Fans & Elevators with Donovan 7/5 it’s up to 10. 10 people who didn’t see the extreme sadness of this beautiful, empty mall. The jobs lose. The energy used to power it.
I would never dislike the video because of how well done it is however I will admit, the music although great doesn't fit the vibe of a dead mall very well in my opinion. I really enjoyed the parts with just the sounds of the mall.
Saw Wreck-it-ralph in that second-run movie theater, then immediately went to Arcade Legacy afterward. Good times. Looks like it closed in 2014 by the looks of the calendar. Story I heard was that the roof was leaking and The Screens owner (I think out of Columbus) had enough.
This place keeps getting creepier. Especially the time warp the decor is... it affirms what American Consumers thought they wanted before the Great Recession hit. I mean, the pigs flying, it really sums it up. I had been to this mall in the 1990s, when I was a student in Oxford, we’d drive into some of the Cincinnati area malls to fill a Saturday, so I never saw it as this last remodel. I’m so glad you’ve covered it a few times Anthony, thank you.
Ace, this is the first time I had to stop the video because the beginning was so touching. Tears are falling down my face right now. I was not expecting that. The combination of the song and the pictures of a mall without people is to much. Y’all need to check on us 80s mall kids, we are not ok. Lol Now, back to the video.
This place has one of the most beautiful food courts, the color scheme is so relaxing, it's a real shame places like these have become left to rot , Liked StaySafe
Incredible. The stark reality of what was happening before...what is happening now...and what is doomed to be the future. From a veteran of the media, excellent job, sir. You have a new sub on your list.
Yo, beautiful video and way to have a grand entrance with Ray Charles singing "America the Beautiful" chills...Keep showcasing our grand and beautiful malls. Makes me sad, but I am glad you are doing this.
I remember when this mall underwent the renovations to look like this. Took forever. Then it was nice for about 6 months or so. Then empty just like that.
This mall is so sad, I still love the concept here and I still think this mall would make an awesome village, or a town within a city. Apartments, post office, fire station, police station, gym, library, convenience store, newsstand, coffee shop, grocery store. I doubt this area would need or want that, but it is my vision for this place. Even couple restaurants and boutiques.
Awesome video. One of your best. Superb editing and perfect music placement. Absolutely haunting. Reminded me of The Shining...in a Grand Mall, instead of a Grand Hotel. Really well done! Bravo!
Fantastic video. I haven't been to this mall I a while so it's neat to see a recent video of it, however I am going there this week for the arcade, love that place.. Also thanks for the look in the cinema as well, didn't know you could get in there.
I can remember the stores that are at the Grand Outlets at Saiger all day, but, here they are: The blue and yellow store is Westworld, and formerly Fitness Equipment and Supplies. The topical store is Next Clearance, formerly Next to Nothing and also N-E-X-T. The green triangles store is Camille Lingerie, and formerly Duxia. One of the curved stores is Antler Outlet, and formerly Cia-Dix. This store looks like a Forever 21 but it actually used to be The Designer Room, and before that Yorkshire Fashion Depot. This store is actually Claire’s Outlet, and FastLooks before that. The store with the sale thing is Klass, and formerly Kaylina Clearance. The curtained store is Roman Originals, and formerly Hay. The blue store is Hallmark Cards. The army store is Bags Etc, and formerly Bags Extra. The lime store is Game, and formerly Rainbow Games. Another curved store is Pilot. The little seen store is Monsoon. The counter store is Baskin Robbins, and formerly Ice Cream at Cookie Jar. The walled off store is Le Creuset, formerly Bed and Bath Works, and also Systemos. The flowers store is Tog24, and formerly Zeino. 3 of the shopfronts are merged into The Sony Centre (The Hive), and formerly Grove. The big store is Gap Outlet, and formerly Outlet World. Another big store is Nike Factory Store. But let’s go down into the Food Court though. There are a lot of restaurants down here. There is a Burger King here, as well as a Spud-u-Like, KFC, Toilets, The Fishery, Subway, News Empire, Watch Pairs, Yangtze, Café Europa, and Little Italy. That wasn’t there when the mall opened, the food court opened in 1998. The light blue store is Marks and Spencer Outlet, and formerly Rouge. The arcade store is Jaeger. The windows store is Billabong, and formerly The Coast. The store next to Child’s Play is Austin Reed. Another walled off store is Origin Outlet Fashions. The white store is Sports Direct, formerly Lillywhites, and also Bix Sports. The store next to be is Crabtree and Evelyn, and formerly Nailsioa. Wow! There’s a info desk here, and near that is the UCI/Odeon cinema. The other blue store is The Works, formerly Book Depot, and also Book’z’. Another curved store is Bedeck, and formerly Linens by Alaneoek. The blue and white store is Reebok. Another curved store is Julian Graves, and formerly The Health Tree. The Beauty Express and black stores are together to form The Beauty Outlet.
The calendar gave me a time frame. I had been thinking they must have shuttered the theater at the tail end of the full switch to digital. Some theaters couldn't afford the new equipment so they just closed rather than be forced to upgrade before the studios stopped shipping physical prints. I was a projectionist in a place with the exact same platters and projectors. A lost art for sure.
At 17:30 starts the tour of the projection booth. Still has the xenon consoles and platter systems. Heck, it even looks like the amplifiers are still there too. I'd have to agree that the switch to digital video projection was an expensive one many theaters could not afford. So some of them simply closed.
I really get a strong feeling the last operational theater at Cincinnati Mills, must've closed not long after Tomorrowland came out in May 2015. After all there is a note in the projection booth area, that showed screening times for that movie. Also in another part of walking around the upstairs, that you see a 2014 calendar. My money is probably around sometime in May or June 2015, that this theater shuttered for good. Wouldn't be surprised if it closed at the end of May, if say that was when its lease expired and they didn't want to renew it.
Relatively new to the Cinci/Northern KY area and I’m sad we missed taking our kids to the arcade there. I knew the mall was a ghost town but had heard the arcade was still open, and wanted our son especially to get to experience that. Ah, time ... 😔 Anthony, does walking through here creep you out at all? It would for me, but it’s still so beautiful. Thanks for doing these.
Great video. Bought back many memories of walking through this mall when it was in it's heyday. Biggs Hypermarket (A huge grocery store that also had general merchandise as well) was it's biggest anchor store. The mall did not have any of the well known anchors such as Penny's or Sears. I think the fact that Tri-County Mall just a couple of exits down and the Northgate Mall not that far away had to do with the mall's failure which I believe the owners of the mall filed for bankruptcy within a year that it opened. When this place was lit up and bustling with business it was a spectacle to be seen. One of a kind mall architecture with vibrant lighting throughout made this mall the best. The only other malls that even coming close to competing was the City Center Mall in Columbus (now gone) and the Union Station Mall that was in Indianapolis (gone as well.) After Biggs Hypermarket left the mall basically went downhill. There have been at least a couple attempts to bring the mall back, but without acquiring some big well known anchor stores, everything is left as you see it here. So sad :(
dont let the dislikes ever bother you... as we can all see from what is going on in society right now... people are morons and dont have the brains to comprehend how brilliant and nostalgic your videos are... let alone wear a mask so we all dont die
Loved this place. Used to come from indiana on the weekends to go to Bourbon street, and then to Metropolis when it changed. Spent the good part of 2001 and 2002 there every weekend. This is sad.
When the commercial rent is 5 times higher than total store sales...it is way beyond the time close down shop. Whatever fumes 🚭 the economy has been on for the past decade or two, had been 🧯 virtually extinguished by the latest corona panic.
I can't remember what this mall was called in the early 2000s, but I traveled there a few times on business as the company I worked for had a location there (Media Play). Seemed to be doing ok back then, what a difference 15 years or so makes.
I’m glad to have seen this video though it’s really sad to see the sad state of affairs for this mall. It has a weird mix of contemporary and industrial design and I think it’s beautiful. It’s just really sad to see such a large mall like this literally die with 99% vacancy.
I've been trying to get into that movie theater for AGES now, and I never found a way in. How the heck did you get in there, and if you want to can you tell me how
Was that infamous Paul Blart security guard a prick to you? Hid here and explored afterhours lol. But only lasted 5 minutes till security came and ran away only to later evade police by running through that Meijer grocery store across street. Wildest night ever!
I went to this mall for the first time since this COVID outbreak and it’s in pretty bad shape. The place just had tons of empty kitty litter cans to catch rainfall from the leaks in the roof. That and there’s visible water damage and holes in the walls everywhere else throughout the place. Even the Kohl’s entrance is locked from the place. Once Arcade Legacy closes...they’ll seal the mall off and shut it down. I’m surprised there isn’t squatters in there at this point.
Those clothes, right? You don't know what you just came across, bro. Here is my story. I went to the mall several years ago. Probably well over a decade. It was so long ago that the Biggs's was still open as an outlet store or whatever. Most of the inside was roped off. I was poking around and probably around what had been at one point the produce section and near these swinging doors I saw this wire. It baffled me. I did not know why that wire was there. And then sh** got real. Two figures emerged from those doors and walked in my direction. They didn't even seem to notice me. It was a woman and child. Let's just say they looked like they were from 'some other place'. The woman had a fucking laundry basket. She took clothes from that basket and nonchalantly hung them on that wire. So yeah, the impression was the mall was letting people LIVE inside some of the closed off spaces. And yeah, that means human trafficking.
Not to tell you how to do your job there, Ace, but maybe rethink the wearing of squishy shoes for mall exploration? Just sayin'... Such an amazing mall, unlike any I've ever seen. More's the pity. Thanks as always for sharing what you do! -Ed on the Ridge
I want someone to get in the one upstairs that one was like the big one I remmber it being packed every Friday everybody would hang out around it and in it 💯
I always keep waiting for someone to pop up like to scare us! Malls were really busy in the past and then it is just dead now and just sad. All that work they put in the mall is just a waste now. Thanks for doing these videos! Plus those animals on top are they metal or wood?? To bad they can't be saved!
bass pro was supposed to move out years ago but haven't yet, the arcade and the bouncy castle place are the only two stores open (mostly the arcade) i don't live there so i don't exactly know, i just picked up the information from the comment section from the proper people's video of this mall
I never saw it when it was fully open, we first ventured here in 2012, we go about once a year. Sad to see what once was. You walk thru Kenwood and think what would it be like had Ff survived
@@mattlappin4284 "fully" was a misnomer. 2004-2005 right after it reopened it was peak. Even then it was never full. After Biggs left things really closed up quick. Even when it was in its hayday in the mid 90's it was still like half empty.
@Chi Rimbert it was time out on the court. Good chunk of the lower area of the mall across from the food court had TONS of arcade games, Lasertag Second floor had midway games and (as well as a burned out food court) some small rides. There was a ferris wheel in the middle of the food court as well. As a kid it was the best place to spend a crappy Ohio winter day.
Back in the 80s when that place was 1st built, it was a really nice place to hang out, small amusement rides, indoor puttputt golf, the 1st interactive VR machines in the area, Lazer Tag, Electronic interactive Batting cages... Even an "at the time" Retro Style 2nd run theater... Then a little while later they put the Bourbon St. In then you had lines spanning the upper level across numerous store fronts waiting to get in this multi genre night club/bar/saloon... Everything a Teen/Young Adult could want...
The largest mall in the state of Ohio (post-Randal Park Mall) and it is BASICALLY abandoned; but yet STILL OPEN! How is this even possible?! BTW... Happy late/belated Independence Day (in 2021 that is); I thought the whole "America (the Beautiful)"-song thing was perfect for this, especially showcasing the American flag at the end of the song.
This was the design popular in many Mills Corporation malls in the 90's. Mills was trying to build malls that were a destination. They used alot of quirky bright colors and decor. I live within a stones throw of one of their last built malls, Ontario Mills. The mall opened with the same quirky color scheme and decor. Since Simon took it over its being slowly replaced with more mainstream decor.
Man I spent a lot of time there as a teen when it was Forest Fair! We partied hard at the old Bourbon Street bar area. My girl worked at the old Elder Bier-men department store😂... Hell we even had after prom there! Ya it’s sad to see it just all rot away😔Thanks for the trip down memory lane man👍🏼
I'm amazed Pittsburgh Mills still barely hangs on as a mall, myself. At least Saint Louis Mills is being renovated into a sports venue complex, called the PowerPlex. And technically, there's 3 sister Mills malls Simon chose to sell off. Which was Cincinnati Mills(Forest Fair), Saint Louis Mills, and Pittsburgh Mills. Saint Louis Mills lost all anchors except for Bass Pro Shops and a Regal multiplex in recent years, and in early 2019 the Regal theater closed. BTW, Pittsburgh Mills was the last of those 3 malls to be constructed. And I always have gotten the sense that by the time Pittsburgh Mills was constructed, that they cut back on all the typical Mills Corp. style decor that was inside. It still exists, but there's more of that type of decor on the interior of Saint Louis Mills, and also Cincy Mills/Forest Fair.
Thanks for the Video footage, as this will be going to the Forest Park PD for Breaking & entering as you cut the locks to access. You or any of your staff are not allowed on the premises.
shoutout to the 6 people who dislike a video for no reason, do us all a favor and unsubscribe, Thanks....
Make that 7 (not from me tho)
On the brightside from all I read, Google's algorithm doesn't differentiate between an up or down. They both count as a reaction which helps.
Fans & Elevators with Donovan 7/5 it’s up to 10. 10 people who didn’t see the extreme sadness of this beautiful, empty mall. The jobs lose. The energy used to power it.
They work for Moonbeam Capital :)
I would never dislike the video because of how well done it is however I will admit, the music although great doesn't fit the vibe of a dead mall very well in my opinion. I really enjoyed the parts with just the sounds of the mall.
One of the few songs that gives me goosebumps. Should be the National Anthem. Once again a great video my friend!
@sentaiace
No . soul doesnt represent the entire nation. And frankly it isnt dignified .
Saw Wreck-it-ralph in that second-run movie theater, then immediately went to Arcade Legacy afterward. Good times. Looks like it closed in 2014 by the looks of the calendar. Story I heard was that the roof was leaking and The Screens owner (I think out of Columbus) had enough.
This place keeps getting creepier. Especially the time warp the decor is... it affirms what American Consumers thought they wanted before the Great Recession hit. I mean, the pigs flying, it really sums it up. I had been to this mall in the 1990s, when I was a student in Oxford, we’d drive into some of the Cincinnati area malls to fill a Saturday, so I never saw it as this last remodel. I’m so glad you’ve covered it a few times Anthony, thank you.
The flying pigs is a Cincinnati thing since it was once known as Porkoplois and has the Flying Pig marathon.
Patrick Mize yes, I know. But thanks for explaining.
Ace, this is the first time I had to stop the video because the beginning was so touching. Tears are falling down my face right now. I was not expecting that. The combination of the song and the pictures of a mall without people is to much. Y’all need to check on us 80s mall kids, we are not ok. Lol Now, back to the video.
This place has one of the most beautiful food courts, the color scheme is so relaxing, it's a real shame places like these have become left to rot , Liked StaySafe
This is one of my fave malls out of the dead mall videos on UA-cam because of the colors and architecture. Ty for posting!
Incredible. The stark reality of what was happening before...what is happening now...and what is doomed to be the future. From a veteran of the media, excellent job, sir. You have a new sub on your list.
Yo, beautiful video and way to have a grand entrance with Ray Charles singing "America the Beautiful" chills...Keep showcasing our grand and beautiful malls. Makes me sad, but I am glad you are doing this.
I miss when this was Forrest Fair Mall...
The Twilight Zone "Time Enough at Last" .... where is everyone? Eerie. Good job!
Don't drop your glasses
@@vr6swp It's not fair. It's not fair at all!
I visited for the first time last Sunday. This place is amazing.
I remember when this mall underwent the renovations to look like this. Took forever. Then it was nice for about 6 months or so. Then empty just like that.
I'm thinking this could've been the Mall of America with the right management.
This mall is so sad, I still love the concept here and I still think this mall would make an awesome village, or a town within a city. Apartments, post office, fire station, police station, gym, library, convenience store, newsstand, coffee shop, grocery store. I doubt this area would need or want that, but it is my vision for this place. Even couple restaurants and boutiques.
That wooden floor second floor would be awesome to roller skate on!
Love the WrestleMania 3 intro from Vince with the Aretha song. Great video!
Awesome video. One of your best. Superb editing and perfect music placement. Absolutely haunting. Reminded me of The Shining...in a Grand Mall, instead of a Grand Hotel. Really well done! Bravo!
Great job as always Ace. Also totally dug the Mania 3 Aretha performance. That's my fave wrestling show ever.
Awesome video! Still looks the same a year later! Happy 4th, Ace!
This was the coolest mall back in the 90s. So many great memories there. The movie theater near the food court was really cool back then too. 😭
This mall is just so uniquely beautiful.
I grew up in Cincinnati and went here right after it opened. Couldn’t believe how big it was, the good times didn’t last long unfortunately.
Fantastic video. I haven't been to this mall I a while so it's neat to see a recent video of it, however I am going there this week for the arcade, love that place.. Also thanks for the look in the cinema as well, didn't know you could get in there.
Rare huge-scale design influence of 'Memphis' design aesthetic.
I can remember the stores that are at the Grand Outlets at Saiger all day, but, here they are:
The blue and yellow store is Westworld, and formerly Fitness Equipment and Supplies.
The topical store is Next Clearance, formerly Next to Nothing and also N-E-X-T.
The green triangles store is Camille Lingerie, and formerly Duxia.
One of the curved stores is Antler Outlet, and formerly Cia-Dix.
This store looks like a Forever 21 but it actually used to be The Designer Room, and before that Yorkshire Fashion Depot.
This store is actually Claire’s Outlet, and FastLooks before that.
The store with the sale thing is Klass, and formerly Kaylina Clearance.
The curtained store is Roman Originals, and formerly Hay.
The blue store is Hallmark Cards.
The army store is Bags Etc, and formerly Bags Extra.
The lime store is Game, and formerly Rainbow Games.
Another curved store is Pilot.
The little seen store is Monsoon.
The counter store is Baskin Robbins, and formerly Ice Cream at Cookie Jar.
The walled off store is Le Creuset, formerly Bed and Bath Works, and also Systemos.
The flowers store is Tog24, and formerly Zeino.
3 of the shopfronts are merged into The Sony Centre (The Hive), and formerly Grove.
The big store is Gap Outlet, and formerly Outlet World.
Another big store is Nike Factory Store.
But let’s go down into the Food Court though.
There are a lot of restaurants down here. There is a Burger King here, as well as a Spud-u-Like, KFC, Toilets, The Fishery, Subway, News Empire, Watch Pairs, Yangtze, Café Europa, and Little Italy. That wasn’t there when the mall opened, the food court opened in 1998.
The light blue store is Marks and Spencer Outlet, and formerly Rouge.
The arcade store is Jaeger.
The windows store is Billabong, and formerly The Coast.
The store next to Child’s Play is Austin Reed.
Another walled off store is Origin Outlet Fashions.
The white store is Sports Direct, formerly Lillywhites, and also Bix Sports.
The store next to be is Crabtree and Evelyn, and formerly Nailsioa.
Wow! There’s a info desk here, and near that is the UCI/Odeon cinema.
The other blue store is The Works, formerly Book Depot, and also Book’z’.
Another curved store is Bedeck, and formerly Linens by Alaneoek.
The blue and white store is Reebok.
Another curved store is Julian Graves, and formerly The Health Tree.
The Beauty Express and black stores are together to form The Beauty Outlet.
Well ya definitely threw down a spade, Ace. Hell of a video.
My childhood in there. My mom used to take us to the Bigg’s on the east side of the mall when it was still there.
The calendar gave me a time frame. I had been thinking they must have shuttered the theater at the tail end of the full switch to digital. Some theaters couldn't afford the new equipment so they just closed rather than be forced to upgrade before the studios stopped shipping physical prints. I was a projectionist in a place with the exact same platters and projectors. A lost art for sure.
That’s what I was thinking as well, the switch to digital was pretty costly for many of the theaters.
At 17:30 starts the tour of the projection booth. Still has the xenon consoles and platter systems. Heck, it even looks like the amplifiers are still there too. I'd have to agree that the switch to digital video projection was an expensive one many theaters could not afford. So some of them simply closed.
I really get a strong feeling the last operational theater at Cincinnati Mills, must've closed not long after Tomorrowland came out in May 2015. After all there is a note in the projection booth area, that showed screening times for that movie. Also in another part of walking around the upstairs, that you see a 2014 calendar. My money is probably around sometime in May or June 2015, that this theater shuttered for good. Wouldn't be surprised if it closed at the end of May, if say that was when its lease expired and they didn't want to renew it.
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I see there's Retro Game store still available here at Cincinnati Mall.
The good ole days are long gone .
Pretty sad
Relatively new to the Cinci/Northern KY area and I’m sad we missed taking our kids to the arcade there. I knew the mall was a ghost town but had heard the arcade was still open, and wanted our son especially to get to experience that. Ah, time ... 😔 Anthony, does walking through here creep you out at all? It would for me, but it’s still so beautiful. Thanks for doing these.
Wow! Great 4th of July surprise.
The themed areas like look like a theme park! I can’t believe such a large mall is so empty.
How is this mall even still open?
Great video. Bought back many memories of walking through this mall when it was in it's heyday. Biggs Hypermarket (A huge grocery store that also had general merchandise as well) was it's biggest anchor store. The mall did not have any of the well known anchors such as Penny's or Sears. I think the fact that Tri-County Mall just a couple of exits down and the Northgate Mall not that far away had to do with the mall's failure which I believe the owners of the mall filed for bankruptcy within a year that it opened. When this place was lit up and bustling with business it was a spectacle to be seen. One of a kind mall architecture with vibrant lighting throughout made this mall the best. The only other malls that even coming close to competing was the City Center Mall in Columbus (now gone) and the Union Station Mall that was in Indianapolis (gone as well.) After Biggs Hypermarket left the mall basically went downhill. There have been at least a couple attempts to bring the mall back, but without acquiring some big well known anchor stores, everything is left as you see it here. So sad :(
dont let the dislikes ever bother you... as we can all see from what is going on in society right now... people are morons and dont have the brains to comprehend how brilliant and nostalgic your videos are... let alone wear a mask so we all dont die
Loved this place. Used to come from indiana on the weekends to go to Bourbon street, and then to Metropolis when it changed. Spent the good part of 2001 and 2002 there every weekend. This is sad.
Love the footage, but wish you would have used some NewRetroWave/Synthwave music to compliment the Mall. Have a great day! :)
it was the 4th of july brotha
When the commercial rent is 5 times higher than total store sales...it is way beyond the time close down shop. Whatever fumes 🚭 the economy has been on for the past decade or two, had been 🧯 virtually extinguished by the latest corona panic.
Hey Ace, listening to Ray Charles has me imagining you sitting at a piano swaying back and forth, LOL!
lol that would be a sight to see
How are they keeping the lights on ?
yes happy 4th of july in in canada we had canada on the 1st
Makes you wonder why the lights are still on.
I am wondering that too! So wasteful!
Safety and insurance reasons, usually.
Loved that song in the beginning, sad to see this mall this way, I can imagine what it was in its glorious days... And that cinema... Was great to see
I can't remember what this mall was called in the early 2000s, but I traveled there a few times on business as the company I worked for had a location there (Media Play). Seemed to be doing ok back then, what a difference 15 years or so makes.
Forest fair mall. I completely forgot all about media play. I remember that there were a couple in the area near me.
I’m glad to have seen this video though it’s really sad to see the sad state of affairs for this mall. It has a weird mix of contemporary and industrial design and I think it’s beautiful. It’s just really sad to see such a large mall like this literally die with 99% vacancy.
i've never heard that song at the start... i guess that one didn't get played as much outside the US (i'm from canada)
This is an interesting Mall. The designs, and colors, are very cool!
It's so eerily quiet. I kept expecting zombies to pop out, like in House of the Dead.
Cool cinema, kinda reminds me of Stranger Things 3 when they sneak down the back hallway
You got a like from me but then though to I like everything so that's not a problem. 😁❤😁❤😁❤
I've been trying to get into that movie theater for AGES now, and I never found a way in. How the heck did you get in there, and if you want to can you tell me how
Was that infamous Paul Blart security guard a prick to you? Hid here and explored afterhours lol. But only lasted 5 minutes till security came and ran away only to later evade police by running through that Meijer grocery store across street. Wildest night ever!
I went to this mall for the first time since this COVID outbreak and it’s in pretty bad shape. The place just had tons of empty kitty litter cans to catch rainfall from the leaks in the roof. That and there’s visible water damage and holes in the walls everywhere else throughout the place. Even the Kohl’s entrance is locked from the place. Once Arcade Legacy closes...they’ll seal the mall off and shut it down. I’m surprised there isn’t squatters in there at this point.
The pigs flying are very symbolic for this mall.
Nice job playing the Aretha wrestle mania 3 version of the anthem 👍
Those clothes, right? You don't know what you just came across, bro.
Here is my story.
I went to the mall several years ago. Probably well over a decade. It was so long ago that the Biggs's was still open as an outlet store or whatever. Most of the inside was roped off. I was poking around and probably around what had been at one point the produce section and near these swinging doors I saw this wire. It baffled me. I did not know why that wire was there. And then sh** got real. Two figures emerged from those doors and walked in my direction. They didn't even seem to notice me. It was a woman and child. Let's just say they looked like they were from 'some other place'. The woman had a fucking laundry basket. She took clothes from that basket and nonchalantly hung them on that wire.
So yeah, the impression was the mall was letting people LIVE inside some of the closed off spaces. And yeah, that means human trafficking.
Or it could be the theatre’s lost and found. That’s most likely what it is.
Not to tell you how to do your job there, Ace, but maybe rethink the wearing of squishy shoes for mall exploration? Just sayin'...
Such an amazing mall, unlike any I've ever seen. More's the pity.
Thanks as always for sharing what you do!
-Ed on the Ridge
I mean bitch about anything will ya? I stepped on something that was sticky, do you think I’m that stupid smfh....
@@AcesAdventures1 Ease up your roll, Tiger. I'm just having some fun at your (less than stealthy) expense. :-)
I used to go here...
I want someone to get in the one upstairs that one was like the big one I remmber it being packed every Friday everybody would hang out around it and in it 💯
So depressing to see a beautiful mall like this empty. After they’re all torn down, they’ll never build them again. Great use of music!👍🏻
What’s with this music? Some eerie vapor wave music would fit this much better or just ambient sounds.
Actually it’s perfect music, it was a holiday weekend
Most of the Lights are fighting to stay lit,
So sad 😢 used to be the best Mall in the area
wow, fantastic to see it like this before it gets vandalised :,(
This is like 'The Shining' of dead mall videos. It's like a Kubrick film in many stretches.
How did you get access into the old movie theaters? That's awesome
awww oh man nice touch with ray charles and aretha!!
That is a really pretty mall, what's going to happen to it now?
beautiful mall!
Arcade legacy looks like my kinda store!
I did not know that Minecraft Slimes can generate in dead malls.
I want to go to the video game store 😮
I always keep waiting for someone to pop up like to scare us! Malls were really busy in the past and then it is just dead now and just sad. All that work they put in the mall is just a waste now. Thanks for doing these videos! Plus those animals on top are they metal or wood?? To bad they can't be saved!
A dead mall in Ohio. I'm totally shocked.
Does anyone know how to get into the mall? Or do you need special permission to get into the mall?
i'm pretty sure you can just walk in considering the only things open in it are the arcade and the bouncy castle thing apparently?
Are all the stores and anchors now closed at this mall ?
bass pro was supposed to move out years ago but haven't yet, the arcade and the bouncy castle place are the only two stores open (mostly the arcade)
i don't live there so i don't exactly know, i just picked up the information from the comment section from the proper people's video of this mall
I would have told you about some of the stores where they used to be if I'd known you were here
I never saw it when it was fully open, we first ventured here in 2012, we go about once a year. Sad to see what once was. You walk thru Kenwood and think what would it be like had Ff survived
@@mattlappin4284 "fully" was a misnomer. 2004-2005 right after it reopened it was peak. Even then it was never full. After Biggs left things really closed up quick. Even when it was in its hayday in the mid 90's it was still like half empty.
Kenwood is losing now too
What happened to the mall? The main hallway looks taken care off and there is stuff still in the arcade?
mall is still open, the only store attracting people is the arcade i think
Man, I wish I had known you were in town...
What store was that with all the old video games??? Looked packed
arcade legacy if i'm not mistaken
@@alex-vd4vm I wanna go there. Lol
They should never have taken the "Time Out" or the "Bourbon Street" out of that place...
@Chi Rimbert it was time out on the court. Good chunk of the lower area of the mall across from the food court had TONS of arcade games, Lasertag Second floor had midway games and (as well as a burned out food court) some small rides. There was a ferris wheel in the middle of the food court as well.
As a kid it was the best place to spend a crappy Ohio winter day.
Back in the 80s when that place was 1st built, it was a really nice place to hang out, small amusement rides, indoor puttputt golf, the 1st interactive VR machines in the area, Lazer Tag, Electronic interactive Batting cages... Even an "at the time" Retro Style 2nd run theater... Then a little while later they put the Bourbon St. In then you had lines spanning the upper level across numerous store fronts waiting to get in this multi genre night club/bar/saloon... Everything a Teen/Young Adult could want...
Ray and Aretha. 2 late, great legends...
ABSOLUTELY Agreed 🤝
The largest mall in the state of Ohio (post-Randal Park Mall) and it is BASICALLY abandoned; but yet STILL OPEN! How is this even possible?!
BTW... Happy late/belated Independence Day (in 2021 that is); I thought the whole "America (the Beautiful)"-song thing was perfect for this, especially showcasing the American flag at the end of the song.
This is all the mall?
This mall is stupid huge.
Hey Ace, are the theaters flooded?
Yes
16:38 at 2x speed O_O
How did you get inside the theater? Crowbar? 😂
The taste of the interior designer is questionable . Still a wierd experience seeing the place to be turned into not even a place altogether
This was the design popular in many Mills Corporation malls in the 90's. Mills was trying to build malls that were a destination. They used alot of quirky bright colors and decor. I live within a stones throw of one of their last built malls, Ontario Mills. The mall opened with the same quirky color scheme and decor. Since Simon took it over its being slowly replaced with more mainstream decor.
Cute
Why so much music???
The mall we kick it so hard. A mall is bigger in the ohio.
Man I spent a lot of time there as a teen when it was Forest Fair! We partied hard at the old Bourbon Street bar area. My girl worked at the old Elder Bier-men department store😂... Hell we even had after prom there! Ya it’s sad to see it just all rot away😔Thanks for the trip down memory lane man👍🏼
A very nice completely dead mall that was built on a whim, poorly managed, and doomed to failure.
The sister mall to this, Pittsburgh Mills, has to be worse. JCPenny's is closing, Victoria's Secret is gone, Sears is gone. The movie theater is gone.
I'm amazed Pittsburgh Mills still barely hangs on as a mall, myself. At least Saint Louis Mills is being renovated into a sports venue complex, called the PowerPlex. And technically, there's 3 sister Mills malls Simon chose to sell off. Which was Cincinnati Mills(Forest Fair), Saint Louis Mills, and Pittsburgh Mills. Saint Louis Mills lost all anchors except for Bass Pro Shops and a Regal multiplex in recent years, and in early 2019 the Regal theater closed.
BTW, Pittsburgh Mills was the last of those 3 malls to be constructed. And I always have gotten the sense that by the time Pittsburgh Mills was constructed, that they cut back on all the typical Mills Corp. style decor that was inside. It still exists, but there's more of that type of decor on the interior of Saint Louis Mills, and also Cincy Mills/Forest Fair.
AMERICA, AMERICA, LAND OF THE DEAD MALL!!!!
Was security alright with you filming this time?
They broke into the movie theater and now they know who did it
Brown-Streak Studios Oh damn! I don’t understand why the owner lets people in the mall but doesn’t want them to video 🤷🏻♀️.
Thanks for the Video footage, as this will be going to the Forest Park PD for Breaking & entering as you cut the locks to access. You or any of your staff are not allowed on the premises.
Lmao good luck w that junior