Looking for the receipt for Smiths restaurant roast beef sandwiches.....back in 50's early 60's can you help? Anyone remember those wonderful sandwiches
We'll I had to stop by ESM while in Euclid fixing my parents plumbing problems the day after Thankgiving. I was surprised by cars outside the Dillards at the east end of the mall. Didn't have time to stop in, but actually saw someone walking inside the mall. Since I didn't want to tempt arrest by trying to get inside and walk through the mall, I left. I guess it was the right decision, since a Euclid police car was sitting outside the old Super Kmart. It would be interesting to know if you can just walk inside the old mall without getting some sort of permission from management. I sent an e-mail a while back to the management asking about permission to take pictures inside the mall, but never heard back from them. Please keep these pictures of the mall alive on this site or others. I spent a good majority of my money in the old Fun-N-Games arcade as a teenager (remember Dig-Dug?) or the Burger King at the center south entrance. If I caught my parents in a good mood, York Steak house was the place to request. I forget how many people in High School had burns on their forearms from the potato roaster at York. I stopped by Dillards at ESM last year and looked into the mall. It was like a time capsule. Even the seating looks like 1984. Hopefully more pictures will find their way onto the internet of the mall. I was even thinking of tracking down the blueprints, Someone has to have a copy of them?
I would like give some news as The old Super kmart site will become the Great Lakes Expo Center as of January 2010.Finally the city has found somebody to take the property after 5 years.That is my report.
I would like to say I love ESM.Euclid Square Mall everytime passing it most of this decade it has been depressing.I love going to mall to shop and hangout in.It absolutely stinks what has become of it a chapel and Dillards what a joke.I dont like Richmond I wish it died and kept ESM alive.I never been to Mentor to know about its mall.But I like to say as proud person who went to ESM.Thanks for the page and the forum.
I lived in Euclid-1973 at Indian Hills Apts as a young married then buying a home on E.196th-off Euclid Ave., my husband's family lived up in the Beverly Hills section. I worked for many years at City Loan-22560 LSB, shopped at Shore Center - Gorniks, remember the restaurant Smith's, Alexanders at Shore Center-Shore Center was a thriving community. I'm sick to see that Value City is gone-somehow I thought it would always be there. Sad. sad. When Euclid Sq. Mall opened - it was classy like Richmond Mall. Euclid was a big busy city, lovely, beautiful place to live and raise a family. Breaks my heart to see what happened. I live in Phoenix area now will never go back to Cleveland area after leaving in 1998. Nothing but memories. Euclid Beach. Lake Shore Blvd. Shore Center. Slovenian Home. 185th Street- Petrie's Shops, etc. Gone but not forgotten.
wow a blog about the city i was born in. i left euclid in 1972 at the age of 5 can remember clarken on euclid ave ,happy charlie/loves fast food and manors big boy, and lawsons chopped ham, carroll i think on babbit road and the former chase brass where it ate my parents screen on there house.i lived off tungsten rd. in the duplex nieghborhood, went back in 2005 to take a picture in front of my parents house and can i say ouch its like i90 is the berlin wall everything south of it looks run down and everything north looks very well kept , man time does change.
I want to thank you for the great site and all the work and research that's gone into making it. I'm from Houston, but I spent many summers in Cleveland visting my grandparents in South Euclid and Mayfield Village. One year I came to live with my grandmother and got a job at Higbee's at Euclid Square. I think it was around 1990. It was a dying mall then; not a cool mall where teens would hang out. (I remember Drew Carey taking a shot at it in the mid-90s on "The Drew Carey Show.") I'm shocked at how the entire area has declined, though, and how malls all over the country and closing and being torn down. They were such a regular part of daily life when I was growing up. There were no Targets or Walmarts on every corner so you did almost all of your shopping at the mall. Your work here is an important part of cultural history, I think, and I'm glad you've captured it. Thanks for the memories!
This is a great site. I grew up and still live in Euclid. The stores may be gone (or dead) for that matter, but the city still has its spirit and soul. Look at the Lakeshore Theatre, Daves buying Tops on Shore Center and Marcs. There are dead parts, but also very vibrant arease.
I wanted to support Jen in keeping dead mall areas alive. I recently visited Euclid for the first time. I thought it looked kind of empty, as I drove up Lake shore drive. I was mostly between 200 and 225th street. I wish I would have know where the mall was. I would have stopped to see it. Thanks for the pictures you posted.
Seeing the pictures of what Euclid Square Mall looks like now just breaks my heart. I managed a store at ESM from 1980 to 1987 (if I remember correctly). After my store closed, I was part of the crew that opened Toys R Us. Remembering ESM when it was a thriving bustling shopping center, and now looking at what it has turned into, makes me very sad. Many factors contributed to the Mall's decline... too bad because they probably could have been prevented.
Awesome pics of Red Lobster. I'm from Toronto. We used to drive through there to visit family in Parma OH. I remember ES Mall. Reminds me of the dozens around my area closing. Great pics of the whole mall.
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