Dan! Please go back to Signal Hill. The dead mall community would love to see your revisit to this place. Village Inn Pizza is gone, the mall is moldy and truly unsafe for anyone to be inside. I have visited several times over the last few years and just posted an update video. Please, Signal Hill needs you back. 😂🎉🎉🎉

Update: as of Sept 2023 the belk wing of the mall is now roped off. The belk entrance was walled off a while ago, now you can’t go down that wing. The rest of the mall now has kiddie pools collecting water. It seriously has to be close to the end… sad

Bright Sun Films Funny thing is, this video was uploaded on the very same day.

Ironically there is a dead Blockbuster across the street from this mall. I used to work in the Sears in this mall

What is it from?

got blockbuster back in the uk

I love the single-frame flicker epithet at 1:38

Lau me and my ex best friend went to block buster to get snacks then sneak them into the cinema or eat them while we wait

Omg I remember Blockbuster, I was maybe six or... seven. It was around the final days of Blockbuster. My family used to rent movies and games all the time. There were always big bins filled with candy, I used to beg for Mike and Ike's each time we went. Good times :)

He we still have family video here in Statesville

blockbusters - i did have some good experiences at them. But they were overpriced and pushed out the cheaper and friendlier mom and pop video rental stores. I'd rather go to the mom and pop ones. Blockbusters were a bunch of bastards no different than jeff bezos and amazon. I'm actually glad they're gone, but yes I agree video rentals were the shiznit back in the day. I just preferred the local joints instead.

It's a shame. I liked the experience of going to a video store.

and radio shack.

+VOREVOX radio shack used to sell more than cell phones? lol.

At least you still have radio shack there, they died out here in Canada and were replaced with The Source witch is not doing too well anymore.

***** sheesh. Radio Shack was worth something at some point in time. I tried to find a power switch for my bass amplifier and they looked at me like I had a second head.

Victorias secret, Foot locker and Burlingtons also

Like his daddy might have before him, but will there be a fountain around for his kid to enjoy?

So existential, LOL

Next.

Better to have a few vague memories of a dying American pastime rather than just having none at all.

His parents could have been mallrats here when they were kids.

Something... still 4 years ago

well come on, when was the last time Britney was relevant?

8 years. Holy shit

The baclkground music was aewsome

Cinematic 😍

Mallsoft

lmaoooo

Bwaahahaha!!! Legend also has it that I peed a little from ur comment!! OMG! TOO FUNNY!!! 😂😂😂😂

I need oxygen XD lmaoooooo

Legend says the man obsessed with cleaning his nose been walking without destination in search of his woman since 1982. 😂

I laugh so hard men. DAMM!!!

Next.

elchubbo Haven't seen it. Sorry.

elchubbo old person

My son works at.... BLOOOOCKBUSTER.

I regret donating my ugly Blockbuster uniforms to the thrift shop. That yellow collar, eeek. But now it's pure nostalgia. That was my first job.

That's her in 7:15. Old & withered before her years... waiting... waiting for the Blockbuster to reopen.

Carla Vidal What a prediction. A year later, all I see is the “Laughing Blockbuster Woman” meme everywhere I look...

I love that laughing girl. Not only was she a joy. But she was beautiful & somwhat cute.

Thanks!

I was gonna say the music goes well with these mall vids. really gives it that retro feel from back in the days. i actuly miss music like this, when i was a kid in the 90s i enjoyed this kinda music. you dont get it anymore sadly.

+This is Dan Bell. There is a dead mall in my hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin called The Shops of Grand Ave. It's an urban mall with about 45% occupancy rate. It's good court is full but there are barely any shops at all. I would really appreciate if you would visit. Thanks.

whoa you like dan bell too! far out, it's a small world I guess, I dig both of your channels.

Artzie! :) I didn't know you liked dead malls too 💕

Next time : Silent Hill Mall.

If that mall is open in a few more years I'll make sure to roam it myself!

Lol 😂 XD

Yep

That sounds like a song lyric

Koioseter I thought the same thing.

Actually in some of these dead mall videos, the water seeping in and the broken skylights have caused the plants to grow really huge. Jake Williams has some videos of malls like that; he tends to do malls that are in a later stage of abandonment (i.e. moss growing on the floor).

It's probably nostalgia of the time period the mall represents, but not nostalgia of the physical mall itself

Same.

Every North American city has a place like this. If not more than one.

Fauntleroy Eh, debatable. I live in OKC and the malls here are fine.

I'm 16 I can't be nostalgic of that lol.

v a p o r w a v e

Meghan murphy gotta love it

Dustyn Lyon it is awesome

A e s t h e t i c

The besst

She might be security.

I think she was scouting families out to rob

Yes the older lady made feel sad for some reason. I felt for her.

😜🤣 That was funny! 👍

She’s a stunt granny.

Correction: Dead Mall Series IS life! We are all consuming this series very quickly. Lol You are not alone, my friend.

Ya, well I'm not far behind. I'm watching this vid on a Friday night. Me and the dog... Want a join me for a mall walk?😜

maybe no life but great taste for sure.

Its given life new meaning

You should’ve patronized your local mall instead.

Yes!!!

Thanks!

This is Dan Bell.​​ Love your work Dan. Did you see ace's adventures. He has a video behind the wall at century 3. And a good rolling acres video. He got inside the movie theater. For some reason as a Clevelander that place fascinates me. if you make it back here I owe you a beer. I don't have cable in my house so your channel gives me hours of entertainment.

Exactly how I feel every time I see a new video from him.

+b juardo That mall is still alive

Mine too

I'm also a fountain fan ;)

i miss those kind of malls cos today malls are to weird for me is not the same plus ppl dont go to the malls where im at like b4 now is quiet places in the malls and i was born 1984

+Buggy fan Same here. They don't even build malls here anymore. They are all strip malls now. I miss the old ones too.

IKR THAT CRAZY WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGE ALOT PPL PLACES FOODS ECT

And before that, the barn-looking store was a Hickory Farms. My Mom and I used to shop there in the late 80's. Loved that Chick-fil-A!

@@packaok Before it was Hickory Farms it was a locally owned clothing store where the more fashion forward folks shopped.

Ko Hoshino 😎 a

Ko Hoshino I agree.It won't be attractive to people visiting but I hope they do something about it

Ko Hoshino everyone is switching to online shopping

Hello from America. Some cities in America don't do so well, and businesses go under. People shop online a lot today, and stores find it hard to compete.

That’s understandable, small businesses around the world close all the time. Just normal economics, I guess. I remember, from the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, businesses would make big investments, and some would go out of business afterwards due to a lack of funds. Also, your English is not bad, Ko.

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There was this one time that this customer came in asking if we had any pornos. That's... that's it. I actually never worked there, nobody answered so I thought at least someone could get something. :) lol

People used to defecate in the VHS boxes and put them through the drop box after closing - that was fun...

I was hired in high school and the college kid assistant manager tried to get me to sleep with him day one. I quit. Obviously lacking a sexual harassment training video

Nina H Wow!

Or not

+Sky Yukna correction: an Amazon showroom! Since that's exactly what a sizable amount of "shoppers" do in this day & age... showrooming!!!

You must be young. I am almost 50 and was born three months after the mall opened to the day. Santa was at center court where the fountain was. Then he was by Woolworth's where Sears was. Only in the later years was Santa on a stage by JCPenny's.

Also, if you see a guy walking about with a videocamera & listening to vaporwave, it's an omen of impending mall-death. Kinda like the banshee in folklore as a sign of imminent death...

PT cruiser belongs to the Bed & Bath store manager. The buick is the mall walker with the clean noise and bright future...😜

Old Dodge pickups from before 2005.

😂

Roy Mustang - hahaha- couldn't stop laughing at that one!

mallwalker confirmed 😀

my nose is so not clean right now. at least its not crack. allergies

To keep my happy side of life. I'd avoid that mall at all cost...

That's what its like at my local dead mall, Tanglewood Mall, Roanoke VA

The Sephora is keeping some foot traffic at my local dying JCPenney. 😐

jcpenny closed at eastridge in 2017.

Oh fuck, I JUST started working at a JCPenney’s and was told it’s shutting down in 3 months

@@ArtistTheArtist05 Well, it's a Chapter 11 company, that was kind of to be expected.

I felt sorry for her.

Kinda made me think of the time my grandmother took me to a Dead Mall in Brantford, Ontario, it was called the Eaton Centre (there were many called that not to be confused with the big one in Toronto). It was like 10+ years ago, i think now it is just business and medical offices.

She is a mall sitter. LOL

+Chris AA me too

Is she alive or memorex?

That was an employee training video, I'm pretty sure every employee training video in existence is cringey.

If you saw some of the training videos for RadioShack from the early 90s ... a lot of the same. And just laughably bad.

I worked a few summers at McDonalds in the early 1990s. Their crew training videos were just as cringeworthy and hilarious as Blockbuster's! I clearly remember the saccharine-addicted blonde in a McDonald's visor asking the customer "How are your fries and Big Mac? Would you like a free refill of Coke?" LOL. My first thoughts were "What have I gotten myself into?!"

I had to sit through a couple for some grocery store jobs, and they weren't so much cringey as boring (although they were cringey as well). Nothing will top the rapping Ames lady though.

He's a cutie

xYALE70x Tbh, she's probably remembering the good times. You know, like when you go to a rememberable place that you went to when you were younger? And you get that warm nostalgia feeling.

Faye you know how they say, we Americans are fat and lazy, so we shop online instead of walking to the stores lol

Online shopping is also not as easy in Europe, I think. In America is all just one click away and everything is there the next day. We still don't have that mentality in Europe.

The main problem with American malls is the concentration of malls in certain areas and many of them offer the same stores. Paramus, NJ has 3 large malls and a number of smaller plazas that house larger stores. The malls are no more than 2 or 3 miles away from each other. One of the malls was dying until 2011 when it was bought out and extensively renovated, expanded, and rebranded as an outlet mall.

u.s. wages haven't gone up since the 80s, so the bulk of the u.s. population has barely enough money to survive on, let alone spend on random crap without at least researching the shit out of it first - hence, online shopping

I think online shopping is made primarily for the US and the rest of the world just tries to keep up.

Belk is actually a quite successful department store chain with locations at most malls in the southeast.

They need to travel up to MD, Marley Station could use a little belch.

+Jacqui Mayton there is a Belk in Westminster, MD

Belk is a pretty okay store, they are trying really hard to please and keep customers with exceptional customer service.

Delma Church hail corporate

Not all of them will disappear. Malls of which are convenient to city residential areas, and busy highways will remain popular. What we are seeing is the death of portions of the overbuilt malls dedicated to Suburbs, and remote areas.

For you kids, if you want to see what malls used to be like watch Fast Times At Ridgemont High.

I miss those days to.

I know..

We are all standing in the same line. We have NO life!!!🤣

Oh, bad food at the the dead mall.

I'm convinced both those stores are fronts for the mob, Al Qaeda, or the CIA.

dont even get me started on that idiot and his weird friends !! They tell alot of b.s. info.

he just gets views from his clickbait titles its so annoying

+Claudia Powell well what really irritated me was a few months back he posted a vid in Tx about a abandoned ghost town. That town is is Bartlett,Tx its in the County i live in. its not a ghost town just a small town. he was completely wrong about the Tx. chainsaw massacre house in Granger,Tx. He needs to get real facts and not just google shit.

agreed

I agree!

Cheers, Craig!

Craig, part of the problem with malls is that they have a lot of competition from department stores that are stand-alone locations and not near the mall. Places like Kohl's will provide you with a similar experience to a Macy's department store in the mall, and it's much more convenient. Stores like Target and Wal-Mart are go-to places for typical stuff. They sell almost anything, and the clothing is decent these days compared to the 1980s when the clothing was subpar. I also get the feeling that Americans are not as materialistic as they used to be. People don't seem to feel the need to go shopping as much as they once did. There are thriving malls in the U.S., but these are typically the ones that led to the demise of the "dead malls".

It doesn't help when millions and millions of people have lost their jobs over the past 25-30 years, either. People who are still lucky enough to have jobs have snapped their wallets and pocketbooks tight.

Plenty of dead malls in the UK, although they're more like undead malls. Shops are occupied but with gold-buying scams, ultra discount plasticy clothing, musclebuilding supplements etc. There just wasn't the number of malls that you got in the states. In the UK the more blatant example of the death of retail is the high streets. Charity shops everywhere -they get a discount from the council, selling the dusty old tatty belongings of dead people. Course if you live in London or one of the big cities, everything might seem great, but It's Grim up North. ;) (And west. And east.)

Also, parking can be really bad in the UK, so even when a mall is undead, people will still use the multistory carpark. Reminds me of Dan's video on Gallery 1 connected to a train station. Lots of thru-traffic, nobody actually buying anything.

With the pile of belk coupons in their purse. The only way to get a good deal...They no longer have big hair just big asses....🤣

+VOREVOX dude....I see you everywhere. lol small world

+VOREVOX Subbed back. 😀👍

Friday night at the mall. man those were the days.

Friday nights are sometimes a "double mall night" for me: I go to one of my local, lively malls with my mother just to hang out for awhile, and then return home to see the latest Dead Mall Series episode!

Thanks, Sassy! Perhaps. Haven’t decided yet.

+This is Dan Bell. haha typical man.... playing hard to get! lol I'll be at the orange julius stand just in case. I love the videos!

I did the same thing and thought that also!! how crazy!

I saw that too. What the hell?

Their website must be on all the drugs. ;)

LOL.. I just moused over it. "Christmas, August 20th 2017" Also, the footer says (C) 2016 Default copyright text. Come on! It's not that hard even with the little money they have.

bwahahaha.

Clean nose and all

@Aimee Webber ahaha if you want to say that. Belk is still open.... about the only thing other than little shops here and there. Other than that, it's a ghost town.

Dead...😜

Get out to your local mall instead