DEAD MALL SERIES REMASTERED : Mountaineer Mall

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  • čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
  • Original Release Date : May 15, 2015
    Mountaineer Mall Morgantown WV
    UPDATE : Mountaineer Mall is open mostly operating as a business park with very little retail inside. Fun to visit.

Komentáře • 125

  • @teeing9355
    @teeing9355 Před 2 lety +63

    The Restaurant with the wood façade was a Lums, it closed in the early to mid 80s, briefly there was another restaurant there called The Golden Ram. The First closed restaurant on the left was a Pizza Inn. The Store with the cool windows (where the Art Association Gallery is towards the end of the video) was a Brooks Fashions.

    • @wil7228
      @wil7228 Před rokem

      Lum's ? Was that a steak house ?

  • @Channel-76
    @Channel-76 Před 2 lety +17

    I'm glad there's someone out there documenting these malls while we still can.

  • @spunkyb5249
    @spunkyb5249 Před 2 lety +71

    Seeing that senior center in there is an awesome idea. They should turn these malls into senior villages where it's safe for them to live in apartments/condos, walk around, shop, go to the doctor, etc., all in one enclosed place. Seniors have money! Plus they're used to the mall environment.

    • @Camquarters
      @Camquarters Před 2 lety +5

      My parents are seniors and they’d never live inside a dead mall lmao. Sounds depressing as hell

    • @christinealfieri2968
      @christinealfieri2968 Před 2 lety +8

      @@Camquarters well it wouldn't be a dead mall anymore LMAO obviously they'd transform the mall o.0

    • @hifijohn
      @hifijohn Před 2 lety +3

      Been saying this for years

    • @elmobolan4274
      @elmobolan4274 Před 2 lety +4

      That would be a wonderful idea but investors don't see "huge capital or profit" in Senior citizens....it would be great if we could put people 1st before capital, but it'll never happen...

    • @frndofbear
      @frndofbear Před 2 lety +3

      Yes! Also add a daycare so the seniors could interact with children. Maybe a humane society too! Seniors could volunteer to help with both!

  • @FaceIntoKeyboard
    @FaceIntoKeyboard Před 2 lety +29

    I love revisiting these videos. My god, this place was an absolute time capsule.

    • @andysorensen1737
      @andysorensen1737 Před 2 lety +1

      Probably my favorite of the series besides Schuykill, and this is BEAUTIFUL in 4K.

  • @ERA_Productions
    @ERA_Productions Před 2 lety +21

    Dan Bells videos are honestly the best dead mall videos. I can never get enough of them!

    • @LoydKline-uw4no
      @LoydKline-uw4no Před 11 měsíci

      ❤️ malls: very sad they are dying think Meijer & Walmart & Sam club & Costco replace indoor malls: sit down & eat & shop

  • @culturalconfederacy
    @culturalconfederacy Před 4 měsíci +1

    Whenever I'm struck by the nostalgia bug, I watch the Dead Mall series. Kind of my heralding into spring and summer. Abd speaking of ferling nostalgic, I'll never forget driving down the road and hearing the announcer on the radio saying Wards woukd officially be no more. When they mentioned that MW had been in business for over a century, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Surreal moment.

  • @slickdude401
    @slickdude401 Před 2 lety +9

    The restaurant was Lums. And the store with the windows was Brooks!

  • @bradklingensmith
    @bradklingensmith Před 2 lety +14

    I've been to that mall many times. It's about an hour or so from me. The "new" mall on the other hill kind of killed it. Enjoying the remastered series. That automated people mover runs all of the WVU campus. It was going to be built in Pittsburgh and was called Skybus. But, that was shot down in the 70s. I think the restaurant was a Lums.

    • @drewk1514
      @drewk1514 Před 2 lety +2

      The people mover is called the PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) and operates like a horizontal elevator--small self operating cars; passengers board and push button to select their stop. CURRENTLY OUT OF SERVICE because of Covid restrictions.

  • @rachelle6339
    @rachelle6339 Před 2 lety +6

    Dan so funny’ leave a message in the section box’ 😂

  • @ornellaorigami
    @ornellaorigami Před 2 lety +2

    This is so relaxing. I’m home with a migraine today…. watching dead mall videos, and it actually helps me to feel a bit better. Thanks 😊

  • @marshallwhite7324
    @marshallwhite7324 Před 2 lety +4

    The "subway thing" is the PRT for the University. It is great for making one late for class and makes amazing snowball target.

  • @pppsutube
    @pppsutube Před 2 lety +12

    Dan, this bell shaped storefront was “Brook’s Fashions” a chain of ladies Miss stores. Enjoy your videos!

  • @stevelang6342
    @stevelang6342 Před 2 lety +4

    You enjoyed what you were seeing because they kept it clean and personable. That senior center is a nice touch, and the condition of the flooring and furniture is just plain fantastic.

  • @PianoHead26
    @PianoHead26 Před 2 lety +5

    this was beautiful! very 70's mall era, love it :)

  • @sirekumasutra7022
    @sirekumasutra7022 Před 2 lety +12

    My personal life has been Hell the last few days but these videos made me smile. Thank you Dan for all you do.

  • @polybius
    @polybius Před 2 lety +4

    the mall has the Mon County Model Railroad Society now. I can never seem to remember to visit but they're fun people who make some cool ass railroad sets.

    • @gmcnewlook
      @gmcnewlook Před 2 lety

      Im guessing its the people who bulit that model train display Dan showed

  • @Dana-kb5mk
    @Dana-kb5mk Před 2 lety +1

    One of my faves of the Dead Mall series ❤️

  • @endoplasmicreticulum8357
    @endoplasmicreticulum8357 Před 2 lety +1

    My friend went to WVU from about 2009-2012 and when I visited him in 2010 he showed me and our friend this mall. It was great! My first ever introduction into the concept of a dead mall still being open.

  • @drewk1514
    @drewk1514 Před 2 lety +1

    The 1987 addition brought another anchor, Wheeling WV based Stone & Thomas department store! Elder-Beerman bought out privately owned Stone & Thomas, and for a time Morgantown had two E-B stores, one at each mall. Something to note that even today Mountaineer Mall is beautifully maintained, The floor and fixtures sparkle!

  • @BalearicBeatnik
    @BalearicBeatnik Před rokem

    this is my fave mall you visited and love to see all of these films remastered, thanks!!! Muzak Stimulus 1974 on the soundtrack and its perfect!

  • @drew2510
    @drew2510 Před 2 lety +3

    This mall looks like my high school and I graduated in 2015.

  • @carolinewaite7185
    @carolinewaite7185 Před rokem

    What a lovely mall, love the skylight/light and fountain. You can just imagine the hustle and bustle in it's day before Christmas and in the summer. Great video Dan with the 70s effects to give the atmosphere and the 80s too.

  • @hootyhaha
    @hootyhaha Před 2 lety

    01:32 That is so rad, the nostalgic buzz is strong with that light set up.

  • @TheBlickyZamota
    @TheBlickyZamota Před 2 lety +1

    Your videos are the best I can’t watch other dead mall videos

  • @MissGlam19
    @MissGlam19 Před 2 lety +1

    This is my second dead Mall video I watch from your channel. ( I had never watched dead mall videos ) and I totally dig how you make your videos. I am officially into dead mall videos all thanks to you lol
    Great videos Dan! 💯🙌

  • @elmobolan4274
    @elmobolan4274 Před 2 lety

    Love the vintage scratch up look....Takes me right back to my carefree/childhood days when we would watch those 8mm educational movies in elementary school, very comforting 😀
    I think that red and white stripped store front was and early TGI FRIDAY'S Restaurant....

  • @charlestonpinballarcade

    Another certified slapper! The hits never get old!

  • @999thenewman
    @999thenewman Před 2 lety +4

    3:52 TGI Fridays, this is how they looked in the 80s

    • @jayson8372
      @jayson8372 Před 2 lety

      Thank you! I was wondering why it looked familiar.

    • @tmurph247
      @tmurph247 Před 2 lety

      actually it wasn't, it was a restaurant called Lums, I grew up in Morgantown after the Lums closed I don't recall any other restaurant ever being in that space.

  • @charlestonpinballarcade

    This was the one I was waiting for in the remastered series! This place is amazing!

  • @shanaemerine9074
    @shanaemerine9074 Před rokem

    🥰🥰🥰🥰love anything you do to make us smile🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 keep on keeping on🥰🥰🥰

  • @jamesthefordman
    @jamesthefordman Před 2 lety +1

    God I love these remastered edition's I hope to make it out on vacation and see some of these sites and hopefully meet you one day!! 😎🇺🇲

  • @carolinewaite7185
    @carolinewaite7185 Před rokem

    Good idea on office spaces!💯👍

  • @fletcherhamilton3177
    @fletcherhamilton3177 Před 2 lety +2

    It’s kind of odd. In the ‘80’s a mall was a place to go for entertainment and socializing. Today it’s a place to go for nostalgia and exploration - ‘urbex’ - but it’s _still_ a place to go!

  • @ItsJustJessOkay
    @ItsJustJessOkay Před 2 lety

    The Huntington Mall still has some incredible 1970s and 1980s flooring, fountains, lighting, etc. Its still a functioning mall, although I'm not sure why.

  • @rlbijster
    @rlbijster Před 6 měsíci

    Nice remastered video. The video SAL has on this location gives some more information, on top if the good info Dan gives in this one.

  • @sarahgaynor4125
    @sarahgaynor4125 Před 2 lety +1

    Gabriel Brothers also used to be in that huge front where there was the brick wall with the lanterns. Not sure who was there before that though. Of course Gabes also moved above the Morgantown Mall way back in 2006.

  • @justincunha5221
    @justincunha5221 Před 2 lety +1

    That was so cool, reminds me of hiw my local mall looked when I was a kid

    • @tmurph247
      @tmurph247 Před 2 lety

      this was my local mall as a kid..lol

  • @Dana-kb5mk
    @Dana-kb5mk Před 2 lety +1

    The restaurant on the right is most likely a Lum's BTW ❤️

  • @patissanchez
    @patissanchez Před 9 měsíci

    They still have the bright table and chairs from Weiner World!

  • @tomgreen1721
    @tomgreen1721 Před 2 lety +3

    @ 7:24 that old ladies wheelchair/bike though

  • @imperialsaboteur8391
    @imperialsaboteur8391 Před 2 lety

    I feel like that was a science store for kids.. we had one at the Oaks mall in Gainesville FL.. those windows always caught my attention

  • @Just1nHale
    @Just1nHale Před 2 lety +1

    Dan-the music you're using in the background...is that Seeburg Background Music? Love it!!!

  • @youKnowWho3311
    @youKnowWho3311 Před 2 lety

    This is one RAD mall! We had a store with those exact wooden windows.

  • @pcojedi
    @pcojedi Před 2 lety +1

    love the 1975 section

  • @atheistpower5659
    @atheistpower5659 Před 2 lety +2

    I believe the one small place was some sort of lotto wicket and the restaurant was a Ponderosa that was my guess .

    • @tmurph247
      @tmurph247 Před 2 lety

      the small place next to the restaurant was actually a small frozen yogurt stand, the restaurant itself the last I remember was some sort of Italian pizza and pasta place but that was 20 yrs ago since I lived in Morgantown.

    • @atheistpower5659
      @atheistpower5659 Před 2 lety +1

      @@tmurph247 Cool thank You !

  • @patissanchez
    @patissanchez Před 9 měsíci

    Always thought the inside of that mall was so cool. The outside is an absolute train wreck, its hard to even tell it is a mall.

  • @hopedixon7382
    @hopedixon7382 Před 2 lety +1

    I legit live in Morgantown and that place has been empty for years!! Come back and bring Rick and let’s hang out and go back 🤣🤣🤣 there is some sketchy hotels here too! Lol

  • @luvjxnakajen
    @luvjxnakajen Před 2 lety +3

    Wvu has a metro system currently

    • @gmcnewlook
      @gmcnewlook Před 2 lety +1

      If it’s the one I’m thinking of , it’s all automated?

  • @racheljohnson7421
    @racheljohnson7421 Před 2 lety +1

    The red & white store cap reminds me of Ferrills. (Spelling not sure) They were a ice cream/ food place.

  • @bethpeters3477
    @bethpeters3477 Před 2 lety

    Hi the restaurant that you were talking about. Kind of reminds me of TGI Fridays. It kind of looks like their logo.

  • @aubreymorgan9763
    @aubreymorgan9763 Před 2 lety

    I'm rather impressed that its been dying for such a long time, but...its clean, has power, theres no big leakage from the ceiling like other malls you've shown.

  • @MichaelsExplorations
    @MichaelsExplorations Před 2 lety

    Very awesome 👏🏻

  • @Matt-sisko
    @Matt-sisko Před 2 lety

    this is like one of those 3d edited back room videos

  • @RecycledDoom
    @RecycledDoom Před 2 lety

    Morgantown doesnt have a subway but that isnt a subway its a PRT. Personal Rapid Transit. Morgantown was the test city for this tech in the 80 and they deemed it a failure. It still stands and is regulalry used by the large university here to get between the two campuses. Its esentially like a single car monorail but the cars have tires and drive along the narrow bridge structures using an algorythm. You select where you want to go like an elevator and it sends a car to you.

  • @mikecollins340
    @mikecollins340 Před rokem

    Anyone wanting a movie set with a retro mall, this is for them.

  • @Lillyabdlmtf
    @Lillyabdlmtf Před 2 lety

    They do have a tram that goes between Downtown and West Virginia University

  • @QuigsAnton
    @QuigsAnton Před 2 lety +1

    Reminds me of Mallrats

  • @ohnoohyeah3205
    @ohnoohyeah3205 Před 2 lety

    The music during the first looks into this mall sound like a 70's version of the first stage in "Everything at the End of Time," by The Caretaker.

  • @davidhill8565
    @davidhill8565 Před 2 lety +1

    3:40 Formerly an Arby’s

  • @againstthelight
    @againstthelight Před 2 lety

    i knew those planters looked familiar then you panned out to such a notorious liminal space image location

  • @greeleyman
    @greeleyman Před 2 lety

    the red and white striped awning outside the restaurant space sort of reminds me of a TGIFriday.

  • @WalkingRoscoe
    @WalkingRoscoe Před 2 lety +1

    5:15
    Oh, good. I thought it was the Crappy Chinese Buffet.

    • @tmurph247
      @tmurph247 Před 2 lety

      if you look into it you'll find out it was actually the great Chinese roadkill Cafe, no joke they got caught bringing roadkill into the restaurant kitchen and using it it their food.

  • @azmike3572
    @azmike3572 Před 2 lety +2

    Amusing at your calling it "The 1975 Section"...much like as if you are a museum guide saying "This is the Cretaceous Period Section". Also noticed that few or none of the business park offices have their company names showing.

  • @Dana-kb5mk
    @Dana-kb5mk Před 2 lety

    The store with the windows *may* have been a Casual Corner. I think that was the chain with those windows.

  • @TheCosmicVagabond
    @TheCosmicVagabond Před 2 lety

    Cool mall. 😎😎
    It does have a certain pizzazz about it for some reason. Glad it's still around. 😎😎

  • @callieprotector
    @callieprotector Před rokem

    I'm not sure what the weird resistant but I think it was a Red Rubben.

  • @saucelord780
    @saucelord780 Před 2 lety +2

    I tried to find the section box but I couldn’t find it….

  • @matthewfarmer6830
    @matthewfarmer6830 Před 2 lety +1

    This mall is in west Virginia.

  • @troysharp5052
    @troysharp5052 Před 2 lety

    wish we could get together explore Nebraska!

  • @LadyLakeMusic
    @LadyLakeMusic Před 2 lety

    Great video Dan! I remember those windows! I just can’t place them. For some reason I am associating it with books or cards? I might be wrong. I am thinking that I remember them from Security Square, Mall.

  • @jayson8372
    @jayson8372 Před 2 lety

    At 8:15, can someone tell me what store this was? We have a store front in a local old mall with the same shaped window / entrance area. The space is not used but the front is exactly the same.

  • @corysleeger1574
    @corysleeger1574 Před 2 lety +2

    I just wanted to leave a message in the "Message Box."
    I will see myself out.

  • @thisrottencarcass
    @thisrottencarcass Před rokem

    There's a ghost or something walking from left to right @ 18:40. Anybody else see it? It's a white line of some kind.

  • @socks2762
    @socks2762 Před 2 lety +1

    I have been wondering about those cool wood windows since you did the Frederick Towne Mall. My childhood Mall. Did you ever confirm if they were Brooks? Could it be Paul Harris?
    I believe Paul Harris was the first store in that location of the Frederick Towne Mall and only one of two at that location. I could not find a picture of a Paul Harris store that looks like that however I found an article that said Paul Harris was able to cut its $150,000 construction cost in half by trimming such elements as hardwood floors, paneled-wood treatments when opening new stores.
    Could this solve the mystery?
    Thanks for the great Videos!

  • @redhotchilistepper
    @redhotchilistepper Před 2 lety +1

    Ahhh the music and fake plants 🤣 or real plants 👍

  • @chrislemaster2695
    @chrislemaster2695 Před 2 lety

    That second restaurant looks like an old LUMS or Bonanza

  • @vintagebleachedblonde4322

    I wish you could do malls again?

  • @shadowstate552
    @shadowstate552 Před rokem

    You should have said, "Please fill out a comment card and place it in the box."

  • @hippiefreak66
    @hippiefreak66 Před 2 lety

    I wonder what Rick's hot take on the stuff in the thrift store would be.

  • @DavidSmith-sb2ix
    @DavidSmith-sb2ix Před 2 lety

    I never understood why remodeling is so important to customers if it's clean and safe. I'm interested in which stores are in a mall and the merchandise. I can't even tell what is 1970, 1980 or 2020 style but then I'm not an interor decorator.

  • @selene010
    @selene010 Před 11 měsíci

    Beautiful '70s mall. Such a shame.

  • @dame5079
    @dame5079 Před 2 lety

    Anyone know the name of the first song?

  • @goodworthss0073
    @goodworthss0073 Před 2 lety

    Looks like a call of duty map lol

  • @spn_girl4life774
    @spn_girl4life774 Před rokem

    My home state

  • @geraldn5350
    @geraldn5350 Před rokem

    Eerie and sad

  • @loufuddrucker391
    @loufuddrucker391 Před 2 lety

    Scootypoo down the centeroo!

  • @MrHarry-rd3lm
    @MrHarry-rd3lm Před 2 lety

    Is next owings mills mall at night

  • @princessmarlena1359
    @princessmarlena1359 Před 2 lety

    Too many of the malls around my new neighborhood are too dangerous to walk around, local gangs have the run of the place. I pack for protection, but they all ban weapons on premises, my state law enforces the “No Weapons” house rules of businesses, so I can’t bring protection into those malls (not even pepper spray).

  • @flintfireforge7360
    @flintfireforge7360 Před 2 lety

    Discovery store with the weird curved windows.

  • @gypsyrose8485
    @gypsyrose8485 Před 2 lety

    looks like a highschool

  • @lewistonmaineiac
    @lewistonmaineiac Před 2 lety

    looked like a Bonanza Steak house

    • @drewk1514
      @drewk1514 Před 2 lety +2

      i think it was Lums.

    • @tmurph247
      @tmurph247 Před 2 lety

      ​@@drewk1514 it was a Lums my aunt worked there when I was a kid in the 80's

  • @VOIDMAKERR
    @VOIDMAKERR Před rokem

    a comment on the section box lmao

  • @kennelson3848
    @kennelson3848 Před 2 lety

    I pronounce it CORRIADOR.

  • @stevewright4576
    @stevewright4576 Před 2 lety

    The gimp ramp.