Carolina Circle Mall still inspires memories
In response to Allen Johnson's column about Carolina Circle Mall (Oct. 23), I, too, have special memories of the mall when it opened. I was lucky enough for my parents to buy my first and only pair of ice skates (I still have them). They were ordered from the Sears Roebuck catalog, and we picked them up on Lawndale Drive.
When I turned 18 in 1983, we were able to order alcoholic beverages, and I remember sitting at Annabelle's drinking Sangria and watching people skate. (That was a short-lived treat, as the state raised the drinking age to 21.) I spent many weekends as a teenager walking and cruising around the mall and McDonald's, which has managed to survive all these years. I remember East West Gifts, Camelot Music, Electronic America and riding in the glass elevator at Ivey's, which later became Dillard's.
Yes, the mall will always hold special memories for me as well.
Susan Steed
Reidsville
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What the World Needs Now - a new Walmart.
It's the only thing, that there's just too little of.
Posted on November 6, 2005 5:50 AM
i remember the constant stench from the sewage plant located somewhere behind the mall.
Posted on November 6, 2005 12:47 PM
Yes, I have the fond memories of the gangs that would hang around just waiting for someone to look at them so they could chase them around and torture them all night. Good times.
Posted on November 8, 2005 4:21 PM