Lakehurst - Mall Demolition 2004

Musical-slideshow of the demolition of the Lakehurst Mall in Waukegan, Illinois. This was made years ago before I really knew how to make videos, so it's not that great.

Music is:
The Byrds - Turn, Turn, Turn
Limp Bizkit - Build a Bridge

For more information about Lakehurst Mall, visit "Illinois Dead Mall" at:

http://www.freewebs.com/lakehurst

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• lakehurst
• mall
• waukegan
• illinois
• demolition

[HattieLovesCattie]

What is now at the mall?Another Wally-Mart?

[jonrev]

@HattieLovesCattie Walmart, hotels, a gas station, restaurants, and a few strip malls.

[pohldriver]

mixed retail space. so they are going to build another mall?

[jonrev]

They basically carved a road through the mall site, then put a super Walmart, restaurants, and a gas station on the North end; and another strip mall and hotel on the South end. They also want to build a casino on the South end.

[milincoln]

I don't under stand why people hate Gurnee mills so much? It was obviously the better mall if it drove an established mall out of buisness.

[jonrev]

Gurnee Mills yes was the better mall of the two but I cannot stand its layout and it is poorly upkept. Even Lakehurst in its final days was cleaner than some parts of the Mills.

[FifteenShadesOfBlack]

I remember going into this mall and taking pictures for kindergarten since I missed mine when I went to Clark. I wouldn't have minded the mall staying there... I mean now there's a Wal-Mart there; when there already was one in Gurnee and now another in Zion.

D'8

[keepmacin]

I wish they had kept Carson Prairie Scott it was still used I know that it had roof issues but it would have cost less than having the thing demoed

[Dlanorepmart]

I lived near there when it was built. Forty years later it's torn down. Fast changes.

[patsaxon]

So sad, as many shopping malls are doing poorly and the manage does nothing to keep them up and also keeps raising the rent on vendors.

[MrElectrician59]

I used to go to this mall

[JimRotunda]

Correction: Lakehurst Mall opened in August of 1971 not 1972.

[theKennyHalt]

build a bridge is great song choice

[unclebobunclebob]

@jonrev gurnee mills is a nightmare....how do you build something in a z pattern? What a moronic concept.

[unclebobunclebob]

the casino that pohldriver mentioned is a dead issue afer many, many years of trying.

[jtell10380]

@420acid Cinnabon...those were kick ass!! They're making one at Gurnee Mills. UGH! I hate Gurnee Mills! Oh well!

[jtell10380]

@jonrev I agree with you!

[HattieLovesCattie]

@jonrev Thanks for the info.My town tore down a old mall I liked and put a real swanky outdoor shopping center.Its doing very well but I still miss the old mall.