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Dead Mall Series inspired me to photograph and video my local dying malls. My Mom also calls our once local hotbed the "dead Mall" when she goes there.
@@careymulligan1403 That's bizarre. Wasn't the whole reason of this place falling-apart from contamination and structural integrity failure due to its foundation being literal garbage? What makes them think they can just live with it now?
Well as Dionne Warwick has said, “girlfriend it’s time for you to lay down.” Thank You Dan Bell for another entertaining episode of the Dead Mall Series.
There are many excellent historians on youtube currently. A few to check out are Military History Visualized, Military Aviation History, Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles.
Random Fact: Harry Houdini hated Psychics and Clairvoyants to the point he would break off friendships with people. He actively spent years of his life debunking them, at one point catching one claiming to be channelling his mother, and addressed him as Harry. His birth name is Erik, Harry is a stage name. Not related to malls at all, but I remembered it when I saw the psychic commercials lol
He wanted to talk to his mother after her death. But the episode with a psychic started his crusade against them. But yeah his friend Arthur Conan Doyle broke his friendship because of Houdini's debunking of his favorite psychics. To a point where Conan Doyle claimed that Houdini was the greatest psychic suppressing the capabilities of lesser ones so he can show that they're worthless.
I went to school in an abandoned Walmart building during 6th and 7th grade, so I actually have seen what one looks like completely empty, and it had been abandoned for at least 15 years before the school moved in. They put up partition walls to make classrooms and they kept a lot of the old fixtures to use for classroom storage. It was supposed to be temporary but ended up staying there for 8 years.
@@awkydrey if you Google charter school in former Walmart building it will take you to the school’s history page. They opened the school in 2009 and obviously building a whole school costs lots of money, which they did not have, so they rented abandoned buildings in town until they got a grant to build the new one and moved in in like 2017/2018. It was absolutely horrible for learning because it was so loud but they didn’t have any other choice for the time being.
@@scdu oh yeah the whole reason they had to found this school was because they shut down 6 schools in the parish due to lack of funding and were going to send everybody to one school, which is not big enough and not exactly safe.
The graffiti in that Wal-Mart looks like stuff you would see in a beat-em-up game from the 90's hahaha. "someone died here", anarchy symbols, "smile, your'e on camera", "becca was here".
Dan Bell is str8 up TH-cam’s best kept secret, OG chronicler of modern American economic decay, so many imitators now but ain’t no Dan like the real Dan!!
There's only one Dan indeed. Like going through a time Capsule of how once the wick burned bright but like many, malls, high streets, symbols of economic boom and Strength, the slowly dimming until they go out
Talk about perfect timing for Dan to upload this video - it's cold, windy & snowing where I am tonight. Perfect weather, company & night to watch a new Dead Mall video from Dan Bell! Thanks Dan!!
I worked for Wal-Mart in the late 90's. They built a Supercenter right next to the old "Division 1" (no groceries) store, so I got to see both the new store and the old one completely empty. That store you visited must have been one of the last Division 1 stores built. There aren't many left. Some were converted by expanding the footprint. If you ever walk into a Wal-Mart with a drop ceiling in the center, that's the old store and either side with high ceilings is the expansion. On a different note, a RED Ames cart, that is seriously old and rare.
Yeah, this one was built in 2006 which was very late for Div 1 but it was intended to eventually become a super center and designed to be easily expanded (as most of the later Div 1 stores were). Giant Eagle has a lot of influence and I have to wonder if the initial lack of grocery was a concession Walmart made in order to attract Giant Eagle to the center.
the 2 closest Walmarts to me are both Div 1 stores. they are still kind of common near cities I feel like. Also you might be on to something about Giant Eagle as one of those 2 div 1 stores near me is literally attached to a Giant Eagle.
Regarding the safe/lack thereof, I use to be a bank teller in a branch that was inside a kroger and we had a safe. It wasn't a fully walk-in, just a decent size standing safe, think it was around 4 tons of steel rough and was maybe 4x6x4. We didn't need to keep the same volume of cash and those in-store branches are pretty low traffic so that sufficed for us. I think we had around 130k-180k most of the time, where as a larger branch (at least for the bank I worked for) would have anywhere form 300-700k depending on the traffic.
Yeah I worked as a teller at a pretty small branch, no larger than one found in a store that was located in the skyway system of Downtown Minneapolis, and yeah, the safe was like nine by five feet. Thing is that we only ever had like 60K tops in that branch and a larger one would have no more than I wanna say like 250.
FROM WHAT I REMEMBER ABOUT THIS PLACE I SAW ON ANOTHER EXPLORERS CHANNEL, THAT THE ENTIRE PLAZA WAS BUILD ON A LANDFILL AND WASTE SITE, I WAS NOT JUST SINKING, BUT THE CHEMICALS COMING FROM THE GROUND MADE PEOPLE VERY ILL, AND AFTER INVESTIGATION THEY DECIDED TO CLOSE UP THE PLAZA, AND ITS BEEN VACANT AND NO DISCUSSION ON WHAT TO DO WITH THE PROPERTY
The "emergency shower" is where the maintenance guys would fill up and empty mop buckets, There would have been a dispenser there that automatically mixed the cleaner/water.
Yeah, that building is 15 years old now so the roof is going to go soon. So those skylights will help vegetation thrive once the water gets in. It should be really neat to see in another 10 years or so.
Good God Almighty and everything butterscotch, I have missed these warped and incoherent intros! Im so happy, HAPPY, you are making thses again.Your dead mall series personally affected me to get thru so many 8 hour shifts of my 9-5. This is like eating fresh caviar after living off of day old fish cakes. Thank you for this delicacy of retro sustenance!!
Your abandoned malls videos are fantastic Dan, it just shows how fast times change in the 80's and 90's these places were the be all and end all of people's lives now they are handed back to nature and a lot of people now are realising they don't need to buy pointless crap to live anyway. God bless America from the UK.
@@mishfishy7645Thanks a lot, Amazon. Online sites on the age of the internet wasn't the only factor,that had to do with retail stores declining to be in business anymore. As the times changed,the economy had been altered,so did the people who had been baby boomers in the '50's and '60's had no longer existed. So did the geopolitics of the situation of our country's economy. Neighborhoods started to also change. What had happened to Garfield Heights,Ohio?
I always feel like I’m being shown around precious historic heritage sites by a museum guide with the Dead Mall series. I think it’s because Dan’s voice is so hushed and respectful. It’s great. I could watch them all day.
It's kind of sad that most of the video of the 163st mall was lost, though grateful Dan managed to save some of the footage. I think most viewers have certain malls that hold special memories for them and a big one for me is the 163rd street mall, which I grew up just a few miles from. Back when I was a little kid, it was an uncovered shopping plaza that had a big movie theatre and a kiddie amusement center. I have wonderful childhood memories of seeing movies there with my parents and celebrating friends' birthday parties at the kiddie park. Right before I started high-school, the shopping plaza was covered with that tarp-like roof and it became an official "mall". My high-school was right across the street from the mall, and I spent many lunch periods and(skipped classes if I'm being honest) hanging out at the arcade, bookstore, record shops, food court and the other shops and stores that were around back when the mall was still thriving.
@@4m4nd4m I've worked there too. They're responsible for the closure of thousands and thousands of small businesses, not to mention the mass exodus of US manufacturing. Hell-Mart can fall off the face of the Earth for all I care. Hopefully they'll take Amazon with them if it ever happens.
The section of the Kmart in Flint that you were in was converted to a Magoo’s Pet Outlet after the Kmart closed about 20 years ago, that’s why it was walled off. I remember that Kmart even had a restaurant in it, I miss being a kid in the 90’s.
btw,Shrink has to do with shrinkage, Or theft, from the store/ or establishment meaning stock leaving without being paid for , Just passing this along to everyone
It totally wouldn't be opposed to seeing entire videos of the hilarious vintage video edits. Love 'em-the wackier the better and please don't stop making these gems.
As someone obsessed with urban exploration, I had seen videos on this place before but getting an update from Dan Bell of all people was a nice treat. Thanks for the awesome video, Dan! 😁👍
Dan, you should really travel to the west coast to document much of the urban decay around here. Once thriving cities like San Francisco are now closing down entire districts of businesses. While you won’t get to do much interior exploration, I think you’d find it fascinating to see and document the history of of politics, high rent, homelessness and bad real estate do to an entire economy.
Looking in from the outside (Im from Australia), San Francisco seemed like a place that could do no wrong. I would totally be interested in the dichotomy of rich/poor, success/failure, and see SF as it is
@@rubberonasphalt It's the Tech Class who moved in and fucked everyone. Murdoch's media like to blame Communists but it has been the Vulture Capitalists in Tech who Fucked it all up. It's going to happen in places like Texas now where COL is going to displace tens of thousands of locals who are not "tech" and don't have the financial support to stave off Vulture Capitalists.
5:28 There's actually an abandoned Walmart near me. The only reason is that the corporation moved from the smaller store to a much larger store literally 50-70 feet away from the old one.
@@ScatteredCollector ok thanks. There was a similar situation in Streestsboro. Not sure if anything ever moved into the old WalMart building. Been a bit since I was out that way.
As soon as I saw ‘sank Walmart’ I knew it was going to be Garfield Heights, OH! Thrilled to have Dan check it out as I have explored this area a bit myself. There is quite an interesting backstory about the landfill and how this shopping center came to be (on top of it) I can’t find the exact video I initially saw a few years ago, but dig into if you can, very intriguing!
I googled it and was just reading up on it, thanks for mentioning that! I’m shocked that they already knew there was toxic stuff up there but didn’t care and built anyway. Well, maybe not that shocked, but it’s pretty disgraceful.
@@ilanarhian Fairlane Green in Allen Park, Michigan was the same concept; a power center built on a dump around the same time but it was actually done properly and is thriving. So this sort of reuse is possible if the developers know what they are doing.
The smaller part of the Kmart was probably a Kmart Foods, there were several built in Michigan in the 60s. Crazy to think if they had just removed the wall they would have basically had the concept of a "Super" Kmart/Walmart long before (but Meijer had already started building hypermarkets in 1962). There was also a K-Chef fast food restaurant for a few years. The one in Pontiac (store #2) had a K-Foods and a K-Chef. It's all bombed out now though.
Sank, dank, and rank!!! Fu*king winner!! Dan Bell is gold! We have a CVS Pharmacy in my hometown that was KNOWINGLY built on top of a shaft mine... and after 3 or 4 years of being open, everyone was shocked when the walls began to crack and the slab began to sink into the earth! Good job, guys! Which one of you drunks are on the planning board?
They do have safes in woodforest they must have removed it entirely. Or scavengers stole an empty one. Seeing an empty one like that was wild, I work there currently.
I just love this series so much. Dan you’re so good at editing, audio mixing and capturing the ambiance and moods of these places PERFECTLY. Every time you upload I’m so excited.
I’m assuming the laziness of the designers, owners and construction, taking an old used brown field site, building over it quickly to cash in on commercial contracts, leading to a major design floor with the foundations sinking. Reminds me of the story of the foolish builder who builds his home on sand.
There was a nearly identical (but now much bigger) center built at the same time atop a dump near Detroit (Fairlane Green in Allen Park, MI) but it was built properly and is thriving. A 2-foot structural concrete cap was poured over the whole site and a methane extraction and alarm system was installed from the start.
Another great Dead Mall video!!! Love your vids so much,,, Upon seeing miscellaneous items in abandoned buildings (like those drawers of tape and coupons in the old Kmart or the old Walmart signs), I always think to myself "when was the last time someone set it down and never picked it back up?"
I remember when this happened. I worked for Walmart for 20 years and helped close down one Walmart after a new one was built down the street. When I did it there was not a trace left. This was hastily done. That signage should never have been left.
I remember years ago, late at night, the infomercials would come on like these. The psychic friends and Miss Cleo, "I see in your future...a really HIGH phone bill." :D The Mall in Miami I have been to years ago in 2003 with my ex. Was a visit to see their family there, the mall seemed to have issues even back then.
Can I just say that Dan Bell is one of the most underrated channels on YT, I was amazed to find such fascinating content that I didn't even know existed until a year back or so, especially Another Dirty Room. Keep up the fire vids!
My local mini mall (just one indoor strip) here in the UK is far from dead, but two of the biggest units are currently empty. I walked through this week and there's a fake Christmas tree in the doorway of one of the units, but they haven't covered the doors or windows so behind it is just an empty unit, very strong Dead Mall vibes 😅
The mains hum you heard could just be the transformer connected to grid power. Even if the main breaker was off, it would still be powered from the power grid side. Since there is no power draw, the transformer draws no power except a little loss to heat and the vibration you heard.
Even the pad mounted transformer was probably still live, which had also sunk with the ground, wonder what strain lies on the underground cables supplying it?
Sometimes a main breaker can buzz/hum even when powered off and connected to the line due to internal circuitry. As an electrician, I find it scary as fuck that parts of that switchgear is still potentially energized with covers off.
I love that Nord VPN has literally stuck with you through thick and thin one hell of a company Speaks volumes to their character as a company they actually care which is a good thing because they’re looking after us in the end
Hi Dan Bell, I used to go to the 163rd Street Mall and my Dad worked there for 18 years. I noticed that the upper part where you were filming used to be a Suncoast movie store that encountered a troubling history which led to the upper level being closed for 28 years. The part where you filmed the artificial plants used to be a high end restaurant. I will like to meet you at the mall again and give you some history.
Finally, some good fucking TH-cam! Love your work Dan, I'd watch hours of dead malls with you narrating, and hours of your re-interpreted 90's intros. Also, bless Jake's sweet heart
I would love to know who thought “Hey, you know what would be amazing, a shopping center on top of a landfill!!! People will love this!” I’m sorry but as someone who has studied landfills for environmental courses, I can tell you a landfill is the WORST PLACE to build something of this caliber, especially if it’s NOT BUILT CORRECTLY…….. good lord 🤦🏼♀️
Saw an abandoned Walmart too. When ours turned from a non-grocery to the big ones, they couldn't build onto the strip mall to expand it, so they abandoned and built a new one down the road. It was weird as hell.
The abandoned Kmart with so many carts from different stores...crazy. I've never seen a Lens Crafters with that designer. I had glasses by 5th or 6th grade but had lasik when the blade-less laser vision correction was stable and really reliable in my research. I was worried but it was so easy.
That Walmart would be such a cool place to turn into a DIY skate spot. So much open space that could easily have ramps, boxes, etc. built from Quikrete.
I don't live that far from the K-Mart and I want to say it closed in late 2012. The last time I was in that particular K-Mart was with my dad back in 2007 and it wasn't open many years after that. It was an okay K-Mart, but it wasn't anything special. I did get a Scooby-Doo bed set for my 8th birthday from there is probably my most notable memory from that particular K-Mart.
I know this video is like a year old, but at the mall I used to work at, we had a lot of empty spaces. We had one that used to be a bank and hadn't been occupied by anything else for years. It had two safes in it, probably 3x4x6 or so, heaviest doors I've ever moved.
The tree growing in the abandoned garden center looks like a tree of heaven - the one that inspired the title of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". It says in the book that the tree likes poor people. And so it does. And it likes abandoned parking lots and forgotten big box garden centers, too. It likes anywhere where no other tree tries to grow. Yeah, I know it's considered an invasive species, but you still gotta be impressed by its ability to thrive in completely insane places.
The fact that they haven't bothered to demo and there aren't warnings everywhere not to enter, tells me that they're looking for another sucker to buy the land. Also I agree that something is 'on' in there.
All the land has already been purchased. Infact that Walmart has already been repaired and turned into offices and industrial spaces. Don't believe everything TH-cam videos tell you about the land itself. Not that I'd just believe the EPA either. But as someone who lives quite close to all of this I've been around for the rise lol and fall of city view.
the midwest is riddled with gems like these and Dan putting them in the spotlight makes me so happy. Check out more abandoned michigan malls if you can, Dan
I remember seeing the sunk walmart footage before...built atop a 1970's toxic landfill. It was on Jake's Bright Sun Films channel back in 2018. Dan reaching back into the archives and polishing up some old gems 💎 That place is pretty scary. People living in the Garfield Heights neighborhoods were getting sick from the buried toxic waste contaminating the ground water. Causing cancers of all kinds....brain tumors, lymphoma.
You should do the “Sequoia Mall” here in Visalia, Ca… place is dead with thee exception a few stores and a theater towards the back… it’s creepy as hell even during the day… #DanBell
@@lisamartin3734 I wanna know the history of that mall lol it’s creepy tho… there was going to be an arcade shop going up a few years ago but it never went thru
I suggest coming to Battle Creek, Michigan to check out the Lakeview mall. It definitely falls into the category of “Dead Mall”. It’s still open currently but I don’t know how much longer it’ll have
Great video, thanks for the awesome post, Dan! It's so surreal seeing that abandoned Walmart, since they're pretty much all built the same. I knew exactly what departments you were going to find, but it was still shocking to see them when they came up...
I live right by City View. Was just there a few days ago because the grocery store is still open. Looks like the resurfaced the parking lot and re-faced the storefronts. It smelled really bad in the summer. And you can see along the buildings how high the parking lot used to be compared to where it is now.
LOL Shrink is a loss prevention term. It's the amount of inventory loss or something. One of those terms/slogans that retail companies love to beat into the heads of their floor level staff. The different carts are probably from other stores nearby going OOB and Kmart taking their stuff. My local Kmart had ToysRUs carts before they closed.
Yeah, my local Kmart had Big Lots (and even some "Odd Lots" buggies)... and then it closed and became a Big Lots! And the Big Lots had a few old Kmart buggies!
I grew up going to 163rd street mall omg I wanna cry 😢 I used to skip school there. It wasn’t never that great tbh but at least the shopping center surrounding it is buzzing.
I used to go to 163rd Street Mall regularly in the 80s when I was a teenager. That used to be THE place to go at that time for the people mainly in the northern part of Dade County. The last time I was in there was 13 years ago and even then I could see it was dying and that it was a shadow of its former self. Thank you for the current video of the place. It kind of hurts seeing it like this but oh well nothing lasts forever.
@@alexandersuarez9014 I remember as far back as the 70s when it didn't have the white canvass roof. It used to be an open air mall and it had a train in the front of the mall. It's just a matter of time before it is demolished or converted to another use. There should be pictures on the internet of the history of the mall. I'm going to see myself in a little while.
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Dead Mall Series inspired me to photograph and video my local dying malls. My Mom also calls our once local hotbed the "dead Mall" when she goes there.
@@liquemascis 🙂👍
I've seen TV shows and movies be remastered, but never a TH-cam show. Neat.
The graffiti is freaking out of control 😒 😤 7/27/24
I’m glad you’ve finally uploaded this footage after almost 5 years. Great video!
The property is currently being completely redone into office buildings. It’s all repaved and they’re keeping the structures and remodeling them.
Yes Mr. Films, very nice
I thought the footage looked familiar, but ever so slightly from another angle lol
I thought this was Jake from Bright Sun films!!! So cool to see youtubers I like hang out together 😁
@@careymulligan1403 That's bizarre. Wasn't the whole reason of this place falling-apart from contamination and structural integrity failure due to its foundation being literal garbage? What makes them think they can just live with it now?
Well as Dionne Warwick has said, “girlfriend it’s time for you to lay down.” Thank You Dan Bell for another entertaining episode of the Dead Mall Series.
Yeah, girlfriend lay down.🍭❤🐟😻🌟
Historians will use Dan’s footage to portray the decline and decay of our society as we knew it. I love it!
Well, he's already kind of a historian doing just that. Or is it "an" historian?😕
Read in Tony Jay’s voice from Beauty and the Beast
@@punchline43 ..."an historian," since you asked!! :)
They already are, I found this channel through an Adam Curtis documentary on BBC.
There are many excellent historians on youtube currently. A few to check out are Military History Visualized, Military Aviation History, Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles.
Random Fact: Harry Houdini hated Psychics and Clairvoyants to the point he would break off friendships with people. He actively spent years of his life debunking them, at one point catching one claiming to be channelling his mother, and addressed him as Harry. His birth name is Erik, Harry is a stage name. Not related to malls at all, but I remembered it when I saw the psychic commercials lol
Random Fact: Learn2Gramrs knows a lot about random facts and will occasionally leave comments on TH-cam channels stating said facts.
H H and I have the same bday
@@ShaferScott ;)
He wanted to talk to his mother after her death. But the episode with a psychic started his crusade against them. But yeah his friend Arthur Conan Doyle broke his friendship because of Houdini's debunking of his favorite psychics. To a point where Conan Doyle claimed that Houdini was the greatest psychic suppressing the capabilities of lesser ones so he can show that they're worthless.
hm. reminds me of james randi
I went to school in an abandoned Walmart building during 6th and 7th grade, so I actually have seen what one looks like completely empty, and it had been abandoned for at least 15 years before the school moved in. They put up partition walls to make classrooms and they kept a lot of the old fixtures to use for classroom storage. It was supposed to be temporary but ended up staying there for 8 years.
Whoa where was this and why? Was it conducive to learning?
@@awkydrey if you Google charter school in former Walmart building it will take you to the school’s history page. They opened the school in 2009 and obviously building a whole school costs lots of money, which they did not have, so they rented abandoned buildings in town until they got a grant to build the new one and moved in in like 2017/2018. It was absolutely horrible for learning because it was so loud but they didn’t have any other choice for the time being.
@@mykenziejackson4579 that's so sad and really highlights why underfunding the education system is such a big problem.
@@scdu oh yeah the whole reason they had to found this school was because they shut down 6 schools in the parish due to lack of funding and were going to send everybody to one school, which is not big enough and not exactly safe.
My son's school was an old Winn Dixie supermarket.
The graffiti in that Wal-Mart looks like stuff you would see in a beat-em-up game from the 90's hahaha. "someone died here", anarchy symbols, "smile, your'e on camera", "becca was here".
Like some _Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat_ kinda crap!? 😂
Double dragon. Lmao
Final Fight
your gay xD
Streets of Rage.
The throwback intros are such a nice, unique touch to all of these Dead Mall videos.
I like the YTP-esque style, it reminds me of the old days of TH-cam. Lol
@@K162-y1b 🙂👍
Dan Bell is str8 up TH-cam’s best kept secret, OG chronicler of modern American economic decay, so many imitators now but ain’t no Dan like the real Dan!!
There's only one Dan indeed.
Like going through a time Capsule of how once the wick burned bright but like many, malls, high streets, symbols of economic boom and Strength, the slowly dimming until they go out
At 600,000 subscribers he’s definitely not a secret anymore
@@myavo Excuse me? What language was that written in? Just curious.
I love the sound of glass and stuff crunching under your shoes....really lends itself to the mood....great vid as always Dan! ♥
Talk about perfect timing for Dan to upload this video - it's cold, windy & snowing where I am tonight. Perfect weather, company & night to watch a new Dead Mall video from Dan Bell! Thanks Dan!!
I imaginé that scene. Wonderful
Same here in Essex Junction Vermont.
Yep. In the cold November rain oops I mean snow.
During the fall is when I get my Dead Mall fix
Lucky you....I love ❄
So glad you're doing well and putting up Dead Mall content. 2022 here we come!
You are very cool
Dan: "The Radio Shack actually went down into the dump."
Me: Didn't the entire company do that several years ago? 😆
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I have a Radio Shack -- not in good shape -- down the block from me in San Francisco. It exists, but is not thriving.
They still have a web presence. You can order from them online.
@Sally F what?? What street in San Francisco I work out there
There's a Radio Shack on Rt 522 near Mt Union, PA. Looks like a dump but it seems to be open.
I worked for Wal-Mart in the late 90's. They built a Supercenter right next to the old "Division 1" (no groceries) store, so I got to see both the new store and the old one completely empty. That store you visited must have been one of the last Division 1 stores built. There aren't many left. Some were converted by expanding the footprint. If you ever walk into a Wal-Mart with a drop ceiling in the center, that's the old store and either side with high ceilings is the expansion. On a different note, a RED Ames cart, that is seriously old and rare.
Yeah, this one was built in 2006 which was very late for Div 1 but it was intended to eventually become a super center and designed to be easily expanded (as most of the later Div 1 stores were). Giant Eagle has a lot of influence and I have to wonder if the initial lack of grocery was a concession Walmart made in order to attract Giant Eagle to the center.
Theres one in Amarillo,TX still
the 2 closest Walmarts to me are both Div 1 stores. they are still kind of common near cities I feel like. Also you might be on to something about Giant Eagle as one of those 2 div 1 stores near me is literally attached to a Giant Eagle.
Regarding the safe/lack thereof, I use to be a bank teller in a branch that was inside a kroger and we had a safe. It wasn't a fully walk-in, just a decent size standing safe, think it was around 4 tons of steel rough and was maybe 4x6x4. We didn't need to keep the same volume of cash and those in-store branches are pretty low traffic so that sufficed for us. I think we had around 130k-180k most of the time, where as a larger branch (at least for the bank I worked for) would have anywhere form 300-700k depending on the traffic.
Yeah I worked as a teller at a pretty small branch, no larger than one found in a store that was located in the skyway system of Downtown Minneapolis, and yeah, the safe was like nine by five feet. Thing is that we only ever had like 60K tops in that branch and a larger one would have no more than I wanna say like 250.
That fart/horn sound was perfect 😂 😂. NO JAKE that’s not methane.
Yeah I like at 1:30 how the old bag keeps ripping them.
Flatulence. Farts. Cow farts. Mud pies. Gas passer. Methane. What's the difference?
Gas is gas.
FROM WHAT I REMEMBER ABOUT THIS PLACE I SAW ON ANOTHER EXPLORERS CHANNEL, THAT THE ENTIRE PLAZA WAS BUILD ON A LANDFILL AND WASTE SITE, I WAS NOT JUST SINKING, BUT THE CHEMICALS COMING FROM THE GROUND MADE PEOPLE VERY ILL, AND AFTER INVESTIGATION THEY DECIDED TO CLOSE UP THE PLAZA, AND ITS BEEN VACANT AND NO DISCUSSION ON WHAT TO DO WITH THE PROPERTY
The "emergency shower" is where the maintenance guys would fill up and empty mop buckets, There would have been a dispenser there that automatically mixed the cleaner/water.
Was just thinking that too, used to be a janitor myself
It’s almost as depressing as walking into an active Walmart.
The zoom-in on the lady’s forehead mole was PERFECT.
Thank goodness for those skylights in the Walmart, it was actually light and airy in there instead of dungeon dark
Yeah, that building is 15 years old now so the roof is going to go soon. So those skylights will help vegetation thrive once the water gets in. It should be really neat to see in another 10 years or so.
Good God Almighty and everything butterscotch, I have missed these warped and incoherent intros! Im so happy, HAPPY, you are making thses again.Your dead mall series personally affected me to get thru so many 8 hour shifts of my 9-5. This is like eating fresh caviar after living off of day old fish cakes. Thank you for this delicacy of retro sustenance!!
So happy to see a Dan Bell video tonight. Best black friday deal so far.
Your abandoned malls videos are fantastic Dan, it just shows how fast times change in the 80's and 90's these places were the be all and end all of people's lives now they are handed back to nature and a lot of people now are realising they don't need to buy pointless crap to live anyway. God bless America from the UK.
A lot of people just started buying pointless crap online instead of malls
@@mishfishy7645 😁
It just made them realize they didn't need to leave their houses anymore.
No more pointless crap? ::shein has entered the chat::
@@mishfishy7645Thanks a lot, Amazon. Online sites on the age of the internet wasn't the only factor,that had to do with retail stores declining to be in business anymore.
As the times changed,the economy had been altered,so did the people who had been baby boomers in the '50's and '60's had no longer existed.
So did the geopolitics of the situation of our country's economy.
Neighborhoods started to also change.
What had happened to Garfield Heights,Ohio?
I always feel like I’m being shown around precious historic heritage sites by a museum guide with the Dead Mall series. I think it’s because Dan’s voice is so hushed and respectful. It’s great. I could watch them all day.
It's kind of sad that most of the video of the 163st mall was lost, though grateful Dan managed to save some of the footage. I think most viewers have certain malls that hold special memories for them and a big one for me is the 163rd street mall, which I grew up just a few miles from. Back when I was a little kid, it was an uncovered shopping plaza that had a big movie theatre and a kiddie amusement center. I have wonderful childhood memories of seeing movies there with my parents and celebrating friends' birthday parties at the kiddie park.
Right before I started high-school, the shopping plaza was covered with that tarp-like roof and it became an official "mall". My high-school was right across the street from the mall, and I spent many lunch periods and(skipped classes if I'm being honest) hanging out at the arcade, bookstore, record shops, food court and the other shops and stores that were around back when the mall was still thriving.
"Will all Wal-Marts look like this someday?" I sure hope so, Dan.
Came to make this comment.
as a current employee me too
@@4m4nd4m I've worked there too. They're responsible for the closure of thousands and thousands of small businesses, not to mention the mass exodus of US manufacturing. Hell-Mart can fall off the face of the Earth for all I care. Hopefully they'll take Amazon with them if it ever happens.
Same. Everything Walmart sells funds China to send more fentanyl to drug runners on the wide open Mexican/US border...
The section of the Kmart in Flint that you were in was converted to a Magoo’s Pet Outlet after the Kmart closed about 20 years ago, that’s why it was walled off. I remember that Kmart even had a restaurant in it, I miss being a kid in the 90’s.
The 90’s were the best. I wish I could go back.
Better times indeed.
btw,Shrink has to do with shrinkage,
Or theft, from the store/ or establishment meaning stock leaving without being paid for ,
Just passing this along to everyone
It totally wouldn't be opposed to seeing entire videos of the hilarious vintage video edits. Love 'em-the wackier the better and please don't stop making these gems.
your wish is my command! th-cam.com/video/qvznZ60K0d8/w-d-xo.html
@@ThisisDanBell Thanks Dan. Much appreciated!
The opening is just another piece of absolute perfection! Dan has really been on a roll as of late!
@Necramonium sign me up for a one-way trip, please
This is even creepier then Wal-Mart.
As someone obsessed with urban exploration, I had seen videos on this place before but getting an update from Dan Bell of all people was a nice treat. Thanks for the awesome video, Dan! 😁👍
Dan, you should really travel to the west coast to document much of the urban decay around here. Once thriving cities like San Francisco are now closing down entire districts of businesses. While you won’t get to do much interior exploration, I think you’d find it fascinating to see and document the history of of politics, high rent, homelessness and bad real estate do to an entire economy.
I second this! Theft has wrecked retail in SF
Looking in from the outside (Im from Australia), San Francisco seemed like a place that could do no wrong. I would totally be interested in the dichotomy of rich/poor, success/failure, and see SF as it is
@@rubberonasphalt It's the Tech Class who moved in and fucked everyone. Murdoch's media like to blame Communists but it has been the Vulture Capitalists in Tech who Fucked it all up. It's going to happen in places like Texas now where COL is going to displace tens of thousands of locals who are not "tech" and don't have the financial support to stave off Vulture Capitalists.
Dan does not want to die. Thats why he has not gone to Frisco. I wouldnt go to that shithole for a million bucks
@@Fan_Made_Videos Spot on! Finally someone providing the real reason and not just the stupid politised BS propaganda.
5:28 There's actually an abandoned Walmart near me. The only reason is that the corporation moved from the smaller store to a much larger store literally 50-70 feet away from the old one.
Yeah That Happens a lot…
Is that in Streetsboro, OH?
@@Thefancymelon59 No. can’t give exactly where but not in OH
@@ScatteredCollector ok thanks. There was a similar situation in Streestsboro. Not sure if anything ever moved into the old WalMart building. Been a bit since I was out that way.
do you know what the heck that burn spot is?
As soon as I saw ‘sank Walmart’ I knew it was going to be Garfield Heights, OH! Thrilled to have Dan check it out as I have explored this area a bit myself. There is quite an interesting backstory about the landfill and how this shopping center came to be (on top of it) I can’t find the exact video I initially saw a few years ago, but dig into if you can, very intriguing!
I googled it and was just reading up on it, thanks for mentioning that! I’m shocked that they already knew there was toxic stuff up there but didn’t care and built anyway. Well, maybe not that shocked, but it’s pretty disgraceful.
@@ilanarhian Fairlane Green in Allen Park, Michigan was the same concept; a power center built on a dump around the same time but it was actually done properly and is thriving. So this sort of reuse is possible if the developers know what they are doing.
@@ilanarhian found it! here is the documentary made by someone who grew up in the area. th-cam.com/video/jW7oApL5AFk/w-d-xo.html
Glad to see the change in offices has seemed to allow the focus, motivation, and creative energy to begin to flowing again!
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Glad to see the gardening department still doing well lol 😆
The smaller part of the Kmart was probably a Kmart Foods, there were several built in Michigan in the 60s. Crazy to think if they had just removed the wall they would have basically had the concept of a "Super" Kmart/Walmart long before (but Meijer had already started building hypermarkets in 1962). There was also a K-Chef fast food restaurant for a few years. The one in Pontiac (store #2) had a K-Foods and a K-Chef. It's all bombed out now though.
Sank, dank, and rank!!!
Fu*king winner!! Dan Bell is gold!
We have a CVS Pharmacy in my hometown that was KNOWINGLY built on top of a shaft mine... and after 3 or 4 years of being open, everyone was shocked when the walls began to crack and the slab began to sink into the earth!
Good job, guys! Which one of you drunks are on the planning board?
It is a new classic
There's something sort of sadly beautiful about the overgrown garden center among all that mess. This was an awesome video.
4:05 the sound of the window sweeping across the prairie grass is very calming tbh
They do have safes in woodforest they must have removed it entirely. Or scavengers stole an empty one. Seeing an empty one like that was wild, I work there currently.
I just love this series so much. Dan you’re so good at editing, audio mixing and capturing the ambiance and moods of these places PERFECTLY. Every time you upload I’m so excited.
I’m assuming the laziness of the designers, owners and construction, taking an old used brown field site, building over it quickly to cash in on commercial contracts, leading to a major design floor with the foundations sinking. Reminds me of the story of the foolish builder who builds his home on sand.
There was a nearly identical (but now much bigger) center built at the same time atop a dump near Detroit (Fairlane Green in Allen Park, MI) but it was built properly and is thriving. A 2-foot structural concrete cap was poured over the whole site and a methane extraction and alarm system was installed from the start.
@@craigjensen6853 one built for longevity vs one built either on a budget or a quick financial return, sad really
@@craigjensen6853 I still remember when the Veterans Hospital was there.
Another great Dead Mall video!!! Love your vids so much,,,
Upon seeing miscellaneous items in abandoned buildings (like those drawers of tape and coupons in the old Kmart or the old Walmart signs), I always think to myself "when was the last time someone set it down and never picked it back up?"
Dan says; "For all the young people out there, this is a telephone. Old school telephone". ☎️ 📞 LOL
I remember when this happened. I worked for Walmart for 20 years and helped close down one Walmart after a new one was built down the street. When I did it there was not a trace left. This was hastily done. That signage should never have been left.
6:15 "Walmart. Will they all look like this?" If we can only be that lucky.
I remember years ago, late at night, the infomercials would come on like these. The psychic friends and Miss Cleo, "I see in your future...a really HIGH phone bill." :D The Mall in Miami I have been to years ago in 2003 with my ex. Was a visit to see their family there, the mall seemed to have issues even back then.
That was the best intro to anything I’ve ever seen…..lolol
LOL!!! ☻ This intro is FABULOUS!!! I remember they were going to make closed Walmarts into urban prisons. Not that one tho...
Can I just say that Dan Bell is one of the most underrated channels on YT, I was amazed to find such fascinating content that I didn't even know existed until a year back or so, especially Another Dirty Room. Keep up the fire vids!
Subway - home of the nearly meatless sub. We'd slice it even thinner if we could!
Yeah, but at least you get all 11" of it.
@@craigjensen6853 Ohh... myy....
My local mini mall (just one indoor strip) here in the UK is far from dead, but two of the biggest units are currently empty. I walked through this week and there's a fake Christmas tree in the doorway of one of the units, but they haven't covered the doors or windows so behind it is just an empty unit, very strong Dead Mall vibes 😅
Omg! Dan hasn’t been in my recommended in forever! Being that I’m currently under the weather, this cheered me up so much. Thanks Dan!
The mains hum you heard could just be the transformer connected to grid power. Even if the main breaker was off, it would still be powered from the power grid side. Since there is no power draw, the transformer draws no power except a little loss to heat and the vibration you heard.
@@techguy3236 oh very much agreed. There might be some system still on like sprinklers etc. But it's still a hazard.
Exit lights still had power
Even the pad mounted transformer was probably still live, which had also sunk with the ground, wonder what strain lies on the underground cables supplying it?
Sometimes a main breaker can buzz/hum even when powered off and connected to the line due to internal circuitry. As an electrician, I find it scary as fuck that parts of that switchgear is still potentially energized with covers off.
@@hapticmusing I didnt think those were electrical
I love that Nord VPN has literally stuck with you through thick and thin one hell of a company Speaks volumes to their character as a company they actually care which is a good thing because they’re looking after us in the end
Hi Dan Bell, I used to go to the 163rd Street Mall and my Dad worked there for 18 years. I noticed that the upper part where you were filming used to be a Suncoast movie store that encountered a troubling history which led to the upper level being closed for 28 years. The part where you filmed the artificial plants used to be a high end restaurant. I will like to meet you at the mall again and give you some history.
Finally, some good fucking TH-cam!
Love your work Dan, I'd watch hours of dead malls with you narrating, and hours of your re-interpreted 90's intros.
Also, bless Jake's sweet heart
I would love to know who thought “Hey, you know what would be amazing, a shopping center on top of a landfill!!! People will love this!” I’m sorry but as someone who has studied landfills for environmental courses, I can tell you a landfill is the WORST PLACE to build something of this caliber, especially if it’s NOT BUILT CORRECTLY…….. good lord 🤦🏼♀️
Saw an abandoned Walmart too. When ours turned from a non-grocery to the big ones, they couldn't build onto the strip mall to expand it, so they abandoned and built a new one down the road.
It was weird as hell.
The abandoned Kmart with so many carts from different stores...crazy. I've never seen a Lens Crafters with that designer. I had glasses by 5th or 6th grade but had lasik when the blade-less laser vision correction was stable and really reliable in my research. I was worried but it was so easy.
163rd St Mall was the mall used to go to as a child/teen. From the 80's to the 90's. I have so many great memories from this mall. :)
it ain't ever time for Dan Bell to lay down
That Walmart would be such a cool place to turn into a DIY skate spot. So much open space that could easily have ramps, boxes, etc. built from Quikrete.
I don't live that far from the K-Mart and I want to say it closed in late 2012. The last time I was in that particular K-Mart was with my dad back in 2007 and it wasn't open many years after that. It was an okay K-Mart, but it wasn't anything special. I did get a Scooby-Doo bed set for my 8th birthday from there is probably my most notable memory from that particular K-Mart.
These videos cure my anxiety, thank you for all you do Dan
I would love to see an episode of Dan and Rick going into a Spencer’s Gifts circa 1990
Yes! Spencer’s was the fun spot for us. Probably the best thing in shopping malls.
I know this video is like a year old, but at the mall I used to work at, we had a lot of empty spaces. We had one that used to be a bank and hadn't been occupied by anything else for years. It had two safes in it, probably 3x4x6 or so, heaviest doors I've ever moved.
god the intros are just so good, Dan is a funny dude
The tree growing in the abandoned garden center looks like a tree of heaven - the one that inspired the title of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". It says in the book that the tree likes poor people. And so it does. And it likes abandoned parking lots and forgotten big box garden centers, too. It likes anywhere where no other tree tries to grow.
Yeah, I know it's considered an invasive species, but you still gotta be impressed by its ability to thrive in completely insane places.
The fact that they haven't bothered to demo and there aren't warnings everywhere not to enter, tells me that they're looking for another sucker to buy the land. Also I agree that something is 'on' in there.
All the land has already been purchased. Infact that Walmart has already been repaired and turned into offices and industrial spaces. Don't believe everything TH-cam videos tell you about the land itself. Not that I'd just believe the EPA either. But as someone who lives quite close to all of this I've been around for the rise lol and fall of city view.
the midwest is riddled with gems like these and Dan putting them in the spotlight makes me so happy. Check out more abandoned michigan malls if you can, Dan
I remember seeing the sunk walmart footage before...built atop a 1970's toxic landfill. It was on Jake's Bright Sun Films channel back in 2018. Dan reaching back into the archives and polishing up some old gems 💎
That place is pretty scary. People living in the Garfield Heights neighborhoods were getting sick from the buried toxic waste contaminating the ground water. Causing cancers of all kinds....brain tumors, lymphoma.
Dan, you have the artist's touch on every video. I really appreciate that, man.
You should do the “Sequoia Mall” here in Visalia, Ca… place is dead with thee exception a few stores and a theater towards the back… it’s creepy as hell even during the day… #DanBell
I lived near Visalia for about 30 years and that mall has been near death for a very long time.
@@lisamartin3734 I have a brother who lives close to there. The Hanford Mall is pretty dead too.
I think I’ve been there before when I small, huh. Small world
@@daoyang223 yea the hanford malls sucks😂so does the Visalia mall 😣😂
@@lisamartin3734 I wanna know the history of that mall lol it’s creepy tho… there was going to be an arcade shop going up a few years ago but it never went thru
Bruh you are the best creator. I am legit giddy when you post anything deadmall related.
I suggest coming to Battle Creek, Michigan to check out the Lakeview mall. It definitely falls into the category of “Dead Mall”. It’s still open currently but I don’t know how much longer it’ll have
Lol I live about 15 mins away from there
@@doz3r943 I’m about 25 mins away lol so sad to see the mall in the condition it is. I doubt it’ll make it 5 more years
Thats the mall I went to growing up. Visted this summer, still shocked on how empty it is.
BC and Adrian Michigan probably have some of the best living dead malls
@@breepowell8632 I’m betting in the near future, The Crossroads mall in Portage will be dead as well
Great video, thanks for the awesome post, Dan! It's so surreal seeing that abandoned Walmart, since they're pretty much all built the same. I knew exactly what departments you were going to find, but it was still shocking to see them when they came up...
Dan your intro edits are freaking hilarious. Very creative and well edited, I love them.
I swear your voice is the most relaxing calming sound. It’s like anxiety medicine. Thanks for the great content & peaceful journeys.
Dan, you have a fabulous “Announcer voice”, you should auction off a voicemail message or 100 on eBay. I’d bid!🙋🏼♀️🥰🤣😟
Dan could definitely do some good asmr
Maybe could challenge RCR 😂😅
What about Cameo ?
@@Life_of_Gavin his quite time things basically were asmr, idk why he stopped with em
So a Walmart and a bunch of other stores close because it's built on top of a field of human refuse? God, the poetry is beautiful.
So happy to see you back, Dan!!
You get cooler as you get older!
Girlfriend, it's time you lay down.
Great footage. Wal-Mart was so unusual to see...
Im dead with that intro😂😂😂😂 i had to double back to make sure it was him! Maybe PFN hire him back without his shot 😂
Fun fact: they shot fireworks over ‘methane mountain’ one year in Garfield hts.
I never seen a Walmart like this and I am glad.
I love how this opens with the busted glass. I love your camera looks inside. I love how the inside is orange and red.🤎🌈
I live right by City View. Was just there a few days ago because the grocery store is still open. Looks like the resurfaced the parking lot and re-faced the storefronts. It smelled really bad in the summer. And you can see along the buildings how high the parking lot used to be compared to where it is now.
I’ll take an abandoned Walmart over an opened Walmart any day. Far less horrific.
Lol
The Walmartians have gone back to their planet
True! I mean, how many fat, ugly people can you look at, without barfing?
*bangs silverware on table* "Give us Another Dirty Room!"
LOL Shrink is a loss prevention term. It's the amount of inventory loss or something. One of those terms/slogans that retail companies love to beat into the heads of their floor level staff. The different carts are probably from other stores nearby going OOB and Kmart taking their stuff. My local Kmart had ToysRUs carts before they closed.
Yeah, my local Kmart had Big Lots (and even some "Odd Lots" buggies)... and then it closed and became a Big Lots! And the Big Lots had a few old Kmart buggies!
I grew up going to 163rd street mall omg I wanna cry 😢 I used to skip school there. It wasn’t never that great tbh but at least the shopping center surrounding it is buzzing.
Cool :) Kmart is still thriving in Australia.
I used to go to 163rd Street Mall regularly in the 80s when I was a teenager. That used to be THE place to go at that time for the people mainly in the northern part of Dade County. The last time I was in there was 13 years ago and even then I could see it was dying and that it was a shadow of its former self. Thank you for the current video of the place. It kind of hurts seeing it like this but oh well nothing lasts forever.
That mall is so sad now! They lost Marshalls months ago and I have a feeling their Ross is on it's way out...
@@alexandersuarez9014 I remember as far back as the 70s when it didn't have the white canvass roof. It used to be an open air mall and it had a train in the front of the mall. It's just a matter of time before it is demolished or converted to another use. There should be pictures on the internet of the history of the mall. I'm going to see myself in a little while.
@@delikonthree yeah, it used to anchor a JC Penney, Burdines and Jordan Marsh
It makes sense that the lowest effort graffiti would be found in an abandoned Walmart.
It’s great to have you back, Dan. I hope you’re feeling well and enjoying creating new content.
Awesome!!! At work right now so I can't watch. Later for sure!! Soon as I get home. Awesome videos, Dan. Take care, man