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@gravityimage5

Жыл бұрын

Great job editing and displaying the insanity as part of the human condition.

Dan had way too much fun editing that lady laughing

@RobertHurleyJr

5 жыл бұрын

Is that Dionne Warwick laughing lol i remember for being difficult in celebrity apprentice

@andysorensen1737

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Hurley Jr She also took us to THE MALL!

@andytaylor5476

5 жыл бұрын

@@RobertHurleyJr Ms Warwick is known for being "difficult"...But I love her hits!

@chadbackup8698

5 жыл бұрын

Love it!!

@SuV33358

5 жыл бұрын

Dionne Warwick

Thats not water dripping from the ceiling, those are dead mall tears 😭

@Secondwindoregon

5 жыл бұрын

Oh no I will never forget that now. 😭

@oldenweery7510

5 жыл бұрын

If we come back in 200 years, will there be stalactites and stalagmites?

@Fan_Made_Videos

5 жыл бұрын

That's a great name for a vaporwave band!

@lauram4894

5 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭

@onelividguardsman5681

5 жыл бұрын

It's the investors tears wondering where their money went.

You know a mall is dead when there isn’t a Bath and Body Works in sight.

@lorenadavila5580

5 жыл бұрын

Or Hot Topic.

@Slumlord007

5 жыл бұрын

There’s bath and body Spencer’s and hot topic sooooo

@MrMiniPancakes

5 жыл бұрын

Angelika Roswell only retail still pulling through

@Cj2o

5 жыл бұрын

Claire's is synonymous with dead malls also.

@utleychase7

5 жыл бұрын

Angelika Roswell or a Claires

Hi Dan! Big fan. I grew up in this mall and this video struck me like something from the Twilight Zone. Pretty eery! I'm 33 and I remember coming here when I was around 4 or 5 and on. What you see now is exactly how it looked almost 30 years ago. Here's some info you might enjoy. This mall used to be a happenin place! There were a bunch of weird stores in there like a guitar repair shop, cobbler, tailor, dance studio, bicycle shop. But my mom would always bring me to the book shop where a lot of teachers in the area would buy books and school supplies and decorations for their classroom and stuff. It used to be packed! So though these were kinda weird stores for an average mall, this was the place to get everything done, including going to the doctor, finding a realtor, all the stuff you see now. The new Wellington Green mall opened when I was in high school and this mall stayed more like a business park. So as for all the stuff! The large tanks in the center with the fake birds did indeed used to have real birds in them. There also used to be HUGE fish tanks on either side with a ton of beautiful fish and eels. That was the entertainment when they weren't using the middle for little pageants or girl scout troops or shows for parents. It was sort of a public recreation area with four big beautiful fish tanks! As far as I can tell, all of the painted murals are original. Occasionally they would dress it up and decorate it for different seasons or events though. Or they would showcase award winning art from different schools around the area. As for all of the fish sculptures and dolphin statues and all the art, they were there from as early as I can remember. I can recognize every last thing. The fountains, the bronze sculptures of children, even the fake plants. All of the marble tile patterns, neon lights, and every carousel pony are ingrained in my memory. Even the technicolor zebra. Dan, that was nuts to watch. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!

@venus-fy7pz

5 жыл бұрын

btwomfgstfu that's awesome! i would've loved this mall when it was still up and running.

@ever_Chessy1

5 жыл бұрын

Had to pause to read because all of this info is so cool and interesting!! I was specifically scrolling I'm hopes that someone knew the mall. Thank you for sharing your memories 💜

@Droolzgaming

5 жыл бұрын

*shows more* *kreygasm*

@Eryn321

5 жыл бұрын

ah I see now! they been there forever. I so want the zebra or the unicorn. If they ever shut down the place I so take them.

@polomare2027

5 жыл бұрын

I got you beat :-) I'm 43 and I TRULY grew up with this mall from its beginning. The giant horses you remember from your childhood were actually "new" additions when the mall underwent a redeco in the 1990's. Dan thinks it's dead now? Ha. It underwent a very dark period for a time. Yes, they had beautiful aquariums and a fountain in the central courtyard. When the mall took a downward turn, they sat ugly empty for about two years. New management bought it and decided the huge floor to ceiling aquariums were too expensive to maintain and rightfully did the best they could to redecorate the space. Today I wouldn't call it dead at all. It has a daycare/preschool center in the back that is hopping, the Pizzazz hair salon has more millionaire clients than a Nieman Marcus, and the post office always has a line 20 deep when it is open. I believe every single space in the mall is occupied, if I remember correctly. Ah, wait, maybe one isn't. I haven't watched Dan's vid all the way through, he may prove me wrong. The bathrooms are clean. It serves its purpose. Where else would these businesses locate themselves? Tacky, oh yes. Dead? I disagree that it meets that criteria. Almost every single store has an outside entrance (except for the post office, cobbler and computer repair place) hence the lack of traffic in the inner hallways. Tidbit that predates you: the reason why Dan can't find anything online about this mall is because "The *old* Wellington Mall" is actually a myth. It used to be called "The Wellington Commons Mall", colloquially know locally as "The Commons". It was actually renamed " The Old Wellington Mall" AFTER "The Mall at Wellington Green" was built. I'll post a new comment above for Dan's benefit assuming he prolly won't see this reply to yours.

0:43 i swear the people who write "out of order" on things all have the same handwriting for some reason

@honolulublues5548

4 жыл бұрын

It's just one guy. He's part of a union, so not just anybody can write them out.

2017 dead mall intro: cute 80’s montage to match with the retro aesthetic! 2019 dead mall intro: I have absolutely NO idea?!??

@liamwade8537

4 жыл бұрын

experimental vaporwave

@garrettblack

4 жыл бұрын

Felt like a commentary on "lets all laugh and gawk at the fReAks" style of daytime-TV that took off in the 80s-90s

@spudartz

4 жыл бұрын

*insert lady laughing here*

@AlexDeLarge1

4 жыл бұрын

2019: The Year the Acid Kicked In

@samlynn1992

4 жыл бұрын

I felt like I was having a fever dream.

"How many animal sculptures would you like?" "Yes"

@ettoresshovel858

4 жыл бұрын

killer

It makes me realize how antiquated everything becomes. The mall was a symbol of youth. Now it’s a symbol of expired youth.

@TransmissionEpicts

4 жыл бұрын

OOOOOOoooh burn. "expired youth". Should be clothing range.

@GabrielSoloGuitar

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. A clothing line for millennials.

@ultraboombean

4 жыл бұрын

@@GabrielSoloGuitar hey that stings . * About to turn 28* 😫😫😫

@seththomas9105

4 жыл бұрын

@@ultraboombean Pffft! Try one month from 50.

@torikelso4734

4 жыл бұрын

Seth Thomas ok boomer

Shoot that vaporwave aesthetic into my eyeballs

@firstlast-yf8hh

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@StarCenturion

5 жыл бұрын

Inject it directly into my veins

@jetjazz05

5 жыл бұрын

Vaporwave was DESIGNED to go with dead mall footage. It's the natural progression of things...

@everypossiblename

5 жыл бұрын

A E S T H E T I C

@KingFahtah

5 жыл бұрын

M A L L S O F T could be the greatest invention of the 21st century. But it's been a rubbish century thus far

2 DEAD MALL VIDEOS IN 1 MONTH?! WHAT IS THIS SORCERY?! Seriously Dan thank you for this, I'm super excited and happy to watch :)

@SRQmoviemaker

5 жыл бұрын

Summertime is dead mall season!

WHO ARE THE PEOPLE ALWAYS SITTING IN THE MALLS. WHO. who are they?

@G-Mastah-Fash

5 жыл бұрын

They remind me of the people Ralph McTell sings about in Streets of London. The old Man in the closed down market and such.

@lamebubblesflysohigh

5 жыл бұрын

you do not want to know...

@TheSWolfe

5 жыл бұрын

Following his retirement, & smoking cessation, an uncle of mine would sit on a bench outside the supermarket every afternoon, chewing big wads of gum & randomly greeting shoppers. Similar, but not. I want to say sitters = sad, lonely people hungry for human interaction, but mall-folk hang where odds of social encounters are few, so, that doesn't fit, either. Perhaps they want to be a part of something, yet remain apart, or mebbe they're just living in the past, man...

@Elizabeth-ih2ff

5 жыл бұрын

lamebubblesflysohigh I want to know

@lucbelcher7256

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSWolfe That made me sad but I have to agree!

4:44 "It opened in 1986," and it stayed in 1986, from the looks of it.

@OtakuUnitedStudio

4 жыл бұрын

I take personal offense to that, as someone who was born in 1986 and stayed in it. :P

I'm not even close to a grandparent and I love places that are quiet, with no kids, and have weird stuff to look at.

@madcatt09

5 жыл бұрын

Owlly Mannstein me too owlly..me too

@weeeitsfun2879

5 жыл бұрын

agree relaxing right

@b.collins2656

5 жыл бұрын

saaaaaaame

@babyybuttonn

5 жыл бұрын

sameee i’m literally 16 and that mall looks like such a good place to get some homework done

@SaturnCrashing

5 жыл бұрын

Saaaaame

These intros feel more and more like late night Adult Swim.

@thewhitewolf7886

5 жыл бұрын

Today on check it out, we're checkin' out a dead mall!! Let's go, ya drungus!

@MeatEatingVegan777

4 жыл бұрын

@@thewhitewolf7886 I don't think anyone could have done that better. Also, I love that show.

@Kylenredx

4 жыл бұрын

Rylee Strange yesss!

@nick4005

4 жыл бұрын

it was the Jenny jones show

@WalkingRoscoe

3 жыл бұрын

Tim and Eric!

I know the decorations are considered to be super tacky but I like them and it's so sad that it's all going to be gone. Someone put a lot of effort and love into it at one time.

@kieran3584

4 жыл бұрын

Vladislav they’ll go to goodwill or liquidation sale or storage

@icascone

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you

You know you're in a bad mall when 60% of the stores are just the names of things

So, nobody’s gonna mention that creepy missing persons poster in the Penrose mall lobby? Just upped the creepiness of the dead mall. That woman apparently has been missing since ‘94.

@TheSWolfe

5 жыл бұрын

I saw that, after pay-phone nostalgia passed. Brings to mind many sad/scary stories of serial killers stalking mall prey & their subsequent parking-lot abductions.

@LaurenMiddleton28

5 жыл бұрын

Lol!! Missing since 94 and they hope to find them now?! Lol

@imstupidbut

5 жыл бұрын

time stamp?

@YoUtUbEhAnDlEsArEgReAt

5 жыл бұрын

@@imstupidbut 14:03

@elsawright9767

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, her name is Renee Lamanna and she disappeared in 1994. charleyproject.org/case/renee-martine-lamanna

They used to have a fish tank where that dolphin sculpture was and there were birds in the cages like 15 years ago lol

@Kdog4660

5 жыл бұрын

I remember that, I mostly wondered in there for the post office in the old days.

@zorgatron8998

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember that too.

@Pond.scum_

5 жыл бұрын

Adam Nir are you Becca’s brother?

@adamnir6791

5 жыл бұрын

Cate Moriarity yup

@rustywaters4136

5 жыл бұрын

@@adamnir6791 tell Becca I said what's up

The Golden Girls went to the mall twice. Love Me Tender Season 4 episode 14 Cheaters Season 5 episode 22

My hatred for NordVPN is growing by the day.

@LJR1331

5 жыл бұрын

@KingMacintosh Having tried Nord, PIA, ExpressVPN and Hotspot VPN and not liking them much. I tried TorGuard VPN and it is a great VPN and one of the few that always works with Netflix for me and is fast. Cheap too.

@fredspofford

5 жыл бұрын

@@LJR1331 TorGuard is great.

@potatoeskimos

5 жыл бұрын

@KMac Just use TOR. It's free

@MrSafer

5 жыл бұрын

​@@fredspofford Dont pay for these VPNs they are a scam. Not even secure half the time, don't expect to browse illegal shit and not get caught(no one should browse for anything illegal). If you want to buy your wacky tabaccy online (don't) use Tor Browser it is completely free and damn near 100% secure.

@tj12711

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrSafer Your ISP is absolutely going to moniTOR that shit. I don't pay for a VPN, but I'm also not gullible enough to believe that TOR without a VPN is more secure than TOR with a VPN. It depends entirely on who the VPN is through.

9:29 only the most elite private schools are guarded by a festive statue of a pirate dolphin

@oldenweery7510

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just don't let him get close enough to spit that cutlass at you!

@Pellbort

5 жыл бұрын

And heralded by the most generic, cartoon-background-nobody's-gonna-notice-anyway name emblazoned in Comic Sans font.

@lauram4894

5 жыл бұрын

🐬🐬🐬

@Londonfogey

3 жыл бұрын

The school is part of the Plastic Ivy League.

the sign at 7:51 that says “protect our future” is a depressing fit for this mall

i think your catchphrase is "where Sears used to be"

@seththomas9105

4 жыл бұрын

I live in Iowa and when Sears had their Great Purge a few years ago we lost ALL BUT ONE Sears store in the entire state, and that was Sioux City! I don't even know if that one is still alive. Sears, how to let Vampires take over your company and suck the life out of it.

You know it’s a DEAD MALL when there’s even a lack of information about it.

That lone Clownfish at 6:42 is one of the last survivor's of this mall.

@eily_b

5 жыл бұрын

Poor thing...

@InTheGlow135

5 жыл бұрын

I think we should kidnap him and save him from this bs of a mall!!!

@freeman2399

5 жыл бұрын

@@InTheGlow135 A fish rescue!

@justinb2824

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I feel distinctly bad for any life forms trapped in malls like these, no matter what variety.

@kd9262

5 жыл бұрын

''kill me''

It's like every dead mall sent their leftover crap to the Wellington for display.

The old wellington mall has been just like it is now for as long as i can remember... i was last there around 1999... it hasnt died any *more* at least in the last 20 years.

@lulu_9000

4 жыл бұрын

That's the truth. I saw this and was like, wait, how is this place still open?? It was dead when I was last in there a good decade ago.

@joeysmokes9839

4 жыл бұрын

Lulu Same

@krystalroxX7

4 жыл бұрын

Shoot i feel like going to check it out. It's no more than 10 mins away

@chilidavis9894

4 жыл бұрын

ikr

@CountryBears1994

3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t even know there was an old Wellington mall wow lol.

I don't know what's more hilariously depressing, the buckets or all the old people with their walkers walking through the place lol. Should rename this place the Buckets & Walkers Mall

@Londonfogey

3 жыл бұрын

It's an exciting new computer game for kids, 'Mall Walkers Versus Buckets'. Available free on Google Play.

I love that pirate dolphin with all of my heart

@chadschmaltz9790

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! I normally roll my eyes when people talk about things being their spirit animal, but if I were to choose a spirit animal then pirate dolphin would absolutely be 1st choice.

@wednesday181

5 жыл бұрын

Pirate Dolphin/Fake Toucan 2020!

@celladoor9696

5 жыл бұрын

He was my favorite as well; really stood out from the rest

Wellington mall looks more like a museum than a mall.

@Deenique16

5 жыл бұрын

It really is. You should see the gardens mall. Has like 2 Starbucks on both floors.

@APizzle90

5 жыл бұрын

@@Deenique16 It use to have 3

@Lameashellcosplay

5 жыл бұрын

@@Deenique16 1 Starbucks per floor, 1st floor starbucks is less crowded.

This mall is crazy surreal. So dense with decorations.

@ultraboombean

4 жыл бұрын

It looks like a video game carnival villain trapped you in a mall lmao inside of an acidic dream 😂.

4:49 *Correction:* Actually the NEW Wellington Mall (or Green Mall at Wellington whatever it's called) actually opened-up in 2001, not 2011!

@Seektheday

5 жыл бұрын

Yup. It was the hangout spot in high school

@jupiter_gray

5 жыл бұрын

I was about to comment the same thing. I grew up there and The Mall at Wellington Green was my spot. 😂

@kevindao1103

4 жыл бұрын

I went to Wellington Green driving from Orlando to Miami last Labor Day. When I saw so many high schoolers, I can easily tell this a popular spot.

@stefanlal3060

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. 😂😂😂 I was just at the wellington green mall a few days ago all i see was highschool kids hanging out.

Dan, that kiosk near the old JCP was Peanut Shack. North Carolina and southern Virginia are big peanut farming areas

@DGTelevsionNetwork

5 жыл бұрын

Its the nutshack

@indePLASTICmusic

5 жыл бұрын

Did they sell boiled peanuts? That was one of my favorite NC foods when I went!

@daveporter0217

5 жыл бұрын

@@indePLASTICmusic They appear to have been an independently franchised snack shop, but boiled peanuts may have been a menu item. I also discovered the owner's obituary from last year online.

@donaldsouthern5662

5 жыл бұрын

We also had a peanut shack at the Mayberry Mall in Mt Airy . The mall in Reidsville looks so very similar to our mall even down to the ramp and steps at the end of the hallway. Our mall has been bought by a contractor and is slowly being remodeled.

@justinmccowan2543

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I've lived in Kinston in eastern NC since 1992. I have seen some peanut companies in the Bertie County area as I headed towards Capron Virginia. I am familiar with how Planter's Peanuts started in Suffolk VA and have seen their plant from a distance.

That Welllington Mall in FL is amazing 😁 Also if anyone is curious that track at the very end of the video is from the album "Liquid State Drive" from body end tag. The track is titled "Chipset".

@carmenmonoxide7459

5 жыл бұрын

HEY, Retail Archaeology! WOW, neat. Thanks for the info.

@capnkringe4683

5 жыл бұрын

Retail Archaeology love yo vids bro

@marspassat

5 жыл бұрын

Arizona! Represent!

@DavidAbyssal

5 жыл бұрын

Oh hey...Retail Arch...! I also watch your channel a lot...!

@keymaster7798

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Eric. I grew up in Wellington. This is my Hometown mall. You guys would have really enjoyed the old "Palm Beach Mall"..

The mall footage is great, but the J Jones outtakes are INCREDIBLE

@seththomas9105

4 жыл бұрын

Poor Jenny Jones. After the murder she was poison in Hollywood, and made a pariah by the hypocritical media. She was no bigger shit peddler than the rest of "them", she just got her tit caught in the ringer.

I absolutely LOVE this series. It sounds odd, but these videos are so nostalgic to me. I grew up in an area plagued with dead malls and I remember walking through eerie, storeless corridors just like these ones. The hum of fluorescent lights and the uneasy feeling of a desolate mall is so unreplicable. Thanks Dan for keeping those memories fresh!

@thegreathawk2244

5 жыл бұрын

Whoa cool I learned a word today, unreplicable.

@bandolierboy1908

5 жыл бұрын

If you want something that gives you a feeling similar to this, looks up “the backrooms” it’s super good and it deals with the topic of the fluorescent light hum, stained carpet, yellow rooms, etc. that are typically found in the back of old malls

@Leanne-mw8nm

Жыл бұрын

@@bandolierboy1908 I really just about died laughing 😅 when you said that comment about the "Golden Girls" I remember watching that show when I was young and in my early twenties. I mean the reruns that they constantly played over and over again on the Lifetime channel are the ones I saw.

Ok that second mall is probably the worst i've ever seen

@urbex_cr5063

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@crowmigration8245

5 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. It should be condemned. Besides the dirt and buckets theres no architecture. Just a long empty hall

@MsRocka92

5 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a mall, just a long hallway lmao

Dan Mason’s New Album HYPNAGOGIA available here! danmason.bandcamp.com/album/hypnagogia

@jtlovescodelyoko

5 жыл бұрын

The best Vaporwave album of 2019

@sSoulsMind

5 жыл бұрын

It’s an old persons obstacle course boot camp!

@retrob9346

5 жыл бұрын

Dan bell keep up the great work I appreciate every single video u post up on your channel.....

@channel_zay9905

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Dan! I live out in Savannah, Georgia and I have been watching your videos for a long time! Our biggest mall, the Savannah Mall, has been hit hard by the addition of the Oglethorpe Mall and our new outlet mall, Tanger. The Savannah Mall is quickly becoming vacant and upkeep has stopped. Pretty soon, it may very well be an abandoned mall. It would be so cool if you checked it out!

@Strongbah43

5 жыл бұрын

@14:32 - @19:43 Another Dirty Mall premiere episode was a smash hit.

Going in hard on Jenny Jones LMAO

I find it super ironic that there’s a real estate office in that mall.... 😂

My guess about the buckets?? Their HVAC system is on the fritz, and the property owner is dragging their feet to get someone to fix it.

On one hand, it's fascinating to see such malls as this, yet on the other hand, it's kind of sad to see such buildings slowly become more abandoned

@SuperPhoneman10

5 жыл бұрын

It truly is.

@dammadoes

5 жыл бұрын

Stfu it just shows how the usa is slowly fallen

I’m going to need a 10 hour mix of that Dionne Warwick laughing clip.

That clip of Jenny Jones cooking at the end is so weird. It's like, "Someone died because of how scummy my producers and I were, but here I am...cooking".

@saxongreen78

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah...Jenny Jones - couldn't even wipe that vapid grin off her face for the trial.

@apache5971

5 жыл бұрын

What happened?

@apache5971

5 жыл бұрын

@Thomas Dixon Jr. But why though?

@sweethartia

5 жыл бұрын

Apache 5 probably embarrassment and didn’t want people to think he too was gay

@PixelDoodles

5 жыл бұрын

Thomas Dixon Jr. what the fuuuuck

This mall looks like from a timecapsule in the 80's...

Dan Bells dead mall videos are one of those videos that even though you seen all of them you can rewatch each one over especially at night and still gives that first time feeling. Never stop these!

@winstonsmith2627

Жыл бұрын

so true !

Honestly Dan, love the series but I would straight up watch hours of the kind of shit you do with these intros.

@eggegg8181

4 жыл бұрын

Same

Education Place. Comic Sans. 🤢

Wow! I grew up in Wellington. I went to elementary, middle, and high school there. Class of 96. I’m 40 now and still live nearby but not in Wellington. The mall has ALWAYS been like this. Even before Wellington Green was built. It’s just drab and quiet but kept clean. My first job was at the Checkers out front of the mall there. Also my dentist from childhood had an office in a building next door. Not good memories there.

@charliequartz2085

5 жыл бұрын

i grew up in wellington too! i'm 24 now, but i used to go to that checkers all the time! i miss the blockbuster from across the street and the silver screen movie theatre. where else can you watch movies for cheap just after their theatrical run?

I wonder how many dreams died in those malls.

@revokdaryl1

4 жыл бұрын

One of the most depressing and true comments ever.

This mall looks like a Vaporwave setting, like legit

The Wellington Mall is so beautiful and so calming, I don’t think it should be dead

@delaneyfaceless7766

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that. I don't want it to close for good.

@Toastybees

5 жыл бұрын

It's just that the new mall is actually doing quite well and it's in a rich area.

@AlKohaiMusic

5 жыл бұрын

BEES AND TOAST I mean pretty much all of Wellington is a “rich” area.

@taylovesfun

5 жыл бұрын

AlKohaiMusic a good deal of it is in a rich area, we get a LOT of horse people and New Yorkers in the winter

@ellemjay

5 жыл бұрын

If it wasn't nearly dead, would it be so calming?

i find these dead mall walk throughs alarmingly addictive, thanks dan :)

Malls in the 1980s was the place to be as kids we hung out at the local mall mostly in the arcade.

@OtakuUnitedStudio

4 жыл бұрын

Too bad most malls don't have arcades anymore. The ones that are there have lots of really interesting high-concept game cabinets.

@Jman926

4 жыл бұрын

@@OtakuUnitedStudio If they do have arcades, good chance it's part of an atttached Dave and Busters or a similar entertainment anchor.

As many times as I had been to Wellington, I never knew an "old Wellington mall" even existed.

Im in love with this mall....pleaseeee take me back to the good ole days. Thank you for letting me experience this and escape my 2019 reality, even if for just a few moments!

@zetametallic

5 жыл бұрын

The owner of Woody's embraces my interior decorating style right there.😂😂😂 People say I have... "gaudy taste and I need sunglasses to enter your house." My hubby has somewhat 'tamed' me as he loves gothic pieces so it's a mix but the Xmas decorations are all MINE😈😈😈

Don’t get the Old Wellington Mall confuses with the new one. The new one is two stories and is still constantly busy every day. -a Floridian

@kaleyjoplinRAWRR

5 жыл бұрын

ScratchThat2009 yes I was just there about a month ago when I went to visit my family in FL and I got confused when I read the title LOL. Didn’t know there was an old Wellington mall

This video already has more views than the Wellington Mall has seen in years. Once the Mall at Wellington Green opened, this place became a ghost town. Also , my understanding is this is referred to as the Old mall, since the Mall at Wellington green was so much more popular after it opened on 2001, that people would get confused as to the location stores and things were located. Like the Post Office for example, if people saw the location online as the Wellington Mall, a large portion would go to the Mall at Wellington Green. Back when I lived in Wellington I’d go to the Old Wellington Mall if I was stressed, or having a panic attack. The emptiness, along with the aesthetic was just very relaxing for me.

@princeedmunddukeofedinburg

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah..

@maric0re

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like the Wellington Green mall is starting to struggle now as well and are looking for ways to revamp. I was just there last week and so many stores that have been there for YEARS have closed. The Nordstrom closed and they want to build apartments and restaurants there, apparently. The movie theater where the furniture store used to be was a good move, tho.

The fish everywhere is so trippy. Also did I see there was a private school in the mall 🤔 that's interesting

The Old Wellington Mall looks like a nightmare and I love it.

@Sb-kz8xt

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly I wouldn't be shocked if it was the entrance to hell. Just walking around it feels so surreal.

I never realized just how effen CREEPY Dionne Warwick really was/is ! ! ! !

@midnightrunner684

5 жыл бұрын

She had a Severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. ..That's for sure

@HeilRay

5 жыл бұрын

Joker laugher Bet they go out for drinks.

@carmenmonoxide7459

5 жыл бұрын

And they say, black don't crack. That bitch shattered! Oh, Dionne, honey...

@Toozip09

5 жыл бұрын

@@carmenmonoxide7459 Wow.

@BeeWhistler

5 жыл бұрын

I did, if only because "That's What Friends Are for" must have played ten thousand times on the local radio station.

That Pennrose Mall is a 1960’s time-warp! Pretty neat despite the water collection

I've been going to the Mall at Wellington Green my whole life, most people just call it the Wellington Mall now. I've been to the old wellington mall once or twice, I remember lots of weird/cool/creepy decor, and most of the retail spaces were empty or housed offices of some kind. Great video!

Wellington is a really nice and affluent community nowadays. Back then, it was just a swamp when the mall was built (like most of Florida). They built the mall at Wellington green to reflect their rich population. They’re very big into horses there as well, hence the weird horse statues. Such old creepy Florida vibes- I love it 😭 Also, if you’re in south Florida again, check out Mizner Park in Boca Raton Florida!! They’re trying to revamp it, but it’s becoming more stuffy and less popular. Cool outdoor mall with nice fountains, nice cars and weird boutique shops

@Blaziken36

5 жыл бұрын

I live right by Mizner Park, but I never really got the impression that it was becoming less popular, although I rarely ever see them use that amphitheater anymore. Some of the restaurants there are still doing good.

@fatcatboo

5 жыл бұрын

I remember way before Mizner Park existed. Was a cool old mall called Boca Mall.... not stuffy at all

I was raised 25 years in wellington fl and let me tell you, that mall WAS HOPPING in its day.. That mall died after the "mall of wellington greene" opened around 2004ish time frame... In the late 90s that "old wellington mall" was the absolute hot spot for hanging out after school and taking a date there to various places.. That used to be such a highend excellent area (Wellington as a whole) but after 05 hurricane season with 4 hurricanes coming thru, and the housing crisis of 07-09.... all the original residents who loved that area left due to increasing taxes and the cost of living in that area SKY ROCKETED, houses were selling for rock bottom prices in the housing crisis and brought all the riff raff in, and that area will never be what it once was.. I moved out, and nearly 100% of the originals did too.. I went back to wellington back in 2015 to visit friends, and OMG.... TERRIBLE CRIME AREA, population changed 100%... not the places to raise an all american family like it once was... SAD AS HELL, cause that was an amzing place **EDIT** what you dont know Dan, that mall used to NOT be a mall, it was a "Welcoming center" for the original planned and private community called Wellington..... I moved into wellington back in 1988 and once you became an official Wellington resident, in that "Welcoming Center" (what is called Old Wellington Mall) you had all sorts of places that offered perks for us residents and little boutique shoppes. Was a very highend area once (up until 2007) Wellington was once a planned and private community, but is now its own city with its own operating governments, police, fire, taxes, etc....

@ThisisDanBell

5 жыл бұрын

very interesting, newls. thanks for the info.

@ggeiser3

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Just where was/is this mall? I looked at property in Wellington in 1974. On the south side of Forest Hill there was a big clubhouse which was at the time the real estate offices. We rode a little west from there on a golf cart to look at a lot for sale. Pretty much nothing was built there yet and I never bought that corner lot in the center of town for eight grand! Probably worth several hundred grand today.

@almightyyeezydab5149

2 жыл бұрын

Dude no offense but don’t speak on subjects you know nothing about, 2018 was the lowest violent crime rate in Wellingtons history since 1996, so the crime rates at an all time low

All that is missing is the zombies. Where's the zombies? They left the malls and went to Amazon.

@smoothsashimi7048

4 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Sparklenuts mmmmm yes, I shoot myself directly into my phone and just float through amazon for hours

Hahaha I live 20minutes away from that Wellington mall and I've never heard of it.

@Seektheday

5 жыл бұрын

It's a forgotten relic hidden in Wellington. Its tiny and gets lost. Behind the Checkers

@joeysmokes9839

4 жыл бұрын

I'll Go If You Go I live right by it lol

@krystalroxX7

4 жыл бұрын

@@joeysmokes9839 Did you go? I live down the street from there lol

when you have that many buckets, just close the mall lol

Can I have any context on that crazy intro before the Nord VPN promo?

@SovietWinnieThePoo

4 жыл бұрын

Look up Jenny Jones show on wiki, it will tell you everything you need to know

@CHNOPS1000

4 жыл бұрын

Fuzzy Grizzly I also had the same questions

@flamingapplepie1

4 жыл бұрын

Right kinda loved it tho

The washed out elevator music makes these videos all the more haunting...

I'm so happy that you went to the Wellington Mall!! I grew up there and I've been hoping you'd visit since I started watching this series. If I recall correctly, some of the horse and dolphin statues there were from city-wide art projects back in the mid-2000's. Local artists would make different themed animals and they'd put them all over town and it was fun to go around and try to find them all. Some of them ended up in the mall afterward. And yes, the bird cage did used to have real birds in it! I don't remember ever seeing the mall busy, for the most part it's just a really aesthetic post office at this point.Love your work, thanks for making this! :)

Hi Dan Bell! Thanks for doing this. I grew up in the mall era. These are important things to document. I wish I would have had the forsight to video record our Gateway Mall before it started going down hill amd was torn down. It had a senior spa complete with a swimming pool and floor to ceiling tinted glass windows, grecian statues ar the entrance and throughout and I am imagining work out equipment and who knows what else. A dime store with a diner in it, an actual dinner theatre, a metaphysical store for the hippies, anchors were JByrons, Zayres, the Woolworths, an Eckerds Drug store, a Publix-with detatched bakery, and a bank. It had a water fountain to throw coins into and a Gem festival annually in the main thru fair! It was waaaay better than what thwy tore it down and have now. When I was still a team and the store started closing I still would have never imagined that this place whatever not exist. I still miss that place. And wish my kids could have been able to experience and enjoy it, you still have some malls thank God but nothing were like this when it was considered a smaller Mall. so thank you for recording these places for future Generations. I wonder why they arent considered historical at this point?

Hey Dan, the Mall at Wellington Green opened in 2001! That was my mall growing up haha.

@keymaster7798

5 жыл бұрын

Max, I caught that too. I am originally from Wellington, also👍

@blacknight2149

5 жыл бұрын

Wellington Green is a great mall to this day..busy all the time

@thewayitwas

5 жыл бұрын

Same. I still go there.

@viriotie

4 жыл бұрын

Black Friday shopping there used to be the place to be back in high school

These dead mall videos always remind me of when my "local" mall was under construction but still open. Southwest Plaza Mall is still very much so open and alive but the months it was under renovation were so empty and surreal. I remember being 12 and wandering around the hot topic and staring at the torn open wall across the corridor for a few seconds before going back to looking through the clearance tshirts.

...the Karate sign with the crooked "T". That's when I realized this was perfection.

If only Rick shaving was somehow integrated into the NordVPN ad read.

@misterhat5823

5 жыл бұрын

It'd take more than Rick to shill something that useless.

Wow that last mall is the only place u can find actual payphones!!

I love this series so much it’s low key relaxing but also kinda gives me an existential crisis at the same time

I think that deep down, we all yearn for that idealized version of the 80's and 90's we have etched into our brains as a time of true abundance. Malls and other brick and mortar stores seem to be the best way for us to experience that consumerist comfort. I think we all secretly resent online shopping for taking away that experience.

Some vaporwave artist needs to commission a music video from you.

I love seeing your streams. Now blessing us with consistent uploads you're the man Dan

Each of these videos is like a mini art piece. The surreal opening montage and then the weird mall visuals...Love it, so calming.

Mall footage starts at about 4:19 you're welcome!!

@London2362

4 жыл бұрын

Seriously, this guy sucks with the ads.

@Wraith_Fire

4 жыл бұрын

🙏

@torikelso4734

4 жыл бұрын

London2362 how many ads did you get I only got one 👀

@London2362

4 жыл бұрын

@@torikelso4734 I was referring to his four minute infomercial for some crap internet company (during the video).

@OtakuUnitedStudio

4 жыл бұрын

@@London2362 Yes, how DARE he have a sponsor who provides him income for the work that he puts into filming, commenting, and editing his videos?

The “new” mall at Wellington Green is showing signs of struggle. One anchor location has a discount furniture store, and Nordstrom closed earlier this year.

@Deenique16

5 жыл бұрын

Wow didnt know that.

@Deenique16

5 жыл бұрын

They had a shooting out there not too long ago

@Xixu.co.6

4 жыл бұрын

It's the only decent mall in the area though. The last time i was there was probably a year ago and it was decently busy, but it gets super busy around the holidays. The gang violence from the east part of the county is slowly making it's way west though. It's sad. The whole area is dying.

i've lived in wellington for nearly my entire life, and my last visit to the mall was a few months ago. i've gone there a lot at peak mall hours to use the post office and even though i kind of knew it was dead when i saw basically nobody, i wasn't used to going to malls so it didn't stick out to me as surreal. so crazy to see it on here!

@Deenique16

5 жыл бұрын

Boynton mall is more dead then Wellington.

I was literally at the old Wellington mall for the first time yesterday and I got to say that it was the first actual dead mall I have ever walked through!

The cutscenes just before seeing either malls make fascinating transitions. It's like done so professionally, taking that which is quite random & making it fit seamlessly. The videos you prepare are very enjoyable.

dan you should have let me know you were in my backyard, the wellington mall has been like this for years, i cant go in there and not feel my life blood drain away.

I live a couple miles down the street from the old wellington mall, its been exactly like this video showed since I was a kid in the early 2000s. A mucher larger standard department store mall opened up a few miles down the street putting a death sentence on this mall, my dad actually had an office in this mall in 1989-1990 and said it was a dead mall even back then. The decor has been the same forever as well, it is not a deal with that woody's store, that shit has always been there its a very weird place lol

@Deenique16

5 жыл бұрын

Are you referring to the outlets?

Dionne Warwick's laugh LOL! Great mashup Dan, that's why I love your videos. Some of those malls you've visited I've been to myself, surreal that they went downhill.

That second mall in NC wasn't a mall, just looked like a long hallway with one store there lmao wtf

Were you on mushrooms when you made the opening montage? LOL. Either way, another home run bro.

That intro was hilarious 😂😂 ...”Don't playa hate, appreciate!"

bro no shit i live right across the street from the wellington mall! i freaked out when i saw you posted this! i've lived in wellington my whole life, and everyone i know is shocked that the place is still open! when i was in elementary school we held our girl scout meetings there, and in middle school i did karate there (the same dojo is actually still there at 5:48 and it looks exactly the same as it did in 2007). the children statues and horses are so weird. i've taken a ton of pictures in there throughout the years. i wonder how much longer it'll last for. thank you so much for featuring it!

Dan Bell vids give me better recommendations for Vaporwave artist than Spotify.

Did anyone count how many times Dan says Hodge-Podge lol

@malaiselindenfeld1112

5 жыл бұрын

there was even a sign that said hodge podge

@amycampbell7561

5 жыл бұрын

TouchyVariable or um

I got so confused when I saw The Wellington Mall because I live in Wellington and go to the new one all the time but didn't know there was an old one. I should check it out.. I didn't know I lived so close to a dead mall!

Thank you for not rushing through, Tel Jake we need to appreciate the wonderful sight of this mall

The Main Man is back! And more disturbing and weird than ever! Often imitated poorly, love your dead malls work, Dan. More please. Don’t stop.