Finally found the old food court fountain at Westgate Mall after 6 years of looking

I used to go to Westgate Mall all the time as a kid in the 90s and I always remembered this big weird fountain in the food court with these ugly green tiles. Last month I drove up to check out the abandoned mall since it's been empty since 2018 and I couldn't find the fountain anywhere. The whole food court was just gutted and different. I walked around for maybe 45 minutes feeling kinda bummed until I went into this random hallway near the old JC Penney. There it was behind a wall they'd half built. The tiles were cracked and the water was long gone but I recognized that ugly green color immediately. It's crazy how a place can look totally different but one little detail brings everything back. Has anyone else found something from their childhood that was hidden behind renovations? I'm curious what other malls have done with their old fountains.

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victor_carr5445m ago

Stick with the carousel story man... those pipes were all ripped out, just dry concrete basins left behind. Wasn't it a merry-go-round though, not a carousel?

wade4389h ago

Dude, YES. That's awesome you found it. Same thing happened to me with the old carousel at Northridge Mall. They built a whole new entrance over it in like 2010, I thought it was gone forever. But I was walking through the service corridor behind the old Sears last year and there it was, still sitting there with all the horses chained up to the ceiling. The paint was all peeling but I could still see the little gold trim on the saddle I used to sit on as a kid. It's wild how these places just get buried under new stuff instead of torn down. Did they leave the water pipes in yours or tear them all out?