Landover Mall in Landover Maryland was THE Mall. From 1972 until its demise in 2007. This is the brief history of this mall. This was a viewer suggested video.
I grew up in DC, in the 70s/80s. We used to leave DC to go to Landover Mall because the movie theater there (Promenade 6), was considered a “good movie theater“ until it became the very place we were trying to escape(SMH). Just before or right after or sometimes before and after we would Head up to the top floor, in the corner, for slice of Three Brothers Pizza. This was Three Brothers’s first and only location at that time and they were pretty damn good in my opinion. Again, We would load up in the car and head to the mall and the long lines for a large pizza. Landover Mall also had one of the most popular Breakfast joints at the time. You and your boys or your sideman, had to have a “booking honeys“ competition back then. A visit to Spencer was exciting for my young freak nasty ass(smh)! Who can forget taking a picture with the black Santa Claus at Christmas time? Remember when you actually had a fair shot at seeing your favorite artist in concert and getting a premium seat, easily somewhere in the first ten rows if you’re the first in line. I bought my ticket from HECHT’S in Landover mall for a show at the Capital Center. Oh, and then there was the “CAPITAL CENTER”!!!
Some of our fine RU-vid commentators, including “Fairfaxcat,” would need “sideman” and “booking honeys” defined. Indeed some commentators are in the dark on those.
Iverson Mall in Hillcrest Heights was much closer to those of us living in SoMD, and it opened as an enclosed mall in 1967 with Montgomery Ward and Woodies as the anchors.
I worked in many of the stores at Landover when it first opened. Fond memories - and by the way, there WAS a Santa at Christmas because I went to high school with the person who played Santa.
Someone already made the note about Bowie being pronounced as Booey but I just wanted to mention that Woodies was short for Woodward and “LOW-throp”. That aside, thank you so much for digitizing some of my most fond childhood memories. 🤗
thank you for noticing my pronunciation errors. I actually did a Woodward and Lothrop video.. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LpMEZp4ig1o.html Thanks for watching
There were not two Orange Juliuses. There was an Orange Julius downstairs in the center court next to the main fountain, and upstairs diagonally across from OJ was a very similar, Florida-based restaurant called "Orange Bowl."
I worked as a security guard between 72 & 79 and yes the crime rate was bad. Actually several employees of a pet store down by Hecht Co (lower level) had stolen the store safe. Robbies, shoplifting, thefts, car break-ins, assaults were rampant at the time. Prior to that I was also at Prince Georges Plaza from 71 to 73. FYI Landover Mall had 10 submarine diesel engines underground on the theater side supplying power to the all of the Mall except for Sears which was with PEPCO. That was before oil embargo of 1973 - after that it became to expensive to run the engines so Landover Mal switched over PEPCO
I do remember. My great-grandma used to take me there all the time. Pancakes at IHOP, dress shopping at Woody’s, lunch at Arthur Treacher’s, and I remember there being a Woolworth.
What also ruined landover mall was the local crackheads and so-called wannabe thugs following people to and from their vehicles robbing them and the police didn’t start cleaning up around there until 2004
I saw my first movie The Last Dragon when I was 4 at the theater...I remember there was a shootout in the mall during Christmas time back in like '90...I still went to the comic shop and book store there up until it closed in 2000-2001...
I'm sorry but I don't. I'm seeing alot of pictures of the mall ,but surprisingly not one of Briggs Music. It's a little bit of a shock because it was the only instrument store in the area. Most of us had to go to Wheaton to get music gear from Chuck Levins.
Eric, thank you for another historic video. This was a first class mall, considering the area was loaded with lowlife scumbags. The ghetto destroyed PG COUNTY in Maryland.😊
Bro the mall was closed down also because they was not keeping it up why first the movie theater went away because not keeping it clean rats and more was in that mall poor management also stop pointing fingers
I was living in Palmer Park, I got so many memories in Landova mall, hit the circuit city across the street and mess with the speakers after we left. 😂 Dangerous ass mall when the hoods cross paths in there but as a kid we were spectators fr.
Been trying to find pictures of the fountains working but not the ones in the middle or at the end but the ones in between before they put plants in them
This is amazing. I worked at the movies when GREASE came out. The LINES were insane! That's when we thought 6 screens were INCREDIBLE! Nod to Jerry Lewis Cinema. Anyone remember that?
I really enjoyed this thank you for the memory lane. I'm trying to find pictures of videos from the jordan kitt store That was in the mall primarily their recital performances that were done in a center court. If anyone has any leads I would appreciate it
Presentation could've been better. Many photos don't match up with the narration. Also, an overreliance on filler footage from non-related sources. "Bowie" is pronounced "BOO-eee," not "BOW-ee."
They need to bring it back because we got to many new developments now and the stadium and hotel's mske it a casino mall with dave and busters inside be great bringing more jobs bsck into these area's they close down and closing down all the apartments around in that araa they look nice also it wss poor management also
