So the music, song starting at 10:36 is Swords by Waterfront Dining (Haunted House Album). It’s actually a cover of the 1980’s group Missing Persons, the song “Surrender your Heart“.... I hav to say it sounds like an obscure 80’s song. Great find by Ace’s ....
I grew up in the south suburbs, Park Forest in the 80s. I have so many as a teenager growing up. Even as a young man I had my first date with my ex wife there. A lot of great memories and I still miss Lincoln Mall 😢
Now it’s an empty space just like before it was built. I remember attending the grand opening in the early 70’s. It was a big deal, I got an autograph photo of Miss Illinois. The Mall was the place to be, especially on the weekends.
@@gato7050 Aladdin's Castle was the shit. Then there was Noah's Ark pet store right across from it, and a KayBee and BDalton a couple doors down. That was the entrance I always used to go into until they tore most of the wing down.
I grew up going to that mall in the late 70s early 80s. I did security there in 1997. Center court lower level, we had to do crowd control for Ray J when he performed there once. Other than that, it declined quickly. Guns, drugs, fights etc was a daily routine trying to prevent.
Thank Richard M. Daley. He made millions in property deals tearing down C.H.A. property and selling the prime land to developers. His campaign fund had over 10 million dollars in it when he retired, and got to keep it.
Same here on both points. Grew up in UP and this was THE mall unless you wanted to make the trek to Orland or go slumming at River Oaks, which is still inexplicably open.
It's pronounced as "Matt-son" but only people who live around here would know that lol but I can't believe it looks like this. I remember going here as a kid.
And those who actually lived in the city, know this is NOT correct. See official townhall link. www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=matteson+illinois+name+pronounce
I love the old commercials in the beginning followed by what the mall looks like now. It brings about a nostalgia that is almost overwhelming. Another great video Ace!
It's really sad malls are being wiped out so fast when I was a kid in the 80s malls were the coolest place to be but as time does things get old and as it said out with old in with the new man I remember always going to the mall to eat with my mom I miss those days so much shopping like that 😭 was a time kids now days will never get that joy
Very haunting seeing the mall and the music playing.... There was a time that mall was alive... Someone's memories will always linger in these videos....
My friend Shalonda got her first job here. It was at McDonald's. She got the hookup from her brother-in-law. I worked here when I was pregnant. My job was at Cunningham Research. It was so easy to get guys to do surveys. Most of the office was female employees. All we had to do was get our hair done and put on a cute skirt.💃
This was the mall I grew up going to. It's nothing short of heartbreaking to see it in this state, particularly knowing that it's gone now. It was booming back in the day and due to mismanagement, the decline was sharp and quick. I wish I could find footage of back in the day before the remodel in the 90s. The open areas by the anchors used to be sunken conversation pit style sitting areas. The remodel was so sterile and boring. It didn't help the place at all.
Never understood why this mall failed. It's close to I-57 so you had good freeway access. It did not appear to be in a high crime area and until the closure it appeared the mall was in good shape.
Chicago exported it's problems to the South Suburbs in the 90's and early 00's. Daley got rich from selling CHA property to developers. The South Suburbs have very high crime rates compared to other burbs in the Chicago area.
I remember this mall well. Went to the stores there several times from Joliet. They had a gaming store at one point and incredible arcade before all the home stuff of course. But the whole area in and around the mall shifted and started to decay. Not sure what caused that. But less money and less people and things started closing and the death spiral began.
This mall had some nice natural light. The one store front with the mint green tile was nice and retro. Shout out to the Windows 95 CD and old monitor!😁💿🖥
I grew up going to this mall all of the time, and it was a candy store. Now (12/4/2019) The last part (Carson's) is being gutted and torn down. It's still depressing, even after the demolition started about two years ago. The Carson' stayed open as a box in the middle of a huge lot. Basically, the tore the mall down and left Carson's. It had beautiful architecture and blue railings. There was actually a McDonalds left behind a wall and it had not been touched since the 70's. I can barely even look at the video, seeing the remnant of small businesses shops destroyed and tagged. Like, "Azzizi books."
Carson Pirie Scott (Casron’s) closed when Bon-Ton went bankrupt, but has reopened as an online retailer. There is a report out there that says Carson’s may reopen some stores soon, if this hasn’t already happened.
The lone Carson's store that did open is slated to close and convert to Z Gallerie Furniture, signs are already up for the changeover. Bon-Ton (the entity which went bankrupt) tarnished their brands so badly that vendors didn't want to associate with the new owners, even with a clean corporate slate. I visited the re-opened store once and it was a complete joke, it barely survived a year.
I never knew this mall existed! Looks like it was a beautiful mall. I periodically took leave in St. Louis in the early 2000s, and visited all the area malls, St. Claire Square, St. Louis Mills, the Galleria, West County, Chesterfield, etc. but now I really regret not that I didn't visit it at the time.
I feel bad I came late in the game to start appreciating your videos, Anthony. Think I just stumbled on one of yoigur videos one night and got hooked into the dead and dying retail genre. IN this video I already see the artist and the genius and the respect your show these places. Wonder what will go on the Lincoln Mall site. It's wierd in just two years how the retail landscape changes. Carsons/Bon Ton dead. Payless dying, So many retailers going away. Thanks for giving us a second look at this place. Malls are still art in their own way. To disrespect them with misspelled, grammatically incorrect graffiti shows people have zero class.
Polo Park Mall in Winnipeg used to be more decorated before 2008 when Cadillac Fairview decided to go with “Earth Tones” and remove the fountain and spiral staircases, big mistake
They destroy fuse boxes that are worth thousands of dollars, all for 50 dollars worth of wire? Price out what it would cost for those massive glass fronts. The steel doors and aluminum glass doors are worth a lot. the railings and display cases could all be sold for thousands. so sad, the leaders of this community are doing nothing to recycle all the expensive infrastructure here
For some reason those signs were wired into the store, which was still open at the time of Ace's visit. The rest of the mall (including the upper level sign for the same store) had no power.
This was a great mall I remember it. It went to shit slowly. Mattson Illinois is a shit hole now it used to be decent. Whole area is shit, country club hills, hazel crest, Olympia fields. Garbage.
When malls were first built in the 70s it was thought they would be around for a hundred or more years, no one expected the killing of the middle class combined with the Advent of the internet has killed them slowly except for a few around the US
Dang when I was a teen my friends and I would hang around and imagine boys we liked in the suits at one of the shops there. Dang I can't think of the name of it. lol
I just came across this channel not too long ago, I enjoy watching these dead mall videos. Especially the ones in the general vicinity near me. I believe you have mentioned you were from the Northwest PA western NY area and I've seen your videos of the former Warren mall in Warren PA, have you ever done the Chautauqua mall in lakewood ny? Just was there recently and it's out 2 anchors and a bunch of other stores.
Wow one of the first comments! Great video. Sad to see that there was all that vandalism. And that payless is about to go out too. Keep up the great videos!
Cool video Ace. Its a shame all of the destruction and vandalism. Its probably a good thing they tore this mall down when they did or it could have turned into another Rolling Acres. The last I saw of Chris Condon on youtube, Chris said he was moving to China.
Nice video. Now, if the mall was in a better shape in it, then it would've been perfect to hole up at during a Zombie Apocalypse, mind you, you'd have to block the main/glass entrances with materials from through out the place. I might do up a story about/using that.
Well, a company is planning to make a casino there, from a news source, which makes me unhappy. If they added it, the South Suburbs are going to turn for the worst with crime, drama, gambling addicts, and it will turn into another ghetto area, like Orland did after a shooting in 2019. Guess say goodbye to the mixed use idea, I guess?
It's a shame to see the place vandalized, for sure. However, for all these stores closing, it could be either of two things. For one, women being empowered means that they're all no longer interesting to men (after all a masculine woman aren't interesting to men, even the bodybuilders), thus meaning all shops that sell dry goods will move to the highway known as the "internet" and all that will be left are grocers and gyms (in short: Feminism ruining the economy). For the other, this could be just a case of markets correcting since there were industrial bubbles for a long stretch of time (remember what happened with videogames).
This Mall was a rather small one. Great job, Ace! Thank you for your work. Once I am able to get some major bills out of the way I'm going to start sponsoring some creators. I have you on my list.
@@jonrev Carson's building as of 12/4/2019 is being torn down, as I type this. The beautiful orange and yellow brick archway being torn down with it. I grew up going to this mall, and it's sad how the entire city had a slow and painful death. Even the Best Buy where I got "Need For Speed Carbon" back in 2006 (hahaha), is still abandoned after 10 years of rotting there. It's across the street but in the same area.
@@Yeiyn343 Yeah I got in when they started demo. Bon-Ton was a disease for that store, it closed because they let the roof deteriorate to the point of failure; being a month before liquidation, they left literally everything but merch behind to stew in leaking roof water. Didn't even turn the lights off.
@@jonrev Oh wow! I had no idea about that. I just knew about the "Sudden Closing" that one winter, when everyone found out that they lost their job at the store, when they arrived at a locked entrance with closed signs. That was the last slap in the face to their employees. Also, I was just at your website when got this reply: jonrev.com/2016/12/05/johnwilkesbooth/ :-)
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So the music, song starting at 10:36 is Swords by Waterfront Dining (Haunted House Album). It’s actually a cover of the 1980’s group Missing Persons, the song “Surrender your Heart“.... I hav to say it sounds like an obscure 80’s song. Great find by Ace’s ....
I grew up in the south suburbs, Park Forest in the 80s. I have so many as a teenager growing up. Even as a young man I had my first date with my ex wife there. A lot of great memories and I still miss Lincoln Mall 😢
Now it’s an empty space just like before it was built. I remember attending the grand opening in the early 70’s. It was a big deal, I got an autograph photo of Miss Illinois. The Mall was the place to be, especially on the weekends.
Lincoln Mall in it's prime was awesome. Even had a go-kart track for a while.
RJ24 RJ yes and arcade. Montgomery wards had a small cafe where my dad use to take me to eat. Where does the time go
@@gato7050 Aladdin's Castle was the shit. Then there was Noah's Ark pet store right across from it, and a KayBee and BDalton a couple doors down. That was the entrance I always used to go into until they tore most of the wing down.
Me and my friends lived 1 mile away and walked to this mall all the time.
I grew up going to that mall in the late 70s early 80s. I did security there in 1997. Center court lower level, we had to do crowd control for Ray J when he performed there once. Other than that, it declined quickly. Guns, drugs, fights etc was a daily routine trying to prevent.
I used to do security in the mall in the late 90's was fun and a fun place to hang out. Sad that it's not there anymore.
Mateson used to be a somewhat upscale area 30 years ago. Big thanks to Chicago for sending the rifraff to destroy the 'burbs.
Thank Richard M. Daley. He made millions in property deals tearing down C.H.A. property and selling the prime land to developers. His campaign fund had over 10 million dollars in it when he retired, and got to keep it.
I lived in University Park and Lincoln Mall was the place to be on the weekends. Memories.
Same here on both points. Grew up in UP and this was THE mall unless you wanted to make the trek to Orland or go slumming at River Oaks, which is still inexplicably open.
It's pronounced as "Matt-son" but only people who live around here would know that lol but I can't believe it looks like this. I remember going here as a kid.
And those who actually lived in the city, know this is NOT correct. See official townhall link. www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=matteson+illinois+name+pronounce
It is literally pronounced Matt-e-son and always has been. Officially.
Wow, wow, wow! Where did you find the old Lincoln Mall commercial! This is wild!
"The internet"
-Timmy Turner
I love the old commercials in the beginning followed by what the mall looks like now. It brings about a nostalgia that is almost overwhelming. Another great video Ace!
It's really sad malls are being wiped out so fast when I was a kid in the 80s malls were the coolest place to be but as time does things get old and as it said out with old in with the new man I remember always going to the mall to eat with my mom I miss those days so much shopping like that 😭 was a time kids now days will never get that joy
Moon Juice*!* too many malls were built next to each other
Very haunting seeing the mall and the music playing.... There was a time that mall was alive... Someone's memories will always linger in these videos....
I once saw Randy Brown here (Chicago Bulls). He sat in a jewelry store.
Used to be a fun mall when I was young KB Toys the bookstore the McDonald's the arcade the movie theather across the street!
Yeah, that McDonald's was rad.
It was one of the only McDonalds to keep deep frying their apple pies after the rest of the franchises started baking them (gross).
Wow I remember this
My friend Shalonda got her first job here. It was at McDonald's. She got the hookup from her brother-in-law.
I worked here when I was pregnant. My job was at Cunningham Research. It was so easy to get guys to do surveys. Most of the office was female employees. All we had to do was get our hair done and put on a cute skirt.💃
Wow I can’t believe it are used to live in Mattson Illinois and I have a lot of childhood memories in that mall 😮🥺
Urbex and dead malls always fill me with so much sadness but I can't help but watch
This was my mall growing up. It was walking distance from my house! I loved going there to Aladdin's Castle and B. Dalton Bookstore.
UPDATE Carson Prairie Scott (CPS for short )closed in march 2018 In Nov 2019 the old CPS store was also torn down
I use to live there and hung out at that mall. Great memories
I appreciate you Ace and your hard work, so sad how history is slowly dying away. Makes me sad
What’s here now?
Nothing. Since being demolished, it’s still an empty parcel of land
Wait so is it like fully taken down and demolished to the ground?
renovated in 90
10:43 song name pls
This was the mall I grew up going to. It's nothing short of heartbreaking to see it in this state, particularly knowing that it's gone now. It was booming back in the day and due to mismanagement, the decline was sharp and quick.
I wish I could find footage of back in the day before the remodel in the 90s. The open areas by the anchors used to be sunken conversation pit style sitting areas. The remodel was so sterile and boring. It didn't help the place at all.
Not to mention the change in demographics over the past 20 years.
@10:36 Missing Persons - Surrender Your Heart
Never understood why this mall failed. It's close to I-57 so you had good freeway access. It did not appear to be in a high crime area and until the closure it appeared the mall was in good shape.
Chicago exported it's problems to the South Suburbs in the 90's and early 00's. Daley got rich from selling CHA property to developers. The South Suburbs have very high crime rates compared to other burbs in the Chicago area.
Glad you got the video before this was gone. Cheers man!
I remember this mall well. Went to the stores there several times from Joliet. They had a gaming store at one point and incredible arcade before all the home stuff of course. But the whole area in and around the mall shifted and started to decay. Not sure what caused that. But less money and less people and things started closing and the death spiral began.
Thanks Ace. I enjoyed it. Loved the music.
Another Rolling Acres. I don't understand why punks have to go in and trash these places.
C20 Studios Idleness, need an activity, hobby or job
It's NOT a nice thing, but it truly doesn't matter at all
because those punks are troubled. probably come from abused homes do it's a call for help
This one is new for me. Still amazes me some malls close & others are doing well.
What’s here now that this mall is gone?
Vacant lot, residential/mixed-use redevelopment planned. The state recently issued some casino licenses and one has been proposed to go there.
I remember the original video when it was posted in 2016
I had to go to a training meeting at this mall many years ago. So sad what’s happening with retail these days. Keep up the great work, Anthony!
This mall had some nice natural light. The one store front with the mint green tile was nice and retro. Shout out to the Windows 95 CD and old monitor!😁💿🖥
I grew up going to this mall all of the time, and it was a candy store. Now (12/4/2019) The last part (Carson's) is being gutted and torn down. It's still depressing, even after the demolition started about two years ago. The Carson' stayed open as a box in the middle of a huge lot. Basically, the tore the mall down and left Carson's. It had beautiful architecture and blue railings. There was actually a McDonalds left behind a wall and it had not been touched since the 70's. I can barely even look at the video, seeing the remnant of small businesses shops destroyed and tagged. Like, "Azzizi books."
Also, did you mean the store at 6:20 ? Nevermind, that was a Swiss Jewelry store, while on the right was Ashley Stewart.
Somewhat of a cruel coincidence to see Payless Kids signage in there with the news last week of Payless closing permanently.
I'm curious as to why Chris Condon hadn't returned back to the property.
Carson Pirie Scott (Casron’s) closed when Bon-Ton went bankrupt, but has reopened as an online retailer.
There is a report out there that says Carson’s may reopen some stores soon, if this hasn’t already happened.
The lone Carson's store that did open is slated to close and convert to Z Gallerie Furniture, signs are already up for the changeover. Bon-Ton (the entity which went bankrupt) tarnished their brands so badly that vendors didn't want to associate with the new owners, even with a clean corporate slate. I visited the re-opened store once and it was a complete joke, it barely survived a year.
Wow, looks like Carson’s will be online only, then.
I never knew this mall existed! Looks like it was a beautiful mall. I periodically took leave in St. Louis in the early 2000s, and visited all the area malls, St. Claire Square, St. Louis Mills, the Galleria, West County, Chesterfield, etc. but now I really regret not that I didn't visit it at the time.
Damn dood, grab that Windows 95 CD...
Very cool to see a mall from my state. I'm not from that area but I remember when they started the demolition
I remember when JCPenneys closed, the mall went downhill from there...
The nostalgia is real in this video! Keep up the great content!
It still surprises me how quickly this place got trashed. Imagine how bad it would be in 2019 if it had not been torn down.
Matteson Illinois is ghetto as hell. What is shocking is that all the copper wasn't stripped out.
I feel bad I came late in the game to start appreciating your videos, Anthony. Think I just stumbled on one of yoigur videos one night and got hooked into the dead and dying retail genre. IN this video I already see the artist and the genius and the respect your show these places.
Wonder what will go on the Lincoln Mall site. It's wierd in just two years how the retail landscape changes. Carsons/Bon Ton dead. Payless dying, So many retailers going away.
Thanks for giving us a second look at this place. Malls are still art in their own way. To disrespect them with misspelled, grammatically incorrect graffiti shows people have zero class.
TO ANTHONY:
Who was the music artist for this video? I would like to download! Thanks.
Two nearby dead malls you should check out is Charlestowne Mall in St Charles, IL and Marquette Mall in Michigan City, Indiana
Marquette is inaccessible past the half-occupied office tower.
Polo Park Mall in Winnipeg used to be more decorated before 2008 when Cadillac Fairview decided to go with “Earth Tones” and remove the fountain and spiral staircases, big mistake
They destroy fuse boxes that are worth thousands of dollars, all for 50 dollars worth of wire? Price out what it would cost for those massive glass fronts. The steel doors and aluminum glass doors are worth a lot. the railings and display cases could all be sold for thousands. so sad, the leaders of this community are doing nothing to recycle all the expensive infrastructure here
Another mall I lived close to and never got to see. Great video ace!
14:25. This place still had power to it? If so that made it even more sketchy.
For some reason those signs were wired into the store, which was still open at the time of Ace's visit. The rest of the mall (including the upper level sign for the same store) had no power.
They had a,store that sold pewter figurines
Hey there I'm now on here
I remember going into this mall several times during the late 70's/early 80's. Shame it's gone.
What killed it?
What's taking its place?
Online retail and big box stores
Ashley Quinn: White flight and poor blacks.
Matt-sin
Alan B dont-care
I watch Wallie's videos as Nate's videos.
Dying America
This was a great mall I remember it. It went to shit slowly. Mattson Illinois is a shit hole now it used to be decent. Whole area is shit, country club hills, hazel crest, Olympia fields. Garbage.
When malls were first built in the 70s it was thought they would be around for a hundred or more years, no one expected the killing of the middle class combined with the Advent of the internet has killed them slowly except for a few around the US
Dang when I was a teen my friends and I would hang around and imagine boys we liked in the suits at one of the shops there. Dang I can't think of the name of it. lol
Bacharachs or Chess King lol
What’s the last song name?
I just came across this channel not too long ago, I enjoy watching these dead mall videos. Especially the ones in the general vicinity near me. I believe you have mentioned you were from the Northwest PA western NY area and I've seen your videos of the former Warren mall in Warren PA, have you ever done the Chautauqua mall in lakewood ny? Just was there recently and it's out 2 anchors and a bunch of other stores.
That is my hometown mall where i grew up and yes i actually am working on that now
5:08 -- "And want to see me shoot more malls..."
Uh heh, probably could've phrased that a little better...
Wow one of the first comments! Great video. Sad to see that there was all that vandalism. And that payless is about to go out too. Keep up the great videos!
It's not Madison... it's Matteson...(matt-sen)..I still live here
Patrick Sacramento oh well
I got an item off of eBay after Christmas from a guy who bought toys at a store in this mall
Awesome video. Shame of how this mall suffered after the Vandals attacked it. I hope to see more videos and hear the awesome vaporwave music! 😊♥️♥️♥️
Cool video Ace. Its a shame all of the destruction and vandalism. Its probably a good thing they tore this mall down when they did or it could have turned into another Rolling Acres. The last I saw of Chris Condon on youtube, Chris said he was moving to China.
Nice video. Now, if the mall was in a better shape in it, then it would've been perfect to hole up at during a Zombie Apocalypse, mind you, you'd have to block the main/glass entrances with materials from through out the place. I might do up a story about/using that.
whats the discord link?
So many memories in Lincoln Mall
Well, a company is planning to make a casino there, from a news source, which makes me unhappy. If they added it, the South Suburbs are going to turn for the worst with crime, drama, gambling addicts, and it will turn into another ghetto area, like Orland did after a shooting in 2019. Guess say goodbye to the mixed use idea, I guess?
If this was in the UK all the metal would be striped out within a week and it would probably set on fire within a month.
It's a shame to see the place vandalized, for sure. However, for all these stores closing, it could be either of two things.
For one, women being empowered means that they're all no longer interesting to men (after all a masculine woman aren't interesting to men, even the bodybuilders), thus meaning all shops that sell dry goods will move to the highway known as the "internet" and all that will be left are grocers and gyms (in short: Feminism ruining the economy).
For the other, this could be just a case of markets correcting since there were industrial bubbles for a long stretch of time (remember what happened with videogames).
Dumbest comment ever.
This Mall was a rather small one. Great job, Ace! Thank you for your work. Once I am able to get some major bills out of the way I'm going to start sponsoring some creators. I have you on my list.
I'd like to join your discord server.
This was really cool, do you happen to know what the property is used for now?
Vacant lot, save for the now-abandoned Carson's.
@@jonrev Carson's building as of 12/4/2019 is being torn down, as I type this. The beautiful orange and yellow brick archway being torn down with it. I grew up going to this mall, and it's sad how the entire city had a slow and painful death. Even the Best Buy where I got "Need For Speed Carbon" back in 2006 (hahaha), is still abandoned after 10 years of rotting there. It's across the street but in the same area.
@@Yeiyn343 Yeah I got in when they started demo. Bon-Ton was a disease for that store, it closed because they let the roof deteriorate to the point of failure; being a month before liquidation, they left literally everything but merch behind to stew in leaking roof water. Didn't even turn the lights off.
@@jonrev Oh wow! I had no idea about that. I just knew about the "Sudden Closing" that one winter, when everyone found out that they lost their job at the store, when they arrived at a locked entrance with closed signs. That was the last slap in the face to their employees. Also, I was just at your website when got this reply: jonrev.com/2016/12/05/johnwilkesbooth/ :-)
Never had the opportunity to visit this mall... The town is pronounced "Matt-sin"
Some people call it Madison
Those people are wrong!
:(
Im early!