@@bluemoonx9683 I didn't live through the 80's or most of the 90's but I have a nostalgia for those times because where I grew up a lot of the buildings and malls were still like that and I always had the tech from the previous generation like vcr and PS1 because we couldn't afford the new stuff
the comparison remind me of what seen in real life the decline of public spaces since the 90s people stopped caring and a lot of businesses just disappeared. believe what you will but people certainly cared more about the upkeep and appearance of public areas in the 90s at least where i live
The blocked off areas at the mall are where they filmed. It is interesting that some locations they have allowed to be significantly changed (Melvalds and the police station). Clearly they are finished using these locations. But others (the mall and the school) are being preserved unchanged. They apparently plan to use them again. At the school in Stockbridge, they recently re-erected the "middle school student drop-off" sign, which was seen in the first episode. So, clearly, they are going back to the school. Will Byers house: 149 Coastline Rd., Fayetteville GA.
Huh, that completely makes me re-think what I saw in Atlanta. They're also filming a big portion in New Mexico, but it's great that I got to see what the mall and the school looked like while they were using it for season 4. I say that because they started filming a little before the pandemic happened, and they're still waiting to continue the damn thing. Thanks for the Byers location, too!
If you google the address for the Byers house, it is now listed for sale (at went on the market very recently). That area is growing rapidly, so it will probably be bought by a developer, who will tear it down.
I was at the school area back on Sunday May 9th 2021 and it had ALL SORTS of prop stuff on the grounds like military tents and Hawkins news vans and Hawkins school busses and a Hawkins ambulance parked..i think i saw a Hawkins blood & trauma mobile center or something. So in season 4 something HUGE happens at the school. Like it might become a triage center or something. They also repainted the spot where it said " Hawkins middle school" and it now says "Hawkins high school" and its painted differently. Like more elaborate. It was pretty cool.
They won’t use the Gwinnett place mall anymore. Gwinnett county closed it and I’m pretty sure the county has plans to re-develop it into a new apartment complex.
They did an amazing job making everything look like the 80s! I cant imagine how much work it took to get all the cars and clothes, building addons, accessories and so on
As someone who grew up, and still lives in jackson, and as a stranger things lover myself, it’s so cool to see you go to all these places and feel what i felt when they were filming the show in my hometown.
How big is Jackson and is that considered you guys downtown?? Are you gonna try and catch them out there when they film this summer (proab delayed due to writers strike)?? I know the store that Joyce worked at was an actual store at one point right?
I work in the VFX industry, I can tell you that a lot of those buildings get some work done. Like that police station, there is big possibility that they added the roof the signs and even the brick in post production. You'd be amazed to see how set extensions are used in movis and TV series.
Oh wow so your saying they can edit extensions and stuff onto the buildings?? I saw another video though where the Police station looked similar to how it was on the show but of course that was years back
Seeing these locations in decay made me feel a lot of nostalgia though I wasn’t there I couldn’t help but feel like I was. I’m hoping to go on a road trip one of these days and visit them for myself just to experience it all and perhaps write my name in the journal.
I was about to write this same thing. It gives me a weird sense of nostalgia like all the actors were at these places at one point and it feels like I was too
One thing I can say about my home state of Georgia, there's locations everywhere that represents every decade of the 20th and 21st centuries. Midtown Atlanta and Buckhead are modern. Downtown is kinda like inner city scratch. Jackson, Ga is what we call small time country town. Same with Douglasville. Gwinnett County has everything city, suburbs, towns, and upper class, and country. Gwinnett Place Mall has been a dead mall for years. That's why they chose to film there. Idk why people think it's a regular operating mall. It's was a dying mall even before they found a girl's dead body behind one of the restaurants in the food court. Tucker, Ga is where the van flip scene was filmed. Pretty much an old school 80s-ish suburban neighborhood. A lot of older people live there. And everything else was self explanatory. The film industry here is the largest outside of Hollywood, Ca and NY City. Filmed in Georgia: Stranger Things. The Walking Dead. Ozark. Vampire Diaries. Avengers: Infinity War. Avengers: Endgame. Black Panther. Spiderman.... Basically most the Marvel movies. Baby Driver. Friday the 13th part 6: Jason Lives. Forrest Gump. Fried Green Tomatoes. Zombieland. Cape Fear. And many more. It's easy to see why Ray Charles sung "Georgia on My Mind."
@@dreamstarcloud4522 Yeah the mall was still "occupied" with a lot of B and C tier stores when this happened, but when they found that girl in the food court, it just prompted an even faster exodus. I think it was early 2018? I recall christmas was in the story.
Wow why doesn’t this have more views! It’s a very detailed tour/showcase of the filming locations! You went to more locations then a lot of the other videos I have seen of people going to filming locations for stranger things! You went to SOOO many places from the show, even the building for Hawkins post! I’m a BIG stranger things fan, but I don’t live any where NEAR Florida. This need more views, also I just subscribed! 😊
Fun fact. I went to Hawkins middle/high school back in 2003/2004 when it was still Patrick Henry. And lived in Jackson where a lot of it was filmed. Didn’t know the locations until I watched the show and instantly recognized them.
Coming from a person that’s lives in a small town 5 minutes from Jackson Square I had noticed a mural saying that stranger things had been filmed here so I was intrested and this video helped me recognize so many things! Great vid!
That mall, such a beautiful piece of architecture and seeing it in such decay omg so sad, here in my country I still can visit malls I went on when I was a little kid and they're still alive and always full of people, that mall almost dead broke my heart idk.
Im from Gwinnett this mall was never used tbh. Gwinnett is the most populated and famous county in Ga. It's not that odd to me that they used this mall for the show
Surprised that no one has made any of these locations into a Stranger Things themed park or something seeing how they’re mostly abandoned. The Hawkins lab building alone has plenty of potential.
Honestly this video was pretty entertaining, you really deserve more views just for visiting these locations and filming and editing it for other people to see
by far the best video anyone has made yet. This video was made like two years ago but I still find it very helpful. It seems very nostalgic for some reason because it feels that the buildings were acually from the 80's. I would love to live hear and you are an awesome content creator, you deserve way more than 616 subscribers
I live near and went to Gwinnett mall often because of the Mega Mart supermarket. It was weird seeing it go from a lively mall, to a dead one, and to a whole historic filming site. Seeing that mall lively again in Stranger Things really hit different
SAME. I remember coming to that mall on the very first day they started construction on the site. I had no idea what they were doing imagine my surprise when I saw my old mall on the show! Lol
The Laboratory from the show is Emory Universities storage facility. It might look strange and creepy from the show but it's in a really nice part of Atlanta.
This is so awesome, thanks for doing this. I can see why this mall is so depressing, it's supposed to look straight out of the 80's, which is still does. It's kind of crazy how old everything looks wioth the brick and all. They got lucky with this place. It's sad to see some of the buildings not being repurpossed though, but it could be that they're keeping it free to film in again.
Gwinnett Place WAS a dying mall (county/city purchased it recently). It was one of the largest malls, but Sugarloaf (formerly Discover) and Mall of Georgia in Buford ate into the market. Now it’s just a Korean grocery store left, and the rest of the mall has been closed off. They were using it as a testing site for… well, you know. The actors said it was sketchy when they filmed there too, as if it has something ominous about it. I had visited it back in late 2017 in like October or November with my now ex gf. We entered the mall at about 8 PM and it was dark (not sure if it’s because they closed at that time or what), like suspiciously dark as if they forgot to pay the light bill… couldn’t see 10 ft in front of you. She complained that we should go home because she didn’t feel right about it, so we did. I ended up coming across a news piece in January or February 2018 where they had found a homicide victim in the food court at Subway, and the dude that did it fled to NY. Kinda creepy because of the timeframe and the circumstances.
i'm not sure if you know the history of gwinnett place mall, but it was very bustling when i was growing up. being in the middle of duluth, the location was ideal. however, a few shootings happened there that resulted in deaths... and after that, people were told to stay away. there was also a girl found dead at subway after having been there for days and i'm not sure if they ever solved her case. some malls die over time, it's inevitable.. but gwinnett place has always had an ominous feeling attached to it. i think the duffer brothers scouted out the perfect location for such catastrophic scenes.
@@Waynetech814 yup discover mills now sugarloaf mills killed Gwinnett place. They never updated and it just kept declining because of that I remember when I was in middle and high school when it was still busy. It was wild to see it in stranger things gave me so much nostalgia
i've lived near Gwinnett Place mall from 2014-17. around 2014-2015 the mall was active, at least more than it is now. every space inside had a store except for maybe 2 and it was a good mall. never really understood as to why it even had a decline in the first place. but judging on the comment above mine, i would assume that sugarloaf mills is the leading reason as to why it started to die. been there myself and it most certainly had better interior and more interesting stores. airsoft area, detective game area, an entire area dedicated to bass pro fishing, movie theatre that was actually very good, a medieval showcase area (not too sure what it is i havent been inside of it). my only reason i would go to sugarloaf was that it had a gamestop, something that gwinnett place lacked. last time i've been to the dying mall was 2018. there was a festival in the parking lots nearby, caught a glimpse of the mall and there wasnt even that many cars to begin with, this was around the busiest times it would normally have when i remembered it. apparently the mall closed down in 2021. not even stranger things filming there could save the malls death
I thought it was the Mall of GA that helped lead to its death. I live 20 min from Gwinnett Place and 10 min from Sugarloaf Mills. Sugarloaf isn't that impressive to me. It's sad to see Gwinnett abandoned like that cuz it was the place to go when I was a teenager and I have a lot of fond memories of that place.
@@jackiekreutzer166 yes mall of ga contributed to its death as well however sugarloaf mills was closer to Gwinnett place mall and compared to Gwinnett place mall , had much better stuff like a better food court, a movie theater, an indoor trampoline and even a indoor carousel among many other stuff that sadly Gwinnett place mall didn’t have
The fact that the duffer brothers found a town with exactly the right abandoned buildings to use for hospitals, stores and labs. Usually shows or movies with this high of budget fly out to different parts of the country and try to create towns with building possibly being 1000s of miles away irl
Yea that’s the good thing about filming in Atlanta and neighboring suburbs/cities, you get a lot of bang for your buck. They really got lucky on Gwinnett Place Mall though as it was never really updated and was half closed when they filmed.
Being stranger things my favorite show of all time now, it’s fun to watch this video of you touring us on the filming locations they had used. Thank you for creating this video, really enjoyed it and hoping that I could visit all of them soon❤️
i live in the mecca of where this was filmed and the school is in Stockbridge GA it used to be Patrick Henry High School but has been decommissioned so now its just been used for filming also in Jackson in the ally way where Steve and Jonathan fight in the background you can see a place called "rental solutions" and its and actual business i have personally used multiple times
13:25 I actually stopped by the school in 2016 before Season 1 came out (had no clue). One of my parents went to that exact school back in the 80's when it was a high school, so we got a kick out of seeing it on Stranger Things! I need to go back there sometime just because. 😄
This is crazy! I live in the UK so there’s a low chance of me visiting these locations but seems like some cool places to go see (especially if your a super fan like me lol)
@@kenbrunet6120 amazon and box stores have killed malls and small shops.. I don't shop on amazon, its a scam company.. Walmart where I live has ended the midway mall and 90% of smaller shops.
You would of thought that after a massive hit tv show the "Starcourt Mall" location would of gotten a bit more income to do it up again. I am defo going to some of these places in the future though
@@destiniecascendra8289 this is genuinely sad. They could of had so much potential out of all of these things like having tours and doing things up to make it look and feel like you are in the real show. As a big stranger things nerd I am quite dissapointed in the lack of effort they put in afterwards.
That's why they used these locations. They get to use the space for super cheap, and don't have to pay to repair anything since the properties are already acheduled to be demolished.
The Hawkins lab and Hawkins middle/high school will both be demolished sometime within 2023 to 2024. Thats my guess. I think the hold up is cause they'll be used 1 last time for season 5. Many visits. Going to make more before these changes take place.
The mega mart at Gwinnett place mall is one of the largest Korean stores in America. The cast of Stranger Things used to eat dumplings from the food court there and also get pastries and coffee from the bakery inside.
That's why I waited so I can binge watch all seasons in one go. I knew the time would come when I wanted to go back to my 80s childhood since I actually lived it. I'm turning 40 and it's fitting I think. Lol
I don’t get why a small town would allow these important landmarks to just deteriorate like this. You’d think they would be a large tourist draw to the area.
Living in Atlanta I have been on a bunch of movie sets including Avengers Infinity War and Fast and Furious. I can tell you that they will fix an abandoned building up for filming then remove everything they added after they are done filming at that location. An Avengers scene was shot on a downtown street and the film crew put up fake store exteriors down the entire street on top of existing businesses. I had to go through one of the fake facades to go to a corner store I shopped at.
This was a great video!! Actually living in the first area you went to and seeing other ppl actually come here is crazy. I remember seeing tons of movie trailers that were in our town for like months and one of my friends was actually In one of the pool scenes in season 3. Great job on the video!!
Fun fact: the Pennhurst Asylum set from Season 4 is actually the college my sister went to! It’s called Berry College in Rome, Georgia. The asylum was the first-year dorms I think.
That blocked off area is the food court. I actually walked through there when they’re were making the set but didn’t realize it was for stranger things.
I started going to Gwinnett Place Mall in the 80s. Sad that's its a shell of its former self. A girl was murdered in the food court and left there for days where they filmed most of those scenes. The area blocked off was the main area where they shot the book store (it really was a book store) and store that Seven shopped at. The entrance is also when they came running in from the cars. Down below was the food court. Everything was filmed in that small area.
I used to go to Gwinnett Place mall in the mid/late 80's. It was a very nice mall then. The Mall of Georgia in Buford, GA hurt Gwinnett Place mall when it was built.
Its crazy how you actually got let into the community pool by one of the staff if I am correct. I am surprised that this video has also 65K views 1.9K likes and you only have 439 subscribers! This video was great and the recognition that it's getting is under whelming you deserve more subscribers and likes.
Why does this video not have more attention wtffff, you did an amazing job with the attention to detail🔥🔥🔥thank you for making this fr. *I’m clapping rn* ( I bet you got to see the sauna room😭😭)
The only place in Douglasville (Lithia Springs really) I haven't been to is Tiffany's (Benny's Burgers) I've been in the old building where the Police Dept. is and I've been in the building the Arcade and Family Video are in. And I went to BOTH of them in the 80's. Lol I'm serious though, I grew up in Douglasville.
Feels so unreal that you actually go to the filming locations and would be so cool to go to see them one day! and honestly I would of walked up to the house and asked to check the place out. Also appreciate the video man!
This is so well done, loved every scene and all of the sights you got to visit. Very cool, thank you so much. Thank you for also including the awesome music. Fantastic!
Someone visitied the mall just before or after they were filming. A huge part was sectioned off and when he peeked behind it (and I think he could even get in) there were all the 80s stores and the Starcourt Mall sign etc.
Aside from Hawkins Lab I've been to almost every location they filmed at in Georgia. I may be missing 1 or 2. I used to deliver the traffic control equipment for that, along with MacGuyver, a lot of Marvel movies, TWD, erc.
Another place you can visit is the Peachtree Mall in Columbus GA, it's a lot more open, more stores and much more space within the mall, but shootings happen at the mall pretty often. You can probably visit it but it doesn't resemble Starcourt Mall much, still a pretty good mall to compare Starcourt to :)
I remember the mental hospital, I worked there in the late 1980's. Most of the big malls are dead or dying in Georgia. Small towns do not change as quickly as the larger cities.
Films often edited color, trees and other things into the film with computer software so yes, thats the real deal and also movie sets but we know all know about that haha. Very cool video!
It is a fact that everyone is feeling nostalgic to all these places. While in reality, most of us haven't even visited any of these. This is what watching an incredible series is worth of. And I love & appreciate this video bruh :) Thank you for showing all these places. Really brings back some great memories ❤️
i find it really crazy actually have visited some of these places and stayed near. and currently in Loganville georgia there is a road near me, they are filming something there with fake storefronts and ice cream shop. I don’t live there full time but i see it when i go.
Good job on this film, young man. I live on the NW outskirts of Atlanta, so the town names are familiar to me. Yes! You need to be very careful going into particular parts of the city. Very sketchy. To me these days, malls are just depressing in general. But thanks for the nice quiet ride showing different parts of the show's recording areas. I enjoyed your film.
If u from Gwinnett u know this mall was never used tbh. Gwinnett is the most populated and famous county in Ga. It's not that odd to me that they used this mall for the show
@@Vinnie_956 You spelled Fulton wrong kid. Gwinett ain't as famous as you'd like to think it is. If anything it's got a pretty bad rep for the dumbass drivers and their crappy sense of "entitlement"
This is an awesome video! Stranger Things is my favorite show! I wish I lived closer to the Atlanta area so I could easily visit these locations! I’d love to meet the cast too
Please please please, anyone watching this wanting to go see these locations; please be careful and DO NOT bother any locals about the show. Peace and love ✌️
It used to be Turner Field, home of the Braves, but Georgia State University bought it a few years ago and it’s now a stadium for the GSU Panthers. Fun fact, I graduated in that stadium. The Braves play at Truist Park in Marietta now.
I actually live in Georgia and from here originally and it was so amazing to hear they filmed in this state. I would love to visit it one day when I have time.
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So crazy to me that this video only has 200 views. You did an incredible job giving us a tour ! Thanks for making this.
11k now lol 😀😀
26k now lol
@@natashaphenice 30k now 👀
@@urmomgyatt 38k today
Algorithm is pushing it up rn
It's weird, even though the show was filmed a few years ago it looks as if the places have aged like they were really from the 80's
i know right. it feels really nostalgic for some reason
@@bluemoonx9683 I didn't live through the 80's or most of the 90's but I have a nostalgia for those times because where I grew up a lot of the buildings and malls were still like that and I always had the tech from the previous generation like vcr and PS1 because we couldn't afford the new stuff
the comparison remind me of what seen in real life the decline of public spaces since the 90s people stopped caring and a lot of businesses just disappeared. believe what you will but people certainly cared more about the upkeep and appearance of public areas in the 90s at least where i live
The school prob was
They are from the 80s but they just used them to make it more realistic so thats why its so old
I would love to live in a city where everything looks like the 1980's
Leo? Whats up?
No you wouldn’t
its called west virginia lol
@@DaFifaKid Theres a plaza local to me that is genuinely a time capsule. Nothing in WV has changed lmao
Same
The blocked off areas at the mall are where they filmed.
It is interesting that some locations they have allowed to be significantly changed (Melvalds and the police station). Clearly they are finished using these locations. But others (the mall and the school) are being preserved unchanged. They apparently plan to use them again. At the school in Stockbridge, they recently re-erected the "middle school student drop-off" sign, which was seen in the first episode. So, clearly, they are going back to the school.
Will Byers house: 149 Coastline Rd., Fayetteville GA.
Huh, that completely makes me re-think what I saw in Atlanta. They're also filming a big portion in New Mexico, but it's great that I got to see what the mall and the school looked like while they were using it for season 4. I say that because they started filming a little before the pandemic happened, and they're still waiting to continue the damn thing. Thanks for the Byers location, too!
If you google the address for the Byers house, it is now listed for sale (at went on the market very recently). That area is growing rapidly, so it will probably be bought by a developer, who will tear it down.
I was at the school area back on Sunday May 9th 2021 and it had ALL SORTS of prop stuff on the grounds like military tents and Hawkins news vans and Hawkins school busses and a Hawkins ambulance parked..i think i saw a Hawkins blood & trauma mobile center or something. So in season 4 something HUGE happens at the school. Like it might become a triage center or something. They also repainted the spot where it said " Hawkins middle school" and it now says "Hawkins high school" and its painted differently. Like more elaborate. It was pretty cool.
@@markmccain468 omg no:((
They won’t use the Gwinnett place mall anymore. Gwinnett county closed it and I’m pretty sure the county has plans to re-develop it into a new apartment complex.
They did an amazing job making everything look like the 80s! I cant imagine how much work it took to get all the cars and clothes, building addons, accessories and so on
As someone who grew up, and still lives in jackson, and as a stranger things lover myself, it’s so cool to see you go to all these places and feel what i felt when they were filming the show in my hometown.
How big is Jackson and is that considered you guys downtown?? Are you gonna try and catch them out there when they film this summer (proab delayed due to writers strike)?? I know the store that Joyce worked at was an actual store at one point right?
I work in the VFX industry, I can tell you that a lot of those buildings get some work done. Like that police station, there is big possibility that they added the roof the signs and even the brick in post production. You'd be amazed to see how set extensions are used in movis and TV series.
Oh wow so your saying they can edit extensions and stuff onto the buildings?? I saw another video though where the Police station looked similar to how it was on the show but of course that was years back
Seeing these locations in decay made me feel a lot of nostalgia though I wasn’t there I couldn’t help but feel like I was. I’m hoping to go on a road trip one of these days and visit them for myself just to experience it all and perhaps write my name in the journal.
I was about to write this same thing. It gives me a weird sense of nostalgia like all the actors were at these places at one point and it feels like I was too
this video is amazing dude, i’m such a big fan of stranger things. your dedication to the show and then share it with us just made my evening
One thing I can say about my home state of Georgia, there's locations everywhere that represents every decade of the 20th and 21st centuries. Midtown Atlanta and Buckhead are modern. Downtown is kinda like inner city scratch. Jackson, Ga is what we call small time country town. Same with Douglasville. Gwinnett County has everything city, suburbs, towns, and upper class, and country. Gwinnett Place Mall has been a dead mall for years. That's why they chose to film there. Idk why people think it's a regular operating mall. It's was a dying mall even before they found a girl's dead body behind one of the restaurants in the food court. Tucker, Ga is where the van flip scene was filmed. Pretty much an old school 80s-ish suburban neighborhood. A lot of older people live there. And everything else was self explanatory.
The film industry here is the largest outside of Hollywood, Ca and NY City.
Filmed in Georgia:
Stranger Things.
The Walking Dead.
Ozark.
Vampire Diaries.
Avengers: Infinity War.
Avengers: Endgame.
Black Panther.
Spiderman.... Basically most the Marvel movies.
Baby Driver.
Friday the 13th part 6: Jason Lives.
Forrest Gump.
Fried Green Tomatoes.
Zombieland.
Cape Fear.
And many more.
It's easy to see why Ray Charles sung "Georgia on My Mind."
Interesting
Don’t forget Madison, Ga. They filmed goosebumps
They found a dead body in the mall?? Holy shit I didn’t even know that, when was it??
@@dreamstarcloud4522 Yeah the mall was still "occupied" with a lot of B and C tier stores when this happened, but when they found that girl in the food court, it just prompted an even faster exodus. I think it was early 2018? I recall christmas was in the story.
You obviously have not been to Douglasville in about 20 years skippy. They have not been "small town" for a long time.
Wow why doesn’t this have more views! It’s a very detailed tour/showcase of the filming locations! You went to more locations then a lot of the other videos I have seen of people going to filming locations for stranger things! You went to SOOO many places from the show, even the building for Hawkins post! I’m a BIG stranger things fan, but I don’t live any where NEAR Florida. This need more views, also I just subscribed! 😊
I appreciate this a lot! Thank you
He got em
he has now
Fun fact. I went to Hawkins middle/high school back in 2003/2004 when it was still Patrick Henry. And lived in Jackson where a lot of it was filmed. Didn’t know the locations until I watched the show and instantly recognized them.
Coming from a person that’s lives in a small town 5 minutes from Jackson Square I had noticed a mural saying that stranger things had been filmed here so I was intrested and this video helped me recognize so many things! Great vid!
That mall, such a beautiful piece of architecture and seeing it in such decay omg so sad, here in my country I still can visit malls I went on when I was a little kid and they're still alive and always full of people, that mall almost dead broke my heart idk.
it would be cool if someone bought the malla nd attually made it like the show but its a real mall i would love that starcourt irl
Im from Gwinnett this mall was never
used tbh. Gwinnett is the most populated and famous county in Ga. It's not that odd to me that they used this mall for the show
So cool. And are they same inside as well? Here all the old malls were transformed from open plan to separate shops. I love the open plan malls.
Surprised that no one has made any of these locations into a Stranger Things themed park or something seeing how they’re mostly abandoned. The Hawkins lab building alone has plenty of potential.
no one cares enough to spend the money
the hawkins lab would be a perfect place for some stranger things themed haunted house lol
The Hawkins lab building is a pretty popular filming location and is always being used for filming.
@@TheReviewerFilms where else? i checked imbd and it only credited the building with two films
@@retro_aqua_ It's actually an Emory University satellite campus.
I'm surprised that they filmed hawkins high school at the middle school. Awesome video
Honestly this video was pretty entertaining, you really deserve more views just for visiting these locations and filming and editing it for other people to see
by far the best video anyone has made yet. This video was made like two years ago but I still find it very helpful. It seems very nostalgic for some reason because it feels that the buildings were acually from the 80's. I would love to live hear and you are an awesome content creator, you deserve way more than 616 subscribers
I live near and went to Gwinnett mall often because of the Mega Mart supermarket. It was weird seeing it go from a lively mall, to a dead one, and to a whole historic filming site. Seeing that mall lively again in Stranger Things really hit different
SAME. I remember coming to that mall on the very first day they started construction on the site. I had no idea what they were doing imagine my surprise when I saw my old mall on the show! Lol
Hey w does it feel to be hit in the balls
The Laboratory from the show is Emory Universities storage facility. It might look strange and creepy from the show but it's in a really nice part of Atlanta.
Yeah, I was wondering what was so sketchy about that area…Emory University? The million+ homes in Druid Hills?
This is so awesome, thanks for doing this. I can see why this mall is so depressing, it's supposed to look straight out of the 80's, which is still does. It's kind of crazy how old everything looks wioth the brick and all. They got lucky with this place. It's sad to see some of the buildings not being repurpossed though, but it could be that they're keeping it free to film in again.
Gwinnett Place WAS a dying mall (county/city purchased it recently). It was one of the largest malls, but Sugarloaf (formerly Discover) and Mall of Georgia in Buford ate into the market. Now it’s just a Korean grocery store left, and the rest of the mall has been closed off. They were using it as a testing site for… well, you know.
The actors said it was sketchy when they filmed there too, as if it has something ominous about it.
I had visited it back in late 2017 in like October or November with my now ex gf. We entered the mall at about 8 PM and it was dark (not sure if it’s because they closed at that time or what), like suspiciously dark as if they forgot to pay the light bill… couldn’t see 10 ft in front of you. She complained that we should go home because she didn’t feel right about it, so we did.
I ended up coming across a news piece in January or February 2018 where they had found a homicide victim in the food court at Subway, and the dude that did it fled to NY. Kinda creepy because of the timeframe and the circumstances.
I totally remember that story!
i'm not sure if you know the history of gwinnett place mall, but it was very bustling when i was growing up. being in the middle of duluth, the location was ideal. however, a few shootings happened there that resulted in deaths... and after that, people were told to stay away. there was also a girl found dead at subway after having been there for days and i'm not sure if they ever solved her case. some malls die over time, it's inevitable.. but gwinnett place has always had an ominous feeling attached to it. i think the duffer brothers scouted out the perfect location for such catastrophic scenes.
Bro I literally live around here and the mall died down because of sugarloaf mills which was bigger and better Gwinnett place mall was outdated
@@Waynetech814 yup discover mills now sugarloaf mills killed Gwinnett place. They never updated and it just kept declining because of that I remember when I was in middle and high school when it was still busy. It was wild to see it in stranger things gave me so much nostalgia
i've lived near Gwinnett Place mall from 2014-17. around 2014-2015 the mall was active, at least more than it is now. every space inside had a store except for maybe 2 and it was a good mall. never really understood as to why it even had a decline in the first place. but judging on the comment above mine, i would assume that sugarloaf mills is the leading reason as to why it started to die. been there myself and it most certainly had better interior and more interesting stores. airsoft area, detective game area, an entire area dedicated to bass pro fishing, movie theatre that was actually very good, a medieval showcase area (not too sure what it is i havent been inside of it). my only reason i would go to sugarloaf was that it had a gamestop, something that gwinnett place lacked. last time i've been to the dying mall was 2018. there was a festival in the parking lots nearby, caught a glimpse of the mall and there wasnt even that many cars to begin with, this was around the busiest times it would normally have when i remembered it. apparently the mall closed down in 2021. not even stranger things filming there could save the malls death
I thought it was the Mall of GA that helped lead to its death. I live 20 min from Gwinnett Place and 10 min from Sugarloaf Mills. Sugarloaf isn't that impressive to me. It's sad to see Gwinnett abandoned like that cuz it was the place to go when I was a teenager and I have a lot of fond memories of that place.
@@jackiekreutzer166 yes mall of ga contributed to its death as well however sugarloaf mills was closer to Gwinnett place mall and compared to Gwinnett place mall , had much better stuff like a better food court, a movie theater, an indoor trampoline and even a indoor carousel among many other stuff that sadly Gwinnett place mall didn’t have
The fact that the duffer brothers found a town with exactly the right abandoned buildings to use for hospitals, stores and labs. Usually shows or movies with this high of budget fly out to different parts of the country and try to create towns with building possibly being 1000s of miles away irl
Yea that’s the good thing about filming in Atlanta and neighboring suburbs/cities, you get a lot of bang for your buck. They really got lucky on Gwinnett Place Mall though as it was never really updated and was half closed when they filmed.
I agree. Season 3, the one with mostly Russians and not D and d monsters from a different dimension is definitely the most unrealistic one.
And best one
Being stranger things my favorite show of all time now, it’s fun to watch this video of you touring us on the filming locations they had used. Thank you for creating this video, really enjoyed it and hoping that I could visit all of them soon❤️
imagine living in the city where they filmed the biggest show in the world. wow.
Which city???
@@sagarmore4200 hawkins bro
@@sagarmore4200 the city they filmed at is atlanta
@@shayins hopefully your joking
@@mellybee7613 nah im deadass
I imagine this is what starcourt would look like 40 years on from when the show was set, which makes the show feel more real.
Family video is also on the season 4.. Has this place been used for that?
I was always and continue to be geeked out about how they get the cars the clothes and the props. That must be a monumental undertaking.
It’s honestly like seeing the locations from the show years later like they actually where apart of real life history
When I was in elementary school we couldn't go to recess one day cus they say they needed our playground for filming
this is so nostalgic!! just finished rewatching stranger things and i cannot wait for s4!!!
Volume 2 😭 and then I’m gonna be sad waiting 2 years for season 5
i live in the mecca of where this was filmed and the school is in Stockbridge GA it used to be Patrick Henry High School but has been decommissioned so now its just been used for filming also in Jackson in the ally way where Steve and Jonathan fight in the background you can see a place called "rental solutions" and its and actual business i have personally used multiple times
13:25 I actually stopped by the school in 2016 before Season 1 came out (had no clue). One of my parents went to that exact school back in the 80's when it was a high school, so we got a kick out of seeing it on Stranger Things! I need to go back there sometime just because. 😄
Ur the goat for making this dude
This is crazy! I live in the UK so there’s a low chance of me visiting these locations but seems like some cool places to go see (especially if your a super fan like me lol)
same hahaha
Loved this video, I wish all this places had the same 80s energy they have in the series
I find them very lost in time actually 😄
they should rebrand it as starcourt mall and make it look like in the show, would definetly safe it.
Would it make people stop buying their stuff on amazon and other online sites? I doubt it.
@@kenbrunet6120 amazon and box stores have killed malls and small shops.. I don't shop on amazon, its a scam company.. Walmart where I live has ended the midway mall and 90% of smaller shops.
No it wouldn't. Malls are a dying breed. pretty soon there arent going to be any malls left
@@TheReviewerFilms soon there won't be anything left because of the internet, walmart and capital greed.
It was sold last year. And I doubt Netflix is gonna spend their profit to buy an old mall.
This video combined with your voice is perfect
Stranger things makes me want to have lived during the 80s 🥺
happy to be your 500th subscriber!
I’m very thankful for you lol.
Awesome video! Thank you! I'm so excited for Season 4!
Wow that’s so cool!! That’s incredible you got to see all those places from the show. Hopefully one day I can see them in person too!
Why do I miss 80's when I wasn't even born in that era🥲
so do i..
Serial killers miss you too. (It's a joke)
If you were born in the USA or European countries, you are already incredibly lucky. Even now.
@@финик-с6ч I agree
It was an amazing decade to be a kid.
You would of thought that after a massive hit tv show the "Starcourt Mall" location would of gotten a bit more income to do it up again. I am defo going to some of these places in the future though
They are demolishing Hawkins middle school:(
And I think the mall got demolished as well
@@destiniecascendra8289 this is genuinely sad. They could of had so much potential out of all of these things like having tours and doing things up to make it look and feel like you are in the real show. As a big stranger things nerd I am quite dissapointed in the lack of effort they put in afterwards.
@@eleanorhesketh6117 👍
That's why they used these locations. They get to use the space for super cheap, and don't have to pay to repair anything since the properties are already acheduled to be demolished.
The Hawkins lab and Hawkins middle/high school will both be demolished sometime within 2023 to 2024. Thats my guess. I think the hold up is cause they'll be used 1 last time for season 5.
Many visits. Going to make more before these changes take place.
The mega mart at Gwinnett place mall is one of the largest Korean stores in America. The cast of Stranger Things used to eat dumplings from the food court there and also get pastries and coffee from the bakery inside.
I would kill just to feel the feeling of watching this masterpiece for the first time again!!
That's why I waited so I can binge watch all seasons in one go. I knew the time would come when I wanted to go back to my 80s childhood since I actually lived it. I'm turning 40 and it's fitting I think. Lol
butts county water and sewage authority isn't a business.....its where you pay your water bill. Jackson is in Butts County.
I don’t get why a small town would allow these important landmarks to just deteriorate like this. You’d think they would be a large tourist draw to the area.
What the WHAT ????????
Why do you call them "landmarks" ?? Because they're in a popular series ??
Just did this today with my nephew, we had the best time and it was so cool to see these in person!
Living in Atlanta I have been on a bunch of movie sets including Avengers Infinity War and Fast and Furious. I can tell you that they will fix an abandoned building up for filming then remove everything they added after they are done filming at that location. An Avengers scene was shot on a downtown street and the film crew put up fake store exteriors down the entire street on top of existing businesses. I had to go through one of the fake facades to go to a corner store I shopped at.
This was a great video!! Actually living in the first area you went to and seeing other ppl actually come here is crazy. I remember seeing tons of movie trailers that were in our town for like months and one of my friends was actually In one of the pool scenes in season 3. Great job on the video!!
Damnnn, cooool.
You live in Douglasville ??
Love all the music in this video. Miss the 80’s.
I need the starcourt mall
Fun fact: the Pennhurst Asylum set from Season 4 is actually the college my sister went to! It’s called Berry College in Rome, Georgia. The asylum was the first-year dorms I think.
The Vecna house is there, too. It's called The Claremont House in real life. Rome, GA.
That blocked off area is the food court. I actually walked through there when they’re were making the set but didn’t realize it was for stranger things.
The house that seems like it will play a HUGE role in the new season is in my town :) its super cool to me. Some of my friends even met Gaten!
Great video! So cool seeing the real locations! Such a shame about the mall in real life. I hope the series helps to bring life back to it
I started going to Gwinnett Place Mall in the 80s. Sad that's its a shell of its former self. A girl was murdered in the food court and left there for days where they filmed most of those scenes.
The area blocked off was the main area where they shot the book store (it really was a book store) and store that Seven shopped at. The entrance is also when they came running in from the cars. Down below was the food court. Everything was filmed in that small area.
I used to go to Gwinnett Place mall in the mid/late 80's. It was a very nice mall then. The Mall of Georgia in Buford, GA hurt Gwinnett Place mall when it was built.
Its crazy how you actually got let into the community pool by one of the staff if I am correct. I am surprised that this video has also 65K views 1.9K likes and you only have 439 subscribers! This video was great and the recognition that it's getting is under whelming you deserve more subscribers and likes.
Why does this video not have more attention wtffff, you did an amazing job with the attention to detail🔥🔥🔥thank you for making this fr. *I’m clapping rn*
( I bet you got to see the sauna room😭😭)
Nice video! Gwinnett Place reminds me of Metro Center mall before its downfall here in Phoenix, AZ, also Maryvale Mall back in the early 90's
I hope COVID 19 didn’t hurt these businesses too much. I would love to visit one day.
As someone from Douglasville, it's cool to know we had some impact on the show.
The only place in Douglasville (Lithia Springs really) I haven't been to is Tiffany's (Benny's Burgers)
I've been in the old building where the Police Dept. is and I've been in the building the Arcade and Family Video are in. And I went to BOTH of them in the 80's. Lol
I'm serious though, I grew up in Douglasville.
Really cool Video, greetings from Germany
This is so awesome! Thanks for all the work and travel that went into this video!
Feels so unreal that you actually go to the filming locations and would be so cool to go to see them one day! and honestly I would of walked up to the house and asked to check the place out. Also appreciate the video man!
Probably not a good idea. Those signs are there for a reason. They don’t want to be bugged
This is so well done, loved every scene and all of the sights you got to visit. Very cool, thank you so much. Thank you for also including the awesome music. Fantastic!
Someone visitied the mall just before or after they were filming. A huge part was sectioned off and when he peeked behind it (and I think he could even get in) there were all the 80s stores and the Starcourt Mall sign etc.
I live it Smyrna Georgia and I love Strangers Things and to know it was filmed so close to home makes it so much better.
Aside from Hawkins Lab I've been to almost every location they filmed at in Georgia. I may be missing 1 or 2.
I used to deliver the traffic control equipment for that, along with MacGuyver, a lot of Marvel movies, TWD, erc.
Another place you can visit is the Peachtree Mall in Columbus GA, it's a lot more open, more stores and much more space within the mall, but shootings happen at the mall pretty often. You can probably visit it but it doesn't resemble Starcourt Mall much, still a pretty good mall to compare Starcourt to :)
I remember the mental hospital, I worked there in the late 1980's. Most of the big malls are dead or dying in Georgia. Small towns do not change as quickly as the larger cities.
Your youtube account was created the day before I was born
The filming location of all the families is right behind my house in Tucker GA. I didn't even realize it when I saw it!
How the hell do you only have 1k subs this is very high quality videos 👍👍
So all the filming was in Georgia?!
Films often edited color, trees and other things into the film with computer software so yes, thats the real deal and also movie sets but we know all know about that haha. Very cool video!
It is a fact that everyone is feeling nostalgic to all these places. While in reality, most of us haven't even visited any of these. This is what watching an incredible series is worth of.
And I love & appreciate this video bruh :) Thank you for showing all these places. Really brings back some great memories ❤️
i find it really crazy actually have visited some of these places and stayed near. and currently in Loganville georgia there is a road near me, they are filming something there with fake storefronts and ice cream shop. I don’t live there full time but i see it when i go.
i’m not aware of what their filming but who knows it could be season 5 stuff 🤷♂️
Porque RUclips me recomienda este vídeo después de casi 2 años? Es una Maravilla!🔥
What an amazing video!! Really enjoyed seeing all the locations
Good job on this film, young man. I live on the NW outskirts of Atlanta, so the town names are familiar to me. Yes! You need to be very careful going into particular parts of the city. Very sketchy. To me these days, malls are just depressing in general. But thanks for the nice quiet ride showing different parts of the show's recording areas. I enjoyed your film.
If u from Gwinnett u know this mall was never used tbh. Gwinnett is the most populated and famous county in Ga. It's not that odd to me that they used this mall for the show
@@Vinnie_956
You spelled Fulton wrong kid.
Gwinett ain't as famous as you'd like to think it is. If anything it's got a pretty bad rep for the dumbass drivers and their crappy sense of "entitlement"
I went to that mall in 2005. It was completely full and there were people everywhere. So sad to see it empty and run down
I really think they should have preserved these places. It could have given the town a huge boost of tourism and been great for fans!
Ahh the former Gwinnet Place Mall I remember going there as a kid I never expected that I would become a location for a movie
This is an awesome video! Stranger Things is my favorite show! I wish I lived closer to the Atlanta area so I could easily visit these locations! I’d love to meet the cast too
Wow I can’t believe this video got hardly any views anyway thanks for giving us a tour and I loved watching this video
450k isn't bad lol
I lived in Atlanta at the time the show was set. The Mall was perfect!
i appreciate this video man, thanks alot.
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH IM IN GOERGIA IDK IF I SHOULD BE HAPPY OR SCARED
Hopper’s cabin is made into an escape room at escape woods in powder springs ga. This is also where they filmed the rotting pumpkin farm scenes.
Please please please, anyone watching this wanting to go see these locations; please be careful and DO NOT bother any locals about the show. Peace and love ✌️
Wow amazing thanks ☺️ I just finish watching today the last chapter of part 4
At 1:05, what teams baseball stadium is that to the far right? Just curious.
It used to be Turner Field, home of the Braves, but Georgia State University bought it a few years ago and it’s now a stadium for the GSU Panthers. Fun fact, I graduated in that stadium. The Braves play at Truist Park in Marietta now.
I actually live in Georgia and from here originally and it was so amazing to hear they filmed in this state. I would love to visit it one day when I have time.
this is really good, well done!!
Family video is in season 4 too. Wonder if they used the same building again.
Really great job! You should have way more views ;)
Got to visit most of these locations 2 years ago when I was on a trip for baseball down in Atlanta, super super cool. Surreal