Comments on: North Hills Mall; North Richland Hills, Texas

By: dcorea@iupui.edu

dcorea@iupui.edu — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:41:20 +0000

Opps, I think the Birraporetti’s closed around 1987, not 1997.

By: Don C

Don C — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:50:23 +0000

I started working at Sanger Harris (store #12 as mentioned above) in 1995. It was a fantastic time for me. The mall had just been renovated and enlarged. It was doing quite well back then. The SH store got a new manager transferred in from New Mexico and within months, sales at store #12 were either tops or second in the chain. He soon moved up to a VP and was gone within a year if I remember correctly. Circa that time my favorite restaurant was Birraporetti’s. I would take the then love of my life Julie there many times. It closed down I think, cause it lost its liquor license around 1997 and the area was then turned into a ‘Tis The Seasons Christmas store. I can’t even begin to think of the number of times Julie and I went to the General cinema which was brand new with the mid 90’s renovation. What a lot of great times I had. It’s hard to believe the mall is gone and 25 years have past.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:50:32 +0000

@SEAN,
No they do not call it ameriquest field anymore.
They simply call it Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

By: Jonah Norason (Pseudo3D)

Jonah Norason (Pseudo3D) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:41:15 +0000

I finally figured it out…it has to be The Grove at Farmers Market!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grove_at_Farmers_Market

Electric-powered, green and gold…

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:44:23 +0000

Oh lord, Top-a-Tater….the memories just keep flooding back!

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:59:38 +0000

Just read another post and saw the names of the music stores, Camelot and Musicland. What a blast of memories that brought!!! I can’t believe I ever could forget the names with all the time that was spent inside them. Makes me so nostalgic. ;(

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:56:50 +0000

Stripling & Cox got it’s name from the last name of 2 of the owners. Mr. Cox eventually joined up with 2 other men and they started another partnership. My father worked for an office furniture store for 10 years called OFCO that was owned by these three guys. Their original store was on Rosedale in Ft. Worth and then they opened locations in Richland Hills, River Oaks and Hurst. They have all eventually closed except the original in Ft. Worth and from what we hear it’s struggling to stay open. The pics of NHM are great but very sad. I spent a large part of my youth at that mall going to the movies or hanging out. I loved Spencers, Waldenbooks, B. Dalton Booksellers, the record store by the food court (I forget the name) that we spent a lot of time in, etc…. Then as a young adult I took my first child, my daughter, to trick or treat inside the mall on Halloween. This was just after the scare with the tainted candy (anyone recall that?). It’s a shame that this mall could not be saved. Anyone know for sure what is destined for that site? I live in Lewisville now but my parents are still on the east side of Fort Worth and I have family and good friends who live in midcities so I am sure they would like to know as well!

By: Diana Cryer

Diana Cryer — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:26:17 +0000

My first job was at N. Hills Mall, @ Chic-Fil-A, then I moved to Top-A-Tater, lol. I finished out my employment at that mall in the Gift Wrap Dept @ Foley’s where I worked for a while. Loved it. Miss that mall. My daughters did not get to experience N. Hills Mall.

By: JHB

JHB — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:58:00 +0000

Wow this is a sad ride down memory lane. In my wild years this mall was central. I worked in the food court. Got in a brawl outside the movie/arcade entrance with about 12 people. Scored LSD there for the first time. Stumbled out of Natural Born Killers trippin balls. Went on my first date with a woman to whom I was later engaged. Got an indecent proposal when I was 17 from a girl that wanted to engage in “blood-play”. Got hassled endlessly by the rent-a-cops. Spent all day going in and out of free movies when the air conditioner broke at my first crappy apartment. Ate bags of cookies from Mrs. Fileds – actually sold bags of meth out of that cookie stand off and on for a summer!

It was a special place

By: GGJ

GGJ — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:26:37 +0000

Wow! You really did your research on this. I am very envious that you got to see NHM in its final days. I grew up in the area, but moved away, and by the time I was aware of the Mall’s decline it was truly awaiting the wrecking ball.
Awesome pictures…although it is sad to see places in their 80’s neon glory all crumbling and falling apart.