The gas dryer we bought from Montgomery Wards when we moved to Riverside from Corona in 1986, just "died" 3 weeks ago. Montgomery Wards appliances were made to last! Our MW microwave is still working!

@notthesameman

3 ай бұрын

Amazing

I grew up in Riverside, I remember going to the Plaza as a kid. And there was a place called Kings Table that we went to a few times

@echang1976

11 ай бұрын

thanks for sharing your memories

@jamiecosgrove1950

9 ай бұрын

yah i used to take dates to kings table. i didnt have much money in those days, and that was a great bargain.

@Daveed1984

2 ай бұрын

that was a go to for me and my mom when she would get paid.

The most GENIOUS idea developers ever had to Remove the RIVERSIDE RACEWAY.....and put in a mall.......They should all be wearing Dunce caps and sitting in a corner.

@echang1976

Жыл бұрын

Moreno Valley mall. That is what replaced the Riverside International Speedway

@Mikefngarage

Жыл бұрын

@@echang1976 yea ant it was the biggest failure ever. 2 to 5 years about after it opened most of the businesses left. now I think it is almost closed.

@echang1976

Жыл бұрын

@@Mikefngarage I used to go there in 1994, 2 years after it opened and it was empty.

@fanatik9590

Жыл бұрын

​@@Mikefngarage Yes, Moreno Valley grew big and fast but it also went down faster than the speed of light . . .too many people from South Los Angeles moved to Moreno Valley and took their gangs and crime with them on top of that people that couldn't afford those homes were lent loans...IT WAS A MESS!

@Mikefngarage

Жыл бұрын

@@fanatik9590 Yea I am going out today to film the homeless problem in Mo valley. I am doing every city on my random videos channel. Mikes Random Videos.

My mom took me to the grand opening in 1956. I saw Sheriff John of TV.s "Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade"...

@echang1976

Жыл бұрын

awesome, thanks for sharing your memories

I remember going to that Montgomery Wards location during the 90s. It may have been the only Montgomery Wards store I had ever went to in my entire life.

@echang1976

Жыл бұрын

Nice, I never got a chance to go.

@Mikefngarage

Жыл бұрын

I went to hundreds of them before they went bankrupt we were painting them as part of the recovery program. Furniture departments were the first to be painted. We painted the furniture department in riverside and many others.

Huge plaza with a very interesting history!.Thank you!.😎

I have old postcards from the Riverside Plaza when it was first built. It was such a big deal they. Actually sold post cards for it.

I remember Plaza I grew up mostly in Riverside and my aunt work next-door at Bob’s big boy

was there at the time. Bob’s big boy and My aunt worked at Woolworths. We would go into Sears hang out at Sears By the popcorn and sees candy I lived off of Magnolia and Jefferson lived on Lila I went to Ramona high school 1978 I am now in my 60s I just moved to Bakersfield, California from Lemoore, California, Naval Air Station, Lemoore, and the Tachi casino in Lemoore

I started at UCR in 1984. I only went to this mall twice, but I remember it well.

My grandma had worked in the Harris’ store for most of her life. She was a manager and it’s even where she met my grandfather. She stayed with the chain even after it was bought by gottschalks. After that closed down she retired to take care of me, who was 1 month old at the time.

@echang1976

Жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing your memories

@MagnumMike_Panda

11 ай бұрын

I worked at Gottschalks after Montgomery Wards closed. I worked on the dock with Marie, Art, Raul, Gordon, Sarah, Mona. If you dont mind, who was your grandmother? I worked there around 2005 and it was for a couple years.

@DougCubee

11 ай бұрын

@@MagnumMike_Panda oh my gosh, my grandmother is Marie Hanson, right before Harris’ closed she became the manager of the dock. I have a photo of my grandmother and Gordon Coppinger together.

@MagnumMike_Panda

11 ай бұрын

@@DougCubee Wow! loved your grandmother, I remember working with her very well. Everyone working on the dock was all so close, they had all worked together for so long. Marie, Moureen, Sarah, Gordon and Mona. They worked very hard, but still had time to sit together in the below level and joked together, especially gordon. Gordon would make jokes that he was untouchable and was considered corporate. You could hear your grandmother laugh from far away, she had that kind of laughter and smile that would make you smile. I know this was 20 years ago, but I have to ask how is your grandmother doing? Did she ever get a PT Cruiser?

@DougCubee

11 ай бұрын

@@MagnumMike_Panda my grandmother does have a very contagious laugh. Although, I’ve never heard her mention anything about a PT Cruiser. She has shared many memories with me about her time at work. She’s told me about how she used to share an office with Gordon, Maureen and Shirley. She is still in close contacts with Shirley, however Gordon and Maureen have died. But Mona had moved up to Northern California to live with her daughter

My parents had a restaurant/bar across the street in the middle to late 70's. The building is gone now and I have never been able to find out any info. I remember watching the trains. I don't recall the mall across the street.

we used to party behind jack in the box, next to thrifty's. big parking lot, lots of pot being sold, beers, info on where the keg parties were.some wild times, early 70's.

I remember going to the Tyler Mall theater watched Jaws there that really freaked out a lot of people in the 1970s wouldn’t even go to the beach after that movie watched Poseidon adventures, towering Inferno and a lot of great movies at the Tyler mall in the 70s the other place we used to hang out at was the castle, the Riverside Castle amusement park at the time it was just the bumper boats, miniature golf and a bunch of Pinball and other fun games that was the hangout spot light 70s early 80s was a lot of fun or we go to the Van Buren drive-in bunch of buddies and girlfriends I heard something about Knotts Berry Farm had control over it 80s early 90s and then Saturday Sunday they had to swap meet there at the Van Buren drive-in theater every weekend

Lol we used to go to the plaza in the early 70's as kids. It was a semi outdoor mall back then. It just had like a green mesh covering over where people walked into the stores if I remember right. Now phhhh it looks like it's so much bigger. So many more places to eat and shop now. 👍😎

Grew up going here in high school. Love your videos!

@echang1976

10 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

I remember when Riverside Plaza was first enclosed in 1984. We lived on the east side of Riverside (by UCR), but my mom would always shop for groceries at the Vons at Riverside Plaza even though there was an Alpha Beta store just down the street from where I lived. I remember going to King's Table Buffet as well as shopping at the Harris Underground. I moved away before Riverside Plaza was renovated to what it is now.

@echang1976

5 ай бұрын

thanks for sharing your memories

If my memory serves me correctly, the standards for booting a computer from a CD-ROM disk was created at the El Torito restaurant at Riverside Plaza. The standard for bootable CD-ROMs is now known as the El Torito Standard.

@echang1976

5 ай бұрын

I ate at that location twice in 2020 and I got food poisoning there both times.

@jalensoto187

Ай бұрын

where did you hear this from my guy

I liked Musicland/Wherehouse, Swenson's Ice Cream, B. Dalton, Kaybee Toys, Merry Mushroom crafts. Loved the nearby Imagine That books in Magnolia Center, and a fountain Mtn Dew at Weinerschnitzel for the walk home. Mid-70s to mid-80s, left Riverside in 1999.

@maverick_trail

17 күн бұрын

Finally someone who remembers Merry Mushroom! I used to go to the Plaza with my grandma, we'd have lunch at Woolworth's or Bob's Big Boy, then hit Merry Mushroom for something ceramic for me to paint, and then House of Fabrics for something for her to sew.

Your question after 11:30 is almost " Impossible " to answer. Seing that the Volume Feed on your end is Almost Impossible to hear, Even When the Volume Dial on the Viewer's End is Maxed Out ! Kindly Redo this Video and Turn Up the Volume ! Thank you .

@echang1976

9 күн бұрын

I re-edited the video and will be releasing it on July 15th. Thanks again.

i'm still using my battery charger from montgomery wards.

worked at montgomery and gottschalks 99-21 grew up going to the plaza with my friends Sabarro pizza yes, sam goodie and Ponytails mrs fields cookies it smelled like the 90s and aladins castle nest to kingtable

@MagnumMike_Panda

2 ай бұрын

I worked the dock at Wards when they closed, then was hired at gottschalks also working the dock. I dont recognize you, what department did you work in?

@wehoprince

Ай бұрын

@@MagnumMike_Panda i was in mens suits with Renata and Patty and the older guy that had his own sweater line i was only there for 9 months then i wen to Nordstroms

I remember getting pokemon cards from the mall that's about it. Now the Tyler mall that's a different story.