Exploring Parma, OH - Ridge Road, the Old Parmatown Mall, and Other Memories (October 22, 2022)
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- This is a continuation of Part 1, which can be found here: • Exploring the Old Broo...
In Part 2, I begin at the intersection of Pearl Road and Ridge Road, and ride my bicycle down Ridge Road until I get to The Shoppes at Parma (formerly Parmatown Mall). I talked about a lot of memories, including the former Parma Movie Theater, what I remember of the mall, getting pizza at Antonio's, the Parma Library, and more. I also saw a 9/11 memorial that I didn't know was there.
That CVS was the old Parma Theatre . Gone. I lived on Farnsworth and St. Charles. Went to pre school at that church that had Taste of Italy . 😂 Also you missed a few key spots. Polish Village and used to be an old general store called J&Ms; turned into insurance or something years ago.
I wasn't from Parma, so I only knew some of the spots, so I like when someone like you can help point them out! I did catch that the CVS was the Parma Theater a few minutes after passing it, lol
Flower Rama was there as well
The theater was awsome they had a.. magic with in ...store next to theater wen i went to st charles we used to walk home my buddies and i would stop at north coast then magic with in ...goodtimes 🍻
Thanks for this video! I grew up there in the 80’s and 90’s. Great memories, and I kinda miss it out there. Ive been gone 25, 26 years and the holidays still dont feel right to me where im at or where ive been. Christmas lights on cacti is cool looking, but hurts like hell putting them up and taking them down 😂
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I hope you're able to come back and see the area some time in person 😊
These ”sodosopas” are so stupid. It’s essentially the mall, only flipped inside out and higher rates of parking lot accidents.
Yeah, at least with a place like Crocker Park in Ohio, or Station Park in Utah, the area was specifically designed for those shops and a walkability factor. With Parma, I agree, they basically just flipped the mall inside out, lol. Would it have been worth it to tear down all of Parmatown and rebuild from scratch? Probably not from a $ persepctive. Westgate sort of rebuilt from scratch a long time ago, but isn't so walkable.
i think Fast Eddies was the TGI Fridays, and that was the entrance with the food court area.
This is the type of time where I'd love to find time to develop a Poko Traveler blog. My vision in the past was not only to shoot these videos, but also write some articles where I could compare the before-and-after through various pictures.
PARMA: White socks, pink flamingos and a mayor that passed up a White House dinner invitation because it was his bowling night.😂
The Parma theater that they tore down was that snow in Ridge where that CVS is built
I remember when Franklin ice cream was in Parmatown it was where the is
You are correct when you say the Shoppers World is the original JC Penny location, I think it's the last remaining part of the old mall still intact, except some walls and beams retained on the east part of the new plaza (adjacent to Fast Eddie's). There was a Higbee's (later Dillard's) where Wal-Mart stands now but that was demolished a while before the mall - back around 2003-4. There was also a May Company/Macy's that was demoed along with the rest of the mall, it went out of business around 2012 and stood empty the last few years. The fire department used it for some training toward the end. th-cam.com/video/0xwCGRhqacw/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for all the other context of the department stores! I had a stray Parma mall memory this morning too; it was about Franco America Sonic the Hedgehog pasta cans. The labels on the cans used to have something you could redeem for free tokens at the arcade that was at the mall (and probably at other malls too; but Parma is where my memory of it was at).
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What you referred to as the Parma parks and rec dept., and was once the library was once Royal Ridge elementary school. I went there from kindergarten to sixth grade. 1967 to 74… The parking lot in the back was a playground for recess…Lived on Westminster Dr. about a block and a half from the mall …Fond memories…
Wow, how different this area looks today. We lived in Seven Hills from 1970-2005. Parmatown was my mall in the 70’s-90’s. Loved spending the day at Higbees, Mays, Penneys and many small stores like Winkelmans. Always got a big slice of pizza from Antonio’s in the food court. What a great place to shop. Trivia….I was shopping in Higbees basement when the space shuttle Challenger exploded.
Very different today indeed; but it does still seem to be thriving in its modern form, similar to Westgate. North Olmsted and Strongsville are the West Side malls that survived.
Looks like Parma Theatre was demolished, and that CVS is there now. I think you subconsciously remembered the location, since you were talking about it, while riding past.
Oops, you looked it up minute later, haha
Haha, indeed.
Oh, they tore the Parma show down here on the right hand side where that CVS is
What used to be the Parma Library on Ridge Road, was originally Royal Ridge Elementary . . . grades 1-6.
St Charles on the left-hand side
Interesting video. My mother was the branch manager at Parma Snow library in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Nice, always fun hearing about more NE Ohio roots! I don't think I've ever been to the Parma-Snow location, it didn't look familiar when I just checked on Google Maps. The one I showed in the video, I felt like we'd go there at least a handful of times every year. For the Cuyahoga Branches, it would either be Brooklyn or that Parma one.
I Lived on Ridge Road a few blocks from Parma town mall!! oh my gosh!!!
Me too 🤪
Hey I'm there
Used to live on Ridge Rd across from what was Parma elem is the building still there,?
I'm not sure. I looked at Google Maps, and on Ridge Road, I see a Bethany Lutheran School (preschool through eighth grade) that is on Ridge Road. If you know your old address, look it up on Google Maps (street view), and check across the street to see if a school is still there.
Lots of car dealers in that neighborhood. Mufflers for less are the best around ! Very nice people
I haven't visited there in a bit, but I love that dog!!! So friendly. Used to be there every time
oh my Gosh, I’ve gotten strudel at Rudy’s!! still there wow
Rudy's is one of those places that just stands out, lol, even the signage outside as a little kid left an impression on me.
I live in Parma in the late 90’s early 00’s before moving to Florida. I miss it so much. Such a great place to live. I’d love to move back someday. This feels like home to me.
before it was a library it was royal ridge elementary school
The small Polish diner just prior to Snow Road. I work there at the age of 15 as a dish washer. The name of the diner was Elgins.
Thank you for sharing. I grew up near Parmatown in the 70s and 80s. This brought so many great memories.
Great video, very beautiful ＋👍🔔
Chuckie cheese still there from when I went In 2000.
I grew up in the house where they put the Dunkin’ donuts sad to see it gone
Antonio's at 30:45 has closed recently and unexpectedly. No word on why but it was family owned, so something may have happened to one of the family owners. They had good pizza and Italian food.
Yes. The owner sadly passed. There's been talking of reopening though, although it's said to be just a little different.
the water is still there. i grew up on york near there. many many many memories. are you familiar with church in the woods?
No, I haven't heard of church in the woods; what is it?
I grew up in Parma in the 60's and 70's. Looks nothing like the town I grew up in. I miss all the things living in Parma brought. Big Chuck and Hoolihan, The Ghoul and froggy. The Polish Falcons and seven hills lanes where I spent a lot of my free time. Wish I could time travel back to that time. I miss it.
I was a '70s grade-school kid, moving away by the end of the '80s. Yeah, lots has changed but...time waits for no man...
it's definitely nice to go down memory lane on the good times. I was wondering though, after you ran for the plates and napkins as your brother stood there 😆, did you catch anything & did y'all use them?
Haha, in my head, I feel like I caught/pinned down a couple napkins or plates. But I doubt we ended up using them since they'd been on the ground where all the birds regularly walk/poop, lol.
@@PokoTraveler 😆 Ikr, and as child and even other children might have ran for them too. But yeah, I agree.
I never realized how beautiful Cleveland's surrounding suburbs are. Unfortunately, I rarely had an opportunity of having a ride to see the Fall colors.
saw dumb and dumber when it came out at parma theatre
Going to Parma soon.