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.
suddenly it is a big hit, driving through there & being there was like being a child again, cept it's still not the same :/, i would rather a Media Play pop up there..
Good Morning...Pray -- that this ugly creature gives us hope that Spring is ahead of us. Don't know about you but I am sooo sick of WINTER!! Have a great day! Hugs, Karen
hi mall. ive been sad that it is actuality you're not around. the big bulk of u..but i dropped into kmart recently before xmas..i walked down a dark dungeon-able hallway..it was cold and not like i remember u to be. lol. happy new year!
