Man, does this make my heart ache. I turned 41 this year, and all the places from my childhood and tween years growing up in the Sacramento area are gone or disappearing like everyone around Dr. Crusher in that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. McClellan Air Force base, where my dad was stationed for 85% of his Air Force career, has been decommissioned since 2001, and the Base Exchange closed a year and some change ago. All the local Tower Records that my older brothers used to take me to are long gone. Dimple Records moved into most of Tower's old locations, but Dimple is gone now, too. The only comic shop left that I used to go to with my brothers is World's Best Comics. I'm glad they're still standing. I've been in the old Cape Hart base housing in what used to be North Highlands, it's so run down and sketchy. It doesn't resemble the brightly pastel colored homes we lived in whatsoever. I remembered the way from my old house on Mono Way to Dudley Elementary school. The youth center was torn down, the Shoppette/ gas station where I bought many comic cards and comics off the spinner rack was torn down, the pool was gated up and rotting away. The K-Mart across the street from the Wal-Mart just outside of Cape Hart base housing where we used to hang out is long gone. Ditto for the Food 4 Less in the same shopping center. All the Godfather's Pizza places are gone. Superb Pizza on Watt Avenue is still there, though! KWOD 106.5 FM has been gone since 2009. I cut my musical taste's teeth on so many songs I heard on KWOD, 100.5 the Zone and KSFM 102.5. K-Hits was great while it lasted, but now I think it's a Mexican music station. I think 102.5 is still kicking, though. It's hard seeing the drastic changes and knowing how things used to be. It's like seeing the changes in my grandmother as she slowly unspooled from Alzheimer's. If anyone read this and you're a local, I hope something I mentioned about where we grew up sparked some happy memories for you.
I'm a 916 native and you definitely brought back memories for me. I haven't heard anyone mention KWOD in so long and I'm glad you did! I loved KWOD, it helped form my taste in music and was the first place I heard Fall Out Boy lmao. I also went to the 102.5 cinco de mayo concert at Discovery Park when I was only 15 😭 My friends and I also miss going to chill at Tower and dimple I hear you about the drastic changes too. I moved to SoCal for a few years and when I got back SO much was different. If you saw Sunrise or any other local mall in 2002, you'd never guess what they'd come to lol
@@Heavenhellhaleema Glad to hear anything I said triggered some memories. My brother went through a divorce and ended up buying a house a few minutes away from the old McClellan Air Force base. For the past several years, our parents and I have been commuting to his house to babysit his son. It still feels like home and is super familiar when I drive around, but it has an eerie disconnected feeling, too, like you somehow slipped into an alternate reality version of how things are supposed to be. All the cinedome theaters are gone/ replaced. Those were so cool, saw so many great movies in them like Home Alone, the first live action Ninja Turtles, Star Trek, Power Rangers, etc. Your talking about 102.5's Cinco de Mayo concert reminded me about going to the last 100.5 the Zone Exotic Zone Halloween Ball almost 20 years ago. We used to hit Arden Mall and catch a movie at either the nearby Cinedomes or the United Artists Theater at the mall. In the summer, we'd hit the California state fair and/or Water World USA by Arden Mall. Scandia, the miniature golf/ go karts/ amusement rides/ arcade place is still going. Thanks for replying and sharing some 916 memories. Hope you're doing well where you're living now, friend 👍
YES the Cinedomes and Waterworld! I went to see the premier of the last Harry Potter movie there (in the hot Sac sun in partial costume 😂), and that's the last time I went before they were demolished. And yes I'm doing well thanks, still staying in Sac on and off 👍🏾 Great chat!
I miss dimples. There’s a place in sac and folsom called The Cave that’s very similar though. For all I know, they may have received some of Dimple’s stock around the time they closed or so.
who here in 2024 remember going to get an Orange Julius...? OH The memories. Cruising Sunrise Mall and enjoying The Birdcage Walk. I'd hit Comics and Comix at Birdcage all the time. How the times have changed.
Oh yeah I remember Orange Julius in that main corridor after Taco Bell (before the move to the new food court) and I think by Sbarro. I used to go to Weinstocks with my mom and sister at least a decade before. Birdcage had a cheap movie theater my friends and I would go to. I ended up getting my second job there at the Men’s Macys in my late teens. I’m actually not far from it, living in Sacramento, closer to downtown so if I do go anywhere it’s Arden or DOCO. I loved the walk through Macy’s. My old stomping grounds 😂 I’ll have to pay this a visit in my next day off just to relive it while I can.
Comics and Comix in Birdcage Walk might have been my favorite comic book store of all time. And there was an arcade not too far from there that had the Empire Strikes Back cabinet. The theater there was one of those that showed the Rocky Horror Picture Show often, and there was a Tower just across the street from the mall where you could buy event tickets. I remember one time getting tickets to a Phil Collins concert, and being right behind this guy buying baseball tickets who was taking his sweet time figuring out what seats he wanted. Man, that pissed me off. Lots of memories from that area!
Wow didn't think I'd see this in a TH-cam video! I live about 10 mins from it and everytime I go in, it's a depressing sight compared to what it used to be
I lived in the apartments behind this mall growing up. Can’t tell you how many happy memories I have with this place. Used to love walking with friends and getting food, picking up new games or a pack of yugioh cards.
I used to go to Sunrise Mall and Birdcage Walk in the 80's when they had discount movie theaters. When the Roseville Galleria opened, it took away a lot of business from Sunrise Mall.
@@TheVintageSpacesChannelOver the years you are correct 👍 Roseville Galleria took the businesses but remember you also pay less sales taxes a the galleria.
the owners of the sunrise mall never kept up on renovations and general safety at this mall, though. The city of Citrus Heights allowed sunrise blvd to become run down as well. Roseville simply became a more desirable shopping experience and for those reasons customers were willing to drive the extra 15 mins. Sad but true.
I grew up near the Sunrise Mall and the nearby Birdcage Walk when they were happening spots in the 80's and 90's. Sunrise has been struggling since the fancier and larger Roseville Galleria mall opened in 2000.
Was there a few days ago, walked through with my brother and youngest son. Absolutely almost all stores are gone. My middle son worked there for a year. Somewhat sad to see all the stores disappear, yet it was not surprising. Wow, parts of Macy's and JC Penney are still holding on. Sears closed also. Thank you for your video.
This was my mall since the 80’s. Sad how it’s gone down hill! I wish there was video from way back at Christmas time in the 80’s, they had a giant Christmas tree that talked. They also had a fountain in the center, people would throw Pennie’s in, then I’m assuming someone from the mall would arrange the coins into pictures,. One time the coins were arranged to look like the Snoopy and the peanuts gang! This video brought back a flood of memories!
@@pamelaaverrett5848 Way before Macys took that building That use to be Weinstocks. The original name for that building. Let me tell ya something Weinstocks was a high end store 🏬 Stocks had a high end restaurant that was plush and had all the Big dinners steaks 🥩 Shrimps Turkey 🦃 etc. and they served breakfast and lunch 🥗 with big tasty 🤤 Salads. Definitely it was so much more than when Macys took over. Times change people change. Big elaborate malls are slowly dying. Being replaced by cheap internet 🛜 websites where choices are few and retail corporations sucking up bigger profits because they don’t have to cater to individual real people shopping 🛍️ by foot 🦶 looking 👀 for more deals on the mall. It’s definitely taking away a part of life we all took for granted. It as fun to go there shop and find the items you want and stop for lunch 🥪 or dinner with the family.
Yup the area pretty much slowed down and died off after they ended the cruise. They still have signs on the stop lights that don't allow u turns at night ... making it illegal to drive around the area which is silly. If they actively brought back the cruise they would revitalize the entire area.
I would love to buy a mall and turn the stores into condos. What an awesome place to live. Kids playing, a local bar and coffee shop. A indoor general store ...you would really get to know your neighbour's. A great secure fun place to live,especially in the winter months.
I remember when that Mall was bustling back in the early seventies. My brother and I would go to the United Artist theater 🎭 go watch a sinbad movie 🍿 or whatever was playing while our folks were shopping 🛍️. It wass really a great site to see and go in then so new and so nice 😊definitely the best they had to offer during that time. Weinstocks had a very nice high class restaurant my mother worked there. It’s really shocking to see now 😮 what it is left just a shell 🐚 of what was once a big time mall. 😢
I remember Sunrise Mall when I was little - packed to the gills! So many trips there over the years - I got my ears pierced there, and was amazed at a pinball machine that could talk (Welcome to Xenon!) Saw a Fish Called Wanda at the theater, and got my Glamour Shots taken there. The thing I miss the most, though, are the water features that were there in the early 1980s: In the main corridor hubs, there were these bright, shiny water fountains that had the water flowing over surfaces completely covered with mirrors. The effect was quite hypnotic. So beautiful!
I loved tossing coins in that fountain when I was a little kid. I heard it developed plumbing issues, and the owner couldn't justify the cost to repair, given that it was already an expensive feature. When they brought the train set in, I would toss coins on the tracks to see if I could get one of the engines to derail.
I grew up there. There's a creek that runs behind Woodmore Oaks Dr, and everything on the other side was fields up to the drive-in on Greenback. Woodmore Oaks Dr. started at Central Ave & ran only to Fair Oaks Blvd. Sunrise area was fields. This was a huge deal when it was built, nothing else around like it. Used to be so much cruising that went on around it, and lots of LE patrolling.
I never remember seeing security inside the mall in the earlier days they were kind of like Disneyland how they remained unseen but later you could see sheriff's in the mall at Holliday time and the security trucks would be near the taco bell entrance
This was my mall throughout my entire life. From the early 2000’s to now. From the beginning of getting baby pictures done at the Picture People to going to that movie theater on Tuesdays with mom to see Despicable Me, Madagascar 2, and later on senior year of high school Gardians of the Galaxy. She always took us to that Sees Candies to get one or two chocolates. Christmas pictures with Santa. Easter Bunny. Preteen food court moments. Getting my ears pierced holes one and two at icing at 7 and 14 years old. School clothes shopping at JCPenney and Hot Topic with my friends during the middle school emo phase. This was it. An entire life spent at this mall. We always went to the Roseville Galleria and the Arden Fair mall but we were closest to this mall. Passing by it now driving through town and seeing it is but a distant artifact. We no longer go there as adults. Yet we remember those days. There’s also a roller rink nearby called the Sunrise Rollerland. Everyone had a birthday party there, even me. It was a medieval themed roller rink. That was one of the best places to get taken to as a kid and roller nights from school being able to see all your friends. Watching this video makes me feel like “Wow… it’s one of those malls now..”. It really gets to my heart. Where has the time gone…
Grew up there! epic cool mall, Rainbow skate park behind it in the 1970's. midnight movies and the cruse in the 80's, Birdcage walk mall across the street, great times to be a kid growing up.
I remember when this mall opened. It was a big deal and we did a lot of shopping there as well as going to the movie theater. It’s so sad to see it go….
This opened the year I was born. It used to be THE mall in the greater Sacramento area until Arden really grew and took over. Sunrise used to have the biggest Winter Wonderlad area in the very center with animatronics and all kinds of lights and decorations for Santa.
Man, I was not expecting this video to pop up on my feed. This place was *the* place you begged your parents (and in my case older siblings) to take you. Not only for what they had in the mall, but also Birdcage Center and the Tower across the street. My sister and I spent hours hanging out around there. I even worked at the Hot Topic for a while. Unfortunately, it really started to struggle when the Roseville Galleria was built, and it's been kind of downhill ever since. It's sometimes a bummer when I come back to town to see it so empty, but at least I have my memories. Now I wonder if this channel has ever covered the K street mall....
I sincerely hope Sunrise gets back on its feet, I hate mega malls. Lived around the corner from Arden for a couple years recently and would avoid it all costs lol Best memory of Sunrise was waiting in line for my Dreamcast on 9/9/99, dont remember the game store though
Good video. The exterior of a lot of these anchors, have that brutalist look going for them to some extent. I am going to look up pics on how this mall originally looked like, when this mall first opened in 1972. I will say while it does stink the original look wasn't kept, at least it wasn't blanded as greatly as any Hull owned mall or Cafaro owned mall tends to look like after a remodel. The Macy's men and hone store, looked surprisingly clean and nice for a Macy's store. I wish all Macy's stores, looked as nice as that one you walked through.
The original look was very cool, but very very dated. And it was fairly worn out. And fifty years on, we appreciate that kind of architecture because it was quality architecture. But 25 years ago (approximately, whenever they remodelled, it was just considered to be the most out of date and tired. And a lot of people hated that 70’s look.
Birdcage Walk had actual live birds in an aviary. Peacocks, other birds. That was close to the ice skating rink that became an REI, next to The Game Room, probably the largest video game arcades in Citrus Heights, and this was stand alone, and not attached to a pizza parlor, and we had both Chuck E Cheese and showbiz. The Macy’s in that center opened about 1978 - 1980, and was a sleek, two story dark brick building. (Their grand opening was a hot air balloon race. I was 6 or 7 and it made quite an impression). I don’t recall which year I they tore it down and built Target, but I do know that the current Target is the second Target building. They called it target greatland, and seemed astonishingly large at the time, but it’s dwarfed by the current Target building.
now today the entire food court is closed down and a third of the stores in this video are gone. no more vans, tillys, sees candy, bath and body works, zumies, and a bunch more. really sad to see what happened to this mall, it’s not gonna be around much longer unfortunately :/
This hurts me a ton. I grew up in Citrus Heights in the 90s, early 2000s and this was THE place to be! Hanging out with friends, birthdays, just strolling around.. This mall will always have a special place in my heart. I'm really sad newer generations don't get to enjoy stuff like this anymore..
This was my mall as a kid. Lots of memories of holiday and back to school shopping, visiting friends at work, and teenage mischief here. Sad to see it dying but when you start losing your anchors it’s only a matter of time. It actually looks like they’re keeping it up but it’s just in a death spiral.
Right, it's really not in bad condition at all. Even the parking lot is kept up and parts seem to be somewhat recently repaved which is not something you usually see at a dying mall. It's just slowly losing all its stores.
You forgot about Gottschalks, I think they were the 1st to go under. Only about 1/2 if that of the mall is being used now. Back in the day, that was the only mall to go to without going all the way down to Sacramento. Last time I was in there, about 5 years ago. I was doing a job to repair the phone lines for the alarms in the old Sears portion after thieves had broke in and ripped them all out. Kinda eerie going into a dark vacant building and into the basement.
My Mother worked at Sears for 30 years but was lucky to retire before virus and Amazon. I always did Christmas shopping there inside the Mall plus cross the street at Birdcage walk.
So many fond memories of this place! I remember going into KB Toys and getting a stuffed Neopet. I grew up in Citrus Heights and the Fair Oaks/Orangevale area so it is comforting to see something of familiarity. There used to be a cute mini golf course around there too, it was well-forested with big oak trees, but I believe it got bulldozed for housing?
I remember my mom bringing me here when this mall first open. Getting to the mall felt like a trip out of town (we lived in Sacramento) that took forever. Now this mall is just hanging on or closed
Hit the mall for a couple hours then head across the st to Birdcage. They had the game room, bowling, all the baseball card booths, $1 movies, tower records....could stay there all day. Doesn't look as much fun to be a kid these days.
When I was a kid I loved going to the Sunrise mall! It was like a whole other world. The hustle and bustle made it feel so alive. I loved the big fountain they had in the middle. Where you would beg your parents for change so you could throw it in to make wishes and at the same time dream about all the things you could buy in the mall if you had all the change from the fountain lol. Then in my teen years in the 80's it was the hang out spot during the day on the weekends. My friends and I would ride the bus from North Highlands to the mall and spend hours there. Saturday night was spent at Birdcage Walk. Going to the movies, walking around the closed stores, watching the cruise (before they shut it down permanently) flirting with the cute boys lol and when we were seniors in high school we would go to the midnight movies there. It hurts my heart to even drive by there seeing hardly any cars in the parking lot. I don't remember the last time I went in there, but it broke my heart. More stores closed than open, hardly anyone there. The hustle and bustle was gone. It has been gasping for breath for years now. Just an almost empty shell of its former self. 😢😢😢😢😢
I remember going here with my mom almost weekly as a kid, back in the last 5 or so years of its glory days. I used to go hang out there in high school with friends and I remember there used to be this guy with a parrot on his shoulder that would just walk around the mall, always seemed to be there. The wing over by the old theatre is still accessible, there just aren't any shops down there anymore. The old Sears hosts Spirit Halloween when the season comes each year, and the big empty parking lot sees farmers markets every weekend and the occasional carnival (both of which only take up maybe 5% of the total space of that massive parking area).
We used to go here all the time as a kid as it was the closest mall to us. In one of the center areas was this big quare pit that was a fountain. At some point, they replaced it with a huge toy train set, with different scenery and tunnels, etc. Now it's filled in and is just carpet.
Grew up going here, then the Galleria was built in Roseville (~2001, super expanded later after a goofball set it ablaze) and Sunrise just fell into obscurity...
Wow, the algorithm came through with this one! Definitely spent some time there as a kid. You should walk the Bayshore Mall in Eureka, it's totally zombified (along with the people in it). The most lively 'store' in it is the DMV. I don't think it's all that vintage though, they built it in the 90s.
My family and I moved to Sacramento in 2018 and visited this mall a few months in. We wondered why it was so dead. It actually reminds me of the Northgate mall in San Rafael CA where I grew up. It also brings me memories.
I worked at the Lane Bryant at this mall in the early 00s. It was the best place to be if you were a retail employee. It was never super busy. The good ole days!!
I worked at the sears there for about a year in 2013 and I lived in citrus heights from 2016-2019. Used to eat at the subway almost every day that was next to taco bell. I noticed it fading away during those times. Still h ad a decent amount of people coming through though.
So many memories here. This is so nostalgic to me or makes me near hurt. I loved going to the theater with my nephew. Then the Birdcage Walk mention, I spent hundreds of days at the old arcade before going to the matinee or Rocky Horror
I remember They opened half of it first then later the other one. the openings. my issue with the small when it first opened for about the first two years is that they kept it way too hot. Then the energy crisis began, and they finally turned the heat way down and it was comfortable to actually shop. Realize I was a child when all this happened, my favorite store in the mall was liberty house and I was really bummed when they left the only liberty house that's left in the world that I know of is in Hawaii. It started out as a shoe store. The narrator was right when Macy's moved across street it was actually it's open independent building and they tore it down the best. Looking at the ski the best looking building in Citrus Heights and they tore down there was a skating rink behind it and when they started building around it, there was the corner. I think it was the left side that had more stores in it going to this area was a big deal. Somebody mentioned on here that there was a lot of cruising times when young people were throwing their cars around kids, making out people driving slow as in cruising kids, smoking weed and drinking, of course, and the cups, putting it into it, it was fun. Bummer. That mall had the worst parking situation I had ever seen. It was a very busy mall and you would have to circle the parking lot just to find a parking space and sometimes you didn't find one. They did do a lot of store turnover and new stores came in somewhere great and some of them were terrible. Of course that's just business, there was a nice restaurant in there. Can't remember the name but you actually got waited on the food court wasn't there yet. I know this rambles on and on, but I thought maybe people might be interested in what the mall was like when it first opened one thing that was upscale at that time was liberty House, I think the whole company went out of business and there was never a lot of people in there. I think it was out priced for the market that was there.
I started going to this mall in the late 80s when my family moved to the area. I think the last time I went was a few years ago, I took my son. It was sad seeing it so dead. I definitely miss the old days. The arcade, the old McDonald's and Winestocks etc. I bought my first mechanic tool set from the Sears. One time a blue jay attacked me out front when walking to my car. Haha
I remember in the late 90s we would hit up the mall in the afternoons on the weekends and then go across the street to birdcage to the movie theaters or the arcade that was there. Good times. I only live about 20 minutes away from it, but I rarely go there anymore it looks deserted
I used to go to that movie theater. My mom or dad would drop my sister and I off it was great. It was the best mall. They had a Farrells ice cream parlor across from the movie theater on tue corner Going Out the front entrance. Great, great, fun memories. I also walked through this mall Throughout my young. Life and after I got married with my first child
Back in the 80’s to 90’s they had two Macy’s. The women’s Macy’s was at Sunrise and the men’s Macy’s was at Birdcage. Late 80’s car cruising around the sunrise mall area and birdcage was the spot.
K Street mall is now the arena for the Kings Town and Country made a comeback with Winco and Planet Fitness, along with Cosco across the street Florin Mall is pretty much shuttered except for Walmart but there used to be alot of gang activity down there (still is but it’s calmed down) and Sears is kind of hanging on like the little engine that could. The only ones really still standing without needing some major changes are Arden Fair Mall and Roseville. Not sure what they did different but they’re always busy, especially on the weekends and during Christmas.
I grew up visiting the Antelope Valley mall when I was a kid. It's still thriving, despite losing Sears as an anchor, though the parking on that side is a barren wasteland. I feel like the various strip malls around my hometown deserve a mention, though. There's at least three I can think of with massive lots, but only one real business anyone shops at. Not to say the rest are empty spaces, most are filled with mom and pop shops, school stuff, or churches, but it's not something that'll draw in the crowds, like the grocery stores or restaurants in two of those strip malls. The third is sparsely populated, but I think most of it has been converted for office space, which is a shame. It's a real pretty place with its own distinct character, and I remember there being a bookshop on the second story.
I moved to Citrus Heights as a teen in 1990. Walden Books, Kay Bee toys and the OG food court were great . In 1992 when Suncoast motion picture co opened next to the theater,I boght so many films and anime VHS and DVD from them. Good times. Now I have no reason to visit. Amazingly the theater was still in operation until March 2020 when COVID shut it down.
I remember this mall from the late 70s early 80s. They used to have those large water fall blue triangle type monuments that people tossed coins into. Although I spent most of my teenage years at country club mall and tower of records,posters and books next to country club lanes.
seeing my personal mall in a video is surreal I went here alot as a kid to watch movies in its theatre, parents would shop those stores alot, I took my best friend from washington and his gf here a few months ago and I was saddened to see since covid even more of the mall was closed down, breaks my heart to see my mall a husk
I’ve lived in the Sac region for almost 20 years and never visited the Sunrise Mall. I’ve driven past it plenty of times, but never shopped there. The Roseville Galleria probably helped put a nail in the coffin of this old mall, similar to the outdoor mall in Sac that died and was remodeled.
Never went there much, might have already been dying off when we'd go there for movies occasionally. I remember one night almost got locked in after dark. Its interesting seeing Malls and the culture around them crumble in the internet age
I used to manage a Tower Records store across the street from the Sunrise Mall. The store was known as Tower Sunrise or just the Sunrise Store. edit: We witnessed the deterioration of the mall over several years.
I've been in Sunrise Mall recently and it's like a ghostown - they really need to just do something else with the entire lot it's on - Target shopping center across the street is pretty busy. I live in Woodland and we have a similar sitaution with the County Fair Mall which is basically vacant with a JC Penny. It's creepy to walk in there by yourself.
I'll have a video on County Fair Mall soonish. I was going there for years filming it as it kept losing stores. That was a beautiful mall inside though, I loved the chandeliers.
Honestly preferred how empty it always is, reminds me of those liminal spaces Galleria mall nearby is too crowded for me but at least they have an arcade and theater
How in the heck is this mall still in business and not gone under? Not that I want it to, but I am utterly confused as to how such a desolate place can stay afloat. Make sense of it to me, PLEASE! I have no business sense so therefore I need it to be made sense of.
I grew up going to this mall and have a lot of nostalgia for it. Back then, in the 80's, it was the best mall in Sacramento area. But then Arden Fair Mall was refurbished and suddenly Sunrise seemed outdated by comparison. Still I went there a lot though because it was the closest mall to where I lived. I hope they can turn it around and it doesn't shut down completely. I need to make a trip there one of these days, I haven't been back since before Covid.
A few years ago I used to go to Sunrise Mall because it was less crowded, but I don’t like going to shopping malls especially Arden Mall and the Roseville galleria.
It's a shame to see it so empty after 14 years! I remember back in 2011 it was still super busy and a spot for many to go to. I noticed a heavy decline in traffic and stores in the last 5 years
Never in my life did I think I'd see a video on the sunrise mall hot damn
Man, does this make my heart ache.
I turned 41 this year, and all the places from my childhood and tween years growing up in the Sacramento area are gone or disappearing like everyone around Dr. Crusher in that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
McClellan Air Force base, where my dad was stationed for 85% of his Air Force career, has been decommissioned since 2001, and the Base Exchange closed a year and some change ago.
All the local Tower Records that my older brothers used to take me to are long gone. Dimple Records moved into most of Tower's old locations, but Dimple is gone now, too.
The only comic shop left that I used to go to with my brothers is World's Best Comics. I'm glad they're still standing.
I've been in the old Cape Hart base housing in what used to be North Highlands, it's so run down and sketchy. It doesn't resemble the brightly pastel colored homes we lived in whatsoever.
I remembered the way from my old house on Mono Way to Dudley Elementary school. The youth center was torn down, the Shoppette/ gas station where I bought many comic cards and comics off the spinner rack was torn down, the pool was gated up and rotting away.
The K-Mart across the street from the Wal-Mart just outside of Cape Hart base housing where we used to hang out is long gone. Ditto for the Food 4 Less in the same shopping center.
All the Godfather's Pizza places are gone. Superb Pizza on Watt Avenue is still there, though!
KWOD 106.5 FM has been gone since 2009. I cut my musical taste's teeth on so many songs I heard on KWOD, 100.5 the Zone and KSFM 102.5. K-Hits was great while it lasted, but now I think it's a Mexican music station. I think 102.5 is still kicking, though.
It's hard seeing the drastic changes and knowing how things used to be. It's like seeing the changes in my grandmother as she slowly unspooled from Alzheimer's.
If anyone read this and you're a local, I hope something I mentioned about where we grew up sparked some happy memories for you.
I'm a 916 native and you definitely brought back memories for me.
I haven't heard anyone mention KWOD in so long and I'm glad you did! I loved KWOD, it helped form my taste in music and was the first place I heard Fall Out Boy lmao. I also went to the 102.5 cinco de mayo concert at Discovery Park when I was only 15 😭
My friends and I also miss going to chill at Tower and dimple
I hear you about the drastic changes too. I moved to SoCal for a few years and when I got back SO much was different.
If you saw Sunrise or any other local mall in 2002, you'd never guess what they'd come to lol
@@Heavenhellhaleema Glad to hear anything I said triggered some memories.
My brother went through a divorce and ended up buying a house a few minutes away from the old McClellan Air Force base. For the past several years, our parents and I have been commuting to his house to babysit his son.
It still feels like home and is super familiar when I drive around, but it has an eerie disconnected feeling, too, like you somehow slipped into an alternate reality version of how things are supposed to be.
All the cinedome theaters are gone/ replaced. Those were so cool, saw so many great movies in them like Home Alone, the first live action Ninja Turtles, Star Trek, Power Rangers, etc.
Your talking about 102.5's Cinco de Mayo concert reminded me about going to the last 100.5 the Zone Exotic Zone Halloween Ball almost 20 years ago.
We used to hit Arden Mall and catch a movie at either the nearby Cinedomes or the United Artists Theater at the mall. In the summer, we'd hit the California state fair and/or Water World USA by Arden Mall.
Scandia, the miniature golf/ go karts/ amusement rides/ arcade place is still going.
Thanks for replying and sharing some 916 memories. Hope you're doing well where you're living now, friend 👍
YES the Cinedomes and Waterworld! I went to see the premier of the last Harry Potter movie there (in the hot Sac sun in partial costume 😂), and that's the last time I went before they were demolished.
And yes I'm doing well thanks, still staying in Sac on and off 👍🏾
Great chat!
I miss dimples. There’s a place in sac and folsom called The Cave that’s very similar though. For all I know, they may have received some of Dimple’s stock around the time they closed or so.
@@Huaquila Thanks for telling me about The Cave, I'll Google them ASAP!
who here in 2024 remember going to get an Orange Julius...? OH The memories. Cruising Sunrise Mall and enjoying The Birdcage Walk. I'd hit Comics and Comix at Birdcage all the time. How the times have changed.
Oh yeah I remember Orange Julius in that main corridor after Taco Bell (before the move to the new food court) and I think by Sbarro.
I used to go to Weinstocks with my mom and sister at least a decade before. Birdcage had a cheap movie theater my friends and I would go to. I ended up getting my second job there at the Men’s Macys in my late teens.
I’m actually not far from it, living in Sacramento, closer to downtown so if I do go anywhere it’s Arden or DOCO.
I loved the walk through Macy’s. My old stomping grounds 😂
I’ll have to pay this a visit in my next day off just to relive it while
I can.
Birdcage Walk! Yes! Grew up in the Vacaville - El Dorado Hills area.
That small movie theater where target is now…
Comics and Comix in Birdcage Walk might have been my favorite comic book store of all time. And there was an arcade not too far from there that had the Empire Strikes Back cabinet. The theater there was one of those that showed the Rocky Horror Picture Show often, and there was a Tower just across the street from the mall where you could buy event tickets. I remember one time getting tickets to a Phil Collins concert, and being right behind this guy buying baseball tickets who was taking his sweet time figuring out what seats he wanted. Man, that pissed me off. Lots of memories from that area!
Comic and comix used to carry gundam models
I like how this mall looks. It has character. Everything new today is colorless and steril looking.
Wow didn't think I'd see this in a TH-cam video! I live about 10 mins from it and everytime I go in, it's a depressing sight compared to what it used to be
I lived in the apartments behind this mall growing up. Can’t tell you how many happy memories I have with this place. Used to love walking with friends and getting food, picking up new games or a pack of yugioh cards.
heck yeah, i love stories like this!
I used to go to Sunrise Mall and Birdcage Walk in the 80's when they had discount movie theaters. When the Roseville Galleria opened, it took away a lot of business from Sunrise Mall.
yeah people ask me what happened here, and i think the roseville galleria really took a lot of business away
@@TheVintageSpacesChannelOver the years you are correct 👍 Roseville Galleria took the businesses but remember you also pay less sales taxes a the galleria.
@@victoria19853 placer county baby, lol dam Sacramento
the owners of the sunrise mall never kept up on renovations and general safety at this mall, though. The city of Citrus Heights allowed sunrise blvd to become run down as well. Roseville simply became a more desirable shopping experience and for those reasons customers were willing to drive the extra 15 mins. Sad but true.
I grew up near the Sunrise Mall and the nearby Birdcage Walk when they were happening spots in the 80's and 90's. Sunrise has been struggling since the fancier and larger Roseville Galleria mall opened in 2000.
I go to Galleria 2-3 times a year. It's relatively healthy. Probably the only mall that's like that around Sac these days.
This mall is just the right size its big yet small enough to comfortably walk without getting exhausted.
Was there a few days ago, walked through with my brother and youngest son. Absolutely almost all stores are gone. My middle son worked there for a year. Somewhat sad to see all the stores disappear, yet it was not surprising. Wow, parts of Macy's and JC Penney are still holding on. Sears closed also. Thank you for your video.
I'm not too sad about it. I'm hopeful for whatever this area eventually turns into.
This was my mall since the 80’s. Sad how it’s gone down hill! I wish there was video from way back at Christmas time in the 80’s, they had a giant Christmas tree that talked. They also had a fountain in the center, people would throw Pennie’s in, then I’m assuming someone from the mall would arrange the coins into pictures,. One time the coins were arranged to look like the Snoopy and the peanuts gang! This video brought back a flood of memories!
Yes! The talking Christmas tree with glowing green eyes…
standing in long lines at the theater to watch E. T. for tenth time
oh dang i love peanuts i would have loved to see that!
I remember the talking Christmas tree! And the fountain was a nice place to sit and relax. I was really disappointed when they removed it.
The coin pictures! I never would have remembered that had you not mentioned it. I was real little when they were doing that.
The last time I was at the mall there was still a fountain, but it doesn't run anymore
Man I miss sunrise mall in the 90s and birdcage
:(
Macy’s elevator and escalator were super vintage!
Ikr i went on there and i was like “looks pretty old”
I don't think they've ever been changed. I remember those back when I was a kid in the 80's.
@@pamelaaverrett5848 Way before Macys took that building That use to be Weinstocks. The original name for that building. Let me tell ya something Weinstocks was a high end store 🏬 Stocks had a high end restaurant that was plush and had all the Big dinners steaks 🥩 Shrimps Turkey 🦃 etc. and they served breakfast and lunch 🥗 with big tasty 🤤 Salads. Definitely it was so much more than when Macys took over. Times change people change. Big elaborate malls are slowly dying. Being replaced by cheap internet 🛜 websites where choices are few and retail corporations sucking up bigger profits because they don’t have to cater to individual real people shopping 🛍️ by foot 🦶 looking 👀 for more deals on the mall. It’s definitely taking away a part of life we all took for granted. It as fun to go there shop and find the items you want and stop for lunch 🥪 or dinner with the family.
That movie theater is where I saw Terminator when it came out.
In the late 70s this was a great cruising spot. Hundreds and hundreds of cars, hotrods would circle the mall.
I Remember this… even went on into the eighties and very early 90’s
Yup the area pretty much slowed down and died off after they ended the cruise. They still have signs on the stop lights that don't allow u turns at night ... making it illegal to drive around the area which is silly. If they actively brought back the cruise they would revitalize the entire area.
Great vid as always! Nice chill voiceover and walk through!
thanks for watching!
Its a really nice Mall i loved going there instead of the crazy big one in Roseville and The Arden Mall!
I would love to buy a mall and turn the stores into condos. What an awesome place to live. Kids playing, a local bar and coffee shop. A indoor general store ...you would really get to know your neighbour's. A great secure fun place to live,especially in the winter months.
I remember when that Mall was bustling back in the early seventies. My brother and I would go to the United Artist theater 🎭 go watch a sinbad movie 🍿 or whatever was playing while our folks were shopping 🛍️. It wass really a great site to see and go in then so new and so nice 😊definitely the best they had to offer during that time. Weinstocks had a very nice high class restaurant my mother worked there. It’s really shocking to see now 😮 what it is left just a shell 🐚 of what was once a big time mall. 😢
I remember Sunrise Mall when I was little - packed to the gills! So many trips there over the years - I got my ears pierced there, and was amazed at a pinball machine that could talk (Welcome to Xenon!) Saw a Fish Called Wanda at the theater, and got my Glamour Shots taken there. The thing I miss the most, though, are the water features that were there in the early 1980s: In the main corridor hubs, there were these bright, shiny water fountains that had the water flowing over surfaces completely covered with mirrors. The effect was quite hypnotic. So beautiful!
I loved tossing coins in that fountain when I was a little kid. I heard it developed plumbing issues, and the owner couldn't justify the cost to repair, given that it was already an expensive feature. When they brought the train set in, I would toss coins on the tracks to see if I could get one of the engines to derail.
I grew up there. There's a creek that runs behind Woodmore Oaks Dr, and everything on the other side was fields up to the drive-in on Greenback. Woodmore Oaks Dr. started at Central Ave & ran only to Fair Oaks Blvd. Sunrise area was fields. This was a huge deal when it was built, nothing else around like it. Used to be so much cruising that went on around it, and lots of LE patrolling.
Yup. those fields and the creek were behind my child hood home. Some of the kids carved mazes in the blackberry bushes back there.
I never remember seeing security inside the mall in the earlier days they were kind of like Disneyland how they remained unseen but later you could see sheriff's in the mall at Holliday time and the security trucks would be near the taco bell entrance
This was my mall throughout my entire life. From the early 2000’s to now. From the beginning of getting baby pictures done at the Picture People to going to that movie theater on Tuesdays with mom to see Despicable Me, Madagascar 2, and later on senior year of high school Gardians of the Galaxy. She always took us to that Sees Candies to get one or two chocolates. Christmas pictures with Santa. Easter Bunny. Preteen food court moments. Getting my ears pierced holes one and two at icing at 7 and 14 years old. School clothes shopping at JCPenney and Hot Topic with my friends during the middle school emo phase. This was it. An entire life spent at this mall. We always went to the Roseville Galleria and the Arden Fair mall but we were closest to this mall. Passing by it now driving through town and seeing it is but a distant artifact. We no longer go there as adults. Yet we remember those days. There’s also a roller rink nearby called the Sunrise Rollerland. Everyone had a birthday party there, even me. It was a medieval themed roller rink. That was one of the best places to get taken to as a kid and roller nights from school being able to see all your friends. Watching this video makes me feel like “Wow… it’s one of those malls now..”. It really gets to my heart. Where has the time gone…
I almost got a job at that picture people lol one of my very first interviews, I must've blew it in the interview with my awkwardness
Grew up there! epic cool mall, Rainbow skate park behind it in the 1970's. midnight movies and the cruse in the 80's, Birdcage walk mall across the street, great times to be a kid growing up.
I remember when this mall opened. It was a big deal and we did a lot of shopping there as well as going to the movie theater.
It’s so sad to see it go….
🏆That's my Mall🏆I still go there not many people there anymore🐦just older people holding hands with each other ❤️walking through 🍀awesome memories 👀✌️
its also safer for them to walk inside the mall for exercise then on the streets around the area. Plus there is shelter from the weather.
I worked in this mall from 1995-1999 and hung out here for most of the 90s. 😊 thanks for the walk through as I like states away now!
I worked there from 1997 - 2005. I miss it.
@@porkins74 me too. I worked at the McDonald’s, where did you work?
@@81lovee Suncoast video. Started in '97 and became the store manager in 2001.
@@porkins74 so cool! I started at age 15 and became the youngest manager in my franchise history at just 16! Fun times.
This opened the year I was born. It used to be THE mall in the greater Sacramento area until Arden really grew and took over. Sunrise used to have the biggest Winter Wonderlad area in the very center with animatronics and all kinds of lights and decorations for Santa.
yeah way back in the day we always went to arden (early 90s) sunrise was a little out of the way, but for some reason i always wanted to go here!
Man, I was not expecting this video to pop up on my feed. This place was *the* place you begged your parents (and in my case older siblings) to take you. Not only for what they had in the mall, but also Birdcage Center and the Tower across the street. My sister and I spent hours hanging out around there. I even worked at the Hot Topic for a while. Unfortunately, it really started to struggle when the Roseville Galleria was built, and it's been kind of downhill ever since. It's sometimes a bummer when I come back to town to see it so empty, but at least I have my memories. Now I wonder if this channel has ever covered the K street mall....
Man, this was my go to for shoe releases when everybody camped out at arden💯
Oh boy... I haven't seen this place since I was 14 in 1999. Used to get my Tripps at a place called "Tilt" which was like a more Fd up Hot Topic.
I sincerely hope Sunrise gets back on its feet, I hate mega malls. Lived around the corner from Arden for a couple years recently and would avoid it all costs lol
Best memory of Sunrise was waiting in line for my Dreamcast on 9/9/99, dont remember the game store though
It might've been EB Games.
oh man dreamcast release day at the mall... how i'd love to go back to that day
electronics boutique or software etc.
I worked at the Sbarro pizza across the way from 1995 to 1998
Good video. The exterior of a lot of these anchors, have that brutalist look going for them to some extent.
I am going to look up pics on how this mall originally looked like, when this mall first opened in 1972. I will say while it does stink the original look wasn't kept, at least it wasn't blanded as greatly as any Hull owned mall or Cafaro owned mall tends to look like after a remodel. The Macy's men and hone store, looked surprisingly clean and nice for a Macy's store. I wish all Macy's stores, looked as nice as that one you walked through.
The original look was very cool, but very very dated. And it was fairly worn out. And fifty years on, we appreciate that kind of architecture because it was quality architecture. But 25 years ago (approximately, whenever they remodelled, it was just considered to be the most out of date and tired. And a lot of people hated that 70’s look.
Birdcage Walk had actual live birds in an aviary. Peacocks, other birds. That was close to the ice skating rink that became an REI, next to The Game Room, probably the largest video game arcades in Citrus Heights, and this was stand alone, and not attached to a pizza parlor, and we had both Chuck E Cheese and showbiz. The Macy’s in that center opened about 1978 - 1980, and was a sleek, two story dark brick building. (Their grand opening was a hot air balloon race. I was 6 or 7 and it made quite an impression). I don’t recall which year I they tore it down and built Target, but I do know that the current Target is the second Target building. They called it target greatland, and seemed astonishingly large at the time, but it’s dwarfed by the current Target building.
I used to work at that Mrs Fields in the late 90s .. oh how I wish I could have preserved that.
now today the entire food court is closed down and a third of the stores in this video are gone. no more vans, tillys, sees candy, bath and body works, zumies, and a bunch more. really sad to see what happened to this mall, it’s not gonna be around much longer unfortunately :/
This hurts me a ton. I grew up in Citrus Heights in the 90s, early 2000s and this was THE place to be! Hanging out with friends, birthdays, just strolling around.. This mall will always have a special place in my heart. I'm really sad newer generations don't get to enjoy stuff like this anymore..
I have so many memories there I never realized. It makes you sound old to say times haven’t changed for the better.
Amazon!😡
This was my mall as a kid. Lots of memories of holiday and back to school shopping, visiting friends at work, and teenage mischief here.
Sad to see it dying but when you start losing your anchors it’s only a matter of time. It actually looks like they’re keeping it up but it’s just in a death spiral.
Right, it's really not in bad condition at all. Even the parking lot is kept up and parts seem to be somewhat recently repaved which is not something you usually see at a dying mall. It's just slowly losing all its stores.
You forgot about Gottschalks, I think they were the 1st to go under. Only about 1/2 if that of the mall is being used now. Back in the day, that was the only mall to go to without going all the way down to Sacramento. Last time I was in there, about 5 years ago. I was doing a job to repair the phone lines for the alarms in the old Sears portion after thieves had broke in and ripped them all out. Kinda eerie going into a dark vacant building and into the basement.
Hahn also developed Vintage faire mall in Modesto,CA which is semi dead but still striving just south of the Sacramento/Citrus Heights area.
My Mother worked at Sears for 30 years but was lucky to retire before virus and Amazon. I always did Christmas shopping there inside the Mall plus cross the street at Birdcage walk.
So many fond memories of this place! I remember going into KB Toys and getting a stuffed Neopet. I grew up in Citrus Heights and the Fair Oaks/Orangevale area so it is comforting to see something of familiarity. There used to be a cute mini golf course around there too, it was well-forested with big oak trees, but I believe it got bulldozed for housing?
I remember my mom bringing me here when this mall first open. Getting to the mall felt like a trip out of town (we lived in Sacramento) that took forever. Now this mall is just hanging on or closed
Hit the mall for a couple hours then head across the st to Birdcage. They had the game room, bowling, all the baseball card booths, $1 movies, tower records....could stay there all day. Doesn't look as much fun to be a kid these days.
When I was a kid I loved going to the Sunrise mall! It was like a whole other world. The hustle and bustle made it feel so alive. I loved the big fountain they had in the middle. Where you would beg your parents for change so you could throw it in to make wishes and at the same time dream about all the things you could buy in the mall if you had all the change from the fountain lol. Then in my teen years in the 80's it was the hang out spot during the day on the weekends. My friends and I would ride the bus from North Highlands to the mall and spend hours there. Saturday night was spent at Birdcage Walk. Going to the movies, walking around the closed stores, watching the cruise (before they shut it down permanently) flirting with the cute boys lol and when we were seniors in high school we would go to the midnight movies there. It hurts my heart to even drive by there seeing hardly any cars in the parking lot. I don't remember the last time I went in there, but it broke my heart. More stores closed than open, hardly anyone there. The hustle and bustle was gone. It has been gasping for breath for years now. Just an almost empty shell of its former self. 😢😢😢😢😢
Growing up, this mall had a gigantic play train running on tracks set around a beautiful landscape. It’s wild to see sunrise now 😅
I remember going here with my mom almost weekly as a kid, back in the last 5 or so years of its glory days. I used to go hang out there in high school with friends and I remember there used to be this guy with a parrot on his shoulder that would just walk around the mall, always seemed to be there. The wing over by the old theatre is still accessible, there just aren't any shops down there anymore. The old Sears hosts Spirit Halloween when the season comes each year, and the big empty parking lot sees farmers markets every weekend and the occasional carnival (both of which only take up maybe 5% of the total space of that massive parking area).
I'm glad to hear you can still go down there, at one point it was fenced off for a minute, but it's still good to be able to walk the whole mall
This was a cracking spot back in its day. It's crazy how something so thriving can become an absolute desert.
We used to go here all the time as a kid as it was the closest mall to us. In one of the center areas was this big quare pit that was a fountain. At some point, they replaced it with a huge toy train set, with different scenery and tunnels, etc. Now it's filled in and is just carpet.
Grew up going here, then the Galleria was built in Roseville (~2001, super expanded later after a goofball set it ablaze) and Sunrise just fell into obscurity...
i used to come here all the time growing up
There’s still a sears in Concord I believe as late as 2023 at the Sunvalley Shopping Center.
Just googled it, it should still be there
It's still open but it's pretty bare inside and everything is clearance.
probably not much time left for any sears still around, sadly
Wow, the algorithm came through with this one! Definitely spent some time there as a kid. You should walk the Bayshore Mall in Eureka, it's totally zombified (along with the people in it). The most lively 'store' in it is the DMV. I don't think it's all that vintage though, they built it in the 90s.
My family and I moved to Sacramento in 2018 and visited this mall a few months in. We wondered why it was so dead. It actually reminds me of the Northgate mall in San Rafael CA where I grew up. It also brings me memories.
Did you hear that they demolished the water fountain in the middle of the mall 😭
yeah there's no fountains there any more!
@@TheVintageSpacesChannelit’s so sad, this may was one packed and thriving
I miss florin mall. Now it is a walmart.
I worked at the Lane Bryant at this mall in the early 00s. It was the best place to be if you were a retail employee. It was never super busy. The good ole days!!
I worked at the sears there for about a year in 2013 and I lived in citrus heights from 2016-2019. Used to eat at the subway almost every day that was next to taco bell. I noticed it fading away during those times. Still h ad a decent amount of people coming through though.
So many memories here. This is so nostalgic to me or makes me near hurt. I loved going to the theater with my nephew.
Then the Birdcage Walk mention, I spent hundreds of days at the old arcade before going to the matinee or Rocky Horror
I was there in 2017/8 and the mall was packed!! sad its fading away!!
This reminds me of vaporwave mallsoft music background. It’s a perfect atmosphere for it; an abandoned mall.
I remember They opened half of it first then later the other one. the openings. my issue with the small when it first opened for about the first two years is that they kept it way too hot. Then the energy crisis began, and they finally turned the heat way down and it was comfortable to actually shop. Realize I was a child when all this happened, my favorite store in the mall was liberty house and I was really bummed when they left the only liberty house that's left in the world that I know of is in Hawaii. It started out as a shoe store. The narrator was right when Macy's moved across street it was actually it's open independent building and they tore it down the best. Looking at the ski the best looking building in Citrus Heights and they tore down there was a skating rink behind it and when they started building around it, there was the corner. I think it was the left side that had more stores in it going to this area was a big deal. Somebody mentioned on here that there was a lot of cruising times when young people were throwing their cars around kids, making out people driving slow as in cruising kids, smoking weed and drinking, of course, and the cups, putting it into it, it was fun. Bummer. That mall had the worst parking situation I had ever seen. It was a very busy mall and you would have to circle the parking lot just to find a parking space and sometimes you didn't find one. They did do a lot of store turnover and new stores came in somewhere great and some of them were terrible. Of course that's just business, there was a nice restaurant in there. Can't remember the name but you actually got waited on the food court wasn't there yet. I know this rambles on and on, but I thought maybe people might be interested in what the mall was like when it first opened one thing that was upscale at that time was liberty House, I think the whole company went out of business and there was never a lot of people in there. I think it was out priced for the market that was there.
Omg it’s so crazy seeing something local to me. I live right down the street from this mall lol do you live in Sacramento???
Wow I remember this mall. I lived out there in the early 80s.Wasn’t there a birdcage mall also?
I remember when this first opened up in 1972 when I was 10. Haven't been there in years since I've been out of the area for 40 years
I started going to this mall in the late 80s when my family moved to the area. I think the last time I went was a few years ago, I took my son. It was sad seeing it so dead. I definitely miss the old days. The arcade, the old McDonald's and Winestocks etc. I bought my first mechanic tool set from the Sears. One time a blue jay attacked me out front when walking to my car. Haha
I remember in the late 90s we would hit up the mall in the afternoons on the weekends and then go across the street to birdcage to the movie theaters or the arcade that was there. Good times. I only live about 20 minutes away from it, but I rarely go there anymore it looks deserted
I used to go to that movie theater. My mom or dad would drop my sister and I off it was great. It was the best mall. They had
a Farrells ice cream parlor across from the movie theater on tue corner Going Out the front entrance. Great, great, fun memories. I also walked through this mall Throughout my young.
Life and after I got married with my first child
Damn i wonder how many places i went to in my life that are now closed…
Every time I drive by I count the cars in the parking lot. Theres so few you can actually count them while driving down sunrise.
This was my goto for last minute Christmas shopping before we went mostly non-Pagan.
Wow, the algorithm throwing something incredibly relevant to me. Haven't been to the sunrise mall since 2001. I guess Arden Fair will be next
Back in the 80’s to 90’s they had two Macy’s. The women’s Macy’s was at Sunrise and the men’s Macy’s was at Birdcage. Late 80’s car cruising around the sunrise mall area and birdcage was the spot.
I drive by here all the time. It’s very nostalgic and sad for me. I’m still glad it’s there even though it’s just a shell.
🧌 I'm almost 60 but I still go there and get my Vans😎 this 🍀 place used to Rock Hard✌️
I live in the area and it’s crazy to just have this video pop up
I was at this mall pretty much every day I could be from like 8 years old until my family moved away when I was 14. So many memories.
K Street mall is now the arena for the Kings
Town and Country made a comeback with Winco and Planet Fitness, along with Cosco across the street
Florin Mall is pretty much shuttered except for Walmart but there used to be alot of gang activity down there (still is but it’s calmed down) and Sears is kind of hanging on like the little engine that could.
The only ones really still standing without needing some major changes are Arden Fair Mall and Roseville. Not sure what they did different but they’re always busy, especially on the weekends and during Christmas.
Man, I used to be here all the time when I was a kid.
Sunrise Mall and birdcage walk, spent a lot of time there in the early 80s..
I grew up visiting the Antelope Valley mall when I was a kid. It's still thriving, despite losing Sears as an anchor, though the parking on that side is a barren wasteland.
I feel like the various strip malls around my hometown deserve a mention, though. There's at least three I can think of with massive lots, but only one real business anyone shops at.
Not to say the rest are empty spaces, most are filled with mom and pop shops, school stuff, or churches, but it's not something that'll draw in the crowds, like the grocery stores or restaurants in two of those strip malls.
The third is sparsely populated, but I think most of it has been converted for office space, which is a shame. It's a real pretty place with its own distinct character, and I remember there being a bookshop on the second story.
Growing up in Rancho Cordova this mall was pretty much a decent amount of my teenhood 1998+ along with the bird cage and toys r us... sad. 😥
I remember when the swiss colony deli was there and the kids clothes store that had slides in it was there
I remember our whole family going here when we lived in Rancho Cordova shopping and eating in the food court its so sad to see it in decline .
I moved to Citrus Heights as a teen in 1990. Walden Books, Kay Bee toys and the OG food court were great . In 1992 when Suncoast motion picture co opened next to the theater,I boght so many films and anime VHS and DVD from them. Good times. Now I have no reason to visit. Amazingly the theater was still in operation until March 2020 when COVID shut it down.
Also the Sees Candy just closed as they renovated an old patelco bank building a couple of blocks south on Sunrise Blvd.
I remember this mall from the late 70s early 80s. They used to have those large water fall blue triangle type monuments that people tossed coins into. Although I spent most of my teenage years at country club mall and tower of records,posters and books next to country club lanes.
Born in Sacramento in the early 80s. Sunrise Mall was the coolest place in the world to little kid me.
seeing my personal mall in a video is surreal
I went here alot as a kid to watch movies in its theatre, parents would shop those stores alot, I took my best friend from washington and his gf here a few months ago and I was saddened to see since covid even more of the mall was closed down, breaks my heart to see my mall a husk
Parking was all the way to the other side of the lot near Sunrise Rollerskating rink during sales or weekends.
Last time I visited the sunrise mall was in 2018 before the sears closed. Then not to long after that the sears in Roseville 🥀 galleria closed.
I’ve lived in the Sac region for almost 20 years and never visited the Sunrise Mall. I’ve driven past it plenty of times, but never shopped there. The Roseville Galleria probably helped put a nail in the coffin of this old mall, similar to the outdoor mall in Sac that died and was remodeled.
Same, this was "the" mall in the 90s and 2000's for people living in east Sacramento. 😢
I stopped at that mall so much. It was so close to home I would walk bags and all.
Never went there much, might have already been dying off when we'd go there for movies occasionally. I remember one night almost got locked in after dark. Its interesting seeing Malls and the culture around them crumble in the internet age
I moved into the area in 2023. And I've only been to the big-boxes across the street.
2024-Oct, Google doesn't list any restaurants inside the mall.
Someone has told me Taco Bell left, and I think they might have been the last remaining food court operation?
I used to manage a Tower Records store across the street from the Sunrise Mall. The store was known as Tower Sunrise or just the Sunrise Store. edit: We witnessed the deterioration of the mall over several years.
I've been in Sunrise Mall recently and it's like a ghostown - they really need to just do something else with the entire lot it's on - Target shopping center across the street is pretty busy. I live in Woodland and we have a similar sitaution with the County Fair Mall which is basically vacant with a JC Penny. It's creepy to walk in there by yourself.
I'll have a video on County Fair Mall soonish. I was going there for years filming it as it kept losing stores. That was a beautiful mall inside though, I loved the chandeliers.
Honestly preferred how empty it always is, reminds me of those liminal spaces
Galleria mall nearby is too crowded for me but at least they have an arcade and theater
How in the heck is this mall still in business and not gone under? Not that I want it to, but I am utterly confused as to how such a desolate place can stay afloat. Make sense of it to me, PLEASE! I have no business sense so therefore I need it to be made sense of.
I grew up going to this mall and have a lot of nostalgia for it. Back then, in the 80's, it was the best mall in Sacramento area. But then Arden Fair Mall was refurbished and suddenly Sunrise seemed outdated by comparison. Still I went there a lot though because it was the closest mall to where I lived. I hope they can turn it around and it doesn't shut down completely. I need to make a trip there one of these days, I haven't been back since before Covid.
They had Liberty House there in 70’s. Weinstocks too.
A few years ago I used to go to Sunrise Mall because it was less crowded, but I don’t like going to shopping malls especially Arden Mall and the Roseville galleria.
It's a shame to see it so empty after 14 years! I remember back in 2011 it was still super busy and a spot for many to go to. I noticed a heavy decline in traffic and stores in the last 5 years