Im glad so many people are enjoying this explore, please continue to remind me, and the other viewers of your early fast food memories, and what do you miss about these stores ? As always, thank you for the love on the videos, until the next one ! ✌️
UPDATE: I went back to the abandoned burger king with chris to get rid of some racist graffiti and clean up the chairs and tables, and made this place look brand new again! To see the video of the burger king clean up click this link! ua-cam.com/video/mifUw48duBU/v-deo.htmlsi=GmFtEUpGHRQjpB3i
Just recently i was thinking back to the 1980s version of mcdonalds in my town growing up. Mostly, i was remembering mcdonalds land, the playground they had back then, with the big mayor mc cheese and the hamburgler swing set and all. Hard to remember the exact look inside now, just vaguely, but i do remember there being glass mcdonalds ashtrays on the tables, before they went with plain dark brown ones, and finally these shiny cardboard ones. People would steal them too often i guess. One thing i also cannot forget, is that there was a faux fireplace with a rifle over it. It seriously was a better time. People now, way too uptight, and nothing is there anymore to define the generations how they were. Like you see something and go, oh that's really 70s, or 80s, even 90s... beyond that no one looks and thinks wow that's so 2010s. Nothing stands out that defines it like that anymore.
I worked at burger king in 1986, and the paneling on the outside, the floors on the inside, the sunroom...!. All of those are nostalgic to me! Thanks for posting this video!
I worked at Mcdonalds in 1966 and loved the old original whopper at Burger King. Back in that day we could have one free sandwich meal so us teenage hungry jacks would stack 4 or 5 meat patties on one bun because we could only have “one sandwich/burger”, good memories.
If I remember correctly, the “sunrooms” at fast food restaurants were the smoking section, presumably because cleaning the nicotine stains off the plexiglass would be fairly easy. I might be wrong though.
That last commercial was from around the mid 70's. I had the same hat and uniform when I worked for BK and customers always asked me to sing the jingle. My lyrics were "Hold the pickles, hold the onions, find a seat and rest your bunions" . Customers always got a kick out of that.
That’s awesome man. Nowadays nobody is like that anymore :,( everyone at a Burger King looks miserable or on the verge of Suicide it looks like. Glad you got to see These places during brighter & more simple times :,) I’m 21 Btw
@@JH-qy8no No, dear, it was a lot of fun. They asked. Nicely. I didn't have to. I wanted to. I could easily have said no, but I like to sing. Back then we had microphones to call out the order over the loud speaker to the cooks in the back. I used that to sing into. Sometimes people would leave me a tip that I would keep in my shoe because we weren't allowed to accept tips. Because I changed the lyrics, everyone laughed. We (the other teenagers I worked with, some high school classmates) all had a lot of fun working there. Different times.
@@DisabledNomads I see. I'm 34, that's before my time. I actually do that everyday of my life with classic rock tunes. I'm jealous of your generation because y'all got to see all the best rock bands in their heyday in concert. Today everyone listens to this weird chanting sound known as rap.
I love this channel for the simple fact that this dude is an "old soul". I admire his affinity and appreciation for things that are very "dated" by today's standards, but were completely in vogue when I was younger. His eye for design and architectural style are for things before his time, i was fortunate enough to have been born in '72, so i have very vivid memories of items he picks up on. I dig his admiration of all things nostalgic, so many objects and symbols he picks up on at his exploration sites amaze me, cuz I'll see something come into frame and I make a comment in my head and the next thing is him practically making the same statement on camera. LOL. It makes me smile to not only reminisce by seeing these videos, but hearing the enjoyment and excitement in his voice when he noticese a piece of furniture, an appliance, or a part of a building in one of the properties he's presenting. The production value of these videod are by far better quality than most other explorer videos, IMHO, that is. I look forward to ur next presentation, i always wonder what will catch ur eye next. 😀👍
I worked in Burger King when I was a teen in the UK and I must say I'm surprised the milkshake machine was left behind. It was an expensive piece of hardware and required a lot of upkeep. I'm surprised they left it behind.
You said it in your post. It was an EXPENSIVE piece of hardware that requires a lot of upkeep. It's easier to get a new one for a new restaurant than to move an old one
@@DL30Creations No it is not. New equipment costs upwards of $15-$20,000 per item. This is why used kitchen equipment is worth so much money. There's at least $5,000 of money sitting there to anyone that takes those machines out and cleans them up and repairs them. DQ Blizzard machines sell all day long on eBay for $600/pc.
I know this is a weird thought, but I always think about the tons of people who used to go to these abandoned restaurants and stores who are no longer with us.
Not really that weird of a thought. Perhaps in the current age it is, seeing as people are largely stuck in their technology now, but I often visit very old places and imagine myself walking with the ghosts of the past and wondering about their lives, their happiness, their troubles. It's being self-aware.
Not weird at all. So true. Think about it. 40 years ago, our parents, grand parents & that whole generation took us as kids to these places. After our games or school .They were running the country. Most of them have passed on & now we're doing the same thing only all these years later. Great comment. Great video. God Bless all of our loved ones that are no longer with us❤
Now imagine all the millions and billions of people who have been on this planet and left before you that should really make you breathe through your mouth and stare at the wall
As a former fast food worker for 10 years (not Burger King) and a wannabe urbexer, i LOVE this! Id say that first office looking space before the managers office was a crewroom, where crew took their breaks.
Love that place. Those old fast food abandoned restaurants someday used to be full of life, and joy, specially for the young ones. Now it is hard to see the decay but still brings some good memories back😊
Nowadays instead of marketing and focusing on families a lot of fast food joints cater towards adults and you get giant boxes with bland, dull colors, and boring designs that have no life to them. I appreciate these older restaurants because they feel warm and inviting.
I worked for a pressure washing company in 2004 who's main job was cleaning the exhaust equipment in restaurant kitchens. McDonalds was one of our largest customers. We went to one once that was in a building that had to have been built in the 1970's. It still had the brown terracotta tile floors even though the rest of the building had been updated in what was most likely the 90's. The thing that was most striking about the structure was that it had a basement. Out of the dozens of locations we cleaned it was the only one I ever saw with a basement.
I worked at a McDonalds as a kid in Wisconsin, and it sounds just like what you describe, down to even the basement, it was so odd having the basement, as I actually worked for a few of the locations in the area (same owner) and no other location had that setup and basement.
Yea I worked in one back in the 70’s too in Towson, MD. and it had a basement. We had a wooden ramp we would lean on the steps and deliveries slid down the ramp to the basement.
Not sure if it’s still there or not, or at least as McDonalds well over 20 years ago but I recall working at one for short time in Montana that had a basement as well.
There is something atmospheric and bittersweet about the way you filmed this and selected the music. Like you could hear the many voices of people from the past who frequented and worked there., now just distant memories lost to time. This is such a great video.
That bathroom was actually cleaner than some BK's currently open. Two of these places closed this year near me, they have really fallen off in the last decade.
I got a kick out of this explore! The jingle at the beginning was from the late 60's early 70"s. I was asking my husband , just a couple weeks if he remember it, I sang it to him! He'd never heard it. Back when BK first came to be they used to grill your burgers over an open flame, and oh how good the air around BKs smelled, made you very hungry! The chicken products are fairly new, they didn't offer them, back in the day. In the late 70s or thereabouts they came out with chicken fingers and they were awesome, fresh chicken, fried just right! Not at all like what they call chicken today. Boy did you get me off on a tangent here, lol. Bet you never thought you'd thrill someone so, did you,? 😂 Thank you for the walk down memory lane! Sadly the Burger Kings days are numbered. We've lost almost all of them around here and the surviving ones are pretty empty of customers. Great time capsule! Thank you!
I remember the Burger King commercials taking a not so subtle jab at McDonald's in the 80s. Things like flame broiled hamburgers, not fried, and fresh cut lettuce and tomatoes. BK (and Wendy's) gave McD a run for its money.
0:57 As soon as the nostalgic music came on and the abandoned sign and building were shown, I shed a tear... God, times flies so fast... I miss my childhood so much... Everything was so much fun as a kid... Especially in the 80's and 90's... Also, keep in mind that each chair seen in this video, thousands of people sat on them to eat their food. Now, it's been dead silence since 2010... It's so weird to think about... Imagine a well known fast food restaurant abandoned for more than a decade without vandalism, that would be so awesome ! I wonder where this restaurant is and why they let it still standing, not that I'm complaining...It's like a building made of nostalgia that stand against time.
Excellent comment. God Bless those of us who experienced the 80s & 90s. Epic times, never to be again. Everything was better back then & everyone was still alive ❤
I’m not even all the way through this video yet but this is beautiful, it has a Last of Us vibe about it that can’t be duplicated; and we all had that one fast food chain that our families would go to, for me it was McDonald’s because small town. ❤
Love the fast food exploration! It’s incredible how overgrown the exterior has become. It’s almost hidden in the woods. Seeing all of the overturned chairs and tables made me want to straighten them!
I really loved those old TV commercials that you put in at the beginning and end of this video. Those were very reminiscent and made me want to keep watching. Very nice touch. Keep up the good work.
Been following your channel for quite some time now. Just wanted to drop this here and thank you for showing me a trip back to my childhood era of the 90s. I remember occasionally going to Burger King as a child. They definitely looked like this one! Kids these days will never know the glories. I feel like you and I are about the same age
The code written on the front of the safe is pretty industry standard when a business closes or when a safe is being taken out of service, it is meant to prevent the need to drill it out later if something was forgotten inside. Doesn't always happen but from what I'm seeing from experience that seems to be the standard across the board :)
I worked at BK in high school back in 94/95 and our store was almost exactly the same footprint. The glass seating area was the "hang out" spot for a lot of us back in the day. We'd all meet there, and take off for the mall after.
It made me happy to hear all the birds singing outside and to see the deer running behind the old building. Nature reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
I haven’t been to a Burger King since probably the late 1970s and it looked like the franchise depicted in the old TV ad at the beginning of this video. I recall you’d walk up to the order taker on the left where burger patties were placed onto a mesh conveyor belt leading into a large stainless broiler. The patties came out a few minutes later on the right where your sandwich was assembled. As long as the restaurant was busy, there would already be burgers in the conveyor so you didn’t have to wait long. There was no drive through and there was no dine-in seating. It was strictly park and walk in to get your food which you presumably took home. Some people opted to eat in their cars, but theoretically weren’t supposed to because on premise dining was taxable snd BK didn’t charge sales tax. Thsnks for the blast from the recent past - nicely documented.
I think it great that you younger generation are taking an interest in such things. I felt this kind of attitude towards older things was being lost and not cared about anymore.
I'm astonished by how much equipment and furniture was left. Usually when a fast food joint goes abandoned everything shy of the copper wire leaves too.
This was bitter sweet watching this. I remember when fast food joints weren't so corporate as you mentioned. As a kid in the 80s through the 90s, I miss all the styles, looks, etc. If you ever come across an old Wienerschnitzel, with the Pop Art Decor, please show it here! Anyways, Thanks for this! Take Care!
Definitely mostly circa the 1980’s. My Burger King growing up looked damn near identical in the early 90’s and I remember people saying it looked tired then. Cool find!!
"Women's room, Men's room, not that it matters anymore" LMAO! That had me cracking up! Awesome video dude, I miss being back home near Cleveland, so many abandoned places to explore there back in the 90's when I was a kid
That reminds me of a line that was in the old show "All in the Family" where Archie Bunker sings "Those Were the Days" at the beginning of the show - " . . . and you knew who you were then, girls were girls and men were men . . ."., I want those days back.
The paint on those chairs is pretty good, that one chair outside that's exposed to the elements only had a little bit of visible rust here and there 😅 great video btw! Also, I would like a Whopper with extra pickles and mustard please.
Places like that been popping up a good dela in my life, and I certainly remember the 1990s fondly. Blessed to have lived through that wonderous decade, and it makes me think about the things older generations have seen; the rise and fall of various buildings, establishments, etc. Good vid.
I wish the original companies would do something to preserve these old buildings when they “resurface.” I can guarantee it would bring in tons of customers to restore this to its original 90s style. People like me would travel a good ways to experience this kind of nostalgia. Imagine a restaurant actually doing this!!
That would be an amazing trend to bring back the vintage designs of stores/restaurants. Being transported back to simpler times for even just a quick fast food meal would be amazing. I think it would be quite a draw for many many people.
It's kind of crazy that this BK ended up sitting like this. Usually the property goes up for lease/sale and another business either sets up in the old building or it's torn down and new building is put up. These are usually in high traffic areas which make the real estate very desirable for retail businesses. On an interesting side note, Somebody that I used to work for actually got the job to tear down a McDonalds of this era. The company didn't take any of their logo stuff though. The drive-thru signs, menus, trash cans, tables, chairs, napkin dispensers, high chairs, even the Ronald McDonald statue, he took them all. He even has the doors with the recessed stainless steel handles that most people remember from the 90's. He did sell some of it though, for a while there was a house with Ronald McDonald standing in the front yard.
@@bettythompson4972 I was in the Air Force from 1979 until 1992. Some larger Air Force bases would have a fast food restaurant chain on the base. I think Pope AFB in North Carolina was one such base.
@@alaningram515 When I was living on Lackland Air Force Base in the early 90s, we had an on base Burger King by the family housing. That would certainly be a lucrative contract for a company to have.
@@alaningram515Osan AFB had a Burger King on base as well but it was kind of pointless because there were already a lot of fast food chain restaurants off base like McDonalds another BK Popeyes and lotteria (S.Korean chain)
Something you can do to try and identify the age of a building is check the fuse boxes. They might have a tag or inspection sign off from when the electrical was completed. Also, the style of breakers can sometimes help date a building especially older ones from the 80s on back
I love this video! You have such a way blending nature with concrete! In my childhood any fast food was considered a rare treat, usually on the way home from Boston and usually it was McDonald’s. Thanks for the beautiful trip down memory lane…🍔👑❤️
There’s a Burger King in my town that has been open almost continuously since around 1960 and is currently undergoing renovation. I say almost continuously because it was shut down for about a year several years ago to repair damage from a hurricane.
@@sunshine3914 Same thing with Taco Bell. We have a local taco bell that was built in 2006 with the "ultra modern" Taco Bell look of the time and its already been completely renovated inside and out less than 5 years ago. There was another taco bell on the other side of town that was built in 1992 that originally had the pastel colors (salmon, teal green, white) decor that was completely demo'ed in 2015 for the new corporate design.
Absolutely love this. Your videos are so well done. It's so sad when things that brought us so much joy, slowly disappear. They could repurpose so many abandoned places.
I really enjoyed this. It was a time when all fast food restaurants had their own unique look. But most fast food buildings today look so much alike. And I hate it, because I usually can't tell what restaurant it is anymore unless I see the name on the building. It's just a real shame that they took all the individual uniqueness away from all these different fast food chains just to basically make them all look practically alike. I definitely miss the good old days. It was really nice to see this awesome explore.
Yes, they all are going with the drab look with no individuality. I can't imagine what idiots are in charge of the institutional bleak look that is common now.
This looks just like the Burger King that was on Fort McClellan in Alabama. Oh so many memories of that place. My stepmom was a Drill Sergeant at the Barracks that were right across the street from there. We would go there all the time. It’s so depressing just how much our childhood gets erased from the world. That being, not only Burger King but Fort McClellan too. You will not ever see a more cleaner community (especially LAWNS) that you would in a Military base. Now they contract it all out or just shut down the base altogether. Breaks the heart but I LOVE how you showcase it. Thanks a lot. Brings back plenty of fond memories
We used to do a lot of work on military bases. I always liked how clean and well kept these facilities were. The streets and building were clearly identified. The grass was always cut nice and well trimmed.
My first thought was Fort McClellan too!! 😀 I was a US Marine and went to MP School there after boot camp at San Diego and Military Combat Training at Camp Pendleton, California. USMC MOS 5811/Military Police. I was at Fort McClellan from October to November 1994, our class graduated just a day before Thanksgiving 1994. The base AAFES PX or BX was across the street 😂 A lot of Soldiers and Marines ate there 😅
Great explore! I worked at a Burger King it the eighties. There was this monstrous machine that you would feed burgers and buns (burgers in the bottom buns on top) in and a chain link conveyor would pull them over the fire and the cooked burgers and toasted buns would come out the other end. So much for flame broiled. I love seeing the old commercials. McDonalds used to do the same thing with separate commercials by race. It was a weird time.
A nearly 50 yers guy from Sweden here... (Time flies too fast..) Don't have too much experience watching nostalgia video stuff like this but i really like your style, point of view and way of mix the content together and the music and the views put together... I think you're if not the best so among the best in this category of abandoned places.
Don't drive around decatur IL, that's all it is. Our busiest one sat on the corner of the big K-mart (also gone) I remember shopping there with my parents all the time in the early 60's. All gone. Now it's a U-Haul lot and for good reason. Last one out turn off the lights.
I do remember Wendy's also having that sunroom area to sit in and eat. Does anybody else remember when Wendy's was real new and the tables all had old newspapers print on them?
It's kind of sad to see a piece of our childhood nostalgia being left to rot and disintegrate like this, but also pretty cool to get a glimps of those days again. It's also a little creepy, between the pentagram on the floor and huge red "LEAVE MY HOME" on the wall in the restaurant, I was half expecting someone to jump out at you when you entered the kitchen. Glad it didn't happen. Lol!
Just found your channel. I appreciate your gentle vibe and the respectful way you highlight the nostalgia of abandoned places like this one. It’s sad, in a way, that a once viable business can just disintegrate to remnants like you showed here. Good explore. Keep it up! ❤
I like the way you dip into people's memories, there was a metal factory near me in my teens, literally walk into the offices and looks like people had just gone out for lunch, coats behind chairs, files open on desks, keys in key boxes, one part will always get me is the machine room which went down two floors underground, it was flooded with water and diesel oil and had to climb over obstacles to get into main area, when u used to fill the car with diesel that smell would bring back memories like it was yesterday. Good work
Honestly, the design of the building would make me go in and eat. I absolutely love 80's buildings. That is also why I'm thinking of building a home in the near future with a true 1980's look to it. Corporate stuff sucks nowadays. And I'm a 17 year old saying this.
Not only have we lost a lot of architecture and culture since the turn of this millennia (a lot of things are bland and corporate nowadays), but we're also drowning in debt (credit, medical, etc), unable to afford housing and food (and cars), having our country overrun with illegal immigration, and better yet we're constantly getting involved in new wars. What a great time to be alive. I'd do anything to go back to the 80s.
@@izaicslinux6961 I agree with this. I do still think it is possible to afford a home though. I heard somewhere that it is cheaper to construct a home rather than buying it. You can also build a manufactured home which is most likely cheaper but idk.
One of the worst thing about us as a society is, there is always someone with half a brain that can’t help but tag or graphite abandoned places… Like, can’t we just go in, have a look at the past and leave! Great video mate! I love looking at things from back in the day 😊
Cool trip down memory lane. That tiled floor is absolutely from the 80s. I remember it well as a kid from grammer school while getting lunch with old friends. All that I've lost along the way. But like this place those wonderful memories are frozen in time.
You make every explore interesting because you love what you do and always tell an interesting story. Thanks for documenting these old places before they are gone.
Ah, that corner spot in the lobby every once and a while I spent time with my dad. Always sat there. I was a kid years ago. Sometimes I still sit there but it's been years. Miss ya dad
I loved this video, but than again I always love your videos & my vote is yes to more like this if you see them, it's funny I tried watching some else's 2 days ago in Burger King only bc it was down the street from me in Jersey & I only got thru the location part 😮
The BK in the little town I grew up in was still rocking the 1984 BK look up until about five years ago. I guess the smaller stores kinda get put on hold for updating.
That one is exactly the floor design of the one closest to me that I grew up with. Still open now, but originally had a massive fish tank for at least 20 years that ran along the mid restaurant rail seat feature which actually made a huge "L" shaped feature in the middle of the dining room. Greenhouse seating area still exists!
Wow! I went to this Burger King in 2022. It looks like a lot of machinery has been removed since then. The area that says "leave my home" wasn't painted and still had two drink fountain machines as well as what appeared to be a hot beverage machine. The kitchen also had a worrying machine labeled "Meat Treatment System" which was set up similarly to an ice cream machine with a hopper and a empty cylindrical compartment for some sort of auger blade. The windows next to the drive-through weren't boarded up, but were broken. Interestingly, the nearby bank hasn't been broken into, and is likely still owned by the bank because there was a shipping container outside of it that is probably used for storage. Thanks for the video!
When that advertisement (the first one you showed) came out on TV back in the day I was teenager back then and I had a powerful crush on that young lady that was singing. I was impressed by your camera skills and quality, you just earned a sub.
Wow that’s a totally retro Burger King shame these building just sit and rot away I am sure at some point someone will buy that property and build something new.
Reminds me of an abandoned BK located south of Niles, Michigan. It closed it's door 15-20 years ago. It also has a sun room and the furniture is still in place.
Awesome video! Definitely a throwback for sure! I was born in the 80’s raised in the 90’s I don’t ever remember Burger King being that color 🤷🏻♀️maybe different city/states had different colors? Depending on the ownership? Either way great video 😊
Anyone remember the oak trees growing outta the roof of them...? At least in Sarasota, Florida, and I think the rest of Florida... I think they were gone by the nineties, but I clearly remember the trees in the dining rooms... Thanks for sharing. Keep up your awesomeness....
There’s a local Burger King where I live at and I remember going there when I was very young. It has the same layout structure from the one in your video and it’s crazy to think that it might’ve been there since the 80s and still stands today. Nothing has really changed inside of it really. Obviously just the interior colors but everything else speaks early 90s.
Fort McClellan ceased as a Regular Army Fort and school for new recruits in 2000. It took about 1-2 years for everything to be reorganized and allocated elsewhere. It was closing down when I went in the army. I grew up in my early teens through high school here. I am now 47. As for when Burger King closing, I’m not sure. But you can get an idea from there
I took one look and said to myself "That has to be Fort McClellan" 😅 I was a US Marine and was there for 2 months in the fall of 1994 for Military Police School. That BK was a welcomed payday relief from the chowhall grub 😂
There was a burger king in my town that was still operational until covid, that still had this exact styling including the teal interior, which it received in 1992, it even still had the play place outside.
Late 80s building with some 90s and 2000s flairs. Lol I LOVE the teal and pink years ...and the almost art deco revival pattern on that wallpaper is amazing.
I’m not going to lie.. I tear up a little bit looking at these old structures in these videos.I was born in 84 and grew up in the 90s..Real good times..
shiddd, i'm just nostalgic for how the world used to be before the "pandemic." Most things in our country are now abandoned, including the joy of going to fast food joints. Cool video homie.
My local Dairy Queen used to have a sunroom like in this Burger King, it was renovated in 2018 though and now it has the standard boring design of modern fast food places.
Herfy's, Skippers, loved them both. I worked at Skippers for a few years, everything was hand breaded (except the chicken), we made the salads, the dressings. All You Can Eat Tuesdays, then added Fridays, we always had lines out the doors. The fast food places that are left over, I don't mind doing without.
Great deep motion shots as always. That angled wood upper trim and rooflines are super early 80’s for the building. My guess is original building got a few revamps on interior them whatever happened in that area happened
I know exactly where that Burger King is. I dined there back in 1988 while going through basic and AIT.. We liked to refer to it as the "BK Lounge." I was briefly there in the early 90s and it was still open then.
Looks a lot like Fort McClellan to me 😅 I was a US Marine and went to MP School there during the autumn of 1994. I remember seeing all you Soldiers going through basic training and AIT 😂 Yes that BK was welcomed payday relief from the chowhall grub 😂 Across the street was the base AAFES BX or as us Marines called it the PX 😊
I am kind shocked by so much that still intact from all the tables, chairs, machines...It feel like a time capsule of a time long gone and forgotten. Thanks for the video and the journey into the past.
I really miss these more classic designs. The 90s designs pretty much did last through most of the 2000s. I think it was the 2010s where the newer plain designs really took off. Such a shame that all of these establishments now have such a sterile, plain, drab look. I don't know how anyone could think this is a good idea. Thank you for sharing this. I used to go to Burger King a LOT back in the 90s and early 2000s. Seeing this old design gave me some memories. They need to bring back those sunrooms.
Im glad so many people are enjoying this explore, please continue to remind me, and the other viewers of your early fast food memories, and what do you miss about these stores ?
As always, thank you for the love on the videos, until the next one ! ✌️
Great video!👍
Thanks for your work every day is an an adventure :)
You kinda suck at UA-cam
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Reopen it give it a face life for the year 2024
UPDATE: I went back to the abandoned burger king with chris to get rid of some racist graffiti and clean up the chairs and tables, and made this place look brand new again!
To see the video of the burger king clean up click this link!
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Not cool, it's not graffiti. It's freedom of expression and I worked really really HARD on that!
I hope you got rid of the satan symbol
So stunning and brave😊
This looks like a 1980's building design that was partially updated in the early 2000's when they had first switched to the round logo.
That commercial in the first of the video looks like it was back in the '70s.
@@chrisgentry7242 Definitely 70's
Just recently i was thinking back to the 1980s version of mcdonalds in my town growing up. Mostly, i was remembering mcdonalds land, the playground they had back then, with the big mayor mc cheese and the hamburgler swing set and all. Hard to remember the exact look inside now, just vaguely, but i do remember there being glass mcdonalds ashtrays on the tables, before they went with plain dark brown ones, and finally these shiny cardboard ones. People would steal them too often i guess. One thing i also cannot forget, is that there was a faux fireplace with a rifle over it.
It seriously was a better time. People now, way too uptight, and nothing is there anymore to define the generations how they were. Like you see something and go, oh that's really 70s, or 80s, even 90s... beyond that no one looks and thinks wow that's so 2010s. Nothing stands out that defines it like that anymore.
That building was from the mid-1990s. I remember very well because I was born of November in '73. The video is probably the mid-late 1970s.
Sounds like someone whose knowledge of fast food is probably unhealthy.
I worked at burger king in 1986, and the paneling on the outside, the floors on the inside, the sunroom...!. All of those are nostalgic to me! Thanks for posting this video!
This one is set up like the one in Downey, Ca (Paramount Bl and Florence Av) and that was in 1986.
I worked at one in 1987. I still remember how to use those registers. Lol.
Yes definitely mid 80s.
I worked at Mcdonalds in 1966 and loved the old original whopper at Burger King. Back in that day we could have one free sandwich meal so us teenage hungry jacks would stack 4 or 5 meat patties on one bun because we could only have “one sandwich/burger”, good memories.
If I remember correctly, the “sunrooms” at fast food restaurants were the smoking section, presumably because cleaning the nicotine stains off the plexiglass would be fairly easy. I might be wrong though.
That last commercial was from around the mid 70's. I had the same hat and uniform when I worked for BK and customers always asked me to sing the jingle. My lyrics were "Hold the pickles, hold the onions, find a seat and rest your bunions" . Customers always got a kick out of that.
That’s awesome man. Nowadays nobody is like that anymore :,( everyone at a Burger King looks miserable or on the verge of Suicide it looks like. Glad you got to see These places during brighter & more simple times :,) I’m 21 Btw
@@mikediaz2359 Hi Mike. Nice to meet you. I'm now 66. I worked at the very first BK that was built in Brooklyn. Sadly, it's not there anymore.
You actually had to sing the jingle if asked? How humiliating.
@@JH-qy8no No, dear, it was a lot of fun. They asked. Nicely. I didn't have to. I wanted to. I could easily have said no, but I like to sing. Back then we had microphones to call out the order over the loud speaker to the cooks in the back. I used that to sing into. Sometimes people would leave me a tip that I would keep in my shoe because we weren't allowed to accept tips. Because I changed the lyrics, everyone laughed. We (the other teenagers I worked with, some high school classmates) all had a lot of fun working there. Different times.
@@DisabledNomads I see. I'm 34, that's before my time. I actually do that everyday of my life with classic rock tunes. I'm jealous of your generation because y'all got to see all the best rock bands in their heyday in concert. Today everyone listens to this weird chanting sound known as rap.
I love this channel for the simple fact that this dude is an "old soul". I admire his affinity and appreciation for things that are very "dated" by today's standards, but were completely in vogue when I was younger. His eye for design and architectural style are for things before his time, i was fortunate enough to have been born in '72, so i have very vivid memories of items he picks up on. I dig his admiration of all things nostalgic, so many objects and symbols he picks up on at his exploration sites amaze me, cuz I'll see something come into frame and I make a comment in my head and the next thing is him practically making the same statement on camera. LOL. It makes me smile to not only reminisce by seeing these videos, but hearing the enjoyment and excitement in his voice when he noticese a piece of furniture, an appliance, or a part of a building in one of the properties he's presenting.
The production value of these videod are by far better quality than most other explorer videos, IMHO, that is. I look forward to ur next presentation, i always wonder what will catch ur eye next.
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Your words were very nice ! Thank you for the comment
should check out Dan Bell's dead mall series, or wallieb26 lots of nostalgic things
He's a old humping dog
I was born in ‘72 too and when the title referred to 1990s stuff as retro, I felt very old😂
@@DarkExplorationprobably don’t trespass into the buildings next time. Just because they are abandoned doesn’t mean they aren’t owned by someone.
I worked in Burger King when I was a teen in the UK and I must say I'm surprised the milkshake machine was left behind. It was an expensive piece of hardware and required a lot of upkeep. I'm surprised they left it behind.
You said it in your post. It was an EXPENSIVE piece of hardware that requires a lot of upkeep. It's easier to get a new one for a new restaurant than to move an old one
@@DL30Creations No it is not. New equipment costs upwards of $15-$20,000 per item. This is why used kitchen equipment is worth so much money. There's at least $5,000 of money sitting there to anyone that takes those machines out and cleans them up and repairs them.
DQ Blizzard machines sell all day long on eBay for $600/pc.
I don't understand why people have to destroy and tag everything that has survived for so long. Still amazing to see. Thanks for the adventure.
Worst is the fascination with male genitals. Do not understand that.
Aren’t you essentially doing the same thing here?
People wishing to "leave their mark", sometimes you find some really great art on abandoned walls.
It's the same thing a dog feels compelled to do at a fire hydrant... mark it.
The blacks ruin everything
I know this is a weird thought, but I always think about the tons of people who used to go to these abandoned restaurants and stores who are no longer with us.
I had that same thought!
memento mori
Not really that weird of a thought. Perhaps in the current age it is, seeing as people are largely stuck in their technology now, but I often visit very old places and imagine myself walking with the ghosts of the past and wondering about their lives, their happiness, their troubles. It's being self-aware.
Not weird at all. So true. Think about it. 40 years ago, our parents, grand parents & that whole generation took us as kids to these places. After our games or school .They were running the country. Most of them have passed on & now we're doing the same thing only all these years later. Great comment. Great video. God Bless all of our loved ones that are no longer with us❤
Now imagine all the millions and billions of people who have been on this planet and left before you that should really make you breathe through your mouth and stare at the wall
As a former fast food worker for 10 years (not Burger King) and a wannabe urbexer, i LOVE this! Id say that first office looking space before the managers office was a crewroom, where crew took their breaks.
Wear puncture proof boots and heavy gloves going into these places!
Met my 1st wife in a burger king back in the 90's looked just like this one. Enjoy your youth, this place was really left to fall apart, such a shame.
How do you meet someone in a Burger King
What about your 2nd and 3rd wife where did you meet them
Love that place. Those old fast food abandoned restaurants someday used to be full of life, and joy, specially for the young ones. Now it is hard to see the decay but still brings some good memories back😊
They don't even make the playgrounds anymore
Nowadays instead of marketing and focusing on families a lot of fast food joints cater towards adults and you get giant boxes with bland, dull colors, and boring designs that have no life to them. I appreciate these older restaurants because they feel warm and inviting.
I worked for a pressure washing company in 2004 who's main job was cleaning the exhaust equipment in restaurant kitchens. McDonalds was one of our largest customers. We went to one once that was in a building that had to have been built in the 1970's. It still had the brown terracotta tile floors even though the rest of the building had been updated in what was most likely the 90's. The thing that was most striking about the structure was that it had a basement. Out of the dozens of locations we cleaned it was the only one I ever saw with a basement.
I worked at a McDonalds as a kid in Wisconsin, and it sounds just like what you describe, down to even the basement, it was so odd having the basement, as I actually worked for a few of the locations in the area (same owner) and no other location had that setup and basement.
Yea I worked in one back in the 70’s too in Towson, MD. and it had a basement. We had a wooden ramp we would lean on the steps and deliveries slid down the ramp to the basement.
A lot of our CT stores have basements. McD has a lot of supplies and usually gets a delivery twice a week.
Not sure if it’s still there or not, or at least as McDonalds well over 20 years ago but I recall working at one for short time in Montana that had a basement as well.
I worked at a McDonald's in pa that also had a basement
There is something atmospheric and bittersweet about the way you filmed this and selected the music. Like you could hear the many voices of people from the past who frequented and worked there., now just distant memories lost to time. This is such a great video.
That bathroom was actually cleaner than some BK's currently open. Two of these places closed this year near me, they have really fallen off in the last decade.
I work at BK right now and sadly I can attest that this is true.
If you board the place up and nobody uses it for 15 years it will stay fairly clean!
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Imagine a poop still being in there, distilling in the water for 15 years straight now, lol
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Aww the teal seats and decor. The sunroof! The wood paneling! I could never forget it.
I got a kick out of this explore! The jingle at the beginning was from the late 60's early 70"s. I was asking my husband , just a couple weeks if he remember it, I sang it to him! He'd never heard it.
Back when BK first came to be they used to grill your burgers over an open flame, and oh how good the air around BKs smelled, made you very hungry!
The chicken products are fairly new, they didn't offer them, back in the day. In the late 70s or thereabouts they came out with chicken fingers and they were awesome, fresh chicken, fried just right! Not at all like what they call chicken today. Boy did you get me off on a tangent here, lol.
Bet you never thought you'd thrill someone so, did you,? 😂
Thank you for the walk down memory lane! Sadly the Burger Kings days are numbered. We've lost almost all of them around here and the surviving ones are pretty empty of customers. Great time capsule!
Thank you!
Actually that commercial was used as late as the mid 70’s as I remember it (I’m 56)
Early 70s commercial. I remember it well.
I remember the Burger King commercials taking a not so subtle jab at McDonald's in the 80s. Things like flame broiled hamburgers, not fried, and fresh cut lettuce and tomatoes. BK (and Wendy's) gave McD a run for its money.
0:57 As soon as the nostalgic music came on and the abandoned sign and building were shown, I shed a tear... God, times flies so fast... I miss my childhood so much... Everything was so much fun as a kid... Especially in the 80's and 90's... Also, keep in mind that each chair seen in this video, thousands of people sat on them to eat their food. Now, it's been dead silence since 2010... It's so weird to think about...
Imagine a well known fast food restaurant abandoned for more than a decade without vandalism, that would be so awesome ! I wonder where this restaurant is and why they let it still standing, not that I'm complaining...It's like a building made of nostalgia that stand against time.
Excellent comment. God Bless those of us who experienced the 80s & 90s. Epic times, never to be again. Everything was better back then & everyone was still alive ❤
@@8corymix8 Indeed my friend ! Miss those decades !
I’m not even all the way through this video yet but this is beautiful, it has a Last of Us vibe about it that can’t be duplicated; and we all had that one fast food chain that our families would go to, for me it was McDonald’s because small town. ❤
Whoever was the franchisee lost at least $1 million dollars in this restaurant!
Love the fast food exploration! It’s incredible how overgrown the exterior has become. It’s almost hidden in the woods. Seeing all of the overturned chairs and tables made me want to straighten them!
I really loved those old TV commercials that you put in at the beginning and end of this video. Those were very reminiscent and made me want to keep watching. Very nice touch. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for appreciating the extra work!
Been following your channel for quite some time now. Just wanted to drop this here and thank you for showing me a trip back to my childhood era of the 90s. I remember occasionally going to Burger King as a child. They definitely looked like this one! Kids these days will never know the glories. I feel like you and I are about the same age
I appreciate your donation as well as your words. Thank you
The code written on the front of the safe is pretty industry standard when a business closes or when a safe is being taken out of service, it is meant to prevent the need to drill it out later if something was forgotten inside. Doesn't always happen but from what I'm seeing from experience that seems to be the standard across the board :)
I worked at BK in high school back in 94/95 and our store was almost exactly the same footprint. The glass seating area was the "hang out" spot for a lot of us back in the day. We'd all meet there, and take off for the mall after.
It is definately a surreal feeling to visit and explore a place you went to as a kid.
It made me happy to hear all the birds singing outside and to see the deer running behind the old building. Nature reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
Humans are not part of nature?
I haven’t been to a Burger King since probably the late 1970s and it looked like the franchise depicted in the old TV ad at the beginning of this video. I recall you’d walk up to the order taker on the left where burger patties were placed onto a mesh conveyor belt leading into a large stainless broiler. The patties came out a few minutes later on the right where your sandwich was assembled. As long as the restaurant was busy, there would already be burgers in the conveyor so you didn’t have to wait long. There was no drive through and there was no dine-in seating. It was strictly park and walk in to get your food which you presumably took home. Some people opted to eat in their cars, but theoretically weren’t supposed to because on premise dining was taxable snd BK didn’t charge sales tax.
Thsnks for the blast from the recent past - nicely documented.
I think it great that you younger generation are taking an interest in such things. I felt this kind of attitude towards older things was being lost and not cared about anymore.
The juxtaposition from that sugary-sweet commercial into that bleak montage of urban decay hit me like a punch in the gut.
It’s more rural decay
I'm astonished by how much equipment and furniture was left. Usually when a fast food joint goes abandoned everything shy of the copper wire leaves too.
This was bitter sweet watching this. I remember when fast food joints weren't so corporate as you mentioned. As a kid in the 80s through the 90s, I miss all the styles, looks, etc. If you ever come across an old Wienerschnitzel, with the Pop Art Decor, please show it here! Anyways, Thanks for this! Take Care!
I totally agree.
Looks like a mid to late 80s coming into a 90s look. Thank you so much for the nostalgia.
I am 60 years old I eat there when I was a kid and I took my 2 sons there too thanks for the video and the Memory
Definitely mostly circa the 1980’s. My Burger King growing up looked damn near identical in the early 90’s and I remember people saying it looked tired then. Cool find!!
I love this video! it does bring back a lot of good times! Love the teal color too! Thanks, I would love to see more of this type of video!
"Women's room, Men's room, not that it matters anymore" LMAO! That had me cracking up! Awesome video dude, I miss being back home near Cleveland, so many abandoned places to explore there back in the 90's when I was a kid
That reminds me of a line that was in the old show "All in the Family" where Archie Bunker sings "Those Were the Days" at the beginning of the show - " . . . and you knew who you were then, girls were girls and men were men . . ."., I want those days back.
@@serenatwilite4005 gee our old LaSalle ran great!... lol
The paint on those chairs is pretty good, that one chair outside that's exposed to the elements only had a little bit of visible rust here and there 😅 great video btw! Also, I would like a Whopper with extra pickles and mustard please.
Places like that been popping up a good dela in my life, and I certainly remember the 1990s fondly. Blessed to have lived through that wonderous decade, and it makes me think about the things older generations have seen; the rise and fall of various buildings, establishments, etc. Good vid.
Omg! So cool! That commercial definitely brought it back for me. And that father in the commercial looked so familiar to me.
I wish the original companies would do something to preserve these old buildings when they “resurface.” I can guarantee it would bring in tons of customers to restore this to its original 90s style. People like me would travel a good ways to experience this kind of nostalgia. Imagine a restaurant actually doing this!!
That would be an amazing trend to bring back the vintage designs of stores/restaurants. Being transported back to simpler times for even just a quick fast food meal would be amazing. I think it would be quite a draw for many many people.
NO ONE WOULD CARE.
It's kind of crazy that this BK ended up sitting like this. Usually the property goes up for lease/sale and another business either sets up in the old building or it's torn down and new building is put up. These are usually in high traffic areas which make the real estate very desirable for retail businesses. On an interesting side note, Somebody that I used to work for actually got the job to tear down a McDonalds of this era. The company didn't take any of their logo stuff though. The drive-thru signs, menus, trash cans, tables, chairs, napkin dispensers, high chairs, even the Ronald McDonald statue, he took them all. He even has the doors with the recessed stainless steel handles that most people remember from the 90's. He did sell some of it though, for a while there was a house with Ronald McDonald standing in the front yard.
I think he said it was on a abandoned base
@@bettythompson4972 I was in the Air Force from 1979 until 1992. Some larger Air Force bases would have a fast food restaurant chain on the base. I think Pope AFB in North Carolina was one such base.
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When I was living on Lackland Air Force Base in the early 90s, we had an on base Burger King by the family housing.
That would certainly be a lucrative contract for a company to have.
@@alaningram515Osan AFB had a Burger King on base as well but it was kind of pointless because there were already a lot of fast food chain restaurants off base like McDonalds another BK Popeyes and lotteria (S.Korean chain)
@@jricks3909 Lackland has a burger king in the smaller bx
Something you can do to try and identify the age of a building is check the fuse boxes. They might have a tag or inspection sign off from when the electrical was completed. Also, the style of breakers can sometimes help date a building especially older ones from the 80s on back
I love this video! You have such a way blending nature with concrete! In my childhood any fast food was considered a rare treat, usually on the way home from Boston and usually it was McDonald’s. Thanks for the beautiful trip down memory lane…🍔👑❤️
The best channel on UA-cam. Its like a natural therapy seeing your videos❤❤
There’s a Burger King in my town that has been open almost continuously since around 1960 and is currently undergoing renovation. I say almost continuously because it was shut down for about a year several years ago to repair damage from a hurricane.
McDonald’s bulldozers theirs every 20 years & rebuilds.
@@sunshine3914 Same thing with Taco Bell. We have a local taco bell that was built in 2006 with the "ultra modern" Taco Bell look of the time and its already been completely renovated inside and out less than 5 years ago. There was another taco bell on the other side of town that was built in 1992 that originally had the pastel colors (salmon, teal green, white) decor that was completely demo'ed in 2015 for the new corporate design.
Some of my favourite videos of yours are the 90s nostalgia explorations - like this one and the mall videos. They really take me back to my childhood.
Absolutely love this. Your videos are so well done. It's so sad when things that brought us so much joy, slowly disappear. They could repurpose so many abandoned places.
love how he just ignores the "LEAVE MY HOME!!!" and pentagon
I really enjoyed this. It was a time when all fast food restaurants had their own unique look. But most fast food buildings today look so much alike. And I hate it, because I usually can't tell what restaurant it is anymore unless I see the name on the building. It's just a real shame that they took all the individual uniqueness away from all these different fast food chains just to basically make them all look practically alike. I definitely miss the good old days. It was really nice to see this awesome explore.
Yes, they all are going with the drab look with no individuality. I can't imagine what idiots are in charge of the institutional bleak look that is common now.
This looks just like the Burger King that was on Fort McClellan in Alabama. Oh so many memories of that place. My stepmom was a Drill Sergeant at the Barracks that were right across the street from there. We would go there all the time. It’s so depressing just how much our childhood gets erased from the world. That being, not only Burger King but Fort McClellan too. You will not ever see a more cleaner community (especially LAWNS) that you would in a Military base. Now they contract it all out or just shut down the base altogether. Breaks the heart but I LOVE how you showcase it. Thanks a lot. Brings back plenty of fond memories
We used to do a lot of work on military bases. I always liked how clean and well kept these facilities were. The streets and building were clearly identified. The grass was always cut nice and well trimmed.
This one's on Ft. Monmouth in Oceanport, NJ
My first thought was Fort McClellan too!! 😀 I was a US Marine and went to MP School there after boot camp at San Diego and Military Combat Training at Camp Pendleton, California. USMC MOS 5811/Military Police. I was at Fort McClellan from October to November 1994, our class graduated just a day before Thanksgiving 1994. The base AAFES PX or BX was across the street 😂 A lot of Soldiers and Marines ate there 😅
@@dstatt111sure ? In lane ave ?
Build in late 80s update in mid 90 than face lift update in ealry 2000 that bring back memories i miss sunroom
One of the best urban explorers I've seen! Thanks
Great explore! I worked at a Burger King it the eighties. There was this monstrous machine that you would feed burgers and buns (burgers in the bottom buns on top) in and a chain link conveyor would pull them over the fire and the cooked burgers and toasted buns would come out the other end. So much for flame broiled. I love seeing the old commercials. McDonalds used to do the same thing with separate commercials by race. It was a weird time.
A nearly 50 yers guy from Sweden here... (Time flies too fast..)
Don't have too much experience watching nostalgia video stuff like this but i really like your style, point of view and way of mix the content together and the music and the views put together... I think you're if not the best so among the best in this category of abandoned places.
I never thought I would get sad over an abandoned fast food restaurant but I did 😢 nice video man and thanks for posting!
Don't drive around decatur IL, that's all it is. Our busiest one sat on the corner of the big K-mart (also gone) I remember shopping there with my parents all the time in the early 60's. All gone. Now it's a U-Haul lot and for good reason. Last one out turn off the lights.
I do remember Wendy's also having that sunroom area to sit in and eat. Does anybody else remember when Wendy's was real new and the tables all had old newspapers print on them?
Could you imagine walking into a Burger King today and having a stunning model sing to you?
Now THAT would be super awesome!
Only if they also bring back those stunningly groovy order-taking balloon hats! 😂😂😂
Has it yo way my nigga
How about the microphones. They used to talk to people in the back cooking
Sure, but as long as the prices go back to being stunning too. And not in that "Am I going to have enough left over for rent?" kind of way.
Man these were the good times.. Thanks for the nostalgia hit, great video.
Man how sad how it was just forgotten. Wonder how many whoppers were served and how many kids meals made kids happy 😊 Thanks for sharing. God Bless ❤
It's kind of sad to see a piece of our childhood nostalgia being left to rot and disintegrate like this, but also pretty cool to get a glimps of those days again. It's also a little creepy, between the pentagram on the floor and huge red "LEAVE MY HOME" on the wall in the restaurant, I was half expecting someone to jump out at you when you entered the kitchen. Glad it didn't happen. Lol!
Just found your channel. I appreciate your gentle vibe and the respectful way you highlight the nostalgia of abandoned places like this one. It’s sad, in a way, that a once viable business can just disintegrate to remnants like you showed here. Good explore. Keep it up! ❤
I like the way you dip into people's memories, there was a metal factory near me in my teens, literally walk into the offices and looks like people had just gone out for lunch, coats behind chairs, files open on desks, keys in key boxes, one part will always get me is the machine room which went down two floors underground, it was flooded with water and diesel oil and had to climb over obstacles to get into main area, when u used to fill the car with diesel that smell would bring back memories like it was yesterday. Good work
Honestly, the design of the building would make me go in and eat. I absolutely love 80's buildings. That is also why I'm thinking of building a home in the near future with a true 1980's look to it. Corporate stuff sucks nowadays. And I'm a 17 year old saying this.
My 20-year-old son likes retro stuff, too. Me being a Gen Xer, I love all things 70s and 80s! (B. 1967)
@@amym1106 Same , 1965 here.
I wish you could've experienced living in the 80s & 90s. It was like living on Mars compared to today. The music, everything was so much better
Not only have we lost a lot of architecture and culture since the turn of this millennia (a lot of things are bland and corporate nowadays), but we're also drowning in debt (credit, medical, etc), unable to afford housing and food (and cars), having our country overrun with illegal immigration, and better yet we're constantly getting involved in new wars. What a great time to be alive. I'd do anything to go back to the 80s.
@@izaicslinux6961 I agree with this. I do still think it is possible to afford a home though. I heard somewhere that it is cheaper to construct a home rather than buying it. You can also build a manufactured home which is most likely cheaper but idk.
“Well this is the women’s bathroom, I mean men’s….well it doesn’t really matter anymore” oh man good one😝🤦🏼♂️
One of the worst thing about us as a society is, there is always someone with half a brain that can’t help but tag or graphite abandoned places… Like, can’t we just go in, have a look at the past and leave!
Great video mate! I love looking at things from back in the day 😊
I love grafitti.
Cool trip down memory lane. That tiled floor is absolutely from the 80s. I remember it well as a kid from grammer school while getting lunch with old friends. All that I've lost along the way. But like this place those wonderful memories are frozen in time.
You make every explore interesting because you love what you do and always tell an interesting story. Thanks for documenting these old places before they are gone.
I appreciate you and your words. Thank you
Ah, that corner spot in the lobby every once and a while I spent time with my dad. Always sat there. I was a kid years ago. Sometimes I still sit there but it's been years. Miss ya dad
I loved this video, but than again I always love your videos & my vote is yes to more like this if you see them, it's funny I tried watching some else's 2 days ago in Burger King only bc it was down the street from me in Jersey & I only got thru the location part 😮
The BK in the little town I grew up in was still rocking the 1984 BK look up until about five years ago. I guess the smaller stores kinda get put on hold for updating.
That one is exactly the floor design of the one closest to me that I grew up with. Still open now, but originally had a massive fish tank for at least 20 years that ran along the mid restaurant rail seat feature which actually made a huge "L" shaped feature in the middle of the dining room. Greenhouse seating area still exists!
Wow! I went to this Burger King in 2022. It looks like a lot of machinery has been removed since then. The area that says "leave my home" wasn't painted and still had two drink fountain machines as well as what appeared to be a hot beverage machine. The kitchen also had a worrying machine labeled "Meat Treatment System" which was set up similarly to an ice cream machine with a hopper and a empty cylindrical compartment for some sort of auger blade. The windows next to the drive-through weren't boarded up, but were broken.
Interestingly, the nearby bank hasn't been broken into, and is likely still owned by the bank because there was a shipping container outside of it that is probably used for storage.
Thanks for the video!
I would like to see you do more of these types of explorations, just resturaunts in general
When that advertisement (the first one you showed) came out on TV back in the day I was teenager back then and I had a powerful crush on that young lady that was singing. I was impressed by your camera skills and quality, you just earned a sub.
Wow that’s a totally retro Burger King shame these building just sit and rot away I am sure at some point someone will buy that property and build something new.
Reminds me of an abandoned BK located south of Niles, Michigan. It closed it's door 15-20 years ago. It also has a sun room and the furniture is still in place.
Awesome video! Definitely a throwback for sure! I was born in the 80’s raised in the 90’s I don’t ever remember Burger King being that color 🤷🏻♀️maybe different city/states had different colors? Depending on the ownership? Either way great video 😊
Anyone remember the oak trees growing outta the roof of them...? At least in Sarasota, Florida, and I think the rest of Florida... I think they were gone by the nineties, but I clearly remember the trees in the dining rooms... Thanks for sharing. Keep up your awesomeness....
There’s a local Burger King where I live at and I remember going there when I was very young. It has the same layout structure from the one in your video and it’s crazy to think that it might’ve been there since the 80s and still stands today. Nothing has really changed inside of it really. Obviously just the interior colors but everything else speaks early 90s.
The transition in the intro was powerful! Love your work I’m so glad I found your channel!
I know EXACTLY where this is! This is on Ft McClellan in Anniston Alabama where I live.
Is it not visible on Google maps? I've seen where it should be from an old base map.
My first thought was Fort McClellan 😂 I was a US Marine and spent 2 months there in the fall of 1994 attending Military Police School 😅
Fort McClellan ceased as a Regular Army Fort and school for new recruits in 2000. It took about 1-2 years for everything to be reorganized and allocated elsewhere. It was closing down when I went in the army. I grew up in my early teens through high school here. I am now 47. As for when Burger King closing, I’m not sure. But you can get an idea from there
I took one look and said to myself "That has to be Fort McClellan" 😅 I was a US Marine and was there for 2 months in the fall of 1994 for Military Police School. That BK was a welcomed payday relief from the chowhall grub 😂
There was a burger king in my town that was still operational until covid, that still had this exact styling including the teal interior, which it received in 1992, it even still had the play place outside.
Late 80s building with some 90s and 2000s flairs. Lol I LOVE the teal and pink years ...and the almost art deco revival pattern on that wallpaper is amazing.
Funny thing is...the French fries out in the back kitchen are still edible...huh.....
What a cool find. It does bring back memories of better times. Thanks for the tour and stay safe :o)
This is gonna be a good one
I’m 52 and have been watching places like this and their nostalgic design fade into the past.
I’m not going to lie.. I tear up a little bit looking at these old structures in these videos.I was born in 84 and grew up in the 90s..Real good times..
I was born in 84 also. 90s were so litty to be a kiddy ❤
Born in 83
Last great generation.
Born in 86, wait for me guys ! lol
Um NO! Born 73 the 80’s were way better than the 90’s
@@scottphelps1776 I believe it..I’ve always wished I was born in the 70s..I would’ve loved to experience the 80s as a big kid..
shiddd, i'm just nostalgic for how the world used to be before the "pandemic." Most things in our country are now abandoned, including the joy of going to fast food joints. Cool video homie.
My local Dairy Queen used to have a sunroom like in this Burger King, it was renovated in 2018 though and now it has the standard boring design of modern fast food places.
Herfy's, Skippers, loved them both. I worked at Skippers for a few years, everything was hand breaded (except the chicken), we made the salads, the dressings. All You Can Eat Tuesdays, then added Fridays, we always had lines out the doors. The fast food places that are left over, I don't mind doing without.
Great deep motion shots as always. That angled wood upper trim and rooflines are super early 80’s for the building. My guess is original building got a few revamps on interior them whatever happened in that area happened
Really love this video. Great video as always. Happy holidays.
I know exactly where that Burger King is. I dined there back in 1988 while going through basic and AIT.. We liked to refer to it as the "BK Lounge." I was briefly there in the early 90s and it was still open then.
So, where is it?
Looks a lot like Fort McClellan to me 😅 I was a US Marine and went to MP School there during the autumn of 1994. I remember seeing all you Soldiers going through basic training and AIT 😂 Yes that BK was welcomed payday relief from the chowhall grub 😂 Across the street was the base AAFES BX or as us Marines called it the PX 😊
Were these fort Burger King's open to the public as well or just open to the military who were at the forts?
I am kind shocked by so much that still intact from all the tables, chairs, machines...It feel like a time capsule of a time long gone and forgotten. Thanks for the video and the journey into the past.
What is your background? Art / History? You have an appreciation!
I really miss these more classic designs. The 90s designs pretty much did last through most of the 2000s. I think it was the 2010s where the newer plain designs really took off. Such a shame that all of these establishments now have such a sterile, plain, drab look. I don't know how anyone could think this is a good idea. Thank you for sharing this. I used to go to Burger King a LOT back in the 90s and early 2000s. Seeing this old design gave me some memories. They need to bring back those sunrooms.
looks like the old BK on Fort McClellan in Alabama
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Yo
there’s
literally
a
freaking
pentagram
on the ground.
I’m scared.
Lol 🤣