That is EXACTLY how I remember it as a kid. I can still smell Cinnabon lol. My two favorite stores to go into were WB, and the great train store. Usually, we'd see Santa at Lazarus, then head over to the mall to do some shopping. Great times. It was really a shame that it didn't make it. Tuttle, Easton, and Polaris killed it. People had no reason to come downtown anymore.

Grew up going to this mall - still cannot believe it’s gone. Apart of my childhood has been torn down

This makes me sad how malls aren't like they were during my childhood. I still always make sure I do most of my Christmas shopping at a mall or any brick and mortar store.

The glass elevators! The decorations, the choir, Lazarus! It was such a wonderful atmosphere. Thanks for sharing.

Center Center Mall during the Holiday Season was the best 🎄

I was a freshman in high school in 92 loved this mall~ ended up working there for a bit too ~ I miss it!!

I really wish this wasn't torn down 😭😭😭

I THINK I MIGHT CRY😧 IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL WHEN IT OPENED, I WENT THERE OFTEN,LAZARUS AND MARSHALL FIELD'S 😧 SADLY SOMETHING WENT TERRIBLY WRONG.

I worked at City Center in 2000-2001 while I was in college at Columbus State. Good memories.

Thanks for sharing. Reminds me of my Christmas Eve shopping dashes :D. 90% sure that the woman crossing closest to the camera 3:23-3:24 is my Mom! :)

I was one of the managers at Sbarro's in '06-'07 not long before the mall closed...

I only went to this mall twice as a kid, but I have good memories of it. I was in a multimedia course in school and the teacher would take us to "business professionals of america" field trips. I couldn't have cared less about that, besides the excuse to get out of school for a day. The real highlight was that the teacher would let us leave the meeting area when it was over and wander around downtown by ourselves. Kind of a weird decision on his part but I loved it! I ended up heading over to the City Center Mall both times I went on the field trip and it was so much fun. I felt so grown up going to the mall by myself for the first time. I ordered from the chinese restaurant and ate on the big staircase. I looked at all the stores and shopped a bit with my allowance. I had gone to malls plenty of times before that with my family, but it's different when you're on your own for the first time. City Center gave me my first taste of independence. I'll never forget it for that!

Good times!!! I wish I could go back there.

Take me back…

I was about 5-9 going here with my mama and my big sister. We had so much fun! No one in their right mind even thought of a bomb or being shot at. It’s so sad what became of malls and America. :( my mom got her first nursing job at Grant Medical center and she would take us here all the time. I loved the Bugs bunny store and Sbarro.

I miss this mall so much ❤️

Subscribed! Thank you for posting! So many memories that are fading and this vid brings them back, vividly!! Can I use this for a documentary?

I rember going this as a kids bring back many memories

28 years later, security cameras in the mall still have the same quality of footage. Thanks for sharing.

My oldest got her 1st picture with Santa here when she was almost exactly one year old. Sadly the mall closed less than 4 years later and was demolished about 5 years later

My left ear loved that

Thank you for sharing!

City Center at Christmas was fun

Back when you could stand close to someone and not think smoky COVID smh. I use to love city center. I’ll be 28 this month and looking at this feels like yesterday

When people were genuinely happy - not just on meds to make them happy.

We had a City center in Minneapolis. Long time ago

Prices on the merchandise and rent for the tenants and no place to park killed this mall...Was sad to see it go

They still have malls like this in Japan.

Not an iphone in sight

Only Southridge looks like that 2 days before Christmas other then that weekdays when school year there is 10 people there max and no one goes into the stores, weekends are better you get a decent amount of people, summer when no school it’s like the weekends or barely any people… most of the stores are filed at Southridge but people don’t shop there they go to Mayfair or Brookfield Square mall where literally it’s basically all dead mall only half of stores left there same for bayshore and the grand avenue mall closed and is just a city center for stuff these days and northridge is still abandoned after 22 years…

Great throwback! But Columbus Commons is a great replacement!

I can’t recall the store name but love the cinnamon roll and pretzel

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Why is no one fat? 😮

damn... the feels

use to visit this mall back when my grandparents use to live In Columbus!