CLOSED! Iconic Mall Store Nostalgia

[@RecollectionRoad]

Which mall store was your favorite? I was always had fun wandering through Sharper Image.

[@abelmontalvo4052]

La Palmera Mall in Corpus Christi Texas is busier than ever.

[@rogertemple7193]

In Ardmore Oklahoma it was either Hastings which are no longer in business this was where I spent my money on books, DVDs, CDs, magazines and other stuff like that and I really miss it.🇺🇲🏙🇺🇲

[@kenevanchik4478]

Hickory Farms always had samples put out, that I would always make sure to stop and try for a bit :)

[@julesservantofjesus972]

​@@kenevanchik4478 Yes I remember that 😁

[@hectorfarm9416]

Musicland in Bloomington, MN. I also liked tool shopping at Sears.

[@thelittlegreenball6813]

I miss the malls of yesteryear.. 😢

[@lisam8044]

My teenage years were spent, along with my gfs hanging out at the mall, working at the food court. We all went to the mall every day almost, now the kids sit and play video games instead of getting out

[@IceManLikeGervin]

As a teenager you could hang out at the mall all day long and never be bored... good memories

[@jacobboyd6667]

Best of times

[@lynnjames6629]

@@IceManLikeGervin yes, unlimited fun! 👍🙂

[@jayemowrey1416]

Something our children and grandchildren will not know... The malls have been replaced with internet and cell phones no human contact😢😢😢

[@KamillGran-ch5sb]

I wouldn’t say never be bored especially if you didn’t like the arcade.

[@MaryMoller-e9q]

Teenagers hanging out at mall is probably one of the reasons they don't exist anymore!

[@kat35lulu88]

I worked at a department store at a mall in the 80's. It was the best time ever..... I was young, had so much positive energy. I'm glad I lived it.

[@DavidLS1]

Same here. I worked at a Rich's department store outside of Atlanta.

[@keithwilson6060]

Same. The holiday seasons were crazy but fun.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

I used to hang out at the mall in the 80s. I had friends who worked in stores there. I worked for Motorola (till 2000). My favorite stores were Merry Go Round, Chess King, Wet Seal, and Hot Topic. (Jan Griffiths).

[@DavidLS1]

@@douglasgriffiths3534 Spencer Gifts was fun too.

[@tinytattoomike7943]

Same I worked for Sears in Hemet in the late 80’s good times

[@EastStarc]

I'm thankful to be a boomer and fortunate that I grew up in the 70's It was just so much fun

[@kimberlyallsup8472]

Me too!

[@glennso47]

When I was a kid Sears ,Penney’s and Wards were stand alone stores that were not in a mall, but they later became part of a mall in the 70s.

[@theresehopkins1581]

I don't know about anybody else..... but I'd go back to those days in a heartbeat 💓 ...... everybody was still alive.....🥲❤🙏 ...mom... dad..... grandma...... grandpa...... aunts..... uncles..... etc....❤

[@StaciSchuck]

Yes please . I totally understand.. they had no idea how hard life would get.

[@theresehopkins1581]

@StaciSchuck 🥲❤🙏

[@julieann4616]

Yes!!! ❤️🥹🥰

[@redneckenigma3086]

I am with you. This world seems so alien to me now, I only exist in it when absolutely necessary. My days playing my Atari 2600 and watching Saturday morning cartoons seem like a lifetime ago. Another time , another place so distant from my grasp , I sometimes wonder if it was only a dream.

[@DavidLS1]

I miss those days.

[@mark3464]

I miss the days before big malls ruined town centres

[@deedramcconis1763]

​@mark3464 I am in between because I remember going with my mother on Saturday downtown shopping in different stores as a kid and then going to Shoney big boy or Woolworths for lunch but then as a teen spending hours in the mall.young people don't know what they missed out on

[@DavidLS1]

@@deedramcconis1763 I grew up on Main Street above my father's store in a small town. We also had a Woolworths as well as a couple of diners and lots of Mom and Pop stores. No malls, but a department store about a mile outside of downtown with the town's only escalator. Fond memories indeed.

[@dacryptkeeper6836]

The collapse of Sears has to be the biggest stunner!

[@thomashazard525]

Yes, I agree 100%. I currently live near a mall which lost its Sears store recently which was there for many years. I'm in my 60s and can remember when I was young laying on the floor and reading the newest Sears catalog. The memories...

[@julesservantofjesus972]

​@@thomashazard525 I loved the Sears catalog and JC Penny!

[@hectorfarm9416]

Sears had great tools.

[@mike_w-tw6jd]

and montgomery ward

[@dacryptkeeper6836]

@@mike_w-tw6jd Our mall was anchored by Sears, J.C. Penney's and Montgomery Ward! Aladdin's Castle and Spencers were where we had fun!

[@Dadsezso]

It feels to me like the 80s was peak for malls.

[@VickiCampbell-1216]

It's so sad to see the demise of Malls. I grew up with our local Mall and hung out as a teenager with my friends. I worked for Learners and later for JC Penney's. ❤

[@tonycollazorappo]

I remember all these I was in my 20s in the 80s, fun times.

[@thomashazard525]

I live in Elmira NY and we still have a JCPenneys store in our local mall, the Arnot Mall. My sister, Joan had worked there for over 30 years before her death in 2013. I still shop there for much of my clothing.

[@lovly2cu725]

Penney is still around but have been in financial trouble for years

[@floydsemlow8253]

Hell yeah I live in Chardon Ohio Great lakes mall still has one, it's always thriving, hell the whole mall is ❤

[@marycampeau9378]

i remember a pet store in our mall in the late 80's early 90's

[@scot60]

My first job was at Thom McAn in 1977 at Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth Texas. I was 16. I worked there part-time while in high school.

[@sonhuynh8222]

Awesome video ….. miss my childhood so much!😢

[@dkwoodsy2082]

Typical trip to the mall in 1984- Hit Regis Hairstyles to get my mullet trimmed up, down to Chess King for some new duds, then to Camelot Music for some tunes, maybe Athlete’s Foot for some new kicks, hit Sbarros for a slice and a Coke- then down to Aladdin’s Castle for some Asteroids, Punch Out, and Pole Position. Great times!

[@bitterspice5525]

Chess King!

[@williammoseley17]

Leather jackets from Wilson Leather from mid 80s thru 90s were a must have.

[@deanbrunner261]

I still have my leather jacket from Wilson's leather

[@toddbrown9095]

I had a brown suede coat that I bought as a teen. They had layaway and I made payments every week for probably two months.

[@flatlineracer3207]

Yes. I still have my leather jacket that I bought in 1980 at The Gallery in Philadelphia.

[@tonycollazorappo]

On the weekend and even after school. I would get home do my homework and catch the bus to the mall a few minutes away. Back then it was safe to do so, I'm talking in the 70s, I was a pre-teen then. I'm 63 now, born in 1961. Heck, I remember Macy's in NY where I was born.

[@abelmontalvo4052]

@@tonycollazorappo Macy's is still open at La palmera Mall in corpus Christi Texas

[@themagus5906]

It was a different time back then for kids traveling on their own. I used to walk / ride the buses in east Baltimore back then without a care. I would never let my kid do it now. I'm 67.

[@donrepcon7704]

My first job outside of working for my dad in farming was, at 17 in 1969, was Sears. Started as part-time then in a year went full time. Very fond memories and I always thought it funny when talking to fellow boomers as to the fact that so many had worked for Sears at one time or another. Amazing!

[@keithwilson6060]

I loved the whole Florsheim motif. It was overwhelmingly elegant. Green velvet color scheme walls and dark wood made you feel like you were walking into a boardroom. The shoes were second to none in quality. I still have a few pair.

[@commandercody5873]

AMEN

[@martinschulz9381]

They were nice classy stores. Florsheim didn't have a chance though....how many people wear nice shoes anymore?

[@keithwilson6060]

@@martinschulz9381 True. And that goes for the whole theme of popular, cultural fashion. It has coarsened to a terrible degree. People mostly look like slobs today.

[@martinschulz9381]

@@keithwilson6060 Yes, when I look at old pics or watch old movies and shows, I just have to wonder how in the heck did we devolve to such a low level in dressing and general appearance.. I'm no fashion guy, but I do make a conscience effort to look my best when going out. I was in Germany recently with my wife and I was surprised how badly the people there were dressed compared to when I lived there in the 80's.

[@keithwilson6060]

@@martinschulz9381 it’s a thesis I’ve wanted to pursue for a while. I think the nature of style in a society is very important, reflecting the underlying values. It looks like we have no values anymore by the way people dress.

[@AmyLSchulte]

This makes me miss the mall life so much. I worked at Waldenbooks in the 80s and again in 2008 to the end. Must go to the mall tomorrow for some nostalgia.

[@billschlafly4107]

I knew a girl name Amy Schulte in the 80s. If you lived in Florissant MO then you might be her.

[@AmyLSchulte]

@@billschlafly4107 Nope. I’m a Texas girl my whole life since 67. But funny coincidence. 😄

[@rogertemple7193]

Here in Oklahoma back in the 70's Malls were the place to hang out at on the weekends with your family and friends whether you had money or not but for me it was the book and music stores that I went to when I got on my job at Walmart every payday but the Malls aren't like this anymore especially here in Oklahoma and the area that i live in. as always Thanks for the Memories of the 70's.🇺🇲🏙🇺🇲

[@3Storms]

Every mall I had been in back then had a guitar/musical instrument shop, but those disappeared in the early 90s. Not a single mall I had been in had a Toys R Us in it. They did have Toy Box and Kay Bee (KB) Toys in them.

[@dennythomas8887]

In my area Toys-R-Us stores were always huge stand alone buildings. I had never seen one in a mall until this video.

[@lelandgaunt9985]

Yeah, never saw one in a mall.

[@GenXamerica]

Paul Harris, Hallmark, Orange Julius, Tinder Box, Things Remembered, Berman’s Leather, Radio Shack, Sunglass Hut, Woolworths, Lazarus.

[@lovly2cu725]

Hallmark I was in last week

[@lovly2cu725]

Orange Julius is usuAlly in the food court. Still in arizona

[@lovly2cu725]

Another sunglass hut still around

[@lisam8044]

I will always cherish meeting friends at the mall, that was the hangout in my teens,.most of us eventually got jobs there at various places but the best was all meeting, shopping, eating at the food court...ahhh such innocent beautiful times

[@kcmaldonado3948]

Things Remembered, forgot about them

[@martinschulz9381]

Brings back memories and feelings of my youth in the 80's...in that time retail was in its splendor.

[@cyclenut]

Like Sears, it is unbelievable that things have changed so much. Newspapers, pay phones, photo mats, crowded video arcades, the Sears Christmas catalog, rotary phones music shops, bubble gum machines and the ones that had rings and most of all people were so much more friendly and social. With internet shopping, smart phones and cable TV. To me society is in a social decline were people rearly talk to others, even strangers.

[@johnnycash5721]

It’s a sad state that we live in

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

I agree. We have regressed socially. People are glued to their damn phones nowadays. Pitiful. (Jan Griffiths).

[@dennythomas8887]

I call it the cocooning of society. Everybody prefers staying in their own little cocoons. Face buried in their phone, everything delivered right to the door. Everything from Taco's to New Trucks are only a click away. If you really pay attention you can spot those that rarely leave their cocoon by the way they have a tough time dealing with humanity in real life.

[@humanvideosponge4529]

Yeah, but the goal was never to make us happy. The reason these places are drying up and blowing away is the money is going elsewhere. Their entire goal was just to get you in there and take your money and keep you in a sort of zombie mode so that you wouldn't think too much about the consequences of all of the binging. It was absolutely fun. It's absolutely nostalgic to think about it. But it reveals an ugly truth about society that people still don't want to acknowledge. Your worth as a human being is entirely determined by how much you're paying other people to value you. Your dollar value. When it is easier and more profitable for people get the money some other way, that is what will happen. So now it's online shopping. It's cheaper, more direct and (apparently) more profitable for them. Most people are happy with the savings and the lack of the need to make plans and get ready and get everyone together and go to the shopping place and so forth. So in a way, it's maybe kind of good that the window dressing has been stripped away and we get to see retail for what it really is. Just people using one another.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

@@dennythomas8887 I don't have a smartphone (never will) and I like to talk to people face to face. I'm definitely not coccooning. (Jan Griffiths).

[@julesservantofjesus972]

Always went in Spencer's!

[@naughtydorf18]

Hehehe

[@teachergirl41]

Always got in trouble for trying to go in there :-)

[@evoz4489]

Their "back of the store" collection is quite "nice-ty"

[@CarlSwanson-e7f]

I worked at Montgomery warrds auto center from 1981 to 1989 . Pay was very good for part time as a tire tech. We always sold a lot of tires and batteries. We were always competitive until Tires plus started in the mpls area in 1983, then they merged with Firestone. Just like Sears was another competitor and JC Penny had auto service as well as Kmart. The 1980s were a different time for auto service 🏁

[@mikeywid4954]

Thom McAn was THE place to shop back in the mid 60s when I was in high school.

[@marinhusky8863]

Going to the mall was a whole experience. It was shopping, window shopping, eating, people watching, and many had other forms of entertainment such as carousels or live music. Social media is the new mall, and its unfortunate.

[@robynwells8249]

Gosh, I miss these stores! Shopping at its best.

[@michaellazor5667]

I loved the music store experience. The thrill of selecting and buying a record or cassette and taking it home opening it was a thrill.

[@mike_w-tw6jd]

Florsheim shoes, and Hush Puppies, Nunn Bush, I liked the Buster Brown TV commercials

[@JB6802]

“Does your shoe have a boy inside?”🎶

[@cathyshirley8541]

Kress 5 & 10 stores with lunch counters.

[@Jack-xo2zp]

It seems that one of the steadiest occupations that anyone could have, would be the profession of bankruptcy lawyer.

[@timebong8366]

I could get lost in the store BROOKSTONE that was such a cool store. Then off to the mall's arcade. The kids these days will never know what a joy it was to go to a mall in the 70s and 80s!

[@kellygreene6752]

I miss Esprit…I was never in one of their stores but they had the best catalog. The Limited was another favorite. I worked there in 1990-1991. Both brands were favorites of my teens and early 20s.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

I still have a blue Esprit sweatshirt I still wear in winter. I bought it in 1980-something, probably '82 or '83. Yeah, it fits fine, and is even a bit big. I was bigger then. (Jan Griffiths).

[@JT-1969]

Two stores I remember in our mall, one was Things Remembered, the other was a Hallmark store, neither are there anymore, but we do still have JCPenny.

[@tg_ny]

I used to wear Florsheim shoes to work when it was required to dress formal each day. I think when the workplace went casual, that brand seemed to dissappear.

[@tobiojo6469]

I remember Kay bee toys

[@50pinkies67]

Me too. I used to travel from upstate New York to Scranton Pa to shop at Kay Bees Toys before Christmas. I always felt Toys R Us was overpriced. I always got what I wanted at Kay Bees and the trip was nice too. Thanks for the memory jog. 😊

[@glennso47]

Kay’s Jewelry. “Every Kiss Begins With Kay” was their advertisement.

[@davinp]

The mall shown at 0:15 was the Landmark Mall in Alexandria, VA which has ben demolished. It was used in the movie Wonderwoman

[@anthonychihuahua]

Great trivia 😃👍

[@TA-mu4jt]

Merry Go Round was my store in high school! Still own a pair of Z Cavaricci baggy pants for memories sake😂

[@GeorgieB1965]

I'm fortunate enough that the mall of my child/teenage/young adult years has not only survived but thrived, with a constant remix of stores and things to do (had an outdoor Big Top circus this past summer).

[@Tomatohater64]

Our local mall opened in 1965. In the '70s it had a fantastic Stouffer's restaurant. Unfortunately by the time 1980 came along, it went out of business. So sad! I loved eating there - very yummy food.

[@VintageVermilion]

Here in SoCal there B Dalton and Pickwick’s bookstores; Tower, Wherehouse, Licorice Pizza and Sam Good’s for vinyl, cassettes and later cds; Pacific Stereo and Dow Sound for stereo and other audio equipment. The obituary list of department stores is so long but places like Robinson’s, Buffy’s, Bullocks, The Broadway, May Company, Mervyn’s are all gone. Radio Shack, Hallmark Cards, Swiss Colony, Hickory Farms, Woolworth- all just footnotes in retail history.

[@lovly2cu725]

Buffums

[@lovly2cu725]

Music plus

[@pammorrison3083]

Ohrbachs

[@dennythomas8887]

Leo's Stereo, Pacific Stereo, and Dow Sound, I had purchased pieces of my "Rack System" stereo (remember those?) from all those places. Pioneer, Marantz, Technics, JBL, Teac (reel to reel for 6 hour party tapes) it was all awesome equipment back then unlike the junk you get today.

[@BakedRBeans]

@@lovly2cu725 bought by Blockbuster Video. They changed the name to Blockbuster Music. What a flop! Mainly cause the music store and the video store had near-identical inventory. BM lasted about 6 months.

[@1_Bad_Z]

Late 80s Mall in Southern California was an incredible time. Early through late 90s was still good. Now a days... what can we say. Long live the 80s !

[@Stephen_A.]

I remember buying a beautiful cubic zirconia ring from Sharper Image in the early 80's. I still have it and it really does looks like a real diamond. I wish I had bought other jewelry from them. 🧡

[@dkwoodsy2082]

Thank you for the memory trip! The mall is where we went for almost EVERYTHING! I haven’t set foot in my local mall for at least 20 years but from what I hear, It’s a skeleton of what it used to be. The anchor stores were JCPenney and Sears and they’re both gone. The last “anchor” there is Macys, (formerly Dillards, formerly Famous Barr) and even that one is struggling. Amazon and online shopping have wrecked the mall experience…

[@timfurnier7061]

I live in Chile. Recently I went to the mall here, and there was a Florsheim store. I went in and saw some really nice shoes that I liked!

[@tobiojo6469]

My family used to go to sears a lot when I was younger

[@kellyb1377]

Natural Wonders and The Nature Company were awesome stores to visit!

[@nickimontie]

JCPenney is still in my town and it is an anchor store at our mall. They seem to be doing well and I enjoy shopping there. I hope they stick around.

[@markbrown-rq6is]

Just another reason why I miss the 70's

[@mattm1686]

it's sad to see so many things dead and gone forever.

[@MrLivvyfan]

Casual corner, contemporary casuals, Broadway, Bullocks, Buffums, Wet Seal, icing, Koala blue, Vickie's, Kinney or footlocker shoes, office Depot were all stores we shopped at in the mall.

[@dancline2143]

Alot of the malls around here had a Montgomery Ward in it

[@MustangSally7259]

I miss Sears.....

[@BackyardFlorida]

I miss malls.

[@bjs301]

We still have a JC Penney in my local mall, but frankly, the mall today is mostly empty, catering to gamers and street gangs. The crime has gotten so bad that I won't go there anymore.

[@julesservantofjesus972]

Same here 😔

[@julenepegher6999]

Our Big Mall outside Pittsburgh is being torn down as we speak. It was such a great place. But like you said crime drove all the stores out. I really miss JC Penny !

[@glennso47]

@@julesservantofjesus972Same thing with Cherryvale mall in Rockford Illinois. I haven’t been there in years.

[@glennso47]

The video was just interrupted by a commercial for Amazon. That’s what happened to a lot of most stores.

[@tobiojo6469]

I remember the Ames shopping mall when I was a kid

[@Name-ps9fx]

I remember there were stores that sold knives swords, battleaxes etc...mostly as wall decorations but they did have a good selection of actual hunting/combat knives. Remember the Gerber Mark 2? Yup, they had that also! Don't recall any of the names of the stores, but that's one of the first I'd look for at the mall map kiosk!

[@DavidLS1]

I vaguely remember a mall outside of Boston that had a big concave mirror that you could walk into and it looked like you were walking through your reflection.

[@thebrodabode73]

Do y'all remember when there were fabric stores in the malls? So Fro Fabrics is one I remember and I'm thinking Cloth World too. For those of us who grew up sewing they were fun stores to visit.

[@pennybechtold3524]

We have a JoAnn Fabrics close to us.

[@oreally8605]

"From bikes to trains to video games, its the biggest Toy store there is! I wanna be a Toys R Us kid.!" Great memories. ❤ 😊

[@davinp]

Not all malls are gone. THere are still malls in the USA that are doing well

[@neohistoryfan1014]

my local mall is one of those examples--Summit Mall of Akron, which is the only mall left in the county.

[@marquitathatcher6286]

@@neohistoryfan1014Reminiscing about Rolling Acres.

[@CareyGrantoo7]

Thank you Sir. 👍🇺🇸

[@MillerMeteor74]

Our mall where I grew up, opened in September 1977, just as I was starting high school. Once I started driving I started going there, and would always visit B. Dalton and Waldenbooks. Plus the record store that I forget the name of at the moment.

[@bluejedi723]

I still have my glammor shots photos from decades ago

[@lovly2cu725]

I have mine too

[@themagus5906]

Somewhere I have a photo of my bride-to-be from one of these places....from the boardwalk at Ocean City, NJ. I wish I could find it from 35 years ago...."cause she hates me now.

[@laurabentzinger200]

I loved those they were like pagent shots. We all felt extremely girly and fancy in those pics😊

[@JCreole]

Legend has it Al Bundy worked at Florsheim shoes in the mall…..

[@GeorgiannaMartin]

😂😂😂

[@sergeipohkerova7211]

Gary's Shoes and Accessories, andater it was revealed that Gary the big boss happened to be a woman which shocked Al and Griff 😂

[@stevenreynolds2327]

Funny, I was thinking of Al during that part in the vid.

[@Dadsezso]

It was neither Florsheim or a mall. As mentioned already, it was a place called Gary's. In various scenes when Al is at work you can see the store opens outside to the street, especially the one when it was hit with a tornado or wind storm. It could have been a strip mall I guess.

[@pammorrison3083]

Fondly remembering the Sears store in Santa Monica California.

[@dennythomas8887]

I remember a large green "Sears" sign on a building next to west bound I-10 right before you went into the tunnel to PCH. Same one?

[@Mom2my4blessings]

My favorite stores were any bookstore, Waldenbooks and B Dalton, Espirit, Gap, Cotton Ginny (I think it was a store. I had several of their sweatshirts), The Limited, Toys R Us, Stride Rite, man I miss the malls of the 70’s and 80’s. I also liked Fashion Bug. I didn’t realize that was a mall store. I had a store in a strip mall in my town.

[@johnmadow5331]

I used to wear Florsheim shoe made in U.S.A. since it shows a class and fit my dress code for Engineer with top corp. in America. I believe the brand was sold to Indian company.

[@frauwolftherehorse]

friend, Another amazing! Mall video from you HTG. Like the very first footage of the mall in the video,,, With the stripe painting. Thank YOU

[@ronmcdowell4794]

Cinderella city in the south Denver area. Every weekend would spend hours and hours there. Such an awesome place to be when you're young. 1979 I believe it opened. Thousands of cars in the parking lot.

[@jeremy1350]

Yup, Burdines was a staple in Miami shopping malls. The first Macy's in Miami was built at The Falls shopping center (An upscale mall) right near my house. Sadly when Andrew rolled through Miami, The Falls was Destroyed and Macy's got gutted. When i was a kid Sears was the first store my parents received one of the "Store credit cards" (in Coral Gables Florida) They had a candy island in the middle of the store that sold these caramel covered marshmallow squares. I loved those candies, sadly you could not get them at any other mall or store. Hickory Farms was great. "Sample Heaven" and we used to shop there on Holidays !!! Kinney shoes was where we used to buy all of our formal shoes as kids. We'd spend at least an hour when we went there trying on shoes. Jacque Pennay's ... That was a great store to shop in back in the day. Spencer's was another great store that sold those odd gag gifts, black light posters, and all kinds of weird stuff only a teen ager or older might like !!

[@darrinmckeehan5697]

I worked at Chess King for a short time, but loved their clothes. My sister had a Lane Bryant/Fashion Bug charge card I remember. Cool to learn how many stores opened long before I thought. Thanks for the trip down memory lane 😁.

[@laurachristianson1688]

I worked at Record Bar (later subsumed by Musicland), and the Limited (when it had good quality clothing). Good times indeed. Still have a couple of my albums complete with the price sticker, and one lonely flannel type shirt that has made it through the years. Nice to have a couple shards of my early adulthood in my possession, warm and fuzzy it is. Oh yeah I forgot my teenage job at Montgomery Wards.

[@notsosilentmajority1]

Sam Goody was a great music store that was always fun to visit. We hung out at Sam Goody and met girls and listened to music while getting some great albums. Then we'd go to eat at Woolworths or Orange Julius and maybe hit the arcade with the girls we just met. Life was great.

[@UFCPR]

In Puerto Rico, we have two major malls: Plaza Las Américas, which has been open since the '60s and is bustling every day of the week, even boasting a Florsheim store! The other is The San Juan Mall, which, although not as large or frequented, caters to an upscale clientele with stores like Omega, Boss, Cartier, and more.

[@draghonblademorrow946]

If I could bring back one store it would be "Hot Topic". They had everything I love.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

We still have one at our outlet mall.

[@kitw76]

Musicland and any teen clothing store was my thing back in the day! Musicland in my hometown mall didnt change to Sam Goody until the late 90s

[@CarlaHubbs]

Online shopping is the one that knocked out mall shopping that's the part I don't like I always love going to the mall I thought it was a real treat

[@SpotTheBorgCat]

We had a Lerner's in my town of Burien, but it was sold along with several other businesses and the land repurposed into a retail/ apartment complex. I miss the store.

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

I miss the malls, ours is still open but only a few stores and the rest of the spaces are either empty or has something non store related in it

[@iraidaacevedo3723]

I used to like Sam Goody 😃 enjoyed so many other stores that I will always miss Thank you for the memories♥️

[@teresaobrien4708]

I see all this about Toys R Us Kay-Bee and Circus World, but , does anybody remember Children's Palace?

[@davidjames6879]

I remember a number of these stores, having grown up in 70s. There are a lot just shoe stores and girl/women clothiers mentioned in this video. Most of the names I recognize.

[@Reebert02]

I can smell those pictures of Walden Books and B. Dalton. Those who were lucky enough to be there know what I’m talking about!

[@w2tty]

I knew I was not going to like this as soon as I saw the title. And watching it was worse than I thought. Nothing wrong with the video - it is well done and a great walk down memory lane. It gets a thumbs up from me. But it makes me so sad to think of all these stores which I’ll sever see again.

[@tombstone1970]

seeing these makes me sad...makes me wish for better times....i miss the 80's

[@chrisherrington131]

I grew up with sears being a store, a catalog on my table RIP SEARS

[@Abandoned-t3v]

I loved going to the mall the food court Spencer's music land I miss them times

[@MisterMikeTexas]

Spencer's has made a comeback. There's one at Northeast Mall in Hurst, Texas. They returned to Hulen Mall in Fort Worth also.

[@Abandoned-t3v]

@@MisterMikeTexas i have to go in there

[@MisterMikeTexas]

@@Abandoned-t3v I don't think they sell the old favorites though. Such as that 18 and up "Basic Golf" book (or a new version of it), or the Pet Fart ("Oops! You let it out!").

[@Nicksonian]

This End Up furniture was a mall store that lasted way longer than it should have. They sold hideous furniture made to look like it was made out of shipping crates. Somehow it became “stylish” for a few minutes.

[@twoodard3714]

Casual Corner, Margo’s, Piccadilly Cafeteria.🥹

[@keithwilson6060]

One of the first malls in my area growing up in the 60’s was an open-air mall, with shops lining the wide, nicely-landscaped central corridor. Numerous water fountains, pools and water channels dotted the landscape throughout. Four department stores and a grocery market anchored the mall, and even a high-rise office building was integrated in the layout. Most shops were accessible from the center court or from the exterior front of the stores facing the parking lots. Wide covered walkways and seating areas mitigated any weather issues. It was an integral part of my childhood. 9:25

[@Nicksonian]

I was a photojournalist for 25 years and never heard the phrase “contemplative poses” before. It’s a perfect definition of what we made fun of back in the day.

[@Bozemanjustin]

Glamor shots, 100% of the men that I know that had their woman take those shots said, they turned my beautiful wife or girlfriend into an ugly painted whore

[@glennso47]

Cherryvale Mall in Rockford Illinois once even was the home of a radio station. WYBR. YBR stood for Yellow Brick Road and you could see the station but it was at the end of a hallway that was a labyrinth full of mirrors. They had the path to the station was painted to look like a yellow brick road. The hallway also had a disco ball that made it even more difficult to navigate through the hallway. The station was bought out by another company and moved into another location.

[@lisagray1418]

I loved shopping at Filene’s. I think it was because the only time I was around one was when I visited my great aunt in Allentown, PA. Wonderful memories.

[@paulbroderick8438]

All those 'sophisticated" mergers and buy outs just never work out irrespective of business.