Comments on: Universal Mall; Warren, Michigan

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:57:36 +0000

@Mindi,

OMG, I TOTALLY remember that, and I’m so glad someone else does too. My husband and I are both from Warren, and we were trying about the cheeziness of ChuckECheese’s, when I asked him if he remembered that place, and he didn’t. I tried to explain it to him. I remember those long tables, the pizza, and the organ music, but not much else. I was born in ‘74 if that helps time frame wise. Do you remember-was it attached to the mall? or near the mall? I know it was on the Dequindre side, but I can’t recall much else.

By: djneylon

djneylon — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:48:52 +0000

Cut through the “new” Universal Shopping Center Friday on my way to Secretary of State office. Target store is huge, Petco says opening soon, A.J. Wright and Burlington Coat are still there, as is the dead Value City/Crowleys/Federals. Lots of landscaping, but no mention other than Petco of anything else moving in.

By: Mindi

Mindi — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:09:24 +0000

@GPM, Do you remember the Pied Piper Pizza Palace?

By: Mindi

Mindi — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:06:22 +0000

I was an armed guard there about 5 years ago. They take the security seriously, because they have been robbed, a lot of fights, and a B threat back in 2005. Most of the guards there are actually in the process of starting a police academy or are in the military reserves. They’re not your normal lazy guards.

By: Mindi

Mindi — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:02:43 +0000

Ok, you all seem to remember a lot from this area. Next to Universal Mall, back in the 80’s, there was a restaurant that was so fun. It was called the Pied Piper Pizza Palace. Does anyone else remember it? It had a guy playing an organ who came out of the stage floor. I was about 5-ish and younger, so it may have been the late 70’s. That restaurant was crazy, they had long tables set up in aisles. It must have been an old school Chuck E Cheese, but back then, we were simply entertained by an organ coming out of the floor.

By: Ed G

Ed G — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:41:28 +0000

I grew up near 9 & Sherwood in Warren in the 1960s and recall Universal City fondly. My parent’s got their first ever credit card from Montgomery Ward’s at the mall, and us kids used to hang out there in the summer. It’s so sad to see how far Michigan has declined since I grew up there. Many of my friends and relatives still live in southeast Michigan. I hear about layoffs almost every time I talk to anybody back there. How is it that we let our country sink so far so fast?

By: Did

Did — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:31:14 +0000

I grew up going to this mall seeing it as vibrant as it could be, it was a fun place to hang out with my friends and buy records,clothes or basically anything you wanted.i am fortunate enough to be the last person to shoot video and i also got to be one of the very last to roam all the wings of the mall before they were gone. It has been very depressing and hard watching it go over the coarse of the last year piece by piece and i feel like they took a part of my life away from me.I will never like the fact that a mall so vibrant was destroyed by a discount theater and a change in patrons that scared all the native ones away.The worst part is that disgusting bum magnet of a theater gets to stay open and thrive when it was a major cause of the down fall of the mall.I gew up in that mall when i went there there were never any homless all over the place and there were rareley any rude careless selfish masses of ignorant people just doing as they please and treating the place like one big garbage can.At one point there was a car or two stolen a day for over a month,homosexuals havng orgies in one of the bathrooms,gangs roaming the mall as if it were there gang teritory,people constantly getting caught trying to have sex in the parking lots and just an overall concentrated overload of direspect for the property and the good people who thought is was still a mall worth going to and guess what all of that stuff had in comon?when caught these many of different people doing different thing in different ways would always say i’m just here to watch a movie or i was just at the movies.My buddy was a security gaurd at universal mall and he is my source of information he workked there for a few years but quit because he could not take the stress of working there and dealing with the every day mess as he calls it so enjoy your over sized strip mall that will ultimately fail because that theater will still be there and yeah sure it will atract people for a while because it will look good and it will be new but give it a year and watch what happens.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:41:20 +0000

I live across the street from Universal Mall and can not wait until the new construction is done. It will be nice to finally be able to have some stores in there. So far it’s looking pretty good and I’m very excited to see the final outcome.

By: debbie

debbie — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:30:51 +0000

i can remember seeing barbara bush at the mall.Also nixon was there when he ran for president

By: Joanne

Joanne — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:13:06 +0000

Wow this mall has so many memorys for me. Back in the sixies, I lived in south Madison Heights I was 12 years old and my friends and I used to walk to the mall and walk around we thought we were so cool. Then as a young adult living in north MH I used to walk with my two small children to the mall . I was so sorry when the stores began to close. Montgomery wards and then Crowleys, it was such a loss. I look forward to seeing the new mall open, I hope alot of businesses give this area a chance.