Thank you for this video. This was my mall! Got my first job at the KB Toys there when I was just 16. Met my hubby there and out two older children remember that beautiful carousel well. We lived in the area until 1999. Will always regret moving away from there. Such a treat to see such a quality tour of this place.
I'm glad to see this. I know that standing in line isn't on the top of everyone's list but online shopping has it's own problems. You can't replace being able to try something on before you buy it.
REALLY love your channel. I grew up in Norfolk & Virginia Beach & most of the malls you've featured were big parts of my childhood, especially MCM & Pembroke & including Lynnhaven! I remember when it was multiple levels & they had a *gorgeous* old-school carousel. Loved that mall & am so happy to see it's still doing well!
Thanks Victoria. I’m glad it’s helped bring back good memories. It was nice walking around Lynnhaven because it felt like malls did in the 90’s. Before all the Covid mess especially. I hope to have MacArthur Mall not too long. Trying to figure how to record and not get booted 😃
I graduated from Great Bridge High school in 1992 spent many hundred hours here!!! I moved to the Smoky mountains in 2005 I kept waiting to see the caracal with the escalators to take you up to the food court but didn't realize they had remolded it. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!!
Hi Keith! Sure it wasn't April 1981? I graduated from Kellam HS in 1981; after opening the mall management asked the Kellam Symphonic Wind Ensemble to perform at Center Court, which we did (I was playing french horn). That was in the spring before school was out. Miss the upper level. I was a regular at Aladdin's Castle video and pinball arcade. There was a salad bar upstairs opposite the AMC Cinemas. There I discovered garbanzo beans! AMC had screens upstairs as well as downstairs. I was also a regular at Radio Shack, which is now where Far East Trading is located. Where the future nail salon is was originally a piano store. The early days the mall had a janitor who was entertaining to watch! 73.
I don't live in the area anymore but its so crazy to see the 2nd floor food court gone. I got my new pair of White Cement Jordan 4s from the Athletes foot close to the carousel in 1989 and I couldn't be touched in Green Run elementary after that lol. Its crazy to see Aeropostale still open and I think still in its original location after 25 years. This will be the last traditional mall standing in Hampton Roads. Long Live Lynnhaven Mall.
I have many fond memories of this mall. Spent almost every weekend here as a teen between 85-88. Was last at the mall in 1990. Happy to see it is still active.
Oh yes Lynnhaven is healthy. I saw not long ago retail “experts” predict Lynnhaven and Patrick Henry Malls will probably come through this fine. Guess we have to wait and see.
That I have not found out but… when you walk out the doors where the carousel was if you look up there appears to be an area that could be where they’re talking about.
Lynnhaven is anything but dying. It's a very popular mall and is full of retail stores and shoppers. It looks like you were there on a very slow day. It will be the only mall in the Tidewater area to survive the next 20 years. The worst thing they did was remove the 2 story carousel - that was a VA Beach landmark.
That was the purpose of this video to show it wasn’t. It was Thursday before 4. But even at its slowest, it has more foot traffic compared to the other nearby malls.
Lynnhaven mall is one of the few malls here in the area I live that doesn't seem like it's dying or on it's last leg. Spent a lot of time as a teen in this mall.. it's changed but, still feels the same in a lot of ways.
It was far enough away from other malls to not take traffic away. It’s predicted this mall and Patrick Henry will survive. That will be them about 40 miles apart.
This is my home mall I grew up in va beach about 10 minutes from lynnhaven, I even worked at that AMC when it first opened when I was in high school 😂 I remember all of those old legacy stores and the old food court that used to be upstairs, I moved from the area in 2013 when I come back and visit lynnhaven I get turned around a little bit so much has changed
Hmmmm. Now I’m curious and will have to go listen. I’m finding I’m getting more comfortable narrating and that’s probably helping my speaking as well 😂
Great video! I lived in Virginia Beach from 1995 to 1999. Are any stores in the Lynnhaven Mall still the same or they’ve all changed over? Thanks for your time.
That's a lovely mall. I'm glad to see so many stores up and running. I enjoy Fairlane Towncenter mall in Dearborn Mi. It has many vacancies. I can remember how it was in the 1990's. I also enjoy Southland mall in Taylor Mi. That one is smaller and has fewer vacancies. I remember when Southland opened in 1970.
Thanks Lisa. Glad you enjoyed. I will have to look up the malls you mentioned here and see what I find. Stay tuned. Working on another mall video now. :)
@BeachBroVlogs yep i grew up in carriage hill on gentry road all the parents used to send us kids there in the summer to grab some corn and the corner of lynnhaven parkway where the old farm fresh used to be that was nothing there so it was our playground way back in the day
Probably all they could for for a time. Then VB allowed development to encroach on to Oceania and almost lost it until they tore down a bunch of homes.
@@alyssarasmussen1723 I like the mall myself was there the day it opened I remember lynnhaven parkway was 2 lanes man I'm old...lol....I live in Perth Australia for the past 25 years went back didn't like the mall it became to sterile looking no upstairs anymore it was the place to hangout back in the day go to Aladdin's castle video game place midnight madness at to watch rocky horror it was like something out of fast times at Ridgemont high was good times
I definitely missed when lynnhaven was a 2 story mall,i worked at that Macys when they ended up making that mall into a 1 story,Aladdin castle was me and my brother spot
I worked at Hechts at Greenbrier mall. When Hechts took over Thalheimers and they were going to have two stores I helped one evening with moving inventory. Hechts had placed a lot of false walls over the Thalheimers signage. Was weird seeing that.
Even though the number of shops I would be interested in visiting in that mall have diminished over the years -- like the Brookstone, Suncoast Movies and Movies, WHRO World of Science, and a few others - seeing the mall still prosper is good. Many malls should try to decipher what is Lynnhaven Mall's secret in this modern age.
Thus mall looks way cleaner now than it did when I last went there around 2009-2010. I remember there being soot on the cieling when the center court had a food court on the 2nd floor.
Does anyone know you couldn't shop on Sundays, because they had stupid Blue Laws . That was in 1985. I am so glad I moved away. I hope they got rid of the Blue Laws. Anyone tell me what you think .
