Dude the faded 80s music you put in your videos really puts what these malls used to be like into an almost unimaginable perspective. It’s apocalyptic. A bygone era of retail and life. Crazy…
i went to high school near this mall in the early 2000s. it was THE hang out spot for all the teens, i went there with my friends almost every other weekend. it had everything! movie, food but also Indoor bungee jump, big carousel, a gift shop with 50 types of cheap shurikens, all blacked out store for just horror movie memorabilia, pet store with colorful fish tanks and huge rabbits, impromptu prom proposals and break ups....it was a place where lives were lived and memories were made. RIP Chesterfield Mall thank you for all the good times. ps: f the outlet malls especially taubman prestige, what a moronic uninspired dumpster fire
I grew up going here as a kid and teen with friends going to the animal shop calling our moms trying to convince them to buy us puppies, v stock was amazing with posters and slackers.so sad to see Chesterfield mall and mills mall become extinct. I have no desire for outlet malls. I'll forever be grateful for the memories here as kid.
This mall will always hold a special place in my heart. Shopped there in college. After college I had a job working with adults with differing needs and I would take them here to be out and about for the day. Later I would go on my first date with my now husband at the movie theater. That was in 2015 but it feels like forever ago!
22:14 this was Babbage's when I was a boy in the '80s and '90s. I bought Street Fighter II Turbo on SNES there. So many great memories. Those jagged walls were a staple in Babbage's stores back then. They'd line them with the newest and best selling boxed video games. I recall this location had a surprisingly better selection of PC games than other locations, but we didn't own a PC back then. Thanks for the tour, I will miss this mall--like so, so many of our other great, dead malls--so much.
Chesterfield Mall will be demolished starting tomorrow, 10/15/2024. Thank you for creating this overview of the mall. As a child in the 80’s and teen in the 90’s, this mall was a big part of my childhood. I remember the thousands of people walking here on any given weekend or Friday night. Such a beautiful place lost to time.
It's really odd watching this. I used to visit Chesterfield all the time way back when, and I kept thinking "Oh yeah, x was in that storefront, and y in that one, and..." Really sad to see it like this.
I remember the fountains! I think there used to be 6-7 of them, but then they removed them one by one. Sad because one of the fountains was tall enough to reach the second floor of the mall. They really fascinated me as a kid, lol.
There were three fountains. Two of similar size in the Sears and Dillard's wings and a much bigger fountain in the center court. The Sears/Dillard's wing fountains were removed in the late 90s/early 2000s and the center court fountain was removed a few years later and replaced with the two-level carousel.
My mom took me to the grand opening of Chesterfield Mall back in the 70s. It was the place kids would hang out during the 80s or least when I was growing up. I never dreamed that they would end up tearing it down. Truly sad.
It's eerie how quiet that abandoned section was! Completely insane. I'm not American, and my country has never had a mall culture like this per se, so watching this feels doubly surreal, knowing all that empty, unused space is just there.
I literally grew up in this mall. Thru 2008 to 2015 i would go to this mall every Friday and Saturday to hangout with friends, shop and see movies. The memories that were made throughout the years at this amazing mall will always be very special to me. Thank you for such a wonderful video of my childhood hometown mall. I greatly appreciate it.
You do an excellent job with these videos. I've been binging for the last couple of days. So many memories. I've only been to a couple of these malls, but they all have that same nostalgic quality in common. It's so sad, but so good people like you are documenting this before they're all gone. Thanks.
Wow I am so shocked at how Chesterfield is now! Went I first went, every part of the mall was walkable, but I'm sad they walled it off. I am glad to see it being used for new things to keep the mall alive for now though! I also had no idea about the outlets nearby; why would they build them there? Another amazing video as always and thanks for keeping us up to date with Chesterfield
I first went there in the mid 80's. Was a bustling place then. Got my first taste of Chick-fil-A nuggets. Loved those greasy things. Was at the AMC just before Covid struck. The theater is nice but the mall was a ghost town. Thx for the vid
I’ve been inside this mall recently. As recently as yesterday, and there is actually a few new stores opened in this mall. There is one restaurant left In the food court which opened roughly a month ago. There is a development group who bought it, who is building a apartments center right behind it, and someone I worked at Home Depot with who also works at the business licensing office for chesterfield said she’s not positive, but heard that the group building the apartments center are the ones who bought the mall. She told me that she heard they are planning on turning it into a shopping center for the people that will live in the apartments once it opens.
I've only recently found these videos, but it makes me sad to see some of these malls close in the St. Louis area. I grew up there as a kid in the 90s, and in mid-Missouri during the 2000s for my middle and high school years. I used to go back to St. Louis often with my dad, and we visited malls often in the area.
It's crazy how quickly this mall died. I was there in 2016 and a lot of the stores were still there. The Carson's and Sears were still in operation. I loved it because it had a v stock that I believe is still there but also a Slackerz and an Arcade. St. Louis Premium Outlets are probably taking all their business, sucks because I'd much rather go to an indoor mall than outdoor mall.
@@NorthCdogg22 I didn't realize how bad it's gotten for malls around the country until I left Chicago because we had a lot of thriving malls up there. A few are dead but we had more that are doing well, like Woodfield, Gurnee Mills, etc.
Thank you for your videos. This was another mall we visited on our St Louis trip about 10 years ago. This mall was still lively then. I picked this mall because it had a Coach Store and I was looking at getting a new handbag. I remember there was a beautiful carousel in the center court where the pickle ball courts are now.
Yes there were fountains there in the 80s. As a kid we used to throw whiper-snapers from the 2nd floor to the first while avoiding security. And as a teen we often just walked around the mall trying to talk to girls. Thanks for your video. Brought back a lot of memories.
I usedto work at the Sears [auto deptshop] & KB Toys. I went from part-time Christmas help to Asst. Manager in 30 days & we used to get a Christmas bonus pay in cash every year too.
Great documentaries! Unfortunately, the final destruction of the dollar will finish these malls off quickly, along with most other businesses. It’s a little surreal seeing all this go down in real time.
Something has to change, or the economy has to implode. Money doesn't buy nothing anymore. It's been this way for a long while, and it keeps getting worse. U.S. debt of 30.5 Trillion dollars now. $105.000.00 for a pickup truck, and a farm tractor can cost more than a half million dollars? I looked at a small rib roast in a grocery store for $78.00 a week ago. I totally agree with what you've stated here. Even Amazon's share price has fallen more than 25% ($890.00) over the past six months.
@@edwardschwenk3100 Agreed. This is what happens when a currency is backed by nothing and printed into oblivion. There is no other alternative. The key events that lead to this: -Crime of 1873, where silver was demonetized. -1913, Creation of the “Private” Federal Reserve. -1971, End of the Gold Standard. -Now, ending of the Petrodollar, which forced the world to use only dollars to purchase oil.
I was remodeling the Dillards after the water main break and got the call on Monday prior to Thanksgiving of 2016 to shut the job down, Dillards was not spending anymore money there.
I visited Chesterfield Mall with a friend on September 23rd, 2023. It's just as dead and empty as the video. My experience was that the restricted area he went into was fully closed off and inaccessible. Very fun experience that I took many pictures of. I plan on going again soon to enjoy walking the mall before its full closing. I was born in 2003, so I am trying to enjoy what's left of mall culture before it disappears.
I grew up in this mall. I have so many good memories attached to it; used to go there all the time with my friends in high school. I'm really going to miss it.
I worked at this mall the 2015 Holiday Season and it was actually a pretty active and full and busy mall then, but wow... as soon as Christmas 2015 came and went, the stores immediately started to leave this mall.
I really hate how they ruined it by adding walls, tennis ball courts, and security. Where you cannot even walk around the mall anymore. It’s just a shame for this gem to be a goner. This is my favorite mall of all time I’ve been to as a kid and I will forever miss the memories.
I've just realized I'm wearing a shirt I bought from this mall in 2016 while watching this, hahaha. I know it was on decline at the time but I'm glad I got to visit this. It was my childhood dream to visit an American Girl store so I'm very thankful I got to go there too. :)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Bath and Body Works “This store has closed” sign in my life - that’s seriously a first for me and I am a dead mall enthusiast! LOL
New subscriber here (for sure earned my sub with this amazing content) just wanna make a statement others here might agree on. Indoor malls need to come back because the reason they were so popular was they offered a place to go and hang with friends when the weather was crap somewhere you could go and spend the day playing games in the arcade and then shopping and then eating food in the food court. Outdoor malls are just not the same and the feeling and the energy is just not there and its depressing. I really wanna see a resurgence of indoor malls
Thank you man! And I 100% agree I really do hope these indoor malls come back they just bring so much charm and the outdoor malls bring nothing to the table
I remember going to the Tubmans outlets during 2013-16 and it was bustling with people. Some say the outlet killed off the Chesterfield Mall, The Mills and was going to give West County competition. Its almost embarrassing how fast that mall had failed.
The first,and probably last time i went here, i got some Nintendo 64 games and controllers for my N64 at one of the retro game stores in the entrance. Atleast i will have a piece of history in the form of a different piece of history.
This mall was my childhood too. I was shocked to see how quickly this mall died. If the two competing outlet malls didn’t mark the beginning of the end, then Dillard’s closure did. Also, if you’re looking for another dead mall in St Louis, then South County Center fits that bill.
I always wondered whose brilliant idea it was to build those 2 outlet malls within 5 miles of each other. They sure didn’t last long, especially the one on the west side of the highway. I think Chesterfield Mall started dying when Dillards had that flood. Loved this mall. We spent so much time at that Borders. I still have an awesome pair of boots that I bought at The Walking Company around 2012. It’s so eerie to see it that empty. I believe it’s about to be torn down now. 😢
Chesterfield Mall was absolutely awesome. Even into the 2000s and early 2010s, it was still pretty viable. I thought American Girl moving in would really help things. But they left a while back. The outlet malls really hurt them and their poor management gave them the Northwest Plaza treatment.
I was in high school in the mid / late 1980's and this was THE spot to go on Friday and Saturday night. It had not one, but TWO arcades, a Burger Chef, and there were cute girls everywhere you looked. It was a glorious time.
Well you covered the Ky oaks mall i grew up with, well in 2010 i moved in this area to start a family with who is now my wife as she lived in this area... so for 3 years until i got a bad injury that leaves me having to use a wheelchair, I'd go to these malls along with the Stl Mills and had fun, it was less fun being in a wheelchair having my wife push me around so we hardly went at all the past 9 years .. never realized they all basically died.
the day after they demolish the last of these beautiful 70s mall they will announce the development of a 'retro 70s style mall' that is brand new, and it will a huge success
Food court use to be second level, right hand side where h&m use to be in current lay out off the central escalator. I remember the chik fil a cow running around. McDonald arches. As well at the top of the central escalator was a Disney store. The only one in the area at the time I believe. There used to be a Walgreens in the mall way back in the 80’s as well as a Pasta house Restaurant (STL local chain).
I cannot comprehend how such a beautiful architectural piece of art as this mall is, its left to become abandoned. One would think it is the optimal place to go shopping. There has to be a reason for the decline of all these malls. I understand you get better deals online. But nothing can replace the experience of walking around and physically try on clothes and products. I'm from the 80s generation, maybe that's why 😔☹️😩
Just a shame altogether. I worked a 2 different Sears back in the day. They both closed. The last one was in Chattanooga at the now dead Northgate Mall. I loved that store, my job and especially my customers. End of an era for sure. Things aren't going back to this.
Unless someone has some big ideas for this mall, I get the feeling it could become the next Jamestown. At least it seems to have something to do with all that pickleball. I remember going in 2018, and thought it was dead then. Sears was on its way out, and Dillard's never reopened after the flood. Oddly enough, I hear they still own that anchor space, and are on board for potential redevelopment plans.
Interesting.. despite being the anchors abandoned for awhile especially Dillards after severe water damage when you look into them they seem to be in pretty good condition, including Sears which has been turned into a skate shop and a small skate park
@@NorthCdogg22 I wonder if the skate park at Chesterfield, is a relocation of the skate park that used to be at Saint Louis Mills? It was a bummer if you ask me, that it seems like(per one walkthrough video I saw, forget if it was you or someone else who snuck into that place/Powerplex's closed hallways and got kicked out) the skate park didn't stay there, after it was renamed into Powerplex.
BTW, do you really think Dillard's would come back here, if the place was demalled and IF a huge chunk of Chesterfield was demolished? I have my doubt that Dillard's would come back to Chesterfield, but who knows.
I just hear what I hear. TBH, I'll be shocked if anything happens with Chesterfield's redevelopment, let alone Dillard's reopening. Worst case scenario, we're staring at Jamestown Mall 2.0
This almost looks like the state of Tuttle Mall in Columbus Ohio. Kind of half open with limited stores but very desolate. If you haven't already done that one, it could be one to check out. Also Westland mall in Columbus.
Not being harsh at all.. never saw any point in an outdoor mall and I love the outdoors. Who wants to tredge across a vast parking lot into an outdoor space dealing with the rain, the cold and the heat and all the elements. Outdoor malls seem as though they could do better in resort areas with better climates not in the middle of the midwest with four seasons to tend with.
Westfield Chesterfield 😏 And the city was too bold to have two competing outlet centers let alone open nearly the same time. The taubman one died off (and were supposed to build more of those) as Simon Premium Outlets remained in operation with decent occupancy.
Bells mall was sued by all these people who put malls so close together. Been waiting for this video a long time. the audio is messed up as music is way louder than dialogue. they put a bunch of buildings in front of chesterfield plaza and called that chesterfield mall. everything in Chesterfield has a sign by it saying its the mall. there is a giant parking garage would love see a video about that
I always thought it was weird that this mall and Jamestown even opened. Both were not located in good areas. Jamestown is in the middle of nowhere and chesterfield here is too close to west county too function properly. Plus it’s right on the floodplain of the river.
The location wasn't bad, it just lost business after St. Louis Premium Outlets and Chesterfield Outlets both opened in Chesterfield. The area can't support that much retail.
Well, keep in mind that in 1974 West County Mall was pretty much a glorified strip mall with a roof. I think Penny’s and Famous-Barr were the two anchors. Chesterfield was much larger with more to offer. Man, I still miss Mister Dunderbak’s and their beer cheese soup..
Do you mean West County Center or West County the geographic area? In the 80's and 90's, West County Center was NOT the West County Center of today. It was no competition for Chesterfield Mall. In the 80's and 90's, Chesterfield Mall was a glowing example of American suburban Capitalism. West County the AREA was a perfect place to put this mall when it opened. It was growing and affluent.
Are there any good malls left in Greater St. Louis? Even Greater Pittsburgh still has Ross Park Mall, which Pittsburgh Galleria was supposed to kill but you all know the story.
Not any really good malls anywhere even the ones that have some stores in them one here in St Louis you have the galleria which is in Brentwood and then they are redeveloping the Union station which is downtown St Louis
West County Center at 270 / Manchester is still doing pretty well (even though now even THAT mall is in the early stage of decline). It's in a very affluent area. 63131 is one of the highest wealth zip codes in the country.
That’s a nice looking mall. Great central ceiling! And no, that outlet place is not a mall. That’s a “shopping center”. Those outdoor things are just trendy and stupid. Who wants to go in and out of weather when there are things called malls? That’s not shopping.
Dude the faded 80s music you put in your videos really puts what these malls used to be like into an almost unimaginable perspective. It’s apocalyptic. A bygone era of retail and life. Crazy…
i went to high school near this mall in the early 2000s. it was THE hang out spot for all the teens, i went there with my friends almost every other weekend. it had everything!
movie, food but also Indoor bungee jump, big carousel, a gift shop with 50 types of cheap shurikens, all blacked out store for just horror movie memorabilia, pet store with colorful fish tanks and huge rabbits, impromptu prom proposals and break ups....it was a place where lives were lived and memories were made. RIP Chesterfield Mall thank you for all the good times.
ps: f the outlet malls especially taubman prestige, what a moronic uninspired dumpster fire
I grew up going here as a kid and teen with friends going to the animal shop calling our moms trying to convince them to buy us puppies, v stock was amazing with posters and slackers.so sad to see Chesterfield mall and mills mall become extinct. I have no desire for outlet malls. I'll forever be grateful for the memories here as kid.
Outlet malls just aren't the same at all
I remember the pet store!!!! I was realllyyyy little but that just makes those memories so core ❤️⚜️😢
There's a morbid fascination seeing these old run down malls, so sad but I can't stop watching. Thank you for your uploads.
I watch a lot of dead mall videos but yours is definitely one of the best
Thank you!
This mall will always hold a special place in my heart. Shopped there in college. After college I had a job working with adults with differing needs and I would take them here to be out and about for the day. Later I would go on my first date with my now husband at the movie theater. That was in 2015 but it feels like forever ago!
22:14 this was Babbage's when I was a boy in the '80s and '90s. I bought Street Fighter II Turbo on SNES there. So many great memories. Those jagged walls were a staple in Babbage's stores back then. They'd line them with the newest and best selling boxed video games. I recall this location had a surprisingly better selection of PC games than other locations, but we didn't own a PC back then. Thanks for the tour, I will miss this mall--like so, so many of our other great, dead malls--so much.
Chesterfield Mall will be demolished starting tomorrow, 10/15/2024. Thank you for creating this overview of the mall. As a child in the 80’s and teen in the 90’s, this mall was a big part of my childhood. I remember the thousands of people walking here on any given weekend or Friday night. Such a beautiful place lost to time.
It's really odd watching this. I used to visit Chesterfield all the time way back when, and I kept thinking "Oh yeah, x was in that storefront, and y in that one, and..." Really sad to see it like this.
I remember the fountains! I think there used to be 6-7 of them, but then they removed them one by one. Sad because one of the fountains was tall enough to reach the second floor of the mall. They really fascinated me as a kid, lol.
Oh, yeah, I remember that! It used to fascinate me too as a kid!
There were three fountains. Two of similar size in the Sears and Dillard's wings and a much bigger fountain in the center court. The Sears/Dillard's wing fountains were removed in the late 90s/early 2000s and the center court fountain was removed a few years later and replaced with the two-level carousel.
This was the spot when I was in high school. Had many dates at this mall along with a ton of good memories with friends. Such a shame to see it go.
My mom took me to the grand opening of Chesterfield Mall back in the 70s. It was the place kids would hang out during the 80s or least when I was growing up. I never dreamed that they would end up tearing it down. Truly sad.
It's eerie how quiet that abandoned section was! Completely insane. I'm not American, and my country has never had a mall culture like this per se, so watching this feels doubly surreal, knowing all that empty, unused space is just there.
I literally grew up in this mall. Thru 2008 to 2015 i would go to this mall every Friday and Saturday to hangout with friends, shop and see movies. The memories that were made throughout the years at this amazing mall will always be very special to me. Thank you for such a wonderful video of my childhood hometown mall. I greatly appreciate it.
You do an excellent job with these videos. I've been binging for the last couple of days. So many memories. I've only been to a couple of these malls, but they all have that same nostalgic quality in common. It's so sad, but so good people like you are documenting this before they're all gone. Thanks.
Wow I am so shocked at how Chesterfield is now! Went I first went, every part of the mall was walkable, but I'm sad they walled it off. I am glad to see it being used for new things to keep the mall alive for now though! I also had no idea about the outlets nearby; why would they build them there? Another amazing video as always and thanks for keeping us up to date with Chesterfield
I first went there in the mid 80's. Was a bustling place then. Got my first taste of Chick-fil-A nuggets. Loved those greasy things. Was at the AMC just before Covid struck. The theater is nice but the mall was a ghost town. Thx for the vid
Chesterfield mall is set to close in 2023 and will be demolished eventually. I saw it on the news about the same time you filmed this.
I’ve been inside this mall recently. As recently as yesterday, and there is actually a few new stores opened in this mall. There is one restaurant left In the food court which opened roughly a month ago. There is a development group who bought it, who is building a apartments center right behind it, and someone I worked at Home Depot with who also works at the business licensing office for chesterfield said she’s not positive, but heard that the group building the apartments center are the ones who bought the mall. She told me that she heard they are planning on turning it into a shopping center for the people that will live in the apartments once it opens.
She said it’s either that, or a new hotel that will be built there.
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I've only recently found these videos, but it makes me sad to see some of these malls close in the St. Louis area. I grew up there as a kid in the 90s, and in mid-Missouri during the 2000s for my middle and high school years. I used to go back to St. Louis often with my dad, and we visited malls often in the area.
There were fountains back in the day, i accidentally fell into one trying to grab a quarter as a toddler!
It's crazy how quickly this mall died. I was there in 2016 and a lot of the stores were still there. The Carson's and Sears were still in operation. I loved it because it had a v stock that I believe is still there but also a Slackerz and an Arcade. St. Louis Premium Outlets are probably taking all their business, sucks because I'd much rather go to an indoor mall than outdoor mall.
I know right.. like I say at the end the indoor mall just has more charm and is more inviting. I wish I could’ve seen it back then
indoor mall will never come back, because people are too fat and too lazy.
they don't want to walk around any more than they have to.
@@NorthCdogg22 I didn't realize how bad it's gotten for malls around the country until I left Chicago because we had a lot of thriving malls up there. A few are dead but we had more that are doing well, like Woodfield, Gurnee Mills, etc.
@@davidjacobs8558 I love walking around a mall.
@@dvferyance I guess you are not fat.
Thank you for your videos. This was another mall we visited on our St Louis trip about 10 years ago. This mall was still lively then. I picked this mall because it had a Coach Store and I was looking at getting a new handbag. I remember there was a beautiful carousel in the center court where the pickle ball courts are now.
This is my weekend entertainment. I always look forward to watching your great videos.
Yes there were fountains there in the 80s. As a kid we used to throw whiper-snapers from the 2nd floor to the first while avoiding security. And as a teen we often just walked around the mall trying to talk to girls. Thanks for your video. Brought back a lot of memories.
I usedto work at the Sears [auto deptshop] & KB Toys. I went from part-time Christmas help to Asst. Manager in 30 days & we used to get a Christmas bonus pay in cash every year too.
This shopping mall is look good shape. It is abandoned mall. Great video tour around shopping mall
Great documentaries! Unfortunately, the final destruction of the dollar will finish these malls off quickly, along with most other businesses. It’s a little surreal seeing all this go down in real time.
Something has to change, or the economy has to implode. Money doesn't buy nothing anymore. It's been this way for a long while, and it keeps getting worse. U.S. debt of 30.5 Trillion dollars now. $105.000.00 for a pickup truck, and a farm tractor can cost more than a half million dollars? I looked at a small rib roast in a grocery store for $78.00 a week ago. I totally agree with what you've stated here. Even Amazon's share price has fallen more
than 25% ($890.00) over the past six months.
@@edwardschwenk3100 Agreed. This is what happens when a currency is backed by nothing and printed into oblivion. There is no other alternative.
The key events that lead to this:
-Crime of 1873, where silver was demonetized.
-1913, Creation of the “Private” Federal Reserve.
-1971, End of the Gold Standard.
-Now, ending of the Petrodollar, which forced the world to use only dollars to purchase oil.
I was remodeling the Dillards after the water main break and got the call on Monday prior to Thanksgiving of 2016 to shut the job down, Dillards was not spending anymore money there.
Debbie Gibson slowed down was a superb touch, pleasant and very relaxing.
👍🏼😄👍🏼
Nice one ! Just the right amount of narration, easy to understand for a non-US viewer (some other creators could learn from this...)
Amazing Video Man!!!! Chesterfield always seemed like a very cool mall to me!
Thanks! And yeah it’s an awesome place, it feels like Jamestown if it was still open lol
Thank you for the Debbie man! I loved that version 😂
Glad you enjoyed it!😂
@@NorthCdogg22 who sings this version
I visited Chesterfield Mall with a friend on September 23rd, 2023. It's just as dead and empty as the video. My experience was that the restricted area he went into was fully closed off and inaccessible. Very fun experience that I took many pictures of. I plan on going again soon to enjoy walking the mall before its full closing. I was born in 2003, so I am trying to enjoy what's left of mall culture before it disappears.
That slowed down Debbie Gibson song is haunting AF.
I grew up in this mall. I have so many good memories attached to it; used to go there all the time with my friends in high school. I'm really going to miss it.
Great mall video and excellent documentation too!!! 😁👍❤️😁👍❤️😁👍❤️
I worked at this mall the 2015 Holiday Season and it was actually a pretty active and full and busy mall then, but wow... as soon as Christmas 2015 came and went, the stores immediately started to leave this mall.
I think 2016 advent season was the last hurrah. 2017 was never the same and it hasn’t been since. Of course the decline began long before that.
I really hate how they ruined it by adding walls, tennis ball courts, and security. Where you cannot even walk around the mall anymore. It’s just a shame for this gem to be a goner. This is my favorite mall of all time I’ve been to as a kid and I will forever miss the memories.
Remember Diamond Dave’s Tacos on the lower level. Think they had some arcade games in the back. An Aladdin’s castle arcade
I worked at this mall in the early 00s! RIP B. Dalton: one of my more enjoyable retail jobs
Another nice video! Its very well documented - its great for those of us who may never be able to visit these places. Keep up the good work :D
I've just realized I'm wearing a shirt I bought from this mall in 2016 while watching this, hahaha. I know it was on decline at the time but I'm glad I got to visit this. It was my childhood dream to visit an American Girl store so I'm very thankful I got to go there too. :)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Bath and Body Works “This store has closed” sign in my life - that’s seriously a first for me and I am a dead mall enthusiast! LOL
I like these Dead Mall videos, thanks for sub, greets from Canada, so these dead malls in history, wow.
I remember going to this mall a couple times as a kid. Kind of surreal and strange to see it in a youtube video like this.
Chesterfield used to be the premier mall in the Midwest. Hard to see it now.
FANTASTIC!!! Thank you!
gonna miss V-Stock in Chesterfield. Definitely one of my top 10 stores.
Outstanding video, Liked very much,,
Thank you!
New subscriber here (for sure earned my sub with this amazing content) just wanna make a statement others here might agree on. Indoor malls need to come back because the reason they were so popular was they offered a place to go and hang with friends when the weather was crap somewhere you could go and spend the day playing games in the arcade and then shopping and then eating food in the food court. Outdoor malls are just not the same and the feeling and the energy is just not there and its depressing. I really wanna see a resurgence of indoor malls
Thank you man! And I 100% agree I really do hope these indoor malls come back they just bring so much charm and the outdoor malls bring nothing to the table
Just left this mall with today being its last day. Truly a sad sight, there were quite a few people here to take pictures and reminisce. 😢
I remember going to the Tubmans outlets during 2013-16 and it was bustling with people. Some say the outlet killed off the Chesterfield Mall, The Mills and was going to give West County competition. Its almost embarrassing how fast that mall had failed.
The first,and probably last time i went here, i got some Nintendo 64 games and controllers for my N64 at one of the retro game stores in the entrance. Atleast i will have a piece of history in the form of a different piece of history.
This mall was my childhood too. I was shocked to see how quickly this mall died. If the two competing outlet malls didn’t mark the beginning of the end, then Dillard’s closure did.
Also, if you’re looking for another dead mall in St Louis, then South County Center fits that bill.
Great video! Very interesting. Thanks.
So sad to see Express abandoned.😞
I always wondered whose brilliant idea it was to build those 2 outlet malls within 5 miles of each other. They sure didn’t last long, especially the one on the west side of the highway. I think Chesterfield Mall started dying when Dillards had that flood. Loved this mall. We spent so much time at that Borders. I still have an awesome pair of boots that I bought at The Walking Company around 2012. It’s so eerie to see it that empty. I believe it’s about to be torn down now. 😢
Very nice video i have watched 0:01 seconds of it but i already know it is going to be great
Wow what dedication, how kind of you❤️
I remember it as a kid in the late 1980s. Yes there was fauntains that people tossed coins into.
I spent a good amount of time at this mall....but most of my youth was spent in Crestwood mall.
Chesterfield Mall was absolutely awesome. Even into the 2000s and early 2010s, it was still pretty viable. I thought American Girl moving in would really help things. But they left a while back. The outlet malls really hurt them and their poor management gave them the Northwest Plaza treatment.
It’s so sad that this mall is dead now. My mom would take me and my brothers here every Friday to shop. Good times
I was in high school in the mid / late 1980's and this was THE spot to go on Friday and Saturday night. It had not one, but TWO arcades, a Burger Chef, and there were cute girls everywhere you looked. It was a glorious time.
Well you covered the Ky oaks mall i grew up with, well in 2010 i moved in this area to start a family with who is now my wife as she lived in this area... so for 3 years until i got a bad injury that leaves me having to use a wheelchair, I'd go to these malls along with the Stl Mills and had fun, it was less fun being in a wheelchair having my wife push me around so we hardly went at all the past 9 years .. never realized they all basically died.
13:58 where the Chesterfield History Museum was… was originally the most fun Abercrombie & Fitch to work at… RIP A&F #634 … March 1996 - January 2012
the day after they demolish the last of these beautiful 70s mall they will announce the development of a 'retro 70s style mall' that is brand new, and it will a huge success
Food court use to be second level, right hand side where h&m use to be in current lay out off the central escalator. I remember the chik fil a cow running around. McDonald arches.
As well at the top of the central escalator was a Disney store. The only one in the area at the time I believe.
There used to be a Walgreens in the mall way back in the 80’s as well as a Pasta house Restaurant (STL local chain).
Walgreens was on the upper level near Sears (by the entrance). Pasta House was almost directly underneath it.
I cannot comprehend how such a beautiful architectural piece of art as this mall is, its left to become abandoned. One would think it is the optimal place to go shopping. There has to be a reason for the decline of all these malls. I understand you get better deals online. But nothing can replace the experience of walking around and physically try on clothes and products. I'm from the 80s generation, maybe that's why 😔☹️😩
Just a shame altogether. I worked a 2 different Sears back in the day. They both closed. The last one was in Chattanooga at the now dead Northgate Mall. I loved that store, my job and especially my customers. End of an era for sure. Things aren't going back to this.
Oh yeah, no way. Jeff Bezos has a lot to do with that. He has killed brick and mortar
You should go to Joplin and cover the Northpark mall! Sadly, it’s days are now numbered as well.
Unless someone has some big ideas for this mall, I get the feeling it could become the next Jamestown. At least it seems to have something to do with all that pickleball.
I remember going in 2018, and thought it was dead then. Sears was on its way out, and Dillard's never reopened after the flood. Oddly enough, I hear they still own that anchor space, and are on board for potential redevelopment plans.
Interesting.. despite being the anchors abandoned for awhile especially Dillards after severe water damage when you look into them they seem to be in pretty good condition, including Sears which has been turned into a skate shop and a small skate park
@@NorthCdogg22 I wonder if the skate park at Chesterfield, is a relocation of the skate park that used to be at Saint Louis Mills? It was a bummer if you ask me, that it seems like(per one walkthrough video I saw, forget if it was you or someone else who snuck into that place/Powerplex's closed hallways and got kicked out) the skate park didn't stay there, after it was renamed into Powerplex.
BTW, do you really think Dillard's would come back here, if the place was demalled and IF a huge chunk of Chesterfield was demolished? I have my doubt that Dillard's would come back to Chesterfield, but who knows.
I just hear what I hear. TBH, I'll be shocked if anything happens with Chesterfield's redevelopment, let alone Dillard's reopening.
Worst case scenario, we're staring at Jamestown Mall 2.0
@@BoratWanksta i know for sure it is, friend of the owner.
13:20 That sign gives me Clerks vibes. "I assure you, we're open!"
Great video as always North!
Fr drop the playlist the music in these r fire
I need it for rollerskating
This almost looks like the state of Tuttle Mall in Columbus Ohio. Kind of half open with limited stores but very desolate. If you haven't already done that one, it could be one to check out. Also Westland mall in Columbus.
There amc looks amazing! Wonder what this plsve must have felt like, see a movie and go shopping
I got my first Covid vaccine shot in Chesterfield Mall, lol.
What is the songs name that you use in the into when you are driving through the parking lot? It’s so good
Not being harsh at all.. never saw any point in an outdoor mall and I love the outdoors.
Who wants to tredge across a vast parking lot into an outdoor space dealing with the rain, the cold and the heat and all the elements.
Outdoor malls seem as though they could do better in resort areas with better climates not in the middle of the midwest with four seasons to tend with.
This is the sister mall to Jamestown
If u see that border up spot next to the bathroom used to be a raising canes that closed in 2015
Westfield Chesterfield 😏
And the city was too bold to have two competing outlet centers let alone open nearly the same time. The taubman one died off (and were supposed to build more of those) as Simon Premium Outlets remained in operation with decent occupancy.
I figure Mid-Rivers in St. Peters is next to fall
Mid Rivers Mall is absolutely at death's door.
i went for a walk around this mall over 3 months ago my goodness super dead but it was so beautiful though
Went out on a few dates here in the late 70s. Wow.
For some reason, this reminds me of the former Madison Square Mall in Huntsville, AL.
I hope the pickleball courts can be relocated. It's the fastest growing sport in the country.
Hey what about a series about live malls?
Hell yeah new videoooo!!!!!!
Bells mall was sued by all these people who put malls so close together. Been waiting for this video a long time. the audio is messed up as music is way louder than dialogue. they put a bunch of buildings in front of chesterfield plaza and called that chesterfield mall. everything in Chesterfield has a sign by it saying its the mall. there is a giant parking garage would love see a video about that
Rating Of Chesterfield mall 10/10 And The District St Louis 20/10
Love chesterfield mall
Cheesecake Factory was the 2nd in the area, The Galleria mall had the first Cheesecake Factory.
I love the liminal space
I always thought it was weird that this mall and Jamestown even opened. Both were not located in good areas. Jamestown is in the middle of nowhere and chesterfield here is too close to west county too function properly. Plus it’s right on the floodplain of the river.
I agree, unlike other St. Louis malls these malls had bad locations, plus the city was just overmalled..
The location wasn't bad, it just lost business after St. Louis Premium Outlets and Chesterfield Outlets both opened in Chesterfield. The area can't support that much retail.
Well, keep in mind that in 1974 West County Mall was pretty much a glorified strip mall with a roof. I think Penny’s and Famous-Barr were the two anchors. Chesterfield was much larger with more to offer. Man, I still miss Mister Dunderbak’s and their beer cheese soup..
Do you mean West County Center or West County the geographic area? In the 80's and 90's, West County Center was NOT the West County Center of today. It was no competition for Chesterfield Mall. In the 80's and 90's, Chesterfield Mall was a glowing example of American suburban Capitalism. West County the AREA was a perfect place to put this mall when it opened. It was growing and affluent.
@@mincerstephen9137 I think now that I think about it again that the Chesterfield area is just too over retailed.
Are there any good malls left in Greater St. Louis? Even Greater Pittsburgh still has Ross Park Mall, which Pittsburgh Galleria was supposed to kill but you all know the story.
Not any really good malls anywhere even the ones that have some stores in them one here in St Louis you have the galleria which is in Brentwood and then they are redeveloping the Union station which is downtown St Louis
West County Center at 270 / Manchester is still doing pretty well (even though now even THAT mall is in the early stage of decline). It's in a very affluent area. 63131 is one of the highest wealth zip codes in the country.
Good video
That’s a nice looking mall. Great central ceiling! And no, that outlet place is not a mall. That’s a “shopping center”. Those outdoor things are just trendy and stupid. Who wants to go in and out of weather when there are things called malls? That’s not shopping.
Doesn't appear to be anywhere to eat in there? It seems like the food court is the first to go
You should do one about St. Clair Square in Fairview Heights it looks like it is on its last leg
I worked for Spencer Gifts here back in the day