DEAD MALL: Indiana Mall - Indiana, PA
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- DEAD MALL: Indiana Mall - Indiana, PA. As we celebrate reaching 40,000 subscribers on UA-cam, I thought I would take us back to one of the first malls I ever filmed. Back in January 2018, I uploaded a video from here and showed how it looked then. At the time, Sears and Bon-Ton were both open. The old Kmart was closed up and nothing was using the space at the time. Today, both Sears and Bon-Ton are long gone. They closed in 2018 months apart. Since then the Bon-Ton remains empty while the Sears has been partially repurposed to house Harbor Freight and Kohl's. The old Kmart is currently being used by Spirit Halloween for a couple of months. For the rest of the mall, it was just as dead as it was on my original visit. Aesthetically, this mall will definitely catch your eye and make you feel like you just took a step back in time... especially if you can appreciate vintage aesthetics. Anyway, hope you enjoy our 2021 revisit tour of Indiana Mall!
Here is our original video from January 2018 here:
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I've lived in Indiana all my life good and bad town you can say.... I'm 18 so the mall was always a so called dead mall for me but I still had great times and memories inside. All the stores are gone but the Moive theater is still open.. My dad and I go to the movies alot and it's kinda like having your own less its a new movie that's really popular like an avengers film or so on..... but the Mall has actually just been put up for sale and it's pretty cheap for how well the building is and where it is located...... I've always wanted to buy said mall and turn it into luxury apartments or throw some restaurants into it then it would do very well and wouldn't be on youtube as a dead mall 🙃... anyways good video makes me think alot about my town and my goals 💯✌
Love the music!!!! Nothing like 1980's
Turn the water fountain ⛲️ off
Home town of Jimmy Stuart I believe. Enjoyed watching Wallie 👍👌
yup, there is even an airport named after him.
I went to his statue dedicated ceremony in the 1980s. Big event for Indiana. 🎉 Stewart was a great man. Air Force combat veteran & highly respected. 🎭
Very cool, clean mall! Love the colors and music!! You're awesome!!
I used to work in that movie theater back in 2008-09 while I was at IUP. It was just before the mall started going downhill. Great memories working there with that crew and chilling at the gamestop and pizza joint in the mall!
I was there the day the mall opened. Star wars characters were there. My brother was told not to run. He ran fell and chipped his tooth!
@jason cessna Did your family own a restaurant in Shelocta? on rte 422?
@@jenniferlivinlaughinlovin3205 nope
Congrats on 40,000 subscribers!!! Thank you for the video. ALWAYS enjoy your videos!! Stay safe, take care, safe travels, God bless you.
Love the fountain and skylight, and the sign on the trailer. That's very funny!!
Loved the skylights and the patterns with the floor tiles. And the fountain ⛲ was so peaceful. Maybe other places will move in to help it along.
This mall had a small statue of actor Jimmy Stewart. He was very popular 🎭 mostly 1930s to 1970s. Stewart was a WW2 USAF(Army Air Corps) veteran. Indiana had a big version of the Stewart display downtown. Along with a museum. 🎬
I still remember the video of this place you did back just before 2018.
What a cool vintage mall. I loved the video and the music. It was awesome. Congrats on 40,000 subs. I love all your videos.
This is my hometown. I went to school here and eventually a couple years at the local college IUP. It's still SOMEWHAT openish. In 1999 The band Jackyl played here in the parking lot and growing us I used to get in fights occasionally back in the day while hanging out with my friends as a teenager. That Harbor Frieght just opened up not too long ago AND when I recently gt my inheritance, I bought a house first, BUT I went to buy some tools and equipment at Harbor Freight and spent approximately 6 grand there within a week on everything purchased. This town is also the birthplace of Jimmy Stewart, the legendary actor who was the main character in many Hollywood classics.
There used to be a handicapped man, named Geno, who was in his 50's by time it was the 90s. He would be there all day and have a little red wagon which he would cart his shoe shine kit and offer shoe shines to shoppers passing by. I believe he made a living there.
I was born in 79, so this place was my life. I was a lid there who enjoyed my Orange Julius and saw Transformers the movie in 1986. There were 2 arcades, "Aladdin's Castle" was first in the 80's and in the 90's it was a place called "Pocket Change". There was an Electronic Boutique there and I purchased my first CD Rom and Sound Card from there. I even got my first PC from the Sears in 1993, an IBM PS1.
I could go 9n because I was a local musician and a "townie"... It comes to Indiana PA or Indiana County or the history of the people here and where and what has went on, and a few other things that happen today, I'm your guy. I used to do UA-cam back in the day, and there WAS a rumor that the creator of UA-cam went to college at IUP here, but I can't confirm it OR deny it.
There used to be somewhat of a music scene here, which I was heavily active in back in the day. We used to have a place, The Cage, and have open Mic on Friday and Saturday nights from an old former former fallout shelter that is located under the Indiana Movie Theater on Philadelphia Street. Sometimes we would have local and touring independent acts perform there.
I could go on, but that's just some of the story here. I don't live in the borough anymore, but it's only a 10 to 15 minute drive for me. There used to be so much here with things happening, but it's relatively calm and boring these days if you ask me.
Thanks for these memories. Would love to hear more. I used to live in the area and my mom and I would drive to this mall on occasion. It is sad to see it this way. I remember it as a vibrant, fun, active place with lots of people. Many fond memories.
I Love 💘 Love 💘 this!
And the Song 🎶 is Awesome! .
And YOUR AWESOME WALLIEB26 👍!
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It was a great dead mall video, Wallie! Speaking of dead mall, I went shopping at my local mall today! I shopped at TJMaxx, Bath and Body Works, and at a boutique store. I also ate at Chick-Fil-A! I had fun! ❤😘👍 I enjoyed watching your video! It was awesome! Thank you so much!
Congrats on 40k!!!!!🎉🍻🍾 what a cool mall love the red!👍
The water fountain is awesome with the red open ceiling feature.
Ikr it strangely gave me a Japanese vibe, especially with the black color on the bottom of each columns.
I was a student at IUP when this mall opened in 1979. At the time it was the biggest shopping area outside of downtown for miles. State of the art, always packed, clean, bright. Shame what's happened here, as well as most malls.
I lived in the western PA area with many family members near by. Saltsburg, Blairsville, Apollo, etc. I ate at a few places near the mall, got my 1995 PA drivers license, vehicle reg there. 🚘
Man I got some memories from that mall from my college days at IUP. Great video but made me kinda depressed…gotta make a trip up there soon!
What years? I started in 2001 and this makes me super depressed
@@andreabaker3824 2001 as well!! I really miss Kmart and just walking around there. Being a PA girl I grew up with malls like this. Glad they kept the old school aesthetics at least. Still depressing.
Congratulations on 40K Wallie!
I remember going there all the time as an IUP student and Hills was there
I put that marble up on the Shoe depot front. There was a Wendy's beside it.
Yayyy! Indiana Mall Video!
At 8:39 that oddly shaped bunch of tiles used to be an area with steps down into it and it was full of plants and had a nice fountain/pond and seating. It was one of my favorites parts of the mall! If I remember correctly it got removed in the early 2000s when I was little.
Thank you for the Upload 👍❤️ !! XD Any mall that would use K- Mart for an anchor is beyond me !! Xd
Wow, The Hurricanes. I haven’t heard that song since about 10 years.
The water fountain is beautiful!! Wallie, chalk it up to experience!! Your UA-cam Channel rocks!! Have a Indiana Mallicious Day! Have a KMartlicious!
That mall truly is a thing of beauty. I appreciate old and/or outdated aesthetics from a nostalgic and historical perspective, but this Mall's aesthetics are genuinely beautiful regardless of age. This is the kind of stuff I look for when I visit a mall I've never been to before. Thanks for sharing it with us, and congratulations on the subscriber milestone!
The I mall seemed very clean, well serviced. The Mall was big mainly: 1970s 1980s. I visited often as a kid. Saw many films there. 🎥. Ate at the QSR places close by.
I love dead mall videos! This video was in my suggested. I cannot get enough of these types of videos. I am mystified by the amount of dead malls in the Us. It truly is the end of an era and I can’t help but feel sad. Thank you for sharing!
Here is an inside early 1990s tip. I used to be a store detective at Hills in Irwin. The Hills store at this mall always had great apprehension shoplifting numbers compared to the rest of the other Hills stores. They always smoked us and it was not college students either. Just an interesting tid bit to pass along.
Wow, that's pretty impressive. I know my local Hills at North Hills Village Mall in Ross Township didn't play around either. They were a great store.
This mall is in my home town. It had a lot of great stores and restaurants. It thrived until about 2010.
Great video wallie it's sad to see my local mall go down hill so bad. Bad in the day it was a nice place. It just so dead and depressing now. In the 90s and early to mid 2000s it's wasn't to bad. But around like 2008 or 2009 is when it started dieing quickly. once Kmart left it only got worse and very quickly.
Congratulations on 40 K, Wallie
Coming from the area this was a main shopping destination when I was a kid in the 90's. I remember going to the arcade that was to the right of Aunite Anne's pretzels. I saw games like Mortal Kombat and Tekken for the first time there. I haven't thought about that in years and it makes me feel old! Thank you for the video. Kinda sad to see this mall going the way of so many others.
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They repurposed the Kmart here also, now it's, Harbour freight, anytime fitness,Dunham's sports, and a mattress store, they even built a t mobile in the parking lot, LikedtheVideo
These mall vids are top notch! The best New mall vids being made at the moment IMO👍
Wallie Great Videos. Man thanks for everything
Love it
Congrats on 40K!
Congratulations To Mr. And Mrs. Kmartliciousday
I enjoyed your first video of Indiana mall and it's nice to see it again almost four years later.
Yes! Thank you!
0:12 I like malls with Kmarts in them, It looks so unique.
Great video WallieB26... one of the reasons you have 40,000+ is you don't beg for money like some of the others... keep on going WallieB26
I went to IUP from 1999 to 2002 and remember Regency mall was basically just an Ames and an appliance store. If you had a car you made the drive to Monroeville
I love the look of the mall and would shop there
Congratulations on your 40,000 sucribes
Almost 63,000 subscribers now!🎉
Harbor freight used to be the Sears auto
The look of the mall is nice though I totally agree.
totally saw my car in your drive-around video 😄
also, Dunham’s is allegedly coming to the mall, but I’ve been hearing that since December and there’s been no updates. The sign has also been on that trailer since at least November, and also *allegedly* there’s a new one to replace it, but I won’t hold my breath.
Wonder if the red and black ceilings are original. Congrats on 40K!
Awesome video
After the Pandemic really ends next spring perhaps malls will make a comeback. Whoever thought vinyl would come back & it has now overtaken the 💿 in sales.
I know since the pandemic I appreciate in store shopping so much more! I just like the human connection.
I agree retoholic I like the tangible experience over online shopping.
@@GLeibniz1716 yes! I’m also very picky so I like to inspect stuff before I buy. Everything looks better in pictures online than it does when it arrives.
Malls are done stick a fork in them
@@chuckbrown2854 Not the one closest to me, it gets good business.
I just realized that was PA ooops
Atleast I informed you with two malls in the state of Indiana!
When are you going to do Clearview Mall Butler, PA
Nice one 💯
The inside looks wonderful with all the aesthetics. Nice fountain at the end.
The red and black paint was an “update” definitely not original. The old fountain by BonTon definitely brought back lots of childhood memories. I seem to remember there being more seating areas similar to the fountain area with the brown benches, brown brick, etc
Our empty sears building is turning into a cineamark
In what town you in ?
Roseville California
We still have our last Sears in Maryland.
We lost Kmart not Sears. Frederick Maryland
That looks cool
Thanks for taking me back! I just subbed and look forward to seeing more of Indiana PA! I went to college in the area and this was a very busy mall in the late 90's/early 00's - I worked at one of the telemarketing companies they had there next to the (former) Bonton, which is Ziggy's in your video. Across from Spirit Halloween was Capri pizza, and I remember their booths had little B&W tv's you could watch for $0.25/10 mins, just enough to get some TV time in during a break. Gamestop, AT&T, an (actual) arcade. Why not do a walk through of Philadelphia Street? Around Christmas time, they decorate the main street to resemble It's a Wonderful life! at 16:37, those signed used to sit on a taller pedestal. When you approach the mall from Rt. 286, you would see that in the distance.
I have some memories of this mall, that I hadn't thought of in at least a decade- Particularly involving the fountain. It was 2008 or 2009, and I got suckered into moving ten hours away and attending the for-profit tech school, Wyotech, located like 20 miles south, in Blairsville. Lost all the money my parents saved up for college there. I took out no loans, but that left me with $3000 to live to 9 months (rent-free, luckily). I made a local friend named Travis, who lived between the two locations in Homer City. We used to go up to the Indiana mall, steal shit, and collect as much change as we could from the fountain, then go to McDonald's and have a Dollar Menu feast. Grabbing change from the fountain was of questionable morality, but there was no sign indicating it was to be donated. Security would come and mean mug us until we wandered off, then we'd go back. Never made less than $12, but some nights over $20. Life was rough back then.
I remember you could also jimmy the candy machines just right to get some free Bonz or whatever they were. The local college kids were unfriendly, and the entire place was just so impoverished, and always overcast and gray. Glad to leave that place and never return. It's a trip seeing it again.
Congrats on 40K subs WALLIE
it costs more to run those lights, than they make in rent!
There is supposed to be a Dunham's Sports replacing Bon-Ton, I assume it is still coming, doesn't look like any activity there yet. Indiana Kohls is quite unique. I was chatting with the manager and she said that the Indiana store is a prototype and is the only one like it in the entire chain. Corporate officials visit the store are pleased with the smaller format and it is doing very well. Future stores will be built much like this one. Personally I think they should have taken the entire Sears space and offered more merchandise. There is a small portion of Sears closed off and is sitting empty, doesn't make sense to me. Congrats on your milestone Wallie! I really enjoy your productions and do a great job! Keep those cameras rolling and stay awesome!
Came all the way back to this comment to let you know it opened like 2 weeks ago 😂😂😂
The opening shot is perfect. You nailed this vid. Will this mall ever comeback?
No. I don’t think so.
Unless a big business or multiple businesses come in and bring people in, no. Businesses keep moving out and since there aren’t people there anymore for those, others don’t get business.
This Had A Sears & Kmart.
i miss the Kmart that used to be there
Wallie I have a question why isn't there a boscovs at this mall I mean at this rate I think they need a mall anchor that is like JCPenney in a way Dunham's can move into the old Kmart or the other half of Sears that isn't being used
Mall management and owner are horrible.
There used to be a bonton
Great video! Thanks!
At least Jc Penny is still open.
Dose Kayla actually want to do these videos?? I love you both but, she seems to not want to be in them a lot? I’ve been following for awhile and I’ve noticed it more and more. I’m kinda sad about it to be honest. I love all the work and the history you give I find it super fascinating! I love you both and good luck I’ll always share and like all your videos.
the parking lot is packed
ty for showing this video did you said at the spirit halloween no lady shoes at that place no more??
How dare you. I live in indiana and as long as they have a harbor freight attached to it, it’ll never die lol
Btw… all simon malls look the same too. You can tell a simon mall just by the inside usually
I wish i could go here. Also is the jcpenny two floors?
Abandon video yay
I am from Warren, PA. So much of this looks the same. A little different layout, but so much is the same. But our theater is down the parking lot a little bit. The same people owned it, that is probably why. Our mall is now basically gone, it is a strip mall now.
I did I wheelie on my bike in there yesterday
I knew a girl when I went to Indiana University who spent lots of time at this mall on the weekends, but this is a bit unusual… she usually would go to the mall BAREFOOT!
I recently did this! I would be thankful if you checked it out! Anyways can’t wait to watch
Turn off the lights
This mall could use a Bass Pro Shop and a Casino
I would call Simon Properties cookie-cutter malls.
Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston, NY is more dead than this mall.
Simon malls are great.
It gets worse every time I go lol
There is two more dead malls in Indianapolis
:Lafayette Square Mall
:Fun fact! My grandma has a Mexican Restaurant in the Food Court.
:Washington Square Mall
They just had to close the Kmart 😐
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I wish they'd quit with the food trucks and focus on, like, actually putting businesses IN the mall.
I worked in Sears, J.C. Penny’s, Chess King, National Record Mart (NRM) and Waldenbooks at various points in my youth / early adulthood. For your sake, get your degree and / or just move on!
It's worse now
Yesterday was GET A JOB DAY for unemployment was done....hehehehe
Poor live up in Indiana