Dying Mall: Lakeside Mall - Sterling Heights, MI
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- Опубликовано: 14 сен 2023
- Dying Mall: Lakeside Mall - Sterling Heights, MI. A Taubman special. The Lakeside Mall is the largest mall in the state of Michigan, but sadly, its best days are well behind it. As a matter of fact, the mall is slated for redevelopment in 2024-2025. Enjoy the view of this aesthetic beauty while you can. Still plenty of stores to shop at inside of the mall but also many vacancies that will no longer be filled with the exception of seasonal tenants.
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This made me want to cry. I remember when this mall was built. I was a young mother with an 18 month old son. Went on to have 2 daughters over the next 4 yrs. Every December my husband and I would take the kids to the 2nd floor and bring the kids down in the smoke glass elevator with big round light bulbs surrounding it, down to the fountain where Santa and his elves were waiting for all the children to meet with Santa. Years worth of memories. It's heartbreaking to see all these malls being demolished. 😢
Thank You Wallie for letting me see it one last time. 😢 I understand the emptiness you feel wishing you could have taken this walk with Kayla. Memories can be tough sometimes. But we're still grateful to have them. Hugs 🥰
I Miss & Love Malls in the 1970s, 80s & 90s.
Lakeside also had movie theaters. I think there was 6 but can't remember the exact amount. Also coat lockers in the walls at certain points. It was hard to get a locker during the holidays. During the holidays especially between Thanksgiving and Christmas it was difficult to find a parking spot on the weekends. Going to Lakeside was like taking a vacation. It was great.
This was hard to watch. So many memories with my loved ones were here. I just want to thank you for this! I live in the area. I grew up going to this mall. As a general Xer, malls were a big part of our lives. I brought my daughter here as a toddler. They had a large food playscape in the center of the mall. It will be missed😢
Parking lot used to be filled to the max. It will soon be a 15 minute city
Yeah. Sad times. I was a kid when that entire stretch of Hall Road was nothing but open fields. I remember me and my friends going on bike rides up and down Hall Road looking at the signage going up that a new Mall was going to be built there. Fantastic Mall, filled with people and all store space filled and in business.
Then the Interz-netzors stuck tendrils into everyone's eye sockets, Amazon took over, and nobody "has the time" to go outside and engage in the Community.
On the one hand you might say, "well that's progress, times change". Ok, sure. But I've been wondering if the times have been changing for everyone's benefit, or just a few at the top.
Yep remember when best buy opened and Alice Cooper played in the parking lot lol?
Me to I had tons of great times merry go round hydro tube abercrombie
Wow I went to this mall all the time in the early and mid 2000s. Never thought times would change and it would look like that. Nothing stays the same.
❤️ the mall I went to the mall around ten years ago hate how indoor malls are dying
It’s officially being closed on July 1st. I applied for my first jobs after graduating HS in 1975. It was still being built. I live just four miles away.
My dad was the lead Architect on this mall as well as Fairlane, Great Lakes and partridge creek...I remember hearing great stories about working at the Taubman Company.
Hi Wallie,
I used to work for Hudson's Eastland Mall Department Store in 1975-1980.I used to work in the Men's Sports Wear Department at Hudson's Eastland Mall Store. I remember when Fairlane Town Center Mall in Dearborn and Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights both opened up in 1976.I still remember when the Malls would be super busy and I also would go to Lakeside Mall and go to Crowley's,Hudson's,J.C.PENNEY,Sear's. I went to Lord &Taylor and I bought a few things. I remember when the area was nothing but farms. I will miss Lakeside Mall.I still miss Eastland Mall in Harper Woods.
I really appreciate you doing this. This is near my home, and this mall was a massive part of my childhood. I’m going to really miss it, and having this let’s me at least relive a bit of what I felt through your eyes. Great work, man.
Thank you. I'm sorry that Lakesidecwill eventually be no more but I hope that through this video as well as others that the memories will live on.
People shop differently customers go Meijer $&Sam club &Costco sit down & go shopping cheap eating
Great video, I live in the area and have been here many times. The mall had an ice rink at one time
My friends and I watched this place being built; Sears was open before the mall, but you could go to what would soon be the opening to to mall entrance and watch the construction going on.
What memories, the skating rink was awesome; six theaters and so much more; we were about 15 or 16 years old if I recall correctly; now I'm watching something once so glorious coming to the end of its life.
We moved out of Sterling Heights to Traverse City in 1978, but Lake Side will always hold so many great memories for me, and so many friends just roaming around all day; the place was always so full of people, and good times; every store was opened, vacancies were only when one business would move in or out and something new would be there within a week or two.
Thanks for the video, brought back a lot of great memories I'll have the rest of my life.
Thank you for this video. This place was full of life over 7-8 years ago and constantly busy. Once the anchors faded off so did the rest. The area is constantly evolving with businesses and so many people online shopping or going else where it makes sense why this is happening. I haven't been in a few years. Its crazy the carousel and the food court is completely gone.
IMO 7-8 years ago is when retail really saw a lot of change. It began much earlier, of course, but kind of hit critical mass in '16 or '17. Just my $.02.
Was just here last week. I saw Star Wars at this mall in 77. Great video! Thank you for recording a beautiful view of our Lakeside!
What a change from the 1970's! My family and I used to go there at least once every other month and it was JAMMED w/ customers. If my parents wanted me back where they would be waiting at, say, 8:00 PM, I'd have to allow a good 15 minutes just to walk across from the other side due to the crowds.
This place was my childhood and is so nostalgic
Never been to Michigan but wow that mall looks amazingly fun back in the day no doubt imagine how decorated it would have been during the holiday's wow.
Nearby Oakland mall was decked out for the holidays in the 70's! It's where I first sat on Santa's lap, : ) Lakeside is where I grew up in the '80's. I'm sad to see it go.
Was an 80s teen who spent many hours in lakeside at it was like a movie. It's sad what's happening to it
As I'm watching your walk through Wallie is that with most malls as you can see so many vacant stores that used to be in the mall, it's like an end to an era that those of us that grew up during all this fun and excitement will never forget.
I highly recommend visiting Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, IL (just outside Chicago) as it's another incredible example of a Taubman mall. Sadly the water feature is long gone but the size and Taubman aesthetic makes up for the removal of the water feature.
I remember when it was built. Holy crap.
Aah, the memories. I remember ice skating there in the late 70's and going down the waterslide in the mid-80's. The first time I saw Rocky Horror was Halloween night 1986 at Lakeside. But times have changed.
Yes! Rocky Horror at Lakeside, we went in 1991 a few times.
The slide was there before the ice rink. I worked there from 1975-1978 and went there while they were bringing in the water slide sections.
@@user-jc8rz2jj9r - I never saw the water slides until the 80’s, and had to be after 1984 (when my friends had drivers licenses. And I distinctly remember singing THE ROOF IS ON FIRE while going down the water slides. And that wasn’t released until 1985.
This was one of my favorite malls growing up. I wrote a report about it in third grade, and I have it saved somewhere. Back then they had the Tilt arcade (in the area where the food court is now, two stories, and where the waterslide was before that), and it was just about the best place I could go as a young kid.
Down in the lower JCPenney wing is an abandoned Arby's. It can still be accessed, and the Arby's logo is still visible inside, along with seating, if you shine a light. The door to the Arby's can be seen on the left at 19:20.
I forgot about this. Good catch!
Wow, such memories ~ I grew up running the landscape of Lakeside Mall! As young teenagers we would take the Smart bus from new Baltimore and hang out all day. Anybody remember the ice-skating rink!? Such memories. It’s sad. I actually shed tears watching this!
Very sad people go to Meijer &@sam club and Costco sit down cheap eating & go shopping
Before Tilt and the Hydro Tube, that area was an uce skating rink.
When they opened Partridge Creek right up the road, that became the new, hip shopping spot.
I really miss Lord and Taylor, that was a great store from what I remember. It’s crazy that the signage is still up, even though more recent closures like Sears have taken all their signage down. It is nice to see the lord and Taylor logo though.
I grew up in this mall starting as a kid in the 70’s when it opened to hanging out here in my teenage years in the 80’s and working here in high school at a place called Sherman Shoes on the upper lever right next to the elevator and fountain. I remember around the Christmas holidays having to park all the way out on the grass on the outside of the road that circled the mall. That’s how busy this place used to get. Before the Hydro tube there was an indoor skating rink. (Both were located in the food court area) Also there was a movie theater (3 in total) We used to go to the Rocky Horror Picture Show there! So many memories!! Thank you for sharing this!
Wallie, you’re such a gentle, respectful soul! You never bother anyone & you just mind your own business. Keep on doing your thing.
Great video! So sorry for your loss❤I grew up going to this mall & have wonderful memories, especially during the holidays. Every inch was decorated & had to park on the grass & would drive in circles looking for a spot. Being grateful to find one no matter how far u had 2 walk in the cold. I just went a few months ago & also😢I hadn't been in a few years & was shocked. It was a privilege to grow up being a mall rat. I worked & socialized there. A very big part of my life. Sad that future generations will not be able to experience it.
I am a Gen Xer, and we were the ones who got to soak in the heyday of the indoor mall of the 70s and 80s than any other generation during our youth. I feel bad for children of today who didn't have a chance to drink an Orange Julius, sit on Santa's lap, take photos in the photo booths, meet our middle school and high school crushes in the commons area, walk through motorhomes and camping trailers during expo events, and attend celebrity appearances who dropped by every now and then.
I once lost my car in this parking lot. Security had to help me find it. It took us 15 minutes because it was near Christmas. I held an interview for a calendar store in the early 2000s near the railing, and I could hardly hear myself think. My mom would take me here after doctor’s appointments. This was the mall to see and be seen as a teen in the 90s.
Imagine growing up here and basking in the beauty. I need to go back up to the mall and check it out a few more times before the end of the year.
I imagine that they will convert the anchors to be outside as they did for Universal Mall in Warren, MI which closed 20 years ago. It was a mini Taubman. I live in Warren. You would have loved Universal. It reminds me of the mall where they filmed America’s Funniest People(if you remember that). It had an attached movie theatre, full arcade, candy store, food court, bar, and other wings.
The area by the food court was a skating rink in the 80s. There was previously a full carousel in that area with the wrought iron barrier.
What a beautiful shopping mall! I love the aesthetics in the mall! Kudos to your RUclips Channel, Wallie! 👍👍👍
It was a beautiful mall ibeen inside once or twice,very sad how indoor malls are dying
Grew up in this mall as an 80s teen. It was the place to be. Just like in the movies that reminisce about 80s. Now I go in there once and awhile for things and it's depressing
@@adamioppolo1884 ❤️ indoor malls Era restaurants: books 📚 stores , toys stores, 🎬 movies theater clothes stores, Sam club & , Costco got indoor sit down eating & 🛍 shopping, Meijer got indoor sit down eating sells magazines; few books 📚 toys plus groceries store etc etc
Deja Vu. I hope you're feeling better, Wallie.
I already know this is going to be a great one!
Running an rc car in there would be cool. 😊
Love the fountain in this mall
Fastest 34 minutes of my life! A special thank you to Alford Tubman for this Lakeside Mall & especially the 1983 Michigan panthers and 1985 Oakland Invaders. You brought the only professional football championship to Michigan.
Spend some time here in my teens and 20s. Crazy how much has changed. Always parked outside food court for quick in and out
I'm from Michigan and grew up as this Mall was built, later spent many hours and dollars at the many stores, shopped with my now passed wife there... It is bittersweet seeing it from another part of the country, memories.....
It reminds me of the film setting for Logan's run from 1976
You should have seen this in the 90s. Constantly packed, and terrible traffic jams getting in and out. They had a Suncoast too!
One thing I must nitpick- The city Twelve Oaks is in is pronounced No-VI, long I sound instead of E. That’s a rare mall in the Metro in recent years that actually expanded their space. Last one before that was probably Somerset in the mid 90s.
I’d love a meetup if it fits in my schedule.
A friend of mine used to work at Suncoast. Has lots of Lakeside stories. One time a fight broke out somewhere near the center court, and a guy jumped from the upper level to the lower, breaking one of his legs.
Hope you checked out Fairlane! Taubman was based in Metro Detroit and for decades Fairlane was widely considered to be his crown jewel. It once even had a monorail. Opened the same day as Lakeside. My dad was on the crew that built those concrete planters/fountains. Sorry to hear about Kayla (I was wondering) but everything happens for a reason and we're all thrilled to have you and your commentary as you document these places. Nobody does it like you.
so sad that the carousel is gone:( i loved riding that double decker carousel. it was so fun 🙂 i remember getting my ears pierced here 5 years ago. it was so alive and fun to walk around. so sad how it looks now
Hi Wallie! This is my local mall! Let me know when you go again I’ll meet you up there for sure! So many good memories. I grew up with it and see the final golden era and for fall. My parents were there when it first opened with a movie theater ect
Just visited Lakeside for the last time. I probably first stopped by 15 years ago or so and thought this was a top 3 mall next to Summer Set Collection and 12 Oaks. The last time I was there, maybe a few years ago was surprised to see the Lord and Taylor area totally empty. I usually would enter from the food court, but today it's closed off, and I had to enter in from the Macy's Men's store. It's just amazing how empty it is now. Of course, that is to be expected with it's as it's July 1st closing. I did hear JcPenny's and Macy's will still be open and a part of the new development.
This was my childhood mall. The passing of time sure is something.
It looks like the seating areas in front of the closed anchor stores look like they used to be fountains, were they?
Really miss this mall had a store called southwest plus that closed a long time ago. Time changes everything unfortunately not for the better
Hi I live here?? this was surreal to see pop up in my recs. My mom is an insurance agent who worked with several of the store owners here. She was positive that the fine art store was a front for something. These days this place is more useful for its parking lot, which hosts a lot of good carnivals and other weird traveling acts like a halloween themed burlesque show last month.
Yayy my home town love lakeside went there like everyday in like the 2000s ahhaha
Thank you for all you do, I really appreciate that you spend time and money traveling around to places and showing us things that we might not every get to see.
I try to watch all you videos, but you know how life is you just don't get to see every video everyone post.
Im sorry for your loss, I didn't know what happened to Kayla I could tell it had been bothering you, it touched me they way you talked about her in this video.
Keep you head.
You have lots of friends here.
If you every get to southern ky look me up.
I have a dead Simon mall here.
Excellent video Wallie. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing the mall hopefully getting better
Thanks again for another great video. I'm sorry to hear about your "situation," you know you have many people online who are here for you.
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Canada 🇨🇦
Wow 👌 awesome mall video
Love❤ the water feature!
Great mall video! Looks very big!
Praying for healing to your heart. 🙏
Thanks for stopping by Sterling Heights and seeing my childhood mall. Wait till you see the Golden Butthole…
The what? Lol
@@WallieB26 Next time you’re in town, drive west on Hall until you hit the Vandyke Freeway. You’ll see it. 😂
I have a lot of memories of this place! I vividly remember when my parents took me & my sister (then my only sis) to ride down the Hydrotube! But this place just doesn't have the draw it did back in the good old days. The only reason I go there these days is for the Anime shop (you can see it at 23:56 on the upper floor to the left of Macy's), as they have a lot of good Anime figurines! I hope they manage to relocate elsewhere before the mall is redeveloped!
Awesome 🇺🇸😎💪 watching now
I finally found this channel again and I am surprised you were here in my city!
That was a awesome video
Another great video and “tribute” to a beautiful mall. I don’t live in that area, so I’ve never been to it, but you did a great job with the video and gave great info and history on the mall. It really is a beautiful mall, and like so many others across the country, it will close and or be torn down. I agree 100% it’s sad to see them go. So many things over the past 10 or so years, have contributed to the dying malls. Online shopping (esp Amazon) has made it super easy to shop without leaving your home, and quick deliveries make it hard on the brick and mortar stores. You are correct in saying it’s sad to watch these places slowly fade away, and some that have been around since our childhoods. I can tell that your videos are truly heartfelt, and that’s why I am a subscriber and watch all of your videos. Thanks for taking your personal time to do these “memory saving” videos. I pray for your continued healing process in other areas of your life. That’s a tough thing to go through. Just know that your in the thoughts and prayers of myself and many others. Thanks again Wallie, for the magic you make with your “time capsule” videos. You truly put your heart into them, and that’s why you have the following that you do. I’ll keep watching, as you are now my favorite “you tuber”!
This place got me through alot of boring winters, will be sad to see it shuttered 😕
I sat in that sitting area by jc Penney just the other day and just remembered how amazing this place was when i was a kid in the 80s
Wow Wallie! Really cool video! Great job! That’s a really cool Mall and I’m sure it was really hopping in its hay day!
This.msll still has the mid 1970s vibes.
I grew up in this mall as an 80s kid in ny teens it was just like you see in movies. Still go once in awhile but ut depressed me seeing all the empty stores. So many good memories
Wallie a fantastic video done by you that was a beautiful shopping mall and what I like about it is the design and the water fall it was a shame that most of the stores was not open but at least you did take us around and show us and thank you .
i used to go here a lot
Thanks for the memories. Was a regular at that mall when it opened. I remember all the stores back then and spending time with family and friends. Unfortunately, we know things change over the years. I haven't stepped in there for at least 10 plus years now and have heard it's slated for redevelopment as you mentioned.
19:13 There’s an abandoned looking Jeepers! location that operated from 2016 (when the previous year Legoland took over the Auburn Hills location) to 2020 (when it closed due to COVID-19 and the safety violations).
Come to the courtland center in Burton Michigan it's a dying mall for years and there's a spirit halloween in an old Art Van and an abandoned Lowes and a abandoned VGs nearby
Dort Mall too. That place has been dead longer than I've been alive.
This was the mall we usually went to when I was growing up along with Macomb Mall and sometimes Great Lakes Crossing. Haven't been inside since 2006. I used to work at the Champs Sports here from 2000-2005 first year as a senior in high school then seasonally while I was in college. I was in its parking lot recently but only to go to Total Wine which is in the place of an old Toys-r-Us. I suppose in a way that location grew up with me.
I haven't watched this channel before but it was nice to hear you open up, even if it filled your heart with melancholy. Many relationships and friendships were born here, lived here, and died here. The death of this mall is the end of an era but perhaps something greater will be built in the ashes.
This was the mall of my youth! It’s sad that it’s come to an end. Thankfully I have many fond memories. FYI, back in the day, there was a huge slide inside. So fun!
The only palm trees in Michigan!
I enjoyed your vid.
I've watched several of these since I learned they were going to tear her down. I haven't walked through there in years. I spent my entire youth growing up at this mall. It's sad to see her go.
I love how much he enjoyed the fountain, all I could think was “my friend did a cannonball into that fountain and got banned from the mall”
Wonderful Fountains F+L, Corey
Wallpaper let’s get it going over to Valliant's Diner ASAP. Surf and turf special for wallpapered!!!!!!!!!!🐟 🥩
It looks like it was a nice mall at one time.
Looks exactly like Lake Forest mall, Marley Station mall, and Fair Oaks mall, all Taubman malls in the DMV.
Wow I love these videos I thinking about doing one
I first visited this mall in 2015, it was still hanging on, every year it slowly declines. Sad, but I think they will do something nice with the property soon.
Kelley's Dari-Delite On Babcock is re opening. Wallpaper let’s see it!!!!! ♿️
All 4 of the Metro Detroit Taubman malls got Lord & Taylor in 1978 with the same entrance design, it's always been a highlight of the mall to me. The one at Fairlane became Ford offices, painted blue with a Ford logo! (until the 2020 event), it's right across the freeway from the Ford World HQ. The exterior of the L&T at Lakeside was heavily modified in a mid-90s expansion/renovation but the Fairlane and Twelve Oaks stores are mostly original (Twelve Oaks was painted white).
this mall actually looks really nice
It was like you see in the movies reminiscing about the 80s now. I was 13 in 1983 and this was our spot. I was just there and it was actually emotional. I don't wanna see it go.
Believe it or not there use to be an Ice Rink in this mall, after they tore that down they built a Water slide named the "Hydrotube".
But after many lawsuits they demolished that as well and replaced it with an Arcade called "Tilt".
They also had a Movie Theater back in the day.
I use to cut Mr. Taubman's grass, he owned Lakeside and Mall of America.
I worked at so many stores at this mall.
I just drove there yesterday lol, gosh it’s sad to see this place just die slowly but surely, this mall is a masterpiece
This is great 70s architecture and design. I hope they keep preserving this mall.
Your video seems to be almost 4k looking compared to other 1080 video on RUclips. Your not whipping the camera around either though. You know how to shoot and you use tripods and/or gimbles I think.
Thanks again for your videos
Hey Wallie! If you ever pass through NJ, check out the Bridgewater Commons Mall in Bridgewater, NJ. The whole bottom level is almost empty (it's three levels). It was sold to a CA development company but now the ownership has been given to another group. The Township council approved it with the caveat it cannot be used for housing and it has to be retail. A lot of people are really upset as its the only local mall (unless you drive 20-30 minutes) and its been around since the late 80s.
I know they’re made by the same people, but I saw a clip of this mall on instagram and I thought it was Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn. I was so confused since that mall isn’t anywhere near close to dead.
They were designed together and even opened the same exact day. The main difference is Fairlane has an extra level in the middle and two smaller center courts rather than one large one in order to accommodate the monorail that used to pass through the middle. They built Twelve Oaks in Novi a year later but it was an entirely different one-off design that doesn't look like any other Taubman mall.
I went to lakeside last year and couldn't believe it... it was a ghost town
Also, the Ross Park Mail did have a Macy’s furniture outlet in front of the building, on the other side of the parking lot. I don’t know if it’s still there. It’s been a while.
You gotta see Plymouth Meeting Mall, if you haven’t been yet. That place has to have the most epic active mall fountain!
Been here once last year when going into canada, it is a nice mall that probably will close in the future.
Grew up around here so i spent a lot of time at this place. Really sad to see how it is now compared to just a decade or 2 ago. But ill say this mall is doing way better than some other ones around here. If you want to see a real dead mall, go check out Macomb Mall. A total grave yard in comparison to Lakeside.
TAUUUBBMANN RISE UP!! you gotta visit VA’s taubman in Fairfax!
That very same circus shown in the beginning of this video is performing at the Grove City Premium Outlets tonight!
So sad. I grew up a few miles away from here. Have shopped there countless times. It wasn't that long ago that it would be packed with people. Anchor stores were Sears, JC Penney, Lord and Taylor, Hudsons, and Crowley's. Hudson's was bought by Macy's. Sears closed and that kind of killed half of the mall. There used to be an ice rink there.
I haven't been at Lakeside Mall in ten...fifteen years. I hope that it doesn't end up like Eastland Mall. It was torn down late last year, or early this year.
I live 5 minutes away. I’ll meet you out there.
Reminds me of what happened with universal mall
Reminds me of the old Summit Place Mall (AKA: Pontiac Mall). All of the malls have been killed by poor management and the upscale retailers moving to other locations.
There's a shopping mall here in my town that they are going to demolish and put office buildings and apartment buildings there And I have lots of memories going to that shopping mall