38 years ago, my husband bought my engagement ring from DeVries Jewelers. It was located on the upper level just outside of Von Maur. Pushing a stroller on carpet was work 😊
Hey North - This is a great birthday gift for you to film this! Valley West didn't ever have a Scheel's in it. I remember the food court was in the 1990s. Had Taco Bell, McDonald's, Sbarro, Maid-Rite, and Dairy Queen. I know at one point they had a Blaze Pizza and a Jimmy John's.
You have a partial sense of what 80s malls were like. The outside cement textured walls of the mall are late 70s/early 80s-ish. However, carpet in malls isn’t really 80s-ish. That’s something later. Very few malls still retain their true 80s look and feel. One of the few was Dan Bells video on the Sunrise mall in Corpus Christi Texas he made about 7 or 8 years ago. The Tucson mall in Arizona is also one of the few true 80s malls that still retain a faded 80s feel. You really have to be old enough to remember the 80s to truly know what an 80s mall was like. Young people actually got dressed up in their more stylish clothes to go to the mall. Malls in the 80s reflected the flamboyant period. Like the circular neon lights that surrounded the round interior support columns in the Gwinnett Place mall. The air was fresh with plants, water fountains and the aroma of either food from the food court or newly tanned leather or cinnamon from the Cinnabon or candle stores. It had the aura of newness, energy, excitement, and life. Something that people born later may not truly understand of the era. The 80s had something lacking in today’s America. Hope. It was about living life instead of centering your life worrying about your finances like today. And malls in the 80s embodied that feeling. Young people today making videos on dead and dying malls are like archeologists exploring the ruins of a once great ancient empire. Trying to imagine what it was like but never fully knowing.
I live in Urbandale and I haven't been to Valley West in years. I think it's safe to say Valley West is dead and Jordon Creek Mall killed it. I'm not sure why they just don't close it. They recently rezoned the area, so it will definitely be redeveloped.
Love this mall! Valley West. IOWA has nice malls! Amazing colorscheme. Why are the security out if malls open? When was this built? I wish Eastland Mall in Evansville, Iwas 2-story. I know Anchor stores JcPenney and Macy's are but it would've been cool. The Goodwill Center just opened about a wk ago in Washington Square built in 1963. you visited in 2022. The Goodwill Store getting some traffic. Hope resteraunts reopen and another renovation takes place.
38 years ago, my husband bought my engagement ring from DeVries Jewelers. It was located on the upper level just outside of Von Maur. Pushing a stroller on carpet was work 😊
Hey North -
This is a great birthday gift for you to film this! Valley West didn't ever have a Scheel's in it. I remember the food court was in the 1990s. Had Taco Bell, McDonald's, Sbarro, Maid-Rite, and Dairy Queen. I know at one point they had a Blaze Pizza and a Jimmy John's.
You have a partial sense of what 80s malls were like. The outside cement textured walls of the mall are late 70s/early 80s-ish. However, carpet in malls isn’t really 80s-ish. That’s something later. Very few malls still retain their true 80s look and feel. One of the few was Dan Bells video on the Sunrise mall in Corpus Christi Texas he made about 7 or 8 years ago. The Tucson mall in Arizona is also one of the few true 80s malls that still retain a faded 80s feel. You really have to be old enough to remember the 80s to truly know what an 80s mall was like. Young people actually got dressed up in their more stylish clothes to go to the mall. Malls in the 80s reflected the flamboyant period. Like the circular neon lights that surrounded the round interior support columns in the Gwinnett Place mall. The air was fresh with plants, water fountains and the aroma of either food from the food court or newly tanned leather or cinnamon from the Cinnabon or candle stores. It had the aura of newness, energy, excitement, and life. Something that people born later may not truly understand of the era. The 80s had something lacking in today’s America. Hope. It was about living life instead of centering your life worrying about your finances like today. And malls in the 80s embodied that feeling. Young people today making videos on dead and dying malls are like archeologists exploring the ruins of a once great ancient empire. Trying to imagine what it was like but never fully knowing.
I live in Urbandale and I haven't been to Valley West in years. I think it's safe to say Valley West is dead and Jordon Creek Mall killed it. I'm not sure why they just don't close it. They recently rezoned the area, so it will definitely be redeveloped.
Love this mall! Valley West. IOWA has nice malls! Amazing colorscheme. Why are the security out if malls open? When was this built? I wish Eastland Mall in Evansville, Iwas 2-story. I know Anchor stores JcPenney and Macy's are but it would've been cool. The Goodwill Center just opened about a wk ago in Washington Square built in 1963. you visited in 2022. The Goodwill Store getting some traffic. Hope resteraunts reopen and another renovation takes place.
Babbage's was rebranded into GameStop.
Yes I love the music I've saved some of your vlogs of my favorite malls.
@@missybaker1608 thank you!
I been in this mall before! It’s in my town!😊
hit merle hay next. this is sad, spent so much time here with my oldest and the play place.
This place is dead since we did our video of it wow😮
this mall is ripe for a kohan or moonbeam takeover, LOL.
@@renardfranse that’s the vibe I get too😵💫😵💫