DEAD MALL - Uptown Scottsbluff (Monument Mall) - Scottsbluff Nebraska | ERA_Productions

[@ERA_Productions]

What are your thoughts on Uptown Scottsbluff, and what do you think it’s future holds?

[@cardphins68]

This is a Zombie Mall, lol. The only real question is how long before it is shuttered?

[@greggabel7238]

I am originally from Gering,Ne. My family moved to Wyoming in 1982. The mall opened in 1986. I made my 1st visit in 1987. Over the years stores came and gone. They need to get more stores badly. Open a Zumiez in Scottsbluff.

[@FaithiinJesus]

Grew up on a farm not far away. Remember seeing a sign go up in the field announcing "Coming Soon Monument Mall." Of course, the first few years were amazing. Could tell you many stories, including losing our young son in a very busy Walmart store. Left the area in 1996. Been back a few time, seeing the place with fewer and fewer stores knowing it would probably not last. Thanks for the memories!

[@ThresholdDreamer111]

Sweet looking vintage mall with a lot of charm! Excellent work covering it. This is what it's all about, getting out to places nobody else has covered before.

[@ERA_Productions]

Thank you very much! I’m glad I was able to get coverage of this mall. It was on my radar for a couple years and I’m shocked no one else has filmed it before me.

[@freerbt4839]

So sad to see it empty... it will be gone soon like the others ones 😥

[@ZeeMann_Retail]

Dude, that SMOOTH JAZZ in the intro! That alone set the tone! Great video overall, as always! This looks like a nice place!

[@ERA_Productions]

I know, right? Anyway, thank you man! It was a really nice mall!

[@cuddlesthetiger-mallsnmore]

This mall is the very definition of "hidden gem". Awesome video!

[@ERA_Productions]

Fr man! It’s been on my radar for a couple years, and I’m shocked, and no one else came out here just to film the mall. It was absolutely worth the drive out here for me. Thank you!

[@RayOutThere]

What a gem! Those plants!!!!

[@ERA_Productions]

For real! This place was awesome!

[@hallmt]

Radio Shack was right by where the Walmart entrance into the mall. It blows my mind, it’s the only Walmart I have ever seen that you could exit into the mall. Oh that Radio Shack was AWESOME!! Across the way there was “the Meat Shoppe” so random but cool.

[@slightlymadmom6532]

When I was a kid, there was a Wal-Mart attached to the mall. People would walk the mall while waiting on photos and such. When Wal-Mart moved to a new building is when the mall died. Some followed Wal-Mart and built next to them. I remember the mall being crazy busy until then.

[@Optopolis]

That Subway though. I see you went in by the theatre. In the video clip I never yet released, I went in through the entry by Dunhams. Looks about equally as full as in my visit, just with a few different stores now than then. It's weird as heck to me that Sears Hometown had a store here, moved out, then moved back into the mall. Lol in my visit, the Dunhams sign kept turning on and off. You'd come back 10 or 15 minutes later and the sign would be back on or back off.... and I didn't notice before that the m and a were combined like that. Fun fact, the Uptown Scottsbluff website encourages mall walking.

[@ERA_Productions]

Did not know that Sears’s Hometown actually came back for a time. That’s really interesting. It’s nice to see a mall that actually encourages mall walking!

[@soapmanforu]

I live two blocks from this mall. They have just done major work and put in a T J Max. Not giving up. Nice video. I remember when it was thriving...

[@ERA_Productions]

Glad to hear about new life coming to the mall!

[@Optopolis]

Ah yeah this is what I've been waiting for.

[@ERA_Productions]

Glad you enjoyed it man!

[@Optopolis]

@@ERA_Productions Looks pretty dang good overall. Glad to see it in more recent times. Maybe the current owner can one day get life back into it.

[@BoratWanksta]

Wow, this mall is really beautiful! I'm glad you went well out of your way, to visit this mall. I hope this mall can hang on, and not be demalled.

[@ERA_Productions]

It was absolutely worth the visit!

[@samtron5000]

My hometown. I grew up in this mall. It was dead back then too lol

[@Counsel-fires]

Scottsbluff is awesome ❤

[@Racingboy-lh3vr]

Reminds me a lot of hilltop mall in Kearney Nebraska

[@ERA_Productions]

I hope to see Hilltop sometime in the near future! I believe they were developed by the same company

[@Sinn0820]

I live in this area and I can confirm this is how the mall is 24/7

[@mallaholicretailadventures]

I love these small town malls but unfortunately they are going by the wayside because a lot of small cities have suffered job loss in the past and have never recovered. And plus surrounding development as well. These type of malls have a charm to them that you don't see at Suburban malls

[@LostDepartments]

Adding "Uptown" to the mall's name is so generic. It's like they're saying "Please come here! This is not an indoor mall!"

[@ERA_Productions]

For real. That was probably a terrible choice for the company that owns this place to make. They did it with the Janesville mall as well in Wisconsin.

[@Optopolis]

Just like the shift from calling pedestrian malls what they are, pedestrian malls. Lol. I don't disagree with them that "mall" has some negative connotations to it these days, but that being said, I do find it interesting at the least they chose to do that.

[@Optopolis]

​@@ERA_Productions Side note, and hopefully YT will mention @LostDeparments on this. It turns out they rebranded a whole shlew of malls across the midwest with the Uptown branding. So you'll have Uptown [insertname] for the name of many malls now.

[@ERA_Productions]

@@Optopolis I noticed that. My buddy @EvansExplores covered the Uptown Virginia mall and Uptown Willmar Mall in Minnesota, which went through the same thing.

[@MrBaskins2010]

spooky but frozen in time

[@ERA_Productions]

Agreed! This place is so 80s in an awesome way!

[@Se7enmax9]

That’s the obama/biden economy. “All you need is walmart”. The “70’s” Scottsbluff now your talkin. On broadway you had A&W drive-in, Ben Franklin, Bluffs theater, Godfathers pizza, JCPenney, LB. Murphy company, the Midwest theater, Woolworth’s and many many others.

[@greggabel7238]

@@Se7enmax9 I was born in Scottsbluff,Ne in 1963 at the old hospital on East side of Broadway St. I was born just a short walk from the Midwest Theater

[@hallmt]

@@Se7enmax9 I remember all of those places. This place was dying a long time before any of that mess, or the current mess started. I miss those days, simpler times. I remember getting toys at Woolworths and going to Montgomery Wards.