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sightlab t1_j25jo0e wrote

Reply to comment by Nogodsnomasters in Remember Ames? The department store is returning to New England by nebirah

There was one in the Hampshire Mall when the Hampshire Mall was thriving and had a food court that looked like an old-timey town square (with Steigers as the big central feature store) and the adjacent West Mountain Farms mall (or, colloquially, the "DEAD MALL") was an empty husk with 1 chinese restaurant, 1 AMC muliplex, and a sunday flea market in the massive anchor space at the end. Now the West Farms area is the thriving (if awful) walmart/wholefoods/barnes & noble/old navy etc plaza and the Hampshire Mall is an increasingly empty anachronism that folks now refer to as the DEAD MALL.

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Nogodsnomasters t1_j25uydi wrote

Yes! I even remember the grand opening of Mountain Farms Mall. They were supposed to drop ping pong balls from a helicopter with prize codes on them, but it got called off due to a tornado warning or something, and some guy just threw handfuls off of the roof instead. Before the Hampshire Mall was built right next to it, Mountain Farms Mall was the big deal. I remember being highly impressed with the water wheel.

But Hampshire Mall with the old town theme and the Roller skating (Interskate 91) was so exciting back in the day.

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