Great Memories of the Crystal River Mall - One last walk through the Mall (Closed in August 2022)
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- PERMANENTLY CLOSED ON AUGUST 20th, 2022. Yes, this is a tribute to a shopping mall. I get it, it's a little silly. But I really loved this place -- So I filmed everything I could to serve as a time capsule of this quirky little mall located in Crystal River, Florida. I cover the mall's entire 32 years of history from it origins with the DeBartolo corporation to its many evolutions -- as well as the final few years. This video includes footage inside the closed Regal Cinemas 9 (which hasn't been seen by the public since its closure in 2020).
Special Thanks to:
The Crystal River Mall / www.crystalriv...
Bay 9 News / www.baynews9.c...
The Citrus County Chronicle / www.chronicleo...
Jam Entertainment / justamuseme.com/
Crystal River Aquarium Project / cflas.org/2013...
Radio Shack: www.radioshack...
All clips included in this video were utilized in a fair use context. No copyright infringement was intended in any way by the original copyright holder.
Chapters:
00:01 Really Loved The Place
00:09 Opening Titles
00:48 Introduction
01:53 The "Retail Apocalypse"
02:40 Buying online isn't the same
03:44 The History of the Crystal River Mall
04:22 The Unique floor plan
04:42 The fabric roof on the food court
05:36 Mall was open for 32 years
05:55 Became a business incubator in the later years
06:44 The Executive Hub
07:13 Attempting to build the Crystal River Aquarium
07:47 Family Entertainment Center built inside K-Mart
09:01 A Walk through Jam Entertainment Complex
15:27 Pathetic CZcamsrs trying to destroy people's lives
16:40 I loved the food court here
17:25 The Hardwood Smokehouse was EPIC
18:10 The Hot Dog challenge
18:45 The Rural King
19:44 I loved the Regal Cinema 9
20:45 Walking inside the closed movie theater
21:30 Seeing areas closed to the public for years
23:00 The theaters are immaculate
25:15 Chocolates By Vanessa was amazing
26:15 The Greed of a CEO that destroyed over 100,000 jobs
29:20 This video is a time capsule
30:25 Walking into the Front Entrance of the Mall
31:45 This place nearly became an indoor theme park
33:44 Walking around the closed Big K-Mart
34:26 Blue light specials.... K-Mart was great
35:30 Talking about the local store owners
37:45 From DeBartolo to Simon Malls
38:05 This mall had the best natural light of any mall I've seen
39:00 Uncertain future
39:45 I really loved this place
41:20 Nostalgia for the Radio Shack
43:30 My last walk through the Crystal River Mall
43:55 Walking past former K-Mart Storefront (on right)
46:40 Walking around former Belk Storefront (in front)
48:05 Passing former GNC Storefront (on right)
48:45 Walking near Hardwood Smokehouse (on right)
49:45 Walking towards former Sears (current Rural King)
50:20 Looking around Coastal Creations store
51:40 Walking near former JC Penny storefront (in front)
52:12 Passing the Regal Cinemas 9 (on right)
52:57 Finally, the Treats Food Court
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We had a family home we vacationed at in Yankeetown nearby all the time as kids. We would go to this mall for entertainment (or an attempt at entertainment). We saw a few movies at their theater and that was always fine in comparison to the rest of the mall. Makes me sad though to see it’s closed forever now :/ feels like losing my childhood memory
This is a great overview of this mall. I don't have the same nostalgia for this as you do, but I visited here once in early 2021. It was SO surreal. There were probably 2 dozen people playing cornhole in the center of the mall where the tent was. While this was going on, there was a small orchestra band practicing different songs. I think they used one of the storefronts as a space to practice in. The rest of the mall was entirely empty and it was later at night probably like an hour before they closed. All of this going on plus the decor in the mall just made for a strange experience, but I loved it. I just love 90's architecture and design in general, so seeing this was cool. I also agree with you, that "Treats" sign for the food court is amazing.
I remember when I would go to that pretzel shop in the mall, the man who owned it was so kind. I miss the Fender shop, it was my go to store!
The Pretzel shop was probably my favorite place in the entire mall to eat as a kid. Absolutely delicious.
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We had such great memories there.. so sad to see it gone…Thank you for the video..
Glad you enjoyed it. I miss it, too. It was such a fun place to hang out as a kid.
My parents moved down to Crystal River in 1999 and when my wife, kids and I traveled down to see them we spend a lot of time at that mall seeing movies and shopping with my parents. Generation x grew up around the mall. So if you get bored there’s always a mall you can go to. I though it was a very interesting mall. It had everything in a small package. Sadly my parents passed on and I haven’t been down there in a long time. Florida just to just to beautiful a place for people to die. I mean the retires that move down there. That always depressed me every time I traveled down there. Now it’s the mall that’s being torn down.
Yeah, a lot of great malls have gone out of business over the past 5 years. It's a shame -- the younger generations may not even know what a mall is in another decade.
I was here in 2004 or 2005, my Dad and I spent the summer in Lecanto helping friends. Dad took me to this mall a few times, and I always thought the tent ceiling was awesome. Sad to hear it's gone :(
I can't believe it already be gone a year now. The bulldozers have nearly completely leveled it now.
@@TheAdventureSchmuck That's sad. Seems like it was on the decline for awhile, according to other videos, and the pandemic finished it off.
Remember the 90s there. It was packed when we vacationed here. Sad.
Yeah, I loved that mall in the 90's. They had all 4 anchors open and the place was packed.
@@TheAdventureSchmuckThe 90s were the bomb. Great time to be young.
Well said
This breaks my heart. I grew up in CC and going to this Mall was my whole childhood being that I grew up also in the 90's. I have met my now husband there whom grew up in CC too. I have taken my son here several times. Me and my husband grew up in Homosassa, btw. So, even seeing our childhood stuff going away has really broke our hearts. We still love CC, it's our home but losing the Mall where me and him met is so hard on us. All I can say is at least the memories in my mind still live on and same with him.
I'm still in shock at how quickly they demolished it. The Rural King store is still there, but the rest of the mall has mostly vanished already.
@@TheAdventureSchmuck I was too. It is so hard to believe that it got tore down so fast too and no one had no say on it leaving the town.
Sucks that this mall shut down. It was already kinda dead back when I lived there, but I do have some memories there. Went mini golfing(even if that day was kinda miserable for other reasons), saw Avengers Endgame at the Regal Cinemas there, tried winning a Donkey Kong plush from a claw machine, and wasted tons of money failing to do so. Remember walking around that Rural King in addition to that center of the mall. Not to mention getting a ton of Mike & Ikes from one of the quarter candy dispensers. Suffice to say, in spite of the writing being on the walls, I enjoyed what I could there. I could've seen it lasting a bit longer. It seemed like it was on it's last legs by general mall standards, but for Crystal River standards, it seemed alive. All I can say is that it's a loss I saw coming, but one that admittedly kinda hurts.
Yeah, I can't believe how quickly they demolished it, too. I drove past it last week -- and most of it is already gone. The Rural King is still open, but the rest of the mall is mostly gone already.
even though i wasn’t a local and i don’t live anywhere near this mall, i would literally pass by this mall my whole life growing up from my first memory to almost an adult. i’d pass by this place to go see my nana then and aunt now during football season. and i’ll say, i had great memories passing by. wanting to go inside bc of its unique buildings and how there was a movie theater. i did however went inside one time i still have that memory. my grandparents said “let’s go inside. we always pass by but never went inside” and so we explored, got drinks, took pictures and left. being so colorful and filled with colors it was inside.
anything could literally be a memory that you wish you could go back to or do one last time.
I was there when it was being built
That's awesome. I would have love to have seen it being built.
So many memories Even tho I wasn’t born in the late 80s early 90s I was born in Tampa but I was raised in crystal river Since I was 3 I’m 21 now only live 15 minutes away from this mall they used to have so many stores there it used to have a GameStop, a belk a Kmart and stuff me and my two friends used to ride our bikes there and we’d watch the movies and stuff at night and we’d shop and everything sad to see it close and soon it will be demolished
Yeah, I miss the GameStop. That store, the Arcade and the Movie Theater were the perfect afternoon IMO.
i remember the k mart omgg
It was a pretty great store in the 1990's
@@TheAdventureSchmuck well i’m kinda a young but i was born in 2006, and me and my family always used to love going to the kmart and there was this little arcade and like a fro-yo shop i think? and the movie theaters omg
@@j-hopessprite4768 Yeah, the arcade was awesome. I spent entire weekends at that place. The Regal Movie Theater is still the nicest one for about 25 miles (the Citrus Cinema is awful).
Remember during 1998 Christmas season, the mall was pack with people. Sad that this mall is close.
lol yep great memories the toy section was where I was mostly