I think its stupid how most thses mall are being replaced by outdoor shopping centers especially here in Ohio now in Toledo there is 2 outdoor malls dont get me wrong Levis commons and Fallen Timbers are nice to go in the summer and spring but the last thing i wanna do when christmas shopping is freezing my balls off walking from store to store !
I used to hang out there in the early 1980's and boy o boy did we have a killer time. If there are any Mall Rats out there that remember those times send me a message this is Dennis Lyons. I remember when that place was a farmers field when I was a little kid. I think there was also a little air strip out there too.
Back when my grandparents lived in Toledo, my family would regularly make trips out there to visit. Grandma and Grandpa would take me to Southwyck Mall every time. Growing up in the 90s, I got to see the place packed with happy shoppers at every time of year. We'd sit near the big reflecting pool and talk about many things, then look into all of the colorful window displays. I bought my very first music cassette there. Like many other things from that era, it's now just a beautiful memory.
you guys ever get to ask that big fake plush bunny questions and it would respond by microphone.. fun shit i tell you that much especially if it was a girl.
OMG a vacant lot yea why am i not surprised they dont like what they have so they think if they tear it down and build something new itl work but then this happens and all thats left is a vacant lot, im seeing the same damn thing happen were i live.
It's too bad. Replaced with a vacant lot, despite the "plans" for a revitalized, mixed commercial/residential commons. So now there is the new outdoor promenade in Maumee about 5 miles away. Great. During the winter you can freeze, and the summer you can sweat in the humid heat , all while enjoying the shopping experience. Toledo is not Santa Monica; enclosed malls are the perfect solution for shopping in that environment. I'm disappointed I did not have the oppty to take one last walk thru.
.Brick, wood, mirrors...Mint Condition 1970's You dont see that anymore. Not in malls, and rarely other places too. People go nuts to try and save architecture from the 20s~ 30s but when it comes to the 70's and 60's nobody is interested. They consider it "dated" even though its all nicer than todays white halls and bland decor.
@gravijiga I agree, even though I'm anti-materialism in some ways, these malls were my Ohio childhood and an important piece of history in this country. If I had a billion dollars before one of these gems were demolished, I'd have refurbished it entirely in the original style, required the old inside store marquees, etc. - people like me would go just for the nostalgia. If I ever own my own home it will be authentic 60s & 70s style right down to the faux wood paneling in the basement.
What beautiful architecture! So sad not to see many of these type classic design malls any more. I prefer indoor shopping than the new shopping centers today.
I got my tuxedo there when I got married back in 1998. I remember cruising back and forth out front with my friend Dana back in the 80's. Aloha Southwyck Mall.
I have several memories of this mall both good and bad. I used to work at Montgonery wards back in the early nineties. My worst experience there was I had to work on "black night" and on my lunch break I was going to Coney Island and I was "jumped" by a group of punks. 3 of them were arrested at the bus stop and charged with assault and battery but all they got was a slap on the wrist because they were juvies and not even a month later I saw 2 of them in the mall.
In my opinion, the best and highest use for a dead mall is a salvage yard. When that fails, a commuter park and ride lot. And when that fails, a town forest (dig up the lot and plant trees).
I miss this place so much, many memories. My mother worked 19yrs till the day she died at Wards here I worked there from 90-93. I hate to drive by it now and see nothing there anymore. Its really sad.
Sad to see malls fail like this, but it's how things are these days. We have a mall up here near Detroit that is about ready to fall like this - Summit Place in Waterford Townshp....just a matter of time. Nobody goes there anymore with the new Great Lakes Crossing nearby.
Franklin Park is a really nice mall. I didn't see hardly any vacancies when I was just there. Not the same at some of the malls around Detroit. Twelve Oaks in Novi and Somerset Collection are still pretty strong here.
I worked in a semi abandoned mall and the maintenance staffd would take me exploring in shut down stores. It was kinda cool looking at all the faux facades and outdated interiors, but also sad.
those days r gone forever! all those sighn marquees bowling lanes drive ins all that slice of americana! to b onenst i dont even like goin to the new places now beeing buit! :( so sad the world is today!
It would have close faster. Toledo had plenty of that crap already. Its the stupid gangs and riffraf that mad it close down. If they don't watch it then they will close franklin park mall.
Smile. Exactly how I remember it. I worked as a cook at Frisch's 1978-81. - Met my first wife there. - Anybody remember "Olde Town"? Dillards use to be Lion Store. I even painted the Mall Manager's house. - Hey, thanks for the memories.
I never met a waitress who didn't work hard for her tips. If I worked with you, I know it was a pleasure. It was a "good time" when I worked there. Had fun and made the best of it. :)
Its cool you posted this. Especially now that the entire Southwyck mall has been demolished (I have a few photos of it half torn down). Sad really. Hopefully something else worth while will be built there one day.
Awesome mall. I use to go to the Southwyck Mall back what seems like eons ago when I was a lad. I've since gone to many more malls; none compare to the Soutywyck mall for simple charm and elegance. The glass dome is truly original as malls go. There used to be a little arcade dubbed "Ole Town", or was it "Old Towne"? which had all the fun and entertainment a kid back in the early eighties could ever need or want.
Just thinking of it is giving me Pac-Man fever all over again.
I remember old town, I recall that section of the mall feeling and looking like a little mini city, might have had street lamp like lights along the walkways too i think. My first piercings (ears) were done in an old town shop when i was a kid.
Not many people remember Old Towne. I remember it, too. That's where they put the cinemas, I believe. I remember the long walk back to it, into a different time. I miss those days.
yeah it was like walking into a different time when walking back into Old Towne, made me feel as if I were back in time - before cars - in some little far off out of the way London town , I didn't know thats where they ended up putting the cinemas. Once Old Towne was gone I rarely ever went out there.
@DazzDeLaMorte I need to ask my friend about Old Town.She grew up in Toledo but moved south some 25 years ago.She did say that the area she grew up in has gone bad.The church where she married closed and the priest later was sentenced for killing that nun.
Not sure how old your friend is, but I recall Old Towne being in the Southwcyk mall around the mid to late 70's. I also remember Farrels (sp?) at Franklin Park Mall, they had food, but were known for their ice cream & candy. They had all sorts of sizes of pretty colored Jawbreakers too. they had one order of ice cream that came in a trough like a pigs trough It was pretty massive too. Saw a few people at other tables order it and boy did the place make a big show of those who ordered it
She is in her early 60's.They lived in Toledo I think until 1980.I will ask her about the mall etc the next time we meet for lunch.Her parents later moved to Maumee which is a nicer area.
I think it's really marvelous that you're able to look at an old mall and see the beauty in the dome...I wouldn't have looked at that, or at least not that way.
The music in this clip makes me want to go watch "CHiPs" reruns....lol
I see they tore down the Glow Bowling Alley on Reynolds and Central recently too. Sucks. I dont bowl, but I kept meaning to go glow bowl but never did it.. now its too late..
Bowling seems to be kinda going the way side too. Imperial Lanes, Reynolds Corner Recreation and Ottawa lanes are all long gone. still a lot of centers around though
FixFalcon, you made the same comment I did some time back. Sad but true the way things end up when the wrong element start taking over. I caught hell over my comment and I am sure that you will too.
Cool video. I remember going to this mall as a teenager when it was a nice and safe place to shop, before all the black people came in and ruined it. Hopefully Fallen Timbers Mall is far enough away from the city that it won't be tainted in the same fashion.
The Pinewood Derby allowed me time to peek at Playboys in B. Dalton while my brother's division raced. I didn't get caught, but I'm sure my scout uniform made me stick out like a sore thumb. :)
Ron please never take down this video, this is one of my only reminders of southwyck lol god do i miss this mall, remember it so well when i was a kid!
Blame also goes on the Internet.Folks rather shop online now.Also blame Woolworths closing and Monty Wards closing.Once MW went belly up,the malls started suffering.
man its so sad this closed, i used to love this mall for the nice atmosphere and the fact that you could actually walk in it, and it was also so quiet and peaceful, now this video is my only reminder
I remember when it was hip to just cruise the parking lot at Southwyck. then they had problems with cars hauling ass so they put speedbumps in. I remember many holiday seasons in the late 70s early 80s as a small kid that mall was packed.
my buddies and I had an apt on Cass and Glendale back in 86. that area was hopping then... Tony Romas Dominecs,Oldtowne..fun days. Then the seedier elemnt moved in and whole block between heather downs and glendale looks abandoned.
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Lets meet up in and you tell me that person, you fucking fag!!! Some white people are fucking pieces of shit!!!! Just had to turn this into a race thing didn't you, homo!!!
then how would you explain abandoned malls in areas where there are few or no black people?it sure is easy to blame problems on race when you are too much of a moron to do resreach and comeup with more valid reasons
the answer is: sometimes malls when they are built have bad anchors. a large number of dead malls had Wards as one of its anchor (case in point, Universal Mall in Warren). For every Dixie Square Mall, there is a Universal Mall. (Universal had Wards, Mervyns, and Value City as its Anchors and all of those stores closed (store closing/Bankruptcy), killing the mall.)
i haven't be in there since my brother looking for a textu for his prom n that was in 2002 i do miss it i wondering what i going to put there. probably nothing until carty is out of office.
What a perfect choice for the music for this clip! I can imagine hearing it on the background music while walking around the mall. I grew up hanging out there as a young child in the late 70s and as a teenager in the 80s. as an adult in the 90s it was sad to see the mall start its inevitable decline.
my fondest memories when i was really young was going through Olde Towne. I know Oldetowne opened in 75 but does anyone remember the year it went out? im thinking 80 or 82?
I grew up in Toledo and left it in 1992 for Los Angeles. I went back for a visit in January of 2008 and had to visit my favorite mall. I used to work at AMC Theatres (the three on the outside) from '86-'92. Let me just say that it was SURREAL to walk around that place now. What have you guys let happen? I heard from family about all of the bickering with the owner..blah blah blah. Are you kidding me? Damn just fix the place up!!! Idiots!
Hey man. I was born and raised in Toledo and left in 2001 for LA as well. My parents prior to that in '93 retired and moved from Toledo to Lexington, KY. I haven't been back there in years. How do you like it out here?(LA) Take care man.
Thanks for stating legitimate facts. It's a changing economic trend;enclosed shopping is a thing of the past, not many people want to drudge though all these stores for the one store they are interested in buying from...hence the popularity of anchor department stores, such as Walmart, Target, Kroger, Home Depot, etc. Also, the newest trend is outside shopping plazas. Now if only people like balzysalzy would pick up a book, we wouldn't have to contend with such ignorance in this world. Peace!
990305: If you want to have a male-organ waving contest I live in LA, the second largest city in the nation. Well, I work there, I live about 10 miles out. Your "hick" comments are really uncalled for.
You pic looks like you were on to catch a predator are you running from the law you queer fuck.. I heard that LA is the 2nd largest gayest city...and with a name like duskglow u r queer
I guarantee there is more rednecks in Ohio than Tennessee. Go to Zanesville or Steubenville or Youngstown or any suburb of Toledo. Wauseon, Swanton, Grand Rapids...etc...this is boring. Enjoy your cold ass winter...I'll see you in July at Cedar Point.
Southwyck needs to be torn down. It's not even a mall anymore...more like a ghost town. Tear it down and build a brand-new, upscale mall that rivals the Mall of America!
balzysalzy ...I'm happy for you! You moved to a state that doesn't require shoes and shirts in resturants...I'm sure you and your cousin will live happily ever after, with your brood of Bubba's, in your double wide :)
balzysalzy I'm from Toledo...actually a suburb of Toledo... and I can actually picture you from your ignorant comment. You sound like a dirty, mullet wearing, white boy from the east side, who probably even gives white trash a bad name! Sorry to have to deface your site rondiscscinema...I really enjoyed your video!
Sorry I offended you but that is the way I see Toledo. My family moved out by Waterville in 1986 because of the decline of Toledo. Boring ass city and state anyways that is why I live in Tennessee now.
balzysalzy I'm from Toledo...actually a suburb of Toledo... and I can actually picture you from your ignorant comment. You sound like a dirty, mullet wearing, white boy from the east side, who probably even gives white trash a bad name! Sorry to have to deface your site rondiscscinema...I really enjoyed your video!
That is funny as hell. I grew up on Utah St. on the east side but I don't have a mullet. My comment was not ignorant but sadly, the truth about Toledo. Franklin Park, Southwyck, Woodville mall used to be cool but went downhill.
Ahhh the 80's were the time to hang at Southwyck. Cruising, picking up chicks, Old Town. Good times for sure until the spooks ruined it like everything else in T-town. Remember My Place Rocks down from the mall. That was a bangin' club till once again the jiggs took it over.
Brings Back memories for me too i also use to go there with my parents when i was little and it was actually 100% filled with stores and pretty much the place to go shopping at. TO bad
Only 10-11 tenants remain as of 1/11/08. Among them are Victoria's Secret, Lady Foot Locker, Kids Footlocker, Bath and Body Works, Fiesta Hair Salon, a spray-T shirt place and a couple of other women's clothing shops.
i used to love to go to southwyck back in the day, does anyone remember old town with the arcade games, that used to be the hangout back in the 80's. I left Toledo 5yrs ago and this mall was declining didnt think it would get this bad, just like north town. Toledo is still a nice place to visit, but i wouldnt want to live there. Lovin TEXAS
its good toledo hospital bought up a bunch of houses around them and there gonna tear them down and add on to exit 19 and make all that part of toledo hospital i guess so i moved out by sams club
Was in Southwyck the other day. It's like Dawn of the Dead minus the zombies. It really kinda creepy to have more than half the stores shuttered and seeing lonely salespeople stare at you as you walk by. Too bad, this used to be a great mall back in the day. I'm sure that glass dome looked futuristic in the 70's.
And why would you freak out and criticize something you don't understand? Malls are part of America's cultural history. There are scores of people who are documenting these malls before they are demolished or altered. Serious discussion has been given to the rise, fall and reinvention of the shopping center. This video is just as valid as filming the hotel district of Miami Beach, the 19th century factories of East Coast or the auto plants of Detroit.
man, this brings back alot of memories. thanks for posting it. i would love to get a copy of your stills. i worked there for a couple years at the camelot music. met a girl there, got married and had a kid together. spent alot of times with my friends there. wow. sad state of affairs.
Coney Island closed after it caught fire durning the night months ago. Filled the mall with smoke. They are planning to level Southwyck to make an outdoor style mall. It will be better than the 75% vacancy it has now.
I remember sitting on the floor in B. Daltons there, reading Pop-up books. Moved away from Toledo when I was 12 in 1986, but still visit a few times a year.
Wow this video gives Southwyck more life than it really has. I worked there a few years ago. I was born and raised in T-town but moved to Columbus. Its still my home!!! When did Coney Island close?!
What a waste, such a beautiful mall gone to ruin.
StarlingPowers 1 week ago
I think its stupid how most thses mall are being replaced by outdoor shopping centers especially here in Ohio now in Toledo there is 2 outdoor malls dont get me wrong Levis commons and Fallen Timbers are nice to go in the summer and spring but the last thing i wanna do when christmas shopping is freezing my balls off walking from store to store !
AmericanNinja85 2 months ago
Not sure of the song title, but isn't that Ramsey Lewis off his "funky serenity" album?
0269Reaper 3 months ago
Leveled in the name of 'progress'. RIP Southwyck.
NYdrone 3 months ago
Does anyone know the name of this song playing?
patsaxon 3 months ago
@patsaxon Barry White - Love Boat Theme
mccojr02 3 months ago
I used to hang out there in the early 1980's and boy o boy did we have a killer time. If there are any Mall Rats out there that remember those times send me a message this is Dennis Lyons. I remember when that place was a farmers field when I was a little kid. I think there was also a little air strip out there too.
joetubealong 4 months ago
thank you for this Video.. I swear I grew up at this mall. This is not it's Hayday but, WOW it was awesome!
howelegant 5 months ago
Back when my grandparents lived in Toledo, my family would regularly make trips out there to visit. Grandma and Grandpa would take me to Southwyck Mall every time. Growing up in the 90s, I got to see the place packed with happy shoppers at every time of year. We'd sit near the big reflecting pool and talk about many things, then look into all of the colorful window displays. I bought my very first music cassette there. Like many other things from that era, it's now just a beautiful memory.
BorneoBoy28 7 months ago 2
@BorneoBoy28
I was a kid in the 90s i remeber those days too how sad....
AmericanNinja85 2 months ago
i love the song to this video ^_^
jessluvsjonas 8 months ago
you guys ever get to ask that big fake plush bunny questions and it would respond by microphone.. fun shit i tell you that much especially if it was a girl.
everybodyiswrong 10 months ago
OMG a vacant lot yea why am i not surprised they dont like what they have so they think if they tear it down and build something new itl work but then this happens and all thats left is a vacant lot, im seeing the same damn thing happen were i live.
mannequinwizard 10 months ago
It's too bad. Replaced with a vacant lot, despite the "plans" for a revitalized, mixed commercial/residential commons. So now there is the new outdoor promenade in Maumee about 5 miles away. Great. During the winter you can freeze, and the summer you can sweat in the humid heat , all while enjoying the shopping experience. Toledo is not Santa Monica; enclosed malls are the perfect solution for shopping in that environment. I'm disappointed I did not have the oppty to take one last walk thru.
usafa93 10 months ago
.Brick, wood, mirrors...Mint Condition 1970's You dont see that anymore. Not in malls, and rarely other places too. People go nuts to try and save architecture from the 20s~ 30s but when it comes to the 70's and 60's nobody is interested. They consider it "dated" even though its all nicer than todays white halls and bland decor.
gravijiga 11 months ago 3
@gravijiga I agree, even though I'm anti-materialism in some ways, these malls were my Ohio childhood and an important piece of history in this country. If I had a billion dollars before one of these gems were demolished, I'd have refurbished it entirely in the original style, required the old inside store marquees, etc. - people like me would go just for the nostalgia. If I ever own my own home it will be authentic 60s & 70s style right down to the faux wood paneling in the basement.
falldownhard 10 months ago
What beautiful architecture! So sad not to see many of these type classic design malls any more. I prefer indoor shopping than the new shopping centers today.
patsaxon 11 months ago 2
I miss Southwyck. I loved that mall, it brought back many childhood memories. It's a shame what trashy people can do to an area.
vtecrkp1 11 months ago
I got my tuxedo there when I got married back in 1998. I remember cruising back and forth out front with my friend Dana back in the 80's. Aloha Southwyck Mall.
DavidRossThompson 1 year ago
i miss southwyck mall : (
ashleababy01 1 year ago
back then 3 huge malls in toledo,southwyck,north towne and franklyn park now is just westfeild and levis commons
thedude19766 1 year ago
It is now torn down and all that remains is nothing!
rubywater7 1 year ago
i lived in toledo for a time and that is sad to see what happend. kinda like randall park mall in cleveland. used to be nice.
bmstylee 1 year ago
OH MY GOD! My moms B/F use to take me there all the time to visit mom at work and ride the Carousel!! I wish it was still there.....
kklein41291 1 year ago
I have several memories of this mall both good and bad. I used to work at Montgonery wards back in the early nineties. My worst experience there was I had to work on "black night" and on my lunch break I was going to Coney Island and I was "jumped" by a group of punks. 3 of them were arrested at the bus stop and charged with assault and battery but all they got was a slap on the wrist because they were juvies and not even a month later I saw 2 of them in the mall.
judochop712 1 year ago
@judochop712 -"black night"....youre kidding right....
kyyzurri 1 year ago
In my opinion, the best and highest use for a dead mall is a salvage yard. When that fails, a commuter park and ride lot. And when that fails, a town forest (dig up the lot and plant trees).
EdM021 1 year ago
I had so many great memories at this mall, what a shame!!!!!!!
Poejack 1 year ago
I miss this place so much, many memories. My mother worked 19yrs till the day she died at Wards here I worked there from 90-93. I hate to drive by it now and see nothing there anymore. Its really sad.
judochop712 1 year ago
this is the corniest video i've ever seen in my entire life but it still fucking kicks ass lol
SuperGoldfish1999 1 year ago
@SuperGoldfish1999
Fuck u then dude y dont u shut the fuck up. The people who went to this mall loved this place and it is missed very much
rmano20 1 year ago
Mall was leveled in early 2010. Now its just a mount of dirt. No idea what their putting up next.
halfmooner2 1 year ago
Growing up in Toledo, I loved this mall! And remember Old Towne too. Thank you for posting. What a magical place it was. And those AMC theatres too.
orangeviolins 1 year ago 2
Sad to see malls fail like this, but it's how things are these days. We have a mall up here near Detroit that is about ready to fall like this - Summit Place in Waterford Townshp....just a matter of time. Nobody goes there anymore with the new Great Lakes Crossing nearby.
Franklin Park is a really nice mall. I didn't see hardly any vacancies when I was just there. Not the same at some of the malls around Detroit. Twelve Oaks in Novi and Somerset Collection are still pretty strong here.
tomgreentwin 1 year ago
I worked in a semi abandoned mall and the maintenance staffd would take me exploring in shut down stores. It was kinda cool looking at all the faux facades and outdated interiors, but also sad.
mwadevilg 2 years ago
so sad it's gone, and literaly gone, they have already torn it down
KidKapelski 2 years ago
I remember riding the carousel when I was a little fella.
ToolfreakCFH 2 years ago
yeah, as do I, last time I was there I was 10, 6 years seems like so much time...
KidKapelski 2 years ago
this is depressing. I miss southwych... maybe it wouldn't have failed so bad if they didnt build 3 more malls in toledo/ perrysberg
charliewilliams94 2 years ago
hey nice music by the way!
ABEY73 2 years ago
those days r gone forever! all those sighn marquees bowling lanes drive ins all that slice of americana! to b onenst i dont even like goin to the new places now beeing buit! :( so sad the world is today!
ABEY73 2 years ago
They might be making a super kroger or a place for kids to hang out , I heard.
bratzglamoruslife123 2 years ago
this mall needed a titty bar
then it would of thrived better
monkeynuts76 2 years ago
It would have close faster. Toledo had plenty of that crap already. Its the stupid gangs and riffraf that mad it close down. If they don't watch it then they will close franklin park mall.
ramtruck20 1 year ago
Cant belive that they tore Southwich down... I had so many memories there...
BlackSun987789 2 years ago
man i used to buff the floors there in the 90s miss it a little
lcrosbyclan 2 years ago
how many screens were at the theater inside?
monkeynuts76 2 years ago
Smile. Exactly how I remember it. I worked as a cook at Frisch's 1978-81. - Met my first wife there. - Anybody remember "Olde Town"? Dillards use to be Lion Store. I even painted the Mall Manager's house. - Hey, thanks for the memories.
lakotabob 2 years ago
I was a waitress :)
truemirror 1 year ago
I never met a waitress who didn't work hard for her tips. If I worked with you, I know it was a pleasure. It was a "good time" when I worked there. Had fun and made the best of it. :)
lakotabob 1 year ago
That shit was fun when I was in HS, before I got out and realized Toledo is a shit hole.
audioinjection 2 years ago
Its cool you posted this. Especially now that the entire Southwyck mall has been demolished (I have a few photos of it half torn down). Sad really. Hopefully something else worth while will be built there one day.
DazzDeLaMorte 2 years ago
diamonds when i was a kid i saw this old school pimp, good times.
YJakaPINKY 2 years ago
this mother fucker is history. nice video. memories.
YJakaPINKY 2 years ago
Awesome mall. I use to go to the Southwyck Mall back what seems like eons ago when I was a lad. I've since gone to many more malls; none compare to the Soutywyck mall for simple charm and elegance. The glass dome is truly original as malls go. There used to be a little arcade dubbed "Ole Town", or was it "Old Towne"? which had all the fun and entertainment a kid back in the early eighties could ever need or want.
Just thinking of it is giving me Pac-Man fever all over again.
justicevue 2 years ago
I remember old town, I recall that section of the mall feeling and looking like a little mini city, might have had street lamp like lights along the walkways too i think. My first piercings (ears) were done in an old town shop when i was a kid.
DazzDeLaMorte 2 years ago
Not many people remember Old Towne. I remember it, too. That's where they put the cinemas, I believe. I remember the long walk back to it, into a different time. I miss those days.
answerstolucky 2 years ago
yeah it was like walking into a different time when walking back into Old Towne, made me feel as if I were back in time - before cars - in some little far off out of the way London town , I didn't know thats where they ended up putting the cinemas. Once Old Towne was gone I rarely ever went out there.
DazzDeLaMorte 2 years ago
@DazzDeLaMorte I need to ask my friend about Old Town.She grew up in Toledo but moved south some 25 years ago.She did say that the area she grew up in has gone bad.The church where she married closed and the priest later was sentenced for killing that nun.
HattieLovesCattie 2 years ago
Not sure how old your friend is, but I recall Old Towne being in the Southwcyk mall around the mid to late 70's. I also remember Farrels (sp?) at Franklin Park Mall, they had food, but were known for their ice cream & candy. They had all sorts of sizes of pretty colored Jawbreakers too. they had one order of ice cream that came in a trough like a pigs trough It was pretty massive too. Saw a few people at other tables order it and boy did the place make a big show of those who ordered it
DazzDeLaMorte 2 years ago
She is in her early 60's.They lived in Toledo I think until 1980.I will ask her about the mall etc the next time we meet for lunch.Her parents later moved to Maumee which is a nicer area.
HattieLovesCattie 2 years ago
I think it's really marvelous that you're able to look at an old mall and see the beauty in the dome...I wouldn't have looked at that, or at least not that way.
The music in this clip makes me want to go watch "CHiPs" reruns....lol
Kerikali 2 years ago
i remeber when it was cool to be here. now it's just a torn-down memory.
iluvHN42 2 years ago
I see they tore down the Glow Bowling Alley on Reynolds and Central recently too. Sucks. I dont bowl, but I kept meaning to go glow bowl but never did it.. now its too late..
DazzDeLaMorte 2 years ago
Bowling seems to be kinda going the way side too. Imperial Lanes, Reynolds Corner Recreation and Ottawa lanes are all long gone. still a lot of centers around though
Jamison42166 2 years ago
FixFalcon, you made the same comment I did some time back. Sad but true the way things end up when the wrong element start taking over. I caught hell over my comment and I am sure that you will too.
balzysalzy 2 years ago
Cool video. I remember going to this mall as a teenager when it was a nice and safe place to shop, before all the black people came in and ruined it. Hopefully Fallen Timbers Mall is far enough away from the city that it won't be tainted in the same fashion.
FixFalcon 2 years ago
Remember having the Cub Scout Derby races in the fountain area back in the 80's. Friendly's Ice Cream and shopping Spencer Gifts.
I think Toledo spent more money planting flowers out front than trying to get the mall going again, then again I do not know the entire story.
Sure do miss the place.
bkipplen 2 years ago 2
The Pinewood Derby allowed me time to peek at Playboys in B. Dalton while my brother's division raced. I didn't get caught, but I'm sure my scout uniform made me stick out like a sore thumb. :)
schnuth 2 years ago
Ron please never take down this video, this is one of my only reminders of southwyck lol god do i miss this mall, remember it so well when i was a kid!
yoshi2560 2 years ago
sounds like porn music.
monkeynuts76 2 years ago
Southwyck now exists in memory only. Tear-down started this week.
How long does Woodville Mall have left??
It's a shame what big-box stores like Walmart and Meijer have done to America's shopping malls.
Where are teens hanging out on Friday and Saturday evenings now?
homerj281 2 years ago
Blame also goes on the Internet.Folks rather shop online now.Also blame Woolworths closing and Monty Wards closing.Once MW went belly up,the malls started suffering.
HattieLovesCattie 2 years ago
I miss that mall. Nicest one in Toledo if you ask me.
FurryFox9025 2 years ago
one word...zombies!
Clay3613 2 years ago 2
holy shit what is this music
Beeno135 2 years ago
:-( i worked the carousel. not going to lie. it was the best job ever. i miss it haa
woopiitshannah 2 years ago
Bye mall :(
slugger9782 2 years ago
I loved that mall. Lots of memories there.
JERice7 3 years ago
Too bad they closed it, i was gonna film a deadrising parody there but we found out it was closed ( there wouldnt have been anybody there) xD
AWBassjm92 3 years ago
time to tear it down and put up a casino
fdxdon 3 years ago
That would be Awesome ! will never happen as long as carty is in charge though.
Jamison42166 2 years ago
now that its torn down I think they should build an indoor water park there..
DazzDeLaMorte 2 years ago
i live here in toledo and i loved this mall idk why they closed it westfield is pretty cool but this mall was the best one it was soo pretty
Browneyedbeauty09 3 years ago
remember when they had old town there and the choir sung on the steps by the fountain
carmellat922 3 years ago
Wow. Cool. So sad... I was like WTF when i heard it shut down, i haven't been there, last time i was was like 4 months ago
mounsteres 3 years ago
i used to love it.. Sad.
mounsteres 3 years ago
man its so sad this closed, i used to love this mall for the nice atmosphere and the fact that you could actually walk in it, and it was also so quiet and peaceful, now this video is my only reminder
yoshi2560 3 years ago
i know... Next will proboly be Franklin Park
mounsteres 3 years ago
yep probably, but for now its going strong, but i hate how the new southwyck isn't going to be an indoor mall
yoshi2560 3 years ago
do you live around Toledo?
mounsteres 3 years ago
lol yeah i live less than a mile from southwyck
yoshi2560 3 years ago
closed.
mounsteres 3 years ago
the big 3 malls in toledo were franklyn park mall,northtowne mall and southwyck mall now the biggest and most successful is FPM/westerfeild
thedude19766 3 years ago
This, Franklin Park & NorthTowne.....THE malls of the late 80's!!!! Then go cruise Miracle Mile!!!! Good times. Good times.
clearvalley 3 years ago 2
I remember when it was hip to just cruise the parking lot at Southwyck. then they had problems with cars hauling ass so they put speedbumps in. I remember many holiday seasons in the late 70s early 80s as a small kid that mall was packed.
my buddies and I had an apt on Cass and Glendale back in 86. that area was hopping then... Tony Romas Dominecs,Oldtowne..fun days. Then the seedier elemnt moved in and whole block between heather downs and glendale looks abandoned.
Jamison42166 3 years ago
Used to go here when I was a kid and it was SO packed back in the mid 80s! times have changed.
unixsuperuser 3 years ago 2
I know the movie theatre, the game room across from the movie theatre. Southwyck definitely used to be the spot!!!
06alwilliams 3 years ago 2
hell yeah. Red Baron. Used 2smash every1 on killer instinct back in the day
VersusFF 3 years ago 2
lol anyone hear about the asbestos in that place lol. i went there all the time
poppspyder 3 years ago
i heard it was black mold!!!
06alwilliams 3 years ago
no it was black people!!!!!
dennyboy08 2 years ago 2
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Lets meet up in and you tell me that person, you fucking fag!!! Some white people are fucking pieces of shit!!!! Just had to turn this into a race thing didn't you, homo!!!
06alwilliams 2 years ago
then how would you explain abandoned malls in areas where there are few or no black people?it sure is easy to blame problems on race when you are too much of a moron to do resreach and comeup with more valid reasons
Onlygodknows890 2 years ago
the answer is: sometimes malls when they are built have bad anchors. a large number of dead malls had Wards as one of its anchor (case in point, Universal Mall in Warren). For every Dixie Square Mall, there is a Universal Mall. (Universal had Wards, Mervyns, and Value City as its Anchors and all of those stores closed (store closing/Bankruptcy), killing the mall.)
cwf1701 2 years ago
this place just closed down too, used to be a nice mall, now they're gonna tear it down
littlejayp 3 years ago
Thanks for putting this on here!!!!! Lots of good memories!
serena4 3 years ago
Its long gone now. Closed up, just like northtowne.
Sonoma962003 3 years ago
this place is a ghost town now
kylek1127 3 years ago 2
i haven't be in there since my brother looking for a textu for his prom n that was in 2002 i do miss it i wondering what i going to put there. probably nothing until carty is out of office.
mymyallen1 3 years ago
Mall was a joke anyway...no reason to go. They had a Foot Locker and some hair places, but thats about it.
Schreck17 3 years ago
What a perfect choice for the music for this clip! I can imagine hearing it on the background music while walking around the mall. I grew up hanging out there as a young child in the late 70s and as a teenager in the 80s. as an adult in the 90s it was sad to see the mall start its inevitable decline.
my fondest memories when i was really young was going through Olde Towne. I know Oldetowne opened in 75 but does anyone remember the year it went out? im thinking 80 or 82?
Jamison42166 3 years ago
I use to watch movies there and even saw The Craft. Very good times.
azyaninvasion 3 years ago
toledo sux and every1 in america sux just like it
yasmeen89 3 years ago
mall closed today june 29, 2008 at 6:00p.m. goodbye to and old frind.......
BPMWOLFCLAN 3 years ago 2
Just three stores left - DEB, GNC and World Nails, and they will be gone by the end of the week. The mall officially closes June 30, 2008.
css9450 3 years ago
wow i dont know wat just happened im not emotional at all and i almost cried!? that place was so cool. the merri-go-round:)
beckman4h 3 years ago
Cant forget Livonia Mall in Livonia Mi.
drsmith417 3 years ago
Looks like a dead mall like couple others from Detroit MI like Eastland, Northland, Summit Place in Pontiac.
qwandiddy 3 years ago
This mall used to be popping
tedted33 3 years ago
r mall sucks god i can say it to though i live close to it and theres only 4 or 5 stors in the place it sucks as a mall
jazzysaku 3 years ago
westfield is better
basketballemmo20 3 years ago
hell ya
powerade92 3 years ago
This mall used to be the bomb..old town rocked
hoytdogg 3 years ago
I grew up in Toledo and left it in 1992 for Los Angeles. I went back for a visit in January of 2008 and had to visit my favorite mall. I used to work at AMC Theatres (the three on the outside) from '86-'92. Let me just say that it was SURREAL to walk around that place now. What have you guys let happen? I heard from family about all of the bickering with the owner..blah blah blah. Are you kidding me? Damn just fix the place up!!! Idiots!
atrac88 3 years ago
theres talk of westfield buying it and fixing it man i hope so i grew up there
powerade92 3 years ago
Hey man. I was born and raised in Toledo and left in 2001 for LA as well. My parents prior to that in '93 retired and moved from Toledo to Lexington, KY. I haven't been back there in years. How do you like it out here?(LA) Take care man.
schmied777 3 years ago
love it! i used to go there as a kid in the late 70s and 80s, when it still had some shops. oh how the mighty have fallen!
robfilmer 3 years ago
that used to be a good mall. Do they still have the sports card shows there
tyvk69 3 years ago
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...Oh, Hi Funky770...you must be white trash too. :)
990305 4 years ago
Where are all the people what kind of mall is this
LJ43094H 4 years ago
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Thanks for stating legitimate facts. It's a changing economic trend;enclosed shopping is a thing of the past, not many people want to drudge though all these stores for the one store they are interested in buying from...hence the popularity of anchor department stores, such as Walmart, Target, Kroger, Home Depot, etc. Also, the newest trend is outside shopping plazas. Now if only people like balzysalzy would pick up a book, we wouldn't have to contend with such ignorance in this world. Peace!
990305 4 years ago
Oh and I'm white so save the racism for your local VFW because it has no effect via internet!
javan5445 4 years ago
Correction Balzysalzy...I now live in sunny San Antonio, TX...a booming Metropolitan Area and 7th largest city in the nation.
...happiness to you in hillbilly heaven.
990305 4 years ago
990305: If you want to have a male-organ waving contest I live in LA, the second largest city in the nation. Well, I work there, I live about 10 miles out. Your "hick" comments are really uncalled for.
duskglow 3 years ago
You pic looks like you were on to catch a predator are you running from the law you queer fuck.. I heard that LA is the 2nd largest gayest city...and with a name like duskglow u r queer
990305 3 years ago
I grew up at this mall,I miss it there so much!!!!
toledogirl 4 years ago
I guarantee there is more rednecks in Ohio than Tennessee. Go to Zanesville or Steubenville or Youngstown or any suburb of Toledo. Wauseon, Swanton, Grand Rapids...etc...this is boring. Enjoy your cold ass winter...I'll see you in July at Cedar Point.
balzysalzy 4 years ago
Southwyck needs to be torn down. It's not even a mall anymore...more like a ghost town. Tear it down and build a brand-new, upscale mall that rivals the Mall of America!
mpr4jesus 4 years ago
balzysalzy ...I'm happy for you! You moved to a state that doesn't require shoes and shirts in resturants...I'm sure you and your cousin will live happily ever after, with your brood of Bubba's, in your double wide :)
990305 4 years ago
balzysalzy I'm from Toledo...actually a suburb of Toledo... and I can actually picture you from your ignorant comment. You sound like a dirty, mullet wearing, white boy from the east side, who probably even gives white trash a bad name! Sorry to have to deface your site rondiscscinema...I really enjoyed your video!
990305 4 years ago
Sorry I offended you but that is the way I see Toledo. My family moved out by Waterville in 1986 because of the decline of Toledo. Boring ass city and state anyways that is why I live in Tennessee now.
balzysalzy 4 years ago
balzysalzy I'm from Toledo...actually a suburb of Toledo... and I can actually picture you from your ignorant comment. You sound like a dirty, mullet wearing, white boy from the east side, who probably even gives white trash a bad name! Sorry to have to deface your site rondiscscinema...I really enjoyed your video!
990305 4 years ago
That is funny as hell. I grew up on Utah St. on the east side but I don't have a mullet. My comment was not ignorant but sadly, the truth about Toledo. Franklin Park, Southwyck, Woodville mall used to be cool but went downhill.
balzysalzy 4 years ago
Ahhh the 80's were the time to hang at Southwyck. Cruising, picking up chicks, Old Town. Good times for sure until the spooks ruined it like everything else in T-town. Remember My Place Rocks down from the mall. That was a bangin' club till once again the jiggs took it over.
balzysalzy 4 years ago
Brings Back memories for me too i also use to go there with my parents when i was little and it was actually 100% filled with stores and pretty much the place to go shopping at. TO bad
Rhalley1864 4 years ago
Only 10-11 tenants remain as of 1/11/08. Among them are Victoria's Secret, Lady Foot Locker, Kids Footlocker, Bath and Body Works, Fiesta Hair Salon, a spray-T shirt place and a couple of other women's clothing shops.
Rabscuttle02 4 years ago
I went there a few days ago - Dillard's has closed too, and there are only a very small number of stores remaining.
css9450 4 years ago
Man, I love this mall, live right down the street from it, I wish they could let it be, and not tear it down.
yoshi2560 4 years ago
wow, this brings back old memories, i used to go here with my parents when i was little.
AndyRoddick969 4 years ago
omg i hate this mall even though its the mall clostest to my house it still sucks but its ok i loved this mall but the closing it
sakurahead 4 years ago
i used to love to go to southwyck back in the day, does anyone remember old town with the arcade games, that used to be the hangout back in the 80's. I left Toledo 5yrs ago and this mall was declining didnt think it would get this bad, just like north town. Toledo is still a nice place to visit, but i wouldnt want to live there. Lovin TEXAS
504boy4u 4 years ago
yea joel comment was ignorant but its true theres almost no stores left there and they use some of the parking lot to store jeeps
DrLsw 4 years ago
i used to go there all the time now its like westfeild is the only good mall in toledo
DrLsw 4 years ago
hey your right. used to be frankiln. Im from Toledo (I moved) how's it up there?
beraboman 4 years ago
its good toledo hospital bought up a bunch of houses around them and there gonna tear them down and add on to exit 19 and make all that part of toledo hospital i guess so i moved out by sams club
DrLsw 4 years ago
When they renovate, I hope they bring back Olde Town. Remember that place? it was the best.
bondomedia 4 years ago
Wow... this is glamorizing it... It's really cruddy.
There's like 10 stores left. 3 are jewelers.
joelthepizzaguy 4 years ago
I use to hang out here back in the 80's nice place back then. I also like the music.. What is the name of that song.Please!
airgolfone 4 years ago
"Love's Theme" by the Love Unlimited Orchestra
rondiscscinema 4 years ago
Big time memories, from first girl friend to first beer.
vibedeep 4 years ago
Was in Southwyck the other day. It's like Dawn of the Dead minus the zombies. It really kinda creepy to have more than half the stores shuttered and seeing lonely salespeople stare at you as you walk by. Too bad, this used to be a great mall back in the day. I'm sure that glass dome looked futuristic in the 70's.
housefly2 4 years ago
Dead malls, creepy but yet so intriguing! Shows how time really flies and how disposable our culture really is.
metrotv 4 years ago
okay
dilfgf07 4 years ago
What..the fucking fuck. You are such a freak why the fuck would you ever make this? Jesus Christ!!!!
daehonna 4 years ago
What an ignorant comment. Go to hell, dude.
djkinney 4 years ago
And why would you freak out and criticize something you don't understand? Malls are part of America's cultural history. There are scores of people who are documenting these malls before they are demolished or altered. Serious discussion has been given to the rise, fall and reinvention of the shopping center. This video is just as valid as filming the hotel district of Miami Beach, the 19th century factories of East Coast or the auto plants of Detroit.
metromonthly 3 years ago 2
man, this brings back alot of memories. thanks for posting it. i would love to get a copy of your stills. i worked there for a couple years at the camelot music. met a girl there, got married and had a kid together. spent alot of times with my friends there. wow. sad state of affairs.
adamw0lf 4 years ago
man i use to bother my mom lets go to the big stairs and wed all hang out there and ride the ride and it was so fun
pointplacehomie 4 years ago
Coney Island closed after it caught fire durning the night months ago. Filled the mall with smoke. They are planning to level Southwyck to make an outdoor style mall. It will be better than the 75% vacancy it has now.
Deltaguy27 4 years ago
I remember sitting on the floor in B. Daltons there, reading Pop-up books. Moved away from Toledo when I was 12 in 1986, but still visit a few times a year.
pittsburghmuggle 4 years ago
wow this looks bad it was sad to see no phone on that phone holder
mc52877 4 years ago
Its sad what they've let happen to Southwyck
OhioKat143 4 years ago
Wow this video gives Southwyck more life than it really has. I worked there a few years ago. I was born and raised in T-town but moved to Columbus. Its still my home!!! When did Coney Island close?!
mrhutchen 4 years ago
"Wow this video gives Southwyck more life than it really has."
Nice!
pittsburghmuggle 4 years ago
Wow. I lived there 15 years ago, it looks exactly the same. Toledo is a real strange place: not bad, but wierd. Thanks for this movie.
LachoCarapacho 4 years ago
Decline isn't the word for that place.
OregonVet 4 years ago