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House of Hope is still active in this mall, next to the barbershop

Starting to get Signal Hill Mall vibes.

it all fell apart when taco casa left!

Dude, be careful not to stumble into the Backrooms while exploring that dead mall.

I went to this mall a few months before you did to document it as well as I had a feeling it was closing soon. They still had tables out, and littly kid rides in the area that was once the food court. I drive past it sometimes and have slowly been watching it get demolished. That first hallway you walked in is now gone, and main atrium is gone too although the facade of the JCP is still there. Sad to see it go, but Myrtle Beach still has one true 80s mall left, the Myrtle Beach Mall. Coastal Grand is cool too, its 80s style but built in the 2000s. Also look up the Myrtle Square Mall, that one is even more of a loss because it was right next to the beach! They could have turned it into something cool maybe made a direct walking path from the mall to the beach for those needing a break. You can still see the big grass path and parking lots where it used to be. To this day the land still sits unused, such a waste.

Where is this located in Prattville?

This was the mall I went to growing up in Stone Mountain. My Mom would drop me off and I would have a ball…I remember Structure & Record Bar was the best! Also went to the movie theaters across the street behind the mall. Good memories of a forgotten time. 🤩

its just kinda old and abandoned. but around it is stores, and in there is a live rage room. really fun

So cool to see this video from my old town! The theater started as a Jerry Lewis cinema but was in a building in the parking lot that was torn down to build the CVS that is there now. They theater stayed in operation from 1972-2000. In the 80s I saw many movies at that theater and spent a lot of quarters at the arcade in that mall. Cinema Treasures has a great writeup of what they called the Carmike Movies 2 location at that location.

The last time I went to this mall was like 7 years ago, and it's still just as incredible.

I have a ton of memories of this mall. From walking around as a teen to building the Torrid in it to getting recruited into the Army in this mall. I honestly surprised it is still as healthy as it is today. Once Madison Square Mall shutdown and got demolished, everyone thought it was inevitable that Parkway Place would meet the same demise. Nearly a decade later, it's still just as strong.

This was my go to mall living on the southside of Gwinnett as Gwinnett Place mall was further and much more crowded (at the time). My grandma used to take me back to school shopping here in the 90s at the JCPennys. The fountain you mention was the center piece of the mall. I just recently walked through the mall on 12/23/24 and even the heat had been shut off throughout the mall. Sad to see it go.

15:12 such an unforgettable image! My dad loves to remind me how he 'lost me when I was 5.' I was far from lost 😂. While he was in Books-A-Million, I was having the time of my life at Toys R Us. Hearing him tell the story 30+ years later is such a blessing. ❤

Wow, this brought back so many memories. I remember every mall you mentioned! Awesome job!

Low crime, stable upper middle class demographics, not too much competition from other malls, and fairly easy to get to. These are keys to whether a mall will thrive or die. Amazon is NOT the cause of malls dying. It’s these factors I just mentioned. On a side note, carpet in malls is always a bad idea. Other than that this is a beautiful mall, though I regret not seeing any fountains or much greenery. I still miss the classic 80s malls with the fountains and lush plants and trees.

You are deserving of vastly more than 1000 subscribers. Well crafted production...again!

I missed getting to the fountain mall that had toys r us and books a million

Storer Cable, Prattville's Cable TV provider, used to have an office in that mall. I also remember a sporting goods store being there in the early 80s. Crystal Palace, a video game arcade, used to be in the mall as well. I also remember an office supply / art supply store being there in the mid 80s. Next to Food Outlet was Big B Drugs.

I wS there when that .all opened I even went to the one story strip mall before it got renovated

Huge silent hill fan here ...whenever I go to this mall I imagine I'm in the mall from silent hill 3. Always love the vibes

Loved pic of The Mall!

I haven’t heard of this mall…. Good video!

I really like the way this mall looks, the history is really cool too and I love how you included all these historical pics

Great video dude, your skills are getting better and better everytime !

Great video Zac

I’m really digging how far your production skills in editing and narration have come. Tremendous video, Zac. Happy Holidays!!!

Great job buddy!

I have a really good photo of the inside of Quenby Mall from 1965 and you can see Grant's and Singer Sewing machines. I colorized it and it turned out really well. If you would like a copy I could email it? Would be great if you could add it to this video. Not sure if I can post on youtube. I grew up going to this mall and remember many details of it.

My mom used to work at J&G's next door when I was a kid, in the early 90s, and I spent a ton of time there. It was T&G's to start out, ran by Tina & Gloria. Tina sold out sometime in the very early 2000s. I spent a lot of time in this little mall but dont think I ever actually went into any of the shops. It was always so empty I could go hang out there by myself while Mom worked. I thought it was a strange little area. A strip mall with an actual indoor mall in the middle of it. Also spent a lot of time at the old movie theater. The movie theater was never in the mall, though. It was in the bottom of the parking lot, where CVS sits now. You could go see a movie there for $2 in the early 90s. The Cinema 12 ran it out of business. The last movie I ever saw there was Baby Geniuses in 1999. It closed in the early 2000s and was used as a law office at some point, before the building was left abandoned and torn down to make room for CVS. There was also a small carnival that would set up in the parking lot between the movie theater and T&Gs that I went to sometimes. That gated area used to be for loading and unloading merchandise but now it's just storage. One year we built a parade float in that area for the Christmas parade and I got to ride in it. I made a lot of wonderful memories in that little strip mall. As another commenter said, I dont remember it ever being Piggly Wiggly. It was Food World when I was a kid, where Food Outlet is now. Piggly Wiggly was in another building a little ways down the road, closer to downtown. That building was just recently torn down a couple of months ago to make a parking lot for local businesses.

This is the mall that I wanted to see for a while, but after seeing how horrible it’s become on the inside, I don’t really know if I want to anymore. Especially if it means I’m gonna get sick just from recording a TH-cam video. Glad to see there’s at least other videos of this mall online. I do feel like if they left the other half of the mall open, and closed off this half with the food court, I feel like the mall would’ve probably been doing remotely decent still, just because that other half seems bigger. Great video as always!

Holy Neon this place is awesome! Talk about an untouched 90s hidden gem. CBL really knew how to bring pizazz to a mall back in the 90s. Great video man!

It used to be Brunos, then it was a Food World and moved to a different location, which is NOW Food Outlet. It was never a Piggly Wiggly, that I know of. Price's Donut Shop was in front of the "mall" entrance, you can still look through the glass windows and see the counter and the bar stools that we used to sit on. There was a 5 & dime, true, named Grants. The location later turned into a store named Fred's, which eventually moved downtown. This area of Prattville above downtown used to be named Prattmont. Straight across the highway, where Subway is located, used to be an A&P grocery store, and a drug store. Somewhere in the parking lot area used to be a huge Country's Barbecue restaurant. Which in the seventies, used to be a shoney's. Where Taco Bell is, used to be a Burger Chef fast food place. On the other side of that was a gas station owned by my uncle. On the same side of the street down by the intersection, a long time ago, used to be a gas station with a very cool statue of a dinosaur out front. Oh, anyway, back to the plaza....

Still beautiful, even with the mold. The plants and fountains are such a treat

I love this mall!!! I live here and it's my favorite mall to shoplift at! Much love man!

I’ve spent quite a bit in J&G 😂

It's crazy to see how much this mall has decayed. I remember riding the train ride in the center main entrance of regency. Hell, I think we swung around the mall sometime in the 2010s just to see what was up with it still. It sucks that it's basically dead now. Though, the last time I went to the mall, it was during Covid when they did covid tresting in the Sears. It was wild going back in there after it closed/

Haven’t been in about 6 years now. Sad to see my Ex-favorite mall

everyone goes to the avenues or orange park mall now. regency was already heavy in decline in like 2001 when only half of the mall was really getting used

I have been in and out of this mall for over 50 years it's crazy to stumble across this video the whole metro Montgomery area has changed so much over my lifetime it was a booming area very pleasant to live around for many years but as the light people moved further out because the city became darker and darker now the whole area is a shity place to live and has became very dangerous so now I have moved out even further to escape the crime and darkness that now inhabits that whole are around Montgomery Al if you go there be gone before dark or you will be in for some unhealthy adventures

I liked how they made so many skylights throughout the mall.

This was THE place to shop in the early 1980s. We mostly went to Orange Park Mall because it was closer but this mall had so many high end stores and it was huge! It's kinda sad to see it like this.

Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. Regency mall use to be lit 🔥

As a teen my friends and I wandered the sand dunes where this mall would eventually be built. When the mall started construction I worked as a telephone lineman placing cables in the structure. Spent many years shopping here; hard to believe the state it's in now.

My hometown 😢

Sad for sure, so many great memories as a kid going there when it opened all the way til the '80's. there was a strip mall on the Sears end before expansion with Annie Tiques, Gingess formal wear, a mens big and tall store and a grocery store, cant remember if it was a Big Star, Colonial or what ?? many memories of perusing the record bar, Spencers gifts, radio shack and mr. Dunderbachs !! At Christmas time the place was packed and as a teenager it was the place to see and be seen, trolling and flirting with girls !! Also Eastside Marios was a fav hangout for me in early '80's with bogo happy hour 22 oz. beers and free appetizers ! SIGH...Good times : )

I moved to Jacksonville when I was 19 in 1985. This mall was the first place my mom took me to and I shopped there for many years. I also worked at Houlihan's as a server and bartender from 1992-1997. I learned that Christmas isn't really a joyful time for mall workers, as people were exponentially meaner to servers during the holidays. I was surprised. I can't remember my last time in that mall, but I do remember buying my wardrobe for a real estate job in the early 2000s, so my last visit was likely after 2005 when I bought a house in the Orange Park area. I heard that it had become wild with crime with out of control youth creating chaos and taking over sometime soon after that. I am truly sad it is decaying. I have many great memories of shopping, going to the movies and working at Houlihan's. Thanks for the video!

I would hang out at Regency all the time. The best part was when the food court was 2 stories, with the 2nd story being more seating area that would overlook the actual mall area looking down on the people shopping. The entrance to the movie theater was also in the food court and you would have to walk under the 2nd story seating area to enter. It was such a great mall, especially during Christmas! As large as the mall is, the mall was always packed with people and you had to hunt for a parking space.

Good memories of this place as a kid growing up in the 80s. Da would take me and bro to the arcade(s) to play skiball for tickets. Eventually bro and I graduated to proper video games. Not sure how good my memory is, but I think the first arcade where we played skiball was in the expansion wing, and it closed first, leaving Aladdin's Castle, on the food court side. At some point after that there was Tilt, as well.

I was born & raised in Jacksonville, been gone 2 years. It is so sad to see the decay of Regency Mall.

Underrated part of why Regency died was River City Marketplace opening up on the northside of Jacksonville in 2005. Regency was still plugging along even if its days as a premiere shopping destination were long gone because the Northside didn't have any shopping destinations and Regency was the closest mall. Once RCMP opened up they could only rely on Arlington which has been going downhill for 20+ years.