I remember Richmond Mall being full of stores and people back in the early 2000s. Now it's a sad relic of the past, plus the new shopping center they built over by the interstate put the final nail in its coffin. Thanks for reviewing this place, and giving a nod to Loretta Lynn, she was a great person 👏🙂

Thanks for visiting our little town! I used to work in the Richmond Mall. I worked at the movies and a department store. As a young girl/teen we used to hang out at the movies, arcade and the food court. It was a happening place back in the day!

Spent my teenage years hanging out here. So many memories ❤

As a late 90's kid who mainly grew up in the 2000s, i have so many memories and experiences of this mall and i miss it so badly. Funny enough, my older brother as a highschooler used to work in the cinemark. We even still have his old uniform! The radio shack, foot locker, man there were so many great stores that made richmond feel alive. My mom's favorite part of the mall was the food court because she loved the opals restauraunt that used to be open there. This mall also always had the best christmas decorations during the holiday season. Man what i would give to get one day to relive what it was like! Thanks for the vid Wallie.

I grew up with this mall. It had all the makings of a solid mall for a young kid: arcade, movie theater, food court, toy store, book store, sporting goods store, and a fountain. It was in the NES days. I remember playing NES at kiosks both in JC Pennys and Walmart. A few Halloweens I went there to trick or treat. First date. Good times.

A lot of great teenage years in this mall. Miss the old days of this mall.

Wallie, I have been waiting for this video. Richmond Mall was my mall when I was going to college there in the early 90s. This mall in my personal opinion was never that popular, especially with the college crowd I'm sure the builders were hoping to attract. Everyone I knew instead went to Fayette Mall in Lexington because it carried the designer brands the college crowd wanted. My best friend and I would go to Richmond Mall and get Chinese food from the food court, and I loved shopping at the Goody's.

Your mom made me smile 🥰

I lived in Richmond for a few years back in the late 90s and early 2000s. This mall was very festive and lively back then. Hate that its declined.

Great job on KZfaq video and amazing 👍 😎

I'm 42 years old and growing up in the '80s and early '90s I hung out at the mall quite a bit we love the arcade jolly time the movies movies 8 we're so fun to go to and lots of cool restaurants KB Toys sporting goods store so many cool stores when it opened originally I miss the malls when they were in their Hay Day thanks for sharing the video

Wow excellent job. 🫡

Wallie My Man

I was a young kid in the early 2000s and one of my few memories was the Richmond mall. The mall was such a cool sight to see when it was alive, especially the fountain. It's a peice of history now.

I consider Richmond my home after moving here over 20 years ago. I remember going to the mall when it still had most of its tenants, with the movie theater and the food court. It was nice and relaxed. I still go over there to go to El Mejor or the BGCAPP offices. It would be nice to revitalize it somehow. The new mall isn't doing that great with many of the tenants leaving. I think the rents are just too high for little ol' Richmond. We had a small business down the road from the mall and the rent was extremely high for what we got. We hung on for years, but finally had to sell. The property owners should re-evaluate their rental costs. The planter that you showed at the end of the video use to be a dancing water display where streams of water would blast out of an opening and stream into another opening and was fun to watch.

Wallie thank you so much for taking us along this journey and showing us this mall. You and Kayla are awesome!!!!

Wallie Thank you For Uploading This Man, This Brings back So Many Good Memories of My Childhood, Absolutely Thank you Man

that mall used to be so awesome back then, i miss that.

I love the tribute to Loretta at the beginning. Another great video!

Awwwww, your mom is adorable! I’m so glad she had so much fun!

Im currently going to college here, and I've driven by this place so many times. I never knew it was an actual mall, I just thought it was another strip mall 😅

The song you played at the beginning of the video always has a special place in my life. Many of us here have coal miner dad's in Kentucky. I live West of there in Webster county in providence. A Mall in Hopkins county has changed a lot since It first opened. I didn't recognize the same place. It's not completely dead it tries to strive. There are some stores you might enjoy there. I know of a restaurant there that serves the best hamburger in the style of the fifties. There used to be an arcade where dollar tree is today.

that back store with all the glass on the outside use to be a jc pennys....i use to hang out in that mall every friday and saturday.. in the early 1990s...it was packed with people and stores....

The death of Turfland Mall, on Harrodsburg Road, in Lexington, KY hit me the hardest. That was my coming of age hangout. As well as Lexington Mall, on Richmond Road, where I went with my Nannie as a child. Back in the late 90's I regularly frequented Richmond Mall. Being Generation X, I was a mall rat.

I worked at the Radio Shack in that mall for a year in the late 90s.

It was a great mall video! 💕 Thank you so much! 😀

Side note: My husband grew up in Johnson County, Ky...the same county as Butcher's Holler.

It had a KB toy store too.

Awesome job as always

Worked in the food court during the summer of 1998. Me and my friends were there hanging out when we weren’t working there.

My mom owns kiss the bride. The old JC Penny is now an Ashley Furniture and looks great!

I went to EKU where I met my wife. My wife and I went in our first date at the theater almost 18 years ago. I think we ate Gold Star Chili on that date too.

I love the beginning of your video👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😃.

Awesome video my friend will miss you Loretta Lynn and congratulations

Awesome Wallie

I always went to this mall so many times I love it and the movie theater it had

I remember when this place first opened I think I was 17 18 it was a great place to go back in the late 80s iv saw it before packed when Walmart left seemed like it went down after that last time I was in there they was nothing going on at all

Wow! The late, great Loretta Lynn's most famous hit with a scenic country field in the beginning! Very neat! Very awesome video!

I remember watching national lampoons Christmas vacation on Christmas Eve with my dad at the mall. Good memories.

I noticed that there is a lot of Christmas decor in some of the local stores. Lowes, Big Lots, Boscovs and of course (yuck) Walmart. Hard plastic lighted figures seem to making a comeback. I guess the blow up kind are going out of style. I'm writing this wearing Basic Editions pants and shirt from where else? KMART, the best store ever.

I LOVE MOM 'N POP MALLS!!! Pop needs to get on fixing that leak at 2:38 though. Not sure why but it kind of reminds me of Mountaineer Mall.

Awesome 👍

There’s a dance studio called cats and I dance there

wow 7yrs ago i work at the skate shop there and it was full all day eery day lol sad world to come

I watched Kill Bill, and The Pick of Destiny at this mall back in the day. Great video.

Love this mall. Agree that Bargain Hunt would be better with indoor access.

I remember going to this mall as a teenager and not worrying about getting a ride home because it was such a popular place that I was bound to run into someone who I knew. I feel like it started dying after Walmart moved out.

Ah, so you visited this location when you were down at Buc-ee's and recorded at the abandoned McDonald's and BP at the Winchester-Boonesboro exit. I had recommended this location in the comment section of one of your earlier Richmond, KY, area videos. I guess you were way ahead of me! Thanks for this, Wallie! 👍 Glad to hear you mention Dawahares and Office Max. Dawahares went bankrupt the same year that Richmond Centre opened. The Office Max was where the Bargain Hunt is now, I believe, since the space next to it was Hastings. There is an Office Depot across the highway now; maybe after Office Max and Office Depot merged, they moved from the mall? I liked hearing your history of the mall. I wouldn't have been able to say when Walmart moved out other than it was before 1998 since the Supercenter was open by then. As long as I can remember, the interior mall entrance to the old Walmart part was walled off; probably even when Walmart was in the mall, shoppers had to go outside to access Hastings and Office Max (unless they came in after Walmart and took part of that area). There also was a Dollar Tree in the mall, next to J.C. Penney; it is now across the highway in the plaza where Dunham's and Hobby Lobby are (side note: that Hobby Lobby is located in part of an old K-mart, with the Office Depot in another portion of it). The rehabilitation (thrift store) area is where the food court and movie theater were. The food court had a Chinese food place that was amazing! Other eateries came and went, but I believe there were Gold Star Chili, Arby's, and Subway as consistent tenants.

Ty for the tribute to Loretta

Maybe I'm old but I miss Malls. Where I live there were 4 malls hrowing up now there is only one left.

There’s an abandoned big k mart in Virginia somewhere when I was moving, I suggest it! And good job, keep up the work 🦾

Love your videos

wow so cool mom you got there walley also kayla's too have a good week comeing up ty for video

Awesome video mall 👌

Wouldn’t it be cool if anyone had video footage of what the mall was like back in the 90’s or early 2000’s. The weekends were full of excitement with all the vendors set up in the middle. You could spend the entire day here

Good video. Thanks.

The DMV in there is pretty good.

If you wanna see a dead mall just venture over to Somerset if you already haven’t. Dead as a hammer. It’s used more for an indoor walking track than anything.

thank you

I love the song in the start

Love ur vids

Bargain Hut looks like a former OfficeMax. I also love how you took your mom to a gas station for mother's day! I'd never hear the end of that from _my_ mom. She'd be complaining the whole time.

That reminds me of the mall in moline,Illinois

I have lots of memories attached to this mall. I checked out my first book here. I bought my first pack of pokemon cards here. I watched the first Harry Potter movie in theatres, here. I used to frequently go to lunch here with my elders after church. I remember the sounds of all the toys in the toy shop as you walked by, and the smell of sugar cookies in the cafeteria. The Jolly Time Arcade was amazing. It was only after 2010 or so that the traffic through here really started to nosedive. Before it was a place where you could spend time enjoyable browsing and exploring storefronts. Now the stores there are very niche and you probably don't want to go unless you have a reason.

Amazing video as always wallie and great songs especially Loretta Lynn coal miners daughter

I should go and visit this place I live about 2 hours away 🤔😁

Cool 😀

Another ancient relic from the stone(d) age (80's).

been there many times.

I hear they're playing Black Sabbath's Iron Man in there, nice! 👍

I use to go there back in the middle 90s when I was at junior college. Hung out there with EKU girls.

I never expected to hear Black Sabbath as Mall Muzak, I'm guessing they were playing a classic rock radio station over the speakers...

Their mall business seems slow today. I blame the Amazon price sale!

This mall reminds me of inlet square mall in Murrell's inlet close to Myrtle Beach SC

How Was Your Fall Break Wallie and Kayla.

6:36 wonder how many kids try to climb thinking it's a jungle gym

Huge Mall

I was shocked they let you do Loretta's song at the beginning. Was it because you did it as a tribute to her??? Nice little mall. I hope those businesses do well.

The DMV is in this mall.

Like the old town mall and meadowood mall in Reno Nevada

Richmond Kentucky sure have Walmart super center sure open .

The Lovely London Boutique and Furniture World pictured at 16:11 are no longer there and there have been some other changes since you made this video. There is a security guard that works in the evening and closes the mall at 8PM.

I live ab 20 miles from Richmond in irvine

Wow. Haven't been "home" in many years. Sad. I guess it's a Buc-ee's world now.

You going anywhere else in ky?

Sad. Lexington green is nothing now, Lexington mall, Fayette mall. We still have Hamburg pretty much a mall and the outlet malls on down the big road though. Yeah I'm localish

When I seen Eagle Finance I was thinking I didn't know Giant Eagle got into the personal loan market now lol

Monuments to bygone days.

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We have a abandoned mall by where I live

Very sad none the less

I'm sure this is just a matter of time before it's torn down and replaced by an Amazon warehouse. 😕

Richmond is worse than Elizabethtown, EKU is in Richmond KY, not surprising seeing it

I always hated the Malls

Hi Wallie I'm a big fan it has took me a lot of courage to comment and I doubt you answer but what is that cool song after the opening song

I live in richmond and actualy yoused to work at gillums as a highschooler. As a 17 year old I was working 70-90 hour work weeks in the summer and my paychecks were getting cut. absolute HELL. The owner is a POS.

Mall

The mall was a mistake the day it opened.

5:33 - Bargain Hunt was in the building of Office Max? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/npZoY9qIkru7pn0.html

internet shopping killed small business's of many families. i refuse to shop on amazon due to their horrible treatment of employee , and also the declining middle class has contributed to loss of income for malls, i feel sorry for the future of america.