Sorry I missed you Tom! My last day Friday was super emotional and I cried most of the day. End of an era for me. That day ended my almost 40 year run of continuously working at the Crystal Mall💔💔

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Yes, sorry I couldn't get out there Friday. Had to work my full time job... I can imagine how emotional it would be leaving a place after 40 years! I'm sorry yo see this jcpenney go too! Thanks for watching!

@sherrieroggero9206

2 ай бұрын

@@fleabittenadventures thank you, just sad all around💔. Thanks for documenting everything. My husband and I really enjoy your videos! Keep up the good work!!

@BreakTime10101

2 ай бұрын

40 years at JCPenny?

@sherrieroggero9206

2 ай бұрын

@@BreakTime10101 36 years at JC Penney and this October would have been 40 years continuously working at that mall.

@GhostOfCastlevania

2 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear this. I just went today to stop by FYE and I have to say it was also emotional seeing the last anchor store close. My grandfather played Santa here in the mid 2000s and I always have good memories of it. Can't imagine it will last too much longer.

Sad to see such well-known stores like Sesrs and JC Penney go out of business 😢 Some of those shelving displays would be good for a garage or walk-in closet!

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

I agree. Thanks for watching

I went to the JCP in Sturbridge a couple years ago the day before they closed. Got a gorgeous pair of $120 leather boots for $12. They were the only pair like it left, and were in my size!

@Sara_0137

Ай бұрын

Congrats. I love a deal.

I lived in Ledyard from my birth in 1990 until I left in 2015. I went to the Crystal Mall many times. Sad to see it in this state, but such is life! Thank you for the memories and for this video to remind me.

Jc penney was always so amazing, I just went to a couple in Massachusetts and new hampshire last week. They feel so ready to go

I love your videos but I have to admit that I get frustrated when I see something I really want but can't get because it's on video. 😉👍 That means you make great videos! Thank you very much for sharing!

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

I know what you mean! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the upload !! I heard in February I believe that there was some legal "Issues" Between JC Penney and the mall..

Great video! Thank you!

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

I'll have to remember to keep an eye out for more store closings like this. Lots of nice deep shelving that's just really hard to find for good prices nowadays new. The JCPenny closest to me at the moment still seems to be doing ok but I imagine like everything else its days could be numbered. I have a glass front cabinet that I got from Toys R Us when those closed...they originally priced it at 200 but gave it to me for 40. I kept the "this area is under video surveillance" stickers on the glass as a nice homage and for the laughs. Seems especially in the final few days of these types of sales it's worth it to show enough interest that you may be offered a nice deal below the sticker price.

With the demise of the Crystal Mall, my recommendation would be to drive about an hour northwest to Westfarms in West Hartford for a much better shopping experience.

@josephchristiansen1803

Ай бұрын

Heck of a travel just to do some shopping though. I do see in the next 5 to 10 years not many malls being left in Connecticut.

I was at the Crystal Mall yesterday. JC Penny is now closed and the Rue 21 closed as well. Yesterday was it's last day. Should cover the whole mall as the food court is down to just the 2 Asian restaurants

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Don't worry, I did film the mall while I was there.

The ceiling in that store is a disgrace

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Yes. They've clearly got a leaky roof.

We need to support JCP as much as we can. If there’s one near you shop there, buy a few items. If we just buy everything from Amazon, JCP and places like it will be gone forever.

@kanna-san.

2 ай бұрын

If only jcp sold books and tech :c

@melissahurt317

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately l usually can not find what l need at JCPENNEY

@mark3464

2 ай бұрын

Hard pass. These stores are junk

Our JC Penney and Dillard’s are literally the only thing keeping my local mall alive.

Your mom is so cute, stylish and has the nicest speaking voice. I wonder if the fireplace mantles were used by Visual for Christmas displays. Those slanted plexiglass risers are for shoe displays! I'd loved to had some mannequins and what a great price on them. Store fixtures are fun! Thanks for the tour:)

The only things I ever bought from a place going out of business were 2 hand baskets from Toys "Я" Us (Whitney Field), one which I use to lug video gear for bowling videos, the other is just there. The funniest thing I've seen was when Whitney Field's Macy's was heading south (no out of business event for maybe 2 years) was a decommissioned register. There was a sign that said "Customer Service" with a bed directly underneath it. I waited for staff to not be around to photograph that, and post it to Facebook. :)

JCPenney at Bel Air Mall in Mobile, AL here is closing after almost 50 years.

Thanks!

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate it!

Now I have to listen to Hold Me by Fleetwood Mac in regular sound levels.

Wow !! Last time I was at Crystal Mall was summer 1997 and it was a thriving business mecca. !!!! What happened ?????

If you go back to do a update video and look in the covered up doors and you see the weak point parts of the ceiling all collapsed you will see all those high priced packages of paper still in there full of dust

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Yes. There's no way they sold any of that paper.

Penny’s has been a good store, but they have pulled out of the old mall I use to go to and then came back later. Corporate is a strange animal. Oh well 👀

Whenever I go into the JC Penney near me at the Pheasant Lane, there are a lot of people shopping in there. I hope it stays that way. JC Penney is one of the few retailers that has a decent selection of mens Big and Tall apparel. Their shoe department leaves a lot left to be desired though. Anyone who wears anything bigger than a men's 12 M shoe is out of luck.

Some Macy’s are closing also

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Yes. I saw that. If there's any near me, I'll try to check them out.

Hmm, I would've bought a shoe-sizer. Been ages since I've seen one!

I remember watching wallaby 26 when they were in a nine-story Ames building divisional headquarters not in the 20s where they had a little when you go for the job applications that they had never thrown away and they got scattered all over the floor inches in footage if you can never get to see it

@WilliamBrown-qx1fx

2 ай бұрын

If I remember right that was for rmx is for Ace was one of them

@WilliamBrown-qx1fx

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I was an interesting building bunch of job applications all over the place 100,000 something easily and I found out that the electricity was on and this place went out of business in 2002 the four deep player 1980 special was still paying bills coding lights telephone and stayton all this time

Feeling like JCPenney is a dying brand.

@johnsarian_cu

2 ай бұрын

What Amazon doesn't kill, I think the Chinese online sellers like Temu will. The fact that a few of the long running dollar stores are dying proves the super cheap stuff from Temu and Alibaba is winning in my opinion. That and there isn't enough retailers left who need to dump inventory to keep the dollar stores alive. At least JCPenney is still being smarter than Sears was.

@hattiem.7966

Ай бұрын

​@@johnsarian_cuNo to Temu!

I heard that Simon Property Group bought Penneys and that they will in the future close all Penneys that are not in Simon Malls. Just FYI the Penneys at the Shenango Valley Mall will be closed at the end of the month along with the Mall it self.

@Cinnacat25

2 ай бұрын

Whatttttt is this true that's stupid my city mall is not owned by Simon does this mean that the JCPenney will close

@Cinnacat25

2 ай бұрын

Where and when did you hear this

@SuperBuickregal

2 ай бұрын

@@Cinnacat25 I saw it in the comments of another URBEX KZreadr it may be BS or it could be true. But I will tell you that a lot of the struggling Malls only have 1 anchor left and once they are gone it is a downward spiral.Walked 3 malls in the N.E. Ohio area and they all had store closures since the last time I was home 6 months ago. One mall actually had a Dillards close along with a Rue 21 + smaller inlines. Look for more restaurants to fold due to the recession the wheels are starting come off along with a credit risk increase.

@Cinnacat25

2 ай бұрын

@@SuperBuickregal okay I looked this up online and on both the Simon and JCPenney website I found nothing

@SuperBuickregal

2 ай бұрын

@@Cinnacat25 I should have done the same thanks for the correction and update, my bad.

That's sad. I haven't been in a Penney's in years, but it's sad. The stores do dump things from other stores into the one that's closing, or the company hired to handle the closing does it. I found a pile of Land's End shirts in a closing Sears, all the same pattern and in limited sizes. No talls, naturally. That full rack was a clear indicator. They may have done it with the fixtures in this one, and maybe those little bits near the exit.

Some of those fixtures looks good enough to be used as a desk. There must be acres upon acres of fixtures in warehouses around the country with all these various stores closing and no buyers of the fixtures. It looks the the store itself hasn't been updated since the 1990s. This seems to be the theme of stores going out of business soon. I bet many JCPenney's and Macy's look the same with stores that haven't been refreshed in over 30 years.

Welp, that is End of an era, Crystal mall is already dead

@kanna-san.

2 ай бұрын

Shame. I always thought it was pretty

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Sure looks like it.

My mom never liked J. C. PENNY'S. And I will have to agree with her.

@11:05 the JC Penny Credit Card - this was offered by every sales associate / cashier for decades - found an old one in our junk drawer and cut it up just last year. IF you paid it off the discounts were nice but I'm assuming they made money off the interest and people not paying off in full

These prices seem crazy high to me! Nothing seems "priced to go."

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Some of the nicer tables and desks seemed to be priced ok, but yeah it definitely wasn't a fire sale. I'm sure almost everything I saw there on Saturday is still there now.

@halojill4937

2 ай бұрын

​@@fleabittenadventuresI wonder if they are afraid of teenagers buying a whole bunch of stuff and then dumping it or something if they make it too cheap

JC Penney used to have a great big and tall men's department but once they got rid of the st.johns bay brand i knew it was over

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

They still have St. John's Bay. I just bought some recently at another location. I'm wearing one now.

I can’t see the video btw, the Feb 7th one

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Here's the link. kzread.info/dash/bejne/go5tqqStaa7XoJM.html

@RowletGod69

2 ай бұрын

@@fleabittenadventuresthank you

Looks like the mall has given up on the landscaping

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

They've given up period. Crystal Mall is not long for this world.

What ashamed another store biting the dust it's just ashamed all those people loose their jobs 😂😢😮😅

hey tom is is very weird but when you search up crystal mall google maps will give the mall but it does not say crystal it says this and that so this mall is a thrift store and the jcpenny still shows it is open so i guess they lied to you

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Yes. I've seen that thrift store show up under the search for Crystal Mall. Not sure why that is. As far as JCPENNEY being open, that's probably because no one had updated the Google info yet. It's definitely closed. Thanks for watching.

@user-nn7ig9qp3j

2 ай бұрын

@@fleabittenadventures your welcome

Sad.

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Sure is.

The grand majority of those items were way overpriced! It will take forever for them to sell everything.

@fleabittenadventures

2 ай бұрын

Now that they are closed, I'll bet 99% of what I showed in the video is still there.

@mr.pagesfilmsandplastics

2 ай бұрын

@@fleabittenadventures True, buddy. By the way, fsn of your awesome channel.

I remember watching wallaby 26 when they were in a nine-story Ames building divisional headquarters not in the 20s where they had a little when you go for the job applications that they had never thrown away and they got scattered all over the floor inches in footage if you can never get to see it

I remember watching wallaby 26 when they were in a nine-story Ames building divisional headquarters not in the 20s where they had a little when you go for the job applications that they had never thrown away and they got scattered all over the floor inches in footage if you can never get to see it

I remember watching wallaby 26 when they were in a nine-story Ames building divisional headquarters not in the 20s where they had a little when you go for the job applications that they had never thrown away and they got scattered all over the floor inches in footage if you can never get to see it