Abandoned Detroit: First Mall Ever Built

On my recent trip to Detroit we checked out this really awesome abandoned mall. The was actually the first Mall ever built. This place was absolutely huge. I hope you enjoy exploring this place with me.

[@lovedlavender3266]

This was my childhood mall and I had a lot of memories coming here. I miss going to Target, getting my hair done at the salon, my mom would buy cookies for my little sister and I at Mrs. Fields, and my dad would buy popcorn, at a store called Otto's.

[@michelehood8837]

Ottos 🥰 They had the best flavored popcorn! Loved Northland - my childhood mall, too ❤️

[@Bliggers420]

man those goodbye notes in the dental office are so fucking depressing

[@rockerbaby2003]

This is crazy, finally there’s somewhere that I’m connected to!! That eye glasses place is where I got my first pair of eye glasses as a kid.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

rockerbaby2003 wow

[@rockerbaby2003]

@Emmanuel Goldstein lol it’s been my nickname since I was born, I liked rock music and to rock in the swing.

[@rockerbaby2003]

You completely missed all of the tunnels, my dad said he used to make deliveries down there in the 70s and he always got a bit creeped out, he’d drive the truck right in.

[@4293153]

You are right that was the best part that almost no one ever gets to see. Loved delivering things to that mall when it was there.

[@tyrssen1]

Used to go here when I was a little kid. Loved the trademark bear and Mowgli statue, and the "Peter Pan Restaurant."

[@vanessahunt4811]

Unbelievable! I know it’s been years an things change, but this like all other have been a place of excitement as a child an teenager growing up in Detroit. Sad to see many places are no longer these days…Bring the city back.

[@michaelgosnell5283]

Nelly is from St. Louis Missouri NOT Detroit

[@surferbri5346]

Who gives a shit

[@brianburman6580]

I used to live by this mall. It had a pet store called Puppy Palace with the cutest puppies. It had a great Chinese restaurant but I do not remember the name. Great Hudson's store too!!

[@klayeiu]

i actually used to live near the area, so now i have a new place to visit when i go back :)

[@amandataebby]

That's not blood. It doesn't dry like that in that yellow-ish rust color. It's whatever leaked out of that packaging at the end of the trail.

[@davidsquires154]

Payless Shoes, had filed for bankruptcy and they went out of business. P.S., The entire Payless Shoe Source chain went out of business all together.

[@alpizzle2963]

You right but Payless back in business now online

[@TheNASCARJeff]

18:00 I think the "Chill Room" is a gang hide out... I grew up in Southfield, while in high school (S/L) I worked at an area Chevrolet dealer and we would show cars in the mall... I got to drive cars thru this mall in 1982. Also saw "Oopsy Daisy" the clown in the mall in 1968 and yes there are tunnels for trucks and also a bus station as well as a police station used for disasters and was the command center for the Oakland County Child Killer Task Force under the mall. I enjoyed the video and the music

[@lurenzoquick4423]

I used to go there as a kid that’s crazy

[@shaileechristensen8543]

Great video! Really enjoyed it. Keep it up!

[@jpzz123]

I remember northland from the 70s,the ,80s and i remember it when i moved to lansing. Even when i moved to lansing,i still went to the mall in early 2002 on. At that point marshall fields was the anchor store at one point they had to Macys and i would go to target at one point ,which you had do go on the side that they built for trucks. You could still take the bus but i was was coming down on I-96 to the service drive to get to target. At that point,pennys was closed and many stores like Bakers,mrs Field cookies etc. my daughter worked at mrs Field in lansing until she graduated from Sexton high school in lansing. I remember both northland and the lansing mall and today both have most or all stores closed and were limping along. I see plans are in process to make a mixed use place and that would be good and its what i hope for the lansing. The only mall that seems to be surviving is the mall in NovI but i have not been thete in aehile. I go to walmart on Grand River or the Restaurant there on Grand River and i check my daughters house in Novi and either take the Route to het back to plymouth township. I miss noth the lansing and nothland malls❤

[@anthonywstanton]

Way cool video sir!

[@Alan1234x]

It was a wonderful place back in the early 1970s

[@urbexutraconemiejsca9178]

Very nice ♥ beautiful movie 👍 👌 🎥

[@DjSportsGirl86]

I been to Northland Mall before with my mom and her friends

[@Aa11yaah]

How the music working doe?

[@DimJongUn]

This has got some Dan Bell vibes

[@rdeye-rb1pe]

City hatter was a little fun fact when I was really little I was about five or six that's why I caught my first kangol and then shortly after City can go invested into lids you know I was watching this early with my 6-year-old about these malls he wishes they were still around just another little fun fact a lot of these malls and I left it under the proper people you know they used to be a lot of functions for kids you can have a haunted house or they would have a huge Christmas display because when you went to Sears you got what you paid for with the portraits elves lights all around it just a bunch of fun stuff

[@doomestosis]

nice touch with vaporwave in background :)

[@boblinda1738]

I was in the industry for over 30 years and visited most of the major shopping centers in the Detroit Metro area. There was a major building frenzy in the shopping center business by the 1980's. But changes in demographics and societal changes have done a number on malls (as most people call them) and Northland is an example of the result. Glad I'm out of the business. I worked with some great people. Oh well. As I was once told, the only thing constant is change. Yep, look at the shopping center business. What an outstanding example.

[@lovedlavender3266]

Imagine if the police came out of those elevators. :o

[@nickclayton2517]

Omg I remember going to Deaf awareness day there

[@zoacoy4923]

That mall is a good backrooms model

[@rdeye-rb1pe]

Dude on the turntables is dilla the angel I think is Alicia keys aways has been lol an angel you got usher got a bunch of homies from my era 90s up until the mid 200s

[@mariasandoval4663]

ICEE ice cream is so yummy. Did you know that you went to the Source mall?

[@chrisanimations22]

OH I KNOW WHAT THAT IS, IT’S THE NORTHLAND MALL, I FOUND IT FIRST ON GOOGLE MAPS!

[@Hello.Ashleigh]

This isn’t the first mall ever built & isn’t Kanye from Chicago? Cool place though.

[@UrbexAndChill]

It is the first mall, and yes. But he spent a lot of his teen years in Detroit

[@Hello.Ashleigh]

Urbex And Chill what I pulled up was Southdale in Edina Minnesota, but maybe we’re looking at different kinds of malls.

[@Hello.Ashleigh]

& for the record, the music is nice! lol 😂

[@UrbexAndChill]

Idk they said it’s a debate haha

[@shaileechristensen8543]

I found that northland was an "open air mall" completed and opened 2 years before Southdale. Northland was enclosed in the 1970's. Southdale was the first "closed air mall". Here's Northland: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northland_Center Here's Southdale: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southdale_Center So yes. Northland was the first mall opened in the united states. It was open for exactly 61yrs. Southdale was just the first closed air mall.

[@rdeye-rb1pe]

There is a Payless in the Dartmouth mall almost out of business the charging $50 for some kind of knock-off shoes I can't remember the brand name but they're really trashy the garbage not like they used to be with the shaqsand s*** I miss my shaqs lol my phat farms lol

[@Flash-me4gz]

Man I can go there about a 45 minute drive

[@MonicaDBrini]

I’m curious....have y’all ever run up on any ghosts/spirits or unexplained activity in any of these places you go? BTW, love your videos!

[@cameronvoss9000]

Pretty sure this building has sense been demolished, if I’m wrong somebody please let me know! Very interesting spot! (Also this video is badass)

[@ChildishAle]

Your incorrect! Only the target was demolished

[@cameronvoss9000]

@@ChildishAle thank you, I’ll have to check it out!

[@Segacasper]

I think some squatters have been living there

[@DjSportsGirl86]

It must be Aaliyah

[@rdeye-rb1pe]

Oops that my friends is the crew spot for spacific homies man lol

[@rdeye-rb1pe]

We should've been 50 50 now the internet destroyed socializeing ya know smh took over the job market to

[@QuietVillain]

Airsoft and paintball and underground races and fights. Sorry just spitballing ideas.

[@hunny3254]

Can’t believe their demolishing it and turning it into housing. Says their saving the historic site but it doesn’t seem like it at all. Sad to see everything unique like this being demolished. Depressing to see employment opportunities in Detroit being knocked down for housing, especially in an area with an already high poverty rate. Makes absolutely no sense…

[@memyselfandi4581]

What happened ? This is strange that looked like it would last till now was there a bomb scare sornething

[@tipppetoe1085]

too many commercials, come on

[@alpizzle2963]

Actually liked the commercials but i hated the music

[@fatihselimi1283]

So why kanye on thumbnail?

[@UrbexAndChill]

Try watching the video

[@MaraudingMale]

Im from detroit. What mall is this? Northland mall didnt have a upstairs. You guys need to stop mis-labeling.

[@UrbexAndChill]

It is northland

[@DetroitNerd]

Kanye isn't from Detroit..

[@UrbexAndChill]

He spent a lot of his teen years hanging it Detroit

[@alpizzle2963]

Really don't understand how ppl scream when the see stars smh I'm not a fan of anybody i can respect ppl for their talents and what they do but I've met plenty of artist living in No Jersey and i never bothered them i could care less but i would tell ppl who i ran into cause they would be a used otherwise i never asked for autographs or pix its just dumb

[@Tsher0]

Don't use songs please. It's annoying to me Thanks