Original Release Date : June 2, 2015 Schuylkill Mall Frackville, PA UPDATE : Mall completely demolished. Clayco Construction built a warehouse on the site for storing building materials.
Пікірлер: 91
@dmsremastered2 жыл бұрын
Memories : The mall manager was FURIOUS at the time that this video was made. I received a message threatening a lawsuit if I didn’t remove the video. I knew it was a bluff so I ignored it. They mall was torn down three years later.
@peterbarlow77812 жыл бұрын
😂 so funny (but also quite sad)! Thank you for remastering these abs reuploading. This was one of the earliest videos of your I watched and don’t even get me started on that jingle. 😂
@charlestonpinballarcade2 жыл бұрын
The manager just wanted to be in the video… I’m sure he’s there now and better than ever for you!!! Or… maybe not? Ha!
@starfield18742 жыл бұрын
I've never understood why mall managers think that their very public business centers are immune to being filmed. I realize they dont want potential visitors to see how run down and empty their malls are, but this is the 21st century where everyone has a portable video camera on their phones.
@nomobobby2 жыл бұрын
@@starfield1874 I think its mostly to control there image. Most companies don't want customer pictures taken on their property unless it helps build good marketing. Also let's be real, if he knows its ONLY taken to show how much its broken down it is (the worst publicity outside of violence at the mall) he would try to do something to hide it, Streisand effect be dammned.
@mikegammon12 жыл бұрын
abandoned malls uses: indoor paintball/airsoft complex, indoors skate parks, indoor condos/comunity with its own small grocery stores
@jennifernaspinski30152 жыл бұрын
The Chik-fil-A was one of the original stores, as was Spencer's. There was also an orange julius, mcdonald's, bavarian pretzel, Long John Silver's, a pizza place, the chinese place was originally a Bonanza. Radio Shack was there since the beginning. Gap, Hess's (anchor), Phar-Mor (anchor as part of addition to the mall), Savings and Loan Bank, Record Town, Barbara Moss, Chess King, Deb, Taxi, McCrory's, Waldenbooks, Kay-Bee toy store, a pet store, several jewelry stores, hallmark. You could actually complete all your Christmas shopping there. Loved going there Friday and Saturday nights in middle school - it was the place to be. There was an arcade next to the movie theater with payphones outside of it. Kids used to call the payphones and other kids would answer. $1 movie night on Tuesdays. I saw Top Gun there. I hate that it died, but it's a symptom of the whole area. Frackville's main street is decaying rapidly - hard to see it. I grew up there and remember what a huge deal it was when the mall opened in 1980.
@marysalmon23672 жыл бұрын
used to troll this mall with a close friend. found it both depressing and interesting. watched it die. lost my friend to a stroke. she did not die, but all memory of me and our good times were erased from her brain. but i still have good memories. and some day we will meet again and she will know me. God willing.
@princessmarlena13592 жыл бұрын
My condolences 💐
@LoydKline-uw4no9 ай бұрын
❤️ malls it become a glost town phantom 👻 👽 🎶
@rissachi932 жыл бұрын
Every time I think of this mall I remember its smell. It wasn’t a bad smell, it was similar to licorice. This was my favorite mall to visit growing up. So many memories are now demolished.
@mikeneumann46602 жыл бұрын
Boy the fountains are just simply gorgeous at this mall. Pennsylvania is rockin.
@charlestonpinballarcade2 жыл бұрын
Sal’s video from when this place was being torn down is a great follow up to this video from Dan. He was able to just walk thru the entire demolition site. This must have been the place to be back in the day.
@theamerican70802 жыл бұрын
I drove my Jeep Wrangler down the mall concourse during demolition.
@BeLikeGumby2 жыл бұрын
This was a nice mall back in the day. 2 book stores. several record stores. really nice. sad to see it go.
@zjones98762 жыл бұрын
I will always remember this mall because the cracker barrel next to where it used to be was the first restaurant our whole family went to after COVID and we just wanted to do something normal. The warehouse was under construction at the time.
@hippiefreak662 жыл бұрын
As someone born and raised in the Skook, I miss this mall. I remember so much about, even the smell.
@BeLikeGumby2 жыл бұрын
I have to stay the echoing music is a nice touch
@vinces42632 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the Skook. And every Friday this was the place to be. Teenagers from every nearby town went there (I was one of them). Such a bummer that it closed and is now demolished. Kids these days will never know the fun of going there and hanging out at the arcade and walking around meeting or seeing a movie.
@princessmarlena13592 жыл бұрын
I miss those days.
@DeadMallWalking2 жыл бұрын
So I guess the mall manager never filed that lawsuit, lol.
@SynchroSk82 жыл бұрын
I catch myself humming the jingle still to this day thanks to your original video on Schuylkill Mall. Still one of my favorites. The fountains and planters are so great.
@JCEU212 жыл бұрын
Back in the day the Schuykill Mall was your stereotypical 80's mall with the brick facades, shrubbery/fountains, common stores, etc.., To me it reminded me of the Viewmont Mall right up the highway about an hour away. There was a sense of familiarity on the rare occasion I was there and going to a different mall put me in awe, if you will. I recall on one end having a Bonanza across from a music store (The Wall maybe). Talk about an odd memory.
@jacobsekela86912 жыл бұрын
My grandmother lived (more like used to live) in nearby Mahanoy City so when we visited her (when I was younger) we'd often swing by the local Cracker Barrel and then take a walk around this mall. This wasn't my hometown mall, as I lived near Reading (the Coventry Mall is my hometown mall) but I always loved the unique 80's and 90's vibes the Schuylkill Mall gave. I also remember there being a very cool model train setup being around for a time and the Chinese restaurant here (China Palace?) was surprisingly really good. Such a shame this mall had to close though as it reflects the crumbling infrastructure and dwindling population of Schuylkill County's coal region. Many consider the Schuylkill Mall to be one of Crown American's finest works.
@lennymutt2 жыл бұрын
I love those fountains! And that coal miner statue was really cool too, I had to look it up to find out if it had hopefully been moved to a new location and it has. In 2017 it was relocated it to the Knoebels’ Anthracite Mine Museum nearby.
@steffyherself2 жыл бұрын
Watched it again just for the jingle. Wasn't disappointed. 🤣
@markstrouse31012 жыл бұрын
I really miss this mall, I used to do sports card memorabilia shows there.
@VandalDecaProductions2 жыл бұрын
That jingle has been randomly popping into my head since I first watched this episode years ago.
@slocumb1270 Жыл бұрын
The last tenant to close in the Schuylkill Mall was Pearl Stadium 8 Theatres, which closed January 15, 2018. The property is owned by Northpoint Development, who bought it out of Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2017. It demolished the mall beginning on January 26, 2018 and this was reportedly completed by September 5, 2018. The development company built an industrial warehouse called Clayco as a replacement for the mall.
@unchainedsilver9702 Жыл бұрын
Been bing watching these videos tonight as nobody is live , great seeing them again , glad u go the footage when u did as a lot of these places are gone now....
@unchainedsilver9702 Жыл бұрын
Love the old school honeycomb floor tile and fountains , sad to know this place is gone now ..
@stinkboy7772 жыл бұрын
Loved these then, love to see them again. Your videos hold nostalgia in more ways than one. Thanks for the remasters, Dan!
@GhostHost19692 жыл бұрын
I love it! Always have, always will. I cannot count how many times I've watched the original of this, the Burlington Center Mall and the Rolling Acres Mall videos. Thank you so much for everything you do and for inspiring me and so many others to go out and document dead malls.
@Mszahnclass9511 ай бұрын
Thanks!Dan for bringing all us fun entertainment
@osno_gecs2 жыл бұрын
I think this is my favourite video in the series. The little jingle that they made for the mall back in the day, plays in my head from time to time lol Edit: Also, the old carnival sounding music is the background throughout the video is so awesome as well :)
@yogbarog1002 жыл бұрын
A deep unending sadness with this one…
@randmiller882 жыл бұрын
My wife and I first visited this mall in 2006 on the way back, from all things, our honeymoon in the Poconos (we're weird like that) and found it to be a charming time capsule since it hadn't been updated, like, ever. But when we stopped again 10 years later (soon after this video was made), it was depressing and we thought we were going to get mugged in broad daylight.
@EvanPonterOfficial2 жыл бұрын
My first job was working at the GameStop in that mall!
@unchainedsilver9702 Жыл бұрын
love seeing malls that still have that old 80s ecstatic takes me back to when i was kid and going to the malls was special they would often have fountains and cool displays hanging , then in the 90s most remodeled and become booing taking away all the cool stuff and just leaving a lot of beige in its place ...that combined with online retail in the 2000s was the kiss of death for many malls ... some are still doing well and remodeled since to fir more modern times and places were students can hang out and study with lots of long fancy couch benches and free wifi . giving them a feel of being a really big Starbucks with a few stores ... lol Not my cup of tea but if it brings people in then good i guess..
@TheUluxian2 жыл бұрын
Amazing that there was a still open Radio Shack in 2015..What a dinosaur
@glenselenselv17562 жыл бұрын
The back ground music gives me the creeps .
@PianoHead262 жыл бұрын
It reminds me of the Longview Mall before it was renovated, here in my home town of Longview Texas. It opened in 1978. It had all the brown tiles, and a pyramid shaped fountain. Had trees/plants. Use to be actually a lot nicer I thought with the retro look. Sadly that is all gone and looks so plain and boring. I worked in the mall as a teenager for several years but remember before that as a little kid it being so different looking.
@Twisted_Adventures22 жыл бұрын
This was my favorite mall as a kid. It was also the place to be on the days my friends and I would skip school for the day lol There was a Kay Bee Toy store near the Bon Ton. I remember one year a freak snowstorm came through, and the Bon Ton stayed open until the roads were safe enough to drive on. Thanks for this trip back in time to my favorite mall.
@ERA_Productions2 жыл бұрын
This was one of my favorite looking dead malls, and I’m sad I never got to visit it
@princessmarlena13592 жыл бұрын
There was one mall near where I grew up that installed a two level carousel. Since 2010 the place went downhill, but in 2014 when they took out that carousel, it went from bad to worse. The place even had a couple of gun point muggings, two of their anchor stores closed, and it just progressively got worse. I moved from SoCal, but from what I’ve heard it’s really far gone.
@ChickennGritss2 жыл бұрын
@The World Of Budget Vinyl Records you have a great channel Sir. I remember going Willowbrook mall in Wayne NJ in the 70's it was always sad to see many malls have closed or closing. When I got older as a Trucker I delivered to some malls it was a lot of work lugging boxes through the freight hallways the store rear entrances. All the best to you
@darlenej94112 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite episodes of the series (though I love everything that's uploaded) and even though I have to be at work by 7:15 AM tomorrow, that friggin jingle will be in my head all night now that I may just stay up😄🎵🎶 Thanks Dan!
@trudyguldin21082 жыл бұрын
Frackville Mall was better then the Fairlane Mall in the 1980 - 90"s. Now the Fairlane Mall is starting to go downhill. Soon won't be anywhere to shop in the area except for WalMart and I hate WalMart.
@refugeeca2 жыл бұрын
How exactly is the Fairlane mall going downhill? It’s freaking thriving, dude. Four years ago it was as bad as this one but it’s doing great compared to a lot of malls.
@reh39972 жыл бұрын
This mall is completely raised to the ground and no longer stands. A huge warehouse is built on the site.
@matthewfarmer68302 жыл бұрын
Dan Bell your like the King of Dead Mall series.
@billp42 жыл бұрын
Dan, you're the man!
@chadmccoy80322 жыл бұрын
Wow!! The shadow created by the skylight at 2:45. Strange. Kinda resembles the mall logo.
@bannedheretic29712 жыл бұрын
Music 🎶 playing in a dead or dying mall makes me think of the classic horror movie the shining, I expect to see Jack Nicholson's character to come around the corner screaming here's Johnny!
@jodis71472 жыл бұрын
All the planters used to be fountains. They wouldn't dismantle the one that is actually working, they would just turn it into a planter. The jingle isn't original to the opening of the mall because PharMor actually came many years later. I think it was an entire new addition.
@theoneofus10792 жыл бұрын
Hi
@mmee1234567892 жыл бұрын
So sad the owner of the movie theater put a lot of money into the place just before the mall announced they were closing. That was the nicest place of the entire mall
@charlestonpinballarcade2 жыл бұрын
BEST MALL PROMO JINGLE… EVER!
@Mustangkev9182 жыл бұрын
Damn u came to the skook
@jazzcatt-uc6bw2 жыл бұрын
Love all of your work! You should come to the Buffalo/Niagara Falls region to take a look at the Summit Mall and the Boulevard Mall!
@joshallen1282 жыл бұрын
Summit is on transit road but he should totally check out McKinley Mall
@jazzcatt-uc6bw2 жыл бұрын
@@joshallen128 the mall on Transit is Eastern Hills Mall. Summit Mall is located in Niagara Falls. McKinley would also be a good option, especially given how much it’s been on a steady decline for years.
@joshallen1282 жыл бұрын
@@jazzcatt-uc6bw McKinley Mall is scary I shop around there at JCPenney because I got coupons. The place near where Sears used to be is scary. I remember as a kid they had a island well surrounded by water fountains and the food court you had to walk down stairs to eat. I think the renovations ruined the mall along with internet access. JCPenney and best buy are still in business there because of convenience. But most of the stores are on the outside near savers
@Asilentecho12 жыл бұрын
Please come to Fresno ca they have two dead malls. The Manchester fair and sierra vista mall
@Freyii2 жыл бұрын
4:05: "Sir... Sir please don't remove the cart from the st.... ah who cares. Let him go."
@sirsmarty2742 жыл бұрын
Hay Dan maybe you could do a series of a revisit to some of these places to see how thay have gotten along since your last video, just an idea, maybe stupid but i know your looking for new ideas and content, SOOO.......... Love your Vids, Thumbs up as always
@Desslok202 жыл бұрын
Hello Are you anywhere near the Virginia Beach VA area right now? Very early in January Pembroke Mall will be DEMOLISHED and senior citizen housing will be built. The inside stores have until December 31 to vacate. The perimeter stores with outdoor entrances will stay. I'd like to see you do a video of this mall before it's gone.
@morriganwitch2 жыл бұрын
It is because it is near Centralia I feel sad xxx
@Daniel_s4442 жыл бұрын
@Dan Bell Really, really curious at what all is involved in remastering your videos. The output quality is amazing. I do notice the lag (so to speak) when the video is panning. While I can't financially help, I have a quite powerful system with 32 gigs of ram. I am more than willing to help in the remastering process should you be interested. -Daniel
@johnnykruger52128 ай бұрын
I really miss that place. A lot of good memories hanging out there on Friday and Saturday nights looking for girls lol
@jaredtatchio20642 жыл бұрын
I never seen this mall
@logann79422 жыл бұрын
So it’s the Skchkykyukyill Mall, right?
@fromthebay062 жыл бұрын
That’s a awesome song! 😂
@paddy94492 жыл бұрын
Miss the k-Mart BLUE light specials!!!!! Bought a pair of shoes .....HURT my feet like a MUTHA.....HA! HA!
@refugeeca2 жыл бұрын
I don’t get what was wrong with management. It seemed like there was serious BS going on. I know Sears was paying like $50,000 per month for rent not including utilities so of course it left. Other store owners who relocated I heard rent just kept going up. How can management be so atrocious if not on purpose? I heard loans were taken out and not spent on the mall at all. It was abysmal and crappy and took the county’s only movie theater down with it.
@papamoneyph2 жыл бұрын
just wondering... why are malls dying in the states? is this all because of online shopping? amazon?
@mikefuller51152 жыл бұрын
I have a dead mall for you guys Is the Pyramid mall in Ithaca New York it is currently called the shops at ithaca mall
@robertmiller21046 ай бұрын
Build a warehouse there so sad
@chm99353 ай бұрын
SchuylKILLED
@888ssss2 жыл бұрын
cant have record house prices AND consumer shopping. 😆
@trashl0rd Жыл бұрын
A Chik Fil A closed down with an active Arby's right across? Truly a degenerate town that deserve collapse.
@platec47982 жыл бұрын
If a pipe burst or a sewer backed up, is there anyone actually working or visitng the mall that would notice? Seems a general theme accross North America that malls greater than twenty years of age are yesterday's news. Plate C
@46GarageUSA2 жыл бұрын
Place SUCKED even when first opened, the layout was the problem, it was awful... And it always felt and looked very dark and abandoned even with all the stores in it... Would of been better if a double decker , smaller footprint... I remember thinking, just to walk it to window shop was awful, took way to long to go from one anchor store to the other ..
@pearlmax Жыл бұрын
The music is unlistenable. I get the idea, but highly annoying. You're showing dead malls, play the silence.