I absolutely love the design of the food court, with the "being under the big top" feel of the ceiling. It's such a shame this mall is essentially dead... :(
With social restrictions and the rise of online retail (among several other x-factors), malls have become a thing of the past, relegated to an abandoned (or semiabandoned) state.
That was kind of the last big idea to get people to come back to that mall. It's the smaller of the two malls in Evansville. I remember when they built that part and no one being quite sure what they were doing just by looking at the construction from the road. It was pretty cool when it was finished but didn't really help bring in more business.
So sad, what was once a thriving mall full of people in the 90s is now empty. I can’t believe there’s one lone place in the Food Festival that’s still open! There’s a couple of these malls in my city, fortunately I live near one that still seems to be doing pretty good because it’s more upscale, at least during the day. A lot of kids on the carousel as well! Towards dinner time there’s basically nobody in the food court sadly. And the rest of our city’s malls are definitely nothing like they were and it’s so depressing. And one of those malls was where I went on my first date with my now partner. 😊
They opened a 2nd mall in the 80s that is better located and bigger. I remember going there as a kid when sears was still open but once sears closed the mall went further downhill
that noble romans will never close... the mall could be demolished and that one food court stall will stand there in defiance still selling breadsticks with nacho cheese sauce
I'm glad videos of these places are being made and uploaded, because it won't be long before some of these malls either get renovated and modernized or straight up torn down. You can already see it happening in this video with how many shops that are permanently closed.
Century 3 mall in Pittsburghs east end is all but gone. It’s essentially a big empty building with a handful of people from the company that bought it working there. I can’t imagine in the future it’s not going to finally be torn down. Pittsburgh Mills opened up not long before the slow decline of the mall began. Where I worked ( Beaver Valley mall ) parents liked to use the place as a weekend preteen daycare drop. I worked a double shift one day. That morning I saw a mother pull up in her minivan and drop off her children. That evening around 9pm when the mall closed I watched her come back and pick up her kids. The mall is definitely dying as children today don’t know what it was like
its a real shame these places are dying off, these were great places to walk, eat and play arcades on a nice summer day. now they are a hotspot for overpriced goods. it wasnt always like this kids.
The childrens laughter echoing throught the empty halls always gives me chills when I hear it. Also when the fountain was still running it echoed through the mall as well. Miss those days when the mall was still partially alive.
That laughing is coming from one of the rides by the food court.. I used to work there and that noise got on my nerves because it was every minute or two 😂
The Laughter of children from the machine definitely gave me the chills. This real life video minus the people in it definitely mimics the BACKROOMS videos in so many ways.
I would like to have something like this to make a comeback. We are missing what it needs to be interactive with people. I love walking and seeing all the stores and food courts. This mall came out of the 90s. I wish we make a fund to raise a mall up😢
They need to offer something you can't get on the internet, then. Which means no stores since you can shop online. Maybe in-person venues for music, theater and other types of performance? In-person services like manicures, massage, hair stylists?
@Hamdad Plays when you add on to the mall. It gives people an option to go to different places like explore different foods (korean, Japanese, Thai, etc.) And a place for kids to have fun. Different stores. And new events coming in. People want to go so that they can have experience and their kids will grow up and talk about the mall
I've been to this town a couple of times now for concerts since im about 2 hours east of it. Evansville has a big arena for sports and concerts, a big strip lined with shopping centers and restaurants, and then a few quiet suburb areas. One can only imagine what this place was like back when it was more full of life...
My family would shop here and at Eastland Mall back in the '80s. It was super busy back then, especially around the holidays. You could barely find a parking spot the week before Christmas. Green River Road was a great place to shop back then. I feel I'm getting older as an X'er watching the old world die.
I love around there and used to go there all the time as a kid, it was just as liminal even when there were stores there. Used to be an old shop called the merchants outlet mall and the nostalgia from going there as a kid is crazy. The dingy red carpets and second hand store smell, finding old pirates of the Caribbean figures and books on trips with my mom. Such a treasured place, I'd love to see the far right end of the mall explored, the side opposite of sears. That's where the merchants outlet mall was
Going to visit tomorrow. Haven't been since I was a kid. Born in 98 but still have memories of going there when I was little. There was this really cool antique shop I remember loving at that time. I hope it's still there but something tells me it won't be. Quite the little Evansville treasure this place is.
I miss the Malls. All the people that lost jobs. A fun place to go regularly even if you didn't buy anything. A place to get out of the house when bored. A place to go when the weather was very hot or very cold. All the actual physical face to face interactions that made us human and kept use respectful and courtious with each other. Something seriously lackign in a good majority of the current generation who do most their interacting online and are not properly socialized.
considering that many local mom & pop and down town department stores closed down because of the advent of shopping malls, I say that this is a case of what goes around comes around. and btw, young people today still hang out in person, even at malls!
Uh sportsman lounge is still there aint it? I need to put a two oost lift lift i there amd do oil changes till they throw me out… evamsville died when the dragstrip in chandler closed
My grandma would take us to the mall so much as kids. I remember the food court being so colorful with the same turquoise railings and tables. My parents once took me and my sister to a circus camp in the mall for a week during the summer. I remember being very scared of the grown ups in charge. At the end of the week we did an onstage performance for all the parents, I literally did the illusion where you grab a pencil by the eraser and wave it back and forth. I also remember licking a fake ice cream cone feeling super sus. I remember this one store in the mall having a big selection of Halloween mask, super scary rubber mask I remember one was like a scary basketball head. I also remember when the electric dog toys Techno and Poochie came out we were in some toy store at the mall and people were going crazy trying to get a pet robot dog. I would always see guards come out of the back doors and hallways and wonder what it was like behind the scenes. I always imagined something scary but I’m sure that was due to my grandmother always warning us about strangers.
King of Prussia Mall is still going strong in Pennsylvania as well as Lehigh Valley Mall and Park City Mall in Lancaster Pennsylvania. It really depends on where you live.
We’re losing all authenticity in the world so, so fast. I have core memories attached to mall trips with family and best friends and they weren’t even that long ago. This downfall is a new presentation and the new generation feels no loss. They don’t cherish things or experiences outside the present, easily-gratifying moment. Sure everything has its heyday, but nothing equally immersive comes to take its place. Movie theatres, malls, and department stores will cease to exist and so will the often simple, yet fulfilling memories that they gave us.
Sad but true cause we get dumber and dumber with every passing dumb generation. I dont think we can get much dumber, thats why they called this last generation Gen Z😂
Yet more proof that the first generation millennials like me are going go be unable to afford to die. We’re the only generation that can combine internet with actual people skills. Unlike Roy Batty we can’t simply allow ourselves to pass on “ like tears in the rain”
Our Dad had a location for Harding & Miller Music Company therein front of the entrance to Sears in the late 1960's. Remember buying chocolate stars from Sears in their candy department when I was a kid.
I live in this area and grew up going to the Washington Square Mall quite a bit. I even worked in the mall for awhile. It still has a bar in it (KC's Timeout Lounge) that does pretty well and I think that's the only thing still keeping it alive. Its sad to see it turn deserted but its also kind of fun having a deserted mall nearby. Also the Noble Roman's that is still there is honestly pretty fire.
Goodwill Industries owns the old Sears building there, and hope to have their end of the Mall up and running by early next year. A new dine-in restaurant has also opened in the Mall, so things are improving.
Thank you for making this! I love that backrooms image and was gald go know its real! This really felt like a backrooms level because of the light buzz.
I live in this area and while most of the mall itself is abandoned there are still some shops on the outside of it, and a bar attached. There is also a good sized car meet in the parking lot once a month.
This mall is a few miles away from me. It is sad, how empty it is now. It did have a small boom in shops and life in the early 2000's. But sadly the other mall has taken over almost all of it, and a lot of the shops keeping it afloat have closed down.
We have a mall just like this in Texas. It used to be a beautiful mall! Vibrant 90s vibe, clean, full of life and now there’s a few stores open and people go but it is essentially dead 😢
If anyone is wondering, another mall just like this is the Savannah mall in Savannah, Georgia. I heard some stuff from friends about it closing to the public now, but i'm not too sure because I moved states a few months back. If anyone is near there i definitely recommend checking it out tho
It looked at first like the mix of some sort of infirmary and a high school to me but then he walked into the main shopping centre and woah, you really can see the 80s influence. Crazy to think a lot of them were since remodeled if not outright closed down indefinitely.
I'm not sure what it is about liminal spaces like this but they seem so peaceful when no one's there. When there are just 2 or 3 people there casually getting food but the rest of the place is dead it's super uncanny. I can't help what the people's story is who show up to a mostly abandoned mall for food.
Noble Roman's is a pizza joint that had a few locations around town, but then they all closed, save this one. Worth going for the breadsticks and cheese dip!
This place has been dying for decades now. Guess it's just more advanced now. Last time I was in there was 2010 or so; it was dying then, but there was at least an attempt to hold on with St. Vincent's having facilities there and a handful of medical equipment kind of stores at least making use of a few storefronts, plus Merchant's Outlet Mall was still open. Looked like they were setting up for a sports card show, so there's at least still attempts to get people in there for something, anything. I kind of admire the tenacity of Washington Square's management still holding on.
4/2023....In the 1980s I had a series of temporary jobs in Malls. Usually inventory in small shops, sometimes I worked in an anchor store, that needed to have their floor sales areas displays set up,...like when there was a seasonal change. Fall clothing line or something like that. Temporary workers were directed to all the back halls, that the customers never see. They were a maze of hallways. One time during this period, I went in during the pre Christmas big sales days,.....it was winter of course and it had been snowing for days,.....I was met by a particular shop owner in the mall,....we were going to be working from 10PM (after the Mall was closed to customers), until the next morning, before the Mall re-opened for the day. Well this big blizzard blew in and the city was just about closed. No cars could drive on the roads,.....so me and the other temp. workers, had to sleep in the closed Mall,....We slept on the carpeted floors of shop were had been prepping, with pre-holiday decorations. The seasoned employees, scavenged foods, and drinks for us, from other mall shops, also closed for the night. They knew how to sneak into the shuttered shops. We enjoyed a feast of holiday treats,....special candies, cocoa drinks,....expensive smoked fish,....fruit baskets,..some fruit dipped in dark chocolate. Exotic things, that were there for the up coming Christmas holiday. It was so cool,...I was in my late 20s. The pay was pretty good, & it was fun seeing the inner workings & back hallways, of the entire Mall.
This mall began dying in the early 1990s. I remember how busy it was in the '80s. I was real little and I called it the dark place because the lights in the main walkway were pretty dim. I got away from my mom while we were in Sears and she was scared to death that I went in the dark place and wouldn't find me. I was playing in the middle of a clothes rack. I was a weird kid.
The fact its still barely being used makes it more depressing and uncanny. Likez who wants to be the last store operating with 99 of its dead brothers and sisters decomposing around them. You have to pass a mountain of stores lifeless corpses to get to your business you for some reason keep clinging to, in hopes somehow it will all work out enough to make it worth your insane tenacity. Its like Weekend at Bernies, but Bernies been gray and green for years, his stench has even given up on making much of a presence.
Somewhat sad to see an almost abandoned mall. I know the US has lots of them, but I guess the population difference would be why Australia doesn't. We only really have empty malls when they're about to re-develop (i.e. demolish) it and people move out over just a few months as leases end and they find somewhere else.
It's sad to see malls die, but I say that as someone who bought $100 of merchandise on Amazon this week. Now Walmart is closing "underperforming stores." What can you do?
This was my childhood mall when I was a kid in the mid 90s it was so cool then with the arcade and noble Roman’s pizza, this was the place to be back in the day sad to see the way it is now.
That place was to rocking in the 70s. Sears, Stewarts, Levinson’s, H&H Music, Wolsey Toys, Wolsey Sporting Goods, Libs Candy Store. The Farmer’s Daughter Restaurant.
I remember having our Cub Scout pinewood derbies here. Last time I was there I got a gumball from one of those quarter machines and it about broke a tooth. Haha.
Somehow I think it’d be cool to be zipping through this place with a VR capable drone, and put the footage up here so we could get dizzy along with the pilot.
reminds me of the Effingham mall. < it's full of resale shops and a theater. So sad, but it takes money to keep these places going. Be glad it's still there
Seems to be going same route the malls over where I live is going. Sad, especially if you were there when it was thriving. 😔 One of the malls over here though had Zion Market to take over like life support. Really miss when malls were thriving. I wonder if old souls in the future will ever bring them back for nostalgia they never knew.
You know a mall is on its last legs when the big anchor stores are all closed, and there are thrift type stores selling random, assorted stuff, a Church has taken a space, and there's only 1 or 2 places in the Food Court open.
look so beautiful place. i hope many people is come to here again! of course i not yet have been go to U.S but if when i have change go to here. i wanna make it some backrooms footage! it's awesome place
OK I filmed this mall several years ago, and since when did they renovate and restore all of the neon most of it was burned out when I filmed the place they only had where the fountain was, and the hallway with the squiggly neon, all the neon in the main entrance, and the food court was burned out, although I did get to see and film the fountain operating if you want to see it it was amazing
Sure don't look like it did the last time I was in there " 1981 ", Except the Fountain, Most Malls are going away, The tore the one here " Baytown, Texas " down a few years ago
0:37 Don't go through *that* door, that leads to *the* Backrooms! Seriously, though, I thought this mall was abandoned until I saw those two people being served in the food court. I'm guessing this place will end up closed down sooner rather than later.
@@venuspluto67 The building itself was built I think in the late 1960s. Back when things were built to last. It's one of if not the first indoor mall in Indiana. Walking through it there are no signs of its age and is well maintained. It's a lot older than I am and will probably be here longer too.
Old school malls are amazing. Times have changed so much
I absolutely love the design of the food court, with the "being under the big top" feel of the ceiling. It's such a shame this mall is essentially dead... :(
Well, this is on a Saturday and the mall is only open 5:00pm-6:00pm so no wonder there's hardly anybody there.
With social restrictions and the rise of online retail (among several other x-factors), malls have become a thing of the past, relegated to an abandoned (or semiabandoned) state.
Such architecture is very rare in modern malls even. Thats the most sad.
@@watchensee It also doesn't help that a much larger mall has opened about 5 miles up the road from it that is packed on a daily basis.
That was kind of the last big idea to get people to come back to that mall. It's the smaller of the two malls in Evansville. I remember when they built that part and no one being quite sure what they were doing just by looking at the construction from the road. It was pretty cool when it was finished but didn't really help bring in more business.
Wow turquoise and neon violet! You don't get anymore early 90s colors than that! Except maybe bright neon...
So sad, what was once a thriving mall full of people in the 90s is now empty. I can’t believe there’s one lone place in the Food Festival that’s still open! There’s a couple of these malls in my city, fortunately I live near one that still seems to be doing pretty good because it’s more upscale, at least during the day. A lot of kids on the carousel as well! Towards dinner time there’s basically nobody in the food court sadly. And the rest of our city’s malls are definitely nothing like they were and it’s so depressing. And one of those malls was where I went on my first date with my now partner. 😊
They opened a 2nd mall in the 80s that is better located and bigger. I remember going there as a kid when sears was still open but once sears closed the mall went further downhill
that noble romans will never close... the mall could be demolished and that one food court stall will stand there in defiance still selling breadsticks with nacho cheese sauce
I'm glad videos of these places are being made and uploaded, because it won't be long before some of these malls either get renovated and modernized or straight up torn down. You can already see it happening in this video with how many shops that are permanently closed.
They're basically being torn down and or turned into Amazon fulfillment centers now.
Century 3 mall in Pittsburghs east end is all but gone. It’s essentially a big empty building with a handful of people from the company that bought it working there. I can’t imagine in the future it’s not going to finally be torn down. Pittsburgh Mills opened up not long before the slow decline of the mall began. Where I worked ( Beaver Valley mall ) parents liked to use the place as a weekend preteen daycare drop. I worked a double shift one day. That morning I saw a mother pull up in her minivan and drop off her children. That evening around 9pm when the mall closed I watched her come back and pick up her kids. The mall is definitely dying as children today don’t know what it was like
it’s so sad witnessing the decline of malls…as a teenager now who loves indoor malls im sad that i never got to experience malls in their peak :((
At least I was able to get the full experience as a little kid. Where I live, there's only one mall left that's still thriving quite well.
its a real shame these places are dying off, these were great places to walk, eat and play arcades on a nice summer day. now they are a hotspot for overpriced goods. it wasnt always like this kids.
Australian Malls are still very busy and active but we are around 30 years behind the USA on this so it is perhaps the mall of tomorrow.
Well enjoy it Australia cause it sucks here in the us
The childrens laughter echoing throught the empty halls always gives me chills when I hear it. Also when the fountain was still running it echoed through the mall as well. Miss those days when the mall was still partially alive.
That laughing is coming from one of the rides by the food court.. I used to work there and that noise got on my nerves because it was every minute or two 😂
Its really children laughing it's so scary as heck 😨
The Laughter of children from the machine definitely gave me the chills.
This real life video minus the people in it definitely mimics the BACKROOMS videos in so many ways.
Yeah that laughter from the machine gave off a post apocalyptic vibe lol.
Emptyish malls get creepy FAST
I live in Evansville Indiana and this mall I have so many memories it's really sad to see it fall apart thanks for coming and filming it 😊
I love the architecture of the place with the variety of storefront designs. What a shame it’s so empty now. Thanks for sharing the video.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching.
I would like to have something like this to make a comeback. We are missing what it needs to be interactive with people. I love walking and seeing all the stores and food courts. This mall came out of the 90s. I wish we make a fund to raise a mall up😢
They need to offer something you can't get on the internet, then. Which means no stores since you can shop online. Maybe in-person venues for music, theater and other types of performance? In-person services like manicures, massage, hair stylists?
@Hamdad Plays when you add on to the mall. It gives people an option to go to different places like explore different foods (korean, Japanese, Thai, etc.) And a place for kids to have fun. Different stores. And new events coming in. People want to go so that they can have experience and their kids will grow up and talk about the mall
@@Zamboro Clothes shopping is harder online without educated guessing and back and forth shipping.
I've been to this town a couple of times now for concerts since im about 2 hours east of it. Evansville has a big arena for sports and concerts, a big strip lined with shopping centers and restaurants, and then a few quiet suburb areas. One can only imagine what this place was like back when it was more full of life...
My family would shop here and at Eastland Mall back in the '80s. It was super busy back then, especially around the holidays. You could barely find a parking spot the week before Christmas. Green River Road was a great place to shop back then. I feel I'm getting older as an X'er watching the old world die.
the food court is almost like a time capsule.
I love around there and used to go there all the time as a kid, it was just as liminal even when there were stores there. Used to be an old shop called the merchants outlet mall and the nostalgia from going there as a kid is crazy. The dingy red carpets and second hand store smell, finding old pirates of the Caribbean figures and books on trips with my mom. Such a treasured place, I'd love to see the far right end of the mall explored, the side opposite of sears. That's where the merchants outlet mall was
I can't believe you found the real location of one of my favorite liminal space photos!!! AMAZING!!!!!!!
What time stamp, please?
@@turbopokey i Guess he means 5:57
Ah, the memories. I used to visit this place all the time when I lived in Evansville. A sad shame to see it in this condition.
Indianapolis isn't much better.
Going to visit tomorrow.
Haven't been since I was a kid.
Born in 98 but still have memories of going there when I was little. There was this really cool antique shop I remember loving at that time. I hope it's still there but something tells me it won't be. Quite the little Evansville treasure this place is.
5:53 behold…. The famous liminal photo
Was halfway expecting to turn a corner and see two young twin girls.
I miss the Malls. All the people that lost jobs. A fun place to go regularly even if you didn't buy anything. A place to get out of the house when bored. A place to go when the weather was very hot or very cold. All the actual physical face to face interactions that made us human and kept use respectful and courtious with each other. Something seriously lackign in a good majority of the current generation who do most their interacting online and are not properly socialized.
Ah yes, the current generation that never… sees people… face-to-face… what??
Absolutely 💯
Ah yes, as opposed to being glued to TH-cam.
considering that many local mom & pop and down town department stores closed down because of the advent of shopping malls, I say that this is a case of what goes around comes around. and btw, young people today still hang out in person, even at malls!
Uh sportsman lounge is still there aint it? I need to put a two oost lift lift i there amd do oil changes till they throw me out… evamsville died when the dragstrip in chandler closed
My grandma would take us to the mall so much as kids. I remember the food court being so colorful with the same turquoise railings and tables. My parents once took me and my sister to a circus camp in the mall for a week during the summer. I remember being very scared of the grown ups in charge. At the end of the week we did an onstage performance for all the parents, I literally did the illusion where you grab a pencil by the eraser and wave it back and forth. I also remember licking a fake ice cream cone feeling super sus. I remember this one store in the mall having a big selection of Halloween mask, super scary rubber mask I remember one was like a scary basketball head. I also remember when the electric dog toys Techno and Poochie came out we were in some toy store at the mall and people were going crazy trying to get a pet robot dog. I would always see guards come out of the back doors and hallways and wonder what it was like behind the scenes. I always imagined something scary but I’m sure that was due to my grandmother always warning us about strangers.
King of Prussia Mall is still going strong in Pennsylvania as well as Lehigh Valley Mall and Park City Mall in Lancaster Pennsylvania. It really depends on where you live.
Same with Lexington KY’s fayette mall.
We’re losing all authenticity in the world so, so fast. I have core memories attached to mall trips with family and best friends and they weren’t even that long ago. This downfall is a new presentation and the new generation feels no loss. They don’t cherish things or experiences outside the present, easily-gratifying moment. Sure everything has its heyday, but nothing equally immersive comes to take its place. Movie theatres, malls, and department stores will cease to exist and so will the often simple, yet fulfilling memories that they gave us.
Sad but true cause we get dumber and dumber with every passing dumb generation. I dont think we can get much dumber, thats why they called this last generation Gen Z😂
Yet more proof that the first generation millennials like me are going go be unable to afford to die. We’re the only generation that can combine internet with actual people skills. Unlike Roy Batty we can’t simply allow ourselves to pass on “ like tears in the rain”
Our Dad had a location for Harding & Miller Music Company therein front of the entrance to Sears in the late 1960's. Remember buying chocolate stars from Sears in their candy department when I was a kid.
It sure is bustling with all the different shopkeepers selling great merchandise to buy!
I worked there in the 70's at Kinney's Shoes. Dave Russell was our manager, he became the fouinder of Shoe Carnival
I don’t know why they don’t convert these old malls into condos. It would be an amazing place to live
I live in this area and grew up going to the Washington Square Mall quite a bit. I even worked in the mall for awhile. It still has a bar in it (KC's Timeout Lounge) that does pretty well and I think that's the only thing still keeping it alive. Its sad to see it turn deserted but its also kind of fun having a deserted mall nearby.
Also the Noble Roman's that is still there is honestly pretty fire.
That gated creepy looking empty store at the end is where I worked 😬 It was a consignment shop
Goodwill Industries owns the old Sears building there, and hope to have their end of the Mall up and running by early next year. A new dine-in restaurant has also opened in the Mall, so things are improving.
Well at least there’s no entities in the place, and just other random people also exploring it as you are…at least for now…
That laughter was creepy.
Thank you for making this! I love that backrooms image and was gald go know its real! This really felt like a backrooms level because of the light buzz.
Great I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I live in this area and while most of the mall itself is abandoned there are still some shops on the outside of it, and a bar attached. There is also a good sized car meet in the parking lot once a month.
This mall is a few miles away from me. It is sad, how empty it is now. It did have a small boom in shops and life in the early 2000's. But sadly the other mall has taken over almost all of it, and a lot of the shops keeping it afloat have closed down.
Todays internet sales have killed malls! What a shame , I still prefer going to a mall instead of buying off the internet.☹️
5:57 Real location of liminal spaces
Word of the day. Thanks for watching.
This real life video minus the people in it definitely mimics the BACKROOMS videos in so many ways.
We have a mall just like this in Texas. It used to be a beautiful mall! Vibrant 90s vibe, clean, full of life and now there’s a few stores open and people go but it is essentially dead 😢
If anyone is wondering, another mall just like this is the Savannah mall in Savannah, Georgia. I heard some stuff from friends about it closing to the public now, but i'm not too sure because I moved states a few months back. If anyone is near there i definitely recommend checking it out tho
It looked at first like the mix of some sort of infirmary and a high school to me but then he walked into the main shopping centre and woah, you really can see the 80s influence. Crazy to think a lot of them were since remodeled if not outright closed down indefinitely.
i remember those bathroom vending machines, spent hella money on football triangles
I'm not sure what it is about liminal spaces like this but they seem so peaceful when no one's there. When there are just 2 or 3 people there casually getting food but the rest of the place is dead it's super uncanny. I can't help what the people's story is who show up to a mostly abandoned mall for food.
I’m one of those people lol. It’s the food. There was a cookie place there forever and we would go for just cookies. Noble Roman’s there is so good.
Noble Roman's is a pizza joint that had a few locations around town, but then they all closed, save this one. Worth going for the breadsticks and cheese dip!
The big slide, penny fountain, sears new school year clothes.
Good memories.
This place has been dying for decades now. Guess it's just more advanced now. Last time I was in there was 2010 or so; it was dying then, but there was at least an attempt to hold on with St. Vincent's having facilities there and a handful of medical equipment kind of stores at least making use of a few storefronts, plus Merchant's Outlet Mall was still open. Looked like they were setting up for a sports card show, so there's at least still attempts to get people in there for something, anything. I kind of admire the tenacity of Washington Square's management still holding on.
4/2023....In the 1980s I had a series of temporary jobs in Malls. Usually inventory in small shops, sometimes I worked in an anchor store, that needed to have their floor sales areas displays set up,...like when there was a seasonal change. Fall clothing line or something like that. Temporary workers were directed to all the back halls, that the customers never see. They were a maze of hallways. One time during this period, I went in during the pre Christmas big sales days,.....it was winter of course and it had been snowing for days,.....I was met by a particular shop owner in the mall,....we were going to be working from 10PM (after the Mall was closed to customers), until the next morning, before the Mall re-opened for the day. Well this big blizzard blew in and the city was just about closed. No cars could drive on the roads,.....so me and the other temp. workers, had to sleep in the closed Mall,....We slept on the carpeted floors of shop were had been prepping, with pre-holiday decorations. The seasoned employees, scavenged foods, and drinks for us, from other mall shops, also closed for the night. They knew how to sneak into the shuttered shops. We enjoyed a feast of holiday treats,....special candies, cocoa drinks,....expensive smoked fish,....fruit baskets,..some fruit dipped in dark chocolate. Exotic things, that were there for the up coming Christmas holiday. It was so cool,...I was in my late 20s. The pay was pretty good, & it was fun seeing the inner workings & back hallways, of the entire Mall.
This mall began dying in the early 1990s. I remember how busy it was in the '80s. I was real little and I called it the dark place because the lights in the main walkway were pretty dim. I got away from my mom while we were in Sears and she was scared to death that I went in the dark place and wouldn't find me. I was playing in the middle of a clothes rack. I was a weird kid.
Everyone is at Eastland now. E-ville doesnt seem to be able to support two malls like this.
That Noble Roman's keeps the lights on😆. Place has been there forever.
The fact its still barely being used makes it more depressing and uncanny. Likez who wants to be the last store operating with 99 of its dead brothers and sisters decomposing around them. You have to pass a mountain of stores lifeless corpses to get to your business you for some reason keep clinging to, in hopes somehow it will all work out enough to make it worth your insane tenacity. Its like Weekend at Bernies, but Bernies been gray and green for years, his stench has even given up on making much of a presence.
I remember hanging out at this mall as a teenager in the early seventies. This is where I bought my levi bellbottom jeans at Levinsons.
Somewhat sad to see an almost abandoned mall. I know the US has lots of them, but I guess the population difference would be why Australia doesn't. We only really have empty malls when they're about to re-develop (i.e. demolish) it and people move out over just a few months as leases end and they find somewhere else.
He found the limnal space
It's sad to see malls die, but I say that as someone who bought $100 of merchandise on Amazon this week. Now Walmart is closing "underperforming stores." What can you do?
The fatal flaw in consumerism.
@@brodriguez11000 The spending hasn't stopped, just moved away from the malls.
Do a walkthrough of Washington Square in Indianapolis, just to see if your car is still there when you come out
This was my childhood mall when I was a kid in the mid 90s it was so cool then with the arcade and noble Roman’s pizza, this was the place to be back in the day sad to see the way it is now.
Nice work, eary
Reminds me of Goldeneye on N64 for some reason.
Many malls like this were converted to medical facilities.
That place was to rocking in the 70s. Sears, Stewarts, Levinson’s, H&H Music, Wolsey Toys, Wolsey Sporting Goods, Libs Candy Store. The Farmer’s Daughter Restaurant.
6:03 was, if I"m not mistaken, Hands on Discovery. Which was the coolest place when I was little.
It was!!! I loved going there when I was a kid. They had an area for moon shoes and I thought it was the coolest thing ever 😂
@@WikidFreshMediaI loved the news station area and the rice tub!
This was Indiana's first enclosed mall built in 1963.
Eastgate. Washington square 1974
Those glossy mall floors always make my high heels slip so bad.
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I used to goto this mall. Loved the Just Cookies and Debs haha
I remember having our Cub Scout pinewood derbies here. Last time I was there I got a gumball from one of those quarter machines and it about broke a tooth. Haha.
Loved this mall even worked in this mall back in the day!
Somehow I think it’d be cool to be zipping through this place with a VR capable drone, and put the footage up here so we could get dizzy along with the pilot.
reminds me of the Effingham mall. < it's full of resale shops and a theater. So sad, but it takes money to keep these places going. Be glad it's still there
Seems to be going same route the malls over where I live is going. Sad, especially if you were there when it was thriving. 😔 One of the malls over here though had Zion Market to take over like life support.
Really miss when malls were thriving. I wonder if old souls in the future will ever bring them back for nostalgia they never knew.
You know a mall is on its last legs when the big anchor stores are all closed, and there are thrift type stores selling random, assorted stuff, a Church has taken a space, and there's only 1 or 2 places in the Food Court open.
Definitely one of the deadest mall videos I've seen.
Pastel colours, geometric shapes, checkerboard surfaces...all scream the 90's.
3:00 no ghost but still creepy.
5:55 naked ghost everywhere
I literally thought this looks like Washington square mall and then it WAS!!!
There's mall in Big flats NY state it's huge and still going.. I've been up there a few times.. now I'm stuck stranded here in Arkansas
look so beautiful place. i hope many people is come to here again!
of course i not yet have been go to U.S but if when i have change go to here.
i wanna make it some backrooms footage! it's awesome place
OK I filmed this mall several years ago, and since when did they renovate and restore all of the neon most of it was burned out when I filmed the place they only had where the fountain was, and the hallway with the squiggly neon, all the neon in the main entrance, and the food court was burned out, although I did get to see and film the fountain operating if you want to see it it was amazing
Stuff like that makes a mall feel run down. That's most likely why it was fixed.
4:46 Why was Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys playing pool in an abandoned mall in Indiana?
I am about to celebrate my 34th birthday and seriously nothings changed unless it’s been torn down now.
There used to be a fantastic Mexican restaurant in that mall. I would go there for lunch all the time.
The Mexican restaurant is alive and well. They moved to a new location on Burkhardt Road.
This is depressing.
I remember the arcade room in back of the food court when I was little it’s was awesome
Still awesome and worth a visit. Glad you enjoyed it.
Anyone ever see the movie Chopping Mall? Remember that movie?
This is the most backrooms thing I've ever seen.
It seriously looks like the food court from stranger things!
Absolutely perfect dead mall
I don't think I've ever seen a mall this dead.
BRAINZZE!
Did anyone else think this was a back rooms video
I was buying tools from sears way after the 90’s i used to work at the a&w people lined up for my gaf burgers
Sure don't look like it did the last time I was in there " 1981 ", Except the Fountain, Most Malls are going away, The tore the one here " Baytown, Texas " down a few years ago
America's dying retail landscape. I doubt the shopping mall paradigm will be with us much longer.
Nice
I live in evansville indiana. This mall used to be great at one time
0:37 Don't go through *that* door, that leads to *the* Backrooms! Seriously, though, I thought this mall was abandoned until I saw those two people being served in the food court. I'm guessing this place will end up closed down sooner rather than later.
It has been dying since the early '90s. This is one of those places that just keep on going somehow.
@@mika009 Those big-box retail structures don't age well, so there's certainly only so long it can remain just given that alone.
@@venuspluto67 The building itself was built I think in the late 1960s. Back when things were built to last. It's one of if not the first indoor mall in Indiana. Walking through it there are no signs of its age and is well maintained. It's a lot older than I am and will probably be here longer too.
@@mika009 They certainly do seem to be doing a decent job of keeping the place clean.
At least Eastland Mall a few miles away is at the very least maintaining.
This mall is so sad. Another relic of the past that will probably close soon.
Favorite shopping place of the lady in gray- yup i know about the library
I can hear children laughter this is so scary bro pls find the backrooms level 0 pls
looks like all the Business moved up the street.
A youtube short told me this is the place i noclip to
Man right around 2:20 I thought I heard a mad gibbering scream but upon closer aural inspection, it's just geese. Nearly pooped my britches.