Dillard's Clearance: 1980s Aesthetic Department Store At A Dead Mall | Retail Archaeology
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Goodwill + Dillards = GoodDill?
DillWill? lol
Willard's
Good Willards
I think what you all mean is
DOOD WILLARDS
Dood Gillards!
Color coding those shirts means the employees have a LOT of time on their hands. Lol
estherdestiny Uniqlo does this too and they are a newer company.
estherdestiny most stores do that
@@libertystate7088 I've never seen that
I only see this at thrift stores lol
i work retail and i have to color code the clothes or else i’ll get written up
That customer service area reminds me of back in the 80s when they would wrap presents. Ah, the memories.
Metamorphosis Rox I remember everyone had an option to do layaways as well. And you could come in and make payments to what ever you could afford at the time until it was paid off on full. It was an excellent option at Christmas time for everyone.
I think they still do!
They still do.
I personally have been in that exact spot for gift wrapping. They used to do that. Boxes on the wall displayed each style/option with a number is you would tell them I want #3, etc. It was a luxury to have an item gift wrapped there as it was a little pricey. My dad splurged on it for a gift for my mom and she was as taken by the wrapping as the gift itself. Lots of memories of that store.
Or the Human Resouces dept where you interview for a job in Customer Service.
This makes me so sad! I've lived in Phoenix for 17 yrs now and remember when that mall used to be full of people. Going even further back to the 80's when I was hanging out at mall's never thinking they would ever die out, makes me even more despondent. Time sure flies. Now I truly understand what the older generations were talking about when they would reminisce about the good old days. Guess that makes me one of them now. Can we rewind back to 1980 just for a little while?😒😢😉
Dore Love I so agree!!
Yah it's weird how things turn out that way. Diamonds and Dillards were fantastic stores. Even Broadway was so nice. And the times were better. I was growing up so in a subdivision across the I-17 and watched it being built.
All things must update or be changed with time.
Honestly as a current drunk person this was the best video and channel I’ve come across in my drunk euphoria
Stephanie Daily hahha glad ur here
Lol best comment on here!!
Stephanie Daily same I just got back from a college football game and somewhat still on party mode . Then this video got me interested and calmed.
Ditto
Stay hydrated 💜
It’s so interesting to see. It’s both fascinating and equally terrifying. Life passes so quickly and times are always changing.
its subjective.. more to come. walk barefoot some times
Yeah, it's a bit unsettling. I feel like I can smell the dust through the screen
i don't want to sound all doom and gloom but its a result of Nixon bankrupting the country and tying the dollar to an imported commodity, its been a long slow ride down. The UN is investigating poverty in the US now, because its bad, really bad. Too busy spending to hold oil fields on the other side of the planet to care about basics like education and healthcare. I don't want to sound like the 80s were perfect, some things are better now, but the economy sure isn't. Not sure what its going to take to get the economy to change course, the upper 10% sure aren't feeling it the same way the rest of us are.
That's why I enjoy watching videos like this as a reminder
I used to work gift wrap there. That customer service counter is where the gift wrap was. On the wall behind the computer monitor is where all the different gift wraps were displayed. That room that had half glass wall and mini blinds was a travel center where you could buy your next trip. And the embellishments on the outside walls you saw were out there in the 90s when skateboarding became a big thing. They were put there to keep the skateboarders away.
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I worked at a successful Dillard’s and they don’t really believe in updating anything ever.
Sadly neither did BonTon and it's affiliates, hence they went out of business 😣
I feel like this video is made by a grown up Gene Belcher. Like Gene got super into malls as he grew up, and now that he’s all grown up and has a job, he does these videos on the weekends.
Hahaha yes!
DJHmoney hHahahah
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
DJHmoney the voice even sounds like grown up Gene
Patrick3183 lololol that’s the first thing I noticed. Then the music, and I was like “oh shit gene’s all grown up!”
well, it's clear where to go if you want a polo shirt
polos are never a fashion trend. its a timeless garment 😀
Honestly the SMOOTHEST transition to an invideo sponsor ad haha
IKR...that was the icing on the nostalgia cake! Lol
No kidding, think I might just check it out because of it...
Lol, truth
yeah like when you watch the news ...now back to the weather
Trust me, I've seen much smoother transitions, the smoothest transitions are the ones where the sponsor deals directly with the subject matter and you end up watching most of the ad as you don't even realize it's an ad
This is so hurtful to watch. In my city we have some of these malls and sports centers from the 70's, 80's and even early 00's as well. They are dying mostly although some shops or gyms/pools still work. They are building new centers but I think it would be so cute if they renovate older buildings to look fresh but keep their original form with a touch of modernity.
Petra yes
In muy city they rarely build new stuff, they remodel the existing ones, or recycle old buildings to turn them into indoor markets, which are way nicer than malls.
@@cynzix really nice, I like that. But for example my country was hosing European Men's handball Championship in 2009 and my country Croatia played in Split all group games. They build new arena which they didn't finish but we already had one from 1979 when Mediterranean games were held. It would be much easier if they renovate that instead of building a new one which is 90% of the time empty except if there is some concert... but yes they held the championship again this year in new arena... and there was some financial problems...
Petra Oh boy if you seen malls in Nevada they aren't gonna die at all. In fact they are heavily crowded that it feels like the 1980s never died. Talk about out with the new staying with the old
It looks like you could have walked out with merchandise and nobody would have noticed
Nah there is security
U mean stealing lol
Or cared
ok now don't give anyone ideas, there is more than enough theft in this planet
i would’ve
The clothes also seems to be from the 80's
Bob Dylan Sweden trends are idiotic
captain obvious
@Bryan M i understand smart useful novelty but color short pants xs xxl pants merry go rounds stupid.
everybody its kaki day tomo
and camo day the next
allegedly
You do realize 80s styles are making a comeback tho
@@gentbar7296 but trends have been around for hundreds if not thousands of years. If anything trends are dying out and people are setting their own styles
The way all those shirts are arranged by color is something I'd probably do if I were stocking them.
I'm guessing the employees don't have many customers interrupting their day.
MSTie Fan Me too! My eyes literally lit up when I saw that the shirts were color coordinated! I guess that's the Virgo in me 😊
Hey, they're probably pretty bored in there - why not indulge your inner neat freak to kill some time? :)
Salvation Army and Goodwill have been arranging clothing by color for decades. I've seen it many times.
MSTie Fan I would. It saves a lot of time finding the shirt color you want.
This was the mall I grew up with. I went to high school at Cortez. I remember that the Dillard’s downstairs was always nicer than the upstairs. The upper level seemed too crowded with stuff. It never changed its look throughout the years Always plenty of mirrors and brass. I still occasionally drop in if they have certain deal days, but it’s really just a sad shell nowadays.
His voice is so soothing. He can read tool manuals and I’d be relaxed in no time
Yes definitely. I can hear his voice in one of those shows " how it works " or "how it's made"
damn. malls are a little part of good childhood memories. physically going shopping in summer for back to school was the best
This isn't a normal "upscale" Dillard's. This store is a clearance center. Crappy, outdated, and tacky merchandise is scattered everywhere, but the prices are cheap, damnit!
Zach Becker there is one here in New Orleans too, crappy clothing
It's all the clothing that the regular dillards didnt sell.
$90 for a bed comforter..$41 for a $3 purse? The clearance rack at the nice Dillard's has $5 Tommy Bahama sorts and $5 shirts once $60..Any store can be cheap if the price markers decide to be..This store was anything but low priced.
I bought some amazing work dresses at last weeks 80% sale.. Antonio Melani for $15. Yes please!!
I know that brand for the purse and it not a name brand. So the price for an out of season no brand purse is still expensive
Funny that rail you said looks great for skateboarding is literally right next to one of the most famous skate rails ever. The kinked rail against the wall is the rail Chad Muska did first try in the 90s.
Chad Muska, now that's a blast from the past.
I was waiting for the zombie herd to come staggering in and then to hear disturbed-- come on get down with the sickness.
That's Willamette mall.
One TINY word of advice - those aren't pastels you're describing, they're neutrals! A pastel is more of an easter feel, if it's more of a retail feel, it's likely a neutral! :D
I agree! Or more of a "Southwest " pastel; like desert colors. Fitting for Phoenix, Arizona! Beautiful
@@stefanmarchione6757 it's not so beautiful if you live here since it's the same color as everything outside.
that mauve in customer service was everywhere in the 80s,, its got too much gray to be a pastel, in color theory its called value or brightness, the amount of clarity in a color. a pastel doesn't have that neutralness, it would be brighter, like a lavender. I have to say its not as bad as the industrial beige that was probably the most popular because its the cheapest paint to make. It looks dirty as soon as you paint because its got too many impurities in the base. .
@@Gee-xb7rt I realize this is about paint, but in terms of carpets and the like, do account for the fading and the material deteriorating over time.
I remember there used to be a brilliantly pastel blue strip of rug at an old school of mine. Never changed, but the foot traffic definitely made it the most sterile, grey thing ever last I saw.
One time it may have passed for pastel.
i can almost hear the mall security guards yelling at the skateboarders to go somewhere else
My gal says she used to buy concert tickets through TicketMaster in that customer service area. Gift wrapping was done there, as well.
That store is where I spent my first ever paycheck. I bought Nine Inch Nails tickets at the counter through Ticketmaster lol
I shopped there many times with my mom as a kid. I even looked for formal dresses in high school. It was nice back then. I remember quite a bit about Metro Center if you want to hear more.
LOL That music in the background sounds like background music from an early 1990s Sierra computer game. I like it. Great video, as usual!
And all the clothes are something Leisure Suit Larry would actually wear.
LOL!!!
Shirts arraigned by color is also how they do it in Goodwill. Guess the salesclerk also worked there!
Thats standard for any retail company... its not an 80s thing.
CasioBananCake I don't usually shop where there are rows of tshirts, so it looks like goodwill to me too.
So why were the shirts arraigned, and on what charges? This should be interesting.
Yes, we have a Dillard’s clearance center too. That color-coding of shirts was neat!
Great stuff Mr. Erik! 👍🏼
The signage in that service area is actually from the late 70's. I think that's true of the parquet floors as well. The big bumps on those lower exterior surface areas were meant as skate board deterrent. Looks like they had to resurface, a terrible job of it too, the damaged caused by skaters on the wall edge. I'm surprised you haven't covered the Souper!Salad! building at Metrocenter. That building almost looks like an Oscar Niemeyer building who did a lot of late modernist buildings like at Brazilia.
I think that big plaster square was from where they used to have lighting.
You could buy a mini drone and try to film the first floor with it
Jonathan Sévigny what happens if he crashes it down there or it gets stuck somewhere? Lol
if the drone is really cheap (like $20), he leaves it there. Or he attaches a very light wire to the drone (like sewing wire) and pull it back up.
here is an easy solution -- ask a manager, if one denies you then come back when shifts change. i don't know where people lost the art of being polite. "hi, I'm a video archivist and would like to film your downstairs, its such a well persevered store, (insert flattery here) when its convenient of course." people are so terrified to engage another human these days, cut it out. bake some cookies and give them to your neighbor. lets get it!
I used to hang around the mall when I played hooky from school back in the 80s! 😄
What school did you go to?
Peoria High School in the 80’s. And hung out at Valley West mall a lot.
az. what else
@@gentbar7296 I remember skipping school, and hanging out at the mall as well. Now, everything is on line.
Back when you could skip school without people noticing. Back when a C- was okay passing. And back when you didn't need to carry an identification card around your neck at all times.
Not this Dillards in particular, but I have a lot of memories of Dillard’s when I was a kid. My mom was, and still is, a makeup obsessive (as am I). We would always visit the Guerlain counter so my mom could pick up all her stuff, and the nice ladies there would give me all kinds of makeup and perfume samples to play with. It made me feel so grown up! They were smart....making a future customer. Sadly, Dillard’s customer service has gone way downhill since the ‘90s, and after a particularly bad experience a few years back, I refuse to shop there. But it was fun to reminisce with this video. Thank you for sharing.
Dillard's -- now there's a name I haven't heard in a while.
What about Gaffers or is it Gayffers I can't remember
Gayfers right?
Gayfers and Pizitz. I think Pizitz was state of Alabama only.
@@okrajoe yep that's it. And the other one u named must of been before my time, and I'm from bama
We still have one in a mall nearby where I live. And it's still a nice department store, not a barebones warehouse-looking clearance center like this one.
Seeing the old school layout reminded me of when I uesd to go to the mall with my grandmother in the 90s rip 👍🏻
One of the top dead mall youtubers
Wow I'm honestly amazed that is still there. I visited the mall in mid 2016, thinking "Damn this place wont be around much longer". Glad to know they are going steady, I guess? Lol
Lol same
iOzznialt Man you are lucky. Maybe? I mean look at Nevada they still have lots of malls still crowded. Is this a sign that Nevada is stuck in the 80s and early 2000s?
That’s the mall from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure!
There is a clearance center in Moline, IL and the racks just go on forever. It looks neat. In my observations, when a Dillard's turns into a clearance center, that could mean a number of things. Their lease is coming up in a few years, changing demographics, locations too close to each other, like in the Quad Cities, IL-IA. More than likely, they are going to close. That store you just showed is the most vintage I have seen. I think I heard 80s music in my head.
I remember when I was a kid, now 24, the giant water “geysers.” I would sit there for hours and watch the water shoot into the air, and will never get the sound of it falling to hit the ground out of my head. Great memories of the golden years of metro center mall.
Bryan M that’s awesome!! 😊
That one little nook reminded me of the entrance to the Imperial base on Endor. All it needed was Han popping out shooting a blaster.
Madison More 👍👍
I swear, you get bonus points for how cleverly you slip in your sponsors into your videos. I hate sponsored stuff but I actually listen to it in your content just because of its clever implementation.
Brutalism architecture is so fascinating!
Anyone remember the store called "TG&Y"? The letters stood for toys, games and yo-yos! 😎
No Tomlinson Goodman and Young out of Oklahoma City . Owned by Household Finance. Over 1200 stores when sold to McCrorys in 1986. Closed hundreds of stores because rents were high and McCrorys made money liquidating the TG&Y inventory. They were a 5&10 retailer and never sold much over a 10.00 price. They filed bankruptcy in 1991. Two thousand stores including Murphys, Kresge, TG&Y, Greens, etc... Closed down by 1996. Headquarters was York PA.
tkcowan2166 omg yes, my mom LOVED that store. She would buy all of her fabric there. When my dad told her it shut down in our town, she had a fit!
Babbages
Funny to find a comment about TG&Y Stores on a video about a Dillards "Clearance Center," as I left TG&Y's corporate office in OK City about 30 days before it was shuttered and went to work at Dillards corporate store planning and design department. "hi person" has the story mostly right, but not quite. At the end, TG&Y was owned by Household International, a holding company that also owned Household Finance. TG&Y was a full-line discounter, not a 5 & 10, which carried everything you'd find in a Walmart at similar prices. (Note: TG&Y owned the Ben Franklin Stores franchise operation. Due to a shrewd deal cooked up by a shopping center developer, TG&Y broke its non-compete agreement with one Ben Franklin franchisee in Bentonville, AR, named Sam Walton. Sam sued to stop the deal and lost. He was livid and vowed to put TG&Y out of business. He then started a store called Wal*Mart.) TG&Y also launched an upscale discount store group called Aim for the Best. In those stores, the decor was a little nicer, as It was meant to compete with Target, Venture, Montgomery Ward and Sears. Including Aim, TG&Y had just over 1,300 stores across the U.S. at its peak and was second to Sears in sales volume. (How the mighty have fallen!)
During TG&Y's final 3 years, Household brought in 3 different CEO's who each fired the previous management team and brought in their own. Chaos ensued. I had 3 file cabinets full of projects that were started by one management team, then cancelled by the next. The last CEO, Dick (appropriate name) Rusthoven brought in his team to give the appearance of managing a turnaround for the company, but actually they were preparing it for sale. During Rustohoven's watch, half the buying staff was caught taking millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks from vendors. Black suits from the FBI took up residence at the headquarters building and many buyers and assistants went to prison. Later, Rusthoven and his "management team" formed a syndicate to buy TG&Y from Household while at the same time negotiating a sale to Rapid-American Corp., owned by Turkish vulture capitalist, Meshulam Riklis. Rapid-American owned McCrory's and many other companies, primarily for the purpose of extracting all the value out of the companies and casting off the empty carcasses. The Rusthoven group cleverly scheduled the closing of the sale to Rapid-American BEFORE the closing of the purchase from Household. This meant they had millions in cash from the sale and didn't have to put up their own money to buy the company. When the dust settled, 27,000 employees lost their jobs and Rusthoven's gang each netted several million dollars each in profit.
It's so surreal to hear someone talk about Fiesta Mall. I loved going there as a kid and now it's like driving by a cemetery.
Analisa Mireles that was one racist mall and I hear they are going to tear it down. Who knows.
Thats my mall! I live right by metro the mall needs to be revamped but i still like going there. Theres a walmart at this mall now yes a walmart in a mall lmao ghetto. Even the sears is closed there now so this is the only dept store still open. One more thing this mall used to be the shit back in the day and a really nice mall with a skating rink inside n where they filmed bill n teds excellent advent.
Kim’s Life that was filmed here? I love that movie!
Holographic Narwhals yes believe it or not. Metro mall was the place to be at in 80s/90s unfort like malls across country it was hit really hard. Also the area has gotten bad around it n thats probably some of it it too. Theres many vacant sections of the mall but still some good stores n a movie theatre.
Also the movie Take Me Home Tonight also filmed there.
And if you were in high school in the 80s and lived in north Phoenix, you cruised metro center every Friday and Saturday night. During Christmas time the parking lot was completely full.
Joseph C 😢😢
I’m working on becoming a funeral director, and at my job at the funeral home we have to dress to the absolute nines.
I’ve shopped at dillards for two years now for all my clothes, shoes, jewelry, and cologne. Plus any other accessories I might need. I LOVE dillards. LOVE!
This is exactly like the one at Meadows Mall here in Vegas. Agree with everything being dated but it is super nice to have a whole rack of clothes organized by size rather than the normal department store sorting by style.
I cant be the only person in the USA that prefers a 'brick and mortar' store, instead of stupid online shopping. Am I alone? Seeing this is VERY depressing. Here in Ft.laud, Fla. there are malls like this, I am sure. But I go to a true 'Diamond of a mall' ,it is full of stores and full of people and it is just pure class!!! The Galleria Mall on Sunrise Blvd. Expensive stores, no discount crap, and still drawing people in.
The nostalgia is real in this video
This reminds me of the Dillard's at West Oaks Mall in Houston. That entire mall is so dead and lonely.
ok wtf lily pullitzer planners for 2.99?? planning my trip to AZ now
carcarpwnz hahaha comment of the day !
carcarpwnz 😂😂
carcarpwnz i was scrolling to find this im so jealous hahaha
They have one in Houston too. I'm sure there's plenty around the country
i live in WV, we arent even sophisticated enough for a dillards in the entire state haha.
I really enjoyed your video. Thanks!
That customer service counter reminds me of buying concert tickets there.
Haha yes that was a thing wasn’t it, I bought some at Carson’s Priere Scott, now closed!
This is so great and unique! Also, I love your personality. You sound like you’re courteous and also kind of cheeky- in a a very GOOD way though. Like a great humorous and observant way. I love it. It’s actually really calming and grounding. Maybe that’s your voice too- it’s soothing. So, Thanks for these special tours and your special personality! Subscribed!!
Good video. Was interesting. Thanks for filming. Hope you make more of these.
Dillards, travelling in the Wayback Machine
This is what the Dillard’s in Wellington, FL looks like. I also feel like I’m in the 80’s when I’m in there.
What's crazy is that Dillards isn't even that old. The mall in Wellington was built in 2001.
The outside of that Dillard's looks SO much like the former outside of The Bay at my local mall. It must have shared an architect or something!
Malls will one day be converted to Amazon warehouses.
@a.r. e sounds accurate to me.
I hate the thought of that
Fuck Jeff Bezos.
Azhrarn Nevada ain't gonna give up malls because they already have enough customers to keep it alive and furnishing itself well. Also some malls can get heavily crowded. Talk about revolting the future
Pretty Much
These malls look just like the malls in Dallas that I grew up with. They haven't changed much either. We have Dillard's at the Town East and Valley View malls that I went to many times during my childhood. I think Valley View may be closed now. The Irving Mall has that same late 70's-80's feel to it with a Dillard's. There is something relaxing about walking through these stores especially on a hot day. The air conditioning coupled with the elevator music makes it very inviting on a 100 degree day. I spent many weekends with my parents in these malls usually waiting with my Dad outside the dressing room as my Mother would try on clothes for hours. I found things on the floor to turn into projectiles and entertain myself. We usually ended up going to the Wyatt's Cafeteria which was in the mall for lunch or sometimes the food court for tacos at taco bell. It's a bit sad that these places are dying. The nostalgia takes me back to a carefree time when I didn't have to think about serious things.
tritosac that Irving mall gives me such 80’s vibes it really is outdated. I’ve never seen a mall like it.
if it makes you feel better, valley view is still open. mostly just for the amc movie center and some art stuff !
Well I may head over there just to take a stroll down memory lane.
Great video as always, man! Thanks for showing the exterior of the mall! I'm a fan of Mid Century Modern architecture and am slowing getting attracted towards that Brutalist, Industrial design!
That’s so crazy! Thank you for this video!
I don’t know how I came upon your videos, but I’ve been pretty hooked watching them. Seeing how empty and ‘in the past’ these malls and department stores are makes me feel almost sad. It made me realize how my own mall in town is getting less and less traffic these days. I guess people prefer to shop online nowadays. Thanks for taking the time to film these videos, they’re so interesting to watch.
Wow the store looks so...... tired, would have loved to have seen the center (well all of these dying stores) during its prime! Brutalist architecture is sick, I would love to live in a brutal house!
Raven's Spiritual Journey Right? What is brutalist architecture?
It was a pretty nice mall back then. A nicer one opened close to it and it just started bleeding out. Didn't take long.
@@tajanotaja like buildings made out of concrete blocks, no adornment of any sort, no decorative elements. 1970s parking garage style. I think but that may not be 100% correct. I think it's hideous lol
Malls still look like they're from the 80s in 2018. My first job the day after I turned 16 was at Dillard's. Made 4.75 an hour in 1985. Beat the food court or fast food jobs. Women had to wear dresses and pantyhose though. Girls ripped off so many clothes from the Jr Dept. No video cameras. Just one off duty cop at the mall entrance of the store. Working at any mall in 1985 was.. Very 80s.lol
This looks very much like the Dillards I worked for in OKC back in the early 1980's prior to their major remodeling in 1984. Yes I worked there during that major overhaul of basically everything except for the escalators. I recall there being some wild wallpapering and some carpet that was small orange, yellow, and purple check design in our mens department. We also had the exact same parkey flooring you are showing prior to the renovation. It saddens me that we as city dwellars have just abandon the indoor malls.
Yes, I remember those hardwood floors! They were being put in during a store remodel when I visited that very same store at Metrocenter back in the mid-80's.
Those purple shoes are beautiful
Dark, dingy and merchandise that's STILL overpriced... explain again WHY I should ever shop there?
Great capture
It was really nice to see the outside too! My local run down mall also has a collards clearance, the top floor is closed. They have had the same clothes for years.
Subscribed. Always find myself coming back to your videos!
39,005! Lol
sodapopyoung thank you 😁
I thought I was the only one obsessed with old dept stores
I was here about a month ago, I live about 20 min away and work at one of the “nice” Dillard’s at a different mall. I scored a lot of awesome deals. They have random sales and you can get some Michael kors, Calvin Klein, etc for next to nothing.
I really like your videos, im from Tijuana Mexico and exactly same is happening to the local malls, they are dying... so sad :(
Plaza Patria, Plaza Otay mostly. have u been there recently? specially those.
@Raven's Spiritual Journey yed we need cartels to supply all the shit your junk people need.
Raven's Spiritual Journey You do realize Americans have bad gangs too lol?
Raven's Spiritual Journey So, because Mexico has terrible gangs, they shouldn’t be aloud to have normal lives? It’s not like our government is any less corrupt let’s be real.
@Raven's Spiritual Journey wow that wasn't nice, yeah we have cartels but we still enjoy our lives, worry about your country and your people and let us worry about ours.
I recently found your videos I love them watching them an seeing how much the malls have changed it’s so sad
Whoa...Retail Archeology knows what brutalist architecture is, cool. Wasn’t expecting that lol Definitely dig the architecture on this store...looks like aliens landed a spaceship to go shopping at the mall
In Erik's Head
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4:38 Purple Rain, Purple Rain
Joseph Tafur I wish I could have used those songs in the video 🙂
Its Alright, Don't want you to get demonetize.
That was the fucking place to be in the 80s. There was a cool skating rink below the food court that was retrofit into a massive video arcade in the early 90s.
awesome video bro I grew up shopping at metro center back in the 80’s and 90’s and I remember that Dillard’s still looking the same dang brought back a lot of good memories!! But it’s very sad on what happened to that mall on how dead it is now
Very well preserved & very beautiful store!
5:30 I can imagine a busy holiday season, long lines and everyone getting their items gift wrapped.
Shwalker07 yep, I actually remember going there with my grandma to drop something off to be wrapped. The flood of memories brought back by that hallway was intense.
I've never been there when it's that slow. It's usually busy. This store opened in 1973 when the mall opened
The building was shaped like a diamond because of the name.
Loved this video! Our local Sears has sent us coupons for $12 off of any $12 coupon for 3 months. Because we live close, we took advantage and was shocked to see how empty the store was. We walked the entire store each time to find something close to $12 and saw only one or two other people in the entire store.
My Dillards is also a clearance center, it had 2 floors but got downgraded to a clearance center in 2009. I sometimes go there. The escalator is blocked but you can still see it there. A little busy.
Thanks for the heart 😄
I remember shopping there when I lived in Scottsdale. Wow! How times change and the mall's across the USA are going to be a thing of the past.
Awesome vid
I remember this mall as a kid. I'm not from Phoenix but went often to visit my great grandmother. My favorite part of this mall was the ice skating rink.
They seem to keep most of it pretty neat even if it is fraying around the edges. I remember when everyone had those parquet floors.
Those wood floors oh gosh 😍 I was in my local Dillards (Woodland Hills Mall Tulsa) I decided to cut through the furniture department and found myself on that wood floor. It was such a trip to find part of my childhood.
I never understood and never will why a shopper would give a care if a place was "updated in style" on floors or walls etc. It is the merchandise that is all that matters. I would not care if a place still used shelving and interior from the 70s, as long as they carry items I want to purchase at a decent price.
also blue is the most popular favorite color on Earth, lots of places use blue due to that fact. Personally I hate blue, but every other person I know loves blue.
Comes down to trust. People trust products from stores that are organized and have helpful employees. I actually shop at a local Ace Hardware store due to the customer service and clean store layout. However, going too far with astetics causes un-necessary rise in product price (see Cabela's and Bass Pro Shop)
that store is so neat and clean and merchandised ... my OCD is happy !!
I remember when going to the mall was an event, times have definitely changed. Incredible!
I think the parquet floors are a Dillard’s thing. I remember the Dillard’s at my local mall having them when I was a little kid in the ‘80s.
I remember floors like that in department stores when I was a kid, but it wasn't Dillard's. They were not in this area then. I think it might have been Capwell's.
I grew up in Seattle during this era and these floors were at all the malls. In fact I never heard of Dillards until I visited family in Tucson.
I felt like l was 12 shopping with my mom lol
This place reminded me of the Macy's at Vallco in Cupertino, now officially classified as a defunct mall. The Macys was originally a Bullock's, then an Emporium, a Macy's Clearance center, and then a Macy's before it closed in 2015. I worked at the Emporium when it opened. I remembered those parquet floors. The construction had similar features
In Detroit I have fond memories of shopping at Hudson's, Crowley's and Lord & Taylor with Grammy. My G'ma also frequented Dittrich Furs. She was first class all the way. Hudson's later became Marshall Fields, and is now Macy's. I also remember Casual Corner, Winklemans, & Gantos. My Mom got most of our school gear from Sears growing up. When I got older I shopped at JcPenny for most of my work suits after college. I haven't worn a suit in 8 years (t-shirt and jeans everyday even for meetings) and I'm an accountant. LOL
He should do a video about Northland!! I get nostalgic everytime I pass it.
@@lynetterice7842, most of it is demoed now 😢 there was talk about saving the old Hudson's/Marshall Fields/Macy's building as it is connected to the tunnel.
Very interesting, i live in Tampa Fl and we had the Tampa Bay Mall i wish it was still around to walk thru and look at but it got torn down for the Bucs training camp. It’s right across street from our stadium. All us kids from the 80’s were so sad to see it go down it was definitely a classic! I’m sure u can still pull up some pics of the decor and the layout on google. Thanks I’m glad i found your channel;) thanks
That bathroom and counter in the area by the elevator, used to be a customer service area yes, but also back in the 1980s, i and many others used to purchase concert tickets at that counter, many shows sold their tickets through Dillards. I used to enter through a mall entrance and walk to Dillards upper level and walk around the place till i came upon that alcove many times for many shows. It was great to get the ticket and look forward to the show.
Oh whoa, I love the outside!