That whole remodel was just creepy. I remember CCP and across the street was Country Club Centre in the 70s/80s. Along with Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights they were all booming.
I remember when this was the mall to go to!! I never understand why this property is not redeveloped. I have been saying for years this could be a nice outdoor space with retail shops, restaurants, and movies. Similar to The Fountains in Roseville and the Palladio in Folsom. Letting it sit and rot is a disservice to the community.
This mall has been struggling for decades. When I was a kid we went there to see Santa before the big remodel and that wasn’t there and a lot of the stores left. At that time it had a decent amount of stores but the remodel took so long that people moved on and after it opened again it never recaptured what it had before. The first thing I thought when I went back as a teenager was, “this is it”.
This is damn impressive. Everything from the music to the narration to the editing is on point. This mall’s current state seems to have a “low budget Mills” style with those quasi-funky geometric frames around the store fronts.
There is another mall across the street. Country Club Center , Walmart use to be a Montgomery Wards and at the end it was a Liberty House. The mall is still there, but it is closed. I don't know how to access it.
Dude, I like your videos just started watching them last week. I'm in the Sacramento California area and those are the ones I watch the most I've been here since 2003. I wish your videos had some photos or a little more information on what these smalls used to be back in their heyday. Not criticizing just suggesting. Have a good one
I used to work here when Stage 9 was where the new "premium" theater is. It was dead back then (ca. 2005). It broke my heart when WinCo went in where Gottschalks used to be. Across the street was Country Club Center (where Walmart was before it shut down) and to the right of the plaza was Sam's Hof Brau (I miss you Sam's), Tower Records/Books, the comic book store and the bowling alley. On my paydays, (before I worked at Stage 9), I would go to Sam's for lunch, stop at Tower, buy a CD, pop it in my CD walkman, cross over to Macy's or Gottschalks, buy an outfit (likely a set of jeans and shirt, sometimes cologne) and stroll through the mall. Edit: man, I just remembered, I would go to Gottschalks to buy my concert tickets, this was when Tower Records stopped being a Ticketmaster retailer. So much nostalgia.
Maybe it could be the name itself. Here in Kansas City, we also have a Country Club Plaza, the ORIGINAL ONE built by J.C. Nichols in the 1920's. Ours is also the one that's world famous for being inspired by Seville with it's statutes, fountains, etc. Our Country Club Plaza used to have a mini mall fashioned out of a formerly vacant department store. It was previously either a Sears, Roebuck, & Co. or Emery, Bird & Thayer [a local chain that went defunct between 1968 and 1971] store. That mall was named Seville Square, and was quite possibly the first KC mall to ever close. The rest of the Country Club Plaza did fine. It should be noted, that it used to also have a Macy's (just like the Sacramento Country Club Plaza did) which today is a Barnes & Noble, It's one of the few Macy's built before about 1980, in a shopping district or mall that didn't have a cornerstone. J. C. Nichols was very particular about exterior appearance. We have the lighting ceremony broadcast every year, to mark the start of the Christmas holiday season. There's even the Plaza Art Fair that has drawn so much local interest that at some point in time, someone started the UN-PLAZA Art fair. Yes, they've really did that, and the competitive rivalry was on! Both art fairs are still going strong as of 2019. They also have bunny statutes put out each Easter too. Our Country Club Plaza suffered some. The start was the 1977 Brush Creek flood. Prior to that, it had a bowling alley, Winchell's Donut House, and a number of specialty shops that never reopened. Then shopping declined some. It could also be that until very recently, the Country Club Plaza was considered to be primarily for tourists or the rich. Now we still have stores of elegance there, but there's more middle class offerings too. We're having a second revival of our Country Club Plaza. Interestingly, it was never placed on the National Register of Historic Places (they need to change that!), When one thinks of the name Country Club Plaza, they think of beautiful surroundings with FRESH AIR. That may be why the California Country Club Plaza isn't doing so well. It may be seen as an enclosed counterfeit version of the one here in KC.
I went here and I think it's an underrated place. The Movie theatre is one of the best values in Sacramento. I delivered to the luchador coffee and the phone repair place.
I used to work uniformed security, as a lieutenant, at this mall back around 2006 or so, and the mall was alive and kicking at that point - not at all on the level of Arden Fair, but it had some liveliness to it. Macy's, Sports Authority and Gottschalks, Bed, Bath and Beyond, Hometown Buffet, La Bou and Ross were all still open and were the anchor tenants. That didn't last long. Gottschalks began its death throes while I was there, followed by Sports Authority. Many of the smaller tenants expressed many concerns to us and to management about the inevitable mall closure and management really didn't seem to care much, they only focused on gathering rent and ensure store shops stay filled - something they later did with kiosks. Turnover was high for many storefronts, they'd open for about 6 months then shut down. We also started to see an uptick in crime as well, lots of stolen cars left in the lots, large scale shoplifting (primarily from Macy's), vehicle break ins, vandalism, but then it got to the point of armed robberies in the parking lots, fights inside the mall, some nights (on graveyard) there'd be huge side shows in the back parking lots, to the point that Sac Sheriff would send out the helicopter and multiple cars to disperse them. The company that owned the mall actually owned two other property pads that were considered part of the mall - both on the other side of Butano Drive - one to the east of the mall, back behind Macy's, next to Chase, and the other one was to the south, at the back of Gottschalk's, right at the curve of Butano when coming from Watt. We used get many, many, many alarm triggers for these pads and used to find lots of broken windows and sometimes drug addicts camped out behind those areas, shooting up. One time one of my guards was on patrol and caught a couple fully undressed and going at it back behind one of those buildings at like 11am. Another time, after the mall closed for the evening, two of my guards got caught up in a feud between some skateboarders and some other people outside the front of Macy's that wound up with the skaters and my guards being shot at with frozen paintballs (and the whole front area of Macy's getting splattered in paint). Some good times for sure! I was actually surprised to see some of the tenants I remember, still being there, from my days - Fantasy Beauty, the watch shop and the alteration shop are all from my time there. Great video!
I regularly shop at that Winco and I'm always creeped out when I look down to where the rest of the mall stores were. Yeah, why would I want to go to the rest of the mall???
I lived near here for a bit, and I was so confused the first time I went shopping at that Winco. You walk down a looong hallway with your cart before reaching the grocery store, and then the dead mall is directly visible from the Winco
Thanks for the video. I found it odd that you didn't even comment on the Planet Fitness. It's a weird place for a grocery store, but a weirder place for a gym whose back wall is literally a shopfront gate into the mall.
Been there once many many years ago to grab some supplements from that Vitamin World. The place was super dead back then too. I think it was 2010 when I went there
This was a very popular mall before Arden Fair Mall expanded into a 2 story bohemeth, only 10 minutes away from Country Club Plaza. JC Penney was an anchor here but left in the early 1990s and relocated to Arden Fair Mall which was one of the final nails in the coffin. They still had Weinstocks which became Macy’s, and some decent smaller stores like KB Toys, Sbarro’s, Claire’s, and other typical mall tenants but this wasn’t enough to keep them busy. They remodeled in the early 2000’s with some pretty promising tenants like Pac Sun, Panda Express, Sports Chalet, etc. There was a small buzz after this remodel but after a few years it was a ghost town again. It’s been slowly dying ever since despite WinCo and Planet Fitness setting up shop. I actually really miss the old layout that existed before the remodel as they completely demolished most of the mall between the anchors and built the current structure. My friend worked security here during the remodel and I got to see a lot of the offices and halls upstairs, as well as roam the mall and the half finished stores which was a pretty cool experience.
@@haydentimmons4048 Yes, the Macy’s is closed and gone, nothing has moved into that space. The anchor that replaced JC Penney in the 90s on the other end of the mall was called Gottchalk’s and it left a few years back and has since been converted into a Winco which brings most of the traffic to the mall. It’s an odd setup as you can enter the Winco from two exterior doors, but also from the mall itself.
It's so weird seeing a place you've lived near all your life get documented like this
MAN!!! I MISS my favorite mall . I use to go to this mall all the time in the 80’s & 90’s. Thanks for the video. I need to go visit for memories
That whole remodel was just creepy. I remember CCP and across the street was Country Club Centre in the 70s/80s. Along with Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights they were all booming.
I remember when this was the mall to go to!! I never understand why this property is not redeveloped. I have been saying for years this could be a nice outdoor space with retail shops, restaurants, and movies. Similar to The Fountains in Roseville and the Palladio in Folsom. Letting it sit and rot is a disservice to the community.
Man this place screams early 2000s. Love it. Thanks for posting.
This mall has been struggling for decades. When I was a kid we went there to see Santa before the big remodel and that wasn’t there and a lot of the stores left. At that time it had a decent amount of stores but the remodel took so long that people moved on and after it opened again it never recaptured what it had before. The first thing I thought when I went back as a teenager was, “this is it”.
This is damn impressive. Everything from the music to the narration to the editing is on point. This mall’s current state seems to have a “low budget Mills” style with those quasi-funky geometric frames around the store fronts.
Instantly subscribed, your narration and production are top notch!
Miss you Country Club Mall...
There is another mall across the street. Country Club Center , Walmart use to be a Montgomery Wards and at the end it was a Liberty House. The mall is still there, but it is closed. I don't know how to access it.
yes! that place intrigues me. i didn't even know that there was still part of that mall left!
There was another anchor in the middle. Longs Drug store, Carmel Corn , Grabetis and Sons Bob's Burgers, See,s Candies, ...
Dude, I like your videos just started watching them last week. I'm in the Sacramento California area and those are the ones I watch the most I've been here since 2003. I wish your videos had some photos or a little more information on what these smalls used to be back in their heyday. Not criticizing just suggesting. Have a good one
yeah I do tend to make things more visual/walkthrough and not as much history as other people, still thank you for watching though!
This place brings so much memories from my childhood and my teenage years.
I haven't went to this mall since probably 97 and I have lived in Sacramento my entire life. Even back in the day it felt dead.
I used to work here when Stage 9 was where the new "premium" theater is. It was dead back then (ca. 2005). It broke my heart when WinCo went in where Gottschalks used to be.
Across the street was Country Club Center (where Walmart was before it shut down) and to the right of the plaza was Sam's Hof Brau (I miss you Sam's), Tower Records/Books, the comic book store and the bowling alley. On my paydays, (before I worked at Stage 9), I would go to Sam's for lunch, stop at Tower, buy a CD, pop it in my CD walkman, cross over to Macy's or Gottschalks, buy an outfit (likely a set of jeans and shirt, sometimes cologne) and stroll through the mall.
Edit: man, I just remembered, I would go to Gottschalks to buy my concert tickets, this was when Tower Records stopped being a Ticketmaster retailer. So much nostalgia.
Maybe it could be the name itself. Here in Kansas City, we also have a Country Club Plaza, the ORIGINAL ONE built by J.C. Nichols in the 1920's. Ours is also the one that's world famous for being inspired by Seville with it's statutes, fountains, etc. Our Country Club Plaza used to have a mini mall fashioned out of a formerly vacant department store. It was previously either a Sears, Roebuck, & Co. or Emery, Bird & Thayer [a local chain that went defunct between 1968 and 1971] store. That mall was named Seville Square, and was quite possibly the first KC mall to ever close. The rest of the Country Club Plaza did fine. It should be noted, that it used to also have a Macy's (just like the Sacramento Country Club Plaza did) which today is a Barnes & Noble, It's one of the few Macy's built before about 1980, in a shopping district or mall that didn't have a cornerstone. J. C. Nichols was very particular about exterior appearance.
We have the lighting ceremony broadcast every year, to mark the start of the Christmas holiday season. There's even the Plaza Art Fair that has drawn so much local interest that at some point in time, someone started the UN-PLAZA Art fair. Yes, they've really did that, and the competitive rivalry was on! Both art fairs are still going strong as of 2019. They also have bunny statutes put out each Easter too.
Our Country Club Plaza suffered some. The start was the 1977 Brush Creek flood. Prior to that, it had a bowling alley, Winchell's Donut House, and a number of specialty shops that never reopened. Then shopping declined some. It could also be that until very recently, the Country Club Plaza was considered to be primarily for tourists or the rich. Now we still have stores of elegance there, but there's more middle class offerings too.
We're having a second revival of our Country Club Plaza. Interestingly, it was never placed on the National Register of Historic Places (they need to change that!), When one thinks of the name Country Club Plaza, they think of beautiful surroundings with FRESH AIR. That may be why the California Country Club Plaza isn't doing so well. It may be seen as an enclosed counterfeit version of the one here in KC.
Wow...haven't seen this place since the '80s. I was a small child...
Sad to see another piece of my childhood die.
A mall shouldn't be this dead in Sacramento.
Great Audio Voice!
I was on the tile crew who installed the pink marble in that store( lingerie store) back in 2005. The mall was dead even back then
I went here and I think it's an underrated place. The Movie theatre is one of the best values in Sacramento. I delivered to the luchador coffee and the phone repair place.
thanks for the update!
Good video. Loved the outside of the old Macy's. Thanks for filming.
I used to work uniformed security, as a lieutenant, at this mall back around 2006 or so, and the mall was alive and kicking at that point - not at all on the level of Arden Fair, but it had some liveliness to it. Macy's, Sports Authority and Gottschalks, Bed, Bath and Beyond, Hometown Buffet, La Bou and Ross were all still open and were the anchor tenants. That didn't last long. Gottschalks began its death throes while I was there, followed by Sports Authority. Many of the smaller tenants expressed many concerns to us and to management about the inevitable mall closure and management really didn't seem to care much, they only focused on gathering rent and ensure store shops stay filled - something they later did with kiosks. Turnover was high for many storefronts, they'd open for about 6 months then shut down. We also started to see an uptick in crime as well, lots of stolen cars left in the lots, large scale shoplifting (primarily from Macy's), vehicle break ins, vandalism, but then it got to the point of armed robberies in the parking lots, fights inside the mall, some nights (on graveyard) there'd be huge side shows in the back parking lots, to the point that Sac Sheriff would send out the helicopter and multiple cars to disperse them. The company that owned the mall actually owned two other property pads that were considered part of the mall - both on the other side of Butano Drive - one to the east of the mall, back behind Macy's, next to Chase, and the other one was to the south, at the back of Gottschalk's, right at the curve of Butano when coming from Watt. We used get many, many, many alarm triggers for these pads and used to find lots of broken windows and sometimes drug addicts camped out behind those areas, shooting up. One time one of my guards was on patrol and caught a couple fully undressed and going at it back behind one of those buildings at like 11am. Another time, after the mall closed for the evening, two of my guards got caught up in a feud between some skateboarders and some other people outside the front of Macy's that wound up with the skaters and my guards being shot at with frozen paintballs (and the whole front area of Macy's getting splattered in paint). Some good times for sure! I was actually surprised to see some of the tenants I remember, still being there, from my days - Fantasy Beauty, the watch shop and the alteration shop are all from my time there. Great video!
ooops, I mentioned Sports Authority and it should've been Sport Chalet.
i was security from 2012 until 2019
Great Video!
I regularly shop at that Winco and I'm always creeped out when I look down to where the rest of the mall stores were. Yeah, why would I want to go to the rest of the mall???
right???
Does anyone remember that cool store upstairs called Zanzibar? They sold cool stuff in there.
I lived near here for a bit, and I was so confused the first time I went shopping at that Winco. You walk down a looong hallway with your cart before reaching the grocery store, and then the dead mall is directly visible from the Winco
Thanks for the video. I found it odd that you didn't even comment on the Planet Fitness. It's a weird place for a grocery store, but a weirder place for a gym whose back wall is literally a shopfront gate into the mall.
That place by planet fitness was a huge food court area when I was a kid in the early 2000’s
I remember when all the stores were packed when I was little. This video brought back lots of memories
Merry Christmas
@@artrocks845 is the Macy's now Closed?
@@haydentimmons4048 Yes, it's been closed for a few years now.
@@artrocks845 how many stories was Macy's?
Been there once many many years ago to grab some supplements from that Vitamin World. The place was super dead back then too. I think it was 2010 when I went there
Hello
Did you went to Macy's when you went?
the macy's had already closed, so sadly i didn't go inside.
Great video, thank you!
i was mall security there from 2012 until 2019
Went here 5 years ago thought it couldn't get more dead
Good stuff man!!!!
Nail the lid on the coffin..😢😢😢 Damn.
I just went there to go see Moana 2 in the “luxury cinema”
lol nice!
Just sad for those of us who shopped there...
I love it
This was a very popular mall before Arden Fair Mall expanded into a 2 story bohemeth, only 10 minutes away from Country Club Plaza. JC Penney was an anchor here but left in the early 1990s and relocated to Arden Fair Mall which was one of the final nails in the coffin. They still had Weinstocks which became Macy’s, and some decent smaller stores like KB Toys, Sbarro’s, Claire’s, and other typical mall tenants but this wasn’t enough to keep them busy. They remodeled in the early 2000’s with some pretty promising tenants like Pac Sun, Panda Express, Sports Chalet, etc. There was a small buzz after this remodel but after a few years it was a ghost town again. It’s been slowly dying ever since despite WinCo and Planet Fitness setting up shop. I actually really miss the old layout that existed before the remodel as they completely demolished most of the mall between the anchors and built the current structure.
My friend worked security here during the remodel and I got to see a lot of the offices and halls upstairs, as well as roam the mall and the half finished stores which was a pretty cool experience.
Hi
Did the JC Penney moved?
@@haydentimmons4048 JC Penney left Country Club Plaza in 1994 and relocated to Arden Fair Mall about 10 minutes away.
@@NikateeN is the Macy's officially now Closed?
@@haydentimmons4048 Yes, the Macy’s is closed and gone, nothing has moved into that space. The anchor that replaced JC Penney in the 90s on the other end of the mall was called Gottchalk’s and it left a few years back and has since been converted into a Winco which brings most of the traffic to the mall. It’s an odd setup as you can enter the Winco from two exterior doors, but also from the mall itself.
Holy cow, what a depressing exterior!
Wow look! A Mills copycat! I even the flooring is similar to one section in Pittsburgh Mills.