Exploring Parma, OH - Ridge Road, the Old Parmatown Mall, and Other Memories (October 22, 2022) 

I live in Parma in the late 90’s early 00’s before moving to Florida. I miss it so much. Such a great place to live. I’d love to move back someday. This feels like home to me.

Thanks for this video! I grew up there in the 80’s and 90’s. Great memories, and I kinda miss it out there. Ive been gone 25, 26 years and the holidays still dont feel right to me where im at or where ive been. Christmas lights on cacti is cool looking, but hurts like hell putting them up and taking them down 😂

The Parma theater that they tore down was that snow in Ridge where that CVS is built

The theater was awsome they had a.. magic with in ...store next to theater wen i went to st charles we used to walk home my buddies and i would stop at north coast then magic with in ...goodtimes 🍻

The small Polish diner just prior to Snow Road. I work there at the age of 15 as a dish washer. The name of the diner was Elgins.

What you referred to as the Parma parks and rec dept., and was once the library was once Royal Ridge elementary school. I went there from kindergarten to sixth grade. 1967 to 74… The parking lot in the back was a playground for recess…Lived on Westminster Dr. about a block and a half from the mall …Fond memories…

That CVS was the old Parma Theatre . Gone. I lived on Farnsworth and St. Charles. Went to pre school at that church that had Taste of Italy . 😂 Also you missed a few key spots. Polish Village and used to be an old general store called J&Ms; turned into insurance or something years ago.

Thank you for sharing. I grew up near Parmatown in the 70s and 80s. This brought so many great memories.

I Lived on Ridge Road a few blocks from Parma town mall!! oh my gosh!!!

Interesting video. My mother was the branch manager at Parma Snow library in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Wow, how different this area looks today. We lived in Seven Hills from 1970-2005. Parmatown was my mall in the 70’s-90’s. Loved spending the day at Higbees, Mays, Penneys and many small stores like Winkelmans. Always got a big slice of pizza from Antonio’s in the food court. What a great place to shop. Trivia….I was shopping in Higbees basement when the space shuttle Challenger exploded.

i think Fast Eddies was the TGI Fridays, and that was the entrance with the food court area.

Oh, they tore the Parma show down here on the right hand side where that CVS is

oh my Gosh, I’ve gotten strudel at Rudy’s!! still there wow

I grew up in the house where they put the Dunkin’ donuts sad to see it gone

I remember when Franklin ice cream was in Parmatown it was where the is

Great video, very beautiful ＋👍🔔

St Charles on the left-hand side

Looks like Parma Theatre was demolished, and that CVS is there now. I think you subconsciously remembered the location, since you were talking about it, while riding past.

I never realized how beautiful Cleveland's surrounding suburbs are. Unfortunately, I rarely had an opportunity of having a ride to see the Fall colors.

You are correct when you say the Shoppers World is the original JC Penny location, I think it's the last remaining part of the old mall still intact, except some walls and beams retained on the east part of the new plaza (adjacent to Fast Eddie's). There was a Higbee's (later Dillard's) where Wal-Mart stands now but that was demolished a while before the mall - back around 2003-4. There was also a May Company/Macy's that was demoed along with the rest of the mall, it went out of business around 2012 and stood empty the last few years. The fire department used it for some training toward the end. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0xwCGRhqacw.html

Lots of car dealers in that neighborhood. Mufflers for less are the best around ! Very nice people

Chuckie cheese still there from when I went In 2000.

Used to live on Ridge Rd across from what was Parma elem is the building still there,?

Going to Parma soon.

the water is still there. i grew up on york near there. many many many memories. are you familiar with church in the woods?

Hey I'm there

it's definitely nice to go down memory lane on the good times. I was wondering though, after you ran for the plates and napkins as your brother stood there 😆, did you catch anything & did y'all use them?

saw dumb and dumber when it came out at parma theatre

These ”sodosopas” are so stupid. It’s essentially the mall, only flipped inside out and higher rates of parking lot accidents.