Jumpscared, I still go to this mall rn and absolutely did not expect a video about it lol. I still remember when the foodcourt was big and the mall felt more alive than it does present day. Great video!

This is sad. At one time, you could hardly find a parking space for the crowds and space was occupied. The food court was huge with a nice variety to choose from. I blame online shopping for the demise of many malls. In a few years, this mall will be totally closed.

Right in the beginning of the video that chinese buffet place used to be a pretty cool movie theater and i remember right around the corner inside there was a gallery of sound and a walden books and I could easily spend a few hours there as a teen. There was a pretty kick ass arcade room there too with mortal kombat and street fighter... ahh memories..

As a resident of the Wyoming Valley I can compliment our mall with this, even though it is dying there are still some mildly interesting things and on occasion there are decent crowds.

This mall was Bangin' in the 90's spent most of my teen years there.

There was a time when the Wyoming Valley Mall was THE mall of the area. Viewmont was nice but WVM was nicer, bigger, more stores, etc.., but while the Dickson City mall changed and evolved and is the mall to go to, the other did not. Both Bon-Ton and Sears left and nothing was done to stop the bleeding. Just a few years ago it was still a mall where you had good stores and crowds of people. Heck, there was even a sushi bar over by the proactive kiosk. If people want to shop, they go across the street where Target, Best Buy, etc.., are located.

This was my childhood mall. RIP.

This hurts my heart. Every time I drive by there I get a sick feeling, remembering the weekends walking around the mall for hours, grabbing a slice of pizza or something to eat, and then going to the movies. It’s all gone, nothing is the same and it really stinks. You would see so many people that you would know, you would spend hours walking through all the stores.

I learned how to drive in the empty parking lot outside the BonTons. Big ups willes baree Pa.

Wow, most of the good tenants left. It's sad to see what they did to the food court, too. They used to have some of the best food. They also removed the comfy chairs they used to have by JCPenney, etc. I have not been in this mall for a few years, and I guess I am not missing anything. Such a sad thing to see. This mall used to be packed and had some great stores.

The Orange Julius was originally located just outside of the Sears store mall entrance, First Eastern Bank had a branch down near the food court. Barrels Whiskey & Rhyme was by JC Penny next to the service corridor (had some KRZ nights there), just up from there was a leather store, all of us KRZ radio guys got "Thriller" leather jackets! (I still have mine, but cant fit into it anymore) The movie theater was where the Chinese Buffet is now located. Hickory Farms & Bavarian Pretzel were in the hall between the theater & the main concourse.

What made the mall was the Hurricane Agnes flood in June 1972. Everyone had to replace everything lost in the flood, and the downtown stores were flooded, but the mall was high and dry!

this was my mallrats mall as a kid 🥺☺️

I remember Pomeroy's and when the food court first opened... it was very exciting... there were two bookstores in the 80s...B. Dalton and Walden Books. There was two record stores too!

Foxmoor, famous maid, litman jewelers, dinos, brooks, merry go round, barrels whiskey and rhyme, the limited, express, hess’s, Bon ton, cvs, I could go on, and on with the names of the stores that used to be there, it’s just so sad

Still looks like a pretty nice mall. Hope it stays that way! Great explore! 😊😊

Let us never forget the " Key Walker 🔑 " who paced the WVM Mall all day long long in his cut-off jean shorts and knee-high socks, swinging that key ring back and forth. There had to be over 50 plus keys on that ring 🤣🤣 he literally just walked from one end to the other, all day swinging and jingling those keys 😳

I used to work here at the arcade back in the 90’s. It was near the food quart/last known location of the Orange Julius there. It used to be THE place to go in this area. It’s a shame what they did to that food quart. What’s the reason for them doing that? I wonder how many shopping centers around the country are suffering the same fate because of the advent of Amazon?

I remember being in this mall when I was a kid. There were news cameras in the record store. We found out Elvis had died.

Great video Jeremy!

I'm an 80s baby. To the left of where you enter was the movie theaters. Where the new lights are was all neon lights

Few remember but the WVM also had a full family restaurant inside the mall called Franklin's Family Restaurant in the late 70s/early 80s

I remember hanging out here often in the 80's. Good times and met a lot of cool people. Seems things are going in the wrong direction these days

The theater company that I was a part of as a kid was kicked out for some shitty buffet. I can never forgive the owners for that.

man we use to pack this mall on the weekends, kids shopping at hollister and ambercrombie and whatnot, food court filled, girls busting out of vics secret, spencers rollin in the dough, the arcade getting lines for dance dance. boy i miss it.

Sad to see that all that seating area in the food court is gone. That used to fairly busy.

I go here occasionally whenever I wanna spend my money on physical things. They actually have quite a selection to choose from. They're about a 15-20 min drive from my home.

When i was growing up in the late 90's early 2000's malls where being built everywhere. I asked my dad what will happen when these places close.

Internet sales killed the malls At Christmas time this was THE place to shop. And it was packed everyday from Black Friday on when the Christmas season really began. It’s like a ghost town now 😢

Lol I remember when there used to be a Disney store here

Thanks Jeremy!

Maybe they should real coat the parking lot and repaint the lines. Especially on the road inside the parking lot, you can even see the lines at all in most areas, its dangerous not knowing there and 2 way traffic. A movie theater would be a plus. so would expanding the food court.

Great video

I remember sitting in the food court years ago, enjoying my coffee, when a bus from a juvenile detention type facility drove up to the doors letting off it's passengers for, all I could guess, was a day trip - as soon as these fine young people cleared the doors, they began the harassment of the people at the tables, messing with their food and trying to pick fights - if there had been any supervision on the bus, they left with the bus - this was the last time I ever visited the mall even though I had frequented it since it was built

:( man.... I miss it back in 2005

First approve the plans for the mall and allow construction to begin. Next, question the water and sewage issues. Welcome to Wilkes-Barre Township!

This is a bustling metropolis compared to the frackville mall

Thank you for creating this video

This is too bad. This store had so much potential! At one point, there were open stores around every corner. Now, there are barely any stores left, and most of them are dying. Except for spencers or hot topic.

I used to be a mall rat here every Friday and Saturday id hang out here with my friends and we get kicked out every friday and Saturday 😆 this was 10 years ago thw mall was so busy back then our friend group was massive but it was always so crowded on Friday and Saturday and every shop was open and when one would close it would be quickly remodeled and another shop reopened

I stil come here a lot, where sears used to be is a theater company I do shows with pretty often, the auntie annes knows my order by now XDDD

Dino's has some great garlic knots

Damn! 105 acres of land for $765,000. Today, you can't even buy a 3-bedroom house in Hawai'i for that much money. 1968 was a good year. 💁🏻‍♂️🏢💰

I've slowly watched this mall become more dull and it's so sad. Did not expect to see this video thank u

i’m in this by the empanadas 💀💀

It's still better than Laurel Mall.

Still looks better than the Bramalea City Centre in Brampton Ontario Canada. It used to have three anchors (Target, Sears and the Bay). And we all know what happened to Target and Sears in Canada. The Bay is the only anchor left in the whole mall.

AY I'V SEEN THAT MALL

This was a landfill before the mall was built. My brother and I would go with my father to dump stuff there back then. That's why Mundy St always sinks here and there and the parking lot also. The garbage underneath was always sinking. That's why they tore down the Long John Silvers at the front of the parking lot. Land was constantly subsiding there. The mall right now has a lot of stores. It's doing much better than it was 5-10 years ago. Lastly, this mall is not in Wilkes Barre. It's in WIlkes Barre Township.

on christmas shopping it was elbow to elbow now no crowd at all i think physical shopping is over much more on internet

man, i bought candy meth from there two days ago lol

Every time someone new buys the mall, they keep raising the rent! Stores can't keep up with the cost. Every owner kills the mall more than before

Any idea why the food court got walled off?

This is sad and it’s been going through so many ownerships and no one apparently wants it, or to invest doing anything to it. JLL was the most recent former owner of the property.

Is the price of the land purchase accurate? That feels like a LOT

0:25 thought she was giving him a

Slowly progressing towards hell.

it's not online shopping that's killing these malls but it's America's decline. Shopping Malls are thriving allover the world and yet are dying in the US. This tell us how America is declining. Sad.

I live hear in old Forge this is so sad.

All malls are dying for many reasons. People of means shop online. Inflation has diluted disposable income, so middle income people choose not to purchase high end clothing items. Further they are magnets for bad elements that create crime. For these reasons malls are dying.

housing for the homeless.

The main problem for the majority of malls is right there in the title, they're generally quite bland with the same mix of a few dozen stores and targeting a middle economic class that really doesn't exist in this country anymore. The other thing that really kills them is their typical design structure's lack of accessibility. If they were designed as strip malls connected by the interior concourse, but with the shops accessible from both the interior and exterior, as traditional anchor stores have been, they'd see more success. Why? Nobody wants to park and then walk three blocks after getting inside the mall to get to the store they wanted to visit, nor that and/or walking through essentially the footprint of a Target to get there.