The magic store from Mall 205 is a shot of life into its west concourse. These days, a few die-hards remain-Forever 21, living up to its going- nowhere moniker, stays strong with pillars like Orange Julius, Harry Ritchie’s Jewelers, Barnes & Noble, and somehow a wildly disproportionate number of game shops. Prepandemic plans for a concert venue and revamped cinema were ultimately abandoned. Over the years, this expanding shopping mecca housed Woolworth's, Naito Gifts, Morrow's Nut House, JC Penney, Meier & Frank, Nordstrom, Old Navy, Marshall’s, H&M, and a cinema.
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When it opened on August 1, 1960, to fanfare and free candy, the then open-air Lloyd Center mall was one of the largest urban shopping centers in the US. The first shopping center of its kind to include an ice rink (one of two local mall rinks that were swooshing grounds of disgraced Olympian Tonya Harding), and even entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1973 when it hosted the largest simultaneous chess tournament of its day. Lloyd Center (How the Mighty Have Fallen)īetween NE Multnomah & Halsey Streets, from Ninth to 15th Avenue, Portland
We don’t yet know what Marketplace 205 will bring us, but for those of us who’ve inevitably found ourselves there more often than we’d care to admit, it will always be Mall 205. Dining options, which include an Olive Garden, Red Robin, and Panda Express nearby, are slim. Now it's just a regular shopping center with big box stores Home Depot, Target, and Famous Footwear. On a visit shortly before the closure, “New Sensation” by INXS was blasting inside the mostly empty corridor, where a man sat at one of the tables downing a burger, and the magic shop was having a blowout sale inside what used to be Performance Bicycle. One of the last places that gave Mall 205 a modicum of character, the magic shop has since moved to Lloyd Center.
There was also a nail salon, an entrance to the 24 Hour Fitness, and All American Magic, a long-running magic theater and trick shop. Even before its interior section and food court closed in spring 2022, it was a virtual ghost town, most of its foot traffic credited to the DMV inside. Built over the site of the former Morningside Hospital-a psychiatric institution (with a questionable past) that, over six decades of operation, housed thousands of Alaskans and Alaska Natives deemed mentally ill-Mall 205 may have been doomed from the beginning. Though it now technically exists as “Marketplace 205,” Mall 205-yes, a mall named after a freeway-was Oregon’s first enclosed shopping center when it opened in 1970. Mall rats everywhere, read on for our reverse order ranking.
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