This is the interior of the mall looking toward the front. I don't remember what was in these stores.
Same as before, looking toward the front. I remember the Dungeons and Dragons-place on the right. There was Genesis Hair Salon beyond that. I'm sure there was something else.
A look closer toward the jewelers. Note the rain damage under the windows.
This is looking toward the rear. This was the food court area. I remember an Italian restaurant and a Subway in the demolished area.
Looking from the food court toward Peebles. That's S&N Katz Jewelers on the left. The table tennis place was beyond that when we moved to Eldersburg. The Fun Quarters was on the right.
When we moved to Eldersburg in 1999 there was a Mexican restaurant here. It closed soon thereafter.
Evidence of a paint-ball war. Note all of the yellow blotches.
This is the S&N Katz Jewelers, obviously. Just a lot of smashed glass now.
Here is one of the decorative sconces that adorned the pillars.
I think a tree was here and the grate was around it. Now it is filled with wires and a basketball. Not sure how the basketball got there.
This cracks me up. Read the sign. Exposed rebar, cracked marble, debris. How in the world can that harm children?
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When I moved herein 86 there was a lot of different stores, 86 is when they closed the mall in, I can name most of the stores in your pictures. The view of the food court had Brothers Pizza, Skips Chicken, Sub Way, then you had past Subway on the Right, The Card Store, Manny's Deli, Sound Oddesy was in the mall around the corner and across from Fasion Bug. There was a surf shop in there at one time called Coast To Coast, and the place where the dungeon and dragons stuff was at was a restaurant with a train theme at the beginning, the mexican restaurant was Gouchos, and where Peebles was at, that whole store use to be a Jamesway, Followed by an Ace Hardware and Peebles, Big Lots was Super Fresh, Dollar General was Joann Fabrics and then a Rite Aid, and of course the liquor store that is now located across the street. Then Radio Shack was in the Kmart Corridor, with Fashion Bug, Little Proffesor, Shoe Repair, and at one time where the Table Tennis Place was at there was a Dollar King. If I sat down and went through all the pictures I could name where most stuff was at. There use to be a Hess Shoes by the Food Court. I know my whole post goes on and on and on, but I know lots of the stores of the Mall when it was a good Mall.
I used to go to this mall all the time. There was i coin store that i went to a lot where the table tennis place was most recently.
Shawn, thank you for all of that information. I love reading about those kinds of things from the olden days.
I remember there being a men's store called Darby's which was nice when I was in middle school.
I remember New Win Long had a restaurant there, there was a small arcade right before the food court and before Fun Quarters. Fun quarters took most of the jungle gym equipment from Fun Jungle which was briefly in the Enchanted Forest shopping center. I remember riding my bike there as a kid to get slurpee's from the food court in Kmart. How about the barber shop and the creepy guy that used to help there. I also remember a restaurant called BJ I think but that wasn't around very long. The old arcade was replaced by a pet shop.
The old Arcade in the Mall was Bumpers Arecade, it always had a bumper car in the window, then Fun Quarters took over the small arcade, and then in the early '90's they moved to the large arcade that was there until they closed.
I remember when the movie theatre was still attached to the mall. I went to go see E.T., Return of the Jedi, and Little Shop of horrors there before it moved to its location behind the mall.
Mr. Yuck - where was the movie theater prior to when it was a stand-alone building?
I remember when it was an open air mall. I wish there were pictures of that.
I remember when Fun Quarters was I. The corner across from Gouchos. The. Aren’t shop was Rons (formerly Scotty’s) and the man you speak of that helped him out was Marv 😀
Yes! You are right it was Bumper’s before then. They had a Mortal 2 machine and there was this guy with glasses and curly hair that used to play all the time. Man was he good!
The movie theater used to be in the back of the mall, outside of the malm where the entrance to Gouchos was.
I remember also when it was open air mall and the movies in the rear of the mall. Then it was closed in. I lived on Macbeth way and use to ride my bike there. It was when mcbeth way was a dead end and you had to take a dirt trail to get to the mall. I use to hang out at that mall all the way through high school. Was a meet up place to hang out in the back parking lot or do the carroll town 500. I remember marv would be around the food court.I think he would always have a cigarette. And Blaze star also had a vending cart there. I worked at Superfresh and my friend worked at fun quarters. I live in Florida but when I go visit my dad who still lives in eldersburg I have to ride by where the mall was. Sad to see it go. Lots of memories from there.
Me too! They had the best food. Be at the first arcade was across from goucho's
This blog I just found ... I can't stop laughing! My Parents moved us to Eburg from Catonsville I think maybe in '80. The Super Fresh was The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, also known as A&P. The train themed restaurant was PJ's. It was open air but had covered paths along the storefronts, huge concrete ashtrays EVERYWHERE, obviously you could still smoke in the lobby of the 2 room movie theater. Marv used to ride a little blue Tomos scooter and was generally harmless. There was also a tax preparation place (H&R Block maybe but I can't remember). There was Mickey's Treasures, all the previously mentioned places, Brother's Pizza was delicious and Goucho's served beer on tap- Michelob Dark and maybe Budweiser (my best friend Kris worked there when we were kids). The Carrollton 500....ahhh such memories.
Seriously, anyone reading this, wasn't life so much easier then? The only school shootings we ever had was with rubberband guns, at each other. Freedom, Carrolltown, and Elders urg Elementary Schools, Sykesville Middle (anyone remember running The Gap which parallels Rt 32?? Ya know, because unsupervised Middle School kids right next to a major traffic route was safe. Harvest Inn, C&L Cycles across the street, and maybe Haines Realty, the people whom developed the houses across from McDonald's.
Any of you old enough to remember the stand alone arcade on the second floor of what turned into a Chinese grocery store about 10 years ago? Hardee's, Roy Roger's, the Eldersburg Inn, and Duke's Place in Sykesville where we'd go pull "hey mister's" to get alcohol? I think there was another bar down past Baldwin Station that got burned down as well. I feel like PJ's was actually a Hawaiian themed restaurant with an identity crisis and the booths were green train cars. Great burgers from what I recall.
A stone's throw from 50, and remembering my brother's best friend doing the 500 BLASTING Sir Mixalot's Baby Got Back through his twin Cerwin Vega 12" subs. The "farmers" with the trucks and CB's, and everyone seemingly smoked. Oh yeah, and the theatre?? RC Theatres Welcomes You! was the intro as the theater lights dimmed.
Just realized this blog...is 11 years old. Let's revive it. I miss that life something powerful.
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