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@ThisisDanBell2 жыл бұрын
Attention! Completely remastered episodes of the Dead Mall Series are now being archived in 4K at kzbin.info/door/fCM_TfrSDMkkMpKuLNWuXA. The remasters have gone through an extensive AI Enhancement process as well as proper sound mixing and colorization. This Dead Mall Series Remastered project has been made possible through viewer support on Patreon. Go over now and watch in glorious 4K. ENJOY!
@liquemascis2 жыл бұрын
Dead Mall Series inspired me to photograph and video my local dying malls. My Mom also calls our once local hotbed the "dead Mall" when she goes there.
@erinbricker-urbanhistorian58032 жыл бұрын
@@liquemascis 🙂👍
@71.218-westshed2 жыл бұрын
I've seen TV shows and movies be remastered, but never a KZbin show. Neat.
@Marvel-RogueАй бұрын
The graffiti is freaking out of control 😒 😤 7/27/24
@EZOnTheEyes2 жыл бұрын
Random Fact: Harry Houdini hated Psychics and Clairvoyants to the point he would break off friendships with people. He actively spent years of his life debunking them, at one point catching one claiming to be channelling his mother, and addressed him as Harry. His birth name is Erik, Harry is a stage name. Not related to malls at all, but I remembered it when I saw the psychic commercials lol
@ShaferScott2 жыл бұрын
Random Fact: Learn2Gramrs knows a lot about random facts and will occasionally leave comments on KZbin channels stating said facts.
@tylerjones26952 жыл бұрын
H H and I have the same bday
@EZOnTheEyes2 жыл бұрын
@@ShaferScott ;)
@cpt_nordbart2 жыл бұрын
He wanted to talk to his mother after her death. But the episode with a psychic started his crusade against them. But yeah his friend Arthur Conan Doyle broke his friendship because of Houdini's debunking of his favorite psychics. To a point where Conan Doyle claimed that Houdini was the greatest psychic suppressing the capabilities of lesser ones so he can show that they're worthless.
@mekishik02 жыл бұрын
hm. reminds me of james randi
@BrightSunFilms2 жыл бұрын
I’m glad you’ve finally uploaded this footage after almost 5 years. Great video!
@careymulligan14032 жыл бұрын
The property is currently being completely redone into office buildings. It’s all repaved and they’re keeping the structures and remodeling them.
@ichsachjanurmalso2 жыл бұрын
Yes Mr. Films, very nice
@hudsonk1racer2 жыл бұрын
I thought the footage looked familiar, but ever so slightly from another angle lol
@jarshaarashi2 жыл бұрын
I thought this was Jake from Bright Sun films!!! So cool to see youtubers I like hang out together 😁
@chemergency2 жыл бұрын
@@careymulligan1403 That's bizarre. Wasn't the whole reason of this place falling-apart from contamination and structural integrity failure due to its foundation being literal garbage? What makes them think they can just live with it now?
@TVHead672 жыл бұрын
Well as Dionne Warwick has said, “girlfriend it’s time for you to lay down.” Thank You Dan Bell for another entertaining episode of the Dead Mall Series.
@nicholasshade2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, girlfriend lay down.🍭❤🐟😻🌟
@mykenziejackson45792 жыл бұрын
I went to school in an abandoned Walmart building during 6th and 7th grade, so I actually have seen what one looks like completely empty, and it had been abandoned for at least 15 years before the school moved in. They put up partition walls to make classrooms and they kept a lot of the old fixtures to use for classroom storage. It was supposed to be temporary but ended up staying there for 8 years.
@awkydrey2 жыл бұрын
Whoa where was this and why? Was it conducive to learning?
@mykenziejackson45792 жыл бұрын
@@awkydrey if you Google charter school in former Walmart building it will take you to the school’s history page. They opened the school in 2009 and obviously building a whole school costs lots of money, which they did not have, so they rented abandoned buildings in town until they got a grant to build the new one and moved in in like 2017/2018. It was absolutely horrible for learning because it was so loud but they didn’t have any other choice for the time being.
@scdu2 жыл бұрын
@@mykenziejackson4579 that's so sad and really highlights why underfunding the education system is such a big problem.
@mykenziejackson45792 жыл бұрын
@@scdu oh yeah the whole reason they had to found this school was because they shut down 6 schools in the parish due to lack of funding and were going to send everybody to one school, which is not big enough and not exactly safe.
@barbikayler405322 жыл бұрын
My son's school was an old Winn Dixie supermarket.
@wbenken76552 жыл бұрын
Historians will use Dan’s footage to portray the decline and decay of our society as we knew it. I love it!
@punchline432 жыл бұрын
Well, he's already kind of a historian doing just that. Or is it "an" historian?😕
@stargazer34242 жыл бұрын
Read in Tony Jay’s voice from Beauty and the Beast
@theangriestcatintheworld2 жыл бұрын
@@punchline43 ..."an historian," since you asked!! :)
@celebrityauthor79422 жыл бұрын
They already are, I found this channel through an Adam Curtis documentary on BBC.
@princeofcupspoc90732 жыл бұрын
There are many excellent historians on youtube currently. A few to check out are Military History Visualized, Military Aviation History, Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles.
@_gorezone_2 жыл бұрын
The graffiti in that Wal-Mart looks like stuff you would see in a beat-em-up game from the 90's hahaha. "someone died here", anarchy symbols, "smile, your'e on camera", "becca was here".
@NathanDavisVideos2 жыл бұрын
Like some _Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat_ kinda crap!? 😂
@yankees292 жыл бұрын
Double dragon. Lmao
@yankees292 жыл бұрын
Final Fight
@RagdollWraith2 жыл бұрын
your gay xD
@daddynitro199 Жыл бұрын
Streets of Rage.
@johnathanwilkerson5182 жыл бұрын
Dan Bell is str8 up KZbin’s best kept secret, OG chronicler of modern American economic decay, so many imitators now but ain’t no Dan like the real Dan!!
@alanmike68832 жыл бұрын
There's only one Dan indeed. Like going through a time Capsule of how once the wick burned bright but like many, malls, high streets, symbols of economic boom and Strength, the slowly dimming until they go out
@drdrew32 жыл бұрын
At 600,000 subscribers he’s definitely not a secret anymore
@Leanne-mw8nm Жыл бұрын
@@myavo Excuse me? What language was that written in? Just curious.
@djdeadbeat43802 жыл бұрын
The throwback intros are such a nice, unique touch to all of these Dead Mall videos.
@user-vn1wz3tr1h2 жыл бұрын
I like the YTP-esque style, it reminds me of the old days of KZbin. Lol
@erinbricker-urbanhistorian58032 жыл бұрын
@@user-vn1wz3tr1h 🙂👍
@BennyLlama392 жыл бұрын
Dan: "The Radio Shack actually went down into the dump." Me: Didn't the entire company do that several years ago? 😆
@bmstylee2 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@iadorenewyork12 жыл бұрын
I have a Radio Shack -- not in good shape -- down the block from me in San Francisco. It exists, but is not thriving.
@ambreewilliams65852 жыл бұрын
They still have a web presence. You can order from them online.
@kyoakland2 жыл бұрын
@Sally F what?? What street in San Francisco I work out there
@sandraromano89192 жыл бұрын
There's a Radio Shack on Rt 522 near Mt Union, PA. Looks like a dump but it seems to be open.
@TownieGirl19742 жыл бұрын
Talk about perfect timing for Dan to upload this video - it's cold, windy & snowing where I am tonight. Perfect weather, company & night to watch a new Dead Mall video from Dan Bell! Thanks Dan!!
@triplea1282 жыл бұрын
I imaginé that scene. Wonderful
@johnarthurlawrence48602 жыл бұрын
Same here in Essex Junction Vermont.
@JayP71782 жыл бұрын
Yep. In the cold November rain oops I mean snow.
@dweyandt012 жыл бұрын
During the fall is when I get my Dead Mall fix
@barbikayler405322 жыл бұрын
Lucky you....I love ❄
@MuneageDaydream2 жыл бұрын
I worked for Wal-Mart in the late 90's. They built a Supercenter right next to the old "Division 1" (no groceries) store, so I got to see both the new store and the old one completely empty. That store you visited must have been one of the last Division 1 stores built. There aren't many left. Some were converted by expanding the footprint. If you ever walk into a Wal-Mart with a drop ceiling in the center, that's the old store and either side with high ceilings is the expansion. On a different note, a RED Ames cart, that is seriously old and rare.
@craigjensen68532 жыл бұрын
Yeah, this one was built in 2006 which was very late for Div 1 but it was intended to eventually become a super center and designed to be easily expanded (as most of the later Div 1 stores were). Giant Eagle has a lot of influence and I have to wonder if the initial lack of grocery was a concession Walmart made in order to attract Giant Eagle to the center.
@Aquatarkus962 жыл бұрын
Theres one in Amarillo,TX still
@MikeyDAngelo2 жыл бұрын
the 2 closest Walmarts to me are both Div 1 stores. they are still kind of common near cities I feel like. Also you might be on to something about Giant Eagle as one of those 2 div 1 stores near me is literally attached to a Giant Eagle.
@tjnucnuc2 жыл бұрын
That fart/horn sound was perfect 😂 😂. NO JAKE that’s not methane.
@craigjensen68532 жыл бұрын
Yeah I like at 1:30 how the old bag keeps ripping them.
@Randytherumbler7 ай бұрын
Flatulence. Farts. Cow farts. Mud pies. Gas passer. Methane. What's the difference? Gas is gas.
@JazzyBabe562 жыл бұрын
I love the sound of glass and stuff crunching under your shoes....really lends itself to the mood....great vid as always Dan! ♥
@hek_me2 жыл бұрын
Regarding the safe/lack thereof, I use to be a bank teller in a branch that was inside a kroger and we had a safe. It wasn't a fully walk-in, just a decent size standing safe, think it was around 4 tons of steel rough and was maybe 4x6x4. We didn't need to keep the same volume of cash and those in-store branches are pretty low traffic so that sufficed for us. I think we had around 130k-180k most of the time, where as a larger branch (at least for the bank I worked for) would have anywhere form 300-700k depending on the traffic.
@goldengod59152 жыл бұрын
Yeah I worked as a teller at a pretty small branch, no larger than one found in a store that was located in the skyway system of Downtown Minneapolis, and yeah, the safe was like nine by five feet. Thing is that we only ever had like 60K tops in that branch and a larger one would have no more than I wanna say like 250.
@owllymannstein71132 жыл бұрын
The "emergency shower" is where the maintenance guys would fill up and empty mop buckets, There would have been a dispenser there that automatically mixed the cleaner/water.
@timjordan44112 жыл бұрын
Was just thinking that too, used to be a janitor myself
@boozefueledreviews69282 жыл бұрын
Sank, dank, and rank!!! Fu*king winner!! Dan Bell is gold! We have a CVS Pharmacy in my hometown that was KNOWINGLY built on top of a shaft mine... and after 3 or 4 years of being open, everyone was shocked when the walls began to crack and the slab began to sink into the earth! Good job, guys! Which one of you drunks are on the planning board?
@poolkennedy76112 жыл бұрын
It is a new classic
@FreezerKing2 жыл бұрын
Thank goodness for those skylights in the Walmart, it was actually light and airy in there instead of dungeon dark
@craigjensen68532 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that building is 15 years old now so the roof is going to go soon. So those skylights will help vegetation thrive once the water gets in. It should be really neat to see in another 10 years or so.
@monkeydoodle352 жыл бұрын
So glad you're doing well and putting up Dead Mall content. 2022 here we come!
@poolkennedy76112 жыл бұрын
You are very cool
@Green870152 жыл бұрын
The section of the Kmart in Flint that you were in was converted to a Magoo’s Pet Outlet after the Kmart closed about 20 years ago, that’s why it was walled off. I remember that Kmart even had a restaurant in it, I miss being a kid in the 90’s.
@yankees292 жыл бұрын
The 90’s were the best. I wish I could go back.
@karnagefails333 Жыл бұрын
Better times indeed.
@FriedEggsWithChips2 жыл бұрын
I always feel like I’m being shown around precious historic heritage sites by a museum guide with the Dead Mall series. I think it’s because Dan’s voice is so hushed and respectful. It’s great. I could watch them all day.
@ChrisLeeW002 жыл бұрын
It’s almost as depressing as walking into an active Walmart.
@FirstLast-vr7es2 жыл бұрын
"Will all Wal-Marts look like this someday?" I sure hope so, Dan.
@Matisaro2 жыл бұрын
Came to make this comment.
@4m4nd4m2 жыл бұрын
as a current employee me too
@FirstLast-vr7es2 жыл бұрын
@@4m4nd4m I've worked there too. They're responsible for the closure of thousands and thousands of small businesses, not to mention the mass exodus of US manufacturing. Hell-Mart can fall off the face of the Earth for all I care. Hopefully they'll take Amazon with them if it ever happens.
@karnagefails333 Жыл бұрын
Same. Everything Walmart sells funds China to send more fentanyl to drug runners on the wide open Mexican/US border...
@martinjarvis83122 жыл бұрын
Your abandoned malls videos are fantastic Dan, it just shows how fast times change in the 80's and 90's these places were the be all and end all of people's lives now they are handed back to nature and a lot of people now are realising they don't need to buy pointless crap to live anyway. God bless America from the UK.
@mishfishy76452 жыл бұрын
A lot of people just started buying pointless crap online instead of malls
@SacredFire7772 жыл бұрын
@@mishfishy7645 😁
@ThyPandora2 жыл бұрын
It just made them realize they didn't need to leave their houses anymore.
@TheTinKunt Жыл бұрын
No more pointless crap? ::shein has entered the chat::
@Randytherumbler7 ай бұрын
@@mishfishy7645Thanks a lot, Amazon. Online sites on the age of the internet wasn't the only factor,that had to do with retail stores declining to be in business anymore. As the times changed,the economy had been altered,so did the people who had been baby boomers in the '50's and '60's had no longer existed. So did the geopolitics of the situation of our country's economy. Neighborhoods started to also change. What had happened to Garfield Heights,Ohio?
@accastillo60462 жыл бұрын
Good God Almighty and everything butterscotch, I have missed these warped and incoherent intros! Im so happy, HAPPY, you are making thses again.Your dead mall series personally affected me to get thru so many 8 hour shifts of my 9-5. This is like eating fresh caviar after living off of day old fish cakes. Thank you for this delicacy of retro sustenance!!
@interwebtubes2 жыл бұрын
btw,Shrink has to do with shrinkage, Or theft, from the store/ or establishment meaning stock leaving without being paid for , Just passing this along to everyone
@ScatteredCollector2 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="328">5:28</a> There's actually an abandoned Walmart near me. The only reason is that the corporation moved from the smaller store to a much larger store literally 50-70 feet away from the old one.
@gmcnewlook2 жыл бұрын
Yeah That Happens a lot…
@Thefancymelon592 жыл бұрын
Is that in Streetsboro, OH?
@ScatteredCollector2 жыл бұрын
@@Thefancymelon59 No. can’t give exactly where but not in OH
@Thefancymelon592 жыл бұрын
@@ScatteredCollector ok thanks. There was a similar situation in Streestsboro. Not sure if anything ever moved into the old WalMart building. Been a bit since I was out that way.
@pandastylearmy59382 жыл бұрын
do you know what the heck that burn spot is?
@craigjensen68532 жыл бұрын
The smaller part of the Kmart was probably a Kmart Foods, there were several built in Michigan in the 60s. Crazy to think if they had just removed the wall they would have basically had the concept of a "Super" Kmart/Walmart long before (but Meijer had already started building hypermarkets in 1962). There was also a K-Chef fast food restaurant for a few years. The one in Pontiac (store #2) had a K-Foods and a K-Chef. It's all bombed out now though.
@rbrew2 жыл бұрын
Dan, you should really travel to the west coast to document much of the urban decay around here. Once thriving cities like San Francisco are now closing down entire districts of businesses. While you won’t get to do much interior exploration, I think you’d find it fascinating to see and document the history of of politics, high rent, homelessness and bad real estate do to an entire economy.
@sarahsebers9362 жыл бұрын
I second this! Theft has wrecked retail in SF
@rubberonasphalt2 жыл бұрын
Looking in from the outside (Im from Australia), San Francisco seemed like a place that could do no wrong. I would totally be interested in the dichotomy of rich/poor, success/failure, and see SF as it is
@Fan_Made_Videos2 жыл бұрын
@@rubberonasphalt It's the Tech Class who moved in and fucked everyone. Murdoch's media like to blame Communists but it has been the Vulture Capitalists in Tech who Fucked it all up. It's going to happen in places like Texas now where COL is going to displace tens of thousands of locals who are not "tech" and don't have the financial support to stave off Vulture Capitalists.
@gemmrk2 жыл бұрын
Dan does not want to die. Thats why he has not gone to Frisco. I wouldnt go to that shithole for a million bucks
@marcd68972 жыл бұрын
@@Fan_Made_Videos Spot on! Finally someone providing the real reason and not just the stupid politised BS propaganda.
@matthoye49742 жыл бұрын
As soon as I saw ‘sank Walmart’ I knew it was going to be Garfield Heights, OH! Thrilled to have Dan check it out as I have explored this area a bit myself. There is quite an interesting backstory about the landfill and how this shopping center came to be (on top of it) I can’t find the exact video I initially saw a few years ago, but dig into if you can, very intriguing!
@ilanarhian2 жыл бұрын
I googled it and was just reading up on it, thanks for mentioning that! I’m shocked that they already knew there was toxic stuff up there but didn’t care and built anyway. Well, maybe not that shocked, but it’s pretty disgraceful.
@craigjensen68532 жыл бұрын
@@ilanarhian Fairlane Green in Allen Park, Michigan was the same concept; a power center built on a dump around the same time but it was actually done properly and is thriving. So this sort of reuse is possible if the developers know what they are doing.
@matthoye49742 жыл бұрын
@@ilanarhian found it! here is the documentary made by someone who grew up in the area. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIiaoHSmgZp0fM0
@StubbyPhillips2 жыл бұрын
Subway - home of the nearly meatless sub. We'd slice it even thinner if we could!
@craigjensen68532 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but at least you get all 11" of it.
@StubbyPhillips2 жыл бұрын
@@craigjensen6853 Ohh... myy....
@traceurGeorge2 жыл бұрын
I’m assuming the laziness of the designers, owners and construction, taking an old used brown field site, building over it quickly to cash in on commercial contracts, leading to a major design floor with the foundations sinking. Reminds me of the story of the foolish builder who builds his home on sand.
@craigjensen68532 жыл бұрын
There was a nearly identical (but now much bigger) center built at the same time atop a dump near Detroit (Fairlane Green in Allen Park, MI) but it was built properly and is thriving. A 2-foot structural concrete cap was poured over the whole site and a methane extraction and alarm system was installed from the start.
@traceurGeorge2 жыл бұрын
@@craigjensen6853 one built for longevity vs one built either on a budget or a quick financial return, sad really
@CriscoSnowflake2 жыл бұрын
@@craigjensen6853 I still remember when the Veterans Hospital was there.
@CantThinkOfAHandleSoItsThis2 жыл бұрын
As someone obsessed with urban exploration, I had seen videos on this place before but getting an update from Dan Bell of all people was a nice treat. Thanks for the awesome video, Dan! 😁👍
@Bandit19782 жыл бұрын
So happy to see a Dan Bell video tonight. Best black friday deal so far.
@Modern_Nostalgia2 жыл бұрын
Glad to see the gardening department still doing well lol 😆
@michaelb82452 жыл бұрын
Take a HI-Ball glass. Fill it with Ice. Add 1/2 Tab Diet Soda and 1/2 Johnny Walker Black. You have now made a Dan Bell.
@SteveWKk2 жыл бұрын
That was the best intro to anything I’ve ever seen…..lolol
@skewerthis12342 жыл бұрын
They do have safes in woodforest they must have removed it entirely. Or scavengers stole an empty one. Seeing an empty one like that was wild, I work there currently.
@David_McCaig Жыл бұрын
It totally wouldn't be opposed to seeing entire videos of the hilarious vintage video edits. Love 'em-the wackier the better and please don't stop making these gems.
@ThisisDanBell Жыл бұрын
your wish is my command! kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6fdn41sZbBjmpo
@David_McCaig Жыл бұрын
@@ThisisDanBell Thanks Dan. Much appreciated!
@bryanhumphreys9402 жыл бұрын
The mains hum you heard could just be the transformer connected to grid power. Even if the main breaker was off, it would still be powered from the power grid side. Since there is no power draw, the transformer draws no power except a little loss to heat and the vibration you heard.
@bryanhumphreys9402 жыл бұрын
@@techguy3236 oh very much agreed. There might be some system still on like sprinklers etc. But it's still a hazard.
@hapticmusing2 жыл бұрын
Exit lights still had power
@electroshed2 жыл бұрын
Even the pad mounted transformer was probably still live, which had also sunk with the ground, wonder what strain lies on the underground cables supplying it?
@abpsd732 жыл бұрын
Sometimes a main breaker can buzz/hum even when powered off and connected to the line due to internal circuitry. As an electrician, I find it scary as fuck that parts of that switchgear is still potentially energized with covers off.
@Aquatarkus962 жыл бұрын
@@hapticmusing I didnt think those were electrical
@bettygrable21232 жыл бұрын
This is even creepier then Wal-Mart.
@afterthestorm2212 жыл бұрын
Glad to see the change in offices has seemed to allow the focus, motivation, and creative energy to begin to flowing again! 💚
@algomaone1212 жыл бұрын
The zoom-in on the lady’s forehead mole was PERFECT.
@MrTylerStricker2 жыл бұрын
The opening is just another piece of absolute perfection! Dan has really been on a roll as of late!
@MrTylerStricker2 жыл бұрын
@Necramonium sign me up for a one-way trip, please
@djentyman40022 жыл бұрын
I suggest coming to Battle Creek, Michigan to check out the Lakeview mall. It definitely falls into the category of “Dead Mall”. It’s still open currently but I don’t know how much longer it’ll have
@doz3r9432 жыл бұрын
Lol I live about 15 mins away from there
@djentyman40022 жыл бұрын
@@doz3r943 I’m about 25 mins away lol so sad to see the mall in the condition it is. I doubt it’ll make it 5 more years
@rdaws732 жыл бұрын
Thats the mall I went to growing up. Visted this summer, still shocked on how empty it is.
@breepowell86322 жыл бұрын
BC and Adrian Michigan probably have some of the best living dead malls
@djentyman40022 жыл бұрын
@@breepowell8632 I’m betting in the near future, The Crossroads mall in Portage will be dead as well
@Tyler-dn8wn2 жыл бұрын
I remember when this happened. I worked for Walmart for 20 years and helped close down one Walmart after a new one was built down the street. When I did it there was not a trace left. This was hastily done. That signage should never have been left.
@MichaelDeMersLA2 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="245">4:05</a> the sound of the window sweeping across the prairie grass is very calming tbh
@bobblebardsley2 жыл бұрын
My local mini mall (just one indoor strip) here in the UK is far from dead, but two of the biggest units are currently empty. I walked through this week and there's a fake Christmas tree in the doorway of one of the units, but they haven't covered the doors or windows so behind it is just an empty unit, very strong Dead Mall vibes 😅
@PianoHead262 жыл бұрын
I remember years ago, late at night, the infomercials would come on like these. The psychic friends and Miss Cleo, "I see in your future...a really HIGH phone bill." :D The Mall in Miami I have been to years ago in 2003 with my ex. Was a visit to see their family there, the mall seemed to have issues even back then.
@creepy-dolls2 жыл бұрын
There's something sort of sadly beautiful about the overgrown garden center among all that mess. This was an awesome video.
@starrbrannon38832 жыл бұрын
Dan says; "For all the young people out there, this is a telephone. Old school telephone". ☎️ 📞 LOL
@LouiseStastny2 жыл бұрын
LOL!!! ☻ This intro is FABULOUS!!! I remember they were going to make closed Walmarts into urban prisons. Not that one tho...
@BuffyLynn2 жыл бұрын
Dan, you have a fabulous “Announcer voice”, you should auction off a voicemail message or 100 on eBay. I’d bid!🙋🏼♀️🥰🤣😟
@Life_of_Gavin2 жыл бұрын
Dan could definitely do some good asmr
@starcrash17502 жыл бұрын
Maybe could challenge RCR 😂😅
@lynnpayne95192 жыл бұрын
What about Cameo ?
@SidewaysN2 жыл бұрын
@@Life_of_Gavin his quite time things basically were asmr, idk why he stopped with em
@pleasenohandle2 жыл бұрын
LOL Shrink is a loss prevention term. It's the amount of inventory loss or something. One of those terms/slogans that retail companies love to beat into the heads of their floor level staff. The different carts are probably from other stores nearby going OOB and Kmart taking their stuff. My local Kmart had ToysRUs carts before they closed.
@craigjensen68532 жыл бұрын
Yeah, my local Kmart had Big Lots (and even some "Odd Lots" buggies)... and then it closed and became a Big Lots! And the Big Lots had a few old Kmart buggies!
@Ozzy_20142 жыл бұрын
Super K in Flint Atherton & Dort closed Jan 2021.
@GhostlyPremonitions852 жыл бұрын
You should do the “Sequoia Mall” here in Visalia, Ca… place is dead with thee exception a few stores and a theater towards the back… it’s creepy as hell even during the day… #DanBell
@lisamartin37342 жыл бұрын
I lived near Visalia for about 30 years and that mall has been near death for a very long time.
@daoyang2232 жыл бұрын
@@lisamartin3734 I have a brother who lives close to there. The Hanford Mall is pretty dead too.
@ariesgonzalezag2 жыл бұрын
I think I’ve been there before when I small, huh. Small world
@GhostlyPremonitions852 жыл бұрын
@@daoyang223 yea the hanford malls sucks😂so does the Visalia mall 😣😂
@GhostlyPremonitions852 жыл бұрын
@@lisamartin3734 I wanna know the history of that mall lol it’s creepy tho… there was going to be an arcade shop going up a few years ago but it never went thru
@bewhitey2 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing the sunk walmart footage before...built atop a 1970's toxic landfill. It was on Jake's Bright Sun Films channel back in 2018. Dan reaching back into the archives and polishing up some old gems 💎 That place is pretty scary. People living in the Garfield Heights neighborhoods were getting sick from the buried toxic waste contaminating the ground water. Causing cancers of all kinds....brain tumors, lymphoma.
@piper3202 жыл бұрын
I would love to see an episode of Dan and Rick going into a Spencer’s Gifts circa 1990
@AimeeAimee4442 жыл бұрын
Yes! Spencer’s was the fun spot for us. Probably the best thing in shopping malls.
@Nirvana248262 жыл бұрын
I don't live that far from the K-Mart and I want to say it closed in late 2012. The last time I was in that particular K-Mart was with my dad back in 2007 and it wasn't open many years after that. It was an okay K-Mart, but it wasn't anything special. I did get a Scooby-Doo bed set for my 8th birthday from there is probably my most notable memory from that particular K-Mart.
@raultrashlord44042 жыл бұрын
it ain't ever time for Dan Bell to lay down
@tt2406 Жыл бұрын
I know this video is like a year old, but at the mall I used to work at, we had a lot of empty spaces. We had one that used to be a bank and hadn't been occupied by anything else for years. It had two safes in it, probably 3x4x6 or so, heaviest doors I've ever moved.
@drivethrupoet2 жыл бұрын
The fact that they haven't bothered to demo and there aren't warnings everywhere not to enter, tells me that they're looking for another sucker to buy the land. Also I agree that something is 'on' in there.
@onehandmatt2 жыл бұрын
All the land has already been purchased. Infact that Walmart has already been repaired and turned into offices and industrial spaces. Don't believe everything KZbin videos tell you about the land itself. Not that I'd just believe the EPA either. But as someone who lives quite close to all of this I've been around for the rise lol and fall of city view.
@TheMusicBeautyLife2 жыл бұрын
163rd St Mall was the mall used to go to as a child/teen. From the 80's to the 90's. I have so many great memories from this mall. :)
@xxjaykayxx2 жыл бұрын
Another great Dead Mall video!!! Love your vids so much,,, Upon seeing miscellaneous items in abandoned buildings (like those drawers of tape and coupons in the old Kmart or the old Walmart signs), I always think to myself "when was the last time someone set it down and never picked it back up?"
@princeofcupspoc90732 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="375">6:15</a> "Walmart. Will they all look like this?" If we can only be that lucky.
@Sentraman42 жыл бұрын
god the intros are just so good, Dan is a funny dude
@23names Жыл бұрын
FROM WHAT I REMEMBER ABOUT THIS PLACE I SAW ON ANOTHER EXPLORERS CHANNEL, THAT THE ENTIRE PLAZA WAS BUILD ON A LANDFILL AND WASTE SITE, I WAS NOT JUST SINKING, BUT THE CHEMICALS COMING FROM THE GROUND MADE PEOPLE VERY ILL, AND AFTER INVESTIGATION THEY DECIDED TO CLOSE UP THE PLAZA, AND ITS BEEN VACANT AND NO DISCUSSION ON WHAT TO DO WITH THE PROPERTY
@SoonerHistory2 жыл бұрын
The abandoned Kmart with so many carts from different stores...crazy. I've never seen a Lens Crafters with that designer. I had glasses by 5th or 6th grade but had lasik when the blade-less laser vision correction was stable and really reliable in my research. I was worried but it was so easy.
@jackstraw2622 жыл бұрын
When the Kmart closed they hired a company to run the going out of business sale. In that scene of vulture retail, the stuff from one sale is brought to the next. Loving the flint, come back to Michigan we got LOTS of great malls wilting away, the Lansing mall is prime
@brittany23692 жыл бұрын
Battle Creek is too.
@JeffEikenberry2 жыл бұрын
@@brittany2369 Hahaa, I was just in Battle Creek two days ago! Are there any older malls over there worth checking out?
@xTheCommodore2 жыл бұрын
Fashion Square in Saginaw is pretty sad too. Fairlane (Dearborn), Oakland (Troy) and Southland (Taylor) are clinging on but their days may be numbered. Southland has the most outdated, sad Macy's I think I've ever seen. If one of the anchors closes, I think it will probably kill the mall. I've always loved the architecture in Fairlane, I bet Dan would enjoy it too.
@craigjensen68532 жыл бұрын
@@xTheCommodore Oh yeah, Dan would LOVE Fairlane Town Center. He could do a double feature on the abandoned Hyatt Regency there too, maybe mention the monorail. And maybe a triple feature with Fairlane Green down the street which is like CityView but built properly. The Westwood Mall in Jackson isn't well known but it's a delightful all original little 1972 mall with an incredible aesthetic. You don't really see those malls in Michigan anymore.
@crixxxxxxxxx2 жыл бұрын
I’ll take an abandoned Walmart over an opened Walmart any day. Far less horrific.
@laurastrobel7182 жыл бұрын
Lol
@finkamain16212 жыл бұрын
The Walmartians have gone back to their planet
@curbozerboomer17732 жыл бұрын
True! I mean, how many fat, ugly people can you look at, without barfing?
@Harley-and-Her-Ruff-Riders2 жыл бұрын
Saw an abandoned Walmart too. When ours turned from a non-grocery to the big ones, they couldn't build onto the strip mall to expand it, so they abandoned and built a new one down the road. It was weird as hell.
@effmerunning2 жыл бұрын
These intros are absolutely psychotic and brilliant Dan.
@AimeeAimee4442 жыл бұрын
It has a David Lynch vibe. Touching on a world that lives in this reality which is false. Dreams/concepts of happiness are an illusion.
@taylorp5352 жыл бұрын
I would love to know who thought “Hey, you know what would be amazing, a shopping center on top of a landfill!!! People will love this!” I’m sorry but as someone who has studied landfills for environmental courses, I can tell you a landfill is the WORST PLACE to build something of this caliber, especially if it’s NOT BUILT CORRECTLY…….. good lord 🤦🏼♀️
@ladylandr2 жыл бұрын
Hi Dan Bell, I used to go to the 163rd Street Mall and my Dad worked there for 18 years. I noticed that the upper part where you were filming used to be a Suncoast movie store that encountered a troubling history which led to the upper level being closed for 28 years. The part where you filmed the artificial plants used to be a high end restaurant. I will like to meet you at the mall again and give you some history.
@bethgray18152 жыл бұрын
I live right by City View. Was just there a few days ago because the grocery store is still open. Looks like the resurfaced the parking lot and re-faced the storefronts. It smelled really bad in the summer. And you can see along the buildings how high the parking lot used to be compared to where it is now.
@devon_darko2 жыл бұрын
Girlfriend, it's time you lay down. Great footage. Wal-Mart was so unusual to see...
@TheFruitMugger2 жыл бұрын
That Walmart would be such a cool place to turn into a DIY skate spot. So much open space that could easily have ramps, boxes, etc. built from Quikrete.
@Shawnstradamus2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: they shot fireworks over ‘methane mountain’ one year in Garfield hts.
@HelloNewMoon2 жыл бұрын
Im dead with that intro😂😂😂😂 i had to double back to make sure it was him! Maybe PFN hire him back without his shot 😂
@NonceKillaz2 жыл бұрын
Reckon Dan eats diatomaceous earth for breakfast
@flodnak2 жыл бұрын
The tree growing in the abandoned garden center looks like a tree of heaven - the one that inspired the title of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". It says in the book that the tree likes poor people. And so it does. And it likes abandoned parking lots and forgotten big box garden centers, too. It likes anywhere where no other tree tries to grow. Yeah, I know it's considered an invasive species, but you still gotta be impressed by its ability to thrive in completely insane places.
@paperpand132 жыл бұрын
I just love this series so much. Dan you’re so good at editing, audio mixing and capturing the ambiance and moods of these places PERFECTLY. Every time you upload I’m so excited.
@agentofashcroft2 жыл бұрын
*bangs silverware on table* "Give us Another Dirty Room!"
@Pettington2 жыл бұрын
That was fuckin Dionne Warwick - AGAIN, hahahaha... You love that woman :D
@jamesevanmangan2 жыл бұрын
These videos bring back long forgotten blueprint memories that take me back in the day when I'd mallcrawl out like a rat with my friends & family. Early memories of safely meeting up with new people, and some really crazy jobs with managers who slept in the mall in a hidden room over night to save on money as they were there only seasonally from Canada, when they packed up I opened their makeshift hidden doorway and their room was full of open, some half consumed, tuna cans & pickle jars. Lol Used to smoke a bowl pack in the store every day in the backroom "personal employee bathroom" lol, after my Manger Deidem finished smoking her 2 hourly cigarettes haha wow Christmas @ the westfarms mall wow lol, this video just lit up a lost memory like a neon Cobalt blue light. Love the videos as well the slow decay and seemingly inevitable anchorage of "the mall" as it had once been known & lived in with my & all those whoever daydreamed of the future ahead while walking malls of the past. If only to dream of what could be in the unknown future ahead for us all. Thank you Dan Bell 💙🛎️💙
@fahsky2 жыл бұрын
Finally, some good fucking KZbin! Love your work Dan, I'd watch hours of dead malls with you narrating, and hours of your re-interpreted 90's intros. Also, bless Jake's sweet heart
@capitalj19872 жыл бұрын
I love that Nord VPN has literally stuck with you through thick and thin one hell of a company Speaks volumes to their character as a company they actually care which is a good thing because they’re looking after us in the end
@peppermintgekko56732 жыл бұрын
I swear your voice is the most relaxing calming sound. It’s like anxiety medicine. Thanks for the great content & peaceful journeys.
@peteranderson0372 жыл бұрын
It makes sense that the lowest effort graffiti would be found in an abandoned Walmart.
@delikonthree2 жыл бұрын
I used to go to 163rd Street Mall regularly in the 80s when I was a teenager. That used to be THE place to go at that time for the people mainly in the northern part of Dade County. The last time I was in there was 13 years ago and even then I could see it was dying and that it was a shadow of its former self. Thank you for the current video of the place. It kind of hurts seeing it like this but oh well nothing lasts forever.
@alexandersuarez90142 жыл бұрын
That mall is so sad now! They lost Marshalls months ago and I have a feeling their Ross is on it's way out...
@delikonthree2 жыл бұрын
@@alexandersuarez9014 I remember as far back as the 70s when it didn't have the white canvass roof. It used to be an open air mall and it had a train in the front of the mall. It's just a matter of time before it is demolished or converted to another use. There should be pictures on the internet of the history of the mall. I'm going to see myself in a little while.
@alexandersuarez90142 жыл бұрын
@@delikonthree yeah, it used to anchor a JC Penney, Burdines and Jordan Marsh
@monaelias21542 жыл бұрын
Cool :) Kmart is still thriving in Australia.
@mjc82482 жыл бұрын
It was definitely in better shape when ace was there 3yrs ago, I think Jake was there around then also. I drove by there every once in a while and I'm amazed it's still there.
@fluttershyamy2 жыл бұрын
That's one totally dead mall so abandoned and creepy 😯
@LadyPisces962 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1303">21:43</a> I remember my grandmother used to have a phone like that back when I was a kid. It was still working for quite a while, and when they bought another one, I'd play with it ☺
@TonyGearSolid2 жыл бұрын
Right around the time that abandoned one was likely shut down was when they started transitioning smaller Walmarts into Super Centers, I was pretty much able to pinpoint the old layout of where every department was in that empty void of a building. Seeing a Walmart looking like that was rather cathartic, I worked for the company for what felt like a lifetime and I wouldn't mind watching them get knocked down a few pegs.
@craigjensen68532 жыл бұрын
I worked on the site layouts of several Walmarts back then and from 2000-on most (if not all) stores that weren't built as Supercenters were at least designed to eventually be expanded into one. Most of them were, a few were relocated, others closed, and a few never became full-fledged Supercenters for whatever reason. One surviving example is the Walmart on Lake Lansing Road in Lansing, MI.
@TonyGearSolid2 жыл бұрын
@@craigjensen6853 I worked at the one in Hallande Beach, FL and they couldn't add onto the building for whatever reason, so they knocked some walls down, reduced the size of a few departments and moved a few of the back room areas around to make everything fit. What's worse was they did all of this while keeping the store open 24hrs, so that was a fun experience that totally wasn't a nightmare to deal with.
@ericad8616 Жыл бұрын
It's kind of sad that most of the video of the 163st mall was lost, though grateful Dan managed to save some of the footage. I think most viewers have certain malls that hold special memories for them and a big one for me is the 163rd street mall, which I grew up just a few miles from. Back when I was a little kid, it was an uncovered shopping plaza that had a big movie theatre and a kiddie amusement center. I have wonderful childhood memories of seeing movies there with my parents and celebrating friends' birthday parties at the kiddie park. Right before I started high-school, the shopping plaza was covered with that tarp-like roof and it became an official "mall". My high-school was right across the street from the mall, and I spent many lunch periods and(skipped classes if I'm being honest) hanging out at the arcade, bookstore, record shops, food court and the other shops and stores that were around back when the mall was still thriving.
@LeofromFreo2 жыл бұрын
I have no idea why Dionne Warwick ever did those hosting gigs. Really downmarket.
@kneecool2 жыл бұрын
there was an old kmart in my home town that had been abandoned for awhile, the town bought it and made it into a high school.
@retailexplorationwithdanny80702 жыл бұрын
Only 6 kmarts remain they have a stupid chairman that steals money
@Warrior_Spirit_Experience-Jen2 жыл бұрын
We have the last open K-Mart in the western US here in Northern California, but it'll be closing soon and we get a Target 🎯 instead. It's been dying a slow, agonizing death for the last few years anyway. Time to put it out of its misery!!
@retailexplorationwithdanny80702 жыл бұрын
@@Warrior_Spirit_Experience-Jen they wouldn’t be closing if they didn’t have a stupid chairman
@Warrior_Spirit_Experience-Jen2 жыл бұрын
@@retailexplorationwithdanny8070 I agree with you!! It's a shame too. It was a decent store for our community with reasonable prices for everyone. Corporate greed and or mismanagement is rife in the country!
@retailexplorationwithdanny80702 жыл бұрын
@@Warrior_Spirit_Experience-Jen I miss my store in Gulfport Mississippi
@theBagelbros122 жыл бұрын
Can I just say that Dan Bell is one of the most underrated channels on YT, I was amazed to find such fascinating content that I didn't even know existed until a year back or so, especially Another Dirty Room. Keep up the fire vids!