First off thank you for the video and thank you for bringing back so many memories! The Anaheim Plaza was my home away from home. I lived a 10 min bike ride away. I lived my entire childhood in that area, from 4yrs to 20yrs, 1972 to 1990. I rode my bikes everywhere and the mall was the best place to go, it was truly a special place for me. A typical Saturday adventure when I was around 8yrs was morning cartoons, cereal then grab the BMX bike and find my friends in the nationhood. We would scrap up some money to go to the YMCA that was a block away from the mall and play basketball in the gym, play table top games or swim in the giant indoor pool. After that we would take off to the mall and play some video games at the arcade and see what new Star Wars, Legos or any new toys came out at Mervyns and Toyland. After that we would head home and stop at Mexicasa at the old location and eat a $3.99 cheesy dinner. The restaurant moved but I believe it is still there with the same prices from the last time I went about 8 yrs ago. Its a traditional place in Anaheim so they don't want changes. This is what Anaheim was like for kids in the 70-80's. Freedom to do what ever you wanted and it was all out doors and an adventure like no other! No I really never had to tell my parents a thing because they knew the streets were safe. One of my best friends was David Wyatt.... RIP my friend.
Sounds like my youth also, although I'm a little older than you. Also grew up about 10 mins away. So many summer days my friend and I would walk or ride bikes to the mall. There was a Sav-On's on the same property where we would get a nickel ice cream cone then walk home! Wow, what a simple life!
Anaheim Plaza was our hang out place to meet friends especially girls. The 80's that small Plaza was alive and kicking. We use to hangout at the arcade and eat at Carl's Jr with friends.For some reason Carl's jr burgers tasted better back then. If we wanted warm delicious cookies Mis Fields cookies was just a few stores down. How about the buttered flavor pistachios in the center of the mall..Great Awesome memories.
Thanks for the historical look into the Anaheim Mall. Shopped there many a time back when I lived there. Retired and living in Tennessee now and it is always nice to see the old sod....
Thank you! When I moved down to Anaheim with my parents we lived in the Oakwood Apartments on Broadway and Brookhurst until my parents home in Anaheim Hills was finished being built. So, that was our go-to mall. I loved the Robinson's. The mall itself was nothing spectacular. I went back to that area after I graduated college and was shocked by the change. The change of the mall and the area in general. Now The Main Place has lost all of its tenants that they stole from Anaheim, lol.
Grew up near there. They enclosed it in the 80's. That was great places to hang out, not really sure why because we didn't have much money to buy anything. Separate, but on the same property was a Sav-On and a grocery store. Sav-On had nickle ice cream cones.
I remember Anaheim Plaza but we frequented Buena Park Mall a lot more. Of course that was back in the mid-late 1970's when me and family lived in Anaheim. I kept looking at the wrong area on Google Maps... north of the 5, not south!!!
I remember the CalFed building across the street that went up in 1963. That high-rise building came down sometime in the 1990's I think. Times changed very fast from 1960 to the 90's, so I guess that building was hopelessly outdated when it was demolished.
This was the mall my family went to in the 70’s and 80’s. If I’m not mistaken, I got my Cub Scouts manual in the Mervyn’s store. There was also a Carl’s Jr restaurant inside near the front. I also remember a YMCA behind the mall. I went to their summer camp in 1987.
I had been there a few times, though I'm not from the area. I used to work at the FedMart on Lincoln. In the B&W photo there's a building on the far left(3 or 4 stories). That used to be a bank building that they tore down in the 90s. It was on the NE corner of Euclid and Crescent. I tried to see it on Google Earth, but they have (annoyingly) overlayed some of the "key", current structures, over the top of the older photos, so you can't see what used to be there (The companies probably paid Google). It was a really nice area back in the day. I want to say there was a Barker Bros. furniture store next to the afore mentioned building, but that's a stretch. It was sooo long ago.
Nice short video and thanks for the memories. I lived down the block from there and went to Anaheim High School. That was the go to place to hang out and goof off or sometimes ditch school and not get cot the cops. Sam Goodys was the nearest place to find the latest music. Waldon books where i could get lost in the occult section. take surveys to get money to play video games or go to Dks donuts down the street to buy cigaretts for about a $1.25. Spent lot of time there where i had fun and good memories there. also remember going to both the broadway and Robinsons to get free samples of cologne. Anyways the years this took place was around 87-91. I also would suggest doing one on the Buena Park Mall if you hadnt already.
thank you my friend. I have done that one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uWFx_OqgAZo.html as well as many of the Southern California malls.
Had lots of great times there. Many of my friends worked there at the arcade, the Broadway, and one of the food places we affectionately named "We Be Hotdogs and Sh!t" I was also there when the California Federal was imploded.
Thanks for this history lesson. I moved to SoCal in 2003 from eastern Washington and the Anaheim Plaza was one of the first areas I frequented. I sure miss stores like Comp USA, but how can you compete with Amazon?
Omg i never knew about Anaheim plaza until now i can remember my parents and siblings were going to Disneyland when all of a sudden while we're driving the traffic stopped us from going and of course it was a holiday. So we chose to do some shopping before visiting my auntie in Orange County. Thanks for the information i really wished more people would comment because there's so much history that's been deleted but can be brung back. Another thing was after visiting Disneyland we would hang out at the plaza and eat before we continued home. God bless you for the information.
Anaheim is a Germanization from the Santa Ana River and “heim” which means home. So - “home by the Santa Ana River.” 🇩🇪 The old cemetery on North Street is amazing so much German history.
I'm close, but usually went to Orange Mall. It is pretty dead now. I used to go to the pet store to look at the kittens and puppies. Would also get commodore 64 games and books. There was also a 1.75 theater that showed movies that had been out for a while already. It got replaced by a Walmart around 20 years ago.
I also remember shaking hands with the actor Hugh O’Brian, dressed as Wyatt Earp, when he made a personal appearance at the Sav-on Drug Store in the mall.
The “Disney Walmart” title is reserved for the Walmart that is 2 blocks away. Lmao. It’s a neighborhood market. But still get all kinds of clientele paying with different forms of money 😂😂
As of May 10th, 2024 (1:02am pst), forever 21 has closed and has been replaced with Burlington's not to long after and and the cafe was closed and Crumbl Cookie is taking its place soon.
thanks, have you ever heard a wiki style video? Yes, I did get some information from wikipedia but there are other sources as well. thanks for watching
thank you for the reference. My videos are sourced from Wikipedia as well as other sources including obituaries, and news articles. Sorry to hear that you didn't like me just reading off wiki. There are some other channels similar to mine and if you pay pretty close attention, they get their source material straight from wiki. Sometimes people would rather watch someone make a video with pictures and videos of the specific store or mall rather than reading it from a online encyclopedia. It makes for more a nostalgic feel. But I see your point. My channel as well as my other channel, Eric C Productions is about nostalgia. The point is just to bring back memories of a childhood store, place or even a mall. That is all. I have watched many of other channels who do similar videos and I appreciate the time and effort that they do to brighten my day whether it is for a few minutes. I could care less if they were reading it straight from wiki or made it up on the go but I think that it is wonderful that there is a forum where people can make any kind of video about what they like. Thank you for your comment and I look forward to when you start creating videos. Check out these other channels: Recollection Road and Commerce Alive to Die. These channels are "power point style" video format. Straight from Wiki. I try to put a different spin on my videos. Sometimes people like them, sometimes they don't. Very few of these channels will return your comments also. I like to talk to my viewers. I appreciate your time in watching it and making a comment.