I live in Tulsa, and I'm so glad you got to document Eastland / Eastgate. Should you be back around the Promenade Mall just closed... really sad story, the mall was on its last legs for a long time, and finally the owners said, "we're not paying for the upkeep anymore." It's abandoned, and most of us expect it to be destroyed by homeless and vandals in a matter of months. Sad, truly.
In the '80s and '90s, I lived East of Tulsa, so it just made sense for us to go to Eastland. Lots of great memories there, especially going to Service Merchandise, K-B Toys, eating at the Garfield's restaurant, and seeing movies at the theater next to the food court. Having a Target and Toys-R-Us across the street made it nice that we didn't have to drive all the way into Tulsa. Also, my grandfather-in-law was the construction foreman on the Dillard's there. Demographics have definitely changed in this area, which helped bring the mall down. Thank you for the video, and great aerials of the Tulsa skyline!
Having grown up in the 80s and for me, this mall was almost like a second home, the pictures at the end of the video brought back a lot of fond memories. It was also sad starting in the 2000s with the closure of pennies seeing the mall and it’s rapid decline and eventual death. At one point I don’t remember the year my wife and I would go to the local Garfield‘s and eat maybe once a month and every time we went at least one of the stores closed. This happened until, you guessed it. Garfield’s closed for good.
This mall was so much a part of my family growing up as we were of it. My mom, grandpa, and uncle all worked there. My mom worked at JC Penny and Spencer's, my grandpa and uncle both worked at JC Penny. It was really the main mall I went to back in the day for The Pro Image sports shop and Waldenbooks. I went on my first date ever with my first girlfriend there. It was one of the greats.
Really amazing testament to a Tulsa Landmark that isn’t what it once was. I remember this mall opening in the early 80s and I can even remember Martin Mull being on commercials for its grand opening. My senior year in high school (1990) a bunch of my friends went to a movie at the theater and many of my friends had their first date at this mall.
I moved to Tulsa in the early 90's and remember how busy this mall was. Crazy to think how popular malls were in comparison to today. Like you said, malls was the spot where you took your girl on a date, get a bite to eat, watch a movie, do some shopping and just hang out. Miss those days!..
It makes me so happy to see a dead mall get a second life and be reborn from it. One of my childhood malls in Anchorage, Alaska, the University Center Mall, is now mainly used as office space and classrooms for the University of Alaska after it pretty much died as a mall. There is really only one corridor left that's even mall like but, even that's pretty much dead as most of the shops with the exception for a travel agency, jewelry store, deli and a massage therapy center, have moved to either the more successful Dimond Center Mall and Anchorage 5th Ave. Mall. I wouldn't be surprised if the university buys and repurposes that corridor too within the next few years.
@@AcesAdventures1 You've got some serious DJ vibes in your videos. Any way you could link the mall's websites in the description of your dead mall videos?
I just love the sounds from the water fountain the way it reverberates off the walls. JUst so much good memories of these malls when they were more productive back in the day.
I remember this mall sitting in the 1970s with steel girders sticking out from 4 foot tall weeds and trees. I grew up on the east side of Tulsa and when this mall was finally finished in the 80s as a teenager it was our favorite hangout spot. It’s crazy how the world changes constantly.
Finally a mall I know! Grew up going here as a kid/teen in the 90s. My family moved away in 2000. It was already dying back then, but my friends and I would just pick a mall to hang out for the day so it didn’t matter.
Grew up here in as a kid/teens in the 90s to the early 2000s. It was a great mall but in not so active part of Tulsa. There just wasn’t a lot going on. However, I do have fond memories in the late 90s to early 2000s when the mall was obviously approaching a dead zone and 2000 to 2004. The mall had some unusual stores. Like a martial arts weapons store, a new age store and a bootlegged dvd store. You should really check out promenade mall, there is a lot of interesting info on the back story. You’re also find out that Tulsa likes carpeted malls for some reason 😂😂
This makes me very happy to see you cover this mall it was one of my favorite malls growing up in Tulsa spent a lot of time at this one as a kid and teenager in the malls heyday
@@Coolio_chan gadzooks, fye, kb toys for a little while , JcPenney was in Coca cola, Dillard’s was at capital one , Mervyns was the chain up front , some jewelry store & journeys shoe store was on the front corner near the fountain…. Old navy windows are still in there I think . Haven’t been there in years haha
Wow!!! A trip back in time!!!! Thank you so much for creating this video. I spent alot of time here as a teen, as well as Woodland Hills Mall. It was great to see it back in it's old glory days again!!! 😁
I lived in Tulsa for about 30 years before moving back to San Diego and I remember this mall!!! I went there when I was in high school in marching band. We went after a competition. By that time though, the mall had already started to go downhill and that was I think in 1996. If you're ever in Tulsa again, check out the Promenade Mall on 41st and Yale. It's been slowly dying for as long as I can remember with the second level being if I remember correctly totally vacant. The ONLY mall that's really relevant there now is Woodland Hills Mall, and that's located just past 71st Street on Memorial Drive. More like 68th and Memorial. Man this mall though was literally out in the sticks lol. Great video. Everything about it was just so familiar to me and made me think about when i lived there.
I agree Hannah, I don't think Eastland was in a good location. I went there like maybe one or two times when it was a mall, the next time I went there was when they turned it into this commercial property and I think I renewed my Driver's license in there, that was several years ago now. Eastland has been a dead mall for a long time now. Malls dying makes me so sad. A lot of great memories at the malls, here in Tulsa and Dallas malls.
The area Eastland was around deteriorated over time during the 90’s, and traffic simply went elsewhere to Promenade and Woodland Hills. Even Promenade eventually dried up by the late 2000’s, with Woodland still thriving to this day. It’s not so much that Eastland was in the middle of nowhere as much as economic downturn in that area doomed the mall as it wasn’t worth the trip for most of the year
@@vibechecktsundere4912 yea the area really struggled till about 2018, When the area started gaining traction and developers started reinventing the area.
This video was fascinating. Saw Jurassic Park here on opening day, and many other films throughout the late 80s and 90s. (Edit to say that ending made me tear up. Holy shit)
Nice video! I'm glad that this mall got a second life, as a business/corporate/government oriented mall. Love they kept the old fountain, as well. And I like that Eastgate Metroplex kept the tent ceiling look, from the Eastland Mall days!
Thank you so much for this video. I have a ton of memories from my childhood to teenage years of this mall. While we didn't hear Waterfront Dining in the mall, we did hear Miami Sound Machine😃 Once again Thank You
Video brings back a lot of memories. Used to love going to Eastland Mall... okay, I gotta make it known,.... this music you got playing SLAPS!!!! 👍🏿 Who is this playing?
Glad you mentioned Eastland Mall's history regarding they started it and then never finished it I guess and then it officially opened decades later. I remember my Mom telling me about that. Eastland Mall is located in East Tulsa which is not the most happening part of Tulsa, that's why it struggled more than the other malls in Tulsa and this was before malls started dying. I have a great vintage photo of me 8x10 in 1983 modeling in a Woodland Hills Mall fashion show (Tulsa), it's a professional photo my Dad (pro photographer) shot. It's a cool shot because he captured a wide shot from the upper level and the fashion show was on the lower level. It showed hundreds of people watching the fashion show from the lower and upper levels and shows the stage in the middle. I love that mall fashion show photo my Dad shot and have so many great mall memories of Tulsa malls and Dallas and it's metroplex malls because I was a professional model for 15 years. Besides modeling in Paris, Milan, Tokyo, I modeled in lots of mall fashion shows, Dallas Galleria, Dallas Northpark Mall etc.
I grew up going to Eastland Mall. Well late 90's...so it was already on it's way out. I watched it slowly decline. I'm glad it has a purpose now. That circus tent roof didn't go to waste! PS. Hanson is still very much a band and they manage a record label based in Tulsa. :)
@@AcesAdventures1 I still listen to Hanson too. So much that my 12 and 6 year old children have been to Hanson concerts. It was nice to see them in your video.
I grew up in the small one of my friends well thinking back on it pretty much everyone of my friends and myself fell into that water pond thing they had in there that always had a shit ton of change in it I wish this place never closed for such good memories
Eastland was always an odd mall from its early days half completed dead mall shell that sat vacant to the weird tent roof and the carpet choice and the bed bug infestation a few tenants had a few years ago its still kinda surviving despite its odd life and decour
It looks like something you would see if the building was converted for any other function like a convention hall or a community college. And since the mall has been transitioning into a mixed commercial building with office spaces, it doesn't seem too out of wack for corridor carpeting to be there. That said, carpetting in the main atrium is a bit too much.
Along with the early 2000's malls of Promenade & Woodland Hills, this mall was also a huge part of my childhood before it closed briefly until it became Eastgate (I had left the States for a brief period when it became Eastgate by that point). I loved Hollywood Theaters growing up at both Promenade and this one, I would love to get pics inside there one more time to never forget the interior because of how colorful it was for me. Thankfully I got some pics of the theater at Promenade before that theater closed few years ago so I could remember it.
I worked at the 7 dollar store, Old Country Buffet, and Rex's Chicken all at this mall back in the early 2000s. Also used to flirt with the cute guys that used to work at KB Toys (Greg and Josh)😂😂😂
Haha!!! Old Country Buffet! Fond memories of that place. Last time I went there was my 8th grade graduation in the early 2000's. Stuffed my face until I was sick lol. Miss Eastland Mall and miss the 80's and 90's.
The last thing I got here, was a Oklahoma Sooners Semi , for my Oklahoma Sooners Collection!!!! I wished someone could of added on, to make a bigger mall !!! I Liked It !!!!!
I lived in Jenks in the 90s, but would drive to Eastland because it had one of the best sports card shops in town. Wish I could remember the name of it.
Back in 97-99 ish I lived not far from this mall me and friends was kicked out many times ... Great memories, one of my favorite stores was called 57 gear I thought I was gangster back then lol
I worked at Eastgate Metroplex for a company who I won't mention and I won't mention my job position at the time. That mall, underneath it and on the top level of the mall are haunted. No one ever says a thing about it. Something lurks in that mall at night. I've seen it and I was terrified. Nothing happened to me or anything but I had multiple experiences at that mall at night working evening shift. That place is scary as heck at night. I never go to the below levels unless there is tornado type weather. Something about that place at night always gave me the creeps and I felt like I was being watched when no one else was around.
@@Kballs I don't know it's history honestly but If you ask others about it no one ever says a thing. The owner of the mall doesn't like going there at night. It's fine in the day, I also worked dayshift too. But at night it's creepy. It's like the vibe changes and you get this feeling that something is with you when there is no one there. It is strange because it only happens at night but some nights were better than others. Some nights nothing happenes and then some nights there was things I couldn't explain that happened and I know if I explained it I'd sound crazy. I got used to those occurrences. A few workers were with me when I witnessed things sometimes and they noticed it too. So I know I wasn't crazy. Lol. We just kept quiet about it.
Dear Anthony, Thank you for the wonderful video, really enjoyed it. I have a question for you. What song of Waterfront Dining is this in the beginning? Love it, but can't find the title.
Sister mall of the awesome Washington Square Mall in Evansville, IN. Same tent design in the food court with the added bonus of purple neon everywhere.
I grew up going to the mall in the 80s and 90s and always enjoyed going there. I was even surprised to go there as late as 2002 and it still seemed to be thriving. I went there a few years ago after not seeing it in almost 15 years and was a little disappointed to see the state of it. Still glad it's safe to walk around as opposed to the promenade mall in Tulsa which is a little scary sometimes.
my mom worked above the mall ad tpv. when she first got the job she showed us around down here in the mall. in some places there weren’t even carpet. it’s was a mess. Looks great ever since they redid it. it was still cool when it was abandoned though 😂
I got my license here lmaoo. I had just moved to Tulsa & I thought it was so weird there was dmv in a empty mall it was like walking into a time machine.
Lol we had just moved to Owasso and thought it was strange to go to the mall to get our licenses....especially since it was kind of empty and sad. Glad we weren't they only ones who thought it was weird to get our license there also.
Awesome water fountain. Didn’t they serve more than just something to look at? Like add humidity to the air? Think that was the real reason they were added to malls. I keep my sub list short so i don’t have too much trouble with videos not showing up
This is so sad! So many memories of shopping there as a kid. Lots of school clothes shopping there lol. The movie theater and that fountain are two of my favorite memories from there. I was there a year or so ago at the DMV they have inside now but I didn’t walk around much. I was a little worried after the major bed bug issue they had there even though I think it was resolved awhile before I had to go there. Promenade mall has been struggling for years now and even Woodland Hills is starting to lose a lot of stores and going downhill. I enjoyed the video though. My mom drove by there today while seeing patients in the area so we were reminiscing
It's a weird mall.. some of it looks like a regular mall, some of it reminds me of the halls of a convention center. So strange!! That fountain is beautiful though. I wish malls were still popular, I deeply cherish any malls that are left.
Promenade isn't a zombified corpse yet, it's still functional as a MALL, and it still looks like one. This poor place has been bastardized into some corporate beige business center nightmarescape.
I met some people there for lunch at the Mexican restaurant in 2004. Was early and walked the mall. No traffic. Many vacated stores and mostly just kiosk businesses. Last gasp. Very sad.
I looked at chesterfield and there is a huge difference between a dead and a completely dead mall.you could hear a pin drop there.but the center is in such great shape and condition otherwise.
I am not always a fan of these mall redevelopments. They knocked this one out of the park. The best elements of the former mall like the tent roof and water fountain look just like they did in the old photos.
For years my family has been thinking about what it would be like for Promenade Mall, located not too far from this one, to be repurposed into living spaces. Stores turned into apartments.
what would really be interesting is to interview the people walking around the mall. why are they there? bored? unemployed? actually shopping? cool place to meet fellow gang members to plot and carry out crimes. Also interview employees of any stores still open to see how they feel about their job and life. Any channels doing this?
The highway killed it. In the 90s that area had a toys r us and Target right across the street and shopping and mile over . Now that area is honestly not a nice area at all
It's crazy to think that all the anchor stores except for Dillard's as far as I know are all out of business or as a 2020 in the process of going out of business. Marvin's is gone service merchandise is gone JCPenney is in the process of going out of business and I have no idea about Dillard's never heard of them only seeing a couple of their stores on UA-cam.
I live in Tulsa, and I'm so glad you got to document Eastland / Eastgate. Should you be back around the Promenade Mall just closed... really sad story, the mall was on its last legs for a long time, and finally the owners said, "we're not paying for the upkeep anymore." It's abandoned, and most of us expect it to be destroyed by homeless and vandals in a matter of months. Sad, truly.
In the '80s and '90s, I lived East of Tulsa, so it just made sense for us to go to Eastland. Lots of great memories there, especially going to Service Merchandise, K-B Toys, eating at the Garfield's restaurant, and seeing movies at the theater next to the food court. Having a Target and Toys-R-Us across the street made it nice that we didn't have to drive all the way into Tulsa. Also, my grandfather-in-law was the construction foreman on the Dillard's there. Demographics have definitely changed in this area, which helped bring the mall down. Thank you for the video, and great aerials of the Tulsa skyline!
I ate at Garfield's several times! 👍
Having grown up in the 80s and for me, this mall was almost like a second home, the pictures at the end of the video brought back a lot of fond memories.
It was also sad starting in the 2000s with the closure of pennies seeing the mall and it’s rapid decline and eventual death. At one point I don’t remember the year my wife and I would go to the local Garfield‘s and eat maybe once a month and every time we went at least one of the stores closed. This happened until, you guessed it. Garfield’s closed for good.
my mom and her mom used to go every weekend in ‘93!
I have many fond memories of shopping at the KB Toys upstairs in the late 90s ❤️
This mall was everything in the 80s
This mall was so much a part of my family growing up as we were of it. My mom, grandpa, and uncle all worked there. My mom worked at JC Penny and Spencer's, my grandpa and uncle both worked at JC Penny. It was really the main mall I went to back in the day for The Pro Image sports shop and Waldenbooks. I went on my first date ever with my first girlfriend there. It was one of the greats.
Really amazing testament to a Tulsa Landmark that isn’t what it once was. I remember this mall opening in the early 80s and I can even remember Martin Mull being on commercials for its grand opening.
My senior year in high school (1990) a bunch of my friends went to a movie at the theater and many of my friends had their first date at this mall.
I moved to Tulsa in the early 90's and remember how busy this mall was. Crazy to think how popular malls were in comparison to today. Like you said, malls was the spot where you took your girl on a date, get a bite to eat, watch a movie, do some shopping and just hang out. Miss those days!..
Lovin' that Miami Vice sounding music score.
it's a vibe!
It makes me so happy to see a dead mall get a second life and be reborn from it. One of my childhood malls in Anchorage, Alaska, the University Center Mall, is now mainly used as office space and classrooms for the University of Alaska after it pretty much died as a mall. There is really only one corridor left that's even mall like but, even that's pretty much dead as most of the shops with the exception for a travel agency, jewelry store, deli and a massage therapy center, have moved to either the more successful Dimond Center Mall and Anchorage 5th Ave. Mall. I wouldn't be surprised if the university buys and repurposes that corridor too within the next few years.
Man you always have the best jams in the intros!
being a DJ for over 20 years, music is life!
I remember the West End Girls. Their biggest hit was a cover of Jackson 5's I Want You Back.
@@AcesAdventures1 You've got some serious DJ vibes in your videos. Any way you could link the mall's websites in the description of your dead mall videos?
@@KrazyKeith4 i mean i am a DJ so lol, and that can be tough
@@AcesAdventures1 Yeah some of the malls have outdated sites and whatnot. I get it.
The biggest thing that caused Eastland Mall to lose business was the increase in crime in East Tulsa and people not going to that area anymore.
I just love the sounds from the water fountain the way it reverberates off the walls. JUst so much good memories of these malls when they were more productive back in the day.
I remember this mall sitting in the 1970s with steel girders sticking out from 4 foot tall weeds and trees. I grew up on the east side of Tulsa and when this mall was finally finished in the 80s as a teenager it was our favorite hangout spot. It’s crazy how the world changes constantly.
Finally a mall I know! Grew up going here as a kid/teen in the 90s. My family moved away in 2000. It was already dying back then, but my friends and I would just pick a mall to hang out for the day so it didn’t matter.
Grew up here in as a kid/teens in the 90s to the early 2000s. It was a great mall but in not so active part of Tulsa. There just wasn’t a lot going on. However, I do have fond memories in the late 90s to early 2000s when the mall was obviously approaching a dead zone and 2000 to 2004. The mall had some unusual stores. Like a martial arts weapons store, a new age store and a bootlegged dvd store. You should really check out promenade mall, there is a lot of interesting info on the back story.
You’re also find out that Tulsa likes carpeted malls for some reason 😂😂
The AIM insert was amazing. Love it. Great vid, as always.
Malls are Dying everywhere, sad to see for a guy who grew up in the 80”s.
This makes me very happy to see you cover this mall it was one of my favorite malls growing up in Tulsa spent a lot of time at this one as a kid and teenager in the malls heyday
This water fountain is super awesome! Great video and great mall! Thanks Ace for all you do!
Thanks for watching!
It's like Eastland grew out of its high school years and grew into adulthood.
Your videos are always great! Hands down best music and intros
Eastland used to be one of my favs ..
used to spend so much money at the video arcade downstairs .
What stores used to be located in it? I’ve been trying to find an old directory but I can’t
@@Coolio_chan gadzooks, fye, kb toys for a little while , JcPenney was in Coca cola, Dillard’s was at capital one , Mervyns was the chain up front , some jewelry store & journeys shoe store was on the front corner near the fountain…. Old navy windows are still in there I think . Haven’t been there in years haha
Wow!!! A trip back in time!!!! Thank you so much for creating this video. I spent alot of time here as a teen, as well as Woodland Hills Mall. It was great to see it back in it's old glory days again!!! 😁
Grew up just north of Tulsa and have a ton of great memories from Eastland Mall during my high school days.
I loved the fountains, glad they work and happy mall is still alive :)
Thank you Anthony for everything you do.
I lived in Tulsa for about 30 years before moving back to San Diego and I remember this mall!!! I went there when I was in high school in marching band. We went after a competition. By that time though, the mall had already started to go downhill and that was I think in 1996. If you're ever in Tulsa again, check out the Promenade Mall on 41st and Yale. It's been slowly dying for as long as I can remember with the second level being if I remember correctly totally vacant. The ONLY mall that's really relevant there now is Woodland Hills Mall, and that's located just past 71st Street on Memorial Drive. More like 68th and Memorial. Man this mall though was literally out in the sticks lol. Great video. Everything about it was just so familiar to me and made me think about when i lived there.
I agree Hannah, I don't think Eastland was in a good location. I went there like maybe one or two times when it was a mall, the next time I went there was when they turned it into this commercial property and I think I renewed my Driver's license in there, that was several years ago now. Eastland has been a dead mall for a long time now. Malls dying makes me so sad. A lot of great memories at the malls, here in Tulsa and Dallas malls.
The area Eastland was around deteriorated over time during the 90’s, and traffic simply went elsewhere to Promenade and Woodland Hills. Even Promenade eventually dried up by the late 2000’s, with Woodland still thriving to this day. It’s not so much that Eastland was in the middle of nowhere as much as economic downturn in that area doomed the mall as it wasn’t worth the trip for most of the year
Lmao I love the Woodland Hills! I go there every month!
Promenade is dead
@@vibechecktsundere4912 yea the area really struggled till about 2018, When the area started gaining traction and developers started reinventing the area.
@@claudespeed277 I actually got my permit in 2018 at the Eastgate DMV. Good memories
I am surprised they don't leave the food court in for the employees of the businesses. Add that and a daycare.
I saw on the map something called Atrium Grille, maybe that's for food?
there’s a little coffee shop with some food but that’s about it
I like the fountain
I worked there at Service Merchandise! :)
I absolutely love this channel!!!
Comments like these are why I do what I do!
This video was fascinating. Saw Jurassic Park here on opening day, and many other films throughout the late 80s and 90s. (Edit to say that ending made me tear up. Holy shit)
Nice video! I'm glad that this mall got a second life, as a business/corporate/government oriented mall. Love they kept the old fountain, as well. And I like that Eastgate Metroplex kept the tent ceiling look, from the Eastland Mall days!
Thank you so much for this video. I have a ton of memories from my childhood to teenage years of this mall. While we didn't hear Waterfront Dining in the mall, we did hear Miami Sound Machine😃
Once again Thank You
Video brings back a lot of memories. Used to love going to Eastland Mall... okay, I gotta make it known,.... this music you got playing SLAPS!!!! 👍🏿 Who is this playing?
Glad you mentioned Eastland Mall's history regarding they started it and then never finished it I guess and then it officially opened decades later. I remember my Mom telling me about that. Eastland Mall is located in East Tulsa which is not the most happening part of Tulsa, that's why it struggled more than the other malls in Tulsa and this was before malls started dying. I have a great vintage photo of me 8x10 in 1983 modeling in a Woodland Hills Mall fashion show (Tulsa), it's a professional photo my Dad (pro photographer) shot. It's a cool shot because he captured a wide shot from the upper level and the fashion show was on the lower level. It showed hundreds of people watching the fashion show from the lower and upper levels and shows the stage in the middle. I love that mall fashion show photo my Dad shot and have so many great mall memories of Tulsa malls and Dallas and it's metroplex malls because I was a professional model for 15 years. Besides modeling in Paris, Milan, Tokyo, I modeled in lots of mall fashion shows, Dallas Galleria, Dallas Northpark Mall etc.
The water fountains, are AMAZING!
I grew up going to Eastland Mall. Well late 90's...so it was already on it's way out. I watched it slowly decline. I'm glad it has a purpose now. That circus tent roof didn't go to waste! PS. Hanson is still very much a band and they manage a record label based in Tulsa. :)
good to know, MMM BOP! lol
@@AcesAdventures1 I still listen to Hanson too. So much that my 12 and 6 year old children have been to Hanson concerts. It was nice to see them in your video.
I miss this mall, most of my kid years was in here, almost 27 years old, had tons of fun
Ohhhhh my heart...Soooooo many memories
Another great video, Ace. I really like that waterfall. It is a nice centerpiece. It's good that this place is getting a new chance to thrive.
thanks Forrest! Hope you enjoyed
That fountain is super cool.
I grew up in the small one of my friends well thinking back on it pretty much everyone of my friends and myself fell into that water pond thing they had in there that always had a shit ton of change in it I wish this place never closed for such good memories
Is the theater still open? I’m happy to see they saved the fountain, it’s beautiful.
LOVE the fountains 💖
thank you for another great video
thanks!
Who the hell thought it was a good idea to put carpet in a shopping mall? Great video btw
Eastland was always an odd mall from its early days half completed dead mall shell that sat vacant to the weird tent roof and the carpet choice and the bed bug infestation a few tenants had a few years ago its still kinda surviving despite its odd life and decour
It looks like something you would see if the building was converted for any other function like a convention hall or a community college. And since the mall has been transitioning into a mixed commercial building with office spaces, it doesn't seem too out of wack for corridor carpeting to be there. That said, carpetting in the main atrium is a bit too much.
.....They did the same @Century III by Pittsburgh
whats the name of the song during the intro showing the city of Tulsa?
Along with the early 2000's malls of Promenade & Woodland Hills, this mall was also a huge part of my childhood before it closed briefly until it became Eastgate (I had left the States for a brief period when it became Eastgate by that point). I loved Hollywood Theaters growing up at both Promenade and this one, I would love to get pics inside there one more time to never forget the interior because of how colorful it was for me. Thankfully I got some pics of the theater at Promenade before that theater closed few years ago so I could remember it.
Thanks for covering this!
I worked at the 7 dollar store, Old Country Buffet, and Rex's Chicken all at this mall back in the early 2000s. Also used to flirt with the cute guys that used to work at KB Toys (Greg and Josh)😂😂😂
Haha!!! Old Country Buffet! Fond memories of that place. Last time I went there was my 8th grade graduation in the early 2000's. Stuffed my face until I was sick lol. Miss Eastland Mall and miss the 80's and 90's.
Only reason I ever went to this mall was the Old Country Buffet. My grandmother loved to go there.
I haven’t been there since the movie theater downstairs closed. Did you make it to the Promenade mall in mid town Tulsa?
I did not, I will be back!
The last thing I got here, was a Oklahoma Sooners Semi , for my Oklahoma Sooners Collection!!!! I wished someone could of added on, to make a bigger mall !!! I Liked It !!!!!
I lived in Jenks in the 90s, but would drive to Eastland because it had one of the best sports card shops in town. Wish I could remember the name of it.
I felt a bit of a Miami Vice kind of tone in the very beginning of that selection.
Back in 97-99 ish I lived not far from this mall me and friends was kicked out many times ... Great memories, one of my favorite stores was called 57 gear I thought I was gangster back then lol
Its hard to imagine but the Eastgate had it easy compared to the southgate mall across the street from the promenade mall. Closed in 97.
I worked at Eastgate Metroplex for a company who I won't mention and I won't mention my job position at the time. That mall, underneath it and on the top level of the mall are haunted. No one ever says a thing about it. Something lurks in that mall at night. I've seen it and I was terrified. Nothing happened to me or anything but I had multiple experiences at that mall at night working evening shift. That place is scary as heck at night. I never go to the below levels unless there is tornado type weather. Something about that place at night always gave me the creeps and I felt like I was being watched when no one else was around.
Haunting? Someone died?
@@Kballs I don't know it's history honestly but If you ask others about it no one ever says a thing. The owner of the mall doesn't like going there at night. It's fine in the day, I also worked dayshift too. But at night it's creepy. It's like the vibe changes and you get this feeling that something is with you when there is no one there. It is strange because it only happens at night but some nights were better than others. Some nights nothing happenes and then some nights there was things I couldn't explain that happened and I know if I explained it I'd sound crazy. I got used to those occurrences. A few workers were with me when I witnessed things sometimes and they noticed it too. So I know I wasn't crazy. Lol. We just kept quiet about it.
Dear Anthony, Thank you for the wonderful video, really enjoyed it. I have a question for you. What song of Waterfront Dining is this in the beginning? Love it, but can't find the title.
Sister mall of the awesome Washington Square Mall in Evansville, IN. Same tent design in the food court with the added bonus of purple neon everywhere.
What the name of the song towards the end of the video?
Nice vid Ace.
I grew up going to the mall in the 80s and 90s and always enjoyed going there. I was even surprised to go there as late as 2002 and it still seemed to be thriving. I went there a few years ago after not seeing it in almost 15 years and was a little disappointed to see the state of it. Still glad it's safe to walk around as opposed to the promenade mall in Tulsa which is a little scary sometimes.
Did you also do Eastland Mall in. Bloomington,IL, I thought I hear you say that you did.
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my mom worked above the mall ad tpv. when she first got the job she showed us around down here in the mall. in some places there weren’t even carpet. it’s was a mess. Looks great ever since they redid it. it was still cool when it was abandoned though 😂
Vaporwave version of "You are my everything" by Surface at the start of the vid
I lived in Tulsa 11 years of my life
cool thank you for this
That fountain! 😍
I got my license here lmaoo. I had just moved to Tulsa & I thought it was so weird there was dmv in a empty mall it was like walking into a time machine.
Lol we had just moved to Owasso and thought it was strange to go to the mall to get our licenses....especially since it was kind of empty and sad. Glad we weren't they only ones who thought it was weird to get our license there also.
Hope they got rid of the bed bugs i know the oklahoma DPS office and alorica had a bad infestation at one point that management neglected
Dawg that mall use to be the coolest mall in town, arcade, movie theater just a really cool mall
Awesome water fountain. Didn’t they serve more than just something to look at? Like add humidity to the air? Think that was the real reason they were added to malls.
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This is so sad! So many memories of shopping there as a kid. Lots of school clothes shopping there lol. The movie theater and that fountain are two of my favorite memories from there. I was there a year or so ago at the DMV they have inside now but I didn’t walk around much. I was a little worried after the major bed bug issue they had there even though I think it was resolved awhile before I had to go there. Promenade mall has been struggling for years now and even Woodland Hills is starting to lose a lot of stores and going downhill. I enjoyed the video though. My mom drove by there today while seeing patients in the area so we were reminiscing
Used to visit this mall frequently as a kid, but now I only go to renew my food handler’s permit lol
this is where i got my drivers license!!!!!
It's a weird mall.. some of it looks like a regular mall, some of it reminds me of the halls of a convention center. So strange!! That fountain is beautiful though. I wish malls were still popular, I deeply cherish any malls that are left.
I was astonished right away by the waterfall and fountain.
Awesome!!!
You covered this but not Promenade Mall ?
Promenade isn't a zombified corpse yet, it's still functional as a MALL, and it still looks like one.
This poor place has been bastardized into some corporate beige business center nightmarescape.
I met some people there for lunch at the Mexican restaurant in 2004. Was early and walked the mall. No traffic. Many vacated stores and mostly just kiosk businesses. Last gasp. Very sad.
I looked at chesterfield and there is a huge difference between a dead and a completely dead mall.you could hear a pin drop there.but the center is in such great shape and condition otherwise.
Yes it is pristine
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Go to Lakeview Square Mall in Battle Creek, Mi. Last time i was there (about 1 year 1/2 ago) it was DEAD.
The last time i was in there was probably 1999-2000?
And it was a ghost town even then.
Was there in 2004, was flat lining.
I am not always a fan of these mall redevelopments. They knocked this one out of the park. The best elements of the former mall like the tent roof and water fountain look just like they did in the old photos.
A vibe
Metroplex!
Eastland mall. Aka that place you go to every few years to renew your food handler's ID if you're unlucky enough to be stuck in food service.
I don't know how many more malls can be repurposed like this. Commercial real estate demand may take a hit soon
For years my family has been thinking about what it would be like for Promenade Mall, located not too far from this one, to be repurposed into living spaces. Stores turned into apartments.
what would really be interesting is to interview the people walking around the mall. why are they there? bored? unemployed? actually shopping? cool place to meet fellow gang members to plot and carry out crimes. Also interview employees of any stores still open to see how they feel about their job and life. Any channels doing this?
The highway killed it. In the 90s that area had a toys r us and Target right across the street and shopping and mile over . Now that area is honestly not a nice area at all
The new color scheme is so bland and ugly. Looked like a happy place back in the day.
Yeah I think they need to bring back the 80s and 90s paint and decor lol
Do northeast mall in hurst Texas, it’s slowly dying, I mean very slowly dying!
Woodland has always been ugly to me east land was way way nicer more family friendly
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It's crazy to think that all the anchor stores except for Dillard's as far as I know are all out of business or as a 2020 in the process of going out of business. Marvin's is gone service merchandise is gone JCPenney is in the process of going out of business and I have no idea about Dillard's never heard of them only seeing a couple of their stores on UA-cam.
What part of the country do you live in? Dillard's are pretty common in the South and Southwest
JCPenney ain’t gone they just closing a couple stores lol
We used to party inside the mall. Never participated in the graffiti.