Sea-Tac Mall Television ad - August 1981

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1981 TV spot for the former Sea-Tac Mall -
- now renamed as 'The Commons'
located in Federal Way, Washington
www.tcafw.com
Note the stores then:
-The Bon: *changed to Bon-Macy's in '03 - to Macy's in '05
-Sears: *merged with Kmart in holdings '04 -still located there
-Peoples: *closed '83 - Mervyn's opened '84/closed 2003 -currently Target
-Lamonts: *bought by Gottschalks in 2000/then closed in 2003
**and the mall's distinct/familiar jingle at the end

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@kizzume 9 лет назад

This is the first time I've found any footage of this mall, and it still doesn't do it any justice. It had dark wood themes everywhere. Dark wood floors with some carpet, dark wood on the ceilings, it was quite a different design, and I think it's a shame they covered up all that wood when they remodeled it. They could have actually still worked with that wood to create a newer fresher look, but they decided to copy all the other malls instead. The place I remember the most was the Gold Mine, it was an arcade that was like a cave, it was awesome! Very darkly lit, best arcade I had ever been to. Nevertheless, I'm really glad to see this footage.

@ThinkLascivious 7 лет назад

Kizzume Fowler haha.... Yess...the good ol Gold Mine!! That is how i found this video. i was just randomly laying here reminiscing about 80's nostalgia and thought of the Gold Mine. Googled it... and this video came up!

@dakers2052 9 лет назад

I remember when they first broke ground on what was a forest to build the mall. A small corner lot had been carved out for the local traveling carnival to set up shop. I used to deliver newspapers (the P.I.) to the trailer park located behind the mall (I am sure they were not happy that their little isolated world disappeared). I still call it the SeaTac Mall (always have, always will).

@tacomadavid68 16 лет назад

Wow I am in this ad when I was a kid. 16 seconds into walking off to the right really fast for about two seconds!

@Covert_Smalls 7 лет назад

I remember the Bon Marche. It was the "cool" place to buy Bugle Boys.

@ThinkLascivious 7 лет назад

Wow...this video brings back great childhood memories. I remember there was swap and forest there in the 70's. Me & my older brother caught frogs there. We lived just down the street at 36005 6th Ave S.W. I remember as the mall was built... then opened.... and Wow... spent hours and hours there each trip. The Gold Mine was incredible. The first time i walked in there at about 11 years old... my mind was blown. Before this our only experience with novelty games was pinball & fooseball at Jerome's Candy Kitchen... (right next to Food King). Then BAM.... not only did the Gold Mine have rows and rows of pinball machines.. there was air hockey tables, fooseball....and.....new arrivals Asteroids & Space Invaders!! Let's not forget the state-of-the-art Seatac 6 movie theaters. Back when movies were more affordable. And wow...what a concept. .. 6 theaters in one place?! What? Previously the best we had was Seatac Twin Cinemas.... next to Federal Way High School... yes... only 2 choices. Great video...now i'm going on a RU-vid binge and going to search for more 80's Federal Way nostalgia. ✔

@SuchAPrettyMess 15 лет назад

I can't believe this exists, I am dumb founded. Words can't even describe how thankful I am you posted this video, thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!! Kind Regards, ~Emmy

@donwinslow6967 9 лет назад

Great memories! I got to see 'Star Wars' for my 7th birthday in 1977, at the Sea-Tac Mall, and I'll soon be taking my family there to see 'The Force Awakens'. Thank you for the upload.

@Lurker1979 6 лет назад

Wish it still looked like that.

@LikaLaruku 8 лет назад

My gawd, it's not even recognizable today. They should have left it looking like it was in the 70s, at least it would still have some character.

@Delorean217 8 лет назад

The good days of Federal Way.

@smy1ey 8 лет назад

There were good days?

@ThinkLascivious 7 лет назад

Delorean217 Yep, Federal Way had amazing days. My parents (RIP) moved there in 1968 from Northern California when it was still a resort town focused mainly around Redondo. We left Federal Way in 1980 because my parents saw apartments being built and they (correctly) foresaw the town being someplace that they did not want to raise their 4 remaining school age children.

@iamtheomega 6 лет назад

Used to have a Radio Shack just next to the Sears, in 1992 I got a Tandy 25mhz. desktop computer with 13" monitor for $1300 (probably on sale). The very first shooting incident was around 1995, they mentioned gang-related, and you'd want to ask "what gangs"? 2000/2001 was sort of a turning point for the region. Keep in mind that the global economy 'kicked in' in 2000 --- the strong American economy/dollar from 1970-2000 ended at this point, 2000. The most intense 'change', building, influx of foreigners/sweltering overpopulation/frequent crime occurred throughout the 2000s, during Bush2, but continuing not only unabated but ramping up massively during Obama without skipping a beat. By the early 2010s the downtrend was visibly obvious, graffiti and frequent reports of gangs and crime. In the early 2000s like 2002 remember hearing about the first shooting at the SouthCenter mall in tukwila, some black gang members in the food court area. There would be at least 2 more of the same before 2010. I think the schools in federal way went to heck as soon as the influx of 'foreigners' from California, etc. occurred in the 2000s (starting point in the region 1995), I knew a student who graduated from fed. way high in 2012, she got no education from that place and struggled in college. The police might as well have had a substation at the high school for the black kids fighting, vandalizing, and etc. (she's black btw). I would say traffic started getting bad in 1995, lines that never existed before. By 2000, it was much worse, but still not even remotely close to what we have, and witness today.... Also, there used to be a Blockbuster video across the street from Sears near where Ross dress for less is now, but even that strip mall has been recreated and rebuilt in so many incarnations so many times you can't even recognize most of it. Blockbuster ripped out in 90s. The Ross was in a corner next to a sewing outlet (Michaels?), which was all ripped out. Ross set into existing structure that had safeway, now safeway is a block away to the east, etcetera etcetera....

@Delorean217 5 лет назад

ThinkLascivious Thank you for the story

@Delorean217 5 лет назад

Yu Toob Yes Ross was next to Michaels

@ChristheShrinerdawg 9 лет назад

This is how I remember the mall. I graduated from Decatur High School in 2002 (first class to do so after 9/11). I grew up near Silver Lake Elementary School and during summer vacations, my friends and I used to ride our bikes to the mall just to get out of our neighborhood and go pick up lunch at the McDonald's that was in the food court and catch a movie at the AMC theater that used to be there. I miss the old seatback mall.

@lcalderon1956 9 лет назад

this is amazing footage

@portlandgirlx0x096 5 лет назад

I had no idea SeaTac mall was changed over to The Commons. Revolting! I grew up going to SeaTac mall! My sis and I somehow managed to squeeze in the middle of the support beams/pillars at the main entrance and sit in them! I see those beams are switched out.,🤔 I agree with another commenter that the original or at least brown and orange old school SeaTac mall was epic! Leaving it alone would have been fun and left nostalgic memories of the '70s&'80's! 😿😾🐱

@DamonC2012 10 лет назад

I remember going there and in the middle of the mall you had all the smokers hanging out.

@Therealdmarsh33 Год назад

Grew up in this place. Movies theater was always busy....

@THEREALRBMC 12 лет назад

Goldmine Arcade playing Tempest and Pac Man and Robotron all damn day.

@briannwo1900 4 года назад

I used to ride my bike in the woods where they built the mall back in the early 70s. There were several jumps in the woods and a treehouse. Oh the memories ! Then they came and bulldozed the place to start building the mall. Bastards.

@mixstylee 14 лет назад

i used to play video games at the goldmine arcade there, then they closed and moved next to red robin and it was called tilt, but now tilt is in the mall for like the last ten years, funny, i still play video games there,hmmm i remember when the mall looked like this,wow,was that long ago

@romulusnr 9 лет назад

They re-did it in about 2003-4 because they decided that the reason it wasn't doing well was because it was "too 70s" and because people didn't like going to "malls" anymore (never mind Northgate Mall, SuperMall, Tacoma Mall, and then-still Southcenter Mall were all doing FINE). So they redid the front with beige stucco pediments and pulled out the rugs and replaced them with earth-tone ceramic floor tiles, and redid the skylights to be more open, painted everything off-white so it would be lighter instead of the darker 70s colors. Incidentally the entrance door bars are still the same, aside from the automatic ones added at that time. You can still see the plastic square on the door bars where the Seatac Mall logo used to be. For years after the change the Tilt Arcade sign still said "Tilt At Seatac Mall" until they finally replaced the latter end's letters a few years ago. But the arcade has been moved twice since the new reconstruction started.

@GravityGrave 11 лет назад

hah! I remember all of that 70s decor! and the fake trees... there was even a HUGE gumball machine... omg so many memories

@RyllaBat 14 лет назад

I grew up with it being sea-tac I'm now 17 I wish they didn't change it

@gli7utubeo 16 лет назад

Nice vintage ad. Thanks.

@1sleeve 4 года назад

Yeah,, fed watts sure has changed. Sportsworld was another hang out spot back in the dayyy

@fernandomenchu-428 4 года назад

I wish it was back to SeaTac mall. Even though I wasn't around in the 80s. Mostly my parents.

@scottkellogg8273 7 лет назад

Good Memories,,,

@markofly76 15 лет назад

There's a Good Reason People Get Shot, er, Come Back........to Sea-Tac Mall! Brings back old memories of me as a kid and a teenager going to Sea-Tac Mall! I can't believe they call it "The Commons of Federal Way" now.

@WhiteDragonXXX 2 года назад

This is my local mall I go to on a weekend when a new film comes, mall is pretty dead.

@candacegmail9576 Год назад

Was there a Sanrio Surprises store in this mall in the 90s?? I seem to remember going to a giant Sanrio store here in the mid-late 90s.

@romulusnr 9 лет назад

@kobun37: Wait, I thought the cave entrance was from the Wizards of the Coast store (closed 2003)! You're saying it predates that? I had no idea. I am pretty sure the mural on the back wall of that store (still there, as is the cave entrance, even though it's now a Legal Docs To Go shop) is from WotC, though.

@rstudios2852 6 лет назад

You might want to change the Sears part because Sears just closed

@THEREALRBMC 10 лет назад

Goldmine Arcade.

@romulusnr 9 лет назад

Gottschalks removed and replaced with Century Theaters 16. (AMC 6 closed in 2002(?)), torn down, now is Town Square Park. Gateway Galaxy 8 went private and became $2 second-run theater.) 4 "pads" added to 320th street side in about 2009. Tony Roma's gone, replaced by Azteca (moved from Gateway) in about 2006-8 or so. And of course the WaMu on the corner now Chase. Borders gone. Dick's Sporting Goods over by Sears with it's own themed front entrance breezeway. Stores between Target and Catherine's/Ann Taylor removed and replaced with glass up to the corridor, fronting a new Kohl's.

@LikaLaruku 8 лет назад

I thought the current theater is where Mervyns used to be. The mall has changed so much from 2005, let alone 1981, that it might as well have been 3 different places.

@QuadMochaMatti 5 лет назад

@@LikaLaruku The Target is located in the old Mervyn's side of the mall (and was People's before then, as se in this promo). The Century theater is located where Lamonts once stood (Gottschalk's was in the former Lamonts space, occupying it unaltered). I remember that People's was where my younger sister and I got our Cub Scouts/Brownies gear, respectively, ca. 1980/1981 - they were the local officially designated purveyor of Scouting uniforms, etc. back then.

@WenSpen 8 лет назад

👍💜✌

@andrewporter6947 10 лет назад

SKC 4 LIFE

@wendytarricone8914 Год назад

What was the name of the burger place with saddles for stools. I believe it was just inside the main entrance on the right?

@LeroyFaceTV 5 лет назад

I’m 22, my parents moved to federal way decades ago. The only things they can say about federal way now is how much of a shit hole it’s turned into

@landmarkcreations1183 5 лет назад

Almost everything has changed in there since I was a kid..Except for Mrs . Fields cookies..still in the exact same spot, same tasting cookies and everything

@552mustang 12 лет назад

When I grew up going to Federal Way Schools (in the 80s/ 90s), the demographics of Star Lake/ Totem/ TJ were around 90-95% white. I remember you could count the minorities on one hand at all of Star Lake around 1987. Now it's like 40% white, and 60% minority, black and hispanic. The ghetto essentially moved to South King County and the middle class people moved north. It's a really sad thing when the places you remember have completely changed to trash.

@ThinkLascivious 7 лет назад

552mustang We moved from Federal Way in 1980 because of oncoming building of apartments. i went to between 1974 to 1980 i went to... Panther Lake Elementary, Brigadoon Elementary and Nautilus Elementary. I'm pretty sure i was always the only Black kid. There were a few random Native American kids and Asians. But that was it. Don't think anybody was even thinking about percentages or anything like that then.

@QuadMochaMatti 5 лет назад

@@ThinkLasciviousEven though I was a very young boy at the time, I remember when FWPS mothballed Panther Lake Elementary, and leased it to Weyerhaeuser, while they were constructing the WeyerhaeuserTechnology Center. For a short time, my late father (a 43-year WeyCo employee), had his office in the former library at Panther Lake, and he took me with him to work there, several times. The Gymnasium was filled with assorted equipment in storage.