It's amazing to think that at one time, Flint's population was so big that three, yes three, shopping malls were assigned to different sections of the town to accommodate all that foot traffic. I miss my hometown... the way it used to be. #disenfranchisedgrief
What's sad is I remember at Christmas shopping time, you could barely move while walking, there were so many shoppers. Even though it was smaller then the Genesee Valley, they would pack Eastland' and every lot was occupied with a business. It was a rockin' place to be..
I went here a lot as a teenager. We lived out in the boonies and this was the only mall my parents would let me go to alone. My first job was in a dollar store where El Cozumel is now. Back in1995.
I commented on your Genesee Valley mall video. I would come to this mall too back in the 79's and early 80's. I seen "The Empire Strikes Back" at this mall with a friend visiting from Israel and his aunt who lived a few house down from us. Those old photographs bring back memories.
Thank you for this, I grew up in the early 00s as a teen and recall this place being a lot more busy then. I think GameStop and such were there too. I also frequented Old Country Buffet with my family, which I think was a part of this mall too. God, this is as close as a time machine that we can get. I'd do anything to go back.
I grew up by there. Frequented the Eastland Mall quite often. It doesn't look familiar anymore. I liked Spencer's. Cool stuff like velvet posters and black lights. In my youth.
This is Burton, Michigan. (Flint is across the street, the dividing line is Center Road until Lippincott.), it was Burton Township when the Eastland Mall opened in 1968. Flint tried to annex the mall so in 1972 we became the city of Burton to stop Flint from taking part of AC and the Eastland Mall. The City of Flint annexed 1/3 of Burton Township for tax revenue. The cultural area on Kearsley street was Burton township too, by 1920’s was annexed to City of Flint to get more money for Mott College etc. So the eastern border was East boulevard Street by the old Flint Post Office by Robert T. Longway Blvd in 1855. Thank you Mona
I could only find one street named East St, and that runs north of Atherton Road, a little east of Dort. That is no where near the Post Office near Robert T. Are you saying that Burton used to go west to East St.?
@@danielpozarek7462 hello East Boulevard in the corner of Burton Street by habitat for humanity will be where you find your border. And the city of flint became a city in 1855, and Burton Township 1855 and that was the border.
I used to frequent that mall in the mid to late 80s. They had a good arcade in there, I'd meet my friend there who lived in Genesee county and we'd sometime go to the Perry's drug store and buy drinks and hang out. I hate to see it close down, but that's obviously the next step. I haven't been there in almost 20 years. Odd I never went to the theatre there, we'd usually go to the Burton Cinema, it was a bit closer and had a better selection of movies.
I remember the Fair' used to be in now J.C. Penny's. Eastland' had two record stores and two book stores along with a nice food court. Angelo's coney Island among many others..
I spent so many weekends in the Aladans castle arcade there in the early 80’s… now I own all those old arcade games in my basement. A childhood dream come true
East land Mall The mall of my childhood. 70s Used to take the bus for 25 cents to see a movie. Federals and the Fair! Wow. Feeling sad It was a nice then. A good childhood.
I’ve shopped in that mall many times. I’m glad to see that they’re keeping it up. Maybe that’s a hopeful sign for Flint, in spite of that shell of a motel across Center Rd from the mall. Is anything left in the strip mall across Court St and east of the mall? Shopped there a few times also, VGs. Big Lots. Memories. Thanks Daryl.
VG’s left several years ago but Big Lots is still there along with a Chinese buffet, hair salon and Media reload place have a look www.google.com/maps/place/Big+Lots,+4157+E+Court+St,+Burton,+MI+48509/@43.0206377,-83.6274442,18z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88238049afe2b131:0xed72f94b9bae962f
Saw The Poseiden Adventure there in December 1972. Then The Towering Inferno shortly after that. Played original Space Invaders and the Playboy pinball game.. Thom Mcann , etc.. Growing up in the 1970's in the Flint Area was just perfect. Not so much anymore.
its crazy courtland is still open and running i remember back in the early 80,s this was the place to be . i remember going here as a kid and hanging out in the spencers gifts . long before they opened one at the valley . yeah its sad to see so many malls going to an end . here where i live they closed one of the malls and tore it down within a two year span .
I saw a few movies here plus spent tons of quarters in Alldans castle arcade… now I own a ton of those arcade games in my home… yep for a flint boy I didn’t do too bad..
Or Metro Flint Seriously though on a wide scale people who see the thumbnail and description from other areas all know Flint, but not burton. If i did this video in warren i would have said detroit.
@@darylturcott I'm just going to let you know, it's very condescending and offensive to just misinformed people about locations where they grew up. Do your research and then produce your content. I lived there for 40 years I remember it was a good place you're very unsensitive in my opinion and I know 100,000 people that would want to kick your ass for saying that please believe respect our population even though we're obsolete to you we're still human beings. I relocated to Houston Texas a year ago and it makes me sick how y'all talk about our town like it's a third world country. We're all Americans and we deserve respect jackass
I respect flint and burton, even though i consider it part of the metropolitan flint area, like flint township, grand blanc, mt. Morris, etc. I did videos about several abandoned mobile home parks and called out the deadbeat owners who let the people who lived there down. I did a video about back to the bricks, the restored theater, and the Who concert keith moon car in swimming pool incident. The area has a great history and lots of good people trying to get by. I think in a few years there will be a resurgence similar to what detroit is experiencing now. But thanks for watching, every view and comment helps.
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
I have one mall that you can go to to make a youtube video of The mall is called Super state shopping mall But It still needs to open up When I get 10000 money
The Genesee valley Mall is cool but nothing is and will ever be like The courtland center..... Everybody that I know threw pennies in that fountain everybody I know rode the train and seen Santa Claus when they were little it was a small Mall but it was a busy mall and unfortunately over the years it's become almost dead I wish I could be brought back to life again and then santa and the trains could come back cuz that was like amazing when I was a kid... And none of us could forget Aladdin's Castle
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
It still blows my mind that malls are becoming a thing of the past...
A lot of things happening now, we never saw them coming.
It's amazing to think that at one time, Flint's population was so big that three, yes three, shopping malls were assigned to different sections of the town to accommodate all that foot traffic. I miss my hometown... the way it used to be. #disenfranchisedgrief
I was never around flint much when i was younger. I was a pontiac person. Same basic story though.
What's sad is I remember at Christmas shopping time, you could barely move while walking, there were so many shoppers. Even though it was smaller then the Genesee Valley, they would pack Eastland' and every lot was occupied with a business. It was a rockin' place to be..
I went here a lot as a teenager. We lived out in the boonies and this was the only mall my parents would let me go to alone. My first job was in a dollar store where El Cozumel is now. Back in1995.
Had the movie theater we used to go to as a kid and if I’m right it was called Eastland Mall in the beginning.
I think so. Later they started showing 2nd run movies for $2
I commented on your Genesee Valley mall video. I would come to this mall too back in the 79's and early 80's. I seen "The Empire Strikes Back" at this mall with a friend visiting from Israel and his aunt who lived a few house down from us.
Those old photographs bring back memories.
Malls were social centers back then
Thank you for this, I grew up in the early 00s as a teen and recall this place being a lot more busy then. I think GameStop and such were there too. I also frequented Old Country Buffet with my family, which I think was a part of this mall too.
God, this is as close as a time machine that we can get. I'd do anything to go back.
Genesee Valley mall still has a very retro look to it as well but it's going downhill fast too
@@darylturcott Ya, I heard it had a bad flood recently with a burst pipe or something. But I remember good days there as well.
I grew up by there. Frequented the Eastland Mall quite often. It doesn't look familiar anymore. I liked Spencer's. Cool stuff like velvet posters and black lights. In my youth.
This is Burton, Michigan. (Flint is across the street, the dividing line is Center Road until Lippincott.), it was Burton Township when the Eastland Mall opened in 1968. Flint tried to annex the mall so in 1972 we became the city of Burton to stop Flint from taking part of AC and the Eastland Mall. The City of Flint annexed 1/3 of Burton Township for tax revenue. The cultural area on Kearsley street was Burton township too, by 1920’s was annexed to City of Flint to get more money for Mott College etc. So the eastern border was East boulevard Street by the old Flint Post Office by Robert T. Longway Blvd in 1855. Thank you Mona
I could only find one street named East St, and that runs north of Atherton Road, a little east of Dort. That is no where near the Post Office near Robert T. Are you saying that Burton used to go west to East St.?
@@danielpozarek7462 hello East Boulevard in the corner of Burton Street by habitat for humanity will be where you find your border. And the city of flint became a city in 1855, and Burton Township 1855 and that was the border.
Sad. That was my jam as a teenager. My mom loved the Fair. There was one on Pierson and Clio Rd as well.
I used to frequent that mall in the mid to late 80s. They had a good arcade in there, I'd meet my friend there who lived in Genesee county and we'd sometime go to the Perry's drug store and buy drinks and hang out. I hate to see it close down, but that's obviously the next step. I haven't been there in almost 20 years. Odd I never went to the theatre there, we'd usually go to the Burton Cinema, it was a bit closer and had a better selection of movies.
Burton Cinema next to Walmart got torn down.
@@Toyeboy89 Sad to hear
I remember going their around Christmas time and going to FYE there. Buying a lot of cds and movies there. Also music and memories.
I remember the Fair' used to be in now J.C. Penny's. Eastland' had two record stores and two book stores along with a nice food court. Angelo's coney Island among many others..
Back in the day this was a great meeting place for teens. It just looks smaller than what I remembered.
There used to be a Hudson's department store there in the late 80s. Great place to visit as a teenager back in the day!
I spent so many weekends in the Aladans castle arcade there in the early 80’s… now I own all those old arcade games in my basement. A childhood dream come true
I have always wanted a pinball machine but I would probably get tired of it before too long. A variety is better.
East land Mall The mall of my childhood. 70s
Used to take the bus for 25 cents to see a movie. Federals and the Fair! Wow. Feeling sad
It was a nice then. A good childhood.
It's still pretty nice, just not enough stores.
Hey this was really interesting to a Burton/Davison raised individual!
I love courtland center
The main cause for this blight is that GM moved out of the area.
I’ve shopped in that mall many times. I’m glad to see that they’re keeping it up. Maybe that’s a hopeful sign for Flint, in spite of that shell of a motel across Center Rd from the mall. Is anything left in the strip mall across Court St and east of the mall? Shopped there a few times also, VGs. Big Lots. Memories. Thanks Daryl.
VG’s left several years ago but Big Lots is still there along with a Chinese buffet, hair salon and Media reload place have a look www.google.com/maps/place/Big+Lots,+4157+E+Court+St,+Burton,+MI+48509/@43.0206377,-83.6274442,18z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88238049afe2b131:0xed72f94b9bae962f
Saw The Poseiden Adventure there in December 1972. Then The Towering Inferno shortly after that.
Played original Space Invaders and the Playboy pinball game.. Thom Mcann , etc.. Growing up in the 1970's
in the Flint Area was just perfect. Not so much anymore.
I remember all those things!
Lowe's didn't necessarily move out of mid Michigan, they just moved away from Home Depot lol
Visited here in 2014. It was early hours, just before opening time, but the concourse was open so I was able to go inside and walk around!
My father-in-law was the manager here when it was a very busy mall, sad to see it now with hardly any businesses.
Joe Kephart?
They no longer allow the elderly to mall walk there. Why? They were the only ones left going......
It seems wrong. If they only let dedicated customers in they are limiting business.
Haven't thought about The Fair in years!
its crazy courtland is still open and running i remember back in the early 80,s this was the place to be . i remember going here as a kid and hanging out in the spencers gifts . long before they opened one at the valley . yeah its sad to see so many malls going to an end . here where i live they closed one of the malls and tore it down within a two year span .
I was a mall rat, lol.
I used to go this mall all the time when I was a kid. It's so sad to see it so abandoned.
Yes. I heard the library is leaving too
I saw a few movies here plus spent tons of quarters in Alldans castle arcade… now I own a ton of those arcade games in my home… yep for a flint boy I didn’t do too bad..
Correction bro Burton Michigan
Or Metro Flint
Seriously though on a wide scale people who see the thumbnail and description from other areas all know Flint, but not burton. If i did this video in warren i would have said detroit.
@@darylturcott I'm just going to let you know, it's very condescending and offensive to just misinformed people about locations where they grew up. Do your research and then produce your content. I lived there for 40 years I remember it was a good place you're very unsensitive in my opinion and I know 100,000 people that would want to kick your ass for saying that please believe respect our population even though we're obsolete to you we're still human beings. I relocated to Houston Texas a year ago and it makes me sick how y'all talk about our town like it's a third world country. We're all Americans and we deserve respect jackass
I respect flint and burton, even though i consider it part of the metropolitan flint area, like flint township, grand blanc, mt. Morris, etc. I did videos about several abandoned mobile home parks and called out the deadbeat owners who let the people who lived there down. I did a video about back to the bricks, the restored theater, and the Who concert keith moon car in swimming pool incident. The area has a great history and lots of good people trying to get by. I think in a few years there will be a resurgence similar to what detroit is experiencing now.
But thanks for watching, every view and comment helps.
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
Don't disturb the security guard. He is sleeping.
Haven't worked at that lowes since 2014, I'm 29 now and getting old lol stuck here in Texas, I wanna go home
There was no Steven Barry's at the Courtland mall
There was, in 2008.
@@darylturcott there was never a Steven Barry's in the Courtland mall that was the genesee Valley mall.
I have one mall that you can go to to make a youtube video of
The mall is called
Super state shopping mall
But It still needs to open up
When I get 10000 money
Bed bath and body works 🤣🤣
The vinyl sticker companies are busy…. Putting stickers over the closed store fronts!!! How sad
The Genesee valley Mall is cool but nothing is and will ever be like The courtland center..... Everybody that I know threw pennies in that fountain everybody I know rode the train and seen Santa Claus when they were little it was a small Mall but it was a busy mall and unfortunately over the years it's become almost dead I wish I could be brought back to life again and then santa and the trains could come back cuz that was like amazing when I was a kid... And none of us could forget Aladdin's Castle
I did videos about courtland and dort malls. Check them out and please share your favorite memories.
Flaming buffet Grill already closed
Wow
I remember when it was built . The whole area is in bad shape
This is in Burton, Michigan not Flint, Michigan
Sad!
It's not flint Michigan. It's burton MI I grew up. Right down the f
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Goodwill
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weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.