tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238726710438485553.post8269517300391659072..comments2017-01-10T08:17:05.410-08:00Comments on Hal... In Philly: Neshaminy Mall - RevisitedHalinphillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11317460079561638824noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238726710438485553.post-84930345797785645182017-01-10T08:17:05.410-08:002017-01-10T08:17:05.410-08:00Dear Unknown,
This is such a great story and I...Dear Unknown,<br /><br />This is such a great story and I'm so happy you took the time to post it here. If you wouldn't mind, please contact me personally by email. I have a few questions I'd like to ask if you wouldn't mind.<br /><br />Thanks!<br />Hal<br />halinphilly@gmail.comHalinphillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11317460079561638824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238726710438485553.post-74185581498492208172017-01-10T08:11:00.961-08:002017-01-10T08:11:00.961-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Halinphillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11317460079561638824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238726710438485553.post-66541325108083965662017-01-10T05:00:24.941-08:002017-01-10T05:00:24.941-08:00Just after the mall opened in '68 (a year of p...Just after the mall opened in '68 (a year of political turmoil if there ever was one) I was in the seventh grade at a Catholic school in Penndel, Pennsylvania. One of the good sisters at the school assigned an essay to our class with the long-winded title; 'The Historical Wall at the Neshaminy Mall Fascinates Me'. I suspect now that upon seeing this for herself that Sister Francine Marie was gripped by the scope and novelty of the display. I can, in memory, actually hear the sister's voice as she drawled-out that title; this is going on forty-nine years soon. <br /><br />The 'Wall' was of course in fine shape and working order when it first opened. There must have been proximity sensors built-in to these dioramas as they'd come to life when you'd get close to them. Just to the right and above the display was Strawbridge and Clothier's restaurant which offered a view of the mall as you'd have lunch or dinner; I can't say if breakfast was ever featured there but I did eat at this restaurant many times with family and friends in the afternoon and evening over the years. <br /><br />It was a practice of parents, even back in '69-'70 to drop-off their 13 and 14 year-olds to meet-up with school and neighborhood chums and then 'respectfully' tour the mall in groups as big as a dozen or so. I'd be hard-pressed to recall a time when any of these groups caused a disturbance 'back-in-the-day' as the current, popular idiom would have it. We were just too well brought up I'd venture to say. <br /><br />At the Neshaminy Mall's Premiere Theater, opposite the end where Strawbridge's existed, we saw Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif; the girls in our group swooned at each appearance of Omar Sharif while we boys admired Barbra's ample assets tastefully on display. In this setting is where I had my first kiss with my 8th grade (me) inamorata; she was an 'older woman' of the 9th grade vintage. Afterward, I never again washed or wore that shirt which I had on that afternoon as it smelled like my then-girlfriend's perfume, Heaven Scent. Good times, great memories all wrapped-up in that still-standing edifice there on that hill and opened in 1968. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13337838115823486943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238726710438485553.post-1977230524956270752017-01-10T04:51:03.562-08:002017-01-10T04:51:03.562-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13337838115823486943noreply@blogger.com