Abandoned Detroit : The Rise and Fall of Northland Mall
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- In today's video we are exploring one of the first malls ever built. The Northland Center mall opened on March 22nd, 1954. After multiple closings of major anchor stores such as , JC Penny's , Macy's and Target, the mall fell very quickly. After the death of a man inside the mall the city quickly purchased the property with plans of demolition set for late 2019. Today we explore what remains. If you enjoy the video leave a thumbs up and subscribe for more content.
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Hope everyone enjoys this one! Malls are always an amazing experience to explore. Its crazy to see how consumers are changing from massive Malls to online shopping.** To explain the ending a bit, we heard noises and left quickly. When we shot the drone up when we got outside we saw 5 cop cars in the parking lot! We made a narrow yet successful escape. That being said, thumbs the video up! And I'll see you guys around ✌
My favourites are powerplants and factories for the decaying part. Malls and holiday resorts are just all things interesting. Hospitals and asylums are the creepiest. And so many more are curious, interesting, question raising, even sad to see.
Thx for this great explore.
I have to say it is so sad to see so many malls closing down because I spent so much of my younger yrs in them but now as I am edging near middle age & have health issues I prefer to shop online.when I go to places with crowds of people they r so rude.I walk with a cane & I get pushed like its my fault they ramed into me.I have noticed in my area some of the smaller malls closing but some have grown & r thriving with stores like 5 below replacing JC Pennies & Sears.I drive by but never stop.I love that you,Dan Bell,& The Proper People r showing these malls before they r demolished showing a part of history that 1 day may never excite.thanks for another amazing video & I can't wait till the next :-)
I also wanted to add Radio Shack is still opened here near me,Macy is still around but not in my area :-)
good video enjoyed it, very well done.
Enjoyed this video! The history that you add is what makes it so interesting. To imagine it as a thriving community center and seeing the vintage commercials is what keeps me tuning in. Without that, it’s just mortar and steel. Great job in this video!
My mother was born in 1945 and grew up Detroit in the 50's and 60's. She always told me that being seen at Northland was the pinnacle of success back then.
I started to cry when I saw Jeepers so many memories I miss my city being whole 💔
I didn't realize that was a national chain. We had one in Albany, NY until the mid 2000s. Bumper boats, snake coaster, everything. I'm guessing they all went under at the same time since ours slammed shut and a few months later was a Planet Fitness.
Same😩😩 I used to love the rollercoaster
I use to go to school with you
Where did it start
Shut up
Growing up, we shopped here every week. It’s astounding to think that it’s only a memory now.
Right.
This my grandmother's favorite place to shop, so I drove her to Northland Mall about twice
a month during the warmer months. So many memories of my time shopping with her
at Northland. Her favorite store was Macy's.
This location is now officially gone for good :( demolished 2020, RIP
@Emmanuel Goldstein ignorance...
Its not completely demolished only half of it still remains
rip :(
Yeah, it isn't completely gone.
Google just took street views near the mall in November, and there is still parts of the mall there (parts that will be repurposed for other things).
A bit misleading, basically.
@@thetexanhusky hm
Never went to Northland Mall, but used to drive by on 75 on our way to Rochester Hills to see my favourite Aunt & Uncle, whom are both gone. This one really hit hard.
I remember going to Northland Mall when I was fourteen years old, my friend Chris and I bought a 29 cent sub at the five and dime and sat on a bench and enjoyed our treat. It was delicious and years later Subway was born and the rest is history. On Saturdays it gave us something to do and meet people and get plenty of exercise. Years later, I went back with my Mom in 1980 and remembered the "good times". It seemed like yesterday, but it was actually 50 + years ago when I first step foot in Northland Mall at fourteen years old.
I remember when this was an "outdoor" mall, I saw Bozo the Clown at Northland when I was six years old. This mall has long ramps on both side that go underneath it, that is for the DOT (before SEMTA) bus station in the basement. There is also a fall out shelter down there since this was during the age of the cold war. One of the rooms was used as the first command center for the "Oakland County Child Killer" task force. The Boy and the Bear sculpture is now in the Southfield Public Library.
When I was a porter at a local Chevrolet dealer, we used to put the new model cars in the mall, I drove cars thru this mall!
Nobody will bother to read me? In 1952, I lived at the corner of Rutherford and Midland. I was just finishing the eight grade at I. Crary on Puritan. Two of us rode our bikes out Greenfield to see the construction at eight mile. Back then, Greenfield was only two lanes. We were both 14 and just couldn't imagine what was being built? Four years later when Northland opened, my family had set up home in Beverly Hills. Oh, from September 1952 until January 1954, I attended Cooley, now just another ruin in my home town. Now at 81+, I spend a lot of time watching You Tube on Dish. If I was just a hair weaker, I would probably cry at all the destruction I see in Detroit. To be very honest, I am so glad, I AM JUST DRIFTING!
The Macy's was originally J. L. Hudson's department store and the original developer of the mall.
I remember J.L. Hudson in fact I think I still have some items from J.L. Hudson.
Hudson’s was the Marshall Field’s of Detroit.
@@jrbon4619 Hudson's was THE place to shop in Detroit. Macy's is nothing but a glorified Walmart
This is my childhood mall. I grew in Oak Park, which is about a 6 min bike ride from Northland. I remember going shopping with my family, hanging out with friends, some of my best memories are in that mall. Jeepers, Radio Shack, the statue of Mowgli and Baloo. I experienced my first Black Friday at Northland. This mall played a huge role in the childhood of so many Metro Detroit kids. Watching this takes me back but also reminds me of how tough a hit my hometown has taken.
I was working at Macy’s up until the day they closed. Northland was my HOME. This video brings some intense Nostalgia. 🥲😁
When they walked in Jeepers( kids play area) I almost shed a tear😢
Rite I think randall mall was the only other mall with a jeepers. My kids loved it
taylior page remember the snake rollercoaster
maine1cb wonderland had jeepers. Great Lakes still has it as well
Yes the snake roller coaster was my favorite ride haha
@@EtrnlMack they closed the Jeepers in Great Lakes back in 2015. But they have another one in Lakeside Mall.
It's really sad to see this mall go after all these years, this was the only mall I would go to growing up. Jeepers, A&W, Target, Auto's, Macy's, Ce' LaVe, RadioShack, Payless, etc. that tattoo place where I got my navel pierced at 19 was kinda my last memory. It was a good mall while it lasted.
I appreciate this last look at Northland, as a kid I have so many memories here. It's kinda sad to see it go. Eastland is holding on by a thread...
Its hanging in by a tiny thread
@@MrsExquisite21
A string of thin silk.
Found this fascinating and intelligently narrated. Gosh America is nuts...everything is just so HUGE
As an American, I feel the same way!
Yeah it's pretty wack.
Man this just made me so emotional. I spent a lot of money in this mall. Take me back. This was my favorite mall. And the kids play spot was called Jeepers. Why did they have to do the mall like that 😡
Malls were going to die as soon as ebay popped up in the 90s lol. The 2000s really tried their best tho
shatonna wade I felt sad too. I worked at GANTOS, Winklemans, and Susan Terry all throughout my high school days. I loved hanging out around a Man oh Man. Used to get my Mack on! Lol lol. So sad!\
Facts I was hoping to c more of jeepers
It's weird seeing Northland abandoned I used to go there all the time as a kid I have so many good memories.
R.I.P. McKenzie he was a close family friend. I remember when that happened we were all hurt-especially my brother they grew up together. Northland had some good memories man.
🙏
I remember him from school.
This made me genuinely sad. So many memories of Jeepers, and hanging out at Northland. Sad to say, but I think Fairlane may have the same fate in the next 10.
yeah definitely. im a contractor and have done work for restaurants in fairline and they are so poorly upkept. its getting pretty barren
Eastland too
@@evhosle275 it was a kids place like Chuck E. Cheese.
I was hoping to c more of jeepers in this video, real sad
I miss the excitement I felt going to the mall as a kid.
Back before the weight of the world crushed all my hopes and dreams.
I've been in that mall a couple of times.
The Macy's was originally Hudson's first branch store. It was four floors and at the time it opened was the largest non-flagship department store in the world.
Hudson's was bought out by Marshall Field's in the 90s and it later became Macy's.
Another fun fact, the mall was not enclosed when it first opened. That didn't happen until the 70s.
Close, but Hudson's was never "bought out" by Field's. The original Dayton-Hudson Corporation simply changed the name of the company to 'Target Corporation' after the discount store (originally launched as an experiment by Dayton's in 1962) emerged as their most profitable and high-growth brand. Target's department store division consisted of Hudson's (Detroit), Field's (Chicago), and Dayton's (Minneapolis). The original core corporate management of Hudson's hadn't changed since the merger of Dayton's & Hudson's in the late '60s.
With the intent of selling off the entire department store division under one name plate, Target re-branded all 3 of the department stores as Field's, since, internationally, it had the highest name recognition & reputation. Only the name changed, the rest was perception.
Try pulling up www.hudsons.com, or www.daytons.com , and you'll be redirected to www.target.com. Target eventually sold off Field's to May Company stores. Within a year of that sale, May merged with Macy's.
Also, Northland Hudson's was nowhere near the "largest non-flagship department store". At over a 1,000,000 sq fit, the Macy's in Brooklyn is roughly half the size of their Herald Square flagship, and the Brooklyn branch is more than double the size of the former JLH Northland.
Another oft-repeated myth by Metro Detroiters is that "Northland was the first suburban shopping center". It wasn't. Northgate, Seattle (1950), Stonestown, San Francisco (1952), and Lakewood Center, Lakewood CA (1951) are just a few of many suburban shopping centers that preceded it.
Murder at the mall
I remember when it was Hudson and Marshall Fields.
Brought back a few memories. Definitely took it for granted while the doors were open. Big piece of Detroit history
I live in DFW. Many malls have died or are dying. Others are thriving. My observation is that once a neighborhood dies, so does the local mall.
That would explain why the malls in Grand Rapids have seen a resurgence, particularly after the city's beer boom.
I'm in dfw too!
I am really impressed how respectful you and your friends are. Not one time have I seen you damage, steal or make fun. Keeping the video moving with no annoying chatter.
I did a lot of shopping in Northland. It was where I got school clothes and stuff
I bought my suits and work wardrobe here.
I shopped there until the bitter end (Target).
RIP Northland
I will miss you.
Grew up going to northland it was beautiful & bustling man my heart aches thinking of all the great memories. Can’t believe it’s gone. 💔
Storm you’re pretty (;
I worked there years ago. I went to visit the week it closed in 2015. About everything was gone . It was sad to see it so dark and closed up.
Seeing this video really shows the desolation. Thank you.
Where at??
Love the music during the intro. I miss Northland Mall. So many good memories there & very convenient. It’s a shame that this good mall went to waste leaving those with access to a vehicle or money for public transportation without access to a mall.
There was a lot of politics behind it’s closure.
Thank you for creating this content.
Hi, Metro Detroit native here. As someone who was born and raised in Southfield, it's so surreal to see Northland Mall and its history covered by fresh eyes from out-of-state. Even as I was coming up (the mid to late 1990's), Northland showed signs of being a shadow of its former self, accentuated even more so by the new millennium. Every so often I would tag along with my mom to go to Hudson's - later Macy's - to go shopping or maybe the salon or what have you. There weren't whole lot of other chain stores that we'd frequent there. I might have visited that Target a very small number of times, not the greatest location if I recall correctly. I spent many a preschool and kindergarten field trip going to the Jeepers! located on the property. Having an arcade with an indoor roller coaster was such a novelty. One of the courtyard sculptures from the mall (a bear and a boy) was preserved and put in the Southfield Public Library, so at least a piece of Northland will live on.
Even though Northland wasn't exclusively a go-to in its later years, it was nice to know that it was always around (not to mention mere minutes away from my grandparent's house further down on the Lodge). Thanks for covering this! It was nostalgic in the most bittersweet of ways.
Another amazing video. I grew up outside Detroit and our family would go there every year and end up seeing relatives and always getting into a family fight because one of us would get lost and spend 6 hours there lol
McKenzie Cochran, 25, died at the Northland Mall in the Detroit suburb of Southfield in January. A day after he had been asked to leave the building over suspicious behavior, Cochran returned and reportedly told a worker at a mall jewelry store that he wanted to kill someone.
Thank you guys for being brave enough to take this tour
Your voice is so relaxing
Yes I like his voice as will
WOW.. thanks for posting this.... I live on the east coast now, but in the 80's I worked there.... Northland was upscale when it opened.... I think it was one of the only Hudson's stores outside of the downtown Detroit store for a long time....
Tears... brought up here .. stayed in this mall.. so many memories...!!! Thank you
I loved this place, you killed this video
I’ve always wanted to go inside and see what it looked like now. This took me back to my childhood 🥺
Just to let everyone know that misses Flaming Wok still in business
I like how you put the old Macy’s commercial in. I like to see clips of the malls in their heyday and then see them in their current state, even though it’s sad.
I Have Not Cried This Much In A Long Time. I Spent 11 Years Working There. I Know Every Place You Went. I Could Tell You About Every Store... with My Eyes Closed. I so Wish I Could Have A Peice of The Mall to Put in My House....a Sign or Something. 😞😞😞😞Thank You So Much For This.
Do you remember the Chinese restaurant on the corner of the food court? I use to love the food there..... Memories
Very interesting and nicely produced video. The background information to the mall's early years was appreciated too. Thank you for sharing with us. Padraic. Halifax U.K.
Thank you for this! Growing up in Detroit, Northland was the pinnacle. It was the very first mall for many of us I was born in the 60s so I experienced Northland basically in its beginnings. So many memories! It's a shame we still don't have a film industry in Michigan any more. You can bet if we did, Northland would be rented out for various things. The whole thing could have been turned into a production house with soundstages and more. Such a shame that it will all go to waste.
I agree with your statement. I driving past this building every day to go to work and its crazy that its just sitting there empty. This should have been developed into something
Think this is my favorite so far, great commentary, you have such a smooth voice that draws you in! Drone footage was wonderful, and loved the music you picked. xx
That's insane how it's still standing
If you read what was written he says it will be torn down by the end of 2019 :-)
@@webeeankylosingspindylitis7838 ummmm I did?
They still havent tore it down yet.
@@webeeankylosingspindylitis7838 it's still standing
Its not insane for building built with good, sturdy materials to be still up lol. Now, more... disposable crap is used in build-a-house McMansions
I spent alot of time at Northland as a teenager and this was a blast from the past.love your videos!! Keep up the good work ☺
I stumbled across your older videos just recently, and to see these newer episodes a couple years newer - the quality of the content is so much higher now! 👍🏼 I subbed! 😊
The city of Detroit didn't buy the mall, the City of Southfield (the city the mall is in) bought the property.
Macy's isn't so much the significant part of that mall other than the fact they bought Hudsons (the original anchor store at the center) and converted it to their store. So basically when Macy's closed it finally closed Hudson's.
joeywilson3 don’t forget it was Marshall Fields s b4 Macy’s
The underground portion of the mall is slated to become a marijuana processing plant. It was bought from the city of Southfield for 25 million dollars.
I really like that you spoke in a low voice during this video. There were also times of silence so we could experience it with you. The quiet and eerie silence was spectacular! Great job showing this. Thank YOU for sharing this experience with us!!
From the beginning I read the comments you did something very special by posting this video for a lot of people ❤️ as they shared beautiful memories here in this place 😊 the mall we had back in the day isn’t demolished but is used as individual stores now but the movie theater still remains which is a great thing here in Mississippi because we don’t have much 🤦🏽♀️... so Thank you for this video 😊❤️
Love the opening to this exploration! I remember that mall. Awesome job on this exploration!
One of your best videos yet, awesome job man.
Definitely brought good memories and sadness of the fact it’s gone. Thank you for this video 🙏🏽
Absolutely love your vids well done you keep the experience real and take the utmost care not to disturb what is pieces of history. Can\t wait for the next one.
6:28 that's definitely radio shack
Yes it was. I worked at that exact store from Sept, 2004 until August 2005. Great times and good money made selling Sprint Cell Phones. Even greater memories from my childhood at this mall. It's sad seeing it this way.
It was also an open air mall, it wasn't enclosed. The roof didn't come until around 1970. Life magazine did a story on it in 1954 and the color photos are amazing. It also had solid concrete tunnels that were difficult for the wrecking crews to deal with.
Love abandoned malls. Thanks for sharing!
So sad, I have so many memories there! Couldn’t believe they closed but it’s happening to a lot of Detroit’s malls. Thanks for doing this video
Detroit didn’t have any malls. Only mall that was ever in Detroit was the Mammoth on the west side and that closed in the early 2000s.
I really like when u edit a very old commercial in the video. Along with the smooth jazzy beat 👌🏽 would like to see more old commercials
You did a great job on this video it brought back so many good memories for us who lived in the area and hung out here.
So many memories in this place. If Detroit was smart they wouldn’t tear it down. They would reopen it. It’s been long enough. People would flock to it.
Quentin Dennard it’s not a Detroit mall though. Definitely sits in Southfield. Nor will Detroit buy it because the city is still focused on Downtown coming together and frankly it SITS IN SOUTHFIELD.
EL Larodo I know where it SITS. I live here. When I say Detroit I mean METRO DETROIT WHICH IS SOUTHFIELD numb nuts.
Everyone keeps screaming ITS IN SOUTHFIELD , just because when you walk across the street and the street sign says is Southfield it's still DETROIT frfr.my father owned a store here for years before it closed ..it's on Greenfield and 8 mile .3 minutes from 7 MILE and Greenfield where the news calls THE HOOD !!! where all of Detroit identifys as the WESTSIDE OF DETROIT . This mall was usually 85 percentage blacks ...... When we ( ppl who live here ) go somewhere and it's 50/50 or more whites THEN we will call it Southfield lol. But this mall was definitely our Detroit mall,no matter what the street signs said.we all hung out after school here .
@@taj8788 right wtf they talkin bout
Another banger,i love your videos camerawork and photograph
and your calm ,well spoken commentary
keep them coming
mall videos are so eerie
your mate
Dave
Gold Coast
Australia
I love your videos! They make my day so much better
The intro was so good! The editing is also so good on your videos
They started demolishing Northland Mall about 2 weeks. I worked there as a teen & shopped there as a young adult, until I moved further away. I hope 12 Oaks Mall is safe from closing, for now anyway.
Excellent videos guys, You deserve much more views!!.
My daughter send me this. I am so glad she did. I use to work at Northland Mall. It brought back do many wonderful memories.
I love your videos! I love the effort you put into your videos! I wish I could explore abandon buildings, but I’m too afraid😂
I remember going here in the 90s as a kid. That place used to stay packed. Right down the street it was a movie theater called “The AMC Americana.” As soon as they shut down the theater over time the mall started to go down. It’s a shame what happened to it. It was apart of my childhood.
I remember that movie theater..Me and my parents seen the Blues Brothers there..the design was ahead of its time for a movie house...It started the trend for having a movie theater positioned close to a mall throughout the usa..
Wow. I spent a lot of time there as a kid. Thank you for doing this. Amazing if, as you say, they did the demolition in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. I would have liked to have walked through the ruins one more time. Thank you for making this record.
Watching in awe from TORONTO. No abandoned malls here.
Your vídeos are masterpieces!!!! 😍😍👏👏👏👏
I video di questo canale sono incantevoli e quasi ipnotici; riescono ad evocare ogni volta sensazioni di incredibile smarrimento e solitudine.
La voce narrante rassicura lo spettatore, così rilassante e garbata, produce un singolare contrasto con la visione, tanto da perdersi nella sua timbrica, senza quasi rendersi conto che pian piano smetti di capire il senso delle sue parole per farti trasportare in una dimensione lontana.
Adoro tutto questo, non smettete!
Un abbraccio dall’Italia.❤️
Sad to think about how so alive it once was to now this...
Awesome video bro! Crazy how Detroit looks like in some areas! keep up the interesting videos and thanks for adding some explanation to the buildings
This is Southfield, not Detroit.
I subscribed just because of this video, and I've loved it ever since!!!
Digging the background music! Nice documentary.
Awesome job with the video recording. It's sad that they let this mall go to waste! Was born and raised in Detroit on the east side I probably been to Northland Mall three times I always went 2 East land
Loved this. PLEASE try to get one in the recently closed Eastland Mall. I believe it was closed Dec 31, and is awaiting demolition. I'd love to see inside the old Hudson's/Macy's one more time before they destroy it forever.
love it! im from detroit. my grandma used to work their. remember going there a lot as a kid
Watched from new zealand great channel keep up great work cheers
Very cool location,explore & upload brother!! 🤘😎🤘
This makes me so sad. I LOVED Northland. It's the first mall I loved and the reason I love shopping. My mom and I used to go there a lot in the 80's and 90's. Fun memories. I went all the way up until the end. I loved the stores the boy and the bear statue. I always thought that was Mowgli and Baloo from the Jungle Book. Max Greens, Hudson's, Macy's. So much fun.
I did too 😂
Hello, just wanted to let you know that I’m a big fan of your channel. When I was younger I would visit this mall. I’d love to see you explore more places in Michigan. I’d even be interested in exploring with you. Thank you for what you do. Stay safe.
I actually walked around Northland on the last day and took pictures. It still breaks my hear that this mall closed. This was our childhood hangout spot😢. RIP Northland
Very nice video, love the commentary, insightful. I see you've watched Dan Bell's Dead Mall series, a little inspiration from that... thanks for the video.
Absoultely. He's a huge inspiration, always has been. Glad you enjoyed
❤Born + raised in Detroit. Worked at the mall (Barna Bee’s for $1.40/hr, children’s clothing) 1969-1971 while in HS. Long before it enclosed. Sad to see demise. Hope original Hudson’s restored. Hated to see 12-story downtown location imploded. It was a Christmas piece of my childhood. 12th floor was toys + magical during holidays.
Many memories in that mall from a child to a teenager, and adult. I worked at the Target in the mall age 19 back in 2002.
Great job as always, best regards from Colombia South America.
Every time I watch an abandoned mall video I wonder how much fun a go cart would be!
Thanks for this video. I stayed 5 minutes away so I went to this mall weekly. I drove by the other day wondering what it looked like inside.
I am new to you’re channel and I absolutely love you’re vlogs I have been watching them it so crazy to see places that u have gone to and to think people were once thier
I use to skip school at Mumford an sit at the bus stop with ppl who use to be friends it hurt my feeling watching this so Manny members back when Detroit was fun
I miss Northland mall. I used to shop at Targets every week and people who worked in the mall became familiar me. Another thing since this was filmed there was a fire on the J.C. Penny side around Christmas and I’m not surprised because it was rumored to still have electricity on and most likely it was a electric fire but the Mall survived the fire and it still stands.
Back in the day, it was, technically, a two -story mall with a post office, shoe repair, mall security offices and an optometrist on the lower level. I went to the mall back in the 50s and 60s so its history for me includes more into than the narrator reports. It was an open-air mall originally. Macy's was Hudson's back then. This "historical" presentation lacks a lot of research. For instance, before Target there was a Mervyn's. Narrator never mentions JC Penney's which, at one point, was purchased by a church which never occupied the building. There was a Kroger's with a conveyor belt that delivered groceries outside to the parking lot on the Greenfield side. Research = info.
You are so right. I used to ride my bike there with my buddy Roger. We would make crank phone calls to the outdoor pay phones (in the mid 1960’s).
Yooooo glad u found are chill room sadly it’s getting messed up everyday but we come back and keep cleaning it making it back to normal💪🏼 MT dope🔥
That room with the Tupac hat was your hang out room?? Thats amazing
Aww this brings back so many childhood memories 🥺
So sad. Great video.
That Mall looks old-fashioned. Thanks for sharing.
this is the kind of stuff you would see in the last of us
I was waiting for a clicker to come out lol
i was legit thinking of the game. it reminds me of it