Been waiting for this one. I grew up here and even worked at the Electronics Boutique in this mall for several years in the late 90s, early 2000s. It’s definitely a shadow of its self now, but I have so many great memories of this place.

I miss Woolworth. Especially like the ones that had the blue sign. Most of em were red if I recall but I do remember seeing some blue ones as a kid in the 80s.

One of the best yet. The intro was off the wall.

Oh wow! the beginning of this vid was off the hook!! such a vibe you set with that music...and intro...sorry about your mall - time capsules are so important where it comes to these parts of your life...

Looks like a great place, nice and clean. It will hopefully find a way to survive. I can't imagine not being to go and get something to eat and wonder around all the different shops for something to do. Not to mention, running into people you know and chatting. Great video!!

Always enjoy your videos, everytime I hear the 80s synth wave music I have memories of playing Space Ace and Dragon's Lair in mall arcades in 82 83 timeframe

My aunt lived in Lakewood and we would go every year. I remember the eatery at Woolworth too! Always loved that mall! We got groceries at the super duper. Ate at the one bar in town but can’t remember the name of it. Good memories! She loved on Fairmount Ave right on the lake.

This is our local mall so, it was cool to see it back in the day. We’re excited to see the upper valley mall now too 👍

Love the old time photos in the beginning. Sad to see another mall in its demise.

I thought when I saw Chautauqua Mall I knew exactly where you were I used to spend summers in Dewittville at cottages along the lake from 71 to 77 great memories that’s for sharing this

That arcade was the best! I grew up with that shooting gallery.

Absolutely loved the start of this video. Went back and watched it again.

Wow the intro really got me 😢. Malls here in ohio are shutting down and lots being taken by Amazon Giant Distribution Centers. I live on the Western Cleveland Region and i never been to Springfield Ohio. I grew up on the Springfield Massachusetts region. The mall that holds dear memories for me is the Ingleside Holyoke Mall in Holyoke Massachusetts. Its Sad what times did to malls and now with this pandemic it obliterate them completely. Even open malls center are struggling. BTW my Name is also Anthony, Anthony C. Awesome video

Can we take this moment to appreciate how flipping awesome this guys editing skills are??? The intro for this gave me a emotional vibe.

I'm so in love/infatuated with the introduction. Beyond great job!!! Keep it up😊

Dude...this is your best video yet. You can tell there was an emotional attachment to this place for you. I LOVED the photos fading to modern day. That was really cool and the music you used was perfect for it. Rock on!

My first job with a paycheck in the late ‘70s was in that mall… I worked at Chess King, York Steakhouse, and a Native American sterling silver kiosk (can’t remember the name) that was right in the center of the main halls by the fountain… loved that job… all that bling

Love the old pics morphing to the current- love the channel, keep up the good work!!

I loved this place. We’d always stop by on our way to Johnny’s Lunch which is still one of my favorite places in the world to eat.

Really love the story about the Jamestown project you were describing!

My dad grew up in Jamestown. I am sending him this video 😁

Love the beginning fade from the past to the present. Still love the Knoxville Center Mall video you did and glad I was able to chat with you on Discord.

Dude, at the 2:07 mark w/ the picture of the shop front fading from hot it looked to it being closed now was some great editing! I also thought that was a great touch particularly going along w/ the channel's goal of documenting the places before they disappear. That was a really effective execution.

Love the intros with the old pictures and the music. I literally feel like I’m somewhere else, 30 years ago. It’s bizarre, and much-needed.

Really liked the intro to this video, with the pictures of the mall from then to now. I especially loved seeing the Woolworth! One of my closest malls also had a Woolworth back in the early 90's when I was little. I was into collecting buttons back then, and that's where I remember getting a lot of additions to my collection. So seeing that old Woolworth definitely brought back great memories. :) Sorry your mall is struggling. It's always painful to see a place you've loved going to since childhood struggle in modern times. :( It was and still is a nice looking place, though. Hope it's able to turn around!

This is so cool! I’m not from Jamestown/Lakewood but I remember the area and Mall well. My Partner at that time was from Panama and we would drive up to see his family. Some of my fondest memories are of this Mall, The Lakewood Country Club and a Hotdog place that EVERYONE at at. Thanks for sharing the video Ace 😊

Thanks for the great content, as always, Ace. Hope you are doing ok 🙏🏻

Wow, the first 2:30 are brilliant. Nice work.

I forgot to mention that I just subscribed to your channel. You have awesome videos and I enjoy them very much. Brings back lots of good memories. Cheers from Arizona.🍻😎👍

So awesome Anthony!!!! Now I want an Orange Julius! Hahaha.

I gotta say video the production is getting really good.

I really like this new cartoon/Escher Print start to your logs now, Anthony. Very nice musical start as well. It appears to be scrubbed of all character inside. No innovation nor design aesthetics are left by their remodel. With no mall for 50 miles this should be able to rebound from its bleak neutrality and lack of style. They went for Meh, and Mission Accomplished. I hope that someone takes over and makes this happen for the Mall that your grandfather helped build and where your grandmother worked. The more that I get to know you the more I appreciate you. You’re a great guy, Anthony, and I think that you’re doing what you like doing, and that’s a key to finding your own happiness. Looking forward to more! Your friend, G

My hometown mall as well.. love it and grew up going here.. really miss what it used to be.

Man, Jamesway brings back some memories. Used to go there on Fridays with my parents and beg them for Gobots if anyone remembers those.

the montage at the start of this vid is well done, its hard not to get 'the feels'. spent a lot of my formative years at this mall and have lots of memories from there. I basically saw everything popular at that 2 screen theater in the 80's. I can remember seeing ET and then being taken down to Woolworth's where they had some cheesy ET tie in promotion just inside the entrance. Also remember standing in a long line to get tickets to see Return of the Jedi. Also remember when their arcade shut down in 04 or 05 and they basically never changed the games in the few years leading up to that. The arcade is where I have my fondest memory of the place: there was a Konami's Devastators by the entrance that if you happened be standing at at the right time of day in August, the setting summer sun would sink low enough in the sky where sunlight came through the mall's side entrance and covered everything in a soft orange light. There was a kind of magic to the place.

Loved the flashback start. Like most kids in the 70’s & 80’s I loved seeing malls in tv & movies. In the 🇬🇧UK we had no real malls till 90’s. I always love the vintage footage you add to your footage. Hope you and your family are doing well ❤️❤️❤️💋💋

I remember a few trips there as a kid in.late 70"s. Grew up in Gowanda, and most times I remember my mom, " dragging us little kids shopping" we went to Hamburg/ West Senaca ( south shore plaza, Southgate place, & seneca mall) But also a few trips to Chautauqua Mall. I remember the Woolworth, there was a ponderosa I think, and right next to it was a pet store. Still remember as a 6 yr old, I was worried, seeing the flames on the char broiler, I was afraid it was gonna catch the place on fire and burn the pets. I also remember walking in the Sears entrance, which was electronics back then I guess, and seeing TV's with remote control on.high display ( wasn't common feature at the time) Remember asking my.momif we could get 1, she said NO

I remember when the first of these opened in Australia. It destroyed a publicly owned golf course, but everyone said we needed it. I used to go as a youth to chase young ladies and to buy very little. Sixty years on, as an old man, I no longer need the stuff that I used to buy. I've raised my kids, took them to these places, they took their kids and everything was wonderful until..............we all realised that we no longer need these places and we really don't want the overpriced stuff that they sell( realise that the shopping complex takes 25% of gross sales from the tenants). Sad as it may seem and fond may our memories be we have to realise that sailing ships gave way to steam ships and that railways did the same to coastal shipping..........along came the motor car and everything shifted another notch up the mountain.. These shopping complexes are gone forever and we await the next incarnation of what governments think we need. Remember that Jesus drove the money lenders out of the Temple..............good on you Jesus!!! They didnt build the shopping centres for us.....they built them for themselves. Stavros, the eternal optimist

Nice edits

How about a video on the CHAUTAUQUA institution? Like the casino where the ferry boat crosses? I havent been up there since route 17 became I-86, but I did grow up in WNY and frequent Lakewood and Bemus Point.

I remember Harvest House loved it.

Thank you!

It’s so sad. I loved going to this mall as a kid. Now there is next to nothing there. Amazing job on the video

Makes me sad to see the mall die. I grew up in Celoron and my friends and I used to hang out there all the time in the 80’s. OfficeMax is closing and I hear that JCPenny is closing soon. I definitely want to go check out that mall in Ohio. Thanks for posting this. 👍🏻

I grew up in Lakewood / Jamestown but would always go to the Millcreek Mall in Erie PA because it was way better lol

Damn. That tear jerker intro.

Such a cool spot

Took a stroll through there just yesterday. Heritage Living, rue 21, Shoe Dept. Encore, Yankee Candle, and Auntie Annie's are all gone now. There is an entire wing with no retail at all anymore. Wanted to take a few photos and be inside a liminal space but I just ended up feeling depressed.

Holy shiz, the music! Feels like an 80s teen romance movie that ended bad, not in the bad way but like this guy goes through all these great lengths just to confess his love in hopes of winning the person hes going after, but either gets denied or see they're with someone else and they head home broken hearted and in romantic despair

This mall reminds me of my hometown mall Huntington Mall, in Huntington/Barboursville, West Virginia. Similar stores and similar look/layout. Huntington Mall seems to be in the same shape, it seems to be dying. Amazing video!

I remember this one: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua_Mall It was the closest mall to me back when I lived in upstate NY. Back then it was a nice mall. Now, it suffers the fate of many others. Thanks for the blast from the past 😁

i love the 80s music

As a teen we'd hang out at Sabarros pizza! Then off to the arcade :)

Nice work

Nothing like that klepto phase in the early teen years. I once yanked a Star Trek phaser from a Toys R Us when I was 13. Almost got caught, but the getaway vehicle rolled up in time.

I love this! There’s something about the nostalgia of an old mall. This intro is amazing! The music really has that sound we loved back then. The song you have in the description isn’t the right one. The song is Goodbye by FM-84. Just thought I’d give you heads up. I went to Neon Trees’ page bc I loved the song so much! Not a match, so ultimately I used Shazam to figure it out. Thank you for showing us new artists! Now I know Neon Trees and FM-84. ❤️❤️❤️

Not a steak house there...a "new" japanese restaurant replacing the record store where I went to buy cassettes. You're thinking of "YorK Steak House"....centerline....with those gorgeous rolls. That attic was awesome too.

I may only be a teen but i really hoped that this mall was going to rebuild its self. It was a quick and painless trip for me and my family to hit on the weekends if we were short for time. It needs to come back

National Record Mart! ❤️

Pretty decent mall still. I have similar feelings about the mall I grew up going to...it's pretty much dead now too. And it seems the midwest and east coast have an F.Y.E. store in every mall -- those are so far and between here on the west coast, at least in LA.

Sadly it seems that half the stores that were shown just in this video a few years ago no longer exist. When I was there recently, I don't even think there were 10 stores open and I was one of the few walking the mall during mid day on a Wednesday.

I am sorry for your loss. I am older.57..and Have seen malls and detached businesses com and go over the years. As our society is changing, people are changing their shopping habits. I worked in an upper scale store. when it first opened,you could not move in there during their sales events. Now, you go in there and some of the part ends are actually empty. This store had a catalogue for a while, but now has transitioned to inactive website where you can shop from it. That particular mall had safety issues as well as a shortage of parking. They rectified the parking problem, but people do not want to have their car stolen, have to dodge bullets, (no joke) The pandemic is going to change our lifestyles. This part of the pandemic has me personally nervous. I think it is fear of the unknown and feeling powerless about the changes and illness itself..Everone. Be safe and healthy.

Right now every mall is a dead mall 💀

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Present company was a catalog store started in upstate. My brothers in laws live in mayville, not far away

Id love to rollerskate there

Hell this mall looks alot better than the state of ours here in topeka. You have alot of stores that closed years ago here. 😔

It's surprising the mall is open. The Berkshire Mall, located where I live in Reading, Pa is closed. No essential stores inside.

I worked at Jamesway back in the day at the Mall.

Damn, I remember when stores were thriving and it was packed. RIP

Please share your intro song information. That was a great track. Wow!

York Steakhouse.

I missed the premiere, but I am playing catchup. A mall with just a JCPenney is hurting these days for sure.

Any links to the music xxx ?

Do you have one for the Nittany Mall

I love the 80's mall music! And the look of the malls back then, is so awesome! Certainly not like that anymore. Malls are all white and boring now.

NOO WAYYY

Oh wow! FYE! I thought they were all a casualty of the 09 recession. So I'm watching this without audio... How was this place allowed to be open during quarantine? Or was this taken before that?

I like watching your content. But why do I get notifications that you posted a new video, and then when I go to it, sometimes it's deleted?

How do you get started doing this

Mall's not dead, just celebrated 50 years open. I'm the night guard.

You said there was going to be a link to that identical mall in ohio in the description but I don't see it. Also Neon Trees sleeping with a friend was credited but I didn't hear that.

This mall will make it change dosent have to happen i love global warming

what is the intro song?

Where's the link

This looks like a pretty old mall.

Scrap that mall ,for the scrappers

Can you please stop removing or deleting vids, I get notifications, click on it, and it says " Removed by User" Left a Like and full view on this vid, GoodUp,

This also looks aesthetically similar to the Eastern Hills mall

The intro song was a killer one. Who sang this song?

where's the link to the duplicate mall?

Wow Anthony I only lived 45 minutes from you

I worked at Sam Goody in 1992

That Mall is 70s overkill I prefer the 90s

New car in mall

So sad to see those kiddie rides that probably have not seen a kid in months

With a generation that prefers to stay inside, my question is, why buy pants if you're not going anywhere.

Where's the LINK?

What day and time is this to be so empty?

another comment here: yes, this mall is following decline like other malls, but let's be real. That mall's death is due to way more factors than just online shopping. Walmart kicked that mall's business in the nards pretty hard when one was built right next door in the 90's. Jamestown suffered economic devastation from loss of industry around 2000 and basically turned into a slum adversely effecting the surrounding region. You've also had niche businesses like radio shack that always had stores in malls go out of business (which, yeah, online shopping). That mall also bungled its food court when it renovated in 99 where it had a food court, but almost no restaurants. The last time I was at that mall was 10 years ago, and it really felt close to death back then. So its crazy to me that mall is still operating at all and its only been within the past 12 months people are making videos declaring it "dead". Even crazier is, as of your video, the FYE is open and operating and the gamestop is gone!