Thanks for all the positive feedback everyone, hope you are enjoying the effort i put into these, I am really curious to know who is thumbing these down lol, more content soon!
Some people don't know how the "like" feature works and thumb it down because they don't like that the mall is closing or some shit. Other people are just dicks.
OMG OMG OMG THIS IS MY CHILDHOOD MALL! 😲I literally got my ears pierced when I was 7 there! My mom grew up in Swansea and we lived in RI 20 minutes away 😭
This is so sad😭All the memories I had there... I got my ears pierced there, I took photos with Santa there, I had a dance recital there... thank you so much for this video, this is a great memory
In the early to late 80's it was a great mall. I loved going there. It was always clean and well run. The arcade was great and there was a hot dog stand next to it that had amazing chili dogs. Hot Dog Connection? Can't remember the name. Good job. Sad to see it go.
This was my childhood mall. I remember going here all time when i was little. Emerald Square Mall opened in the late eighties and I think that is what started Swanseas demise. Wal-Mart certainly did not help. Thanks for taking me back to my childhood again.
I grew up in New Bedford but over the years went to Swansea mall dartmouth mall taunton galleria and emerald Square mall, emerald Square is in a death spiral, same for providence place, dartmouth mall tho small seems to be holding on for now
Thanks for covering the old Swansea Mall. It would have been a trip if you got in the old closed off Apex portion that's been just sitting there for 20 years, but probably impossible and/or unsafe. The closed-off anchor at 4:30 was a Sears. To the left and going up that side was a Payless, Borders Books (closed years ago) and FYE. The arcade at the end was a Hot Topic in the 2000's. The closed-off southwest style looking corner in the food court was a Taco Bell that had been closed off since 2007 or '08. Dunkin Donuts was next to it. I had one last trip here in January 2019 when Macy's was closing.
So many memories in this mall. Still can’t believe it’s closed. At one point in the early 00s it seemed like Swansea was doing well while other local malls (Dartmouth & Harbour) were dying...then within 10 years everything changed. Wal-Mart moving from the main building definitely was the nail in the coffin.
I bought gardening stuff there at Apex, videogames at GameStop. I ate at Ruby Tuesdays, and had a quickie in the parking lot before a movie, good times.
Dad worked on building a few stores there during the renovations in 81 or 82, remember they had Bob Eubanks as the ribbon cutter for the grand reopening, my mom was so underwhelmed at him. Miss all the fountains.
I lived in Swansea for most of my life and lived pretty close to Swansea Mall. I used to go there fairly often as a kid and teenager but pretty much stopped going once FYE closed. My uncle used to work at the Sears in this mall. I would often stop by Sears whenever I was at the mall to see if he was working that day. Wouldn't be surprised if Swansea Mall closed down because of Providence Place.
I will always remember the water feature.. I was just a kid when they took it out. Those post had little spaces between them and us kids used those instead of the stairs
Really sad. This was my teenage hangout. Thank you for this footage. Edgar's was a small department store. I don't remember it too well - they had clothes for sure, and i believe perfumes/colognes but i don't think they had electronics.
Probably add in 1989 renovation. I remember our hometown mall got a renovation about the same time and also added a ton of Neon. It was a trend for sure.
Thanks for preserving the memory of Swansea Mall. It's ashame the mall faded into closure, but I guess losing big anchors and other stores sealed it fate. It's a better looking mall than those bland, cookie cutter Simon Malls. Swansea has color and neon and plants and some life to it, even though it was dying. Don't know why they didn't try to get other tenants in there. Also keep the fountains...rushing water is supposed to relax people. Too bad they could not leave the mall open for the mall walkers, give them somewhere to go before they really have to tear down the mall. Thanks for the early preview for my Patreon membership, and the very fun bit of you at the end of the video. Look forward to what's next.
I remember it saying as pretty cool, my grandparents lived in Swansea not far away. Had some good memories there with my Mom and grandmother mostly going shopping with them and then McDonald's....😂 Im a big kid now .
Just found out Swansea Mall was sold for $4.6 million dollars to New Hampshire based Anagnost Companies. There was a church using the old Macy's with rent at 8 thousand a month. They were the last occupants.
So sad to see my home mall (grew up in nearby Somerset) gone after all these years. It just went out with a wimper, except when they called back the mall rats for one last walkthrough. Still, I'm surprised they didn't close it down sooner.
Here’s 2”what I found on Edgar Department Stores: “Edgar Department Stores was the name of a U.S. Based department store that operated in New England. Originally called "The Boston Store," it was founded in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1890. After a second devastating fire in less than 20 years James Edgar, an immigrant from Edinburgh, Scotland, bought out his partner and in a purpose-built, fire-proof building, re-opened the business as Edgar's in Brockton, Massachusetts.[1] Every December starting in 1890, James Edgar dressed up as Santa Claus to entertain the children of shoppers, thus becoming the first department store Santa.[1] Trains brought families from Boston and Providence to Edgar's to see Santa. In the early 1960s Edgar's was bought by Almy, Bigelow and Washburn, Inc. The corporation ran department stores under various names in eastern Mass. By the mid 70s, some of the stores were renamed "Almy's." The store sold clothing, home goods, jewelry, cosmetics and some toys. All locations featured distinctive bright green carpeting that was one of the stores trademarks. Edgar's operated in at least three other locations; one in Fall River, Massachusetts, one in the Dartmouth Mall in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and one in the Swansea Mall, in Swansea, Massachusetts. For a number of years the stores struggled to compete with chain stores such as Bradlees, Ames, Zayre's and Mammoth Mart while maintaining the "department store cachet." This, along with the company's refusal to abandon city-centers for (by-then) popular malls, forced the company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. They were subsequently bought by Bradlees, who closed most of the Almy stores. By the turn of the century Bradlees was driven into bankruptcy and closed.”
The Pawtucket, RI-based Apex Store, which was the anchor store on the north side of the mall. still has an online presence, and for a time, continued to operate a small brick and mortar location in Pawtucket, long after their mall locations and Pawtucket flagship stores closed. I recall that the Apex Pawtucket flagship store was used as a RI drivers' license and vehicle registration facility after it was shuttered. Seeing that I haven't been back to RI since I left in 2012, I have no idea if Apex is still operating any sort of walk-in store, however, their web site is still operating as of this date. One of the access roads leaving the Swansea Mall (from the west) used to have a somewhat challenge of a hill I would repeatedly ascend on my bike on for short-hill climbing practice. Where I lived, the hill was the best one around. That whole area of Rte. 6 and 118 in Swansea is an area of retail ghosts, such as Stuart's, Ashmont, Building 19, Jordan Marsh, and Service Merchandise. Was my wife's favorite area to shop back in the day when we were (much) younger.
I'm 48 YO and I NEVER dreamed in a million years that Malls would close their doors and Anchor Stores would be gone.I always thought Malls and Anchor Stores would be around FOREVER.Ex : K-Mart,Sears,Bon-Ton,JcPenny.These stores were around when I was growing up. The Mall is where you went to on a Friday night,what's becoming of Our Malls ???
I used to work at this mall for only 2 months back in 2010 after I quit Ruby Tuesday in Dartmouth,MA. I started going to this mall as a customer in 2001 and I thought it totally reeked of awesomeness,I thought it had an 80s vibe there. Once I started working there as a housekeeper,I didn't like it. So I got transferred to the Dartmouth Mall in July of 2010. I'd rather go to the Swansea Mall as a customer than as an employee. But,it is sad to see it gone now. Surreal,man.
If you're heading down to texas , I just walked "La Plaza" in McCallen, tx.(Not a dead mall , on the contrary it brought back memories of when malls were actually gathering places and heavily shopped). It's Easter week so it was jammed packed on a wednesday at noon. It's adjacent to their airport as well, so it's easy to just fly in and walk to the Penny's entrance. It heavily draws cross border shoppers. That's got to be one of Simon's most profitable malls and land must be cheap as heck down there cuz it's one level and a heck of a walk. Any where else and that would be a two story mall. (Hurry down before the Easter bunny hops away)..
I didn't even know the place closed until I drove by recently. Wish I went to visit before it closed, but Emerald Square has always been my go to mall.
You should attempt Festival Bay/Artegon/Deezerland in Orlando. It was a complex that legit has been cursed. A mall that has been reimagined three times with no success. Some guy (Deezer) is trying to open an entertainment complex and car museum in it but he has had several issues getting it off the ground. Worth a look if you are ever in the area.
I did a tour of this Swansea Mall in December, 2018, after relocating back to the area after 15 years..it looked like it was on life support back then. Sad to see it go! I bought a London Fog Trench Coat at this Mall back in early 1981, I think it was Jordan Marsh.., then Macy's.. times certainly have changed..I still have the London Fog Trench Coat, in perfect shape!
The Spencer's corpse was shown at 9:21 in their store type from before the "Design1" warehouse/brick/slatwall look theyve been using for the last 15+ years. Its the purple uprights with white adjustable shelves. That was my first job back in 2004 in a metro-Detroit mall and then we remodeled to the design1 store type in 2007
There's something to be said about holding the goods you're about to purchase in your hand and see them in person. I guess now with the continuing advent of home delivery, free shipping and no hassle returns, we have no need for these malls anymore. I miss going to to mall sometimes, but I sure don't miss the crowds of people, especially around the holidays and weekends.
Heeey, Because of your video on North Ridge in Milwaukee people started going there, and now they are gonna have to demolish it because of safety concerns. They even referenced your video. Sucks! That was an awesome building. Cheers
Good to hear Waterfront Dining back on your videos. Seems crazy that this one closed, looks well maintained mostly. Still that's modern retail. I keep meaning to get on and do some videos in the UK. I have just started working in a local town and the centre is dead, virtually everything closed bar a couple of shops
Oh it’s not going to be long before my local mall, the Hanover mall in Hanover mass will be closing and turned into a market basket or whatever. All my memories are in that mall :(
As a side note for fans of dead malls, the city of milwaukee gave the owners of the former Northridge mall 20 days to start demolishing it. That was 2 days ago. T -18 and counting So apparently I didn't read far enough down the comments at 1st, as someone else mentioned this yesterday.
How many malls are largely converted to office space? The mall where I live was quite small but the largest areas are occupied by Storage, Community College and State Family Agency.
I visited this Mall 2 years ago, and honestly the Walmart didn’t kil it as it is one of the smaller and junky stores ever built. There were already most of the typical Mall retailers going under, and with just two anchor stores, tough to absorb. A sister Mall to this via the Walmart anchor, would be the Barre Mall in VT. Very, very small Walmart as well as Mall, but just as beautiful not more so! JC Penny anchors the other side, but Smart they are to build a free standing Kholes and more adjacent to the Mall. Tons of Mall walkers too.
Providence Place... Emerald Square... Patriot Place. Swansea was destined to close. too much local competition. Bye Swansea... Solomon Pond/Auburn/Greendale are next to close in Massachusetts.
When you consider all of the effort that you put into driving to these locations, filming, and producing the content, giving these videos a thumb down is just pure stupidity.
Thanks for all the positive feedback everyone, hope you are enjoying the effort i put into these, I am really curious to know who is thumbing these down lol, more content soon!
Some people don't know how the "like" feature works and thumb it down because they don't like that the mall is closing or some shit. Other people are just dicks.
where is the music from for all your videos?! they are Ace!!
Ace's Adventures cool but sad video Ace !
Maybe they just "Dislike" the fact the mall is closing
I liked the ending where Anthony runs around like a madman shouting "THE MALLS ARE CLOSING!!!" Best thing I've seen today lol!!! XD
Just need thousands of more people to do that and it’ll make a difference! ;)
This place is so nostalgic.. I miss it :(
Watching the video I can go, Hey! I remember that place! It's been years since I've been there. I heard it closed. Good memories. 🙏❤️
OMG OMG OMG THIS IS MY CHILDHOOD MALL! 😲I literally got my ears pierced when I was 7 there! My mom grew up in Swansea and we lived in RI 20 minutes away 😭
This is so sad😭All the memories I had there... I got my ears pierced there, I took photos with Santa there, I had a dance recital there... thank you so much for this video, this is a great memory
Was your recital in the late 1990, like 1999? If so I saw it! Lol
In the early to late 80's it was a great mall. I loved going there. It was always clean and well run. The arcade was great and there was a hot dog stand next to it that had amazing chili dogs. Hot Dog Connection? Can't remember the name. Good job. Sad to see it go.
This was my childhood mall. I remember going here all time when i was little. Emerald Square Mall opened in the late eighties and I think that is what started Swanseas demise. Wal-Mart certainly did not help. Thanks for taking me back to my childhood again.
I grew up in New Bedford but over the years went to Swansea mall dartmouth mall taunton galleria and emerald Square mall, emerald Square is in a death spiral, same for providence place, dartmouth mall tho small seems to be holding on for now
Im actually surprised the neon was still going without any flickering after it being there for 30+years
Because at that time things were actually built to last.
@@billmyke746 true
Thanks for covering the old Swansea Mall. It would have been a trip if you got in the old closed off Apex portion that's been just sitting there for 20 years, but probably impossible and/or unsafe. The closed-off anchor at 4:30 was a Sears. To the left and going up that side was a Payless, Borders Books (closed years ago) and FYE. The arcade at the end was a Hot Topic in the 2000's. The closed-off southwest style looking corner in the food court was a Taco Bell that had been closed off since 2007 or '08. Dunkin Donuts was next to it. I had one last trip here in January 2019 when Macy's was closing.
So many memories in this mall. Still can’t believe it’s closed. At one point in the early 00s it seemed like Swansea was doing well while other local malls (Dartmouth & Harbour) were dying...then within 10 years everything changed. Wal-Mart moving from the main building definitely was the nail in the coffin.
Edgar’s was a soft goods merchandise store. Calder was like a Kmart. I worked at Apex for six years. I remember when the Mall opened.
I bought gardening stuff there at Apex, videogames at GameStop. I ate at Ruby Tuesdays, and had a quickie in the parking lot before a movie, good times.
R.I.P. Swansea
Walmart sucks!
Amen!!
I agree I smile every time I see an aldi open across the street from one.
@@Max23465789 I love Aldi, it's closer to me than Walmart, they have better prices, and they don't have any of the shoppers associated with Walmart
Walmart is right next door
Dad worked on building a few stores there during the renovations in 81 or 82, remember they had Bob Eubanks as the ribbon cutter for the grand reopening, my mom was so underwhelmed at him. Miss all the fountains.
I lived in Swansea for most of my life and lived pretty close to Swansea Mall. I used to go there fairly often as a kid and teenager but pretty much stopped going once FYE closed. My uncle used to work at the Sears in this mall. I would often stop by Sears whenever I was at the mall to see if he was working that day. Wouldn't be surprised if Swansea Mall closed down because of Providence Place.
I will always remember the water feature.. I was just a kid when they took it out. Those post had little spaces between them and us kids used those instead of the stairs
9:30 That arcade looks amazing!
A former Hot Topic before its final resting place as an arcade.
Doom Reverb yeah, there used to be a tiny bowling ally inside and right next door was a huge glow in the dark mini golf course, as well as a VR zone
I went there as a kid and I can confirm it was awesome
I agree!
I went there, was the best arcade experience ive had
my mom worked there for 35 years, jordan marsh, macys etc. lots of memories there
Really sad. This was my teenage hangout.
Thank you for this footage.
Edgar's was a small department store. I don't remember it too well - they had clothes for sure, and i believe perfumes/colognes but i don't think they had electronics.
I remember going to that mall when I was a kid, I used to love this mall and it was very close to our house!
Great video! Those neon lights are so amazing and retro!
Probably add in 1989 renovation. I remember our hometown mall got a renovation about the same time and also added a ton of Neon. It was a trend for sure.
My grandparents used to bring me here as a kid. We'd always have lunch at BB Binks before checking out the shops. Thanks for a trip down memory lane.
Thanks for preserving the memory of Swansea Mall. It's ashame the mall faded into closure, but I guess losing big anchors and other stores sealed it fate.
It's a better looking mall than those bland, cookie cutter Simon Malls. Swansea has color and neon and plants and some life to it, even though it was dying. Don't know why they didn't try to get other tenants in there. Also keep the fountains...rushing water is supposed to relax people.
Too bad they could not leave the mall open for the mall walkers, give them somewhere to go before they really have to tear down the mall.
Thanks for the early preview for my Patreon membership, and the very fun bit of you at the end of the video. Look forward to what's next.
They couldn't get more tenants because Walmart wouldn't let them
I definitely get a chuckle out of your opening. That car, was my first car. An 81 citation X11. Great video work Anthony.
Remember going to this mall when I was a kid And Pondarosa steakhouse was almost across the street from the mall
Quite a few mall walkers roaming around.
I remember it saying as pretty cool, my grandparents lived in Swansea not far away. Had some good memories there with my Mom and grandmother mostly going shopping with them and then McDonald's....😂 Im a big kid now .
Who remembers B B binks?
Just found out Swansea Mall was sold for $4.6 million dollars to New Hampshire based Anagnost Companies. There was a church using the old Macy's with rent at 8 thousand a month. They were the last occupants.
So sad to see my home mall (grew up in nearby Somerset) gone after all these years. It just went out with a wimper, except when they called back the mall rats for one last walkthrough. Still, I'm surprised they didn't close it down sooner.
Here’s 2”what I found on Edgar Department Stores:
“Edgar Department Stores was the name of a U.S. Based department store that operated in New England. Originally called "The Boston Store," it was founded in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1890. After a second devastating fire in less than 20 years James Edgar, an immigrant from Edinburgh, Scotland, bought out his partner and in a purpose-built, fire-proof building, re-opened the business as Edgar's in Brockton, Massachusetts.[1]
Every December starting in 1890, James Edgar dressed up as Santa Claus to entertain the children of shoppers, thus becoming the first department store Santa.[1] Trains brought families from Boston and Providence to Edgar's to see Santa. In the early 1960s Edgar's was bought by Almy, Bigelow and Washburn, Inc. The corporation ran department stores under various names in eastern Mass. By the mid 70s, some of the stores were renamed "Almy's."
The store sold clothing, home goods, jewelry, cosmetics and some toys. All locations featured distinctive bright green carpeting that was one of the stores trademarks.
Edgar's operated in at least three other locations; one in Fall River, Massachusetts, one in the Dartmouth Mall in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and one in the Swansea Mall, in Swansea, Massachusetts.
For a number of years the stores struggled to compete with chain stores such as Bradlees, Ames, Zayre's and Mammoth Mart while maintaining the "department store cachet." This, along with the company's refusal to abandon city-centers for (by-then) popular malls, forced the company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. They were subsequently bought by Bradlees, who closed most of the Almy stores. By the turn of the century Bradlees was driven into bankruptcy and closed.”
I went to this mall on Black Friday 2018, It was a ghost town. The place hadn't changed a bit since the 1980's.
The Pawtucket, RI-based Apex Store, which was the anchor store on the north side of the mall. still has an online presence, and for a time, continued to operate a small brick and mortar location in Pawtucket, long after their mall locations and Pawtucket flagship stores closed. I recall that the Apex Pawtucket flagship store was used as a RI drivers' license and vehicle registration facility after it was shuttered. Seeing that I haven't been back to RI since I left in 2012, I have no idea if Apex is still operating any sort of walk-in store, however, their web site is still operating as of this date. One of the access roads leaving the Swansea Mall (from the west) used to have a somewhat challenge of a hill I would repeatedly ascend on my bike on for short-hill climbing practice. Where I lived, the hill was the best one around. That whole area of Rte. 6 and 118 in Swansea is an area of retail ghosts, such as Stuart's, Ashmont, Building 19, Jordan Marsh, and Service Merchandise. Was my wife's favorite area to shop back in the day when we were (much) younger.
that sax totally got me unexpected
I'm 48 YO and I NEVER dreamed in a million years that Malls would close their doors and Anchor Stores would be gone.I always thought Malls and Anchor Stores would be around FOREVER.Ex : K-Mart,Sears,Bon-Ton,JcPenny.These stores were around when I was growing up.
The Mall is where you went to on a Friday night,what's becoming of Our Malls ???
Internet killed the mall star
8:51 What a great shot!
All that beautiful neon! Great work. 👍🏼🙌🏼
Possibly going there tomorrow to see the closed structure
Mr.HalloweenHaunter how
Ace's Adventures Originally I was able to go inside but I am just going to see the outside
I used to work at this mall for only 2 months back in 2010 after I quit Ruby Tuesday in Dartmouth,MA. I started going to this mall as a customer in 2001 and I thought it totally reeked of awesomeness,I thought it had an 80s vibe there. Once I started working there as a housekeeper,I didn't like it. So I got transferred to the Dartmouth Mall in July of 2010. I'd rather go to the Swansea Mall as a customer than as an employee. But,it is sad to see it gone now. Surreal,man.
Want to let you know that Northridge Mall in Milwaukee will be torn down at the end of April or beginning of May. They got a raze order yesterday.
If you're heading down to texas , I just walked "La Plaza" in McCallen, tx.(Not a dead mall , on the contrary it brought back memories of when malls were actually gathering places and heavily shopped). It's Easter week so it was jammed packed on a wednesday at noon. It's adjacent to their airport as well, so it's easy to just fly in and walk to the Penny's entrance. It heavily draws cross border shoppers. That's got to be one of Simon's most profitable malls and land must be cheap as heck down there cuz it's one level and a heck of a walk. Any where else and that would be a two story mall. (Hurry down before the Easter bunny hops away)..
Omg I just came for watching the Silver City galleria and mentioned this and my childhood mall again is gone so sad!!??
Another great video, and the neon in that place is amazing!
I didn't even know the place closed until I drove by recently. Wish I went to visit before it closed, but Emerald Square has always been my go to mall.
Awesome video!! What’s the name of the music? I really like it.
Wow, looks like it's in really good shape for a struggling mall. No buckets or really badly stained ceilings from water.
mathue taxion that’s because Moonbeam wasn’t in charge of it.
Ahh I remember the good old days being a dumb teenager, racing on the main st. there.
I remember radical ricks too.
Now I live in Nevada lol
Gasp! My childhood!
Another victim of the retail apocalypse. An unfortunate part of modern commerce.
You should attempt Festival Bay/Artegon/Deezerland in Orlando. It was a complex that legit has been cursed. A mall that has been reimagined three times with no success. Some guy (Deezer) is trying to open an entertainment complex and car museum in it but he has had several issues getting it off the ground. Worth a look if you are ever in the area.
Caldor was great I miss that chain it was mainly a northeast thing I believe
Really sad about the Mall yet another victim of Walmart (again)
I did a tour of this Swansea Mall in December, 2018, after relocating back to the area after 15 years..it looked like it was on life support back then. Sad to see it go! I bought a London Fog Trench Coat at this Mall back in early 1981, I think it was Jordan Marsh.., then Macy's.. times certainly have changed..I still have the London Fog Trench Coat, in perfect shape!
Caldor was my "go to" store in the late 70s in the Yonkers NY area. Pretty much the Walmart of the time.
When I was a teen I worked at a restaurant called "Barnstormers" only had 2 locations, one was in this mall!
They made good sandwiches there, im sure you know Jessica
@@hondawagonz886 like 15 years ago when I was still in high school, don’t remember any names haha.
@@MIKES0029 yea i went to high school with her, I used to work at the Shoe Dept
Is that arcade in a former Spencer's or Hot Topic? Either way it is an awesome setting for that mini arcade. Awesome ending!
Hot Topic. I think it even had two bowling lanes.
I was thinking the exact same thing, thinking the brick wall and polished concrete really works well for a mini arcade.
The Spencer's corpse was shown at 9:21 in their store type from before the "Design1" warehouse/brick/slatwall look theyve been using for the last 15+ years. Its the purple uprights with white adjustable shelves. That was my first job back in 2004 in a metro-Detroit mall and then we remodeled to the design1 store type in 2007
There's something to be said about holding the goods you're about to purchase in your hand and see them in person. I guess now with the continuing advent of home delivery, free shipping and no hassle returns, we have no need for these malls anymore. I miss going to to mall sometimes, but I sure don't miss the crowds of people, especially around the holidays and weekends.
Thanks for posting
Heeey, Because of your video on North Ridge in Milwaukee people started going there, and now they are gonna have to demolish it because of safety concerns. They even referenced your video. Sucks! That was an awesome building. Cheers
I live right near there i walk there all the time
Good to hear Waterfront Dining back on your videos. Seems crazy that this one closed, looks well maintained mostly. Still that's modern retail. I keep meaning to get on and do some videos in the UK. I have just started working in a local town and the centre is dead, virtually everything closed bar a couple of shops
at 7:20 in the video that restaurant on the left was a bbq place.
i used to go there every week with my friends in 2005-2007
damn, wow
i can tell this is an old mall because of the macys in the beginning
Are you going to cover Berkshire Mall in Lanesborough, MA? It’s down to just 17 tenants, and had to close for a few days recently.
9:26 finally! a decent looking arcade in 2019!
Good video. Thanks for filming.
Oh wow... great video
kh22912 ty ❤️
Oh it’s not going to be long before my local mall, the Hanover mall in Hanover mass will be closing and turned into a market basket or whatever. All my memories are in that mall :(
Who else would rather see Amazon crash rather than malls! Such a beautiful mall, so sad
To be honest I kind of would.
As a side note for fans of dead malls, the city of milwaukee gave the owners of the former Northridge mall 20 days to start demolishing it. That was 2 days ago. T -18 and counting
So apparently I didn't read far enough down the comments at 1st, as someone else mentioned this yesterday.
Wow...I live in Swansea but in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧
How many malls are largely converted to office space? The mall where I live was quite small but the largest areas are occupied by Storage, Community College and State Family Agency.
visited here in 2014, deadest mall i've ever seen! glad to have seen it
Spring Hill mall in West Dundee Il. Is on the verge of closing . I give it maybe a year and a half then gone
It opened in 1980.
Another quality video brah $$$$
Downtown 79 ty
I remember caldor. Did not last long in south Jersey...
I visited this Mall 2 years ago, and honestly the Walmart didn’t kil it as it is one of the smaller and junky stores ever built. There were already most of the typical Mall retailers going under, and with just two anchor stores, tough to absorb. A sister Mall to this via the Walmart anchor, would be the Barre Mall in VT. Very, very small Walmart as well as Mall, but just as beautiful not more so! JC Penny anchors the other side, but Smart they are to build a free standing Kholes and more adjacent to the Mall. Tons of Mall walkers too.
Anthony, Did you get to the Woburn, Mass. Mall ?
Tod Hovey is it closing? I live near the Northshore Mall and it’s doing great, even doing major renovations and adding a huge fitness center.
@@christinateresabrown The Woburn Mall is now closed and slated to be torn down very soon
Tod Hovey When did Woburn close? I knew it was emptying out in anticipation of that but I never saw official word that the place was shuttered.
@@WingnutcasemanThe Woburn mall has been empty now for about 6 weeks, It is going to be torn town very soon, I don't have an exact date
Wasn't there a Market Basket attached to the Woburn Mall? Did it close?
There a city in Wales called Swansea!
No surprise there. Lots of places in the US and Canada (seems like mostly in the Eastern part) get their names from the UK originals.
Also reminds me of a reference used in the BBC sitcom The League Of Gentlemen.
"You lied to me, Edward! There is a Swansea!"
That ending though.. LOL!
Keep Oakdale Mall in Johnson City NY on your radar! Been struggling for years, getting bad now. Place never even had a food court lol.
Damn that was the best arcade I've seen in any mall in a long time, shame its going away with everything else.😥
lol the mall looked like it was stuck in the 80s and 90s.
Swansea played its swansong.
I remember sitting on the fountain with my dad waiting for my mom to get out of PINK
Any chance for a visit to Monroeville Mall outside Pittsburgh?
Bobert hmm maybe
Old Swansea mall…I live next to the Swansea mall
Place is packed... with mall walkers!
Providence Place... Emerald Square... Patriot Place. Swansea was destined to close. too much local competition. Bye Swansea... Solomon Pond/Auburn/Greendale are next to close in Massachusetts.
towards the end, the only store keeping this place alive was gamestop
Bruh. At the end the person kept saying the mall is closing
When you consider all of the effort that you put into driving to these locations, filming, and producing the content, giving these videos a thumb down is just pure stupidity.
Newport creamery was the best
what a sad mall. hopefully they change it to a community college
Watertown mall and Arsenal mall
Northridge has 20 days till it comes down this April 2019.
Gonna watch tonight after the kids are in bed!.....
......if they ever GO to bed. Lol.
that is sad that mall is nice, it loosk liek it has new led lighting to :(
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