Shoppers World Brampton: Photos from the Archives

The first indoor mall in Brampton, Shoppers World was opened in 1969. This video features images from the Brampton Guardian fonds, Cecil Chinn fonds, and others.

[dm]

Back when Brampton was clean, safe &

[seàn]

Stark comparison to today's Brampton

[andreadennison]

My older sister Nicole and I are the two little girls in the shopping cart. My mom was shopping with us and a photographer wanted to take our picture. They still have the original newspaper clipping!Lot's of fond memories at this mall.

[TaylorCanada]

Such a great mall back in the day. I have lots of fond memories here

[davidedwardstruegospel]

This is an excellent video of the history of Shoppers World.
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Request: Please secure this is the archives.

[dannythedon]

To me when I moved to Mississauga in 1992 this was the main mall in Brampton. I didn't even know about Bramalea until a few years back. I heard the name but Shoppers World used to be a good mall with a lot of good stores that no longer exist. It's sad what happened to the mall.

[thefreestylefrEaK]

I didn't know Brampton had a Shopper's World, but i grew up in East York Toronto, and remember spending a lot of time at the Shoppers World in the 70's and '80's as a kid with my brothers and mother located near the intersection of Danforth Rd and Victoria Park Ave. Lots of boutique style stores, an Eatons, and even a Zellers with a dine-in restaurant. What you see hanging across the isle at 0:28 are Easter egg art work coloured by local school kids in the area. We'd use crayons and come up with our own designs and the school would submit them to the mall. Prizes were given to the most popular artworks. Fond memories of a great time!

[fattybolger]

I remember going to the indoor waterslide at Shopper's World. That was a pretty unique feature for a shopping mall. My mother used to work at a Toy Store inside called Toys and Wheels.

[onceuponatimeintoronto]

Went to Centennial public school in the late 70's and we hung at the mall (and McDonalds of course) all the time on weekends and after school. Lots of memories of that place, from buying cheapie batteries at Radio Shack for our JVC RC-M70 ghetto blasters w Tony Mitchell. Renting movies on Xmas day at Jumbo Video, K mart for Levis, the 80's were pretty innocent and fun back then.

[daveywavey]

My mom managed the arcade Fun & Games in the mid to late 80's. What a childhood I had!!

[toyguy]

1st job was at Kmart for $2:25 per hour in 1975

[TheMarky]

Lol I remember getting lost there as a small child after I hid inside a rack of clothes..Luckily a nice lady found me crying and brought me to the lost and found where my mom picked me up..

[ziggys]

I grew up near SW, I remember when they added the addition for The Bay. I used to play space invaders at the Kmart entrance while my mom shopped, and I still have my Future World (Arcade) membership card. They installed a waterslide over by O'tooles side of the mall.

We also snuck in one time and rode our BMX inside before security saw s :)

good times, 80's was the best.

[jjae]

I remember the big wooden pirate ship kids play area.

[cielvt]

Anyone remember the pirate ship play structure???? I can't find photos of that anywhere.

[CaptainRetroStation]

I saw “Superman: The Movie” at the cinema there with my family, and we went to The Big Boy for dinner after. 😊

[dominicsousa]

It’s to bad they didn’t show the beautiful fountain that was in there, my parents would buy me a small bag of chips and let me sit by the fountain while my mom shopped and my dad walked around the mall. You would never do that today leave a young girl sitting by herself, Brampton was very safe then indeed, we have moved out of the area to a smaller town and have no regrets

[davidleitman]

I remember when they announced that the mall would be open on Sundays - my brother and I walked over but the whole time I was looking around expecting God to strike me down for sinning (by indulging in commerce on the Lord's day) Lol! A year or so later we found a hundred bucks in the parking lot (we were ecstatic) and went straight to the video game store to buy a Nintendo game (I think we bought "faxanadu") Bramalea was clean, safe, wholesome, and even in some sense, godly. I miss these days.

[Miketyler]

I remember the kid getting kidnapped from in front of the old sewing store. I was around his age and when my parents told me about that I was frightened.

[CaseyMartin]

These videos are cool. It would be great to look at all these photos for longer, without all the somewhat distracting Ken Burns-style zooming and panning. Are they available online anywhere?