Well done! Thanks for taking me back to my childhood. Seemed I lived at Lakeside from 1976 to the late 80". Shopping was just a part of it. Worked at Hudson's Restaurant making Maurice Salads/dressing and all the great desserts. Worked at Meyer Jewelers, too. Ice skating, movie nights, Christmas decorations and Santa. So many great memories from the best mall in Macomb County. What a great trip down memory lane.
I went to Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods and I would go to Eastland Mall after school. The mall was behind and walking distance from the school.
Ce la vie clothing store was forbidden by my parents. 😂 I grew up with Northland and later Fairlane. It was an all-day adventure ❤. We ate at Hudson on Sunday...yummy....this is so nostalgic
I'm only 4 minutes in and I already ❤ this. I grew up in Detroit and I LOOOOVE malls. Northland was my first love mall. For some reason there's something SO exciting about the mall in the 80s. It just seems like it was the popular place to be. My mom and I spent many Saturdays at Northland in the 80s and 90s. I will always love it and miss it. We also shopped at Fairlane, Wonderland, Westland, 12 Oaks, Livonia, Tel 12, Oakland, Somerset. I go to Southland also. Malls are some of my favorite places.
I came over the border from Kitchener to shop at the Merry Go Round at Oakland Mall. The malls & clothes were so much cooler in the Detroit suburbs. I even went to a certain clerk Norman at the Merry Go Round. He got transferred to. Northland & my parents took me there to see him. Our friends in Sterling Heights told us not to go there. It wasn’t safe. We went anyways. I was the best dressed kid at my Mennonite high school. 😅
I grew up in Philly, GenXer, it's amazing how much similarity there was between Detroit area mall culture and where I came from. I enjoyed the nostalgia and remembered a few things I had forgotten about!
I relate to Christy McDonald and Kim Adams. My mall was Oakland in the 80s, with the occasional trip to lakeside. I used to get some clothes from Merry Go Round, very trendy in that day. Surprised Kim couldn’t shop there but she could at contempo casuals. Their clothes were more risqué than MGR. Loved those clothes on the girls back then! 😝 I dated a girl that worked there too…very nice. Kim Adams must have looked great in those clothes too!
@@ClickOnDetroitLocal4WDIVDo you have any old tapes of the NBC game show Mainstays of the 1970's thru the 1980's? Hollywood Squares, High Rollers, Chain Reaction, Wheel of Fortune (or others) come to mind because a lot of those episodes are presumably lost. So, who knows...a lot of people would be happy to see a different episode Pop up that hasn't been seen in decades and maybe a local station has it. One thing I'd like to see again is Bowling for Dollars with Bob Allison. It would be fun just to see that again. Nighttime Price Is Right. Joker's Wild, Bullseye, Tic Tac Dough. Yeah. I remember a lot.
Northland…my first real job was at JC Penney’s…best memory is I met Terry, I’ll never forget him 🫶🏽 Maurie’s Salad was to die for!! Mara McDonald was boring lol
Speaking as a former Harmony House employee, you didn't have the luxury of browsing ticket sections the day of an onsale. We gave you the best available and got you out of the line before the person behind you went for your throat for holding up the line!
Lakeside and twelve oaks were built at about the same time and used to be very comparable. Why is lakeside dying/closing while twelve oaks is thriving? Besides partridge creek, who has some theories??
I think part of the reason is location, it's not right off I 75 like Oakland Mall for example. And also, I think we just have too many malls, and Lakeside was too close to Oakland as crazy as it might sound. Lack of innovation, bad ownership, closing anchors might also be a factor. I believe Oakland will make a comeback with the new owner. Only malls surviving now are high end, (Somerset) or malls with variety of entertainment or food. (Great Lakes, 12 Oaks)
As a millennial who has lived through the gloriously blissful times when the malls stood still and were poppin' back in the 90s and 2000s, I gotta say those were the best and happiest times of my life. And not a day goes by that I don't think of the days when the malls where not only they were THE place where I could go hang out, shop and eat, but sometimes back when I was going to high school they were my skip-school sanctuary to get away from all the drama and bull***t I had to deal with at school day in and day out(while keeping a low profile). But now those days as well As the nostalgia are as good as long gone cause now these malls are dying thanks to the new developing ways of the commerce (Inc. The internet). And I'm just as sad as yall are to see these malls go. 😢 But with these malls becoming city centers (or pseudo-downtowns as they call em) they just might bring back the thrill and the bliss that the malls of yester-decades once presented. For old generations and new alike. And with northland about to be finished with the redevelopment project in later years, ima' be there to relive those glory days ALL OVER AGAIN!!!❤❤❤😂😂😂🎉
I was a shoe Maven ( STILL am) n Baker's, Winkelman's n the Wild Pair were the ultimate!!!! If you wanted the REALLY glittery shoes you would go to The Wild Pair in Northland Mall in Detroit, cuz they had the most ostentatios shoes available. I had my over the knee stilletto heeled REAL leather black boots that were $175 in the 1980's for YEARS they were made so well!!! And I was a dancer in the 1980's and would buy at LEAST 2 pair of each of my favourite shoes so they wouldnt wear out!!!
Also, at Bakers Shoe Store all over the Detroit area, you could get shoes that were satin Marilyn Monroe style pointy tied high heeled pumps died ANY colour of the rainbow, a service started to help girls match their wedding n bridesmaids dresses n prom dresses to their shoes EXACTLY!!! What a wonderful time to buy n collect hundreds of shoes!!!
i remember in 1983 summer riding my 10- speed bike whit two of my boys that live across the street on rutherford and puritan' we just was hanging ' and then when i got too Redford high school ' got a job in the 12"grade', at hudson and then it change to marshalls field,s now out of school got a better job ' look up then it was change to macy,s''
