Friday, June 30, 2017

Clarion Mall

Back in the day when many small towns were getting their malls, two anchors seemed to be commonplace: JCPenney and Kmart. This small little mall continues to hold on to these two as anchors despite both chains closing stores. Clearly they must do rather well in Clarion.

The mall itself is small, but has some really nice architecture to it. The main corridor has a slanted roof with windows on the top that face to the east. In my opinion, this mall is quite lively with a good number of stores to it. 

Enjoy these photos I took of this charming cute little mall.

A general exterior of the mall. Note that the main entrance uses a Kmart facade.
As is the case with most mall-based Kmart stores, you enter and walk down a hallway to enter Kmart.
 
We will take a closer look at this Kmart location in a future Kmart post.


Here you can see the mall's windows I mentioned.
Planters!




Looks like a former fountain has been covered over.



No jewelry store here






4 comments:

  1. Nate,I remember when this mall was built in 1980..it used to have a National Record Mart(Where Olympia Sports is located)..A KarmelKorn(not sure where that was located)..a Rite-Aid..(where the Med Fast is located.I remember hanging out at this mall when I was younger,was always in the old video arcade..which I think was located behind where Olympia Sports is located now..I hope both Kmart and JC Penney survives..a great story !

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    1. Thanks for sharing your memories of the mall, as well as passing along some of the previous tenants! I too hope Kmart and JCPenney survive here.

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  2. A very nice little mall! Even with a few vacancies present, it looks like the mall is still doing well overall, which is nice to see.

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