I'm 23 but many of these videos, while fascinating, are simultaneously hard to watch because they fill me with a sense of irretrievable loss and sadness for a kind of world that no longer exists. I know that every generation builds its memories and nostalgia from different things, but it is very painfully, obviously clear that people from those older generations built their nostalgia from a warmer, sweeter, and in many ways more wholesome world.
Each generation has different experiences but I promise you will look back and be happy that you experienced what you have. That's really how each generation is. When I listened to my grandparents talk about their time in the 1920s it sounded wonderful but then with the 1930s came the depression and the 1940s was a World War. So I know it definitely wasn't easy nor was it all roses. Thank you for watching sergeipohkerova7211!
All generations have their mistakes and their problems. The past was better in some ways, especially because there was more human contact. On the plus side, your generation has so much more access to information than my generation had. That would have seemed like Heaven to me back then.
The mall also had special events in the concourse. When I was a kid in the 80s, our mall had a random spelling bee. My mom entered me and I won..got a 3 volume Oxford dictionary as first prize. Still have it today!
Oh nice! That is awesome that you have that set still. Sometimes you would see new cars in those areas, dance and singing performances, etc. Seems like a lot of that is missing in malls now. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us.
Good Morning, Nice video. I still love to go to the mall. 👍🏻❤️☕️ Thankfully there are still some good stores still around. We’ve still got Dillards, J.C. Penney’s and Bath and Body Works. ❤️
I live in Albany, New York and my favorite local mall was Crossgates. In high school it was the place to go on Friday and Saturday evenings. Great place to meet up with friends and try to find a place to go party. I also had my second job there at a place called Hot Dog Charlie's. This was back in the late 1980's...good times...
Montgomery Mall Bethesda MD. I saw Tony Bennett open Nordstrom there with my mother. He sang and was awesome! Memories......❤️ Woodward & Lothrop 1987 Washington DC. I was privileged to have tea with THE Elizabeth Taylor (along with 40 other women) when she launched Passion parfum. She was BEAUTIFUL! Memories....❤
Oh wow! What an experience with Elizabeth Taylor. It doesn't seem like things happen like that anymore. Celebrities just release it and that it other than something mentioned on social media. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us katrinacool!
@@RhettyforHistory Elizabeth was amazing and very friendly and yes she does have violet eyes. She made a point to speak to everyone there. Thank you for the video and for your wonderful channel! ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
Our FYE is starting to look like a 90s record store again. GenZ, thank you for realizing owning the music, movies, etc. is better than buying the digital copy because YOU actually own it. ❤
I have 4 girls in GenZ and one of those loves records. I'm not sure how that happened but I am happy to see it. Thank you for watching and telling us about FYE!
Dayton's Christmas display was always special. I miss the mall, we often spent time there. I used to work for Sears as a Replenishment In-Stock Specialist for their hosiery and lingerie. The store was, of course attached to a mall. I didn't have to go very far if I wanted something different for lunch. I miss that about malls, everything all together.
Working at a fast food joint in Barton Creek Mall in Austin Texas in the early 90's was the best time of my life. I remember how, the day after Thanksgiving, all the way through to the day after Christmas, from the moment the gate went up till the moment it went down was one long insane rush. Barton Creek Mall is still in business though the place that I worked is now a Pac Sun. That one will ALWAYS be my favorite mall ❤❤❤ Soooo many great memories!
I worked at 2 different malls over a span of 15 years or so. I have way too many memories to fit in this comment section. But when you mentioned the piano store, it brought back memories. I worked at McRaes depth store, and I made friends with the guy who worked at the piano store right next to my dept and he would take request from me all night. I always tried to give him rock and disco songs, trying to stump him. He always knew it and would play it for me. He had a real talent.🎶😊
Thanks, Rhett. Some of my best childhood memories of our local mall were going there to Christmas shop. I was completely freaked out by the Talking Christmas Tree. Many years later, I found out it was my former mother-in-law inside that tree!! 🌲😅
I miss malls. Something for everyone in the mall. Loved the bookstores like Walden Books. Dressed with clothes from The Limited, Express, Casual Corner, GAP. SPENCER'S was the store we all loved. 😂 The food court was great!! Soo many options. Thank you my friend. As always, I got to go back to many great memories because of you. 😊
I used to go to the Malls while I was a teenager in the 70s and when I was was in my early twenties in the early 80s. I would catch a bus as a teenager. It was about 30 minutes away. We all would see our teachers and wave at them. I miss those days. I was born in 1961, I'm 63 now.
The Viewmont Mall near Scranton is still open. It was where I spent my mall rat days. JC Penney still has an anchor store and it fills me with nostalgia whenever I visit. They removed the fountain and I made many wishes there.
Here in Ardmore Oklahoma we had two shopping centers one indoor mall where everyone hung out in the weekend but it isn't the same anymore but I still remember them especially for the book and music stores as well as the food places to eat at. Thank You for your great Memories of the old Malls of the Past thanks Rhetty.👻🎃🇺🇲
You're welcome and thank you for watching as well as sharing your memories with us. That mall is the only one I knew of in Oklahoma that had Hastings. I'm sure there were others though. It was a cute little mall and it could definitely get busy in the 80s. Montgomery Ward's building was another busy location outside of the mall. This was in the days before there was a Walmart in Ardmore.
@@RhettyforHistory I actually worked at the Walmart Supercenter in Ardmore for 14 years as a cart pusher and Mountain View Mall was where I went to every payday to the book store, the music store and hung out at have a great Halloween Thursday night thank you. 🧟🧛🦇🎃👻
What a great video..I think I’m going to walk around the mall tomorrow( we have woodland and rivertown crossings here in Grand Rapids, MI) …I always loved shopping there and working there, a visit is LONG overdue. Thanks Rhetty your videos are the best.
I actually have two favorite malls one one out of business with Carrie town center which is now epic games and the second one was just still a business called Crabtree Valley Mall and one of my favorite member is going through the food court every single Thursday and having how much your chicken at the Chinese restaurant down there
As a kid, my favorite mall was the Evergreen Plaza in Chicago and the Lincoln Mall in the suburbs. As a teen it was the Lakewood mall in California. I really miss those days. ❤️❤️
My favorite memories at the mall was doing a cheer for a couple of the Raiders (they were Oakland then), and meeting Jerry Reid when he was performing there.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, so I was part of the mall culture. Fun fact - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer originated at Montgomery Ward in the 1939. The mall I nearest to where I grew up had (one of) the first Hickory Farms stores. They moved their HQ to Chicago and are mainly an online store these days, but you can sometimes see a kiosk in a mall during the Christmas season. Speaking of Christmas, I loved going any mall during that time of year just to see the decorations. I always found it odd that Santa was always at the mall I happened to be visiting with my parents though. Guy got around I guess! You mentioned the arcades, which were always a great place to gather (I like to play Tempest and Frogger). Another popuoar ppace was Spencer's Gifts because they had all kinds of "different" things, some of which the parents didn't us like looking at! In HS and as an undergrad, my friends liked to go to one of the bookstores or the hobby shop to pick up a D&D module and then play it for hours. If it snowed, my one friend liked to do donuts on the parking lot before we went in. Those the days! Great episode Rhetty.
I grew up in Torrance, CA; just outside of Los Angeles. We had a mall there in the 70s called Old Towne Mall. All the shop facades were like buildings from the early 1900s. It had a small dark ride, a wax museum, of course an arcade and funky independent shops. The food court surrounded a gazebo where dixieland jazz bands would play. Loved going there. The big mall was Del Amo Mall where Jackie Brown was filmed. I was lucky enough to be there during filming. Kind of surreal to see Robert De Niro at my local mall.
That mall sounds like it was really amazing. It definitely had some great activities to do there. That's a neat experience you had with the filming that took place there. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories of Old Towne Mall!
I loved hanging out at the mall in the late 1970's and early 1980's😃It was The Puente Hills Mall in Southern California where they filmed the outside scene for Back To The Future😁Hickory Farms and Orange JuliusRecord stores were the bestGreat video Rhetty for History👍🏻Have a great weekendROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
most of us had our first jobs at the mall, im 64 and we were mall rats back in the mid 70s, whole lotta memories of good times, and extra curricular activities, lol
I remember going to Crossroads Mall as a kid. Long before Montgomery Wards went out of business. There was a Toys R Us just north of their parking lot. Wow..I'm old lol
I grew up going to that mall a lot and I loved it. I had to include a few pics here and there of that mall. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories with us PhoenixRCCrawler!
Northwest Arkansas Mall in Fayetteville had all of this for not being a huge mall...fountains (with the chlorine smell), Orange Julius, movie theater, and Santa! It even did the area's big fireworks show for the 4th of July!
I miss going to the mall, although I occasionally still get to go to Concord Mills mall. Most of the malls I remember are not ones I went to often, but we would go to them when visiting grandparents. One was Fayette Mall, in Lexington KY. It's still there and it's huge, but it's not the same as it used to be when I was a kid. It used to have so many fountains that my name for it was "Fountain Mall." I also remember having some therapy in Cincinnati, and the place I had it was close to Forest Fair Village and Tri-County mall both, and we would go to the mall between sessions. I remember Forest Fair's awesome movie theater, and a perpetual motion machine with billiard balls in it that I was mesmerized by. On that trip, we also stopped at Florence Mall in KY because they had a pet store with hand raised baby cockatiels. After my therapy sessions I would beg to stop there so I could go play with them. My main mall growing up was Lafayette Square mall in Indianapolis, but I don't remember as much about it as some of the others. Also, when I was at IU, I went to College Mall. It's still there, but a lot of the things I enjoyed about it are not.
In the 70’s-90’s the mall was the place to be. You could shop, eat and see a movie or just people watch. During the winter you could spend hours there and not have to go out in the cold. So sorry to see them slowly disappear. In some places in Ohio the mall’s closed down and strip mall’s are making a comeback. Back out in the cold again. 🥶 Hi Jodie! 👋😁🇦🇺
In, the late 1970's and early 1980's. I,worked at Eastland Mall in Harper Woods, (a,Suburb of Detroit, Michigan). I've worked at Hudson's in the Men's Sportswear Department. Then, Macy's bought Hudson's and rebranded Hudson's to Macy's. Going to the Malls can be Fun and too Work at. When, I started working, I was going through Store Mergers and Store Closing Permanently. I,miss the Malls from back in the day. Besides, Eastland Mall where I worked at has Closed Permanently and Demolished for Redevelopment, which is a Distribution Center, and 2 Warehouses in Place of the old Eastland Mall. 4:23
You didn't mention that some music artists and TV stars used to do appearances at the mall! Not that anyone ever came to the malls around me, but I remember hearing/reading that those appearances were a thing elsewhere. My friends and I spent a lot of time at the mall in the early to mid 90s. By the late 90s to early 00s, it didn't seem as safe to go at certain times, because a lot of fights were happening there. That was the beginning of the end for that particular mall.
Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights perhaps not famous but for us it was a special occasion once or twice a month in the mid 70's As newlyweds we didn't have much money to spend yet always satisfying with a few treasures to show a lot of browsing and a few Tasty Treats.
1 of the malls nearby was abandoned well over 10 years ago. It was finally demolished a few months ago. Another mall nearby is currently being demolished. It's really sad but damn do I love shopping online and having stuff come directly to my house.
The St. Matthew's Mall in Louisville used to have a giant chessboard with human-sized pieces out near the food court. At Christmas, that was where you would go to meet Santa Claus, so they wrapped the chess pieces up in garlands and made them look like Christmas trees.
It was much nicer to be able to shop and browse through the stores inside the mall, park once, be inside for an afternoon of shopping or fun and since the mall set the hours, most stores (not all) were open for the customers' convenience. Definitely miss the holiday displays, the food court and now defunct big box stores.
My Most Favorite Mall Was Crestwood Plaza Northwest Plaza and St Clair Square My Mom, Sometimes my Dad and I Would Spend Some Weekend Times Together Sometimes We Shop and Go to A Food Court to Eat Sometimes See A Movie Those Was The Best Times Ever
Recently went to the mall in South St Louis County. It was a sad sight. Not the vibrant place it used to be and empty shops all around. I have long said that the internet is the bane of our existence. People just don't communicate face to face any more and THAT is sad.
$20 at the mall??heck, you couldn’t buy a shirt from your favorite band unless you had some change for tha tax!!! I never went to the mall with anything less than a few hundred dollars when I was in high school, this was early 2000s..a video game was $60 a pop for the new stuff..I liked hanging out with friends at the mall, buying video games mostly, and maybe a few shirts..back then I ordered clothing online cause that’s the only way to get the stuff I liked
Things started to change a lot in the mall scene during the 1990s. That is when a lot of things really went up but in the earlier part of the decade $20 would last awhile. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Yamaha38XCRacer!
It's because Malls back then had reasonable prices and you could buy things from shoes to appliances. Today's mall sell expensive odd things in very few niche categories. I did not go to the mall next to me in years.
The malls that I grew up with have, for some reason, been transformed. Two of them were torn down and car-oriented strip malls were put up in their place. No, not really "strip malls". That implies one long, uninterrupted row of shops that you could walk to. Instead, both sites had little segments of externally-accessed shops placed here, there and everywhere. With chunks of parking lots and roads connecting them. Making it inconvenient to walk between segments, as you have to dodge traffic (and walk around in the cold), and making it annoying to get in your car and drive 30 seconds to the next segment of shops. No idea why the developers think that's better. 🤷♂
Back in the mid to late 80's, I used to live in Southern California so Pasadena Mall and Santa Anita Mall were my go-to's. They're both still around but with none of those great vibes.
Didn’t want to be a thief because back then that person did a major walk of shame through the mall cuffed up on their way to jail and loaded up in a cop car at the main entrance.
I’m sorry to inform you but I don’t love malls but you can have your share of them and mine too. 😁😬 There is a mall near where I live but because of some violent crime there I’ll stay away from it.
I'm 23 but many of these videos, while fascinating, are simultaneously hard to watch because they fill me with a sense of irretrievable loss and sadness for a kind of world that no longer exists. I know that every generation builds its memories and nostalgia from different things, but it is very painfully, obviously clear that people from those older generations built their nostalgia from a warmer, sweeter, and in many ways more wholesome world.
It’s ok to miss out on nostalgia; just pay attention to the things, today, that you might miss in 30 years.
Perfectly said. Wishing you many wonderful memories, from a Proud Boomer
Well said and yes that more peaceful innocent era is long gone and it is sad.
Each generation has different experiences but I promise you will look back and be happy that you experienced what you have. That's really how each generation is. When I listened to my grandparents talk about their time in the 1920s it sounded wonderful but then with the 1930s came the depression and the 1940s was a World War. So I know it definitely wasn't easy nor was it all roses. Thank you for watching sergeipohkerova7211!
All generations have their mistakes and their problems. The past was better in some ways, especially because there was more human contact. On the plus side, your generation has so much more access to information than my generation had. That would have seemed like Heaven to me back then.
You know........I haven't watched Mall Rats in a while. I know what I'm doing after this. Thanks for the memories once again 👍💙🏴
You're welcome Tammie! It's such a funny movie! Thank you for watching!
*try chopping mall*
that was actually filmed at my high school mall. Mallrats,for me, is very nostalgic for that reason.
The mall also had special events in the concourse. When I was a kid in the 80s, our mall had a random spelling bee. My mom entered me and I won..got a 3 volume Oxford dictionary as first prize. Still have it today!
Oh nice! That is awesome that you have that set still. Sometimes you would see new cars in those areas, dance and singing performances, etc. Seems like a lot of that is missing in malls now. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us.
Orange Julius was awesome! Nothing like it today…
Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts mcorleonep!
I always used my allowance on an Orange Julius! The mall vibe was strong back then. Good times!
Ah malls had so much more magic back then. Now, not so much
They were definitely different back then. I'm not sure they will ever be like that again. Thank you for watching!
Recent reports of violence in the malls have sent my appetite for them down the toilet.
Good Morning, Nice video. I still love to go to the mall. 👍🏻❤️☕️ Thankfully there are still some good stores still around. We’ve still got Dillards, J.C. Penney’s and Bath and Body Works. ❤️
So many malls have closed which is sad so if you still have one then definitely visit and cherish it. Thank you for watching celticrose2!
I live in Albany, New York and my favorite local mall was Crossgates. In high school it was the place to go on Friday and Saturday evenings. Great place to meet up with friends and try to find a place to go party. I also had my second job there at a place called Hot Dog Charlie's. This was back in the late 1980's...good times...
Fantastic i love those times
I do too. Thank you for watching grangrampa832!
I remember most of those stores. Great fun! Thanks Rhetty!
You're welcome and thank you for watching my friend!
Montgomery Mall Bethesda MD. I saw Tony Bennett open Nordstrom there with my mother. He sang and was awesome! Memories......❤️
Woodward & Lothrop 1987 Washington DC. I was privileged to have tea with THE Elizabeth Taylor (along with 40 other women) when she launched Passion parfum. She was BEAUTIFUL! Memories....❤
Oh wow! What an experience with Elizabeth Taylor. It doesn't seem like things happen like that anymore. Celebrities just release it and that it other than something mentioned on social media. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us katrinacool!
@@RhettyforHistory Thank you for such a wonderful video- and a great channel! ☺️☺️☺️
@@RhettyforHistory Elizabeth was amazing and very friendly and yes she does have violet eyes. She made a point to speak to everyone there. Thank you for the video and for your wonderful channel! ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
I worked at Woodies! I was one of the Monet ladies 😊I didn’t meet anyone famous, though. Tony Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor - wow!
@@nickimontie I loved Woodies!!! 🥰🥰🥰
Great 🎉
Thank you for watching Mike!
@@RhettyforHistorysad my mall is closed now 🎉
Those were the good old days.
Thank you for watching MLCMedia!
Our FYE is starting to look like a 90s record store again. GenZ, thank you for realizing owning the music, movies, etc. is better than buying the digital copy because YOU actually own it. ❤
I have 4 girls in GenZ and one of those loves records. I'm not sure how that happened but I am happy to see it. Thank you for watching and telling us about FYE!
Thanks, Rhetty for the memories. I remember Hickory Farms shopping for Christmas and getting a sampler pack of treats for myself. 😊
My favorite Mall I grew up with was The Red Bird Mall outside of Duncanville..... Such great memories!
Dayton's Christmas display was always special. I miss the mall, we often spent time there. I used to work for Sears as a Replenishment In-Stock Specialist for their hosiery and lingerie. The store was, of course attached to a mall. I didn't have to go very far if I wanted something different for lunch. I miss that about malls, everything all together.
That was sure a big store. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories of their Christmas display.
Working at a fast food joint in Barton Creek Mall in Austin Texas in the early 90's was the best time of my life. I remember how, the day after Thanksgiving, all the way through to the day after Christmas, from the moment the gate went up till the moment it went down was one long insane rush. Barton Creek Mall is still in business though the place that I worked is now a Pac Sun. That one will ALWAYS be my favorite mall ❤❤❤ Soooo many great memories!
I loved selling hippy items at the mall. Good times
Much better than Highland or Northcross
I worked at 2 different malls over a span of 15 years or so. I have way too many memories to fit in this comment section. But when you mentioned the piano store, it brought back memories. I worked at McRaes depth store, and I made friends with the guy who worked at the piano store right next to my dept and he would take request from me all night. I always tried to give him rock and disco songs, trying to stump him. He always knew it and would play it for me. He had a real talent.🎶😊
Thanks, Rhett. Some of my best childhood memories of our local mall were going there to Christmas shop. I was completely freaked out by the Talking Christmas Tree. Many years later, I found out it was my former mother-in-law inside that tree!! 🌲😅
I miss malls. Something for everyone in the mall. Loved the bookstores like Walden Books. Dressed with clothes from The Limited, Express, Casual Corner, GAP. SPENCER'S was the store we all loved. 😂 The food court was great!! Soo many options.
Thank you my friend. As always, I got to go back to many great memories because of you. 😊
The internet killed a lot of good things. Can never go back and it is sad the younger generation will not know what they missed out on
It is sad that malls just aren't the same. They sure were a lot of fun. Thank you for watching Suzy!
Want to go back in time 😊
If you ever find a way then let me know!
Thanks for the video my friend 😊
You're welcome and thank you for watching!
Great American Cookies always had a long line 😋🍪
Cookies in the mall smelled fantastic! Thank you for watching cj57!
@RhettyforHistory Thank you, for always stirring up some great memories!
I remember that smell, it is impossible to describe
I still have a few malls, with fountains....the smell is different (Aventura mall, Dadeland mall)
I used to go to the Malls while I was a teenager in the 70s and when I was was in my early twenties in the early 80s. I would catch a bus as a teenager. It was about 30 minutes away. We all would see our teachers and wave at them. I miss those days. I was born in 1961, I'm 63 now.
The Viewmont Mall near Scranton is still open. It was where I spent my mall rat days. JC Penney still has an anchor store and it fills me with nostalgia whenever I visit. They removed the fountain and I made many wishes there.
Mellett Mall, Canton, OH. early to mid 70's. Loved that place.
Thank you for watching and sharing what mall you loved Daniel!
Here in Ardmore Oklahoma we had two shopping centers one indoor mall where everyone hung out in the weekend but it isn't the same anymore but I still remember them especially for the book and music stores as well as the food places to eat at. Thank You for your great
Memories of the old Malls of the Past thanks Rhetty.👻🎃🇺🇲
You're welcome and thank you for watching as well as sharing your memories with us. That mall is the only one I knew of in Oklahoma that had Hastings. I'm sure there were others though. It was a cute little mall and it could definitely get busy in the 80s. Montgomery Ward's building was another busy location outside of the mall. This was in the days before there was a Walmart in Ardmore.
@@RhettyforHistory I actually worked at the Walmart Supercenter
in Ardmore for 14 years as a cart pusher and Mountain View Mall
was where I went to every payday to the book store, the music store
and hung out at have a great Halloween Thursday night thank you.
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What a great video..I think I’m going to walk around the mall tomorrow( we have woodland and rivertown crossings here in Grand Rapids, MI) …I always loved shopping there and working there, a visit is LONG overdue. Thanks Rhetty your videos are the best.
We would break in at night, skateboard around, clean the fountains of coins, and leave before the sun rose.
Thanks for watching GardenerEarthGuy!
I remember the smells from Sbarro Pizza and Cinnabon.
Those definitely permeated the air! Thank you for watching eggie1978!
Our mall still has the original Sbarro's pizza from when the food court was renovated back in the late 80s/early 90s.
I live near two bustling malls with both of these now. 😊
I actually have two favorite malls one one out of business with Carrie town center which is now epic games and the second one was just still a business called Crabtree Valley Mall and one of my favorite member is going through the food court every single Thursday and having how much your chicken at the Chinese restaurant down there
As a kid, my favorite mall was the Evergreen Plaza in Chicago and the Lincoln Mall in the suburbs. As a teen it was the Lakewood mall in California. I really miss those days. ❤️❤️
Yes here in Adelaide the brass balls has been a top meeting spot since the early 70s... Rundle Street Mall, Adelaide, South Australia 😊
I miss the mall Christmas. Amazon ruined it all.
My favorite memories at the mall was doing a cheer for a couple of the Raiders (they were Oakland then), and meeting Jerry Reid when he was performing there.
Oh nice! It seemed like there were a lot of special appearances at the mall back then. That seems like something they should try again.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, so I was part of the mall culture. Fun fact - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer originated at Montgomery Ward in the 1939. The mall I nearest to where I grew up had (one of) the first Hickory Farms stores. They moved their HQ to Chicago and are mainly an online store these days, but you can sometimes see a kiosk in a mall during the Christmas season. Speaking of Christmas, I loved going any mall during that time of year just to see the decorations. I always found it odd that Santa was always at the mall I happened to be visiting with my parents though. Guy got around I guess! You mentioned the arcades, which were always a great place to gather (I like to play Tempest and Frogger). Another popuoar ppace was Spencer's Gifts because they had all kinds of "different" things, some of which the parents didn't us like looking at! In HS and as an undergrad, my friends liked to go to one of the bookstores or the hobby shop to pick up a D&D module and then play it for hours. If it snowed, my one friend liked to do donuts on the parking lot before we went in. Those the days! Great episode Rhetty.
I grew up in Torrance, CA; just outside of Los Angeles. We had a mall there in the 70s called Old Towne Mall. All the shop facades were like buildings from the early 1900s. It had a small dark ride, a wax museum, of course an arcade and funky independent shops. The food court surrounded a gazebo where dixieland jazz bands would play. Loved going there. The big mall was Del Amo Mall where Jackie Brown was filmed. I was lucky enough to be there during filming. Kind of surreal to see Robert De Niro at my local mall.
That mall sounds like it was really amazing. It definitely had some great activities to do there. That's a neat experience you had with the filming that took place there. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories of Old Towne Mall!
I loved hanging out at the mall in the late 1970's and early 1980's😃It was The Puente Hills Mall in Southern California where they filmed the outside scene for Back To The Future😁Hickory Farms and Orange JuliusRecord stores were the bestGreat video Rhetty for History👍🏻Have a great weekendROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
most of us had our first jobs at the mall, im 64 and we were mall rats back in the mid 70s, whole lotta memories of good times, and extra curricular activities, lol
These stores wanting to know my phone number or zip code just to make a purchase!?? I just tell the cashier, "use the store's number." It works!!
I usually give them the area code and 867-5309. If someone has that number they should probably change it. Thank you for watching pamelas1002!
I remember going to Crossroads Mall as a kid. Long before Montgomery Wards went out of business. There was a Toys R Us just north of their parking lot. Wow..I'm old lol
I grew up going to that mall a lot and I loved it. I had to include a few pics here and there of that mall. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories with us PhoenixRCCrawler!
Northwest Arkansas Mall in Fayetteville had all of this for not being a huge mall...fountains (with the chlorine smell), Orange Julius, movie theater, and Santa! It even did the area's big fireworks show for the 4th of July!
I miss going to the mall, although I occasionally still get to go to Concord Mills mall. Most of the malls I remember are not ones I went to often, but we would go to them when visiting grandparents. One was Fayette Mall, in Lexington KY. It's still there and it's huge, but it's not the same as it used to be when I was a kid. It used to have so many fountains that my name for it was "Fountain Mall." I also remember having some therapy in Cincinnati, and the place I had it was close to Forest Fair Village and Tri-County mall both, and we would go to the mall between sessions. I remember Forest Fair's awesome movie theater, and a perpetual motion machine with billiard balls in it that I was mesmerized by. On that trip, we also stopped at Florence Mall in KY because they had a pet store with hand raised baby cockatiels. After my therapy sessions I would beg to stop there so I could go play with them. My main mall growing up was Lafayette Square mall in Indianapolis, but I don't remember as much about it as some of the others. Also, when I was at IU, I went to College Mall. It's still there, but a lot of the things I enjoyed about it are not.
Wasn't much of a mall guy, but once a year around Christmas time I'd go to Hickory Farms and buy my mom and dad a stocking stuffer.
I miss the Christmas decorations!
Northland mall in Michigan as well as Fairlane mall. Loved the food court and the Americanized Chinese from Fortune wok 😅😅😅😅
Thank you for watching and sharing a couple malls that you enjoyed TopGunAce23!
In the 70’s-90’s the mall was the place to be. You could shop, eat and see a movie or just people watch. During the winter you could spend hours there and not have to go out in the cold. So sorry to see them slowly disappear. In some places in Ohio the mall’s closed down and strip mall’s are making a comeback. Back out in the cold again. 🥶
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Our local mall just got shut down by code enforcement because they didn't finish the repairs after the tornado but reopened anyways.
Oh wow! That's sad. I wonder if they didn't have insurance? Thank you for watching KyshaKitty!
@@RhettyforHistory I’ve heard lots of rumors around town but I think it was just laziness
In, the late 1970's and early 1980's. I,worked at Eastland Mall in Harper Woods, (a,Suburb of Detroit, Michigan).
I've worked at Hudson's in the Men's Sportswear Department. Then, Macy's bought Hudson's and rebranded Hudson's to Macy's. Going to the Malls can be Fun and too Work at. When, I started working, I was going through Store Mergers and Store Closing Permanently.
I,miss the Malls from back in the day.
Besides, Eastland Mall where I worked at has Closed Permanently and Demolished for Redevelopment, which is a Distribution Center, and 2 Warehouses in Place of the old Eastland Mall. 4:23
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Yep! Or Lone Pine Mall depending on which part of the movie! It's such a great one though. Thank you for watching Robert!
You didn't mention that some music artists and TV stars used to do appearances at the mall! Not that anyone ever came to the malls around me, but I remember hearing/reading that those appearances were a thing elsewhere.
My friends and I spent a lot of time at the mall in the early to mid 90s. By the late 90s to early 00s, it didn't seem as safe to go at certain times, because a lot of fights were happening there. That was the beginning of the end for that particular mall.
Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights perhaps not famous but for us it was a special occasion once or twice a month in the mid 70's As newlyweds we didn't have much money to spend yet always satisfying with a few treasures to show a lot of browsing and a few Tasty Treats.
1 of the malls nearby was abandoned well over 10 years ago. It was finally demolished a few months ago. Another mall nearby is currently being demolished. It's really sad but damn do I love shopping online and having stuff come directly to my house.
No way 😂chlorine smell was the thing 😂😂❤❤❤
It was in so many malls. Thank you for watching reminaj_bynature6751!
The St. Matthew's Mall in Louisville used to have a giant chessboard with human-sized pieces out near the food court. At Christmas, that was where you would go to meet Santa Claus, so they wrapped the chess pieces up in garlands and made them look like Christmas trees.
It was much nicer to be able to shop and browse through the stores inside the mall, park once, be inside for an afternoon of shopping or fun and since the mall set the hours, most stores (not all) were open for the customers' convenience. Definitely miss the holiday displays, the food court and now defunct big box stores.
I have always loved malls! Sadly, my local one is struggling terribly. I think it only has about a 50% occupancy rate right now, maybe even less!
My Most Favorite Mall Was Crestwood Plaza Northwest Plaza and St Clair Square My Mom, Sometimes my Dad and I Would Spend Some Weekend Times Together Sometimes We Shop and Go to A Food Court to Eat Sometimes See A Movie Those Was The Best Times Ever
Hey neighbor! I grew up near Jamestown Mall. RIP
Recently went to the mall in South St Louis County. It was a sad sight. Not the vibrant place it used to be and empty shops all around. I have long said that the internet is the bane of our existence. People just don't communicate face to face any more and THAT is sad.
$20 at the mall??heck, you couldn’t buy a shirt from your favorite band unless you had some change for tha tax!!! I never went to the mall with anything less than a few hundred dollars when I was in high school, this was early 2000s..a video game was $60 a pop for the new stuff..I liked hanging out with friends at the mall, buying video games mostly, and maybe a few shirts..back then I ordered clothing online cause that’s the only way to get the stuff I liked
Things started to change a lot in the mall scene during the 1990s. That is when a lot of things really went up but in the earlier part of the decade $20 would last awhile. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Yamaha38XCRacer!
It's because Malls back then had reasonable prices and you could buy things from shoes to appliances. Today's mall sell expensive odd things in very few niche categories. I did not go to the mall next to me in years.
The malls that I grew up with have, for some reason, been transformed. Two of them were torn down and car-oriented strip malls were put up in their place. No, not really "strip malls". That implies one long, uninterrupted row of shops that you could walk to. Instead, both sites had little segments of externally-accessed shops placed here, there and everywhere. With chunks of parking lots and roads connecting them. Making it inconvenient to walk between segments, as you have to dodge traffic (and walk around in the cold), and making it annoying to get in your car and drive 30 seconds to the next segment of shops.
No idea why the developers think that's better.
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You forgot to mention the gigantic free standing ashtrays filled with sand every 20 feet.
1986 horror movie, Chopping Mall was filmed in a real mall during closing time, the movie is on Tubi 😊
Most malls are still alive and new in the future.
There are a lot of them that have closed out and many more are pretty empty. At one time there were a ton of them. Thank you for watching Lemuel928!
Back in the mid to late 80's, I used to live in Southern California so Pasadena Mall and Santa Anita Mall were my go-to's. They're both still around but with none of those great vibes.
B Dalton was a great bookstore. I liked it better than Barnes and Noble.
I enjoyed having several book store options.
Didn’t want to be a thief because back then that person did a major walk of shame through the mall cuffed up on their way to jail and loaded up in a cop car at the main entrance.
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I’m sorry to inform you but I don’t love malls but you can have your share of them and mine too. 😁😬 There is a mall near where I live but because of some violent crime there I’ll stay away from it.
I will never forgive K-Mart for ruining Sears. And K-Mart is gone too now, except in Australia.
I miss how northtown mall use to be northtowns food court went down hill it’s not good anymore