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“Really in no danger of closing” **closes the next year**

"What's would a sad mall be without a sad arcade?" Indeed Dan, indeed.

3:34 "That weirdo with the camera might try to steal my coat!"

I am a commercial real estate broker in Glen Burnie and have lived in the area for ten years. What a wonderful video history, and will be even more fascinating fifty years from now. Thank you!

Damn that woman was convinced you were gonna swipe her coat lol

I laughed so hard at the Legal Nails store. One of the nail salons in my area (in a dead mall) has been busted for improper licensing issues.

You know what's weird? When you see the amount of cars parked in the front parking lot (Ritchie Hwy side), you wouldn't think the mall would be so dead. But, it really is dead, sadly.

This was fabulous! I'm a lifelong GB resident, and take my daughter to that mall every Santa and Easter Bunny to get pictures with no line. I frequent that mall quite often now since they've upgraded it. I wish you had gone inside the Toys R Us though. The inside of that store is exactly the same as it has been since I was a small child in the 80's. (No idea what year it was put there.) It's weird because you see all these modern toys and games but the walls and everything are the same. Also, I believe the horse on the coin rides was in front of toys r us when I was little, I have a brief recollection of it. I could be wrong on that. And where the JP's Deli is inside the mall was this yellow Sam's Pretzels I think) and we would always go and get big pretzels with hot cream cheese. The JP's sill has pretzels like that which is great! I really enjoyed this video, thanks for posting it!

That tile brings back memories of of fast food working days.

5:22 They make Pringles vending machines??

And Next to the claw machine with the annoying orange is a claw machine full of Ayy Lmao

Fun note to make here is that JP's Deli moved to another dead mall you covered Marley Station mall

Major hangout in my teen years. My husband and I spent much time here and loved Hot Sams pretzels. So sad it’s all gone. 💔😞

I lived within walking distance of Glen Burnie Mall during its heyday (60s and 70s) and spent many a happy hour there after school and on Saturdays. Remember Montgomery Wards, the five-and-dime (Murphy's?), The Lantern restaurant, and the theater where I saw Romeo and Juliet and Planet of the Apes. Many good memories of the Glen Burnie Mall!

I was pretty young when I frequented the glen burnie mall in the early 2000's but I remember everything so vividly. Especially the first entrance you walked in I always remember seeing toys r us directly to the right and always trying to run in. I love this nostalgia

There was a place called the Lamp Post Diner in the middle of that mall just about where the JP's deli would be. These dead mall videos are great. It is like getting nostalgia and depressing sadness all at the same time.

I remember Jeepers was there when I was younger. Me and my daughter love dead malls, wish this was still there to explore but we actually went about a year ago, so that's something.

The store at 6:08 is called "LEGAL NAILS." What other kind is there? What would "illegal nails" be?-- the kind with built in retractable stilettos? Or maybe a kind that have a built in secret cyanide vault? A very little vault...but enough! LOL Another great video, Dan! Thank you so much!

That original Mall opening really brings back memories. Nothing beats mid 1960s architecture in my book.

I've been going to this mall since I was a kid. I no longer go inside it, but I do frequent the stores that are on the outside. People nowadays don't really like to go inside malls anymore, they prefer to just park in front of a store and go shopping, or just shop online. Glen Burnie mall definitely was smart to utilize the "center" concept for it's mall. Hunt Valley Towne Center is definitely a great example of where shopping centers are moving towards.

+This is Dan Bell an undercover retail Grim reaper... Businesses fear his arrival.. For he is a the harbinger of bad economic news.. The herald of dire economic news chapter 11's....The business community fear and despise him ...

The Target used to be a Montgomery Ward which I believe was attached to the mall. It also used to have a single screen theater. The hhgregg and Office Depot used to be a single store front which was home of a Best Buy which moved across the street. It's a weird little mall. Like you said, in no danger of closing (mostly because of the stronger anchors they have and the outward facing store fronts surrounding the mall), but it's definitely dead in the enclosed area. I only got here when I go to Power Gamer.

I worked at this mall between 2001-2005 at the Best Buy that eventually moved across the street. This area has gone down hill since that time but it's good to see Power gamer still in business.

I work across the street from this mall. Only went there once before it closed up for whatever major renovation or re-construction they're doing now. It was almost entirely empty then so it was nice to see it with a few more stores still around.

This mall has always been on life support. Started coming here in the early to mid 90s and it was kinda dead then. Haven't been since the Best Buy and Dick's moved out, but was there when the Montgomery Wards and Walden Books closed. Hunt Valley was a dead mall with one store back in the 90s but they brought it back.

I loved this mall. So many good memories there from the 70's and 80's. The place would always be packed. It also had a great arcade in it years ago. Great place to meet up with friends,play games, and do some shopping. Montgomery Ward was a part of that mall at one time. A place called the Record Bar was a popular place to buy records and tapes. I'm going to miss this place after they tear it down. Hopefully the ToysRUs stays open since it's a separate building.Another popular mall in the area was the Harundale Mall. It's been torn down now,but it was a very popular mall back in the day too.

I remember that coin racer charity tube thing--that specific one, in fact, having grown up there. Nice to get another look inside after so long.

I worked at Wards at that mall in 1986. Sure do miss Wards and the old mall.

Also, that little stage you saw over by one of the entrances was actually a display table for a very large Christmas railway display. They would have it all decorated inside a protected glass case.

That mall used to have a large arcade in that mall and a Chess King where we bought B.U.M. Equipment sweatshirts. My mom loved the Lamp Post Inn restaurant that was in the center of the mall. I bought my Mike Tysons Punch Out game at that Toy's R' Us.

I'm a little late to the show and I didn't read through the comments.. but you were talking about the tiles covering old store fronts down a side hallway. The tiles on the left are covering the former location of (what I think) was a small amusement type area called Jillian's with several carnival style rides and games the entrance was where the nail place is in the video. When I visited the mall as a pre-teen and early teenager in the late 90's early 2000's the right side was all panels. I bought some of my first video games in that Toys R Us. That Power Gamer store at the beginning was the start of my love for games. I had NO idea that video games and consoles could be imported until I saw that place offering versions of Nintendo stuff that I had never seen. I played in a Pokemon card tournament in that side of the mall, also. I was deeply saddened when the Waldenbooks closed.

Couldn't help but notice Bruce Hornsby Valley Road playing in the background just to make the scene feel even more vintage!

i performed with my elentary school chorus on that stage 3 years ago

I live in this area. My family used to go to Glen Burnie mall quite a bit. It looks way different now. Much different from when I was a kid back in the early, mid and late 90's. I am 30 now. That red tile you said you liked, the whole floor used to be made of that tile back when I was a kid. It used also be a more popular mall. It was never that large anyway. It was always a small place. Back in the 90's there was multiple places to eat there. One of my favorites was the Hot Sam's pretzel place. There was a pretty good Pizza and Italian food place in there as well. It is all gone now obviously. There also used to be a Walden's Books in there as well. Now it is just sad as you said.

They are closing the inside of mall late this month (Jan2017). They are demolishing the mall and putting in bowling, gym and a theater.

we have those kinda tiles at work... but they are supper slippery when wet, like really slippery when wet

I was the store manager at the Famous Footwear for 3 years and that mall was busy around the holiday season when Toys-R-Us was open. When they closed it hurt. I use to go to the Quiznos and to the Five Guys for lunch. I have pictures of my daughter riding the carousel there. While I was there they built HH Greg and when they went under it turned into a Office Depot. We had a really bad theft problem there as well. With that being said, shout out to Tom the security guard that always had my back.

I was just there on Thursday December 28, 2023. I went in Ollie’s

I love the Garfield ride. Would look great in my apartment!

For those of you who don't already know, JP's Deli has moved into the old Taco Bell in Marley Station Mall in July of this year.

Geez, I have fond memories of this mall as a kid, born in Annapolis and raised in Crofton; this mall was the shopping hub for most of the area. Sad to see it go.

This video is really iconic since Dan has pretty much opened every video after this with “Hi this is Dan Bell.” Iconic lol

I remember going to GB mall when I was a kid in the late 90's/early 2000's. It was neat to go to, but I always remember it being mostly empty. It's always been an small older mall. My dad, who grew up in GB, said it used to be the place to go, but then Marley Station came along and took away a lot of business, and then as most residents know Arundel Mills came in and took a lot of business from both malls! Now Marley is going to be dead before long, having lost a lot of stores, and Glen Burnie Mall is almost just a strip mall.

Nice to see a old mall that's been revitalized.

The black ceiling is what drove me away from this mall. I use to visit Toys r us, the Radio Shack when I was a kid. Those days are gone now.

Dan you just missed a dead mall here in Chicago called Evergreen Plaza but they torn it down you would have loved it.

I like the commentary in this one. This mall reminds me of the Brookdale & Southdale Malls in Minnesota.

it's crazy, I used to work at the Dick's Sporting Goods back when it was still in the mall around 2001. Even then it wasn't doing that great.

I have alot of childhood memories there. Early 90s

We moved to Glen Burnie when I was 4 in 1959. I remember when they were building up that area of Ritchie Highway in the early sixties (we used to travel that way to go into Baltimore to visit my parent's families). From 695 South there was nothing on Ritchie but woods and a drive in movie (Ritchie Drive-in). They started building and quickly there was the Glen Burnie Mall, EJ Korvetts, and then the Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles (later it became the MVA). The Mall struggled in its early days. It had a Montgomery Wards dept store and an A&P Food store that my parents shopped once a week on Friday after my dad would go to the bank to cash his paycheck (there used to be long lines at the bank on Fridays where people would cash their checks). The Mall had trouble renting space on the opposite end of the mall from Wards. In 1971 I got a job working at the little snack stand at the south end of the mall near the A&P. I believe the Toys R Us was added sometime before that. They had a grand opening and had Lee Majors as a guest (The Six Million Dollar Man TV show was on then and very popular). it was most busiest day the mall ever had and they have not had that many people there since. Cheap malls like Glen Burnie were hurting because the big malls like Columbia and Security Square mall were taking most of the business. After the oil crises though, the big malls began to suffer because people did not want to drive. In like 1972 the stand I worked at added pizza by the slice and the business took off. On the Saturday after black Friday we sold 27 dozen 16 " pizzas by the slice @ .35 cents. I graduated High school and by then they were selling very high quality Hot Dogs. PS The floor in the original mall was just squares of polished concrete.

GOD I miss Power Gamer SO MUCH. That was the best part of that mall, second only to Toy's R Us. It was also just a beautiful mall. It really was pretty in my opinion. I remember going to Jeeper's all the time as a kid.

Out of all of the "dead malls" this one isn't so bad. I totally would have played the claw machine to get that stuffed Om Nom .. he's adorable!

I walked the mall around the same time in Spring, 2015 and felt the same way! An online real property search suggests that 6711 Ritchie Highway (with the exception of the Target Store on the southeast side) is owned by an LLC with a Miami Beach mailing address. The property is developed and arranged in such a way that access to the Mall itself is discouraged.

2:58 ayyy LMFAO

There was a fire in the Montgomery Ward (now Target) wing in 1981. It was rebuild the following year.

As I stand by the Hurricane Simulator I lament over losing a dollar trying to win an alien ball. The dvd/money win game is also broke, but I did win three lollipops since the crane machine is busted as well. lol Eerie place - even stores that are open are dimly lit to conserve energy. On a plus side the toys r us is like 1980 Northern NJ. Great vids Dan!

I have family in glen burnie and have been there throughout my life. That place was always just a 10 minute walk. There was really nothing of note there aside from TRU and that's probably the only thing that was keeping the place afloat

Has anyone ever thought of producing a Renaissance Fair in any of these dead malls? They did well in Northern California in semi wooded areas.

It has been announced that Glen Burnie Mall will be closing at the end of December 2016. After this it will be de-Malled inside. RIP Glen Burnie Mall

I was taken here often as a child. I saw Santa either there or Harundale Mall.

I was in Glen Burnie for spring break (Mainly to see Baltimore's railroad museum) and I wondered where this mall was. I also did Duckpin bowling and it felt more like pitching a softball made of playground plastic

The Glen Burnie Mall. Seems Not Bad. Lots of Space. Great for Retail Stores. Still Usable for Foot Traffic. It s a Shame No other People took Advantage while it was in Prime Use.

Starting at Glen burnie mall and heading south on Ritchie highway, you will pass 5 different current or former indoor malls in a 10-15 mile stretch. Glen Burnie, Harundale, Marley Station, Jumpers and Severna Park malls. Only the struggling Marley Station remains as an enclosed mall.

so many fond memories of the toys r us that kept this mall somewhat alive.

I don't understand Legal Nails, but when you said Illegal Nails it reminded me of the John Prine song "Illegal Smile".

It's now being torn down. The ends are still there (Target, Ollie's), but the middle section is being ripped out, and there's supposed to be a theatre going in.

to my knowledge, this mall is about to become an outlet shopping center soon. most if not all stores are gone.

Ironically I started going back to this mall around this time.. hitting up Power-Gamer to buy N64 games. Copped some Nike Air Raids too at footlocker, surprised I never saw you lol.

That store that looked like it had stuff in it but you've never seen open. It used to be Kinney Shoes when I worked there.

I've been here too!! So weird how many old malls there are near me.

That place is really sad When I was A kid my grand mom used to take me there every saturday. we would shop eat and just hang out all day. It;s sad to see it gone to hell like that

the mall is now CLOSED!!!!!! Such memories going there on a saturday morning playing in the Yugioh tournaments, going to the PowerGamer store, the ToysRUs, and bestbuy.

My parents used to take me to that toys r us when I was a kid back in the 70s now I’m in my late 40s

im pretty sure that theres an appliance store that used to be best buy behind those white panels.they extended the inside of that building when best buy moved across the street.

Bruce Hornsby and the Range! Nice!

you should totally check our the Belknap mall in New Hampshire. there is like 4 stores in operation. as long as a food store,a restaurant, and a big lots that's attached but has no mall entrance

Lots of the old malls in Ohio have ,had these tiles and aurora farms ( strip ml all stores outside entrance ,outside of Cleveland south east direction off interstate 271**has that older tile ,absolutely beautiful (:

I used to go that mall when it was the golden ring mall in the 80s and the 90s..when I was a kid .

I was born and raised in Glen Burnie and still live here (on the same road as the mall). I can tell you the kiosks behind the deli are owned and operated by the same few people. They tend to float between them when the mall is dead (which is why they seem unmanned). The end store across from JP's Deli (next to the hallway) was a small diner/eating spot years ago. The store next to it that is never open but has stuff in the window was a Vitamin World (I was an assistant manager up until they closed. I helped shut the store down back in the earlier 2010's.) They lady that owns the space now teaches craft classes. When classes are not in session the space just looks empty.

This mall kinda reminds me of Deerbrook Mall, in the north suburbs of Chicago(I think in Northbrook?). It was a hybrid between a shopping mall and a mall with big box anchors, in both an indoor and an outdoor portion. This mall predates the nearby Northbrook Court, and the outdoor portion is still open today. Till a few years ago, the inside of that mall was totally empty with no stores left, except for TJMaxx(seriously!). Sadly though the TJMaxx there finally closed within the last few years, and the indoor mall portion got sealed up for good after that. Back entrance of Deerbrook was totally original as of my final ever visit there(where I got all my pics), but the front entrance had been modernized there. And it even had a working fountain, too. Finally that mall had a General Cinema 3 or 4 screen(I forget, was something like that) theater, that closed down in I believe the late 90s. Still have my pics of the inside of this mall. And refreshingly it was a rare mall where I didn't sense tons of security patrolling inside it, so it's one of the few malls where I have both smartphone pics and regular pics(usually I don't do this, and only smartphone pics I take) of this mall. I should eventually see if I have uploaded those pics to Dead Mall Enthusiasts on facebook, if I hadn't already. Loved this video, and too bad they decided to 'demall' Glen Burnie Mall!

That claw machine with the money in it's probably rigged.

i loved going to hot sams in the mall when they where there it was the best

I saw a strip mall with a Toys'Я'Us that closed down in 2006. Also had a closed-down Target next door, a closed down Top Foods across the street, & a dying mall not two blocks away. Oddly enough, the businesses on the blocks between them were thriving. Would have been a great place to explore, had there not been a cop station on the other side of the Target, which appeared to be boarded up tighter than a nun's underpants. I remember in the early 90s, alien heads, felt tophats, bedazzled jackets, backpack patches, glow-in-the-dark posters, trapper keepers, Lisa Franks, mood rings, yin-yangs, holofoil cards, glitter stickers, roller blades, Crystal Pepsi...... "I don't know if there's storefronts behind these white panels." There very well could be. I've been to a renovated mall where there was 6 empty stores & an arcade behind such a wall.

Wow that is the first time I have seen one of those prize machines with little wads of money in the containers. it just strikes me as odd. Maybe its the adult version

6:37 You had to stop the light on the "WIN" as it slowed down to the left, and if it stopped on the "WIN", you won the item that was on the bottom of that column. Won CD's from this game at an arcade in Virginia Beach years back. It doesn't exist there anymore.

I got my first Walkman there (OK, it was not a Sony, but a knock-off), but iconic and a big event for me in 1986.

This is the mall where I saw Star Trek: The Motion Picture during its original theatrical run, in early 1980. I remember the lobby cards. Glen Burnie Mall had restaurants in the open middle section which were pretty good and popular. This and Harundale Mall, the first on the East Coast, did have cinemas, though Harundale's wasn't in the Mall building proper.

Changing times. People go on line to shop now. Saves a frustrating trip to the mall. Grocery stores will be tomorrow's anchor stores.

they also put them in subway stations like the DC metro. I lived in the area (Fairfax County, VA then DC) for more then two decades. They have been in the process of redeveloping the Tyson's Corner Mall since 2012 and are making it into mixed residential and business area (overpriced though). They put in four more metro stops as part of the redevelopment. Nice area, but a traffic nightmare pretty much Monday through Friday.

I used to go to that mall every day with a big group of friends . I still do sometimes and I love it because it's so empty

I'm curious about the hurricane simulator...

its so big in the common areas because there was a large open diner restaurant near toys r us. the other end had an ice cream hamburger kiosk

I was in this mall around 01-02. Cool video!!!

Crazy, the other day I just walked on the grounds of where Dicks once stood, nothing but barren ground now, rubble, demolished. I've made some videos about Glen Burnie History as of late as well

Hey Dan I don't know if you still read these but I lived just down the road from there in old Glen Burnie by the courthouse on 3rd Ave SE. When you made this video were the 2 gaming stores still there? They were across from each other in the mall. One was for video games and game related collectibles. The other was about table top gaming, trading card games and collectibles for the hard-core nerd. My daughters used to love it when I took them there (they'd ask to go to the mall) just for those 2 stores. They'd spend hours looking at the used Nintendo DS games, pokemon plush toys, and the esoteric assortment of collectibles at those stores. Every time they'd ask for something and give me that look that only a daughter can that melts a daddy's heart and opens his wallet. I also bought the best bicycle I ever owned from the Dick's Sporting Goods there. I have some good memories of that mall with my girls.

The stone work is what is called zyrian granite, not quartz. Very common, I think the quarry is in North Georgia.

Hey, you should check out Richmond Town Square Mall in Richmond, Ohio (near Cleveland, OH). The mall just lost all three of it's anchor stores Macy's, JC Penny's, and Sears.

I spent most of my childhood at that mall. Every weekend i'd go there and play games at the arcade before it was removed or at the toys r us.

A giant Tom Servo head at 4:26!