MALL AT GREECE RIDGE - GREECE NY

[@ktventertainment9816]

21:55 That’s one of the Barnes and Noble stores I went to growing up! I used to pick out books like the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate books there! I loved spending time in the kids section there growing up! I even have a Greg Heffley plush I bought from that store! So many memories!

[@apage123]

I was there back in March ‘94 when the connected mall opened , if you were a teen it was the place to be in the 90’s, as someone else mentioned Rochester is a great a place to grow up, but so many people move elsewhere for better weather/jobs

[@ktventertainment9816]

11:07 That’s the Spirit Halloween store in the former Bed Bath and Beyond in the mall where I got my cow costume back in September 2022! I loved your store tour of that Spirit Halloween / former Bed Bath and Beyond you posted a few days after Halloween was over! I had fun visiting it before I had Arby’s for lunch that day!

[@retailtoursplus]

Very nice video

[@CoolCatProductions-365]

Incredible video Steve! By far your best!

[@ERA_Productions]

Amazing video Steve!!

[@apage123]

Does anyone remember the weird globe sculpture that changed colors that was in the center of Long Ridge in the 80’s/90’s it would’ve been at 21:15 where the guy is pushing the stroller, and I’m pretty sure that Metro store on the left was an Orange Julius at some point

[@ktventertainment9816]

9:30 That’s the Regal Cinemas in the Mall I went to see Avatar The Way of Water last December right before the Christmas snowstorm hit the area! (Buffalo NY got it the worst) but still! The other time I went to that Regal was when I saw Nanny McPhee back in January 2006!

[@cookingartguy2170]

Very well done and love the music. But otherwise this gave me the creeps LOL. In the 1970s and early 80s I worked at Long Ridge Mall. Tho I lived in Southern California as a kid for a couple of years, and have now lived in South Florida for the past thirty-five years, Rochester is my hometown and I lived there thirty years. At the risk of sounding like the old fart that I am, I will say that downtown Rochester in the 60s and 1970s and early 80s was absolutely fantastic. It truly looked like blocks of New York City with tons of people and fabulous department stores and many many restaurants, many of which I worked at. I spent most of my life in Rochester downtown in those days and it was a great time and wonderful memories. But overall Rochester is so boring. It's just a gray place with mostly conformist people whose idea of a great life, or at least used to be, was getting a job at some factory and working there for forty years so that you could retire. That was drummed into our heads the entire time I grew up. I worked at Kodak for a year-and-a-half and quit because I couldn't stand it anymore and people thought I was crazy giving up the Golden dream LOL. I remember getting out of work one night at Long Ridge Mall, it was around the beginning of May and it was a huge snowstorm and my car was encased in ice and I said "I can't take this anymore!" 🤪 It was shortly after that that I decided to move to South Florida. So glad I escaped all that. Again nicely done video however.

[@craigrulestheworld7360]

Whats the 2nd Song Playing?

[@azmerateklemicael7490]

Do The Greece Ridge Mall Walk 2024 & Abonded Ruby Gordon At The Greece Ridge Mall

[@craigrulestheworld7360]

You said Greece towne mall opened in 1969, You mean 1967?

[@steves_retail]

Thank you for the correction lol

[@craigrulestheworld7360]

​@Steve's Retail & More Your welcome.

[@manhattanmama4192]

It’s a dead mall. Back in the day before online shopping, Amazon, etc, it was a lively, full, fun place to go. As kids we would hang out there on Saturdays in “the pit,” a sunken area w chairs and block seating. We would get our ears pierced, shop at Merry Go Round, Bakers Shoes and Shed House. It is now always empty w stores moving out, empty spaces and nothing like it once was. Extremely depressing video if you knew what it was like back in its’ heyday, in the 80s and 90s.

[@clifford7594]

The intro music in this video is enough for me to consider suicide. Did they play this in this mall? Is this why everybody fled screaming?

[@585totodamgood]

This was depressing.