Believe it or not but this place was the place to go in the early ‘90’s if you were a teen or young adult in the early to I’d say mid 90’s. They had a huge arcade area (Time Out on the Court) and a cheap movie theatre called Super Saver Cinemas on the lower level. Things really started to go downhill by the late 90’s and they remodeled the place in 2004. Since then…well, you see what it is now. What was probably the final nail in the mall’s coffin is when the huge Biggs closed around 2008. Shortly after that everything else followed including the Showcase in 2010. It’s probably a good thing you went there during the day time…I certainly wouldn’t go at night. Anyways, this place is set to be demolished from what I heard. It’s too bad many people never got to see it back in the 90’s.
OMG I can tell it was the it spot! Very nice mall, so sad to see it completely empty like that. Almost eerie to see… sad. I think also they was trying to sell it for an outrageous amount and no one would buy it for the price. But I can definitely tell that was a thriving mall at one point! I have part 2 premiering tomorrow so take a look at that. Thanks for commenting 😊
in the 90's the cheaper theater was on the top level, you can still see the remnants of it today. a few years ago they had a cheaper ($2) theater on the bottom level, which shut down about 5-6 years ago
I used to hang out in the food court when I was a teenager. There were a LOT of teens sitting in those chairs at the food court smoking cigarettes lol I’m old😂 This was the place to be around 1994-1995 ish So many memories. Sad it’s gone. It was a fun place back in the day!
I remember coming here as a kid, and enjoying the arcade. I'd often beg my parents to bring me when we were nearby, and ride some rides and play games until it was time to go. It's a shame it went downhill, and became what it is currently. I do remember seeing a lot of others hanging out here. Some fond memories were made here.
It was poppin in the early 2000s I miss this mall, used to go every weekend... I remember walking in and smelling fresh cinnabons 😢 this was before internet marketing really took off
In 1989, I helped decorate this mall for Christmas as a part time job. It was an amazing experience and the mall used to be packed! My dad until recently, would take his walks in the mall when the weather was bad.
Malls were still a hangout spot for me when I was a teenager in the early 2010s then in my early 20s I was able to afford to buy stuff now I’m closer to 30 and go once or twice a year…😅 I enjoy small business downtown instead!
I used to love visting this mall when I was a kid (forest fair mall) in the early 90s. Also went to work at this mall in the early 2000's when they redid it and renamed it cincinnati mills. I worked at Johnny Rockets, right before the first concessions she called aunt Anne's (auntie annes) right after the kids play area. this mall actually had two movie theaters a showcase cinema and a super save dollar cinema. Also had a night club called metropolis. It's so sad to see what this place has become.
awesome video!! super eerie i agree. i live in the area and im interested in checking it out for some photos, do you know if its still open to walk around in?
You sure are a cool girl Michele! I loved your video! Good job! You sure have a cute demeanor about you. I wish we lived closer, because I would LOVE to hang with you and do these explorations with you! We'd have a blast!
i really appreciate this footage since it's not cut up into pieces and the added narration is cool. plus you recorded some areas that were not as well documentend which helps in mapping out the mall.
This mall in particular was ruined the day they tried to strong arm BIGGS (grocer that was upstairs by the main entrance). It was part of my orientation when I worked at BIGGS that the mall wanted to raise rent on the grocer and they told the mall that if you raise rates anymore then it would be cheaper to build our own building. Mall tried to call their "bluff" and Biggs moved out. The moment that happened, foot traffic in the mall fell off a cliff and they weren't able to find any large retailer/grocer that wanted to occupy the space at those rates.
Then, years later, there was talk in the community paper about getting new stores in the mall to help the dying mall and the new owners were trying to charge rates based off their all time peak volume instead of the current foot traffic (Same thing the tri-county mall tried to do) and businessowners weren't biting.
I lived in Cincy in the 90s, and one thing I noticed is, I'd never seen so many malls per mile than any other place I lived...I would pull off of an onramp in rural IN or KY and boom! There would always be a Dillards (the usual anchor store) with a mall attached to it and virtually zero cars in the parking lot...or at least it seemed that way. Coming from CA where its wall to wall people and everything is so crowded it was interesting to me how they kept the lights on with so few customers in these places...and this was pre Amazon. The economy seemed pretty good and I was able to buy a nice house with an okay job (I worked for Circuit City in Forest Park, I think they were in or near this mall) so I chalked it up to everybody having a lot or disposable income at the time.
I live in another part of Greater Cincinnati. This seems like it could have been converted to a large horizontal apartment complex. Just this year 15 acres of good forest was destroyed to make room for apartments and housing.
@@michelelashae8713 Anyway thanks for the video! Seeing these failing malls in Cincy is pretty sad. I know we still got Kenwood but all them going down is depressing.
The former Steve and Barry's has remnants of its past. The Steve and Barry's was originally Elder-Beerman, then closed in 2003 when the company wanted to focus on smaller markets. Part of the former Elder-Beerman would briefly operate as Johnny's Toys, then Steve and Barry's would use all of the space. Steve and Barry's closed in 2009 due to bankruptcy. After the Steve and Barry's closed, the sign for Steve and Barry's remained on the exterior. On one of the entrances of the Steve and Barry's, there was an "EB" left over from Elder-Beerman. This mall surprisingly started to decline after opening, due to developer LJ Hooker's bankruptcy. LJ Hooker was the developer of this mall. I'm surprised that this mall declined after opening in 1989.
Malls were ruined after the recession. A lot of the entertainment (arcades, cinemas, etc.) got removed during it, and that’s a big part of why they stopped becoming destination places. Malls failed to adapt to make their shopping experience more unique and fun than online stores, and they ended up becoming just a physical replica of shopping at home.
Watching this reminds me of seeing videos of the Titanic at the bottom of the North Atlantic, an abandoned drive in theater, or an abandoned school. Your brain envisions people and hears the crowd, or children's voices in an abandoned school. The story of abandoned malls echoes income disparities and gentrification as different demographs populate an area, which is also the reason for food deserts in urban America. And of course, when more people began to shop online. I grew up in Bond Hill, with Swifton Shopping Center. The Mid City SWIFTON VILLAGE, which included what became the Hillcrest Apartments, briefly owned by the 45th President, started life as housing and shopping for returning WWII GIs, so everything was within walking distance, including Roselawn Park, Cincinnati Gardens, Maketewah County Club, and the moving of Woodward High School from downtown to Reading Road. Swifton Shopping Center was designed to be a bomb shelter as well, because right after WWII, the cold war began. The Reading Road Corridor was one of Cincinnati's first retail strips, being the "center" of Cincinnati, or Mid-City. This was the argument for building Cincinnati Gardens where it was. But it goes back even further. 100 years ago, at California & Reading there was the 5 Mile House. It was purchased by a wealthy immigrant, who after her husband died, turned it into one of the country's biggest entertainment venues, I believe called The Swiss Garden. Eubie Blake and other big names performed there. It did not survive the Great Depression. And Maketewah County Club, a PGA golf course now in the middle of a black neighborhood, is even older. It's name is a lie, designed to draw white settlers to the area. The claim was "Maketewah" is Shawnee for "land of great mills", but indigenous peoples did not have mills! And it aligned with how Bond Hill got it's name. Bond was one of the first white men to live in the area, he had a wood mill. The area became known as BOND'S MILL. Having to walk up hill, it became BOND'S HILL, then BOND HILL. But the retail of the Reading Road Corridor from downtown to Galbraith, and the demographs surrounding residential subdivisions give a revealing history lesson of Cincinnati. My childhood memories include time spent in Swifton Shopping Center, when Bond Hill still had a large white population. Then Swifton Commons, when Bond Hill became mostly black. After Elder Beerman left, it was never able to get another anchor store. Also, some retailers feared moving across from a black high school, as did their insurance companies. Last named Jordan Crossing, it tried to keep the legacy going. But the great years of Swifton Shopping Center and Swifton Commons were gone. I've been trying to find news reports, films, videos, even pictures of Swifton Village, Swifton Shopping Center, Swifton Commons, construction of the first Woodward on Reading Road, and it's first day of school, and Swifton Shopping Center's grand opening. I have found almost nothing. If by chance you discover enough information to do so, can you do a video on the history of SWIFTON SHOPPING CENTER, it's rise and fall, which is kind of a microcosm of the entire Reading Road Corridor. These types of educational videos help young, especially Black, children and young adults understand how their communities became as they are. I'm sorry for writing a book, but your videos offer a urban history lesson that inspired me to write.
Wow!!!! Thanks for that history, I had no clue. The generation now and later will never understand what older generations have been exposed to. I fear they won’t have anything smh
Carolyn Wallace is who rescued Swifton Shopping Center on life support, and turned it into SWIFTON COMMONS. She is a YWCA award winner, and also founded IT'S COMMONLY JAZZ! She owns a catering business now called A PERFECT BREW. I think a video about her is on the YWCA'S website, or maybe can be found on TH-cam.
I went to the door by the gym which is still open and operating. Now that was a couple months ago so I’m not sure if that’s still an option but that door was unlocked back then 😀
I have lots of footage of this mall over on my channel if you’d like to see it. And yes, they do have security at this mall. When I started visiting this mall around 2018, the security was very strict almost to the point of being assholes. In fact, not that long ago, a security guard assaulted and harassed a woman in the parking lot and he got in legal trouble for it. Lately, the security has gotten relax and they really don’t care that you’re in there filming. They’re mostly there to prevent vandalism and crimes because this mall is slated to be demolished any day now I visited about a week ago and it was open at night and very creepy so I filmed it. I thought it was really funny when you said you might be trespassing and didn’t want to get caught well. There were no signs on the outside of the building and it was unlocked. It is a Mall that is still operating, so no you’re completely safe.😊
Personally sad to see classy malls like this close. Shopping was an occasion, just like decades ago when cities had downtown retail and were destinations. I hate to see the end of this era, Now everybody sits home waiting on Amazon just to save a dime or two. And next, the government with CBDC is going to be telling people where and when to shop and what they can buy.
Why they continue constructions Of new malls?????? Professionals on marketing attraction For the elderly Tables games Dancing shows. Artesian shows No leadership destroy malls Children activities over the weekend During the week the lderly
We all need to congregate Schools. Knowledge Malls start relationships Relative. To cooperate and celebrate Church to cooperate develop Faith,hope and charity. And the skills to develop For a compassionate. Service to others Parents and grandparents to carry Over the wisdom of the ancestors Mall are important to socialize And discover healthy behavioral Patters to be showed. On the open. Malls are falling due to lack Of leadership on marketing Activities for all audiences........
This mall is huge but not a very attractive mall. I suspect it might have been remodeled in the 90s or early 2000s because 80s malls didn’t look this tacky. Aces adventures did a video on the abandoned Gwinnett Place mall some years ago and even in its abandoned state the center court was absolutely beautiful. That was a true 80s mall. This mall in my opinion borders on ugly. My guess is that this mall in its original state was much more attractive. Malls that were significantly remodeled in the 90s or early 2000s took on the tacky pastel color appearance you see here in this mall. It was an ugly fad at the time in my opinion.
I honestly thought this mall would have closed 5 years ago, I'm impressed it lasted for so long. RIP, it was and still is a pretty mall...
It was definitely a nice mall
I was there when it had it's grand opening. It was a great place
Such a shame these places all just sitting empty waiting to die, Liked vid
Right! It’s definitely sad to see! Interesting to see how much more will close. Thanks for watching
Believe it or not but this place was the place to go in the early ‘90’s if you were a teen or young adult in the early to I’d say mid 90’s. They had a huge arcade area (Time Out on the Court) and a cheap movie theatre called Super Saver Cinemas on the lower level. Things really started to go downhill by the late 90’s and they remodeled the place in 2004. Since then…well, you see what it is now. What was probably the final nail in the mall’s coffin is when the huge Biggs closed around 2008. Shortly after that everything else followed including the Showcase in 2010. It’s probably a good thing you went there during the day time…I certainly wouldn’t go at night. Anyways, this place is set to be demolished from what I heard. It’s too bad many people never got to see it back in the 90’s.
OMG I can tell it was the it spot! Very nice mall, so sad to see it completely empty like that. Almost eerie to see… sad. I think also they was trying to sell it for an outrageous amount and no one would buy it for the price. But I can definitely tell that was a thriving mall at one point! I have part 2 premiering tomorrow so take a look at that. Thanks for commenting 😊
in the 90's the cheaper theater was on the top level, you can still see the remnants of it today.
a few years ago they had a cheaper ($2) theater on the bottom level, which shut down about 5-6 years ago
@@subreel12000 wow! I think the theater I saw was upper level. I’ve heard that was the “it” mall/spot to hang at! Just sad to see it empty
I used to hang out in the food court when I was a teenager. There were a LOT of teens sitting in those chairs at the food court smoking cigarettes lol
I’m old😂
This was the place to be around 1994-1995 ish
So many memories. Sad it’s gone. It was a fun place back in the day!
I remember coming here as a kid, and enjoying the arcade. I'd often beg my parents to bring me when we were nearby, and ride some rides and play games until it was time to go. It's a shame it went downhill, and became what it is currently. I do remember seeing a lot of others hanging out here. Some fond memories were made here.
It was poppin in the early 2000s I miss this mall, used to go every weekend... I remember walking in and smelling fresh cinnabons 😢 this was before internet marketing really took off
Many Thanks for your time and effort to put this video together .I really appreciate watching this.Hope your able to tape the demolition too.
Thanks Mark! Man when that mall get demolished that’s going to be a site to see.. such a nice mall smh
In 1989, I helped decorate this mall for Christmas as a part time job. It was an amazing experience and the mall used to be packed! My dad until recently, would take his walks in the mall when the weather was bad.
Malls were still a hangout spot for me when I was a teenager in the early 2010s then in my early 20s I was able to afford to buy stuff now I’m closer to 30 and go once or twice a year…😅 I enjoy small business downtown instead!
That is true!
Nice looking mall. Strange it’s closed.
THis is so very sad!!!!!! What a shame that malls are no longer the "In" thing
It is very sad! Such a beautiful mall
I used to love visting this mall when I was a kid (forest fair mall) in the early 90s. Also went to work at this mall in the early 2000's when they redid it and renamed it cincinnati mills. I worked at Johnny Rockets, right before the first concessions she called aunt Anne's (auntie annes) right after the kids play area. this mall actually had two movie theaters a showcase cinema and a super save dollar cinema. Also had a night club called metropolis. It's so sad to see what this place has become.
awesome video!! super eerie i agree. i live in the area and im interested in checking it out for some photos, do you know if its still open to walk around in?
Hey! I’m not sure. I went through the door by the gym that’s open 24 hours. But this was 4 months ago. I would attempt sooner than later
You sure are a cool girl Michele! I loved your video! Good job! You sure have a cute demeanor about you. I wish we lived closer, because I would LOVE to hang with you and do these explorations with you! We'd have a blast!
Thanks 😊
i really appreciate this footage since it's not cut up into pieces and the added narration is cool. plus you recorded some areas that were not as well documentend which helps in mapping out the mall.
Thanks! I appreciate you watching 😃
This mall in particular was ruined the day they tried to strong arm BIGGS (grocer that was upstairs by the main entrance). It was part of my orientation when I worked at BIGGS that the mall wanted to raise rent on the grocer and they told the mall that if you raise rates anymore then it would be cheaper to build our own building. Mall tried to call their "bluff" and Biggs moved out. The moment that happened, foot traffic in the mall fell off a cliff and they weren't able to find any large retailer/grocer that wanted to occupy the space at those rates.
Then, years later, there was talk in the community paper about getting new stores in the mall to help the dying mall and the new owners were trying to charge rates based off their all time peak volume instead of the current foot traffic (Same thing the tri-county mall tried to do) and businessowners weren't biting.
I lived in Cincy in the 90s, and one thing I noticed is, I'd never seen so many malls per mile than any other place I lived...I would pull off of an onramp in rural IN or KY and boom! There would always be a Dillards (the usual anchor store) with a mall attached to it and virtually zero cars in the parking lot...or at least it seemed that way. Coming from CA where its wall to wall people and everything is so crowded it was interesting to me how they kept the lights on with so few customers in these places...and this was pre Amazon. The economy seemed pretty good and I was able to buy a nice house with an okay job (I worked for Circuit City in Forest Park, I think they were in or near this mall) so I chalked it up to everybody having a lot or disposable income at the time.
That’s a good point!
0:20 - 1.5 square feet, huh?
The size of two shoe boxes.
I live in another part of Greater Cincinnati. This seems like it could have been converted to a large horizontal apartment complex. Just this year 15 acres of good forest was destroyed to make room for apartments and housing.
This mall had everything in it back in the day. It even had a nightclub. I wish they would convert it to an outlet mall.
Fun video, I enjoy dead mall videos by people that have a relaxing voice, I guess the TH-cam algorithm thought I’d enjoy, and I did.
Thanks Travis! I’m happy you enjoyed it! I enjoy this type of stuff also. It’s actually very interesting! Stay tuned for more 😄
Is this place still open just for casual walks?
1.5 square feet?!?
Pretty crowded for a shopping mall!
Definitely a big mall for sure
Wait is it actually still open? It said it closed at the end of 2022 but can you still go inside?
It is completely abandoned but at that time you could still go inside and walk around
@@michelelashae8713 Ahhh gotcha. I went in 2021 I was hoping to come back. I'll see
@@monkeydui7241 not sure if it’s still able to walk thru! Won’t hurt to try lol
@@michelelashae8713 Anyway thanks for the video! Seeing these failing malls in Cincy is pretty sad. I know we still got Kenwood but all them going down is depressing.
@@monkeydui7241 I agree. Interesting to see what else closes within the next 3-5 years! Thanks for watching!
The Japanese place was still open until Covid. They also still have Kohl’s 💙
The former Steve and Barry's has remnants of its past. The Steve and Barry's was originally Elder-Beerman, then closed in 2003 when the company wanted to focus on smaller markets. Part of the former Elder-Beerman would briefly operate as Johnny's Toys, then Steve and Barry's would use all of the space. Steve and Barry's closed in 2009 due to bankruptcy. After the Steve and Barry's closed, the sign for Steve and Barry's remained on the exterior. On one of the entrances of the Steve and Barry's, there was an "EB" left over from Elder-Beerman. This mall surprisingly started to decline after opening, due to developer LJ Hooker's bankruptcy. LJ Hooker was the developer of this mall. I'm surprised that this mall declined after opening in 1989.
Just moved down here but pass this almost daily
Malls were ruined after the recession. A lot of the entertainment (arcades, cinemas, etc.) got removed during it, and that’s a big part of why they stopped becoming destination places. Malls failed to adapt to make their shopping experience more unique and fun than online stores, and they ended up becoming just a physical replica of shopping at home.
That is true!
Why isnt it used wow what a waste
Very big space wasted
i believe the only reason this mall is still open is because of kohl’s and bass pro shop which have they’re entrances from the mall closed.
Watching this reminds me of seeing videos of the Titanic at the bottom of the North Atlantic, an abandoned drive in theater, or an abandoned school. Your brain envisions people and hears the crowd, or children's voices in an abandoned school. The story of abandoned malls echoes income disparities and gentrification as different demographs populate an area, which is also the reason for food deserts in urban America. And of course, when more people began to shop online. I grew up in Bond Hill, with Swifton Shopping Center. The Mid City SWIFTON VILLAGE, which included what became the Hillcrest Apartments, briefly owned by the 45th President, started life as housing and shopping for returning WWII GIs, so everything was within walking distance, including Roselawn Park, Cincinnati Gardens, Maketewah County Club, and the moving of Woodward High School from downtown to Reading Road. Swifton Shopping Center was designed to be a bomb shelter as well, because right after WWII, the cold war began. The Reading Road Corridor was one of Cincinnati's first retail strips, being the "center" of Cincinnati, or Mid-City. This was the argument for building Cincinnati Gardens where it was. But it goes back even further. 100 years ago, at California & Reading there was the 5 Mile House. It was purchased by a wealthy immigrant, who after her husband died, turned it into one of the country's biggest entertainment venues, I believe called The Swiss Garden. Eubie Blake and other big names performed there. It did not survive the Great Depression. And Maketewah County Club, a PGA golf course now in the middle of a black neighborhood, is even older. It's name is a lie, designed to draw white settlers to the area. The claim was "Maketewah" is Shawnee for "land of great mills", but indigenous peoples did not have mills! And it aligned with how Bond Hill got it's name. Bond was one of the first white men to live in the area, he had a wood mill. The area became known as BOND'S MILL. Having to walk up hill, it became BOND'S HILL, then BOND HILL. But the retail of the Reading Road Corridor from downtown to Galbraith, and the demographs surrounding residential subdivisions give a revealing history lesson of Cincinnati. My childhood memories include time spent in Swifton Shopping Center, when Bond Hill still had a large white population. Then Swifton Commons, when Bond Hill became mostly black. After Elder Beerman left, it was never able to get another anchor store. Also, some retailers feared moving across from a black high school, as did their insurance companies. Last named Jordan Crossing, it tried to keep the legacy going. But the great years of Swifton Shopping Center and Swifton Commons were gone. I've been trying to find news reports, films, videos, even pictures of Swifton Village, Swifton Shopping Center, Swifton Commons, construction of the first Woodward on Reading Road, and it's first day of school, and Swifton Shopping Center's grand opening. I have found almost nothing. If by chance you discover enough information to do so, can you do a video on the history of SWIFTON SHOPPING CENTER, it's rise and fall, which is kind of a microcosm of the entire Reading Road Corridor. These types of educational videos help young, especially Black, children and young adults understand how their communities became as they are. I'm sorry for writing a book, but your videos offer a urban history lesson that inspired me to write.
Wow!!!! Thanks for that history, I had no clue. The generation now and later will never understand what older generations have been exposed to. I fear they won’t have anything smh
@@michelelashae8713 AMEN, I TOTALLY AGREE!!!!
Carolyn Wallace is who rescued Swifton Shopping Center on life support, and turned it into SWIFTON COMMONS. She is a YWCA award winner, and also founded IT'S COMMONLY JAZZ! She owns a catering business now called A PERFECT BREW. I think a video about her is on the YWCA'S website, or maybe can be found on TH-cam.
I don't understand why it's still open 😕 and wasting utilities. 😒
Right! All the lights are still, still running water etc.. that’s a hefty utility bill for someone lol
I had so many dates at this mall :( so many memories
It's sad to see malls die, some more quickly than others. But they're a moment of time, and we're not going back to it.
It is very sad. Malls are definitely becoming extinct
how to get in asking for friend 👀
I went to the door by the gym which is still open and operating. Now that was a couple months ago so I’m not sure if that’s still an option but that door was unlocked back then 😀
I have lots of footage of this mall over on my channel if you’d like to see it. And yes, they do have security at this mall. When I started visiting this mall around 2018, the security was very strict almost to the point of being assholes. In fact, not that long ago, a security guard assaulted and harassed a woman in the parking lot and he got in legal trouble for it. Lately, the security has gotten relax and they really don’t care that you’re in there filming. They’re mostly there to prevent vandalism and crimes because this mall is slated to be demolished any day now I visited about a week ago and it was open at night and very creepy so I filmed it. I thought it was really funny when you said you might be trespassing and didn’t want to get caught well. There were no signs on the outside of the building and it was unlocked. It is a Mall that is still operating, so no you’re completely safe.😊
Wow that’s crazy! I would imagine at night would be creepy lol
I could be wrong but, despite how busy FFM was, I don't think it was ever 100% full.
Are the citizens in the area going to rally to restore Cincinnati Mall to its former glory?
What is all the noise your camera is making???? I couldn’t watch this video for more than 30sec
This is too big for City size of Cincy.
That’s a good point!
Personally sad to see classy malls like this close. Shopping was an occasion, just like decades ago when cities had downtown retail and were destinations. I hate to see the end of this era, Now everybody sits home waiting on Amazon just to save a dime or two. And next, the government with CBDC is going to be telling people where and when to shop and what they can buy.
Malls are definitely becoming a thing of the past
What a shame. Is anything opened? Scary place not even for a mall walker.
When you want to be alone in the city? You go to the mall.
It is sad to see
To bad they can't repurpose it into housing
Why they continue constructions
Of new malls??????
Professionals on marketing attraction
For the elderly
Tables games
Dancing shows.
Artesian shows
No leadership destroy malls
Children activities over the weekend
During the week the lderly
Yea I’m not quite sure, it definitely seem like malls are becoming a thing of the past for sure.
We all need to congregate
Schools. Knowledge
Malls start relationships
Relative. To cooperate and celebrate
Church to cooperate develop
Faith,hope and charity.
And the skills to develop
For a compassionate. Service to others
Parents and grandparents to carry
Over the wisdom of the ancestors
Mall are important to socialize
And discover healthy behavioral
Patters to be showed. On the open.
Malls are falling due to lack
Of leadership on marketing
Activities for all audiences........
This mall is huge but not a very attractive mall. I suspect it might have been remodeled in the 90s or early 2000s because 80s malls didn’t look this tacky. Aces adventures did a video on the abandoned Gwinnett Place mall some years ago and even in its abandoned state the center court was absolutely beautiful. That was a true 80s mall. This mall in my opinion borders on ugly. My guess is that this mall in its original state was much more attractive. Malls that were significantly remodeled in the 90s or early 2000s took on the tacky pastel color appearance you see here in this mall. It was an ugly fad at the time in my opinion.
This lady doesn't sound very educated
When I was 13, I got my first cell phone in that very mall, in that very spot. I’ll be 30 this month and I still have the same phone number 🫵😎