Hey everyone, here's the link to the additional video on my 2 channel I mentioned. It shows the inside of the head shop: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9aSdZZlyaqYZGw.html. Thanks for watching!

when a mall is full of independent shops and few franchises, it's a bad sign. i'm no expert but if the food court is getting the most traffic, that is the area that should be expanded. food courts usually are where people congregate in malls.

I was here yesterday. 14 vacancies. No more sears. No more book vault. No more pizza Cafe. That ww2 museum was also empty

Omg 1800 for a fake tree that lights up? I was thinking it would be at maximum $80

Grew up going to this mall all through my childhood, left AZ for a couple decades and recently moved back. Was shocked to see how sad this mall has become. Genuinely depressing.

It seems like a lot of malls are becoming places more for mall walkers than shoppers. How times have changed. I used to be able to spend HOURS at the mall near where I lived. I would get there around 8:30 in the morning and be there until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon. Nowadays, I'm barely in that same mall for a half hour. Everything I used to go to the mall for is long gone.

I fell into that "well" thing in the pet store when I was a kid, banged my knee pretty bad. They used to put a bunch of puppies in there you could interact with

At best this a soon to be dead mall. Regardless as to whether it’s full of mom & pop or national chains, without customers it’s doomed. Sad as it’s well kept and the design is great. Another awesome video.

This mall has changed so much. I used to spend so much time in this mall when I was a teenager. And that was only fiveish years ago

Wow, things have really gone down at this mall since you filmed your last video here. That Beyond The Garden appears to be former Wet Seal; and the Quality Jewelry Plus looks to be an old Zales. When you did your first video here I didn’t think that it would be a dead mall anytime soon but this ain’t looking too good. For a Sunday afternoon there should be way more shoppers. The future of this mall doesn’t seem to good but if they are able to fill up the vacant anchors hopefully we will see a resurgence

I can't believe you didnt mention how that dog was just laying there like that lol it was so adorable!!

My mom used to work at this mall in the late 90's she worked at the Sears and the Robinson may when it was around a lot of memories from this mall

This makes me wanna cry I cherished going to the mall as a kid too bad kids today won’t get to experience that 😪😪😪

$1800. Can buy a car for that. Divide by 10 and still too expensive. Made in China. same as the rest of the stock.

"... a huge missile in a mall" With a naked lady in the background. Even more rare.

OMG when I was a kid pretty much every mall had an organ store. This is the first time I've seen one in years! I didn't realize those home organs were really still a thing.

it's such a bummer to visit your childhood mall and seeing all your favorites stores are now just smartphone shops.

Miss the giant Gila monster slide.

I was here last week and well... For being the holiday season this mall is gonna be Fiesta mall soon enough

I'm 30 years old and I still have the scar under my chin when I climbed up the leg of the Gila monster slide as a kid, and then slipped and banged my chin straight down on top of the spot I was climbing up. Hurt like hell because that thing was made of pure concrete. SO many memories around that mall! I can't believe that pet store is still in there.

Pretty mall. I like the shop with the LED trees. I would get some green, red, & white ones for christmas decorations. I don't really see a lot of eclectic one-off shops like I did in the 80s. It's always chain stores.

Dillard's sold computers!? 😲 😲

I moved to East Mesa in 1989. Lived off of Val vista and southern when it was all new. I worked at the Bashas when I was 16 in 1991. I used to work also at toys r us when it first opened when I was 15. This mall used to be pretty busy and nice. The VF factory outlet was nearby also. So many good memories at that mall. In HS I would spend all weekend at the mall. In HS my friends and I would walk to the mall at 2am on a school nite and steal lots of money from the fountain and go to the circle K and eat snacks. Back in the early to mid 90s. We had no curfew or cameras or smartphones everywhere. I would walk the dry canals all the way to the mall. Lol I went into the Army and got out in 97. I then lived in old town Scottsdale. I used to sneak into the old Scottsdale galleria mall. It was used By the Smithsonian for storage. It was pretty dark Inside and scary. I almost fell down a shaft inside. Anyone here around this time frame remember the new movie theater on val vista and southern? It was a arcade next door also.. Nice video!

I'm glad there's not a pet rescue place at my mall. There'd probably be 20 rescued dogs and cats at my house by now if I had to pass one of those everytime I went to the mall.

They did one renovation to this mall in 2002. Before that, I remember aqua-colored walls with pink and turquoise accents inside. They also had some indoor trees on the lower level. My family used to like eating at Luby’s where TJ Maxx is now.

You should do a video, where you go to every state and visit the most popular malls there.

It needs cafes , supermarkets and banks

I still go to this mall. I also loved the Gila monster slide! I’m a lot younger than you and I don’t remember some of the original stores but this mall has changed a lot! I go here quite often and it’s still pretty great. I hope it doesn’t die too quick.

Used to own a house down around Power and Guadalupe. Spent a LOT of time in S.Springs and the surrounding area in my mid 20s. Left Arizona in 2006. Sad to see the entire area decaying with Fiesta dead and this mall on the trajectory. But now everybody goes to SanTan Villiage I suppose. It's a thing with Arizona, that the population always moves farther and farther out, with the area being moved from as a lower-income shell of it's former self. My parents old neighborhood around Horne & University looks like Beruit now.

ty for documenting this

there is a mall close to me that just became completely abandoned a few months ago Burlington Center Mall

Would love a mall like that. All the malls near here either insanely busy to the point there's no parking, or too far away to be worth it. None of them have any striking architecture, mostly the typical 90s "blah" or the new ultra shiny modern look.

When my son first learned to walk i took him here and brought him his first pair of vans. Thank you for the good memories!!!

Writing this while in the food court right now. Mall has lots of memories for me. The art store in the food court used to be a pocket change arcade. There used to be a game store at the upstairs custom shirt shop. And it used to he a EB Games before a Gamestop. Used to go to midnight launches all the time there for games.

That gila monster slide and play area was the shit! I'm upset they tore it up, I had a lot of fond memories going there with my deceased grandma and I'd have loved to visit again for old times sake.

Thanks for posting, this mall has many memories for me, we used to take our kids there, I remember there was a nice desert landscaped area that had a life sized metal burro that had a sign that read burro may be hot. Too bad that area became the parking lot addition.

To be honest, those LED trees glow and flicker in a way reminiscent of something you'd see in an 80s Don Bluth film. I dig it.

I love that carousel. I used to take my mom to the mall after she broke her hip. It was a nice cool place for her to rehabilitate. That was 10 years ago, and she doesn't go out much now, living with my sister.

Very interesting video. Great footage. Nice looking mall. Thanks for filming.

That carousel is *amazing*! I've never seen a dual-level one in a mall before.

This was my childhood mall. I grew up about 10 minutes away from it. My family and I came here just about every weekend throughout the nineties. I remember that Gila Monster slide and the caves with the bronze statues of like a hourse and a miner outside the theater. I remember when the $1 theater had those awesome lights in the hallway to the theaters. Felt like you were walking through the stars. Also I really miss the arcade. I miss Sundance too

I lived in the Phoenix-Mesa area for 13 years. I shopped at both Fiesta and Superstition Malls.. They did a very brisk business. I also remember Tri City Mall on the corner of Dobson and Main.

This reminds me of Circle Centre in Indy. More mom and pop shops have popped up, mostly after Nordstrom closed. But Simon, since the mall literally is next door to the headquarters, is pumping some cash into the mall to update and refresh it. And there are rumors that a new important tenant is looking to move in. It's exciting to see where the mall goes.

Used to go to this mall every week as a kid, for probably a decade at least. There was a second music store (it moved locations a couple of times) that had music studios behind the storefront where we'd take piano lessons. I used to love the arcade and the playground. So weird seeing the mall so dead.

love your videos keep it up

I used to go there a lot and worked there from 06-09, I remember it being real busy

Interesting video, nice job! It is sad that small and medium sized malls are continuing to go away. Many years ago now, we lost two of the three in the Rockford Illinois area. The one still around recently lost Bergner's (Carson Pirie Scott) and now Sears is closing. The Bergners is half filled with a furniture store. I don't know what these places could do to make it work. Maybe more attraction and entertainment rather than retail. Back in the day malls at the very least had theaters and arcades. Ones toward Chicago, IL still have features like arcades (Round 1), though some of those seem pretty low traffic too. The only mall I couldn't see closing anytime soon is called Woodfield Mall (They have a huge sears anchor that apparently will stay).

I remember in freshman year we all came to the mall after school. We'd get Panda Express, walk around the mall. Catch a cheap movie. It's so sad seeing my childhood vanish

Another great video!

When my dad was alive, he was the mall Santa here for a few years. He had a real long flowing white beard, long white hair, and weighed about 250 pounds, so he didn't need extra padding. I have some pictures of him as Santa. My parents lived pretty close to the mall at Val Vista and University Avenues. Both are dead now. I used to go and see my dad once in a while at the mall when he was Santa. (Jan Griffiths).

$1800 for a light up decorative tree? Oh hell no. I wouldn't even pay a tenth of that.

My dad is from Mesa and whenever we went down from Seattle to visit cousins, we would always visit this mall and Fiesta Mall.

SOMETIME SOON, THERE WILL NO LONGER BE A SEARS OR KMART ANYWHERE. MANY SAY JCPENNEY IS NEXT.

I took my son there last Thursday, and I sure do agree with you this mall is dying and it is really a bummer. This is my local mall and it is so sad to see the state that it is in.

$1,800 for a stump root cluster with pink Christmas lights.

I live in Tucson, but I would go to this mall for the Yankee Candle shop when they had that, at least around the holidays you could get a ton of candles for a great bargain direct in the store, and it was easy access from the "back" road between Phoenix and Tucson, which is much cooler than taking the 10.

These outdoor malls like Tempe Marketplace and San Tan have taken business away from these old malls.

Pretty sure Quality Jewelry Plus was a Zales. The doorway seems to be the old style of Zales. We still have some like that here I think.

I was literally just about to check if you'd uploaded anything when the notification hit my box.

That carrousel at 11:00 looks like the one that used to be at the C3 mall.

I really hope this mall doesnt end up like fiesta mall I really like this mall. Last year the mall was packed during the holiday season and it was really refreshing seeing that compared to fiesta mall.

I'm from Mesa. Went I went into the Army this didn't exist. I live in Wa State so I like watching channels like yours to keep up with the changes.

I work for a company that participates in various trade shows. Some of those shows can be poorly attended and excruciatingly boring to work. I often tell my partner, cheer up, we could be working at the organ store in the mall, then every day would be like this.

Needed that dose of nostalgia today

Sad. I remember when it opened. Its an age thing to an extent. Malls used to be THE place to go. Strange when you show malls I used to go to now dead or gone. Nothing ever lasts but great memories

this is my go to mall, i remember 10 years ago it was a bit busier than this. and that dillard's is where i bought my prom dress.

Game Stop is essentially the modern day Babbage's.

Glad you called out the puppy mills. Thank you for your video 💕

nice to hear about old memories.

The inside of this mall reminds me of the inside of Tuttle Mall in Dublin, Ohio. Tuttle Mall confusingly had 3-4 Macy's simultaneously until recently.

This makes me so sad! I would come to this mall several times a week in the early 2000's for the Kid's Club and even visited the mall pretty often as a teen. Now I still live in the area but rarely, if ever, visit the mall. I recommend checking out the ASU Polytechnic campus, if possible. They have a lot of interesting abandoned property there, like the abandoned elementary school.

If I’m correct, that dog that was in the dog bed at Follow Your Heart isn’t for adoption. I believe that’s Daddy, the owner’s dog.

We enjoyed the same mall! I miss the old fountain with that stage and the prospector statues and the Gila Monsters. The maze of statues was awesome.

8:45 "Dude, get that camera out of my face or I swear to God I'm going to bite you."

I was just there today at 6 pm and the mall was very busy all over. Lots of holiday shoppers.

I went here ALL the time as a child. Sad to see how down hill it's gone. :( The Gila monster slide and Carousel were ny absolute favourite. My 3 year old self was obsessed with Hot Topic.

I hope you go to the local mall this weekend. I want to see how busy/dead it is on the last weekend before Christmas.

I remember an organ store in one of the malls when i was a kid, that was the late 70s. Surprised that there are still some in 2018

"Spencers" was the store I always headed to when I went to the mall.

"Superstition Springs Center: A Future Dead Mall?" Dude, they literately give you an option to ask that question directly to them at 0:07 above the directory map.

8:20 Follow Your Heart Rescue where I found my Toby back in 2016!

i was here in july and the tj maxx parking lot was pretty full, but inside it was relatively empty. crazy how it can change in only a few months.

The old JC Penney Home Store was a Home Express before. Originally the space was a few mall shops and a ZCMI II.

I miss the fajita Prima that was by pocket change arcade

The TJ max I’m pretty sure is the same building Borders was in. They opened on here in my local mall Westfield Plaza Bonita in 2008 and has the same features but is now a Crunch Fitness.

As a Kid The Northridge Fashion Center was it on Friday Nights Now it’s Changed Kids Hang Out at Home Order Food Delivered I’m Glad I’m not that Age My Child Memories are Awesome!!!!

I go to the nail shop it’s always busy it’s been there since open also the shoe repair been there for ever also the Dillard’s is one of the nicest I’ve ever been in

Arrowhead Mall in Glendale, Scottsdale Fashion Square and Chandler Fashion Center remain busy. It's nice when the people who visit the mall, actually buy stuff.

I loved Pocket Change so much! That's the last arcade I remember going to where the games took actual quarters. Now they all take cards that you swipe. And I love that clown shoot em up game at Zap!

Was just there last weekend. Was more full than i have ever seen before. Had some new weird kiosks and independent stores. Not like it was, but a lot less vacancies.

Please visit South Bay Galleria in Redondo Beach, California! It's been on a downward spiral for a while, but when the Nordstrom anchor store left a few years ago to open up in the newly renovated Del Amo Fashion Center a few miles south, it's really been circling the drain now. Definitely on its way to becoming a dead mall.

14:51 this store reminds me of the one Beethoven went to in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure 😂

i hope this mall doesn’t die! this mall is a huge part of my childhood

nice work a+

Hey what is the specific song that plays at 11:34 ? Or where do you get your music in general? I love your videos and you have a great voice for explaining everything.

omg i use to work at that movie theater king time ago it use to be call cinema 8 amd i cant believe its still there i use to live in AZ but now i live in Missouri

That mall looks like a local mall not to far away from where I live. The mall is in Gastonia, NC. It's terrible, a lot of empty spaces and everything major is moving out. Now they kept it real clean, but lets face it majority of malls now are dying especially the ones in most suburban areas of the country or small towns that should never got a mall to begin with.

I was there 2 weeks ago and it was pretty packed not arizona mills level but still a good crowd

2019 was the first time in over 20 years I didn't even bother with SSC at Christmastime. That was always a staple for gift shopping, just couldn't bring myself to go there.

It's also all about location. Here in the Los Angeles area every mall and galleria is packed.