“Colonial Mall — Augusta, Virginia”

This video is lol.

I think it was made 3-5 years ago when Staunton Mall went under the moniker “Colonial Mall” for a short while. I couldn’t watch it on Firefox for OSX, so I had to use Safari.

It’s also on multiply too.

Bath & Body Works New Design

So I was on this shopping trip to Charlottesville the school sponsored last night, and I go into Bath & Body Works. … …

They totally cheapened the image of Bath & Body Works. I can live with the design of the body wash/body lotion, but WHAT were they thinking when they created those splash bottles? They look like something out of the dollar store. Oh, here is some girly website talking about it. I’m actually upset about this. I know lame. Are they trying to compete with Soristutes Secret?

Past designs:

(late 90’s to about 2002?)

(2003-ish to 2008)

Staunton Mall, Staunton, VA

So a friend and I visited the Staunton Mall, a few minutes from Mary Baldwin College. We walked in it expecting that it would be dead, but its actually somewhat full, mostly mom and pop stuff, but its full, so I can’t really call it a dead mall. More like a small mall.

Here are some pics I took with my iPhone:

This store was awesome. It was stuck in about 1982.

Steve & Barrys is closing down shop. There was a lot of t-shirts left.

There were a LOT of vending machines here since there are only three tenants in the food court.

Old style Bath & Body Works. I love this design.

///edit, September 21st, 2008///

The Books a Million moved away about a week after I posted this.

//edit, January 27, 2009//

1990 Mall Directory

//edit, March 21, 2009//

I have a Category for Staunton Mall now.

A video from let’s say five, six year ago when Staunton Mall went by the moniker of Colonial Mall

Bath & Body Works, Williamsburg VA

This is the one at Newtown Open Air Shopping area…which I apparently haven’t brought up yet here. I thought I did. I have photos I took back in November:

A Visit to Southpark Mall (December, 2007)

(The last time I visited Southpark was in April of 2005)

I got to visit Southpark (in Colonial Heights, VA) a few days before Christmas. I was excited about going back to Southpark because as you can see by the above link its been a while. When I was going to a class trip to Richmond earlier this year, we passed by Southpark and I thought they were getting a renovation, because they were adding on a movie theater. Apparently I was wrong. It still looks like 1989.

I see plastic tarp rolled up over the entrances of all the stores, maybe renovation is about to start during the holidays.

Some iPhone photos:

It was almost dark by the time we got there.

I remember in the late 90’s Dippin Dots booths were in almost every mall. Since Southpark doesn’t have a food court (yet) they just have vending machines and a pretzel shop.

This was my iPhone wallpaper up until a couple of days after Christmas.

We saw all these benches in front of Macys. So we sat down, and people were sitting there waiting for this animotronic bear symphony. The show starts at the top of every hour. People started to gather around, the the composer kept on leading up to the grand performance, introducing the bears and such. Finally, five o clock rolled around and the show started. They sang Rudolph …. and that was it. The lady in front of me even said, “that was IT?!?!”

Those bears sorta remind me of that cartoon The Critic, you know that one time Duke Phillips had the drunk southern animotronic bears in his office? I think they were called quite simply, “the bears that sing for Duke.”

Ah, thanks Google:

All the anchor entrances of this mall are this design. Very late 80’s.

This is the best photo I could get of the Bath & Body works there. You don’t see very many of them in this motif anymore. I miss that.

Some Bags

I found some old bags in with our Christmas decorations last month:

From the 2.5 seconds (ok, more like a year and a half) we had a Hills in Hampton. Bag is either from 1995 or 1996.

Stuarts died in the late 90’s I think. My mom and I spent way.way.way. too much money at Stuart’s Plus in the 90’s on clothes for me. We went to both the Newmarket Fair and Coliseum Mall locations until they closed in about 1997.

I guess Marianne and Jean Nicole were what Stuarts was in other states?

I remember these from the 90’s. It seemed like every store had blue bags back then, something to do with recycling.

I found one of these in a rickety barn in our yard the other day, next to a Pepsi can from the 90’s.

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AT&T iPhone bag. November, 2007.

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Bath & Body Works Christmas 2007 bag. I found a Bath & Body Works bag from 2000 in a box of things the other day.

Some newer bags:

Coliseum Mall’s Last Day Of Business

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I actually got to go down there today. My dad gave me a ride.

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This was one of the only mall entrances open.

I only did a walk around and a trip to Barnes and Noble. Everybody was having a moving sale except for the chain stores who I assume are just shutting down and moving.

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That’s what Bath and Body Works had in mind.

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The food court was dead.

The closed Chick-a-Fila (I wish I took a pic of it now but I was scared of security) still had red Christmas garland on it, and the door to the kitchen had been taken off its hinges and it was out at the counters, and there was a sign on it about how employees would be charged with shoplifting if they were caught taking food before closing.

I went to Barnes & Noble and got a green tea frappichino (the only one I like, if I want coffee I’ll get a hot cup of coffee, not some frou foru drink), a fabric stretchy book cover for my Literature book, and an old style Moleskine address book.

I took a picture of the doors before dad and I left:

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A better photo.

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The anchors are still staying in their spots until their new buildings are built.

I dunno about crapppy Burlington though, its rumored that they’re moving piratically back to their old location.

This was the last photo I took:

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Channel 13had a camera woman out when I was there, and I recorded the news tonight. It’s gonna be a while before I can upload the video though ’cause I gotta put it on a DVD and I gotta fill up the rest of the DVD and blah blah blah. So that’ll take a few days.