Interior views of the Town and Country shopping mall in Houston, Texas in 2004 before it was demolished a few months later, in preparation for construction of the City Center retail area.
I remember going to that mall in 2001. By then it was already showing signs of it being dead. It was probably the last mall with three floors in Houston that wasn’t the Galleria.
I remember coming to this mall way back in 2001 and its a huge shame that it was torn down (the CityCenter parking garages are the only remnants of the original mall still standing to this day). Thanks for preserving the memories for all of these people who have been wanting to see this mall again but can't go back to visit it. This video is the only way for us to go back and visit T&C Mall so we all really appreciate the time you took to upload this. We often do not think about recording videos or taking pictures of what we feel are everyday places at the time, but when such everyday places face the wrecking ball then we start to wish we had taken pictures. We don't realize how great something is until its gone. RIP T&C Mall (1983-2004), 36 years later many of us still remember you!
When the mall was first built it had no elevators. Only escalators and stairs. The elevators were a later addition. I remember they were installed right around the time Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home was about to hit theaters. For the elevator dedication ceremony, they brought in James Doohan (Scottie.) After the ceremony, he stayed for a little while to greet fans and sign autographs. My dad, sister, and I were in line to get an autograph. We were literally the next people to go in and get an autograph but they closed to rope right in front of us. Grrrr, so close.
Glad to hear it is appreciated!! I shot this video knowing the mall was on its last leg, but not knowing how much longer it had. The tape (yes, tape) was tucked away in a shoe box in my closet for the last 10+ years.
+ken444444 that's amazing. I've also tried to find photos and videos of Memorial City Mall before the big remodel in 2005ish. Haven't found a single thing besides a video of the old exhilarama arcade.
Rustin N with you on that. I want to see that huge fountain that changed colors. I remember sitting with my grandfather near there while we had drinks from the old Walgreens there. Memorial City had some really cool stuff back then. The original Foley’s there was actually kinda creepy but cool too.
I remember seeing this mall getting built! Beltway 8 was a 4 lane road called Westbelt. I grew up shopping at this mall...we lived in Katy. T & C was fabulous! I remember Tilt the arcade on the third floor and the movie theater close by too. The McDonalds on the third floor was the first McDonalds I remember seeing in a mall at that time. My favorite store was 5,7,9 and Joskies which changed to Dillards later on. I wondered how Memorial City was going to survive with the new 3 story mall so close by. Well ironically Memorial City survived.
Memorial City survived because it outpaced Town and Country. The only restaurant I remember at T&C was an Arby's that had a small dining room in it but don't remember what floor it was. This mall was designed to fail due it to it being on a corner that was hard to access, obscured by the I-10/Beltway 8 interchange and the buildings in front, and the cherry on top being how close it was to another major mall.
Thank you for the memories. Had so many good times at this mall. Wish they could have kept a small part for City Center other than the parking garage. It's bittersweet watching this video.
Awesome nostalgia! I took art classes here when I was a pre teen. I also bought some star wars action figures here too and still have them. I miss this mall and wish I had visited it more
I was at this mall one time. Me and a friend from high school went there and hug out while I was in town. I moved away before this mall was built. I was surprised how short a life this mall had. May be a worlds record.
This is such nostalgic footage for me. Thank you for sharing. I grew up right down the road and would go to this mall every so often. I vividly remember walking around this mall with family friends as a kid. I also remember the movie theater attached to it (facing the beltway) and how it was left vacant for years before anything was done to it. Lots of graffiti lol. I miss this mall, however, CityCentre isn't all that bad..just way too expensive
I miss seeing this mall a ton. It used to never feel like Christmas until cold weather set in and Christmas lights were up at Town & Country. Also so many memories of my grandparents here. My grandmother went there nearly every day for a sweet roll before work at Walter Pye’s at memorial city
I remember this mall. It was the Fall Of 1997 when my mom had bought something from one of those stores. She tried it on She did not like it so we had to take it back right after we left church. This was before they had to expand I-10 and the The Beltway.
Because I-10 and BW8 is the intersection of 2 major freeways, it pretty much obscured the mall. It was hard to see it unless you were looking for it yet Memorial City was easy to spot right after passing BW8 going east. Obscurity and difficulty accessing the mall due to the interchange is what killed this mall, and Memorial City being nearby and easy to get to certainly didn't help matters.
Thanks for sharing this. I actually was in there on the very last day of operation. We hadn't planned on it as such, but decided to stop in. I saw the sign on the entrance and was pretty surprised, but excited about what would be inside. Outside of the department store that stuck around for a while afterwards, there was exactly ONE store in the mall that was open - a nail salon near the entrance. There were probably another half dozen stores that were still occupied but closed... The rest was wide open. In fact, many of the gates were actually open, so I was able to roam around inside many empty stores and a vacated eatery or two.... Very creepy and fun. That day, a mild interest in this topic, became a significant one.
I worked at 10497 Town and Country Way when it was torn down and heard groaning steel and other sounds of mall death on a daily basis. I got some decent 35mm still images of the active demolition.
Back in the early 90s I worked at that Sam Goody at 3:23 :D Thanks for this video, I was actually watching it partially in hopes of catching a glimpse of that old store!
I remember visiting this mall when it was built in the 1980s. The location was adjacent to a retail complex that existed long before (we just called it Town and Country), which had included department and apparel stores, two theaters, a bookstore, furniture stores, fine jewelers, ice skating rink (later flea market), and various restaurants. Basically, I viewed the mall as an effort to take that "outdated," open air shopping concept and move it all indoors. But this indoor mall had no theaters, no skating rink, no fine dining that I can think of, or really any central focal point at all... just a couple of anchors... and a food court that seemingly failed overnight. I have no recollection whatsoever of any third floor retail. The second level was the next to go, probably around the time JCPenney gave up. The conventional wisdom is that the rebirth of Memorial City, competition from West Oaks, and the construction of Beltway 8 were just too much for the mall to survive. But really, I just think it was poor design to begin with. Ironically, the older open air retail concept seems to have survived in some form... what's old is new again!
akochera my grandmother worked at Sakowitz at town & country before I was born. I remember the building exterior and the old streets outside from that time. I believe Joske’s or Dillard’s as it was later was actually built in the 1950’s. I remember the old store elevator with huge light up floor directory.
I think I visited this mall once in 2000 or 2001 and it was already dead. I moved to Houston in 1997 and I remember what a dump Memorial City was at that time. We did take home our beautiful English Springer from the pet shop though (RIP).
@@candysmith8724 The skating rink closed well before 1980, converted to a flea market, which was itself torn down (I guess) by the time you moved in. The land where those once stood is now a post office.
Before the mall was built, I remember my mom going to the (Bernina?) sewing store at Town & Country. Ofcourse my sister and I were too young to stay at home by ourselves, so we had to go too. I wasn't interested in sewing machines at all, but I remember looking out the back window of the sewing store at the landscaped walk ways which appeared to be no longer used. I think I remember seeing a fountain. But I was always intrigued by that outdoor area and I would always ask mom if we could go look at it after the sewing stuff.
As a kid I came here all the time. I grew up with Joske’s before Dillard’s took them over. As a kid I watched the glass elevators being built. They actually came later before there was only the blue elevator outside one entrance of Saks formerly Marshall-Fields and Co. Also used to go with my mom to Marshall-Fields candy dept on the 3rd floor.
I still remember being 10 years old in 2000 and going to the KB toys that was in T&C. My parents had moved to Houston in the early 80’s and my mom said she shopped at T&C more at that time than MC.
K B Toys and Circus World were the places in the mall I wanted to go as a kid. I remember KB being on the 1st floor. I believe Circus World was on the 3rd floor.
@@gregorymoore2877 yep I remember KB Toys being on the 1st floor. I went to MMS right around the corner for middle school and by 2004 everything had been blocked off to be demolished. From what I remember it was a cool mall just placed in a not so ideal location.
Whoa so happy to see this footage! And BAM I'm back to 1985 hanging out with my friends in high school. We used to eat at this little Belgian Waffle place. Thanks so much for sharing. :)
I spent a bunch if time here in Jr. High and High School. It's so weird to think this place, which was a really significant part of reality for me, is permanently erased. I grew up to be an Urban Planner and now I totally understand why this mall failed.
@@thagrintch It was hard to access as the large interchange from I-10 and BW8 covered it up, plus unless if you were exiting to the BW8 feeder and/or looking for the mall you would never see it. Plus being close to the extremely accessible Memorial City nearby also hurt T&C further. This mall could have been saved if the owners put more effort into marketing as well as bringing in more tenants. If West Oaks could survive their decline (today, it looks a lot like how T&C did during its decline) then T&C could have made it. I always thought it was crazy that T&C was built so close to another major mall that wasn't even a mile away. What were they thinking when they built T&C?
Sad, sad, sad, sad, sad and nothing but sadness. This was such a beautiful mall. 3 stories high!!!! Watching this brings back so many memories. In my opinion, they should have never tore down this beautiful place. Instead of just tearing it down, they should have worked on improving the business for the stores. Now, we're stuck with ghetto ass looking Greenpoint mall, Northwest mall, and even ghetto Almeda mall. If they wanted to tear a mall down so badly, they should have at least began with those other 3.
theCman You went to that tilt game room up on the 3rd floor also?? Do you remember that one game they had there, it was like a table and it had 4 sides where you can choose which side to play. It was like some sort of car game and you got to pick which color car you wanted to play with. I think there was a red, blue, green, and yellow car. I can't remember the name of the game though. I think it was near the window surrounded by other games also near the window.
ken444444 You went to that tilt game room up on the 3rd floor also?? Do you remember that one game they had there, it was like a table and it had 4 sides where you can choose which side to play. It was like some sort of car game and you got to pick which color car you wanted to play with. I think there was a red, blue, green, and yellow car. I can't remember the name of the game though. I think it was near the window surrounded by other games also near the window.
Would have loved to have seen this mall in its hay day. Wasn’t old enough, but my dad said him and his friends used to run around this place. They thought it was the coolest mall they had ever seen.
ken444444 Your right about the roof. You can’t see it clearly in the vid but it was like a tarp material. Seemed to be designed to let natural light through and also reflect interior lights at night. Being in the mall during a thunderstorm was also an amazing experience. The sound of any level of rain echoed loudly throughout the mall.
It's a crying cock friggin' shame that this awesome structure that was once an awesome place to shop is now gone. I was so pissed off when I heard that the owner ordered all the tenants to be out be a certain time cause he was going to turn off all A/C and power and be ready for the wrecking ball to come in and wipe it out. They should have NEVER of torn it down. They could've saved this mall. It's like a war zone for an XBOX game.
I heard that the 3rd level of Town & Country had been almost entirely vacant since the mid 90s but the 1st and 2nd levels were mostly occupied until the late 90s and early 2000s. Is this true?
@@wowhaha4871 I remember the Tilt arcade. Also, I think Circus World was on the 3rd floor. I'm thinking there was also a Hair Care Harmony on the 3rd floor that I would usually go to.
Never liked it. We used to go to the older outdoor mall in the old Town and Country. There was a Prince's Hamburger, Panjo's, Alfred's, the Smorgasbord and the Cheese Market, to name a few.
I will always remember the old family owned video rental store which I believe was called Great Expectations. It was run by a father and son and had a computerized inventory and rental system which was unheard of at the time.
The age of technology and online Merchants has put more than a dozen malls out of commission in many states. Houston Texas has lost several malls in the past decade. Town& Country Mall, Greens point Mall ( barely Thriving) And Most recently West Oaks Mall. Malls are fading fast. I'd say the Galleria Houston will in time be the only major Mall left
The Galleria, First Colony and Memorial City are the only major successful malls serving the West/SW areas of town. Because West Oaks has been dead for years, I don't even consider it to be a major mall anymore. The Alief area itself pretty much does not have a mall anymore and the closest mall to that area is First Colony. Back in the 90s, Alief's malls were West Oaks and Westwood with Sharpstown being nearby.
People still like to shop in cool A/C and actually purchase items they don't have to wait for mail service. If you need to try things on it's a pain with wait wait for mail if you even ever get your item off your porch before getting stolen.
Christian Gonzales it’s because the demographics changed and online shopping is the new fad. Alief is not once it was use to be where there were mid income level families now middle income family don’t exist no more it’s either higher bracket or low.
@@Bnguyen276 I agree with you 100%. I still live in Alief (Mission Bend to be exact) and I own a small business marketing company out here, so I am always doing my research on audience. Online shopping is a huge fad that will probably never die and Alief continues to grow in size as the more rural areas (such as where Mission Bend begins to fade out into the Richmond/Clodine areas) are facing urbanization. The newer neighborhoods certainly target higher income families.
Christian Gonzales yup earth isn’t getting any larger while population is growing. Few more generations we,re gonna out grow the planet just matter of time. Hunger gonna be a big issue in the future. Not enough to feed the growing population. I see food gonna sky rocket in prices and a lot more people home growing food in their backyard saving them cost at the stores. Fishermen shrimpers farmers cattle ranches are gonna get paid. Since man was created farming fishing and hunting always been part of our life and never will change.
@ken444444 there were 4 anchor stores. There was Joskes, JC Penney, Marshall Fields and Nieman Marcus. This was around 1988 but I don't remember how long each of them lasted before they closed their doors. It was a great mall. Very clean and safe.
I remember going to that mall in 2001. By then it was already showing signs of it being dead.
It was probably the last mall with three floors in Houston that wasn’t the Galleria.
I remember coming to this mall way back in 2001 and its a huge shame that it was torn down (the CityCenter parking garages are the only remnants of the original mall still standing to this day). Thanks for preserving the memories for all of these people who have been wanting to see this mall again but can't go back to visit it. This video is the only way for us to go back and visit T&C Mall so we all really appreciate the time you took to upload this. We often do not think about recording videos or taking pictures of what we feel are everyday places at the time, but when such everyday places face the wrecking ball then we start to wish we had taken pictures. We don't realize how great something is until its gone. RIP T&C Mall (1983-2004), 36 years later many of us still remember you!
It was for lowlife people
My sister bought heroin and got raped there.
I loved that it had parking garage with direct access to all three floors. Never had to worry about getting out in the rain.
When the mall was first built it had no elevators. Only escalators and stairs. The elevators were a later addition. I remember they were installed right around the time Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home was about to hit theaters. For the elevator dedication ceremony, they brought in James Doohan (Scottie.) After the ceremony, he stayed for a little while to greet fans and sign autographs. My dad, sister, and I were in line to get an autograph. We were literally the next people to go in and get an autograph but they closed to rope right in front of us. Grrrr, so close.
This was a huge throwback for me. Thank you so much for sharing! I've been looking for a T&C mall video for a long time.
Glad to hear it is appreciated!! I shot this video knowing the mall was on its last leg, but not knowing how much longer it had. The tape (yes, tape) was tucked away in a shoe box in my closet for the last 10+ years.
+ken444444 that's amazing. I've also tried to find photos and videos of Memorial City Mall before the big remodel in 2005ish. Haven't found a single thing besides a video of the old exhilarama arcade.
Not anything showing things around town.
Rustin N with you on that. I want to see that huge fountain that changed colors. I remember sitting with my grandfather near there while we had drinks from the old Walgreens there. Memorial City had some really cool stuff back then. The original Foley’s there was actually kinda creepy but cool too.
@@historiclift27 Where exactly did Walgreens used to be inside Memorial City?
I remember getting new computer and console games (in the 80s and 90s) at Babbage's in T&C Mall.
I remember seeing this mall getting built! Beltway 8 was a 4 lane road called Westbelt. I grew up shopping at this mall...we lived in Katy. T & C was fabulous! I remember Tilt the arcade on the third floor and the movie theater close by too. The McDonalds on the third floor was the first McDonalds I remember seeing in a mall at that time. My favorite store was 5,7,9 and Joskies which changed to Dillards later on. I wondered how Memorial City was going to survive with the new 3 story mall so close by. Well ironically Memorial City survived.
Memorial City survived because it outpaced Town and Country. The only restaurant I remember at T&C was an Arby's that had a small dining room in it but don't remember what floor it was. This mall was designed to fail due it to it being on a corner that was hard to access, obscured by the I-10/Beltway 8 interchange and the buildings in front, and the cherry on top being how close it was to another major mall.
I worked at that Structure back in the day. Good times. Thanks for posting
Same here. Worked at structure back in the early 90s. At the time the mall was already kind of empty. Our store was pretty much always dead.
This was the 2nd best mall in Houston. The Galleria in Houston is and will always be the BEST.
I worked at the mall in the early 90’s. Thanks
Very cool!
Dang I vividly remember this mall. the elevator was so cool!
I remember in the early '90s the mall used to be so nice it was way nicer than Memorial City at the time
Memorial City was a dump compared to T&C and West Oaks Mall at the time.
it was, but memorial city was great in the early to late 80s
Memorial City was the mall we visited most often. I remember it getting remodeled every few years. We frequently visited Town & County Mall too.
I spent a lot of time there in 1983-1984 when I was a teenager
Thank you for the memories. Had so many good times at this mall. Wish they could have kept a small part for City Center other than the parking garage. It's bittersweet watching this video.
Awesome nostalgia! I took art classes here when I was a pre teen. I also bought some star wars action figures here too and still have them. I miss this mall and wish I had visited it more
I was at this mall one time. Me and a friend from high school went there and hug out while I was in town. I moved away before this mall was built.
I was surprised how short a life this mall had. May be a worlds record.
This is such nostalgic footage for me. Thank you for sharing. I grew up right down the road and would go to this mall every so often. I vividly remember walking around this mall with family friends as a kid. I also remember the movie theater attached to it (facing the beltway) and how it was left vacant for years before anything was done to it. Lots of graffiti lol. I miss this mall, however, CityCentre isn't all that bad..just way too expensive
It would have been nice if CityCenter left some remnants of the original mall besides the parking garages.
I miss seeing this mall a ton. It used to never feel like Christmas until cold weather set in and Christmas lights were up at Town & Country. Also so many memories of my grandparents here. My grandmother went there nearly every day for a sweet roll before work at Walter Pye’s at memorial city
I remember this mall. It was the Fall Of 1997 when my mom had bought something from one of those stores. She tried it on She did not like it so we had to take it back right after we left church. This was before they had to expand I-10 and the The Beltway.
Because I-10 and BW8 is the intersection of 2 major freeways, it pretty much obscured the mall. It was hard to see it unless you were looking for it yet Memorial City was easy to spot right after passing BW8 going east. Obscurity and difficulty accessing the mall due to the interchange is what killed this mall, and Memorial City being nearby and easy to get to certainly didn't help matters.
The stores that were in town and country mall most of them got transferred to memorial city mall
Thanks for sharing this. I actually was in there on the very last day of operation. We hadn't planned on it as such, but decided to stop in. I saw the sign on the entrance and was pretty surprised, but excited about what would be inside. Outside of the department store that stuck around for a while afterwards, there was exactly ONE store in the mall that was open - a nail salon near the entrance. There were probably another half dozen stores that were still occupied but closed... The rest was wide open. In fact, many of the gates were actually open, so I was able to roam around inside many empty stores and a vacated eatery or two.... Very creepy and fun. That day, a mild interest in this topic, became a significant one.
At its peak this was a fantastic mall. I was sad to see it decline and end.
I worked in this mall for a few years over 20 years ago. Thank you for sharing. Loved seeing this!
I worked at the (then old) Gap in 95/6.
@@thepassionofthegoose5472 Ha, that's about the same time I was there. Went from Exlaharama at Memorial City to T&C in 1996
@@eyerohn2516 exilerhama was amazing I miss that place. I still have the tokens! Were u a ride operator?
@@skeightemerica Yeah I loved that place. I ran the Lazer Ex and the Virtual Reality
I worked at 10497 Town and Country Way when it was torn down and heard groaning steel and other sounds of mall death on a daily basis. I got some decent 35mm still images of the active demolition.
Back in the early 90s I worked at that Sam Goody at 3:23 :D Thanks for this video, I was actually watching it partially in hopes of catching a glimpse of that old store!
I remember visiting this mall when it was built in the 1980s. The location was adjacent to a retail complex that existed long before (we just called it Town and Country), which had included department and apparel stores, two theaters, a bookstore, furniture stores, fine jewelers, ice skating rink (later flea market), and various restaurants. Basically, I viewed the mall as an effort to take that "outdated," open air shopping concept and move it all indoors. But this indoor mall had no theaters, no skating rink, no fine dining that I can think of, or really any central focal point at all... just a couple of anchors... and a food court that seemingly failed overnight. I have no recollection whatsoever of any third floor retail. The second level was the next to go, probably around the time JCPenney gave up. The conventional wisdom is that the rebirth of Memorial City, competition from West Oaks, and the construction of Beltway 8 were just too much for the mall to survive. But really, I just think it was poor design to begin with. Ironically, the older open air retail concept seems to have survived in some form... what's old is new again!
akochera my grandmother worked at Sakowitz at town & country before I was born. I remember the building exterior and the old streets outside from that time. I believe Joske’s or Dillard’s as it was later was actually built in the 1950’s. I remember the old store elevator with huge light up floor directory.
I think I visited this mall once in 2000 or 2001 and it was already dead.
I moved to Houston in 1997 and I remember what a dump Memorial City was at that time. We did take home our beautiful English Springer from the pet shop though (RIP).
I do not ever remember a ice skating rink in the T & C area. Moved here in 1980.
@@candysmith8724 The skating rink closed well before 1980, converted to a flea market, which was itself torn down (I guess) by the time you moved in. The land where those once stood is now a post office.
Before the mall was built, I remember my mom going to the (Bernina?) sewing store at Town & Country. Ofcourse my sister and I were too young to stay at home by ourselves, so we had to go too. I wasn't interested in sewing machines at all, but I remember looking out the back window of the sewing store at the landscaped walk ways which appeared to be no longer used. I think I remember seeing a fountain. But I was always intrigued by that outdoor area and I would always ask mom if we could go look at it after the sewing stuff.
As a kid I came here all the time. I grew up with Joske’s before Dillard’s took them over. As a kid I watched the glass elevators being built. They actually came later before there was only the blue elevator outside one entrance of Saks formerly Marshall-Fields and Co. Also used to go with my mom to Marshall-Fields candy dept on the 3rd floor.
I still remember being 10 years old in 2000 and going to the KB toys that was in T&C. My parents had moved to Houston in the early 80’s and my mom said she shopped at T&C more at that time than MC.
K B Toys and Circus World were the places in the mall I wanted to go as a kid. I remember KB being on the 1st floor. I believe Circus World was on the 3rd floor.
@@gregorymoore2877 yep I remember KB Toys being on the 1st floor. I went to MMS right around the corner for middle school and by 2004 everything had been blocked off to be demolished. From what I remember it was a cool mall just placed in a not so ideal location.
I worked at Brookstone on the 1st floor in 1988 😢
Town & Country! Man builds! Man destroys! RIP Town & Country!!!
I loved that mall
Trabaje en este lugar así un año por ahí del 90 que recuerdos, donde quedó, donde quedarían mis compañeros de trabajo?
I only remember this mall because of the way the elevator looked.
The elevators weren't even part of the original construction, they were added later. James Doohan was a guest at the grand opening of the elevators.
Whoa so happy to see this footage! And BAM I'm back to 1985 hanging out with my friends in high school. We used to eat at this little Belgian Waffle place. Thanks so much for sharing. :)
I spent a bunch if time here in Jr. High and High School. It's so weird to think this place, which was a really significant part of reality for me, is permanently erased. I grew up to be an Urban Planner and now I totally understand why this mall failed.
why would you say the mall failed?
@@thagrintch It was hard to access as the large interchange from I-10 and BW8 covered it up, plus unless if you were exiting to the BW8 feeder and/or looking for the mall you would never see it. Plus being close to the extremely accessible Memorial City nearby also hurt T&C further. This mall could have been saved if the owners put more effort into marketing as well as bringing in more tenants. If West Oaks could survive their decline (today, it looks a lot like how T&C did during its decline) then T&C could have made it. I always thought it was crazy that T&C was built so close to another major mall that wasn't even a mile away. What were they thinking when they built T&C?
Wow! That's impressive
Thanks for sharing
In the immortal words of Rambo's commanding officer: "It's over, Johnny!"
When we bought a new Perry home in 1999, the design center was located in here. It was pretty empty even then. I thought it was such a waste.
I did had some good memories of this mall
Nostalgia.
😢
Good video. Thanks for sharing.
Sad, sad, sad, sad, sad and nothing but sadness. This was such a beautiful mall. 3 stories high!!!!
Watching this brings back so many memories. In my opinion, they should have never tore down this beautiful place. Instead of just tearing it down, they should have worked on improving the business for the stores.
Now, we're stuck with ghetto ass looking Greenpoint mall, Northwest mall, and even ghetto Almeda mall. If they wanted to tear a mall down so badly, they should have at least began with those other 3.
It was a great mall. As a kid I spent plenty of time in Tilt while my mom went shopping. The 3rd floor food court was great.
theCman You went to that tilt game room up on the 3rd floor also??
Do you remember that one game they had there, it was like a table and it had 4 sides where you can choose which side to play. It was like some sort of car game and you got to pick which color car you wanted to play with. I think there was a red, blue, green, and yellow car. I can't remember the name of the game though. I think it was near the window surrounded by other games also near the window.
ken444444 You went to that tilt game room up on the 3rd floor also??
Do you remember that one game they had there, it was like a table and it had 4 sides where you can choose which side to play. It was like some sort of car game and you got to pick which color car you wanted to play with. I think there was a red, blue, green, and yellow car. I can't remember the name of the game though. I think it was near the window surrounded by other games also near the window.
Black Shark such history; we were family and friends the mall management. Loved the place.
I stayed in tilt but managed watered mart
yup its all now an outside restaurant bar area that has become very popular
but the entire mall itself is gone, just the space it was on is not a thing
Would have loved to have seen this mall in its hay day. Wasn’t old enough, but my dad said him and his friends used to run around this place. They thought it was the coolest mall they had ever seen.
It was a great mall back in the day with 3 floors and a roof that allowed for tons of natural lighting.
ken444444 Your right about the roof. You can’t see it clearly in the vid but it was like a tarp material. Seemed to be designed to let natural light through and also reflect interior lights at night. Being in the mall during a thunderstorm was also an amazing experience. The sound of any level of rain echoed loudly throughout the mall.
Was this the mall with the giant dinosaur slide?
It's a crying cock friggin' shame that this awesome structure that was once an awesome place to shop is now gone. I was so pissed off when I heard that the owner ordered all the tenants to be out be a certain time cause he was going to turn off all A/C and power and be ready for the wrecking ball to come in and wipe it out. They should have NEVER of torn it down. They could've saved this mall. It's like a war zone for an XBOX game.
Where’s Til’t?
Sadly it was long gone when I recoreded this, but I believe the former location is shown very briefly at 1:30.
I heard that the 3rd level of Town & Country had been almost entirely vacant since the mid 90s but the 1st and 2nd levels were mostly occupied until the late 90s and early 2000s. Is this true?
Yes, the 3rd floor was mostly vacant in the later years.
@@ken444444 Oh ok. I was just wondering because I saw a picture of a Tilt Arcade on the 3rd level from 2001.
@@wowhaha4871 I remember the Tilt arcade. Also, I think Circus World was on the 3rd floor. I'm thinking there was also a Hair Care Harmony on the 3rd floor that I would usually go to.
Never liked it. We used to go to the older outdoor mall in the old Town and Country. There was a Prince's Hamburger, Panjo's, Alfred's, the Smorgasbord and the Cheese Market, to name a few.
I will always remember the old family owned video rental store which I believe was called Great Expectations. It was run by a father and son and had a computerized inventory and rental system which was unheard of at the time.
Alfred's AND The House of Pies...and West Belt had a median. Now we are truly aging ourselves!
The age of technology and online Merchants has put more than a dozen malls out of commission in many states. Houston Texas has lost several malls in the past decade. Town& Country Mall, Greens point Mall ( barely Thriving) And Most recently West Oaks Mall. Malls are fading fast. I'd say the Galleria Houston will in time be the only major Mall left
The Galleria, First Colony and Memorial City are the only major successful malls serving the West/SW areas of town. Because West Oaks has been dead for years, I don't even consider it to be a major mall anymore. The Alief area itself pretty much does not have a mall anymore and the closest mall to that area is First Colony. Back in the 90s, Alief's malls were West Oaks and Westwood with Sharpstown being nearby.
People still like to shop in cool A/C and actually purchase items they don't have to wait for mail service. If you need to try things on it's a pain with wait wait for mail if you even ever get your item off your porch before getting stolen.
Christian Gonzales it’s because the demographics changed and online shopping is the new fad. Alief is not once it was use to be where there were mid income level families now middle income family don’t exist no more it’s either higher bracket or low.
@@Bnguyen276 I agree with you 100%. I still live in Alief (Mission Bend to be exact) and I own a small business marketing company out here, so I am always doing my research on audience. Online shopping is a huge fad that will probably never die and Alief continues to grow in size as the more rural areas (such as where Mission Bend begins to fade out into the Richmond/Clodine areas) are facing urbanization. The newer neighborhoods certainly target higher income families.
Christian Gonzales yup earth isn’t getting any larger while population is growing. Few more generations we,re gonna out grow the planet just matter of time. Hunger gonna be a big issue in the future. Not enough to feed the growing population. I see food gonna sky rocket in prices and a lot more people home growing food in their backyard saving them cost at the stores. Fishermen shrimpers farmers cattle ranches are gonna get paid. Since man was created farming fishing and hunting always been part of our life and never will change.
many are gang meeting areas
Tiny mall
It was 3 stories tall and maybe had 75 to 100 stores when fully occupied. There were at least very large 2 anchor stores.
@@ken444444 eh did not know mate
Tiny footprint, yes. But, It felt vertically big on the inside due to being 3 floors.
@ken444444 there were 4 anchor stores. There was Joskes, JC Penney, Marshall Fields and Nieman Marcus. This was around 1988 but I don't remember how long each of them lasted before they closed their doors. It was a great mall. Very clean and safe.