@@alihaydarcolak8534 After it was sold in the late 90’s early 2000’s it didn’t seem to do as well financially. I might have those dates wrong. In 2010 the flood finished it off.
I used to live in the bay motor Hotel a long time ago!! You walked by my old room lol! When I 1st moved down to Bella Coola I rented one of the rooms on a monthly basis until I found a place. I can not believe how much it has deteriorated!!
@Mark Westervelt i think they got mexicans to unload the store and chinese to clean it as well as do the laundry..... phillipean women took care of the woman who fell down and also help with bathrooms scrubbing and odd jobs.. mexicans then arranged things again with an indian interpretrer so thing were in order and right reading. Gavin newsom wanted to buy it but was told to recall how he knew nothing about how businesses run and get out..As he was wearing a mask he was offed as a burglary suspect by homeless people....
It was a hotel and restaurant when I was in high school. It was fine when I graduated, but when I came home, it became a thift store than it closes down. Its ashamed that the building is run down.
I'm so glad you included the fact that this abandoned mall has abandoned stores inside. If you hadn't I would have fully expect this mall to be at 90% occupancy in the video and would have been outraged that it wasn't. Great work.
This place shut down in 2010 due to heavy rain and flooding. Be thankful you filmed this when you did as it burned down a couple months later (nov 2020).
This is my home town, where I was born and raised. Lol. This is the old Bay Motor Hotel/Pub. Had great times in the pub and I loved their toonie Tuesdays in the restaurant. Burger n fries for $2. Been closed for many many years but others try use it for a thrift shop, hair salon, mini cafe but none went over too well.
@toffeerado far left side of building was the pub. Center was restaurant, right side was hotel access, above pub was banquet room if I remember correctly
I have bedrooms that haven’t been used for 10yrs or more. I just dust & if I need it I put clean sheets on. That’s it. I guess they had some really bad damage. I do have some water damage in my bathroom but I’ll get to fix it one day ( when I win the lottery, powerball or lottery tickets ) I have one in each. Someone has to win and I saw a lovely old lady win a good amount of money on one game. Lol
This was the Bay Motor Hotel. When Bella Coola flooded unfortunately the building was already starting to need major repairs and the flood did it in. No value to the property to sell. So it sits abandoned and rotting.
Thank you for the info I didn't have to go through a whole bunch of comments to figure out why it was abandoned. and you my good friend got the best comment award today cuz I was able to find out what I needed to real fast LOL
Wow, for once it appears that most of the damage is through decay not vandalism, otherwise those tv 📺 sets and piles of crockery would be smashed, no graffiti, amazing, let’s hope nobody who sees this finds it and goes to destroy it. Thanks for the tour and the fashion store stop, incredible. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Seriously lol. When he went to open that thing I had a millisecond of internal panic, thinking there was going to be a mummified corpse in there or something.
BC Ferries schedule and "Welcome to Port Hardy" booklets! On an island off Canada's BC coast, Port H ismuch at the mercy of rise-&-fall economic fortunes. Thank you for showing this once proud, now melancholy site.
I used to go there. Nice coffee shop and pub. Too many floods in Hagensborg did it in. Last summer had lunch with the former (?) owner who was visiting Gibsons, B.C.
FIXTREME I think they meant before the place become a flooded second floor. Surely when the clothes was put there it wasn’t all moldy yet. Why they left it all there like that beats me. It what they could of done before it got to this point not what they should do with everything damaged now. Though some of the clothes might still be salvageable after a wash. Never know. Just dangerous to collect. I’m sure people in need don’t care where it came from if it’s actually wearable and doesn’t smell disgusting after a wash
@@rouaanjewaskiewitz8331 Here's a dirty little secret of clothing donation, charities get more clothes then they know what to do with. A lot of it ends up getting donated to Africa and completely destroying the local textile industry. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/donated-clothing-where-it-ends-up-1.4662023
Need a drone to go where you are not safe to go. shoot even a go pro duck taped to a remote control car would have been good in there. Always trust your self preservation instincts.
It was not a resort. It was just a hotel and pub for many years. After the owner moved, some TRY put other small businesses in there but the damage was too far gone already.
A follow up to the previous episode. Thank you host. What a shame that hotel, pub, clothing store, restaurant and coffee shop in Bella Coola had to end its businesses due to heavy rain destroying the complex. Sections of it could have been rebuilt for business to thrive in it again, but nature spoke otherwise to that mall.
The pipes froze and burst while a local was caring for the building after the doors shut and the owner moved away. It was for sale and then the province took it over. It had since burned to the ground and now we have beautiful scenery there.
I can't believe the amount of stuff that they just walked away from. Like the TVs, and the office Copier/Fax/Printer would have been a very expensive piece of hardware.
I would be more concerned about those perfectly good dishes left at the salon counter. I'm surprised they weren't taken out when they were told to vacate. lol Big copiers are just like cars unless you take care of them and treat them like they're your babies. (latter part of that sentence is related to old collectible autos)
Oops, someone says it's in Bella Coola. Like Port H but smaller, also a sad and spellbinding site in the same island. Splendid history in this great area.
Besides the natural decay this place is surprisingly intact, not much vandalism and the scrappers haven’t had it. If this place was still Open in 2010/2011, it definitely looks like it would’ve been very dated.
I worked for May Co, in the 80s and 90s, before retail jobs became almost obsolete. I'm retired in Ct, after Filenes at the Danbury, CT Mall, went through the bankruptcy, May Co went out, and Federated Macys took over. People don't really shop at malls anymore.
@Sally Clay You worked in Filene's at Danbury Fair Mall? My ex girlfriend's mom worked at G. Fox and they wanted her to work there. (She worked at Hartford, Westfarms and Buckland). She retired from Buckland when it became Macy's. Small world...
The way you pronounced salon actually changed the word lol. The way you said it is actually a type of room in a house in the old days. I'd completely forgotten the word had two meanings till you said it like that. Fun vid.
This hotel area is a heck of a lot older than is being said look at the T.V.'s , computers,tanning bed this place has not seen an up date since mid 80's or 90's i bet in it's hay day it is really something to behold. I still see some of the craftsmanship in the hotel's bedrooms. This place would be cool again if they gutted it and kept the shell and did something with it. I would have taken all those clothing and donated them to the Good Will or Salvation Army we have both in Statesboro Georgia and tons of Good Will's all over in south Georgia.
2010/2011: last year of usage... Doesn't surprise, but still always good to know. I think by now I've seen enough abandoned videos to where I can now guesstimate (within a forty year time span) around the last time a particular place had been vacant. For instance, in another ten years from now you can expect this same place to have more mold on the walls and ceilings, more broken glass windows, floors and staircases rotting away and on the verge of collapse... In another 20 years from now, you can expect entire ceilings and walls in certain areas to have fallen down completely, as well as extreme overgrown of the surrounding plants/vegetation making it's way in and around the building. It won't be pretty. But this is the natural effect of time and mother nature itself on abandoned places.
So the hair salon charged $55 for cut and color, that is dirt cheap even for 2010 prices considering they used Goldwell color brand which happens to be the best and most high end product in the hair industry! Wow!
Thats one of those places where it had to close due to building issues, now the place is going to be an eyesore because nobody wants to pay or has the cash to tear it down. Likely to be one of those places that just "caught fire" for some weird reason and went up in flames in like 3 mins.
that aculiey hapen i did reserch on it and finded out in nov 21 2020 it berned ta ground imma kid that loovveess xplorein and stuffs and watchn abandened vids and lernin bout histerie of em saadd it hapen tho i haattee losein histeriey 😭😢😭😭😭😥😥😥
I Think you should have had gloves on while go through there touching things. You never know what germs & fungus has grown in there that could make you sick. Stay safe
Dude, I don't know what you got going on in your vehicle but it looks like some scary serial killer car with restraints and tables with tools and secret hiding spots..........nah, just kidding, it's just normal looking car.
Barely 10 years ago and you couldn't even give those tv's away for free. If I were to loot anything out of there it would have to be a set of 4 or 5 door knobs that match those keys.
I worked there from 1987 to 1998, I still live in the valley.
Where is it
Hagensborg British Columbia. It’s not a Mall, it’s a hotel, bar, and restaurant, we don’t have any malls here.
May I ask what really happened? There's so many water damage but I don't know why. If it because of tornado or tsunami or soemting like that?
@@alihaydarcolak8534 After it was sold in the late 90’s early 2000’s it didn’t seem to do as well financially. I might have those dates wrong. In 2010 the flood finished it off.
@@jeanprins4332 I see. Also do you remember the cause of the flood? Was it thunders one or smth like that?
I used to live in the bay motor Hotel a long time ago!! You walked by my old room lol!
When I 1st moved down to Bella Coola I rented one of the rooms on a monthly basis until I found a place.
I can not believe how much it has deteriorated!!
When was “a long time ago”??? Circa?
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@Mark Westervelt i think they got mexicans to unload the store and chinese to clean it as well as do the laundry..... phillipean women took care of the woman who fell down and also help with bathrooms scrubbing and odd jobs.. mexicans then arranged things again with an indian interpretrer so thing were in order and right reading. Gavin newsom wanted to buy it but was told to recall how he knew nothing about how businesses run and get out..As he was wearing a mask he was offed as a burglary suspect by homeless people....
@@OverlandAlberta to bad it berned 😭
@@koolkid1702 ya....noticed it burned down a while ago. I am going to have to come down and visit the valley again sometime soon.
It's nice to see it hasn't been totally ransacked.
It was a hotel and restaurant when I was in high school. It was fine when I graduated, but when I came home, it became a thift store than it closes down.
Its ashamed that the building is run down.
I'm so glad you included the fact that this abandoned mall has abandoned stores inside. If you hadn't I would have fully expect this mall to be at 90% occupancy in the video and would have been outraged that it wasn't. Great work.
Hahaha. I love that this humour is sarcastic but not rude. My humour is similar. Thank you
This place shut down in 2010 due to heavy rain and flooding. Be thankful you filmed this when you did as it burned down a couple months later (nov 2020).
This is my home town, where I was born and raised. Lol. This is the old Bay Motor Hotel/Pub. Had great times in the pub and I loved their toonie Tuesdays in the restaurant. Burger n fries for $2. Been closed for many many years but others try use it for a thrift shop, hair salon, mini cafe but none went over too well.
so where the clothing was, was that the bar?
@toffeerado far left side of building was the pub. Center was restaurant, right side was hotel access, above pub was banquet room if I remember correctly
this was not a mall.
Right lmaoo it look more like a motel…
he said it's a hotel that's kinda like a mall in the very beginning lol
@Don Avan Remove your tampon....
who cares. at least he took the time to explore & post for us. it's a great video.
It's amazing that it was open for business in 2009 or 2010. The last 10 years haven't been too kind to the old building.
I have bedrooms that haven’t been used for 10yrs or more. I just dust & if I need it I put clean sheets on. That’s it. I guess they had some really bad damage. I do have some water damage in my bathroom but I’ll get to fix it one day ( when I win the lottery, powerball or lottery tickets ) I have one in each. Someone has to win and I saw a lovely old lady win a good amount of money on one game. Lol
These are always very interesting for me. When I was in High School some friends and I would explore very old abandoned houses. Great fun.
This was the Bay Motor Hotel. When Bella Coola flooded unfortunately the building was already starting to need major repairs and the flood did it in. No value to the property to sell. So it sits abandoned and rotting.
What caused the flooding, and when?
Thank you for the info I didn't have to go through a whole bunch of comments to figure out why it was abandoned. and you my good friend got the best comment award today cuz I was able to find out what I needed to real fast LOL
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Wow, for once it appears that most of the damage is through decay not vandalism, otherwise those tv 📺 sets and piles of crockery would be smashed, no graffiti, amazing, let’s hope nobody who sees this finds it and goes to destroy it. Thanks for the tour and the fashion store stop, incredible. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
You need to get a skeleton, go back and put it in the tanning bed.
Seriously lol. When he went to open that thing I had a millisecond of internal panic, thinking there was going to be a mummified corpse in there or something.
It's amazing that so much stuff was left behind. I guess it was covered by insurance so the owners/operators could just walk out.
Shore it up with a new foundation!
BC Ferries schedule and "Welcome to Port Hardy" booklets! On an island off Canada's BC coast, Port H ismuch at the mercy of rise-&-fall economic fortunes. Thank you for showing this once proud, now melancholy site.
Confirmed closed in 2011.
Great video. I really enjoy exploring and filming these places great find!
Always enjoy your videos, perhaps get a portable light for shooting the dark areas so you dont have to switch to B&W night mode!
Had a coffee in the coffee shop back in 2009....
I used to go there. Nice coffee shop and pub. Too many floods in Hagensborg did it in. Last summer had lunch with the former (?) owner who was visiting Gibsons, B.C.
They could have least donate the clothes to needy people WHAT a waste.
Idk that they would have accepted it. "Here's some clothes we ransacked from a flooded 2nd hand store..."
FIXTREME I think they meant before the place become a flooded second floor. Surely when the clothes was put there it wasn’t all moldy yet. Why they left it all there like that beats me. It what they could of done before it got to this point not what they should do with everything damaged now. Though some of the clothes might still be salvageable after a wash. Never know. Just dangerous to collect. I’m sure people in need don’t care where it came from if it’s actually wearable and doesn’t smell disgusting after a wash
I am sure someone can still donate it,can't someone just go fetch it,and donate it?
@@rouaanjewaskiewitz8331 Here's a dirty little secret of clothing donation, charities get more clothes then they know what to do with. A lot of it ends up getting donated to Africa and completely destroying the local textile industry.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/donated-clothing-where-it-ends-up-1.4662023
@@kutter_ttl6786 Ok,I am from south africa,and here they do also mess up stuff.
Need a drone to go where you are not safe to go. shoot even a go pro duck taped to a remote control car would have been good in there. Always trust your self preservation instincts.
For some reason when he gets to the word RUN on the floor, the game Left4Dead came to mind!
You move your camera around too fast and makes things blurry. Why do you call this a mall? It is a small resort.
It was not a resort. It was just a hotel and pub for many years. After the owner moved, some TRY put other small businesses in there but the damage was too far gone already.
1080p and likely 30fps... not the best for a clear video
꧁Cat G꧂ too damn bad miss question mark. Go do your own videos
It appears he slowed it down in some spots to show more detail. I think he does a fine job and I love it when he giggles, cracks me up!!
Agreed, on the camera movement. He should’ve filmed at 60fps or posted the video up at 60fps.
Its only a hotel so i wouldnt feel bad taking stuff. If it was a house forget it. But this! Hell yeah.
A follow up to the previous episode. Thank you host. What a shame that hotel, pub, clothing store, restaurant and coffee shop in Bella Coola had to end its businesses due to heavy rain destroying the complex. Sections of it could have been rebuilt for business to thrive in it again, but nature spoke otherwise to that mall.
The pipes froze and burst while a local was caring for the building after the doors shut and the owner moved away. It was for sale and then the province took it over. It had since burned to the ground and now we have beautiful scenery there.
Sad that this place went under. I like the rugged looking exterior. That kind of style looks good for a mall.
Cool place. Glad to see it was not graffitied all out. Clothes should have been donated to people in need.
This place has been flooded a few times, rotten mouldy, floated off foundation
I can't believe the amount of stuff that they just walked away from. Like the TVs, and the office Copier/Fax/Printer would have been a very expensive piece of hardware.
Stewart Thompson big copiers like that depreciate to $0 in about 5 years.
I would be more concerned about those perfectly good dishes left at the salon counter. I'm surprised they weren't taken out when they were told to vacate.
lol Big copiers are just like cars unless you take care of them and treat them like they're your babies. (latter part of that sentence is related to old collectible autos)
I wanted to see that menu you briefly picked up. Prices would have been interesting.
Dude, you have to move much slower. It makes it hard to watch without getting a headache.
waaaaaaa
Or nauseous.
Agreed
Wow , in reasonable good condition and NO Graffiti.
Oops, someone says it's in Bella Coola. Like Port H but smaller, also a sad and spellbinding site in the same island. Splendid history in this great area.
If this place was in the US, it would be full of graffiti and everything destroyed. Canadians are so nice.
Ah, why thank you. You’re so kind.🇨🇦
It woukd be a method lab
it catched on fire and berned few month after he did xploreatien
It's almost like people had to leave quickly. Keys in the door and clothes in rooms?
When you leave quickly, it's a sign of some demonic shit lol
Maybe a gas leak
It is a little disconcerting.
Also one room had “run” in letters on the floor, so I mean 😳
@@loniboni98 where??
ladies and gentlemen, we've created a combination motor lodge and shopping mall! First of it's kind!
Spared no expense!
Weird that it was abandoned but still has stuff in it.
I would have had to look through them clothes could have found something good 😂😂
I would have done the same Fluffy Cats.
Me too!!!!
glad u vidiod it bafore it berned down i loovvee watchn ur vidios
Sure that’s not a version of the hotel California ? You can check in but you can never leave, guests clothing ?
At night the owners of the clothing come back from the other side...
I'm so glad you didn't walk back there at 6:29. Wish you had a drone at that moment. To get to those unsafe places.
I was ready to see a body in that tanning machine!
Besides the natural decay this place is surprisingly intact, not much vandalism and the scrappers haven’t had it.
If this place was still Open in 2010/2011, it definitely looks like it would’ve been very dated.
It's in a super remote part of the country lol
I worked for May Co, in the 80s and 90s, before retail jobs became almost obsolete. I'm retired in Ct, after Filenes at the Danbury, CT Mall, went through the bankruptcy, May Co went out, and Federated Macys took over. People don't really shop at malls anymore.
@Sally Clay You worked in Filene's at Danbury Fair Mall? My ex girlfriend's mom worked at G. Fox and they wanted her to work there. (She worked at Hartford, Westfarms and Buckland). She retired from Buckland when it became Macy's.
Small world...
The way you pronounced salon actually changed the word lol.
The way you said it is actually a type of room in a house in the old days. I'd completely forgotten the word had two meanings till you said it like that. Fun vid.
This hotel area is a heck of a lot older than is being said look at the T.V.'s , computers,tanning bed this place has not seen an up date since mid 80's or 90's i bet in it's hay day it is really something to behold. I still see some of the craftsmanship in the hotel's bedrooms. This place would be cool again if they gutted it and kept the shell and did something with it. I would have taken all those clothing and donated them to the Good Will or Salvation Army we have both in Statesboro Georgia and tons of Good Will's all over in south Georgia.
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
There was a calendar hanging on the wall near the front desk. You scanned right past it.
I recognize the hair color chart. My wife used to sell that brand.
I worked forest fires in the valley in 2009. The next year they had floods, I believe. not sure if thats when the damage occurred.
Thanks for the tour! 😎
2010/2011: last year of usage... Doesn't surprise, but still always good to know. I think by now I've seen enough abandoned videos to where I can now guesstimate (within a forty year time span) around the last time a particular place had been vacant. For instance, in another ten years from now you can expect this same place to have more mold on the walls and ceilings, more broken glass windows, floors and staircases rotting away and on the verge of collapse... In another 20 years from now, you can expect entire ceilings and walls in certain areas to have fallen down completely, as well as extreme overgrown of the surrounding plants/vegetation making it's way in and around the building. It won't be pretty. But this is the natural effect of time and mother nature itself on abandoned places.
So the hair salon charged $55 for cut and color, that is dirt cheap even for 2010 prices considering they used Goldwell color brand which happens to be the best and most high end product in the hair industry! Wow!
The room with all the clothes was so crazy
You should go back and get that chandelier before it all fall apart ;)
btw love your vids keep em coming plz
I have the same tanning bed..still works.
I can’t believe some left their stroller!
well... he didn’t check alllll the rooms. 😳
Thats one of those places where it had to close due to building issues, now the place is going to be an eyesore because nobody wants to pay or has the cash to tear it down. Likely to be one of those places that just "caught fire" for some weird reason and went up in flames in like 3 mins.
that aculiey hapen i did reserch on it and finded out in nov 21 2020 it berned ta ground imma kid that loovveess xplorein and stuffs and watchn abandened vids and lernin bout histerie of em saadd it hapen tho i haattee losein histeriey
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You're making me dizzy!! Your camera lens set to auto focus cannot keep up with quick panning.
Looks so 90s it's retro wonder if the insurance paid out?I'm suprised they have
Not demolished it
Camera moving too fast bro👊🏼
Cat paw prints on the desk.
Reminds me of a certain abandoned mall in Akron OH that has since been demolished...
Diane Adkins-Diorio Rolling Acres!
Love the videos!
It looks spooky in there I keep waiting to hear something in the back ground
Soon to be a common sighting in Minneapolis
Appreciate what ya do bro 🇨🇦🇨🇦👊👊
I love the thought process. First floor is shit and can’t even walk on it.......let’s go to the second floor. 😂
Never disappointed with your content!
Coool vid....thanks ..
Cheers from Toronto Ontario
Dustin Iwatch many exp. channels and had bigger guys go and check things out on a spongey floor @6:25. But In all A good explore, Dustin!!!
I Think you should have had gloves on while go through there touching things. You never know what germs & fungus has grown in there that could make you sick. Stay safe
Seems like such a waste. 😞
That really is rather amazing
Water damage from above likely from a burst geyser.
I would’ve taken the Hannah Montana bag
Bill Williams what kind of dumb fuckery is that? It’s gay to have a bag of 2000s nostalgia “bill”
from what I could find this place is now completely destroyed by fire (Nov 2020)
Thank you for the Great video Daddy
Is it bad that I would took some nice clothes
Nah I'd have done the same😂
Shame some of that nice wood furniture could not be salvaged.
I love old buildings
Dude, I don't know what you got going on in your vehicle but it looks like some scary serial killer car with restraints and tables with tools and secret hiding spots..........nah, just kidding, it's just normal looking car.
Isn’t it his motor home?
Okay all you Darren' s and Karen's it wasn't really a "mall".
I thought it was a great video and I liked and subscribed.
Nick Hill lol thank you. Welcome and thanks for subscribing.
@@Destination_Adventure
Hey no problem.
When/ if I have time I want to watch your other videos.
Have a good one.
Place was torched and is gone now.
2:08 it would make me really uneasy if when I came out again it was gone! It would make me feel like 2:25 lol.
Yes. All those jobs r obsolete now. I was in retail, with May Co, 26 yrs.
Incredible Stuff, Things That Make You Go Hmm^^
This don’t look like a mall
Barely 10 years ago and you couldn't even give those tv's away for free. If I were to loot anything out of there it would have to be a set of 4 or 5 door knobs that match those keys.
You have to get a little robot to explore these buildings with bad floors like the drone for outdoor
Sorry one more post-- *slow, steady video pans* will reduce seasickness in the viewers.
Strange, this motel burned down 4 months after this video.
Perhaps all theclothing you found was "Lost and Found" of patrons who left them behind...
As all those clothes could've been donated to the homeless shelters
Karen I am sure that the clothing is no longer useable. After sitting that long it has mold and can not be salvaged.
there seems to be something wrong with your camera's focus every time you move it it seems to take a second to come clear again....
Just low light
@@Destination_Adventure Your panning too fast.
Did a sinkhole open up underneath part of it?
Why did you title it 'mall stores" merchandise still there.. so I seen was a broken down hotel
I would definitely be grabbing clothes