Dead Mall - Westside Pavilion - West Los Angeles California (News Clip at the End)

[@apark4449]

I used to come here all the time to just study. It had a really peaceful atmosphere. It sucks seeing it closed every time I drive by. Thank you for keeping this place alive through youtube. =)

[@KatB69]

I used to live in West LA about a mile away from this mall for many years. I shopped there plenty of times, I still have some items I purchased from the Nordstrom and Macy's. Sad to see it go.

[@angusorvid8840]

I started going to the Pavillion back when it opened in '85 with my mom. I loved going to the food court, the Sunset Motion Picture Company to buy VHS tapes and movie posters, to Waldenbooks (I think they had a Crown too) and eventually a Barnes and Noble that closed several years before the mall was shuttered. I loved going to the food court. Mrs Field's, Sbarro's for stuffed pizza, and this shawarma place were favorites. I miss it! But I mostly miss the good memories.

[@anasantiago3581]

@@angusorvid8840 me too breaks my heart when I pass

[@ilaikhalili3396]

I grew up with this mall and century city. To see it so dead and shut down breaks my heart. RIP Westside Pavillion. Gone yet never forgotten

[@liquidninja6654]

This was a GREAT mall up until very recently. Up until 2017 it was still mostly occupied. The owners let it die. I hate that now the only mall left is the awful Century City

[@Wesley_C]

This mall has came from Terminator 2, very nice.

[@chancetx]

Thanks for filming and sharing this. I spent a lot of time at Westside Pavilion when I moved to LA 20 years ago. Sad to see it gone.

[@madamhummingbird]

My favorite mall in So.Cal. The glory days of the 80's are gone. It makes me sad to see what's become of it. At least Google is repurposing the Westside Pavillion. I applaud the tech giants for this. Thanks for recovering the mall for a final time. I really enjoyed it. RIP Westside Pavillion.

[@alexch3618]

Not anymore. google is dying/laying people off and isn't going here anymore.

[@anasantiago3581]

Meet my first boyfriend here at foot locker

[@marlasangels]

I can feel this as you walk through 😭

[@Nerdpainter]

i grew up going there. left LA a few years ago and just today found out it closed. im so sad. had a birthday party or two there as a kid.

[@marlasangels]

This makes me soooo sad!

[@LVDesert584]

They had a really good food court

[@jmlapedis49]

I use to work near this mall and saw the slow death coming on years ago. BTW, "resurrect," in the context you are using it, means to rebuild. What you mean is "erect" (i.e., to build for the first time).

[@SurfCityBill]

I went to this mall many years ago then moved to Orange County too far away to bother to go again. I had no idea a mall like this in the heart of the affluent westside was no longer relevant. Hard to believe.

[@lostinthevalley1314]

Yes its sad. It was a ghost town. People tend to like the outdoor malls better nowadays. A GEM like Westside is no longer up to date with the time...sad to say. Ill miss that mall as well as a lot of others. There is a BIG change coming to LA in the next few years and it has everything to do with Silicon Valley and BIG TECH & DATA migrating to the Southland. :/

[@marshall6ix9ine85]

What year did Westside Pavilion shut down? Cuz I was in this place back in 90's to 2002 when is was operation.I sense moved out of La& Santa Monica after 2002 so I have no clue today.

[@liquidninja6654]

January 2019. It was still very active only about a year before.

[@cynthiaj.simmons870]

Very nice video!!! 😁😁😁 I remember Tom Petty's music video from the 1980s titled: "I'm Free Falling was short at this mall.

[@boxingvortex4364]

I think this is one of my favorite abandoned malls just for its location with the Nakatomi Die Hard building near by and proximity to the ocean. It just puzzles me how nearby residents just abandon these jewels in or near their communities!

[@sharichambers7333]

Awesome video! Love all the skylights! So sad to see malls close!

[@dogedoeg2940]

the only reason i know this mall is because of Tom Petty's Free Fallin'

[@danysejackson4782]

Wow I didn’t know this mall was gone. I worked at See’s Candy right next to the shoe repair. Good memories

[@PKPhoenix83]

Problem is the WP management got greedy and ended up going after any business that would pay them the rent they wanted. The mall turned into a place for mommies and babies with an extremely high stroller count but stories that didn't really cater to anyone else. Used to work at the Nordstrom there, which also went down in quality soon after the Grove location was open. Store manager was a clueless idiot.

[@AwardWinningActorMichaelP-nis]

Regine? She sucked lol

[@rtperrett]

Wasn't Clueless filmed here, the mall scenes that is? As if Google moving in.

[@DiverseLA]

I think they should keep the theater as it remained popular even as the mall was dying. And it continues to do well today. There’s also some restaurants in that building too. The look of the building is a bit more modern as well.

[@talia77us]

This is so sad. I used to wander around there with my friend years ago, and to see it like this is such a shame. I like this mall compared to the other nightmare that was close to her.

[@graceenstine1486]

Does anyone remember the fencing club that would fence on the bridge to the movie theater? When I was in high school in the early 2000s I’d go by this mall just to watch them, so sad it closed

[@liquidninja6654]

Parking on the roof fucking ruled!

[@Rudy57]

Nice, interesting video with a lot of background information. Looking forward to your future productions.

[@MALIDOGG]

I will never forget the day i saw Tom petty playing the guitar for the song free fallin in 1989

[@Enrobdoolb]

They have H&M, Hot topic, bath and body works, hollister, and Victoria secrets. These are stores that are doing really well in other malls in LA. I've never been to this mall, but probably adding a Target, Starbucks, Urban, or Apple will bring in more customers. It is next to another mall so that is another problem. Probably add a BJ's or cheesecake factory too

[@rachel-jp6li]

Allister Mendez it’s completely closed now :( google bought it I believe

[@luisorduna2964]

I went there a little less than a year ago, with my mother. We were looking for a store that google said was still "open". You can guess the confusion when we couldn't get in. Nothing seemed out of place for use at the moment, even the empty garage, the lack of sounds. Spooky part was when we went back to our car and the elevator we walked by randomly opened with a loud bang. Nobody inside, but we still bolted.

[@BigD-jc6rj]

I remember hanging out at the malls with my friends growing up. Just 15-20 years ago they were bustling with people. There were always people shopping and hanging out at the food court, and older people getting their power walk in the climate-controlled environment. It’s heartbreaking to see these malls suddenly all abandoned and dead.

[@alexch3618]

google not taking over anymore. ucla possibly. Google is going to the crapper.

[@pascalduguay32814]

Wow I came here in 1991 from France LOL

[@theusnationalist9572]

Chinese bought up the westside full of empty houses now.

[@carolineiscoolest]

wow what.. i can't believe it. i think the last time i went here was a few years ago w/ my mom. but def grew up in this mall, used to heely around the place w/ my bro lmao p sad, and what they plan to renovate it with looks like an abomination imo

[@dougmartin7129]

I remember going in the 80’s when I was in my early 20’s. It was fantastic and super crowded. How can a mall die in the middle of LA? I mostly went to century city mall since I could walk there but this was great when the weather got hot. All the levels made it exciting.

[@DiverseLA]

A combination of internet shopping, the rejuvenation of the Century City mall taking away customers, and it was just outdated aesthetically as well. I miss it because I went there as a child in the 80’s and as a teenager in the 90’s. I remember when it was a bustling mall. But there were signs it was losing popularity as early as the late 90’s...

[@Gichie79]

@@DiverseLA Same for me went there as a child in the 80's and teen in the 90's. You are right the mall did seem to show a decline in the late 90's, but most malls did too around that time. The Westside did do a internal aesthetic facelift in the mid 2000's. New floors, reilings, light fixtures, paint, adding Wi-Fi. I remember them actually advertising about them spending a lot on it. It was right around the time Westfield acquired Century and put several hundred million into it's phase one remodel. I think other issues that lead to it's demise were lack of restaurants and ultra high end retail for the affluent shoppers of West LA. Yes, it had a food court, but options for the most part were basic and not much healthy choices. The few actual restaurants it does have are located on the other side of the mall near the movie theater and is too far and or inconvenient of a walk for most to do. Century City by contrast has restaurants in all corners of the mall and the food court is much higher end. Also high end shopping of almost all major labels can be done at Century. Westside and Century are also about 2 miles or so apart from each. Proximity wise that's to close even for LA. The malls throughout the 90's and early 2000's would be in constant competition with each other. The phase 2 remodel Westfield did on Century that started in 2015 and finished in 2017 relocated Nordstroms away from the Westside. Yes the Westside was already likely in a death spiral at this point, but what Century did was effectively shooting it in the head by taking Nordstroms from them. The section were the Landmark theater is and the 2 or 3 restaurants will remain from what I understand, but that section I don't really consider a mall. It's funny thought how in the early 90's when they added that section it was originally an outdoor addition to the mall. It struggled at the Westside due to access in getting to it and the layout of it. As a result it never took off. Ultimately lead to ownership inclosing it and remodeling it too a movie theater and restaurant space which has become the most successful part of the mall now. Where as the former most bustling section is now defunct. Times change though and nothing is static.

[@theusnationalist9572]

All the westside homeless could sleep comfortably in that mall but google will waste it

[@coffeekills5174]

WTF? H&M is in a dead mall?

[@sanchopanz1476]

You should really take care of that check engine light.