I shopped here back when Copley Place was the oasis of gold and bronze marble, with tons of foliage and the huge 6 story fountain. Was an authentically high end experience especially the first two floors. I can still remember the smell of Italian leather and British cotton wafting from Gucci & Pink... that was the best mall I've to this day, ever shopped in. Sad to see it whitewashed and dumbed down.

@mission51able

6 ай бұрын

They totally ruined eversince they made it for rich only shopping.

Back in the late 60's in the winter, our parents used to take us ice skating in the south garden/courtyard area. You could even rent skates. Great memory. :)

Eataly, is more like a public market for higher end, $15 bags of bow-tie pasta( yes, I did, I was on vacation) crowd. I could, and have, wander thru there all the way to Hynes and back up thru Copley, down to Back Bay station for hours. It's like therapy.

This is a cool video, I really like seeing mall videos from around the world

@fleabittenadventures

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Used to go to the pru mall before redsox games growing up with my dad..What a change! So many memories within those walls.

@BachBeethovenBerg

Ай бұрын

I often park in that garage for Red Sox games. Though usually I park in the north garage so I barely walk through the mall. When he goes in the main entrance I just hang right of the escalators where the elevator is right around the corner. If I have to park in the south garage for whatever reason then I walk through the whole mall.

I got my ears pierced at a Claire’s where that CVS is now. And the food court where Eatley is now was massive! So many different options to eat. Always packed especially when conventions were in town. So sad to see how different it is now! There use to be a massive Barnes and Noble there too.

It kind of varies of when you came into the mall. It's connected to Hynes Convention Center where certain events makes the mall very busy, such as Anime Boston. Other than that, it gets more busy on weekends rather than weekdays, so it was less busy when you come on a Tuesday.

I remember before this mall was built. Walking to the Copley Mall entrance (@15:38) in winter it was freezing cold because of the wind tunnel effect. There was nothing there but benches and apartments. Lord & Taylor was there before the mall so it wasn't a part of it. The food court was fantastic: used to go to Flamers there and get a burger and eat it outside. I was not happy when they tore the whole thing down and put that expensive Eatily thing in there instead. If I remember correctly, the hallway at 09:51 was always pretty quiet.

View Boston has opened at the Prudential Tower on the upper floors last month and it has a great observatory where you can get spectacular views of Boston, Cambridge, etc.

Love these grand downtown malls in major cities, but I just don’t see how they can sustain with so many people no longer living or working in these cities versus years ago.

@fleabittenadventures

Жыл бұрын

I would guess that most of the people at this mall are tourists. Boston has TONS of tourists. Thanks for watching!

Lord and Taylor was there and attached and now it's a Dick's House of Sport. They have beautifully redecorated the sky bridge too with each few steps of the bridge dedicated to the different Boston sports teams as well as the BAA that hosts the Boston Marathon

The Hynes convention center is connected to this mall, so a lot of the food options get HUGE volume during large events.

Its workers the Pru/ John Hancock Towers and New England Manulife HQ on Boylston surrounding space once had a cumulstive workforce of greater than perhaps 25k to 30k workers. Post covid that census is under 5k. Lord & Taylor pre dated the Mall by nearly 30 years and was not considered a part of it.

Worked in this mall until recently. Alot of the walled areas are gone now and have storefronts, except the hallway to Lord and Taylor. It took some hits from trying to switch to a high end mall from what it was as a place to hang out for teens and convention attendees. Which i would say killed the mall lol. Covid also twisted the knife, they didnt reaoly rebound from that until spring this year. But tuesday at noon has always been its slowest time.

I was at the marathon the day of the bombing and I’ll never forget the sight of hundreds of runners sitting along the mall corridor. And throughout the halls of the hotel adjacent to this mall and copley place. Everyone was told to evacuate the streets and go into buildings in the surrounding areas. Hundreds of police medical personnel, even military personnel everywhere. Very crazy day.

@fleabittenadventures

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, I didn't even know about that. I can imagine that was a crazy day! Thanks for watching!

Eddie V.'s: where the fish is so fresh, even the napkins come 'a la cart'.

Loads of natural light. Will be easier to convert to multipurpose residential-office use.

L&T was seperated ftom the mall by a sky walk and was there long before the mall. So, no.

When I was there about 10 years ago, it was much more vibrant than this. Dick’s House of Sport is supposedly opening up shortly. That Eatily is where a rather large food court once was. That was a bad mistake ditching the food court.

Gosh, I thought that mall existed in the 80s. I remember visiting a mall in or near the Prudential Building in the 80s

The base of the Prudential Center was originally an elevated open space with a great view of Boston and area. Then they screwed it up by filling the space with mini-boutiques that sell shelf-cluttering nicknack junk and high-end stuff to look at. Worse, a building was erected in front of it on Boylston Street, so one can't see the Prudential building while standing right in front of it. Another instance of gentrifying overbuilding.

It looks like a mall that caters to nearby hotel guests. I bet parking your vehicle is expensive and I don't see anybody buying real expensive item and going on the MBTA. Saks 5th avenue is closing stores and it really doesn't looks that busy compared to the other areas of the mall. I don't know if the mall will survive if there is a downturn since business office traffic is probably already off.

@fleabittenadventures

Жыл бұрын

Yes, parking is expensive, unless you validate. I few hours is almost $40, but if you buy $25 of items they deduct the $25 from the cost of parking, so it's not bad if you are actually buying something there.

Nothing like fancy post offices with zero customers and then seeing people at my local rundown post office having to wait in line for an hour.

@fleabittenadventures

Жыл бұрын

I would guess it's because most people don't go to the mall for the post office (just my opinion/guess).

Do you really think Prudential Mall is not as high end as Copley Mall? I always thought Sak’s Fifth Ave elevated this mall to a higher echelon. Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s what my opinion tells me.

Walking from Prudential to Copley Place while crossing over Route 9.

@jeffreysantner3717

4 ай бұрын

Yeah baby!!!

They’re adding a tourist-y view deck at the top of the building and the construction in the center of the food court area is where the ticket booths are going. Walls are down now though…also Eataly has a rat problem.

@mikegallant811

4 ай бұрын

Rat problem.... Uh oh!

It must be a high end Mall with Polo Ralph Lauren and Saks 5th Avenue

hate how with the gamestop gone, there's nowhere to grab a video game during anime boston outside of the con itself, and even then that's not guarenteed

I've never heard anyone refer to this particular mall as being "top in America". It's always been half-fancy/half-semi abandoned if you ask me. And, as you noticed, Copley Place is a bit more well-managed. The "wall" you refer to, based on the @view_boston markings is probably going to be a ticketing kiosk area for the soon-to-be-reopened observation deck and restaurant and stuff on the Prudential Building.

@fleabittenadventures

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info! I actually read online that some magazine rated it one of the top malls in America, whatever that means..... Thanks for watching!

@BuffetofLies

Жыл бұрын

@@fleabittenadventures I'm just imagining you being a lifetime subscriber to "Abandoned Mall Monthly".

I lived in Boston in 2001-2002 and the hallway going to Lord n Taylor didn’t exist, I think it eas open after, in the entrance rhere was a sea food restaurant

@julian7383

Жыл бұрын

That whole area used to be just Legal Sea Foods until around 2006. There was a big fancy glass window in the back that overlooked Boylston Street before they constructed the new hotel. Star Market used to be under Legal Sea Foods before it moved to the massive Huntington Ave store.

@fleabittenadventures

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. I didn't know that. Thanks for watching!

@fleabittenadventures

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info!

Dick's House of Sport is moving in the old Lord and Taylor in 2024

great place to take a piss while walking through the city

Most of shoppers in this mall and Copley Place are tourists.

I liked the mall better before they renovated and “rebranded” it.

@fleabittenadventures

Жыл бұрын

What was it like before? Thanks for watching!

@julian7383

Жыл бұрын

@@fleabittenadventures There used to be dozens of custom signs, light fixtures, and other architectural elements everywhere, and everything was much more colorful (non-whitewashed walls, etc). Had a much more 1990s look to it before, but also a sort of faux-European vibe as well

Dick's sporting goods now open 6/2024

That’s absolutely a dead mall! You’re walking down a hallway that has nothing on the left side at all. Looks like the mighty Boston is not infallible after all.

@fleabittenadventures

Жыл бұрын

I think it's borderline dead. Hard to say though because everyone seems to have a different definition of a dead mall. I'm sure there will a few comments saying how it's not even a dying mall. Thanks for watching!

@TommyTom21

Жыл бұрын

It’s very much still alive

@matrixman7706

Жыл бұрын

@@TommyTom21 keep telling yourself that

@TommyTom21

Жыл бұрын

@@matrixman7706 Are you stupid ??

@harrisonhanson2998

Ай бұрын

@matrixman7706 pay attention! He’s there on a Tuesday! Nothings busy on a Tuesday during normal business hours genius.