STRATFORD SQUARE MALL SHOULD IT EXIST?- BLOOMINGDALE ILLINOIS
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Is the Stratford Square Mall in the wrong place? Many say it’s in a bad location because it’s surrounded by housing. However looking at Google maps shows a fair bit of retail just across from the mall. I feel that this malls downfall is a classic case of not modernizing and the area being over malled. let’s take a look at this mall during the nite, day and Christmas over the last few years. This mall has had a very visible decline and it’s on borrowed time.
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Used to live down the street in Hanover Park, saw Karate Kid 2 and Beetlejuice there when I was 7 and 8 years old with my friends from the neighborhood. Good times!
Wow I would love to live there if it wasn’t so $$$$$$
we lived in a duplex in the mid eighties, good neighborhood, im sure housing has gone up a lot, best time of my life though, for sure!@@TiltedTripodMedia
The mall was there BEFORE much of the housing. This was jammed in the 80s and 90s. We were there all the time. Woodfield is not close, it's about 20 miles away. It's pronounced shomburg, not shamburg. I have video of Stratford back in the day. I should post it - from the late 80s.
please post them 🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@butimacheerleader I'll have to find the video and I WILL.
@@RotterStudios awesomeee!
Did you ever post the video of the mall in the 80s?
@@heatherdolphin5741 not yet. sorry. have to find it. on vhs tapes somewhere. haha.
Yes that was the Disney store it was that large. The old floor was used for kiosks that been taken out that sold phone cases
Thanks for the info
Great Work on this video, and while I never stepped foot into this Beautiful Mall, I'm truly Sorry to those who did and held this place dear for many memorable years. Both the Closing of Springhill and now recently Stratford, is a Sad site and a Loss for the communities.😥👎
I No longer live in the NW and Western Burbs of Chicago, IL but I attended and did from time to time visit and shop at several Malls like Oakbrook, Old Orchard, Woodfield,Lincolnwood, Golf Mill (very Dead mall), and those just South such as the HIP (Harlem Irving Plaza) a Thriving City mall, and Riverside near Brookfield,IL. ALL had their own uniqueness.
I never sadly visited Springhill or Stratford.😥 Both had and still have Beautiful Interrior design.
How were the Food Court Options at Stratford as compared to Woodfield and the rest❓️🤔
Thank You. At 47, I'm still a Mall Rat, living just outside the Los Angeles Ca Downtown city limits and my 2 malls are Santa Anita, and Montebello Town Center. I'm surprised at how both seem to be recovered from Covid and have held up against IOnline shopping, Amazon and other nearby retailers.
Anyway, Thanks and have subscribed and Like your Video and Work.
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thanks so much for the support. Im sorry you moved to Los Angeles. My grandparents use to live in Lake forest and moved from California in 2005. I remember visiting them as a teen and loving California. Now looking back on it California was better back then but still an unsustainable place to live. Myself id much rather live in the Chicago area. Lower cost of living abundant resources like the Great Lakes for water and I enjoy having all the seasons. I didn't start visiting Stratford square until it was already going down hill. From what I could tell it did use to have a very nice food court. As for Spring Hill I visited it once about a year ago. I love making day trips from ohio to Chicago it's so fun.
Remember the good times here, not the bad. ❤😂
Nice mall, unfortunately security here is HORRIBLE! If you are seen taking pictures or videos they will yelled at you over the intercom. Ridiculous.
Never had that happen 😳
I was there yesterday and only 10 stores left and 1 restaurant left in the food court
Wow that sucks.
The architecture is quite unique!! I am sure that not only location is an issue for this mall to thrive. American malls across the country are declining, as the dollar is worth less and less. Thanks for video!!
Yeah and now our government is raising interest. So stupid in a failing economy.
The mall definitely isn't in the wrong place. In the early 80s to late 90s it was difficult to find parking space. I was a regular there living only a few minutes away. As kid/ teen in the 80s it was a mega popular place to go.
Would love to live in that area if I was rich 😊
@@TiltedTripodMedia I'm far from rich 🙂
@@nightswatch8659 oh nooo I wasn’t trying to make a snotty snobby comment. It’s just that basically anywhere within Chicago is expensive. Compared to places like Ohio or Michigan or anywhere else in the Midwest. You have to have a really decent income in order to live in a nice or decent part of the Chicago area. That’s all I was meaning and there’s no way I could afford it ever.
@@nightswatch8659 I’m sure if you moved out of Chicago on your current income and have the same income in a place like Ohio, your money would go a lot farther. :-)
@@TiltedTripodMedia you're one hundred percent right about that! Illinois is horrible.
You never visited this mall back in the 90s and early 2000s did you?
No because I could never afford to live in the Chicago area
Stratford square mall is closing on April 21 2024
Since I’ve been there and filmed it fairly recently I won’t be returning. I’ve also heard that everyone that’s been visiting lately just gets harassed and threatened with arrest.
FYE will never die. Its been there since i was a kid and its ghost will remain long after the mall disappears.
Side note, a bunch of my friends have tiles on the walls near the bathrooms. I go there every once in a while for nostalgia.
Interesting
I love the interior design of this mall. Thanks for filming.
Yes the elegant wood design is amazing.
That is original floor you found. That was throughout the entire mall. I was blown away when I first discovered that. It’s pretty cool and odd they left it.
Yeah, I figured it was probably original to the mall
What a stupid title. I was living in Glendale Heights when this mall opened. It was all the rage for years. Spent many a weekend there. It’s just a sign of changing times all across the USA. There was a time when you couldn’t find parking anywhere.
What’s wrong with the title?
I feel bad for the probably 5 families that more than likely lost theyr family farm land due to taxes being raised where this mall was built, my friends family used to own a good chunk of the land this mall sits on and now it’s just a waste of space