Southwyck Mall Walk, Dec 15 1989 Toledo, Ohio
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- I decided to take my VHS camcorder with me through the now defunct Southwyck Mall in Toledo, Ohio. Many shots are while walking. I had a cheap fisheye lens connected to it (ProtoGoPro!) Yes, I feel quite awkward hearing and seeing myself on video. Good for the history books, I hope. This mall is long gone and torn down. The land now occupies a Jeff Bezos satellite distribution center for Amazon.com in the year 2020 All is raw and unedited VHS video with mediocre digital transfer.
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Thanks for this video. About broke down when I heard my Mom's voice on the intercom as you were going up the escalator. It's been over 20 yrs since she passed away. Never thought I'd hear her voice ever again.
That's amazing, small wonderful world we live in.
Way to put tears in my eyes jerk 😂😂. I love that you got to hear mom. That is so beautiful
My mother worked customer service there from 78 to 99 when she passed away. Spent a lot of time at southwyck mall was like a second home.
Dude i got chills..I was born in 80 and grew up on the south end..been to the mall countless times and when I heard your mom's voice on the intercom I got real nostalgic because the video wasn't complete until i heard it..prayers up for mamma duke
Whaaaaat really??
Man. He was vlogging before vlogging was a thing
No cap im cracking up my guy
I know if this guy could of some how trademarked or patented this he would be a billionaire today 😆
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Damn this is insane. Now an Amazon hub is built there.
@GumboTron 10 that is another Amazon, Southwyck Mall was on Reynolds, and is now an Amazon hub.
I’m mad I didn’t grow up with this Toledo 😤everything looks so perfect 💖but growing up in the 2000s here makes all of this nostalgic
I grew up when it was still nice. Seems like you came at the decline of the south end.
@@Jamrock419 I did 😊 now all we got is Westfield/Franklin Park Mall. I heard Northtowne Mall was huge
The southend used to be something my friend. Southwyck was a cool mall too
The city ran all the tenants out and turned it into a parking lot over promises from Larry dildo Dillan 😌
Too bad you never got to try Dominic’s
What a great restaurant
Now there are a lot of nice $10/hr jobs at the Amazon hub.
It’s crazy there now
Now it’s crazy here
Observations from a 2020 perspective:
The mall actually has people in it.
People can smoke in the mall.
People are very friendly to this stranger with a camera.
People can be inches away from each other without masks on.
The mall has fountains.
All the fountains in the mall are on.
80s jeans are hilarious.
Ah.... what a time to be alive and at a mall in Ohio!
omg the choir! I remember seeing and being in performances like this in grade school
This is such a gem. I miss the days of southwick and the other malls in Toledo. And that Hills bonus footage at the end was awesome. Thanks so much for preserving and sharing with the world.
I worked at the Lions Store as a worker called "Mr Jordan." Delbert Duckins got me the job and I met a beautiful blonde name Betsy Lufts, who was goin to BGSU when I was at Ohio U. Grew up near the mall in Crossgates and walked to the mall all the time, as well as on TARTA. That was the place to be... Good times. Thank you so much, Sphexes, for posting this video. Means a lot to us 57-year-old former Southywyck mall goers
@@markgriffin5889 no problem Mark. I had no idea how many people were going to watch this video. I'm glad it's getting much enjoyment
@@markgriffin5889 that's awesome. I work at Lions Store today (now Dillard's) and we still use the name Mr. Jordan.
26:13 - "Who's this going to be shown to?"
Oh, my dear, in your wildest dreams you could not possibly imagine.
I had no idea what was in the future. I did stay interested in photography and video and have been on UA-cam over 12 years now. I really just use UA-cam as a place to share stuff with my family and friends.
@@sphexes oh, please don't take that as criticism. Just putting myself back in the 80s and trying to imagine what we have now.
OMG I just saw my Mom and I with me in a stroller! Fuck I was 2!
Wow!!
My heart dropped... all the familiarity and memories and also astonishment at the fact that you thought to record all this with no idea of the future of a camera in every pocket. I feel transported. Too many feelings and yet, thanks for sharing
As a teenager who lived her entire existence at malls in the 80s, this was like, TOTALLY AWESOME DUDE!! Thanks for posting ~ I miss those days so much!💔
Me too
This is back when people actually talked to each other. Lol. I was nine at this time and was definitely in this mall with my family around christmas. This brings back so many memories! Thnx
Exactly, before cell phones and social media. Life was much better before the technology boom..
This is so awesome. I love that you talked to employees around the mall and they all played along. Now they would throw you out for having a camera. Whenever I see a video like this, I always wonder what happened to these people over the years.
I fully agree. we live in a completely different world today.
It's something I'm still into doing at various random places. I think the entertainment value of this video comes from it's age and it's everyday-ness of something that is now gone. I'm glad everyone is enjoying it.
That little boy near the beginning is about 40 years old now.
Man i spent my childhood here in the 80s shopping with Grandma and Grandpa and later date nights in high school in the early 90s. Thanks for the blast from the past.
I was 7 years old in the year 1989
Great video time capsule. Back when people can film without saying private property can't film.
I thought about doing a modem version with a Gopro, but I'd probably get into trouble.
Thank you for posting this! This randomly appeared on my feed. I've lived in Toledo my whole life, and after everything this year it was Soo good to see more happy times! Btw I'm so shocked how friendly people were 31 years ago.
Me too l just commented on that 😊🤔
Social media and mainstream media has accelerated how venomous people treat each other. We can be the arbiters of change
I'm old enough to have been alive at this time, but I was only 5 years old. The 90s was the best time to have been a kid. Life was simpler but better.
I miss Southwyck mall. It was a big part of my childhood and teenage years. Life was different then, not as crazy as life is now.
North Towne was another great mall. I was born in May 1970.
1977 for me. I used to ride my bike to North Towne.
Wow!!! It's so Crazy to see this video I live in Toledo in fact I live right out by we're Southwyck Mall used to be and now Amazon is there like I can literally walk out of my apartment building and see Amazon lol! I miss Southwyck Mall😔
Me too!
So can I!
As a farm kid about 40 miles from Toledo, mall trips were few and far between for me. However, every time we went to Southwyck, a stop at Coney Island and Orange Julius was a treat!
These are lost video treasures of a place long gone in time.
My husband was going to Bowling Green University and we lived in the Alt Stone Bridge apartments which were brand new. I loved it there. He is now deceased and this really took me back to our first year of marriage. We bought our first furniture from the Lion Store!
This almost made me cry. I remember going to this mall with my parents as a kid. So many good memories! Thank you 😊
Omg!! I went to southwyck with my family in the 90s, mostly during christmas. I remember they had a big carousel, beautiful fountains, as a kid I remember it being all so shiny and sparkly. I moved away for a few years in my teens and was shocked when I came back and it was torn down. Reynolds road just hasnt been the same.
As a mid-80s mall rat, I have to offer a tip of the hat to you for this. While my friends and I mainly hung out at Northtowne, we made it to the other malls from time from time to time. Fantastic little time capsule you have here. Did you ever think, "Gee. I wonder if over 10,000 people I don't even know will view thing thing 30-odd years later." ?
Northtowne was amazing. You had Camelot Music, Music Land, K&B toys. Hot Sam's, Orange Julius. Electronic Botique Arcade. Movie theater. Good times.
Crazy to see what Toledo was like 30 years ago (also crazy that I got recommended this randomly). I'm not nearly old enough to know what any malls aside from Franklin Park were like - my mom was ten when this was recorded. It's really cool that you were able to preserve and upload this piece of history.
@5:13 "So what are you here to tape?"
Ahh, back when video cameras were an unusual site and mostly reserved for special occasions.
Tape? What's tape?
It's crazy that we had more than one mall back then all we got now is Franklin park
I was 10 years old in 1989 and now I’m 42. After watching this video you can definitely see how much better people were toward each other back then.You know this video was a long time a go when you see people smoking inside the mall I remember those days.Great video 👍
I miss what we were in the 80's.
Oh my god. Wow. I was 7 in 1989. I remember that Rudolph and singing in the middle area. This captures time so well.
Oh man if only I could go back to this time. Could change some important things. Merry Christmas to all
They wouldn't believe half of the crazy stuff you'd tell 'em was gonna happen!
I loved watching this, why? With everything going on in the world today, we can see the Simplicity of life we had. Thank-you for the small glimpse of what I truly miss.
Wow, this brought back so many memories! The Big Gold Lion in front of the old Lion's store... Thanks so much for this! Those were the days....
My childhood. Tears. This is like finding treasure. Thank you for this❤
Miss the old malls. Old Town arcades were great.
Back down memory lane.
-Minnie Rippleton
What a time capsule! Thanks for bringing all these memories back. That mall was so busy at Christmas back then.
I remember a Christmas going there late to try and find something for my wife and some things for the kids. I tried to park by the Lion store (back before it became Dilliard’s). I couldn’t find ANY parking spots. I had to just drive around until somebody left, just to have a chance to get into the mall.
Being a student at BGSU, going to Southwyck Mall meant finding a driver willing to take us all to the "big mall" - just look how packed the stores are. The last golden age of the shopping mall.
Good for you recording and uploading this! To you it is just a video from a few years ago that is embarrassing to listen to, we all get that feeling. To those of us who remember it it's a blast from the past, maybe it triggers a special memory. That little boy at the beginning of the video is in his thirties right now, if he saw it it would blow his mind. All of the people here are immortalized just living their lives thanks to this. In the grand scheme of things, it may have little value but my mom recently showed me a video someone took of her hometown in the 1960s and it brought her immense joy to watch her little town as she remembered it. This is a time capsule, truly precious to anyone who will remember this time and a statement to Toledoans a long time from now, if there are any, that we were here. Really excellent work.
i was 3 in 89 this takes me back to my childhood
Oh my goodness good ole Southwyck mall me and my friends and sister hung here tough!!! The arcade was the go too obviously that many moons ago kids these days dont even know what an arcade is at the mall. Man soooo many memories here. So sad its gone this and northtowne smh theyve killed so may memories here in toledo. Thanks for posting this i was able to share with my kids🤗
I was 9, and I miss that mall, out of the rest that were here, I miss Southwyck Mall the most
I was a teenager hanging out there in 89 this brings back some awesome memories thanks for posting it!
i can only imagine the big ass camcorder that was used to film this
I carried it at my side most of the time to be more stealthy. I used an after market fisheye lens to get everything in fairly closeup. It was a Montgomery Wards VHS recorder. Huge by today's standards
@2:58
You’re welcome
Born in ‘92 but man I love this nostalgic footage, still reminds me of the mid 90’s. I hope you grabbed a pretzel while you were there lol 🥨
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁
I loved Hot Sam!
People just chatting away like it was filmed yesterday, total time casual capturing people just doing their everyday thing. without realising they are in a time capsule with thousands of people from the future watching them, almost expecting one of the shopping attendants to beg me to hit the subscribe button and give a thumbs up.
i can remember smell of the water fountain to this day!
This is awesomeness! I loved 🥰 going to Southwyck Mall! I remember when it was packed! Remember Old Town it was so great. Loved how people actually talked to each other. Great memories
Yes ! Old town! I was searching for that❤️
Yay! Someone else remembers Old Towne! Lol. That's where my friends and I hung out. We just came to shop and play games. Now kids are fighting and shooting. It's sad.
This guy was ahead of his time vlogging before it was cool, appreciate the video it was a blast to the past before my time 🔑
it's awful here now, I'm surprised though that this video popped up in my feed, never would have known. I'm 18 and grew up here but never knew there used to be a mall, imma send this to my mom she'll probably love this.
I can't believe I watched the whole thing.
Things are so much the same, and so different.
I was waiting for someone to say a phrase that we don't use anymore, but I didn't hear one.
Thanks for Sharing!
I grew up with Southwyck Mall. I remember playing in the Anthony Wayne Stage Band there, buying my wedding dress at Lions, and working there. I have some many good memories. Does anyone recall the "Olde Town" section of shops? That was my favorite part of the building.
Damn the 419 was awesome in the 80s and 90s
Man this is crazy. I was born in 1996, so I didn’t get to see southwyck mall exactly like this but I still got to experience a lot of it. I have some great memories as a child, my mom used to take me here every other day. So nostalgic seeing the whole entire inside of the mall, used to love it here. Thank you for this.🙏🏻
Born in 93 and a lot of this was gone by my time too but damn was the fountain and carousel always fun haha
Love seeing this & reminiscing of this mall & these days. I grew up going there all the time so much enjoyment . Seeing all this footage is amazing . Miss this & these days so much. Thanks for sharing this❤️💚
I absolutely love this video. I was born in 99 and I wish I could go back in time even to 99 to feel that nostalgic joyous feeling! I absolutely love this video.
I’m so fortunate that I grew up in the 80s and 90s, it was incredible.A different world , real connections, meaningful ones, no watching other people do things on screens all day. Relationships were tangible, the world was smaller but the connections were real.
Loved the salesgirl’s big, pouffy, 80’s hair!! 👩🏽🦱
Southwyk was a huge portion of my teenage years. it was so sad when it started going downhill. even moreso when it was demolished. thank you for sharing. the memories it brings back can never be replaced.
This makes me so happy. I grew up in that mall. Thank you for sharing!
I can still smell it. This is awesome! ❤️
I was born in 84 and grew up in Toledo 💜 I definitely remember coming here ! Thanks for sharing !
Coming from farm country over in Napoleon, visiting this mall was always a treat growing up. I wonder if one of my parents might've been in this pushing me around in a stroller
I was 19 in 1989. I love the 80’s hair !
Me too. Now I'm balding, it's sad to see it go. 😢
Wonderful. I flew home for Christmas to Toledo from California while in the Army the day after this was filmed. My first time home since joining. I didn't go to Southwyck that visit, but I did go on a spree at Franklin Park and this is close enough.
This was in my recommend vids...good ole southwyck used to love going to the two story arcade there playing wwf wrestlefest n TMNT n used to see movies there cause was cheaper than going to the old secor rd theater and loved when the mall had sports card show n toward the end of its life only handful stores remained...used to be my fav mall was way less busy than franklin park which is only mall left in toledo, now southwyck was tore down n just built a new amazon dis. Warehouse but great to see old southwyck I was 5 when whoever made this video was nice to have a good flashback of childhood n still remember saving n saving n buying my snes there at kb toys..I could go on n on but yea thanks for walk down memory lane
Saw my first movie in the movie theatre here, 101 Dalmatians!! I also remember always trick or treating here 🎃🤍
As a kid Old Town was a treat. The theater & cruising the parking lot as teens. Cool memories.
That was a great mall! Liked "Old Town", the copper smith shop was in there. I was 21 then, wow. Thanks!
Thank you for the memories!! I remember so much of this. Crazy how much has changed!!!
Wow, I was twelve. Good memories!
Me too! Merry Christmas
thank you so much for sharing. That mall was a cherished part of my childhood. It was/is still shocking to me that they took the whole thing down. You've soothed my soul a little.
Thank you for this time capsule. An excellent Christmas Gift in 2020! 🎁
I remember when it was a farmers field. We would ride our bikes and watch them build the mall. Watched them build I75 too. We would ride our bikes on the future interstate after workers left for the day.
This was an awesome blast from the past. Thank you for sharing!
I love the 1980's. Great video, thank you for posting it.
Damn I remember riding the carasol EVERY TIME I went there! Santa and the talking Bear! I was still able to go as a Teen I miss that mall
Oh man I miss the mall :( thanks for uploading it brings back so many memories! Worked there right out of highschool. If you have anymore videos of any of the other stores like Hills/Kmart from that time would love to see them.
I think I have a little bit. I used to date someone who worked there.
@@sphexes my aunt Christine worked at Hills in 89 and I went into the building christmas eve for a gift certificate (still hand written in an envelope)
I just listened to the Decoder Ring's "The Mall is Dead (Long Live the Mall) and it made me think of my days as a mall rat at Southwyck Mall and did a google search and found this gem. This is so much fun! I love the Wolf!! I looked for my friends and I through the entire video because I bet we were there!
I was born in 1989 I went there a couple of times with my dad when I was a kid.
I very well might have been there that day. I lived in Toledo in an apartment near Dorr and Reynolds. I had just turned 16 and gotten my DL. Southwyck Mall was one of my favorite places to go when I had any free time. I would have been out of school that day. I honestly expected to see myself walk by in this video.
Yo! Thanks for persevering this footage and time. I was born September of 89, this was my first Christmas, mind blown. I remember southwyck myself, but seeing this is such a time capsule for this time and change of the decade and it’s in Toledo. To think of the access we have to cameras now and then it wasn’t common, nobody was posting or sharing where they were back then, such a different way of connecting. This is needs to be certified historical content. Thanks for sharing this! Film is not dead
You missed out. This was my childhood.
@@ChristopherSobieniakYeah, so Glad I grew up in the 80s and 90s.
Awesome on many different levels...
Loved going to Southwyck as a child in the 70's & mid 80's ... Many many good memories and Christmas time was one of the best times to be at the mall ... Felt like I found a hidden gem in a UA-cam time capsule ... You were a vlogger/blogger wayyyyyy before it actually existed .. awesome ...
I kept looking closely to see if I seen anyone that I knew so that I could share this with them...
I remember the arcade and the other arcade called Old towne square or something it had a little pizza diner ... Those were the good old days man gosh how i miss those days so much...
I was born in 71 and Southwyck mall was definitely one place where we made many fond memories at ..
Woodville mall too...
Thanks for allowing me to experience this moment in time and one last thing ...
I guarantee you that if those people who actually interacted with you on camera were to see their selves in this video most likely it would definitely tear them up ... Awesome & God bless whoever watches this video ...
Very cool video and I must say when I just randomly came across this video and decided to watch it and then have this guy who is taking the video stare at himself in a TV screen and say my name kind of took me by surprise and it was the weirdest thing ever but I grew up in Toledo and I've been to that mall many many many times for a long time until its demise.! Yes those were better times then compared to now where people don't even talk to each other anymore and you have to wear a facial covering and stand six feet apart and it's to the point now a days where people don't even want to walk Within arm length of you. It brought back memories that's for sure. Now that I'm 40 years old looking back at that put a smile on my face this year thanks to the guy making this film also named Scott Connell. LOL!
I miss this!!! I grew up going to this mall in the 90s and i left Toledo in 2009 for California and ive been there since. I miss the ol' charm this place had. Every Christmas coming here with family and getting a pretzle with my big sister fighting over the nacho cheese. Lol 😆 thank you so much for this flash back!!! What a great video!! Thank you!!!
I have videos from around town from back then, too, and it’s amazing to see how skeptical people were of the camera. Every reaction is the same, that turn-away, that lingering glance at the lens, the waiting for another show to drop like it’s a prank or something nefarious was expected. lol
Upload your local goodies! People love to look at the good ole days. I was always inspired by the photography of Life magazine. So much of the past artfully preserved. Not that this video is artful, the idea of capturing some moments in time were certainly on my mind when I did this. I have a ton more stuff to upload in my archives.
Thanks for showing us this video. I enjoyed watching it. Good old Southwick mall. Back when I was a teenager we would always go Southwick mall.
It’s neat to see you talking to people and seeing people interacting with each other in general. Nobody had phones stuck to their face in public. That is a rare sight! Ha.
This was fun seeing even with being an Ohioan myself from Toledo
I love the Limited Express Ladie - pretty cool singing for you
Back when stores were consistently well-stocked, clean and organized. When you didn’t feel like a burden when you asked for any help finding something. Those were the golden days of retail.
Thx for posting this! It was awesome! I graduated in 89 so, it brings back so many memories! I really appreciate it! Thx again and hope all is well.....
I was born in 2000 and my only memories of this place is when it was closing down and when it was abandon it's cool to see how full of life it was back in the 80s and 90s now it's an Amazon building
Toledo when it still had a soul..
How I feel, as a long time native.
@@ChristopherSobieniak Not just Toledo. Alot of places seem to be a little faded out from the how they were in the past.
Thanks for sharing this! It brings back great memories. I graduated from high school back in '89. This was probably the last year I had been to the Southwyck Mall. I used to hang out there a lot back in the day.
Glad you enjoyed it!
How many remember Old Town that was the little gaming area that used to be there?
I heard about it, I've never seen pictures though. It sounds cool!
This what Southwyck Mall looks like in 1989. Very lively back then. I was a baby back then. As a kid, I love riding the Merry Go Round and playing the Arcade Games before they were closed. Also I love throwing coins in the water fountain. I miss Southwyck Mall, ever since they tear it down I still have these wonderful memories being there. Now they build Amazon warehouse. Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year.🎊
Swiss Pretzel was the best!(seen near the opening of the video, when the kid was excited) I miss the soft pretzels on a stick dipped in cheese. I can't remember the name of the coney island restaurant there. I also miss that mall, sadly now an Amazon hub sits there.
Oh my goodness!! This brings back memories! I was 6 when this was made. I miss Southwyck Mall so much!! Thank you for sharing a part of our history.
Excellent time capsule of a once-nice mall, Thanks for posting, and Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas
I used to hang out here as a teen. I loved this place. Old Towne was the coolest, if anyone remembers that.
I used to take 2 buses to get to Southwyck. It usually took an hour and a half to get there. This is back in the late 70s.
@@sphexes that's about the time when I hung out there. Late seventies early eighties. I lived in the South End at the time so it was just one bus. If we spent all our money we'd call mom collect to have her pick us up. Lol.
Great video! While you were taping that back then, I was busy repairing those camcorders in Detroit at my shop.. LOL!
First mall my parents dropped me and my friends off too! We was too early like soon as it opened up 😂we thought we were doing something! Thank you for being ahead of our time and document this beautiful experience I’m 40! And these were the best times of my life! Thank you ❤
I worked at Southwyck in the late 80''s at Hickory Farms and later at a kiosk making redwood signs during the Christmas season. I miss the old mall and wish it had survived the changes in shopping. Before working there I was one of the many school age kids that spent alot of time at Spencers and in Peddlers Alley as well as the arcade and Orange Julius. Here's to fond memories!
Thank you so much for this. It brings back great memories of what malls and Hills were.