Shopping Malls always depended on a stable or growing economy.. where the poor worked their way up to middle class and middle class worked their way up to 'affluent'. Take that away...and this is the painful consequence. It is nation-wide.. and it is scary.
The malls are bizarre monuments to another era. Maybe we'll see them come back in time..
there is something so magical about malls... I don't know if it was because growing up as a child they seemed so mystical and magical to me... then over the years they became such a focal point in a teenagers life... dating, a social place to hang out with friends, a place to participate in midnight releases and events... I miss malls
my local mall is still strong. it opened in th late 70s and still has that 70s feel. the only down fall i saw in a long time is when boarders closed, then a few weeks later BAM moved right in.
monkey wards wasn't in a mall, but was killed by one (chapel hill) on the northeast edge of akron, and chapel hill was, in turn, killed by falls city planners with a heady commercial plan spanning west howe road). i believe the city of akron has learned their lesson.... don't fuck with cuyahoga falls. after all this and the how the 1985 merger screwed them out of an entire township, what will the city of akron do in retaliation? stay tuned.....
the problem is only large corperate scum stores can afford the rent so the variety of stores that are in malls are limited...ive seen some mall have 4 ambercrobies stores on different floors.......
We are not making anything in America so there are lower paying jobs for the future generation ..thank Daddy Bush then a real big thank you to Bill Clinton and then baby Bush and now Obama ..they all helped take jobs to other counties ..so you will always be shopping the dollar tree.....once many years ago ..when you got out of high school you could get a job in a factory with health care and benefits and a living wage
Its called money.. If you have a need you will spend plus location is important too an you also need to have families close to use these places. Saddly it is always a massive place so the turn over needs to be constant. Wait until the bust times are over it will pick up again.
I've always wanted to see a developer take a mall and replace all the stores with condominiums and townhomes, and leave the internal walkways along with the foliage alone.
You'd have to put in windows on the exterior, but it would be great to be able to walk the internal walkways of the mall in your sandals and shorts, when there was a snowstorm raging outside.
You could keep the movie theater and maybe a coffee and deli there too, for a quick place to grab a bite and catch an old film.
I am so bummed. I grew up at Randall Park Mall. My aunt and uncle used to drag me there almost every weekend when I was a kid. I remember getting my ears pierced there when I was 8 and then going to hot dog on a stick. The place was always packed. I even remember going there when McGruff the crime dog was there and having one of those kiddie safety cards made up! The pet store was my fav.... I can't believe what it is today. It looks like a ghost town. Burlington is still there though..
I am so bummed. I grew up at Randall Park Mall. My aunt and uncle used to drag me there almost every weekend when I was a kid. I remember getting my ears pierced there when I was 8 and then going to hot dog on a stick. The place was always packed. I even remember going there when McGruff the crim dog was there and having one of those kiddie safety cards made up! The pet store was my fav.... I can't believe what it is today. It looks like a ghost town. Burlington is still there though..
I remember going to the mall once a month buying things, window shopping, playing in the arcade, meeting people and the stores all stayed busy! man those where the days!
Malls are dying everywhere. They sowed their own destruction. Face it, stuff was always WAYYY over-priced at the mall. The junk in the "speciality stores" is no different from the same made in china crap you can get at walmart, except it costs much much less at walmart.
malls aren't 'dying all over the country'- akron was a tire town and in the space of about 15 years thousands of production jobs vanished. what the hell do you expect would happen?? no jobs, no people with money, no stores making money- its not rocket science. goodyear, firestone, bfg, and others pumped a fortune into the local economy over the years, going way back into the 20's. did they quit building retail when those jobs left? they thought everyone would stay here and keep spending. really?
wow. Here in Australia you cannot just build more retail space just 'cos you want to...there again this tight control has produced the mighty Australian Westfield which is destroying your crappy retail centres (sorry for the correct spelling)
wow. Here in Australia you cannot just build more retail space just 'cos you want to...there again this tight control has produced the mightly Australian Westfield which is destroying your crappy retail centres (sorry for the correct spelling)
I worked for a company that had stores in all these malls. I spent the most time in Rolling Acres... and I have to ask... WHO THE HELL CARES??! Tear them down. Malls were, are and always will be a bad idea.
Rolling Acres makes me sad. I remember going there with my parents as a child (early 90's). Now it is a ghost town. You can still walk through it to get from JC Penney to Sears, so in 2009 my mom and I walked around the entire mall where she pointed out to me where her favorite stores used to be, and where my dad and I would sit while she was in those stores shopping. Good memories.
Back in 1986, my girlfriend at the time worked at the Chess King in the Euclid Square Mall and I'd pick her up from there when she got off to take her on dates. Sometimes I'd arrive an hour or two early to play video games at the "Fun N Games" arcade. Such fond memories. It was once a very vibrant happening place but the surrounding area has since become the ghetto and people stopped shopping there. Now sadly, it's a dead mall. Thanks for the memories ESM...
I think it's so stupid how malls are dying out in favor of retail concepts that require you to drive from store to store. That and the fact that consumer choice has dwindled because smaller chains can't compete with Internet and big box retail anymore.
I want to make a statement---- I believe walmart and costco and some other large stores are killing these malls and small business's just cant compete with such low prices, i saw alot of video's last winter showing this and it is still very troubling.
I hate how we've become a society of big box stores where you have to drive to each store, america is getting lazier and lazier all the time! pretty soon stores will be obsolete and everyone will stay at home and order their shit online! the world really sucks... why can't things just stay the same...
@coolbluelights I completely sympathize with your sentiments. But, just think about what you're saying: you're complaining on one hand about Americans being forced to (if they wish to buy things) drive from store to store, then on the other hand complaining about them staying home and ordering things online. The latter is a better way to order things, since it consumes less energy (1 delivery truck minimizing the Traveling Salesman Problem vs many cars driving to a mall).
There are also dying shopping malls here in Germany. I know one completely closed mall in the town Wilhelmshaven. That was built in the 1970ies. There used to be very big stores like WalMart in there. Now is nothing in there anymore, all moving walks and escalators are shut down.
Thanks for making this! I will always prefer indoor malls of yesterday to the new outdoor malls and "lifestyle centers." Indoor malls, especially ones built in the 70s and 80s had such a mystique and allure to them.
One defunct retail mall in Boston is Lafayette Place. The reason I never liked it was because you were walking around in a circle looking for a retailer. No wonder it went out of business. When I walked through it in December of 1984, I thought that was building for the following Christmas. However, it really fell by the wayside in the early 90s. I hated that mall!
The Mall in New Bern, NC I remember as a kid being a crowded mall, but when I returned as an adult, revisiting North Carolina, it was a ghost town. Only reasons to even goto that mall are for Belk (Clothing) and JC Penney. But it has gone so far that the little pond they had was drained and looked like it had been empty for awhile. It's sad to see, but sometimes it's also due to poor ownership of the malls.
Dead malls fascinate me for some reason. I guess I just wish I had the money to turn them into something special again. I grew up in the 80s and wish I had pictures of the dying mall near us.
@Windsweptzariel It seems they are now tearing down failing malls, replacing them with strip centers, and then calling them "lifestyle centers". (REAL open air malls are OK, sort of.)
You know it's to bad the music police muted your music .But you still can see how sad it is , I've been away from Cleveland for almost 16 years now and I use to go all the time to Randall park back in the 80's .I new in the early 90's it was going down hill it's sad looking at it brings back good old times , thanks for posting.
So sad, such beautiful architecture! I love the old malls as they had unique styles of the past. Everyone should check out the Galleria Mall in down town Houston as they brought such contemporary modern styling to be appreciated.
Randall Park was the spot back 70's - 90's. You could get lost in this mall due to the size and endless entrances and exits. It had two games rooms, one upper level and the larger one lower level. The cinema was located upper level until it closed. It was a bustling mall until it got out of control. People being robbed and or carjacked. Sad to see it come to an end.
@emauriceharr Randall Park near Cleveland? I didn't grou up there (my dad did), but I went ot Randall Park a few times on vacation there. ("Southgate" still existed, too.)
@shmuli9 It is located in a suburb (North Randall) of Cleveland. I stayed twenty minutes walking distance from Randall and 1/2 hr. walking from Southgate Shopping Plaza.
Southgate still has some stores still open, but it has seen better days.
sad. so sad. if you look at the cities they are in you can see why they are dead. i remember when randall was the shit. could not get near it because it was so busy. now people are moving to other stuff. legacy village, great northern mall, south park malll etc. better areas. i would not go near randall park mall without a gun and a vest. it does bring back good memories when i see the pictures of randall all lit up.
I think the reason why so many malls close down is because the major stores that cater to a certain group, leave or close down. The two major malls I used to go to now seem like hangouts for women as it seems there's literally just jewelry, clothes and other stores that I'd never shop at. It also tends to stink heavily of perfume and odd smells in there.
The dynamic of malls in the Detroit area is interesting. When the first enclosed mall in the United States, Northland Center, was built in 1954, people started going there instead of downtown Detroit for their shopping. Other malls were soon to follow in the suburbs, and the malls killed many local businesses in the 1970s. By the 80s and 90s downtown areas of the suburbs were dead. In the last decade they have undergone redevelopment, and people are going downtown instead of the malls.
You probably dirve by a dying mall every day and say "Its so sad no one goes there anymore and the businesses are going under" while you are on your way to Wallmart. Im not a fan of malls or of wallmart so I have no problem with them all going away.
I really want to tell this story of a little mall that died a quick death. El Paseo Mall, in Laredo, Texas. It didn't last one year. And it was small. So small, it was considered a joke. Just a jewelry store and some cloything merchants. It was small enough to get lost in a big chain grocery store. The building still exists. Though it's now occupied by a Factory-2-U and Peter Piper Pizza. All that's left of any proof it ever existed, is a small dome window at Factory-2-U.
Sad to see malls dying because so many of us spent good times there - Christmas shopping maybe or just looking around, over years and years. Seeing the malls die is the same as seeing our memories die and get abandoned and demolished.
@townhall05446 thts why i always say things like screw places like walmart and kmart for killing all of the malls we love so much screw big corprate chaains...
Something crazy to think about: a mall in Oklahoma is BARELY alive. I went there a few years ago. When I was growing up, it was stuffed with people. Today, there is only one store and a movie theater. Everything else is abandoned. Why can't they tear it down? The place is a boon for joggers. It's packed with people who like to jog rain or shine. Oddly, this is what makes it safe to jog even though it's not in a good part of town. A friend said the mall and its only two tenants are still there!
I listened to Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" while watching this sad video tribute. It's happy go lucky melody and lyrics fit the visual irony perfectly.
It's sad and I remember when mom was alive we had gone to some of these places.. but I feel maybe these can be turn ito houseing some how take a one half of the mal and turn then into apartments of lofts and take a few of the stors on the other end andput fodd store in the for the people who live in these places ad of couse others may comein an buy food and maybe a few clothing stores it just may work and also make some of thes places for handicapp or on flat ground .and Randell Park do the same
top floor of that mall would be stores and lower part make houseing there,, houseing is very important and the center of the mall can be a place othere can meet or perhaps have a area were it is games and fun foir thepeople who live there and put a pool in these places
Did any of you go to Marc's back when it was closing I did but I couldn't remember what it was like. I never went to Target when it was closing if you guys did tell me what that was like.
Randall Park loks alot better inthis vid than in life. It is in really bad shape now. It is also closed to the public. Euclid Square is still open but the vegitation is sparse and fountains are non functional and empty. I hope to visit Rolling Meadows sometime soon.
Unspeakably sad and yet I don't know why. It's like part of America is dying.
The thing about malls is, there aren't enough doors. If you added doors & windows to each tenant space, it'd be so much nicer. Malls always had a certain "you are locked in" air to them. If you changed the access, a typical mall would make a really nice office space, or even apartments, or some sort of new innovative mixed-use "community"...
there was a mall called salem mall in trottwood ohio iwent there tons of times and my mom and dad bought there wedding dresses and tuxedos there but the shop statrted leaving the mall and when there was two shops left plus sears they closed it in 2008 they tore it down but they left sears
I live in a city that has a lot of malls for its size ( inc other towns nearby ).Two old malls were torn down but replaced with the usual stores etc.I miss the old mall but the stores that replaced it get alot of business.
It's sad to see what has replaced malls like this. Strip malls and big box stores are architectural non-entities that can force you to get in and out of your car for each purchase. As for on-line shopping, there are plenty of things that aren't worth buying sight-unseen. But, the enclosed mall, as it existed, was a flawed concept. You couldn't visit a single shop without parking and walking half a mile.
Someone should build a "hybrid mall" with all the shops facing the outside through narrow, enclosed, heated walkways; the anchor stores upstairs and the food court in the middle, accessible from any store or walkway. It would accommodate both all day shopping sprees and one stop shoppers.
Wow, some of thesepics show Randall park when it was still pretty vibrant. To bad. This mall is now closed to the public correct? Can you see into the mall from any of the anchors that are still open? Is Euclid mall still open to the public? Great vid!
wow, i hate when that happens. they need to make malls that have cheaper renting spaces to bring more stores in. i hate strip malls. so boring and were i live its HOT today was 106. and they build tons of strip malls. when i go to malls like that i feel like im in a movie
Big Box stores (e.g. Wal-Mart, Target) and Multiplexed cinemas helped also killing malls. However, former owners of mom and pop stores probably don't feel bad since malls killed mom and pop stores.
Know what is a constant reason for malls failing like this, its when certain violet demographics start to take over the area & in this case pick away at the dead body of the mall after they caused its down fall. I live by a dead mall in california called the hawthorne plaza which was used in multiple film like fast & furious TD & I HAVE PERSONALLY seen RAMPANT acts of theft and violence by the demographics that over ran the once nice city and mall which lead to its closure & residence flight.
Yes, it's sad. Friends of mine work in a 24-hr grocery chain store - they call the police in the middle of the night and by the time they come, the trouble makers are long gone. They rip off the stores and no unarmed workers are going to try to stop them. It is happening everywhere.
Yep U tube ruined another great video by removing the sound track in the name of the all might dollar. What the people that own the songs that think this is ripping them off don;t understand when one of their songs are used it usually makes it popular again. Case and point. There is a episode of Family Guy that in the commentary they said that there was a song they wanted to use but the owner refused to let them. So they used another song and the number of legal downloads sky rocked.
House the families who have lost their homes in these failed malls.. Turn each store into a "compartment" rather than an apartment. The food court would be the "soup kitchen", etc..
Warner, no one is going to buy your FUCKING music because you have disabled so many great soundtracks here at YouTube. This measure HAS and WILL CONTINUE to BACKFIRE ON YOU.
Yes!!! There are smaller race cars that will fit, k-rail/retaining walls that will fit and bleacher/grand-stands for the spectators that will fit. You're a genius! I wish I had a few thousand dollars!
Great but sad video. Does anyone remember in the 70's when stores were only open late on Monday and Thursday nights ("shopping nights")? All the other days, they closed at 5:00 p.m. Maybe it's not feasible to have 24/7 shopping (Walgreens, Meijer, Walmart SuperCenter, etc. etc.) It can't be cost effective to have a store open 24 hours. Maybe once the excess stops, things will get better. We have become a 24-hour society, and maybe it's just too much.
sad state for malls! I miss the days of long ago,when everyone could make money! Think of all the stores that have come and gone forever since the 70s. just to name a few in connectcut,kings,ames,bradlees,FBC,Arlans,GFox, Caldors,circuit city,two guys,Richlin,woolworths,howland hughes,Grants
All thats left basically is Walmart and I hate that store
The sad shame in this video is that these malls have a great architechtual integrity that cannot always be matched by open-air malls. I love the lighting and the structure of the malls.
I love the retro style too. I live in Southern NJ and they just demolished half of the Echelon Mall which was a ghost town. It was really creepy. They are in the process of turning the whole area into a promenade with upscale housing but it is rotten timing considering the free falling U.S. economy.
The staircase in the video reminds me of the early days of Southlake Mall by me. They removed the staircase to put in an elevator to get the place to meet the disabilities act. Southlake Mall is still going strong, but Century Mall nearby went downhill in the mid-90's, and the portion between Montgomery Ward & Burlington Coat Factory was torn down. It has yet to revitalize. Southlake Mall opened in 1974 & Century Mall in 1979, closed 2002.
Ah - Harbinger of the end of the oil age. Without cheap and plentiful oil, the auto dependent culture will disappear. Next, suburban sprawl will be abandoned. It's "back to the cities" time.
I think as americans most of us can admit as a people we have already primed, and are sadly going downhill. The exact quality I am trying to come up with a word for, I cannot, but I know it was once there, and is now dying/dead
I have a greater love for defunct department stores, but malls were great. I still shop at malls a couple times a year, which I could go more often
WAL-MART doesnt set up shop in malls, they make their own store and we keep going back to buy stuff from them.... what do we expect? how can our malls survive?
and of course all the stuff in the WAL-MART is from china and taiwan... americans are losing their factory jobs.. chev, ford, dodge, all gonna close before too long.. maybe we should never have allowed things made outside america to be sold to anyone here.. yes minerals and raw goods, import no packaged and pre made product.. export only.. maybe we would still have our malls.
(part 2 of my other posting) When I moved to San Antonio, TX ten years ago, I went to Windsor Park Mall, not far from where I live. It was thriving with activity and lots of people. A few years later, there was a gang shooting inside the mall and innocent bystanders were killed. After that, sales declined due to customer fears and the retailers began to pull out one by one. Today, the entire building stands totally abandoned. :(
This is a really good video! It's a shame that malls are not what they used to be when we were kids. I live in San Antonio, and we've lost a few good malls since I moved here ten years ago.
that is sad... we have malls dying in our area but i remember in highschool early 90's they were the place to be now u go there on a friday night and there r like 10 people there lol
This place was also a BIG part of my life in my teenage years. But after the Malcolm X movie was played, all hell broke loose and there was rioting, ever since that day that mall was doooomed. Then there was a few people robbed and then the rumors started. People were scared and stopped going! Criminals started coming along with the serious crime, and well, that was that! Thanks Guys for putting another good thing out of business.
This sure looks like Cinderella City in Denver! Even though I know it isn't, because CinCity didn't have a JCPenney Outlet Store or a Macy's, and was torn down in 1998. The meandering paths, multiple levels, and food court at 0:38 are all similar.
It's more than the malls. NE Ohio, especially Ashtabula County, is in a sad economic state. I made a daytrip back to my hometown of Irwin, PA in '07 and I couldn't believe the eocnomic difference. It was THRIVING. Why things never seem to improve in NE Ohio is beyond me. Breaks my heart. I hope NE Ohio can turn it around; it's been a long downhill slide. - writeroffthelake at Geneva-on-the-Lake (Ohio)
my memories from what we called MALLING in the 80s fun times, the chicks the stealing ( yes a little not much ) a few fights and hours and hours of walking around and around. SO much more fun then video gaming all day now.
Come to City Center in downtown Columbus, OH, it looks just like this-it was a big 3 story mall, too, now it's a big embarrassment. Westland Mall on the west side of Columbus is, pardon the expression, a cavernous ghetto now.
I used to go to Randall Park Mall when I was a kid back in the 70's I remember when the mall opened. It was always packed with people. I think when Beachwood Place opened the money ended up shopping there and Randall wasn't the place to shop anymore. I will always remember Randall the way it was, this video makes me kinda sad.
I don't know why but this mall reminds me of the one in Dead Rising the video game. It's sad that this mall died out. To bad they don't try to do something with it.
randall park and euclid square are dying, if not already dead, because the surrounding area became "the hood" which drove away customers. at least that's what i was told by a former manager.
although they rebuilt the richmond mall, i don't see it lasting very long. and give it a few years and the great lakes mall will be next.
Nice array of pictures and choice of song. You're right - Randall Park Mall reminds me a bit of Wright's SC Johnson Wax building in Racine, WI, which I visited 2 years ago. A shame that they don't build malls like that much anymore.
The reason why was because the new owner couldn't pay the electric bill of over $320,000, and the remaining stores were given a one week notice to pack everything and GET OUT. Now that's sad. I used to go to this mall with my parents in the late 80's and sometimes in throughout the 90's. The mall still had some potential in the early 2000s, but failed in 2007. It was evident that the mall would close sometime in 2008 or early 2009.
That's sad news to me to hear of Rolling Acres' closing. Very sad, especially since I always thought if the right person/group had bought that property, that the mall building could be renovated into some new use(even if it wasn't retail). *sigh!*
I remember when Randall Park Mall opened; it was the death of Southgate Shopping center, one of the largest in the US. Accordingly, Southgate, and the other shopping centers in the suburbs contributed to the death of retail shopping in downtown Cleveland. Now one stop shopping at Super Wal-Mart and Target is killing the malls. They call it progress! Hey, maybe they should build a horse race track where the mall was and call it Randall Park! Oh wait that's what they tore down to build the mall!
Actually Randall Park Mall was nicely integrated from the beginning. I was there from opening to recently and when it opened there were way more black people than white. And the black people were definitely better dressed.
There was a mall that was once near me in Greensburg, PA called Greengate Mall. It was designed by Victor Gruen, built by the Rouse Company in the 1960s and was destined for a long life, just like many other malls built in its time. Competition from a nearby mall and other retailers such as Walmart (ironically it now sits on the site) put the final nail in the coffin for the mall.
i think we all know the real reason rolling acres and randall park malls died off.
Sherpaful 1 week ago
Shopping Malls always depended on a stable or growing economy.. where the poor worked their way up to middle class and middle class worked their way up to 'affluent'. Take that away...and this is the painful consequence. It is nation-wide.. and it is scary.
The malls are bizarre monuments to another era. Maybe we'll see them come back in time..
MrGchiasson 2 weeks ago
there is something so magical about malls... I don't know if it was because growing up as a child they seemed so mystical and magical to me... then over the years they became such a focal point in a teenagers life... dating, a social place to hang out with friends, a place to participate in midnight releases and events... I miss malls
Koopagirl77 1 month ago
The niggers are the reason randall park mall is the way it is but like everything they touch it becomes a shit hole.
mstngken 2 months ago
my local mall is still strong. it opened in th late 70s and still has that 70s feel. the only down fall i saw in a long time is when boarders closed, then a few weeks later BAM moved right in.
MrWoodywoodward27 2 months ago
What doesn't sadden me is the greedy investors but the fact that once upon a time happy families lined those areas and now...
spongebob7285 2 months ago
monkey wards wasn't in a mall, but was killed by one (chapel hill) on the northeast edge of akron, and chapel hill was, in turn, killed by falls city planners with a heady commercial plan spanning west howe road). i believe the city of akron has learned their lesson.... don't fuck with cuyahoga falls. after all this and the how the 1985 merger screwed them out of an entire township, what will the city of akron do in retaliation? stay tuned.....
swimmerB0B 3 months ago
the problem is only large corperate scum stores can afford the rent so the variety of stores that are in malls are limited...ive seen some mall have 4 ambercrobies stores on different floors.......
Dojocho 3 months ago
We are not making anything in America so there are lower paying jobs for the future generation ..thank Daddy Bush then a real big thank you to Bill Clinton and then baby Bush and now Obama ..they all helped take jobs to other counties ..so you will always be shopping the dollar tree.....once many years ago ..when you got out of high school you could get a job in a factory with health care and benefits and a living wage
patriciaannpat 3 months ago 2
there are a lot of ghosts of better times shown here.
jdmitchell2 3 months ago 3
Poor city management and greedy corporate investors is what destroyed the Malls. The monthly lease was out of this world.
cotaman7 3 months ago 2
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Thank you for sharing these great pictures. I can literally see my childhood in the Rolling Acres Mall area.
Handy Andy was the man!
Frizz90 4 months ago
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Frizz90 4 months ago
Its called money.. If you have a need you will spend plus location is important too an you also need to have families close to use these places. Saddly it is always a massive place so the turn over needs to be constant. Wait until the bust times are over it will pick up again.
Segavian 5 months ago
this is a great video. nice work. randall mall shocked everybody when it closed down
jigsawVSgumby 6 months ago
Malls were always weird to me. Symbolic of a fake prosperity. Finally the "troublemakers" ran all the customers away.
david1965af 6 months ago
@david1965af
also symbolic of a materialistic america, *the credit card* generation. malls in new orleans are closed/near closed/will one day close.
I mean how much clothese do U really need? How many kitchen tools, etc.
america is dying.
Messiah will rule
btw what do you mean by *troublemakers* ran all the customers away?
paulfbest 6 months ago
@paulfbest
The little thugs that roam the malls in packs now and generally make life less enjoyable?
PubliusAfricanus 5 months ago
@paulfbest
The little thugs that roam the malls in packs now and generally make life less enjoyable?
PubliusAfricanus 5 months ago
they still charge the tenants up the ass
TurkiyeCumhurbaskani 6 months ago
I've always wanted to see a developer take a mall and replace all the stores with condominiums and townhomes, and leave the internal walkways along with the foliage alone.
You'd have to put in windows on the exterior, but it would be great to be able to walk the internal walkways of the mall in your sandals and shorts, when there was a snowstorm raging outside.
You could keep the movie theater and maybe a coffee and deli there too, for a quick place to grab a bite and catch an old film.
fuzzywzhe 7 months ago
I am so bummed. I grew up at Randall Park Mall. My aunt and uncle used to drag me there almost every weekend when I was a kid. I remember getting my ears pierced there when I was 8 and then going to hot dog on a stick. The place was always packed. I even remember going there when McGruff the crime dog was there and having one of those kiddie safety cards made up! The pet store was my fav.... I can't believe what it is today. It looks like a ghost town. Burlington is still there though..
mommamissi31 7 months ago
I am so bummed. I grew up at Randall Park Mall. My aunt and uncle used to drag me there almost every weekend when I was a kid. I remember getting my ears pierced there when I was 8 and then going to hot dog on a stick. The place was always packed. I even remember going there when McGruff the crim dog was there and having one of those kiddie safety cards made up! The pet store was my fav.... I can't believe what it is today. It looks like a ghost town. Burlington is still there though..
mommamissi31 7 months ago
I remember going to the mall once a month buying things, window shopping, playing in the arcade, meeting people and the stores all stayed busy! man those where the days!
FLMorena7 8 months ago
I would rather get good stuff at a mall then buy cheap shit at walmart. thumbs up if you agree.
MrAirbuster57 8 months ago
Malls are dying everywhere. They sowed their own destruction. Face it, stuff was always WAYYY over-priced at the mall. The junk in the "speciality stores" is no different from the same made in china crap you can get at walmart, except it costs much much less at walmart.
c0deMunkey 8 months ago
malls aren't 'dying all over the country'- akron was a tire town and in the space of about 15 years thousands of production jobs vanished. what the hell do you expect would happen?? no jobs, no people with money, no stores making money- its not rocket science. goodyear, firestone, bfg, and others pumped a fortune into the local economy over the years, going way back into the 20's. did they quit building retail when those jobs left? they thought everyone would stay here and keep spending. really?
swimmerB0B 9 months ago 2
Dang! I can say is, look at all that cement, glass, and steel. yuck.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s.
Can you believe there was a time when we used to WANT to spend time in these sterile, ugly, behemothes?
I didn't waste that much time there, but then again, back when, we could shop online.
question is what are we going to do with all this cement ugly crap?
What a waste! Asbestos, lead paint, who knows what else.
Nice production. goo music, good selection of pics.
Livinggreen100 9 months ago
@Livinggreen100 I hate you.
ihatestupidsignups 8 months ago
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wow. Here in Australia you cannot just build more retail space just 'cos you want to...there again this tight control has produced the mighty Australian Westfield which is destroying your crappy retail centres (sorry for the correct spelling)
alanlazarus 9 months ago
wow. Here in Australia you cannot just build more retail space just 'cos you want to...there again this tight control has produced the mightly Australian Westfield which is destroying your crappy retail centres (sorry for the correct spelling)
alanlazarus 9 months ago
Cool. I'm glad the music is back. I have watched this video many times over the years
whatihave2do 9 months ago
I worked for a company that had stores in all these malls. I spent the most time in Rolling Acres... and I have to ask... WHO THE HELL CARES??! Tear them down. Malls were, are and always will be a bad idea.
trappa 9 months ago
Rolling Acres makes me sad. I remember going there with my parents as a child (early 90's). Now it is a ghost town. You can still walk through it to get from JC Penney to Sears, so in 2009 my mom and I walked around the entire mall where she pointed out to me where her favorite stores used to be, and where my dad and I would sit while she was in those stores shopping. Good memories.
mxtracer459 10 months ago
@mxtracer459 aww, i bet that was sad.
MissMaddy881 10 months ago
Back in 1986, my girlfriend at the time worked at the Chess King in the Euclid Square Mall and I'd pick her up from there when she got off to take her on dates. Sometimes I'd arrive an hour or two early to play video games at the "Fun N Games" arcade. Such fond memories. It was once a very vibrant happening place but the surrounding area has since become the ghetto and people stopped shopping there. Now sadly, it's a dead mall. Thanks for the memories ESM...
locksmithite 10 months ago
I think it's so stupid how malls are dying out in favor of retail concepts that require you to drive from store to store. That and the fact that consumer choice has dwindled because smaller chains can't compete with Internet and big box retail anymore.
nta214 11 months ago 5
fuck wal mart !!!
knightstalker2011 11 months ago 8
What is this song...
bearwarlock 11 months ago
I want to make a statement---- I believe walmart and costco and some other large stores are killing these malls and small business's just cant compete with such low prices, i saw alot of video's last winter showing this and it is still very troubling.
mannequinwizard 11 months ago 2
I hate how we've become a society of big box stores where you have to drive to each store, america is getting lazier and lazier all the time! pretty soon stores will be obsolete and everyone will stay at home and order their shit online! the world really sucks... why can't things just stay the same...
coolbluelights 1 year ago
@coolbluelights I completely sympathize with your sentiments. But, just think about what you're saying: you're complaining on one hand about Americans being forced to (if they wish to buy things) drive from store to store, then on the other hand complaining about them staying home and ordering things online. The latter is a better way to order things, since it consumes less energy (1 delivery truck minimizing the Traveling Salesman Problem vs many cars driving to a mall).
mphello 9 months ago
There are also dying shopping malls here in Germany. I know one completely closed mall in the town Wilhelmshaven. That was built in the 1970ies. There used to be very big stores like WalMart in there. Now is nothing in there anymore, all moving walks and escalators are shut down.
StuartGray100 1 year ago
Thanks for making this! I will always prefer indoor malls of yesterday to the new outdoor malls and "lifestyle centers." Indoor malls, especially ones built in the 70s and 80s had such a mystique and allure to them.
scorpioeddie84 1 year ago
Does anyone know the name of the place that was at 1.28? We had a building just like that by the old lakehurst mall in Waukegan, IL.
Shwalker07 1 year ago
@Shwalker07 I think that was Child World a toy store like toys r us
force311999 10 months ago
@Shwalker07 It was a Child World toy store then a Marc's Discount Grocery Store which is based in Northeast Ohio.
IAmNotAFunguy 8 months ago
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JISINSANE3 1 year ago
One defunct retail mall in Boston is Lafayette Place. The reason I never liked it was because you were walking around in a circle looking for a retailer. No wonder it went out of business. When I walked through it in December of 1984, I thought that was building for the following Christmas. However, it really fell by the wayside in the early 90s. I hated that mall!
pookerville 1 year ago
The Mall in New Bern, NC I remember as a kid being a crowded mall, but when I returned as an adult, revisiting North Carolina, it was a ghost town. Only reasons to even goto that mall are for Belk (Clothing) and JC Penney. But it has gone so far that the little pond they had was drained and looked like it had been empty for awhile. It's sad to see, but sometimes it's also due to poor ownership of the malls.
kirbyyasha 1 year ago
Dead malls fascinate me for some reason. I guess I just wish I had the money to turn them into something special again. I grew up in the 80s and wish I had pictures of the dying mall near us.
Windsweptzariel 1 year ago
@Windsweptzariel It seems they are now tearing down failing malls, replacing them with strip centers, and then calling them "lifestyle centers". (REAL open air malls are OK, sort of.)
shmuli9 1 year ago
@Windsweptzariel Same here about wishing i could turn some of these dead malls into something special again, and bring them back to their glory days!
scorpioeddie84 1 year ago
You know it's to bad the music police muted your music .But you still can see how sad it is , I've been away from Cleveland for almost 16 years now and I use to go all the time to Randall park back in the 80's .I new in the early 90's it was going down hill it's sad looking at it brings back good old times , thanks for posting.
cslan4 1 year ago
holy shit the past 4 mall vids i clicked on the sondtracks have been muted. get a life WMG
Malibunightrider 1 year ago
Fuck Warner Music group! I will go out of my way never to buy their music!
ZenDriveSeven 1 year ago
So sad, such beautiful architecture! I love the old malls as they had unique styles of the past. Everyone should check out the Galleria Mall in down town Houston as they brought such contemporary modern styling to be appreciated.
patsaxon 1 year ago
HOLY CRAP, CHILDRENS PALACE!!!!!!
sneakerthekid 1 year ago
Randall Park was the spot back 70's - 90's. You could get lost in this mall due to the size and endless entrances and exits. It had two games rooms, one upper level and the larger one lower level. The cinema was located upper level until it closed. It was a bustling mall until it got out of control. People being robbed and or carjacked. Sad to see it come to an end.
emauriceharr 1 year ago
@emauriceharr Randall Park near Cleveland? I didn't grou up there (my dad did), but I went ot Randall Park a few times on vacation there. ("Southgate" still existed, too.)
shmuli9 1 year ago
@shmuli9 It is located in a suburb (North Randall) of Cleveland. I stayed twenty minutes walking distance from Randall and 1/2 hr. walking from Southgate Shopping Plaza.
Southgate still has some stores still open, but it has seen better days.
emauriceharr 1 year ago
sad. so sad. if you look at the cities they are in you can see why they are dead. i remember when randall was the shit. could not get near it because it was so busy. now people are moving to other stuff. legacy village, great northern mall, south park malll etc. better areas. i would not go near randall park mall without a gun and a vest. it does bring back good memories when i see the pictures of randall all lit up.
bmstylee 1 year ago
I think the reason why so many malls close down is because the major stores that cater to a certain group, leave or close down. The two major malls I used to go to now seem like hangouts for women as it seems there's literally just jewelry, clothes and other stores that I'd never shop at. It also tends to stink heavily of perfume and odd smells in there.
RagingKnight 1 year ago
There be ghosts in that mall. Be careful.
Silvertrine 1 year ago
Cloverleaf Mall in Richmond, Virginia should be on here, too.
kd4adv 1 year ago
skywarp187, i LOVE the mall! people where i live go to the mall all the time.
MissMaddy881 1 year ago
HattieLovesCattie, the mall where i'm from is doing great. hopefully, business will continue to be good there.
MissMaddy881 1 year ago
Read an article online last Jan.that 100 malls in this country may close this year.:(
HattieLovesCattie 1 year ago
The dynamic of malls in the Detroit area is interesting. When the first enclosed mall in the United States, Northland Center, was built in 1954, people started going there instead of downtown Detroit for their shopping. Other malls were soon to follow in the suburbs, and the malls killed many local businesses in the 1970s. By the 80s and 90s downtown areas of the suburbs were dead. In the last decade they have undergone redevelopment, and people are going downtown instead of the malls.
endingman 1 year ago
teens kept malls alive in the 80's & 90's i remember going to the mall arcade & meeting up with friends from school & hanging in the food court.ect'
now kids are on the computer & at home texting.
the legit shoppers are at walmart & costco buying 5 gallon jugs of mayonnaise.
skywarp187 1 year ago
You probably dirve by a dying mall every day and say "Its so sad no one goes there anymore and the businesses are going under" while you are on your way to Wallmart. Im not a fan of malls or of wallmart so I have no problem with them all going away.
turfturbo 1 year ago 2
I remember my mother telling me how evil the malls were because it took a lot of business away from the town center.Sad?Thrilled?You decide.
namniekib 1 year ago
I really want to tell this story of a little mall that died a quick death. El Paseo Mall, in Laredo, Texas. It didn't last one year. And it was small. So small, it was considered a joke. Just a jewelry store and some cloything merchants. It was small enough to get lost in a big chain grocery store. The building still exists. Though it's now occupied by a Factory-2-U and Peter Piper Pizza. All that's left of any proof it ever existed, is a small dome window at Factory-2-U.
vigo894 1 year ago
it is sad to see all these dying malls knowing at one time they were all full of people
jadedheart30 1 year ago
Sad to see malls dying because so many of us spent good times there - Christmas shopping maybe or just looking around, over years and years. Seeing the malls die is the same as seeing our memories die and get abandoned and demolished.
townhall05446 2 years ago
@townhall05446 thts why i always say things like screw places like walmart and kmart for killing all of the malls we love so much screw big corprate chaains...
BrooklynBaller101 2 years ago
Something crazy to think about: a mall in Oklahoma is BARELY alive. I went there a few years ago. When I was growing up, it was stuffed with people. Today, there is only one store and a movie theater. Everything else is abandoned. Why can't they tear it down? The place is a boon for joggers. It's packed with people who like to jog rain or shine. Oddly, this is what makes it safe to jog even though it's not in a good part of town. A friend said the mall and its only two tenants are still there!
starlionblue 2 years ago
Why would they build housing there when the houses that are already built aren't even being sold? Great title and so true!
Fonzi79 2 years ago
I hear Sly Stallone is going to film a new movie here called, "Death Mall".
mrentertainment43 2 years ago
Place looks brand new
Darkmoonlight34 2 years ago
I listened to Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" while watching this sad video tribute. It's happy go lucky melody and lyrics fit the visual irony perfectly.
chazatlas 2 years ago
@chazatlas
I am listening to Story of the Year- Anthem of Our Dying Day!
ihatetaft 1 year ago
can you please add audio to this again?
goldendragon35 2 years ago
DAMN, WB Muted out the Pretenders Song that was in the background (My city was gone is the title)
ralphbuttawitzonline 2 years ago
It's sad and I remember when mom was alive we had gone to some of these places.. but I feel maybe these can be turn ito houseing some how take a one half of the mal and turn then into apartments of lofts and take a few of the stors on the other end andput fodd store in the for the people who live in these places ad of couse others may comein an buy food and maybe a few clothing stores it just may work and also make some of thes places for handicapp or on flat ground .and Randell Park do the same
owlydog 2 years ago
top floor of that mall would be stores and lower part make houseing there,, houseing is very important and the center of the mall can be a place othere can meet or perhaps have a area were it is games and fun foir thepeople who live there and put a pool in these places
wish someone would listen to my ideas
owlydog 2 years ago
damn, jc pennys outlet store!?!? That's pretty sad when the community can't afford jc pennys and has to get the outlet version haha.
mattrmc19 2 years ago 2
Did any of you go to Marc's back when it was closing I did but I couldn't remember what it was like. I never went to Target when it was closing if you guys did tell me what that was like.
IAmNotAFunguy 2 years ago
this is great...and sad! thank u 4 posting!
eurolease24 2 years ago
Randall Park loks alot better inthis vid than in life. It is in really bad shape now. It is also closed to the public. Euclid Square is still open but the vegitation is sparse and fountains are non functional and empty. I hope to visit Rolling Meadows sometime soon.
jwerren78 2 years ago
Unspeakably sad and yet I don't know why. It's like part of America is dying.
The thing about malls is, there aren't enough doors. If you added doors & windows to each tenant space, it'd be so much nicer. Malls always had a certain "you are locked in" air to them. If you changed the access, a typical mall would make a really nice office space, or even apartments, or some sort of new innovative mixed-use "community"...
Kerikali 2 years ago 3
@Kerikali I agree,sigh.Maybe indoor malls will make a comeback in 30 years?Things do come and go in cycles.
HattieLovesCattie 2 years ago
there was a mall called salem mall in trottwood ohio iwent there tons of times and my mom and dad bought there wedding dresses and tuxedos there but the shop statrted leaving the mall and when there was two shops left plus sears they closed it in 2008 they tore it down but they left sears
xtremecoastermania 2 years ago
I live in a city that has a lot of malls for its size ( inc other towns nearby ).Two old malls were torn down but replaced with the usual stores etc.I miss the old mall but the stores that replaced it get alot of business.
HattieLovesCattie 2 years ago
It's sad to see what has replaced malls like this. Strip malls and big box stores are architectural non-entities that can force you to get in and out of your car for each purchase. As for on-line shopping, there are plenty of things that aren't worth buying sight-unseen. But, the enclosed mall, as it existed, was a flawed concept. You couldn't visit a single shop without parking and walking half a mile.
lrd9999 2 years ago
Someone should build a "hybrid mall" with all the shops facing the outside through narrow, enclosed, heated walkways; the anchor stores upstairs and the food court in the middle, accessible from any store or walkway. It would accommodate both all day shopping sprees and one stop shoppers.
lrd9999 2 years ago
his video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled. More about copyright
ballm0use 2 years ago
Wow, some of thesepics show Randall park when it was still pretty vibrant. To bad. This mall is now closed to the public correct? Can you see into the mall from any of the anchors that are still open? Is Euclid mall still open to the public? Great vid!
jwerren78 2 years ago
wow, i hate when that happens. they need to make malls that have cheaper renting spaces to bring more stores in. i hate strip malls. so boring and were i live its HOT today was 106. and they build tons of strip malls. when i go to malls like that i feel like im in a movie
tubefube 2 years ago 2
I remember as a teen hanging out at the Mall. I go there now and its so totally changes. Hardly anyone goes there anymore.
TheS10shorty 2 years ago
man the mall by my house that shit is hanuted its 60years old :$
proevo805g 2 years ago
what song was this
25143J 2 years ago
You should see one in rhode island. I mean there is a wal mart there but its not connected
Intelpentium54321 2 years ago
Online sales also have affected malls too.Folks rather order online ( even tho you can't try it on ) than go to a mall looking for something.
HattieLovesCattie 2 years ago
Big Box stores (e.g. Wal-Mart, Target) and Multiplexed cinemas helped also killing malls. However, former owners of mom and pop stores probably don't feel bad since malls killed mom and pop stores.
Melville10 2 years ago
WallyMart has killed the old malls and the Mom and Pop stores.Its depressing to see but at least some are replaced by new big stores.
HattieLovesCattie 2 years ago
too bad you couldn't keep the audio track.
jdmitchell2 2 years ago
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Know what is a constant reason for malls failing like this, its when certain violet demographics start to take over the area & in this case pick away at the dead body of the mall after they caused its down fall. I live by a dead mall in california called the hawthorne plaza which was used in multiple film like fast & furious TD & I HAVE PERSONALLY seen RAMPANT acts of theft and violence by the demographics that over ran the once nice city and mall which lead to its closure & residence flight.
niceguy60 2 years ago
Yes, it's sad. Friends of mine work in a 24-hr grocery chain store - they call the police in the middle of the night and by the time they come, the trouble makers are long gone. They rip off the stores and no unarmed workers are going to try to stop them. It is happening everywhere.
jbondelli 2 years ago
Great video!
TonyC0101 2 years ago
WMG if you are reading this............
WHY DID YOU TURN OFF ONE OF THE BEST SONGS ON YOUTUBE?!
usa02 2 years ago
Yep U tube ruined another great video by removing the sound track in the name of the all might dollar. What the people that own the songs that think this is ripping them off don;t understand when one of their songs are used it usually makes it popular again. Case and point. There is a episode of Family Guy that in the commentary they said that there was a song they wanted to use but the owner refused to let them. So they used another song and the number of legal downloads sky rocked.
whatihave2do 2 years ago
House the families who have lost their homes in these failed malls.. Turn each store into a "compartment" rather than an apartment. The food court would be the "soup kitchen", etc..
Commack08 2 years ago
GODDAMMIT.
Warner, no one is going to buy your FUCKING music because you have disabled so many great soundtracks here at YouTube. This measure HAS and WILL CONTINUE to BACKFIRE ON YOU.
BettinaBalser 3 years ago 54
@BettinaBalser Amen. I'm getting so fuckings sick of their bullshit. Time-Warner can go fuck itself.
Carandini 1 year ago
@BettinaBalser I completely agree! WTF?
collegeman1988 1 year ago
@BettinaBalser not warner... look up wmg vs google... theres a couple videos on whos ACTUALLY doing this music crap
GeneralLeeStudios 1 year ago
I've got a great idea: Lets have a country-wide Car Racing, and skateboarding circuit of dead-malls across the country!!!
Thesse things, now vacant, and decaying, are SCREAMING for cars and people to go rampaging through them at millions of miles per hour!
Dreaded88 3 years ago
Yes!!! There are smaller race cars that will fit, k-rail/retaining walls that will fit and bleacher/grand-stands for the spectators that will fit. You're a genius! I wish I had a few thousand dollars!
erich84502 2 years ago
Great but sad video. Does anyone remember in the 70's when stores were only open late on Monday and Thursday nights ("shopping nights")? All the other days, they closed at 5:00 p.m. Maybe it's not feasible to have 24/7 shopping (Walgreens, Meijer, Walmart SuperCenter, etc. etc.) It can't be cost effective to have a store open 24 hours. Maybe once the excess stops, things will get better. We have become a 24-hour society, and maybe it's just too much.
jbondelli 3 years ago
Malls suck.
Dandan57 3 years ago
Malls rock Walmart and bigbox retail suck
boxer301977 3 years ago
sad state for malls! I miss the days of long ago,when everyone could make money! Think of all the stores that have come and gone forever since the 70s. just to name a few in connectcut,kings,ames,bradlees,FBC,Arlans,GFox, Caldors,circuit city,two guys,Richlin,woolworths,howland hughes,Grants
All thats left basically is Walmart and I hate that store
mgrella63 3 years ago
Perhaps with all these big name retailers on the fiscal edge it will be a revival of local stores that have disappeared.
Big Box Stores, Multiplexed cinemas, The Web----all led to the American mall's decline.
Melville10 3 years ago
since they are dying...perhaps they can replace the homes and trees that were there in the first place...
Garrettkatey 3 years ago
The sad shame in this video is that these malls have a great architechtual integrity that cannot always be matched by open-air malls. I love the lighting and the structure of the malls.
GREAT VIDEO!
AllisonTheSNLGuru 3 years ago
I love the retro style too. I live in Southern NJ and they just demolished half of the Echelon Mall which was a ghost town. It was really creepy. They are in the process of turning the whole area into a promenade with upscale housing but it is rotten timing considering the free falling U.S. economy.
Melville10 3 years ago
The staircase in the video reminds me of the early days of Southlake Mall by me. They removed the staircase to put in an elevator to get the place to meet the disabilities act. Southlake Mall is still going strong, but Century Mall nearby went downhill in the mid-90's, and the portion between Montgomery Ward & Burlington Coat Factory was torn down. It has yet to revitalize. Southlake Mall opened in 1974 & Century Mall in 1979, closed 2002.
davenwin1973 3 years ago
mega dittos!!!
slikkwon 3 years ago
Ah - Harbinger of the end of the oil age. Without cheap and plentiful oil, the auto dependent culture will disappear. Next, suburban sprawl will be abandoned. It's "back to the cities" time.
jetgraphics 3 years ago
and a question, whats happening to the montgomery wards? Did someone buy the chain and change names? I remember that place years back where i live..
omghelpmeimhigh 3 years ago
malls are dying due to stuff like walmart and things, but honestly, I prefer malls.
omghelpmeimhigh 3 years ago
I think as americans most of us can admit as a people we have already primed, and are sadly going downhill. The exact quality I am trying to come up with a word for, I cannot, but I know it was once there, and is now dying/dead
I have a greater love for defunct department stores, but malls were great. I still shop at malls a couple times a year, which I could go more often
TRJ22487 3 years ago 2
WAL-MART doesnt set up shop in malls, they make their own store and we keep going back to buy stuff from them.... what do we expect? how can our malls survive?
WildWildfire2kk7 3 years ago
and of course all the stuff in the WAL-MART is from china and taiwan... americans are losing their factory jobs.. chev, ford, dodge, all gonna close before too long.. maybe we should never have allowed things made outside america to be sold to anyone here.. yes minerals and raw goods, import no packaged and pre made product.. export only.. maybe we would still have our malls.
WildWildfire2kk7 3 years ago
(part 2 of my other posting) When I moved to San Antonio, TX ten years ago, I went to Windsor Park Mall, not far from where I live. It was thriving with activity and lots of people. A few years later, there was a gang shooting inside the mall and innocent bystanders were killed. After that, sales declined due to customer fears and the retailers began to pull out one by one. Today, the entire building stands totally abandoned. :(
bunnyluv41 3 years ago
This is a really good video! It's a shame that malls are not what they used to be when we were kids. I live in San Antonio, and we've lost a few good malls since I moved here ten years ago.
bunnyluv41 3 years ago
i passed by randall park mall the other day and it waz sad because tht once was a mall that everyone went
124kwp 3 years ago
that is sad... we have malls dying in our area but i remember in highschool early 90's they were the place to be now u go there on a friday night and there r like 10 people there lol
gino454 3 years ago
This place was also a BIG part of my life in my teenage years. But after the Malcolm X movie was played, all hell broke loose and there was rioting, ever since that day that mall was doooomed. Then there was a few people robbed and then the rumors started. People were scared and stopped going! Criminals started coming along with the serious crime, and well, that was that! Thanks Guys for putting another good thing out of business.
Yours truly,
Tony
broker3460 3 years ago
This sure looks like Cinderella City in Denver! Even though I know it isn't, because CinCity didn't have a JCPenney Outlet Store or a Macy's, and was torn down in 1998. The meandering paths, multiple levels, and food court at 0:38 are all similar.
PaninaroAurora 3 years ago
It's more than the malls. NE Ohio, especially Ashtabula County, is in a sad economic state. I made a daytrip back to my hometown of Irwin, PA in '07 and I couldn't believe the eocnomic difference. It was THRIVING. Why things never seem to improve in NE Ohio is beyond me. Breaks my heart. I hope NE Ohio can turn it around; it's been a long downhill slide. - writeroffthelake at Geneva-on-the-Lake (Ohio)
writeroffthelake 3 years ago
my memories from what we called MALLING in the 80s fun times, the chicks the stealing ( yes a little not much ) a few fights and hours and hours of walking around and around. SO much more fun then video gaming all day now.
Docthewrench 3 years ago
mhm.. toys Rs and stuff
tweevr 3 years ago
What Was that store at 1:40?
IAmNotAFunguy 3 years ago
Come to City Center in downtown Columbus, OH, it looks just like this-it was a big 3 story mall, too, now it's a big embarrassment. Westland Mall on the west side of Columbus is, pardon the expression, a cavernous ghetto now.
balddanny72 3 years ago
That store at 1:28 was a Child World. Then it was a Marc's discount store. Now it is spray foam insulation factory. why did Marc's close?
IAmNotAFunguy 3 years ago
I used to go to Randall Park Mall when I was a kid back in the 70's I remember when the mall opened. It was always packed with people. I think when Beachwood Place opened the money ended up shopping there and Randall wasn't the place to shop anymore. I will always remember Randall the way it was, this video makes me kinda sad.
VelvetVellocet 3 years ago
Are these actual malls in Ohio that went out of business?
CelesteK 3 years ago
Yes. All of the malls in this video are defunct. They still stand, but no longer have the store tenants operating within it's confines.
emauriceharr 1 year ago
I don't know why but this mall reminds me of the one in Dead Rising the video game. It's sad that this mall died out. To bad they don't try to do something with it.
crystalrspencer 3 years ago
randall park and euclid square are dying, if not already dead, because the surrounding area became "the hood" which drove away customers. at least that's what i was told by a former manager.
although they rebuilt the richmond mall, i don't see it lasting very long. and give it a few years and the great lakes mall will be next.
locksmithite 3 years ago
so true,we need to stop tht shit
124kwp 3 years ago
Nice array of pictures and choice of song. You're right - Randall Park Mall reminds me a bit of Wright's SC Johnson Wax building in Racine, WI, which I visited 2 years ago. A shame that they don't build malls like that much anymore.
SeanUrban 3 years ago
Well I have sad news, Rolling Acres Mall in Akron is closing, I just heard it on the news tonight. First North Randall and now Rolling Acres. Sad.
usa02 3 years ago
The reason why was because the new owner couldn't pay the electric bill of over $320,000, and the remaining stores were given a one week notice to pack everything and GET OUT. Now that's sad. I used to go to this mall with my parents in the late 80's and sometimes in throughout the 90's. The mall still had some potential in the early 2000s, but failed in 2007. It was evident that the mall would close sometime in 2008 or early 2009.
JBlair1982 3 years ago
That's sad news to me to hear of Rolling Acres' closing. Very sad, especially since I always thought if the right person/group had bought that property, that the mall building could be renovated into some new use(even if it wasn't retail). *sigh!*
prfsnlwannabe 3 years ago
why the in the world dont they fix these malls up and bring them back to full potential. stupid developers.
boxer301977 3 years ago
be good to make a zombie film in that mall
4eva2cool 3 years ago 2
Great video, too bad all the good malls are closing... ahhh the memories
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Touch0fGrey 3 years ago
whats this song i love it
supaloui 3 years ago
My City Was Gone by the Pretenders
ralphbuttawitzonline 3 years ago
Yep they call it progress?
Hamaround 3 years ago
I remember when Randall Park Mall opened; it was the death of Southgate Shopping center, one of the largest in the US. Accordingly, Southgate, and the other shopping centers in the suburbs contributed to the death of retail shopping in downtown Cleveland. Now one stop shopping at Super Wal-Mart and Target is killing the malls. They call it progress! Hey, maybe they should build a horse race track where the mall was and call it Randall Park! Oh wait that's what they tore down to build the mall!
Hamaround 3 years ago 2
these are the malls that white people used to shop at before the urban trash moved in.
clev9980 3 years ago 3
Actually Randall Park Mall was nicely integrated from the beginning. I was there from opening to recently and when it opened there were way more black people than white. And the black people were definitely better dressed.
Ira0321 3 years ago
There was a mall that was once near me in Greensburg, PA called Greengate Mall. It was designed by Victor Gruen, built by the Rouse Company in the 1960s and was destined for a long life, just like many other malls built in its time. Competition from a nearby mall and other retailers such as Walmart (ironically it now sits on the site) put the final nail in the coffin for the mall.
neurodistortion 3 years ago