I shit you not, I’ve been working on my Century III part two video for about 6 months at this point...the opening sequence for mine was the first thing I finished and we’re almost shot for shot. Lol I’m putting this on record because if anyone thinks either of us copied one or the other, we totally did not...call it a happy coincidence....😂😂😂
For as long as I can remember, I had a fascination with empty old school houses, Church's, ect., Well back then 80's 90's, malls were just being built, and thriving, now, man I can't believe the emptiness, sad.
Great video Anthony. You really filled the void left by Dan Bell. He's screwing around making those idiotic Another Dirty Room videos and you are documenting the Dead Mall scene very nicely. You have my full support on Patreon...rock on brother.
GrouchoHMarx The ADR videos do serve a purpose, though. Some of those hotels have been permanently shut down for health violations after his videos. The problem is that the states don't have enough money in the budget to inspect every hotel every few months like they're supposed to, so they usually only inspect after a complaint is filed (if at all). The ADR videos are drawing attention to some of the roach hotels that need to be closed. I do wish Dan and friends would be more serious about it, though, and stop acting so juvenile. The videos would be half as long if they'd stop acting like college students on a bender. Just get in, do the inspection, and get out. Frankly, since I'm unlikely to ever go anywhere within a few hundred miles of those hotels, I just skip right to the ratings at the end. Meanwhile, Dan has apparently been reaching into his archives for footage that he hasn't shown yet; I saw a new mall video on his channel just the other day. (A new video *about* a mall, that is. Not a video about a new mall.)
That tagging guide from kaufmann's is interesting when you think how long kaufmann's has been gone. Kaufmann's closed in 2006. way before this was a dead mall.
Having grown up there during the heydays of the the 1980's its hard to believe how far its fallen. The video from pittsburgh dad fading to current was just insane. Thanks for sharing with those of us who have moved far away but still miss our childhood second home.
It's amazes me how these malls with the great architecture design are just dying .It really is sad to see them dropping off...Thanks for filming Anthony
When I watch these videos of CIII, I see it the way it was in the mid to late 1990s, when I shopped there regularly. It was PACKED on a Friday or Saturday night. So sad....
My brother got married in Hershey a few years ago. Had a chance to see this place in better days but didn't. Makes me upset with myself I didn't go. Seeing it gives me some happy memories of Randall Park Mall from my youth. Similar design and some cool fountains.
I grew up going to this place.i can remember when it was shoulder to shoulder and you could barely move to seeing it in this sad state.so many great memories there
That mus have a hell of an utility bills The lighting alone must be expensive much less the heat I am assuming it is on so the sprinkler system doesn't freeze
And if you ask anyone local about going there....They'll ask you why do you want to go there....Because no one goes there anymore....I was told that when i moved to Pittsburgh from NY in 2015....
Shavonne Stacia it’s a shame. Robinson, and like 3 other malls and many outlets opened. Including waterfront. The mall use to be one of the best, 3rd when it opened and it’s sad how it is abandoning and only JcPenny still stands
I remember when it was a cool dream to be locked inside of a mall all night, hell there were even movies about it. Now it would seem kind of sad and depressing. "The older I get the more things I have to leave behind, thats life". Malls seem like another little piece of my life that disappear every day. Heres a tip for the younger generation, Dont get old.
Overnight Maintenance worker for 4 years here, its dull as shit there at night. All the places locked up and nothing to do, except walk the halls or clean the floors. Oh and Christmas is the worst. We would start Christmas music day after Halloween and they didnt turn it off at night. After year 3 when Ive heard Santa Baby for the 4,837,375,590 time I was about ready to take a gun to every single speaker in the ceiling.
memnarch129 playing Christmas music the day after halloween kills me. I made a video about that a few years back. Pretty soon it will start after the 4th of July
So i was curious what time was represented when you recorded the Mall Kiosk at 9:18 on the video. Using B Dalton Books stores, K B Toys and Walden books all listed on the kiosk the latest that could have been was 2009. So figure that was roughly ten years ago that informational Kiosk was last current, many of those companies are no longer in business. Kaufmans is one of them along with those listed above
At 9:00, could you please tell me where did you find the directory? I'd like to take some close up photos of it while I still have the opportunity. I have nothing but love for C3. This is my mall, and I've been coming here since childhood. I've spent so much time there and continue to stop in to JC Penny, Dicks, and New Dimensions. Was just there last on Jan 26.
@@jumpbacktome Yep, the closing of Macy's in 2016 was definitely a turning point, when the mall really started to have much bigger vacancy issues. I know some people here may not like Dan Bell, but he did film a video just barely before Macy's closed their doors here, that's worth a history watch now. And for sure, you can see a big difference of a video like that one back then, vs. videos that were filmed inside here in 2018. In fact, I think right this very second(lmao), I'm going to find that video and rewatch it now! Here's the link, if you want to watch Dan's 2016 video of C3 again(or hadn't yet yourself): ua-cam.com/video/5H7ytZWmIlQ/v-deo.html
Hopefully you know the person at the very end that walked behind the other side of the wall where you said what sounds like "What?"... ? I had to replay that part a few times.
Hey Anthony you need to do Carl Sandburg mall in Galesburg. I live only 28 minutes from here and it still stuck back in 1985. It had a McDonald's in the food court and some of the McDonald's stuff is still there. The Stores Anchor was Bergner's( The Bon-Ton) Big K-mart and JC Penney. We also have 6 abandoned big K-marts within a 40 mile radius.
I know a family that had a business in the food court. A few years ago the kitchen caught fire. The owner wanted too much rent so they moved to a different shopping center
Century III Mall is currently being demolished after numerous issues. It's sad to see this once thriving mall being completely torn down with no future plans announced yet.
you should check out Charleston town center in charleston wv..mall was just sold on court house steps and not too many stores left..macy's leaving soon..only anchor that will be left is a Penneys..
Shame- looks so clean, but it's a ghost town too. It seems many malls are headed for closure. I walk a mall in Metro Detroit on the weekends and at least 3 stores have closed in as many weeks. Both L & T and Macy's are still anchors. There is some discussion it will be re-purposed as an outdoor mall.
If you look at the date he posted for when the video was filmed it says Dec. 28th, 2018, that was a Friday. I remember 15-20 years ago at malls on a Friday or Saturday night there'd be so many people you could barely walk.
in bottom left at 1:57, that guy is always always always there! he pops up multiple times in the video, so he really does make his rounds. i’ve seen him in there many times. he just walks circles around the mall. doesn’t yell at people who go over barriers, so not security? super weird.
Ace thank you for this update, for I don't live in pgh. Anymore , it's nice that you come 4 hrs too look at our mall, Always Be safe in all that you do. By the way how is your new job? Thanks again love patty.
It's important for you and Sal and everyone who films Century 3 to keep filming. Then maybe do a mini docu showing the mall sink into decline. It's important to see the sadness of e how a greedy real estate company allowed a good mall to decline to dust.. It's like they want the malls to wither to dust so htey can sell the properties and make more $$$$. I like seeing the timelines in multi videos of these places. Pittsburgh Dad did a nice job with his video clip (and if you don't know already his Steelers videos are a hoot.) I'm angry at Macys for buying all these long time department stores and trying to convent their own unique selling styles to cookie cutter Macys. That's what killed Kaufmanns, Filienes, Marshall Fields etc. It's nice they left the old Kaufmanns stuff, people in PA must miss that store. Keep those videos coming. I"m looking forward to your take on Wayne Town Center in my home state where either malls are booming (Short Hills, Garden State, Cherry Hill even my violence plagued Newport Center Jersey City Mall) or on life support.
I also wonder if perhaps they are being tagged an attractive nuisance by their insurance or perhaps being hit with a city code violation or something of that nature.
The difference between the Pittsburgh Dad video and the current video is striking. You can hear the ventilation system running since its so quiet in the mall,
Good thing you got this footage when you did, they evicted all of the remaining tenants on February 16th. Just Dick's and Penny's remain open, I'm assuming they've blocked off access to the mall itself.
So If I'm not mistaken by letting the malls go into dispair it allows the owner to declare the properties as loses and they get tax breaks..i could be wrong
13:55 That doesn't look recognizable to the same Macy's store that I took a tour of nearly 3 years ago! BTW... Here's a link to the video that I shot of the store in its final days (and it happens to be my most popular video thus far on my channel): ua-cam.com/video/ARC-YyRSWbM/v-deo.html
Wonder if all those blueprints you found and the wall off are the sign of they possibly trying to sell or demolish or mothball part of the building or something, possibly related to a future sheriffs sale or possibly a future conversion to something else like apartments or offices or medical or something.
I'm sure Moonbeam will revitalize this mall, right? No way will they close it and let it deteriorate. Oh and of course they will be no burst pipes causing massive water damage, right? 😉
Today, Wednesday February 6th 2019, West Mifflin Code Enforcement declared Century III Mall "unsafe & uninhabitable". So, cool you got this video so recent to it's death.
The place has to be hemorrhaging money by staying open at that level of occupancy...I say rather than burn through the rainy day fund, the mall should cut its losses and close down. It's just a waste.
I shit you not, I’ve been working on my Century III part two video for about 6 months at this point...the opening sequence for mine was the first thing I finished and we’re almost shot for shot. Lol I’m putting this on record because if anyone thinks either of us copied one or the other, we totally did not...call it a happy coincidence....😂😂😂
It's okay, Ace and Sal, you both are great and I watch every video you both release of the same malls, and still enjoy both
@@mikesexplorations9314 Ace, Sal, Dommie and Retail Archeology are my favorite dead mall guys.
@@LindaFromSeaAtTull yes, I like them too, but I not sure I'm familiar with Dommie?
It is called great minds think alike
Proof we live in a simulation.You may think I'm joking but not really.
Love your videos on Century 3 mall
The next Rolling Acres.
For as long as I can remember, I had a fascination with empty old school houses, Church's, ect., Well back then 80's 90's, malls were just being built, and thriving, now, man I can't believe the emptiness, sad.
R.I.P. I worked there 92/93 as a mall guard. Lot of good memories.
Great video Anthony. You really filled the void left by Dan Bell. He's screwing around making those idiotic Another Dirty Room videos and you are documenting the Dead Mall scene very nicely. You have my full support on Patreon...rock on brother.
GrouchoHMarx I’m sure dan will be back, he does great mall work so i welcome the return, it brings more eyes on all us smaller creators
GrouchoHMarx The ADR videos do serve a purpose, though. Some of those hotels have been permanently shut down for health violations after his videos. The problem is that the states don't have enough money in the budget to inspect every hotel every few months like they're supposed to, so they usually only inspect after a complaint is filed (if at all). The ADR videos are drawing attention to some of the roach hotels that need to be closed.
I do wish Dan and friends would be more serious about it, though, and stop acting so juvenile. The videos would be half as long if they'd stop acting like college students on a bender. Just get in, do the inspection, and get out. Frankly, since I'm unlikely to ever go anywhere within a few hundred miles of those hotels, I just skip right to the ratings at the end.
Meanwhile, Dan has apparently been reaching into his archives for footage that he hasn't shown yet; I saw a new mall video on his channel just the other day. (A new video *about* a mall, that is. Not a video about a new mall.)
This mall is so attractive to me, it is a shame that it could not go on
Agreed
That tagging guide from kaufmann's is interesting when you think how long kaufmann's has been gone. Kaufmann's closed in 2006. way before this was a dead mall.
I hurt when I see the shape that this place is in. It was amazing back in the day. I bought my freshman farewell dress here :(
Having grown up there during the heydays of the the 1980's its hard to believe how far its fallen. The video from pittsburgh dad fading to current was just insane. Thanks for sharing with those of us who have moved far away but still miss our childhood second home.
It's amazes me how these malls with the great architecture design are just dying .It really is sad to see them dropping off...Thanks for filming Anthony
When I watch these videos of CIII, I see it the way it was in the mid to late 1990s, when I shopped there regularly. It was PACKED on a Friday or Saturday night. So sad....
Those are some old blue prints of Kaufmanns given it has "PENNA" for the state abbreviation. Great find and awesome video!
I looked up MoonBeam properties....They own high rise condos in Manhattan of all places....
And those condos in Manhattan ain't cheap. That's probably how they stay in business even though all their malls are going downhill.
They have to be writing off the losses and milking these dead malls for tax breaks. That's the only thing I can imagine...
I throughly enjoy listening to your thoughts and opinions. I appreciate your passion. Thanks for all your endeavors, Anthony.
My brother got married in Hershey a few years ago. Had a chance to see this place in better days but didn't. Makes me upset with myself I didn't go. Seeing it gives me some happy memories of Randall Park Mall from my youth. Similar design and some cool fountains.
This would be good for another Blues Brothers movie
Wouldn’t it be a blast to go rollerskating in this mall! 🧿
I been waiting for this! I live right near this mall and watching the decline has been so sad but glad you all been able to document it love it!
When I was there on Labor day Weekend in 2018. It was like wow how is this place still open.
I grew up going to this place.i can remember when it was shoulder to shoulder and you could barely move to seeing it in this sad state.so many great memories there
That mus have a hell of an utility bills
The lighting alone must be expensive much less the heat I am assuming it is on so the sprinkler system doesn't freeze
You should come see the Indian River Mall in Vero Beach. Opened in 96 now looks like a ghost town mall
And if you ask anyone local about going there....They'll ask you why do you want to go there....Because no one goes there anymore....I was told that when i moved to Pittsburgh from NY in 2015....
Shavonne Stacia it’s a shame. Robinson, and like 3 other malls and many outlets opened. Including waterfront. The mall use to be one of the best, 3rd when it opened and it’s sad how it is abandoning and only JcPenny still stands
That old directory is amazing
And if you drive an hour north to the Ross Park Mall, you're lucky to find a parking spot over the weekend.
I remember when it was a cool dream to be locked inside of a mall all night, hell there were even movies about it. Now it would seem kind of sad and depressing. "The older I get the more things I have to leave behind, thats life". Malls seem like another little piece of my life that disappear every day. Heres a tip for the younger generation, Dont get old.
I was an overnight mall guard there in the early 90s it was boring as hell .
Meles Meles the movies probably made it more glamours than it really was.
Overnight Maintenance worker for 4 years here, its dull as shit there at night. All the places locked up and nothing to do, except walk the halls or clean the floors. Oh and Christmas is the worst. We would start Christmas music day after Halloween and they didnt turn it off at night. After year 3 when Ive heard Santa Baby for the 4,837,375,590 time I was about ready to take a gun to every single speaker in the ceiling.
memnarch129 playing Christmas music the day after halloween kills me. I made a video about that a few years back. Pretty soon it will start after the 4th of July
Hey, I love the content and updates. So keep it up. Do you my friend.
#1 observation made =
Healthy malls fountains work.
Dead malls fountains are shut off and empty.
So i was curious what time was represented when you recorded the Mall Kiosk at 9:18 on the video. Using B Dalton Books stores, K B Toys and Walden books all listed on the kiosk the latest that could have been was 2009. So figure that was roughly ten years ago that informational Kiosk was last current, many of those companies are no longer in business. Kaufmans is one of them along with those listed above
At 9:00, could you please tell me where did you find the directory? I'd like to take some close up photos of it while I still have the opportunity. I have nothing but love for C3. This is my mall, and I've been coming here since childhood. I've spent so much time there and continue to stop in to JC Penny, Dicks, and New Dimensions. Was just there last on Jan 26.
That comparison shot from 2015 was stunning - it went from fairly full to dead in 3 years. 0.0
It was pretty dead even then. I went to it around then and it was mostly empty.
It has been dying since around 2009, but the dwindling occupancy took a nosedive around 2016.
@@jumpbacktome Yep, the closing of Macy's in 2016 was definitely a turning point, when the mall really started to have much bigger vacancy issues. I know some people here may not like Dan Bell, but he did film a video just barely before Macy's closed their doors here, that's worth a history watch now. And for sure, you can see a big difference of a video like that one back then, vs. videos that were filmed inside here in 2018.
In fact, I think right this very second(lmao), I'm going to find that video and rewatch it now! Here's the link, if you want to watch Dan's 2016 video of C3 again(or hadn't yet yourself): ua-cam.com/video/5H7ytZWmIlQ/v-deo.html
Hopefully you know the person at the very end that walked behind the other side of the wall where you said what sounds like "What?"... ? I had to replay that part a few times.
Wow this brings backs memories. The train rides for the holiday. It's weird to see it dead.
I hope you swiped some of those blueprints!!!
where did you film that old directory at 9:03? i want that!
Hey Anthony you need to do Carl Sandburg mall in Galesburg. I live only 28 minutes from here and it still stuck back in 1985. It had a McDonald's in the food court and some of the McDonald's stuff is still there. The Stores Anchor was Bergner's( The Bon-Ton) Big K-mart and JC Penney. We also have 6 abandoned big K-marts within a 40 mile radius.
I know a family that had a business in the food court. A few years ago the kitchen caught fire. The owner wanted too much rent so they moved to a different shopping center
Century III Mall is currently being demolished after numerous issues. It's sad to see this once thriving mall being completely torn down with no future plans announced yet.
That Macy's. Didn't a pipe burst in there last year and like flood the downstairs?
I was wondering why the walls were "flood cut"
you should check out Charleston town center in charleston wv..mall was just sold on court house steps and not too many stores left..macy's leaving soon..only anchor that will be left is a Penneys..
Love your videos keep it up
Shame- looks so clean, but it's a ghost town too. It seems many malls are headed for closure. I walk a mall in Metro Detroit on the weekends and at least 3 stores have closed in as many weeks. Both L & T and Macy's are still anchors. There is some discussion it will be re-purposed as an outdoor mall.
Can you go to the Steam Town Mall that they went to in The Office?
callmemarc I just pasted that mall. Dan Bell did great video of the Steamtown mall.
The heath board just closed century 111
If you look at the date he posted for when the video was filmed it says Dec. 28th, 2018, that was a Friday. I remember 15-20 years ago at malls on a Friday or Saturday night there'd be so many people you could barely walk.
in bottom left at 1:57, that guy is always always always there! he pops up multiple times in the video, so he really does make his rounds. i’ve seen him in there many times. he just walks circles around the mall. doesn’t yell at people who go over barriers, so not security? super weird.
How did you get inside the macys?
Do you know what wing that was walled off in the other video?
What was that weird chair thing at 15:08?
Such a magnificent mall! I wish it was bustling with people.
Moonbeam Capital = another incarnation of Premier Ventures? (of Rolling Acres Mall fame)
...The next LASERTAG ARENA...
I always thought Century III was closed, but I'm always amazed to see it's STILL open.
Sears grand cart @ 10:09! Cool!
So sad to see this. I remember going there in 1979 and you couldn't find a place to park.
Do the water leaks pose a fire hazzard with the electrical, and does the place smell like mold?
Ace thank you for this update, for I don't live in pgh. Anymore , it's nice that you come 4 hrs too look at our mall, Always
Be safe in all that you do. By the way how is your new job?
Thanks again love patty.
Hey man do you think you could do a walk through of the Ohio valley mall in Saint Clairsville, Ohio? Great video!
Man how is this place still open?? I went back in May and thought it wouldn't be there for more than another month!!
Also; where was that beauty salon located at in the former Kaufmann's/Macy's store?
1:14 OH MY GOODNESS THE MEMORIES
You need to come to Columbus and meet up... I don't care if it is at EASTON TOWN CENTER... WE can talk Malls and memories...
It's important for you and Sal and everyone who films Century 3 to keep filming. Then maybe do a mini docu showing the mall sink into decline.
It's important to see the sadness of e how a greedy real estate company allowed a good mall to decline to dust.. It's like they want the malls to wither to dust so htey can sell the properties and make more $$$$. I like seeing the timelines in multi videos of these places. Pittsburgh Dad did a nice job with his video clip (and if you don't know already his Steelers videos are a hoot.)
I'm angry at Macys for buying all these long time department stores and trying to convent their own unique selling styles to cookie cutter Macys. That's what killed Kaufmanns, Filienes, Marshall Fields etc. It's nice they left the old Kaufmanns stuff, people in PA must miss that store.
Keep those videos coming. I"m looking forward to your take on Wayne Town Center in my home state where either malls are booming (Short Hills, Garden State, Cherry Hill even my violence plagued Newport Center Jersey City Mall) or on life support.
Western PA local, born and raised. We most definitely miss Kaufmann's. I wish it was still around!
Pretty cool Macy’s had a hair salon
I also wonder if perhaps they are being tagged an attractive nuisance by their insurance or perhaps being hit with a city code violation or something of that nature.
Just looked up their website and twitter, last tweet was two years ago. Very sad.
The difference between the Pittsburgh Dad video and the current video is striking. You can hear the ventilation system running since its so quiet in the mall,
Where is the Palisades Center mall footage?
Our mall south of Nashville Tennessee has grown and it is always busy. Its awful.
Maybe I should be grateful.
This was once one of the largest malls in the united states, and now it just sits there. So sad.
Westmoreland mall is losing sears , but they are going to have a cosino in bon tons
Good thing you got this footage when you did, they evicted all of the remaining tenants on February 16th. Just Dick's and Penny's remain open, I'm assuming they've blocked off access to the mall itself.
So If I'm not mistaken by letting the malls go into dispair it allows the owner to declare the properties as loses and they get tax breaks..i could be wrong
Please show the water-damaged ceiling more.
Very surreal walking round a mall that’s really dead .Must be some experience.A memorial to the days of rampant consumerism.
Great song
I agree
Try as they may, they can't cut off the very 80s look of that "sealed wing".
I have a lot of memories of this mall. I'm rooting for JCPenney to stay open.
Who are keeping the plants alive? I’ll take them
13:55 That doesn't look recognizable to the same Macy's store that I took a tour of nearly 3 years ago!
BTW... Here's a link to the video that I shot of the store in its final days (and it happens to be my most popular video thus far on my channel): ua-cam.com/video/ARC-YyRSWbM/v-deo.html
Interesting video. Thanks.
Wonder if all those blueprints you found and the wall off are the sign of they possibly trying to sell or demolish or mothball part of the building or something, possibly related to a future sheriffs sale or possibly a future conversion to something else like apartments or offices or medical or something.
I wonder how long before this mall ends up like Rotting Acres in Akron OH... :(
A great video
Who was that person at the end?
WallieB26 was with him
Or Branmuffin. He mentioned that. But he and Wallie both did livestreams this day.
I should have got the picture of the Kaufmann’s sign before me and pap left the mall
Moonbeam Crapital = a reincarnation of Premier Ventures (of Rolling Acres Mall fame)?
I'm sure Moonbeam will revitalize this mall, right? No way will they close it and let it deteriorate. Oh and of course they will be no burst pipes causing massive water damage, right? 😉
That road closed around 99. Back when Simon was the slum lord of Cen 3.
Now that's some walking dead shit right there.
Today, Wednesday February 6th 2019, West Mifflin Code Enforcement declared Century III Mall "unsafe & uninhabitable". So, cool you got this video so recent to it's death.
5:29 Wait... That’s my name! Coincidence that he has the same name as me
The place has to be hemorrhaging money by staying open at that level of occupancy...I say rather than burn through the rainy day fund, the mall should cut its losses and close down. It's just a waste.
Apparently they have less than 10 grand left! Yikes!
Where did you hear that at?
Moonbeam is there for disposal, not construction.
In the mid 80s we could spend an entire Saturday at this mall.
9:30 it won't make it to the next holiday season... what few tenants are left were given eviction notices on 2-16-19...
Hey!!! Just wanted to let you know that West Mifflin Twp just deemed this mall unsafe and uninhabitable. It's closing!
In the 1980's this was the place to be!
Simon and many other mall owners should of all saved this once 3rd largest mall in the world