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Old 01-25-2008, 11:04 PM
 
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its been years since i have visited san antonio when i lived in san antonio wonderland and northstar mall were my favorite malls i was sad when i heard wonderland had closed. does anyone what year it closed and why? and if anyone would have any photos i would really apperciate it.
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Old 01-25-2008, 11:11 PM
 
Location: San Antonio. Tx 78209
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Wonderland didn't close, it changed names to Crossroad of San Antonio.
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Old 01-26-2008, 01:01 AM
 
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yep still there and pretty much identical inside. yea some new paint and facades but same set up.

remember orange julius? i think it started there.
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Old 02-27-2009, 07:12 PM
 
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Default Wonderland Mall

I don't know when it closed. But I remember shopping
there. OUr mom would take us there to Monkey Wards and
Tandy. Boy memories of the good times.
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Old 02-27-2009, 09:28 PM
 
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It's just barely open now. Most of the smaller stores closed when Montgomery Wards closed a few years ago.
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Old 02-27-2009, 09:33 PM
 
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https://www.city-data.com/forum/san-a...ping-city.html
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Old 02-27-2009, 09:34 PM
 
Location: South Side
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Malls of America - Vintage photos of lost Shopping Malls of the '50s, '60s & '70s
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Old 03-27-2009, 09:42 PM
 
Location: Encino Park
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Yeah, it's not closed, but it did change it's name to Crossroads many years ago. That was my favorite place to go as a kid! I remember going to Handy Andy with my mom and they would give you a number off the back of your basket and you'd drive around to the side, show your number, and they'd come out and put your groceries in the car!

My fondest memories of Wonderland are the pond(s) that were in the middle - it was a covered area with benches and there was a pond. So cool! I also remember loving to ride the glass elevator at Rhodes.
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Old 03-28-2009, 12:13 AM
 
Location: I live south of San Antonio in a place called Atascosa.
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I grew up at Wonderland Mall. My oldest sister got married in the Town Hall right next to the Betty and Glenn dance studio. It was a computer place last time I was there. The problem I have with Mall's now is that everything is too expensive. Wonderland Mall used to have two five and dime stores, Woolworth and Winns. It had two record stores, Platter Palace and Record Town. It had a Pier one Imports and an Alwais Toy Box. Fun places to go that didn't cost a lot of money. I could get a KONO hit list at Platter Palace for FREE!. You could get current 45 RPM records for a dollar and older ones for fifty cents. Everything at the Mall's is too expensive now. Designer clothes, expensive Xbox games, over priced candy, Disney, Goth. The only thing I get now at the Mall is a slice of pizza--if you can find one. Times change, nothing you can do about it. I am not knocking it--it's ok. I think that as you get older everything changes and that makes it easier to give it up and move on.
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Old 03-28-2009, 12:25 AM
 
Location: I live south of San Antonio in a place called Atascosa.
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I think the only store that has been there from the begining is the Radio Shack store
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