Do You Remember Laguna Hills Mall?
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2022
- Laguna Hills Mall was a shopping mall in Laguna Hills, California, in southern Orange County that is being redeveloped by the owners as Five Lagunas. The enclosed mall closed on December 31, 2018 and will be demolished. The exterior stores remain open. New retail, a movie theater, apartments, and a parking structure are currently planned to replace the old mall structure
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My friends and I would take the OCTD bus from Laguna Beach to play at the arcade here! It was called TILT. Best arcade, It had black fuzzy walls and was dark and cavernous inside and smelled of hot video game circuits and candy. I got my ear pierced in this mall! There was a Shakey's Pizza that made a good pepperoni pie with big pitchers of ice cold coca-cola with the little round ice that my family and I would share and enjoy on a rare night out together. 1980's mall culture was golden.
that is awesome, thanks for sharing that nice memory
No way…used to go out to LH mall when I used to live out there. Totally forgot about this property after moving away. Interesting to see how the area changed over time and plans for redevelopment! It’s almost like seeing a friend after moving away a couple of decades ago and seeing each other again today while catching up over coffee. Appreciate you helping to set that up for us, Eric!
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TILT arcade was legendary! Played Dragon's Lair many times there in the late 80's.
this was my mall from middle school to high school in the 2000s. RIP.
My grandma used to take me here back in mid-late 2000s
I have many memories of this mall in the early to late 2000s. I remember me and my friends would go there after school during our junior/senior years. 🥲
thanks for sharing your memories
I remember going there as a kid. I found this video because I was searching for the mall to see if it was still there.
I believe it was torn down now
Dang didn’t know this mall closed. Moved away from OC in 2017, but actually stop visiting this mall a decade prior. Cool video.
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I really think when malls are planned they should be building parking lots underneath while the top can be walkable and pedestrian friendly not to mention. Society has a problem called sprawl where they overpopulate the area with houses they should build mixed use while the mountainside can be hiking trails or parks I'm sure if laguna hills mall planned underground parking before they would've still been alive today sadly online shopping has ruined society I can't believe this mall closed use to shop there a few times with my parents now we pass by when we visit Legoland it's very sad.
first of all that logo was amazing and in addition I hope these plans actually happen as most of these redevelopment plans when it comes to mall and there properties never come to light the only one I can recall actually happening is the rolling acers turned amazon distribution facility
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So many memories at this mall growing up. The tilt arcade was SO awsome, Sam goody, suncoast, hot topic Spencer’s…plus the tower records right next door (and circuit city across the street)….such good times, so sad it’s just gone
thanks for sharing your memories
Tower Records used to be on El Toro Road just east of the 5 freeway before moving to the location you mentioned. It shared with an electronics stereo store (Good Guys?)
it was a perfect size mall & was perfect for us living in Laguna Hills. we haven’t had a shopping place since. so sad. it is still partially there a big wasted mess. 😖😤😭 it was also convenient because there’s a hospital across & many times visitors of hospital would cross street & have a place to walk & eat. all gone😭
Thanks for sharing your memories
I was a busboy at the Buffum's department store in 1978-1980. good times, miss the staff to this day and have been unable to find any of them with a search. It was a different place in every way back in the 80's. First saw the place by riding the OCTD buses in about 1976 and rode up there with a transfer or two from San Clemente. It was literally a lifetime ago now. -Steve
thanks for sharing those memories
I used to work at fiddlers 3. There was a Kaplans at the other end. I remember a Tiki bird shop that sold Hawaiian Mumu’s. Also Organ Exchange. Before theaters went there later. Also Petit Boulangere’. Mrs Fields. Pretzel place…
thanks for sharing your memories
I remember most of those places, esp Kaplans and Fiddlers3. We went to them as a family. Kaplans had good bakery items. There was a Kaplans at SouthCoastPlaza as well, but as it moved more 'upscale' it disappeared bc the clientele changed. There was also one at another OC mall, but cannot remember...perhaps Fashion Island? Its funny how nearly every mall had an store that sold organs, w/a guy out front playing them for a few min per hour. I never met one person in my life who ever owned an electric organ. some had pianos tho. who was buying them all? lol
@@jlr1569 thanks for sharing that
@@EricCProductions76 NO problem. Thanks for making these videos, brings back a lot of good memories for many people. BTW there was a restaurant cafeteria upstairs in SthCstPlz in its very early days - I cannot remember the name AND a restaurant near the new section of the mall that included Bullock's, and Toys International that was all pink inside [the sign was like pink neon] which was a 'health food store' + restaurant but I cannot remember the name. Perhaps some of your subscribers or you may know what these two restaurants were called? I was thinking it might have been associated w/ Jack LaLane. Also that mall had many other places in it that disappeared like; The Magic Pan, Piret's [or Piret M] and Wolworth's.
Does anyone remember the name of the bakery that was there? They had unique breads and an incredible chocolate cake
Eric, my apologies, it has been a year since you did this video, but a big THANK YOU! The bulldozers are finally operating again and getting ready to build the new facilities. I do miss the heyday of that mall when I used to go to the movie theaters there in the 1980s, and then Sam Goody and later on Suncoast Videos in the 1990s and early 2000s.
No problem my friend, thanks for giving me an update
This mall became less desirable for many people as soon as Mission Viejo Mall opened about 4yrs later. MVM was two levels and more interesting upscale stores. LHM was suddenly desirable, as a place to shop for adults and less cool as kids...we could already see it starting to decline. before that LHM was the only mall around for anyone w/in about 15-20+ miles. there was a Hickory Farms there too.
thanks for sharing that info. I only went there once about 20 years ago.
@@EricCProductions76 yeah, there was NO MALL of any kind nearby unless someone went miles away to southcoast was the closest until MVM.
@@jlr1569 I just finished South Coast Plaza. That will be coming out soon.
@@EricCProductions76 nice. earliest malls I heard of before that in OC; Honor Plaza across Santa Ana college that had JJ Newberry + M Wards, then Fashion Square - which later became main place mall in the 90s, and the City Mall in GG. they could be a good video
@@jlr1569 thanks for watching
I have a video suggestion Von Maur
It is a department store that opened 1872 and is still going to this day
I used to skateboard thru this mall w/my friends as a kid + got chased by the security. and I remember Fiddler's Three. The Akron was on the west side but outside of the mall. Bob's Big Boy was on the other side of El Toro Rd from the mall at the corner behind the petrol station and next to the highway. the theater was a fail, everyone just went to the two better Edwards cinemas on the other side of the highway and were both off El Toro rd in two diff shopping centers.
thanks for sharing that nice memory. Thanks for watching
@@EricCProductions76 sure. your vids bring back some cool memories too.
@@EricCProductions76 how about Play Co? a toy store chain I think started in the 70s + ended in the 90s? there was a big one in what was El Toro now Lake Forest.
@@jlr1569 My older siblings always talk about that old El Toro shopping center. The theaters and the toy store always come up. One of those theaters is now a gym I believe. They also talk about some bird cage thingy.
Hey Eric! thanks for doing a vid on PlayCo recently that was great.
Worked at Harris and Frank..1979 Next to Sears
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When is the Hertz video 📲 ps did you eat BBQ and Taco's in Texas 🥩🍖🌮
tomorrow it comes out. And yes I had good Mexican food there.
Was the food good 👍
@@juanserrano5629 yes it was and the prices were low too,