Shopping malls have were once a desire place to shop, eat and just hang out. Over the years their popularity has declined which has forced some stores to close. In this video we will have a closer look at some of the mall stores you once loved but no longer exist!
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That was my hangout when my wife and me would just go to spend the time away. Were in our 60s now.
my favorite all-time Mall was Hollywood Fashion Center (Hollywood, FL) in 1975 – 1978. it was AWESOME!
Faded Glory!
Thanks!
I never liked the mall. Online is better.
I miss so many of these stores.
Grant store.
1:10 fun fact: Kinney Shoes was acquired by Woolworth’s and became a subsidiary. Foot Locker actually was another subsidiary of Woolworth’s but not directly spawned from Kinney Shoes.
I'm 53 year's old and the 80's was the best decade and so were malls! I hate to see malls declining like they have over the last 2 decades. Everything is going back to Strip malls.🥴 Which isn't mall in my opinion.
what about hot topic its also an old store.
Good video! I enjoyed learning a bit about many stores that I only remembered from the 1980s and 1990s. The mall stores I remember most fondly were Orange Julius, Waldenbooks, B.Dalton, Borders, Wicks N Sticks, the Discovery Channel store, Sears, Radio Shack, EB Games, Gamestop, Suncoast, Florsheim Shoes, the little video arcades, and the big department stores: Montgomery Ward's, Sears, Robinsons-May, and Younkers. The best restaurant was Bishop's Buffet, which had excellent, low-cost buffet food… and the most delicious silk chocolate pie ever! I worked at a Waldenbooks as one of my first jobs, and I loved it!
What about Mevyns dept stores? I loved our Mervyns in the 1970's.
South Hills Village mall near where I live is bustling still. Its never slowed down at all ever since I was a kid. It's also in a nice neighborhood/area.
What happened in 2008? 😮😢😂
Our mall was doing pretty good until walmarts built right next to it. These greed-mongers like walmarts initially took losses by lowered prices on what was decently-made commi china products in order to shut out the competition. People were stupid to fall for the hyped up advertising as the products being "same quality but at a lesser cost" . This started crippling our traditional stores which mostly sold made in USA and other actually quality-made products. Not long after, our factories started closing. When china seen they had cornered a very large portion of our market, china started seriously flooding our country with their mass-produced junk … products that were being made more and more chintzy.
We are real Americans. We dont give in to communist regimes just because a cost of their product is lower. We have and will always save up a little longer to get quality-made products that last versus china-made disposable junk
I’m a Filipino and a Gen Z. Its so odd but interesting for me to see Millennial and Gen X Americans reminiscing abt mall culture. Malls here are very alive and teens still hangout there.
Just wanted to add in a couple stores not mentioned.
J .Riggins. Elder Beerman.
DeJaiz. Mcalpins. Leather Limited.
I worked at a lot of stores in the mall during the 90s.
I did work at Wilsons leather and I will say that I don’t feel that Wilsons leather peaked in 2002. I feel like they were very popular in the 90s. Just wanted to throw that in there.
People would just walk by and come into the store just to smell the leather & leave. True story.
Every mall had a Tilt arcade and Pizza by the Slice company as well.
There is a Wilson's leather store in Oklahoma City at the outlet mall.
Malls wouldnt last long there would just be another place for mass shootings like everywhere else
The coolest thing I ever saw was a community that formed a cooperative and bought a dying mall in their neighbourhood. They renovated it in partnership with a few big players that liked the idea. They turned the mall into a farmer's market with some permanent local businesses, a consignment store, an arcade where you pay by the hour, 2 movie theaters (one for new releases and one for old), an indoor children's playground, a massive food court with 2 chain restaurants attached, a spa, doctor's office, some offices (I believe one was a law firm), and a few other things. They turned the mall into the kind of place you can spend an entire day with the family, on your own, or with some friends, have a good time, and not spend a fortune. The volume of people they had go through there was ridiculous. Being there on a weekend was like being at the mall in the late 80's and early 90's. When I went I was told to plan an entire day there, but I wasn't expecting much, so I didn't. I wish I had planned 2 days.
Trolling for boys at the mall, and buying or trying on all the best makeup!
There use to be a lot more to do now it’s like do it on your phone it gets old it was better the other way.
I loved the store Hit or Miss.
I was just at a mall yesterday and it was hopping even for a Sunday
Remember Radio Shack…
Even when I was a teen, I never spent my money at the mall. Everything cost way more there. I'd hit up K-marts and Walmarts though lol!
I loved going to the mall with my grandmother in the 80's and the 90's. That always meant a new book or a new video (sometimes a new toy, but not always). Lately, my local malls haven't been anything to write home about, and I always find myself walking around instead of going into the stores, because the stores aren't really to my taste. The ol' gray mall just ain't what she used to be.
What happened to Babbages?
I miss the mall! 😢
I remember Spencer's.
Online shopping will NEVER be as good as a mall. The only exception is if you're hunting eBay to find something retro that isn't made anymore.
I miss all the local malls book stores and toy stores, Waldenbooks, Toy R Us 😭 Once an anchor store (Macy's) close That's pretty much the end of the mall. My local mall is hanging in there by a string. The whole experience is gone.
now its just a place for mob violence and theft
Gen z has no clue what they missed out on.
They never will.
I miss 80s malls…period.
Buster Brown Shoes, Wicks N Sticks, PBS Store, Radio Shack, Borders Books and Music
I vaguely remember the WB Store. Always stopped in K•B Toys. I remember Sam Goody and FYE.
"… if you lived in the USA or Canada"
Sir, are you really pretending malls don't exist anywhere else in the world?
Because they do.
My Mom shopped at Lane Bryant
I liked a store called Foosch Moore.
It was kind of like a department store only smaller.