DEAD MALL SERIES : Sad, Depressing COVENTRY MALL in Pottstown, PA
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Up date on Coventry mall it's gotten worse and it's up for redevelopment
Just saw reports the interior of the mall is being converted to storage spaces shortly. Part is also being torndown
Yes
5 more stores closed the last two weeks. 8 storefronts out of 72 remaining.
And not a trace of Will. No banter, no laughs. Kinda drags down the DMS vibe, ngl
This looks like one of those places that feels like time doesn’t exist
It’s more lively now thankfully
All dying malls have that feeling, you get to experience a perpetual present
@@kurigaru it's terrifying but also amazing
I used to go here as a kid. I now avoid it at all costs because it makes me just feel horrible and empty. Last time i was there, probably early 2019, there was even less than shown in this video. There was no music playing and little lights on despite it still being open to the public.
How about an abandoned IKEA?
This video reminds me of Sunday
Don’t know if that makes sense but this is a Sunday vibe.
Nya Omg this comment is so accurate
No you make complete sense
Lmaoooo omg yessss like after church let’s go to the mall vibes 😂😂
Nya this was recommended to me today. Today is Sunday.
It really does remind me of Sunday
imagine gettin a job here and having to just stand in an empty and dead mall
natalie bailey I would love that
Getting paid doing nothing is everyone's life dream.
That would be great. I used to work in a mall and crowds would mentally kill me.
No thanks. I've worked jobs in both extremes... dealing with nobody, and dealing with crowds. I'm generally pretty introverted so I thought I'd enjoy emptiness... but it gets SUPER boring and mentally draining after a while. When I left that job that dealt with nobody I CRAVED interaction with strangers like crazy.
Wheelio YES! i work retail and the busy days go by so much faster than the slow ones. I’d much rather have to deal with crowds than straighten the same part of the store 800 times.
This makes me feel nostalgic in the saddest way
are you being funny and ironic or are you a pussy bitch?
@@lesryglrhfohser ?
Its soul crushing, the internet and phones have made so many great things go broke, and for what, a horrendous social media system that everyone now admits they hate? What a horrible change we've made, and it's irreversible too.
lesryglfohser huh?
lesryglfohser LMAOOO
This mall likely died because of the king of Prussia Mall which is like half an hour down the highway. It's an absolutely insane mall that is still extremely popular
Exton Square Mall is close by as well
It's just really big
@@donmundt3573 Exton is in bad shape as well.
dingo it is why
How cool that it is named "the king of Prussia" Der König von Preußen mall in pensilvanien the deutsch is strong with pensilvania
This is over 4 years ago. Imagine it now.
still exactly the same
NMC2017 really I’m surprised it’s even open
Well it's a bit better actually, they've added a new anchor store... so that's something.
Anchor stores and escape rooms and seasonal stores are helping the mall, plus a new owner.
I was there tonight. Believe it or not it's gotten worse.
"So is the mall open or closed?"
Manager: Yes
Just some guy without a hat >........ corny
It has more stores these days actually.
This guys sex life cant be much better than this mall.
This was just a bad attempt at bad humor 🙄
Its in Limbo
@ciga daze The comment was funny.. You might be doomed if a joke in the youtube comments makes you feel like its over.. You must be the debbie downer at birthday parties..Jesus Christ... if starting off 2020 super depressing and gloomy was your goal you succeeded... sheeesh
50,000 people used to shop here, now it's a ghost town.
Nice Modern Warfare reference there!
*Ghost mall
Not no more people are buying businesses here at the mall and high street
This looks like dead rising real life. Music and everything
I was just thinking that!!!
The music in the vid was edited in post... But I agree
Yess
A mall is basically the internet before their was internet. The hub of humanity.
Never thought of it like that before lmao
@AngelTheFiend I don't know where you live but I hung out with friends and girls and saw literally almost everyone i knew at the mall as late as the early 2010's when i was in high school. Even now, the 4 malls in my relatively small town are always busy and i still go there quite often as a 22 year old (i'm from Ontario, Canada)
@AngelTheFiend I guess that's just a personal thing you miss doing, cause i still constantly see teens hanging out over there
@@mightybmx2900 depends on the location. Some cities the malls will be packed and breathing with life while others will be as dead as the one in this video. Within an hour from my place theres a mall thats packed with thousands of shoppers daily and one that's lucky to get 50 in a day (that one had to renovate into a strip mall as a cost-effective measure that still hasn't payed off). Not as much teens tho hang out at the mall than back in the day when i was still in high school (at least around where i live)
Stoney Wan The internet killed the mall.
Plot twist: Those 15 shoppers actually live there.
they're actually dead they're in purgatory
At least they're not shitting all over the place
They are ghost of Christmas past...
Yes they live in the bunker under the mall
Employees?
I live there and go to this mall a lot, it’s actually been getting a lot better lately. It’s saddening but online shopping is taking over.
Oh really? I thought it's fully abandoned now..
Ah thank you friendly mall expert.
You heard it here first!! Gangs are the reasons malls closed.
why would i want to leave the house spend gas money and (generally) deal with a shitload of people when i could just google what i want and have supreme overlord bezos ship it in two days? fuck malls
jboatown ya that was pretty dumb lol
did everyone just get this video recommended to them too lol
edit: why are there so many hostile replies to my comment i was literally just asking a question
Yeah... and i just saw the date. wtf
Yes. You're not unique at all.
Yeah very interesting
Nope, I’ve been subbed to this channel since 2014, they’re are tonnes of dead mall type series’ on TH-cam. Dead cool
Yep, and I’m getting some serious Persona 1 vibes.
There’s a certain aesthetic in abandoned malls
Its actually inspired a vaporwave subgenre called Mallsoft
abandonedmallcore 🚶🛋️
Rip Peep
@@dennyrr35 Mallsoft's already split into Neon Hiccough and Buttray subgenres. Bitch A-Team and Douglas may be among the first of an emergent third subgenre, tentatively called Pisswave.
I always wonder why I have such a fascination with dead malls.
I'd wager it's a blend of nostalgia, curiosity for a past you never experienced (or maybe that one's just for gold rush towns) architectural fondness, & the curiosity of a mid-century fad that lasted a long time, but is failing to transcend with the future.
+Jill Sandwich Holy balls. That was deep af, you remind me of a much more wiser me, who tokes more... xD
+Alex D You and me both. I have dreams about abandoned malls.
A few nights ago, I had one of those mall dreams with zombies. All I remember is that it was an nonupdated 1960s mall, & that they cornered me in the bathroom.
+Alex D Entropy.
1:39 that used to be a Ross
2:10 that store with the black windows was a party store
2:51 was some kind of shoe store
3:05 years ago was a hot topic
3:21 I think was a cjbanks
3:46 to the left was a McDonalds
4:00 was at one point a Dairy Queen and later became some kind of icecream shop
4:11 that att store was a GameStop but they closed it because there was a location outside the mall in the same center. A little bit later the building was condemned. They never came back to the mall
5:54 the sliding doors on the right was att before they moved into the old GameStop
7:38 the empty stores on the right used included a dress Barn and a footlocker
9:16 looks to be the old kb toys
10:48 was a Friendlys at some point
Thanks for pointing all those out!
Interesting
Left4dead469 thx man
Even the McDonalds
That’s crazy considering how big they are
Carrie Sato It was. Used to go there all the time. Besides the outlets opening up so close to there. Another thing that hurt the mall was a curfew for teens they put in place after someone got stabbed in a fight. Shortly after the mall started losing stores.
Thanks
I actually find THIS more depressing than a mall that's completely closed up and abandoned. It's like watching someone on the verge of death, barely clinging on for dear life, and you would rather them just pass on, rather than watch them suffer...
...if I can tie in a relateable comparison, haha
+matt k Very interesting comment, Matt. I think you make a good point. Seeing a mall that is on the way down I think of the people who are probably on the verge of being unemployed. When a mall is shut down then at least there's not that atmosphere of uncertainty and maybe even fear. In a truly dead mall whatever was going to happen has happened.
+Andrew Brendan - This mall reflects America's bank accounts & job prospects. It is a dead zone. Baby Boomers are trying to save for retirement. Their children cannot find a living wage job and go without Health Insurance. It is crunch time for American families and the majority are single parents trying to live on one wage. Debt has finally caught up to the average household in more ways than one. It took about 15 years for ecommerce to finally put the nail in the mall's coffin. Building up local small cities seems like the next wave, but if you have no funds you cannot participate and add to the economy.
I think about what it used to be like, then I think about the employees who probably worked there loyally since the beginning, cleaning the store for no reason, then closing the shutters for the last time.
matt k it is way better now and it has more stores
Yeah and having high hopes that it can still survive or revive.
I hate when malls go under. I don’t like shopping online all that much, especially with clothes, so I prefer to go to a mall or store
Eazy E same here... online shopping is a nightmare for me especially if I can’t see how things fit beforehand
I preffer online but I don't like when this happens too, because ppl lose their livelihood
Man both of yall are tripping, I'd rather shop online to get custom or exclusive gear that wasnt sent to stores. Where I'm from I like to have different styles vs wearing the same stuff other ppl went and got from the mall. Which is why i dont wear Jordan's that are released to malls or retail stores, I like rocking the retros that are hard to get #stockx; also if u guys read the description it'll tell u how the product fits and suggest you go a size up. Not against going inside a mall or retail store I just can't deal long lines and sold out items on the first day, thus I like to have a better variety soooooooo.
California malls are alive and well even on weekdays as seen on my gimbal footage th-cam.com/video/oo7ZjAtmr3o/w-d-xo.html
@@IAMON365 oh yes because jordans are so groundbreaking
I can't imagine what it's like to get up every day and to work in one of those few stores that are keeping the mall alive a knowing that you're not going to really have that much business but you do it anyway
That sounds like the perfect job. Unless you are the owner then it would just be depressing
No me, I'd be worried about how long I'd have a job for knowing it could go out of business any day?
As long as you're on top of job opportunities when yours inevitably dies, must be great to just hang out at the store and serve a handful of people per day
Tbh they're probably reading and chilling in the back room. No work done yet the paycheck comes in, pretty nice if you ask me
Nice yes, but id start applying somewhere else
feels like someones memory of a mall but the memory's fading. like there was never anything here but jungle.
genius comparison
“Stop saying odd shit”
This would be a cool call of duty map
dude imagine lmaoo
When I was a kid I used to think that lol! I grew up here XD
Nah man people would camp in a corner with an lmg or run around the map quickscoping
Reminds me a bit of Terminal.
Arkaden?
This mall lacks some zombies.
Marcus Tube lol L4D2 where u at
-[F1S]- Jetskee Deadrising where you at?
I WAS THINKING L4D2 TOO!!!
Sirius Noir me too
-[F1S]- Jetskee Maybe add it as a mod.
Update 2019: It's not this dead anymore. The furniture store left a few years ago and has been closed off and converted to a Gabe's. The candy stand was a part of Gertrude hawk, and there used to be a KB Toys across the way where the nail salon is now. They are under new management now and its still slow, but not nearly this bad. They have added an escape room, community center, skate shop, and more. The Deb is gone and has been for a while, it was replaced with a comic book shop. The radioshack (ofcourse) is gone, and they added a planet fitness where the F.Y.E. used to be. The pink shop next to the food court is now a vape shop, and the pretzel twister is now a Salad Society. Wayback burgers moved into where the McDonalds was, and those tables in the food court are actually a welcome upgrade from what they used to look like. The part that is ACTUALLY dead is the strip mall outside. I can't remember when that started dying out but except for a Rita's waterice, a government office, and a flooring store that took over the old superfresh, that strip mall is DEAD. The Coventry mall, however, is not anymore. Around black friday you can't find a single parking spot in the lot. What initially crippled them is when gamestop left around 2008. A lot of young people used to come to the mall for the gamestop and there used to be an arcade next to the food court too. When they left durring the recession, everything started falling apart from there. I would HIGHLY recommend going to the Penn Steak and Fries in the food court though. They have been there (and so has corrado's and the chinese place) since before I was born. The staff are incredibly friendly and they make a better cheesesteak than Pat's or Gino's
It's no question that retail was hurt and demographics shifted, so I think making changes like that sound like clever ways to keep a mall hip and viable for competition when some malls aren't able to keep up. Like with adding an escape room, it's a fresh attraction that people will definitely come to see (that there aren't many of in one area, might I add), and have to experience in person. Happy to hear it's doing better
In other words, its not DEAD; its FUCKED. Semantics. Either way, kerflush
Thank you for the update!!! Whew at least its still trying to survive 😊
Amazed that they're trying to keep the mall alive. And sounds like a risk to take
Good to know! 👍
7:56 his walk was like an alien trying to act like a human
they are all npc’s, this place does not exist.
Or an NPC
Reminds me of the Zuckerberg robot walking memes.
Mall’s probably a separate subsidiary of Area 51 in disguise
Thats just a kid trying to fined his mom, that got lost in the mall 50 years ago...
It’s so weird seeing that malls are closing in USA when here in Mexico malls are still very popular sometimes in weekend you can’t even find a table to eat, when a movie premiers for example avengers there’s like a hundred people line to get popcorn and all that, is so crazy to see the contrast, shopping online here still not very common
Because Mexico is cheap
Every time I go with my parents we take like $2K US dollars and change it into pesos and buy whatever we want lol
For you that earned in dollars, here minimum wage is 123 pesos that’s 6 dollars A DAY , not an hour, so for American tourists yes of course they gonna think is cheap, but believe me a 123 pesos is not enough cover the expenses of a family in a day, so Mexico is not cheap for us but is for you, so come take a vacation in our beautiful beaches or in the little towns that we call pueblos mágicos take a look at the malls they`re not dead, i swear is not all bad and crime
Same in the Philippines hehe malls are packed! hehe
@@bichorarito98 confirmo
@Dania Ruvalcaba The malls are dying here because we have Amazon.com you can buy anything there or at other online services like walmart is offering too and costco sometimes free delivery, as the technology growths in the U.S.A people spends time going to school doing research developing new things and working up to 80 hours a week on projects or you simply want to hang out with friends more and you don't want to get into the routing of going groceries shopping or buying things at stores. People in the U.S.A use mostly card so is very convenient for everyone, also if you buy something online and it wasn't what you were thinking services tend to be more efficient than Mexico and they simply return your money and take the item back or some times they even give you gift card to repair the damage of bad customer services. I will say one thing if the population doesn't step the level to the changes the companies are making you are going to be left behind and won't survive if you want to live in a first world country.
I would have laughed if a tumble weed rolled by.
Lightning Brigade “where tf did that come from?!”
😂😂😂😂
Lightning Brigade 🤣🤣
@ 11:37 it would have been perfect
A coral tumbleweed like on Spongebob squarepants lol
Does anyone else get extremely depressed in dead malls?
Some Dude i get sad by the fact some people have to work there everyday
@@inubrother3524 Especially with the threat of redundancy.
Anglus Patria what
Anglus Patria But you’re wrong too lmao
Anglus Patria Actually I shouldn’t have said “too” because meow meow isn’t wrong, just you
Imagine on a bright sunny day, with no worries and no obligations. Just you at this mall, at peace, listening to some tunes on your headphones or something. Kinda feels nice
Right, I wouldn't mind mopping floors and stocking shelves at all!
Speaking as someone who worked mall management in the 80s, I can tell you that the malls were SUPPOSED to look stark and generic. They wanted shoppers to be oblivious to the season, the weather, the time of day. It was supposed to be "controlled." The theory was, that if you didn't know the time of day or the weather outside, that you would be more inclined to just stay and continue shopping. There was no need to get home before dark, or rush home to beat the weather. Well, now, that didn't work out so well- did it?
+margannaful - The one thing online shopping hasn't conquered is luring in customers to buy other items. The customer spends less time shopping and less money picking up things they didn't need. The idea of the Mall worked very well at the time. The Mall near me is still busy today because we have the population to keep it going.
That same thinking used to permeate school design, leading to classrooms with narrow or no windows. Eliminate windows and minimize distractions! New research actually shows that ample natural light and large windows that minimize glare actually increase productivity and happiness!
They should just turn this into a homeless shelter
It would be unlivable or burn down within a week
Not if it has adequate funding and staffing. It would need an extraordinary amount of donations to keep it afloat but it could do so well. Case management, Counseling, Free clinic, volunteer led classes for financing, navigating healthcare, parenting etc. Along with a Men’s, Woman’s, and Family shelter with a drug free policy it’s possible.
Lots of things could be done with "extraordinary funding" Just because something's a good idea doesn't mean it's at all feasible
@@deanhart9627 that's true but a pessimistic attitude won't help make a difference
馬鹿野郎VR !!
I don’t know why this makes me sad
Look up videos of New York-anew Jersey malls to make you happy :)
Mina Zutic maybe this makes you sad because many people got let go.
Update: December 12, 2022 - As of December of 2022, the Coventry Mall is pretty much closed and by the end of the year, the only remaining food court establishments (Corrado's and Penn Steaks) - ironically, the original two to open in the mall in the mid/late 80's - will be forced to relocate and move out. The interior of the mall is set to house storage units and the rest of the mall will be transformed into the newly-branded "Shoppes at Coventry", aiming to make the Coventry Mall a new strip-mall of sorts.
Pearle Vision, a salon/nail spa, and an Asian spa center are the only indoor tenants that still remain (that I know of) which aren't anchor stores. Boscov's mall entrance has been completely walled off with glass, as well as the former Sears' (which is just a large white wall). The TGI Friday's has closed and was replaced by a new restaurant called Big Phil's, which apparently has really impressed the locals so far. My friend and I walked the mall the week before Thanksgiving back in November and seeing the mall completely devoid of life was really saddening, as both of us had grown up with the mall, even in its rougher years. 2018 and 2019 looked like they would offer the mall an very real opportunity to make a stunning rebound but unfortunately the COVID pandemic pretty much doomed the Coventry Mall for good. I'm honestly surprised the mall lasted this long, even with the tough competition of the Philadelphia Premium Outlets opening around 10 years ago now just a few miles down 422.
The Coventry Mall, as we know it, is done. Let's see what the new Shoppes at Coventry have to offer.
Whoever cleans those stone floors, good job. Very tidy.
CaptSkidmark Well, it’s not like they’re getting dirty from all the foot traffic.
That was me , I’m in charge of cleaning clean floors
It literally looks like the 90s especially the food court.
Bin al-Flecki Malls were packed in the 90s
Justyn Brodsky they still are, especially Lennox
mozarella10 hell yea Atl baby lmao
Why do the people walking look like paid actors?
SirCereal225 it’s like North Korea except it’s the mall owner forcing them to be there
Or NPCs lol
😂😂😂😂
why am i laugh at dis
People act like that around there lol, like NJ. DiSgUsTiNg
The bench at 7:50 is where my mom and I’d eat soft pretzels. The shop was just to the right of the jeweler. It’s closed now, and my mom recently passed. So this was a very nice trip down memory lane for me. Thank you
I know I'm late as heck but my parents were actually the last people to own the candy stand near the Sears, it was called the Candy & Java Connection and they had a pretty big selection of candy and chocolates for such a small store. Also great coffee from what I remember. A third to half of our customers were Sears and other mall employees so when they closed we were pretty much doomed.
OrangeWalrus omg I used to go there and get rock candy when I was a kid!
thats crazy, my dad would take me whenever we were at the mall to that stand. small world.
Lier
OrangeWalrus . Interesting , that place needed a coffee shop . Never stopped in , I used boscovs just flew in and out .
@@Michael-zj3cn Can you give an example, or are you here just to call names?
It wasn't that bad honestly; nobody ever goes "I'm not going to the mall because it's ugly!" the place just got outsourced or in a bad location like other dead malls.
Exactly I could understand his analysis if he were talking about a single brand/store but not a whole mall.
Online shopping is killing the malls. Amazon and others are taking over.
T!to not entirely though, like most malls I go to are usually packed you’re lucky to find a table to eat at during lunch and dinner
@@christianmumoffive1214 Definitely not entirely. I agree. But you have to admit that online shopping isn't helping much. Really depends though on the type of person because some people still like to get out. Online shopping has just been more convenient and usually has better deals. Depends on how the malls are.
There’s an over saturation of shopping in this area since a huge outlet mall was built right down the road. Also really serious shoppers will drive the 20 minutes to go to King of Prussia Mall. This mall was great in the 80s and 90s. Sad to see it like this.
wow it would be boring as fuck to work in one of those stores still open
If you think fuck is boring you're doing it with the wrong people.
gircakes I just started sears a month ago 😂
***** It's ok. Sometimes we can be really busy or slow. Our managers are laid back and don't push metrics so much. However I don't like how understaffed we are. I work in home improvement and there only 3 other people working there. They dont schedule enough people, like yesterday it was only me and 2 other HI employees. One left at 5 and the other left at 5:30, leaving me by myself for 4 hours (I worked 2pm to close yesterday, which is 9:00) I had to answer the phone, help someone buy a resin shed and another buy a lawn mower by myself, and help others buy tools. On top of that I had to close all 3 drawers and didn't actually clock out until 9:30. So yeah it's ok for the money I guess.
Sounds pretty decent.
Ayesha Summers i worked at sears last year and its terrible. atleast this one was.
as someone who panics in very empty, eerie places.. this looks like a nightmare. i dont even know how to describe the uneasy feelings places like this give me.
I can totally relate. I feel more comfortable in a crowd than this nightmare.
I know exactly what you mean
emily dokken lol im the exact opposite
@White Boy what?
You seem to be overreacting, probably the most dramatic girl in class
The security guards who work there must have the easiest jobs ever
I'd bet the % of shoplifters is actually higher in a low population store.
Oh man I’ve worked as a security similar to this and quit in 2 months. It was so damn boring.
The janitor is probably security too
Minimum wage is hard no matter what you have to do
Michael Priest the security guy is a manager, jeweler and waiter in the food courts.
Wow. I grew up with this mall and even worked there before freshman year of college. I can helps little with what things use to be (in the early aughts anyway). 2:00 was dicks sporting goods, corner across from BAM was a painting and print store and next to them with the gold and marble was a shoe warehouse. 2:45 was GNC, where I worked. 3:40 that pizza place has been there FOREVER with the same staff for as long as I can remember. The highlight of my childhood was going to A&W for corn dog nuggets and sitting on these awesome raised platforms. The DEB...I did a teen model show for them once and spent 30 minutes suddenly very aware of how funny I walk. 5:40 yes it was candy, can't think of the name but they had those jawbreakers that were roughly the size of my head. Across the was was a toy store. 8:05 generic women's wear that was later used for Halloween stuff. 8:25 random house decor. 9:15 aforementioned toy store. Also when leaving what use to be Sears, on your right was Gap. And diagonally across was a jewelry store and Auntie Anne's pretzel. 9:42 behind the cast of Wall•E was Aeropostale. 9:52 Claire's I believe. 10:00 was a bank. 10:50 the facade to the right of Boscovs was a Friendlys, where the tables had a permanent layer of condensed sugar. 11:50 down the corridor to the right was an arcade in the 90s that was so disreputable, stories of it carried over into my generation. Drugs, fight, the usual suburban cliches. Well thanks for a blast from my past!
so even the GNC closed down there? That mall must really be on its last legs now.
4exgold it's actually picking back up
I lived 12 mins from here, can confirm all of what you said.
There was also an Outlooks For Hair Salon somewhere in the mall too.
9:52 was a Claires. I ran it for three years until 2010 and then moved out of state and am in shock!
I'm gonna be rude and say most malls in the states die coz they're wide instead of tall. I'm already exhausted seeing the neverending corridors
Malls are also being killed by lack of investment and interest. Online Retail and No Care Given to Maintain the properties. There is a Dead Mall in Aberdeen,Washington that looks almost exactly like this one.
Tall is too expensive in areas that have the land size to support a simple one or two level mall.
I’ve been in malls like this one, at several different days and times of the day or evening, and..... call me stupid but I can’t imagine how they can afford to keep the lights on and the doors open.
@@fieraci8500 What I want to know is why are they wasting all of that space? There are so many buildings and old properties and homes that just rot. They could be doing something productive that benefits people with these properties. If they have the lights on what the Heck are they doing in there?
Arif my local mall (Bellis Fair Mall in Bellingham) is just as wide, and is doing fine, though again it has a Target, Kohl’s, Old Navy and various food outlets around the mall, you could just see the list on the website, though in my opinion it could be better.
@@clockworkdeath935 There are only a few malls living and still surviving these days. I Hope that at least some last.
Before they close the mall and demolish it, I would turn the whole thing into an expensive skate park.
It got bought and is now more of a local shopping location with mostly small businesses
tf?
Hey the mall is trying its best ok
Demonetization i feel like body slamming you
Brayan Cruz shut the fuck up pussy I’d body slam you Just for saying that shit for no reason and you won’t do shit Cruz
Not good enough.
So young, so angry, damn this rap music 🤣
Xpoint Sony after looking through your favorites and seeing what you like i have confirmed that all you are is a pussy
I made a living as a trucker in the 90s delivering to these malls across the East coast. They are dying a miserable death.
Yep! Eyesores. However, outlet malls just a block away are thriving and expanding. I guess they don't tolerate the deadbeat teens and other undesirables who walk in lines blocking customer traffic.
Too true, they might as well make these buildings into schools
I would go everyday finally some peace and quiet
Right?! That was my first thought, too
Arthur Edens me too if air conditioner on
Arthur Edens same
And not buy anything lol the reason malls are dying is people like you exhibit A 😆
@@jg5488 malls are dying cuz people don't want to go out
This feels like the place where I’m getting chased by a monster in my nightmare and I can’t run
Yeah, it has that Silent Hill vibe
Omg so true!
Or where you run but you’re running in slow motion like you’re running in water
Me watching this alone in my car at 4:28 am makes me feel more alone than ever before in my entire life..
Been there
I hear you. Wtf are you doing in your car at 4:28am anyway?
rmiddlehouse working lol 👮🏻♂️
WHO DAT⚜️⚜️⚜️
take care, dude
If I were a teenager this is where I’d go with my friends to get drunk.
yup
call me and I'll be there, I'll bring whiskey
@@marodes9440 hi I'm Chris hansen with dateline
@@thegentlemansmith5411 I'm literally 15🤣🤣🤣 you should look them up if they agree(I still wouldn't oppose)
TheGentleman Smith Sorry, gotta be the one to say it, but you’re a very handsome man. Now you can go on about your day.
Seems like a good setting for a zombie movie or horror movie imo
It's called Dawn of the Dead.
Dead rising
Great setting for us at Terror Labs! Terror Labs haunt is in there (at least for now as the mall is closing many stores for a rebuild). But we'll scare you in the meantime - www.terrorlabs.com!
This video got me emotional, so emotional. I live about 10 minutes away from this place and I used to go here all the time with my family. I remember this place having so many people here, it was the most crowded place at the time. I remember begging my mother for a quarter just to go on of those mini interactive car things as a young child. I remember coming to this mall on a weekend with my grandmother and she always bought me books. I remember there was a photo shoot at that place, it went out of business a few years ago but man, so many memories I have just from getting family pictures there. I remember begging my mom to get me chocolate from the chocolate store and luckily, to this day they are still open and I always ask my mom to get me the chocolate covered pretzels that they have there. They are the most delicious foods that I have ever tasted. Now, I mean look for yourselves, there aren’t even any places to sit down and eat any more that’s how dead this mall is. Man I miss it
People who say that online shopping is killing malls are dead wrong, 2 malls nearby me that look just a little bigger than this one get tons of business. Same state as well, Pennsylvania. People still go to malls, it's just ones like this one that are built in areas where there is no longer money
Tyler Huber Exton Square Mall and KoP?
Birdie518 nope, Johnstown and Altoona
Tyler Huber the galleria Mall was crap the last time I was there. Logan Valley is doing okay from what I've heard but it's not what it was either.
Tyler Huber Pittsburgh Mills is pretty new and practically empty, you should check that out, seems like you're not far
Exactly. All about location, location, location.
I've had the phrase "THE MAAAAALLL" stuck in my head for a few days now,lol. Thanks!
Oh no. Now it's happening to me too.
"I need to buy more clothes."
*THE MAAAALLL*
"Omg I need to buy Betsy a birthday gift."
*THE MAAAALLL*
"I think I need a new pair of sneakers."
*THE MAAAALLL*
Imagine playing hide and go seek in there...
Alex Cobb I actually do.
Hide and "go" seek??? Whatt its just hide and seek
That’s how people in the Philly area say it mainly.
Count with me
Perfect for a horror game
Honestly, as an introvert that loves malls, this place is perfect
😂 you can't be serious
@@aguamenti2106 of course. It looks so peaceful and quiet
@@fish_toes it doesn't look peaceful it looks DEEEEEAAAAAADDDDD 😂 you should try to become an extrovert all it takes is a couple of cold beers
@@aguamenti2106 i dont want to be an extrovert if they're anything like you. You're just annoying
@@fish_toes yeah I know I can't help it by the way this is 4U 🖕😉
I can't help thinking about all these tiles.. beautiful shining marble tiles in the thousands, going to waste. Those were taken from the earth, gone through so much processing, transported, purchased and put in place.. for nothing. Soon they will be covered in dust, or by rubble.. and dont get me started on the glass, the mirrors, the steel.. it just hurts my brain.
+benny s I find myself thinking the exact same thing when I watch these dead mall videos.
“Bland colors” proceeds to zoom in on the most fluorescent pink imaginable.
That opening is sheer nightmare fuel.
f1lthyb4con THE MAAALLLL
lol
T H E M A L L
Psychic reading, $3.99/min. I forsee a large phonebill
The dark corner at the furniture store though
This video brings out my inner nostalgia that isn't even mine
Vyansya that’s exactly how it feels too, i’ve never known how to really describe it till i read this comment sigh
This Mall looks nice to me. He describes it as dull, mundane etc. It looks bright, nice lighting, very clean, I have been in Malls that look 10 times worse than this.
STHFGDBY agreed its style looks nice to me. Just that it’s empty of stores and people will make anything look sad. He needs to maybe stop and look at the workmanship of this construction and the cost of marble. Or maybe if he built something in his life he would appreciate this place more
@@roadrailn I agree. Why he describes it in such an negative way is a puzzle to me. He says it is the most generic place he's ever been in and that it has no character. What's he on about? He's totally wrong as far as I'm concerned.
@@STHFGDBY yup. He sounded like a privileged snob ranting on so negatively about the mall. Shit. I live in TX and most of the malls I go to look like this one except way more stores and people of course.
the whole place kind of looks like an olive garden
Brad Martin mmmm a giant Olive Garden 🤤🤤🤤
what kind of olive gardens are you going to
This mall looks almost identical to the Viewmont Mall in Dickson City, PA. Viewmont is not a dead mall, but it's as "vanilla" as this one, and contains almost all the same stores and layout. The only bad omen for Viewmont is that it has JC Penney as a major center anchor store. That doesn't bode well for its future.
@@losingmymind611 I think he's referring to the bland, uninspired design of the place. BEIGE WASTELAND
An olive garden with early 70's colour scheme.
I'm going to have, "The Mallllll" stuck in my head all day...😂
estherdestiny 3.99 per minute?! I don't care how she says the mall that price is crazy!
😂😂😂
Necroglobule The hairdos & glasses were hideous, no wonder I felt so uncomfortable in my skin back then. Lady w walker - that's me now!
It's the 80's coming to you live from THE *MAAAAAAALLLLLL*
Me too!
I genuinely can’t tell if the music has been edited to be louder or if there is literally music BLARING throughout that empty ass mall
If so that would explain it. Who the fuck wants to hear music while shopping?
"there's no character to this mall?" dude, that place is a visual artist's dream. I'd love to go over there and shoot some pictures plus that marble wall is fantastic, it has many groovy and odd fixtures. The shot with the cleaning person alone and the shadows beneath are amazing!
i feel like u can go literally anywhere to get the same kind of pictures
Do the old people/patrons of the mall seem to be visual artists to you?
Cringe AF.
Adriana Santiago bro it’s not that deep
Jon W hahahaha I find meaning/symbolism in almost everything...a blessing but a curse. oh well!
This time I totally disagree with you, it's a nice mall, lots of natural light, very well kept, much more than others I've seen.
@Brett Kavanaugh You're barely 19 and you already radiate big boomer energy. That's a problem, fix it
Brett Kavanaugh why u so hostile bro lmfao
Diana Nicolás I was thinking the same thing, he’s bashing its style pretty hard in the beginning and really it’s nice to me, just empty is all.
Doesn’t look that bad, it just looks 80s.
Minus the people
It doesn't look 80s, it looks early 90s remodel gone wrong. 80s malls were actually better. Remember arcades?
Bad part is no one wants “80s” anymore...
7:06 someone needs to put in a torch there before zombies and enderman spawn
LMAOOOMHCDTHDSTO
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Looks like an old 90s mall that hasn’t been renovated for years
Thanks for this astute observation. What would we have ever done without your vast contribution to society?
Matt I even see an 80's vibe. Particularly in the food court.
Issa Rae's Body Double lol😂
@@Eveningbreeze721 It's def 90s trying to keep the 80s alive kind of deal, which was like the last few twitches most malls made before keeling over an dying. But spencers will not die. If you need that penis shaped wine glass for your bridal shower spencer has you covered.
right!! like a mall you would see in malcom in the middle lol
UPDATE: The company owning the mall has switched hands and the new owner does plan on trying to bring back customers. They stated that they plan to bring affordable child care, fitness,health food,pet supplies, medical and restaurants ( both sit down and casual). it also plans on fixing the potholes in the parking lots.
That's really good news for the place. I hope they are able to bring people back
Yes they own the Plymouth Meeting Mall and it is in great shape, and I hope they can save it!
+Kinseydsp Everytime I got to Plymouth there's like no one there.
+Kinseydsp plymouth meeting mall still is kind of boring to me a few years ago it qas a dead mall but the high-school kids kept it open they hang out on Fridays and eat and shop I'm sure that's still most of theyre profit
renthsmjesse that mall is trash. Up there with the most terrible/ bland malls
I feel like Money laundering or something is going on there i didn’t even see 1 employee…like?!?
Moon_Sun 19 yeah some stores just don’t have people in it, I live 5 mins from it
You did see an employee you saw the cleaning guy the moment Dan walked in the door What you talkin bout
Faddahz i didn’t saw him the first time 🤷🏾♀️
@@moon_sun1964 Well he was there . Waiting for you to see him . Have compasion for the custodials .
They’re all sleeping in the back
Being the security guards or janitors there must be relaxing, can watch movies, play cards and gamble all day.
The "facelift" is from about 2005. I hung about the mall in my teen years and managed Thread's, a t-shirt store for a year.
From start to finish if my memory serves, the long gone stores in order of appearance;
Ross
Dollar Tree(Various dollar stores occupied that corner space)
Shoe Factory
IQ (urban style fashion store)
Some wine store, sometimes the space was rented to Hickory Farms
Hot Topic (directly next to the now closed Pretzel Twister)
Orange Julius
Pocket Change(the old arcade)
McDonalds
Limited Too
DEB
Children's Place
KB Toys
Several candy places, at one time a coffee shop
Various cell phone places in that glass enclosure
Sears
Footlocker (next to TGI Fridays)
Threads (in the corner wall covered by picture tiling)
Habitat (moved from original location, now currently in Children's Place's old spot)
Gadzooks/Spirit Halloween(the front left store never lasted long and was used often for pop up stores)
Master Cuts(next to the Kay Jewelers)
Lids/Humungo Comics
Claires
Radio Shack(that's a bit too common to note)
Another Hair Salon
Friendly's
A Darker Breed no bath and body works ?? That’s got to be a first !!😂😂
At least they have the morgue now which is a pretty cool shop. But that’s about it. My girlfriend grew up in Pottstown and as far as we know it’s mostly shit. Just go across and get some awesome ice cream.
Don’t forget the Arby’s, Van Scoy Diamond Mine, Sam Goody, and the Slack Shack!
I hate crowds. This mall is perfect for me.
😂true
Nathan Arroyo yeah but there’s only like 2 open stores lol
Adolf Dripler dude ur forgetting the best part... Grown men sleeping in massage chairs
Meanwhile in the Philippines, the Mall business is steadily expanding for the past 10 years. Welp because PH is a tropical country and malls are perfect place for free air-conditioner.
Seven Fifteen 96 well probably because of tourists and such
Is why i stay home cause everyone is in the mall
Not really, in my country from seas too many mall is dead ,everyone prefer buy everything from online shop, more cheap
2015 : a dead mall
2020: what any mall looks like today
It’s not dead anymore they added stores. The furniture store was remodeled and made into a gabes and it’s usually busy. They added more stores. Did some other work on the appearance. Added an escape room. Added restaurants. It’s doing pretty well and much busier. In 2019
Rachel Engelman friend of mine filmed himself going it it a few days ago and it’s still looks like this no one there empty
Dominic Jace I think a lot of people go to their main stores like gabes , Kohl’s , boscovs , dicks sporting goods , and the escape room. Those are all pretty busy on a normal day. It’s more the small stores within that aren’t busy.
I live so close to this area it’s crazy to see a mall I’ve been in get so many views lol
Rachel Engelman is that the only stores they added?
It's like the personification of despair.
Some vaporwave mixes take these mall explorations to a whole new place
That would attract customers! Haha
This looks like a mall where ghost hang out when they get bored lol
Imagine just working there, must be so depressing
Looks really comfy, and you don't have to deal with any customers
Probably the easiest minimum wage job a person can get.
That's what I was thinking.. I'd quit after an hour
Imagine getting paid to chill and do almost nothing but to kill time and pretending to work, thats the most basic minimum wage earn any human can get.
Easy money 🤫🤑🤑🤑🤑
...it looks like a place where hopes and dreams go to die...
This looks like tourist footage in North Korea. Just waiting for a little asian tour guide to stop you filming.
Oh stfu
Nice
That’s what I was exactly thinking lol
@@evannesbitt7852 are they wrong tho
mrjingles77 xd
Wandering old people looking like the walking dead 😂
This mall is really depressing.
I find abandoned/ nearly abandoned places so interesting as well as sad. I always imagine the story behind it, not the one everyone knows but more in depth and far more interesting. These abandoned places used to be somebody's work, a place to hang out with friends and then life is slowly taken from them and there they are just lying abandoned, forgotten. It's always such an awful sight to see buildings die like that. Thanks to people like you they are not fully forgotten
No middle class = no mall.
That and online shopping.
E-commerce killed malls not a lack of income from patrons
I disagree Mister J. In northern Virginia there is a strong middle class presence. The malls here are busy and busier on the weekends.
Do not blame online shopping lmao.
Y'all need to stop waiting for the checkout position at your supermarket to pay a livable wage. There's a grand looting going on and you need to take advantage of that. Every aging retiree is a walking lootbox that needs financial advice, someone to buy annuities from, someone to receive health care from, etc. There's money to be made but y'all dont want it.
@@fawazr tell me more man ...
"Let's go to the mall today" - Robbin Sparkles
😂 nice reference
all right I’ll drive
Great now im going to have that in my head all day.
Ive lived in a town like this for 20 years. It’s draining on your mental health. You want to escape but you never feel like you’ll be able to get out.
You have such a calming voice.
great v/o. some of these urbex guys have absolutely no voice of a really terrible one. Watch one of Ace's Adventures. His voice is like finger nails on a black board.
you can tell hes a very grounded intelligent funny man
its kinda cute seeing older people still going there
Yeah true lol
It makes me happy
Fuck boomers
I think they’re just using it as a place to go walking inside
Only to exercise
Oh god that furniture store...
And the fact that they’re still playing music from the 80s over the speakers...
Nothing wrong with 80s music😆
Just makes it that much more poignant, actually.
It’s like the physical form of a vaporwave album
@@Testosterone-Eater Think he added the music for effect.
The music going along with the place makes it feels even more melancholic
Imagine dying and being stuck in that mall forever
CuffA40 YT 😖
That’s a Netflix original right there.
Kinda like the backrooms?
Thats a cool fucking idea
Next AHS theme
The echoing music in an empty mall is nostalgic. It brings to mind a PAST ERA.
Funny it reminds me more of the game Dead Rising more than when I went to malls as a kid. (Born 1984)
Reminds me of the mall in left 4 dead.
Lol!
LoL! :P
Andrew F Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought the same. It reminds me so much of it
I clicked on this video just to comment that lol
Aside from the number of people, this literally looks like every single mall in my city. :/ Yikes. lol
@@AndrewVanBouwman creep
MMAbadboy probs Detroit
Not in la
R u real blonde
Domination YT na it’s lit out here
Why is this simultaneously funny, depressing, and scintillating?
Jake Christensen define it
@@jonw9791 Define what?
Jake Christensen scintillating
@@jonw9791 It literally means shining brightly or glimmering, but figuratively it means interesting, intriguing
Jake Christensen I was referencing something it dm haha
This is _NOTHING_ like the malls near me. You can’t even walk without bumping into old people, a lady with 10 kids, snobby teens, or a police officer. It makes me thankful for online shopping.
Same, I live in southern California and malls here are packed especially on the weekends and holiday season. I went this Sunday and the air quality in the mall was toxic, it was almost like I was breathing in pure carbon dioxide.
Good stay a neet lol I love going out
I grew up not far from here, I was recently in here and it felt so strange, the reason it looks so weird is because it used to be unenclosed and open and the reason for so much sky light is because long ago, that used to be open air and there was never a revitalized redo of the mall, it's just generations of new on top of old