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I worked at Meyers Arnold when i was in high school. When i was a kid, my friend and i rode our bikes around the old woods before the mall was built! While exploring one day, we stumbled across the old Franklin family graveyard, located roughly where the Firestone store is now. When they built the mall, they had to track down family members for permission to relocate the graves. My favorite store was the Hobby Shop.

I wanted to go up stairs in the food court so bad, but there was a lot of people around. If I’m ever in that area again I’m going early and I’m going up there. Ninja Style

i really like the ceilings in here

I love how you go to all of my local malls! 😆💕

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17:28 I have pictures me and my friends took behind that wall of the sears from before they blocked it off if you want them!

This is my childhood mall from my hometown! I have so many memories of spending time here with friends in high school. Almost every day we’d go and hang out in the food court. Good times. The mall is actually quite lively on weekends and during the holidays! I went last Friday and it’s still got a decent amount of the parking lot full. If this place went I don’t know what I’d do.

THIS MALL IS NOT DEAD. I was there today on October 23, 2024. There are various shops there from furniture store, Casper' s Closet, hairdresser, manicure & pedicure, bakery & coffee shop ,therapeutic clinic...Mall is very nicely decorated suitable for autumn. Also there is Bridal store ,Belk, Roses and Mexican restaurant and Thrift store. The theater will also be opened shortly.

Uptons as a kid and Larrys icecream were great. Uptons had the chocolates behind glass in the store, and i would get the chocolate peanut clusters.

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Really good video. I was just in there making a video and was turned away by security. 😂😂 Guess I’ll have to come back another day to finish. Great channel!

We used to go there after UGA games in the 80s and 90s then eat nearby as traffic cleared out on the surrounding roads after the game. Most kick offs were at 1:00 before everything was on TV. I purchased hats and die cast cars from stores in the mall. Downtown was doing fine in the late 80s IMO before I can't comment.

I worked at J C. Penneys, Frederick's of Hollywood, and Motherhood Maternity back in the 80s. My best friend and I would take the bus to the mall and spend the day there when we were 15-17. We would always eat at El Chicos. Great memories! Sorry to see it like this.

I am surprised Rich’s wasn’t one of the original anchor tenants.

Still love this mall. Many good memories

What will it take to restore Northlake to its former glory and strength?

I worked in this mall when it had a Sears. I’m from Statesville, NC and grew up coming to this mall all the time, so many memories

The mansion behind it has been torn down.

I appreciate your efforts in getting pictures or film clips of a mall in its hey day. I will never understand why a mall owner would put carpet in a mall. I wouldn’t even put carpet in the ground floor of my house. It’s ironic how the old pictures of these malls before their “renovations” look so much better than after the renovations. This is especially true for malls that first opened in the 80s. Mall designers got it right in the 80s. My mall was the Cutler Ridge Mall in Cutler Ridge, Florida in the 1980s. It was an absolutely gorgeous mall until hurricane Andrew totally destroyed it in 1992. When they rebuilt it in 1993 it didn’t look anything like the original. It looked cheap and cheesy with the low quality cheap looking pastel colored floor tiles. Malls designed in the 90s and 2000s did not have the same level of class and aesthetic beauty that malls built in the 80s had. The original Cutler Ridge mall had beautiful marble floor tiles and a warm, personal, aesthetic appeal. The rebuilt mall after the hurricane felt cheap, impersonal, campy, and cheesy. Typical of 90s and early 2000s mall designs. Today the mall is called Southland mall which is appropriate because it looks nothing like the original beautiful Cutler Ridge mall.

If I lived there and this mall wasn’t a pain to get to I would shop here. Especially if it had an electronics store. I don’t know why places like Fry’s and Radio Shack went out of business. Sure, places like Walmart sells electronics but the customer service there $ucks. I used to love electronics stores in malls like Babbages.

It looks like a great place for restaurants and a coffee shop.

their website is still up lol

I spent a lot of time in the 70s and 80s at Northlake mall when I was growing up. The end of the video where you are heading out of the mall reminded me that Ferrell's was on the right side and El Chico was on the left side. My favorites were The Gold Mine arcade, Oshman's Sporting Goods and McCrory's. Good times and good memories. Anyone remember Orange Bowl Pizza?

interesting place... i like the storefront at :58

Great video! I lived in Tucker in the late 90s and early 00s, and Northlake was a great mall with nice stores and a nice food court. I shopped there many, many times, and I'm sad to see it fail like so many other malls.

The Woodsons logo is the Viacom V of Doom on a shopping cart, except it's a W.

what a silly little mall

Fun facts! When the mall was more active the play place in front of the Sears would sometimes be switched out for a little faux ice rink during December. The mall used to have a little colorful train for kids to ride around in. The little house thing was used for Easter too!

Theres still people who work there, im surprised you didnt talk to any of them to get information :0

My mom is a Hiawassee native and this building's original purpose was the town's elementary school. Mom's first year attending in that building was in the fourth grade, so it would've opened in the mid 1950s. She can't remember off the top of her head when the school moved and the building became the mall, but it was probably sometime in the 1970s.

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I grew up in Tucker. This was the mall to go to. It’s so sad to see it this way. Gwinnett mall looks like this as well.

It's very depressing to not see many ppl here no more. Athens used to be packed.

Anyone remember the bookstore that was down towards JCPenney back in the early 80s? It was a local Mom and Pop bookstore. It Wasn't A Books A Million Or a B Dalton The owners had a contractor build a second floor with a set of stairs. And it Was the Only Store in the Anderson mall that ever had a second level / Floor. OH how I wish I could go back the 80s And 90s were an amazing time indeed. Now everyhing and everyone is so disconnected.

So sad. I grew up going to this mall in the 80s and 90s. There was a Piccadilly near Sears that had these conveyer belts for tray returns. They would run a train on a circular track in the center and I would beg my parents to let me ride. My aunt worked at the full sit-down Chick-fil-A before the Food Court addition was built. There was a store for kids clothes that had an indoor play area for the kids. My grandparents lived close by and often when the family came in to visit at Christmas and Thanksgiving there would always be someone going to the mall. My aunts took me on shopping trips. So many memories.

Once a great mall, had a lot of great memories

I got confused for a second. We have a Northlake Mall in Charlotte, NC that’s also starting to fail.

A really nice mall when it first opened until at least the late 80’s. There was a Shoney’s on the corner that stayed busy until midnight with drive in service. It was packed on Fridays and Saturdays. Online retailers killed the malls.

This is sooooooo depresssing. I loved Northlake Mall growing up in the 1980s/90s.

Heck yeah! Thanks for covering Bradley Square. Grew up in the 90s and early 00s. Would come here every Saturday to play Yugioh with my friends at the game shop. As teenagers we were getting kicked out of Kmart for overly intense games of hide and seek. An acquaintance from school worked at his family's pizza restaurant in the food court and we'd try to pool money for a giant slice or fast talk for a free one once in a while if it was just him working. Good times

This is supposedly under construction. I don't understand why this mall was not well kept, Tucker is not a cheap area.

This was my childhood mall!!! I remember when it was at its prime (early 00's) . I would get my nails done, have an Orange Julius, then go to Victoria's Secret to look around. Never thought it would be what it is today but I guess that's life.

This mall should be thriving, I grew up going to this mall all the time, Macys Parisians, etc. - sad to see this place die slowly.

When I was growing up Northlake Mall was the only mall in our area, so many good times there!

This used to be one of my favorite malls, it’s so sad how they are shutting these malls down. It’s basically Emory cdc thingy, the food court is dead. It’s over

Great video about Signal Hill Fox! I've been watching you track it over the past couples of years on Discord and it's crazy how decayed it was. Look forward to the next video!

Late 1990's my girlfriend at the time worked at the Victoria's Secret store at Northlake and would go there to eat lunch with her. So sad to see the state of the mall today from what it was back then.

Just wow! We would always frequent Northlake and North Dekalb. There used to be a Benigans restaurant behind Northlake. Good times!

In 1978 my high school band stayed near this mall when we visited from Augusta to March in the Peach Bowl Parade. We ate at Sears. I later moved to Atlanta and enjoyed shopping there. Parisians was my favorite store.