Locations You Loved That No Longer Exist

There was a shopping center about 8-10 miles from where I live that as a child, my parents and grandparents would take me to sometimes in the 90s and early 00s that I miss. It was the only place I had ever been to like it. I remember often wondering why every time we were there, there wasn't many people there, despite being close to a town and I don't remember a time, even near Christmas that there were many people in it. It had a certain kind of atmosphere you only get from such a shopping center where not many people go. One area of the main (hallway?) area was dimly lit and had stairs that went up to I think managers, security or employee offices or something.

I remember going there and there was this "ride" I used to go on as a small child. Not exactly a ride, but you get in a put some money in and it would play a Hanna-Barbera cartoon like The Flintstones on a screen. I also remember one shop that sold electrical parts like fuses, plugs, or light bulbs, which never seemed to be open when we were there, and a shop beside it that kept changing its inventory every so often which I thought a little unusual. The shopping center eventually got bought out and replace with a supermarket and more people go to it now, but I'll always have my memories of that sort of off feeling I got when going there, that I didn't have with other shopping centers that had much more people in them.