I worked at IBM EF after graduation and lived in Wappinger Falls in the 80s, I still remember I watched "Top Gun" in Dutchess Mall. The famous "Service Merchandise" was its icon......
This was my favorite mall of all time. Very sad. I have so many fond memories of this mall. It had three fountains inside. We used to get Hershey’s ice cream at Junior’s restaurant that was next to Drug World. After the mall closed the Service Merchandise part was turned into an indoor Flea Market. That’s probably where the Christmas lights came from. The Flea Market closed in the early 2000s. The Department of Transportation used the parking lot as a place to take road tests. I took my CDL road test in that parking lot on the side of the Service Merchandise that’s overgrown now. Had to parallel park a bus right there.
It opened back up in the early 2010s, at least the area closest to the I-84/Fishkill exit. I worked in the last building for Collectors Realm in 3 booths of the marketplace and its some of my favorite experiences ever
It was the weekday mall for kids taking a day break from school back in the 80s/early 90s. If you were "taking a day off" they would have police walking the South Hills mall randomly looking for truancy. They never ventured down to the Dutchess Mall. Remember the Circus that use to come there?
An abandoned mall and an abandoned camper....my faves. I found a video from 15 years ago that showed the outside. Not much info on this place as far as video footage or photos. What a shame.
I wasn't able to find any pictures of the inside of the mall when it was open either. But thank you so much for watching my video Dan, I really appreciate it.
Before Jsmesway, the anchor as Mays, a cool old school style Department store. The mall had an arcade, a movie heater,, record world and lots of cool stores. The Mays/Jamesway had the flea market until recently. On the other end was Shop RIte, a cleaners, a good Italian Deli and Pergament. I have fond memories of this place as a kid. It’s a shame what happened to the property
The ShopRite later became one of the first “PriceRite” in the early 1990’s ” which was Wakefern’s failed attempt at creating a warehouse club concept to fight off the likes of BJs.
It's very sad what happened to Dutchess Mall. It purely resembles how "the bigs got bigger" and the destruction of the once vibrant middle class in dutchess county. The mall looks like the middle class beat up and almost ready to be knocked down.
I remember this mall when I was a kid. Yes! Service Merchandise... I loved that store. You picked things out of a catalog, and then they go in the back and get it... at least with the smaller items like toys. They also had a cool musical instrument department. The middle part of the mall had ⛲️ amazing fountains that had water shooting up in the middle and changing colored lights. They eventually opened a second similar mall in Poughkeepsie, the South Hills Mall. That mall also has part of the original mall on the backside. There is one big anchor ⚓️ store and the little cinema 🎥 left in the back. I forgot what that store originally was, maybe Sears, but the last store to occupy the space was Burlington Coat Factory, and the little Silver Cinema was locally owned and closed around 2015. The South Hills Mall had similar architecture and setup to the Dutchess Mall. What memories! ❤ I used to love an Orange Julius, going to Book & Record, and K.B. Toys. This was a cool video! 😎
Aw man, so many good memories at this mall. Anyone driving by doesn't know that it really was a warm inviting place back in the day. We liked just walking around.
Ray, I worked at the Dutchess Marketplace side of the site when it was open from 2013-2018 and it was wild. Across from the Flea Market Booths my boss had we saw the JAMESWAY sign and locals who saw it always talked about the mall here. Always took in what older patreons said when they brought in their children or in even some cases grandchildren.
Part of me will be sad to see these buildings get torn down. Although most may see them as an eyesore I always considered them a landmark on rt 9 that indicated I was almost home. I’m glad that you took the time to document them before they inevitably get torn down for good.
I know this spot, I loved when they used to have the flee markets in 2002- 2003. At 12:57 sec, you caught a frightening scene. Thanks for the walk through.
I used to go to the DM as a kid and then almost every weekend in the late 80s and early 90s through jr high and high school. Many memories, definitely miss it! I used to get my G.I.Joe's from Kaybee's and bought my first 2 gf's their presents there, for get the store. Smoked MJ for the first time there to, shout out to Richy H and Melissa M. There also was a trail from Beacon that went over and around the mountain and we'd ride dirtbikes there. Many many memories! Wear a mask if anyone explores inside! There are plans for a warehouse, may not be long until the remnants are all gone forever.
There’s a very secluded church near Duchess community college, and while it’s still running there’s an abandoned looney bin near it that was across multiple small buildings. Some of them were even condemned so it may not be safe to enter but worth checking out
Hi bud, Jamesway was originally a May's (a far more upscale department store compared to Jamesway), which closed up shop in 1982. Prior to becoming Jamesway in the late 80's, it was a similar discount department store called Gaynes.
My late husband was from Dutchess County, New York, Wappingers Falls, to be precise. Naturally, after I had met him, I spent quite a lot of time in Dutchess County and am trying, without success, to remember whether or not I have ever been to the Dutchess Mall. I do remember that my husband told me, during the first year that we knew each other, that the previous Christmas he had given his mother a toaster oven that he bought at Service Merchandise. I was unfamiliar with Service Merchandise so he told me how it operated, that you gave a ticket to somebody and then the item you had bought came down a conveyor belt. I wonder if it was the (former) Service Merchandise shown in this video.
Well, if it was before like 1995 then it probably was. I believe that was when they closed the store in the Dutchess Mall and moved up to the South Hills mall 10 miles up route 9.
I miss the flea market that used to be where the college is now. It was massive, you could find almost anything you wanted in that place. Can't find anything like what was there anymore since they closed it.
I remember driving down from Hyde Park to go to that Service Merchandise as a kid. When you went in the front entrance, the checkout was right there, with two conveyor belts behind it, feeding items from behind a wall. The left side of the store was normal aisles, very gray if I remember correctly. The right side was open and where the jewelry was. I got a Casio watch there - twice, actually, after I lost the first one, lol. I remember brown carpeting and walls. And then to get to the mall, it wasn't just a large open door, but you had to go down a narrowish hallway to the far end of the store, which then turned back towards the middle and out into the mall. And then out in the mall, I remember tossing pennies in a fountain once, and being in Jamesway, but nothing much stuck in my mind like the Service Merchandise store did. And then they moved up to South Hills and destroyed the food court there.
I remember going to service merchandise in my hometown when I was a child. I liked it. I especially loved their catalogs each year. I loved looking at the toy section in it around Christmas time. When I out grew the toy section I loved looking through the catalog of the electronic section. Miss them days.
I used to work above the Jamesway Store at IBM East Fishkill, they rented the upstairs and had at on time the safety department up there of which I was a shiney new intern! It was a windowless office area with many cubicles. I would dispatch out of that building to the enormous East Fishkill complex just maybe 10 minutes away. Jamesway was always busy, there were several vendors in the central hall that spanned the length of the mall between Jamesway and Service. I found it to be a right size mall, not too small and also not too big. They seemed to have better quality stores maybe with somewhat less choices but it was my favorite like several other folks posted below. I bought a small Uniden CB radio at Service and years later someone stole it out of my car in Verbank - wich was unheard of any crime way out in the woods like that but it happened! Also remember they had tasteful christmas and holiday decorations.
I remember going in there for the flea market in 2000-2002. There were places where you could access the rest of the mall. The other side was also maybe used as a Mail sorting facility for a while?
In the mid 1990s I had a second home in Garrison NY and this was the easiest and closest mall to drive to, where you could do some shopping without driving up to the "busy" Poughkeepsie Mall.
The 'Movies 4' that was there was the first multi screen theater in the area, I remember going to see "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" there when I was a kid. But my 2 favorite memories of the mall is playing arcade games at Dream Machine, and the Shop Rite that used to be there, whenever I got stuck going grocery shopping with my mother I would sit over by the magazine rack and read Mad Magazine while she shopped.
Pregament was the most western wing of that mall and had a real funky smell of old Vinyl blinds as they had every one on display on a huge wall. There was a Roy Rodgers restaurant for a little while on the main portion of the mall where you get that double R Bar Burger ya herd!!😂
I remember coming from Puerto Rico with my family as a kid to visit family in Newburgh ny.Back in the late 80s behind this mall there was a lake and people used to go swimming.My sister had the greatest idea to take me,our mother,our aunt and her daughter to swim at that lake.When we got there me and my niece who at the time was 7 years old were playing hide and seek,I went into some woods where I found the remains of a missing girl that mall all over was filled with cops and fbi agents apparently the girl was missing for a year.Her boyfriend had picked her up from home for her food she dropped soda in his brand new car seat the boyfriend got mad grabbed a tire lug wrench from the trunk and hit her in the forehead deleting her.When I found her remains her bones were spread in her skull she had the hole in her forehead.I was 9 years old I was so traumatized by it.Years after 2005 I went to show my husband where I found the girl and my husband who was a cop at the time noticed the yellow crime scene tape still there buried in dirt.
Had one of the three Dream Machine arcades in the area. The other two being in the same mall, the South Hills Mall. Dream Machine at the K-Mart end, and a smaller Dream Machine 2 at the Sears end. (Also having a third nearly full sized arcade in the roller rink lobby directly across from Dream Machine 2.)
Have to love the graffitti in abandoned, ruined places. Adds ambience and flavour to an otherwise dismal setting. I'm from across the river and I recognized those structures as being synonmymous with Fishkill subconsciously. It'll be strange not to see them anymore whenever I cross over to Dutchess.
@@RayOutThere remember orange county choppers? They built a HUGE hq then went belly up. It's across the river in newburgh! It's such a cool facility! It's a sin it lays in ruins, it's still beautiful
I remember participating in a Street Fighter 2 tournament there at Dream Machine Arcade back in the early 90's. It was the spot until the South Hills mall took over, then they were both eventually killed by the Poughkeepsie Galleria.
Cheers, Ray. Man, they really did strip the 💩 out of that mall. Looked like an aeroplane hanger inside. Shame to see that big caravan had been wrecked. I bet that was glorious when new.
When Michael Moore filmed an episode of TV Nation in Fishkill in 1994 because Fishkill held a "TV Nation Day" parade, he invited everyone at the parade to go to the Dutchess Mall for a free screening of Roger & Me
@@RayOutThere There was a bunch of covered in the Poughkeepsie Journal of the parade itself. But I doubt they showed the mall. I think maybe TV Nation briefly showed people going into it to see the movie, but I may be wrong on that.
i just saw it today, but it’s not demolished yet, is it still gonna get demolished at some point? because i wanna look at it up close before it’s gone forever
Does anyone know what the security and crackhead situations are at this place? Knowing the area it feels like it’ll either be infested with crackheads or guarded by the cops?
ua-cam.com/video/h42QHJwtuEs/v-deo.html When I saw the strip mall here with the ShopRite (former) it brought back an old memory of that place when I was little kid going there with my mom. Wild!!! I had totally forgetten about that . Time moves so fast.
This was on my courier route for a horrible McJob picking up and delivering film and printed photos. I was forced to take the job because of the Bush I Gulf war recession. Wasn't a Shop Rite We had a contract with them and that store wasn't on my route. BTW the Mickey D's behind you is still busy but they closed and moved the branch of the old IBM Credit union about the time They sold the chip fab up the river to Global Foundries.
The entire property is actually built on top of a very important Revolutionary war. The site was established by General George Washington and was an important supply depot operating from 1776 to 1783 and served as the United States wartime capital for six months. During the Revolutionary War, several thousand soldiers and others lived or worked on the site, which included such facilities as barracks, officers’ quarters, blacksmith and craft shops, warehouses, stables, training grounds, an armory, artillery placements, powder magazine, a prison, and other operations essential for the war. Gen. Israel Putnam oversaw the depot, and, like Washington, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and other colonial leaders came and went.
That’s right totally forgot about Mays. It really was professional style sporting goods even a little more than Dicks Sporting goods. It catered to the local high school teams and had a massive selection for every sport I miss that.
Definitely a ShopRite on the south end of the strip mall (much smaller than the ginormous one that replaced it a couple of miles up Rt. 9 in the late 80's). On the other end of the strip mall was a Pergament Home Center.
I worked at IBM EF after graduation and lived in Wappinger Falls in the 80s, I still remember I watched "Top Gun" in Dutchess Mall. The famous "Service Merchandise" was its icon......
This was my favorite mall of all time. Very sad. I have so many fond memories of this mall. It had three fountains inside. We used to get Hershey’s ice cream at Junior’s restaurant that was next to Drug World.
After the mall closed the Service Merchandise part was turned into an indoor Flea Market. That’s probably where the Christmas lights came from.
The Flea Market closed in the early 2000s. The Department of Transportation used the parking lot as a place to take road tests. I took my CDL road test in that parking lot on the side of the Service Merchandise that’s overgrown now. Had to parallel park a bus right there.
Three fountains? I bet that was amazing
@@RayOutThere yes it was a wonderful mall!
It opened back up in the early 2010s, at least the area closest to the I-84/Fishkill exit. I worked in the last building for Collectors Realm in 3 booths of the marketplace and its some of my favorite experiences ever
It was the weekday mall for kids taking a day break from school back in the 80s/early 90s. If you were "taking a day off" they would have police walking the South Hills mall randomly looking for truancy. They never ventured down to the Dutchess Mall. Remember the Circus that use to come there?
I loved Juniors. They had a beautiful picture&frame store there too.
An abandoned mall and an abandoned camper....my faves. I found a video from 15 years ago that showed the outside. Not much info on this place as far as video footage or photos. What a shame.
I wasn't able to find any pictures of the inside of the mall when it was open either. But thank you so much for watching my video Dan, I really appreciate it.
Dan, is there any way you can put a link to that old video? i cant find it
Before Jsmesway, the anchor as Mays, a cool old school style Department store. The mall had an arcade, a movie heater,, record world and lots of cool stores. The Mays/Jamesway had the flea market until recently. On the other end was Shop RIte, a cleaners, a good Italian Deli and Pergament. I have fond memories of this place as a kid. It’s a shame what happened to the property
The ShopRite later became one of the first “PriceRite” in the early 1990’s ” which was Wakefern’s failed attempt at creating a warehouse club concept to fight off the likes of BJs.
The drycleaner was wonderful gave full blow pops to kids. Also that was more like Italian market&bakery. They had best ravioli and cookies.
It's very sad what happened to Dutchess Mall. It purely resembles how "the bigs got bigger" and the destruction of the once vibrant middle class in dutchess county. The mall looks like the middle class beat up and almost ready to be knocked down.
I remember this mall when I was a kid. Yes! Service Merchandise... I loved that store. You picked things out of a catalog, and then they go in the back and get it... at least with the smaller items like toys. They also had a cool musical instrument department. The middle part of the mall had ⛲️ amazing fountains that had water shooting up in the middle and changing colored lights. They eventually opened a second similar mall in Poughkeepsie, the South Hills Mall. That mall also has part of the original mall on the backside. There is one big anchor ⚓️ store and the little cinema 🎥 left in the back. I forgot what that store originally was, maybe Sears, but the last store to occupy the space was Burlington Coat Factory, and the little Silver Cinema was locally owned and closed around 2015. The South Hills Mall had similar architecture and setup to the Dutchess Mall. What memories! ❤ I used to love an Orange Julius, going to Book & Record, and K.B. Toys. This was a cool video! 😎
Glad you liked it!
Aw man, so many good memories at this mall. Anyone driving by doesn't know that it really was a warm inviting place back in the day. We liked just walking around.
Ray, I worked at the Dutchess Marketplace side of the site when it was open from 2013-2018 and it was wild. Across from the Flea Market Booths my boss had we saw the JAMESWAY sign and locals who saw it always talked about the mall here. Always took in what older patreons said when they brought in their children or in even some cases grandchildren.
I miss the old flea market, always felt like I walked back in time. Sucks they didn’t reopen after covid
Part of me will be sad to see these buildings get torn down. Although most may see them as an eyesore I always considered them a landmark on rt 9 that indicated I was almost home. I’m glad that you took the time to document them before they inevitably get torn down for good.
They're such cool buildings and its a shame they ended up like this. But at least we have them documented now
Hi Ray
That was great! I remember Service Merchandise very well there was one in my neck of the woods
I know this spot, I loved when they used to have the flee markets in 2002- 2003. At 12:57 sec, you caught a frightening scene. Thanks for the walk through.
Awesome video. I was scared that the first camper wasn't completely abandoned and someone was going to jump out at you! Take care.
me too lol
I wouldn't have been surprised if a Walking Dead type zombie popped up!
Use to go to this mall when I was a kid. Sad to see it look like this now.
I would have loved to have seen it back then
@@RayOutThere beautiful mall ray. There was a mays department store where the college is now. Lots of good memories at this mall.
I used to go to the DM as a kid and then almost every weekend in the late 80s and early 90s through jr high and high school. Many memories, definitely miss it! I used to get my G.I.Joe's from Kaybee's and bought my first 2 gf's their presents there, for get the store. Smoked MJ for the first time there to, shout out to Richy H and Melissa M. There also was a trail from Beacon that went over and around the mountain and we'd ride dirtbikes there. Many many memories! Wear a mask if anyone explores inside! There are plans for a warehouse, may not be long until the remnants are all gone forever.
I drive by here regularly. The current community college annex was a large indoor flea market until just a few years ago.
Very beautiful mall. Hopefully get out there one of these weekends and get some shopping done.
There’s a very secluded church near Duchess community college, and while it’s still running there’s an abandoned looney bin near it that was across multiple small buildings. Some of them were even condemned so it may not be safe to enter but worth checking out
Maybe if I'm up that way again
@@RayOutThere Ok
Hi bud, Jamesway was originally a May's (a far more upscale department store compared to Jamesway), which closed up shop in 1982. Prior to becoming Jamesway in the late 80's, it was a similar discount department store called Gaynes.
My late husband was from Dutchess County, New York, Wappingers Falls, to be precise. Naturally, after I had met him, I spent quite a lot of time in Dutchess County and am trying, without success, to remember whether or not I have ever been to the Dutchess Mall. I do remember that my husband told me, during the first year that we knew each other, that the previous Christmas he had given his mother a toaster oven that he bought at Service Merchandise. I was unfamiliar with Service Merchandise so he told me how it operated, that you gave a ticket to somebody and then the item you had bought came down a conveyor belt. I wonder if it was the (former) Service Merchandise shown in this video.
Well, if it was before like 1995 then it probably was. I believe that was when they closed the store in the Dutchess Mall and moved up to the South Hills mall 10 miles up route 9.
I miss Jamesway. There use to be one right by my house. Now its a Burlington Coat Factory. I use to go all the time to Jamesway
Its just so strange to see the world we grew up in disappear
Great video Ray!
Thank you my dude!
Cool video, I pass by this everyday and never really got close. Moved to the area way after it was abandoned. Cool to see.
I remember Jamesway, Ames, Woolworth man I'm getting old "78" ❤️
Wow found some great ruins!! Blast from the past with Service Merchandise! Loved it 🥰🥰🥰
Glad you enjoyed it!
I miss the flea market that used to be where the college is now. It was massive, you could find almost anything you wanted in that place. Can't find anything like what was there anymore since they closed it.
I went there every weekend. Used to get some super expensive games for like a dollar. I miss it too
I remember going there when I was A kid . When we went to visit my family in the 80s. My Dad was from Peekskill. ❤😊
I remember driving down from Hyde Park to go to that Service Merchandise as a kid. When you went in the front entrance, the checkout was right there, with two conveyor belts behind it, feeding items from behind a wall. The left side of the store was normal aisles, very gray if I remember correctly. The right side was open and where the jewelry was. I got a Casio watch there - twice, actually, after I lost the first one, lol. I remember brown carpeting and walls. And then to get to the mall, it wasn't just a large open door, but you had to go down a narrowish hallway to the far end of the store, which then turned back towards the middle and out into the mall. And then out in the mall, I remember tossing pennies in a fountain once, and being in Jamesway, but nothing much stuck in my mind like the Service Merchandise store did. And then they moved up to South Hills and destroyed the food court there.
I remember going to service merchandise in my hometown when I was a child. I liked it. I especially loved their catalogs each year. I loved looking at the toy section in it around Christmas time. When I out grew the toy section I loved looking through the catalog of the electronic section. Miss them days.
Great video. Like 28 Thank you so much for sharing!
No thank you for watching!
I used to work above the Jamesway Store at IBM East Fishkill, they rented the upstairs and had at on time the safety department up there of which I was a shiney new intern! It was a windowless office area with many cubicles. I would dispatch out of that building to the enormous East Fishkill complex just maybe 10 minutes away. Jamesway was always busy, there were several vendors in the central hall that spanned the length of the mall between Jamesway and Service. I found it to be a right size mall, not too small and also not too big. They seemed to have better quality stores maybe with somewhat less choices but it was my favorite like several other folks posted below. I bought a small Uniden CB radio at Service and years later someone stole it out of my car in Verbank - wich was unheard of any crime way out in the woods like that but it happened! Also remember they had tasteful christmas and holiday decorations.
I remember going in there for the flea market in 2000-2002. There were places where you could access the rest of the mall. The other side was also maybe used as a Mail sorting facility for a while?
In the mid 1990s I had a second home in Garrison NY and this was the easiest and closest mall to drive to, where you could do some shopping without driving up to the "busy" Poughkeepsie Mall.
The 'Movies 4' that was there was the first multi screen theater in the area, I remember going to see "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" there when I was a kid. But my 2 favorite memories of the mall is playing arcade games at Dream Machine, and the Shop Rite that used to be there, whenever I got stuck going grocery shopping with my mother I would sit over by the magazine rack and read Mad Magazine while she shopped.
Nice! Great memories
Pregament was the most western wing of that mall and had a real funky smell of old Vinyl blinds as they had every one on display on a huge wall. There was a Roy Rodgers restaurant for a little while on the main portion of the mall where you get that double R Bar Burger ya herd!!😂
Nice video Ray. Times have certainly changed.
Yeah they have
I was in that mall a few times back in the day. I'm 70 now.
I remember coming from Puerto Rico with my family as a kid to visit family in Newburgh ny.Back in the late 80s behind this mall there was a lake and people used to go swimming.My sister had the greatest idea to take me,our mother,our aunt and her daughter to swim at that lake.When we got there me and my niece who at the time was 7 years old were playing hide and seek,I went into some woods where I found the remains of a missing girl that mall all over was filled with cops and fbi agents apparently the girl was missing for a year.Her boyfriend had picked her up from home for her food she dropped soda in his brand new car seat the boyfriend got mad grabbed a tire lug wrench from the trunk and hit her in the forehead deleting her.When I found her remains her bones were spread in her skull she had the hole in her forehead.I was 9 years old I was so traumatized by it.Years after 2005 I went to show my husband where I found the girl and my husband who was a cop at the time noticed the yellow crime scene tape still there buried in dirt.
Hey Ray, over in Beacon is the ruins to the old Nabisco factory! Really old
Wow those campers. I would definitely have been afraid of someone jumping out at me! I’m sure you checked first tho😂. Cool find!
Yeah encountering a squatter is probably my biggest worry
My heart misses this mall very much. It was special.
Nice video Ray. Interesting place.
It sure is!
This is also the site of the Fishkill Revolutionary War armory.
Went there all the time late 70s and 80s! Used to work at Service Merchandise!
I really wanted you to get access to inside!
I worked at almost every store from Service Merchandise to Mays!
Nice!
The college side was a weekend fleemarket for years. It also had a giant glass round structure attached to it that was really nice.
Had one of the three Dream Machine arcades in the area. The other two being in the same mall, the South Hills Mall. Dream Machine at the K-Mart end, and a smaller Dream Machine 2 at the Sears end. (Also having a third nearly full sized arcade in the roller rink lobby directly across from Dream Machine 2.)
Have to love the graffitti in abandoned, ruined places. Adds ambience and flavour to an otherwise dismal setting. I'm from across the river and I recognized those structures as being synonmymous with Fishkill subconsciously. It'll be strange not to see them anymore whenever I cross over to Dutchess.
Wow! That was a great explore.
Thanks!
Hey Ray, did you ever check out the abandoned Orange County Choppers building? It's right across the river from Fishkill.
Never heard of those! I will have to check them out next time I'm out that way
@@RayOutThere remember orange county choppers? They built a HUGE hq then went belly up. It's across the river in newburgh! It's such a cool facility! It's a sin it lays in ruins, it's still beautiful
That railing was in front of pergament hardware store. They used to chain up BBQ grills and lawnmowers to it.
I remember participating in a Street Fighter 2 tournament there at Dream Machine Arcade back in the early 90's. It was the spot until the South Hills mall took over, then they were both eventually killed by the Poughkeepsie Galleria.
Cheers, Ray.
Man, they really did strip the 💩 out of that mall. Looked like an aeroplane hanger inside.
Shame to see that big caravan had been wrecked. I bet that was glorious when new.
Yeah this whole area was just a dumping ground
Awwww Service Merchandise!!! That’s a blast from the past. Loved it. 🥰🥰🥰
Back in the early 70's it was cornfields!
When Michael Moore filmed an episode of TV Nation in Fishkill in 1994 because Fishkill held a "TV Nation Day" parade, he invited everyone at the parade to go to the Dutchess Mall for a free screening of Roger & Me
Interesting, I wonder if there's any pics from that
@@RayOutThere There was a bunch of covered in the Poughkeepsie Journal of the parade itself. But I doubt they showed the mall. I think maybe TV Nation briefly showed people going into it to see the movie, but I may be wrong on that.
Just when the explore was looking like a bust, those shopping carts saved the day.
It used to be a nice little mall. Sad to see that it wasn't renovated
It would be nice to have the remaining stores rebuilt for new retailers including what was that stop n shop
i just saw it today, but it’s not demolished yet, is it still gonna get demolished at some point? because i wanna look at it up close before it’s gone forever
I dont drive by here as often as I did last year, did they ever knock this down?
They use to have a flea market at that spot too
Crazy I was on shift at depot during this
You must've noticed the sketchy dude going in and out of the abandoned buildings
Wow, something that rivals Cardiff in Egg Harbor in decrepitity. I probably made that word up, lol. This looks familiar I think WallieB was here.
I was just at Cardiff Plaza! I posted some pics and video to my instagram
I remember the right anchor was a May's, not Macy's, department store.
Does anyone know what the security and crackhead situations are at this place? Knowing the area it feels like it’ll either be infested with crackheads or guarded by the cops?
I worked at the Service Merchandise in this video many, many years ago.
As much as I enjoy these videos, they also make me sad. It's like the decline of our civilization.
Yeah it really reminds you that the world we grew up in is gone
There was a flea market in there for a while.
ua-cam.com/video/h42QHJwtuEs/v-deo.html When I saw the strip mall here with the ShopRite (former) it brought back an old memory of that place when I was little kid going there with my mom. Wild!!! I had totally forgetten about that . Time moves so fast.
Haha i used to practice with my dad on the parking lots in front of this abandoned mall
This was on my courier route for a horrible McJob picking up and delivering film and printed photos. I was forced to take the job because of the Bush I Gulf war recession. Wasn't a Shop Rite We had a contract with them and that store wasn't on my route. BTW the Mickey D's behind you is still busy but they closed and moved the branch of the old IBM Credit union about the time They sold the chip fab up the river to Global Foundries.
My home town area!!!!
I live in hopewell junction so I know this place!
omg i live here! 😭
The entire property is actually built on top of a very important Revolutionary war. The site was established by General George Washington and was an important supply depot operating from 1776 to 1783 and served as the United States wartime capital for six months. During the Revolutionary War, several thousand soldiers and others lived or worked on the site, which included such facilities as barracks, officers’ quarters, blacksmith and craft shops, warehouses, stables, training grounds, an armory, artillery placements, powder magazine, a prison, and other operations essential for the war. Gen. Israel Putnam oversaw the depot, and, like Washington, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and other colonial leaders came and went.
Before it was jamesway it was Mays department store.
It was ShopRite, they moved to a new location about 1 mile up 9. The liquor store moved ab 3, miles up 9
That’s right totally forgot about Mays. It really was professional style sporting goods even a little more than Dicks Sporting goods. It catered to the local high school teams and had a massive selection for every sport I miss that.
The Mays Mall.
That's my home Depot😅
Jamesway, we care about you!
Oh i thought they turned it into dutchess community College ?
It's the new dcc south. They moved from Wappingers to fishkill a few years ago.
Definitely a ShopRite on the south end of the strip mall (much smaller than the ginormous one that replaced it a couple of miles up Rt. 9 in the late 80's). On the other end of the strip mall was a Pergament Home Center.
Thanks I was wrong then It must have been closed before my courier job.
I worked in Mays Dept store, when I was in college, very cool!