Of all the dead malls, Metrocenter seems like the saddest, because of how good it looks and the history of it. :(
@bethpeters3477
10 ай бұрын
Another great video I was wondering ? in one of the stores had a bunch of fire extinguishers in it.
@treykoyawena4443
8 ай бұрын
For me metro center is the last of what remains of my childhood in phoenix Arizona. First it was the indoor swap meet then it was metro center being a shell of what it once was in the 80s and 90s to closing down. This was what I consider what made coming to Phoenix Arizona worth wild but I no longer look at the city the same way anymore. Now to me Phoenix is just depressing to me don’t get me wrong az mills is a great mall but metro center had that charm to it.
@SueBobChicVid
3 жыл бұрын
I was expecting to see a GNC still open when you rounded a corner.
@cpgone
3 жыл бұрын
and a Bed and Bath
@markvolpe2305
3 жыл бұрын
@@cpgone You mean Bath and Body Works. Also, surprisingly GNC has closed a lot of stores lately since the pandemic.
@cpgone
3 жыл бұрын
Vitamins are a scam. Goog...... Vitamin Industrial Complex
@cpgone
3 жыл бұрын
@@markvolpe2305 Right.. Thanks for the correction. Vitamins are a scam. BTW. Google Vitamin Industrial Complex
@maikeliRAIWALUI
3 жыл бұрын
And victoria secret,dollar general,foot locker
@MissStevieGore
3 жыл бұрын
I use to work there around 2002/2003 for my first job, a clown who walked around and sold balloons. It's so crazy to see this so run down. So many memories.
@charlesashe-nn2sf
8 ай бұрын
Did you work for Heidi? She was our balloon clown at Christown and I know she spent a few years at Metrocenter at that time.
@sageolivia1837
3 жыл бұрын
the mall looks so apocalyptic, the music goes perfectly with the ambience
@jeffp3495
3 жыл бұрын
Growing up on the west side, this was the THE mall as a kid. This was the rich upscale mall you went to for holiday shopping, unlike Christown where you went to get stabbed. When I was a kid the ice rink was gone but they had a massive underground arcade under the food court. That was amazing. I played in a massive roller hockey tournament one year in the parking lot, they took over half the lot with inflatable roller hockey rinks. That area is a Walmart now. Used to ride the bus after school up to Metrocenter when I was in high school, just to hang out and check out Hot Topic, Suncoast, Babbage's, the skate shops and wander around in general. Times that will never be again. "There is a Japanese term: Mono no aware. It means basically, the sad beauty of seeing time pass - the aching awareness of impermanence. These are the days that we will return to one day in the future only in memories."
@hughjhardon8080
3 жыл бұрын
Cripstown rocked in the day.
@opheliavalentine6058
3 жыл бұрын
Come on Christown wasn’t that bad
@jeffp3495
3 жыл бұрын
@@opheliavalentine6058 in the late 90s? It was pretty bad
@BIGgamez78
2 жыл бұрын
@@jeffp3495 I remember when there was a shootout in the middle of Christown Mall in 1992. I remember seeing it on the news. The video of it is here on KZitem. First time I went to Christown was in 1991. It started really getting bad over there in 95-96. I always loved the giant sand sculptures they had throughout the mall.
@20PINKluvr
2 ай бұрын
Now metrocenter is the place where you would get stabbed nearing it's end
@singrdave
3 жыл бұрын
When we moved to Prescott in 1985, Metrocenter was the first landmark we visited on our way into Phoenix for a day of fun, back when the city started at Bell Rd. My wife and I had our first date at Castles & Coasters next door, in 1993. Two of my HS friends were extras in the Bill & Ted scenes filmed in '87 and that period is how I remember this fantastic place, especially that elevator where they put a platform over the fountain (next to Waldenbooks lol) and Joan of Arc led aerobics. I even have a photo at the old timey photo booth that Abraham Lincoln used, just off the food court. I haven't lived in AZ since 1997 but these Metrocenter memories slap hard. Thanks for your channel and I really appreciate this tour down memory lane.
@GulperEEL
3 жыл бұрын
Those 80s chicks called Sigmund Freud a geek right near the top of that escalator by the old Hot Dog On A Stick
@drewmiller3462
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Bell Rd when it was mostly dirt. Union Hills and Beardsley where the boonies.
@jrh9867
Жыл бұрын
Many memories
@1kld5mnb
3 жыл бұрын
air soft gun tournament, in a dead mall, during a pandemic is like....the most 2020 shit ever
@MK-of7qw
3 жыл бұрын
I would have totally cos-played up the Zombie apocalypse theme for that one.
@frnkvat2722
3 жыл бұрын
I cant even imagine how surreal that mustve been to be there for that....under 30s they wouldnt have quite had the same feeling, but to have seen the mall in its heyday, to have had all those memories there and then to be treading thru its ruins like that, stalking out.... im imagining it dark as hell and blacklit....thats too much...its too much to even call it closure, its too poetic. I dont even know what i would call that.
@IanS158
3 жыл бұрын
@@frnkvat2722 I was actually there for the 2 airsoft events in the mall. So odd considering when I was younger my family used to go there regularly in the early 90s.
@popacap21
3 жыл бұрын
They should have gone full lethal... real TDM or nah?
@mocharger06
3 жыл бұрын
I kept waiting for zombies to come running!
@phedingsfield
3 жыл бұрын
I just wish our kids today could have the memories we do with hanging out with our friends at the mall on weekends waiting out front for our parents to pick us up
@yanirafonseca8013
3 жыл бұрын
Since I'm still a kid, I enjoy going to the mall but i can't go out because of the pandemic.
@support16s45
2 жыл бұрын
I’m 18, and we still do. nothing has changed around here. I still have about 6 or 7 malls within an hour of me to go to. And 2 outlets
@trabertgraneau3323
3 жыл бұрын
It’s a tragedy to see a mall fall apart like this.
@GiZMOSOLiD
3 жыл бұрын
"In one of the dressing rooms, there was a hole in the dry wall so I thought it would be a good idea to take a peak" brave man
@perciusmandate
3 жыл бұрын
A hole in the wall, where the boys can see it all!
@johndornoff
3 жыл бұрын
Was thinking the same thing...who was looking through that hole?
@MotohideTheBrave
3 жыл бұрын
There's something to be said about that HUGE brand new American flag in the middle of a desolate, abandoned mall. A place dedicated to the american consumerism.
@JD-dq8zn
3 жыл бұрын
It's definitely a worldwide phenomenon by now, having originated in the courts of Europe I'd think.
@frnkvat2722
3 жыл бұрын
Its kind of a strange memorial to the cycle of American life, and maybe thats what haunts us the most about all these dead malls....its a foreshadowing of our own fate.
@mirella7792
3 жыл бұрын
@@frnkvat2722 Great Observation! So true. I feel that way too when seeing so many malls and businesses shutting down for many years now. 😔😞😔
@sew_gal7340
Жыл бұрын
Its symbolic of the declining empire, and the beauty of its past
@comancheviperrrr
3 жыл бұрын
I think my overwhelming feeling after watching this sadness. I can remember as a kid how much fun I had in malls. And then you see this one in such a shape and the fact you’re selling it all piece by piece. As you walk through this mall I kept thinking of how many families and walk the same quarters and got in the same stores. How many teenagers killing a Friday or Saturday night being a mall rat. How many burgers and fries and soft drinks have been sold there.? If you think about all the memories and time that was spent in that mall. Not to mention the fact that it was famous from a movie. It’s extremely sad to see it like this and you know that it’s going to be gone forever. Thank you for sharing the video. It’s sad to watch a piece of americana die one mall at a time.
@whitespyder9
3 жыл бұрын
Nostalgia can be painful. What do you mean by "mole rat"?
@comancheviperrrr
3 жыл бұрын
@@whitespyder9 it’s supposed to read mall rat. It’s a name that was given to kids who hung out at the mall on the weekends with her friends just killing time back in the day.
@crowdedveins9210
2 жыл бұрын
I was one of those teenage mall rats at this mall, me and my friend when we were 13 would go into stores and get to know the employees so we could say what’s up to them every weekend. And we had crushes on the girls who worked at guess
@crowdedveins9210
2 жыл бұрын
Oh and my friend was kicked out of the mall because he was bouncing a little ball on the upper level and it went over the railing and hit someone’s shoulder
@ryang2573
2 жыл бұрын
It's funny. When I was a kid, we'd sometimes drive past certain areas and my dad would point to some dusty old building or area that had been developed into some strip mall and say, "This used to be where I worked." or "This is where your grandpa worked" or " This is where I used to hang out after school as a kid." I'd just nod my head and not say anything because all I could see was what I saw: nothing of importance. Now that I'm around my dad's age when he used to do that, I find myself doing the same thing. Looking at the spot where my local mall used to sit and remembering all the time I spent there with my friends, all the fond memories, and I realized then what my dad must have felt and what he tried to convey to me. All the landmarks and signs that your past was real fade away along with your memories of those places until you, too, leave this world. It's sobering to think that my children will never know the world I grew up in or really have any idea of what it was like. Theirs will be different. Hopefully happier. But different nonetheless. Seeing videos like this serve as a reminder to cherish what time you have because all things, with time, will disappear.
@LarryLooseman
Жыл бұрын
It's so weird seeing these malls shut down. In Australia, malls are still bustling all the time. They still have late night on Thursday, and they stay packed into the night.
@raymondmartin6737
3 жыл бұрын
I remember this mall when it was fairly new then living in Phoenix in 1976, and visiting it again in 2003 when I returned to Phoenix. It amazing how the years have passed and what is gone now.
@anneleeklein3283
3 жыл бұрын
The ice skating rinks
@miabetz7463
2 жыл бұрын
My step grandfather who has been passed away for over 2 decades was one of the architects for this mall when it was originally built. I went here many times w family, then on my own as a teenager and young adult. The mall was awesome in the 80’s and 90’s.
@flankman9385
Жыл бұрын
Wasn’t there a skate park in this mall at some point?
@bluegrassgal
Жыл бұрын
@@flankman9385ice skating
@supneeks
3 жыл бұрын
I’m in the liquidation business myself, specifically the retail closing and tear down side, and its like entering a time machine when we start tearing down. I lead one of the teams that was clearing out all the Rite-AIDS throughout the country and we often found things from the 90s and earlier. Some pretty awesome stuff and some pretty nasty stuff lol. It’s a lot of work but based on your content, you might appreciate the business.
@kl0wnkiller912
6 ай бұрын
Always wanted to get one of those powered security screens to put at the end of my carport.
@tabbycat8323
3 жыл бұрын
I spent many hours “hanging out at the mall” at Metrocenter. So sad to see it closed.
@kaityk4788
3 жыл бұрын
The Cinnabon. I can remember strolling in through the Sears entrance next to the loading bays. My parents and I would walk the mall in the weekend mornings and head to that corner. My parents would order a Cinnabon and we would pull it apart while watching the old fountains that reached up to those glorious off center skylights. I can still remember the smell of the water drying on polished stones, steaming due to the old halogen bulbs. Ahhh, love it.
@garypizana2834
3 жыл бұрын
Sir, thank you for this video. Moved from Phoenix 13 years ago. Metrocenter was my favorite mall. Went there from the time of the ice rink, to the huge downstairs arcade, to the remodel, it was my favorite place. Thank you for letting me see it one last time and say goodbye to a place that feels like I'm losing a friend. RIP MetroCenter, we'll always have Bill and Ted's!
@robbdgordon
3 жыл бұрын
San Dimas Mall🤣
@charlesashe-nn2sf
8 ай бұрын
That African American security officer wishing you a good day as you went out the door at the end was Officer Stringer. He's been a security guard at Metrocenter since the 1970s and he was there almost as long as the mall was open, through multiple owners and multiple regimes. He put more than 30 years into being security in that building. (I worked security with him for five years). I was waiting to see if he was still around, and I'm not surprised he was. He's a solid fella.
@mb8987
3 жыл бұрын
It is sad to see it go. I took the bus to work from the metro transit center in the 90’s. There was a Carl’s Jr. in the mall that allowed runaway teens to get unlimited drink refills and smoke all day. I was there as a kid in the 80’s when they were filming bill and Ted and saw some of the actors in the food court area.
@cindytran5628
3 жыл бұрын
This is very sad to see abandoned malls where it was once filled with people and life
@thejuiceisloose
3 жыл бұрын
A lot of that mall's interior reminds me of Star Trek TNG for some reason.
@Moonbeam143
3 жыл бұрын
A mall in space would be neat.
@joewilson3393
3 жыл бұрын
That would be the curved edges of the Art Deco Style, probably. Like if you look at all of the overhead walkways, the bottoms are smooth and rounded like you see a lot in TNG. It always makes me wonder how much dead, unused space is inside of them, lol.
@kurisu7885
3 жыл бұрын
darker colors and you could probably mistake it for DS9's promenade.
@AKATEATime
3 жыл бұрын
Wow.. it's heartbreaking to see it like that. I worked at the Gold Mine arcade in '86, and I don't think there was a single empty spot in the mall. The arcade was upstairs in the food court area. It was small, but we had some of the latest and greatest games, including ride-ons, to compete with Golf N' Stuff (now Castles N' Coasters). My absolute favorite was the ride-on Space Harrier!! I practiced and practiced and finished the game many times in free mode. :-D You could look down at the ice rink from the food court. The ice rink was replaced by a bigger arcade sometime after I quit the Gold Mine, and now Harkins is there. Thanks for posting this! The last time I was at Metrocenter was 2 ro 3 years ago and it was too late to be open, but I did go into the Walmart and saw that unfortunately it didn't open out to the mall, and then I drove around the mall afterward. It was looking pretty abandoned even then. :(
@abigailrose3745
3 жыл бұрын
Thanxs a lot AMAZON ! U manage to take down American Icons, that was so much fun and enjoyable for everyone.
@MagnumMike44
3 жыл бұрын
Metro Center was THE place to hang out when I was a teenager in the mid 1970s. My girlfriend in the 1980s worked at the Metro Lounge which was above the ice skating rink and across the food court, it was shaped like the fuselage of a TWA airliner. I can go on and on with the memories, it's sad to see the empty skeleton of a once iconic mall every time I drive by on I-17.
@Xeonerable
3 жыл бұрын
"Joy!" "Merry Christmas!" "PLEASE PAY"
@davidkaufman7979
3 жыл бұрын
Sad to see malls slowly dying. I liked going to them back in the 90's when I got my first jobs and spent my paycheck.
@gabrielgrimes8297
2 жыл бұрын
There were just too many built, this course correction will allow the better ones to thrive
@diannagerber292
3 жыл бұрын
I have fond memories of this mall. I can remember going to this place and it was full of people. It's so sad seeing this place as a dead mall.
@neutronv1871
3 жыл бұрын
that "dust" is more than likely discharged fire extinguishers by vandals ;)
@jeremyenns7330
3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing, or maybe even the airsoft players.
@pj8847
2 жыл бұрын
Metro center was my favorite mall growing up, I used to love going there to hang out with my friends in middle school. It was always so lively, it’s sad to see it like this
@BrickImmortar
3 жыл бұрын
Omg this is amazing, what a send-off. Nice you got in during the auction, I know how tough the timing on that can be!
@alexkomada8600
3 жыл бұрын
Thank You so much for this man. Metrocenter was a part of my childhood.
@markiangooley
3 жыл бұрын
I came to hate malls as I entered my teens, and still don’t really like them, but these videos are still sad...
@yapper70
3 жыл бұрын
The store near Sears was originally called “The Wrapper”. They would gift wrap items you bought in the mall.
@majorwedgie8166
Жыл бұрын
I lived only 5 miles away in the 80's and we would cruise every Friday and Saturday nights around what was called "Golf N Stuff". Those were the good old days 😢😊
@TyrantWeedle
3 жыл бұрын
It was literally only 10 years ago I lived down the street from Metro and ran around there with my friends during college. It was dying then too but the architecture is something else. I always loved the natural light and the elevator!! Such beautiful design. It was even more beautiful during Christmas when they had all the decorations up. I learned about the ice rink later and it still boggles my mind that there was even a rink there LOL
@eriklutz1254
Жыл бұрын
Update 2023. This site will be redeveloped for mixed use residential and retail. Used to live in the Metrocenter loop during the late 90's. This was a vibrant mall with an ice rink at one time. The mall started to take a different turn during 2008 and on. The area around the mall is not safe at this time. The recruiter office had been there for years even when it was thriving.
@lo1bo2
3 жыл бұрын
A toy or video game collector should scoop up that KB Toys sign. I lived close by from 2006-2019 and saw the decline of the mall. Shopped at the attached Walmart a few times.
@Cat-qp1lf
3 жыл бұрын
I expect Spectrum/Christown Mall will meet the same fate soon.
@paulgrogan8032
3 жыл бұрын
This is EPIC, I left phoenix in 1987, in the 80's this was the place to buy everything current in terms of fashion💔
@shineeteentop24
3 жыл бұрын
I recently moved back to AZ and I was sad to see it closed :( but not unexpected. It was already pretty dead when I first left AZ.
@victorgonzalez9294
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video! I was at Metrocenter mall in 2006 and it was rockin'! Great memories.
@mathewmclean9128
3 жыл бұрын
That would be awesome to get into the old Sears anchor store and the Dillard's anchor store. I would call in sick from work the day that they open that up for the auction preview.
@rasierra
3 жыл бұрын
Dillards is still open on the second floor as a clearance center.
@twhey828
3 жыл бұрын
I would buy a repurposed condo unit there I love the idea of plenty of parking spaces and a large common area.
@RickPotvin54
3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. Square foot lease rates would work the same... have some bean counter crunch the numbers and see what the speculative scenarios are. Just for fun.
@everyhandletaken
3 жыл бұрын
Would really like too see this done too, if it is viable (should be)
@ErinPlays
3 жыл бұрын
That Deb store was a total time capsule! It reminded me of how teen stores looked when I was in middle school. Love the KB sign. It's cool they are doing auctions, but it's sad to see everything falling apart.
@RetailArchaeology
3 жыл бұрын
I think the KB Toys store is what stung the most. I have so many memories of KB Toys at the mall, seeing it like that was like they closed all over again.
@camimiller261
3 жыл бұрын
I have very fond memories of Christmas shopping here, always felt like home
@myfavoriteplanet3247
3 жыл бұрын
Used to go to this mall all the time as a kid in the 80's. There were tons of people shoping there back then. Never thought it end up like this.
@SKnope
3 жыл бұрын
Right before the 22 min mark, I believe it was the Frederick's of Hollywood, lingerie store
@Jessicatt88
3 жыл бұрын
Yep
@LuthienNightwolf
3 жыл бұрын
That's what I was thinking too! I still have a corset I bought there in the early 2000's. lol
@Jessicatt88
3 жыл бұрын
@@LuthienNightwolf lol. Yes!! To think, we were same age shopping in the same old shut down store. Reduced to dust someday. Could have been best friends, never know! Funny how lives converge.
@Jessicatt88
3 жыл бұрын
@@LuthienNightwolf shit we prob met and don’t even know it.
@nemesisconvoy86
3 жыл бұрын
At that location, the registers were under the KB signs. One side had the glass cabinets of games
@atariblue
3 жыл бұрын
"That looks dark and forbidding down there...let's go check it out": Every dumb character in a horror movie.
@StephenBattilana
4 ай бұрын
Soo SAD!! Alot of great memories with Metrocenter for the past 40 years before it shut down completely!! Whether it was the ice rink, the Midway games, the Bill&Ted scenes or just hangin out at the food courts with friends and/or family and walking the mall remembering the old school store and what new stores took there place. Keep the memories alive Phoenix 👍😎
@JaredJonesAZ
3 жыл бұрын
The electrical buzzing is the death rattle of the mall. Fitting last words for a place that was humming with activity for decades.
@jw6948
3 жыл бұрын
You could really hear the emotion in your voice in this vid. This was a very pretty mall, sorry it closed.
@carlweiss8942
3 жыл бұрын
what a beautiful mall, art deco, 80-s styling, it's a shame to lose it, thanks for the tour
@matthalley8616
3 жыл бұрын
Grew up about a mile from Metro and spent a lot of time there. Miss the 70s decor done away with in the 90s/2000s remodeling. Lots of funky concrete and huge fountains full of change in the circular areas where the halls change direction. Of course the ice rink, Farrell's, the arcade, Sears, Orange Julius, and on and on.
@jeremiahgratza3430
3 жыл бұрын
I used to work at Carleen Research in Metrocenter in the early 2000’s. I was one of those kids who asked if you wanted to take a survey in the mall back in the day! Haha
@rasierra
3 жыл бұрын
where were the offices located? i wish there were old directories online to see old locations and what was where and when.
@Jessicatt88
3 жыл бұрын
Was it by where Walmart is at now? I remember my friends doing paid surveys at metro
@Chronicallymanette
3 жыл бұрын
I might have done a survey with you I remember it was in a corner somewhere in the east side of metro.
@sandyvittitow8165
5 ай бұрын
jermiahgratza3430 I Word At the Market Research Place to Back in 1996 Doing what you Did
@rainydayparade916
3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, so sad to see it this way. I grew up visiting this mall starting with vague memories of seeing it with the ice skating rink. But I do remember going to the underground arcade when I was a kid, then as a teen I frequently hung out here with friends. One of my first jobs was at the Harkins Theatre. It was always hopping and was the place to be for the teens.
@lizzy2111
2 жыл бұрын
My first job was Harkins metro too
@susanluce8242
3 жыл бұрын
Best video ever!! Spent so many years coming to Metrocenter. Good memories and so sad. I remember the water fall art in the center.
@heathersobsessions5247
3 жыл бұрын
Omg Deb!!!! My friends and I from '08-'11 went to Deb almost every weekend at the now closed Silver City Galleria in Taunton MA! So crazy to see the inside of one all abandoned.
@cherylpesutimassie5010
3 жыл бұрын
I was searching the internet for photos of the open malls and five and dime stores I went to as a kid. Even though long gone it was still nostalgic to see them. When I was very young we would jump on a bus and head downtown to the big box stores to window shop, as my aunt used to say. It was exciting during the holidays...the display windows of the big box stores went over the top with their decorations. It was fun to walk the sidewalks and see them glistening with ornaments and new toys. Now, I'm seeing the dead malls, no one walking the mall lanes shopping for clothes, Christmas gifts. And remembering all the times I shopped in. The five and dime stores gone and now the malls -- gone. People today buy so much online. Never experiencing the interaction of the public, the stores and the hustle bustle during the holidays. Just memories now. Don't get me wrong, I love getting stuff in the mail and anticipating packages being delivered to my door. But always shopping online can get boring. Going to the mall was a day getting outside your own house, meeting up with friends, hanging out. I miss that.
@Mighty-VizioN
3 жыл бұрын
This is so depressing to see how lifeless everything is. imagine a world with no one there.
@Mariowave94
3 жыл бұрын
I went to this mall often in February to March this year buying merch at Anime 4 All before the pandemic.... How innocent early this year was...
@rasierra
3 жыл бұрын
they moved to pv mall for now
@ckrtom2
3 жыл бұрын
Ironic how hopping January through early March were this year-before all hell shut everything down.
@powerfantastic01
3 жыл бұрын
So many memories from Metrocenter, growing up in the 90s. We used to hang out in the food court and peoplewatch for hours
@Chronicallymanette
3 жыл бұрын
My nephew enlisted before March 2020 to the marines he was probably the last group of young men to get recruited into the military. My nephew is a marine now
@MyEnime
3 жыл бұрын
That ws my mall!!! ditched alot of classes in HS to go hang out at the mall all the time
@gregorytimmons4777
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing what gets left behind sometimes. Of course, there are situations where a tenant will vacate in the middle of the night but to leave all those watches and parts during an orderly move shocks me a little. I am also amazed that so many people are willing to shop online rather than to actually see and touch items they contemplate owning.
@MDestron2282
11 ай бұрын
I still remember every inch of that mall like it was yesterday. I spent a big chunk of my childhood and teen years at Metro. Midlife crisis engaged.
@Tommie_the_wrath_of_Khan
3 жыл бұрын
My favorite mall in the Phoenix area. So sad...
@zammap
3 жыл бұрын
One of the worst parts about working retail is when someone ask if you have more in the 'back room' and you say no and they're like "are you suuurrreeee?" And I'm like "brah, our backroom is the size is a closet and mostly houses cleaning supplies I'M SURE we don't have anything back there"
@AmbientWalking
3 жыл бұрын
Incredible scenery! Really love the interesting sensation you get from this tour! Thanks so much!
@cyrusgraham292
2 жыл бұрын
Entrance 2 , first floor was the Recruitment Office Tenant Space across from Altered States alteration and cleaners.
@scorpiohurley6786
3 жыл бұрын
WOW .. what a blast from the past!!! my first job was a Metro Center mall Santa.. only lasted one day i quit when some kid pee'd on me ..rofl thanks for the nostalgia.. many many memories
@lizzy2111
2 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha
@mantronixtube
3 жыл бұрын
we loved that mall when we were little ... the ice rink and the best arcade
@awesomedez
3 жыл бұрын
There seems to be a lot of malls named Metrocenter. The one in Mississippi is also dead.
@Chamomile369
3 жыл бұрын
No its not they reopened it recently, its hilarious lol
@tsunamipapi1343
Жыл бұрын
I was just at the metro center dillard’s with my gf a few months ago and it was so fucking cool 2 me 2 look at how old the whole thing was . it was so empty and it really felt like a time machine . I’ve never been inside the actual mall but my parents grew up with it and it’s just sad 2 me that so many people grew up with this mall and have memories there and it’s just gonna b demolished one day and it’ll b as if it never existed :/ . anyways, this video was really cool, thanks
@carcrazynik
4 ай бұрын
This was so nostalgic to watch for me. My 2nd and 4rd jobs as a teenager were in this mall. I worked in the back of Sears then a supervisor at Spencer's Gifts that you showed with the black windows under the escalator. Sad to see how much it's changed but also the same.
@user-vi4xy1jw7e
3 жыл бұрын
That song at the beginning is dope
@dianacarter_art
Жыл бұрын
My very first job was at Liberty House in Metro Centre. That was around 1977. I also worked at Sears. I used to love the Black Angus Steak House that was located around the perimeter of the mall. Lots of fond memories of my teenage years. ❤️
@user-nv2mr6nn7c
3 жыл бұрын
Very sad to see this mall go but it was time. Hopefully a developer can come in and revitalize the building. I am thinking they will have to tear it down and rebuild. It's just weird because the city plans to build the light rail at Metrocenter. It will be interesting to see how that plans out with an empty mall.
@utahboxergirl11
3 жыл бұрын
I remember when that mall was new. Seniors used to walk in the summer.
@PhillyCh3zSt3ak
3 жыл бұрын
I remember this mall. Back in the late 90's my dad's car was stolen when he was getting Christmas gifts.
@chalicecasillas7895
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I remember in the late 90s early 2000s that mall was the number 1 place in the city for car thefts. It was all over the news and my mom used to be so worried about letting me and my sister take the car there to hang with our friends on weekend nights.
@nonnie95sanchez
3 жыл бұрын
Went on Yelp and saw reviews for that deb shop 😂 looks like it was opened 7 years ago
@dellaknust6780
3 жыл бұрын
The deb store was originally a lerner. The problem with identifying is that many stores moved around in the mall. But I the spot because I grew up here.
@mr.balloffur
3 жыл бұрын
Strangely enough that DEB store was one of the last ones to close when they went defunct in early 2015. Completely mismanaged since the nineties
@MissMTurner
3 жыл бұрын
I worked for KayBee back in the 90s and we had a tiny back room. No place to even eat or anything. Just a single closet of a toilet, an even smaller space for the manager to keep paperwork and a cramped spot we would literally fill to the rafters at Christmas time with stock. There was no way it was OSHA compliant given you couldn't even walk through the canyons of towering boxes! Lol
@davestation6344
3 жыл бұрын
Was laying in bed on June 29 in Minnesota going through my Twitter feed and read about the impending closure of Metro Center. I was so upset, I was up all night thinking about it. I've spent so many hours there. Arrowhead Town Center was the first nail in Metro Centers coffin. Hopefully it doesn't get demolished like Valley West.
@GaryGans
3 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised to see that this took such a collapse, as I have watched so many of your blogs, and despite the many design changes that you have shared with us I had hope for this ability to endure. Great display of what it looks like now. I also really like those skylights! Thanks for the video! Happy Christmas!
@VinceFelix-ff9cf
3 ай бұрын
This is the best video documentary of my favorite mall as i was growing up here in Phoenix, Arizona. I was there when it open in 1973. I was 11 yrs old and remember how excited i was about this new mall opening. Alot...alot of fond memories of Meterocenter as a kid and as a teenager. Jr high and high school i remember come Friday nights us guys use to to hang out at the mall to check out the babes and hopefully ask one out for a date. I did get lucky at times. I now miss those stores i use to check out in the mall. One of those stores was " Bill's Records and Tapes " on the lower. I use to check out the newest audio gear from Pioneer in their audio showroom. I miss the food court above the ice skating ring etc...etc. It wasnt until the early 90s I saw the beginning of change I didnt like in the mall. From that point forward the changes were bringing down Meterocenter. And I was right. The growth of diversity of people I didnt like is a small partial reason in my personal belief is the down slide of growth and demise of Meterocenter. You did an outstanding job of your documentary of this great mall once at its peek in the mid-70s. Now I hope someday in the future Amazon will look like Meterocenter closing down with abandon warehouses Amazon once occupied. And hoping someone in youtube land with their cameras will film these abandon warehouses Amazon once occupied.
@scubajoe3321
3 жыл бұрын
I am so glad my local mall is doing so good
@djmexicanodetx2195
3 жыл бұрын
I remember KB Toys!
@serinthia
3 жыл бұрын
I was last there in 2001 before I moved out of the area. It was so full of life even then. I first moved to the Phoenix area ten years prior in 1991 and i was immediately taken with it. The Imaginarium, Natural Wonders, Babbage's, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, The Tinder Box, See's Candies, and, yes, the KB Toys. I missed out on seeing it when the ice rink was there, but I fell in love with the arcade that replaced it. I'd never seen an arcade in a pit before with the food court overlooking it. I thought it was great. How the mighty have fallen.
@Heretowatchstuff
Жыл бұрын
I remember going there as a kid in the early 80s. There and Christown mall. Crazy how things change.
@MarshallFlores
3 жыл бұрын
Spent many a weekend there in the late 90s and early 2000s playing Dance Dance Revolution in their great arcade then swinging by the Dairy Queen for a Blizzard in the food court. RIP.
@lexinabox
3 жыл бұрын
5:56 - things remembered....
@mercury82
3 жыл бұрын
This video was depressing. I feel so old. This was the primo hangout when I was a teen. I used to blow my paychecks on clothes here when I was in HS. By the early 00's it was pretty ghetto. Half the clientele were teenage gansta wannabes. I'm kind of impressed it lasted as long as it did. The last time I was here was 2012/13 and it was on it's last legs then. Just a few knick knack stores trying to make a buck and a few department stores liquidating their inventory.
@dirtyface-capone7622
3 жыл бұрын
Yep.First went to Metrocenter when I was out in AZ visiting my grandparents summer of '94.Wholsome atmosphere.My family ended up moving to AZ in 2002.I went back to Metrocenter during that time, but the energy felt dull compared to '94.By '06, it had become completely ran down.
@vanhawk1074
2 жыл бұрын
This is so sad . I remember 34 years ago it was great , great memories
@MagnumMike44
3 жыл бұрын
Spencer's Gifts was one of the stores that was around for almost as long as the mall itself. I used to always get a kick out of seeing the gag gifts they had. :-)
@janetr5929
Жыл бұрын
This was the best and biggest mall in Phoenix during the 70s. As teens we went there as often as allowed and would spend all day. It was a great mall with great restaurants. It’s been pretty much empty for years.
@ATFsinners1994
3 жыл бұрын
Man, I’m gonna miss this place. I remember the times when my mom would take me there to get my haircut and then after that, we would go to that pretzel place.
@rnxpx
2 жыл бұрын
Basically grew up there in the late 70's and early 80's. My mom and two uncles worked at The Game Keeper for years. My brother and I would run around in the green carpeted sitting areas... aTaste OF Philadelphia was a great place to eat if I remember... good times. I miss it.
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