Explorer of the aesthetic. I tour various locations to archive our presence in time for Mall Aesthetics and my various urban exploration videos. In addition to that, I also game, try new stuff, and make my own music. A venerable jack of all trades
About 25 years ago, I was in the mood to play ff4 because I only seen friends play it. I wanted to experience it. I stumbled across ff1 for nes (my fav system) and noticed there were 2 unreleased nes games. 2 and 3. 1 was a little clunky for me at the time, I was too young to appreciate it. (I love it now) But I noticed that 3 was similar to 4, and it being on my fav console, I decided to try it. I had to emulate it, seeing as I couldn't read japanese. I quickly became hooked. I printed all of the enemy stats, maps, items, magic, etc, and stapled them all over my wall. It became my favorite game, and to this day, I am obsessed with it. I am currently wearing a ff3 famicom tee shirt as I type this hahahahaha.
Based off of news reports, the contents of this location auctioned off for roughly 15k. They're trying to recover as much money as possible at this point to stave off bankruptcy
I went here in '72-'74, 1st & 2nd grade which was the addition with the library. 1st grade was the open area and 2nd grade was up the steps and was 1 big room. I guess they put in a partition to split the room because 2nd graders could be distracting. Thank you for this tour before it was torn down.
It’s understandable that these young people have a negative view of capitalism. But capitalism itself isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, it needs referees not unlike football. Beginning with Reagan the referees started being removed and that process accelerated thereafter until the current day. Things like repealing Glass/Steagal legislation and the Securities and Exchange commission no longer enforcing anti trust laws allowed good healthy and beneficial capitalism to turn into crony and corrupt capitalism. Capitalism is like nuclear energy. If properly harnessed it produces good clean energy. However if not properly controlled it causes devastation. And the financial collapse of 2008-9 is evidence of that. And congress still hasn’t fixed it. They still are not enforcing anti trust laws. For instance, Disney shouldn’t be allowed to own ABC, Comcast shouldn’t be allowed to own NBC, and a plethora of other examples. This kills competition which in turn causes monopolization of market, higher prices, lower wages for employees, and poorer customer service. Starting with Reagan our economic policy has been geared towards benefiting the wealthy stockholder class rather than the working class. Which makes no sense. It makes more sense to reward the people who actually produce the goods and services. The wealthy stockholder class produce nothing. They parasite off the people who actually produce the goods and services. They steal the fruits of everyone else’s labor. And this ultimately is why you see so many dead malls today. It wasn’t online shopping. Online shopping is like an opportunistic infection that took advantage of an already weak organism. I shop online only because brick and mortar stores no longer carry what I need and the quality of products in Walmart generally $uck.
I think some time in the 90s or early 2000s they tried to do “upgrades” to the mall and changed the color scheme to that ugly olive color. The original color scheme was much more attractive. The interior design of this mall was much more attractive than malls that came later like Mall of Georgia. It wasn’t the design and look of the mall that killed it. It was the congested traffic on (un)Pleasant Hill road and the decimation of good paying jobs from the 2008-9 financial collapse that killed it. Yes, Discovery Mills mall and Mall of Georgia took a huge bite out of Gwinnett Place mall, but they weren’t the death blow. Even Sugar Loaf mills and Mall of Georgia are struggling now. The death blow to Gwinnett Place mall was the horrifically congested traffic in the area, particularly on Pleasant Hill road and Gwinnett county and the state being unwilling to do anything about it. If I had the power to move mountains I would have picked up Gwinnett Place mall and set it down in the Athens, GA area. The problem wasn’t the mall. It was what had become of the area it was in. I hope that some day, somehow one of these beautiful and classic 80s malls can be saved and preserved like a museum piece that people could visit and see how it once was kind of like how the old battleships like the Missouri have been preserved as a museum. An iconic symbol of better and happier times.
As of the last week in March, 2024 demolition began on this part of the mall. The front of the former Parisian has been completely torn down. The elevator is exposed.
I took a bike ride over here back in 2010, it looked pretty dated but I know the metro ATL area has grown and received tons of tax money so I'm guessing it's due for a re-model🎉. As I got older I visited the Movie Tavern in Tucker, GA. It's like something out of a Netflix film😮, The decorations in that shopping center appear to be High class 1980s design. I want to visit again before they modernize it 😢.
When I first moved to GA , this was the first city I lived in. I went to Hillside Elementary. I remember it rained hard and I was living in a Roach Trailer 😅
I grew up in Gwinnett , lived there 20 years. I loved the food court and "E.B Games" . I was the happy kid walking through that mall every weekend from 2003-2008 During this time my dad was working at a good paying job so we would visit at least 5 stores every time and the shopping and restaurants, it was movie night 😊 I remember the RedBox rental becoming popular.
The Recollection Mall guy says this mall is a carbon copy of what Gwinnett Place mall used to be but I don’t think so. In the mall the columns are completely different. The design and shape of the support columns of a mall is an important part of its aesthetics, look, and feel. Gwinnett Place mall’s columns are round like what you’d see in Indian or ancient Persian palaces. The columns in this mall are rigid and square. And carpet on the second floor? WTF? Carpet should never be used in a mall. They went cheap with the redesign apparently. I wish this mall was a copy of the Gwinnett Place mall. It would look a lot cooler.
It's so weird seeing Roswell stuff… I used to live in the apartment complex that's kinda behind there. It's called Elliot Roswell Apartments today, but back in 1981 it was called Raintree Apartments (all the roads in the complex are still called Raintree). Also back then, the buildings were infested with cockroaches. We then rented a house in Woodstock GA for a year or so, and I went to kindergarten there.
@@NekoArc In '81, it was nearly all woods back there. Went back in '91, and everything was developed by then. Now it's weird to see all those developments abandoned.
