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Mall at the Source, Long Island, NY | a dead mall after only 10 years | ExLog 56 | Phase IV Premiere
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How do you find these dying malls? I would love to visit one.
When I travel, I do a search for local malls in the area. If I have time, I stop in and see if they are dead or not.
at 20:11 those rafter things, and also maybe the air vents above them, look propeller shaped in profile. Might be intentional, don't know
I'm a child of going to malls when malls were busy, when malls were social gathering spots, I love your videos because they seem to honor those memories and also gives a look into a bygone era, keep up the good work!!
I left America during the GFC and have missed this decline. So I feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle, looking at all these videos with a bit of a "HUH? WTF? How could it have changed SO MUCH?" reaction. As someone who's always lived in small spaces (I'm one person... don't want to spend my time maintaining a large place), I depended on malls to provide "space" for me after work and on the weekends for about 15 years, in several states. Although I usually went by myself, I'd hang in food courts or in Tully's (preferred) or Starbucks coffee shops with new technical reading material or my laptop in the evenings until the mall closed. To this day, I find it difficult to work at home in the evenings where there's no mall and café noise (thank you, youtube busy café sounds videos, although none quite do the job as well as the real thing). The mall food court was effectively my more wholesome version of the Cheers bar, where I'd see and get to know people with all sorts of different backgrounds. I'd get to know the security staff, the other regulars, some of the senior citizen aged mall walkers, and young café/food court staff. When one of the customer service ladies had a stroke, I visited her in hospital several times. I'd chat with the homeless guy who was welcome in Starbucks, and hung out there a lot because regulars would buy him sandwiches and the store would give him leftovers at the end of the night. I'd trust him to guard my laptop when I made quick runs to the ladies room, and would order "a mocha for Jeff" (which staff knew how to make, according to his preferences) most days. The idea of a mall as a social center was reinforced to me when I'd lost my job during the GFC and could no longer cost-justify my usual pastry snack with my tea, and that homeless guy came over to me one day with my favourite one on a plate, asking, "This is the one you like, isn't it? Here." (LOL, now I'm crying!)
I moved to a place (Australia) that doesn't have the same culture, as it doesn't even have shopping after 5 or 6 at night except on Thursday nights (!), and its food courts are really cramped due to the high price of real estate in Australia's most major cities and completely lack that open, spacious, suburban feel of classic US malls. There isn't even much seating, let alone any concept of a center court with fountains as (IMHO) any respectable mall SHOULD have. :-) The facility that serves this social purpose in Australia is the local pub, aka your "local" (most people have one), where instead of looking at shops and people-watching, you listen to music and people-watch. Being able to enjoy my usual mall-centred social life again is one thing I'd looked forward to going back to, one day. That it's … ALL CHANGED... is something that I have difficulty wrapping my brain around. Again, I feel like Rip Van Winkle. Because when I disappeared, that culture still existed. And now, it seems more like Australia, such that a mall is a place for those who plan to buy, to go. And not a place to just look around and hang out. don't even understand WHY people fell out of love with "hanging at the mall".
Do you spend money there?
The area with the neon signs and accumulation of signage / items used to be a Swatch store in the late 90s-early 2000s.
I remember going there as a child and my parents purchased a watch for me to help me learn how to tell time. I distinctly remember the neon stars.
Miss Edith Bratt nice!!!
Hi Sal. I live a few minutes away from the Source Mall, and I think I can answer some of your questions.
As of right now, Lesso Home is not open. It was not open to the public prior to the pandemic. I got to go inside the mall around August of last year. None of the mall has been demolished. On the inside, things looked similar to how they do in this video: empty storefronts with the exception of Dave & Busters, Cheesecake Factory, PF Chang's, and a few others. The convenience store kiosk featured in your video is no longer open. Neither is the jewelry store. It is just as derelict as in your video; same chipped paint and rusted steel beams. Most of the time, there is just one security car patrolling the parking lots. The parking lots are currently being used to keep new cars for local dealerships.
If you like, I have some 35mm photos that I took of the inside of the mall. They're a little blurry though.
Fun fact: On a clear day, from the top of the parking garage, you could see as far as the Manhattan skyline.
I'm not Sal, but I would love to see those photos. I'm really interested in this mall. It's quite sad that it didn't really have a chance...
MultiJohn12321 I live by this mall too, it’s been years since I’ve been inside. I can confirm everything you said. But passing it on the way to Costco or Trader Joe’s it always reminds me about the times we would go to Cheesecake Factory, and it was always empty.
The crazy thing is, this mall was so the "thing" after it opened I'm the mid-90s. It died REALLY fast.
any update on it now?
@@roccor9223 the P.F. Chang’s closed iirc
Must say the mall looks pretty clean for its state. Whoever maintains it still takes pride in his/her work.
It’s in an area that is still extremely busy for retail. The mall next to it Roosevelt Field is thriving. It is always mostly full with very high end stores you can also find on 5 ave in Manhattan.
Thank you for these regular uploads each Friday during this pandemic.
Thank you for normally uploading prior to this pandemic.
And thank you for not being a You Tube channel that had rarely uploaded anymore prior to this pandemic & chooses now to start uploading videos again, but only behind a paywall during this same pandemic where so many people are out of work.
No way! I never thought you'd end up doing a mall I've actually been too! Awesome!!
I went to that Cheesecake Factory for my birthday back in January and we tried to go inside the mall to look around but we couldn't find a way in. Glad I can now see inside!
I just ate there recently. I drive GrubHub in Westbury so I know every spot around there.
There’s a sign that spelled “passed” when they meant to say “past”.
I live in that area and even though the Source was a cool place, especially in its early days, it could never compete with Roosevelt Field just down the street. It was a bad decision to have built it in the first place, and now it's just a giant building taking up space.
Exactly right. I never understood why they built it there. Fortunoff was a great store in its day though. The family that owned it were very good to the employees. My parents bought some things there in the 80’s that they still have and are still functional. One was a pressure cooker.
I bought my first leather jacket at Wilsons Leather on the 2nd floor in that mall in 2001.
As a Long Islander or someone from Nassau County at least, we always called it The Source Mall. It was literally a few block drive from Roosevelt Field which I think is what hurt it some, because Roosevelt Field was always the more popular. But The Source sometimes had better quality sneakers and clothing stores to those of us from the hood or “urban”. Like the source had a store which sold a bunch of Mitchell & Ness throwback basketball and football jerseys, Roosevelt didn’t have that. And you’d only get that type of shit from the city or Jamaica Ave in Queens. But for the most part the Source was always empty lol .
Do you Remember active wearhouse in Roosevelt field? I used to love that place in the early 2000’s lol
Used to work at Roosevelt Feild...yeah Source Mall is how you left it, crazy how all those stores left Source Mall and moved to Westbury Galleria down the street 🤷🏾♂️
That's a good point about Westbury Galleria taking off the customers.
It gave me chills when I noticed that the Maneki-Neko statue was still moving.
Love the nostalgic circuit city store. Frozen in time! Great content and keep it up!
Great work Sal! One of my favorite channels, but yours is the only one that ALWAYS delivers top notch quality and entertainment.
I used to go there years ago when it was new, it was never full when I went.
Not surprised. Opening a mall in 2009 was not a good idea.
Haley Beldin it’s strange the mall was actually opened in 97! But even in 00 I remember it struggling so 911 must have hit the mall bad
@@Bridgetteirene Yeah I was kind of confused. 1997 and 2009 are both said in the video and the title says the mall is 10 years old.
That mall was definitely built and opened in the late '90's. My wife and I frequently ate dinner at The Rainforest Cafe and were very sad when it closed down around 2000 or so. I just went inside that mall about 3 years ago and it looked exactly the way it looked in the video, desolate but still very clean with only about 5 small stores opened besides PF Changs and The Cheesecake Factory.
Very sad that this mall will probably be demolished soon to make way for condos.
Those trains in the basement of fourtounoffs are something I’ll never forget. Vary happy memories coming here with my parents as a child in the early 2000s. Also remember going to jillian’s with my dad and always wanting to play billiards.. great place, thanks for the video.
You know a mall is truly dead when both the Bath & Body Works AND the Charley’s have given up on it.
...DON'T FORGET GNC! Another DEAD MALL USUAL SUSPECT...
WTF IS CHARLEYS?
@@dy9278 cheesesteak place
Claires, GNC, Journeys, Foot Locker, and sometimes American Eagle and Maurices
@@syxepop the GNC at Stonecrest is closed, and that mall is not dead.
I remember going to source mall when i like 5 it used to be so crowded and everything, now people just go there for cheesecake factory
Sal, sorry for your loss. This was exceptional, loved it! Take care. See you next Friday.
Hi Sal, the store with the watch images was just a watch store. Fortunoff sold watches, which is why that store was kind of odd and felt more like filler for that weird, angled out area. But from what I remember, that store seemed to carry more sportier, trendier watches than the main Fortunoff store. When stores were closing down, they just converted it to storage. I believe it was something else before being a watch store, but not 100% sure.
As an aside, the lower level entrance to Fortunoff wasn't as grand or as used as much as the upper level. The entrances were just openings to the department store, nothing fancy. It was almost like stumbling into a store halfway, they had merch right up to the openings with a clear path meandering thru leading you deeper into the store. It wasn't messy, just meh.
Also, the layout of the mall itself was kind of annoying. If you wanted to get to a certain store on the lower level, you had to go down the right escalators. You couldn’t just go to any one, because the lower level wasn't all connected. In fact, some had said that was part of the mall’s downfall! The mall wasn't as easy to navigate as Roosevelt Field mall, despite it being much smaller.
One thing important to mention is the Fortunoff Christmas store. Every Nov & Dec, they transformed the entire basement for the holiday season. As you came down the escalator, an impressive animatronic Scrooge with Tiny Tim would silently greet you. Trains traveled along tracks suspended from the ceiling. They had a huge display of the not-so-miniature NYC buildings and a Ferris wheel. It always felt overpacked with decorations but it was masterfully done. It was really amazing. They did this, long before the Source mall was built - My mom bought decorations from them back in ‘69.
They've since used the still-open Backyard store for their Christmas store but it's not the same. It's not in the basement, so you don't get that total immersion feeling, due to the light coming thru the windows and the summer patio furniture within sight. Seems like they may have sold all the cool stuff, would love to see if any of it is still tucked away in the basement. :)
Thought so as I did see a citizen watches banner showing through.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dead mall with a PF Chang’s and a Cheesecake Factory in the same mall
Every big mall in long island has both for some reason
love your content man. i would watch anything you produce in your style. thamks for all your hard work , the audio and atmosphere you wield rightously is marketable and desirable. id love to see it applied to varied content aswell as thes beautiful videos. your style of conveying informative history makes things more interesting, and its attachment to the backround audio atmosphere creates emotional attachment, its quite beautiful. im suprised some historical societies and museums etc havent reached out to you. id love to watch you cruise through the royal tyrell museum or an old mining town or historic places monuments or structures.
has there been any other projects that you have produced for other people?
i could see you doing well in that regard.
Update: The mall has been renamed to Samanea Mall and external construction has started with some panels being added. I saw someone cleaning up the place inside so the mall is definitely being worked on.
@GREATNESS NEVER DIES Yup
Yeah I drive by every day. It looks like they are finally doing something with it.
I think Lauren Bacall used to do commercials for Fortunoffs at the Source.
In the 80s I used to work at a record store at a mall. Friday nights were crazy fun
Guess that was our 'local Soda Fountain' that my parents talked about
yeah, I'm that old
we are old now yes.
So sorry for your loss Sal...love that old watch area with those neon stars..(which i'm pretty sure i need in my living room..lol) thanks for the great work...as always...: Oh...and you're totally rockin the quarantine hair! :)
there is a second "Dead Mall" or rather dying mall on Long Island in Masapeaqua. Check out the Sunrise Mall on Sunrise Highway .. its about 50% dead as of mid 2018. Definitely worth you checking out when the time is right.
Hey man that’s literally not true I go there all the time
That Mall is not dead at all.
Only 3 stores left 😢
I loved going there to shop and I would go to JCPenney for my haircuts. After Walmart left, that place when downhill!
@@doceamz7972 There's way more than 3 stores at that mall. Plus that mall is no longer owned by Westfield.
Really heavy Owings Mills vibes here. This looks a lot like that mall did before demolition.
It also reminds me of Pittsburgh mills
@@shavonnestacia2865 That's true since that mall was only built in 2005... It's already 3/4ths of the way dead.
You have to realize this mall stands next to like 2 or 3 other malls and shopping centers that are packed everyday. Roosevelt Field is next to it. So is Westbury Galleria. Both of those places are absolutely thriving.
Omg!! Finally a mall I’ve been too this is so exciting. Okay so growing up we went to the smith field mall, still super hopping, but we went to this mall for The rainforest cafe! It closed before we moved from LI. Also my first Cheesecake Factory but I didn’t give a f because it’s Long Island so good Cheesecake is pretty easy to find. Thank you so much Sal you made my freaking week!!! Always wondered about this mall
Looking forward to it! I live about 20 minutes away. Fortunoff (closed years ago) was a very popular store here on Long Island (huge reputable jewelry section), The Source mall was built next to it and included a Cheesecake Factory, P.F. Changs which are still there, it's anchor Circuit City is long gone. A few months ago I was at the Broadway Mall (10 minutes from the Source), one of the proprietors of a store in the food court said that the owners of The Source mall are wealthy Chinese folks that plan to keep it open and don't care about revenue. 20 years ago (OMG) I attended Nassau Community College (down the street) from the mall and used to walk around it with my GF. BTW, the fellow at the Broadway Mall food court has only been there for 18 months and said that it's quickly becoming a "dead mall", indicated his location (part of a chain), doesn't even break even. Their anchor store (Macy's), was liquidating when I visited. They do still have a very popular Target.
Growing up our local mall was the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa. My hometown was blessed with a good downtown that we'd go to locally, with a nearby A&S and a TSS (man I miss that place), plus a large strip mall anchored by a Woolworth's - between that, the Fotomat, and the best pizzeria in town, we'd have a grand afternoon of it. But special occasions meant heading to the mall, and stopping at Friendly's afterward.
Now that Friendly's is long gone. I still wonder how the mall is doing.
Mike B p
@@mikeb8674 Sunrise Mall is all but dead after Walmart left a few years back and JCP more recently, there's a Dick's and a Dave and Busters in there now that are limping it along.
Yup I think after this Broadway Commons will be the Island's next dead mall. Hicksville in general sadly is in a decline much like Westbury where The Source is.
@@mikeb8674 Mike you know how many times mom took me to the Friendly’s at Sunrise when I was a kid. Omg. I went to Sunrise mall yesterday for something and it’s very depressing. I actually work at Target in Broadway mall at night. Broadway is a little less empty than Sunrise though.
Nice sal! And, doggoneit, I have yet another campy movie to add to my list!
Great content and background, as always, thank you! :)
Additionally, I am sorry about the loss of your friend - life can be too fragile, too often.
I work right down the street from this and drive by everyday and never realized it was a dead mall. Wow. Nice work.
No food,no pot...no hope..but,this delivers everything else I need in life at the moment,thanks for the hard work sal!
Great video documenting this place. I live nearby and went inside this mall (out of curiosity) about a year and a half ago. I remember feeling like I was living one of your dead mall episodes. Things looked pretty much the same as in your video. I was thrilled today to see that you actually did record in there. Again great work as usual. Cool to learn all these details of the local history I never knew about.
Simon malls is big on LI, they did a huge overhaul of the Walt Whitman mall in Huntington station years ago and that mall is thriving today. (They even have a Tesla storefront inside.)
Thanks for doing what you do Sal.
That was a s***** thing for the owner to do by kicking out the pet adpotion place.....I'm familiar with pets4luv....Im going to keep them in mind for a pet....
Try the sunvet mall on sunrise highway in holbrook, ny. Their “twitter” is hysterical and nothing is really open in there anymore
Sunrise highway??? Bro I’d get fucking shot. 😭😭
@@zixea3318 Nah just stay away from mastic 💀
Whole Foods is moving in!
Next time you’re on Long Island, you should check out the Sun Vet Mall in Holbrook. The thing’s damn near dead.
All but a zombie mall now. Have you been to sunrise mall? Its so sad. Damn near brought tears to my eyes
Makes me really happy to see this stuff. I mentioned it to my dad like- I doubt we're going to ever have these places again. He agreed with me. Made me depressed actually.
Always quality stuff Sal. Love the intro of you standing by the car - very 80's music video vibe going there. Hope you're doing well man.
Really enjoy these videos Sal. Its good to be reminded of things from the past and how we have to keep up with the changes in the world. Great work.
I used to go to the rainforest cafe all the time i miss that place, my cousin used to work at maximus for many years when the mall actually had people in it.
So much good stuff hidden in the audio on this one. Was already laughing at the OW call back, and then you drop in the CC ad. When I got hired to grand open a new CC store in 1995, I remember being shown that video on day one of training. Hearing it absolutely takes me back to the mid-90s.
Sal, if you’re ever in the area, you NEED to check out Bradley Square Mall in TN. It’s very dead, but still has a fountain! Great video, keep it up!
I said this in his last log, but I am currently suffering from some some kind of depression that I can't even properly explain, and videos like these have been hit pretty bad by this depression, but I watch them anyways, soldiering on. Whenever i hear COVID-19, I feel rage in myself because that's a grim reminder of how terrible 2019 went for me. (Sal, I'm not telling you to stop saying COVID-19 in your future logs, it's YOUR channel, not mine). I'm glad i have you guys to talk to. :)
I tried taking a different approach in this episode by mentioning the vast amounts of people that have recovered!! There’s hope!
I'm sorry to hear what you're going through. This is something we've never had deal with before so it's very difficult.
You can only do the best you can.
Please limit your news intake because it'll stress you out and lower your immune system.
I read a couple news sites daily and that takes less than 30 mins.
Increase your Vitamin C intake and make sure to get out when it's nice, let that sun beat on you as you walk around the neighborhood.
I wish you all the best! 🌞
Air Aero, 2019 was a terrible year for me too. And so far, 2020 sucks too! Hang in there, my friend. The advice to not watch the news is excellent. If you do that for 3 days straight, I guarantee you will feel 100% better.
The area where you first walked in held a large carousel and a kiddie train ride about 10 years ago. At Xmas time there would be a 2 story tall tree in that spot. And that store you wanted to know about? It was a shoe store. Nothing special! Also, the food court always had animal traps along the top/ceiling! Birds would swoop down and steal your food lol. Gross.
Hey a fellow phish fan from Long Island. What ever you do take care of your shoes.
@@yankees29 hey! We’re happy that you’re here! 😉
The spa that was in there, Maximus, was sued by the owners of the mall over their tremendous water bill (how that never made it into the lease is beyond me). That prompted them to move across the street
Things are actually looking up for the mall, now known as the Samanea and owned by Hong Kong investors. They've signed a number of leases, mostly with dining and entertainment businesses, and by the time everyone's moved in occupancy should be about 60%.
Only true scumbags would evict little puppies. It was great to see and hear Orson again. If Doug, the one man killing crew could swim across the ocean, he lives at the end. Fortunoff’s used The Source as their tag line. That one area with the cases and watches could have been the Fortunoff jewelry off shoot. The Source, while a bit eerie, doesn’t seem as decayed as others. Having the hangar vibe was an awesome idea. It would be impossible to compete with the Roosevelt Mall. As usual great film. Stay safe.
Hey, Sal. It's me, another Sal. Fascinating video. I love abandoned stuff, and from the island I grew up on, no less! I actually have no idea if I ever went to this mall, I mean, I must have. I worked right down the road for over a year back in 2000, but did go to Roosevelt Field many times.
Awesome work yet again!!!! RE: 13:15 I may be wrong, but I believe that the mystery storefront was simply Fortunoff’s watches/jewelry department. Looks as if they’re now using the space to store all sorts of fixtures from the center kiosks et alia.
I agree with this - if my memory serves me, that whole area was fortunoff's and the stuff that's in there now is simply being stored there.
If I remember correctly, wasn't there a Dave n Buster's to the right of the down escalator?,,, Was that Good colored cat thing sitting on the table a clock? I noticed it was moving in the video, Liked very much, your Narrative has really made the mall vids so much better
Dave & Buster's was and still there...not sure if it'll be there after all this tho
sorry to hear about your friend :// ive been loving the content, cant wait for even more dead malls!
this mall fall off hard, most of the good stores inside the mall itself either closed permanently or found new housing in either roosevelt field mall or down the road at another shopping center
I got lost in this mall when I was little lol. From what I remember, there was a lot of people and there was a Rainforest Cafe which seemed to be the main highlight of the mall at the time. This was sometime in the late 90s.
the orson welles wine ad bloopers in the background though lmao
I got into the clip of "Death Force" movie more than the empty mall.
Really great video for us trapped in our homes. Thanks so much for filming & uploading it.
This brings me back so many memories as a kid going to that mall rain forest cafe and the little train ride they had for kids that I would go on
Worked in Roosevelt Field area at the time this mall opened. I remember the Rain Forest Cafe was really a destination restaurant when it opened. At the time I was working for a large Arts and Craft retailer "Creativity Crafts" that had several locations on Long Island and Queens. I managed the IT for the company, the best location we had was in Roosevelt Field. The craft company folded back in 1999. They tried to be too many things at once and expanded faster then they could keep up. I remember the day we announced we were going out of business was the same week we had just held the grand opening for the 30k sqft Massapequa store. I still recall seeing the grand opening sign blowing across the parking lot while we were putting up the liquidation signs. This video really brought back some memories, some good some bad. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Hey Sal! Great video! This was my first dead mall visit back in 2018!! That jewelry store guy gave me and my wife the creeps!!
You do great work, bro. Love the music you play on here too.
Love your videos. Never miss them. Some make me sad but that's our world today.
I used to go to this mall a lot growing up and I actually flew off the carousel in the early 2000s and that memory stuck with me years later and just remembering it sitting in the main entrance really brought me back
Kicking out a pet adoption center from a completely empty mall really is scumbaggery in surround sound.
Never have I ever tripped up stairs more in my life than in that Cheesecake Factory 🤣
Love the videos man good work!
Fortunoffs was the place to go for Christmas as a kid better then Macy’s in the city! Made even better when the source opened and the Great Train Store was open. I remember it having the first Rainforest Cafe I have ever seen. Thanks for the memories.
In this specific part of Nassau County Long Island there is 3 malls all on the same street within a few minutes of each other. This was literally my favorite one in the late 90s early 2000s. Mainly because of the Rainforest Cafe than the Cheesecake. It used to be so ridiculously packed especially when Fortuneoff was there.
Very good video, I like the history you give throughout.
I work right down the block, and aside from Cheesecake Factory, P.F. Changs, and Dave & Busters, that whole mall is a disaster situation. As far as I'm concerned, that whole property should be made into much needed affordable housing. And apparently, it's not Lesso Home anymore, now it's some other company.
Hey Sal, once this whole quarantine business is over, you should head up to the Auburn Mall, in Auburn, Maine. I haven't been in 4 years, but when I went, half of the storefronts were used as storage for presumably the mall's owner. There were motorcycles, mannequins, etc. That mall is what got me into malls and dead malls more specifically, and I think it'd make a neat video. What I think is most interesting is that the mall's former western anchor is now a TD call center.
Thanks for the tip!
wow! mentioning the circuit city really brought back memories! grew up right by here, spent too long wandering circuit city while my parents tried to buy a tv...
the renovations are happening slowly but most people in the area dont think they will be successful. work will go way to slowly to be profitable, and roosevelt field is one of the largest malls in the us, and expanding. this was so cool and sad to see my town haha
I love shopping malls and drive past the skeleton of this mall very often. I wish I could remember what this mall was like but I was too young. I feel some sort of blocked memory of this mall but I have no idea how.
Wow exactly how I feel i know i been to this mall but i forgot the memories
It was Fortunoff right? I was young but I remember that area. We went to the first TGI Friday’s up there in the 80’s when it first opened.
I'm sorry for your loss, Sal. I've been watching your videos for a while and am stoked to see a mall from Long Island. I really enjoy your information and your tours. I've only been in this mall once (October 2019) and saw more through your video than I did when I was actually there.
If you ever get the chance, I'd love to see you check out Sun Vet Mall in Sayville, and Sunrise Mall in Massapequa -- both on Long Island. Sun Vet lost all of its anchors (Toys R Us, Pathmark, and most recently AC Moore), and Sunrise... oof. Just oof.
I appreciate your kind words...be kind to your neighbor, friend.
I grew up next to Sunrise mall in Massapequa. I had to go there yesterday for something. Wow it’s so dead and it’s basically empty.
There used to be a carousel at the first entrance you went into. Funny how some of the Fortunoff's signage still mentioned it. I totally remember the Rainforest Cafe and the Virgin Megastore. I once applied for a server job at the Brooklyn Diner. It was never really that fun of a mall because there wasn't as much to do like at Roosevelt Field. Just always kind of fell short. I do remember eating in the food court and shopping at Old Navy. There really wasn't much else that stood out, but the departure of Fortunoff really ended everything. That store was great and I still miss it. Nice work :)
Hey buddy, I love your videos, I have a suggestion, have u ever thought of doing a mini mall series? I grew up in. Meridian Mississippi home of the Village fair mall, a mall that has been closed and abandoned for about 25 or years. I have no idea what condition it's in that I haven't live in Ms in 22 years. Soon after it closed the Bonita lakes mall was build it was a smash in meridian bout 25 years back, its on its way out as well. Love the metrocenter mall used to be the reason to even step foot in Jackson with my dad and brother in high school. Watching the video I couldn't help shed a couple of tears. Metrocenter gave alot of people a reason to enjoy the miserable city of Jackson. Muchly appreciated. 🙂
The prevalence of Broadway Commons to the east caused The Source to see less traffic than expected. In March 2020 shortly before the covid-19 pandemic was declared the mall’s main anchor, which was a Gertz when it opened in 1956 and became a sterns in 1982 before becoming a macys in 2001, closed permanently after more than 63 years. Broadway is not a dead mall yet because of the presence of Ikea as an anchor store which has driven more traffic to the mall than the macys store since the mid-2000s.
The aviation features you wanted us to spot: #1. The old style TV set up like a flight arrival/departure monitior. 2. The Spirit of St. Louis NX 211 sign. The glass wall below the sign looks like hangar doors as does the ceiling/roof. Also, couldn't see it well, but the little shop on the right side of the soda machine just as you were leaving that area is reminescent of an airport snack or gift shop. Couldn't see it well though.
Also some of the wall lights around the mall/food court are very mid century industrial style. The whole mall screams ancient warehouse/hangar.
@@hoov100 Good catch! I was concentrating so much for other things, I missed the obvious LOL.
Damn. I remember going to this mall when I was a kid. One of the last stores left was Chloes (an ear piercing/jewelry shop) Last memory I have of this place is them making my ears infected and having to never wear a piercing ever again since then. Good times.
This was probably back in like 2010 or so.
I used to live nearby during late 90's thru 2010's; Fortunoff when open was an amazing upscale department store - noted for wedding registry type items - fine china, silverware... & also its annual magnificent Christmas shop on lower level replete with multiple enormous Snow Village and other Dept 56 displays, trees, lights, the works. But specific to the Source mall - what really gave it its kick early on was the Long Island location of Virgin Megastore (biggest most popular of which in region was location in Union Square, NYC) - but for us "bridge & tunnel" suburban types - Virgin @ Source was groovy local destination to go check out latest music - had like 30 CD listening stations - & open till midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Add several nice restaurants - was a poppin' low key "reliever" mall to nearby sometimes overpacked Roosevelt Field; there was also a nice Old Navy + a food court w/ good pizza, etc. But by time Fortunoff & Virgin had folded by mid 2000's - mall lost pretty much all its draw appeal.
Thought that Circuit City song was 'Shadilay' for a second. Got a flashback to all the glory
I live in Suffolk County, NY. I thought I'd never visited this mall but when you mentioned the Rainforest Cafe, I realized I had. A close friend and I drove all the way out there to celebrate his birthday that year by going to eat at the Rainforest Cafe. Hate to say it but I have no other clear memories of that particular mall, although I'm certain we walked through it.
This was a mall I always loved my mother taking us to when I was young! I vividly remember the big H&M that was at the top of the escalators where you’d turn right to get to the food court, the small model propeller plane that hung above the food court in front of the giant glass windows that made the area look beautiful when it brought in tons of sunlight, the fancy-looking storefront on the right beyond the food court being a Yankee Candle, and the storefront diagonal from it to the right of the food court Cinnabon being a GameStop, which was one of the first tenants to vacate, and the first sign that I’d see of the mall’s tragic decline. Only thing we really go back there for now is to reminisce or Dave & Busters.
Great exlog! Keep them coming!
Freaking wow! I haven’t seen a Circuit City logo in FOREVER! I forgot about them.
Did anyone catch the cat statue on the counter in the spa, just after the watch shop, was still waving. Creepy.
Two of my friends worked in this mall. one at the Rainforest Cafe which was located directly in front of the escalators and one worked as a manager in the FAO Schweets which was located in the corner store as you come up the elevators directly to the left.
I'm amazed by many of the dead/dying malls you've explored. I only wish you could have done some of the now deceased ones down our way. I think Tyrone Square Mall here.....a legendary giant....is beginning it's slow death. I highly suggest that would be a good one to do.
Tryone square Mall? Is that one close to Saint Petersburg FL. If so, I've been there but the last time was in 1997.
They kicked out the animal rescue Pets4luv!! what! really!
I was going to post that it's pretty sad a dead Mall would evict ANY paying tenant! Just a dick move by the owners....
Sal-i loved this. I lived in LI in 2003-04 and even 07 came back for a visit. My mom and I came to this mall when they had H&M and Forever 21. I loved this place. We used to get take away Pizza. I was from SC and it was a nice escape.
Thanks for sharing the memories!
Is that Orson Welles l hear in the background at 14:50 talking about champagne? 😊
Yup lol
I used to go to that mall all the time during it's heyday. Was always so crowded that you could never find a table at the food court. Sad to see how it looks now in a shell of it's former self, but it was almost predictable that it was going to close down with all the anchor stores like Fortunoffs and Circuit City going out of business. A big blow was the opening of the Galleria mall just west of the source. A lot of the stores in that mall used to be in the Source. 13:10 used to be a Swatch, watch store. And there used to be a huge carousel in the middle at 7:45. The only businesses that are doing well there are Cheesecake Factory and Dave & Busters, but they both closed off their entrances to the mall and can only be accessed from the outside. Not sure about the future of the mall as there are several speculations.
No one does a dead mall commentary like you do Sal! It would be really awesome if you could do Savannah Mall in Savannah, Ga. All but about three inline stores are still open currently and it looks like the doors could close any day. I would love to hear your summary/commentary on Savannah Mall. Yes, I'm aware that Faded Commerce has a video on it.
When it was first built in the early 90s, it was extremely popular, always crowded. Fortunoff had beautiful things, whenever someone got married, they were always registered through Fortunoff. The mall declined when Fortunoff closed, but it still clung on for quite a while. I shopped there often as I went to the Saks & H&M often. Unbelievably, they built yet another mall down the road about 10 years ago. I’m sure you’ll be touring that one one day too.
The biggest mistake was when fortunoff posted an ad in Newsday with a coupon that was $10 off to $500 off your purchase. The place was a max house. I got $50 off .
Here’s the thing: Roosevelt Field Mall which is thriving last time I checked is right down the street from here, which just begged the question why you’d go to this mall instead of there. I work pretty much in the area.
Green Acres Mall back in the day was an open air mall as well. I don’t know when they became an enclosed mall, but it do remember when it was only one floor, and then when they built the second floor, adding more stores and the food court.
I remember you couldn’t even find parking. It was crazy back then every Saturday night was our hang out. So sad.. I can’t believe this happened.. it used to be so crowded you couldn’t even pass people without bumping into them.
Awesome vid!!
I went there from Dave and busters in late 2015 to see what it was like. I remember a Shady furniture store being one of the only stores open .Besides the anchors (PF Changs, Dave and Busters, cheesecake factory,etc). But the anchors were really connected to the mall.
Great music and great editing.