What is it about the silence and the void that is so fascinating in these once bustling places? I can’t put my finger on it. Sometimes I walk through a busy mall or department store and imagine it empty. It’s like these videos look into the future.
This mall is in good shape overall and the city of Cincinnati or whoever owns this mall needs to rezone the area if they cannot find tenants for those retail stores. This mall needs to be used for multi-use purposes such as office space, doctors offices, micro-loft apartments etc.
cloudstrifeification I think that's a great idea instead of having mall for just for shopping purposes just have them all for a multi-purpose ball shouldn't be for just for shopping purposes now it could be for something else
this is one of the coolest time capsules for mall history ever. Thank you for capturing this. My life's dream is to go on an adventure with you two. Keep up the good work.
Wow, the design of this mall is great...the river / food court area....the neighborhood concept. all of the visual elements are really nice... I imagine the designers had a blast putting that together.
This will be my childhood mall in a year. 4 anchor stores in 1988, Penny’s closed last year, BonTon and Sears are now closing leaving only Boscovs. Yeah, it’s dead now, it’s gonna be abandoned soon 😩. Hello from York, PA. Hometown of The Bon Ton, one of the biggest local employers.
Michael Stanhope I think your confusing this mall with a different one. It hasn’t had Penney’s, Sears, or Boscov’s. This mall has/had Kohl’s, Babies R Us, and Bass Pro
great idea to get the perspective of an actual mall employee! it would have been nice though to have him present for more of the video, I am sure he could have told lots of interesting things
i saw this featured by Dan Bell. It is probably the best looking mall Ive seen. The contrast of how dead it is but how attractive looking is astounding.
This mall was mostly dead in the late 80’s to early 90’s. It has nothing to do with online shopping because that had not begun when this mall was already in the dumper. The answer is something different than anti-social behavior or Internet shopping. The Time Out amusement center entertained my children, but the mall was mostly gone. A Biggs store was on one end. I thought this mall was gone the last time we drove to Jungle Jim’s.
Interesting video -- I wonder on what date the first store left and the date the narrator became the last store opened. The whole place looks spotless as if the entire place was opened and all the people except the narrator just vanished into thin air.
First time checking the channel out, nice touch with the actual sound of the mall for a portion. It's an interesting detail I have yet to see. Nice job. The question I always ask is - where do people in the area shop now? I don't mean the big box warehouse type, I mean the next closest mall that actually attracts people.
........i've been a mall rat almost half my life and this makes me sad.........from where i'm at, malls don't close down, it expands & grows.........teens, kids and their families keep our malls alive esp. during weekends and holidays.......it's the super stores that close down tho.......
You should check out Regency Mall in Racine Wisconsin! It’s very similar, as it has a few stores but as huge sections of the mall that’s closed and abandoned due to funding.
I think the suburban sprawl from the 90's did these malls in. The middle class moved with the sprawl, and so did the popular stores, leaving these malls empty and surrounded by the urban poor.
How sad, that it is almost empty and with all of the remodeling did not keep people inside to visit that mall. Malls are most expensive to rent retail stores and sometimes not well kept up in maintenance.
My local mall is on the smaller side but after we lost Sears and a Sports Chek store every smaller store starting following. Theres 2 anchors but I think the only place that gets business is a food court because a high school is close by and its downtown. So sad seeing a busy mall from when I was a kid to a mall on life support. Edit: The mall you're in looks so nice. Such a shame it's just going to waste.
Why was this fine building vacated? Did a new mall open somewhere else? In Ireland theses malls or as we call them shopping centres are still hugely popular. It's the high streets shops that are closing.
The one and only reason for all this decline is from the internet, the internet has and will continue to erode the world as we have known it. The internet has provided some things for the better but far more for the worse. The internet and technology will eventually bring down mankind, we are eliminating the need for humans at at great neck speed. Humans were not meant to constantly adapt to change in the way we live every 2-3 years, it's ridiculous to think we need all this technology to live in this world.
But to me it’s no difference than a Walmart coming into town forcing the closure of the locally owned grocery store, shoe store, toy store where middle class people supported middle class manufacturers. It’s a time passed Americans were lucky enough to have but never really guarded or appreciated, like voting. It does matter but if it doesn’t matter to enough people it’s dead. Also, “we” including myself face reality with too little understanding too late. John McCain telling autoworkers your job is gone for almost all of you, start looking for other industries. Hillary Clinton one of the worst with her bedside message to coal workers & trump lying 🤥 beyond understanding on bringing back coal miners jobs. It’s sad, heartbreaking, pathetic, stupid what people will believe but for example democrats have to face this issue or they will continue to loose
Hillary’s messages to coal miners was a 100% correct & she included some very good example of how to fix tough to solve issues. This is not the first time liberals, we’re not good at presenting solutions but then the subject of loosing your job is scary. People naturally doesn’t to change as much as coal miners don’t want to but the message carrier, Hillary made it too very easy to just blame Hillary .?.?.? & focus was lost on the messsge.
i disagree that the internet is the only reason. people have trouble getting quality jobs that pay, and you are worried about paying your rent than buying a new shirt and pants.
They should convert it into a gigantic senior retirement home.. Just 2x4's and sheetrock and your done.. Community kitchen, pool , some emplyees to clean... Space rents based on size, like basic:790$.. extra: 1255$, and deluxe: 1875$..
I believe one day people will realize how antisocial they are becoming .A point and a click everything is now at your front door food from Panera , clothes from brands that never had a brick and mortar store then you have to return the clothes because they don’t fit from All that food you get delivered to your door then returning items through a guy with a bad haircut at the Post Office or UPS and you never see your friends In Person because they are checking their Facebook status🙄 as we lose our true Identity .Amazon is part of the problem so we went from people working retail jobs making money learning how to deal with people “making the sale” becoming managers etc. to all making slave wage for Amazon and have to plan your bathroom pit stop as you shop orders in a warehouse for them,or the delivery driver who took a dump in your bushes because he has to make 300 stops by noon Oh wait he doesn’t get a lunch break .....no Union rules , Lastly who the heck is paying all the electric and heating bills for that place.???? No security either You think a gym would open up in there convert the rest to office space,or affordable senior living they could mall walk ,have a grocery store a senior city ..Well summers coming2018. put down that computer take your Family OUTSIDE go for a walk play some video games at this mall and talk to your kids about life when people socialized at the Mall. Peace😎
It is easy to blame Amazon but they are not the problem. Online sales are still just a small fraction of the retail pie. Most sales are still in physical stores. People just don't have money to waste like they used to
its fascinating to see a place that was once packed with people, buzzing with life, slowly turn into a hollow shell....the era of dead/abandonned malls is going to end sometimes in the near future. imagine no more dead malls to admire. Its a sad thought. Its almost like watching a bunch of your favorite senior citizen who are all approaching death , slowly dying, one by one. and you enjoy seeing them dead. then , no more old people dying to enjoy. Breaks my heart, i love seeing them in their end days, suffering.....hehehehe Wow, a random arcade is the only thing left. You wouldn't believe it if you didnt see it. A store is normal, an arcade.... hopefully theres alot of teens that still go there . Another waste of a beautiful structure. :'( I feel like Dan Bell does. I think we all do. its fascinating to see a place that was once packed with people, buzzing with life, slowly turn into a hollow shell....and the era of dead/abandonned malls is going to end sometimes in the near future. imagine no more dead malls to admire. Its a sad thought.
It is indeed sad. I'm grateful people like Seph Lawless, Dan Bell, Retail Archaeology and many others make videos such as this. Most of the malls I grew up with have already been demolished - unfortunately before the trend of video makers documenting their existence. It's nice to be able to see these great old places one more time before they slip into true abandonment and decay. The old drive-ins are gone, the malls are going . . . what's next?
Sad. Just a matter of time before it ends up like Rolling Acres. How does the Arcade stay there all by itself? At least the vandals haven't tore it up yet
Very interesting subject matter, but you could have cut out 2/3 of that footage and included a little more information as to what is left in the mall besides the arcade.
Hey..it is called evolution. did anybody cry and moan when the malls killed the old downtown shopping streets? Far too many malls were built, and most were built with a 35-45 year life.Something else will arise to take over..stay tuned.
It's sad growing up with great stores and having fun hanging out on weekends at all graphic t-shirt shops gadzooks, Gap, Cinemas, all the great Hallmark names in brand that you could try on before buying (was it excessive probably but look at the degradation of youth) we've traded small businesses (some not small) for youth correctional facilites, online dating, online gaming (which my kids enjoy) but it's important to be able to talk....I remember having a PC (using it then leaving to hangout) with Friends you could go to a party or all meet at the mall strip then go from there. Pagers were cool and cars were awesome...now it's just an afterthought. Are we walking backwards or just sideways....but air was electric regardless of how miserable school was and free thought flowed(still do but not as fun nor exciting, words do it no Justice and everyone hung out you had so many collective groups in one spot it was cool and you conversed with everyone....now student debt with indoctrination....lol
Dan’s a good friend and does really amazing work. This isn’t a competition. We merely are trying to entertain people using our creativity and art the best we know how, cheers!
SEPH LAWLESS I'm saying it's better than Dan Bell in my opinion he just stopped making dead mall videos that's why i say it's better. I enjoy his videos but wish he made more for malls. retail archeology did make mall videos and I enjoy them. i just have a thing for dead malls. no hate here
Crazy. Malls are all but extinct in my state. I personally don't buy anything at brick n motar stores anymore. I'm amazed this mall is still open. This wouldn't be possible in my state. People would come a start ripping copper pipes out of the walls in broad daylight. Lol
Stupid question here. Why would the owners of this mall still would want to pay the electric bill for only one store open??? Stupidity if you asked me.
5:57 I wonder if that same couch will still be sitting there God knows how many years from now should this mall share Rolling Acres's fate... that couch reminds me of the one that sat for years on the lower level of RA near the Target entrance...
the symbiotic relationship between the oppression of capitalism and our pride as consumers represented and combined with the nostalgia we desperately try to obtain now daily... its alot... its alot to take.
What is it about the silence and the void that is so fascinating in these once bustling places? I can’t put my finger on it. Sometimes I walk through a busy mall or department store and imagine it empty. It’s like these videos look into the future.
This was such an amazing mall back in the 90's, its so sad to see it like this now.
How is it still open? Great video.
This mall is in good shape overall and the city of Cincinnati or whoever owns this mall needs to rezone the area if they cannot find tenants for those retail stores. This mall needs to be used for multi-use purposes such as office space, doctors offices, micro-loft apartments etc.
cloudstrifeification I think that's a great idea instead of having mall for just for shopping purposes just have them all for a multi-purpose ball shouldn't be for just for shopping purposes now it could be for something else
And some parts can be used as a hotel
this is one of the coolest time capsules for mall history ever. Thank you for capturing this. My life's dream is to go on an adventure with you two. Keep up the good work.
Wow, the design of this mall is great...the river / food court area....the neighborhood concept. all of the visual elements are really nice... I imagine the designers had a blast putting that together.
It looks like it was once a great mall.. I see people still walk around remembering memories... Great video
Thank you
This will be my childhood mall in a year. 4 anchor stores in 1988, Penny’s closed last year, BonTon and Sears are now closing leaving only Boscovs. Yeah, it’s dead now, it’s gonna be abandoned soon 😩. Hello from York, PA. Hometown of The Bon Ton, one of the biggest local employers.
Michael Stanhope I think your confusing this mall with a different one. It hasn’t had Penney’s, Sears, or Boscov’s. This mall has/had Kohl’s, Babies R Us, and Bass Pro
Thanks for sharing Michael and HH Michael is just explaining another failing mall near him that I’ve been too months ago. Thanks!
I live fifteen minutes from this mall and it still surprises me that it's still open today
great idea to get the perspective of an actual mall employee! it would have been nice though to have him present for more of the video, I am sure he could have told lots of interesting things
i saw this featured by Dan Bell. It is probably the best looking mall Ive seen. The contrast of how dead it is but how attractive looking is astounding.
This mall was mostly dead in the late 80’s to early 90’s. It has nothing to do with online shopping because that had not begun when this mall was already in the dumper. The answer is something different than anti-social behavior or Internet shopping. The Time Out amusement center entertained my children, but the mall was mostly gone. A Biggs store was on one end. I thought this mall was gone the last time we drove to Jungle Jim’s.
Great video. I really like your channel. Thanks for filming.
Thanks for subscribing !
Great video, as always!!
Thank you!
Interesting video -- I wonder on what date the first store left and the date the narrator became the last store opened. The whole place looks spotless as if the entire place was opened and all the people except the narrator just vanished into thin air.
Thank you and I’ll find out and update
That food court. Crazy!!
Where's the food?
The owners of this mall must be using it as a tax write off as how could they be making any money with so few tenants?
Exactly
This is one of the ugliest Malls I have ever seen
First time checking the channel out, nice touch with the actual sound of the mall for a portion. It's an interesting detail I have yet to see. Nice job.
The question I always ask is - where do people in the area shop now? I don't mean the big box warehouse type, I mean the next closest mall that actually attracts people.
Very appreciative and I think like most people they shop more online than anything else, sadly.
Great video, I’m interested in seeing your other videos
Thank you more coming soon!
........i've been a mall rat almost half my life and this makes me sad.........from where i'm at, malls don't close down, it expands & grows.........teens, kids and their families keep our malls alive esp. during weekends and holidays.......it's the super stores that close down tho.......
......i'm from the Philippines btw and i saw Adobo ....... :D
You should check out Regency Mall in Racine Wisconsin! It’s very similar, as it has a few stores but as huge sections of the mall that’s closed and abandoned due to funding.
This mall looks so cool. :) id love to visit that arcade
This makes me sad 😢
I think the suburban sprawl from the 90's did these malls in. The middle class moved with the sprawl, and so did the popular stores, leaving these malls empty and surrounded by the urban poor.
How sad, that it is almost empty and with all of the remodeling did not keep people inside to visit that mall. Malls are most expensive to rent retail stores and sometimes not well kept up in maintenance.
I used to hang out there in the 90's.
XoXSpacecadetXoX me 2 those were the days 😍
Is this early in the morning or the afternoon?
My local mall is on the smaller side but after we lost Sears and a Sports Chek store every smaller store starting following. Theres 2 anchors but I think the only place that gets business is a food court because a high school is close by and its downtown. So sad seeing a busy mall from when I was a kid to a mall on life support.
Edit: The mall you're in looks so nice. Such a shame it's just going to waste.
Thanks for sharing
Good video. Thanks.
Thank you
I'm scared, hold me
maha77 roflmao 🤣
Why was this fine building vacated? Did a new mall open somewhere else? In Ireland theses malls or as we call them shopping centres are still hugely popular. It's the high streets shops that are closing.
It looks like the best mall ever. I really liked it.
Wow! This really is sad!
I remember it as Forest fair mall .
It's sad to see this; almost like attending a funeral of sorts. I always enjoyed the mall experience.
The one and only reason for all this decline is from the internet, the internet has and will continue to erode the world as we have known it. The internet has provided some things for the better but far more for the worse. The internet and technology will eventually bring down mankind, we are eliminating the need for humans at at great neck speed. Humans were not meant to constantly adapt to change in the way we live every 2-3 years, it's ridiculous to think we need all this technology to live in this world.
tmm226 - I must admit, doing anything at "great neck speed" seems unwise.
But to me it’s no difference than a Walmart coming into town forcing the closure of the locally owned grocery store, shoe store, toy store where middle class people supported middle class manufacturers. It’s a time passed Americans were lucky enough to have but never really guarded or appreciated, like voting. It does matter but if it doesn’t matter to enough people it’s dead.
Also, “we” including myself face reality with too little understanding too late. John McCain telling autoworkers your job is gone for almost all of you, start looking for other industries. Hillary Clinton one of the worst with her bedside message to coal workers & trump lying 🤥 beyond understanding on bringing back coal miners jobs. It’s sad, heartbreaking, pathetic, stupid what people will believe but for example democrats have to face this issue or they will continue to loose
Hillary’s messages to coal miners was a 100% correct & she included some very good example of how to fix tough to solve issues. This is not the first time liberals, we’re not good at presenting solutions but then the subject of loosing your job is scary. People naturally doesn’t to change as much as coal miners don’t want to but the message carrier, Hillary made it too very easy to just blame Hillary .?.?.? & focus was lost on the messsge.
i disagree that the internet is the only reason. people have trouble getting quality jobs that pay, and you are worried about paying your rent than buying a new shirt and pants.
The "Neighborhoods" the mall is split up into remind me of Pittsburgh Mills...
Glamour Girl 212 that’s because they were both built by the same company
I don't know about it being the most dead, but, in my opinion, it may be the most beautiful on the inside of any mall I've seen.
They should convert it into a gigantic senior retirement home.. Just 2x4's and sheetrock and your done.. Community kitchen, pool , some emplyees to clean... Space rents based on size, like basic:790$.. extra: 1255$, and deluxe: 1875$..
i live by a "mall" like this. Ironically, it just closed down a few months ago.
I believe one day people will realize how antisocial they are becoming .A point and a click everything is now at your front door food from Panera , clothes from brands that never had a brick and mortar store then you have to return the clothes because they don’t fit from All that food you get delivered to your door then returning items through a guy with a bad haircut at the Post Office or UPS and you never see your friends In Person because they are checking their Facebook status🙄 as we lose our true Identity .Amazon is part of the problem so we went from people working retail jobs making money learning how to deal with people “making the sale” becoming managers etc. to all making slave wage for Amazon and have to plan your bathroom pit stop as you shop orders in a warehouse for them,or the delivery driver who took a dump in your bushes because he has to make 300 stops by noon Oh wait he doesn’t get a lunch break .....no Union rules , Lastly who the heck is paying all the electric and heating bills for that place.???? No security either You think a gym would open up in there convert the rest to office space,or affordable senior living they could mall walk ,have a grocery store a senior city ..Well summers coming2018. put down that computer take your Family OUTSIDE go for a walk play some video games at this mall and talk to your kids about life when people socialized at the Mall. Peace😎
Let’s hope so
I've been antisocial, even when the malls were booming and apparently I was supposed to go there because teenager in the 80's and all.
It is easy to blame Amazon but they are not the problem. Online sales are still just a small fraction of the retail pie. Most sales are still in physical stores. People just don't have money to waste like they used to
Dennis W Very True 😀
I just did a live stream at a mall. Our mall is dead and empty too. Check it out on my channel.
Have you been to the Main Place Mall in Buffalo?
its fascinating to see a place that was once packed with people, buzzing with life, slowly turn into a hollow shell....the era of dead/abandonned malls is going to end sometimes in the near future. imagine no more dead malls to admire. Its a sad thought.
Its almost like watching a bunch of your favorite senior citizen who are all approaching death , slowly dying, one by one. and you enjoy seeing them dead. then , no more old people dying to enjoy. Breaks my heart, i love seeing them in their end days, suffering.....hehehehe
Wow, a random arcade is the only thing left. You wouldn't believe it if you didnt see it. A store is normal, an arcade.... hopefully theres alot of teens that still go there . Another waste of a beautiful structure. :'(
I feel like Dan Bell does. I think we all do.
its fascinating to see a place that was once packed with people, buzzing with life, slowly turn into a hollow shell....and the era of dead/abandonned malls is going to end sometimes in the near future. imagine no more dead malls to admire. Its a sad thought.
It is indeed sad. I'm grateful people like Seph Lawless, Dan Bell, Retail Archaeology and many others make videos such as this. Most of the malls I grew up with have already been demolished - unfortunately before the trend of video makers documenting their existence. It's nice to be able to see these great old places one more time before they slip into true abandonment and decay.
The old drive-ins are gone, the malls are going . . . what's next?
Sad. Just a matter of time before it ends up like Rolling Acres. How does the Arcade stay there all by itself? At least the vandals haven't tore it up yet
Glad you enjoyed it! More to come!
Very interesting subject matter, but you could have cut out 2/3 of that footage and included a little more information as to what is left in the mall besides the arcade.
You can see it all that’s the point there’s nothing left
i would defiantly hang out in that arcade
Love the KEYMASTER theme song
I love this next time i am there i will say hello
That woman twoards the end with the swagger and Daisey Dukes on lmao
Haha
This mall should be closed. The owners must be using it as a tax right off.
Exactly
It ha d a Biggs store with 46 check out lanes .
Thanks for sharing
WOW, cool arcade
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That arcade looks okay, actually.
Hey..it is called evolution. did anybody cry and moan when the malls killed the old downtown shopping streets? Far too many malls were built, and most were built with a 35-45 year life.Something else will arise to take over..stay tuned.
Amazon already took over...stay tuned as they dominate more in the next few years
So this guys arcade and the Bass Pro Shops is keeping this mall open.....
Indeed but more likely just being a unethical tax write off or money laundering scheme from a shady investor. Stay tuned!
Seeing you walking around a open mall is just odd haha good video though
Haha indeed
It's sad growing up with great stores and having fun hanging out on weekends at all graphic t-shirt shops gadzooks, Gap, Cinemas, all the great Hallmark names in brand that you could try on before buying (was it excessive probably but look at the degradation of youth) we've traded small businesses (some not small) for youth correctional facilites, online dating, online gaming (which my kids enjoy) but it's important to be able to talk....I remember having a PC (using it then leaving to hangout) with Friends you could go to a party or all meet at the mall strip then go from there. Pagers were cool and cars were awesome...now it's just an afterthought. Are we walking backwards or just sideways....but air was electric regardless of how miserable school was and free thought flowed(still do but not as fun nor exciting, words do it no Justice and everyone hung out you had so many collective groups in one spot it was cool and you conversed with everyone....now student debt with indoctrination....lol
Well said!
@@SEPHLAWLESS thanks....I remember
Love it
Very sad
The Next Rolling Acres, Please Stand Up!!
finally someone better than Dan Bell.
Dan’s a good friend and does really amazing work. This isn’t a competition. We merely are trying to entertain people using our creativity and art the best we know how, cheers!
SEPH LAWLESS I'm saying it's better than Dan Bell in my opinion he just stopped making dead mall videos that's why i say it's better. I enjoy his videos but wish he made more for malls. retail archeology did make mall videos and I enjoy them. i just have a thing for dead malls. no hate here
Just go to the mall to walk around for exercise. It’s free and no gym membership needed.
Crazy. Malls are all but extinct in my state. I personally don't buy anything at brick n motar stores anymore. I'm amazed this mall is still open. This wouldn't be possible in my state. People would come a start ripping copper pipes out of the walls in broad daylight. Lol
Sorry Amstel. I dont do lite beer. I do real beer lol
Stupid question here. Why would the owners of this mall still would want to pay the electric bill for only one store open??? Stupidity if you asked me.
Agree
Maybe it can become the next Rotting acres.
Good job filming but sigh...so very sad. 😢
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😢😢😢😢
Ohaiyo
wow it is more dead now than when Dan bell and Adam the Woo went
Yea we all went years ago I didn’t make this until there was one store left. Dan bell came to town to meet me months ago then went here too 👍🏼👍🏼
What a waste! If we want these beauties to wake back up we need to put Amazon out of business and others like it.
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Cincinnati's version of Rotting Acres Mall!
We all have our version. Pa has century 3, which is going to be gone soon.
Does anybody know how old the Claire's logo was on the famous storefront at Rolling Acres?
12:54 Glass elevator? Looks somewhat similar to the famous one at Rolling Acres...
5:57 I wonder if that same couch will still be sitting there God knows how many years from now should this mall share Rolling Acres's fate... that couch reminds me of the one that sat for years on the lower level of RA near the Target entrance...
the symbiotic relationship between the oppression of capitalism and our pride as consumers represented and combined with the nostalgia we desperately try to obtain now daily... its alot... its alot to take.