Nice video as always! I loved all of the background information about the abandoned malls that are now liminal space images! And Thank you for putting my lil shookey drawing in the thumbnail!!
It would be so cool to build a huge mall called the “last mall” that has salvaged parts from all the “big” or most popular abandon or demolished malls or at least duplicates of the cool center attractions. And all the tenets and anchors have to use their early 2000,s logos
I... holy shit I'd LIVE there. I wonder where it'd be built. Over the ashes of another dead mall? In the middle of nowhere just to add to the aesthetic? IN FRONT OF AMAZON'S HEADQUARTERS?? I want to see this so bad.
it’s actually really sad seeing more and more malls die off. the images are cool but they give me a really sad sense of nostalgia. a piece of my childhood is going away and i’ll never experience it again. F
Malls are so goddam cool especially ones that have like early 2000’s decor. Thankfully most the malls around where I live are still open which are just fun to stroll through
"Without tenants, a mall is just anchor stores, and without anchor stores, a mall is nothing." Beautifully put. And it's certainly always the tenants who go first before the anchors withdraw.
Online Shopping lacks the magic that going in person to see malls and stuff there is something magical about going to real stores and not buying everything from online monopolies
There's actually a small-ish dead mall in my town, but as far as I can remember it's always been like that since I was a kid. The inside of it has never had that many businesses, though there are a few like a Subways and a Sears. Most of the business is done in the stores that have openings exclusively on the outside that don't link with the central hub so the inside stays kinda dead, but every year in November there's a local festival where artisans come to sell their wares inside the mall, and for a few brief days the mall springs to life like a flower in desert rain.
Your presentation and editing bring so much personality to these places. It really makes you care and think about them beyond simple nostalgia. Keep up the great work, mate! :)
I’ve said before that we need a VR Mall Walking Simulator where you can walk through an 80s/90s/00s mall with lots if interactivity. It would not be so much a game as much as a “walking sim” (a way to relive the nostalgic days). There could be NPCs possibly (maybe you could talk to them. There could be playable arcade machines in-game. There would be retro mallwave or popular music from the past decades. You could visit the food court (virtually eat), visit made up in-game stores (virtually shop). It could even have possible multiplayer so that you could hang out at the mall (virtually) with your friends!
I love how you actually explain the background on famous liminal spaces malls (aka the ones listed in this video) ! It makes me feel closer to it and gives it more of a nostalgic feeling :)
im from mn, so whenever i go to the moa i think about how pretty it would be to wander the halls empty. of course, its still fully bustling and massively successful (at least as far as i know, it still seems as busy as it did when i was a child) so i doubt itll die anytime soon, but i cant help imagining it empty and quiet. it would be so easy to get lost in it
Theoretically yes but its not practical. There will be fight about which mall, or which country, what style etc the list goes on, not to mention the chance of scam (which is very high, i mean mall is expensive lol), or complicated bureaucracy with govt regarding the permit/license.
@@Greeeenmoss to be honest; id probably just buy a property and run it myself. i care about spaces like these enough to do that. in a sense they're living pieces of art; and deserve to be treated as such
@@Shookey I think one should also consider that, if too many people visit this place to enjoy its liminality, it'll stop being liminal. I mean, look at any Liminal Space photo and imagine it with dozens of people. Not really that moody anymore, right?
@@Shookey @Shookey i imagine that would be cool af, if there is place like that. something like mall, hotel, any building/property but make it liminal and run it for commercial, or for free (up to owner). That would be new concept/genre of entertainment space, like museum but liminal af (if that make sense lol). Idk if such place exist, but don't forget the financial, law AND government aspect just in case they scrutinize every thing you do around that property (depend on each country maybe?). Sorry for bad english, not my language and also confusing opinion but that just me being over-thinking about anything lol 🥲🥲
Absolutely insane the memories this brought back. I’ve been to Century III Mall. I even went on the carousel, on the second floor of it. It was extremely empty at the time and I believe about one half of the mall was completely closed off and without power even. I went into a bookstore there where I bought I book that I ended up reading almost the entire series later. Amazing mall, it was a shame knowing it was almost completely dead at the time I went, no wonder it shut down. I really thought I recognized it and I did! So amazing I completely forgot about it. (Wow I freaked out about that a bit too much.)
@@Shookey It was a long walk, I do believe we went from wherever we walked in from to as far as we could go. And most of the mall was empty/closed so I didn’t get to see everything. I’m pretty sure we might have been the only people in there other than workers so super abandoned vibe. The indoor double decker carousel definitely was weird for sure. I was never really there when the mall was super popular, more around the late 2000s before the carousel was closed. I never expected to find a video mentioning the mall and at the time I had no clue of liminal spaces so it just felt like any old empty mall so I don’t have too many memories of it. It was unimportant to me but I really wish I would’ve payed more attention to everything.
Dead malls are really a favourite. I'd love to try and find an empty/abandoned mall to walk around, I bet it would give a whole new sensation to physically be in one.
I really hope Pembroke Lakes Mall never dies until I do. That place feels like home to me… I miss the Pepsi Zone tbh :( I bought my first copy of Pokémon there and the first Disney store I’ve ever went to
I feel like more and more malls are becoming liminal spaces by the minute, since not many people seem to be going to malls that often anymore, but what do I know, I haven't been to a mall in a while.
This is a very relatable and interesting video for people such as myself. I live in the US, and I know of a mall near me that seems to be teetering towards decline. It is a shame, really, because I have dozens of memories of going to it throughout my lifetime. It’s hard to imagine such a large space being empty/replaced by something else entirely.
Hey, even if it does shut down, wouldn't it be awesome to explore it and take pictures before it gets demolished. That experience in my opinion, would be so worth it
i remember a mall in my hometown wichita ks called towne west that could be considered a dead mall. it was very busy until a few years ago. i dont know the whole story, but apparently management ignored expanding much onto online markets, which attracted less visitors. its kinda sad, because i spent a lot of time there growing up
liminal spaces always giving me chills I love them so much like every time when I'm sad and nervous I look up for liminal space images and it gives me a feeling that I wasn't expected it suddenly calms me down ik is weird but idk why and I decided to be a liminal space explorer like finding images and search these images where they came from cuz it sounds would be cool, backrooms was the first one that brought me into liminal space. And btw I love your vids all your vids are very interesting and very appreciative and sorry if this comment is too long just take your time lol
Phenomenal intro too man, great work my dude. I hope one day to be able to get pictures and record some of this abandoned malls and do some urbex. Its funny how many of you like and appreciate malls... Perhaps is my upbringing or my own experiences in my early teens but I've always hated, HATED, malls. The excessive reflective surfaces, the white fluorescent light-bulbs and stores with items you (I) couldn't afford, the security personnel beings jerks; I don't know why but I only liked them when you stayed till 10:00 PM and everyone would leave, and stores began to close letting you briefly drift alone through out the structure of the place. When you felt this creepy feeling, like you were entering another plane, a border between this ghost world and your world. Where everything was artificial, plastic or pre-fabricated on this long closed hallways. At least that's how I've always felt about malls, so when someone's telling me that malls are dying out gave me a little bit of "schaudenfreude" grin, but at the same time I know (though I'm not american) that this tells us how things are going outside and how the times are chaging.
You’ll regret saying this in 30 years when your only shopping choice is online, then you’ll beg for the old days just like people did when sears closed
I live in Brazil, and because I've never heard about any dead mall in my city, I love watching videos about this. The idea of walking around one of these malls it's so interesting for me for some reason. This was such an amazing video, well done, Shookey! 👏
Got a spooky abandoned mall near me it's turning into a community center rn but it's been closed for 13 years (as of 2021) . But before the community center it was this empty abandoned mall that had a big window with an empty carousel in it. It's sad use to love that place as a kid
What's fascinating is that, because of Covid it seems, our local mall is actually MORE popular. Everyone was tired of avoiding people, and so the rebound was pretty hard lol
You should really do a video on Massachusetts malls! I have some dead mall suggestions: •Meadow Glen Mall •Mystic Mall (the old indoor one) •Square One Mall •Liberty Tree Mall •Eastfeild Mall • Worcester Common Outlets All of which I’ve been to, (my favorite it the Worcester Common Outlets)
it was at the Rochester airport at sometime (like they were saying) and it still might be there. although i can't be certain due to inadequate research
Yeeeees, m'man's finally back with another mini-documentary. I wonder why most dead malls are found in the northeast US. Not to mention, I live right next to where Century III was. 😂 Can't believe one of my favorite channels touched on some personal nostalgia.
I live a half mile from where CC mall once stood. I remember going there with my mom in the 70’s, friends in the 80’s, and my children in the 90’s. The decline was sad to watch. The demo was even sadder.
we have another dead mall in New york long island! its called Mall at the source, it hasnt been demolished yet due to dave and busters being the singular location that is still open.
The Mall closest in Fargo is still super busy most days, which is weird from what I understand. I love Malls and I'm a huge fan of the nostalgia they give. I have done a few mall videos and hope to do more soon. They fascinate me.
Here's an idea. How about you look at malls that have actually started to come back to life. If there are any in the U.S. I think one called Mainplace Mall in California would be something interesting to look at, as I live near there and have seen it fall and start to climb back up lately. Also, another mall I live near called Westminster Mall would be a Dead Mall in this case. A slowly Dying Mall though.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the album associated with the Rolling Acres mall. It's apart of the mallsoft genre called 1988 by Zadig The Jasp. I recommend it!
5:30 i want to that mall like the day before it closed when i was a kid, i remember going to a small comic book store and everything around it was really sad
There's a dying mall near me and I think the only anchors left is black rose and jcpenny and pretty much everyone else left/moved to different locations, like the gamestop at the mall moved to the Walmart near me
ive went to one of these malls as a kid. i don't remember it well, unfortunately, but my dad loved it. now there's only one mall in my section of my city... how unfortunate...
Luckily the mall near where I live is coming back. In 2016, the mall was considered dead, and it stayed that way until a couple of years ago, when they lowered the rent and allowed more small businesses to open.
I read this book recently called “I Woke Up Dead at the Mall” where the main character was murdered in New York City and the afterlife was set in the Mall of America. They can wander the actually alive mall where people are constantly shopping, or they can go to the fifth floor (a floor that doesn’t normally exist) which is called the Mall of the Dead which serves as basically the home base of the afterlife. I imagined this to look like one of those creepy abandoned malls.
We were in a mall in Buffalo about five years ago there was a mall with only one store left open, right in the middle of downtown. It was very weird walking through it. The tallest building in town is built right over the main drag and abandoned. It's a very strange place, feels post apocalyptic. The signs of activity were few and far between. We were there to tour some Frank Lloyd Wright homes and to check out the big art gallery whose name escapes me. It was well worth the trip but strange to see a major city with a ghost town downtown. It's like that gave up on it and accepted the death. The final stage of grief had passed.
So I had a liminal spaces video idea- old bedrooms.. like those bedrooms that you can find on places like pinterest- with the old toys, worn out mattresses and walls,, box tvs.. ykwim?
As someone that worked at a mall where one of the anchor stores went away (I actually /worked/ at that anchor store), this whole thing is a big relatable mood for me. From my understanding, a mall requires an absolute minimum of two anchor stores to continue to exist, big box stores not part of the main building don't count, and non-retail businesses like gyms and theaters don't count. Right now, Everett Mall (in Everett, WA) *_t e c h n i c a l l y_* only has one anchor store, since the Sears died years ago, and the Macy's "decided not to renew their lease". Come to think of it, the Puget Sound may as well be a mall _graveyard_ at this point. Everett Mall is still hanging in there but on life support, and Alderwood, Bellevue, Bellingham, and Southcenter are still going strong, but... Northgate, one of the most famous malls in the region, and was still going strong at the time, was _completely demolished_ for - get this - a stupid ice rink. Cascade Mall up in Mount Vernon is a more traditional sense of a Dead Mall, it shut down a year or two ago due to tenants leaving and anchor stores ollying outy. The building is still occupied by a Kohls, a no-name furniture store, and, shockingly in a post-covid world, a Chuck E Cheese, but the rest of the mall is empty and the remaining tenants had their leases forcibly terminated without prior notice. I think the remaining three stores had different contract terms that the mall _couldn't_ terminate, but when they expire, they'll be gone too, and the mall will go poof.
It's pretty sad to see but times are always changing I suppose. At least we never dealt with the heartbreak of malls destroying small towns in the 80s. We just live with the malls themselves dying
My local mall is dying a bit. JCPenny is closed, which everyone loved. So people stoped go in ng as much. Then in 2017 sears shut down leaving lots of people devastated.
The one dead mall to me that is liminal space material is the dixie square mall the history of that mall is both fascinating and terrifying and it was abandoned for 3 decades
Damn, i am a huge dead mall fan and has never heard of Cinderella Square Frick everybody in the town who wanted it demolished they don’t understand how unique it was
Sorry to be that guy but it's "West Mifflin", not "West Millfin" smh, anyways nice video. Century III Mall didn't actually do THAT terribly until when Macy closed by the way.
In Brazil malls are not dying , Not even during coronavírus, the old malls are still dying but only because they are being replaced by larger and newer ones
Nice video as always! I loved all of the background information about the abandoned malls that are now liminal space images! And Thank you for putting my lil shookey drawing in the thumbnail!!
glad you enjoyed and thank you for making the lil' guy in the first place
Sorry i was late man :(
Translation: Sucks up and outlines reason for giving hero worship as well as social media attention craving.
Not gonna lie Malls were such a experience to be at when your mom doesn't spend 4 hours at some random Clothing Store.
I agree.
Always Burlington bruh. Always mf Burlington.
@@ratz2886 lmaooo always the most affordable clothing stores 😂
not only do they spend so long in a random clothing store, they buy little to nothing as well which is pretty annoying
It would be so cool to build a huge mall called the “last mall” that has salvaged parts from all the “big” or most popular abandon or demolished malls or at least duplicates of the cool center attractions. And all the tenets and anchors have to use their early 2000,s logos
what the f*** thats awesome
Yeah!!!!!
I... holy shit I'd LIVE there.
I wonder where it'd be built. Over the ashes of another dead mall? In the middle of nowhere just to add to the aesthetic? IN FRONT OF AMAZON'S HEADQUARTERS?? I want to see this so bad.
@@nowheresquared idk how, but the liminal community has gotta get together and do this
What if it was like the asthetic of the new fnaf game, retro-futuristic
it’s actually really sad seeing more and more malls die off. the images are cool but they give me a really sad sense of nostalgia. a piece of my childhood is going away and i’ll never experience it again. F
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Yeah there's only 2 near where I live but they're not even in my town or city
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it really makes you realize how old you are :( oh well :3
@@Shookey I have nostalgia for the past and I never experienced those days. I'm only 11, I wonder if I'm your youngest viewer.
Malls are so goddam cool especially ones that have like early 2000’s decor. Thankfully most the malls around where I live are still open which are just fun to stroll through
oh nice! i gotta agree, early 2000's decor is 👌
@@Shookey it really is. It’s super nostalgic I think that’s why I love it
Early 2000s were great.
I think dead malls are not so common in European countries but some malls can be called like this
Title is giving me Futurama Flashbacks. "Roswell that ends well"
:D
Futurama is great
2:36 I’VE BEEN IN THAT MALL. Basically all it is now is a dying antique store, an abandoned arcade, a bath and body works, and a T-Mobile.
"Without tenants, a mall is just anchor stores, and without anchor stores, a mall is nothing."
Beautifully put. And it's certainly always the tenants who go first before the anchors withdraw.
Omg that intro is legendary and iconic
did ya miss it captain
@@Shookey i think so 😂
I love malls. Fortunately they're still riding high here where I live. I loved the vid and I appreciate the effort you put on it!
appreciate it as always 😺
They’re still doing well in the midwest
Online Shopping lacks the magic that going in person to see malls and stuff there is something magical about going to real stores and not buying everything from online monopolies
There's actually a small-ish dead mall in my town, but as far as I can remember it's always been like that since I was a kid. The inside of it has never had that many businesses, though there are a few like a Subways and a Sears. Most of the business is done in the stores that have openings exclusively on the outside that don't link with the central hub so the inside stays kinda dead, but every year in November there's a local festival where artisans come to sell their wares inside the mall, and for a few brief days the mall springs to life like a flower in desert rain.
Your presentation and editing bring so much personality to these places. It really makes you care and think about them beyond simple nostalgia.
Keep up the great work, mate! :)
cheers 😸
YESS I LOVE MALLS (especially ones from the late 90’s to early 00’s)!
Nah i like the 1980s ones
I do believe that liminal spaces are a subgenre of art. You're an art channel!
:D
I’ve said before that we need a VR Mall Walking Simulator where you can walk through an 80s/90s/00s mall with lots if interactivity. It would not be so much a game as much as a “walking sim” (a way to relive the nostalgic days). There could be NPCs possibly (maybe you could talk to them.
There could be playable arcade machines in-game.
There would be retro mallwave or popular music from the past decades.
You could visit the food court (virtually eat), visit made up in-game stores (virtually shop).
It could even have possible multiplayer so that you could hang out at the mall (virtually) with your friends!
I at the least know a VR Vaporwave Mall map in VR Chat, maybe ill do a video on it!
@@Shookey I would try VR Chat, but I have PSVR- the closest we have is Rec Room.
A video on it would be cool!
I love how you actually explain the background on famous liminal spaces malls (aka the ones listed in this video) ! It makes me feel closer to it and gives it more of a nostalgic feeling :)
why thank you :) i like giving them personalities lol
I miss so malls so much. So many lost memories
vinacool
im from mn, so whenever i go to the moa i think about how pretty it would be to wander the halls empty. of course, its still fully bustling and massively successful (at least as far as i know, it still seems as busy as it did when i was a child) so i doubt itll die anytime soon, but i cant help imagining it empty and quiet. it would be so easy to get lost in it
OK, but can the Liminal Spaces community please pool some money to buy a dead mall with the goal of making (or keeping) it as liminal as it gets?
mark my words, if ever given the amount of influence to organize something like this or something similar. i will try my best
Theoretically yes but its not practical. There will be fight about which mall, or which country, what style etc the list goes on, not to mention the chance of scam (which is very high, i mean mall is expensive lol), or complicated bureaucracy with govt regarding the permit/license.
@@Greeeenmoss to be honest; id probably just buy a property and run it myself. i care about spaces like these enough to do that. in a sense they're living pieces of art; and deserve to be treated as such
@@Shookey I think one should also consider that, if too many people visit this place to enjoy its liminality, it'll stop being liminal. I mean, look at any Liminal Space photo and imagine it with dozens of people. Not really that moody anymore, right?
@@Shookey @Shookey i imagine that would be cool af, if there is place like that. something like mall, hotel, any building/property but make it liminal and run it for commercial, or for free (up to owner). That would be new concept/genre of entertainment space, like museum but liminal af (if that make sense lol). Idk if such place exist, but don't forget the financial, law AND government aspect just in case they scrutinize every thing you do around that property (depend on each country maybe?). Sorry for bad english, not my language and also confusing opinion but that just me being over-thinking about anything lol 🥲🥲
Absolutely insane the memories this brought back. I’ve been to Century III Mall. I even went on the carousel, on the second floor of it. It was extremely empty at the time and I believe about one half of the mall was completely closed off and without power even. I went into a bookstore there where I bought I book that I ended up reading almost the entire series later. Amazing mall, it was a shame knowing it was almost completely dead at the time I went, no wonder it shut down. I really thought I recognized it and I did! So amazing I completely forgot about it.
(Wow I freaked out about that a bit too much.)
So how big was the world's "third biggest mall," at the time. Was the building like something you'd never seen before?
@@Shookey It was a long walk, I do believe we went from wherever we walked in from to as far as we could go. And most of the mall was empty/closed so I didn’t get to see everything. I’m pretty sure we might have been the only people in there other than workers so super abandoned vibe. The indoor double decker carousel definitely was weird for sure. I was never really there when the mall was super popular, more around the late 2000s before the carousel was closed. I never expected to find a video mentioning the mall and at the time I had no clue of liminal spaces so it just felt like any old empty mall so I don’t have too many memories of it. It was unimportant to me but I really wish I would’ve payed more attention to everything.
I can never get enough of seeing the images associated with these once great malls, these are the videos I would love to see more of!
Great job with research! I love learning about these spaces.
why thank you!! it was a blast to make
Dead malls are really a favourite. I'd love to try and find an empty/abandoned mall to walk around, I bet it would give a whole new sensation to physically be in one.
This was a really cool video I'm surprised it doesn't have 250k views wow! A truly hidden gem.
I really hope Pembroke Lakes Mall never dies until I do. That place feels like home to me… I miss the Pepsi Zone tbh :( I bought my first copy of Pokémon there and the first Disney store I’ve ever went to
I feel like more and more malls are becoming liminal spaces by the minute, since not many people seem to be going to malls that often anymore, but what do I know, I haven't been to a mall in a while.
This is a very relatable and interesting video for people such as myself. I live in the US, and I know of a mall near me that seems to be teetering towards decline.
It is a shame, really, because I have dozens of memories of going to it throughout my lifetime. It’s hard to imagine such a large space being empty/replaced by something else entirely.
Hey, even if it does shut down, wouldn't it be awesome to explore it and take pictures before it gets demolished. That experience in my opinion, would be so worth it
Ooh, or even after it's demolished or while it's been demolished
Oh boy finaly another part to this wonderful series! Keep up the great work!
i remember a mall in my hometown wichita ks called towne west that could be considered a dead mall. it was very busy until a few years ago. i dont know the whole story, but apparently management ignored expanding much onto online markets, which attracted less visitors. its kinda sad, because i spent a lot of time there growing up
Ayy lets go sequel.
the sequel: but actually better than the original (which is rare for sequels)
5:15 looks like a place taken in Crysis 2/3
idk what that but your comment has likes so other people seem to agree and that's pretty cool
Rolling acres is a good one to talk about, great job! Once again, you entertained me with your content!
liminal spaces always giving me chills I love them so much like every time when I'm sad and nervous I look up for liminal space images and it gives me a feeling that I wasn't expected it suddenly calms me down ik is weird but idk why and I decided to be a liminal space explorer like finding images and search these images where they came from cuz it sounds would be cool, backrooms was the first one that brought me into liminal space. And btw I love your vids all your vids are very interesting and very appreciative and sorry if this comment is too long just take your time lol
Phenomenal intro too man, great work my dude. I hope one day to be able to get pictures and record some of this abandoned malls and do some urbex.
Its funny how many of you like and appreciate malls... Perhaps is my upbringing or my own experiences in my early teens but I've always hated, HATED, malls.
The excessive reflective surfaces, the white fluorescent light-bulbs and stores with items you (I) couldn't afford, the security personnel beings jerks; I don't know why but I only liked them when you stayed till 10:00 PM and everyone would leave, and stores began to close letting you briefly drift alone through out the structure of the place. When you felt this creepy feeling, like you were entering another plane, a border between this ghost world and your world. Where everything was artificial, plastic or pre-fabricated on this long closed hallways.
At least that's how I've always felt about malls, so when someone's telling me that malls are dying out gave me a little bit of "schaudenfreude" grin, but at the same time I know (though I'm not american) that this tells us how things are going outside and how the times are chaging.
You’ll regret saying this in 30 years when your only shopping choice is online, then you’ll beg for the old days just like people did when sears closed
I love the liminal space videos! keep it up!!! :DDD
Your profile picture is spooky.
@@mosshivenetwork117 ty
I live in Brazil, and because I've never heard about any dead mall in my city, I love watching videos about this. The idea of walking around one of these malls it's so interesting for me for some reason. This was such an amazing video, well done, Shookey! 👏
Thanks Gabzinza! I am glad you enjoy 😸👍
The long awaited sequel has finally arrived!
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I grew up near Rolling Acres. As I write this, where once stood Rolling Acres Mall now stands an Amazon fulfillment center.
Irony is golden.
that's really something ..
I just found your channel man your videos are fire
thank you🔥
Got a spooky abandoned mall near me it's turning into a community center rn but it's been closed for 13 years (as of 2021) . But before the community center it was this empty abandoned mall that had a big window with an empty carousel in it. It's sad use to love that place as a kid
off the record, you should try and take some cool pics before it gets demo'ed. it's a really cool opportunity to have
Please do more these are so neat.
What's fascinating is that, because of Covid it seems, our local mall is actually MORE popular. Everyone was tired of avoiding people, and so the rebound was pretty hard lol
not bad
You should really do a video on Massachusetts malls! I have some dead mall suggestions:
•Meadow Glen Mall
•Mystic Mall (the old indoor one)
•Square One Mall
•Liberty Tree Mall
•Eastfeild Mall
• Worcester Common Outlets
All of which I’ve been to, (my favorite it the Worcester Common Outlets)
Great video. Can you also make a part 2 including Jamestown Mall, Greengate Mall, Metcalf South Shopping Center, and others?
Any idea whether midtown plaza mall saved the clock before demolition? Its a mid century masterpiece...
I believe the Rochester airport but I think it may be gone now
it was at the Rochester airport at sometime (like they were saying) and it still might be there. although i can't be certain due to inadequate research
I still have open malls near me and they won't close soon. But always remember Rolling Acres Mall
i love how there are many abandoned photos of it
Just finished watching all of your liminal vids (other than live streams) can’t wait for more!
Thanks for the stories Shookey! Very nice to listen to :).
thanks:)
It makes me have a chill vibe
Yeeeees, m'man's finally back with another mini-documentary. I wonder why most dead malls are found in the northeast US. Not to mention, I live right next to where Century III was. 😂 Can't believe one of my favorite channels touched on some personal nostalgia.
One of the most viewed "dead mall" videos on UA-cam is about the Pittsburgh Mills mall, which was my primary mall -- not too far from Century III.
I live a half mile from where CC mall once stood. I remember going there with my mom in the 70’s, friends in the 80’s, and my children in the 90’s. The decline was sad to watch. The demo was even sadder.
we have another dead mall in New york long island! its called Mall at the source, it hasnt been demolished yet due to dave and busters being the singular location that is still open.
Great work, Shookey! 👍
The Mall closest in Fargo is still super busy most days, which is weird from what I understand. I love Malls and I'm a huge fan of the nostalgia they give. I have done a few mall videos and hope to do more soon. They fascinate me.
That's awesome
The escalator in Rolling Acres(4:53) almost looks like the first couple minutes in Possibly in Michigan.
Here's an idea. How about you look at malls that have actually started to come back to life. If there are any in the U.S. I think one called Mainplace Mall in California would be something interesting to look at, as I live near there and have seen it fall and start to climb back up lately. Also, another mall I live near called Westminster Mall would be a Dead Mall in this case. A slowly Dying Mall though.
Ngl going to a "dying" mall where there are only a few people there just feels calming, I still have company but less so.
Omfg you included Century III?! LES' GOOOOO
Century III is awesome and I want to go
I'm surprised you didn't mention the album associated with the Rolling Acres mall. It's apart of the mallsoft genre called 1988 by Zadig The Jasp. I recommend it!
Haven't heard of it until now, thanks for the share
5:30 i want to that mall like the day before it closed when i was a kid, i remember going to a small comic book store and everything around it was really sad
There's a dying mall near me and I think the only anchors left is black rose and jcpenny and pretty much everyone else left/moved to different locations, like the gamestop at the mall moved to the Walmart near me
ive went to one of these malls as a kid. i don't remember it well, unfortunately, but my dad loved it. now there's only one mall in my section of my city... how unfortunate...
I know three malls that has survived Victoria Centre in Nottingham. And Freshney place in Grimsby. Meadowhall outside of Sheffield aswell.
Cinderella city Mall has this specific look like this gated community buildings in Dredd from 2012
I love these videos :)
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Luckily the mall near where I live is coming back. In 2016, the mall was considered dead, and it stayed that way until a couple of years ago, when they lowered the rent and allowed more small businesses to open.
I read this book recently called “I Woke Up Dead at the Mall” where the main character was murdered in New York City and the afterlife was set in the Mall of America. They can wander the actually alive mall where people are constantly shopping, or they can go to the fifth floor (a floor that doesn’t normally exist) which is called the Mall of the Dead which serves as basically the home base of the afterlife. I imagined this to look like one of those creepy abandoned malls.
fascinating, sounds like an interesting book
We were in a mall in Buffalo about five years ago there was a mall with only one store left open, right in the middle of downtown. It was very weird walking through it. The tallest building in town is built right over the main drag and abandoned. It's a very strange place, feels post apocalyptic. The signs of activity were few and far between. We were there to tour some Frank Lloyd Wright homes and to check out the big art gallery whose name escapes me. It was well worth the trip but strange to see a major city with a ghost town downtown. It's like that gave up on it and accepted the death. The final stage of grief had passed.
this channel grew faster than the amount of coronavirus cases
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hi shook!!! love ur vids
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So I had a liminal spaces video idea- old bedrooms.. like those bedrooms that you can find on places like pinterest- with the old toys, worn out mattresses and walls,, box tvs.. ykwim?
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is that the nordstrom enterance at the alderwood mall? it looks familiar for some reason
I really liked the part at the beginning with the bus that was in the dark
im sorry, bus?
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Liminale espaces aréna intéressant 🤩👍
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A kind of sad malls are starting to disappear
I love your videos :DD
As someone that worked at a mall where one of the anchor stores went away (I actually /worked/ at that anchor store), this whole thing is a big relatable mood for me. From my understanding, a mall requires an absolute minimum of two anchor stores to continue to exist, big box stores not part of the main building don't count, and non-retail businesses like gyms and theaters don't count. Right now, Everett Mall (in Everett, WA) *_t e c h n i c a l l y_* only has one anchor store, since the Sears died years ago, and the Macy's "decided not to renew their lease".
Come to think of it, the Puget Sound may as well be a mall _graveyard_ at this point. Everett Mall is still hanging in there but on life support, and Alderwood, Bellevue, Bellingham, and Southcenter are still going strong, but... Northgate, one of the most famous malls in the region, and was still going strong at the time, was _completely demolished_ for - get this - a stupid ice rink. Cascade Mall up in Mount Vernon is a more traditional sense of a Dead Mall, it shut down a year or two ago due to tenants leaving and anchor stores ollying outy. The building is still occupied by a Kohls, a no-name furniture store, and, shockingly in a post-covid world, a Chuck E Cheese, but the rest of the mall is empty and the remaining tenants had their leases forcibly terminated without prior notice. I think the remaining three stores had different contract terms that the mall _couldn't_ terminate, but when they expire, they'll be gone too, and the mall will go poof.
It's pretty sad to see but times are always changing I suppose. At least we never dealt with the heartbreak of malls destroying small towns in the 80s. We just live with the malls themselves dying
Assuming you're not a 40 year old
On a side note this is spectacular and I love it.
Thank you :)
I knew the first 2, I wanna see other ones like Frederick Towne Mall and Randall Park Mall, since I saw from BSF, I want to get more detail
Could you perhaps review Chapel Hill mall next time?
Yeah Shopping Centres (Malls) are really fun (besides the clothing stores) I just liked looking at toys.
Very spooky
Did you talking about Eateot yet I can't remember
I like all this liminal space and weirdcore stuff pretty much the coolest thing on earth
coolest? maybe
My local mall is dying a bit. JCPenny is closed, which everyone loved. So people stoped go in ng as much. Then in 2017 sears shut down leaving lots of people devastated.
Yup, a lot of the bigger anchor retailers like JCPenney, Sears and Macy's, we're really hit hard during the beginning of the 🍳demic
Even though you said 2017 lol
I really like this dead mall clip. The area seems so familiar. 11:51
the statue looks like godzills
What mall is on the thumbnail of this video? It looks like Cinderella City in Englewood Colorado, a mall that I spent most of my teens in.
dang man that intro was pretty poggers
thanks Demo not Man but rather Guy
The one dead mall to me that is liminal space material is the dixie square mall the history of that mall is both fascinating and terrifying and it was abandoned for 3 decades
I have suggestion: Liminal space beaches, beachside attractions, etc.
here in west covina CA our mall actually has quite a bit of life in it
good stuff
*inhales* cheesy pun in title=infinitely good video
Damn, i am a huge dead mall fan and has never heard of Cinderella Square Frick everybody in the town who wanted it demolished they don’t understand how unique it was
Sorry to be that guy but it's "West Mifflin", not "West Millfin" smh, anyways nice video. Century III Mall didn't actually do THAT terribly until when Macy closed by the way.
In Brazil malls are not dying , Not even during coronavírus, the old malls are still dying but only because they are being replaced by larger and newer ones
You could say the malls are closing in
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oh god that intros sick
thanks brother
Some good news, my favorite mall is extremely active and far from dead!
I miss all the Star Wars shopping areas - surely you remember the
Darth Malls ?
Hahahaha! Get out.
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Wookey versus Shookey !
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As always great video, greetings from Costa Rica. Pura vida ✌
Greetings and thanks!