These videos always give me a bittersweet feeling. Sadness that it is long dead but all those nostalgic memories of my youth as a mall rat in the 80’s.😝✨💖✨
Excellent I’m in the U.K. and have been transfixed by the sociology of malls in the USA ever since I contributed to the Michael Galinsky ‘ Malls Across America ‘ Kickstarter . Thank you the record keepers xxx
Its so hard for me to grasp the sight of this because I was at this mall for the grand opening and I remember seeing the spot lights waving around in the sky from ten miles away on our way there! I got to do a walk through recently (I was allowed in by the guy who has done the property management from the beginning) and my eyes just couldn't believe what they where seeing... :( Mucho memories from this mall...
Okay, you do DJ work and are 38 years old. It finally makes sense. (I’m 35, btw). I love your videos. I’m an absolute MASSIVE fan. But in the last year or more, it’s your intros and outros that get me literally hyped. I’m not a DJ, or a creator of any sort. But so many of these, including this intro, just blew me away and I wondered how in the hell you came up with them out of thin air. The DJ part makes sense. So flippin cool, sir. I consider you a true YT celebrity. I’d have a difficult time acting like a normal human if I ever met ya. Thanks for all you do bro. Can’t wait til the next chapters open up.
I'm originally from the neighboring town of Stewartsville, NJ, & remember when this mall was built & opened in 1989. I also remember how busy it was as well. It's sad to see its popularity dwindle down to nothing until it finally closed just recently. There were very few stores open & hardly any shoppers inside this mall when I moved back to the area for a brief moment back in 2011, which was a stark contrast to what things were like here in the 1990s.
Congratulations on 5 years of filming dead malls.🎉 I absolutely loved your speech at the beginning of the video. I really believe it's important to archive this part of our history. I hope you'll keep making new content and that you'll enjoy California.
Well Anthony, whatever you choose to post on Ace's Adventures from here on out, there will be more than a few following along for the ride. Best of luck!
Awesome drone shots in the beginning. I’m from the same town as the mall and was just in the same spot with my drone about two weeks ago! I spent a lot of my childhood hanging out at this mall in its heyday. A lot of memories playing at the arcade, waiting for midnight releases at game stop, shopping for school clothes at American Eagle and browsing the used DVD section at FYE. It definitely was nostalgic watching this video. Thanks for producing it!
Excellent! You are right, this is an experience, anyone can take video and rush through the whole mall, but it’s your soundtrack that elevates this! Waves of nostalgia ! Love it!
Most of the security at these malls is understanding if you come forward and explain you are documenting things that are historical and yes even retail can be historical. Thanks for all you do Ace.
Daaaaamn, dude! This video, and especially the intro is absolutely breathtaking; very cinematic, I couldn’t take my eyes off it. Definitely one of the most beautifully photographed and edited dead mall videos I’ve seen. This is more than a nostalgia review: it’s art. Love it, and thank you. 👌🏅 *Subscribed.* 👍
Fantastic tour of this mall on one of its final nights! I love the "mini-film" format, you do some amazing work! Malls were a big part of my childhood with so many happy memories, and it is so sad to see them fading away. My part of Pennsylvania has been especially hard hit as you mentioned. Safe travels and good luck with your upcoming move out west.
@@RB01.10 I begrudgingly live in California. Taxes are through the roof. Prices for EVERYTHING are easily 30% above other states. Crime in major cities is going out of control. And businesses have left (and are leaving) in droves for years if not decades, meaning job opportunities are gonna suck. Despite all this, the idiots running this state are now claiming they CA is flush with cash via a $50B surplus despite the exodus of whole industries caused by their flagrant tax increases. Of course, the leftist supermajority in the state’s legislature made sure to enact laws that can change how its budget appears to the public (and whether or not they need yo bilk the public out of more of their money).
First of all, it’s OK for you to tell a biter history of the malls that you visit. I for one DON’T watch every dead mall channel on YT, so I and others like me appreciate knowing some of the history and the background of these places that you show us. And NO, you’re NOT stepping on ANYONE’S toes by doing so!!! You’re just adding your voice to the choir (so to speak). And, honestly, I personally don’t like the premiere format. It’s especially frustrating when I see the advance notice on your channel that just tells me how many hours and days I have to wait until we can see it. I for one would not miss it if you removed it and instead just do your regular style videos. And I don’t believe that many people feel differently. So keep on trucking’, Ace-we’re watching!!!
I live next to this and yes the power is still on because a Kohl's is still active attached to the mall and also some food places like taco hell and chicken fillets
I started with Dans videos, then found yours. I think your videos are better than Dans lol. Sorry dan. I like how you don't talk at the start, and the music is always so good. Then you give a little narrative and set the scene of what the mall was in its hey day. Then more music and no talking 🥰 its so good.
I am so looking forward to your future endeavors and so excited to see what you come up with! I love your style of commentary on these places, and I watch all kinds of dead mall and urbex content. I think you're about to do some amazing things. As for that roadtrip, I'm a houston TX native and have lived in louisiana for a decade, and the abandoned places here aren't quite as abundant but absolutely worth the visit.
Granted...the retail environment has decimated malls like this, BUT I have to say that the owners of this mall gave 2 SHITS about it! I was a District Manager for GNC and frequently had to deal with mall management for consistent water leaks and other issues that rarely got handled in a timely manner! To say that these owners were slumlords would be too kind of words! Even in 2015-2016; I would walk through this mall and count NO LESS than 35-40 vacancies throughout with ZERO interest from the owners to seek new tenants. Another fine example of poor ownership driving businesses into the ground! But I digress. Being a local of the area...thank you for documenting the last of the misery.
I don't know if my research is correct but I read that the owner did this to lots of malls throughout the country and they were not from this country!!! I don't recall but there was a mall in NJ that this was happening to but the town got wind of it and was able to get it back and got the mall to thrive.
If all of your videos were aired on TV, you’ve run for 5 seasons and still have 300 episodes. Congratulations on your milestone of filming dead malls/random videos for 5 years/300 uploads! When I look at your videos, I feel like that I am inside the malls. The only thing l like about your dead mall videos is the music and you have a great taste in the music you chose for your videos. Keep all of your dead mall videos, they’re memorable. Same goes with the content in your channel as a whole. All I can say that good luck on your new life in California and your future endeavors. God bless you and your entire life. 😊
Thanks for the good times Ace!!! You introduced me to Michael Oakley and the Midnight. Great tunes for late night crusing!!! Looking forward to seeing you grow.
I only just discovered this video... as a child of the 80's & 90s who spent a LOT of time at the Palmer Park Mall (still open), Phillipsburg Mall, (closed) Whitehall Mall (almost dead) and Lehigh Valley Mall (still open) in the late 80's and early 90's,...as a person who WORKED in the Suncoast store for a year at Phillipsburg Mall in the mid 90's...this brings back memories. I only wish before they demolish the mall (has not started yet as of June 2022) they would open the building to the public one last time and give those who wish the chance to walk freely through the mall one last time (will never happen, too much of a liability I know); I remember I was planning to visit for what likely would have been *my* last time in March 2020 and then COVID shut the mall down. This gives me some closure since I can't get it in person, so thank you.
Absolutely surreal film. It felt like I was wondering around a post-apocalyptic ruin at 1am with so signs of life. That kind of surreal vibe is why i love these Urbex videos. Also good luck on your fresh start Anthony. I hope you and Lost in the Valley can start that movie company of yours!
Congratulations on 5 years and 300 uploads Ace. Thanks for this look of Pburg mall. I have been to this mall many times. Best of luck with the new venture and move.
I'd been meaning to mention this since you said something about another RT 66 run, but it seems more pertinent now with your talk of moving. Check out El Paso for sure. It's a neat place, great food, nice scenery, close proximity to New Mexico, and we do have Sunland Park Mall, which was on the rocks even prior to covid, despite being in a high traffic area right off I-10 in a city with several other malls that are doing just fine and an outlet mall that's up and down, but doing ok otherwise. Dan Bell was out this way a few years back, but managed to miss it and fucking no one ever comes here because we're so isolated from the rest of the bigger cities in Texas.
I worked in and rebuilt over 200+ K.B, Circus World, K&K Toys and Playland Toy Stores up and down the east coast for many years. Bitter sweet memories.
I have another idea when your production company gets up an running. Do a feature length documentary for Cinemas called "The Downfall of the Mall: The New Era of Shopping". Maybe include the history of how the mall started and the cultural foundation that led to their decline such as over malling, leveraged buyouts, companies buying stores to scrap for cheap real estate to flip, changes in shopping patterns, changes in demographics, online shopping, the COVID-19 Pandemic, the decline of the department store, how millennials and Gen Z are using smaller spaces and less stuff, and others. Some cast Ideas: * Yourself * Dan Bell * Eric Pierson (Retail Archaeology) * Sal * Wallie from WallieB26 * And Others * Professors of Business and Economics * Mall Redevelopers * Liquidators * Millennials and Gen Z interviews * and others * Cultural Historians * Owners of organizations that reused mall space and transformed it into schools, data centers, health centers, Amazon fulfillment centers, Intermodal, and other uses. * and Others
@@RB01.10 I have always thought the online shopping is what destroyed these malls as well as people are so cramped for time that it’s just not as possible to go in person to these stores Amazon and the like have taken over which is unfortunate for the smaller businesses.
An era may have ended with this mall, but I feel a new one opens with you. Congrats on your 5 year milestone though, and wish you the best moving forward. Just subscribed as well!
I remember going to GameStop and buying pretzels with my brother. I also remember using the sink in the hairdresser while waiting for my mom. Wonder how he got in without breaking stuff.
Man I love all your video's even though I just started WATCHING when I seen my mall northland mall in Michigan but I appreciate you so much and all that you do
Love from Sweden. I really appreciate your videos. You are fantastic in your dedication. I get so exited nostalgic with your videos. Warms my heart. Keep it up. You are doing a wonderful thing.
You scared the living daylights out of me. I truly appreciate what you do. I've haunted malls since I could drive, way back in 84? It's been a long time. So many memories. I'm sticking with you. Thank you for filming these places. Time moves on. These are casualties. I hate it.
Congratulations on such a long series tenure. I only recently became a fan thanks to seeing Dan Bell's Dead Mall series, and can appreciate how much effort and time you put into your uploads. It's also great that you are looking into improving your craft and entering the film industry at large, and I wish you luck and look forward to more vids!
I am again living in Ohio near the town I grew up in, having lived out West for many years. The mall now only has a small theater, a Planet Fitness, two restaurants and a drycleaner.... the once thriving shopping center next door is not even at half occupancy... Online shopping and big box general merchandise have taken most of the retail market share... very similar to how it was in the late 1800's when retail consisted of the general store and mail order catalogs for much of the population ..
I went to the grand opening when I was 7. Went to Spencer's, The Wall, Kay-Bee. I hate that this mall failed, but glad that your video is able to unlock so many memories for me
@Ace's Adventures Great work...you really capture the feeling of time passing of the mall in America. Back in the 1970s and 1980s there was an optimism among most people in the USA.....and people were also more laid back and outgoing too, I miss those days, when even total strangers would say hello to others and maybe even make a friend in the process. Good times as a child back in the mid late 70s and young teenager in the early 1980s.
If going to the Midwest you should check out River Oaks Mall in Calumet City, Ford City Mall in Chicago, and the abandoned Charlestowne Mall in St Charles, IL.
did you light up the atrium like that? or is that how it is? I would love to film a drone shot in there but is this light always on or did you have to get to a light switch / breaker? SUBSCRIBED BTW
Unfortunately, the mall will be demolished soon. It was a good place to go to, but the last several years of bad management and declining stores, as well as COVID-19 hitting last March was too great for the mall to overcome in the end.
I wasn’t even born yet when it opened (b. 1995), but I’ve seen pictures of its opening day online and it looked crazy busy. How fast did the attendance and mall traffic fall over the years though? I’ve seen many people say by the late 90’s that trouble was already showing, as the food court’s traffic heavily went down as well.
I used to go to this mall with my parents when I was a kid/teen and then as an adult. I remember when this mall had a food court and an arcade. As you walked through the mall I knew which store you would have been in years ago when the mall was open. I remember the decline of the mall started soon after they replaced the food court and arcade with a travel agency, Gap, Old Navy and several other businesses. The next decline was when they removed the bookstore and the music store from the mall. Everything seemed to crumble even faster around that poor decision. I think that books and music may have been more popular than they thought. They added another store soon after that sold used books and some music items like records and CDs, but it was not worth visiting.
Do not stop. you give a point of view the younger generation will never know or understand. Even for me that experienced these places like our childhoods were. It brings back so many experiences we had growing up through the prime of the american mall
Another great video. Excellent work. Keep it up. Like the poem of sorts at the start If you are ever near my part of Va I would like to at least say hi. I need to document a dead mall near me as it is gasping for air
These dead mall videos just mess with my mind, remembering when those halls were crowded with people. Back then who could imagine the malls where we shopped, met friends, go to the arcades, and socialize would be dead and quiet some day. Thanks for sharing.
Brings back memories, I loved going to the gamestop there, and riding on the small rides. This brings a bittersweet memory of what it was, once before.
I read through dead malls reddit and people there said University Mall is already dead, not just on its way. What is still open there in April 2021 anyway?
Anthony, I am curious how many malls are left in the US? These are places families used to walk through stopping at iconic anchor stores such as Nordstroms, Jc Penny's and Sears. These are places we escaped to for hours on end. You have been to Portland, Or to witness the demise of Lollyd Center located in Portland, Or. I love the music you use in all your videos. The history you share with us about these once flourishing malls. It's very sad. I am glad you can record this for the history of all the states you have been to. Thank you.
Was that Alan Watts in the beginning of the intro? If yes, that guy is an excellent speaker and I love hearing his lectures. Good luck on your journey man. You do you 😊👍
Quakerbridge Mall may never become a Phillipsburg Mall. It has better occupancy and no rain buckets. Family lives near there, going there since it opened.
27 years ago, I knew a store owner from the mall. The man lived in a million dollar home, and was making money nearly ever day, unlike other mall stores. he was selling sports stuff. Internet slowly then rapidly ended his business. A man I once envied, went bankrupt, and his structurally unstable (big boobed) wife, left him. ouch.
It’s so sad when the history of shopping malls in the United States versus the ones in the UK as well. There’s all dead malls in the UK versus the dead malls in the United States. As always, I love your dead malls series, Antony from Aces Adventures. Please keep on working on future shopping malls. Thanks #MatthewSchoerverth
The mall was where you could be you.Ace happy 5 th anniversary to you.you’ve made a great sacrifice and I appreciate both you and your work.the real quality and the content.the real story within the stories.if walls could talk.you have a real drive and a passion that’s different.the difference is the ability to bring the experience.don’t forget that.
I live in Phillipsburg and to say its crazy to think i was just in that mall 2 years ago it was basically dead then too now it's just official some people in town dont even know its shutdown
Very familiar with this mall! Decent video arcade. I grew up directly between 2 major NJ malls--which are still fully-functioning today, Menlo and Woodbridge 😳 Both still have Macy's. No clue how they still manage to functio 😑
That mall was a big, big deal when it opened. We no longer had to go to PA for most of our shopping. The neon was beautiful and the food court was awesome. This is beyond sad.
I’m really looking forward to this video! I attempted to get there right before it closed but the weather was so bad I couldn’t make it and then the pandemic hit.
I'm so saddened to see this mall close! My family and I are from Ohio, and we moved to NJ in 2008. We were about a 15-20 minute drive from the Pburg mall, so we'd frequent this one all the time. I'm back in Ohio now, but I've always wondered about this mall. Thanks for sharing.
This is false and not even close to true, things are basically back to normal now with some exceptions, vaccines and summer are going to wipe this thing out
@@AcesAdventures1 that's not the impression I am getting as vaccines are being really hard to roll out here in canada due to political blunders as well as side effects of the vaccines (blood clots from astra zennacane) and these mutations which will also require vaccines. Covid 19 will never go away and it will require yearly vaccinations much like the flu and things will never qo back to normal. From what I understand the USA is in it's fourth wave of the virus and is experiencing yet another 3rd or 4th lockdown of it's national lockdown. Here in Canada, we're still in our second wave of Covid 19 and the first wave of the mutations and a third lockdown of our national economy. It's never gonna go back to normal. The ways things are now, that's the new normal.
These videos always give me a bittersweet feeling. Sadness that it is long dead but all those nostalgic memories of my youth as a mall rat in the 80’s.😝✨💖✨
Excellent I’m in the U.K. and have been transfixed by the sociology of malls in the USA ever since I contributed to the Michael Galinsky ‘ Malls Across America ‘ Kickstarter . Thank you the record keepers xxx
Hey! and stay safe!
Its so hard for me to grasp the sight of this because I was at this mall for the grand opening and I remember seeing the spot lights waving around in the sky from ten miles away on our way there! I got to do a walk through recently (I was allowed in by the guy who has done the property management from the beginning) and my eyes just couldn't believe what they where seeing... :( Mucho memories from this mall...
huhuhuh you said opening
lol...
Okay, you do DJ work and are 38 years old. It finally makes sense. (I’m 35, btw).
I love your videos. I’m an absolute MASSIVE fan. But in the last year or more, it’s your intros and outros that get me literally hyped. I’m not a DJ, or a creator of any sort. But so many of these, including this intro, just blew me away and I wondered how in the hell you came up with them out of thin air. The DJ part makes sense. So flippin cool, sir.
I consider you a true YT celebrity. I’d have a difficult time acting like a normal human if I ever met ya. Thanks for all you do bro. Can’t wait til the next chapters open up.
Hope to meet you someday as well!
A DEB still lit up! Fabulous tour and commentary. Music was spot on.
The lone dead plant under the neon blue glow was poignant. RIP to this mall. 😞
I'm originally from the neighboring town of Stewartsville, NJ, & remember when this mall was built & opened in 1989. I also remember how busy it was as well. It's sad to see its popularity dwindle down to nothing until it finally closed just recently. There were very few stores open & hardly any shoppers inside this mall when I moved back to the area for a brief moment back in 2011, which was a stark contrast to what things were like here in the 1990s.
This video didn't disappoint, good luck on your fresh start.
Dude next level! The intro itself... 🙏🏼
YOU are next level my guy
Congratulations on 5 years of filming dead malls.🎉 I absolutely loved your speech at the beginning of the video. I really believe it's important to archive this part of our history. I hope you'll keep making new content and that you'll enjoy California.
Well Anthony, whatever you choose to post on Ace's Adventures from here on out, there will be more than a few following along for the ride. Best of luck!
Awesome drone shots in the beginning. I’m from the same town as the mall and was just in the same spot with my drone about two weeks ago!
I spent a lot of my childhood hanging out at this mall in its heyday. A lot of memories playing at the arcade, waiting for midnight releases at game stop, shopping for school clothes at American Eagle and browsing the used DVD section at FYE. It definitely was nostalgic watching this video. Thanks for producing it!
Excellent! You are right, this is an experience, anyone can take video and rush through the whole mall, but it’s your soundtrack that elevates this! Waves of nostalgia ! Love it!
RIP to this beautiful mall
Most of the security at these malls is understanding if you come forward and explain you are documenting things that are historical and yes even retail can be historical. Thanks for all you do Ace.
Daaaaamn, dude! This video, and especially the intro is absolutely breathtaking; very cinematic, I couldn’t take my eyes off it. Definitely one of the most beautifully photographed and edited dead mall videos I’ve seen. This is more than a nostalgia review: it’s art. Love it, and thank you. 👌🏅
*Subscribed.* 👍
Thanks so much for that! I try my best :)
Fantastic tour of this mall on one of its final nights! I love the "mini-film" format, you do some amazing work! Malls were a big part of my childhood with so many happy memories, and it is so sad to see them fading away. My part of Pennsylvania has been especially hard hit as you mentioned. Safe travels and good luck with your upcoming move out west.
For gods sake DON’T move to California! You will regret it!
I was thinking the same exact thing! LOL
Why?
I wouldn’t either, but I’ve heard things such as high prices as well as cost of living.
@@RB01.10 I begrudgingly live in California. Taxes are through the roof. Prices for EVERYTHING are easily 30% above other states. Crime in major cities is going out of control. And businesses have left (and are leaving) in droves for years if not decades, meaning job opportunities are gonna suck.
Despite all this, the idiots running this state are now claiming they CA is flush with cash via a $50B surplus despite the exodus of whole industries caused by their flagrant tax increases.
Of course, the leftist supermajority in the state’s legislature made sure to enact laws that can change how its budget appears to the public (and whether or not they need yo bilk the public out of more of their money).
First of all, it’s OK for you to tell a biter history of the malls that you visit. I for one DON’T watch every dead mall channel on YT, so I and others like me appreciate knowing some of the history and the background of these places that you show us. And NO, you’re NOT stepping on ANYONE’S toes by doing so!!! You’re just adding your voice to the choir (so to speak).
And, honestly, I personally don’t like the premiere format. It’s especially frustrating when I see the advance notice on your channel that just tells me how many hours and days I have to wait until we can see it. I for one would not miss it if you removed it and instead just do your regular style videos. And I don’t believe that many people feel differently.
So keep on trucking’, Ace-we’re watching!!!
How did you turn the neon on if the mall was abandoned? Did they leave the power on? I can already tell this video will be awesome
I live next to this and yes the power is still on because a Kohl's is still active attached to the mall and also some food places like taco hell and chicken fillets
You ment "Bell" and not the H word!
@@Saymeow_Kay have you eaten there? Maybe they were right?
they probably keep the power on to deter copper thieves as well.🤔🤔
@@LumbyMcGumby And Kohl’s will be its own building after the mall is demolished.
I started with Dans videos, then found yours. I think your videos are better than Dans lol. Sorry dan.
I like how you don't talk at the start, and the music is always so good. Then you give a little narrative and set the scene of what the mall was in its hey day. Then more music and no talking 🥰 its so good.
That is really flattering Nic, Dan will always be the reason this genre has a life, but I appreciate the comment!!!
I am so looking forward to your future endeavors and so excited to see what you come up with! I love your style of commentary on these places, and I watch all kinds of dead mall and urbex content. I think you're about to do some amazing things. As for that roadtrip, I'm a houston TX native and have lived in louisiana for a decade, and the abandoned places here aren't quite as abundant but absolutely worth the visit.
Granted...the retail environment has decimated malls like this, BUT I have to say that the owners of this mall gave 2 SHITS about it! I was a District Manager for GNC and frequently had to deal with mall management for consistent water leaks and other issues that rarely got handled in a timely manner! To say that these owners were slumlords would be too kind of words! Even in 2015-2016; I would walk through this mall and count NO LESS than 35-40 vacancies throughout with ZERO interest from the owners to seek new tenants. Another fine example of poor ownership driving businesses into the ground! But I digress. Being a local of the area...thank you for documenting the last of the misery.
I don't know if my research is correct but I read that the owner did this to lots of malls throughout the country and they were not from this country!!! I don't recall but there was a mall in NJ that this was happening to but the town got wind of it and was able to get it back and got the mall to thrive.
@@karenhoffman2932Correct
When Mason Asset Management bought the mall in 2013, it was all downhill after that
If all of your videos were aired on TV, you’ve run for 5 seasons and still have 300 episodes. Congratulations on your milestone of filming dead malls/random videos for 5 years/300 uploads! When I look at your videos, I feel like that I am inside the malls. The only thing l like about your dead mall videos is the music and you have a great taste in the music you chose for your videos. Keep all of your dead mall videos, they’re memorable. Same goes with the content in your channel as a whole. All I can say that good luck on your new life in California and your future endeavors. God bless you and your entire life. 😊
Excellent video Ace. Thank you for the hard work that you put into each and every video that you do.
Thanks Scott for being a long time follower
Ace, your intro's and music selection are amazing! I really enjoy watching the videos. I appreciate all the time and effort you put into each video.
Thanks for the good times Ace!!! You introduced me to Michael Oakley and the Midnight. Great tunes for late night crusing!!! Looking forward to seeing you grow.
I am ready to see that neon glow!
I only just discovered this video... as a child of the 80's & 90s who spent a LOT of time at the Palmer Park Mall (still open), Phillipsburg Mall, (closed) Whitehall Mall (almost dead) and Lehigh Valley Mall (still open) in the late 80's and early 90's,...as a person who WORKED in the Suncoast store for a year at Phillipsburg Mall in the mid 90's...this brings back memories. I only wish before they demolish the mall (has not started yet as of June 2022) they would open the building to the public one last time and give those who wish the chance to walk freely through the mall one last time (will never happen, too much of a liability I know); I remember I was planning to visit for what likely would have been *my* last time in March 2020 and then COVID shut the mall down. This gives me some closure since I can't get it in person, so thank you.
I loved Suncoast as a kid!
Amazing soundtrack. Great video!
Damn bro Anaheim? Orange County is so expensive to live in but hey man best of luck to you. Keep doing your thing 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
The intro sights and music had me relaxed by the time you started talking. 😁👍
Loving the cinematic style video absolutely incredible. Happy 5th anniversary!!
thanks Chris, trying to take it to the next level :)
Congratulations on 5 years 🎊🎉
We appreciate your efforts, Ace! Keep up the good work.
Absolutely surreal film. It felt like I was wondering around a post-apocalyptic ruin at 1am with so signs of life. That kind of surreal vibe is why i love these Urbex videos.
Also good luck on your fresh start Anthony. I hope you and Lost in the Valley can start that movie company of yours!
Love these videos. You've really set the bar with the production value that you put into these. Love the music and effects! All the best.
Congratulations on 5 years and 300 uploads Ace. Thanks for this look of Pburg mall. I have been to this mall many times. Best of luck with the new venture and move.
Hey you!! Didn't think I'd find you somewhere that didn't feature trains and tractors! 🚂🚜😄
@@JamieMakin I have been watching Ace for awhile.
@@rj78productions88 he does some nice work! I've been to this mall, and I always get extra enjoyment when someone does videos of a place I know.
Great opening Anthony, nice one! Thank you for 5 years of great content!
thank you!
Congrats on 5 years! 🎉 I wish you the best of luck with all your future projects and am excited to see all future work you'll be doing here
I'd been meaning to mention this since you said something about another RT 66 run, but it seems more pertinent now with your talk of moving.
Check out El Paso for sure. It's a neat place, great food, nice scenery, close proximity to New Mexico, and we do have Sunland Park Mall, which was on the rocks even prior to covid, despite being in a high traffic area right off I-10 in a city with several other malls that are doing just fine and an outlet mall that's up and down, but doing ok otherwise.
Dan Bell was out this way a few years back, but managed to miss it and fucking no one ever comes here because we're so isolated from the rest of the bigger cities in Texas.
I worked in and rebuilt over 200+ K.B, Circus World, K&K Toys and Playland Toy Stores up and down the east coast for many years. Bitter sweet memories.
I have another idea when your production company gets up an running. Do a feature length documentary for Cinemas called "The Downfall of the Mall: The New Era of Shopping". Maybe include the history of how the mall started and the cultural foundation that led to their decline such as over malling, leveraged buyouts, companies buying stores to scrap for cheap real estate to flip, changes in shopping patterns, changes in demographics, online shopping, the COVID-19 Pandemic, the decline of the department store, how millennials and Gen Z are using smaller spaces and less stuff, and others.
Some cast Ideas:
* Yourself
* Dan Bell
* Eric Pierson (Retail Archaeology)
* Sal
* Wallie from WallieB26
* And Others
* Professors of Business and Economics
* Mall Redevelopers
* Liquidators
* Millennials and Gen Z interviews
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* Cultural Historians
* Owners of organizations that reused mall space and transformed it into schools, data centers, health centers, Amazon fulfillment centers, Intermodal, and other uses.
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It's so weird when I was in high school those hallways were populated stores everywhere crazy what 10 years can do
It was a combination of poor management and the rise of the Internet.
@@RB01.10 I have always thought the online shopping is what destroyed these malls as well as people are so cramped for time that it’s just not as possible to go in person to these stores Amazon and the like have taken over which is unfortunate for the smaller businesses.
Only just got around to watching this - what a quality video Ace, thanks for all you work over the last 5 years. Looking forward to the future👍
Great channel! Happy 5th Anniversary. Keep making your dreams happen. 👍
An era may have ended with this mall, but I feel a new one opens with you.
Congrats on your 5 year milestone though, and wish you the best moving forward.
Just subscribed as well!
Welcome!
Shenango Valley Mall is Holding up Pretty well, it's in Hermitage PA lol
I remember going to GameStop and buying pretzels with my brother. I also remember using the sink in the hairdresser while waiting for my mom. Wonder how he got in without breaking stuff.
Man I love all your video's even though I just started WATCHING when I seen my mall northland mall in Michigan but I appreciate you so much and all that you do
Love from Sweden. I really appreciate your videos. You are fantastic in your dedication. I get so exited nostalgic with your videos. Warms my heart. Keep it up. You are doing a wonderful thing.
You scared the living daylights out of me. I truly appreciate what you do. I've haunted malls since I could drive, way back in 84? It's been a long time. So many memories. I'm sticking with you. Thank you for filming these places. Time moves on. These are casualties. I hate it.
Keep up the great content, as you have for some time. I truly appreciate it, as I'm sure many people do.
One of the best!! The opening was amazing 😉
Safe travels. I’m a follower and will continue. You do great work and wish you well in your new “adventures “
Congratulations on such a long series tenure. I only recently became a fan thanks to seeing Dan Bell's Dead Mall series, and can appreciate how much effort and time you put into your uploads. It's also great that you are looking into improving your craft and entering the film industry at large, and I wish you luck and look forward to more vids!
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I am again living in Ohio near the town I grew up in, having lived out West for many years. The mall now only has a small theater, a Planet Fitness, two restaurants and a drycleaner.... the once thriving shopping center next door is not even at half occupancy... Online shopping and big box general merchandise have taken most of the retail market share... very similar to how it was in the late 1800's when retail consisted of the general store and mail order catalogs for much of the population ..
I went to the grand opening when I was 7. Went to Spencer's, The Wall, Kay-Bee. I hate that this mall failed, but glad that your video is able to unlock so many memories for me
Creepy and surreal in a good way.
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Great work...you really capture the feeling of time passing of the mall in America. Back in the 1970s and 1980s there was an optimism among most people in the USA.....and people were also more laid back and outgoing too, I miss those days, when even total strangers would say hello to others and maybe even make a friend in the process. Good times as a child back in the mid late 70s and young teenager in the early 1980s.
nice video good artistic choices.
Amazing. Great video to mark your 5 years. Keep up the good work.
If going to the Midwest you should check out River Oaks Mall in Calumet City, Ford City Mall in Chicago, and the abandoned Charlestowne Mall in St Charles, IL.
Another gem, great job my friend. 😎
Awesome awesome video!
did you light up the atrium like that? or is that how it is? I would love to film a drone shot in there but is this light always on or did you have to get to a light switch / breaker? SUBSCRIBED BTW
This will literally be a amazing mall to shop in🥺💜
Unfortunately, the mall will be demolished soon.
It was a good place to go to, but the last several years of bad management and declining stores, as well as COVID-19 hitting last March was too great for the mall to overcome in the end.
Was at the mall the day it opened . Thanx for the memories .
I wasn’t even born yet when it opened (b. 1995), but I’ve seen pictures of its opening day online and it looked crazy busy.
How fast did the attendance and mall traffic fall over the years though? I’ve seen many people say by the late 90’s that trouble was already showing, as the food court’s traffic heavily went down as well.
Wow! That intro was top notch.
thanks!
Break a leg, Anthony. I look forward to see what you do in the future.
Stratford Square in Bloomingdale Il and Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee,Il.in case you make it to the Midwest.
I used to go to this mall with my parents when I was a kid/teen and then as an adult. I remember when this mall had a food court and an arcade. As you walked through the mall I knew which store you would have been in years ago when the mall was open. I remember the decline of the mall started soon after they replaced the food court and arcade with a travel agency, Gap, Old Navy and several other businesses. The next decline was when they removed the bookstore and the music store from the mall. Everything seemed to crumble even faster around that poor decision. I think that books and music may have been more popular than they thought. They added another store soon after that sold used books and some music items like records and CDs, but it was not worth visiting.
Great footage ! Loved the opening
I enjoy your videos.there was so many malls in the Kansas City area.it was so sad when majority of them were closed and some were closed
Do not stop. you give a point of view the younger generation will never know or understand. Even for me that experienced these places like our childhoods were. It brings back so many experiences we had growing up through the prime of the american mall
Another great video. Excellent work. Keep it up. Like the poem of sorts at the start
If you are ever near my part of Va I would like to at least say hi. I need to document a dead mall near me as it is gasping for air
These dead mall videos just mess with my mind, remembering when those halls were crowded with people. Back then who could imagine the malls where we shopped, met friends, go to the arcades, and socialize would be dead and quiet some day. Thanks for sharing.
Brings back memories, I loved going to the gamestop there, and riding on the small rides. This brings a bittersweet memory of what it was, once before.
When you're in Alabama also check out University Mall in Tuscaloosa, well on its way to dead mall status
I read through dead malls reddit and people there said University Mall is already dead, not just on its way. What is still open there in April 2021 anyway?
Anthony, I am curious how many malls are left in the US? These are places families used to walk through stopping at iconic anchor stores such as Nordstroms, Jc Penny's and Sears. These are places we escaped to for hours on end. You have been to Portland, Or to witness the demise of Lollyd Center located in Portland, Or. I love the music you use in all your videos. The history you share with us about these once flourishing malls. It's very sad. I am glad you can record this for the history of all the states you have been to. Thank you.
WOOOOOOO!!!!!! I am here for this!!!!! 😱
Great intro! I thought the kids from Stranger Things were going to come around the corner!
Great work fella.
Was that Alan Watts in the beginning of the intro? If yes, that guy is an excellent speaker and I love hearing his lectures. Good luck on your journey man. You do you 😊👍
I always enjoy your content..😍
Love ya vids Ace! Keep up the amazing work
So sad to see this go. What's next? Quakerbridge Mall in Mercer NJ?
honestly
Quakerbridge Mall may never become a Phillipsburg Mall. It has better occupancy and no rain buckets. Family lives near there, going there since it opened.
27 years ago, I knew a store owner from the mall. The man lived in a million dollar home, and was making money nearly ever day, unlike other mall stores. he was selling sports stuff. Internet slowly then rapidly ended his business. A man I once envied, went bankrupt, and his structurally unstable (big boobed) wife, left him. ouch.
It’s so sad when the history of shopping malls in the United States versus the ones in the UK as well. There’s all dead malls in the UK versus the dead malls in the United States. As always, I love your dead malls series, Antony from Aces Adventures. Please keep on working on future shopping malls. Thanks
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The mall was where you could be you.Ace happy 5 th anniversary to you.you’ve made a great sacrifice and I appreciate both you and your work.the real quality and the content.the real story within the stories.if walls could talk.you have a real drive and a passion that’s different.the difference is the ability to bring the experience.don’t forget that.
Amazing work Anthony!
I live in Phillipsburg and to say its crazy to think i was just in that mall 2 years ago it was basically dead then too now it's just official some people in town dont even know its shutdown
Very familiar with this mall! Decent video arcade. I grew up directly between 2 major NJ malls--which are still fully-functioning today, Menlo and Woodbridge 😳 Both still have Macy's. No clue how they still manage to functio 😑
This is awesome nice job everyone
Nice work with the last 5 years! Can't wait to see what's next. Keep pushin..
I remember the food court was almost shuttered in 2001. The loss of Sears, Hess's and closing of a big local employer did not help.
That mall was a big, big deal when it opened. We no longer had to go to PA for most of our shopping. The neon was beautiful and the food court was awesome. This is beyond sad.
I’m really looking forward to this video! I attempted to get there right before it closed but the weather was so bad I couldn’t make it and then the pandemic hit.
I'm so saddened to see this mall close! My family and I are from Ohio, and we moved to NJ in 2008. We were about a 15-20 minute drive from the Pburg mall, so we'd frequent this one all the time. I'm back in Ohio now, but I've always wondered about this mall. Thanks for sharing.
You do excellent work brother. You do you!
Things won't be going back to normal for at least for more 18 months. This pandemic won't be going away in a year, it's here to stay sadly.
This is false and not even close to true, things are basically back to normal now with some exceptions, vaccines and summer are going to wipe this thing out
@@AcesAdventures1 that's not the impression I am getting as vaccines are being really hard to roll out here in canada due to political blunders as well as side effects of the vaccines (blood clots from astra zennacane) and these mutations which will also require vaccines.
Covid 19 will never go away and it will require yearly vaccinations much like the flu and things will never qo back to normal.
From what I understand the USA is in it's fourth wave of the virus and is experiencing yet another 3rd or 4th lockdown of it's national lockdown.
Here in Canada, we're still in our second wave of Covid 19 and the first wave of the mutations and a third lockdown of our national economy.
It's never gonna go back to normal. The ways things are now, that's the new normal.