Visiting The Maumee Antique Mall Inside A Former Hills & Ames Store - Maumee, OH

Visiting The Maumee Antique Mall Inside A Former Hills & Ames Store - Maumee, OH. Today we take a walk down memory lane inside this very large antique mall in Northwestern Ohio just outside of the city of Toledo.
This family run business operates inside of a former Hills department store that in 1999 would be purchased by Ames department stores and become an Ames store until its closure and company's bankruptcy in 2002.
Life would come back to this building as the Maumee Antique Mall has been around for several years. From vinyl, to vintage clothing, toys, electronics, to furniture, artwork, and much MUCH more, there is something for everyone here that you may have seen or had or at least remembered from years past. Anyway, I hope you enjoy.
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[@thedude19766]

Thanks for visiting the Toledo Ohio area

[@AmongTheUnknown]

Jeez, guess I'm on a whole Wallie binge because I literally just finished the Goodies for the Bee video, currently watching the new Rax video, and now THIS. What a night haha

[@Game_Tunes123]

Same

[@nicolemacpherson3908]

So good seeing new life in an old Hills/Ames instead of it wasting away to nothing. Great video!

[@WallieB26]

I agree! And thank you!

[@MOOSEPRIME98]

At my local Ollie’s in Greenwood South Carolina they are using Old Ames shopping carts.

[@jenniferhenry7467]

Poor Santa he has arthritis!! Absolutely love the Hills gear. I soooo miss that store

[@skyebird3933]

Miss Hills for sure. Thanks for seeing all the goodies.

[@stevemole4976]

I worked in this store for a few weeks, I was softlines manager at store 117 Toledo - Central Ave. This was store 126. I remember the office manager entertaining me with her impression of home office employees calling: “Heh-woah, dis is da home aww-fuss cawling for Mr woo-dolph” It was originally built as a Hills, so the main office was upstairs behind those mirrored windows. I think the other Toledo stores were all Woolco conversions, stores 115-117.

[@StantonsJourneys]

Can't believe I missed that and i was in that booth on Sunday. And being a medina super k glass very nice. I did rescue some of the hot wheels. Definitely will be back In the future. What a place it was. Thanks for sharing

[@retroholic5628]

Amazing! I’m an avid antique and thrift store shopper and this looks like a very nice store. I’m still swooning over the Hill’s snack bar!!! This is far from me but I found them on IG & gave ‘em a follow to show support. 😊

[@WallieB26]

Yeah it hit me in the feels to see the Hills snack bar in action sorta like the old days. I loved it! And yeah, this store is far from us here in Pittsburgh but it was worth making a weekend trip out of it.

[@rbeehner2]

As a local I am able to often visit the Antique Mall. May I point out that "Maumee" is pronounced in two syllables ‘Mawh-me’ and not muh-Awe-me. The store owner’s rent space to independent dealers. 3. The place is located on US Rte. 20 Reynolds Road between the Ohio Turnpike and Dussel Drive. Six hundred yards south from the Antique’s Mall is Schlotzky’s where route 20 becomes Conant Street heading to the Maumee River and though Maumee the road is under construction as of this writing.

[@alanlough638]

What awesome antique store! I'm a serious vinyl record collector. I would focus my attention to buying records at that store. Have an Hillslicious Day! Have an Ameslicious Day!

[@dianehenkel9088]

Love your Hills hat. Hills was the best! Mention Hills to anyone in Pittsburgh and you never hear a bad word, just how much Hills is missed. Love the Hills counter in the Antique Mall. My Grandmother used to sit at the Hills counter and eat a hotdog with sauerkraut while I shopped.

[@ericcollins3473]

Bro you're videos take me back I'm 47 and I remember hills and Ames and Kmart and GC Murphy

[@jackifoxx9031]

Really like this antique mall. I could spend all day in there too! I had one of those big ole wicker chairs. Love vintage. Thanks so much for sharing Wallie.

[@lindamikel7913]

That was nice took Kayla at Ames Store.

[@chrispersinger8659]

Yes you right the clock use to be at Friendly's back in the day

[@amandaclick3590]

Thank you, Wallie for an awesome video! I enjoyed browsing through the store! Some of the items in there I grew up with years ago! Wow! I enjoyed watching! ❤😘👍

[@Truckguy1970]

One of the things I miss about these old department stores is the music they used to play with the Rowe Customusic systems

[@retailexplorationwithdanny8070]

That is so cool

[@brennapoling8076]

OMG. I'll need to go to this place soon. I saw stuff from my childhood in there. Thanks for sharing. I'll be going g 100%.

[@otpmetairie4862]

Yes! Service Merchandise!!!

[@itrack4u]

Your best video so far. Thanks a million

[@coltongoff456]

6:57 I have one of those clocks! It has a very nice orange glow from the neon bulb inside it.

[@WallieB26]

That's awesome!

[@jaimienichols5649]

Awesome Wallie

[@davidhoff4237]

Great video, Wallie.

[@marshabrown8337]

Wow, I enjoyed that tour. Thank you. Awesome video.

[@WallieB26]

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed.

[@dave11686]

I love your G5 man. Yellow is my favorite color, as you can sort of tell by my avatar

[@WallieB26]

Thank you! Yeah, I have always wanted a bright yellow car so it's neat how one just came to me. Haha I love that car too. It's fun as heck to drive.

[@RaveSacks]

Wow, this place looks awesome! I love Ames/Hills just as much as you, so many great memories as a kid in the 80s and a teenager in the 90s.

[@brucesumter4327]

wow so cool place's lots of things in there ty for showing this video :)

[@BIendtecc]

I did indeed enjoy this video!

[@killerpokemon]

I go to this antique mall a lot! It caught me by suprise to see you coming here wallie!

[@chrispersinger8659]

Ohh man I remember when that was a Hills and my family shoped there all the time... And there use to be a Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant right down the way

[@shelbychurchisbeautiful614]

The Maumee Antique Mall Was A Cool Looking Mall.

[@chrissasandlin8344]

This makes me want to antiquing with Mom. Just a cozy way to spend an afternoon. :)

[@bazingatime1]

#SAVETHEKMARTS Awesome that the Customer Service sign was still in use, imagine still living in 2002.

[@AaronC143]

That's awesome. An antique mall inside a former Hills building. Too far away from me though. If I was there at the time of this video, I would've bought that other Kmart glass. I usually buy CDs, cassettes, records, 8 track tapes, movies, and video games in these flea markets. I miss Hills.

[@paul-roblox5174]

My Mom has that School building toy had it for really I mean really long time I have no idea how many years that she has it but it has been many years it is way more then I can remember but it is cool to see that in there 19:54

[@paul-roblox5174]

By way I did play with that school building toy back when I was kid and my Mom still has still has that School building in today's world : )

[@mallorycomer1097]

I love the Hills/Ames vibes and that Kmart cup was a great find. What an awesome place!

[@news89]

Omg I need to make a trip out there one weekend.

[@outroseok]

thank you for this video!! I love antique malls so much but sadly we don't have one where I live.

[@WallieB26]

We have a couple of little ones near where we live but nothing to the caliber of this one or any of the ones we have visited in Texas.

[@tanyastiver9428]

Absolutely loved this video. What an awesome find. I would love to go through there. I would be like you. I would spend hours and hours in there as well.

[@brl412pug4]

That hat is awesome

[@Hail2th3k1n6]

Nice find on that Super Kmart glass cup. Also I swore I seen you and Kayla driving in the bee friend in northeast Alabama last Saturday morning. Probably wasn’t though, probably just a man and a woman driving their yellow Pontiac G5 coupe out and about.

[@larryosselborn9009]

1978 I was 6 years old

[@jerrymander8020]

thanks for the video. I coming down from Detroit and wanted to know what to expect

[@LegS-fo3fb]

Wow!! I live about an hour from there & there used to be an Ames & a Hills here, too back in the mid 90's! Back then, I worked at the Hills that was here. I have a pic of myself in my red smock with one of my coworkers who was in costume as the Easter Bunny. As a matter of fact, I still have my Hills name tag!!! 😀

[@gregoriogonzalez216]

I live in toledo so i maybe visit it when im not so busy and im a big hot wheels and match box's fan thanks for showing it

[@stevenesbit4152]

Love you videos. The town is pronounced maw mee. I grew up near there. That antique mall is cool.

[@michaelblair5767]

I was just at that antique mall two weeks ago and it is a very cool store around Toledo Ohio you can spend hours there

[@WallieB26]

I agree. I spent almost 3 hours in here. Haha

[@jock699]

Woo hoo near my house. There was a friendlly's out front as you suspected. There is also an abandoned Chi Chi's out front too. Welcome to Maumee (pronounced maw-mee lol). Keep up the great work!!

[@leeherring470]

Man you guys travel all over the place pretty kool

[@domm.993]

Excellent video...Have you ever visited Rose's in Lower Burrell, PA? It used to be Hills and Ames back in the day. Love your videos!

[@angelalinderman9985]

Yes! Very cool I miss Hills! Very cool hat and shirt!👍 We never left. Hills without stopping at the snack bar, I'll take a hot dog and nachos please...😂🌭🛒 I would spend waaay to much time in this store! Wow there is So much to see!

[@ericheld4382]

I might have to take a ride out there and check it out

[@Gail_P]

That is the most excellent thrift store. I am jealous 😀

[@nicolemacpherson3908]

14:33-14:39 Hey look! A bright neon Patrick from SpongeBob!

[@703am]

I'd have to leave my wallet at home if I went there ...lol... cool video thanks for posting take care guys

[@slackingpacking]

Awesome Wallie. I’ve been meaning to check this place out for awhile. The restaurant in front was definitely a Friendly’s and next to that was a Chi-Chi’s.

[@WallieB26]

Yeah I recognized the Friendly's immediately. Wasn't worth doing a video because every window was boarded up. I was going to do the Chi Chi's but the weather was getting bad fast.

[@paul-roblox5174]

@@WallieB26 Believe it or not there use be Friendly's in Beaver Creek Ohio but that one end up got Closed and demolish and Panera bread went to where Friendly's was and that was one of Friendly's I went as kid back in my childhood days and no it did not Closed because of covid it was already closed before covid started but I do miss Friendly's plus I don't know anymore Friendly's that are open anymore.

[@rbeehner2]

as of Aug 2022 Friendly's and Chi-Chi's are not options. There are Frickers, Big Boy, Red Lobster, Fiesta (Mexican), Schlotzky’s, Ecore, Tony Packos, and Five Guys Hamburgers and other eateries in the neighborhood.

[@jennifergarrett6809]

At 33:07 I saw a picture that looked a lot like a picture my dad had of his ship he served on in WW2. I'd bet that it was drawn by the same guy. My brother has the picture now.

[@otpmetairie4862]

Good afternoon

[@sweetwa089]

My grandma had the same Santa Clause. RIP.

[@thepinkyprincesspoetc.a.5767]

What an awesome find I worked in my grandmothers antique shop up in Canada when I was 12 and 13 and it was so exciting I love antiques I would go absolutely wild in there but I’d have to take one of those little carts around as I’m waiting To have a hip replacement and knee replacement but I had had to move in with my 83 year old dad who is dying of cancer and your videos have been such a comfort to me Wally and I’m on crutches and I had to take my hubby off life support in 2020 and I miss him so much because he was my rock just like you and Kayla together David and I were together like that too and I know you cherish each other like David and I did and I love your videos but I would go absolutely crazy in there and it looks like thatSanta Claus had some arthritis but anyway the videos just started so I’m gonna get back to it I just wanted to say hi from Salt Lake City

[@CheapestGamer]

That Centipede arcade machine with the Donkey Kong artwork around the screen was definitely NOT running Centipede. I guess that's one of those multicades that reused an old cabinet.

[@Tailwhip222]

where i work used to be an antique mall too xD and if my father were still alive, he would go to town on that Coca Cola stuff :)

[@collectorman101]

Was here the other day bought a lot of star wars figures lol

[@chriscarpenter7137]

Wally I've been working but you've probably noticed my messages over the years, Did you notice the building in the front as a former friendly's ice cream? The other restaurant in that parking lot used to be a chi-chi's, Can't wait to watch this video when I get home from work!

[@chriscarpenter7137]

I am working rather

[@zoefaith120]

She a long one.... but the stuff on the video was epic!

[@bjv93]

I'm pretty sure this wasn't anything else between Ames and this since it looks like even the old Ames sign is still on the front of the building, just with the new name drilled over top of it. So strange haha.

[@DougTheBugVR1]

Yo if u come to ironton u can explore Ames and hills but Buffalo Wild Wings takes some space

[@kevinguitar1224]

How dare you go to Schlotzskys without me!!!

[@larryosselborn9009]

Belle vernon pa hills became ames now its ollies

[@williamdevriesjr2812]

Hay Wallieb26 there used to be a place like that in Versailles Kentucky I have no idea what old store it was in

[@vincentnocera2521]

Impressive! But I better steer clear of this place. With that die cast car section, I'll deplete my savings account real quick!

[@Richard-vq2lj]

Actually I know that the Pennsylvania state police actually had dodge Magnums I remember seeing one in grove city near the outlets

[@doctorwhofan6340]

4:17 so Santa's got arthritis or something? Poor guy I guess that's what happened after years of delivering presents to all the kids of the world.

[@andypritchard9644]

It's pronounced Mommy guys lol. Regardless great job with the video Wallie and Kayla!

[@chriscarpenter7137]

no it not lol, I live outside of Maumee (maw-mee) :)

[@crystalscan2002]

I going guess the fire alarm and security alarm still say ames

[@KMART_ENTHUSIAST]

id go to that store only for the road signs 😭

[@jZ0357]

Wallie Dinosaurs is on Disney+ if you’re interested

[@jameshebert5430]

Wallie you think the Super Kmart glass was cool you missed the A & W root beer mug on the same shelf as the second Super K.

[@brennapoling8076]

What's the addy of this location? Much tb ks In advance.

[@WallieB26]

The address is: 1552 S Reynolds Rd, Maumee, OH 43537

[@brennapoling8076]

@@WallieB26 thank u so much for the addy.

[@davidm4160]

I don't see a lot of antiques. Looks like a giant thrift store to me. Thanks you for doing this video, it saved me a long trip and disappointment.

[@juniorkoos5572]

Come to bowling Green ohio we have a dead mall except for thrift store's and a dunhams

[@lukeostrowski1626]

goodmoring walliw iam from Buffalo,n,y did you see any thing form buffalo,n,y thank you Luke

[@adamknepp4429]

Not the mama (dinosaurs)

[@kimberlygorcey4290]

I'm the baby, gotta love me. Not to momma

[@nicksabandonedadventures4771]

When did the Ames open and close same as the hills.

[@elizabethjohnson9960]

Maumee is not pronounced that way.... (Mawmee).