Mall Stores You Once Loved But No Longer Exist!
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2024
- Shopping malls have were once a desire place to shop, eat and just hang out. Over the years their popularity has declined which has forced some stores to close. In this video we will have a closer look at some of the mall stores you once loved but no longer exist!
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As a Gen-X, malls were our primary source of entertainment. If you weren't home watching MTV, you were out at the mall walking around all day long. It was guaranteed you would see several of your friends there. We would check out the latest clothes, snack at the food court, and usually catch a matinee at the movie theater, or check out the guys at the arcade or sports stores. You could literally spend a whole day there, socializing. I wish today's kids had malls to enjoy.
Also a good walking place on hot days.
Some malls are still around and relevant. I'm glad the social element is still there. Rivergate, Hickory Hollow, Church Street Center, 100 Oaks, Harding & Green Hills were the malls in Nashville
Gen-X here. I know exactly what you mean. I got a reminder with two movies in recent years: Captian Marvel and Wonder Woman 84. 😭
i mean us millennials did the same
it basically died out more with us though
but malls are still pretty popular here, it's just not where gen-z spends a majority of their time unlike us lol
Once in a great while, I will go to Chicago Ridge Mall, eat a slice of bad pizza at Sbarro, go see a movie and then walk around. Unfortunately, the arcade has been replaced by a T-Mobile store.
The internet killed the shopping mall. I remember stores such as Pass Pets, Hickory Farms, Spencer's Gifts, and Orange Julius. I miss the malls because it was a place for people to meet and greet one another.
The shopping mall killed itself by limiting public use of the area to shopping only. If they had allowed people to hang out it might still be around
What I remember of Hickory Farms is the fact they had samples you can taste of pretty much everything in the store… or at one point they did, anyway.
I miss Orange Julius though I never tasted it since I was 4 when I would pass by the store at the mall with my mom. The name always sounded familiar to me.
You can still find Orange Julius at some Dairy Queens.
Spencer’s is still around. There’s one at my local mall. That store was the best when you were 13.
Do you guys remember the mall at Christmas time? All the lights and toy displays 🙂 And the smell of cookies, popcorn, pretzels and perfume and new shoes. It was magical.
And Santa would be there...lots of decorations and Christmas trees with what I used to think were real presents under them. 😂
Yes, the good ole days. I miss them so much.😢
We still have ours it's just downsized
The 1980s for the most part was magical from what I heard :)
I remember in the 80's the mall by me had animatronic Santa elves and reindeer. I loved it. I will never forget those times.
We used to cruise the malls for chicks when I was in HS over 40 years ago and spent hours at the arcade. What fond memories. Wish I could live it all over again
Mall were a young woman hangout
Me too!!❤
Even with all the modern convinces kids have today, I feel like we had more back then. Your thoughts?
@eviehammond9509 definitely life was more better back then for me.. It was a happy childhood without the technology that can warp your mind
I'd like to go back in time for a day or two myself. 1976 and 1977 in particular. Any two days !
The thing I loved about the mall is you could go there and not spent a penny and still feel part of something. Walking through with my friends as a teenager, being poor but could still feel cool just hanging out in a fairly safe environment. Sad those places no longer exist.
Absolutely nailed it.
Malls still do exist LOL. I live close to one, but many of the stores have gone out of business & not many people go there anymore. Honestly, I don't see how it stays in business. People I do see there seem to just be walking around & not really buying anything & I do the same sometimes.
In San Jose, CA a huge east-side mall named "Eastridge" opened in 1971 and claimed to be the largest mall in America. Our family would hang out during the hottest summer days - mom spending hours in a rest area knitting or reading a book while me, my brother, and friends would walk the mall and try to pick up girls. Got lucky pretty often, but once they found out we lived in one of the poorest east side neighborhoods, the girls' parents didn't allow them to hang with us anymore. Yup, good times. 😅
There are still malls
Those who are sayin "there are still malls" I think what Ladybugmom means is that its not what it once was. Why bother heading to the mall for anything when you can order anything online? Stores are trying to be more creative to stay in business anywhere. As a child I remember MusicLand then as teen onward, Suncoast.
A baby boomer here and I thought 'The Mall' was a great concept and I miss it terribly! One stop, park once, everything under one roof where it's warm, safe, and you saw
ALL your friends! You didn't have to go outside in the heat or the cold and it was a festive atmosphere. I'll never understand why they fell out of favor.... but I betcha they'll
be back one day :) It was particularly nice to go during the holidays.... always decorated and really fun. You could do ALL your Christmas shopping in one place, it was so
much easier than today.
Walmart and Amazon.Killed malls. Loved it. One stop shopping.
They will be back again. Before malls we had downtown stores and plaza's. Then people wanted to be under one roof while shopping. The mall was born. Now we are going back to strip centers and single building stores. Everything makes a circle, this will too
the mall during the holidays was the place to be... the look.. the activity.. the vibe..... that was a great time in my life.. i miss that..
WalMart started the downfall. The Internet and Amazon finished the job. So sad. So many fond memories of our area malls.
I don't blame Walmart here. Our Walmart, Kmart (which is no more here), and mall were all aways packed before late 90s/early 00s and everyone started getting online. Black Friday wasn't even big this year. I think everyone here went shopping online.
I agree.
pretty much the internet and especially amazon that did it. I don't think walmart was as much of a factor except for maybe putting smaller mom & pop shops out of business.
Actually, the downfall started when rents became outrageous and stores started leaving.
@@jimroscovius That was part of it here as well.
Malls, Bowling alleys, Roller rinks, Drive in theaters.. It's so sad that it's all gone. It's like when you're having a really good dream then something wakes you up and you're totally bummed.
Those were all super fun things to do as a kid, teen and family etc. Thank you for watching Phill!
Not completely gone - there's bowling alleys - there's a drive in about 45 minutes from me in Hartford Michigan
And there's a roller world here in Kalamazoo
I know what you mean, most of these places that used to be so safe and fun have been ruined by the elements moving into the area. Much of this is forced on us by the government for “diversity” done with our tax dollars.
@@KOSMICKEN09 yea but if you actually go to any of these places they operate on shoestring budgets now and it doesn't feel nearly as fun/exciting as it used to when they were at their prime. social media, modern video game consoles, and online shopping, etc have all made this new generation antisocial and unathletic.
Drive-in theaters need to make a comeback! The tech to make it an excellent experience is available.
I met my wife at a mall in 2002. She wrote her phone number on a Hot Topic receipt(still have it). We are still together to this day, happily married with 3 kids.
I met my wife in Surefall glade in EverQuest. . . but i'm sure Hot Topic woulda been pretty sweet too. Actually... i remember going there in the late 90's with every girlfriend i ever had lol. So it was entirely possible.
Same here, I met my wife at the mall passing through sears in 2002, 6 kids later still kicking lol
Now that is awesome!
I love that ❤
My sister met her late husband at the mall when they were both very young. They had many and happy years together.
I miss the old book stores terribly! Hopefully we won't lose Barnes & Noble and Books A Million
Agree with you 100% re Barnes and Noble but never heard of Books A Million. Where did they start?
I LOVED Fashion Bug. It's so sad seeing all of these store chains go under. Going to the mall used to be great because you could visit multiple different stores at once and had such a variety of items to purchase. We'd spend hours at the mall shopping. If it was a rainy day, the mall was a great place to go for some fun. Everything today is online and it takes away from the experience of shopping.
And Fashion Bug was not solely a plus-size store; it included plus-size, which was awesome! We ALL shopped there!
I grew up in the 80s. The malls were where I met friends and socialized. We'd spend hours there. We didn't just shop, we had pizza, saw movies, went to the arcade. My first 'real ' job was in a mall in the late 80s, all the way through the mid 90s. The mall was such a huge part of my teen and early adult life. It's so sad to see them go.
In jr.high ,we all went to the mall every Friday night. We'd see movies, eat pizza, shop & just hang out with all of our friends
Fur sure!😂
Yeah I remember well into the 90s and even the 2000s malls had something to offer. The last two years have been hard on malls.
Me too.... I miss it so much.
I miss the malls! They even closed Toys r us too! My local mall looks like a ghost town with many stores closed down. On the one end where Sears used to be….is now a doctors office. It’s so weird and so sad
This was a heartbreaking walk through my teenage and adult years. It just reminds me that the America that I grew up in doesn't exist anymore.
Sad but true. So glad ima genXr to remember what a safe society was like.
Things change, and the US our parents grew up in was gone in the 90s.
There was a Twilight Zone episode in the 50’s where a guy was transported back to 1890. There is just something about being middle aged that makes us nostalgic for the past and pessimistic about the direction we’re heading. Probably always been that way since we’ve lived long enough to get to middle age.
@@JayKay9112000 LIKEWISE! Believe me, I'm 52, and LOVE nostalgia! The ONLY thing I watch on T.V., TODAY, is the NFL, OR the news. Also, knowing what's on T.V., TODAY, I've HAVEN'T turned on MY T.V., at my condo, in about a YEAR. THAT being said, my "new T.V.," today, is RUclips. In my opinion, talk about a GREAT "time machine!"
That really gets to me and makes me realize how nothing is the same. The America we once knew is definitely unrecognizable nowadays. I’m 27 now but I grew up before the tech took over todays generation. The mall nearest to me just filed for bankruptcy and many stores have closed. Several other northern Chicago/Illinois malls are also closing retail shops rapidly. Even the parks I grew up had numerous benches and several basketball courts, playgrounds, water fountains, etc.
Slowly but surely all of the outdoor and indoor amenities are disappearing. The parks are becoming less fun and have less things to do, just like the malls unfortunately.
It’s so sad here in US that the malls look so empty nowadays compared to the malls in Asia and Europe. I’m glad I was a teen in the 80s and had so much fun in the mall shopping especially in Contempo casuals, wet seal, esprit, Benetton, rave, 5-7-9, petite sophisticates, express, Kinney shoes and etc.
I loved Contempo Casuals!
I missed shopping for my Levi 501 raw denim and was so excited to come home and washed them to see how it perfectly mold in to my shape. All MADE IN USA 🇺🇸
I loved Contempo. That was a cool store😊
Wow,someone who remembers Kenny Shoes.
Yeah, it is interesting for me to hear that in the US the mall are not a thing anymore. We have them here (Europe) and they still full of people (too much, for my taste, though) and you have a cinema in there very often too. And yes, it is sort of a town square which in a way makes me sad that the malls robbed us of all those small shops and a real town square. And we still have disproportionally more small shops in here than in the US.
One thing that was great about the mall that not many people mention, is that when you became of age to get your first job you could get hired. Go to the mall walk into any of the stores and ask if they were hiring. The bigger stores like Sears would have a personnel dept. You could walk into a mall and leave gainfully employed at your very first job that day! Nowadays they just refer you to the website. Back then some manager would take pity on you and give you your first real job.
As a young girl in the late 1990s, I yearned so deeply to shop and wear clothing from Limited Too. That brand was worn by all of the cool, pretty, and popular All-American girls. My Mother and Father who are now both deceased 🥺 were exceptionally hardworking immigrants. They simply could not afford to purchase anything from Limited Too for me. I would sometimes receive their catalogs in the mail and would slowly turn each page, imagining myself in the clothes, pajamas, and surrounded by their incredible bedroom accessories. I was far too young to fully appreciate and be as profoundly touched in my heart and Soul as I am now for my dear Parents and all they did to provide me with an excellent education and quality of life. I may not have been the best dressed child, but I was blessed beyond measure and still am, because of their immense and admirable sacrifices.
Try online for lightly used clothes, Ebay or others sites might have them. Someone might have something!
@@ABigStupidUglyOgre Ha! Please sense the sarcasm...that was my perspective as a literal young child.
Beautifully written!
@Karl with a K got that right can't say it any better!
I can relate….I’m American but my mom couldn’t afford clothes from the Limited Too either….as a child u don’t understand and just want to be able to wear cool shit like the kids in school. Many of us went thru that at one point or another
I miss the malls. It's too bad so many are gone.
Not in Dubai, of course, not everyone has the to fly there.
And the ones left are half empty
One in McAllen TX recently went through an expansion and all locations are rented out
@@knerduno5942 that’s good to hear
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My mom LOVED Casual Corner! She died suddenly in 1979. She liked the The Limited also.
Very fashion conscious n business wear.
I'm so sorry. 😢. She's in heaven
I’m 50 now but when I was 16 I worked at the store in the mall called Rave, I loved working there because I loved the clothes and I got a discount. Also Limited I loved shopping there . The 80’s were a great time . I hope they don’t start closing down malls I still love shopping in them . Great video .
I worked at a Rave too when I was 16! good memories😊
I remember that store; I was born in the 80s
I love that Rave and Merry-Go-Round store 😄
Does that mall still exist? It is so sad that malls are closing down so quickly.
I remember Rave and Limited Too stores. I was a 90’s kid 00’s teen.
Indoor shopping Malls were so special, especially if it had an indoor fountain, where you threw your change in. Thanks for the nostalgia!
Yes, I prefer more of the indoor malls
( The ac from the hot weather/ warmth from the cold weather) Outdoor malls you're exposed to the weather....at least until u go inside a store
@@drinkwatereatmelons7048 yes! I just had a baby and its the only place where we can have a day to walk around when its 20 degree weather
When I was very young, I remember how the mall had great big fountains
Had a beautiful awesome mall a couple of towns away and it was torn down last year. Shame.
I often stole that change. I was a naughty boy.
My mall experience was 1980's when I was a kid, and 1990's when I was a teen. The malls were the best place on earth: Food court, clothing stores, Toys R Us, arcades, radio shack, music stores (which was my first job), video rental, furniture stores, they had everything. It was so beautiful around Christmas time. It was a great place to go for a job, and to meet girls. All my dates as a teen came from asking out girls at the mall. I miss being young and shopping at the malls. Honestly, I think malls made life so much happier.
TOYS R US **WWWOOHOOO** & FOOD COURT 🥳🥳🥳
They're even a good hiding place in case of zombie apocalypse!
We still have a TOYS R US near me (Canada). Most malls are turning high-end, or dying.
Yes I grew up in the same era. “Going to the mall”, could be an all day thing when I was a teenager. I starting losing interest in my late 20’s though in leisurely shopping. I would just go into one or two stores and want to run out.
I never go now. It’s scary going anywhere these day with all the mass shootings. Also, hopefully materialism is going out of style…
Maybe one day when we are elderly, malls will somehow be popular again. Maybe somehow society will get its innocence back a little. Maybe culture will go back to actually interacting with real people.
The mall was my happy place in the 70's ,80's and 90's
Malls need to make a come back! It's good mentally and physically to go out shopping seeing things first hand and socializing!
Agreed, we are being brainwashed by social media, we need to go out and live face to face again, live in the moment, not online
The land is gone. They are building tons of low income apartments at our closed malls here in Ca. Going to look like dystopian wasteland in 20 years
Some are coming back
Saw a story on the news where developers are converting the mall space into pickle ball courts
Better than sitting at a damn screen.
I agree! 😊
The store I miss the most is Hello Kitty. Our mall had an entire store dedicated to Hello Kitty and Friends. You can find some stuff online but not the stationary that was once available.
I got my ears pierced at hello Kitty when I was 4. (1979). I loved that store!
@TheJulithegreat I miss it so much too. I would just look around the store for what seemed like hours.
There used to be a store in the oaks mall in Gainesville ,Fla it was shaped like a snoopy dog house and sold all the hello kitty stuff and stationary in the 80's. My Aunt lived there she used to get me gifts from there.
I worked at KB Toys in the late 90s and it was one of the best times of my life. Working in a mall then was totally like the scenes in Fast Times. It was like a little community where everybody shared discounts and gossip from the early morning mall walkers to the food court workers and mall security. This brought back a lot of good memories 👍
You got that right buddy I wish it was still the 90s
I worked at Sears in the 80s. Had big fun at the mall eating mall food like Orange Julius and going Spencer's Gift Shop
KB toys was Awesome! My Niece still has the Raggedy Anne and Andy Christmas dolls I bought Her in 1992, She never took them out of the box.
I forever curse Mitt Romney for killing the store.
I worked there 99-2000. It was so much fun. Bought stuff with my discount. I loved going on break and going to the food court to eat. I still have my uniform tshirt.
My favorite memories of the Malls was between Thanksgiving and Christmas in the 1980’s. It was always elbow to elbow and walking along seeing all those wonderful Christmas lights and decorations. Santa Claus usually arrived by a helicopter when time came. I so miss those days and the Malls😢
Santa arriving by helicopter but accidentally getting blown several miles off course and landing in Al Bundy's yard lol and breaking his leg then Al Bundy takes over as Santa Claus. The kids in the neighborhood ask why Santa goes to Al Bundy's house. Everybody needs a little cheer during the holidays
I would often go to the malls at that time just to take in all the decorations!
Different times for sure. The world is just so wrong now
I love malls and other stores during the holidays, not hte crowds so much but the atmosphere is just lovely :)
@@MrJPort10 You are sooo right, everything is wrong now. I miss my childhood!😔
I’ll never forgot a store our mall had called World of Science. I was around 10 and they had telescopes, science kits, games, fossils, videos and other great things, and it was fun to look around. One year I spent Christmas money on a piece of amber with an ant inside and I still have it almost 30 years later.
in my mall, it was called the KCET store
I'm 29 and that was my favorite store as a kid! I called it the world store and forced my parents there every time we went to the mall
Pretty sure our store was called "Nature Connection" i loved it
I remember a store I think it was called nature company, I love that store
I’m a Filipino and a Gen Z. Its so odd but interesting for me to see Millennial and Gen X Americans reminiscing abt mall culture. Malls here are very alive and teens still hangout there.
Sure teens go there, but not like we did. You would meet people there, flirt with girls, get run over by old lady mall walkers (older ladies would come in their track suits and use the mall like it was an indoor track) , it was different. At night you would see a line of station wagons with parents waiting to pick up their kids and friends. it was a strange makeshift community. Not exactly sure why, but when I walk into a mall now I just don't see people interacting the way they did. It's more like a hollow facsimile. I guess I'm just getting old, my parents probably felt the same way about drive-in movies and malt shops.
In the 80s you could browse through a tape/record store for hours with music playing. Meet a girl/boy your age walk to the arcade play a game of air hockey together, and if you were real lucky and hit it off, make plans to see her tomorrow to catch a movie at the same mall.
It had a feeling more of like being at a county fair.... wandering.... exploring. I miss it. Even the old lady mall walkers.
I live in China. I used to hang out at the U.S. malls as a teen. So cool to see the beautiful malls here in China!!!
The purpose of malls was not just commerce. It was the town square. It was where people went to interact with others in their greater community. Yes, online shopping helped destroy the shopping part, but even worse has been the replacement of the "town square" by social media. We are seeing the repercussions in our society, especially in the younger generation. Something needs to change.
No it literally was commerce and to make money
@@americand0lphin Fundamentally yes, overall no. It became the new town square. Was that used as part of the marketing sure. But denying this aspect of the local mall is 100% incorrect.
@@therealjohnsquad I agree with ya...much more about gatherings and the feel of good times. The stuff we didn't understand and being told we'd understand when we were older, but than it vanished before our time came. The heartbreak of those mysteries slipping away like in Narnia. People cared to know each other back than. We didn't go through the change but we felt it...
@@americand0lphin said the person who grew up in country and yacht clubs.
@@americand0lphin That is correct. They were built strictly with the ideal of making money, but to do so they were designed as a place to gather. The first of a two part strategy was to get people to show up and voluntarily spend their time there. The second part was to entice them to spend their money
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this! I miss the 80’s & 90’s! We’ll never see those days again! 😢
😢we can cry together I totally 💯 percent agree!!! I’m a 80s baby/90s kid and was a teen for a few years at the turn of the century! So I enjoyed a lot of music, tv shows, malls, family travel etc and feel like I was born during the best time of the world!! I still watch reruns of unsolved mysteries, Golden Girls, Cosby show/A different world etc
It really was the best time. I miss it very much.😢
@@homehere9817me too to all of that. I was born in 79 and wouldn't trade childhood in the 80s and teen in the 90s for anything. Everything just feels so negative and defeated now.
No. The world is so bad now. Evil
Does anyone remember Contempo Casuals? This was a young women’s clothing store which specialized in preteens, teens, and young 20s, and sold complete outfits, including jewelry, mostly by color story. The quality and styles were fantastic, and in our mall this store appeared around 1976/77, and was ultra popular. Chess King for young men wanting a Friday or Saturday date night outfit, and Contempo Casuals for the middle schooler or high schooler wanting to wear the most popular clothes!
Yes I used to shop in thar store to
Yes I remember I used to work there in California
Contempo is where I bought all my clothes when I was a teenager. This was in California... Glad someone mentioned it.
What a trip to the past!! I'm 51 now and I worked at B. Dalton Booksellers while in high school. I can still visualize exactly where it was located in my hometown mall and remember my lunch breaks most of the time consisted of a brief stroll through the Radio Shack and then to the food court for lunch. My favorite was Orange Julius. I still have many of the books that I bought with my employee discount lol.
I loved working at the mall. A bonus was the the girls that hung out.
I'm so glad I'm a 77' baby and got to experience all the 80's and 90's. I have so many memories cemented at the local Mall! Pizza after the movies, my 1st kiss behind Sears [ 🤭] and winning tons of tickets to spend when playing air hockey. I'm 45 and so glad I related to all that you shared! TYSM for sharing!
And I’m glad I grew up in those 70’s. The mall was the hang out place and I loved it so much. No one was getting in trouble, playing air hockey then walking across the aisle to eat pizza. These stores they mention now are not even that old. Lol
Me too. My friends & I spent hours & hours at malls in the 1990s! We would get dropped off by our parents & walk around & shop all day! Once we could drive - we would drive down literally every Thursday to go to Wet seal & buy a new shirt to wear to the club that night! That was in college. We had the best times shopping at Spencer’s gifts too!
78 baby here and yaaass ma'am. 5-7-9 was my GO TO and I love Payless ❤️🥰❤️ And I dated more arcade dudes than I can remember 🤣😂 #LongLiveThe80s I miss OUR malls 🥰❤️
That was a fortunate boy. :)
Same here 🤗
Don't tell anyone, but us Seniors remember the wonderful 5 and dime stores we loved to shop in. Kresge, Cunninghams, Ben Franklin. Woolworth. They were small but they seemed to have everything. Many had a place to eat and drink called a diner. Sometimes you waited a half hour to eat there while shopping around lunch time. Some had what we called soda fountains. A sandwich with soup (for a buck) really hit the spot!
We had a Ben Franklin in our small town in Indiana. It was a great store. I wish it was still open.
@@weaselboyjenkins3931 I used to help run a Kresge with wood floors! I loved that store. I used to go to Ben Franklin later.
In Indianapolis we had G.C. Murphy's. When I was little in the 60's. They had a little of everything thing. I fell in love with fabric and sewing at that store.
Yeah I remember the Woolworth in our town had a soda fountain Until maybe 1979
In the late 70s my father used to drive us everywhere for vacation so we always stop and small towns and I loved These stores
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@@cokesquirrel It was a quieter time. We were usually moving at a slower pace. Now, don't get me wrong. We still had some serious issues. Can you say threat of a nuclear war?
I worked at Waldenbooks for a few years in college and it was a great experience. We could take the books home to read, got a great discount and it was cool watching people line up for new bestsellers. There was a B. Dalton at the opposite end of the mall and we would always joke around with them about our store's rivalry.
Waldenbooks was my favorite store. My mall used to have 3 book stores, one on each level but Waldenbooks was my all time fave.
I loved Walden Books when I was a youngster in the 70s and early 1980s.
@@beigenegress2979 It was pretty great, right? It was 1985 when I worked there.
& B. Dalon books 📚
@@loydkline Yeah. We didn’t have B. Dalton in my home region, but when I transferred to an out of state university, I recall B. Dalton bookstores in numerous locations in the jurisdiction where I attended university.
This made me very nostalgic for the 80s and 90s.
What I miss the most about shopping malls was when virtually everyone of them had arcades, which you hardly see anymore! They of which was what made them so great, along with the book & toy stores too. Granted malls are still around, even if they're nowhere near the amazing, magical places they once were during their heyday though.
I was always a big arcade gamer back in the day. Sadly arcades got hit by a 1-2 punch of Playstation and malls wanting kids out the mall.
@@WALTERBROADDUS You could also literally spend an entire day inside an arcade back in the 80's., and early 90's too! Sadly arcade games lost their soul, and what they gained in graphics and sound, was also lost in imagination, and spirit. The fact that home consoles began to become just as powerful as arcade hardware, while arcades also developed a reputation as these seedy places where trouble often happened doomed their reputation as time went on. Granted they still may technically be around, but will sadly never be the amazing places they were during their heyday though.
@@freakyfornash So true! I remember being so addicted to Pac Man and Donkey Kong when they first came out. I'd beg my parents for quarters whenever we were at the mall so I could go play those games (and Qbert and Tetris and Galaga and Asteroids). I was thrilled when a local bowling alley added on space for a HUGE arcade filled with all the games I loved. But the arcades that still exist these days are full of games I can barely look at, with all the busy graphics and flashing lights (not to mention the noise), and can't figure out how to play .
@@vickyschieman2694 The only newer games I'm really interested in are light gun games, which at least still have a good home in arcades these days. That and maybe modern ones loosely based off older titles, such as the still fairly new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game, which came out in 2017. But even then, it's sad how far down arcades fell, and will never again reach their pinnacle like they did back in the day, until uber power consoles, and even online play took that away, never to return again too. 🙁
I live in a majority Hispanic town and our local mall still gets a lot of shoppers. In Mexico there's a plaza in the middle of town where people go to hang out and shop, in America there is malls. It's sad to see these 3rd places disappear. I feel like America needs malls and plazas more than ever, folks are so lonely in this country.
The government's goal seems to be to isolate and divide people to make them easier to manipulate.
One of the reasons that malls have been shutting down across the US , his crime and the destruction of the suburbs by good jobs leaving the country and addiction overtaking the people.
Amen
I live in the Chicago land area and there are still a lot of shoppers in malls especially the big 5: the outlets of Aurora and Chicago, the woodfield mall, the fox valley and the oak Brook malls. I think it’s mostly small town or small suburb malls that are maybe disappearing?
@@Blue71974 I'm convinced too many malls were built in the US, many years ago. I think there always will be certain shopping centers and malls that exist, but that too many malls were built in past decades(1970s to the 90s).
The mall was also a great form of social introduction for young people. I was a young man, when I got a part-time job at Miller's Outpost. The holidays were very hectic and I learned how to deal with customers. Wanted to quit, but the Manager literally told me that he wanted me out-front, because I was a cute guy and the amount of young women coming into the store had increased, due to my presence! For a shy guy, that was a huge ego boost!
I remembered all but a couple of these stores. There are certainly others that could be added to this list. 1. Payless Shoes 2. Radio Shak. 3. Suncoast Music 4. Electrioncs Boutique
It's funny how clueless I was in Radio Shack. Now I could go in there and actually nerd out over the components
Ohrbachs, May company, Robinsons, Tower records, Block Buster, Montgomery Wards, Wool Worth, Buster Brown shoes, Thriftt Drug store, Toys R Us, is Sears still around?
I'm 53, im glad i got the chance to experience all of the great stores we had back then 70,80-90
I'm 56
This made me smile but my soul cries for the old days, simple things, best days😊❤
I understand what you mean. Thank you for watching!
The coolest thing I ever saw was a community that formed a cooperative and bought a dying mall in their neighbourhood. They renovated it in partnership with a few big players that liked the idea. They turned the mall into a farmer's market with some permanent local businesses, a consignment store, an arcade where you pay by the hour, 2 movie theaters (one for new releases and one for old), an indoor children's playground, a massive food court with 2 chain restaurants attached, a spa, doctor's office, some offices (I believe one was a law firm), and a few other things. They turned the mall into the kind of place you can spend an entire day with the family, on your own, or with some friends, have a good time, and not spend a fortune. The volume of people they had go through there was ridiculous. Being there on a weekend was like being at the mall in the late 80's and early 90's. When I went I was told to plan an entire day there, but I wasn't expecting much, so I didn't. I wish I had planned 2 days.
Thats wonderful! I live in a small town our mall is hanging by a thread. It amazing to me that its even able to stay open. I would love to see my community do something like this. Unfortunately i dont think people have the money or the ambition to do it. It makes me sad to see. I remember the mall in its hay day and spent a large portion of my childhood there. If I ever hit the lottery or come into a huge chunk of money I would pay to revitalize it. Lol.
Can you link more information about this please?
More info on this mall farmer market thing?
I’ve thought about something similar but clearly don’t have the money to do it. Turn the mall into an indoor destination where families could find restaurants, leisure activities, bars. Would love to see them repurposed.
The coolest thing I saw is when one time I was hiking across a shallow part of a creek and saw a water snake attack and catch a fish
Was surprised you didn’t mention Lerner and Hit or Miss.
Boy do I miss several of the stores you did mention: Merry Go Round, Casual Corner, Deb, Wilson’s, Fashion Bug. And they just got rid of Dress Barn where I live.
But also other stores that were popular around here were: Jean Nicolé, Ups N Down, Winkleman’s.
Our BIG mall was Randall Park Mall… it was the largest mall in the United States for a when it was first built. I miss it. The land is now the site of an Amazon Center. 😔😢
Bakers shoes, Just Shirts, Sam Goody Music
Omg hit or miss
I am an 80’s baby, and the mall was THE PLACE TO BE! You definitely saw at least 2-3 of your friends. It was the place your parents would let you go when you were fairly young to hang out and get a feel of freedom and independence. I loved Gadzooks, Spencer’s, etc.. malls are now such a nostalgic vibe (never thought I’d say that)!
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It's sad to see your childhood mall from the 80s closed and boarded up. Mine was the formerly massive Crossroads Mall in Oklahoma City. So many great memories, and now it's gone. 😔 I can still taste the Orange Julius..
Same!
Agree! And Spencer's was THE place where we teens always went cause of the different stuff they had.
Where I grew up in rural Kentucky the mall was about the only place to take a girl on a date before driving age . Just about everybody’s parents would drop them off at the mall catch a movie , food court, if it went well you would end up in the arcade that had dark corners. If it didn’t go well somebody at the arcade always had buds. Such simpler times
I was born in 1972 so I was growing up right in the prime era of malls in the late 70s and 80s and it was always such a great social experience. I always remember walking around the mall and my mother letting me walk around alone with my cousins and friends and eating in the food court it just always gave you a sense of freedom as a kid. KB TOYS as shown here was a place I ALWAYS wanted to go in starting in 1981 to get toys. It was just a great time to grow up and I thank you for making this video.
I started with my mom when I was little and did the most hanging out there as a teen.
Yes it was that sense of freedom I liked. I still get this rush of anticipation today walking up to a mall or even a dead mall. In the Chicago area, and one mall, Woodfield was still similar to the prime era of malls well into the 90s because it would get these huge crowds on the weekends.
@@turtleislandlac1490 OMG!!!!b Woodfield was the mountain of all malls around here. I am in Rockford. We have Cherryvale which began when I was a teen and Machesney Park was the place for my daughter and her friends to go in the 90s. These places were gold. But, Woodfield was the dream of all malls around here
I worked and hung out at Cherryvale in the late 70s. With my daughter being a 2nd gen mall rat it was the thing. It was Towne Square, Social meeting place, job generator, gossip square, ect. My daughter even ended up working in the same bookstore and me in the 90s. It was so fun and bonding. But, everyone in Rockford wanted to be at Woodfield. Right there as you came off the interstate. And now that I do art I love going there still for Dick Blicks.
@@dianelake7802Yes Woodfield got even better in the 90s with the expansion of its west wing. When it was still under construction, they had this dark tunnel with neon lights that led to the other wing with Nordstrom. It was so cool to walk through! They removed all the fountains over the years and it got a facelift a few years ago and even added a food court. It is still quite busy at Woodfield but they also took a hit like other malls when Lord and Taylor and Sears closed.
The good ole days, the malls in the 70s and 80s, what a blast.
Growing up in the nineties, KB Toys was one of the coolest places at the mall.
Humanity is far less social than it ever has been before at least in-person. This is the reason malls are shutting down. Nobody wants to hang out, nobody wants to talk to each other. Each bit of socialization is met with pure hostility because people have become too accustomed to the use of the internet. If it had died, humanity dies with it. This is also part of the reason people steal from these malls now and are so used to violence and not caring if they were shot for doing so.
Malls still run rampant here in Japan. I always say Japan feels like 90s America that is why I love it here so much partly.
Thank you for watching and sharing that they are all doing well in Japan.
I would have never thought malls thrive in a highly civilized society?!? LOL, just kidding. Japan is a great place and the reason why malls thrive there is people aren't getting jumped, shot, attacked, robbed and abducted like they do here in the USA. There's a reason why malls fell into decline here in the United States and WE ALL KNOW what it is but act oblivious to it on this thread.
@@Magnus_Magnusson_702dont agree with this. The potential for danger is of course something that lurks in all our minds although i dont think THAT is what inhibits people from shopping etc. its the fact that anything you need is often a button click away on your phone and theres no absolute NEEd to be at a mall or wherever. even movies can be streamed. so those that do go out want a full experience and its a choice you are making rather than it being a necessity as it was in eras past. OH and also the wealthy hoard their money and the poor keep getting poorer. thAt too.
@@24kgoldplatedvermeil I think Rowdy may be correct. I lived in Houston for 41 years, and only moved away to retire a couple of years ago.
Before I left, the malls that were in the nicer areas of town seemed to still be thriving, whereas the malls that were in the not-so-nice parts of town were practically dead.
@@Magnus_Magnusson_702 Your reasoning doesn't make an ounce of sense. The whole of America isn't falling victim to high crime rates. That's mostly big cities run by... well, you should already know who. Anyway, I live in a small city in the south considered to be very safe and our mall is failing horribly! Crime has nothing to do with why OUR mall is dying. The internet is the main reason it's dying. Today's youth only care about social media clout and could care less about living outside of their smartphone. Maybe some of the malls are dying because of crime but it is far from the main reason most of them are dying!
This really brings back some memories! Back in the 1960s, not everyone had air conditioning. Even in areas like south Florida, a day at an air conditioned mall meant giving you the respite you needed from roasting outside! Meeting with friends in a cool environment was everything! Thanks for sharing!
Do you remember Jordan Marsh? And Burdines? I loved going there it smelled so good! Yes, great place to cool off!
@@tracydean3678 Hi Tracy! I sure do remember Jordan Marsh and Burdines! I grew up in North Miami Beach and went to 163rd Street shopping mall. There was a Richards there too.
I felt so special when my Mom bought a pair of shoes at Jordan Marsh! I wore those shoes until they fell apart! 😂. The stores At Christmas were so beautiful! I still remember it so vividly!
@@janfromseattle Great memories! I loved Jordan Marsh too. I went to he one in Ft. Lauderdale on Sunrise. I recall buying my Mom a daisy necklace and matching earrings that I thought were so pretty. And on another day a maxi dress I wore ill it was well worn! It was a good time to be a girl😍
@@tracydean3678 I agree Tracy!
As a previous owner of a brick and mortar retail store, rental space is outrageous. It drove me to move my retail store to 100% online only which I currently still run. That is why malls collapse. All that is left are huge chains selling the same exact China goods. Very few mom and pop stores left.
Thanks for bringing this up. It's not highlighted enough.
As a kid of the 80s, my local mall was the first building in our state to have an escalator! Fond memories of buying Lisa Frank stickers in Spencers, shopping at Benetton & Lerners, buying Esprit at Dillard’s & waiting/running through Sears when it opened to buy Bon Jovi tickets before they sold out. All of this was done without parental supervision. Sigh.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories Jen!
Lisa Frank stickers school supplies were my favorite there's a Spencer's here at my mall
Thats awesome. Bon Jovi tickets too! Sounds like some rad times. You ran through Sears to by tickets, I'm just curious, did you buy the tickets in Sears?
@@visionop8 we did! I was too young to know who was actually selling the tickets so I just googled it & there’s a Reddit post about someone waiting in line at Sears for Pink Floyd tickets. This said it was Ticketron who sold them which Ticketmaster eventually bought (?).
@@visionop8 Sears always had a Ticket Master in the back of the store in the malls
We sure loved Borders! It was a favorite Sunday excursion. Our store had a living room area with comfy chairs and a fireplace. When they added a cafe it was nirvana! We spent hours browsing. Once we made our purchase (often near $100) we were relaxing with the NYT over gourmet coffee and scones. sigh.
I miss Borders. I liked them better than Barnes and Noble.
@@58jharris Those were the days. We never had a Borders in a mall. Instead, there was a really nice stand-alone at Kenny Rd and W. Henderson in Columbus. I could spend hours in that store.
Borders was my favorite store in all the city. But it was not in a mall. It was in a strip mall and it was huge. It was by Best Buy and Home Depot and Lowes. I absolutely lived at Borders as a grown up in the 90s and early 2000s. Now it is gone and I still mourn. I love and always will hard copy books. Computer generated books to download don't have the feel or scent or sheer magic
Unfortunately I frequently witness people reading and then putting back on the shelf dozens of magazines..I even saw people ripping pages from magazines, literally stealing.
i used to work at borders my fav job ever! i miss it every day 2002-2007
I was born in 1972 and I was at our local mall at least 1-2 a week… we lived at the mall on the weekends… such good memories, hanging out with friends in the food court, going to movies and shopping!!
Loved the County Seat! 501 Jeans and those creamy yellow corduroys that we wore with our cludder boots - such a hit in the 70s ! 😊
Fashion Bug wasn't just plus size clothes. Half of the store was standard women's sizes and even some jrs sizes, and half was plus sizes, which meant it was one of the few places that plus sized girls could actually go with their friends and everyone could try on clothes together and not have someone stuck just looking at accessories while the others shopped.
Fashion bug is where I got my first credit card (and shopped there all the time) when I was maybe 19. I was definitely not plus size back then; I was so confused when it was described that way. Thanks for confirming my memory wasn’t mistaken, lol!
I am plus size, and I really appreciated Fashion Bug. I got some of the coolest dresses there. Still have them, still wear them. Comfort plus attractiveness. And durability. I wear these dresses frequently and repeatedly, and they aren't showing even the beginning of wearing out. Well made merchandise. So sorry it's gone.
lol... standard women!
Fashion Barn & The Limited were two more.
I had a Fashion Bug store in my town and, it was a stand alone store. I don't remember seeing a Fashion Bug store in any of the malls that were close to me. Anyways...
I was thinking the same thing, the store was not just plus sized. This store had all women's sizes. I used to shop there often.
I remember some of these. Window gazing was a tradition for malls near Christmas. Families would go to malls just to look at decor.
I worked in display, loved it, it was my favorite job.Then the 100 year old Dept. store (local chain)was bought out by Ohio's "close-out" king, and closed after he dragged it down. THEN the malls other store did less and less, by way of displays.
I loved window shopping!
Is it a sign of my age that I find myself massively disappointed with there not being as many successful malls any more? These places were such a prominent element of my life growing up, and somewhere into my mid thirties they just started to die off. So many of the malls I went to when I was younger are now either closing, closed, or torn down.
Not a sign of age, its a sign of your humanity. Internet ruined everything.
B Dalton is a big one for me. I was in my local store at least 2 twice a week! Yes, I've gone to the dark side and read most books on my phone but I'll never forget the excitement of new release day and the smell of a fresh, new book!
I always loved going to the mall as a kid during Christmas time. The decor and the large tree in the middle of the building was my favorite.
I enjoyed going at that time as well. Thank you for watching and sharing some memories!
@Rachael Williams Yes!! I am not sure how old you are, but I loved this in my college-age years. I used to love seeing the happy kids and window shopping for the expensive gifts I couldn't afford.
Oh the nostalgia. I was so excited to see the mall scenes in Stranger Things. It brought back a lot of memories and they did a real authentic job in creating it. I know it's a long shot, but I hope that our society can go back to that kind of living again.
Yeah that'd be great, it was a fun time when growing up in the 90s-early 00s
I still shop at the mall, but that’s because I don’t know how to shop online…😅
@@mrs.cordova8286 If you're smart enough to make a RUclips account you're smart enough to shop online, literally all you need to know is your own credit card information lol. If you prefer the in store experience just say that, nothing wrong with wanting to buy whatever you're looking at in an instant instead of waiting for it.
My kids & I watch stranger things and I tell them how great the eighties were
In the 90s I worked in the mall where they filmed season 3. Watching it bent my reality a bit. Still not quite straight.
There is still a pretty decently functioning mall where I live in North Carolina. I live in a college town and lots of the kids go there. Thanks for the memories in this video! I’m 50 and loved going to The Mall when I was a teenager. We would spend the whole day there, trying on clothes and buying when we had money, eating junk from the food court, seeing movies and playing in the arcade. Good times!
This is depressing... my fav thing as a kid in the 80's was visiting a mall I had never been to before... exploring it was so exciting.
Every time I watch a video like this my nostalgia meter goes through the roof! I was an 80s teen and the mall was always an awesome time with friends just hanging out and enjoying each other’s company, eating junky food court food, watching a movie… Man, those were good times!
Good times for sure 🍕🌭🍔🍟🍦👕👖🩱👗🛍👡👜🧢👟
AMEN or LIKEWISE!
I was born in 80s but yes the late 90s was still hanging on to the 80s
I was flipping through the radio stations here in Tampa and noticed that most of the songs playing were from the 1980's. Our generation rocked it.
@@elliedaniels2245 No doubt!! My Apple Music is mostly 80s.
One of the things I liked about Stranger Things Season 3 was the way they recreated the '80s shopping mall experience.
That show does an excellent job with nostalgia in the 80s. Thank you for watching!
Having grown up during the 80s it was the major reason why I liked Stranger Things.👍🏾🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I liked that recreation too!
@@RhettyforHistorythe 80s nostalgia is the shows primary drawing point for me. It definitely
Makes me feel like a kid again in a way
Such a fun way to spend the weekend was at the mall!! I love to see and touch the products and try it on!! I miss the mall.
The Altamonte Mall in Orlando is still thriving with virtually no empty stores. It's busy on the weekends, lots of young people and during holidays and summer it is buzzing.
Malls were absolutely great. So many memories
Thank you for watching Ian!
I miss malls. I didn't shop at a lot of these stores (and trust me, I've never been a size 5, 7, or9) but I do miss malls. They were someplace to go and a place where I could walk around and get exercise. I'll never understand the attraction of buying clothes online. I have to try things on to make sure that they're comfortable and that they look decent before I'll buy them. I don't care what the return policies are, it's inconvenient and downright disappointing.
Agreed and I fit "normal" sizes. I had to buy a bridesmaid dress and shoes online because we don't have those types of stores anywhere near me. The bride gave us only about 3 months warning on top of that so I just had to pray it all fit.
I agree. I don't like buying clothes online.
I've tried buying clothes online and have pretty much been disappointed every time. So I go to the few "brick and mortar" stores, I guess they're called, but don't have a lot of success at them either. There are a few malls still in existence around me but they have a lot of empty spaces. It's depressing. Nobody carries decent clothing for my age and size. And with the prices, I'm trying to make do with what I have.
I remember the store 5,7,9, my friend and I got the same stretchy gold-ish top there one afternoon and got in an argument on the way home over who was going to wear it on Monday. Needless to say, we both wore it, I wasn't going to back down and neither was she. I could still tell you where it was located
As a kid and teenager, I liked going to the mall. Now I hate the mall and don't go and will avoid going.
I hate it now too, but mostly because it is so dead and depressing.
@@DrHDoofenshmirtzphd That's true
My local mall in Alton, Illinois had a women's store called Jean Nicole that a love in the 80's. Also, the aroma from the Tinder Box tobacco shop was heavenly because of the cherry tobacco.
I’m a 70s and 80s kid and grew up in a small town with no malls. We would go to the “big city” to the malls and it was always MAGICAL 💜 ESPECIALLY at Christmas time, oh my gosh! All the decor, I remember being a kid and walking in and feeling that excitement 😀😀😀 In the 90s I worked at a mall and it was awesome. I made so many friends with people that worked in other stores. I miss those days 😢 Thank you for putting this vid together, it brought back so many memories!!
I agree
Like you I was a small town kid who grew up in that era. Had to go to nearby towns to experience a mall. Many years later, I worked mall security at two malls and a strip center in the ghetto. The 80s-90s were a simpler time and place. Things will never be the same.
I was in the same era & we had to do the same thing, but I preferred strolling around downtown & the malls, Walmart, K-Mart, Pamida, they all killed that.
Some of them even worked up a home base in the downtown, then took it outside town. Sad
I miss record stores. Shopping through the bins for new releases and old records recommended by friends.
It really was something that was fun to do. Thank you for watching Don!
Ahh, the mall ❤️ Tons of memories! Born in ‘81, I feel like it was a huge part of my childhood 😅 We had two malls by us, but one was my fav. Wilson’s: my leather jacket was bought from my mom when I was 12 years old. It was a huge deal to me and I still have it! Limited Too was an obsession for me for my middle school years. KB Toys was a big memory for me….bright blue carpet with red and yellow decor. The food court was a favorite part of the mall - I always chose the baked potato, lol. My brother was absolutely obsessed with the arcade - Tilt - and we had to tear him away from it. He would stay in there BY HIMSELF while my mom and I would shop. He’s 2 years older. And it was not considered a big deal back then! Also the Disney Store was a fav. I collected all of the mugs and porcelain figurines for awhile. Still have all of them!
Hanging out at the mall was my way of staying out of trouble.
I'm old enough to have nostalgia, not for shopping malls, but for "going downtown" to shop. Woolworths was my childhood hangout. As suburbanization took hold, people fled downtown to go to these new shopping malls. Imagine how ancient I feel that these shopping malls that killed my beloved downtown have now died as well. Amazon is now the way most shop, but I avoid buying a product I can't feel ore see in person first.
Please check into what Amazon supports-you may be disappointed in that too and decide to spend your dollars elsewhere when possible. Do not spend your money with those companies who support things you don’t approve of.
@@daisydukes8252 There aren't many companies left to buy from if we stop shopping from every one who supports something we don't like.
Amazon never profits, they are a loser propped up by the CIA. There is something else going on.
I'm with ya sis.
You would like much of West Virginia. The topography eliminates most of those big wide open spaces covered in retail crap "Out By The Highway" as a result their down towns may be small but they have a surprisingly low vacancy rates.
Thanks for keeping our memories from the 70's to the 90's.
A much better America until what they consider "social" for us came along and I'm sitting at it.
@@taroman7100 This country was subverted. I would tell ya all about it, but most people don't give a crap, ask my subs lol. If any of them are still around.
I absolutely loved Wet Seal and Deb stores. I am now 46 but I was at a dance club every weekend in my 20's and those were the stores that I got my clothes. Another one that is no longer around is Charlotte Rousse. Another store that I could find cute tops to wear. I also bought alot of clothes at Fashion Bug and another store called Dot's. I worked at Casual Corner at my local outlet mall so I wore alot of their nice business casual clothes because they kinda wanted you to so customers could see them on and possibly buy them. The outlet mall near me at one time had about 100 stores and a food court. Now it has about 10 ( if that) stores and an emptiness that was the food court. I really miss the malls as they once were. There are still a couple malls around but the stores they have these days don't really interest me.
Ahhh, yes. I worked for Petite Sophisticate in 1997 as an assistant manager. Our store closed within four months after i started, along with our sister store, Casual Corner. Somehow not very shocking!
Malls really used to be the place to be and they made the holiday season so special. You knew it was definitely the holidays when they brought out all the decorations. At my local mall in Alabama, it was a big deal when Santa would arrive at the mall. Food court, arcade, and some malls had movie theaters on the premises. Great video with good information and kudos for the research into these long gone companies.
Malls should still be popular. I don’t get why they’re not because it’s so cool to walk into a building and have a variety of different types of stores, several food options and entertainment.
US or Canada, he is never been everywhere, crap nerd guy !
Who needs housewife crap ????
It's not cool
I miss me some Borders! The one near where I live in Long Beach CA was my go to place when I just wanted to get out of the house. They were the funky alternative to Barnes & Noble. Thankfully, we still have Barnes & Noble though.
There is nothing like the touch, the feel, the smell, the human interaction, the discovery, the overall experience of an old-fashioned brick an motor store. I will always prefer brick and mortar to online. Brick and mortar provides an experience that online shopping will never replace.
Another thing I like/liked about the mall experience ... ESCALATORS! I love me some escalators! 😃
The things I liked about malls where the cookies shops and bath and body works. I used to work at Dressbarn and they bought Limited Too or Justice.😊
The mall was the place to be on the weekends, even in the early 2000s. You never knew who you were going to run into, most of the time a bunch of smaller groups would link up just because we were all there at the same time. ❤
I remember going to the Warner Bros store for the first time. It was just awesome. So much work went into the decorations. It is hard to believe somebody would put so much work and money into designing a store. Nowadays, most stores are junkyards, and they literally just throw the merchandise on the floor (I'm looking at you, Ross).
I used to love that store! Sadly when I went there, they were on the verge of closing down. I was so sad! There is still a mall in my area but many of the stores that I love are now closed down.
I remember that store . There was one in the dallas Texas mall . Super expensive . And yes it shut it's doors in the mid 2000's as well . I used to think it was meant to be an experience and not purchased . That's how middle class we were growing up . Got most most of our clothes from Kmart or garbage sale's . Life's a journey and a lesson
Well you have these foreign nationals that come from third world countries that knows nothing about being a decent human being
I’m in Cherry Hill NJ and the Cherry Hill mall does an amazing business. All the stores are open and crowded. It’s nice to still go to a mall and get a auntie Anne’s pretzel near water fountains.
The original salad works started in the CH mall. Also, if you know of the CH mall, you may remember the Moorestown mall and the duck ponds in it.
@@rickd5076 that’s neat about salad works. Yes, I do remember the duck ponds and Woolworths. there was the harvest diner next to it, I’d go with my parents. It was really neat. The best was the train in the cherry hill mall. I was even able to take my son there to ride it in the early 2000’s. Now they turned the old Sears in the Moorestown mall into a Cooper medical clinic, kinda weird, but progressive.
Im originally from jersey now living in Fl. Worked at both cherry hill mall and Deptford Mall glad to hear both are still thriving a lot of the original stores are gone like Bambergers, John Wanamaker. Strawbridges Sears. Gimbels and Sterns all gone most of them becoming Macys
This channel makes me want to cry! Thinking back how life used to be and how the simple pleasures made you happy! 😢
I miss the old school malls of the 80's and 90's.
You and me both! Thank you for watching!¡
1970s child, 1980s teen. I grew up going to the Malls. I miss them very much. As I get older I miss them more.. Northern Ohio here. During the winter months the Malls were the place to go. Good place to thaw out, walk, shop, dine, relax, read, and game. Remember what it sounded like when you walked into a decent arcade 1982 - 1988 or so? Spending a lot of time in Waldenbooks? Perusing the latest music at Recordland? Having lunch at O'Niels, or Lazarus? Window shopping was always a fun thing. Even at a smaller to mid-size mall you could have an afternoons worth of fun and relaxation. Our current generations have no idea what they have lost.
Good video and I thank you for the memories.
Same here, born in '72...the atmosphere from my Mall was magical..especially around Christmas.
Lazarus!
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Boy, this video brings back a lot of memories. After growing up in the local malls in the 70’s and 80’s, I also worked in several from 1992-2003.
I was born in 1994 and our local mall opened in 2000. It was the place to be and i spent every Friday night there as a teenager either at the movies, at the ice skating rink, or just walking the mall with friends. I still love going to malls for the convenience of being able to shop different places at one time no matter what weather is like. Stores i miss are F.Y.E, Wet Seal, Disney Store, Deb, Gap, Younkers, Payless, KB Toys, Kmart, and so many others
Malls were part of teen aged life. Malls will never completely die out even with online shopping gaining in popularity.
@ghost mall most malls are on life support.
The number of malls has reduced to 20% what existed in 1990. Unfortunately even the ones that remain are rather empty. People socialize over the phone, not the mall
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you didn't just go to the mall to shop, you went there to hang out, because it had such a variety of things to do that most malls today lack- arcades, cinemas, fountains, pet stores, restaurants (not the food court kind, the individual store kind). You could spend hours and hours in there for as little as $5. I know, I spent much of the late-80's hanging out in malls with my friends, because that's what high school kids did a lot of back then.
@@electrictroy2010 people look for excuses not to socialize in person
Sad but true, it makes me feel old.
😳It's a shame about the malls because younger people today don't realize what they're missing but the internet is the main culprit in changing everything. It is so much easier just to buy things from home on your computer or even just on your phone instead of getting in the car and driving to a mall and parking and blah blah blah but the mall experience is what made buying whatever you bought, so much better. My friends and I would go and just hang out for a few hours and we had a blast. It's such a shame now to see so many malls empty. The one we would always go to was called Metro center Mall and that's where Bill and Ted's excellent adventure Mall scenes were shot. When you watch the movie full of people walking through busy stores and it wasn't just for the movie, it was always that way. Now, it's being dismantled and torn down and they're putting up low income apartment complexes on that land. Really sad.
It is sad to see some of these stores and malls disappear. That is really neat you frequented the one where they shot the movie. I do believe you are right when talking about kids missing the fun at malls. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your thoughts and memories!
I loved that movie. Funny, my local mall is also being torn down and apartment buildings are going up; it's really too bad.
I loved Kay-Bee toy stores in the local malls. They were the best place to get all kinds of different slot cars and parts to make them faster.
They were also great for all the new candy.
We used to hit Hickory Farms for some samples. Also had a bookstore, an awesome arcade, toy store, Spencer’s… plenty to keep us busy for hours. I remember in the 80s the coolest thing ever was that Parisian put computers in the middle of the mall outside of their store before Christmas that you could answer questions and it would compare the person you answered the questions about to a celebrity and print out a sheet of gift ideas. Absolutely mind blowing stuff back then!
I loved seeing this walk down memory lane. It tools several nights of lying in bed, racking my brain several years ago, trying to remember the name of my favorite store, DEB. Back then, we didn’t have any nearby malls, so when the first one opened it was a big deal. All of those shops were there and seeing them again makes me wish for one more trip to visit them all! Thank you for helping keep our past alive!
A flood of happy memories of what used to be. Those moments where you wish were on film are long gone. Yeah, I feel exactly the same way. I'm still hoping for Doc Brown to show up, and take me back to 1997.
Let’s go !
Sooo true what I'd give for 30 min in a Merry go round / chess-king.....Jynco jeans 👖 😂 lol
@ghost mall he'll yeah my dude I have 3 sisters marry go round and Deb were across the mall from each other in Portland remember Fenlenes and Fenlenes basement the later was where ulta is today
I don't think we had DEB in Georgia because I would have remembered that store. We had all the others and I miss them so much.
Natural Wonders was the best. No trip to the mall was ever complete without a stop there. You almost felt you were visiting a science museum or something. The store was always crowded, but I guess not enough people actually bought stuff.
That really was a great store. Thank you for watching!
I still have several Christmas ornaments from that store! I sure miss that one!
Yes I miss that one too
That was my absolute favorite store as a kid!
I grew up with malls, being born in 1969, and having one in my back yard. We could walk to our local mall for a movie or to just see what was happening. I loved the fountains and the art displays malls had, especially in the 70's. There is one just as close to me now, but it doesn't have the feel like when I was a kid and teenager.
I'm 51 and as a teen malls were my & my friends life. We'd hangout, scam on chicks & mack on curly fries every day after school and on weekends. So sad this way of life is just gone. So many of these stores were a staple and now they're gone.
Damn I hate the internet