The History of Landover Mall - The Struggle of Competition, Crime, and Traffic Jams
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Landover Mall opened in Landover, Maryland on May 11, 1972. Busy for a while, the only indoor mall in the area at the time, faced competition from newer malls such as the White Flint Mall. Through the years, the area became known to many for its crime as well as traffic from FedEx Field across from the mall. The mall lacked upgrades and lost a lot of tenants and customers and closed on May 19, 2002. By 2007, the mall was demolished with the only remnant, Sears. Please check out the video to hear more about the mall, its featured architecture and stores, as well as what happened to Sears and what the land is today. #retailrewind
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Thanks for doing this video. The mall was in its heyday when I was in my childhood and adolescence. (1972-1984) So many wonderful memories. It was a magical place to me. I can still close my eyes and walk through the mall in my mind. I wish I could travel back in time and go there again.
Thank you for your kind comment and for watching! I’m glad you still remember the mall and have so many fond memories :) too bad the mall declined as it did.
We stayed in Washington D.c just on the line of Maryland and I remember my mom would cooking breakfast Saturday morning and then we would hope on the train and go to Landover Mall. We got on the train at the Minnesota Ave stop and road the train to the Landover stop and caught the A12 bus. ThIs was the best feeling in the world going to the mall on Saturdays. I was 10 maybe years old and that was back in the 90s. The mall kept kids out of trouble it gave them something to do. I think if you where born in the 80s and the early 90s you probably had so much fun we had everything. Movies, playing outside, video games, corner stores to go to. We made up games when we didn’t have one to play. Man I wish I can go back in time. I remember sitting on the kitchen floor watching a 15 inch black and white Tv on Saturday morning they used to show the movies on the weekend turn the tv to channel 3 and then turn the top knob for 54 45 and 20 those where the hard channels to get.well I would say I wish I could go back in time for certain things not everything. I know I went off topic but it is amazing when you talk about one thing like Landover Mall and all those memories hit you all at once.
Thank you for listening.
Landover Mall was incredible when I was little, unfortunately just like most things in Prince George's County it became a slum, my family lived in Landover Hills until 1985, believe it or not PG County was nice then
I can remember playing the pinball machines in the arcade, playing on the " tree telephones ", Farrell's milk shakes, my shoes sticking to the movie theater floor, watching the Cinnabon get made (next to the Orange Julius upstairs), and looking at all the coins at the bottom water fountains and wondering " who gets all that money?" 😊😊😊😊
It was the first DC-area mall shared by Hecht's, Woodward & Lothrop, and Garfinckel's.
Thanks for the info!
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Tysons Corner Center, opened four years before Landover Mall, had all three of those DC department store retailers, but Garfinckel's there was only a smaller sized store (30,000 sq. ft.), so I'm not sure if that counts.
I drove by this some years ago and Sears was just sitting by themselves. The property owner of the Mall also owned White Flint and did the same thing leaving Lord and Taylor by itself while demolishing the Mall.
The Montgomery Co kids used to call Landover Mall “ Black Flint”. Even in PG County in the 80s and 90s we went out to Charles County, Landmark in VA ( which is closed) and Springfield Mall. It’s a shame because most people shopping there were families and good people from the area. But the area started getting rough.
Incredible RETRO ! 👍🏻🇺🇲🤘🏻
In 1974 Landover Mall hosted ‘50s kids TV icon Buffalo Bob and his puppet Howdy-Doody. Bob was promoting a return of his kid’s show to television. Sadly ‘70s kids were not ‘50s kids and the new Howdy-Doody quietly went away.
Thanks got sharing your story! I can just imagine the kids not being impressed seeing Howdy Doody since cowboy themes were much more popular in the 50s.
I still have my autograph from Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob from that day!!!
It also had a music store called Briggs Music.
Great Mall👍🏿👍🏿 I loved the Cinnabon there. Please do one on Capital Plaza Mall and New Carrollton Mall… BOTH in PG County, MD.
I used to live out kentland, right up the street
Farrells floats 🔥
That was an incredible mall