Don't know how this post appears to others (it's displaying them strange on my screen.) Also sorry for the blur on some of the photos, these were taken with a digital camera from 2001. Also I should mention I don't know if I have posted these here before, but I figured that a fresh audience would appreciate them.
The last time I went to Enid there was talk in Oakwood about a total overhaul, and there was a laser tag place being built in the room shown in picture five (shame because that room was a surreal experience.) Though I doubt these plans will work. It would take a lot of effort to refill the tenet's (what tenets will risk moving into a moldy and unpopular shopping mall?) and likely rent will be cheap to entice tenets. Even if they do fill the mall with stores with demand, there is an obvious extensive mold and leakage problem across the entire mall (and it's not necessarily little) which will take lots of money to deal with. Okay, tenets and mold dealt with, the mall is outdated. Not that I'm complaining, but likely the youth won't like it. They just don't have the income to deal with these problems.
Sorry for the rant, but maybe you people will appreciate the information.
I should really return just to look around someday. Honestly, when I went to the mall was my first time in Enid. There's also a McDonalds with the original (at least the childhood design I remember) design just outside the mall. When I get the photo's off my old phone I'll post about the Arrowhead Mall in Muskogee.
When I was there visiting my aunt and my uncle; my dad’s brother and sister (rip uncle E, I miss him so much he was the best) we drove by little areas where they grew up. The hospital where my dad was born had been turned into a police station. When dad’s brother uncle E passed away, we went through the house and retrieved some documents and important belongings since he died without a will (it was so sudden but not too surprising since he’s had heart problems) and the empty house gave me those vibes where something is so familiar but you can’t picture how it is. The house being quite a fixer upper added to that vibe.
There is more to the story but that would be going off topic tbh. I have really bad ADHD and tend to drift into different topics when I explain things :,)
Enid lost its only movie theater, AMC, when its big mall closed several years ago, probably largely due to COVID. There are no plans to build a new one, so Enid people have to go mainly to Stillwater to see a movie. Speaking of Stillwater, it lost its big mall in 1984 when the city council nixed plans for it, due to fears of it causing flooding downstream. At the time it was quite a disappointing decision short-term wise but long term was the right one. Today the land the mall would have been on is still an empty low-lying forested wilderness area next to a creek. Better keeping that than another dead mall. Since it's in a flood plain, raising it for development would be costly.
The manager of the Oakwood mall in Enid is also the manager at Heartland, and he is known to be temperamental. Also a manager in absentee, because he only visits a property once a month to pay the maintenance staff. Their entire company is a joke as mall owners.
Don't know how this post appears to others (it's displaying them strange on my screen.) Also sorry for the blur on some of the photos, these were taken with a digital camera from 2001. Also I should mention I don't know if I have posted these here before, but I figured that a fresh audience would appreciate them.
The last time I went to Enid there was talk in Oakwood about a total overhaul, and there was a laser tag place being built in the room shown in picture five (shame because that room was a surreal experience.) Though I doubt these plans will work. It would take a lot of effort to refill the tenet's (what tenets will risk moving into a moldy and unpopular shopping mall?) and likely rent will be cheap to entice tenets. Even if they do fill the mall with stores with demand, there is an obvious extensive mold and leakage problem across the entire mall (and it's not necessarily little) which will take lots of money to deal with. Okay, tenets and mold dealt with, the mall is outdated. Not that I'm complaining, but likely the youth won't like it. They just don't have the income to deal with these problems.
Sorry for the rant, but maybe you people will appreciate the information.
I do
reminds me of the Machesney Park Mall in Rockford Illinois a little bit
My dad is from Enid and the entire town gives off liminal space tbh
I should really return just to look around someday. Honestly, when I went to the mall was my first time in Enid. There's also a McDonalds with the original (at least the childhood design I remember) design just outside the mall. When I get the photo's off my old phone I'll post about the Arrowhead Mall in Muskogee.
When I was there visiting my aunt and my uncle; my dad’s brother and sister (rip uncle E, I miss him so much he was the best) we drove by little areas where they grew up. The hospital where my dad was born had been turned into a police station. When dad’s brother uncle E passed away, we went through the house and retrieved some documents and important belongings since he died without a will (it was so sudden but not too surprising since he’s had heart problems) and the empty house gave me those vibes where something is so familiar but you can’t picture how it is. The house being quite a fixer upper added to that vibe.
There is more to the story but that would be going off topic tbh. I have really bad ADHD and tend to drift into different topics when I explain things :,)
Enid lost its only movie theater, AMC, when its big mall closed several years ago, probably largely due to COVID. There are no plans to build a new one, so Enid people have to go mainly to Stillwater to see a movie. Speaking of Stillwater, it lost its big mall in 1984 when the city council nixed plans for it, due to fears of it causing flooding downstream. At the time it was quite a disappointing decision short-term wise but long term was the right one. Today the land the mall would have been on is still an empty low-lying forested wilderness area next to a creek. Better keeping that than another dead mall. Since it's in a flood plain, raising it for development would be costly.
The manager of the Oakwood mall in Enid is also the manager at Heartland, and he is known to be temperamental. Also a manager in absentee, because he only visits a property once a month to pay the maintenance staff. Their entire company is a joke as mall owners.