Anyone else spot the typo on the mall directory? Let me know if you want to book Mr. Crane for a food services training. Love you all, stay tuned for more.

The best part of White Marsh Mall was the lady in the clown makeup who sold the balloons. I believe she went by Miss Kitty? She retired a few years ago.

Someone needs to tell me why Sal does not have a million subscribers at this point. 20 years ago while in college I worked part time at the American Eagle in my local mall and knew I was part of something special. After hours I would walk through the closed and dark mall and it was in those moments I could force myself to imagine this megalith of retail being an empty and abandoned relic and it saddened me. Somehow, Sal is able to get into these malls after dark and show us both the light and the dark of these resplendent abodes of days-gone-by. Keep up the amazing work Sal. My addiction to nostalgia depends on it.

Remember the Carousel in the middle of the food court

I finally got to Maryland to visit this mall last weekend. It's doing well and looked busy the whole time I was there. The fountain in front of Macys is still there but was empty. The Food Court was great - had to stop for something to eat LOL. There were times walking through the White Marsh mall that I felt like I was in Burlington Center again. The similarities are undeniable, especially down by where the Sears used to be. I see why you called it the sister mall. Had Burlington got the renovations that White Marsh got over the years and actually been shown some love by it's owners maybe it would have survived. I really enjoyed seeing the White Marsh Mall and will be going there again.

That was a nice departure from malls that are just dead. Hard to have an homage to a single store like Suncoast when you're dodging black mold and a wrecking ball.

I grew up going to this mall at least once a week in the 90s. They finally closed that horrible pet store next to JCPENNEY I see, thank goodness. I always felt so terrible for all the animals in there.

I miss Suncoast. Used to go to the one at the Gallery in Baltimore. Sam Goody, Suncoast, or any bookstore, I really miss the mall the way it used to be. Now I know the way adults felt when I was a kid.

It's nice to see a thriving mall. My local mall, Hamilton Mall in Mays Landing, NJ, lost Sears in November 2018 and JCPenney in July 2019. The only anchor left is Macy's. The JCPenney space became a seedy discount store called Shoppers World. I will not be surprised when Hamilton Mall finally meets its end. 😥

After Golden Ring closed down, this became my default mall. Lots of memberberries here.

Man, the mall has really changed since I moved away in 2011. Glad to see it still doing well.

The main open areas look similar to the Exton Square Mall! I love seeing the similarities and differences between all of our local malls.

I worked at Bamberger's (pronounced with a hard "g" like hamburgers) after graduating high school in 1981. It was a great job and a really good company to work for. I fondly remember joy riding with high school friends in my Pontiac Catalina on the dirt construction site that would soon become White Marsh Mall. The "real Santa" at the mall was a friend and artist named John Fonda. Even though he left us years ago I'll never forget him (or his phone number "685-HOHO").

This mall thrives because there is no real rival close by. Arundel Mills is relatively close, but the harbor tunnel tolls desuade people from traveling to the Mills mall. It's also not in a ghetto area and it's not rundown. And there is also a good balance of stores and restaurants. I personally love the teriyaki restaurant in the food court.

That's my mall. Great video. Remember TILT arcade? My father would take my brother and I there all the time in the late 90s early 2000s. And the KB toy store

made me feel human and loved seeing the family enjoying the fountains! I enjoyed learning about how Macy’s started and its namesake. Loved the stairs. My city added a Bass Pro Shop to attract business. It didn’t fail, but having an IKEA in Chattanooga would attract a more diverse clientele from any 100 mile range of it. Those fountains ⛲️ must have been fabulous in the 1980’s,, as for something about my personal home mall that sticks with me,, I loved going with my family as a kid to “Northgate Mall” in Chattanooga. I knew the mall was a somewhat small one floor building , BUT Sears and JCP had a second floor!! They both had my favorite machines, shiny escalators. I did not play on them, I listened to the clunk of metal as I rode on them in stillness and wondered if I would get a static electric shock. I also enjoyed the small matching fountains in both stores near the escalators. Talk about Space out overload, it calmed me.

Anyone remember when they had indoor christmas parades on the first floor in the 80s. I still go there for Boscovs. Wish Marley could get Boscovs back.

I used to go to the mall alot for 20 yrs . Mostly I would go to Suncoast to buy movies or sell them and Boscovs . I remember the Mall rats and the elderly doing walks . Then the Avenue opened and went to the Imax and on summer Sundays listen to bands playing. I had to leave Baltimore 4yrs ago and unaware that the mall was dead . Many memories.

Sal, your ex-log series never disappoints! I don’t know what it is about this series but every video is done so well that you don’t just get a look at history as it’s happening but a story as well. Keep up the great work.

Grew up with White Marsh. I remember when it had TWO toy stores. I think the adjacent outdoor Avenue development with the movie theater helped extend its life. Also the remodeling where it went from red brick floors to the white tile.

Speed kills on the highway, not in the drive-through! 😂 What a gem!

The best mall ever. About damn time. From swimming in the Golden Ring mall fountain at age 6 to fishing change out of fountains in White Marsh at age 12 to spending every weekend with freinds at age 16 on into my late 20's. Thank you.

The nostalgia was strong in this one. Loved the sentimental little look back at the 2017 and 2018 footage, with the Quartermaster making a cameo appearance. Regarding the comforting sense of normalcy, I always find it in spades in the ExLog and it's why I've been coming back for more since you had fewer than 5,000 subs.

Pretty nice mall, that Suncoast was cool, I really miss these kinds of places in malls, Liked, StaySafe

In the summer of '89 while doing training at Edgewood Arsenal we went to White Marsh a few times. My memory of individual aspects of it are foggy but I do remember it was pretty nice.

Liked immediately for the fact this mall has a retrogaming shop in it. And also for that Suncoast storefront.. Memories, man..

Suncoast sure brings back some memories. I used to work at the Towson Mall Suncoast and covered a shift or two at the White Marsh location. Like GameStop, at Suncoast I had to push reservations, Replay Card (Suncoast/Sam Goodys reward card), and Entertainment Weekly magazine subscriptions etc. They started taking in used DVDs while I was there so of course we had customers get angry when they would only get a few dollars for a DVD that came out a few weeks ago for $20-$30. Never went back to retail after that job and I hope I never do.

Aww, I miss ReGen. Kat and crew are good people and I’ve lost a lot of reason to visit WM now that they’ve moved to Towson, along with GameStop closing during the pandemic, Disney Store killing off most of its locations, and Suncoast shuttering a couple years back. I don’t get up to White Marsh as much as I used to but in 2022 it looks a little more vacant. The Avenue and the new strips near Bestbuy are really siphoning away a lot of customers. When I was a kid White Marsh was always the fancy mall we went to do back to school shopping. I picked out a sweet Far Side T-Shirt one year at JC Penney. We bought a Guinea Pig and later a rabbit at the pet store (now gone for several years), both treasured family pets. I always made sure to get shoestring licorice at the Wockenfuss, which sadly closed in late 2021 after 40 years of operation. In my high schools days we frequented Lin’s buffet (the red roofed building on the left as Sal entered the mall) where lunch was just $5.50 All You Can Eat and they had “sushi,” which was mostly rice, but hey, $5.50! That didn’t last too long (alas, the Chinese buffet is slowly dying out altogether); Buca Di Beppo replaced and similarly closed up shop some years later. It’s remained empty ever since, but it’s still super fun to say with a stereotypical Italian accent. In late Dec ‘22, developers announced they want to tear down the Sears in order to build apartments. I’m sure they’ll meet community resistance. Thanks for capturing this mall mostly how I remember it!

I'm glad this mall seems to be doing well very nice mall.

My local mall has rainbow trim all the way around it it's what makes me admire it soo much and the palm trees🥹🥰

Excellent video keep up the good work. & waiting fa the Annapolis mall & Columbia mall.

Glad to see this mall is still thriving. You should try out exploring the Florence mall in Florence Kentucky

You should revisit this one again. While still possibly in the post-pandemic recovery it is certainly not the Mall it was even 5 years ago. Many lack luster stores, many empty boarded storefronts and a continuing curfew on weekends due to young people acting up.

I've seen an office building be renovated from the inside out; they ALWAYS hang the lights like that. I think it's just easier. (Fwiw the property was Brookfield's 1801 California in Denver; not that it means much, the contracting companies doing the work are years-separated likely different)

Opening day for the White Marsh Mall was 40 years ago today !!!!!! I'm glad it has survived that long hopefully it is around and doing well for at least another 40 years.

This is MY Mall. This place is sacred. I weathered the demolition of Golden Ring Mall just barely I loved that Mall. She was my "first" in many many ways. But White Marsh was able to ease the suffering if not just barely. Please don't take this mall away. I've suffered enough

Well done my favorite place as well! Dave and busters all night

12:43 RIP Justice

I loved White Marsh. It was the best mall in Baltimore fire a long time but it went the way of many malls.

This mall is home for me~ Moved to Florida years ago, so I miss this particular mall the most, it’s still my favorite after all these years. Happy to see this one still standing. Before I left, I remember Hunt Valley mall dying and being redone as a strip mall 😔

I was just looking at some pictures of White Marsh Mall from back in the 80's. Oh my Goodness did Burlington Center ever look similar. The Fountains, Tree's, the original Lighting above and below the Store names. Even the brown floor tiles. Guess those would be Quarry tiles. I want to do a road trip to Maryland sometime this summer to check out White Marsh Mall. Trying to get some friends together. It's slightly over 2 hours to get there for me since I live 2 miles from where the Burlington Center Mall used to be.

I lived in White Marsh in between my times in Glen Burnie and Brooklyn Park. So I remember that mall well. Really surprised to see that suncoast that stocked in 2017. Certainly better than any FYE in the region at that time. But to me the prime attraction to the White Marsh Mall, was the carousel. Seeing the kid ride version in this video is like a stab in the back when you know the place used to have a real one.

Wow, such a nice mall!

This was the mall we went to in the 90’s got my school and church clothes at JC Pennys my neighbor’s Dad was a manager at the KB Toys.

How about a unique sub-mall. Ellsworth place, silver spring MD, formerly City Place. Larger story would be the whole Downtown Silver Spring development. Keep up the excellent videos. Love learning more about the places I thought I knew so much about

Another awesome video :) Great to see a mall thriving :)

This makes me want to go to my local mall that is hanging on. Glenbrook Square in Fort Wayne, IN.

Who remembers Another Universe store from the mid to late 1990s?

I used to mallrat this place with my buddies from 98-01 like it was my job. Never remembered that there was a lord and taylors there. Man memories going bad.

I like the way that you give the history of these malls as opposed to making a video and commenting about what you see. Thank you

Fun story, I was at the Susquehanna Valley Mall in Selinsgrove PA and I befriended a wonderful security guard. This was before co vid around maybe March 2019 or so, and we walked the mall talking about the stores and everything and how it used to be. She also said that she used to work at the former JCPenny and walk down to the Chinese place in the mall. It was nice talking to her and the fun conversation we had about the mall. I wish I could go back to that day and the days when that mall was busy. While still on occasion it is and it still has good stores, it’s obviously not the same. But when I can befriend a mall security guard that is fun too.

My first good memories of a mall were this place. It had a carousel in the food court and I remember losing a balloon on the ceiling and bawling my eyes out over it! There’s an IKEA next door to it and I remember getting those awesome Swedish meatballs in the restaurant there.

Love these videos right down to the nostalgic music. Attention to detail is underrated in this world.

I spent every Friday night here growing up.

You might be happy to know that Suncoast Motion Picture Co. has a store open in Beaumont Texas, inside the Parkdale Mall. My mother in law used to live in Beaumont, and we would go to Parkdale Mall for something to do when we would go to visit. I always got a kick out of stopping by Suncoast to look at all they had to offer, and enjoy the neon. Being a kid of the fifties, I can never get enough neon. lol

looks like OM mall interior a little. I miss that place. Grew up there!

Great job again Sal. I miss my childhood mall.

I always love dead mall videos because the mall I live near is actually doing really well and just the contrast of seeing malls in bigger cities empty while I'm in the middle of nowhere ny with a rather lively one (Eastview mall is the one near me if you want to look into it) is just super interesting.

Another well done video Sal. I always enjoy your intelligent narrative. We all need this stuff right now, seriously.

Love ReGen. I talked to them not long ago about opening a second store elsewhere, but then Covid happened. Was just there at that mall right around Christmas. It was pretty busy then. I like that mall because it’s a combination of national stores and local mom and pop shops. Very comfortable. Usually get there once or twice a year, as I am in Ocean City. Have relatives that live not too far from the mall.

Great vid Sal! Really enjoy watching your videos. Its sad to see malls go extinct. My local mall, the Hilltop Mall here in California was recently renamed into a biotech center because the owner wants to sell the property. Its crazy thinking that the last time that I visited that mall, would be my last. Keep up the Great work👍🏼

I would be curious if you could do a log on arundel mills. I had one of the opening stores and absolutely fell in love with this location. I know they are crazy no no on video recording but it would be a great video to your collection.

Sal- you are the best! Keep it coming!

Thanks, I haven't been to White Marsh in ages. I remember living in Havre de Grace as a kid and teen. It was about a 35 minute drive from my house and people acted like it was in a different hemisphere. A friend and I used to hang there a couple of times a month and buy new albums. It's funny that nowadays people will drive an hour and a half somewhere without batting an eye. And, yeah, the guy who runs Sears/KMart should be exiled to another planet.

The McDonald's commercial reminds me of Moobys from Clerks 2. I enjoyed the Suncoast footage, especially the behind the wall footage when the store was being gutted. There is still a Suncoast in Beaumont Texas about 90 minutes away from me. I try to go there as often as possible, but in 2020 I have not been there yet.

Did you say September 19th, 1974? Let's just say that day's rather significant in my life.

I was there the day this mall opened. I was 10 or 11. They were also touted with having the most realistic Santas at Christmas :)

The weird thing that sticks with me is the smell of pretzels and perfume in my mall.

Is it just me that remembers a ice cream shop on the bottom floor a few years ago??

I haven't been in this mall in over 20 years, but I see the door at 19:00 and my mind immediately goes "Upstairs, near the Sears," and wouldn't you know it, I'm proven right 20 seconds later. Why do I still have brain cells devoted to this?

I loved this video. It was a nice change of pace to the dead malls. Keep up the good work!

I got some bad news about Regen, back in June they closed, and now they're moving to Towson Town Center, I found this out the hard way a few weeks ago, pretty sad to see it go

We left Carney a while ago and White Marsh was a staple for us too! I ejoyed rolling through Ft McHenry tunnel and the rt 43 off ramp (I lived off of 43 for a bit). I also loved that you like the fountais too.. i miss those so much. How did you get inside at 11:30 at night? How is the mall doing in mid 2020? Thank you for this :)

I sold my used DVDs/Blue Rays at THAT Suncoast.. Crazy..

Very nice mall. Very smart of you that you had footage from years before but felt that it could contribute to something bigger with more impact. It sucks watching stores and places you like fade over time, with a dull replacement or lifeless wall up in its place instead. Glad to see this mall thriving currently.

This is my local mall. I do enjoy going over there regularly, though I liked it more as its last iteration, with the Merry-go-round in the food court and the large Kaybee toys on the upper floor, and the large center fountain around the main elevator. And of course all the fountains working, that was the best. Also, interesting tid bid- I worked for Sears Outlet around 2001-2002, maybe 03. Even while there we were hearing that the "Mall stores" (which White Marsh was especially cutthroat to work at) would be closed and most of their assets moved into Kmart, as Eddie Lampert owned both, but the Super K's all around the mall all died first and, well, the rest is history.

The Gallery Mall here in Philadelphia used to be a unique mix of stores from major retailers to mom and pop stores. The owners decided to "Attract a more affluent crowd" by gutting the mall and renaming it "The Fashion District" with upscale stores. The mall is now suffering greatly not only because of Covid-19. but also because the new mall looks empty and bland with ubiquitous stores that you can go to either at King Of Prussia or Limerick or New Jersey.

All this time I'd been watching and thought I'd subbed! Thanks for the reminder. Hoping for (and dreading) seeing Northgate Mall in Durham, NC on your channel one day...

Sal, I'm surprised you don't remember Macy's/Bamberger's ads from when you were young. Bamberger is pronounced like 'hamburger'. Living in the DC/Balto area from my early 20s to mid 30s, I visited White Marsh many times - but only for the Warner Brothers outlet and Ikea nearby. Never actually set foot in that mall!

Um I found you from Exlog 2. It was amazing at the time. Such a perfectionist!

Been to this mall many times after Hopkins appointments right across the street. If you think ReGen is amazing (it’s great, don’t get me wrong), you should also check out Time Warp in downtown Ellicott City and there used to be a GREAT one that also sold many vinyls in Tyson’s Corner, pre COVID at least. If Annapolis or Salisbury are ever on your list, shoot me a message. I am intimately familiar with the stories and history of those 2 malls and their local predecessors...

Gotta give it to ReGen for limiting stickers on the boxes.

Only went to White Marsh a couple of times when I lived in Baltimore. The tolls on 95 and 895 were an effective barrier to keeping anyone that didn’t live on the east side out of the east side. Secondly, it was surrounded by mostly lower middle class neighborhoods and towns. This is where all the country people from Harford County shopped. So, it wasn’t spectacular enough of a mall to make a special trip to. Towson, Columbia, and Annapolis are far better malls.

Moonbeam is killing Shoppingtown Mall in Dewitt, NY! :( goodnight baby escalator

Boscov's opened in 2006...That's why I never remembered it; I lived in the Baltimore region in 2003.

All that metal on the storefronts are worth money , surprised it's still there.

23:22 That doesn't even look like mall storefront anymore. It looks more like an office space to me!

Sal, I think you would love the Arrowhead town center mall in Glendale Arizona. Retail archeology did a video on it. I live close to it and its a great place. Cheers from Arizona.

This is actually my favorite mall. I enjoy going there. It's more low key than Towson.

Very nice Sal. I enjoyed this one very much.

thank you for another great video

White Marsh at the Avenue with live music is better than the Mall.

I like country side mall cleawater Florida i grew up with that mall

I used to go there after going to ikea across the street, my favorite store there was called Going To The game it was a sports store with a pink Cadillac in the store

Loved this video! Any chance we get another Eastpoint video in the Baltimore saga?

how did you get in WMM @ 11:30PM? lol

This Mall could be in the UK they all look very similar now. Older ones are more unique and have their own charm. Burton Guild Hall is an early example of a covered shopping area in the UK and I think built in the 1850's. Its very pretty and still used to this day. Very cold in winter even if it has better doors now!

I knew you’d like regen. As a Pokémon fan, they had a Clefairy plush, which is my best friend’s favorite Pokémon and as i said in the preview post, it’s underrated and still holding up well. My first and only visit so far was June 2019 for Baltimore Pride.

Are we going to see York Galleria or Park City Mall in York and Lancaster? These videos take me back to when I used to frequent these malls in Baltimore.

Thanks for this video, sir. We just visited that IKEA a few days ago. That's a nice Boscov's... it was great that it re-opened after a brief hiatus. Have you ever explored/logged Capital City Mall in Central PA? (that's MY childhood mall). Keep Logging!