*Love* your metro Detroit pics. Livonia Mall closed sometime in 2007 or 2008, no?

I guess it did. The sign you see was torn down a few years after this picture was taken.

Saturday may 31, 2008 was the last day of operation.
After 44 years of service.


Was torn down an made into Livonia marketplace.

;P Just looked it up on deadmall

Fear not, random Internet citizen, for though that precise sign and mall may be gone, an otherwise identical sign stands near Gratiot and 13 Mile, for Macomb Mall. Same wicked neon and tower design (and they both had Sears!)

Photos of the abandoned mall just before demolition: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dirty.....7611468968928/

WOW! My childhood comes charging back!


i remember that sign.

Ever been to Dearborn?

I have been to Dearborn many times. I not only have relatives there, but I used to make regular trips to the Dearborn Library to rent films. The toy car swap meets that used to go to were always held at the civic center there, too.

Now that I think on it, the photo I used for this image post was shot in Dearborn...

Googie architecture. Man, I wish they still made stuff like that.

The 1960's. Space age stuff?

Yeah. Real works of art that stuff was.

I like the 1930's. Art Deco better
But the Space age stuff is a close second

Yes it was buuuuut it doesn't age well at all. Any wear and it suddenly looks post apocalyptic and depressing.

Look at the Fallout games and you can get a sense of what I mean. It can look really amazingly cool when it is bright and new but a few spots of rust and suddenly it can really look ugly.

Well, the Gobbler is still standing...

OMG, someone has bought the Gobbler and is turning it into a music venue.

It was done with the owners permission as they had abandoned the motel. It had so much wrong with it it could not be reopened and the owner walked away creating a potential crack house or other menace to the area so it was decided to burn it down so it would be cheaper to tear down rather than demolish it.

As fortune would have it, I have what is likely the last and most complete photo record of The Gobbler Supper Club in its pre-music venue state. In a fit of pique, I socially engineered a tour out of the owners, a trio-cum-duo of local car dealers who had foolishly bought it 20 years ago or so to try to flip it. They were interesting characters -- and the place, the place is something to behold. Nothing left of the motel but some burnt trees and badly weathered concrete pads. And the Johnson Creek police that wonder what you're doing up there.

He's naked ? Yes ! *Chases that wolf*

I saw Christmas decorations for sale in a store I was in last week.

Great Googie corner tower sign.
And the woofie's costume is great. With that mask, NOBODY will recognize him!

Awesome image.

Man I really love these Mike!

My entire family on my dad's side was from Michigan and most of my uncles worked for Ford at that time. I was only able to get there to visit relatives twice but had fun both times. Once was during the 4th of July and I remember almost setting a neighbors tree on fire with a small rocket.
I loved MI but wouldn't want to go back there now.

Now that's a happy wolfy :D

Augh! He decapitated a clown!

That is some fantastic neon.

Shouldn't we be celebrating christmas?

O,O

I love the fact that this is not only a historical picture of the metro Detroit area, but that you also live(d) around here. Been a big fan for a long, long time, and it's awesome to know that you're a local!

Good LORD I remember those. Well, the first one at least, not so much the second one. That jingle brings back long past memories.

I've recently passed by this area a few months ago. The mall's now long gone, only the Sears building still remains.

So sad to see these malls crumble into dust. Long gone are the Meadowbrook, Great Oaks, and Winchester Malls in Rochester Hills, Tel-Twelve Mall in Southfield, Livonia's other mall Wonderland, and now the Livonia Mall.

Up next to be turned into a pile of rubble is the The Summit Place Mall in Pontiac, which is very sad because that mall was my former hangout place as a kid and teen.

Aaaah I love the sign!

I went to the Livonia Mall once not long before it closed. Place was a dump.