What was the mall you went to as a kid?

[BillsPride12]

I know most of the posters in here don't live in WNY right now but most at least have some WNY Roots. What was the mall you went to when you were growing up?  There were a lot of great ones in the WNY area back in the day when malls were thriving.

 

Summit Park Mall was my go to...Leon's pizza, original cookie factory, aladdin's castle.  Many fond memories 

[Sweats]

Fairview Park Mall.........Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

[Wacka]

Como Mall was only a mile away.  Mc D's, a video arcade, Cavages Records, movies and later T-Birds bar. Entire mall is still standing but now is a business park. The Erie County Social Services  occupies what was Hengerer's.

[Roundybout]

Eastern Hills Mall for me. If I was “good” at the dentist, we went to Mrs. Fields for a cookie after.

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

Chautauqua Mall. A very long time ago... 

[Augie]

We’d ride our bikes to the Boulevard Mall, where one of my friends bought a cat at the pet store and took it home to surprise his mother. My mother would have locked me out of the house if I brought a cat home. She proceeded to claim she was allergic to cats until I was almost 30, when she came clean and said she just hates them.

 

A few years later we would ride our bikes to Eastern Hills Mall, where we could inhale the air in Spencers Gifts and marvel at the black lights on the posters.  

[US Egg]

Seneca Mall-1970’s.
 

The center fire place was surrounded by snorkel jacket wearing, pot smoking, shoplifting teenage thugs of which I…….

[The Jokeman]

North Buffalo kid here so it was the Boulevard Mall. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

I remember when Cheektowaga's Truway Mall was just Truway Plaza.  My mother took special pleasure in waiting for the most miserable day of winter to schlep her three kids from store to store.  Then have the audacity to complain about it.  None of us asked to go!

[RichStadiumGuy]

Malls weren't invented yet when I was a kid.

[muppy]

Eastern Hills Mall. It was the closest and we went there a few times but not that often. 

[US Egg]

21 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

I remember when Cheektowaga's Truway Mall was just Truway Plaza.  My mother took special pleasure in waiting for the most miserable day of winter to schlep her three kids from store to store.  Then have the audacity to complain about it.  None of us asked to go!

The snowdrifts literally blocking doors. Required footwear:

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

Just now, US Egg said:

The snowdrifts literally blocking doors. Required footwear:

 

And those buckles invariably broke. 🙁

1 hour ago, Sweats said:

Fairview Park Mall.........Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Was that the one with an ice rink inside?

[Sweats]

2 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

And those buckles invariably broke. 🙁

Was that the one with an ice rink inside?

 

 

 

No, the mall with the indoor ice rink is the Cambridge Mall........5 minutes away from Fairview Mall

[Another Fan]

Menlo Park Mall.  Edison, NJ 

 

Anyone remember this store? Was sold to Macys in the 80s

Edited January 28 by Another Fan

[Just Jack]

Penn-Can Mall, north of Syracuse. It's now part of a car dealership. 

 

Penn Can Mall | Syracuse Nostalgia

[Low Positive]

48 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

North Buffalo kid here so it was the Boulevard Mall. 

First place I ever drove by myself was the Boulevard Mall, right after passing my road test. 

[BillsPride12]

4 minutes ago, Just Jack said:

Penn-Can Mall, north of Syracuse. It's now part of a car dealership. 

 

Penn Can Mall | Syracuse Nostalgia

Thanks for sharing that link.  I loved the write-up and seeing all of those classic photos.  Very nice touch with the antique clock 

[Wacka]

Thruway Plaza had the large illuminated "Thruway" sign on a tower  at the corner of Harlem and Walden. Can't remember if it rotated or not.  The Cheektowaga  Volunteer fire depts would put on an exhibition behind it where Planet Fitness is andWalmart was during fire prevention week (1st week of October). Would show how they put out a fire, show the  then new jaws of life and extend the snorkels up high.

Edited January 28 by Wacka

[Southern McButterpants]

I was a Thruway Mall kid.  Cavages, Spencer's, great arcade, Burns Barber shop...  good times, goood times.