Monmouth Mall: Demolition is Underway at One of the Deadest Malls I've Ever Seen! It's a Ghost Town!
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- Join me as I take a look at Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, New Jersey before it's completely demolished!
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That's a shame... that Mall is in better shape than I expected. Sucks they are converting it to open air... doubt it will bring in more customers in the Winter.
Yes, I doubt it. Maybe they'll make enough money from the residential apartments. Hard to say.
IT won't
You know what's ironic about it being converted to an open-air kinda deal? This originally DID open-up as an open-air mall back in circa 1959/'60.
@@raymondmcmillan788Who wants to be they won't even bother with building ANYTHING on the site after it's all said and done. That's what they did to the former White Flint Mall outside of DC.
It might work. I’ve seen open air malls doing well in the winter. It just feels like a mini city strip but with more available parking.
Miss the days where you could look for cool stuff in mall stores instead of having to know exactly what you're looking for/being disappointed with online shopping.
Shopping was so different before the internet....
@mmgpearl
That's an aspect of things that younger people really haven't really experienced much, stumbling upon a surprise find that you didn't know you wanted! No surprises with internet searches at least in the past decade or so.
@@fleabittenadventures
The scary part of losing community shopping centers and malls is that people aren't exposed to as much socialization and it increases the isolation people feel. When you shopped at malls like this it wasn't just about commerce but also about being part of a community too! The concept of modern malls was primarily about community, then about commerce when they were first being considered to replace the town hall or town square in earlier times.
Same
I've never shopped online. I can't understand people who are buying guitars and other musical instruments online.
Man, you have to appreciate what is so you never regret what was. We as a society never stop to really appreciate what we have while it's still accessible. Great video, my friend. Thank you!
Monmouth Mall use to be THEE place to go to. Before the "modern" redo, the mall itself use to glow and attract tons people.
Always packed. Always a good time.
Looks like it was great mall once! Thanks for watching!
THE not THEE. One E.
Across from Lord and Taylor on the 2nd floor was Friendly's, One the 2nd floor going in the opposite direction was the KB Toy store and the gap and the baby gap. On the second floor to the right of Boscovs was the Cookie store Mrs. Fields.
As much as I love being outside in the spring and summer, I always prefer shopping inside.
Same here.
Especially during the Christmas season with all of the beautiful decorations and music and Santa. I am also in Jersey so I don't want to be outside shopping in November/December. The mall I have gone to for decades has been sold. They said there will be stores. So maybe it's the same deal. Maybe even the same buyer/developers. I would love for the Boscov's to stay.
@@lauraann7816 Boscov’s is staying!
@@rickyn1320 YAY 🙌
Ah....CALDOR...........always liked going to that store in Manchester, CT.....i think they closed there, many moons ago............good vid
Thanks! I don't remember the Caldor in Manchester, but I used to go to the one in Avon, CT all the time!
I lived about 3 miles from that mall until about 18 months ago. That mall began going downhill when I was first stationed at Fort Monmouth (about a mile away) in 2001. The escalators next to the food court used to go down to a big electronics store which then became a workout place.
This was my all-time favorite mall from the 70’s to maybe the early 00’s, with JC Penney and Macy’s the stores I most frequented. It was always full of people and sound. Sad to see it a ghost town now, but I guess I’m an example of the many shoppers who abandoned the mall in the 21st century. Thank you for the look back.
Amazon killed the mall. And corona killed what was left of them.
Thanks for the tour. As a mallrat in the late 70s and early 80s, this was one of my malls. Sad to see it like this. I go to Premium Outlets which is a nearby outdoor shopping centef owned by Simon Properties. As nice as it is, its not much fun shopping outside in the rain, snow, cold or heat. I don't get the demalling of malls.
Just go to Freehold Raceway. It's a little further away but it's a great indoor mall. Are you from Tinton Falls by any chance?
@@ryanthomas49I remember when Freehold Raceway Mall was built in the 90s. Beautiful mall with a carousel. Across the street from that retro ice cream place I don't remember the name of.
@@elizabethwitt2621. Jersey Freeze ?
Was just discussing this. I think the only appeal of the Outlet mall is just that.. that they have high-end discount stores. Other than that I do not see where they are getting their statistics that young people love shopping outdoors.
@@elizabethwitt2621 Yes! Jersey Freeze and it’s still there, always busy!
The escalators going down used to lead to a Planet Fitness. After that left, I think there was some Nerf gun place down there. The arcade was a frozen yogurt store a few years back. The food court had a Burger King and a Chik Fil A.
Thanks for the info!
Thanks for posting this one! This was one of my local malls when I grew up in central NJ. This was always a money mall, lots of good stores.
Thanks! Glad you liked it! It looks like it was a great mall!
Going to malls in New Jersey and Los Angeles area and having a burger is classic American culture
Will they demolish the empty wing?
I believe so.
I’ve never really got the whole idea of strip, malls and shopping outdoors! I’m from the Midwest where it gets bitterly cold during the winter and an outdoor mall would be the last place I would want to go to shopping…
I like interior malls that are completely climate controlled, nice skylights, plants and fountains.
Exactly!
I am with you guys. I would never shop at an outdoor mall.
It may work in Florida. There's these new large open air malls where you just walk outside and it's like blocks of stores down the pathways. It's quite unpleasant in Summer, or 7-8 months of the year here though. Basically going inside stores solely to get out of the heat at points, haha.
@@jonny-b4954very unpleasant in the summer. The last place I'd want to be is walking around an outdoor strip mall in 98 degree heat that feels like 2
105 in the scorching sun with that hellish humidity. Not even if you paid me.
Well, with global warming, the winters really don’t get that brutally cold anymore here in the Northeast.
this was my childhood mall in the 70s and 80s - grew up in Long Branch. I remember the original outdoor mall. Montgomery Wards/Alexanders was right at the end of the original corridor, likely where AMC is now. There was a huge Woolworths where Old Navy is/was. Bamberger's Clearance was where Barnes & Noble is. Thanks for the video tour, which was surreal - I could name many of the original stores, long erased beneath other storefronts.
Yup Brighton Ave long branch here grew up in that mall till 1987 looks way different than what I remember it
I remember in the '70s when you could go to the ground Round,and throw the peanut shells on the floor..
The place you mentioned was a Ruby Tuesday and remember going there several times over the years and my dad and his friend would often go shopping 🛍️ there and it's such a shame they are turning into a outdoor mall once again
I know people give Ruby Tuesday a hard time, but I love that place!
@@fleabittenadventures I do agree and they are few locations left in existence
1:45 Ruby Tuesday's
Its actually a nice looking mall. What a waste
i dont mind the moldly ones being taken down but i hate seeing really great looking malls taken it down for no reason. I mean there has to be ways of repurposing some of these places ... like have libraries at the anchor store ... maybe a fitness center or something at another anchor store ... there has to be ways to keep the food courts open too
I rather be inside during the summer and winter ... i think they are grasping at straws to find a reason to justify what they are doing
I agree. We'll see what happens. From what I read, it may be a couple of years before the renovation is done.
Thanks for taking us along on your the walk through. This mall looks to be in great shape. It’s a pity they are demolishing it in favor of open air use which doesn’t make sense for the climate.
Yes, physically it's in great shape. They did a major renovation less than 15 years ago. They just want to change it for the sake of change.
Very sad. I worked in this mall for 4 months in 2017. I really miss the Suncoast.
Looks like it was a great mall once. Thanks for watching!
@@fleabittenadventures unfortunately it was dying for a long time. Great video
I really miss arcades. Especially mall arcades. Sadly I bet it cost more to maintain and replace the games than the money they generate. Plus, with their being so much crime in malls now, you really don’t want places where people start hanging out where there’s no supervision.
They must be losing money on the electricity alone. I never see anyone playing the games.
In many malls now they dont let teens in non chaperoned after 5pm & some after 2pm!! Very badly behaved young people today, compared to much more of them that were in malls in '70s & '80s behaved.
Gotta be due to demographic changes, social media, & smart phone.
The arcade in Long Branch on the pier by the Haunted Mansion was the best in the 80s.
@@utuBrV1oIUnfortunately, have to agree with you. The teens are wild, loud, leave a mess, take up all the seating for dining without buying anything and are very disrespectful towards adults when they're on their own in public places. My kids would have been grounded for behaving like that, but they never would have behaved that way. Not impressed with how parents AREN'T parenting teens these days.
My guess would be the 9x9 tiles that JCP might've had. If they're intact, they're fine. If it's insulation on pipes, fine if not messed with. This is probably why the stuff stayed all this time.
That makes sense.
I don't think moving back to an outdoor mall will help unless the store size shrinks and the variety increases.
Fixed costs are significantly lower in an outdoor mall. Outdoor area cleaning is much cheaper and there are no costs for air conditioning for common area. Stores may also potentially decide on their opening hours more independently.
I agree. I guess we'll have to check back in a year or two and see if it works out.
Makes sense.
Definitely so weird that they haven't blocked off the empty area.
I thought so. I'm sure it's open just to allow people to walk to Boscov's.
I do like my recently conceived nickname for the store once known as “Forever 21” & that would be “Haven’t Been 21 in Like Forever”😂.
Forever isn't as long as it used to be.
Except for Bergen county, ALL of NJ is BROKE!
Monmouth County is still rich as hell.
when you go down the escalator in the old mall, on the left it was a Sam goodys. I used to by records there a lot in the 70s.
Thanks for the info!
Then they moved up next to A&S (Boscov's). Later was Model's sports
Maybe an UNused, UNowned, Abandoned mall can be re-purposed as hurricane / tornado shelter for people who are homeless. When a hurricane 🌀 or tornado 🌪 reaches a category 5 life-threatening level, people need to be in an enclosed structure that can withstand a life-threatening environmental emergency. The sub level of a mall - like the lower floor food court can serve as a shelter during a hurricane 🌀 / tornado 🌪 / earthquake ( although it is hard to track and forecast an earthquake ).
Just down from Monmouth was Seaview mall that died a number of years ago. They took down most of the mall and and turned what survived into independent stores. Most are doing ok.
I worked there at Steinbachs and The Merry Go Round Bruce Springsteen would come in and buy everything in a size 7/8. We would take turns helping him since we got a commission!
I used to work for the management company. I recall them drawing up plans and updating the office on the bottom floor to be home base for the corporate folk for when construction starts. Going to be mixed use property. Mall and residental units. You should see the basement! vast area that goes underneith the entirity of the mall and used for storage. Small rooms. HUGE rooms. You can throw a rave down there. There's even hotel room mock-ups of other hotels that they own in the area.
As I understand it, the area where they are currently doing demolition will become the new B&N location (current location to become the Whole Foods).
A mall night be a good place for a university and re-education for high tech trades...
Tell me how we are going to compete with the rest of the world without education?
The Monmouth mall was very lively just a couple years ago. I don't think the mall is dead for economic reasons. The owners are just forcing out all the tenants because they have other plans for the property. The Asbury Park Press called the Monmouth Mall the most valuable retail space in Central Jersey back in 2015.
Video from 2019 showing almost no vacancies in the quote "Dead Section:" th-cam.com/video/KC2LlWGa-Lg/w-d-xo.html
You can cross reference all the stores from that video to see what they once were.
The Monmouth Mall is not a dead mall. It is a mall that was killed by dumb owners who wanted build a town center on the property instead. Seriously this should have been the last mall on Earth to close down.
Rowe-Manse department stores had a cards and candy store at the mall. Their other store was in Clifton,NJ.
There's a newer bigger mall...Raceway..much nicer..down street..that is why..still plenty of mall traffic there
i grew up with this version mall my entire life and it's so upsetting that it's going to be gone. i visited here in February before they completely closed it, gamestop was gone :( and that Toys Here store would never sell anything lol. i will also miss the AMC, last movie i watched there was Saw X last year. Thank you for documenting the mall before it's gone.
I saw king Kong(2005 version) there and star wars revenge of the sith.
Every dead mall I've seen always looks eerily similar to the ruins of ancient Greece. Truly the end of an era.
Nice looking mall. I could save it. But I don't have the funds to buy it.
yea built in 1960 but looks modern after its many renovations.
I grew up in Brick Town in the 60's / 70's and my Parents always took my sister and I to the Monmouth Mall. Back when it was an Open Mall and also once it was all enclosed with the added addition to it with the couple of levels where by the looks of it in the video that is completely vacant now. Back before the addition Bamberger's was there as was an outlet of Bamberger's as their cheaper alternative. One of my memories would be shopping at Alexander's and purchasing the double vinyl album 'Goodbye Yellowbrick Road' by Elton John (I think my parents had a fit because it was around $14) and I also remember purchasing 'Permanent Waves' on vinyl by Rush at one of the record stores that was located down a little from Alexander's. What a great Mall in its heyday. The Food Court was never there when we went and either was it the last time I visited back around 1980 or so. Even at that time the Mall was bustling and I can remember a Sam Goody on the lower level of the new section. What a shame that it's become a ghost mall like so many others across the country. Thank COVID & the good ol' Internet for this.
I don't think younger people actually prefer shopping outdoors. I think most people just like bright natural lighting and good airflow, which can be achieved with a more pavillion style mall with nice big windows and white fiberglass ceilings to keep the temperature controlled. Young people just want to feel ootimistic and not trapped.
I used to hang out around the old Sam goodies on the lower level. We would all meet up around the seating area. Still remember the old banks of phones right outside the store. 70's was awesome. Remember going into the Ground Round on Saturdays and drinking cheap pictures of beer at 16 and throwing peanut shells on the floor. 3 stooges playing as well. Drinking age being 18 was never asked for ID.
born in 79' , I grew up spending childhood shopping time there all through the mid 80s and worked at the AMC theatre originally called " Sony theaters AMC " in 1997-98 ...it would be so packed there on the weekends I easily saw thousands a day ushering and cleaning the theaters, back in those days we wore the bow tie tux uniforms...the Master wok and Burger King @8:19 have been there since 97 when I worked at the theater.... there was also a Chick-fil-A there at that time, the food court would be packed with Lines....now just shadows of the past
Great video! That bottom in that mall is soo creepy
Thanks! It was a very strange feeling seeing no one in any direction while I was at a mall. Kind of felt like I broke into a closed mall.
This mall is about 20-25 minutes from me so I didnt go a lot but I definitely went several times. The best thing about this mall is that had a Suncoast that was opened until just a few years ago. I love Suncoast and that was probably the only one left. They had such a good deals.
Seems really strange that the Macys sign @ 31:32 Is not centered above the entryway and way to the left. So sad to see many of these malls becoming obsolete and disappearing at a rapid rate.
Oh yeah, I see what you mean. Maybe it's supposed to be stylish???
Any surviving mall is a relic from a time when people had money to waste on over priced stuff.there used to be 11large malls within driving distance of my house.now there's 2.1 is 50 percent full and is in debt and for sale. and the outlet mall does ok. The rest are gone.
I'm on the Jersey shore and practically grew up here. Have many pictures of going to the Caldor, riding the little kid carousel, etc. I believe where the down escalators are is where Burlington coat factory used to be because you had to go to downstairs to get to the main area. I don't remember the other local but the Wiz might have either been in the same spot as Burlington or where AMC was. They also used to have a Planet fitness there, it changed a lot in the 2000s.
I remember when it was all open, i used to go to go to country buffet there.menlo park Mall used to be open, they enclosed it then in the late eighties they added a second floor and expanded the whole mall with a movie theater which it never had. Further down route 35 at the Asbury Park circle years ago there was the Seaview square Mall, there wa a Sears there, it went downhill when all the blacks from Asbury Park started causing trouble as they always do by stealing robbing cars and shoppers, they demolished it built a target and I forget what else, i think sears stayed, the Internet destroyed a lot of businesses. I thought they were supposed to build townhouse's or houses there?
This change is likely being done to reduce taxes as well a generate revenue from the new residential area that they may be getting money from the state.
monmouth was the very first mall i went to as a kid growing up in freehold since raceway mall didn't exist for a decade it was packed back when
Looks like it was nice at one point! Thanks for watching!
Ugh I don't know who's bright idea it is to do an open air mall especially in a state that gets cold in the winter stupid idea IMO sorry but if I lived there I would def still shop online yes I know it's killing retail but I def wouldn't want to shop in an open air mall good luck to them I hope they get business. Mall at Whitney Field in Leominster is almost as dead as this mall they lost Kay Jewelers over there they moved over to where Ocean State is and Michaels :)
Yeah, I'm not a fan of open air malls in general. Unless it's 60 degrees and dry, it's either too hot or cold for me to be outside.....
Global warming will make that less of a problem
I bet it be very busy if there was no internet - or even fairly busy if there were no mobile phones.
Paramus Park became a dead mall on saturdays, for a different reason oddly, since Hollister store for young people closed 2 yrs ago. When it was open, the mall was very busy on saturdays.(& Holister looked busier to me at Paramus Park than Hollister at Garden State Plaza! Very stupid move!)
Stew Lenards opening at Param Park did nothing - for that mall.
So sad Mall's are dying out. Call me old school but id rather go to a mall than a boring box store any day
I was there two Sundays ago on Hot Topic’s last day.
The Wiz and Burlington was downstairs.
That must have been just a few days after I was there!
Thanks for the info!
@@fleabittenadventures February 25th. I just looked at a photo I took there.
People are probably going to the Freehold Raceway Mall instead.
Or the Ocean County Mall.
Or East Brunswick Mall are viable alternatives.
I've been to this mall many times in the past. Sad to see what happened to it.
The Montgomery Wards store was located where the AMC theater is located. Both Wards and Alexanders were two levels, the ground level and a lower level. After Alexander's closed in early 1983, the upper level became the Caldor and the lower level became the Nobody Beats The Wiz.
I believe the closed-off escalators by the food court are the inside entrance to the lower level space. There is also, IIRC, and elevator which was part of the MW.
Miss those stores! Long gone….
Wasn't a bad looking mall inside. If you didn't know any better, you'd almost think it was a mall in its opening stages. The asbestos signs threw that off though, and the outside😊
Much prefer outdoor anything. Being inside a stuffy building is not fun. I rather shop online at that point. However, I LOVE me an outside shopping area like the Outlets in CT or Disney Springs to give a really stellar example.
Fair enough. To each his/her own.
I do feel south of the Virginia-North Carolina state line to just north of the middle of Florida open air malls do make more sense (except in some extreme cold winter or very hot summer days). But yes, I do feel that enclosed, environmentally controlled malls north of that state line do make more sense, especially in the winter months (for purposes of honesty I live in the MetroAtlanta area since 1994, and was born and raised in the Tampa Bay Area - for 31 years before that).
I agree.
It's a shame the mall is being partially demolished. It looks really nice. So much wasted potential. A mall with no roof is definitely not what younger shoppers want and will do nothing to increase business. It makes me wonder if the project is a money laundering skeem. i agree 100% about the arcade. If they don't take quarters, i'm out. I make my personal mission to never shop at a business that does not accept legal tender or forces you to put money on a card.
Same. The McD's want me to use the kiosk which does NOT accept c$h. I went somewhere else which will accept my money. Never used my debit card for anything except withdrawing $$ from the atm.
@@luigivincenz3843 I haven't been inside a mcdonald's in a while but when you use the kiosk there should be an option to pay cash where it prints you a recipt that you have to take up to the register, pay, get a 2nd recipt. It is really stupid. I usually just walk up to the counter like most people still do. Eve. If they are still using their card. Mcdonald's has blamed the inflation on their dropped sales. I'm sure that plays a part in it. But the kiosks are a deal breaker for about 50% of their customers. If they ever force me to use it, I'll go somewhere else instead.
Very sad and depressing.
An open mall in extreme weather is stupid.
Did you figure out where those stairs going down went to? And where will B&N move to?
40:18 That’s the spot where B&N will move to. Formerly Firebirds restaurant and la maison furniture
@@rl8429that looks like they’re tearing it down?
@@BreakTime10101 The section of the mall around the food court isn’t planned to be demolished. They’re gutting the spot I mentioned previously because it was two different spaces. Now they’re trying to combine it into one.
@@rl8429 Thanks
They're not even gone and I'm missing malls already. None super close to me so just popping over to my local mall now involves a 45 minute trek- 90 minutes round trip-kind of puts a damper on mall hopping when you're time-strapped as most people are these days.
Their days are numbered....
makes you want to cry when you think about life back then.
I came to the USA as a foreign exchange student from Japan
and my experiences and exposure to American culture was from
a young American teenager who spoke my language fluently.
We hung out at the mall across the street from the high school
and when my time to go home to Japan we went our separate ways.
Years later i returned and married that wonderful teenage boy
who back a strong mature veteran ❤
Hot topic now COLD topic, LOL
Soon there will be a change of topic too
The escalator down went to Nobody beats the wiz. When they added the food court "the wiz" was below it. Old Navy was added when they added the food court.
Cool! Thanks for the info! It wasn't very clear online.
@fleabittenadventures You're welcome.
I've been going to that mall since I was a little kid. In my mind, that food court is still new. I remember them renovating it when I was in college and then putting The Wiz in that awkward spot with the down escalator.
A real shame that section is being torn down. The apartments might help generate foot traffic for the remaining stores though? I guess we'll see in a few years after more mixed use community properties have gone up where malls used to be.
Places that left with absolutely little to no signage and can only tell by certain facades: Lids, Gap, Express and Express men, Aeropostale, AT&T, Gamestop (which i believe began as a babbage's), Hallmark, Champs Sports, Cotton:On, Forever 21, Footlocker, Kids Footlocker, Icing, Disney Store, Hollister Co., Cold Stone Creamery, Spencer's, Zumiez, Lenscrafters (moved to another part of the mall) and Charlotte Russe.
There was a Pacsun in the newer area as well.
@@zeldajunkielol2 oh yeah forgot about that being in there.
The escalators next to AMC lead to The Wiz ---> then became Burlington ---> finally planet fitness and rental spaces.
Thanks for the info!
For a dead mall, it looks well kept up....
I agree. It's just empty.
In the upper level of the dead wing was a Suncoast video, I got to check it out in June of 2021 (three years went by quick) right before its closure. The store felt like the 90s, all the way down to the smell. The store even had Star Wars The Phantom Menace playing on the overhead TVs.
The Boscovs was a tennant, then closed down for a few years, and then reopened.
Wow. I used to were at the Gap back in the late 90's. Crazy. If they throw a Whole Foods in there and build some townhouses, that place will be unstoppable. All those New Yorkers looking for places in NJ since covid
Thanks for posting. As a construction worker having built a lot of these stores, when a dollar bought you plenty breaks my heart. These malls were full of life back than. Online shopping and crime decimated malls across the nation.
My mall only has 12 places left, but they're working on revitalizing it by refurbishing it and they are succerd new tenants and anchors
An update on this mall as my brother works in it.
Pretty much all of the stores are gone in the corridor between B&N and AMC with I believe the exception of Macy's (and Boscov's still down the end). B&N's new building is still being built. Old Navy just closed recently or will be closing by the end of the summer. As soon as the leases are up, the tenants are gone. The owners fully believe that the tenants will return. There is nothing left in the new wing. I do remember the parking garage but literally no one ever used it, probably a good thing if it was structurally unsound. I personally think Monmouth Mall died because of the much better (and a few decades younger) Freehold Mall not too far away. As a kid in the 90s, my mom would always take us to Freehold and not Monmouth despite them being equal distances away. Ocean County Mall is also pretty close and while not as thriving as Freehold, still was doing much better than Monmouth prior to the 2020s. Thank you for the video!
So the kids like an “open air” concept uh, nah they don’t like paying for heated and air conditioned hallways🥶
And having security guards hassling them
wow and I thought my local mall was dead (it is) but not quite as dead as this
Wow. Last time I was there was in 2018 after coming back to area that I once called home. Gone are the Lord & Taylor, and JC Penney’s plus many other shops. Strange that malls in America are dead, yet in SE Asia where I reside now, they are more popular. Amazing how Boscov’s still hangs on.
Boscov’s is doing very well! They have stores from PA to Rhode Island!
Spent many days at this mall! There was a crepe place next to the elevator on the bottom floor and I think a shoe repair spot. Also remember spending a lot of time at the Sam Goody and as someone mentioned the Wiz which is where the escalators went down to back then. Feels like a lifetime ago!
What the hell... This mall was thriving not that long ago! What the fuck happened? Did COVID did a major number on this place?
Every Young person I've seen would rather be indoors tapping on a screen or playing with a game controller. LOL Good luck with that. What it really is, is an attempt to make the place cheaper to operate. You can't imagine what climate control costs in a place like that. Ask me how I know. :)
It's a HORRIBLE catch 22.... people don't want to deal with the riff raff that cling to malls for their antics.... and Walmart..Amazon have made it so we don't have to leave home.... improve mall safety..mall conduct....
They save money on heating costs
Well, the heat seemed to be on, at full blast.
Great mall to visit as a kid in the 80’s had everything you could ask for in a 80s mall experience . This place used to get so packed it was like walking down a crowded Manhattan sidewalk . Numerous arcades ,dark and full of wonder as a young kid. Now we can all do our shopping online to buy stuff we really don’t need or clothes to wear and have nowhere to go ( like a mall) . In the end all we have is our memories , thanks for the memories Monmouth mall , you should go back in 5 to 10 years to see how open air shopping and over priced housing doesn’t work .
The escalators going down used to be the entrance to "Nobody Beats The Wiz" which was located down there. That part of the mall was heavily renovated in the mid-late 90's like you stated. Next to AMC used to be men's clothing store called "Braddocks". Buffalo Wild Wings is now located there.
Yes, now I'm sure you also remember when Sebastian's Pub was down there.
Burger King! They’ve closed so many locations but they’re open in a dead mall! That’s special…
Why doesn’t Hot Topic move to the part of the mall that’s semi active? Call an Uber to get from Boscovs to that other active part of the mall. It’s a way long walk 😂
The Wiz opened in about 1994 or 1995 and that was where those escalators near the AMC lead to. The Wiz the. became Burlington and something after that. The Old Navy is located in the space on the other side of the AMC entrance.
These malls are doomed, open air conversion or otherwise. There are still too many of them and unless they offer a unique shopping “experience”, like the concentration of very high-end retailers found at a mall like Short Hills, or an extremely large “everything under the sun” experience, they’re obsolete.
These dying intermediate malls are competing with online shopping (namely Amazon) and big-box stores, in a battle they can’t win. Making it open-air might reduce costs, but it won’t make it an “authentic” mainstreet walking experience, as it will remain just another drive and park mall that makes you wonder why you didn’t just go online, or go to a one-stop big box store (for mundane stuff), or go to a more interesting high-end mall. In the end, Monmouth Mall was/is one of a countless number of identical malls that are no longer needed.
I dont get it I wemt to go see the Fabelman's at this mall a year and a half ago the day after Thanksgiving and it was packed, I swear. It took me awhile to recognize it but Its by my sister who lives in Holmdel, crazy! How did it go downhill so fast? Not only is it a loss of an entertainment option, the closure of all these malls and growth of Amazon is terrible! Jeff Bezos is a monster, he and his ex wife not only support gender reassignment surgery as well as certain "smart city" projects, including
In Lahaina, Maui Hawaii. A place recently which as everyone knows who's devastating fires cause ia still up for debate. I hate, Amazon, I hate Bezos and we not only need to start shopping in stores again but we need a legitimate conservative, competitor/option to Amazon!
The mall is now owned by Donald Trump's son-in-law and the map showing the renovation is they intend to build housing on the freed up property. I own stock in Simon property Management for the same reason - expecting that the land on these well situated shopping malls will be converted to high-end housing for commuters.
Was there a Chick-fil-A in the food court?
Where AMC is used to be a two level Nobody Beats the Wixz in the early 90s . Then, it became Amc on top level with Burlington Coat Factory on the lower level.
Back in the 80s, store owners in nearby Red Bank would lament how The Mall was killing their businesses. Who knew their revenge would come within 40 years.
Converting to a “Open Air” Mall in New Jersey….Who thought this was a good idea?…in Winter. .pretty dumb
It’s just too much easier shopping online though malls still have a purpose. I would always head straight to the food court to fuel up but really hated dealing with slow walkers. Now, with the exception of food shopping, I’m done with in person shopping.
The elevators where to a store, before that was a gym. Wards was great had a downstairs where Amc is. Sold bikes and sporting stuff down stairs in the 70's. Even Macy's had a little bar in the Men's department.
Do Freehold!
This was my mall growing up in the 70s-80s. I still go there to get my hair done. At the beginning of the video (right past Barnes & Noble) is where the salon is. I go once every six weeks and I never go into the rest of the mall now. What's the point, right?
The asbestos was surely 'sealed' long ago. Its safer to cover it, than to remove it. But, if you're tearing the building down, it has to be carefully removed during deconstruction.
I also hate those card systems, i love paying with cash. But on the other hand, why should I pay a lot of money for some games when I have a PC with all kinds of games at home. I think the time of arcade halls are over.