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Anonymous wrote:I remember Britches. I also remember a bunch of stores in that mall, back when mall shopping was fun... here are some of the top of my head:

Taxco
Caswell Massey
Crabtree and Evelyn
a Hello Kitty store... full of Hello Kitty stuff!
a bulk candy store
White House Black Market
Express
some good shoe stores
a record store... Waxie Maxie's?

I liked that mall. There was also a Benihana in there.

Oh yeah! Benihana.
I used to go for the Victoria's Secret. I remember also they had a gift wrap place right in the middle. You could drop off your whole pile and they would wrap. Not sure why that was exciting to me but it was. They also had a Conrans that was connected to the mall -- you had to walk through some exterior exit -- and they had great home furnishings.

I just remember it being so fancy. It was great.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember Britches. I also remember a bunch of stores in that mall, back when mall shopping was fun... here are some of the top of my head:

Taxco
Caswell Massey
Crabtree and Evelyn
a Hello Kitty store... full of Hello Kitty stuff!
a bulk candy store
White House Black Market
Express
some good shoe stores
a record store... Waxie Maxie's?

I liked that mall. There was also a Benihana in there.

Oh yeah! Benihana.
I used to go for the Victoria's Secret. I remember also they had a gift wrap place right in the middle. You could drop off your whole pile and they would wrap. Not sure why that was exciting to me but it was. They also had a Conrans that was connected to the mall -- you had to walk through some exterior exit -- and they had great home furnishings.

I just remember it being so fancy. It was great.

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Anonymous wrote:I just don't understand how the Georgetown Mall has stayed empty for so many years. It was technically prime real estate back in the day. Now what are they going to do with all that empty space right in the middle of M Street?

I think they’ve expanded the parking into the bottom levels of the old mall. With the expansion of some of the stores on front and back, as well as the bowling place, I’m not sure how much vacant space is left inside.

For those of you not familiar, it was a big space that was accessed primarily from an entrance near Clyde’s. It went down 3-4 levels with a big atrium. Some stores on street level had entrances from inside and outside (like Clyde’s and JCrew). There was a food court on the bottom level. The mix of stores changed over the years but it was quite a shopping destination when it opened. Stores I loved included Britches, Liberty of London, Talbots (in its heyday), pappagallo, and so many more.

I worked at Britches of Georgetown. No one even remembers it now.

BS. I remember it, it was where we got our 1980s rugby shirts!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just don't understand how the Georgetown Mall has stayed empty for so many years. It was technically prime real estate back in the day. Now what are they going to do with all that empty space right in the middle of M Street?

I think they’ve expanded the parking into the bottom levels of the old mall. With the expansion of some of the stores on front and back, as well as the bowling place, I’m not sure how much vacant space is left inside.

For those of you not familiar, it was a big space that was accessed primarily from an entrance near Clyde’s. It went down 3-4 levels with a big atrium. Some stores on street level had entrances from inside and outside (like Clyde’s and JCrew). There was a food court on the bottom level. The mix of stores changed over the years but it was quite a shopping destination when it opened. Stores I loved included Britches, Liberty of London, Talbots (in its heyday), pappagallo, and so many more.

I worked at Britches of Georgetown. No one even remembers it now.

BS. I remember it, it was where we got our 1980s rugby shirts!

Anonymous wrote:I remember Britches. I also remember a bunch of stores in that mall, back when mall shopping was fun... here are some of the top of my head:

Taxco
Caswell Massey
Crabtree and Evelyn
a Hello Kitty store... full of Hello Kitty stuff!
a bulk candy store
White House Black Market
Express
some good shoe stores
a record store... Waxie Maxie's?

I liked that mall. There was also a Benihana in there.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just don't understand how the Georgetown Mall has stayed empty for so many years. It was technically prime real estate back in the day. Now what are they going to do with all that empty space right in the middle of M Street?

I think they’ve expanded the parking into the bottom levels of the old mall. With the expansion of some of the stores on front and back, as well as the bowling place, I’m not sure how much vacant space is left inside.

For those of you not familiar, it was a big space that was accessed primarily from an entrance near Clyde’s. It went down 3-4 levels with a big atrium. Some stores on street level had entrances from inside and outside (like Clyde’s and JCrew). There was a food court on the bottom level. The mix of stores changed over the years but it was quite a shopping destination when it opened. Stores I loved included Britches, Liberty of London, Talbots (in its heyday), pappagallo, and so many more.

I worked at Britches of Georgetown. No one even remembers it now.

BS. I remember it, it was where we got our 1980s rugby shirts!

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Anonymous wrote:This made me nostalgic. i lived in Georgetown as a young 20 something person in the 1990s. I remember shopping at the Georgetown mall at Xmas, and it would be packed, with a quartet playing carols in the center. I saw Bill Clinton shopping there one year.

I remember taking my son there when he was little (early 2000s) and I remember wondering what happened -- why it was so empty. And then of course it closed.

I have all these memories of restaurants that no longer exist but were part of my young adulthood -- Georgetown Cafe (many late nights there), Hamburger Heaven, Something that was like White Castle (can't remember its name), Au pied de cochon.

And there was a great club there Champions.

Sigh.

White Castle was probably Little Tavern; on M west of Wisconsin.

Georgetown mall is still there. I think? It’s a huge hulking brick thing on M St. I last went there for bowling around the back side. Some $$$ place. Lucky strike? I remember ogling FAO Schwartz in there as a kid. Victoria’s Secret as a teen. And then there used to be a DMV there after the mall failed FOR A WHILE.

I have been to Georgetown this year to go to the movies, Lush, Sephora, and the Apple Store.

I used to go to Georgetown specifically for those three stores. Except now the only shop exclusive to Gtown is Lush.

Lush, which makes stinky, migraine-inducing junk, is in every mall in the area (and freestanding stores too). It’s not exclusive to Georgetown

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just don't understand how the Georgetown Mall has stayed empty for so many years. It was technically prime real estate back in the day. Now what are they going to do with all that empty space right in the middle of M Street?

I think they’ve expanded the parking into the bottom levels of the old mall. With the expansion of some of the stores on front and back, as well as the bowling place, I’m not sure how much vacant space is left inside.

For those of you not familiar, it was a big space that was accessed primarily from an entrance near Clyde’s. It went down 3-4 levels with a big atrium. Some stores on street level had entrances from inside and outside (like Clyde’s and JCrew). There was a food court on the bottom level. The mix of stores changed over the years but it was quite a shopping destination when it opened. Stores I loved included Britches, Liberty of London, Talbots (in its heyday), pappagallo, and so many more.

I worked at Britches of Georgetown. No one even remembers it now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just don't understand how the Georgetown Mall has stayed empty for so many years. It was technically prime real estate back in the day. Now what are they going to do with all that empty space right in the middle of M Street?

I think they’ve expanded the parking into the bottom levels of the old mall. With the expansion of some of the stores on front and back, as well as the bowling place, I’m not sure how much vacant space is left inside.

For those of you not familiar, it was a big space that was accessed primarily from an entrance near Clyde’s. It went down 3-4 levels with a big atrium. Some stores on street level had entrances from inside and outside (like Clyde’s and JCrew). There was a food court on the bottom level. The mix of stores changed over the years but it was quite a shopping destination when it opened. Stores I loved included Britches, Liberty of London, Talbots (in its heyday), pappagallo, and so many more.