I first went to this mall as a teen in 2014, I ain't been back since spring of 2016. I remember how popping this place used to be. It's sad to see how empty it is. I have so many memories here. From the food courts, holiday shopping, running around with my brothers, etc... life really went by like a movie, I sure miss them days
Joplin High School used part of this mall after their building was destroyed by the Joplin tornado in 2011. I believe they only had juniors and seniors attending classes here. They were there until their new building opened in fall of 2014. I remember they had tons of storm shelters lined up outside the mall for students. I don’t think the storm shelters are still there.
I grew up going to Northpark and was just there over the weekend. Since your visit there's 3 or 4 spots that have been occupied but now Rue 21 announced they are closing all stores so we're losing them. I like to think there's hope for the mall especially since it's the only mall in the area but I do believe they need to start with better management. It's just been within the last 5 years or so that it's got this bad. Up to 2020 we had all anchors full but the Sears and Macy's closed and that hurt a lot.
I grew up in this mall, went with my parents in the 80s to Montgomery Ward, Venture, Famous Bar and to the movie theater. Walked around in the 90s and hit all of the music stores, book stores and of course clothing stores, in the early 2000s shopping at Sears was my wife and I's favorite thing to do here, also shopped for kids school clothes, it was about 2010 when things first started to shut down and now its just complete sadness.
All stores we use to shop at that I can recall that are now gone. Sam Goody Camelots Music Gadzooks The Buckle The Owls Nest Walden Books B. Dalton Books Macys/Famous Barr Macys Mens Store Venture Debs Hollister Aero Sears 3/5/7 Romancing The Stone Kay Jewelers Footlocker Footlocker Kids Gap Express/NY Yankee Candle Montgomery Ward Babbages RadioShack PacSun Garfields Burger King McDonald's Sbarros DQ/Orange Julius
@Man-MadeArchaeology The Battlefield Mall in Springfield, MO (close to the town I live in) is bigger, but it's not like it used to be, especially with online shopping being so common now. That and Northpark are nothing compared to the Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento, CA (where I'm from) in size. Again, with online shopping, who knows how long these or other malls will last. Have you been to malls in other countries? Malls TRIVE there. Payless is still in El Salvador and Costa Rica.
70s style shopping mall USA was brown, beige, white... colours... Nothing too flashy and hard pigments of color.. It looked all like TV series Battle Satr galactica... all indoors under 1 big roof with escalators and lifts... 70s was nice that it was a promising era... 80s was sobering it would not turn out that way.. 90s was exclusive society 2000 was war economy... 2010 was oblivian era.. 2020... well 3 years underway... not really clear what this decade will hold... (ww3...????!!!).
I first went to this mall as a teen in 2014, I ain't been back since spring of 2016. I remember how popping this place used to be. It's sad to see how empty it is. I have so many memories here. From the food courts, holiday shopping, running around with my brothers, etc... life really went by like a movie, I sure miss them days
You should've seen it in the late 90s, early 2000s. Heck, I stopped going there around 2014 because it was no longer the mall I remember!
Same here. This mall would be packed. And I have some great memories here with friends as well. We were only 40 minutes away from Joplin.
Yes! You are back!!!!!
Sorry for the wait, my friend!
Joplin High School used part of this mall after their building was destroyed by the Joplin tornado in 2011. I believe they only had juniors and seniors attending classes here. They were there until their new building opened in fall of 2014. I remember they had tons of storm shelters lined up outside the mall for students. I don’t think the storm shelters are still there.
I grew up going to Northpark and was just there over the weekend. Since your visit there's 3 or 4 spots that have been occupied but now Rue 21 announced they are closing all stores so we're losing them. I like to think there's hope for the mall especially since it's the only mall in the area but I do believe they need to start with better management. It's just been within the last 5 years or so that it's got this bad. Up to 2020 we had all anchors full but the Sears and Macy's closed and that hurt a lot.
I grew up in this mall, went with my parents in the 80s to Montgomery Ward, Venture, Famous Bar and to the movie theater. Walked around in the 90s and hit all of the music stores, book stores and of course clothing stores, in the early 2000s shopping at Sears was my wife and I's favorite thing to do here, also shopped for kids school clothes, it was about 2010 when things first started to shut down and now its just complete sadness.
All stores we use to shop at that I can recall that are now gone.
Sam Goody
Camelots Music
Gadzooks
The Buckle
The Owls Nest
Walden Books
B. Dalton Books
Macys/Famous Barr
Macys Mens Store
Venture
Debs
Hollister
Aero
Sears
3/5/7
Romancing The Stone
Kay Jewelers
Footlocker
Footlocker Kids
Gap
Express/NY
Yankee Candle
Montgomery Ward
Babbages
RadioShack
PacSun
Garfields
Burger King
McDonald's
Sbarros
DQ/Orange Julius
nice big mall
Used to film myself skating in this mall many times running from security.
That’s awesome, love hearing the memories from old malls 😄
Why is this mall so tiny? I find it odd that Branson is smaller than Joplin and they have 2 main shopping centers.
Not sure! 🤔 it was definitely one of the smallest malls we’ve visited in the Midwest
At least it's not overbuilt like some small town malls in the northeast are.
@Man-MadeArchaeology The Battlefield Mall in Springfield, MO (close to the town I live in) is bigger, but it's not like it used to be, especially with online shopping being so common now. That and Northpark are nothing compared to the Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento, CA (where I'm from) in size. Again, with online shopping, who knows how long these or other malls will last.
Have you been to malls in other countries? Malls TRIVE there. Payless is still in El Salvador and Costa Rica.
70s style shopping mall USA
was brown, beige, white... colours...
Nothing too flashy and hard pigments of color..
It looked all like TV series Battle Satr galactica...
all indoors under 1 big roof with escalators and lifts...
70s was nice that it was a promising era...
80s was sobering it would not turn out that way..
90s was exclusive society
2000 was war economy...
2010 was oblivian era..
2020... well 3 years underway...
not really clear what this decade will hold...
(ww3...????!!!).
Aw hell yeah let’s explore late stage capitalism
Only because late-stage socialism is paradoxical 😂
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Ran so much strange there, damn middle school was lit.