I had a double-date of sorts there in probably 1994. It was an amazing night. I was a sophomore, my friend was a couple of years older and was driving. We hit a movie, played golf and walked around the mall.
Never saw this mall but did go to old Thalhimers downtown in the 1960's to shop as a kid.That was my first real mall to see as my tiny hometown in NE'ern NC didn't have a mall ' til 1970.Its still there but half the stores are other things now.How many malls left in the Richmond area now?Damn WallyMart for killing our malls.Read that 100 malls will close in this country this year.The bad economy isn't helping either.
thanks for all the great comments :) there are still a few malls in Richmond area: chesterfield town center, short pump, stony point, regency, and willow lawn. I hope I didn't miss any. and the kroger thing is strange but makes sense, because there aren't many grocery stores in the area. just a martin's I think.
I lived in Richmond in 1977. one of my clearest memories of Cloverleaf was the movie Candleshoe was playing there. I really wanted to see it and my parents surprised me by taking me one day when I thought we couldn't go. Good times
I lived just minutes away from Cloverleaf mall from '72 to '78.... I remember tossing coins in the fountain, watching "The Towering Inferno" at the theater in the mall, and back to school shopping (I was young then). I'm saddened to know that the area has deteriorated to the point it has. I'm happy I wasn't there to experience the decline. It really was a magical place at one time, and your photos have brought back some long forgotten (and mostly good) memories for me... Thank you.
Thanks for the upload of this! I bought all my new school clothes here, saw Santa here every year; I even remember when that J.C. Penny's was nice. God, I remember skipping school and heading here with my friends. I worked there for a few years; first at the movie theater then later at the Ruby Tuesday's in the very front (across from the Picadilly's). I really do miss this mall; seriously, thanks for this - my husband and I have been reminissing.
Hey any chance you have these pictures still around to download? Just working on a personal project and it's to do with malls like Cloverleaf. If you were able to share the film resolution pictures I'd be very grateful
I drive by alot on Chippenham Pkwy and have watched the DEMO. It's just a flat dirt area now. Used to frequent the Sears and Jcpenny with my Mom and Dad back in the 80's. Loved those old school glass globe lights by the Sears. I remember getting pretzels some where in there, so good. In the 90's saw many a movie at the theater, not attached to the mall.
Diego Lucero It's a lot of stuff. That Kroger is pretty bad ass. The even sell (small) furniture and clothes, and has its own gas station. It is every bit of a "Super Kroger". A Krispy Kreme, and other stuff including fancy apartments are on that same lot. A lot is still in development. I am just happy, just this week I found out , there is a new Tropical Smoothie across the street.
I miss this mall! 0:24 Went to see STAR WARS (1977) when the theatre was IN the mall where the Food Court was later on in the years and a movie theater was built behind the mall down the hill from it. Thalhimer's was where Hecht's would be on the south end of the mall.
Sean Ingram I saw 'House Party' there when the theatre was in the back. Which I always thought was silly it only lasted a few years. I worked at the "All For One", a few years before those poor girls were murdered. Lots of memories. Lots!
I saw Home Alone, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, in November of 1990. I also remember Lowery Organs just across from "Piccadilly" and the Radio Shack where I would go see what scanners they had and put in some frequencies that I knew. I agree. Memories. Lots of them. I remember when Chesterfield Mall, was just a Mall and you could drive around it back then before they expanded it. There used to be an A&P Store behind it, too.
Sean Ingram LMAO Ah, the Radio Shack. Funny thing is I just cleaned out my attic and donated my Windows 98 computer, that still works, I got there back in 2000 something or another. The Babbages (video game) store was where I usually ended up though. I remember first seeing the Neo Geo there and wondering what rich kid in the burbs probably had that and all the games. LOL I never knew there was an A&P behind it. Before my time visiting there I guess. I remember the A&P at the Hopkins Rd exit on Chippenham a mile away, that is now a neighborhood Walmart.
i live in south carolina now but lived in chesterfield and richmond most of my life and my father used to work part time at the Sears automotive from about 1974-1988 until they became tire america i remember when there was no food court and the movie thearter was inside the mall it was actually a classy mall until the rif raf came in and made into the getto
How long had the JcPenny been empty? It looks in the worst shape of all. Other than that is looks like the mall was in good shape. What a waist of a good building. I don't recall if I ever went there when I lived in the area. The was another mall near Petersburg that sat abandoned for a long time that I do recall going to when I was little when it was still open. I forget the name but it still shows up on some Satellite maps Great video.
loved this. the music made it creepy! haha.... as of now they have the Sears building gone & I think the Cinema is also gone. They are taking their time on it!
Saw The Crow at the Regal there. After Chesterfield Towne Centre came up the place turned into "the ghetto mall." Now the same things happening to Chesterfield. History repeats itself.
@ArtStone Not only that, but just having people in the mall at all helps the image. Look Empty malls are fucking CREEPY. If I was shopping in an "open" mall with no one in it, I'd be scared for my life all the time, like someone was going mug me or something.
yo i lived like 10 mins way on a bike i went up there so many times im so made they closed it but if there was any chance it coming back it would be the most hotest spot
@inoldsiamsir saw Matt Lauer just inside the front door once when he was here in Richmond doing PM Magazine.... I wonder what became of his redheaded co-host.. Just had a story on tv tonight about the plans to tear down Cloverleaf and start a mixed used development(Jan 12,2011). Ready to throw out my Pansonic TV I bought at Sears there...I'll miss that mall...sort of lol... Great tune of da Beatles..I would have flashed the pictures faster at the end..... good job!
This is so sad. I remember when the mall was brand new, and was THE place in Richmond to go shopping. If I had a dollar for every time I went there, I could quit work for at least a year. The last time I went was maybe 3 years before it closed. The "thug" crowd had pretty much taken over, and it made me uncomfortable just being there. Thanks for the memories. I'd forgotten about the fountain!
(sigh) cloverleaf, you'll be missed. lots of childhood memories there. i remember in the malls later years before the hechts closed, my mom was inside (the hechts) and i was sitting in the car. i was probably in my mid teens. when a UPS truck drove by. i caught eyes with the driver. and for reasons to this day i cant explane he did the throaght slitting motion at me. you know, where someone puts thier thumb to thier neck and mimics a throaght cut, saying " i'll kill you". that was really wierd.
Andrew 51: That was creepy and that gesture from that UPS driver would have scared me. He did not have to do that. Very uncalled for. Shame on that UPS driver!
sad such a tresure lost but when two homicides take place there i believe it was 2003 and when anchor stores like sears and hechts started moving to chesterfield town center it was the beginning of the end
disheartening to see this; remember quite will when it was in its hey day. my understanding the mall went down hill after a couple of murders took place there.
+Bustakita Yancey I'm really glad you liked it! Unfortunately, I had to remove the music in order to keep this video online. Something about copyrights... blah blah blah... ;) I hope you still enjoy it though!
@@irish89055 the song itself is not creepy...yet it somewhat sets the tone for the video...i actually still watch the video with the Beetles A Day in The Life playing in my background...talk what you know, NOT WHAT YOU SUSPECT!!!!
I'm reminded of the Blue Meanies in Yellow Submarine - No! No! No!.... Eventually No Customers. Mall operators tend to forget today's teenager is tomorrow's adults
7:04 Very few people knew or remembered that movie theater in the back at the end of the parking lot? I think I saw 1 movie there, I can't remember what movie though. I know it was some black (African-American) comedy back in the early 90's
I do remember going there in the 90s and thankfully I moved out of Richmond before shit hit the fan and I'm the polar opposite of the trouble makers and I'm African American
Lots of memories of that mall
I had a double-date of sorts there in probably 1994. It was an amazing night. I was a sophomore, my friend was a couple of years older and was driving. We hit a movie, played golf and walked around the mall.
Never saw this mall but did go to old Thalhimers downtown in the 1960's to shop as a kid.That was my first real mall to see as my tiny hometown in NE'ern NC didn't have a mall ' til 1970.Its still there but half the stores are other things now.How many malls left in the Richmond area now?Damn WallyMart for killing our malls.Read that 100 malls will close in this country this year.The bad economy isn't helping either.
i was born and raised there s many memories
thanks for all the great comments :)
there are still a few malls in Richmond area: chesterfield town center, short pump, stony point, regency, and willow lawn. I hope I didn't miss any.
and the kroger thing is strange but makes sense, because there aren't many grocery stores in the area. just a martin's I think.
Cloverleaf didn't completely disappear. The Firestone Tire Center still remains, with that distinctive architecture.
I lived in Richmond in 1977. one of my clearest memories of Cloverleaf was the movie Candleshoe was playing there. I really wanted to see it and my parents surprised me by taking me one day when I thought we couldn't go. Good times
I lived just minutes away from Cloverleaf mall from '72 to '78.... I remember tossing coins in the fountain, watching "The Towering Inferno" at the theater in the mall, and back to school shopping (I was young then). I'm saddened to know that the area has deteriorated to the point it has. I'm happy I wasn't there to experience the decline. It really was a magical place at one time, and your photos have brought back some long forgotten (and mostly good) memories for me... Thank you.
@Kevin McCormack
I remember that was the hangout place.
Up the road was Putt Putt and the movie theater.
I did not know Cloverleaf Mall, but this video is interesting, and sad. Makes me wonder what's in store after all shopping malls are ever gone
In the 70’s and early 80’s. I was at this mall every Saturday with my mom and aunt. My first job was at Baskin Robbins inside this mall.
i live near there and i miss that mall
Thanks for doing this, not many pictures around.
Many good (and odd) memories with this mall. Thanks for the upload!
Thanks for the upload of this!
I bought all my new school clothes here, saw Santa here every year; I even remember when that J.C. Penny's was nice. God, I remember skipping school and heading here with my friends. I worked there for a few years; first at the movie theater then later at the Ruby Tuesday's in the very front (across from the Picadilly's). I really do miss this mall; seriously, thanks for this - my husband and I have been reminissing.
@bunny78106 same thing happening to Southpark Mall... yes, film of the good ole days would have been good.. liked the Beatles
Sad that we're such a disposable society. We'd drive here from the northern neck a couple of times a year in the mid 70s and it was such a treat.
Hey any chance you have these pictures still around to download? Just working on a personal project and it's to do with malls like Cloverleaf. If you were able to share the film resolution pictures I'd be very grateful
@inoldsiamsir yeah but i heard that kroger is opening at the old mall place
Kristen, u did a great job! thanks for the upload! u rock!
I drive by alot on Chippenham Pkwy and have watched the DEMO. It's just a flat dirt area now. Used to frequent the Sears and Jcpenny with my Mom and Dad back in the 80's. Loved those old school glass globe lights by the Sears. I remember getting pretzels some where in there, so good. In the 90's saw many a movie at the theater, not attached to the mall.
It a Kroger now it really nice
Diego Lucero It's a lot of stuff. That Kroger is pretty bad ass. The even sell (small) furniture and clothes, and has its own gas station. It is every bit of a "Super Kroger". A Krispy Kreme, and other stuff including fancy apartments are on that same lot. A lot is still in development. I am just happy, just this week I found out , there is a new Tropical Smoothie across the street.
i love this...this makes me miss my hometown
i went up there a couple weeks ago to take some pics of the mall. sad, but something good will come out of the land with Kroger & all the housing.
This was the place for me and my family in the 70s
A shame about the Beatles music being deleted
I miss this mall! 0:24 Went to see STAR WARS (1977) when the theatre was IN the mall where the Food Court was later on in the years and a movie theater was built behind the mall down the hill from it. Thalhimer's was where Hecht's would be on the south end of the mall.
Sean Ingram I saw 'House Party' there when the theatre was in the back. Which I always thought was silly it only lasted a few years. I worked at the "All For One", a few years before those poor girls were murdered. Lots of memories. Lots!
I saw Home Alone, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, in November of 1990. I also remember Lowery Organs just across from "Piccadilly" and the Radio Shack where I would go see what scanners they had and put in some frequencies that I knew. I agree. Memories. Lots of them. I remember when Chesterfield Mall, was just a Mall and you could drive around it back then before they expanded it. There used to be an A&P Store behind it, too.
Sean Ingram LMAO Ah, the Radio Shack. Funny thing is I just cleaned out my attic and donated my Windows 98 computer, that still works, I got there back in 2000 something or another. The Babbages (video game) store was where I usually ended up though. I remember first seeing the Neo Geo there and wondering what rich kid in the burbs probably had that and all the games. LOL I never knew there was an A&P behind it. Before my time visiting there I guess. I remember the A&P at the Hopkins Rd exit on Chippenham a mile away, that is now a neighborhood Walmart.
yes. quite the tragedy
and they havent found out who did it 20 sum odd years
i live in south carolina now but lived in chesterfield and richmond most of my life and my father used to work part time at the Sears automotive from about 1974-1988 until they became tire america i remember when there was no food court and the movie thearter was inside the mall it was actually a classy mall until the rif raf came in and made into the getto
Ok my mom went to that mall in the 1970s and 80s as a kid
How long had the JcPenny been empty? It looks in the worst shape of all. Other than that is looks like the mall was in good shape. What a waist of a good building.
I don't recall if I ever went there when I lived in the area. The was another mall near Petersburg that sat abandoned for a long time that I do recall going to when I was little when it was still open. I forget the name but it still shows up on some Satellite maps
Great video.
There were some murders there at the "All For One" store.
Sadly never solved either...someone knows something tho...
I puked in the parking lot there when I was 9.
loved this. the music made it creepy! haha.... as of now they have the Sears building gone & I think the Cinema is also gone. They are taking their time on it!
...are you still at RTD or did you go into real estate? I remember working with you
still an open lot...
i miss this mall =c
Good job with the video.
We have a couple similar ghost town dead malls in Toledo, Ohio.
Saw The Crow at the Regal there.
After Chesterfield Towne Centre came up the place turned into "the ghetto mall."
Now the same things happening to Chesterfield. History repeats itself.
@ArtStone Not only that, but just having people in the mall at all helps the image. Look Empty malls are fucking CREEPY. If I was shopping in an "open" mall with no one in it, I'd be scared for my life all the time, like someone was going mug me or something.
oh and jc penney relocated to chesterfield town center a while before the mall itself closed. I'm not sure how many years exactly, though.
yo i lived like 10 mins way on a bike i went up there so many times im so made they closed it but if there was any chance it coming back it would be the most hotest spot
Totally gone now.... though the Firestone store is still there....
This mall was the shit in the 90s. I pulled so many girls there. We would stay for hours getting pager numbers
you could be right about that....many a person went missing in that area...
@inoldsiamsir saw Matt Lauer just inside the front door once when he was here in Richmond doing PM Magazine.... I wonder what became of his redheaded co-host.. Just had a story on tv tonight about the plans to tear down Cloverleaf and start a mixed used development(Jan 12,2011). Ready to throw out my Pansonic TV I bought at Sears there...I'll miss that mall...sort of lol... Great tune of da Beatles..I would have flashed the pictures faster at the end..... good job!
This is so sad. I remember when the mall was brand new, and was THE place in Richmond to go shopping. If I had a dollar for every time I went there, I could quit work for at least a year. The last time I went was maybe 3 years before it closed. The "thug" crowd had pretty much taken over, and it made me uncomfortable just being there. Thanks for the memories. I'd forgotten about the fountain!
a new sign went up today over the old cloverleaf mall sign! announcing a Kroger coming in 2011!
they found a skull in ther....
the mall is getting turn into a kroger now till november 2012 rip clowerhill mall 1972-2008
Members, Midlothian times has changed
You did A Fantatic job on this Any way you put that on dvd Let Me Know Thanks It was great a Trip down the road Brings Back a lot of meorys
(sigh) cloverleaf, you'll be missed. lots of childhood memories there. i remember in the malls later years before the hechts closed, my mom was inside (the hechts) and i was sitting in the car. i was probably in my mid teens. when a UPS truck drove by. i caught eyes with the driver. and for reasons to this day i cant explane he did the throaght slitting motion at me. you know, where someone puts thier thumb to thier neck and mimics a throaght cut, saying " i'll kill you". that was really wierd.
whoa
Andrew 51: That was creepy and that gesture from that UPS driver would have scared me. He did not have to do that. Very uncalled for. Shame on that UPS driver!
sad such a tresure lost but when two homicides take place there i believe it was 2003 and when anchor stores like sears and hechts started moving to chesterfield town center it was the beginning of the end
and sadly they were never solved...
Homicides were in '96. JCPenney left in 2000. Sears and Hecht's left in '03. I was there the night the mall closed. Feb. 29, 2008.
Hardly a treasure....
disheartening to see this; remember quite will when it was in its hey day. my understanding the mall went down hill after a couple of murders took place there.
actually before that
...what happened to the creepy music? That was part of the videos charm...
+Bustakita Yancey I'm really glad you liked it! Unfortunately, I had to remove the music in order to keep this video online. Something about copyrights... blah blah blah... ;) I hope you still enjoy it though!
...you should do a "chopped and screwed" version of the music to avert this!!!
you're the creep.. it was the BEATLES.....
Wow...I'm a creep???
@@irish89055 the song itself is not creepy...yet it somewhat sets the tone for the video...i actually still watch the video with the Beetles A Day in The Life playing in my background...talk what you know, NOT WHAT YOU SUSPECT!!!!
wow did they really well hope yhe find out who the skull belong too a many a woman went missing therw
I'm reminded of the Blue Meanies in Yellow Submarine - No! No! No!.... Eventually No Customers.
Mall operators tend to forget today's teenager is tomorrow's adults
yep, it's totally gone now... Super Kroger going up and some housing and other shops...
thanks :) :)
Maybe it belongs to Donna Gail Harris?
7:04 Very few people knew or remembered that movie theater in the back at the end of the parking lot? I think I saw 1 movie there, I can't remember what movie though. I know it was some black (African-American) comedy back in the early 90's
I do remember going there in the 90s and thankfully I moved out of Richmond before shit hit the fan and I'm the polar opposite of the trouble makers and I'm African American