What was your classic indoor Mall favorite stores ?

[thunderbolt]

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

Not the Sears Husky line?

[Mikey]

^ --- The Sears mall wasn't built until the early 80's

Before that all we had was a "Sears Catalog Store" in a small strip mall.

Always thought it was weird having a store that you can order Sears items from but you can't physically buy anything and take it home the same day from there.

[TrekStar]

Has anyone mentioned Kresges? that's were I picked up some of my WGSH and ahi monsters, Cooper Halloween costumes and of course lunch at the cafe area. The 80's and high school friends, it was various music stores, Chess King, Suncoast, Hobby Town, Herman's sporting goods, and Sears.

[danadoll]

I used to love Kaybee Toys and Walden Books, and Woolworths. That's all I can think I can think of at the moment, but those were my go-to places.

Dana

[PNGwynne]

I used to love Kaybee Toys and Walden Books, and Woolworths. That's all I can think I can think of at the moment, but those were my go-to places.

Dana

Our Woolworth's had a restaurant and I still have the Batman Returns Umbrella Jet I bought there.

[Mikey]

The closest Woolworths to me was like 20 miles aways

We had J.J. Newberry's (Woolworths knock-off)

[Dark Shadow]

The town that I grew up in had both J.J. Newberry & Woolworth in our downtown district, a block apart from each other. Both stores were stand alone buildings with basement areas featuring additional merchandise & soda fountains, they also had apartment housing on the upper floors. Both businesses were hopping when my parents were kids (they actually went on dates there) and both buildings remained open for business through at least the mid-80's.

The next town over (where my grandparents lived) had a J.J. Newberry in their neighborhood indoor mall. It was two story (main floor & basement), but I don't remember a soda fountain in that one. I do remember the toys being in the basement along with the arts & crafts stuff. This is the store where I got most of my WGSH Megos from (Spider-Man, Green Goblin, Lizard, Capt. America, Human Torch, Batman, Robin, Joker, Riddler, Wonder Woman, Shazam).

Fave mall stores up through the ages:

Toy World
Spencer Gifts
Dugan's Music
Licorice Pizza
Wherehouse Music
Virgin Records
Casa De Candles (they had posters galore)
B. Dalton
Suncoast Video
Puzzle Zoo
Warner Bros. Store
F.Y.E.
Sam Ash

[Werewolf]

I'm probably the only one that remembers this. When I was little Bergner's had this weird talking tree every Christmas. It had almost like a human face. The face was, I think, plastic and had lips that would more up and down as it talked and it greeted shoppers.

[Brue]

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

I woulda said Hills but mine was in plaza, not indoor mall.
I went to Sears as a kid a few times in elementary school. But the catalog is where I found the toys.

I didn't to go to indoor malls until 7th grade. I don't even remember seeing a KB toys there. I would have loved that.

I went to the mall a lot iin 7th to 9th grade. I went to the record stores (no idea what eh store names were) and Spencer. I think there was some electronics store that sold Commodore cartridges and electronics too.

[B-Lister]

For me they were outparcel stores.

[jwyblejr]

As I said,they were an anchor store. Here:

[B-Lister]

I wasn't doubting you, or saying you couldn't include them. I'm just saying they weren't attached to the malls of my youth.

[Brue]

As I said,they were an anchor store. Here:

I also was merely stating they were not in my malls.

[Spawn67]

Kind of ironic someone made this post because I visited my home town last week and went to the last of my childhood malls that's still standing. I went there on opening day in 1981 and it was a HUGE deal at the time.
None of the stores that I went to are there anymore. It had such a unique look and charecter back in the day but they remodeled it with the white marble tile that pretty much every mall has nowdays.
I had to go there on my visit because I have a feeling it might be the last time I ever set foot in there and had to say a final farewell in a sense...

[jwyblejr]

It's okay that people didn't know about Hills being a mall store. Heck,I didn't know about J.J. Newberry's being one. The only one I knew of was the one next to the HOF in Cooperstown. No mall there.