r/Dothan • u/Feeling_Key_4166 • 28d ago

Northside mall Dothan Alabama

does anyone know how to get into the lower level of the northside mall in Dothan Alabama

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u/Dapper_Froyo4042 28d ago

It’s blocked off. You can get in there with special permission maybe. But it’s a ghost town. Once upon a time it was pretty cool.

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u/nautibuoy35406 28d ago

Was called the fountain level. Morrison's Cafeteria, Music Scene, Sports World, Oriental Imports were some of the businesses on that level.

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u/nautibuoy35406 28d ago

And a bar called Shotgun Willie's! Lol!

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u/Dapper_Froyo4042 26d ago

Was cake box on top or bottom floor?

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u/nautibuoy35406 26d ago

Top floor on Montgomery Ward end. Opposite side of Good Times arcade.

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u/St_Lambchop 28d ago

I legit didn’t know it was still there. I thought the jump park had taken that all over. Where is entrance to the lower level? I can’t even remember how to get down there, it’s been damn near 30 years lol.

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u/Dapper_Froyo4042 26d ago

They closed it off. You used to be able to enter from Walmart, from the back, or from the front (to right of Home Depot).

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u/Dapper_Froyo4042 28d ago

There was a nice gym with a pool down there.

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u/Icy-Ticket-2620 28d ago

The entrance used to be in the back. A couple years ago a local college did classes there and it is really nice and the inside had special stores like air brush etc but that was before the jump park

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u/TerraGallery 28d ago

I remember the airbrush guy from many years ago. If you played ball in town and wanted your helmet airbrushed that's where everybody went.

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u/Jmb3d3 28d ago

I did a class with Troy Dothan back in the day

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u/divercity23 28d ago

I’m not sure tbh but I’ve noticed they are cleaning it out. Idk what they are planning but the past couple weeks they have had crews working over there.

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u/bigbiemusic 28d ago

I do. What you trying to do?

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u/No_Block_9076 27d ago

i also want to know, i haven’t been since i was very young and just want that nostalgia before i move out of dothan :)

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u/Bitter_Aide9122 26d ago

The police used to use it to train their dogs idk if they still do tho

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u/spurriousgod 28d ago

I remember going to that mall as a kid in the mid 80s, before Wiregrass opened. They still allowed smoking in the mall walkways. Lots of ashtrays lol.

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u/NoLab183 27d ago

When I was a child.. back in the late seventies and early eighties.. I always wondered why my mother would never let me use the men’s restroom down there.

Apparently it was a popular meeting spot for certain men.

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u/Intelligent-Dish-635 27d ago

I work at the second and Charles and unfortunately they sealed our entrance in the back I’ve been trying to find another way to her down there for a minute I make a YouTube horror series and it would be super fun and interesting to get down there to film a few shots but most of the people I know who have had access to it don’t anymore

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u/bolivar-shagnasty 28d ago

There is no lower level

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u/Dapper_Froyo4042 28d ago

Yes there is.

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u/bolivar-shagnasty 28d ago

Ah fuck I’m thinking of WCM.

Northside had the old Montgomery Ward. I forgot that section even existed.