North Maple Mall (Chatham, Ontario)

Canada / Ontario / Chatham / Chatham, Ontario
 grocery / grocery store, shopping mall, Wal-mart, Loblaws
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Opened in 1973 as Chatham Place mall. Indoor shopping mall with 2 anchors; a Walmart at the south end and a Zehrs (or Loblaws) anchoring the north. There was also a coffee shop, pet store, lottery kiosk, and an RBC bank branch if memory serves. It's been about 5 years since I was here last. I think that Walmart was closing off the mall entrance - that's usually not a good thing for the smaller shops.
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Coordinates:   42°25'57"N   82°13'7"W

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  • Its now a big box strip mall. Walmart is in the north end and an Superstore grocery store is there. Also there are a Bank of Montreal, Marks Work Wearhouse, a Dollar store and a couple of other places too. Home Depot and Future Shop are across the street. There is also a Sports bar that only seems to cater to the Wrestling/kickboxing crowd.
  • There is also Burger King ,Tim Hortons, and a galaxy cinema across the street
  • It was actually a Woolco that was the anchor store. There were many stores in between Woolco and the grocery store which included a Jack Fraser and The Loft, a Belinda and Brother Shoe Store, gift stores, a jewellery store and Town and Country ladies wear store. There was a sunken area in front of the shoe store where a band played when the mall opened.
  • Woolco was the anchor at the south end. A Dominion grocery store (later Zehrs) anchored the north. Bank of Montreal was inside near Dominion. In addition to the stores listed above there was also a dry cleaner, a Leisure World hobby shop, Consumers Distributing, Reitmans, a pet store, and a record store.
  • Chatham Ex-Pat - I can remember those stores as a kid. If I recall correctly the woolco had a restaurant in the far side from entrance (not sure on the name) when Walmart took over they kept the macdonalds in same location until the big over haul Walmart did. The woolco also had a big tiger blanket on the wall nearest mall entrance. The blanket was like one of those old water bed type fury blankets. The pet store I remember had a big fish tank that you could look into from outside the store, remember that is where we bought our fish as kids and also our first family dog. I remember the record store and it might have been a Sam the record man though memory is little foggy. Consumers and leisure world hobby store were at the far end near the grocery store, which might have been an A&P, could be wrong as I was a kid. At this same end of the mall was a computer store and also a small arcade that only lasted a while possibly into late eighties or early nineties. Clothing stores I can't really remember as being a kid the only stores I wanted to hit were woolco toy section, pet store, leisure world, and the arcade...lol. I remember the middle section where things would be setup except the only thing I can recall is some sort of barrel suspended in the air that water was constantly coming out of, sort of a mini attraction. Be nice to see pictures and see if my childhood memories match after all these years. As a kid of the eighties this little mall was in my eyes better than the downtown Chatham centre mall. Now it is a big box plaza and nowhere the charm of the old north maple mall.
  • Don't forget the Vera Cruz Restaurant at north entrance to the mall
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