I remember this mall from my FSU days (98 to 01). The Governor Square Mall is the much better mall! Go Noles!!

This place is even more dead now. No more bath and body works either

Foo Fighters, Meredith Brooks, and The Wallflowers. This brings back memories. 4:20

Do you have more video of the Hampshire mall? That area of the food court and dream machine is a place I spent time at as a child, and it is very sentimental to see it. There is only a few seconds at the end of this video of that area. Thank you!

Definitely used to be one of the best malls in Cincinnati

I was asked to play Santa on Christmas season. A skinny Santa. They stuffed my suit with a bunch of pillows.

Believe it or not, there is still some of the Bedford Mall left preserved. it’s only a small hallway right next to Kohl’s, but the original flooring & ceiling is still intact and there’s even still mention of the Bedford Mall inside!

Three out of the four malls that were featured in this video such as rolling acres mall Randall Park, Mall, Eastwood Mall, and mountaineer Mall have all been demolished of the exception of mountaineer mall, which I believe is still there to this day and still open but Eastwood mall was the first to go which was demolished in June 2006 and Randall Park Mall was demolished in 2015 and finally rolling acres mall was demolished in 2017

Once upom a time, I was santa there 🎄

15:42 I always thought those lights were neat. Even better yet at night when they had incandescent bulbs in there. At night, the Schuylkill Mall had lots of nooks and crannies that were dimly lit. Also in the center Court I remember those four columns had water shooting down them. 1980s

Still dead. Can confirm. Miss that bourbon chicken and half baked potato wedges

Looks a lot better than the old wing!

Great pizza, a Dollar Store(sort-of), a CVS, fabulous!

There was a very nice, but smaller, mall just 1 mile north (built by Rouse) that Marley Station put out of business. Harundale Mall had a great neighborhood feel, and maybe many folks missed that once the glitz of Marley Station wore off…well that and the stupid zig-zaggy layout

Sad. That was My Mall in the 80’s and 90s.

Fairgrounds Square Mall, Replacing Mall: Muhlenburg MegaMall

In the 70's when I was in middle and high schools, where the ramps were, instead of the stairs I see in this video, there were bench seats on the lower and upper parts

My friends took me to this mall shortly after it opened in 1973. Every storefront was occupied and it was full of people. It was a big attraction then. I watched its slow decline through the years. It was sad to see it reduced to having flea markets in it. In the end there was only the games arcade and movie theater. I don't know when it finally shut down for good. The Hampshire Mall, which basically drained the Mountain Farms Mall of all its customers, didn't do too well either. Sure it was great at the start but rather quickly storefronts went vacant or were filled with nail salons and surplus type stores. It's still going but it's a shell of its former self.

Wal-Mart the destroyer…do not shop there…Walmart just another bad habit

That Spencer's is crazy. Did they just never change it or did they remodel to look retro?

They fixed the road to the amc like a year back

My family moved there in 88 and I got to see some drastic changes. They helped bring great life to it. I can remember so much of the time I spent there when it was anchored with Service Merchandise, Goody's, Gayfers, AMC, Parisian's, ans the numerous stores that collected inside. It made for a great place for parents to take their kids to get out of the house. It was where you were an adolescent and wanted to catch the eye of a cute girl passing by you. The place you took your girlfriends on many dates and when you were older, you went and got drinks with friends at the new restaurants outside AMC. It was an experience I am thankful for. Crime was what took it down, but no one wants to admit it. When FAMU would have it's homecoming weekend, crime went through the roof. When large gatherings of hoodlums were there, it ruined the experience. Stores couldn't make enough because of it. It was like Planet of the Apes on some weekends. Thanks to their sorry asses, that place never recovered.

Great video tho sad is this mall still open or doing better looked to be in good shape hope the best for its future

I love the eerie music sounds like the intro to shout at the devil

Was there a another guy in the mall with you in there?

Sad. Three miles from me. It was demolished and no longer exists.

As of Nov. 2023, Moonbeam is gone, Shoppingtown is fully closed and in a state of advanced dilapidation, and the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency has seized the mall except for two former anchor spots whose owners are holding out and fighting in court. The plan is for OCIDA to sell the entire property to a pair of local developers who have announced they intend to raze the building and replace it with an open mixed-use space.

boy this makes me sad. I remember going here as a kid. I have photos of me in the Christmas train they would set up in the middle there with the clock in the center. sigh

My parents got a dining room set from Caldors before they closed down

You guys haven't uploaded in over a year. Is Dead Malls now a dead channel?

To this day, my favorite mall. Grew up right down the street from 1990-2008 and got my first Gameboy and Pokemon games, and N64 at the KB toys here. Hundreds of memories at Just Fun (the arcade), Acme Surplus, the RC car racing track store, The Wall (CD/record store) and best of all was Beanie Exchange right in the front main entrance where the Pokemon Card craze gripped the entire Chicopee area. That place had all the Pokemon cards you ever needed lol. Then there was Generation X lol.

This was very enjoyable, especially after watching other videos where the mall is completely destroyed. The sculptures and the rather beautiful designs of the department stores, particularly the originals--Sears and Stix St Louis--is particularly poignant. The St Louis of the 60's and 70's seemed to be a much different place than today. When you tour some of the suburbs and definitely the downtown, you can't help but notice all the blight, the really poor race relations and the huge wealth gap between those at the bottom and those at the top-and you get a notion of a place that at one time was really prosperous and hopeful for the future but then lost it all. The whole St Louis area is so interesting....it tells a story, probably of deindustrialization but also of poverty, racism and disinvestment in its urban areas. It's maybe akin to the stories of Indianapolis and Memphis, but in St Louis, there just seemed to be so much more money and more art and beauty at one point...and then something happened.... For me it's like solving a mystery of what the hell happened to a place for it to get to where it is today. I have been to St Ann, Ferguson, Fairview Heights, and they all just look run-down and sad but you can see the traces of how it wasn't always that way. At one point, people took pride and built beautiful buildings and installed public art. Then it just looks like people stopped caring or they left or SOMETHING happened. Even downtown St Louis is such a sad place, but looks like it used to be so beautiful.

Do you have any more footage? I’d love to see it. Brings back a lot of my childhood

I worked at the Mt. Farms Theaters for 9 years, and the Hallmark store next to Thom McCann in the Hampshire Mall for a few years. Mt. Farms was basically the theater, Just Fun Arcade and Papa Gino’s when I was there but we all knew each other because it was just the 3 businesses (and the flea market on Sundays). 💕

Do you have a video of the old north hills village mall from the late 1990s/early 2000s?

What's the music?

You should do one of Northgate Mall in Seattle

I believe this is just called Mountain farms now ??.

Place is so depressing to even look at. I remember the mall and the movie theater in the back that's now the used cars section.

We built a new mall over the old one and it’s more busy than ever!

Mall shut down 😢

I loved the mall when all the stores were open, it was great, so sad now !

This July the Eastfield Mall in Springfield is closing after 56 years of operation and being torn down and replaced with a open air plaza.

I Heard There Was A Fire Near Dillards A Week Ago....

Over 90 of the last 100 new malls in the US have been the outdoor type. Many of these old type malls are dying------but not all of them. It must cost a bundle to heat and A/C these indoor malls----and maintain the interiors. And yup------kids did hang out and get rowdy at many of these malls. I like them-----and hope that maybe half will survive.

Ohhhh that hallway, that long, long grey hallway. My parents had to warn me every time to not make too much noise because it ECHOED in there like crazy! I was born in 1993 and grew up in Chicopee, we mostly went to the mall when it still had Dance Dynamics in it for my ballet lessons! Great mall, miss it a lot.

Great vid again but the camera switching was awful 😢, sorry

Such great footage. This western half of the mall is closed and has been for years, so it feels like I'm watching something I shouldn't be seeing.

I remember Oz Music in Eastwood Mall.

My aunt used to take us here when we were small. We'd each get a slice from the pizza place and sit in those white metal chairs