I grew up very close to this mall. My family used to get all of our groceries at Biggs. I used to go and play in the "beach" in the middle of the mall, that was just a giant sandbox. My dance team would dance on the stage during the holidays. I played mini golf with my grandmother there, and she would let me ride on the carousel. I loved the ferris wheel as well. I remember the bright, neon lights of the cinema. I remember the noises made by the continuous motion / pool ball sculpture that was over by Biggs. I bought one of the first Harry Potter novels at the book store (the store was trimmed with green and had street lamps? it was weird). This mall is so much nostalgia for me. Thank you for posting.
Same here about the "beach"! I have memories of that sandbox but I haven't been able to find any pictures to prove it ever existed. Would you happen to have any?
I think it was the Little Professor bookstore. It was on a second level. I would go in there and read books as a kid. It was down towards one end of the mall if I'm not mistaken.
@@billparker244 I never went to this mall much but I remember going a few times in high school when it was hopping. So I don't remember specific stores much but that's a cool name for a book store!
Back to school shopping at Biggs and sneaking away to try games in the video game isle as a kid… Then buying watermelons and pumpkins and throwing them off the second floor as teens! I miss the Star Trek warp core movie theatre most of all.
I still get sad watching stuff like this. Time out was literally me and my oldest friends/some family as well/even after prom hang out back when. A lot of memories floating around that place for a lot of us. 🥺🥺🥺💔💔💔
@@aroundtheweb_ if you are referring to the installation near the escalator at the food court (it contained billiard balls) I haven't found footage of it either. The artist made numerous pieces and lent them to various malls and hospitals. I'll look and see if I can find his name again. Edit: the creator's name is George Rhoades. In the Invisi-Bull Exploration comment thread Earthium talks about it in what detail there is about it.
Man I don't know if anyone else feels this way too but you what I use to enjoy about this mall? Not only is was a awesome place to shop at but it brought everyone together as a community we don't have a place like that anymore💔💔💔💔💔.
Brings back memories. Super Saver Cinemas 8 with those crazy flickering lights and the huge arcade...I spent many weekends there as a kid/teen. I know it seems strange looking at it now but yes, there was a time where people and stores were in it😂 now it’s a grave yard that looks nothing like it once did.
There was no place that I spent more time at than this mall when I was a teen. My boyfriend and I even worked in the bottom floor movie theater for a while. This video made me sad watching it though. Nostalgia is such a weird thing.
The ball machine was created by George Rhoads, the piece is called "Ball Game". There is a single citation to it in a Rhoads' catalog online from 2011. Interesting enough there is a very similar one, created in 1986 at Salmon Run Mall owned by Pyramid Management Group, which also owned forest fair mall for about a month in 1990. Forest fair mall opened in 1988, so it is likely "Ball Game" was a sister kinematic sculpture commissioned by Rhoads. Unfortunate there are no known images of the ball game sculpture.
I used to go there a lot as a kid taken there by my mom. Time Out on The Court was just the best. I always had so much fun there. Their food court was amazing. I didn’t know that they had mini golf and a carousel. That place was the best.
I walked through the mall as it is now like 3 years ago as I got deeper it got darker and I got to the cafeteria everything felt so nostalgic and old as if I was in the 80s through 90s I got lost in the mall enjoying it as I got back safely walked outside the air felt different sky looked different time felt as if it jumped in the future I felt I walked in a portal in that mall
My first real date where I got to drive & pick up my date, a girl named Moriah McFarland. We saw Lawnmower Man. Horrible movie but we didn’t care! We had fun as we were both 17 with no worries! I lived in Delhi & she lived in Fairfield, we met at Diamond Oaks as vocational high schoolers! Yippee! 🍿
I worked at Time Out on the Court and wore a heavy change belt 😂working on the video games and pushing the red button on those rides from 1990-1992. It was my summer job in high school. I live in CA now but when I went back last year I drove by it. That area is definitely not the same. Way over developed now. No trees. When that mall was built it gave an air of hope in a way. New smells and sounds. I met some cool people there - wonder what happened to them.
Man, soooo many memories at Forest Fair. Time Out.... I'll never forget how serious the Mortal Combat battles got. lol Lazer Tag with cousins when they came to Cincy for Christmas. All of the movies that I watched. I spent so many weekends at Bourbon Street... drinking under age and hooking up with so many females. lol I remember some serious fights that I may or may not have been involved in... lol I remember when Gold Star and Skyline were battling to see who could sell the cheapest cheese coney.... Skyline was downstairs and Gold Star was upstairs. They just kept dropping the price there for a while. I think they got down to about 29 cents. My football buddies and I would go there after school and clean up! There are too many memories to list here. I sure do miss the 90s! The world was a better place back then.
My mother went there for her 14th birthday, same year it opened. She said she learned what a dollar store was that day, since there was a Family Dollar there on opening-- "Wait, you're telling me EVERYTHING is a dollar??"
I'm here now! It's past closing and hiding lol. Appreciate you for the inspiration. Just started my channel so I'd like all the support I can get. Thanks!
Great find it's rare to see videos of the mall's early days, its all recent years when its been a dead mall lol. They got greedy and made it an upscale mall when Cincy already had a lot of them, so it never really had a long period of glory days like many 80s and 90s malls did.
Scheduled to be demolished soon, so it won't be there much longer. Thanks for including a picture of the Daytona racing cabinets. Me and my dad would go there and race all the time, almost forgot what it looked like back then!
The ball machine, sandbox, arcade. That stretch from the mall up to Bigs and the comic and card shops that were there. That little pet shop. The rooftop fireworks. Good times.
I can't believe that mall used to be so colorful and alive. It's a shame the 2020's brought it to life support. Hopefully someone else can do something with the colorful skeleton of the mall left behind.
Well as the coronavirus has spread across the world, the cincinnati mall is finally dead for sure' the reason why I say this" is because when I went there yesterday which was march 16th' the doors entryways were locked' an the arcade and fitness center and the jumpy house is closed because of the coronavirus' so this means that you cannot go in this mall anymore, if you break into this mall you are trespassing now so I think the mall is finally closed for good R.I.P forest fair village🌹 so sad!!
Not so! At least not yet. The doors were open on 5/17/20. I even filmed a video in there on that date. Yeah I mean there is NOTHING in there but you can go in the doors and walk around. It does however, look like the place is not long for this world.
City centre mall in Leicester 'Highcross' formerly Shires. Has lost two of it's anchor stores. One that remains is a much later addition to the 1991 built mall in 2008. Much of the stores have gone. Covid-19 pandemic had killed off one of the anchor stores. Most chain stores have collapsed taking with it one huge mall in nearby city of Nottingham. Broadmarsh Mall owned by collapsed owners INTU Group. The building in Nottingham has part demolished part derelict. Rest tenants moved moved out. This is state of our large 1m+ population cities. Birmingham Bullring (super or mega mall) has lost three of its 5 anchor stores. A city of 2.5m Its no better in UK
Fun fact this mall is old, decrepit, and abandoned now and a lot of kids from Fairfield high school come here to do dumb stuff. Just a few months ago my friends and I came here and I got in trouble for writing my name on the wall
Man, that brings back memories from my childhood. I remember spending endless hours just walking around that place.
I grew up very close to this mall. My family used to get all of our groceries at Biggs. I used to go and play in the "beach" in the middle of the mall, that was just a giant sandbox. My dance team would dance on the stage during the holidays. I played mini golf with my grandmother there, and she would let me ride on the carousel. I loved the ferris wheel as well. I remember the bright, neon lights of the cinema. I remember the noises made by the continuous motion / pool ball sculpture that was over by Biggs. I bought one of the first Harry Potter novels at the book store (the store was trimmed with green and had street lamps? it was weird). This mall is so much nostalgia for me. Thank you for posting.
Same here about the "beach"! I have memories of that sandbox but I haven't been able to find any pictures to prove it ever existed. Would you happen to have any?
I think it was the Little Professor bookstore. It was on a second level. I would go in there and read books as a kid. It was down towards one end of the mall if I'm not mistaken.
@@billparker244 I never went to this mall much but I remember going a few times in high school when it was hopping. So I don't remember specific stores much but that's a cool name for a book store!
Back to school shopping at Biggs and sneaking away to try games in the video game isle as a kid… Then buying watermelons and pumpkins and throwing them off the second floor as teens! I miss the Star Trek warp core movie theatre most of all.
I still get sad watching stuff like this. Time out was literally me and my oldest friends/some family as well/even after prom hang out back when. A lot of memories floating around that place for a lot of us. 🥺🥺🥺💔💔💔
Forrest fair for kids who grew up in 80s and 90s was everything
🙁 man I never thought i would miss a mall. So many memories...
Defiantly allot of awesome times I remember
So many :)
I miss the musical marble thing where they would chime and stuff been trying to find footage of that no luck
@@aroundtheweb_ if you are referring to the installation near the escalator at the food court (it contained billiard balls) I haven't found footage of it either. The artist made numerous pieces and lent them to various malls and hospitals. I'll look and see if I can find his name again.
Edit: the creator's name is George Rhoades. In the Invisi-Bull Exploration comment thread Earthium talks about it in what detail there is about it.
@@Nomed38 thank you
Man I don't know if anyone else feels this way too but you what I use to enjoy about this mall? Not only is was a awesome place to shop at but it brought everyone together as a community we don't have a place like that anymore💔💔💔💔💔.
This was the place in Cincinnati that brings back the best memories for me. Really feeling the nostalgia dude.
Brings back memories. Super Saver Cinemas 8 with those crazy flickering lights and the huge arcade...I spent many weekends there as a kid/teen. I know it seems strange looking at it now but yes, there was a time where people and stores were in it😂 now it’s a grave yard that looks nothing like it once did.
I spent most of my time there and America Live/Gator's.
There was no place that I spent more time at than this mall when I was a teen. My boyfriend and I even worked in the bottom floor movie theater for a while. This video made me sad watching it though. Nostalgia is such a weird thing.
This deserves more views. Some of the pictures even look like they are screenshots from a rare video.
Spent my high school years there when it opened. Now occasionally my kids and I walk around in there wondering how much longer it will be there.
"asteadics"
Dude, the word you're looking for is AESTHETICS.
I hope this video gets stored somewhere & never taken down - these are some of the last shots of the place as it was then
The smell of soft pretzels and the sounds of that sculpture thing. Things that will always be near and dear to my heart.
I always remember the smell of Cinnabon and that weird light blue tumbler thing that was by the food court
The ball machine was created by George Rhoads, the piece is called "Ball Game". There is a single citation to it in a Rhoads' catalog online from 2011. Interesting enough there is a very similar one, created in 1986 at Salmon Run Mall owned by Pyramid Management Group, which also owned forest fair mall for about a month in 1990. Forest fair mall opened in 1988, so it is likely "Ball Game" was a sister kinematic sculpture commissioned by Rhoads.
Unfortunate there are no known images of the ball game sculpture.
Back when you could spend the entire day at the mall and not get bored
I used to go there a lot as a kid taken there by my mom. Time Out on The Court was just the best. I always had so much fun there. Their food court was amazing. I didn’t know that they had mini golf and a carousel. That place was the best.
my mom used to take me and my friends also💪🏾
I’ve never even been to Cincinnati and this video is making me nostalgic
Thanks for posting this. This is definitely how I remember it growing up. Lot of time spent there.
OMG MY NOSTALGIC CHILDHOOD IS BRINGING BACK SO MANY MEMORIES! I RUN THE NATI!
Please tell me what music you used for this video. Loved the video. Thank you!
Just how I remember it,that mall was an amazing place to be a 90es teenager
I walked through the mall as it is now like 3 years ago as I got deeper it got darker and I got to the cafeteria everything felt so nostalgic and old as if I was in the 80s through 90s I got lost in the mall enjoying it as I got back safely walked outside the air felt different sky looked different time felt as if it jumped in the future I felt I walked in a portal in that mall
What is the music in the video?
Just FYI, it's spelled 'aesthetics'. Great video! I lived in Cincinnati for a while and I remember that mall very well.
Wish there was more online videos of the mall opening lol. I bet Jerry Springer did some news reports about it from WLWT at the time
I miss this place. We got our groceries at Biggs
Would you mind giving me the title of the song? I love it! So relaxing and is something I would play at the night time.
i'd love to know too
Borrtex - Entering
My childhood! I loved this place as a little girl.
My first real date where I got to drive & pick up my date, a girl named Moriah McFarland. We saw Lawnmower Man. Horrible movie but we didn’t care! We had fun as we were both 17 with no worries! I lived in Delhi & she lived in Fairfield, we met at Diamond Oaks as vocational high schoolers!
Yippee! 🍿
I worked at Time Out on the Court and wore a heavy change belt 😂working on the video games and pushing the red button on those rides from 1990-1992. It was my summer job in high school. I live in CA now but when I went back last year I drove by it. That area is definitely not the same. Way over developed now. No trees. When that mall was built it gave an air of hope in a way. New smells and sounds. I met some cool people there - wonder what happened to them.
Man, soooo many memories at Forest Fair. Time Out.... I'll never forget how serious the Mortal Combat battles got. lol Lazer Tag with cousins when they came to Cincy for Christmas. All of the movies that I watched. I spent so many weekends at Bourbon Street... drinking under age and hooking up with so many females. lol I remember some serious fights that I may or may not have been involved in... lol I remember when Gold Star and Skyline were battling to see who could sell the cheapest cheese coney.... Skyline was downstairs and Gold Star was upstairs. They just kept dropping the price there for a while. I think they got down to about 29 cents. My football buddies and I would go there after school and clean up! There are too many memories to list here. I sure do miss the 90s! The world was a better place back then.
My mother went there for her 14th birthday, same year it opened. She said she learned what a dollar store was that day, since there was a Family Dollar there on opening-- "Wait, you're telling me EVERYTHING is a dollar??"
My favorite part was Bourbon Street, the dance clubs were a blast.
When it didn't look like a Nickelodeon set
LOL! 😂
Technology has really killed a lot! It’s sad 😞 I used to hang out here a lot and go to Tri-County Mall.
I'm here now! It's past closing and hiding lol. Appreciate you for the inspiration. Just started my channel so I'd like all the support I can get. Thanks!
I remember hanging out there as well
Awesome I had fun there all the time
Yeah I remember back when they had movie theaters in the mall
Great find it's rare to see videos of the mall's early days, its all recent years when its been a dead mall lol. They got greedy and made it an upscale mall when Cincy already had a lot of them, so it never really had a long period of glory days like many 80s and 90s malls did.
geez I worked at time out when I was a teenager
0:44 they don't make them like they used to. What a magical place it was.
Scheduled to be demolished soon, so it won't be there much longer. Thanks for including a picture of the Daytona racing cabinets. Me and my dad would go there and race all the time, almost forgot what it looked like back then!
Used to be an amazing place
The ball machine, sandbox, arcade. That stretch from the mall up to Bigs and the comic and card shops that were there. That little pet shop. The rooftop fireworks. Good times.
At least we now know what the mall’s original aesthetics were.
I can't believe that mall used to be so colorful and alive. It's a shame the 2020's brought it to life support. Hopefully someone else can do something with the colorful skeleton of the mall left behind.
I saw many movies at the Super Saver.
I grew up about 1.5 miles away off Gilmore. I might be in one of these pics of Time Out. I always wanted to play the VR game
I believe I tried the VR game once. I remember the headset being super heavy and I had trouble keeping my head up as a little kid, lol
Everything was good until Forest Park turned into Forest Dark then it all went to shit!!!
Well as the coronavirus has spread across the world, the cincinnati mall is finally dead for sure' the reason why I say this" is because when I went there yesterday which was march 16th' the doors entryways were locked' an the arcade and fitness center and the jumpy house is closed because of the coronavirus' so this means that you cannot go in this mall anymore, if you break into this mall you are trespassing now so I think the mall is finally closed for good R.I.P forest fair village🌹 so sad!!
Not so! At least not yet. The doors were open on 5/17/20. I even filmed a video in there on that date. Yeah I mean there is NOTHING in there but you can go in the doors and walk around. It does however, look like the place is not long for this world.
@@invisi-bullexploration2374 Hey thanks moopheus' that place sucks man ' have a good week sir😊
What is ‘ asteadics’?
This is so sad☹️
City centre mall in Leicester 'Highcross' formerly Shires. Has lost two of it's anchor stores. One that remains is a much later addition to the 1991 built mall in 2008. Much of the stores have gone. Covid-19 pandemic had killed off one of the anchor stores. Most chain stores have collapsed taking with it one huge mall in nearby city of Nottingham. Broadmarsh Mall owned by collapsed owners INTU Group. The building in Nottingham has part demolished part derelict. Rest tenants moved moved out. This is state of our large 1m+ population cities.
Birmingham Bullring (super or mega mall) has lost three of its 5 anchor stores. A city of 2.5m Its no better in UK
check out dead mall walking and tell him about these id love him to visit these places
So sad that it is what it is today which is nothing
What time stole from us
Fun fact this mall is old, decrepit, and abandoned now and a lot of kids from Fairfield high school come here to do dumb stuff. Just a few months ago my friends and I came here and I got in trouble for writing my name on the wall
Don't be stupid.
EZgamer85 thanks for the advice 👍🏻👍🏻
Wow they must have changed it I can’t Evan tell this is the mall I can’t reconise anything
I grew up in forest park over on Kenshire. Grew up shopping at Biggs and running around that mall… man I can smell the pretzels now…
does anybody remember an attraction that was jungle theme it might of had a gorilla infront, it had a tricycle track on the bottom?