Lakewood Bon-Ton Liquidation

This particular Bon-Ton, located outside Jamestown in Lakewood, NY, was a location that I enjoyed in particular while documenting most Bon-Ton stores in the area. It was built during 1997 making use of a former Woolworths to gain access to the Chautauqua Mall. Not much more to say than that, so I shall let the pictures do the talking.

Chautauqua Mall

As a mall that serves a larger community than Olean, this mall is a lot more healthy. It features a number of specialty stores such as PacSun, Hollister among others. This mall has attempted to have a food court, but it has never really been successful. Currently the only thing actually in the actual food court that offers food is a pizza place. There is a Subway and Auntie Anne's located near the food court though. 

Current anchors are JCPenney, OfficeMax, Sears and Bon Ton and mini anchors Old Navy and JO-ANN. The mall opened in 1971 with Sears, Woolworth and JCPenney as anchors. For some reason JCPenney closed its location at the mall with space becoming Jamesway only for that store to close and for JCPenney to open back up in the same spot. When Woolworth closed, Bon Ton expanded the former store and opened. Office Depot does not have mall access.

The mall also had an anchor with Quality Markets when it first opened, but it moved across the street to open a new location that would ultimately close when Tops Markets bought out Penn Traffic. The location is now divided between TJ Maxx and Micheal's. Although I cannot confirm it and there is no evidence suggesting this to be fact, I have a suspicion that Old Navy and JO-ANN was the former Quality Markets at the mall site. Old Navy can only be accessed from the mall, while JO-ANN only has an exterior entrance. I unfortunately did not get a picture of JO-ANN's exterior entrance.

The mall's main entrance.

The mall's anchors from the outside:

Former Woolworths

Sears has been anchor since Day 1.

OfficeMax.

Originally JCPenney, then Jamesway and once again JCPenney.

For the pictures of the interior, we will start at the Sears Wing to the JCPenney wing. The food court will be saved for the last.

Sears Mall Entrance

Older logo for Famous Footwear.

You can tell these are older pictures, because DEB has obviously since closed.

Most locations say PacSun instead of Pacific Sunwear.

Nice to see some local stores mixed in as well, though I think this store has since closed.

Rue 21 etc! has a store in the background.

Now onto the food court area:

I now realize that there are a few areas that I'm missing from putting this post together. I'll do my best to try to return to capture them at a later date. When I do take those photos, it will be a part of an update post.
Now for a few exclusive pictures to my blog once again. These following four pictures have not yet been uploaded to Flickr and they were all taken in the Sears wing.

Closed Deb.

Somehow I missed this before.

Sears Wing.

Five Guys opened recently.

That is all from the Chautauqua Mall, for now....