Dead Mall

[MrWoodywoodward27]

poor guy, gottia make his rounds.

[peakster753]

apparently this mall houses 16 churches

[LaxBros4Life]

0:09 HOLY SHIT it's a ghost!!!!!!!

[Frickis]

you can live there for free then

[Vrishchii]

aye! im from cleveland, this mall been dead for years. i used to like to walk around while its empty.

[N1gHtStAlKeR726]

and why is the music still playing

[Darthbelal]

Near where I live, the Norwichtown mall is defunct, only the supermarket is still thriving. I think the Crystal Mall is going to go the same way. Used to love "Malling" when I was younger, but the interesting stores are gone now, replaced by Cell phone, Dollar and Tax prep stores. Things do change, but it's kinda sad nonetheless.

[Thinker669]

Looks like a nightmare.

[CuteCatFaith]

I grew up in Cleveland and enjoyed the Severance Center shopping mall but it got dead quickly. Uprated.

[snarkus63]

Good lord---"The Gonk" should be playing over the Muzak system.

[pdennis93]

i think it's about time for another blues brothers movie....

[southport97]

Beware of zombie mall walkers!

[wilatemodel]

is it worth heating?...property taxes?...

[patsaxon]

I wished that I could buy an old mall and fix it up to the original architectural design of the 1970's or 1960's as it would be classic architecture. One mall that I know of that is doing well is the Galleria Mall in Houston, beautiful and modern design and possibly of the largest in America.

[JackBanger]

HA...the new Hawthorne Mall

[malvern666]

There's a mall nearby where I live and it's not abandoned but it might as well be, it's the crappiest mall ever I feel like I'm in the 70's when I walk through the place.

[ZeldaFreak1987]

there's probably a zombie tucked away in a back room or something...

[kaos0077]

I used to wander around an abandoned mall in downtown Palm Springs, CA when I lived there. It was really creepy...lots of homeless living there and broken glass everywhere...really sad for downtown Palm Springs.

[kaos0077]

I used to wander around an abandoned mall in downtown Palm Springs, CA when I lived there. It was really creepy...lots of homeless living there nad broken glass everywhere...really sad for downtown Palm Springs.

[crystaldisbrow]

That's depressing. I live in Westminster, CO and our mall is almost just as bad. I practically grew up in that mall. In the 90's it was amazing had great stores. But they started building super malls like Colorado Mills and Flatirons and Westy just died.

It's so sad to see places that were onc a great place to work, shop and hang out go to waste.

[freedombear79]

@crystaldisbrow The Westminster Mall was my family's favorite mall. I remember coming up from Greeley, CO to go back to school shopping and Christmas shopping, in the 90s. I always loved the balloons in center court. I also loved going to movies at the theatre inside the mall. While Flatirons is nice, I still miss shopping at the Westminster Mall.

[hilby]

every dead mall has at least one powerwalking senior.

[marshan3q]

it's fun to run around in dead malls.

[DRaider90]

I live in mentor and have to go to euclid a lot so I know about this place, so how come they dont just tare it down if theres barely anything left?

[CommanderC00L558]

@DRaider90 Because it has potential.

[DRaider90]

@CommanderC00L558 Maybe it used to, but with the neighborhood the way it is theres no use trying to revive it

[endingman]

I'm from Michigan, a state with the worst economy, and highest unemployment rate. Malls are actually thriving here.

[simcityfan3]

Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt (Syracuse), NY is worse than this.

[mormor39]

you might like my UK mall project. check out my page, I'm recording mall histories in scotland. cheers

[salemarde]

well at least there is a random hobo

[emolike11]

steal stuff from abandoned malls and places haha

[HattieLovesCattie]

Read an article that 100 malls will die this year in the US.:(

[LongIslandEddie]

Actually, It was financiers who shafted you, slick talkin' men who came to your town and sucked you dry. They came like locusts to settle into your wallet but when the jobs in your hick-town dried up, they pulled out. They ony wanted your money, that was their bottom line. They are all the fucking same, they have only the money as their bottom line. This is not because of drugs nor gangs, it is your leaders who have done this, they have sold you out.

Get used to it and try a piece of dog meat.

[gbp2]

Good Heavens! the cause, when malls were built, people worked in factories and made reasonable wages. Then from the 80's to now, the factories closed. (Couldn't compete due to high employee costs including HEALTH CARE that other countries paid for by means of a tax, and the high rents in malls could no longer be paid by chains, then by mom & pops, then by the anchors, and now we have many dead malls with WAL-MARTs across the street. (Or thrift stores)

[photopuppet]

@gbp2 And competition from online retailers too. I buy most of my stuff off places like Amazon now because it's cheaper than going to a store in the mall. And an earlier poster is right about the social aspect being replaced by online services!

[MissMaddy881]

@photopuppet i HAVE to go to the mall to buy clothes. i'm small for my age (21), so i have to try on any pants i buy.

[HattieLovesCattie]

I was in Asheville,NC recently and was in the area where two dead malls are.One is gone and one is half dead.Hubby didn't want to see them but we did pass the main Asheville Mall that is still open off I-40.

[DavesLegoPeople]

this mall looks cool, dead malls are cool, wonder if they ever find homeless people or drunk/druged people in them.

[CommanderC00L558]

I went in there with my friend because I ws so obsessed with it. because I was there whn I was 2 years old. I'm like 12 now, and there are just a bunch of churches now. when we left we got told off by a secuirity guard waiting for us. so sad...

[Trekkerjon]

put Cuyahoga Community College in the mall.

[Umberto2]

yes

[Trekkerjon]

When malls were built in the 60s, they were exciting ideas and destinations.

I always thought they lacked one thing: people living nearby in condos who could simply walk in to eat breakfast and buy the latest nighties from Fredericks.

[Umberto2]

Yes, exciting ideas and destinations designed for you to pack up the family into the station wagon and spend the day shopping, eating, etc... Now it seems that people want and need something more community based in the local area for their entertainment. I don't know, it's complicated. Some of the newer malls are thriving in the Cleveland area while most of the older ones die. Is it just replacing one thing with something newer?

[Trekkerjon]

It seems to me that the enclosed mall - in general- is falling out of favor nationwide.

[FabFM]

it seems that way... "main place mall" in Buffalo, NY is dead and one of the worst malls you could go to, whereas the newer nearby Walden mall is one of the best I have ever been too!

[chachacha006]

kids hanging out in1988

[HattieLovesCattie]

So many malls were built in this country in the 1960's and '70's.I loved them coz so many stores under one roof and you didn't have to be outside in the cold or the heat.How ironic its now back to that outdoor kind of shopping with Wal-Marts in the middle of those shopping centers.I remember reading about malls starting to close in the newspaper 15 or so years ago.i didn't believe it at first.

[jwerren78]

I was able to enter the mall on the far right side of the southwest entrance.

[jwerren78]

This mall is still open although it is totally devoid of any stores and has alot of churches in it now.

[CommanderC00L558]

why are the doors locked?

[jwerren78]

I was able to get in Friday night at about 630 in the evening. I used the Southwest entrance and the doors were unlocked on the far right side.

[jwerren78]

Is this mall still open to the public? I am going to be in Cleveland in a few weeks and would like to visit this mall along with Randall Park mall.

[davidbowe]

dawn of the dead mall.

[MercedesCars454]

LOL I like how you start recording the random man like a stalker

[demsickrims]

I would go in there and make it my mini crip and take stuff

[Grapes428]

I remember the Kopper Popper giving off that smell when you would walk in on that one side. They had the best chocolate ice cream in that mall. The downfall of that mall was probably around 1997/1998 when Kaufmann's wanted to leave for good because there were lots of thefts every week. It takes a few ignorant people who can't behave to ruin it for everyone.

[ihatetaft]

Reminds me of The East Hills Mall in Bakersfield,ca

[locksmithite]

it's a real shame. the euclid square mall was once a cool place to hang out when we were teenagers in the 80's. but the neighborhood went to hell and customers' cars were being stolen, vandalized, or broken into so they stopped going.

ahh the joys of multiculturalism.

[slappy1234567]

More like unmarried women who have sex with multiple partners have lots of fatherless babies.

[store275]

This is like the old Barstow Mall in California.

[Intelpentium54321]

looks like the one in providence

[chuckcollins86]

You're not serious, are you? There are no stores! No customers, no janitors, no lights, no Christmas, no back-to-school sales, no pre-teens, no moms, not even cell phone stores or check cashing joints. This place is dead, dead, dead!

[67tr876]

how did you get in ?

[Hanssen69]

Like to know that as well.

[mlukacs03]

Euclid Square Mall isn't as "dead" as other dead malls, such as Randall Park. It's kept open for the senior citizens to come in and walk, and the hope is that someday stores will move back in. It's very well maintained. However, Randall Park Mall was poorly maintained once stores started moving out, and it's in such poor shape that the property has been sealed off... which is a shame, because Randall Park was a really nice mall...

[doctorbuzzard]

OK, I know many malls are dying but malls always open an hour or so before the stores do. This was obviously filmed before any of the stores were open for the day.

[IrishLincoln]

MALL WALKER!!!! OH SHIT!!!!!!

[Melville10]

That architecture looks either mid to late 1970s.

[jackhammer250]

The Remaining Mall's in The Surronding Areas of Cleveland are Randall Park,Great Northern, and SouthPark. I think their maybe few others, but Im not familiar with those.

[jackhammer250]

More Malls Added,I forgot a few, Tower City, Gallery, Richmond, Beachwood Place Remaing These are the Remaing Malls In Cleveland Area Im sure their are a few More

[jackhammer250]

Yep! Durning the Mid 90's and 2000's Many malls went Under, In Cleveland Ohio we not only had Euclid Square Mall but we also Had Severance And Westgate Mall's which are Now Strip Mall's.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

So sad to see a mall like this.

We have two malls in my area - one thats all redone and very busy, and another that, if not for Burlington Coat Factory and Boscovs (and Burlington Coat Factory hasn't always been there - it used to be Clover), it would be a dead mall. It's alot of junk stores, a few vacant stores, and Value City just closed, so one of the three anchors pulled out (Actually, it went out of business). It's also a poorly lit and junky mall. I stick to the nicer mall.

[Phillyfan3626]

where is that and what mall is it ?

[talkabouttalkaboutit]

cool

[atomicpuppet]

hahah, just one random guy walking around and around.

[thomesocksup]

rolling acres mall was like that with the sunken sitting areas. My mom used to do antique shows at the malls. I have a memory of lying on one of the couches and my mom putting antibiotics in my ear for an ear infection I had.

[Calvin5040]

wow that looks like a nice mall.

[1cpw]

This looks like Charlestowne Mall in St. Charles, Illinois, other than the anchors it's now about 75-80% empty.

[Hamaround]

This summer we went to a Texas Ranger / Cleveland Indians game in Arlington Texas. Visited a mall there that looked pretty much the same, scary places with no stores open and little or no security.

[clev9980]

this used to be a very active mall until all the urban trash moved in.

[joewiseguywillis]

reminds me a lot of Gaston Mall in Gastonia NC. recently closed. died a slow death

[cjc363636]

Absolutely. Most of the stores are gone. I wonder if/when the "Super Target" is going up. Funny, the place still has the Media Play sign and that's been closed for what, 4 years now?

[slappy1234567]

Americans don't have children anymore. When the average family only has 1.2 kids, yeah, there will be less people and things will look empty. And who will fill the vacuum?

[sailorwhore]

what?

[Metroboy95]

I think that its weird but all of these malls, or most of them, are in N.Y.

[cutieang3l9407]

man im scared of those kind of malls. man i wish we can go back in time to the 90's

[BabyFace316]

The 1980's were MUCH better.

[cutieang3l9407]

either way go back instead of living how I live now.

[hondolespaul]

Nothing says 1970's like sunken sitting areas and Eames era art lol. We have two shopping malls in my area that are dead. Midtown Plaza in Downtown Rochester, NY and Medley Centre in Irondequoit, NY. Midtown Plaza will be demolished in 2009 to make way for Paetec's World Headquarters. As for Medley, I honestly cannot see that mall lasting another year. It probably won't be demolished but after seeing it dead for over a decade, the best solution would be demolition.

[herecalico]

I remember the good ole days in the 70s and 80's at malls like Westgate, Great Northern, Parmatown, Richmond Mall, Severence Center. I even remeber how good downtown Cleveland was years ago as a kid before Tower City was even built. Those were the good ole days.

[CoWolArc]

If you think about it, Big Box stores aren't the only cause for the downfall of malls. Malls used to be a significant social experience as well - idle youth found entertainment, friendship, and more in the food courts and hallways... But now with cell phones, instant messengers, myspace, and the like, malls have become somewhat obsolete. Now they're much like stores -- just another place to shop.

[sarasf78]

i hope pennys isnt the next casualty of walmart and target

[sgtpepper1138]

ours is still pretty busy (medford, or) mervyns went out sadly but it's been replaced by a macys, they've been remodeling it for a few years

[Del655]

It's the Wal-Mart effect. Most people just don't need and/or want to shop at malls anymore.

[MVillani1985]

It's really the same thing that malls did to downtowns. Now Wal-Mart is hurting downtowns even more, plus the second generation of shopping centers is replacing the first generation.

[Archmetal06]

this is a weird mall, just like bannister mall in kansas city.

[bhorowitz2534]

i remember being here in like 2001 in the winter i was in 5th grade and i was in the city chior we went to places and sang lame christmas songs we had already been to the great lakes mall and richmond town square mall.when the euclid mall concert came around i knew it would have less people. anyways we always warmed up be fore a concert so i didn;t take it seriously i goofed off with my friend. there was only 1 old lady in our audience and we weren't warming up but we had finished the concert

[leebuddy1980]

Sad thing is we see more and more of these "Mall" going out like this. The time of the "Mall" has come to an end.

I live in Salt Lake City we have been seeing the same thing going on here.

Check out some of my videos.

[risicofyeo]

I grew up in south euclid and its on its way to where euclid is... so disgusting! I hung out there from 1971-1993. No Problems, nothing. I just went to Glengate Plaza and wow it feels like you can get shot there! Ricmond Mall your next :(

[Sintariot]

I lived in Euclid from '90 to '93 and the mall was nice then. The next time I went was probably '96 and it had started to look ghetto. Now it looks like it's nothing. How does the rest of Euclid look? Go Panthers!

[chuckcollins86]

Parts are doing pretty well, but the loss of the mall and jobs are taking a very serious toll. Frankly, it's in danger of becoming the East Cleveland of the 21st Century.

[xMandMproductionsx]

that dumass just walked in a circle

[sowhatisk8what]

they need to tear it down...i am suprised crackheads don't sleep there

[fmthebaron]

Euclid use to be awesome in the 80's and early 90's and now it's just a dump aka East Cleveland Jr.

[risicofyeo]

Remember York Steak House :) The middle of the mall with events!

[railynnelson]

A nail salon is pretty much all this mall has. Was there in April. Sad indeed....

[vopat]

well for 1 they need some remodling... that mall is beyond outdated... and they need a nail salon.

[mojavemoog]

conversation pits require conversation. i do not like the way our society is going.

[sgtpepper1138]

no kidding

[col0mbian08]

my god that's empty

[chuckcollins86]

There're more like this than there are busy ones in America.

[gtochad]

poor mall :(

[S4br3W0lf]

3rd coment

[chuckcollins86]

clever

[limeuk]

it's a zombie!!!

[chuckcollins86]

I could smell brains on his breath!