Rolling Acres Mall (Abandoned) Akron, OH A Final Look INSIDE 1 Week Before Demolition

[@calebgaming8459]

That final week of the mall before demolition was just sad, the mall just started being completely destoryed. And just a few long mouths after this video was recorded, only the sears stands.

[@picklesnoutpenobscott3165]

Malls are becoming a thing of past history. I remember how exciting it used to be to go to the mall. Innocent fun in my day. Not the same anymore.

[@justmyselfandnooneelse3215]

You destroyed it when you started going to Amazon and Walmart. You should be ashamed of yourself for what you've done and caused. It's all your fault.

[@alec1430]

That's absolutely correct. When we took our money to the evil snare that is Amazon and Walmart, we lost our shopping souls. Malls were awesome, and now? All the fun with family and friends shopping together is removed, because we love to be consumed with convenience. It's gotten too convenient, so there's no more malls, and no more shopping with friends and family. Great days ahead! Lol 😆

[@SerenityofLilac]

It's nice to see a video of this place shot and edited to have this beautiful yet melancholy feel to it compared to the over done creepy vibe. Good job!

[@360_Experiences]

SerentiyofLilac--Thanks for the positive comment! There aren't much in the way of more "cinematic" videos done of the mall. I felt this was a little more artisitic and gave everyone a good feel of what the property looked like in under five minutes rather than a video walking around for an hour with the camera consistently recording and talking.

[@afridgetoofar1818]

4:25 That's the most 1994 looking outro I've ever seen.

[@Ash-uo8sp]

This video is sad and eerily calming. What was once a booming hub of prosperity, to a badly decayed, vandalized, and eventually demolished structure. RIP Rolling Acres Mall. 1975-2008, if it weren't for that instance in 1995 in the movie theater and the mall cutting corners in 1992 by downgrading from off-duty cops to regular mall cops, you'd might've lasted longer than 33 years. Thanks for posting this.

[@phoenixman8569]

ii was a teen in the 80s so i understand how great going to the mall was back in the day, even if you did not buy anything you had a good time, the arcade was one of my favorites as was a chain store called "san francisco" a curiosity type store where you could find all kinds of funny and a bit rude gifts for that special someone in your life t-shirts, toys, candy, board games, funny sunglasses and hats and a lot more, just writing this makes me wish malls were not a dying art!!!!!

[@the1digitalwizard]

I actually worked at two men's stores at rolling acres when I was in high school (free clothes lol) it was a fantastic mall. Unfortunately they took out a farm to put it in and had to Dynamite the whole place to level it out. Crime got really bad from people down the hill so to speak, even mounted patrols didn't work. Now it's gone and in its place is Amazon.

[@360_Experiences]

Hey @DigitalWizardry. I know all about the crime especially with the movie theatre... All of that is what ultimately did the mall in unfortunately. What stores were you working at while you were there?

[@the1digitalwizard]

@@360_Experiences damn dude that was like back in the '80s it'll take me a minute to remember those names. They were everywhere back in the day too. Can't think of it at this point

[@the1digitalwizard]

@@360_Experiences took me a minute. Chess King was one of them I believe, Richmond Brothers for a minute I can't remember the third one chess king and the third one were those eighties type stores you know.

[@inquisitor4635]

@@the1digitalwizard Chess King for all your break dancing apparel needs.

[@the1digitalwizard]

@@inquisitor4635 they didn't sell breakdancing clothes

[@phil34nc]

Great video, well done!! I've never been there but reminds me of the malls I've grew up around. Sad to see it go.. I'll miss seeing new videos from different people of this mall. Too bad they won't save the fountain..

[@360_Experiences]

Thanks Phillip!

[@kellireeves4527]

My word some of these shots are just breathtaking-the tiny spider crawling at 4:02 is beautiful!! Was that Sears interior at the beginning?Wow-your mom was part of a fascinating history-I'm sorry she passed.

[@360_Experiences]

Kelli Cox thanks! No the early interior shot was JCPenney.

[@nancyhicksgribble9799]

It's such an empty feeling and odd feeling to see something you knew as a kid, that was so lively, full of life, people, happiness turn to this. It does really remind you how precious moments are and to enjoy things while you have them.

[@WhittyPics]

Damn shame vandals had to tear the place up

[@jerrysanders9101]

Right? I remember being a vandal as a kid .. I guess some kids are just angry.. but as an older man now this stuff really bums me out. It’s so symbolic of America today.

[@chuckrex5664]

Love video used to go there every Sunday it definitely will be missed when there was nothing to do on Sunday that's where you were

[@martiansurgery]

It strangely feels like a glimpse into the future

[@justmyselfandnooneelse3215]

Because that's how it's going to be, you caused it, you abandon the mom-and-pop shops at the indoor malls and you traded them for Walmart and Amazon. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[@martiansurgery]

@@justmyselfandnooneelse3215 The growing pains of unfettered capitalism.. follow the money and IT WILL take you down through some dark alley ways

[@battybethc]

Thankyou for the Video. It is sad to see the Malls going down so rapidly accross America. Makes me sad. 😔😢 Great Video though.Thankyou again.

[@chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil9031]

Just humanity being failures once again, unfortunately.

[@360_Experiences]

Thank you Beth!

[@garyrobinson8991]

So many years’ worth of memories of this place. Lived & worked close to here, did a lot of shopping here.

[@elineff3895]

I didn't know Rolling Acres when it was in business but it's just as sad to me after reading and watching videos about it I hope it's resting peacefully and people shop in it in heaven

[@360_Experiences]

My Mom Worked At Sears In The Hearing Aid Department (She Passed In 1989 When I Was 9 Months), So It Will Always Hold A Special Place For Me!

[@DreamyyArt]

@@360_Experiences this mall still is known and missed by many but they shall know that this mall stands strong in heaven

[@ItsaRomethingeveryday]

such a sad end to a once beautiful mall, loved your video

[@360_Experiences]

Thank you! Very sad end...

[@ocsrc]

It is amazing. To the best of my knowledge the first indoor mall in the country was what started as an open-air group of stores that were then enclosed with a roof over what had been an open walkway. This enclosure was done in 1969 at what became known as the Latham circle Mall in Latham New York There were many places around the country that had similar open air stores that became enclosed and in the mid to late '70s the mega Mall that everybody became used to begin being built in every major area around the country In Upstate New York Colonie Center mall was built this way as was Clifton Country Mall in Clifton Park and in the Lehigh Valley where there had been a giant open field just off route 22 they built the Lehigh Valley Mall which was massive for its time and across the road from it was an open air Mall that had been enclosed called Whitehall Mall but the Lehigh Valley Mall was the blueprint for the mega malls and included a 12 screen multiplex that was in a separate building and also included several fast food restaurants on their own separate pads and to chain restaurants one of which was Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant During the late seventies and early '80s the success of the shopping mall was so good that more mega malls were built including crossgates Mall in guilderland New York and even small towns with populations of only 5,000 people so strip malls built with an anchor store like Ames and an anchor supermarket store like ACME along with a drugstore like rite aid and a Radio Shack and a beverage store and two Banks and a dry cleaners and an eyeglass doctor's office and a pizza place and even a bar And I an a town of only 10,000 people there were standalone clothing stores and retail stores as well as two strip malls like I described and over 100 places to eat and an enclosed shopping mall that had three anchor stores and a Radio Shack and an arcade and a drugstore The malls succeeded very well even after 9/11 they were still successful but what really did them in was not just the internet and things like Amazon and eBay but the violent crime that began to plague even the rural malls to wear it was no longer safe and is not safe to go to a mall or even to stop at a fast food restaurant and when you look at the online shopping the reason why people are paying the fees to get deliveries from Amazon and other companies and incredibly High fees for fast food delivery is because it's not safe to go out anymore Even before the virus hit movie theaters were already seeing incredible losses because people didn't feel safe and people didn't have money to go to the movies anymore and staying at home and watching streaming services or cable was much preferable to going out to the movies All during the pandemic I saw no decrease at all in the amount of traffic to the local stores and the local malls it was exactly the same as it had been prior to the pandemic But the food shortages and the supply chain shortages are very interesting and seeing a lot of products that have not been restocked in over 2 years and the companies like Pepsi saying the reason why they don't have caffeine free Pepsi is because of an aluminum shortage well that doesn't explain why there aren't any 2-liter bottles of it and I think that corporations used this as an excuse to cut losses and to discontinue all but the most profitable items that they sell And when you have a company like Coca-Cola that does not just manufacture Coca-Cola but actually manufacturers over 50 different sodas Plus Powerade of which there's 24 varieties and to see that those have not been restocked with the exception of four of the diet varieties that were the best sellers and Coca-Cola also makes many fruit juices including orange juice in the simply Orange and all of the different simply products Plus there are conglomerate that owns other food producing plants the same as Pepsi owns other snack food plants so if they decide to cut their losses and discontinue or just not make half of the products well saying that they're not discontinued that there's a supply chain shortage that there really isn't there's nothing the consumer can do about it When you see that there's no eggs in the store and there's no beef on the shelf and no chicken but yet all of the fast food restaurants have had no shortages at all during this entire going on 3 years now I think companies are using it as an excuse because their profits were high but not high enough But the shopping malls around 2010 were on their way out and it is an era that was amazing to see the VHS tape and the VHS player and the video rental stores and to have watched each of these different entities and formats and businesses like Blockbuster that they came into being and they were very very successful for a Time like video rental was extremely popular from 1983 to 1993 maybe even a little bit more than that and you could not have done wrong to open a video rental place in 1983 just like you could not have done wrong to build a shopping mall in 1983 But to watch VHS come to an end and disappear as the DVD replaced it and then to watch the streaming services and the digital formats replace the DVD and watch DVD players come to an end truly is amazing and to remember having a 13 inch TV as the only TV in the house in the front room and it was a big deal and now people have TVs that are 50 inches in every bedroom in the kitchen in the office in the front room in the living room and it just is incredible to see how different life is and the smartphone really has changed the world in just 10 years as has social media and it makes me wonder as it seems like we're about to enter a phase where social media is going to be heavily censored to the point where it may no longer be used very much and I wonder what comes next I think 5G is going to be very interesting in all that it does and seeing how much the digital assistants have done and how much is controlled in the house in just the past 5 years how many things that you used to have to either have on or off and the thermostat you had to set and if you wanted to change it you had to get out of bed and you had to go to where the thermostat was and now you can just wake up feel the temperature and tell the digital assistant what to set the thermostat to That's amazing that's really incredible and being able to tell it to turn on the lights turn off the lights turn on the TV turn off the TV change the channel of the TV search for things it's just incredible and I really look forward to more digitalization and the one thing that I'm hoping more than anything else that's going to be coming in less than 10 years to be really nice if we could get it in the next couple years but hopefully in the next 10 years fully automated vehicles and home robots that can unload the car for you So that you can tell your digital assistant your grocery list it will send it to the store and you can tell your vehicle to go pick up the order when it's ready and your vehicle will drive to the store pull up in the lane and it will have either using your QR code in the window or your license plate or some other way of identifying the vehicle and the vehicle will open the back doors and the people or the robots at the store will load the vehicle and the vehicle will drive itself back to your house and your robot will go out and unload your vehicle and maybe not be able to put the stuff away but at least be able to help get the stuff into the house Think about how awesome it would be you need to drive 800 miles or 1200 miles and instead of having to spend 24 hours driving to the airport long-term parking going through security waiting delays finally getting the flight going to the way over delays finally getting the flight getting to where somewhere close to where you need to be renting the car driving to your actual destination instead you tell your vehicle where you need to go and you getting your vehicle and you put the seat back and you go to sleep and the car drives for 12 hours while you sleep to your destination How incredible will that be even if it's only for the highways that are limited access even if it's not allowed for the city streets for taking long trips where you're on the highway 95% of the time it would be awesome

[@TurboDV8]

Holy carp. Stairs without any handrails. 2:32 Imagine how that would work today, with evolution's finest graduates walking up and down the stairs, faces buried in their cell phones.

[@360_Experiences]

There were hand rails before, some materials were removed at closing and sold/ scrapped and scrappers took care of everything else left over the many years it sat vacant.

[@carolinebilliot2298]

Stop shitting on my generation 🤦🏻‍♀️ not all of us are drones 🤦🏻‍♀️ Also, ever heard of vandalism? That’s what happened

[@debwood1619]

Why are we so fascinated with abandoned malls I just love the orange fountain

[@360_Experiences]

Deb, my friend just asked me this same question the other day when we were looking at another abandoned hospital the other day. It's very fascinating.

[@mediocremaiden8883]

Oh my gosh....it's the same design of the mall that this video and song brought me to tears immediately thinking about Eastland Mall and I am looking right at it!! The design!. It looks exactly like Eastland Mall did in Tulsa,OK. The design right down to the escalators and food court downstairs and funky ceiling designs OMG I feel like im looking at an empty Eastland Mall ! Most likely was built by the same building company that went out of business

[@classicmann1199]

Use to ride up from Cleveland (49mins) just to shop..miss these type malls

[@zone47]

Wow, I wish I could have caught it at that stage. Nice work. What would be funny is to slowly pan down one of the hallways and see a guy playing a grand piano. I know that would have been a lot of extra work though.

[@360_Experiences]

Hahaha that grand piano shot sure would have been something though!

[@AaronC143]

This used to be my favorite mall back in my childhood and teenage years. I used to come here all the time. I used shop at KayBee toys, Record Town / FYE, Spencer's, and Target. Played a lot of video games in the arcade here, used to eat lunch either at Wendy's or Big Star Pizza in the food court here. My Mom and Dad used to love eating at Chao Praya here . It's a dirty shame what happened to this place. I miss this mall. First Rolling Acres Mall bit the dust, then Chapel Hill Mall. Now Carnation Mall, and it is being torn down to make way for Meijer. At the least the Summit Mall is still open and still going strong just like Eastwood Mall in Niles is. Ahhhhhh! The memories of this legendary mall, the glass elevator was awesome, this was where I first discovered Target before any other Target stores. It sucks that those stupid jerks and idiots came around here and ruined this place and it made all the stores close and the whole mall itself. R.I.P. Rolling Acres Mall, you will always live forever in our hearts and always be the ultimate mall of Akron and our lives.

[@pamelaaverrett5848]

That was beautiful! Sad and beautiful……

[@joebone3151]

They just started demolishing my towns old mall White Lakes Mall in Topeka Ks. Our other one west ridge has been on a down hill decline for a while I don't know how much longer it will be open

[@solonsaturngaming3727]

man when i see this in the US makes me wanna do this Just once before i die cause i wanna see a old mall dead or dying cause all mine are gone or too modern...

[@pattv5515]

You deserve more subscribers

[@360_Experiences]

Patryk KanikTV thanks!

[@catspaw3092]

Nice music.

[@Sherpaful]

"Clair de Lune" by Debussy

[@CircleVGamer]

Dude we’re getting a dell

[@richarddoolin385]

I was in this mall meny times,after this closed in Akron,Chapel Hill mall hite hard times,I'm not sure if it's still open? Fairlawn was the last Akron Mall,money end of Town.

[@360_Experiences]

Chapel Hill did close a short time ago as well. I was in there before closing and it was mostly just some off the wall stores, and random vendors selling fake gold in the middle aisles. Not many customers in the mall at all and very quiet compared to normal years past.

[@williamsiyanko4631]

May this be a sad day of Rolling Acers Mall.

[@ibtaba]

The beauty of decay.

[@noah_farmer]

J.C. Penney is still in good condition

[@LethaWolf30]

No wonder nobody has been in JCPenny the freakin building still has power! I could see that light on in the back!

[@360_Experiences]

It does indeed still have power. The exterior lights even come on at night.

[@LethaWolf30]

Michael Sedaker seems like a perfectly good building then makes me wonder why the city wants it down

[@LethaWolf30]

I also noticed in a night time video that the old Firestone/JCPenney auto center had the outside lights on regardless of it being boarded up

[@360_Experiences]

H.H. foxaddict they decided to leave it up for now actually.

[@LethaWolf30]

Michael Sedaker what? that can't be how you know that

[@lord.d1_]

Reminds me of exploring the Titanic

[@harveyco3727]

By the way when are there going to be on the new one

[@harveyco3727]

By the way I'm not in Ohio

[@360_Experiences]

@@harveyco3727 where are you from?

[@SuckafreeMacs]

RIP OLD friend......

[@maryduska]

What ashamed another Mall bit the dust and what happen here about this Mall can you tell me what happen to it and what are they putting here went this is all gone

[@charliedavisthearchitect3874]

now is like Dixie square mall

[@chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil9031]

Talk about a bad future...

[@michaelcarter-williamsisth6518]

0:17 a slide??? other than that good job

[@valeriesutton8262]

Not no

[@carlossotojr9669]

the last of us

[@Shagoki]

This video makes me randy.