I like seeing the old clips of the mall back in the day. The music you play always fits the mall and its soothing. That mall does look really nice. Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for the nice content.
NorthCDogg22 is one of the few who do this. I compliment him often for it. I try to encourage his friend Andrew to show old pictures and clips of these malls in their hey day, but haven’t persuaded him yet. I will keep trying.
Everytime i see you're Dead Mall videos i think about how many Memories people had in this malls back in their prime times like 80's 90's mid 2000's good times i deff loved going to the mall and hang out with friends when i was in middle school/highschool circa 2007.
Nothing sits behind those VHS murals but a small space used for Street Corner for most of the 2010s at least. The other eateries were just in the spaces of those few restaurants you showed.
We went to West Ridge Mall the weekend after it opened. I'll never forget that day because it was when grandpa bought me Top Gun for the NES. Kay Bee Toys was actually located on the second floor next to the food court on the other side of Sbarro's. It had closed by the 90s, but you can see the remains of the store front in the clip of that old movie. Unfortunately for Kay Bee, a Toys R Us had opened up in West Ridge Plaza; a shopping center located just southwest of the mall on the corner of 21st and Wannamaker. No way they could compete. Christmas time at West Ridge in the 80s and early 90s was bananas. The huge tree. The decorations. The people. The gift wrapping stations. I've never seen anything like it anywhere else.
If you really think about it though, its crazy to think the rise, building, and destruction of malls could all be in a SINGLE generation depending on the mall. People grew up here seeing each store and face, knowing it all by heart sometimes. Now in a few years sadly those same people see these places rotting and molding before getting ripped down entirely. Your charismatic narration and video making skills helps keep the memories alive, no matter the eventual outcome of these places. Great morning watch! 🌄😊
19:33 I have been searching for years to find a place that still has that Jurassic Park arcade game with the jeep seat. Its from 1992 and this is the first sighting of one Ive found newer than like 2016 from places that no longer have it or exist at all.
Freakin' awesome documentary, buddy, I felt that I was walking or transported from the past to the future or present state of West Ridge Mall. Of course, the music or tunes helped pervade the nostalgic 80s retro feel/vibe/emotion/enthusiam. Anyway, bud, you created another excellent documentary of this soon to be a DeadMall. 😁🤜🤛👍🤙🖖
I went there recently to go clothes shopping, and my oh my, it is certainly not dead anymore. It was bustling with people. I’m not sure if it was because Christmas was around the corner, but there was a lot of people there. You should visit again!
Man...malls like these were crazy busy back in the day. Every type of person, every age, moving in every direction, smiling or in a hurry or hanging out reading a book on a bench. Some people would rent strollers for their kids, go to the arcade or food court, window shop and go home. I get why this is happening. I wish it hadn't. I always assumed things would never change. Sad irony that the reason we're all here watching this video is the same reason we're losing so many of our social centerpieces. Love your videos. Thanks for doing the work! We all appreciate it. J
The Independence Mall on 39th St in Independence, Missouri was on life support before the pandemic. I'd be amazed if it's as busy as this mall after all these years.
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR this was my mall as a teen in the early 2000s! It’s so depressing to see it like this! I bought every single prom dress at the Dillards and winter formal dresses at the DEB! Got my flip-flops at that old navy as was the trend at the time. The last movie I saw with my friends at the mall movie theater was The Grudge in 2004. We got ice cream at the Baskin Robbin’s afterwards. That convenience store on the second floor has been there since at least 2004. My friends and I always got Taco Bell, Sbarro, or Chikfila and we’d sit up on that platform area in the middle of the food court. I’m happy to see the Hot Topic is still there, though it of course doesn’t have the iconic 2000s facade with the ornate gates that I remember. At some point I think that colorful place on the 2nd floor was a candy store?! Maybe?! I just remember That store on the corner with the silver sign was an Aeropostale because my friends always shopped there lol. I wish I could go back and visit one last time, but this video was such a trip! Thanks for sharing 🥹
@@nicoleonyx9186 those sound like some great memories thanks for sharing! I wish I could’ve seen it back in its day, it sounds like it was a really beautiful mall!
@nicoleonyx9186 This was my mall as a teen in the late 90's and early 2000s as well. This video was such a trip...I actually worked at that Hot Topic back in the day. Seems so surreal what has happened to malls just in our generation.
I grew up in Salina Kansas. We had two malls. Original mid state mall and then central mall. We would often travel to Topeka and Wichita to shop and visit with family. West ridge is such a beautiful mall! Back in the day it was amazing with the neon! Town west square was a good mall too. Shopping there many times in the 80s and 90s. We mainly would go to town east but every once in a while it would be the west side. Town west used to have everything you needed. There was even a Kmart toys r us in the parking lot and a venture store on the west side across the street! Great video bro! Keep up the good work!!
@@Rob0876 thanks for watching man, glad you enjoyed it! I’m making a special trip back down to Wichita in a few days to gather more footage of Towne West, can’t wait to see it again!
Wish the salmon color was still the color scheme. West Ridge is a beautiful mall. So packed in the early yrs. Glenn Fry music in 1982 I was 18. Love the fact it was having an outside theater. If this mall had trampoline park proces how big this mall is!!! Love looking at the 1988 opening. I still go to Eastland here in Evansville, IN. REALLY BUSY NOW BLACK FRIDAY NXT FRI!!!!
It really is crazy how quickly West Ridge went down hill. Just 5 years ago this place was busy all the time. Then Sear's and Burlington closed and the old owners of the mall jacked the rent up to astronomically ridiculous prices. That's when all the other tenants started leaving. Hopefully with the new owners they can bring it back to life.
The space you pointed out was not the Kay bees toy store. It was upstairs about two or 3 storefronts away from the food court across the way from where hot topic is now.
The best thing about the 80s was hope. We were convinced that we had a bright future ahead of us. And you could see that everywhere, in the bright colors, in the fashion, in the funny movies and in the beautiful music. Today, everything looks equally sad: the houses, the cars, the clothes, even the hairstyles are all the same. But we can all get a piece of the 80s back. By not letting our mood be spoiled by politicians and media who want to scare us. By enjoying the music and the movies of that time. By wearing colorful, cheerful clothes. And by encouraging each other instead of allowing ourselves to be divided.
Luckily this mall has actually taken a turn in the right direction since Advisors Excel bought it. It will be a long road to return to its former glory, but they're putting in effort at least! Seemed the last owners were happy to just let it rot away.
North, certain points of this reminds me of Stratford Square with the wood and light fixtures. Merle Hay Maid-Rite is doing a little better as I write this. The owner ran out of food last weekend.
I rent the old deb space at WRM, at the beginning of the video, with the mirror front. Topeka N-Trak, a nscale model train club. Open on 1st. 3rd, & 5th Saturdays 10am-4pm.
The interior design of this mall is very similar to the design of the now closed Gwinnett Place mall in Georgia. Which means it’s a one of the better designed malls from the 80s. It’s actually my favorite design except for the carpet which likely wasn’t there when it first opened. This type of design is when malls were at their high water mark. Malls today don’t have the same magic they had in the 80s. They were the center of American pop culture back then. They gave off a type of positive energy you just don’t get today. It’s hard to describe it to people too young to experience it or remember.
I know you've done malls in St. Louis but in Columbia, Springfield, and Jefferson City MO has malls the one in Springfield has been in a decline for years
Must be Towne West in Wichita. I have been there a few times over the years and have shot some stills in there. Maybe you had time to check out its dead cousin in Hutchinson (Kansas) called Uptown Hutch.
This mall also was the filming set for the horror movie “Chopping Mall 1986.” Great video. My only complaint would be more soft music and less garbled music.
I like seeing the old clips of the mall back in the day. The music you play always fits the mall and its soothing. That mall does look really nice. Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for the nice content.
NorthCDogg22 is one of the few who do this. I compliment him often for it. I try to encourage his friend Andrew to show old pictures and clips of these malls in their hey day, but haven’t persuaded him yet. I will keep trying.
@nole8923 Andrew did the mall here in Tampa that I went to back in my high school days.
Windows 96 is the perfect soundtrack to the impeccable footage and commentary. Thanks for another banger, NorthCdogg22!!!!
@@osii6285 thanks for watching!! Glad you enjoyed it😄
Those videos of the mall in the past made me long for those times once more because man it was so beautiful. Great Video!
It truly is a shame, I wish we could go back. Thanks for watching!
Everytime i see you're Dead Mall videos i think about how many Memories people had in this malls back in their prime times like 80's 90's mid 2000's good times i deff loved going to the mall and hang out with friends when i was in middle school/highschool circa 2007.
"Kohan, the scumbags that they are" It's always good to hear such nice things said about one of our favorite mall slumlords. 🤣🤣🤣
@@JenniferinIllinois only the truth!😅
Loved this, thank you. Great music too
@@BlueJay6441 glad you enjoyed!!
For your time and effort, Thanks and Keep em Rolling!
Thank you for the support!
@@NorthCdogg22 No problem.
Nothing sits behind those VHS murals but a small space used for Street Corner for most of the 2010s at least. The other eateries were just in the spaces of those few restaurants you showed.
Next mall- Towne West in Wichita, KS! I'm so excited for this one!
We went to West Ridge Mall the weekend after it opened. I'll never forget that day because it was when grandpa bought me Top Gun for the NES.
Kay Bee Toys was actually located on the second floor next to the food court on the other side of Sbarro's. It had closed by the 90s, but you can see the remains of the store front in the clip of that old movie. Unfortunately for Kay Bee, a Toys R Us had opened up in West Ridge Plaza; a shopping center located just southwest of the mall on the corner of 21st and Wannamaker. No way they could compete.
Christmas time at West Ridge in the 80s and early 90s was bananas. The huge tree. The decorations. The people. The gift wrapping stations. I've never seen anything like it anywhere else.
If you really think about it though, its crazy to think the rise, building, and destruction of malls could all be in a SINGLE generation depending on the mall. People grew up here seeing each store and face, knowing it all by heart sometimes. Now in a few years sadly those same people see these places rotting and molding before getting ripped down entirely. Your charismatic narration and video making skills helps keep the memories alive, no matter the eventual outcome of these places. Great morning watch! 🌄😊
19:33 I have been searching for years to find a place that still has that Jurassic Park arcade game with the jeep seat. Its from 1992 and this is the first sighting of one Ive found newer than like 2016 from places that no longer have it or exist at all.
Freakin' awesome documentary, buddy, I felt that I was walking or transported from the past to the future or present state of West Ridge Mall. Of course, the music or tunes helped pervade the nostalgic 80s retro feel/vibe/emotion/enthusiam. Anyway, bud, you created another excellent documentary of this soon to be a DeadMall. 😁🤜🤛👍🤙🖖
@@DrTopGun thank you so much! I feel as tho the music I choose always helps me create each malls atmosphere and vibe, glad you enjoy them!
I went there recently to go clothes shopping, and my oh my, it is certainly not dead anymore. It was bustling with people. I’m not sure if it was because Christmas was around the corner, but there was a lot of people there. You should visit again!
Man...malls like these were crazy busy back in the day. Every type of person, every age, moving in every direction, smiling or in a hurry or hanging out reading a book on a bench. Some people would rent strollers for their kids, go to the arcade or food court, window shop and go home. I get why this is happening. I wish it hadn't. I always assumed things would never change. Sad irony that the reason we're all here watching this video is the same reason we're losing so many of our social centerpieces. Love your videos. Thanks for doing the work! We all appreciate it. J
I’m a new subscriber, dead mall videos have been interesting as far back as Dan bells videos. ❤
Another banger of a video! #realdeadmallking keep it up!
Tha jamzzzzz!
Good playlist in this one!
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Beautiful mall. Thank you!
I agree! Thanks for watching!
I have been seeing dead malls since the late 70s. It is always sad and surreal.
The Independence Mall on 39th St in Independence, Missouri was on life support before the pandemic. I'd be amazed if it's as busy as this mall after all these years.
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR this was my mall as a teen in the early 2000s! It’s so depressing to see it like this! I bought every single prom dress at the Dillards and winter formal dresses at the DEB! Got my flip-flops at that old navy as was the trend at the time. The last movie I saw with my friends at the mall movie theater was The Grudge in 2004. We got ice cream at the Baskin Robbin’s afterwards. That convenience store on the second floor has been there since at least 2004. My friends and I always got Taco Bell, Sbarro, or Chikfila and we’d sit up on that platform area in the middle of the food court. I’m happy to see the Hot Topic is still there, though it of course doesn’t have the iconic 2000s facade with the ornate gates that I remember. At some point I think that colorful place on the 2nd floor was a candy store?! Maybe?! I just remember That store on the corner with the silver sign was an Aeropostale because my friends always shopped there lol.
I wish I could go back and visit one last time, but this video was such a trip! Thanks for sharing 🥹
@@nicoleonyx9186 those sound like some great memories thanks for sharing! I wish I could’ve seen it back in its day, it sounds like it was a really beautiful mall!
@nicoleonyx9186 This was my mall as a teen in the late 90's and early 2000s as well. This video was such a trip...I actually worked at that Hot Topic back in the day. Seems so surreal what has happened to malls just in our generation.
I grew up in Salina Kansas. We had two malls. Original mid state mall and then central mall. We would often travel to Topeka and Wichita to shop and visit with family. West ridge is such a beautiful mall! Back in the day it was amazing with the neon!
Town west square was a good mall too. Shopping there many times in the 80s and 90s. We mainly would go to town east but every once in a while it would be the west side. Town west used to have everything you needed. There was even a Kmart toys r us in the parking lot and a venture store on the west side across the street!
Great video bro! Keep up the good work!!
@@Rob0876 thanks for watching man, glad you enjoyed it! I’m making a special trip back down to Wichita in a few days to gather more footage of Towne West, can’t wait to see it again!
Wish the salmon color was still the color scheme. West Ridge is a beautiful mall. So packed in the early yrs. Glenn Fry music in 1982 I was 18. Love the fact it was having an outside theater. If this mall had trampoline park proces how big this mall is!!! Love looking at the 1988 opening. I still go to Eastland here in Evansville, IN. REALLY BUSY NOW BLACK FRIDAY NXT FRI!!!!
Amazing video!! Such a nice looking mall too..
It really is crazy how quickly West Ridge went down hill. Just 5 years ago this place was busy all the time. Then Sear's and Burlington closed and the old owners of the mall jacked the rent up to astronomically ridiculous prices. That's when all the other tenants started leaving. Hopefully with the new owners they can bring it back to life.
The space you pointed out was not the Kay bees toy store. It was upstairs about two or 3 storefronts away from the food court across the way from where hot topic is now.
In fact you look into the old kbtoys at 28:08 and see the red pillars inside. The now blue and green pillars at the entrance were once red as well.
is the next mall towne west square in Wichita? cool video
@@FatKid5007 you know it! Thanks for watching!
You sould revisit since this at least 6 plust stores have moved in getting more every month
Topeka resident here 11:42 the space was a Fake build a bear store when it was occupied.
31:28 candy opalis , candy store , was huge when open ,
The best thing about the 80s was hope. We were convinced that we had a bright future ahead of us. And you could see that everywhere, in the bright colors, in the fashion, in the funny movies and in the beautiful music. Today, everything looks equally sad: the houses, the cars, the clothes, even the hairstyles are all the same.
But we can all get a piece of the 80s back. By not letting our mood be spoiled by politicians and media who want to scare us. By enjoying the music and the movies of that time. By wearing colorful, cheerful clothes. And by encouraging each other instead of allowing ourselves to be divided.
Luckily this mall has actually taken a turn in the right direction since Advisors Excel bought it. It will be a long road to return to its former glory, but they're putting in effort at least! Seemed the last owners were happy to just let it rot away.
North, certain points of this reminds me of Stratford Square with the wood and light fixtures.
Merle Hay Maid-Rite is doing a little better as I write this. The owner ran out of food last weekend.
You have to talk about the waterloo iowa crossroads mall again. Kwwl news released a article that they will be demolishing the mall. 😢
I would never leave that arcade
@@AnalogArchaeologist righttt, I wish I would’ve been there all day
Ok I think I can guess the next mall
Towne West Square in Wichita Kansas!!!
I hope that’s correct
I rent the old deb space at WRM, at the beginning of the video, with the mirror front. Topeka N-Trak, a nscale model train club. Open on 1st. 3rd, & 5th Saturdays 10am-4pm.
The interior design of this mall is very similar to the design of the now closed Gwinnett Place mall in Georgia. Which means it’s a one of the better designed malls from the 80s. It’s actually my favorite design except for the carpet which likely wasn’t there when it first opened. This type of design is when malls were at their high water mark. Malls today don’t have the same magic they had in the 80s. They were the center of American pop culture back then. They gave off a type of positive energy you just don’t get today. It’s hard to describe it to people too young to experience it or remember.
Im hoping we can see a video on the independence center. Its not dead yet but the cracks are starting to show. Especially after simon sold it.
@@nick_stuff oh yeah, Independence is one that’ll be coming soon
North DFW - my hood! Please tell me GOLDEN TRIANGLE MALL is next?
In really good condition!
Sad if this gets neglected and abandoned. It's a good looking building.
I can confirm that the store was indeed a Mr. Bulky candy store
16:43 22:57 The Claires!!!
There was another recent tour. Some woman said it wasn’t legal to film inside.
I know you've done malls in St. Louis but in Columbia, Springfield, and Jefferson City MO has malls the one in Springfield has been in a decline for years
Must be Towne West in Wichita. I have been there a few times over the years and have shot some stills in there. Maybe you had time to check out its dead cousin in Hutchinson (Kansas) called Uptown Hutch.
New arcade at Northpark mall davenport iowa!
Ridgemar mall next?
You should use a gimbal/stabilizer. Sometimes the movements can be a little disorienting. Love the content btw.
Is it Towne west mall next and I don't think you had a chance to see white lakes mall
"Copeland"😂
It's gymnastics instruction. The Copeland family has done that in Topeka for decades.
At about 32:04 - Thnak you Cdogg, Cheryl Ladd - I could not figure who that was.....
simon’s design falloff needs to be studied
@@craft7185 they had it all at one point.. it truly baffles me
It wasn’t KB toys it was a build a bear type store
11:30 that might have been Build A Bear
Is it Towne west mall in Wichita kansas?
I can't find the name of the song in the intro.
Circle Center, Mall, please?
I bet the next mall is Town west mall Wichita KS
music city mall lewisville tx
Next Mall should be Northwood's Mall in Peoria IL. That place is dead.
This mall also was the filming set for the horror movie “Chopping Mall 1986.” Great video. My only complaint would be more soft music and less garbled music.
I saw that movie! I'm glad someone else has heard of it. Being from KC, that's a cool tidbit of trivia.
The movie Chopping Mall interiors was shot inside the Sherman Oaks Galleria in Los Angeles. Look it up.
What's the intro song here???
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I thought you said "wife" and it was married. XD
Hi
Tear it down, bring back the corn fields.