Well Metro is officially closed. This brought memories of going there as a kid in the 80’s. I will never forget the tile. High school years in the 90’s was kool too hanging there

@DouglasMcLaughlin-kq7hk

13 күн бұрын

Poor salesmen in Music store (Beethoven) were constantly pestered by teens wanting stacks or kits that they didn't have or sell... Lovely pianos though

I used to walk up the canal from sunnyslope to golf n stuff and metrocenter mall in the 80s&90s. Good' ol days

I started going to the mall at 14 at MetroCenter mall in Phoenix Az. My teens and early years were spent not only shopping but too, working at the mall. I worked for Bakers Shoes, KG Men's store, Metro Cinema's and Joske's. I am now 62 and raised four children that I have memories of taking to that mall. It saddens me to see the death of the mall and the death of all the wonderful stores I grew up with. Gone forever. Lot's of nostalgia and memories.

@unfazedreview3000

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your memories Jae! That’s great you worked there and got to experience it during its best times. It is very tragic to see it go and you can really feel the sad energy there currently. Glad it was there for so many people over the years though, but definitely wish it stayed the way it was long ago.

I’m an 80’s kid from Phoenix and I can’t believe I’m just now finding out this was filmed at Metro Center. RIP.

Did anybody also forget Rollero skating rink, on 75th and Indian School road? Good memories there too. A bad storm blew the roof off. 😫🤧😫

How I miss the malls during Xmas time. The place would deck out with Xmas lights n decorations, including the parking lots. Sad time to see most are disappearing

I took my little brother there when I was younger. He was amazed. Now I'm older and he's no longer. So sad.

@BrianRenardDavis

Жыл бұрын

Rest On Little Bro. Y’all Got Friends In Mississippi

@RaptorInNewMexico

Жыл бұрын

@@BrianRenardDavis Thank you!

@BrianRenardDavis

Жыл бұрын

@@RaptorInNewMexico Welcome

Man watching this makes me cry loved that place back in the mid late 80's was there every weekend during day and cruising at night!

@unfazedreview3000

Жыл бұрын

Glad you got to experience it! Magical stuff for sure

@paraflamdragonruff9487

Жыл бұрын

Yes I was more of a PV mall guy myself, however MANY times spent at Metro. Sad its gone, I miss those days sooo much. For me anyways they were truly magical times. Long hot summers, cold indoor malls, cute girls, arcades etc. Dang. Its a bummer kids niw will never know that time, I would literally feel robbed if someone took away that time from me. The nostalgia feels! Wow.

Had my 8th Birthday party at Metrocenter. Ice skating and then to Farrells!.....Ahhh the memories!

@unfazedreview3000

10 ай бұрын

Good times !!!

Those wire chairs in the foodcourt hurt to sit in.

Really nice, track goes great with this

I never thought in my wild dreams i would ever see Meterocenter close permanently. I was there back in 1973 when it first open and i was 11 years old. I was so excited about this cool mall near where i use to live around the 35th Ave and T-bird. I spent many hours at the mall with my friends all through high school in the early 80s. I remember on Friday nights us guys would head out to Meterocenter to check out the babes in the mall. I also remember checking out my favorite record store in particular called " Bills Records and Tapes " though forgot what level of the mall it was on. Now to see it gone its like a death in the family. After watching this video it felt like I was just there yesterday. God...how time flies. Thanks to technology of today and online shopping killed the enjoyment and the human experience of shopping at a mortar and brick shopping mall. I hope to see Amazon and the online stores like it to see it close as did to our Meterocenter in the future. And someone with their phone camera start posting videos of abandon Amazon warehouses...that I would love to see in the future.

@unfazedreview3000

Ай бұрын

Now this is a nice comment. Your other comment criticizing our buddies camera work on a video that was made waaaay before we had a KZread channel was not so nice… tisk tisk. That vid was just some dudes having fun… hope you realize that. It actually wasn’t even intended for public consumption originally so… yeah. And we had no idea that would be our last time in metro together. So go easy man. We actually shared our vids so everyone could reminisce. You should do the same with your vids honestly if you have metro content. Put it out there, blur some faces if needed. Anyway glad you enjoyed the content. This vid at least. Metro was awesome. Good memories

@VinceFelix-ff9cf

Ай бұрын

@unfazedreview3000 I didn't realize you were the same person who made the other video, to which I still think it was a joke. I didn't like the juvenile behavior in that one video. Okay, so youtube wasn't around that time. Yes, I knew that as well. Another youtube channel did a similar video on Meterocenter but did it with grace and dignity. No juvenile smart remarks. Sorry, I came off a little strong... I was having a bad day. Still, you did good by documenting the mall for future reference. Early 90s is when I saw the changes in the mall and didn't like what I was seeing. Sure enough, it all went downhill. I didn't like the new diversity of people changing the outlook in our society. I wish I could go back to the early 70s and stay there permanently. Though I know that is impossible but it was a nice thought though.

I lived in PHX in 7th and 8th grade, in the late 80s, and would go here all the time! You could spot some SERIOUS mall hair there! I’m surprised there wasn’t some massive spontaneous combustion from all the hairspray fumes. 😂 Anyone remember MGA? That was a cool store, but staffed by super snobby high schoolers. I always avoided the downstairs area near Sears. That was where the arcade was and where all the fights broke out. They had a fake back street, alley hallway thingie, with a McDonalds at the end. The punks, skaters, metal heads and the girls who loved them hung out down there. It was all Guess, Esprit, Benetton and Swatch watches back then. You can see a short clip of Metrocenter hopping from 1988 on KZread.

@unfazedreview3000

9 ай бұрын

Damn what a great time to witness Metro and the valley of the sun!!!

@ryanhilliard1620

9 ай бұрын

@@unfazedreview3000 It really was a great time to be a teenager! No one is exaggerating about that! Phoenix had some great malls and Metro was the epicenter for teens back then. We all listened to KZZP, which was pumping out all those 80s hits! This footage is amazing because you could seriously get busted for filming in a mall in those days. Security would be on you like a swarm of bees in a second if they saw you with a camcorder. It was not uncommon to see them confiscating tapes and escorting people out of the mall for filming and possibly getting banned. And trust me-NOBODY wanted to get banned from the mall because that was where everything was happening after school back then! That’s why there is so little footage of 80s/90s mall life.

0:51 tarantino moment

Such Nostalgia, my grandparents lived right off of 31st ave & peoria so i spend most of my childhood was spent there and different jobs i worked at while in high-school, Lotions & Potions Arizona Outfitters Victoria Secret to name a few . I miss the ice rink there😢. If only we could turn back the hands of time

@unfazedreview3000

4 ай бұрын

Agreed! The nostalgia hits harder than ever these days

I love this footage thank you for uploading the video

@unfazedreview3000

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Scoping out girls on the lower level ice skating rink from the 2nd level and Golf-n-Stuff. Pizza D'Amore's pizza was pretty good too.

@johhnmorgan8329

Жыл бұрын

Look for very tall girls with there mother's shopping

@johhnmorgan8329

Жыл бұрын

There's no beaches in phoenix everyone hangs out the mall

@highflyer454

Жыл бұрын

My whole 6th grade class went on a field trip to go ice skating there back in 1978. The only time in my life that I’ve gone ice skating.

I love that 80s foot locker at 0:38

Wow! And to think it's being demolished next month

I would love to see this from the same date but in 4K hd.

@unfazedreview3000

9 ай бұрын

Same!!!!

I miss it, used to go there all the time.

@unfazedreview3000

2 жыл бұрын

So cool, feel free to share any memories of Metro here.

@highflyer454

Жыл бұрын

I remember cruising there in high school with friends back in the early 80’s.

This was the largest mall in the US for quite some time.

@unfazedreview3000

10 ай бұрын

It was truly iconic in its day

Superb selection of music

@unfazedreview3000

Жыл бұрын

Music courtesy of White Bat Audio, check em out!

I worked at the gun store across Metro center and it was sad watching it being torn down

Born 1990. My teen years were made by that place. Wander the mall on fridays and then go theater hop at Harkins.

Always have a narrator from the 50’s

If the area around Metrocenter mall hadn't become a bad area of town I think it would still be open and thriving.

@unfazedreview3000

Жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right. Same goes for a lot of the valley

@nickb2912

Жыл бұрын

@@unfazedreview3000 What other malls that have closed do you think that is the case for as well?

@RobinT8845

Жыл бұрын

Idk because what they have planned for that area is gonna be BOOMING.

@Quezzimoto602

10 ай бұрын

the urban sprawl that the Phoenix Metro area has caused the demise of many malls in the valley, sadly. Couple that with the emergence of online shopping and Malls in general will be a distant memory in the next 15-25 years.

@stephaniee8909

4 ай бұрын

Well perhaps however malls in general are a dying breed now days.

Arizona is a weird place and I lived in this neighborhood 4 years. These pictures are nice so I wonder was it weird back then.

@unfazedreview3000

Жыл бұрын

I heard it was very nice in the 70s and 80s and from what I remember the 90s were good too. Once the 2000s rolled around the area went downhill progressively each year. It hit rock bottom in the 2010s and continues to slide into crappiness.

time travel fun

@unfazedreview3000

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely 👍

Probably filmed using one of those big ass VHS tape machines😂😂

In the movie OC and Stiggs, there is a scene inside metrocenter mall before the 80s remodel

Use to be such an amazing place 😢

@unfazedreview3000

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely was!!!

Rufus the mall is now closed down for good so sad

@unfazedreview3000

Жыл бұрын

Very tragic indeed. Most egregious

@ddrusa

Жыл бұрын

@@unfazedreview3000 The 80s is now gone I grew up with Bill and Ted

Today's kids have Tiktok and the rest of that crap. We had the malls. We win.

@account4info

Жыл бұрын

Back when you went cruising around the mall on Friday or Saturday night

@Artanis667

Жыл бұрын

If you consider that kids of any period are only experiencing what the adults of their time provide them with, then it's kind of a huge loss on millennials+ part

There was no surfing beaches there just hang out at that mall in those 80s

4:08 Not totally sure, but I think that's Christown, not Metrocenter.

@crimsontech0000

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's totally Christown.

@unfazedreview3000

Жыл бұрын

Good catch! My bad.

@christophethunt8888

Жыл бұрын

Your mistaken.

@christophethunt8888

Жыл бұрын

@@crimsontech0000 wrong

@christophethunt8888

Жыл бұрын

@@unfazedreview3000 wrong

Remember when Phoenix, and America, were predominantly white? So happy, healthy amd safe. I'm no bigot, but people in this world are trying their best to make me one. Such a shame, we are the only culture in the entire world NOT allowed to embrace their roots... why is that? Thanks for the video!

Metro Center turned into a ghetto mall, too many fights and shooting, the surrounding area went to pot

@unfazedreview3000

11 ай бұрын

You are correct. It became Ghettro Center.

@atatterson6992

9 ай бұрын

Yep, but remember... Diversity is our Strength! "We will own nothing and be happy".