INSIDE THE ABANDONED CENTURY III MALL - WEST MIFFLIN - PA

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  • @nicolejenkins1346
    @nicolejenkins1346 4 роки тому +232

    This makes me bawl my eyes out because I would go to the mall every weekend with my grandma. Now she's at the end of her life just as the mall is at the end of its life. I would do anything to be able to relive those moments one more time.

    • @enk989
      @enk989 4 роки тому +5

      Same but unfortunately my grandma passed a couple years ago 😔💔

    • @northsidediva6465
      @northsidediva6465 4 роки тому +5

      I think many of us on here are crying right along with you, believe it. 😭😭😭
      Blessings and comfort to you and your Grandmother. ❤

    • @enk989
      @enk989 4 роки тому +1

      @@northsidediva6465 ❣️❣️❣️

    • @HotRod8625
      @HotRod8625 4 роки тому +6

      I hate to say it but 3C closed for good at the end of last month (August 2020). At the end of August JC Penny closed for good. Currently their are no stores operating in this mall.

    • @Sbmom1018
      @Sbmom1018 4 роки тому +1

      I know this is so sad. Sweet memories of a time gone forever. Prayers and best wishes for you and your grandma. ♥️

  • @sal
    @sal 4 роки тому +227

    Wow. I'm beyond speechless. This absolutely blew me away. You've truly done Century III justice, and I'm floored with the production value. Seriously well done, brother.

    • @taimaishu-nao1922
      @taimaishu-nao1922 4 роки тому +5

      Honestly Sal, I thought I was watching one of YOUR ExLog videos for a bit!

    • @mellowlady6976
      @mellowlady6976 3 роки тому +1

      Thank you!

  • @genoesposito2895
    @genoesposito2895 4 роки тому +187

    The worst part about seeing the mall like this is knowing that memories like the ones I made in it can never be made again. A mall used to be a social event of sorts, and they played a role in lots of adolescent lives.

    • @bmstylee
      @bmstylee 4 роки тому +23

      Now all kids want to do is whine on twitter and hide in the basement. The social environment of yore is long gone.

    • @mstyles2667
      @mstyles2667 4 роки тому +5

      I feel the same. It makes me very sad.

    • @mstyles2667
      @mstyles2667 4 роки тому +4

      @@bmstylee It's sad and disturbing.

    • @mhm8222
      @mhm8222 4 роки тому +3

      My wife and I (girlfriend then) went there every weekend in the early 80s ...sitting here barely remembering it..lol

    • @sparkplug1018
      @sparkplug1018 4 роки тому

      Now the cops and security just chase kids out of them.

  • @TheGearShots
    @TheGearShots 4 роки тому +64

    I’d be far too terrified of seeing someone else every time I walked in a dark area and turned on my light. Great video!

  • @marcoasalgado
    @marcoasalgado 4 роки тому +67

    The mall era has sadly passed away.

  • @WhittyPics
    @WhittyPics 4 роки тому +65

    The sad thing is JC Penny and Sears both had catalogue departments they could have built into an online store to compete with Amazon if they had some management with a vision

    • @WhittyPics
      @WhittyPics 4 роки тому

      Interesting the power hasn't been shut off. You went in at night? I know you do things the right way.

    • @Jwnorton
      @Jwnorton 4 роки тому +1

      I'd argue that Amazon et al are the modern day Sears, JC Penney's, ect mail-order biz.
      Its coming full circle, but more technological, encompassing, and exposed. My kids marvel, watching old episodes of MASH, and they were thumbing thru a Sears cataloge, during the war. Sears' mailorder model was around a long time, 1880's? Amazon et all just refined it with technology.
      Not much different today, but they flip thru web pages, and only see paper when UPS\USPS delivers the boxes in about a week. MASH took several months.

    • @aramfingal5180
      @aramfingal5180 4 роки тому

      (1) JCP and Sears had to charge sales tax to mail-order customers in any state where they had a store, while Amazon didn't charge sales tax because they had no stores. (2) It wasn't at all clear that Amazon's business model would ever make money -- they only became profitable a few years ago and that's mostly from their cloud computing division.

    • @johnfoltz8183
      @johnfoltz8183 3 роки тому +1

      Some of these department stores are still stuck in the past, 50-60 years ago and never adapted to retail change over the years.

    • @Joepro651
      @Joepro651 3 роки тому

      @@WhittyPics whoever owns the building probably pays the electric bill to keep security cameras running in case people break in.

  • @7JANEWAY
    @7JANEWAY 4 роки тому +82

    What people don’t realize is that a dead mall like this one is no more than a corpse-period. That’s the real reason that when you walk through it, it’s literally deadly silent, your footsteps the only living sound in it.
    When you see a dead and gone mall like this one (and in particular when you see the old photos of when it was lively), your mind goes back to the time when you were young and would hang out there just to watch the people. You’d go to the food court, get yourself a sandwich or a couple pieces of pizza, and as you ate, you watched the people go by and you looked at the shops, to see what was going on there, too. It was the best (almost) free show in town!!! The young people of today have absolutely NO comprehension. And with the rate that malls are dying, they probably never will experience anything like it.
    Yes, thank God that we still have some lively malls. But then, how much longer will the malls survive, especially with COVID-19......

    • @JJ-wk5wy
      @JJ-wk5wy 4 роки тому +13

      Your opinion of what a mall was like, is 100% true. I get sad seeing all of the old pictures of what the mall was like when it was alive. And this isn't even my local mall. This is defiently an era that will never be again😢. FU covid

    • @realimbored668
      @realimbored668 4 роки тому +4

      The malls that do remain alive get swallowed by Simon and Brookfield and have any personality in design drained like you sliced a hole in them snd watched everything fall out and throw cheap plastichrome and paper thin white and gray tile over the opening, Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg was once full of color and now it’s charcoal gray carpet and cheap white tile so thin you get banned from the mall if you use a pallet jack for deliveries in common areas

    • @7JANEWAY
      @7JANEWAY 4 роки тому

      realimbored668 Interesting. Have you been banned from a mall for using a pallet jack?

    • @johnsanders4946
      @johnsanders4946 4 роки тому +4

      Well after Nov 4 the plandemic virus will be over but the malls will decline more due to amazon not a plandemic virus from the liberal Democratic Party.

    • @7JANEWAY
      @7JANEWAY 4 роки тому +1

      John Sanders I wouldn’t be so quick to say the pandemic will be over by Nov. 4. Even the CDC doesn’t say that, and they’re the ones monitoring the vaccine development.
      And, since your comment is obviously political, all I can say is that this has done nothing but hurt both sides. Yes, it’s hurt Trump, but it hasn’t done any favors for Biden, either. They can make as many speeches and promises that they want, but they have no say in what the medical community will ultimately come up with. Yes, I’m aware of backroom politics; but no one is going to say yes to a vaccine that hasn’t been tested thoroughly-and that’s regardless of the November election. To do so would be political suicide, and I don’t think either Trump or Biden are stupid enough to do THAT.

  • @HmRm10xx
    @HmRm10xx 3 роки тому +16

    Very sad. This mall was a huge part of growing up for me. My school choir sang here at Christmas time years ago. Went last minute Christmas shopping with my dad in a snowstorm at this mall (my dad has passed). Walked through a couple months before they shuttered it for good. A lot of wonderful memories & just as much sadness over it's demise. Thanks for the video 👍

  • @rnsministries
    @rnsministries 4 роки тому +22

    Thanks for preserving all these places Anthony. I truly miss the days where a whole family, grandparents thru grandchildren would go to the mall for a day. Or I would go to the arcade with my buddies. It was a different time then.

  • @lemondishonor7736
    @lemondishonor7736 4 роки тому +17

    I remember singing Christmas songs at that mall when I was in Middle School. So much fun.

  • @cidsanta4204
    @cidsanta4204 4 роки тому +28

    This was a great mall. I don’t understand why, with our 6 months or so of winter in the northeast, people would rather shop at outdoor “lifestyle centers”??? Don’t get it. (Pre-corona, of course).

  • @sprkl5d
    @sprkl5d 4 роки тому +24

    Sad night tonight. Great video Anthony! We've lost so much in the death of this and so many other malls. Few really get it.

  • @MeetLeAnne
    @MeetLeAnne 3 роки тому +11

    Please stay safe, Ace. I was worried for you, walking alone in a dark abandoned mall on your own.

  • @shonseibert48
    @shonseibert48 3 роки тому +7

    This was a great mall to go to in late 90's early 2000's for Christmas. Always loved taking kids to malls for Santa 🎅

  • @QuietJ0Y
    @QuietJ0Y 4 роки тому +15

    Perfect mystery. The introduction gave me chills!

  • @chrisskinkis7704
    @chrisskinkis7704 4 роки тому +14

    This mall was such a staple of my entire childhood and into adulthood. I have vivid memories from when I was a kid, going to kaybee toys getting my has to WWF figs, and so desperately wanting that G1 Optimus Prime with truck bed.
    Going into my teens having the option of going to be games, babbages, or software etc for video games. Wanting to get shirts and jeans from Gadzooks. Getting CDs from National Record Mart and learning all about widescreen and it’s importance to movies while browsing Suncoast.
    Going into my early 20’s and visiting cash n culture, buying ridiculous shirts from Steve and Barry’s, and paying on my cell phone bill at the AT&T store since they bought out Cingular Wireless.
    My absolute favorite part of that mall is under the food court with the cobblestone floor. When I was a kid there was an awesome hobby store there where I would get the original Batman 89 trading cards and we would take my grandma to get ice cream from the Dairy Queen.
    It’s weird how closely the mall looks to when I had a weird dream about it a couple months ago, thinking I myself was walking through the mall, lighting very similar to this, but some stores stayed open. I’m glad it hasn’t been vandalized, but I do miss this mall a lot.

    • @RyanREAX
      @RyanREAX 4 роки тому

      Screw Dave and Chris @ Trash N Culture... the chick was cool tho.

  • @slickdude401
    @slickdude401 4 роки тому +10

    Absolutely amazing! Excellent job Anthony. Production value was spot on and as Sal said, you did this place justice.

  • @jerseytomato100
    @jerseytomato100 4 роки тому +41

    I like how they always just leave the potted palms to wither away :( I'd take one home with me.

    • @aramfingal5180
      @aramfingal5180 4 роки тому +3

      Those things are heavy AF... better have a pickup, a bunch of friends, and high ceilings

    • @veilenedream5825
      @veilenedream5825 4 роки тому

      i totally thought they were fake

    • @TechTokOffical
      @TechTokOffical 3 роки тому

      @@aramfingal5180 they were fake...

    • @aramfingal5180
      @aramfingal5180 3 роки тому

      @@TechTokOffical Yeah but they're still heavy.

  • @rusticlakecreations5370
    @rusticlakecreations5370 4 роки тому +10

    Oh the memories of this mall has my mind flooded. Been going there since I was little.

  • @MJA5
    @MJA5 4 роки тому +8

    It's almost like a dystopian video game, that walk-through. I'm surprised that place is not haunted for the millions of people that walked through it and worked there.

  • @cynthiarose7534
    @cynthiarose7534 4 роки тому +18

    Great video. The mall looked awesome in its heyday. Very creepy and apocalyptic now. I loved the video and eerie feeling it gave me. Thanks for taking the time to do this wonderful video.

    • @TechTokOffical
      @TechTokOffical 3 роки тому

      I was def a teenager in the background of at least one of them pics

    • @carolford7845
      @carolford7845 2 роки тому

      It is really something how those malls died. The owner HAD to raise the rent in order to pay for the rising costs of utilities, or another mall 50+ miles away had better bells and whistles, then came onlinee buying, this was easier than spending gas to go to the mall. When I see abandoned malls, the song, HAVE I STAYED TOO LATE AT THE FAIR? comes to mind.

  • @sparkplug1018
    @sparkplug1018 4 роки тому +6

    Despite malls being tied to so so many of my good memories from younger times, I'm not to upset seeing them go away.
    This was a really good video, keep documenting these places for us.

  • @MichaelD343
    @MichaelD343 4 роки тому +12

    I went to college in Western PA in the early 80's. I was used to King of Prussia and remember everyone from out there saying Century III was better and fast forward to 2020 and King of Prussia is still going and this place is abandoned. I did go to Century III a few times but what killed it and other malls is that the stores they offered were the same at other malls while KOP has retailers nobody else has and is a destination mall.

  • @elsadiamond1001
    @elsadiamond1001 4 роки тому +10

    Wow the "before and after" vibe here really hits me hard.
    A place that was once filled with life is now nothing but an empty ghost town. The first clip of the walk through that showed the floor, I imagined a ton a feet that used to walk on it. Now it's just dead silence. And it hits hard cause I know I can't really complain about it because I can't remember the last time I went to a mall. Or a Sears, Kmart or any other struggling retail.

    • @KC8EWU
      @KC8EWU 4 роки тому

      I worked at a long gone Sears (demolished and used as part of expansion for new mall anchor at Woodland Mall in Kentwood, Michigan. Worked there 4 years ago when walked without giving a reason (those who really knew me when I worked there would have know for sure and knew I was as final straw broke the camels back.)

  • @Reala27
    @Reala27 4 роки тому +6

    Wow, as if those dead plants weren't the perfect visual representation. I spent a lot of time here growing up, and my first job was there on the second floor at Finish Line. Later on I'd come back and work at the Macys there. How crazy it is to see how different it looks just a decade or less later...

  • @Aly.knuckles
    @Aly.knuckles 4 роки тому +2

    Those old photos of the mall brought back some great memories. I remember the stage being filled with performers and the entire area around and above it being packed with people. My dad having to drop us off at the door to spend half an hour looking for a parking place. After I had my oldest son, taking him here to ride the train and see Santa ... and when we moved away from the area some of the last times we spent here I knew it was the end. You could feel it was over, even back in the early 2000's, it was getting emptied out. Thanks for the great videos and the memories. You're the best!

  • @ItsaRomethingeveryday
    @ItsaRomethingeveryday 4 роки тому +20

    I have to agree with Sal, This is the video I've been waiting along time for, You Nailed 💯, I been watching your videos for a very long time and this is straight Gold Man, GoodUp,Liked very much, Staysafe

  • @kruler-westoz-nauman3638
    @kruler-westoz-nauman3638 4 роки тому +5

    I see all these empty malls and cant help think wouldn't they make awesome small aged condo communities, as the late teenagers of the 70's and early 80's get to retirement age...Entered adult life hanging around them, leave adult life hanging around them, sadly poetic.

    • @seanblack4749
      @seanblack4749 2 роки тому

      Especially with the lack of affordable housing in U.S..Why not make these malls into affordable apartment complexes.I have seen it done but not often.

  • @heraldo2881
    @heraldo2881 4 роки тому +4

    Beautiful piece here Ace. I can not believe that it has taken so long to turn this amazing building into something else. Perhaps a university campus or even a casino. Such a shame to let a building like this go to waste.

  • @ronmckenna5962
    @ronmckenna5962 4 роки тому +15

    Seeing this video has reality set in REAL fast...kind of makes one wonder of all this technology we have today that no one forsaw the coming changes with the advent of the way we would communicate and purchase things we needed/wanted.l live in Canada and the city l'm in is slowly starting to lose places like this too.They call it a victim of progress...l say because of modern tech we're becoming introverts and losing touch with society and the outside world...maybe/maybe not.This is a great video sir.Keep up the good work.

  • @its_jcrave2255
    @its_jcrave2255 4 роки тому +3

    Thanks so much for finally getting footage of this mall. Its such a shame what this place has come to my parents use to take me to this mall as a child. Nobody has got any inside footage since it closed but you just got yourself another subscriber!

  • @stevexray6253
    @stevexray6253 4 роки тому +28

    I've never been to that mall and I didn't know any of the people in the pictures but somehow it still brought back memories.

    • @Kehwanna
      @Kehwanna 4 роки тому

      I lived in Pittsburgh briefly and never knew West Mifflin even had a mall.

    • @DelcoAirsoft
      @DelcoAirsoft 4 роки тому

      That semi circualr shop with the projector screen on the wall was definitely the Disney store. So sick. I would love to airsoft here!

    • @jamesprovost2602
      @jamesprovost2602 4 роки тому +1

      I found it very sad an weird seeing all the life gone

  • @Ovalbugmann
    @Ovalbugmann 3 роки тому +2

    Hello, I too am sad that the Great Halls of Commerce Malls of my youth are all being destroyed, a great change has befallen us. I've been watching a lot of abandoned videos, malls mostly and I particularly enjoyed your segement at the 13:35 time mark to the end - A Rememberance of Past -great times at the mall photo montage with the very nice & emotional, droning, thought provoking music of course that set the closing video piece on fire! Excellent work Ace and friends, thank you! :)

  • @dianehenkel9088
    @dianehenkel9088 4 роки тому +2

    Century III Mall had every store you wanted to shop at except no grocery store. That was such a great mall. The food court was fantastic.

  • @watchinglion7774
    @watchinglion7774 4 роки тому +2

    You did a great job in documenting a dying breed that will be killed off by COVID as this spreads thought the retail industry. I liked the music and old photographic memories. This has become part of my 80’s generation growing up going to shopping malls. I just now had a back flash as I was typing this seeing myself on the city bus going to the mall. I grew up in Encinitas, California and we had a Mall in Carlsbad that was half an hour by bus. I just saw myself traveling by myself to spend part of the day at the mall. We called it the ”Carlsbad Mall” and I remember years later it became the ”Westfield mall”. I remember going with my parents. My mom would spend hours shopping for clothing and I remember my dad and I would go get a bite to eat while my mom shopped. My dad would buy his dress shoes in Sears and my mom would buy me clothing at Sears or JC Penny. I would get so bored trying on clothing my mom would pick out. What I did like was going to a record store called ”The Warehouse” and once I was in that store it was hard to get me out 🤣. I remember my dad telling me ”c’mon Daniel we got to go, your mother is waiting”. Great memories and it's sad to see these malls one by one get finished off by COVID. The next generation will only know about shopping malls from videos like this one or reading about them online. It's wonderful people like yourself and others are documenting these malls before they are gone for good. I know prior to COVID these malls were hanging by a strange barely holding on as they battle financial issues. Online shopping was slowly killing them off and now COVID just finished them off for good 😞.

  • @savagesn
    @savagesn 2 роки тому +1

    Century III strikes a particular chord for me maybe because it was once so grand, vast, and beloved, but also because I know I will never personally get the chance to see this place. It's like a graveyard of "the Third Place" which is quickly becoming an obsolete concept in the USA.

  • @XISMZERO
    @XISMZERO 4 роки тому +38

    The "polite" vandals were here. For now. Let's hope it stays this way.

    • @BJFan34
      @BJFan34 4 роки тому +7

      It wasn’t vandalized. That was marking stores that the water was checked and shut off.

    • @BDBD16
      @BDBD16 4 роки тому +4

      @@BJFan34 Is that why it was in cursive and said things like "Gone" or "done"

    • @BJFan34
      @BJFan34 4 роки тому +4

      Correct. They aren’t all that nice though. You’ll notice bone store says “h2o?” Also.

    • @KC8EWU
      @KC8EWU 4 роки тому +1

      @@BDBD16 exactly why, making sure that theres little too no chances or burst pipes causing flooding and mold issues at the minimum.

    • @mhm8222
      @mhm8222 4 роки тому +1

      It will be politely tore down soon..

  • @Nenezilla
    @Nenezilla 4 роки тому +5

    I live 10 minutes away, and was in Pennys a few weeks ago. I peeked through the gates into the mall, and there was water all over the floor, and it was just a sad way to remember a once thriving mall. We'll always have great memories, but the future of this mall is unknown.

    • @jeffvalentine9947
      @jeffvalentine9947 2 роки тому +1

      I wonder if mold is starting to grow in there. If that’s the case, it’ll be more difficult for someone to buy and use this building for something else.

    • @Nenezilla
      @Nenezilla 2 роки тому

      @@jeffvalentine9947 - the building would have to be torn down to do anything with the land. The building is not salvageable at this point.

  • @magicd5780
    @magicd5780 4 роки тому +5

    It was definitely still booming 20 years ago despite the waterfront opening. The 2000s it started a slow decline when 2010s rapidly

  • @Shadowsoul2701
    @Shadowsoul2701 3 роки тому +5

    Cant believe this mall has been closed for over a year and a half. I remember seeing the decline of the mall firsthand. Goodbye, century III. We knew this day would come.

  • @BethanyB86
    @BethanyB86 4 роки тому +1

    Century III reminds me so much of my mall experience at Rolling Acres. I spent much of my teenage years at the mall, most weekends I was there with my friends. When I was younger my dad would take my brother and I so we could go to the arcade. I hate this, it’s so hard seeing malls abandoned and now forgotten. The memories I made I know our daughter won’t have the same. My husband and I both talk about the malls we went to, he’s from Columbus Ohio and Eastland was his place.
    Great video one of my favorites by the way!

  • @andrewhallett-patterson9778
    @andrewhallett-patterson9778 4 роки тому +5

    Incredible. You never see this extreme of abandonment in Australia. The sounds of silence must be deafening. Another excellent vid bro. 👍👍🇭🇲

    • @animeshock2006
      @animeshock2006 4 роки тому

      Unforunately it due to the greed etc in America. We have tons of abandon sturctures here some cities that's all that's left. Other areas corporations have f up the land so nothing can be done with it so big swath of land become superfund sites.

    • @stephenhunter70
      @stephenhunter70 4 роки тому

      Our wage grew slowly but none the less grew, the USA .....! Mate! Oh and yes I've seen em die here to it's just thjat they get turned into something else. One near me is now a Bunnings. Or as I call em Bunnies! No we don't have Wallies.

    • @andrewhallett-patterson9778
      @andrewhallett-patterson9778 4 роки тому

      @@stephenhunter70 This is true. Quickly repurposed.👍👍🇭🇲

  • @georgestreich4939
    @georgestreich4939 4 роки тому +3

    Thanks for all your time and effort, have watched you from the beginning to become one of the BEST ON UA-cam IN EVERY WAY!!!!! Watching your work stirs up every emotion, and for this WE CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH!!!!!!! I THANK MY FRIEND EVERY DAY FOR TELLING ME TO WATCH YOUR CHANNEL!!!!!!!!

  • @jholder1966
    @jholder1966 4 роки тому +13

    wow sometimes it's so hard seeing places so full of life now empty

  • @mastershredder78
    @mastershredder78 4 роки тому +12

    This is literally like watching my childhood die. So many memories from this mall years ago, to see it now really breaks my consumerism loving heart. R.I.P. Mall Era. 😥

  • @kmsbismarck9485
    @kmsbismarck9485 Рік тому +3

    it's just gotten more and more vandalised and destroyed... it's so sad to see the way CIII is now.. RIP Century III.

  • @schonkable
    @schonkable 4 роки тому +3

    A very creepy and bone chilling experience. Anthony, your debut Friday night video was spectacular!

  • @iknowitstoolate1760
    @iknowitstoolate1760 4 роки тому +10

    The Dance Moms girls performed in this mall back in 2012.

    • @DavidLLambertmobile
      @DavidLLambertmobile 8 місяців тому

      I think I was in this mall, location in 2005 or maybe 2007. PA trips. I lived in the area: 1996 to 2000.

  • @peachsangria8704
    @peachsangria8704 4 роки тому +5

    the christmas tree laying on its side spoke volumes

  • @kevinstatz
    @kevinstatz 4 роки тому +4

    Awesome video. Thanks for getting inside, so cool!

  • @moonflower9566
    @moonflower9566 4 роки тому +5

    Very sad, I use to work in the food court and I remember my double shifts there because we was so very busy! I spent so much of my life in this mall! So very sad!😿

    • @dancollins8296
      @dancollins8296 3 роки тому +1

      Sad indeed. Used to be you couldn't even get a parking spot anywhere close to an entrance!!! The food court was awesome there as well.

  • @happybill-rn9nk
    @happybill-rn9nk 4 роки тому +1

    First thank you for taking the time to post this wonderful video. I have been wondering how the mall was making out while abandoned and it seems like it’s all still mostly intact.
    You did bring up some serious memories. The coffee peddler is where I met my first girlfriend.
    The walk thru was well done and if you make a longer video of it I would watch that too.
    Good job

  • @GobelZachuration11
    @GobelZachuration11 2 місяці тому

    I drove all the way there yesterday...just to stand in awe and be overwhelmed by nostalgia. If youre up for another exploration id be happy to join you. I didnt go inside...but im determines

  • @ysbtoby
    @ysbtoby 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you again for a great video. I loved ever visit to that mall and miss Pittsburgh. This video made me sad but this was a fitting way to say goodbye. I don't want to see videos of her like Rolling Acers. So long C3 and memories of my grandmother taking me to Pittsburgh.

  • @Berger5307
    @Berger5307 4 роки тому +4

    This brings out a lot of emotions. This is my local mall and even though I never truly got to see it in its prime (I was born in 1998) it’s still shocking and sad to see what its come too

  • @richardm3023
    @richardm3023 3 роки тому +2

    Malls are like Drive in theatres. People remember them fondly, but won't go to the ones that are left.

  • @ravenlynn78
    @ravenlynn78 4 роки тому +5

    Wow, this mall either hasn’t been closed long or it’s been taken care of. It’s almost creepier that way, knowing that stores COULD fill these spaces again but never will. By contrast, the closest abandoned mall to me, Jamestown Mall in Missouri, is in shambles. Both are creepy/sad in their own way.

    • @itzlucaaa6789
      @itzlucaaa6789 3 роки тому

      Dan Bell did a vid on Century 3 back in 2016 and it was still open with quite a few stores inside so it hasn't been abandoned that long

    • @jeffvalentine9947
      @jeffvalentine9947 2 роки тому

      @@itzlucaaa6789 even being closed for over 5 years, it still looks surprisingly clean. It’s good to see there’s no vandalism.

  • @dianeadkins-diorio1783
    @dianeadkins-diorio1783 4 роки тому +8

    15:24 Glamour Shots! A staple in the Midwest back in the day... I wonder what became of them...???

  • @TheNASCARJeff
    @TheNASCARJeff 4 роки тому +3

    The silence of the video speaks volumes... What is the meaning of "DONE" painted on the windows of the storefronts?
    Your buddy Sal always says the one thing you can always find in a dead or abandoned mall is Christmas decorations and Santa's chair...

  • @stephwazny730
    @stephwazny730 4 роки тому

    What a great but sad video! I remember going there as a kid with my grandmother. She was still able to smoke in the food court. We went every weekend. I wish I could get in there so bad and just walk through one last time, for nostalgia. thanks so much for posting this!

  • @crystalscan2002
    @crystalscan2002 4 роки тому +5

    this mall was such a nice mall :( , this mall power will eventlaly go off, it looks like the mall is on night mode

    • @ryanglaser7693
      @ryanglaser7693 4 роки тому

      It's their last glow. If one of those night light bulb blows, it isn't going to get changed.

  • @darlenebruce679
    @darlenebruce679 3 роки тому

    Great job. I parked in that lot to get my bus to Pgh every day. We felt so lucky to have that spot at Christmas and not to have to drive around and around and look for a parking space. This breaks my heart. Sooooo many memories. Thank you for this last view of a very special walk down good memory lane.

  • @crystalstevens4638
    @crystalstevens4638 3 роки тому +4

    This is like watching "Life After People"! Decay sets in quickly once the humans are out of the picture

  • @Bobbanana6760
    @Bobbanana6760 4 роки тому +2

    I had heard security made getting into C3 almost impossible. Glad you got in there, Ace. Better than those videos i saw of people videoing from JC Penney into the mall (before it closed).

  • @Kehwanna
    @Kehwanna 4 роки тому +2

    What!? I was just in Pittsburgh in that exact area when you were filming. It's crazy seeing to see this video pop up in my feed. I have been to a lot of places around the USA, but I have to say that Pittsburgh at least has a few of the last well functioning malls around like the Rosstown mall, Monroeville Mall, and another I can't remember the name to, but if I recall right it was a large one near the airport that had a subway station running either through it or near it. It's been awhile since I lived in Pittsburgh. Very few cities I have been to still have decent malls.

    • @jesst6925
      @jesst6925 4 роки тому +2

      The malls you are speaking of are Ross Park Mall, not Rosstown, and the one you can’t remember is the Mall at Robinson, which isn’t very far from the airport. Both of those malls are still very much thriving and busy. I go to Ross Park Mall all of the time. Monroeville Mall is not what it once was long ago. There is a lot of crime and shootings there and my guess is that it will close in the not so very far future. I live close to The Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills which is now basically a ghost mall with very little left in it. It was opened in July 2005. It was huge and beautiful but was mismanaged from the start. The first 5 or so years it was fairly full of stores and very nice. Years 5-10 saw a moderate decline in the number of stores but it was still pretty good. Years 10-15 is when it really fell apart. The final nail in the coffin was when the JC Penney closed last month. It’s very sad. I loved that mall when it opened. It was the first mall ever close to where I lived. We always had to go to Monroeville Mall growing up and in our young adult lives. I miss malls and shopping in person. Online just isn’t the same.

  • @audreylonsinger2678
    @audreylonsinger2678 4 роки тому +7

    You got in.... wow. And there's still power here.

    • @patsmith1497
      @patsmith1497 4 роки тому +1

      Really, I'd like to know why there's still power, and how it is that anyone can just walk in and use the electricity? Can anyone just move in? Is there running water? Do the toilets flush? Free rent!

    • @JJGeneral1
      @JJGeneral1 4 роки тому +1

      probably for an alarm system for fire alert or something. usually bare minimum for certain things.

  • @nicolasdesle7541
    @nicolasdesle7541 4 роки тому +2

    This is a masterpiece Ace!

  • @dubdaze68
    @dubdaze68 4 роки тому +2

    It was, honestly, THE mall to go to for a while. It was a special trip from the other side of the city. It had a retail mix that was missing from the other area malls.

  • @richardgrant2019
    @richardgrant2019 4 роки тому +1

    10680 views and only 798 likes. People should learn to hit the like button more often. Costs nothing and takes 1 second.
    Great video. Evocative of a vanished past.

  • @dianeadkins-diorio1783
    @dianeadkins-diorio1783 4 роки тому +22

    Sadly, this mall is going to end up looking like Rolling Acres did :(

    • @ItsaRomethingeveryday
      @ItsaRomethingeveryday 4 роки тому +2

      God I hope not

    • @ECFE
      @ECFE 4 роки тому +1

      It will be demolished before that time

    • @ysbtoby
      @ysbtoby 4 роки тому +1

      I hope not. I can't watch those videos

    • @BoratWanksta
      @BoratWanksta 4 роки тому +6

      That's also a very great worry I have, too. That this will become as damaged inside, as Rolling Acres and Dixie Square got before they were demolished. I wish C3 would become something else, even if for all I know it was a mixed use project. I.e. both offices, and apartments? I don't know.

    • @daleleibfried8648
      @daleleibfried8648 4 роки тому

      Doubt it will. Its in a decent area and there are businesses all around.

  • @johnhartley4721
    @johnhartley4721 4 роки тому +2

    This video is your masterpiece my friend!!! Chilling!!!

  • @justanotherghost4589
    @justanotherghost4589 4 роки тому +1

    As a Pennsylvanian, this is interesting, I remember seeing an abandoned mall out in Greentree back in 2014 when I went on a trip with my dad to Pittsburgh, I never went in it tho lol. Tbh Pittsburgh seems great for videography and photography, especially as one who loves the latter. I liked the old videos and such you showed. Also, my friends and I still go out to the mall lol, hell it's one of the few interesting places around here, so I might as well savor it. It might be closing in the future anyways.

  • @brianmcavanaugh
    @brianmcavanaugh 4 роки тому +1

    Great video that synth wave music was really somber and enhanced your video. Can’t wait for your summit park mall video

  • @ksero1000
    @ksero1000 4 роки тому +13

    Omg they just let the trees die. I wanted them so bad but had no clue what avenues to go through, how many other people were privy to them first, or who to go to, & how much it would cost to have them delivered. DAMN, they just died there.

  • @Baconwater2
    @Baconwater2 3 роки тому +1

    When I was a kid it was a treat to go to this mall. You could spend an entire day there. I spent a lot of time in the arcade and the toward the end, the comic book shop

  • @SteelCityRC
    @SteelCityRC 3 роки тому

    Late to the party. I know. But I have vivid memories of this mall from the 80's and early 90's as a kid. There were three different arcades. The upper level arcade had a video jukebox. One of three songs it had at the time was Jump by Van Halen. I played the song over and over. We would get dropped off by our parents. Hang at the mall till close then either walk to Pizza Hut or Denny's for a few more hours. There used to be a Cinema World in between the mall and Pizza Hut. Some nights we would walk to South Land 9 to hang out. But my best memories were camping out in Kaufman's parking lot of the mall the night before waiting for Ticketmaster to open up so we could buy our concert tickets!! Thanks for sharing the footage!

  • @wafflehatt
    @wafflehatt 4 роки тому

    It was honestly smart of the current owners to keep the power on. As long as electricity is flowing it keeps copper scrappers away. Judging by the lack of black mold and peeling paint, it looks like the HVAC might still be running. The latest plan as of 2019 is to demolish the mall and turn it into a mixed-use office space, hotels, restaurants, and apartments. By the looks of it, I really think the owners are hoping for a bid to repurpose the structure, because why go through all of the trouble to protect the structural integrity of the building by keeping it so well preserved AND hire 24/7 security? Great job on this video! The gimbal and camera work have made a huge difference in making everything look professional; plus your editing is top notch!

  • @linneafreeberg5171
    @linneafreeberg5171 4 роки тому +1

    Awesome video! I loved this mall. Thank you for the look back.

  • @alanlough638
    @alanlough638 4 роки тому +1

    Hi, what a cool video! I miss Century 3 Mall. I used to go to this mall through the 1990s. The last time that I was at that mall was in 2006 or 2007. I'm a subscriber to Wallieb26 channel. I'm on UA-cam and I saw this video on the home screen and I clicked onto your video. I decided to subscribe to your channel because of this Century 3 video. I've seen other videos of Century 3 videos, but this one is the most current one I've seen. It's really sad to see that this mall close. Pittsburgh Mills sadly isn't far behind, if that mall hasn't closed yet. I'm looking forward to seeing your videos. Do you know Wallieb26?

  • @morriganwitch
    @morriganwitch 4 роки тому +1

    Excellent and moving xxx great shit looking across at the primary colour shop fronts and the horizontal lines xxx class xxx

  • @Rudy57
    @Rudy57 4 роки тому +3

    Wow, you did it again!

  • @NickTarterOKC
    @NickTarterOKC 4 роки тому +1

    What a great place. It's sad to see so many of these classic malls dying.

  • @ridgec5670
    @ridgec5670 4 роки тому +4

    At one point a security guard or someone must have been watering those trees. Before they got laid off they should have moved them under one of the many leaks to keep them alive.

  • @awkwarddude
    @awkwarddude 3 роки тому +1

    That is sad to see it abandoned. We visited family in the North Hills in 2014 and a couple Summers previous to that. We went to the Pittsburgh Mills on Rt 8. It was said a couple years later to be suffering declining foot traffic. It was a beautifully laid out mall. Hope it's still open and making money. This sad mall looks in fair shape. Had an obvious thought, the size of this mall could provide shelter and living space for many homeless. The downside, too many homeless have no regard for property and would likely trash the place without an expensive oversight management team. Each small store space likely has some sort of plumbing that would provide toilet and maybe washing facilities. Larger restrooms could serve as shower space. It would have to have regularly serviced dumpsters outside for residents and a working HVAC system throughout. No idea of the cost. Maybe to start a small section could be opened up but it would have to be watched and serviced regularly, maybe even on sight management like a resident manager. The city or borough might be able to fund it by government subsidy. Worth a thought, any way. Shame to let a viable building go empty when so many are in need with this societal and cultural decay we're witnessing. Just random thoughts on the post. BTW just saw the National Record Mall store shot. I grew up in the late 50s early 60s going to the NRM at the old Northway Mall on McKnight Road in the North Hills. It's now across from the Ross Park Mall we visited on a couple of our trips. That is a nice mall too, hope it's still going.

  • @JJMHigner
    @JJMHigner 2 роки тому

    This is an epic space. One of my personal favorite malls that you document and an amazing location for some sort of movie. We architecture alone is quite interesting and very dynamic

  • @NathanCE
    @NathanCE 4 роки тому +1

    Interesting that they left the lights on in the glass elevator.. Wonder if it still runs..

  • @K15A6
    @K15A6 4 роки тому +4

    I live around 3 miles aeay, i remember eating there with my mom, dad, granpa etc. Around 5 years ago.. Weird i know, it is one of the days i remember of the mall though, i loved it :_(

  • @margomccumber7335
    @margomccumber7335 4 роки тому +1

    Great job as usual-love your videos. Do you ever get spooked out walking through these abandoned buildings?

  • @mattlohr
    @mattlohr 4 роки тому +4

    I find it really poignant that those stars are still hanging up.

  • @cintadavinport5337
    @cintadavinport5337 4 роки тому +5

    Everyone says it was because of internet shopping. There is more to it... one you mentioned 👍 and the another, no one will dare talk about.

  • @BlackArroToons
    @BlackArroToons 3 роки тому +1

    Nice abandoned mall video, thanks for the footage which involves some risk to get. 7:52 The poor trees were abandoned too, all dried out.

  • @bmstylee
    @bmstylee 4 роки тому +3

    👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 top shelf my dude.

  • @MadisonLaRaeOfficial
    @MadisonLaRaeOfficial 3 роки тому +3

    I'd love to know how you got in 😭 this place is a staple of my core memories . It's crazy to live next to monroeville mall and see it still frequented but not so far away century went and Pittsburgh mills is headed towards the same fate despite such a short time in existence . It's been extremely interesting while researching dead malls to see that what is killing these malls can sometimes be extremely specific , especially in Pittsburgh

    • @isa-si3vn
      @isa-si3vn 3 роки тому

      I've also been trying to get in but the lights always being on gives me the vibe that there are security cameras

    • @mms2175
      @mms2175 2 роки тому

      Wanna get together and game plan

  • @jamesmooney8933
    @jamesmooney8933 Рік тому +1

    The problem with Century 3 was teenager gang took over the mall.
    Also, it big stores went out of business, Montgomery Ward, Gimbals, Hornes, Kaufman's, and Sears. All these large stores are out of business.
    South Hills Village an older mall was able to transition, because it was smaller.

  • @HotRod8625
    @HotRod8625 4 роки тому

    As a young kid I went to C3 and as a teenager I was dropped of with friends there. Obviously I'm from the Pittsburgh area and lived 7 miles away from C3. What happened to C3 is a combination of ganges from a town over and mismanagement from the owners. The current owner is moonbeam, whom buys dead or dieing malls for profit. Didn't work out for them as they declared bankruptcy in 2019. Ace, I don't know how you got in there but I thank you. I've driven all around what roads you could access and found nothing.

  • @erich84502ify
    @erich84502ify 4 роки тому +1

    Half lit dead mall, all it needed was clowns and zombies, and no music which made it more unsettling, good work

  • @taramcblakeshire8516
    @taramcblakeshire8516 3 роки тому +1

    So sad to see a mall that I grew up and hung out in as a teenager in the early 80's die. I have many great memories 😢R.I.P Century 3 Mall.

  • @DevonChristopherAdams
    @DevonChristopherAdams 4 роки тому +2

    Wow. I lived there from 1988-1994 practically.

  • @northsidediva6465
    @northsidediva6465 4 роки тому

    I grew up on Northside. Allegheny Center (RIP), North Hills Village, and Ross Park were the malls we usually went to. It was a real treat for us to go to CIII. In my teens & early 20s, it became my mall of choice when I moved to the south side of the city.
    I moved to Owings Mills, Maryland after I left Pittsburgh. They had an absolutely gorgeous mall that is now also gone. 😔

  • @dorkultra
    @dorkultra 4 роки тому +1

    Sad to see this mall is gone and I never got to visit it. Absolutely love the large sunken carpeted area