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- Tanforan is a shopping mall in San Bruno, California. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula, 10 miles south of San Francisco
The site was originally used as a horse racing track from 1899 until 1964, A shopping mall was built on the site and opened in 1971. In 2022, Alexandria Real Estate completed its acquisition of the site and announced the mall would be demolished and replaced with a biotech campus
Today only a handful of stores remain open to little to none foot traffic, the malls are DONE as consumers transition to online shopping
in this video I will be exploring this DOOMED mall to witness “The END of malls”
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Nothing creepier than hearing music echoing through an empty mall
Agree 🎼🎶🎵😬
Like waiting for the zombies to appear.
Dawn Of The Dead Mall 1978
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Land Of The Dead
Zombie Mall Attack 2005
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Have times changed in a half century?
Yes!
MORE zombies.
No country for old men?
This country is hard on people!
It's sad to me. Like memories of a different life playing back. I can't watch one of these without seeing the crowds of people appear like ghosts walking and running through. Kids pointing at toys in the windows, teens laughing, the sound of packages and bags rustling. Couples holding hands and walking slowly. Joy. It makes me feel like the 70's and 80's world I grew up in was on a different planet that no longer exists.
sounds like an episode from the twilight zone 🕐🕤🕙
How demoralizing to see such economic devastation.
Out with the old & in with the new. These massive structures are a thing of the past.
that was in 2008
Not really, warmonger wasteful americcpa, don't care about their citizens just police militarised states of oppression and aggression and corrupt sick evil agenda's, americcpa welcome to a nwo of third world status!
Economy is doing great! Jobless numbers are down, inflation is down. It's all good. Haven't you been watching CNN or MSNBC lately?
@@dwightlooi That is pure propaganda man. The middle class is effectively dead. Maybe if you are billionaire things are going well but for the average person it is the 2nd great depression since 2008.
The bay/ SF is pitiful. And just for background this mall is actually pretty nice. It's crazy they're going to demolish this mall.
I know it was one of my favorites, especially the bookstore
"Something new coming soon". Yeah, bankruptcy, and being demolished. Well, at least financing a war between Ukraine and Russia will save the US economy, and bring peace to the world - oh wait...
It does look nice, and not old construction either.
I'm amazed someone would even move to the bay area. Why?
@@Jeff-sp7bg there's filthy rich immigrants from asia moving here constantly. to them, this area is paradise and are thankful for it
Its crazy that in the 80's and 90's we couldn't wait to hit the mall and hang out with friends an try "failed miserably" and pick up girls lol...Thanks for another video chronicling all this
So true
I failed miserably too lol
@LeoMetalTraveler Sadly only two malls in America that are thriving the one in Minnesota and The King of Prussia Mall here in Pennsylvania.
I failed too but happened to get lucky(many times with her over the summer) with one of their moms lol. Good times
Picking up girls in the 80s. Good times even if we failed. I’ll love my brothers forever for the crazy times.
So sad to see California fall down like this but with the rampant theft in the area, I won’t blame the stores closing
Is it because of theft or online retail, and just a change of societal purchasing habits?
Cause-and-effect
Arrest shoplifters. Real simple solution.
Yeah, the stupid policy makers and the loss of income made things much worse for everyone.
Malls used to be where well-to-do people went or middle class went to be around well-to-do people and friends, before the USA had so much poverty, nobody wants to go to a public enclosed space full of thugs and illegal immigrants gang members and potential crime... that's the problem... but the malls were the center point in the American life-style and were attached with the collapsing society on purpose. This is not by mistake... This is why outdoor malls are doing better because well-to-do people can go in and go out and not have to spend time around gang members and be potential stalking and crime targets like they would in a mall. Sad.
Love the Malls of the 80s and 90s!! So sad to see this happening 😢 😞 💔 😔 😪
love the malls of the 60's and 70's with mall music, it is already alive in Heaven , Preserved in heaven
It's the people of that time... now if you went to a mall you're likely to get stalked or targeted by a criminal or gang-member. That's the real reason for the collapse, people would still go but they are not safe or nice places anymore.
THE SHOPPING malls of Heaven IS REAL@@VenturaIT
For me it's 70's and '80s, but same sentiment. In the 90's malls in L.A. like Westside Pavilion where they filmed the Tom Petty Free Fallin video, and Sherman Oaks Galleria which started the Valley Girl trend had already begun dying. The heyday for malls was before Amazon and Walmart took over.
Yep Malls peaked in the 70s and 80s. Started dying in the 90s when jobs started moving to China, nafta, online sales, gangs, etc.
It breaks my heart to see America go down and most Americans are still Oblivious to the Reality!
I don't think we are. It's just incredible hard to stop it
This really bad for women. This was one of the last places women could walk and be safe and have fun. Ironically women didn’t like seeing cops kneeling on thugs necks. Now malls are dying since thugs are now free to pillage. Soon these thugs will be kneeling on your families necks
Seniors too.
They will be kneeling down looking down the barrel of my Mossberg 500 if they pull that crap on me or my family
@@Jeff-sp7bgdon’t tell the law about it. They will charge the ppl with money.
Kids too. A place that I was trusted to be with friends without parents, a major step in growing up and learning independence.
Why dont you explain to people why this is happening? Your nation is being taken over by communism.
This is so surreal, hearing a few kids yelling in an empty mall. California politics destroying California...such a tragedy 😢 Thank you, Leo, for your updates!👍
this isnt about california politics, its an american thing that destroy malls, while malls are great overseas.
@@JC-kv1vn Pity Ronald Reagan karked it, him and the guy you call Trump
could make Malls great again, but never fear about the demolishing cause
once it's all been torn down, Joe Biden's policies can build it back better...
@@theghostoftravel Don't confuse SF/The Bay Area and Skid Row LA with California. The majority of the state is still open for business and is dealing with problems rather that welcoming and enabling prolems.
The U.S is destroyed
Not sure what you're talking about but I travel all over the state and the entire state is going down the tunes. Is that a joke?
Geez, I remember having to fight for a parking spot at the local mall. The community hangout. So many entry level jobs lost, where many of us got our start….
This is funny because I was in Thailand for a month and the malls over there are thriving. Literally thousands of people walking around , shopping , eating , etc. One of the mall called Terminal 21 even have theme inside. Each floor would be different country like Japan , France , America , China and there would be the whole floor dedicated to just restaurants. I mean we are talking about 20- 30 restaurants on one floor. You could literally walk the mall the whole day just looking around or try to find which place to eat.
They enforce their laws.
@@saintpreferred9223 Terminal 21 has 9 floors. NIMBYs in bay area wouldn't allow that because "It WIll bLock mY ViEw" lmao
It's like that here in Japan.
So sad what has happened to the Bay Area and San Francisco in particular! I've been here for like 29 years, and this is like the post apocalyptic era!
Corruption, greed, the abhorrent woke culture and people running out of their savings are some of the major reasons why this has turned into a living hell for many. I might move inland or most likely out of California all together once I figure out my finances.
Yes Joe, move inland. I was lucky to live in San Fran and Fremont in the 90s. Id guess Fremont is doing ok. San Fran and Oakland are heartbreaking
If you’re a democrat don’t you dare come to a Republican state! Karma will get you bro
@@danfoster-hy8mo Only if I find a good deal for our needs in a nice community, God willing.
Hi Joe, how do you guys buy groceries for now? Online? Since every store is closed.
@@steven7488 I get what I can from Amazon Fresh, online, and the near by Trader Joe's, and we also still have other stores near by like Whole Foods and such. Groceries cost almost twice as much before the lock down. You have too be very selective.
Yup.... let's thank Mr Besos for this.
The unnamed affliction of uncertain origin gave Mr. Amazon his real leg up.
I honestly could live without Amazon. I only use their kindle book app
Thank you for sharing this. What a pretty mall. It's a shame. The rampant theft, crime and laws that caused that, affected the prosperity of businesses and of workers and customers.
Not entirely true. Online shopping and COVID put a huge dent in bricks and mortar shopping.
All done by design
Also high wages cause stores to close due to operating costs.
@@y.cschmidlin8172 who or what does the designing?
@@admtahoe no.
They just rebuilt that mall 15 years ago
That’s right they did!
It seemed like it was in really good condition.
Would be good if you could do a video on the history of this place the ups and downs why it's being demolished etc etc.
Tx for your abandoned shop vids I enjoy them at the same time it's sad to see the community go down Cheers
Used to be a HUGE HORSE racing venue "!
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Called ..
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TANFORAN. (60'S 7O' s)..
.that's why the HORSE satute. "
The middle class is being destroyed so sad 😢😢😢
Malls are done. They are often transitioning to apartments with retail food below. So drones can work, eat takeout and stare at the tube.
True of the times!
gas stations are next to go to encourage the switch to EVs. good luck finding gas 5 years from now in California.
Yes, that gas station started selling $7 per gallon two days ago! ⛽️💲👀
After half a century as a mall, Tanforan will close to make way for a biotech campus and housing. For 51 years, Tanforan Mall has stood as a major shopping destination in San Bruno, home to a variety of 104 different shops.
FACTS! thank you for sharing! Debbie!
All the Tech companies are leaving Cali!!
Thank you for context.
@@allentarver6286 we wish. The traffic is getting worse as the AI revolution kicks in and 18 of the top 20 companies are based in the Bay Area.
Malls are closing nationwide, these places were great places for people to get together, socializing. With on-line shopping, I will miss the face to face interactions.
Insanity is voting Blue and expecting things to get better.
It's not all legal votes. There's the cemetery voters, illegal votes, mail in fake ballots and especially voting machine enhanced votes..
Insanity is voting at all. Hello
Lobbying, corruption and the extreme agendas are the main factors. When morality is gone, everything else follows.
red or blue makes no difference. All parties have been infiltrated and are rotten to the core. Voting for Trump the father of the vaccine is as insane as voting for Biden, the one who mandated it
Both parties are f#%×ed up. Republicans can't make decisions among themselves. 😂
The mall was the place to be in the 80s and 90s. As a kid going to the arcade, food court, movie theater and walking around was fun. This generation is not better than the past.
Gotta go to serramonte
So crushingly depressing listening to The Motels "Suddenly, Last Summer" in the background. Takes me right back to the 80's when I used to frequent Tanforan, Stonestown and Serramonte. And all the hangouts I grew up with: Castle Golf and Games/Malibu Grand Prix, the Cliff House, B Dalton Bookseller, Waldenbooks, Waldensoftware, Toys R Us, Tower Records, the Coronet, the Alexandria, PIzza and Pipes, Farrell's, Steinhart Aquarium - all are rubble or unrecognizable today.
Even being able to hang out at SFO in the parking lot by runway 1-right is long gone with 911. And the last nail in the coffin will be Great America closing. The S.F. Bay Area is truly dead to me.
Wow, everything you mentioned brought back memories to me. Thank you for sharing!
You lived in a relative golden age and now it seems surreal.
Free ice cream in birthdays at Farrels! What a teaser!
They should move small businesses in at affordable rent. Instead of depending on giant chain stores.
I can only imagine the rent is astronomical and impossible for smal businesses to pay.
Now it’s even half price rent no one will rents.
You still blame on rent price & chain stores?? Bullshit
It’s about thrives lootings & stealing, shoplifting. Thugs & criminals have more human rights than law abiding ordinary!!
Customer get SPIT ON THEIR FACE & VIOLENT ASSAULT ATTACKS WHILE WALKING OUTSIDE BY THUGS, CRIMINALS ANIMAL TEEANGE in the name “kid & MINORITY AGE”
Stores, restaurants, bussiness owners get robbery every weeks & every fk months like nothing, jokes!!
THEYRE LOST ALOTS MONEYS BY ROBBERY & THRIVES. IT LOST DOUBLE TIMES BECAUSE CUSTOMERS WONT GO THERE & LEAVINGS!!
You still talk about rents price caught this shit.
Impossible. Affordable Rent doesn't exist in Cali especially the bay area. Pile on taxes,fees, insurance, this that, shoplifters, lawsuits, . No wonder businesses are leaving California by the thousands. We are witnessing the destruction of California. And it's happening very quickly as well
And treat their renters better as well.
But malls are not in the retail business, they are in the property management business.
even with low rent you have to get a lot of shoppers to go there and buy stuff. As per another comment people like shopping online and don't even go to the movies which malls used to have. Maybe additional attractions, game venues, concert venues, ice rinks like Mall of America.... but only if the local demographics will support it. Sometimes stuff just becomes economically obsolete. Appreciate the video documentation. Might be interesting to get comments from locals... oh wait... there's no one there.
I remember going there as a kid when people were still allowed to smoke indoors. There was literally a visible shelf of thick cigarette smoke about 3 feet off the ground. Damn near had to stop, drop and roll…
Ah yes good times.....
Thank you for sharing!
Nicotine is a pretty good thing not the demon its been made up to be, look it up but not thru the managed propaganda pieces of work
I remember people smoking inside hospitals. Those ashpit tray things with sand in them near the elevators. Was crazy lol
I grew up near Tanforan .it was a popular destination for my friends and me. It's so hard to believe what's become of it.
@METAL LEO, that is really sad. I remember love going to electronic stores back in the 1990s and early 2000s. Not only just to look at the electronic stuff from brands like Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Sharp, Philips, JVC, Pioneer, etc...and computer stuff like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and much more, but the countless aisles of CDs. I go there just to look and browse at the rock music CDs and movie DVDs. Those were the days. Good times that I miss.
It is now etch in our memory. 😔😌😞
You and me both miss the good old days. Thank you for sharing.!
My wife works retail at Dillard's. Fortunately for her, the mall she is at still has a packed parking lot. But, we talking about North Carolina, not commiefornia. Thanks for your reporting!
Wow! This is so depressing. This mall architecture is very similar to a one I'm used to go near Paris, France. And shops are beginning to close there too, with some almost empty alleys. Recently, a shop for babies has closed, where I used to buy things for my son. Our birth rate is collapsing now.
Another outstanding video, Leo! Most malls in Dallas and Houston look similar to what you have shared with us. So sad.
Really! I didn’t think it was that bad over there , thank you for sharing!
Leo--Can you travel to Eureka and film a video for us? It is about a 4 hour drive, but it is a lovely drive along the coast. I am curious to see the homelessness and closed businesses in this town.
SMH that people think this is just a blue-state problem.
I’m going to do some research first then I’ll look into taking the drive
Dem policies.
They can’t afford the rents and some can’t afford the thieving.
True!
Malls are closing everywhere. Sad to see. So much of the mall success is based on the anchors, and they are all going under.
This is the subject of most of my videos! Thanks for posting Leo!!!🎉
You bet!
Another excellent lecture documenting the decay and downfall of USA. Thanks Leo.
The dems are to blame for all this.
Not just the US. Here in the UK is the same and even countries like China.
It's not just the Bay Area, there are empty and abandoned malls all over the country, there are tons of TH-cam videos showing this
As you stated in the description, online shopping has really put a dent in the success of maintaining a "brick an mortar" presence. I have seen so many "dead mall" videos. I was surprised by how clean the empty spots were. Thanks for sharing, Leo. ❤
Thank you too, and I have to say that there is a lot of dead malls around here too, so I can easily make more videos
The Mall experience was expensive for a retailer (rent and %sales commission). OTOH a huge warehouse cost pennies when compared.
Never visited that Mall. I remember when they built Sunnyvale Town center...The replaced it a few decades later. Valco ...Gone. Loss of major 'Anchor' stores hurt, but no adjustment on the terms retailers paid the owners for their space made it less viable.
I loved this place. Had plenty of dates here and nearby restaurants.
After watching this video, you saved me a trip going to a ghost town Tanforan mall!! Thank you!😊Can you do a video at Stonestown Galleria in SF!
Sure thing!
I was at the the mobile store a few months ago but looks like quite a few stores closed since then. In this case the entire mall has already been closed as it was all bought up a few yrs ago and will become a “biomedical” park along with some housing.
It 1st began as race track for horses. Then to this. This mall, my go to mall back then. Was in this shape in the 1990s. It got revamp in 2000s and great up until the plandemic of COVID.
I call it convid. 🕊❤️🕊
40 years ago Tanforan was a Horse racing track. I won a daily double and $600 there for a $5 bet. What comes around eventually goes around.
Thus also reminds me of fashion island mall that use to exist in San Mateo. I lived nearby as a kid when it opened in 1981. It was strangely a flop from very early on. It only him got less crowded as time went on and the whole mall was torn down in 1996. 15 yrs total…mega flop.
I remember that mall, it was the only one with an ice skating rink and giant arcade.
@@deltamoney2742 yup. The actually tore everything down except the ice skating rink which is still open.
@@deltamoney2742 Yup. The Gold Mine. That was my main arcade through the 80s. In 1982 my favorite game was Red Baron. I had the second highest score...never beat those top 3 initials.
Thanks, Newsome!! Not MY fault he's in office!
It's evolution. Coast to coast It's happening. Malls are out.
those military trucks are stored awaiting the time to gather up excess population to transport them.
Empty malls will become the new concentration camps and reeducation centers. Already built and ready to go.
this Tanforan Mall site was already a staging area for the WWII Japanese American Internment, you can see the photos/memorial at the nearby San Bruno BART train station
yes that is exactly what I believe
It's a National Guard armory. Up the street is the Golden Gate Memorial Cemetary.
@@Damon_Mah true, Asian people were deprived of their civil rights to satisfy the government's desire to declare war on Japan, Germany, and Italy.
Fitting that You added the cemetery at the end. Used to shop there some years ago, Metal Leo. Did not know it will be demolished…but why keep it. Thank You for these documentaries!! Saves me a trip to this cemetery.
If this is to be demolished, such a state is expected. No stores want to be around when the hammer is expected to fall.
Inching toward Mad Max. Can't wait
I spent my childhood in Daly City and would come here frequently. So many memories from my childhood and teenage years. My friends and I would hang out roaming hot topic and spencers for hours and would hang out at the cemetery across the street when it got dark. So many memories here, and it's oddly painful to see it this empty knowing that it will soon be gone.
Perhaps the government has purchased the mall to house migrants….??? All the empty spaces in the US that are structurally sound should be used for something. Including hotels and hospitals. Although the US citizens who are homeless should be housed first!
I think you mean illegals...
I went to this mall a few times a year over many years and it was continuously going downhill. More and more of the bad crowd were showing up so no one went there anymore.
But Amazons doing better than ever and thats the important thing. Right Mom and Pop?
Nice to see the malls closing 😅
That mall used to be busy all the time for decades
Yes it was. I used to go to BJ’s for happy hour twice a week
What in the world has your sorry governor done to the beautiful state of California???????? Why don't you people VOTE HIM OUT!!!!
Yeah newsom has ruined California
The worse they do the more they are liked by the voters.the most extreme and outlandish, strengthens their hold on power.🫏💩
We tried but either there was some shenanigans or too many ignorant people.
And just think the Dems want to make him POTUS.
@@boostedmaniacthe former
I recently went on a trip to Guatemala, one of the poorer countries in Central America and I was surprised to visit not one but two beautiful, modern shopping malls that were busy during the middle of the week and filled with employees! There was a even a man whose job it was too sweep and polish the escalator steps and hand rails. There were people working everywhere (not just in the mall) and it wasn't hard to get quick and courteous service at fast food restaurants and in the stores.
Since I've been back here in the U.S, the Panera Bread restaurant I go to has been closed three times due to staffing and product shortages and there's more examples I can give but this comment would turn into a novel...
I've traveled all over the world and the happiest folks seem to be some of the poorest. The women are friendly and stunningly beautiful especially in Latin and South America. Sad what's happening to the US
@@Jeff-sp7bg 100% get your passport and leave the WEST! Western women offer even less that that empty mall does LOL as far as friendliness, mutual respect and a future!
Panama malls are still thriving too.
I wonder why. 🤔 🥊
used to run internet cables for some of the stores there...
Hi... love your videos... How is Stonestown Galleria in the Outer Sunset holding up in this retail apocalypse?
Thank you for your support ,Stonestown is not doing too bad from what I hear
I’m thinking this Christmas shopping season is going to be dismal.
🎄🎅 😢
Been going to this mall since the early 70”s with my family, many great memories, very sad to see it die.
Malls are closing everywhere 😭 I watch many dead mall videos. I was born in the 70’s and malls were my childhood from going myself to mall movies, etc. It’s really sad to see. I think stores like Walmart and Target where you can buy everything along with online shopping has killed most malls. There were also too many built.
Thanks for the video, so sad to see. I am over in the Berkeley.El Cerrito area, so not familiar with this mall. But I can imagine what this mall looked like in its heyday.
Great video Leo, I went to that mall when I was a kid. Now is completely death it is sad to see the California economy going like this.
Go woke go broke
Welcome to Biden’s America
Bidenomics
The future......
They were already going down ten years ago
It's joever😔
Yup, Joe hates malls so much he made sure to start the process of closing this mall during Trump’s presidency
At least they're still playing period-correct music from the Malls heyday
All closed, all for rent Good luck..
That's right
The 1980s music seals the deal.
It is probably safer to order online. Imagine how frightening to be shopping when those shoplifters take over.
I have no words...used to go there since 1986. But now, when i see the difference, i'm speechless. Don't know what to say. Don't forget that there are families behind all these closed stores.
Really sad situation.
"Joanna" Kool & the Gand, "Suddenly Last Summer" The Motels.. eerie hearing songs played in that empty building, that were current hits at the height of the malls popularity.
great job dude bye bye Cali so sad
they are playing the MOTELS- SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER 1981
Hi Leo thank you for your videos I drove by last month I live in San Jose
I recently visited San Jose and made a video about , the link is on the description of this video
The malls still operating have all shortened their hours. Used to be all the stores were 10a to 9p.
Most are like 12-7 now, depending on the store & location.
The Target near SF State was closing at 6 or 7pm every day, due to theft.
Hours are a little longer now but all Targets close earlier than they did pre-Covid.
I grew up in South City. Me and my family would go the mall. I was there when they reopened the mall after they remodeled it. Now i only go once in awhile to take my daughter to the indoor playground. So sad seeing it go
Thanks, use to live around that area in San Bruno, California.💣
Right on!
you pop up comments are hilarious-love the videos...so sad for CA
Always keeping up the good spirits with good sense of humor 😁
Maybe you want to put smaller malls inside urban areas, where brick and mortar stores are pick up points with free shipping from online orders and where customers can see some of the popular products irl on display and for sale.
Guess my European purchasing habits are WAY different then yours over there 😮
I love it when he says, good luck with that!!! these stores were not welcoming to all shoppers.
Read your history books people. Tanforan was an Internment camp, for Japanese AMERICAN CITIZENS, during WWII. Did they build the mall as a remembrance to this atrocity?
And Biden’s DOJ will probably use these empty malls to intern all the Trump voters after the next rigged election. Maybe that’s why the military national guard equipment is staged so close?
You bring the real news . If not for this channel I wouldn't even know this was happening. That mall will not reopen ever again. It's interesting that the military is parking their trucks near the mall. I see they are displaying Ukrainian flag near U.S. military equipment instead of U.S flag which is surely illegal under the U.S. law . Maybe when the mall fully closes they will use it as a military base or a prison in the upcoming civil war?
Open your eyes. It's happening coast to coast.
I heard the mall near my house growing up in the north bay is set to be demolished as well, odd since it was the only shopping area in the town and had been remodeled extensively relatively recently. It will now be a giant “affordable living” apartment complex with some businesses on the first floor.
Interesting!
We just watched "Fast Times at Ridgemont High' last weekend and talked about how those malls are going away.
How sad........
Do College Ave in Berkeley all the way to UC.
Oakland section has a history of closed shops; more than Berkeley.
"For lease, ya good luck with that!"
"Comming soon! Not happening!"
I have been saying and thinking that for a while now, this time was no exception!
Especially as you were saying it 🤣❤👍!
Phoenix too... Metrocenter, Paradise Valley, Fiesta, Christown, etc. All closed. Surreal...
So far, our malls in Australia are still busy. BUT - there are often good shops closing down, big name brands, and a new, boutique style shop open in its place, often selling cheap shite or knick knacks.
thank you for this video!
it's strange because it looks and feels younger than our piss crap (interior) malls from the Sixties or Seventies here
Great for DRUG DEALER .
Leo: as you went around and described what store used to be there I named the store in the exact spot here in the Springfield Mall, PA that closed. The layout's are the same. We do have the King of Prussia Mall outside Philadelphia that is managing to survive, how long depends on the economy. Like you I loved the book stores in the Mall, my wife would come back and retrieve me after shopping and all was well. Miss those mall days. Stay safe Leo.
Thank you for sharing
Every time I go here, I discover more stores gone. I was there right before the holidays. They had a Santa booth but he was only there on Saturdays. This wasn't a bad place even a few years ago. It's incredibly sad.
Love your videos
Thank you for your support. I have more videos on the pipeline.!
There are lots of negatives, lots of low skill service jobs are now gone, there are few manufacturing jobs left.
Malls also allowed healthy social interaction
Thanks for the show Leo
You bet
remember Fast Times at Ridgemount High and the Mall scenes
Its sad seeing the state of that mall especially now that its set to be destroyed, I had been frequenting that mall for well over 2 decades.
I used to work at the hollister there as a teenager. So many people back in the day used to shop there.
The Hillsdale mall a little further south in San Mateo is on the chopping block, too.