Superstition Springs Center: A Future Dead Mall? | Retail Archaeology
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In this episode we take a look at Superstition Springs Center to see if the rumors about it becoming a dead mall are true.
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Hey everyone, here's the link to the additional video on my 2 channel I mentioned. It shows the inside of the head shop: th-cam.com/video/qpbB34dD448/w-d-xo.html. Thanks for watching!
Retail Archaeology what is your second channel, please link, thanks 👍
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Retail Archaeology great video again! Hope you at least take a break during the holidays. You’ve been working hard! 🎅🏼🌲🙂
i really enjoy your videos. very relaxing to watch!
Hey, it looks like you forgot to include that Bandcamp link: bodyendtag.bandcamp.com/
when a mall is full of independent shops and few franchises, it's a bad sign. i'm no expert but if the food court is getting the most traffic, that is the area that should be expanded. food courts usually are where people congregate in malls.
I work at Charley's Philly steak
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Omg 1800 for a fake tree that lights up? I was thinking it would be at maximum $80
Yeah I at first thought 18.00 and I was like hmm, good deal. Then I saw there was no period.
@@crowmigration8245 Same. Then I saw the two extra 0s in the top-right. Was like "what the fuuuuck"
I thought it would be more than 1800
I was here yesterday. 14 vacancies. No more sears. No more book vault. No more pizza Cafe. That ww2 museum was also empty
Grew up going to this mall all through my childhood, left AZ for a couple decades and recently moved back. Was shocked to see how sad this mall has become. Genuinely depressing.
It seems like a lot of malls are becoming places more for mall walkers than shoppers. How times have changed.
I used to be able to spend HOURS at the mall near where I lived. I would get there around 8:30 in the morning and be there until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon. Nowadays, I'm barely in that same mall for a half hour. Everything I used to go to the mall for is long gone.
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@mylifeintheknifetrade If malls had that kind of variety now, maybe I'd enjoy going to them more. Especially since I'm a man.
I can't believe you didnt mention how that dog was just laying there like that lol it was so adorable!!
Carmen J that dog was awesome, obviously a lazy old dog who just loves the attention
Carmen J
Yep, he was a character. And cute as could be.
This mall has changed so much. I used to spend so much time in this mall when I was a teenager. And that was only fiveish years ago
At best this a soon to be dead mall. Regardless as to whether it’s full of mom & pop or national chains, without customers it’s doomed. Sad as it’s well kept and the design is great. Another awesome video.
It can go in bough direction, maybe will fully recovery.
I fell into that "well" thing in the pet store when I was a kid, banged my knee pretty bad. They used to put a bunch of puppies in there you could interact with
it's such a bummer to visit your childhood mall and seeing all your favorites stores are now just smartphone shops.
I know the feeling. Bout a year ago I went back to a mall I'd worked in from '88-92 (family had a music store), everything had changed, literally everything. Only thing remaining in its original location was the bookstore (a Coles). Only time I'd been there in more than 20 years.
I moved to East Mesa in 1989. Lived off of Val vista and southern when it was all new. I worked at the Bashas when I was 16 in 1991. I used to work also at toys r us when it first opened when I was 15. This mall used to be pretty busy and nice. The VF factory outlet was nearby also. So many good memories at that mall. In HS I would spend all weekend at the mall. In HS my friends and I would walk to the mall at 2am on a school nite and steal lots of money from the fountain and go to the circle K and eat snacks. Back in the early to mid 90s. We had no curfew or cameras or smartphones everywhere. I would walk the dry canals all the way to the mall. Lol I went into the Army and got out in 97. I then lived in old town Scottsdale. I used to sneak into the old Scottsdale galleria mall. It was used By the Smithsonian for storage. It was pretty dark Inside and scary. I almost fell down a shaft inside. Anyone here around this time frame remember the new movie theater on val vista and southern? It was a arcade next door also.. Nice video!
Yeah the movie theater on Southern and Val Vista was a United Artists theater. I think the arcade was nickel palace
Wow, things have really gone down at this mall since you filmed your last video here. That Beyond The Garden appears to be former Wet Seal; and the Quality Jewelry Plus looks to be an old Zales. When you did your first video here I didn’t think that it would be a dead mall anytime soon but this ain’t looking too good. For a Sunday afternoon there should be way more shoppers. The future of this mall doesn’t seem to good but if they are able to fill up the vacant anchors hopefully we will see a resurgence
OMG when I was a kid pretty much every mall had an organ store. This is the first time I've seen one in years! I didn't realize those home organs were really still a thing.
so true. I remember that,! when Malls had...everything.
Ironically its probly still there due to the older population in the area who grew up with organs still being popular. Only time I'd heard of any music store in a mall in 20 years. the few music stores near me are all standalones, almost always in very very run down parts of town.
My mom used to work at this mall in the late 90's she worked at the Sears and the Robinson may when it was around a lot of memories from this mall
"... a huge missile in a mall" With a naked lady in the background. Even more rare.
It looks like it's time for the missile to explode
$1800. Can buy a car for that. Divide by 10 and still too expensive. Made in China. same as the rest of the stock.
Tim Spooner
Yes, I thought it was 18.00! Haa.
It's almost like they don't want to see those things at all. Weird.
@Chadwicked B rubber boots made with latex from ? not believe the labels lol
I'm 30 years old and I still have the scar under my chin when I climbed up the leg of the Gila monster slide as a kid, and then slipped and banged my chin straight down on top of the spot I was climbing up. Hurt like hell because that thing was made of pure concrete. SO many memories around that mall! I can't believe that pet store is still in there.
This makes me wanna cry I cherished going to the mall as a kid too bad kids today won’t get to experience that 😪😪😪
these days when you hear about the malls on the news, it is because there is a shooting. i have fond memories of the malls.
Miss the giant Gila monster slide.
I found it! It's in Carefree now 😀 I bring it up in the extra video I mentioned on my 2nd channel: th-cam.com/video/qpbB34dD448/w-d-xo.html
Retail Archaeology HA! There it is. The memories as a kid sliding down that in summer burning your self with tons of other kids. Good times at superstition.
Thanks!!!
I was here last week and well... For being the holiday season this mall is gonna be Fiesta mall soon enough
I give it 3-5 years. I live by Fiesta and 5 years ago Fiesta had a similar vibe.
Worst mall in the history of Earth was Florin Mall in Sacramento, CA
Hey don't say that cause I work there and I'm going to work tomorrow
They did one renovation to this mall in 2002. Before that, I remember aqua-colored walls with pink and turquoise accents inside. They also had some indoor trees on the lower level. My family used to like eating at Luby’s where TJ Maxx is now.
Dillard's sold computers!? 😲 😲
it was different in older days lol. sears used to sell them, and so did lots of other older retail chains.
That's amazing. I remember when Sears used to sell tons of video games, I bought my Nintendo 64 there while looking at the PlayStation's. I don't think they sell much games anymore.
Up to the 90's dept. stores were vastly different. They sold a bit of everything not like the outdated clothes n overpriced perfumes most sell now.
You should do a video, where you go to every state and visit the most popular malls there.
NXA Mythical if he does and goes to Mall of America I want to know when so I can meet and show him around
He needs to go through Canada and see WEM. Maybe do a collab with Best Edmonton Mall 😍
Pretty mall. I like the shop with the LED trees. I would get some green, red, & white ones for christmas decorations. I don't really see a lot of eclectic one-off shops like I did in the 80s. It's always chain stores.
But the $1,800 for a led tree is just hiway robbery. They just need to sell a couple a month and theyre already ok. In our country theyre selling for less than $50. Theyre all made in china
@@albertteng1191 made it china is cheap ass made stuff, these are hand made for what i saw lol
I got a similar looking led tree for £40 UK currency ..I agree about £1800 being highway robbery surely no1 would really pay that for it lol
I still go to this mall. I also loved the Gila monster slide! I’m a lot younger than you and I don’t remember some of the original stores but this mall has changed a lot! I go here quite often and it’s still pretty great. I hope it doesn’t die too quick.
there is a mall close to me that just became completely abandoned a few months ago
Burlington Center Mall
Used to own a house down around Power and Guadalupe. Spent a LOT of time in S.Springs and the surrounding area in my mid 20s. Left Arizona in 2006. Sad to see the entire area decaying with Fiesta dead and this mall on the trajectory. But now everybody goes to SanTan Villiage I suppose. It's a thing with Arizona, that the population always moves farther and farther out, with the area being moved from as a lower-income shell of it's former self. My parents old neighborhood around Horne & University looks like Beruit now.
pliskenmovie . That area used to be nice. I lived off southern and Val vista when it was new in 1989. I was shocked when I visited it in 2019. What a dump. My old house was run down and the area looked low income.
I'm glad there's not a pet rescue place at my mall. There'd probably be 20 rescued dogs and cats at my house by now if I had to pass one of those everytime I went to the mall.
There is a pet rescue now.
I wanted more footage and petting of dogs in this video.
That gila monster slide and play area was the shit! I'm upset they tore it up, I had a lot of fond memories going there with my deceased grandma and I'd have loved to visit again for old times sake.
Writing this while in the food court right now.
Mall has lots of memories for me. The art store in the food court used to be a pocket change arcade. There used to be a game store at the upstairs custom shirt shop. And it used to he a EB Games before a Gamestop. Used to go to midnight launches all the time there for games.
When my son first learned to walk i took him here and brought him his first pair of vans. Thank you for the good memories!!!
This was my childhood mall. I grew up about 10 minutes away from it. My family and I came here just about every weekend throughout the nineties. I remember that Gila Monster slide and the caves with the bronze statues of like a hourse and a miner outside the theater. I remember when the $1 theater had those awesome lights in the hallway to the theaters. Felt like you were walking through the stars. Also I really miss the arcade. I miss Sundance too
I love that carousel.
I used to take my mom to the mall after she broke her hip. It was a nice cool place for her to rehabilitate. That was 10 years ago, and she doesn't go out much now, living with my sister.
Would love a mall like that. All the malls near here either insanely busy to the point there's no parking, or too far away to be worth it. None of them have any striking architecture, mostly the typical 90s "blah" or the new ultra shiny modern look.
That carousel is *amazing*! I've never seen a dual-level one in a mall before.
I'm from Mesa. Went I went into the Army this didn't exist. I live in Wa State so I like watching channels like yours to keep up with the changes.
ty for documenting this
I was literally just about to check if you'd uploaded anything when the notification hit my box.
This reminds me of Circle Centre in Indy. More mom and pop shops have popped up, mostly after Nordstrom closed. But Simon, since the mall literally is next door to the headquarters, is pumping some cash into the mall to update and refresh it. And there are rumors that a new important tenant is looking to move in. It's exciting to see where the mall goes.
To be honest, those LED trees glow and flicker in a way reminiscent of something you'd see in an 80s Don Bluth film. I dig it.
I used to go there a lot and worked there from 06-09, I remember it being real busy
Used to go to this mall every week as a kid, for probably a decade at least. There was a second music store (it moved locations a couple of times) that had music studios behind the storefront where we'd take piano lessons. I used to love the arcade and the playground. So weird seeing the mall so dead.
Thanks for posting, this mall has many memories for me, we used to take our kids there, I remember there was a nice desert landscaped area that had a life sized metal burro that had a sign that read burro may be hot. Too bad that area became the parking lot addition.
Pretty sure Quality Jewelry Plus was a Zales. The doorway seems to be the old style of Zales. We still have some like that here I think.
Very interesting video. Great footage. Nice looking mall. Thanks for filming.
Interesting video, nice job! It is sad that small and medium sized malls are continuing to go away. Many years ago now, we lost two of the three in the Rockford Illinois area. The one still around recently lost Bergner's (Carson Pirie Scott) and now Sears is closing. The Bergners is half filled with a furniture store. I don't know what these places could do to make it work. Maybe more attraction and entertainment rather than retail. Back in the day malls at the very least had theaters and arcades. Ones toward Chicago, IL still have features like arcades (Round 1), though some of those seem pretty low traffic too. The only mall I couldn't see closing anytime soon is called Woodfield Mall (They have a huge sears anchor that apparently will stay).
My dad is from Mesa and whenever we went down from Seattle to visit cousins, we would always visit this mall and Fiesta Mall.
Sad. I remember when it opened. Its an age thing to an extent. Malls used to be THE place to go. Strange when you show malls I used to go to now dead or gone. Nothing ever lasts but great memories
I took my son there last Thursday, and I sure do agree with you this mall is dying and it is really a bummer. This is my local mall and it is so sad to see the state that it is in.
These outdoor malls like Tempe Marketplace and San Tan have taken business away from these old malls.
$1800 for a light up decorative tree? Oh hell no. I wouldn't even pay a tenth of that.
8:45 "Dude, get that camera out of my face or I swear to God I'm going to bite you."
I really hope this mall doesnt end up like fiesta mall I really like this mall. Last year the mall was packed during the holiday season and it was really refreshing seeing that compared to fiesta mall.
I remember in freshman year we all came to the mall after school. We'd get Panda Express, walk around the mall. Catch a cheap movie. It's so sad seeing my childhood vanish
SOMETIME SOON, THERE WILL NO LONGER BE A SEARS OR KMART ANYWHERE. MANY SAY JCPENNEY IS NEXT.
I thought Sears and Kmart were both in the process of closing all stores in the U.S. And yes, JCPenney is right behind them. Most of their stores have closed.
@@sallyphillips9175 DIDN'T THE CEO OF SEARS MAKE AN OFFER TO BUY IT USING HIS HEDGE FUND, SO THAT SEARS WOULD NOT BE LIQUIDATED? I THINK HE DID ABOUT A DAY OR TWO AGO.
Up here in Canada Kmart dissappeared in the 90's bought up by Wal Fart. Sears went bust here at the end of 2018
It needs cafes , supermarkets and banks
love your videos
keep it up
When my dad was alive, he was the mall Santa here for a few years. He had a real long flowing white beard, long white hair, and weighed about 250 pounds, so he didn't need extra padding. I have some pictures of him as Santa. My parents lived pretty close to the mall at Val Vista and University Avenues. Both are dead now. I used to go and see my dad once in a while at the mall when he was Santa. (Jan Griffiths).
I work for a company that participates in various trade shows. Some of those shows can be poorly attended and excruciatingly boring to work. I often tell my partner, cheer up, we could be working at the organ store in the mall, then every day would be like this.
I lived in the Phoenix-Mesa area for 13 years. I shopped at both Fiesta and Superstition Malls.. They did a very brisk business. I also remember Tri City Mall on the corner of Dobson and Main.
Needed that dose of nostalgia today
Glad you called out the puppy mills. Thank you for your video 💕
I live in Tucson, but I would go to this mall for the Yankee Candle shop when they had that, at least around the holidays you could get a ton of candles for a great bargain direct in the store, and it was easy access from the "back" road between Phoenix and Tucson, which is much cooler than taking the 10.
14:51 this store reminds me of the one Beethoven went to in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure 😂
We enjoyed the same mall! I miss the old fountain with that stage and the prospector statues and the Gila Monsters. The maze of statues was awesome.
That carrousel at 11:00 looks like the one that used to be at the C3 mall.
Another great video!
nice to hear about old memories.
I go to the nail shop it’s always busy it’s been there since open also the shoe repair been there for ever also the Dillard’s is one of the nicest I’ve ever been in
This makes me so sad! I would come to this mall several times a week in the early 2000's for the Kid's Club and even visited the mall pretty often as a teen. Now I still live in the area but rarely, if ever, visit the mall.
I recommend checking out the ASU Polytechnic campus, if possible. They have a lot of interesting abandoned property there, like the abandoned elementary school.
Game Stop is essentially the modern day Babbage's.
at least at babbages i could find something to buy.
Not sure it a good thing to ask
What's a Baggages?
Take that back!
Crow Migration
Who me?
Or the guy above me?
@@RexWort Gamestop is nothing like Babbages. Edit: and I guess since you asked for an explanation, first of all, it was only video games and they were from all past and current consoles. Second the store was open and inviting and the employees genuinely loved games and wanted to help you find the right one for you. Third the prices and trade in values were more fair.
The inside of this mall reminds me of the inside of Tuttle Mall in Dublin, Ohio.
Tuttle Mall confusingly had 3-4 Macy's simultaneously until recently.
I hope you go to the local mall this weekend. I want to see how busy/dead it is on the last weekend before Christmas.
I was just there today at 6 pm and the mall was very busy all over. Lots of holiday shoppers.
I miss the fajita Prima that was by pocket change arcade
I went here ALL the time as a child. Sad to see how down hill it's gone. :( The Gila monster slide and Carousel were ny absolute favourite. My 3 year old self was obsessed with Hot Topic.
this is my go to mall, i remember 10 years ago it was a bit busier than this. and that dillard's is where i bought my prom dress.
I remember an organ store in one of the malls when i was a kid, that was the late 70s. Surprised that there are still some in 2018
As a Kid The Northridge Fashion Center was it on Friday Nights
Now it’s Changed Kids Hang Out at Home Order Food Delivered
I’m Glad I’m not that Age My Child Memories are Awesome!!!!
$1,800 for a stump root cluster with pink Christmas lights.
Arrowhead Mall in Glendale, Scottsdale Fashion Square and Chandler Fashion Center remain busy. It's nice when the people who visit the mall, actually buy stuff.
If I’m correct, that dog that was in the dog bed at Follow Your Heart isn’t for adoption. I believe that’s Daddy, the owner’s dog.
Hey what is the specific song that plays at 11:34 ? Or where do you get your music in general? I love your videos and you have a great voice for explaining everything.
I remember my Junior High taking us there for a concert field trip. They took us to see Babe Pig of the City at the movie theater there. That was a great mall in the late 90s and early 2000’s!
Jennelle O’Toole . What junior high did you go to? I lived off of Val vista and southern and went to Taylor Jr high.
8:20 Follow Your Heart Rescue where I found my Toby back in 2016!
The old JC Penney Home Store was a Home Express before. Originally the space was a few mall shops and a ZCMI II.
@Retail Archaeology you record with a go pro for your mall trips?
Yes, a GoPro Hero 6.
@@RetailArchaeology do people ever ask you why are you filming?
@@RangerRickTV usually not. I've had enough practice now that I can film without people noticing.
its gonna be a sad day when they close this place but i know its on its way out. my pediatrician was in this mall years and years ago. i remember when the one shop used to be a pet store and they'd put the puppies in the well in the middle for people to play with, and when it was an adoption outlet, and now it was a wedding dress shop last time i went. it was so weird that there were dresses in the glass kennels in the front. also last time i was there it was so dead, i went into one of the shops of a bunch of local artists selling their crafts and wanted to buy some handmade dish towels, i walked the store 5 times and waited at front for 20 minutes and never saw whoever was running the place, it was surreal. i think it was in the slot the hallmark left. i miss the gila monster slide! i also went a few months ago and they had an exotic pet shop on the *dead* dead side, and the owner was going to expand to the next shop over and make a petting zoo, but when i went back less than 2 weeks later it was totally shut down and empty.
i love that double decker carousel. i hope they do something good with it when the mall finally dies.
i hope this mall doesn’t die! this mall is a huge part of my childhood
Please visit South Bay Galleria in Redondo Beach, California! It's been on a downward spiral for a while, but when the Nordstrom anchor store left a few years ago to open up in the newly renovated Del Amo Fashion Center a few miles south, it's really been circling the drain now. Definitely on its way to becoming a dead mall.
i was here in july and the tj maxx parking lot was pretty full, but inside it was relatively empty. crazy how it can change in only a few months.
I just hope that this online thing is just a trend. These malls aren't as busy anymore. I was just at tuscola outlet mall in Illinois and it's starting to empty out little by little. Later in the warmer months I'll document that. It seems that stores are closing before Christmas this year. Usually it's been after Christmas. This is a sad time for malls right now.
I loved Pocket Change so much! That's the last arcade I remember going to where the games took actual quarters. Now they all take cards that you swipe.
And I love that clown shoot em up game at Zap!
2019 was the first time in over 20 years I didn't even bother with SSC at Christmastime. That was always a staple for gift shopping, just couldn't bring myself to go there.
"Spencers" was the store I always headed to when I went to the mall.
That mall looks like a local mall not to far away from where I live. The mall is in Gastonia, NC. It's terrible, a lot of empty spaces and everything major is moving out. Now they kept it real clean, but lets face it majority of malls now are dying especially the ones in most suburban areas of the country or small towns that should never got a mall to begin with.
Have you ever been to the outlet tangiers in Westgate area? Near Glendale? It's what apparently is called an open air mall? My wife told me thats what it is when a mall has no roof to speak of... Anyway, great video, would you go back also to Prescott Gateway Mall again? Or talk about Frontier Village how it used to be the happening place, with Ten Cine overlooking it all?
I used to go there a lot when I lived in Mesa, it's sad to see it's on the way out. I remember when that area was being developed back in the nineties.
Digging at Tycho . Where did you live? I moved to Val vista and southern when it was all new in 1989.
@@mikethemechanic7395 When it was built I was living in Tempe. About the mid-nineties I was cohabiting with a now long since ex-girlfriend in the area of Gilbert Rd. and the 60, we would go up there a lot.
If you would like to see REALLY busy malls, go to Bangkok. Huge and extremely busy. Everywhere.
Lmao yes, Asian malls are busy af