A visit to Delco Plaza Mall AND Apple Blossom Mall

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A visit to Delco Plaza Mall AND Apple Blossom Mall

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5 жыл бұрын

Welcome back. Today, we're in Winchester VA, taking a look at not one, but two malls once again. One of them is really tiny, though, so it'll go by very quickly.
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@leesnapp6582 5 жыл бұрын

I live near here and worked in this mall for years. This mall has so many ups and downs with its tenant roster that it can go from what you see here to dead. They do refill stores as they leave, I will give that, but after the late 90s-early 2000s it never was the same again.

@righteatsrightpolitics1323 5 жыл бұрын

The mall felt very bland and cramped inside. It reminded of walking around in a Walmart, very congested with all the kiosks and small walking area. My favorite part of your mall videos is the driving up and driving around the exterior. It's cool to see the malls surrounding area and not just the interior.

@HagarLoves 5 жыл бұрын

I know you've done Tanglewood mall in Roanoke, VA, but have you done Valley View? I think that would be a great living mall to showcase. It's always busy and has pretty much 100% occupancy if I'm not mistaken. Plus, decent architecture!!

@marthahayes5073 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite video out of all that I've watched so far. I haven't been in a mall since December, 2019 but after watching a boat load of your videos this past month I'm dying to go. So I'm going to Triangle Mall in Raleigh today. Wish me luck!

@DoomieGruntVentures 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy the mall

@frankieturner630 3 жыл бұрын

I used to work at that mall and I liked it better before they remodeled it when it had its pretty brick floor

@rjanis123 4 жыл бұрын

The fitness center is now closed and the sears will be gone soon

@klayed 3 жыл бұрын

good 2 hear that ty for the update

@MEXICANMOOSE1976 5 жыл бұрын

Man..i miss Zayre's... last things I bought there in the 80's was my Parachute pants and Metallic Vinyl Track Suit!! Thanks for the double feature Hank Loner!!!😂😂😂

@nancydarling4918 5 жыл бұрын

As usual, good mall video. Interesting. Can't wait for your next mall video. Thanks for filming.

@NebulaZ3r0 Жыл бұрын

I actually spent a good chunk of my life living in the region, and the Apple Blossom Mall used to be my favorite place to go growing up, especially the old Waldenbooks and what used to be EB Games. There used to be a KB Toys, too. I actually learned to love movies thanks to the movie theater at Delco. I remember watching Return to Neverland and the original Jumanji there, amongst others. It's ashame that there's so much that died and changed thanks in part to lack of interest and part due to the "spirit of progress". No matter what happens to the storefronts, though, the memories will still live on.

@margeauxreall2402 5 жыл бұрын

the apple blossom mall was a dead mall in the late 90's, early 2000's we used to stop there occasionally on road trips to stretch our legs and it was very retro before the early 2000's renovation.. i remember brick floors, fountains and lots of earth tones....

@dansimon1100 5 жыл бұрын

I remember that too I actually did a walk through the mall but I can remember talkin about it it's on my channel I live in Winchester

@beanz3322 3 жыл бұрын

yeah and in the food court area they had a mirror ceiling. I used to be so intrigued by it when I was younger lol

@flitter5400 2 жыл бұрын

And that mirror ceiling in the food court lol

@aussietwilightfreak 3 жыл бұрын

Awww...Apple blossom will always have a place in my heart. I lived in va for a year when I was an au pair. Mind you if I needed to get some real shopping down I’d just take a drive to Tyson’s.

@jeee1074 5 жыл бұрын

Glad Simon did not demolish the Apple Blossom mall, but wow is it bland. The Delco Plaza sounds like it is cursed with so many incidents over the years. Excellent video as always.

@dansimon1100 4 жыл бұрын

Update 1 / 20 / 2020 the Sears in the Apple Blossom Mall is now closing I live here Winchester Virginia and just want to add that on here hey if you ever come back up this way soon as you can walk around a Sears that's pretty Barren in there now

@jholder1966 5 жыл бұрын

White causes the other color on the store fronts to pop.And if well maintained gives the filling of cleanliness. Although I agree they could have at least done something with the floor ..

@WinstonMercer 5 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed your comment "it's even whiter than me"

@JD-dq8zn 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't. Why should fair people denigrate their natural state? Every human ethnicity is beautiful.

@nancydarling4918 5 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, Apple Blossom Mall is bland. But still, good video.

@dansimon1100 5 жыл бұрын

I live in Winchester Virginia and I've been to that mall ever since I was a baby even coming up here from Texas until I move to Virginia but I remember that mall when it used to be more lively they were trying to change that molds have be more modernized I used to have brick floors but yeah I did a video on my Channel about this is three of the mall I'm surprised mall is still going

@bethpeters3477 8 ай бұрын

Another great video The Apple Blossom Mall was so sterile. It reminded me of a hospital.

@missjess82 5 жыл бұрын

Man you’re hitting up malls from my past. Apple Blossom was another one I went to when I lived in Berkeley Springs!

@davidtwigg7189 2 жыл бұрын

I wish the simon company would take over our Mall in LaVale Maryland the Country Club Mall we've lost Sears Penneys and Banton amongst other smaller stores also no one seems to care if they fill the empty spaces it would be nice if the people up here would try to fill those empty stores do their jobs right.

@autofox1744 7 ай бұрын

Simon has no soul, and so it must leech the souls of old malls by turning them into generic husks from which no originality escapes.

@lauratyler591 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe keeping it simple is what works best. I saw nothing wrong with the absolutely busy mall. 😊

@flintfireforge7360 3 жыл бұрын

The plants and resting spots are nice. I enjoy the right turn signal music.

@librapaladin81 2 жыл бұрын

Bland yes... but I can appreciate any mall today which has found a way to survive.

@aybuzz4771 5 жыл бұрын

2.40$ for gas is better than 2.90$

@flintfireforge7360 3 жыл бұрын

Do you eat instant grits, or grits that is made by hand like a reat southern.

@DoomieGruntVentures 5 жыл бұрын

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@kristinepfs 3 жыл бұрын

This is amazing!! Is this mall still doing so well?

@beanz3322 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Winchester, and it’s still doing pretty well. Sears has been closed for about a year now though and they haven’t gotten a new store to fill up the spot.

@markvolpe2305 5 жыл бұрын

Why does JCP has 2 mall entrances and no food court?

@CrowdfundingHell 5 жыл бұрын

This was a staple of many JCPenney stores that went into malls for years. The idea was that with TWO entrances to the mall, shoppers would either use the JCP exterior entrances to come inside (creating potential customer foot traffic and sales both coming and going) or cut through the JCP store to bypass a section of the mall, with the same result. Food courts didn't hit most 70s-era malls until the 1980s in my experience. Eating places tended to be scattered throughout the mall up until that time. I used to work in a mall very much like this -- in fact, it was a Simon mall -- that didn't get a food court until the early 80s as part of an expansion, almost ten years after the initial mall was built.