Whilst watching this I had a moment of realisation. For time in itself. 2 years ago I watched a video on this mall, it was when I was preparing for my daughters birth. She's sadly passed away since, from her health condition, bless her. Though now, 2 years later when looking at the old musical plants near the old luggage shop I realised I was in the same place where I was back then. Now I'm preparing for my 2nd son to be born in December, my daughter was born in January. It showed me how tired and sad I am, time only moves forward. What an eye opener. Thank you for this video. It unlocked a rich memory of mine. This is why I love your channel ❤
Great video. I remember in the 70s Houston used to be THE place to be back when Bum Phillips was the coach for the Houston oilers and Earl Campbell was their star running back. Now Houston is known for being a crime ridden chit hole city. I hate when once cool places decay like that.
I visited this mall in 2005 while fleeing Hurricane Katrina. It was struggling then. I remember a closing Champs Sports and Subway as about the only place to eat.
This shit depresses me, I remember skipping school with my friends and we’d go there all the time, I remember the food court was still open around 2015, the mall wasn’t completely dead, and I remember going to Macys with my gf at the time and buying clothes, going to champs and journeys to buy sneakers, I remember the huge movie theater it had, I have distant memories of there being an arcade by the food court entrance as well, it depresses me so much how dead that mall has become, that mall was my childhood and my early teenage years, I feel like the mall didn’t stand a chance once Macys and the movie theater closed down. It hurts me. I made so many great memories there, anyway, didn’t try to get all sentimental and corny and shit lmfao, just wish this mall didn’t ended up the way it did. The mall looks so unique too compared to willowbrook, deerbrook, woodlands, the mall looks very retro and has that 70s-80s futuristic architecture.
I grew up in Humble,and I went to Nimitz,and My cousin grew in Camden Park,and went to Westfield,but he lived between Greenspoint,and Williowbrook,and one day we went to Greenspoint last in the summer time 2002,and it was when it going down hill since. We would go to Deerbrook for the movies,and now Deerbrook is starting to be like Greenspoint.
My mom and I would shop this mall every weekend! The still pictures of the corridors looking like a tropical paradise from the late 80's/early 90's full of green trees. The whole mall echoed with the sounds of waterfalling and spacious ambient sound. This little video just unlocked a little bit of my childhood for me, ty!
I visited yesterday more stores are gone including the African imports shop which moved and the finish line closed the mall feels extremely creepy also the foot locker is gone
First of all, well done. It has been a long while since someone did a high-quality update on the mall. Greenspoint Mall is in dire shape now. You almost revealed all of the hidden areas of Greenspoint. The vacant Sears corridor has about 5 stores and a red tile storefront hidden behind the drywall where you first went after the food court. In fact, the old Sears exterior has lots of corners and door frames covered in red tiles from the 1970's that were painted over in the 90's. A lot of tiles are falling off of the building now, so you can get a souvenir. One of the stores down that Sears corridor is a long-closed Woolworth Express that was walled off once the store closed in the 90's. The old JCPenney entrance had the children's play area in front until they shut it down. Then they put up the drywall that you could see near Thirstys. It is good that you went during our long drought this Summer. A lot of those stained spots on the floor are probably wet again. Me and my family started going to this mall in 1986, and I still go in 2023. This mall was hurt by the openings of Willowbrook then Deerbrook Mall, the mortal wound was the Woodlands Mall just as the area was beginning the 1990's decline. Greenspoint was a very strong mall until about the mid 90's when anchors started dropping like flies. Sears, Dillard's, and Macy's all downsized their stores and closed off the second levels before they all ultimately closed. Life is not all bad at the mall. On some nights, people show off their cars. There are several carnivals each year in the parking lot. Fitness Connection is a very busy gym. Brand new townhomes are being built practically next to the old Sears. The old Sears is being used as material storage for the new development, so I was able to peek inside one day when they opened the doors to move materials.
@@jeee1074 You brought back some memories in your comments.🥲 I had forgotten about that Woolworth Express! I used to go rummaging around in there to kill some time before going to work. There also used to be a Piccadilly Cafeteria in this mall as well; I had lunch there quite a bit since it was so close by the store I worked in. Memories.🥰🔥♥️
I remember when this mall was brand new and it was certainly the place to be in north Houston in the seventies and eighties. I saw Star Wars A New Hope, and the Empire Strikes Back in the theater there. I even worked at the Montgomery Ward there for about a year or so in ‘79 - ‘80. Signs of decline began in the late eighties and they refurbished it with all the muted pastel tiles you can still see today. I left Houston for another career move and the slow but steady decline continued all the way through the nineties. I visited there from out of state in 2000, and I can tell you, it was a very sketchy place to be, even back then. By the way, you did a very good job on the history of the place.
In the late 2000’s KBR ran a hiring and initiation center in the Montgomery Ward end of the mall . The hiring was for work in Iraq. I was there for 10 days .
Yep, I can't think of a mall that doesn't have a GNC in it. I personally do not take offence to the church comment. By coincidence the pastor that presented the gospel to me is the pastor of a church that bought a former strip mall. (Calvary Phoenix). In the last 10 years or so I have seen more churches rent from strip malls in dead areas and thought this whole dead mall trend would be a great way for churches to negotiate rental prices as these land owners need to have at least some revenue coming in.
Looks like Greenspoint is officially done. A news story came out earlier today. The tenants of the mall have until July 31st to get their items out of the mall. The document shows the date of closure as June 30th, but several reviews from this week show the mall as still being open.
@@jeee1074 that’s wild. Thanks for the info. I drive by there often and always thought it was completely dead. It was a pretty cool place once upon a time.
Man o man, the light pink and blue interior brings me back, the KBToys where i picked up all things WWF, the Casa Olé where we ate like kings, or picked up pizza from brothers pizza in the food court, to the F.Y.E, Sam goody and blockbuster music store. Playing games at the Tilt, or trying to haggle prices for a nice silver piece and chain, i LOVE Greenspoint mall and even though this is a bit saddening, i appreciate all the memories i have of this once great place. GREAT WORK 👍 👌 👍 H-TOWN BABY 🤘🤘🤘
I completed 3 four-month engineering internships for NL Industries in Houston in 1984 and 85. From Michigan, so being in Houston was really nice. I went to this mall with other interns so many times. Brothers (Bro's as we called it) Pizza was a favorite stop, along with Dillards, which we didn't have in Michigan. NL's HQ was just about 5 miles down the road where Halliburton's North Campus exists today - this was great place for a weekend stop if the weather was hot or just a rainy day. The mall seemed safe back then. at least for a group of 21 year olds. The area around the mall, though, seemed to have a lot of lower rent apartments - not sure if that's why the area eventually got its nickname. Sometime in the early 90s, I talked to a truck driver from Houston who told me he wouldn't go back to the mall because an off-duty policewoman had been carjacked in the parking lot. Favorite store was some kind of deli that had foreign foods too and beer!
Man you are seriously one of my favorite channels, you managed to document all or most of my local malls and now I'm able to see other people's versions of the same thing. Every one of these videos evokes an intense feeling of mono no aware and other emotions I can't quite describe. I've never been to this mall, never even knew it existed, but somehow I feel like I was just there a few days ago. These surrealist feelings are so neat.
I believe malls like Greenspoint just envoke a very primal nostalgic feeling in all of us, it’s almost like we’re looking back into our memories in these malls.. Paired with the right music and sometimes you can almost recreate those memories. It’s a really beautiful feeling I like sharing with you all! Thank you for watching!
I can’t believe this mall is still open to the public. Once it became “gunspoint” mall, forget it. So many malls died because of crime. If looked like an amazing mall in its heyday. It opened a month before I was born. I’m really glad that this video came together. It’s definitely a mall with a sad history.
Drive past this mall almost everyday during my commute up to the Woodlands. This area is still pretty rough but if you go about 12 minutes further east up Beltway 8, you get to some nicer suburbs again near the Fall Creek/Summerwood/Kingwood area. I’ve always wanted to go and explore what’s left of Greenspoint Mall, but as a woman, I’m a bit leery of it.
My childhood mall just had a shooting at it yesterday, and I fear that mall will basically meet the same fate as this one cause of crime. I was just there on Saturday, around the same time. If I went Sunday instead, I would have been at the shooting that just occurred. Even at my more recent, local mall, my uncle used to be a firefighter chief and would tell me that there are SOOOO many crimes that would happen at this mall at night, and the city would do everything to cover them up so it can preserve a "pristine" image.
Back in Elementary School in the late 90s we would have field trips to this mall for chior. It was so busy and so much fun as a child. Its so sad how times change 😢
I’m so incredibly excited for this season. I grew up in the Houston area so this is really going to hit close to home. I even plan to visit GreensPoint mall around thanksgiving since I will be visiting family for the holiday. I think I’ll record my experience there so it should be a lot of fun.
Love the „expedition“ style, including the footage from driving up to the mall. Really builds up excitement (in a relaxed way) 😊. Keep up the good work!
Oh man, I live probably 20 minutes from Greenspoint Mall. I can assure you people still call it “gunspoint” even today and there’s a sort of stigma surrounding the mall that’s hard to explain as anything other than “it’s ghetto”. I do remember as a kid in the early 2000s it was still doing decently ok, my mom would shop at the Foley’s and Dillard’s for clothes and home goods. I remember walking up to the old Montgomery Ward entrance outside and it still looked like it was just closed (By this point it had only been vacant for like 3 or 4 years). My how times change. Last time I visited the mall, the Macy’s was having their liquidation sale and I got a whole bunch of stuff for real cheap. It’s sad to see the mall so dead, but I knew it was going to happen eventually, the 90s and 00s weren’t nice to that mall. Once Deerbrook, Willowbrook, and The Woodlands malls opened, it was basically the kiss of death for Greenspoint.
I used to go to this mall when I was a kid, I remember there being holloween events and Christmas ones too. I still remember the movie theater, the old arcade and jungle Jim lol. I don’t remember when the arcade left but I was young maybe around 12 and soon after the food court started fading little by little. My last going there was around 2018 when the movie theater was still active. It was the only thing keeping the mall alive until Covid happened. Had some good memories there lol
The movie theater was great; new, clean, and never full. Used to take the kids there because the matinee prices were so cheap. But avoided going into the mall as most good stores had left.
Awesome video, I used to go to the nearby welding school near greenspoint and still was refrenced as gunspoint mall by all most everyone in the school. As my curiousity increased of greenspoint mall I decided to vist and explore the mall. Altough I wasnt brave of exploring the closed off areas, The vibes from the mall really made me feel nostalgic of a time when i wasnt even born (if that makes sense). Looking back I wish I actually paid attencion to some areas where you visted and at least brought something from thirstys when i visted. So I really appreciate this video as not only as a reminder of the history of the past, but rather the importance of time its self.
I lived in Spring in the 90s. One time an HPD officer was shot at Gunspoint. I was at the intersection of 1960 and Kuykendahl and literally 20 police, sheriffs, constables, etc came from all directions and turned south on Kuykendahl. It was nuts.
I live like 30 mins north of there and I remember in the 90s and early 2000s when that place was bumpin' and always crowded and a bit safer than it is now. It was so hard to find a parking space. You had to park like literally 2 blocks away in the lot, it was that busy. I drove past there a few days ago and it looked so dead. I haven't been there since like '95 or so and it for sure slowly died over the last 2 decades. So sad. But that for sure is not a safe area to be especially at night. When the sun goes down, (whispers) you go down.
@@NorthCdogg22 Going from what I remember, to how it is now, is a complete shock. Where I live we have an Outlet mall that opened in 1994 and for the first decade it was crazy busy, you almost could never park there and you'd have to drive around for 20 minutes just to find a spot and most of the time when you got to it, it was already taken. Then in the late 2000's early 2010s it was starting to not be so busy. And for the last 10 years, it's only been a couple of stores here and there. It's crazy what changing demographics and online shopping can do to places. There's also The Woodlands Mall that opened in 1993 and it's busier now there it's ever been. So many things have been added around to it, including urban growth, that during the day and even at night, it gets crazy busy around there. Go figure.
Met a security guard at the crossroads mall in waterloo who said he saw you filming in the mall. I told him i follow this channel on my phone and hes like i know him. Lol 😆 I was taking a picture of the Sam goody floor sign and he approached me. Nice guy. He was ok with me taking the photo. 😂
I worked across the street from this mall for several years in the late 90s, early 2000s and it was pretty much dead even then. We would go there for lunch and surprisingly the food court was usually quite busy - I guess alot of people who worked in the office buildings around there would walk over for lunch like us. It was probably the only thing keeping the mall afloat at that point, because NOBODY would step foot in the mall after business hours.
Another great one. The pipe fountain would have been neat to see and hear. The neons were cool to see also what was left. You always pick the best music. Thanks
This was hard to watch because this was a mall I visited in college and during a long ago job on that side of the city. Mostly what I remember are dim (but crowded) corridors, a really nice Foley's (that became Macy's) and that food court, which was a great gossipy respite from a tense office job. Also, a two story, poorly lit play area that looked like a blast. Great video!
I used to go to greenspoint mall many times as a family . Getting my school uniform , eating at cici's , playing at the playground , going to the CD store, eating at the food court and seeing a movie . I miss those days .. especially just walking around with my old best friend . We didnt have to buy anything it was just fun being there
Maybe I’m just lucky but every time I’ve gone to Greenspoint, I have never felt unsafe there. I felt like I’ve been to yet another impoverished area that Houston doesn’t care about no more. I feel like this whole “Gunspoint” shit instilled unnecessary fear into people because this isn’t even the worst area in Houston. River Oaks is actually more dangerous than Greenspoint. But 🤷🏽♀️
@@NorthCdogg22 t'was another phenomenal watch! Top notch, as always, my friend! The craziest part about it, was that I had watched another video on this mall, a while back. But I didn't even realize it was the same mall, until you mentioned the infamous "Gunspoint" nickname! It was already dying when I saw it in the first video. But there were still areas of life. In your video though, it is, very sadly already dead and rotting. And it blew my mind-and broke my heart-to see that this mall has spiraled SO badly, in so short a time, as to become completely unrecognizable. I would have LOVED to have seen that musical fountain, to have heard it chime!! I wish there was video of it!! Also, one last thing, I just wanted to say how awesome I think it is, that a young man like yourself has such an interest in this subject. If I could, I would take you back in time, and show you around my childhood malls, in their heyday. Thank you for these wonderful, incredibly informative videos, and the work and research you put into them! You're one of the only creators who really tells the mall's history so completely, and I absolutely love it! I don't have any idea where your next one will be (sorry, lol), but I know I can't wait!!
@northcdogg22 Excellent Video! Well worth the extra effort you put into it. I'm glad you brought up the topic of "The Backrooms." This mall definitely reminds me of a Backrooms atmosphere. Thumbs Way Up!!!
Fun fact; All the remaining planter islands peppered throughout Greenspoint mall were originally twice as big and were water features that got reused as planters. The one up closest to what was a Piccadilly's Cafeteria was a great big water gong thing, just like those bamboo water xylophone in Japanese gardens but scaled way up, with metal chimes.. And boy was that the mall's attraction! It understandably got turned off in the very early-mid 80's, it WAS super annoying to employees and was converted to a wishing pond with koi, and eventually filled in. You could hear the damn thing from Northbelt coming into the parking lot!
Another great video that was well worth the wait! I still can't believe I saw it while driving to and from the airport only a month or so ago! Similar to you lol, I just wondered what was inside for the longest time. This mall is like The Orchards Mall in MI you visited, but 10x the backrooms and broken tiles. I can't wait to see the next Texas mall you have in store! 🎉🤩
I worked at that mall in the old Houston Trunk Factory, I was there in the late eighties, is was rapidly changing even then. Thanks for reminding me, great video!
You went to Gunspoint! Word around Houston is that it’ll be at least another 20 years before that area even begins to rebound economically, assuming oil and gas doesn’t have another boom/bust cycle before then.
Wow!. I grew up going to this mall. This was the first mall that I ever knew. Not long after my family moved to the area where Willowbrook Mall was built, we also started going there. I have not been to Greenspoint since around 2012 or so. My wife and I just went there to see how bad it had gotten. It was bad then, but your video showcases Greenspoint Mall's even further decline. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.
Yet another beautiful video that brings me back to a better, simpler time. If you ever come to Washington state, these malls would surprise you. Some of them are going down hill while others thrive. Location location location haha. Considering I-5 is a major corridor, these malls(including the Tacoma Mall) just never stop thriving. Finding parking is still a pain at the Tacoma mall as well as South Hill mall lol. Also, I don't want my car to be broken into, stolen, or get robbed at gunpoint haha.
Oh wowsers your in my hometown greens point is 23 mins away from me. Crazy interesting . Soo neat ❤❤. Other places in town that are lonely , almeda northwest mall, San jacinto Mall and West oaks mall are literally empty too
i remember going here with my dad all the time, we would go mainly for the movie theater but would walk around the mall after or before the movie started. good memories
I started going to Greenspoint mall when it first opened. It was nice. Then it started getting bad in th 90s. An off duty female deputy sheriff was kidnapped from there. They found her body days later. Case is still unsolved.
In February 2021 I attended CHCP (The College of Healthcare Professions when it was still there and graduated in September 2021. At this time the mall was completely closed but the school was still completely functional and a couple hundred students attended. During the end of my time at CHCP maybe around August, the Houston police department let the students into the mall to help their SWAT team do some active shooter training in the old Macy’s. Our professors and some police department staff gave us cards with our “injuries” on them and told us all to spread out throughout the Macys and act as if we were injured. There were about 50-75 students playing these parts in a dimly lit Macys with only construction lamps planted through the retail floor. The SWAT team was only instructed to clear the building from the mall side entrance that this guy in the video entered through and make sure the building was clear all the way to the loading dock on the south east side of the mall. It was a pretty cool experience but looking back, it’s pretty crazy how dead silent the macys was and at this time untouched. Since that day and the day this video was taken, there has definitely been a lot of vandalism but I look forward to this concrete jungle eyesore to be torn down.
The oil glut/crash began in 1983. I left the notorious boom and bust oil business forever. Fortunately, I was still young and persued a new career in telecommunications, that lasted for 35 years until retirement.
I've been there a couple of years back. It was nerve racing at first, but it turned out to be sad. I didn't go through any doors like you & Sal did. Yet, it was an experience. Things were still open at the time. Not anymore. I'll put a video out soon.
Sounds like Almeda Mall is next. I did not expect you to be in Houston for season six, so awesome. I’ve lived south of Houston my whole life. Never been to this mall. I’m sure you’re well aware of how saturated Houston is/was with malls, and since the 80s, there’s really been no reason to go to guns point. I am really looking forward to this season!
Pretty amazing story and tour - thanks! The older you get (I'm 60 now) the more you get into nostalgia from your HS and college days. I was a 20 year old engineering intern in 1984 from Michigan on an assignment with a Houston company (alternated semesters between school and working). Lived about 5 miles down the road, where Halliburton's N Campus is located today at 3000 Sam Houston PKWY (worked for a company called NL Industries). First visited this mall in Jan 1984 and it was still a very nice place to hang out, hit the arcade, watch a movie, or eat. Went to this mall dozens of times during my three internships. Sadly, it wasn't just the general decline of malls that killed this place, but, as you said in the video, the flop house style apartments that were built (instead of townhomes, which would have been the right choice) in the area. Celebrated my 22 BDay at a deli-style restaurant at this very mall in Summer '85. Years later, I heard about the off-duty policewoman being kidnappped and killed but didn't hear about taxi driver. Saw a lot of movies with other interns at the original theatre there. Didn't realize it was just one year after I left (1986) that the police were having stings to catch car thieves. Good thing I drove a rusted out Granada. Never felt worried going in 84 or 85, but was always with a group of interns.
Good video, nicely informative. I remember seeing that glass entrance all the time in car rides on the nearby freeways. It was near the interchange of I-45 and the Sam Houston Tollway. A quick note - Joske's was pronounced with two syllables - Josk-ees.
Wow. What a trip down memory lane. We lived about 10 minutes south of Greenspoint Mall. Spent so much time there in the 70's and 80's. That area was a great place to grow up during those days. But by the 90's things were starting to go downhill. Now that area resembles nothing of those days. So sad now.
In the late '90s, I went with a friend and her sister to this mall. The sister wanted to go to some store for some special clothes or something. I remember walking in and within 2 minutes saw a group of guys all wearing the same shade of red walking together. My friend and I both looked at each other and we hung out right by that entrance until her sister came back.
In Dec 2006 I joined a company called KBR and flew to Houston where in Greens Point Mall they had a large section of the mall as an employee processing center. Was that the part that got demolished to build the new cinema?. While there I went to Sears where I got some craftsman tools that I still use today. I am from the UK and it was my one and only visit to the USA. I met some very odd people who seemed to have a poor grasp of speaking clear English.
Northcdogg.. 🎉 what a stunning mall that you've documented in that of the greenspoint mall. But I think in this case that vintage pictures of what the mall looked like was the epitome of creativity which included that musical water display. Dude without saying anything, the part when you was on the Dillard's side, you could just see the heat scorching the surrounding as you walked through, in some instances the light shining from those gorgeous skylights seemed glaring. Kinda reminiscent of valley view mall Texas, as you drove around, showing a parking lot turned into like a housing or mixed use development, and it seems like valley view, the mall will be demolished in portions while it remains open I'm assuming. Also when you walked through the not so secure gated off area, those small flags hanging up, to the colors of i think purple and red, are those similar to what draped the center courtyard of the abandoned and now partially demolished carousel mall in San Bernardino. Truly sad seeing such a huge place so empty. That children's ride definitely deserved to be in your Halloween special 😂
I don't have to imagine what it was like, I remember it. A lot of Friday nights in my childhood were spent here with my parents. Many many haircuts received in the Visible Changes there.
Please come to the Massena NY 13662 mall. It died an unhealthy dealth. At one time the mall had so many restaurants and shops and now the food court is gone and they walled a good section of the mall. There was Ames there and they closed. Sears is gone and only one anchor store is J.C. Penny. There was a pet store at one time and my store was there and that was Radio Shack and now they are a online store. Steve & Barry was in the old Ames store. There's a strip mall called Harte Haven and so many from the mall came here. There's a all you can eat Chinese restaurant and Price Chopper Supermarket took over where PNC once stood. Even Radio Shack was in the strip mall. There's a multiplex movie theater. At one time this was The Jamesway Mall. There's a Dollar Tree store and Rent to own and a Sherman Williams store there. The store that was Radio Shack is now AT&T. Come visit us here in Massena NY
I remember coming here in the early 2000s as a kid, I have lived down the street from Greenspoint Mall since I was 3, so that was the spot my parents or family would take myself and my cousins. It wasn't an extravagant mall with a lot of people, but there were still a lot of stores in operation and plenty of food places and an arcade. My aunts were in high school in the early 2000s so my grandparents had them take us with them every time they went to the mall. Irresponsibly, they would leave myself and my cousin at the jungle gym so they could go shop since they knew we would be knocking ourselves out at the jungle gym. Those were very fun times, going with my mom to Dillards and Sears. In fact, my mom enlisted to the Army at that very recruiting office. God, it hurts to see my childhood just... deteriorate like this.
I live about 15 minutes north of the mall, and I HONESTLY HAD NO IDEA THE MALL WAS STILL OPEN ... I know there is a fitness center on the west side of the mall (facing the I-45 freeway), but I did not know the mall itself was still open. The mall is so close to major freeways and the airport, that it is shameful that crime has run off so much business and retail. HOWEVER, that is a great opportunity, Here are some options: 1) Turn it into a giant laser tag center (alternative, paintball) ... make sure players are using laser tag guns and not real machine guns! 2) Indoor park with splashpark (it looks like it has a few old fountains ... convert them!) 3) Make each old 'store' into luxury apartments and control access-probably not viable, but it would kinda be cool to live in an old mall if it was safe and clean (people would kill for all that square footage ... wait, maybe killing for it is not the verbiage I want to use here) 4) Year-round Monster Jam (monster truck) exhibition space-not sure if there is ceiling clearance space for that ... heck, I'm not an engineer! 4) Indoor food truck park with entertainment space. 5) Giant roller rink ... c'mon ... you know that is great idea! Okay, so those are just my thoughts. Great video. Thanks for reppin' Houston (even if this mall is not one held in such high esteem). Peace. ☮
Wow that was awesome. Having been to Houston many times in the 90's the name was familiar to me. Something tells me I may have went into one of the stores on the way back to Dallas and bought some really cheap running shoes that were really BAD AS IN CHEAP.. It amazes me how violent some of the criminal activity can take place at malls. Not always a safe place to be.
This mall is a time capsule & beauty! I love coming here just to admire it, and have never had a problem. You captured it so marvelously! I just wonder how you managed to venture into the closed/empty areas?
This might be out of your budget for now, but have you seen the new Meta/Facebook and Ray-Ban collaboration to make the camera glasses? Imagine if you could walk around in here without anyone who isn't paying extremely close attention noticing you are filming!
Honestly I live in Houston and I didnt even know Greenspoint was closed, like I avoid that side of town completely, along with everything south, southwest and east. Greenspoint was always a dump but it only got worse and worse.
Love the video. I always get excited when it's my state in a video, even though im not in this area anymore. I last visited this mall about 10 years ago when my job had me staying at a hotel near there for training. It definitely felt like gunspoint. Didn't feel safe. My truck was broken in to. It was rough. Crazy to see how much more Its gone downhill since i was there. Your next mall sounds like maybe Pasadena.
It was indeed, worth the wait
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@@Oceanblue_Art_ this video came out after cdogg made a post saying this video would take more time. The end result was a good video.
We used to love going there.
Whilst watching this I had a moment of realisation. For time in itself. 2 years ago I watched a video on this mall, it was when I was preparing for my daughters birth. She's sadly passed away since, from her health condition, bless her. Though now, 2 years later when looking at the old musical plants near the old luggage shop I realised I was in the same place where I was back then. Now I'm preparing for my 2nd son to be born in December, my daughter was born in January. It showed me how tired and sad I am, time only moves forward. What an eye opener. Thank you for this video. It unlocked a rich memory of mine. This is why I love your channel ❤
Great video. I remember in the 70s Houston used to be THE place to be back when Bum Phillips was the coach for the Houston oilers and Earl Campbell was their star running back. Now Houston is known for being a crime ridden chit hole city. I hate when once cool places decay like that.
I visited this mall in 2005 while fleeing Hurricane Katrina. It was struggling then. I remember a closing Champs Sports and Subway as about the only place to eat.
This shit depresses me, I remember skipping school with my friends and we’d go there all the time, I remember the food court was still open around 2015, the mall wasn’t completely dead, and I remember going to Macys with my gf at the time and buying clothes, going to champs and journeys to buy sneakers, I remember the huge movie theater it had, I have distant memories of there being an arcade by the food court entrance as well, it depresses me so much how dead that mall has become, that mall was my childhood and my early teenage years, I feel like the mall didn’t stand a chance once Macys and the movie theater closed down. It hurts me. I made so many great memories there, anyway, didn’t try to get all sentimental and corny and shit lmfao, just wish this mall didn’t ended up the way it did. The mall looks so unique too compared to willowbrook, deerbrook, woodlands, the mall looks very retro and has that 70s-80s futuristic architecture.
I used to work at the arcade back in 06, it was called Tilt, man so many memories 😢
I grew up near this area. We have called this area Gunspoint since the mid late 80’s. Most of us moved on to shop at Deerbrook Mall in Humble.
Humble has one of the worst crime rates in the state.
We still call it gunspoint
I grew up in Humble,and I went to Nimitz,and My cousin grew in Camden Park,and went to Westfield,but he lived between Greenspoint,and Williowbrook,and one day we went to Greenspoint last in the summer time 2002,and it was when it going down hill since. We would go to Deerbrook for the movies,and now Deerbrook is starting to be like Greenspoint.
@@melissas4874 Damn
@@TheArsenalTruexGalaxyPodcast I lived in Rushwood and went to Westfield. Also grew up playing soccer at the fields at Nimitz.
My mom and I would shop this mall every weekend! The still pictures of the corridors looking like a tropical paradise from the late 80's/early 90's full of green trees. The whole mall echoed with the sounds of waterfalling and spacious ambient sound.
This little video just unlocked a little bit of my childhood for me, ty!
I visited yesterday more stores are gone including the African imports shop which moved and the finish line closed the mall feels extremely creepy also the foot locker is gone
First of all, well done. It has been a long while since someone did a high-quality update on the mall. Greenspoint Mall is in dire shape now.
You almost revealed all of the hidden areas of Greenspoint. The vacant Sears corridor has about 5 stores and a red tile storefront hidden behind the drywall where you first went after the food court. In fact, the old Sears exterior has lots of corners and door frames covered in red tiles from the 1970's that were painted over in the 90's. A lot of tiles are falling off of the building now, so you can get a souvenir. One of the stores down that Sears corridor is a long-closed Woolworth Express that was walled off once the store closed in the 90's.
The old JCPenney entrance had the children's play area in front until they shut it down. Then they put up the drywall that you could see near Thirstys.
It is good that you went during our long drought this Summer. A lot of those stained spots on the floor are probably wet again. Me and my family started going to this mall in 1986, and I still go in 2023. This mall was hurt by the openings of Willowbrook then Deerbrook Mall, the mortal wound was the Woodlands Mall just as the area was beginning the 1990's decline. Greenspoint was a very strong mall until about the mid 90's when anchors started dropping like flies. Sears, Dillard's, and Macy's all downsized their stores and closed off the second levels before they all ultimately closed.
Life is not all bad at the mall. On some nights, people show off their cars. There are several carnivals each year in the parking lot. Fitness Connection is a very busy gym. Brand new townhomes are being built practically next to the old Sears. The old Sears is being used as material storage for the new development, so I was able to peek inside one day when they opened the doors to move materials.
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You brought back some memories in your comments.🥲 I had forgotten about that Woolworth Express! I used to go rummaging around in there to kill some time before going to work. There also used to be a Piccadilly Cafeteria in this mall as well; I had lunch there quite a bit since it was so close by the store I worked in. Memories.🥰🔥♥️
I remember when this mall was brand new and it was certainly the place to be in north Houston in the seventies and eighties. I saw Star Wars A New Hope, and the Empire Strikes Back in the theater there. I even worked at the Montgomery Ward there for about a year or so in ‘79 - ‘80. Signs of decline began in the late eighties and they refurbished it with all the muted pastel tiles you can still see today. I left Houston for another career move and the slow but steady decline continued all the way through the nineties. I visited there from out of state in 2000, and I can tell you, it was a very sketchy place to be, even back then. By the way, you did a very good job on the history of the place.
In the late 2000’s KBR ran a hiring and initiation center in the Montgomery Ward end of the mall . The hiring was for work in Iraq. I was there for 10 days .
The mall is definitely dead when a GNC can’t be found or a church moves in. Not knocking churches at malls.
Even the gnc and army recruiting center left lmao
@@soullessprincess6473You know it’s bad when an army recruiting center leaves in a low income area.
Yep, I can't think of a mall that doesn't have a GNC in it.
I personally do not take offence to the church comment. By coincidence the pastor that presented the gospel to me is the pastor of a church that bought a former strip mall. (Calvary Phoenix). In the last 10 years or so I have seen more churches rent from strip malls in dead areas and thought this whole dead mall trend would be a great way for churches to negotiate rental prices as these land owners need to have at least some revenue coming in.
Looks like Greenspoint is officially done. A news story came out earlier today. The tenants of the mall have until July 31st to get their items out of the mall. The document shows the date of closure as June 30th, but several reviews from this week show the mall as still being open.
That’s what brought me to this video
Wait, there were still tenants there as of 2024??
@carlossaldana1626 Yes, about a dozen. Jimmy Jazz was the last chain store left.
@@jeee1074 that’s wild. Thanks for the info. I drive by there often and always thought it was completely dead. It was a pretty cool place once upon a time.
@@csaldana1989me and my friends snuck into it yesterday and it’s straight up back room vibes
Man o man, the light pink and blue interior brings me back, the KBToys where i picked up all things WWF, the Casa Olé where we ate like kings, or picked up pizza from brothers pizza in the food court, to the F.Y.E, Sam goody and blockbuster music store. Playing games at the Tilt, or trying to haggle prices for a nice silver piece and chain, i LOVE Greenspoint mall and even though this is a bit saddening, i appreciate all the memories i have of this once great place. GREAT WORK 👍 👌 👍 H-TOWN BABY 🤘🤘🤘
I completed 3 four-month engineering internships for NL Industries in Houston in 1984 and 85. From Michigan, so being in Houston was really nice. I went to this mall with other interns so many times. Brothers (Bro's as we called it) Pizza was a favorite stop, along with Dillards, which we didn't have in Michigan. NL's HQ was just about 5 miles down the road where Halliburton's North Campus exists today - this was great place for a weekend stop if the weather was hot or just a rainy day. The mall seemed safe back then. at least for a group of 21 year olds. The area around the mall, though, seemed to have a lot of lower rent apartments - not sure if that's why the area eventually got its nickname. Sometime in the early 90s, I talked to a truck driver from Houston who told me he wouldn't go back to the mall because an off-duty policewoman had been carjacked in the parking lot. Favorite store was some kind of deli that had foreign foods too and beer!
Don't forget the Radio Shack. Great place to go play with gadgets. I also got my first computer from there around 1984.
Man you are seriously one of my favorite channels, you managed to document all or most of my local malls and now I'm able to see other people's versions of the same thing. Every one of these videos evokes an intense feeling of mono no aware and other emotions I can't quite describe. I've never been to this mall, never even knew it existed, but somehow I feel like I was just there a few days ago. These surrealist feelings are so neat.
I believe malls like Greenspoint just envoke a very primal nostalgic feeling in all of us, it’s almost like we’re looking back into our memories in these malls.. Paired with the right music and sometimes you can almost recreate those memories. It’s a really beautiful feeling I like sharing with you all! Thank you for watching!
I remember when Greenspoint Mall opened. I spent a lot of time there in the 70s and 80s.
It's funny how well the plants are all doing, unattended.
Yeah, that's how humid Houston is and how roofs everywhere leak because of storms!
I can’t believe this mall is still open to the public. Once it became “gunspoint” mall, forget it. So many malls died because of crime. If looked like an amazing mall in its heyday. It opened a month before I was born. I’m really glad that this video came together. It’s definitely a mall with a sad history.
Drive past this mall almost everyday during my commute up to the Woodlands. This area is still pretty rough but if you go about 12 minutes further east up Beltway 8, you get to some nicer suburbs again near the Fall Creek/Summerwood/Kingwood area. I’ve always wanted to go and explore what’s left of Greenspoint Mall, but as a woman, I’m a bit leery of it.
My childhood mall just had a shooting at it yesterday, and I fear that mall will basically meet the same fate as this one cause of crime. I was just there on Saturday, around the same time. If I went Sunday instead, I would have been at the shooting that just occurred.
Even at my more recent, local mall, my uncle used to be a firefighter chief and would tell me that there are SOOOO many crimes that would happen at this mall at night, and the city would do everything to cover them up so it can preserve a "pristine" image.
I'll never forget the two kids who got themselves killed Christmas eve '91 over a freaking Houston Oilers Starter jacket
Back in Elementary School in the late 90s we would have field trips to this mall for chior. It was so busy and so much fun as a child. Its so sad how times change 😢
We even skipped the nearest mall (Deerbrook Mall) and go to this one for the field trip. We came from Huffman.
What's this I here a new dead malls video, well boy howdy here I am
Hope you enjoy!
@@NorthCdogg22heyo :)
Texas much?
best dead mall channel on youtube love your videos thank you
Thank you man!
Keep up the good work man all the seasons are great keep it up!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you!
Yooo, season 6 off already? I remember the wait for season 5 was excruciating lol glad too see it
Hope you enjoy it!
You are great at presenting these dead malls thank you!
Thanks Lisa!
HEY I'M HERE.
I seriously can't believe that thumbnail this place is a wilderness
It really is!!
I’m so incredibly excited for this season. I grew up in the Houston area so this is really going to hit close to home. I even plan to visit GreensPoint mall around thanksgiving since I will be visiting family for the holiday. I think I’ll record my experience there so it should be a lot of fun.
Uh....did you watch the video?
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Love the „expedition“ style, including the footage from driving up to the mall. Really builds up excitement (in a relaxed way) 😊. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
I needed this tonight! Very excited to watch!😊
Oh man, I live probably 20 minutes from Greenspoint Mall. I can assure you people still call it “gunspoint” even today and there’s a sort of stigma surrounding the mall that’s hard to explain as anything other than “it’s ghetto”.
I do remember as a kid in the early 2000s it was still doing decently ok, my mom would shop at the Foley’s and Dillard’s for clothes and home goods. I remember walking up to the old Montgomery Ward entrance outside and it still looked like it was just closed (By this point it had only been vacant for like 3 or 4 years).
My how times change. Last time I visited the mall, the Macy’s was having their liquidation sale and I got a whole bunch of stuff for real cheap. It’s sad to see the mall so dead, but I knew it was going to happen eventually, the 90s and 00s weren’t nice to that mall. Once Deerbrook, Willowbrook, and The Woodlands malls opened, it was basically the kiss of death for Greenspoint.
I used to go to this mall when I was a kid, I remember there being holloween events and Christmas ones too. I still remember the movie theater, the old arcade and jungle Jim lol.
I don’t remember when the arcade left but I was young maybe around 12 and soon after the food court started fading little by little. My last going there was around 2018 when the movie theater was still active. It was the only thing keeping the mall alive until Covid happened. Had some good memories there lol
The movie theater was great; new, clean, and never full. Used to take the kids there because the matinee prices were so cheap. But avoided going into the mall as most good stores had left.
Awesome video, I used to go to the nearby welding school near greenspoint and still was refrenced as gunspoint mall by all most everyone in the school. As my curiousity increased of greenspoint mall I decided to vist and explore the mall. Altough I wasnt brave of exploring the closed off areas, The vibes from the mall really made me feel nostalgic of a time when i wasnt even born (if that makes sense). Looking back I wish I actually paid attencion to some areas where you visted and at least brought something from thirstys when i visted. So I really appreciate this video as not only as a reminder of the history of the past, but rather the importance of time its self.
You know your mall is dead when there is not a bath and body works in site (assuming there was one)
There was! And it was indeed abandoned😂
@@NorthCdogg22closed like 10 years ago and the Victoria secret
I lived in Spring in the 90s. One time an HPD officer was shot at Gunspoint. I was at the intersection of 1960 and Kuykendahl and literally 20 police, sheriffs, constables, etc came from all directions and turned south on Kuykendahl. It was nuts.
I live like 30 mins north of there and I remember in the 90s and early 2000s when that place was bumpin' and always crowded and a bit safer than it is now. It was so hard to find a parking space. You had to park like literally 2 blocks away in the lot, it was that busy. I drove past there a few days ago and it looked so dead. I haven't been there since like '95 or so and it for sure slowly died over the last 2 decades. So sad. But that for sure is not a safe area to be especially at night. When the sun goes down, (whispers) you go down.
It’s crazy to imagine, and even picture what it would’ve been like filled up like that! Sounds so bizarre..
@@NorthCdogg22 Going from what I remember, to how it is now, is a complete shock. Where I live we have an Outlet mall that opened in 1994 and for the first decade it was crazy busy, you almost could never park there and you'd have to drive around for 20 minutes just to find a spot and most of the time when you got to it, it was already taken. Then in the late 2000's early 2010s it was starting to not be so busy. And for the last 10 years, it's only been a couple of stores here and there. It's crazy what changing demographics and online shopping can do to places. There's also The Woodlands Mall that opened in 1993 and it's busier now there it's ever been. So many things have been added around to it, including urban growth, that during the day and even at night, it gets crazy busy around there. Go figure.
Met a security guard at the crossroads mall in waterloo who said he saw you filming in the mall. I told him i follow this channel on my phone and hes like i know him. Lol 😆 I was taking a picture of the Sam goody floor sign and he approached me. Nice guy. He was ok with me taking the photo. 😂
Sounds like a fun encounter! Cool security gaurds are always a win🙏
@@NorthCdogg22if I would've been filming he would've had me stop or leave 😂 long conversation 😂😂
I worked across the street from this mall for several years in the late 90s, early 2000s and it was pretty much dead even then. We would go there for lunch and surprisingly the food court was usually quite busy - I guess alot of people who worked in the office buildings around there would walk over for lunch like us. It was probably the only thing keeping the mall afloat at that point, because NOBODY would step foot in the mall after business hours.
Truth
Yep. Lat time I was there was in 1991 or so.
This makes me sad. This place was a staple of my childhood.
Good Job! Thanks for coming through!! Can’t wait to watch
Why is it still open? There have been creepy hunan trefeking rumors about that place
Another great one. The pipe fountain would have been neat to see and hear. The neons were cool to see also what was left. You always pick the best music. Thanks
Thanks for watching Seabee! Glad you liked it!
Desert Sand's music is perfectly made for this content
This was hard to watch because this was a mall I visited in college and during a long ago job on that side of the city. Mostly what I remember are dim (but crowded) corridors, a really nice Foley's (that became Macy's) and that food court, which was a great gossipy respite from a tense office job. Also, a two story, poorly lit play area that looked like a blast. Great video!
Another excellent dead mall exploration! Great job, fantastic narration. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I used to go to greenspoint mall many times as a family . Getting my school uniform , eating at cici's , playing at the playground , going to the CD store, eating at the food court and seeing a movie . I miss those days .. especially just walking around with my old best friend . We didnt have to buy anything it was just fun being there
Great song choice. That album is wonderful
This mall…the whole “Gunspoint” area…still terrifies me!
I went into this mall as a kid and later as a adult a few times dont know what I was thinking lol
NRE
I remember that area was the place to be
It's 100% true too
Maybe I’m just lucky but every time I’ve gone to Greenspoint, I have never felt unsafe there. I felt like I’ve been to yet another impoverished area that Houston doesn’t care about no more. I feel like this whole “Gunspoint” shit instilled unnecessary fear into people because this isn’t even the worst area in Houston. River Oaks is actually more dangerous than Greenspoint. But 🤷🏽♀️
insane part of this mall was still open
It officially closed around July of this year. Which isn’t surprising 🗿
Oh man, a brand-new NorthC!! This is gonna be a good night!
Hope you liked it!
@@NorthCdogg22 t'was another phenomenal watch! Top notch, as always, my friend! The craziest part about it, was that I had watched another video on this mall, a while back. But I didn't even realize it was the same mall, until you mentioned the infamous "Gunspoint" nickname! It was already dying when I saw it in the first video. But there were still areas of life. In your video though, it is, very sadly already dead and rotting. And it blew my mind-and broke my heart-to see that this mall has spiraled SO badly, in so short a time, as to become completely unrecognizable. I would have LOVED to have seen that musical fountain, to have heard it chime!! I wish there was video of it!! Also, one last thing, I just wanted to say how awesome I think it is, that a young man like yourself has such an interest in this subject. If I could, I would take you back in time, and show you around my childhood malls, in their heyday. Thank you for these wonderful, incredibly informative videos, and the work and research you put into them! You're one of the only creators who really tells the mall's history so completely, and I absolutely love it! I don't have any idea where your next one will be (sorry, lol), but I know I can't wait!!
@northcdogg22 Excellent Video! Well worth the extra effort you put into it. I'm glad you brought up the topic of "The Backrooms." This mall definitely reminds me of a Backrooms atmosphere. Thumbs Way Up!!!
Thanks for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
It sounds like you will be at Pasadena Town Square Mall next, so many fond memories of working at Dillards and growing up going to that mall.
Fun fact; All the remaining planter islands peppered throughout Greenspoint mall were originally twice as big and were water features that got reused as planters. The one up closest to what was a Piccadilly's Cafeteria was a great big water gong thing, just like those bamboo water xylophone in Japanese gardens but scaled way up, with metal chimes.. And boy was that the mall's attraction! It understandably got turned off in the very early-mid 80's, it WAS super annoying to employees and was converted to a wishing pond with koi, and eventually filled in. You could hear the damn thing from Northbelt coming into the parking lot!
Another great video that was well worth the wait! I still can't believe I saw it while driving to and from the airport only a month or so ago! Similar to you lol, I just wondered what was inside for the longest time. This mall is like The Orchards Mall in MI you visited, but 10x the backrooms and broken tiles. I can't wait to see the next Texas mall you have in store! 🎉🤩
I’m excited to show you all what’s in store! Thanks for watching!
I worked at that mall in the old Houston Trunk Factory, I was there in the late eighties, is was rapidly changing even then. Thanks for reminding me, great video!
You went to Gunspoint! Word around Houston is that it’ll be at least another 20 years before that area even begins to rebound economically, assuming oil and gas doesn’t have another boom/bust cycle before then.
Wow!. I grew up going to this mall. This was the first mall that I ever knew. Not long after my family moved to the area where Willowbrook Mall was built, we also started going there. I have not been to Greenspoint since around 2012 or so. My wife and I just went there to see how bad it had gotten. It was bad then, but your video showcases Greenspoint Mall's even further decline. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.
Wow. The tiles that are all rusty and dirty is really sad, along with the entire mall dying. Great video, as always!
Good to see you back mate, great way to start the day
Thanks!
Yet another beautiful video that brings me back to a better, simpler time. If you ever come to Washington state, these malls would surprise you. Some of them are going down hill while others thrive. Location location location haha. Considering I-5 is a major corridor, these malls(including the Tacoma Mall) just never stop thriving. Finding parking is still a pain at the Tacoma mall as well as South Hill mall lol. Also, I don't want my car to be broken into, stolen, or get robbed at gunpoint haha.
Oh wowsers your in my hometown greens point is 23 mins away from me. Crazy interesting
. Soo neat ❤❤. Other places in town that are lonely , almeda northwest mall, San jacinto Mall and West oaks mall are literally empty too
Grew up near Greenspoint, used to work at Dillard’s. Saw the mall’s decline firsthand.
Beautiful intro music! Great job.
Thank you very much!
Awesome! And great soundtrack. Love it.
Thanks!
Great great video as always. Simply unbelievable. Reminds me of rolling acres mall. It should be torn down.
i remember going here with my dad all the time, we would go mainly for the movie theater but would walk around the mall after or before the movie started. good memories
I started going to Greenspoint mall when it first opened. It was nice. Then it started getting bad in th 90s. An off duty female deputy sheriff was kidnapped from there. They found her body days later. Case is still unsolved.
In February 2021 I attended CHCP (The College of Healthcare Professions when it was still there and graduated in September 2021. At this time the mall was completely closed but the school was still completely functional and a couple hundred students attended. During the end of my time at CHCP maybe around August, the Houston police department let the students into the mall to help their SWAT team do some active shooter training in the old Macy’s. Our professors and some police department staff gave us cards with our “injuries” on them and told us all to spread out throughout the Macys and act as if we were injured. There were about 50-75 students playing these parts in a dimly lit Macys with only construction lamps planted through the retail floor. The SWAT team was only instructed to clear the building from the mall side entrance that this guy in the video entered through and make sure the building was clear all the way to the loading dock on the south east side of the mall. It was a pretty cool experience but looking back, it’s pretty crazy how dead silent the macys was and at this time untouched. Since that day and the day this video was taken, there has definitely been a lot of vandalism but I look forward to this concrete jungle eyesore to be torn down.
The oil glut/crash began in 1983. I left the notorious boom and bust oil business forever. Fortunately, I was still young and persued a new career in telecommunications, that lasted for 35 years until retirement.
I've been there a couple of years back. It was nerve racing at first, but it turned out to be sad. I didn't go through any doors like you & Sal did. Yet, it was an experience. Things were still open at the time. Not anymore. I'll put a video out soon.
Would like to see it!
@@NorthCdogg22 I'll let you know when I do
Thank you for filming! I enjoyed the history.
Sounds like Almeda Mall is next. I did not expect you to be in Houston for season six, so awesome. I’ve lived south of Houston my whole life. Never been to this mall. I’m sure you’re well aware of how saturated Houston is/was with malls, and since the 80s, there’s really been no reason to go to guns point. I am really looking forward to this season!
Your really gonna like it! Lots of cool and fun malls coming up!
I loved this video, like all the other content you create, keep up the great work, I'm so excited for season 6!!!
Thank you!
Pretty amazing story and tour - thanks! The older you get (I'm 60 now) the more you get into nostalgia from your HS and college days. I was a 20 year old engineering intern in 1984 from Michigan on an assignment with a Houston company (alternated semesters between school and working). Lived about 5 miles down the road, where Halliburton's N Campus is located today at 3000 Sam Houston PKWY (worked for a company called NL Industries). First visited this mall in Jan 1984 and it was still a very nice place to hang out, hit the arcade, watch a movie, or eat. Went to this mall dozens of times during my three internships. Sadly, it wasn't just the general decline of malls that killed this place, but, as you said in the video, the flop house style apartments that were built (instead of townhomes, which would have been the right choice) in the area. Celebrated my 22 BDay at a deli-style restaurant at this very mall in Summer '85. Years later, I heard about the off-duty policewoman being kidnappped and killed but didn't hear about taxi driver. Saw a lot of movies with other interns at the original theatre there. Didn't realize it was just one year after I left (1986) that the police were having stings to catch car thieves. Good thing I drove a rusted out Granada. Never felt worried going in 84 or 85, but was always with a group of interns.
Good video, nicely informative. I remember seeing that glass entrance all the time in car rides on the nearby freeways. It was near the interchange of I-45 and the Sam Houston Tollway. A quick note - Joske's was pronounced with two syllables - Josk-ees.
It would’ve been dope if you went inside the theatre! Nice video!
Wow. What a trip down memory lane. We lived about 10 minutes south of Greenspoint Mall. Spent so much time there in the 70's and 80's. That area was a great place to grow up during those days. But by the 90's things were starting to go downhill. Now that area resembles nothing of those days. So sad now.
What an awesome channel!!!
thank you!
In the late '90s, I went with a friend and her sister to this mall. The sister wanted to go to some store for some special clothes or something. I remember walking in and within 2 minutes saw a group of guys all wearing the same shade of red walking together. My friend and I both looked at each other and we hung out right by that entrance until her sister came back.
I love this mall! The aesthetics are nice! So many blocked off wings. Backrooms feeling
In Dec 2006 I joined a company called KBR and flew to Houston where in Greens Point Mall they had a large section of the mall as an employee processing center. Was that the part that got demolished to build the new cinema?. While there I went to Sears where I got some craftsman tools that I still use today. I am from the UK and it was my one and only visit to the USA. I met some very odd people who seemed to have a poor grasp of speaking clear English.
Woo! You got it out!! ❤ Sounds good too! Thank you
Northcdogg.. 🎉 what a stunning mall that you've documented in that of the greenspoint mall. But I think in this case that vintage pictures of what the mall looked like was the epitome of creativity which included that musical water display. Dude without saying anything, the part when you was on the Dillard's side, you could just see the heat scorching the surrounding as you walked through, in some instances the light shining from those gorgeous skylights seemed glaring. Kinda reminiscent of valley view mall Texas, as you drove around, showing a parking lot turned into like a housing or mixed use development, and it seems like valley view, the mall will be demolished in portions while it remains open I'm assuming. Also when you walked through the not so secure gated off area, those small flags hanging up, to the colors of i think purple and red, are those similar to what draped the center courtyard of the abandoned and now partially demolished carousel mall in San Bernardino. Truly sad seeing such a huge place so empty. That children's ride definitely deserved to be in your Halloween special 😂
I so miss the malls as they were back in the day.
Nice to see this mall is still looking the same since when I went here a few years ago!
you should start another series called “alive malls” haha
I don't have to imagine what it was like, I remember it. A lot of Friday nights in my childhood were spent here with my parents. Many many haircuts received in the Visible Changes there.
Great Video North! Love it keep up the work!!!!
Thanks Chris!
Thank you for this! Remember to look after yourself in the process.
Please come to the Massena NY 13662 mall.
It died an unhealthy dealth. At one time the mall had so many restaurants and shops and now the food court is gone and they walled a good section of the mall.
There was Ames there and they closed. Sears is gone and only one anchor store is J.C. Penny. There was a pet store at one time and my store was there and that was Radio Shack and now they are a online store. Steve & Barry was in the old Ames store.
There's a strip mall called Harte Haven and so many from the mall came here.
There's a all you can eat Chinese restaurant and Price Chopper Supermarket took over where PNC once stood.
Even Radio Shack was in the strip mall. There's a multiplex movie theater.
At one time this was The Jamesway Mall. There's a Dollar Tree store and Rent to own and a Sherman Williams store there.
The store that was Radio Shack is now AT&T.
Come visit us here in Massena NY
I’ll definitely check into it! I’ve wanted to make a NY trip recently
I remember coming here in the early 2000s as a kid, I have lived down the street from Greenspoint Mall since I was 3, so that was the spot my parents or family would take myself and my cousins. It wasn't an extravagant mall with a lot of people, but there were still a lot of stores in operation and plenty of food places and an arcade. My aunts were in high school in the early 2000s so my grandparents had them take us with them every time they went to the mall. Irresponsibly, they would leave myself and my cousin at the jungle gym so they could go shop since they knew we would be knocking ourselves out at the jungle gym. Those were very fun times, going with my mom to Dillards and Sears. In fact, my mom enlisted to the Army at that very recruiting office. God, it hurts to see my childhood just... deteriorate like this.
I live about 15 minutes north of the mall, and I HONESTLY HAD NO IDEA THE MALL WAS STILL OPEN ... I know there is a fitness center on the west side of the mall (facing the I-45 freeway), but I did not know the mall itself was still open.
The mall is so close to major freeways and the airport, that it is shameful that crime has run off so much business and retail.
HOWEVER, that is a great opportunity,
Here are some options:
1) Turn it into a giant laser tag center (alternative, paintball) ... make sure players are using laser tag guns and not real machine guns!
2) Indoor park with splashpark (it looks like it has a few old fountains ... convert them!)
3) Make each old 'store' into luxury apartments and control access-probably not viable, but it would kinda be cool to live in an old mall if it was safe and clean (people would kill for all that square footage ... wait, maybe killing for it is not the verbiage I want to use here)
4) Year-round Monster Jam (monster truck) exhibition space-not sure if there is ceiling clearance space for that ... heck, I'm not an engineer!
4) Indoor food truck park with entertainment space.
5) Giant roller rink ... c'mon ... you know that is great idea!
Okay, so those are just my thoughts.
Great video.
Thanks for reppin' Houston (even if this mall is not one held in such high esteem). Peace. ☮
Wow that was awesome. Having been to Houston many times in the 90's the name was familiar to me. Something tells me I may have went into one of the stores on the way back to Dallas and bought some really cheap running shoes that were really BAD AS IN CHEAP.. It amazes me how violent some of the criminal activity can take place at malls. Not always a safe place to be.
Once it got the “gunsport” nick name it was over for this place
This mall is a time capsule & beauty! I love coming here just to admire it, and have never had a problem. You captured it so marvelously! I just wonder how you managed to venture into the closed/empty areas?
This might be out of your budget for now, but have you seen the new Meta/Facebook and Ray-Ban collaboration to make the camera glasses? Imagine if you could walk around in here without anyone who isn't paying extremely close attention noticing you are filming!
Honestly I live in Houston and I didnt even know Greenspoint was closed, like I avoid that side of town completely, along with everything south, southwest and east. Greenspoint was always a dump but it only got worse and worse.
It's happening!!!! 😁
Welcome to Gunspoint Mall. 😉
Wow!!! Just started the episode! And before watching I bought a DS that I’m gonna restore
Sounds cool!!
surreal mall ...
awesome to see u here
Do you have Dallas/Ft Worth in your plans? There is a mall in Lewisville you just gotta see!
You know it! I have a few of the really good ones from the area!
Love the video. I always get excited when it's my state in a video, even though im not in this area anymore.
I last visited this mall about 10 years ago when my job had me staying at a hotel near there for training.
It definitely felt like gunspoint. Didn't feel safe. My truck was broken in to. It was rough.
Crazy to see how much more Its gone downhill since i was there.
Your next mall sounds like maybe Pasadena.
Great video. Thanks.