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When I got sent there, I had no idea that such a thing had occurred a couple years earlier. I used to work late at night in a furniture showroom at the end of that mall. The Speedway police often visited but no one every told me this story before. :nerd:
 
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I Miss/Remember When... my mother & her sister would take all us kids to Eastland Mall the first weekend in December to Christmas shop in the late-70s. We'd always have lunch on the mezzanine at Lazarus.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/busi...ocGHTJAn4dWQDQUfd0k-TXxiR9TI86_fmnmgriXqZrl58

Eastland Mall: Gone but not forgotten
The Columbus Dispatch

Eastland Mall — the area's first fully enclosed mall when it opened in 1968 — has closed its doors after a 54-year run in Columbus.

It was the end of a long, evolving saga at the retail site at 2740 S. Hamilton Road. The mall's anchor stores, including Macy's, Sears and JCPenney, closed years ago, but homegrown businesses and some national retailers had remained. In July, though, a Franklin County judge declared the mall a nuisance after the city's attorney's office filed health and safety violations against its owners.

The mall was set to close at the end of the year, but, in a final twist, a water line break forced it to close several days early, leaving one main question for residents and customers: What's next?
 
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Dryden said:
I Miss/Remember When... my mother & her sister would take all us kids to Eastland Mall the first weekend in December to Christmas shop in the late-70s. We'd always have lunch on the mezzanine at Lazarus.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/busi...ocGHTJAn4dWQDQUfd0k-TXxiR9TI86_fmnmgriXqZrl58

Eastland Mall: Gone but not forgotten
The Columbus Dispatch

Eastland Mall — the area's first fully enclosed mall when it opened in 1968 — has closed its doors after a 54-year run in Columbus.

It was the end of a long, evolving saga at the retail site at 2740 S. Hamilton Road. The mall's anchor stores, including Macy's, Sears and JCPenney, closed years ago, but homegrown businesses and some national retailers had remained. In July, though, a Franklin County judge declared the mall a nuisance after the city's attorney's office filed health and safety violations against its owners.

The mall was set to close at the end of the year, but, in a final twist, a water line break forced it to close several days early, leaving one main question for residents and customers: What's next?
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Damn. Haven't been to Eastland in 30+ years, but sorry to hear it's closed.
Was the closest shopping to my grandparent's place - remember Xmas shopping etc.
 
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CMic said:
Haven't been to Eastland in 30+ years,
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Possibly the Issue! :lol:

If I am being honest I thought all the directional malls would be gone in 5 years or less fron the Jacobs group punching out 20 years ago.

Hopefully something useful can be done with the property. I was at the Menards that was on the footprint of the old Northland mall (ish) Saturday. I think the Sears auto center was where the Menard's is. I remember buying a setvof pirrelis for a BMW I had back in the day.

Anyway, I do remember that Lazarus restaurant well. When I lived in Athens I met by old man for brunch there a couple times because it was about halfway for both of us. Good buffet. Big shrimp.

My kid actually got her first ear piercing at Eastland not all that long ago because they had the last... Ummm... Piercing Pagoda? Maybe? In Columbus and my wife felt that was important for some reason!

RIP Eastland Mall, your Nascar store was the Nascariest.
 
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Dryden said:
I Miss/Remember When... my mother & her sister would take all us kids to Eastland Mall the first weekend in December to Christmas shop in the late-70s. We'd always have lunch on the mezzanine at Lazarus.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/busi...ocGHTJAn4dWQDQUfd0k-TXxiR9TI86_fmnmgriXqZrl58

Eastland Mall: Gone but not forgotten
The Columbus Dispatch

Eastland Mall — the area's first fully enclosed mall when it opened in 1968 — has closed its doors after a 54-year run in Columbus.

It was the end of a long, evolving saga at the retail site at 2740 S. Hamilton Road. The mall's anchor stores, including Macy's, Sears and JCPenney, closed years ago, but homegrown businesses and some national retailers had remained. In July, though, a Franklin County judge declared the mall a nuisance after the city's attorney's office filed health and safety violations against its owners.

The mall was set to close at the end of the year, but, in a final twist, a water line break forced it to close several days early, leaving one main question for residents and customers: What's next?
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Tri-County and Forest Fair Malls (Cincinnati area) have long been gone and wastelands. However, Kenwood Towne Center (the rich, snobby mall) is still going but a shell of itself and has very strict rules on lids these days due to a lot of issues that did not exist in the 80s or 90s when a young LovelandBuckeye walked through the mall in my finest Starter jacket and/or jersey.
 
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CMic said:
Damn. Haven't been to Eastland in 30+ years, but sorry to hear it's closed.
Was the closest shopping to my grandparent's place - remember Xmas shopping etc.
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Lived in Walnut Heights and Eastland Mall was our go too but my first home was in Bexley and what I miss was riding the bus with my momto the downtown Lazarus and seeing the toy department with everything advertised on TV.
 
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