The Last Visit to Bannister Mall in Kansas City Missouri - 05/17/2007
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- I was looking through my old hard drive and came across the rest of the images and video footage I had taken on our last visit to Bannister Mall in South Kansas City, Missouri. We had taken one last trip to reminisce before it was closed two weeks later on May 31, 2007, and then subsequently demolished two years later in 2009.
I had to convert all of the old file footage and finally got everything to work. Including the pictures and video files, this mini-documentary is about nine minutes long. It is narrated with some informational data as well as some personal memories of the mall.
It was a great time to be 17 in 1987 where the mall ruled the weekends. Now look what we got in 2021. Sad.
Didn't know we had it so good until it was gone. The '80s and '90s were so kickass! With the rise in mass shootings it's probably best not to have indoor shopping malls. Fish in a barrel.
Bannister Mall was so cool and I'm glad you made this time capsule video for us to enjoy. The area now has changed so much you would never know the mall was there.
I totally want to build a house around the aesthetics this mall had. All the beautiful wood/glass hand rails, and trees and skylights.
It became apparent that the mall owners did NOTHING to renovate the property all those years. Still it was a fascinating time capsule to travel through.
I also Miss the Bannister Mall I can see this personally because I used to work out there in the year of 1991 whole beautiful precious memories her so bad to think about the absence of being apart from that place the place where I work at was called furr's cafeteria I was there for four years beautiful memories and yet sad ☹️.
@@richardrolf5496Wow! I remember Furrs. Never had the chance to eat there.
why would they renovate anything when stores were leaving and no one wanted to have a business there. cmon man i’m 26 and i’ve been in the comments schoolin old heads
@@gotshmoked1764 Hopefully you used your logic and avoided the clot shot. No amount of renovation would've stopped a certain minority group from driving away customers and businesses. That mall was doomed once Prospect bus lines bussed em in.
@@derp8575 true. the white flight killed the area too.
I grew up about 2 miles east of Bannister Mall. I was 14 when the mall opened and was there on the opening day. Spent a lot of time there in the 80's. @SharonfromMissouri Thank you for posting this video. Many tears both of happiness of my youth and sadness of the way things go.
I remember the mall vary well. I remember it being built, the opening (it had a lot of shoe stores). Later, in 1988 I worked there on maintenance, mostly working in food court. Fun Factory was the arcade, and it was on the second level, next to the Food Court, and had a separate entrance as well. They lost their lease in 1989 because of the problems it created. In the late 80's, there where several issues with teens, which is why the tables were removed by the food court escalators, and the pay phones by the entrance. I miss the old mall. It had been the place to go.....
I miss it. It brought culture & a healthy ambiance. I miss KCMO's only mall.
Ward Parkway Mall is in KCMO. It is still open.
@@zeus66061 👎🏿
@@zeus66061 nobody goes there lol
@@zeus66061 I only go there because of terget if that couts as part of the mall
@@zeus66061 oak park mall is way better than there, just go there instead
Thank you for speaking for so many people, cultures watching this brings tears to my eyes.
Thanks for posting this. I grew up in a small town a couple hours south of KC, went in there several times as a kid in the late 80s-early 90s during visits to the "big city".
Such a beautiful mall. The architecture was fantastic. I loved all of the curves and shapes used.
Thanks for sharing! Grew up in Merriam in 70s and 80s... NEVER WENT TO BANNISTER! We went to Metro North, Indian Springs, Blue Ridge, Metcalf South, Antioch Center, Independence Mall, Crown Center, Oak Park, Mission Shopping Center, Ward Parkway, Great Mall of the Great Plains saw movies at Ranchmart, Glenwood, Truman Corners never went to Bannister, I'm going to ask my Mom why that was! LOL!! This is the only way I get to see the inside! Thanks for preserving and sharing! Almost everything from my childhood has been demolished! Save but the few that still remain.
I was there as a 10 year old when it opened. Endless weekends with friends at the upper level arcade and food court, where we'd just be dropped off by our parents for a few hours. Saw about 80% of movies there. The Waldenbooks there was my first job as a teenager. I appreciate this video! Bannister is an absolute chapter of my life!
A lots of theft and fights and crimes brought this beautiful mall down to its knees.
Diversity is our strength. 😅
Those dark in appearence kept robbing pasty faces at gunpoint.........but to notice that it happened is mean and racist. But it's okay for them to glamorize their criminality and violence
@@elijahwilson1422Independence Center won’t be far behind.
@@br549200 it's like those old, White Men that were alive before most of us were born had enough common sense and foresight to understand what our current World would become and they were simply warning us and not being hateful.
I have never been to Bannister Mall, but I can feel your loss. It feels like something you cherished is gone forever. I first came across this mall in watching You Tube videos back in 2012. It reminded me of a mall that is near to where I live, with four anchors in each corner but some have closed. At least you have a positive outlook for what is replacing the site.
I grew up in Kansas City around the same time. I lived North of the river, so my childhood malls were Metro North and Antioch. Both have been demolished over the last 10 years or so. I actually remember people talking about Bannister mall and how the area had become dangerous. I never had the chance to visit. It's so weird, South of the river was like a whole other world to me as a teenager. As an adult, I moved to Manhattan (NYC, not Kansas) for 10 years and now I live in Chicago.
Sounds like you lived in Kansas lol
Thank you for sharing this! It’s so sad to see the fate of malls all across America. When I was growing up, the mall was the place to go. There are some still open where I live in Illinois. But they are mostly empty store fronts and there’s not a lot of people there unless it’s around the holidays. Seeing videos like this brings back memories of days gone by, and oh the nostalgia. Thank you again for sharing! 😊
This video just came up in my recommendations. I have many memories of this mall growing up. Of course I didn't exist for the first 4 years of the mall's existence, but a lot of formative memories of this mall include everything from cranking all the music boxes with my younger sister at san francisco music box company, seeing movies with my aunt and uncle, to buying an ornament for family members at hallmark with my aunt and uncle (who both have since passed on, especially that aunt when I was 9 was hard, she always loved taking us kids out to the mall), I remember getting my ears pierced at Afterthoughts, Sitting on santa's lap on the lower level and riding the little train, buying I don't know how much candy and beanie babies at Mr. Bulky's. I bought my prom dress at that DEB (it was mesh black over pink which made it red, and it tied in the back. That DEB was where it was at. I bought a lot of stuff I wore in my school pics from that store (including a matching collared stretchy v-neck shirt and mini skirt with flowers on it, the turquoise blue dress I graduated high school in, and things like a shiny silver blouse that I wore in my freshman pic. My sister had a number of jobs at that mall, Penney's, Original greek, and she was also working at that Sears as well for some years. I got my homecoming dress from that sears (which was black and gold and fringed), my first pair of high heels (square toe, black 2" heels, the brand apostrophe), and even my CD player (which was a sony discman that didn't even have anti-skip on it). That cd store in the bottom of the mall? it was pricey but it had the best and weirdest import versions of CDs. I remember being given a gift card for it at one point and their gift cards were these gold coins. To this day, in my head, I can still hear the children begging for pennies to throw into the fountain (as we all did so many times as well with our moms), I hear the distant echoes of people talking in that mall, the ripple of people pulling out chairs along the bricks, and I hear the fountains bubbling. I think some of the sculptures from the mall have been moved to other places from what I heard. I still remember the smell you talked about, the rubbery musty copper metallic smell you smell walking through the door too. This video really took me back.
Great piece. You captured my memories of the building as well!
I spent a lot of time in this mall in the '80s. I remember watching it being built. Four of my friends worked in various stores there. It was a fun place for many years until shoplifters caused all the stores to move out. Nice video.
It was a very beautiful building this used to be my favorite mall in all times
it sucks it was gone I still remember it by heart and I'm 21
I used to like the light poles when I was a little kid it made the whole mall come out beautiful
I remember the movie theater it was all good until fights started happening ...
Fun Factory was the arcade. Grew up in Loma Vista. Looking at the area today. It's hard to express to people. How much of a happening place it was. Not just the Mall, but the entire area.
Grew up there. Ruskin heights myself. Thank you for the stroll down memory lane
Thank you for sharing this video. Your commentary was a spot-on review of the mall.
Thank you!
Growing up we usually went to Independence Center or Blue Ridge Mall because they were closer for us. I do remember my mom and dad would go to Bannister Mall to eat at a Mexican restaurant but I do not know the name of it. Thank you for sharing this video. I really do miss these old malls and I hate that younger Generations don't get to experience malls the way we used to.
The Mexican restaurant was Anne's Santa Fe...
@@KKEM641rip
I spent much of my youth at this mall. Thank you for capturing images of it.
I definitely contributed at least a couple coins into the Bannister Mall fountain as a small child lol. I grew up closer to Oak Park Mall but I do remember visiting Bannister whenever we visited my grandparents who lived in Jackson County. I remember in late 1990/early 1991 walking through Bannister and passing a Spencer's Gifts. There were these Gremlins 2 little plastic figure things that I wanted really bad and never got. I was 7 or 8 at the time. I don't know why I still remember that to this day.
I miss Bannister Mall and the shopping/entertainment area. It was the most beautiful and unique mall in Kansas City at the time. I had so much wonderful memories going to it in the 90's to early 2000's. Had the displeasure to witness it's downfall and the shopping/entertainment/food areas around it. As a Black person, it pains me to see so many ignorant Black people take pride in destroying something than making something and then take no responsibility when their is long term negative effects. And destroying Bannister was not enough. People put their destructive energy into places like Grandview Skate Land, Ward Parkway Mall, and Independence Mall which resulted in people within the Bannister/Hickman Mills/Ruskin Heights area struggling to find jobs during the recession. I had to job search 20 to 30 miles from my home WITH NO CAR thanks to destructive posers trying to gain street cred from other posers. If people would've acted right I could've walked, road a bike or even taken a 5-8 minute bus ride to my destination. My first job could've been at the mall or one of the many outlets, but instead my first job was 30 miles away and the bus ride was a little over 4 hours in total. No joke. Seeing Bannister Mall makes me really sad. I was one of the people that supported putting our tax dollars into revamping the mall, but instead it went towards a soccer stadium that stopped constructed because the Wizards (now Sporting Kansas City) had a last minute change of heart in it's stadium location. That last minute change of heard left us without a stadium and without a mall to revamp. What we got instead was another Cerner building close by another Cerner building a decade LATER and somehow the NEW Cerner building is supposed to appeal with retailers to bring back jobs to Bannister. And here is the jacked up part. Cerner is partial owners of Sporting Kansas City and the community put money towards the the stadium that they moved over to Kansas. The area the stadium moved to witness a retailing boom while the Bannister area only consist of Cerner, Homedepot, a new police station, a few fast food chains and Price Chopper. With the revamp that is going on now, Bannister just got a new taco bell awkwardly placed (LMAO!), a new Price Choppers (which was a long time coming), and a random ass hotel that's currently still being built. The hotel is place in the corner off of I435 where a restaurant used to be that used to sit in front of Bannister Mall. According to multiple reports, they are still struggling to bring retail businesses back. So my tax dollars went down the gutter and into Cerner's hands.
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Im sorry to hear that touching story i wish you the best my friend
As I teenager, I worked at the JCPenny and later at the Waldenbooks. My sister worked at the Sears. Thanks for the video, fond memories of Bannister Mall.
Bannister Mall was a big part of my last year of high school and early college years, but more than that, I LOVED Bodee's Barbecue that used to be in the outer parking lot of the mall. When I got married, my cousin sent me a case of Bodee's barbecue sauce. Those were some great memories. Too bad the gangs took over and ruined it.
Thanks for sharing. I grew up about a half mile from the mall. I do remember going there! It was definitely unique.
When my husband was stationed at Whiteman AFB, we'd make the journey here on weekends. I did most of my Christmas shopping here. Our first outing after our daughter was born was to Bannister Mall. Good memories.
I remember watching the mall being built. I worked at the K-Mart across the street from it and lived in Grandview. Everyone in the south KC area was so anxious for it to open. I shopped there weekly after it opened.
Wow! This is amazing! Your video took me on a virtual time capsule of my childhood🙌🏾 Well said, “Bannister was more than a mall, it was the background of many lives”. I no longer live in MO, but I felt like it was just yesterday. Additionally, you did a fabulous job narrating!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Just like Indian Springs Mall, there is a very real reason why it became a place that wasn't safe, therefore shoppers went elsewhere. But we can't talk about that.
Ban guns so we can walk in public in peace
@@Jacob-nu4ndNonsense. Shall not be infringed. There wouldn't have been so much crime of everyone owned a firearm. Remember the Indiana good Samaritan who shot a mass shooter?
@@derp8575 no boomer we’re going to ban guns in this country so we can feel safe and live in peace. more guns means more deaths.
@@derp8575 so if the mass shooter had no access to a gun. Than the Indian guy would not have to shoot him so more guns equals more Deaths. How do you not understand that?
@@Jacob-nu4nd But the mass shooter did have access to a gun. Thankfully so did the good Samaritan. Going after demand does nothing but make good people less safe while emboldening organized crime. Grow up. I'm tired of thinking for you.
Thank you for this wonderful video. I have many fond memories visiting this mall as a teen in the 1980s -- such a cool, fun place and always busy. I wish there was some footage from during its heyday.
I remember watching them build the mall. Then to see them demolish it was so sad. Malls were definitely a 80’s thing. As a teen we spent lots of time in Bannister & Oak Park.
The bad element drove the paying customers away same old story!
I worked there in the ‘90’s. Sears doing tire and battery, then managing a cart in the middle of the mall, then for the mall itself, in visual merchandising, maintenance and housekeeping. No one wants to hear it but we all knew two words that led to the downfall of the place even then: Troost bus. The owners then didn’t know how to manage and market the place, but it was hard to do when it was turning into a fortress. Looking at your video, I could place every step you were taking, remembering the stores and people from the early to mid 90’s. Shame it went downhill, but I’m glad I got out and moved to OP when I did.
One word, 2 syllables describes what the Troost bus brought. Locusts stripping the productive field.
Thank you for sharing. It is bittersweet.
Been a long time since I have seen these sights. I always felt like it could have been saved, but I guess it couldn't in the end.
i remember being a little kid and loving this mall. so many memories. it started getting bad during the weekends and after school let out. people would drop their h.s. age kids off and fighting/stealing would start. i remember large groups of teenagers roaming around in droves at that mall acting like complete fools...the best times to go to avoid the crowd was always during day time on weekdays lol when my mom would let me stay home from school if i was sick. that was always the best time to go to bannister.. i miss this mall and blue ridge so much
Thanks for sharing this footage. Really brings back my childhood.
I remember this mall. My gf worked at Wicks-n-sticks in the late 80’s/early 90’s. Now, it’s gone like the Blue Ridge Mall, etc. What a bummer.
Thanks for this! I was a kid and moved from KC when Bannister Mall was brand new. I always wondered how long it made it in the big scheme of mega malls.
Aaahhh thank you for posting this! I was just sitting here feeling so sad I don't have any photos or videos of the mall, and was wishing I had a video walk through so I could remember the parts I've forgotten. How did I forget the sculptures?!
Wouldn't it be great if anyone and everyone with video of the mall when it wasn't dead would post them.
I would take anything for thr memories even horrible hand held shoulder killer footage in 240.
Thanks for sharing! That was a beautiful mall, we never had any malls that pretty down south.
I was in high school when it opened in ‘80. Lots of memories of Bannister and Blue Ridge before that when I was a child. Oh well…….gone but not forgotten.
Thanks for the video. Metcalf South was the mall I spent most of my childhood in because that was my mother's favorite mall. It is also gone. Oak Park Mall is starting to look the same way. Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever. Except taxes.
Those are in Kansas tho this is a Kansas City mall
Thanks for this, grew up in that mall, really miss that place, still go to independence mall but its not doing so great these days either but that one was so full of life in the day, the theater the food court, annies santa fe, so much to remember, saw so many movies there, star trek the motion picture it was great, that arcade spent hours in. brother worked there, in the end the crime and just no one felt safe there, I started getting in my car from one end driving to other because the middle was just didn't feel safe anymore.
Fond memories with my Mom❤️thank you!
Thanks for the memories. Your vlog was very kind not stating the REAL reason Bannister Mall went bust. My wife and I would go there regularly because we loved Annies Santa Fe restaurant, we still miss that place. However, she stopped going in the early 90's because of the influx of young seemingly unemployed males who presented themselves as predators. My wife was pushing a stroller with another child in tow and could not use the ATM because of these guys hanging around intimidating those who may try. Time to go to Oak Park or Independence Center. Many, many vulnerable women reacted the same way and took their business elsewhere. Bannister Mall did nothing to correct this and acted like it didn't exist. Bye bye Bannister, hope Independence Center doesn't go the same way
Wondered how far down this accurate comment would appear!
The demographic shift that was occurring as the move towards closure and redistribution of tenants of major public housing projects had already doomed Bannister Mall the day it was opened. So instead of hanging out in the projects swaggering and threatening and acting stupid, they did it in packs at Bannister Mall. That's what did it.
Nice not so vague racism
@@Kenedamick they never mentioned the race of any of the predatory males why are you assuming? telling on yourself
I worked at estee lauder at the jones store from 99-2003 we had a alot of theft
Were you a perfume sniper?
@@derp8575 lol 😂😂
Practically grew up at that mall. Saw Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Arthur there (among others). I'll never forget gorging on a Stromboli at Original Pizza.
That whole area was so active.
I was there the last day it was open. The arcade was up by the food court. 4:11 the spot next to that jewelry store was my store. 7:22 Where that Hat Zone was where my store was from 94-2000. Excellent video.
Your video was great but I must admit it was hard for me to watch. Only because I could feel the longing for those simpler times of my own childhood. My favorite mall as a kid has also been demolished though a vid does remain on here. But I miss the flair these malls had such as the fountains and unique architecture.
Many malls in my area still remain and are quite busy so at least I still have them. One is the biggest mall in Texas the Houston Galleria it goes strong but has been made so bland architecturally.
I take hope in one mall that just did some renovation (Memorial City) as it added painted tile floors, painted ceilings, vintage looking seating, and beautiful hanging plants under a skylight. Its beginning to look like malls used to and I hope they keep going.
My favorite mall was Town & Country here in Houston. Beautiful full red tile floor 3 lvl natural lit atrium all through.
Thanks for the memories I have similar ones.
Oh wow my hometown I remember my friends and I and family use to hang there all the time I was not to far I stayed in Grandview m.o never missed a day to go be there I remember everything I left 25 years ago and never know it closed best days for me.
First date with my wife (Spring 1996) was at Annie's Santa Fe at this mall. I also made many trips there to visit Babbage's before they merged with Game Stop (3DO games)! Mall was great until the area became "enriched" and police guard towers had to be brought in due to out of control crime!
I now go to search for Blue Ridge Mall... Ty for the video!
It crazy how fast things change, Ruskin heights is a pretty rough neighborhood today. And now company that bought bannister mall to build a company HQ is moving the company HQ out of kc.
I remember going there the first week it opened. It was like going to Disneyland, then as time went on, everyone became afraid of going there. You started to fear for your life. Indepedence Center is about the only one left and I'm sure the crime and the fact that people don't want to walk will close it too.
agree
The kids there are ruining it. They have a curfew to not allow people under 18 but even that isn't working
@@toddinfl Did you see that video of someone bringing in a fake g** to the food court area? I dont live in KC anymore but saw it on the news. It started going downhill when I was a teenager in the 2000s
We must ask ourselves WHY these things happen. Which political party encourages poverty?
@@toddinfl Communists and Capitalists are not even from the same planet. One produces better results, and it's not the former. South KC was once a great place to live until left-wing politicians started importing poverty. I witnessed the white flight which occurred after low income housing and inner city bussing was forced on us.
Omg...so many memories
Ive bought much attire in Bannister Mall! ❤that MALL!! My best mall story is tho… I raised my son in Calico Farms & Stratford Estates. He also graduated Ruskin ‘12 top 5%. In the opening year, my son got a job at THE BEST offices in Hickman Mills: CERNER! Right there at Bannister Mall 😊 Lots of history for us too at Bannister Mall. Heck, he learned to drive there while the lot was empty & all beat up.. dry & in the snow ❄️😂 Thank you for the Fun Flashback!
Cerner now Oracle
This was one of the malls that I hung out at as a kid. I watched it go downhill. It became a thug fest like something you'd see in a gangsta rap video. My wife and I stopped by there in the latter 1990's and we got out of there so fast it would make your head spin. There was nothing but thug gangsta wanna be's yelling across the mall to each other, gold chains dangling, pants down to the knees, and mall cops running from one store to the next (usually theft related). As we were leaving the entrance where the movie theater was located a fight broke out and then the place was swarming with cops within a few minutes.
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I remember that my Aunt came from Sedalia just to shop at Bannister Mall for nice work clothes and shoe's. It was a day full of shopping. Then she drove home. Back then it was a 2 & a half hour drive both ways. So it was not only Kansas city people shopping there but the smaller town's from far away.
Last time I've been inside that mall was in 2004
I lived in Raytown early 2000, hypermart walmart brought crime and decay. Raytown had little to offer and I flighted to overland Park. 🤷♂️
BINGO! But it wasn't just Walmart. City officials were guilty as well. Bus people from the slums into a prosperous area and this happens.
I lived in raytown in the mid 90s
I work at bannister at the jones store from 1996..to 2004
worked at Macy's and Dillards in 85....so cool to be there then.
Macy's?
@@g..._anthony27 yep...Macy's before Dillards bought them out in the midwest.
great store.
I'm 42 and I cringe when I hear myself say things like " these kids nowadays don't know how to socialize with each other unless it's in front of a screen" but it's true because these stupid kids nowadays don't know how to socialize with each other unless it's in front of a screen. I'm sure old people who lived their youth before the indoor shopping mall boom hit but even down here in South Florida where there are still many surviving and functioning indoor malls they don't feel the same. When I was a little kid growing up my mom worked for Sears in Pompano Beach. Back in those days in the 1980s Sears was a popular place and I remember the kids at school thinking it was so cool that my mom worked there and I could go anytime I wanted. Even when I was a teenager in the late 1990s the malls work such a cool place because even if you didn't have a ton of money you could still live a pretty good life if you have at least a $20 bill. You could eat at the food court maybe catch a movie chill with your friends or whatever. My sister and I used to make jokes that if Sears didn't carry it we didn't get it. Jeffrey Appliance was Kenmore all of my dad's tools were Craftsman, all of our clothes where Sears house branded even all of the Linens in our house we're Sears brand. I Remember When Tiffany West popular and she made a lot of Mall appearances during one of her tours. Early 1988 she came to Pompano Square and since my mom worked for Sears and I was always forced to do any of the Little fashion shows in the mall almost at gunpoint my mom pulled some strings and I got to go up on stage with her while she was singing I Think We're Alone Now. Pompano Square mom was one of the first indoor shopping malls and was built at the beginning of the big indoor shopping mall boom in the 1960s. When it was built the city of Pompano Beach was so excited they literally built a lot of the city's infrastructure around the mall itself. Dave Thomas who was the founder of Wendy's built the first Wendy's restaurant across the street from the mall. In the mid-1980s during the Miami Vice craze the mall was completely remodeled and given that Miami Vice Art Deco Vibe where everything became pink and turquoise. Also in the mid-1980s is when the big retro 1950s thing with popular with the neon lights and that 1950s Diner look. Pssm was a perfect combination of the three and it was popular for a while but unfortunately just like banister the neighborhood surrounding the mall started to become more and more black so of course you know what that means. At one point the mall was rated as the most likely place in Broward County to have your car stolen. As white flight hit everybody started moving farther and farther west of Fort Lauderdale which of course brought much newer and much more modern malls. When the mall was sold in 2004 the developers decided to tear the old Mall down leaving the four existing anchors which were Sears JCPenney burdines/ Macys and replacing the empty Dillards formerly Jordan Marsh with a brand new Lowes. They made the outside into an outdoor shopping mall area which actually did bring a lot of new life because around that time the housing bubble started to grow in the area started to go from black to Hispanic. Hispanics are much more family-oriented something new Pompano Citi Centre cater to that by having weekly family events and did well for the next decade and a half but as three out of the four anchors closed it left a lot of empty space so they've recently started converting the old anchor stores into Condominiums.
Those damn kids these days, so funny b/c I am also born in the 80's and remember the same shit being said about us that you are now saying about the kids. Old man look at yourself I'm a lot like you were for sure applies to you.
I remember going here in the early 90s. I was a young kid. So busy and fun. Then i went in the late 90s.. and it was insanely bad. Crazy something can decline that fast
White flight to Lee's Summit. Inner city bussing to Hypermart. We know why this happened.
Why did it happen
@@Jacob-nu4ndIncreased crime.
Purely economic factors, obviously
@@DeroMan64 Tell that to the people who moved away from the Bannister area. Crime effects economics. Bannister is dead. Cerner and some fast food restaurants are there, but that's about it. When blax move into our neighborhoods, it's called cultural enrichment. When YTs move into blatt neighborhoods it's called gentrification. Every single U.S. city, be it Des Moines, Shreveport, Dallas, L.A. or NYC had a similar experience. Entire shopping malls closed due to increased crime caused by blax. It's happening now to Independence Center. I don't think that area will become like Bannister simply due to its size and the population. But some places will close due to crime, fights, shootings, etc. I already know people who stopped shopping there out of safety concerns. For the record I am not suggesting that blax are predisposed to crime. The Democrats did a number on them. Multiple generations of government dependency, fatherless homes and a victimhood mentality have been terrible to much of black America. There were a few blax at the private school I attended. They didn't have any issues with the law. In fact, every black male classmate I had was one of my best friends during childhood. Those kids came from two parent households with conservative fathers.
Used to go to this mall all the time. I loved it. So many good memories there. I was bummed when Fun Factory left but there was too many problems happening and it got to where it didn't feel safe playing games there anymore so I get why they were made to leave the mall. I remember once seeing two other kids having sex in one of the sit down racing games. They didn't even care that people could see them. Eventually going to the mall just didn't feel safe anymore. Fights kept breaking out and there were rumors of people being shot there. Don't know if that actually happened or not but gunfire in my neighborhood back then was becoming quite common. There was a machine gun vs shotgun battle four houses down from me on Olive street one night. The Marlborough neighborhood, while never exactly upscale to begin with, was in a rapid drugs and violence death spiral around this time and was very close to this mall so I'm sure my neighborhood contributed to its demise in some way.
Ah, the memories. Bannister Mall, Walmart Hypermart, and Gamestop.
I was there about 6 months before you shot this video for a Chiefs game and as soon as as I walked in was immediately harassed by some locals and followed the entire time. I only remember a few air brush shops a hat shop and a few other knock off sport shops. Not long after that the Supercenter , Burlington , and every other business in that area was gone. Sad.
I worked at the music store during the mall's height of popularity and saw its downfall from the inside. Contrary to whst these closest racists circus clowns want to think, black youth was not the only factor...Amber is just a likely to try to steal a cd as Jamal. I left and came back to the mall when it was on its death bed and worked at T-Mobile, we were the last national store and what i learned was that the owners of Bannister killed Bannister. The anchors and national stores left because rent in Bannister was more expensive than rent at Ward Parkway (another mall that has bus access and black kids) The owners didnt want the building itself so they murdered the mall, cashed out and bounced.
80s style is the best and classiest design.
My mother and my younger sister stopped there moving from Lawrence Co MO to Holt CO MO. Small town people. 1994. Got robbed. They popped our trunk lock. Lived in the 64138 in 2019-2020. Wife worked for Cerner. It's a Murder Center. It's Awful. Zero Stars over the last 20+ years.
It was a bunch of white guys I bet.
I lived in North KCMO and remember taking my children there in the 90s. Sadly, most malls are closed or are closing for online shopping. Where's the thrill in that?
Went to this mall as a teen was so fun. What was the Mexican Restaurant there? Man what fun in the 80s.
They did this everywhere.
Damn, and were there literally ANY stores open when you made this visit? Didn't seem like it at least! (L.O.L.!) I remember when this mall was featured in a segment of Unsolved Mysteries, which was the Micki Jo West case too.
There was toys r us in bannister mall which closed in 2006
It actually closed because of major retail theft and the increased chance violence.
When it opened it was THE place…..but ultimately the location wasn’t a high enough income location ….Lees summit and Johnson County drew folks away
I remember my auntie taking me here and I used to be excited to throw Pennie’s in the fountain, and I remember the last time I went there was Christmas 2006 and my mom and auntie went Christmas shopping, I wish they where still opened and would’ve remodeled it or something 😩
In the 70s up to around 2005. The Malls were a part of every bodies life young and old. But when the gangs got a hold. The people were afraid to come to the Malls. The parents would drop their kids off and the kids would cause havoc. Along with the car breakins and petty theft etc. A friend of my family daughter was raped at the Indian Springs Mall. So then they had to come up with something to keep the retail sales up. That's when online purchasing blew up especially around 2005 or so. Which ended a quite of few of the retail jobs. So people relied on convience for their shopping. Such as Amazon/Ebay etc.
Bars on everything? And broken glass everywhere?
Mainly went to ward parkway mall but I do remember going to the theater that was outside the mall to see Ghostbusters II and got to see the car after outside. I think the mall had a sharks surf shop so went there a few times for skateboard stuff in the early 90's, but we stayed away since it was such a scummy gang area.
that's where I saw the Masters Of The Universe movie...
Love this!!
thanks!
I remember when it first opened up.
Have u heard of any murder crimes happening here,I saw this strange video of a women named,Gina who supposedly died here on december 19th 2009 inside a mattress,but I have not found anything on her picture or the strange autopsy picture any info would help,thank you.
Tons of crime started happening in that area. People were afraid to shop there.
I remember being at a radio contest there with the power rangers in 96-97 maybe 98 it was awesome
"It's sad that the mall had to close...and the area turned into like the situation that it did.". It's OK to just say it. It tuned into an indoor slum ghetto run by thugs. Thank you for your post.
My 80s mall
These were the good days ❤🎉
Didn't Bannister Mall get shut down because shoppers kept getting robbed by local ruff raff or am thinking of Blue Ridge Mall?
I'm a truck driver and saw that mall from 435 all the time and wondered how it could be closed. Seeing the inside now, it was still in pretty decent shape. It was a shame to see that disappear and I never set foot in the place. I do not go through there any longer, did anything get built on that site? I know they did a lot of excavating afterwards.
the place was amazing truly a gem but the city ended up closing a couple schools and they merged them with the bannister mall area schools south KC and it turned into a violent crime ridden area and it’s never been the same RIP
That was the most dangerous mall in the world....I remember it well💀🤮
Ban guns and every place would be safe
@@Jacob-nu4nd from guns?...the UK has a knife problem and they are banning knives.
Next will be rocks.
Your thought has no reality in reason.
Try again.
@@berserkerkonge8095 pretty sure you just made that up about knives and yes, the country was much safer when people had less access to guns. At least, if there was a mass knifing massacre, I have a better chance of getting away. People were a lot tougher back then because they would fight. people today are soft and just get a gun to solve a problem.
@@Jacob-nu4nd made it up?
What rock do you live under? Pull your head out and stop sniffing your own gasses. It's a fact in Canada too. Man are you ignorant.
You say this before you even do a tiny little Itty bitty amount of research. Holy shit, the whole world knows this but you? Wow...
@@Jacob-nu4nd you have a better chance surviving a gun than a knife. 15 people killed in the UK by one knifed person.
Happens alot. You have no idea what you are talking about...none. you need to get educated and fast.