Would be hilarious if Chris is finally released from prison, decides to take a trip to the mall to see how times have changed, and it turns out that even though it's now a ghost town, he's still banned, and is promptly apprehended by security and escorted out.
I liked how you played "So Need A Cute Girl" at the end though, gives it more of an eerie creepy feel to this mall knowing that Chris used to frequently visit this place alot back in his heyday hehe! 😆
It's sad and almost unreal that Chris Chan is now in prison and has been for over a year (going on 2) and the mall is dying. Something something, changing times.
It’s sad to see this place in decline - until fairly recently, it was in pretty good shape, if the CWCki is anything to go by. Still, its association with CWC means that even when the time finally comes for it to be dismantled and replaced with something else, its legacy will live on in corners of the internet! Among the famous ‘Christorical events’ to happen here are the Tale of the Crazy Pacer, Chris’s date with Emily and the appearance of the Man in the Pickle Suit, Chris smashing his PS3 at home then coming to the mall to expect a cash payout, and most famously, the “DON’T CALL ANYBODY!” incident of December 26, 2014.
This place was such an epicenter of christory, only now do I realize how little I really knew about the place. Thank you for getting this little snapshot of history, it's not gonna be there forever.
I live in this area and can only imagine the impression it leaves on visitors to see Fashion Square in that unkempt state... and to be known as the "Chris-Chan mall", holy moly. I've seen malls in far worse condition on Dan Bell's channel, but it still is a poor impression to people who visit.
The "So Need A Cute Girl" insert at the end made me laugh hard at the end. Fascinating look at the mall though, I always dig these dead mall videos. Subscribed!
Really a shame what happened to this mall. It used to be toys and games, now it is just clothing and other crap. I remember there used to be a really nifty fellow that would walk around. Real nice and friend, hung out near the Pac-Sun and wore a good looking striped little number. Wonder where he is now.
My 22 year old just the other day was bemoaning over the fact that no one wants to hang out and do things together like go to malls. It always makes me sad to see a dying mall that was once full of life and laughter.
This makes me sad, my mom, who has now passed, worked at that sears for 16 years before she finished her degree. I spent so much of my childhood sitting in the employee lounge or running around the mall, fantasizing about all the cool things we were too poor to buy. In 2022 I worked in that spirt Halloween, and the entire store was decaying, the employee lounge was gutted, which was difficult for me because it was one of the biggest memories I have of time with my mom.
I used to work at the Sears in this mall years ago. It's very sad for me to see this closed store. ☹ I have many great memories of the folks I worked with. Thanks for sharing the video!
I'm from C'ville VA: go Hoos ⚽️⚾️🏀🏈🎾... I lived there, went to this large mall: mainly 1990 to 1996. It's interesting to see this clip. I got my hair cut here for around 16mo. Great hair stylist 💈. Fun fact: this same Charlottesville VA mall was a location in a Tom Clancy novel. 📚 Plot: Islamic terror groups stage mall shooting attacks.
It's great that you are able to visit those shopping centers before they get abandoned completely. Unfortunately, there are many places I have wanted to visit but didn't get to prior to permanently closing.
I love how some dead mall videos play soft ghostly musiak to represent the ghostly passing of an era of American markets and the volueum played in malls, just as the Virgin with rage at the end... The passing of old Ruckerville Chris saga to new era ie old love quest. Caden's house pet age, new gf.
This is my mall. I could probably tell you every store that was in here 15 years ago. Being in there is the biggest slap of nostalgia ever and it’s embarrassingly sad to me to go in there now and see how dead it is. Belk, bath & body works, and build a bear are still going strong. The tiled floor makes me think of being a kid. Leggett is correct, that was friend’s family’s store.
To answer the question at 12:35, I believe why malls are dying is due to ownership. This mall is absolutely gorgeous and for it being the only mall in the area, it should be doing great. The city I assume has some control, they could try if they really wanted to. Pennsylvania is really hurting on malls considering Namdar pretty much took over the PA malls like Chambersburg, Logan Valley, etc and also considering they just purchased my childhood one in Western Maryland. Not all malls are dying tho, but the ones that are is just because of poor ownership and lack of caring.
Thanks for the video, Wallie! So sad that mall has gone downhill. I remember visiting it in the 90s and it was great. Only about 90 miles SW of where I currently live.
Wallie, thank you for this video. I haven't been to this place in over 30 years. It's so interesting to see how much this mall has changed since my childhood. I have to say, growing up the mall looked far better in its early to late 80s form. Just remembing how busy the mall used to be on a Saturday, and the massive arcade this mall had next to JCPennys. It's sad to see it in this state, but not surprised. I hope you get a chance to swing through Texas at some point, there are a few malls here that are definitely worth checking out. Rolling Oaks in San Antonio and how badly deteriorating the closed Sunrise Mall in Corpus Christi is just to name a couple.
You beat me, it's been around 28+ years for me! I lived in Albemarle County, Charlottesville from around 1991-1995. I was posted at Fort Lee, VA near Petersburg. My mom moved to VA: 1989.
we had so many awesome malls in Georgia as well as Florida, Minnesota, new york, all had some amazing malls. on a side note, the mall also gave many many people jobs, in many arenas, from food, retails, janitorial, lighting, maintenance, tech, design.
I was a Security Guard there for 5 years in the 80's. Back then it was spotless and thriving. So many memories from that time (my wife and I got engaged there in a Friendly's restaurant!
A security guard threw me out of Friendlies in the 90s. He didn't even tell me why, I was just eating ice cream and he said "there's been a disturbance, you have to leave"
You drive all the way to Charlottesville for a dead mall you need to come to Richmond, va to see the short pump mall to see a non dead mall. Also most Charlottesville residents take the hr drive to Richmond to go to the short pump mall
I grew up with this mall, I used to go almost every weekend for 10-15 years as a kid. I haven’t been in about 4 years but I think the downtown mall and the other stores in the area making it obsolete
So disheartening to see this mall is so dead now. I don't live in the area but always stop there on the way home from visiting my mom in Virginia. It's about the half way point between my mother's home in south cental Virginia and my home. I go in that mall now every year or two, it used to be every 6 months. It's been 2 years now since I was there and goodness it's a lot more dead now than it was on my last visit. There is/was a Chinese take out sort of place in there with a few tables. I liked to eat there and then go into Belks and walk around in the mall a bit before resuming my trip home. It looks almost as bad as the dead and dying malls in my Mom's town and in the towns I used to live in in Maryland and close to Maryland in Pennsylvania. The mall in Danville, VA was the closest to my mom's small town, it's almost dead now although I wonder if there may be hope for it to revive somehow due to the casino opening and tourist coming to Danville to gamble. Security Mall in Maryland was where I had my first jobs I heard it was dying or dead, Columbia Mall in Maryland was where we used to love to hang out as teenagers is dying, we used to go to outdoor concerts at the Lake in Columbia and hang out at the mall, it was also a mall we loved to visit on Saturdays just to go somewhere different from our regular malls. Cranberry Mall in Westminster Maryland which was stupidly renamed The Town Mall or something dumb is dying. As a stay at home mom in the mid 80s that was my mall, it was like my main street. My son grew up going there, spent a lot of his childhood there and had his first 2 jobs in that mall. I also used to go to the North Hanover Mall in Hanover, PA. It used to be grear to drive up there with a friend when we both had young babies. It was fun to push our children around, shop and get lunch. That mall is also dying, it's so so dead now, I almost cried being in there the last time I went. Another mall I used to be in all the time in the early 1980s was Hunt Valley mall in Maryland. I worked in Hunt Valley and used to eat lunch in the food court there and sometimes skip lunch to play video games in the arcade with my coworker. I used to shop there after work too before going home. That mall was torn down and turned into an outdoor type of shopping complex. Later on I worked in Owings Mills, Maryland and used to love to go to the really beautiful Owings Mills mall. That was a very nice mall in it's prime. Going there to shop and eat was a great experience until it became too dangerous in the area to go there. The last time I went there my supervisor at work was really distressed to hear I'd gone there, thinking I'd get robbed or carjacked. Owings Mills mall was torn down and I still think that was awful. The food court there was beautiful, I miss going there. Harbor Place and The Galleria(?) Mall closeby in downtown Baltimore are really dying or dead now too. My ex and I used to go there when it was safe to do so back before the assaults and the unruly gangs made it unwise to go there very often. It got to be a place to avoid at night. People used to make jokes about all the floaters found in the harbor there. It's terribly sad for me to see all of these malls dying, dead or gone. They were a part of my life. The first mall I ever visited a lot was Tarrytown Mall in Rocky Mount, NC. It was closed after a flood, never restored and then demolished after it sat deteriorating for years. I have a lot of memories from that mall. My father was a part time mall cop there. We had family reunions inside the mall. My girl scoup group sold cookies inside the mall. Our art from elementary school was on display inside the mall. The church choir I was in sang at the mall. For 2 years that mall was really a big part of my childhood. Watching malls die is sad. The nostalgia is real the sadness is too.😢
In 200 years from now when Sonichu & Chris Chan are the sole deities of the new religion to emerge from The Mighty Algorithm after the merger of Amazon, Disney & Pornhub, this place is going to be the new Mecca.
In SF, we have a full mall and the Stonestown Galleria is planning expansions. Tourism is keeping our malls open. Christ Chan needs to move to SF to live her mall life.
It's called "so need a cute girl" This mall was frequented by infamous internet personality and incestuous rapist chris chan the song was written by chris
when a bankruptcy is announced and decided to said when will be the last day open, there could be a lot of weens and christorians reunite screaming JULAAAY and bring pickles to the visitors
Waterfront Dining is a vaporwave artist. They mainly take lesser known 80s r&b songs and slow them down slightly, maybe add a bit of reverb and a cassette tape hiss effect. I've discovered some pretty good hidden gems through them.
@@erikdukes2505 I'm not actually sure if Waterfront Dining is one person or a group. I did a search, and someone on Reddit referred to them as a "he". But I can't be certain. A lot of vaporwave artists are like that, they retain a degree of mystery about themselves.
No, it was the AC. They had a couple of units blowing cold air into the store as the building's hvac system did not work and it was humid and warm inside the store.
th-cam.com/video/Byz94fkwf6U/w-d-xo.html You should have used this song when you were circling around the mall. Doesn't look like there's many boyfriend free girls hanging around that mall these days sadly
Would be hilarious if Chris is finally released from prison, decides to take a trip to the mall to see how times have changed, and it turns out that even though it's now a ghost town, he's still banned, and is promptly apprehended by security and escorted out.
Kind of foreshadowing isn't it? Lol
I liked how you played "So Need A Cute Girl" at the end though, gives it more of an eerie creepy feel to this mall knowing that Chris used to frequently visit this place alot back in his heyday hehe! 😆
Didn't see a single jerkop.
Don't worry, I'm sure the mall will be as good as new once the dimensional merge happens
LOL
It's sad and almost unreal that Chris Chan is now in prison and has been for over a year (going on 2) and the mall is dying. Something something, changing times.
It’s sad to see this place in decline - until fairly recently, it was in pretty good shape, if the CWCki is anything to go by. Still, its association with CWC means that even when the time finally comes for it to be dismantled and replaced with something else, its legacy will live on in corners of the internet! Among the famous ‘Christorical events’ to happen here are the Tale of the Crazy Pacer, Chris’s date with Emily and the appearance of the Man in the Pickle Suit, Chris smashing his PS3 at home then coming to the mall to expect a cash payout, and most famously, the “DON’T CALL ANYBODY!” incident of December 26, 2014.
This place was such an epicenter of christory, only now do I realize how little I really knew about the place. Thank you for getting this little snapshot of history, it's not gonna be there forever.
Oh, if this mall could talk.
Probably would have some wild Chris Chan stories
I can just imagine!
I live in this area and can only imagine the impression it leaves on visitors to see Fashion Square in that unkempt state... and to be known as the "Chris-Chan mall", holy moly. I've seen malls in far worse condition on Dan Bell's channel, but it still is a poor impression to people who visit.
The "So Need A Cute Girl" insert at the end made me laugh hard at the end. Fascinating look at the mall though, I always dig these dead mall videos. Subscribed!
Really a shame what happened to this mall. It used to be toys and games, now it is just clothing and other crap. I remember there used to be a really nifty fellow that would walk around. Real nice and friend, hung out near the Pac-Sun and wore a good looking striped little number. Wonder where he is now.
Never thought I'd hear WallieB26 mention the internet lumberjack.
My 22 year old just the other day was bemoaning over the fact that no one wants to hang out and do things together like go to malls. It always makes me sad to see a dying mall that was once full of life and laughter.
1/31/25 this mall will be closed permanently - thank you for capturing a later stage of the life of FSM
This makes me sad, my mom, who has now passed, worked at that sears for 16 years before she finished her degree. I spent so much of my childhood sitting in the employee lounge or running around the mall, fantasizing about all the cool things we were too poor to buy. In 2022 I worked in that spirt Halloween, and the entire store was decaying, the employee lounge was gutted, which was difficult for me because it was one of the biggest memories I have of time with my mom.
This feels like historical ruins
7:32 I think this mall is haunted. Last I checked malls don't scream when people enter them.
Of course, it could be that the door needs oil badly.
He is loose. The merge continues.
I saw! I saw there were recent photos of Chris Chan at Walmart from about a month or two ago
I used to work at the Sears in this mall years ago. It's very sad for me to see this closed store. ☹
I have many great memories of the folks I worked with. Thanks for sharing the video!
Ever encountered Chris?
I'm from C'ville VA: go Hoos ⚽️⚾️🏀🏈🎾... I lived there, went to this large mall: mainly 1990 to 1996. It's interesting to see this clip. I got my hair cut here for around 16mo. Great hair stylist 💈. Fun fact: this same Charlottesville VA mall was a location in a Tom Clancy novel. 📚 Plot: Islamic terror groups stage mall shooting attacks.
@@tunasandwich8049😂 that was my first thought when I read this comment. I wonder if this person encountered Chris Chan.
HE KNOWS CLYDE CASH !!
- Christian Weston Chandler, 2009
It's great that you are able to visit those shopping centers before they get abandoned completely. Unfortunately, there are many places I have wanted to visit but didn't get to prior to permanently closing.
This is like Mecca for some of us
I love how some dead mall videos play soft ghostly musiak to represent the ghostly passing of an era of American markets and the volueum played in malls, just as the Virgin with rage at the end... The passing of old Ruckerville Chris saga to new era ie old love quest. Caden's house pet age, new gf.
Did the pickle 🥒 thing happen here?
What a gem! I love the center center court! I hope you’re doing well Wallie.
There is something weirdly relaxing about the exterior tour of the mall.
Chris is back at malls in Midlothian, and he now has a cute girl :)
This is my mall. I could probably tell you every store that was in here 15 years ago. Being in there is the biggest slap of nostalgia ever and it’s embarrassingly sad to me to go in there now and see how dead it is. Belk, bath & body works, and build a bear are still going strong. The tiled floor makes me think of being a kid.
Leggett is correct, that was friend’s family’s store.
So much history. It should be preserved.
To answer the question at 12:35, I believe why malls are dying is due to ownership. This mall is absolutely gorgeous and for it being the only mall in the area, it should be doing great. The city I assume has some control, they could try if they really wanted to. Pennsylvania is really hurting on malls considering Namdar pretty much took over the PA malls like Chambersburg, Logan Valley, etc and also considering they just purchased my childhood one in Western Maryland. Not all malls are dying tho, but the ones that are is just because of poor ownership and lack of caring.
JULAAAAAAAAAY
I was cracking up at the song at the end
Thanks for the video, Wallie! So sad that mall has gone downhill. I remember visiting it in the 90s and it was great. Only about 90 miles SW of where I currently live.
I’ve never heard of this Chris guy…oh wow this will keep me busy all week lol thanks Wallie!
Seems theres arent any boyfriend free girls or men in pickle costumes around anymore lol... or other people for that matter
Great video my friend, I really enjoyed it! I love the center court!
Wallie, thank you for this video. I haven't been to this place in over 30 years. It's so interesting to see how much this mall has changed since my childhood. I have to say, growing up the mall looked far better in its early to late 80s form. Just remembing how busy the mall used to be on a Saturday, and the massive arcade this mall had next to JCPennys. It's sad to see it in this state, but not surprised.
I hope you get a chance to swing through Texas at some point, there are a few malls here that are definitely worth checking out. Rolling Oaks in San Antonio and how badly deteriorating the closed Sunrise Mall in Corpus Christi is just to name a couple.
You beat me, it's been around 28+ years for me! I lived in Albemarle County, Charlottesville from around 1991-1995. I was posted at Fort Lee, VA near Petersburg. My mom moved to VA: 1989.
I'd like to go here one day, BUT unfortunately I CANT. CALL. ANYBODY.
I used to work there as a security guard, and my wooden badge was delicious.
So you were one of the jerkcops, did you know that you’re a part of christory
Wonder how many Mall employees stuck around long enough during the heyday of You Know Who.
Great video! Love the mall videos and thank you for all the hard work you put into them. Hope all is well and keep up the great work!
we had so many awesome malls in Georgia as well as Florida, Minnesota, new york, all had some amazing malls. on a side note, the mall also gave many many people jobs, in many arenas, from food, retails, janitorial, lighting, maintenance, tech, design.
I was a Security Guard there for 5 years in the 80's. Back then it was spotless and thriving. So many memories from that time (my wife and I got engaged there in a Friendly's restaurant!
A security guard threw me out of Friendlies in the 90s. He didn't even tell me why, I was just eating ice cream and he said "there's been a disturbance, you have to leave"
You drive all the way to Charlottesville for a dead mall you need to come to Richmond, va to see the short pump mall to see a non dead mall. Also most Charlottesville residents take the hr drive to Richmond to go to the short pump mall
I 64... 🛣
So sad. God bless. Great video.
Dying malls make me so sad... :(
I think malls like this one should move in smaller businesses like dollar general
inside looks a lot nicer than outside
This property has been purchased by Home Depot now. Curious to how they are going to do things there.
Well done Wallie. I do enjoy a dead mall video.
I know Chris GameStop is gone! He would prolly go nuts
I hate to see malls closing down, but I like these types of videos, seeing different types of malls.
A ton of empty mall and retal space in this crazy town.
Stay strong wallieB28 i always support you keep seeing you on the next video
I grew up with this mall, I used to go almost every weekend for 10-15 years as a kid. I haven’t been in about 4 years but I think the downtown mall and the other stores in the area making it obsolete
So disheartening to see this mall is so dead now. I don't live in the area but always stop there on the way home from visiting my mom in Virginia. It's about the half way point between my mother's home in south cental Virginia and my home. I go in that mall now every year or two, it used to be every 6 months. It's been 2 years now since I was there and goodness it's a lot more dead now than it was on my last visit. There is/was a Chinese take out sort of place in there with a few tables. I liked to eat there and then go into Belks and walk around in the mall a bit before resuming my trip home. It looks almost as bad as the dead and dying malls in my Mom's town and in the towns I used to live in in Maryland and close to Maryland in Pennsylvania.
The mall in Danville, VA was the closest to my mom's small town, it's almost dead now although I wonder if there may be hope for it to revive somehow due to the casino opening and tourist coming to Danville to gamble. Security Mall in Maryland was where I had my first jobs I heard it was dying or dead, Columbia Mall in Maryland was where we used to love to hang out as teenagers is dying, we used to go to outdoor concerts at the Lake in Columbia and hang out at the mall, it was also a mall we loved to visit on Saturdays just to go somewhere different from our regular malls. Cranberry Mall in Westminster Maryland which was stupidly renamed The Town Mall or something dumb is dying. As a stay at home mom in the mid 80s that was my mall, it was like my main street. My son grew up going there, spent a lot of his childhood there and had his first 2 jobs in that mall. I also used to go to the North Hanover Mall in Hanover, PA. It used to be grear to drive up there with a friend when we both had young babies. It was fun to push our children around, shop and get lunch. That mall is also dying, it's so so dead now, I almost cried being in there the last time I went. Another mall I used to be in all the time in the early 1980s was Hunt Valley mall in Maryland. I worked in Hunt Valley and used to eat lunch in the food court there and sometimes skip lunch to play video games in the arcade with my coworker. I used to shop there after work too before going home. That mall was torn down and turned into an outdoor type of shopping complex. Later on I worked in Owings Mills, Maryland and used to love to go to the really beautiful Owings Mills mall. That was a very nice mall in it's prime. Going there to shop and eat was a great experience until it became too dangerous in the area to go there. The last time I went there my supervisor at work was really distressed to hear I'd gone there, thinking I'd get robbed or carjacked. Owings Mills mall was torn down and I still think that was awful. The food court there was beautiful, I miss going there. Harbor Place and The Galleria(?) Mall closeby in downtown Baltimore are really dying or dead now too. My ex and I used to go there when it was safe to do so back before the assaults and the unruly gangs made it unwise to go there very often. It got to be a place to avoid at night. People used to make jokes about all the floaters found in the harbor there.
It's terribly sad for me to see all of these malls dying, dead or gone. They were a part of my life. The first mall I ever visited a lot was Tarrytown Mall in Rocky Mount, NC. It was closed after a flood, never restored and then demolished after it sat deteriorating for years. I have a lot of memories from that mall. My father was a part time mall cop there. We had family reunions inside the mall. My girl scoup group sold cookies inside the mall. Our art from elementary school was on display inside the mall. The church choir I was in sang at the mall. For 2 years that mall was really a big part of my childhood.
Watching malls die is sad. The nostalgia is real the sadness is too.😢
The way that parking lot looks like a scene from The walking Dead
Great video!! Thanks so much man 🙏 Stay amazing or I mean awesome 👍 haha well hell! You know what I mean! I'm old I can't remember everything 😅
still looks to be in pretty good condition overall, like you said, needs some weed control outside, interesting video thanks for posting take care.
Wow. That mall seems that it has had better days.
First! Hi Wallie Love your vids!
In 200 years from now when Sonichu & Chris Chan are the sole deities of the new religion to emerge from The Mighty Algorithm after the merger of Amazon, Disney & Pornhub, this place is going to be the new Mecca.
I used to go here when I lived in VA and I miss walking around when it was popular
Charlotteville is thriving and theres plenty of other retail. Its a college town. This mall is not symbolic of the city. I was just there.
12:28 That Foot Locker is not there anymore.
In SF, we have a full mall and the Stonestown Galleria is planning expansions. Tourism is keeping our malls open. Christ Chan needs to move to SF to live her mall life.
Awesome Wallie
That song at the end ?
It's called "so need a cute girl"
This mall was frequented by infamous internet personality and incestuous rapist chris chan the song was written by chris
So Need a Cute Girl by Christine Christian Christopher Ricardo Weston Chandler
@@primusvsunicron1 you mean Ian Brandon Anderson?
@@claudespeed277 yes
I’ve actually been to this mall years ago. Sad to see it on a downward spiral
No jerkops around to harass you
I saw a few but being discreet is what kept me from being noticed lol
Awesome video
The sonichu guy
I always come over there just for build-a-bear:)
The question of the day is how long will Belk be in business I've heard that they are going down hill
Here after learning it's closing.
Awesome video hope all
Is going well
Sad how Mother Nature is reclaiming it. And the dying plants outside the entryway.
Great video!
when a bankruptcy is announced and decided to said when will be the last day open, there could be a lot of weens and christorians reunite screaming JULAAAY and bring pickles to the visitors
Hey Buddy How Was Your Weekend Going.
What's the first song used?
@@erikdukes2505 By?
Waterfront Dining is a vaporwave artist. They mainly take lesser known 80s r&b songs and slow them down slightly, maybe add a bit of reverb and a cassette tape hiss effect. I've discovered some pretty good hidden gems through them.
@@erikdukes2505 I'm not actually sure if Waterfront Dining is one person or a group. I did a search, and someone on Reddit referred to them as a "he". But I can't be certain. A lot of vaporwave artists are like that, they retain a degree of mystery about themselves.
Wallie! When are you coming to the West Coast?
What does it mean when a train have eight engines
It looks as though that was asbestos abatement at the old Sears and not AC.
No, it was the AC. They had a couple of units blowing cold air into the store as the building's hvac system did not work and it was humid and warm inside the store.
@@WallieB26 Makes sense because of Spirit Halloween.
Hello I like this video
Hey wallie whered ya go? U disappeared off fb
I think its pronounced; Leg GET; like Hunter-Leggett, the Army post.
If you know. You know
HE’S LOOSE
Hi Wallie
We must save this mall.
must how? if people dont buy ....
But why?
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You should have used this song when you were circling around the mall. Doesn't look like there's many boyfriend free girls hanging around that mall these days sadly
hi wallie 34th like
Who is Chris Chan?
U probs shouldn't go down the rabbit hole if u aren't a chan aficionado.
Awesome video