I have written a bit about the Schuylkill Mall during the history of this website.. It’s my local shopping center, one that is now becoming more and more vacant by the day.. I offered some suggestions to mall management several weeks ago. Some weird, some a little outlandish, and some sort of in the realm … Read more
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I have written a bit about the Schuylkill Mall during the history of this website.. It’s my local shopping center, one that is now becoming more and more vacant by the day.. I offered some suggestions to mall management several weeks ago. Some weird, some a little outlandish, and some sort of in the realm … Read more
For any Schuylkill Countians out there, this is a blast from the past.. The Schuylkill Mall’s TV ad from the 1990s.. all of these stars except a few are gone.. and the mall is almost vacant.. Sad how the mighty mall on the hill has fallen. (Keep in mind that when this ad was made, … Read more
These are three telling headlines in today’s POTTSVILLE REPUBLICAN AND HERALD.. A factory closing, a school having issues, and yet another store in the Frackville Schuylkill Mall shutting doors.. There was an old adage about the coal region of Pennsylvania: There’s a church and bar on every street corner. These days the churches have shuddered … Read more
Box Office: ‘Catching Fire’ Ablaze Friday With $70.5 Million
The good, the bad, and the ugly. HUNGER GAMES is setting some box office theaters on proverbial fire with a pre-Thanksgiving weekend romp.. It’s going to be a big movie when final numbers come out. Just in my little neck of the woods, the theater at the Schuylkill Mall in Frackville PA actually devoted all … Read moreBox Office: ‘Catching Fire’ Ablaze Friday With $70.5 Million
The coal region gets a black eye for lack of things to do .. but this new thing to do is pretty cool
In your face America: The Coal Region has something that few others do. (Besides mounds of rock and leftover sulfur rivers from abandoned coal mines of course) A digital drive in! That’s right, The Schuylkill Mall in Frackville, PA, will have a digital drive in as of August 12.. There were only four of these in … Read moreThe coal region gets a black eye for lack of things to do .. but this new thing to do is pretty cool
Pity the once great mall
It’s a tough job these days holding up a mall. Wayback in time to last century, when main street was killed by the way of shopping, with floors shiny and new and fountains rolling fresh water for background news. Yes, indeed, those were the days. Food courts… stores as far as the eye could see.. … Read morePity the once great mall