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- Abandoned Kmart - Statesville, NC *2023 Revisit*. Enjoy a second look at this store that I visited back in 2021. This time I was in the area at night which made it easier to see inside of the building.
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I've shopped this Kmart many of times when I lived in Statesville. I think actually the shelving units in the corner that said sold on them was ones I bought. I didn't get a chance to pick them up. But it's ok. Enjoyed seeing Statesville Kmart again
Yay! The Kmart content is back ❤❤❤
I could listen to you ramble and make jokes all day. I recently discovered your channel sometime last year and enjoy the abandoned videos like this a lot. Also, since I'm a car guy, I always enjoy posts about your Z24 and B-Friend. It's a very soothing channel to listen to with your witty and cheerful personality and the chemistry you have with Kayla. Keep up the great work! 👍
Great video
I love 💕 that buc ees Shirt by the way
It's a miracle that the lights haven't gotten messed up because of the rain coming from the roof
K-Mart was a great store! ❤ Loved it!
Really enjoyable. New subscriber here!
I worked at that K-Mart years ago. From 1998 until 2001. Had a lot of good times there. Later I worked for Food Lion’s corporate office in Salisbury, NC and during my time there I oversaw the remodel of that Food Lion store as well as the others in Statesville. That was in 2016. Good to see that shopping center. I’ve spent a lot of time there.
Love your videos Wallie - always eager to see what's next and I'm glad to see you upbeat and positive
I haven't been watching his videos for a few months now. Am I missing something?
@@allenchristopherson4162quite a bit actually! Rail fan and more
@@KC8EWU I know I've been missing his videos. Someone in the comments mentioned that him and Kayla broke up. He definitely doesn't seem upbeat in some of us his recent videos.
@@allenchristopherson4162 hope they didn't.
Your mall videos are definitely my favorite on the channel
Thumbs up to Steve the Leaf Blower....and you, Wallie! 👍
WHATTTTTTTT YOU WERE ACTUALLY HERE I LEAVE ABOUT 6 OR MORE MINUTES FROM WHERE YOU WERE, that's amazing
My Kmart store . Gone but not forgotten.
I remember this one lol
Next door from KMart is one of the best Chinese restaurants I've ever ate at in US called:
Shang Hai's. Best teriyaki sticks that I love eating.
We love you Steve
Surprise some of those signs are still hanging back there. Thumbs up to Steve 👍👍👍👍. That Food Lion is very retro cool. Cool photos at the end. Thanks for sharing brother. 👍👊
They are currently restoring this kmart building and putting a uhaul storage facility in. I believe it is in progress now. Good to see they are doing something out there. That whole area is so sad. I grew up there, shopping at that mall and all those stores along w the theater. I will be 39 at the end of August. The owners would never allow anyone to re do the mall or JRs area. Very recently they finally put it up for sale after its all too far gone to do anything with. The walmart area is where everything new is built....
I was curious if they were going to do something there. We came down in April, loved every minute of it by the way, hoping to relocate to Statesville in the next year or 2. The people were wonderful, and I know this area around the corridor by the highway can make a comeback, for sure. Has anyone picked up the Signal Mall? Would love to see it full of life again, as it looked very popular then
Great music and videos keep them coming. Thank you
Good video! Enjoy your Kmart and Burger Kind abandoned places! Nice!
Steve out here doin' the damn thing! 👍🏼 lmfao.
Glad to see a new video, love your content! Stay awesome, Wallie. ❤
I really enjoy your all your videos. they help me to feel better as I battle with high depression and anxiety. It helps me to forget for. But I thank you for all the time and effort you put in making an editing your videos. Good thank you for all you do for your fans
Awesome 👌 video big K
unfortunately Walmart ate K-mart's lunch. Thanks for sharing.
Wallie, good to see you back in my neck of the woods. A little history of this shopping center, where the Food Lion is was formerly a Winn-Dixie and in 08 FL gutted the building and opened the new store. It is actually a really good looking store inside that does not fit the area. The Food Lion trailer behind the store does not move and has probably been back there since the store opened. It is used to store salvage, bails, milk crates, pallets, etc. until picked up. Most FL stores have these old trailers behind them for that purpose. This is what is done with most of the old unused trailers. I work for FL btw. There were earlier FL and WD locations behind the mall across the street as well as a closed Harris Teeter beside the mall and a closed Bi-Lo down the street. This area has become a retail graveyard and I hope this area can be re-purposed. Keep up the great videos Bud!!
I only ever go there for food lion, shang hai buffet, or little Caesar's
Thanks my friend 🙏
Wallie, really enjoyed your AWESOME abandoned Kmart video! I wish Kmart was still around!
We always support you can't wait for more videos see you happy awesome take care
I worked at this Kmart from 2013-it closed. I had great memories there and when we heard it was shutting down, we were all shocked. The location did great in the profits department and all still baffled it shut down. I recently heard the building is now going to be used by U-Haul
Saw the thumbnail and thought "hey.. that looks like the old Kmart by food lion" and then read the title and realized it's actually the Kmart in my town haha
Wallie you are correct, our SuperK in London, Oh had a BK in the parking lot built shortly after the new Kmart opened in the 90’s.
I remember when that opened in 1993!
Great video Wallie! Thumbs up for Steve! 👍
The cost to fix the kmart including the roof would be pretty expensive with the high prices for everything right now. I'm surprised they didn't take down the BIG K sign when the store closed for good.
Great video always love your Kmart videos
Great video!
Always enjoy your vidoes
I got hired at Buc-ees in Daytona Beach so excited love Buc-ees now I get to work there !!
Nice video and I enjoy all of your videos
Big thumbs 👍 up for steve lol 😂 i remember when you first filmed this kmart definitely brings back memories
👍 for Steve with the leaf blower
Old downtown Statesville is dead(signal hill area). Most things are now located on the west side of town. I spent many of my teenage years in that parking lot, and the mall across the street.
Glad you came to North Carolina Wallie was actually at this K-Mart on it's last day the store manager that had been there for 18 years gave an emotional farewell over the intercom. He got a lot of hugs and pats from the customers when we were at check out.
Good video
Um How Many Kmart's Do You Have in Store Location Wallie Hope You Find Some More so Enjoyed Your Awesome Video Man.
The modern Food Lion Truck have a picture of a lion on it and it's very cool. I never seen a old Food Lion truck before with only words on it.
Man I remember shopping there when I was younger ahhh the memories.
There's an abandoned Kmart in Erlanger Kentucky that's been abandoned for a long time. You should check it out. I used to work there. And so did my mom and sister
Yeah, I live here and if it isn't freezing it's 100 degrees like it was today in July. I moved here from Md in 2008 thinking it would be warmer in the winter. WRONG!
Good evening!
I like the video wallieb26
Here in Matthews NC our Texas Roadhouse moved locations so it's old building is left Abandoned. Would love to see you film that location.
Nice video. I've noticed a lot of the former Kmart locations around here are now U-Haul facilities. I need to do a video or mini-documentary on those. I'm in the Pensacola area.
Dang 2019 doesn’t feel that long ago great video glad you love NC my home state 😎
In the late 70's early 80's that place was rock'n. I've not been there in years. Valley Hills Mall is not doing great either, I don't think. I've not been to Eastland Mall in many years. We'd go to midnight movies every once in a while. I even tried the ice skating some, before the movie would start. The Arcade was really cool too. Lots of good clean fun.
The Kmart in Thorndale Chester County is a carpet tile mart store and the part where the garden center was is becoming an aldis grocery store the Kmart in exton pa became a whole foods store and I believe the Kmart in Phoenixville pa and the Kmart in Columbia pa both became indoor uhaul storage centers.
I know a couple near me are now indoor storage. One became a factory, another replaced by a Walmart. And another subdivided big time. Burlington in there and Bob's Discount Furniture. Another also subdivided and multiple in it anchored by a Marshall's. At least 5 I know off with two on same state highway M11
You need to take a trip to Guam and do a video on the 24-hour Kmart there!
Yo! I worked at the Food Lion featured in this video during the time this was posted! It was super weird seeing those green bins at the back of the Food Lion, I hated scooping up old produce to throw in there. I also fed a group of cats that lived back there :) Anyhow, loved seeing the Kmart featured in a video like this! I remember seeing a lone shopping cart in the middle of the empty floor space and I remember taking photos of it. If you look closely at the second section of vertical white bricks on the front of the building (right below the yellow mark on the logo) you can see a large chunk of brick taken out of it. That was because a woman ran her car into the Kmart after having a medical emergancy, I was just beginning my shift so I had time to run over to check if she was ok, she ended up being fine but her car was wrecked. This happened in November last year, just something interesting I thought I could share
Uhaul is there now.❤
Wallie b26 Kmart may be gone but just remember one thang Kmart will never be forgotten Its spirits will always live on ❤
That’s a Food Lion trailer from the early 90s you don’t see many of them on the road that much anymore
Here in N. Central TX we got Food Lions in the early 90's. They flourished for a while, til about 1997 when Food Lion corporate announced liquidation and closures of most of their locations in both my town and surrounding N. Texas cities.
I used to ride my bike with neighborhood pals to and from the Food Lion which was about half a mile away from my house for sodas, candies, and glancing at the adult oriented mags of the era. I also would visit with my mom/dad for occasional grocery runs etc. I remember the Lion logo, and their yellow/blue color scheme/letters. The building set abandoned for a few years until summer of 1999 when the building was purchased by the school district and utilized for Special Programs Education. Troubled children/teens were sent there for their daily dose of public education. It's still the site of a Special Programs facility, and when not in session; the large parking lot is also often used to hide the occasional blacked out Police SUV to sit idly by to catch speeders going over the posted 40 MPH zones throughout the evenings/weekends.
Conover is still empty as well. Rural King bought it but never did anything with it.
There was a Kmart in Anoka Minnesota that was remodeled into a church.
w h a t
You❤ Kmart
4 years later and surprised Kmart sign is still up since you been last here, usually the sign gets taken down 3 or less years after it closed.
And my #1 favorite pizza place: Little Caesars, which I had for supper tonight. I feel you too about Eddie. So I'm always with you about Eddie no matter what you say, Wallie. By the way, the Signal Hill Mall has gotten worse now. I saw a video here on TH-cam where it was moldy in there. It was on the ceiling. The Belk is walled off from the inside of the mall. You can only get into Belk from the outside.
Steve👍👍
Another reason this store closed could probably be Food Lion being a few doors down.
Signal Hill… bring it!
big ups to my main man steve!
I stopped in the parking lot while on a trip from the Triad area to Asheville, NC back in 2022, surprised no one like Big Lots has moved into the space. I wonder if the inside of the building is not worth putting money into why the building has sat vacant for so long.
I worked at Kmart 3149 broomall pa loss prevention and a Manager drove around Kmart before and after closing to checkout before opening and closing
2003 home Depot took over that location the store was opened nov 1974
Steve's a legend and he doesn't even know it 🤣
LOL
Ollie's was going to move in there but it fell through
Cool video. This brought back a lot of memories of my NASCAR trip to NC. Statesville was home base since I was in the middle of all I wanted to visit. I actually stayed at the Red Roof behind here, 3rd floor. I remember the JR outlet well also. Down the road was a Hooters I ate at many times. I think the restaurant that’s abandoned here was a Dennys, not sure if that one. Can’t remember all the places that closed from that time, the trip was in 2010. I remember people were talking about how Statesville was an upcoming area with a very bright future.
The Lancaster area here in PA is undergoing a big change. The Rockvale Outlets are being condensed into one area and stores are being closed to make way for apartments. Gas station that was abandoned is getting new life, Ruby Tuesday is now a Japanese restaurant, and a Bob Evans was leveled to make way for a new chain restaurant. I took pics of all those places and I’m glad I did. Now I need to head back down to see the difference.
@daverogers9386, I live in Lancaster as well. I've only been to Rockvale a few times but I only remember the store with magnets where my cousin learned to spell her name with magnet blocks. Then, years later, it caught fire ☹️. I had no idea Rockvale had Ruby Tuesday and Bob Evans, I always thought Fruitville Pike and Centerville only had them. What gas station got abandoned near Rockvale?
It was the old Wawa. It was last the Lancaster Gas Mini Market. Ruby Tuesday was at the corner just up from the Riverboat. I got some cool pics there, great label scar photos. Bob Evans was about two blocks down, again at the corner.
Abandoned Shoneys was in front of Kmart.
It’s kinda funny that I’m commenting on this account but what those people told you is true I do remodeling with my father and years ago there wasn’t much going on in statesville we would have work in the surrounding cities likes mooresville salisbury hickory etc but these past 4 years there’s been a lot of expansion we’ve gotten alot of work in statesville it used to be just another small hick town it’s turning into a city pretty fast if you’ve been out here recently on the highway where i40 and i77 meet they are making it into 4 lanes
That Food Lion trailer, early to mid 1990s, guaranteed. That was their slogan back then. The Kmart in Shelby, NC was completely torn down, and a Ingles grocery store was built in its place.
I used to work there in 2007 it was a mess than.
Its now a u haul rental and its huge
You should do a video of the abandoned Kmart in New Castle. As far as I know, it’s still sitting empty.
Hey Wallie I see you got Bumble Bee back. I would love to meet you in person. I go to NC and SC. There's an Sears out there in Myrtle Beach that closed up in 2020 I know cause I was there in 2019 and they weren't closing yet. No signs up nor they didn't know of they were or not
For Steve 👍
Blue light special in electronics
That Food Lion trailer is from the eighties
I like how this Kmart looks like a JCPenney for no reason
thats nice kmart to
, thats small big kmart
, that is modern kmart with the incested lighting and modern hvac i am surpised no one has want in there
It's all about Steve.....
I miss the smells in Kmart n when Lil Caesars was still a thing, best n cheesiest lil caesars at Kmart. Crazy how 2017 n 2018 were my last years inside a Kmart.
St. Joseph, Missouri got two empty Big Kmart store!
What was the song during the photos?
FIRST 😊
Wallie, don't know if your heard or not. But someone is trying too bring back Ames! I seen the article about a month ago, do not remember where. Also according too my cousin, Eddie thinks Kmart could make a return, not with him there! As all the hometown stores have shut down already.
I always wanted to visit a kmart, if anyone has any experience with a kmart, how is it? Also love your vids :)
My stepmom worked at the Kmart in newkensington pa that is about to become aldis moving from lower Burrell pa, it closed in 2019 same round of closing like when this closed.
Idk why but they always leave lights on in buildings like this at night
There is a Walmart like 35 miles from Statesville in elkin NC that hasn't been in business in 25 years and the lights are on every night
What is the ending song ?
Good ole Iredell Co. I was born in Statesville years ago and shopped several times in that very super k mart.
My kmart didn't have a burger king in the parking lot or near it.
Remember the Rax guy?
Those second doors used to be closed now they are standing open
Do you think you could go to the 3 remaining Kmarts with Nate? Do you order from their website?