Tag: schuylkill mall

February 6, 2026 THE COAL SPEAKER

Three days in February

We talk about dead malls way too much. But in looking at some articles, it’s weird to think that many people reading them now never shopped at the Schuylkill Mall..

June 7, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

The Goonies are still good enough 40 years later

Let’s just pretend that the greatest movie ever the GOONIES is playing at the Schuylkill Mall tonight and it is June 7, 1985.

40 years later: We wonder now, as Frackville’s Lehigh Ave descends into ruins, and a brand new building that was supposed to house a major distribution center remains unclaimed, was the Schuylkill Mall worth it? Was this mall, this shining fabled building on a hill, worth the price of admission?