Abandoned Dairy Queen - Franklin, PA

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Abandoned Dairy Queen - Franklin, PA. Closed in early 2019, this place never saw life for any customers during the summer season here. Once featured a lunar module outside of its front doors. It also has an airplane inside. Sad that it closed and never reopened as signs said it would.
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  • @jeremyfisk6266
    @jeremyfisk62665 жыл бұрын

    I have never seen a Dairy Queen with a plane! A first for me! And I love Dairy Queen! As always awesome video Wallie! Love your videos! Stay awesome!

  • @gaylenewood7707

    @gaylenewood7707

    5 жыл бұрын

    Make you wish you were a kid huh?

  • @DAVIDSRETAILADVENTURES

    @DAVIDSRETAILADVENTURES

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mario kart awesome fan 2003 it’s awesome

  • @mallaholicretailadventures
    @mallaholicretailadventures5 жыл бұрын

    A long time ago, the Ottawa IL McDonald's had an old fashioned car in it and you could sit in it and eat. Long gone now. Cool that there was a plane in that one.

  • @elizabethorsillo7187
    @elizabethorsillo71875 жыл бұрын

    What??? DQ in Franklin is closed?! I haven’t been up that way in a while. They had a space capsule in the front of that building, which was as neat as the plane inside! ☹️

  • @jeffyaboss4394

    @jeffyaboss4394

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sarah Harris the person he left it to didn’t have the money to open in the spring

  • @jeffyaboss4394

    @jeffyaboss4394

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@6043ron I know. I was referring to the person that commented but they deleted it

  • @Megan37308

    @Megan37308

    2 жыл бұрын

    There is a airport next to it

  • @catinacherry4222
    @catinacherry42224 жыл бұрын

    I was born in Franklin, Pa and raised my 2 youngest children there and this was a staple in our summer...my son loved the airplane. Sad to see it close. 😧😧

  • @news89
    @news895 жыл бұрын

    Wow. That is one cool airplane seating is neato. Some ice cream and chicken strip basket sounds good right meow.

  • @DoctorWizzard
    @DoctorWizzard5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video man. My family used to drive to and through Franklin a lot and we always stopped here on the way back home.

  • @BrokenInside365
    @BrokenInside3655 жыл бұрын

    What an oddly unique Dairy Queen. Never seen one like that before, I get all kinds of vibes from it.

  • @AdventureswithBeck
    @AdventureswithBeck5 жыл бұрын

    That plane is so awesome. Hopefully somebody can get it out and put it to good use. Nice video!

  • @jeffyaboss4394

    @jeffyaboss4394

    3 жыл бұрын

    They are making it a new ice cream shop but not dq

  • @DXKramer
    @DXKramer5 жыл бұрын

    There is a restaurant near my work that "closed for the winter" around New Years 2016 and still hasn't opened. Though the place still has power.

  • @robminmonaca

    @robminmonaca

    5 жыл бұрын

    DXKramer why can’t they just say closed plain and general and not for the winter BS.

  • @InkCityClothing
    @InkCityClothing5 жыл бұрын

    I used to go here alllllll the time growing up.

  • @brandonb.6099
    @brandonb.60995 жыл бұрын

    That plane is awesome. I like the vintage logo. I enjoy your videos , wallie. Stay awesome!!!

  • @iseespots6014
    @iseespots60145 жыл бұрын

    i never seen a airplane in a dairy queen but i had a mcdonald that was themed around the 50s with records and poodle skirts

  • @ericheld4382

    @ericheld4382

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cuyahoga falls Ohio? I worked there in the 90's

  • @ZeeMann_Retail
    @ZeeMann_Retail5 жыл бұрын

    Awesome looking place! Great video man!

  • @DAVIDSRETAILADVENTURES
    @DAVIDSRETAILADVENTURES5 жыл бұрын

    Good video wallie. Haven’t seen one of these abandoned in awhile. I liked how you started. “I can’t get Ice cream for real” good video lol

  • @JackVegetables18
    @JackVegetables185 жыл бұрын

    Such a cool looking dairy queen ashame they had to close awesome video bro

  • @danieljwilson7918
    @danieljwilson79184 жыл бұрын

    Awesome Video Wallie. Love that plane in there. Looks like it is in decent shape. Too bad they can not reopen it. Stay Awesome!!!

  • @EBS-Studios
    @EBS-Studios5 жыл бұрын

    Hello WallieB26! Another Epic Video! Shout Out To Kayla & Bradley! Congratulations Again On The Z24! Thank You! & “Stay Awesome” 😎

  • @broomsnickle
    @broomsnickle4 жыл бұрын

    all of us that grew up in franklin, that's part of our childhood memories...eating a cone in the airplane at dairy queen. so sad that it's closed and I can't pass this cool spot on to my kids. hopefully someone will buy it and reopen someday!

  • @SearsCool
    @SearsCool5 жыл бұрын

    That’s pretty nice, back then we used to have a lot of Dairy Queen’s but they all closed, but one opened last year and that’s the only one we have

  • @angie6514
    @angie65145 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video, wallie

  • @vflrockytop
    @vflrockytop3 жыл бұрын

    Its funny I found this video. I'm a trucker and I deliver chemicals from Tennessee to a plant in frankin. Every time I drive by that dq I find it strange. That hill can on down the road can be brutal in the winter.

  • @andrewwilks2147
    @andrewwilks21474 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in Franklin pa since i was 6 years old. I been to this dairy queen many of times since my childhood. Very sad to see this permanently closed and sad to see the removal of the Apollo space capsule as well. For me, this DQ is filled with childhood memories when family and us siblings would all go here for ice cream, sit at the airplane, and look at the Apollo space capsule as well. Very sad and depressing to see and very depressing to not see the Apollo space capsule there anymore. I found out earlier today on my way to a dental appointment in mercer about this dairy queen being closed up. My dad was saying on way to appointment that this DQ is up for sale. I hope someone buys this DQ up and opens it back up preserving it the way it was. I would also love to know where the Apollo space capsule was taken to. Thank you Wallie B26 for posting and sharing this! Totally agree with you guys about how very sad this is!

  • @richardhudson3014
    @richardhudson30144 жыл бұрын

    The air plane was really cool and it's a shame to see a place like that just close up and like you say it's all about the charm of the place and that place has charm and I love dairy queen and stay awesome always really good videos Willie!

  • @camhowe349
    @camhowe3495 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video as always! Looks like they were gonna do construction on it but it never happened and it just ended up closing up once they sold all the stock locked up and just left and never came back to empty the place out! Hopefully they do something with the property soon and all that stuff gets emptied and figured out where its going! Enjoy your night

  • @melodybeitzel5378
    @melodybeitzel53784 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos, sad to dairy queen closed really wanted ice cream , so anyway thanks for sharing and stay awesome

  • @saxman112
    @saxman1125 жыл бұрын

    Dang, you and your bad luck with DQs! That one looked cool! The coolest one I've seen around my parts in MN is this one in Roseville (one of the burbs just north of St. Paul). It's a treat only one, but it still has all the old signage, and it looks awesome.

  • @NumisNate
    @NumisNate5 жыл бұрын

    Woah so cool i watch ur vids every day!

  • @Optopolis
    @Optopolis5 жыл бұрын

    Wow that plane is stinking amazing! Definitely the first one I've seen with an airplane! I bet that car has been there since they closed 😂 The door at 5:25 too XD Had a theatre here that had doors that high XD Absolutely vintage too! I love that old-school pickup/order window at 8:06 too! We had a couple or three here; now there's only one that was upgraded to grill and chill a few years ago.

  • @tygreenwood472
    @tygreenwood4725 жыл бұрын

    As a truck driver I went by that place all the time when picking up loads in areas just north of there always wanted to stop and enjoy some ice cream along with checking out the uniqueness of that place but never could squeeze the time in to do so, ashame it's closed down!

  • @FlameDragon
    @FlameDragon5 жыл бұрын

    This was a fun time! Shame we didn't get food! I wanted a cheeseburger and a blizzard!

  • @Christopher0817
    @Christopher08175 жыл бұрын

    That was a pretty cool looking DQ there just a shame it never reopened I loved that giant blizzard just lying over out there

  • @edwardsr70
    @edwardsr705 жыл бұрын

    I've never saw a grill and chill close during the winter. Awesome plane. This location had an apollo command module boilerplate 1 of only 4. Shame its gone.

  • @jimrosser2700

    @jimrosser2700

    3 жыл бұрын

    What's going On

  • @shannondolgos1206
    @shannondolgos12064 жыл бұрын

    I worked at this DQ when I was in high school. Kim, the owner, passed away a short time ago and the location hasn't reopened since his passing.

  • @robertsilva8097
    @robertsilva80974 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the Great video

  • @RichardDremdenWolf
    @RichardDremdenWolf5 жыл бұрын

    *_That was such a cool location. VERY unique, and such a shame it closed and never reopened for this summer. I checked the website, and it says "under construction," so it doesn't seem to belong to this DQ anymore. Appears to be gone for good. Sad!_*

  • @racheldehaan1331
    @racheldehaan13315 жыл бұрын

    Love your channel.just subscribed

  • @carlavision6143
    @carlavision61435 жыл бұрын

    I've never seen a DQ with a plane in one. Our DQ doesn't have no plane nor does the one in Durant. Awesome and cool video Wallie!

  • @joannlaneking8725
    @joannlaneking87255 жыл бұрын

    I love The old school seating i hate the new crap! My dairy queen i grew up with had tiffany style overhead lighting it was so pretty and awesome! Thanks for sharing

  • @gaylenewood7707

    @gaylenewood7707

    5 жыл бұрын

    Those one chairs they swivel which are my favorite McDonald's use to have those type of chairs but not anymore they got rid of them cause kids get their legs stuck in the back of those chairs😭.

  • @tiahio8315

    @tiahio8315

    3 ай бұрын

    Was just telling my kids about this place. I grew up there. It was my second job. Fun times working there. Not your typical fast food place. It was a franchise and the owner just did things his way. They closed on the winters because nobody wanted to drive up the hill in the winter to get burgers or ice cream. If I remember correctly, the owner lived in the house right next to it. Not sure if he’s still around. He was probably in his 50s when I was a kid working there. The space thing out front was cool. Wonder what happened to it.

  • @slackingpacking
    @slackingpacking5 жыл бұрын

    Those air planes though 😍

  • @julielake598
    @julielake5983 жыл бұрын

    The local story goes that the long, long time owner passed away. He owned it so long that he was grandfathered in on what he paid for use of the Dairy Queen name and brand. Anyone who bought it to open and operate it as a Dairy Queen would have to pay current prices to use the Dairy Queen name and brand. We never understood why they had indoor seating but were never opened in the winter. The kids loved sitting in the airplane to eat their ice cream. The last I knew, the building and land were for sale. We really miss it. It was a double whammy for my sister as she didn't have a DQ in her town and she loved to go get her Blizzard when she was visiting her. Now she can't get her Blizzard in either town. The space capsule was loaded up and hauled away. I don't have any idea where it went. The last I knew, the building and land were for sale. Rumor has it that the airport bought the land and are going to tear the building down. At one time the owner had red lights up high but had to remove them because they were confusing to the airplanes flying into and out of the Franklin Airport.

  • @Arcticwolf689
    @Arcticwolf6895 жыл бұрын

    We had a Dairy Queen a long time .ago it shut down because the owner saleing bad candys if u know what I mean in 2016 we got a new Dairy Queen i notice a. Sign that said comeing soon I was so excited 😆 i can’t believe our luck i love your videos thx u so much in love the theme of this Dairy Queen especially that airplane in the old school sign

  • @gaylenewood7707

    @gaylenewood7707

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh the special blizzard type candy😉.

  • @shawnsr8459
    @shawnsr84595 жыл бұрын

    That was a really cool place!👍🤘

  • @EpicGamer2010YT
    @EpicGamer2010YT2 жыл бұрын

    New people bought it and it is now called The Brain Freeze. I always got their ice cream sandwiches and burgers! 10/10

  • @shanemn123
    @shanemn1235 жыл бұрын

    I hope you stopped at the Spaceship Toy Store on the left coming back down 8.

  • @gaylenewood7707

    @gaylenewood7707

    5 жыл бұрын

    My favorite outro.music.

  • @jfrFK28ST01fan
    @jfrFK28ST01fan5 жыл бұрын

    Cool video!! Did you perhaps to walk by the power meter to see if the power was still active?

  • @benjaminguiste5734
    @benjaminguiste57345 жыл бұрын

    My local Dairy Queen is strange. The outside is old looking while the inside has been updated.

  • @gaylenewood7707

    @gaylenewood7707

    5 жыл бұрын

    Aw you need to send wallie.the pic of that place it'll be cool.

  • @donnasfocus2050
    @donnasfocus20505 жыл бұрын

    Aww so sad....I have never ever seen a DQ like that one! Oh and so clean looks like it will open any time now.... The ones we have in okla is nothing like that.

  • @summerwinter6348
    @summerwinter63484 жыл бұрын

    I loved sitting in the airplane as a kid. It was fun. You kinda had to be first or wait forever to get the seats. The rumor is that the owner got sick and just couldn’t reopen it for the summer, the only time of year that it opened ever. The whole town looked forward to getting food and ice cream from there and lines of people would jam pack the inside. Franklin is a small town and you’d always run into people you knew there at DQ. My grandma would always take orders for people who wanted ice cream after dinner and we would take the 5 minute drive to get there. By the time we got back, the ice cream would be melted. Still always fun

  • @clarky417
    @clarky4172 жыл бұрын

    That plane ✈️ is totally awesome 😎

  • @jeffrogosz7198
    @jeffrogosz71983 жыл бұрын

    Remember going there in the late 90s with parents and grand parents still remember playing on those as a kid I am 31 now I stopped here a week before Thanksgiving in 2018 got my last flamethrower burger and blizzard oreo on 😂 I talked to ths young kid who was working he told me they would not be reopening sad memories now

  • @RyGuy0520
    @RyGuy05205 жыл бұрын

    There was a very unique dairy Queen in garretsville Ohio it had alot of old toy cars old traffic lights and vintage gas pumps I have no idea if the place is around anymore

  • @RevofOne
    @RevofOne2 жыл бұрын

    Wow, what happened in Franklin? From a a different part of the country. So sad to see towns go down like this. Did businesses go down for good or just move?

  • @diehardfan22
    @diehardfan225 жыл бұрын

    unusual to see a dairy queen closed especially such a cool dairy queen

  • @jenniferwright8355
    @jenniferwright83554 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I used to go there every year at Applefest.

  • @jeremyfisk6266
    @jeremyfisk62665 жыл бұрын

    There’s your Blizzard! Lol

  • @thecrackshack3130
    @thecrackshack31304 жыл бұрын

    The original owner of the Dairy Queen in franklin, Kim, passed away a while ago. A guy Colton owned the place, and now he abandoned it. My sister was married to him, so they both ran the place around 2017-2018. They don’t speak to eachother now, but that’s what happened. Colton is supposedly in New York now.

  • @ChiralSpirals
    @ChiralSpirals5 жыл бұрын

    Tune in next week to find out if wallie will ever get to eat....spoiler...he dosent

  • @lanaarmstrong8943
    @lanaarmstrong89433 жыл бұрын

    This has to be truly one of the coolest Dairy Queens in America. Such a shame they closed it.

  • @liztrainer895
    @liztrainer8953 жыл бұрын

    The vintage blizzard cups had cartoon Dennis the Menace and his dog Ruf printed on them.

  • @clr0654
    @clr06544 жыл бұрын

    And, yes, there was a real space capsule out front

  • @robertsilva8097
    @robertsilva80974 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your videos there's a Dairy Queen here in California that closed two days before I went there the door was unlocked and there's a person inside that said they were a Dairy Queen employee and I was able to get a Dairy Queen dipped cone a blizzard and then when I left I was wondering why did the did not charge me

  • @killakyleism
    @killakyleism4 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather did all the brick and stone work to this building... Ashame nobody can run this place!

  • @brianthompson8514
    @brianthompson85145 жыл бұрын

    Grocery store bought ice cream will never come close to a dairy queen, used to be a place on Brookline blvd that sold hand packed ice cream but closed now.

  • @gaylenewood7707
    @gaylenewood77075 жыл бұрын

    Too bad you couldn't take that big blizzard with you guys it'll be a cool keepsake.

  • @sciulliconcrete
    @sciulliconcrete5 жыл бұрын

    was that blizzard cup heavy to bad you didn't have a pickup truck

  • @gaylenewood7707

    @gaylenewood7707

    5 жыл бұрын

    I bet if you had a pick up and wallie.call you to come pick it up up you'll do it wouldn't ya?

  • @Gil-jw3om
    @Gil-jw3om5 жыл бұрын

    Very Cool

  • @liztrainer895
    @liztrainer8953 жыл бұрын

    I love the blizzard . Haven’t had one in a while.wish that giant blizzard was real. I could share it with a bunch of friends.

  • @amtraktraveler9118
    @amtraktraveler91184 жыл бұрын

    There used to be an space capsule in front of this location. According to Yelp.com.

  • @jeremyfisk6266
    @jeremyfisk62665 жыл бұрын

    Don’t go out that door Wallie!

  • @gaylenewood7707

    @gaylenewood7707

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many drunks went through that door before they sober up?😉.

  • @justinmiller9014
    @justinmiller90144 жыл бұрын

    I live right down the road from there used to go there as a kid

  • @tc12productions72
    @tc12productions724 жыл бұрын

    There is a old Dairy Queen in Altoona pa in then it closed but it’s now a new ice cream shop

  • @sombrashibe
    @sombrashibe5 жыл бұрын

    Never saw a DQ with a plane!! Awesome

  • @troydefrancescotheplotagon3245
    @troydefrancescotheplotagon32452 жыл бұрын

    At least our DQ still has the red barn also in Duncansville

  • @spongebobsquarepants725
    @spongebobsquarepants7255 жыл бұрын

    DQ closes in the winter up there? Down south DQ is open year round.

  • @gaylenewood7707

    @gaylenewood7707

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well there's a dairy queen in hamilton illionis that is open all year round and so is a couple in Quincy Illinois and they are very good better the one in keokuk iowa the guy who bought it made the ice cream there taste like freezer burnt no flavor it's like licking cardboard..

  • @katiebarron7460
    @katiebarron74604 жыл бұрын

    This dq always closed in the winter I think cause their was no heat in it. It was bought by a new owner in late 2018 early 2019. And dq wanted them to update it and the new owner didn’t want to put that kind of money into it and here it sits now empty

  • @pennguy20
    @pennguy204 жыл бұрын

    From what I heard, the owner was cheap and refused to keep it open in the winter due to it only having a wood stove. But I loved the airplane themed seats. If I had the money, I would open up the place. Just sad how economically depressed the area has become over the past 30 years.

  • @pennguy20

    @pennguy20

    Жыл бұрын

    Update: Someone beat me to opening up the place because it’s another ice cream place now. Apparently still has the same airplane seating.

  • @ruthpullis9279
    @ruthpullis92795 жыл бұрын

    My question ! In the future .so many jobs are closing what will it be like to live

  • @dawnroberts1653
    @dawnroberts16533 жыл бұрын

    The owners of this retired. I used to love sitting on the airplane

  • @nickrodgers5882
    @nickrodgers58825 жыл бұрын

    I live in Franklin they had pretty good food to

  • @mischiefmakerstudios9900
    @mischiefmakerstudios99005 жыл бұрын

    That sucks that it was closed.

  • @michaelblair5767
    @michaelblair57675 жыл бұрын

    That was cool

  • @shawnchambers9494
    @shawnchambers94944 жыл бұрын

    The owner passed away and that’s why it never opened back up

  • @brendadeloe8718

    @brendadeloe8718

    4 жыл бұрын

    DO YOU KNOW WHO OWNS IT /WHO TO GET AHOLD OF THXU

  • @DaFloridaMapper
    @DaFloridaMapper Жыл бұрын

    Atleast my local Dairy Queen has a train on the ceiling

  • @damonbuilder4978
    @damonbuilder49782 жыл бұрын

    I remember when I was a kid and going to this place, also, it got turned into a BrainFreeze, they still have the plane

  • @ELHONDEROPR
    @ELHONDEROPR5 жыл бұрын

    Thats sad they just recent opend a new dq in my town

  • @letaloudone
    @letaloudone5 жыл бұрын

    Hell take that blizzard cup!

  • @kimkelly-kline8387
    @kimkelly-kline83874 жыл бұрын

    Looks like almost everythings abandoned in Franklin...have to show my hubby he's familiar with that area,hes from Oil City.

  • @monalovejoy6341
    @monalovejoy63415 жыл бұрын

    😞😔😢 I live here. And I missed Dairy Queen. I did not know that oh Dairy Queen is the only one with a plain inside. I always like that plane. And I do miss going now. I miss my blizzard. And I miss my peanut butter buffet. And they are wavy. They can for the video

  • @wesleybruner2169
    @wesleybruner21695 жыл бұрын

    Poor wallie. You’re gonna have to start keeping some snacks with you in your car.

  • @TheGhostOfSabotage
    @TheGhostOfSabotage4 жыл бұрын

    Did they do lactose free stuff?

  • @jet34thehawk
    @jet34thehawk5 жыл бұрын

    Man your video are funny

  • @ju6536
    @ju65363 жыл бұрын

    I remember going to that dairy queen

  • @studmeister1977
    @studmeister19775 жыл бұрын

    Hey Wally, I just found out some sad news. I'm from Rhode Island, and our last Friendly's Resturaunt just closed, in North Providence, maybe you could go check it out.

  • @garbage854
    @garbage8545 жыл бұрын

    Cool :)

  • @chelseaswab7976
    @chelseaswab79762 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in that place my grandmother worked there I was in the back all the time. Update they are now open but it’s not dairy Queen anymore the name of it is called brain freeze I do believe.

  • @clr0654
    @clr06544 жыл бұрын

    I’m from Franklin. Went there all the time. Heard that it closed pending the outcome of a divorce settlement.

  • @thecrackshack3130

    @thecrackshack3130

    4 жыл бұрын

    My sister was apart of the divorce settlement.

  • @edgemaster41125
    @edgemaster411254 жыл бұрын

    Did you happen to notice the airport nearby? You missed the space capsule.

  • @tammybeer1834
    @tammybeer18344 жыл бұрын

    you Need to check out The abandoned CAMP GROUND iN LINSEVILLE PA

  • @Carman1744
    @Carman17445 жыл бұрын

    I’m sure the menu at that DQ is different from the ones In Texas

  • @billbaum4177
    @billbaum41772 жыл бұрын

    The best ice cream was polly's ice cream out from Franklin Pennsylvania

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