DEAD MALL SERIES REMASTERED : Middletown Mall w/Tour of Abandoned Save A Lot

[@denisewilson9599]

Love The Dead Mall series. Seeing you and Will together also was fun.Thank you Dan.

[@lisamartin3734]

I feel bad for sad and dry plants too. I actually watered a plant that was in a doctor's office one time.

[@charlestonpinballarcade]

Another great example of the earlier music Dan used in the mall videos. Love these jams!!!

[@ERA_Productions]

I’ve always been interested in this mall ever since I’ve seen your original video. It’s a cool little unique mall

[@delocon]

I'm glad you've returned to this series. It was always my favorite.

[@sixx_xlr]

i turned 22 on the day you uploaded this video (originally). Ive been watching you since 2014 :)

[@OhBudel1965]

Thanks for the tour, Dan. Hey, It's Will! That's a nice holiday gift, seeing the boys back at it for a video. Cheers, fellas. That's just great.

[@eily_b]

This is an old video

[@OhBudel1965]

@@eily_b yup, I realized that the other day. Still, it's nice to see the boys together. Cheers, Eily

[@seagoddess420]

Fantastic video, I always enjoy how you go into the history of the malls and pick out small details most people would never care to mention. This takes me back to my first job ever which was at a Save A Lot, I enjoyed it.

[@Brancovtn65]

I love stumbling upon some random collectible card shop in a seemingly deserted place. There is such an enigmatic aura about it that makes you think you'll find something very exciting and rare there.

[@drewk1514]

At one time Middletown Mall had FOUR anchor tenants--Sears (which later became Hill's), Stone & Thomas (a better department store based in Wheeling WV), Gee Bee (a large discount store from Johnstown PA) and hess's (a better department store based In Allentown PA)--as well as a nice assortment of smaller stores. Sadly all the anchor stores are all out of business today.

[@nealwhaley63]

Whatever happened to Mastercuts? One day they were there, the next they had all disappeared.

[@bradklingensmith]

Terrazzo tile floors. Being a kid of the 70s I got to live during the Mall heyday and eventual demise and hopeful comeback.

[@PianoHead26]

This was cool, very old style mall, the hints of 1970's still left behind in it were cool to see. Also Hi Will! I remember will from a while back :)

[@johnpatterson4272]

Without rent paying tenants, there is some company or some gov't agency that is providing funding to keep this mall open. Perhaps the local municipality was already covering the rent and utilities in anticipation of turning-over the property to a 'town centre'. The 'marbled type' floor you are referring to is/was known as Terrazzo. Originally, it was made of actual marble chips mixed with refined concrete then polished smooth. All encased in a metal grid of linear squares. The metal used for this purpose 90 years ago was brass, then later it was stainless steel. Once polished, the Terrazzo was sealed with a resin that was also polished. Even if it wears in-spots, it can be re-ground to make the high-traffic areas more level. Most public schools, jails, gov't offices, legislative buildings, court houses etc. constructed in the late 19th century and right up to the 1960s had this flooring. It's a lost artform and prohibitively expensive now in the 21st century. It's now pre-fab machine made of composite materials, no more marble chips, brass or stainless steel.

[@kathryncurtis9320]

I feel like mall plants should be rescued and adopted by plant lovers who will take care of them.

[@michaelcap9550]

sounds like a new 501c3

[@TitanOf_Earth]

My favorite game to play is "Try to guess which opening Dan is going to put the viewfinder through on the rolling cage doors" lmfao

[@druelia9485]

Dang. I'm from Fairmont but I haven't been there since 2011, and it's funny to see the most random stores that are hanging on... That high roller lounge, subway, Regis, and d&s collectables have been there since at least 2008! How the heck have they specifically survived, I wonder?

[@charlestonpinballarcade]

Nice hand painted Fox’s Pizza Den logo sign on the outside. I guess there was one in the mall at some time…

[@Lilo-A]

There are so many of these in the south that are still open for one reason or another. I love to picture them full of shoppers back in the day on a Saturday afternoon. Then they progressed to a gathering place for older folks where they would eat then walk for exercise. Now there just sad relic of another time. Interesting concept.

[@dianaadhikari45]

When Sav-A-Lot can't make it, nothing can.

[@HamburgerAmy]

i wish you could do heritage park mall in Midwest City Oklahoma. someone once drove into and through it to rob a jewerly store.

[@AC_WILDCARD]

That or old Crossroads sans Plaza Mayor. Up until a few years ago our Oklahoma Model Railroad club occupied the old Borders space. Man that mall had fallen so so far down hill since I was a kid...

[@HamburgerAmy]

@@AC_WILDCARD awe! I remember seeing the railroad club moving out of the mall.

[@AC_WILDCARD]

@@HamburgerAmy Yep we moved out, it was quite the process! We are now set up in a building of our own right next to the train tracks across from Broadway I235 near the capitol. 4300 N Sewell Ave. We also have a live 24/7 webcam set up that watches the tracks and the highway north and south.

[@HamburgerAmy]

@@AC_WILDCARD id ♥ to visit sometime ^~^

[@logann7942]

When you do the old-timey filter, it just looks like the mall is full of flies. Still appropriate.

[@Decade8Media]

Hard to believe, but West Edmonton Mall has some areas that retain that identical vintage floor.

[@Zahnclassof95]

In the town I live in the old mall was turned into offices an a restaurant . except when i went in it .I can smell mold an mildew an leaking ceiling s .plus the malls Dan shows us seems to have the same problem leaking ceiling s ..even if the malls are just barely hanging on

[@blackbeansmatter1280]

Love your content! The one you did of the old hotel you now live was awesome. Will you ever do Another Dirty Room with the guys? Merry Christmas 🎅

[@owejay7981]

5:51 We need to bring back the checkered floor tile aesthetic. It looks so wholesome and welcoming, even in a dead mall.

[@NewsLynne]

I bet that Save-a-Lot made you glad you went a lot!

[@scrappychildhood6633]

Not trespassing if door unlocked lovely loophole.

[@daphne5377]

quite possibly the malliest music of all malls lol

[@agentslimepunk]

Damn, I just remembered how much I miss Will.

[@hangtimedangjang]

That flooring is terrazzo 👍

[@joemarshlljmp]

There are murals painted all he way down, here's some plants, just look at the plants.

[@michaelcap9550]

Notice that the dead malls were built (mostly) in the 70's.

[@charlestonpinballarcade]

Fox’s Pizza Den logo!!! 🍕 🦊

[@matthewfarmer6830]

In the abandoned save a lot there's mold on the lower back wall we're the meat would be. If there's a Will there's a way lol

[@mikefuller5115]

It may say do not water the plant because it's not real

[@Idelia412]

Dan you must be the only one of several people in the mall. The mall has to be loosing money. A tax right off for the owner.

[@Iukaz]

Use the swiss cheese method!

[@genekelly8467]

This mall looks like it was super cheaply built-looks like it was designed to last 30-35 years. Just concrete block walls and poured concrete floors. The owners depreciated it out years ago, and on the boooks at zero value. Open air malls are the hot thing now-too difficult for thougs to operate in them.

[@MssEllefry]

Watching the end of this video (and many other videos you have made) I am struck by the thought that Ahmaud Arbery was killed for doing the same thing; And cant help but wonder if any of the losers that defend his murderers because "he was trespassing" watch your content or content like yours and enjoy it. prolly not.

[@Heimfelder78]

The real backrooms …

[@suzjon]

A bit moldy