Abandoned Kmart - Azle, TX

Abandoned Kmart - Azle, TX. Closed in 2003, this was one of several locations across the DFW area all of which closed in 2003 due to Kmart Corporation's bankruptcy. Kmart as a whole was struggling in the Dallas / Fort Worth area and pulled completely out just as Sears Holdings was formed. So for 17 years this Kmart has sat vacant, decaying, and currently sits full of fixtures. Part of the store was repurposed for the chain, Bealls which has since also closed. Now it sits completely vacant and getting in worse shape.
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[@lathenharris4579]

It’s crazy no one has bought that place bunch of kids and teens in Azle would make a sweet bowling ally skate rink since the other one burned down something cool could definitely be put there and Azle population is growing a lot

[@haydenwinchester4301]

I miss this store. I grew up going shopping there every weekend when I visited my grandparents and I now live with them here in azle. So cool to see inside of it after all these years! Thank you for the video!!

[@tommyswafford7132]

Spent many hours in that store in the late 80s and 90s. Ugh, the layaway lines around the holidays... forever taking.🥴

[@indyracin1]

Wow! I live less than a mile away! I really love Azle. A small quiet town. Country but just enough around me. It's nice being away from the city.

[@melodybeitzel5378]

Great video i do miss the kmart stores sad to see them gone

[@WallieB26]

Thanks! I do too. If I want to go to Kmart now, it's at minimum 4-5 hour drive.

[@tiffany.0214]

This is a cool video to see! I live in Azle, they closed down the Beall's & now they just opened a Burke's in the old Bealls building. I wish they would do something with the old Kmart already but it's not looking good.

[@StantonsJourneys]

Oh wow all that stuff still inside that old Big K, It looks weird with some of the front cut off. Thank you for sharing.

[@WallieB26]

Glad you enjoyed. Yeah, it still makes me scratch my head why it was split up the way it was and the unused portion left untouched. Surprised they didn't at least try to take down the facade.

[@miss_lyss2166]

Thanks for sharing! I love your videos!!

[@WallieB26]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoy!

[@cwanzer17]

Since this Video was made Beals became Burkes and is now Mardells. The Kmart was built as a stand alone building in 1983 it moved from across the highway. In 1987 Winn-Dixie also moved and the rest of the shopping center was completed including a Burger King. The Burger King became a chicken express only 4 years after it was built in 1987 and still operates as a chicken express. The Winn-Dixie became Brookshire’s also in 2003. The former Kmart location across the highway became a Diamond Grocery Store and now operates as a Dollar tree. The former Winn-Dixie across the street was partially torn down on 2001 after sitting abandoned since 1987. A Pizza Hut and Jack in The Box now occupies that space, however the rest of the shopping center remains but operates as a DRs office and Dollar General

[@cwanzer17]

The Kmart section is still abandoned

[@slackingpacking]

Interesting how they put Beals fixtures in there and it’s rare seeing a Kmart from the 2003 bankruptcy.

[@WallieB26]

Every Kmart in the DFW area closed up from that bankruptcy. This is the only one that wasn't renovated or repurposed. All the others are either repurposed or long gone. Outside of the DFW you will find one here and there untouched. Especially that Corsicana one.

[@AC-hv2lq]

Great Video Wallie!

[@WallieB26]

Thank you!

[@paulfisher128]

Reminds me of my childhood kmart,another good video,love your work

[@asamojomaster]

Even though it's spelled "Bealls," it's actually pronounced as "Bells." I know this because I've been to one and I heard a cashier say "welcome to Bealls (Bells)" when the door opened.

[@WallieB26]

Thanks for letting me know!, I had no idea. Lol I have a habit of pronouncing things incorrectly.

[@ernieflores2912]

Go

[@itssanrio856]

It actually depends where you are some people have different accents…

[@josephalcoser4845]

@WallieB26 I can not believe the Beals is closing down I bit the building is long abandoned now

[@mistywilliams5005]

Just wanted to say hi! I try never to miss a video from y'all.

[@WallieB26]

Well hi! And thank you very much! That means a lot. I try to upload as much as i can for everyone to enjoy.

[@matthybel4535]

Awesome video Wallie

[@WallieB26]

Thank you!

[@trishawilkerson2934]

Oh my gosh I'm from Springtown and l used to go in this store growing up, remember used to be a lil ceasers in there

[@largenj]

I remember when it shut down…my store as a kiddo and I’m still here in Azle.

[@NotVIj]

That store was my child hood.

[@erinmcgrath214]

It was nice to get to see Kayla's childhood Kmart. It looks a bit funny having one side of the sign cut off like that. Great video! Thanks Wallie and Kayla!

[@WallieB26]

Glad you enjoyed! Yeah I thought it was a bit bizarre the place was cut like that. I'm shocked the landlord or realtor didn't pay to remove the Big K section to make the building look more generic and readily available for a potential tenant.

[@jennifergarrett6809]

I grew up in Reno Azle area for the first 11 years of my life. That wasn't the original location. They built that after we left. The original store was set further back on the lot. It faced 199. Never went into the new store.

[@WallieB26]

Oh wow, so instead of renovating their building, they just jumped ship and built a new store. Same thing happened to the one in New Castle, Pa that I filmed several times.

[@jennifergarrett6809]

@@WallieB26 the original building was about half the size of the new one. If I remember right when they moved out of the old building Diamond Groceries moved into it. They were a local grocery store in the 80s.

[@heatherbrenner3164]

Ours here in Cadillac Michigan also closed in 2003

[@JackVegetables18]

Awesome video man 👍

[@WallieB26]

Thank you!

[@DalmationProductions]

It's unfortunate that DFW had to lose all of their Kmarts that's just sad

[@WallieB26]

Yeah, its because they struggled so badly because of the Walmart invasion. So due to the 2002-2003 bankruptcy, Kmart just pulled completely out of the DFW.

[@marcosadventures6140]

The Logo scar is vivid!

[@justsomeonewithachiakipfp8092]

another great video! great job wallie!

[@WallieB26]

Thank you!

[@doug9066]

In recent weeks I had noticed here in Lubbock that Stein Mart is closing. Our Bealls have closed, last at the South Plains Mall but unsure of the second location.

[@WallieB26]

To my understanding Stein Mart filed for bankruptcy and is closing all of their stores. We have one about 15 minutes from our home which is closing too.

[@doug9066]

@@WallieB26 I didn't know but I'm sure your right. I just had noticed they were closing at the time when I saw a person holding a store closing sign.

[@tjmath37]

I live right down the road from here.....I rember shopping there before Wal Mart open

[@WallieB26]

That would explain why it closed. Kmart was just no match for Walmart in the DFW.

[@alanlough638]

Hi, Wallie and Kayla! A great video! It's really sweet that Kayla has found memories of her and her family shopping at the Azle, TX KMart. I have found memories of shopping in the Weirton,WV KMart. I still my entertainment center that I bought at the Weirton KMart. I also have my Crosley stereo that I bought at KMart. The Crosley stereo is the one with the record player built-in the top, with the hinged lid. Wallie, I just recently subscribed to Ace's Adventures KZbin Channel. Anthony has really cool videos. I was on the KZbin home screen scrolling down to see what video that I'd like to watch and Anthony was filming inside the abandoned Century 111 Mall. He just filmed that recently. Check it out, it's cool.

[@WallieB26]

Glad you enjoyed! Yeah, Kayla was a little sad to see her old store again all worn and beaten. I miss the Weirton store too. Shopped there a bunch of times over the years. Can't believe its been over 4 years now since it closed. Ace's Adventures is a personal friend of mine! We've collabed a few times over the years and he actually stopped by my place after he was inside of Century III and showed me the footage before he even got home to edit it. I wanted to go, but I was glad I didn't as the place is still secured.

[@alanlough638]

@@WallieB26 Yes, the Weirton KMart closed in April 2017. As I mentioned, I still have my entertainment center that I bought at the Weirton KMart and I still have the Crosley stereo from there. When we had the WebTV for Internet access, I also bought that at KMart. If you recall, WebTV hooked to your tv the same way you hooked up a Play Station and used your tv to view the Internet/websites instead of a computer monitor. We no longer have WebTV Internet service, for the company went under.

[@michelleevans5531]

Holy smokes!! You were in my town! People here have been trying to get city council to put something in there, but nothing's happened. You see that Chicken Express over there? BEST chicken in town! I live down the street past Walmart a few blocks😃

[@WallieB26]

I mean i am not familiar with the area like you and Kayla are but I thought that it was a busy enough area that something should have moved into that building as well. Oh and I love Chicken Express! Though I didn't eat at this particular location, I ate at the one in Weatherford closer to Kayla's parents house.

[@mrfortnite5651]

The only Kmart I had near me closed in 2016 it was a super Kmart but then it was shortened to a regular Kmart then it closed

[@WallieB26]

Many of the Super Kmarts that lasted that long downsized. Very few didn't. The Warren, OH location was the very last Super Kmart still running when that closed in 2018.

[@jeffwhite1386]

love your videos and kayla to lol

[@WallieB26]

Thank you very much!

[@steffyherself]

Wow, can't believe it's been like this for the last 17 years! At least, a small part has been taken by another business. Very cool to hear Kayla's memories from that place, and the amount of stuff inside is insane!

[@WallieB26]

Yeah, I'm surprised its still empty. Only a couple others around DFW are at this point. Rest were all repurposed or demolished. Yeah, she misses this store the most.

[@michaelhutton8554]

Man that's crazy... I was a kid back in the 90s living in Azle. I remember playing Pokemon on my Gameboy Color near the exit of the outdoor goods because there was light haha... That register was in that exact spot.

[@Junkhead817]

Thanks for this video. Im envisioning opening a brewery there one day. I can definitely do food if there was a little Ceasars.

[@teresagremling5148]

I love WallieB26's little people seems like a nice family they look like there in the quite side though my kinda people

[@WallieB26]

Lol!!

[@susanbritton5911]

Hey i live in springtown and after it was a Kmart it turned into a Walmart. Bealls was a Eckards

[@maxbellan4955]

Nice name-Azle

[@WallieB26]

Lol

[@michaelkeller5742]

I love your videos wallie I thought bout starting one

[@WallieB26]

Thank you! If you think its something you'd have fun doing, I'd say go for it! I debated on doing it when I started but was glad I did.

[@NumisNate]

I saw mold on the door that has boards on it in the garden center.

[@Gil-jw3om]

Great video as always you should come to Fl,alot of abandoned Kmarts

[@WestTexasSirens]

Bealls may have been storeing stuff in the kmart also is pronounced bells

[@unknownuser..._...]

Nice wallie love my big kmarts also #SAVETHEKMARTS

[@WallieB26]

Thanks!

[@dsdragoon]

Yep, I always wondered if that could be converted to a Country Western Dance Hall and Bar. Good old Azle, TX

[@jakeinlow1561]

Wallie keep going down 199 there is an empty brookshires in lake worth texas almost as soon as u cross the lake

[@michelleevans5531]

I was shocked when I passed them one day on the way home and saw them shut down.

[@WallieB26]

I filmed it! That video will be coming up in the near future. I have a ton of videos from our Texas trip back in May. Kayla made sure I stopped and checked it out. Was surprised as well to see it closed given how large and nice the store looked.

[@blueinternet4336]

It just closes last August. It was also a old winn Dixie also. Also in lakeworth the atwoods is old Kmart thst closed in the mid 90s with a old abandoned Kroger next door.

[@minnesotaoutdoorwarningsirens]

2:27 It looks like someone did a 1000 degree glowing knife vs. Kmart

[@WallieB26]

Pretty much.

[@jet34thehawk]

Cool video 👌👌😎

[@WallieB26]

Thank you!

[@conman-theanimaker5230]

I love all of the vids of Kmart that you do!!!!!

[@WallieB26]

Glad to hear it! Thank you!

[@Hail2th3k1n6]

Looks a little like the Ames's insides in Kentucky that you filmed earlier on the trip.

[@WallieB26]

It did!

[@thecat1918]

I love Kmart😍

[@WallieB26]

Me too!

[@leedaniels7196]

That was a Big Kmart,and you could easily tell it was.Hopefully it will be repourposed before it gets too rundown.What is Beals? A supermarket?.Great video!.

[@blueinternet4336]

It a department store like JC penny and sears but a bit smaller. Brookshire is the grocery store.

[@leedaniels7196]

blue internet Oh okay,I got Beals confused with Brookshires,because it looked like a super market from the outside.Neither one of these exist where I’m at here,on the East coast but I have heard of Brookshires.

[@blueinternet4336]

Beels is mostly in Texas. The parent company is stage out of Houston. They also own gordmen. Original the Beels was going to rebuild to gordmen but stage filed for bankruptcy and now going out of business.

[@leedaniels7196]

blue internet Is Beels going out of business or Goedman’s too?.And what is the difference between those two stores?.

[@blueinternet4336]

The two stores are owned by the same parent company. Beels is like jc penny sears and kohl's it a middle class department store. I heard gordmen Is like a clearance type store where they sell stuff department stores trying to clearance or Discontinue.

[@johnsanders4946]

I might be a little late but did y’all go into bealls to see if there were K Vents?

[@BohemianMoviesMore_343]

The flooded area of the garden center should be called the Eddie Kmart killer Lamport lake

[@WallieB26]

Lol! Sad but true.

[@blueinternet4336]

But eddy didn't have anything to do with this Kmart. It closed before he took over.

[@BohemianMoviesMore_343]

@@blueinternet4336 thanks for that fact but I was just making a joke

[@blueinternet4336]

My bad lol

[@MrIceman22]

That Pretty Amzaoning that kmart been Abandoned that long my kmart been abandoned since 2000 have not been use since then and it in bad sharp for sure.

[@chadbailey5388]

That cool. Im from azle. And still live here

[@danestegman155]

Good video! I wonder why, when this Kmart closed up, that they didn't sell all of the fixtures. Usually, when a place closes up, they sell everything, including the fixtures. Unless, they were from that other place next store Bealls! Sad!

[@paul-roblox5174]

I think that K mart closed because it is going out of business and they just did not make enough money and I seen some K mart's that already closed.

[@WallieB26]

All of the Kmarts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area closed in the early 2000s from the original bankruptcy. Someone else noted that the fixtures may be from Bealls. Thats seems more likely but I'm sure a bunch were just reused from that Kmart.

[@paul-roblox5174]

@@WallieB26 Yeah, I almost feel like it was super K mart at one point but then they end up not needed that much space so that's when Bella came in and got that much space and Kmart change their name to big Kmart but now they end up closed down.

[@blueinternet4336]

I live close to that store

[@WallieB26]

Small world!

[@AAGoldstein]

I drive last this everyday. It's hard to imagine what it used to look like because it's looked like this for so long.

[@GLeibniz1716]

In your words from a previous pgh k mart vid: just a big dead empty space. Sad.

[@WallieB26]

It is sad.

[@paul-roblox5174]

I wonder what's going to happen to that K mart.

[@WallieB26]

Me too. I'm curious.

[@B_Y22]

I drove by the Shamokin (Coal Township) K mart yesterday and they demolished it

[@WallieB26]

Yeah, I heard about that earlier this year. I'm not surprised. It was too far gone to be saved. Wonder what happened with the cars inside.

[@B_Y22]

@@WallieB26 and all the cats that someone was feeding

[@WallieB26]

@@B_Y22 hopefully those feral cats didn't get too used to being fed rather than hunting for their own food. They can relocate but as for food, who knows. Perhaps someone out there knows and still takes care of them someway.

[@paul-roblox5174]

I do feel bad for lot of house cats that's wondering outside but no one knows what would happen to them hopefully lot of house cats that are out there that are safe.

[@futonman66]

I helped out with a remodel the store was going through and late eighties and my mom was working at the Lake Worth store at the time it was located on jacksboro highway and right next to it was a Kroger

[@cwanzer17]

That entire shopping center you are talking about marched the Kmart/Kroger videoed these guys did in Haltom City. That Lake work Kmart and Kroger have since both been converted into a Massive Atwoods

[@blueinternet4336]

This Brookshire is a old WinnDixie

[@WallieB26]

Woah! I had no idea. So cool!

[@futonman66]

Same goes for the brookshire's that was in Mineral Wells it was a Winn-Dixie as well but brookshire's only lasted two years

[@garbage854]

Cool 😀

[@WallieB26]

Thanks!

[@garbage854]

@@WallieB26 Welcome 😀

[@Optopolis]

3:00 WALLIES FAMILY OMG 😱😂

[@WallieB26]

LOL!!!

[@blueinternet4336]

The haltom city Kmart closed the same day.

[@WallieB26]

I bet a few in the DFW did since they closed from the original bankruptcy.

[@devinmccracken6987]

Thats right around the corner from my house.

[@minnesotaoutdoorwarningsirens]

My mom‘s friend found a big Kmart in Minnesota thats still open

[@TotosSword]

WeatherRadiosAndSirens01 They all closed in mn (my state) 😭😭😭

[@coffeekills5174]

That kmart was closed because protesters wrote nasty language on the store

[@unknownuser..._...]

MidnightLife wow that’s horrible if they were going to do it do it on a Walmart bruh

[@minnesotaoutdoorwarningsirens]

Totos Cartoons hey! Thats my state too!

[@minnesotaoutdoorwarningsirens]

Xtreme Tours Pro exactly

[@Mememan-bi6ys]

Hey Wallie, I have an abandoned Big Kmart By a Home Depot and a Burger King It closed sometime around 2018 or 2019. it wasn’t replaced with something yet. Idk there going to replace it soon or Demolish it entirely.

[@WallieB26]

Sadly several Kmart locations that have closed over the last 8 years still stand empty and have had no plans of anything taking over the properties yet.

[@ToastedBread0928]

Bro I was born in 2003 and live in this town and I’ve always wanted to know what it looks like inside thank you 🙏🏼

[@DalmationProductions]

Same here I was born in 2003 and Kmart was still in bankruptcy when I was born

[@fllowerknight]

Aye me too :) I wanna go inside tbh lol

[@joshuajerrythereviewer]

Cool hat wallie you should get a plain hat and put Ames or Kmart logo on it

[@WallieB26]

Its crossed my mind!

[@kimiaartista6242]

Azle is that near Fort Worth as well?

[@WallieB26]

Yes, roughly 20-25 minutes northwest of Fort Worth.

[@brendakrieger7000]

Thank you💕💜 lol, those mannequins😂😎

[@retailexplorationwithdanny8070]

4/13/2003 I believe

[@WallieB26]

Thanks! I was curious when it exactly closed.

[@GLeibniz1716]

My first real job was in a k Mart in western pa many moons ago.

[@WallieB26]

Oh wow, which location was it? I've been to nearly every location we had here when they were open.

[@W4ZFN]

Ever going to make your way to florida?

[@WallieB26]

Eventually. We're supposedly coming down to Florida i think next year for a wedding. So we should be able to film anyway.

[@paul-roblox5174]

That's where my Dad was from because he use to live in Florida for while but he end up move to Ohio because of one his brothers I was not around when he was there but he did talks about little bit down there.

[@blueinternet4336]

Probably beels stuff

[@WallieB26]

Thats what I wondered and figured.

[@briannemartindale1653]

Nothing to do in azle right welcome from my town i grew up in and still live in i went shopping there as a kid with my parents

[@everyhandletaken]

17 years.. and yet they still have the lights on 🤔

[@prestonstinson5598]

Go check out Carter ghost town in Springtown old abandoned church

[@WallieB26]

Thanks for the suggestion! Next time we're in Texas, I'll try to make it out that way!

[@stephaniecearley4368]

Do ya'll know what might had happened to the Aaron's in Azle Tx to it is next to DQ. I tried to google and do research on it but it never showed any info

[@ratbastard2708]

It's a Vision Source eye-care center now. The DQ is gone, as are Azle Western Wear, that car-lot and the Shell station; there's a shiny new QT gas station there now.

[@MegaThunder70]

Azle Texas I have a cousin who lives down there.

[@WallieB26]

Small world!

[@matthewj9688]

i live in azle and me and my buddy’s got in to there

[@Paisleyrae0]

Bealls uses Kmart as storage

[@sandral2178]

It’s sad so many want to destroy some of these buildings, it make it hard for urban explorers to bring us videos like this. Thanks for getting wet for us! Great video!

[@8angst8]

You're seriously "impressed" that these kids are willing to go out in drizzle?? PLEASE. I used to work at this store in the '80s, so I was curious about it. But the video gave no info at all. It was mainly about the two nose-rings sitting in their car, talking about being worried about a minor drizzle. I felt nothing. Don't cheer these idiots on.

[@gradymcclintock3766]

Probably good you didn't go in with the mold smell in there

[@WallieB26]

Yeah, it was pretty strong. Cant imagine how bad it was inside.

[@gradymcclintock3766]

@@WallieB26 you need to get a resporater for moldy buildings if able to get in them

[@news89]

Oh no your family is locked inside. At least you got to say hello to them from the outside 🤣. It is nice to see this butchered half Kmart.

[@allymichael1609]

Beal’s is using it for storage. Another store is going to take over Beals and remodel it.

[@BigMacBraaap]

Grew up in this town. Used to go that KMART all the time with my family. My sister had a friend who worked there as a cashier and she would help my sister steal CDs all the time 🤣 She'd walk up with a stack of CDs and charge my sister $20. I had to get photos done there one time and I hated that my mom made me lol

[@Zinart85]

Yall live in azle this is my home town i live right down road from all wased wanted to go in 2 see if the roumers wore ture about it being hounted kool video

[@Maroop001]

This is where I live

[@tristanchambers3350]

I’d say beals and Kmart fixtures.

[@carmenvari8131]

Azle city council won’t approve anything

[@crystalscan2002]

kmart never had dkny jeans

[@WallieB26]

Thats why I figured the fixtures were probably from Bealls.

[@Wesumatex2020]

Please could you visit Spirit Halloween 2020 please

[@WallieB26]

Yes, I plan to do a few once I catch up on a bunch more of our Texas trip videos.

[@Wesumatex2020]

WallieB26 That’s great to here can’t wait for your next video keep safe xxx

[@ZachArmstrong02]

You forgot to mention the prison yard 😂😂

[@robertaviles8451]

I don't think those fixtures are Bealls store related. How would Bealls sale its store with the K-Mart part (that's all moldy) ? Wouldn't that be a health hazard to your employees, if your storage area is mold infested?

[@jakeinlow1561]

Just thought u and Kayla maybe interested in doing a video

[@marcosadventures6140]

Another Walmart casualty.

[@thesaexplorer]

The store Bealls is actually pronounced "bells" 😂

[@WallieB26]

Oops! I had no idea. Lol

[@thesaexplorer]

@@WallieB26 it's all good lol enjoyed the video like always! GARRRYYY!!

[@WallieB26]

@@thesaexplorer LOL!!! GARY WHERE ARE YOU?! Anyway, thanks. Glad you enjoyed.

[@fllowerknight]

It closed in my birth year haha. Been driving past the building since I was just a baby though and always wondered why my family never went into that parking lot unless they were going to chicken express, I didn't realize until now it was cause it is abandoned.