I’m from this area I’ve gone to this mall all my life. Granted I haven’t been there probably since 2014-2015. But however I’m surprised to see still some of the original stores are still there. It used to be a great mall that was always packed and it’s sad to see that go. Down across from the AT&T store used to be a huge FYE and inside the store behind it was a moderately sized arcade with some really good games in it. Then in the same area their was a really small movie theater built into the tiny section right behind where the arcade would of been. Now they have movie theater outside of the mall behind it which I imagine is still going strong. Another note that cricket store used to be a pretty awesome candy store then KB Toys was right across from Spencer’s which I’m surprised is still there in its original form from the looks of it that place hasn’t changed since the early 90s at the latest. I was actually going to visit this mall a couple days ago I think now I definitely have to so I can see this for myself. It’s really sad seeing how many dead malls there are in Pennsylvania they are all over. Every mall I grew up around is dead or dying.
I appreciated that little "not going after the mall" message at the beginning. This mall was VERY hot from the mid 2000's-2014/16ish. It was the mall you went too when you didn't want to make the drive to Wilkes-Barre or further. Mall used to be a straight line three anchor design (Both ends, one middle) and got a major addition (that other wing). The AMC also had a big expansion later. This mall also has some of the best roaming security I've ever seen, both on foot and vehicle.
I’m actually from Pittsburgh, but had lots of family in Selinsgrove, so spent a lot of time at that mall when I was a kid. That mall was top tier back in the 80’s and 90’s too. The arcade with the blue Tron lights was one of the best arcades I’d ever been to.
Thank you for making this channel and continuing to document these dead malls ( even though you work full time ). Im a dead mall fanatic and I totally appreciate your content :D
Great video! I was born and raised in that area when that mall was a vibrant place to go. While several factors have contributed to its decline such as the nationwide challenges of several of its retailers, the opening of Monroe Marketplace a decade ago not far down the road likely put tremendous pressure on it which hastened its decline. Hopefully, it can somehow be reinvented and preserved. Thanks for documenting it!
I'm so glad to see that my local mall has been documented! This was THE place to hang out in the 2000s/2010s. I can remember being pushed around this mall in a stroller and the place being PACKED. Now... you're lucky to run into 20 people walking around on a Saturday afternoon.
Unfortunately, it seems like the expansion that added Sears was a bad decision, but that's hindsight. This is one of the nicer area malls and complete shame it's failing.
At the time, the expansion which added Sears and several other businesses increased the vibrancy of the mall. I agree that it's a shame it's failing because it is such a nice mall.
My husband and I have often said that we didn't know if adding that back part was such a good idea. I think about every time we went to the mall, the back part didn't have nearly the amount of foot traffic that the original part had. There just seemed to be more things going on out front. Also, it seemed like it was harder for them to continue bringing in stores in the addition.
@@thewheatgreatness I haven't "shopped" at Walmart in years. I shop at Target for everyday stuff. Krogers or Publix for groceries and sometimes Family Dollar. I was a big Kmart shopper, but there isn't one anywhere near me now. I do have family members who ask for Walmart gift cards because they don't have a choice where they live so that is the most I with Walmart.
Great little look at a very well designed, interesting mall that still has a little life in it. IT would a tragedy to let this place die since it has unique design elements like the marble floors, the fountains and interesting layout of the center. There are lots of vacant spaces. I think the savior of some of these malls is Boscovs and their funky designs and decent prices and selection and cupcakes. Don't understand why people would go to a boring bland design Simon mall instead of a place like this. THanks again for documenting all these malls large and small and preserving their history. Proud to be a Patreon too. PS: I hate WalMart too, not just for how they killed stores and malls and downtowns but their customer service is non existance. For me it's the customer service folks. Why I go to Nordstroms. and the Rack. I have still not been to a Boscovs to see how their customer sevice is.
RogersBase Didn’t Ace and Dan have a fight? I’m not holding anything against anyone, but I found it interesting that these two men of talent didn’t work together! Whatever, at least ace can hold a schedule lol
I remember going to this mall last year. My kids and another girl played the game shown at 2:59. I had lived an hour away at one point but had never been there until last year when I was on vacation and needed a new phone. I stopped at the Verizon store but they didn't have what I wanted. Then a bit further down I came to another Verizon store. Turns out the first was just a licensed independent and the second, which had what I wanted, was the corporate store. Being a PA resident for most of my life I've been to many of the dead malls featured on UA-cam. Thanks for the video.
I remember when Boscov's was built and was the only store there for awhile. My husband and I used to go to the mall a lot and would take our two kids there. We'd stop at the pet store and the parrot there would say, "Ernie's a bad boy" and some other things. There were absolutely throngs of people walking through the mall in the 80's and 90's. We'd also like to go to Peanut Shack for peanuts, cashews, and pumpkin seeds. We'd walk through Boscov's, JC Penney, and Bon Ton. Then after the back section of the mall was added, we also walked through Sears. Before I was married in 1980, I used to go into the arcade and play pinball and Space Invaders. My family and I loved spending part of our Friday evenings there shopping. So much fun! Besides when I went into Gertrude Hawk right before Valentine's Day, before that, a few years ago we went to Garfield's right before they closed. It might be hard for someone who wasn't alive (or very young) in past decades to know how extremely busy SVM was. Sears and JC Penney had auto centers that were kept busy, and all of the department stores had hair salons. The one in Boscov's was upstairs before the store was expanded, including eliminating the upstairs. There was a 4-register checkout area at the bottom of the steps where you could buy Ticketmaster tickets. Boscov's used to have a garden center, health & beauty area, hardware department and sold many appliances including refigerators and tv's. I'm glad that Boscov's owns their own building. Someone had told me of the extremely high rent that stores had (have?) to pay to be in malls and supposedly that's why CVS built their own store and moved out of the mall. Although I don't know for a fact but I would surmise that because of Boscov's owning their own building, it has enabled them to stay there when all the other anchors, amongst lots of other stores there, have closed. I apologize if this got too wordy but thought maybe you and others would like to read another reminiscence of the mall in Hummels Wharf.
To answer your question around the 6:45-6:50 mark - yes, that part was an addition. The second wing (stretching from the second Bon-Ton entrance all the way down to Sears) was opened in March, 1998.
Man, I’ve spent YEARS in this mall, I’ll miss it when it’s gone. I remember every Sunday I’d go with my family and buy something from Hot Topic and GameStop. It’s really depressing to see it barren, quiet and dimly lit.
The Treasurer That’s cool I guess but I left PA years ago, it’s absolutely gone to hell. There’s nothing up there anymore compared to the rest of America.
Wow, a still-operating Garfield's! We used to go to the very first location in downtown Edmond, OK back in the mid-80s. The last one I ate at was in Quail Springs mall in OKC but it closed sometime in 2007.
Sadly, Garfield's closed a couple of years ago. It was one of our favorite places to eat. Great ribs! I heard that they closed giving very little notice to people. Nothing has gone in there since. Actually, that location was originally Holiday Hair before they moved to another location in the mall, although they're totally gone now.
I live in York and the York Galleria isn't that bad actually. Nowhere near as crowded as it used to be but far more many people than in these videos lol. I'd still like to see him shoot there though
I was in that mall at 14 it used to be JC Penney to Boscovs. They later added the wing in the back around the end of the 90s or early 2000s. I was in the service so I was away and back often. Sad to see it in this state considering it was a huge meeting place in 8th grade and on. I was just there and couldn't go in.
I've seen dead malls even in Florida like the lake whales mall. It seems like small to medium malls in small towns are shutting down but On the flip side major malls in big cities are still thriving. In recent years I've seen malls in Miami Tampa Orlando and Detroit still thriving and very much busy.
A lot more stores closed through the years Chess King, So Fro Fabrics, Slack Shack, a men's haberdashery, Hanover Shoes, Wilsons Outdoor, Arbys, a shoe repair, a dental clinic, Barvarian Pretzel, Rea & Dericks which is now CVS, a place that sold organs and other ones.
Great video Anthony you & Sal are the gold standard. I wholeheartedly agree with your hatred of Wal-Mart. If you are in the area you may want to visit Stroud mall in Stroudsburg Pa. as it dies a slow death.
i visited stroud mall back in 2017 before bon-ton and sears closed. it was a nice mall. im tempted to go back to see how dead it has gotten since then without bon-ton and sears.
That's why I like to rebuild malls it forever immortalizes them. No one cares today, but as time goes on I find if a mall hasn't been well document already as time moves on more information is lost (example the many dead internet links I see in forums) so in 30 years people will appreciate.
Great video. I spent a lot of my teenage years there. I can still smell the popcorn from the movie theatre. And it had a great arcade, the Space Port I think it was called.
Villa Teresa in the mall makes some amazing food! If you haven’t tried it you should. This mall is still going. Recently seems to be getting just a little busier, so who knows what will happen.
Good job i was at this mall before and yes it did go down hill its bad when you half to spend money to close a wing off if anything exton square mall is falling you might want to make trip down there
The Wyoming Valley Mall up in Wilkes-Barre, PA area has a long corridor like that that connects their food court area to the main section of the mall. You should check out the Colonial Park Mall in Harrisburg, PA. Not so sure it's dying but it has a rarity you don't see often nowadays (an OPEN Sears store).
Riverside construction built that spencers in 2001 It was me and 2 others guys that built the store. We demoed the old store and built the new spencers. We had 6 weeks to do it all.
One of the main reasons there aren't many people walking around is because this was most likely recorded during the week (please correct me if I'm wrong). This place is usually pretty busy during the weekend. I feel that instead of building big stores in the nearby Monroe Marketplace. They should've put some in the mall. There's some big stores like Target, Best Buy, Michael's, and Kohl's at Monroe Marketplace. I believe that did a great deal on the mall.
This is my local mall. I will say that the mall is still dead but there are new stores popping up inside the mall. Even with the pandemic, there are still a good amount of people coming in and out daily.
I remember coming here with my family then sneaking off to meet friends with my pockets full of quarters for Spaceport! Then sneak a cigarette near the movie entrance
Hi Ace I'm was born and raised in Warren Pennsylvania so I do enjoy going back and looking at your videos I really miss the inside of that mall I really don't like what they did to it anyways I live down near the Susquehanna valley area I live in Mifflinburg Pennsylvania actually which is very close to Lewisburg Pennsylvania I work at a hotel that of course we deal with a lot of the Little League world series people when they come down in August anyways I wanted to give you an update on the Susquehanna valley Mall a lot of things have closed in there since you've done this video Garfield restaurant closed Zales closed Victoria's secrets closed in the store and there's a couple other ones oh Yankee candles went out so a lot of stores have gone out of there so if you get a chance to come down this way again you might want to get in there and film some of the places that have closed it is very sad cuz it is a beautiful Mall thank you for all you do and appreciate that you were a huge fan of the Warren Mall back in the old days I was one too always ate at Napoli's my dad worked at the arcade and my mom worked at Kmart and my cousin used to work at the wall and Orange Julius so it is sad cuz it was a big part of our family as you can tell I have lots of good memories and that's what you got to keep in your mind is the memories but I think you again
Haha! I still go there. It’s pretty dead as there’s not much there anymore. I usually go to Spirit Halloween, Bath and Body Works, or GameStop, maybe even just look around. It’s kinda boring now but it’s still good!
You should do the Great Lakes Mall! It’s near where the old Euclid Square Mall once stood. It’s not quite a dead mall, but it is struggling. Macey’s in particular is pretty dead...
If you want to visit another REALLY dead mall, go to Diamond Run Mall in Rutland, VT. Beautiful drive up to that area so that's a huge plus, but that mall. Blew a tire and went in there while Sears was throwing something on the car. Damn that place was empty, and that was about 6 years ago. Heres a excerpt from a review from Yelp "There is a definite post-apocalyptic vibe to this mall that is pretty crazy." It did have a K-Mart at the time and a neat looking Bar/Grill. Edit: Full disclosure in that I _think_ its still open, but not really sure.
Definitely an odd mall, went there last year, from Florida never been out of the state, was dead and somewhat cold lol, but got a business card from the marine dudes I guess that was cool
I've got a mall you can go investigate. Exton square mall in exton PA, it appears to be going in a downturn, the only highly populated area is the food court, the rest of this mall not so much. Add this mall to your channel.
If you ever make it out to Portland Oregon, you should do a video on Lloyd Center Mall. They just did a remodel, but even that has not helped it. It's a shame too because it's a nice looking mall with a lot of potential in an upcoming area.
I recommend dead mall producers to come to the Jacksonville Florida area. There is a LOT to work with. You want typical malls still doing good - we got 2. You want a mall about to be bulldozed - check. You want 2 new outdoor malls that are among the most successful in the country - check. You want an old mall that despite dying for over 10 years hangs on with 30 stores - check. You want a mall that now has ONLY anchors, and the ENTIRE inside has been closed off - check
You know what would be good to put in the empty anchor spaces? Community Colleges, technical schools, and even medical groups. Quite a few struggling malls in the Midwest and one I used to go to as a kid in Alaska are doing that. It would be a good way to revive it.
In the former Sears medical space is going on, they did some of this at the Columbia Colonnade and Steamtown Marketplace too, but even then that doesn't fill enough space.
@@esw01407 Oh cool. At least it's being used for something. The mall I used to hang out at all the time as a teen, just had their local medical group move into their former Bergner's space.
The Citadel Mall here in Colorado Springs has had an empty Macy’s for a decade. Suddenly they’re moving a K-12 charter school into it. It’s a huge space (they actually expanded it when it was Foley’s) so I’m not sure if they’ll be using all of it. Anthony needs to visit The Citadel. It’s not dead yet but oh so aesthetic.
It's sad to the conference centers at malls doing baldy, too. Nowadays, so many cos. use Skype, videos, etc; instead of face-to-face meetings, that mall conference space is in rapid decline. Too bad. My old employer, lacking huge office space, used these centers for client hook-ups.
We hate Walmart too, especially in New Orleans. Let's trade them all for one Woolworths. Have you heard of the Sunrise Mall in Corpus Christi? Beautiful, huge mall but totally defunct. With an interesting history I might add.
People can't stay off their darn iPhones,laptops and Tablets long enough to make anything work.We really do need to get rid of the internet so these Malls have a fighting chance at surviving. Really what purpose does the internet have ? People need to get off their electronics and go to these Malls !
MultiCreditKIng i remember Penny's had thier catolog,you could buy anywhere from undies,to guns,to camping equipment,they did a bang up job doing sales,they stopped making their catolog.they need to bring back their sales catolog
People once shopped at individual stores in downtowns. Then shopping malls came along and killed downtown retail districts in many cities. Then the internet came along and killed brick and mortar retail of any sort. This is the evolution of business and the result of free market capitalism. Trying to make these malls work is a fool's errand, the era of several anchor department stores and tons of small shops is gone. Now is the time to get creative and fill the space with what (if anything) will draw people in to spend money and keep the lights on. Go-karts, trampoline, paintball, escape rooms are some ideas, but who knows if they'd be enough or if there'd be enough interest
Do the colonial park mall in Harrisburg pa they used to have a sick arcade with hundreds of games and they took it out and put a Fuckkinnnnggg buffalo wild wings in its place
Looks like a mall we have here, poor thing looks just like that Frisco Mall. It's not the fact that there are no people who want to rent it, it's the overpriced rental prices that keep people away.
I work here. And the crazy thing about it is, our Aero is doing pretty good money wise. People come from all over since their Aero shut down. I knew you would hit our mall soon.
Yea there isn't going to be anywhere to really go if the mall goes a lot of other buisness around here will follow. I luckily have a back up plan job wise. But what about all the other people that don't? Scary.
I lived near the old Cherryland Mall in Traverse City, MI and they had a supermarket as an anchor (Tom's, which started as a Kroger and a few other stores afterward). Even they couldn't save the mall from competition from the newer Grand Traverse Mall just a few miles up the road. Tom's closed in 2009 and is now a Big Lots. The rest of the mall's now a power center and all of their remaining anchors - Sears, Kmart and Younkers - all closed.
Most of the malls in that area are holding on or have been previously de-malled. South Mall and Westgate Mall are the two concerns. South Mall is losing another anchor, the furniture store. Phillipsburg is just waiting for a bulldozer.
"Level of deadness ..." I wish we can come up with a standardized nomenclature on describing dying and dead malls based on occupancy. There are thriving malls, flourishing malls, struggling malls, dying malls and dead malls. Maybe you, Sal, Kristen, and a few other experts can come up with a more precise and objective terms to label the current status of the mall.
Here's the metrics I use: >95% occupancy - thriving (generally only high end malls these days) 75-95% occupancy - alive (serves the market it's in well and turns a profit, but new tenants aren't necessarily beating down the doors to fill empty spaces) 50-75% occupancy - struggling (Barely breaking even or operating at a slight loss, but still could be saved if management is smart) 20-50% occupancy - dying (early stages of the death spiral - mall will likely close with 5 years)
this mall is dead. used to go there all the time in the early 2000s after school. now half the mall is 2 different urgent care facilities and the other half is a movie theater, auto shop and a few stores lol. so many hours spent walking around here as a kid and now i never go cus theres nothing to do there
My hallmark in Alton in Illinois at Alton square mall reopened a year after they closed never say never kaybee might come back there's a lot of that are trying to make a comeback
I certainly recognize what you do is preserving history. Thank you for doing that!
Good video! This is sad that this mall is dying. I agree with you about Wal-Mart. Can't wait for your next mall video. Thanks for filming.
I’m from this area I’ve gone to this mall all my life. Granted I haven’t been there probably since 2014-2015. But however I’m surprised to see still some of the original stores are still there. It used to be a great mall that was always packed and it’s sad to see that go. Down across from the AT&T store used to be a huge FYE and inside the store behind it was a moderately sized arcade with some really good games in it. Then in the same area their was a really small movie theater built into the tiny section right behind where the arcade would of been. Now they have movie theater outside of the mall behind it which I imagine is still going strong. Another note that cricket store used to be a pretty awesome candy store then KB Toys was right across from Spencer’s which I’m surprised is still there in its original form from the looks of it that place hasn’t changed since the early 90s at the latest.
I was actually going to visit this mall a couple days ago I think now I definitely have to so I can see this for myself. It’s really sad seeing how many dead malls there are in Pennsylvania they are all over. Every mall I grew up around is dead or dying.
I appreciated that little "not going after the mall" message at the beginning. This mall was VERY hot from the mid 2000's-2014/16ish. It was the mall you went too when you didn't want to make the drive to Wilkes-Barre or further.
Mall used to be a straight line three anchor design (Both ends, one middle) and got a major addition (that other wing). The AMC also had a big expansion later.
This mall also has some of the best roaming security I've ever seen, both on foot and vehicle.
esw01407 that’s the exact era I frequented this mall every weekend every weekend. It’s sad to see what it’s become. It will be missed.
I’m actually from Pittsburgh, but had lots of family in Selinsgrove, so spent a lot of time at that mall when I was a kid. That mall was top tier back in the 80’s and 90’s too. The arcade with the blue Tron lights was one of the best arcades I’d ever been to.
It's pronounced "SEAL - insgrove"
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Thank you for making this channel and continuing to document these dead malls ( even though you work full time ). Im a dead mall fanatic and I totally appreciate your content :D
THANK YOU SO MUCH! THIS IS MY LOCAL MALL! IT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME! I REALLY HOPE IT CAN MAYBE STAY STANDING!
Great video! I was born and raised in that area when that mall was a vibrant place to go. While several factors have contributed to its decline such as the nationwide challenges of several of its retailers, the opening of Monroe Marketplace a decade ago not far down the road likely put tremendous pressure on it which hastened its decline. Hopefully, it can somehow be reinvented and preserved. Thanks for documenting it!
Malls and 80's style music just go hand in hand....
And I experienced this mall in the 80’s!
Pierre Delecto Jr Awesome! It must’ve been cool back then!
I'm so glad to see that my local mall has been documented! This was THE place to hang out in the 2000s/2010s. I can remember being pushed around this mall in a stroller and the place being PACKED. Now... you're lucky to run into 20 people walking around on a Saturday afternoon.
Unfortunately, it seems like the expansion that added Sears was a bad decision, but that's hindsight. This is one of the nicer area malls and complete shame it's failing.
At the time, the expansion which added Sears and several other businesses increased the vibrancy of the mall. I agree that it's a shame it's failing because it is such a nice mall.
My husband and I have often said that we didn't know if adding that back part was such a good idea. I think about every time we went to the mall, the back part didn't have nearly the amount of foot traffic that the original part had. There just seemed to be more things going on out front. Also, it seemed like it was harder for them to continue bringing in stores in the addition.
My fave stores are BAM and FYE I go here once or twice a month it’s nice and a fun time
This was my stomping ground back in the 80's and 90's when I was a kid and teenager. Can't bring myself to ever really go there anymore,to sad.💔
Yes...I HATE Walmart too!! Losing Bon Ton, Sears and JC Penney killed many malls.
If you hate Walmart, then where do you usually shop at.
@@thewheatgreatness I haven't "shopped" at Walmart in years. I shop at Target for everyday stuff. Krogers or Publix for groceries and sometimes Family Dollar. I was a big Kmart shopper, but there isn't one anywhere near me now. I do have family members who ask for Walmart gift cards because they don't have a choice where they live so that is the most I with Walmart.
Great little look at a very well designed, interesting mall that still has a little life in it. IT would a tragedy to let this place die since it has unique design elements like the marble floors, the fountains and interesting layout of the center. There are lots of vacant spaces. I think the savior of some of these malls is Boscovs and their funky designs and decent prices and selection and cupcakes.
Don't understand why people would go to a boring bland design Simon mall instead of a place like this. THanks again for documenting all these malls large and small and preserving their history. Proud to be a Patreon too.
PS: I hate WalMart too, not just for how they killed stores and malls and downtowns but their customer service is non existance. For me it's the customer service folks. Why I go to Nordstroms. and the Rack. I have still not been to a Boscovs to see how their customer sevice is.
I love the old school look and feel. Even those wood tones.
Keep up the Dead Malls! I love Dan Bell's series too and I'm so glad I found you in my recommended!
RogersBase welcome!
RogersBase Didn’t Ace and Dan have a fight? I’m not holding anything against anyone, but I found it interesting that these two men of talent didn’t work together! Whatever, at least ace can hold a schedule lol
Finno i have no ill will against dan, he is a talented individual, whatever happened in the past, is the past
I remember going to this mall last year. My kids and another girl played the game shown at 2:59. I had lived an hour away at one point but had never been there until last year when I was on vacation and needed a new phone. I stopped at the Verizon store but they didn't have what I wanted. Then a bit further down I came to another Verizon store. Turns out the first was just a licensed independent and the second, which had what I wanted, was the corporate store. Being a PA resident for most of my life I've been to many of the dead malls featured on UA-cam. Thanks for the video.
I remember when Boscov's was built and was the only store there for awhile. My husband and I used to go to the mall a lot and would take our two kids there. We'd stop at the pet store and the parrot there would say, "Ernie's a bad boy" and some other things. There were absolutely throngs of people walking through the mall in the 80's and 90's. We'd also like to go to Peanut Shack for peanuts, cashews, and pumpkin seeds. We'd walk through Boscov's, JC Penney, and Bon Ton. Then after the back section of the mall was added, we also walked through Sears. Before I was married in 1980, I used to go into the arcade and play pinball and Space Invaders. My family and I loved spending part of our Friday evenings there shopping. So much fun! Besides when I went into Gertrude Hawk right before Valentine's Day, before that, a few years ago we went to Garfield's right before they closed. It might be hard for someone who wasn't alive (or very young) in past decades to know how extremely busy SVM was. Sears and JC Penney had auto centers that were kept busy, and all of the department stores had hair salons. The one in Boscov's was upstairs before the store was expanded, including eliminating the upstairs. There was a 4-register checkout area at the bottom of the steps where you could buy Ticketmaster tickets. Boscov's used to have a garden center, health & beauty area, hardware department and sold many appliances including refigerators and tv's. I'm glad that Boscov's owns their own building. Someone had told me of the extremely high rent that stores had (have?) to pay to be in malls and supposedly that's why CVS built their own store and moved out of the mall. Although I don't know for a fact but I would surmise that because of Boscov's owning their own building, it has enabled them to stay there when all the other anchors, amongst lots of other stores there, have closed. I apologize if this got too wordy but thought maybe you and others would like to read another reminiscence of the mall in Hummels Wharf.
Payless now closed and the Sears is turning into a family practice center doctor's office
To answer your question around the 6:45-6:50 mark - yes, that part was an addition. The second wing (stretching from the second Bon-Ton entrance all the way down to Sears) was opened in March, 1998.
"This is how Departmency dies. To thunderous silence."
Love the obscure star wars speak!
Man, this is depressing. I have so many memories of going here when I was a kid and in my teens. To see it like this now is just sad.
Thank you for covering that mall that is the closest mall to
Me
Pleasant surprise to see the fountain operating. Even more to see Payless still open... For now.
Man, I’ve spent YEARS in this mall, I’ll miss it when it’s gone. I remember every Sunday I’d go with my family and buy something from Hot Topic and GameStop. It’s really depressing to see it barren, quiet and dimly lit.
Those stores are still there. Also Aeropostale is still there, it was one of the chosen locations to be saved during their bankruptcy
The Treasurer That’s cool I guess but I left PA years ago, it’s absolutely gone to hell. There’s nothing up there anymore compared to the rest of America.
Wow, a still-operating Garfield's! We used to go to the very first location in downtown Edmond, OK back in the mid-80s. The last one I ate at was in Quail Springs mall in OKC but it closed sometime in 2007.
Sadly, Garfield's closed a couple of years ago. It was one of our favorite places to eat. Great ribs! I heard that they closed giving very little notice to people. Nothing has gone in there since. Actually, that location was originally Holiday Hair before they moved to another location in the mall, although they're totally gone now.
Just found your channel and I'm lovin it!!! fantastic work, thanks for doing what you do, I appreciate it!!
Awesome video, love the music
Do video on harrisburg mall ,colonial park mall or York galleria mall.
I just drove by colonial park yesterday.
I live in York and the York Galleria isn't that bad actually. Nowhere near as crowded as it used to be but far more many people than in these videos lol. I'd still like to see him shoot there though
I was in that mall at 14 it used to be JC Penney to Boscovs. They later added the wing in the back around the end of the 90s or early 2000s. I was in the service so I was away and back often. Sad to see it in this state considering it was a huge meeting place in 8th grade and on. I was just there and couldn't go in.
The corridor from Bath and Body works to Sears was added on about 1997, before it was a parking lot.
The 90s era Bath and Body Works store, a dead mall must have.
I've seen dead malls even in Florida like the lake whales mall. It seems like small to medium malls in small towns are shutting down but On the flip side major malls in big cities are still thriving. In recent years I've seen malls in Miami Tampa Orlando and Detroit still thriving and very much busy.
A lot more stores closed through the years Chess King, So Fro Fabrics, Slack Shack, a men's haberdashery, Hanover Shoes, Wilsons Outdoor, Arbys, a shoe repair, a dental clinic, Barvarian Pretzel, Rea & Dericks which is now CVS, a place that sold organs and other ones.
I see that you’ve been doing malls localish to me recently. Good job on what you do. I enjoyed this one and Nittany mall when I was a kid.
Great video Anthony you & Sal are the gold standard. I wholeheartedly agree with your hatred of Wal-Mart. If you are in the area you may want to visit Stroud mall in Stroudsburg Pa. as it dies a slow death.
i visited stroud mall back in 2017 before bon-ton and sears closed. it was a nice mall. im tempted to go back to see how dead it has gotten since then without bon-ton and sears.
Take a trip down I 81 and visit the dead all in Chambersburg
That's why I like to rebuild malls it forever immortalizes them. No one cares today, but as time goes on I find if a mall hasn't been well document already as time moves on more information is lost (example the many dead internet links I see in forums) so in 30 years people will appreciate.
7:48 “aeropostale closed in 2016” .... right after you walk by an opened one?
After new investment came into the company, they closed and reopened many locations. This was one of them.
I was thinking that too, it looked open (for now) to me. He must have meant 2019.
Not trying to say your wrong or anything but the aeropostale never closed it stayed open and had sales for the longest time then just stayed open
You should visit Randolph mall in asheboro NC. It used to be a great mall. Sad how it declined.
Trevor Hayhurst or Cary Town Centre or Northlake Mall!! NC is full of them!!
Great video. I spent a lot of my teenage years there. I can still smell the popcorn from the movie theatre. And it had a great arcade, the Space Port I think it was called.
i really enjoyed your reasoning behind documentation of these malls.
I really like the Art Deco style.
Cool looking mall, thanks.
I love the intro
Villa Teresa in the mall makes some amazing food! If you haven’t tried it you should. This mall is still going. Recently seems to be getting just a little busier, so who knows what will happen.
This is the mall I go to with friends and family when we go on shopping spreads and it's the mall I grew up with 😢❤
Sadly more shops closed down and so new stores joined
Nice mall, congrats on 22k
Good job i was at this mall before and yes it did go down hill its bad when you half to spend money to close a wing off if anything exton square mall is falling you might want to make trip down there
The Wyoming Valley Mall up in Wilkes-Barre, PA area has a long corridor like that that connects their food court area to the main section of the mall. You should check out the Colonial Park Mall in Harrisburg, PA. Not so sure it's dying but it has a rarity you don't see often nowadays (an OPEN Sears store).
Riverside construction built that spencers in 2001
It was me and 2 others guys that built the store. We demoed the old store and built the new spencers.
We had 6 weeks to do it all.
One of the main reasons there aren't many people walking around is because this was most likely recorded during the week (please correct me if I'm wrong). This place is usually pretty busy during the weekend.
I feel that instead of building big stores in the nearby Monroe Marketplace. They should've put some in the mall. There's some big stores like Target, Best Buy, Michael's, and Kohl's at Monroe Marketplace. I believe that did a great deal on the mall.
That mall use to be bumpin, even for a small town mall. It use to have this arcade back in the 80’s that looked like you were walking into Tron.
I love the intro, man!! So funky :D
Thank you for another great video!!🙂👍
This is my local mall. I will say that the mall is still dead but there are new stores popping up inside the mall. Even with the pandemic, there are still a good amount of people coming in and out daily.
This mall definitely isn't what it used to be but I still go there and there auntie Anne's and cinnamon hit different
This mall when I was young was booming it was the place to go but the rent and everything is so high places are having a hard time staying
I remember coming here with my family then sneaking off to meet friends with my pockets full of quarters for Spaceport! Then sneak a cigarette near the movie entrance
Hi Ace I'm was born and raised in Warren Pennsylvania so I do enjoy going back and looking at your videos I really miss the inside of that mall I really don't like what they did to it anyways I live down near the Susquehanna valley area I live in Mifflinburg Pennsylvania actually which is very close to Lewisburg Pennsylvania I work at a hotel that of course we deal with a lot of the Little League world series people when they come down in August anyways I wanted to give you an update on the Susquehanna valley Mall a lot of things have closed in there since you've done this video Garfield restaurant closed Zales closed Victoria's secrets closed in the store and there's a couple other ones oh Yankee candles went out so a lot of stores have gone out of there so if you get a chance to come down this way again you might want to get in there and film some of the places that have closed it is very sad cuz it is a beautiful Mall thank you for all you do and appreciate that you were a huge fan of the Warren Mall back in the old days I was one too always ate at Napoli's my dad worked at the arcade and my mom worked at Kmart and my cousin used to work at the wall and Orange Julius so it is sad cuz it was a big part of our family as you can tell I have lots of good memories and that's what you got to keep in your mind is the memories but I think you again
I feel you on hating Walmart! Thise greedy scumbags can't get their comeuppance fast enough for me! Gorgeous mall!
Haha! I still go there. It’s pretty dead as there’s not much there anymore. I usually go to Spirit Halloween, Bath and Body Works, or GameStop, maybe even just look around. It’s kinda boring now but it’s still good!
You should do the Great Lakes Mall! It’s near where the old Euclid Square Mall once stood. It’s not quite a dead mall, but it is struggling. Macey’s in particular is pretty dead...
If you want to visit another REALLY dead mall, go to Diamond Run Mall in Rutland, VT. Beautiful drive up to that area so that's a huge plus, but that mall. Blew a tire and went in there while Sears was throwing something on the car. Damn that place was empty, and that was about 6 years ago. Heres a excerpt from a review from Yelp "There is a definite post-apocalyptic vibe to this mall that is pretty crazy." It did have a K-Mart at the time and a neat looking Bar/Grill. Edit: Full disclosure in that I _think_ its still open, but not really sure.
Was it "updated" in the 90's? Those dark marble tiles and ceiling and floor lamps look so, so 90's... ;)
Late 90's.
Definitely an odd mall, went there last year, from Florida never been out of the state, was dead and somewhat cold lol, but got a business card from the marine dudes I guess that was cool
I don't care for Wal-Mart either but they are enmeshed in our economy and an awful lot of people would lose their jobs if Wal-Mart folded.
That's when you know you need to get the fuck out of dodge. If Walmart IS the city economy it ain't stable.
waiit..thats a complete copy of the mall in Texarkana, TX same everything flooring lights, skylights, colors.......woow
It's probably a Simon mall
I've got a mall you can go investigate. Exton square mall in exton PA, it appears to be going in a downturn, the only highly populated area is the food court, the rest of this mall not so much. Add this mall to your channel.
enjoy !
Finally someone else who hates Walmart like I do
If you ever make it out to Portland Oregon, you should do a video on Lloyd Center Mall. They just did a remodel, but even that has not helped it. It's a shame too because it's a nice looking mall with a lot of potential in an upcoming area.
Is that the one with a skating rink? I was working at a mall in Portland in the early 90's in Portland and there were skaters...
I recommend dead mall producers to come to the Jacksonville Florida area. There is a LOT to work with. You want typical malls still doing good - we got 2. You want a mall about to be bulldozed - check. You want 2 new outdoor malls that are among the most successful in the country - check. You want an old mall that despite dying for over 10 years hangs on with 30 stores - check. You want a mall that now has ONLY anchors, and the ENTIRE inside has been closed off - check
You know what would be good to put in the empty anchor spaces? Community Colleges, technical schools, and even medical groups. Quite a few struggling malls in the Midwest and one I used to go to as a kid in Alaska are doing that. It would be a good way to revive it.
In the former Sears medical space is going on, they did some of this at the Columbia Colonnade and Steamtown Marketplace too, but even then that doesn't fill enough space.
@@esw01407 Oh cool. At least it's being used for something. The mall I used to hang out at all the time as a teen, just had their local medical group move into their former Bergner's space.
The Citadel Mall here in Colorado Springs has had an empty Macy’s for a decade. Suddenly they’re moving a K-12 charter school into it. It’s a huge space (they actually expanded it when it was Foley’s) so I’m not sure if they’ll be using all of it. Anthony needs to visit The Citadel. It’s not dead yet but oh so aesthetic.
Sad , I was just there after being out of college for 6 years and this is exactly what it was.. 6 years ago it at least had shops and wasn’t empty.
Mall started to go down hill in 2002 when a lot of Factories in the area closed and these manufacturing jobs went to China and Mexico.
What's the name of the Waterfront Dining song you used?
It's sad to the conference centers at malls doing baldy, too. Nowadays, so many cos. use Skype, videos, etc; instead of face-to-face meetings, that mall conference space is in rapid decline. Too bad. My old employer, lacking huge office space, used these centers for client hook-ups.
We hate Walmart too, especially in New Orleans. Let's trade them all for one Woolworths. Have you heard of the Sunrise Mall in Corpus Christi? Beautiful, huge mall but totally defunct. With an interesting history I might add.
Are you going Texas?
Please tell me you listen to synthwave music! Your intro has synthwave all over it
It's doing a lot better now than it was here
The mall is up for sheriff's sale now haha. This is my local mall and honestly, it's been nothing but downhill the past 5 years.
@Aimee Webber It's still open. I wish it had more customers, though. It's a very nice mall.
People can't stay off their darn iPhones,laptops and Tablets long enough to make anything work.We really do need to get rid of the internet so these Malls have a fighting chance at surviving.
Really what purpose does the internet have ?
People need to get off their electronics and go to these Malls !
When you want a product, and it's not in a store at malls like this. Management saying "You can go online." doesn't help either.
MultiCreditKIng i remember Penny's had thier catolog,you could buy anywhere from undies,to guns,to camping equipment,they did a bang up job doing sales,they stopped making their catolog.they need to bring back their sales catolog
People once shopped at individual stores in downtowns. Then shopping malls came along and killed downtown retail districts in many cities. Then the internet came along and killed brick and mortar retail of any sort. This is the evolution of business and the result of free market capitalism. Trying to make these malls work is a fool's errand, the era of several anchor department stores and tons of small shops is gone. Now is the time to get creative and fill the space with what (if anything) will draw people in to spend money and keep the lights on. Go-karts, trampoline, paintball, escape rooms are some ideas, but who knows if they'd be enough or if there'd be enough interest
It seems like a lot of these dead malls have a Shoe Department Encore (Shoe Show)
Either that pump is on its last leg or the filter is horribly clogged on that fountain. Shouldn't even have it on.
Do the colonial park mall in Harrisburg pa they used to have a sick arcade with hundreds of games and they took it out and put a Fuckkinnnnggg buffalo wild wings in its place
When are you coming to Atlanta, Ga?
Looks like a mall we have here, poor thing looks just like that Frisco Mall. It's not the fact that there are no people who want to rent it, it's the overpriced rental prices that keep people away.
You should do a dead mall tour of Adrian mall
I work here. And the crazy thing about it is, our Aero is doing pretty good money wise. People come from all over since their Aero shut down. I knew you would hit our mall soon.
Many of us are rooting for the mall, no clue what's going to happen after the potential auction in a few months.
Yea there isn't going to be anywhere to really go if the mall goes a lot of other buisness around here will follow. I luckily have a back up plan job wise. But what about all the other people that don't? Scary.
Killer intro it was on point
If malls were smarth they would have a grocery store as am anchor
I lived near the old Cherryland Mall in Traverse City, MI and they had a supermarket as an anchor (Tom's, which started as a Kroger and a few other stores afterward). Even they couldn't save the mall from competition from the newer Grand Traverse Mall just a few miles up the road. Tom's closed in 2009 and is now a Big Lots. The rest of the mall's now a power center and all of their remaining anchors - Sears, Kmart and Younkers - all closed.
Many did and they have mostly closed. This one had a Weis Markets as an out-parcel, but it has now closed.
Krogers and Fry's Marketplace are starting to do that with their stores.
They’re tearing down the Woburn Mall and leaving the Market Basket grocery store that it was attached to.
Why does it feel like the Lehigh Valley and its numerous malls constantly get overlooked?
Most of the malls in that area are holding on or have been previously de-malled. South Mall and Westgate Mall are the two concerns. South Mall is losing another anchor, the furniture store. Phillipsburg is just waiting for a bulldozer.
Just there Monday. So sad.
Actually you are in Hummels Wharf Pennsylvania
"Level of deadness ..." I wish we can come up with a standardized nomenclature on describing dying and dead malls based on occupancy. There are thriving malls, flourishing malls, struggling malls, dying malls and dead malls. Maybe you, Sal, Kristen, and a few other experts can come up with a more precise and objective terms to label the current status of the mall.
Here's the metrics I use:
>95% occupancy - thriving (generally only high end malls these days)
75-95% occupancy - alive (serves the market it's in well and turns a profit, but new tenants aren't necessarily beating down the doors to fill empty spaces)
50-75% occupancy - struggling (Barely breaking even or operating at a slight loss, but still could be saved if management is smart)
20-50% occupancy - dying (early stages of the death spiral - mall will likely close with 5 years)
@@Trekkie101GC Excellent. That is the type of description I am in favor of ... objective, clear and concise.
this mall is dead. used to go there all the time in the early 2000s after school. now half the mall is 2 different urgent care facilities and the other half is a movie theater, auto shop and a few stores lol. so many hours spent walking around here as a kid and now i never go cus theres nothing to do there
My hallmark in Alton in Illinois at Alton square mall reopened a year after they closed never say never kaybee might come back there's a lot of that are trying to make a comeback
Name of intro music?