Abandoned Dead Mall : Mellett / Canton Centre : Urban Exploration Series Skate & Destroyed episode 2
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Bought my first pair of Airwalks at Montgomery Ward in this mall circa 1988
In this episode I re-visit a location where I personally spent countless hours through my life, growing up in the area, and over the past 15 years, have watched it become a ghost of what it once was.
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I really love the nostalgia factor you brought to this exploration video. Most people go for a creepy vibe or just seem disconnected from the video they're showing/narrating. But, when you're talking about the mall with such fond memories, it really brings the mall to life. It makes me sad to see this mall go, even if i've never been there. Makes me nostalgic for my old mall hangout, although the place is still around.
TableWrens thanks 😊😊😊
Agree 100%! 👌🏻
This is by far one of the best exploration videos I've seen. Thanks for all your good work, keep it up! :-)
New Big Kmart exploration is posted!!!
I grew up 5 minutes from the mall. As a kid I watched the workers demolish the green project houses where the mall was to be built. They let us throw rocks at the windows. We then watched them build the mall. To a kid in the 60's this was big doings. We enjoyed the mall and all it had to offer for many years. Lots of memories for sure. Thanks for your video.
steven r. arrendale that's so awesome :-) see that's what I love about this stuff, everything that is abandoned and crumbling right now, was at one point brand new and shiny. But in both brand-new condition, and the condition it is in now, it is beautiful in its own way. It's just absolutely amazing to see these places in a condition that they were never meant to be. Like standing on a movie set.
Right after graduating from Canton South I worked at Montgomery Ward as a painter... I painted anything that needed painting. During my breaks I would walk that mall. It hurts my heart to see that it’s in such decline. I haven’t lived in Canton for about 18 years now but I come back to visit once a year but never really take the time to visit that area of Canton. Thanks for the video.
These videos are making me cry. I guess the dying malls are reflections of ourselves. Once bustling, full of energy and promise, now old, faded, decaying, and ever looming toward the dust from whence we came. And they hit the hardest when we see it fist hand how the times changes, and us right along with them. Rage against the dying of the light, Nate!
Your comment pretty much interpreted my recurring dreams about being in a huge mall. Its the same mall every time. But each time is a different era; it's either full of life and thriving( with a retro vibe!) or dead and falling apart..or somewhere in between.
It is definitely a reflection of ourselves. One reason I think myself as well as many others are drawn to these malls, especially as they die and decay
I remember when the mall was built in the 1960's. I spent many Sundays after church eating dinner at Bretans. Christmas was wonderful here!! I remember coming here during Christmas break and I would see many of my classmates from Sours Jr. High and eventually Lincoln and Timken High. My mom and sisters would come here often. Mom is gone; dad just s suffering from dementia; my sisters and I are near retirement; we have grown kids and grandkids. Very sad to see this mall in such bad shape. It sort of mimics the cycle of life. Thanks for the post my friend!!
I managed a store in this mall in the late 80's - early 90's that is in the walled off section- Ackerman's Jewelers. We opened the store in December of 1988 and renovated the store in 1990. Hence the mauve walls that endured so well (and cost a small fortune lol). I was 21 and managing another Ackerman's in my hometown of Flint Mi and moved to Canton on 12/26/88. Three days later I met my (now) wife of 27 years, at that store. So many good memories of this place!
Hey there guy. Never saw this video until now.
I really appreciate the older pictures of the mall and whatnot. I grew up going to this place and have a lot of memories seeing movies and getting games and action figures at KB toys. My mother used to work at arts jewelers there, and I'd spend hours at the arcade while she was working. I knew that as soon as Wall mart ended up there, canton centre was going die out entirely eventually. The whole things been replaced by a crappy strip mall now, but nothing will really make up for it.
Every once in a while I'm in the area I go in there just to reminisce. Gives me a bunch of nostalgia just seeing that flower again.
Spent many hours at that mall back in the 70's & early 80's. Won a huge teddy bear at the old woolworths that was across from Pennys around '73. Soooo many memories! Seen my 1st "midnight movie" at the original theater... Pink Floyds The wall. Last time I was in there & it was still a mall 2000-01,it was sad to see how abandoned it seemed
I go back to 1971 at Mellett Mall as a hangout. I'd probably recognize you if I saw you someplace. Back then I had the nickname 'Reverend Muck'.
Thank you so much for making this video. I grew up at this mall and it was wonderful to relive so many memories while watching. When i was 5 or 6 my mom took me to a haunted house that they built in that underground parking garage. Its one of my earliest memories.
It's sad to see a mall that was so alive and doing so well now empty and sad looking.
Very well done. As I kid in the 60s and 70s, I grew up behind the Country Fair Shopping Center - directly across the street from the mall. I basically grew up in that mall. You may remember looking through the cassettes at Camelot Music - I remember looking through the 45s and the LPs. As a teen, I hung out at the Orange Julius with my friends. I remember when it first opened, there was an A&P and a Kroger's on either side of the main entrance. My grandmother and I used to go to Woolworth's (she called it the 5 and dime) and sometimes we'd get something to eat at the lunch counter there. In the summer of '75, I saw the movie Jaws at the cinema. (3 times in one week!) We used to get a bunch of Hot Sam's pretzels and take them to a friend in Florida (his name was Sam). Gosh, so many fond memories. It's pretty heartbreaking, what's happened there.
My grandma lived just a few blocks away. My uncle used to do sporting goods shows there too. Haven’t been there in about 30 years. I remember Camelot Music! I saw Rocky Horror for the first time at that theater. Used to get Orange Julius and hang out.
Thanks for the memories.
I love the way you painted pictures of your memories here with words. The old pictures and videos are also a great touch! I love the way you put this video together, and the music you used. You did justice to this beautiful mall and her memories! This place had an awesome vintage/retro aesthetic. This was probably one of the oldest malls in the country. It opened in the mid-60s. Both my father and I hung out a lot at this mall as kids, and he as an adult with my mom and I. My dad has unfortunately passed on, and I cherish every one of the many great memories we have. It's amazing what time changes.. I love dead and abandoned malls, but his mall will always have a special place in my heart. I think the abandonment of this mall actually might have kick-started my interest in the topic. I have quite a bit of pictures and memories here from when i was a kid. I used to ride the carousel way back when there was one in the food court. I have pictures with the likes of Bugs Bunny and both Mickey and Minnie Mouse ❤🖤 I remember putting a lot of wishes into that fountain. One time, as a very young kid, I threw it a bit too far and the penny hit some poor guy in the back of the head who was sitting on the other side of the fountain! I remember the shoe shine chair just past the fountain as you were entering the food court. I used to think it was a throne and I enjoyed sitting on it and pretending I was queen. 👑 😂
KB toys was my favorite store that I always begged to go inside. I saw so many movies at the cinema! The first one I can remember was the Lion King..the last movie I saw there was The Green Mile - another great Tom Hanks movie! I got my ears pierced at Added Touch, my parents got their engagement rings from Kay..I could go on about all the good times had there. I hung out there a lot my whole life until high school, right before it closed. Of all the time I have spent there, I don't think I ever knew about that pond! That's so interesting! It's like a secret hidden area. I thought part of the parking lot used to be there. Unless it's a sinkhole? 😱 (jk)
Anyway, thank you for sharing this touching video and your memories at the old Mellett/Canton Centre Mall ❤🤘🏻 I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt moved.
"Here's a penny from the from the fountain. This was somebody's wish."
Making me choke up, man. A lot of my wishes went into that fountain. As I recall, most of them were for cats. I was of a singular mind as a little girl.
I actually kept a penny from that fountain, I have it in my office for good luck, it is taped to my monitor with a note that says, "somebody's wish". I keep it up there to remind me to work harder to make my wishes come true :)
come over to my other channel "That Nate Guy On CZcams", I will make tomorrow's morning show all about that penny :)
Will do! I'm also trying to see if my brothers have any pictures of the mall food court and the Camelot in its heyday. They went to HS in Canton and spent more time there than I did. But I don't think they threw in as many pennies as I did.
Amy YM damn Camelot I remember that place too there at the mall.
I started going in there in the 60s, when mother took me to the J.C. Penney’s for school clothes (1964, 65, 66).
The place was always packed during the Christmas season.
I saw “Jaws” at the theater in 1975, and that started my love of movies.
The last times I was there was in the late 90s. I’d go there just to visit the bookstore that sold overstock books and magazines when I visited Canton in the fall. . I think that was 96 - 98 maybe? Nice bookstore. Still have the books I bought.
Excellent. I also spent a good deal of time there in the 80's-90's. You did a great job with the editing, to prompt me to recall some of these stores. You got yourself another subscriber.
Thanks so much appreciate that!
One of the bigger recessions happend in 2008. That is what really took a toll on a lot of places. Closed many malls
So many memories. There wasn't the fountain when I was a kid, the pet store was beside Orange Julius, I watched Pete's Dragon and Black Cauldron in the theatre, I got my first ear piercing (Claire's), my first credit card (O Neil's)), my first picture with Santa, so many memories of my grandmother and I, the monkey in the shoe store (N-something was the name), being in majorettes and marching down the mall (photos are in my closet somewhere), Gray's Drugstore (beside Camelot), my class ring from Art's, the hot dog place across the way from Art's, Wool Worth's, Baskin Robbins and eating bubble gum ice cream, and Breton's Cafeteria and the restaurant they added in the 80's of mirrors and neon that I can't recall the name of that was beside Bretons, and Zales' jewelry where I was a kid and tripped over a vacuum cord falling into a wall display of Humel's!
Excellent video, narration, music and editing. Your love of this mall is obvious. You did an excellent job! Thank you!
This was a year before I graduated from high school. There are times I wish I could & was back in the 80's.
Good job Nate...esp. the part near the end where you faded yourself in different spots and faded yourself out completely....the piano music made it even better.
2 thumbs up !
Thankyou for the Video. I cried at the Ending because the Mall I used to visit in my Teenage Years and when I had my own Childrens completely shut down in 1997-98. It was demolished in 1999. I hate seeing all these Malls closing. I love the indoor Malls. I was so sad when Methuen Mall went out because I have alot of very fond Memories going there. I go to the Mall at Rockingham Park whenever I get the Chance to when I can get a Lift to and fro and it makes me feel so carefree and happy. I hope that Mall NEVER closes down! But what you said about People vandalizing these Buildings makes me angry that they have no Respect for anything! I sometimes wonder if they have any Respect for themselves! Thankyou so much for this Video! May you and your Family have a Blessed Holiday and New Year. Blessed Be! )0(
One of the best videos on an abandoned mall I have ever watched! You did an awesome job and I look forward to exploring with you in the future and I sincerely thank you for sharing your memories.
Thanks! I have I think 4 or 5 more episodes up right now, and a new one every Saturday at 6pm. The next will be another dead mall, as I've had a few people request them since this one :)
Happy to announce that CubeSmart self storage has taken the old Kaufmanns building!
I have to thank you for bringing back some fond memories. This is very sad to see though. My history goes back to the early 70's when I was 18. Where the food court was, there used to be a grocery store, A&P maybe. I was a mall bum and asked girls for 37 cents, which is how I met my wife of 29 years in front of the Woolworth store. My friends and I would walk back and forth most all day from Orange Julius at the O'Neils end down to Hucky Finn's arcade down by Montgomery Wards. I usually broke off and went into Spencer Gifts to look through the posters and other things, and also at Malvern Books to look through magazines until they booted me out. Went to many 'midnight movies' at the cinema. It was disheartening when they tore down my memories to make way for WalMart. I'll always remember the short steep ramp in the front, and the long ramp in the back by Montgomery Wards and doing donuts in the parking lot full of snow. Even though I'm almost in tears, thanks for posting this.
I remember both A&P and Kroger being where they put the food court. :) Gram would buy her coffee from the grinding machine in Kroger's. We'd eat lunch each Sunday in Breton for decades.
I believe it was a Krogers
I've been waiting for this one. I live right down the street from here, and I have a ton of memories of Canton Centre from when I was a kid. Camelot Music was my favorite store. General Cinema, Sam's Pretzels, Nickelodeon Arcade... It sucks that it's not what it used to be.
cantonphantom yup I lived in west manor I spent lots of time there myself.
great video!! Alot of stuff shutdown in 2008 due to the housing bubble burst and a lot people losing there job during that time its sad to see a mall like that go to waste My dad is from Springfield oh and i used to go to the upper valley mall all the time I remember there pet store me and my brother went to all the time it and alot of the stuff just like kaybee toys is gone now
I used to work in Canton in the 1980s and grew up in Alliance. I remember when this mall was Mellett Mall. I have memories of shopping there. You've done a great job in this video. I like how you interpose pictures of the mall from the past with the present. You also do a nice commentary. Nice job! Thank you for putting it together.
You're very welcome! I also did one at Carnation Mall in Alliance, if you haven't seen it. Which speaking of, my daughter told me Napoli Pizza in the food court is closing for good in like 2 weeks, what a bummer!!
Terrific video Nate. I love the effort you put into the before and present stills. One of the best dead mall videos I've seen. Excellent editing as well!
Brian Strong thanks I appreciate that 😊😊
congrats on nearly 2k subs man. WOW! I remember not long ago I was amongst 10 or so other subs. well keep on going, we love these new abandoned series.
Thanks man!!! I am loving making these, and posting them once a week gives me the opportunity to dedicate more to making them really awesome :) Just finished filming the Christmas Eve episode and I am STOKED!!
Great video Nate!! Loved the location. I am very impressed by ur filming and editing skills. Great work bud!!
Exploring with Hunter thanks man :-) I love making videos so much! I spent six hours editing part of what I filmed yesterday, and that's only 1/3 of what the final video will be. I was over there filming for like four hours yesterday, and two hours the day before, The skin on my head was frozen solid by the time I left LOL
OMG I have always wanted to see the inside!!! we used to hang out here food court, movies this was our thing!!!!!
i love how most of these videos are in northeast ohio! lived in this area my whole life and some of these places i have heard of but never saw
Love the background music. It really goes well with the video footage!
I know the feeling of watching something you love crumble. When I was born, the Owings Mills Mall was still brand new (2 years old, I think? I think was opened in 1986 and I was born in 1988) and watching it go from new to in disrepair to completely gone... I was just by the construction site 3 weeks ago and they're already building something new there.
My mother worked in the food court and that’s where her and my father met. I grew up with that mall in decline, I remember how nice it was when I was younger.
Another great video! I went to this mall when I was younger, so I have memories too. Thanks!
This is a masterpiece.
Been watching these videos of abandoned malls, etc. for months and this is the first of yours I've watched. Very well done, easily one of the best as others have noted. It's a whole range of thoughts watching these. It's sad, cool, depressing and exciting when you think about it all. It was an event to gather the family and go to the mall. Before cell phones, you went to hang out with friends at the mall and actually interact with other humans. Anyhow, great work on this and I'll definitely check out the others.
Very nice man. Brings back many good memories. I used to live it around Christmas time as well.
You do some great work. I enjoy your personal experiences and how you incorporate older pics etc. context and history really makes this interesting. My son and I went here a couple months ago. We have made a couple trips from over in PA to Akron and canton to see dead and abandoned. He makes his own videos and has been obsessed with this genre for a while now.
I really enjoyed making this one, Ive been visiting this mall for a long time, and have made a few videos of it, but really wanted to do it justice, and I think with what I had at hand, I accomplished that. I try to visit places I have personal connections to, cause it makes the videos that much better. What's your son's channel?
Omggg, the Kaufmanns label scar @ 4:37, super cool and vintage 😀😀
Very beautiful video! I used to go to pompano fashion square mall in pompano fl as a kid but didnt for a while after my aunt died.i decided to take a bus there one day just to walk thru it and remember things and wow did it chang! It origionally had 2 floors and even a pet store i loved goub by and seein the puppies and an arcade on the 2nd floor but sadly the 2nd floor were demolished including the food court,and the parking garage leading to rooftop parking and all the inner stores closed leaving only penneys and mavys ,ross and subway😦.the floreceny neon lights that once ran across the ceilings in pink and blue were still there but burned out long ago...i went back in 2008 and the entire mall except for penneys and macys was completly guyyed, demolished and rebuilt into an open air outdoor mall since then...so sad! Also the fashion mall at plantation and millenium mall in hollywood are 2 others!
What a wonderful, and sincere commentary of your memories and observations of this mall. I like so many things about this video, especially the views of what it used to look like. I also liked the many personal touches you mentioned while showing different areas of the mall.
I agree that many people don't get it. I spent a lot of time as a teenager between two malls in my home town. Fortunately, they are still open. I'm sure I would be devastated if they closed and fell into disrepair.
amazing piece of art from the past. Just sad there removing the beautiful past memories of it forever. great job on your filming !!!
Love the before and after shots 😊
3-5 months ago it stunk like mold, mildew and decay. I can happily say I went back there a few weeks ago and it smells actually surprisingly fresh.
I grew up 5 streets away. Mom bought school clothes at JC Penney and groceries at Krogers. Became my hangout place. Innocent fun at first...tossing super balls purchased from machines for ten cents and riding bicycles from one entrance to another. Even saw the first Star Wars movie there. Now the not so innocent, Stealing from the Gap, Spencers, O'Neils, and finally caught with a hot girls request for Canei wine from Gray Drugs. I think I was 17???
Does anyone remember the old short guy with the train looking engineer hat? He always sat on a bench between O'Neils and Gray Drugs.
Keith Lovejoy yea I was in the 80’s and 90’s with the mall and I remember those stores you are talking about. I lived in West Manor just a stones throw away from there myself so I was at the mall a lot when I was younger
Great videos! You are absolutely correct. Vandals don't get it. There are memories.
Is this like Acid Jazz you are using? It adds a perfectly chill, past-its-prime vibe to your excellent walkthrough and personal recollections. Really excellent job. I just made it 2500 subscribers. Thanks for posting!
Carol Pisc awesome thank you 😊😊 yeah I'm not exactly sure what you would call Half the music or using my Videos LOL, once I start editing I will sometimes spend hours looking for the perfect music
My wife and I used to spend a lot of time at Mellett Mall (which I will ALWAYS call it) back in the day. We could see it steadily start to decline once Montgomery Wards left and it eventually turned into a gathering spot for black kids that caused nothing but trouble there and we quit going. So sad to see it like this. Thank you for sharing, wish we could have seen more of the mall.
There is a facebook group for this mall, it's just called Mellett / Canton Center Mall Group, and I have photos on there from the back hall leading to Macy's, it's destroyed with black mold, water, etc, just completely falling apart.
What memories..I worked at Montgomery Wards and Added Touch
I commented on this awhile back about my days there in the early 70's, and where I met my wife of 29 years. I'm getting back into doing leather work again, and while digging through things in the attic, I came across a 2ft by 3ft Mellett Mall Directory map.
awizardalso oh man that is awesome!!!!! Would you mind sharing a photo of that on the skate master Nate Facebook page? I would love to see that
Going to look for you now.
This was a very good tour of the canton center mall. I liked all the memories that you told us.
Thanks Simon :) I have another channel "That Nate Guy On CZcams" where I post all of my explorations now, I'd love for you to come on over!!
This mall bears an eerie resemblance to what Rolling Acres Mall became when it shut down and was abandoned :(
I grew up hanging out in Rolling Acres Mall not too far away. I don't live in the state anymore, but Rolling Acres has been leveled and a Amazon distribution center is in its place. We also had Chapel Hill, but I believe it's closed now too..
Great video Nate!
Great video spent lots of time in that mall growing up sad that it’s gone
LOVE this channel!!!!!
Fuzzy puppet can you do a spirit halloween video please
Keep up the good work man.
I remember when they closed this, Macy's! This one's situation was a little different from the ones at RPM and RAM, this one had to close because the lease was expiring!
Sorry for being late. Great video nate.
Hey this is your nobor love it man💯
New subscriber here and I am really enjoying your videos brother. You do a great job explaining and exploring at the same time while also providing so much background information. Plus adding your own personal experiences and thoughts makes for an intimate look into all these places.
Hey you should pop over to my other channel, "That Nate Guy On CZcams", I've been posting all of my explorations and whatnot on there now :)
Skatemaster Nate yes sir I am subscribed. Very cool uploads. Really entertaining. Have you found any buildings to film at in Barberton, OH? Supposed to be a small town I think.
Wow did this bring back memories. Definetly got my ears pierced there wedding ring santa claus too many to type but ty so much for the trip back
great video. Looked it used to be a nice place.
really enjoyed this vid.
Thank you :)
I used to hang out at this mall too as a teenager. I loved Camelot Music, etc. I took a lot of pics there when I was younger and actually got the security staff mad. THey told me I couldn't take any pics anymore because it looked suspicious, etc. This brings back a lot of memories. The shot t 4:59... ex boyfriend and I used to go out to that spot and smoke with a friend who worked at the mall.
I just shot a video here last friday, it looks almost exactly the same as it does here, except they painted the walls they built to block of the sections of the mall. I totally understand how you fell about this place, it's how i feel about chapel hill. Your perspective on this place makes me appreciate what it was like and where it is now so much more.
Well done Nate... felt like I was there with you
Bought one of my favorite sport coats at Richmond Brothers store here when I was in high school.
I love videos like this
Very well done
I really appreciate your love for our Mellet Mall!! I wish someone would have shot video of the place when I grew up there. As a child I can remember the two grocery stores and a laundromat. I hung out at Hucky Finns and Orange Julius. I hate what has happened to the mall.😔
no doubt! I searched high and low for footage and even just photos from the years past, but they were few and far between.
Just found you bouncing off Aces Adventures. Excellent video and execution. The part about your mother in law driving by was great. You Sir have a new subscriber. 👍😉
lol!! Yeah she hated me :) :) Thanks man!!! I'm heading out to explore right now!!
New exploration of a recently abandoned Big Kmart is posted now!!
Skatemaster Nate Sweet! 😆🖖
Very well done video
Wow...I've lived here in Stark County my whole life and I seriously had no idea there was a mall in Canton, or even an abandoned mall for that matter. Lol Good stuff man, very informative! You have a new subscriber 😉
Scratch that, I've been there maybe 2 or 3 times before it was completely dead 😂😂😂 my memory is shitty.
I remember they would turn off the fountain and put Santa there, it's so sad that GANGS took this place over that's what killed the mall it was the gang hang out made it unsafe
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It's crazy how things fall apart just because no one is occupying them.
Exactly! I've said that so many times. Like ths abandoned McDonalds I came across one day recently. Had not been vandalized at all in any way, but it was just crumbling on itself, paint flaking, ceiling dripping, floors wet, mold and mildew all over the walls. And it was all just happening by nature. Crazy.
My mom worked for Petries and my dad at Holiday shoes. They met and got married because of the mall in 1967-68 (when it didn't have a roof). My first steps were taken in Holiday shoes' shoe store when I was 1.
wow. awesome job with this video.
Jeff Cross thanks 😊
There is a dead mall where I used to live in North Iowa which I'll visit once I get back to the area. But here in Lubbock, Texas the South Plains Mall still going strong & was remodeled a few years ago. People come from Eastern New Mexico to shoo there as local people. This is why I'm shocked so many malls I've seen on CZcams are closing up in high population areas. Sad though.
One year when I was in high school/pre-college (pre-1990), Mom and I went to a haunted house that they built under Macy's in the parking garage area. My memories of it are foggy, but it wasn't a bad haunted house overall.
Excellent video! This and Belden is where I grew up as well. I remember seeing Spies Like Us there when I was a kid, that was in the 2 theater cinema. I'd love to find some older footage from the early to mid eighties. Actually, I wish I could find pictures or video of the 2 story Burger King that was in Belden Village. Do you remember that? I used to get such a kick out of that when I was a kid.
That's one of the first malls I was ever in. Used to buy clothes at Richman Brothers. I walked through there about 3-4 years ago, and it was very emotional seeing nothing in business and no water in the fountains. Only J.C. Penney was open then.As a longtime newsman myself, I feel it was a disgrace to remove Don Mellett's name from the mall.
Great editing job
Thanks :) For a 24 minute video, I think I did a good job keeping it flowing, and interesting. Lots of times I've had to stop watching videos halfway through cause they are so boring, and watching back through this one, it doesn't even feel like 24 minutes to me at all. Hope it comes across the same to everyone else :)
Amazing how quickly these places fall apart when there isn't anybody there to take care of them. Amazing that the lights are still on
Cassette tapes. When we went to Camelot it was albums and 8 tracks. 😎
I remember going to that mall with my aunt when I was little. Been in there once before after they closed it. Very creepy but nostalgic.
When I was 18 had a cleaning co and cleaned the sky lights there.
I remember going to Mellett mall when i was younger and going into the pet shop.took my daughter to canton center and got her ears pierced at added touch when she was a infant she is now 13 years old.
I remember the Nickelodeon, Woolworths, American Dental, movie theaters, pet store, that one music store, Spencer's, & many more stores
Are they still renovating this mall? I visited that mall 3 years ago and they had a huge section of the inner part closed off cause they said they were updating it.
I remember a burger king, boardwalk fries, and Tim's tavern in the food court
Crystal Byler Tim’s Tavern. Is that place still open at all at their original spot.
great video do more dead malls we must document them before they are gone
So JCPenney just leaves their mall entrance open all the time? That's kind of awesome. Props to the owners and builders who hid the mall well
H.H. foxaddict most of the time yep 👍 sometimes it's completely closed off though.
From all the realtor signs, I have a feeling they cleaned up to prep for a possible demolition for Phase II of "demalling". Walmart and the plazas were Phase I, so I'm sure corridor demolitions are the next few phases.Getting the trash can from the maintenance crew was a good idea.
I remember my Uncle Carl used to walk with some of his buddies here every day. They would sit at the food court and drink coffee and talk about football. Mom used to take us here and there was a pharmacy that had the best up to date paper back books and comics. We bought our bichon frise, Athena, at Dr. X here. A lot of memories. Canton and all of Stark County is as dead as this mall.