DEAD MALL Sunrise Mall in Corpus Christi Texas Closed / Abandoned / Vandalized Walkaround Tour 4K

The Sunrise Mall in Corpus Christi Texas, once the popular mall, even used in a movie The Legend of Billie Jean, but now closed, abandoned and vandalized. This mall is now a dead mall and still kept its 80's retro style as it was never updated. This mall opened in 1981 and was featured as a two-story enclosed shopping mall with air condition. This video is a walkaround tour of the outside of the mall. At the end we discovered that one of the boards covering the broken glass near the Dollar Cinema was broken and we just filmed from the outside. You can see the exterior of the cinema and the food court area. We did not want to trespass like other KZbinrs that were arrested for breaking and entering. We would love to see this mall open again or love to be given a tour inside *Hint Hint*. This mall closed its doors in 2019 and waits its fate. This mall would have been perfect for a zombie movie or Stranger Things TV show with their mall the Star Court as you would not have to really decorate. Walking around you can see a lot of broken glass, trash, boarded up windows and graffiti. This video was filmed 2022 in 4K vid we hope you all enjoy and thanks for watching us explore.
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[@onth3hous3]

This is a child hood mall of mine. I had gone there in 2021 to check it out and it was closed and in this condition and was heart broken. I was there around 2019 and it was still open and loved the arcade that was left in there and still have tickets from there. The theater was still there as well that I had watched many 90s movies there when I was a kid. Really wish it was more preserved 😢

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah lots of memory's there too, maybe someone will buy the mall and bring it back

[@ectovampz]

Same here bud,, last time i was there it was my 13th birthday with a friend and my mom, it was fun ngl

[@sarahcarrizales9759]

I wish I could walk around it again. I used to love walking around the mall before they closed it to the public. I liked the emptiness and liked remembering the times I went when I was little. I would sometimes just see old people exercising in the AC, sadly one of them was killed by a man in the bathroom that wanted to rob him. I also wanted to say I just found this channel so am not sure if those are your kids, but if so they will remember exploring all these places with you forever. My favorite thing to do is take my kids out and explore new places. So much fun. I will check out more videos, I love stuff like this.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

thanks, yeah these r my kids. I do remember the old people power walking for excersise. Yeah the mall is one of those things you don't realize until it's gone things where you miss it later

[@johnnydasuper]

​@@darkdimensionshauntedhousevery true, I miss being able to go to the arcade in this mall :( I used to even have drum lessons in this mall on the first floor

[@Jelus1]

I would frequent this mall at a low point in my life and it holds a special place in my heart. The bad times and sorrow I felt around this area will always be a reminder to myself to never depend on anyone.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

sorry to hear all that but I understand about counting on people

[@Jelus1]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 I would always look around and try to imagine this place at it's peak back in like the early 90's- late 80's...

[@panaderofilms]

I'll bet you're fun at parties..

[@PlayerRBLX_]

I used to go to the Sunrise Mall one time because there was a Workforce Office there, and that Workforce was one of the last tenants, other than a movie theater, and my mom had taken me and my sister back in 2017/18, I believe. It was abandoned, alright. But still taken care of. Just, lots of stores closed, no liquidation, and the escalators werent working lol. There was a sign that indicated the escalators not working, but oh my god it was pretty. I was never there for the filming of the Legend of Billie Jean, heck, I wasn’t even born yet haha! But I do remember it, good times. As well as there being a theater there, I believe they closed it down, I am not sure but one time we went to see Trolls, I believe, but it wasnt taken care of much. I do remember Sunrise Mall before it was completely abandoned! Good times, but the La Palmera mall that replaced it was a bit smaller than Sunrise, so not that much stores, I’m assuming!

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah I believe sunrise mall is bigger. It was a better looking mall, everyone loves retro and nostalgia and mall definitely has it

[@weswalker1208]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse yeah I used to date one of those hot josky girls LOL

[@ogami1972]

I was a little kid who ran around Padre Staples, and remember when this mall opened. I was part of the crowd in "The Legend of Billie Jean", though I don't think I'm in the actual movie. It's really sad this mall is so neglected.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

that's cool, yeah the mall is really neglected

[@shampooh8r]

I used to go to that mall back in the late 80s and early 90s. My favorite stores were B. Dalton Bookstore, Waldenbook Store, Spencers, and Musicland. They also had a one-time comic book store and yes, I do remember the Hologram store. Heck, even the B. Dalton had like two floors. There was also a karaoke place which was turned into an anime store.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah it was some great times I do hope the mall makes a comeback

[@shampooh8r]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse Maybe someone will buy it and turn it into an indoor amusement park, or a youth center, or recreational center, or a mutli-plex movie theater, or a convention center, or one of those trampoline places, or an indoor flea market.

[@SweatyFlames]

that chelsea’s bar was my dads bar man i miss that place

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yes was a cool place. Miss that mall

[@chacaloso361]

I had gone to Chelsea's since a little kid in the 80s and 90s w my parents. They had really good food.

[@Iluv2shop]

This mall was my hang out place in high school I remember we use to sneak into the bar downstairs it was called Chelsea’s and they use to have a Whataburger next to the bar I was there in the filming of billy jean those were the good memories I hold so dear to my heart I pass by there on my way to work and I think wow this use to be everything I would look forward to my weekends there they had Benjamin’s , Mervyns Sears Zales montogomery ward ect…. Take me back to the 80’s time machine I await your arrival lol 😝 thanks for this footage

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah I do miss that mall, I wish I could get in legally. Dollar Cinema was cool, they used to have a hologram store that was really neat to walk thru.

[@patricko.2013]

This location is perfect for making a horror film and it looks like not a lot of work would need to be done to make it look spooky. Or this would make for a great haunted house or if torn down a film production studio would be a nice upgrade.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

when I was looking at the place I though would be perfect for a horror movie. It's a far stretch but I am hoping some movie company sees this and realizes it would be perfect

[@iamthesargent]

​@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse Maybe a sequel to The Legend of Billy Jean, The Ghost of Billy Jean

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

@@iamthesargent lol yep. The actress came back to corpus a few years ago for a comic con

[@KeepAustinUgly]

The ramp on the backside went to a parking lot above the Sears. You could actually park on the Sears roof and enter by the Radio Shack and a Record store, forgot the name. They closed that parking lot around 83 I think, well before the expansion around 87 that added the food court and theater, and expanded the Sears to a two story store. The Oshmans and Games People Play were pretty dope.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah it was a fun mall, I can't believe that there was a parking lot above sears

[@ybrix101]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse The parking area was above the stretch of mall that was next to Sears. So if you were on it, you could enter either the center area of the mall where the escalator was or the second floor of Sears.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

@@ybrix101 if you're referring to the parking garage from Legend of Billy Jean, we found the parking lot, its downtown corpus Christi

[@ybrix101]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse Yea where my parents used to bank. No I'm not referring to a 'garage' at Sunrise Mall. Just an area to park between Sears and the center part of the mall. You could get up there from either side of the mall. SPID side or McArdle side. I used that parking lot often just after getting my driver's license. But it was very short lived due to what I call the 'Mall War'. Padre Staples renovates, then Sunrise Mall renovates. Repeat. Like I said it was short lived so there's very few people other than me that remember it.

[@nancyg158]

The record store was called Record Bar.

[@korpuskristi8635]

I grew up here my dad helped build this mall! My uncle owns SS Smith and sons masonry! This was in the movie Legend of Billy Jean

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah, I have been working on a legend of billie Jean video

[@batmanofsanantonio5331]

If you stood on a certain part in the food court upstairs you could feel the floor tremble.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

wow I didn't know that lol

[@jenniferbenavidez4867]

Awesome love that mall

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

was awesome

[@timothydecelle3201]

Interesting facts: Burlington used to be Frost Bros. which was an upscale store like Dillard’s before they closed in 1988. Also that ramp that goes upstairs that you didn’t know what it was…well it used to be a small second story open air parking lot for the public (approx 20 parking spots) but sometime in the late 80’s I presume a store or the mall needed more storage and closed it off and enclosed the parking spot with walls and a roof. That explains what it looks weird. I think it was near where KB Toy store was on the second floor.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

thanks for the info, I guess that parking was before the parking garages?

[@nancyg158]

I remembered the smell of cigarette smoke before they banned smoking inside the mall and restaurants.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

oh yeah, forgot about that

[@chacaloso361]

Yep. You could smoke on the inside of the mall, just not in the stores.

[@FuckYouWhosNext]

much respect for not breaking in like a common piece of crap

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah, my kids wanted to go in, I was like no. But I do want to go in legally

[@mikep2243]

I use to go to that mall when I was station in Corpus. It had a Game Stop and a place to buy new DVD movies. It was dying back in 05. You can see who own the mall by looking the address up with the county tax assessor office.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah that mall just kept going down hill

[@DravensWorld247]

That's crazy how condemned it looks now

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah it got bad

[@eddiethehead4653]

Great video it would be cool if this small opened up again it would be nice just to walk around in it

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

would be neat

[@carnivalclown8603]

Pretty neat video, I remember when that mall was still in business, that theater was cool and I didn't know they had a pet store?

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah, it was a happening mall in its day

[@carnivalclown8603]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse what do you mean?

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

@@carnivalclown8603 back in its prime it was the number one mall in Corpus Christi before Padre Staples mall and now known as La Palmara mall

[@patricko.2013]

Very good views of this place. I’m glad you all didn’t enter the mall. Wouldn’t want this to ironically become a horror movie for you and your family.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

thanks, trust me, my kids wanted to break in and enter

[@aidenbruh4271]

@9:30 the 3rd door you can just walk on

[@lisabenavides1978]

Cool video..remember walking that mall as a teenager! Thinking we were cool!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

you were cool 😎

[@mannycantu1285]

I faintly remember that mall, crazy to see that its all down and old, very eerie. My dad would always bring me to the movies there and the arcade in the bottom floor of the mall. Too bad I never got see how the mall used to be when it was packed in the old times, my dad always said how the mall was a hotspot for groups and how he was a manager in the same arcade in the mall. The first time i went to that mall was like around 2011 or 2012, It was pretty dead as the only places that had people were just the movies right in the second floor of the mall or the arcade, and sears as well too. Its so weird to see it in crumbles and abandoned now in just a short amount of time, like Its so weird to see it ruined after a couple of years.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah its a sad sight, not sure but I think the arcade was called Alladins Castle?

[@mannycantu1285]

it was called Allladin's Castle, although I don't remember what arcades were in that arcade besides air hockey

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

@@mannycantu1285 no telling, they always switched them out. The popular arcades were Simpsons, Mortal Kombat, X-Men and Ninja Turtles

[@jet5699]

Last time I was here they didn't have boards up

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah lots of broken windows

[@jet5699]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse and I'm gonna give you some respect for not going inside the building. Big respect 🙏 👏. Some people are going in w/o getting caught. Some are on yt

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

@@jet5699 yeah my kids showed me those youtuber videos. I would love to go inside but not breaking and entering

[@jet5699]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse Yeah that's what I've been saying

[@robinc.2749]

love the video this is my favorite mall!

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

it was awesome

[@johnmitchell8356]

I think that ramp was a loading dock for the old HEB

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

HEB?? I don't think HEB was a part of that mall

[@johnmitchell8356]

For real guys. When I was a kid, HEB was there. You got me looking it up. I grew up in that mall. There used to be an elementary school where the old toys r us is across the street. I broke out the windows when I was a kid. Lol. I lived on Vance. When I find more information, I will get it to you guys. Thanks again.I love your video

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

@@johnmitchell8356 awesome glad you liked it, that must of been along time ago, I don't remember an elementary school by toys r us

[@johnmitchell8356]

Ok. Check out sunrise mall corpus Christi on Wikipedia. It mentions the HEB but it says it was there before the mall opened in the early 80s. But, the HEB was opened still when the mall was opened. Dudes, I was pretty young. Check it out though. It was

[@johnmitchell8356]

Sure enough. Toys was Frazier elementary. And HEB was next to sears in 1980 81. I just found some pictures online. You brought back some good memories.

[@jonathanwstx]

I worked at the chic fil a, when I was in high school. On my breaks I’d get something from orange Julius and hit the arcade

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

arcades were really fun back in the day

[@888ssss]

i can still see the ghosts of jay camp looking for a drink, and richard henderson looking for his hair.....

[@norixroses]

I went there a few years ago with my family we walked around like 30 minutes before realizing it was abandoned

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah before they locked the doors you could walk around inside and there were only a very few stores open

[@kevinrichards3288]

Back in the days before internet & i-phones, shopping malls were popular. Today you don't see as many malls around anymore as you use to back in those days since most people shop online nowadays, especially off Amazon.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah I figure all the devices and online shopping. I have kids and no one plays outside either

[@kevinrichards3288]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse my mom took me to the San Jacinto Mall over in Baytown, Texas back on the day when it first opened 42 years ago. I was a little kid at the time & that mall was the place. I've had many fun memories visiting it with my family back in my child days. 3 years ago it closed & only left Macy's & JCPenney to stay open which also closed about 2 years later. After that, the whole mall was left abandoned for a while & then recently got demolished.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

@@kevinrichards3288 that sucks, we have been worried this mall will be demolished as well

[@kevinrichards3288]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse yes. Mall of America up in Minnesota which is the largest mall in the USA🇺🇸 is one of a small number of malls today thaz still doing great.

[@kevinrichards3288]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse believe it or not there was this one mall that use to be down on Galveston Island, Texas called The Galvez Mall that closed & got demolished back in around the mid 1990s. I've passed by it a few times before but sadly never had a chance to visit it. I wish I would've.

[@chacaloso361]

That upper level of the parking lot at the end, where Dollar Cinema and foodcourt were, was always sketchy to begin with at night. Even when the mall was jumping.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

that is true

[@gingerwolnitzek859]

Was a groovy mall

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

I know

[@Alley_Studio]

Idk if anyone remembers this but remember the zombie event around 2018-2019 in the Sunset Mall

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

maul the mall with Chill with Phill?

[@Alley_Studio]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse yea I think that’s what I think it was called

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

@@Alley_Studio yeah we were there. The event was in front of the dollar cinema and then everyone watched Night of the Living Dead

[@Lynelle_15]

I live in Corpus so yep

[@weswalker1208]

I remember 10 or 15 years ago I got a ticket and went to a class there and I was able to walk that mall Sears was still open and other than that it was pretty much closed

[@TheSampageslice]

Hey, if you want to access into the mall, you need to get permission from the city.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

thanks for the info, I'm pretty sure they will deny

[@tlonnan84]

Does anyone remember the name of that hologram store that was in there?? I loved going in there when I was a kid!

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

I dont remember the name, but it was very popular and I remember them having a pennywise it clown

[@FLUKdaDEMS]

I used to frequent Chelsea Street Pub when it was still open. It was to the right of the main entrance. Good times!

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah we miss that mall

[@batmanofsanantonio5331]

I remember going to Chelsea’s every Friday with my buddy Roach.

[@peterblue2708]

HEARD THE MALL CLOSED BACK IN AUGUST OF 2019

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah, it's been closed for a while, there are gyms, a church, furniture store and a bar that are still open, but the actual mall is in terrible condition.

[@jvee6683]

Preztel world yay

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

lol yep, we found they moved to the Corpus Christi Trade Center

[@Lynelle_15]

Dang you went there I miss that place :( 1$ movies 😭

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah dollar cinema was cool back in its day

[@ryanafranco]

Great video, the picture of the all the fishes is still I think on the other side of the floor couldn't see it. I don't think

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

I heard they painted over due to someone breaking in and spray painting all over the fish

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah my son found out they relocated at the Trade Center

[@ryanafranco]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse sad 😞

[@kathystone7402]

The mural is still there as of a year ago

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

ahhh good, I figured would have been graffiti

[@aidenbruh4271]

if anyone wants to know how to get in one of the doors on the right @9:30 is unlocked and you can walk right in

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

wow lol. I know someone recently went in and said he was given permission

[@6970137]

A long time without stepping on this site.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah its been awhile, I would love to go inside, legally

[@Livelaughlovelee]

Me n my friend went in today ofc which is trespassing whoops but it’s real bad now

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

I bet it's bad, I saw 3 fire trucks there a few weeks ago

[@carnivalclown8603]

12:09 reminds me of the title of Slipknot's 4th album "All Hope Is Gone" lol

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

that would be a good theme song for this mall

[@carnivalclown8603]

@@darkdimensionshauntedhouse Indeed, imagine if they were allowed to perform at that mall lol

[@braden2345]

Only in corpus a mall next to... a mall

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah not a good idea

[@weswalker1208]

I remember doctors Pet Center being at Padre Staples Mall

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

I do remember that, seemed odd looking back

[@TheRealRedhood7]

That where I have my first kiss with my girlfriend Rosie back at sunrise mall in 2010 an I was a senior at my high school 😅❤

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

you need to go back and recapture the kiss lol

[@christopherort2889]

So sad

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

this is true

[@xandercaron3599]

like Cher would sing, if I could turn back time

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

sing it

[@polkadotmicrochip]

Garbage city, garbage mall

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

lol I pretty much agree

[@TheSampageslice]

Someone was killed in the restroom over here. So this mall could be haunted.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

yeah I have heard that

[@chacaloso361]

Im suprised you are still avle to access the parking garage. Not bedore long, I'm sure it will all be blocked off and roped off.

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

I was surprised too, but I took advantage of the situation lol

[@v1sualcity]

Sneaking Wendy's food into the dollar cinema was the best

[@darkdimensionshauntedhouse]

lol I bet