Someday there will be a Mall-Museum with all the former shops and brands rebuilt by passionate collectors. With all the products we know from the 70's/80's/90's. And people will be willing to pay a lot of admission to relive all the beautiful memories of the past. And Tiffany and Debbie Gibson will give a concert with all their hits from back then.
I just found out they'll be tearing down my local small town neighborhood mall. It's been virtually empty for 15 years now, but I find very few people understand the sense of loss it will bring. I spent many good years in that mall with friend and family, lots of good experiences. Anyway, I comment here because I know others will also get what I'm saying.
Ya... it really is sad this is happening to pretty much everything I used to love. Shoot even Toys R Us is gone too. Remember going there around Christmas time. Burnsville center in MN will soon be gone. Went there with my mom and brother a lot. Where is your mall at?
A mall is practically the size of an aircraft carrier, If not closer to the size of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek the next generation. Imagine that the next time you’re walking around in one, bored out of your mind as your wife shops for hours.
I was randomly scrolling through TH-cam and came across this. I grew up in this area and spent a ton of time in this mall in the mid 80's-early 90's. It's crazy to see that massive fountain no longer there and how dead this once thriving mall now is. This creates both a sense of nostalgia and sadness at the same time. My family moved to Ohio in the mid 90's, so it's safe to say I hadn't seen the inside of the mall in 30 years. I see it's come to an end. Believe me when I say, this was once the place to be. Thank you for this.
Something about this video in particular reminds me, so powerfully of my last day of high school, the very strong sense that I was going through the motions for the last time ever. Yet, there’s something somber and morbid too. It’s just a bit like a funeral.
This was my childhood mall in the 80’s and 90’s. Sad to see it closed. My memories of it was that there used to be two K B toy stores, several book stores, a Herman Sporting Goods store, countless hair salons, a Friendly’s restaurant, an Arby’s, a Chi-Chi’s Mexican restaurant, a Sterling’s optical, and a Radio Shack to name a few.
A common phenomenon with comparing old film clips and pictures from a mall in the 80s to today is that it seems malls in the 80s were darker and not as brightly lit. Not sure if it’s because of all the stores being abandoned or less things in the mall absorbing the light or if a redesign in the 90s or 2000s made the lighting brighter. But dead malls today with the power and lights still on seem brighter than in the 80s.
This mall was always fairly bright inside. I also think lighting tech has gotten cheaper and better and the stores are using brighter lighting. There is a lot of 6000K LED High CRI lighting in commercial spaces today which mostly didn't exist back then. I think this mall was lit with mercury vapor cans and halogen spotlights back in the day.
What a great tribute to this beautiful mall. I’m glad you added it the short interview with the local residents who fondly remember this mall. I never thought malls would close until I saw the dead mall community in 2020. I just figured people need to shop. But one stop stores like Walmart have taken over as well as online shopping.
Honestly makes me cry. This was one of my childhood malls. I opened so many Pokemon and Yugioh card packs here. Back when Wizards of the coast had stores, I'd participate in Pokemon tournaments. They used to have a Discovery channel store with awesome decor, and felt like another world. Before the FYE, it was a Record Town store, which also sold DVDs and VHS tapes. They had an entire store dedicated to Hello Kitty and friends, a Border's Express, Suncoast and so much more! Sigh....
I just love your videos; your storytelling really brings the mall (back) to life, and your soundtrack selection is always sooooo good. Thank you for these awesome mall time capsules! 💜🙏
RIP your wallet! XD IDK why but I've really taken a liking to alot of the old store aesthetics, especially wood tones and eye catching color choices- Shout out to that Marie's at 27:50 with its glass block wall too. I've been watching Dead mall series for a while and find these old, often magificent buildings with their forgotten storefronts to be captivating. Alongside the development history they tell so many stories, and prompt some deep contemplation on what the future holds/ folleys of previous development projects, etc. Thank you for the awesome tour of this mall!
Always love the vintage photos and video superimposed while you go around the malls. Really helps show just how the mall looked in its busier days and how much each mall impacted the culture of the region it existed in. To me it reinforces the fond memories that people had in their youth visiting these places with their families and friends.
Always a thumbs up to CDogg, but you keep me up late and I'm old, I often binge watch till three AM. Forgive me for intruding onto your personal business but you have such a talented way with people, give up UBER eats or whatever and get your real estate license, with your personality and control of the language you could be leasing commercial buildings to people.❤ Love ya Dogg!
This is wild. This was the 1 of 2, maybe 3 malls closest to me as a kid growing up. Frederick Md and Gaithersburg Md were equal distances away. The tiered area with that elevator really brought me back. So strange to think how many times we’d just walk the mall on a Friday or Saturday afternoon. My best friend’s mom had a place in Montgomery Village up until around 10 yrs ago.
I spent a lot of time at this mall. Many great memories shopping with family, meeting friends. At least half my wardrobe came from the shops there. This was nostalgic for me. Brought back a lot of memories. Movies I saw there. Playing on the carpet steps by the fountain. The weird U shaped sculpture. Riding that diamond shaped elevator. And I ate at that Chi Chi’s. 😂 Looking at it now, you wouldn’t know it was a premier mall in its hay days, but it was one of the best in Maryland. (I cannot believe I just wrote all that 🤦🏻♂️)
41:09 I told the owners, the best thing they could do to revamp the entire property. Was to take down the Lord and Taylors make it into condos and apartments. Then have a parking garage structure for them, and then on top of that, rebuild the insides of the mall and then use the other side for offices and other things. And allow people to work, live and play in one location. They can still have the green outsides. The lake, they could technically clean that up and put boats around it like the rio did, but they didn't care about anything that we had to say.
Very good episode of dead malls! Kinda crazy how malls are going dead so quickly now a days. Online shopping bassically killed alot of stores and malls.
Its also the open plan malls that have come in after, like for example this is Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg. But just up the road in the 1990’s they built an outdoor mall in Germantown Md, with HD and Kohls etc which definitely stole incoming traffic down from surrounding areas.
I enjoy your videos very much. I just got back into art and some of my favorite things to draw are screenshots from your videos. Something about the lines and colors in malls like these literally beg me to sketch them! Thanks for posting!
Glad you enjoy them!! I hope you can continue using my vids to sketch these malls, sounds sweet! You should totally message me on instagram the sketches, would love to see!
Thanks for making this video. I Used to come here with the family as a kid. I also used to visit nearby white flint mall in rockville pike which was torn down a few years back and redeveloped. Both were absolute time capsules. Some of my earliest childhood memories in both of these locations.
90s was it had a movie theater before the food court mid 2000s a lot more hoodlums came by and at one point you did not want to be by the bus station alone at night all n all still a decent mall sad there’s no more mall in the area
Congrats on finishing the episode! The hard work always shows in the end. I'm currently battling a mild cold right now and your videos are part of my past time while doing so! 😄
Finally had the time to watch this video and with your easy to understand commentary (without an information overload), original music choice and relaxed filming it was a pleasure to do so. But hey, your video's always are worth watching..
34:25 was a tropical smoothie. Then dip and dots. Gaithersburg city stopped mills from massive build to outlet mall. They didn't want it any more because more money from homes
Thankyou! That was a really great video. You give really good commentary! My shopping centre (England here) is actually still thriving! It was built in stages from 1964 to 1984. It was very Taubmanesque when new! All hexagons and palm trees and brown bricks/brass rails etc. It was like stepping into something from Logan’s Run.. There were fountains and murals/mosaics everywhere. What I enjoyed about the mall (see what I did there?) was that the shops themselves were like crystal caves shining from the edges of a pretty natural-looking, darker colour palette of the shopping centre itself. Cut to 1998ish when the management decided to rip out all the plants, change the colours to blinding white, close the huge open market to plop another Anchor store in its place and remove all the seating.. don’t get me wrong! You can still see the remnants of the style it once had!! But now the shops are darker than the interior of the mall.. you can’t just sit and people watch. You can’t sit at all! Unless you pay for a coffee etc in the “open air” cafes that clog up the once breezy main squares.. The saving grace of the shopping centre? It was built in the exact centre of my once-dying small town when it became a “New Town”. The walkways even follow the same path as the streets beforehand! The Anchor store has gone (they still can’t decide what to do with it) but out of the dozens and dozens of shops, only a few units are empty. Still! In 2024!! I miss the old mall.. but atleast it is still bustling. By the way, it is called “The Kingfisher Shopping Centre” in Redditch, England. Before going to its website to check it out (if you are so inclined), go and Google image it in the old days.. You will actually think you are in an American mall. Thanks for finishing reading my ramblings! 👋🏻
on a real note, it has been years but i still have dreams of every hallway and every branch of lakeforest, behind the walls where delivery are made behind the stores there was signatures and weed leaves dating back to the 1970's. its amazing still being able to fly through the mall in my dreams, thank you for the walkthrough
This reminds me of days wandering the mall with my buddies. The scene back then, I was in my late teens / early 20s - malls like this somehow made me feel the world was at my feet. That was 40+ years ago now. I never see those friends anymore.
Nathan I love Lakeforest Mall outside of Baltimore. MD in Gaithersburg. I'm glad I got yo see this mall plus patrons who use to come to the mall telling their memories. Love the food court it was interesting. So sad all these malls are closing.
This mall is practically identical (though much smaller) to Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights Michigan. It, too, is undergoing the same fate and will be permanently closing its doors on July 1st, 2024. I recently went there, and it's sad to see my childhood mall in the state it's currently in.
@@NorthCdogg22 Thank you! It was really mellow and I enjoyed hearing it! I was on one of your live videos and you gave a shout out to me for joining the live video! Thanks for that! I live in Spartanburg, South Carolina in a little town called Inman. At one point, we had three enclosed malls. Now only one remains. My favorite mall and favorite place of all-time has long since been demolished. Hillcrest Mall, which was built in 1982 and then closed in 1998, only to be demolished a few months later. I even created a FB group to pay tribute to it called Hillcrest Mall: Bringing Good Things Together. We have over 2,500 members. I originally created it so that the mall wouldn't be forgotten. Check out the group when you can! Will Hawkins is the one who oversees it. He's a huge fan of Hillcrest Mall too. Here's the link: facebook.com/groups/115265328396 Keep up the awesome work! I always look forward to seeing your videos! Tommy
Really like your music choices. I don’t know what group to pity or envy more. My generation who grew up throughout the 80’s and 90’s in the heyday of malls and got to experience them in all of their glory, or your generation that didn’t. As for me, malls growing up were just THE best, and something that were the absolute world to me. But…I’ve had to experience their almost total collapse and haven’t found any alternatives that fill that void for me. For your generation, you didn’t get to experience them in their heyday, but I think today you haven’t felt that loss as deeply, and have been much more resilient and able to adapt. So…sigh…I just don’t know. All I do know is that I miss my malls to go to.
Adding to the “This was my mall” posts… I remember shopping at the Lakeforest Sears THE DAY BEFORE the rest of the mall opened! I remember they had a huge curtain covering the windowed doors leading to the rest of the mall, and I went and had a peek when I was there. Lots of memories, but sadly I moved away in the early 90’s and missed a lot of the history there, as well as most of the decline. Side note: I also remember, and took classes at the ice rink at Lakeforest that preceded the movie theatre. In the late 70’s\early 80’s. Farewell Lakeforest.
Since earth is moving with our Galaxy at 124 million miles per hour , all those memories are literally billions of miles behind us. Kind of amazing.❤ How fickle are our dreams even if we are fortunate enough to achieve them.
27:48 the mall was 92% full occupancy until 9/11 then over 5 yrs stores changed and left with Montgomery village crime wave. At Christmas you would have 2000 to 5000 people at a time
Hi North C Dogg! I love these videos and all of your other ones! The camera quality and the accurate history of the malls make you the only person I love to watch for mall videos! I heard on a previous livestream that you wanted to go to Stratford Square Mall! Please contact me because down here we are having a party on the closing day and would love to see you!
King Farm was supposed to turn into an amusement park, then became the housing development. If Lake Forest could do anything smart with this mall is to sell to The Walking dead or movie companies for filming zombie apocs or anything in a safe structure. I love what you did with the camera angles and the old VHS cuts. @NorthCdogg22
Thanks for another fun episode! Love how you have all the old footage. Neat to see how it was back in the day. One thing I didn't understand, was was "red mall", "green mall", etc? Were they different sections of the mall?
Thanks for watching! The differently colored sections were to go along with each of the malls different entrances, each one featuring a different season and that seasons color. Back when the mall was still open that’s how each section of the mall was labeled, green mall, blue mall, etc..
It's such a waste of perfectly good space. We need to band together to save our local malls. I really enjoy this type of mall design even though I never saw this mall in person.
just started watching ... that mall looks so good ... i mean its like it could be repurposed for other things other than malls and stores selling things ... like have it be a community center (I say this about alot of dying malls that still looks to be in great shape) with say a library and/or gym in the anchors ... have the less fortunate stay inside to have a roof over their head in some of the smaller (redo them) former stores. I mean i know some areas have way too many malls in a small location but ... i dont mind seeing the say moldy and rundown malls to be taken down .. but so many are so nice looking and there is no need to tear them down
I used to love this mall. I remember going here all the time. As a little kid and even in high school. It's a shame because it was relatively busy fairly recently in 2018, but there was a lot of crime around that area and also COVID.
I really hoped that Lakeside Mall would use the anchors like Washington Square did with Goodwill which will open in sometime in the fall of 2024! What a beautiful MALL. Remember seeing the sign in 1972. I think now they should demolish the mall. Pay the owners in the zones then begin the demolition instead of leaving it closed. Feel sad since the food court as beautiful as Washington Square here.
Those random non-national tenants you spoke of on the directory from 2021 would have been something the mall operators refer to as "temporary tenants". They sign short-term leases of maybe 11 months, a year, or month-to-month, and pay very low rent in relation to the national tenants.
Yeah, been seeing that at The Crossroads Mall where I live in Kazoo as I like to call them mom & pop tenants which they come and go. There is even a store that sells bongs for doing weed/pot it is always close when I go to the mall.
I saw a video a couple years ago with the mom & pop stores at Lakeforest Mall which was dead then. Great to see the locals talking about the mall they grew up with. I like the Sears wing art I would've asked for a piece of the art to say that I have something from the mall. I saw a lot from that final day at Lakeforest taking everything they could get LOL😂
Taubman built Fair Oaks mall in Chantilly / Fairfax virginia as well. The malls have basically the exact same archetexture, though Fair Oaks got a rennovation revently and lost some of its retro charm. If you want to see that mall alive for the most part, head to Fair Oaks. Its dying but still has a fair amount open.
15:27 that was Fredericks of Hollywood a ladies lingerie, store the guy's thinking of smalls. That was on the upper level, red entrance across from the old red robin
As the guy you talked to brought up( and it had never occurred to me until he mentioned it ) one still has to worry about paying shipping and of it doesn't fit sending it back until ots right. Also thete is the risk of actually recieving the quality of product you order ( and receiving it at all ). This would lead to the supposition that malls would still have a place in our economy.
It's weird, the general layout and feel of towns in America are nothing like the UK at all, which is obvious of course. But these videos really hit home how absolutely identical our Malls are (although we don't call them that), and even their general vibe as time has gone on, and how some of them are becoming eerie deserted places in exactly the same way.
So I wanted to say what an amazing video this was! However, I wanted to bring up that this mall looks very very very similar to West Farms Mall in Farmington, Connecticut. I don’t know if both malls used the same architect but I wanted to ask you this because I’m very curious. The layout and the interior design looked almost identical. Lastly, it’s weird to see how Lakeforest mall is dead while West Farms mall is actually a thriving mall. This video actually shows a parallel universe: where West Farms in Farmington, Connecticut is a dead mall. I would love to see more videos though!!!! Would it be ok if you showed any thriving malls on your videos?
i remember only one part of the mall it was the best part to me now sadly they will turn it in to some outdoor residential, commercial, and retail area.
Someday there will be a Mall-Museum with all the former shops and brands rebuilt by passionate collectors. With all the products we know from the 70's/80's/90's. And people will be willing to pay a lot of admission to relive all the beautiful memories of the past. And Tiffany and Debbie Gibson will give a concert with all their hits from back then.
I just found out they'll be tearing down my local small town neighborhood mall. It's been virtually empty for 15 years now, but I find very few people understand the sense of loss it will bring. I spent many good years in that mall with friend and family, lots of good experiences. Anyway, I comment here because I know others will also get what I'm saying.
Ya... it really is sad this is happening to pretty much everything I used to love. Shoot even Toys R Us is gone too. Remember going there around Christmas time. Burnsville center in MN will soon be gone. Went there with my mom and brother a lot. Where is your mall at?
I love hearing all the locals and their memories!
Me too, it really gives character to the place!
Imagine the energy it takes to keep such a massive indoor space temperature-controlled for practically nobody.
Turn it into a haunted mall and have escape rooms set up in the stores. I want to rollerblade through there.
41:35 - I appreciate the energy used in 2024 to keep the color lighting on this elevator.
Powered by retro vibes
A mall is practically the size of an aircraft carrier, If not closer to the size of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek the next generation. Imagine that the next time you’re walking around in one, bored out of your mind as your wife shops for hours.
@@Dad_Brad Shopping malls aren’t for Dads, Brad. They’re for Mums and kids!
Always a good day when North uploads!
I was randomly scrolling through TH-cam and came across this. I grew up in this area and spent a ton of time in this mall in the mid 80's-early 90's. It's crazy to see that massive fountain no longer there and how dead this once thriving mall now is. This creates both a sense of nostalgia and sadness at the same time. My family moved to Ohio in the mid 90's, so it's safe to say I hadn't seen the inside of the mall in 30 years. I see it's come to an end. Believe me when I say, this was once the place to be. Thank you for this.
Something about this video in particular reminds me, so powerfully of my last day of high school, the very strong sense that I was going through the motions for the last time ever. Yet, there’s something somber and morbid too. It’s just a bit like a funeral.
I didn't get to go around the time. This guy did, but I did around a month before the closing and it was so depressing.
This was my childhood mall in the 80’s and 90’s. Sad to see it closed.
My memories of it was that there used to be two K B toy stores, several book stores, a Herman Sporting Goods store, countless hair salons, a Friendly’s restaurant, an Arby’s, a Chi-Chi’s Mexican restaurant, a Sterling’s optical, and a Radio Shack to name a few.
i used to hang here as a teen i remember the arbys,bagel store,arcade,movie theatreand a pay phone area
@@mobettabud30and the smell of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies from few of the food places
A common phenomenon with comparing old film clips and pictures from a mall in the 80s to today is that it seems malls in the 80s were darker and not as brightly lit. Not sure if it’s because of all the stores being abandoned or less things in the mall absorbing the light or if a redesign in the 90s or 2000s made the lighting brighter. But dead malls today with the power and lights still on seem brighter than in the 80s.
They were all as bright as they are today. It is the quality of the old film that you are seeing that makes them seem darker.
This mall was always fairly bright inside. I also think lighting tech has gotten cheaper and better and the stores are using brighter lighting. There is a lot of 6000K LED High CRI lighting in commercial spaces today which mostly didn't exist back then. I think this mall was lit with mercury vapor cans and halogen spotlights back in the day.
May have been darker but for sure way more lively
What a great tribute to this beautiful mall. I’m glad you added it the short interview with the local residents who fondly remember this mall. I never thought malls would close until I saw the dead mall community in 2020. I just figured people need to shop. But one stop stores like Walmart have taken over as well as online shopping.
I shopped here as a kid, and I have fond memories of it as a kid
Honestly makes me cry. This was one of my childhood malls. I opened so many Pokemon and Yugioh card packs here. Back when Wizards of the coast had stores, I'd participate in Pokemon tournaments. They used to have a Discovery channel store with awesome decor, and felt like another world. Before the FYE, it was a Record Town store, which also sold DVDs and VHS tapes. They had an entire store dedicated to Hello Kitty and friends, a Border's Express, Suncoast and so much more! Sigh....
That was a lot of work. Glad you took your time and did such a great job.
Thank you so much for watching KB, glad you enjoyed it!
I just love your videos; your storytelling really brings the mall (back) to life, and your soundtrack selection is always sooooo good. Thank you for these awesome mall time capsules! 💜🙏
Thank you so much!
So sad for the last workers that work in a mall like this.
RIP your wallet! XD
IDK why but I've really taken a liking to alot of the old store aesthetics, especially wood tones and eye catching color choices- Shout out to that Marie's at 27:50 with its glass block wall too.
I've been watching Dead mall series for a while and find these old, often magificent buildings with their forgotten storefronts to be captivating. Alongside the development history they tell so many stories, and prompt some deep contemplation on what the future holds/ folleys of previous development projects, etc.
Thank you for the awesome tour of this mall!
Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoy them!
Always love the vintage photos and video superimposed while you go around the malls. Really helps show just how the mall looked in its busier days and how much each mall impacted the culture of the region it existed in. To me it reinforces the fond memories that people had in their youth visiting these places with their families and friends.
Always a thumbs up to CDogg, but you keep me up late and I'm old, I often binge watch till three AM. Forgive me for intruding onto your personal business but you have such a talented way with people, give up UBER eats or whatever and get your real estate license, with your personality and control of the language you could be leasing commercial buildings to people.❤ Love ya Dogg!
Wow. Another nice mall gone. I liked the music choice and especially the Dippin the bisquit one. Thanks for another great video.
Thanks for watching Seabee!
Can’t wait to watch it! RIP Lakeforest… awesome mall!
This is wild. This was the 1 of 2, maybe 3 malls closest to me as a kid growing up. Frederick Md and Gaithersburg Md were equal distances away. The tiered area with that elevator really brought me back. So strange to think how many times we’d just walk the mall on a Friday or Saturday afternoon. My best friend’s mom had a place in Montgomery Village up until around 10 yrs ago.
I used to go to this mall every week as a kid and teenager. Seeing it like this is surreal and a bit sad. Thanks for the vid
I spent a lot of time at this mall. Many great memories shopping with family, meeting friends. At least half my wardrobe came from the shops there. This was nostalgic for me. Brought back a lot of memories. Movies I saw there. Playing on the carpet steps by the fountain. The weird U shaped sculpture. Riding that diamond shaped elevator. And I ate at that Chi Chi’s. 😂 Looking at it now, you wouldn’t know it was a premier mall in its hay days, but it was one of the best in Maryland.
(I cannot believe I just wrote all that 🤦🏻♂️)
I love your vlogs. You go over so much info and the music is amazing.
I’m so glad you enjoy them!!
Another great dead mall exploration and the music was perfect.
THE FOOTAGE AT THE BEGINNING OMGGGG!!!!!!!
You hit it out of the park as usual! It is in fact Galtier Plaza in downtown St. Paul!
Yessir!
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@@CoolCatProductions-365you know it
Your videos are always enjoyable! I love the thought and creativity you put into these videos. A lot of people don’t do it like you.
Thanks Parker!
Amazing video man!!
Thanks man!
When the malls in Michigan closed...the Southfield library got one of the sculptures and the other mall sent a sculpture to the local hospital
41:09 I told the owners, the best thing they could do to revamp the entire property. Was to take down the Lord and Taylors make it into condos and apartments. Then have a parking garage structure for them, and then on top of that, rebuild the insides of the mall and then use the other side for offices and other things. And allow people to work, live and play in one location. They can still have the green outsides. The lake, they could technically clean that up and put boats around it like the rio did, but they didn't care about anything that we had to say.
cool to meet a local for some old mall stories! great video
Thank you! Yeah it was pretty neat!
Very good episode of dead malls! Kinda crazy how malls are going dead so quickly now a days. Online shopping bassically killed alot of stores and malls.
Its also the open plan malls that have come in after, like for example this is Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg. But just up the road in the 1990’s they built an outdoor mall in Germantown Md, with HD and Kohls etc which definitely stole incoming traffic down from surrounding areas.
I enjoy your videos very much. I just got back into art and some of my favorite things to draw are screenshots from your videos. Something about the lines and colors in malls like these literally beg me to sketch them! Thanks for posting!
Glad you enjoy them!! I hope you can continue using my vids to sketch these malls, sounds sweet! You should totally message me on instagram the sketches, would love to see!
Thanks for making this video. I Used to come here with the family as a kid. I also used to visit nearby white flint mall in rockville pike which was torn down a few years back and redeveloped. Both were absolute time capsules. Some of my earliest childhood memories in both of these locations.
Great video! I enjoyed it. Taubman made some great malls. Hoping for the best.
Mid 90s this was my mall.
I wish I could’ve got to see it back then!
@@NorthCdogg22 Was super busy....10,000 parking slots were taken on weekends!!!
@@NorthCdogg22 the 2000s and very early 2010s were amazing but I do wish I was around the 90s when it was there
90s was it had a movie theater before the food court mid 2000s a lot more hoodlums came by and at one point you did not want to be by the bus station alone at night all n all still a decent mall sad there’s no more mall in the area
Love The New Video North! Can't wait to see whats coming soon! Have a great day!
Congrats on finishing the episode! The hard work always shows in the end. I'm currently battling a mild cold right now and your videos are part of my past time while doing so! 😄
Finally had the time to watch this video and with your easy to understand commentary (without an information overload), original music choice and relaxed filming it was a pleasure to do so. But hey, your video's always are worth watching..
34:25 was a tropical smoothie. Then dip and dots.
Gaithersburg city stopped mills from massive build to outlet mall. They didn't want it any more because more money from homes
Thankyou! That was a really great video. You give really good commentary! My shopping centre (England here) is actually still thriving! It was built in stages from 1964 to 1984. It was very Taubmanesque when new! All hexagons and palm trees and brown bricks/brass rails etc. It was like stepping into something from Logan’s Run.. There were fountains and murals/mosaics everywhere. What I enjoyed about the mall (see what I did there?) was that the shops themselves were like crystal caves shining from the edges of a pretty natural-looking, darker colour palette of the shopping centre itself. Cut to 1998ish when the management decided to rip out all the plants, change the colours to blinding white, close the huge open market to plop another Anchor store in its place and remove all the seating.. don’t get me wrong! You can still see the remnants of the style it once had!! But now the shops are darker than the interior of the mall.. you can’t just sit and people watch. You can’t sit at all! Unless you pay for a coffee etc in the “open air” cafes that clog up the once breezy main squares.. The saving grace of the shopping centre? It was built in the exact centre of my once-dying small town when it became a “New Town”. The walkways even follow the same path as the streets beforehand! The Anchor store has gone (they still can’t decide what to do with it) but out of the dozens and dozens of shops, only a few units are empty. Still! In 2024!! I miss the old mall.. but atleast it is still bustling. By the way, it is called “The Kingfisher Shopping Centre” in Redditch, England. Before going to its website to check it out (if you are so inclined), go and Google image it in the old days.. You will actually think you are in an American mall. Thanks for finishing reading my ramblings! 👋🏻
on a real note, it has been years but i still have dreams of every hallway and every branch of lakeforest, behind the walls where delivery are made behind the stores there was signatures and weed leaves dating back to the 1970's. its amazing still being able to fly through the mall in my dreams, thank you for the walkthrough
Your narrations are top notch! Love how you took some risks filming close ups on the interior features. Very well done sir 👍🏻
Thank you so much!
This reminds me of days wandering the mall with my buddies. The scene back then, I was in my late teens / early 20s - malls like this somehow made me feel the world was at my feet. That was 40+ years ago now. I never see those friends anymore.
Nathan I love Lakeforest Mall outside of Baltimore. MD in Gaithersburg. I'm glad I got yo see this mall plus patrons who use to come to the mall telling their memories. Love the food court it was interesting. So sad all these malls are closing.
Season 6 best season yet can’t wait for season 7
Love the vids dude!
Thanks man!
@@NorthCdogg22one day should come to visit NC dead malls!
Imagine being chased by a kids train like the ones you see in the mall, but the rolling gaint is the driving the kids train.
That sounds like a bad dream😭😭 the rolling train is definitely Lakeforests giant
Really nice to see such friendly conversation among strangers. And your soundtracks are continually impressive, love glaciere!
This mall is practically identical (though much smaller) to Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights Michigan. It, too, is undergoing the same fate and will be permanently closing its doors on July 1st, 2024. I recently went there, and it's sad to see my childhood mall in the state it's currently in.
So sad. I grew up going to different malls. Great place to get lost in shopping, seeing movies, eating, and checking out girls.
Love your content! I’ve been waiting for this one!😊
Hope you enjoy!
i last visited it in early 2023, there were still people there, just not too many. lake forest is where i took eye exams and got my glasses.
Woof, that sears sign slapped me across the face. They could have had it all...
Awesome video! What was the first music that played before the Seeburg music?
The first song was a heavily edited version of Eyes without a Face by Billy Idol, thanks for watching!
@@NorthCdogg22 Thank you! It was really mellow and I enjoyed hearing it! I was on one of your live videos and you gave a shout out to me for joining the live video! Thanks for that! I live in Spartanburg, South Carolina in a little town called Inman. At one point, we had three enclosed malls. Now only one remains. My favorite mall and favorite place of all-time has long since been demolished. Hillcrest Mall, which was built in 1982 and then closed in 1998, only to be demolished a few months later. I even created a FB group to pay tribute to it called Hillcrest Mall: Bringing Good Things Together. We have over 2,500 members. I originally created it so that the mall wouldn't be forgotten. Check out the group when you can! Will Hawkins is the one who oversees it. He's a huge fan of Hillcrest Mall too. Here's the link: facebook.com/groups/115265328396
Keep up the awesome work! I always look forward to seeing your videos!
Tommy
Really like your music choices. I don’t know what group to pity or envy more. My generation who grew up throughout the 80’s and 90’s in the heyday of malls and got to experience them in all of their glory, or your generation that didn’t. As for me, malls growing up were just THE best, and something that were the absolute world to me. But…I’ve had to experience their almost total collapse and haven’t found any alternatives that fill that void for me. For your generation, you didn’t get to experience them in their heyday, but I think today you haven’t felt that loss as deeply, and have been much more resilient and able to adapt. So…sigh…I just don’t know. All I do know is that I miss my malls to go to.
Adding to the “This was my mall” posts… I remember shopping at the Lakeforest Sears THE DAY BEFORE the rest of the mall opened! I remember they had a huge curtain covering the windowed doors leading to the rest of the mall, and I went and had a peek when I was there. Lots of memories, but sadly I moved away in the early 90’s and missed a lot of the history there, as well as most of the decline. Side note: I also remember, and took classes at the ice rink at Lakeforest that preceded the movie theatre. In the late 70’s\early 80’s. Farewell Lakeforest.
The stairs still do 20 ft down. Pump rooms and water fountain is still there. 24:55 i to tons of pics in the 22 yrs I worked maintenance there
What an iconic video, well done! Next mall is definitely the stranger things mall 😂.
Thanks for watching man!!
That’s what I’m thinking!!!!!
Why would you copy me 😡😡😡😡
I can’t believe Hakky made it to the last days of the mall
Since earth is moving with our Galaxy at 124 million miles per hour , all those memories are literally billions of miles behind us. Kind of amazing.❤ How fickle are our dreams even if we are fortunate enough to achieve them.
Yes, that black was the coloring of a majority of Hecht's locations.
Great video :>
Thank you for the insight!
@@NorthCdogg22 yw
It was a Hecht's can confirm.
Yo this is amazing
Thank you🙏🙏
Great video!
Thanks!
27:48 the mall was 92% full occupancy until 9/11 then over 5 yrs stores changed and left with Montgomery village crime wave.
At Christmas you would have 2000 to 5000 people at a time
Hi North C Dogg! I love these videos and all of your other ones! The camera quality and the accurate history of the malls make you the only person I love to watch for mall videos! I heard on a previous livestream that you wanted to go to Stratford Square Mall! Please contact me because down here we are having a party on the closing day and would love to see you!
King Farm was supposed to turn into an amusement park, then became the housing development. If Lake Forest could do anything smart with this mall is to sell to The Walking dead or movie companies for filming zombie apocs or anything in a safe structure. I love what you did with the camera angles and the old VHS cuts. @NorthCdogg22
Thanks for another fun episode! Love how you have all the old footage. Neat to see how it was back in the day.
One thing I didn't understand, was was "red mall", "green mall", etc? Were they different sections of the mall?
Thanks for watching! The differently colored sections were to go along with each of the malls different entrances, each one featuring a different season and that seasons color. Back when the mall was still open that’s how each section of the mall was labeled, green mall, blue mall, etc..
That feature was added in the 90s right before they demolished the theater and updated the logo.
@@NorthCdogg22 thank you! 😊
It's such a waste of perfectly good space. We need to band together to save our local malls. I really enjoy this type of mall design even though I never saw this mall in person.
@someperson9999 Sounds like a fun place, lol. No wonder shoppers started staying away.
I like the conversation pits.
I loved this mall for 7 yrs
just started watching ... that mall looks so good ... i mean its like it could be repurposed for other things other than malls and stores selling things ... like have it be a community center (I say this about alot of dying malls that still looks to be in great shape) with say a library and/or gym in the anchors ... have the less fortunate stay inside to have a roof over their head in some of the smaller (redo them) former stores. I mean i know some areas have way too many malls in a small location but ... i dont mind seeing the say moldy and rundown malls to be taken down .. but so many are so nice looking and there is no need to tear them down
I used to love this mall. I remember going here all the time. As a little kid and even in high school. It's a shame because it was relatively busy fairly recently in 2018, but there was a lot of crime around that area and also COVID.
I really hoped that Lakeside Mall would use the anchors like Washington Square did with Goodwill which will open in sometime in the fall of 2024! What a beautiful MALL. Remember seeing the sign in 1972. I think now they should demolish the mall. Pay the owners in the zones then begin the demolition instead of leaving it closed. Feel sad since the food court as beautiful as Washington Square here.
have you done a video yet on another Taubman mall, In Dearborn, MI called Fairlane Town center?
Those random non-national tenants you spoke of on the directory from 2021 would have been something the mall operators refer to as "temporary tenants". They sign short-term leases of maybe 11 months, a year, or month-to-month, and pay very low rent in relation to the national tenants.
Yeah, been seeing that at The Crossroads Mall where I live in Kazoo as I like to call them mom & pop tenants which they come and go. There is even a store that sells bongs for doing weed/pot it is always close when I go to the mall.
44:48 - Is Macy's in Bethesda at a mall?
I saw a video a couple years ago with the mom & pop stores at Lakeforest Mall which was dead then. Great to see the locals talking about the mall they grew up with. I like the Sears wing art I would've asked for a piece of the art to say that I have something from the mall. I saw a lot from that final day at Lakeforest taking everything they could get LOL😂
What a beautiful mall. ☹️☹️
Circle Center Mall in Indy in two weeks?
Nope, but good guess!
06:35 How can a concrete megamall be "exasperated"?
My script was def supposed to say “exaggerated” and I never changed it😵💫😵💫my bad
marketplace mall in rochester is super dead right now
Beautiful video! Next up: Harborplace in Baltimore?
Sad for this mall, I love the sky lights. I hope this mall doesn't end up like Northridge or Century III.
Taubman built Fair Oaks mall in Chantilly / Fairfax virginia as well. The malls have basically the exact same archetexture, though Fair Oaks got a rennovation revently and lost some of its retro charm. If you want to see that mall alive for the most part, head to Fair Oaks. Its dying but still has a fair amount open.
Not has the Internet changed the whole landscape of malls and retail ... it also changed the society as well
15:27 that was Fredericks of Hollywood a ladies lingerie, store the guy's thinking of smalls. That was on the upper level, red entrance across from the old red robin
As the guy you talked to brought up( and it had never occurred to me until he mentioned it ) one still has to worry about paying shipping and of it doesn't fit sending it back until ots right. Also thete is the risk of actually recieving the quality of product you order ( and receiving it at all ). This would lead to the supposition that malls would still have a place in our economy.
It's weird, the general layout and feel of towns in America are nothing like the UK at all, which is obvious of course. But these videos really hit home how absolutely identical our Malls are (although we don't call them that), and even their general vibe as time has gone on, and how some of them are becoming eerie deserted places in exactly the same way.
So I wanted to say what an amazing video this was! However, I wanted to bring up that this mall looks very very very similar to West Farms Mall in Farmington, Connecticut. I don’t know if both malls used the same architect but I wanted to ask you this because I’m very curious. The layout and the interior design looked almost identical.
Lastly, it’s weird to see how Lakeforest mall is dead while West Farms mall is actually a thriving mall. This video actually shows a parallel universe: where West Farms in Farmington, Connecticut is a dead mall. I would love to see more videos though!!!! Would it be ok if you showed any thriving malls on your videos?
5:48 "I think I've seen this shot before..." 😂
Looks like it was a nice mall
i remember only one part of the mall
it was the best part to me
now sadly they will turn it in to some outdoor residential, commercial, and retail area.
Great video
Oddly enough, the first time I ever played Super Nintendo was in that exact KB Toys.
8:02 24:12 Hollister
Any chance it will be rebuilt and restored to its former glory?
NORTH!!!!!!!!!
My guess about the next mall: Gavidae Commons in Minneapolis?
Not quite but close!
@@NorthCdogg22 Har Mar mall?