Well, just like in October 2005, Carolina Circle City (and now Home of Carolina Circle Mall) was featured in the Greensboro News & Record today.
I received an email Tuesday morning asking me if I wanted to do an interview. I said sure. I was interviewed over the phone Tuesday afternoon. Then Wednesday, a photo journalist came by my house to take various pictures of me and my Carolina Circle Mall related items.
Thank you Greensboro News & Record for all you have done.
You can read the article here.
Showing posts with label Memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memories. Show all posts
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Monday, August 11, 2008
A Guy & His Mall
Ever wondered why I love Carolina Circle Mall so much? Find out at the new Home of Carolina Circle Mall section titled "A Boy & His Mall". Don't worry, it doesn't get too personal.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Interview with Billy Coore
Back in October 2005, I interviewed myself about my various opinions and memories of Carolina Circle Mall. Well, I thought I would do it again.
Question: What's your earliest memory of Carolina Circle Mall?
Answer: Well, I have so many. I'd say it would be the Carousel. As you know, the Carousel is what turned me onto Carolina Circle Mall in the first place.
Question: Why do you have a blog and website about Carolina Circle Mall?
Answer: Basically, I believe in this simple philosophy. Carolina Circle Mall had a very interesting life that was unfortunately cut short. Because it's already been 6 years since it closed and almost 3 years since it was demolished, I'm trying to prevent the world from forgetting about the mall's greatness and legacy.
Question: What is your opinion on Four Seasons Town Centre?
Answer: Alright, I'm sorry to say that I don't really like it. Ever since I was little, I've never seen anything that makes it distinctive other than three floors.
Question: What made you interested in lost retail?
Answer: I'm not sure what it was. I remember being curious about what places used to be since I was at least 3 or 4. I would always ask my dad things like "What did that building used to be?". It was through those questions that I found out that Carolina Circle Mall used to actually have an Ice Rink. I remember one time when I was about 5 years old, I was eating lunch at Carolina Circle Mall's food court and I kept on looking at the Carousel and trying to find scuff marks on the floor that the Ice Rink left.
Question: When are you going to stop blogging about Carolina Circle Mall?
Answer: When they pry the computer keyboard from my cold dead hands!!! Seriously, I don't see stopping any time soon. I've had Carolina Circle City since 2005 and Home of Carolina Circle Mall since 2007 and sure, they've seen better days. But I am giving it a lot of patience. These two websites will rise and they will thrive sooner or later.
Well, that's all for now. If anyone has any questions you would like to ask me, feel free to ask them. I don't bite... hard.
Question: What's your earliest memory of Carolina Circle Mall?
Answer: Well, I have so many. I'd say it would be the Carousel. As you know, the Carousel is what turned me onto Carolina Circle Mall in the first place.
Question: Why do you have a blog and website about Carolina Circle Mall?
Answer: Basically, I believe in this simple philosophy. Carolina Circle Mall had a very interesting life that was unfortunately cut short. Because it's already been 6 years since it closed and almost 3 years since it was demolished, I'm trying to prevent the world from forgetting about the mall's greatness and legacy.
Question: What is your opinion on Four Seasons Town Centre?
Answer: Alright, I'm sorry to say that I don't really like it. Ever since I was little, I've never seen anything that makes it distinctive other than three floors.
Question: What made you interested in lost retail?
Answer: I'm not sure what it was. I remember being curious about what places used to be since I was at least 3 or 4. I would always ask my dad things like "What did that building used to be?". It was through those questions that I found out that Carolina Circle Mall used to actually have an Ice Rink. I remember one time when I was about 5 years old, I was eating lunch at Carolina Circle Mall's food court and I kept on looking at the Carousel and trying to find scuff marks on the floor that the Ice Rink left.
Question: When are you going to stop blogging about Carolina Circle Mall?
Answer: When they pry the computer keyboard from my cold dead hands!!! Seriously, I don't see stopping any time soon. I've had Carolina Circle City since 2005 and Home of Carolina Circle Mall since 2007 and sure, they've seen better days. But I am giving it a lot of patience. These two websites will rise and they will thrive sooner or later.
Well, that's all for now. If anyone has any questions you would like to ask me, feel free to ask them. I don't bite... hard.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Pinpointing the Carousel Removal Date
Ever since I started my research on Carolina Circle Mall back in 2005, I've discovered something pretty hard to research.
For some reason, I can not find the date the Carousel was removed. But here are some clues I've come across.
Obviously, the Carousel existed all of 1995 because I remember riding it thoroughly throughout that year. Also, an editorial article in the Greensboro News & Record from January 1996 states that a daycare visited the mall Christmas 1995 and mentions the kids riding the Carousel.
I really want to say that the Carousel was still there most of 1996. However, by the second half of 1996 is where it starts getting confusing. My personal memories sort of backlash around this point because it seems like I may remember riding it around that time, however this seems like around the same time the Carousel was removed.
Unfortunately, I have found no newspaper articles relating to this event. So I always simply assume that the Carousel was removed in either late 1996 or early 1997. Any thoughts?
For some reason, I can not find the date the Carousel was removed. But here are some clues I've come across.
Obviously, the Carousel existed all of 1995 because I remember riding it thoroughly throughout that year. Also, an editorial article in the Greensboro News & Record from January 1996 states that a daycare visited the mall Christmas 1995 and mentions the kids riding the Carousel.
I really want to say that the Carousel was still there most of 1996. However, by the second half of 1996 is where it starts getting confusing. My personal memories sort of backlash around this point because it seems like I may remember riding it around that time, however this seems like around the same time the Carousel was removed.
Unfortunately, I have found no newspaper articles relating to this event. So I always simply assume that the Carousel was removed in either late 1996 or early 1997. Any thoughts?
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Fromer Misconceptions of Carolina Circle Mall
I had a few flashbacks today of the craziest misconceptions I had about Carolina Circle Mall when I was younger.
- I used to think that the mall had always had the Carousel Era configuration.
- I used to think that the Ice Chalet was in the exact location of the carousel and was enclosed with a dome.
- I used to think the mall opened in 1978.
- I used to think the mall always had a food court.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Mall is Gone... but Never Forgotten
I was doing yet another Carolina Circle Mall Google search a moment ago and came across a little poem written by someone dealing with the Ice Rink Era.
There are two things that really stick out to me in this poem. The writer does not seem to show any hatred to the Carousel Era even though this deals with the Ice Rink Era. Secondly, this poem is a reminder that Carolina Circle Mall was a very special mall that catered to children of the '70s, '80s, and '90s.
You can read it here.
There are two things that really stick out to me in this poem. The writer does not seem to show any hatred to the Carousel Era even though this deals with the Ice Rink Era. Secondly, this poem is a reminder that Carolina Circle Mall was a very special mall that catered to children of the '70s, '80s, and '90s.
You can read it here.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Carolina Circle Mall: A View from Billy Coore
I thought I'd entertain everyone tonight with my story about how I became a Circle Lover.
My first ever trip to Carolina Circle Mall probably happened sometime around 1990. Unfortunately, I obviously missed the ice rink era, but I was around for the just as wonderful carousel era.
I was about 1 year old the first time I rode the carousel. That was probably around the same time Carolina Circle Mall became my favorite place. That proves it. I've been a fan of Carolina Circle Mall since I was in diapers!
As I matured, I started liking other aspects of the mall. One of my earliest memories of the mall dates back to 1992 or 1993. I remember going to a toy store across from the food court. I think that was what was called K&K Toys. But that was very early in my life, and it closed before I could have fonder memories.
An old home video of me at age 3 from February 27, 1993 shows my parents asking me where I wanted to go. I respond with "Carolina Circle". Nowadays, whenever I show that video to someone, I tell them it was a lost commercial for Carolina Circle from 1993.
1994 & 1995 are my two favorite years of Carolina Circle. I was old enough to soak in most of what the mall had to offer, yet young enough to just be a kid. Also, 1994 & 1995 were two of the greatest years for the mall in the carousel era. It still had its luster, business, the carousel was doing great, etc. My best years of my Carolina Circle life happened then. I'd eat at Carolina Deli (Became Subs & Spuds sometime in 1995), and then ride the carousel. I'd ocossionally get some ice cream from Monk's. Then, a ride on the carousel.
On August 23, 1995, I began kindergarten. Unfortunately, that sort of cut down on my trips to Carolina Circle. However, I'd go and check out the Toys 'R' Us across the street from the mall everyday after school. And on weekends, we'd usually head out to the mall and enjoy ourselves.
Around 1996 was when I started noticing that the mall wasn't doing so well. It was around that time that the carousel was removed. On the day of my first trip to the mall without the carousel, I locked myself in the bathroom at home to keep myself from going there. I eventually gave in. We got to the mall and descended the escalator outside of Belk. Man, that food court looked weird without a carousel. I recovered and Carolina Circle soon became my favorite mall again.
Trips to the mall became much less frequent in the late '90s. In fact, I don't remember going to the mall between 1998 and 2001 except for frequent Montgomery Ward trips.
In 3rd grade (1998-1999), I met a girl who soon became a friend of mine. One of the things we had in common was that we both were fans of Carolina Circle. She told me that one day she went there to cash in her tickets from the food court arcade, but the arcade was gone.
Here's what happened on my very last trip through the mall corridor. It was on a Saturday in March of 2001. We went to Montgomery Ward and decided to check out what else was open at the mall. The mall was definately in its death bed at that point. Only Montgomery Ward and some other store was open. I thought surely that my beloved Subs & Spuds would still be open. But, it wasn't. Most of the mall was abandoned. There was only one other family walking through there. I overheard the mom say that there really wasn't much in there. She was dead right. That was one of the days when I really wished I had a camera phone. But they hadn't been invented yet.
Soon after that, the mall corridor was shut down leaving Montgomery Ward as the only part of the mall available for shopping. I never went through the corridor ever again.
Around the same time, Montgomery Ward decided they were going to call it quits nationwide. We bought all kinds of goodies during their going out of business sale.
My very last trip to the mall happened in very early 2002. Montgomery Ward had shut down the first floor and had everything smushed together in the furniture section on the second floor. I remember seeing a circa 1980's Montgomery Ward Color TV for sale. Now I wish I bought it for some nostalgia.
The mall then closed. Several months after that, the Carolina Flea Market opened on the second floor of Belk. The only reason I went there was to look through the old mall entrance and see the corridor in all its lime green glory. Once again, I wish I had a camera. I quit going when they covered it up with a big black tarp.
After that, my interest in the mall sort of wanned. It was still my favorite mall, but I didn't care much for it. I spent most of my time with my growing interest in roads.
On February 21, 2005, I decided to head out to the defunct mall and take some pictures. That was the trip when my younger self inside of me kicked in. We pulled the car up to the old main entrance. The huge lime green arch had been removed a couple of years before. From the passenger seat of the car, I was able to see the inside of the dead mall. The railings were there, the lime green wallpaper was there, and much more.
The next day at Pendle Hill Christian School, my teacher turned the radio onto 99.5 WMAG. They started playing Two Hearts by Phil Collins, the song they always played at Carolina Circle. At that moment during language arts class, a revelation hit me. It hurt too. I know, bad joke. Anyway, a voice inside my head told me that there was an old mall out there full of my memories. At that moment, I became a die hard fan of Carolina Circle Mall.
That same night, I got on the Internet and did a search on Carolina Circle Mall. I came across some recent interior pictures via the now defunct Post Apocalyptic Mall of Doom website. That was the first time I had gotten a good look at the mall's interior in several years.
I found an awesome picture of the carousel taken in the early '90s on the Internet on March 17, 2005. That is still my number one picture of the mall.
Several events transpired after that including dealing with the demolition of the mall. I predicted that I would be sent into a deep depression. Fortunately, I actually took it rather well.
In September of 2005, I started this blog Carolina Circle City. That resulted in being interviewed with the paper a month later. Many other people who grew up at that mall had the same revelation as me. People who skated the ice rink, rode the carousel, saw many a movie at the Circle 6 Theatres, and bought great things at the mall have been sending me emails ever since then with their memories.
So you see folks, a nice hunk of my childhood took place at Carolina Circle Mall. Particularly the carousel. Ever since I was a baby, I've been a die hard fan of Carolina Circle Mall. If you are a Circle Lover like me, I urge you to think back to the good old days of the mall. Back when the ice rink was king or when the carousel was king. I'm sure you'll find as many great memories as I have.
I salute you, Carolina Circle Mall!
My first ever trip to Carolina Circle Mall probably happened sometime around 1990. Unfortunately, I obviously missed the ice rink era, but I was around for the just as wonderful carousel era.
I was about 1 year old the first time I rode the carousel. That was probably around the same time Carolina Circle Mall became my favorite place. That proves it. I've been a fan of Carolina Circle Mall since I was in diapers!
As I matured, I started liking other aspects of the mall. One of my earliest memories of the mall dates back to 1992 or 1993. I remember going to a toy store across from the food court. I think that was what was called K&K Toys. But that was very early in my life, and it closed before I could have fonder memories.
An old home video of me at age 3 from February 27, 1993 shows my parents asking me where I wanted to go. I respond with "Carolina Circle". Nowadays, whenever I show that video to someone, I tell them it was a lost commercial for Carolina Circle from 1993.
1994 & 1995 are my two favorite years of Carolina Circle. I was old enough to soak in most of what the mall had to offer, yet young enough to just be a kid. Also, 1994 & 1995 were two of the greatest years for the mall in the carousel era. It still had its luster, business, the carousel was doing great, etc. My best years of my Carolina Circle life happened then. I'd eat at Carolina Deli (Became Subs & Spuds sometime in 1995), and then ride the carousel. I'd ocossionally get some ice cream from Monk's. Then, a ride on the carousel.
On August 23, 1995, I began kindergarten. Unfortunately, that sort of cut down on my trips to Carolina Circle. However, I'd go and check out the Toys 'R' Us across the street from the mall everyday after school. And on weekends, we'd usually head out to the mall and enjoy ourselves.
Around 1996 was when I started noticing that the mall wasn't doing so well. It was around that time that the carousel was removed. On the day of my first trip to the mall without the carousel, I locked myself in the bathroom at home to keep myself from going there. I eventually gave in. We got to the mall and descended the escalator outside of Belk. Man, that food court looked weird without a carousel. I recovered and Carolina Circle soon became my favorite mall again.
Trips to the mall became much less frequent in the late '90s. In fact, I don't remember going to the mall between 1998 and 2001 except for frequent Montgomery Ward trips.
In 3rd grade (1998-1999), I met a girl who soon became a friend of mine. One of the things we had in common was that we both were fans of Carolina Circle. She told me that one day she went there to cash in her tickets from the food court arcade, but the arcade was gone.
Here's what happened on my very last trip through the mall corridor. It was on a Saturday in March of 2001. We went to Montgomery Ward and decided to check out what else was open at the mall. The mall was definately in its death bed at that point. Only Montgomery Ward and some other store was open. I thought surely that my beloved Subs & Spuds would still be open. But, it wasn't. Most of the mall was abandoned. There was only one other family walking through there. I overheard the mom say that there really wasn't much in there. She was dead right. That was one of the days when I really wished I had a camera phone. But they hadn't been invented yet.
Soon after that, the mall corridor was shut down leaving Montgomery Ward as the only part of the mall available for shopping. I never went through the corridor ever again.
Around the same time, Montgomery Ward decided they were going to call it quits nationwide. We bought all kinds of goodies during their going out of business sale.
My very last trip to the mall happened in very early 2002. Montgomery Ward had shut down the first floor and had everything smushed together in the furniture section on the second floor. I remember seeing a circa 1980's Montgomery Ward Color TV for sale. Now I wish I bought it for some nostalgia.
The mall then closed. Several months after that, the Carolina Flea Market opened on the second floor of Belk. The only reason I went there was to look through the old mall entrance and see the corridor in all its lime green glory. Once again, I wish I had a camera. I quit going when they covered it up with a big black tarp.
After that, my interest in the mall sort of wanned. It was still my favorite mall, but I didn't care much for it. I spent most of my time with my growing interest in roads.
On February 21, 2005, I decided to head out to the defunct mall and take some pictures. That was the trip when my younger self inside of me kicked in. We pulled the car up to the old main entrance. The huge lime green arch had been removed a couple of years before. From the passenger seat of the car, I was able to see the inside of the dead mall. The railings were there, the lime green wallpaper was there, and much more.
The next day at Pendle Hill Christian School, my teacher turned the radio onto 99.5 WMAG. They started playing Two Hearts by Phil Collins, the song they always played at Carolina Circle. At that moment during language arts class, a revelation hit me. It hurt too. I know, bad joke. Anyway, a voice inside my head told me that there was an old mall out there full of my memories. At that moment, I became a die hard fan of Carolina Circle Mall.
That same night, I got on the Internet and did a search on Carolina Circle Mall. I came across some recent interior pictures via the now defunct Post Apocalyptic Mall of Doom website. That was the first time I had gotten a good look at the mall's interior in several years.
I found an awesome picture of the carousel taken in the early '90s on the Internet on March 17, 2005. That is still my number one picture of the mall.
Several events transpired after that including dealing with the demolition of the mall. I predicted that I would be sent into a deep depression. Fortunately, I actually took it rather well.
In September of 2005, I started this blog Carolina Circle City. That resulted in being interviewed with the paper a month later. Many other people who grew up at that mall had the same revelation as me. People who skated the ice rink, rode the carousel, saw many a movie at the Circle 6 Theatres, and bought great things at the mall have been sending me emails ever since then with their memories.
So you see folks, a nice hunk of my childhood took place at Carolina Circle Mall. Particularly the carousel. Ever since I was a baby, I've been a die hard fan of Carolina Circle Mall. If you are a Circle Lover like me, I urge you to think back to the good old days of the mall. Back when the ice rink was king or when the carousel was king. I'm sure you'll find as many great memories as I have.
I salute you, Carolina Circle Mall!
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Carolina Circle Tunes 2006
Last year, I posted a list of songs that remind me of Carolina Circle Mall. Well, I'm going to do a sequel to last year's list with 5 more songs that remind me of Carolina Circle Mall.
5. Monday Monday by the Mamas & the Papas. Back around 1994, I bought a Mamas & the Papas audio cassette at the mall's Camelot Music. One of my favorites was Monday Monday. So that song and other Mamas & the Papas songs qualify as Carolina Circle Tunes.
4. Together Forever by Rick Astley. If my calculations are correct, this was one of the number one songs in America in June 1988. That was the month Carolina Circle Mall finished its renovation and opened its carousel. Also, I believe I heard that song being played a few times at the mall.
3. The Motown Song by Rod Stewart. This song always reminds me of vintage retail and I remember hearing it being played at Carolina Circle Mall (Mainly Montgomery Ward).
2. Hotel California by the Eagles and other Eagles songs. I used to love the Eagles when I was little and I'd always listen to it on the way to the mall.
1. Puff (The Magic Dragon) by Peter, Paul & Mary and other of their music. Like the Eagles, I loved Peter, Paul & Mary and would always listen to them on the way to the mall.
That's all I can think of for now.
5. Monday Monday by the Mamas & the Papas. Back around 1994, I bought a Mamas & the Papas audio cassette at the mall's Camelot Music. One of my favorites was Monday Monday. So that song and other Mamas & the Papas songs qualify as Carolina Circle Tunes.
4. Together Forever by Rick Astley. If my calculations are correct, this was one of the number one songs in America in June 1988. That was the month Carolina Circle Mall finished its renovation and opened its carousel. Also, I believe I heard that song being played a few times at the mall.
3. The Motown Song by Rod Stewart. This song always reminds me of vintage retail and I remember hearing it being played at Carolina Circle Mall (Mainly Montgomery Ward).
2. Hotel California by the Eagles and other Eagles songs. I used to love the Eagles when I was little and I'd always listen to it on the way to the mall.
1. Puff (The Magic Dragon) by Peter, Paul & Mary and other of their music. Like the Eagles, I loved Peter, Paul & Mary and would always listen to them on the way to the mall.
That's all I can think of for now.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Memories Make the Mall
I'd like to share a memory someone named "David" posted at Remembering Carolina Circle Mall. I think it sums up everything Carolina Circle Mall/City stands for.
"I have a lot of memories at the mall and it had it's own special energies and personality. Times spent and friends and decades no longer alive. Happy times when things were simpler.The beauty of watching skaters among the lit rink trees during my first kiss from the second story of the restaurant (Annabelles?) or the same love I shared with many of the magnificent carousel. The haunted house the drama department at Southeast hosted in the closed steak house with my friends who are no longer with me.Seeing Spiderman (his first go around)not long after the opening of the mall.Tons of movies at the theatre.The sound of birds and the occasional glimpse of deer (see opening of mall history for irony of that one.)The moon overhead while the mall was quiet in the countryside (try that at Four Seasons). I miss my old friend and apparently from all of the posts and emotional recollections from everyone here. It wasn't "just a mall" to any of you either-but a place for kind memories. Thank you for all the work you have done on this very touching (and very funny) sight. It's good to know others out there had the same dream I did."
Well David, I'd like to commend you on your thoughts. I've always believed in this theory. Your past is a very cherished thing. In my life, one of the biggest parts of my past is Carolina Circle Mall. All of the rides on the carousel, all the tapes I bought at Camelot Music, all of the cool stuff I found at Montgomery Ward, great food, etc. David is right. Carolina Circle Mall was more than a mall. It's a mall full of cherished memories.
"I have a lot of memories at the mall and it had it's own special energies and personality. Times spent and friends and decades no longer alive. Happy times when things were simpler.The beauty of watching skaters among the lit rink trees during my first kiss from the second story of the restaurant (Annabelles?) or the same love I shared with many of the magnificent carousel. The haunted house the drama department at Southeast hosted in the closed steak house with my friends who are no longer with me.Seeing Spiderman (his first go around)not long after the opening of the mall.Tons of movies at the theatre.The sound of birds and the occasional glimpse of deer (see opening of mall history for irony of that one.)The moon overhead while the mall was quiet in the countryside (try that at Four Seasons). I miss my old friend and apparently from all of the posts and emotional recollections from everyone here. It wasn't "just a mall" to any of you either-but a place for kind memories. Thank you for all the work you have done on this very touching (and very funny) sight. It's good to know others out there had the same dream I did."
Well David, I'd like to commend you on your thoughts. I've always believed in this theory. Your past is a very cherished thing. In my life, one of the biggest parts of my past is Carolina Circle Mall. All of the rides on the carousel, all the tapes I bought at Camelot Music, all of the cool stuff I found at Montgomery Ward, great food, etc. David is right. Carolina Circle Mall was more than a mall. It's a mall full of cherished memories.
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Remembering Carolina Circle Mall
I got an e-mail from someone suggesting that I should add a special feature on this blog allowing people to share their memories of Carolina Circle Mall. I will do just that.
You can now comment on your memories of the mall via this post. To keep it on top, I'll add a link to this post on the sidebar.
You can now comment on your memories of the mall via this post. To keep it on top, I'll add a link to this post on the sidebar.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Carolina Circle Tunes
Music fills in everything. Music has added the seasoning to my road trips. But it also adds the seasoning to Carolina Circle Mall. Carolina Circle has a variety of music stylings much like road music. Probably the artist that really reminds me of Carolina Circle would probably be Phil Collins. They would always play his music at a lot of stores at that mall like at Montgomery Ward.
The Back to the Future the Second Trilogy (Official Roadgeek and Carolina Circle Movie), has the mother load of Carolina Circle scenes. Every movie has a soundtrack and recently I have discovered some new Carolina Circle Tunes.
Time for a top 5 countdown:
5. Lightning Strikes by Lou Christie. For some reason that song reminds me a lot of Carolina Circle's early years before it was renovated. Even though I haven't witnessed the pre-renovation Carolina Circle, that song mixes well with the pictures of the mall in 1976.
4. Vacation by The Go-Go's. That song reminds me of the carousel. Even though the carousel wasn't there when the song was released in 1982, the song is very 80's and the design at the time of the carousel was as well very 80's.
3: Baby Come Back by UB40. This song is straight from the Back to the Future the Second Soundtrack. Although I've never heard it at the mall, I now consider it a Carolina Circle Tune because of the movie.
2. One More Night by Phil Collins. That song would always play on the car radio coming back from Winston-Salem on Wednesday night. Seeing the neon red main entrance arch with One More Night playing on the radio. Even though on Wednesdays I always went to Hanes Mall and not Carolina Circle.
1. Two Hearts by Phil Collins. Nothing says Carolina Circle Mall better than this song. That song would be played a lot at Montgomery Ward. With that being my favorite store at the mall and having a place in my heart for the mall, that song reminds me of two things: Carolina Circle Mall and driving to North Myrtle Beach on my 2005 Beach Trip.
Music makes the World Go Round. Or in this case, makes the "Circle" go round.
The Back to the Future the Second Trilogy (Official Roadgeek and Carolina Circle Movie), has the mother load of Carolina Circle scenes. Every movie has a soundtrack and recently I have discovered some new Carolina Circle Tunes.
Time for a top 5 countdown:
5. Lightning Strikes by Lou Christie. For some reason that song reminds me a lot of Carolina Circle's early years before it was renovated. Even though I haven't witnessed the pre-renovation Carolina Circle, that song mixes well with the pictures of the mall in 1976.
4. Vacation by The Go-Go's. That song reminds me of the carousel. Even though the carousel wasn't there when the song was released in 1982, the song is very 80's and the design at the time of the carousel was as well very 80's.
3: Baby Come Back by UB40. This song is straight from the Back to the Future the Second Soundtrack. Although I've never heard it at the mall, I now consider it a Carolina Circle Tune because of the movie.
2. One More Night by Phil Collins. That song would always play on the car radio coming back from Winston-Salem on Wednesday night. Seeing the neon red main entrance arch with One More Night playing on the radio. Even though on Wednesdays I always went to Hanes Mall and not Carolina Circle.
1. Two Hearts by Phil Collins. Nothing says Carolina Circle Mall better than this song. That song would be played a lot at Montgomery Ward. With that being my favorite store at the mall and having a place in my heart for the mall, that song reminds me of two things: Carolina Circle Mall and driving to North Myrtle Beach on my 2005 Beach Trip.
Music makes the World Go Round. Or in this case, makes the "Circle" go round.
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