Ace reminding me to binge watch all the old content, while I am currently binge watching all the old content, lol!!!! Love re-watching, the music, the aesthetic, the different events, and comparing them to older and newer videos, seeing how much farther they have fallen or risen, but 99 percent of the time, fallen or gone. Just greatness!!!!
My dad was the Senior Vice President at the Taubman Company in charge of Planning and Design He workd on this mall as well as Fairlane, Great Lakes Crossing, Beverly Center, Cherry Creek, Briarwood, Charleston Place (Hotel), Partridge Creek and many more. From all the stories I heard Taubman Company was a great company to work for!
Imagine living near it as I do. So many memories here. Massive parking lot. Going up and down the glass elevators was always fun as a kid. This one hurts.
@@davidm6819 I used to call it the Golden C@@k Ring before Golden Butthole became more popular 😀 There’s another one in Bay City; I joked that if it ever came off it’s mounts, it would be The Bay City Roller. 😀
I grew up on this mall. I was around when it was just farmland. The irony of this mall was ppl were upset about the mall being built(traffic, crowds) and now ppl are upset about the mall being torn down. As I said I was around when the mall opened. I even eventually worked here lol. Its sad to see such an iconic landmark fall to nothingness.
That mall is gorgeous. I understand the need to revitalize it, but I’m sure that will destroy the pure 70’s aesthetics of the place. Anchors? Well, my two cents is that malls were built to compliment the anchors, which were the main draws. 40 years ago, no one could imagine a company as large as Sears or Kaufman’s going kaput. An anchor goes, then the stores in those wings lose traffic and either move to the center of the mall or out of it entirely.
I feel like malls should have stores like Target as an anchor. Just having a bunch of clothes and appliance stores doesn't make sense. Macy's + Target + Costco/Lowe's and then the mall in the middle would be interesting.
I lived in southeast Michigan between 2000 and 2003. I tried to visit as many of the area malls as possible. I remember thinking that there were too many malls in the area including this one. I barely remembered Lakeside until you posted this video. What a masterpiece of 70’s architecture!
The truth ie, this is your channel. We ride along with you. So you should be able to go and record what interests you. If All you do is make context for others. You will burn out fast. Keep bringing us good stuff. But have fun too.
Wow, I loved Dom Deluise 😮 I'm sure I was there with the family but I was only 10 so I don't remember. I do remember they had an ice skating rink inside of the mall 💕 I miss the old days at that mall growing up...
@@genegjr But doesn't every mall look dead in some sections? Even in the 90's a mall that I lived near that is thriving to this day, had some dimly lit dead sections.
@@TheKingOfInappropriateComments yes but we have a mall here called the Christina mall it's huge 400 stores all on one floor including Macy's Jc Penny's and Target it's never going to be a dead mall it's always crowded on weekends but they lost 3 restaurants JB Dawson California pizza 🍕 kitchen and a Panera bread and a Bose store a Microsoft store and a children's place reopened in 2021 so this mall will never be called a dead mall
I have vague memories of my parents taking me to this mall in the 80s more vivid memories of my sister taking me here in the 90s hanging out here with my friends in the early 2000s and one time in 2010 when my ex-wife challenged me to walk up the downward escalator which I did successfully but was then too tired to do anything else LOL. Literally a lifetime memories in this place.
I loved this mall so much as a kid I wrote a short paper about it in third grade. At the time it had the Tilt arcade, one of the best arcades in the area. I still enjoy visiting the mall every so often just to walk around.
Before the arcade and the indoor water slide, there was a ice rink. I remember it well, a kid tripped me and I fell right on my face. Had a goose egg on my forehead and had to stay up all night in fear of a concussion. Good times...
Thank you for the excellent video. I love the 80’s fashion show and how you videoed the sculptures, waterfall, planters, conversation-pitt closeups, and even the elevator lights. The music was excellent too. Along with your soft-spoken voice which gave respect to this paining giant and comfort to the viewer. The news update at the end was an excellent touch and nice hopeful tie up of what’s to come. I feel very nostalgic about this mall. It opened at a time when my parents (mom and step dad) were divorcing so it was a refuge for my mom, sister and me. A few years later, my mom got a job at the Hudson’s cash office to pay the bills for the condo we moved into on 9/15/77. She would work there until shortly after Hudson’s became Dalton Hudson’s. Hudson’s Marketplace and Children’s departments became a few of my first jobs. My sister worked at Toronto Leathers. Some of the very first stores in my memory were the ice skating arena, movie theater, Yummy Land, County Seat, B. Daltons, Winkelman’s, Marrianne’s, and Friendly’s to name a few. I came back here the christmas after my mom passed (4/24/18) to buy an ornament from Macy’s (formerly Hudson’s) as a memorial ornament to celebrate our times of togetherness and fun we had at this mall. So sad to see the emptiness but glad to see that it is still so well maintained even though it’s struggling so. Again, great job on the video. ❤️🥰
FYI, your Mom worked for Dayton-Hudson, not "Dalton Hudson", and the merge between Dayton's (Minneapolis) and Hudson's (Detroit) occurred in 1969, which is before Lakeside even broke ground. For a time, Dayton-Hudson owned B. Dalton bookstores, which is where the name confusion might come from.
Can't wait for the vid on Lakeside, it reminds me so much of what Summit Place in Waterford/Pontiac looked like before it closed :I You should also visit The Mall at Partridge Creek down the street, that place has major anchoritis and a testament that lifestyle centers can also die out like the malls before it.
The 1980s music goes well with this video. Those years were the hey days for this location. Hearing about the closing of Lakeside has reminded me of how quickly time has passed. I remember being there in 1976 as a kindergarten or first grade pupil. I still remember how scared I was of the glass railings. I refused to go near them in spite of dad's reassurance of their safety. I imagined the glass breaking and me plummeting to the floor. There was a sunken rest area in the middle of the mall. It had comfortable, built-in couches. And there was also a small stage. Without any self consciousness, I would take the stage and sing verses of "It's a Grand Old Flag". That song was taught in most elementary schools that year in honor of the bicentennial.
As someone who lives in Metro-detroit, there are a few malls you could visit that are dead mall treasures: Eastland Center, Oakland Mall, Westland Mall.
What an amazing mall! I love the upper level entrance to the old Lord and Taylor. I’ll appreciate any content you create - the Route 66 trip content was amazing last year. I loved living vicariously though you when I was unable to travel in 2020!
When the anchors start pulling out then everything just goes. I get so sad watching your videos but I cannot get enough of them. My favorite place in the 80’s and 90’s was the mall. Now I am 55 and haven’t been for over 2 years. It’s overwhelming to see the boarded up or chained down stores. I remember the first time I saw “my” mall Eastgate Mall in Chattanooga TN close it was traumatic. I could never get used to the new mall they built 6 miles away. All my memories were just stuck. The music , the crowd the “cool” kids, the Music stores, they all seem such so distant or almost not real. I can see how people get stuck in time but I think this younger generation won’t feel the way that we do. It’s so different now. Don’t even have to get off of the couch to shop, play games, restaurants are kinda just take out food now. It’s sad they will not experience the anticipation of a new cassette, or a VHS, or just hanging out at the mall with your friends. Their connections are different. Their perception is different. Malls will still be around for awhile but they will never be what they were. Thanks for sharing!
Meanwhile, the smaller and older Macomb Mall in blue collar Roseville is thriving, would never have thought it would possibly outlast Lakeside, which in its hay-day, was one of the best and most modern malls in the region. Sad to see this place fade away!
@@stoopidgerl Same here, in the 80s. Macomb was the "local" mall for me, Lakeside was the mega one that we would go out to once in awhile. So weird seeing lakeside in a "dead mall" video that apparently has national scope.
Mall after mall this never gets old. Every piece of retail corridor you film brings back the fondest of memories from my childhood, when so much of it was spent in the department stores and malls that existed here back in the '80s with my mom and grandmother.
I remember when I forgot where I parked my car once at this mall around Christmas time about 11 years ago. Took us a half an hour of riding around with security. Still love you, Lakeside.
Oh wow, I'm glad you mentioned that, I was beginning to think I imagined an ice skating rink 😆no one remembers it. I was 10 when the mall opened. I am sad I don't remember the water park, wish I had pictures from back then 😞
I live in Sterling Heights but closer to Troy, so my go-to mall (if I MUST go to a mall) is Oakland Mall. I actually live closer to Universal Mall but I never think to go there. I really can’t remember the last time I’ve been in Lakeside, other than quickly in & out of either Sears, or Macy’s (and that was, for an eye exam at the LensCrafters inside Macy’s). I did however get my Covid vaccinations at the county-run drive through, which used to be the Sears Auto Center. Surprisingly well-organized efficient, and friendly. (Everything that, in the end, Sears wasn’t.)
I loved this. I felt like I actually toured this former Taubman treasure. I absolutely loved the music. I’ve watched it a couple times seeing things I missed and to enjoy the music. Great one!!!
Hudson's became Dayton-Hudson and then Marshall Field's followed by Macy's. Could the demise of malls be not so much anchor stores, but the demise of anchor stores? Online shopping, in my opinion, is responsible. People seem to no longer shop brick and mortar. It's terribly depressing for an 80's teenager in today's world.
oh i hope you got a chance to get to Eastland Mall while you were hear/ in Macomb! thats being demolished very soon , and has had a interesting resurgence ... Along with Westland Mall ... i worked there and they have the last anchor Sears in MI.
This is my local mall and would go here all the time with my friends in middle school and shop all day. You would never find me here alone today, as the sex trafficking/stalking here is crazy. It is known as a dangerous location for women now a days, and I truly miss the magic of this mall, I would have a BLAST as a kid here.
Can't believe we're coming to the end of the road for Lakeside Mall. Some things you just want to see live forever, and I always thought Lakeside would be one of those. Soon Lakeside will be just a memory.
@Ace's Adventures *Great that you have VIDEO EVIDENCE of the neglect that surrounds Michael Kohan's owned mall properties!* Thanks for being willing to stand up and take action to prevent this slum lord from being able to destroy yet another mall*
Was there yesterday with my family and I grew up in the 2010's having memories of what it was like to go to these malls with my family as a youngster. Bustling stores, the sensation of the fountain flowing through my fingertips. The smell and aroma of the food court. The leaves and leathery couches. I remember there use to even be a in mall playground that I would run around, with all sorts of shiny plastic animals a green frog was one that stands out in my memory. The Toys R Us being filled with Lego's and nerf guns. My parents would always take us around the height of the second floor looking down always scared me, the sensation of going up and down the elevator. Its all gone now. The place is deserted with only a few people walking around. Place is full of homeless. RIP
This was my Fast Times at Ridgemont high! I worked at Crowley's from ages 16-22/ 1989-95. We had to park on the grass during holidays because it was so packed!! After Crowley's, it started sliding. More stores left, here we are😢
We are about the same age and yes this was my Fast Fimes at Ridgemont High. This place used to be absolutely packed on Saturday afternoons. So much to see and do there, back then.
@@melrobinson6400 😂 I worked at Hudson’s for a little while and Ruby Tuesdays at the mall. But the best times at the mall were before we were old enough to drive and our moms would drop us off for the afternoon. Aaah the freedom! After we got our licenses we went a lot less to the mall because we could go anywhere then.
When I was a little kid we used to go to the hydro tube! There were three clear water slides that you entered on the top and it took you to the lower level! So much fun at them all my whole childhood and teen years
I used to work at Hudson's Eastland Mall from 1975 until 1980 and the Eastland Mall was a super busy mall. Then, I worked at Montgomery Ward located on Gratiot and East 7 Mile on the Eastside of Detroit. The Montgomery Ward store was located in a strip mall on Gratiot between Lappin and East 7 Mile Road. The Hudson's at Eastland Mall became a Marshall Field's and merged with Macy's which is closed permanently. The Montgomery Ward store has closed permanently in 1985.
This mall was so fun even as late back as 2010. There was still a ton of stores and it would always be packed. The 2010s were not kind to it and it seems that it's finally dying off for good. I used to have so much fun here as a teen. The FYE was huge and as a music lover it was the first place I'd hit up.
I remember even as late as 2014 there were still a lot of life left in the mall. I visited 2 weeks ago and it broke my heart seeing it now. It’s a sad shell of what it once was.
I remember this mall and the surrounding subdivision being built in the mid to late 70's. Moved away in 83 - Came back in 2009 and bought mine and my wife's wedding rings here. Sad to hear that soon it will be razed and redeveloped. Who remembers THE HYDROTUBE !!!!!!
Ha. I was born less than 2 weeks after the date those malls opened. Finding malls older than me. Nice. 😅 loving the warm asthestics and the wood used in the mall. Feels nostalgic.
Thank you for filming this, this used to be a great place, remember when olgas kitchen was there and I remember I got my first haircut there when I was 2 or 3, great memories, hopefully something or someone will revive this mall.
Amazon shut down all the Malls….Amazon just started in Asia but the Malls are booming and still building more. The third largest Mall in the world is in Manila Philippines.
The best of this mall was in the early to mid 90s, going there as a kid and playing in the kids area. Giant cereal bowl, bacon and eggs, spilled soda, waffles and pads of butter, loved this place as a kid.
Lakeside mall does look well maintained, I remember when I liked to walk around lakeside mall & different stores.. Good old Penny’s, lord & Taylor etc.
Awesome video!! Loved visiting Lakeside as a kid and sad to see it dying out with fewer and fewer stores seemingly everytime I visit. Malls these days are a dying breed and thankfully MI still has two main malls going strong with Great Lakes and Somerset. Agree with other commenters, Partridge Creek is also another mall losing many stores sadly.
God I remember going here all the time years ago. My sister got her ears pierced at Claire's here. I remember the Lakeshore Grill inside Macy's. Their seasoning was so good we stole and it brought it home. I like the elevator design with the seats around it and the water fountains. I have a video on my channel of the Sears elevators before they shut down.
Many great memories of Lakeside Mall. Came from Detroit with a friend in 1976-seemed to be a forever trip, but well worth the drive! Moved closer after marrying. Took my boys there often to walk and play in the play area. So sad to see it this way.😢
I ended up there quite by accident yesterday on my way to a concert with some time to kill and just thrilled to happen on a dead mall to explore. The Macy’s women’s store was fairly busy. The rest of the mall was mostly empty. In this video it still looks quite lively. There are still a few major chains left (Claire’s, Express, Torrid, etc.) but the mall is so huge that they’re just lost in there. Fountains are still bubbling, though, and it’s well kept. Such a classic Taubman design.
Lakeside, and Fairlane, and Twelve Oaks all on one day. They were developed by JL Hudson, and sold to Taubman. For those of us who we’re actually there at the time and trained staff. Malls fail because they didn’t embrace digital marketing fast enough. The marketing for a mall store should drive business to the mall. The other issue is that selling is not a cool job anymore. Working in digital media is much more exciting. The opening day was a big event in my career. I will never forget it. Many if these specialty stores had volumes in excess of six to ten million dollars.
I grew up with the mall… I miss the arcades, bookstore, game store, and the actual food court haha! I went recently and the food court only has 2 restaurants now 🤪!
Funny enough I drove passed lakeside earlier, honestly sad to see my childhood mall become what it is today. I still go time to time with family or friends whenever we head to hot topic or the anime store to see what they have, that’s all that trip is worth going for at this point. I’ve even vlogged myself shopping there with a friend. I remember when I was younger and all these stores were still opened and the mall felt alive, this was when Forever21, toysrus outlet, radio shack, Yankee candle, wetzles pretzels, etc were still opened there. Now it’s all closed and nothing more than random pop up shops clogging the empty spaces or just closed off, I remember walking into that Sears almost every trip when it was closing until they finally boarded it up as seen in the video. I wish this mall can somehow survive and be able to thrive in someway and hopefully sooner than later
Neat to see a video about this. This was the mall I grew up by. A little sad to see it dying, I still visit it once a year for Christmas shopping. Every year it gets more empty
I'm in Canada and don't have as many dead malls. One thing that I have noticed is in Canada most malls have a grocery store as there anchor and it works. The grocery store is likely to never leave. I have wondered why US malls don't do the same
They do work. Brings in so much business to the malls. Customers and employees of the grocery store shop in the mall. Mall employees just have to go into the grocery store in the mall instead of going somewhere else. They did take out the grocery store where I live, business went right down and that was when the mall started dying. It is now pretty much a ghost town in our mall. The old Sears spot is cursed too. Nothing lasts for more than a few years.
Oh yeah and I'd like to see some other content so bring it on. Truth be told, I find dead malls a bit depressing but the music and graphics and the production in general that you do are a work of art.
Makes me so sad to see Lakeside like this, went last year and decided to take a ton of pics. It was a treat to go when I was younger, did not hang out much in the 80's when I was in my teens because I lived closer to Macomb Mall but shopped here a lot throughout the 90's - 00's. Every Christmas I would eat and have a few drinks at Bennigan's and then do my Christmas shopping.
This was an amazing mall back in the 80's and 90's. It was my absolute favorite. I'm so sad it's dying. :(
Ace reminding me to binge watch all the old content, while I am currently binge watching all the old content, lol!!!! Love re-watching, the music, the aesthetic, the different events, and comparing them to older and newer videos, seeing how much farther they have fallen or risen, but 99 percent of the time, fallen or gone. Just greatness!!!!
My dad was the Senior Vice President at the Taubman Company in charge of Planning and Design He workd on this mall as well as Fairlane, Great Lakes Crossing, Beverly Center, Cherry Creek, Briarwood, Charleston Place (Hotel), Partridge Creek and many more. From all the stories I heard Taubman Company was a great company to work for!
The intro is 🔥 Dead malls and synthwave the perfect combo !!! Love it!
Thanks!
This mall is a masterpiece. So sad to see it dieing.
Imagine living near it as I do. So many memories here. Massive parking lot. Going up and down the glass elevators was always fun as a kid. This one hurts.
I live near it too my parents grew up at lakeside mall I haven’t been there in years
I was hoping he’d drive by “The Halo” and tell that story
It's the Golden Butthole. That term was coined by my friend. LOL.
@@davidm6819 I used to call it the Golden C@@k Ring before Golden Butthole became more popular 😀
There’s another one in Bay City; I joked that if it ever came off it’s mounts, it would be The Bay City Roller. 😀
My childhood mall! Used to go to the movies there all the time before the theater closed in 97.
I thought the theatre was across the street on the other side of Schoenherr.
@@DJMetzler337 There was definitely a movie theater in this mall. Saw the Brinks Job with my first boyfriend there.
@@szatkown I loved the ticket booth that was a one person station in the middle of the hallway...right off Sears!
hey man, do you remember Tilt, the two story arcade??
@@fatribz Sure do! Always loved that place.
This intro was FYRE!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I am so spoiled! I grew-up in metro detroit and was surrounded by taubman masterpieces!
I grew up on this mall. I was around when it was just farmland. The irony of this mall was ppl were upset about the mall being built(traffic, crowds) and now ppl are upset about the mall being torn down. As I said I was around when the mall opened. I even eventually worked here lol. Its sad to see such an iconic landmark fall to nothingness.
Me too! I went to Magahay Elementary
That mall is gorgeous. I understand the need to revitalize it, but I’m sure that will destroy the pure 70’s aesthetics of the place. Anchors? Well, my two cents is that malls were built to compliment the anchors, which were the main draws. 40 years ago, no one could imagine a company as large as Sears or Kaufman’s going kaput. An anchor goes, then the stores in those wings lose traffic and either move to the center of the mall or out of it entirely.
I feel like malls should have stores like Target as an anchor. Just having a bunch of clothes and appliance stores doesn't make sense. Macy's + Target + Costco/Lowe's and then the mall in the middle would be interesting.
I lived in southeast Michigan between 2000 and 2003. I tried to visit as many of the area malls as possible. I remember thinking that there were too many malls in the area including this one. I barely remembered Lakeside until you posted this video. What a masterpiece of 70’s architecture!
The truth ie, this is your channel. We ride along with you. So you should be able to go and record what interests you. If All you do is make context for others. You will burn out fast. Keep bringing us good stuff. But have fun too.
A little history, when the food court was opened, actor Dom Deluise was at the ribbon cutting.🙂
Who the hell is that?
Wow, I loved Dom Deluise 😮 I'm sure I was there with the family but I was only 10 so I don't remember. I do remember they had an ice skating rink inside of the mall 💕 I miss the old days at that mall growing up...
@@josiffexplosiff1 He was a great actor. Recently, I watched the movie Fatso which he starred in, check check it out,very funny 😆❤
@@josiffexplosiff1 Watch Smokey and The Bandit 2 and The Cannonball Run for starters.
Maybe it's just me but the mall looks to be well maintained.
And relatively not dead.
It looks dead in some sections
@@genegjr But doesn't every mall look dead in some sections? Even in the 90's a mall that I lived near that is thriving to this day, had some dimly lit dead sections.
@@TheKingOfInappropriateComments yes but we have a mall here called the Christina mall it's huge 400 stores all on one floor including Macy's Jc Penny's and Target it's never going to be a dead mall it's always crowded on weekends but they lost 3 restaurants JB Dawson California pizza 🍕 kitchen and a Panera bread and a Bose store a Microsoft store and a children's place reopened in 2021 so this mall will never be called a dead mall
@@TheKingOfInappropriateComments this mall is owned by Brookfield properties formally General Growth properties
I have vague memories of my parents taking me to this mall in the 80s more vivid memories of my sister taking me here in the 90s hanging out here with my friends in the early 2000s and one time in 2010 when my ex-wife challenged me to walk up the downward escalator which I did successfully but was then too tired to do anything else LOL. Literally a lifetime memories in this place.
I loved this mall so much as a kid I wrote a short paper about it in third grade. At the time it had the Tilt arcade, one of the best arcades in the area. I still enjoy visiting the mall every so often just to walk around.
Tilt was badass especially when Street Fighter 2 came out. Place was packed out every weekend. Now it's just for mall walkers
Before the arcade and the indoor water slide, there was a ice rink. I remember it well, a kid tripped me and I fell right on my face. Had a goose egg on my forehead and had to stay up all night in fear of a concussion. Good times...
My boyfriend worked at tilt
I remember the HYDROTUBE, as well
Tilt was awesome got to play Mortal Kombat 2 there fun times
Thank you for the excellent video. I love the 80’s fashion show and how you videoed the sculptures, waterfall, planters, conversation-pitt closeups, and even the elevator lights. The music was excellent too. Along with your soft-spoken voice which gave respect to this paining giant and comfort to the viewer. The news update at the end was an excellent touch and nice hopeful tie up of what’s to come.
I feel very nostalgic about this mall. It opened at a time when my parents (mom and step dad) were divorcing so it was a refuge for my mom, sister and me. A few years later, my mom got a job at the Hudson’s cash office to pay the bills for the condo we moved into on 9/15/77. She would work there until shortly after Hudson’s became Dalton Hudson’s. Hudson’s Marketplace and Children’s departments became a few of my first jobs. My sister worked at Toronto Leathers. Some of the very first stores in my memory were the ice skating arena, movie theater, Yummy Land, County Seat, B. Daltons, Winkelman’s, Marrianne’s, and Friendly’s to name a few. I came back here the christmas after my mom passed (4/24/18) to buy an ornament from Macy’s (formerly Hudson’s) as a memorial ornament to celebrate our times of togetherness and fun we had at this mall. So sad to see the emptiness but glad to see that it is still so well maintained even though it’s struggling so. Again, great job on the video. ❤️🥰
So sorry about your mom.
FYI, your Mom worked for Dayton-Hudson, not "Dalton Hudson", and the merge between Dayton's (Minneapolis) and Hudson's (Detroit) occurred in 1969, which is before Lakeside even broke ground. For a time, Dayton-Hudson owned B. Dalton bookstores, which is where the name confusion might come from.
The intro was so rad 100%
This intro is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Can't wait for the vid on Lakeside, it reminds me so much of what Summit Place in Waterford/Pontiac looked like before it closed :I You should also visit The Mall at Partridge Creek down the street, that place has major anchoritis and a testament that lifestyle centers can also die out like the malls before it.
The 1980s music goes well with this video. Those years were the hey days for this location. Hearing about the closing of Lakeside has reminded me of how quickly time has passed.
I remember being there in 1976 as a kindergarten or first grade pupil. I still remember how scared I was of the glass railings. I refused to go near them in spite of dad's reassurance of their safety. I imagined the glass breaking and me plummeting to the floor.
There was a sunken rest area in the middle of the mall. It had comfortable, built-in couches. And there was also a small stage. Without any self consciousness, I would take the stage and sing verses of "It's a Grand Old Flag". That song was taught in most elementary schools that year in honor of the bicentennial.
As someone who lives in Metro-detroit, there are a few malls you could visit that are dead mall treasures: Eastland Center, Oakland Mall, Westland Mall.
Mario Kiezi bought it, he’s going to make it the best mall in Michigan
Eastland is demolished 😢
Oakland Mall was the go-to place for me and my mom. Lakeside Mall was when we felt adventurous to travel to. Somerset Mall was way to fancy for us. 😆
What an amazing mall! I love the upper level entrance to the old Lord and Taylor. I’ll appreciate any content you create - the Route 66 trip content was amazing last year. I loved living vicariously though you when I was unable to travel in 2020!
get ready for Round 2 soon!
To see it during its heyday, it was really something.
Very good music that matches the mall just like the rolling across mall video, thanks!
When the anchors start pulling out then everything just goes. I get so sad watching your videos but I cannot get enough of them. My favorite place in the 80’s and 90’s was the mall. Now I am 55 and haven’t been for over 2 years. It’s overwhelming to see the boarded up or chained down stores. I remember the first time I saw “my” mall Eastgate Mall in Chattanooga TN close it was traumatic. I could never get used to the new mall they built 6 miles away. All my memories were just stuck. The music
, the crowd the “cool” kids, the Music stores, they all seem such so distant or almost not real. I can see how people get stuck in time but I think this younger generation won’t feel the way that we do. It’s so different now. Don’t even have to get off of the couch to shop, play games, restaurants are kinda just take out food now. It’s sad they will not experience the anticipation of a new cassette, or a VHS, or just hanging out at the mall with your friends. Their connections are different. Their perception is different. Malls will still be around for awhile but they will never be what they were. Thanks for sharing!
So many great memories here in the 80s and 90s🤘🏿😈😎🍻
Meanwhile, the smaller and older Macomb Mall in blue collar Roseville is thriving, would never have thought it would possibly outlast Lakeside, which in its hay-day, was one of the best and most modern malls in the region. Sad to see this place fade away!
I am also shocked at how well Macomb Mall was revitalized!! Thought for sure it would die. Was a mallrat in my teen years in the 90s.
@@stoopidgerl Same here, in the 80s. Macomb was the "local" mall for me, Lakeside was the mega one that we would go out to once in awhile. So weird seeing lakeside in a "dead mall" video that apparently has national scope.
Mall after mall this never gets old. Every piece of retail corridor you film brings back the fondest of memories from my childhood, when so much of it was spent in the department stores and malls that existed here back in the '80s with my mom and grandmother.
I remember when I forgot where I parked my car once at this mall around Christmas time about 11 years ago. Took us a half an hour of riding around with security. Still love you, Lakeside.
Great intro… one of my favourites!
Why couldn't we just have stayed in '87 on that fashion show! Wanna go back!
no matter how dead this place is ill never stop going. i live here and i been going to this mall my entire life
My Aunt took me to this mall when Crowley's opener up, I was around 12, the mall had a ice skating rink, and water slide at one time
Oh wow, I'm glad you mentioned that, I was beginning to think I imagined an ice skating rink 😆no one remembers it. I was 10 when the mall opened. I am sad I don't remember the water park, wish I had pictures from back then 😞
Yes, it was called the HYDROTUBE
Thanks Anthony, You're The Best !! You Keep Filming, I'll Keep Watching.
I grew up with this mall. Thank you for documenting it for when it unfortunately dies. A lot of memories here.
I live in Sterling Heights but closer to Troy, so my go-to mall (if I MUST go to a mall) is Oakland Mall. I actually live closer to Universal Mall but I never think to go there. I really can’t remember the last time I’ve been in Lakeside, other than quickly in & out of either Sears, or Macy’s (and that was, for an eye exam at the LensCrafters inside Macy’s). I did however get my Covid vaccinations at the county-run drive through, which used to be the Sears Auto Center. Surprisingly well-organized efficient, and friendly. (Everything that, in the end, Sears wasn’t.)
This video is so well done! Absolutely love the intro and music!
Ty!!!
The love the mall like this.
Excellent in every way shape and form. Thanks
Great looking dead mall! Love the new intro too.
Duett for the win! Amazing synthwave group.
I loved this. I felt like I actually toured this former Taubman treasure. I absolutely loved the music. I’ve watched it a couple times seeing things I missed and to enjoy the music. Great one!!!
I love that beginning flash back section. It was great to start the video. I'd love to also see the living malls and how they are staying going.
Hudson's became Dayton-Hudson and then Marshall Field's followed by Macy's. Could the demise of malls be not so much anchor stores, but the demise of anchor stores? Online shopping, in my opinion, is responsible. People seem to no longer shop brick and mortar. It's terribly depressing for an 80's teenager in today's world.
This is a valid point.
Love the skylights in this one.. incredible. Malls are the cathedrals of the 20th century.
oh i hope you got a chance to get to Eastland Mall while you were hear/ in Macomb! thats being demolished very soon , and has had a interesting resurgence ... Along with Westland Mall ... i worked there and they have the last anchor Sears in MI.
Sadly they announced last week the Sears in Westland is closing soon.
This is my local mall and would go here all the time with my friends in middle school and shop all day. You would never find me here alone today, as the sex trafficking/stalking here is crazy. It is known as a dangerous location for women now a days, and I truly miss the magic of this mall, I would have a BLAST as a kid here.
That’s so weird cuz i once saw this guy creepily follow me into the bathroom a couple years ago here, i was only like 13 and i ran out the bathroom 😂
I am going to miss this mall when it goes away soon in the next few years, it is never going to be the same without this mall when it goes down 😔😪😭😞😥.
Great vid I like it keep up the great work
Can't believe we're coming to the end of the road for Lakeside Mall. Some things you just want to see live forever, and I always thought Lakeside would be one of those. Soon Lakeside will be just a memory.
Beautiful mall, amazing fountains and ceilings love it. Sad to see it like this.
An all too common thing
@Ace's Adventures
*Great that you have VIDEO EVIDENCE of the neglect that surrounds Michael Kohan's owned mall properties!*
Thanks for being willing to stand up and take action to prevent this slum lord from being able to destroy yet another
mall*
Was there yesterday with my family and I grew up in the 2010's having memories of what it was like to go to these malls with my family as a youngster. Bustling stores, the sensation of the fountain flowing through my fingertips. The smell and aroma of the food court. The leaves and leathery couches. I remember there use to even be a in mall playground that I would run around, with all sorts of shiny plastic animals a green frog was one that stands out in my memory. The Toys R Us being filled with Lego's and nerf guns. My parents would always take us around the height of the second floor looking down always scared me, the sensation of going up and down the elevator. Its all gone now. The place is deserted with only a few people walking around. Place is full of homeless. RIP
Great mall
This was my Fast Times at Ridgemont high! I worked at Crowley's from ages 16-22/ 1989-95. We had to park on the grass during holidays because it was so packed!! After Crowley's, it started sliding. More stores left, here we are😢
We are about the same age and yes this was my Fast Fimes at Ridgemont High. This place used to be absolutely packed on Saturday afternoons. So much to see and do there, back then.
@@drewblue1164 , my son is 28, and he says, mommy, tell me more stories about working at the mall 🤣🤣
@@melrobinson6400 😂 I worked at Hudson’s for a little while and Ruby Tuesdays at the mall. But the best times at the mall were before we were old enough to drive and our moms would drop us off for the afternoon. Aaah the freedom! After we got our licenses we went a lot less to the mall because we could go anywhere then.
When I was a little kid we used to go to the hydro tube! There were three clear water slides that you entered on the top and it took you to the lower level! So much fun at them all my whole childhood and teen years
I loved this mall I'm at loss of words
High quality footage and video. Keeps getting better and better. I had to watch this twice😊
I used to work at Hudson's Eastland Mall from 1975 until 1980 and the Eastland Mall was a super busy mall. Then, I worked at Montgomery Ward located on Gratiot and East 7 Mile on the Eastside of Detroit. The Montgomery Ward store was located in a strip mall on Gratiot between Lappin and East 7 Mile Road. The Hudson's at Eastland Mall became a Marshall Field's and merged with Macy's which is closed permanently. The Montgomery Ward store has closed permanently in 1985.
I lived across Lappin from Montgomery Wards in 1983. :) Eastland was the cool mall before Lakeside.
@@slothbros7607 Do you remember the Great Scott!Supermarket, that was in the parking lot behind the Montgomery Wards and Federal's Department Store 🏬?
@@davidsquires154 I think that is where I shopped back then. :)
great piece man excited for the next one
This mall was so fun even as late back as 2010. There was still a ton of stores and it would always be packed. The 2010s were not kind to it and it seems that it's finally dying off for good. I used to have so much fun here as a teen. The FYE was huge and as a music lover it was the first place I'd hit up.
fr favorite place to go to when i was around 7 lmao
What about the FYE arcade? You remember when that was a thing? Haha
@@EpyonRoyal No I don't remember that actually. I remember when you could listen to the music in the aisles but I don't remember an arcade there lol.
FYE was the shit
I remember even as late as 2014 there were still a lot of life left in the mall. I visited 2 weeks ago and it broke my heart seeing it now. It’s a sad shell of what it once was.
I remember this mall and the surrounding subdivision being built in the mid to late 70's. Moved away in 83 - Came back in 2009 and bought mine and my wife's wedding rings here. Sad to hear that soon it will be razed and redeveloped. Who remembers THE HYDROTUBE !!!!!!
Ha. I was born less than 2 weeks after the date those malls opened. Finding malls older than me. Nice. 😅 loving the warm asthestics and the wood used in the mall. Feels nostalgic.
Thank you for filming this, this used to be a great place, remember when olgas kitchen was there and I remember I got my first haircut there when I was 2 or 3, great memories, hopefully something or someone will revive this mall.
Hopefully that plan at the end will come to fruition.
ahhh yes carnival cuts
Amazon shut down all the Malls….Amazon just started in Asia but the Malls are booming and still building more. The third largest Mall in the world is in Manila Philippines.
Nice job on this and nice footage
I was just saying this needed to be made before it completely died. Thank You.
Such a beautiful mall!
Is a beautiful mall. Love the Lord & Taylor store front.
Namdar / Mason Asset Management is also another mall slumlord. If your mall gets bought by them, don’t expect any investment or maintenance.
Namdar just bought my childhood mall. I give it 2 years, tops.
It had an Olga's Kitchen and I worked there back in the day....loved the Hydrotubes and the movie show. It was the very best mall ever.
The best of this mall was in the early to mid 90s, going there as a kid and playing in the kids area. Giant cereal bowl, bacon and eggs, spilled soda, waffles and pads of butter, loved this place as a kid.
Great video!!
We take a walk around this mall occasionally. Thank you for capturing this footage.
Thanks for watching
This is wild, I grew up in the area and this was a mall I went to sometimes.
Same. I graduated from Sterling Heights High. This is where the cool kids shopped.
Lakeside mall does look well maintained, I remember when I liked to walk around lakeside mall & different stores.. Good old Penny’s, lord & Taylor etc.
The music is so fitting. WHAM! lol
I was a salesperson at Lord & Taylor there at Lakeside in 1978. I was 19. Clinique counter…good times
Don't you just want to sit on one of those leather seats and read the Detroit Free Press and watch the pretty ladies go by...
The Lord and Taylor corridor has always been Lakeside’s deadest area. Whenever I shopped there, I rarely saw anyone go over there.
Awesome video!! Loved visiting Lakeside as a kid and sad to see it dying out with fewer and fewer stores seemingly everytime I visit. Malls these days are a dying breed and thankfully MI still has two main malls going strong with Great Lakes and Somerset. Agree with other commenters, Partridge Creek is also another mall losing many stores sadly.
Partridge creek is relatively new. And quite close to Lakeside. Part of the problem could be market saturation.
@@armorer94 Don't forget Twelve Oaks Mall . it's still active
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I was waiting for a dead mall video for lakeside...
I was there when Lakeside opened in 1976. When I first visited (as first grader) only Sears was opened.
Dude, I have never been more mesmerized by an intro or outro! Great taste in music and great content, keep up the good work.
God I remember going here all the time years ago. My sister got her ears pierced at Claire's here. I remember the Lakeshore Grill inside Macy's. Their seasoning was so good we stole and it brought it home. I like the elevator design with the seats around it and the water fountains. I have a video on my channel of the Sears elevators before they shut down.
Many great memories of Lakeside Mall. Came from Detroit with a friend in 1976-seemed to be a forever trip, but well worth the drive! Moved closer after marrying. Took my boys there often to walk and play in the play area. So sad to see it this way.😢
I ended up there quite by accident yesterday on my way to a concert with some time to kill and just thrilled to happen on a dead mall to explore. The Macy’s women’s store was fairly busy. The rest of the mall was mostly empty. In this video it still looks quite lively. There are still a few major chains left (Claire’s, Express, Torrid, etc.) but the mall is so huge that they’re just lost in there. Fountains are still bubbling, though, and it’s well kept. Such a classic Taubman design.
Who else remembers the giant food play places they had here back in the early 2000s
Lakeside, and Fairlane, and Twelve Oaks all on one day. They were developed by JL Hudson, and sold to Taubman.
For those of us who we’re actually there at the time and trained staff.
Malls fail because they didn’t embrace digital marketing fast enough. The marketing for a mall store should drive business to the mall. The other issue is that selling is not a cool job anymore. Working in digital media is much more exciting.
The opening day was a big event in my career. I will never forget it. Many if these specialty stores had volumes in excess of six to ten million dollars.
I grew up with the mall… I miss the arcades, bookstore, game store, and the actual food court haha! I went recently and the food court only has 2 restaurants now 🤪!
Funny enough I drove passed lakeside earlier, honestly sad to see my childhood mall become what it is today. I still go time to time with family or friends whenever we head to hot topic or the anime store to see what they have, that’s all that trip is worth going for at this point. I’ve even vlogged myself shopping there with a friend. I remember when I was younger and all these stores were still opened and the mall felt alive, this was when Forever21, toysrus outlet, radio shack, Yankee candle, wetzles pretzels, etc were still opened there. Now it’s all closed and nothing more than random pop up shops clogging the empty spaces or just closed off, I remember walking into that Sears almost every trip when it was closing until they finally boarded it up as seen in the video. I wish this mall can somehow survive and be able to thrive in someway and hopefully sooner than later
Yep. Bought my washer and dryer from that Sears. I would hang out with my college friends here all the time.
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Neat to see a video about this. This was the mall I grew up by. A little sad to see it dying, I still visit it once a year for Christmas shopping. Every year it gets more empty
I'm in Canada and don't have as many dead malls. One thing that I have noticed is in Canada most malls have a grocery store as there anchor and it works. The grocery store is likely to never leave. I have wondered why US malls don't do the same
They do work. Brings in so much business to the malls. Customers and employees of the grocery store shop in the mall. Mall employees just have to go into the grocery store in the mall instead of going somewhere else. They did take out the grocery store where I live, business went right down and that was when the mall started dying. It is now pretty much a ghost town in our mall. The old Sears spot is cursed too. Nothing lasts for more than a few years.
They had the best holiday decorations back in the day
Oh yeah and I'd like to see some other content so bring it on. Truth be told, I find dead malls a bit depressing but the music and graphics and the production in general that you do are a work of art.
Appreciate that, wish UA-cam didn’t hate small creators lol
Dying malls: Central, Pennsylvania: State College, Selinsgrove, Pottsville, Harrisburg. A mall still seeming to do well: Lancaster, PA.
I still go to this mall sometimes, one of my favorite places to just stroll through, people watch, and look through stores.
Makes me so sad to see Lakeside like this, went last year and decided to take a ton of pics. It was a treat to go when I was younger, did not hang out much in the 80's when I was in my teens because I lived closer to Macomb Mall but shopped here a lot throughout the 90's - 00's. Every Christmas I would eat and have a few drinks at Bennigan's and then do my Christmas shopping.
I use to work in that mall. This walk thought takes me through my childhood and teen years. Its very sad to see this mall go down.