Aladdin’s Castle: Midway Mall

Midway Mall in Elyria, Ohio, opened in 1966 as the region’s only enclosed mall, anchored by Higbee’s, JCPenney, and Sears, and underwent a major renovation and food court addition in 1990.

Well into the 1990s, Midway Mall housed an Aladdin’s Castle arcade—still sporting a Ms. Pac‑Man cabinet as late as the mid‑2000s, according to a local blog, and fondly remembered in Elyria retrospectives.

Though the arcade closed in the early 2000s as mall foot traffic declined and anchor stores shuttered, the mall remains a storied local landmark—now being redeveloped into an industrial site by the Lorain County Port Authority as of 2024.

References

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Mall
2. https://mallsofamerica.blogspot.com/2005/08/midway-mall.html