Greenbrier Valley Mall

 NOTE: This post comes from outside the blog's coverage area.

After taking a look at the Kmart that served as an anchor to the Greenbrier Valley Mall, I thought we'd take this opportunity to tour the mall itself. As mentioned in the Kmart post linked, the mall was anchored originally by a Heck's department store which became a store called LA Joe's. The other original anchor was Stone & Thomas which was in turn taken over by Peebles. This location did not become an Elder-Beerman which makes a lot of sense as the space used was rather small. 

The Peebles store was among the many that actually did see a Gordman's re-branding. Sadly though it would be short lived with Gordman's demise. This mall is technically now anchorless, although a Save a Lot kind of serves as a shadow anchor with no direct mall connection. The Save a Lot was previously IGA. 

The mall itself is small and very appropriate in size for the area. The one thing that makes the property stand out though is its architecture and the quite abundant use of shingles. Hopefully the mall can survive  into the future, but it is hard to say if it will at this point.

As you can see here, Stone & Thomas pretty much occupied a half of the back side of the mall.

Corry Plaza

With everything going on in the world at the moment, I thought it would be appropriate to take a quick look around at a pharmacy in Corry, PA - and would later revise my plan to basically take a look at the entirety of the shopping plaza it is located in. 

All evidence would suggest that this CVS location seen below was a former Revco and that would make sense given this location is part of a community shopping plaza.

While its true you 'quit tobacco' by not selling it anymore, I don't think it is that easy for your customers to quit. But, hey this isn't a bad move; just amusing as CVS quit tobacco in an entirely different way then what most would assume those words to mean. 

Comments on my Flickr photostream suggest that the aisle marker signs happen to be a relic from Revco, so that's pretty neat that CVS actually reused them. 

And now I pivot this post to focus on the neighbor to this CVS for a second. I have a suspicion that the Save a Lot next door may have been a Kroger at one point. Given that Revco was likely next door, I feel pretty confident in my guess.

It actually did relocate to this spot from an abandoned plaza (as seen below) closer to downtown Corry, so obviously something would of been here prior.

A few pictures of an entirely different shopping plaza closer to downtown Corry that is now mostly abandoned.

Back at the Corry Plaza, we also have a few more pictures to look at:

Former Quality Farm and Fleet; and likely also a former Ames 

Former a GC Murphy 5&10 then a Dollar Zone