I don't understand why people don't want to go to malls anymore. I like trying on clothes, looking at products in person. I prefer going to malls especially for clothing since things fit so differently, I wanna buy stuff that fits the first time around and not have to worry about paying more for shipping. plus it's nice to get out of the house (not so much during the winter though lol)
I normally never leave comments on any channel, but I feel like I have to this time. I used to love going to the Galleria as a kid; was always a blast! Viewing footage of the interior gives off a HUGE sense of both nostalgic and melancholic emotions. I last visited this mall in 2018, 2019 and it was like walking in an eerie ghost town. It had such an immense dead feeling. The sense of a bygone era and how much that has radically changed since the Galleria's inception. Sad to see it go, but I'm thankful for the copious number of great memories I had at the Silver City Galleria. Cheers, Josh for making this video!
I never comment on videos either, but I had to cause I know this mall. I live about a half an hour away from it and I haven’t been there in years but last time I went it was so empty almost felt abandoned before it even was. Lol I got my first Saint Bernard there back in early 2000s. Crazy to see this on TH-cam
Used to live right down the street, walked there almost daily. Spent most of my teenage years here with friends. Way before metro pcs was an arcade that wrapped around that whole corner! The memories! Thanks Josh!
because its not actually abandoned... why tf would there be hoover boards just laying around still charged?? common sense says those would have been taken within a few days by people. why would homeless people sleep outside if there was some perfectly good mall with power and nothing stopping them from entering.... Think about it
The Mall Era was awesome!! It was a super fun time for myself and in the early 90's, man they were so fun to walk my kids around in their strollers. Getting photos in the photo booths that I cherish till this day!! The one in Phoenix, AZ called Metro Mall was a filming spot for Bill and Ted's excellent adventures. Before I moved there there was actually an ice skating rink in the mall. Then they put in an arcade and carousel. It was Rockin' in it's hayday!!! Thanks for bringing up all these great memories with this one Josh!!!
I live in Phoenix. I have most of my life. I’ve got so many memories from Metro Center and Christown malls it’s ridiculous. I still have the scar on the inside of my bottom lip from my toe pick caught on a chunk of ice the Zamboni driver missed and I face planted on the ice.
I miss the mall era…. I remember it dying right in front of me. I was 15-16 (I am 24 now), and little by little everyone stopped going to the mall! It was never full anymore, people got bored… my parents didn’t let me go until it was too late :(
I wish do bad I was born on the 80-90s to experience the fun and the roller skating era the mall era get the meet the famous rappers and singers when they were young and now it’s all online and it sucks so much😢 I would do anything to go back in time just to experience what you guys had, you guys are so lucky
Mall/shopping center culture in Australia is huge and it continues to grow every year. No matter what day of the week it is it's always full of people.
In Holland the malls are struggling. Even the ones in the biggest cities can have 40% empty space. Mind you, they can look busy but if staff, stock and energy is becoming expensive and because of Online shopping people buy 30% less each visit your mall might be struggling as well.
Wild how malls are now empty and some abandonded. When I was a kid in the 80s,every mall was packed and I would never have thought they would be like this. Our local mall has like 5 stores and 2 resturaunts left in it but will be demolished soon. Our other local mall,which made the news a couple months back due to a mass shooter incident,is actually still pretty busy.
All the malls near me are still extremely populated and it's almost impossible to find a parking spot nearby. I don't think the mall era is dying I think It was abandoned cause people were killed there, Not too sure but that's my guess
I used to live in Taunton back in 2009 till 2021. I spent a good chunk of my childhood shopping at the Galleria cause they had the Disney Store and the Build-a-Bear. But when those stores left the mall, you could visibly see the decline as stores left one by one. I loved going there just to walk around and see what stores had, especially the F.Y.E . It killed a part of me when I heard the mall finally closed down and was later demolished. I had the best memories there from going to the theaters in the back to shopping with family and friends....I'm sure gonna miss those times...The Galleria Mall meant a lot to me
When you visited the place when it was busy and with so many people, then you visit it when it is abandoned it brings back so many memories! Truly nostalgic as Josh said! Here in Portugal, my childhood mall has been abandoned for almost 10 years and everytime I see videos/photos of urban explorers that went there these days I get really nostalgic, so I get the feeling!
10 years ago I don't think Amazon was that popular here in Portugal, today Amazon is very popular worldwide, including Portugal as well, but back in the day not so much. From my research my childhood mall closed due to bad management decisions from the owners, then the owners had to file bankruptcy and they had to close everything
Silver City opened in March, during my senior year in high school. I still remember the hiring fair they held over the summer of 1991 and standing in line for hours to get in. Never got a job there, but many of my high school classmates did. I spent so much time there between 1992-1993, back when the mall was the place to be (and pretty much the only place worth going to in the area). Its surreal seeing it so empty.
Man, this was so tough to watch. My grandmother passed away last year and we used to come here often in the 90's as kids. My most clear and favorite memory was going to the food court after a day of being dragged around everywhere in the mall lol. They had tables right near the huge wall to ceiling glass window and it was such a nice view if you could snag seats there. Especially on a clear and sunny day. Going into Gamestop and rushing because my Grandmother had no interest in being there lol. Checking out the puppies at the pet store and the fish at that aquatic store. My cousin tried bonding with me one day and brought me there to hang out. Always appreciated that so it stood in my memory. Oh and don't forget the massive bungie bounce thing they had where you guys were hover boarding. I was always too scared to try it lol. The last clip was gut wrenching for me and made me very uneasy. My mind kept relating it to my grandmothers death and it kind of choked me up. Thank you for this though. It was beautiful to watch and reminisce.
ah… my childhood mall! idk how this came across my feed but i was STUNNED. this was a nice little trip of nostalgia. used to be obsessed with sarku japan!
Coming from someone who is from and currently lives in Taunton this actually makes me so happy to see. I used to go this mall almost every weekend and to see it one last time explored by one of my favorite TH-camrs is literally surreal. Wow.
I remember going to this mall with one of my uncles and one of my cousins when I was a kid! So weird to see it all empty and abandoned. Thanks for the vid!
This is so wild… this video legit brought me back countless Friday and Saturdays nights. I could name almost every store front as you walked by them miss that place now it’s completely gone and just a flat piece of land
Wow... that last clip is insane. The actual destruction of the place is something I don't usually see on your channel. Hits hard right after I just saw you walking the halls of the place! Great vid josh! I've been a subscriber for I don't know how long anymore and I am never dissappointed. Please keep it pushing!
In my day the Mall was the big and only thing to do and go hangout. Now the one's we had are all shut down but one it's still open and really only seems to be extremely busy during the Christmas season. Miss those days. Thanks Josh brings back great memories!
I used to live near there and remember when it was active and when it closed. It is crazy to see that beautiful building once bustling with activity so ghostly looking. Thank you for bringing back such amazing memories.
Man it must be surreal to walk in an abandoned mall in a town you grew up in. I can’t imagine. It reminds me of a mall I went to recently in Minnesota called Burnsville Center I believe it’s called but that’s got a lot of closed shops too just a still operating food court and a skate area to do skateboarding trick in and maybe a handful of stores open there. Thanks for sharing Josh I appreciate and always enjoy watching your videos! ❤😊👏🏻👊🏻🙏🏻
I think the problem with closing malls and markets and such for the "convenience" of shopping from your home will eventually make people pay for that convenience by upping prices, and since they won't have any other choice they will be stuck with those prices, you know? Awesome video, really neat to see normally busy places empty like that, very eerie, very backrooms.
Sadly, online shopping (depending on product) you can optimize distribution. You don't have to pay space for something people not willing to buy ( for example I once walk into a bag shop, with some bags are actually out of production and the online store already sold it out at 70% off, yet the shop still selling it at full price. Also with so much online shopping, the numbers reduced the cost of shipping - I still remember the cost of mail order for something you just can't get locally. Some trends just caught on. I always wonder what will happen to food orders / delivery (other than fast food) once there is no more lock-down. Actually it was super busy. I went to my favorites' restaurant and the online order machine kept on ringing. Oh well.
Aww Josh, I grew up at this mall as well. Taunton native. I could tell from your accent we grew up around the same area. I miss this mall so much, it was my childhood. Nothing was ever the same after that attack, I had some friends that were at the mall when it happened. It's too bad. Countless memories there. I'm glad you did this before they tore it down. I always wondered what brand the escalators were as I now work on elevators and escalators. I moved away since, but every time I went back to visit my family, I always loved doing a lap around the mall with my mom. The last few years before they tore it down, we'd just drive up to see it shut down. It's tough to watch your hometown change so much while you're off living life somewhere else. Thank you for this nice nostalgic Saturday morning.
Normally don’t comment but I live 30 minutes away from this mall had a lot of great memory’s bought my first ever smartphone here at the old Best Buy ! Love the content 👍
Im so glad you went there and vlogged your journey of history, it sucks they demolished, they seriously could have turned it into something else, a sanctuary for the homeless or something
Excellent video, Lads. It is so gutting to see such a nice mall shut and latre be destroyed. Not everyone likes shopping online, especially for clothes or other items where size and fit is involved. What few times I have bought anything online, I either have difficulty with shipment or never receive the item at all.
I don't like online shopping because I'm in between clothing sizes and my curves on my body are just shaped differently so I love shopping in person. It's sad to see malls become abandoned and unused because online shopping is becoming more popular. I'm glad you get to show us this mall and it is weird that it's open and there's electricity and I feel bad for the guy who has to be there at the Regal theater by himself. Anyways I wish malls wouldn't become dead. Also I do love the dead Mall series you're referring to with Dan Bell. Thanks for this video, it was great.
I remember travelling to setup that Round 1 location. By the point Round 1 made it in, it was very obvious the mall was on it's way out and most of the install team was shocked by the decision to open a location in that far gone of a mall. With the exception of the Round 1 Russia location, I believe that was the fastest Round 1 to close (4 years after opening?) in the companies' history.
My mall here in MT is slowly dying to, it's a popular mall in town but when the areas around the mall like the Movie Theatre I use to go to with my family is now abandoned or shut down and left behind it really does bring your inner child out and just wish you were still in the glory days before they became glory days.. hate getting old in this new world even though I'm 26.. just feels like the world is moving/evolving to fast when you notice it.
In the 90s the mall I went to was everything they had arcades they had such a big candy store that lined the whole wall from top to bottom! My friends and I would hang out till almost closing time this is so nostalgic 💕
I worked at a candy store in a mall. It wasn’t a job I wanted to keep forever but it brought me joy to give candy to everyone passing by and giving them as treats and gifts. And the way they decorated the mall was just incredible
shopping at the mall gives off a emotion i can’t explain. i don’t get why people like to online shop. i like shopping online too, but honestly shopping at the mall is better because you can do it with your friends and there’s so many things to look at.
THIS IS MY MALL!! I live in Taunton, actually my son worked at Journey's when that happened at Bertucci's. This is so crazy, I knew you live/lived around me when I saw your Freetown video. That mall is demolished now, you can't even go in the parking lot. They were going to put apartments there or the casino but plans fell through i guess. God, lots of memories there. Thanks Josh
that's so cool! i remember going to an abandoned school next to my high school during periods/classes i didn't like or after school (obviously inspired by you, sam and colby, and seth) ♥️
What you were mentioning at the end makes sense, like in the last few years there's been a combination of things contributing to the decline of malls....But it isn't happening equally everywhere. In my area there is a mega popular, huge mall, it's always SUPER busy, and I try not to come on the weekends cause it's just too chaotic and packed...It's becoming more and more a luxury mall tho, so I guess richer people can afford to buy nice things more often, I wish there were more affordable stores there, and there's a movie theatre there too, it's not super busy anymore, but I think it's slowly coming back to life since lockdowns are over. Then we have another mall, it's been like a ghost town for years, because they were turning it into this "Amazing" shopping complex on the outside, meanwhile most people couldn't easily get access to the original mall, AND then COVID hit as well...So the original mall has almost no stores left, meanwhile the new area outside is booming with all fancy restaurants and fancy stores....The food court inside got completely gutted and they built a brand new food court with only luxury eateries... 😐 I want to eat there but it's all so expensive. It's kind of a weird mall that's still undergoing it's transformation....A combination of ghost town and modern luxury together ..You'd have to see it to believe it lol
I have said it, and will say it again here. This it literally like walking in a real life Liminal space, especially the nostalgic/familiar Regal Cinema lobby. Its like stepping back in time through long lost memories. You can make so many photos and turn them into the "oddly familiar places" photo compilational videos you see online. Your doing Gods work exploring into our past, thank you guys.
These are my favorite types of videos you do 🥰 Your content never disappoints 👏🙂 Ps. The Travel Channel should give you your own tv show on exploring abandoned places and talking about the history on them.🤩
I grew up in Taunton and spent many hours in that mall! It feels so weird to see it so empty, and surreal to see it demolished. The pizza place was a Bertucci's at one time.
im bout to tear up because of this, i used to go to taunton mall ever since with my parents, thanks for sharing this, used to go there every darn week just to look at things. i hope it reopens again so me my parents and my sister can go back there. gosh dang those were the memories. This really breaks me, since they actually demolished that silver city galleria. my lord.
Omg this is my childhood mall!!! I used to go here all the time, so sad it closed down it used to have so much spirit, especially during Christmas time. I live like 15 minutes away from taunton so silver Galleria was a go to. I remember hearing about the stabbing and was devastated, and it started to get empty after that. I also remember playing in the little play area when I was around 5-6ish years old. I miss this place it was like a second home in a way. So sad it got torn down, this is really bringing back the memories for me, thank you for showing this mall Josh.
That's exactly what comes to mind when I think of this place man. Christmas time. Going there with your giftcards after Christmas because it had the best selection of stores in the area (before Providence Place). I remember going there towards the end of it's life span and I knew it was dying because the food court was completely empty. It was sad.
@@d3stinyy14 Yeah my mom actually worked in that mall for a while and we did visit on occasion. Sucks to see all these places shutting down and most kids not being able to experience one unlesd they travel.
I miss the silver city galleria as well as the swansea mall I grew up living in dighton the town next door from Taunton so sad to see 🙈! Love your videos 🖤🤍🖤
I had my BarberShop right here with the metal grates. ----> 6:21 (Thank You so much for sharing this video! I have so many great memories at this Mall.
Silver city was my favorite mall growing up. I used to go here every half day of school with my friend and his mom. I remember this mall had 2 Gamestops, back when Gamestop was worth visiting. I pass by this empty lot everyday going to work and I always reminisce the good times I had going to this mall. Thank you for doing a video of this mall. It gave me goosebumps watching the whole video.
Awesome video! I am totally surprised that the mall is closed, yet still open. I would have thought that the management would have walled off around the theater and the entrance next to it so you couldn't get into the mall. Around 3.04 when you were pointing out stores, the store next to Metro PCS, the store with the yellow display window would have been Electronics Boutique, a predecessor to Gamestop. Unfortunately, this mall gives me insight into what Oakview Mall in Omaha, Nebraska will look like in a few years. Sadness.
This is such a moving video. You guys definitely brought life into the past and present of this mall. The reminiscing just makes one feel like the mall is still alive. Well done :)
All the explores, you all are aware that if these devices truly work then only demons presents these will show. For no human Spirit stays "ghosting" on earth realms. After death: Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Meaning: Saved souls shall go into ABRAHAM`S BOSOM and unsaved into hell, for these 2 are holding places for the departed human SPIRITS. Only ones who “ghost” in this realm without body is the evil spirits: Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
waitttt .. i knew you were from massachusetts but i didn’t know we both went to the same mall during our childhoods 🤪 it hits differently seeing places abandoned when it’s somewhere you spent a lot of time at 😩
When I used to live in Buffalo NY, one of the malls we'd go to was the Walden Galleria. One of the biggest reasons it survived is it's location. It's surrounded by a major city and large suburbs. The majority of the stores are clothing and shoes with several restaurants and an indoor go kart track.
I just wanna let you know I appreciate you coming here. Immedietly I was hit with a wave of nostalgia. When I was younger I remember going to regal, bounce, and the food court to eat before leaving. This was with my family when I was little. :)
Comparing to other malls in the area (South Shore Plaza Braintree, Westgate Mall Brockton, Northshore Mall, etc.) I found it nicer than any of the above mentioned. I remember first going there in about 2017 and had gone a few times after that before it ultimately closed. Every time you went in there were less and less stores. Sad to see malls becoming a thing of the past, they’re a way to get out of the house.
Technology advancement is amazing in its own way, but it has some repercussions to it. Unfortunately places where people gather and actually interact and have fun hanging out are slowly going away. The mall I used to go to is still going strong, but who knows how long that'll last.
The thing is, I like shopping online because you don’t have to do anything, but going to a mall brings back my childhood nostalgia, and I love trying the food courts. Edit: I loved the mall era and it was so fun going to the mall.
Really enjoy your videos. Love the background stories. Yes, I do remember spending time at the malls during junior high and high school. At lot of good memories. It just so sad to see these vibrant places shut down. Take care and stay safe!
This is beautiful. It's not vandalised or anything, it looks pretty fresh like its about to open. It feels sad that society is going to forgot about thos place and it will be probably ruined. Would make a cool place to a new mall or a museum about it.
Malls in my country are thriving post-Covid, and even continue to grow and expand more. We're not lazy to go out and buy stuff 🙄 We only do online shopping if some stuff could not be found in our malls. We will never let go of Malls no matter how much technology tries to change the way we live. Sometimes, you go to the mall not just to shop. But to dine, watch movies, have fun in recreational centers, or just hangout with family and friends. Like an indoor park.
Who goes to the mall first to then buy it online?? If it's more convenient and don't wanna drive there (because you can't get anywhere in America without driving) you just buy it online to not waste time.
@@w花b We do. And the rest of the world isn't "in America" buddy. If you prefer buying it online to not waste your time and too lazy to move your lazy ass, then that's your call. You do you
I'm not going to any malls in large cities. Too much risk of getting shot, robbed, carjacked, threatened by thugs ect. Shopping online in my home is safe and comfortable.
There is one mall in my town that closed down in my town except for a few offices. I remember going there in the 90s. Another mall in my town is on the verge of dying. It’s a small mall to begin with and in the last few months alone 4 stores moved over into the Target shopping center. So overall that mall now is a little more than half full. The Target shopping center is now the main shopping place in my area. That and the Wal-Mart shopping center.
I remember going to this mall years ago, maybe a few months before the stabbing. I only really went there a handful of times since I didn't live near it and other malls and shopping centers were closer (I didn't live in Massachusetts, just one of the surrounding states), but it's so surreal seeing it abandoned, and it's sad that eventually other malls I grew up going to will end up the same, some sooner than most.
im icelandic and here malls are well alive but its a diff feeling- but just props to josh for giving the mall the respect, the history and going into detail what happened and how it ended!! quality video
Pretty sad seeing the decline of malls and large shopping complexes like this. I understand the convenience of ordering things from the comfort of your home, but for me I still prefer the experience of going to physical locations, wandering around said retail sites and looking at the goods on shelves Still have many fond memories in the 2000s visiting The Metro Centre, the biggest mall local to me and while that place is still strong, it likely won't last forever
10:21 I think that was a CD store! FYE I'm pretty sure. I'm having so many memories with this video, thank you Josh! This was my go-to place when I would hang out with friends.
Thank you Josh for taking us on this journey on the Abandon mall where you live. This is interesting and thank you for taking us alone. Love your videos and content.❤❤❤❤
I remember in the 90s walking right into the food court lots of people ordering food at different places and there was an arcade near by went to look at the games and they had a goosebumps episode playing in there too. So nostalgic malls can be
So weird seeing people talk about “mall era” and at the same time so sad seeing that online shopping is doing this to America.. Got very sad when I saw the news clips too, it must be so hard always feeling on guard no matter where you go. I live in Norway and malls is like super normal here. We have online shopping too, but we also still go to mall and do our shopping 😅 We are also safe while doing it, shootings and stabbing and so on isn’t normal here and not something that happens a lot, like, never
Oh goodness, yeah, now you have me thinking. I don't know why I hadn't put any connection between mass killings and the decline in shopping malls. They line up so well.
Thank you for this video. I have so many memories of going to this mall as a kid and even into my teenage years. My family and I loved going to bertuccis, and we actually ate there the day before the attack happened. I was eating my leftovers when I saw the story on the news. Hadn’t been there since going to round1 with some friends in 2019 which was fun, it’s a shame that it couldn’t have stuck around. It was sad to see how dark and dead the interior of the mall was though. So much nostalgia here
Made me think of the old mall I used to go to. Carousel Mall in California. They have been trying to demolish it for a while because of crime and accidents happening there. Definitely wouldn’t look this good though 😅 Awesome job Josh!
Thanks so much for the history and backstory on this place. Im really amazed this place wasnt trashed or damaged. It really is sad and eerie. Thanks for showing the place such respect.
You know you were raised in the 90's when you asked your mom or dad to drop you and your friends off at the mall for the day on weekends, so you could meet up with a group of girls/guys. It was our way of going out on dates back then, or being able to hangout with your Middle School crush outside of school. It was either going to the mall for a weekend day, or going to the neighborhood theatre, or if you were lucky, you were able to do both on the weekend lol. Such a nostalgic feeling!
Can't forget the Roller Rink every Friday night! 🛼 Went there every Friday night from 6th grade up to 8th grade. Did A LOT of my "firsts" at that Rink... 🤣 Still remember the name... Ambassador Skate Rink located in Clawson, Michigan. I'll NEVER forget that place! Brings back so many good memories with my childhood friends. Grew up playing Roller Hockey there on the off season of Ice Hockey. Sadly, the family that owned it had to sell it a couple years after I got into High School... Now it's some huge ass furniture store. I still get those nostalgic feelings from back in the day whenever I drive by it... GOOD TIMES!
@@cutiedopo17 You need to understand that going to the mall 90's wasn't the same as you the youngins growing up after 2000. What I'm trying to say is that we didn't phone in Middle School like they do now and between 2000-2010. We used to have to memorize 50 to a 100 numbers of our friends and family due to us only having landlines. We'd have to set up a time and place in the mall with the girl group we were tryin to kick it with. We couldn't just call them when we got to the mall and see where they were at or if they were still on their way. It was WAY different back then, and so were the Malls! All I'm saying, is that I like to look back and remember those nostalgic times at the Mall and the Roller Rink back in the 90's.
This mall was a big part of my life. My home town. So cool yet sad to see it in this video. Many many great memories. I probably still have clothes I bought there. LoL So glad it's you though Josh to be showing it. My kids and I watched you all the time. Taunton is known as the Christmas city if you didn't know for its great displays in the center of town called "The Green"
I've heard that there thinking of closing our mall for good here in Bristol the UK. It's a real shame many people don't want it to close. I heard they were going to demolish the mall to build flats and houses. I'm so sad. Because I spent many hours shopping there. 😰
The malls in the 80's was a blast before the age of electronics. This and the skating rink was what we did. Pool halls and clubs for kids started opening up in the late 80's and early 90's. Hanging out in the malls in the game rooms and food court was how you spent your weekends meeting up with other kids. Kids don't do anything these days they don't even leave their houses. The internet has ruined everything I hate it!
I went to a mall in Florida it was open but looked abandoned there were not many stores most of them where closed some lights where off and the parking lot was so empty it’s very sad to see all the malls slowly leave if people would just bring them back 😭 I remember when I was younger I would go to get a build a bear it was on of my favorite things when I would walk by the stores and look at everything in the windows I miss it so much :(
Being from Mass I loved going to the Galleria mall, 15 minute drive if that. Was sad when I found out the mall was being closed and later demolished. Cool to be able to watch this and get the feel of it again, thanks for this.
Great job josh I'm a big fan!!!!! It's interesting how times change an what becomes abandoned these days. It's sad really on places like these will either be torn down or let nature take over. How times change. Great watching you as always JOSH ❤
I have nightmares about malls for years now and I don’t know why because I didn’t go that often to them and I had no traumatic experiences in one.🤷🏻♀️ My dreams are usually about getting lost in endless malls(which never happened) but in reality I wouldn’t go to them now because I really don’t like crowds but I do have fond memories of going when I was little and going to those stores that were all toys like KB TOYS and stuff those were so cool. P.S. the empty parking lot facing the mall gives off such Stranger Things season 3 vibes. I would have watched an episode of stranger things in there if I were you but I’m weird.
I don't understand why people don't want to go to malls anymore. I like trying on clothes, looking at products in person. I prefer going to malls especially for clothing since things fit so differently, I wanna buy stuff that fits the first time around and not have to worry about paying more for shipping. plus it's nice to get out of the house (not so much during the winter though lol)
I think they are busy😆
Because people are lazy.
I think this is happening mostly in US, I mean many malls are getting closed.
I think because of new generation.
Unlike when 80s 90 2000s . MTV years
The owners of the mall leaving power on and stocking the vending machine etc is actually really nice.
The rats get hungry
they had a round 1 activity place right outisde and that entrence they went into for the mall was for the movie theatre they still had up those stairs
I normally never leave comments on any channel, but I feel like I have to this time. I used to love going to the Galleria as a kid; was always a blast! Viewing footage of the interior gives off a HUGE sense of both nostalgic and melancholic emotions. I last visited this mall in 2018, 2019 and it was like walking in an eerie ghost town. It had such an immense dead feeling. The sense of a bygone era and how much that has radically changed since the Galleria's inception. Sad to see it go, but I'm thankful for the copious number of great memories I had at the Silver City Galleria. Cheers, Josh for making this video!
I never comment on videos either, but I had to cause I know this mall. I live about a half an hour away from it and I haven’t been there in years but last time I went it was so empty almost felt abandoned before it even was. Lol I got my first Saint Bernard there back in early 2000s. Crazy to see this on TH-cam
Wich county or like city or place is this mall at
@@Demonslayer00786 taunton, massachusetts
ME tooooooooo!!!!!
Same I always would visit GameStop and other stores
Used to live right down the street, walked there almost daily. Spent most of my teenage years here with friends. Way before metro pcs was an arcade that wrapped around that whole corner! The memories! Thanks Josh!
really cool mall. Its weird that theres no vandalism and is really easy to get inside and still has power it doesnt feel abandoned at all.
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Lol I be wondering who is paying the light bill on these abandoned buildings. Why waste money like that? Lol.
because its not actually abandoned...
why tf would there be hoover boards just laying around still charged?? common sense says those would have been taken within a few days by people.
why would homeless people sleep outside if there was some perfectly good mall with power and nothing stopping them from entering.... Think about it
The Mall Era was awesome!! It was a super fun time for myself and in the early 90's, man they were so fun to walk my kids around in their strollers. Getting photos in the photo booths that I cherish till this day!! The one in Phoenix, AZ called Metro Mall was a filming spot for Bill and Ted's excellent adventures. Before I moved there there was actually an ice skating rink in the mall. Then they put in an arcade and carousel. It was Rockin' in it's hayday!!! Thanks for bringing up all these great memories with this one Josh!!!
We hung out at Metro Center Mall every weekend in 1990.
I live in Phoenix. I have most of my life. I’ve got so many memories from Metro Center and Christown malls it’s ridiculous. I still have the scar on the inside of my bottom lip from my toe pick caught on a chunk of ice the Zamboni driver missed and I face planted on the ice.
Here in the Philippines we still have big malls,you can visit mam
I miss the mall era…. I remember it dying right in front of me. I was 15-16 (I am 24 now), and little by little everyone stopped going to the mall! It was never full anymore, people got bored… my parents didn’t let me go until it was too late :(
I wish do bad I was born on the 80-90s to experience the fun and the roller skating era the mall era get the meet the famous rappers and singers when they were young and now it’s all online and it sucks so much😢 I would do anything to go back in time just to experience what you guys had, you guys are so lucky
Mall/shopping center culture in Australia is huge and it continues to grow every year. No matter what day of the week it is it's always full of people.
Yep so true! ❤
That's true, and boxing day yesterday was just plainly exhausting due to overcrowded. So yeah, totally agreed!
Same in the UK. Shopping centres continue to be popular.
Bro in Australia we don’t call it a mall we call it a shopping centre
In Holland the malls are struggling. Even the ones in the biggest cities can have 40% empty space.
Mind you, they can look busy but if staff, stock and energy is becoming expensive and because of Online shopping people buy 30% less each visit your mall might be struggling as well.
Wild how malls are now empty and some abandonded. When I was a kid in the 80s,every mall was packed and I would never have thought they would be like this. Our local mall has like 5 stores and 2 resturaunts left in it but will be demolished soon. Our other local mall,which made the news a couple months back due to a mass shooter incident,is actually still pretty busy.
you live in omaha? this sounds like where i live
@@KoltenE46 nope,even worse...Indiana
@@MrMeek79 haha lol
All the malls near me are still extremely populated and it's almost impossible to find a parking spot nearby. I don't think the mall era is dying I think It was abandoned cause people were killed there, Not too sure but that's my guess
Merriville by chance???
I used to live in Taunton back in 2009 till 2021. I spent a good chunk of my childhood shopping at the Galleria cause they had the Disney Store and the Build-a-Bear. But when those stores left the mall, you could visibly see the decline as stores left one by one. I loved going there just to walk around and see what stores had, especially the F.Y.E . It killed a part of me when I heard the mall finally closed down and was later demolished. I had the best memories there from going to the theaters in the back to shopping with family and friends....I'm sure gonna miss those times...The Galleria Mall meant a lot to me
There’s something enchanting to see this place completely empty knowing it’s horrific story..the vibe is so..intriguing
When you visited the place when it was busy and with so many people, then you visit it when it is abandoned it brings back so many memories! Truly nostalgic as Josh said!
Here in Portugal, my childhood mall has been abandoned for almost 10 years and everytime I see videos/photos of urban explorers that went there these days I get really nostalgic, so I get the feeling!
amazon thats why
10 years ago I don't think Amazon was that popular here in Portugal, today Amazon is very popular worldwide, including Portugal as well, but back in the day not so much. From my research my childhood mall closed due to bad management decisions from the owners, then the owners had to file bankruptcy and they had to close everything
Haha Portuguese. Gotta be from the area
Whats the name of the mall?
You speak damn good English for being from Portugal!!
So pumped someone managed to get in there and document things before it was torn down!
Silver City opened in March, during my senior year in high school. I still remember the hiring fair they held over the summer of 1991 and standing in line for hours to get in. Never got a job there, but many of my high school classmates did. I spent so much time there between 1992-1993, back when the mall was the place to be (and pretty much the only place worth going to in the area). Its surreal seeing it so empty.
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Man, this was so tough to watch. My grandmother passed away last year and we used to come here often in the 90's as kids. My most clear and favorite memory was going to the food court after a day of being dragged around everywhere in the mall lol. They had tables right near the huge wall to ceiling glass window and it was such a nice view if you could snag seats there. Especially on a clear and sunny day.
Going into Gamestop and rushing because my Grandmother had no interest in being there lol. Checking out the puppies at the pet store and the fish at that aquatic store. My cousin tried bonding with me one day and brought me there to hang out. Always appreciated that so it stood in my memory.
Oh and don't forget the massive bungie bounce thing they had where you guys were hover boarding. I was always too scared to try it lol.
The last clip was gut wrenching for me and made me very uneasy. My mind kept relating it to my grandmothers death and it kind of choked me up.
Thank you for this though. It was beautiful to watch and reminisce.
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R.I.P💟
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RIP
I FEEL YEAH, we had to stop going when my daughter turned 5 cause of school/work, since we lived on the Cape. SILVER CITY MALL WAS THE BEST.
ah… my childhood mall! idk how this came across my feed but i was STUNNED. this was a nice little trip of nostalgia. used to be obsessed with sarku japan!
OH AND I DIDN’T FINISH THE VIDEO WHEN I COMMENTED AND SAW IT WAS DESTROYED! WILD!! 😢
Coming from someone who is from and currently lives in Taunton this actually makes me so happy to see. I used to go this mall almost every weekend and to see it one last time explored by one of my favorite TH-camrs is literally surreal. Wow.
I remember going to this mall with one of my uncles and one of my cousins when I was a kid! So weird to see it all empty and abandoned. Thanks for the vid!
Welcome!
That's sad you have a memories there.
@@wrongtiming8837 yeah...
Must feel weird bro
Can't get over how calming Josh's voice is.. Love this video sooo much. More abandoned malls to the people 🍻
This is so wild… this video legit brought me back countless Friday and Saturdays nights. I could name almost every store front as you walked by them miss that place now it’s completely gone and just a flat piece of land
Watching the Mall get demolished made my heart sink a little. So much history within those walls just gutted and erased. 💔
OMG THIS IS SO INTERESTING! I recently explored my first abandoned place! It was so fun and wished I could do more bigger places!
Exploring is fun, but be careful.
What did you explore?
That sounds fun. If you don't mind sharing, what place did you explore?
@@Jason_Phillips3679yes, there's rules like don't steal anything, don't vandalise, don't destroy anything and most importantly DON'T.GET.CAUGHT
@@Randomemail1what if u get caught?
Wow... that last clip is insane. The actual destruction of the place is something I don't usually see on your channel. Hits hard right after I just saw you walking the halls of the place! Great vid josh! I've been a subscriber for I don't know how long anymore and I am never dissappointed. Please keep it pushing!
In my day the Mall was the big and only thing to do and go hangout. Now the one's we had are all shut down but one it's still open and really only seems to be extremely busy during the Christmas season. Miss those days. Thanks Josh brings back great memories!
It’s so sad to see so many malls falling apart weather it’s shutting down so many open spaces or just bad stores in general within
Me and my sister went to this mall back in 2018 around July and we both loved it! 💜
I used to live near there and remember when it was active and when it closed. It is crazy to see that beautiful building once bustling with activity so ghostly looking. Thank you for bringing back such amazing memories.
Man it must be surreal to walk in an abandoned mall in a town you grew up in. I can’t imagine. It reminds me of a mall I went to recently in Minnesota called Burnsville Center I believe it’s called but that’s got a lot of closed shops too just a still operating food court and a skate area to do skateboarding trick in and maybe a handful of stores open there. Thanks for sharing Josh I appreciate and always enjoy watching your videos! ❤😊👏🏻👊🏻🙏🏻
I'm from MN. I agree it's so sad. I'm just waiting for the MOA to go bankrupt. 😭 I hope it doesn't happen.
I think the problem with closing malls and markets and such for the "convenience" of shopping from your home will eventually make people pay for that convenience by upping prices, and since they won't have any other choice they will be stuck with those prices, you know? Awesome video, really neat to see normally busy places empty like that, very eerie, very backrooms.
Sadly, online shopping (depending on product) you can optimize distribution. You don't have to pay space for something people not willing to buy ( for example I once walk into a bag shop, with some bags are actually out of production and the online store already sold it out at 70% off, yet the shop still selling it at full price.
Also with so much online shopping, the numbers reduced the cost of shipping - I still remember the cost of mail order for something you just can't get locally.
Some trends just caught on. I always wonder what will happen to food orders / delivery (other than fast food) once there is no more lock-down. Actually it was super busy. I went to my favorites' restaurant and the online order machine kept on ringing.
Oh well.
Aww Josh, I grew up at this mall as well. Taunton native. I could tell from your accent we grew up around the same area. I miss this mall so much, it was my childhood. Nothing was ever the same after that attack, I had some friends that were at the mall when it happened. It's too bad. Countless memories there. I'm glad you did this before they tore it down. I always wondered what brand the escalators were as I now work on elevators and escalators. I moved away since, but every time I went back to visit my family, I always loved doing a lap around the mall with my mom. The last few years before they tore it down, we'd just drive up to see it shut down. It's tough to watch your hometown change so much while you're off living life somewhere else. Thank you for this nice nostalgic Saturday morning.
Normally don’t comment but I live 30 minutes away from this mall had a lot of great memory’s bought my first ever smartphone here at the old Best Buy ! Love the content 👍
Im so glad you went there and vlogged your journey of history, it sucks they demolished, they seriously could have turned it into something else, a sanctuary for the homeless or something
I hope more malls are turning into homeless shelters or apartments or schools. Instead of tearing them down
Excellent video, Lads. It is so gutting to see such a nice mall shut and latre be destroyed. Not everyone likes shopping online, especially for clothes or other items where size and fit is involved. What few times I have bought anything online, I either have difficulty with shipment or never receive the item at all.
I don't like online shopping because I'm in between clothing sizes and my curves on my body are just shaped differently so I love shopping in person. It's sad to see malls become abandoned and unused because online shopping is becoming more popular. I'm glad you get to show us this mall and it is weird that it's open and there's electricity and I feel bad for the guy who has to be there at the Regal theater by himself. Anyways I wish malls wouldn't become dead. Also I do love the dead Mall series you're referring to with Dan Bell. Thanks for this video, it was great.
Not to mention you can get scammed online.
@@Corgipon yes and that's another reason why in person shopping is good too.
I remember travelling to setup that Round 1 location. By the point Round 1 made it in, it was very obvious the mall was on it's way out and most of the install team was shocked by the decision to open a location in that far gone of a mall. With the exception of the Round 1 Russia location, I believe that was the fastest Round 1 to close (4 years after opening?) in the companies' history.
My mall here in MT is slowly dying to, it's a popular mall in town but when the areas around the mall like the Movie Theatre I use to go to with my family is now abandoned or shut down and left behind it really does bring your inner child out and just wish you were still in the glory days before they became glory days.. hate getting old in this new world even though I'm 26.. just feels like the world is moving/evolving to fast when you notice it.
In the 90s the mall I went to was everything they had arcades they had such a big candy store that lined the whole wall from top to bottom! My friends and I would hang out till almost closing time this is so nostalgic 💕
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@@xArea4x Hey 👋 😄
I miss the old Karcher Mall in Nampa Idaho from the 70s. It had so many cool things youll never see anymore.
I worked at a candy store in a mall. It wasn’t a job I wanted to keep forever but it brought me joy to give candy to everyone passing by and giving them as treats and gifts. And the way they decorated the mall was just incredible
shopping at the mall gives off a emotion i can’t explain. i don’t get why people like to online shop. i like shopping online too, but honestly shopping at the mall is better because you can do it with your friends and there’s so many things to look at.
I remember going in that entrance countless times as a kid in the summer heat. It’s so sad to see all the malls around here go away
THIS IS MY MALL!! I live in Taunton, actually my son worked at Journey's when that happened at Bertucci's. This is so crazy, I knew you live/lived around me when I saw your Freetown video. That mall is demolished now, you can't even go in the parking lot. They were going to put apartments there or the casino but plans fell through i guess. God, lots of memories there. Thanks Josh
Is this the same mall that Wonder Woman 1984 movie was acted in?
@@TeleeFONE I'm not sure, I didn't love in Mass then. I was in 4th grade, lol
Why the mall closed
@@austinhowells20 business was bad and they were losing money. Slowly stores were closing one by one.
@@TeleeFONE no that was in Virginia I think. Landmark mall maybe?
that's so cool! i remember going to an abandoned school next to my high school during periods/classes i didn't like or after school (obviously inspired by you, sam and colby, and seth) ♥️
Great job Josh! Love your dedication to covering these places for us, thank you Sir. ❤❤❤
What you were mentioning at the end makes sense, like in the last few years there's been a combination of things contributing to the decline of malls....But it isn't happening equally everywhere. In my area there is a mega popular, huge mall, it's always SUPER busy, and I try not to come on the weekends cause it's just too chaotic and packed...It's becoming more and more a luxury mall tho, so I guess richer people can afford to buy nice things more often, I wish there were more affordable stores there, and there's a movie theatre there too, it's not super busy anymore, but I think it's slowly coming back to life since lockdowns are over.
Then we have another mall, it's been like a ghost town for years, because they were turning it into this "Amazing" shopping complex on the outside, meanwhile most people couldn't easily get access to the original mall, AND then COVID hit as well...So the original mall has almost no stores left, meanwhile the new area outside is booming with all fancy restaurants and fancy stores....The food court inside got completely gutted and they built a brand new food court with only luxury eateries... 😐 I want to eat there but it's all so expensive.
It's kind of a weird mall that's still undergoing it's transformation....A combination of ghost town and modern luxury together
..You'd have to see it to believe it lol
I have said it, and will say it again here. This it literally like walking in a real life Liminal space, especially the nostalgic/familiar Regal Cinema lobby. Its like stepping back in time through long lost memories. You can make so many photos and turn them into the "oddly familiar places" photo compilational videos you see online. Your doing Gods work exploring into our past, thank you guys.
These are my favorite types of videos you do 🥰 Your content never disappoints 👏🙂 Ps. The Travel Channel should give you your own tv show on exploring abandoned places and talking about the history on them.🤩
That be awesome
@@ExploringWithJosh no not sell out bro . Please 🥺🙏. Once you sign a contract you own nothing. You have no voice, no say
You might already know this but he did do a show a bit with og exploring with Cody it was only a few episodes
I found it way better when you did urban exploring like in this one here too! All the ghost hunting stuff is pretty much cringe!
Agreed!!
I grew up in Taunton and spent many hours in that mall! It feels so weird to see it so empty, and surreal to see it demolished. The pizza place was a Bertucci's at one time.
Makes me sad to think malls are becoming abandoned. What also gets me is that Christmas tree😢
im bout to tear up because of this, i used to go to taunton mall ever since with my parents, thanks for sharing this, used to go there every darn week just to look at things. i hope it reopens again so me my parents and my sister can go back there. gosh dang those were the memories.
This really breaks me, since they actually demolished that silver city galleria. my lord.
Imagine my surprise my state is featured! I loved this. So nostalgic. Thanks, guys.
Omg this is my childhood mall!!! I used to go here all the time, so sad it closed down it used to have so much spirit, especially during Christmas time. I live like 15 minutes away from taunton so silver Galleria was a go to. I remember hearing about the stabbing and was devastated, and it started to get empty after that. I also remember playing in the little play area when I was around 5-6ish years old. I miss this place it was like a second home in a way. So sad it got torn down, this is really bringing back the memories for me, thank you for showing this mall Josh.
That's exactly what comes to mind when I think of this place man. Christmas time. Going there with your giftcards after Christmas because it had the best selection of stores in the area (before Providence Place). I remember going there towards the end of it's life span and I knew it was dying because the food court was completely empty. It was sad.
Hi I was wondering if you have ever heard of the eastfield mall in Springfield ma? It’s also getting demolished and was my childhood mall 😢
@@d3stinyy14 Yeah my mom actually worked in that mall for a while and we did visit on occasion. Sucks to see all these places shutting down and most kids not being able to experience one unlesd they travel.
@@d3stinyy14 I have heard of it, I've never been there before though. It's sad all these places are getting demolished 😔
@@bluejayanimates3239 yup :( it hurts to think that all of these online stores are taking over. No more fun memories
I miss the silver city galleria as well as the swansea mall I grew up living in dighton the town next door from Taunton so sad to see 🙈! Love your videos 🖤🤍🖤
Hey Josh, Much love from Canada! Love all ur videos but mainly with Seth, Sam and Colby! Keep it up.💗
josh is encouraging me to just start exploring and going on random adventures 🖤
THE WORLD IS OURS!
I had my BarberShop right here with the metal grates. ----> 6:21 (Thank You so much for sharing this video! I have so many great memories at this Mall.
Josh, store with the stone work on the front was Eastern Mountain Sports .
Silver city was my favorite mall growing up. I used to go here every half day of school with my friend and his mom. I remember this mall had 2 Gamestops, back when Gamestop was worth visiting. I pass by this empty lot everyday going to work and I always reminisce the good times I had going to this mall. Thank you for doing a video of this mall. It gave me goosebumps watching the whole video.
Awesome video! I am totally surprised that the mall is closed, yet still open. I would have thought that the management would have walled off around the theater and the entrance next to it so you couldn't get into the mall. Around 3.04 when you were pointing out stores, the store next to Metro PCS, the store with the yellow display window would have been Electronics Boutique, a predecessor to Gamestop. Unfortunately, this mall gives me insight into what Oakview Mall in Omaha, Nebraska will look like in a few years. Sadness.
15:20 "Dang it smells like piss here" I LAUGHED SO HARD
Josh you continue to bring us great videos of Abandoned Malls and Amusement parks.😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is such a moving video. You guys definitely brought life into the past and present of this mall. The reminiscing just makes one feel like the mall is still alive. Well done :)
All the explores, you all are aware that if these devices truly work then only demons presents these will show. For no human Spirit stays "ghosting" on earth realms.
After death: Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Meaning: Saved souls shall go into ABRAHAM`S BOSOM and unsaved into hell, for these 2 are holding places for the departed human SPIRITS.
Only ones who “ghost” in this realm without body is the evil spirits:
Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
waitttt .. i knew you were from massachusetts but i didn’t know we both went to the same mall during our childhoods 🤪 it hits differently seeing places abandoned when it’s somewhere you spent a lot of time at 😩
me too, im from taunton. so wierd seeing it. its gone now
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When I used to live in Buffalo NY, one of the malls we'd go to was the Walden Galleria. One of the biggest reasons it survived is it's location. It's surrounded by a major city and large suburbs. The majority of the stores are clothing and shoes with several restaurants and an indoor go kart track.
I just wanna let you know I appreciate you coming here. Immedietly I was hit with a wave of nostalgia. When I was younger I remember going to regal, bounce, and the food court to eat before leaving. This was with my family when I was little. :)
Comparing to other malls in the area (South Shore Plaza Braintree, Westgate Mall Brockton, Northshore Mall, etc.) I found it nicer than any of the above mentioned. I remember first going there in about 2017 and had gone a few times after that before it ultimately closed. Every time you went in there were less and less stores. Sad to see malls becoming a thing of the past, they’re a way to get out of the house.
Technology advancement is amazing in its own way, but it has some repercussions to it. Unfortunately places where people gather and actually interact and have fun hanging out are slowly going away. The mall I used to go to is still going strong, but who knows how long that'll last.
That's good all my malls here are dying rip
The thing is, I like shopping online because you don’t have to do anything, but going to a mall brings back my childhood nostalgia, and I love trying the food courts.
Edit: I loved the mall era and it was so fun going to the mall.
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@@Uno.VF2you can't escape those 💀
Really enjoy your videos. Love the background stories. Yes, I do remember spending time at the malls during junior high and high school. At lot of good memories. It just so sad to see these vibrant places shut down. Take care and stay safe!
This is beautiful. It's not vandalised or anything, it looks pretty fresh like its about to open. It feels sad that society is going to forgot about thos place and it will be probably ruined. Would make a cool place to a new mall or a museum about it.
Malls in my country are thriving post-Covid, and even continue to grow and expand more. We're not lazy to go out and buy stuff 🙄 We only do online shopping if some stuff could not be found in our malls. We will never let go of Malls no matter how much technology tries to change the way we live. Sometimes, you go to the mall not just to shop. But to dine, watch movies, have fun in recreational centers, or just hangout with family and friends. Like an indoor park.
It’s not lazy to not wanna go out and buy stuff when you work a 40+ hour week some people don’t have time don’t call it lazy
Who goes to the mall first to then buy it online?? If it's more convenient and don't wanna drive there (because you can't get anywhere in America without driving) you just buy it online to not waste time.
@@w花b We do. And the rest of the world isn't "in America" buddy. If you prefer buying it online to not waste your time and too lazy to move your lazy ass, then that's your call. You do you
I'm not going to any malls in large cities. Too much risk of getting shot, robbed, carjacked, threatened by thugs ect. Shopping online in my home is safe and comfortable.
There is one mall in my town that closed down in my town except for a few offices. I remember going there in the 90s. Another mall in my town is on the verge of dying. It’s a small mall to begin with and in the last few months alone 4 stores moved over into the Target shopping center. So overall that mall now is a little more than half full. The Target shopping center is now the main shopping place in my area. That and the Wal-Mart shopping center.
I remember going to this mall years ago, maybe a few months before the stabbing. I only really went there a handful of times since I didn't live near it and other malls and shopping centers were closer (I didn't live in Massachusetts, just one of the surrounding states), but it's so surreal seeing it abandoned, and it's sad that eventually other malls I grew up going to will end up the same, some sooner than most.
West Edmonton Mall here in Canada is never not busy! To think that malls anywhere just get abandoned is wild. Mall shopping is a fun activity
im icelandic and here malls are well alive but its a diff feeling-
but just props to josh for giving the mall the respect, the history and going into detail what happened and how it ended!! quality video
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Pretty sad seeing the decline of malls and large shopping complexes like this.
I understand the convenience of ordering things from the comfort of your home, but for me I still prefer the experience of going to physical locations, wandering around said retail sites and looking at the goods on shelves
Still have many fond memories in the 2000s visiting The Metro Centre, the biggest mall local to me and while that place is still strong, it likely won't last forever
10:21 I think that was a CD store! FYE I'm pretty sure. I'm having so many memories with this video, thank you Josh! This was my go-to place when I would hang out with friends.
bro no way, this is my childhood mall too. i had no idea it was abandoned
Damn such a shame that dis mall closed 3 years ago today 😢
Man I'm local and would have loved to explore this with you. Crazy how the times have changed
Bro, I love exploring haunted house or malls, Imagine going to an abandoned mall is crazy and so 😊 fun and awesome dude. Your really brave bro.
Thank you Josh for taking us on this journey on the Abandon mall where you live. This is interesting and thank you for taking us alone. Love your videos and content.❤❤❤❤
If my high school ever gets abandoned, I'll explore it and cry a little because I LOVE it so much and had so many memories
I remember in the 90s walking right into the food court lots of people ordering food at different places and there was an arcade near by went to look at the games and they had a goosebumps episode playing in there too. So nostalgic malls can be
18:29 the vibes right here were immaculate josh
In Australia a lot of shopping centres are going strong. But a lot of old stores get replaced
So weird seeing people talk about “mall era” and at the same time so sad seeing that online shopping is doing this to America.. Got very sad when I saw the news clips too, it must be so hard always feeling on guard no matter where you go. I live in Norway and malls is like super normal here. We have online shopping too, but we also still go to mall and do our shopping 😅 We are also safe while doing it, shootings and stabbing and so on isn’t normal here and not something that happens a lot, like, never
Oh goodness, yeah, now you have me thinking. I don't know why I hadn't put any connection between mass killings and the decline in shopping malls. They line up so well.
Thank you for this video. I have so many memories of going to this mall as a kid and even into my teenage years. My family and I loved going to bertuccis, and we actually ate there the day before the attack happened. I was eating my leftovers when I saw the story on the news. Hadn’t been there since going to round1 with some friends in 2019 which was fun, it’s a shame that it couldn’t have stuck around. It was sad to see how dark and dead the interior of the mall was though. So much nostalgia here
Made me think of the old mall I used to go to. Carousel Mall in California. They have been trying to demolish it for a while because of crime and accidents happening there. Definitely wouldn’t look this good though 😅 Awesome job Josh!
Ya I no what 1 you talking about hahaha
Thanks so much for the history and backstory on this place. Im really amazed this place wasnt trashed or damaged. It really is sad and eerie. Thanks for showing the place such respect.
Funny thing is even when the mall was maintained that elevator was scary! I loved growing up going to this mall and all of the great memories!
You know you were raised in the 90's when you asked your mom or dad to drop you and your friends off at the mall for the day on weekends, so you could meet up with a group of girls/guys. It was our way of going out on dates back then, or being able to hangout with your Middle School crush outside of school. It was either going to the mall for a weekend day, or going to the neighborhood theatre, or if you were lucky, you were able to do both on the weekend lol. Such a nostalgic feeling!
Can't forget the Roller Rink every Friday night! 🛼 Went there every Friday night from 6th grade up to 8th grade. Did A LOT of my "firsts" at that Rink... 🤣 Still remember the name... Ambassador Skate Rink located in Clawson, Michigan. I'll NEVER forget that place! Brings back so many good memories with my childhood friends. Grew up playing Roller Hockey there on the off season of Ice Hockey. Sadly, the family that owned it had to sell it a couple years after I got into High School... Now it's some huge ass furniture store. I still get those nostalgic feelings from back in the day whenever I drive by it... GOOD TIMES!
umm or the 2000s-2010s. Malls didn't start to go away until 2019ish
@@cutiedopo17 LMFAO 😆😆😆 and he liked his own comment to top it off! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@cutiedopo17 You need to understand that going to the mall 90's wasn't the same as you the youngins growing up after 2000. What I'm trying to say is that we didn't phone in Middle School like they do now and between 2000-2010. We used to have to memorize 50 to a 100 numbers of our friends and family due to us only having landlines. We'd have to set up a time and place in the mall with the girl group we were tryin to kick it with. We couldn't just call them when we got to the mall and see where they were at or if they were still on their way. It was WAY different back then, and so were the Malls! All I'm saying, is that I like to look back and remember those nostalgic times at the Mall and the Roller Rink back in the 90's.
@@Tokes_Outdoors it was the same. Just with flip phones to iPhones. I still see people today at malls hanging too
so crazy to see an abandoned and open mall at the same time. Imagine spending a night in there!
Really sad that so many Malls are closing. I used to go there so many times with my family.
13:28 the switch to a different clip killed me😂😂
This mall was a big part of my life. My home town. So cool yet sad to see it in this video. Many many great memories. I probably still have clothes I bought there. LoL So glad it's you though Josh to be showing it. My kids and I watched you all the time. Taunton is known as the Christmas city if you didn't know for its great displays in the center of town called "The Green"
I've heard that there thinking of closing our mall for good here in Bristol the UK. It's a real shame many people don't want it to close. I heard they were going to demolish the mall to build flats and houses. I'm so sad. Because I spent many hours shopping there. 😰
The malls in the 80's was a blast before the age of electronics. This and the skating rink was what we did. Pool halls and clubs for kids started opening up in the late 80's and early 90's. Hanging out in the malls in the game rooms and food court was how you spent your weekends meeting up with other kids. Kids don't do anything these days they don't even leave their houses. The internet has ruined everything I hate it!
Y’all gotta stop letting these TH-camrs fool you, people (kids included) still go to Malls, they’re literally packed like most people would expect.
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You hate the internet and say it ruined everything while being on the internet? Hypocrite.
I went to a mall in Florida it was open but looked abandoned there were not many stores most of them where closed some lights where off and the parking lot was so empty it’s very sad to see all the malls slowly leave if people would just bring them back 😭 I remember when I was younger I would go to get a build a bear it was on of my favorite things when I would walk by the stores and look at everything in the windows I miss it so much :(
This mall was massive! I hate it that it got demolished. I wish that I could go there when it was still open.
Being from Mass I loved going to the Galleria mall, 15 minute drive if that. Was sad when I found out the mall was being closed and later demolished. Cool to be able to watch this and get the feel of it again, thanks for this.
Great job josh I'm a big fan!!!!! It's interesting how times change an what becomes abandoned these days.
It's sad really on places like these will either be torn down or let nature take over.
How times change.
Great watching you as always JOSH ❤
I have nightmares about malls for years now and I don’t know why because I didn’t go that often to them and I had no traumatic experiences in one.🤷🏻♀️ My dreams are usually about getting lost in endless malls(which never happened) but in reality I wouldn’t go to them now because I really don’t like crowds but I do have fond memories of going when I was little and going to those stores that were all toys like KB TOYS and stuff those were so cool.
P.S. the empty parking lot facing the mall gives off such Stranger Things season 3 vibes. I would have watched an episode of stranger things in there if I were you but I’m weird.