I worked at Kauffmans there back in the 80s. This mall was booming and was a beautiful place.

This mall was unbelievable. I can’t explain to you how much of my childhood was spent in this place. Sbarro pizza. The arcade. The pet store. So many so many stores.

Before the mall, I remember my dad would take me up the hill to watch (and feel) the slag glowing at night. I was mad when they began building the mall. Of course, I ended up spending my entire teenage years there. It was a huge social scene. My friends and I worked there, loitered after school (aka smoked weed), went to the game rooms, met lots of people, oh, and shopped. You could buy cigarettes in a machine and smoke anywhere. There weren't any fights, and the idea of mass shootings didn't exist. It was very safe. Kids of all ages would get dumped there on the weekend as the mall became a giant babysitter. As the Pittsburgh steel mills and factories closed down, the mall provided thousands of low pay jobs. I think the minimum wage was something like $3 an hour. You would see somebody working their "opening shift" at Sears and then their "closing" shift at the pizza place. Lots of high school kids actually worked. Women (whose husband's were laid off) took part-time jobs to make the holidays a little brighter for their family. Christmas time was horrible, though. Especially if you worked there. Besides having to park miles away and walk in the cold, you couldn't move no matter where you went in the mall. It did have everything you could ever want. Three levels, record stores, department stores, a glass elevator, a huge square in the center where they would have bands/shows, Santa Claus, beautiful decorations, several water fountains, independent restaurants, a waterbed store, Hickory Farms, GAP, candy shops, Spencer's, Heaven, shoe stores, a massive food court and a hundred other places. Easy to get lost if you didn't go often. It really was an obscene display of consumerism, perfect for the Reagan years. In the late 80s, I moved away a year after graduation and never went back. My parents updated me on the mall decline over the years. I finally saw the abandoned mess this year. It's shocking how the roads are still open yet have meteor size potholes that cover almost every inch of them. Nobody seems to use the stop signs or traffic lights. Revolting how the local town and state would allow such a disaster to exist. HUGE failure all around. It would be nice to see the property revitalized, but that will never happen. Develop affordable housing or a senior center. Amazon could afford a center with the change Bezos finds in his yacht sofa. Of course, that takes ambition and vision from the local government, something I don't see them partaking in. My bet, it sits and rots for another decade. Funny, I literally came across this video when I googled, "plans for Century 3 Mall". I didn't find anything. Lol. Thanks for the memories.

Anybody remember the shiney, scarey but beautiful 'Cutlery World' with their royal blue carpeting and mirrored surfaces, displaying gleaming swords and knives on the walls and in their cases?

2 toy stores, 2 arcades, 2 record stores, a hobby shop & the best pizza around... My kids got ripped off, there's nowhere to take them anymore, quit shopping on Amazon people!

This mall had a long and interesting history.Thanks Eric!.😎

I'm not a mall person, but this was a nice mall. It was great in its heyday. It's a shame it went thru such a decline and eventually shut down.

Even though I was a teen when Century III opened, I lived about 1 mile from Monroeville Mall then (Yeah, the one with the ZOMBIES!) so Monroeville was where we "hung out" As an adult I lived in Brentwood making Century III AND South Hills Village close to me. Oddly I shopped at South Hills Village more than Century III despite it being marginally closer. This was NO FAULT of Century III. It was due to me being more familiar with South Hills Village having been romantically involved with a girl from Bethel Park who worked at SHV, LOL. The most frequent store I shopped at in Century III was without a doubt Sears. Half of everything I owned came either from Sears or K Mart (Long before THAT fateful merger). I did make plenty of use of Century III's food court and the theatre. It was a damned impressive mall in it's time to be sure! Sad to see it go. The weird thing is AGE has nothing to do with any mall's decline around here: South Hills Village is MUCH older (1965) as is Monroeville Mall (1969). and both are running about as good as any mall CAN be in this day and age. OTOH the much NEWER Pittsburgh Mills is a dramatic failure. It seems that today outdoor "strips" like the Waterfront and the older Waterworks are doing better than enclosed malls. This is weird to me as Pittsburgh has SHIT weather and if I want to shop multiple stores, I'd much rather be INSIDE a nice warm mall especially during the "holiday" season.

The mall was best mentioned in the jingle for the Chevy dealer that's in the area ("Century III Chevrolet, Lebanon Church Rd., Pittsburgh. Minutes From The Mall")

Gawd, this brings back memories... "C'mon, kids! Mom needs to go to Gimbels and Horne's." "Awwwww, nuts. Can we go to Children's Palace after???" 😂😂😂❤

I have to give it up to J. C. Penney. They were there at the very beginning and were there to the end. With Sears gone, I hope J.C. Penney survives as we need stores that are "nicer" than just Wal*Fart!

6:00 TJ Maxx N More was a supersized concept of a TJ Maxx store, established by the TJX Companies in 1997. Unlike regular TJ Maxx stores, TJ Maxx N More would carry a huge selection of housewares, home furnishings, and rugs, just like its sibling home store chain HomeGoods. It's basically a TJ Maxx store combined with HomeGoods. However, TJ Maxx N More's business at Century III Mall only lasted 5 years as it closed in 2003. Many other TJ Maxx N More stores have rebranded as TJ Maxx & HomeGoods stores by the mid-2000's.

Sing it with me you all… “Century 3 Chevrolet Lebanon Church Road Pittsburgh. Minutes from the mall!”

Live 10 minutes away. It's a disgrace what it looks like now. So sad.

Keep the rift Raf out and the ones with money will come there...I go to malls with no bus lines and have a good time shopping!!!!

The Montgomery Ward logo didn’t change its 1970s look with its lettering font and background. I’m sure that didn’t help. The 80s were about the upbeat pretty neon look. The Montgomery Ward sign looked too much like a sign for a discount scratch and dent appliance store that belonged in an old strip mall area.

Century 3 was one of the most popular malls in 2017 which was the birth of the whole dead mall family and In loved the look of it shame such a big giant fell hard. Good Video!

I've clicked on this video because I know everything about C3M. I live in Pittsburgh.

We traded the mall experience for Amazon packages at our front door. Way to go, America.

Today I started 10th Grade my sophomore year of high school, it went OK, Also about this mall I knew about this mall because when it was opened it was the 3rd biggest mall in the USA.

It just seems so wasteful that these malls cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and then just 30 or 40 years later they're completely vacant and being knocked down. It's really too bad, and I really haven't heard a good explanation for why they seem to have become unpopular almost overnight. I don't think internet shopping could explain it.

This mall still stands vacant today

I used to work at Kaufman's and I can remember walking across the parking lot to Kauffman's furniture the second level that was closed to get luggage for customers weird because when you walked in there on the second level in the back stockrooms there is a lot of the old horns letterings and signage that we just left in there there is even a one-point way in the back corner of the stock room Montgomery Ward signs I miss that mall

What was the name of the cigar store in Century 3? I remember going in there with my dad. Red carpeting, with mirrors and smelled of cigars but strangely smelled good…!!! I loved Century 3. Was born in 87, Grew up there, enjoyed the best of it. My dad used to take me to get my hair done at Philip Pelusi, and take me shopping at the toy store. My mom always entered the small at Sears, and I remember always getting yelled at cause I ALWAYS had to pee, and remember stopping at the bathrooms in Sears to do so. We would go school shopping at the mall and it was usually a 3-4 hour ordeal and our bags got heavy so we had to rent lockers!!! I remember seeing boys we had crushes on coming down the escalators. At anytime you were at the mall, you ALWAYS seen people you knew from school. This was THE PLACE to be. At age 9, we used to take two buses from Lincoln place just to get to the mall. You could get 20 Off your parents and it was enough for a whole outfit or two at Rave!! Who remembers Rave? Loved that store. As I got to be a teen around year 2000 we would drive around smoking weed with older boys and meet boys at the mall and go out in the woods to smoke weed. Teenagers always parked down underneath at the food court entrance. The thing to do was go eat at the food court and always at the French fry factory. I actually still have dreams about this mall so it must be in my heart. I moved away from the area in 03 n The last time I was there was probably 2006-07. My son was a baby. I remember the decline and it made me so sad. I moved out near pgh mills mall and lived down the hill when it was being built. When it opened in 05 I was pregnant with my son and it was so exciting to enjoy a new mall however we all watched its decline. It’s sad and I think they are closing that one soon as well, it was just up for sheriffs sale. I’m happy to be apart of the mall generation and we were the last to enjoy the best of it (I’m 36). Alls we really have left is Amazon….oh How times have changed. I’m sad my kids will never get to experience the joy of shopping malls although I heard Westmoreland mall is still Pretty hopping. Going to visit that one soon…

I worked at the mall part time after school (PIA) from '92-94.

You forgot about Dick’s sporting goods

Where did you find all those photos inside the mall when it was still open?

May You Please Do A Video On The Del Amo Fashion Center Because It Was Combined From 2 Malls Into One Large Mall With A Bridge Addition Over Carson Street

You have Bob evans on your list today Recollection Road made a video of Bob Evans you should check it for you make your own video 📲👍😇

1) Did you do a video called "Do You Remember Bob Evans Restaurants?" yet? 2) Do you plan to do a video of "Do You Remember Southbridge Mall in Mason City, Iowa?":for a fuutre MALL MONDAY entry?

You literally are just reading a Wikipedia article on C3

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Hello Could you do a video on Peoples Drug

The Canadians ruined it. Became unsafe

Man forget century 3 mall that mall is done for it got demolished can't y'all just forget about that mall it's over it's gone bruh y'all have near by malls💀