i am obsessed with dead mall footage, its wierd but i had dreams of such empty mall hallways when i was a kid in the 1990s (also endless "poolworlds" complexes), i feel like the energy still lingers in such places
This mall looks very clean and well maintained for it to be abandoned. It’s strange how, across the country, city to city, they open the doors to these dying malls every day knowing there’s nothing there. Strange.🤷🏽♀️
I really like the old 80’s vibe. The circus tent ceiling is neat. It looks like there is nothing left open. I think they should have just kept what was there instead of building the mall. It doesn’t seem like it was needed. The mall may have done well for a time but now it’s basically abandoned. Great video North!
Dang who wouldve thought about 30 or even 10 years ago a place like this would be seen in this state, really mezmorizing stuff to think about honestly. Excellent work, your really getting into some new areas!
this is like stepping back into the 80s. This is what I remember from the mall I frequented in my childhood, same colors, same columns, same fake greenery.
The colorful tile is a candy store. They is one in Fayetteville, ar and was/is one in Bartlesville. Tulsa has one functioning mall now since promenade closed and eastgate is now a business center kind of like how arrowhead is. I walked this mall in 2022 and yep creeped out and felt so surreal and it felt like Bartlesville mall. Woodland Hills in Tulsa demolished the Sears and added a scheels and it brought a new energy into woodland. It was a great mall but it’s now vibing really well.
Ohhh man. What an amazing mall. I keep thinking about what it might have once looked like...so liminal. And your music choices are just top notch always!
I remember very well when this mall was actually a pretty nice place to go! It's sad that this is what it's become. Looks like it's even a little more dead than the last time I was there a few years ago - the Subway and Bath & Body Works were still open then.
Hi there! Looks like Washington Square Mall Evansville, IN Right? In the ARROWHEAD CENTER COURT!!!! Boy we had a great 24 yrs before they would renovate in 1987. I was working in that mall at 23. Just turned 61 on Jan 17th. I'm so sorry Arrowhead Mall was slowing down in the early 2000's . This a beautiful large ma that brought from different small towns. Dillard's was bigger at Eastland Mall. I still go to Eastland and look around. Goodwill thrives at the old Sears in Washington Square!
Hey North - I enjoyed this mall too. That was a smaller Dillard's for sure. Not too much new in Iowa malls although I did read something might happen within the next year with the vacant Sears at Lindale. I think the weather is supposed to be ok within the next week.
Even some of these late 80's malls seem like a busted flush to me. 8 years of construction, millions of dollars invested and it would have surely started massively declining 15-20 years later. Was that worth it?
Exactly.. it was VERY poorly planned from the start. I can imagine downtown Muskogee would’ve been MUCH better off had they kept around the neighborhoods, and houses once here and simply reworked the old abandoned industry instead.
I really don’t understand the use of canvas tents in any enclosed structure. Looks cool, but it’s something that will fail at any random time and you can’t just get up on a ladder and easily patch over random leaks like a flat or sloped roof. It’s a very specialized roofing choice and I’m very curious as to how people in that industry address these types of concerns.
I too would love to know this! Especially with many of these old dilapidated malls containing tent roofs, I bet they all have a secret and cheap upkeep code. Not in OSHAs terms but in their own!
My local dead mall got demolished for a redevelopment a few years ago. I’m on the construction crew doing the new apartments where it once was, let me know if you want me to send you some… I don’t know, dirt? Or something?
I believe the last time I was at this mall was possibly around 2005 or so, the Dillards was still around and a handful of other places but it was obviously not going to make it. My grandmother liked going to this mall because it “wasn’t crowded”
"Unlocked for employees only" you know no one cares anymore when they just decide to leave the door open for like maybe two, three employees working there or pretending to work lol... such a sad nostalgia when you see a mall like this... all those memories... all those people walking and filling the hallways only for it to fall silent and lonely...
The colorful store I believe was a KB Toys, at least that's what the one's around me growing up looked like that opened in mid-1980s malls. This is such a beautiful mall, I really wish these places would make a comeback along with socializing in person instead of thru a phone screen.
That's a good possibility. My guess would've been a Great American Cookie Company. They had the same kind of colorful tile facades, at least at one time. Hard to tell without seeing inside, lol. ETA: Upon consulting the directory shown earlier in the video, there WAS still a Great American Cookie at this mall, but it was further down, right next door to the Bretzel Pretzels, and it looks like it had the older 80s facade. And it was stated that there was also a KB Toys there once upon a time. So I think appalacianwoman may be right.
Another great video from NorthCdogg. I love the center strip skylight in the ceiling. However, if the designers are going to make the effort to do that why did they go cheap with the arch part of the ceiling being those ugly drop ceiling panels. Those belong in office buildings, not a mall. That being said, I love the 80s style live trees inside as well as the wood tones. However, I prefer the 80s style marble or shiny brick flooring over the public restroom style flooring this mall has. They went cheap with the flooring in this mall. I don’t know if it was from a later remodel or if that is indeed the original flooring, but they definitely went cheap in that regard. On the plus side this mall isn’t like so many of the malls today that have the sterile white purgatory feel. I can imagine this mall having a really nice ambience in its hey day in the late 80s with plenty of neon to add to the charming feel that the interior foliage and trees give. I can imagine it with music from the group Scandal being played in the mall speakers in the 80s mixing with the sound of gurgling water fountains near the wooden benches under the trees and the bright neon signage from the store fronts. A teenie bopper with big hair walking by with her girlfriends saying in a valley girl accent, “oh hi Debbie, are you going to the party tonight? I’m bringing my boyfriend Biff”. 😂. Young people today can try to imagine the 80s, but they’ll never truly know what it was actually like.
Mall in our town is fairly well occupied but seems like 90% of the stores are women's clothes, jewelry stores or cellphone kiosks. Not much of a reason to go there.
i am obsessed with dead mall footage, its wierd but i had dreams of such empty mall hallways when i was a kid in the 1990s (also endless "poolworlds" complexes), i feel like the energy still lingers in such places
This mall looks very clean and well maintained for it to be abandoned. It’s strange how, across the country, city to city, they open the doors to these dying malls every day knowing there’s nothing there. Strange.🤷🏽♀️
I really like the old 80’s vibe. The circus tent ceiling is neat. It looks like there is nothing left open. I think they should have just kept what was there instead of building the mall. It doesn’t seem like it was needed. The mall may have done well for a time but now it’s basically abandoned. Great video North!
@@Mom2my4blessings thank you!
Dang who wouldve thought about 30 or even 10 years ago a place like this would be seen in this state, really mezmorizing stuff to think about honestly. Excellent work, your really getting into some new areas!
Appreciate it! It’s been a lot of fun exploring some of these lesser-known spots!
I had to do a few days at Sears here back in the day! Thanks for covering this one.
Is Pines Mall in Pine Bluff, Arkansas next?
@@Jack61410 it is!! You got it!
this is like stepping back into the 80s. This is what I remember from the mall I frequented in my childhood, same colors, same columns, same fake greenery.
Great vid!….I want to go see this mall 👍
Thanks for watching! Definitely a mall worth checking out
The colorful tile is a candy store. They is one in Fayetteville, ar and was/is one in Bartlesville.
Tulsa has one functioning mall now since promenade closed and eastgate is now a business center kind of like how arrowhead is. I walked this mall in 2022 and yep creeped out and felt so surreal and it felt like Bartlesville mall. Woodland Hills in Tulsa demolished the Sears and added a scheels and it brought a new energy into woodland. It was a great mall but it’s now vibing really well.
Hello! Awesome intro, this is going to be a good one!
Ohhh man. What an amazing mall. I keep thinking about what it might have once looked like...so liminal. And your music choices are just top notch always!
Thank you so much! I wish I could’ve seen it in its prime, must’ve been quite the place!
thats a retro looking mall 👍🏻
It's still a well kept mall. It's sad to see it not being used.
I remember very well when this mall was actually a pretty nice place to go! It's sad that this is what it's become. Looks like it's even a little more dead than the last time I was there a few years ago - the Subway and Bath & Body Works were still open then.
Hi there! Looks like Washington Square Mall Evansville, IN Right? In the ARROWHEAD CENTER COURT!!!! Boy we had a great 24 yrs before they would renovate in 1987. I was working in that mall at 23. Just turned 61 on Jan 17th. I'm so sorry Arrowhead Mall was slowing down in the early 2000's . This a beautiful large ma that brought from different small towns. Dillard's was bigger at Eastland Mall. I still go to Eastland and look around. Goodwill thrives at the old Sears in Washington Square!
So weird how malls...once the be all and see all of shopping are fading away these last few years
Hey North -
I enjoyed this mall too. That was a smaller Dillard's for sure.
Not too much new in Iowa malls although I did read something might happen within the next year with the vacant Sears at Lindale.
I think the weather is supposed to be ok within the next week.
Even some of these late 80's malls seem like a busted flush to me. 8 years of construction, millions of dollars invested and it would have surely started massively declining 15-20 years later. Was that worth it?
Exactly.. it was VERY poorly planned from the start. I can imagine downtown Muskogee would’ve been MUCH better off had they kept around the neighborhoods, and houses once here and simply reworked the old abandoned industry instead.
I really don’t understand the use of canvas tents in any enclosed structure. Looks cool, but it’s something that will fail at any random time and you can’t just get up on a ladder and easily patch over random leaks like a flat or sloped roof. It’s a very specialized roofing choice and I’m very curious as to how people in that industry address these types of concerns.
I too would love to know this! Especially with many of these old dilapidated malls containing tent roofs, I bet they all have a secret and cheap upkeep code. Not in OSHAs terms but in their own!
All I could dig up on the White/Red/Yellow/Blue tiled store was a Candy Craze that closed Easter 2017.
I remember seeing a late night showing of Total Recall at the movie theater there when I was in high school.
My local dead mall got demolished for a redevelopment a few years ago. I’m on the construction crew doing the new apartments where it once was, let me know if you want me to send you some… I don’t know, dirt? Or something?
I believe the last time I was at this mall was possibly around 2005 or so, the Dillards was still around and a handful of other places but it was obviously not going to make it. My grandmother liked going to this mall because it “wasn’t crowded”
"Unlocked for employees only" you know no one cares anymore when they just decide to leave the door open for like maybe two, three employees working there or pretending to work lol...
such a sad nostalgia when you see a mall like this... all those memories... all those people walking and filling the hallways only for it to fall silent and lonely...
The colorful store I believe was a KB Toys, at least that's what the one's around me growing up looked like that opened in mid-1980s malls. This is such a beautiful mall, I really wish these places would make a comeback along with socializing in person instead of thru a phone screen.
That's a good possibility. My guess would've been a Great American Cookie Company. They had the same kind of colorful tile facades, at least at one time. Hard to tell without seeing inside, lol. ETA: Upon consulting the directory shown earlier in the video, there WAS still a Great American Cookie at this mall, but it was further down, right next door to the Bretzel Pretzels, and it looks like it had the older 80s facade. And it was stated that there was also a KB Toys there once upon a time. So I think appalacianwoman may be right.
Why is it even unlocked? Mall walkers? There is no commerce going on in there. Looks like it is in good shape.
Solely for mall walkers, and the 3 businesses which are still left..
Wow I’ve never known to let the public in while construction was still going on!
I believe that was Twisted Joes pretzel. With the colored tiles
First time I actually see a video seconds after release
Another great video from NorthCdogg. I love the center strip skylight in the ceiling. However, if the designers are going to make the effort to do that why did they go cheap with the arch part of the ceiling being those ugly drop ceiling panels. Those belong in office buildings, not a mall. That being said, I love the 80s style live trees inside as well as the wood tones. However, I prefer the 80s style marble or shiny brick flooring over the public restroom style flooring this mall has. They went cheap with the flooring in this mall. I don’t know if it was from a later remodel or if that is indeed the original flooring, but they definitely went cheap in that regard. On the plus side this mall isn’t like so many of the malls today that have the sterile white purgatory feel. I can imagine this mall having a really nice ambience in its hey day in the late 80s with plenty of neon to add to the charming feel that the interior foliage and trees give. I can imagine it with music from the group Scandal being played in the mall speakers in the 80s mixing with the sound of gurgling water fountains near the wooden benches under the trees and the bright neon signage from the store fronts. A teenie bopper with big hair walking by with her girlfriends saying in a valley girl accent, “oh hi Debbie, are you going to the party tonight? I’m bringing my boyfriend Biff”. 😂. Young people today can try to imagine the 80s, but they’ll never truly know what it was actually like.
I THOUGHT AT FIRST YOU WERE TALKING OF THE ARROWHEAD MALL IN ARIZONA
With the polka dots was a great american cookies!
No, it was a Candy Craze. They were the only ones who used those colored squares.
heritage park mall???
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"I'm proud to be a dead mall from Muskogee..."🎶
Hello
In Europe its also dead but in a different way, its filled with pick pocketers and unemployed refugees that are hanging around.
Mall in our town is fairly well occupied but seems like 90% of the stores are women's clothes, jewelry stores or cellphone kiosks.
Not much of a reason to go there.