This place went from one of the most beautiful malls I’ve ever been in To looking like the aftermath of cuthulu’s arrival

Wow my childhood , I remember going to see so many movies with my mom here singing wherenburg Theatre! Before the other trailers would come on , Going to KB toys and picking out what I wanted or wishing on coins to toss in the fountain It’s eerie and nostalgic to see this ghost of American consumerism and architecture go this way thank you for this I only hope that the county will do something with it but who knows how the world is gonna go with all this corona hoopla

This little mall will always be a part of me - shopping at Macy's and Sears, taking in the rush hour show at then capping it with a Philly cheese steak, fries and coke in the Food Court - what wonderful memories!

This place is so surreal. I love it.

Its heart breaking to see the mall like this (my second home). The neighborhood kids and I would walk up there to hang out (Aladin's Castle), shop (KB Toys, Spencers, Radio Shack, Tinder Box), got jobs when we were old enough, plus dinner (York Steak House, Wags). Lots of good memories from the mall, sad to see it like this.

Those poor vhs tapes left to rot with the mall! I know this may qualify as stealing but I wanna save those so badly!

@airaero5473

4 жыл бұрын

Also, I know the tvs in the Dillard's aren't that old, but it's still sad to just see them there. Alright, enough spam comments.

@Bigboybusington2988

5 ай бұрын

I found out that back in 2011 the store was used for selling old hotel furniture and tvs and any other hotel supplies and well that lasted like 5 months and the owner of the mall was trying to illegally auction off that building

I would go to Jamestown with my grandparents in the 80s. It was such a vibrant awesome mall back then!

Awesome video. Very creepy. I loved the theater part. It looked like more decay than vandalized. Thanks for a great video.

This mall had so many memories smh 😔

excellent video. love the background theme . suits the melancholy feel of the place. cheers from Northern Ireland.. Mitch

Interesting to see the plants growing under the leaking roof.

I saw a video of Aces Adventures’ visit to this mall and in his video, the mall is in absolutely horrible shape. In fact, Ace said that NOBODY should explore the Jamestown Mall. It’s amazing and sad what a difference a couple of years can make, between your visit and Aces visit.

@Retailpocalypse

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I touched upon that in my video at the end, but to actually see it.. wow what a difference.

@Talendale

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. You can easily compare shots and realize just how rapidly neglect and abuse by locals took this mall from a gently rotting corpse to nightmare fuel.

@Bigboybusington2988

Жыл бұрын

That Dillards building has been closed for as long as I’ve been alive because when the place closed it was 2006 and 2006 was the year I was born so that place has been closed my entire life and now that building is probably one of the most dangerous buildings in the world besides see a Bandan four-story Dillards at the south Columbia mall in South Carolina which has been closed since 2003

Glad to see you guys are still going strong

This mall lost its charm in the mid 90's when they expanded it and the food court and the thugs finished the job. Thanks

Our rather large neighbor 2.5 miles south of our home. I spent a lot of time there growing up in NoCo and our 30 something year old kids loved going there!

I miss going to the mall to enjoy a delicious slice of carrot cake accompanied with a nice hot cup of coffee. Unfortunately, with this pandemic situation going on, seems like those days are gone forever. Now, every place to buy food is only drive through or curb side pick up and all you see at grocery stores are a bunch of faceless people walking around. 😷 I hate this new way of living. It's so depressing.

@samanthataylor8606

Ай бұрын

Same

This was my hometown mall! I grew up at Jamestown, and really wish the city/county would figure out what they're going to do with the property. I hate that it's just sitting there decaying. It holds so many good memories for long-time residents. (Btw, it's FLOR-i-ssant with the emphasis on the first syllable. I was born, raised, and am still living in the city.)

@noralewis5390

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly, growing up nearby, I'd say FLOR-i-sent, making it rhyme with sent (short a sound) vs ant (long a sound).

@postitsandpens

4 жыл бұрын

@@noralewis5390 Yes, definitely -sent! :)

@scotth.3527

4 жыл бұрын

It's Flarascint. At least, according to my parents.

@angelictigerette

2 жыл бұрын

I moved there when I was 7. Jamestown was definitely the spot as young preteens. We went to the movies often. It started going downhill then. I remember one day we went to the movies, and when we came out, someone had driven a car through the food court. I also remember the generation after us had a curfew. They had to be out the mall at a certain time if they were a certain age.

Good video, I like the historical photos and info. Thanks!

Great Upload 👍 If I heard this sound while in this Mall I'd be scared

This is a mall that I would love to visit. Awesome video Jack!

@Retailpocalypse

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Stellar production. The eerie soundtrack really gives credence to a spooky atmosphere. It reminds me of the Steven King movie "The Langoliers" when they're in the vacant airport terminal. You wouldn't suspect that such an abandoned monstrosity would be haunted, but I certainly wouldn't want to venture through it alone at night. Thanks for the look around. Great job guys!

EXCELLENT eerie music selections...I especially like it when the conversations were vying with the scary music for the viewer's attention. It was very Dark Side of the Moon-ish... I just hope that every swingin' Richard doesn't show up here to muck the place up...it's such an awesome abandoned mall!!

17:40 Obi Wan Kenobi's favorite store. On a serious note thanks for all you've done for the community. Your content is awesome and helped pave the way for fellow mall fans like me.

Your SLOW work is wonderful! Thank you!

Amazed some of the stuff left behind. Those makeup display cases usually sell in a hurry.

@jenniferburchill3658

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure a lot of it has mold or other nasty stuff, though.

Makes me think those weird Beetlejuice sculptures walk around at night all clumsy and draggy...

The sound effects in background are horrible!😵 It just gives the video a creepier feeling. Thanx for the post!

Ny dad was rteh ops manager at sear in the 80s, I used to go sometimes early to work and open the store.

Definitely hitting all the right Silent Hill notes here. I especially like the stacks of crt tvs between the escalators staring at us like dead corpse eyes. It's nice you got the Stix / Dillards store. That was the oldest part and what the mall really aspired to when it was built. Why didn't you keep going up the escalator though? Did you know they had their restaurant on the the top floor? It's the row of windows visible from the outside but the view from inside would have been awesome.

I have many memories going here as a kid in the late 80s. We lived in Ramblewood Apts in Spanish Lake and my mom and I would take the bus here most weeks. I remember going to the Baskin Robins and getting one of those upside down Big Bird cones 🤣

Just so you all know all the TVs and pillows and random furniture all around Dillard’s area (last few mins of video) are because my friends dads friend used the space like a year or so before it closed as a resale junk pop up shop and I guess he left what he didn’t sale there hence the creepy.

@jonrev

4 жыл бұрын

That furniture must be what some firebug lit up the other day.

I am assuming there will be new videos coming out soon on other channels about this mall as several explorers possibly gained access to the mall recently.....

Its unbelieveable that so much stuff is inside. There are literally hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of infrastructure items that should be gutted by the municipality and sold at auction to pay for the tax bills and blight and redevelopment of this land.

wow it's cool to see all the stuff just abandoned and left there and it's not all messed up, too badly tagged and broken yet when this was shot. thanks

@Retailpocalypse

4 жыл бұрын

It's gotten worse since. The Dillard's building is open to the elements (upstairs restaurant windows smashed out) and some youths broke in a while back and set some of the plants on fire. It's sealed up again but the damage is done

@gregoriah_yippie

Жыл бұрын

Did You Wear A Mask?

Very cool music for this sad mall . What a mess.

I actually LOVED this place! There was better place to be! I shopped here at least 3-4 times a week! I start visiting this mall around 1990. I actually inquired about leasing our office space right after Macy’s Closed.

I worked there for a while when it was new. It's a shame what became of it.

Wonderful video taken back in 2018 of my once beautiful epic mall...... It's so destroyed now in 2021 Absolutely breaks my heart, and pisses me off at the same time! Shouldn't have ever happened......... Thank you for this epic video! Great sound effects! Would love to discover the name of them

@Bigboybusington2988

Жыл бұрын

That three-story Dillards building has been closed for as long as I’ve been alive which was 2006 and 2006 was the year I was born

Wow, the store directory still says famous barr on it. I swear the store were all renamed to macys back in 2000, but looking online that didn't really happen til 2006/2007. Still feels like eons ago.

@dianeadkins-diorio1783

4 жыл бұрын

2006 was when all the various regional affiliates of Macy's were rebranded to the national Macy's label (rather than Famous Barr, Kaufmann's, Hecht's, etc.)

@noralewis5390

4 жыл бұрын

@@dianeadkins-diorio1783 That makes sense. I do recall famous didn't have to change their coloring scheme much. Famous had been using Maroon and so did Macys. Other regional store like Foleys in Texas had to change drastically.

This is some old footage because I was recently in there and it looks NOTHINGGGGGG like this😂

@Retailpocalypse

4 жыл бұрын

Footage is from 2018.

I don’t ever remember there being a kfc, I remember the Subway and McDonald’s being there tho when I was a kid, I always begged my mom to go to the McDonald’s 😂

damn i want to go there but after seeing ace adventures video compared to this video i see how much it has been destroyed since april.. sad :(

@Retailpocalypse

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, took a nose dive over those two years. Soon after Ace's video a fire was set off in there.

1:20 Small quibble, but Florissant is pronounced "floor-iss-unt"

I remember going there all the time. I do believe I got my prom dress there to.

Wow. Sam Goody. I still have CDs I bought from there.

To date, Jamestown Mall has still not been demolished- the county has set aside $6 million as of April 2022, but seeks more funding from federal or state grants to make up the difference and finally bury the corpse of this mall once and for all.

@jimmyjakes1823

Жыл бұрын

Endless waste. How much cheaper would it have been to fix the roof and hire some security guards? The demolition will probably be just as loaded with corruption and kickbacks, just like letting salvagers and scrappers gut the mall was.

New subscriber here, great video.

@Retailpocalypse

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

24:32 Deck the Walls with lots of graffiti Fa-la-la-la

Lets get one thing straight... THUGS killed this mall.. like many others.

This is crazy, but yet common. No different from our lives.., We occupy our bodies with full occupancy... WE have GREAT success for season(s).. We experience drought, then back to life it goes... But every temple (person, thing) is designed has an expiration/Mandate upon their lease. The only thing that counts is what you did from your origin/birth/start (Here 1972) of succession -to your demise/Infinite demise or Eternity (here 2014).

Geesh, I saw Santa at this mall and got lost when shopping with my mom... The was even a restaurant in the 4 story dillards

The “auto mall” they’re talking about here in New York is Driver’s Village, which is what Penn Can Mall became. 🤓

Has the Jamestown mall ever been demolished?

@Retailpocalypse

4 жыл бұрын

Not yet. No immediate plans for demolition.

Was the guy on the bike at 5:15 a stranger?

@Retailpocalypse

4 жыл бұрын

One of the salvage crew guys.

The land use proposal for a truck depot by a highly paid committee is unacceptable, where trucks coming into a neighborhood at all hours. This is one of the most common land use requests throughout the country.

I THINK AN INDOOR MULTI DEALER AUTO MALL OCCUPYING THE GROUND FLOOR WOULD BE COOL. COMPETITIVE FINANCE AND INSURANCE COMPANIES, AND AFTERMARKET ACCESSORIES, AND FOOD COURT ON THE SECOND FLOOR. MAINTENANCE/REPAIR SERVICE DEPT. IN THE PARKING GARAGES. A WAITING/ KIDS PLAY AREA, ARCADE, THEATER. ETC.

The choice of music made it feel creepy. Could have used a little more talking during filming. But at least with other abandoned mall videos I've seen, there was no hands on, going thru stuff, and staying in the main areas.

This mall still stands & just caught fire a few days ago , I think it was homeless people just tryna keep warm . I wouldn’t go near this place even if homeless lol everything in that entire surrounding area is creeped out especially carrico road

Ace's Adventures did a recent explore .....so much worse now. Sad.

Eeriest background for this mall makes it more creepy

@Retailpocalypse

3 жыл бұрын

I felt it gave the best representation for the mood of this place.

@tristanwoodmansee477

3 жыл бұрын

@@Retailpocalypse Thank you for replying. It wasnt a negative comment, dont get me wrong. I just got that creepy vibe too😉😉

24:00 Is That Macys?

@gregoriah_yippie

Жыл бұрын

No 😅Its Sears

i was under the impression that reclusive billionaires Louis and gilbert von albers of florissant were to restore this

That place looks terrible. It's changed so much. The '90s were the time I was there. Since then, it seems that new stores and food establishments were added. It looks so different. I don't even recognize it.

@Retailpocalypse

2 жыл бұрын

It looks even worse now. Like a bomb went off.

@angelictigerette

2 жыл бұрын

@@Retailpocalypse wow

It doesn’t look like this no more either smh

Right now in Missouri, cost of renovation is about $110/sf (overgeneralization) so why not convert Jamestown and similar sites to residential quarters for the influx that is about to happen from our southern border? 1. The project must be Federal. City and County will fubar it with corruption and incompetence. In similar fashion, you must keep out AFL-CIO somehow because unions are value subtracted. 2. There must be a cultural intermix with the locals. You would be smart to hire local gang leaders as construction crew leaders, and teach them Spanish. Create controlled warlords a la CIA and give them DID to police. 3. Build for high maintenance: The drywall crew does turns. 4. All in all, this is going to be way cheaper than other ways to house to those disease-ridden, unwashed, ignorant, socially incompetent, unfortunate, deserving-of-charity immigrants. 5. In the process, you will create a social serendipity which will be a long term resolution to maintaining a happy labor force. Boeing and the Ford plant would welcome that labor pool in lieu of millennials with no work ethic. Just for the record, I now live in Springfield, because St Louis is a good place to be FROM. Ritenour '66

I have a shirt that has the Stix Baer fuller name/logo on it because I’m just that cool.

@scotth.3527

4 жыл бұрын

Wear it with pride.

Kohan have perhaps the second worst track record of mall ownership after Moonbeam.

The ghastly music is a bit much.

5:18 cyclist almost gave me a heart attack!!!!

@electron7659

4 жыл бұрын

Why?

Is this place going to have a date with the bulldozers?At this stage would think the land would be more valuable than the poor decrepit mall.

@Retailpocalypse

4 жыл бұрын

No date set that I know of. For now it just sits up sealed and rotting away.

@dianeadkins-diorio1783

4 жыл бұрын

@@Retailpocalypse Reminds me of Rotting Acres Mall in Akron OH... everybody and his brother found ways to get into that mall, no matter how much Akron city officials swore up one leg and down the other that every possible vantage point was sealed up... the last few groups to go in before demolition started in late 2016 gained access going right through the cinema...

so run down

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My dad used to go to the movie theater and the movies that he saw there were fast and furious the first jackass movie the second jackass movie and stepbrothers and many others and I have a friend who back when the place opens there was a claw machine that had South Park characters in it and my friend ended up winning the set of four friends which was Stan Kyle Eric and Kenny the plushy ones but if you look at the photos from when I opened it had a bunch of South Park themed stuff in it

Another Rotting Acres Mall :(

@Retailpocalypse

4 жыл бұрын

Even worse now unfortunately. Straight up, it's a structurally unsound cesspool.

@MarcABrown-tt1fp

4 жыл бұрын

@@Retailpocalypse Hopefully like Dixie square mall, most everything that could easily decay does so, then dries out, so it isn't such a dangerous mess to explore for people that do lol.