I dunno what happened to them. I never knew there was more than one! They were awesome, then later they cut off space and made it shorter and then gone forever.

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I did a quick search, post it here, now I'll look at it.

Considering I have lived in Southwest OKC all my life, I must be part of that "south side element." Care to expand on that comment? What do we "great unwashed" of the southside do to offend you?

Uh oh....i'm part of an element?

Since Crossroads is a shopping mall and there is no retail in Bricktown, I wouldn't worry about the "element" moving there. They have mostly migrated to all the new retail in Moore and up and down I-240.

Oh.....and my element lives in the 73170 zip code in south OKC. We had the highest per capita income in the state in the last census.

That's some pretty good element

So...since when is the entire southside referred to as crap? Apparently, me, my family, and friends, that element, are crap? Okay...

Well too late to protect Bricktown. Me and my friends have been tarnishing that jewel for awhile now.

If you don't live between the four interstates, you're not part of what I was talking about.

Also, the group I am referring to are the unwashed gang-banger-type idiots who did nothing but loiter around the place.

No, but there is a store geared toward the same demo.

> If you don't live between the four interstates, you're not part of
> what I was talking about.

I don't, but um, wow.

I've seen folk paint with some mighty large rollers before, but .. no, I think
I'll just leave it at wow.

Where do YOU live?

So back to the last pertinent piece of info it looks as if they were trying the hotels new theater and roadhouse all came up in a pretty close timeframe I thought that area was going to be big but all the developers bet on the westmoore and the west end of 240.

I love going to that Texas Roadhouse! I thought when that came on the scene along with the hotels that it would help the area.

Basically, Crossroads turned into the "not-cool" place to go.

As a partial defense to JWil, the "four interstates square" has some horrible reputations around Oklahoma City. The whole square south of 40, east of 44, west of 35, and north of 240, has a terrible reputation among most people I know in the metro area. I really don't know anything about that area, except the negativity, but I do know some people who work at Southwest and others who lived in the area (grew up there) who are not fond of the area decline. Maybe it's a thought for a new thread, but I've lived in the metro for about 10 years and it has had a terrible reputation among people I know the entire time I've lived here.

Also, I had employees in stores at Crossroads tell me not to come back after 6 pm., and this happened about 8 months ago. I was like hmm....bet you're not drawing in business with those comments!

Granted, I will still go there in the daytime without hesitation if I need anything. I hit the 240 area for shopping more often. Some of the stores I shopped in at Crossroads closed and moved there, so it worked out well for me!

when i use to shop at macys the employees joked saying (yeah its funny to put a macys in a ghetto mall) So i think part of the decline of the mall is the employees tat work there, a lot of them seem miserable and dont want to help.. Dont get me wrong there is couple good ones when i use to shop out there, but not many.. also I think it started declining when there was like 10 shoe stores at one time and about 3 dis-n-dat dollar marts... I still cant believe they took the water fountains out, that was the part of the mall i liked, they could have just took the ramp out and added a elevator coming down right by the fountain, which would have been really pretty, but no they had to gut it all and leave a cheep looking carpet and vender carts in that area

North of I-240, South of I-40, West of I-35 and East of I-44.

Yeah, the fountain was sweet, too bad they tear it down, so stupid

So you're part of the problem then.

For the sake of my previous post... = Heavy Sarcasm

Well north of I-40.

Prolly Edmond.

That could mean Nebraska.

Don't rip on an entire geographic region unless you're willing to submit your own for the rest of us to deride. Unless you can't take what you give.

Hey... I dont want to drive the bus no more. I want a new gun.

I think part of what killed Crossroads and the surrounding area was the construction on I-35 back in like 2001. When that was going on, it was damn near impossible to get into the mall-- or anywhere else in the area, for that matter.

Crossroads is on life support and it'll pass on any minute now, so I think I need to go visit it one last time. I'm gonna miss it when it's gone. I've seen vintage pictures of the interior and it used to be stunning.

it would be nice to see some of those "vintage" pictures or some new ones of what it looks like now.

I didn't grow up in the city, and we used to take trips up here for school stuff and Crossroads was a big hit for us for years. Then one year the teach decided that it was too far down the drain and we started going to Quail or Penn.

That was probably in 1998 or so.

Here, I found the picture set:

Crossroads Mall - a set on Flickr

Just found out the other day that Payless Shoes and LeMans Speedway (well, "arcade" since they took out the bumper cars decades ago) are now closed, along with Sbarro's and Subway...I mean, gee whiz, what's left?

To the poster who commented about their having removed the fountain: Apparently it was out of practical necessity. I was told that they were having terrible problems with the "bowl" of the fountain leaking and causing all manner of problems in that center court area that apparently most of the rest of us never knew about, and it became an expensive headache to maintain. The decision was made to remove it as a result.

I live in the four corners square. I live in a far corner of it. I was smart enough at 10 years old to figure out that this area was in decline and as a matter of fact told my parents to move further south. They thought that the OKC schools were good at the time...ha. Surely my neighboorhood has been in decline yet it only have been gradual over the past 15 years. Some areas further south from where I am, such as 44th have gotten in decay obviously. I'm just here until August 24th, since i'm moving to Dallas, in the Addisson area to be exact.

I've noticed a trend with Crossroads. One theory is that people have stopped coming there because they see gangs or at least what appears to be gangs... some of these people are known as wannabees yet also they may be wearing the style and not be associated with gangs. So mix in some racism, elitism and bad management and you got a decaying mall.

Any idea when those pictures were taken? I remember Crossroads in the late '90s being pretty nice but it was nothing like that. That is amazing! Its sad to see it on its last leg.