Great video Wallie. I think, in general, the early 2000s were kind of the end of the golden years for many malls. The Great Recession of 2008, followed by the massive switch to online retail, and finally COVID were the body blows which did in malls such as these. I miss what these malls had for us and to this day there is an unfilled void that these places used to occupy. Maybe I'm overstating things but malls used to convey a warmth and sense of hope that seems somewhat missing these days. EDIT: Now I'm an old person who wants to be a mall-walker and now thee malls are disappearing left and right! I always thought I'd be that old guy having a McDonald coffee in the food court after my walk, but the food court (and the mall) are gone. Life's not fair I guess! LOL. Thanks for the video as always.

@mrockstar4christ

4 ай бұрын

Nice comment sir, great way to view life. Back in the day everything was better, music, tv shows, even malls and whatnot.

My mall growing up. Worked at JC Penney there in the mid 90s and met my wife there.

@WallieB26

5 ай бұрын

That's great to hear. I'm just sorry the mall will be closing in a way. Hopefully the plans will actually go through to keep it alive. I'm sure this mall was great in its heyday. Glad to hear about you meeting your wife there!

@BuffaloChicken

5 ай бұрын

My Mall was McKinley.

@SarahCScherer

5 ай бұрын

That was my late 90s mall too! Almost half my Sweet Home class left town for lack of jobs, including me. I didn't know how bad it got :(

@jasonwilliams6005

5 ай бұрын

@@SarahCScherer I also went to SH. And as far as jobs, there are plenty. Just not at the mall 😁

@melodybeitzel5378

5 ай бұрын

​@@WallieB26 There used to be a Carolina Circle Mall back in the 80s or so but it's been closed up for years but luckily we still have Four Seasons Town Center that's 3 floors

Mall is closing on Sunday April 28, both this mall and the eastern hills mall a few miles away meant a lot to me growing up. Thank you Boulevard Mall and Eastern Hills mall…gone, but never forgotten

@peteyoung3124

3 ай бұрын

Moved here 6 years ago and there was still enough there. I knew it was on life support but I only just learned today that it's closed as of today. It's a real shame all that's gone from Amherst in the last several years - Friendly's, Scotch & Serloin, the entire Boulevard Mall...

Great Video! This Mall was my Childhood! Spent many hours hanging around this place over the years. Very sad to see it in the shape it is now.

I hung out every weekend at this mall in the 80’s. It’s so sad to see everything gone.

I wish that we still had malls to shop at. I really liked shopping at a mall. It was always a treat for me to be able to get to go to a mall and spend some money at cool stores

@christineflejter7242

5 ай бұрын

We have tons of malls here in WI

@annastasia4403

5 ай бұрын

We also have a lot of malls in nj

@davemartino5997

22 күн бұрын

Yep , we have a million strip malls now

Awesome video. So sad to see these dead malls. Love the video wallie. Thanks for sharing

A nicely comprehensive timeline! It was only missing the Boulevard Mall theaters, a small multiplex across the street on Alberta. I believe it closed around 1990 when Chase-Pitkin went in, and later became Wegmans after they moved from the present Ashley Furniture location.

A great video, Wallie! It's really sad that the mall is closing. Online companies starting with Amazon are to blame for the demise of indoor shopping malls. Companies like Moonbeam is also a wrench in the works for causing the demise of indoor shopping malls and Century 3 Mall is an example of that.

Awesome Wallie

Sounds like the same plans they have for the Eastern Hills Mall. I'd be surprised if either actually gets completed

Another fantastic mall tour, Wallie!

@WallieB26

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

We would shop there all the time. I have good memories of Christmas shopping and visiting Santa Claus in the mid 1960s. We would still go downtown but it was easier to go to the mall from where we lived. It was a busy place for a long time. Sad to see it like this!

That's sad Dead Mail was pretty Gone and I Like That good Music on Songs Relaxing for Quite of bit Awesome Video Wallie

@reneastle8447

5 ай бұрын

It's a good thing the Retro Decade Revival Project is gonna turn the tables around. We can spread the word, raise funds to restore it, and reopen all the old stores.

Love the mall videos. Thanks Wallie

I remember this mall used to THE PLACE to go shopping when I was younger in the 80s and 90s

Yea.. Galleria is the only one left. Eastern hills is closed, Mckinnley I think closed and now Boulevard...

@lils6410

3 ай бұрын

We have the Fashion Outlets as well

@FrankTech

3 ай бұрын

Yea I forget about that one.. don’t get up to the falls area that often..

Thank-You. Well Done As Always !!

Awesome video Wallie

That’s an old mall! Great video!

Thanks for that video. It's so sad. I remember walking around in that mall as a kid. Hate to see it go to this

As always great video 👍

Thanks for the great video Wallie. My Aunt used to work at the JCPenney back in the 90’s. Such a shame to see this mall this way. This is what happens when online shopping takes over.

Awesome video love that song

These mall videos have been hard to watch after my childhood mall suddenly closed after it was deemed a health and fire risk. And becuase the mall was already losing money every year since 2017 they decided the best course of action was to give a 6 day notice to the tenants that their closing permanently.

Awesome video

Nice to see a twist on the mall that might actually make it survive for a while.

I always loved going to that mall, and it was always so alive and packed with people shopping. Miss those days. Sad it'll probably never be revived :( was definitely a major area land mark around here.

Amazing video! Great work as always very enjoyable!

@WallieB26

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Love the mall videos!

Dude I’m glad that some anchors are still open for a dead mall that’s amazing to see but prob not for long cuz of a new project coming

Nice !!!!!! Mall vidz !!!!! 🫡👍👍

I was there in June,ate at the TGI Friday's!

More than shopping, hanging out too

Wonderful Video!!!!! I Love the Fountain!!!! F+L, Corey

That's an awesome early-70s brutalist-era JCPenney. Same sort of shape but different color scheme than the ones built in Michigan during that time. Also has to be the longest Sears store I ever saw.

I grew up going to that mall. Sad that it’s like that

First one to comment so glad put another local mall on video so sad to see it dead

You should do a video on the willobrook mall in Wayne nj. It’s thriving and has all anchors filled (the jcppeny hasn’t opened yet tho)

Eastern hills mall just a short distance away is even more dead.

@WallieB26

5 ай бұрын

It's closed now. I did a video there as well. I uploaded it a little over a month ago.

I bought my Nintendo Wii here at launch. I couldn't figure out which storefront. Probably one of the generic looking black ones. I remember the food court being nice but way out of the way in the back right corner of the mall. I dont remember much else noteworthy so i never went back and then i moved. But it'll always hold a special place for that one night/morning waiting in line in the mall at GameStop.

You don't see many malls around anymore like you use to back in the days before internet & i-phones.

The food court being removed for Dick's Sporting Goods was a death sentence for the mall. No one wants to go to a mall with no food court.

Wallie you should make a movie a real movie like this and put it on your channel ❤

If you come back to Michigan you have to do Fairlane mall in Dearborn. Or the Westland mall. Both dying malls.

@WallieB26

5 ай бұрын

Fairlane is on my bucket list!

@davemartino5997

22 күн бұрын

Dearborn isn’t that full of Muslims ?

I used to go to this mall as a kid. I remember the carousel + the food court before it got annihilated. Now barely any stores remain, and the only place that I liked there closed down. 😢

@GeneralGorillaSonicOC

4 ай бұрын

Them removing the food court for Dick's Sporting Goods was its demise.

@MarshalaYams

4 ай бұрын

@@GeneralGorillaSonicOC right... I used to get pizza from the food court all the time and it was beautiful and well maintained. Last time we went 90% of the stores were gone or had random small businesses

Our financial, tax, and accounting conventions favored building an excess of malls. And there are certain cultural conventions in the United states. As Chris Rock said, “there are two kinds of malls….”

seems kind of spooky seeing a mall in that good of shape and no people

@MarshalaYams

5 ай бұрын

Cuz it sucks, there's barely any stores and essentially nowhere to eat. (At least the last time i went)

Go BILLS

WHY????? Yorkdale, Toronto is packed with shoppers.

I use to love going to the boulevard every weekend from my teens till it’s unfortunate demise . Shopping online is so impersonal and unexciting.. I wish we could bring back malls ..

Also since recording the Spencer’s has now closed

It would be interesting to know how much of a longterm effect, if any, COVID19 had on malls- or if the die had been cast already by then. I would imagine it would be a pretty difficult thing to actually determine.

@davemartino5997

22 күн бұрын

Internet shopping hurts malls too

31 million is alot of money from the state im sure pockets were lined for them to give that money out that money could of gone to somewhere else that would help the state more

I don't understand how it makes sense for them to let the entire mall practically go vacant rather than give decent lease opportunities I'm assuming this is a benderson development. I could be wrong but they would rather lose millions of dollars to make a point that rents going up and you can like it or leave.

Early

A mall night be a good place for a university and re-education for high tech trades... Tell me how we are going to compete with the rest of the world without education?