Mrs. B has a posse
By adamg - 2/6/06 - 8:11 am
Entrance to the Mall that Time Forgot on Cummins Highway. Photo taken 2/5/06, not sometime in 1985. Honest.
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Entrance to the Mall that Time Forgot on Cummins Highway. Photo taken 2/5/06, not sometime in 1985. Honest.
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So, is there still a vacant
So, is there still a vacant Bradlees store sitting there too?
Something is there
Might be a flea-market kind of place; not sure, it's not a mall I tend to frequent :-). Dagnabbit, now I'm going to have to drive over there and look!
There's a whole website
There's a whole website devoted to dead shopping malls.
http://www.deadmalls.com/
This mall isn't dead yet.
It's just resting :-). It still has stores. It's just kind of sad. Hmm, that sign isn't all that far from this ancient gas pump - maybe Cummins Highway is really the Highway that Time Forgot (right down to the fact that it probably hasn't met the definition of a highway since roughly 1931).
That website is creepy and
That website is creepy and addictive.
Wow. I wish there were
Wow. I wish there were still Bradlees around, I liked Bradlees!
Waxing nostalgic
Growing up in Hyde Park, I remember when they built that shopping center and it was quite a big deal.
I spent many a dollar on Frank Zappa and Moby Grape records during the ninteen sixties in that Bradlees.
Yo, you should check out the
Yo, you should check out the old Bradlee's in Fields Corner. Someone is running it as a junk store called "B.d.'s" - by knocking out all the letters on the building except for the B, the d, and the 's.
demolish it
That whole Fields Corner shopping center is a waste of good real estate and needs to be demolished. Supermarkets have failed there over and over again; the last failure took down the entire Americas' Food Basket chain. Blow the place up, put up something better like apartments or condos above first-floor retail stores.
In Somerville, we used to
In Somerville, we used to have an all-Stop & Shop shopping center: a Stop & Shop supermarket, a Bradlees, and a Medi Mart drugstore. All three were divisions of the Stop & Shop Corporation.
Stop & Shop decided to get out of the drugstore business, so the Medi Mart became a Walgreen's. It later closed and was replaced by an auto parts store, whose name I don't remember, still there today.
Bradlees went out of business and was replaced by Target.
Stop & Shop closed the supermarket, and it was replaced by a Fretter Superstore, selling electronics. Fretter went out of business, and the storefront sat empty for several years. Now it has an A.J. Wright.