique
Suncoast

-Chris

[Earth 2 Chris]

Thornbury's Toys and Walden Books, most definitely!

Chris

[B-Lister]

I only listed stores that were attached to the mall. Outparcel stores like Hills, Bradlees, Zayre, Toys R Us, and Children's Palace were not listed as they were not under the same roof as the mall proper.

[Wee67]

Great topic! My childhood 70's were spent outside, playing with Megos but once I hit middle school I spent so much of time at the Oxford Valley Mall!

Space Port (arcade)
Spencer's
Allied Hobbies (for skateboard parts)
Sam Goody and The Wall
The Gap (I worked there for most of high school)
Olga's
Orange Julius

[jwyblejr]

I only listed stores that were attached to the mall. Outparcel stores like Hills, Bradlees, Zayre, Toys R Us, and Children's Palace were not listed as they were not under the same roof as the mall proper.

Places like Hills and Bradlees were mall anchors. That's why I listed them. Hills was an anchor for Penn Can and Carousel in Syracuse NY and Salmon Run in Watertown NY. Bradlees was an anchor in Sangertown Square in New Hartford NY and Riverside Mall in Utica NY.

[Mikey]

My close mall anchor stores were....

Mall-1 … Grants and Grand Union … later K-Mart and Marshals

Mall-2 … JCPenny, Bambergers and Sears

Mall-3 … JCPenny, K-Mart

Mall-4 … Clover and JCpenny