LAKESIDE MALL- THE FINAL HOURS STERLING HEIGHTS MICHIGAN

[@DarkPsi-mu7xf]

Ha you caught me and my son .. great video btw.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@DarkPsi-mu7xf oh sorry about that.

[@rachelrivera91]

Thanks for documenting this beautiful mall on the final day of its life. I feel saddened by the many malls that died this year alone 2024. Many have died last year 2023 too. The list just keeps on growing. So sad with emotions and nostalgia. Thanks again for sharing this video. Look forward to seeing more from you.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@rachelrivera91 your welcome it was a very hard mall to see go any to experience its death because it was one one my malls.

[@rachelrivera91]

I’m so sorry. It’s just very sad. One of my favorites was Stratford Square mall but would say Lakeside was among my favorites, along with other Taubman designed malls and love De Bartolo malls too. Love the aesthetics and architecture of the 70s and 80s and even 90s. I can sympathize with you. I’m glad people are documenting these beautiful retail relics of the past.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@rachelrivera91 I don’t know how much longer I will be able to financially afford to document anymore malls. No one supports the work I do monetarily.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@rachelrivera91 Stratford Square, Mall was a good one. I have video on that on my channel.

[@rachelrivera91]

@@TiltedTripodMedia Right on ! I will be watching it. I am already subscribed to your channel.

[@69UM24OSU12]

I remember when Lakeside opened in the mid '70's. At the time the complaint was that the new mall culture was destroying the downtown areas of the surrounding communities. Life and history go in such cycles.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@69UM24OSU12 yes they do now everything is dead 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@matthewadventureexploratio6596]

Lloyd Center Mall in Portland Oregon is a Dead Mall, it’s not closing permanently but all of the Anchor Big Stores are Lost.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@matthewadventureexploratio6596 that’s sad

[@buda3d2007]

Malls and Kmart are still a thing in Australia, I guess if its a drive to mall thats not connected to the community its going to have trouble staying afloat, basically any city center in Australia has a mall attached to it, in the 80s we even closed down some of the main roads in our towns to make malls, some argue thats both good and bad, but america did a whole other thing, sad to see it go, looks like a real time captule from a golden era.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@buda3d2007 wow welcome. It’s so cool to hear from an Aussie. Yeah malls were built around mass urban sprawl and car dependency like the entire country was and spoiled car dependency isn’t sustainable both financially and environmentally. Sounds like your malls were more of a city center downtown. Yeah the Kmarts in the USA and Australia are unrelated. They are 2 different companies and from what I’ve heard your country isn’t doing well either albeit better than the USA which is in a total collapse. It’s very unlivable right now for most Americans.

[@kizzume]

Creepy seeing everything closed except anchors.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@kizzume I agree, and also very sad

[@ash3227]

I was there that day

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@ash3227 that’s cool you got to experience it

[@jimsteele9261]

I really wanted to get out there for the last gasp.... but couldn't make it. I was at Lakeside on the day it opened. The common wisdom has it that online shopping has killed the malls, and I suppose that's true. But I still prefer brick & mortar shopping. My problem is that my age, I don't have the strength to trudge a half mile from the parking lot, then schlep around even further inside. :-) So I stick with stand alone stores. Sounds like what they have planned for the new development.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@jimsteele9261 online shopping isn’t really what killed malls and I’ve talked about that in some of my recent videos 👍😊

[@michiganmovieweekendermmwn1941]

What happened to the guitar that appeared in the original proposal? I know it was just an artist's rendering, but it really set this apart.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@michiganmovieweekendermmwn1941 not quite sure what your talking about. Guitar?

[@mariadoeslife4093]

I think that was for a Hard Rock café, if they put in a casino.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@mariadoeslife4093 what are you talking about? Hard rock Casino there was never plans for a hard rock casino to my knowledge and they’re definitely never was one at the mall or in the area since my family grew up in the Detroit area. I asked them I never experienced it during my childhood.

[@brianw8411]

Gen X lived in the mall. But of course we are always overlooked. Seems to be a millennial thing

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Baby boomers built the malls gen x got to experience their peak and millennials began during the peak of malls and have watched them die. Me being a millennial remember malls when they thrived but only for a brief period during the 90s. By the time I was 15 malls were slowly dying in the 2000s.