MELLET/CANTON CENTER MALL CANTON OHIO

[@dougharper3095]

When I was a kid this mall was state of the art. I'm old as dirt.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Wish I could have experienced it

[@brianbcpryor112]

Cool.....I'm from CANTON,OHIO, Born in 1976.....Was there as a kid....Walk through with parents during the building of additional outlets/department stores...I reside in ARIZONA💛🔥☀NOW.....MEMORY🔥💥❤LANE IS BLISS....

[@MannyQuacioua]

This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on this place.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Thanks. Just doing what I love hoping one day to be doing media as a career

[@sharonlippert271]

Thank you so much for this video. It brought back many fond memories of years gone by. I can remember meeting my mom & friends at Bretons for a delicious meal. I shopped at many of the stores now only memories. Again I hope many people find this video and enjoy it as much as I did.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

It brings me joy that I was able to preserve this place for those that spent time here.

[@slackingpacking]

This place is so surreal. I just subscribed awesome content!

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Thanks for the sub. I love this place so much as I was finally able to explore an abandoned mall all my he others you’d probably get arrested. For trespassing etc.

[@aMuncieChannel]

I've been extremely busy, but awesome video and editing! I'll have to get some pointers from you soon!

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Anytime😃

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Would love to do more stuff with u guys ASAP. The next round of kmarts begins dec 1. I will be heading to Detroit and probably canton/Akron

[@rogue822]

Also, to make sense of why that was a bullet and weaponry factory. Canton was a supplier of Tanks and WW2 Warfare. Leaving us to be a potential huge target for spies and militant officers. Luckily, due to the horrid and nasty weather. Planes and other Military Combatant Items could not track the factories!

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

You should check out the peters cartridge factory in Kings Mills Ohio by Cincinnati it’s very old and is being renovated it was an ammunition factory I believe in the revolutionary war

[@shaunworkandrew8101]

Wow, I stumbled into this mall in 2015. Visiting from New Zealand, it was an eerie feeling walking thru here with my family. To this day, still the only JC Pennys I have been into, and the only disused mall! I am amazed it is being kept clean and tidy still.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Wow that’s cool I’m glad u got to see it. Yeah here in the states our retail is in a death spiral. Especially our malls. Not sure if u have malls like we do here in the states but I fear ours will all be gone in 10 years or so and so will most physical retail that isn’t essential. Things like Walmart aka big box retail will stick around but specialized stores will die.

[@rogue822]

Fun Fact: Mellet Mall was a actual weapon and bullet/ammunition factory before built, not to mention O'Neils came before Kaufman's.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

That’s a cool fact I never knew thanks

[@kristylinkous3653]

What about the hidden lake in the corner of the parking lot

[@brianbcpryor112]

I was there as a kid and when it was getting re_built in the 1980s.....I'm from CANTON🍎🌇🏠🏬OHIO.....BORN IN 1976...

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

That’s cool. I grew up in Livonia and then the other larger canton both in the Detroit area

[@TomsTerrificRetales]

Great footage of the mall. I've wanted to get in here but heard the main mall was closed off on Halloween 2019. When did you film this?

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

The winter shots were filmed around January-February 2019 and most of the mall interior late summer-early fall 2019. To get in you first have to enter the penny’s then head to the mall entrance where the door is usually left cracked as a fire exit. I wasn’t the only one walking through the mall a few others were there I just kept them out of my shots. Please be respectful if you visit take pictures and leave no trace u were there it’s rare that a mall owner will ever leave it open for us to enjoy like this one and I’m thrilled they did. It may be empty but it can still be enjoyed by many while it’s still around. I want to reinforce to everyone that most of us urban explorers especially the ones with the goal of documenting to preserve history are very respectful of these places and don’t vandalize. Hopefully more abandoned or dead things can be available to explore. If we can change the image of urban explorers being hoodlums.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Thanks for the support my goal here is to capture these gems in all of their glory before they are erased. Get very stable footage with interesting shots and share the history.

[@TomsTerrificRetales]

@@TiltedTripodMedia I definitely will respect it. I'd heard you could enter the doors by Walmart but over the weekend when I went they were locked with a big "ENTRANCE CLOSED" sign on the building. It would definitely be awesome if more abandoned places like this were open to the public.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

try the Pennys mall entrance

[@TomsTerrificRetales]

@@TiltedTripodMedia I'll have to do that next time. I'm going to be back down there in a week or two. Thank you for the info!

[@TrickyChi]

Before they closed it in early mornings they let people in that wanted to do walking as exercise and I do that 5 days a week before work n go back to mall 2 times a month after work to shop

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

That’s cool

[@eddievenuto1862]

I live behind Mallette Mall. I live close to Walmart I live close to Giant Eagle on Raff road. Every time I walk to Walmart I could smell the mold from the old Mall

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Wow

[@eddievenuto1862]

@@TiltedTripodMedia I know it's bad I just wanted to tell you that they're doing something to the mall I don't know what they're doing something to wear Kaufman's is cuz I walked to I walk to Walmart and I like to walk and Jog and if I find out what they're doing I'll tell you

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@eddievenuto1862 cool thanks as id like to document it if its something worth while

[@MRVISTA-wz7vj]

THIS was my mall. Back in the seventies, this place was better than Disney land. Very sad to see it now. Way back when, this is where I was an original Mall Rat!

[@Peelz2000]

I work in the plaza and we take our trash out through the abandoned mall The current condition of the mall is pretty bad im thinking i should do a walk through and record it so everyone who went there in the 70's and 80's van get a good look at it

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Can you actually still get into the mall?

[@Peelz2000]

@@TiltedTripodMedia yea i have a key to the backdoor that leads into it

[@Peelz2000]

I work in the shoe show at the plaza and there is hallways that link all the stores in the plaza and there is are several doors in the hallway that open up straight to the mall

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@Peelz2000 oh so then the general public can’t access the mall

[@Peelz2000]

@@TiltedTripodMedia not unless they can find a way to sneak in

[@jessydafoodie8261]

Most of the stuff that is in front was what was left before they started locking the doors

[@CoinHuntingDrew]

They put a shoe display and blocked off the Penney doors with it. The only way you can see in is if you sit down on the shoe tryon bench, which sits next to the glass

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

That’s sad. I loved being inside this place it was quite magical. I’m so glad o got to experience it

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Thanks for the update

[@CoinHuntingDrew]

@@TiltedTripodMedia Redline0442 and I were there in 2017. Quite the difference in some sense.

[@theragingwildcard9269]

Me and my family loved going in there through jcpennys

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

It was like a time machine. Doc brown set that DeLorean to 80 mph. 80s here we come.

[@stevileann4060]

I used to love that mall

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

It looked cool

[@stevileann4060]

@@TiltedTripodMedia it was pretty nice when I was little we used to always toss coins in the fountain and make wishes and that's where I got my ears pierced when I was little too it's crazy to see it now but would be fun to explore though

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@stevileann4060 it was weird being inside it all empty

[@stevileann4060]

@@TiltedTripodMedia I could def imagine the outside looks kinda creepy it'd be a fun lil adventure inside

[@edvenuto9614]

I wish they would knock the whole building down and build something. I was there when they the crew was trying to clean up or whatever they did

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

I wish they would save the building and use it for something for the community

[@edvenuto9614]

@@TiltedTripodMedia the building rotted it smell like mold bad they would be better knock down

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Ed venuto Yes I’ve been inside of it and I know the condition that it’s in they should have saved it before it got so bad

[@edvenuto9614]

@@TiltedTripodMedia you said earlier that they should build something with the existing building. But you said you know the condition how bad it is

[@timberwolfpowler8747]

Rust Belt victim--loss of Canton population and high paying jobs base. Times always change.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Sad but so true

[@TheFibtastic]

The story of the whole area. I'm from the area between Akron and Canton, born in the '70s, and my childhood is just a litany of everything a country can do to screw over a population, or to allow a population to be screwed over by others. I left, like many people who wanted something more than rust but I TOTALLY Get the bitterness and anger that reside in the area. Where I live now, my youth is reduced to the phrase 'flyover country' and I'm just seething inside whenever I hear it, and whenever I hear them complain about what people from 'flyover country' have opinions about.

[@fvocrew2589]

👍

[@TheFibtastic]

This mall was a dump in the 80s. Everybody went to Belden.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Saw old footage from the 80s of it and it looked nice 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@TheFibtastic]

@@TiltedTripodMedia By the time the late '80s came around it had begun to acquire the 'mall death' stores. Weird one-off places that sell wigs or beads or cheap jewelry or whatever. It was close enough to Belden Village that most everybody just started to go to Belden, which was also a bigger mall (though, in itself, not big..the biggest in the immediate area was the infamous Rolling Acres, but another 30 minutes north). I grew up just north of north canton and can count on one hand the number of times we went to Mellet (and we pronounced it melLET for some reason, not MELlet...have no idea which is correct). Canton, in general, was kind of looked down upon as being a bit trashy, to the point that North Canton was looked up as something different than Canton. And Jackson, where Belden Village was, was the 'wealthy' school district (relative to the rest of the area) so attracted a different crowd. I remember dating a girl from Jackson in 1991 and everybody asking me about her big projection TV, as that was a sign of being 'rich' that nobody in Hartville had experienced.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@TheFibtastic been visiting the canton Akron Cleveland area off and on since around 2010 so I’m very familiar with it and even more now that I live in Ohio. Sadly I missed rolling acres mall. Belden is very nice.