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Oddly, unexpectedly, it was sad to stroll through the empty shopping cemetery. The place was the internet before the internet, our source of entertainment. It was where babies spit up on Santa, girls had their ears pierced for the first time, boys with wispy Orange Julius mustaches ogled the Farah Fawcett poster at Spencer Gifts, and parents ignored the organ demonstration at Fletcher’s Music on their way to Sears. The mall in its glory was where Friday night football heroes were even bigger on Saturdays, Pat Benatar look-alikes morphed into Madonna-wannabes and hair styles went from feathered to fades like cassettes to CDs at Camelot Music. Indeed, who wasn’t cool at the mall? ....
Longtime customers returned to the DeSoto Square Mall on Friday to take one last stroll around what once was Bradenton’s retail gem. Only four shops remained open on the mall’s final day. The mall’s owners, DeSoto Owners LLC, gave tenants 30 days’ notice at the beginning of the month. The 60-acre mall opened in 1973, during the heyday of indoor malls. But in recent years, the mall has faced the same challenges that have plagued its peers, with stalwart anchor stores closing and once-robust chains leaving the smaller boxes empty. It has spent at least the past decade in protracted decline, punctuated by occasional hopes of revival that never came to fruition. ....
DeSoto Square Mall closing on Friday DeSoto Square Mall closing (Source: WWSB) By ABC7 Staff | April 29, 2021 at 10:56 PM EDT - Updated April 30 at 6:11 AM BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - Manatee Countyâs longtime and well-known shopping mall is closing its doors on Friday, April 30. DeSoto Square Mall, located in the 300 block of 301 Boulevard in Bradenton, opened in 1973. DeSoto Square Mall (Source: WWSB) The nearly 50-year-old mall has struggled with keeping stores and shoppers. On Thursday, a note announcing its closure was taped to the entrance doors. DeSoto Square Mall closing (Source: WWSB) Longtime residents say they are sad to see it go. ....
Dear DeSoto Mall, Growing up in Bradenton, so many of my childhood memories include you, DeSoto Square Mall. We couldn t wait to put on our jelly shoes, fanny pack, slap bracelets and head to the mall. First stop, Camelot Music to buy a cassette single since I couldn t afford the whole tape. If mom was feeling generous, we d get an Orange Julius. The best scheme going was asking to see a movie at the DeSoto Square movie theatre because Claire s was two doors down. Since we had to walk by Claire s we could usually slide in there to spend the rest of our cash on jewelry that would soon turn our skin green. Over the years, your anchor department store was constantly evolving. Maas Brothers made way for Belk Lindsey, Belk became Burdine s, then Dillard s and finally...Macy s. This was home to every school clothes shopping trip for 13 years and therefore also home to the fitting rooms where I threw a fit over what we could afford vs what I could fit in to. In high school, your fo ....