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  • Crossroads Plaza was very similar in design to Pioneer Place in downtown Portland.

  • Where else can you go to ski 9 ski resorts in under 45 minutes, or a 3 hour drive to Arches National Park/Moab area, or what about the 40 minute drive east to the extreme Unitas Mountains, did I forget the several hundred lakes to fish and swim?

  • Spent a couple of great weeks in Sandy a couple of years ago and its good to see some of the sights again, got told it was a dry state and no alcohol. thank god i was being wound up even if the beer is a bit on the weak side, still met a lot of nice people and had a great time. hopefully gonna go back soon..

  • I miss Crossroads mall

  • ever been to a mall and you cant even have your hoodie onn. its garbage.

  • I hope you all realize, you have freedom of the press and can record anything you want unless it's on Fed Govt property. Rent a cops come by and tell you to stop recording, you can have them sent to prison for impeeding on your civil rights.

  • that mall is gone

  • Top secret mall? I really don't understand this.

  • this is dumb

  • lol look at the length of the vid (801)

  • They don't want you takin Vids or pics inside the mall cause they can be used in the planning of a robbery.Most malls have Banks and Jewellery stores and can be broken into after closing or a straight forward daylight robbery!I know that for a fact!!!

  • BEEN THERE, AND THOUGHT IT WAS SPOOKY, ESPECIALLY THE BOTTOM FLOOR YIKES!

  • this mall is long gone now

  • I remember the Crossroads Mall...used to eat in the bsmt food court. The mall is dead, long live the Crossroads!

  • I am going to cry a tear. This was the best mall in Utah. They tour it down to make way for what? What ever they build can not to compare to Cross Roads. I grew up sluffing school at that mall. I learned more there then I ever did at school.

  • becouse the security guards in this mall were pricks and rent a cops

  • I remember that mall, now it is knocked down.

  • This mall is gone by the way. They're building a massive urban / mixed use area in its place.

  • sooo0o00oo what was the top secret part?

  • i miss the days when the lower level of CrossRoads was a deep dark basement with 2 arcades and a theater. Then for books, there was Deseret Book across the street @ ZCMI along with the toy department on the Lower Level there, the snack bar with cheese bread and various kinds of soft serve. Sometimes even game console trial displays or special lego displays up on the 4th floor.

  • Is there somebody here who could explain to me what's interesting in this video ?

  • @ludovic31830

    A handful of shots would make for good stock footage. And it documents to some small degree someone's memories of 2 malls right across the street from one another now gone.

  • @ludovic31830 Well if you grew up in Utah its cool. The Mormon or LDS church bought the mall and destroyed it. They bought like four blocks of down town Salt Lake and demolished it to make way for Condos and idk what else. You see it is directly across the street from Temple Square. Kinda like the Vatican of the Catholic church for the Mormon Church.

  • @BP3DP The mormons trashed utah, they run utah like a 3rd world country then with the years of mormons inbreeding mixing the same genes and chromosomes to make kids, those generations come out slow minded and retarded, mormons are stupid

  • I lived there for a few years and worked in EMS. I swear 90% of the people, mostly woman were on antidepressent meds.. Most of them were members of the LDS church or so stressed about being a good morman that they could not handle it. Sad.

  • @ssilentrage426 I live in Utah, everyone is on meds or LDS, or both... I would move away in a heartbeat if i could.

  • Salt Lake is such a boring city.

  • who takes vids in the mall and why did the rent a cops kick you out your just taking a vid

  • I have no idea. I guess because its private property, and they can.

  • @an80sGuy They don't like getting robbed. Successful crooks case a place before they pull a heist. You know..they make plans.

  • @skateboard325 probably because they didn't want the normans to get mad or offensed!lol idk!

  • @skateboard325 I got asked to stop taking pictures in this mall when I was working as a reporter. I finished taking the pics I needed, but they were obviously upset about the whole thing. Their justification had to do with trademarks used throughout the mall being protected. I had to point out to them that kicking reporters out of public places, even if they are private property, usually backfires in court, and do they really want to piss off a major newspaper over a few pictures?

  • Hello Salt Lakers! I have been to your City 1995 when I was 17. Everytime, when I visited one of those malls, i went to a little place in the upper levels, where I could play video games. My favorite was Virtua Fighter 2, which was brand new in those days. Salt Lake City is a nice place, but maybe it should become a bit more liberal. Greetings from Cologne, Germany.

  • there is an extremely OPPRESSIVE atmosphere in SLC. I know because I lved there over 30 years and the reason its like that is the LDS church. They stifle their members and non-members alike.

  • @susankmcc11009 yeah the mormons run utah like a 3rd world country and they are known as being one of the dumbest and slow people in the country

  • @susankmcc11009 DUH!!!!!!!

  • I don't know what Mall Security thought was so terrible about filming the fountain in the mall....bunch of dumb rent-a-cops.....thanks for the memories....too bad the property is now owned by the church.

  • Good old Cross Roads.

  • I used to love to Xmas shop at Xroads but ZCMI was the lamest fucking place ever!!!!

  • Glad you filmed this because the mall is gone! Too bad, it was the first place I visited whenever I went back to SLC. Thanks for sharing!

  • I'm not bagging on SLC cause that's where I'm from but man...maybe that's why this video is so boring...YAY Main street and State Street Traffic...Exciting!

  • I love salt lake city, be proud if you are from utah. People talk crap but it really is an amazing place, I miss it so much.

  • I think I just saw Joseph Smith.

  • "Why would you want to film the inside of a lame SLC mall?"

    I dono...

    Why would you want to watch a video filmed inside of a lame SLC mall?

  • @an80sGuy I used to live there & this is a nice document of what it is,& we are in a land of consuming & oppression the only freedom we have anymore is to consume or buy junk!! Cheers!

  • Why would you want to film the inside of a lame SLC mall?

  • "I didn't know it was against the law to film in malls in the States but there are a lot of things you are not allowed to do there" The Malls are private property. The owners can do what ever want, or at least they can try. But yeah it's stupid.

  • mother fucker pink ass eating bitch

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  • Denver is 30x better

  • one of those malls are haunted but they both were closed

  • Glad those malls have finally been razed for the beauty which is to come :)

  • do you really think you cool cause you talk all bad on screen??

  • His 100% Bosnian.They like to record things like that,3 hours long...

  • What difference does it make if you film inside a mall?

  • hi an80's guy thanks for the clip it was great are you a slc resident and did you know that being tossed out of the mall like that is not surprising if you realy want a good read check out linda dunning she wrote two books on utah look for lost landscapes, it's been reported for years that the downtown malls had tunnels and a lot realy weird stuff going on ....and still does

  • Props

  • You are a mad folk.

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  • A Epic Fail

  • WTF U TAlKiNq BOUT ! NO WHiTE MORMON PPl TEll ME WAT TO DO SHiT! DiD U NOE THAT UTAH HAS SO MANY DiFERENT CUlTURES? WE qOT WHITE AFRiCAN POliNEASiANS ASiAN HiSPANiC ND MANY MORE WEiRD 1S. BUT NO MORMON RUN UTAH! DASZ FORSURE!

  • Why are you using the upper case when you type? It = yelling or talking laud.

  • I'm not sure 'secrete' would be a word I'd use to describe the nothingness that occurs here. Proper word usage is vital to getting your message across. If you don't know what word to use, just ask someone, I'm sure they'd help.

  • And the point of this worthless video is?

  • It's not worthless Salt Lake City is a nice place.

    It's clean and family friendly City. Utah is covered with beautiful mounatins.

  • Denver is better

  • oh shit, i saw the meteor shower, thats crazy

  • Ok I think maybe everyone even the person recording missed out on something, a meteor shower!!!

    I'll explain, look at the time 6:58 as he is looking over a mountain, I studied this video and found out that is was in fact a meteor shower at the exact time he zoomed in on the mountain!!!!

    It's authentic because the person shooting only meant to get a view of downtown Salt Lake.

    Look at the upper right part of the screen at 6:55 to 7:01

    Nice catch.

  • holy oyur right there rwas a meteor shower

  • What's the point of this video?

  • Its dumb when people mis lable videos..

  • "Its dumb when people mis lable videos"

    Haha. Yeah... but it get views. I don't put up video to have like five people watch them.

  • tool

  • I don't get why this is such a big discovery.

  • mormons are weird,,,

  • If I wanted to see Crossroads and Zions mall and see downtown SLC in the rain, I could go there right now, jackass, there is nothing secret about anything on this video, I'm glad I stopped it and read the comments.

  • jaja that was good anahowana

  • euh, fortunately i always tend to read some comments before watching any vid, and in this case i just realised that the vid was boring/fake so i didn't watch it, thanx guys for your comments, i just wasted 58 second :):)

  • I hope the mall police investigate how this guy was able to infiltrate this top secret government mall interior and exterior and shoot such breathtaking top secret footage, wow that was amazingly gay!

  • r u sirious?

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  • thanks for the posting these scenes from SLC

  • "Congratulations on making the list of "YouTube's Most Boring & Nonsensical Videos

  • you suck balls

  • nice..thanks for wasting my time

  • Congratulations on making the list of "YouTube's Most Boring & Nonsensical Videos"!

  • "Congratulations on making the list of "YouTube's Most Boring & Nonsensical Videos"!"

    Jee thanks. Do I win a prize or something?

  • Is there a point to this video?

  • "Is there a point to this video?"

    No, absolutely none.

  • You guys serious? This footage induced an argument on religion?

  • all religions are dangerous once we elect their believers government officials. end of story.

  • Mormons aren't dangerous, they have beliefs that I find odd, but that's my opinion, I have no need to bash on these people as I have no issue with them. If you're looking for a dangerous cult, why don't you do research about scientology?

  • waste of time

  • I personally calling a religion evil is a bit rash, is it not? The Mormons are not evil. However, if you want to label them as judgemental and unwilling to accept diversity, then go ahead.

  • Bro what are you talking about I am LDS or mormon and there are some people that are judgemental but isn't that human nature you can't tell me that everyone in the world hasn't judged someone in their life... so I think it's an unfair statement to say just mormons do it or they hate everyone who is diverse or not mormon it's totally untrue and for everyone on this page maybe you should actually know things about something before you just bash on it.

  • oh and by the way look who is being judgmental...

  • Both of those malls are no longer there. Both of the downtown malls came down to make way for the City Creek Center Project. I have videos of those malls coming down.

  • Shortly after this was taken the Mormon Church security came and took the original tape CONSPIRACY !!!

  • huh?

  • what the... crappy vid, shot in a dumpy, crappy town,

  • oh please it's just another mormon hater

  • this is stupid ???

  • mormons = cult

  • Good Video though. Brings back the memories of living in SLC. Was a trucker, and worked out of there from '93-'04. The city was beautiful, and went through a lot of changes up to the '02 Olympics. Including a total revamp of the interstate system. Lots of good people there, I remember...

  • Believe it or not. The evil Mormon church has offices in the mall. He, he. Yes, they do! I am not kidding.....

  • Ok why is the Mormon church evil you probably don't even know anything about it. Maybe you shouldn't be so quick to judge

  • wow thank you for the footage, maybe you can film more of the SLC downtown, that would cool tx

  • glupi jestes!!! tyle ci powiem...

  • WASTE OF TIME !!!!!!!!!!

  • this video is stupid, wtf is your point? a top secret video of something that anyone who walks into the mall can see, damn you are good

  • Malls have top secret cameras? LOL they have cameras yes but top secret?

  • yea but in knowing where it is means your a mormon. therefore you are gay. another secret revealed!

  • So i guess this video isn't so top secret anymore lol!

  • lol 3:16

  • Any good drugs to score in downtown Salt Lake City? Which street corner is the best to hang?

  • "Any good drugs to score in downtown Salt Lake City? Which street corner is the best to hang?"

    Yeah, try 315 East and 200 South. I'm sure you'll find what ur looking for there.

  • You know, I miss these malls... the first was Crossroads Shopping Center, with a security force which was well-known for being complete pricks (once kicked me out for waving to someone on another level because I shouted); the second was ZCMI. Several great shots of downtown.

    ZCMI and Crossroads Shopping Center are both gone now. The Gateway is only two stories.

  • is the gateway a three story mall?

  • From UFO vids to this, I was looking for a Flying Saucer but nothing nice to see America for free I feel scared really going there don't know anyone there.

  • this video is a fake. the beginning of it wastn even in salt lake trust me i have lived there pretty much my whole life and it was never there

  • For living in Utah your whole life you must not have ever gone to downtown SLC. That's the old crossroads mall.

  • Yes it is. I also live in Utah and I have been there. I remember every moment.

  • You're joking. The second you see this video, you know it's Crossroad Plaza. I was lived from 1970 to 2004 and I know that this Crossroad Plaza. It may look different at times, but it was Crossroads

  • haha, i'm visiting Utah this Friday! It'll be fun!

  • they felt your friends.

  • I barely recognize the Mall area without the trax...LOL..

  • what is this video suppused to be anyway??

    i dont get it

  • I hated Utah - you can't buy a drink unless you are sitting down eating and the waiting staff are just fucking rude!!

  • you are just jealous.

    Utah rules. :)

  • Out of all the states I've visited I'd say Utah was the most beautiful and interesting, but what's wrong with the waitresses?? They really seem to get off on that bit of power they have.

  • hah! the old mall!! i remember the old mall, before the gateway opened up and downtown became deserted.

  • ive been there lol

  • I couldn't understand why this vid was even averaging 3* then I saw something in the sky in the lower right corner of the frame @ 4:41

    you may have missed - who knows what it is..but it was the only interesting thing I saw in the whole vid.

  • See what at 4:41? The only thing I see in addition to the buildings and the clouds, are the tops of two trees, and a lamp post. Am I missing something else?

  • WTF are you talking about? there was nothing at 4:41.

    this was fucking stupid. why would you film the inside of a few malls and nothing happening on the street?

    and WHY in the hell would you post it on you tube? god i hate morons

  • i think i see what you're talking about. i'm pretty sure its part of a tree that appears to be detached from the tree due to the focusing of the camera

  • Personally I was delighted to learn that the mall fountain has plenty of pennies for me.

  • real nice video i wanna live in salt lake...:)

  • Thanks for putting this up. I was wondering what the traffic was like in SLC...

  • ok so they got cameras so how da hell tehy didnt have any films of sulejman talovic shooting any body??

  • What the FxxK is this?

  • OMG now the Ruskies know that SLC's mall looks just like all the other malls in the USA. We're doomed! I have to laugh, because the same thing happened to me when I signed up for a cable access course in Fairfax, VA; and the security guard told me I couldn't shoot in Springfield Mall.

  • How about that... This was recorded on my sisters birthday...

  • I didn't know it was possible to secrete a mall.

  • Thanks. I've had this up for over a year, and you're the first person to notice that.

  • so carmniell o' rikuttar...facitv e pisc man!!!

  • what is so top secret about the crossroads mall that it was the best mall there then the had to tear it down for fucking stupid rich people apartments

  • is crossraods mall torn down , I didnt think it was

  • SLC is a very boring place to live, no life.

    I feel sorry for those Bosnians that were moved from Srebrenice to SLC.

  • I live in Boise. SLC is pretty good though for visiting.

  • Malls are where trapped souls go to die..I try to stay away from them....

  • What a shame to see the mall go. Crossroads, ZCMI, Cottonwood. SLC leaders have no reverence for history here anymore. Just look what Draper has turned into. Look at what is happening in Sugarhouse, it makes me ill. We don't need any more freaking offices or apartments in our historic districts. SLC looks like any other city in America now.

  • no kidden, look at bluffdale, I grew up there and were did all the people come from hell it was a farming town and had Webbs dairy, I whent to cottonwood mall when I was in 3rd grade and sang on the xmas tree with my class, good old times. you can berly see the temple any more!

  • I live here in slc, I was born here.. But I am sorry ppl I LOVE DENVER more...Also Denver legalized possesion of up too 1 oz. of marijuana, slc is behind in the times..

  • You like Denver because they legalized smoking dope? Sounds like you've been sucking down bong hits too long.

  • well Denver is my home town now 4 past 4 yrs. & slc. is birthplace i love both places, but yes i am 420 4 life peaceful hippie, 4 that i'm guilty..

  • ii live in the state of utah in slc it is better than califonia sure calli has a lot of skate boarding but utah has something better than that we have snow boarding. and skate boarding and snow boarding rock that is some thing you can't beat than flordia or cali best snow on earth.

  • I love SLC, it is the best city in the world, especially at Christmas time...It is so amazing to walk downtown and see all of the lights and Christmas displays

  • i loved this. and to think that most of the buildings shown here have been demolished...

  • WOW long time ago it really is to bad SLC does not look much like this anymore!!

  • That you should be happy for, it looks like shit :D