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I remember the NUTCRACKER decor at Christmas time where Santa would visit with the children...it was so cool!

It's so sad seeing the Ellipse food court in complete disuse. I used to go there with my dad in the early/mid 2000s to eat Brooklyn-style pizza that we loved. The neon retrofuturist vibes in that area were so pleasant, too! I remember the area featured @ 24:30 feeling a little underused and liminal even when I was a kid - I always wondered what the little cul-de-sac full of plants was for. The last time I shopped at Greenspoint was in the early 10's, grabbing a cool jacket from the now-defunct Macy's and a pair of shades from a stall that looked desperate for customers. The mall was mostly empty back then too, but it didn't feel outright neglected the way it does today. It's so sad seeing blown-out windows and water-stained floors that weren't there until recently.

That's eerie the mall singing "there ain't no getting over me" It's true, can't get over the memories of a mall

Scheels was the place for any sports.....mostly where everyone got their sneakers from. I remember one in the building up the road from College Square Mall

Right before the movie theater, on the right was the arcade. Soon as you walked in, Virtual Fighter on right with X-Men behind it and on the left was Mortal Kombat with Sunset Riders behind it. Don't know how many hundreds of dollars of quarters I spend there

It’s Pasadena Town Square as MacroPlaza or Paseo was a failed attempt to retheme it after it was dying. It was also my first real mall as a kid in the 80’s. Did you know when you walked into the original food court from the outside, to the left was a Pizza Arcade with animatronics to rival Chuck E Cheese / Showbiz Pizza? It was later downsized to a Tilt, but I spent many quarters in both versions of the arcade. Also you were Gaga over the Mexican style lights and lamp posts, but those weren’t original to Pasadena Town Square. It’s was can / spot lights and sky lights as it was the 80’s attempt of being modern. Original Stores I remember in the 80’s and 90’s: Foley’s (later Macy’s), Joske’s (pronounced Jos-keys)/ Dillard’s, Oshmans Sporting Goods, Walgreens, Palais Royal, gadzooks, journeys, sound warehouse, millers outpost, Jeans West, Chess King, 5-7-9, Zales Jewelers, Gordon’s Jewelers, Visible Changes, Kaybee Toys, Payless, The Foot Locker, The Gap, Things remembered, Spencer’s Gifts, Walden book’s, Hallmark, B Dalton Book sellers, just to name a few. Food: there was a sit down restaurant called Claude’s Eatery in the Dillard’s wing, in the food court China Wok, Corndog 7, chick-fil-a, James Coney Island, Sbarros, hickory farms, Famous Cookie Company, and a few others. There was never a playground originally. The fountain stayed in operation for a long time without a stage. The only time they’d change that was for Christmas and Santa display. Also the there was a custom statue commissioned in the middle of the mall of a cowboy riding an armadillo, which was later relocated to Pasadena convention center. Sears was added much later when they closed the old sears down, which was further down south more (Walmart is there now) in an attempt to save the mall. So many memories and for it being one of Houston’s newer malls compared to Almeda (which is dying and the sister to closed Northline Mall) or even Baybrook (which is constantly updated and expanded) and is our main area modern mall now. Sadly the mall of my youth turned into more of a flea market, and really died once Sears and Macys bailed out. Also Macys NEVER modernized or updated as it stayed basically the same decor as Foley’s.

I grew up with malls. Trips to both this one and Maplewood mall would happen twice a month. Sometimes just to go meet friends and hang out. It's a shame that these centers for meeting and shopping are fading away.

Philly Steak Grill is closed.

i really miss kobe's... their wontons were the beeeest....

many lost jobs, my first job was at Southdale mall all through high school

Used to live in Cedar Falls in 93 and visited family once a year until 02. Sad what happened to College Square. Heard Crossroads in Waterloo is almost dead too. Would like to see you do a video of that mall

Haven't been in years, used to do all my shopping here for school this is wild.

loved the themes and how organized it was the mall was truly thought out as a shopper i would know exactly where to go instead of just roaming the place tryna find a map

July 1 2024 will be its last day.

I started working at the barbershop in the mall in 2008. It was still thriving, but we knew the mall was dying. I left the mall in 2014

holy shit, i remember going here as a young kid with my family and thinking it was such a cool place. now it's dead? and for more than a year? wtf. i do remember that i went there like a year or two ago for a specific store that was there, and it was very empty, but i guess i just didn't notice how dead it was since i wasn't actually walking around the mall that much. i used to love the pretzel maker, though, and it's great to see they're still there from what i saw in the video

It was a nice mall back in the day.

Im a contact them if they let me in then im totally gunna make a zombies video game out of it

If the chucky cheese is still there Im goin there next paycheck, I gotta relive that before its gone forever. Edit: No not Zumis! that was my go to clothes store, i was rockin the boarder look then

I saw the first nightmare on elm street there.

I used to shop here almost every weekend and seeing it now is the eeriest, most apocalyptic feeling ever.

The downfall of this mall was a spike in sex trafficking in the area. Kids used to frequent it, including me, but no one trusted it anymore.

So many memories! I remember Mervyns and f.y.e The 90's.

Wow! I lived near there in the 80's. Haven't been through there since 1984. I remember that my brother got caught stealing Bark At The Moon.. Ozzy Osborne Record album.. it was his new release music. 😅

Should go check it out now, the new owner is working hard at putting it to good use!

A couple of years ago Forsyth thought they had a deal with a concern to get the old AMC theater buolding up and running again. They had plans to totally revamp, upgrade and reopen the theater. They thought it was a done deal. Then both Forsyth and the interested party were dashed when Nandar stepped in and killed the whole project. That definitely want to discourge or stop, if they can, anything that might help build that property back up. Scum company as far as I'm concerned. By the way, I live just south of the mall. About 5 minutes away. Made me sick to watch the malls slow decline since the '70's. Lots of fun memories.😢

That whole area the money left long time ago. And brought in not so high income earners.

Back in the 90s, my dad took me to Galtier Plaza many times to get lunch or see a movie. I could be totally wrong, but I swear there was a mini golf place on the 3rd floor at one point. Or at least something active? I remember I loved going up there with the tall windowed ceilings, neon lights, and so many plants EVERYWHERE. I remember eating at the food court several times. On the way in or out of the building, I remember a clothing store and a jewelry/accessories store. I feel like there was also a big fountain at one end? Multiple levels of nooks with tables and chairs or benches with great views. The first renovation I can recall was in the early 2000s, and the second floor was already pretty much converted into apartments or private offices. There were for sure no more plants! Most of the levels were either vacant or inaccessible to the public. The food court moved to street level and consisted of a Subway, a pizzeria, and maybe one or two others. If you continued down the hall into the Plaza proper, there was a more upscale sit-down restaurant. The street level of Galtier was already super empty as you saw it in your 2023 visit. The YMCA was open/accessible from the second floor. Now nothing is in there but 80s/90s nostalgia. It's pretty surreal to have watched these changes happen in real time since I was around 10 years old! Thank you for this video and the trip down memory lane ❤

23:11 that is the carousel from Southwyck Mall

Shoutout to you for having Najee playing in the background. I recognize many of the smooth jazz songs youve had playing in your videos

Do you think the close proximity of the Mall of America in Bloomington has had a negative impact on Burnsville Center?

Why did they put locks on the bathroom? TO KEEP THE RIFF RAFF OUT OF THE AREA. You ever see pics of Kensington Ave in Philly? Yeah, well, we had /(have?) scenes like that in the skyways here. What poor planning for a mall did for business prospects, the riff raff kills off anybody with money to spend or kids wanting to be there.

Southdalw in Ediina MN is getting 25 high end luxury stores in 2025 - it will be a revival. And KOWALSKYS’ just opened there too.

A little nasally for me

Can you tell me the titles of the songs in this video?

I grew up in this mall, its sad to see how its deteriorated. My Gram and then my mother ran Morrow’s Nut House right by the fountains. I spent a lot of time playing at center stage and the fountain. My first job was at Bergner’s in my teens and then Musicland after that. Lots of history there but its wasting away to nothing 🙁

Long live AL JOHNS CREW! 😂

It was a ragstock I believe

Such professional work! Those before and after shots are expertly shot/matched. Not an easy thing to do. So subscribed and Minnesota rules!

Aww its so sad to see the downfall :/

He forgot to mention how Toby Keith bar and grill replaced the Alamo drafthouse and it completely tanked in less than 1 year!😂 They didn't even tell the employees they were gonna lose their job they just chained the doors 1 day with a note on it.

I don't know how you ended up on my Front Page; but you should know that you're doing important anthropological work documenting these former bastions of Americana. The mall is a relic of the past, never to return again - long live the mall.

Hope you can get in for an episode on Houston's Northwest Mall

Dang missed it

Minneapolis was rated "happiest city" this year, but I can assure you... If you're not from Minneapolis, almost every city in the entire state is embarrassed of it. The entire state is red, under-represented because of the increasing population of immigrants in Hennepin County. Hate to say it, I might fool around and move to Wisconsin.

it could have been sam goody

Wasn't Southdale Centre known as 'Marshall Fields' back then?

Best malls in 2024 is MOA hands-down, Egan outlet mall and Albertville mall, then maybe Ridgedale mall number @ four

I spent a lot of time in Greenspoint mall in the late 70s and 80s. I recognize the skylights and the corridors are familiar.

Actually it was mc sports but all locations closed so they got replaced by Dunhams sports soon after