That Bon Ton entrance always looks like a throwback with the wood panelling for the interior signage.

I was part of the demolition crew on the warren mall and I now obtain the last token from aladdin's castle. we were taking down the kmart canopy when it fell off the roof beside me. priceless! i spent a lot of time in that arcade.

This really brings back memory's. I grew up in Warren and spent a lot of Friday and Saturday evenings at this mall, up until the late 80's when I joined the Military.

Fun Facts of Life facts - Jenny O’Hara grew up in Warren and Charlotte Rae passed away in 2018 - the year the Warren Mall officially closed. Growing up in the 80s, my dad was a mailman and the mall was on his route. Seeing the mailboxes made me particularly nostalgic.

Oh wow, so sad. Thank you for the tour. I grew up in the Warren area. Went to the mall often. We moved away in '97. All the stores were still in business then.

Ace, quite interesting. I watched the other vid of this mall when you got inside prior to it going away. I go way back, I was the district manager of the Kay Bee Toy store in this mall as well as the Chautauqua Mall in 1980. Both of these malls were pretty slow back then from my perspective. I grew up in Rochester, got sent to Buffalo by Kay Bee, opened the store in Thruway Mall, same for Eastern Hills, the promoted and sent to Jamestown. Only spent 1 year there but do remember these 2 malls. Sad to see them gone, though surprised and glad they lasted as long as they did. Watching a lot of your other vids too. Good job and thanks for doing these!

Warren mall was poppin when I was a kid

I grew up in the same area as you, and knew both the Chautauqua and Warren malls well. I now live in Michigan, but was still around to see the gradual decline in both places. I miss the Aladdin's Castle in the Warren Mall most of all.

Nice job Ace. I'm a former Jamestowner myself. I remember Chautauqua and Warren malls when they were busy. Progress sucks sometimes.

Gotta love that old school Bon-Ton logo.

Have you ever considered checking out the old Ames build over in Medina, NY? Outside of the removed signs it still looks unchanged since the chain's closure. It also had a Bells Supermarket that recently became a Tractor Supply.

Such good memories from that mall. Ponderosa, KB Toys, Aladdin's Castle. This was a trip down memory lane. I moved away in 2013 and while I do go back to visit every 3-4 years, I miss it greatly. The area was hit with such economic disaster that it is so hard to find a decent job and make a living there.

As grungy as that mall office was, there was a treasure trove of retail history in there. This was a great visit, Anthony.

That's crazy, I can't believe that the Christmas decorations are for sale at bon ton. This is interesting mall. Great video.

Does anyone remember hearing the old Warren mall commercials on the radio? I still have that etched into my mind to this day. Oh the memories!

Cool video!! I love that old Bon Ton signage!

I too was there in 2018. I think it might have been July. Walking through the mall while they were demolishing part of it was scary because it seemed like nobody would be accountable if a ceiling fell through! I went to the Bon Ton and scored myself an awesome rain jacket, a pair of sturdy hiking shoes I still wear today, and some airtight containers that I use today, too. But I felt like I was part of the problem. Warren hadn't been able to pay full price for goods at Bon Ton for quite some time. My favorite thing I saw walking through the front doors, when you took a right into the first hallway there was a store that was closed and mostly empty. But in the front windows there was one of those "Warren Bears" (like the one at the Visitor center) posed as if he was leaning into a big garbage can. Whether he was supposed to be digging for food or hurling into it, I took a picture of it. There were also fixtures all over the place that I tried to arrange for donation to the Senior Center, that they could have had for free, but nobody was willing to go there and take the items. Our sense of re-use is broken. The fixtures were stamped "Made In America" but nobody wanted to spend 1 dollar for gas to pick them up. Guess they would rather buy new crap, from China.

Kinda reminds me of what is left of my local childhood mall turned shopping center (wal mart, lowes, tractor supply, burlington,planet fitness). The Riverside Mall (now Riverside Center) in Utica N.Y. Now I believe just the old mall offices and the backroom of a Bradlees actually still remain. Some more of it remained back in 2009 and I was lucky enough to get in there while they were building the Burlington. The old storefronts remaining then were Electronics boutique, Lane Bryant, Friendly's, Regis hair, Barbara moss and the backroom of Bradlees. If you're ever bored Ace do some googling of "Riverside Mall Utica NY" there's a ton of pictures and stories out there. It was a great mall.

"I learned the facts of life from watching the facts of life." - The cable guy

Hi I grew up in Warren Pennsylvania,

Great video! Thanks.

Awesome throwing facts of life into this!!! First season of forgotten faces! Keep up the awesome work Ace!!

Another great vid Ace, keep up the good stuff

Great way to start a long weekend. The Facts of Life hell yes.

I like all your commentary brother, great work!🤙👍😎

I consider this the bizzaro world version of Indiana Mall. Still a dead mall, but they somehow managed to keep on to all 4 anchors until 2015. It's also used as a community space pretty often.

😢 that really sucks the part you're in right now used to be my office

Love the video.

Awesome

The footage with the new cam looks good!

I’ve never seen that bon ton logo before.

Good stuff! Haha I was too excited about the Facts of Life shoutout.

Very cool video how did you get into the kmart? I used to work for kmart back in 2008, belive it or not I miss it. I wish they were still around!

You do a good job with these videos. I don't think many malls will survive this with only 15% of retailers paying rent. One of my busy malls reopened this week and I went in. Dicks was the only anchor open along with just a handful of inline stores. Just about everything else was closed. Nothing open in the food court though Aunt Annies was selling pretzels. Lenscrafters was open but Vision works was closed. That is a sad damn situation.

I miss Big Lots and the Ponderosa restaurant

Hey Ace, I used to love going to Napoli's. Thank you for the update. Have you thought about doing an update on the Bradford Mall?

I miss the old Napolis pizza place, it was slightly dirty but it had memories

Nice video.

Well done. Found your channel from Sal's channel. Just came 1st time today after his livestream. This mall reminds me a bit of a mall I went to in my early teens. It's not completely dead but half the area that it used to have, much of it demolished n replaced by external buildings (offices, dr's offices etc.) with both anchors cut off from the mall which was pretty stupid considering the grocery store entrance is still just 10 feet away from the new entrance.

Cool 😀

The office smells of Joel Lyle lol

Here's an idea for the downtime. I've heard you say some malls are twins of others. Maybe you could take footage of each and compare in the same video. Especially if one is thriving and the other dying.

The footage with your new camera is really great! And that mall office with the Kmart cart inside! And love that vintage Bon Ton sign! (Always thought it was a funny name for a store)

My mom grew up in Falconer & we still have family out there. I remember both Warren & Chautauqua Malls well. By the way, don’t forget Johnny’s over in Lakewood! 😁

The shopping plaza across the street from the state hospital, which includes Walmart and Lowe’s seems to be doing quite well.

My good friend up in Warren works at the movie theater there, she grew up in Warren and said Warren Mall was always kinda dead ever since she was little.

Dude, those wooden office signs! 😁

It’s sad that the mall was destroyed

I remember when the mall was built. It was a hopping place for many years. But like anything else. It started to decline and with the original owner getting into trouble. The mall was never the same. I was in warren just before you filmed this. It was under construction. I've seen many malls like this. And I've been in the new malls that are taking the place of the indoor mall.

I just saw some lights that look like the ones at cranberry Mall down by Oil City PA

This is sad I lived in Elk County (Johnsonburg PA) form 2007-2010 and from 2013.2015. My friends and I would drive to this mall and shop at the Big K-mart, Good Will Label Shopper Big Lots and the store across from the Big K-mart was a knife/sword store from 2010-2014.

Was around 2006 was working at Pellegrino when walmart opened

Fantastic little gadget something I’m looking at getting in the future I’m using iPhone XS Max with Osmo 3 gimbal which is a very stable platform too. Keep safe and well take care V 😎😎😎😎😎🙏🏿🇬🇧

0_0 at the 3 screen theatre at the end. I remember places like that n often went to some of those. I'm a bit of a movie nut but now all we have around me (aside from 1 small smelly place in a mall) all are those ultramegagoogleplexes.

I used to work security at that mall

Im wondering, when did Warren mall close?

Footage from the new camera really turned out great!

Westland Mall in Westland MI is currently a dying mall that I expect to be closed in the upcoming years. Macy's closed their doors a few years ago and Sears is closed now as well; JCP may be next. There's also an old wing thats walled off now where an old Burger King still stands.

Bon Ton is gone now right no more stores?

The new camera rocks my friend. Did the theaters close due to the virus or have they been closed for a long time?

Sal just did a video on this Mall today!

Walmart was the beginning of the end.

I live in Warren when I was like six they got rid of the mall

Dunham's Sports. That name takes me back.

your videos hurt. im a northwestern pa, since displaced, native and your videos make me sad seeing my native area malls hurting. keep up the great content though! love all the work you put into them!

The mall opened two months before I was born so it’s as old as I am. I should hope that I’m in better shape though...😅

There used to be a Jamesway

Have you ever been to the children's home in Warren Pennsylvania

What they should do put a cosino in where bon ton is,you should talk to the casinos ace u have pull

did I hear reach around in there at @10:43

End of an era. I remember back in the 1980’s this was the place to hang out on Friday nights.... cruise the mall halls... Pink Flamingo downtown too... hahaha Aladdin’s arcade was a frequent stop. Pizza at Napoli’s.... KB Toys was where we bought Transformers and Nintendo games as a kid. Big G’s was a sportsman’s shop before The Jock Shop moved in next to JC Penny’s.... K-Mart with the “blue light” specials. I remember KITT the car from Knight Rider and the A-Team van made their way through this mall back in the 80’s. Sitting on Santa’s lap in front the the Bon Ton when we were little twerps.... Getting a cold drink at Orange Julius in the middle of the mall was always a good treat.

We never had a Bon Ton hear in Michigan

Sal sent me here

Walmart opened in 2007.

The laugh at 0:36 is creepy. The laugh comes right after you say what’s left of the mall. Was there a lady near by?

Miss malls and the selection of stores..shopping online is boring-quarantine wants me to get out more and there is not much places to go any more!!

❤itisastiripmallnowwithnewstores

The Chair in that Mall Office was FILTHY!!! OMG, I believe that was the source of the odour. I could smell it through my monitor. The loss of 7,000 is a big impact on a very rural location, so I can see why it was doomed. I liked the light fixtures (Sal would probably agree with me on this). There’s something about that smoky glass light fixtures that never goes out of style. With this still in flux are there any locations that remained for the area? I realise that the area has far too many malls and strip malls that are now vacant, but I hate to see when instead of some healthy competition you can see where it can doom all of the shopping malls because they’re just trying to slice up the money pie, leaving every retail venue dying because they can’t receive a large enough chunk of the regions relatively limited and declining income. It makes me hope that their downtown area is seeing a Renaissance of some decent shops to return the charm around the towns and cities of the area. It’s a vicious cycle. A Mall (or Malls) are built, closing up the CBDs (Central Business Districts) of these quaint towns and cities, and now hopefully there are some places that still have the structures in the CBDs to create a revival in its interest. It would be great to see that happen! I really like that camera! What make and model was that? It was a definite improvement in quality, and it could be mistaken by the novice for a torch. I’m so very glad that you are doing these Cabin Fever getaways. And for dessert? The Facts of Life! I believe most of the actors ended up in rather rough circumstances. Yikes! I forgot just how popular Mauve was in. May that colour never be used again! Are you able to cross over to Ontario? This looks great, Ace

It's North Warren

I remember seeing that store Bon Ton in a few malls, but i never walked in or knew what they sold. imo, it was a terrible name, and i guess they never advertised.

Theycouldstillputthingdecentinitplacelikehousingorofficebuildings

Therestroomsweredirtyandsmelledofjunk

wopwvtotal changed

Ifeellostandsadatthesametimeiworkedatrestuaruntinthemall

the date is wrong, surely it should be the 17th May when this "premiere's" 😕

Why do developers think that turning an enclosed mall into a strip mall will work? It’s still a mall! Why would a strip mall suddenly be more successful than an enclosed mall???? Don’t get it 🤷‍♀️

Love the new camera. Cool video, as always! Just to much babbling bro.