Crossroads Mall, Now Abandoned
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Hey guys!
This is just a simple candid walk-around video of the now abandoned Crossroads Mall in Oklahoma City.
It has been boarded up for about a year now with no known plans for its future.
Time will tell what happens to this rapidly deteriorating colossus.
Just another victim of the dead mall trend in the U.S. today.
Thanks for checking it out!
I am nearly overwhelmed with grief watching this. I'm an old man now. I used to go there from lawton to shop for gifts for my kids after my wife left me. I always felt good after a trip there because the place was so upbeat and full of life. Pitiful what it has become. Kind of a metaphor for U.S.A.. . . Pitiful what it has become.
I have fond memories of LeMans Speedway from the 1970's... So sad to see this mall gone.
Good to see that the place is tightly boarded up to prevent vandalism and theft.
I grew up on the Southside the mall was a big part of my life and my kids To see it now like this is so sad I remember the parking lot would be full every weekend and walking threw during Christmas was Beautiful Im talking about late 80s threw late 90s
I grew up going to that mall nights with my parents and on weekends with my friends. I live close to it now and all I have are memories of what Crossroads was like on the inside. Good Memories!!!
I loved this mall and worked there a bit in my teens. I wonder if there's some sort of historian out there who has collected a lot of photos and videos of the mall in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. I'd love to just kind of take a trip back.
My family and I used to go here often when I was growing up. So many memories here. Sad to see it like this.
Mr. Riley I completely agree.
R.I.P. Crossroads Mall. I’ve been going there multiple times ever since I was very small. I remember lots of things that I’ve done while being there: shopping at Dillard’s, riding the carousel, eating at Chinex and Hot Spot Pizza, and more.
It’s September 2019 now and the building is still standing, and I even heard rumors that the mall might come back.
Until then, it’s basically one of the many abandoned malls across America. I now go to Sooner and Penn Square, but those two places are just not the same...
Vanilla Flare Productions it’s now a car meet spot for racers which I have been to a few they drift around a lot which is also fun
I usually stick to Sooner and Quail, more sooner tho cause IMO Quail is a bit pricy
I grew up in western Oklahoma in the 80s and 90s. We used to take trips to "the city" and I always looked forward to going to Crossroads Mall. ❤
It's so sad to see the mall dead now. But I've been thinking. Has anybody ever thought about buying and converting the old shops into posh apartments? With some small convenient stores and restaurants sprinkled hear and there? Just wishful thinking I guess.
I'm from Lawton and use to go up there quite a bit during my college years back in the mid 90's. So sad to see all these malls I use to hang out at abandoned and closed.
I lived in OKC area most of the 00's/2010's it was a great mall back then, TONS and TONS of people shopped there !!. My favorite was the LARGE hobby shop on the first floor. Sadly as mentioned lots of gang crime started happening there and with online shopping and fact that It's in a BAD area of OKC sealed its fate forever :/ RIP Crossroads Mall
Chicagoguy84 it’s sad, because I remember when it was first open that was a fresh middle class growth area. Time changes all.
I worked in Dillards from 1981-85. I loved Crossroads Mall. Breaks my heart.
stan Lee STAN LEE!!!?!?!?!!!!
The music is a really nice touch. Very nostalgic. I live about 4 minutes from this mall, and I’d like to go back & see what’s left soon.
I had a good friend that ran the heating and air-conditioning of the mall. He worked alone and often invited me to "...come to work...." Which meant that he was bored and wanted me to come and share a joint with him on the roof. He gave me of a grand tour of the HVAC units around the facility as well as a tour of the roof. He actually had the key to the roof access doors. We went all over the roof of the mall by walking on the gutter system. The gutters were made of steel and wound all of the roof. But the highlight of the excursion was going to the very peak of the triangler glass roof peak. My friend & I had just finished a joint and I went to the very top of the glass roof peak and putting the roach in between two pieces of the metal at the peak.
We lived in Paul’s Valley, OK. It was always a treat to go to “the city” on the weekends with our kids. And ALWAYS the day after Thanksgiving shopping! So many happy times there! So sad!!
I moved away from OKC right before they shut it down for good, so thank you for posting these videos, its nice to be able to get one last look before its gone. I was born in the late 90s and only have a few memories of the mall before it really started to flounder, so it was cool to hear some of the things you remembered being there that may have been before my time.
Thanks for the video. Great memories of the mall. We Used to come up from Lawton to visit this mall. Hate to see it this way.
Man I miss this mall back in 97.
DAWN OF THE DEAD FILMING LOCATION
Santa Fe south is the school occupying the mall
Yuh
Yea it was where Montgomery Ward supply store once was
Cool video, I work in Texas for a shop based just across the r/r tracks from the mall. I had wondered about it after I saw it back in 2017 before it closed. I was up a few weeks ago and brought my drone to get some footage but the weather was garbage the whole week I was here.
I loved that mall🥺💔
I remember my mother and I were at jcpenny’s when it was still there at crossroads and we were prom dress shopping and someone came on Intercom or whatever it was and as I was trying on one of the prom dresses they said with the owner of the 2005 equinox’s please come to the front desks turns out some lady decided to go on a duvet stealing spree and hit our car but anyway I really miss all the memories I had in this mall especially with family
This place was magical to me as a kid
I loved this small when I was small now it’s a school and a cool thing is that the plaza is my school and all the class room still look the same
The Braums was added well after the mall opened. The Macy's location was being operated as an auto parts warehouse, but the owner was selling out, so it's future is in question.
Yup
I was an all-night security guard at the site in the early’70s when it was being built. Full circle.
The charter school that is in Crossroads Mall in OKC own the part of the mall they are in and decided to move to that location because it is bigger. They expanded.
Used to go there weekly on my off days from work back in the day sad that a once great mall is now just an shell of the old days
It all gets written-off down the line. The taxpayer gets stuck with the loss in the end.
I havent been in that mall since the '80s.
When i was a kid, we lived on NW 25th.. Our backyard butted up to the parking lot of Sheppard Mall.
Cool, We went to Shepherd Mall as much as Crossroads in the 1970s. It was a smaller almost “boutique” mall with that great 3 story Sears on the street corner. :)
@@VolkswagenNut1969
Yeah, it was way smaller. But being we lived right behind it, its the mall went to the most. I can remember going to Sheppard Mall in 1987 with my older sister to buy Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction on cassette when it came out and then going to Orange Julius for a drink. My mom worked at the Dillard's in that mall, too.
I remember going there whenever there was only around 4-5 stores open waiting for their leases to be up. One was champs I believe.
I worked at Smiths knife and gift in the mid 80's there, and lived in the apt's just to the west across I-35. They have been tore down for awhile now.
I grew up going to this mall in my childhood in the 70's and 80's I lived on NE 47th street me and my family used to come to Piccadilly's to eat.
They could have put a Costco there. Instead it went to Moore. Lets hope it doesn't remain and eye sore to the south side of OKC for much longer. I miss that mall alot.
Santa Fe South is not temporarily there. It’s there permanently. It’s now high school and middle school.
that is sad I literally grow-up at that mall, my mother managed Life Uniform for years.
Wow I cant believe it. I saw Titanic there when it came out. For OKC it was an excellent mall.
The school is permanent.
I miss this mall my dad use to take here and play on the play place and the 🎠 carousel 😰😥😥
Reminds me of 1976 and that 77 Trans Am I was flogging!#$ 🤔🧙♂️
Crossroads mall in Omaha is abandoned too, coincidence? Bad name?
They should try to get a community college if tech school 😊 just a suggestion I feel sad when I look at this
My daughter's was there when they had the shooting. They were just at the top floor of where the kid was shot by security at the bottom of the stairs
Just sold for 6.5 million
I bought my first Mitchell and Ness jersey there in 1997
What happened to the mall why did it fail because I remember going there when I was younger but it was on its last leg and no one told me what happened
"And now, the end is near, and so I face my final curtain....." Is there any plans for the site?
Jeff Barnes “You couldn’t live with your own failure, and where did that bring you? Back to me.”
Jeff Barnes Not as far as I know. Parts of the building are still being used for a school and a monthly antique show.
I remember when they first opened
You needs to find a way in or at least get permission to
Dead and retail
I might be able to swing that. I’m going to look into it. ;)
such a let don you nevcer did, inside EQUALS ALOT OF VIEWS, Cash app me later lol
Anyone remember the restaurant 'The Lions Share"?
It closed down and Garfields took its place.
stan Lee I vividly remember that place. They had one at Heritage Park Mall as well.
The mall is my school now
What killed Crossroads Mall?
Hi JM!
The short answer is Time and Demographics.
Long answer: The old malls all across the country are dying out rapidly due to internet shopping and corner strip malls and discount big box stores. These massive old buildings are starting to need millions of dollars in maintenance and repairs, yet are falling in traffic and income due to the above.
Also, the Crossroads area (and this can be applied to many other older malls) was a fresh new suburban growth area in the 1970s but went downhill over the years and fell victim to rising crime and gang activity sadly.
Thanks for checking out the video! :)
I heard gangs scared off customers.
Penn square
@@levibankernbanker4894 Penn Square? It existed when I was working at crossroads and it was one of 6 shopping malls. Heritage Park in MWC, Shepperd Mall, Quail Springs, I forget the name of the one in Norman, then Penn and Crossroads.
@@stanlee2589 that mall 8n norman is called sooner mall
Did he say "This is literally just a hulk now." instead of 'husk'? >.>
Despite that slip at the beginning, makes me sad watching this... They focused on the area I would walk through to get to work... Back when GameStop was still there... Ah well.
E M
It’s not a slip.
Read up on your dictionary:
Definition of hulk (Entry 1 of 2)
1a : a heavy clumsy ship
b(1) : the body of an old ship unfit for service
(2) : a ship used as a prison -usually used in plural
every prisoner sent to the hulks
- Kenneth Roberts
c : an abandoned wreck or shell (as of a building or automobile)
is this place easy to get into?
THATS MY SCHOOL!!!😂😂💀
Gangsta Macc lol yeah
@@arianacamarillo2576 It's an entire school there? How many classes do you take?
Jared 7 classes a day
use to be a great mall till the gang bangers took over and drove to extinction.
Gimble please... the bouncy bouncy made me ill.
this school sucks welch doesn’t even go there anymore