Gilbert, Your videos are such an awesome time machine for me. It's weird how much I have in common with you. I graduated high school in 1989 as well. I grew up in L.A. but my father lived in West Covina so when I visited him I would go to Puente Hills Mall. I moved to Fontana in 2002. I too suffer from depression and anxiety for years which makes me kinda of a homebody. Anyway, I'm very nostalgic for the 80s and when I was young and just the memories so I love your videos.
Ms Gazelle, I agree, these are great videos. Gilbert did an awesome job. His videos kinda trip me out too in a strange way. As Forrest GUMP would say, " Life is a risk, Carnala." So, please don't trip. Just breathe, believe and receive. Then do it again....and again...and again....One giant breath at a time !!!
Hi Gazelle! I grew up in Downey, graduated from Santa Fe High, and I also went to Puente Hills Mall once in a while. I've been in the same boat and that's why I started the radio show. Maybe we can listen in and we can throw a shoutout your way! Let's reminisce as a bunch of 80s fans that we are.
@ What a trip. I worked there at Mcdonald's in 1985. It was my first part time job while I lived in Walnut. Damn, it was a long walk from the Puente Hills Mall to Valley Blvd to catch the RTD 484 west to Holt /Pomona. I short time later I bought my first car, an AMC Hornet for 300 bucks !!!
Back when food courts didn’t exist but instead individual food restaurants inside the mall. Growing up my family would go to the Puente Hills mall most weekends with my grandmother. She loved to shop. The Sanrio Surprise store was my favorite. I loved fishing for the grab bags filled with surprises. 😊 and that McDonalds as a kid was everything. Even the slanted walkway. Thank you for sharing a big piece of my childhood.
Exactly! Not to mention that my local mall used to have all these intresting little stores that weren't really chain stores but more like a family operated mom and pop place..well those all got shut down and turned into over expesenive stores like Coach,Michael Korrs,MAC etc..my mall looked just like the one in the video back in the 80s and 90s. Now it's been remodeled and is very bland and has a cold feel to it. Also used to have an arcade and kids & teens would hang out every weekend. Now that's gone and I never see anyone hanging out. .it's mostly just soccer moms. The only store left from my childhood is Spencer's Gifts.
Holy crap. I remember it all! Those ceiling light bulbs, the planters, that Mcdonalds, the plants with lights, string lights from the ceiling. Not shown in the video but I also remember the carousel that they used to have. Many fond memories at this mall from the 90's and 2000's.
I was there in Dec 1989 so many memories I met the love of my life there in 2002 best 4 years of my life ❤ she was killed in a car accident in 2007 my life was utterly shattered has to leave La Puente and California it was too painful ! Thank you so much for uploading this!! Cheers from Salt Lake city
Wow Gilbert. You are THE MAN for posting this! This is special. A straight up trip back in time to my childhood at my favorite mall in the 80s. So many memories! Thank you!
This is crazy! I used to live in West Covina as a kid in the late 90s early 2000s and went this mall all the time with my family. Crazy to see old footage of it before my time!
Thank you so much for putting this video up! Such a sweet trip down memory lane 🥲 I used to work in this mall and loved seeing all kf the shops that I have long forgotten about. ISam Goody and Waldenbooks were around when you took the video! This place will forever be remembered as the Back to the Future Mall for me 🥹
Wow! Thank YOU for the time machine. I grew up in this area during the 80's. Nice to see footage of Broadway, Kay-Bee toys, Sees, the clock, etc.. Please share more... I'm dying to see Showboat, Malibu Grand Prix, Best Products, Skate Junction , PJ Pizzaz, etc.. if you have them.
Gilbert your videos are amazing...my opinion... your one of the first vloggers...thank you for sharing your home videos..i enjoy watching all of them..stay safe buddy
Today only a small suit store (the red neon sign captured in the pillar reflection at 4:24) and that See's Candies are what remain from what's shown in this video. Crazy. I grew up going to this mall and still remember the wooden benches in the center court in the 90s.
1 of 2 of My childhood malls. Never been back since i moved to Texas in 1995. The memories of how my brother and i remember this place, thank you. Now if only i can find a video of Malibu showboat and grand prex.
Great Video bro it's a trip to see how times change me and my family used to go to Puente hills mall a lot we just moved to Corona from Whittier CA. I would live to see video of the Montebello mall in the 80's or 90's I grew up going to that mall thanks again!
I see that's the mall where the movie Back to the Future was filmed. I also know that this mall used to have a JCPenney store along with a J.W. Robinson's and The Broadway. Today J.W. Robinson's is now Macy's, which first became Robinsons-May in 1993 before Macy's in 2006. The former Broadway store is now an AMC theaters. JCPenney is now Burlington Coat Factory on the lower level, Toys R Us and Round1 on the upper level, and also a 24 Hour Fitness gym on one side. The only original anchor that survived is Sears.
Thank you for sharing this 🤗. It's brought back so many memories I completely forgot about. Such great memories hanging out with friends and my siblings, then going to the AMC 10 movies later.
Too bad that mall is a ghost town . Only h &m ,round 1 and AMC exist. All the major stores boned out. All the mom and pop stores got crushed because of amazon taking over with online shopping. Im just lost of words , had so many memories at that mall as a child and teenager. Sucks 😞 great video tho man
WOW GREAT VIDEO. Born and raised in Rowland, I remember all the store in your video. I MISS that clock in the center. That mall sucks now!!. Rainbow Gate... MAN.. that is way back.. I was thinking sanrio at first. I wish you shot some video outside the mall like the Firestone shop, Movie Theater, PJ Pazzaz. LOL
Back in the day when people actually went to malls. I miss shopping in malls in the 80's and 90's. Now all the malls are "dead malls" and everyone shops online now a days.
I work in a large mall that opened in the 70s. It was my favorite place as a kid i never thought I would be a part of it but it's lost it's magic. It is overpacked and all of the food places are lacking. I wonder if it will ever die out but it is the only mall in 15-20 mile ratio.
Omg thank you for sharing!! It's so sad because that Mall has potential and I don't know what the hell happened. Maybe the owner of the property itself just raised the rent so damn high due to greed, that no one can afford it and now this is what's left. I dunno.
I have to compliment you on your camera work. You have a steady hand, your framing is spot-on, and you have a good eye for subject matter. Plus, you are persistent carrying that camera. bravo!
Do you remember if the name of that store your little sister and friend were browsing in was called Sassy? it looks exactly like a store my mall had in the 80s and 90s. Lots of Sanrio and Hello kitty pencils, toys, stationary stuff balloons and candy. I even noticed the cashier wearing Hello kitty. Makes me think it's the same store we had in NY.
This mall suffered big time from the "Asian Invasion" of the 1990s. After the LA riots, Asians moved east to the suburbs and instead of assimilating they just changed the whole area. Pretty sad.
I remember that mc Donald’s was not part of the food court, seeing this video brings back memories. This is before the carousel was installed in the center of the mall.
JEVUS123 You are right, the mcDonalds was on the JC penny wing. After the carousel that middle section has a water feature with fish. All is gone now. Sears just closes so mall not doing well.
Best video ever on TH-cam. My family and I grew up in this mall.Best part was shot of the clock in the center..extra special thanks dude .. you bless and your family
Man I used to go to that McDonalds as a kid. The only place I ever got a McDLT lol! Cool to see the Christmas decorations. I had my picture taken with Santa there one year. Nice to see a shot of the old Kay Bee Toy Store. Wish you had gotten a shot of Time Out arcade too. Great video!
Gilbert !!! .I remember you did this Puente Hills mall 1989 video You should really consider dueing a before And after I think you're going to be in for a shock .it's been pretty popular thing right now and theres very few videos of that subject but its quickly cachting fire 🔥 and I really think you'll gain allot of viewer's with this one . I had to come tell you and i know its pretty far away but you due love to film so yeah 😊. Masterpiece in the waiting just need Gilbert Og Gilby 🎥
This is a trip, my friends and I would shop there in the 80's I use to live about 5 miles from that mall. On the 2nd floor there use to be an arcade. It was great. Just outside on the other side of the mall, we would also watch movies at the AMC theater. Couple miles down the road from the theater, there was Showboat and Malibu grand prix. We would play arcade games, miniature golf and drive go carts. Good times.
@@intlDrx7 retroforce6919 is not mistaken. There used to be an arcade on the 2nd floor called Time Out in front of Sears in the 80s. It was to the right of a big store that was like a drug store where the Champs is now. Time Out was to the right. They featured games like Double Dragon, Golden Axe, Street Fighter 1, Final Fight, Shinobi, R-Type, After Burner moving machine, and a Power Drift 2 player machine later. A feel Ski ball in the back and some Pinball machines. It was a very small arcade but was packed with great hits.
@@MeritoriousLeeYou're right it was called Time Out, I remember playing Street Fighter 1 when it first came out at Time Out. I nearly broke my wrist playing it, it had these 2 huge hard pads you smash down with your hands. Back in 1989 I was a sophomore at Wilson High
I visited the mall today (Sep-14-24) and it’s a ghost town in there. Only food they even got in the mall anymore is the wetzel pretzel and kublai khan. It was heartbreaking to see
Holy time warp! I'm going to get something to eat at Fiddlers Three Restaurant then maybe go to Waldenbooks or B Dalton. I need to buy some stationery at JK Gill while I'm at it.
Gilber, you know how I got into your channel, I got nostalgic and I found HBO's inrtro rememeberthat. How HBO's inrto was and even how they made it. ()remember sometimes ol folkes got free cable it was sooo easy back then). Anyways I looked up for 80's in Los Angeless shoot I looked up for RTD bus and your channel came up, Crisom' with power 106 and ship. God knows after your channel brought memories of the third kimd
They lost business sadly during that time and everyone goes to the West Covina Mall now on and the popular stores are AMC theatres and Round 1 at the Puente Hills Mall.
I went to the puente hills mall a couple weeks ago and man, that mall is dead. I'm surprised it hasn't closed down by now. The only reason it gets any traffic is because of the movie theater and Round 1. It's actually quite sad.
Nowadays, the mall is over half vacant. I wish the mall was popping like it used to. Fill the mall with businesses, like idc if its just boba shops like the rest of the town. The emptiness really bums me out
I'm surprised that you were allowed to record inside the Puente Hills Mall without no security or sale associates telling you to turn off your camera at that time. Nowadays, they'll ask you to leave the premises if you record inside a shopping mall.
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It’s sad that Punte Hills Mall today isn’t really doing as well as back then.
Because the area is GARBAGE now.
Did COVID-19 Make Puente Hills Mall Go Downhill
@@jvargas6034 it had already been going downhill before the pandemic, I haven’t visited since 2019. But I can assume that the pandemic did not help.
Technology and other forms of entertainment have slowly killed malls and movie theaters
Some investment company recently purchased it and they want to make it better, like the mall in Arcadia.
OMG Puente Hills mall?! That's the same mall where Back to the Future was filmed as the fictional Twin Pines Mall!
Still to this day has black marker tape from the production in the parking lot.
no shit?!?
I just figured this out
Sorry it’s not puente hills mall where BTTF was filmed it was Montclair Mall in front of JC pennys duh
@@tonysacks1104 no it was filmed at the puente hills mall
Gilbert, Your videos are such an awesome time machine for me. It's weird how much I have in common with you. I graduated high school in 1989 as well. I grew up in L.A. but my father lived in West Covina so when I visited him I would go to Puente Hills Mall. I moved to Fontana in 2002. I too suffer from depression and anxiety for years which makes me kinda of a homebody. Anyway, I'm very nostalgic for the 80s and when I was young and just the memories so I love your videos.
Gazelle Oooh, don't be depressed, please. I hope you feel better. I know change is suck & can make people feel depressed. Sending you love.
@@thiery572 Very nice reply there 572. Keep it up !!!
Ms Gazelle, I agree, these are great videos. Gilbert did an awesome job. His videos kinda trip me out too in a strange way. As Forrest GUMP would say, " Life is a risk, Carnala." So, please don't trip. Just breathe, believe and receive. Then do it again....and again...and again....One giant breath at a time !!!
Hi Gazelle! I grew up in Downey, graduated from Santa Fe High, and I also went to Puente Hills Mall once in a while. I've been in the same boat and that's why I started the radio show. Maybe we can listen in and we can throw a shoutout your way! Let's reminisce as a bunch of 80s fans that we are.
I was a senior at Los Altos High School at this time. Puente Hills Mall was the place to be.
Thank you for sharing!
30 years ago at this exact moment in December. Truly a gem to appreciate. ty.
@ What a trip. I worked there at Mcdonald's in 1985. It was my first part time job while I lived in Walnut. Damn, it was a long walk from the Puente Hills Mall to Valley Blvd to catch the RTD 484 west to Holt /Pomona. I short time later I bought my first car, an AMC Hornet for 300 bucks !!!
Back when food courts didn’t exist but instead individual food restaurants inside the mall. Growing up my family would go to the Puente Hills mall most weekends with my grandmother. She loved to shop. The Sanrio Surprise store was my favorite. I loved fishing for the grab bags filled with surprises. 😊 and that McDonalds as a kid was everything. Even the slanted walkway. Thank you for sharing a big piece of my childhood.
If this was on netflix i would binge on it, Hey that's a good idea you should get in touch with them.
That is actually a good idea, if Gilbert could organize a whole series in order, i'd binge watch it too haha
Malls had a much more warm and cozy family feeling back in those days. The malls left today are pretty sterile and bland looking.
Exactly! Not to mention that my local mall used to have all these intresting little stores that weren't really chain stores but more like a family operated mom and pop place..well those all got shut down and turned into over expesenive stores like Coach,Michael Korrs,MAC etc..my mall looked just like the one in the video back in the 80s and 90s. Now it's been remodeled and is very bland and has a cold feel to it. Also used to have an arcade and kids & teens would hang out every weekend. Now that's gone and I never see anyone hanging out. .it's mostly just soccer moms. The only store left from my childhood is Spencer's Gifts.
Exactly....same at our old mall. And Spencers is still there too for us. Last original store. Probably because it is a chain. Thanks for sharing.
That's just the blurry video
I think that also, but it’s really just a good memory being a kid is all..
Idk I kinda like how the West Covina mall looks
Holy crap. I remember it all! Those ceiling light bulbs, the planters, that Mcdonalds, the plants with lights, string lights from the ceiling. Not shown in the video but I also remember the carousel that they used to have. Many fond memories at this mall from the 90's and 2000's.
This mall is still going strong today!
@@Filmaker25i just went today, and that shit was a ghost town
I was there in Dec 1989 so many memories I met the love of my life there in 2002 best 4 years of my life ❤ she was killed in a car accident in 2007 my life was utterly shattered has to leave La Puente and California it was too painful ! Thank you so much for uploading this!! Cheers from Salt Lake city
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Wow Gilbert. You are THE MAN for posting this! This is special. A straight up trip back in time to my childhood at my favorite mall in the 80s. So many memories! Thank you!
This is crazy! I used to live in West Covina as a kid in the late 90s early 2000s and went this mall all the time with my family. Crazy to see old footage of it before my time!
Do you still go to that mall?
Gen X'er here. I lived this video. It was a great time to be alive.
Thank you so much for putting this video up! Such a sweet trip down memory lane 🥲 I used to work in this mall and loved seeing all kf the shops that I have long forgotten about. ISam Goody and Waldenbooks were around when you took the video! This place will forever be remembered as the Back to the Future Mall for me 🥹
Thanks for the memories! My fave mall way back when we used to live in W.Covina in the 80's
Back to the Future Mall of the MOvie!!! Those where great times to hang out at the mall on the weekends!
You have to love how TH-cam is the closest thing to a time machine we have
I Agree
Wow! Thank YOU for the time machine. I grew up in this area during the 80's. Nice to see footage of Broadway, Kay-Bee toys, Sees, the clock, etc.. Please share more... I'm dying to see Showboat, Malibu Grand Prix, Best Products, Skate Junction , PJ Pizzaz, etc.. if you have them.
Best stores and skate junction??? Damn you just took me WAYYYY BACK!!!!!!!
Yessssss!!
Gilbert your videos are amazing...my opinion... your one of the first vloggers...thank you for sharing your home videos..i enjoy watching all of them..stay safe buddy
Damn it's weird this kid is now a middle aged man, what a trip.
31 Years of Puente Hills Mall (1989-2020)
AWESOME VIDEO IT BROUGHT BACK SO MANY MEMORIES!!!OMG THE KB TOY STORE I USE TO LOVE GOING THERE.
Oh man do I wish this mall was still as populated as it was at this point in time
Today only a small suit store (the red neon sign captured in the pillar reflection at 4:24) and that See's Candies are what remain from what's shown in this video. Crazy. I grew up going to this mall and still remember the wooden benches in the center court in the 90s.
1 of 2 of My childhood malls. Never been back since i moved to Texas in 1995. The memories of how my brother and i remember this place, thank you. Now if only i can find a video of Malibu showboat and grand prex.
Great Video bro it's a trip to see how times change me and my family used to go to Puente hills mall a lot we just moved to Corona from Whittier CA. I would live to see video of the Montebello mall in the 80's or 90's I grew up going to that mall thanks again!
I see that's the mall where the movie Back to the Future was filmed. I also know that this mall used to have a JCPenney store along with a J.W. Robinson's and The Broadway. Today J.W. Robinson's is now Macy's, which first became Robinsons-May in 1993 before Macy's in 2006. The former Broadway store is now an AMC theaters. JCPenney is now Burlington Coat Factory on the lower level, Toys R Us and Round1 on the upper level, and also a 24 Hour Fitness gym on one side. The only original anchor that survived is Sears.
I hung out here all the time. Loved it there. I remember most of those shops.
I used to go to that mall, wow awesome memories
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.
I love how you film and zoom in. It captures the magic in this time.
Thanks for uploading this! It’s so sad what the mall is like today, and I was hoping to find a memory of its heyday, so thanks, I love it!
When the Sanrio store was awesome!
And it smelled of candy and sweetness. I didn't care if my friends laughed i loved that store especially the art.
Oh wow, that takes me back. Probably the best video of what the Puente Hills Mall looked like in the 80s! Thanks Gilbert!
Nogales Nobel class of 89 visited mall, showboat, skate country, grand Prix time fly's.
Ah, I miss the koi pond days at this mall...
Who remembers the showboat in the 80’s???
Malibu showboat.
Arcade, mini golf, bumper boats, water slides (when they worked), and the grand prix.
nope i wasnt alive ;)
Thank you for sharing this 🤗. It's brought back so many memories I completely forgot about. Such great memories hanging out with friends and my siblings, then going to the AMC 10 movies later.
Too bad that mall is a ghost town . Only h &m ,round 1 and AMC exist. All the major stores boned out. All the mom and pop stores got crushed because of amazon taking over with online shopping. Im just lost of words , had so many memories at that mall as a child and teenager. Sucks 😞 great video tho man
I'm so bummed that has happened. I honestly dislike Amazon sometimes.
I love this video!!! It’s great!! Brings back soooo many great memories! My dad used to work at Deyton’s!! We used to always eat Fiddlers!
That's the year I was born! wow! brings back memories when I was being breast fed in the mall
WOW GREAT VIDEO. Born and raised in Rowland, I remember all the store in your video. I MISS that clock in the center. That mall sucks now!!. Rainbow Gate... MAN.. that is way back.. I was thinking sanrio at first. I wish you shot some video outside the mall like the Firestone shop, Movie Theater, PJ Pazzaz. LOL
Back in the day when people actually went to malls. I miss shopping in malls in the 80's and 90's. Now all the malls are "dead malls" and everyone shops online now a days.
Really? In my country there's like a mall boom... They are building everywhere huge malls and small shops are dying out.
I work in a large mall that opened in the 70s. It was my favorite place as a kid i never thought I would be a part of it but it's lost it's magic. It is overpacked and all of the food places are lacking. I wonder if it will ever die out but it is the only mall in 15-20 mile ratio.
La Palmera Mall in corpus christ tx is not dead its packed on the weekends
I think that is a boring way to live doing all your shopping online never leaving your house
Tgis is true 80s right here, I was born in 2005, and boy I never would have thought that PHM looked like this.
Great video! Wish you had more of the Kaybee Toy store!
Looks like good times as always.
Omg thank you for sharing!! It's so sad because that Mall has potential and I don't know what the hell happened. Maybe the owner of the property itself just raised the rent so damn high due to greed, that no one can afford it and now this is what's left. I dunno.
This is just how I remember it???
😊😊😊😊😊😍😍😍😍😍
I have to compliment you on your camera work. You have a steady hand, your framing is spot-on, and you have a good eye for subject matter. Plus, you are persistent carrying that camera. bravo!
Do you remember if the name of that store your little sister and friend were browsing in was called Sassy? it looks exactly like a store my mall had in the 80s and 90s. Lots of Sanrio and Hello kitty pencils, toys, stationary stuff balloons and candy. I even noticed the cashier wearing Hello kitty. Makes me think it's the same store we had in NY.
Rainbow gate.
Puente hills and west covina mall are two separate locations.
omg this takes me back your vdos are a gld mine. your one of the firsts true vlogers!
This mall suffered big time from the "Asian Invasion" of the 1990s. After the LA riots, Asians moved east to the suburbs and instead of assimilating they just changed the whole area. Pretty sad.
I remember that mc Donald’s was not part of the food court, seeing this video brings back memories. This is before the carousel was installed in the center of the mall.
JEVUS123 You are right, the mcDonalds was on the JC penny wing. After the carousel that middle section has a water feature with fish. All is gone now. Sears just closes so mall not doing well.
Best video ever on TH-cam. My family and I grew up in this mall.Best part was shot of the clock in the center..extra special thanks dude .. you bless and your family
Man I used to go to that McDonalds as a kid. The only place I ever got a McDLT lol! Cool to see the Christmas decorations. I had my picture taken with Santa there one year. Nice to see a shot of the old Kay Bee Toy Store. Wish you had gotten a shot of Time Out arcade too. Great video!
Gilbert !!! .I remember you did this Puente Hills mall 1989 video You should really consider dueing a before And after I think you're going to be in for a shock .it's been pretty popular thing right now and theres very few videos of that subject but its quickly cachting fire 🔥 and I really think you'll gain allot of viewer's with this one . I had to come tell you and i know its pretty far away but you due love to film so yeah 😊. Masterpiece in the waiting just need Gilbert Og Gilby 🎥
I'll be putting that on my to do list
My mom used to work at Lancôme in the Broadway at the Puente Hills Mall
Wow.. I was a freshman in high school at this time. I remember coming here
Wow this video is a little gem from the past
Very nice video and a very nice time Also nice memory 👌
This is a trip, my friends and I would shop there in the 80's I use to live about 5 miles from that mall. On the 2nd floor there use to be an arcade. It was great.
Just outside on the other side of the mall, we would also watch movies at the AMC theater. Couple miles down the road from the theater, there was Showboat and Malibu grand prix. We would play arcade games, miniature golf and drive go carts. Good times.
The tilt arcade was on the 1st floor near sears and across from it 1 of 2 computer and video game stores in the mall not including kb toys.
they had go carts back then?
oh sorry
@@intlDrx7 retroforce6919 is not mistaken. There used to be an arcade on the 2nd floor called Time Out in front of Sears in the 80s. It was to the right of a big store that was like a drug store where the Champs is now. Time Out was to the right. They featured games like Double Dragon, Golden Axe, Street Fighter 1, Final Fight, Shinobi, R-Type, After Burner moving machine, and a Power Drift 2 player machine later. A feel Ski ball in the back and some Pinball machines. It was a very small arcade but was packed with great hits.
@@MeritoriousLeeYou're right it was called Time Out, I remember playing Street Fighter 1 when it first came out at Time Out. I nearly broke my wrist playing it, it had these 2 huge hard pads you smash down with your hands. Back in 1989 I was a sophomore at Wilson High
6:56 !!!!! I remember seeing a few Kb toys places in the 90s as a little kid. Those where the best!
Leo damn I totally forgot about kB toys .
I used to drink at the Red Robin just west of the mall quite frequently
I visited the mall today (Sep-14-24) and it’s a ghost town in there. Only food they even got in the mall anymore is the wetzel pretzel and kublai khan. It was heartbreaking to see
I worked at the Sears in this Mall about a year before this video was recorded.
The day before my brothers 5th birthday.
Holy time warp! I'm going to get something to eat at Fiddlers Three Restaurant then maybe go to Waldenbooks or B Dalton. I need to buy some stationery at JK Gill while I'm at it.
Did you ever get footage of an arcade inside the mall?
TryforceZelda03 unfortunately no 😣
You'd have smashed people upside the head with nostalgia if you did.
Gilbert Arciniega Why Did Joe Get Rid Of The 1993 Dodge Caravan?
I remember the arcade it was called TILT'S.
Showboat had a massive arcade.. the West Covina plaza had the Zone
Gilber, you know how I got into your channel, I got nostalgic and I found HBO's inrtro rememeberthat. How HBO's inrto was and even how they made it. ()remember sometimes ol folkes got free cable it was sooo easy back then). Anyways I looked up for 80's in Los Angeless shoot I looked up for RTD bus and your channel came up, Crisom' with power 106 and ship. God knows after your channel brought memories of the third kimd
I get my haircut at JC Penneys at that mall, stylist was a hot blond and drives a red colored pontiac fiero. Early to mid eighties.
You should be up for an award or something Gilbert
The music was Taylor Dane. Were payless shoestore & sees candies stayed in the same spots years after?
@5:42 A Mustang SSP in a mall. Wow!
Weird to see people walking without staring at a phone. The 90s were a much better time
I love how Cynthia is like "Oh Gilbert!" she was cute haha
Dude...I remember the clock!!
Have You Been To The Puente Hills Mall Lately Because It Could Have Gotten Worse Due To COVID-19?
They lost business sadly during that time and everyone goes to the West Covina Mall now on and the popular stores are AMC theatres and Round 1 at the Puente Hills Mall.
At 5:40 you can see a SSP CHP Mustang
Lol, they sure were proud of those 5.0 HO Ford engines!
you really have some amazing footage, Gil!
Just fyi the Puente hills mall and west covina mall are 2 entirely different malls in 2 different cities 😊 great video though!
I went to the puente hills mall a couple weeks ago and man, that mall is dead. I'm surprised it hasn't closed down by now. The only reason it gets any traffic is because of the movie theater and Round 1. It's actually quite sad.
Any possible 2003 footage?
Malls used to be such happening places but now not so much!
Real question, did you ever feel weird filming in public during the time? and vs now?
Nowadays, the mall is over half vacant. I wish the mall was popping like it used to. Fill the mall with businesses, like idc if its just boba shops like the rest of the town. The emptiness really bums me out
@1:34 Oh shit. I didn't know this was Ty Lopez behind the camcorder! "NAWWLIDGE! "
I'm surprised that you were allowed to record inside the Puente Hills Mall without no security or sale associates telling you to turn off your camera at that time. Nowadays, they'll ask you to leave the premises if you record inside a shopping mall.
JustForSneaks Ent. Back then they weren’t scared by it going onlinr
@@DiamanteDea Make sense.
The mcrib!
When malls were packed.
Hell, I was just being born at this time haha.
Thanks for sharing.
What happened to this mall! Great archive, thank you for sharing.
Orange Curtain Press there’s hardly people inside and most stores are closed
3:33 that store looks like Rai bow gate I remember it was Sanio stuff
This the mall where Doc Emmit Brown was gunned down in October 17, 1985. RIP.
Loved this video❤️❤️❤️
Welcome to my time capsule!
It's strange to realize that when this was filmed, the very first full episode of the Simpson's was broadcasted!
Back when everyone dont complain if they were being filmed.
Malls today look like Airports and Modern Train Stations and sometimes looks like Cruise Ship Decks and most of them look like Downtown Disney