DEAD MALL SERIES : Tour of the SUNRISE MALL from THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN (1985)

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[@bnferguson9827]

Hey Dan I find myself coming here quite often at least a couple times a year this particular mall holds a huge value of memories for me. My mom and dad always took me here pretty much every weekend and they have both passed on since. Thank you for this and thank you forever preserving my past I can go here everyday now and it is all because of you. I will always be a forever fan ,you really ought to know the value of what you do for so many people I should be a clear indication of that and with that being said Mr. Dan Bell thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@aagc1988]

hello moron. i might warn you, this mall is thrashed to hell, with water pipes bursting daily and gangs setting fires daily. if this lasts untill 2024 is a miracle. another person did a tour and everything is thrashed. the in between fountain of the electrical stairs from the video is thrased, written obsenities and water and plants missing. with some bullets holes as well. your negative energies thrashed the place as all the malls you visited. you took them from coma to death. congratulations.

[@bnferguson9827]

Just to let you know they have started the demolition as of 9/9/24 unfortunately. They say they are putting a highrise apartments and a hotel there. Thanks for putting this beautiful mall back on the map it really meant a lot. Take care Dan Bell👍

[@lovemybentos]

I would love to see a mall be preserved for the era and be turned into a sort of museum with products widely used in the era.

[@ThisisDanBell]

+lovemybentos ME TOO.

[@advantageous111]

This is Dan Bell. hey I noticed you went to corpus Christi here which I thought was far for you. if your willing to continue this series, the Alton square mall in Alton Illinois is a great dead mall. it's hanging on to life, one anchor store I think, and it's starting to dissolve in the elements. only one food stand is left, some sort of really cheap Asian place, it's worth a Google at least. central Illinois and the st Louis area are full of dead malls

[@Dylan-M]

This is Dan Bell. Absolutely feel the same, in your TED talk you spoke jokingly about restoring a mall built in the 80s - 90s and keeping the original designs and adding newer restaurants, it's not such a bad idea! Hipsters and millennials would flock for sure. Love your videos and the music as well you're helping to get vaporwave out there and I appreciate and applaud your efforts to make these videos. Keep it up!

[@anthonyking3332]

That is one of the best and most constructive comments I've seen.

[@mrkipling2201]

lovemybentos that's a bloody good idea

[@translucentorb]

"Escalators can never break down, they can only become stairs" - Mitch Hedberg.

[@davidhutchinson7888]

I used to like Dan Bell. Still do but I used to, too

[@onetwo6039]

Good point. 😂 🤣

[@sheralynsilva2850]

Omg that man was a legend 😂

[@mayjarsh6489]

As a citizen of Corpus Christi I have to say that driving by this mall is one of the most depressing parts of my day

[@vapordreams983]

I'm from Corpus as well. Spent some of my childhood venturing around Sunrise mall.

[@cfaz6763]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@bnferguson9827]

If I still lived there it would be for me as well,so many great memories there. The last time I lived there was way back in '98 that mall holds a special place in my heart it was a family place where my mom and dad would always take me they have passed since and it feels so long ago. The dollar cinema,object d art,the hologram store,card fanatic,richies,kaybee toystore,and aladdin's castle. It breaks my heart knowing the inevitable 💔

[@cartoonlizardtheanimator6701]

Can definitely relate

[@888ssss]

anxiety is usually triggered by low oxygen in your blood. try deep breaths and then holding for 20 second periods. to re balance your blood levels.

[@snowandice8804]

I have a severe anxiety problem and your mall videos help me calm down and relax. I cannot thank you enough for them.

[@TCFan30]

Watch the children's asylum...that will help too!

[@Tocaluna42]

Me too, love Dans videos, i watch them before i go to sleep.

[@cindyg183]

Yes!! They're very calming to watch, takes our minds off of whatever is stressing us out

[@Audioobscure]

same i watch before bed. its soothing.

[@jiexinyue3143]

Me too! I open his video and keep it playing in the background while I study

[@joel49er]

Dan Bell, thought maybe you’d like to know that on January 15 they are gonna hold an event at the Sunrise Mall called “Walk Around Sunrise Mall Like It’s The 80s”. There’s about 4,000 people interested in going. What it is , they want everyone attending to dress up 80s style cloths and fill the mall like the scene from The Legend of Billie Jean and walk around the mall. They’re also going to show The Legend Of Billie Jean. Let’s see how January 15 the Sunrise Mall can go back to the 80s for a few hours.

[@ThisisDanBell]

I will be there in spirit. I really wish I could go.

[@zephyr6943]

how’d it go?

[@peytonweb]

Yeah, how did it go Joel???

[@layluh4932]

How’d it go

[@michellegeorge9318]

Joel Contreras we need answers 😀

[@Larry]

Man '80s malls sure loved their earth-tones didn't they? It's like a late '00s First Person Shooter :D Terracotta tiles, hold railings and wood planks to sit on.

[@crazitaco]

I think I prefer the earthy look :( Its warm and pleasant looking without looking so bright and artificial. (besides the neon signs, of course). This mall has a lot of water fountains and natural lighting from the ceilings, which helps the live plants. Even when I was little, I appreciated the colorful tile variety. Not a fan of modern art/architecture. Everythings all bland and white. Bleh. La Palmera is modern.

[@Larry]

crazitaco Yeah,it's all just minimalist white and glass now.

[@retrozaid1600]

Larry Bundy Jr there's a good arcade there with game like marvel vs Capcom 1 and soul calibur 2 and more

[@benjazaid4624]

Larry Bundy Jr the arcade there is very good and has some pretty cool games and you can get prizes there too

[@MasaomiKida251]

Larry you are everywhere lol. xD

[@robertrainey1728]

Can someone tell me why dead malls are so entertaining to watch?

[@RobTheVlog]

Because you can see the past.

[@CineRage]

The deterioration of familiarity.

[@thefrozengargon338]

Damn! Talk about 2 poetic replies !

[@threexladi]

Robert Rainey Shows how we never anticipated changes the future would bring. i.e., amazon, WAL-MART. Oh, and w cost of living + no jobs, WHO HAS MONEY NOW?

[@jonathantan2469]

Because a long time ago, these places were teeming with people & open shops. Bonus points if its a mall you used to hang out in during your childhood...

[@WinterSteele]

Mmm, that pepperoni pretzel looks so good.

[@nealg6810]

I concur. : )

[@PixelatedH2O]

Likely would knock five years off my life, but it would be worth it

[@pswitch9553]

Yup!

[@WinterSteele]

Don Avan Lol, thanks

[@wsiklogfh]

hear hear

[@Sheepdog2001]

Had a girlfriend who worked in a jewelry store on the first floor next the Florshiem store. Leaned on the glass wall at the top of the escalator several times trying to gather courage to go say hello to her.

[@hb.ktw.5510]

MyOtherName the feels is strong with this one

[@makeeverythingsparkle1611]

What jewelry store did she work at?

[@drinklords8453]

Hope you got the digits..

[@2ndtimearound797]

Did she ask about me!??

[@tinotse2007]

Did she say anything back to you? Please say she became your Girlfriend in the End?

[@UrbanSwagger]

FYI, Helen Slater was in town for the 2018 Corpus Christi Comic Con and stopped by good ol' Sunrise Mall. Per the Caller Times, she said, "First of all, I'm very sad that there's not more shops that are thriving (at Sunrise Mall). But for me, it's really wild to see the double escalators, the beautiful atrium and just how much it hasn't really changed."

[@jacksonmiller3242]

I'm only a teen but it would have been so cool to live back in the 80's! We need time travel

[@pinkelefant4ever]

Back to the Future :)

[@Rollingforwards]

life was simpler then.

[@thatsriiight5047]

Change your profile picture please

[@Rollingforwards]

+Shaniqua Leshawna Jackson who?

[@thatsriiight5047]

james edwards jackson miller

[@ThisisDanBell]

Join me on my second channel - www.KZbin.com/DanBellFilmIt. FAIR IS FAIR!

[@jaylacko7852]

Hey, please do Century 3 mall in Pittsburgh

[@ThisisDanBell]

I did. Go to the playlist.

[@jaylacko7852]

+This is Dan Bell. Oh wow! thanks for coming to my hometown!

[@angiewestall1645]

yeah!!!

[@daneen2fabulous]

Scenes from a Mall with Bette Midler and Woody Allen was filmed at the Stamford Town Center in Stamford CT. It's not a dead mall but it might be fun to recreate the shots like you do with this one :) Recreating mall movie shots might be a great idea for another Dan Bell Series!

[@israelmejia697]

The fella from the arcade at the end of the video has owned and operated the joint since 1986 he told me he's supported his family with the business for many years. The real time machine is inside that arcade he has left it untouched since 86 and he even has all the neon light and signs and original machines since he opened. -Dan Bell I thank you for this video, huge fan of your work sir.

[@alvarez3617]

Israel Mejia the arcade has now closed.

[@redzeppelin6]

:(

[@kurenable]

i love these 1970s malls best... all the earth tones and zigzag planters... #aesthetic goals

[@isahughes8359]

As a Corpus Christian, I'm so glad for this exposure but so heartbroken at the state of this once gorgeous mall tbh. It's still a hangout spot for a lot of people. It'll be a huge deal when it's done away with.

[@buckaroobonsaibuddy7]

The mall should embrace it's forgotten notoriety from the film and hold a Billie Jean festival- have a screening at the theatre, reenact scenes from the movie. It could bring in some money to the mall since there is a lot of interest in 80's retro culture and the movie has a cult following. Also if it were possible to travel back in time to the 80's like how Christopher Reeve did in the movie Somewhere in Time this mall would be the perfect place to do it.

[@largol33t1]

Something tells me that would never work because millennial teens wouldn't recognize Helen Slater and they'd probably respond with "Billie who?" The funny thing is, I think their parents would show any interest in a movie festival like that.

[@drinklords8453]

Unfortunately the dollar cinema closed. As will the entire mall. Very soon. Tenants are being asked to close up shop. I'm sad..

[@seasonalmommy7173]

Omg that would be so cool!!!!!!

[@gotacallfromvishal]

ok sounds great. you can pay for and arrange this regards, sunrise mall ownership

[@back2the80s]

Todays generation do not care about the Legend of Billie Jean movie. That wont work. Movie is geared towards people who grew up in the 80's or before. This is not well a sought after movie. Someone born in 1999 probably never heard of it

[@paintedbird]

"We can't afford to be innocent stand up and face the enemy It's a do or die situation - we will be invincible" - Admit it, you heard Pat Benatar singing this at least once in your head while watching this video.

[@doobette5554]

Totally!

[@Kerousmac]

Ahhh, the simpler times of 80s ; ) I can still remember walking around the mall in the 80s with my Mom, passing women in their pastel skirts with oversized belts, smoking on their Capri or Virginia slims (yes, for all you born in the 90s, you could still smoke in the malls back then) and the men all sportin' their Burt Reynold's mustache's and cutoff jean shorts, or "preppy" guys with sculpted hair and Z Cavaricci pants rolled tightly at the bottom. Those were the days. Big hair, tacky clothes, and everything in excess, exaggerated, and "edgy".

[@largol33t1]

Hey, at least we had those Generra Hypercolor shirts and I actually liked stonewashed jeans. My Hypercolor tee was a grayish purple and it turned neon red when it got warm.

[@SwingAxleLover]

If you know what to look for, there were some great cars as well.

[@fukcensorship9395]

You were able to smoke in the malls in the 90s a lot of places still allowed smoking indoors even in the early 2000s

[@ceuti]

every time I watch the dead mall series I always want to rip off all the neon signs and keep them in my room lol

[@LaChigary]

I was thinking the same thing !

[@sandraruiz2212]

Me too!!

[@2ndtimearound797]

I was there today march 4th and thought the exact same thing alexandra... I saw a diamond mirror with neon behind it.

[@uphilliceskater]

Neon tubing shatters very easily.

[@wickywoo1635]

I personally want those marble tiles, of some jewlery shop.. Like how haven't these materials been salvaged? You'd think a dying mall would gank everything...developer would gank everything. wiring from the fixtures, the ovens the tiles, the coolers.... Sell those brass door handles of some clothing store to some suburbian development company. ehehehe.

[@MattsSaltwaterFishing]

UPDATE: In December of 2017 the only restaurant left "Orange Creations" closed due to the owner passing away suddenly. The following month, January 2018, Sunrise Mall did not renew the contract with Dollar Cinemas because supposedly Sunrise Mall has "plans" to renovate that section of the mall and demolish the parking garage that is linked to that wing of the mall to allow additional room for other stores. In May 2018 Tide Dental left Sunrise Mall and relocated to a shopping center across the street. On June 1, 2018 Chelsea's left Sunrise Mall because according to the owner, Sunrise Mall did not want to fix their air conditioner. So Chelsea's relocated a mile down the road. If Sunrise Mall has plans to renovate then they better start doing something now because it is not looking good. I remember going in the mid to late 90s and it was still packed in my opinion. My dad would always take me and my brother to watch a movie and eat there. Then we would go to Oshman's Sporting Goods (store on the right @5:43) and hangout at the court while he looked at the fishing stuff. We would also visit the arcade, that place was always busy! Great video, Dan, keep them coming!

[@vincentpriceless9606]

I lived in Corpus during my teen years (early to mid 80s) & spent plenty of weekends hanging out at Sunrise Mall (Padre Staples, too) with my friends. Many memories left in that building! Thank you, Dan, for this awesome time capsule!!!

[@vincentpriceless9606]

Just a little trivia from The Legend of Billie Jean, for those that don't know.. Some of the movie was filmed in Flour Bluff (just outside of Corpus), which is the actor Lou Diamond Phillip's hometown. Helen Slater, who played Billie Jean is the sister of actor Christian Slater.

[@vincentpriceless9606]

+bwkermadecs You're right. I remember that's what everyone was saying back then. I haven't fact checked it in all of these years.

[@jackkip]

Part of the movie was also filmed in Aransas Pass.

[@gracyjmartinez]

Vincent Priceless padre staples is now la palmera and its better more people and btw i lived in cc all my life

[@stevebenites76]

Vincent Priceless same except I was with my parents

[@MusicLoverCRS]

my friends and i went to sunrise the other day just to mess around, and my friend jumped into the huge fountain for fun (where the mallrats were seen in the film) because they had recently turned off all the fountains and took out all the plants inside. It's just so weird feeling a wave of nostalgia hit me, even though I wasn't even born until around 15 years after the movie was released.

[@Baldmaxx]

This is your best ones yet in the series Dan! I grew up in malls in the 80's, and I was geeking out hard with this. The colors, the hard angles, the tile floors and the almost time capsule like quality of this mall is just incredible. Thank you so much for this one. Like you, this mall and it's history make it one of my favorites. Very nice touch with locating exact spots in the movie and showing how they look today. I can't stop smiling! 😆🖒

[@RobTheVlog]

I try to go to this mall as much as i can :D memories!

[@Camquarters]

i too think this is the best one yet. the intro is perfect and the background music puts me in such a calm state aha

[@elizabethlopez3182]

is it illegal to go in?

[@JetDive]

Not at all! There are still a few businesses running inside. It's a nice serene place to go for some quiet time. And you can grab a pretzel too!

[@spikelee2887]

no its still open today! thats my hometown but if you wanna find cheap knock off suits thats the place to go lol

[@witchyflowerchild7201]

I went to visit the mall today, but I wasn’t allowed in. The workers were gutting the place. I made some great memories there, now it’s all gone

[@gabrielleelliott8169]

So the mall is closed now?

[@sanrihoe698]

@@gabrielleelliott8169ik this is a 3 year old comment, but they’re demolishing it now

[@laurentiis4965]

I signed up for the Marines in that mall in 2003. The recruiting offices were on the 2nd floor. We used to PT around the parking lot.

[@TheRadiohead77]

I'm so freakin blessed to have been part of the coolest, most colorful generations ever!!!! 80's RULES :)

[@nostalgic80sguy27]

You got that right!😃

[@loganknowsnoneofyourbusine263]

As you made that comment, you just made every kid more depressed about not living in the 80s, like me

[@chickenstrips7018]

+Logan L (Donthackmebro36) I get you, I wish the 80's look like a generation I could fit in with not this one. Im not into drama and basic trashy dumb kids.

[@chickenstrips7018]

+Logan L (Donthackmebro36) "I wish" part is a typo 😂

[@largol33t1]

TheRadiohead77, if I could live one decade all over again, I'd pick the 80s without any hesitation.

[@schillingism]

I think my addiction to the dead mall series spawns from years of working in a mall that is now torn down. Anyone else work in a dead mall?

[@pinkelefant4ever]

Hawthorne Mall (Plaza) in CA

[@schillingism]

West Gate Plaza, Rocky River, OH

[@archibaldvonfookface7364]

I used to work in a mall while I was in high school. Lots of good memories but both are dead now haha.

[@jimmyfaustjr7373]

yep Granite Run mall in media pa, formerly

[@MandieTerrier]

Yes, Laurel Mall in Maryland

[@adamthewoo]

Love it ! The movie spots are my favorite obviously . The fountain scenes are great

[@ThisisDanBell]

Thanks, Adam!

[@edgarsaenz1565]

So when are you guys teaming up

[@Daniel28021991]

Dan and Adam: Can you do some videos together please?!?!?!

[@nebraskajoenelson8987]

adam your funny as hell, but I wish u could tell half as good of a story to these places as mr. bell does

[@4050N]

adamthewoo x Dan Bell + V A P O R W A V E . . . "That's heavy" - Marty McFly

[@jordanarruda4108]

How are these malls able to keep running, even though they have such low revenue streams?

[@RoadsideCouch]

They added a lot of office space type clients like a church and Texas Workforce Solutions, AKA the unemployment office. It is how the few food places are staying in business. There are still a Sears there and some smaller stores. It is a place you go to so as to shop at those stores and less of a wander around and impulse shop.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Kate Spade in Orlando FL was like that. They had little stock room items or retail space yet stayed open. The products were marked up so the $$$ rent-overhead might be covered but the location closed around 2017-2016. Kate Spade commit suicide a few months ago. Sad. 😢

[@Audioobscure]

theyre not, theyre dying. they only close when their in deep debt or have no money. wont be long now.

[@djjeffro5081]

steve singel she dead thou!

[@ivysunshine2228]

This is the mall my family would go to when I was really young (4 or 5) and watching this video now feels so surreal and dreamlike

[@johngarza1068]

This mall used to be pretty busy when I was a kid. Played pokemon at a card shop that was inside and even remember eating several times on that ship food court. It's sad to see what it is today, but La Palmera has just taken all the mall business away and only Sears and Burlington are left (but I think sears will be gone within a few years). But hey! There is a music school where you can learn how to play an instrument. (The Store infront of you when you walked in)

[@RobTheVlog]

Was that card shop on the the first floor down stairs? i think i remember that. The mall has been updated since this video came out (fast right?) they added a comedy/bar to the mall, which seems nice! they moved the mini golf down stairs in a store, they also added a new store near the pretzel place, same area where the golf place is. seems like they're making the area near sears busy!

[@WoWdreamWoW]

I think he was referring to the Gamers Guild, which was across from the theater then moved to a bigger place. It was owned by a guy named John who married a very pretty young girl. On several occasions I recall her playing No Doubt on the radio. I think her name was Pam, but I could be wrong about that.

[@ihatesjw4879]

John Garza the small one upstair just before Montgomery wards?

[@brutalictesku]

One of the most beautiful malls i've ever seen! There could be filmed so many authentic 80's retro music videos and movies.

[@Oh-mu5ij]

It's in corpus christi

[@quietone2916]

the most beautiful mall you've ever seen??? really?? you must live a sheltered life holy shit

[@vapordreams983]

Texas in the 80s was awesome.

[@lauralot]

OMG!...I was born and raised in Corpus. I use to live near this mall when I was a teen and spent a lot of time there. We moved to NY State when I was 17 and Ive never been back. Im 48 now. I loved the glass elevator. I also loved the movie The legend of Billie Jean. I spent a lot of time on Padre Island. The Harbor bridge use to scare me to death..thank for doing this video.

[@BettyHeath]

The Harbor Bridge STILL scares me, and I'm 46. :)

[@lauralot]

I miss it.

[@RobTheVlog]

The Harbor Bridge will be gone soon...Making a new Bridge!

[@vincentpriceless9606]

When I took drivers ed @ Carroll High School, my teacher made us all drive in the far right last FAST with the music blaring. Theoretically, it was supposed to make us overcome our fear of it. Um, don't think so! :D This was in the 80s.

[@lauralot]

+Vincent Price wow..how scary!

[@facepalmdaily4404]

Sunrise may not be dead for much longer. It's been purchased by a developer out of Houston. So if any of you want to see the Billy Jean sets in real life, best get to the mall pretty soon. It may not be there much longer. The bridge seen in several scenes of the movie is going to be gone pretty soon, too.

[@bryanr6075]

FacepalmDaily that obviously didn’t work

[@tyler_schecter5805]

The 80's called, they want their mall back!

[@cornorama]

They can't have it, we need it more!

[@bryanr6075]

They arent getting it for good

[@rolls-roycecullinan9892]

It’s staying here in corpus

[@CyborgSodaCollects]

It's official... These videos are my new obsession... Absolutely amazing series Dan.

[@ThisisDanBell]

Thanks, Jason!

[@sirarnie9837]

I always wonder how they cover the utility bills let alone the rent.

[@RobTheVlog]

Dollar Movie. They make a good amount of profit! You can rent the arcade. (can never get in! damn people renting it!) And now a furniture place moved in as well.

[@5roundsrapid263]

The building was probably paid off years ago.

[@josephtafur]

The Buliding was foreclosed in September 2008 And was bought by IBC Bank.

[@jackkip]

Several years ago there was a problem with paying the electric bill. All common areas went without power. It was big news here in Corpus.

[@billblakely964]

Under the Mall is an entrance to an underground illuminati city.. Moohoohahaha...you paid for it mr. taxpayer.

[@23landcruiser]

Teen gangs emerged during that era and were cruising Sunrise mall they traveled from the West area of the city. This was the beginning of the end as shoppers stoped going to that mall. Across the freeway a huge outdoor shopping center was built. The Moore plaza the final blow to Sunrise mall

[@lauraelizabeth1789]

When my mom became elderly, ppl watching at the mall became out favorite thing to do...buy a coffee, sit and ppl watch and laugh. She’s dead now, but those are nice memories...she had a great sense of humor so we laughed until we cried ..This was early 2000s. She’d hate to know our mall is gone.

[@sshaywilliams]

I spent a lot of my teenage life in this mall. I could have almost been considered one of the Mall Rats mentioned in the video. It breaks my heart every time I drive by this mall, I was in it for the last time shortly before it closed permanently. Wow the memories. The food court, restaurants, the arcade, the theater and just hanging out. Great times with no worries. I had so hoped that someone would renovate it and open it again. There are a few places left with their own private outside entrances. 2 large gyms and a large furniture store. I think that is it.

[@mannycantu1285]

At the time I went to the mall it was only around 2010'ish at the time I was young so I really wanted to know how it really felt like in the mall when it was packed. Me and my brother and dad would explore the mall as my dad would tell me and my brother about how he used to work in the mall before, he would take me to the arcade around the mall but I can't remember what area but for sure it was on the 2nd floor. The only time i would go to the mall was whenever my dad would want to go the movies and since they had a theatre that was the place we would go, and after that we would go to the arcade afterwards, i was surprised to see the arcade still in business around that time even though it was dead but i had a lotta good time on the arcade. Around the time the theatres closed in the mall the mall just became silent, and aswell with sears closing down around that time made it even much worse leading to the mall being completely dead. Now me and my brother only rely on my dad and family and some videos to see how the mall would've looked like around when it was packed, it mustve looked fun

[@momow1430]

La Palmera is pretty nice and has really high end stores for a city the size of Corpus. My son goes to college there and I was really surprised to see how nice it was when I took him shopping. My husband and I lived there for 3 years in the early 90s and Sunrise was already dying, then. Loved Billie Jean and seeing all of the filming location in town - Ocean Drive, the Harbor Bridge, etc.

[@ProtoMario]

Black mold on the ceiling, and they wonder why people don't go to these places LMAO

[@crazitaco]

Black mold isn't why no one came back (that's more recent). The mall hit some financial obstacles and one by one stores started to leave.

[@Eternal_Tech]

+ganymedelV4 What you state about the non-dangers of mold for most people is logical. If mold were such a danger, how did our ancestors, who resided in homes, castles, caves, etc. where mold was likely to inhabit, ever survive?

[@94Chiko]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold_health_issues Educate yourself before you speak

[@buddyanddaisy123]

Agreed-it is a way to panic people and make money off them.

[@wolfenstarnice4821]

94Feyna Wikipedia. Nothing else needs to be said. If anything, pick a different website.

[@angelarussell6919]

Aww I grew up in Corpus Christi and this mall was a big part of my childhood. ❤️ There’s a wall of terracotta handprints at one of the entrances that has my three year old impression on it! Now that I live far away its really nice to get to see it. And so cool that it looks almost EXACTLY the same as it did in the 80/90’s! ❤️ I always loved that fountain area, It kind of reminds me of old EPCOT. My mom would let us buy cookie sandwiches at the great American cookie store and we would spend hours playing on that ship in the food court. I’ll never forget the day I was walking around on top of the planters with my friends and I stepped on a leaf from a big plant and the mall worker got so mad at me she told me she was going to call the police (I’m sure she wasn’t 😂) but I got so scarred I hid for hours. 😂😂 Thanks for the walk down memory lane. ☺️

[@Amanda-qz3zh]

The handprints are at the Macy’s at the La Palmera mall

[@ITRIEDEL]

I got to live through this mall through the golden years. I was a kid but we came here all the time in the early 90’s. The last time I came here was when the dollar cinema shut down. I watched the last movie and kept my tickets. I dont want to say I didn’t appreciate this place, because I did. I loved coming here. Every single time. I’ll never forget this place.

[@ITRIEDEL]

My only regret was not taking the last Sunrise Mall sign from one of the kiosks. It was there and I wanted to take it but I didn’t.

[@joshuam664]

Same 🥲

[@KwanzaaBot1966]

I'm a 90s kid. And this mall was the coolest in the 90s imo. And Halloween was poppin during those times! Now you can't even go in. I really do miss this place. From Riches to the movies this mall was bomb af.

[@Siryn]

SO many memories here. I was actually in this movie as an extra in the chase scene when I was very little. I remember it well. This was also my friends and I stomping ground all through the 80's and mid 90's. :D

[@cannycart]

Love it Dan. Movie scenes were great, love the attention to detail LOL! Keep it up as always!!

[@ThisisDanBell]

Good to hear from you!

[@WestleyWolf]

you should come to the country club plaza in sacramento, California in fact i don't even know if the doors are open in there. hopefully the sunrise mall where i live isn't going to be dead anytime soon either because its been very populated and because of the renovation they did not too long ago but ours opened before this one.

[@BobbyPW]

Westley West Sacramento, born and raised! I used to walk around the country club mall with my mom and then they did that horrible remodeling job of the mall. It's too bad he couldn't of gone to the K St. mall before they tore down.

[@sandraruiz3834]

i used to work at country club at Lerner's in the 90's. I didn't like the remodel myself. I drove by there 2 weeks ago and Macy's is closed I wonder if it's open anymore? dead mall for sure!

[@WestleyWolf]

well i hear they are replacing what used to be the Macy's into a Movie theater. the gottschalks is a WinCo grocery store now.

[@thepointreportshow1938]

it's ashamed malls fade away just like drive in movies.

[@mikeway2223]

I loved this one. I loved how you showed the comparisons from the 80’s movie to how it looks today from the same vantage points. I’m a stickler for this nostalgic stuff.

[@mikefitchNYC1971]

Excellent video Dan. They recently sold the mall with the exception of Sears and Burlington Coat Factory to a Fort Worth developer. WE are all waiting to see what happens to Mall down here in Corpus Christi.

[@texboyporsche944]

Hey Dan thought I would give you an update from Texas. This mall is now ClOSED. Only the anchors are open

[@fashiondolldreamer]

Such a cool idea to juxtapose scenes from the movie with how the mall looks today! But as you said in the video, lots of malls that movies were shot in have now gone or are completely renovated, which is a shame.... I'm obsessed with 80's movies (and I was definitely a teenage 'Mall Rat' back in that decade) so this is a pure nostalgia trip for me!

[@SassyHooper]

finally! my Friday night mall date with Dan is back! oh how I've missed you

[@97WarriorGrad]

Dan Bell, Thanks for posting this video. Boy, what memories. I've lived in Corpus Christi all of my life and back in the 1980s Sunrise Mall -- or any mall in those days -- was the place to be, whether hanging with your friends or earning extra cash during your summer break from school. There was also Magic Isles, another 'Billie Jean' filming location, that was a popular entertainment haunt for those old enough to remember. Yes, it's sad to see how "times change" but each generation loses one form of entertainment and gains another, I suppose. My parents' generation had malt shops and drive-ins; we had shopping malls, skating rinks and video arcades. Times change fast and it's getting harder to keep up. Thanks for the video once again. Cheers, everyone!

[@gowiththeflo3429]

♫ "I got it at the Factory." Burlington Coat Factory. We're moooore than great coats! ♫

[@yacanman11]

No real reason you should be in the area, but Cranberry mall in Cranberry PA is incredibly dead and boring. They have a "Cranberry" fountain that has a gross rust/blood red water spewing from it. The floor tiles are that ugly worn burgundy and their food court has 2 shops left.

[@utah133]

A symptom of the shrinking middle class. Not as much disposable income. The corporate oligarchy and banksters are making us serfs.

[@wickywoo1635]

And in the end they screwed themselves, because with no more spending more people on welfare and the money is worth toliet paper.

[@speedzero7478]

Absolutely true. I realized it when I was traveling in Asia three years ago, and saw that not only were malls there thriving, but were expanding like mad. Couldn't believe it. There is no such thing as 90 day returns in many parts of Asia, plus your packages often get stolen, so people still go to physical stores to shop. Americans, except the upper 20%, have no disposable income left after rent, education, healthcare, car insurance, and so on. Until that changes, our malls will keep dying.

[@nole8923]

rationalguy Yep. Bernie 2020

[@ZackMarrs556NAT0]

Still plenty of malls doing very well in the US, dead malls aren't dying due to the economy. Location plays a major roll. I live not too far from a dead mall (mall of the mainland) that died due to its location and the fact a bigger, nicer, and better located mall (baybrook) isn't much farther away Also, open air markets are the new in-thing, and companies like amazon hasn't exactly helped retail. And socialism is never the answer. Well, unless your goal is to kill millions of people and wreck the economy

[@treeroofgrass]

Stores gravitated to the other mall 1000 feet away and is always busy.

[@Omen1018]

So cool you came down to my home town. Sad to see this place go so far downhill.

[@ma1nick]

I grew up in that mall. Used to play video games in Aladdin’s Castle and I may have watch the movie at the dollar cinema. A lot of great times there in the 80’s.

[@evilldead6824]

R.I.P. Sunrise Mall as of September 1, 2024! It has officially begun to be demolished, and soon will just be a digital memory. Thanks for capturing the last little bit of life in this video.

[@InterestingTop7s]

Quality content as usual!!

[@ThisisDanBell]

TY!

[@steevemccloud5841]

+This is Dan Bell. VALLEY VIEW MALL IN DALLAS TEXAS

[@mortifera123]

I love the detailed shot for shot references to the original movie! This puts me in such a bizarre but wonderfully dreamy mood

[@oscarelizondo3505]

I'm from Texas. I took a trip to Corpus and visited this mall without knowing where I was, until i found myself in the middle of the same location as the famous mall scene. My mind was blown, and I started to remember all the shots from the movie, imagining all the people and cast that once stood there. It definitely is a step back in time. Very very retro. Everything on the video is legit. It truly is a mall that time forgot.

[@ellisz5972]

Thanks for posting this. I did some lookups, and as of 2019 the mall is entirely closed. At least you got to preserve it at the end.

[@beyonbeach]

Oh yeah I use to that mall back in summer along with my family in 1997 I was 17 years old and I bought Dare Devil Comics. Awesome thanks for sharing :D

[@robjimatx]

I grew up in Corpus Christi and Sunrise Mall was my favorite of the two malls. WAY more cozy. I recall most people agreeing. I remember the decline happening more around 2000 because Padre Staples began to have chain retail stores not previously available in the city. Plus a local shop or two closed at Sunrise. There used to be way less thugs at Sunrise too, which was a bonus.

[@RCTPatriot75]

The 80's was a great time.

[@themaggattack]

It's so eerie and melancholy looking at "dead malls" and old movies from back when the malls (and the people in them) were so alive. It's like Greek and Roman Ruins, but those were MY old stomping grounds! It makes me feel ancient! I'm going to watch a special screening of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure at the dead mall where it was filmed in part. I don't have anyone to go with me. All the people I knew back then are dead or gone. I feel like just a ghost from the last millenia. Is this pergatory?

[@valerianleforge]

I watched The Legend Of Billie Jean multiple times on video growing up and I LOVED that movie. Mention it to anyone now and they look at you like you fell out of the sky, even if they are close to you in age. Always good to come across someone else that knows the film

[@Justine7832]

Right now im sitting in a mall using its wifi to watch this ^^

[@jizzmaster2000]

that is cool .

[@josephtafur]

Serious They have wifi I did

[@carolmahoney2109]

One of the main reasons Malls across this country continue to fall, is because these Megamalls were “cities in which no one lives but everyone consumes”. Without its former consumers, the middle class, the mall's have no choice but to mirror their vanishing middle income patrons who have fallen, and continue to slide.

[@ItTurnsToStone]

I know it wouldn't really be pheasable, but it would be cool if they could open these empty malls up to people living on the streets. They'd at least have some shelter.

[@rx500android]

Agreed

[@tittyannafox6693]

yeah let's give junkies a place to shoot up and od

[@jameskelvin6720]

@@tittyannafox6693 agreed. I randomly read this comment thread, and thought junkies would take over, and ruin the utopian thought of a shelter for the homeless.

[@michaelbracken5049]

So they can piss and poop everywhere ? No thanks!

[@jimsuniverse4954]

@@tittyannafox6693 they would need armed guards to keep the junkies and riff raff out.

[@umyum1895]

i went to my local dead mall to pay respects and take photos. Valco Mall in Cupertino California. They are going to renovate, but the AMC theatre has this empty thing on life support.

[@SingerCommaMarla]

Yes yes yes loved going there as a kid. The ice skating ring. I remember also a resturant inside the macys there. Many good memories

[@lesleygarcia7778]

“Billie Jean is not my lover, she’s just a girl that claims that I am the one...” first thing that came to mind lmaoo

[@SearsCool]

Lesley Garcia I thought it was about the song too

[@headphonic8]

Well the song came out 3 years before so everyone else would've had it come to mind, too.

[@SRCVintageElectronics]

My local Chuck E. Cheese also opened in February 1981 as a Showbiz Pizza Place

[@veevee9923]

I remember those they had one in Massachusetts

[@honjabee]

Omg you were in my city!!!!!!! How did I not know this! You know how badly I've been wanting to meet you 😭

[@honjabee]

Please tell me you visited the Old Court House downtown 😢😭

[@honjabee]

I'm freaking out for real because I like like 10 minutes from this mall I probably passed by while you were there ASDFGHJKL

[@ThisisDanBell]

We did. It was so hot and we were tired so we skipped going in. We went to the beach instead. Ha.

[@honjabee]

+This is Dan Bell. I'm glad you at least saw it I've been trying to get JoshExplores to go for ever! Hopefully if you come during the winter you can go check it out! I'll be your guide!

[@RobTheVlog]

Hope you went near the U.S.S Lexington :p

[@Tardisty1982]

It's crazy how there are so many dead malls in america yet here in the UK all our malls are thriving

[@bmstylee]

do you still have a middle class? the mall was the playground for middle class America which is all but extinct in the States.

[@RobTheVlog]

Malls are outdated. Now it's all about Outlet malls.

[@CybermanBill]

+RobTheVlog and the Internet has become the new mall

[@CDNSpartan]

+RobTheVlog not if your local mall is West Edmonton Mall or Mall of America or other tourist malls. They are always crowded.

[@RobTheVlog]

Matthew Walsh Whatt i meant was there are some great malls left, but outlet malls are taking over fast! like cyber also said plus the internet.

[@jazmineduran1496]

Idk why but I get emotional watching this when I’ve never even been there. Like just seeing in the movie how happy people used to be and how that was a place of joy and now it’s dead...

[@sabrinarosario6499]

That fountain is actually really beautiful (with a little bit more care and newer, brighter plants would be perfect!) and the idea of the ship platform in the food court was pretty neat.

[@shamibudu]

"They should just change the name to The Titanic..." LOL !!! I stumbled across your Dead Mall Series a few days ago and have been binge watching your videos ever since. You do an excellent job documenting these dying malls with informative and hilarious commentary. Keep up the awesome work!

[@indiglo1971]

5:15 Chick-fil-a, Cutlery World, and Sunrise Clock Shoppe were on the left.

[@douglas787]

You could do a follow up video, the house used in the Legend of Billie Jean, 3801 Ocean Dr, Corpus Christi. It burned with a Doctor and his wife and son inside.

[@armyboy0579]

If I recall, a girl survived with a neck injury jumping out of a window.

[@davehere7695]

I second this!

[@superjtrdr]

I had a Christmas calendar store in the Sunrise Mall 93-94. It was a transitional period. I remember attending the mall meetings where everyone would blame poor sales on the Dollar Cinema. The theater brought crime and created an image problem. It turned the mall into a teenage hangout. I believe the theater had a long term lease.

[@chelsealongoria6280]

I cried a bit watching this, I grew up here. My friends and I would go to the dollar movies all the time and then play at the arcade while waiting for our parents to shop or pick us up. As of right now 3/24/2020 I believe only Burlington, Wilcox, planet fitness, freedom fitness and new life church are still in this mall.

[@danmasonvapor]

best part has to be at 4:50 I want that pizza pretzel so bad! yet another great video yo!

[@theslayerboyRED]

Dan Mason eww lol

[@mthomas8327]

I noticed the same pretzel and what if it's a stuffed cheese pretzel? Gadsden Mall in Alabama is similar and carries similar characteristics from the 80s. Every now and then I enjoy visiting the mall and taking in a good movie at the theater.

[@Yyyyyy5]

That pizza pretzel has probably been sitting there for the last 2 years.

[@Corgipon]

“Pretzel World’s pretzels are very, very good.” Just like *AUNTIE* *ANNE’S*

[@llamingo]

been waiting long time for Dead Mall video. Cheers Dan.

[@DragonWolf1772]

I think the thing that makes stuff like this so cool is that even though that in the past few decades things have changed so incredibly quickly(culture and technology-wise especially) , big structures like this still stand as temples and monuments to what once were so so culturally significant to us. It is sad to see them rot like they do but it also is good symbolism for how these few generations have aged.

[@cauliflowornia7392]

I love this mall! It was my very first dead mall to explore and I enjoyed every second of it!

[@LethaWolfStudios]

Mall Cop starring Kevin James hilarious mall movie and I bet the Mall it was filmed at Burlington Mall(not to be confused with Burlington Center Mall) probably still looks exactly the same.

[@sep1999sep]

i love your videos and this channel so much

[@ThisisDanBell]

Thanks, Stephanie!

[@sep1999sep]

+This is Dan Bell. 💙

[@Lander11112222]

I love it too.

[@gracemora8393]

Greenspoint mall in Houston, dead 💀

[@rightwingamericandoggo2487]

Gracem Moya also the west oaks mall is pretty dead

[@gracemora8393]

RightWingAmericanDoggo never been there in Houston? I would like to go see it .

[@MargDBX]

had not been to West Oaks for years. I left Houston and I hear its even deader than before. All the business is out at Katy Mills now and all the other strip centers they built South of it

[@nikkinicklus7587]

Grace Mora more like GUNSpoint mall

[@skidmark9863]

I mean the woodlands mall is better and about 16 minutes away.

[@spacecaserecords1204]

"Fair is fair!" I visited Sunrise Mall three times this weekend. I visit there every time I go to Corpus Christi. Everything is pretty much the same with some subtle differences. The main fountain next to the escalator is no longer working. The elevator is no longer in operation. The neon is almost all (if not all) off now ("The Port" signage). The pillar at 5:02 is still in the same disrepair with the clamps on it (it's just a "veneer" hiding a steel structural beam). The stairway next to Burlington Coat Factory Dan walks up at 6:42 is blocked off now. It's also partitioned off at the top so you can't access the second story section leading to Burlington Coat Factory (seen at 7:36 -- that "shark bite" storefront is wild). I spoke with a very nice gentleman who worked there from Corpus. He'd been there when the mall opened as a teenager and worked there way back in the mall's mid/late '80s heyday. According to him, the top section that was added in 1987 was a former upper parking area that was converted to the food court section of the mall. There used to be a Montgomery Wards in the mall so the two department store rivals (Sears) battled it out (Powr-Kraft vs Craftsman! I have to say, Sears is actually sort of busy, at least for Sears). He mentioned that the escalator from Legend of Billie Jean had suffered mechanical damage from the water fountain leaking. Like a lot of folks in this comment section, he thought the start of the downfall of the mall coincided with the dollar theater, but adds that Sunrise Mall had higher rents than what became La Palmera Mall, so a lot of stores either moved or closed their second location at Sunrise for cheaper rents (a giant strip mall also opened up across the street). Coupled with the recession in the early '90s, it was a perfect storm of bad news. I visited Sunrise about six months ago and one of the urinals was blocked off. It was still blocked off, meaning nothing is being done to rehab the mall (understandably -- no doubt it's hemorrhaging money). La Palmera is slammed with people, as is the strip mall across the street. The people are therefor brick-and-mortar/mall retail. They're just not going to Sunrise. Lastly, Pretzel World makes GREAT pretzels, the folks at the arcade and short-order grill upstairs are incredibly nice and appreciative of the business (they make a good veggie wrap upstairs). Hopefully they can rehab a lot of this place (and keep the Billie Jean fountain) as these folks deserve the business. I really enjoy your videos, Dan. Great job!

[@xxigilz]

Jesus lot a words

[@steph1275]

Wow.... this brought back so many memories for me. I remember hopping on the bus with my best friend every Saturday and heading to the malls. First we'd go to Padre Staples then we'd walk over to the Sunrise Mall. We were in high school and that was the thing to do on the weekend.... walk the malls. Padre Staples Mall was always the more popular Mall.

[@jessed1586]

They should film an episode of Stranger Things season 2 here.

[@makeeverythingsparkle1611]

JESSE D that would be awesome.

[@eduardobatasuna8398]

JESSE D wait for Stranger Things season 3. An 80's mall will be starring! 😉

[@rx500android]

@@eduardobatasuna8398 yuppp

[@vapordreams983]

Hopefully they have a chance to do so in a future season.

[@EstebanGunn]

Helen Slater could really work the short haircut. So pretty.

[@largol33t1]

Another major 80s icon, Annie Lennox, also looked great with very short hair. I just can't imagine either woman with shoulder-length hair. LOL.

[@jimsuniverse4954]

I prefer the long hair but the short is cute 😆

[@vapordreams983]

She was a stunner back then.

[@jtlovescodelyoko]

Update: The Interior space of the mall is closed. Prezel world has move to the Corpus Christi Trade Center and Sears Will be closing

[@vapordreams983]

A year later and it still breaks my heart.

[@ihatesjw4879]

The old man that was stabbed in the restroom it a pretty known story, but there was another murder that happened there too. Just around the corner of that pretzel world where it opens up to the fountain there used to be a place called corn dog 7. Sometime during the late 90s a man was shot and killed in that corn dog 7, if I remember correctly it was gang related. Around this time it was the beginning of the downfall for sunrise mall. Late 90s the place used to be a cesspool for thugs and gangs. Man thinking back about my memories i had in that mall. Shopping for school clothes, aladins castle arcade, orange julius, rock n roll plus, dollar movies, i still remember eating with my dad and two brothers at that food court with those same tables and chairs in the mid 90s. Wow thank you dan.

[@JaydenCoolBT]

I live there! Thanks for coming