#47 ABANDONED Madison Square Mall - lots of memories...
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I visited this mall often in my early - late teen years...It's weird seeing it like this - very sad.
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Sadly, a 'dead mall' video finally hits a mall that was very near and dear to me as a youngster. Spent so much time here, especially as a teenager. More memories than I could hope to count. Thanks for the video!
There’s just something about dead malls that seem so fascinating to me. I think it has to do with all the memories that were created there. And when you go back in time to see what the mall was like along time ago I think that is really cool.
Rick tell Bekah her video photography is excellent, she keeps her hands still when she pans through while filming....love your videos!!
The alarm gives it like a post apocalyptic kinda vibe. Like y'all have survived & are scavenging in the mall.
Moxie Bluebird : I wonder if they can pull the plug on the siren?
moonbeam537 they probably couldve with the breaker. But what idiot would run out the fire exit, and i wonder hoe long its been going on for.
The Victoria Secret was that store that had the pink polka dots on the wall. It was attached to the black walled store that had all those chairs in it. All of that was Victoria's & the polka dot room was where they had there "Pink" labeled items. Pretty sure.
I'm 17 now and watching this sorta makes me sick. I remember coming here when I was 2 all the way until I was a teen. To see massive part of your childhood in ruins leaves you feeling weird. It's a really uncomfortable feeling. Like you've lost a family member you never knew. I remember going to the glow in the dark mini golf for a couple birthday parties and then going to the food court after. Sad
It’s honestly crazy to me, I used to go this mall all the time. It had many people. Then bridge steer came and it gradually started going more and more downhill. I remember the alarm going off when I was at Sears before it closed. Thank you so much for doing this vid. It bring back so many memories:)
seeing this mall like this breaks my heart. I grew up in Franklin County TN and this mall was my childhood hangout. My mom passed away last year and she and I would make trips to Huntsville every month and this mall was our spot. I got my ears pierced at that Claires. Mom bought me a new comforter bed set at the JCPennys there when I was a teenager. We did all our Christmas shopping here. I built memories with my family here and it breaks my heart to see it gone.
Thanks for sharing your memories. Good times.
very nice explore! I love exploring abandoned malls/retail always brings back memories!
A shame more and more indoor malls close ;/
the fire alarms were on because they needed to drain the control panels battery
Not surprised. Looking at the area it's in, Huntsville, Alabama. It's not in a dense population, tons of spaced out everything, open fields of nothing surrounding the mall. Where I live, the malls are surrounded by people, neighborhoods, in a veryyy packed dense population so malls don't have that problem about staying in business.
Ocean You're pretty right about Everything spaced out. When this mall was being constructed, it was literally a field with one road. That specific area now is very bustling.
In Texas, there are plenty of malls that were built far outside of Houston and Dallas, and they always are the most dominant and successful, and typically kill off the older ones closer to the center, due to the fact that they lack the issues of crime.
The Valley View Mall, just outside of Dallas (LBJ and Preston) is about to be shut down, as well. The owner's plans are to demolish the mall and turn it into an upscale mixed shopping/living district, rebuilding the Mall AMC into it's own building (AMC had a long term contract with the mall).
It's looking like late 2017 may be the earliest before the mall officially shuts down.
Same exact story for this mall. Sounds like that's what they are doing all over the place.
Well the other mall here in Huntsville just totally killed madison squares revenue, we also so the emergence of bridge street just down the road that offered more stores and as a more enticing venue
The Sbarro you were thinking of was on the side with the arcade, next to the China King if I'm remembering correctly. I remember I'd always hop in the arcade after looking around FYE, play some Initial D, then get a slice or two at Sbarro before going home.
I actually went here sometime around June last year and it was already pretty much a ghost town with just a few shoe stores open. Even though it's been slowly going downhill for the past ten years it's still pretty sad to see it go.
Thanks for sharing your memories of this place. Shame it's being torn down as we type ...
That alarm is the same type as the 9/11 video where the camera man walks in the building. Pretty scary sound.
Yes it is the same alarm. I've seen that video. Spooky.
Nancy Darling No it isn’t.
No, similar that is a simplex voice evacuation the WTC has a cebrious pyrotronics Siemens
Sir Goofle McNutt yes you are right about that alarm creepy just like the alarms from 9/11. It dose that alarm and then goes Ding ding ding ding then The alarm then ding ding ding ding agin.
Sirendude744 Cincinnati how many batteries does it hold, nerd?
@ 27:30 I loved that play ground. It was weird that the whole thing was plastic but it was like a miniature huntsville with the rocket, the big spring bridge, etc. super fun.
Such a shame to see that place almost empty :\ Times really change
Wish I could have explored it.
This is one of the coolest abandoned mall videos I've ever seen. In all my exploring I wish I could have gone here of all places
YEA I GREW UP TO THE "SUPER MALL" THERE TOO A LOT OF GREAT MEMORIES THERE I LIKE YOU MOVED AWAY ABOUT THE SAME TIME RIGHT BEFORE THEY DEMOLISHED IT AND STARTED A NEW LIFE SOMEWHERE ELSE NOT TO FAR FROM HUNTSVILLE ;) BOUT 23 YEARS AGO I MISS THE OLD LIFE THERE BUT AS THE OLD SAYING GOES EVERYTHING CHANGES AND WE CANT STAY STUCK IN THE PAST EVERYONE MUST MOVE ON TO THE FUTURE BUT I STILL LOVE HUNTSVILLE HADNT BEEN THERE IN A FEW YEARS BUT ILL BE BACK TO VISIT SOON ENOUGH AND YOU NEVER KNOW I MIGHT MOVE BACK SOME DAY LOLS BUT ITS JUST THE SAME EITHER WAY HUNTSVILLE WILL ALWAYS BE MY HOME TOWN AND ILL ALWAYS LOVE HUNTSVILLE AND ITS BECAUSE OF HUNTSVILLE THAT I AM THE DECENT AND SUCCESSFUL MAN THAT I HAVE BECOME TODAY AND I HONESTLY OWE THAT TO HUNTSVILLE AND I GRATEFULLY THANK THEM FOR THAT!!!! THANK YOU HUNTSVILLE ;)!!!!!!!! I LOVE YA, AND I'LL SEE YOU SOON!!!!!!! AND REMEMBER, KEEP HUNTSVILLE BEAUTIFUL ;)!!!!!!!!!!!!
i knew that name sounded familiar, madison square, then i realized, i was stationed at redstone arsenal in huntsville....lol...ty for the video! It's sad to see it like that
Our mall had a business dating to 1985 that moved out 3 years ago because the rent was too high. They moved into another 1/2 dead mall. Give them a rent break for being practically the only business there. Old Navy moved out, but Red Robin moved in. Weird.
This is my hometown, huntsville.. Thanks so much. great vid.
hsvguy45 you need to find someone that worked where that Chic fa La was. They might no what was up those stairs. Then you could share it on here.
I remember my dad and sister got stuck on that elevator on Black Friday years ago. Pretty much grew up in that mall thanks for the video❤️
I am absolutely fascinated by abandoned places especially malls and theme parks!!!
14:58 ... Victoria's Secret that I worked at for 4 years..... /sigh
And now that mall is completely destroyed. Demolished. Flattened.
Thanks for the video bro.. I miss our mall.. SOO MANY MEMORIES!
Anything being built in its place now ?
The area at 10:26 my cousin had CRAZY business with a little airbrush kiosk. You could bring a clothing item, write your order, pick it up in 2 days with a FRESH early 2000s style design.
Mega fresh
Reminds me of my childhood walking around the malls with my family. Every Friday we went to a mall just to get dinner and walk around the stores. Thanks for managing to fit this in your schedule!
I think Dan Bell did a Video on this Mall when it went dead. This Mall is so beautiful. Thankyou for sharing your Memories. I used to frequent the Methuen Mall in Methuen MA in the late 70s, 80s and 90s alot and have alot of fond Memories. Methuen Mall closed down in the mid 90s and was demolished in 1999. The Malls are slowly dying out due to Internet Shopping, Wal-Mart, Target. It's sad. I can't believe they left the Boxes of Reeses lying round like that. Wow! Great Video! Bright Blessings to you and Beckah Rick! Blessed Be! 🌛🌝🌜
I've seen everyone of Dan Bell's dead mall videos in the series, he never went here
I just checked. He didn't do this one for sure.
H.H. foxaddict, I thought he may have gone there. Thanks for the Thumbs up!
Rick & Bekah, thankyou I thought he did.This Mall is in Alabama is it not?
It's Huntsville Al. I looked at his channel. Couldn't find this one. Have a link ?
There are quite a lot of these abandoned malls all across America. A lot I grew up with (one in particular) in my area have been torn down, replaced or reused as office space...it is quite the American phenomena. An interesting part of our cultural history really. I watched an interesting documentary about the rise and fall of Mall across America. Really interesting stuff. I miss them.
Do you have a link to that documentary?
This might be it:
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/temples-american-commerce-indoor-malls-lose-shoppers-e-stores/
NO that's not it...too short...the one I'm thinking of was at least 1/2 hr. will try to find it. Think this might just be part of the same one tho.
NO that is what I was thinking of, when i saw it on TV I think it was part of a larger program.
Okay, this was so cool! I moved to Huntsville in 2001. I worked at American Cafe (aka Am Caf) and Yankee Candle! I haven't been in there since I left in 2006. I heard AmCaf just closed down with no notice. Even the GM didn't know. They all showed up and the doors were locked! But I was a bartender and server there. The food was great! And I really loved working there. Great times! Thanks for going inside. So sad to see it in that condition. Wow!
My girls grew up in that mall for 5 years. So many great memories. The fashion show you mentioned, we were there! And they loved Time Out! Also, the smoothie place was my fave! I loved their peach banana smoothie. Lol
I am back in Cali now but got to visit Huntsville in 2018 and drive by the old mall location and saw it was completely demo'd and something new was in it's place. So sad. :(
Oh dear God, I used to work at AmCaf (Mozzarella's) back in 1995-1996. Got into a fight with a loudmouth cook and was fired on the spot, but not before I poured a pan of Alfredo sauce on his head. LOL so many great memories.
That store you were in at the very beginning was Mcrae's. It closed 10+ years prior to the mall closing they completely sheet rocked over the inside top and bottom floor entrances. See it at 22:59
10:04 Turning left would have one TEAM store on left, and then hit sheetrock from Mcraes.
11:49 Big store in front was a Hallmark then became a glow in the dark golf place, a few years before the closing of the mall.
12:46 was a smoothie stand it, it closed years before the mall closed.
13:01 obvious jewelry store to the left.
13:07 was a coffee shop that had been closed for 10+ years.
The store next to it was a bathroom showcase "store" and before that used sale nik-naks i believe or was it candy, that closed way before i could remember, only remember the distinct rainbow esque tile, that was still in there behind the show case curtain.
13:19 was a finish line.
14:31 was a Disney store it too closed years before the mall closed, was later rented out during Halloween for a "spook house".
14:43 was men boutique closing store for more ethnic tastes.
14:56 was a Victoria's Secret and across from that was an American Eagle.
16:55 clockwise, was a nail place, master cuts, and Buffalo Wild wings, i believe a white collar loan place (IDK), salon, and wet seal(they were giving away clothes when the company went under lol).
17:02 Right hand side Top and Bottom where Jewelry stores. Middle was upper and bottom level of Dillard's. Left Top was a boutique for purses and perfumes and bottom was a few things, but Alabama/Auburn store and then a another salon/haircut place from my memory.
17:54 nik-naks and board games store.
18:01 clock wise, Canvas, Gymboree , and right side NY&Company(dont quote me), and The Barn Candle Co.
18:21 3 stores on the left jumped hands so many times, one in the middle was a maternity clothing store.
18:36 Great American Cookie, or something. To the left of it was Charlotte Russe(dont quote me).
18:52 On left was Oxford Street, the oldest "non-anchor" store in the mall was there since the 80's i believe. (was a suit store).
18:54 store in middle was an EB Games.
19:07 It was a bouquet like place it switch hands many times.
19:25 In the center of that plaza area used to be a crossed escalator. They removed it, when they renovated the mall.
19:29 Was a Parisians till Belk bought them out, it had extra floor in it between the first and second, it was pretty cool.
19:40 big store on right, switched hands so many times, was seasonal store (christmas), then Car Showcase, and mens boutique.
store on the left was a Kirklands type store, dont think it was Kirklands.
19:51 Place in the left corner was an office not a store, and the place on the right switch hands many times, i believe it was a place where they sold place sets like those massive backyards forts with swings on side.
21:33 GMC, ABC Toys, RadioShack, Claire's, Verizon.
21:39 was a Dillard's Mens at one point it changed hands a few times before closing perm.
21:41 Right side first was that TOP LEFT boutique from 17:02, childrens place(i think), oriental express or something, old Pac Sun(close 10 - 15 years before hand), then the high end childrens place next to the jewelry place seen at 35:58.
21:44 Left side, spa place(), City Gear, Pretzel place, bookstore(non brand), photography place, Yankee Candle, and Hibbetts. Skip over the left turn, Journeys, Spencers, and a baked goods/smoothie place(on the outside of the food court.) turn left you start going into the food court. The furthest store with the blue and red strips was a Star Bucks at one point and then a shoe store.
22:40 There is a store in between the old Star Bucks and Sears, it was an Art Gallery.
22:55 was the final resting place of the computer store you mentioned it used to be a jewelry store before hand.
23:23 - 23:29 LIDS, another Team store,a nail place i believe, GameStop, and KB toys.
28:11 outside you had Right to left American Cafe(IDK), FYE, wedding store/suit rental and then back to Hibbetts.
32:58 IS a big skip to the otherside of the mall, in Cinnabon, across was a jewelry store(not shown to the right was a high end childrens store mentioned above), to the left was the OG Victoria's Secret spot that became a Shop Dept Encore which stretched to the JC PENNY's seen earlier (TOP floor).
* GAP IN VIDEO TOP FLOOR Between Elevator and JC PENNY"S was skipped (except for the above Cinnabon).
Between the elevator, on the left side first was Men's Dillards, high end womens botique store, Aeropostale, a movie store that sold anime stuff, reg movies and nsfw movies(hardcore FYE) and one other store in between it and Cinnabon. Past Cinnabon on the left side of the mall you get Parisians/Belk then across the way going towards JCPENNYS you have an old ATT/Cingular store, womens boutiuqe store, a gothy/alt makeup place, CMI computers OG spot, and Mark's Imports, then JC Pennys.
FOOD COURT FROM RIGHT TO LEFT IN A CIRCLE:
Greek Gyro
Arby's then a massage place
Bathrooms
Subway
Cajun Grill
Taco Bell
Sukuros, Japanese Grill
Chick-fil a
Random Burger place changed hands quite a few times
Same for the next one after that.
And that big white spot at the far end was McDonalds It closed 15+ years before the mall closed.
American Restaurant, i think thats what it was called, later used to store unused Arcade Machines.
27:13 You can see the Arcade, Called Time-Out and then something else after they changed owners.
27:47 Sbarros and to left of that China Wok, it wasn't shown, next to that was a candy place.
note when i say boutique that is just a guess i was younger and didn't care too much about women's clothing or brands.
Why the hell did i just type all this...
Just for documentation purposes, plus i grew up in that mall and loved it.
Wow very detailed. Thank you !
This breaks my heart, i used to go there all the time as a kid, my dad used to work there and we'd go vidut him on weekends
whats taking the fire department so long.
Ryan Thompson Thompson probably a disconnected phone or internet line that hooks to the alarm panel.
That alarm is creepy.
Poor Becca looked so cold at the end. And tired. You know everything left will be there until the mall,is torn down. How did you get in? That alarm must have been driving you bonkers. Nice video.
It wasn't pleasant lol but we still enjoyed it. Yeah poor Bekah was cold.
Omg, it sounds like a zombie apocalypse lol.
That's pretty cool, I would want to ride my bike through the mall.
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I was there in madison Square mall from 2007 to 2016. It went from kinda lively, to very dead in the final years.
The mall is now long gone, and destroyed. Not it;'s just a movie place that is left out of the mall area, and a newly built golf-thing.
14:36 I think that used to be the old Disney store. I just remember wanting W.I.T.C.H merch from there
22:35 I think you went in there with all the spotted wallpaper
very sad. I am surprise the FD wasn;t there because usually alarms in commercial places are connected to the FD.
Could have been to possibly keep people out
That works well.
I went several times as a teenager and in my 20's. sad to see it abandoned.
The alarm makes it feel creepy...like a horror movie.
this was so cool and my first abandoned mall vid where like you said, there wasn't any vandalism yet .... really great job guys and you did your best to deal with the issue of the alarm affecting your taping . It is so sad to see the mall experience where teens meet up and hang or families gone by the way side ... we would spend so much time there before going to the movies etc (not at this mall) .. I just hate all the huge corporate companies squishing all the smaller really specialty stores...bummer and the malls are so huge and overwhelming now ...not like these ones .
The fire alarm I remember from the 9/11 videos. Very creepy. But the fire alarms made the video much more interesting as in "Who left the alarm on?". Great Video.
If you look close enough you can almost see your child self walking through this exact place.
I'm so very surprised actually how the mall stayed so clean and tidy. Thank you for sharing the tour of the abandoned Madison square Mall it's very fascinating.
God I miss this place, so many weekends were spent here
Awesome, man! One of your coolest videos.
The alarm makes it creepy. That should be a thing in a horror movie, or something.
Still a nice mall, shame it's no longer open. I couldn't believe it when the elevator opened up, WHY IN THE HECK WOULD YOU COVER UP THAT AMAZING SKYLIGHT IN THAT RESTAURANT??!!!, Props to you for staying there and dealing with that fire alarm I'm sure your ears were probably still ringing for awhile after you left, I've also never seen an escalator layout like that before (the escalators in Belk) that was different. Plus you don't need to worry about battery power the mall clearly still has power all you had to do was find an outlet lol!
awesome explore man ... very apocalyptic
always something very sad about deserted buildings, it was interesting to see inside before someone went with their cans of paint,I expect the land will be sold and another type of building will take the shopping malls place.
Something ugly and stylish , no doubt..
there was some very nice Emerson's Fans to in maybe it was hottopic we got 4 of them each costs like $500 and bunch of other things probably left with $2000 worth that was a good cold day. PS we took most of everything we could yall should of went in the back rooms and found the security room lol and the arcade room is where we left most of what we didnt take but we got the neon fans out of there and repaired them they work great visit my cousins page (thfanman).
i love this video! the alarm thing is epic. subscribed....btw you two are blessed such a cute couple 😊
Thanks! Glad you liked the alarm. Made it very eerie. 🚨
Next time you are back in TN, check out the Knoxville Center Mall. It closed completely Jan. 2020, but has been dead for years. Would be a great explore!
I love you're videos thank you for all the abandoned places you take me i always feel like I'm there with you guy's
Why was the alarm going off ? I may have missed that. Great video!
That's really cool. Other than my military and contracting time between 2003 and 2012 I lived in Huntsville. I, like you, hadn't been in the mall for years even after I lived back in Huntsville. The last time I was in the mall I bought a tool kit from Sears in 2009. It's really cool to see what the mall looked like right before it's demise. I use to do some abandoned store exploring in high school so this is pretty cool to see.
I would love to see some video of this mall in it's prime.
My buddy and I lived in Sherwood Park growing up and used to ride our motorcycles through the woods to the construction site when they were building it (lots of hills and stuff for dirt bikes)...and I watched a year or so ago when they tore it town...it was actually a pretty sad scene...my playing "I Remember You" by Skid Row didn't help matters any :P
TONS AND TONS of memories at this mall....thanks for posting this.
When my brother went to Space Camp in 1994, We stayed at the Holiday Inn next to this Mall. I played Donkey Kong Country for the first time at the Sears.
Your video is Awsome and great work. I'm from Jamestown, N.Y. and the mall near by (warren mall in P.A) has only 2 stores left after Kmart left everyone else followed suit. You too inspire me cause I love old abandoned houses, hospitals, and jails. Please keep up the great work. Thanks, Rick C.
Thank you both, for narrating over that crazy, loud alarm (although I'm sorry that you guys had to listen to it!) & for braving that cold! I'm a new subscriber to your channel & so far, loving your work~ you two make an awesome team! You've even inspired my husband & I to consider getting out there & exploring too :) Thanks again for the amazing videos, your hard work & dedication ~ Lisa- from Maryland
We are glad we inspired you! Just be really careful out there, there are actually a lot of places we do not go to because of the area or because of instinct. :)
aT 21:29 That is a hydrolic elevator. It was low on fluid which is why it was slow going up. Probably went down quicker.
It closed about two weeks after you uploaded this.
Great video. I went to this mall alot, sad to see what happened to it. It was still doing ok up until a few years ago. Last time I was in the mall many of the stores had already closed. A few things I want to point out:
The store at 14:28 used to be a Disney store. It closed a long time ago and no one else ever took it over.
The Software, ect. was located near the Sears, right in front of the Food Court. It later became a Gamestop.
The CMI Computer store later moved to the store at 22:42.
The Time-Out eventually closed and a video game store called Classic Game Vault took it's place. They had arcade machines you could play where you were standing at 28:15.
Thanks for the extra info Brett.
the elevator was slow because the hydraulic oil that powers the piston that moves the elevator was probaly hot which is bad
I was thinking it's low on fluid.
Have you guys ever been arrested or caught? I'm a new subbie 🙋🏾
Nope. :)
Grew up in Alabama particularly the Limestone/Madison County area, and this mall had a lot of fond memories for me. Last time I went was back in the summer of 2010 before I moved up to New Jersey, and at that time, the Mall itself wasn't doing that well because there was tons of stores that closed which Parkway Place was destroying the competition. It is sad to see that this mall was demolished earlier this year as it was a huge part of my childhood growing up in Huntsville, and I hope whatever they put in the mall's place does well business-wise.
Yeh so many memories...
Great video! It is rare to get to see an abandned mall before the vandals take over
20:53 - The elevator probably forgot where it was, so it went slow to relearn where it was.
This was great. I know that whenever my "teenage" mall closes it will be so sad. I have sooo many memories from there. So far it is holding it's own, but is starting to be known as the "dangerous" mall.
That's what happened to this one. People started labeling it as ghetto. It declined quickly afterwards.
Kettle N Sprout won a Food Network competition called Food Court Wars to get free rent for a year. The show aired summer 2012 and the place closed after 6 months.
I use to go to this mall all the time as a kid and teen in the 80''s and 90's. The last things I remember purchasing from this mall were a Playboy from Waldenbooks and Transformers: The Movie from I think Suncoast Motion Picture Company. Good memories.
Don't quote me on this but the American Cafe still exists. They renamed it to City Cafe Diner in Huntsville. You still have the opportunity to check it out. I typed in American Cafe on google and that popped up so that usually means it's just renamed.
Great to know ! Thank you for that !
Also, malls can still thrive if run correctly, and management is engaged. There is a nearby outdoor mall in Huntsville that is generally very busy. Another across town is doing well and it was the result of demolishing an old dead mall and building a very nice one anew. Same location, but plenty of business, where the old one was dead. In Tullahoma TN, for many years there was a dying mall, new ownership, effort, and that mall is alive again. Opry Mills in Nashville is always very busy.
You can't just slap them there and folks show up like the old days, that's for sure. Malls can still have a future as long as the ownership makes an effort and runs them smartly. No more just building a mall and charging stores outrageous rent and rolling in the dough. You gotta work for it.
Well said
You know it was abandoned when nobody was there to silence the fire alarm system
Interestingly, that security office had been a (mini) library once upon a time.
For those wondering about the fire alarm- The fire alarm originally sounds like the one here: th-cam.com/video/6SVcV8c6hKY/w-d-xo.html and it finished its "voice cycle". They were trying to drain the panel batteries. I got this information from a group of fire alarm enthusiasts, who said he contacted the mall owners.
Used to go there every Friday night in the 80's to check out the girls. Mall was always packed on the weekends. Lots of memories.
Been there several times I am 80 miles West from there and remember when the mall first opened our mall is a joke stores move out of it all the time cause rent is so high and went in other areas in town like Huntsville thanks for doing this and enjoy yalls videos
How did yall get in we tried to go and check it out but it was all locked up and that was about 2 weeks ago??
Everyone blames the downfall of malls from on line shopping. Actually, A mall becomes a hangout for kids that parents drop off for the day. Also, some people stay for the day because they don't have air conditioning. The rest of us get tired of screaming tired kids that parents refuse to take home for a nap, or take them to a pool or playground. Also downtown malls have the homeless who hang out in them and panhandle. Malls thrive in communities or areas where certain groups of people live and areas not in walking distance of a downtown area.
The world will still be turning even when every last mall shuts down...
Now there is nothing :(
R.I.P 1984 to 2017
these abandoned mall videos always sort of feel like a glimpse of what the first few years of yhe apocalypse would be like
I'm glad you documented this. I wanted to go film myself in the last few months but never got around to it. I was there the day it opened and spent a lot of days there as a teenager. Are ya'll from the area?
I'm from the area. Lived in Huntsville from 01-15. Really gonna miss that place.
So sad. Those were good Saturdays just at the mall.
this is definitely one of my favorite abandoned mall videos!!
Man, I watched that entire video. I couldn't not watch it. Just something profoundly sad about seeing a place that used to be so full of life and activity, just sitting there empty and going to ruin.
Eerie huh?
Great place to explore. My daughter would love your hat Bekah! Thanks for sharing!
She wears it all the time ! It's so cute on her. :)
Im gonna say the reason why the elevator was so slow was due to it being low on oil or there was a pump issue. The motor didn't sound healthy either. It could be also that it was low on power. The reasons why the alarms could be going off is because of a malfunction or somebody snuck in and pulled it.
I cannot believe you went into the elevator! at the first one I thought at least you had enough sense not to go in. glad it worked for you two.
It's weird how they just leave all the signs and ads and stuff. Also were some of the lights still on?
Some were on
At 27:52 it was Time Out along time ago then Tilt took over. Then two friends of mine put in an arcade/retro game store in 2013 called Game Galaxy. It was a free play arcade and you paid for either a 30 min, 1 hour or all day pass. I managed the store for over two years.
The store at 15 minutes was Victoria's Secret, with Pink being in the polka dotted room. I was a manager there when the store closed for the last time in March 2016. I heard that after we closed they started using it to store mall furniture that was being auctioned off, hence the random limbs and chairs from various stores around the mall. That fire alarm frequently went off even while I was working there before Victoria's Secret closed, and sometimes it would go off in our store too and the customers would all get irritated and leave, but mall management told us it was coming from the old Belk store and that there was "nothing they could do about it" because Belk still owned the space.
Also, a lot of those corporate stores are required to take their signs down. At Victoria's Secret, corporate contractors came in after we closed to take all of the signs and pictures of models, etc. to destroy. I guess they don't want the negative association. The checkered tile restaurant was a gyro/Greek place in 2015 and the Chinese place was to the right of it, a couple storefronts to the left of Time Out. The place at 25:06 was Sarku Japan.
That’s amazing you were a manager there. Was it sad when it closed down ? My sister used to work there as well. Thanks for sharing all your memories.
It was definitely hard to say goodbye, but the mall was pretty much cleared out after Christmas 2015 and it wasn't a safe place to go. There were lots of scary things that happened often. But MSM was a part of my life so it is missed! Thanks for sharing this video!
Hello! Today is the day that Sears closes in the mall. Macaroni Grill is not close though. When I was there today, the police were using it as a training operation and blow something up in there and it was shaking everything in Sears. How did you get in the McRaes/Belk area
Whoa. Explosives ?
Exploring with Rick & Bekah yeah there were and it shook the whole mall. At 14:43 was the Disney Store. 14:52 was the Victoria Secret. I have memories of going there with my mom
I miss this mall the best memories growing up, it's been demolished now.
Alot of good memories in this place for me as well. I have been going to that mall since I was a kid for as long as I can remember.
My guess is the pink room with polka dots & the black room that connected was a victoria secret. Looks the same.
hope y'all didn't TrustPass me and my cuz got full permission from the new owner himself lol yall saw the fans and little stuff we left.
Chase Hopper - "TrustPass"-???
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They will be tearong this mall down starting next month. It will be changed to a mixed use area called Mid City Huntsville.
I was the manager of the Waldensoftware store on second floor.
I've been to that mall several times back when it was open. The store with the green column in front of it was a Disney store at one time. The random limbs store if I remember right was The Victoria Secret store.
I remember when the Disney store moved out of here. So sad. Seems like after that a lot of stores started leaving.
14:08 That used the be the Disney Store.
15:00 That used to be Victoria Secret.
17:17 There was a big eyebrow threading stand. I'm not sure what the name of it was.
I worked there for about a year in 2013-2014 at a little Barbizon stand. For the most part it was about empty and it was so cool to walk around and look at everything on my lunch break.