Carolina Circle Mall

[NCMike1981]

http://www.durhamareadesigners.com/pix.htm

pics of South Square Mall thanx to an outdated website....page 3 has the most actualy mall pics, the others are more neighborhood with mall in the background....I bet they didn't change the exterior of Dillards at all from it's M.W. era....

[StevenRocks]

I bet they didn't change the exterior of Dillards at all from it's M.W. era....

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Nope. The interior was very Ivey's and classic '80s, but the outside was bell-bottom bodacious.

[Roadgeek]

About a month or two ago, I dreamed there was a Montgomery Ward at some mall in Winston-Salem (Not Hanes Mall). That MW had the exact same architecture as Carolina Circle. I went into the closed Montgomery Ward. Very weird dream. Last night I dreamed about ccm. I dreamed that I found a lot of pictures of the inside of the mall while it was opened. In my dream, the carousel seemed more like one of those fast swinging rides at the fair's midway.

[ILoveCallingNCHome]

I have fond memories of going to CCM. I grew up >5 minutes from there. To see the mall being torn down as I've rode around it, really has gripped my heart and brought tears to my eyes, seriously.

[Roadgeek]

I have fond memories of going to CCM.  I grew up >5 minutes from there.  To see the mall being torn down as I've rode around it, really has gripped my heart and brought tears to my eyes, seriously.

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I live about 5-10 minutes from ccm. I used to go there regularly.

[mediamongrel]

Now you can go to the Wal Mart regularly. By the way, no one on this thread has said if they are actually going to remove the part of the mall that is below the ground level. If so, how would they do it? Isn't there like a stone fountain built into the ground level near Ward's? I guess maybe dynamite could be required at this stage of the demolition.

[Roadgeek]

Well, a few weeks ago I was able to see the inside of the mall near Wards from the parking lot and most of the the old decor are gpne. I might have been looking at the 2nd floor.

[mediamongrel]

yeah it's kind of odd how the land slopes. When you used to be able to drive Ring Rd. it didn't seem like it sloped that much, but if you stood over behind Montogomery Ward's near the old Merchandise pick up area you could really see the elevation difference drastically.

[StevenRocks]

The foundation of the old mall will be dug out and probably a lot of fill dirt will be added to the site to level it up enough for Wal-Mart.

[Roadgeek]

There was a map in the newspaper about a month ago of what ccm will look like after the construction of wal-mart. This might have changed since, but a road will run right through the middle of Carolina Circle.

[ILoveCallingNCHome]

There was a map in the newspaper about a month ago of what ccm will look like after the construction of wal-mart. This might have changed since, but a road will run right through the middle of Carolina Circle.

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That's hard to visualize

[ILoveCallingNCHome]

I live about 5-10 minutes from ccm. I used to go there regularly.

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I am in Gibsonville now, but my mother still lives in the same house I grew up in over there.

[Roadgeek]

I just thought of something. If everything goes as planned, the Wal-Mart will open in 2006 which will be 30 years since CCM opened. That will mean the ccm and Walmart will have a "6" birthday. Just wait, in 2018, a renovation will happen and there will be a carousel there and it will be torn down in 2035. Weird. It will have a similar age to ccm.

[mediamongrel]

Any updates on the giant entrance sign? Is it still there?

[Roadgeek]

AFAIK, it's still standing. Like I said, I hope they take the Pyramid's cover off of it soon. I need to take a picture of it in it's ccm clothing.

[mediamongrel]

I'm surprised no one has taken it off, considering Pyramids village is a totally different company and now that it's sold, they dont even own anything around there. The "Pyramids Village" idea was a short lived one. I remember in 2002 when they had plans to put a pool inside the Carolina Circle Mall and surround it with retail stores.

[Roadgeek]

That would have been nice. Keep the building, but have life inside.

[Roadgeek]

I rode past ccm today. If you are hating to see it go because it's very dear to you, now's the time to cry. Quite a lot is gone.

[ILoveCallingNCHome]

I rode past ccm today. If you are hating to see it go because it's very dear to you, now's the time to cry. Quite a lot is gone.

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I saw it saturday, took some pictures....Was for sure sad. I keep going back and forth between do I want to see it in rubble to wanting to pay my respects and think on all the time I spent there..

[Roadgeek]

With me, it's sort of a win-lose situation. I win a brand new Wal-Mart near my house to shop at, but lose the mall I've spent a lot of my life at.

[StevenRocks]

With me, it's sort of a win-lose situation. I win a brand new Wal-Mart near my house to shop at, but lose the mall I've spent a lot of my life at.

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The way it was going, you didn't really have a mall though. You had the shell of one, and a rapidly decaying one at that.

[ILoveCallingNCHome]

The way it was going, you didn't really have a mall though.

[Roadgeek]

What I meant was that all of my memories were in that building. My first computer was a Windows 95 Packard Bell. It was given away about 5 years ago so I had to get on ebay to get another one similar. Unfortunately I can't get on ebay to buy a new Carolina Circle Mall. It's just that was my favorite mall. Not too big and not too small. The last time I ever went into the center of the mall was in 2001. Only Montgomery Ward and some other store was opened. It freaked me out to see the entire food court gone. Especially my favorite restuarant Subs & Spuds. That mall was a part of me and the closed building was all I had left of a great mall. And I sure do hope that when the Wal-Mart is built that there will be remaining signs that a mall once stood there.

[Roadgeek]

What I meant was that all of my memories were in that building. My first computer was a Windows 95 Packard Bell. It was given away about 5 years ago so I had to get on ebay to get another one similar. Unfortunately I can't get on ebay to buy a new Carolina Circle Mall. It's just that was my favorite mall. Not too big and not too small. The last time I ever went into the center of the mall was in 2001. Only Montgomery Ward and some other store was opened. It freaked me out to see the entire food court gone. Especially my favorite restuarant Subs & Spuds. That mall was a part of me and the closed building was all I had left of a great mall. And I sure do hope that when the Wal-Mart is built that there will be remaining signs that a mall once stood there.

[mediamongrel]

What I meant was that all of my memories were in that building. My first computer was a Windows 95 Packard Bell. It was given away about 5 years ago so I had to get on ebay to get another one similar. Unfortunately I can't get on ebay to buy a new Carolina Circle Mall. It's just that was my favorite mall. Not too big and not too small. The last time I ever went into the center of the mall was in 2001. Only Montgomery Ward and some other store was opened. It freaked me out to see the entire food court gone. Especially my favorite restuarant Subs & Spuds. That mall was a part of me and the closed building was all I had left of a great mall. And I sure do hope that when the Wal-Mart is built that there will be remaining signs that a mall once stood there.

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What month and year was it when there was a time that you could get into the main mall area only by two entrances (Montogmery Ward and Dillard's Clearance Center?