Abandoned Krystal - Nashville, TN

[@christopherlamarstewart3641]

Nashville does have two white castle locations

[@treystill8988]

I have lived in Donelson my entire life. And I know about the history .this store. It opened between 1968 and 1971. When it open. There was only one other fast food restaurant in Donelson. It was a family owned drive-in. Called Hearts Delight. After the pandemic hit. They Never had enough people To run the restaurant. It was only open limited hours. And never really recovered..

[@chuckweb66]

I have good memories of my grandmother taking me there. We lived in Hermitage back in the 80’s and we would go to that location or Rivergate. Rivergate location has been closed for years.

[@BarredCoast0]

This Krystal closed down because of poor service. I live right behind this store and by looking through the review section of Nashville's worst restaurants this one was pretty much at the bottom of the list.

[@charlessummers1276]

Hated to see this Krystal close. So many memories of that store. My grandfather used to take us there whenever we went to visit with him back in the 70's. When I moved to the Donelson area in the 80s, my girlfriend and I would eat there often. My son and I LOVE Krystals and would usually pick up a 24 pack and eat them all day. Only bad after effect was his gas... He would run me out of the house!

[@punchoutbro]

There is one like this is Alcoa, TN, too!

[@The-Day-Off]

It’s southern White Castle

[@crveech]

There's a Krystal closed in Belle Meade too. That's southwest Nashville. There's one open in West Nashville, but a White Castle is closed nearby it.

[@retailexplorationwithdanny8070]

Krystal’s is delicious, we have one in Pascagoula, MS

[@KayakTN]

I live around the corner from that (now closed) Krystal. It was never good. Kinda glad it's gone. We had a White Castle a few miles away that did not survive Covid... I miss them. Yes, there's a laundromat a few blocks away. 😅

[@777SasukeUchiha]

Oh, this is the Krystal that used to be near my sisters' elementary school!

[@coltongoff456]

Those ceiling tiles are falling down faster than flipping pancakes.

[@Ashley_Boasso]

I have a feeling that the water damage to the roof caused that location to close.

[@yourpurplerealestateagent]

Krystal’s has been around this area for 50+ years. Drive 65 miles north and Krystal is open in Bowling Green KY. Much better than White Castle.

[@MrIceman22]

Awesome video thanks for sharing wallie :D

[@fmakaren3706]

Thanks for making all these videos! Love you and the good stuff you film.

[@Timberhoops]

I love Krystal it’s like White Castle with the little slider burgers. I read where there in trouble and filing bankruptcy. I’m praying they don’t close the one in Aiken South Carolina

[@Asher10-Abandoned-Buildings]

it is very good and I filmed the location for KZbin!

[@neglectedbuildings]

I saw the video lol Asher

[@Asher10-Abandoned-Buildings]

@@neglectedbuildings oh cool lol

[@Asher10-Abandoned-Buildings]

@E.X.P.O yep

[@ZeeMann_Retail]

I honestly forgot that Krystal existed. I haven't seen one in a long time. Great video!

[@Victoria-ik1kt]

❤thank you for the great content , I see an abandoned shoneys in the camera across the street from the crystal

[@Watjenu]

We have a shoneys & a Krystal here in Wilson county

[@TheWALLofMusic]

6:24 Beautiful church across the street. ⛪

[@dboskit]

The location at Trinity Lane is still open and also a location in the city of Hendersonville just north of Nashville is also open ..

[@michaelcoffey7362]

Good video, there used to be several Krystals in Asheville NC yummy food, they closed a long time ago.

[@otpmetairie4862]

Krystal minis were 10 cents each in 1970s. It was so much fun to load up Krystal burgers. The bins were good! It was a fun family trip, old style metal/ vinyl barstools old diner look. We had one on Airline Highway.😊

[@otpmetairie4862]

Buns, buns were good

[@Anti-Fake-ul9oe]

"The bins were good! " Yes, good to get thrown into right away, all US nasty food!

[@Cent4man]

There’s plenty of Krystal’s open. They make a mini burger or slider similar to White Castle

[@brianmcclain6631]

I live a mile from this location, and it was always my late night go-to place. Sucks that they closed.

[@terrillwebb2807]

I use to live in Donelson and I went to that Krystal's a lot. I believe there is another one down the road a bit in Hermitage.

[@bryandixon2493]

Even if they did call the cops, however, it wouldn't be a priority.They would take 45 minutes to 1 hour to get there.That's how nashville police work

[@trevdelta8129]

If you're still in the area and want to eat at a Krystal, there's one about 30 minutes north in Gallatin. Been eating there most of my life on and off. It's a nostalgic comfort food

[@MEMBassist2]

I ate there plenty of times. Gonna miss it tbh.

[@luismolina150]

If you ever come to Lebanon TN we have one and it's pretty good .

[@danielkern1110]

I wanna leave I just saw your video on the Nashville Krystal did you put on video? I just want you to know that I live in Lebanon Tennessee property about 30 to 35 minutes from Nashville and I have seen you record my old store of Kmart before 11 in here and I think that is pretty cool. I just wanted to let you know that I want your channel also. because I think you are a great KZbinr myself, so I can’t wait to see your next video. Whatever you have planned because I watch your videos all the time too. I’ll talk to you later. Have a good day.

[@WovenZanesCats]

He should go to the Parkersburg WV kmart one day

[@shannonyoast6906]

As always great video. 👍

[@jameseurton898]

Yes there is a laundromat real close to there, you do smell that!

[@JennsRetro]

I grew up eating Krystals as a kid in Pascagoula, Mississippi 😊 i’ve had it a few times in my adult life and unfortunately it’s not as good as I remember.

[@alanporter7935]

One still open in Gallatin!

[@jamesmathis380]

There is an abandoned huddle house in Lewisburg, Tennessee

[@alanporter7935]

White Castle on Nolensville Pike in Antioch.😊

[@ifmrobert]

That's a Chase bank now.

[@therjypogo]

3:53 looks like Windows 7 computer to me.

[@drcat1313]

funny part is that Krystal on the sign is closed now

[@seanaiello4984]

I assume Krystal is similar to White Castle as we don't have any here in the Chicago area (that I know of) but plenty of White Castle. There is Crystal's (with a C) over in Calumet City but I don't think it has any connection with Krystal the fast food chain

[@kennethburris1668]

We had one back when I was living on Jacksonville/neptune beach Florida and we would always go and order 2 boxes of sliders, now we also had a old McDonald's but when I wasn't around there it got a renovations into the more modern ones but keeping the arches from the original and the McDonald's was across from kmart/big k

[@drfalcon4102]

Krystal is a lot like White Castle,,, food is ok, they are slowly being Phased out..

[@WolverineGaming133]

Hi

[@jet34thehawk]

Awesome 👌 😂video

[@charlesgossett2112]

The reason this Krystal closed is the couldn't get enough help.

[@GordonBaker-pe7bj]

I love Krystals. I worked at one many years ago

[@Optopolis]

Looks like Windows XP or Windows 7... can't tell tbh. I haven't used either operating system in so long... On the part of this feeling like Zaxbys, for me, I think of my Perkins. Same setup that you described at my Perkins restaurant.

[@Real_IDKPro]

it is windows 7

[@Watjenu]

I grew up in donelson & I’m sure they just moved to Murfreesboro rd.the only White Castle I remember in hermitage closed down,good lil burgers,we still have Krystal around tho

[@HuckleBerry927]

there is a White castle downtown and Nolensville pike

[@bubwal23xifan]

Krystal's is indigestion city. White Castle is so much better. Their fries are okay, Krystal chiks are good, but the burgers are gut grenades. There are a couple of White Castles still open in Nashville. One is in Antioch, the other was in East Nashville. Yes, I live in Nashville

[@slackingpacking]

When I took a trip to Alabama, I tired Krystal and it was disgusting. I couldn’t even finish my meal. I would rather go to White Castle.

[@danestegman155]

Good video! I wonder if the leaky roof, was the reason this place closed up!

[@lindamikel1842]

I Have Been Krystal Restaurant Many Years Ago so Much Place in Abandoned if You Done it like White Castle Restaurant too That Looks for Something Else.

[@HuckleBerry927]

It is going to become a Tim Hortons

[@ProteinMilk07]

That city has my name in it

[@macewindu9100]

this is in Donelson, Tn not Nashville. I went here when I was a kid. It's a decent place.

[@angelamorgan3835]

Go to Shoneys in Goodlettsville. So sad

[@timothycosgrove1385]

I have never heard of a Krystal's...

[@bryandixon2493]

I think this one on Dickinson pk but anyway iv been told they are closing all stores

[@Tailwhip222]

To my knowledge, Krystal is similar to White Castle? :) and wallie just repeated that for me lol

[@EWFOFFICIALYT]

Have you ever tried white castle?

[@keithshort688]

Lol, doesn't matter what size your rear end is. If you get stuck in a window or something, good luck explaining to the rescue squad and the cops how you got stuck. 😁

[@samhardy2038]

Went to this one often. Took B&W photos after closing.

[@GregTheMan]

Very cool

[@benjaminvlz]

I moved in the Port RIchey area of Florida, close to Hudson, in 2012 and there used to be an abandoned building nearby that was demolished and is now the location of a Waffle House. For the longest time, I couldn't figure out what the building used to be. I couldn't make out what the label scar was. Now that I've seen the facade of this building and the label scar, I now know that the abandoned building that was in my area used to be a Krystal! The exterior of the building had the same colors and characteristics as this one. So thanks for this video! It's a shame it closed. I would've like to have tried them out, as I've never eaten at a Krystal. I have eaten at White Castle, which I hear is similar to Krystal, in that they sell small burgers (AKA sliders.) I love me some White Castle burgers, so I have a feeling I'd like Krystal burgers. I wonder why the location in my area closed.

[@sunshinenicki29]

Wow. Not been to Nashville in a long time. Sad to see that many businesses are gone. Love Krystal. One in the area. Not visited it in years.

[@jmanjr2280]

Funny how they can't spell "Closed" right on the sheet of paper on the Drive thru window but they can spell "Closed" right on the Sign by the road LOL

[@misterhat5823]

If the van's a rockin' don't come a knockin',

[@melaniepattonraleigh9663]

Krystal rocks! They are a million times better than White Castle. We had one here in Somerset Ky from December 92 - September 19. The property is now becoming a car wash.

[@oldfarmshow]

👍👍👍

[@tommycreamer2001]

Hey wallie Krystal does slider burgers like white castle

[@robertmailhos8159]

Krystal burgers been around 94 years there is a town south of Nashville called Franklin Tennessee you might want to check out.if you want to do that wallie B 26

[@lisafreeman4222]

Fun video

[@lamars2486]

First, your video quality is OUTSTANDING. What are you using? second, Nashville or "greater Nashville" has been a metropolitan city since about 1964, it is a COUNTYWIDE city government with a bunch of incorporated little Hamlets/Boros (southern term) inside it. Belle meade, Berry Hill, Forrest Hills are NOT in the city, but have representatives at most things nashville. Inglewood is now INSIDE the core area, places like DONELSON are out in the GENERAL SERVICES AREA, hence no city trash pickup or street light program to amount to much ... so, TECHNICALLY, you are in nashville in the DONELSON AREA. Lebanon Pike and McGavock Pike are technically the ground zero of OLD DONELSON. Third, Krystals are traditional old navy "sliders" which came out of the country of Belgium, and hamburgers were NOT an american invention. So if you've had a white castle, you've had a slider. Krystal hamburgers were founded in chattanooga TN, and their nashville headquarters were out on 8th avenue south (melrose) across from the mcdonald's a few years ago they bull dozed it and i think put up a chicFEESlay. That area is now gentrified 😮, so there you go. They once had the best cheap but quality coffee in town, severed in a heavy mug. The 8th ave Krystal had the most IMPRESSIVE CLIENTELE at one time. You just name it, and some of the most important movers and shakers huddled at that place. The most expensive call girls were dropped off and picked up at that Krystal (a well-kept nashville secret). 😮 Meanwhile ... the fries used to be served in something the size and shape of a mini shoebox. Back in the 1960s, they cost you about 15 cents packed full. The hamburgers were about 20 cents. You could get "five gut bombs for a buck." 😂😂 they had great chili until the 1970s when they started going downhill. Mcdonalds had just built its first one right around that time (it was a walk-up), and so Krystal started raising its price and lowering its quality and ignoring their workers. If you've seen "happy days," Krystal as a "hamburger hangout" was just a notch above that type, it was dine-in (old diner style and chrome and black and white with bar stool seats some tables but a hole in the wall), the drive-in burgers like shoney's (aka like a bobs big boy) kicked in a few death nails on the Krystal coffin. Gonna check out your channel because lots of folks do good stories, but their auto focus is always searching in the shots. BTW, i saw on your video the POS MONITOR with the power on, so it looks like it had full building power. Keep in mind that DONELSON is on the traditional tornado train track, that may be the roof issue, OR THE AC might be on the roof overflowing the condensation pan, because the drive thru window is open sucking in moist outside air. Good luck, MAKE MORE VIDEOS. 😊

[@JosephDirosario]

Almost 61 k I remember when you were at 30 K awesome job yeah that place was deplorable and only seven months must be a bad roof

[@NBSRRAILFANS]

Check out this abandoned great Canadian dollar store I did

[@TheRealLucifer-Morningstar]

Is Krystal a bar and grill?

[@susanboatman7913]

They're are like White Castle .

[@susanboatman7913]

They've sliders, etc

[@jaimienichols5649]

Awesome Wallie

[@Loganclay-eo1pl]

Windows computer is a Windows 7

[@crystalscan2002]

windiws 7 it looks like

[@AaronC143]

I tried their food once, it sucked. It did not impress me.

[@eileenhenson1395]

You have and White Castle is much better.

[@adamsATSfan415]

Krystal ain’t good it’s what happened to me when I went to one in Tennessee when I was 8 in 2011 this could have been it idk. It was when I came down for a wedding haven’t been to Tennessee since.

[@travputer3971]

That’s windows 7

[@exploring_unleashed]

You’re way too friendly lol. Those people in the van clearly don’t belong there. I’d keep filming with them there and all. Maybe call the cops on them afterwards 🤷🏻‍♂️ Anyway, great video 👍

[@mirandavanzee6366]

🍟🌭🍔

[@ifmrobert]

Have you done the old Hickory Hollow mall in Antioch? It's been closed for years, but the anchor stores are mostly re-purposed. I've heard that the food court is still open. That area used to be all big retail stores like Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. In the strip by the Zaxby's, there was a place called Courtyard Cafe where Phil Vasser(sp?) played every weekend for years before he got famous.

[@macewindu9100]

nope, none of that is open anymore.

[@SamOlds2999]

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[@leatherneckprepper4477]

So let’s set the record straight. They went out of business after Covid because they couldn’t hire any staff and the staff they had did not want to work. I know because I used to eat there. The building needs a lot of work inside the kitchen to make it a functional restaurant and the people that are trying to lease. It are asking way too much money. As a restaurant owner, I estimate it will take at least $50,000 just to get it to where you can open. Could be more could be a little bit less because I’ve not gone inside. I just called and inquired about it to open another location. Abandoned it wasn’t.very few crystals and even fewer white castles are around because they were overpriced for what you were getting and again the service absolutely is deplorable.

[@HuckleBerry927]

Tim Hortons is going in there now

[@AngieCoalGal23]

1st

[@GRM.Adventures]

Ever you want to eat a plate of grease with a side of sandwich, that’s the restaurant for you👍

[@SamOlds2999]

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