Devonshire Mall – 1976

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• Miracle Mart, grocery and department stores where origanaly Steinburgs (remember the joint
  grocery,department store downtown, short life) The idea of grocery stores in malls (University mall Strinbergs,Tecumseh Mall Dominion and above mentioned DEvonshire Mall, sort of takes in all three Windsor malls.Miracle Mart,(Steinberg) Dominion Stores, where purchased in the eighties by A&P, now Metro.

• ~ The Miracle Mart grocery store at Devonshire, was always very busy. I guess I'm not the only one who thought it was a great idea.

• A story I heard about Miracle Mart at Devonshire Mall, and Dominion Store at Tecumseh Mall
  left after a deal with A&P the owners of these chains to move from the malls. I guess that the Miracle Mart at University was the main draw there, so it still remains as Metro.

• Anyone remember the old Shell gas station and car wash at the south end of the parking lot?

• Simon Suds

• I remember when I was little The Dilly Shop was where The Gap is now. At least I think it was in that spot. I do remember the cool Christmas displays!

• I use to remember when the mall had those fountains from almost every entrance back in the mid 90s. I always begged my parents for pennies and I would throw them into the fountains.

• I remember when the mall expanded it's first time, accomodating "Samco" and Simpson Sears. As a kid I climbed into the huge hole they excavated for Simpson Sears - got trapped inside and had no way of getting out until a racoon appeared. I sliced my hand, hurt my leg and bruised a few places trying to get out of there - lol

  The Dilly shop was cool! I happened to explain this past weekend, to my 20 year old daughter, that the wing where tim horton's is at use to be two restaraunt/bars. Steak n' Burger, Brew n' Burger. She didn't believe me when I told her the administration offices upstairs (nest to West 49) is where the public washrooms used to be.

• I thougt the present Sears store was part of the original mall, it is different from the rest because either Sears owned the building or had it built to their plans. This store was first labeled Simpson-Sears, later changed to Sears,you might be able to see the outline of the name on the Howard Av. wall.
  Simpsons was the addition that is now The Bay, thats probabily when the other store became Sears.
  Sears Robeck first got involed with Robert Simpson Co. in 1954 buying into the catalouge end of the company.

• For a while, you could still the scar of the Simpson's logo on the back-side of The Bay, but I think with the last addition around the GoodLife Fitness, it was covered up, I think.

  I wish there was more on the mall, and some kind of timeline. I remember those creepy statues in the food court, when I was a kid. They kinda scared me. I know they had the bench/garbage/planters for quite a while, because I distinctly remember them, and I was born in 1982. Devonshire had an auto scrolling slideshow with old pictures, about 6 months ago, but when I went to look again, shortly after, it was gone. I don't know why.

  I don't remember Miracle Mart, and A&P at the mall sounds only vaguely familiar, but I thought the area that has Chapters was new for Chapters. I kind of vaguely remember something about a movie theatre being there before the current one, but not sure. Where was it? I do recall the Art Gallery moving in, and I even went through it with my friends when it was there (they had a wooden pin-ball machine that still worked and took nickels). And I remember the Dairy Queen having an actual restaurant, I think where West 49* is now. I think it was a Burger King too, for a little bit, until that moved to what I thought was a newer section (now it's bathrooms and a sitting area). There's been so many changes that even I can remember (or just barely remember, or maybe they're false memories from reading things on here :D ) It would be really cool to have a timeline and floorplan looking through the years. Even though Devonshire Mall brought along the death knell to downtown shopping in Windsor.