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Lakeside Mall

Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:31 pm
Posted by Optimism
Member since Jun 2024
859 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:31 pm
They keep adding stores. Amazing they have been able to thrive in the current landscape for brick and mortar retail
Posted by Macintosh
Lane State University
Member since Sep 2011
56323 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:32 pm to
I think it’s the busiest mall in the country per capita
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
130508 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:32 pm to
Malls are starting to make a bit of a comeback in some places
Posted by BK Lounge
Member since Nov 2021
5148 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:35 pm to
Long live Toys by Roy !



Iykyk
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
38726 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:37 pm to
If they’d put a good sports bar in there right in the middle of the guys to hang out, they’d make a trillion dollars a year. Maybe more.
Posted by BK Lounge
Member since Nov 2021
5148 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:42 pm to
Maybe you are not ancient like me.. but im old enough to remember when Morten Andersen had exactly what you describe, a sports bar with giant goal posts right in the middle of Lakeside Mall.. the name might have been the Goalpost, or the Endzone, cant remember exactly but someone here will for sure know.. i feel like it was there for quite some time , not sure why it ultimately folded though .. maybe when he went to ATL ?
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
Member since May 2012
59710 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:45 pm to
Lakeside still feels like a mall, especially around the holidays.
Posted by Mr Happy
Member since May 2019
2511 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:45 pm to
It's just about the only game on town now, and no one wants to shop Downtown.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
38726 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:49 pm to
quote:

Maybe you are not ancient like me.. but im old enough to remember when Morten Andersen had exactly what you describe, a sports bar with giant goal posts right in the middle of Lakeside Mall.. the name might have been the Goalpost, or the Endzone, cant remember exactly but someone here will for sure know.

I’m no spring chicken, remember Morten and was sometimes in the mall then but not often and don’t remember that.
Of course, back then, single no kids I probably wasn’t thinking in those terms then.
Now? Gimme a show and some drinks and take as long as you need shopping and shite.
Posted by Riverside
Member since Jul 2022
9579 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:49 pm to
I’m a big fan of Lakeside Mall. Super convenient location. Easy parking. Good stores. Relatively safe during non-peak hours.
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
61484 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:51 pm to
quote:

Morten Andersen had exactly what you describe, a sports bar with giant goal posts right in the middle of Lakeside Mall.. the name might have been the Goalpost, or the Endzone, cant remember exactly



I think that was called “Champion’s”
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
23042 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:53 pm to
I went to Lakeside a couple of weeks before Christmas. Seemed like old times.
Posted by Shorts Guy
BR
Member since Dec 2023
637 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:00 pm to
It’s a great mall. Whoever runs it never got lazy and tried to let it run itself. And the original developers couldn’t have selected a better location.
Posted by TheDeathValley
Louisiana
Member since Sep 2010
20468 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:05 pm to
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Optimism


quote:

Amazing they have been able to thrive in the current landscape


Checks out
Posted by RIPMachoMan
Member since Jun 2011
8927 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:37 pm to
Lakeside and that mall in Tysons, Va are always packed.

It’s wild
Posted by geauxpurple
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2014
17024 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:44 pm to
That is because it is the only real mall in the entire New Orleans area.
Posted by BK Lounge
Member since Nov 2021
5148 posts
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:59 pm to
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That is because it is the only real mall in the entire New Orleans area.



Yes but this proves the point of the thread .

There was a time, not so long ago in the grand scheme- when there were a handful of “real” malls throughout the NOLA metro.. i was a kid when two malls opened at right around the same time- the Riverwalk in NOLA proper, and the Esplanade in Kenna.. back then, circa 40 yrs ago, most people’s money would have for sure been on one of those two to outlive and outlast the dinosaur Lakeside Mall.. well maybe not Riverwalk due to proximity and parking issues, but for sure the Esplanade.. going back even further, my family lived for a time in the East, where at one time the Lake Forest Plaza was the grandest, largest mall in the American South…. Also i heard tales of a mall on the Westbank (where we never ventured) called Belle Promenade.. throw in Clearview , and Northshore in Slidell and one or two others im forgetting, and it is kind of a minor miracle that Lakeside is for all intents the only survivor.. as others have mentioned , it’s location has to be at least 75% of the reason .


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This post was edited on 3/7/26 at 12:02 am
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
155838 posts
Posted on 3/7/26 at 12:04 am to
quote:

Maybe you are not ancient like me.. but im old enough to remember when Morten Andersen had exactly what you describe, a sports bar with giant goal posts right in the middle of Lakeside Mall.. the name might have been the Goalpost, or the Endzone, cant remember exactly but someone here will for sure know.. i feel like it was there for quite some time ,
IIRC Buddy D sometimes did his show from there
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not sure why it ultimately folded though .. maybe when he went to ATL ?
as I recall it happened very suddenly

ETA: wasn't Morten's place called Champions?
This post was edited on 3/7/26 at 12:27 am
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
83922 posts
Posted on 3/7/26 at 12:23 am to
quote:

Also i heard tales of a mall on the Westbank (where we never ventured) called Belle Promenade..

West Bank had Belle Promenade and Oakwood. Was a big decision which mall to go to. Belle Promenade had the better movie theater but Oakwood won that battle, but it’s now on its last legs.
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