Rochester 1963: Midtown Plaza

Here’s a fascinating bit of Rochester history sent to me by my good friend Bob DeRosa. It’s part of a promotional video about Rochester made in 1963. The person who posted it to YouTube runs a Web site about malls, so he edited the video down to this 5:34 clip about Midtown Plaza. Some of what you see in the video still exists (the clock, for example), but most of it is gone, and Midtown Plaza is largely a ghost town.