Bremerton Mall/Wheaton Plaza, Part 2

When I filmed this, I took my mother with me. She remembers shopping here "in the old days." The backside of the mall scared her half to death.

This is East Bremerton's notorious "dead mall." Located on Wheaton Way, one of the busiest roads in Bremerton, this eyesore looks like something from Silent Hill or the Fallout game series. The backside of the building is the entrance to a tent city. Today, it's hard to imagine that this urban blight was ever a functioning shopping mall, but it was.

Shops that occupied space at the location were: Merit Mart/Value Giant, Volume Shoe Source, J. K. Gill, the Bank of Bremerton, a popcorn kiosk, Helen's Health Food store, a video arcade, a tire and lube shop, a gun shop, a furniture shop, Woggy's Magic Shop, Albertson's Grocery Store, a diner, Mum's Dry Cleaner, a salon (possibly Hair Crafters), Flowers to Go, Lamb's Office Supply, Pacific Fabrics, Total Video, and K-Mart. The restaurants in the parking lot were originally a Seasons and a Herfy's. There was also a Shell gas station in the parking lot at one point.

In the 1990s, the Value Giant half was occupied by Eagle Hardware and Garden. Eagle became a Lowe's, which moved down the street, leaving the building vacant. Today, the only functioning shops on the premises are a mortgage company, a Rite-Aid, and Pacific Fabrics. Pacific Fabrics and Rite-Aid plan to leave when their leases expire.

News story about Wheaton Plaza: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/may/16/with-kmart-gone-whats-the-future-fo...

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[zombienotld]

The Reynolds Recycling trailer was in the alley between the Albertsons and Hickory farms( which became Aimes SuperVidio) from 1981 to 1997. It is now at Walmart.

[zombienotld]

The Merit corporation own the land that Rite aid is on, which includes the property behind that is forested and borders Riddell rd. and Almira dr. From the alley between super vidio and the old Albertsons to the old K-mart is the Glant family property which includes aimes vidio and Pacific Fabrics. Rite-Aide signed a 50 year master lease back when this area Pre- Fred Meyer and Walmart was the center of the east side universe.

[koolperson1999]

I MISS KMART

[TheMangina]

In the intro, it was actually Ames Super Video when I was kid, and later on was a Total Video before they closed.