This was my childhood mall. I remember there was a pet store with dogs that I would always visit when I go there and the basement arcade area. Sad to see it closed and soon be demolished.
Really hurts to see such a pinnacle of your childhood, where you grew up and spent time with friends and family turned into this. It seems as though my hometown of St. Louis is just taking a nose dive in to oblivion. Just the past 5 years to see how everything has changed is utterly heartbreaking.
Yeah. I use to be at this mall on the regular as well. there use to be a lil master p impersonator there every weekend. I believe it was like 1998 or somewhere around that time.
Great video. I used to work security there about 7 years ago, when it was still open. You need to go back at night. Some freaky shtuff happens around 2am. I've heard voices, footsteps, loud unexplained booms, the faint sound of a child playing; I've seen shadow-people, storefront gates being lifted and dropped, the elevator used to operate on its own (someone told me it was a "fail safe mechanism"...could be true, idk), toilets flushed by themselves..because, ghosts need to pee too, I guess. My shirt got tugged a few times. There was a corridor by the theater that I refused to walk down at night because it felt like I was being watched. It would be great to have some of that documented, but then, you're not a ghost chaser, are you?
yea, ok, "ghost" is a bad term. but I was there and saw what I saw. I usually worked the day shift but worked nights on the weekends. I could chalk up the shadow-people as me being tired and just seeing things out of the corner of my eye. The feeling of being watched when I went down that corridor could have been all the electrical power cables messing with my bio-electrical field, inducing paranoia. The loud boom could have been a faulty air conditioner compressor but it sounded more like something falling through the ceiling...so.. idk. I try my best to look at things logically before saying, "that piece of paper by the vent moved on its own, it must be a poltergeist!", but when more than a few people have the same experience that cannot be explained (mainly talking about the clearly heard voices/footsteps/clothes being tugged, here), then perhaps its time to open your mind to other possibilities.
That was a beautiful send off, with care and respect as your probably the last one to video the interior before demolition. Thanks for the great work of a subject that is really close to my heart. You got yourself a subscriber. 😆🖒
I was in this mall within the last 48 hours... it's gone downhill fast. I grew up three blocks from here and I've wanted to go in since it's been abandoned. Tonight, a buddy of a buddy told us abt a back door being open. So me and a couple others went in. And wow. Video does not do it justice
I don't care how "tough" one thinks he or she is........These abandoned mall videos are truly heart breaking to anybody that is between the ages of 35-70! We are from the "mall rat" generation! You have online ordering to thank for this! It really broke my heart to see that dance supply store! I am fighting back a tear now...
Great camera handling. Unfortunately, most "abandoned" videos I can't watch as I get motion sickness from unsteady handling. You have a very steady hand & you don't swing the camera too quickly. Thank you. Great video!
I went to this mall all my life. My mom used to love shopping at this mall, and later in I hung out there when I was in college. Loved going there around Christmastime with all the dine orations and the hustle and bustle. Makes me so sad to see it go!!! RIP. CRESTEOOD MALL!!
I managed the See's Candies shop from September 1986 to early January 1987 before getting transferred to our Galleria store through April. By the end of 1988, all of our STL stores were closed and inventory sent back to California!
Thank you for posting this video. My sister and I used to work and shop in Crestwood, and it is also where she met her now husband. He used to be a security officer in the mall. I miss this mall terribly, and hope it returns soon.
they can get addictive, your right. we dont usually have any shopping centres here that close and get like this though do we, its more hospitals if anything. fun exploring untill your caught!
Sad and kinda creepy all at the same time. That's the emotion I get as you show this. Once mighty places like this closing are a sign of the times. We had a mall here in the town I live in. Wal mart and a bunch of big box stores killed it.
Don't blame it on black people! It is us as human beings as a whole who ran it down. Bad business decisions and because people are buying more items online is what brought the malls down.
I remember when I was a kid, and I walked into that arcade and saw that very flight simulator.... I was stuck in awe. Of course with me not being that old (only 19) at that time the mall was already falling and there were very few tenants at that time. Damn it's a shame to see it fall like this
GREED killed most of these places... a Store 1st, has to PAY RENT to the mall.... 2nd, they have to pay a % OF TOTAL SALES to the mall.......3rd they have a YEARLY merchant members "assessment" they have to pay the mall.. for holiday decorating, snow removal etc they say.... what Business can pay all that, LABOR, then Inventory costs.. and still turn a reasonable profit?? One mall I knew.. years back, charged 600 dollars a month base.. for one of those "CART VENDORS" spaces you saw in several malls!! You know, the "push cart" deals like a New York Hot Dog vendor uses??
+Albert Johnson this is almost what my local mall looks like because the rent is way more then people can afford. heres what left in the mall I go to, Movie theater, FYE, Shoe store, pizza place, and an antique store. And twice a year a charity opens in an old store that sells donated formal/prom/wedding dresses for $5 a dress (and trust me they have very beautiful ones) which sucks because I know just how many girls/women really appreciate this store.
just subscribed, this guy rocks.. so much better than the other UE out there.. goes into interesting places not super old crumbling places... wish there was more commentary though keep up good work
I'm an urban explorer myself but the funny thing is I was here not that long ago while it was in the process of closing. I had no idea it was going to end up this bad.
Me and my friends used to go here and walk around and watch movies in the theater. There used to be a carousel ( horses ) near one of the entrances, which there was a skylight above it. That skylight would leak rain water and they would have wet floor signs under it. I bought a telescope from a shop in that mall. There was a Pasta house, and a Chevy's restaurant in there. There was a Dillards and Sears anchor stores there. We would have a good time playing in the arcade Which I can't remember the name but I know it started with the letter "G." Me and my friends would sometimes eat at the food court next to the arcade. There is just a lot a memories growing up in this place and like I said it saddens me to see that it was demolished.
So many memories. My dad worked here for many years and I know the ins and outs of this place. Its creepy to see all of this and know exactly where they are.
Fancy seeing you here Rodalco, huge fan of your videos. If you're interested, a TH-cam user by the name of dieselducy did a tour of this mall just days before it closed for good which he has uploaded on his channel. His uploads are mostly videos about elevators, but when you have insomnia such as I do, you manage to watch a little bit of everything.
I used to work here after high school around 2003-2005 at Famous Barr before it was bought out by Macy's. The buyout began a lot of dropped customers because Macy's prices were too high for the area. Crestwood isn't South County rich persay and a lot of the older steady customers of Famous Barr really didn't like new merchandise and price hike. I would say I worked here during a high point. Plenty of good stores were still open with sit down restaurants as well as the food court. I worked commission in women's shoes and sales were always really good. The movie theater was still open. Sad to see it abandoned now. I thought the plan was to make it into offices like Jamestown Mall, but it doesn't seem like the case anymore.
Total bummer seeing this video. Went here, Chesterfield and the Dove a lot as a kid in the 90s. I remember me and my older brother shaking the coindrop machines in Exhilarama resulting in a bunch free tickets. Still got us bupkis at the prize counter. The house always wins.
The combination of muted colors of the mall interior, the indirect light and the shadowy areas in the concourses give, to me anyway, a sense of tranquility. If someone was undisturbed by a security guard it would be nice to sit down in the walkways between those empty store and enjoy the quiet and calm.---If this mall hasn't been demolished yet I wonder how long it will be until windows and skylights fall and the birds start getting in and then can't find their way out.
How did you get inside ?? How many times I walked in this mall, "when open" & how many times I have driven by this abandoned place & wondered ?? Thanks for sharing really awesome, also love your music... wow Jamestown mall closed ? lol
Great video.....brings back lots of fond memories but just curious how you were able to accomplish this without getting arrested for tresspassing! Thanks for sharing!
So sad. I remember going there. They're having some sort of closing ceremony today, and they're gonna tear it down in early May. This was a great mall, but, I'm sure it will be even prettier when they're done rebuilding.
That was the premier mall in South County area. Improved and expanded in the early to mid 1980's only to be virtually devoid of business 20 years later. I worked there for over two years. Now it is being demolished.
wasn't a tax increase, they raised the rent for the spaces and they left to the South County Mall.... others closed shop. I think the SoCo mall will follow next, they wont raise their rent ( as they seen what happened) bt online sales are killing the shops.
Nice footage. As vacancy rates continue to grow and retail rental space continues to rise coupled with maintaining these old brick dinosaurs from the 70's & 80's we will be seeing more and more of them going out of business. Malls are a thing of the past.
As a kid, our family shopped there all the time. It was within walking distance. The fall of the middle class from the 1980s on was the cause of the decline, and the '08 recession brought on by the collusion of the government with Wall Street and the banks drove the last nails into the coffin. Other dead Malls: Northwest Plaza, Jamestown, and we're seeing the end of others. On-line shopping, with free shipping from all over the world, better prices, no sales tax, no parking problems, no store hours, and more choices is the future of the corporate retail shopping experience.
I last visited this mall in February of 2011 (when it was still open). At that time it was "dead" but the mall itself was still in very good shape. It is sad to see that in just a few short years how it is beginning to deteriorate. I am surprised by the number of malls that have failed in the St Louis area in the past few years. I know Crestwood Court, Northwest Plaza, and Jamestown all come to mind, are there any more that have closed?
im kinda curious is the mega flight thing in the blue and yellow tiled area(0:42) ? if not whats in their? also i think their as a food court on that floor as well but I'm not sure on that?
The food court was the whole lower level directly across from the arcade which was in the blue and yellow tiled area and yes mega flight was located there. They just have the whole food court walled off. You can see where they put up the drywall between the pillars.
i used to go to this mall with my friends when i was in high school because there used to be an anime store there and we would dress up like anime characters and run around because no one was really there haha
I spent significant time at Crestwood Mall when I was younger; mostly in the Arcade - another sort of place that isn't coming back any time soon. Domestically, especially in the Mid-West, our culture does not value public gatherings or social venues. I feel sad seeing Crestwood Mall in this condition; void of life, movement, and sound. True, Crestwood Mall was no Plaza del Sol or Retiro, but it was at least something of a social gathering place for the children of the 1990s, and in this little slice of St. Louisianian suburbia, there are few such places.
Very nicely done, and very sad. I have many fond memories of times spent at various malls around my town. Some are still alive but very different from what they once were, others have closed down. Some still sit abandoned. I am curious, what is the music you used starting at about 4:23 into the video?
I live in Crestwood and for as I can tell it will be torn down.The city keeps trying to get someone to buy it and do something with it,but I don't see that happening.So sad I use to shop there all the time.
Wow, I saw a video of this mall from a few years ago. It's supposedly the largest in the area and was slated to be demolished immediately. I guess that didn't happen. It was clean then, but now it just looks sad.
Did you get tempted to try and get the flight simulator working? Really enjoyed this video and to see a video titled 'abandoned mall' and it actually be an abandoned mall not just a rubbish one with only a few stores left!
I am a huge fan of dieing/dead malls and I see you tend to do this kind of thing around St. Louis, have you thought of doing Jamestown Mall yet? It has been closed down for 6 months now I think. There is the side of the mall that has been closed for a long time. I think it would be awesome to see it again. Just think about it 😀.
Ok. Yeah, it sucks that you have to worry about getting arrested, I wish you could do this more freely. I really would love to know exactly what the locations are, but I understand that safety has to come to first.
i would think this was crazier if I hadn't been here for a school event when I was 9. It was abandoned then. also they filmed part of the walking dead in it.
The mall ones scare the crap out of me. The idea of the once totally densely populated area completely deserted just gives me the creeps. Yes I've been sat watching your videos for the best art of 3 hours.
hershy314 they said as a few months ago they are turning it in to condos and some shops but who knows. and this is so said to see this go down hill like this..this was like a lot of peoples second homes etc.
It's been another year. Has anything happened with this mall? *googles it* Well, it's still in the planning stages. Scheduled for 2018 completion. Would you be able to visit it again? Specifically, the underground food court. I know the eateries have been walled off for a long time even before closing. But I've never seen someone walk through it. I assume it connects to those escalators to nowhere. for example at 02:20.
Awesome! I grew up going to crestwood mall so it was bitter sweet to see the old place abandoned. You made my ghoulish little horror fangirl heart happy using the movie music.
This was my childhood mall. I remember there was a pet store with dogs that I would always visit when I go there and the basement arcade area. Sad to see it closed and soon be demolished.
Really hurts to see such a pinnacle of your childhood, where you grew up and spent time with friends and family turned into this. It seems as though my hometown of St. Louis is just taking a nose dive in to oblivion. Just the past 5 years to see how everything has changed is utterly heartbreaking.
Nice, steady camera work and no cutesy narration or obnoxious soundtrack, mostly natural sound. THIS is how you make an abandoned mall video!
I AGREE!
Art Howard exactly!!
damn it sucks to see the mall that you grew up with end up like this, I had so many great memories here 😕
Yeah. I use to be at this mall on the regular as well. there use to be a lil master p impersonator there every weekend. I believe it was like 1998 or somewhere around that time.
Ziller omg I know and same here. it so sad and very upsetting to see this. and now it's.like torn down :(.
Great video. I used to work security there about 7 years ago, when it was still open. You need to go back at night. Some freaky shtuff happens around 2am. I've heard voices, footsteps, loud unexplained booms, the faint sound of a child playing; I've seen shadow-people, storefront gates being lifted and dropped, the elevator used to operate on its own (someone told me it was a "fail safe mechanism"...could be true, idk), toilets flushed by themselves..because, ghosts need to pee too, I guess. My shirt got tugged a few times. There was a corridor by the theater that I refused to walk down at night because it felt like I was being watched. It would be great to have some of that documented, but then, you're not a ghost chaser, are you?
Right...
no such things as Ghosts you superstitious troll.
Wild but there is such thing of a spirit or spirits they are everywhere you just don't realize it
yea, ok, "ghost" is a bad term. but I was there and saw what I saw. I usually worked the day shift but worked nights on the weekends. I could chalk up the shadow-people as me being tired and just seeing things out of the corner of my eye. The feeling of being watched when I went down that corridor could have been all the electrical power cables messing with my bio-electrical field, inducing paranoia. The loud boom could have been a faulty air conditioner compressor but it sounded more like something falling through the ceiling...so.. idk. I try my best to look at things logically before saying, "that piece of paper by the vent moved on its own, it must be a poltergeist!", but when more than a few people have the same experience that cannot be explained (mainly talking about the clearly heard voices/footsteps/clothes being tugged, here), then perhaps its time to open your mind to other possibilities.
You probably shouldn't be drinking the stagnate water that comes out of those deserted fountains anymore Windygo...
That was a beautiful send off, with care and respect as your probably the last one to video the interior before demolition. Thanks for the great work of a subject that is really close to my heart. You got yourself a subscriber. 😆🖒
I was in this mall within the last 48 hours... it's gone downhill fast. I grew up three blocks from here and I've wanted to go in since it's been abandoned. Tonight, a buddy of a buddy told us abt a back door being open. So me and a couple others went in. And wow. Video does not do it justice
I don't care how "tough" one thinks he or she is........These abandoned mall videos are truly heart breaking to anybody that is between the ages of 35-70! We are from the "mall rat" generation! You have online ordering to thank for this! It really broke my heart to see that dance supply store! I am fighting back a tear now...
Great camera handling. Unfortunately, most "abandoned" videos I can't watch as I get motion sickness from unsteady handling. You have a very steady hand & you don't swing the camera too quickly. Thank you. Great video!
WOW!!! you got in the ARCADE!!
I went to this mall all my life. My mom used to love shopping at this mall, and later in I hung out there when I was in college. Loved going there around Christmastime with all the dine orations and the hustle and bustle. Makes me so sad to see it go!!! RIP. CRESTEOOD MALL!!
Nice touch adding the 28 weeks later theme! That song is so haunting. Sucks our economy is so crappy that all these malls have to close.
I managed the See's Candies shop from September 1986 to early January 1987 before getting transferred to our Galleria store through April. By the end of 1988, all of our STL stores were closed and inventory sent back to California!
Thank you for posting this video. My sister and I used to work and shop in Crestwood, and it is also where she met her now husband. He used to be a security officer in the mall. I miss this mall terribly, and hope it returns soon.
Kirk: "Mall status?"
McCoy: "It's dead, Jim."
There's a few videos on YT of this place in it's final days, quite sad really.
***** I wouldnt have thought you would be into this type of thing!
+Larry Bundy Jr This comment was certainly unexpected.
I love these dead mall videos! I spent a whole Sunday in bed with the flu watching them a few weeks ago :D
they can get addictive, your right. we dont usually have any shopping centres here that close and get like this though do we, its more hospitals if anything. fun exploring untill your caught!
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Where abouts are you? I've been to an abandoned school in the UK.
Sad and kinda creepy all at the same time. That's the emotion I get as you show this. Once mighty places like this closing are a sign of the times. We had a mall here in the town I live in. Wal mart and a bunch of big box stores killed it.
So sad! I've been there so many times both while occupied, and abandoned. Sad to see it go; I have to many memories there.
Don't blame it on black people! It is us as human beings as a whole who ran it down. Bad business decisions and because people are buying more items online is what brought the malls down.
I remember when I was a kid, and I walked into that arcade and saw that very flight simulator.... I was stuck in awe. Of course with me not being that old (only 19) at that time the mall was already falling and there were very few tenants at that time. Damn it's a shame to see it fall like this
GREED killed most of these places... a Store 1st, has to PAY RENT to the mall.... 2nd, they have to pay a % OF TOTAL SALES to the mall.......3rd they have a YEARLY merchant members "assessment" they have to pay the mall.. for holiday decorating, snow removal etc they say.... what Business can pay all that, LABOR, then Inventory costs.. and still turn a reasonable profit??
One mall I knew.. years back, charged 600 dollars a month base.. for one of those "CART VENDORS" spaces you saw in several malls!! You know, the "push cart" deals like a New York Hot Dog vendor uses??
Albert Johnson you are right albert the mall owners were greeeeeddddy rent by the square foot huge rents they priced themselves out too bad
+Albert Johnson this is almost what my local mall looks like because the rent is way more then people can afford. heres what left in the mall I go to, Movie theater, FYE, Shoe store, pizza place, and an antique store. And twice a year a charity opens in an old store that sells donated formal/prom/wedding dresses for $5 a dress (and trust me they have very beautiful ones) which sucks because I know just how many girls/women really appreciate this store.
i like your videos!
just subscribed, this guy rocks.. so much better than the other UE out there.. goes into interesting places not super old crumbling places... wish there was more commentary though keep up good work
I use to work at here at Sears there from 1999 -2012 I was just so sad to see it go. Now its just a pile of Rubble now!
Now that's my kind of mall. No crap for sale and no crowds.
Good video you just earned yourself a subscriber. Also good choice on the music piece at the end. It's called In the House from 28 days later.
I'm an urban explorer myself but the funny thing is I was here not that long ago while it was in the process of closing. I had no idea it was going to end up this bad.
Me and my friends used to go here and walk around and watch movies in the theater. There used to be a carousel ( horses ) near one of the entrances, which there was a skylight above it. That skylight would leak rain water and they would have wet floor signs under it. I bought a telescope from a shop in that mall. There was a Pasta house, and a Chevy's restaurant in there. There was a Dillards and Sears anchor stores there. We would have a good time playing in the arcade Which I can't remember the name but I know it started with the letter "G." Me and my friends would sometimes eat at the food court next to the arcade. There is just a lot a memories growing up in this place and like I said it saddens me to see that it was demolished.
1964 bought my first Beatles record here at Sears. It was called Crestwood Plaza then. Sad.
You guys always find such amazing locations and I really love your videos! Greetings from France!
I live in St. Louis, and I usually drive by the old Crestwood Mall. It's so sad to see it abandoned.
So many memories. My dad worked here for many years and I know the ins and outs of this place. Its creepy to see all of this and know exactly where they are.
Great video, pity the place got abandoned. Great audio track at the end.
Fancy seeing you here Rodalco, huge fan of your videos. If you're interested, a TH-cam user by the name of dieselducy did a tour of this mall just days before it closed for good which he has uploaded on his channel. His uploads are mostly videos about elevators, but when you have insomnia such as I do, you manage to watch a little bit of everything.
It's like a nightmare dream about my teenage years. Our country has become a very dark place
I used to work here after high school around 2003-2005 at Famous Barr before it was bought out by Macy's. The buyout began a lot of dropped customers because Macy's prices were too high for the area. Crestwood isn't South County rich persay and a lot of the older steady customers of Famous Barr really didn't like new merchandise and price hike. I would say I worked here during a high point. Plenty of good stores were still open with sit down restaurants as well as the food court. I worked commission in women's shoes and sales were always really good. The movie theater was still open. Sad to see it abandoned now. I thought the plan was to make it into offices like Jamestown Mall, but it doesn't seem like the case anymore.
Total bummer seeing this video. Went here, Chesterfield and the Dove a lot as a kid in the 90s. I remember me and my older brother shaking the coindrop machines in Exhilarama resulting in a bunch free tickets. Still got us bupkis at the prize counter. The house always wins.
The combination of muted colors of the mall interior, the indirect light and the shadowy areas in the concourses give, to me anyway, a sense of tranquility. If someone was undisturbed by a security guard it would be nice to sit down in the walkways between those empty store and enjoy the quiet and calm.---If this mall hasn't been demolished yet I wonder how long it will be until windows and skylights fall and the birds start getting in and then can't find their way out.
Wow! Is St. Louis the next Detroit? Great exploration.
Nice find. It looks like this was a very beautiful place to go when it was thriving at one time.
How did you get inside ?? How many times I walked in this mall, "when open" & how many times I have driven by this abandoned place & wondered ?? Thanks for sharing really awesome, also love your music... wow Jamestown mall closed ? lol
I heard all you have to do is ask permission. I'm going to try it this April when I'm back home for a visit.
Great video.....brings back lots of fond memories but just curious how you were able to accomplish this without getting arrested for tresspassing! Thanks for sharing!
So sad. I remember going there. They're having some sort of closing ceremony today, and they're gonna tear it down in early May. This was a great mall, but, I'm sure it will be even prettier when they're done rebuilding.
if I had the money I would fix all of the Abandoned Malls up:-) and cool video
That was the premier mall in South County area. Improved and expanded in the early to mid 1980's only to be virtually devoid of business 20 years later. I worked there for over two years. Now it is being demolished.
Hard to believe this was once a very busy mall until a huge tax increase caused it to empty out.
wasn't a tax increase, they raised the rent for the spaces and they left to the South County Mall.... others closed shop. I think the SoCo mall will follow next, they wont raise their rent ( as they seen what happened) bt online sales are killing the shops.
This guy has balls of steel to go in there by himself
Really sad, as a kid growing up, my folks went there to Sears, Allied radio, Styx, etc. Miss that mall - all gone now...
A skateboarders paradise.
I don't know why but I find the buzzing noise relaxing
Good Job!
Nice and smooth --- easy to watch
Thanks
I loved this place so much.
Nice footage. As vacancy rates continue to grow and retail rental space continues to rise coupled with maintaining these old brick dinosaurs from the 70's & 80's we will be seeing more and more of them going out of business. Malls are a thing of the past.
I don't understand why they leave all those lights on. Is a pity, I like the design of this mall.
The music at the end adds to the creepiness! Sounds like something you'd hear in a John Carpenter film. Yeeps!
Oh wow! How did you get access to the inside? Who did you have to get in contact with? I would love to get in there and take photos.
As a kid, our family shopped there all the time. It was within walking distance. The fall of the middle class from the 1980s on was the cause of the decline, and the '08 recession brought on by the collusion of the government with Wall Street and the banks drove the last nails into the coffin.
Other dead Malls: Northwest Plaza, Jamestown, and we're seeing the end of others.
On-line shopping, with free shipping from all over the world, better prices, no sales tax, no parking problems, no store hours, and more choices is the future of the corporate retail shopping experience.
What song was that at the end of the video?
WOW...How do you manage to find abandoned places that haven't been vandalized?
Nice video!
I last visited this mall in February of 2011 (when it was still open). At that time it was "dead" but the mall itself was still in very good shape. It is sad to see that in just a few short years how it is beginning to deteriorate. I am surprised by the number of malls that have failed in the St Louis area in the past few years. I know Crestwood Court, Northwest Plaza, and Jamestown all come to mind, are there any more that have closed?
im kinda curious is the mega flight thing in the blue and yellow tiled area(0:42) ? if not whats in their? also i think their as a food court on that floor as well but I'm not sure on that?
The food court was the whole lower level directly across from the arcade which was in the blue and yellow tiled area and yes mega flight was located there. They just have the whole food court walled off. You can see where they put up the drywall between the pillars.
Aw man somebody please leave some plastic flowers there for the ghosts of yesterday. This is where I first saw Pokemon the Movie.
why would it be guarded if its abandoned?
The property is still under discussion-I hope they do SOMETHING with it. This was a great mall.
i used to go to this mall with my friends when i was in high school because there used to be an anime store there and we would dress up like anime characters and run around because no one was really there haha
I spent significant time at Crestwood Mall when I was younger; mostly in the Arcade - another sort of place that isn't coming back any time soon. Domestically, especially in the Mid-West, our culture does not value public gatherings or social venues. I feel sad seeing Crestwood Mall in this condition; void of life, movement, and sound. True, Crestwood Mall was no Plaza del Sol or Retiro, but it was at least something of a social gathering place for the children of the 1990s, and in this little slice of St. Louisianian suburbia, there are few such places.
I LOVE RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FORM THAT MALL! I WENT THERE MY WHOLE LIFE
Very nicely done, and very sad. I have many fond memories of times spent at various malls around my town. Some are still alive but very different from what they once were, others have closed down. Some still sit abandoned.
I am curious, what is the music you used starting at about 4:23 into the video?
ngtflyer It's a remake of the 28 days later soundtrack.
BackyardExploration Cool, thanks for the reply!
2:56 is the gate to Hell, plain and simple.
I live in Crestwood and for as I can tell it will be torn down.The city keeps trying to get someone to buy it and do something with it,but I don't see that happening.So sad I use to shop there all the time.
Wow, I saw a video of this mall from a few years ago. It's supposedly the largest in the area and was slated to be demolished immediately. I guess that didn't happen. It was clean then, but now it just looks sad.
Love your videos .. Can you tell me the name of the song at the end of this one ??
Did you get tempted to try and get the flight simulator working?
Really enjoyed this video and to see a video titled 'abandoned mall' and it actually be an abandoned mall not just a rubbish one with only a few stores left!
Wow, you are brave. Great camera work
The last time I saw CC was when they were demolishing the ceiling of the parking lot. Where are they now?
i love your videos, but sometimes its hard to find off of google. But keep doing what you're doing. I love your Northeast Ohio shit. be safe!!
I am a huge fan of dieing/dead malls and I see you tend to do this kind of thing around St. Louis, have you thought of doing Jamestown Mall yet? It has been closed down for 6 months now I think. There is the side of the mall that has been closed for a long time. I think it would be awesome to see it again. Just think about it 😀.
totally makes me feel like we're walking through part of "The Last of Us" video game .... very cool
creepy and sad how malls are closing. btw what is the name of the song at the end?
This is sad...when I was growing up this was my favorite mall
+backyardexploration has it been demolished yet? I'd love to see what it looks like inside today.
+hukelauidol81 Not quite yet but it's pretty messed up inside. Someone else posted a comment saying all the skylights are broken out
O so its probably starting to have the same fall as Rolling Acres Mall then
they started on it, in progress on the lot and garage areas, working their way to the building now. Its sad to see
Is your Jamestown Mall video still up? I cannot find it. And, are you ommitting the name of this mall for security reasons?
It's set to private. And yeah, publicly naming locations generally isn't a good idea.
Ok. Yeah, it sucks that you have to worry about getting arrested, I wish you could do this more freely. I really would love to know exactly what the locations are, but I understand that safety has to come to first.
how long has it been abandoned?
I really miss the Cheavy's that was there. Last time I saw it, everything right of the old Cheavy's was completely rubbled.
Everybaddy gone! Everybaddy gone...dem probably a look fi food.
i would think this was crazier if I hadn't been here for a school event when I was 9. It was abandoned then.
also they filmed part of the walking dead in it.
Jeremy Forman what part of the walking dead did they film in there?
Since it isn't that bad couldn't they rebuild it\ make it something else?
Awesome Footage!!!
Never did like to go to the mall,as far as I can tell the one in my North Alabama town is still thriving, it just added a bed bath and beyond.
The mall ones scare the crap out of me.
The idea of the once totally densely populated area completely deserted just gives me the creeps.
Yes I've been sat watching your videos for the best art of 3 hours.
what a waste of money...could be used for something...even shelters for the homeless.
rumors say the company that bought it is going to turn into a residential place. But that was a year or two ago I heard this so who knows.
hershy314 they said as a few months ago they are turning it in to condos and some shops but who knows. and this is so said to see this go down hill like this..this was like a lot of peoples second homes etc.
its torn down but I dont if its all torn down now.
I remember when this mall was open!! I've been there before back when it was open!!
Th at sucks this mall seems to be in really good shape to be abandoned they should try and get it to operate again instead of demolishing it
Real shame that the building hasn't been repurposed.
Yet another huge building complex with power turned on..
It's been another year. Has anything happened with this mall? *googles it* Well, it's still in the planning stages. Scheduled for 2018 completion. Would you be able to visit it again? Specifically, the underground food court. I know the eateries have been walled off for a long time even before closing. But I've never seen someone walk through it. I assume it connects to those escalators to nowhere. for example at 02:20.
great. i love the ominous music.
These malls really have themselves to blame. Bad business practices combined with horrible foresight. The same reasons record companies went downhill.
Yeah, that's the problem....wink wink.
Nice use of the zombie movie music! It's from 28 Days later, right?
+jlmcmahan81 Yessir. A particular escalator reminded me of the movie so I felt obliged to include the music.
Awesome! I grew up going to crestwood mall so it was bitter sweet to see the old place abandoned. You made my ghoulish little horror fangirl heart happy using the movie music.
why is the power or how is the power still on in this place
read, please read the description.
keeping a certain level of power going helps maintain the building infrastructure and security.
OHH mega flight i been in one of those when i was 4 it wasant the best experience but it was fun XD
amazing how places like this go belly up surely all the rent from the stores went somewhere!