YESSS! I’m so so happy you covered this mall! I went to Bowling Green State University and I always found this mall fascinating. Fun fact- Every October a part of the mall gets transformed into a haunted house! During the height of the pandemic, my friends and I would come here often since majority of downtown was closed. We would get drunk and try on random clothes at the thrift store, ride on the $0.25 rides, and play mini golf! The only place where we didn’t have to worry about social distancing!
I'm not sure what this mall was like in the 80's but when I moved here in 2003 there was a skate park by the movie theater as well as a large toy store. It was pretty lively even then.
I would come out to Bowling Green for summer camp and figure skating workshops. I remember going to this mall - my memory has it looking just like this, but it felt like such a long hallway… I remember it having vacancies in the mid 1990’s - so strange to see it again. So glad you covered this mall. As always, loving your content. -Bree
I'm from this area I was last here in the late 90s and it looks exactly the same. The students at BG called it the "Small" and you really had to drive to Toledo to go to a real mall.
I dig those planters. I recently took a bunch of photos of the dead mall in my wife's hometown. Peru Mall in Peru, IL. Would be fun to see a video on that place. Has some neat 80s aesthetic.
I’m really glad you made this video about the Woodland Mall. I’m from Bowling Green and my mom would take me to this mall when she went shopping. There was an awesome toy store that would let kids play with the pedal tractors and toys that they had on stock in the store. I also remember riding the 25 cent rides that would spin you in a circle. One of them was shown at 8:23. There used to be another set of rides which had a white semi truck which was my favorite. I would also frequent the movie theater at the mall too. I’m sad to see it close but it’s probably for the best. People always said to bring an umbrella on rainy days when watching movies there haha. Thanks again for the video, it brought back some great memories!
I am pretty much interested in anything abandoned or outdated. These places used to mean a lot to people emotionally and many of them still do. I miss Sears back when they sold Pokémon stuff, looking at snowblowers with my Dad or going shopping with my Mom.
I grew up with this mall. It did well for a decade, but began to fail before most malls did. The reason was the location. I remember a big debate on what highway it should go on, and they made a mistake by putting it on Rt 25, which was basically a country highway, versus 75. Probably because of cheaper land.
It faltered. and Brian Young (ie Professor Tinker) brought it back singlehanded for about two years with his toy store; then, his partner screwed him over somehow (he never did tell me how, exactly) and that independent mini-anchor became an office complex. That was the beginning of the end right there. Good news is the maniac started another toy store.
@@bradleycrouch8448 He and his partner got into a heated argument about what to do with the professor thinkers name, and his partner pulled his share of the funding. Young didnt have enough to cover the difference and was forced to liquidate. I was friends with his son and spent many a summer day helping to put together his lego displays, most of which still survive in his private workshop.
I went to college and grad school in Bowling Green from 2001-2008 and I used to go to the mall all the time when I didn't know what else to do with my time, or if I needed something and didn't want to go to Perrysburg or Toledo. I'd go shopping at Elder-Beerman and I think there was maybe a bookstore and a shoe store I liked, too. I also used to go tanning there, and I got my nails done at the salon there a couple of times. There was also a candy store that I used to like going into. They had some other stuff besides candy, but that was the main feature. There were also frequently vendors just selling random stuff on tables. Now that I think about it, I had a lot of memories at that mall. Hanging out with my friends. Going there to buy clothes and make up for a date with a cute boy. Yeah, we called it the "small" for a reason, but it wasn't a bad place. I actually just had another memory. A guy I was dating came to visit me and there wasn't really anything else to do besides go to the mall. So we went to the music store, which I think was an Fye. I bought a Kylie Minogue CD and then we end to sit in his Jeep in the parking lot of the mall and listen to "can't get you out of my head." Hmmm.
as jezebelley sad, you got the talang to do anything! music vid locations, industrial history with music to that era and big happenings etc! i would watch it!!! nice work Ace...
Hey Ace, I'm always open to seeing and learning about the history old and abandon things, I'm sure most people here welcome see your take on other stuff. Thanks for the content!
I saw some of those ABC movies - made-for-TV movies were a Thing long before Hallmark came along. (and they were generally just as bad then if not worse). This was in the era when there were only three for-profit networks and PBS.
Man I remember coming here as a kid seeing Santa, going to the dollar tree, my mom going to elder Beerman, getting a Subway sandwich for the first time in the food court. I long so much for that nostalgia
I remember when the mall first opened in the late 80's. I miss Luca Pizza so much! I haven't been there probably 15 years and it looks exactly like it did when i was growing up (stores are different)
So...I live in Ohio on the Eastside. Eastgate Mall I spent so many years as a mall rat with my friends. Also, found memories of Christmas shopping for family. God help me for forgetting about her, need to do my best to help her so she will not be a dead mall.
9:33 That CRT TV. Aw man thats the kind of TVs I remember in my malls when I was little not these new boring flat panels malls have now. I wish I could go and save that TV.
I totally get why you'd want to shake things up. The malls are really fun, but exploring abandoned places in general is actually really interesting, especially given the socioeconomic contexts around them. Exploring an abandoned school, old infrastructure, derelict buildings, even ghost towns are things I'd totally watch! I hope your new phase proves enjoyable for you. I'm looking forward to seeing it. :D
Concord Mall in Wilmington, Delaware is currently hovering around the low 50's occupancy rate. So not totally dead yet, but it's getting there and it's owned by Namdar, so no one has much hope for it. It is getting propped up by a lot of Mom and Pop joints at this point because no national chains want to lease there, so it's in an interesting phase right now. There have been no significant updates since 1994 so you should really love it. It really began to bleed out when Sears closed in 2020. When Macy's inevitably leaves, the next big bleedout should happen.
@@MultiCreditKIng There was never a need to go there, there was nothing there. Downtown Bowling Green is thriving with independent businesses. The empty mall is across the street from cornfields, the very last part of town. Plus 20 minutes north is affluent suburbs of a city with much more cleaner, diverse, and safer options.
I am a recent graduate from BGSU (2021), and I went to this mall soooo many times! None of my roommates knew about it until we saw a movie there in 2018. It’s actually really fun if your a drunk college student with nothing else better to do. My friends and I would go into the thrift store and create random outfits. I rode in that mini car shown in the video that only took like $0.25! Lol. I think going to BG during the pandemic actually helped me enjoy this mall more because social distancing didn’t exist in there🤣
Another excellent video Ace. I enjoy the wistfulness and some melancholy thoughts of times that have gone by since I too grew up around malls (I'm a early 1960s baby). I can see you looking for new sources of content [even though there are a bazillion malls!]. Did you consider doing some current takes on wedding venues? I know you do many weddings ... it might be a way to get a video out of your wedding DJ gigs. Dunno how many folks other than prospective brides and parents would view it though. There are old transportation systems (trains, ferries, cruise ships) that would also be fun to view. If you stay with malls I will still be entertained and watch your excellent vids!
Your voice is great, it makes you stand out - as soon as one hears it they know who you are. I like your voice. I agree with everyone that anything you put out will be watched and enjoyed because of the quality of your videos. Thanks again and do what you want to do artistically. 👍
Don’t know if you have been to the Mall of Monroe, but would love to see you do a video of that mall seeing that it was a mall of my childhood. It’s in Frenchtown township, Monroe Michigan.
Ace we love your content. No matter what it is! You put stuff together so beautifully! Doesn’t matter if it’s malls or any other abandoned or almost closed type places, we’ll take anything! Love your videos as always! 🙌🏼
Thanks for the video . I remember going to the music store called the warehouse in California back in 1994 as a teen and buying single songs on take for 2.99 or on cd for 3.49 or 3.99 . Just one song . Or get a whole album on take for 9.99 or on cd for 13.99 . Good days
I know this video is going on 2 years old, but I would like to suggest checking out the Findlay Village Mall in Findlay, Ohio. It's so dead that the city approved a Raising Canes location that will take up a good chunk of the parking lot.
Our town has a almost dead mall, it's on the dead mall registry. There's a few people that comes to the mall, especially on holidays. Its the Eastridge Mall in Gastonia, NC.
There was a mascot named Woody. If I remember correctly, he was a teddy bear. Across from the movie theater used to be an arcade, and I spent way too much time there as a teenager winning small prizes/stuffed animals and trading up for bigger ones.
Hello Marjorie!!! Yet the Mascot was Woody, my claim to fame there was Powell's Ice Cream, the man owned the place, I made half the payments, I got a milkshake everyday for a couple years.
I used to live in Gypsy Lane trailer court, last time I was up tat way I was lost on rt 25 coming into town from Portage, the whole South end of town had changed, a lot, I used to work at Ridge Elementary and then the BGJH school
Great content malls or not. Funny I visited Rogers Arkansas and visited a somewhat dead mall in July 1994 while visiting relatives. Why I call it somewhat dead walmart started renting space for offices as the mall was dying and that in turn helped it along the death march. They ended up buying the mall and slowly stopped renewing leases until when I went there 2 shops remained one was a laundry mat that was attached to the mall but never had an entrance to it and an outbuilding about 20 feet from the laundry that showed movies at a discount rate because they were between the full price theatre and the video realeas hence a cheaper rate like 2 or 3 dollars or so. Had to do laundry and one of the locals told the story to us the laundry mat owner was near the end of his lease and walmart was trying thier best to force him to end the lease early but he was trying to keep it running until the end because he didn't want to pay for a lease without use of it.
Suggestion: Tanglewood Square Mall I don't even know exactly where it is. It is somewhere in Ohio. I have found very few references to its existence online
Your video footage is always great.I have to mute the audio because, like most of your videos, it’s just you talking about your channel and what it’s meant for, what mall you’re going to next etc. Would love to hear things you personally found interesting about each property because you have a unique point of view. I get trying to boost sub numbers but you’re doing it at the expense of the content.
@@AcesAdventures1 oh I absolutely understand that but as a viewer interested in dead mall content I’d like to hear about the mall. No shade intended…just my pov.
A few malls you should check out are Southside Mall in Oneonta, NY. Main interesting feature here is the wood ceiling. St. Lawrence Centre in Massena, NY. I'm not even sure why it's still open. Aroostook Centre in Vermont. Looks similar to this mall. Miami Valley Centre Mall in Piqua Ohio. It's a sister mall to this mall.
At 3:56 , the white counter and the black cooler.. my dad put those in. Didn’t get paid for it and the business that was there was open for like 2 weeks. I’m sure he’d be pissed to see that…
I wish you could have gotten to Adrian Mall in Adrian Michigan before they closed up that was probably the most interesting mall I have ever been to of all the states I've lived in
Lloyd Center in Portland, OR is a mall begging for someone to visit and do a video on. It is a dying mall and nearly almost dead after it lost its Macys last year. It unfortunately has little aesthetics left since it was remodeled a few years ago but there are still some hints and touches here and there. It opened in 1960 and was considered by some to be the largest mall in the world when it opened. It recently was reveled that the owners of the mall defaulted on their loan so they might not be open as for very much longer.
I'd love to see more west coast malls in general. Especially those north of the LA area. I've never heard of most of the stores in the dead malls I see either. Like Bon Ton. Show me the malls that had an Emporuim Capwell back in the day!
My home town. My wedding registry was at that elder beerman anchor store. A jc penny used to be where the dunhams sporting goods store is now. This mall was built in the late 80s, 87 or 88. There was a retail store called Cooks? In the third anchor spot. Or Ames? Forget. This mall's creation wasn't a bad idea, like many other malls where the advent of internet retail and then Walmart and Meijer supercenter stores collectively added nails to the coffin. Very few if they are honest could predict the paradigm shift in shopping that would too soon be occurring.
@@chriscarpenter7137 Hello Chris Carpenter, yes the Hills store was the third, that building was built after the main part was already open, I watched them build it everyday standing or sitting at what was then the back doors near the movie place, I know the carpenter name, I worked in the city schools for 10 years, Ridge, Southmain, and the BGJH on Church St and Wooster,
What year was that ABC Sunday night movie intro from? It was sometime in the 1970s for sure but not sure what year. In the 1980s they had a different guy with a deeper voice.
You have a treasure trove of dead malls to cover in the Hudson Valley of NY: JV Mall, Remains of the Dutchess Mall, Remains of the South Hills Mall, the Aviator Mall and the best Dead/ not dead Mall: Rensselaer Mall. Have always preferred your work over Bells. And don’t forget the Massena Mall, with the abandoned strips center, and fake walls cutting off the dead wing.
Great video Ace! I've been to that mall a couple of times in it's hay day. I watched Beavis and Butt head back in the day too. It was on while i was in college. Me and my buddies had a drinking game we played while it was on! Lol.
I live in Elgin, IL and if you ever get to NE Illinois you should check out both Springhill Mall in West Dundee and Stratford Mall in Bloomingdale. Both near death. And to see a closed but still standing mall, drive over to Charlestowne Mall in St. Charles. Illinois’ anti-business atmosphere hasn’t helped any of these. Thanks for your efforts!
It might work well to expand to other kinds of spaces with similar aesthetics, to office buildings, old airports, industrial spaces, maybe even parks. A lot of that range would've disappeared awhile back though, as old style independent department stores would have.
@@AcesAdventures1 even old theaters and such could be interesting. They recently closed an old art deco style theater in the city I live in and it was a real shame.
YESSS! I’m so so happy you covered this mall! I went to Bowling Green State University and I always found this mall fascinating. Fun fact- Every October a part of the mall gets transformed into a haunted house!
During the height of the pandemic, my friends and I would come here often since majority of downtown was closed. We would get drunk and try on random clothes at the thrift store, ride on the $0.25 rides, and play mini golf! The only place where we didn’t have to worry about social distancing!
I'm glad the mall I grew up going to is still open. I really hope it doesn't close soon, I wanna revisit it
I'm not sure what this mall was like in the 80's but when I moved here in 2003 there was a skate park by the movie theater as well as a large toy store. It was pretty lively even then.
I went here frequently when I was in college at BGSU. It was thriving then!
Aye, it was dead before Professor Tinker, and dead again after him.
I would come out to Bowling Green for summer camp and figure skating workshops. I remember going to this mall - my memory has it looking just like this, but it felt like such a long hallway… I remember it having vacancies in the mid 1990’s - so strange to see it again. So glad you covered this mall. As always, loving your content. -Bree
I grew up going to this mall and I met my husband while we both worked at this mall in 2001! Brings back the memories for sure.
Thankyou again for another GREAT video!
I'm from this area I was last here in the late 90s and it looks exactly the same. The students at BG called it the "Small" and you really had to drive to Toledo to go to a real mall.
My favorite dead mall TH-camr 🙏🏻
I dig those planters. I recently took a bunch of photos of the dead mall in my wife's hometown. Peru Mall in Peru, IL. Would be fun to see a video on that place. Has some neat 80s aesthetic.
Great video. I never ever get tired of watching the dead and abandoned mall videos.
Ty
I’m really glad you made this video about the Woodland Mall. I’m from Bowling Green and my mom would take me to this mall when she went shopping. There was an awesome toy store that would let kids play with the pedal tractors and toys that they had on stock in the store. I also remember riding the 25 cent rides that would spin you in a circle. One of them was shown at 8:23. There used to be another set of rides which had a white semi truck which was my favorite. I would also frequent the movie theater at the mall too. I’m sad to see it close but it’s probably for the best. People always said to bring an umbrella on rainy days when watching movies there haha. Thanks again for the video, it brought back some great memories!
I am pretty much interested in anything abandoned or outdated. These places used to mean a lot to people emotionally and many of them still do. I miss Sears back when they sold Pokémon stuff, looking at snowblowers with my Dad or going shopping with my Mom.
Loved B&B back in the day. Had forgotten about that episode
Excellent retro introduction 👍👍😘😘
I was here last year for movie theater...and it's all over now.
Wow! I can own that Sears Hometown Store!
I grew up with this mall. It did well for a decade, but began to fail before most malls did. The reason was the location. I remember a big debate on what highway it should go on, and they made a mistake by putting it on Rt 25, which was basically a country highway, versus 75. Probably because of cheaper land.
It faltered. and Brian Young (ie Professor Tinker) brought it back singlehanded for about two years with his toy store; then, his partner screwed him over somehow (he never did tell me how, exactly) and that independent mini-anchor became an office complex. That was the beginning of the end right there.
Good news is the maniac started another toy store.
@@bradleycrouch8448 He and his partner got into a heated argument about what to do with the professor thinkers name, and his partner pulled his share of the funding. Young didnt have enough to cover the difference and was forced to liquidate. I was friends with his son and spent many a summer day helping to put together his lego displays, most of which still survive in his private workshop.
Ace!!! You were in my town??? I wish I would have been paying closer attention. I could have met you in person! Darn! I can't wait to see this!
I went to college and grad school in Bowling Green from 2001-2008 and I used to go to the mall all the time when I didn't know what else to do with my time, or if I needed something and didn't want to go to Perrysburg or Toledo. I'd go shopping at Elder-Beerman and I think there was maybe a bookstore and a shoe store I liked, too. I also used to go tanning there, and I got my nails done at the salon there a couple of times. There was also a candy store that I used to like going into. They had some other stuff besides candy, but that was the main feature. There were also frequently vendors just selling random stuff on tables. Now that I think about it, I had a lot of memories at that mall. Hanging out with my friends. Going there to buy clothes and make up for a date with a cute boy. Yeah, we called it the "small" for a reason, but it wasn't a bad place.
I actually just had another memory. A guy I was dating came to visit me and there wasn't really anything else to do besides go to the mall. So we went to the music store, which I think was an Fye. I bought a Kylie Minogue CD and then we end to sit in his Jeep in the parking lot of the mall and listen to "can't get you out of my head." Hmmm.
Man I remember this being my childhood mall in the early 2000s. Crazy to see it like this
great work as always Anthony
FIRE! heh heh heh ...
uh huh huh huh
as jezebelley sad, you got the talang to do anything! music vid locations, industrial history with music to that era and big happenings etc! i would watch it!!! nice work Ace...
Ty!
Hey Ace, I'm always open to seeing and learning about the history old and abandon things, I'm sure most people here welcome see your take on other stuff. Thanks for the content!
This was one of my childhood hang out places😢
I saw some of those ABC movies - made-for-TV movies were a Thing long before Hallmark came along. (and they were generally just as bad then if not worse). This was in the era when there were only three for-profit networks and PBS.
Great video. Thanks.
Thanks Nancy and happy holidays
Now I'm wondering how Beavis and Butthead got off the island.
I'm speculating"Wrong Way Feldman"got them off the island.😂
Cliffhanger lol
Man I remember coming here as a kid seeing Santa, going to the dollar tree, my mom going to elder Beerman, getting a Subway sandwich for the first time in the food court. I long so much for that nostalgia
enjoyed it
Another great vid!
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Great video, thank you Ace.
Defiance mall is close to that, is beyond dead as well if you need another location in the area. 😅
Ok ty
I remember when the mall first opened in the late 80's. I miss Luca Pizza so much! I haven't been there probably 15 years and it looks exactly like it did when i was growing up (stores are different)
This Mall is in my home town. Sears just closed too😳Was Amazing when it opened in the 80’s!
Idk if you get around the country, but Trolley Square in Salt Lake City, it’s unique and mostly dead. Also, consider land art.
So far away lol
The love canal vid was a good piece of work, 100% you should do more of them.
Come to houston! West oaks mall please!
Lot’s of Texas to see
So good!
So...I live in Ohio on the Eastside. Eastgate Mall I spent so many years as a mall rat with my friends. Also, found memories of Christmas shopping for family. God help me for forgetting about her, need to do my best to help her so she will not be a dead mall.
Love watching these dead malls do more of them please
Yes! 👍🙂
Northtowne Mall in Defiance Ohio. It’s about 45 west of Bowling Green.
Wow! The Cinema sign...so retro ❤️
Ten years ago the each ticket was $1.50
Thanks Anthony !
9:33 That CRT TV. Aw man thats the kind of TVs I remember in my malls when I was little not these new boring flat panels malls have now.
I wish I could go and save that TV.
I totally get why you'd want to shake things up. The malls are really fun, but exploring abandoned places in general is actually really interesting, especially given the socioeconomic contexts around them. Exploring an abandoned school, old infrastructure, derelict buildings, even ghost towns are things I'd totally watch! I hope your new phase proves enjoyable for you. I'm looking forward to seeing it. :D
The food court is stuck in the 80s
Concord Mall in Wilmington, Delaware is currently hovering around the low 50's occupancy rate. So not totally dead yet, but it's getting there and it's owned by Namdar, so no one has much hope for it. It is getting propped up by a lot of Mom and Pop joints at this point because no national chains want to lease there, so it's in an interesting phase right now. There have been no significant updates since 1994 so you should really love it. It really began to bleed out when Sears closed in 2020. When Macy's inevitably leaves, the next big bleedout should happen.
I never been to this mall for the four years I attended college in BGSU. In fact, nobody really knew it existed, even 10 years ago.
Why haven't you been here?
@@MultiCreditKIng There was never a need to go there, there was nothing there. Downtown Bowling Green is thriving with independent businesses. The empty mall is across the street from cornfields, the very last part of town. Plus 20 minutes north is affluent suburbs of a city with much more cleaner, diverse, and safer options.
When I attended BGSU in 1998-2002 there used to be a movie theater in the mall. Back then there wasn’t much in it.
@@emvogue79 True. Plus Levis Commons Theater was built shortly after that.
I am a recent graduate from BGSU (2021), and I went to this mall soooo many times! None of my roommates knew about it until we saw a movie there in 2018. It’s actually really fun if your a drunk college student with nothing else better to do. My friends and I would go into the thrift store and create random outfits. I rode in that mini car shown in the video that only took like $0.25! Lol.
I think going to BG during the pandemic actually helped me enjoy this mall more because social distancing didn’t exist in there🤣
Oh the nostalgia blanket :D
1:50 we use to bounce high bouncey balls into that giant overhead skylight. it used to be so much bigger when i was a kid
Another excellent video Ace. I enjoy the wistfulness and some melancholy thoughts of times that have gone by since I too grew up around malls (I'm a early 1960s baby). I can see you looking for new sources of content [even though there are a bazillion malls!]. Did you consider doing some current takes on wedding venues? I know you do many weddings ... it might be a way to get a video out of your wedding DJ gigs. Dunno how many folks other than prospective brides and parents would view it though. There are old transportation systems (trains, ferries, cruise ships) that would also be fun to view. If you stay with malls I will still be entertained and watch your excellent vids!
I'm glad you and Dan Bell are on better terms now.
Your voice is great, it makes you stand out - as soon as one hears it they know who you are. I like your voice. I agree with everyone that anything you put out will be watched and enjoyed because of the quality of your videos. Thanks again and do what you want to do artistically. 👍
Thanks I guess I am hard on myself lol
ty for showing this mall ace's
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Don’t know if you have been to the Mall of Monroe, but would love to see you do a video of that mall seeing that it was a mall of my childhood. It’s in Frenchtown township, Monroe Michigan.
This is sad to see..I used to work here at both Elder Beerman and Fashion Bug in the 90s.
Ah the ole Gilligan's Island episode of Bevis and Butthead. Good times!
Thanks for posting! Great work! I’d like to visit Jasper Mall if I’m ever out that way.
It’s small lol
love your dead mall videos thank you
I used to work as a janitor at this mall a few years ago
Visit Greentree Mall in Clarksville, Indiana. Or Mall St. Matthew's in Louisville,ky
Come to Gadsden Mall in Gadsden Mall it's slowly dying it would be awesome if you checked it out.
Ace we love your content. No matter what it is! You put stuff together so beautifully! Doesn’t matter if it’s malls or any other abandoned or almost closed type places, we’ll take anything! Love your videos as always! 🙌🏼
Thanks for the video . I remember going to the music store called the warehouse in California back in 1994 as a teen and buying single songs on take for 2.99 or on cd for 3.49 or 3.99 . Just one song . Or get a whole album on take for 9.99 or on cd for 13.99 . Good days
Sad!!! Once a very busy little place!
Cool I live in Ohio
I know this video is going on 2 years old, but I would like to suggest checking out the Findlay Village Mall in Findlay, Ohio. It's so dead that the city approved a Raising Canes location that will take up a good chunk of the parking lot.
i think my cousin worked at that former pizza shop in the food court with the red glazed tile, approximately 30 years ago
Our town has a almost dead mall, it's on the dead mall registry. There's a few people that comes to the mall, especially on holidays. Its the Eastridge Mall in Gastonia, NC.
There was a mascot named Woody. If I remember correctly, he was a teddy bear. Across from the movie theater used to be an arcade, and I spent way too much time there as a teenager winning small prizes/stuffed animals and trading up for bigger ones.
Hello Marjorie!!! Yet the Mascot was Woody, my claim to fame there was Powell's Ice Cream, the man owned the place, I made half the payments, I got a milkshake everyday for a couple years.
You do a good job with these videos. What is that I see? An OPEN Sears? That won't last much longer.
It's still a decent building, and BG has grown so much since this Mall was built.
I used to live in Gypsy Lane trailer court, last time I was up tat way I was lost on rt 25 coming into town from Portage, the whole South end of town had changed, a lot, I used to work at Ridge Elementary and then the BGJH school
Great content malls or not. Funny I visited Rogers Arkansas and visited a somewhat dead mall in July 1994 while visiting relatives. Why I call it somewhat dead walmart started renting space for offices as the mall was dying and that in turn helped it along the death march. They ended up buying the mall and slowly stopped renewing leases until when I went there 2 shops remained one was a laundry mat that was attached to the mall but never had an entrance to it and an outbuilding about 20 feet from the laundry that showed movies at a discount rate because they were between the full price theatre and the video realeas hence a cheaper rate like 2 or 3 dollars or so. Had to do laundry and one of the locals told the story to us the laundry mat owner was near the end of his lease and walmart was trying thier best to force him to end the lease early but he was trying to keep it running until the end because he didn't want to pay for a lease without use of it.
Super disapointed in the low quality of my social distancing shirts graphic bro!
Oh my that intro sure brought back memories
Suggestion: Tanglewood Square Mall
I don't even know exactly where it is. It is somewhere in Ohio. I have found very few references to its existence online
Your video footage is always great.I have to mute the audio because, like most of your videos, it’s just you talking about your channel and what it’s meant for, what mall you’re going to next etc. Would love to hear things you personally found interesting about each property because you have a unique point of view. I get trying to boost sub numbers but you’re doing it at the expense of the content.
When you have done this for as long as I have you would understand how this can get mundane
@@AcesAdventures1 oh I absolutely understand that but as a viewer interested in dead mall content I’d like to hear about the mall. No shade intended…just my pov.
Head down to Cincinnati, dead malls everywhere
Been to all of em bro
A few malls you should check out are
Southside Mall in Oneonta, NY. Main interesting feature here is the wood ceiling.
St. Lawrence Centre in Massena, NY. I'm not even sure why it's still open.
Aroostook Centre in Vermont. Looks similar to this mall.
Miami Valley Centre Mall in Piqua Ohio. It's a sister mall to this mall.
I graduated from BGSU in 1983, and I don't recall going to this mall, ever. 73 DE W8LV BILL
the Mall was not open yet, I think it was 86 87 when it opened
Awesome video
Agreed
They still do vendor shows at the mall!
At 3:56 , the white counter and the black cooler.. my dad put those in. Didn’t get paid for it and the business that was there was open for like 2 weeks. I’m sure he’d be pissed to see that…
I wish you could have gotten to Adrian Mall in Adrian Michigan before they closed up that was probably the most interesting mall I have ever been to of all the states I've lived in
Lloyd Center in Portland, OR is a mall begging for someone to visit and do a video on. It is a dying mall and nearly almost dead after it lost its Macys last year. It unfortunately has little aesthetics left since it was remodeled a few years ago but there are still some hints and touches here and there. It opened in 1960 and was considered by some to be the largest mall in the world when it opened. It recently was reveled that the owners of the mall defaulted on their loan so they might not be open as for very much longer.
Ik it’s just so far lol
I'd love to see more west coast malls in general. Especially those north of the LA area. I've never heard of most of the stores in the dead malls I see either. Like Bon Ton. Show me the malls that had an Emporuim Capwell back in the day!
Hey I know this place... "The Small"!
Basically
Please cover the Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth Texas. I used to go there all the time in my early teens.
If ya wanna chip in towards getting there i will go lol
Ace. Please go to the Mall Of Monroe. At one time it had 7 anchors and was the cause of one mall in Toledo Ohio to Close
You mean Northtown Mall?
@@MultiCreditKIng yes North Town Square
Another amazing video
Ty!
My home town. My wedding registry was at that elder beerman anchor store. A jc penny used to be where the dunhams sporting goods store is now. This mall was built in the late 80s, 87 or 88. There was a retail store called Cooks? In the third anchor spot. Or Ames? Forget. This mall's creation wasn't a bad idea, like many other malls where the advent of internet retail and then Walmart and Meijer supercenter stores collectively added nails to the coffin. Very few if they are honest could predict the paradigm shift in shopping that would too soon be occurring.
Third anchor was Hill's, also from BG :)
@@chriscarpenter7137 Hello Chris Carpenter, yes the Hills store was the third, that building was built after the main part was already open, I watched them build it everyday standing or sitting at what was then the back doors near the movie place, I know the carpenter name, I worked in the city schools for 10 years, Ridge, Southmain, and the BGJH on Church St and Wooster,
What year was that ABC Sunday night movie intro from? It was sometime in the 1970s for sure but not sure what year. In the 1980s they had a different guy with a deeper voice.
You have a treasure trove of dead malls to cover in the Hudson Valley of NY: JV Mall, Remains of the Dutchess Mall, Remains of the South Hills Mall, the Aviator Mall and the best Dead/ not dead Mall: Rensselaer Mall. Have always preferred your work over Bells. And don’t forget the Massena Mall, with the abandoned strips center, and fake walls cutting off the dead wing.
Great video Ace! I've been to that mall a couple of times in it's hay day. I watched Beavis and Butt head back in the day too. It was on while i was in college. Me and my buddies had a drinking game we played while it was on! Lol.
I love Beavis and Butthead !!!! ❤️
I live in Elgin, IL and if you ever get to NE Illinois you should check out both Springhill Mall in West Dundee and Stratford Mall in Bloomingdale. Both near death. And to see a closed but still standing mall, drive over to Charlestowne Mall in St. Charles. Illinois’ anti-business atmosphere hasn’t helped any of these. Thanks for your efforts!
Ty!
It might work well to expand to other kinds of spaces with similar aesthetics, to office buildings, old airports, industrial spaces, maybe even parks. A lot of that range would've disappeared awhile back though, as old style independent department stores would have.
I have thought of this
@@AcesAdventures1 even old theaters and such could be interesting. They recently closed an old art deco style theater in the city I live in and it was a real shame.
I was watching the Florida mall video you went live, Maybe a few minutes in and the video stopped with an error message
I wouldn't say the theater closed recently. They closed a while before the pandemic...
Forget Global Warming, We need to save the malls!
The liberals don't like malls. They are a symbol of capitalist repression of the working man.
@@billl1127 You may want to rethink your nonsense. I'm as liberal as they come and I LOVE Malls!