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The South Hills Mall's Interests
General
Some Of The Great Stores Who Once Filled My Space:
Roy Rogers
Bob's Stores
Media Play
Baskin Robbins
Pharmhouse
Park Place Roller Rink
Orange Julius
Teepeedashery
Sears
Dino Dig
CVS
A1 Barber And Beauty
PrezteL'oven
Up To Date
Dream Machine Video Arcade
Service Merchandise
Spencer Gifts
Just-A-Buck
The Glass Window
KayBee Toys
Hardee's
Hess
Discovery Zone
The Wall
Radio Shack
Some Of What I Still Do Have Surprisingly:
Silver Cinemas!!
Shop Rite (Brand New!) HKT Nutz Got Game? Price Chopper The Avenue The Palace Of Hair Design A Dollar Jewelry Annex Namco Family Dental Center Burger King That Pizza Place
K-Mart Gamestop Frozen Ropes Dragon Express Pocket Change Exchange
Burlington Coat Factory Crafters Unlimited
Music
Really Bizarre... ever stop to listen to it?
Other than that, I listen to:
New Kids On The Block
Cypress Hill
Gnarkill
DANGERDOOM
Poison
Aphex Twin
Billy Idol
Dragon Ash
Cannibal Corpse
Menudo
Twisted Sister
HIM
Beastie Boys
Deltron 3030
Def Leppard
The Left Rights
Skinny Puppy
"Other malls may have stores; but I have character."
You're probably sitting there thinking... "Are You Kidding Me??" I'm most certainly not; watch how much I'm kidding...
South Hills Mall was the first true indoor shopping mall in Poughkeepsie (though Poughkeepsie Plaza Mall, a strip mall which was later enclosed, predated it) and the second in Dutchess County after Dutchess Mall in Fishkill. At the outset, anchors were Sears, KMart, and Service Merchandise and an assortment of smaller stores common for the era. South Hills quickly became the dominant retail center in the Poughkeepsie area, leading to a realignment at Poughkeepsie Plaza and the closing of venerable downtown retailer Luckey Platt & Co. in 1981. A later expansion added Hess's and a food court.
In the early 1980s, an initial proposal for a two-story mall adjacent to South Hills was submitted; after several years of protests, this proposal became Poughkeepsie Galleria and opened in 1987. Though the malls co-existed successfully for the first several years of the Galleria's existence, as the 1990s began South Hills began to suffer. The decline largely began in 1991 when Hess's closed their location and Sears moved to the Galleria; the Hess's space was replaced by Burlington Coat Factory while the Sears space was divided between Pharmhouse and a (freestanding) Price Chopper supermarket.
Around this time, South Hills was sold to Sarakreek, a Dutch property holding firm which reimaged the mall into a "power center" in which "big-box" retailers would open locations inside the mall. Smaller stores were replaced by such stores as Media Play, Old Navy, Office Max, Discovery Zone, and Bob's Stores. This strategy lessened the decline for a short period, however in the long run the alienation of smaller stores only led to a further, greater decline to the point that all of the aforementioned stores either have closed or will close in the near future.
Oddly enough, still we have all either worked there or know someone who has... and just like clockwork, we find ourselves roaming it's halls more than we'd like to admit.
With the addition of this profile, it's official: EVERYONE has a myspace.
Back in the late 90s!!! I was born in 1990 and move up here in '91. Since I was a kid, all I want to do is goin to Discovery Zone at South Hills Mall. Now today I go to Shoprite. I will think about DZ the best place ever. Now today, I can't even go to Big Kmart anymore because I will be in tears of lookin all the places i knew and now it gone. But I will look forward of the Christmas tree shop being at South Hills Mall.
Thanks for the add! I'm sorry to hear about the mall shutting down, but I supppose it was inevitable. It was all downhill since '87. But believe me, the place was hopping in the '70s and early '80s. I prefer to remember it as it was then.
You have a Shop Rite now? Really? Well, perhaps it'll fare better than the one formerly (practically) across the street. Dutchess County sure isn't what it used to be. :(
ah, whats good? i used to come to south hills all the time as a kid back in the 90's. discovery zone was the best. im really going to miss you by the way. i saw this and the memories came flooding back...
i south hill smallll!! your are going bye bye! i saw the movie inchanted a week ago it was awesome but the theater was GROSS they should fix it up and put all new stuf fin it!! ;0)
We play a lot of notes. We have a lot of blast beats. We scream and make a lot of noise. Some think we don't play enough breakdowns. Our milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard. We like naked chicks. Naked chicks like us.
PSYOPUS
3/7 Popeye's Pub - Cortlandt Manor, NY
PSYOPUS THE NETWORK
3/8 Billy Baloney's - Danbury, CT 3/9 The Living Room - Providence, RI 3/10 The Haunt - Yonkers, NY 3/11 Siren Records - Doyelstown, PA 3/12 Jimdel's - Harrisonburg, VA
PSYOPUS 3/13 The Hideaway - Johnson City, TN
PSYOPUS TODAY IS THE DAY MOUTH OF THE ARCHITECT COMPLETE FAILURE
3/14 The End - Nashville, TN 3/15 The Canal Club - Richmond, VA 3/16 The Ottobar - Baltimore, MD 3/17 Knitting Factory - New York, NY 3/18 North Star - Philadelphia, PA 3/19 31st Street Pub - Pittsburgh, PA 21+ 3/20 Valentine’s - Albany, NY 3/21 The Church - Boston, MA 3/22 American Legion Hall - Nashua, NH 3/27 The Bug Jar - Rochester, NY
