York Galleria - York, PA | A Story of The Failed Malls In York

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[@JeremysRetailExploration]

Guys, I know how facade is pronounced now. Obviously, I made a mistake in my video. I don't need called out anymore. I make one little mistake, and everyone hates me for it. I don't care anymore. It's not a big deal. It won't happen again if you care that much.

[@alpyle]

Sorry, I wouldn't have mentioned if I noticed others had. You can tell I work in education, lol. Plus, I thought it would help your algorithm to make a comment. Please keep doing these, that was honestly a minor error.

[@GrouchyGonZoGarage]

Manchester mall, Galleria mall , and Delco Plaza all 3 were my hangout spots in the 80s. I worked at McDonald's at the Manchester mall when I was in High school. So many memories. Thanks for taking me on a trip down memory lane!

[@GrandTime-17]

I probably ordered from you or you made my order then 😂 Thanks!! 👍 We were at that mall A lot!! And Delco. I miss Hills. Do you remember Andy in the Hill's little hot food part? He was awesome!!

[@scottcrowell323]

Thanks for sharing. I grew up in West York and went to Delco Plaza and the West Manchester quite often. I am too young to remember much about the York Mall.

[@ERA_Productions]

I’m still really bummed about West Manchester mall being closed. I saw some photos of it and it looked awesome! It would’ve been a great Crown American to catch. Really bummed it’s gone. Great video by the way!

[@no98765]

Chambersburg Mall had a similar feel but WMM was nicer. The mid 90s remodel and Walmart eating 1/3rd of the mall really killed the aesthetics but Chambersburg Mall never got the remodel.

[@MeltWithU]

One of my friends was the manager of the electronics boutique when the mall first ed, then worked at the electronics store that was to the right of the video of Boscov’s that you showed. our other friend, ran the arcade that was upstairs in the food court at the time. So many great memories there. This video brought many of them back, so thank you.

[@jzabady1]

Great video nicely shot. Love the music.

[@SchardtCinematic]

The sad part is the York Mall and West Manchester Mall and Delco Plaza thrived for years. They were never failures. Only since the rise of Walmart invading York and the rise of the Internet in the early 2000's did they start to decline. As for the York Galleria. I feel if they had not implemented that stupid rule about kids under 18 had to have a parent with them. That made the Galleria no longer a place for teens to hang out with thier friends on a Friday and Saturday night. Talk about shooting youurself in the foot. I look forward to watching this video when it premieres

[@user-iamRobinV68]

Wow. Beautiful but a ghost town!!!

[@Sardiniastan]

Such a cool video :3 i like learning about local history, and also abandoned/aging malls tysm for these lovely videos :D

[@anadthebarbarian]

Your cinematography is better than most. Worked at the Gadzooks there once...20 yrs ago

[@nancydarling4918]

Interesting video. Thanks.

[@charlestonpinballarcade]

Great video! I forget what mall had a channel back in the day, but I’m going with that mall. I haven’t heard channel hardware in a long time. 🎉

[@jenniferfink2506]

Great video!

[@franksoyke9634]

I worked at Delco Plaza and York Mall at the movies. Also worked at wee three records at West Manchester Mall. The mid eighties till the end of the 90s We're incredible times to grow up going to those malls. They were really special. It's sad to see that the mall era has ended. The kids of today will have no idea what they missed.

[@gww730]

Outstanding video - you can tell how much time and effort it took! I grew up about an hour from York, and I had no idea that they had 5 malls at one point.

[@Beastiened3]

Remember picking up Call of Duty games at the York Galleria during my high school years... man that place went down hill quick. Sad part is Capital City 30 minutes north In Camp Hill and Park City 20 minutes east in Lancaster continue to do fine. What happened to West Manchester is a crime. Miss that mall.

[@kevincortez3279]

It’s crazy this is like 20th place I personally know and would frequent. It’s surreal to see these places left behind in time. It’s sad because my kids won’t ever feel the same enjoyment out of places like this. Everything now is just a carbon copy, every building, every sign, everything is so “sanitized of personality” and it really hurts seeing personal identity just slowly die.

[@johnfoltz8183]

Sigh, all fast food restaurants look the same no matter what brand in lifeless colors

[@joshuakinard9175]

I do miss the old west Manchester mall.....especially the rc track! 😉

[@SchardtCinematic]

The Avaling Dairy fire is what closed there doors and Rutters took over the restraunt and eventually tore down the Avalong restraunt and built there own Rutters Restraunt where the bank now sits. They then built the convince store and gas station next door. That was just torn down and now being rebuilt. I played minutiae golf there alot ad a kid and my Dad liked hitting balks on the driving range I often wondered how many golf balls were found while building the Galleria Mall.

[@susiesnyder570]

This video makes me sad, I grew up going to all those malls & loved them all I would have to say the York Mall would have been my favorite, then the North Mall & Delco Plaza, I also loved Queensgate back in the day which you didn't show in your video

[@davidgonsalves9491]

The best memory of The York Mall was Rudolph’s House at Christmas time, I always wanted to see the inside. My favorite place at the North Mall was Horn and Horn Smorgasbord. I sure do miss the old York Malls.

[@GrandTime-17]

Wow, i forgot all about Horn n Horn!! Crazy!!! We used to eat there! 👍

[@RamsayboltonSnow]

Local from York Pa. Born in 92. All way up till I’d say 2010 the galleria was still always busy slowing started faded in the 2010s and post pandemic the casino is the only thing helping keep it alive. As for the West Manchester Mall. That mall was dead in the 2000s Cept for the movie theater , arcade area that also had and auntie Ann’s and subway was popin

[@phil4487]

I used to work in the upstairs part of Sears in 2006 & 2007 and the mall was always busy. It's sad to see its current state.

[@Mao_tse_tung]

spent alot of time there in its hayday lots of memories

[@SchardtCinematic]

I'm a bit confused about your opening dates for the York Galleria. I was going to York Vo-Tech for 10th through 12th grade. I graduated in 1990. I had a friend that worked at that Boscov's before 1989.

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

Boscov's opened prior to the mall that's why.

[@SchardtCinematic]

@@JeremysRetailExploration That makes sense. I resisted going to the Galleria Mall until the York Mall was basically an empty ghost town. It was probably late 1989 before I set foot I'm the Galleria.

[@SchardtCinematic]

@@JeremysRetailExploration Just uploaded a new video from 2002 of Montgomery Wards being torn down at the York Mall.

[@alpyle]

Just an FYI.....facade is pronounced "fa-sod" ...not a word that's used often in daily life. Thank you for documenting all of this, I had some fun times at those malls in the shopping heyday! You did a great job with narrative, too.

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

@@alpyle Sorry, I wish I could remove that moment, but I know how to pronounce it.

[@alpyle]

@@JeremysRetailExploration It was actually a good thing, encouraged engagement among viewers, which is good for your channel spreading. I watched an interesting video of how the algorithm works and purposely making mistakes is becoming a "thing" bc of that.

[@deaconeisenhart1218]

I remember them all like you. I miss York Mall the most

[@richardsantiago429]

york galleria is dead compared to park city and capital city mall. casino is packed on weekends but people don’t go inside to mall.

[@LindaAucone-xb5in]

"It's a shame most malls are dying! By me, Woodbridge Mall in NJ is dying, it's been like that for over a decade! But Jersey Gardens Mall is an outlet mall and by the airport--is still thriving--mostly thanks to tourists and loyal locals!!"😅😂😢😮♥️🥳🥰😍🤩😘😛😨🤯🤔🤨🧐😱🤫😊🙃😗;)

[@V0lk]

I was here yesterday. It's even more empty. There's almost no tenants left on the top floor. Boscov's has built a wall with closing doors at their mall entrance.

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

Yeah I know, it's my local mall. I know what's going on. I hate that Boscov’s did that, but they are doing it at all the locations they are remodeling, so it's not the malls fault.

[@barryklinedinst6233]

I ate at avalongs many times. Best broasted chicken I ever ate. My house was about a mile from the restaurant. It's sad the mall failed. Thank Amazon for that.

[@SchardtCinematic]

I have video and pics of Montgomery Wards being torn down in 2002. Also have the video of Delco Plaza from 2003 and also where Two Guys used to be when Builders Square was still there but closed and was out of business by the time I filmed it in 2003.

[@bradmyers3326]

You have a video of Delco being torn down? Is it posted? I worked UA Delco for 10 years, so I wonder if any of the theatre is in it?

[@SchardtCinematic]

@bradmyers3326 I unfortunately don't I live in Hellam. So I didn't make it to Delco or West Manchester mall very often. I took that video as a historic archive of how it last looked before the big remodel and Lowe's going in there. But you can find my videos of Delco Plaza abd Montgomery Wards on my channel

[@timardner5277]

The Regal Cinemas lobby is former mall corridor complete with the old mall lights. However, those lights are very dim, inefficient, probably hard to find bulbs for, and should be replaced with recessed LED lighting IMO.

[@Canivirus]

I can't believe it's been 10 years since West Manchester Mall was turned inside out, it still doesn't feel like that long ago. The Collectables Store was always my favorite place to go as a child. I also distinctly remember a pretty cool but incredibly short lived retro game store that was there around 2012 or so. I don't think it was open for more than a few months, guess they had second thoughts about setting up shop there. Not too far away from the WM Town Center you can also find the former location of the Giant Food Store that moved into Delco Plaza around 2006, as far as I know it's been vacant the entire 18 years since which you can really tell given the poor condition it's currently in.

[@tokyosmash]

Great skateboarding store too called Fishbone

[@tokyosmash]

Used to work here when Spencer’s was on the top floor, there was a time when it was a magical time as a junior/senior at Red Lion and to hang out after school hours

[@bcollins1277]

Damn I'm old and remember when this place opened up. When was Spencer's on the top floor?

[@tokyosmash]

@@bcollins1277 from when it opened to when it went to the “Design 1” store, it was immediately to the left of Kohrs Brothers which was next to Ruby Tuesdays. We’re probably the same age 😂

[@Payneful]

Wow watching this and see how much more dead it's gotten in just the past year, wish you would have walked through the boscovs, cause it's wild how different it looks now, and I feel like we'll forget the old look, but at least they saved some of the neon in there even with the renovations going on

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

@Payneful I did walk through Boscov's in a separate video.

[@Idelia412]

I used to shop at Galleria mall back in the 90's before I moved to Florida. It appears half of the mall is on the way out. I haven't been back to this mall since 2003 or 2004 before I moved. I remember going to the movie theater in Delco Plaza back in the 90s. If I remember right, there was movie theater in the Manchester Mall which I went too. It appears all malls like you are stating are failing.

[@74dartman13]

I havent been there in 20 years. The place used to be packed!

[@radiationroom]

The York Gonorrhea!!! Other than Boscov’s, I haven’t been in there since Sears closed shop.

[@Wyv2004]

Man I used to go here all the time, I still have my Wiimote and other stuff before the GameStpp closed. Sad and heartwrenching stuff man 😢 Place legit had a pulse like 5 years ago, now it looks super empty, and the dippin dots machine was the best, I got my fart spray from Spencer's there too It'd crazy how. I just went there 5 years ago.

[@AndrewMcGovern-c6f]

What time were you in the mall?

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

Weekday

[@keithatkins9783]

From where I live at I can get to York pa in about an hour and if you go down into Delaware the christianna mall does real good and so does king of Prussia mall to

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

Yes I have been two both.

[@Coalregionexploer22]

Old stomping grounds so sad to know this is what is happening all over the country call me old fashioned but I can't shop online and without places like this to go your left with no choice anyone

[@Heyits_sony]

I used to play at the arcade at the Galleria in the early 2000’s. So sad it’s gone and the state of that mall in general. Super surprised about the state of the former West Manchester mall.

[@greglemon4551]

The 'youth escort policy' was the nail in the mall's coffin 😔 😢

[@tokyosmash]

Can’t remember if it was Boscovs or The Bonton that used to have wild neon lights in it also

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

It was Boscov's.

[@tokyosmash]

@@JeremysRetailExploration memories, my good man. You said in the video you’re a York local, what town are you from?

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

@@tokyosmash I'm from Wrightsville.

[@tokyosmash]

@@JeremysRetailExploration very cool, truly gorgeous town. I miss south central PA so much. I joined the Army from that recruiting station at the old North Mall back in 2011

[@Donicker950]

5 years old, thanks to the man who invented this mall and thus created the memory of mcdonald's.

[@keithatkins9783]

York galleria looks like it doing about the same as exton mall I live halfway between exton mall in exton pa and park city mall in Lancaster pa and park city mall dose way better

[@aVerveQuest]

Is a very young child I remember playing golf and hitting balls off the driving range where the mall now stands.

[@paulietteburnett7270]

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[@JeremysRetailExploration]

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[@Gordon_2000]

York Galleria is my type of mall.

[@mattpauls2045]

did any of the stores like fye happen to close

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

No, it's still open.

[@aVerveQuest]

I remember having sex in one of the service hallways near the Sears entrance. My girlfriend works for the mall office and I worked for Payless shoes at the time. Such tawdry youth we were.

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

Is this some kind of joke?

[@CDiArcade]

50:18 you can see the Ritas

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

Ritas?

[@paulietteburnett7270]

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[@JeremysRetailExploration]

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[@joesmith9216]

I bet there aren't even many stores in York, those kind of cities get stripped of business real fast, every one wants out.

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

There's so many stores and shopping centers in York.

[@joesmith9216]

@@JeremysRetailExploration thats good to hear! I though Lancaster had it all. York must not be as bad as some other PA cities.

[@joesmith9216]

@@JeremysRetailExploration sir, do you live in York? really looking to get some more info on its current state, it's interesting, is it all puerto rican like reading and allentown?

[@JeremysRetailExploration]

@joesmith9216 Yes I live in York.

[@joesmith9216]

@@JeremysRetailExploration Ok, is it all pr?

[@dontran449]

waste...by mistake, wish things get better for them.

[@Alex61742]

That mall is so dead in my opinion only thing keeping it open is the casino

[@paulietteburnett7270]

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[@JeremysRetailExploration]

Can you please stop commenting this random bs on my video. Thanks

[@xxxGammaRay]

Who remembers Jodie Sweeten autograph signing at the Galleria mall when Full House was popular?