Monmouth Mall: Demolition is Underway at One of the Deadest Malls I've Ever Seen! It's a Ghost Town!
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- Опубліковано 5 бер 2024
- Join me as I take a look at Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, New Jersey before it's completely demolished!
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That's a shame... that Mall is in better shape than I expected. Sucks they are converting it to open air... doubt it will bring in more customers in the Winter.
Yes, I doubt it. Maybe they'll make enough money from the residential apartments. Hard to say.
IT won't
You know what's ironic about it being converted to an open-air kinda deal? This originally DID open-up as an open-air mall back in circa 1959/'60.
@@raymondmcmillan788Who wants to be they won't even bother with building ANYTHING on the site after it's all said and done. That's what they did to the former White Flint Mall outside of DC.
It might work. I’ve seen open air malls doing well in the winter. It just feels like a mini city strip but with more available parking.
Thanks for the tour. As a mallrat in the late 70s and early 80s, this was one of my malls. Sad to see it like this. I go to Premium Outlets which is a nearby outdoor shopping centef owned by Simon Properties. As nice as it is, its not much fun shopping outside in the rain, snow, cold or heat. I don't get the demalling of malls.
Just go to Freehold Raceway. It's a little further away but it's a great indoor mall. Are you from Tinton Falls by any chance?
@@ryanthomas49I remember when Freehold Raceway Mall was built in the 90s. Beautiful mall with a carousel. Across the street from that retro ice cream place I don't remember the name of.
@@elizabethwitt2621. Jersey Freeze ?
Was just discussing this. I think the only appeal of the Outlet mall is just that.. that they have high-end discount stores. Other than that I do not see where they are getting their statistics that young people love shopping outdoors.
I lived about 3 miles from that mall until about 18 months ago. That mall began going downhill when I was first stationed at Fort Monmouth (about a mile away) in 2001. The escalators next to the food court used to go down to a big electronics store which then became a workout place.
Monmouth Mall use to be THEE place to go to. Before the "modern" redo, the mall itself use to glow and attract tons people.
Always packed. Always a good time.
Looks like it was great mall once! Thanks for watching!
THE not THEE. One E.
Man, you have to appreciate what is so you never regret what was. We as a society never stop to really appreciate what we have while it's still accessible. Great video, my friend. Thank you!
Miss the days where you could look for cool stuff in mall stores instead of having to know exactly what you're looking for/being disappointed with online shopping.
Shopping was so different before the internet....
@mmgpearl
That's an aspect of things that younger people really haven't really experienced much, stumbling upon a surprise find that you didn't know you wanted! No surprises with internet searches at least in the past decade or so.
@@fleabittenadventures
The scary part of losing community shopping centers and malls is that people aren't exposed to as much socialization and it increases the isolation people feel. When you shopped at malls like this it wasn't just about commerce but also about being part of a community too! The concept of modern malls was primarily about community, then about commerce when they were first being considered to replace the town hall or town square in earlier times.
Same
I've never shopped online. I can't understand people who are buying guitars and other musical instruments online.
As much as I love being outside in the spring and summer, I always prefer shopping inside.
Same here.
Especially during the Christmas season with all of the beautiful decorations and music and Santa. I am also in Jersey so I don't want to be outside shopping in November/December. The mall I have gone to for decades has been sold. They said there will be stores. So maybe it's the same deal. Maybe even the same buyer/developers. I would love for the Boscov's to stay.
This was my all-time favorite mall from the 70’s to maybe the early 00’s, with JC Penney and Macy’s the stores I most frequented. It was always full of people and sound. Sad to see it a ghost town now, but I guess I’m an example of the many shoppers who abandoned the mall in the 21st century. Thank you for the look back.
this was my childhood mall in the 70s and 80s - grew up in Long Branch. I remember the original outdoor mall. Montgomery Wards/Alexanders was right at the end of the original corridor, likely where AMC is now. There was a huge Woolworths where Old Navy is/was. Bamberger's Clearance was where Barnes & Noble is. Thanks for the video tour, which was surreal - I could name many of the original stores, long erased beneath other storefronts.
Yup Brighton Ave long branch here grew up in that mall till 1987 looks way different than what I remember it
Thanks for posting this one! This was one of my local malls when I grew up in central NJ. This was always a money mall, lots of good stores.
Thanks! Glad you liked it! It looks like it was a great mall!
Going to malls in New Jersey and Los Angeles area and having a burger is classic American culture
The place you mentioned was a Ruby Tuesday and remember going there several times over the years and my dad and his friend would often go shopping 🛍️ there and it's such a shame they are turning into a outdoor mall once again
I know people give Ruby Tuesday a hard time, but I love that place!
@@fleabittenadventures I do agree and they are few locations left in existence
1:45 Ruby Tuesday's
I’ve never really got the whole idea of strip, malls and shopping outdoors! I’m from the Midwest where it gets bitterly cold during the winter and an outdoor mall would be the last place I would want to go to shopping…
I like interior malls that are completely climate controlled, nice skylights, plants and fountains.
Exactly!
I am with you guys. I would never shop at an outdoor mall.
It may work in Florida. There's these new large open air malls where you just walk outside and it's like blocks of stores down the pathways. It's quite unpleasant in Summer, or 7-8 months of the year here though. Basically going inside stores solely to get out of the heat at points, haha.
@@jonny-b4954very unpleasant in the summer. The last place I'd want to be is walking around an outdoor strip mall in 98 degree heat that feels like 2
105 in the scorching sun with that hellish humidity. Not even if you paid me.
Well, with global warming, the winters really don’t get that brutally cold anymore here in the Northeast.
Ah....CALDOR...........always liked going to that store in Manchester, CT.....i think they closed there, many moons ago............good vid
Thanks! I don't remember the Caldor in Manchester, but I used to go to the one in Avon, CT all the time!
Thanks for taking us along on your the walk through. This mall looks to be in great shape. It’s a pity they are demolishing it in favor of open air use which doesn’t make sense for the climate.
Yes, physically it's in great shape. They did a major renovation less than 15 years ago. They just want to change it for the sake of change.
Across from Lord and Taylor on the 2nd floor was Friendly's, One the 2nd floor going in the opposite direction was the KB Toy store and the gap and the baby gap. On the second floor to the right of Boscovs was the Cookie store Mrs. Fields.
The escalators going down used to lead to a Planet Fitness. After that left, I think there was some Nerf gun place down there. The arcade was a frozen yogurt store a few years back. The food court had a Burger King and a Chik Fil A.
Thanks for the info!
Definitely so weird that they haven't blocked off the empty area.
I thought so. I'm sure it's open just to allow people to walk to Boscov's.
Great video! That bottom in that mall is soo creepy
Thanks! It was a very strange feeling seeing no one in any direction while I was at a mall. Kind of felt like I broke into a closed mall.
I really miss arcades. Especially mall arcades. Sadly I bet it cost more to maintain and replace the games than the money they generate. Plus, with their being so much crime in malls now, you really don’t want places where people start hanging out where there’s no supervision.
They must be losing money on the electricity alone. I never see anyone playing the games.
In many malls now they dont let teens in non chaperoned after 5pm & some after 2pm!! Very badly behaved young people today, compared to much more of them that were in malls in '70s & '80s behaved.
Gotta be due to demographic changes, social media, & smart phone.
The arcade in Long Branch on the pier by the Haunted Mansion was the best in the 80s.
@@utuBrV1oIUnfortunately, have to agree with you. The teens are wild, loud, leave a mess, take up all the seating for dining without buying anything and are very disrespectful towards adults when they're on their own in public places. My kids would have been grounded for behaving like that, but they never would have behaved that way. Not impressed with how parents AREN'T parenting teens these days.
This was such a great account of the current situation at Monmouth Mall. I have been going there since it was Monmouth Shopping Center in the 60s.Its come full circle and is now going back to its former self as an open air market.Your video covered everything in its entirety and was very accurate and informative. Thank you so much. My last trip was a few months ago and was quite depressing, as I remember it in its heyday.
Enjoyed watching this bittersweet goodbye.
Thanks!
Wow! Surreal ,good vid and captured well 👍
Very sad. I worked in this mall for 4 months in 2017. I really miss the Suncoast.
Looks like it was a great mall once. Thanks for watching!
@@fleabittenadventures unfortunately it was dying for a long time. Great video
i grew up with this version mall my entire life and it's so upsetting that it's going to be gone. i visited here in February before they completely closed it, gamestop was gone :( and that Toys Here store would never sell anything lol. i will also miss the AMC, last movie i watched there was Saw X last year. Thank you for documenting the mall before it's gone.
I saw king Kong(2005 version) there and star wars revenge of the sith.
Thanks for posting. As a construction worker having built a lot of these stores, when a dollar bought you plenty breaks my heart. These malls were full of life back than. Online shopping and crime decimated malls across the nation.
I was part of the team that opened the Lord and Taylor store in 1990. What great memories and I’m so sad to see this mall demolished. 😢
I think the last time I went to Monmouth Mall had to have been in the 1990s, and I hardly recognize anything in this video. In fact, I have clearer memories of the original open-air shopping center, which I visited several times with my parents when I was a child in the 1960s. Thank you for a final look at it!
when you go down the escalator in the old mall, on the left it was a Sam goodys. I used to by records there a lot in the 70s.
Thanks for the info!
Then they moved up next to A&S (Boscov's). Later was Model's sports
monmouth was the very first mall i went to as a kid growing up in freehold since raceway mall didn't exist for a decade it was packed back when
Looks like it was nice at one point! Thanks for watching!
My guess would be the 9x9 tiles that JCP might've had. If they're intact, they're fine. If it's insulation on pipes, fine if not messed with. This is probably why the stuff stayed all this time.
That makes sense.
This mall is about 20-25 minutes from me so I didnt go a lot but I definitely went several times. The best thing about this mall is that had a Suncoast that was opened until just a few years ago. I love Suncoast and that was probably the only one left. They had such a good deals.
i dont mind the moldly ones being taken down but i hate seeing really great looking malls taken it down for no reason. I mean there has to be ways of repurposing some of these places ... like have libraries at the anchor store ... maybe a fitness center or something at another anchor store ... there has to be ways to keep the food courts open too
I rather be inside during the summer and winter ... i think they are grasping at straws to find a reason to justify what they are doing
I agree. We'll see what happens. From what I read, it may be a couple of years before the renovation is done.
Great video, thanks. Agreed, that card system to play arcade games seems unusual compared to just having a change machine for quarters in there. Malls are fun buildings to walk through with nice scenery of the structures, even if most stores were for clothes..
This is so relaxing to watch, thank you for all you do
I do like my recently conceived nickname for the store once known as “Forever 21” & that would be “Haven’t Been 21 in Like Forever”😂.
Forever isn't as long as it used to be.
I worked at Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips in 1980 in the old wing. Thnx for the memories. It was the place to hang as kids.
Spent many days at this mall! There was a crepe place next to the elevator on the bottom floor and I think a shoe repair spot. Also remember spending a lot of time at the Sam Goody and as someone mentioned the Wiz which is where the escalators went down to back then. Feels like a lifetime ago!
Wow. Last time I was there was in 2018 after coming back to area that I once called home. Gone are the Lord & Taylor, and JC Penney’s plus many other shops. Strange that malls in America are dead, yet in SE Asia where I reside now, they are more popular. Amazing how Boscov’s still hangs on.
I grew up in Brick Town in the 60's / 70's and my Parents always took my sister and I to the Monmouth Mall. Back when it was an Open Mall and also once it was all enclosed with the added addition to it with the couple of levels where by the looks of it in the video that is completely vacant now. Back before the addition Bamberger's was there as was an outlet of Bamberger's as their cheaper alternative. One of my memories would be shopping at Alexander's and purchasing the double vinyl album 'Goodbye Yellowbrick Road' by Elton John (I think my parents had a fit because it was around $14) and I also remember purchasing 'Permanent Waves' on vinyl by Rush at one of the record stores that was located down a little from Alexander's. What a great Mall in its heyday. The Food Court was never there when we went and either was it the last time I visited back around 1980 or so. Even at that time the Mall was bustling and I can remember a Sam Goody on the lower level of the new section. What a shame that it's become a ghost mall like so many others across the country. Thank COVID & the good ol' Internet for this.
I have only been here a few times but i remember that new area full of stores. Its weird seeing it empty. Last time I was there was pre-covid
The Montgomery Wards store was located where the AMC theater is located. Both Wards and Alexanders were two levels, the ground level and a lower level. After Alexander's closed in early 1983, the upper level became the Caldor and the lower level became the Nobody Beats The Wiz.
I believe the closed-off escalators by the food court are the inside entrance to the lower level space. There is also, IIRC, and elevator which was part of the MW.
born in 79' , I grew up spending childhood shopping time there all through the mid 80s and worked at the AMC theatre originally called " Sony theaters AMC " in 1997-98 ...it would be so packed there on the weekends I easily saw thousands a day ushering and cleaning the theaters, back in those days we wore the bow tie tux uniforms...the Master wok and Burger King @8:19 have been there since 97 when I worked at the theater.... there was also a Chick-fil-A there at that time, the food court would be packed with Lines....now just shadows of the past
Wow. I used to were at the Gap back in the late 90's. Crazy. If they throw a Whole Foods in there and build some townhouses, that place will be unstoppable. All those New Yorkers looking for places in NJ since covid
Seems really strange that the Macys sign @ 31:32 Is not centered above the entryway and way to the left. So sad to see many of these malls becoming obsolete and disappearing at a rapid rate.
Oh yeah, I see what you mean. Maybe it's supposed to be stylish???
When it was Monmouth Shopping Center in the late 60s/early70s, there were several stores outside.
The malls killed business in local town shops - now it's in reverse mode.
Lots of history, and many good memories here.
I was there two Sundays ago on Hot Topic’s last day.
The Wiz and Burlington was downstairs.
That must have been just a few days after I was there!
Thanks for the info!
@@fleabittenadventures February 25th. I just looked at a photo I took there.
So sad to be hearing of this! I grew up in Tinton Falls and the Monmouth Mall and Freehold Raceway Mall were both my go-to malls. I remember when Monmouth Mall had JC Penney, Macy's, Abraham and Strauss, and Bamberger's, just to name a few. So many painful memories.
So did I, Wayne - I hear you on everything!
i grew up going to Freehold Raceway Mall but my grandma took me here sometimes to get away from our 'normal' routine. Last I was here with her was in 2020 after the quarantine was lifted. The mall still had most of its stores even then! I don't have many memories of this mall, but it's still sad to see it being demolished. I just hope FRM and Ocean County won't be going anytime soon!!
An update on this mall as my brother works in it.
Pretty much all of the stores are gone in the corridor between B&N and AMC with I believe the exception of Macy's (and Boscov's still down the end). B&N's new building is still being built. Old Navy just closed recently or will be closing by the end of the summer. As soon as the leases are up, the tenants are gone. The owners fully believe that the tenants will return. There is nothing left in the new wing. I do remember the parking garage but literally no one ever used it, probably a good thing if it was structurally unsound. I personally think Monmouth Mall died because of the much better (and a few decades younger) Freehold Mall not too far away. As a kid in the 90s, my mom would always take us to Freehold and not Monmouth despite them being equal distances away. Ocean County Mall is also pretty close and while not as thriving as Freehold, still was doing much better than Monmouth prior to the 2020s. Thank you for the video!
The escalators going down used to be the entrance to "Nobody Beats The Wiz" which was located down there. That part of the mall was heavily renovated in the mid-late 90's like you stated. Next to AMC used to be men's clothing store called "Braddocks". Buffalo Wild Wings is now located there.
Yes, now I'm sure you also remember when Sebastian's Pub was down there.
As I understand it, the area where they are currently doing demolition will become the new B&N location (current location to become the Whole Foods).
I used to work for the management company. I recall them drawing up plans and updating the office on the bottom floor to be home base for the corporate folk for when construction starts. Going to be mixed use property. Mall and residental units. You should see the basement! vast area that goes underneith the entirity of the mall and used for storage. Small rooms. HUGE rooms. You can throw a rave down there. There's even hotel room mock-ups of other hotels that they own in the area.
They're not even gone and I'm missing malls already. None super close to me so just popping over to my local mall now involves a 45 minute trek- 90 minutes round trip-kind of puts a damper on mall hopping when you're time-strapped as most people are these days.
Their days are numbered....
Interesting video. Thanks. toronto canada.
Thanks for watching!
open air is a lot more cost effective for property owner as you don't have to heat and cool such an immense space of an enclosed one. and outdoor lighting is ample for customers and shop employees. people love natural lighting
Makes sense. I'm just old school and prefer heating and a/c. I'm not a fan of freezing or sweating while shopping.
@@fleabittenadventures not to mention asset protection is now exclusive to individual stores. so it's cheaper in many ways
Rowe-Manse department stores had a cards and candy store at the mall. Their other store was in Clifton,NJ.
I'm on the Jersey shore and practically grew up here. Have many pictures of going to the Caldor, riding the little kid carousel, etc. I believe where the down escalators are is where Burlington coat factory used to be because you had to go to downstairs to get to the main area. I don't remember the other local but the Wiz might have either been in the same spot as Burlington or where AMC was. They also used to have a Planet fitness there, it changed a lot in the 2000s.
I remei remember the eeird set up of the short escalators and stairs between the levels. I remember Caldors and when Bsmbergers became Macys after Federated bought them all. Beyond that, don't remember much else.
The Boscovs was a tennant, then closed down for a few years, and then reopened.
Just down from Monmouth was Seaview mall that died a number of years ago. They took down most of the mall and and turned what survived into independent stores. Most are doing ok.
I worked there at Steinbachs and The Merry Go Round Bruce Springsteen would come in and buy everything in a size 7/8. We would take turns helping him since we got a commission!
When you got to the split escalators and went down, on the left-hand side in the 80s was a Sam goodys. Also, down at the end by the old Abraham and Strauss, On the left hand side was a hallway to outside. On the left corner of that hallway was a French bistro restaurant called Le’ Crape’.
I remember Alexander’s as a kid with my mom at the Monmouth Mall. The location was about where the movie theater was located, not on the right. They sold cheap discount goods. When the Berlin Wall came down, they had a piece of it brought and put on display out in that part of the mall because it was quieter there.
I live right across the Mall and use to work at Ruby Tuesday's in the late 90s worked at Lord and Taylor and Boscov's. I also have been filming ad well and send it to my brother who lives in Okinawa.
In Charlotte North Carolina, there was a mall of about the same era called Eastland Mall. People got scared of going there because of gangs being menacing. The mall ceased operations in 2010 and was taken over by the city of Charlotte then demolished completely in 2013 without any plan what to do with the land. Offering the land for sale to the highest bidder without restrictions was not an option. Finally in 2022, they started building some housing on a portion of the land. A lot of the land is still vacant.
The escalator down went to Nobody beats the wiz. When they added the food court "the wiz" was below it. Old Navy was added when they added the food court.
Cool! Thanks for the info! It wasn't very clear online.
@fleabittenadventures You're welcome.
I've been going to that mall since I was a little kid. In my mind, that food court is still new. I remember them renovating it when I was in college and then putting The Wiz in that awkward spot with the down escalator.
Much prefer outdoor anything. Being inside a stuffy building is not fun. I rather shop online at that point. However, I LOVE me an outside shopping area like the Outlets in CT or Disney Springs to give a really stellar example.
Fair enough. To each his/her own.
Omg I had no clue this mall was being torn down. I’m from Mount Holly but I come to that area sometimes.
I don't think moving back to an outdoor mall will help unless the store size shrinks and the variety increases.
Fixed costs are significantly lower in an outdoor mall. Outdoor area cleaning is much cheaper and there are no costs for air conditioning for common area. Stores may also potentially decide on their opening hours more independently.
I agree. I guess we'll have to check back in a year or two and see if it works out.
Makes sense.
I got sad watching it. Mall had become such a stable in my life for last 30 years. I knew it had gotten bad but no clue how much it was a ghost town. I still go to movies there as still ones in the area.
Sad fact second floor had last suncoast until 2022.
Still got a jacket i bought in that mall decades ago ...back in the 80's
So sad 😞.
For sure! Thanks for watching!
The Monmouth mall was very lively just a couple years ago. I don't think the mall is dead for economic reasons. The owners are just forcing out all the tenants because they have other plans for the property. The Asbury Park Press called the Monmouth Mall the most valuable retail space in Central Jersey back in 2015.
Video from 2019 showing almost no vacancies in the quote "Dead Section:" ua-cam.com/video/KC2LlWGa-Lg/v-deo.html
You can cross reference all the stores from that video to see what they once were.
The Monmouth Mall is not a dead mall. It is a mall that was killed by dumb owners who wanted build a town center on the property instead. Seriously this should have been the last mall on Earth to close down.
I bet it be very busy if there was no internet - or even fairly busy if there were no mobile phones.
Paramus Park became a dead mall on saturdays, for a different reason oddly, since Hollister store for young people closed 2 yrs ago. When it was open, the mall was very busy on saturdays.(& Holister looked busier to me at Paramus Park than Hollister at Garden State Plaza! Very stupid move!)
Stew Lenards opening at Param Park did nothing - for that mall.
A real shame that section is being torn down. The apartments might help generate foot traffic for the remaining stores though? I guess we'll see in a few years after more mixed use community properties have gone up where malls used to be.
I do feel south of the Virginia-North Carolina state line to just north of the middle of Florida open air malls do make more sense (except in some extreme cold winter or very hot summer days). But yes, I do feel that enclosed, environmentally controlled malls north of that state line do make more sense, especially in the winter months (for purposes of honesty I live in the MetroAtlanta area since 1994, and was born and raised in the Tampa Bay Area - for 31 years before that).
I agree.
Places that left with absolutely little to no signage and can only tell by certain facades: Lids, Gap, Express and Express men, Aeropostale, AT&T, Gamestop (which i believe began as a babbage's), Hallmark, Champs Sports, Cotton:On, Forever 21, Footlocker, Kids Footlocker, Icing, Disney Store, Hollister Co., Cold Stone Creamery, Spencer's, Zumiez, Lenscrafters (moved to another part of the mall) and Charlotte Russe.
There was a Pacsun in the newer area as well.
@@zeldajunkielol2 oh yeah forgot about that being in there.
Had my wedding reception at the big fancy buffet there. The one with the hibachi sushi bar and grill. It was for 15 people so it was a small group and a great time. April 16 2005
Can confirm-- yeah it was a Ruby Tuesday 😂 this is so sad to see after growing up going here all the time when I met up with ocean county friends
I grew up in Highlands. I loved going to this mall
I think It started as an outdoor mall. I remember i was so happy when the mall opened on Sundays! As a teen I was the first Black Person to work at “The Limited “ I also worked as Casual Corner😂
on the upper floor toward the end, there was a "La Crepe" restaurant, in the 70s
I had never been there and always wanted to try it out. One day we wanted to go to dinner there and were told it had just closed several days prior.
People are probably going to the Freehold Raceway Mall instead.
Or the Ocean County Mall.
Or East Brunswick Mall are viable alternatives.
I worked in the area about 25 years ago and to be honest, it seems livelier to me in this video than it did in the late '90s. But that might be colored by my expectations then and now of what a mall should be like.
Was it a Johnny Rockets opposite the food court on the corner? In any case, it looks like it used to have long openings/windows and they drywalled them off.
It’s really shameful that malls are closing down. I grew up on shopping at malls
In AZ where I am in Lake Havasu the mall is a open air. In the summer heat 100 50 120 0r so no one goes much . The stores open at 11. Not good.
Hot topic now COLD topic, LOL
Soon there will be a change of topic too
I remember when Monmouth Shopping Center was new! Bamberger’s, (didn’t have to go to Newark) Kresgees, J. J. Newberry’s (moved from Asbury Park) great except you had to put your coat on in the Winter, Raincoat & Umbrella in the rain, HOT in the Summer when School shopping. It was great when it was all inside but then I moved to North Florida and one had to drive FAR to get to a Mall at first.
I no longer enjoy going outdoors to go from store to store so use what I have.
The newer wing is so brutalist (architecture) and imposing from rhe outside. What a contrast to the ultra modern interior (looks like a new mall that doesnt have stores yet). Maybe reface the Boscovs exterior if theyre keeping it.
For a dead mall, it looks well kept up....
I agree. It's just empty.
The store on your right @ 28:32 was up until a couple of years ago the last remaining Suncoast video store in NJ.
It's so sad to see another great mall close It's doors but It will be very interesting once the redevelopment is done.
Was probably only here one time. I kind of recall an odd staircase area. Looks like the food court WAS impressive.
Asbestos, huh? So that's super cool , knowing I worked there for two years
Yeah, not sure how that one slipped by them. They were removing asbestos from pretty much everywhere back in the 80's and 90's. I guess they just missed some????
@@fleabittenadventuresah, I kind of wondered why you made the comment in the video. I'm not in the US, but where I am, asbestos basically remains & is only removed if necessary (intact & undisturbed, it's ok) - basically too expensive to get removed.
I grew in that mall in the 80s this was THE mall of malls!!!!
the store at the top of the stairs at 11:30 had a suncoast back in 2013ish which was odd cause they went under many years earlier
I remember when it was all open, i used to go to go to country buffet there.menlo park Mall used to be open, they enclosed it then in the late eighties they added a second floor and expanded the whole mall with a movie theater which it never had. Further down route 35 at the Asbury Park circle years ago there was the Seaview square Mall, there wa a Sears there, it went downhill when all the blacks from Asbury Park started causing trouble as they always do by stealing robbing cars and shoppers, they demolished it built a target and I forget what else, i think sears stayed, the Internet destroyed a lot of businesses. I thought they were supposed to build townhouse's or houses there?
Spent many an afternoon there during my time at Monmouth University.
My mall only has 12 places left, but they're working on revitalizing it by refurbishing it and they are succerd new tenants and anchors
the amc is on what was wards, alexanders and caldor the escalator blocked off was part of those stores it did have 2 floors which was the main floor and a basement
Cool! Thanks for the info!
@11:31 at the escalator top level on the left hand side where the potted trees are, that was a Suncoast Video store that had been there over the last 20 years ...better shot of it @28:28 on the right hand side Suncoast Motion Picture Company