Dead department Stores- Macy's Owings Mills Mall Owings Mills MD

These are pictures from the Owings Mills Mall auction. This was the Bambergers/Macys/Boscovs building. It was breifly Bambergers in 1986 and then Macy's until 2006 when the moved to the Hechts space it became Boscovs at that point. They closed in 2008. The building was 3 levels and 300,000 sqft. It was demolished with the rest of the mall in 2016.

A Regency Christmas

A merry Christmas From LENO and my favorite mall of all time, The Regency  mall in Augusta Ga. 

Prince tribute

The well known artist songwriter Prince died yesterday in his studio in MN. I just want to say thank you  Prince for all the great music and rest in peace. I will post some of my favorite prince songs in due time
Thank you Prince
From Retail Of YesterYear

Mall St Mathews riot

“There were as many as 2,000 kids at the mall — many of them unsupervised,” said Officer Dennis McDonald, the public information officer for the St. Matthews Police Department. “A good amount of them were there for legitimate reasons — to shop, eat or go to the movies. But a large number were there to do nothing other than loiter, harass other shoppers and be confrontational with police officers.”

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“The calls started to pile up and we couldn’t respond in a timely matter,” McDonald said.

Around that time, dispatchers began to receive calls from area businesses located near the mall.

At the Toys ‘R’ Us at 4900 Shelbyville Road, a dispatcher is heard sending an officer to the store in response to “a subject throwing bricks at the back of the back of the building, outside. Manager advises he can hear them throwing the items and shouting.”

One of the six St. Matthews Police Officers assigned to the mall on the holiday detail began relaying details of what was taking place inside.

“We’ve got multiple crowds of hundreds, we’ve got stores going into lock down, shutting their gates,” he told dispatchers. “We are responding to another fight right now by the Victoria’s Secret entrance. They are going on all around us.”

Local Kentucky TV station WLKY reported on the chaos and video of the mall thugs shows they almost all black teens from “local middle or high schools. ” 

From: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/28/2000-teens-involved-riot-shuts-kentucky-mall/

Happy Halloween From RETAIL OF YESTERYEAR

Hello Retail Of Yesteryear readers I could not  find much for photos of old malls on halloween but I do know that malls used to have trick or treat events on halloween where each store would give out candy The two photos I found one of Greengate mall both courtesy of greegatemallrevisited.com a great website that i would highly recommend if you are looking for info on Greengate mall the other is cinderella city mall with candy on the floor enjoy the photos and again I hope you have a very happy safe Halloween