DEAD MALL : Warren Mall, Warren PA

[@Brandi4427]

As a person born and raised in this town and growing up with the mall in its prime with every store space full, its heartbreaking to see this video. It was the place to be in the 90s as a kid to hang out. Now its an empty depressing shell.

[@luckystarlyndle]

Wow, so many cool vintage things to see. Nice video! Thanks for this. You are doing a great job. Keep it up.

[@JanVoo]

The old man at 3:03... so sad! It matches the looks of the mall perfectly

[@Titanic19127]

Don't forget to include the movie theater! Which pretty much goes along with the mall, I live in Jamestown! So close to the Warren mall

[@deckard43]

I always like the background sound and the music as well..

[@penn-g7x]

I remember going to Ponderosa and Kmart in that mall

[@blackgunner4594]

I like the style of the videos. The music is funny when you remember how lively these malls were once upon a time.

[@porkchopjefferson1728]

That yellow fountain area was so gross yet beautiful.

[@urbanpioneer8148]

As somebody who remembers back in the late 1990s when the Warren Mall was booked to near capacity and that place was full of thousands of people on nights and weekends, this is a little depressing to watch. But it tells the story of this day and age, where Amazon and other online retailers are the new norm, much as shopping malls were 20 years ago. Nowadays, kids pick up their phones or play Fortnite. Back then, that's what we had Aladdin's Castle for. Oh yeah, and for me no trip to the mall was complete without eating at the Panda China Buffet across Hatch Run Road. Good times, yo.

[@MooPotPie]

Warren, PA has a beautiful historic downtown. I'd rather invest there and return the mall to forest land. Educated young people are returning to the urban cores of old cities around the globe. They dislike corporate chain retailers and do most of their shopping at small retailers and online. The only people you see in malls now are the elderly engaging in exercise . . . and poor kids engaging in violence. Consider, too, that Warren's has lost a third of its population since 1940 and continues to decline. A town of only 9,000 people cannot realistically sustain a mall.

[@penn-g7x]

I grew up near Franklin/Oil City, so I completely understand what you are saying regarding a small community trying to retain a mall.

[@RobRobertTheMusicMan]

Thanks for the honesty fountain. I will keep my change. Thanks a bunch =P

[@crystasorrow9593]

I remember when I was a kid and this mall was the place to be...I loved going to the arcade Aladdin's Castle which was right next to Napoli's pizza back then. It's a shame what is happening to many malls nowadays.

[@lylebarry4753]

Glad you're taking the videos and not me. Always wonder what these dead malls look like after closing. Keep up the good work.

[@NostalgiaUnicorn]

No vaporwave during the mall tour, THANK YOU!!!! That music gives me panic attacks, big reason I can't watch most dead mall stuff - all of them copy Dan Bell. Nice to see a fellow WNYer out there doing the mall thing too. I visited about 3 years ago when the Kmart was closing - loved this mall just for it's dated nostalgia and those amazing fountains.

[@AcesAdventures1]

Radiant Paragon i appreciate your comments but i love the music it adds so much, im not copying dan, i have been into dead malls a long time :)

[@toutouthewyvern]

I can't believe that as empty and deserted the mall seems to be that there is no vandalism apparent!

[@jakerodoski4021]

soooo many memories in that place gotta love having a friend that works there

[@jakerodoski4021]

and also that metal sculpture is depicting a massive oil refinery explosion on the site where the mall now sits back in the early 1900's i can give you so much history on that whole property

[@whattheflimflam]

nice video. you are doing great. I know about this mall and used to go there a lot when I was younger . I remmber I was never allowed to go to Aladdins Castle (that weird pink and blue store). they had all the sweet games and I wanted to play em all

[@resiem]

love coming back to see this. rest in peace warren mall!!

[@ArnoldsDesign]

This mall was really nice in the 90's. I remember going in one year, and in another year it was half dead. Now everyone goes to the lowes and walmart plaza. By the way, if you get a chance, go to the Variety Buffet on that mini strip. They have good food, mostly Chinese.

[@kennethmattos1542]

Born Warren Pennsylvania 1959, I think what we could it was North Warren

[@alexglass2927]

I'm from Pennsylvania and we're not far from Warren!!! By the way, I enjoyed the music you put up in the way beginning, it made me happy I rewind it over and over again, lol!!!

[@alexglass2927]

My mom and I love Warren!!!

[@kct1975]

Another great video!

[@milesmarvin1037]

The mall in my town has the same floor tiles, skylights, light fixtures, benches and pizza shop. First time I visited the Warren Mall it freaked me out.

[@kennethmattos1542]

Grew up where the Allegheny and the Conawono meet, My Dad was a fireman, he used to sing Running Bear Loved Little While Dove

[@josephgardiner9866]

As a child I grew up hanging out there. I remember watching the helicopter bringing in a air-conditioning units for roof . I spent many years hanging out every Fri night wandering through the mall as a teenager. I really find it sad that this mall closed so many years of shopping there.

[@hydrowolf386]

I was born and raised in PA. I used to go there when I was a kid and my art teacher would enter my art work in the art show that they held there.

[@rickmiletic1376]

Sad. I don't get why this happens to some malls. Not familiar with Warren area. People blame online shopping, but I don't know. Maybe the area is just economically depressed. I live in Queens, NY and we have a famous Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst that actually keeps buying up city blocks and expanding. Now it also plans to build up and use it's air rights. It's just a haven to go to, not just for shopping, but to be around people, get out with friends, and even enjoy some nice food (it has many top-notch restaurants - not just a food court). It is always full, noisy and bustling, but in a good way, and always a pleasure to visit and has been around and expanding for almost 50 years. It's so successful that newer malls have opened withing walking distance, like Rego Plaza and Rego Center and Queens Place Mall.

[@urbanpioneer8148]

You're absolutely correct. Warren is poor, rundown, and if you can pass a drug test there, you're in the minority. But, to compare it to Queens, a borough of New York City with hundreds of times the population, is just silly. There are probably more people living within a mile of your mall then there are within 60 miles of the Warren Mall. So there's that.

[@patrickmaruniak5987]

On these dead mall videos, I would like it if you would film the malls or fine video of the malls when they were in operation. And then after that show it when it's dead or abandoned it would make a great better video. Thanks

[@urbanpioneer8148]

I used to frequent the Warren Mall as a teenager in the late 1990s. Back then we didn't have camera phones, but if it were possible to go back in time and take footage, I can certainly vouch to you that that place was THE place to be in Warren back in the day. The bus that went to the Warren Mall from downtown every hour on the hour was always packed, and good luck finding a parking place in the evenings or on the weekends. Instead of playing Fortnite, kids jammed quarters into the machines at Aladdin's Castle.

[@HarleyBadger]

Very nice videos!

[@trace624]

yep this is our little mall i could tell u what was in each store. it was the hang out on friday nights for us when we were teens

[@trace624]

Napoli has been there since the mall opened. your walking down to the kmart on your right. then there was Aladans casle arcades on your left my dad use to work there.

[@nancyhicksgribble9799]

Tracie Edmiston what was the restaurant mid video with red brick?

[@Brandi4427]

Orange juilus

[@dr666demento]

Chain link covering a closed store... Classy.

[@nancyhicksgribble9799]

wow this is an amazing mall. I would love to see the before in its heyday

[@dexterwho]

Do you know the opening date of the Warren Mall? I was one of the original employees of the mall before I was injured in an electrical explosion there and am now trying to remember the start date so I can write down some of my personal history.

[@theseonesgotoeleven]

back in the 80s that mall was kickin. it's where i hung out on friday nites. when the arcade was there. i worked at napoli pizza in my junion and senior year.. its wierd to see it so dead..

[@Titanic19127]

theseonesgotoeleven as well as the late 70s

[@urbanpioneer8148]

Even during the late 90s Warren Mall was still jumping. Last time I saw it was around 2011, and it pretty much looked like it does in this video.

[@MakennaMarieB]

Wow! Love your videos man! I used to live in the Jamestown N.Y. area when I was younger and sometimes me and my family would come visit this mall! So sad seeing that it's even more abandoned than it already was when I used to come. I definitely remember that Claire's though. Is the Kmart still there?

[@AcesAdventures1]

Makenna Marie no the kmart closed and the mall is totally vacant except for the bon ton and pizza place, they are finally remodeling the mall

[@tvr34448]

since I'm from Jamestown also it was cool to see the Warren mall again I haven't seen it since the 80s growing up we used to go to this mall and one in Buffalo they were a lot better than the Chautauqua mall

[@MakennaMarieB]

Tim Ryan omg haha yes, when I was alot younger I used to go to the Chautauqua mall all the time when I lived in NY.

[@Titanic19127]

Tim Ryan I'm from Jamestown as well!

[@sam00ra]

the constant ringing of the fluorescent lights.......... awful

[@maryellenshock]

Bon ton is still there?! My ex mother in law loved that store! Fanciest store in the mall! Was pretty to walk through - lots of nice things (geared towards the older generation)

[@wolfmechace1338]

i went to go to that mall all the time and the mall is gone

[@theseonesgotoeleven]

thats far out man. i m from there. you should see the rest of the town

[@maryellenshock]

You said you are from the Jamestown area - I take it you've seen Chautauqua mall in Lakewood, Lord my heart breaks! I grew up 5 miles from that mall, off RT 394/ Fairmont Ave! I remember when it was built ( rumor had it, it was owned by the mob).

[@brendadiltz4432]

I love watching Dan Bell's videos.

[@AcesAdventures1]

Im sorry you feel im copying him, do i draw inspiration from him, absolutely, but i have been into dead malls for a long time and he inspired me to start documenting them, thank you for watching and i hope you enjoy what im trying to do,

[@ballinglikechoji]

+Ace's Adventures I deff see the dan bell influence but everyone is influenced by someone right? I mean without James Browns influence we wouldn't have Michael Jackson! keep up the good work and I'll keep watching. *clicks subscribe & turns notifications on* 👍

[@AcesAdventures1]

+Balling Like Choji thank you very much! I love doing this

[@ballinglikechoji]

also Brenda, idk if you noticed but @2:55 he gave dan his props and some free publicity too lol. anyway hope both of you have a good one!! I'll be quiet and enjoy the video now XD

[@erich84502a]

No smooth jazz 90s pop top 40 covers???

[@donnasherba2790]

Still looks in decent shape

[@robbicooper9418]

Do a tour of the Jamestown N.Y.

[@lukebrinker3540]

2:31 if you look in the right it looks like eyes

[@shayl4629]

This was how the Westgate Mall was in Fairview/Rocky River Ohio was before the turned it into a strip mall. The only original business and structure remaining from that mall is the Kohls. Which is why it is one of the only Kohls with 3 entrances one was to the mall itself. (Only reason I know about the # of doors in comparison to the other stores is because I worked there)

[@shavonnestacia2865]

One thing I noticed about these dead malls, There was no Target, Do you think that was a factor?

[@sarahsutton898]

Stacia Gordon we had a Kmart in the mall. We still have no target but a Walmart did open down the road. I blame it on shrinking population.

[@urbanpioneer8148]

Warren couldn't support that kind of retail. I don't even think Jamestown can anymore. Erie and the Buffalo suburbs, most definitely though.

[@ACombineSoldier]

03:00 to all the people who ask to kill them if they get like that. it will happen and they will have forgot and content with living a life of pain and misery. humanity is like a disease that way. Don't mean to sound pessimistic, it just triggered me.

[@chrislemaster2695]

Where you went in there was a Big K-Mart a knife shop radio shack label shopper goodwill store also had a big lots this was dead I only lived 30 minutes from here in Johnsonburg PA from 2007-2014 and it was dead then the only three stores that had any business was the Big K-mart, The Bonton(Bergner's) where I grew up, and the Big Lots. Now that Big K-Mart and Big Lots vacated I imagine that Zamias ran this mall into the ground. This was the summer of 2014 last time I was there. It also had a auction house by the Big Lots space I see that vacated too. So sad this mall was always clean not dirty but old

[@r3claim33]

Chris Lemaster the only things there now are the bon ton and a Dunham's they put in.

[@urbanpioneer8148]

Zamias ran that mall about as well as Art Modell ran the Cleveland Browns in the 1990s. And this is the result.

[@spencelean]

well the Bon Ton is closing now

[@melaniexoxo]

I dont find your style like Dan Bell at all. I mean, when youre adding music to a 70s mall its generally going to sound a certain way. Dan Bell has an odd creepy-ish slant to his videos... you seem to want to represent what you're filming... more like a time capsule. While I appreciate that he documents abandoned places, I'm actually more a fan of Adam (LOVE Adam) and somewhat The Proper People. I think you fill a needed niche in terms of style. Keep doing you!

[@dudeawesome133]

I really used to love this mall when I was a teen

[@Lisa-sz8ms]

Warren mallrestinpeaceiwillloveyouforever

[@theseonesgotoeleven]

warren was a victim of the clinton era. used to be so many jobs ... nafta did a numeber on this town and it never made a comeback.. it is 70 percent old folks now....a bedroom community. im in my forties now and it's weird to see it.. i guess it's endemic of the smalltown thing everywhere in america now. very bizarre to watch now. i remember when in 1989 if you had a diploma you had your choice of about a dozen shop jobs., now something interesting is that area has alot of tourist like beauty.but thats it...noone cares. noone can get out of thier wheelchairs. what a gawd dammed shame. ......life is but a dream

[@chrislemaster2695]

Another victim of the great NAFTA Not!!!

[@HarveyBacktheBeatles]

I was born in Warren and knew that mall even when I moved to Corry. I remember when the Aladdin's Castle Arcade was in there. I honestly thought it was high rent and home video games which killed the arcades in Warren, that started the decline in foot traffic, stores kept coming in and out which frustrated people, Wal-Mart was finally built after years of the county saying that they wouldn't, those stores jumping over to to the new land where the Wal-Mart was built, K-Mart going bankrupt and now Bon Ton is about ready to fall. I'm really surprised Napoli's is able to hold on in that space.

[@justinbennink3926]

You never really see these kind of malls in Europe.

[@BoratWanksta]

Europe was never overretailed unlike the US, that's why. Also, suburban sprawl doesn't seem to occur to the same degree, as it occurred throughout the U.S. from the 1950s to 1990s. Not to say Europe doesn't have sprawl in some areas, but it happened a lot more in the U.S. BTW if you're ever in Amsterdam, Netherlands, check out Magna Plaza. It's a mall I'd consider struggling, most especially the upper floors! I get the sense this mall is on the way to dying, especially its upper floors. First floor is the only floor that has a lot of stores left, to be honest. The building was an old post office, that was converted into a mall. Located just slightly west of Dam Square, the central heart and main square of Amsterdam. I was surprised none of that mall was sealed off, when I visited in spring 2016. And btw, that was actually my first ever trip to Europe. I can thank all the online reviews, that turned me on to wanting to visit there!

[@codaconcept3775]

I live in warren and he is right our mall is dead except for Napoli’s

[@pizzola7319]

Just a suggestion, don't try to hard to copy Dan Bell. I subscribed to you because I can't get enough of these kind of videos, but for some reason it is way to similar to Dan's videos and it feels wrong in a way but I would love to see more videos from you.

[@AcesAdventures1]

Dan is an inspiration but i have been into malls long before i knew of him

[@fujitsubo3323]

i agree with ace, i love dan bells videos as well and have been a fan of dead malls for a long time i dont think ace is copying dan bell at all .. ace is simply doing what people have been doing for a long time and thats filming and photographing dead malls. keep up the good work ace great content

[@Titanic19127]

Pizzola leave him be, I love this vid! Warren mall is local history

[@pizzola7319]

M&N Distribution I wasn't trying to be mean 😯

[@pizzola7319]

Roy Mustang Lol, calm down.

[@Lisa-sz8ms]

Thebathroomswerebadnoonecleandthemthatisthesadpart

[@Lisa-sz8ms]

Itopenedin1979myjuniorofhighschool

[@RobRobertTheMusicMan]

What a trashy bathroom

[@r3claim33]

RobRobertTheMusicMan yeah... I always hated going in there when I was a kid..

[@Lisa-sz8ms]

Iworkedatponderosasteakhouseinthenightiessaladbar

[@RobRobertTheMusicMan]

This is one trashy garbage creepy ass mall =P