Walking tour of the Aberdeen, WA mall (Completely dead mall)

[@marybachmann]

First they shut down the power project, then they stopped fishing and logging. Without industry, how is a town supposed to survive? The environmentalists had their way with Aberdeen and then just left her there to die.

[@galvinstanley3235]

Convince big businesses that they can get land cheap there.

[@amandabrown4269]

This breaks my heart so much. I lived behind there when it was being built. I grew up in that mall. I smoked my first smoke in the parking lot there. So many memories if that place being packed constantly. Hanging out there as a teenager, seeing movies and hanging out with friends. It's a relic frozen in apocalyptic time. I hope one day this poor town can find it's way up again. I miss what my hometown used to be.

[@nomadben]

Amanda.R.Edwards Thanks for sharing your story, it's interesting to hear from people that went to this mall back in the day. And I thought that myself when I was there - it really does feel like a time capsule in there, for better or for worse.

[@Grumpyfrump]

Yeah, I had some good experiences there. Like getting my license an joining the Marines.

[@TheChief005]

Amanda.R.Edwards What where the orignal anchor stores?

[@shonufftheshogun]

@@TheChief005 Sears, JC Pennys, and K Mart

[@urbanthewicker7972]

Did you ever see the mythological creature that is the plaid flannel man with guitar and ciggerette He hasn’t been spotted since 1994

[@barley_tea3885]

I lived behind this mall for 5 years in my young adulthood and spent a good portion of my teenage years here because it was quiet, dry, and had a very relaxed attitude. The vendors were always really kind to me. After I had my son I would basically spend his first winter strapping him to me and taking him on walks while he napped. He learned to crawl and walk here. As it sank further into deterioration (The roof had pretty serious issues and there were many leaky spots throughout the building. I assume this played a part in the eventual shutdown of the entire mall after a snowstorm caused further damage) you could walk the perimeter of the building and notice how nature was reclaiming it. Bats made a nest on the roof at one point, a small section of grass in the parking lot had native orchids growing, trees in the parking lot were surrounded by saplings, and there was a pretty large array of mushrooms that sprang up from time to time. I had been going to this mall since I was 10 and for the fifteen years before it closed it never reached its former glory, but it definitely felt like a community center. I'll always have fond memories of this place. I spent 15 years hearing about what a dump my town is, but now wealthier people are moving here in droves and it's hard to buy a home, rental prices are skyrocketing, historical buildings are torn down or just burn down and the homeless population needs support they're not getting. It's hard to think about being priced out of a place very few seemed to give a shit about until recently.

[@nomadben]

Thanks for sharing your story, Ben. I had no idea that Aberdeen was starting to see growth again. That does seem like sort of a paradoxical turn of events.

[@kevin457]

this man is very derogatory in his comments yes everything is falling but in the 1980s when I was raising my kids there I worked in the log yard the log yards ran almost twenty-four hours a day the Mills and the paper mills ran day and night, the mall was extremely busy in those days the economy's dropped so Aberdeen is falling into the slump but used to be a very thriving metropolis.

[@bigboineptune9567]

Kevin Aberdeen has always been a shithole. Back in the 1900s it was known as the "port of missing men" due to its batshit insane murder rate.

[@chuckhitter5541]

@@bigboineptune9567 that was due to one guy . He was one of the worst serial killers of all time . Billy ghoul. Aberdeen is a complete fucking shithole dump. Living in that shithole would drive anyone to murder. It's a filthy fucking dump

[@bigboineptune9567]

Chuck Hitter It's the Detroit of Washington.

[@chuckhitter5541]

@@bigboineptune9567 that's really insulting to people from Detroit. Even hoquiam is a better town and that place sucks too. Wymyns from Aberdeen are nasty add cum dumpsters. Whole dump city should be condemned

[@jsdalton10]

If Seattle would just stop dumping drug users on Aberdeen and allow the community to receive a more fair share of state funds, things could be fixed up and there could be a sense of growth and revival. As it is Seattle and its surrounding areas seem to not care about the rest of the state.

[@nomadben]

Seems reasonable. I'm curious what you're referring to when you say that Seattle is dumping drug users on Aberdeen?

[@marybachmann]

@@nomadben When they get out of jail, or rehab, the city (and other cities and counties in this state--some I know from other STATES) give them a bus ticket to wherever they want to go. Over time, everyone goes where their friends go (the ones they make in jail). So they all tend to go to the same places. Western WA has a mild climate and a lot of enablers.

[@squirehaggard4749]

I want a job in that mall. No customers to bother you!

[@redpillmale6518]

Ya, and no customers to pay your wages. Numbskull.

[@fastred6007]

Too late, it been abandon, almost 2 years

[@joshuaelliott1458]

the walmart stays packed though 24/7

[@nomadben]

Wouldn't doubt that for a second

[@centralparkgeek]

But I have to put on my pajama bottoms and take out my teeth before I go in there - then take a shower when I come out.

[@chuckhitter5541]

@@centralparkgeek I saw a toothless guy in the Aberdeen Wal-Mart grab a raw thin sliced steak and suck on it in his toothless mouth raw. That town sucks

[@hollycowden25]

Walmart is the reason the mall died!

[@erictoulon5946]

@@chuckhitter5541 when I drove through a few years ago on my way out to Seabrook the place looked like a bunch of meth heads were living there. It looked like the only thriving businesses were the pot shops.

[@CotSwossel]

One thing you didn't mention is how lumpy and unflat the floor is in many places there. As if it could get any worse.

[@centralparkgeek]

That's because General Growth built it on the cheap and didn't drive piling. Sears (and maybe the old Penney's space) are the the only places with piling. That whole area is built on mud.

[@nomadben]

@@centralparkgeek Thanks for the insight, I love hearing from people that were around when it was built.

[@centralparkgeek]

My dad worked on the initial site prep. I'm currently in the process of scanning my 35mm slide collection. I'm only up to 1968 right now, so it will take a little while before I get that far. But I know I have a few pics of the crane in the mud.

[@nomadben]

@@centralparkgeek Wow, cool! That'll be interesting to look through those.

[@sarahbeara1018]

It happened after that big earthquake around 2000.

[@aaronyucha1370]

So freaking sad but so glad I left my hometown but definitely remember kb toys and foot locker always jam packed it's such bullshit they haven't even bothered to do anything with this mall

[@Down.Range.]

Don't forget disc jockey

[@jennywithlime]

FYE!!

[@chadwilliams5753]

Same here

[@iamryan1995]

A word about the art in Aberdeen. One of the good things about Aberdeen is the Aberdeen Art Center. It is an incredible gallery with many excellent local artists. The owners do a lot for the city of Aberdeen, such as refinishing the statues around town, and putting on the Rain Glow festival. Although there are many dead areas/ things in Aberdeen, art is not one of them. Visit my friends at the Aberdeen Art Gallery, and see!

[@TrumpetBoyGD]

I can confirm this place is even more dead now. The fun center is basically the only thing left since the rest of the mall is literally sinking into the swamp.

[@kitty8184]

Aberdeen is such a horrible place omg. It’s literally always raining, full of tweakers, racists, and sex offenders. The mall is garbage and the town has barely any stores! It’s the worst town besides Hoquiam.

[@ethanzstuff5497]

At least it's not Detroit

[@topdoggson2952]

Hoquiam is even worse 😂

[@SgtM37slayer]

great place to shoot a movie.

[@girl2541]

Ikr

[@irwincorazon9304]

Zombie movie

[@siskavard]

or heroin

[@noobzradiation4859]

@@siskavard lmfao

[@lastonmars]

This video makes me sad. I was an exchange student at Aberdeen high school back in 2003-2004 and spend a lot of time with friends with good memories at the mall in the video. I hope things get better in Aberdeen.

[@jennywithlime]

Unfortunately the mall has only gotten worse. The windows and doors to all but the fun center showed briefly in the video are all boarded up and the lot is barely maintained (The fun center is amazing though!) BUT if it helps- a bunch of the old falling down buildings w cool old architecture got bought up in the last year and are getting repaired real nice, and Hoquiam just got hella new sidewalks! so there is hope!

[@cid9029]

Nope. It's a million times worse sadly. I moved across the state in 2014. Came back for the first time in the fall and Aberdeen looks like a 3rd world country war zone

[@theysucob]

@@cid9029 and now ? doesnt look 3rdworld at all to me in the vids ive seen

[@tomgarrison8492]

As of now the mall is completely closed. The mall's decline and eventual full closure is due to the poor construction of the entire facility and subsequent structural hazard. City engineers forced the closure of the facility due the danger of it collapsing.

[@jennywithlime]

Can confirm ☝️

[@chadwilliams5753]

The only thing is open in this mall is the extreme fun center

[@Cohn-q2e]

actually the extreme fun center is still there till this day

[@number2pencil588]

COH'N

[@stonerdugan]

And still is to this day

[@depressoespressogachalol415]

And to this day

[@TheChief005]

WoofleGang And still today

[@adamg6427]

And today

[@jenette16]

Keep in mind Aberdeen was hit hard by the environmental activism targeting the timber industry and hit even harder by the sale of the Simpson timber company and subsequent closing of the mills. The Aberdeen people are honest, hardworking and very resilient. And don't forget that WWE wrestler Daniel Brian is from and still has a home in Aberdeen!

[@chadwilliams5753]

Also when Weyerhaeuser pulled out as well helped with this decline of Aberdeen as well

[@nwcoastlife]

I’m surprised it hasn’t been torn down. It’s like 2 shops and a Dairy Queen.

[@4st7lb96]

visited there the other day and had some men try and convince me to get in their car after following me around the mall. homeboy i’m just trying to get images for a school project.

[@nomadben]

Sounds sketchy

[@4st7lb96]

nomadben hell yeah it was! i’m no means petite (5’8, 90 pounds) but jesus those guys could’ve snapped me in half

[@malllllll]

dark mavis you are clearly suffering from an eating disorder given your “thinspo” playlist. Seek help

[@godsded]

Liar

[@codiplee47]

The Southshore Mall pretty much is dead, except for The Extreme Funcenter, and the theater

[@chadwilliams5753]

No more theater just the extreme fun center is there

[@codiplee47]

@@chadwilliams5753 Yep, I knew that. The fun center's the only thing they've got going.

[@andyd1006]

@@chadwilliams5753 It was recently shut down.

[@centralparkgeek]

When the mall opened in 1978, I was hired by General Growth to take pictures the day it opened (I had a portrait studio at the time). General Growth never took care of the place, and it went downhill from there.

[@nomadben]

Wow, thanks for sharing! It's interesting to hear it went downhill right from the beginning. And I'm also a portrait photographer myself.

[@centralparkgeek]

I closed the studio in 1995 and retired last January from a career in IT. Kept my studio lights & Hasselblads, but have recently been selling off darkroom equipment on eBay.

[@nomadben]

Sounds like you had a good career. Those Hasselblads are wonderful cameras, keeping them was a good move. As you might know, there is a huge film renaissance going on right now.

[@dickaswingin3642]

It opened in 1981

[@chadwilliams5753]

Well the theater bought the mall and now it is just extreme fun center is the only game in the mall that is still standing

[@santini79]

I remember working at the Southshore Mall back in 1998. There was lots to do in the mall then. It is a shame what it looks like today.

[@galvinstanley3235]

TILT.

[@ismokefortnitecarts]

I lived in Aberdeen fall 2019 to the start of covid. Moved up from Southern California to play baseball at the actually beautiful college. The city, the weather, and the people were a complete culture shock to me from what I was used to, and worsened my depression the longer I lived there. The mall was incredibly eerie while a few more small shops were open at the time than this video. The Sears closed about a month after moving there. But I would find myself walking through at least once a week to go to the Mexican food spot. It was the only thing that reminded me of home. For quite some time I never wanted to think about Aberdeen again, but I find myself wanting to visit the mall once more. Thank you, genuinely, for putting it on video.

[@theysucob]

how is it now¿

[@stevemccoy7918]

Why did you film this during a bomb scare hahaha?

[@violag8499]

Got stuck there in August this year, my car broke down on a roadtrip and this was the only place within walking distance from the hotel I stayed at. Lemme tell you that taqueria is flame! And now there's also a Mexican grocery in the mall. And the Extreme Fun Center was poppin off both times I went into the mall

[@stephenchiappetta3427]

The mall is actually beginning to pick up in business now. But as always they will die back down. I remember when people actually liked the mall but now the only people going there work there.

[@indycat8345]

Seen some comments about a lumpy floor, there's decay underneath the building and it is permanently closed.

[@nomadben]

They really closed the whole mall?

[@chadwilliams5753]

Just the extreme fun center still left in the mall

[@keyzheta4045]

I go to that mall, and the only reason the mall is still open is probably because of the movie theater.

[@keyzheta4045]

And maybe sears too

[@darkstar6909]

Sears is usually empty.

[@ethanzstuff5497]

Extreme fun center

[@depressoespressogachalol415]

It’s a bit more popular at this current time, there are many shops, the movie theatre is even more popular, multiple game stores, the extreme fun center is very popular, hosts many birthday parties, hair salons, great food places, and much much more

[@one2584]

i recently visited this mall and business has actually picked up. The fun center is still open, the sears hasnt closed, there is a new bar and grill on the outside, there is a clothing store where GNC used to be, another new anchor opened near the entrance near the fun center. The mall seems to be a little more popular now and is at about 30 percent occupancy compared to 9 percent where it was whe you were here.

[@nomadben]

Wow, that's impressive.

[@one2584]

@@nomadben the most ironic part is that the sears actually closes tomorrow rip

[@nomadben]

@@one2584 Well Sears has been awful for some years now, so that isn't surprising.

[@one2584]

@@nomadben a target might be taking its place according to the newspaper we got. Old Navy is already moving in. I really want to see that mall get back on its feet despite not living near it cause im sad about malls dying. There are so many big stores in there that probably have sat unused for years and one of the stores in there is a card store that i really want to stay alive.

[@TheChief005]

BrokenShadow where did you get the news article from!??!

[@mikeavation661]

The extreme fun center is still open and booming!

[@andyd1006]

@@mikeavation661 It was recently shut down.

[@rashellriddle6508]

Not anymore, closed a couple months ago🙁

[@abc_u_hater]

I remember in 04 or something they had sbarro pizza, orange Julius, panda express, and dairy queen in the food court by the movie theater. Then the mini gold course and tilt arcade... that mall used to be lit.

[@mannyalveraz1861]

Americas saddest mall for americas saddest town

[@Bounty6Gulf]

Last time I was in there was in the mid 80s as a kid the place was booming. Spent lots of quarters in the large video arcade

[@nomadben]

Bounty6Gulf That sounds like fun.

[@dtrust68]

i remember when this mall was full of stores and peeps..when i was in my teens... KB toys and the pet store and the music store. DMV. the christian store filled the windows where he entered to the right. loved it back then

[@Bounty6Gulf]

Dustin Rust I totally forgot about KB toys and the pet shop with the boas on display out front. Place was cool in the 80s

[@starshine1509]

@@Bounty6Gulf it was cool to in the 90s too! I remember my parents walking thru the mall smoking cigarettes until the state passed the clean air law. There were ashtrays all throughout the place. There also was a orange Julius directly across from the theater, Dairy Queen was across from the Mexican restaurant, Tilt the arcade next to DQ... Walmart killed it all.

[@JaredPhilbrick]

Dan Bell needs to explore there XD

[@nomadben]

Jared Philbrick haha, shining that light right in people's faces as they're trying to walk down the hall.

[@JaredPhilbrick]

XD especially when its cloudy and dark outside, us deeners are like bats

[@TheChief005]

I remember when I was little and I went there I remember there was always a lot of people!

[@chadwilliams5753]

A lot of memories in this mall not just anchor stores there were a book store there scamps pet store kb toy store Claire’s bath and body works trading card shop foot locker fuel Harry’s Ritchie’s fye and many more there

[@carlahatch7746]

And what are you the Master of exactly? Negativity?

[@casketblack5660]

Negativity ? You need to wake the fuck up?

[@jasonpelerine7817]

No she is right. Nomad Ben probably doesn't even live here and yet he did dares to assert certain things about things here in Aberdeen may or may not be true probably went to back to Seattle where there's a gazillion + 1 people and where he can have his narrow negative selfish point of view that he normally has

[@casketblack5660]

U forgot to mention how the floors inside this mall are strangely uneven and wavy. My wife and i moved here a year ago because her STUPID mother moved here and said how much she liked it here and lied to us about job growth. Moving here was the biggest mistake of my entire life. I havent been able to find any work here like i used to do and Grays harbor college SUCKS! This place is full of drug addicts with huge arrest records some of whom are homeless. And yeah theres a lot of homeless! This place is awful i cant wait to leave. I guy i met said , yeah the only people that move here are elderly or they made a mistake. We made a huge mistake.

[@bonzwinz296]

How are you now?

[@Jarrid313]

Do you still live here? Lol

[@pirateylass]

Sounds like you’re the stupid one. Why move to a town without looking into the place yourself? 😂

[@riplonelyy]

Pretty crazy how they just let a mall die lmao remind me of radiator Springs 😭 because how it used to be alive now it’s all gone nobody even stops by anymore

[@Aharambe]

Radiator springs lmfao 😭

[@sauleilua7865]

I’m from Auckland, New Zealand. I was there 2 years back visiting family and I remember visiting this place. This was probably the most saddest, depressing place I had come across Just seeing everything shut down except for a few places open. It was still an awesome trip for sure, especially being it my first time to the States but that was a big shock for me.

[@tubbycook2934]

I walked thru a mall a few tears ago and could not find anything I would want for free.

[@jamesonnguyen1274]

Man do i miss the good ole south shore mall i was born and raised in aberdeen and you can knock it all u want but im proud to say im from Aberdeen. Now that i think of it i had my first kiss, fist fight and chew all in the same day at this mall. Boy do i miss the good ole days...lol

[@nomadben]

Haha that's cool, thanks for sharing your story Jimmy.

[@bigboineptune9567]

I went there once. Second most depressing place I have ever been to in my life, the first being East St. Louis.

[@jimguilland4290]

Most malls are like this now. I would love to see a rebirth. It could happen, just like the stock market goes up and down, mall shopping could do the same. I miss malls. On line shopping is convenient and economical, but malls always had such a vibrant atmosphere, it was always a pleasure to shop in them. As for the town of Aberdeen, it’s been dead for years and years. If it ever has a chance of resurrection, somebody will have to get very creative, and the whole town will have to change its mindset.

[@lilnative]

I live here and it still like that

[@twix2756]

And it's only getting worse, simply put they charge too much for rent due to it being so empty. They gotta make rent somehow. Businesses will come and go move in and out thinking they can make it better but people here just can't afford to shop. We're slowly working on cleaning up this city starting with the severe drug and homeless problems.

[@haleybender7932]

You should submit this to deadmalls.com. They only have two entries for Washington state dead malls, and South Shore Mall definitely belongs there.

[@thesdf1234]

How exactly would a mall in an area that has maybe 25k residents be bustling? Its a small town, i wouldnt expect most places to be packed, nor would i expect the mall jam-packed with businesses. Considering the area isnt close enough to Olympia, its proximity to the coast for crabbing, clamming, fishing, and rivers for Steelhead and Salmon is its main drawing card. It is what it is. The Oregon coastal cities are the same way

[@Brex806]

People like you are good for Aberdeen. I live in a busy city and looking to move out to the Pacific NW to a slower pace of living & some crabbing.....Thanks for being honest for people like me that hasen't seen western Wa, yet"> >

[@treyartson6788]

When I was little (circa 1988) that place was happening. The parking lots out front and back were packed full as this area still had mega money flowing from the timber industry before the collapse.

[@darkstar6909]

I remember when the mall was built and it was filled with people well into the mid 90's. The spotted owl, walmart, and the internet left it the shell it is today

[@shuff1111]

Has nothing to do with the population.... Aberdeen in fact only has about 16,000 people and I remember in the early 90's, that mall was always packed.

[@tjceleste23]

Wow. Seems like almost every video I have seen about this place, it seems like it really sucks. Does it really though? Or is there actually some good qualities about this town?

[@pamiperry3329]

Need to turn this mall into low-income family apartments. And have a indoor playground.

[@BarbaraLeavenworth]

You were kinda rude! We have seen bad times in this little town but many of us saw it at it's high point when there wasn't a mall but downtown stores that where booming, there was another mall in town when this on was built both did well for years.Please go back where you came from!

[@lukeperry6903]

I wonder if Kurt Cobain hung out their?

[@nomadben]

I'd guess probably not.

[@bonnieshaw7308]

Malls are a thing of the past. Nothing new.

[@nataliemareth1605]

He makes this mall out to be worse than it is. It is actually being used more now. He also says that a lot of the places are closed when they’re still open to this day. This video just makes me mad. He skips around the open store’s and parts of the mall. Also great trash talking dude!

[@orlandotolentino4501]

Thank you!!! This was a fun mall but now people like talking shit about it and the whole town!

[@chadwilliams5753]

I think the mall losing Kmart was a glimpse into the malls future when a mall loses one of their anchor stores and do not replace it with something else that is a tell sign of the malls future just like years later losing JC PENNYS and they replace it with the extreme fun center as a anchor place

[@greyone308]

funny. but arnt all malls a dated concept? truely depressing malls contain hundreds of aholes yelling back and forth about various minimal concerns of a personal nature, while refusing to move out of the pedestrians way along the walk..... the shops support them and if you might need a wig....they have you covered( pun intended). a desolate mall, a dead mall.....this is the sacred way of the hundred million dollar mall. they all die, as well they should. Imagine the elitist golf course that will eventually take thier place...so pristine.....so expensive. im assuming the tax payers will foot the bill one way or another.....

[@Brex806]

Internet shopping has taken the lead.

[@greyone308]

What is this internet that you speak of?

[@jobero5769]

Sometimes I read comments that make me think "wow, that is a good comment". This is one of those comments.

[@jasonpelerine7817]

Unfortunately even the Mall of America will befall the same fate but that's going to be quite a while in the making

[@prismaticfanatic8162]

Make it a Skatepark!

[@woodystubb686]

I remember when I was a kid that place was the place to be , booming!!!, ghost town now

[@MrBubonicChronic]

Early 90's?

[@ganjatheninja]

i spent so much of my childhood and teenager years here hurts to see it in 2022

[@Green-Andy]

I used to live there. The only great thing about that mall is the Mexican restaurant and the comic book store

[@vaporfreezy2226]

The description of this video killed me.

[@makemarker]

You know that prize the stores give the millionth customer? Here the bar is set at a hundred...

[@Grumpyfrump]

At least they were playing Heart.

[@derekwestbrook6035]

There is also filipinos living in aberdeen?? Just saw a store that says Filipino Grocer at 4:23

[@JacobDean88]

In the 80s and 90s this was a happening place. They had a pretty decent arcade also. The food court looks exactly the same.

[@sunnylyfe]

TILT was the bomb

[@SuperNoncents]

I want to move to Aberdeen to open a restaurant/bar.

[@emilyfarias6428]

i live in aberdeen

[@danielburgher5336]

It was the Southshore Mall, but you wouldn't know that since you seem to look for the negative and make fun of a town on hard times.

[@TheVintageSpacesChannel]

just found this today. this is GOLD. well done!

[@Sunsetdrivein]

The Extreme Fun Center used to be the Tilt Arcade. The ten screen movie theater is in the very back of the mall and not visible from the main road. There used to be a Radio Shack inside the mall, but it closed ten years ago. This mall used to have a K-Mart and a JC Penney's ther, but they also pulled out about the same time. What a dump this mall is.

[@nomadben]

Thanks for sharing Ken.

[@kellyrobinson3136]

Uhm, what? The Extreme Fun Center is where JC Penny's use to be. Kmart was out of there way before JCPenny. They not only moved out, but the mall owners tore down that part of the mall about 20yrs ago.

[@falconJB]

To be fair to the mall Aberdeen is also a decrepit place where no fun is to be had.

[@lauriesherrill7386]

i would come buy stuff but its 2021 and 2020 when i lived in hoquiam and i believe its closed. which is sad because then its just walmart and an occasional oddity store or thrift store.

[@sarahbeara1018]

It used to be an awesome mall back in the 90s. It was busy and everything was opened.

[@angelgalvez4289]

This is sad there used to be a lot of people going in and out but it’s like a ghost town

[@aimee9406]

Can someone tell me what stores used to be in this mall?

[@Crunk5.0]

Many things, an arcade the extreme fun center, sears, a music store and lesson place, and a bunch of locally owned shops with comic books and crafts. Real sad it's gone down. The arcade was the last to stay open until it closes on the 18th of August. I worked there and was able to go into the abandoned mall part and it's been completely torn apart by the homeless that would break in.

[@YungExpo1400]

​@@Crunk5.0 I Went inside the fun center About a month before closure, didn't stay long though due to me being there for a KZbin video.

[@Crunk5.0]

@YungExpo1400 i ran the go karts down there for about a year or 2 before closure. Sad to see one of the very few fun things to do in that town get closed

[@theysucob]

well, very weird that being from 2016, looks like 2020s ongoing apocalypse, i remember your kind of humor was present before 2020, now long gone, i dont laugh anymore since that year, i guess it wasnt like that in kurts days,he changed my life forever, i guess he didnt deserve to live this current terrible apocalypse which i can barely survive. aberdeen is my biggest dream , sadness and frustration, hope i can go before i die , thanks

[@Crunk5.0]

It's a very melancholy town. I grew up there and understood why kurt wanted to die.

[@St.MartinofToursPrayToGodForUs]

Wait, there's a mall????

[@rsohlich1]

Like every mall in America. I'm from battle Creek Michigan and the mall there is almost exactly like this. It's about to be part of old America.

[@chadwilliams5753]

I would like to point out every mall have there humble beginnings to their peaks and their decline and unfortunately their end I would say this mall was built in the late 1970’s to about early 1980’s by looking at how the mall looks and I would say it probably peaked or it’s heyday during 1998 to at least 2008 and after that it started to go down hill from there

[@mommablahblah5619]

Really you’re a really messed up. The mall industry is closing all over Washington state. For you just to walk in and assume that everything should be busy it’s just mind-boggling...

[@robertyoung1777]

Sad - a potent symbol of our cultural “throw away attitude” toward pretty much everything.

[@OFFTRENN]

U should go back this year it's not so dead

[@pontifixmax]

Love that they're playing Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face".

[@itwiznaemeitwizumin4655]

I'm from Aberdeen, Scotland while watching your vid i'm thinking i have never seen this building before.😊

[@nomadben]

That's funny! I'll bet the weather in both Aberdeens is actually pretty similar.

[@rylandspencer]

This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen and an accurate description of Aberdeen lol

[@mrangryface]

a centerpiece of my highschool years

[@stephenfletcher7567]

Export the logs, close the mills, vote for the same and this is what you get.

[@stephenfletcher7567]

It's a mess. TOTALLY.

[@stephenfletcher7567]

could you email me Ben? I'm an Aberdeen native in South Carolina. [e-mail]

[@orlandotolentino4501]

Aberdeen wasn't a best place to live! Living in aberdeen was like living in the ghetto, but I still love this place and it is my hometown.

[@jenjones3781]

This is my mall

[@malakairiddle2791]

Anyone here after that place shut down?

[@thirdmajor4076]

is the college nearby/the college is nearby !

[@makemarker]

Let me guess: the mall where Kurt Cobain slept...

[@Hydrophilic]

Loved the narration! I can relate - my hometown has a ghost mall as well. Sad to see but might as well get some laughs out of it.

[@noobzradiation4859]

Is it even there anymore?

[@BigRiceEnergy]

I googled and the mall shut down because of structural damaged with the locals expecting it to be a permanent closure.

[@noobzradiation4859]

@@BigRiceEnergy oof

[@nataliemata4570]

It’s sad cause this is my moms teenage mall I. The 80’s and this makes her hella sad

[@PieZello]

Looks like a map from battlefield

[@stevemccoy7918]

What a great place to meet chics!

[@lisabusche7795]

Extreme fun center is still open.

[@OFFTRENN]

U should come down now there are great business and new places so you can give an update on it

[@michaelhaskins3038]

Should be turned into a homeless center.

[@ethanzstuff5497]

Yeah that will soooo help aberdeen

[@justforentertainment2734]

Yes! They dont have shelters or real clean and sober houses. I stayed at a clean and sober houses and was offered drugs.

[@justforentertainment2734]

So glad i moved out of that city!

[@jennywithlime]

“Aberdeen mall” lol That’s south shore xD Decrepit was inaccurate at the time of this video. Now on the other hand :C At least you could still get in there. THATS TAQUERIA LOS GAILLOS / SAN JOSE SHOW SOME RESPECT! 🤤🤤🤤 Fun center is still going strong though! 6 years later 💪 Actively went out of the way to NOT show tectonic comics- probably because it was bustling and didn’t fit the narrators “this place sucks” motives. Doesn’t even know the name of all that glitters obvi not a local - has “no desire to go in there” -cannot be trusted to give accurate tours😂 only troll tours🤣 Doesn’t even know if it’s the only theater in town and calls it a small one LOL city boy you busted- that theater is Huge compared to others in the county! Thanks for visiting- byyyyeeeeee