Final Days of the Valley View Center Mall - Dallas TX My video tour of the Valley View Center Mall in Dallas TX Please go check out my second channel and subscribe! / @acesplace5150
@@elivr6046 As if capitalism is no longer a thing? It is still a thing and it is glorious! It is the reason you are able to watch this vid and comment.
And from an old timer -- you folks won't be able to experience the glorious '50s through ''70s shopping in a small town 'downtown' - because there was no where else to go -- !!
So true. So many good teen memories of going to the mall on friday nights, smoking weed, picking up hot girls and having fun. My mall is dead too :'( R.I.P Westminster town mall aka cranberry mall
OMG! I am so happy someone did justice to this once great mall. My childhood had many memories inside that mall. I still occasionally go to the AMC which is currently open.
Places like this and abandoned old amusement parks always make me a little sad. I always try to imagine such a place in its heyday. Alas, things will always change. Ah well
The original shots of the mall are beautiful. The main courtyard in the mall is key. It's very sad to see what has become of it. Sigh. Sign of the times, right? This said, great job, Anthony. Thx for sharing.
Omg I remember when Valley View Mall was built! I lived near Preston Rd and Forest Ln. My friends and I spent many weekends there as teenagers and I worked there during the summers in high school. Thank you for posting this. I can’t believe that it’s gone.
Hi! I am also from Dallas and used to go to Valley Mall when I was a teenager. Back then, they had Victoria Secret and Hot Topic. So sad it is coming to an end 😔
I remember driving all the way from Oklahoma to shop at The Galleria and Valley view in the 90s. Once I moved here it was so much easier to visit. I hate that it’s gone.
Hey, Anthony! Within about a 3 mile radius, back in the '80s and '90s, there were THREE malls, in the area. The Galleria, Valley View, AND the Prestonwood Mall ( a very cool mall). The Prestonwood mall area is now an outdoor mall area, today. Collin Creek and Prestonwood were my main malls to visit, back in the day.
I mean, how many other malls are there within a 3-4 mile radius of the Galleria? I've lived here since 1985 and do not recall any other indoors malls, in that vicinity.
Spread out 10-20 miles, there's more, to be sure. Northpark comes to mind, as well as Willowbend, Stonebriar and Collin Creek Mall. Whatever the mall's name is, in Lewisville, but those are nowhere near the Galleria....
Its so hard to say goodbye to Valley View Mall. My childhood memories in North Dallas. From 1988 to 2001 Went to David G Burnet Elementary School to T. C. Marsh Middle School and Graduated at W. T. White High School in 2001. Me and my lil bro used to be hanging at this mall faithfully until he graduated in 2004. Im going to miss this mall. Its actually my favorite mall besides the Dallas Galleria. RIP to Valley View Mall. Especially the women there OMG
I remember Wyatt ...i koved this mall it had everything even a JoAnn...after keaving TX and coming back to visit it is so different...the malls in Dallas r not like b4...no Prestonwood either...sad
It was basically replaced by the much larger and busier Galleria. The largest mall in Dallas, and one of the biggest in the state. They're literally blocks apart.
The Disney store here was beautiful. I remember the Claire's that was here as a kid. I bought a shitload of spice girls dolls here. HaHa. When I was 13, I met this like 27 yo Mexican dude. I thought he was cute and my friend Brandy went with me on a date with him to some dollar movies in Plano. I didn't know Spanish back then and he didn't know English. Awkward 😂. He brought like 4 of his friends. I remember him trying to grope me behind the theatre afterward. Looking back, we were dumb kids hanging out with some damn pedos. WTF
Found this mall on Google Maps in July and thought it was cool. I saw The Oldest View last week and it’s all I can think about! Nice vid Ace! Keep it up!
This mall actually became a really useful space for local artists and people who lived nearby - lots of studios and little markets and a great community space as a result!! What’s so sad about it is that it’s being demolished for a billion dollar gentrification project lmfao
Not sure how else to reach you... I made some videos of Valley View a few weeks before they began demolition of Macy's where a couple of the no-name stores were still open and would love to share them with you.
Valley View was the place to be in the ‘80s. Your sweeping views of those corridors brought back a rush of forgotten memories. I’m a little emotional remembering my childhood friends and days spent with grandparents. I remember spraying Giorgio perfume at Bloomingdales; lusting for designer goods at Sanger Harris; and buying gummy bears from the candy store. My parents would drag us into Sears whenever they needed appliances, but it was worth it when we’d get a small bag of buttered popcorn at the counter. Seems like a dream.
People are definitely still shopping it’s just that the urban crowd are at The Parks mall, Grand Prairie Outlet or Mockingbird Station then the rich crowd are at Northpark and the Galleria, everywhere else is just falling off!
Great to see u visited this mall to record it final days. As a dallas resident myself, it was upsetting to lose this mall and Collin creek mall. I used to buy retro games from CGX (console game exchange) at Collin creek mall. And I agree that valley view was not doing well due to the galleria being literally a cross the street.
i was a regular and bought from cgx a lot in frisco until it closed, the collin creek location had a very good selection, wish i couldve bought more from there, i only went there a couple of times because my parents didn't like collin creek
This is very nostalgic. I live near this mall and it’s sad to to see how it is now. I use to go to that mall all the time. And now it’s just gone. That and Galleria and NorthPark were the malls I always go to. And I have a fear that malls are one day going to be like this thanks to stuff like the internet. While yes, the internet is great, I’m going to one day miss the feeling of going to a mall in like 20-40 years.
What do you mean? Go to NorthPark on a Saturday. It’s shoulder to shoulder crowded. People absolutely still love window shopping over internet shopping.
I think lots of people are either too broke / indebted for the mall, and those who aren't broke or indebted are likely too exhausted, or lazy to walk around to shop.
I grew up in this mall ): I remember my parents taking me here as a child, we would go into the Disney store, and then we would go to the little "Thirsty's" milkshake station where I would always get a small oreo milkshake! We would take a seat wherever we could overlook down to the whole mall, and enjoy our treats. I even performed there with my elementary school choir group.. rip Valley View, it was the SPOT. Even in my early teens.
I didn't even know anything was still in there. When I went like 3? years ago there was almost nothing except the atHome that was Garden Ridge and I think an antique store. Even the 75% Off Books was gone. Unless you mean Collin Creek instead
I first went to this mall in 2008, I liked it. Reminded me of the old malls in Houston back in the 90's. Years past and I forgot about it. Then near closing me and friends shuck into, but it was only recently was I able to connect this was that mall I use to go to in 2008
So many memories here! Taking pictures with Santa, getting my pictures taken with friends with the cool backgrounds lol! Shopping at Hot Topic during my punk phase, going to the movies with my friends. I believe the last movie I saw there was Jackass 3 lmao! This mall was great sad to see it go !
Great tour Anthony! I love malls, it is sad that most of them will be gone from the American landscape eventually. I would have loved to visit this mall in its heyday. Hello from Phoenix Arizona!
This was a very nice mall, I remember walking around and viewing this it's spooky in that you say to yourself I walked where he was filming, it's sad. Thanks for the footage- It's history now....peace, from Dallas.
Me and my ex wife lived in the Noel Apartments on the top corner and could literally watch the Galleria Macy's garage traffic from our patio in the 90's. We both worked in the Galleria and she'd sometimes work both the Things Engraved and Things Remembered locations (Galleria had the company alter the name for their location so they'd stand out from Valley View down the street)
We lived at the Verona from 2005-2009, back when it was somewhat affordable. We would sit outside on our 9th floor balcony that faced valley view and heard gunshots multiple times and an occasional police helicopter flyover with searchlight. It was an interesting mix in that area.
@@Cacklingkameltoe We lived there the exact same time, sir. We looked at the Macy's sign on the Galleria from the window in our living room. I hesitate to call it a patio since there only about seven inches of space outside those doors/windows.
I wished I grew up way back then because I remember being at this mall when I was literally like 6 years old and I remember it being huge and amazing. I'm 18 and I'll drop by cause the AMC movie tickets are very cheap but it breaks my heart having to pass by the memories
My parents visited this mall before I was even born. I got my haircut there, ate Chinese food there, sold cars on the same lot that VV Mall sits on, and went to my real estate job across the street (on Alpha Rd). Thanks for all the memories! I look forward seeing the end result to the new development. Also, thanks for this quality upload, Ace.
I live a few minutes away from here and years ago I saw it was in decline but the anchors were still there. When the anchors like Macy’s left it was a wrap. Other stores started leaving and not telling people. Now we only go for the movie theater
The media wants you to think that though it's the internet shopping things like that but it's not what it is is the economy is in a deflation and there's 80% of America's paper dollars is in another country there's just not enough paper to go around literally paper currency that is
In my opinion, we never economically recovered from September 11, 2001. Then we had 2008 housing/banking fiasco. Those leftists are destroying us financially, socially, educationally (especially), culturally, and worst of all spiritually. We need our Mighty God to save us. I fear it's too late.
@@SuperDobieGirl don't put politics in this it's not right or left it's happen in cycles I don't care which party in control whatever it's happens all the time you be a fool vote the same person November elections Republicans or Democrats they been burning taxpayers dollars unclassified for year nobody knows which growing to when they final vote them out or retired they going to have good retirement for life me and you getting nothing unless investment real estate or stocks whatever most employers now days don't give stock options for company unless you board members so I don't care about your politics am saying rich getting richer and the poor and getting poorer but today politics is about greed and power so be it maybe why don't vote that much now days
The galleria is exactly one block down the street not across from it. I remember the last time I was there it was only a restaurant the amc & some yoga studio. Outside where sears users to be at. I remember going there as a kid a lot they had some fairly cheap stuff there but after some of the big stores closed it wasn’t such a fun place anymore so we would go to red bird mall cause it was closer to my house I think it’s called southwest mall now I havnt been there in a while either. Now i just buy stuff online sometimes i go to the galleria.
Glad to see your take on the mall. This is the first mall on your channel that I have also visited. It is so strange seeing the sheetrock plastered up over everything. Back in May, the storefronts were still visible and the former Sears corridor was still open.
Oh my gosh I love this place. I always went here. Even recorded a bit of the abandoned parts on my channel. I go here all the time. It's sad to see it go. My parents both worked there (before they knew each other) And the ELEVATor with the fountains around it used to be my favorite part when I was young. A lot of memories here...
I have lived in Dallas all my life and not once did i ever visit Valley View mall, I'm 26 but in high school i remember people talking about it so i think it was still pretty active then. It's sad to see this
I used to go to this mall all the time. I vividly remember the massive remodeling they did in the later 80's. You had to walk through plywood corridors during that endeavor. The Sear's building was so unique looking.
@@carterwfb1 never said i went in. Clearly says "i remember going here..." Typo with "now" supposed to be "seeing this" . just didnt think it was that important to correct myself. 🙄
Eren E it was open a year ago they just started demolishing it this year 2019 some stores were used as salons a yoga studio & a restaurant & of course the amc it was the major stores that when closed people just stop going. But some of the stores were still occupied before it actually closed.
I live in Tucson, AZ now but I have SO many fond memories of going to this mall...and yes I to am born and raised in Dallas and I'm proud to say my last job in Dallas before leaving in 2003 was in the mailroom at Dillards in Valley View Mall 😌❤
I miss the arcade , food court, gamestop when it was cool, getting a custom LED belt that said my name , checking out girls while looking cool in my Air force 1s lol etc my young life was great in this mall! I had a lot of fun and memories ")
I live down the road from this mail, it’s practically gone now. I see them tearing it down a little at a time. It looked like it was an amazing mall at one point, sad that a booming mall eventually died.
