The concrete terrazzo flooring was replaced with the current flooring in fall 1999. I was a freshman in high school during the renovation. At that time the food court was developed with the blue lights in the ceiling. The skylights along the main wing of the mall were added in mid 00’s I believe. 06-08 my guess. They were definitely years after the flooring was redone
Celebrating the Winter Solstice with a mall walkthrough... I like it! I love malls, they are one of the only public places that exist anymore, and one of the few places in our sprawled out American cities you can go to have some density of stimuli to look at so your brain doesn't rot out of your skull. I do wish they felt more distinctive these days. Most of them are "Simon Malls" which all have a similar, bare-bones modern aesthetic.
Yep, this one is a Simon mall. I truly miss some of the aesthetics it had before 1992. In one of my other videos about this mall, I showed a picture of this beautiful curved staircase that led down to the bottom floor of The Bon Marche (which is now Macy's, who bought The Bon at some point in the 90s but didn't change the name until many years later)--it featured a really cool tall gothic water feature. And I miss the type of flooring they had, it was concrete terrazzo--white concrete with assorted small stones as the other texture. Yeah, it was dated to a degree, but it was so distinctive. Another thing they did in 1992 was remove some of the original slit-skylight features and replaced them with big chunky windows, only on one side. It's something that was common in the 1990s, the industrial/unfinished look, and I thought it really ruined some of the design. A similar ceiling is at Southcenter Mall, owned by Westfield, and they kept the original design. I think they did a better job. One of the videos I did about The Commons mall, formerly known as Seatac Mall, I showed a lot of the differences between what it used to look like and current. They *_really destroyed_* the distinctiveness of *that* mall. I miss so many of its wood features that they completely covered up. Maybe the colors in some of the tiling was ugly, but they could have replaced them with more modern colors and kept the original design, but no. Everything has to have this generic "safe" look. Sorry, I'm rambling. LOL
@@kizzume It sounds to me like this used to be a really beautiful mall! I like those aesthetics a lot. It's so sad how so much creative work gets entirely replaced, painted or built over with lower quality work. I don't like the generic "safe" look either. I will definitely check those videos out.Thank you for sharing, don't apologize for it :)
I still really miss the curved staircase (with a gothic water feature) leading down to The Bon Marche. You can still see some of the stylings of that in the wall to the right at 14:26 I miss how the ceiling of the mall looked before they put in gaudy windows to match 90s sensibilities. I also strangely miss the concrete terrazzo flooring that the mall used to have.
Man moved to Michigan last summer only to move back to Washington this summer. I'm looking forward to being back. Michigan was just not the right place to be. Thanks for the vid 🙂
Doesn't look worth it, nothing in its design really has character, standard office ceiling tiles throughout. It's about a 2 1/2 hour drive away. I do want to see Kitsap Mall, which is only about an hour away, and even though it's a newer mall, it seems to have some character to it. Lots of wood features.
@@kizzume plus the Sears building at Valley Mall only has 1 floor so no elevator or escalator there. The Valley Mall building itself, however, has 2 floors
Looking at thumbnail i thought it's "Kropotkinskaya" Moscow's subway station. (My very own neural network image recognition signals it misses its home city)
I will normally never double comment but here are some things I spotted that I found neat 3:01 that mom is probably happy her son will sleep well tonight ^_^ 5:50 oh man i haven't has Saku's in years
I was interested in the couple at the 0:01 who seem to be exercising/walking laps (they also appear around 3:30). I'm wondering if this is a thing over there. I've never seen it here in brisbane (australia).. but we don't have the cold/guns outside to contend with.. just drop-bears and the like.
OMG so i just watched a video on choeshow's channel of a protest going down in this same mall. I was like "wait why does that Washington mall look familiar to me?" then it clicked
I'm glad this mall is still doing alright. Not like the 80s and 90s, but better than a lot of other malls. The most populated mall in the region is Westfield Southcenter Mall in Tukwilla. You know, that would be fun to go there sometime before Christmas and make another video like this one. It's a very large mall.
this is the real mall experience following someone for longer than necessary because it would be weird to pass them up and they are going the same way as you as a mall goth from the 2000s this is very nostalgic shout out hot topic 𝅘𝅥𝅯 ♫ thank you for the vid kizz
It's a Pocket 2 camera. Somewhat discrete. As long as I don't look at the screen on it, it probably just looks like I'm carrying something small and nondescript. I was surprised when I passed 3 security people in a short time, one of them had a K9--surprised none of them said anything.
The concrete terrazzo flooring was replaced with the current flooring in fall 1999. I was a freshman in high school during the renovation. At that time the food court was developed with the blue lights in the ceiling. The skylights along the main wing of the mall were added in mid 00’s I believe. 06-08 my guess. They were definitely years after the flooring was redone
Celebrating the Winter Solstice with a mall walkthrough... I like it! I love malls, they are one of the only public places that exist anymore, and one of the few places in our sprawled out American cities you can go to have some density of stimuli to look at so your brain doesn't rot out of your skull. I do wish they felt more distinctive these days. Most of them are "Simon Malls" which all have a similar, bare-bones modern aesthetic.
Yep, this one is a Simon mall. I truly miss some of the aesthetics it had before 1992. In one of my other videos about this mall, I showed a picture of this beautiful curved staircase that led down to the bottom floor of The Bon Marche (which is now Macy's, who bought The Bon at some point in the 90s but didn't change the name until many years later)--it featured a really cool tall gothic water feature. And I miss the type of flooring they had, it was concrete terrazzo--white concrete with assorted small stones as the other texture. Yeah, it was dated to a degree, but it was so distinctive.
Another thing they did in 1992 was remove some of the original slit-skylight features and replaced them with big chunky windows, only on one side. It's something that was common in the 1990s, the industrial/unfinished look, and I thought it really ruined some of the design. A similar ceiling is at Southcenter Mall, owned by Westfield, and they kept the original design. I think they did a better job.
One of the videos I did about The Commons mall, formerly known as Seatac Mall, I showed a lot of the differences between what it used to look like and current. They *_really destroyed_* the distinctiveness of *that* mall. I miss so many of its wood features that they completely covered up. Maybe the colors in some of the tiling was ugly, but they could have replaced them with more modern colors and kept the original design, but no. Everything has to have this generic "safe" look.
Sorry, I'm rambling. LOL
@@kizzume It sounds to me like this used to be a really beautiful mall! I like those aesthetics a lot. It's so sad how so much creative work gets entirely replaced, painted or built over with lower quality work. I don't like the generic "safe" look either. I will definitely check those videos out.Thank you for sharing, don't apologize for it :)
interesting@@kizzume
Wow, the Tacoma Mall has changed so much since I was a kid!
I still really miss the curved staircase (with a gothic water feature) leading down to The Bon Marche. You can still see some of the stylings of that in the wall to the right at 14:26
I miss how the ceiling of the mall looked before they put in gaudy windows to match 90s sensibilities.
I also strangely miss the concrete terrazzo flooring that the mall used to have.
Hello from Everett 👋
Question for you. Are there any plans for jim cant swim to return. I really enjoyed your work on those videos.
Build-a-mbrererph... haha I watched that southpark after your video :D
Man moved to Michigan last summer only to move back to Washington this summer. I'm looking forward to being back. Michigan was just not the right place to be. Thanks for the vid 🙂
What About Yakima Valley Mall and its Sears, in Union Gap, Washington ?
Doesn't look worth it, nothing in its design really has character, standard office ceiling tiles throughout. It's about a 2 1/2 hour drive away. I do want to see Kitsap Mall, which is only about an hour away, and even though it's a newer mall, it seems to have some character to it. Lots of wood features.
@@kizzume plus the Sears building at Valley Mall only has 1 floor so no elevator or escalator there. The Valley Mall building itself, however, has 2 floors
nice looking mall, hopefully wont be a dead one anytime soon, happy walking!
i feel like the ones that made it through the 00s and 10s is going to be around for good. (hopefully it looks like their are plenty of young ppl here)
That’s a nice mall. I miss the mall. I hate that they’re all becoming abandoned where I live (Midwest)
Mmmmm big huge mall
Looking at thumbnail i thought it's "Kropotkinskaya" Moscow's subway station.
(My very own neural network image recognition signals it misses its home city)
I will normally never double comment but here are some things I spotted that I found neat
3:01 that mom is probably happy her son will sleep well tonight ^_^
5:50 oh man i haven't has Saku's in years
LOL!
I was interested in the couple at the 0:01 who seem to be exercising/walking laps (they also appear around 3:30). I'm wondering if this is a thing over there. I've never seen it here in brisbane (australia).. but we don't have the cold/guns outside to contend with.. just drop-bears and the like.
@@firstnamelastname7476 mall walkers were way more popular a back when malls were more popular. you could see packs of them
OMG so i just watched a video on choeshow's channel of a protest going down in this same mall.
I was like "wait why does that Washington mall look familiar to me?" then it clicked
Oh wow, I totally missed that video, just got done watching it. Interesting....
COOL VID KIZZUME
Not a bad mall at all. . Ours here in Salinas Ca. is more of a (maul).
I'm glad this mall is still doing alright. Not like the 80s and 90s, but better than a lot of other malls. The most populated mall in the region is Westfield Southcenter Mall in Tukwilla. You know, that would be fun to go there sometime before Christmas and make another video like this one. It's a very large mall.
@@kizzume Great idea. I thought This mall was very big..
Great stream on poons panel ;)
Hey thanks; I suppose shirtlessness has weird advantages.
@@kizzume definitely drew my attention
somber af
I mean, it wasn't super-crowded, but I wouldn't say somber. But different people interpret scenarios differently.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :)
Thanks, you too!
this is the real mall experience following someone for longer than necessary because it would be weird to pass them up and they are going the same way as you
as a mall goth from the 2000s this is very nostalgic shout out hot topic 𝅘𝅥𝅯 ♫
thank you for the vid kizz
😂 Yeah, you could see that I was really wanting to pass them, finally did in the food court. LOL
Did you use the 🦜 parrot cam to avoid confrontation?
Not very busy considering only 3 shopping daze left.
It's a Pocket 2 camera. Somewhat discrete. As long as I don't look at the screen on it, it probably just looks like I'm carrying something small and nondescript. I was surprised when I passed 3 security people in a short time, one of them had a K9--surprised none of them said anything.
@@kizzume i think that k9 was areal cop if so someone was in bigtime trouble