Guildford Town Centre 1985 TV ad

[daveychillz]

"First exit South off the Port Mann Bridge" - and that's why Downtown New Westminster had the wind taken out of its sails.

[parghi22]

yeah, i went swimming in that fountain when i was 4.

[Berlin2004]

This IS Guildford Mall. C'mon people it's obvious. And as TheSurreygal says, the fountain was where sport check and The source are now.

[TheSurreygal]

This is definitely taken in Guildford Mall, Surrey, British Columbia. I was born there and never left. I remember everything there. The wishing well fountain is in the spot where the playground now is.

[Lashnakh]

Consumerism!

[fayenesse]

aw now i'm sad that the mall is being redone...

[Hexinvir]

@fayenesse sad? it's a hideous mall, it looks like its 50 years old... it needs to be redone.

[fayenesse]

@Hexinvir yeah but so many memories...

[fayenesse]

aw now i'm sad that the mall is being redone...

[blakemcguire]

Wow, never thought about how long the place has been around.

[dunyafilm]

Ha! Amazing. Now I want to remake this when the new Guildford Mall is done :P

[hotlikesummer]

Robin Scherbatsky did it better!

[lhehr]

That was definitely shot at Guildford Mall and that is awesome! 

[treeofhatred]

I love how corny and lame this is! :D The irony being that the mall is much shabbier and... just, like, the pit of Slurrey now. Whatever happened to that badass fountain?!

[NcrFax]

omgosh! haha, its so cool to see a place you know but like back then and a bit different.

[PatchedGlass]

OMG. This is the the mall i always go to near my house.... = =

[TEEC4C]

thats not the old friary . . fuck sake .. . it was filmed in thge the states with OVER DUBS saying GUILDFORD . . . . . . if you lived in the 80s you know that the friary was the pits . . . . . .

[robatsea2009]

@TEEC4C Sorry, but it was definitely shot at Guildford Mall. You clearly see Woodwards (among others), a legendary BC department store that never operated in the States.

[robatsea2009]

@TEEC4C A detail in the clip description that you may have missed is this is Guildford Town Centre Mall in Surrey, British Columbia - hopefully not to be confused with anything in Guildford, Surrey, UK.

[DiscoDiscoGoodGood93]

Omg really the guildford mall is that old god damn

[MattJFisher]

What about this? Woolco was an anchor there too, before it became a Crap-Mart.

[xbox7202]

whats with that fountain under the stairs?

and the big pool around it.

its not there anymore

it was ether where the food court is, but the suroundings dond look like it would

it could be where that realty kiosk under the stairs is now outside of walmart

where do you think it is?

[robatsea2009]

@xbox7202 It's been many years since I've been in the Mall so I can't pinpoint the location of what would occupy the space where the fountain and pool used to be located. If I had to guess I'd say there would be a staircase or elevators now. The mall layout changed a few times (and expanded) since it first opened; there used to be an outdoor courtyard with a concrete play area for kids, and the movie theaters used to be inside the mall

[xbox7202]

@robatsea2009 i just asked someone, and aperantly it was where that kids play area is and it makes sense because i see what the play area shape is and then i see a hexagon shaped brick design arund it and the fountain with the stairs was hexagon shape

[xbox7202]

@robatsea2009 look up a picture of the play area by searching 'Guildford mall playground'.the link should be-(Baby Brandon's Adventures: Playground Fun at Guildford). look at the shape and spot where the play area is and look where the pool was because i asked someone where the fountain was and she said it was there and i also found evidence

[robatsea2009]

@xbox7202 Yes, most likely that's the spot. The original concrete play area was part of an outdoor courtyard down at the Woodwards end of the building, but that was lost when the mall expanded in the mid-to-late 1970s.

[danbeb]

@xbox7202 I think that it is where the realty place is. Beside Walmart and the law office.

[sniperslayer]

@xbox7202 the one with the waterfall used to be by where the walmart/woodwards entrance is

[Babymuma604]

@xbox7202

the fountain was where the kids play place is now

[thecomedymaker]

@Babymuma604 you mean was, they are doing something with it now..

[vancityguy]

@xbox7202 As what other users stated, the water fountain/pool is where the playground is. Now that the playground has been removed, due to the current renovation project, you can now see the blue tile amidst the concrete.

Kind of sad to see...

[TRCJunior]

I like the 1985 guildford better than the 2010 one.

[necro2607]

@TRCJunior Seriously.

[joecanuck2]

Hey awesome video, live 5 min away from Guildford. Funny thing is that the floor, benches, and fake trees are exactly the same to this day except you hear that they are doing a remodel. Whatever happened to those old Woodward's commercials you used to have on here, are you able to re-post them?

[fuzzypeach5]

@joecanuck2 Those trees are not fake I know this because I used to work for the mall and one of the night jobs after closing is watering them....

[RetroWinnipeg]

If I had realized sooner that the SkyTrain actually went all the way down to Surrey, I might have considered going down there one night during the Games. Oh well...

[TTOMO]

@RetroWinnipeg

You would've had to take a bus after you got off the Skytrain, as the Skytrain doesn't go anywhere near Guildford.

[MattJFisher]

@RetroWinnipeg Me too!