Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, CA: Slowly Fading Away From the Golden Hour
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The original Sunrise Mall!
Today we take a tour through Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, California; a suburb of Sacramento. This mall opened in 1972, was remodeled in the late 1990s, and is currently slated to be redeveloped into a "commons" outdoor shopping and residential space.
Although there are a lot of vacancies, the mall is well maintained, has three of four anchors occupied and still sees a decent amount of foot traffic.
I'm more of a fan of the original exterior anchor architecture, so stay tuned to the latter half of the video where I do a tour of the outside of the mall.
Music at 3:10 is "Abandoned Project Ideas" courtesy Stevia Sphere: steviasphere.bandcamp.com/
Some information obtained from the Mall Hall of Fame: mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.co...
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who here in 2024 remember going to get an Orange Julius...? OH The memories. Cruising Sunrise Mall and enjoying The Birdcage Walk. I'd hit Comics and Comix at Birdcage all the time. How the times have changed.
Oh yeah I remember Orange Julius in that main corridor after Taco Bell (before the move to the new food court) and I think by Sbarro.
I used to go to Weinstocks with my mom and sister at least a decade before. Birdcage had a cheap movie theater my friends and I would go to. I ended up getting my second job there at the Men’s Macys in my late teens.
I’m actually not far from it, living in Sacramento, closer to downtown so if I do go anywhere it’s Arden or DOCO.
I loved the walk through Macy’s. My old stomping grounds 😂
I’ll have to pay this a visit in my next day off just to relive it while
I can.
Birdcage Walk! Yes! Grew up in the Vacaville - El Dorado Hills area.
That small movie theater where target is now…
Comics and Comix in Birdcage Walk might have been my favorite comic book store of all time. And there was an arcade not too far from there that had the Empire Strikes Back cabinet. The theater there was one of those that showed the Rocky Horror Picture Show often, and there was a Tower just across the street from the mall where you could buy event tickets. I remember one time getting tickets to a Phil Collins concert, and being right behind this guy buying baseball tickets who was taking his sweet time figuring out what seats he wanted. Man, that pissed me off. Lots of memories from that area!
Comic and comix used to carry gundam models
Man, does this make my heart ache.
I turned 41 this year, and all the places from my childhood and tween years growing up in the Sacramento area are gone or disappearing like everyone around Dr. Crusher in that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
McClellan Air Force base, where my dad was stationed for 85% of his Air Force career, has been decommissioned since 2001, and the Base Exchange closed a year and some change ago.
All the local Tower Records that my older brothers used to take me to are long gone. Dimple Records moved into most of Tower's old locations, but Dimple is gone now, too.
The only comic shop left that I used to go to with my brothers is World's Best Comics. I'm glad they're still standing.
I've been in the old Cape Hart base housing in what used to be North Highlands, it's so run down and sketchy. It doesn't resemble the brightly pastel colored homes we lived in whatsoever.
I remembered the way from my old house on Mono Way to Dudley Elementary school. The youth center was torn down, the Shoppette/ gas station where I bought many comic cards and comics off the spinner rack was torn down, the pool was gated up and rotting away.
The K-Mart across the street from the Wal-Mart just outside of Cape Hart base housing where we used to hang out is long gone. Ditto for the Food 4 Less in the same shopping center.
All the Godfather's Pizza places are gone. Superb Pizza on Watt Avenue is still there, though!
KWOD 106.5 FM has been gone since 2009. I cut my musical taste's teeth on so many songs I heard on KWOD, 100.5 the Zone and KSFM 102.5. K-Hits was great while it lasted, but now I think it's a Mexican music station. I think 102.5 is still kicking, though.
It's hard seeing the drastic changes and knowing how things used to be. It's like seeing the changes in my grandmother as she slowly unspooled from Alzheimer's.
If anyone read this and you're a local, I hope something I mentioned about where we grew up sparked some happy memories for you.
I'm a 916 native and you definitely brought back memories for me.
I haven't heard anyone mention KWOD in so long and I'm glad you did! I loved KWOD, it helped form my taste in music and was the first place I heard Fall Out Boy lmao. I also went to the 102.5 cinco de mayo concert at Discovery Park when I was only 15 😭
My friends and I also miss going to chill at Tower and dimple
I hear you about the drastic changes too. I moved to SoCal for a few years and when I got back SO much was different.
If you saw Sunrise or any other local mall in 2002, you'd never guess what they'd come to lol
@@Heavenhellhaleema Glad to hear anything I said triggered some memories.
My brother went through a divorce and ended up buying a house a few minutes away from the old McClellan Air Force base. For the past several years, our parents and I have been commuting to his house to babysit his son.
It still feels like home and is super familiar when I drive around, but it has an eerie disconnected feeling, too, like you somehow slipped into an alternate reality version of how things are supposed to be.
All the cinedome theaters are gone/ replaced. Those were so cool, saw so many great movies in them like Home Alone, the first live action Ninja Turtles, Star Trek, Power Rangers, etc.
Your talking about 102.5's Cinco de Mayo concert reminded me about going to the last 100.5 the Zone Exotic Zone Halloween Ball almost 20 years ago.
We used to hit Arden Mall and catch a movie at either the nearby Cinedomes or the United Artists Theater at the mall. In the summer, we'd hit the California state fair and/or Water World USA by Arden Mall.
Scandia, the miniature golf/ go karts/ amusement rides/ arcade place is still going.
Thanks for replying and sharing some 916 memories. Hope you're doing well where you're living now, friend 👍
YES the Cinedomes and Waterworld! I went to see the premier of the last Harry Potter movie there (in the hot Sac sun in partial costume 😂), and that's the last time I went before they were demolished.
And yes I'm doing well thanks, still staying in Sac on and off 👍🏾
Great chat!
I miss dimples. There’s a place in sac and folsom called The Cave that’s very similar though. For all I know, they may have received some of Dimple’s stock around the time they closed or so.
@@Huaquila Thanks for telling me about The Cave, I'll Google them ASAP!
Wow didn't think I'd see this in a CZcams video! I live about 10 mins from it and everytime I go in, it's a depressing sight compared to what it used to be
Man I miss sunrise mall in the 90s and birdcage
:(
I remember Sunrise Mall when I was little - packed to the gills! So many trips there over the years - I got my ears pierced there, and was amazed at a pinball machine that could talk (Welcome to Xenon!) Saw a Fish Called Wanda at the theater, and got my Glamour Shots taken there. The thing I miss the most, though, are the water features that were there in the early 1980s: In the main corridor hubs, there were these bright, shiny water fountains that had the water flowing over surfaces completely covered with mirrors. The effect was quite hypnotic. So beautiful!
I grew up near the Sunrise Mall and the nearby Birdcage Walk when they were happening spots in the 80's and 90's. Sunrise has been struggling since the fancier and larger Roseville Galleria mall opened in 2000.
That movie theater is where I saw Terminator when it came out.
I used to go to Sunrise Mall and Birdcage Walk in the 80's when they had discount movie theaters. When the Roseville Galleria opened, it took away a lot of business from Sunrise Mall.
yeah people ask me what happened here, and i think the roseville galleria really took a lot of business away
@@TheVintageSpacesChannelOver the years you are correct 👍 Roseville Galleria took the businesses but remember you also pay less sales taxes a the galleria.
@@victoria19853 placer county baby, lol dam Sacramento
Its a really nice Mall i loved going there instead of the crazy big one in Roseville and The Arden Mall!
This was my mall since the 80’s. Sad how it’s gone down hill! I wish there was video from way back at Christmas time in the 80’s, they had a giant Christmas tree that talked. They also had a fountain in the center, people would throw Pennie’s in, then I’m assuming someone from the mall would arrange the coins into pictures,. One time the coins were arranged to look like the Snoopy and the peanuts gang! This video brought back a flood of memories!
Yes! The talking Christmas tree with glowing green eyes…
standing in long lines at the theater to watch E. T. for tenth time
oh dang i love peanuts i would have loved to see that!
I remember the talking Christmas tree! And the fountain was a nice place to sit and relax. I was really disappointed when they removed it.
I like how this mall looks. It has character. Everything new today is colorless and steril looking.
I grew up there. There's a creek that runs behind Woodmore Oaks Dr, and everything on the other side was fields up to the drive-in on Greenback. Woodmore Oaks Dr. started at Central Ave & ran only to Fair Oaks Blvd. Sunrise area was fields. This was a huge deal when it was built, nothing else around like it. Used to be so much cruising that went on around it, and lots of LE patrolling.
🏆That's my Mall🏆I still go there not many people there anymore🐦just older people holding hands with each other ❤️walking through 🍀awesome memories 👀✌️
its also safer for them to walk inside the mall for exercise then on the streets around the area. Plus there is shelter from the weather.
In the late 70s this was a great cruising spot. Hundreds and hundreds of cars, hotrods would circle the mall.
I Remember this… even went on into the eighties and very early 90’s
I remember when this mall opened. It was a big deal and we did a lot of shopping there as well as going to the movie theater.
It’s so sad to see it go….
This was my mall throughout my entire life. From the early 2000’s to now. From the beginning of getting baby pictures done at the Picture People to going to that movie theater on Tuesdays with mom to see Despicable Me, Madagascar 2, and later on senior year of high school Gardians of the Galaxy. She always took us to that Sees Candies to get one or two chocolates. Christmas pictures with Santa. Easter Bunny. Preteen food court moments. Getting my ears pierced holes one and two at icing at 7 and 14 years old. School clothes shopping at JCPenney and Hot Topic with my friends during the middle school emo phase. This was it. An entire life spent at this mall. We always went to the Roseville Galleria and the Arden Fair mall but we were closest to this mall. Passing by it now driving through town and seeing it is but a distant artifact. We no longer go there as adults. Yet we remember those days. There’s also a roller rink nearby called the Sunrise Rollerland. Everyone had a birthday party there, even me. It was a medieval themed roller rink. That was one of the best places to get taken to as a kid and roller nights from school being able to see all your friends. Watching this video makes me feel like “Wow… it’s one of those malls now..”. It really gets to my heart. Where has the time gone…
Man, this was my go to for shoe releases when everybody camped out at arden💯
I lived in the apartments behind this mall growing up. Can’t tell you how many happy memories I have with this place. Used to love walking with friends and getting food, picking up new games or a pack of yugioh cards.
heck yeah, i love stories like this!
Man, I was not expecting this video to pop up on my feed. This place was *the* place you begged your parents (and in my case older siblings) to take you. Not only for what they had in the mall, but also Birdcage Center and the Tower across the street. My sister and I spent hours hanging out around there. I even worked at the Hot Topic for a while. Unfortunately, it really started to struggle when the Roseville Galleria was built, and it's been kind of downhill ever since. It's sometimes a bummer when I come back to town to see it so empty, but at least I have my memories. Now I wonder if this channel has ever covered the K street mall....
This opened the year I was born. It used to be THE mall in the greater Sacramento area until Arden really grew and took over. Sunrise used to have the biggest Winter Wonderlad area in the very center with animatronics and all kinds of lights and decorations for Santa.
yeah way back in the day we always went to arden (early 90s) sunrise was a little out of the way, but for some reason i always wanted to go here!
Grew up there! epic cool mall, Rainbow skate park behind it in the 1970's. midnight movies and the cruse in the 80's, Birdcage walk mall across the street, great times to be a kid growing up.
Was there a few days ago, walked through with my brother and youngest son. Absolutely almost all stores are gone. My middle son worked there for a year. Somewhat sad to see all the stores disappear, yet it was not surprising. Wow, parts of Macy's and JC Penney are still holding on. Sears closed also. Thank you for your video.
I'm not too sad about it. I'm hopeful for whatever this area eventually turns into.
i used to come here all the time growing up
🧌 I'm almost 60 but I still go there and get my Vans😎 this 🍀 place used to Rock Hard✌️
This hurts me a ton. I grew up in Citrus Heights in the 90s, early 2000s and this was THE place to be! Hanging out with friends, birthdays, just strolling around.. This mall will always have a special place in my heart. I'm really sad newer generations don't get to enjoy stuff like this anymore..
Never in my life did I think I'd see a video on the sunrise mall hot damn
I miss florin mall. Now it is a walmart.
I drive by here all the time. It’s very nostalgic and sad for me. I’m still glad it’s there even though it’s just a shell.
Same, this was "the" mall in the 90s and 2000's for people living in east Sacramento. 😢
When I lived in Roseville and Citrus Heights in the mid-1990s, I really loved Sunrise Mall. Now it’s a dying mall. How sad. 😢
My Mother worked at Sears for 30 years but was lucky to retire before virus and Amazon. I always did Christmas shopping there inside the Mall plus cross the street at Birdcage walk.
Great vid as always! Nice chill voiceover and walk through!
thanks for watching!
Oh boy... I haven't seen this place since I was 14 in 1999. Used to get my Tripps at a place called "Tilt" which was like a more Fd up Hot Topic.
I would love to buy a mall and turn the stores into condos. What an awesome place to live. Kids playing, a local bar and coffee shop. A indoor general store ...you would really get to know your neighbour's. A great secure fun place to live,especially in the winter months.
Macy’s elevator and escalator were super vintage!
Ikr i went on there and i was like “looks pretty old”
I don't think they've ever been changed. I remember those back when I was a kid in the 80's.
Birdcage Walk had actual live birds in an aviary. Peacocks, other birds. That was close to the ice skating rink that became an REI, next to The Game Room, probably the largest video game arcades in Citrus Heights, and this was stand alone, and not attached to a pizza parlor, and we had both Chuck E Cheese and showbiz. The Macy’s in that center opened about 1978 - 1980, and was a sleek, two story dark brick building. (Their grand opening was a hot air balloon race. I was 6 or 7 and it made quite an impression). I don’t recall which year I they tore it down and built Target, but I do know that the current Target is the second Target building. They called it target greatland, and seemed astonishingly large at the time, but it’s dwarfed by the current Target building.
I worked at the sears there for about a year in 2013 and I lived in citrus heights from 2016-2019. Used to eat at the subway almost every day that was next to taco bell. I noticed it fading away during those times. Still h ad a decent amount of people coming through though.
I remember going here with my mom almost weekly as a kid, back in the last 5 or so years of its glory days. I used to go hang out there in high school with friends and I remember there used to be this guy with a parrot on his shoulder that would just walk around the mall, always seemed to be there. The wing over by the old theatre is still accessible, there just aren't any shops down there anymore. The old Sears hosts Spirit Halloween when the season comes each year, and the big empty parking lot sees farmers markets every weekend and the occasional carnival (both of which only take up maybe 5% of the total space of that massive parking area).
I sincerely hope Sunrise gets back on its feet, I hate mega malls. Lived around the corner from Arden for a couple years recently and would avoid it all costs lol
Best memory of Sunrise was waiting in line for my Dreamcast on 9/9/99, dont remember the game store though
It might've been EB Games.
oh man dreamcast release day at the mall... how i'd love to go back to that day
Really wish they would ACTUALLY do something to revitalize this massive building.
I was at this mall pretty much every day I could be from like 8 years old until my family moved away when I was 14. So many memories.
I worked in this mall from 1995-1999 and hung out here for most of the 90s. 😊 thanks for the walk through as I like states away now!
I worked there from 1997 - 2005. I miss it.
@@porkins74 me too. I worked at the McDonald’s, where did you work?
@@81lovee Suncoast video. Started in '97 and became the store manager in 2001.
@@porkins74 so cool! I started at age 15 and became the youngest manager in my franchise history at just 16! Fun times.
I lived in Tucson as a kid and constantly saw the exterior-walls-covered-in-rocks look this mall has. And if it wasn't that, it was sidewalks, exterior stairs, and concrete trash cans covered in pebbles. 🙂
I used to work at that Mrs Fields in the late 90s .. oh how I wish I could have preserved that.
Growing up, this mall had a gigantic play train running on tracks set around a beautiful landscape. It’s wild to see sunrise now 😅
I used to go to that movie theater. My mom or dad would drop my sister and I off it was great. It was the best mall. They had
a Farrells ice cream parlor across from the movie theater on tue corner Going Out the front entrance. Great, great, fun memories. I also walked through this mall Throughout my young.
Life and after I got married with my first child
Damn i wonder how many places i went to in my life that are now closed…
Very nostalgic, even my city's local mall is a shell of its former self. I went to check the mall out during 2023 its so empty, compare to the early 2000s
Honestly preferred how empty it always is, reminds me of those liminal spaces
Galleria mall nearby is too crowded for me but at least they have an arcade and theater
Last time I visited the sunrise mall was in 2018 before the sears closed. Then not to long after that the sears in Roseville 🥀 galleria closed.
I grew up going to this mall and have a lot of nostalgia for it. Back then, in the 80's, it was the best mall in Sacramento area. But then Arden Fair Mall was refurbished and suddenly Sunrise seemed outdated by comparison. Still I went there a lot though because it was the closest mall to where I lived. I hope they can turn it around and it doesn't shut down completely. I need to make a trip there one of these days, I haven't been back since before Covid.
Who remembers Pied Piper Toy Store and the Hoff Brau restaurant? And Farrells? I I live in the apartments behind the mall. Also, enjoyed the Circus Vargas visits once in awhile.
Farrell's was a rare treat! Definitely stuffed my face whenever we went lol
I used to manage a Tower Records store across the street from the Sunrise Mall. The store was known as Tower Sunrise or just the Sunrise Store.
Ya know when I was a kid I saw the images of what it was going to be remodeled, I thought it was going to be so futuristic. I loved it. This and the mall on watt and el camino remind me so much of mall rats the movie
I started going to this mall in the late 80s when my family moved to the area. I think the last time I went was a few years ago, I took my son. It was sad seeing it so dead. I definitely miss the old days. The arcade, the old McDonald's and Winestocks etc. I bought my first mechanic tool set from the Sears. One time a blue jay attacked me out front when walking to my car. Haha
That mall was THE place to be in the early 80s. Filled with people and activity. Around '83 - '85, I would drop my girlfriend home after a date and go watch a "Midnight Movie" at the movie theater there. It rotated between Pink Floyd's "The Wall, Zeppelin's "The Song Remains The Same", or "Heavy Metal." At that time, it was inconceivable that Sunrise Mall would turn into the barren wasteland that it is today...
Oh man I bet it looked amazing in there in 1983. I've seen old pictures but I was barely not old enough to be going to malls at the time
@@TheVintageSpacesChannel It was pretty much like "Fast Times at Ridegemont High" back then. Kids would cruise Sunrise on Saturday nights, hang out at the Tower Records on the Birdcage side, and go to the midnight movies in the theater in the mall. Then, on Sunday, be right right back hanging in the mall. My high-school girlfriend lived just behind the mall and we would often rent movies at the Blockbuster that was behind the parking lot. I recall in the mall was a electronic organ store near the See's candy store where a salesperson, usually in a polyester sport coat would always be demo-ing a Hammond organ. Across the street at Birdcage Walk was a huge video arcade and a "punk" supply store that sold all of the leather accessories for any kid wanting to dress like Rob Halford of Iron Maiden. It makes me sad to see it now because I still imagine it the way it was in a much simpler, innocent time.
Hahn also developed Vintage faire mall in Modesto,CA which is semi dead but still striving just south of the Sacramento/Citrus Heights area.
Did you hear that they demolished the water fountain in the middle of the mall 😭
yeah there's no fountains there any more!
@@TheVintageSpacesChannelit’s so sad, this may was one packed and thriving
There's no place where I saw so many beautiful girls I was too terrified to talk to in my teens in the late 90's...
When the City of Citrus Heights incorporated in 1997, Sacramento County was unhappy CH would get all the sales and property tax revenue. I guess today, Sac Co. doesn't care anymore ;-)
man, we used to go there on occasion. Remember at least one time mum drove us down from auburn to sunrise just to buy this one pokemon cards, cause there wasn't anywhere nearer. Maybe we should try and go for a walk sometime soon.
Pretty sure we'd go here to see santa back as a kid too, before roseville's galleria opened up
Grew up going here, then the Galleria was built in Roseville (~2001, super expanded later after a goofball set it ablaze) and Sunrise just fell into obscurity...
this is what my local mall looks like
FUCK YEAH SUNRISE MALL MENTIONED
So sad...Back in the 70's I would take my son ther to walk around, maybe have a 31 Flavors ice cream cone. My husband and I actually bought a water bed from one of the small shops that only sold water beds. Almost forgot...my husband also used to go to the cigar shop and he would buy his cigars at $25 a box. Ahh the memories....😢
Good video. The exterior of a lot of these anchors, have that brutalist look going for them to some extent.
I am going to look up pics on how this mall originally looked like, when this mall first opened in 1972. I will say while it does stink the original look wasn't kept, at least it wasn't blanded as greatly as any Hull owned mall or Cafaro owned mall tends to look like after a remodel. The Macy's men and hone store, looked surprisingly clean and nice for a Macy's store. I wish all Macy's stores, looked as nice as that one you walked through.
The original look was very cool, but very very dated. And it was fairly worn out. And fifty years on, we appreciate that kind of architecture because it was quality architecture. But 25 years ago (approximately, whenever they remodelled, it was just considered to be the most out of date and tired. And a lot of people hated that 70’s look.
There’s still a sears in Concord I believe as late as 2023 at the Sunvalley Shopping Center.
Just googled it, it should still be there
It's still open but it's pretty bare inside and everything is clearance.
probably not much time left for any sears still around, sadly
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That's where I saw Megamind in theaters. Last time I was at the mall was October 31 2017 when my dad and I saw Spiderman: Homecoming because I didn't have Halloween plans.
I remember They opened half of it first then later the other one. the openings. my issue with the small when it first opened for about the first two years is that they kept it way too hot. Then the energy crisis began, and they finally turned the heat way down and it was comfortable to actually shop. Realize I was a child when all this happened, my favorite store in the mall was liberty house and I was really bummed when they left the only liberty house that's left in the world that I know of is in Hawaii. It started out as a shoe store. The narrator was right when Macy's moved across street it was actually it's open independent building and they tore it down the best. Looking at the ski the best looking building in Citrus Heights and they tore down there was a skating rink behind it and when they started building around it, there was the corner. I think it was the left side that had more stores in it going to this area was a big deal. Somebody mentioned on here that there was a lot of cruising times when young people were throwing their cars around kids, making out people driving slow as in cruising kids, smoking weed and drinking, of course, and the cups, putting it into it, it was fun. Bummer. That mall had the worst parking situation I had ever seen. It was a very busy mall and you would have to circle the parking lot just to find a parking space and sometimes you didn't find one. They did do a lot of store turnover and new stores came in somewhere great and some of them were terrible. Of course that's just business, there was a nice restaurant in there. Can't remember the name but you actually got waited on the food court wasn't there yet. I know this rambles on and on, but I thought maybe people might be interested in what the mall was like when it first opened one thing that was upscale at that time was liberty House, I think the whole company went out of business and there was never a lot of people in there. I think it was out priced for the market that was there.
I remember this mall from the late 70s early 80s. They used to have those large water fall blue triangle type monuments that people tossed coins into. Although I spent most of my teenage years at country club mall and tower of records,posters and books next to country club lanes.
See candy is gone now along with many many others.
Omg it’s so crazy seeing something local to me. I live right down the street from this mall lol do you live in Sacramento???
I still go to Sunrise with my toddler to let him run around since it's so quiet. The crazy thing is the peaceful vibe at the mall is actually great for families and folks who don't want the drama of rowdy teens and idiots running around, but if it were to ever boom again, all of that stuff would soon follow. I really feel that one of the downfalls of malls has been that people just don't feel safe at them anymore. I'll just keep enjoying Sunrise with my son for as long as it keeps going.
I was there last week to pick something up at Macy’s
I almost cried when I walked to the mall to get Sees Candy and saw how dead it was…Sees Candy was gone too😪
oh dang Sees going out has got to be bad. That's not good at all :(
@@TheVintageSpacesChannelno it’s okay, Sees just opened a two floor stand alone candy store and regional offices. It’s nice. They describe it as a flagship store, which, the store is really nice and big. It’s about half of a mile south of the mall, on sunrise. But at the time the mall store closed, some were thinking that they might have actually opened with the mall back in 1972. Fifty years is a long time for a candy store in a mall to exist!
In the beginning, the automotive service center was operated by Sears, then JC Penney.
the one i showed that was later operated by firestone was JCP. the former sears auto center is on the SE corner of the property on the main mall parking lot proper
@@TheVintageSpacesChannel Thanks for the clarification. I fixed my original posting.
Wow I remember this mall. I lived out there in the early 80s.Wasn’t there a birdcage mall also?
I remember this mall being so virbant when I was young. Last stopped by when I happened to be around, I think 2020 or 2021. The fountain was drained and seemed desolate overall, but the theater inside happened to be playing Godzilla King Of The Monsters which I thought I missed the theatrical run of, and happened to be starting in like 10 minutes. So I sat down and watched it, fun film and fun time.
edit: Saw the theater in the vid now, guess it closed sadly.
This video is too sad for me to watch this place was the Mecca in 2003-2007 and one day somewhere in 2009 we all and I mean all of us just stopped going.
Great way to put it, a lot of these places just hit a turning point overnight, people stop going and it's all downhill from there.
RIP to all the malls around Sacramento. Florin Mall dead, Westfield Downtown Plaza dead, Sunrise mall just about dead, Arden mall on its way out(to me at least) Haven't stepped foot into Arden in some time. Full of riff raft it seems like. Just seen a video on instagram of some kid standing on the seat and handle bars of his bike going through there. I walked through Roseville Galleria recently, but only because I took my daughter to Cinemark and the arcade.
Pizz America made me holler 😂😂
lol
spent alot of time there as a kid.
I spent alot of my teenage years here and arden.
me and the boys went here all the time pre-pandemic, it sucks that it's dead like this now
Grew up going there in the 70s, 80s. Along with Birdcage Mall across the street.
I worked at Software etc back in 97, 98 in Sunrise Mall.
It’s horrifically small but look at the Toys R Us video on my channel. I filmed a tiny bit of toys r us that was across the street of Sunrise Mall.
Sega Genesis display.
I got more film I should upload.
Yup. Good times
I need to make it a point to visit this mall again at least a couple times a month... if we don't support it, it will eventually disappear.
It hasn’t gotten any better in 2024. I’m convinced half of the stores are drug fronts. No way they can make rent, and payroll off 3 customers a day.
I haven't been there since 2018, I watched a movie there and bought a fidget spinner from a store there
I tried running in here to Macy’s the other day and was just mildly harassed in the parking lot on the way in and out. Also the macys had no luggage to speak of.
Out of all the malls you went to. Which one would you see as your favourite?
I was Mall Security at Country Club Plaza for 7 years. very dead there
In 1997 to 1999 i worked at Jay Jacobs on the SEARS end of the mall which left in around 2000. Oxford Street then moved in. But what i remember of the Sunrise Mall back in the 1990s was, i was actually a Sunrise Mall rat before that time and met my friends there almost every day. Back then, every suite in the Mall was occupied. Then 9/11 happened and i went to Afghanistan and then to 2 Tours to Iraq. When i returned home, i returned to an almost dead Sunrise Mall, as if we lost the war and i returned to a city in ruins. The downturn of the Sunrise Mall really proved to me that the USA lost the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and is about to collapse. The dead malls across the USA are just a reflection of the USA's coming collapse. But i still love Sunrise Mall. It will always be my favorite Mall, full of good memories and positive experiences.
Sunrise's business began struggling after the more popular Roseville Galleria mall opened in 2000.
All my friends used to work & hang out there about 25 years ago. So glad we have online shopping now & don't have to go to these hideous overpriced places. They should really convert some apartments in them, I've seen it done-I think it was somewhere like Mall of America; put some tiny units in but they at least had small bath & kitchen areas.
As sad as this mall is, it has the best hot topic in sac LMAO
lol sometimes that's how it is
Liminal space feels.
How can these companies even afford to keep these places open? Is rent super cheap?
Roseville galleria put the nails in the coffin
yup
is the discord server defunct??
nope, alive and well! are you having trouble joining?
They recently closed down Sam's Hoff Brau next to the old Tower records on Watt!!! The Tower Records became a Goodwill, but still has dome of the artwork from the old record store!!! Moved here in '07 and even Mc Donalds is talking about leaving Cali!!! This is what $20/hr. fast food gets you!!!
Imagine, if you will, Northern California's leadership possessing the courage and vision to preserve brick-and-mortar businesses. The idea is to use eminent domain to construct a new series of malls directly atop freeways, allowing the traffic to flow through them. These malls would be designed as architectural marvels, with all traffic and parking issues resolved, including integration with light rail systems. The convenience of stopping at a mall while on the freeway would be unparalleled. Despite the ease of online shopping, the necessity of driving remains. However, the thought of visiting a mall during the Christmas rush is daunting. Yet, if the freeway system allowed for easy access to a mall's parking lot and a quick elevator ride took you inside, it would be tempting, wouldn't it? If our leaders could orchestrate this, we could centralize our retail spaces and repurpose existing malls into educational institutions. It's an ambitious concept, but take a moment to consider it. Picture yourself arriving at a mall that not only serves its purpose but also pays tribute to the past as a work of art.
It's outdated like it's still in the 80s or 90s. Not as interesting, modern, or lively as Roseville Galleria or even Arden Fair.
yeah it's kind of in an inbetween place where it's not modern nor vintage. just kinda... whatever