MRA Demolition in Saint John, NB, 1973

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@rps1689 3 жыл бұрын

They were the last years of Saint John's heyday. I loved that department store. So glad you documented this even though it's sad watching the demolition. I hate malls. I remember those buses and they had ashtrays in them. How times have changed.

@motleyhoople3657 2 жыл бұрын

MRA's was a great store. A throwback to the days when department stores had elevators with an operator who would announce each floor as the doors opened. I have a lot of good memories of MRA's, buying toys there as a child and later buying records when I got a bit older. On the day they tore MRA's down my buddy Lewis and I were running around inside the empty building literally while they were tearing it down. We saw a few other people in there as well, looking for anything of value that might be overlooked. It sounds crazy and dangerous and it probably was, but we were just kids in our teens and there was a much more lax attitude towards safety in those days. It would never happen in this day and age, but hey... It was the 1970's.

@mercman7336 3 жыл бұрын

Wow that was great. Keep uploading

@jpb1atlantic 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I will

@ellisandrews440 11 ай бұрын

When I was a kid in the early 50’s I used to go to MRA’s to the toy department. I remember a big rocking horse they in the store. It was big to me as I was only 6 . I moved aware from Saint John when I was 9. Now it is 70 years later GEE !

@kaitar0 7 ай бұрын

My mom used to talk about MRAs all the time. I hadn't realized it was leveled I had (for some reason) thought it was carved up in smaller storefronts and had been further up the street.

@MrTroySinister Жыл бұрын

I was 8 when this happened, worked at Brunswick Square as a teenager.

@Cthains1 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing

@jpb1atlantic 4 ай бұрын

You are most welcome.

@Chuck59ish 2 ай бұрын

Now 50 years later we all wish M.R.A.'s was still around, they were better than most of the malls.

@JayElem Жыл бұрын

Really great stuff -thanks for sharing. Any chance of an upload with only the original audio?

@robmorrisish 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool. I'll be 58 in August. I recall MRA for sure. Not so much, the Royal.

@margiefortune8705 Жыл бұрын

Thus we were foisted into mall shopping blah !! Go to malls now and there are few people (even before Christmas) . The fun to shopping uptown was you were bound to find someone you knew and then join them in a cup of THE best coffee from the Robbins Store.