Tears For A Mall

The Story Of The Rise and Fall of Baytown's San Jacinto Mall. If you're a kid from the 80's... This will take you back, Make you happy and sad.

San Jacinto Mall, You don't deserve what's happened to you.

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• abandoned
• mall
• dead
• baytown
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• deadmalls

[SHSUGuy1985]

This is an AWESOME video! It brought back so many good memories and made me remember when the San Jacinto Mall was a glorious and fun place to be! Then, the footage of the Montgomery Ward wing just shocked me. I can't believe it looks so bad there. Since they walled it off to the public, I hadn't seen it. Thank you for showing it and whatever permissions you had to seek out to even get the footage. You have made a wonderful documentary.

[Yesterdays92]

@SHSUGuy1985 Thank you! Thank you all so very much for all the compliments. I never expected the ammount of hits the video has received so quickly! and all the stories I have been posted here. I am so very happy to know that I'm not the only one who misses how great it was to visit the San Jacinto Mall. Again, Thank You All. Sonic 1992 :-)

[dakotamanv8318]

Yes, this was our mall. Had the best times there. No crime, could hang out at the movies with no problems with fights, just fun and laughs. Walking the mall with all the great stores and so many people. It was like everyone you knew was at the mall on Friday and Saturday nights. After Church everyone went too eat and dad had his oil changed at Sears. I use to always throw a penny in the fountain and now it's no more. So sad to let such a nice place too go to waste.

[Yesterdays92]

@dakotamanv8318 Thank You! Your story is so true! Gives me just as much tears reading it ! Again, Thank you for your compliments!

[naybrann]

Great Memories,havent been to the mall in years. I was shocked nothing ever moved into Monkey Wards building. Kids now days dont appreciate the whole mall thing. It was a place to hang out with your friends while your parents shopped. You had the whole place to run around and eat then run around some more. Kids now days only know their friends as well as their Cell phones do. Kids just text and play X box now. Kids will stand next to their friends and Text them, they never get to know them.

[thedifficultdarling]

San Jacinto Mall was my old stomping ground back in the 80's. Why wouldn't you get emotional over the distengration of a place that was the backdrop for so many memories? I've not been to Baytown/Northshore in nearly 20 years, but this sure reminded me of some good times. Thank you so much for sharing. For an 80's brat, this was the place to be when you weren't old enough to get in the clubs.

[boc41077]

I have never even been to this mall and your video depressed me...You did an amzing job putting this together..great work...

[09rockmusic]

MetroMall in Jackson, Mississippi was nice once too... now torn down I think. It got very "urban" if you know what I mean. The Dillards there lost $1M in a month once, according to my brother's friend in security....

[Psuedo3D]

Where did you get all those newspaper articles and mall directory? I'd like to see the originals. They zoom by too fast, and I'd like to see that Foley's ad at higher resolution.

[PubliusAfricanus]

What happened to Physical Whimsical and the arcade underneath?

[londonliz43]

Wonderful music! I am from Columbus,OH and I miss the malls. We had so much fun there as kids in the 80's! Anything that was worth anything in life and not so much material as memories seems to be gone. I love the ads you showed for different stores and eateries. We had the same ones here back then and it brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for the great vid!

[superaly143]

Man it really sucks for the younger kids these days gosh im so jealous. Who ever went to the san jactinto mall are lucky! Sad! It was beautiful

[thedrnailsguy]

They will never, ever fix this mall or any others like it. They just want to recoupe as much money as possible before they completely go under. No hope, no dreams, no ambition of bringing in new business. They've thrown in the flag and it's very sad. This was a great mall! Of the many malls in Houston and surrounding aread this was the most fun and magical. I still go to this mall once a month or so. For the neat and fun place it used to be and just because it's a little creepy now. odd i know.

[sweettart538]

looking at the old san jacinto mall makes me wish i grew up during the 90's O.O

[Livinggreen100]

I'm surprised that that cement, steal, and glass behemoth is open with all that damage.

I grad. 1986.

I went through my 70s/80s phase, and I still like products from then.

The memories will always be with us.

But, when you think about it, do you really want to celebrate cement, glass, and steel that was built to promote materialism?

They won't fix this place, like many others. It's only a matter of time.

Nice production value. Thanks for sharing.

[JDW7337]

San Jacinto Mall has allot of problems that lead to it's downfall:

-poor layout, while other malls are condensed to make walking short San Jacinto is spread out.

-poor location, until the later 90s there wasn't that much around it.

-high cost for vendors, the newer management charges large amounts for it's lease space.

-old look, while other malls have had massive renovations to keep an up-to-date look, San Jacinto had cheap renovations (it basically never changed)

-internet shopping