Well today wasn’t a good shopping mall you probably know why

Yes I enjoyed shopping at venture back in rhe day.

Could you make the history of richman gordmans stores

87-89 Chess King was the place to shop ... Gotta lotta honey's with the DJs, Chess king and Merry Go Round gear!! Thanks for making the 80's Great!!!

Loved Aspen soda... Pepsi should bring it back...

Lots of fond memories there! I use to take Line 488 bus from Baldwin Park to get to Fashion Plaza when I was a teen and also use to bike it. I bought most of my vinyl at Tower Records and we use to go to the movies at the Wescove. I played a lot of video games inside the Sega Center.

OMG! My aunt use to shop there at the one in Rosemead/Monterey Park back in the early 90s. She actually won a 1992 Honda Civic from a game puzzle that the supermarket was promoting. She won prize number 7 from the game and there were about 12 cars they were giving away and I believe prize number one was a Mercedes.

Man I always went to that mall during my high school days. I remember “Back to the Future” was filmed there. Lots of great memories! I lived closer to The Fashion Plaza in West Covina, however.

When I was 18 I worked at the one in Merced, CA. It was hectic during the holiday season.

the best❤ moms work there forever

I've frequented the one in Venice and Hoover in DTLA since childhood. Great donuts, and great video!

Oh I remember Huntington Center well. It opened in 66 the same year my parent's moved use from Torrance to Huntington Beach. I remember in December it would be decorated to the hilt, Christmas music playing, Santa Clause would be at the Broadway in that long glass window area on the side of the building. Broadway had a candy and popcorn counter and I could smell the popcorn while I was standing there trying to decide what candy I wanted. I remember there was a Singer sewing store where I bought my 45 records. As a teenager in the 70's I worked at Montgomery Wards, Monkey Wards, Wards what ever you wanted to call it. Then In the early 80's I would go to the Center with my wife and son. Good memories.

I worked at the very first Fuddruckers in San Antonio, in 79, with Phil. Great food, great people.

RIP Hires. I wish they'd bring it back.

rofl. i cant rememver wat yr but we wer renovating one of the stores. now ther closed lol. every now n then id wonder wat hapened to the store. didnt no they had closed down. embaresing

Happy Fourth of July how was your Fourth of July what did you do on July 4th🎆🎇🎉👍

Never heard of Yum Yum Donuts before.They sure looked good too!.Thanks Eric!.😎

Was Ross ever in Newburgh New York, in the old Mid Valley Mall?

For me this was my go-to donut shop growing up. After going to church with my mom, we’d stop by for a donut here with a drink of my choosing. I may have not always liked getting up early for church, but I still have fond memories of those times, with Yum Yum meaning something very special to me! Great video as always 👍

Yes I remember the one on Vine in Hollywood. 😋

Worked at the Berkeley store in 1984; we had this routine-- say you wanted to by a turntable cartridge (listed at $120). If the customer balked, we’d say “let me talk to my manager”, then head to the back room, look up the cost ($20) and we’d come back and say “here’s what my manager said I could do for you!” The store ALWAYS made a killer profit-- I couldn’t do it for more than 6 months

I remember they had that one isle... the generic isle. EVERYTHING in that isle was bright yellow! They even had their own generic cigarettes (my mom used to smoke their menthols). God I miss that store!

When my parents bought their first house back in 1976, they opened up a Montgomery Wards Credit Account, and furnished the whole house with new appliances, furniture, and just about everything else. The Wards we used to shop at had a beauty salon where my mom used to get her hair done at. It also had a cafeteria that served the best cheeseburger you've ever tasted in your life!!!

Just park a McDonald's commercial in the middle of your post, why doncha?? He was Ray Goad, not Ray Good.

Cool video! I was 16! Remember it well 👍

Grew up with it..ironically, wasn't really into BttF.

Some of my favorite stores and things to do from my childhood at the Tucson Mall are the arcade it was called "Tilt". I used to like shopping at Millers Outpost. Also Hot Sam pretzels were the best and to wash those pretzels down an original Orange Julius always did the trick. Red Robin was always a hit. K-Bee toy store was always fun to wonder through.

Oh yeah, this goes back to my childhood. Seems Zayre's, Gold Circle, and Hills certainly were the go-tos of the time.

Thanks so much for posting this video! I remember that mall as a kid. I especially remember the radio station 94.3 KIK FM. My parents won a lot of concert tickets with them and they had the huge window in the back where you could watch the DJ do his thing. My dad used to go to the TRW building in the back to get copies of his credit report like twice a year.

Did you heard about the Cedar Fair and Six Flags merger 🌊🎢🎡🤔

Delicious

Never called it pavilion, that’s Carson Mall.

Never heard of Wyatt’s Cafeteria.Sounds like it was a good place to eat.Have you ever eaten there Eric?.😎

Never heard of this chain,but it sounds like there was something for everyone’s taste.Thanks Eric!.😎

Well I guess happy joes is now the Mr. Ts pizza and ice cream

Basically Woolco's major problem came down to square footage they were inconsistent and in many cases they either would underestimate the square footage needed for per se a larger Town versus they would overestimate the square footage needed for smaller towns. So they ended up building a lot of stores that was too small for an area they needed more product more variety and so they ended up with some frustrated customers. Then they would build quite the opposite store in a town that was too small to really support it in other words they overbuilt. What woolco was, was simply Woolworths answer to Kmart they were not leaders they were followers they tried to do what S. S. Kresge did with Kmart cuz they never could do the transition to that format store they really just did not know how to run it, basically it ended up being drain on the coffers of Woolworth. The management structure of the company was kind of strange and I'm not going to go with all the details but they weren't really autonomous from the bigger company of Woolworth in terms of you could argue to a degree they were somewhat micro-managed by wolves they had to do things which is fine and understandable because obviously Woolworth owns but the problem was the executives that was supposed to be heading up the department store woolco, really should have had their own amount of flexibility on the controls determining what product to carry and physically product placement in terms of regional popular items basically what happened was is Woolworth tried too much and they tried it too quickly and they always ran it like they were in a hurry because they were there again they were trying to keep up with Kmart and that's the only reason they got into it is it was basically their version of game the problem was is the department store heads really didn't have the same amount of control is what the folks over at Kmart so they never could complete the transition to a full-fledged department store versus a five and dime format because you basically had five and dime executives sticking their nose into a department store format and they didn't fully understand it and so it hampered the growth as well as just maintaining profits. The square footage has the ability to make or break a business one of the contenders out of that classic era of five and dime companies found that out the hard way and that was WT Grant. WT Grant had a problem that as things started to move from the downtown's nerve centers of town out to suburbia back in the mid late fifties and definitely by the early 60s WT Grant resisted this they did not want to move out of the downtown area simply they've already got the store established where it is in some cases they may have even owned the building they didn't see the point in building any further away they figured people come and go from downtown all day long of course this was in an era where downtowns were still actually useful and they really were populated with people that had jobs there every day so they weren't entirely wrong but the problem was by the time they did start to go elsewhere via the mid to late 60s they too had inconsistencies in square footage and it basically screwed them but the biggest problem that WT Grant had was granting credit to people that already owed the money because they did not have an integrated credit system. So what happened was anyone who wanted to rip off WT Grant well it was very easy you would drive to one store you would see what credit you could get you would get that credit then you drive across town to the other location and you would sign up for credit there as well and one store did not talk to the other. Multiply that problem by about 5-600 times a week and well you're going to have a hell of a shrink issue! Woolco really just could compete, and it was more so to compete with the likes of Kmart Walmart I wouldn't really consider them much of a contender until maybe the mid-70s and of course that would be a certain markets you have to remember that Walmart really didn't make it to nearly everywhere until perhaps the mid to late 80s and quite honestly in my state of Ohio we never saw Walmart here until the very early 90s headed to the mid-90s like 93 possibly 94 is when my town got a Walmart and I'm in central Ohio so you might estimate the bigger city like Columbus could have seen a Walmart perhaps maybe as early as 1991 or two let's see the early 90s back here in the Midwest we were still dealing with the demise of companies like hex department store. We still had a lot of regional companies that function in the area and we really didn't have a lot in the name of big box retailers at the time big box was something that developed as 90s went on it was not something that truly existed around here in the '80s OR is very early 90s. I mean to put it another way our last Woolworths store in my immediate area did not close until 1994 of course I remember as a kid everybody wanted to blame Walmart but it has a kid I even said no Walmart's not really blame it's literally the only damn store 30 miles away from where all the other stores are I was like maybe 8 or 9 years old when I came up with that analogy and it turns out I was probably very correct but it was also the time where Woolworth itself was getting out of the five and dime business and was switching over to the Footlocker name. I will say that the demise of the five and dime it kind of did drag on for a while I mean you had the 70s and the '80s that it survived and it lingered a bit through the 90s it's basically a damn shame it did not survive to be honest if they brought that back it might kind of work the only trouble is you have so many dollar stores that are saturating that market and of course I would say that that might be the main motivator for Woolworths to have called it quits I don't think it was really the likes of Walmart.

Does anyone remember the pet store that was located outside the mall, near Sears and a side entrance to the mall? It was always the first store we went to to look at all the animals!

It was ok, but we went there only a few times. This was before the unlimited crab legs and shrimp. The most notable thing about the location near me was the presence of another restaurant called Mother Tuckers which was next to a Fuddruckers. We speculated on what their name would be if the 2 restaurants merged.😊

I worked at Boston Market (then called Boston Chicken) HQ near Golden, Colorado for about 6 months. It was kind of a disaster then. Their server room had cables going under a raised floor that were tangled, so their network guy couldn't figure out what was connected to what. I had the unenviable task of getting all that straightened out and put in order. Another thing i had to do was restore databases from tape backup after hours so my DBA colleague could run all kinds of SQL queries for franchisees. They wanted to know things like the disposition of every single cornbread. At that time, it cost $1 million to open each new location. Kind of a Ponzi scheme, if you ask me. They bought a bagel chain called Noah's Bagels and created Einstein Bagels from that. That wasn't a really good idea, either. Fortunately, i wasn't there for more than 8 months, which was plenty for me. The food was ok, but they didn't have a cafeteria onsite.

It's producT. ProducTTTTTTTTT. Not "produck."

Remember the smell of the Hickory Farms and Yankee Candle stores as you walked past? Also the organ music from the Hammond or Wurlitzer (I can’t remember which)store? And the big pendulum in the Sears store?

I’ve been in Tucson 15 years go to the mall every so often those are some fun facts. I never knew, especially about the Wetmores so that was very interesting.

Trying to find out what the shops name was that sold those cookies with the chocolate chunk in the middle. Any idea? Ty

I remember Express. In the beginning, they did a lot of copying from famous/trendy designers, like Fiorucci. I used to work just south of Water Tower Place, so I'd go over there at lunch. Good times!

Artisian well. Not artisan well. An Artesian well is a spring ,

I grew up with Shakey's in Milwaukee and as a family we all loved it. The family atmosphere, I believe, if brought back would work.

Yes, I remember...Morrison's too.

This was my childhood mall. All kinds of things went down there haha

another banger, could u add the American Dream Mall in New Jersey to the list of ideas?

We also had a Ryan’s in Greenville NC in the early 2000s… my family loved it