Comments on: Lauderhill Mall; Lauderhill, Florida

By: Charisse

Charisse — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:40:49 +0000

@Brant,
It’ so interesting to me that none of my friends remember that statue. I feel vindicated now that someone does!

@Toya,
There was a place there that had good chicken wings. Are they still there? I should visit them and Tropitaste if they are still in business when I come home!

By: Brant

Brant — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:41:44 +0000

@Tony B, I think I remember that water slide. Was it the one built on the artificial “mountain”? I never got to go there, but I remember my brother and I seeing it from the car window on a regular basis and bugging my mom to let us go.

By: Brant

Brant — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:39:27 +0000

@Charisse, I was born in Ft Lauderdale in 1970 and lived in Sunrise until 1981.

I remember well the fountain with the naked boy sculptures. I went to a summer-camp type of day care called “The Little Place” that was not far from the OLD Sunrise City Hall (on Sunset Strip near Sunrise Blvd – now gone). Every once in a while we would take field trips to the Broward Mall and all us kids would giggle at the naked boy statues.

By: Toya

Toya — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:31:45 +0000

Just an update,

Lauderhill mall is still kicking. The heart is still pumping. The urban consumers are enjoying the bargains we get there versus some huge updated mall. I wouldn’t know what to do if it was to be demolished.

By: JOHN

JOHN — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:24:54 +0000

I’M TRYING TO FIND A FRIEND OF MY WHO USED TO WORK WITH ME AT THE CORNER OF GRIFFIN ROAD AND UNIVERSITY DRIVE…HE AND I USED TO WORK TOGETHER AT THE OLD SUNOCO… TELL HIM “IF YOU WANT A SCREW…WE WILL DEFINITELY TAKE CARE OF IT…WOULD YOU LIKE A PLUG WITH THAT?” IF HE IS THE RIGHT GUY…
I WILL KNOW. HIS NAME IS DUANE RANDALL, AND HE PLAYS ELECTRIC GUITAR. ALSO, TELL HIM “BIG BLOCKS RULE!” -JOHN HANNON

By: Charisse

Charisse — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:20:48 +0000

My family moved to Coral Springs in January, 1984. Because it was still a developing city at the time, and nowhere as developed as it is today, we had to venture out all over northern Broward to do our shopping. I remember the Lauderhill Mall very well – even into the early 2000s as I went there to get quick and cheap stuff after work (I taught at Broward Estates Elementary). I absolutley lived for the egg nog ice cream at Tropitaste, and Charley’s Pastries was always good too…

As a kid in the 1980s, my parents did a lot of their car shopping in the dealerships along 441 between Oakland Park and Sunrise Boulevards. I remember begging my mom to take me to Lionel Playworld. We also shopped at the Lakes Mall on 441 and Oakland, I remember the Service Merchandise there very well and being sad when it was torn down as I loved to go there after school. The WalMart that is there now is ALWAYS an absolutle MESS…

Mom would also would get her hair done at the Lauderhill Mall as there were very few Black stylists near Coral Springs. She wanted me to have a Black Cabbage Patch Kid for Christmas when they were all the rage (1984-85), so she drove down to the K-Mart when it was next to the McDonalds on 441 and Sunrise as it was virtually impossible to find Black dolls in Coral Springs. I remember that store being so huge and having everything…

I, too would like to know if anybody has info on the Coral Springs Mall. Who can forget its quick decline after Coral Square was built? I went to elementary school across the street at Maplewood, so I remember the excitement of the ‘new mall’ coming to town. Once Coral Square opened, the Coral Springs Mall never recovered and it was sad to see it sprial into nothing. I also shopped there in High School when I didn’t want to be bothered with going somewhere busy. I shopped a lot at Sid’s music store as they still had a lot of old music on records (before the days of Napster and YouTube). A high school friend of mine’s father opened a restaurant where the Denny’s used to be, but it didn’t last long. I also enjoyed shopping at the Ross and J. Byron’s always had good stuff.

I don’t know why information is so hard to find on Coral Springs Mall with all the info on the ‘net about dead malls floating around… Funny thing is, the Fashion Mall in Plantation seemed to decline even quicker, as nice and ‘modern’ as it was… Actually, my first job was at Sears in Coral Square…

I do remember loving to eat Taco Viva at Coral Square… Does anybody remember the fountain at the Broward Mall with the naked kids going swimming? I remember wondering who made the decision to have that in the middle of such a busy shopping area…

Someone mentioned the Red Lobster on Prospect, it closed about 7 years ago due to mismanagement. My college sweetheart’s sister got her first job there, and I used to go to church down the street and my friends and I would have lunch there after church often.

You guys brought back some great memories… Thanks

By: anabwi

anabwi — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:00:47 +0000

@Eddie, it’s Zayre’s, not Zears.

By: Tony B

Tony B — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:37:02 +0000

What a great site. I grew up in Plantation through the stoner seventies. Great times. Fishing in every gully and canal. Working weekends at the Swap Shop on Sunrise. Riding the god awful cement waterslide behind McDonald’s. Go karts and reefer madness at Grand Prix race O rama. Hot dogs boiled in beer at Lums. Pantry Pride scratch off card games. Buying our Plantation Middle School PE clothes at King’s. The giant Boat shaped fishing section of Golden Triangle. My brother worked the counter at Fat Freddie’s. Free Steak Bombs! Watching the Broward mall get built on the same cow pastures where we would pick mushrooms before seeing Jethro Tull at the Hollywood Sportatorium. Come to think of it, how am I remembering all this? Not to mention The Song Remains the Same at the Midnight movie at the Plantation Theater. The one by The Ranch House and Taco Viva.
But the Lauderhill Mall still ruled. Wollco had baloons you could pop to get the price of your banana split. Once paid only a dime. Highlight of childhood. Used to go there to buy ringer T-Shirts with your name spelled in ironed on felt letters before it was ironic. When it was just South Florida.

By: al

al — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:06:12 +0000

Me and Irv still keep in touch. That day we skipped school (Paul Turner Elementary) and ate Borden Burger at NW 19 St. and 441. We went to the mall and had a slice at Numero Uno. Went to the movie at Loews and ate a bunch of garbage there.

We had an Orange Julius for a drink, Irv ate a green hot dog there, I went to the pretzel place for a hot one. At around 5:00 (our parents thought that we were at cub scouts) we ate at walgreens.

I remeber the stomach cramps as I ran for my bike by woolco, but didn’t make it. What a great day.

By: Irving

Irving — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:03:55 +0000

I moved to Lauderhill in 1972 as a young lad. I remember Al’s misfortune and the poor kid was actually sick from eating everything that we could get our hands on that day. It wasn’t Bartons that put him over the top, it was a hamburger at Walgreens Restaurant.

Al is now a grandfather of a bunch of children that enjoy eating garbage like their grandfather.
True story