Mini Dead Mall: Landmark Century Cinema & Shopping Centre - Chicago, Il
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2020
- Check out this vintage 1925 built theatre converted to retail and movie center. Tucked in the historic Lakeview neighborhood, It's close to some of the city's major attractions like Wrigley Field.
Music featured: Ellie Golding's - Love Me Like You Do. 
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I LOVED this mall! Bought my first pair of black boots here. Even though I lived in the burbs, my Mother would take us into the city and we would hit up this mall often. Great memories. So sad to see how it is today. I hope more popular stores come back.
I grew up near there and went to the cinema and shops there -- The Limited was there! it was pretty awesome. We used to buy tickets, hang out till the show started, or got something to eat in the neighborhood. Those were pretty wonderful times.
This was my favorite mall to walk around when I was alone and in my teens working in Chicago as a waitress and model. It seems like ancient history since the mid to late 80's when this place rocked! It was packed and a great place to wander around relax and people watch. The architecture was so fun and yeah the levels with the open atrium made it enchanting. Maybe it was filled with so much history that just sort of lingered...All I know is it is a shame that more historic buildings aren;t left standing for new generations to explore and be held onto in our fasination and wonder.
Really cool layout. I like the vertical design. Reminds me of Water Tower Place in Chicago.
Thanks. The layout was interesting little dark and creepy
I remembered as a kid, there were six floors of retail space. What I also loved were the neon up and down lights above the elevators entrances that you didn’t see anywhere else. It gave the mall an extra hip look. It sad to see the mall so empty, despite the fact that so many people live around the mall. Maybe if they offer free parking for two hours or with a minimum mall purchase, people will come back and more shops will open? I dunno, I wouldn’t mind a one-stop shop the Century COULD potentially off in the middle of a brutal winter, especially with parking at a premium. Just a thought...
I remember when my parents were alive we seen the last movie they ever played which was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and I remember visiting it as the mall a few times since I was born and raised in Chicago. I even took my now 31 year old twin son's their along with my husband Terry in the mid 90's ❤️❤️❤️
Wow! I used to work at the Wet Seal there in 2001! Can’t believe how it looks now
I loved taking the elevator to the top floor and strolling down all the inclined ramps to snoop into those stores I found interesting.
Me, too!
Early-mid 2000s, there were still a lot of stores here. I remember Express, Aveda, a kids store, Gap maybe?, a luxury grocery store and one of those hobby shops that sells the little figurines people paint, anime stuff, etc.
Gamer's Paradise. It was the best gaming store in the city for a couple of decades or so.
To really show my age, I lived at Sheffield and Wolfram in the sixties. Agassiz was the school I attended and we had what was called social center for after school recreation. We would see cartoons when this was still a movie theater. GOOD times. 🤗
The Century Mall was a happening place back in '77. We rented a space for our audio reproduction outlet when disco and rock were slugging it out which was good for us. Fun lasted for almost three years. The Clark- Diversey area was the original "gay crossroads" at this time so it could be pretty flamboyant, but hell, everyone was partying back then.
I wouldn’t call it quite “dead”. The Landmark Theater at the top is quite popular, especially since it plays a lot of limited run and indie films that don’t hit the mainstream theaters, and is often used as a venue as part of film festivals. It’s also super nice, with very clean and well sized theaters and a great bar.
The theater will more than likely outlast the mall itself; if the mall closes, it will probably relocate.
What a fascinating layout to a mall. Seems very compact from the video.
It's an interesting design. Hope it can be repurposed.
Since your visit the Victoria Secret has closed. However, a couple other openings have taken place. The biggest being a throwing ax place in the basement level. There has also been a couple of offices opened including an insurance agent.
A throwing ax place!
The axe throwing place(Bad Axe), closed late last year. Which is unfortunate, since I was hoping that place would last. Not sure what will replace Bad Axe. Landmark Theaters is still open, even after Alamo Drafthouse theaters opened just south of Addison Ave.
This was pretty big back in the 80s, but petered out after that.
Thinking about it while filming it should have stayed as a theater. With the current setup a kind of looks like a big black hole.
Sad. I recall a fairly vibrant space at one time .
Same here.
I worked at a little gift shop here in 97/98 it was in the midst of renovation then & half dead.
What gift shop was it that's cool.
@@UrbexAPeakInside Like "Chicago Gifts" or something really generic. There was a walkway from a hotel so our customers were a mix of tourists buying shot glasses with the Chicago flag and sweaty people from the Ballys Fitness looking at not buying the knicknacks. There were not a lot of other stores and the entire food court in the basement was closed for renovation. There was a high end stereo store, a silver jewellery place, a Ladies Foot Locker with no regular foot locker, a picture framing place and that was about it at the time. At least there was a Borders Books across the street and a Coconuts Music across the street.
@@ericfreshI think that was the time that they also had a place called Yellow Mango. Not a restaurant, but something like a crafts and souvenir shop.
The place in the open basement could never stay in business. They tried with a number of different types of restaurants, all fairly quick service or buffet, some a little cheaper and some a little bit pricey. But they never lasted.
@@williamwolf2844I remember after the mall stopped trying to have a regular style food court, there was a location of Eatzi's(out of Dallas) that operated there. Most recently it was a location of Bad Axe Throwing, which closed for good last year.
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Good video. That's too bad that the original theater couldn't be restored. What was done to this building instead looks ugly compared to the original theater.
The original theater is a complete unknown now with the black walls.
Aw man, say it ain't so. One of the few malls small enough to be fit inside Chicago city limits proper. Modern life sucks. Hey, is Metro still there at least? (Up Clark Street)
@@maryroberts8787 - Thanks. I moved to Europe in 1992. But saw alot of great bands at Metro growing up in Chicago: Chris and Cosy, Front 242, Ministry and all those guys from Wax Trax Records - which was located on Lincoln, North of Fullerton. Best block in Chicago, that was.
I did not see an Orange Julius in this building
In the 2000s, there was either an orange Julius or a Jamba juice just outside to the south of the main entrance. It might also have had a door on the inside, but I'm not sure.