Coles Flea Market for the win. Try getting wasted then buying chunte boots, fruta, comic books, a fighting **** and an antique cococola clock at the mall at 8am on a Sunday.
Grew up in Huntsville. As a kid, loved driving in to North Houston with the family and going to Greenspoint Mall. Was a pretty clean place in the 80s. Liked eating at Wyatt's Cafeteria. Worked and shopped quite a bit at Baybrook Mall. The babe counts were usually very high here. Suburbia! Worked at Camelot Music. Got to meet Stevie B (80s freestyle), 98 Degrees (crappy boyband/Nick Lachey) before they had their first hit and Chucky Brown (a few months after he won the championship with the Rockets...made sure to bust out his Camelot card to get his punch credits). Would trade promos CDs to the pretzel shop for cinnamon sugar pretzels. Fun times! RIP Camelot and all music stores!
There were so many malls along 59S in the 90s...... Used to go Sharpstown and Westwood back in the day....... Westwood Mall took all my money and gave me crappy POGS in return. First Colony, Galleria, and Memorial City cannibalized Sharpstown, Westwood, and Town&Country.
NW Mall was the bomb in the 70's. Rode my G&S skateboard through there all the time getting chased by the rent a cops. Also the first place I had Chic-Fil-A. Sharpstown had Good Time Charlies and Dream Merchant. and in the 80's Memorial City Mall was the closest thing to Katy until Town and Country opened.
Baybrook was the best. Aladdins Castle, Food court, and they even had a Yagas store for a year. I dated a chick that worked at gadzooks, dumped her, saw her again there years later and dated her again.
greenspoint had the best mall playground ever in the early 80's. and in the 90's you could buy $5 blunts at the nearby apartment complexes then go have lunch at fudruckers!
Saw a dude punch the screen out of Street Fighter 2 after he lost there as a kid. Mom started taking me to Willowbrook after that.
There was a point in the late 80s and early 90s that Willowbrook Mall generated more revenue per square foot than any mall in the US. It’s still pretty full and busy. Greenspoint was already Gunspoint by that time and Town and Country had already basically closed off it’s third level at that point. The death of Greenspoint was Imperial Valley and its tens of thousands of cheap apartments that were built in the 80s
Sharpstown Mall was the place to be in the early 90s. Really sad how things have gotten so bad for many malls, like Sharpstown and Greenspoint. Not even sure those two are mall malls anymore.
