EASTLAND CENTER THE FINAL HOURS- HARPER WOODS MICHIGAN
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2023
- I’ve take. You inside this mall before to tell you it’s story. Now it’s time to head back inside one final time as we relive the final hours of the Eastland Center one of my childhood malls and a mall my mom grew up with.
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That was the powerhouse that powered the mall. Also, the Hippo and the Lion went to St. John Hospital in Detroit.
Thank you for making this. My grandma worked as a travel agent in the lower level (basement) of Hudson’s. My mom took me there at least weekly to take her lunch break with her (my fav was the Taco Bell).
I moved across the country when I was 14, and have little fragments of memories that I’ve tried to piece together. Seeing the entrance to Hudson’s from the mall made me cry, I remember a specific memory with my grandma there. I want to say there was a Bath & Body Works kiddie corner from it.
Yeah, my parents grew up watching this place be built and grow and they went to it often on and then when I was born I went to it often on with them so it’s a big part of my family
That was my favorite mall of all time. In the 80's Eastland mall was the spot to go to for clothes and shoes. In the 70's being a kid at Christmas time it was the prettiest mall. A lot of fawn memories with my mother.
I grew up in Harper Woods and remember, when the was not enclosed. Hudsons was there and we loved going to Sanders downstairs for ice cream. We lived blocks from the mall from until 1975. Glad thr sculptures are safe at St John's hospital where I was born. I loved the little brass mouse on the lion. Memories! Oh and the Stouffers restaurant upstairs in Hudsons.
Omg I knew stouffers had restraints and that Hudson’s did to because I ate at a Hudson’s once in the late 90s but I never knew they were combined 😳😳 never got a chance to eat at stouffers it was gone by the 90s
Thank you for sharing this. I was going to post that at one time the mall was not enclosed and about the delicious food on the top floor of J L Hudson. It's sad to see so many malls are now gone.
@@TiltedTripodMedia Yes, that restaurant was on the top floor of J L Hudson, which it was called back then. They also had a hair salon up there. The basement level of it was called the bargain basement and had beautiful clothes priced less than the upper floors of Hudson's.
My first job was there in the late 60's while I was in HS, at Barnaby's, which had clothes for babies and children. There was also a separate Saunders that served great food along with their ice cream. They made some out of this world floats and sundaes !!!
There wasn't a food court back then and not for a long, long time after they enclosed the mall.
My parents remember that restaurant only over at northland where they lived
The mall used to have an original food court with a fancy restaurant. They demolished part of the mall in the late 90s / 2000s. just a FYI.
The really cool building in this mall was the original JL hudson building. sad it was closed by the time you made this video.
Thanks for asking my parents about this. They remember the other section of the mall that was demolished.
The basement level used to have a coffee shop/restaurant back in 1980s. Both this one and Northland Malls were our favorites back then. People there were always nice and during the Christmas seasons it was a blast to see all the decorations.
@@leroystea8069 they were both one of my favorite Detroit area malls as well
I still remember before it was an enclosed mall. I do remember during the 1968 detroit riots the national guard had a tank there that was surrounded by a hundred kids. When the detroit crowd moved in bringing it's crime with it, the place was doomed.
I lived a few blocks away on County Club and fully remember the tanks ,the glow at night from the fires in the city and the curfews. Detroit died that Summer.😢
Loved this! Grew up going to Eastland and will always miss it
Me too
Nice Video. Love your narration and you reminiscing on times you and your family spent time together. And the beautiful nostalgia your parents had for this mall. I really appreciate you documenting this beloved mall for future generations to see. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the kind words and Support as long as I am financially able to continue documenting these places I will
The original food court was amazing, had better food choices than what was moved over the the new location, I miss this mall. A family remember worked there and I was always in that mall wasting the entire day waiting for them to get off work
I used to go to the mall as a kid with my mother and go eat in the restaurant at Hudson's upstairs. And always got some warm nuts and some chocolate mint candies at the candy counter!
Yea it was a magical place and time I’m glad I grew up in the Detroit area as well as my parents. I remember when mall culture was as much a part of the city as car culture.
Much love to this mall and to the thousands of people whose lives I intersected with while working there. -Sean
Kay-Bee Toys 1989-1990, Electronics Boutique 1992-1994, Suncoast Motion Picture Company 1993-1994
Wow that’s cool. I’m sure either my mom or I have probably shopped and been served by you at your store back in the day as this was one of our childhood malls.
The Sears store was originally a JCPenney in 1975.
Yes it was. There isn’t much of anything I don’t know about this mall as my parents and I grew up with this mall. My parents remember when it first opened. And my memories go back to about the late 90’s.
Back in the day, they used to have a pet store where you could puppies. I used to play on top of that hippo and also the lion with the mouse.
Such amazing times they were
The area where you asked what it was is the "Physical Plant". In other words, that is where the boilers and air conditioning systems were for the entire mall. The boilers use the smoke stack to exit the fumes from the structupeople. Don't realize this. But throughout the history of all the landball, such as North, East, West and South on the smoke stacks. For the boilers, there was a compass placed on one of the sides, which would indicate with a highlighted letter Eastland to be exact for this 1 had the E highlighted on a directional compass if you went to northland the North side of their smokes. Is that indicated with an n and if you went to southland or Westland you would have the letters.S or w on their smoke stacks in the directional geographical position.
These security offices were also located down the main entrance through this part of the mall.If you went to the main part of the hallway before emptied out into the mall your security offices were to the left.
I would buy all my silver chains and earrings in the jewelry store in that basement.
@@1jesussaves2jesusliv yeah I did too well not all of it but a good bunch that I still have
This Sears was originally JC Penny.
The columns were never Marlborough to begin with. That was facade that was put on in the late 80s to early 90s. When they refurbished them, all they were always concrete with metal pears that went around the outside of them. Shoppers' world was an add-on to them all that happened in the early 90s, which became Montgomery wards after they had closed down the Little Caesars, which used to be to the right of the entrance to where Montgomery ward's/Stephen Berry's/shopper's world was at..
Yeah I knew the columns weren’t solid marble. Thanks for all the history as I wasn’t old enough to remember much of that mall and my mom can’t remember cuz of cancer.
0:06 Oh yeah. That's why our grandparents were skinnier than us.
Yea, you nailed it on the Sears Grand style. We had an SG at Pittsburgh Mills and those multi colored blue rectangles seemed to be SG branding. Grand was a waste at Pittsburgh Mills. It just didn’t feel like a Sears, it felt more like a fake Best Buy with items and brands people didn’t want anymore. Good video, thanks for posting!
I never got to experience a sears grand we never had them in Michigan to my knowledge
As a child in the 50s, 60s, my parents went to eastland and northland all the time. Fond memories
Mot mom grew up going to those malls and lived across from northland watched the Southfield expressway get built and then northland. So sad it’s all gone.
@@TiltedTripodMedia in the 70s, Universal Mall was big in Warren, but that is gone now too. Then Lakeside Mall ... its pretty much gone too. Glad to have enjoyed all those places
@@Yupyupyo sadly I never made it to universal mall but I’ve seen pictures and wish I could have gone.
i use to go there with my parents as a kid, so i remember it from the 70s and 80s, before the ones you mentioned ruined it for everyone..
Does anyone remember the simulator ride thing they had by one of the exits? It was the 90’s I believe, each weekend was different, one week was a roller coaster ride, another would be like a space ride. It was awesome as a kid
Sounds familiar
Didn’t spend much time here for I was a bit north in St Clair county. I do remember what you are talking about at birchwood mall in port Huron. That thing was amazing. I talked about it with all my friends at school. It really felt like you were on a roller coaster.
Basements! I think that Monroeville mall might be considered a yes, as the basement was where the ice rink was original located, then it became the food court.
Also, not mall specific, but I think most of the Sears we had in central NJ had basements, which I guess was a Sears or typical old school department and 5&10 store thing back in the day…. Gotta use every bit of space.
Do you mean Monroeville mall in Pennsylvania?
@@TiltedTripodMedia yes. The dawn of the dead mall! Ha
@@charlestonpinballarcade oh I just made a video for the living dead event. I have mall footage for that video later
I loved Eastland
The aesthetics were great and a basement!!!!
@@TiltedTripodMedia i spent my christmas money there in the 80s
@@annberlin5811 unfortunately I didn’t get to experience Eastland mall until the 2000s my parents though grew up going to it back when it was first built
Food courts are more overpriced than fine dining
Yeah I tend to agree with that on some level. I wouldn’t say fine dining but they are priced higher than what they are. Fast food!
Wring. Northland was built and completed 3 years prior to Eastland Center.
Northland opening in 1954 and Eastland in 1957.
They were followed by Westland in 1965 and then Southland which opened in 1970.
None of the malls were being constructed at the same time.
During your narration you state that northland was demolished but that is incorrect.
Most of the mall was taken down but the main anchor store which was hudson's has been being converted to an open air environment with residential office and some retail space along with a city center going in on the property.
The same should have been done in harper woods where eastland was but it has been completely torn down and will be turned into an industrial complex with three main structures and only providing five hundred jobs in total.
It just shows to go the priorities for the city council members and the city of harperwoods michigan no concern for the citizens or the property values in that city.
The mall has been mostly patronized by blacks since the 80s son. You got that whole demographic thing wrong. The style of black people changed. The amount of people in the middle class changed. That's what happened to Eastland. Yes there were more whites that shopped at Eastland in the 80s and 90s but it was definitely predominantly black...
No research is needed. However I did look up hard factual data on incomes and demographics of Harper woods where the mall is located. My mom grew up going to this mall when it opened and the area was mostly white middle class with good paying jobs but over the years those living in Harper woods with good paying jobs moved further out into the suburbs and with them went the dollars spent at eastland. Those that moved in were lower income and couldn’t support the mall and they just happened to be black. The area slowly faded from a safe place to raise a family to a place with higher than average crime. The stats tell it all with a median income of 50k, 63% African American and about 30% white. The crime rate currently sits at 1.7% higher than the national average. I can remember many news story’s involving crimes at this mall in its final decade. I’m only bringing this up so my videos aren’t discredited. Also Amazon is only a part of the puzzle because many malls still thrive alongside Amazon such as twelve oaks, Somerset collection and many others. You are correct that the area has been black for a long time and that the mall had been in decline for a long time. 😊
@TiltedTripodMedia like I said the mall was supported by blacks. I ve stated the factual information of why this mall closed. You can look up bullshit and claim it if you want. I'm obviously older than you. I'm telling you what happened. Twelve Oaks mall is not doing well.. Sommers Set has I'm just guess probably about 40% of sommer set income is black green backs buddy. Why don't you just go out there and people watch. This new culture is the decline of malls everywhere. Quit being a dumbass racist. Open your eyes
@TiltedTripodMedia the auto industry has supported Detroit and its suburbs. Your cousins shipped the jobs to 3rd world countries that's why the monet is not around anymore. Don't believe bullshit
@@TiltedTripodMedia Also part of what changed for Eastland, was Lakeside Mall being built. Many from the suburbs flocked to that mall and stopped going to Eastland very often. Now Lakeside is gone too. I'm sad about all of it since my first job in the late 60's was at Eastland & I remember taking my children to see Santa in front of the smoke glass elevator surrounded by big lights. Santa and his elves were seated at the bottom of it by the water. So many memories.
All 3 of my children were born in the 70's. They remember both of those malls.
@@kathiestevensdesigns9385 headed to lakeside mall this month for its closing as it was one of my childhood malls
The climate control center is what that wss
Thanks for that info