The very dead and quiet Puente Hills Mall. Made famous by the movie Back to the Future. Not sure how much longer this mall can sustain itself in its current state.
So sad. Spent a LOT of time here in the 90's and 2000's. I moved back to the area a couple years ago and still come here for the AMC and Round 1 for bowling. Everything around this mall is "new and shiny" but the mall itself hasn't had any improvements and has just gotten really outdated and all the stores are gone aside from a handful of random ones. I always see comments like "Because of online shopping" or "Oh, Amazon" etc. But that' BS. I went to Brea mall, Cerritos mall and the Americana recently, which I hadn't been to in years. Guess what? They were packed! I was literally amazed by how many people were there. It's as if online-shoping and Covid never happened. I couldn't believe it.
so depressing. there goes part my fondest childhood memories. summer days spent whole days. after lunch saturdays dad would say "want to go to the mall?" how our eyes lit up. recall stayed an entire day waiting to watch porky's revenge at amc 30...adolescent curiosity.
One Idea I had while visiting this mall last year was simply to make the former Sears & Macy into Officespace (half of the mall really) while the rest can be fill up with mostly entertainment venues and possible a regional supermarket within the old Burlington & Ross used to resides.
I went here on the 3rd. It was in even worse shape than what was shown in this video. In fact, I overheard the employees at the Ross talking about the place closing soon.
