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I worked in this mall when I was in high school from 2016-2018… good times

Hey North - This is a great birthday gift for you to film this! Valley West didn't ever have a Scheel's in it. I remember the food court was in the 1990s. Had Taco Bell, McDonald's, Sbarro, Maid-Rite, and Dairy Queen. I know at one point they had a Blaze Pizza and a Jimmy John's.

This place is dead since we did our video of it wow😮

I been in this mall before! It’s in my town!😊

this mall is ripe for a kohan or moonbeam takeover, LOL.

My mom owned the Benetton back in the late eighties and early nineties. Totally spent my childhood at this mall. Frankly it kills me that this mall is just barely making it. Jeez, hard to watch - so many emotions.

hit merle hay next. this is sad, spent so much time here with my oldest and the play place.

when i was younger, in the late 2000s, we used to visit the t-mobile right next to the playground where my siblings would play while my mom would be dealing with t-mobile. 🤣 even then it was kind of dying but not as empty as it is now 💔 was so sad when i entered years later to see that they had completely removed the fountain. we used to throw pennies in all the time wishing for what kids wish for. i remember my mom used to park by the side of the playground entrance to make me run in to buy some wetzel's pretzels for her ! what a wave of nostalgia, gosh. thank you for your time/care and recording this for the rest of time !

I grew up with this mall. It’s been demolished now and it broke my heart to watch it happen for nothing of similar value to soon replace it. My mom, aunt and uncle worked at the mall in the 80’s and early 90’s. I remember back to school shopping here, family pictures at the JC Penny. The smell of the earth in the big planter pots with all the real plants. The sound my grandma’s heels made on the brick walkways. I’ll miss it.

They should turn these places into apartments

So many memories here.. lived closer to Willowbrook mall but we’d make the trip here to get the nicest clothes.. miss the 90’s!

O one more thing the original theater still stands they just turn it to xsport on the inside

Worked for Sears from 87 to 89 north side of the mall was always the dead side. The unit next to the Sears was a shoe repair place the other unit was a arcade. Woolworth was not by the food court it was a few units down on the south side of Sears which they turn into multiple units

Always a thumbs up to CDogg, but you keep me up late and I'm old, I often binge watch till three AM. Forgive me for intruding onto your personal business but you have such a talented way with people, give up UBER eats or whatever and get your real estate license, with your personality and control of the language you could be leasing commercial buildings to people.❤ Love ya Dogg!

As the guy you talked to brought up( and it had never occurred to me until he mentioned it ) one still has to worry about paying shipping and of it doesn't fit sending it back until ots right. Also thete is the risk of actually recieving the quality of product you order ( and receiving it at all ). This would lead to the supposition that malls would still have a place in our economy.

Since earth is moving with our Galaxy at 124 million miles per hour , all those memories are literally billions of miles behind us. Kind of amazing.❤ How fickle are our dreams even if we are fortunate enough to achieve them.

oops! I think I saw Siren head posing as a parking lot light, and I also heard him. Spooky stuff.❤You have to wonder how do they keep the lights on until the last tiny lonely shop closes and the last wet ceiling tile falls in a splatter?The place literally reminds you of a funeral home with no body.

Thank you for doing this video. I was born in st.joe in 1981, I grew up going to the mall. My parents have pictures of themselves with the mall construction behind them back in the 70's. There used to be a fresh flower shop in the middle of the floor just outside the food court. it looked like a big black tent. every time we went my mom let me get a carnation or two. right outside Woolworths there was a child size ferris wheel that my grandpa would let me go on. On Halloween all the kids in town went to the mall and walked on the stage with the water around it in their costumes to see who would win after they had walked around to every store who gave out candy. I got 2nd place one year with my dancing flower costume ( old toy that would move and make noise when you made noise at it). the boy who won that year had a ufo on suspenders that lit up. KB Toys, A&W for mini corndogs and root beer were the best places to go. As a teen we all had to go to genos pizza, Mr. Bulkys ( they had every candy you could think of, we often went in to see him he was an awesome guy) and Debs is where all the girls got their prom dresses. that mystery wall with the question mark used to be taco Johns another teen hang out in 1999-2000. this video brought back some memories. Steve Craig plans to make it into a sports complex as far as I know. not sure when. Its so very sad to see it fade away like this. But all good things must come to an end. The mall in Kansas city with the hot air balloons was hard to see go too. thanks again for the walk down memory lane.

This mall used to be the place to go. I miss what it used to be, and now you're lucky if you find a real life person in there.

Goodwill Center now open! Can't wait to see what else might move back in! Beautiful front facade on the Goodwill side!

This mall opened in 1981 is beautiful! The wooden store fronts plus the wooden accents in the sky lights really wonderful. Could've been a 3 story mall as high as the sky lights. Reminds me of the renovation of our Eastland Mall opened same yr 1981. The exterior still looks the same as it did 43 yrs ago in Evansville, IN. It's still thriving more packed as Thanksgiving and Christmas comes. But I did notice some empty spaces. Sad about Stratford Square Mall in Chicago. Beautiful wooden accents.

This mall is now demolished.

I remember when this first opened shame this is what became of it. Hopefully it gets torn down soon and something better is put in its place.

I remember what a big deal this mall was when the rest of the mall opened after Biggs. They never ever filled all those stores and that was baffling. It was definitely set up to fail along with all those different owners. When Biggs left, I knew that was it. Media Play was the spot and that leaving was so bad for the mall.

I hated seeing the decline of this mall. Especially when Dillards decided to become an outlet. They never had a good developer who knew what to do with the space. We are still waiting to see what they are going to do with the mall. There is all this talk and nothing.

So sad to see what was once so alive and full of shoppers....now empty

Marion Local Here.... It used to be an old Pizza Joint ( cant remember the name but it wasnt a chain brand). JoAnn Fabircs is now closed as well.... As far as I know, the Nail Salon and the Cinema are the only things that are still open. The Storefront at timestamp 10:45 used to be an Electronics Store Called Rex Electronics which went out of business and then it became a Sears Hometown shortly after Sears Closed its Doors.

I’m not coming back to those shopping malls or outlets until I see some stores come back to business or some new stores everywhere with everything empty closed down businesses filled back up I don’t like dead malls

During the early 1970's me and my fellow young boys went to this mall every Saturday by bus to hang-out. Lots of memories.

I lived in Spring in the 90s. One time an HPD officer was shot at Gunspoint. I was at the intersection of 1960 and Kuykendahl and literally 20 police, sheriffs, constables, etc came from all directions and turned south on Kuykendahl. It was nuts.

I worked at this mall from 2000 to 2006 in Sears. Sad to see it like this. So many memories in this mall.

Hubbell never "sealed their own fate". They're still the biggest developer in the Des Moines area.

I'm so glad I was able to experience this mall when it was just before entering it's dying phase. I have serious core memories from going there in middle school on band trips, and marveling at the fact that such a space existed in a downtown area (Des Moines downtown was laughable when considering a whole mall).. Of course we had Valley West, and Merle Hay (my "home mall"), Either way, the memory remains.

Such a beautiful mall! Even being practically abandoned, it still looked clean.

Such a waste if they actually start tearing malls down. Give them to the community. Dog park, skate park, music venue. Sky is the limit