Another excellent video sir. Breaks my heart to see the Orange Mall gutted. So many great memories hanging with friends, back to school shopping, and catching the midnight movie at the Orange 6 theater behind The Broadway. 👍✌️
This truly saddens me 😞- so many wonderful childhood memories with my parents, shopping at B. Dalton Booksellers, and the huge Toy Store they had, I believe almost next door to the bookstore! Oh, my mom LOVED to shop at The Broadway LOL!! We were so sad when that went and was later replaced with, of all things, a Wal-Mart *sigh*...truly a sign of the times. Also, yes, the little 6-Theater behind the Mall was where I saw so many movies with family and friends during my youth!! Christmas time at the Orange Mall was also a blast getting to hang-out in the toy section at Sears (which was in their basement/downstairs) while my father was picking out gifts for family friends!
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN Yeah, even the K-Mart is gone - in fact, speaking of things no longer in this area, Cinemapolis/Cinema City is being replaced by a Tesla Dealership...I am (still) so upset!! I remember the Pic N' Save in the same center as K-Mart too. Lots of fun times shopping with my mom for cool inexpensive toys and household nick-nacks 🙂!! I get it time changes things, BUT this is just too much change and not necessarily for the better 😞.
I met my wife in 1971 at Sears. She worked at the telephone catalogue department downstairs. Our first date-so-to-speak-we spent walking the original footprint of the mall from Sears down to Penny's. They were the anchor stores for all the other shops along the mall. Amazing at the memories that still live around something that is going to be ripped down.
The j c penny building was a woolworth store when the mall opened, I was a manager there. My first job was at Sears at the Xmas free pot when I was 18. Now I am 80....
So my dad Karel Timmermans tiled those 3 orange arches when he worked for McCandless Tile. I was 5 years old but I remember him or the company getting some kind of an award for it since nothing like that had been done before. All just a memory now.
I was there yesterday! Can't believe The Village Mall is done for! When I took videos of them demoing the building itself, I had an emotional moment! My childhood is forever gone! I remember going to Todai Japanese Buffet, food was great! Man so many memories!
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN That Sears has been empty for years! First one to go then JcPenny! I still have my ninja blender from Sears which I got it for $25, retail was $125! Closeout sale my friend! Well I might have to visit spirit of Halloween! Watching the Mall get demolished knowing the memories you have of it, just feels emotional. Can't describe it, almost feels like being lost! Where Party City sits use to be a hobby store called Ultimate Hobbies which they relocated further down on Tustin Ave.
@@caponecruz6259 that was my mall growing up in the 70s. I do own a MALL OF ORANGE street sign that was out there on the streets some pace & It has to be from the 80's i bet
I have many fond memories of the Orange Mall. One that stands out is when I was a sophomore and bought Dokken’s Tooth and Nail on vinyl from Sam Goody while shopping with my mom and sister. My best friend in high school had a thing for the Carl’s Jr. on the Sears end of the mall. I also remember frequenting the walk-in movie theater during my high school and college years. For a brief time in college, I worked at Things Remembered, and I even covered a shift for my high school sweetheart, who couldn’t make it to her shift at a kiosk after having a bit too much to drink the night before.
I look forward to the future of this property. Last time I went into SEARS there were dead mice and the smell of retirement lingering. It's served its purpose. Great video!
Oh wow. You mentioned the La Fiesta Mexican restaurant!!!! Same here. My grandparents would take us with them in the early 80s when they babysat me and my brother. Crazy how it’s changing! The basement at the sears is actually 24 hours fitness. You walk in to check in and then go down the stairs or elevator to basement for the workout floor and lockers and pool area
Awesome video. I watched the Westminster mall video about a month ago and it made me go check it out for myself. I'm so glad I went. Thanks for the great videos.
WOW! I moved to Orange County in 1990. Back then, this was the Orange Mall .. Anchored by Sears and JC Penney. Sears had a huge Auto Center. They did a lot of service and maintenance jobs on cars. Everything under the hood except engine and transmission work. I came here when i didn't know any mechanics... Come very early and sit here all day until my car was finished. There was a second-run movie theater in the northwest corner of the mall... AMC Orange. Tickets were $1.
Yes, they were cool. I would save my money to buy a cool knife when I was a kid. No one got upset that I would have one and make a big deal out of it. I could show them off to family and friends. No one got hurt or anything. But in today's society if a kid has a whittling knife they sure make a big deal out of it. Times sure have changed. I recently happened upon my knife collection. They still look new in their original packaging and discovered that they are now worth thousands of dollars. Not bad for a kid with a pocket knife to make an investment.😢@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN
Im going to miss this little hangout. Me and my lady called it "The Mini Mall". We used to eat at the In-N-Out across the street then hit the Mall and Walmart lol.
You were brave to do that much walking during our heat wave 🥵. Yikes! Appreciate your efforts to make this video. So many good memories there: getting some Sees candy and then going to the pet store to look at the puppies & kittens🥰. Good times.
@@pauline3735 it was HOT & i burned a calorie...lol. I see it even shows the beginning of the Airport fire in the distance when i was by the JCPenneys out back.
Grew up going there from Garden Grove then lived up the hill off Meats for 25 years. In Florida now 10 years. Sad to see it going! The Block has fizzled too!
Even tho the mall is gone the property & city is still making mass amounts of money on the other stores and resturants plus the walmart. From leases & tax revenues
@@miltonwelch4177 and only 20 dollars all you can eat lobsters, sashimi, Sushi. I made 8.50 dollars per hr. But had to have at least once a month! Lol.
Holy cow’s memory lane I remember hanging out at the mall when I was young where that Walmart sits was the Broadway over there by millers outpost you were right it was a RadioShack in there and the sees candy if I remember correctly but holy cow’s time fliesthanks for making this video. I went to Canyon high school and grew up in that neighborhood. Crazy times.
I worked at the Orange Mail back in 1989-1990 at Kits Cameras, right near the main entrance. There was a Sears on the left side and that 70's "modern art" sculpture in the middle inside the mall. I actually thought this place had been torn down years ago. I had no idea any remnant remained. There also used to be a Music Plus (or was it Licorice Pizza?) next to a theater where all the goths would come to watch Rocky Horror on Friday nights. I also worked at "The City" on State College.
@@bombaybeach208 it was music plus. Sears side of the mall has a 90yr lease that lasts til 2054....amazing!!! The City Shopping Center i vaguely remember the inside cuz i was very little
Bitter sweet. That mall has been going downhill for at least 20yrs. That being said, it makes me sad. Years ago, that was my go to Sears store before they shut them all down. I would drive over the hill and get a lot of my tools and appliances from sears. Then, I used to get some neat little gifts from Cost Plus Imports.
I watched Laguna Hills Mall die a slow painful death, get demolished, and just sit as an empty lot for a while now. Kind of depressing. That’s where I brought my kids all the time when they were growing up. Life evolves. That Sears in Orange was one of the last. I went there just before it closed for posterity sake. We thought that Sears would last forever. Sears Auto closed because they were ripping people off including me. Charging for work they didn’t actually do.
@@M_Baker9ersFan i never went in to the Laguna Hills mall just the Sears for the huge tool dept downstairs. i did go to the antique shows they have in the parking lot there. I was at the Sears in Orange on its last day as they announced we are now closed.
I grew up there been to that mall 1000s times spent my childhood shopping there this is very upsetting the sears building was a classic mind century architecture
Where the habit is used to be sass shoes, next to the sass shoes used to be total wine and more, in the corner was a party city, next to the Petco. I actually haven’t been over there since they’ve started demolition. Can’t believe they closed the Savon. That dumpling place is super new. Next to home goods used to be Tilly’s and a Verizon. I actually used to work in the salon at JCPenney’s back in the day. Or the 90s.
I remember the SASS shoes there now you say it. They moved down Tustin Ave if they're still even down there? I remember a JCPenney eatery there waaaaaay back.
Took my two sons there in strollers when they were tiny babies to pass the time. We met Winnie the Pooh at Sears when my youngest was 6. Santa photos too. Shopped with friends too. Sad to see. So many memories.
im looking at it not for the current shops that got torn down, im looking at going there when it was the 70's and 80's. The Orange Mall 6 Theater was right in the back to the right behind depot. What are they going to do with the area ?
I grew up right there. Hell i am still banned from the mall for skateboarding back inthe late 80's! Remember playing video games in the basement of Sears. Great area. I really miss Ralph's Subs from taft and tustin. Best subs around... Good times are gone. Memories are all tgats left...
I remember back in the 80’s during Christmas season some kids came in and one of them shot one of their friends playing with the gun. Sadly that teenager passed away. It I live in Yorba Linda. So it was either the orange mall or Brea mall. I remember when the Brea mall had an ice rink where the food court is at.😅😅
Being a kid of the 80's and 90's, it sucks to see these vids. I lived in Northridge, so i would go to that one all the time. Grandma would take me to JC Pennies for back to school shopping.
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN Well not quite. CA does have the affordable housing programs so the 10-20% of the units that have to go to that will get occupants. The rest will remain empty though so they can get their tax write-off. Its sad but since they closed, well forced out, the wine exchange that was there almost everyone I know quit going there. It may not be much but the 40-50+ we each spent there weekly adds up, since it was 20+ of us. Westminster Mall got hit by business just west of it closing. It does bring a point though with the closing of so much were will people work to shop anyways?
Yeah people do need to work but where when so many places are going out / closing businesses. Online sales is an easy peocess but killing everything else
Oh man what a sad day. I worked at that Sears and I used to work at the Broadway as both the salesperson and in los prevention. Sad to see what's happening at these malls. if they just added some living space up above. Condos, townhomes. I keep telling all these developers. I'm a Gen X. We grew up at the mall. We later got jobs working at the mall. I also worked at that CVS too when it was inside the mall. very small. I wish they would do mixed use because I personally would love to own a condo You can then take your elevator down You could put medical doctors in urgent care facilities and there that cater specifically to geriatric practice. Add in your trader Joe's and a few other amenities and guess what folks You've got a great area to live. I like to see the movies so put in an AMC but those reclining lounge chairs and let's get to it I want a new place to live that's fun and they could have done it here. Added in a dark dog park and a few other things and they would have had people lining up to live there. Sad sad day. I know Simon shopping centers is doing that in Tacoma and a few other places in the Pacific Northwest. Doctors need cheaper rent in so if you build a suite of medical providers as well as have a place to shop etc it's perfect for seniors who can't drive they could take their golf cart or motorized shooter to get around. Buses could come right to that location and then take them out to the casino and all the other places that seniors like to go too.
I love Amazon. I don’t have to drive to a store and find it’s out of stock. I order it online, price is same or less and is on my door step the next day. I return items at my local UPS Store with no long return line and no hassle. 😊
@@MadisonConnor2525 Part of it for me is, I like the social aspect, I want to touch and feel the quality and i don’t like mailing back things I don’t want. I do understand the convenience of ordering online but, I’m more of a hands on and like to just get out and in public. Maybe some adult ADD. 😆
I used to like that mall. What are they going to build? I think they want to build houses and or apartments. We don't need more of that.15 min cities HMMMM. Sad to see it go. Yes we had a hot humid summer.
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN St Pauls Lutheran is just North of the mall at Canal and Heim. They have a school of some sort there. I think the bought/leased the lot on the corner of Canal and Heim. Part of it used for parking the other for a sports field.
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN U look like Alex Jons, has anyone told u that? I thought u were him when i first saw your pic on a video thumbnail, lol. Btw. I saw an article on an app called Newsbreak: It mentioned Crenshaw Mall. But it didn't elude to it closing down. I can only assume it did. But the news story had pop up ads and you couldn't read the story. I know u cover mostly malls and sites closing down, but how about South Coat Plaza mall ( As being the most expensive mall in Southern Cali/ ex. watch stores: Lange and Sohn that sell $100,000 watches/ , also Century City Mall being one of the most expensive in the sense that I can barely afford parking to see that mall, lol. I believe they have luxury watch stores there too and a very upscale store selection.
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN I don't know if u remember Falbrook Mall in West Hills, California in the 1990's. But I google imaged searched it and saw old pics of the interior, If you can find enough old pics you can recreate a video of how it used to be and what is today. Same with Topanga mall ( west Hills ), which has since expanded in 2024 to a much larger more luxurious mall, and the new development of bars/restaurants/strip before Promenade Mall in Woodland hills. I think promenade mall may still be the same from the 1990's. Also U might as well cover panorama mall. Hell, all malls in So cal. They don't have to be closed down, cuz one day soon they might.. U got a cool concept of a channel. Hell all malls in the different area codes in so cal.
I thought they just redid all these parts of the mall in the early 2000s and the early 90s too, anyhow just be careful videoing they can be disturbing asbestos, that you can't see or smell!
That mall was used and I mean used for decades so much stuff was sold out of that mall half the landfill got there shit from this mall remember everything and I mean everything ends up in rhe landfill including the mall itself that was the chick capital of orange County so much money was made and spent there it's about time because everything is garbage after millions of people go through it unless you take care of it like Disneyland everybuilding will end up demo.the best thing for that property .smart.
Use to be the only thing going in the early 80’s now in the mid 2000’s it’s dead. Bye sweet memories! My boyfriend bought me a beautiful pink angora sweater there.🩷✨
It broke my heart the last few times I went and it was almost empty every time. I used to take my sons there to the pet stores just to watch the puppies and some other pets. Sweet memories though… 🥲🥲🥲 does some one knows what is the plan after that?
Another excellent video sir. Breaks my heart to see the Orange Mall gutted. So many great memories hanging with friends, back to school shopping, and catching the midnight movie at the Orange 6 theater behind The Broadway. 👍✌️
@@abmtnbkrthank you, i stumbled across it being knocked down. Old school memories is all we have now.
This truly saddens me 😞- so many wonderful childhood memories with my parents, shopping at B. Dalton Booksellers, and the huge Toy Store they had, I believe almost next door to the bookstore! Oh, my mom LOVED to shop at The Broadway LOL!! We were so sad when that went and was later replaced with, of all things, a Wal-Mart *sigh*...truly a sign of the times. Also, yes, the little 6-Theater behind the Mall was where I saw so many movies with family and friends during my youth!! Christmas time at the Orange Mall was also a blast getting to hang-out in the toy section at Sears (which was in their basement/downstairs) while my father was picking out gifts for family friends!
I worked at Kmart when they were building that Walmart & the bosses said we need to up our game to survive. Now no more Kmart
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN Yeah, even the K-Mart is gone - in fact, speaking of things no longer in this area, Cinemapolis/Cinema City is being replaced by a Tesla Dealership...I am (still) so upset!! I remember the Pic N' Save in the same center as K-Mart too. Lots of fun times shopping with my mom for cool inexpensive toys and household nick-nacks 🙂!! I get it time changes things, BUT this is just too much change and not necessarily for the better 😞.
@@hessian1776 the 2 no no places to be seen at back in the day. K-mart & Pic-n-Save. Lol
I met my wife in 1971 at Sears. She worked at the telephone catalogue department downstairs. Our first date-so-to-speak-we spent walking the original footprint of the mall from Sears down to Penny's. They were the anchor stores for all the other shops along the mall. Amazing at the memories that still live around something that is going to be ripped down.
Yeah it's what we have now are the memories. Cool story!
The j c penny building was a woolworth store when the mall opened, I was a manager there. My first job was at Sears at the Xmas free pot when I was 18. Now I am 80....
So my dad Karel Timmermans tiled those 3 orange arches when he worked for McCandless Tile. I was 5 years old but I remember him or the company getting some kind of an award for it since nothing like that had been done before. All just a memory now.
The good old days of Woolworth. did it have an eatery?
An hour before I started watching this video, my husband had been remembering that place from when he was younger. That’s weird!
I was there yesterday! Can't believe The Village Mall is done for! When I took videos of them demoing the building itself, I had an emotional moment! My childhood is forever gone! I remember going to Todai Japanese Buffet, food was great! Man so many memories!
@@caponecruz6259 i was there yesterday too to get close up video of the emptiness inside & spirit halloween is going in the Sears building soon
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN That Sears has been empty for years! First one to go then JcPenny! I still have my ninja blender from Sears which I got it for $25, retail was $125! Closeout sale my friend! Well I might have to visit spirit of Halloween! Watching the Mall get demolished knowing the memories you have of it, just feels emotional. Can't describe it, almost feels like being lost! Where Party City sits use to be a hobby store called Ultimate Hobbies which they relocated further down on Tustin Ave.
@@caponecruz6259 that was my mall growing up in the 70s. I do own a MALL OF ORANGE street sign that was out there on the streets some pace & It has to be from the 80's i bet
Thanks for documenting these dead malls.
It will be interesting to watch years later to remember the old days.
Yeah, i feel i started to late it seems like but ill film what left then branch out further coming up
It's not really fair to refer to it as "dead". It actually wasn't dead. That Ulta was built within the last 3ish years.
Ok we'll say it wasn't dead & we'll call it demolished then
I have many fond memories of the Orange Mall. One that stands out is when I was a sophomore and bought Dokken’s Tooth and Nail on vinyl from Sam Goody while shopping with my mom and sister. My best friend in high school had a thing for the Carl’s Jr. on the Sears end of the mall. I also remember frequenting the walk-in movie theater during my high school and college years.
For a brief time in college, I worked at Things Remembered, and I even covered a shift for my high school sweetheart, who couldn’t make it to her shift at a kiosk after having a bit too much to drink the night before.
Memories definitely! 👍 a new video of the demo will be up in the morning which shows some good close ups too.
Tooth and nail was a great album
I look forward to the future of this property. Last time I went into SEARS there were dead mice and the smell of retirement lingering. It's served its purpose. Great video!
@@nickfromm5315 i did see rodent boxes outside that Sears yesterday. Maybe they've been there since the closure?
Me and my buddies would ride our bikes from Fullerton to the Mall of Orange in the early ‘70’s or catch a movie. OC has changed so much
Thats a haul!! I remember riding my bike from Anaheim to Cerritos when they had that air disaster in the 80's & that was a haul.
Oh wow. You mentioned the La Fiesta Mexican restaurant!!!! Same here. My grandparents would take us with them in the early 80s when they babysat me and my brother. Crazy how it’s changing! The basement at the sears is actually 24 hours fitness. You walk in to check in and then go down the stairs or elevator to basement for the workout floor and lockers and pool area
Yeah, Way back in the day on the Mexican Resturant. I never been in the 24hour fitness & didn't know it has a pool too
You brought back some memories for me, thank you for sharing. Sad to see it being torn down.
@@timrusk2247 memories is all we have now from that mall
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN so true, I was sad when they torn down the theater, I remember that was the hang out in the day, same with echo pizza
Never heard of that Echo pizza place
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN maybe I was wrong about the name , it was in the same area of millers out post and I right next door to music plus
You may have the right name i just don't remember it but i do remember music+. I have a button from there from like 1983
Awesome video. I watched the Westminster mall video about a month ago and it made me go check it out for myself. I'm so glad I went. Thanks for the great videos.
Thanks for watching & yeah the Westminster Mall is an experience to go check out before it goes away.
Looks like the Sears building is older than the village mall based on the old school bricks and architecture vs the Mall's newer cinder blocks.
@@Neotank22000yeah, Sears was a stand alone building like 3 years before the mall got attached.
Definitely 70s
Sears was there since the Mall of Orange days back in the 80's.
Thank you. Now I know how the autoworkers felt. I got my first job at Florsheim at that mall.
@@erikh9991 back when shoes were made to last
WOW!
I moved to Orange County in 1990.
Back then, this was the Orange Mall ..
Anchored by Sears and JC Penney.
Sears had a huge Auto Center.
They did a lot of service and maintenance jobs on cars.
Everything under the hood except engine and transmission work.
I came here when i didn't know any mechanics... Come very early and sit here all day until my car was finished.
There was a second-run movie theater in the northwest corner of the mall... AMC Orange. Tickets were $1.
If i seen a pic of the theater it would jog my memory cuz alot of people mention the theater over there
Remember when it was called The Mall of Orange. Got my table saw from Sears 40 years ago. I still have it and still works great. Sad to see it go.
@@Serrano46571 i own a Mall of Orange street sign from way back
I remember Miller's Outpost! Specialized in western wear. And I'll never forget their jingle "Your Merry Christmas star".
@@barbaraperry1412 lol
All my Levi’s were from Millers Outpost or the Williams Co on Commonwealth in Fullerton
Sad to see, used to shop at Sears and get photos of Santa and the Easter Bunny by Mall Photos. Sees Candy's was the best.
I was shocked to see it being gutted already. Didn't hear any news about it.
I bought alot from that Sears.
The knife shop kicked ass. Same with Buena Park.
Those old school knive shops were always cool
Yes, they were cool. I would save my money to buy a cool knife when I was a kid. No one got upset that I would have one and make a big deal out of it. I could show them off to family and friends. No one got hurt or anything. But in today's society if a kid has a whittling knife they sure make a big deal out of it. Times sure have changed. I recently happened upon my knife collection. They still look new in their original packaging and discovered that they are now worth thousands of dollars. Not bad for a kid with a pocket knife to make an investment.😢@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN
Both had the same owners. Or at least they were the same when they were both remodeled around the same time. I worked on both job sites at the time
He is accentuating the poor air quality without being aware of the 3 major wildfires going on in the area at that time.
Yeah i dont watch news and we do get smog that covers the area here & there
Im going to miss this little hangout. Me and my lady called it "The Mini Mall". We used to eat at the In-N-Out across the street then hit the Mall and Walmart lol.
Bye bye mini mall. 😁
You were brave to do that much walking during our heat wave 🥵. Yikes! Appreciate your efforts to make this video. So many good memories there: getting some Sees candy and then going to the pet store to look at the puppies & kittens🥰. Good times.
@@pauline3735 it was HOT & i burned a calorie...lol. I see it even shows the beginning of the Airport fire in the distance when i was by the JCPenneys out back.
Crazy to see it closed up, this place was so popular when I was a teenager 15 years ago.
@@itsthedude6155 almost 100% leveled now
Appreciate your video and the walk down memory lane. Wonder what they're going to do with the old Sears and Pennys.
I can picture Pennys getting knocked down at some point. Sears (TrandformCo) owns the land of the building all the way to Trader Joes
Grew up going there from Garden Grove then lived up the hill off Meats for 25 years. In Florida now 10 years. Sad to see it going!
The Block has fizzled too!
Yeah the block has gone thru changes but seems like open air should be the modern concept for shopping malls / centers
Replying to @kirkmanning6232:
you mean **THE BLOCK AT ORANGE IS STILL BUSY**, RIGHT?
Property is just too valuable to let sit unoccupied with a now antiquated shopping mall.
Even tho the mall is gone the property & city is still making mass amounts of money on the other stores and resturants plus the walmart. From leases & tax revenues
It was very nice in the 90s. I used to go to Todai (Japanese al you can eat buffet) when i was in college.
I remember before that it was a mexican resturant late 70's
Thanks for the reminder. Todai was to-die-for. Loved it.
@@miltonwelch4177 and only 20 dollars all you can eat lobsters, sashimi, Sushi. I made 8.50 dollars per hr. But had to have at least once a month! Lol.
Holy cow’s memory lane I remember hanging out at the mall when I was young where that Walmart sits was the Broadway over there by millers outpost you were right it was a RadioShack in there and the sees candy if I remember correctly but holy cow’s time fliesthanks for making this video. I went to Canyon high school and grew up in that neighborhood. Crazy times.
@@gilplasencia8638 yeah time does seem to fly these days. The interior of the mall is all most 100% gone!
I worked at the Orange Mail back in 1989-1990 at Kits Cameras, right near the main entrance. There was a Sears on the left side and that 70's "modern art" sculpture in the middle inside the mall. I actually thought this place had been torn down years ago. I had no idea any remnant remained. There also used to be a Music Plus (or was it Licorice Pizza?) next to a theater where all the goths would come to watch Rocky Horror on Friday nights.
I also worked at "The City" on State College.
@@bombaybeach208 it was music plus. Sears side of the mall has a 90yr lease that lasts til 2054....amazing!!! The City Shopping Center i vaguely remember the inside cuz i was very little
Thought it would get modified............Sad, all he money spent to convert to indoors. Mail order sucks, I miss stores.
Mail order? Are you still using the Pony Express?
@@lonniesanez8597Mail Orders Suck! For Reals, Can’t Compare To The Real Experience! 💪
Mail Orders Suck! For Reals, Can’t Compare To The Real Experience! 💪
I agree it sucks to see such a landmark go away, but there are still stores! There were too many malls lol.
There are plenty of malls in socal still. Too many maybe even. Just in orange there are a couple other malls even
I remember hanging out the arcade and eating at the Carl's Jr attached to the mall...Good times 😀
I liked the old charbroiler at that Carl's Jr. Gutted now i seen
80's.. Sears on one side and JC Penny on the other.. Carl's Jr back in the day was like having a steak dinner.
Bitter sweet. That mall has been going downhill for at least 20yrs. That being said, it makes me sad. Years ago, that was my go to Sears store before they shut them all down. I would drive over the hill and get a lot of my tools and appliances from sears. Then, I used to get some neat little gifts from Cost Plus Imports.
Orange native here go ORANGE!!!
@@foxfarmnutes gooooo Orange!
Who needs malls, or let alone any retail stores when we have Amazon?
Amazon has all our answers.
We are hermit crabs 😊
Yeah, Instant merchandise with Amazon. Save time, gas & effort.
Buena Park Mall isn't following too far behind.
The Sears in BP is supposed to get knocked down soon i hear.
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN interesting!!! I'll keep an eye out. I frequent the area regularly.
All the drugstores seem to be closing also. My RITEAID’s closed and I hear CVS & Walgreens are closing eventually also.
Way to may of those drug store locations in my opinion. They flooded the market & now its biting them
I watched Laguna Hills Mall die a slow painful death, get demolished, and just sit as an empty lot for a while now. Kind of depressing. That’s where I brought my kids all the time when they were growing up. Life evolves.
That Sears in Orange was one of the last. I went there just before it closed for posterity sake. We thought that Sears would last forever. Sears Auto closed because they were ripping people off including me. Charging for work they didn’t actually do.
@@M_Baker9ersFan i never went in to the Laguna Hills mall just the Sears for the huge tool dept downstairs. i did go to the antique shows they have in the parking lot there. I was at the Sears in Orange on its last day as they announced we are now closed.
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN it became a pile of rubble for a couple years before they were forced to remove it. Now it’s still just a humongous empty lot
I grew up there been to that mall 1000s times spent my childhood shopping there this is very upsetting the sears building was a classic mind century architecture
Sears building isn't going any place that im aware of. I remember the huge script logo in green on it back in the day.
Parking perimeter wall is a mid-century beauty on its own..
Where the habit is used to be sass shoes, next to the sass shoes used to be total wine and more, in the corner was a party city, next to the Petco. I actually haven’t been over there since they’ve started demolition. Can’t believe they closed the Savon. That dumpling place is super new. Next to home goods used to be Tilly’s and a Verizon. I actually used to work in the salon at JCPenney’s back in the day. Or the 90s.
I remember the SASS shoes there now you say it. They moved down Tustin Ave if they're still even down there? I remember a JCPenney eatery there waaaaaay back.
Did you ride the mechanical bull?
I was surprised to see Ulta gone. I thought since they were on the front next to Sprouts they were staying.
They were inside the main entrance so yeah they had to go
more apartments and hi rise condos and more traffic
We shall see
Trader Joe's is expanding into the CVS space? That's great news!! That location is where I do most of my grocery shopping.
Thats what i hear & maybe another new location on Chapman & Tustin
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN Great, thanks!! I enjoyed your video. :)
@shangobunni5 thank you
Sears had an arcade in the basement. That was the first time I saw the first version of Atari we
were blown away
Took my two sons there in strollers when they were tiny babies to pass the time. We met Winnie the Pooh at Sears when my youngest was 6. Santa photos too. Shopped with friends too. Sad to see. So many memories.
im looking at it not for the current shops that got torn down, im looking at going there when it was the 70's and 80's. The Orange Mall 6 Theater was right in the back to the right behind depot. What are they going to do with the area ?
@@redtesta its not 100% clear as to what's going in there yet. Once i know I'll shoot a video explaining it
I grew up right there. Hell i am still banned from the mall for skateboarding back inthe late 80's! Remember playing video games in the basement of Sears. Great area. I really miss Ralph's Subs from taft and tustin. Best subs around... Good times are gone. Memories are all tgats left...
I worked at Kmart where the Ralphs Subs was went there alot in the 90's now i think a Ramen place
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMANwe probably ran across each other back in the day. Good times. Good memories. Thanks for posting this video
I remember back in the 80’s during Christmas season some kids came in and one of them shot one of their friends playing with the gun. Sadly that teenager passed away. It I live in Yorba Linda. So it was either the orange mall or Brea mall. I remember when the Brea mall had an ice rink where the food court is at.😅😅
@@jdold7 my co worker said there was an ice rink in the Brea mall back in the day & showed me pics of it.
I went before, they had dog shop in the indoor mall. They will probably modernize it. The shops next to it are usually busy.
I think housing is going to start being over there?
I used to work at a hot dog place in that Mall back in the mid 90's. It was struggling then to keep good tenants.
Wow, when did the Mall close it's doors? Grew up at this mall. Lots of memories.
Who remembers the movie theater next to it, closed years ago.
@@WestCoastFront January it closed down. I filmed the interior of it and have a video up too
The land will be much more valuable as residential. Congratulations to the owners for releasing so mus value to investors.
@@phaecops yeah i bet housing will be the verdict over there & it wont be seen from the Tustin St side either.
Its sad that there's a lot of illegal dumping going on in the parking lots including hazmat. Security is minimal now.
Looks like the city code enforcement seems to check on the property here and there i see.
Being a kid of the 80's and 90's, it sucks to see these vids. I lived in Northridge, so i would go to that one all the time. Grandma would take me to JC Pennies for back to school shopping.
Yeah things need to be documented now so we can see what things looked like in the future
building luxury apartments no one can afford😢
I can picture it
Is this just a guess or are you certain?
@@jimdehart9196 id bet vegas on it. its happening everwhere.
I guess malls were a 70's & 80's thing. Now they have Walmart & Amazon :) Majority of the times they will build apartments in the place of the mall.
I bought my flat screen tv at Sears back then before going out of business I still have it
Twards the end they got rid of the whole electronic section
Used to come to the Sears-would stop and grab some pizza at Sbarro’s. My husband and son loved the knife store!
I used to shop the Orange Sears alot but never really at the food court food. The Mall knife stores were cool & unique places
I grew up going to this mall with my mom and sister, and worked at Sears in 2001. Sad to see it go, but it was dead...
I worked at Kmart up the street from 1991 to 2001 now home depot
Isn’t there a 24hr fitness near Sears?
Yes, it's landlord is Transformco the owners of Sears & Kmart
Do you know what they're replacing it with? I lived in a condo across the street for a dozen years, but moved on almost 20 years ago.
Another mall goes 😕 thanks for preserving places like this through video.
Yeah, i do have a video of the inside before it closed in January
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN Awesome! I hope you can upload it sometime.
A part of my childhood going away forever, a sad day! 😭
My childhood too there
The "Red Robin" used to be "The Parasol" restaurant.
Must of been way back in the day?
Very thank to This show … I very surprised why many Famous Mall became quiet as ghosts Places .. 😢
What?
The ease of Internet sales having everything vs walking in a mall
It can only mean more mixed use condos and a Whole Foods now.
There is a Sprouts market there but yeah i bet more un affordable housing.
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN Well not quite. CA does have the affordable housing programs so the 10-20% of the units that have to go to that will get occupants. The rest will remain empty though so they can get their tax write-off.
Its sad but since they closed, well forced out, the wine exchange that was there almost everyone I know quit going there. It may not be much but the 40-50+ we each spent there weekly adds up, since it was 20+ of us. Westminster Mall got hit by business just west of it closing. It does bring a point though with the closing of so much were will people work to shop anyways?
Yeah people do need to work but where when so many places are going out / closing businesses. Online sales is an easy peocess but killing everything else
I am so sad to see this happening.
This is so sad. What are they going to do with those empty spaces after demolished.
I havent been clued in on it yet
Extreme Capitalist multi-millionaire owners bailing and demolishing is a bad look.
Oh man what a sad day. I worked at that Sears and I used to work at the Broadway as both the salesperson and in los prevention. Sad to see what's happening at these malls.
if they just added some living space up above.
Condos, townhomes.
I keep telling all these developers. I'm a Gen X. We grew up at the mall. We later got jobs working at the mall. I also worked at that CVS too when it was inside the mall. very small. I wish they would do mixed use because I personally would love to own a condo You can then take your elevator down You could put medical doctors in urgent care facilities and there that cater specifically to geriatric practice. Add in your trader Joe's and a few other amenities and guess what folks You've got a great area to live. I like to see the movies so put in an AMC but those reclining lounge chairs and let's get to it I want a new place to live that's fun and they could have done it here. Added in a dark dog park and a few other things and they would have had people lining up to live there. Sad sad day. I know Simon shopping centers is doing that in Tacoma and a few other places in the Pacific Northwest. Doctors need cheaper rent in so if you build a suite of medical providers as well as have a place to shop etc it's perfect for seniors who can't drive they could take their golf cart or motorized shooter to get around. Buses could come right to that location and then take them out to the casino and all the other places that seniors like to go too.
I wasn't aware of it but I was there today around 10 am and saw what it is and didn't want to accept it
That Todai restaurant had a deal where if you ate there on your birthday you would get your next meal there for free.
The good ol days when free was a thing
Thanks Amazon and all who use it. And $5.00 per gallon gas.
Amazon surely screwed things up for retail.
So true
I love Amazon. I don’t have to drive to a store and find it’s out of stock. I order it online, price is same or less and is on my door step the next day. I return items at my local UPS Store with no long return line and no hassle. 😊
@@MadisonConnor2525
Part of it for me is, I like the social aspect, I want to touch and feel the quality and i don’t like mailing back things I don’t want. I do understand the convenience of ordering online but, I’m more of a hands on and like to just get out and in public. Maybe some adult ADD. 😆
@stanleyjohnson2582 its what a lot of us are used to. Going out a seeing things even tho Amazon is just a click away.
wow that mall was my childhood. I actually don't have the best memories of that place. Weird seeing it torn down though
I stumbled across it by parking in the back to go to WalMart
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN ooh the walmart is still there? I remember it was connected to the mall by a path at the end on the side of the red robin, I think.
It's not attached to the mall and is on the north side of that lot. The Red Robin is in the middle part of the mall
This is so cool
@@jerkusclownstar tearing things up
Surprised the Buena park mall hasn’t been demolished
@@BrutalInfamous18 the Sears building over there is supposed to be soon to make way for housing.
Where is the people?
Since the mall was closing for good they stopped going. Its all rubble now
The sky looks bad but it’s better than the finest day over the ridgeline in Dirt World (the I.E.)
SOOOO sad.😢
Yeah. Old school 1971 mall no longer
What’s gonna happen to the Red Robin?
No , they just made a new outdoor seating area
Omg. Hard to believe that none of that was happening the last time I visited. Sad. Goodbye Oggi’s and everything else.
@@AvalosGallegos its even more demolished then this video. I need to go back to video it
I miss busy bee my favorite food ever
@@AgentOffice i remember that busy bee
Was that the Korean fast food place with the steam table food? My friend's neighbor owned that place.
I used to like that mall. What are they going to build? I think they want to build houses and or apartments. We don't need more of that.15 min cities HMMMM. Sad to see it go. Yes we had a hot humid summer.
More apartments. Build build build. More shit housing. Turning OC into a dump like LA.
I havent been told exactly yet but most likely some housing but not completely housing back in the back
Lutheran high leases that part of the parking lot as a satellite lot for its students
@@bobjoe3566 where is Lutheran High at? Is it close by? That fenced off area looks kinda new
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN it’s right up on meats towards Santiago.
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN St Pauls Lutheran is just North of the mall at Canal and Heim. They have a school of some sort there. I think the bought/leased the lot on the corner of Canal and Heim. Part of it used for parking the other for a sports field.
Let me go with you next time. We will go to the Outlets of Orange after. :) It will be other commenters too.
I need to hit up the outlets at orange
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN U look like Alex Jons, has anyone told u that? I thought u were him when i first saw your pic on a video thumbnail, lol. Btw. I saw an article on an app called Newsbreak: It mentioned Crenshaw Mall. But it didn't elude to it closing down. I can only assume it did. But the news story had pop up ads and you couldn't read the story. I know u cover mostly malls and sites closing down, but how about South Coat Plaza mall ( As being the most expensive mall in Southern Cali/ ex. watch stores: Lange and Sohn that sell $100,000 watches/ , also Century City Mall being one of the most expensive in the sense that I can barely afford parking to see that mall, lol. I believe they have luxury watch stores there too and a very upscale store selection.
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN I don't know if u remember Falbrook Mall in West Hills, California in the 1990's. But I google imaged searched it and saw old pics of the interior, If you can find enough old pics you can recreate a video of how it used to be and what is today. Same with Topanga mall ( west Hills ), which has since expanded in 2024 to a much larger more luxurious mall, and the new development of bars/restaurants/strip before Promenade Mall in Woodland hills. I think promenade mall may still be the same from the 1990's. Also U might as well cover panorama mall. Hell, all malls in So cal. They don't have to be closed down, cuz one day soon they might.. U got a cool concept of a channel. Hell all malls in the different area codes in so cal.
Lots and lots of memories there. Kinda sad.
I thought they just redid all these parts of the mall in the early 2000s and the early 90s too, anyhow just be careful videoing they can be disturbing asbestos, that you can't see or smell!
Ok, i got ya & not sure when it was remodeled but thing didnt work out. Internet seems to win
Wow i used to go to this mall when i used to live in my cuzins house in city of orang im gonna missed this mall. 😢
Orang??
Tustin STREET. Look it up LOL
I did, it goes by Tustin Street & Tustin Ave. I know it as Tustin Ave. tho
A lot of Us called it Tustin Avenue.
In Orange Avenues run east and west.
@@AnthonyPalmroth-d8d hmmm interesting
Walfart 😂so sad 😢I remember shopping thair
Yup Walfart. Lol
i think JC penny or marshalls was right there
Wow so famous the 50 bus goes there
Is the 50 bus famous? I can see it does go there too
Used to get root beer floats with my grandmother at that mall she loved that place what a fucking shame
You mean "what an **AWFUL** shame", right?
Worked there two years at hickory farms
I remember that hickory farms
Turn it into low income housing.
@@rhondamcknight2596 we shall see
That mall was used and I mean used for decades so much stuff was sold out of that mall half the landfill got there shit from this mall remember everything and I mean everything ends up in rhe landfill including the mall itself that was the chick capital of orange County so much money was made and spent there it's about time because everything is garbage after millions of people go through it unless you take care of it like Disneyland everybuilding will end up demo.the best thing for that property .smart.
Boo hiss. That’s not cool.
Crunching it all down over there
Another crap project for more traffic. Home building
Use to be the only thing going in the early 80’s now in the mid 2000’s it’s dead. Bye sweet memories! My boyfriend bought me a beautiful pink angora sweater there.🩷✨
Thanks to Amazon.
Could be
It broke my heart the last few times I went and it was almost empty every time. I used to take my sons there to the pet stores just to watch the puppies and some other pets. Sweet memories though… 🥲🥲🥲 does some one knows what is the plan after that?
@@chayofire9202 housing is what i heard but I'll figure it out coming up
@@HEYMANWITHJAYMAN thanks brother!! Blessings!
Will be mainly condo/townhomes with some shopping. City has the new zoning plan.
@@prabpin thanks!! Blessings.