TRI COUNTY MALL - CINCINNATI, OHIO: In Memoriam

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[@fisitron7256]

This is the send-off Tri-County deserves. I lack the words to say much else, but it feels like it's a perfect close to its life.

[@kevingreen2400]

I worked out at Tri County in 1990-91, 92-95 and have many wonderful memories, made countless friends, got my ear pierced (twice) and spent way too much time and money. I feel like with this closing more of my youth has disappeared. Thank you for this piece.

[@rain1676]

How was it like in the 90s

[@UniCommProductions]

@rain1676 well it looked basically the same as it does now; it’s not been remodeled much since 1993 when the second floor was added…but it was full. Not an empty space in the entire mall.

[@1979reload]

I had this magnificent gap year that took place in this area and throughout Ohio of all places between my high school graduation and actual adulthood. Today it all seems like a dream. A fantasy. During that time I made some incredible memories at Tri County & Forest Fair. I’m not in Ohio anymore. As these two malls are surrendered to the hands of time and to the memories of the Gen X Mall Rats that will mourn them the most I can’t help but feel the collective heartbreak 💔. These are pieces and memories of my life from a time without photos and videos. The people also gone. Just the sentiments remain. Another part of my life will be gone forever. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. Leave The Memories Alone….

[@SynchroSk8]

I was just commenting about how we would pack into my brand new 1998 boxy Jetta and hit up this mall… more often than Forest Fair… but gosh, good memories as well.

[@harlowblonde]

I grew up in springdale and grew up in that mall! Omg the holidays especially! Wow. The memories. I cried when it closed.

[@frankhill9527]

I will miss the mall's Christmas decorations in its heyday.

[@silverfoxmckeand1125]

Still watching this in 2024. I miss this mall so much. I worked at Sears and leather limited. Got my first wallet at leather limited. Just retired it two months ago. Thank you so much for posting this. I lived here for years.

[@friedtomato9475]

This video brought back a few memories. One day in 1983 my cousin and I went to Tri-County mall to meet the band Quiet Riot who were signing autographs at the music store (Record Bar maybe). I still have the signed album somewhere. Also, in 2020-21 I was looking for a place to walk to get some exercise during the winter. I was able to walk there on several occasions and think about the many good times I spent there in the 1980's with my friends. Great times!!

[@millardiii]

This was definitely your best yet. My previous favorite was the Overmalling of Cincinnati series. Very well done. Thank you!

[@chickengenius4202]

In the 80’s and 90’s all the malls were booming. The internet killed the malls, and now it’s killing our society. Sad

[@shawnhasty7480]

Thank you for that. I have been over 400 miles away in the hills of Pennsylvania. I was born and raised near the mall and spent a lot of my teenage days there. I always said I would haunt that mall some day I know I'll miss it. I'll miss Christmas time in the mall it always had the sights and smells that got you in the Christmas Spirit. Remember when Q102 had the car contest where contestants had to stay in the car to see who could last the longest, the winner would get the car that was awesome. I'll miss you Tri County Mall RIP 🙏 and thanks again for making this tearful video

[@tjschuessler257]

I worked at the huge Record Town here in 1999/2000. It was an amazing time. Life was a lot simpler then, and I remember the mall so vividly. Always hoped I would get back to Tri-County again one day... Sad it won't be there anymore. Thanks for making this.

[@RickMiddleton-1]

Whats weird is i drive by Tri County everyday and really dont think twice about it, but after watching this video i took the time to think back to my formative years as a teenager and what a HUGE part this mall and Forest Fair Mall were to my life! Back in 1989 i was 16 years old. I had just got my license and the big thing to do every weekend was drive up to both malls from Aurora Indiana where i lived, and just hang out with friends or go to the movie theater within the mall. Its sad how we allow such memories to fade from us and it takes the loss of a place to rekindle them. To some these places are just mounds of concrete and glass.....to some of us though they represent our youth and a simpler time. The building itself may change or go away, but it up to us to keep the memories alive.....

[@keitheckert-friend9304]

I didn't expect this video to have such an intense effect on me emotionally or that I would appreciate it so deeply

[@Muonium1]

the melancholic Mazzy Star is quite literally the perfect choice. Those are ammonites in the floor tile there. Much like the mall they now haunt, they too came to an abrupt end after a poor showing with the Amazon of their day - an asteroid 65 million years ago the size of Springfield.

[@justinmorrison321]

A fitting send off. It was a good-looking mall with lots of natural light streaming in. I've never been there but it feels like I have. And now I'll miss it. You've done a fantastic job.

[@sirekumasutra7022]

I think that's the hardest part of being a mall content creator is when these malls are closed for good and demolished/repurposed. I went to Eastland Center for the first time last year and glad I finally went especially it being a Gruen mall from the 1950s. It is currently being demolished for a storage center/factory but I'm glad I got to experience it in person. Also this past January I went to Phoenix and got to see what was left of Paradise Valley Mall which was a JCPenney and the entrance connecting it. I have to say as sad it may be seeing some of these malls gone, I'm so humbled and blessed and happy to be able to check out shopping malls and having the courage to document them.

[@SomeDude75805]

As one of the City staff tasked with getting this site redeveloped, I would like to say this is the best video I have seen of the history of the mall leading up to today. Fantastic (and accurate) commentary. Hopefully you will come back for a follow up video when the first phase of the redevelopment opens in 2024.

[@UniCommProductions]

I would absolutely love to document that if given the opportunity. Thank you for understanding the message of my video. Maybe I’ll see you in 2024!

[@tinadiesman5442]

My oldest memory of the mall was the lounge The Matadore . My mom made sandwiches at lunch there. I worked at the Penny's salon when the second floor was added. I will miss our beautiful mall.

[@simgeek87]

Thank you for this video. This is the mall I spent my entire life going to, from the pre second floor to a few weeks before closing. I have so many good memories of this place, and you did an awesome job with this video.

[@millslite1221]

This one was personal for me as well. This was my first Mall I visited with my family in the early 70's. This video was a fantastic tribute for a place that held great memories for many.

[@foxeni7174]

You DiD nail it. Well done. 👍🏻💜 I don’t remember it being one story because I didn’t live in the area at that time. But I do remember the sunken fountain. I used to take my daughter through there in her stroller to see the water when we were at the mall. She spent quite a bit of time at this mall through her high school years.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

You could tell this visit hit you hard. Heck, it hit me hard seeing you say goodbye. It's a mall but while Tri County wasn't my mall (I visited it once or twice in the late 2000s), I have a connection on to my own local malls (one of which has long been demolished). To those of us growing up in the 70s, 80s and early 90s, the mall was basically our home, our social media, our everything. We begged our parents for a few dollars to go to the food court or the arcade (ah Aladdin's Castle). Heck, sometimes we 'borrowed' those dollars without them knowing. 🤣 Goodbye Tri County and thank you Kristin for sharing your mall with all of us.

[@UniCommProductions]

This was definitely the mall that the closing hit me the hardest, even more than Forest Fair did. I used to spend a lot of afternoons after class in college wandering and browsing there, and it was like my second home. It’s so strange to know I can never go back.

[@Tom_Lube]

Thanks for making me feel nostalgic about a place i never have and never will visit.

[@joycenelson2101]

I was a kid when Tri County first opened, and it was a phenomenon.

[@MarvinMonroe]

I worked at GE Park, it was just north of TRI County, on 747.from 2012 to it closed in 2016. I didn't know the park/golf course existed until I got the job and I'd been going to tri county since my childhood in the 80s. Our house was about equal distance from NorthGate and TriCounty

[@scottpatton8683]

The fact you have a connection to this place really comes out in this video, and probably makes it my favorite of yours so far.

[@HurricaneCook]

Thank you so much for this video. I'm just a couple years older than you, and I feel like a huge part of me growing up was going to this mall. I can still see the shops in my mind as you walked through. RIP

[@DavidBrown-fs7ml]

Never thought I would tear up over a mall. But the death of a mall is like memories being tossed and the building destroyed. I don't know anyone who actually goes to a mall these days. I buy 99% of my stuff online. I remember malls going to the 70s, 80s and 90s. After the 90s, I rarely went to one. Thank you for this videos. I am sure there will be more malls on the deathbeds. You just have to document them before they're gone forever.

[@imherwerdio6852]

I loved this place when I lived up in the area between 2014 and early 2015. I can't believe it's gone.

[@UniCommProductions]

You should have seen it back when it was full. Absolutely the best. Thank you for watching!

[@kellystitzel267]

I worked at Tri-County Mall from 1994-2003 at three different stores (Sears,1994-1996; Lerner New York, 1996; and The Body Shop, 1996-2000 and 2001-2003). This mall was more than just a big part of my formative years, but also a big part of my professional life--I started out as a part-time sales associate at the first store and left a store manager at my last (I left TCM to go manage a Body Shop at the Cincinnati Airport, another store that has closed). Two companies I worked at after I left brick-and-mortar retail have also shuttered, and it's so bittersweet when you don't get closure. I hope the plans for reimagining the TCM space really do pan out.

[@davidkaiser2433]

I spent a lot of time here growing up and in high school. Worked at Finish Line at every mall in the city from 2007-2013. This and Cincinnati Mills were my favorites. I always loved the way the sun shown through the skylights in the morning here. Sad to see it go, so many great memories.

[@bradklingensmith]

Pittsburgh and Cincy are really so similar. I grew up in the famous Monroeville Mall. I've outlived Century III (C3) to us. I've watched them build a dead mall. Pittsburgh Mills, and live a mile from the thriving South Hills Village. I loved the Malls, yet haven't shopped in one in a decade. I do have that Ralphie May line though...the only thing they have for me is socks and cologne. Very nice work, you could tell this one hurts a little.

[@rushintl1]

I went to the Monroeville Mall 4 years ago. It was the film location of Dawn of the Dead. My military buddies and I used to go watch that movie at a mall theatre in Pensacola during flight training school. There was really no remaining connection to the movie.

[@eh4236]

Sad to see Tri County Mall closed....I shopped there often in 1986-1995 when I lived in the Cincinnati metro area. I remember shopping at McAlpins, Lazarus and Dillard's...

[@cadencero5313]

I love the way you made the video! I'm a 46 year old, and I've been to many malls! It truly hurts my heart to see malls die off. A part of history that has died. I'm glad I got to enjoy the 1980s!

[@UniCommProductions]

I'm six years younger than you, so I suppose that makes me a "90s kid", but you are exactly the person these videos are for; we're preserving their history so when they're all gone (or drastically scaled back) we will have something to show people!

[@craiggillett5985]

You are doing a great job of documenting a unique era that will never be repeated, our descendants will look through this footage in wonder

[@jeslowe72401]

You nailed it! Awesome video. It's so much harder to say good bye to the close friend versus the random acquaintance.

[@UniCommProductions]

That’s an excellent way to put it!

[@sarcadam88]

I trained in this mall’s fye when the second eastgate store opened. It was the cool mall to go to in high school. I have old photos of friends I don’t see anymore at that fountain. Thanks for doing what you do.

[@UniCommProductions]

You and I must be close to the same age. Thank you for watching!

[@sarcadam88]

@@UniCommProductions class of 03 so not too far off! Thanks again and as always look forward to the next one.

[@peterjszerszen]

I remember stopping in there on a high school trip in 2000 from Detroit to Cinci. Our bus let everyone off and gave us 4 hours or so. I vividly remember how packed it was and that it seemed fairly new or at least recently renovated. It felt like the predominant mall in the area. What a time it was back then, I wouldn't trade that experience or those memories ever. The new Reds stadium was also going up and we caught a game at the old Riverside Stadium but they already took chunks out of it to fit the new building so you couldn't do a full circuit around it. That was a neat old stadium too and very original to c.1970. Got the worst sunburn of my life there. On the same trip we also stopped in at Eastgate and the transmission went out on the bus just as we pulled in. they had to send another bus from Detroit so we ended up spending all day there. But Eastgate was definitely hurting and well past its prime by that point and looked 100% vintage to 1980. It was night and day compared to TCM. I guess the tables have turned. All I can say is thanks for documenting this for posterity and I'm sorry for your loss, it's like losing an old friend. My childhood mall (Twelve Oaks) has made it to finalist level in mallageddon, duking it out with the -Somerset- Snob-erset Collection but 12-O is showing distress and the whole area is so over-retailed and I know eventually it's going to just be memories and an empty field. That'll be a sad day as I think it's one of the most architecturally advanced among the 1976-1982 class of malls (although it's been completely 'sterilized' in renovations). But it still felt brand new well into the '90s it was that avant-garde in the right way. If you are ever in the northwest suburbs of Detroit (i.e. I-275/I-96/I-696/M-5), you should stop in. It sits adjacent to the largest freeway interchange in N. America and one of the largest in the world by land area where 5 freeways converge. Taubman saw that on a planning map in the '60s and said "YEP!".

[@UniCommProductions]

Thank you for sharing! I’m actually planning to try to get some malls in Michigan by the end of the year. Eastgate received a remodel in 2004, a couple years after your visit, but it’s not doing great these days. Sometimes I miss the old Riverfront Stadium-if it were coming down today I might make a video about it.

[@podmuse1994]

This mall has so many memories for me. I grew up about 10 minutes from here. As a kid my mom or grandma would drag me here then as a teen this was my hangout spot. Pre mid 2000s it really was a great mall but it’s mostly unchanged from the 90s. I’m sad to see it go but I’m hoping whatever they replace it with is just as amazing as TC Mall was in its heyday!

[@appalachianwoman561]

I expect to hear at any time one of my favorite childhood malls closing, Fort Henry Mall in Kingsport TN. When I was a kid we always went there, Middlesboro Mall in Middlesboro KY or Village Center Mall in Harlan KY. I recently back in March went to Middlesboro Mall and as beautiful and retro as it is to see it's now even more dead than it was in your video of it (which I loved), I'm just so thankful for the others that go out and film these malls. I really wish I had videos of my favorite stores Hills and Service Merchandise and videos of the Malls I grew up going to back from the 1980s and 1990s, just having them on film before they're gone is a blessing. Watching this I feel sad and loss for you, I love dead mall videos but I admit they depress me some and make me long for better times, it's like a melancholy that while it hurts feels safe and warm.

[@aakelly20]

I’ll forever keep this video in my favorites. Thank you for the energy and time you took to make this. As a kid I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours in the arcade at Tri county. As well as many weekends shopping there. Eventually became the home of My first job. Cincy Shops! Thank you for your hard work. Always top notch videos. This one obviously hit different due to it also being one of “my malls”

[@elvisowens7137]

Just wow.. Boys to men................ It so hard to say goodbye to yesterday... Thanks Tri County Mall... Teen Years

[@eyewetoddid]

Nice video.....I too feel sadness with the two malls I grew up with.....one that has been severely neutered, and the other that is mostly a empty shell. Its funny how we humans can become "attached" to a place.....so many memories....first dates...birthdays...long lost friends...or parents...Saturday day getaways form the summer heat with good friends. I don't truly know why malls are dying in droves all over America, but it just seems a shame that, once again, we are losing a piece of our childhood , our history that will never return. But, like you said, the only constant in life is change. Thank you....and the folks like you, who bring these memories back to life, if for just one last time.

[@mrfunky1768]

YOu did such a wonderful job......thank you for the journey of memories...this Mall represents my financial independence from my parents l worked in housekeeping at Pouges to pay for my entire first quarter at U.C in 1979.....and damn near every other store more than half of my SSI check will be from jobs at this mall lol!!!!

[@WhittyPics]

You have the perfect voice for radio.. This mall appears to be in pretty good shape, though you did mention the water issue in the food court.

[@UniCommProductions]

I might have the face for it too! 😂😂😂 I kid, I kid. Thank you for watching, Dennis!

[@marjorietest6453]

This is so heartbreaking but very well done. The mall was part of my life for most of my life. In college I worked at Paul Harris in Western Woods Mall and then Tri County Mall. I still live nearby and tried to support the stores that hung on till the end. (Dakota Watch, Bath & Body Works). Having covered parking to a dance studio where I went to classes, and to a food court with a Taco Casa were gifts I never fully appreciated until they were gone.

[@emilydare7934]

My friends and I used to drive out all the way from Adams County to this mall in the 90's, just to mallrat around. A whole lot of fond memories.

[@UniCommProductions]

That sounds like something we would have done

[@kimh659]

I just sat down to watch. I wanted to be able to really absorb it. Such a beautiful mall. Bravo for a personal send off. The lighting was exquisite, it felt like we were there. What you said is so true, we get distracted by the sounds, the smells, we don't focus on the beautiful architecture etc. This was amazing.

[@UniCommProductions]

Thank you, Kim! I put a lot into this one and it’s been so great to hear that it’s resonating with people as much as it is. I really lucked out on the weather those days!

[@CaptWirg]

It was a gorgeous mall, thanks for sharing this.

[@Woody-777]

Well done kiddo, be strong,,,, and may GOD BLESS us all....

[@dogdooley4495]

So sorry to see your childhood mall go. Most of us who grew up with malls being more than just shopping destinations can understand the gravity of seeing the end of this era. Thank you for a wonderful video remembering the past.

[@ampersand2001]

My condolences. Thank you for such a beautiful tribute. I will mourn this with you 🖖🖖

[@Gershwin48]

I rode my bike to Tri-County mall when it was first under construction. Northland road was under construction at the time and made it an easy bike trip. Nobody needed a bike lock back then.

[@haylieg2780]

One of the few malls I never have been to around Cincinnati. Kenwood town Center is the one I have almost always gone to.

[@Tickerage]

Just like Swifton, sad. My mom used to take me there on any random weekday in the late 70s/early 80s. They used to have a restaurant called Charley's with a glass ceiling. Pogue's used to have a restaurant on the second floor. The mall had stone statues of animals on green carpet and I'll never forget sitting on the stone llama and pretending to ride it.

[@golfwangsap1824]

i LOVE these longer tours. let me get lost in the mall with you guys, so meditating & peaceful to work to.

[@Harrisongallaugher]

This has got to be the best mall video I have ever watched

[@CincyJen513]

Thank you for this magnificent video and commentary. You really captured an era. ❤

[@UniCommProductions]

Comments like this definitely make me feel like I accomplished what I set out to do, make this video a love letter to all of us 90's Cincy Mallrats who treated this mall like our personal castle.

[@montezwashington385]

Tri-County Mall was my stomping ground when I was a teenager. This is where I did my shopping, hanging out with my friends, and meeting girls. Now it's going to close. It's just like you said, nothing stays the same. Losing Tri-County Mall is like losing a friend. This is a beautiful send off for one of Cincinnati's iconic malls.

[@Jynx316]

This one was difficult for me. I worked at TriCounty in the late 90s, at Kay Bee Toys, so I spent quite a bit of time there in a professional capacity, beyond being a teenager and just spending time at the mall. My mother worked at Lazarus in the early 90s, so we spent a lot of time there the, too. Seeing how quickly TriCounty went down hill was surprising, and saddening.

[@johnsos9]

This is another place I spent a lot of time in as a kid/teen/adult. I can remember going here and the Children’s Palace across the street to either get a new Transformer or NES game back in the 80’s and by the 90’s it was SNES - N64 and PlayStation games at GameStop. By the 2000’s it was buying a lot of clothes from AE and 360/PS 3 and 4 games etc. I will always think tone of the major things that killed Tri County was that stupid teen escort policy. After that everything really started to go downhill for this place. I’ll miss this place…lots of good memories here.

[@alexspadini]

My first time was ‘81. I remember the concrete single story tricounty. Many memories…

[@dsb1670]

I took one of the food court chairs in April. It’s sitting in my living room. This video is great. RIP TCM

[@craiggillett5985]

What a beautiful building.

[@le351a]

Always enjoy your content! Thanks for posting these!!

[@EdgedShadow]

This was my mall as a teen and young adult too. Even worked security there for a while in college (I was working there when Penny's closed). Crazy how TCM shut down while Forest Faire remains open.

[@r.d.sussmann9672]

This is a beautifully presented and well balanced video of the last days of a mall; having grown up with similar complexes (now defunct) and seeing them go from vibrant alive places to the last hope of humanity is a real, living thing. People tend to think of them as just buildings or places to spend money, but much like a living thing, they breathe, they have life, and they decay into the afterlife. I watched Landmark Mall in Alexandria, VA do this - from shopping paradise to 90% empty in 15 years; it was finally put down this year; it was sad - but I'd rather have it live on in my memories and my past than to live on decaying and empty. Thank you for a fantastic video. It really was quite emotional to see it enter its eternity.

[@UniCommProductions]

Thank you very much for leaving a comment! I’ve been following the Landmark demolition and I completely agree: I don’t want to see any of the malls I have a connection to turn into Rolling Acres because they closed without a plan for what to do with it.

[@gokh666]

I like how u put history in your videos and love your voice that work very well in your videos and it’s calming too.

[@BlkBrd579]

Mall closing especially your own hits harder than most.

[@pm41224]

Even though I only went to this mall once - back in April 2013 - this video brings back memores to a time when I bought some music CDs from the FYE that was in there. I'll miss this place, it was on my bucket lists of things I would visit once. Sad to see it and Forest Fair Village go. At least the site of Tri-County Mall is getting some redevelopment into a mixed-use space.

[@heaveno7775]

I visited here in my childhood from the city many times and then moved out there near it and spent most of my adulthood shopping there with my children. It will be missed. I almost forgot, I was part of the opening at McAlpin's and worked as a Nail Technician in the Beauty Salon.

[@ErinPlays]

This was beautifully done! One of the best mall videos I've seen.

[@UniCommProductions]

Wow, thank you! I have some idea of who else you watch so that is some high praise!

[@christinerobinsonpaints]

Great story telling and capturing of history.

[@djpcan77]

You nailed it . Very heart felt ❤️. Your last words … thank you 🙏

[@sethious1]

Definitely have fond memories of when it only had one level. And growing up still going. My stepmom used to work at the Arby’s in there. So I went many weekends as a kid. Still can’t believe this one died faster than Northgate 😕

[@leonesiom]

I said good-bye in 2021 to the mall that I grew up with. Hilltop Mall in Richmond, CA. ...I still remember when it was being built in 1976.

[@mrfunky1768]

MAn so many many memories of this mall I literally came of age in every facet I worked at Pouges in housekeeping post graduate from University of Cincinnati's art/fashion program in 1988 DAA ( b/4 the P) worked as their first black male to be the fashion coordinator when there was such at thing in big department stores. I worked at Kroger ,Pouges, Payless, Sears, Steakhouse, The Forum cafeteria, J.Riggins , Shillitoes/Lazarus also in visual merchandising....l mean l know lm leaving out a few places l cant remember . My introduction to the mall was in the 1960s as a child we'd get mad dressed up drive from Hamilton to go shop it was a huge big ass deal then many yrs later moving to a new suburb division Forest Park made going to Tri _county a veery regular occurrence....it will be deeply missed RIP T-C !!!!

[@ilsevanderbij7179]

I recognize the first background song... such an underrated gem that was! Mazzy Star has my heart forever.

[@UniCommProductions]

I am fairly sure I bought the cassette single for that song right there in that mall!

[@fatsnbul]

I used to drive from NKY in the 80s to Tri-County because it offered so much and was so pleasing to the eye.

[@benjaminvlz]

@5:49 I recognize that facade... KB Toys. That was my go to toy store when I was a kid, since the mall it was at was close by where I lived.

[@UniCommProductions]

Bingo! Good eye! :)

[@justin5743]

I’ve never clicked a notification so fast in my life… fantastic video as always!

[@iamnottim.]

Ugh, this one hurts as I have so many memories in that mall from the late 90s/Oughts. My girlfriend (now wife) worked at the Lens Crafters in the mall in 2007, so we spent a lot of time together there during our dating days.

[@jordand.6032]

thank you for sharing, a fascinating memorial :)

[@MrsShaversPages]

Who would have thought an abandoned mall video could be so wonderfully poetic😊👏🏻

[@UniCommProductions]

Thank you so much.

[@pocketsizeforyourtravelcon3325]

There’s an article in the business section of the 1992 Cincinnati enquirer that features a picture of me (age 4) and my dad looking at the Christmas decorations at Sears there at tri county. I think there was an accompanying article about Christmas shopping or something - I kept a copy of the newspaper and it’s so weird to see the ads and clothing styles. 😂 I’m sad to see this mall go but the last time I stepped foot in that mall was in 2007 when I went prom dress shopping at Dillards. So many fond memories of such a big part of my suburban Cincinnati life. Thank you for filming such a fitting tribute!

[@UniCommProductions]

I THINK I SAW THAT ARTICLE WHEN I WAS DOING RESEARCH! You were adorable!!!

[@pocketsizeforyourtravelcon3325]

@@UniCommProductions ha, thank you! I only kind of remember when the photo was taken but my dad says that the photographer just wanted me in the picture but I was too afraid to do it by myself so my dad held me up instead. I do remember all of the decorations at sears though and how intricate they were. I loved the ones that moved! I think they had a little skier who would continuously go down a slope or something like that.

[@Roz-90]

That floor was so beautiful!

[@UniCommProductions]

The floor might be my favorite thing!

[@4KindnessGal]

I used to take my kids there. It was just Wonderful!

[@kidjayhawk]

Safety Town in the parking lot. My mother forgot to sign me up and the next year I was too old. Ferrells was in the parking lot too with the loud drum every ten minutes. I think that closed in the early 1980s. I think I only went once. I think of my fellow straight edge friend Michelle working there in high school. Remember her folding clothes at some hipster store in 1994.

[@UniCommProductions]

My mom has mentioned Ferrells before but I didn’t think it was still around that I would remember them (I’m about to turn 40). The Safety Town set was still there when the mall closed; I wish I had taken some footage of it.

[@SynchroSk8]

Thank you so much for the coverage of this mall. I remember in college we’d pack up into my 1998 Jetta and us gals would hit up the mall. I remember getting a winter sweater from Gap at Tri County that I still have. Fond memories. Thank you.

[@UniCommProductions]

That stuff from the Gap back in those days was indestructible! I’m pretty sure I’ve got some stuff around here that old too.

[@charliemccoy1452]

I was 36 in 1996 but I loved Hot Topic for the T shirts and other trinket stuff in there. It was a little off the wall but cool and I would try to drag my wife in there but it was a no go for her. Your narration is amazing and you certainly do your research. Just a suggestion, but you might consider branching out to exploring dying small towns in the mid west/east coast. Lots of these burgs have interesting story's to tell and your perspective would be fun to hear. Keep up the good work :)

[@UniCommProductions]

You know it’s funny you mention that, because I’m in the process of developing a series where I do just that. I’ve been doing a lot of “exploring” of small towns since I got a motorcycle and will be bringing my camera along for the ride.

[@UniCommProductions]

You know it’s funny you mention that, because I’m in the process of developing a series where I do just that. I’ve been doing a lot of “exploring” of small towns since I got a motorcycle and will be bringing my camera along for the ride.

[@dbombest]

A masterpiece, Kristin 🥹💖🦋

[@UniCommProductions]

Thank you so much

[@MeanGreenJK]

Wish I could have visited the last day, this definitely hits hard for me as well, I grew up going to tri-county and forest fair malls, They were as much fun for us as going to a amusement park.

[@UniCommProductions]

Absolutely. Both these malls were great to visit when you were a kid when they were in their prime and busy. I have so many fond memories at both.

[@dongaradixie]

Beautifully done, thank you 🏵️

[@hammerhed1000]

I grew up in Springdale, so sad that tri county and Cincinnati mills are both closed!

[@poddi63]

Awsome video. Your quality and videos are outstanding.

[@dannyhassler9008]

Still has a lot of beauty. My mind is visualizing the possibilities.

[@chiroguy98]

Nice video. Sad ending to my favorite mall in Ohio. Many memories there. Thank you.

[@Idelia412]

Good history and nice video of the mall. Thank You!

[@jdwv2891]

Very well done!

[@saltoftheearth8533]

Well put together video. Thank you.

[@MK_337]

7:46 "flatliners" is a 90's suncoast video store.

[@UniCommProductions]

It is! Good eye!