My family and I lived in Memphis from 1976-1982. What a wonderful place the Raleigh Springs Mall was back in the '70s. So many special memories of that place. It was the focal point of the entire area, and everyone who grew up in the Raleigh/Bartlett area spent countless hours there. It was a very special place.

@mocancer8485

3 жыл бұрын

You guys resided there when Al Green started his gospel sector of his life

Memphis really has changed a lot. I remember the Mall of Memphis, Raleigh Springs Mall, the Oak Court Mall, Hickory Ridge Mall, Southland Mall, Wolf Chase Mall when I was living there. Old stomping ground my town the Mtown

I grew up a few blocks from the mall so it was an important part of our community during my childhood and adolescence. I can't thank you enough for curating and posting these ads.

My main memories of the Raleigh Springs Mall are from the late 80s early 90s, but really enjoyable to see any footage that exists of it. The main stores I remember were Woolworth's, Kay Bee Toys, Zondervan, the pet store, the music store, DIllards, Goldsmith's, Sears, and JC Penney. Can't recall anything else other than the movie theater was a General Cinema by then. The only movies I recall seeing there was Beethoven and The Jungle Book.

The old guy who ran Sultan's Castle, The one-armed guy at Dino's...yep, those were the days

@johnstivers5595

4 ай бұрын

Val ran Sultan’s castle. The one armed dude was named John

@shawnn1412

4 ай бұрын

@@johnstivers5595 ...and you used to to work at Camelot. Good times.

@shawnn1412

4 ай бұрын

@@johnstivers5595 have you heard from Tripp Lampkins in the past 40 years?

I was born in Memphis and lived there in the 70s through mid 80s. My mom and I had such wonderful times shopping at Raleigh Springs Mall. 🥰

Oh how I loved this mall!!! My mom used to take me to an Italian pizza 🍕 place that had huge slices of pizza! I still live in Raleigh and it’s not the same.

Thank you for posting , many great memories ...I worked at Raleigh Springs from 1977 thru 1979 at Butler's Shoes , loved the mall life and i had the best Boss and friend at Butler's ...Clyde Boyd such a good man so sorry i lost touch with him ...God bless u Clyde whereever u are

Such great memories, I was 11 when the mall opened, our house was walking distance and I dreamed of working in the Pet Store. Once I turned 16 it wasn't as cool as Foxmoor Casuals where I worked throughout high school (Raleigh Egypt) and college breaks. I did a lot of shopping and saw a lot of movies in that mall! Bought my first make up at Walgreens and had all my film developed there:) I assisted hot chocolate with Santa at least one year and "walked the runway" wearing outfits from Foxmoor. I'm 5'3" so it's the only time that would ever happen!

Loved malls growing up we always shopped at the mall who remembers at twelve midnight you couldn't wach tv the national anthem with the American flag came on then static like the movie poltergeist so many memories 1978 star wars at the mall are first tv was a zenith my dad purchased at the mall.

I tracked the guy in these commercials down and he’s doing well. Super nice guy. I was curious about him doing some voiceover work on some videos I do on occasion. And I had plenty of questions about these commercials lol.

@mel37tupelo

3 жыл бұрын

That's my Dad! ☺️

@mentalchild360

Жыл бұрын

Can you please tell us a way to get in touch with him? I have wayyyyy too many questions unanswered about this mall. I grew up in 2001 and have vauge memories of this place as it was dying. I just want to relive those memories in full.

Old commercials. Bad graphics. Horrible music. EXCELLENT!

@JFD62780

5 жыл бұрын

At least there WERE graphics - unlike MOST things on TV in the 70's! Otherwise they'd fully rely on cheesy lumakeys and... stuff! :P

@80sDecadeCanYouPleaseComeBack

5 жыл бұрын

Lol 😢😢

@melissaann1401

3 жыл бұрын

Compared to the crap of today.. perfection 😍

I love watching these old commercials .

Man I miss Raleigh Springs Mall. 😭

My father, William F. (Bill) Speidel was the professional photographer whose still photos are the background in most of these tv commercials.

Thanks so much for posting this. There is virtually zero photos\video out there on the webs of the mall in its heyday. The bad thing is that there must be thousands of photos people have of this place hidden away somewhere. With your connection to the man in these commercials it would be great if you could dig up something else.

I wonder if any Memphis Mall ever made any money. They all only stayed open 20-30 years. I left Memphis 15 years ago and when I finally went back everything that was new in 2015 is empty.

Spent a lot of time at that mall in the 80s and early 90s, and worked at the Camelot Music while in high school. Good times!

Lived on Yale Rd when the mall opened. I was about five or six

I remember going to this mall on a class field trip. 😆 I believe the mall was just built at the time. Fast forward years later with 2 children of my own at the time I went back to Memphis to visit family with the kids. We visited the Mall with my great aunt and their great grandmother. I had them take a picture with great grandmother and in the back ground it says Raleigh Springs Mall. I just sent the pic to them today to see if they remembered it. They were 6 and 7 years old at the time. This was approximately 1995 or 1996. Funny how things come full circle.

Holy cow this is an awesome blast from the past

@taimeuppe6174

3 жыл бұрын

I bought my girlfriends engagement ring there in 1973..she ditched me when i was in boot camp for the AF

The one at 5:52 is suitably creepy. But I guess they had too much fun using their blue-screen.

@JimLeonard

5 жыл бұрын

The best 1976 had to offer.

@dfortaeGameReviews

5 жыл бұрын

Haha I agree!

@GeekFilterNet

3 жыл бұрын

“The excitement mall!” Stares unblinking directly into the camera.

I watched this to see if I remembered this place. I don't, but maybe it looked much different in the 80's. The one I went to all the time was the one with an ice skating rink.

@mindaltering

3 жыл бұрын

mall of memphis

@davester1970

3 жыл бұрын

Raleigh Springs never had an ice rink. Mall of Memphis did.

@isaiahjackson1996

Жыл бұрын

This don’t look nothing like Raleigh springs mall though unless they did a major change or something

@marjoriemorris5849

5 ай бұрын

Mall of Memphis had the skating rink, and the food court overlooked it from the upper level.

Remembering the cute Italian guys at the " mafia pizza" place 😉 ( little did I know that I would marry an Italian.in Italy years later! ).

A free organ concert?! Gosh golly gee. That would've been super nifty.

The whole Raleigh area was a lot different then. Actually safe middle class area. I feel a little robbed and sad since I loved the area so much way back, now to see it is not really quite safe even in the day anymore. It is a shame it's just another dangerous hood today. Much of Memphis is that way today though.

I'm home sick now

Very nice capture and cleanup! You own a U-matic deck now?

@JimLeonard

5 жыл бұрын

I have a cache of friends who have a cache of video equipment :-) But all the processing was mine.

The way this mall looked in this commercial is that how it looked when it closed or was it remodeled before it closed?

Fishing..... IN the mall? No wonder so many malls went bust. People just wanted to fish! Can't say any of the NJ malls I've been to offered this ever, although it would have been cool to do it at the snotty Mall At Short Hills with its numerous water displays in the common areas (like that big ball).

@vwestlife

5 жыл бұрын

Remember, this was the 1970s. Probably all the nearby lakes and streams were polluted.

@melissaann1401

3 жыл бұрын

Well, as you can see, it had a big crowd of people that turned up to fish.. people back then were not as spoiled or critical like the ones of today. They were more easier to please

Talented teens brought out the big ballas

It’s in the air.

"It's in the air...." Ok...who let it rip? lol

We had a guy from Twilight at our mall. This place had a damn full on circus.

I'm intrigued about Europe's biggest circus families.

Were these commercials stored on Umatic tape? The quality seems higher than VHS.

@JimLeonard

5 жыл бұрын

They were. Some judicious post-processing helped too.

I got my ears pierced at Spencer's in 1985 by a guy who looked like John Candy.🙃

at 1:52... Somebody convince me that is the Raleigh Springs Mall,,,Never had an escalator in the middle and yes a few store had 2 floors but not balconies...

@JimLeonard

5 жыл бұрын

The manager in most of the commercials is my father-in-law, and we assure you that the pictures are indeed Raleigh Springs Mall.

@cgeorge6786

4 жыл бұрын

I think they took a picture of the same event at another mall and then showed it for the commercial to show what it would be like. Raleigh Springs Mall never had this like you say.

@aaronpollard7207

4 жыл бұрын

You're correct. Only JC Penney, Goldsmith's, and Dillard's were more that 1 floor. If I'm not mistaken, Dillard's even had 3 floors.

Ugh can you edit out the black screen parts

Arcade name?

@johnstivers5595

4 ай бұрын

Sultan’s Castle

I miss the Raleigh springs mall and The Mall of Memphis I hated that Memphis closed down demolished these amazing place. That they use too have why did they toredown both movies??

@docmagnus

5 жыл бұрын

Jordan Bass Are you kidding? Both malls were closed and demolished because their surrounding areas became festering sores.

@jordanbass481

5 жыл бұрын

I agree with you because the only malls that making more money and still alive is oakcourt and wolfchase but the hickory ridge mall is a shadow of its former self for real. Ever since their tornado back in 2008

@leonandrews7180

5 жыл бұрын

Mall of Memphis became the “Mall of Murder” and Raleigh’s demographics changed also. I walked into the Hickory Ridge Mall about a year ago and there is almost nothing in there. Basically a dead mall with about five tenents, two are hairstylists for blacks. I don’t know why they bother keeping it open. Winchester and Hickory Hill (or Hood) is dead. I basically grew up there in my teen years and it is horrible now. Raleigh Springs was a favorite of mine also although it was far away. Good arcade in there and good restaurants.

@jordanbass481

5 жыл бұрын

Leon Andrews yes I agree cause around the late 90s and early 2000s Raleigh springs mall business was going down hill. And it was a lot of crime at the mall of Memphis so yes. They renamed it the mall of murder in by 2003 they decide too close it and demolished it and the same with Raleigh springs mall and also since the hickory ridge mall is dead they might as well take that down because ain’t nobody hardly go too That mall anymore.

@jordanbass481

4 жыл бұрын

Charles Keller yes like in 2006-2007 it really was man Memphis use to have all the good shit back in the 90s and early 2000s such as mall of Memphis libertyland and celebration station and jillians and Bass pro shop use to be the Memphis Pyramid arena and mid south fair use to be in Memphis it’s a shame Memphis is a shadow of its former self.

Anything from the 80s?

@JimLeonard

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, this was all I had access to.

@JinKobayashiHearMe

3 жыл бұрын

@@JimLeonard its still very nostalgic, thank you

@18:48 my wife is in this commercial...

@mikecooley3361

2 жыл бұрын

How the heck have you been Ray?

@RayMillTN1

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikecooley3361 pretty good !

@isaiahjackson1996

Жыл бұрын

@@RayMillTN1 is this really Raleigh springs Mall just curious because it looks nothing how when use to shop there

Back before Memphis turned into Detroit.

Bet you live in Memphis anymore I moved my ass to Indianapolis