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Those days are gone now! I miss the good old days when the mall was the place to go! Dave & Busters, Tower Records, Sam Goody, Virgin Records, The Food court! Everyone hung out at the mall b/c that the place to go! Its 2017 and now everyone has no place to go and everything sucks now!!
I miss Sun Coast Video and EB Games. There was this science store in the mall by me too I thought it was the coolest. I miss the 90s. I miss my childhood. I swear shit wasn't as bad in the 90s as now.
+Jay McCartney You're certainly not wrong about that. The cold war was over, the economy was doing pretty good, imo some of the best video games ever were being released (it's the decade of the 16-bit & 32/64-bit era!), Saturday morning cartoons was still a thing. There were just more reasons to get out and run around, more mystery, and more surprises as a result. The 90's was an awesome decade to be a kid! The internet was kinda there in it's infancy, but wasn't really in our faces the way it is now, spoiling everything we would normally discover for ourselves. While I really do love the internet, it has been a bit of a double-edged sword in many regards and along with the many conveniences it has given, some things have been lost.
Watching footage of an abandoned mall is like watching a sad movie. All the people that once gathered in these places, all the memories created. ALL GONE.
That's the kind of comment that makes some men think women should not be allowed to vote. And no, I'm not one of them although I think people with that intellectual outlook are unfit to vote (regardless of gender).
Hi from Memphis! I worked here as a teen in the 80s. This mall used to be so awesome back in the day. Thank you for the nostalgia! ❤ And yeah, that food court was totally rad. 😉
TheErinnF Hi! I'm from Memphis as well. Was great to see Dan do a video on this. Would've been great to see one from the Mall of Memphis before they tore it down.
Elvic730 I only live down the street from this Mall. Bit I was a mall rat back in the Mall of Memphis days. Sadly, the only thing left of the Mall of Memphis is their website, a memorial.
Dan, I wanna thank you for making this series, but especially this video. I grew up in this mall. My mom used to work in a furniture store across from the KB Toys, and before I was old enough to go to school, she would just bring me to work with her. I haven't seen this mall since I was a kid, and this just brought back a flood of memories. When you showed the food court I admit, I teared up a little bit. Thank you so much for filming this, and please keep it going. These places are really special to a lot of us.
I grew up in Memphis and this used to be THE mall to go to. A little history. The Hickory Ridge Mall used to be in what was Shelby County, until the early 1990s when it was officially annexed into the expanded Memphis city limits and officially became East Memphis. When that occurred, the Shelby County sheriffs - who were in control of the area - were pushed out and the Memphis City Police came in. However, the city expanded way too quickly and didn't properly cover the area. So the mall and the area around descended into absolute chaos and crime. You literally had the area and some of the homes that used to be $500k become literal crack dens. I had such fond memories of that place. The late 90's hurt it badly and the tornado hitting it killed it officially.
blee427 it seems like so much of real America and respectable places and even decent music died in the late nineties right as we came to the time we were all waiting for, the millennium. Who knew that the 21st century would suck _SO MUCH_!
I grew in Memphis and yes, this was THE mall to go to. Before Hickory Ridge Mall, it was the Mall of Memphis with the ice rink in the middle of the food court, remember?Then that closes... When I visited Memphis last month, The Raleigh Springs Mall was GONE...I think Memphis only have maybe two malls left..so sad.. I am glad Dan got this mall on video. My hang out spot in this was the food court .. never looked at the food court as a 90's theme until i watched this vid lol! so many memories there....
Mall of Memph was THE place! They closed that down, then Hickory Ridge was THE place! They closed that down, then Raliegh Springs was THE place! They closed that down, the Oak Court mall was THE place! Meanwhile the Wolfchase got built and now it's THE place. Needless to say that the Oak Court Mall is on a rapid decline due to crime and crime.
All these comments here are pretty dead on. We lived not too far from HRM when it opened and by the 1990s, the whole area was so different. But that's Memphis for ya! Glad I left after high school.
I’m 18 and remember how the mall used to be before 2008. It was beautiful and packed but now it’s pretty empty. I grew up in east Memphis and lived near that area. Crime was a problem.
Just an FYI, that tornado in 2008? There were looters running in and out of the hole in the side of Sears while the damn tornado was still on the ground.
Yay! Another Dead Mall episode! I don't know what it is, but there is something about the way Dan talks into the mic and walks rocky-like, while we look at the haunting footage of these near catatonic malls, that reminds me of a lullaby. The mall music playing in the background just adds to the dreamy effect, and it makes me want to curl up and go to sleep. :)
Anyone get chills when they showed the food court? Literally frozen in time....Like taking a time machine back to the 80s and 90s... Soo haunting yet beautiful.
Oh my god, this is so sad. When I lived in Memphis in the early 90's, I went to this mall every weekend. I worked for Intl Paper and would buy a new tie, shop with my girlfriend, eat at the food court. To see it now ... ugh
I really love the Dead Mall Series, even though it always kind of bums me out, cause I get nostalgic about what WAS. The Mall was LIFE growing up as a kid!
I’m a 35 year old Memphian. Growing up in the Graceland area of Whitehaven, the only mall my parents and I really frequented was the Southland Mall (which is still standing with one anchor store...it’s mainly an urban mall), but driving out to Oak Court, The Mall of Memphis, Raleigh Springs (my favorite), and Hickory Ridge Mall was a treat!! When I was 16, I got my second job in the Hickory Ridge Mall as an associate for the now defunct Dawahare’s. That was in late 1999-2000. The mall along with the area was still nice. That part of town didn’t decline until 2005 which WAS around the time housing projects in both North and South Memphis were closed down, and the Carriage Crossing outdoor mall in Collierville really caused shoppers (including myself) to shop at Collierville instead. My last time at Macy’s Hickory Ridge was in 12/2007 where I purchased a beautiful red handbag 😂😂. By that time, Service Merchandise has since closed, Applebee’s was gone, O’Charley’s and TGI Friday’s left back in the 1990’s partly due to a brutal murder, and the only anchor stores in the mall by then WAS Macy’s and Dillard’s. Once the tornado hit that area in March of 2008, everything went to hell after. All of the restaurants have jumped ship, and World Overcomers bought the mall in 2010, promising people that the mall will be back better than ever. I honestly don’t know how this mall is still open. A lot of people (myself included) do shop online, but demographics and crime did play a major role in the demise of the area. It really saddens me what this city overall has come to be. That is why so many are migrating to Mississippi. It’s booming in Olive Branch!
I showed this video to my mom and she was so excited to see this place again! Throughout the video while listening to your narration she was constantly nodding her head and saying, "I remember that!" She would hang out there almost every weekend. She got pretty nostalgic watching and remembering back in the day when there were so many people and stores still there.
Back in the early 60's, shopping centers were all the rage. You could have a big chain store like BIG K and a bunch of smaller stores in the same shopping center. These shopping centers were not like todays shopping centers. These shopping centers were all designed around people and their cars. They had covered sidewalks and covered parking spaces and many had valet service to watch your car. What was really neat was people would only walk to the next store if it was just a few feet away. Anything more and you just drove to the next store and parked. Even if it was just 75 to 100 feet away. Everything was car centric. Restaurants like A&W, Bobs Big Boy, Big Chef were hits. It was fun! lazy but fun. It was like having a v8 powered shopping cart with you all the time. Then came the malls. Mainly because people started to realize that most of the time when they went shopping, they were spending as much if not more on gas than they did at the stores. A gallon of gas cost about 26 cents, a loaf of wonder bread was about 19cents and a pound of hamburger was about 29cents. Malls came about because of convenience and cost savings for the public. Now the same thing is happening with malls that happened with shopping centers. For convenience and saving money, people are turning to online purchasing. But just like everything before it, online shopping will fall to the wayside and something else will take its place in the public's interest. Who knows, it may even revert back to the beginnings where a retailer went above and beyond to make every customer feel like something special when they walked into their store. Like it was in the 50's and 60's. Grand old memories of a bygone era.
vaylon1701 very well-written! I feel I must defend the malls to degree and say that we still had a V-8 powered shopping cart (a phrase I'm going to steal by the way) because since there were no _actual_you shopping carts people would take things out by the bag to put in the trunk and then while you're out there you'd just move the car closer to the entrance closest to the stores you wanted to go to. That way by the end of the day you were near your car instead of having to backtrack all the way through the mall past stores you had already been through. I remember having that chore as a teenager; to run stuff out to the car for my mom and then moving the car around the mall as she shopped. A chore I _loved_ of course! Driving the LeSabre in the parking lot and listening to the radio for 5 minutes hoping my friends would see me! Good Times!
I kind of hope things revert to more mall-centric, rather than online shopping eventually. I never experienced malls in their prime since I'm pretty young. But I think there is some kind of "magic" about having a place where you and your family/friends can hang out, go shopping, even play video games in an arcade. I'm sure it'll never be exactly the same as it was. Someone should create an retro themed mall that emulates how it was back in the day. It's something I'd love to do myself; though I'm not sure how hard it'd be. I've thought about it before. It'd include arcades, stores, food court, and even a movie theater.... all retro aesthetic.
Babbages! Crazy prices and uninterested staff, my lasting impression - probably something to do with why EB ate them and then Gamestop ate them. Storeception.
Then you probably sold me many of games as I went there for years. I could not for the life of me remember the name of the game store. As I am getting closer to 30 the younger years are getting vague. Now in the early 2000's I do remember buying The Misadventures of Tron Bonne here and I still have it. Booking pretty nice online right now. I also remember having bought Mega Man Legends 2 and having to take it back because it wouldn't play on my system because it was a blue disc. Not the demo but the readable data side was blue. And to this day nobody has ever heard of a blue disc copy. It wasn't a bootleg, knockoff, or import. It was just simply a full version blue disc of MML2. I ended up trading it for MML1 :/ I remember the store for having rare and obscure games but this was back before I knew of anything about collecting and we had no mobile internet.
At first reminded me of a dead mall in Elizabeth City, NC. Before this series I never really paid attention to dead/dying malls, now every time I go into a mall I notice the cool little details like the old neon signs and I'm looking at the flooring and all of the things I never noticed before. Thanks for the newfound appreciation of old malls! They're really interesting when you stop and think about it.
Same! Especially since I have a dying mall near me as well. But even busy malls I still look around and imagine what it will be like once it finally dies out too.
LOL, here you go. :) Internet Killed the Shopping Mall I shopped here back in eighty two I spend all my money in you I was young it didn't stop me coming through Oh a oh They took the credit cards for everything Rewritten by machine on new technology And now I understand the problems you can see Oh a oh I met your children Oh a oh What did you tell them? Internet Killed the Shopping Mall Internet Killed the Shopping Mall The internet came and broke your heart Oh, a, a, a, oh And now we meet in an abandoned mall We hear the playback and it seems so long ago And you remember the jingles used to go Oh-a oh You were the first one Oh-a oh You were the last one Internet Killed the Shopping Mall Internet Killed the Shopping Mall In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far Oh-a-aho oh Oh-a-aho oh
photolabguy Amazon killed the malls imo. that and old people afraid of the people hanging out in front of the malls lol we used to laugh at people who thought we were a gang 😂😂😂😂😂
i live in memphis and you got balls going to that area of town, also i havent been to that mall in over 10 years and i remember riding the carousel when i was younger. thank you for letting me go down memory lane one last time
p3wned wtf, I LIVE in that area of town and nothing ever happens, stop listening to the news because they make our area look like shit, when it actually has nothing going on.
man that's sad you think like that. you could be harmed anywhere in town. that thinking is what the system pray on to keep y'all busting yalls ass to stay in a so called safe neighborhood. smh. keep living in a illusion, and letting others control where you can go.
peycasso lmao don’t shit go down bad over there? are you out yo mind?You on the couch. Don’t know shit about the streets ain’t shut save about hickory hill knight Arnold none of it lol
Dan, thank you so much for posting this! I literally squealed out loud when I saw the title. lol I grew up in the Hickory Hill area and spent countless hours at this mall as a child and teenager. There were so many cool features in the mall. I'm not sure if you were able to see the remnants of them. I'm assuming you entered through the main entrance (facing Winchester Rd). Back in the day, inside to the left of the front entrance was a beautiful, two-story restaurant with an atrium called Annabelle's. The food was incredible. I would call it a slightly upscale restaurant. It was filled with greenery and high, wicker, fan-back chairs (very 80's). On the left side of the food court was a great arcade and either a two-screen or four-screen movie theatre. Across from the food court was a Walgreen's drugstore which either later became a Chik-Fil-A or Chik-Fil-A moved in beside it. Some of the places in the food court were Swensen's, Sbarro, Corn Dog Heaven, and Char-Grill, just to name a few. Store-wise, I remember Gadzook's, Camelot Music, Structure, County Seat, United Colors of Benetton, Contempo, U.S. Male, Suncoast, KayBee, Lerner, Waldenbooks...just to name a few. This mall was so awesome back in the day. If you're ever in Memphis again, I'd love to tell you some great places, abandoned and not abandoned, to explore. I love all of your vids! Thanks for everything you do!
Amber Hayes I'm not from there but I love your enthusiasm and your account of your favorite teenage Mall! It mirrors much of my own so even if we were separated hundreds of miles it's reassuring to know that others still remember with pure fondness rather than an ironic sarcasm. It was pure joy and fun and maybe just a _little_ bit of naughty but it was a shared experience for a couple of generations and millions of people! Take care! And keep your positive attitude! :)
I was just there. I live in Colorado, used to live in Memphis, and was in Memphis for a few days visiting friends. Boy, I can tell you all about that Mall and the City of Memphis. Not only is the Mall dying, but that entire section of the city has been dying for years. What used to be a vibrant suburb and the American Dream, Hickory Hill...turned into Hickory Hood. Memphis tore down all their public housing and spread the ghetto out into the suburban neighborhoods with Section 8 housing and ruined entire neighborhoods. Winchester Ave. used to be wall to wall Commercial, with malls, shopping, auto dealers, restaurants, etc. but almost everything has closed. An inept and corrupt City government drove the business and residential tax base into the unannexed suburbs. That area will never come back and it is tragic.
CosmicStargoat I remember going to Graceland in the 80s and there was a vibrant shopping area around it I still have my token from the Elvis Presley arcade across the street. In recent years when I told people I went they would say "oh my God are you kidding? It's not nice at all, it's in a total ghetto!" I was shocked how quickly things can change, from an upscale part of town honoring the legendary king of rock and roll many years after his death, it really was a nice friendly safe clean tourist area with people of all kinds there. And lots of entertainment!
Seems to be the story of America. This tale can be told about countless other cities across this nation. First the powers that be destroyed the big cities of America after WW2 forcing everyone to the suburbs. Now it's the suburbs turn on the chopping block.
I worked for the landscaping company in this mall in it's glory days in 1990 . You commented about the food court. At one time it had a huge multi panel video board playing music videos and such. Sad to say this is one of 3-4 Malls in Memphis that went into ruin due to crime .
Man I loved that mall in the early 90's. So many special childhood memories. Seeing those chairs in the food court took me back. I still remember the sound they made when the would scoot across the tiles.
OMG I cannot believe you filmed the HRM. I am 30 years old and when I was in elementary school, my dad took my brother and I here several times. I LOVED riding the carousel (I used to call it "The Carousel Mall"). My brother passed away 7 years ago so I really cherish those memories...and I cannot believe I am watching a video you filmed there! Also, fun fact...I came in first place in a crawl-a-thon at this mall when I was a baby. lol. :)
The common denominator for all the dying malls seems to be crime. As soon as people don't feel COMPLETELY comfortable in a setting, that is the beginning of the end.
Passions Star Kansas City still has several active large Drive-In movies except now you get the sound in through your radio but they have tore down most of the malls unfortunately.
the 80's were responsible for almost all of the ill's of the current day. Politically, economically, and socially the decade ended up creating a lot of things that still effect us today, like environmental denial-ism, shareholder-first corporate culture, infinite growth theory, deregulation, ect. It was a magical, optimistic time that achieved its bliss through the sacrifice of future decades
I lived within walking distance of this mall from 1975 to 1993, which was the year I graduated from high school. Adjacent to the food court there used to be a center stage area surrounded by an amphitheater. I sang on that centerstage in various telethons and variety shows throughout the early 90s. Directly across from centerstage was The Limited, which was where I got my first job when I was 16. There was also a movie theater that opened right off of the food court. I must've seen dozens of movies there, but I can clearly remember seeing Field of Dreams and Clue. The corner store you can see in the video( in the food court) was an amazing ice cream store called Swensen's. Interestingly, when the mall was first built there were only two or three subdivisions in that area. My grandfather had developed one of these, and that was where we lived. Directly across the street from the mall was a large farm. The farm house (which I believe had been built before the Civil War) burned down when I was about eight or nine years old, and the entire neighborhood walked over and watched it burn. We were way too far out at that time for fire trucks to make it there before it burned to the ground. There was also an airstrip in the field directly across from the mall where the crop dusters used to take off and land. The farmer who lived there had a number of antique airplanes and airplane motors sitting around - my father and my grandfather were both pilots, so this was always a point of interest for them. Compared to other malls in the Memphis area at that time, this mall was much more upscale, with stores like Gantos, Dawhares (which has to be the most hideous name for a store), and a Victoria's Secret back when their interiors looked like an English cottage rather than a neon whorehouse. We moved from the area in April 1993, and about a month after we moved a woman was shot and killed at an ATM down the street. She had only withdrawn 30 or $40, and they killed her for it. I remember that really being the death-knell of this area. The city was pushing to annex any and everything it could, and crime began to explode. Wow, I haven't thought about the Hickory Ridge mall and all the hours I spent there, singing, working, and shopping in many years. Thanks for posting this.
That video was so amazing. So sad and emotional. So I jumped in the car and made the 7 hour drive to see it myself. After standing amidst the palm trees and 80s food court i really can say it’s the closest thing to time travel I’ve ever experienced. Tears were shed after visiting this place. Not only for the sad reality that soon it won’t exist anymore but also the pure joy that came with being able to walk it’s amazing corridors. Thank u dan for what u do here on the dead mall series.
I lived near the mall when I moved to Memphis. So much of our lived revolved around this mall. thank you for bringing back the great memories. Do you remember Annabelle's? Loved that restaurant...
I remember Annabelle's at the entrance, and when the mall first opened, there was a German restaurant that was called Fritzie's, I think.I remember my mother always shopped at Timothy's shoes.It was so amazing when it first opened in I think 1983.I was 12 then.Ah, the 80's...
We took our kids to the Hickory Ridge Mall frequently in the 90's. The carousel, the Disney Store, the movie theater, the food court; it was a great mall for families.
Colleen: Hold my mall occupancy documentation, for I am taking over the mall and will rename it Caple Mills (because [first of all: it is 3 kilometers north of the center of Capleville] and [second of all: there are distribution centers]; I can obtain at least $1,114,250 worth of profit from distribution for reviving this mall).
There used to be a kids' play area in the '80s. I remember playing on it in '88 when my family was visiting our kin in Memphis. The play area consisted of wooden animals that you could climb on. I distinctly remember one of the animals being a turtle. This play area was located in one of the anchor courts, if I recall correctly. Another memory I have of that mall, same trip, was not getting out of there before closing, and the security guard led us out through a service corridor that was normally closed to the public, which I remember thinking was super cool!
This one really brought back the memories. My family lived in nearby Collierville, TN (my dad built the CATV systems for Collierville and Germantown) and I attended the University of Memphis. This and the now-leveled Mall of Memphis were our local malls. My first job was weekends at the Hallmark store in Hickory Ridge. This was starting about 1981 until early 1984, when we relocated to Georgia. I also worked for a semester at the Ice Capades ice rink at the MoM. (Learned to drive the zamboni!) At Hickory Ridge, I worked after classes at a little cross stitch supply shop just to the left of the main front entrance. Where the merry-go-round now stands used to be a sunken stage area, with amphitheater style seating, and professional sound and lighting. I believe they actually had Lily Tomlin performing there. They had a different show or singing group or activity (such as video game tournaments) every month. It was a happening little mall. Thanks for the trip back in time!
LittleRockElevators It was just The Peabody when I lived there. They had just renovated it. When I was very young, say 5 or 6 my family stayed across the street and it was a very unsavory place. It shut down for about 10 years until a group of investors bought it to renovate. Being an impoverished college student, I didn't go there but once to see the ducks.
LittleRockElevators The Peabody Place mall had a nice Malco. The Starbucks was cool. I remember a good pizza place to eat at. It also had a Jillians which I never went to. Then it got hood as fuck really quick. The Belz shut it down quick before it became anything like the other malls. They did loose their ass for awhile until Service Master moved in and made it's headquarters and the Belz raked in the money making it an unseen investment. I worked at the Peabody Hotel and my dad has been working there for 25 years. It was nice and the closest thing anyone on the other side of the River in Arkansas had to do but like anything in Memphis it gets taken over and ruined. There is no such thing as a place for social gathering in Memphis anymore that won't have crime.
The feeling i got watching this was so crazy. NOSTALGIA! i use to come to this mall a lot when i was younger. Seeing the food court, (retro.. took me back to the 80's early 90's) and of course the stairs on the carousel. It sucks that good malls decrease because of sales, but mostly crimes. I'm just waiting to read about the wolfchase galleria, with the shootings around there, its only a matter of time. Thank you for sharing this!
As a former memphian, this mall used to be the best. The mall of memphis was cool, but living in fox meadows, this was the closest and I used to love going here.
Julia Ryder Landmark originally had chairs like that then they got painted white. I have a old photo of me and my neighbor hanging and eating Chick-fil-A and Flamers burgers. The signs are also like the old Springfield Mall food court signs from the main food court. I'm not a real fan of the new Springfield Town Center, but i hear that Macy's might close and JCP is in trouble, so it might turn in to a new dead mall except for Dave and Busters.
This mall is surrounded by some of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in Memphis. I went to the Raleigh Springs Mall a few months ago and did a video on it but I will not go anywhere this far south into Memphis. In South Memphis you get singled out if you're white or if you look like you've got money. It's very dangerous to be there and you need to get the hell out of South Memphis completely before nighttime. The Hickory Ridge Mall is the second largest mall in Memphis. From largest to smallest, it goes Wolfchase Galleria, Hickory Ridge, the now demolished Raleigh Springs Mall, the vacant Peabody Place in downtown, and Oak Court Mall. With the further decline of Hickory Ridge Mall and the destruction of Raleigh Springs, the crime issues have moved to Wolfchase. Everybody goes to Wolfchase because there's no other places besides Oak Court even though Oak Court has had crime issues for decades. Wolfchase has been around my whole life but it's starting to decline too with a few small stores here and there peppered around the complex being vacant. It's very sad to know that once Wolfchase goes down, there's no other equivalent alternatives within Shelby County.
AleaIactaEst ooh no your white privilege must feel so dejected 😔 Boohoo why can’t white people put on their big boy pants stop getting butthurt and just stay and your lane don’t stick your giant noses where they don’t belong and then just maybe you won’t get in situations like this **gasps** a whole idea
boyeon rhee How is it "white privilege" to be mugged at gunpoint for being the wrong skin color? Are you saying that there are places where white people don't belong? Using the basis of your logic, the African American family who moved in two houses down and renovated what used to be an eyesore of a house into the best looking, highest valued house in the neighborhood are required to leave the neighborhood because it's majority white? It has to work both ways to be logical, right? The truth is I have just as much right to go anywhere in Memphis as somebody with a different skin tone. Take your divisive partisan rhetoric and shove it up your ass since it seems that you're just a little too uptight.
You evidently have no memory of the Mall of Memphis which was the largest mall and had a large ice skating rink. It closed due to the same reasons this mall closed but the Mall of Memphis closed a few years before the Hickory Ridge Mall.
jckrell the Hickory Ridge Mall isn’t closed yet and the Mall Of Memphis wasn’t included on the list because it’s currently a wide open field with a few storage buildings on the far west side of the site. Is there anything else you feel the need to correct me on?
This is my first video of yours. Your intro is so long I thought the whole video was vaporwave. Man, it's so sad to see a staple of my youth just completely abandoned. Not this mall particularly, but malls in general. It was always just so exciting to stroll through a mall. Hearimg people chattering, smelling all the foods, seeing all the bright and flashy things. Sad.
I used to love coming to this mall when I was little and riding the merry go round. Memphis has always had nice malls, mall of Memphis, hickory ridge, Peabody mall, etc, they all went to waste 🤦🏾♀️
Mall of Memphis (2005) closed after a spike in carjackings and robberies. Peabody Mall (sometime in 2007 - 2008) closed on possible local opposition. Raleigh Springs (closed in 2015; demolished 2017 for renovation project) noticed a large spike in crime before it closed...
Yeah that food court! Righteous! So good to see a new Dead Mall up this morning. I've watched some of the others upwards of 18 times. There aren't any dead malls (that I know of) where I live, Portland, Oregon and your documentaries bring it. Thanks!
Byron Kellogg I agree with you entirely, its the very sad reality of better times dying away from our lives and it really depresses me to know we most likely will never experience such places anymore.
Byron Kellogg yes its so sad. There are a few malls near me that are still going very strong but Dan did visit a mall very close to me called Forest Fair mall and its sad cause its such a beautiful mall but has like 2 stores. Its like seeing my childhood and teen years die.
I learned yesterday, that a mall I frequented as a kid, just closed. I was last there last month, it still had one anchor store, and 10 small shops, that was it. Like you there are many in my area that are still going strong.
I love the computer animations in the intro! They are from “The Minds Eye” and “Beyond the Minds Eye” VHS & DVD’s! I bought them in 1995 at the Learningsmith and The Nature Company- love you Dan!
I used to shop and hang out there weekends from about 1980 -1995 used to be such a nice place.its really sad whenever you have something nice in Memphis thugs and ppl just trash everything worthwhile. that's why I hate to say it but so many people left Memphis you cant raise a decent family in a place filled with drugs drive bys and gangs.this mall of Memphis,which was demolished.it had a ice skate rink.before macys it had goldsmiths and sears as anchors. if you look around Memphis you will see all kinds of ghost stores such as kmart supercenter own the street from hick.ridge.mall. just really a sad sad heartless city.Why do some people find it nescesary to ruin anything ang everything good in Memphis? Look around millions of people would go to fairgrounds for mid south fair, then late ninetys there were stabbings muggings robbery etc. and no mother would let kids go to fair unsupervised any longer the way they used to.some people aren't happy until they take everything from you-ppl who actually work for a living, they could have worked also and helped us keep businesses malls etc. nice and enjoyable for all people but nooo they had to trash Memphis and make it undesireable for people to live there. well when city cant pay for nice things anymore because of crime I hope the ones who created the ghost town of Memphis are satisfied living and trying to shop in a wasteland.So look around and take pride in the wasteland you helped create!
These dead mall videos have been my Sunday afternoons for two weeks. Kinda come out of watching these a little melancholy being a child of the 80's. Malls were the meeting place for movies, shopping, work (once I turned 16), dates and just hanging out. Miss them.
I was one of those kids in jenco jeans setting at the food court. I enjoy these videos so much. It's such a strange feeling of nostalgia, sadness and a bit eerie.
I have a suggestion for a mall to feature. The pierre mall in pierre SD. Last time I was there, there were just a few businesses & after the Kmart closed, it was replaced by a hobby lobby, but they made their own front entrance & closed the one connected to the mall. Kind of a jerk move on their part, bc it really hurts the rest of the mall.
They should make abandoned malls into apartments. It would benefit a lot of communities.
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I stumbled onto this channel and am fascinated by it. I'm a native West Coaster living in Southern California, but from 1989 to 1995 I lived in a few states on the East Coast in some of the areas you visit. I'm absolutely floored that such large facilities like all these malls are allowed to die like this! I can't think of a single mall in this kind of shape in Southern California, and all the big malls here in Orange County are really vibrant and fresh and still packed like crazy on weekends (South Coast Plaza, Fashion Island, Brea Mall, Downtown Disney, Irvine Spectrum, etc., etc.). We hear in the media that there's a forgotten America where the economy still sucks and communities have died, and it's so hard to believe. Yet I love watching these videos and seeing these American cities where malls big and small have died and are just rotting. Very, very concerning and very weird to see. Keep it up!
The OC has a 0.6% African American population....The Hickory Hill area? 79.6% Black on black crime and poverty are the biggest factors in the demise of our wonderful malls....
This is Dan Bell. it sounds so realistic. I also found out about your series from the Owings Mills Mall Wikipedia page after I was listening to a vaporwave mix. You have intrigued my interest into how malls have declined throughout the early 21st century
I used to work in this mall doing surveys (Yes , I was the annoying survey person) and back in 1995-2000 it was the spot. It breaks my heart to see how it looks now and this was in 2017. I wonder what it looks like now? I'm going back sometime this year. Thank you for posting. It brings back so many memories.
My daughters and I went about a month ago. The carousel is still operational, but it is so sad and desolate. It brought tears to my eyes to see what has become of a place I spent so many hours of my youth in. 😢
This was once a thriving mall in a thriving neighborhood until two things happened- Memphis annexed the area and white flight ensued. Hickory Hill became Hickory Hood and the death spiral began.
Thank you. My grandfather used to walk around this mall in the mornings for exercise along with many other elderly during the early 2000s before the crime crept in. Yes. That was a Claire’s. Wow! The memories this video brings up. Yes, That feeling in that food court was warm and inviting even back in the 1900s. The fountain at the end was a wishing fountain where you could throw coins in and make a wish. This was one of the last malls to have a warner brothers store.
You're right about the crime like others have said in various replies. I had some friends that used to live in that area in the mid-nineties so I ended up going to this mall quite a bit, but around 1997 or so they moved so I stopped having a reason to be in that part of town. Fast forward to around 2002-2003 or so and I was hunting around for some old PC game (Soul Reaver, I believe) and having exhausted every other store in the general area I decided to try the store in Hickory Ridge Mall. I think it was either Software, Etc or maybe Gamestop. Either way, when I got to the mall I could tell the drastic change in atmosphere immediately. The mall was almost deserted at that point. It looked way more run down and dirty and something about the atmosphere just made me feel like I didn't need to be there, like finding yourself in a dark alley at night. Got in and got out as fast as I could and never went back. I did end up finding that game in that store though so at least it was a fruitful trip.
Dan please never stop making dead mall videos. There's something strangely cathartic about you rambling about the mall while walking through the dead malls. By far my favorite series on UA-cam.
Not if it's run by a megachurch. Their stance on the homeless is something like: "God rewards with material wealth the good, so if you're homeless, it means you did something to deserve it, so screw you."
Why not turn it into a homless shelter . I doubt any pther retailer is gonna come in. I loke dan's idea of turning dead malls into afforable housing. All that floor space. Or schools or hospitals. Stylish af for a public sector hospital.
I grew up going to this mall and shipped here almost every weekend, Dan you were right JNCOs were all over this mall, Spencer's use to be a store around the food court, there was a gazooks that was there for years you could buy the jncos, wide pants, etc was awesome during the 90s. Sadly everything in Memphis dies eventually not just the malls! You should've went and checked out Oak Court in Memphis it's on its way to becoming a dead mall Thanks for the video!
Mr Nezic The Second dude, Oak Court isn't dead by any means. Mostly occupied. I don't go there much but it's still alive. It's not the upper scale mall it used to be.... obviously.
I remember when this mall was at it's prime. So sad how it's demised came about. The last time I remember going to this mall I was threatened by a couple of thugs who wanted my cellphone. What is even more incredible/depressing is how the entire neighborhood around this mall decayed. In the end, the entire area became the equivalent of a third world country.
You should visit Ft. Steuben Mall in Steubenville Ohio. One main anchor, Sears, already pulled out and Macy's is leaving soon. And that just leaves JCPennys. And with all of the anchors leaving, in an already dead part of Ohio where there is no financial benefit for new business to move in, I can't imagine the mall lasting for more than a couple of years.
Ugh, seeing those wonderful colors in the food court makes me really hate today's "everything must be white, grey or black" interior styles. Same goes for cars. We need some color again!
Maybe the snobbish designers of today would allow us some color if we just limit it to one color per interior, and only in occasional, limited streaks to break up the greyness. Or maybe they'd be willing to let us do things the baroque way, with a solid color everywhere, and then some white or silver trim. Or maybe they just won't let us have any color anymore until everybody finally gets sick to death of grey in like 20 more years and the one guy who starts using color again will be hailed as a genius.
kz1000ps It's called minimalism. It's a timeless style--it ages really well. That's probably why it's so popular. You think it's boring, but boring is better than obnoxiously dated. At least to me *shrug* lol
OMG. I think I actually bought my JNCO jeans here in 1997... and I've eaten so many times in that food court. Kinda happy to see it's still alive and kicking (it was dying 15 years ago).
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The cool thing about dead malls is the feeling of time traveling back to the 80s/90s
Those days are gone now! I miss the good old days when the mall was the place to go! Dave & Busters, Tower Records, Sam Goody, Virgin Records, The Food court! Everyone hung out at the mall b/c that the place to go! Its 2017 and now everyone has no place to go and everything sucks now!!
I miss Sun Coast Video and EB Games. There was this science store in the mall by me too I thought it was the coolest. I miss the 90s. I miss my childhood. I swear shit wasn't as bad in the 90s as now.
+Jay McCartney You're certainly not wrong about that. The cold war was over, the economy was doing pretty good, imo some of the best video games ever were being released (it's the decade of the 16-bit & 32/64-bit era!), Saturday morning cartoons was still a thing. There were just more reasons to get out and run around, more mystery, and more surprises as a result. The 90's was an awesome decade to be a kid!
The internet was kinda there in it's infancy, but wasn't really in our faces the way it is now, spoiling everything we would normally discover for ourselves. While I really do love the internet, it has been a bit of a double-edged sword in many regards and along with the many conveniences it has given, some things have been lost.
Jimmy Ochoa I know right the good old day's.
everyone sit at home on the internet ..malls died because of this
the aesthetics are 2 real
Artzie Music HEY i love your channel. weird seeing you here
Artzie Music wow It sure is .
Watching footage of an abandoned mall is like watching a sad movie. All the people that once gathered in these places, all the memories created. ALL GONE.
But the memories still remain, that's why they're memories, right?
Nothing is ever truly lost to us as long as we remember it.
But it will be harder to bring it all back that we once had.
Not gone, just got cell phones that they now worship instead of interacting w each other at the mall. Humanity is lost.
Marysol_Gomez That was the same feeling I had the last time I visited Crossroads Mall three years ago.
something about 90's architecture makes me feel at home, even though its not my favorite.
it's not 90s , it's 80s
Like 90s music to me
@@robroux6074 not 80s
@@blandmalls it's most popular time was the 80s I was there
Whoever is taking care of the plants here should be running this country.
Bellachea Maria One of the best comments I've seen on these videos.
That's the kind of comment that makes some men think women should not be allowed to vote. And no, I'm not one of them although I think people with that intellectual outlook are unfit to vote (regardless of gender).
@@vondahe i think people should have to be able to pass a citizenship test to before they are allowed to vote
Fuck Trump. His day in the whitehouse are numbered
@@tittyannafox6693 lol. Of course nobody's there forever.
The intro of this video is a e s t h e t i c AF!!
The Vaporwave is very strong with this video
Maqaroon!!!!
LOL 🤣 🤣
Maqaroon Please no..
Was that a Charlie Sheen cameo?
Hi from Memphis! I worked here as a teen in the 80s. This mall used to be so awesome back in the day. Thank you for the nostalgia! ❤ And yeah, that food court was totally rad. 😉
TheErinnF Hi! I'm from Memphis as well. Was great to see Dan do a video on this. Would've been great to see one from the Mall of Memphis before they tore it down.
Elvic730 YESSS! That would've been cool. This video made me sad. *sniff* So many fun memories in this place.
Elvic730 I only live down the street from this Mall. Bit I was a mall rat back in the Mall of Memphis days. Sadly, the only thing left of the Mall of Memphis is their website, a memorial.
was there an aids epimic in the 80s?
trap4dafu2k0fit yes
Dan, I wanna thank you for making this series, but especially this video. I grew up in this mall. My mom used to work in a furniture store across from the KB Toys, and before I was old enough to go to school, she would just bring me to work with her. I haven't seen this mall since I was a kid, and this just brought back a flood of memories. When you showed the food court I admit, I teared up a little bit.
Thank you so much for filming this, and please keep it going. These places are really special to a lot of us.
I grew up in Memphis and this used to be THE mall to go to.
A little history. The Hickory Ridge Mall used to be in what was Shelby County, until the early 1990s when it was officially annexed into the expanded Memphis city limits and officially became East Memphis. When that occurred, the Shelby County sheriffs - who were in control of the area - were pushed out and the Memphis City Police came in. However, the city expanded way too quickly and didn't properly cover the area. So the mall and the area around descended into absolute chaos and crime. You literally had the area and some of the homes that used to be $500k become literal crack dens.
I had such fond memories of that place. The late 90's hurt it badly and the tornado hitting it killed it officially.
blee427 it seems like so much of real America and respectable places and even decent music died in the late nineties right as we came to the time we were all waiting for, the millennium.
Who knew that the 21st century would suck _SO MUCH_!
I grew in Memphis and yes, this was THE mall to go to. Before Hickory Ridge Mall, it was the Mall of Memphis with the ice rink in the middle of the food court, remember?Then that closes... When I visited Memphis last month, The Raleigh Springs Mall was GONE...I think Memphis only have maybe two malls left..so sad.. I am glad Dan got this mall on video. My hang out spot in this was the food court .. never looked at the food court as a 90's theme until i watched this vid lol! so many memories there....
Mall of Memph was THE place! They closed that down, then Hickory Ridge was THE place! They closed that down, then Raliegh Springs was THE place! They closed that down, the Oak Court mall was THE place! Meanwhile the Wolfchase got built and now it's THE place. Needless to say that the Oak Court Mall is on a rapid decline due to crime and crime.
All these comments here are pretty dead on. We lived not too far from HRM when it opened and by the 1990s, the whole area was so different. But that's Memphis for ya! Glad I left after high school.
I’m 18 and remember how the mall used to be before 2008. It was beautiful and packed but now it’s pretty empty. I grew up in east Memphis and lived near that area. Crime was a problem.
Just an FYI, that tornado in 2008? There were looters running in and out of the hole in the side of Sears while the damn tornado was still on the ground.
Sniokoo yup I remember that day like yesterday wish I was there I could’ve came up !
@@footba11fan41ife 💀
Clay Such bloody legends
@Aimee Webber It was a sight to behold. Now they just loot freely.
True Memphians
Yay! Another Dead Mall episode! I don't know what it is, but there is something about the way Dan talks into the mic and walks rocky-like, while we look at the haunting footage of these near catatonic malls, that reminds me of a lullaby. The mall music playing in the background just adds to the dreamy effect, and it makes me want to curl up and go to sleep. :)
kimlalajo exactly
haha actually sometimes i watch these vids to help me sleep
Same here! :)
The dead mall series is very medicinal and meditative.
@ErikTheRed, Yes sir, it is. I love it. :)
*"Mall is sick today. Please don't ride this Mall"*
Best Dan Bell Quote ever, "they grabbed their Craftsman drills and had the store back open in five days."
Anyone get chills when they showed the food court? Literally frozen in time....Like taking a time machine back to the 80s and 90s... Soo haunting yet beautiful.
Oh my god, this is so sad. When I lived in Memphis in the early 90's, I went to this mall every weekend. I worked for Intl Paper and would buy a new tie, shop with my girlfriend, eat at the food court. To see it now ... ugh
That’s what the videos are all about, those memories right there.
I really love the Dead Mall Series, even though it always kind of bums me out, cause I get nostalgic about what WAS. The Mall was LIFE growing up as a kid!
I’m a 35 year old Memphian. Growing up in the Graceland area of Whitehaven, the only mall my parents and I really frequented was the Southland Mall (which is still standing with one anchor store...it’s mainly an urban mall), but driving out to Oak Court, The Mall of Memphis, Raleigh Springs (my favorite), and Hickory Ridge Mall was a treat!! When I was 16, I got my second job in the Hickory Ridge Mall as an associate for the now defunct Dawahare’s. That was in late 1999-2000. The mall along with the area was still nice. That part of town didn’t decline until 2005 which WAS around the time housing projects in both North and South Memphis were closed down, and the Carriage Crossing outdoor mall in Collierville really caused shoppers (including myself) to shop at Collierville instead. My last time at Macy’s Hickory Ridge was in 12/2007 where I purchased a beautiful red handbag 😂😂. By that time, Service Merchandise has since closed, Applebee’s was gone, O’Charley’s and TGI Friday’s left back in the 1990’s partly due to a brutal murder, and the only anchor stores in the mall by then WAS Macy’s and Dillard’s. Once the tornado hit that area in March of 2008, everything went to hell after. All of the restaurants have jumped ship, and World Overcomers bought the mall in 2010, promising people that the mall will be back better than ever. I honestly don’t know how this mall is still open. A lot of people (myself included) do shop online, but demographics and crime did play a major role in the demise of the area. It really saddens me what this city overall has come to be. That is why so many are migrating to Mississippi. It’s booming in Olive Branch!
demographics!!!?!?! You must be a white supremacist!!!
@@melgibsonaftertwobeers6119 ^Low IQ Memphis person.
Could you interview the owner of a mostly dead mall like this one? It would make a really interesting video.
Unfortunately most probably wouldn't want to because they'd think it make them look bad, which is dumb but most people are lol.
I showed this video to my mom and she was so excited to see this place again! Throughout the video while listening to your narration she was constantly nodding her head and saying, "I remember that!" She would hang out there almost every weekend.
She got pretty nostalgic watching and remembering back in the day when there were so many people and stores still there.
Back in the early 60's, shopping centers were all the rage. You could have a big chain store like BIG K and a bunch of smaller stores in the same shopping center. These shopping centers were not like todays shopping centers. These shopping centers were all designed around people and their cars. They had covered sidewalks and covered parking spaces and many had valet service to watch your car. What was really neat was people would only walk to the next store if it was just a few feet away. Anything more and you just drove to the next store and parked. Even if it was just 75 to 100 feet away. Everything was car centric. Restaurants like A&W, Bobs Big Boy, Big Chef were hits. It was fun! lazy but fun. It was like having a v8 powered shopping cart with you all the time.
Then came the malls. Mainly because people started to realize that most of the time when they went shopping, they were spending as much if not more on gas than they did at the stores. A gallon of gas cost about 26 cents, a loaf of wonder bread was about 19cents and a pound of hamburger was about 29cents.
Malls came about because of convenience and cost savings for the public.
Now the same thing is happening with malls that happened with shopping centers. For convenience and saving money, people are turning to online purchasing.
But just like everything before it, online shopping will fall to the wayside and something else will take its place in the public's interest.
Who knows, it may even revert back to the beginnings where a retailer went above and beyond to make every customer feel like something special when they walked into their store. Like it was in the 50's and 60's.
Grand old memories of a bygone era.
vaylon1701 very well-written! I feel I must defend the malls to degree and say that we still had a V-8 powered shopping cart (a phrase I'm going to steal by the way) because since there were no _actual_you shopping carts people would take things out by the bag to put in the trunk and then while you're out there you'd just move the car closer to the entrance closest to the stores you wanted to go to. That way by the end of the day you were near your car instead of having to backtrack all the way through the mall past stores you had already been through.
I remember having that chore as a teenager; to run stuff out to the car for my mom and then moving the car around the mall as she shopped.
A chore I _loved_ of course! Driving the LeSabre in the parking lot and listening to the radio for 5 minutes hoping my friends would see me! Good Times!
That could happen.
i love reading the comments on these videos.
I kind of hope things revert to more mall-centric, rather than online shopping eventually. I never experienced malls in their prime since I'm pretty young. But I think there is some kind of "magic" about having a place where you and your family/friends can hang out, go shopping, even play video games in an arcade. I'm sure it'll never be exactly the same as it was.
Someone should create an retro themed mall that emulates how it was back in the day. It's something I'd love to do myself; though I'm not sure how hard it'd be. I've thought about it before. It'd include arcades, stores, food court, and even a movie theater.... all retro aesthetic.
I worked at the Babbage's in this mall back in 1996! Cool to see it again, Dan!
Babbage’s. Lol. Haven’t heard that name in a while!
And directly across from the Babbage's was a Sanrio store. I dated a gal that worked there for a little while. Ah, memories!
Babbages! Crazy prices and uninterested staff, my lasting impression - probably something to do with why EB ate them and then Gamestop ate them. Storeception.
segaprophet they still have EB games in some parts of Canada kinda fucked up but idk why they are still in business.
Then you probably sold me many of games as I went there for years. I could not for the life of me remember the name of the game store. As I am getting closer to 30 the younger years are getting vague. Now in the early 2000's I do remember buying The Misadventures of Tron Bonne here and I still have it. Booking pretty nice online right now. I also remember having bought Mega Man Legends 2 and having to take it back because it wouldn't play on my system because it was a blue disc. Not the demo but the readable data side was blue. And to this day nobody has ever heard of a blue disc copy. It wasn't a bootleg, knockoff, or import. It was just simply a full version blue disc of MML2. I ended up trading it for MML1 :/ I remember the store for having rare and obscure games but this was back before I knew of anything about collecting and we had no mobile internet.
At first reminded me of a dead mall in Elizabeth City, NC. Before this series I never really paid attention to dead/dying malls, now every time I go into a mall I notice the cool little details like the old neon signs and I'm looking at the flooring and all of the things I never noticed before. Thanks for the newfound appreciation of old malls! They're really interesting when you stop and think about it.
Rennles that mall is very dead been there a few times
Eddie Stinson There are hundreds of malls in California. Try Los Angeles or San Diego
Same! Especially since I have a dying mall near me as well. But even busy malls I still look around and imagine what it will be like once it finally dies out too.
Forgot to mention avoid San Bernardino Mall, its dead
Rennles If your a NC local there's the one in kinston
Internet killed the shopping mall star....
LOL, here you go. :)
Internet Killed the Shopping Mall
I shopped here back in eighty two
I spend all my money in you
I was young it didn't stop me coming through
Oh a oh
They took the credit cards for everything
Rewritten by machine on new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
Oh a oh
I met your children
Oh a oh
What did you tell them?
Internet Killed the Shopping Mall
Internet Killed the Shopping Mall
The internet came and broke your heart
Oh, a, a, a, oh
And now we meet in an abandoned mall
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
And you remember the jingles used to go
Oh-a oh
You were the first one
Oh-a oh
You were the last one
Internet Killed the Shopping Mall
Internet Killed the Shopping Mall
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
Oh-a-aho oh
Oh-a-aho oh
photolabguy Amazon killed the malls imo. that and old people afraid of the people hanging out in front of the malls lol we used to laugh at people who thought we were a gang 😂😂😂😂😂
Along with blacks and mexicans.
Bwahahahahaaa..Amber Lopez....I could say the exact same thing about Hispanics.
Nishi Hundan absolutely you're right !
God this series is relaxing, and the music...ah the music
i live in memphis and you got balls going to that area of town, also i havent been to that mall in over 10 years and i remember riding the carousel when i was younger. thank you for letting me go down memory lane one last time
p3wned wtf, I LIVE in that area of town and nothing ever happens, stop listening to the news because they make our area look like shit, when it actually has nothing going on.
man that's sad you think like that. you could be harmed anywhere in town. that thinking is what the system pray on to keep y'all busting yalls ass to stay in a so called safe neighborhood. smh. keep living in a illusion, and letting others control where you can go.
We were raised thinking it was a bad part of town cause our parents are fucking brainwashing racists.
peycasso lmao don’t shit go down bad over there? are you out yo mind?You on the couch. Don’t know shit about the streets ain’t shut save about hickory hill knight Arnold none of it lol
I swear dude lol
Drove past this place going to the farmer’s market on Winchester & man, I miss it when I was a kid
Every one of these videos are ART - pure unrelenting ART. Perfectly conceptualized, produced and executed. Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much, Brian. No easy feat but completely worth it.
Zachary Cameron damn, youre judgemental and ugly.
Zachary Cameron what the....oh well, whatever. it's your opinion right? proud of Whamazon and wonder's of Ebruh online shopping eh? right eh?
Dan, thank you so much for posting this! I literally squealed out loud when I saw the title. lol I grew up in the Hickory Hill area and spent countless hours at this mall as a child and teenager. There were so many cool features in the mall. I'm not sure if you were able to see the remnants of them. I'm assuming you entered through the main entrance (facing Winchester Rd). Back in the day, inside to the left of the front entrance was a beautiful, two-story restaurant with an atrium called Annabelle's. The food was incredible. I would call it a slightly upscale restaurant. It was filled with greenery and high, wicker, fan-back chairs (very 80's). On the left side of the food court was a great arcade and either a two-screen or four-screen movie theatre. Across from the food court was a Walgreen's drugstore which either later became a Chik-Fil-A or Chik-Fil-A moved in beside it. Some of the places in the food court were Swensen's, Sbarro, Corn Dog Heaven, and Char-Grill, just to name a few. Store-wise, I remember Gadzook's, Camelot Music, Structure, County Seat, United Colors of Benetton, Contempo, U.S. Male, Suncoast, KayBee, Lerner, Waldenbooks...just to name a few. This mall was so awesome back in the day. If you're ever in Memphis again, I'd love to tell you some great places, abandoned and not abandoned, to explore. I love all of your vids! Thanks for everything you do!
Amber Hayes I'm not from there but I love your enthusiasm and your account of your favorite teenage Mall! It mirrors much of my own so even if we were separated hundreds of miles it's reassuring to know that others still remember with pure fondness rather than an ironic sarcasm.
It was pure joy and fun and maybe just a _little_ bit of naughty but it was a shared experience for a couple of generations and millions of people! Take care! And keep your positive attitude! :)
Also Castrioti's Pizza, Court Jester were next to the Cinema
I was just there. I live in Colorado, used to live in Memphis, and was in Memphis for a few days visiting friends. Boy, I can tell you all about that Mall and the City of Memphis. Not only is the Mall dying, but that entire section of the city has been dying for years. What used to be a vibrant suburb and the American Dream, Hickory Hill...turned into Hickory Hood. Memphis tore down all their public housing and spread the ghetto out into the suburban neighborhoods with Section 8 housing and ruined entire neighborhoods. Winchester Ave. used to be wall to wall Commercial, with malls, shopping, auto dealers, restaurants, etc. but almost everything has closed. An inept and corrupt City government drove the business and residential tax base into the unannexed suburbs. That area will never come back and it is tragic.
CosmicStargoat I remember going to Graceland in the 80s and there was a vibrant shopping area around it I still have my token from the Elvis Presley arcade across the street. In recent years when I told people I went they would say "oh my God are you kidding? It's not nice at all, it's in a total ghetto!"
I was shocked how quickly things can change, from an upscale part of town honoring the legendary king of rock and roll many years after his death, it really was a nice friendly safe clean tourist area with people of all kinds there. And lots of entertainment!
Seems to be the story of America. This tale can be told about countless other cities across this nation. First the powers that be destroyed the big cities of America after WW2 forcing everyone to the suburbs. Now it's the suburbs turn on the chopping block.
Leon Andrews How exactly did “black people” destroy it? What happened?
Sydney Smith with crime , high poverty, not working, pretty simple really
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I worked for the landscaping company in this mall in it's glory days in 1990 . You commented about the food court. At one time it had a huge multi panel video board playing music videos and such. Sad to say this is one of 3-4 Malls in Memphis that went into ruin due to crime .
The whole city of Memphis is now crime-ridden.
Dan, I love your intros into these dead mall videos.They have a great sense of fun and nostalgia.I love the music too.I could watch them all day.
Man I loved that mall in the early 90's. So many special childhood memories. Seeing those chairs in the food court took me back. I still remember the sound they made when the would scoot across the tiles.
Love that Sears story, that is like the heart of Sears right there. "Grabbed their craftsman drills and they were back open in a few days."
OMG I cannot believe you filmed the HRM. I am 30 years old and when I was in elementary school, my dad took my brother and I here several times. I LOVED riding the carousel (I used to call it "The Carousel Mall"). My brother passed away 7 years ago so I really cherish those memories...and I cannot believe I am watching a video you filmed there! Also, fun fact...I came in first place in a crawl-a-thon at this mall when I was a baby. lol. :)
Oh noooo the tears! 😭 I grew up at this mall. Went every weekend with my family. Rode the carousel a thousand times. Thanks for the memories, man!
I would buy those food court chairs for my house tbh
no one there to stop you from taking a set home.
@@Strongbah43 actually there's most likely a security guard in a back room watching all the cameras.
The black corridor benches are pretty fabulous.
@@Fireglo i doubt any security guard would give a shit, the place is dead
The common denominator for all the dying malls seems to be crime. As soon as people don't feel COMPLETELY comfortable in a setting, that is the beginning of the end.
It is kind of sad how malls are failing, it is like losing bits and pieces of America, First it was the drive in theaters, now the malls.
Passions Star Kansas City still has several active large Drive-In movies except now you get the sound in through your radio but they have tore down most of the malls unfortunately.
"Make America Eighties Again!
And I intend absolutely no sarcasm at all. I sincerely mean it!
It was a happier, more optimistic (and colorful) time.
It's a part of America that needs to die, imo.
the 80's were responsible for almost all of the ill's of the current day. Politically, economically, and socially the decade ended up creating a lot of things that still effect us today, like environmental denial-ism, shareholder-first corporate culture, infinite growth theory, deregulation, ect. It was a magical, optimistic time that achieved its bliss through the sacrifice of future decades
That part about it being responsible for ALL of ills of present-day America is pure hyperbole. Other than that, yeah, I definitely agree.
I lived within walking distance of this mall from 1975 to 1993, which was the year I graduated from high school. Adjacent to the food court there used to be a center stage area surrounded by an amphitheater. I sang on that centerstage in various telethons and variety shows throughout the early 90s. Directly across from centerstage was The Limited, which was where I got my first job when I was 16.
There was also a movie theater that opened right off of the food court. I must've seen dozens of movies there, but I can clearly remember seeing Field of Dreams and Clue. The corner store you can see in the video( in the food court) was an amazing ice cream store called Swensen's. Interestingly, when the mall was first built there were only two or three subdivisions in that area. My grandfather had developed one of these, and that was where we lived. Directly across the street from the mall was a large farm. The farm house (which I believe had been built before the Civil War) burned down when I was about eight or nine years old, and the entire neighborhood walked over and watched it burn. We were way too far out at that time for fire trucks to make it there before it burned to the ground. There was also an airstrip in the field directly across from the mall where the crop dusters used to take off and land. The farmer who lived there had a number of antique airplanes and airplane motors sitting around - my father and my grandfather were both pilots, so this was always a point of interest for them. Compared to other malls in the Memphis area at that time, this mall was much more upscale, with stores like Gantos, Dawhares (which has to be the most hideous name for a store), and a Victoria's Secret back when their interiors looked like an English cottage rather than a neon whorehouse. We moved from the area in April 1993, and about a month after we moved a woman was shot and killed at an ATM down the street. She had only withdrawn 30 or $40, and they killed her for it. I remember that really being the death-knell of this area. The city was pushing to annex any and everything it could, and crime began to explode. Wow, I haven't thought about the Hickory Ridge mall and all the hours I spent there, singing, working, and shopping in many years. Thanks for posting this.
This is a nice looking mall. That is so sad it is dead.
That video was so amazing. So sad and emotional. So I jumped in the car and made the 7 hour drive to see it myself. After standing amidst the palm trees and 80s food court i really can say it’s the closest thing to time travel I’ve ever experienced. Tears were shed after visiting this place. Not only for the sad reality that soon it won’t exist anymore but also the pure joy that came with being able to walk it’s amazing corridors. Thank u dan for what u do here on the dead mall series.
Dan, No one should be making dead mall videos but you. You're a step above. It's always a pleasure seeing you in my sub box. Cheers!
I lived near the mall when I moved to Memphis. So much of our lived revolved around this mall. thank you for bringing back the great memories. Do you remember Annabelle's? Loved that restaurant...
I remember Annabelle's at the entrance, and when the mall first opened, there was a German restaurant that was called Fritzie's, I think.I remember my mother always shopped at Timothy's shoes.It was so amazing when it first opened in I think 1983.I was 12 then.Ah, the 80's...
We took our kids to the Hickory Ridge Mall frequently in the 90's. The carousel, the Disney Store, the movie theater, the food court; it was a great mall for families.
*Macy's and Dillard's:* "Yea lets pack em up boy's we aren't gonna make it through this storm."
*Sear's:* "Hold my Bankruptcy"
Colleen: Hold my mall occupancy documentation, for I am taking over the mall and will rename it Caple Mills (because [first of all: it is 3 kilometers north of the center of Capleville] and [second of all: there are distribution centers]; I can obtain at least $1,114,250 worth of profit from distribution for reviving this mall).
Wtf isn't this higher??
@@kittyprydex It could have a higher value; I just have to see...
Yeah Rip Macys And Dillards Sears
Dillard's left Hickory Ridge Mall sometime around 2005-06.
There used to be a kids' play area in the '80s. I remember playing on it in '88 when my family was visiting our kin in Memphis. The play area consisted of wooden animals that you could climb on. I distinctly remember one of the animals being a turtle. This play area was located in one of the anchor courts, if I recall correctly. Another memory I have of that mall, same trip, was not getting out of there before closing, and the security guard led us out through a service corridor that was normally closed to the public, which I remember thinking was super cool!
This one really brought back the memories. My family lived in nearby Collierville, TN (my dad built the CATV systems for Collierville and Germantown) and I attended the University of Memphis. This and the now-leveled Mall of Memphis were our local malls. My first job was weekends at the Hallmark store in Hickory Ridge. This was starting about 1981 until early 1984, when we relocated to Georgia. I also worked for a semester at the Ice Capades ice rink at the MoM. (Learned to drive the zamboni!) At Hickory Ridge, I worked after classes at a little cross stitch supply shop just to the left of the main front entrance. Where the merry-go-round now stands used to be a sunken stage area, with amphitheater style seating, and professional sound and lighting. I believe they actually had Lily Tomlin performing there. They had a different show or singing group or activity (such as video game tournaments) every month. It was a happening little mall. Thanks for the trip back in time!
Yeah, right. Proof or it didn't happen.
LittleRockElevators It was just The Peabody when I lived there. They had just renovated it. When I was very young, say 5 or 6 my family stayed across the street and it was a very unsavory place. It shut down for about 10 years until a group of investors bought it to renovate. Being an impoverished college student, I didn't go there but once to see the ducks.
LittleRockElevators The Peabody Place mall had a nice Malco. The Starbucks was cool. I remember a good pizza place to eat at. It also had a Jillians which I never went to. Then it got hood as fuck really quick. The Belz shut it down quick before it became anything like the other malls. They did loose their ass for awhile until Service Master moved in and made it's headquarters and the Belz raked in the money making it an unseen investment. I worked at the Peabody Hotel and my dad has been working there for 25 years. It was nice and the closest thing anyone on the other side of the River in Arkansas had to do but like anything in Memphis it gets taken over and ruined. There is no such thing as a place for social gathering in Memphis anymore that won't have crime.
I bought some Garfield plushies at that Hallmark Store in 1982
That food court was straight out of my childhood! It's like a snapshot of the past - very cool.
djsolaris979 saved by the Bell all the way
The feeling i got watching this was so crazy. NOSTALGIA! i use to come to this mall a lot when i was younger. Seeing the food court, (retro.. took me back to the 80's early 90's) and of course the stairs on the carousel. It sucks that good malls decrease because of sales, but mostly crimes. I'm just waiting to read about the wolfchase galleria, with the shootings around there, its only a matter of time. Thank you for sharing this!
As a former memphian, this mall used to be the best. The mall of memphis was cool, but living in fox meadows, this was the closest and I used to love going here.
2:21 Such a perfect, crisp shot I thought it was CGI. I think the food court looks like a highly colorized version of Landmark Mall's.
Julia Ryder Landmark originally had chairs like that then they got painted white. I have a old photo of me and my neighbor hanging and eating Chick-fil-A and Flamers burgers. The signs are also like the old Springfield Mall food court signs from the main food court. I'm not a real fan of the new Springfield Town Center, but i hear that Macy's might close and JCP is in trouble, so it might turn in to a new dead mall except for Dave and Busters.
Julia Ryder I thought exactly the same thing when I saw the artwork in the food court. Then, your comment confirmed it.
The chairs here actually use to be white and got repainted these colors. I found earlier photos of them being white lol.
looks like a prismcorp virtual enterprises album cover
This mall is surrounded by some of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in Memphis. I went to the Raleigh Springs Mall a few months ago and did a video on it but I will not go anywhere this far south into Memphis. In South Memphis you get singled out if you're white or if you look like you've got money. It's very dangerous to be there and you need to get the hell out of South Memphis completely before nighttime. The Hickory Ridge Mall is the second largest mall in Memphis. From largest to smallest, it goes Wolfchase Galleria, Hickory Ridge, the now demolished Raleigh Springs Mall, the vacant Peabody Place in downtown, and Oak Court Mall. With the further decline of Hickory Ridge Mall and the destruction of Raleigh Springs, the crime issues have moved to Wolfchase. Everybody goes to Wolfchase because there's no other places besides Oak Court even though Oak Court has had crime issues for decades. Wolfchase has been around my whole life but it's starting to decline too with a few small stores here and there peppered around the complex being vacant. It's very sad to know that once Wolfchase goes down, there's no other equivalent alternatives within Shelby County.
Hayden's Productions I was wondering what kind of shape the Galleria was in, i knew the crime would creep in eventually.
AleaIactaEst ooh no your white privilege must feel so dejected 😔
Boohoo why can’t white people put on their big boy pants stop getting butthurt and just stay and your lane don’t stick your giant noses where they don’t belong and then just maybe you won’t get in situations like this **gasps** a whole idea
boyeon rhee How is it "white privilege" to be mugged at gunpoint for being the wrong skin color? Are you saying that there are places where white people don't belong? Using the basis of your logic, the African American family who moved in two houses down and renovated what used to be an eyesore of a house into the best looking, highest valued house in the neighborhood are required to leave the neighborhood because it's majority white? It has to work both ways to be logical, right? The truth is I have just as much right to go anywhere in Memphis as somebody with a different skin tone. Take your divisive partisan rhetoric and shove it up your ass since it seems that you're just a little too uptight.
You evidently have no memory of the Mall of Memphis which was the largest mall and had a large ice skating rink. It closed due to the same reasons this mall closed but the Mall of Memphis closed a few years before the Hickory Ridge Mall.
jckrell the Hickory Ridge Mall isn’t closed yet and the Mall Of Memphis wasn’t included on the list because it’s currently a wide open field with a few storage buildings on the far west side of the site. Is there anything else you feel the need to correct me on?
0:58
Even Charlie Sheen doesn't know what to make of all the raw aesthetic.
Great video, as always. Felt like I'd been transported to 1996.
Your videos bring back so much nostalgia. The music the malls. Reminds me when my mom, grandma, sis and I used to shop at malls
This is my first video of yours. Your intro is so long I thought the whole video was vaporwave. Man, it's so sad to see a staple of my youth just completely abandoned. Not this mall particularly, but malls in general. It was always just so exciting to stroll through a mall. Hearimg people chattering, smelling all the foods, seeing all the bright and flashy things. Sad.
I use to play an old PC game called Mall Tycoon and the music you played during the food court was in the sound track of the game and oh boy nostalgia
I used to love coming to this mall when I was little and riding the merry go round. Memphis has always had nice malls, mall of Memphis, hickory ridge, Peabody mall, etc, they all went to waste 🤦🏾♀️
Mall of Memphis (2005) closed after a spike in carjackings and robberies.
Peabody Mall (sometime in 2007 - 2008) closed on possible local opposition.
Raleigh Springs (closed in 2015; demolished 2017 for renovation project) noticed a large spike in crime before it closed...
That intro is so vaporwave haha. Awesome vid
I also make shitty vaporwave songs if anyone wants to check it out/cyberbully me soundcloud.com/user-378596283
The store with the ear piercing sign used to be a "The Icing by Claire's"
"Sears grabbed their Craftsman drills, and had the store open in 5 days" That killed me.
Yeah that food court! Righteous! So good to see a new Dead Mall up this morning. I've watched some of the others upwards of 18 times. There aren't any dead malls (that I know of) where I live, Portland, Oregon and your documentaries bring it. Thanks!
Wow The Food Court Was Amazing
Fondest memory of Hickory Ridge Mall: The Fried Cheese on a Stick... in the food court. Mmmmm
It kills me to see so many malls dying.
Byron Kellogg I agree with you entirely, its the very sad reality of better times dying away from our lives and it really depresses me to know we most likely will never experience such places anymore.
Byron Kellogg yes its so sad. There are a few malls near me that are still going very strong but Dan did visit a mall very close to me called Forest Fair mall and its sad cause its such a beautiful mall but has like 2 stores. Its like seeing my childhood and teen years die.
I learned yesterday, that a mall I frequented as a kid, just closed. I was last there last month, it still had one anchor store, and 10 small shops, that was it. Like you there are many in my area that are still going strong.
Ikr? It seems even the Mall Of America is beginning to die. There is a lot less people there than when I was little.
Guccini That actually means, a species of animals that is able to reproduce offspring.
I love the computer animations in the intro! They are from “The Minds Eye” and “Beyond the Minds Eye” VHS & DVD’s! I bought them in 1995 at the Learningsmith and The Nature Company- love you Dan!
Wow! This is one of the most beautiful shopping centres I've ever seen...still so colourful and bright, strangely.
I used to shop and hang out there weekends from about 1980 -1995 used to be such a nice place.its really sad whenever you have something nice in Memphis thugs and ppl just trash everything worthwhile. that's why I hate to say it but so many people left Memphis you cant raise a decent family in a place filled with drugs drive bys and gangs.this mall of Memphis,which was demolished.it had a ice skate rink.before macys it had goldsmiths and sears as anchors. if you look around Memphis you will see all kinds of ghost stores such as kmart supercenter own the street from hick.ridge.mall. just really a sad sad heartless city.Why do some people find it nescesary to ruin anything ang everything good in Memphis? Look around millions of people would go to fairgrounds for mid south fair, then late ninetys there were stabbings muggings robbery etc. and no mother would let kids go to fair unsupervised any longer the way they used to.some people aren't happy until they take everything from you-ppl who actually work for a living, they could have worked also and helped us keep businesses malls etc. nice and enjoyable for all people but nooo they had to trash Memphis and make it undesireable for people to live there. well when city cant pay for nice things anymore because of crime I hope the ones who created the ghost town of Memphis are satisfied living and trying to shop in a wasteland.So look around and take pride in the wasteland you helped create!
Your videos are a hybrid of ASMR and Mallsoft. I love it!
Another killer opening montage ! Totally goes w/ mall kitsch.
These dead mall videos have been my Sunday afternoons for two weeks. Kinda come out of watching these a little melancholy being a child of the 80's. Malls were the meeting place for movies, shopping, work (once I turned 16), dates and just hanging out. Miss them.
I was one of those kids in jenco jeans setting at the food court. I enjoy these videos so much. It's such a strange feeling of nostalgia, sadness and a bit eerie.
Commersialism between 1980-2005 had this really weird warm
And fuzzy feel to it.
omg the pink and blue chairs are amazing!!
Glad to hear they are trying to save the building. It's beautiful! 😊
I remember going to this mall when I was young. Thanks for posting this!
I have a suggestion for a mall to feature. The pierre mall in pierre SD. Last time I was there, there were just a few businesses & after the Kmart closed, it was replaced by a hobby lobby, but they made their own front entrance & closed the one connected to the mall. Kind of a jerk move on their part, bc it really hurts the rest of the mall.
Dead Mall Series is the best...AESTHETIC AS FUCK!
Y E S!!!
lukeyellow 46 i completely agree. This is the best series by far made by a very good cameraman
You are right about that food court... it's funny because it reminds me of Disney World signage straight from the 90s as well!
They should make abandoned malls into apartments. It would benefit a lot of communities.
I stumbled onto this channel and am fascinated by it. I'm a native West Coaster living in Southern California, but from 1989 to 1995 I lived in a few states on the East Coast in some of the areas you visit. I'm absolutely floored that such large facilities like all these malls are allowed to die like this! I can't think of a single mall in this kind of shape in Southern California, and all the big malls here in Orange County are really vibrant and fresh and still packed like crazy on weekends (South Coast Plaza, Fashion Island, Brea Mall, Downtown Disney, Irvine Spectrum, etc., etc.).
We hear in the media that there's a forgotten America where the economy still sucks and communities have died, and it's so hard to believe. Yet I love watching these videos and seeing these American cities where malls big and small have died and are just rotting. Very, very concerning and very weird to see. Keep it up!
The OC has a 0.6% African American population....The Hickory Hill area? 79.6%
Black on black crime and poverty are the biggest factors in the demise of our wonderful malls....
They used to have Radio Shack, kay bee toys with the blue carpet, Walden books, Pearl Vision, and a pet store near that Sears mall entrance.
That is an amazing food court, especially for an abandoned mall. In excellent shape.
I've often wondered if the music in your vids was added in post production, or if it's live in the mall...
It’s added in post.
You do a good job at it :) You had me tricked, because it sounds echoey. Very nice food court, with no restaurants lol
This is Dan Bell. it sounds so realistic. I also found out about your series from the Owings Mills Mall Wikipedia page after I was listening to a vaporwave mix. You have intrigued my interest into how malls have declined throughout the early 21st century
I used to work in this mall doing surveys (Yes , I was the annoying survey person) and back in 1995-2000 it was the spot. It breaks my heart to see how it looks now and this was in 2017. I wonder what it looks like now? I'm going back sometime this year. Thank you for posting. It brings back so many memories.
My daughters and I went about a month ago. The carousel is still operational, but it is so sad and desolate. It brought tears to my eyes to see what has become of a place I spent so many hours of my youth in. 😢
This was once a thriving mall in a thriving neighborhood until two things happened- Memphis annexed the area and white flight ensued. Hickory Hill became Hickory Hood and the death spiral began.
This is Dan Bell, and this is my video consumption of the best UA-cam series possible
Thank you. My grandfather used to walk around this mall in the mornings for exercise along with many other elderly during the early 2000s before the crime crept in. Yes. That was a Claire’s. Wow! The memories this video brings up. Yes, That feeling in that food court was warm and inviting even back in the 1900s. The fountain at the end was a wishing fountain where you could throw coins in and make a wish. This was one of the last malls to have a warner brothers store.
Omg I went there as a child aww I miss TN.
"When you think about it, department stores are like museums." -- Andy Warhol
Remember when there were lots of streams and waterfalls in here? It was amazing.
You're right about the crime like others have said in various replies. I had some friends that used to live in that area in the mid-nineties so I ended up going to this mall quite a bit, but around 1997 or so they moved so I stopped having a reason to be in that part of town. Fast forward to around 2002-2003 or so and I was hunting around for some old PC game (Soul Reaver, I believe) and having exhausted every other store in the general area I decided to try the store in Hickory Ridge Mall. I think it was either Software, Etc or maybe Gamestop. Either way, when I got to the mall I could tell the drastic change in atmosphere immediately. The mall was almost deserted at that point. It looked way more run down and dirty and something about the atmosphere just made me feel like I didn't need to be there, like finding yourself in a dark alley at night. Got in and got out as fast as I could and never went back. I did end up finding that game in that store though so at least it was a fruitful trip.
Dan please never stop making dead mall videos. There's something strangely cathartic about you rambling about the mall while walking through the dead malls. By far my favorite series on UA-cam.
Community Center Mall means homeless shelter
Not if it's run by a megachurch. Their stance on the homeless is something like: "God rewards with material wealth the good, so if you're homeless, it means you did something to deserve it, so screw you."
Why not turn it into a homless shelter
. I doubt any pther retailer is gonna come in. I loke dan's idea of turning dead malls into afforable housing. All that floor space. Or schools or hospitals. Stylish af for a public sector hospital.
I grew up going to this mall and shipped here almost every weekend, Dan you were right JNCOs were all over this mall, Spencer's use to be a store around the food court, there was a gazooks that was there for years you could buy the jncos, wide pants, etc was awesome during the 90s. Sadly everything in Memphis dies eventually not just the malls! You should've went and checked out Oak Court in Memphis it's on its way to becoming a dead mall Thanks for the video!
*shopped
Mr Nezic The Second dude, Oak Court isn't dead by any means. Mostly occupied. I don't go there much but it's still alive. It's not the upper scale mall it used to be.... obviously.
There's a line by a little band called modest mouse I always found fitting. "The Malls are the Soon to be Ghost Towns."
The shot at 0:44 with all of that plant life, brings it all home for me. So dream like and nostalgic.
2:23 such a beautiful shot, the whole mall in general is probably my favourite mall out of all the ones you've shown.
I remember when this mall was at it's prime. So sad how it's demised came about. The last time I remember going to this mall I was threatened by a couple of thugs who wanted my cellphone. What is even more incredible/depressing is how the entire neighborhood around this mall decayed. In the end, the entire area became the equivalent of a third world country.
Larry DeJournett true.. We moved to Collierville from hickory hill and now im in Texas as far away as i can get and feel safe
Lmao that’s such a exaggerated statement I literally live 2 mins away lol
charles echols Memphis is a shithole, everyone knows Memphis is the Detroit of the south. Glad to be back in Dallas Metroplex
You should visit Ft. Steuben Mall in Steubenville Ohio. One main anchor, Sears, already pulled out and Macy's is leaving soon. And that just leaves JCPennys. And with all of the anchors leaving, in an already dead part of Ohio where there is no financial benefit for new business to move in, I can't imagine the mall lasting for more than a couple of years.
Also, the floors are not flat. They are horribly uneven and can be annoying.
I always wondered why malls fail if they're BOOMING in California
Ugh, seeing those wonderful colors in the food court makes me really hate today's "everything must be white, grey or black" interior styles. Same goes for cars. We need some color again!
Maybe the snobbish designers of today would allow us some color if we just limit it to one color per interior, and only in occasional, limited streaks to break up the greyness. Or maybe they'd be willing to let us do things the baroque way, with a solid color everywhere, and then some white or silver trim. Or maybe they just won't let us have any color anymore until everybody finally gets sick to death of grey in like 20 more years and the one guy who starts using color again will be hailed as a genius.
kz1000ps It's called minimalism. It's a timeless style--it ages really well. That's probably why it's so popular. You think it's boring, but boring is better than obnoxiously dated. At least to me *shrug* lol
kz1000ps bc its cheaper
minimalism = too broke to buy nice IN STYLE stuff
Frank Gomez k
OMG. I think I actually bought my JNCO jeans here in 1997... and I've eaten so many times in that food court. Kinda happy to see it's still alive and kicking (it was dying 15 years ago).