I just wish we could see what it looked like when it was up and running.
@cen2zero7 ай бұрын
Wow! Looks like it was abandoned in the 70s!
@cierrakaiser5647 ай бұрын
That’s insane. They’ll definitely have to tear this one down
@mrknuckles7897 ай бұрын
Happy birthday Wallie!
@Sweetbry227 ай бұрын
I find it weird that a place can be open and operating for 50-60 years building looks fine but 2-3 years after the place is closed can look like this
@GameDjeenie7 ай бұрын
Ikr ? I mean obviously they maintain and/or repair the building every few years but we never see them do so... lol
@nicholas875416 ай бұрын
I wonder if it has something to do with heating/air conditioning and stuff like that which would likely no longer be running to ventilate the places, but would regularly run while the place is open and in use. That, on top of regular repairs to maintain buildings.
@TananBaboo6 ай бұрын
Vandals
@macrosense6 ай бұрын
Once a pipe bursts or a roof leak is unrepaired it is all over
@brey17206 ай бұрын
Well when it's open it gets regular maintenance, usually. And after it's left abandoned the elements of mother nature take it's toll
@jodyrayvictor7 ай бұрын
This grocery store reminds me of the now tractor supply in Levelland Texas that was an abandoned alco . Tractor supply came in and restored the building and it now has life again.
@alanlough6387 ай бұрын
This is a great exploration video, Wallie! You're one brave soul to explore the building that's in such deplorable condition. I'll admit that I was holding my breath as you explored this building. Take care, Alan.
@ZeroGT_7 ай бұрын
i remember food town from when i was growing up in jersey. food town,shop rite,path mark and A&P.
@JamesKirslis5 ай бұрын
This was a different chain of Food Town stores - owned by Seaway Food Town. Only had stores in SE MI and NW/Central Ohio.
@LandonsRetailandOtherStuff7 ай бұрын
Happy birthday Wallie! You are one of my favorite retail KZbinrs and you make me smile. You were also one of my inspirations for my channel!
@skyebird39337 ай бұрын
You're taking a chance walking around in that mess. Hope your tetanus shot is still good. Stay safe.
@whammy33237 ай бұрын
I worked for the parent company that took over Food Town (now called SpartanNash). I remember when they announced that they were shutting them down. I actually went down to a couple Food Town and The Pharm stores to help pack and close them down. Crazy to see this building in terrible condition.
@amyspurgeon6153Ай бұрын
Spartan killed Foodtown and the pharm! We knew it wouldn’t last 5 yrs the way they were running it. They came in saying Oh they’re a “Christian” company blah blah don’t worry they’ll treat you good. Yeah they treated us right into unemployment! Biggest joke out of Michigan!
@csx6025gamer2 ай бұрын
Yeah I do agree with you, that place needs to be torn down, this building is way too damaged beyond saving.
@slackingpacking7 ай бұрын
Dang! I’m surprised this place is still here! I thought it was bad in 21, it’s a lot worse.
@The-Retail-Fandom7 ай бұрын
Really nice find Wallie. You dont find abandoned Foodtown buildings anymore
@JMShearer7 ай бұрын
That was quite the find. The train horns really added to the creepy atmosphere. I liked it.
@dacechasinghawk39107 ай бұрын
Totally forgotten about this channel. I binged all the videos a year or two ago. Now I can binge on all the newer videos. Awesome! WallyB? You got it right about your exploring rules. Total respect for the building.
@DarkNeon277 ай бұрын
5:25 That light hanging down would have tempted me to cut the wires and save it. I collect and restore lights, and fans. Little keepsake if you will.
@The-Day-Off7 ай бұрын
That building needs to update its hobo stab insurance policy asap! 😂😂😂
@robertmailhos81597 ай бұрын
Wallie b always finds the grocery stores that I never have heard of 😮😮
@tracyrunyan25227 ай бұрын
Once upon a time there was a Food Town in Danville, Ky. It closed up about 25 years ago. Was small, but had great service.
@robertmailhos81597 ай бұрын
@@TheMetalmachine467 thank you for you info on this One
@chrisexplores17 ай бұрын
We have few abandoned ones in GA, and AL
@robertmailhos81597 ай бұрын
@@chrisexplores1 okay thanks for the update on this grocery store Chris
@childrenspalaceofficial7 ай бұрын
Very good video Wallie!
@Optopolis7 ай бұрын
To be fair, there are good graffiti artists out there. But I certainly disagree with doing illegal graffiti like has likely been done here. Highly doubt the owner said they could do that so kinda a safe bet lol.
@beezie687Ай бұрын
Got to drive by this building today. Drove by the entrance and then the door that you entered. Didn't dare try to go in. Never have I seen a building in such a dilapidated condition.
@nicolemacpherson39087 ай бұрын
Wow! This place is really in shambles! Safe exploring and safe travels to and from destinations.
@trish21797 ай бұрын
Wow food town... ours became a furniture store after it closed
@brentkiely6577 ай бұрын
i allowed the ads and let the ads run fully in this video wallie ... $ $ my contribution to your expense fund ! Thanks for the great videos.
@Leviathan_0137 ай бұрын
Awesome Wallie
@2011uc7 ай бұрын
Looks like the Food Town that was across from where the old Woodville Mall used to stand on the east side of Toledo, Ohio. I just passed through there a few weeks ago, my first time by there in years. That area has really changed.
@charlestonpinballarcade7 ай бұрын
Wow, you’ve been posting some awesome places recently!!! This one makes me think of the Ames in KY from a few years ago!
@robinlittle3437 ай бұрын
Hey what are you doing here 😂
@shannonyoast69067 ай бұрын
As always great video 👍
@robertmiller21047 ай бұрын
Great video man one of best in awhile keep them coming one of your worst by condition of building crazy left it to rot like this
@MalyceInWonderland7 ай бұрын
There used to be a Foodtown in the town I live in, thankfully it found it's second life as a Big Lots so it's not abandoned.
@kickstand2407Ай бұрын
You wouldn’t happen to live in Tiffin, OH? There used to be a Food Town originally there before it closed and became a Big Lots
@CSXEK7 ай бұрын
the roof basically looks like it’s just rusting away and it sounded like a NS train horn you heard!
@mariebelladonna4375 ай бұрын
Different train companies have different horns? (Sincere question, I had no idea.)
@jamesgarasiun50827 ай бұрын
Awesome job!! 🤘👍
@stephaniestephers45867 ай бұрын
Those were some baller retro incandescent light fixtures. I know they gon judge but I'd a took them bulbs right up out of there. Still got some tubular 20 watt candleabra incandescents from inside the abandoned post office in New Castle.
@shortythenut17 ай бұрын
Great video as always, scary,! I wonder how long before it totally collapses!
@williamyeager74967 ай бұрын
Hey 26 that Ames in Essex MD has been completely bulldozed. Going to be a concrete monstrosity.
@ericariley16967 ай бұрын
Geez this place is in horrible shape. Reminds me of the abandoned Acme in Egg Harbor Township, NJ which was also badly vandalized, which is a shame because it had the 70s colonial decor package. Also how old was this Food Town store?
@Urban_nation.7 ай бұрын
Wow amazing. I remember those grocery stores in Michigan. Very nice job on the video
@markstrouse31017 ай бұрын
Last time I saw a building that bad and disgusting was when I was down at the Wrighttown NJ Ames.
@StantonsJourneys6 ай бұрын
Looks like it's gotten a lot worse since we were in there last, and I didn't climb those ladders either. I'm glad you got to explore this and was safe brother. Take care and stay awesome.
@williamsiyanko46317 ай бұрын
This will definitely be tear down by the wreaking ball.
@ryanclifton70337 ай бұрын
About 10 plus years over do
@GOPRepubliklanКүн бұрын
naw they would use dynomite
@benjaminmendenhall44977 ай бұрын
Thanks for not showing that on your video wallieb26 and man that place looks horrible looking
@ErikVince7 ай бұрын
Wow that place is a mess it needs major repairs
@Neznut4 ай бұрын
That’s the one across from the old Woodville Mall! I shopped there as a kid!
@Neznut4 ай бұрын
Where the store is, it’s less than 1 mile from the Norfolk Southern, Chicago main line. That’s your train horn. Very busy stretch of track
@fredburrell8105Ай бұрын
I worked for a company that did inventories in this building in the 1980s. I have worked in there counting health and beauty aids.
@the1truebakasama7 ай бұрын
Living in Toledo as a kid, every Food Town I remember was connected to a Kmart. There was one by Southwick Mall and one on.....Reynolds? I think? Those are the two that spring to mind, but I know there were AT LEAST two more.
@jameshebert54307 ай бұрын
Awsome viedo Wallie dude and like totally good thing you didn't like sneeze while dude or like the whole place may have came! 😅
@peterrowland26917 ай бұрын
Scary.
@Blake_maynard362 ай бұрын
I love your vids wallie keep up the good vids!!
@lisafreeman42227 ай бұрын
Awesome video that was fun
@Contour29327 ай бұрын
Great video!
@roxannelamar78347 ай бұрын
Later future of that building roof is gonna collapse completely
@Heathern927 ай бұрын
There is still a few that are open in New Jersey but they are super food towns
@jet34thehawk7 ай бұрын
Awesome 👌 video
@Alex617427 ай бұрын
That buillding is in bad shape
@lindamikel18427 ай бұрын
Awesome Ways to start out with Terrible Place of Food Town Supermarket bad of Falling of the Part since to Better Day. It's been so Long shap is old It's missing so much Found a Exploring An Abandoned Old Places what a Big Bulding Rough.
@brey17206 ай бұрын
Sad, looks like it could have been a nice place at one time
@TheWALLofMusic7 ай бұрын
10:10 Someone should use that phone and say "Cleanup on every aisle and the entire building" 🤣
@nickpatrick16367 ай бұрын
😂
@official_johnnys_journey7 ай бұрын
Good stuff, man. I enjoy these videos of yours
@hogiryan39767 ай бұрын
It was closed in 2002-2003 Food town open stores in 1961 and Closed 2002 Tie in Ames Northridge mall Closed 2003
@GOPRepubliklanКүн бұрын
This construction appears to be from 1985-1990 era. Might have been rebuilt or extensively renovated.
@HauntedPhysics19997 ай бұрын
DAMN MAN! Looks like a nuke+fire went off in there... The workers showed they didn't care about the conditions of the building in a bunch of ways..
@The_Fancave7 ай бұрын
Wow, totally random spots for the ceiling fans. The white fan at 7:09 is a Relite Airmaster. Not entirely sure about the brown fan at 16:47, Con-Tech perhaps?
@BuffaloChicken7 ай бұрын
I have that umbrella!
@charlestonpinballarcade7 ай бұрын
I am not mentioning where this is located, but I am hoping you filmed a bunch of places in this area. I assume there’s lots of abandoned places rotting for decades around this city.
@PowerpuffU_20137 ай бұрын
I gots many Abandoned places you wouldn't even imagine, in NJ next time than I can send you places, you check them out. Like Talking Wawa's, Dollar Trees, & more.
@ryanclifton70337 ай бұрын
I would of passed on this explore seems like to much risk
@WayneSimons7 ай бұрын
If this was in Illinois would have been turned into a Dollar General years ago! lol
@Greg876016 ай бұрын
Wow!!
@josepharturi54427 ай бұрын
I worked for Food Town in NJ when I was a teenager in the 80s. I only know of one other in NJ and another in NY. Its a name mostly forgotten.
@doesntmatter7576 ай бұрын
Knew this was the place when I saw the thumb nail. Across the street, where they are building condos, used to be an amazing mall.
@DavidSquires-iy4uv7 ай бұрын
Back in the day, there was a Former A&P/FOOD TOWN which was located on Detroit's Eastside. When, the Former A&P /FOOD TOWN had a Fire and the owners never rebuilt the store after the Fire and The City of Detroit ,Demolished the Burned-out Former A&P /FOOD TOWN and to ,this very day is a abandoned vacant lot.
@GOPRepubliklanКүн бұрын
Yeah I remember the old Farmer Jack's on Telegraph that became Glory Market until some hobo lit a grocery cart of crap on fire and pushed it through the front doors and that was the end of that place.
@RUFUSWIGGINS7 ай бұрын
That was a cider tree
@user-bigpandarocks20077 ай бұрын
0:27 sometimes I might age restrict my videos or might have to put up a danger, warning up ahead on my videos because yes, I even explore urban buildings but holy cow the inside was almost worse as the Ames in Maryland which it’s a shame it got Demo 2:15
@jocekhiy6265 ай бұрын
It creeps me out walking past abandoned grocery stores lol . Imaginw getting trapped in one.
@CSXEK7 ай бұрын
The sheet metal roof has rusted completely through the holes the roof is basically desintrgated and this building will basically collapse all someday
@paul-roblox51747 ай бұрын
There's definitely is no saving that building that building would have to be demolish there is no way you could repurpose that building but hopefully someone buys that building and builds something better
@zoefaith1207 ай бұрын
If this store can talk. What would it say?
@WayneSimons7 ай бұрын
Paper or plastic?
@TheRealLucifer-Morningstar7 ай бұрын
What's up wallie come inside Imma eat you 😅😂
@TheRealLucifer-Morningstar7 ай бұрын
Hmm....
@TheRealLucifer-Morningstar7 ай бұрын
Why aren't my replies showing on my phone
@Revienity4 ай бұрын
It would say "Please kill me"
@stephenbrzuchalski1699Ай бұрын
Work in one in Toledo Ohio looked like that one building still there gonna be a library now
@jocekhiy6265 ай бұрын
Some abandoned buildings are still empty cuz the owner of the building wants too much rent.
@ClayPascal-zl1hhАй бұрын
So True
@movietvfunfacts2 ай бұрын
Hi, Wallie, I was wondering if I could use your footage for a trailer I was making for my book. Thank you and have a wonderful day.
@WallieB262 ай бұрын
Of course you can. Just please be sure to credit me for my footage. Thanks! And let me know when you're done so I can see it!
@movietvfunfacts2 ай бұрын
@@WallieB26 Thank you so much! I will definitely be sure to.
@movietvfunfactsАй бұрын
@@WallieB26 Hey, just letting you know that I put out the trailer. Thanks for some of the footage! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWOWnGmubtJ0Y68si=_uKSnUVGqrK6DUJK
@MatthewCampbell-pd1qr7 ай бұрын
That was old grocery store wallieb26 this building must been demolish after 2 decades.
@12HpyPws7 ай бұрын
Should be condemned
@tomwujek48677 ай бұрын
If I remember correctly, that building has been condemned
@HauntedPhysics19997 ай бұрын
the fact someone drove all the way over there just to spray paint fix me on that door at 4:28😂 people be having me dying sometimes.. 🤣
@miken96336 ай бұрын
My mom worked there for many years barely recognize the building before it was Foodtown. It was a cash and carry then before cash and carry it was it toy store and the building has been added on a couple times then when Spartan took over that’s when Foodtown closed in the early 2003 I believe and in every place where the roof caved in and has daylight that’s where the roof was leaking before the store closed if you ever noticed across the street where Farm and family is at one time it used to be a Hills/Ames department store then at one point it was a Steve N Barry’s sporting goods
@RyanRector12306 ай бұрын
You cool
@helenr9917 ай бұрын
I don't know but when he was walking on the floor it sounds like horses
@cheaplaughkennedy23187 ай бұрын
Really bad , one of the worst I’ve seen you in Wallie. I believe they’re known as Food Lion now. Food Town 1957- 1983
@kennethgorman49585 ай бұрын
It's in bad shape for sure.
@NANA-mb6vf7 ай бұрын
Looks like you are located in or around Ohio. Have you come across or are familiar with an Ohio department store chain called Hills??? That was my favorite store as a kid in the 70’s and 80’s. The store in Sandusky was something to see.
@christopherbarnhart96792 ай бұрын
Where was this place at?
@matthewmurphy38417 ай бұрын
I joust think its funny that there is a wet floor sine joust sitting there 😂
@toddbasinger555325 күн бұрын
Must Ohio FoodTown and trains. They were short lived being built in the 1970s.