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.
@motleyhoople36572 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.
@mercman73363 жыл бұрын
Wow that was great. Keep uploading
@jpb1atlantic2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I will
@ellisandrews44011 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 !
@kaitar07 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.
@Cthains14 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@jpb1atlantic4 ай бұрын
You are most welcome.
@Chuck59ish2 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?
@robmorrisish2 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.
@Potato_Blood5 ай бұрын
2024 Brunswick Square is now a dead mall
@daviddelcloo29282 жыл бұрын
I worked as a bellhop at the Royal in the late 50's
@frankdenardo86842 жыл бұрын
Early 1970's version of Gentrification.
@terryquinn21194 ай бұрын
WAS IN ROYAL HOTEL 1974/75 WHEN WORKING ON IRVING OIL REFINERY
@dhill1113Ай бұрын
Great video. It would be better - IMO - if the music was removed and you just had ambient sound or nothing