Dead Mall - Centerpoint Mall - Oxnard, California. The first mall in (OXNARD, CA)
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The Chinese food restaurant carries this mall on its back
Basically yea ...
It's Greek too me
F**k yea they got some bomb ass food
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its the only reason why i still go LMAO and the boba
Small detail, but there used to be a relatively big water feature/fountain in the middle of the walkway- where the kids playing area is now I believe. Also, who can forget the wooden tables with the thickest clear coat ever; I wonder what happened to those. Anyway, Oxnard plans to revitalize this mall and general area by converting it into a Mexican style plaza (zocalo) as part of the south Oxnard revitalization plans. Thanks for the video!
Lmao your comment was on point with those table details . I remember that Too. Also do you remember that Sports clothing store ?
I remember there was a Miller’s Outpost (later Anchor Blue) too, Alberton’s, Smith’s, Lucky’s...oh the memories. The zócalo idea would be great. If they can have a mariachi every weekend like they did at Pacific View mall would be cool too.
The tables looked like the were always wet haha
Dammn your talking about back in the days when the indoor swap meet was still alive.
Cheddarpoint ! Lol rite aid had the best ice cream.
Before rite aid , it was thrifty’s
You mean Thrifty's ice cream
I grew up there I love that cheddar point brought back memories lmfao
I Remember as a kid back in the 90's They had a Penny Water Fountain
Who remembers A-Z toys ? Also the Chinese food spot used to Be Good . I recently went back cuz of the chowmein since it was different than any other Chinese food spot but I didn’t not like it . Also They used to have A Badass Water fountain there . My child hood right there
There actually was a KB toys before that.
@@frankdiaz6214 there Was ? All I remember was A - Z toys . They had a Bad Ass Selection of Marlbles from peewies to bulldozers lol
I remember my mom telling me stories about this mall in the late 70s, she had just moved here from Mexico and couldn’t speak much English, so she’d go with her brothers and sisters, her oldest brother who could speak the most English would order ice cream from there I think, and she told me he would say the same thing they always ordered because that’s the only type of flavor he knew how to say in English 😂
I have gone as a kid to Centerpoint Mall I didn’t really like it but looking at it right now I feel sad about it
Same
In 2009 the Albertsons area became Lucky's until Superior Grocers and DD's Discounts took over. There used to be a movie theater too. Rite Aid shuttered in 2016, There also used to be a coin pool right in the center of the mall across from the now shuttered Payless/Kids shoe store
THIS WAS A SEARS MALL BEFORE I REMEMBER 😎 Walmart is the only thing keeping it alive
No the Sears mall was in the esplanade mall! Maybe you're thinking of Mervyn's because Mervyn's used to be there before Walmart.
No JC pennys was its anchor store along with Mervyns
Nah......it was JC Penny's.......fuck man that was really old.....I was like 6 or 7 when it was open
I remember the big cube water fountain (used to throw lots of pennies at it), Kay-Bee’s toy store, Payless Shoe store, Mervyn’s, Thrifty and the ice cream. It all went downhill in the 2000s. I miss those days 😭
Edit: my mom told me she used to shop at Grant’s in the ‘70s, which was where Mervyn’s would later be. At the Topper’s Pizza place on Saviers, there’s an aerial view of this mall and you can see Grants.
Does any one remember the birds in that mall
Yes and the water fall
I grew up in this area. I remember my parents called it the Twin Centers. As a young adult I spent a lot of time shopping at Mervyns and the other shops in the mall in the 80's. There used to be a movie theater there to which was always busy back then.. Over the years crime got worse in this area which I believe helped the downfall of this mall.
Movie theater? At the Centerpoint? Don't think so.
There was never a movie theater in center point
The movie theater wasn't in the mall. It was behind it, in the building that is now the Las Islas Medical Clinic. It was a Fox Theatre.
@@zombiekisses805 Las Islas was also a Chucky Cheeses. Spent a lot of time there as a kiddo. :^)
Yes movie theater and Chuck E cheese.
I most certainly would like to make a comment. When I lived in Oxnard (1959--1975) there was a store there at the Oxnard Twin Centers on Saviers Rd. called Disco Fair later renamed Unimart. My mom cashiered there and told of when the actress Jane Russell tipped her $50 for not giving her identity away ( mom was a fan trying to chat with her while paying). Also there was a Fox theatre separate on the grounds in the early 70s. Did you mention W.T. Grant's? That was a big name clothing store in the mid 60s. Like a Mervyn's later. I recall Baskins Robins ice cream. You mentioned Thrifty's. I used to buy Beatles cards there. How about TG&Y? Yeah, I was there and remember it best when Centerpoint was called the Oxnard Twin Centers and not enclosed.
I loved the Arcade there back in the 80s
Yes. I remember that. It was on the corner part of the mall (not inside it directly) but where the music store was.
What was the game?
I remember their was a Sunday special at the arcade.
I miss the old cheddarpoint
I remember going there growing up. Went back just a few months ago and wanted to cry. So much has changed.
THE GLITTER STORE WAS MY FAVEEEE AAAAAHHH ive always went there after school
Same I remember the Asian people who worked there watched me like hawks cause they thought I was gonna steal tho lmfao
I did not know the cheddar point mall was first I always thought it was the esplanade!!.😂😂
that ride aid next to the little games or claw machines was always so cute :(( I remember going in and getting ice cream there when I was little
I am 58, and was born and raised in Oxnard. I have fond memories of the Center Point Mall and Twin Centers as a child, as well as the Esplanade Mall. I can't thank you enough for sharing this viseo.
growing up in the south we always called it cheddar point mall
Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
I used to live in Oxnard, and I used to go to this place a lot! There was a really chill little shop in the back end that had some fun stuff. I never really thought about it but that mall really does seem like it’s on it’s last legs. When I was last there in 2016 it seemed like there were less and less tenants each time we visited.
Because of people shopping most everything online( I include myself).
Hello! I'm a new sub from Ace's Adventures. Greetings from Alberta, Canada! Awesome video! Love the tile design!
It’s Greek to Me has been there through the thick of it! You also might have mentioned that the building on the southwest side that is now a health clinic used to bea fox theater for a short time, then a chuckecheeses for just about as long.
Awesome walkways and store fronts.
Place is haunted. I used to work at this Walmart overnight and both me and my manager heard laughter from a male voice and female voice coming from the darkness in the mall. No way to get in that time at night unless the security guard or walmart manager unlocks the door for you.
Really?? I never knew that lmao
Yeah the A Z toys store is where it was haunted at heard some stories. But very good memories there in that mall
Probably some homeless since this city is filled with them.
I remember a shooting in Mervyns but don't recall if that shooting resulted in a death
@@soyunik7979 that Walmart also had a bomb threats once
I work at that skate shop icon
I'm surprised you didn't mention Kay Bee Toy Store or the Bally's Arcade. I spent a good chunk of my childhood lingering at the arcade. It was interesting to see that It's Greek to Me was still there in your video. That place has been there a looooong time
My mom and I used to go to this mall allll the time in the early 2000s all my back to school shopping was done at the old mervyns, so sad to see this mall decline when it was so prominent 15 years ago, I still have the pictures she’d take of me in front of the fountain that was inside of the mall also the best ice cream was at the old rite aid
I remember going to “sneaker time“ in the mall and seeing a pair of “lugz” for the first time lol very popular shoe back in 2000s or converse with the fat laces was always nice. my parents wouldn’t but me Jordan’s … and all the girls would come to the center point mall to take pictures at the shop and hand them out at school
Growing up just a few blocks from there (my family still lives there), it's funny that I can still smell the fountains just from the images. When the KayBee closed, we bought pretty much every board game they were selling off in liquidation and were set for life for family game nights 😂
As a kid in the 90s, Ballys/Aladdin's arcade right at that entrance was amazing
Thanks bro for a solid video, great job
Awesome video. I love the design of this mall, and honestly, it feels like the kind of place I'd sit back and relax in.
Centerpoint kinda ghetto
Until a homeless guy comes and tries to ask you for karate lessons...
Not anymore
I used to buy back to school clothes in 1979 OP corduroys
I grew up in El Rio in the 1970’s. We went to the Esplanade- Sears especially and the theater. Also Miller’s outpost for Levi’s and loved that Orange Julius too but no raw egg in mine. The May Co. was expensive and I loved Hello Kitty from the Hallmark store. Good times! It’s gone now with a Home Depot and Nordstrom rack and In N Out in its place. The Esplanade was open before Centerpoint.
Haha Miller's Outpost was the shi* where I'd buy all my school clothes. What were they called? Blue anchor Jean's or something like that lol
I used to work at that sears in 1979 crazy how long ago it was
I remember when Unimart opened! The mall was originally Twin Centers and competed with stores across Saviers Blvd. I was 9 years old and we lived nearby. We typically shopped across the street in the strip center as our house was directly behind it. I don’t think it ever really took off like they expected.
Grew up in Oxnard now living in dallas and well damn the difference is amazing I can't believe that mall still there tho.
It saddens me beyond words to see this in my County. People need to realize what they are doing to their communities by not supporting local businesses by going through Amazon. I grew up in Thousand Oaks, and in those early days we only had the Janss Mall and Topanga Plaza, and what a treat it was going there at Christmas time! The Ice Capades Chalet, that ceiling to the floor flowing oils display on the South end, I think it was... Santa Clause and all the people to watch, toy displays in all the stores and fresh Pretzels...
Years past, The Oaks Mall came in to being, the restaurant and bar, Gihooly's, was the best kept secret in town. Live music (Shout-out to Jim Schwartz & Chris Keith!) All the employees and regulars, all the friends I made there and miss so much...
But I digress. I buy everything I can at local businesses from bicycle parts, to boots. I know what is at stake, and sure isn't worth a conglomerate underselling the business in my community by a few bucks on this or that. People need to get their faces out of their phones and take a walk around, take a look around, get out and do something before those lifetime memories won't have a chance to happen. Merry Christmas Everybody!
As I last remember, there is a Superior Foods where the Smith's was. It appears to be doing well but you cannot enter it from the mall (as you have shown). I am afraid to say I remember this mall because the family of my wife at the time lived a couple blocks down on E. Channel Island Blvd. I bought by dying father a watch there in 1995. He would be dead two weeks later. I got the watch back two weeks later in a brown bag. Only thing I got from my day ($15). So yea, I know this place. My stepson went to school across the street.
Wow! I can't believe it's so deserted! I remember coming here as a kid. It was really relaxing because of the trees and fountain and we would go to the store that is now a Wal Mart (was it a Kmart? forgot lol) according to this video. There was also an anime? store there too.
I barely remember the rest though since I was a child and when I became a teen, I rarely went. Now I'm living overseas for the past 8 years so although I want to visit, I'm unable to so thank you so much for this video! Glad I could see how it currently looks like :D
Where’d u move to if u don’t mind me asking?
That walmart used to be a Mervyns years ago
I remember when I was a kid I loved going there cause the Chinese food and the big rock water fountain. Good memories 🕊
Same
Used to get ice cream from the CVS/Thrifties during the 80s/90s with my mom's. It always felt like a dead mall, and thought it would have closed for good after the 90s, but here we are witnessing it's still untimely demise. Mexicans are the only reason it's still there. The residents of Oxnard have a different name for it, iykyk.
I remember when I first moved here, the Centerpoint mall wasn't exactly a busy mall. There were more empty businesses than occupied ones.
Amazing video
I enjoyed it
Thanks
Hope you are doing feakin' awesome bro 👍🤙🏻
There used to be a movie theatre back In the days in the corner where clínicas is currently.
Interesting how Walmart remains the Beating Heart of a Dying Body.
My mom owned a dress shop in this mall in 1978 and 1979 when it was known as Twin Centers and an open interior mall. My grandfather had bought out a store call Smarty Look, and my mom renamed it Rene's Smarty Look. I spent many of Saturdays as a 7 year old kid wandering what was then an outdoor mall. I used to get pizza from Rocky's Pizza that was on the east side where Boost Mobile is now. Next to that was a toy store. At the end was Thrifty Drug that I use to be sent to in a bind when mom ran out of adding machine tape. My mom's store was on the east side across from what then called Two Guys department store. Inside there was a bakery just across from the entrance of Two Guys. My mom did well, but with the conversion the landlord raised the rent and she closed out the business about 1980.
A few years after the conversion I walked through the mall and I remember it looking half assed with pre-remodel businesses still having its original outside entry doors in place. The sides of the mall look unfinished with bare 2x4s studs frame in windows.
Dam i remember my dad taking me to smiths in the 90s that was our store
I grew up in the area in the 90’s and remember the bomb Chinese food in the food court and the ice cream counter at Thrifty’s
i remember going to the arcade mrs martinez was cool hooked us up with tokens, the cookie place right next to shirt store where you can get iron on patches.. we would go early sat mornings to break dance because floors were waxed night before.
Just subbed now because of Sal.
Yeah it totally sucks when places like that ,a place that I would frequently go to as a young man .. the most fond memorie I have of Centerpoint is back in the 70s when my mom would go to Thrify's we were able to get a single scoop cone for 10 cents a double cone for 15 cents and a triple for 25 cents..You can never find a place with those prices ever again...
Hello Dark Star , FYI , Back in the day i was one of the Security Officer's that Protected the Center Point Mall when the Mall Transformed from an Out door Mall to an Inside Mall , Now if you would like more information from "me" ask Management of the CPM ..... Good Day ! Mate !
I remember the JcPenney store opposite end of Mervyns..1982 they had toys from the newly released movie E.T….then walking the mall with ice cream in hand
I remember it as Twin Centers Mall in the early to mid 70s. Was very pretty then had a Grants Dept Store which became Mervyn's. Two Guys I remember as well and Toy World. Onxnard in general was gorgeous then looks like everywhere else now.
I remember back in the early 80's there was a movie theater across the parking from Walmart location its now a clinic. How I miss those days. Also there was a cool arcade there my brother's and I would go there. This used to be such a nice mall 80's and early 90's.
What’s the name of that arcade there? Anyone
@@JoseOrtiz-yh6zf Bally's Great Escape is what it was called when I was a kid there in the early 80's. It was on the outside edge of the mall by Mervyn's facing C Street
Dead? Not yet but close. The question is how do we revive the patient? Our city manager wants to put in a zocalo. Good. I suggested the City purchase the old Ventura Harbor carousel. Could we build housing above the retail spaces? This is simply too valuable a space to allow it to wither away. South Oxnard deserves quality developments. Let's give them something to be proud of!
Saludos oxnard extraño andar por aya un día regresare animo y mucha suerte
Great content
There was a grand total of like 4 stores that are still functioning and like 3 food places. I haven’t been there in years but I never expected it to be that bad.
Going right after church every sunday w my mom and lil brothers makes me sad af
I thought The Centerpoint was closed! I grew up in Ventura County and for some reason, I put this mall in with The Esplanade (which has been gone). Thanks for posting!
I love chedderpoint mall!
Yet another thing to bring me down. Everything of my childhood being erased
New subscriber here. Great video
I appropriate you doing this vid, this is my city and whenever I visit home, I always HAVE go to the Centerpoint Mall for that GREEK spot to get my French fries! They are the BEST! but yeah unfortunately, this mall has been dead for YEARS Now!!! I stop going after the picture spot was gone. Lol
Llegue a vivir a Oxnard en 2009 y ese fue el primer mall que fui aquí en oxnard y da tristeza que poco a poco se a ido llendo. para abajo poco a poco van cerrando las tienditas muchos espacios vacíos ojalá y lo rescaten por es muy bonito
Yo llegue a vivir a oxnard en 1993 y ese mall estaba lleno de jente y me sali de oxnard ase 15 años y regrese de vacaciones ase 3 años y fui al mall y yano hera lo mismo hasta medio tristeza esperemos que vuelva aser como antes animo y mucha suerte
I remember when Mervyns was there in the 1980's and 90's. I used to get my shoes there. Colonia ese!!!! COXCH!! Orale
My parents would take me to this mall when I was younger. A sort of safe haven for immigrant parents like mine back in the early 2000’s. We would browse the stores and pick up Chinese food at the shops there. I vaguely remember walking around here and there was an EB Games up at the front. Good times but sad seeing the decline of this mall and malls in general.
I remember the marble shop there the chinese spot and luckys
Santa Clara students are the reason this mall still stands.
I bought my first holy communion dress from this mall!
I go to that mall to this day
I used to dread going there but that was the spot for school clothes on a budget
This Looks Like A Forgotten Mall. In The Intro Of The Video, Have You Filmed The Oaks Mall In Thousand Oaks, Laguna Hills Mall In Laguna Hills, Or Metrocenter Mall In Phoenix, Arizona
yes the intro are exactly those malls. Good eye!
you forgot Paradise Valley Mall in AZ
When I lived out there there was a mall half of it was a grocery store half was a few other stores and a lady in the middle selling hand painted ceramic incense burners named Mary Jane. She used to let me paint for her. I still have the one she let me keep.
around 1994 there was a sports cards shop, a KB toys store, a Footlocker , Sports Zone later changed to Pro Image , this was nice until Ventura and Esplanade mall took over
Sports Zone was never a Pro image. The original Espalanade had a pro Image. Once Espalanade became open air, Sports zone had a location there as well, next to the then Borders.
Centerpoint Sports Zone had a card store in it for years.
very close to my home growing up in Oxnard, but we'd skip it in favor of Esplanade. Mervyn's was actually one of the few shops I visited
This is my home town!
Dam i use to live like 10 away walking distance right next to Larson elementary me and my family use to go to that mall pretty often I remember there was a Albertsons and a clothing store on the other side of the mall I left oxnard back in 2003 I have never been back it’s sad hopefully I will come and visit pretty soon see how the city has changed
I think once the esplanade was renovated, the centerpoint went dark. But i think all malls are going down pacific view isnt what it used to be.
OMG😲 I haven't seen the Centerpoint Mall ever since I moved to L.A back in 1994. In the 80'S they used to have this Greek restaurant in business that used to sell delicious Gyros back in the days.. And when I was a kid I used to love going to the Toys R Us at the Centerpoint Mall back in the early 80s and I wonder right next to the Centerpoint Mall me and my friends as kids used to always sneak into the Chuck-E-Cheese I wonder if they still have that🤔?
Been in Oxnard all my life. Never saw a chucke cheese there
@@edub9930 "REALLY" You don't remember the Chuck-E-Cheese it wasn't at the Centerpoint Mall it was in the back of the parking lot of the Centerpoint mall on Channels Island Road in the early 80'S Era I know I stopped going in 1987 something like that?
@@orlandowells5400 na sorry. B 4 my time
The owners of the old It’s Greek to Me are still in business at the Ventura Harbor
Definitely a Chuck E. Cheese!! Lol
I grew up having my Abuelita who lives over there but more in port hueneme take me here alot
I can still smell this mall.
Why do u guys feel sad every time I go there it is packed and filled. Very good mall.
the spot to go to after st. anthonys church on the weekend, to get some comida china, hit up the mervyns with moms and doña cuca. 😤✌
La comida China is bomb asf
@@Sg_80555 firme I got to try it out. Is it in the mall?
@@edub9930 Yeah it is. I like the chowmien but there's other stuff😎
I remember before I moved from Oxnard in 2017 I would always get nachos from the Its Greek restaurant that's shown at 6:36
I remember when I’d go there as a kid in the 80’s. My favorite store was K-Bees-toy-store. In the 90’s it was called the cheddar point because Oxnard was inundated with immigrants from Mexico and Latin America. The owners of farms needed cheep hard workers so they would transfer illegal aliens to work. Good times!
Believe it or not this use to be the mall to go to. I remember Mervyns and JCPenney footlocker and millers outpost. I remember chuck E cheese use to be there.
Have you ever done the Pacific View Mall in Ventura? It's a sad sight to see during the week, although it's a little bit busier on the weekends.
Ghost town creepy AF 🥴
We went to that mall a year and a half ago and were like OMG this place is dead.
I always go to that mall everytime and i get ice cream and other stuff on the mall and theirs a Walmart
So uhhh... I live next to there and go there some of the time.
All I can say is that it’s doing good and has people there.
I kinda grew up here, from the 80s to the present, but in the 80s it thrived, somewhat 90s due to THE ESPLANADE MALL b4 it's dimize as well....i worked at the rite aid....many weekend cholo fights and stabbings.... Now we call it CHEDDAR POINT.... Gotta be from the barrio to know why.....
To me this is not a dead mall I have so many memories in here I love it the only things I come here for is the awesome Chinese food and the wallet for the nerf
Just went there last week
Yes, this was one of the first legit malls in Oxnard. The Esplanade opened in 1970. During the late 80's CPM started to decline little by little, especially when they lost their anchor stores JC Penny in and Mervyn's, plus the recessions didn't help much either. I remember coming here back in the 80's. For the info he got, go here : oxnardcentercompany.homestead.com/OurHistory.html#:~:text=As%20part%20of%20the%20reinvention,and%20Drug%20opened%20for%20business.
For other info on this mall plus more of Oxnard mall history, go here : mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/2011/03/oxnard-twin-centers-mall-saviers-road.html?m=1
I miss the esplanade mall, even though I was too young to but anything back then lol
Use me as the " I just go there for the nachos button "
Good.hopefully they make it into affordable office spaces, storage or a large scale parking lot with overnight sleeping at an economic scale per day , week and month without long term leases . I was just checking out open spaces at this mall and its hard for me to figure out if who I am renting from is really the owner on the internet since many are from referral systems . Just want to have a nice affordable office space I can go in any time .
They also had an arcade