I love this mall. I've wanted to go here for so many years. I need to get in the truck and go. The retro colors and the music drfiting through the corridors is so good. Thanks for the video!
new subscriber here, your videos are getting better and better, Uniontown mall is maybe 15-minute drive for me, and I did spend a lot of time and yes money there, sad so many stores in the mall closed but on a good note, glad to see the mall hanging in there
When I was a kid, my friends mom used to drop us off here on a Saturday morning and we'd walk around all day. It was always packed, especially around the holidays. I still don't understand why people would rather travel all around instead of just going to a mall. I don't figure she'll last too long. Good video!
It seems that Malls are becoming a thing of the past. I live in Harrisonburg, Virginia, but, until recently, I had lived 30 miles to the South-Southwest, in Staunton, Virginia. There was a Mall there, that had started out as Staunton Plaza, but had become a Mall, sometime in the 1980s. The name was changed to Colonial Mall...& it did great business, up until around 2002-2003, or so. Then, two things happened. 1:The people that rented the Store Areas had their rent prices per month go up, more and more. 2: Eventually, fewer and fewer people would come out to the Colonial Mall...and by 2004, a good many of the Store Areas began to close down. Less than 2 or so years later, at least 40 out of 60 of those Store Areas were closed, and never recovered. The Colonial Mall hung on for dear life, until around 5 years ago...then certain ones of the Stores that had survived, found new locations to move to, in the Staunton, Virginia-Waynesboro, Virginia area. In 2021, only one Store, a Belk Store, was left, and they somehow must've brokered a deal, that their Department Store would be left intact. As a result, the rest of the Colonial Mall was torn down, with only the Belk Store remaining intact. And then- After the rest of Colonial Mall was torn down, the piles of rubbish were left standing! They're still there, to this very day! What a sad ending, to what used to be a very nice Mall! You do great work! Keep it up, and have a great evening!
When I was dating my wife to be, she worked at haband(where the recruitment center was. The anchor at that end was the sears, and right next to sears, across from haband, was a footlocker. The very first place you asked about i think was a Burlington coat place. They had an auntie Anne's, waldenbooks, and for now that's all I can remember
God I miss Waldenbooks alone! I had one at my local LI mall The Broadway Mall Mid Island Plaza back in the 70s and 80s, and it was a small store but it was always packed with great stuff. Was reliable for horror and SF fiction, media books like the Monty Python books, the latest Stephen King novels, tons of Frank Herbert, you name it. B. Daltons was once very good, as well. Also Doubleday and Brentano's. All gone now.
Shopping and demographic changes have been ongoing since WW2. The Central downtown district was abandoned for sprawling suburbs and strip plazas in the 50's Malls started arriving in the mid 60's and 70's and peaked in the 80's. By the mid 90's Walmart started expanding at a rapid pace nationwide with Consumer Plaza being over built to lure the smaller store out of the malls resulting in the malls raising rents to the remaining tenants instead of offering deals to keep them. Oversaturation of Big Box stores also hurt the market and our shift to internet shopping has hurt brick and mortar as well. Starting in 1981 trickle down economics replaced the New Deal economy of the 30s through 70s forcing the upward movement of large amounts of capital while slowly pinching the life out of the middle class's buying power is complete. It will be interesting to see what our new tariff driven economy will do to what's left.
So much blue here. It is almost like they were trying to bring the sky inside of the mall. It is an interesting and rare color scheme for a mall. I wonder how the floor in the ladies room got all tore up like that.
When my wife managed a leather goods store at a large mall, the business HAD to be open and close at a certain, or else they would be fined. I guess the rules are lax now, just to keep the businesses there and keep collecting rent.
The empty anchor store by J.C. Penny was Burlington Coat Factory. Prior to that is was Value City, Prior To Value City it was Gee Bee Dept Store. J.C. Penny was a built on as and addition back in 1990. The Ancient looking Arby's was a Pizza Place known as Rosa Pizza. That entire wide open walk around space where the old pizza place was, the arcade, the world importing store, the nail saloon as well as the entrance to J.C penny was the Original Gee Bee Anchor store, before it occupied the space that eventually became value city and then later Burlington. That particular space was added on as an addition back in 1990 along with J.C, Penny……. The fact that the other space used to be the original Gee Bee anchor store is why it is so open through there (especially in the center part) as opposed to being like a wide hallway just like the rest of the mall is. The arcade was originally an Fye Music store. The Food court was in the space where that huge Shore Dept Store is Those bathrooms by the mall management offices were the food court bathrooms. Only you never used to have to walk down a long hallway to get to them. When the food court closed down they did some modifying..The Halloween spirit store was Originally the Bon Ton. The place with the blue brick finish at the one entrance was a bank The empty space across from the closed down restaurant was a hair saloon. the pop shop was a jewelry store and at one time was also shoe store. You are correct about the places that were once a Sears, a Bath and Body works and a Hallmark store. up near the old sears where the trophies were on display in the window that used to be a Payless Shoe Source Store and there was also a Radio Shack next to Payless Shoe Source Store. TheBattle Zone space by the old Sears was a Learner New York dept store and there was also a GNC Store in the spot where the sign was posted about a discount store coming soon. The empty Crown Antique store space that you thought looked like an old J.C. Penny was a bon ton kids and bon ton home store that existed in addition to the old Bon Ton Anchor now being used for a spirit Halloween store. There was an extensive renovation project around 1989 and 1990 in which they added a couple of additional spaces like J.C. Penny and the space that became the New Gee Bee and along with that they put in all the sun roofs and new colored floor tiles which by now are retro
Many of the various retailers and once would be Mall stores moved out ofcourse. Due to high cost leasing and rent, they left the indoor mall setting in search of their own individual building elsewhere, the economy forced alot of those kinds of changes which certainly killed the good old fashioned multiplex indoor shopping centers for "fancy" upscale Outdoor Strip malls, where you walk store to store outside. Where you also find odd arrangements such as a Harley Davidson dealer Next door to a Apple Store😂😂. But usually higher end merchandise that dont seem to be in support of middle class budget.
Amazon and online shopping has killed the mall. People dont have to leave their homes for the most part. The mall was the place to be if you wanted to see and be seen. 🤷♂️ Thank you for the tour 😏👍
Great video!! Was that place that says Buy Sell Trade on it The Exchange? I go to that resale shop all the time in Ohio, and there’s a bunch of locations.
Fascinating phenomena that food courts were the first to die in malls! I wonder why? I guess a mall has to be packed for them to work out. These malls are not packed! Also freaky how some places are not open on Saturday!
It sucks. I have alot of fond memories of the 70s and 80s mall scene. Mall's were the teenage social epicenter. Im sad and sorry to see them fading into history. Here in the Pittsburgh Pa area we still have the South Hills Village tha is still doing well.
Grebes was a department store on one side of it and a supermarket on the other did well in Washington Pennsylvania until the late 90s you should check the malls in Washington pa Washington mall also
Some thrift shops that are affiliated with churches rely on volunteers, so staffing will be hard. Also, many mom and pop shops in malls like this have owners that have other jobs or are out sourcing goods.
I did video also on uniontown mall and they it’s the next Century III Mall. I most likely won’t survive 2025. I like your videos keep up the good work.
I had the same thing happen to me at the Columbia mall outside Baltimore, MD....except it was up the walls somehow. I was doing mental Pythagorean theorem. 😂 i had to hold it for another half hour.
I love this mall. I've wanted to go here for so many years. I need to get in the truck and go. The retro colors and the music drfiting through the corridors is so good. Thanks for the video!
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Amazing video Lydia! You do such incredible work and no hours of editing! You’re so incredible and inspiring in so many ways.
Wow thank you Manny!
new subscriber here, your videos are getting better and better, Uniontown mall is maybe 15-minute drive for me, and I did spend a lot of time and yes money there, sad so many stores in the mall closed but on a good note, glad to see the mall hanging in there
What you do is great keep it up!👍
Thank you!!
I love this mall, I hope you also cut over to Laurel Mall to check out what an old mall could really be now!!
Another mall video with Miss Lydia. 👍
I don't know why, but I like the outside walk around.
Glad you like it! I enjoy doing it
When I was a kid, my friends mom used to drop us off here on a Saturday morning and we'd walk around all day. It was always packed, especially around the holidays. I still don't understand why people would rather travel all around instead of just going to a mall. I don't figure she'll last too long. Good video!
It seems that Malls are becoming a thing of the past. I live in Harrisonburg, Virginia, but, until recently, I had lived 30 miles to the South-Southwest, in Staunton, Virginia. There was a Mall there, that had started out as Staunton Plaza, but had become a Mall, sometime in the 1980s. The name was changed to Colonial Mall...& it did great business, up until around 2002-2003, or so. Then, two things happened.
1:The people that rented the Store Areas had their rent prices per month go up, more and more.
2: Eventually, fewer and fewer people would come out to the Colonial Mall...and by 2004, a good many of the Store Areas began to close down. Less than 2 or so years later, at least 40 out of 60 of those Store Areas were closed, and never recovered. The Colonial Mall hung on for dear life, until around 5 years ago...then certain ones of the Stores that had survived, found new locations to move to, in the Staunton, Virginia-Waynesboro, Virginia area.
In 2021, only one Store, a Belk Store, was left, and they somehow must've brokered a deal, that their Department Store would be left intact.
As a result, the rest of the Colonial Mall was torn down, with only the Belk Store remaining intact. And then-
After the rest of Colonial Mall was torn down, the piles of rubbish were left standing! They're still there, to this very day!
What a sad ending, to what used to be a very nice Mall! You do great work! Keep it up, and have a great evening!
My grandparents had a house in uniontown i remember going there as a kid
When I was dating my wife to be, she worked at haband(where the recruitment center was. The anchor at that end was the sears, and right next to sears, across from haband, was a footlocker. The very first place you asked about i think was a Burlington coat place. They had an auntie Anne's, waldenbooks, and for now that's all I can remember
God I miss Waldenbooks alone! I had one at my local LI mall The Broadway Mall Mid Island Plaza back in the 70s and 80s, and it was a small store but it was always packed with great
stuff. Was reliable for horror and SF fiction, media books like the Monty Python books, the latest Stephen King novels, tons of Frank Herbert, you name it. B. Daltons was once
very good, as well. Also Doubleday and Brentano's. All gone now.
Another cool video as always Lydia, you take care and have a good night 🥰❤️💋
Shopping and demographic changes have been ongoing since WW2. The Central downtown district was abandoned for sprawling suburbs and strip plazas in the 50's Malls started arriving in the mid 60's and 70's and peaked in the 80's. By the mid 90's Walmart started expanding at a rapid pace nationwide with Consumer Plaza being over built to lure the smaller store out of the malls resulting in the malls raising rents to the remaining tenants instead of offering deals to keep them. Oversaturation of Big Box stores also hurt the market and our shift to internet shopping has hurt brick and mortar as well. Starting in 1981 trickle down economics replaced the New Deal economy of the 30s through 70s forcing the upward movement of large amounts of capital while slowly pinching the life out of the middle class's buying power is complete. It will be interesting to see what our new tariff driven economy will do to what's left.
Another great video Miss Lydia and your welcome for the donation. 🙂❤
From the looks of the doors an that restaurant it was either a Garfields or a Ruby Tuesday's.
So much blue here. It is almost like they were trying to bring the sky inside of the mall. It is an interesting and rare color scheme for a mall. I wonder how the floor in the ladies room got all tore up like that.
When my wife managed a leather goods store at a large mall, the business HAD to be open and close at a certain, or else they would be fined. I guess the rules are lax now, just to keep the businesses there and keep collecting rent.
The empty anchor store by J.C. Penny was Burlington Coat Factory. Prior to that is was Value City, Prior To Value City it was Gee Bee Dept Store. J.C. Penny was a built on as and addition back in 1990. The Ancient looking Arby's was a Pizza Place known as Rosa Pizza. That entire wide open walk around space where the old pizza place was, the arcade, the world importing store, the nail saloon as well as the entrance to J.C penny was the Original Gee Bee Anchor store, before it occupied the space that eventually became value city and then later Burlington. That particular space was added on as an addition back in 1990 along with J.C, Penny……. The fact that the other space used to be the original Gee Bee anchor store is why it is so open through there (especially in the center part) as opposed to being like a wide hallway just like the rest of the mall is. The arcade was originally an Fye Music store. The Food court was in the space where that huge Shore Dept Store is Those bathrooms by the mall management offices were the food court bathrooms. Only you never used to have to walk down a long hallway to get to them. When the food court closed down they did some modifying..The Halloween spirit store was Originally the Bon Ton. The place with the blue brick finish at the one entrance was a bank The empty space across from the closed down restaurant was a hair saloon. the pop shop was a jewelry store and at one time was also shoe store. You are correct about the places that were once a Sears, a Bath and Body works and a Hallmark store. up near the old sears where the trophies were on display in the window that used to be a Payless Shoe Source Store and there was also a Radio Shack next to Payless Shoe Source Store. TheBattle Zone space by the old Sears was a Learner New York dept store and there was also a GNC Store in the spot where the sign was posted about a discount store coming soon. The empty Crown Antique store space that you thought looked like an old J.C. Penny was a bon ton kids and bon ton home store that existed in addition to the old Bon Ton Anchor now being used for a spirit Halloween store. There was an extensive renovation project around 1989 and 1990 in which they added a couple of additional spaces like J.C. Penny and the space that became the New Gee Bee and along with that they put in all the sun roofs and new colored floor tiles which by now are retro
Good morning Lyd how are you happy Wednesday morning to you and I enjoy your channel and you are amazing supporter
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Many of the various retailers and once would be Mall stores moved out ofcourse.
Due to high cost leasing and rent, they left the indoor mall setting in search of their own individual building elsewhere, the economy forced alot of those kinds of changes which certainly killed the good old fashioned multiplex indoor shopping centers for "fancy" upscale Outdoor Strip malls, where you walk store to store outside. Where you also find odd arrangements such as a Harley Davidson dealer Next door to a Apple Store😂😂.
But usually higher end merchandise that dont seem to be in support of middle class budget.
I haven't been to that mall for about 4 years. Sad to see how empty it is now
GeeBees was a popular department store in Washington Pa.
Amazon and online shopping has killed the mall. People dont have to leave their homes for the most part. The mall was the place to be if you wanted to see and be seen. 🤷♂️
Thank you for the tour 😏👍
Great video!! Was that place that says Buy Sell Trade on it The Exchange? I go to that resale shop all the time in Ohio, and there’s a bunch of locations.
Fascinating phenomena that food courts were the first to die in malls! I wonder why? I guess a mall has to be packed for them to work out. These malls are not packed! Also freaky how some places are not open on Saturday!
👌💯Excellent👌 video
That was a former bank with the 24 hour deposit door.
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@Lydwetzel RIGHT ON GODDESS Lydia...!!!!
The place you thought was a nail place used to be Regis Hair salon .. it was THE place to get your hair done
It sucks. I have alot of fond memories of the 70s and 80s mall scene. Mall's were the teenage social epicenter. Im sad and sorry to see them fading into history. Here in the Pittsburgh Pa area we still have the South Hills Village tha is still doing well.
Grebes was a department store on one side of it and a supermarket on the other did well in Washington Pennsylvania until the late 90s you should check the malls in Washington pa Washington mall also
Franklin mall
I love this mall, it does need some TLC but I love it the way it is.
The place with the seating at the beginning was a pizza place - Rosa Pizza. It was amazing!!!!
Go to Ashtabula Ohio there is still a forgotten Kmart there that was closed in 1992 and nothing ever moved in it
She was already there a few months ago!
Lydia, these stores can't get enough people to come to work employee shortages since COVID.
Cool!
Most the malls seem to be empty only one I see that looks busy is cape code mall in Massachusetts
Lerners New York and D&K, you should've went to Laural mall while you were in town...
Someone better adopt Sugar! She looks like a sweet pea!
That’s the same thing I thought! And I would if I didn’t have 3 already, lol
The Halloween cemetery is s tribute to an already dead place... Hugs kisses 😘😚 my queen and goddess 😍❤ 5:28 the endless hallway...
I checked this one out yesterday. The Christmas decorations kinda obscured the 90s design.
The food court was gone away for probably close to 30 yrs.
Some thrift shops that are affiliated with churches rely on volunteers, so staffing will be hard.
Also, many mom and pop shops in malls like this have owners that have other jobs or are out sourcing goods.
Anybody else starting to think “superbuickregal” is a creeper? 🤔
I did video also on uniontown mall and they it’s the next Century III Mall. I most likely won’t survive 2025. I like your videos keep up the good work.
I had the same thing happen to me at the Columbia mall outside Baltimore, MD....except it was up the walls somehow. I was doing mental Pythagorean theorem. 😂 i had to hold it for another half hour.
They closed the food court had to be in the it's to add more stores
Yes all those stores were there
Looks like the place was in good running order before they shut it down.
Is that TeleTech call center still in that mall?
That tree you like is called a ponytail palm.
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It was a bon ton where spirit Halloween is
Some of stores are at other locations no at the mall
My local mall it used to be totally different
remember peachins?
@@marshalljimduncan Yes
Remember Gablers drug store?
@marshalljimduncan Sure do and Pechins just closed last month.
@@fredchipps3237 Is Laural mall still open, last time I was there it was a flea market...
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Place with the purple window frame was Gene N boots chocolate
I worry about the plants in abandoned malls.
Blue bricks never seen before blue every where.
Back yard!
It's 1986 🎵🎶
Mall had it already started to decline people once again like the open center plaza
Hess department store a furniture store then it became a tele marketing company