Maine Mall Alumni

Remember when the holiday season did not include getting accosted left and right by overzealous salespeople at kiosks who, if you politely decline to sample their cheap wares, playfully-but-actually-annoyingly tell you that you're breaking their hearts?

I realize this is for the Bangor Mall, but it's too good to not share.

Do you have any pictures of the Maine Mall from the 80s or 90s?

Bangor Mall Christmas Commercial - 1980s Bangor Mall Christmas sale commercial from 1986

Noooooooooooo!

And remember when you could get wasted *IN* the mall?

Thatcher's near the Maine Mall is set to close in April - Portland Press Herald Longtime restaurant owner Cynthia Boulay says she's paring down her business holdings, and will close Thatcher's on April 22 unless someone buys it.

Interview with Curtis Sweet of Big Time Airbrushing [Casco Bay Weekly, 11.22.89]

February 3, 2000 interview with then Maine Mall information desk staffer Victor Molina [Casco Bay Weekly]

1975.

An interview with Braeleen O'Brien (now Braeleen O'Brien Rosolino), owner of Brae's Meditation, a kiosk that used to be located near the center of the Mall (where customer service was once located).

Casco Bay Weekly, May 14, 1998

Anna Forcier at The Maine Mall [1989] by Tonee Harbert.

[By way of the Portland Public Library's Casco Bay Weekly archive]

1973

By way of the Portland Public Library + Portland Press Herald.

"A circa-1971 advertisement for MAINE MALL. The font used for the moniker was identical to that commissioned for BANGOR MALL, when it opened in 1978. "

By way of the Mall Hall of Fame

“I still remember the time my father took me for a ride on Payne Road past a pig farm in South Portland. He said to me, ‘There is going to be a mall there, and I said, Dad, what’s a mall?’ ” his son Robert J. Dunfey Jr. of Cape Elizabeth recalled Monday. The Maine Mall, which opened in 1971 with anchor stores Sears and Jordan Marsh, has become the largest shopping mall in Maine. It now features 119 stores.

Maine Mall founder Robert J. Dunfey Sr. dies at 88 - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram Dunfey also owned the former Eastland Hotel in Portland, and was a prominent supporter of Democratic politicians.

Where did you work and when?