Pembroke Mall. Virginia Beach, Virginia. 1966 - 2022
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Pembroke Mall in Virginia Beach, Virginia after over 50 years of business has been closed to be transformed into a new retail Community living project in the Town Center area of Virginia Beach. All store that had no outdoor access has been closed to make way for the changes. This video was captured shortly before the mall interior would close forever. I hope you enjoy my efforts on my second dying retail video.
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Update on Pembroke Mall Transformation. ruclips.net/video/tCpGiy9cGx4/видео.html
It was a stab in my heart when this mall closed since I practically grew up in there back in the 80's. Quite by accident, I ate the last meal ever served there from the Chinese restaurant. They shut down the register after I paid for lunch, then shut the door behind me when I left. So many memories of that place...
Yeah, it was weird the last night I was there.
@@DyingRetail It was eerie. The mall was a "liminal space" where it seemed to exist between two worlds. There was the reality of the current condition with the empty stores and lack of people- just a building of steel and stone, but you could still feel the distant laughter of kids, the music, the smell of the foods and the buzz of hurried shoppers and chattering of teens just hanging out ... all memories and ghosts. The mall was quiet for the first time in it's life: nothing left for it to do, no more tomorrows... just waiting for the final echoes of life to go silent forever.
That is such a sad story. You were the last of the so many thousands. 😞
China Garden was the BEST. They had the best Chinese buffet in Hampton Roads, imo. Their food was delicious, fresh & the place was always packed when I went back in the mid 90s to early 2000s.
Wow... was this last supper right before the entire mall closed?
I was in the Navy in the late 80s stationed in Norfolk. This mall was one of my get aways to feel like a regular non military person. I was just 18 years old. I love the culture of the old malls. Just to stroll and window shop and drop what money I felt I could afford. As a kid going school clothes shopping was a highlight. And I paid for my Levi jeans with lawn mowing money. Thank God for our dear malls.
Before it closed it did have a neat vibe to it. With Town center across the street I figured it would have hung in a little longer but it wasn’t meant to be I guess.
Many memories around Pembroke Mall. I worked at the Sears Auto Center in 1975 as their first female tire changer. Times have certainly changed. It's sad what has transpired over the decades, but following the pandemic, retail will never be what it was. RIP Pembroke Mall ... may your new life serve you well.
Yes. Times sure have changed. Hoping RUclips didn’t take video down for the music but the song fits the mood. They’ll probably say I can’t monetize it. That’s fine with me. :)
@@DyingRetail the music choice was perfect. Set the right mood for sure. I know I am old, 67, and life brings changes. But to me, this era came and went so fast. When I was a young mom and we took our kids to the mall to shop , see Santa, etc…..I thought it would last forever. Sad but glad that, hopefully new life will be brought to the area.
We can only hope.
One of several malls of my youth. Saw so many great films at the theater outside this mall before they tore that down. Had dates with my now hubby here in the 80s and strolled our babies around there on the weekends. Good times. I hope the redevelopment works out well and helps keep that area vital. We don't live in VA anymore, but I would go back in a heartbeat given the chance.
I never saw movies there but didn’t they tear down theater and had another one inside the doors?
Wow, great video. I remember when malls were the fun safe hang out spot. Now you can't find a mall or you're liable to get shot up at the remaining ones. :(
Stay tuned. Another video dropping soon.
My condolences to whomever had Pembroke as their childhood mall. I just had similar happen to me when Sunrise Mall in Massapequa MY shut down a few weeks ago. Nothing lasts forever except for the memories.
I’ve never heard of that Mall. I’ll have to search and see if anyone document led it. Unfortunately, nothing stays the same for long.
Funny. Just now seeing your mall on RUclips listed on Ace’s adventures.
ruclips.net/video/0KSn_RIhZd0/видео.html
@@DyingRetail Several people covered Sunrise Mall already. Honestly I've been away from NY for over a decade and very little there was familiar but still...it was my local mall and basically grew up there. We had 2 arcades back in the 80's Good times.
Sorry for late response. Two arcades huh? Sounds like it was booming back then.
I used to live near this mall back when I was born 1989 until we moved in 2001 but we still come to this mall. I want my childhood back, I want everything to go back to normal
I’m afraid that’s not going to happen. Sadly.
I enjoy your videos and I live in Virginia Beach the Pembroke mall was a really fun place and I miss Sears there... I hope you Don't have any music problems on RUclips I use a service called epidemic sounds on a channel I have with a different ID... Keep up the good work...
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoy the content. I wanted to use the song because it fits the mood. There was a “Copyright” alert but they said owner allows use so I think I dodged one there. The majority of the music I use comes through story blocks on LumaFusion which provides license for use. I’ll check out the one you suggested also.
+Jeffery B. Sorry for late reply. I’m finding on the YT app I was missing comments. I am using Storyblocks for the music content. They handle copyright issues. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. I got a couple more coming.
This wasn't 1966 thru 2022.. it was just 1966 and 2022. I was looking forward to some of the scenes between those two poles..
It is sad to see another mall collapse tho.
Opened 1966. Closed 2022. Opening footage 1960’s.
@@DyingRetail I got it. I was just expecting some clips from the eras in between. But, I do appreciate your upload. /peace
@@GeorgeWashingtonX it’s all good :) I tried finding as much old footage that I could online but except for the clips from the construction and grand opening, I wasn’t able to find more.
Excellent video and great work bringing it together. We moved away from VaB about the time Pembroke Mall opened. Only went once or twice and was amazed by it as a kid. My parents even bought a house on Plaza Trail to retire to but sadly my dad died, house was sold. Likely would have sold for a better price just a year or two later. Returning to the area to live soon. Glad to see this development taking place.
Going to be interesting to see what the changes do. Glad you enjoyed the video :)
Beautifully put together video. The beginning clips fascinate me. From what I heard, Pembroke was the oldest mall in Hampton Roads. My time at Pembroke Mall was most of the 90s on up to the early 2000s. I have so many sweet childhood memories that were made there! Playing skee-ball at the arcade (I remember there were two, the other being a BIG one near the old movie theater that had a ton of games & a snack bar. My favorite arcade!), watching "The Lion King" at that old-school theater with my father, having lunch at the Woolworth's cafeteria (those salisbury steak & grilled cheese plates were my favorites!), looking at the animals at the old Pet Go Round shop, shopping with my mother at the old Stein Mart, where I always loved getting b-day & Mother's Day gifts for her, eating at the old China Garden restaurant, the list goes on! That mall played such a central part in my life, there were so many wonderful memories there. It was just a regular mall, but a special place I really loved. I know time goes on & progress is needed, but it's sad that it's gone....
I believe Pembroke was the first Southside enclosed mall. Military Circle was next. Then Lynnhaven Mall, Greenbrier mall and finally MacArthur Square Mall in 1999.
@@DyingRetail I remember when MacArthur Mall opened back in '99. I thought it was kinda a big deal at the time. The first time I saw a Rainforest Cafe & I remember everything seemed to be more upscale. Haven't been there in close to 20 years.
@@RETROGEMS overall the mall looks the same. Very clean, etc. it’s the crime, mainly gang violence and several shootings that have hurt it. When Apple moves out, you know there is an issue. I was in Atlanta when the mall opened. I remember feeling I was in an Atlanta mall when I returned and visited.
So many memories from my childhood... Skateboarding with my friends in the parking lot, seeing Santa as a kid, going to Game Stop at mid night when I would do the release parties for whatever game I was getting, going into FYE after getting paid at my first job and buying CDs, my friends and I going to the arcade and playing pool or DDR, hanging out with a girl I dated in high school at A Bit of England, my mom and I shopping at Sears, going to the movies... This mall was my childhood in the 90s and 2000s. I can't believe its gone. When they renovated it years back my friends and I wrote our names on some of the plywood they were using to make changes. Shit... I'm getting choked up.
Bit of England moved to Birdneck Shopping Center off Holland Road.
@@DyingRetail Thanks! Good to know!
Welcome :)
Pembroke mall, military circle mall, and McCarthy mall all shutting down. I now see a on going trend. R.I.P. to malls of American shopping.
Bad thing is we were over malled here. Each city has to compete with the other. I think we will still see some of these pull through.
The Nestle Toll House place looked like it was open at first... the color and lighting had me looking for cookies, ice cream, and a salesperson...
I was disappointed when filming I was looking for any treats left.
Shopped there for 15 years and saw a few changes. Moved out of town just as this started up. Hope it goes well.
I hope it does as well. Good luck on your move.
Good video. Sad. Thanks for filming.
Glad you enjoyed it
She held on a long time. Pembroke was kind of a dead mall in the late 90s it had quite a few weird stores back then. Lynnhaven was always so much better. I remember the old arcade and the shoe store that started on one hallway and went straight through coming out on the other hallway.
It did have some interesting little shops you didn’t see elsewhere.
great video. Never look back or die of sadness
I’m glad I got this footage before it closed. I’d like to try and see if I could get a sneak peek inside to see what’s happening.
I have many memories there........my old friend I met there. To my first date.
I’m glad the video was captured to keep memories. The farewell video for Military Circle premiers tomorrow night at 9:15
All but 2 of the 15 Malls here in KC have been closed and torn down over the last 12 years. Malls are a Dead Point of Commerce.
I think we are seeing the herd being thinned out. Just have to wait and see what the end looks like.
I just found your channel, I'm 18 so I only have limited memories of Pembroke but I remember going there as a kid looking at the puppies in the pet store then as I got my age now getting clothes for school.
Great video
I am glad you enjoyed the video.
Yep, another mall i spent quite a many of hours of my pre-teen and teen years at growing up... so sad to see how this mall died. I worked at the sears there, old enough to remember the woolworth that was in that mall... lot of fun had there... 😞
I liked it a few years back for the quirky shops that were there. Then right before the Covid crap they slowly went.
You can always tell the Sears
Sometimes it’s hard. I see some and wonder was it Penny’s.
@@DyingRetail It was Sears since the mall opened.
@@vbloc7577 I know this one was. I was referring to a couple of malls that the entrance threw me off :)
I'm trying to remember the song the music that you're playing in the background came from but it was one of the great ones of 1980s I think it came out in 85 and I can't remember the songs name or the artist but the music is so familiar that you're playing in the background
This used to be our playground from A league of our own.
I live in Phoenix az and 2 of our major malls have closed down in the past 5 years and this is what they are doing here as well and it hurts knowing my kids and grandchildren won't know what it was like to be dropped off at the mall for the day with your friends and to make memories like we all did
Isn’t Phoenix where the mall used for Bill & Ted’s Excellent adventure was filmed?
@Dying Retail yes it was metrocenter mall a showbiz pizza and golf land sunsplash water park all of which are closed down
I’m sorry I didn’t reply to your answer. Trying to find a better way to keep up with comments on RUclips. How are the malls doing now?
I remember going to Pembroke Mall and smelling the delicious hot cashews coming from Woolworth .
Stop! Now I’m hungry for some 😂
There's only 49 views on this I'm probably number 50 this would be a good time to redo the music portions of the video with some non copyrighted music and then we release it
Actually it’s had over 3K views. I knew this would take a copyright strike but RUclips will usually not let you monetize it. They will take ad revenue and send to music label. I may look at a redo down the line. I’m working on one video I hope to have up by the weekend and there are two more malls I need to record.
Target opened in 2015
Sounds about right.
I went there all the time when I lived in Va beach in my 20s
Before Covid they had some
Interesting quirky shops that were unusual.
I do like the music you playing in the background don't get me wrong but it's just copyrighted music
Yeah. I know. I purposely picked the song for the feel I felt it added. However, I have access to royalty free music that I use often in my other videos. It’s a constant battle to have to prove I have rights to the music.
Should never have closed Orange Julius. That's why Pembroke mall has closed down.
Oh come on now LOL! They weren’t that good 😊
Do you have any footage of inside Bills Flea Market? I can’t find any anywhere.
No, I do not. Refresh my memory. Were they in the mall or nearby?
@@DyingRetail I think that was in the old FX building that is long gone
I think you’re right. I believe I do recall the flea market now. Wasn’t it located where Wegmans is now?
@@DyingRetail no, the Wegmans used to be an office supply store. Can’t remember the name, but the Flea Market burned down and they built the Walmart.
@flouserschird I think I now vaguely remember the fire. That was the old FX before flea market.
5:37 I believe it's probably a permanently closed JCPenney 👁
JC Penney’s was never at this mall. This was the former Sears that closed back in 2018.
@@DyingRetailit looked like one but then it got demolished and turned into a regular wall from the mall
@@triplet_milkshakeSears was broken up. The Fresh Market, Nordstrom Rack took up large parts. When Sears closed a software company took over the rest. See the video I just did from November. You’ll see the Sears entrance bricked over.
@@DyingRetail yeah. I forget if it was covered with bricks. I did watch the video before I posted this comment :))
And there's still clothes in this video (the one called remembering Pembroke mall)
This is gone too!?!
Uh. Yes.
Pem is now BROKE
That’s a good one!
put slot machines in, turn it into a casino, place will be awesome again. dont let this place go to waste. put a putt put course in
It’s being repurposed. I’ll try and capture the changes.
good luck! let me know how it turns out, thanks. i want to see this place come back to life. thanks for responding.
Right now talk is about sports/entertainment concepts.