Trip to the Mall: Meijer Grand Opening 1995 in Champaign, Illinois

Meijer Grand Opening 1995 in Champaign, Illinois

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Malls in Movies

Earthquake (1974)
Dawn of the Dead [Original (1978)]
The Silent Partner (1978)
Chopping Mall (1980)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Valley Girls (1983)
Night of the Comet (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
Invasion USA (1985)
Smooth Talk (1985)
Weird Science (1985)
Commando (1985)
Police Story [Film Series (1985)]
True Stories (1986)
Clean and Sober (1988)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Scenes From a Mall (1991)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Don't Tell Mom the Baby Sitters Dead (1991)
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
Encino Man (1992)
Clerks (1994)
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Clueless (1995)
Mall Rats (1995)
Empire Records (1995)
Normal Life (1996)
Carpool (1996)
Volcano (1997)
Jackie Brown (1997)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
High Fidelity (2000)
Evolution (2001)
Bad Santa (2003)
Elf (2003)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Harold & Kumar go to White Castle (2004)
Mean Girls (2004)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Employee of the Month (2006)
Stick It (2006)
The Mist (2007)
Superbad (2007)
Yes Man (2008)
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail (2009)
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
Tower Heist (2011)
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
Seeking Justice (2012)
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
The Watch (2012)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Paper Towns (2015)

Malls in Television Sitcoms

American Dad
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Arthur
Bob's Burgers
Everybody Loves Raymond
Family Guy
Fast Times [series(1986)]
Food Court Wars
Full House
Kenan and Kel
King of the Hill
Mad Men
Phineas and Ferb
Regular Show
Seinfeld
South Park
Spongebob Squarepants
Superstore
The Amazing World of Gumball
The Cleveland Show
The Fairly Oddparents
The King of Queens
The Rockford Files
The Simpsons
The Sopranos
The Walking Dead

Malls in Songs

Moon Zappa- Valley Girl (1982)
Robin Sparkles- Let's Go To The Mall (1993)
New Radicals- You Get What You Give (1998)
The Mall- Gang Starr Guru (1998)
The Orwells- Mallrats (La La La) (2012)

Lists

The Almost Complete List of All Vintage & Old Store Locations in the Country.
Price Tag Chronicles: Old & Vintage Store Stickers
List of Arts & Crafts Stores
List of Auto & Hardware Stores
List of Bath & Beauty Stores
List of Book Stores
List of Children's Stores
List of Clothing Stores
List of Department Stores
List of Discount Stores
List of Electronic Stores
List of Farm Stores
List of Furniture Stores
List of Home & Garden Stores
List of Pet Stores
List of Pharmacy Stores
List of Resale Stores
List of Sporting Goods Stores
List of Supermarket & Grocery Store Chains
List of Historic Malls

Reflection

TTTM New Segment: (Reflection:) and What it is?
Reflection 1: Do The Kids Today Really Appreciate the Mall? --- So Many Points to How 1995 is Different Than 2015.
Reflection 2: Things Just Don't Seem to Work Out as They Used to.
Reflection 3: Why These Subjects Relate and Whether or Not I Will Learn if They Do or Not?
Reflection 4: It Will All End Eventually
Reflection 5: Mall Rats Sequel Filming Location Confirmed and Changing Philly Malls + 9/11 commemoration
Reflection 6: These Stores are Taking Advantage of the Way We Think!
Reflection 7: Men Aren't Men Until They Can Find There Way to Sears

Reviews

Why I Write Reviews
Review: The Museum of Classic Chicago Television
Review: Pittsburgh Dad
Review: Everything is Terrible!
Review: Tom Explores Los Angeles
Review: Today in America with Terry Bradshaw
Review: This is Dan Bell. (DEAD MALL SERIES)
Review: [HOONIGAN] Black Friday- Chris Forsberg Drifts Mall
Review: 80sTees.com

Redevelopment

Redevelopment: Fairview City Centre- Fairview Heights, Illinois
Redevelopment: Three Years of Two Stores Next to Each Other.
Redevelopment: Orchard Place in Skokie, Illinois
Redevelopment: Stratford Crossing on and on- Bloomingdale, Illinois
Redevelopment: Main Street Plaza Wheaton, Illinois
Redevelopment: Four Flagg Shopping Center in Niles, Illinois

People of Industry

EULOGY: The loss of the Greatest Figure in American Retailing.
The Birthday of the Father of the Modern Mall on Gruen Day!

The Retail Subsequent

What is Retail Subsequent?

Very Few Chains Worked Out in Illinois

(TTTM New Segment)-Very Few Chains Worked Out in Illinois Part 1: Strack N' VanTil
Very Few Chains Worked Out in Illinois Part 2: Cub Foods
Very Few Chains Worked Out in Illinois Part 3: Gordmans
Very Few Chains Worked Out in Illinois Part 4: Marsh

FINAL CALLING

FINAL CALLING: One of the Last Howard Johnson's Restaurant in Lake Placid, New York Closing!
FINAL CALLING: Last Cub Foods in Illinois!

FIND

FIND: Prange Way Green Bay Packers Calendar
FIND: Montgomery Ward Spring 2015 Catalog
FIND: Old Federated & May Co. Department Store Giftcards
FIND: Woolworth (Harvest House) Menu
FIND: Old St. Louis Galleria Map ca. 1996
FIND: Vintage Yarn Wrapper's
FIND: Old Kmart Store End-Cap Signage
FIND: Builders Square Credit Card
FIND: Radioshack How-To and Instructional Booklets
FIND: So Much Builders Square Memorabilia
FIND: The Mall Game
FIND: Vintage Circuit City T-shirts
FIND: Multiple Vintage Kmart Novelty Hats
FIND: Vintage Chicago Area Shopping Mall Post Cards
FIND: Another Builders Square eBay Lot
FIND: 1980's Chicago's Goldblatts Department Store Bag

FLASHBACK

FLASHBACK: 1980's Academic Consumerism Synopsis
FLASHBACK: Before There was Super Kmart, There was American Fare: The Original Hypermarket.
FLASHBACK: Fast Times at the Lechmere in Charlotte, North Carolina
FLASHBACK: Old Pictures of the Beverly Center Mall in Los Angeles
FLASHBACK: Chillin in Round Lake Beach, Illinois
FLASHBACK: Deerbrook Mall in Deerfield, Illinois
FLASHBACK: Driving Down Ogden Avenue in 1990
FLASHBACK: What the Shopping Mall Was Like in 1989 (My Perspective)
FLASHBACK: Old Chicago- The Amusement Mall in Bolingbrook, Illinois

Delhaize Group

Bloom
Bottom Dollar Foods
Food Lion
Hannaford
Harvey's

Roundy's

Copps Food Center
Mariano's
Metro Market
Pick 'n Save
Rainbow Foods

Safeway Inc.

Carrs | Safeway
Dominick's
Genuardi's
Omni Superstore
Pavilions
Randall's
Safeway
Tom Thumb
Vons

Supervalu Inc.

Acme
Albertson's
Cub Foods
Farm Fresh
Hornbacher's
Jewel- Osco
Lucky
Osco Drug
Save-A-Lot
Sav-On Pharmacy
Shaw's
Shop 'n Save
Shoppers Food & Pharmacy
Star Market

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company

A & P
Food Basics
Pathmark
Super Fresh
The Food Emporium
Waldbaum's

The Kroger Co.

Bakers
Cala Foods
City Market
Dillons
Food 4 Less
Festival Foods
Foods Co.
Fred Meyer
Fry's Food & Drug
Gerbes
JayC Food Stores
King Sooper
Kroger
Owen's Supermarket
Payless Supermarket
QFC
Ralph's
Scotts Food & Pharmacy
Smiths

Soundcloud Podcast

Trip to the Mall Podcast on Souncloud COMING NOVEMBER 19th!!!
TTTM Podcast #1: Welcome to The Voice Behind the Opinion
TTTM Podcast #2: Black Friday & Happy Thanksgiving
TTTM Podcast #3: The Rules of Sampling
TTTM Podcast #4: Mil-Town Review
TTTM Podcast #5: Get Yourself a New Map
TTTM Podcast #6: Circle City Trip of the Century!
UPDATE***: Trip to the Mall Podcast Presented by Souncloud is now on Friday!
TTTM Podcast #7: Mall Violence and the New Year
TTTM Podcast #8: The Red Star is Falling
TTTM #9: Attention Former Kmart Shoppers

KMART: The Saving Place!

Official Kmart Page
It looks like this is the end for Super Kmart
Before There was Super Kmart, There was American Fare: The Original Hypermarket
Kmart & Sears: Can We Find an Answer?
FIND: Old Super Kmart Center Floor Map
FIND: Multiple Vintage Kmart Novelty Hats
Last Super Kmart Center in Illinois Will Be No More
Which Kmart or Sears Is Closing Where You Live?- 2016 Closures

SEARS: Where America Shops!

Official Sears Page
Kmart & Sears: Can We Find an Answer?
How Sears Needs to Turn Themselves Around Once and For All!

Federated Department Store, INC. & May Corporation

Official Federated & May Page

Defunct Chain Stores

Ames Department Store

Ames 80's Commercial's
Ames 90s Commercial's
Ames Closing Commercial
Redevelopment: Main Street Plaza Wheaton, Illinois
Lakeview Plaza Former Ames Location- Orland Park, Illinois
Ames Bridgeview, Illinois
Ames; Dundalk, Maryland
Ames Essex, Maryland
Ames Keychain

Anchor Blue Clothing

Anchor Blue stores
Miller's Outpost
Miscellaneous Miller's Outpost Commercial's

Auchan Hypermarket (Texas)

Auchan Hypermarket- The French Retail Revolution

Best Catalog Showroom

Best Xmas Commercial (1987)
Best Store Closing Commercial (1996)

Blockbuster Video

Blockbuster in Aurora, Illinois
Blockbuster in Aurora, Illinois
Blockbuster in Carol Stream, Illinois
Blockbuster in Dekalb, Illinois
Blockbuster in Glendale Heights, Illinois
Blockbuster in Lake in the Hills, Illinois
Blockbuster in Lombard, Illinois
Blockbuster in Montgomery, Illinois
Blockbuster in Naperville, Illinois
Blockbuster in Naperville, Illinois
Blockbuster in Normal, Illinois
Blockbuster in River Forest, Illinois
Blockbuster in Tinley Park, Illinois
Blockbuster in Woodridge, Illinois

Borders Books

Former Borders in Bloomington, Illinois
Former Borders in Dekalb, Illinois

Bradlees

Bradlees 80s Commercials
Bradlees 90s Commercial
Bradlees Closing Commercial

Caldor

Circuit City

Find: Circuit City Circular (2/15/2004-2/21/2004)
2004 Circuit City Commercial
Former Circuit City in Oswego, Illinois
Former Circuit City in Rockford, Illinois
FIND: Vintage Circuit City T-shirts
Circuit City Closing Commercial
Circuit City Closing Commercial

CompUSA

David Weis

David Weis 1989-1990 Catalog covers
David Weis & Basco- ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PA...
David Weis "The Photo Store" Commercial-1989

Dominion Pottery

The Free Lance Star Articles- Dominion Pottery

Drug Barn

Forest City (Chicago)

Forest City & Uncle Bill's

Frank's Nursery & Crafts

Fretter Superstore

F.W. Woolworth's

FIND: Woolworth (Harvest House) Menu
Woolco
Woolworth Thrift Store in Bakersfield, California
Woolworth Bag As Seen on YouTube
Woolworth Badge
Woolworth Snack Shop- King of Prussia Mall
Woolworth Blue Logo
Woolworth and Woolco Sale Ads
F.W. Woolworth Stock
Woolworth Stores Along the Street
The Cleveland Show-Woolworth
Woolworth Woolco Bicycle
Woolworth & Harvest House Coffee Shop
Woolworth & Harvest House- Brookfield Square Mall
Woolco (US) Closing Commercial

Gateway Country Store

G.I. Joe's Sporting Goods

Hills Department Store

Pittsburgh Dad Travels Back in Time to Hills!

Hechinger

[Flickr:] Hechinger Photo Pool
Hechinger Commercial History
Hechinger Hat

Hollywood Video

Homeplace

Waccamaw's HomePlace Commercial & Shopping Carts
Home Club and HomeBase: Before Home Depot Was the Only Choice

Home Quarter's

Home Quarters Warehouse

Jamesway

Jamesway 80s Commercials
Jamesway Commercial

K's Merchandise Catalog Showroom

The Only K's Merchandise Commercial on Youtube
Former Venture/ K's Merchandise; Decatur, Illinois
Former K's Merchandise Corporate Office; Decatur, Illinois

K.B. Toys

Leedmark Hypermart

Leedmark; Glen Burnie, Maryland

Linens 'N Things

Linens 'N' Things; Richmond Heights, Missouri
Linens 'N' Things Closing Commercial

Lechmere

FLASHBACK: Fast Times at the Lechmere in Charlotte, North Carolina
Lechmere Home Image

Montgomery Ward

FIND: Montgomery Ward Spring 2015 Catalog
Montgomery Wards was the Best!
Montgomery Wards was the Best! Part: 2- Google Search Goodness!
Montgomery Ward Store 80's
The Sweetest Picture Ever!
Modern Montgomery Ward
Record Sale at Wards
Montgomery Ward Panorama Mall
Montgomery Ward Demolition 2002
Its Closing Time at Ward's
Wards Plaza
Walking Into Wards
Auto Express Montgomery Ward Shirt
Ward Truck
Wards in Toledo and Michigan
Wards Receipt and Ad
Wards at Metro North Mall
Wards Mall Anchor's
Retro Montgomery Ward Store in Livonia and Wyoming, Michigan
Wards Auto Center

Meijer Grand Opening 1995 in Champaign, Illinois

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