Riding the 79th St bus to Ford City as a teen is a great memory. Got my ear pierced at Piercing Pagoda in 1993. Watching Ford City and Evergreen Plaza decline the way they have just makes me feel old
Grew up here, the signage always reminded me of Universal Studios or something epic. Would you ever do a story on Haunted Trails or Kiddieland while you're down memory lane? 😅
It’s kind of sad to see the rapid decline of the mall. I remember growing up and going there. The old ride o go around and the entertainment. The food court was pretty good too. I miss the old vibes going there. Orland Square was also a good mall going to, but Ford City definitely was my childhood favorite.
You two are so informative and interesting. I love y'all energy. Thanks for your time and effort! The history of this place is awesome to me. I enjoyed this content. My mom drove the 79th street bus years ago and my husband took me on our first date there over 22 years ago lol! I haven't been there in quite some time. This made my day thanks.
Exactly 💯🤣 people are in shock as why the mall is dead I could tell you personally I used to shop here every weekend it was peaceful I ate in peace walked and shopped nobody in my face everyone respectfully shopping just cool calm folks enjoying the day....but once that crowd started showing up it was the end I saw it and I said to myself people are going to stop shopping at Ford city if security don't stop these crowds from coming inside... that 79st bus connected so many troubled neighborhoods made it so easy to get to the mall once they got used to it game over it was daily mayhem I stopped shopping there even the theater used to be nice long time ago 😂
It’s about crime. People are still shopping. Also Peacock Alley closed in the early 2010s. I remember when the stores in the basement went upstairs because everyone left. Now the hood is destroying Chicago Ridge Mall like they did at Ford City and Evergreen. It’s crazy it took so long for the streets near Ford City to get repaired but let be honest the streets in that area are dependent on shoppers and who wants to shop at a mall where there was riots and easy access from the 79th street bus
The mall is the former site of the Dodge Brothers, who manufactured the Dodge. It was converted to a factory to make engines for the B-29 bomber. My mother-in-law worked there as an 18 year old Rosie the Riviter. I believe part of the plant has been incorporated into the mall.
Under the mall there’s tunnels that lead to the tootsie roll factory and under the gym, explored it a couple months with my friends, very interesting and unknown to the public
Yes I used to love go to tootsie roll and get that little paper bag of tootsie roll. I would love waiting at that bus stop cause we would go in tootsie roll Ang get r little bag of tootsie roll
Used to drive our bikes from Bridgeview to Ford City as kids. Was a fun place to hang out back in the 80's. It's a shame what happened to that mall with all the violence.
So glad to find this. I spent my childhood mid-70s through 80s in peacock alley. Used to take the bus from Chicago Ridge. It was a great time to be a kid.
Worked with an old timer years ago that worked at Ford City when it was a defense plant making aircraft engines. Back then it was called the Chicago - Dodge plant. Ford took possession of the plant later.
The underground tunnels that connected the shopping areas was originally test cells to test the jet engines produced there. My dad worked there. This mall was also the factory where the Tucker was built in the late 40's.
I saw Star wars there in 1977...the line was so large it ran around the building...so when they were exiting the theater I snuck in the rear and save 7 seats for my friends...made everyone in the group so happy...you should have seen me ...yelling "its taken up to here"
Bruh, the tilt, food court and the bus ride there was all nostalgia. Great memories waiting on g ma to finish getting her hair done in the salon at J.C. Penney’s ❤
Living over the bridge by Marquette Park in the late 70s and than living in the Ford City Apartment in the mid-80s. I had a lot of fond memories at Ford City mall and movie theaters.
My childhood. Coming here in the 90’s having $50 the AMC, the Old Country Buffet the jewelers in the lower level. John Garage restaurant I miss the old Ford City. I was just there last week cause the iHop LOL and I still go to the AMC
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Most anchors own their own property and don’t rent from the mall which causes issues. Many Carson’s are empty bc the mall can’t control it unless they gone through courts to get it
It’s so sad that all the malls are closing down. My favorite Mall in Clearwater has filled bankruptcy and got new owners twice 😢 I feel like its days are numbered. It’s a beautiful mall with an ice skating rink in the center. So many memories there. It’ll be devastating to see it go.
Wow what a difference from the last time I was there in early 1976 before I went active duty in the USAF in June. Connections at that time was called Peacock Alley with a lot of Spencers type stores and wannabe head shops throughout it. The front of the mall at the time had Weiboldts as an anchor and the downstairs of Weiboldts was an S&H Green Stamps redemption store. At one time there was an Olson Electronics in the mall as well, one of the competitors of Radio Shack. Along Cicero across from the mall there used to be a Millionaire's Club as well back then closer to the Tootsie side of the Cicero frontage. I lived near 65th and Austin (Clearing) and we would ride bikes down 65th to Cicero then past the Cracker Jack plant (one of my aunts worked there for a while) then over the bridge that went over the railyard and then we would pass Tootsie Roll (another of my aunts worked there at Tootsie at the time) and my dad's partner (my dad was a CPD patrolman from 56 to 96) lived just south of the mall around 79th. I miss that period of growing up in Chicago around Midway and Ford City and the factories in Bedford Park but I wouldn't live there now. I retired from the USAF in 1995 and went south to rural central KY. During high school ( I went to Kennedy on 56th and Narragansett) I worked at the now-gone Candlelight Dinner Playhouse and Forum Playhouse near Archer Ave on Harlem Ave and there was a Prince Castle Ice Cream place right next to the Forum end of the building. BTW Tucker bought the plant after the engine plant was closed but he only got like 50 cars built before he lost it thanks to the federal SEC. I heard that Ford (FoMoCo) bought it back and was going to build cars there but ended up selling it again and I guess the mall sprang up from it.
Ha! We were practicly neighbors. 64th Knox. But not anymore. The neighborhood has changed greatly. Your area is still ok. Many cops live there. All that industry on 65th Street is gone except for a couple of factories. Hubbard High for me. Take care.
I remember when Ford City opened up in 1965. It was truly the largest and nicest mall in Chicago at the time. I worked part time while in high school at National Tea (a major grocery chain long gone) during 1970 and 1971 before heading off to college. National Tea was next to J C Penny's on the east side of the mall. It's sad to see how so many places across the USA which were nice at one time to simply deteriorate due to changing economics, demographics, bad-disrespectful attitudes of many individuals who simply care about themselves and will steal-vandalize, etc. I lived on 47th ST and Leclaire Av from 1957-1971. I recall how many more nice neighborhoods there were then, although as a youngster I didn't realize that the city was already in a decline, although nothing like today. When I was in the Boy Scouts 1966-1968 our troop would hike around the perimeter of Midway airport (about a 4 mile walk). At the time there were very little if any walls, fences, barriers, etc. It was all open and one could walk onto the premises (even though you weren't supposed to enter) though most people had enough common sense not to enter. The control tower people, fire department and other entities would spot us walking the perimeter and invite us to come on in and they showed us around. Much, much more civilized and better back in those days. By the early 1970s most of the airport was completely fenced or walled in as security needed to be tightened
@@stanleykijek6983 I grew up from 62 to 73 at the corner of 6th Place and Meade which was a block north of 65th (the split between Chicago proper and Bedford Park) and a block west of Austin Ave and I remember a lot of that around Midway and a bunch of us would ride bikes around Midway and watch planes esp when the TWA Super Connies were the norm there. I miss the city the way it was back then but no way would I go back now unless it was an emergency to go to my 3 sisters houses in the west and north suburbs.
In the 70's my friends and I would ride our bikes inside from one end of the mall to the other, including thru the two huge fountains that were on either end back then. We would access the tunnels at the end of Peacock Alley and walk all the way to the bowling alley where a chain link fence blocked further access. We would sneak behind the counter at Orange Julius and unplug the machines. They would take a hour to figure out that's what happened, no matter how many times we did it. Their was a shop called Tabacco Teepee in the center of the mall. We would sneak peaks at the playboy magazines they had on display. We would buy Covered Wagon cigars which were huge novelty cigars like you would see on the 3 stooges and walk from end to end smoking them. Every Saturday there was Bottle cap movies at 8am at the theatre. 7 Pepsi bottle caps to get in. The movies were all the worst b movies available, but we went just to have fun. Alot of other memories than that, but it's a shame to see it like that now. Thanx for sharing.
As someone who spent his teens in that mall. As sad as it sounds... The mall is way past it's lifespan and really should shut down. The existing structures bulldozed and the land cleared away. Afterwards, the city should incentivise Amazon into building a new mega warehouse in it's place. As online shopping is the future. This would significantly improve the area, improve the tax base, and provide more employment within the next five years than the mall ever did in it's lifetime.
I grew up blocks from here and spent so much time here as a teenager. I remember Christmas here just beautiful. Sad I will not shop for clothes on Amazon.
I wish you guys could have gone underground. I’ve been there you see the old canteen signs and washrooms where the employees used. Looks to be 1940’s The underground connects to tootsie rolls Candy factory.
Definitely come visit us I promise it’s not as bad as people say. We have great food, great shopping, museums and festivals. This city has such a rich culture and yes there’s always something fun to do!!!!😊
I remember going there on Sundays after church. There are so many album photos of us when little, going to take pics with Santa, I saw my first movie Lion King when it came out in the theater there, would love the little camp they had there…sigh so sad to see malls deteriorating
Where is Peacock Allly and Ford had very little to with this factory that built airplane engines Chrysler owned the building that produced airplane engines, and you can see the run-up stands still out of Tootsie Roll on the south end of their plant and if you really look around, you can see another building on the other side of Pulaski there were many buildings in that area producing many armaments for the second world warthey built, jeeps there they actually built airplanes there. They actually drove the planes down Cicero and took off from Chicago municipal airport now known as Midway.
this mall is dead r.i.p ford city mall great memories ....for me what made me stop going was the teenagers coming on that 79th bus from the hood not only them but many teenagers from other neighborhoods they destroyed this mall I started going to Ford city in year 2000 it was fun lots of people few violence but around 2013 through 2015 when i stopped going when those groups of lil trouble makers started showing up just destroying everything being loud and bringing guns I believe they called it teen takeovers to much chaos and rowdiness normal people had enough of that and stopped shopping at Ford city now it's happening at Chicago ridge Mall too and also north riverside mall used to be nice loved that mall but 5 years ago last time I went... I saw the same thing that mall is dying too because of the people that cause crime so sad nobody wants to shop while criminals are there walking around not there to shop but to cause trouble....online shopping is taking over safer and from home
Might be nice to do a little actual research - ahead of time. Reading statistics from your phone and fading memories from your childhood do not make a "History of..." video.
Not a great video. I have fond memories of the ford city bowling. Sunday morn doubles! I had some of my best series there. Peacock alley was a fun place in the 80's. Sorry that people that disrespect stores and steal don't know or care that it reflects the whole shopping complex!😮
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Oh shit. Here we go! 10 min from this location.
Riding the 79th St bus to Ford City as a teen is a great memory. Got my ear pierced at Piercing Pagoda in 1993. Watching Ford City and Evergreen Plaza decline the way they have just makes me feel old
My aunt used to work at the Vision Works in Ford City back in the day
I grew up several miles away from Ford City mall and this was the place for teens to hang out back in the 1970's.
Man! I ain’t been to FCM in a minute! Hitting all the old haunts.
it’s so wild! was such a memory rush being in there
Love this kind of stuff! More please! And I won't be mad if ya'll record a tour thru them malls. Love y'all!@@77FlavorsChi
Cool video! Guys looked like you had a lot of fun making this. Can you do a video on River Oaks mall?
Yes we can!
I miss malls. Evergreen Plaza gone, Lincoln Mall in Matteson gone, River Oaks and Ford City just not the same anymore.
All thanks to the usual suspects 🤷🏿♂️
I went to all the malls as a child. Dixie Square gone as well!
Grew up here, the signage always reminded me of Universal Studios or something epic. Would you ever do a story on Haunted Trails or Kiddieland while you're down memory lane? 😅
right?! so cool!! yes absolutely! stay tuned
Grew up there. Worked at Lerners, The General Cinema across the parking lot and John's Garage. So many memories.
It’s kind of sad to see the rapid decline of the mall. I remember growing up and going there. The old ride o go around and the entertainment. The food court was pretty good too. I miss the old vibes going there. Orland Square was also a good mall going to, but Ford City definitely was my childhood favorite.
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Theres still alot of stores around that area. Old people like hanging out there still. The mall is in much better shape than river oaks.
Love your channel. Please keep up your great channel. 🤗
You two are so informative and interesting. I love y'all energy. Thanks for your time and effort! The history of this place is awesome to me. I enjoyed this content. My mom drove the 79th street bus years ago and my husband took me on our first date there over 22 years ago lol! I haven't been there in quite some time. This made my day thanks.
oh wow!! thank you so much! those are some special memories
It’s the 79th CTA bus that caused most of the issues in this mall.😂
lol smh…
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Exactly 💯🤣 people are in shock as why the mall is dead I could tell you personally I used to shop here every weekend it was peaceful I ate in peace walked and shopped nobody in my face everyone respectfully shopping just cool calm folks enjoying the day....but once that crowd started showing up it was the end I saw it and I said to myself people are going to stop shopping at Ford city if security don't stop these crowds from coming inside... that 79st bus connected so many troubled neighborhoods made it so easy to get to the mall once they got used to it game over it was daily mayhem I stopped shopping there even the theater used to be nice long time ago 😂
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@@sonjm6205I hear you.
It’s about crime. People are still shopping. Also Peacock Alley closed in the early 2010s. I remember when the stores in the basement went upstairs because everyone left. Now the hood is destroying Chicago Ridge Mall like they did at Ford City and Evergreen.
It’s crazy it took so long for the streets near Ford City to get repaired but let be honest the streets in that area are dependent on shoppers and who wants to shop at a mall where there was riots and easy access from the 79th street bus
Crime is also affecting other suburbs…shootings and looting and brawls happen almost every other weekend in North Riverside Mall.
@@mayraplascencia2007 Yes from the hood of the west side ghettos
Yep, stopped going to Ridge mall about 15 years ago
Back in the 70s all my girlfriends and I would spend Saturdays there. We loved the clothing store called Lerners.Thise we’re the days.🥰☀️👋
Tootsie Roll was NOT Ford City Mall. It was separated from the mall. Sweetheart Cup was another big plant next to Ford City Mall.
Tootsie Roll does own what used to be the Sears in Ford City now.
The mall is the former site of the Dodge Brothers, who manufactured the Dodge. It was converted to a factory to make engines for the B-29 bomber. My mother-in-law worked there as an 18 year old Rosie the Riviter. I believe part of the plant has been incorporated into the mall.
Under the mall there’s tunnels that lead to the tootsie roll factory and under the gym, explored it a couple months with my friends, very interesting and unknown to the public
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Yes I used to love go to tootsie roll and get that little paper bag of tootsie roll. I would love waiting at that bus stop cause we would go in tootsie roll Ang get r little bag of tootsie roll
Used to drive our bikes from Bridgeview to Ford City as kids. Was a fun place to hang out back in the 80's. It's a shame what happened to that mall with all the violence.
Thank diversity for that 😅
I went to Gurnee Mills, IL Mall last month, and it was still filled with business. I only seen to vacant stores.
So glad to find this. I spent my childhood mid-70s through 80s in peacock alley. Used to take the bus from Chicago Ridge. It was a great time to be a kid.
Worked with an old timer years ago that worked at Ford City when it was a defense plant making aircraft engines. Back then it was called the Chicago - Dodge plant. Ford took possession of the plant later.
I went there 3 months ago it was so empty 😭
yea it kind of is. but lowkey better than a lot of malls
The underground tunnels that connected the shopping areas was originally test cells to test the jet engines produced there. My dad worked there. This mall was also the factory where the Tucker was built in the late 40's.
I saw Star wars there in 1977...the line was so large it ran around the building...so when they were exiting the theater I snuck in the rear and save 7 seats for my friends...made everyone in the group so happy...you should have seen me ...yelling "its taken up to here"
Bruh, the tilt, food court and the bus ride there was all nostalgia. Great memories waiting on g ma to finish getting her hair done in the salon at J.C. Penney’s ❤
What about the ally
How was the food court at the mall?
we didn’t make it that far 😂
There’s only TWO restaurants left in the food court. It’s so sad. Most of the store have left.
I went to the Marshalls in the area a few months ago and it still looks exactly the same way it did when I moved away from the area in 2007
Ford City was the best until you finally get you driver's license and were able to go to Orland Park or Chicago Ridge 😆
Living over the bridge by Marquette Park in the late 70s and than living in the Ford City Apartment in the mid-80s. I had a lot of fond memories at Ford City mall and movie theaters.
That mall has more history than people can ever imagine. It was an instrumental component of American war time manufacturing
I pass it sometimes coming back into the city from the south burbs,it always looks pretty much empty.
My childhood. Coming here in the 90’s having $50 the AMC, the Old Country Buffet the jewelers in the lower level. John Garage restaurant I miss the old Ford City. I was just there last week cause the iHop LOL and I still go to the AMC
I wish you would have walked around and showed us more of the mall instead of sitting there talking into the camera.
A few things:
1) appreciate you watching the video
2) the security was nice enough to allow us to continue creating this even tho we showed up unannounced
3) we are small creators doing the bet we can, so while we appreciate feedback, we also like the fact that we are doing the best we can when nobody asked to do this in the first place. Feel free to watch other things if you need more or deeper information or heck grab your own camera and fill in any blanks you think we missed on your own time.
Thanks! 🫡
@@77FlavorsChi Just saying, I think everyone would love to see more of the mall. Appreciate your effort anyway.
Any thoughts on going residential?
My dad and I bought a car at Murphy Motors in the late 70’s, a Ford car dealer that once was in the Ford City parking lot.
Tootsie roll industries is still there it was separate from the mall
The lower level originally opened as peacock alley
Why does it look like an apt building on the left
I remember always going to this Mall when I was a kid, it's too bad that it ended up this way
Most anchors own their own property and don’t rent from the mall which causes issues. Many Carson’s are empty bc the mall can’t control it unless they gone through courts to get it
oh interesting
It’s so sad that all the malls are closing down. My favorite Mall in Clearwater has filled bankruptcy and got new owners twice 😢 I feel like its days are numbered. It’s a beautiful mall with an ice skating rink in the center. So many memories there. It’ll be devastating to see it go.
Stratford Square Mall is even more of a ghost town. Not sure how the stores still in these malls can make rent.
yea it’s wild. i’m pretty sure the anchor store is what covers majority of the cost
Wow what a difference from the last time I was there in early 1976 before I went active duty in the USAF in June. Connections at that time was called Peacock Alley with a lot of Spencers type stores and wannabe head shops throughout it. The front of the mall at the time had Weiboldts as an anchor and the downstairs of Weiboldts was an S&H Green Stamps redemption store. At one time there was an Olson Electronics in the mall as well, one of the competitors of Radio Shack. Along Cicero across from the mall there used to be a Millionaire's Club as well back then closer to the Tootsie side of the Cicero frontage. I lived near 65th and Austin (Clearing) and we would ride bikes down 65th to Cicero then past the Cracker Jack plant (one of my aunts worked there for a while) then over the bridge that went over the railyard and then we would pass Tootsie Roll (another of my aunts worked there at Tootsie at the time) and my dad's partner (my dad was a CPD patrolman from 56 to 96) lived just south of the mall around 79th. I miss that period of growing up in Chicago around Midway and Ford City and the factories in Bedford Park but I wouldn't live there now. I retired from the USAF in 1995 and went south to rural central KY. During high school ( I went to Kennedy on 56th and Narragansett) I worked at the now-gone Candlelight Dinner Playhouse and Forum Playhouse near Archer Ave on Harlem Ave and there was a Prince Castle Ice Cream place right next to the Forum end of the building. BTW Tucker bought the plant after the engine plant was closed but he only got like 50 cars built before he lost it thanks to the federal SEC. I heard that Ford (FoMoCo) bought it back and was going to build cars there but ended up selling it again and I guess the mall sprang up from it.
BTW I'm old enough to remember when EJ Korvettes was around and when KMart was still SS Kresge's in a strip mall before KMart was a thing.
Ha! We were practicly neighbors.
64th Knox. But not anymore. The neighborhood has changed greatly. Your area is still ok. Many cops live there. All that industry on 65th Street is gone except for a couple of factories. Hubbard High for me. Take care.
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I remember when Ford City opened up in 1965. It was truly the largest and nicest mall in Chicago at the time. I worked part time while in high school at National Tea (a major grocery chain long gone) during 1970 and 1971 before heading off to college. National Tea was next to J C Penny's on the east side of the mall. It's sad to see how so many places across the USA which were nice at one time to simply deteriorate due to changing economics, demographics, bad-disrespectful attitudes of many individuals who simply care about themselves and will steal-vandalize, etc.
I lived on 47th ST and Leclaire Av from 1957-1971. I recall how many more nice neighborhoods there were then, although as a youngster I didn't realize that the city was already in a decline, although nothing like today. When I was in the Boy Scouts 1966-1968 our troop would hike around the perimeter of Midway airport (about a 4 mile walk). At the time there were very little if any walls, fences, barriers, etc. It was all open and one could walk onto the premises (even though you weren't supposed to enter) though most people had enough common sense not to enter. The control tower people, fire department and other entities would spot us walking the perimeter and invite us to come on in and they showed us around. Much, much more civilized and better back in those days. By the early 1970s most of the airport was completely fenced or walled in as security needed to be tightened
@@stanleykijek6983 I grew up from 62 to 73 at the corner of 6th Place and Meade which was a block north of 65th (the split between Chicago proper and Bedford Park) and a block west of Austin Ave and I remember a lot of that around Midway and a bunch of us would ride bikes around Midway and watch planes esp when the TWA Super Connies were the norm there. I miss the city the way it was back then but no way would I go back now unless it was an emergency to go to my 3 sisters houses in the west and north suburbs.
I still eat at their food court (because i hate crowds)
In the 70's my friends and I would ride our bikes inside from one end of the mall to the other, including thru the two huge fountains that were on either end back then. We would access the tunnels at the end of Peacock Alley and walk all the way to the bowling alley where a chain link fence blocked further access. We would sneak behind the counter at Orange Julius and unplug the machines. They would take a hour to figure out that's what happened, no matter how many times we did it. Their was a shop called Tabacco Teepee in the center of the mall. We would sneak peaks at the playboy magazines they had on display. We would buy Covered Wagon cigars which were huge novelty cigars like you would see on the 3 stooges and walk from end to end smoking them. Every Saturday there was Bottle cap movies at 8am at the theatre. 7 Pepsi bottle caps to get in. The movies were all the worst b movies available, but we went just to have fun. Alot of other memories than that, but it's a shame to see it like that now. Thanx for sharing.
My mom loved going to this mall in the 70's. 😍
Tootsie Roll Industries is still located behind Ford City. 7401 S. Cicero Ave.
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Seen bigger crowds at country and western night at the Apollo !
As someone who spent his teens in that mall.
As sad as it sounds... The mall is way past it's lifespan and really should shut down. The existing structures bulldozed and the land cleared away.
Afterwards, the city should incentivise Amazon into building a new mega warehouse in it's place.
As online shopping is the future.
This would significantly improve the area, improve the tax base, and provide more employment within the next five years than the mall ever did in it's lifetime.
Peacock alley nice thrived , now vacant .
I grew up blocks from here and spent so much time here as a teenager. I remember Christmas here just beautiful. Sad I will not shop for clothes on Amazon.
I wish you guys could have gone underground. I’ve been there you see the old canteen signs and washrooms where the employees used. Looks to be 1940’s The underground connects to tootsie rolls Candy factory.
Check out NORTH RIVERSIDE MALL. AND YORKTOWN MALL.
Used to ride my bike there. If I did that now , I’d be walking home after ! And carefully.
I want to visit Chicago ASAP!
I heard the food is delicious and It's always something to do!
AMEN!
Definitely come visit us I promise it’s not as bad as people say. We have great food, great shopping, museums and festivals. This city has such a rich culture and yes there’s always something fun to do!!!!😊
be careful car jackings murders robberies home invasions shootings high taxes high gas prices are out of control.
I remember going there on Sundays after church. There are so many album photos of us when little, going to take pics with Santa, I saw my first movie Lion King when it came out in the theater there, would love the little camp they had there…sigh so sad to see malls deteriorating
My favorite Malls were:
Ford City
Evergreen Plaza
Washington Square
Lincoln Mall 👍🏿
I would love to see Ford City Mall be 65 years old in 2025.
Same!
Me too.
The community has to take a stand and also support the mall!
AMEN!
My uncle worked at FORD MURPHY MOTORS and he knew the franchise owner of the FORD dealership.. was his next-door neighbor.
2007 was the final good year of the mall
Where is Peacock Allly and Ford had very little to with this factory that built airplane engines Chrysler owned the building that produced airplane engines, and you can see the run-up stands still out of Tootsie Roll on the south end of their plant and if you really look around, you can see another building on the other side of Pulaski there were many buildings in that area producing many armaments for the second world warthey built, jeeps there they actually built airplanes there. They actually drove the planes down Cicero and took off from Chicago municipal airport now known as Midway.
Saw the Movie “ Jaws “ there
Think it was called Pirates Alley
Peacock alley. Then the connection
this mall is dead r.i.p ford city mall great memories ....for me what made me stop going was the teenagers coming on that 79th bus from the hood not only them but many teenagers from other neighborhoods they destroyed this mall I started going to Ford city in year 2000 it was fun lots of people few violence but around 2013 through 2015 when i stopped going when those groups of lil trouble makers started showing up just destroying everything being loud and bringing guns I believe they called it teen takeovers to much chaos and rowdiness normal people had enough of that and stopped shopping at Ford city now it's happening at Chicago ridge Mall too and also north riverside mall used to be nice loved that mall but 5 years ago last time I went... I saw the same thing that mall is dying too because of the people that cause crime so sad nobody wants to shop while criminals are there walking around not there to shop but to cause trouble....online shopping is taking over safer and from home
Ah fort shitty. The glory days of when it was bussin. It went to shit as soon as they closed down Tilt Arcade
Hello. Do you think that the rise of online shopping, and the status of the economy have something to do with the decline of malls?
I remember the Tilt Arcade.
Sad I'm in here now I haven't been here in about 20yrs ....& it will be Gome soon
I loved go down stairs in lower level .
Lived right down the street
So many third places gone when they were destination places to go out, especially the youth. Places of hospitality where you can spend a few bucks.
so true!
It was a horrible place in 1994 that was the last time I was there.
Crime is closing this place down and many other other malls. Pushing people to online retail
Might be nice to do a little actual research - ahead of time. Reading statistics from your phone and fading memories from your childhood do not make a "History of..." video.
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They need to renovate Ford City Mall ASAP!
This will give people something to do and somewhere to work!
AMEN!
Who's "they"? Why would anyone sink money into a dying urban retail market?
Not a great video. I have fond memories of the ford city bowling. Sunday morn doubles! I had some of my best series there. Peacock alley was a fun place in the 80's. Sorry that people that disrespect stores and steal don't know or care that it reflects the whole shopping complex!😮
If this mall should close it would be good for the migrants and homeless center
So would the other side of the Mexican border. Ford city would make a good prison though.
The migrants need to go back home.
@@bubcat54😂👍