This is soooo cool i love it im always researching old mall and boom 💥 here is a documentary on them

Well done! Thanks for taking me back to my childhood. Seemed I lived at Lakeside from 1976 to the late 80". Shopping was just a part of it. Worked at Hudson's Restaurant making Maurice Salads/dressing and all the great desserts. Worked at Meyer Jewelers, too. Ice skating, movie nights, Christmas decorations and Santa. So many great memories from the best mall in Macomb County. What a great trip down memory lane.

Very cool. I remember going to Northland Mall from the far East Side of Detroit. I drove my 83 Camaro west on 8 Mile Rd to get to the mall.

Loved this video. As a mall historian from the Detroit area (Fairlane was my childhood mall) this was well made. I recently wrote a book that is on Amazon about my experiences in malls specifically around the Detroit area. And it is nice to see a mall video that stayed positive and had different people tell experiences and stories. Loved this!

I went to Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods and I would go to Eastland Mall after school. The mall was behind and walking distance from the school.

I always felt like I was breaking the law visiting Spencer's Gifts as a kid. I think I visited Spencer's everytime for fun and never bought a thing.

Love this video! We use to walk to Eastland Mall and get dropped off at Lakeside it was the place to be when you were a pre-teen to teenager I remember all of this! Ty sooo much!❤️❤️❤️

I'm only 4 minutes in and I already ❤ this. I grew up in Detroit and I LOOOOVE malls. Northland was my first love mall. For some reason there's something SO exciting about the mall in the 80s. It just seems like it was the popular place to be. My mom and I spent many Saturdays at Northland in the 80s and 90s. I will always love it and miss it. We also shopped at Fairlane, Wonderland, Westland, 12 Oaks, Livonia, Tel 12, Oakland, Somerset. I go to Southland also. Malls are some of my favorite places.

Thank you for organizing this fun trip down memory lane, WDIV!

Good stuff!!! Always a great time at the mall. Brings back the memories. Anyone one of them. Movies, arcade, bookstores, and clothes.

Waiting to hear about Tel-Twelve, in Southfield? And Montgomery Ward? Roots?

Ce la vie clothing store was forbidden by my parents. 😂 I grew up with Northland and later Fairlane. It was an all-day adventure ❤. We ate at Hudson on Sunday...yummy....this is so nostalgic

Thank you for this! Generations of wonderful memories. It made me smile, so bitter sweet 🥹

Pickin wild flowers 💐

Miss the long gone malls and the stores that were there . I was a Christmas help at Hudson , Eastland Mall in 1969 .

I was really hoping to see Tel-Twelve Mall in Southfield. My friends and I loved going to Silver’s in the early 80s to buy Mrs. Grossman’s stickers and Paper by the Pound, and Harmony House was where we got our 45’s. 😊

Livonia Mall?

This was a fun video 👍🏻 thanks

We had the Pontiac Mall, it was great then upgraded to Summit Place.. then taken over by local criminal thugs

I was a mall rat. Macomb, Lakeside, Oakland and then Universal when they got the movie theaters. $1.50 shows were awesome. Saw The Crow 13 times there. Miss the store Oaktree. Sad to hear about Lakeside

I grew up in Philly, GenXer, it's amazing how much similarity there was between Detroit area mall culture and where I came from. I enjoyed the nostalgia and remembered a few things I had forgotten about!

I came over the border from Kitchener to shop at the Merry Go Round at Oakland Mall. The malls & clothes were so much cooler in the Detroit suburbs. I even went to a certain clerk Norman at the Merry Go Round. He got transferred to. Northland & my parents took me there to see him. Our friends in Sterling Heights told us not to go there. It wasn’t safe. We went anyways. I was the best dressed kid at my Mennonite high school. 😅

Northland…my first real job was at JC Penney’s…best memory is I met Terry, I’ll never forget him 🫶🏽 Maurie’s Salad was to die for!! Mara McDonald was boring lol

MY WHOLE CHILDHOOD ❤👌🏽😘🍄 #SMR82

Worked at the Pontiac Mall 1968. Hey Waterford Mott had 1:30 starting time. Township ! We got out at 12:30 PM

I hated the overbearing sales people at Silverman’s & Merry Go Round. They attacked you like vultures when you walked through the door. Great Stuff was a great spot to get sports apparel for the local teams with The Pistons owning it. I saw ET at Livonia Mall! Great walk down memory lane!!!!

December, 1972. Oakland mall. I met Santa!!!!!😊😊😊

No love for Eastland?

I worked at Hudsons, Marshall Fields and Macy at Twelve Oaks. I was the specialist for Tommy Hilfiger. I folded so many sweaters, shirts and pants 👖. But, I made so many friends. That I’m still friends with to this very day.

As a millennial who has lived through the gloriously blissful times when the malls stood still and were poppin' back in the 90s and 2000s, I gotta say those were the best and happiest times of my life. And not a day goes by that I don't think of the days when the malls where not only they were THE place where I could go hang out, shop and eat, but sometimes back when I was going to high school they were my skip-school sanctuary to get away from all the drama and bull***t I had to deal with at school day in and day out(while keeping a low profile). But now those days as well As the nostalgia are as good as long gone cause now these malls are dying thanks to the new developing ways of the commerce (Inc. The internet). And I'm just as sad as yall are to see these malls go. 😢 But with these malls becoming city centers (or pseudo-downtowns as they call em) they just might bring back the thrill and the bliss that the malls of yester-decades once presented. For old generations and new alike. And with northland about to be finished with the redevelopment project in later years, ima' be there to relive those glory days ALL OVER AGAIN!!!❤❤❤😂😂😂🎉

Lakeside Mall had a Coffee Beanry in the mid 90’s - my sister worked there..!

Speaking as a former Harmony House employee, you didn't have the luxury of browsing ticket sections the day of an onsale. We gave you the best available and got you out of the line before the person behind you went for your throat for holding up the line!

The woo twins 😂are 😂high 😂

First ones to open were also about first to close. Northland, Eastland, summit place. All gone.

top tens I think was $100 when they first came out!

Lakeside and twelve oaks were built at about the same time and used to be very comparable. Why is lakeside dying/closing while twelve oaks is thriving? Besides partridge creek, who has some theories??

I miss summit mall

I worked at JCPENNEY, Summit Place Mall in Waterford

"What are malls?" - Teens in 2023

I thought this was supposed to be about the history of metro Detroit malls?? The title of this video is misleading.

Please tell me you are going to post the one-hour documentary about the Lions 1991-1992 season here on KZfaq as well.

A great idea would be to reclaim Lincoln park and the area where the Kmart use to be. Potential Gold mind….

Those days are gone!

We don't have any anymore!

i remember in 1983 summer riding my 10- speed bike whit two of my boys that live across the street on rutherford and puritan' we just was hanging ' and then when i got too Redford high school ' got a job in the 12"grade', at hudson and then it change to marshalls field,s now out of school got a better job ' look up then it was change to macy,s''

I relate to Christy McDonald and Kim Adams. My mall was Oakland in the 80s, with the occasional trip to lakeside. I used to get some clothes from Merry Go Round, very trendy in that day. Surprised Kim couldn’t shop there but she could at contempo casuals. Their clothes were more risqué than MGR. Loved those clothes on the girls back then! 😝 I dated a girl that worked there too…very nice. Kim Adams must have looked great in those clothes too!

Very high 😅😅😅

Woo twins are so 😂😂😂high

I was a shoe Maven ( STILL am) n Baker's, Winkelman's n the Wild Pair were the ultimate!!!! If you wanted the REALLY glittery shoes you would go to The Wild Pair in Northland Mall in Detroit, cuz they had the most ostentatios shoes available. I had my over the knee stilletto heeled REAL leather black boots that were $175 in the 1980's for YEARS they were made so well!!! And I was a dancer in the 1980's and would buy at LEAST 2 pair of each of my favourite shoes so they wouldnt wear out!!!

What is a mall?

Somerset the goat

You sound like the woo 😅😅😂 I

Lol 9:43 I went to high school with her.

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