My heart aches for these abandoned malls. I grew up experiencing the great mall experience. On my time off, i would just go to the mall for fun to walk around and window shop. I could spend hours in the mall. Miss those experiences.😢
The Village will always hold a special place in my heart. Met the love of my life there. I was slanging phones at a Verizon/TMobile kiosk and my wife was working across the way at Anchor Blue. I was her eye candy 😉 15 years and 2 kids later we are still going strong.
Bummer 😢 I grew up in Yorba Linda. Moved away shortly after graduation in 74. This was big. My mom bought us school clothing from that mall. The last time I was there was to buy my wife some jewelry around 1980. Thanks for posting this. Very cool 😊
I remember that Carl's Jr. back in the day. Ate there a couple times in the 80's. I'd usually visit the knife store, tv store to stare at the Scanners movie poster they had on the wall, pet store (where we once bought a Pomeranian), toy store, and then over to the Hickory Farms for the free samples. My mom entered me into a free bike contest at JC Penney and I won a 1982 GT BMX Pro. There was also a big Mexican restaurant at the main entrance. Great memories of this mall.
Remember those 90s pictures they had hanging up in the Carl’s Jr? I’ll always remember the box of crayons one. Just always stuck with me. I remember when they also added Red Robin out front and todi all you can eat sushi. Good times. Also sears had that creepy downstairs section with the hen and egg toy dispenser. Always wanted that golden egg
WOW! I used to work at that Sears back from 91 - 95 Went to the Carls Jr (now Marine recruit station) every day. It's crazy to see how much things have changed.
I grew up in O.C. and my wife’s family is still around there. 1977-2003 I can’t believe how much has changed every time we go down and visit. So many cars in everyone’s driveway. Multiple families living in one home because it costs so much to live down there. Buildings looks dilapidated and grey. I’m glad you are taking time to visit these once happy shopping malls.
This mall was home to the very first arcade started by Atari. who's old enough to remember the atari arcade? remember the ferrel's off the 55? you could hit the arcade, skate at Holiday Orange, then go to ferrels. now only Holiday Orange is left.
Gosh, this is wild to watch. Just a couple weeks ago, I was watching an old VHS recording of my sister and I trick or treating at this mall back in like 2003 or 2004. It was packed with people. Sad to think kids today won’t have those same experiences. Thank you for documenting this, I’ve been down a rabbit hole online today going through street view to restaurants and stores we used to go to in OC before we moved in 2006, to see what they turned into today. I was wishing there was footage inside of those now closed businesses that no longer exist, that you can only find photos of online if you’re lucky. Places that I’ll only be able to look back on in memory now. Sad to see this place on its way out, but thankful you took the time to preserve its memory.
The mall is 100% leveled now so im glad i videoed it before it got torn down. Digitalize that vhs tape before it deteriorates cuz it sounds cool. Old OC is & has changed.
There was also a nice Van's skatepark there years ago too same with Ontario mills mall in Ontario years ago too I miss the days when malls were the happening places filled with young and older folks shopping and enjoying all the different types of stores and shops an era I'm grateful for experiencing
Awwww!! My family used to go to the Sears there!!!! We used to go to malls around Christmas to see all the deco and visit Santa!! Wonder if Santa will go digital now too.
Thanks for making this video. By the time I saw it the inside was already shut down. The stores i liked already left. JC Penny's for clothes and cookware, Great Khan had the absolute best Mongolian food. My wife and I were sad to see it go. Used shop at See's for chocolate gift boxes for Christmas. Back in the day I used to check out Pickwick Books; later there was a dollar book store I'd visit. And every now and then pretzels from Annie's.
I worked in the mall office early 80s. The mall was bustling with people. Great memories. FYI. There was also a movie theatre at one time outside in the parking lot behind Broadway. Now Walmart.
I remember back in the day they had a Wherehouse Record store and a Sam Goody record store and a Music + store where the old theaters were, I went to Elmodena High school, we would always hang out there on the weekends. l also slipped and fell on the wet payvment and broke my collarbone. This was around 86. Oh yeah we always went to Carl's Jr.
I used to play Pong in the basement level of the Sears there. Spent many hours with my junior high friends at that mall once it opened in '71. It was the place to hang out after tearing up Eisenhower Park with our bikes snd skateboards.
I briefly lived behind that mall on Vista del Playa about 20 years ago. Walking over to this mall was a relaxing experience. Sad to see it’s gone now. Thanks for the vid!
This reminds me of the old declining Hunting Mall, before the Bella Terra Mall replaced it, and the now defunct Westminster Mall. The Westminster Mall opened the summer before my 8th grade started. Life was definitely different back then.
I went to the Jr. HS across the street and in 1973 my dad came and took me out of school and we went to the Orange Mall to see Blazin Saddles and then he brought me back to school.
My wife and I lived in a lovely apartment directly across the street from the Sears Auto Center at the south end of the Mall of Orange. We moved out in 1984 to buy our first home in Moreno Valley. I continued working in Tustin until 2004 and have not been to Orange County ever since. Before that, my family and I came here together years before I was married. We came out here together even back when this mall first opened.
I used to love this mall as a kid. I always felt that once they got rid of the movie theater that used to be there, it was never the same. Then the Walmart came and it was pretty much the nail in the coffin.
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN Nice. If it's the Kmart where the Home Depot is now, I used to go there all he time. I'd grab a slice of Little Caesars pizza at the food counter after we shopped.
I remember when these places were bustling centers of commerce and social interaction. I wonder what broke down all the social cohesion that is now absent?
Main Place Mall and Brea Mall both are within 10 minutes from this mall. Main Place... the more popular one - has a Movie Theater. I was surprised this mall lasted as long as it did.
Village at Orange had a movie theater (AMC 6) for a while. Went there when it was a discount house. Brea Mall used to have a theater (UA, 4 screens) but it was really bad. I couldn't believe a place like Brea Mall had a movie theater that was in such bad condition.
My, but this was sad to see.😦 I lived in Orange '81-'96 & shopped here all the time. Pre-WalMart. The Broadway, had a nice restaurant. Always parked in the back of JCPenney & Sears for easy access. There used to be a Long's Drugs & a store called Just A Buck. All items were $1 exactly. There was always a train for the kids around the Christmas tree and they could trick or treat & each store gave out Halloween candy. Bought many a gift at this shopping center & clothes for work. First known as the Mall of Orange, what I always called it. Then Galleria at Orange then The Village. TY for giving me one last cruise around The Mall of Orange.
Any ethnic Filipinos seeing this but don't know yet: Fil-Am BBQ moved to Chapman and Main, southwest corner - same compound that has Ramen Mura. Current economic situation -- they're also dealing with shrinkflation. I won't be surprised if some of you only found out about this place after that move, given the nurses/doctors/lab techs might have found them there first as that's nearer to all the hospitals and clinics.
11:05 I remember visiting this place (Piano Empire Megastore, now in Westminster Mall) back in 2021, and 13:25 (Poke to the Moon) last June. Its crazy how time flew and now these stores are moving out.
Nail place 6:02 use to be a chinese food restaurant! Wan't great, but it tasted good! Next door was a GNC store. The Acupuncture store used to be the pet store! They closed long before the mall & was selling sick & dying animals! The signs covering the windows you would see kittens playing in one window & the other crabs or birds! I could be wrong, but the suit zone use to be gamestop. I bought a lot of games there! The fil-am use to be a dairy queen & across the way where Ulta is at, use to be a chinese restaurant & gangis khan restaurant! Todai was outside to the left & red robin to the right! Man memories & now the mall is gone!
Just a few names that I remember -- BDalton Pickwick Bookstore, RedEye (clothing), Busybee (Chinese food), Bresler's (ice cream), Morrow's Hot Nuts, Women's World (clothing), Russo's (pet store), WorldMart, On-the-Go Travel (travel agency), Parasol (restaurant at front of mall)........
I used to shop at JCP. They used to have a playless shoe store. I miss playless. This mall only had a few stores open inside and not much food options inside, so it was underwhelming.
I used to walk around the mall back in the '80s during my lunch break. Those were the glory days of malls. Today I find malls to be gloomy, unnatural places. Time moves on.
How are you able to get in the mall but supposed to be closed but you can get inside? What time are you in the mall? Very few people walking around. Must be super early but a few stores are open it looks like.
Thanks for making these trips. Can't believe at one point Orange County alone had 12 Drivin-in theaters. Wheat until 2025 hits. when it's really going to be bad. Nationwide.
Have you ever been to the Buena Park mall? I remember years ago it was kinda dead, but still plenty of shops open.. these days, it might be a ghost town.
I live very close to the Mall, sometimes go to the Walmart. Anyone heard any updates on what they plan to do with the property? Been closed for about 8 months now. Just sitting there empty. Creepy.
Walmart is supposed to expand into where World Market was. The backside of the mall where JC Penny's was is supposed to be torn down and replaced with apartments similar to Bella Terra in Huntington Beach.
@@Frodojack The Walmart is already so big it's hard to imagine it being larger, but could be. I hear residents in the area despise the idea of apartments, but I guess we will soon see!
@@starshell1000 The Walmarts in Tustin, Irvine and Garden Grove are much larger, especially the food area. A lot more produce, whole baked chicken, etc.
Is the mall on Colorado Blvd in Eagle Rock still around? Back in the day there was a large Montgomery Ward's there. I used to shop at that long gone store and other stores in that mall in the 1980's but I moved from Calif long ago. Do you ever get up to that area?
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN The main attraction of the Eagle Rock mall is the Filipino supermarket there. You will see a large Filipino presence on the 1st floor at that mall. Target to the left side of the mall and Macy's on the right side of the mall like your standard mall.
Restaurant next to JC Penney was pretty good as was the one at Broadway. I kind feel its depressing. So many of the shops at MainPlace are open ..you see very few vacant spaces there yet they want to close it down at some pont and create living and retail thing. Is it because of the Nordstrom vacancy that things are that bad and having to close entire mall?
I wish it was that easy. So many different reasons why people are homeless yet so many stay homeless for the same reasons. Each homeless person needs to be approached individually so that the help required is tailored to their specific circumstances and needs. Providing this is one step forward and accepting the proposal is a mountain climb.
In retrospect, it's a wonder these meccas of consumerism lasted as long as they did. If you aren't spending money you are just walking around aimlessly.
Damn how sad… My first job was there at the Knife Gallery in like 1998… I used to have lunch at that Carls Jr and used to go flirt with the girls at all the local stores. What a depressing sight
yeah, that’s how far back I sgo…waaaay back! 😂 No regrets; I loved those times and wish it was like that for my teens! Thanks for the reply! Love watching these videos! @@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN.
My mom would take us to Todai every Sunday after church and we would walk around the ‘orange mall’ after to burn it off 🥲 I haven’t been in years but it’s crazy to see it like this
Message number two: My family's and friend's mall. Hi to childhood friends:NP and KS. Loved Pickwick/ B Daltonbookstores, Pet store, See's Candy, Orange 🍊 Julius, the Broadway, Sears Winnie the Pooh dept. and Popcorn 🍿 machine near entrance store, Wet Seal for Esprit clothing, Buster Brown children's shoes, Ross Dress 👗 for Less, Carl's Jr.❤🕯️✨🕊️
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN Sears from Day 1, apparently. My Mom still has the 🖼️ framed photo of my brother in his short pants, very British, interacting with Winnie the Pooh, at Sears. I REALLY appreciate your touring these important social landmarks.😃👍 I am now a 🆕 subscriber. God bless you and yours. . .✨🕯️🕊️✨ 🙏🤲❤️
They couldn’t compete with south coast or main place. I had no idea this mall was even there and my cousins live up the street. Weird. Personally I just wish peeper land music was still open.
Katella and Anaheim blvd/haster? I know someone that went to go see this little unknown band called Culture Club in the early 90s at skate Station or the then ice rink
That’s the problem. I’ve only gone there for the Walmart. All I got there was a sticky fly catcher months ago. I could’ve just ordered it online like most things. Rather stay home and keep playing video games than waste an hour driving there, walking and driving back
.......................i sure wish we could go back to 1985 or earlier.......the World and our country were sure a better place and people we happier. Sad now. We really do need Trump and return to better years before they are completely out of reach and gone forever.
My heart aches for these abandoned malls. I grew up experiencing the great mall experience. On my time off, i would just go to the mall for fun to walk around and window shop. I could spend hours in the mall. Miss those experiences.😢
@@lunaaquafina3754 or maybe just sit & chill to people watch in the a/c after shopping
Yeah, we were all just people watching and window shopping...
Go to South Coast Plaza
@@andrewsaporetti3614 yeah it has loads of people
Malls are still around. We just don't shop there as much as we used to before the internet.
The Village will always hold a special place in my heart. Met the love of my life there. I was slanging phones at a Verizon/TMobile kiosk and my wife was working across the way at Anchor Blue. I was her eye candy 😉 15 years and 2 kids later we are still going strong.
I went to the Walmart yesterday and looks like something is happening lnside the mall
Bummer 😢
I grew up in Yorba Linda. Moved away shortly after graduation in 74.
This was big.
My mom bought us school clothing from that mall.
The last time I was there was to buy my wife some jewelry around 1980.
Thanks for posting this.
Very cool 😊
100% leveled now but if you drove down Tustin Street you would never know cuz the shops in front are still there.
I remember that Carl's Jr. back in the day. Ate there a couple times in the 80's. I'd usually visit the knife store, tv store to stare at the Scanners movie poster they had on the wall, pet store (where we once bought a Pomeranian), toy store, and then over to the Hickory Farms for the free samples. My mom entered me into a free bike contest at JC Penney and I won a 1982 GT BMX Pro. There was also a big Mexican restaurant at the main entrance. Great memories of this mall.
@@pizzaking7878 La Siesta may have been the name of that mexican resturant? I used to go there too. The 80's when GT was still being made in Santa Ana
Good memories!
PJs surf shop
@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN the Mexican restaurant was called La Fiesta, they had an amazing weekend buffet.
Remember those 90s pictures they had hanging up in the Carl’s Jr? I’ll always remember the box of crayons one. Just always stuck with me. I remember when they also added Red Robin out front and todi all you can eat sushi. Good times. Also sears had that creepy downstairs section with the hen and egg toy dispenser. Always wanted that golden egg
WOW! I used to work at that Sears back from 91 - 95 Went to the Carls Jr (now Marine recruit station) every day. It's crazy to see how much things have changed.
@@seansolorc big time changes. I used to work at the Kmart '91 - '98
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN we bought our slip and slide at that Kmart when I was a kid!
I grew up in O.C. and my wife’s family is still around there. 1977-2003
I can’t believe how much has changed every time we go down and visit. So many cars in everyone’s driveway. Multiple families living in one home because it costs so much to live down there. Buildings looks dilapidated and grey. I’m glad you are taking time to visit these once happy shopping malls.
@@comeoncents3288 you said it, once happy malls. More mall vids to come
Ahhh remember the days of pet stores where you can get a pet, Now banned ( Dogs, Bunnies ) ... Now they only have cats for the crazy cat ladies
@@cardboardboxification oh yes! That was so much fun. I remember asking my parents to go into the pet store each time we passed the store in the mall.
You're confusing OC with LA
That means democratic communism is working
This mall was home to the very first arcade started by Atari. who's old enough to remember the atari arcade? remember the ferrel's off the 55? you could hit the arcade, skate at Holiday Orange, then go to ferrels. now only Holiday Orange is left.
@@kdj29 didn't know about the arcade. Cool! I did go to Ferrell's & the Holiday skate & the water park / BIG O skate park
Wow, I have so many memories from that mall over 50 years worth- what a shame.
@@scotthugins7672 long gone now. It's a bummer
When I was a kid, the Orange mall was the place to hang out. Broadway, Sears and JC Penny's were the anchor stores - a million years ago!
@@aviewer9516 & all 3 anchor stores had eateries in them waaaay back then too. My family uses to eat at all of them
Gosh, this is wild to watch. Just a couple weeks ago, I was watching an old VHS recording of my sister and I trick or treating at this mall back in like 2003 or 2004. It was packed with people. Sad to think kids today won’t have those same experiences.
Thank you for documenting this, I’ve been down a rabbit hole online today going through street view to restaurants and stores we used to go to in OC before we moved in 2006, to see what they turned into today. I was wishing there was footage inside of those now closed businesses that no longer exist, that you can only find photos of online if you’re lucky. Places that I’ll only be able to look back on in memory now. Sad to see this place on its way out, but thankful you took the time to preserve its memory.
The mall is 100% leveled now so im glad i videoed it before it got torn down. Digitalize that vhs tape before it deteriorates cuz it sounds cool. Old OC is & has changed.
There was also a nice Van's skatepark there years ago too same with Ontario mills mall in Ontario years ago too I miss the days when malls were the happening places filled with young and older folks shopping and enjoying all the different types of stores and shops an era I'm grateful for experiencing
Vans skate park is at the block at orange now. Ahhh the good old days window shopping at a mall
Awwww!! My family used to go to the Sears there!!!! We used to go to malls around Christmas to see all the deco and visit Santa!! Wonder if Santa will go digital now too.
@@sherylclements2846 santa seems to be digital now cuz they show him flying across the planet to show where he is at xmas. Lol
Thanks for making this video. By the time I saw it the inside was already shut down. The stores i liked already left. JC Penny's for clothes and cookware, Great Khan had the absolute best Mongolian food. My wife and I were sad to see it go. Used shop at See's for chocolate gift boxes for Christmas. Back in the day I used to check out Pickwick Books; later there was a dollar book store I'd visit. And every now and then pretzels from Annie's.
Looks like something is going on over by the WalMart side in the mall
I worked in the mall office early 80s. The mall was bustling with people. Great memories. FYI. There was also a movie theatre at one time outside in the parking lot behind Broadway. Now Walmart.
@@retailmarketingroup i keep hearing about that movie theater but yeah the 70's - 80's was the mall era
My wife worked at the lane Bryant there, right after high school and I was working at the Walmart . 😢 precious memories.
@@Westwingplumbingyt i worked at Kmart up the street when Wal-Mart was being built there
Carl's jr, the arcade, kb toy, anchor blue, wet seal, pet store, oh the memories
Yeah all we have is memories now
I remember back in the day they had a Wherehouse Record store and a Sam Goody record store and a Music + store where the old theaters were, I went to Elmodena High school, we would always hang out there on the weekends. l also slipped and fell on the wet payvment and broke my collarbone. This was around 86. Oh yeah we always went to Carl's Jr.
@@GlennWatson71 believe in us we're Music + was their saying back then. It was a cool older Carl's, i liked it
Allot of memories here. I learned to drive in the back of that mall and taught my nephew in the same place. 😭 so sad
It is a dead zone back there now
I used to play Pong in the basement level of the Sears there. Spent many hours with my junior high friends at that mall once it opened in '71. It was the place to hang out after tearing up Eisenhower Park with our bikes snd skateboards.
I briefly lived behind that mall on Vista del Playa about 20 years ago. Walking over to this mall was a relaxing experience. Sad to see it’s gone now. Thanks for the vid!
This reminds me of the old declining Hunting Mall, before the Bella Terra Mall replaced it, and the now defunct Westminster Mall. The Westminster Mall opened the summer before my 8th grade started. Life was definitely different back then.
Ahhhh, The memories of our youth
So many memories and its now gone forever but anyways thanks for sharing this!👍💯
@@BloodFalcon-qf8ww closed for good & all we have now is the memories
I went to the Jr. HS across the street and in 1973 my dad came and took me out of school and we went to the Orange Mall to see Blazin Saddles and then he brought me back to school.
My wife and I lived in a lovely apartment directly across the street from the Sears Auto Center at the south end of the Mall of Orange. We moved out in 1984 to buy our first home in Moreno Valley. I continued working in Tustin until 2004 and have not been to Orange County ever since. Before that, my family and I came here together years before I was married. We came out here together even back when this mall first opened.
Moreno Valley? I'm so sorry.
This was my childhood mall. My mom and I would go their all the time.
@@gabystanfield3247 i was there alot myself
I used to love this mall as a kid. I always felt that once they got rid of the movie theater that used to be there, it was never the same. Then the Walmart came and it was pretty much the nail in the coffin.
Totally. Wasn't it $1.75 movies? Those were the good days 😌
@@abum22 i worked at Kmart up the street & the Managers warned us about that NEW Walmart coming soon. Now Kmart is no longer
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN Nice. If it's the Kmart where the Home Depot is now, I used to go there all he time. I'd grab a slice of Little Caesars pizza at the food counter after we shopped.
@abum22 yup that's the 1. I own the Grand Opening brass plaque & the 1969 porcelain garden shop sign among other things from there
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMANyah he could see the writing on the wall he knew once that Walmart opened it was all over.
I once saw Debbie Fields handing out samples at the Mrs
Fields cookies there. 1988...haha
@@JimB16 wow thats cool!
JAYMAN! Congrats on 1K subs + ! You are crushing it! - JJB 🎉
@@jarjarboujee finally! Dead malls seem to be the ticket
Saw your westminster mall video, subbed! ❤
@@Intryx awesome thanks!
Cruised this mall on weekends back in the late 70s with our car club. The Orange Cops loved us...
The OPD for the most part are decent people
I remember when these places were bustling centers of commerce and social interaction. I wonder what broke down all the social cohesion that is now absent?
Main Place Mall and Brea Mall both are within 10 minutes from this mall. Main Place... the more popular one - has a Movie Theater. I was surprised this mall lasted as long as it did.
Village at Orange had a movie theater (AMC 6) for a while. Went there when it was a discount house. Brea Mall used to have a theater (UA, 4 screens) but it was really bad. I couldn't believe a place like Brea Mall had a movie theater that was in such bad condition.
Loved the small arcade in the corner near sears plus the 2 crown books stores
The Movie theatre in the back lot adjecent to Broadway. Got to see Star Wars there in 77...they used to have a late-night Rocky Horror thing too
My, but this was sad to see.😦 I lived in Orange '81-'96 & shopped here all the time. Pre-WalMart. The Broadway, had a nice restaurant. Always parked in the back of JCPenney & Sears for easy access. There used to be a Long's Drugs & a store called Just A Buck. All items were $1 exactly. There was always a train for the kids around the Christmas tree and they could trick or treat & each store gave out Halloween candy. Bought many a gift at this shopping center & clothes for work. First known as the Mall of Orange, what I always called it. Then Galleria at Orange then The Village. TY for giving me one last cruise around The Mall of Orange.
I miss my childhood
@@Native722 the good 'ol days...lol
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMANBo ob tu be sh adow bann ing yet again. This was my family of origin's mall. Let me know if you see my comment. ✨🕯️🕊️✨
@BonnieBlair-zm4uu i see it
I used to go here with my grandma a long time ago.
Same. We used to shop & eat there
Any ethnic Filipinos seeing this but don't know yet: Fil-Am BBQ moved to Chapman and Main, southwest corner - same compound that has Ramen Mura. Current economic situation -- they're also dealing with shrinkflation.
I won't be surprised if some of you only found out about this place after that move, given the nurses/doctors/lab techs might have found them there first as that's nearer to all the hospitals and clinics.
@@Z020852 hmmmm I'll have to look.
I miss busy bee
Does anyone remember the basement level of Sears? Was that a furniture store or is my little kid memory thinking of somewhere else in the mall?
@@shredead people has said there was but? I got sent down there once by a worker but it was offices
11:05 I remember visiting this place (Piano Empire Megastore, now in Westminster Mall) back in 2021, and 13:25 (Poke to the Moon) last June. Its crazy how time flew and now these stores are moving out.
@@UJickedC0bra time does fly it seems like
Lol. Its because of me haha had me crackin up.
All because of meeee. That's why they closed. I should of shopped there more 😁
Nail place 6:02 use to be a chinese food restaurant! Wan't great, but it tasted good! Next door was a GNC store. The Acupuncture store used to be the pet store! They closed long before the mall & was selling sick & dying animals! The signs covering the windows you would see kittens playing in one window & the other crabs or birds! I could be wrong, but the suit zone use to be gamestop. I bought a lot of games there! The fil-am use to be a dairy queen & across the way where Ulta is at, use to be a chinese restaurant & gangis khan restaurant! Todai was outside to the left & red robin to the right! Man memories & now the mall is gone!
So sad..it was convenient for me to go to Ulta, Bath and Body Works. Only Home Goods is left😢
Just a few names that I remember -- BDalton Pickwick Bookstore, RedEye (clothing), Busybee (Chinese food), Bresler's (ice cream), Morrow's Hot Nuts, Women's World (clothing), Russo's (pet store), WorldMart, On-the-Go Travel (travel agency), Parasol (restaurant at front of mall)........
You remembered a lot of location there!
I used to shop at JCP. They used to have a playless shoe store. I miss playless. This mall only had a few stores open inside and not much food options inside, so it was underwhelming.
I feel like America is slowly becoming a dystopia
It's so sad! I worked at Merle Norman Cosmetics there in the 1980s.
used to be seafood place there could buy fresh fish and crab to go. Was great..I sepent more time at Brea in late 80s and 90s though
I need to hit up the Brea Mall soon to check it out.
Looks very much like what happened to Laguna Hills Mall a few years back.
Have vague memories at that mall as a kid in the early 70s.
It was my mall in the 70's 80's
I used to do sports memorabilia shows there in the 80s.
@@dadvader64 i remember traveling antique shows going from mall to mall
I used to walk around the mall back in the '80s during my lunch break. Those were the glory days of malls. Today I find malls to be gloomy, unnatural places. Time moves on.
I need to hit up a non dead mall soon. There are 2 by me too
How are you able to get in the mall but supposed to be closed but you can get inside? What time are you in the mall? Very few people walking around. Must be super early but a few stores are open it looks like.
The mall was open and i videoed that in the afternoon. But now the mall is not open to the public anymore inside.
Thanks for making these trips. Can't believe at one point Orange County alone had 12 Drivin-in theaters. Wheat until 2025 hits. when it's really going to be bad. Nationwide.
@@trila182 i remember a few of the old drive in theaters. 2 i know have Wal-Marts on the old sites.
@@trila182 The last OC drive-in to close was the Hi-Way 39 in Westminster (22 @ Beach Blvd and Trask). It's now a WalMart and a Costco.
I remember seeing the screens going down the 22 freeway.
Serious blast from the past
Have you ever been to the Buena Park mall? I remember years ago it was kinda dead, but still plenty of shops open.. these days, it might be a ghost town.
l'll be over there soon...it's pretty much dead.
I live very close to the Mall, sometimes go to the Walmart. Anyone heard any updates on what they plan to do with the property? Been closed for about 8 months now. Just sitting there empty. Creepy.
@starshell1000 allegedly a couple of the back areas may be housing but as to the interior of the mall ???? Future will tell
Walmart is supposed to expand into where World Market was. The backside of the mall where JC Penny's was is supposed to be torn down and replaced with apartments similar to Bella Terra in Huntington Beach.
@@Frodojack The Walmart is already so big it's hard to imagine it being larger, but could be. I hear residents in the area despise the idea of apartments, but I guess we will soon see!
@@starshell1000 The Walmarts in Tustin, Irvine and Garden Grove are much larger, especially the food area. A lot more produce, whole baked chicken, etc.
Its been a dead zone back there for too many years in the back lot
I remember the Mall of Orange. Went to Tustin High and remember it well. Is the City ok?
Is the mall on Colorado Blvd in Eagle Rock still around? Back in the day there was a large Montgomery Ward's there. I used to shop at that long gone store and other stores in that mall in the 1980's but I moved from Calif long ago. Do you ever get up to that area?
It’s still there and still dead. Only the seafood market and target keeping it alive
Eagle Rock Plaza still exists. I'll eventually need to go out that way.
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN The main attraction of the Eagle Rock mall is the Filipino supermarket there. You will see a large Filipino presence on the 1st floor at that mall. Target to the left side of the mall and Macy's on the right side of the mall like your standard mall.
Restaurant next to JC Penney was pretty good as was the one at Broadway. I kind feel its depressing. So many of the shops at MainPlace are open ..you see very few vacant spaces there yet they want to close it down at some pont and create living and retail thing. Is it because of the Nordstrom vacancy that things are that bad and having to close entire mall?
Remember The Cinedome Theatres
Yes! & the Orange drive in around the corner from the Cinedomes
I went to this mall in the 80s.
The old school days
I wish someone could take all these old malls n renovate them into homes for the homeless, etc
Ya never know these days. Possibly
I wish it was that easy. So many different reasons why people are homeless yet so many stay homeless for the same reasons. Each homeless person needs to be approached individually so that the help required is tailored to their specific circumstances and needs. Providing this is one step forward and accepting the proposal is a mountain climb.
The homeless can do that themselves dear.
No need to renovate...
The homeless are in the process of that. Soon the tweekers will get inside and take over.
Just a matter of time your wish will come true.
@@aceyorbano shit. You are right my friend. Wish Newsome knew this.
Looks like a smash and grabs dream set up.. oh boy. Get ready for this mall to be on the news..
@@HausFit well , nothing in there now to smash n grab it's closed
Nice try, Jan
I used to work in that mall!
In retrospect, it's a wonder these meccas of consumerism lasted as long as they did. If you aren't spending money you are just walking around aimlessly.
Itll be compartments likely worked at wherehouse records early 80
Was the warehouse kinda down the street or in the mall?
The Ross used to be JC Penny's. I ate chili dogs at the Carl's. Good times.
Old school days of chili dogs at Carl's
Damn how sad… My first job was there at the Knife Gallery in like 1998… I used to have lunch at that Carls Jr and used to go flirt with the girls at all the local stores. What a depressing sight
Near Chapman University.
@@invisibleadversary i work near Chapman University. The Mall is north Orange
I liked this mall growing up in the 80s! It''s been through a lot of changes. Was there a VERY small 2 movie theatre there at one point?
@@mommyteacher2961 yes waaaay back
yeah, that’s how far back I sgo…waaaay back! 😂 No regrets; I loved those times and wish it was like that for my teens! Thanks for the reply! Love watching these videos!
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN.
What gonna happen to the building after it closes?
@@fabienzaca it is closed. The interior is closed now. Not sure what the plans are yet
Please do a video on the South Bay Galleria in Redondo Beach.
My Mall😪
My mom would take us to Todai every Sunday after church and we would walk around the ‘orange mall’ after to burn it off 🥲 I haven’t been in years but it’s crazy to see it like this
I remember when Todi was a mexican resturant. I never went when it was Todi
Oh wow!!!
Yup. Long gone now inside
Sad to see but we all knew it was coming a long time ago.
@@OGSAFUNKATEER1901 yes we did
Amazon is killing all malls.
Message number two: My family's and friend's mall. Hi to childhood friends:NP and KS. Loved Pickwick/ B Daltonbookstores, Pet store, See's Candy, Orange 🍊 Julius, the Broadway, Sears Winnie the Pooh dept. and Popcorn 🍿 machine near entrance store, Wet Seal for Esprit clothing, Buster Brown children's shoes, Ross Dress 👗 for Less, Carl's Jr.❤🕯️✨🕊️
Sounds like you know the old school Orange Mall
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN Sears from Day 1, apparently. My Mom still has the 🖼️ framed photo of my brother in his short pants, very British, interacting with Winnie the Pooh, at Sears. I REALLY appreciate your touring these important social landmarks.😃👍 I am now a 🆕 subscriber. God bless you and yours. . .✨🕯️🕊️✨ 🙏🤲❤️
Thanks for the sub
Makes me sad.
Yeah me too
They couldn’t compete with south coast or main place. I had no idea this mall was even there and my cousins live up the street. Weird. Personally I just wish peeper land music was still open.
@@andyarnold23 i own a Pepper Land vest the workers used to wear. Got it when they were closing.
Peeper?
I only went for busy bees
Eating place i bet?
They need to make it into a Costco ! 😅
@@Westwingplumbingyt there was talk about that.
Yes
Need a Costco desperately
just fill it full of bars, restaurants, night clubs , and brothels
That will never happen.
annie preztel was once a subway i believe
@@mateofeo4597 crazy that Annies went to the last day
Fil AM BBQ Grill is best Filipino food in OC but they moved Main Street.
@@Playtrack22 drove by it just this morning & seen it
Plenty of homeless rats to take over the area. It's already crawling with them. They are sleeping everywhere. Pretty sad.
I'll have to do a drive around to see
Hey, go do a video on Scamelot, Anaheim. Anyone remember Skate Station on Katella? I have a skate station frisbee.
@@kdj29 hahaha Scamalot that's what we called it back in the day. Hmmmm Skate Station can't say i remember that.
Katella and Anaheim blvd/haster?
I know someone that went to go see this little unknown band called Culture Club in the early 90s at skate Station or the then ice rink
thats terrible about the mall , I still shop at that Walmart
That’s the problem. I’ve only gone there for the Walmart. All I got there was a sticky fly catcher months ago. I could’ve just ordered it online like most things. Rather stay home and keep playing video games than waste an hour driving there, walking and driving back
@@dr.benjamintran2356 yeah me too here & there
That's it! All these dead malls have leaking ceilings because the mall is crying!
Yup crying cuz its dying. 😁
Damn, door was open...........You must have made this some time ago, not 12 days. I miss going to a store to buy something, screw mail order.
He comes in through Door 6, classic….
Was that the old Orangefair mall?
@@newlexness not that im aware of just the old Mall of Orange
That's in Fullerton
What happened to the Laguna Mall?
Torn down in 2023
@@sonnydacuse7622 it's a plie of rubble
All malls are pretty much dead. It is called Amazon. lol Well for me anyway. I don't go to stores much.
No time, gas or effort wasted. We just get almost what we need on Amazon
You are so right.
That’s how I like my malls no nasty kids asking me to buy them beer
I never forget that was happening at there mall shoot and killed 13 years old girl in Dec 1989.
Didn't know that
Petrini’s used to be thair tord’s the end 🎹🎤🥁🎸
Thaiir tord's??? What??
It’s being redeveloped with thousands of condos
@@Polacerbic dang!!
No it's not. Pipe dream.
.......................i sure wish we could go back to 1985 or earlier.......the World and our country were sure a better place and people we happier. Sad now. We really do need Trump and return to better years before they are completely out of reach and gone forever.
Yeah way back then was a better time. Things are getting out of hand now of days
It’s all Walmarts fault when they got there and the theater was gone that’s when it all started going downhill.
Relax, Turbo. Wal mart had nothing to do with it.
Walmart probably gave it a lifeline. The Broadway was gone and the mall needed another anchor.
Kmart up the street couldn't compete because WalMart showed up.