As the Norco Mall, it was an open (outside) shopping mall. Then it was expanded, and it became an enclosed mall, c.1974. Name later changed to Coventry Mall.

the chocolate covered banana was def my favorite memory of the coventry mall!!!

I have so many memories at this mall 😭.

@RetroRestStop

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Today was sadly their last day. I might to try and stop back in next week. Not sure if I’ll even be able to get in. But perhaps.

So sad. This was my childhood mall and I worked at the Bavarian Pretzel in HS. It was in that corridor when you first entered. I also saw my first movie theater movie there when the theater was in the mall in the early 80s!

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I LOVED THOSE PRETZELS! I wonder if I ever bought a pretzel off you? I actually own the original movie projector marquee from that theater.

Very interesting you got malls closing there yet mine here in the uk still has many stores open and even some new ones opening . Though lot have closed in other cities here

Good video!!!

This Saturday, March 11 we will be holding the grand opening of A Million Dreams Photography, in the location of the old Bavarian Pretzel! We will be there from 10 - 4! Please come check us out the renovation /transformation is amazing!

Please do an update in the new year for the mall

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Im gonna try and go back when i get home from Florida after the new year. The pizza shop confirmed that they still have to be out by January 1st.

So sad how the Coventry Mall looks like a ghost town all you need is tumbleweed going through the hallways

My hometown mall is dead, it has a bath and body works and a shoe store. When I was young it was hoppin. I’m 2 years younger than you but I remember you could smoke in the mall. They had huge ashtrays on top of the garbage cans. Love your videos Dave!

@RetroRestStop

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Haha! Yup! I remember when you could smoke in mass too and those trashcan ashtrays. Hell, i remember when you coy smoke pretty much anywhere. Remember those tinfoil McDonald’s ashtrays? Thank goodness thats all over.

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I think my grandmother had one, sealed in a bean bag or something on her dashboard. I love the 80’s

@matthewroberts9949

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Why don’t you eat your happy meal and go to the play place so me and your aunt can smoke this place out 😂

based on locations and what I remember, I think the first store you asked about (or maybe the one next to it lol) was originally a hallmark store. the second one I think used to be a girl's fashion store, the kind that might've also done piercings. I've unfortunately moved away from the area, so I haven't been there in so long, but I'm pretty sure those are what used to be there

I have been to this mall many times. Sad to see it in this condition.

I'm pretty sure that this indoor mall's gone way, dinosaur 🦕. Close to 15 yrs. back in early-2010 l ate at T.G.I. Fri.'s restaurant there w/my late papa, who would die, lung cancer ♋️ just few months later in June, 2010

always get a store that won't go one😉

COS. A BANKS Mens wear can be expensive no more sadly to say. Now sale only Female colths

Shame the place can't be utilized for film productions or something, that would be cool

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Yea. Not sure its a nice or big enough mall to film in. Maybe a small independent film or something could use it.

What hurt Coventry mall when Bradlee's closed in 2001 that was the death nail to that mall then Sears closed 10 years later, I think what they 're doing the same thing they did with shoppes at Valley Forge mall near Phoenixville,pa where Redner's is at it was an walk through Mall then they enclosed it in over 20 years ago

@RetroRestStop

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Yea. I remember that mall. We used to go to the AMES all the time. I always wonder if there are any remains of that walk through area left in back? 🤔

I'm surprised you haven't filmed a video in any Books a Million because they do sell used movies and I have found some great finds at a few locations.

Pretty sure the store you went into at 3:30 was a payless shoes

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No, they were up by the boscovs where all the noise was coming from.

Depressing me and my friends would come here after payday

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Very sad indeed 😞

They just demolished a very old block that forced some businesses to close. One was a music store my friend worked at. I'm all for affordable housing, but at the same time tired of it. One minute it's "affordable. The next it's fancy downtown lofts. BS. Loses that downtown flavor it used to have. Bland is not grand.

There is NO SUCH THING as a "strip mall." It's either a strip center (stores in a row) or built in a mall configuration. "Strip mall" is an oxymoron!

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Sure 👍

amazon is much more convenient

@RetroRestStop

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Disagree. U have to wait. And depending on what is I want, I wanna see it or try it on first.