Abandoned Walmart - Elkin, NC
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- Abandoned Walmart - Elkin, NC. This location has been closed since at least 2008. A newer and larger supercenter was built and opened a couple of miles away. Since this store closed, it has deteriorated to the point that it is raining inside of the building. Still has power.
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Its fun seeing old walmart like this
I live out in Dobson NC and grew up around Traphill to Elkin. I remember being taken to this walmart as a child its such a shame to see something so big go to waste. But that other building up the hill from the old walmart is a closed Taco Bell they also tried having a few other things there but they didn't work out. Have a great day and thank you if you read this.
Aye lmao I live in dobson
I used to work for BSA on Rockford Rd
I live 1 mile from this Walmart. Really King was going to move to the old Walmart, then Covid happened.
I live here in Elkin. It has been closed over 16 years. Walmart wont sell it or lease it because they dont want Target to come to town. They did rent it to the lawn mower place across the street for a while. Yes It was a Taco Bell that moved with Walmart. Quiznos Sign light still comes on at night lol. The Damage from that fire was small.
Target would not be interested in this space if they were coming to Elkin. Elkin does not have the population for a Target store.
Ronda resident here-I hear it’s going to be a rural king. Which is great news lol
The way the rain is pouring in through the broken ceiling and the faint glow of the still-on lights make for a eerie scene.
It’s very sad abandoned in Walmart. 😢
Thank you sharing your video. 🫶🏻❤️
Wow I honestly appreciate you Wallie! My 7yr old son watches this with me he love your channel.
Makes me think of my childhood Walmart
I miss the old Walmart
Thanks for Awesome as Always Wallie Hope You Enjoyed of the Weekend
I haven’t seen a Quiznos for the longest time. Do people even shop at that Bath and Body? I can’t Imagine to many who would. Thank You So Much For Sharing This Video.
I live 3 miles from Bath and Body Works. It is a busy store. I shop there often as well. This Walmart has been gone for at least 12 years.
@@VWK1970 my mom and I always shopped at Bath and Body. It’s an awesome store to shop in. Thank you for sharing. 😊
My area in North Augusta SC still has a 90's Walmart store that was turned into a Steve, and Berry's, then 1/2 of it turned into a Rose's department store, and the other side is now a Tractor Supply location, so it's nice that's being used again, but the rest of the area right around is fairly run down.
I moved to Elkin just over 3 yrs ago , this building has been untouched since long before that.
Hey wallie there is still a long abandoned 90s era walmart in lewisburg pa. Its right beside weis on 11/15
My mom used work at this Walmart. It's been abandoned for 14 year
Wow! Great video! This place has been closed a long, long time! Really in bad shape too!
They don't have the smaller discount stores anymore these days. They only have supercenters and neighborhood markets, but not the older department stores.
I remember Hagerstown, MD having a Walmart like this, it was demolished back in 2004-2005 and a Martin's Food Market stands in its place.
Hey Wallie, this Walmart opened in 1989 and relocated to the new store around Summer 2008
WallieB26 really enjoyed your awesome abandoned Walmart! My niece was byin 2008. That couch looked so comfortable! I just love your awesome videos! YOU ROCK!!!!!
That’s in bad shape! The fact the power is still on too, that’s a disaster waiting to happen. Also there is an abandoned McDonald’s in front of that former Kmart down the street, looks like it been closed for over 10 years.
Try 30 years!
lol Ollie’s is going in that plaza next to Harbor Freight.
Awesome Video Wallie :D thanks for sharing this one i really enjoy your video :D
WallIEO how really good is Franks Pizza and Chicken??? I remember a video from YEARS ago you had the buffalo chicken pizza. Might try that, still recommend 1 ranch cup per 2 slices?? That pie looked damn good man
4:10 wym it’s like they just gave up they did give up when they heard abt the new supercenter being built
We have 2 Quiznos left in Vegas. That Walmart was trashed. No saving that water damage.
Agreed it's better if it's torn down, and turned into a large community park, or another new store.
That couch in the doorway is something I've never seen before at an abandoned big box retailer. Usually people dump off stuff like that outside the abandoned stores.
Cool video Wallie ! There is a Quiznos in New Albany in that is still open.
I miss the old Walmart's, I hate the supercenters and the neighborhood markets. Fun fact Walmart doesn't own the building's
The diagonal pillars were more of the early 90’s. Looking at the little boxes design on the top I’d guess that this was probably built in the 90’s. Seems like that was a common design on Supercenters back then.
In Marlow Oklahoma there is an old Walmart painted brown an signs that say keep out but things are going on inside it , and there is a new Walmart down the road south a bit
I had the same thought because I saw on Google Earth Street view and I said that's definitely a Taco Bell that is abandoned right across from the abandoned Walmart because it has the design of a Abandoned Taco Bell.
I remember when that store was the spot. The only time I go to Elkin is to go to the Carhart store
Reminds me of all the water in Centry 3 Mall. Wondering if this is or was a Moonbeam property, hahaha!
Here in Gilroy CA they did the same they sold off the old building, like in 2004 for a bigger location. the good thing though is that a RV seller bought the building so it’s not abandoned.
With electricity that's real safe great video by the way
Got another one for you, there's a old school Walmart in Oak Hill, WV and I think it's abandoned right now because a church was using it but I don't think so anymore. Went by there the other day and nothing was there. I would like to do a video there as well but it would be cool if we did a video on it. The right side of it is taken over by a Tractor Supply but the left side has the Walmart styling from this one as well still up and you can see the old label scar on the sign on the road peeking through.
Update: a Community Outreach Home Goods place is using it, I thought it was abandoned. But it's still a cool thing to find but there is a Long John Silvers there though and a Save a Lot up the road as well
Fun fact. I worked at Elkin Walmart from 2016-2021 and was there during the fire. We definitely wasn’t put out of jobs 😭😭 I thought we was going to but we worked the remodel along with a construction crew
If you remember the old ads for Quiznos it's no wonder they didn't make it they use to use singing roadants or spider eggs or something int the ads
Love the kreator shirt!
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What's sad is that I remember when it was built and first opened. We had TG&Y first, then K-mart came in during the early 80s, followed by Walmart. We were moving up in the world! Elkin went through a down period for a while, but it's on its way back again. I was born there and live near there now. Great place to live!
Dang u must be old old
@@KeithWilliams-dx6pb Yep. Gen X, baby!
I worked at the TG&Y on North Bridge Street when I was in high school. Graduated from Starmount class of 80.
Can't believe how the time has flown past.
Don't forget Brendle's
Ronda resident here, moved here a few years ago and love elkin and Wilkesboro.
Why am I not surprised to see the Quizno's closed. I remember when Subway started offering to toast their subs, it was in response to the rise of Quizno's. Well, we all see what happened to Quizno's, I was never impressed by them to begin with.
I grew up in Elkin. When Walmart left that building stayed closed. And yes on the other side of the parking lot was a taco bell that Alex's took over then a bank moved in to the building. That area of Elkin is slowly dying
Wow 👌 awesome walmart
Ingles is also in north Georgia area ( Ellijay Ga , Blue ridge Ga. / some other parts of north Georgia region area.
I’ve been to north Georgia area on vacation , back in 2003 & 2005.
As always great video. 👍
Pretty sure this whole shopping center used to be way more lively, there was the walmart, taco bell, a sonic right near by, and even a gamestop. I think things changed when they built the big one down the road and started moving things toward that part of town.
When it first opened in the late 80s it even had a record store.
The problem with towns like Elkin is that they have plenty of land to develop new shopping centers, but not enough population to support multiple centers. So by the time a center gets old, its property values have gotten so high that its cheaper to buy undeveloped land, build a brand new center, and abandon the old one. Elkin Village Shopping Center is an exception, mostly because its in a really good location at the N. Bridge/268 Bypass intersection. If the bypass hadnt been built, it probably would be in bad shape too.
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I still have my Walmart Discount Store open with this same exact entrance, although the back by the garden center and the garden center entrance is different since adding the Online Order Pickup section, typically where you'd have the Walmart Auto Center. Any Walmart store that is not a Supercenter is considered a Discount Store.
The signs used to say Walmart Discount City back in the day. That was back when they had the 3 piece signs.
Elkin use to be the cruising capitol of the country. They put an ordinance in to stop it because some business owners whined. Funny thing is those complaining businesses were closed because cruising was at night and it was after closing hours.
Hay Wallie if u want to film some more about Walmart stores & other locations down in my old stomping grounds of Camden Arkansas
Awesome Wallie
We used to have a Quiznos right by my grandma and grandpa’s, but it had changed Intel a wine shop
There was a Walmart like this in Eden, North Carolina. Shortly after a Walmart Super Center was built, Tractor Supply took over the old building.
Coincidentally there is a Tractor Supply up the street from this abandoned Walmart. But it was built before the Walmart moved across town.
I used to have a Quiznos down the street from me but they closed them down
The Wal-Mart stores in neighboring towns from me has been repurposed into Rural King and has been built in 1989. They have relocated and they built a Super Wal-Mart. The one in my town was built in 1998 and they built it behind the older one that was built in 1989 and they tore it down and it is now a parking lot to the Super Wal-Mart.
I have been in that Ealmart many times before it's closure. And I worked at that Taco Bell 11 years ago. 😅
I remember the video on that Walmart in Arkansas you inside of. :)
The video clip of you walking up to the front entrance was featured in a intro for a horror story about Walmart
At one time, the Super Walmart there was one of the first and also, for a time, was the largest Super Walmart on the east coast.
Mostly that walmart was a DM store, most DM stores got renovated to supercenters
When Walmart choises to abandon buildings for bigger ones. They should have to do something with the old one besides leave it empty. Crazy how all these pkaces are empty.
The elkin walmart was closed about 16 years ago, the Taco Bell i believe was abandoned shortly after as were the nail shop, karate place, hair salon, pizza shop, and many other places in that shopping center. I was a teenager when it all closed and business became too difficult to get there. Walmart is never going to sell that place again or let it open again, its to damaged internally at this point but i believe they also wanted to prevent a target from coming to elkin.
If target wants to come in. They will find a way.
In my perfect world,all the Wal Marts,Sams Clubs,McDonalds,Amazons ,and Starbucks,to name a few of thier ilk would be closed,and abandoned.
I believe that Walmart closed around 08 or 09
Surprised to see Ingles there, I've traveled I-40 to Asheville and there is several locations near the interstate, I do know that in Walnut Cove, NC on US-311 is a old school Ingles that reminds me of the old school theme Food Lion used to have before they updated in 2012-13 and on NC 65 in Summerfield, NC is a Bi-Rite which looks to only be open for about 2 years now but has a old school logo on it which is weird.
That Walmart closed when the one on CC camp rd opened in 2008 (about a mile away)
Sad they just let it fall apart instead of putting another business there 😮 what a total mess 😞
It wasn't closed in 2008 because the sign you read said Grand Opening was 2008. They closed later and there is a new Wal-Mart there now.
Wallie, have you heard that someone is bringing Kmart back?
The old Walmart here in my town tractor supply, d***'s sporting goods and big lots went in there
Got a old abandoned burger King in Elkhart.,Indiana late 2018 nobody film it I know you get around and fill abandoned places
Cool,I work 3 rd shift at an Ingle s in Asheville nc. 😀
Its Rare To See An Abandoned Walmart. Well, In My Case, it is.
I'm 29 years old and this thing was abandoned when I was in ninth grade at least it's been abandoned for at least 15 years
we used to break into it and skateboard
Wow really raining inside almost 56 see next time
woah!I live very close to elkin
Pretty cool find, can do you one better tho since theres 60s walmarts still open never renovated, u can find them in all the economicly depressed towns like Henrietta and Atoka oklahoma
Just a waiting on Rural King!
That was cool
For me it's kinda sad but I grew up in Kearns UT and there's a big area of stores that going up they were Kmart a pizza place Albertsons blockbuster now its all completely vacant just sad to think of what was and what is now
I bet smiley is smdily away to a another Walmart 😂
Fun Fact I Love Ingles as some have starbucks and really great deli restaurant inside so a must go also Our Roses is inside a 90s walmart (Not Supercentre) But how ashamed for An arson to do 2 million in damages so pittyful and shameful Then grafiti But Question would you have ate at that quiznos if it were to be open
Hey wally do u still jave the Z24 never see it in your videos
The taco bell has actually been multiple restaurants and all of them failed lol, it's been a cagneys kitchen and a pattys grill i think? And none of them seem to see any success so it's probably recently abandoned for the 20th time
Wait it wasn't Patty's it was Alexis grill or something similar to that name
Walmart stores are subject to incredibly cheap construction.
Go to the abandon Walmart, neighborhood market in Florida
Cool video
Lol they abandoned it to move up the road from there it's bigger than that old store
Wallie what does your shirt say is that another band..?
Walmart and target is the reason why K mart has closed. I'm not shopping at Walmart or target anymore. I'm only going to family dollar in dollar general
It’s raining in the building!😂
I have a Walmart an hour away similar to this one that they closed after one was built across the street! 😂😂😂😂 The windows and doors are all boarded!
If you could get in there check to see if there is carts because I believe they go for 200 bucks each
@@bfdiboy7563 can’t get in it’s closed up really tight!
There's ingles in fla and Georgia as well wally
I live in Bryant Arkansas now
Was that Belk open?
Yes! It was!
@@WallieB26 I really like Belk.
It makes me wonder if there getting ready to put something in there
This wal*mart probably opened in the late 80’s early 90’s
200th like!
That Walmart opened in 1985
Do you know a place called domino’s wallie????
on google earth it shows that they reopened this store