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....

Pittsford, NY McDonald's

Although these pictures will be uploaded to my Flickr photostream at some point in the future, I have pulled them out of the vault for this special occasion. As I promised in Sunday's mini-post, these pictures are being shown here first as a celebration of the blog's 1,000 views. I have not yet uploaded them anywhere else, even though they were taken way back in March of this year. So snow will be visible at spots. (Yeah, I've got a lot of pictures to upload....)

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Whether it be because of a local building code or just because, this McDonald's located in Pittsford, NY is one that caught my attention late last year for a visit and I'm glad I decided to check out this location the first chance I had back in March. It was a regular location that was unlike any other I have ever visited, outside of the few that had a specific theme set to them.

Back entrance to the playground area. (Used as an emergency exit only.)

They even have an outdoor breezeway. Nice added touch.

Moving on into the interior. The two photos were taken in the store's mud room area, hence the reason for all the salt on the mat.

In and out doors. Both could be used.

More interior photos:

Sight upon entering.

Really like these chairs....

....and these windows.

And I really like this local pride sign.

This is where things REALLY get odd at this McDonald's. You probably noticed that the store has a playground, yet a playground was not seen up front. That's because it is in the very back of the store. To get to it, you must take a narrow hallway. It is the quite odd layout for a McDonald's.

 

Looking down the hallway from the playground area.

It's a shame that so many McDonald's seem to lose their identity with the new 'eyebrow' remodels, but at least this one still remains intact. Also seems that a lot of locations are dropping the playplace area, so it is also nice to see it here. Hopefully it stays around for awhile!