County Fair Mall - Woodland, CA
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2019
- Hello there, fellow Wayfarers! We're back with a dead mall tour we filmed in September 2018 and March 2019 of the County Fair Mall in Woodland, CA. This mall is located in what used to be considered "out in the country", but this area is growing fast and due to be redeveloped any day now.
Nevertheless, there's still vestiges of the agricultural past (and present) visible in the rolling expanses of fields edging the main town, sleepy Yolo County fairgrounds situated across the street from the mall, and the train tracks (complete with trains) criss-crossing the roads in between. Our mission was to attempt to capture some of the history of this long-time community fixture in Woodland before the bulldozers arrive.
This bucolic suburb west of Sacramento is also close to Davis, a college town (UC Davis) bustling with activity and fueling Woodland's growth. They'll definitely seize on this big opportunity to rezone this underutilized area for residential and/or mixed use property, but it'll be at the expense of this old mall and with it, a piece of Woodland's history.
Thanks for watching!
Grew up in Woodland in the 80s & early 90s... moved away in 94... sad to see all this loneliness... 😟
Yea man it's been bad ...
The only thing that keeps that mall standing now is the Walmart and that one Indian dude trying to sell you pipes.
Ah, the movie theater just went out of business too
New state theater in downtown > that pos 😂
It made me sad tbh
Is Gottschalks still open?
@@haydentimmons4048 nope it closed down about 12 years ago due to the company going bankrupt
This makes me so sad. This mall was the shit a and extremely busy early 2000's
Thank you so much for this may places around usa be affordable to all stores and places to live safely.🏪
I was there in 2018. This place was my shelter when I was exchange student in UC Davis...
Woodland is a very boring/depressing city. Not a lot to do here, drive around at night and the streets are totally empty. The southside (el dorado) and the new neighborhoods (spring lake/ pioneer park) are alright family neighborhoods, but when you go to central and most parts of north, it’s sad. This is the woodland I’ve been born and raised too, segregated and depressing.
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@@jamescarden7341 just watched the whole video. I loved it 😂. It sums up woodland and even Davis pretty well. Keep doin your thing bro bro💪🏾 definitely looking forward to new projects of yours
@@__-pq5ul 🤝💯💯💯🐕
Move out like I did in 94...
@@831farmeros2 definitely going to, it’s also so expensive here now 🤦🏾♂️ but woodland is like quicksand, when your here you end up Stuck in a bad way
This mall had action in the early 90’s
Who else is here, from woodland, just seeing what our town looks like on youtube?
yeah :(
Is there somewhere I can find pictures inside of the old stores I want to bring back memories
A little tidbit: the mall opened in the mid-1980s on what was then Highway 113, which is today's East Street, which, back then, was a pretty good way of getting customers from the highway and into the mall. Unfortunately, a few years later in the early 1990s, Highway 113 would shift onto a new freeway alignment east of the mall and was no longer visible from 113. This probably begun the really slow decline of the mall over the past few decades.
Plus, here's what I know what used to be what:
5:41 former Waldenbooks (chain is defunct)
7:37 former Foot Locker
8:25 former PacSun (before that, Lerner New York, which is today's New York & Company, now an online-only retailer)
8:50 former Miller's Outpost/Anchor Blue (chain is defunct)
9:01 former Claire's (where B-She is)
10:39 former Orange Julius (where La Kora is)
11:26 former GNC
11:38 former Musicland/Sam Goody (where Grace & New Hope Social Hall is; chain is largely defunct apart from two stores in Oregon and Ohio still bearing the Sam Goody name, but in essence are F.Y.E. stores)
the empty area at the end of the food court used to be Jasper’s Giant Hamburgers. My mom, sister, and I used to go there for lunch along with Mrs. Field’s cookies (where Boss Café was replaced years later), and the frozen yogurt shop next to Oriental Connection across from the former pizza parlor and a Mexican restaurant - replaced later by two agent offices. The food court was not the same since before the Chinese place then closed in late 2023.
I also remembered those places you mentioned. Sam Goody was my go-to place for music.
God I am so depressed....thanks alot......
I still got a bone to pick with Orange Julius those mf skimped me and my dawgs in 2008
Lol!! I miss those nachos
I had so many memories here bc my aunt owned the shop b-she and my cousins and brothers all did karate there :(( we used to go there everyday
I grew up in Woodland in the 80s when it was a quiet, safe town.
Now it's full of drugs, gangs and bums.
Not true. its a great family town.
Beware of Crawdawgies
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@@tedbedford942 give me three reasons why woodland is a good “family town”. Because it definitely is not. I wouldn’t be surprised if your just a realtor that is trying make woodland sound good on the internet. Especially with the name like “Ted Bedford”.
@@Xafovod empirical evidence and personal opinion. I was born in raised in that town, I do have an emotional connection with the city, but I can fully acknowledge that there really is no positive, I was in a fucked up head space when I lived there which could have affected my perception and the time was a genuinely very violent time in woodland, in which it was getting personal. I’ve since moved tf outta town, heard it’s gotten alot quieter, but still shit happens believe me.
It’s looks so depressing 😞
The Orient COnnection at :10:08 is possibly the last original place in the mall since the early 1990s.
Wow I remember when it first opened when I was in jr high school
Is that Jim’s store that used to be on Main Street?
Is the school inside the mall still open?
@Jared Bates
My sister and I went today. Been the first time in what it seems forever.
It's even worse than the last time I went.
We only went to see if that Chinese restaurant was still there.
That's not either.
😩😭
Bruh why did they have to shut down Burlington
Gio Corvino because there’s a church in there and jcpenney is still open so that’s why the hell its still open
Gio Corvino yeah I go there every Sunday
Gio Corvino Christian I believe
Keila Is A Cringy Fangirl a church 🤣🤣🤣
@@keilaxoxo have you been to Gottschalks before?
can I get the address for the city clerk's office?
You guys should check out eastmont mall
Hi
Have you been to Sears in Oakland before?
@@haydentimmons4048 the one in downtown oakland?
@@CL9Brandon Yes the one in downtown Oakland. Have you been there before?
@@haydentimmons4048 as a kid i did but i dont remember much
At 7:53 is where Samuels Jewelers used to be.
8:58 Is where Santa Claus was every year.
This town looks soo bland like Rhode island or Maine are What there's American style towns in California🤷♂️🤔🤦♂️🙅♂️
That mall has been dead since 2000
Not true…the mall thrived in 2000. It’s actually been dead since after the 2008 recession. I used to frequent the mall in 2000 as a high schooler.