Exton Square Mall
Exton, Pennsylvania - circa 1970s
Beautiful fountain and interior of Exton Square Mall. Looks like a pretty tall plume of water there! Impressive scale for an indoor fountain. Actually, this fountain court, looks very similar to the one that was in Cinderella City Mall. Almost an identical setup, even down to the apparent water spray height (40-foot plume Cinderella City had--not sure this one is quite that tall).
Mall history: 1973 - current
Current website: here
Current aerial view
Previous entries: 1
posted by Keith @ 7/29/2006
14 Comments:
This looks like the Old Faithful of mall fountains, if I do say so myself! Stunning!
The only problem is that its footprint looks to be so large, it appears to squeeze down the access to Strawbridge's quite a bit. You'd have to go out of your way to walk around it.
Oh yeah, what's this about "A NEW FRIEND" hanging down from the banners? We could all use one of those. It must've been the mall's grand opening marketing campaign.
No matter the mall, the Stawbridge & Clothier court always seemed to be the most striking.
...which causes me to ask.... in the "old days" of malls, did anchors have much control over the court area in front of their stores?
I need new friends also, I wish I could go back in time to this mall to find them. Maybe they would be swimming in the fountain.
Strawbridge & Clothier is still around? Or destined to be another Macy's?
This is a cool mall. A mini-Mall of America.
Scott
Strawbridge & Clothier is about to turn into Macy's.
oh, how terrible.
Generica
This mall has been totally revamped in the past ten years. I started going to Exton Square in 1997 as a college student. It had a really strange layout before they renovated it and added a parking garage as well as more retail space around 1999. The mall is quite generic now, but the floorplan makes a lot more sense. Previously, Strawbridges was bordered on two sides by the mall portion. It is now the center of the mall, with stores all around and a food court on the second floor. Unfortunetly, Macy's has gobbled up all the May Company stores, just as it did my very favorite, Marshall Fields...
I remember Exton Square back around 81. Strawbridges had a Wizard of Oz theme in the girls department and shots of old race cars hanging on the walls in the boys department. There was also a generic restaurant upstairs in Strawbridges. The kids play area upstairs in the mall had huge movable toy dinosaurs of different colors that we would climb on. They were also dangerous because the bullies would shove the kids underneath the dinosaurs, sit on top of them, thus, trapping th poor kid underneath. Ahh memories!
Man...I miss the old Exton Mall. I wish they would've just left it alone. Now it's just a boring white wanna-be King of Prussia. I remember they had a really huge round indoor playground where all the parents and kids would hang out. The few fountains were nice and the little octagonal sitting areas in the corners of the mall with the big elephant ear plants. Remember that. My uncle used to give me free tokens at the arcade back in the early 80's. I miss that place
Exton Square used to have a black theme with white indirect lighting on all the outside signs. It looked really cool. It was kind of like doing your shopping on the Death Star!!! Shame to hear its gone all magnolia. There was a great model and crafts store there. I was shocked to find out my 5th grade teacher owned it.
Wow. I remember Strawbridges was the only store in the mall. It was one floor and dark but it was awesome!
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