Mall Guts: Fiesta Mall | Retail Archaeology Dead Mall Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- In this episode we check out the guts of Fiesta Mall, a dead mall in Mesa, AZ!
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A few years ago, my friends and I snuck in one of those doors at our mall and ended up finding the "basement" floor of the mall. It was super creepy because it had the same layout as the main floor except it was pitch black, super dusty and empty. The mall wasn't small either. But recently they decided to use that space to build an underground parking
What was the mall called
More mall guts please! No one else does it really, so why not you. Those corridors were creepy. Why do they make them so creepy?
Donald Ingram What are they supposed to look like not to look creepy?
I was waiting for a guy wearing sunglasses, leather jacket and carrying a box of longstem roses to come around the corner!
I remember going on a field trip while I was in girl scouts. We were going to make our own pretzels in a pretzel store and we went into one of these hallways in order to get inside of the kitchen. Very interesting experience!
Wow that was some awesome stuff. I would like to see more of that for sure if you can. Amazing you didn't run into any aliens in the back room, or in the halls of the service corridor. There is probably some crocodiles in the sewer though...
Sad seeing Fiesta Mall in such horrible shape. That was my spot in the late 80's and 90's. I have watched all your videos for this mall and they are great. It will be sad when she is gone.
Not to be weird but you would be a great voice on the radio. So chilled out but clear.
If a mall employee misbehaves do they get sent to the Management Office?
I worked at the mall in the past and I loved working "behind the scenes" in the secret corridors of the mall. I still go through them when I shop just to avoid the crowd.
crowd??? didn't see that
The mall near me is still popping and it's super crowded. Thus, I use the corridors to avoid them. I haven't worked at this particular mall; I don't live in Arizona.
Capybaraism They just let you go into the corridors? You don't need any of employee card or pass?
Well, technically- they are also escape routes if there is a fire in the mall. There are usually emergency firehoses and ‘EXIT’ signs on backup in the hallways, so as long as you appear to belong back there, you probably won’t get stopped. It’s when you wander around back there like you have no idea where you’re going that you might get questioned. I’ve worked in 6 different malls and we used to take lunch breaks and smoke breaks in those hallways all the time just to avoid the traffic in the mall. The service corridors around the food courts/restaurants are usually loaded with rats and mice! Lol!
I used to work in a mall, and those corridors can take you anywhere if you know which way to go. And the delivery services sometimes need maps!
I've been a commercial air-conditioning guy for 27 years. I've walked through and over a lot of malls and I'll tell you , you can go just about anywhere you like if you act like you belong there. One of one of my boldest was I walked through employees only doors at the MGM Casino in Las Vegas. Made it all the way to backstage before I got scared and bailed
My friend in the army got onto the set of a major motion picture by showing his military ID.
I've been down around the backstage area of the MGM casino because they rent out the food court to a outside company and MGM requires all outside employees to get a ID badge
I'd like to see more of what we can't see. Thanks for posting.
Apparently, the security desk is no longer monitoring the camera system in those hallways.
Good thing there wasn't a Terminator T1000 back there.
I'm surprised Fiesta Mall isn't closed by now.
I get a very Mirror's Edge vibe from there corridors, I love it.
Worked at malls for years very familiar with those service corridors and back hallways walked them many times!
Reminds me of the back halls of the mall in Silent Hill 3.
I was of the mall-kid generation. My mom & dad took me there to shop, eat, see Santa at Christmas, etc.… As a teenager, we hung out in the Food Court, the in-mall Movie Theater, Spencer’s Gifts, & even the Arcade. In late years, I worked for a local telecom (phone company), and we serviced some of the very same malls. This provided me with the opportunity to see the service corridors of mall, much like what you’ve shown in this video. Sort of a peak behind the curtain, to see how the mall really operates.
The phone rooms of the larger malls were pretty darn awesome. Usually, tucked away in a forgotten about room, also used for the storage of season decorations. They are the heart of the mall, where all of the voice & data services coalesce. There were also distribution closets scattered throughout the mall, and on different levels. Typically, the anchor stores had their own dedicated phone room onsite. I remember one mall in particular that had a dual exit elevator, with the rear door providing access to the phone room. It took a special key to open the rear elevator door, but the lock was so worn, that any key or screwdriver could activated it!
It always struck me funny, how well protected the customer entrances & retail stores were, but the back corridors & exits of most malls had little or no security, for all of those years. You could put-on a tool belt with some basic hand tools, carry a Milwaukee tool case, and walk right in the back of a mall, and no one would ask any questions…. Security Guards would even unlock doors, without as much as a glance or second thought. Albeit those were different times compared to today, nevertheless I still found it surprising…. especially from a consumer’s perspective how ‘open’ things really were at most enclosed malls.
i worked at that Sbarros and also at the Subway in 2006. Also Auntie Annes in 2004. Seeing the footage of those hallways is bringing me back so much nostalgia of my teens and 20s...who is cutting onions?? :;)
Dude that was so cool!!! By all means keep filming mall guts!!!
I worked at a couple different locations in fiesta about 6 yrs ago on the south side, MAN do those purple walls bring back memories!
I worked for a small clothing store and we used to have photoshoots with those walls hahaha!
Dude, the music is making me expect you to find Resident Evil zombie dogs around the corner 😮
Great vid! More guts please.
Interesting stuff. Kinda reminded me of the year I spent working in the local mall when I was in high school. Would be nice to see more.
This video was truly unbelievable to watch! Loved every second of it! Big like!
Awesome ! One of the best channels.
It's all going away soon so it's great you captured all of this. I went to check it out for myself after hearing about it being almost dead and subsequently watching your videos, was not disappointed by how disappointing it was.
I definitely want more mall guts videos! Awesome!
So interesting! I don't recall ever going in one of the service corridors when I worked at Forever 21 so it was cool to see this. I like the colors that they have for each one!
As always, Interesting video. I would love to see more videos like this one. Thanks for your efforts.
Fantastic video. The back corridors have a very Mirror's Edge feel to them.
Great job. I couldn't believe you had the balls to go inside that former AT&T store at the end of the video, wow! I'd be a little afraid of getting caught by mall security doing exploration like you did to not do that myself, but that's just me. That said, I still greatly enjoyed this video. Just goes to show Fiesta Mall security didn't give much of a crap during its final months, and that I'm glad you filmed it to preserve the memory of it. For the record, ironically the only 2 times I was kicked of a mall(only both times to reenter later in one of the anchor stores, and the guards never noticed me again) was on the last day of Evergreen Plaza, and also Charlestowne Mall. It's weird to me that happened, since I regularly try to take careful steps to remain very discrete while taking pics quietly inside malls.
Dead malls are weird, since usually that's more often where I've had run ins with security over discrete photo taking on an infrequent basis. For whatever reason at very busy malls, I've never had that problem....
Our mall in my town doesn't have these. All the back of the stores open to the outside. So this was cool to see
Oh man, this takes me back to working at Arrowhead mall. I used have to use the corridors to move trash to the main trash compactors.
I don't know why these dead mall videos are so fascinating to me...
This is amazing!!
Cool, please more
9:16: I was expecting an alarm to start ringing in the whole mall XD
this is eerily like Dan Bells style.
This is so cool!
This was fun thank you
l would love to see more of these videos they are very interesting gives a new take on dead malls.
I've always wanted to see the secret hallways this is so fascinating haha
Great video!!!
Great tour... Sad to see, malls, in this way, but, your Vids are great.
Really awesome video! You don't get to see stuff like this too often. Looks really creepy
scary door sound made me jump. I had headphones on.
I enjoyed it and would like to see more mall guts.
Don't know if he's done it yet, but I know Skyvator had been planning to cover the freight elevators. In Chandler, it was a mall rule that employees cannot enter/exit the mall their own store's mall entrance unless it was their day off. At Sears, it was an LP rule that we could only enter/exit the store through Merchandise Pick Up. We exit and then either had to nake a hard left and enter the nall through the service doors, or go to the food court/valet doors. We could also use the service doors down there, which take you past the security office. One time I went downstairs in the service corridor and used it to go to Robinson's May since it was Christmas. Felt like Ghostbusters could start at any minute!
The mall management office once bought some sheer curtains and scarves from me to decorate the office windows. The mall was brand spanking new. The lady liked what I had done on one of the window displays by braiding 3 of the 6 yard scarves together in the exact same colors and styles I used because it was exactly what would work for them and braiding was creative use.
Would love more videos on mall guts
I kinda miss going down those halls. I used to deliver there and at Superstition springs mall. Anyone can go down those halls, and they are wider. the only good long hall is behind the theater.
I would like to see behind that fancy wooden restaurant door on the north side of the mall next to the entrance.
IMRROcom You and me both! I'm working on it 😀
Oh yeah! Awesome mall guts! Be careful of course but please show us more! Food court guts perhaps or the guts of an old Sears or Macy's or some major store that's closed.😀
I worked at the mall when I was 19, taking the employee entrance, taking out the trash, I was quite familiar with the service corridors
I expect to see the T-800 any minute.
Gotta do a Mall Guts at Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall. Some really cool corridors and hidden passage ways.
That was cool man.
James Robinson I'm glad you enjoyed it 😁
I've filmed all the freight elevators there except the Purple Freight. I hope to film that last one sometime soon.
Great video you are braver than me I would be scared to just go down the staff corridors. Here in the UK many are protected with passes to open the doors as it would be easy for someone to use them to get into the back of the stores and rob them and could be a security threat which is strange as you guys are usually all over the security threats.
As an aside your voice is so suited to a late night radio phone in where people tell you all their problems, they used to be common on radio in the 90's
this was amazing, maybe you can try to go in the Sears employees section.
Ugames 332 that would require permission to be legal. #Employees only
Reminds me of hallways and environments in Half Life 1 and 2
Wait was that the music from Decap Attack in the beginning? I like this already lol
I'm very familiar with the service entrances at my local mall The Bangor Mall in Bangor, Maine as I've done some construction work here renovating older stores and complete gut out for new stores coming in had to use these service entrances to remove demolition debris to the dumpsters and to get to and from the stores under construction as mall staff and security didn't want us construction workers using main parts of the mall for safety reasons
interesting. as a fellow bangor resident it would be interesting seeing some of that.
More Please!
jeez! did they have a sale on avocado green paint or something?? 0_0
those back corridors look a lot cleaner then the ones at Scottsdale Fashion mall but that's maybe because its been out of major use. The back corroders behind the food court was always especially gross. I had to use them a lot when I worked for UPS at the mall. image trying to navigating palette carts loaded higher then your head with packages through those hallways while other people are walking around and you have garbage piled at spots.
great video.
More!!!!
wow it's very interesting thing to see malls shuttered there doors like that i was just at my kmart by my house and they got rid of little Cesar's and. had blowout sales and only 5 people in there and only employees just putting stuff out.
Really interesting video. It felt something out of Silent Hill lol. But I noticed that there seem to be a protocol for closed stores like the breaker panels with the open lid.
very nice, man. keep it up. i'd def like to see more videos like this from you!
actually, if you could fo a video exploring the maintenance and engineering sections of the malls, like where the ac units or boiler rooms are, that'd be cool.
I actually have been in the service access corridor of my local mall. I didn't work there or anything at the time and it's since been remodeled so, I don't know if you can still get into the mall this way, but my sister and her friends always used to enter the mall through one of those service access corridors. I don't know why, though. In the end, it just led out to the food court and we'd just walk around the mall normally at that point. It was kinda creepy, though. It wasn't well lit and there were all types of graffiti back there.
Yes -depending on the law a bathroom has to be x number of feet away from the place of work and all must be extra large and handicap accessible even if a wheel chair will never roll into one. Since mall rent is paid by the square foot and some retail can be easily a hundred dollars a square foot per year you can see how many small businesses are impacted. I had offices in malls and elsewhere for well over 20 years and never once were the extra large grand bathrooms needed. Whoever it was who would take that first dump - it would be the most expensive bowel movement in history.
John jon I kind of have a similar story from my dad's business. When he was in a smaller building when I was a kid he had room for four parking spots out front but he never actually painted the lines for the spots. He decided he wanted to go ahead and paint the spots so he painted the lines for four spots and had one of them designated as a handicap spot and thought that would be fine. A few days later an inspector came by and said that the law requires that all marked parking lots must have at least 3 handicap spaces. So basically he told my dad the three of his four parking spaces must be handicap spaces. So we just took the pressure washer out and sprayed all the paint off instead and didn't have marked parking spaces.
Yes -typical government crap. They always have to insinuate themselves into every aspect of your life including how much water you use to flush a toilet -regardless of the extremely wet area where you live and have a business everywhere is southern California to these morons.
Retail Archaeology Stories like this should make everyone want to become a Libertarian....sadly they do not.
that's interesting, you must have had someone monitoring that bathroom from the inside at all operating hours to be so sure no one ever needed to use the disabled stall. also you must not know anyone disabled, no friends or family, even someone temporarily that had to use a wheelchair or crutches.
Wrong on all counts I always knew who was in my office and so did the supervisors so no 10 thousand dollar turds were ever taken sorry to disappoint you. You tend to know these things when you actually pay for them
oh my god I've always wanted to know
It Humored me that you were wearing a B&W Stripe Shirt like a Bank Robber. Too bad you didn't find the Mall Safe and Crack into it ;) LOL
Awesome video! How were you able to get in and wander around without security kicking you out?
Nice video, sure great to see more stuff like this, but would hate for you to get throw in the pokey or get hurt, but I bet it's fun to do! Be careful.
Thanks for the footage, it was really interesting to see what its like on the other side. Just wondering, do the security guards know you're face? Like see you and go oh god not you again?
Lee Lee I don't think so, but who knows 😀
Not saying you should do this, but so long as there's no sign denying you admittance, I've never been questioned for using these access corridors. These halls are why you don't typically see UPS, phone company, renovators etc. moving through the mall. Greendale mall in particular, owners put overflow spaces where there is no mall access -- dozens of customers use these access halls to reach the mezzanine.
What's the first song her uses when he's walking through the corridor called?
Al Bundy had a bathroom in the shoe store.
I also said "Oh shit!" at 5:58!
My local mall. The public bathrooms are located in these hallways.
wow
Patreon link on your video is broke. It says archaeolog instead of archaeology.
Fixed it 😀 Thank you!
cool
what was the temperature out there like? was it cool or hot?
Fiesta Mall may have long outlasted the Sabra Shopping Network, but... does any of the cheap electronics left to sell in Fiesta Mall have Sony Guts or Toshiba Guts!?
This reminds me of Silent Hill 4 The Room.
What was that store you went into called when it was open?
at&t
These sterile brightly painted corridors look like something out of Mirror's Edge.
Vinesauce Obscurities I still need to play Mirrors Edge.
I love that game
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chronicfatigue I was wondering how long it was going to take for someone to make this comment 😀
looks like mirrors edge, no joke.
Farrowstrike looks like mission 2 inside the building once the enemys chase you but you spy on them
I saw some girls at Chandler fashion center go into one of those rooms and they were doing random TikTok’s
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Retail Archaeology do you have a timeline/thought on when these malls started to fall away? Is there a year when it become apparent things ain't what they used to be in retail? I'm curious because we in Australia are building bigger enclosed shopping centres even though we have a fraction of your population)21 million versus 300 million) and the on-line shopping migration is in full swing. Appreciate your thoughts and thanks for the videos.
@ Stephen - The problem we have in the US is two things. 1) Retail is overbuilt. There are an overabundance of strip malls, malls, and other retail. I have seen a new strip malls being built across the street from a vacant ones.
2) Over the past 15 years, most retailers have progressed toward standalone buildings that have a uniform layout. Gone are the days when a pharmacy would occupy a space in a strip mall. Now all stores of a certain brand need stand alone stores with a cookiecutter design.
stephen connell it seems to have slowly started around 2008ish and is really comming to a head now. I think the biggest issue is that commercial and retail properties have been way over built starting in the late 90s.
walgreens used to be a mall store more than stand alone.. now they are their own building
The big difference with Australian malls / shopping centres is that we have supermarkets and other fresh food / grocery retailers in them, as well as discount department stores like Kmart, Target etc. those sorts of stores in the US / Canada don't tend to be found in malls most of the time where in Australia they take most of the anchor spots.
We've still had a similar boom in outdoor shopping complexes but generally in the form of "bulky goods centres" or "Home-maker Centres" dominated by furniture, garden, pet supplies and hardware retailers.
huh
Reddog098 yup
Retail Archaeology oh my god you actually responded thank you
Lucky that you didn't come across any Terminators.
when are u gonna collab with Ace?
Sonny S The opportunity hasn't really presented itself yet. We're on opposite sides of the country. I do have travel planned soon but it's to go north and west. Anthony is east.
North and west? I could probably give you some hints for Utah, Idaho, Oregon.
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