So cool. We used to always admire that house lol like 'I bet they wouldn't sell'

Daniel Moore old man Peabody owned all of it. He had this crazy idea, about breeding pinetrees.

Great scott!

That's like buying stock in a company and assuming you now own the entire company. xD

You do, if you own 51% of all stocks.

+ihatetaft LOLLL

+ihatetaft We even lost our Sears earlier this yr at 20th and Broadway in OK Land; I think it's gonna be an Uber headquarters now.

+ihatetaft And the other 14 dislikes are from Macy's, Sears, and JC Penny's associates.

Yep!

And bath and body works !

Crossroads mall (now wonderland of the americas) in San Antonio, texas went from dead to completely dead to thriving!

+Steve Harpster (Harptoons) Kind of, there are two in the North Hills of Pittsburgh that came back. North Hills Village started as a strip mall anchored by Gimbel's with many other smaller stores that you would find in an old main street shopping district. They then enclosed it in the late 70's by adding a row of smaller shops opposite the current ones. When strip malls came back into fashion and with the opening of a much larger traditional mall across the street they started to convert it back into a strip mall by taking out the hallway and moving the entrance doors to facing the parking lot. Its currently has a Best Buy at one end, a Kohl's at the other and a Target, Shop and Save, and Burlington's with a few smaller stores in between. Just up the road is Northway Mall that also started as a strip mall but then added an enclosed mall in 1962 above it on the hillside just behind it. It was the first mall in PA. It was anchored by Hornes, Woolworth and Murphy's. They also sort of enclosed the walkway in front of the strip mall. As I write this they are demoing most of the mall and converting it into The Block Northway that will have fewer larger stores like Nordstrom Rack. But I doubt most malls will ever come back as the malls we knew in the 80's. I think I had read that there hasn't been a major indoor mall built in the US for 10 years. The last one in the Pittsburgh area wa in 2001.

Our malls in NC are suffering, but the simple 1 story outlets that stretch around a parking lot are where people are going instead. I think it has something to do with choices. The stores that have opened in outlets are the stores that the malls have been lacking.

I remember a few malls form my childhood in the 70s that were open-air and completely dying as shops were empty and only a few were operating. After 1980 some of them were torn down for condos while others were converted into closed malls like these and they started to thrive with families and young teens. It was shoulder to shoulder traffic every weekend and they even had two video arcades. Fast forward to today and they're much less populated as shoppers have migrated to online shopping.

Lana Wana Actually, The Streets at Southpoint is thriving right now

Brett Warner Yeah but foot traffic isn’t too terribly great, much of the mall is “cheap” or “budget” kind of stuff.

This didn’t age well

I heard the Sears closed recently

What? Are you on drugs? This place is more empty than it was during this bideo

@@brandonkostinsky2373 Bare in mind, the comment was written 4 years ago.

+YourHuckleberry I feel the same.

yeeeeeeessss! im a 19 year old from the mid 90s but, but oh do i love the 80s

+YourHuckleberry This is what I love to hear. Thank you.

YourHuckleberry I see those lights every Saturday

This mall is still hanging on, even with an entire wing of empty stores and all the good old stores are gone.

I should say so. DEF TOTALLY 80z! 😎

part of me is like how did anyone genuinely find that aesthetically pleasing and the other part of me kind of gets it

It's a good 80s A E S T H E T I C

+Jenni Case I can stop laughing about it! Hilarious!

what was playing on the other end?

The crying will only intensify when the callers see the bill. Longer they stay on, the bigger the bill meaning bigger sobs.

@@rockshot100 You can't stop laughing? You'll have to phone that number then. They will put a stop to that.

@@whatshisname3304 What the 2000s will really be

80s vaporwave goodness. A blast from the past. Due to covid more than half the stores closed and the mall now has an eerily liminal space aesthetic. Would love to see 80s malls never g we t updated.

I still see neon lights everywhere

+Max Moser (aMAXproduction) #THEMAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL

+Jesus Zamora You’re really onto something.

aMAX Animations YOUR HERE?!

I'm in a hotel a block away from that place right now for training! It's incredible!!

aMAX Animations Mall of America might die too

As a teen in the 1980s the mall was an exciting place where I'd see my friends in the food court. All the commercialism and spending was a reminder that America was great and strong. Now it's much different.

+bigadz75 Comment of the day!

yes.

Arizona TEAdom

bigadz75 the mall isn't dead it was the time and the place of the mall he was in

+rbow84 you might say the same about the United Kingdom too - the world we knew was only ever going to get better, and I feel privileged to have grown up in those decades. I genuinely don't think that I'm looking at things through rose-tinted spectacles - as teens we lived through some very good times. Back in those days as long as you were reasonably well educated you could walk into almost any job - I certainly did. I worry for my niece and nephew who I suspect are entering a much less generous and pessimistic era - my nephew's a really bright and friendly kid, but he's been trying to get a Saturday job for ever with no success.

Hope died when Rabin was assassinated by Likud.

What a short term sort of thought.

I was born in 1990 and I am proud of it. I mean, it would have been cooler to have been born in the 80's so I could have lived my teen years in the 90's, but whatever. I remember up until the mid 2000's, malls use to be jam-packed with people and were the hottest place to go for teenagers. Now, they're just concrete husks in a sea of cracking asphalt parking lots.

The problem is that they overbuilt. America has much more retail space than it needs. These malls destroyed the small businesses (though Ann's survived). They looked like growth to the city planners, but it was a zero sum game. But they have no connection to the community, so they have no staying power. Building more malls within easy driving distance in hopes of even more growth just killed the previous generation of malls.

Sue Ellen Davis i feel like Wal-Mart is also killing the malls

super speed3256 yea and thats weird because Wal- Mart's clothing sucks ass in quality. Mall shops always have better quality clothing. Everything else is yes available at Wal-mart or Target. Me personally i hate shopping in those big stores.

Sue Ellen Davis as much as I hate saying it but there is barely any malls left. and a decade ago they where everywhere. and i agree wali world and target's suck major ass when it comes to clothing and other uneeded things. i miss walking around malls it feel more welcoming

Sue Ellen Davis another thing is they put so much work into malls to make them look nice both Walmart and target just throw a random building down without caring about the looks. they would get more attention if they but effort into there buildings like the malls do

super speed3256 very true

+Damian Stachelski That's pretty much how I view them too.

I do the same thing when I'm playing Black ops 3. Lol. Especially with his urbex videos.

+Damian Stachelski really relaxing and enjoyable videos if I'm taking a break from gaming always nice to come and watch these :)

I';m Surfing in gmod , or playing Path of exile, in the other monitor watching dan.

Yes! I put on all of his videos when I just want to chill and relax. His voice is so soothing lol.

It's a great album. They were very kind to give me permission to use the music.

+Charles Garcia Jr. I'm 16 and watch his stuff

im 14 and i love dead malls + abandoned places tbh, ive been watching dan since i was 12

Charles Garcia Jr. I'm 13

Same. The more I watch the more gut-wrenchingly depressed I get but I love it and I can't stop.

It’s quite depressing for me, considering I go to this mall quite often. It is nothing more than a shell of its former self.

Me too! This is a hard series 2 take 😑

Everytime I stop in it feels closer to the end for this mall. That kills me because I remember my dad bringing me and my brother here in the 90's and we absolutely loved it. It was very lively and the stores were much better. It's so much nostalgia to walk in there even today. We just stopped in this weekend

I watch this chasing a time I cannot get back. 😢

+catherine144 Thanks, Catherine! Feel better!

I'm one of it's few saviors - I hate driving into the city of eternal road construction (Annapolis), dislike parking at the Yuppie Mall (Columbia), and really dislike trying to find a parking spot at Arundel Mills (especially at Christmas). Plus I live within a ten minute drive of it. I can walk there.

Oh god you're right.

wow you are spot on... even the elevator area where kids used to play in lakeforest... I wonder if it is same architect.

You have to be kidding me?!

+This is Dan Bell. I'm not kidding. The store will probably go out of business soon, because they said their deliveries of Nascar diecast, which they have the most of, are no longer being delivered to them. And even if the store stays open, when the mall closes in presumably the next seven years, they're going to be left without a home. Really sad.

I've never been to this mall but that reminds me of a place I once saw where the whole family lived in a tiny market in the back with mattresses on the floor and a mini stove LOL. the toddler had a cardboard box with some blanket in it for his bed. for or america, it's so crazy! sad but crazy.

+Joey Altaner I would think most mall's would have prohibitions against living in your store. I know for office buildings there is usually a clause saying you can't live there 24/7.

Not true. They DO NOT live in the store AND I'm not sure who you talked to but their biggest source of income was NEVER selling NASCAR diecast. Their main source is the slot car racing aspect of the store.

We still have our Spencer's too. Not as successful as it used to be but still does decent business

Same! It's all just crap. Sex toys, inappropriate t shirts, pot leafs everywhere lol. It used to be a hoot back in high school, but now I'm just kinda like "wtf, go away Spenser's". Honestly I believe they should merge Hot Topic & Spenser's together & put them into a bigger space. Both those stores are horrible to try to walk through & have the same vibe.

I love Spencer's

Raidergeek34 I have only been to Spencer's once and that was during a club field trip back in high school. The girls I tagged along with decided to be brave and go in but we got a kick out of the inappropriate gift cards and one of the girls bought some kind of ring or piercing there. I purchased a multicolored spinning light just for the hell of it. I'd turn off my bedroom light and light it up and it made me happy that others could see it from outside (though we always had so much company, they knew I wasn't doing anything inappropriate, lol). I'd turn it on and listen to my CD player and it made me feel kind of cool...a feeling I barely experienced during those years. Admittedly, I don't hate the store but I can see how many would feel it's best with a younger audience that wants to be edgy.

+Chris Cancelliere Yeah I was thinking the same thing . But then again those was the 80-90s people had 900 to get off and 900 numbers to cry when they couldn't lol ..... Sorry I couldn't resist .

+Chris Cancelliere Maybe the lamentation line lady's pet rock died.

Sounds like a neat idea, if you ask me. Just cry your damn soul out to some asshat on the other end for $1 per minute!

+BikerBoyNJ Cheaper than psychotherapy by a long shot, yet w/a similar cathartic outcome. Pay someone to make you cry, or a machine to listen to it. Since crying is free, I guess what we're paying for is external validation of our sorrow. I'd forgotten about the 80's 900 number boom. It seems the more physically crowded humanity is, the more psychologically Isolated we become. Now we have Dr. Feelio's "Dr. on Demand" app! And KZfaq comments!

The clock is ticking for them.

+TheHardcoreMANGO aesthetic af

+TheHardcoreMANGO a s s // d e a d // d i c k

+TheHardcoreMANGO E X A C T L Y

d e a d m a l l s a r e c o o l

/A/S/P/E/S/T/O/S/

Arundel Mills is literally a tourist trap and Annapolis constantly updates itself every time I go

+Pablo Forero It’s on the album Deep Fantasy by S U R F I N G. The whole album is on KZfaq.

+This is Dan Bell. Excellent. much appreciated. Keep up the great work, I never knew I would enjoy watching mall videos so much.

+This is Dan Bell. you should go to the mall in Rehoboth it is completely dead accept for radio shack and Tuesday morning if you want to

busing/farming dude farmer dude I was just wondering yesterday if that mall was still open. Is it? I’m going to be over in that area soon. Let me know.

yeah it is barley dude it is in bad shape you should check it out thx

Arundel Mills and online shopping

Annapolis Mall and Arundel Mills are two of the largest malls in Maryland and they are only a 15 minute drive away from Marley Station. Also, the town closest to Marley (Glen Burnie) is built out and is going downhill, in 1987 when Marley opened GB was growing and on the upswing.

and columbia

+Patrick Marsh Me too she looked evilly happy

+Patrick Marsh She was actually in the 900 commercial in the beginning and I believe that Dan edited it into the 900-CRY commercial as a hilariously evil ending to that!! BWHAAAA!!!

+Patrick Marsh When it showed her, it made me LOL! haha

+Patrick Marsh Yeah, that bit took a sudden dark turn, lol.

lmao it made me laugh!!!

I'd say that the pink neon triangles throughout and the sunken concrete seating area below the escalator are pretty dated despite the upkeep.

+Divine Gaming lol exactly. what do gumball machines have to do with anything. they've been around since forever

Please fucking hope not, Woodfield and Westfield-Hawthorn malls in northeast Illinois are great and I don't want those to go under Contrary to the rest of the country, NE Illinois strip malls are dying but indoor/hybrid malls are thriving (hybrid as in indoor and some outdoor portions cointained in the same mall)

+realimbored668 Woodfield always did well. It's Oakbrook mall we have to worry about, unless something happened the last five years.

+trainluvr Actually that neon lighting screams '80s.

Christine Sixteen so true...

mmm

Both malls in my area were dying, but they both came back to life. East Gate was near death, came back, now is back to dying. It is sad. But North Gate is doing well for almost teetering near death during the recession in 2007/2008. I remember walking in there with my sister and we were going, "Oh my... wtf... where is everything?" Came back a year later for Christmas and BOOM! Like nothing ever happened.

So sad. I'm a big fan of indoor malls...

Wait, sears still exists??

Lana Wana yep I still have one in my shopping mall

Gilitar Everywhere but Canada, and especially Winnipeg

The death of Sears is the product of the death of the American middle class. Online retail took a big bite out of malls, but there are other factors as well. The few surviving malls also increasingly reflect this trend of income compartmentalization... either going the outlet route, or the upscale luxury retail route.