My heart broke the last time I visited a Fry’s. A shadow of its former self.
The lone cashier looked at me like, “Oh, you hadn’t heard, huh?”
Posted on 12/26/2022 8:33:13 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA — Local dad Justin Simpson took a trip to the mall on Christmas Eve to begin his Christmas shopping, only to find a vacant lot where the mall once stood.
"Oh man, I've been coming here forever," Simpson said. "I mean, it's been a few years, but I used to love getting malts at the Woolworth soda fountain. Then my mom would always make us buy some educational books over at Borders."
A distraught Mr. Simpson had reportedly planned to shop for his entire family at the mall this year. "I figured I could get the older kids some MP3s at Sam Goody, then hit KB Toys for the little ones," he said. "Finally, it was off to the jewelry counter at Sears to get something for my wife. Where am I going to buy presents now?"
While Simpson talked, several other confused-looking fathers arrived at the empty mall lot. They all stared wistfully at the weed-choked rubble for a few minutes before aimlessly driving away.
As for Simpson, he had quickly moved on to his backup Christmas shopping plan. "I'm going to see if I can find a Toys 'R' Us for the kids," he said. "As for the wife, I suppose I can just take her out to dinner at Howard Johnson's, and then we can go to see a drive-in movie. We haven't done that in ages."
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Heh. Don’t laugh.
I’ve been there.
I’ll just add your experience to a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet I have on my Compaq computer, right after DeLorean’s entry.
Out of the Box Ventures, a subsidiary of Miami-based Lionheart Capital recently purchased the property
We didn't have a car growing up, so the bus was our mode of getting where we wanted to go. Downtown Rochester was the place to go back then. Woolworth's and Neisner's were right across the street from each other. Both had luncheon areas and Neisner's had a cafeteria in the basement. They also sold pizza in a separate area of the first floor. There was a Planter's Peanuts store on the corner, the same side as Neisner's, and you could smell the peanuts cooking no matter what time of year it was. Sibley's was a large department store, and its rival McCurdy's was just across from it. Sibley's had it own restaurant, grocery store, and bakery inside. Down the street from Sibley's was the Paramount Theater. At the other end of the same street was the RKO Palace Theater. There was a Grant's, Lerner's, Thom Mcan shoe store, The National (a higher priced clothing store), among others that lined E. Main Street in Rochester. In 1962, Midtown Plaza opened up. Part of it consisted of a two-floor indoor shopping mall. The mall was demolished in 2010.
Today you don't dare go to downtown Rochester, especially after dark, for fear of your life.
I bet they don’t replace. They’ll tear dorm the mall and leave flattened ruble, sure, but they’ll build the condos on what was a nice farm with arable soil so that no food will ever again be grown there .
I didn’t buy one gift this year. My wife had the adult kids covered. She wanted a membership to a museum and bought it when she visited the museum last week. (To be fair, the museum is 600 miles from home and we were there on vacation this week. Even better, they weren’t selling memberships and she just bought one day tickets for her and my daughter.
-PJ
And while he was in there, he could dial the time: xxx-844-1212.
“At the tone, the time will be 10:53 pm and 10 seconds . . .”
If I recall, the Red Barn was at 9 mile and Little Mack. Correct?
As a young child, I ate dinner at the one in Gaithersburg, MD. It sat across the street from Gino’s Pizza.
I remember the one on Woodward and Davison.
My heart broke the last time I visited a Fry’s. A shadow of its former self.
The lone cashier looked at me like, “Oh, you hadn’t heard, huh?”
I didn’t know it was a chain
Whenever I go back to Fort Lauderdale I keep hoping one day that Peaches Records and Tapes store will magically appear again.
I betcha I know ‘ZACKLY which FL Peaches store you’re talking about, too!
East Sunrise Boulevard and NE 15th Avenue.
That’s the one.
My Christmas Eve shopping strategy came through again this year
When I actually did Christmas shopping I just went to the neighborhood CVS store.
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