Man this hit me right in the childhood. The gamestop at pleasent valley, aladdins castle, marcs funtime... I probably bumped into you at one point in the 90s. I miss this era
7:01 the first JCP entrance you pointed to was the catalog entrance, where the photo studio & salon were also located. The etrance that says Shoppers World was one of the main entrances to JCP--I believe it was the men's dept. The old mall entrance where American Commodore & the medical uniform store were located is now Ace Hardware. The stores up to Claire's/Icing were torn down, that area is now the driveway entrance to the Shoppes area. Some of the stores on the north side of that old entrance remain and were repurposed. They kept & renovated the structure where Bath & Body Works, Hallmark, Frederick's of Hollywood, Waldenbooks, & Victoria Secrets were located, plus some of the food court. The old back doors of those stores are still there and being used by the new stores (I worked in one of those stores in the mid-90s, our door remains). Sadly, other than Parmatown strip, that's all that remains of the old Parmatown.
Around parmatown there was one or two very large underground access "pits" i guess with no cover, but you could look down into, and back when me and my sister were very young, back in the early 1970s, we used to think "Thats where Godzilla died" !! But thats the imagination and wonder you have as a child. I miss childhood....and PT mall.
oh man...I used to go to Parmatown with my grandparents all the time, the disney store (another relic of the 90s/00s) was a favorite. And yesterday my grandma and I went out to lunch in Parma and drove through that very parking lot. It's weird to stand in a place with so many memories that is now little more than a strip mall...although I guess it was always a mall. Oh well, the memories are the important part.
Thank you so much for this video. Brought back all my memory's of going to parmatown mall. I lived (and still do) in Medina, but always went out to PM for my video game and mall walking needs. My old stomping grounds is no more. :(
Gamesack has a thorough section on a mall in Colorado during one of their Memories video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yDPNaWwbOOc.html
Wow, that's a flashback. Spent a lot of time there in the 80s and 90s. At one point Aladdin's Castle was near the food court - back in the late 80s maybe?
Wasn't it by the movie theater, or in-between the theater & Roy Rogers? That whole area was changed when Walmart & Dick's went in, which may have been why it was moved to the "new" part of the mall (the addition added in the early 80s).
I'd imagine it was in more than one location over the years? My memory of it from the late 80s was near the food court next to Spencer Gifts. But the last time I was in that mall with any regularity was ~94-95. And I'll readily admit my memory may not be 100% accurate.
Aladdin’s Castle was once known as “Play Palace” . It was near the food court on the east side of the mall. In the early days it was anchored by a Kresges
Always sad to see places like this close, I remember a pizza joint that owned an arcade beside it, it lasted until 2011 or so until it closed down. I also remember the Tekken 3 machines joystick on player 1left never worked, so you couldn't block while on the left, and couldn't move forward while on the right.
Graduated in 2000, and moved back to Parma in 2010ish so this video hit me a certain way. Much love for Aladdins, and EB Games (still own a handful of PS2 games I bought there). Anyway not sure if this was around the time you filmed, but they also gutted Ridgewood Lake and fenced it off with green mesh. It looks fn horrible.
I remember watching the original Mortal Kombat movie at the theater in ptown. Idk when that closed but it wasn't around for much of my life. DZ discovery zone over there was sick too.
I was on r/deadmalls and decided to youtube parma town mall and found this vid… totally forgot about that jingle and also was at aladdins castle all the time!!!
