RIP Harrisburg. Looked like a nice mall… great video Wally!

It's sad these beautiful malls closed and torn down

I think some malls should be saved cause some are in very good condition hell they could be turned into hotels or apartments or something why demolish something that looks that good!

Hard to know that this was demolished instead of being repurposed! So beautiful and what a waste 😢

I went here a lot with my dad as a kid. I didn't get to see him often, so when I did, and we got to come here, it was a real special treat. Lots of great memories were made. Harrisburg Mall might be gone, but it's not forgotten.

I was stationed at N.C.A.D. in 1970-1971 and often went there. Remember the giant Christmas tree and Disney store in the early eighties.

My highschool's choirs would sing in the food court every winter.

Love the fountains! With as dead as the place was, I was surprised to see them still running, as well as the escalators.

love the pro shops fountain

It's always so sad to see all these great stores disappear 😢

Great video, sad as always to see a great mall die but it's going out in style, not like Century III and Northrige. No need to apolozie for the celay, we know you are super busy and I do thank you for your videos. :)

Enjoyed your dead mall video❤️I don’t see much dead mall videos anymore. Thank you and keep up the good work!

Very nice video. Was nice to see an explorer video that didn't seem rushed through. I had never visited this mall but it felt like I was saying goodbye to an old friend. You take your time looking as to mentally imprint the memory of that place. Great editing.

It's sad to see the Harrisburg Mall go. I live less than 10 minutes away from it. That was my go to place for Movies. My family spent loads of time and money there growing up. I even remember when Toys R Us was connected to the Mall.

Now if in that mall they just had McDonalds, Starbucks, in n out, a chik fila , that mall will stay open for ever

Absolutely beautiful video! Loved it! Thank you for all you do to provide such wonderful content Wallie!!

When I was first divorced I used to meet my ex and my daughter in the playground while we figured out custody, I will always treasure that kids area, RIP

Makes me sad. I love Harrisburg.

Is so unbelievable to see the downfall of the east mall and the colonial park mall .....back in the 80s and early 90s on any weekend you almost had to fight to get a parking spot they both used to get so full now they are gone .....the east mall was always a go to since they toys r us was in the back corner of the parking lot .

My former childhood mall had the most abrupt closer you'll ever see. There was a safety inspect, and it was found that the building was a health and fire hazard. They gave the notice to the owners who decided it wasn't worth updating the 80s tech to modern day and gave their tenants a 6 day notice to vacate and then shut down. Opened in 1965.

The 2nd and Charles is said to be the successor to the now defunct retailer: Hastings Entertainment. But it really isn’t as I thought it would be when I visited the one in Bossier City

That is so said about this mall. Thanks for sharing this wonderful video wallie I appreciate it

Over the past 2 years, a ton of failing malls such as this one are getting shut down. With high interest rates and a slowdown in the economy, these projects will more than likely take way longer than anticipated to go up. For those who live nearby, keep your expectations low for the next project on this site. As for the video, excellent quality as always, Wallie! I love to shop at Bass Pro Shops, but we don't have one on our side of Houston. We have seen two proposed Bass Pro Shops on the North side that have pulled out for one reason or the other.

Thank you for sharing this video. Watching it brings back memories of Harrisburg East Mall (old habits die hard), which held a special place in my heart while growing up not far from there. I feel a sense of sadness knowing it's gone. The fountains were always a favorite feature of mine, especially when visiting my mom at the Rea & Derrick Drugstore where she worked. We'd sit by the fountain outside the store, watching shoppers pass by, creating cherished moments together. The mall opened just three years before Hurricane Agnes devastated downtown Harrisburg and other cities in the mid-Atlantic region. Sadly, downtown never fully recovered as a shopping destination, and some attributed this decline to the rise of malls like Harrisburg East and Colonial Park. It's ironic to realize they're now victims of progress, much like the downtown stores were when the mall was new. Despite its closure, the mall still looks beautiful in the video, particularly after the remodeling in the early 2000s. Even though I had moved away to MD by then, I remember being impressed by its grandeur when I visited a few months after it's grand re-opening. It's a reminder of how things can change over time, and what once seemed like a thriving hub of activity is now just a part of history.

I appreciate your thoroughness!

Nice big abounded mall

Awesome video I love that water fountain

It had to go it had a great life ☺️☺️☺️

i used to shop this mall all the time back in the 90s and mid 2000s, moved back to the area back in 2020 and i heard they had plans on closing up, they're doing the tear down process as we speak, so far the great escape, boscovs/jcpennys and macy's have been tore down, the only 2 stores that stay intact are 2nd and charles and bass pro. so many great memories bringing my kids into this place as they were growing up. thanks for sharing this :)

Wow! ❤ This is a great empty mall video! It's so unusual to not see a crowd of people inside shopping like there was way back from the 1970's to the 2000's! So unbelievable!

Awesome Wallie is Always

A beautiful looking mall overall, it's a shame it died. I believe one of the other retail channels did an Instagram live stream on the last day. Interesting to see a different perspective of the mall at least. I saw the photo you shared on fb of ur biz cards, I like it!

Love this video! Sad that another mall has closed though.

Thank You Sir for another wonderful video

15:27 Store with black/grey next to Koup’s Motorcycles 21:40 Before A+ Health and Penn Leather were there 27:04 Boarded up store and store with black next to the old EB Games/GameStop 27:18 Before OooWee was there

This was one of the two malls (along with the Capital City Mall in Camp Hill) that I used to go to as a kid. Truly the end of an era. :(

Great video Wallie, this is one of my childhood malls along with Park City in Lancaster. I remember going back here in the 80s and 90s when the mall was alive. I actually was at the mall the same day as you with my family to do a final walkthrough before it closed. Another great video and sad to see it go along with the Toys R Us just outside the mall that's still sitting abandoned.

wow this mall is crazy i saw on streetview that there was unfinished buildings and a unopened barned and noble

Harrisburg Mall looked like a nice mall!

Great video!!

Your doing great keep up the amazing work

Nice video i wish i could've gone too that mall it looked like fun

Well done as usual Wallie!

Excellent video Wallie!! Nice looking mall. I’ve seen other dead mall content creators covered this mall when it was dying. Thank you for your effort in preserving a part of history when most of us cherished our local malls in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, and even before my time in the 60s and 70s. Keep up the good work! 👍

That’s a beautiful mall I hope it can be saved. I would hate to see it demolished. Times were a lot better than they are now. Everyone is struggling and almost always in a bad mood. We the people can fix that though. We have a mall empty where I’m at and it’s been in that state for several years now. I hope someone can save it and bring it back to life soon. Last time I was by it, it didn’t look like it was being maintained at all. Windows on the second floor food court were broken out letting the weather in.

Thanks for being so wholesome Wally ❤

So very sad to see malls like this. This looked like a very nice mall at one time.

As always great video 👍

Another Great Video From Wallieb26!!! Thanks sir for all the retail videos lately

Moonpie..... my daughter faith nickname is moon pie by her are uncle Dennis.

👍 awesome mall

I was there 5 times.i was there with my wife and son.i do missed the mall

Hi wallie there having a Billy Joel special tonight on tv on CBS it's in Madison Square Gardens.

I live like right by there lmao

What is the song in the background on the inside called

A beautiful mall it was. 🌹🌺🏵️🪷🥀🌹🪷

April 19th penn live has an article and pictures of demo.

All of the anchors are all but gone now (demo). Looks like the mall has been broken into as well as a door in the back is boarded up and the front entrances are now boarded up from the inside

A great video, Wallie! 👍👍👍👍 In the very early 1990s, I was at the Harrisburg East Mall, as that was the name of the Mall. The Mall was located in Dauphin County in the Lower East Paxtang Borough of Harrisburg. At the same time, in the very early 1990s, I was also at the Colonial Park Mall. Sadly, that Mall is dying or dead. Personally, I liked The Colonial Park Mall better.

Dang it I loved that mall

In my opinion, this mall should be demolished for at least an indoor skatepark, at least a few retail stores, at least a few restaurants, and a Car Wash with a site layout very similar to the Brightworks Car Wash in Fort Worth, Texas but a lot bigger with an on-site auto repair center, on-site gas station, convenience store, and at least ten more indoor hand wash bays for many different types of cars, trucks, buses, boats, RVs, and motorhomes.

Sometimes those big stores like bass pro shops have a cool candy/snacks section.

The former Macy's building and Great Escape theater have now been demolished. I have some pictures of this mall from the 1980s. Im from the area. Wish I could upload them on the comments

First before the first comment

It's gone already.

I See Why It Closed, Because It's Too Close To The Jail

Westgate mall in Brocton Massachusetts still open. South shore mall in Braintree Still going

Nice video and history ❤

You know, software developers could contact you for images/video if anyone wants to put together a program that lets you browse the mall in VR!

Is sad to mails closeing down when we need them

Looks like the neshaminy mall, oxford valley mall, Plymouth meeting mall, granite run mall which is now demo and has small outside shops around with condos... They all just died... Once great times but gone forever😊😊😊

I live in this area this is a Mall that I went to every Saturday to hang out my friends at one of the stores called ooowee gaming cafeteria

Just as an fyi 2nd and Charles is still there

I wonder why they had some of the floor mosaics roped off when they were closing the mall anyway. Always sad to see places like this go but with the changes in modern retail it’s unfortunately inevitable.

Aww I was planning on taking a trip to the Harrisburg mall sometime soon now it's to late 😭

Wonder what happens to all the wood benches and food court tables and chair? They still look like they are in good condition and able to be used by someone else.

Theres a nice pawnshop in the mall.i forgot the name.

what led to this malls decline? looks like it was a great mall. reminds me of southridge in Milwaukee.

Bass pro shops where thier is a vacant space we will built

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The arcade used to be located in the basement

I hoped that they saved the artwork

Do you know how many malls are closing

Getting closer 64 k

Does anybody know what these stores used to be? 15:27 Store with black/grey next to Koup’s Motorcycles 21:40 Before A+ Health and Penn Leather were there 27:04 Boarded up store and store with black next to the old EB Games/GameStop 27:18 Before OooWee was there And if there is any other store that you know that was there before 2010 please put the time stamp.

RIP Harrisburg Mall.

Another 1... dj kalad voice

Does anybody know when 2nd & Charles, and DXL will move out? Because as of when I’m commenting, Google Maps says that they are still open and the whole mall is supposed to demolished including the spaces of these stores. And also, has demolition of the interior of the mall begun yet? Because the three vacant anchors spaces have already been almost fully demolished. If anyone knows anything, it would be a big help because PennLive hasn’t posted anything on the Harrisburg Mall since the H&R Block closing

Reminds me of Cleveland dying

The basement IS the backrooms.

That is a crying thing to see this Mall is not doing well at all 😭😭😮😮

People make me sick doing these kinds of there when there is plenty of land out there and it's not all only for houses

I wonder what the future holds for americas makeup

It's almost like the back of the fridge where you have a lot of videos in front the one video in back of the fridge and you really want to do that video that's in the back of the fridge but you know that the important videos have to come first near the front of the fridge before you get to the back.