I see people could shop at 3 clothing stores, second go to the arcade, third go to the computer store play video games, and finally finish the busy day at the movies. Even though I didn't see a janitor there, the mall is kept clean!
The mall is well kept clean and the workers are all friendly. I have had a toy store in the mall for 10 years. I happened to be closed the day he was filming cause I had some personal issues going on recently. This mall also has a lot of vendor events as well as craft shows. People may find it hard to believe but it can be busy on the weekends. Plus Christmas time they never charge for pictures with Santa like other malls do.
Thank you for finally covering this mall! I'm from this area and grew up going to this mall, but more so going to the Ashland town center. It has always out shined this mall. The Kyova mall was never all the way full, and when I was little we would spend the night there with our girl scout troupe every year! Now it is so dead it's sad
This is exactly what this mall looked like at the grand opening in '88 when my friends and I skipped school to be there (excited hillbillies!) It SUCKED then and we got caught - 3 days detention for this sad shit!! It never got better 🙁😕😔
I remember my mom and dad taking me to this mall on Saturday when I was a kid in the 90’s and 00’s. The mall had a lot of different variety of stores and I remember I used to get my haircut at master cuts on Saturday. Seem like stores kept vanishing from about 03 or 04 to now it’s current state. Hopefully the Kyova mall gets a revival soon.
That's awesome! I live in Ashland and grew up with this mall. I remember it as a kid when it was bustling. When the Kmart left then the sears, it went downhill fast. the people from this area seem to still love the mall tand even though we know it'll never come back to life we still all kinda hope it does. Pretty much how all of us locals feel about the area as a whole. Great video! You're welcome in our neck of the woods anytime!
It’s great to this video. Sense this past week, They announced turning the whole mail into Expo Center with a Malibu Jack. Construction started today July 19 2021
I sent pictures of this dump to Dan last year (when Elder Beerman was having their going out of business sale). I believe they're just down to Rural King, the movie theater, and a library.
Hey Ace good news about this mall!! someone just bought the entire mall for millions, they are moving in a new sports complex and malibu jacks in this area.
I think greed greed is also a cause of failures of malls,I know here in NYS there’s many retail failures due to higher rent increases malls as well as general retail space!! It’s like landlords just want empty retail space,very sad😢😢
It's actually not from the 80's at all haha, it's by a singer named Michael Oakley - Crystal Ships. He's just one of the many great growing artists in the Synthwave/Retrowave music scene. Highly recommend taking a look at The Midnight, FM-84, Timecop 1983, Betamaxx, Siamese Youth, GUNSHIP and others if you like this style of music
@@endlessdrive8421 thank you I have checked them out and these bands are awesome. I have lots of great memories of this style of music back in 1982 playing Dragon's lair and Space ace in the arcades. Cheers.🍻😎
@@bladerunner752 Very cool! It's a very timeless style of music for sure. Although I was born in the 90's, I appreciate the style of sounds more than any other type of music. Glad to have introduced you to more music for you to enjoy :)
This Great American Mall tour is one of your biggest successes. The malls are dead or near death, but as I said I like seeing smaller, off the path places who because of countless circumstances faded into death. Bon Ton and company closing probably put a lot of malls into dead status, others into life support. Hate to say it but when Sears and KMart go the ranks of dead malls will sour. Irony is more for you and all the awesome urbexers to film. Excited what the next video is going to be. Looks like it will be epic.
I’ve been to that mall a fair few times when I was at college at Marshall, but mainly to RJ Kahunas, which I gotta say was a fairly delicious wing restaurant. Too bad that went away as well.
This mall is about 2 hours drive from Cincinnati, Ohio; also 2 hours from Lexington, Kentucky. Or 1 hour away from Charleston, West Virginia. Better have the best items at best prices, for that long drive!
The saddest thing is that I lived in Ashland about 10 years ago, and the footage you shot was pretty much how it looked back then, with the exception of the Rural King. What you said was pretty much true. It was too far away from the town to draw Ashland residents regularly and there was a better mall and movie theater in town.
When it first opened, it was the "Cedar Knoll Galeria" (which some called the Cedar Knoll Gonorrhea). Named after a golf course, which was in turn named by a development of homes on the large knoll overlooking the current land (not because it had Cedar Trees, but because the developer's name was Cedar). It had a Sears store with auto center, a K-Mart, a Stone-and-Thomas store which was later a Elder Beerbelly store), and a PharMore, all closed now. As many of us predicted, there just wasn't enough population base to support two super-malls which were built at about the same time. And of course, Wal*Mart was a final death knoll for this property.
What is it about dead food courts that makes them soooooo creepy! And SERIOUSLY, what IS it with those laughing/giggling kiddie rides? I mean, SOMEONE thought it was a good idea...John Wayne Gacy, perhaps.
Interesting to hear some of the facts here reflect what's happening at my local mall. The occupancy is still decent, but it's mostly a mall walker's paradise now and the food court has one restaurant. Our Sears also closed in 2014, then our Elder-Beerman, and our local library has a little branch there, too.
It's a shame the vide left out so much that was still open. Frozen Yogurt place. Wilma's Dress Shop, Callihan's American Pub & Grill as well as my store. That is cool you have a Library branch as well.
Hmm, My mall in Cheyenne Wy had a Time Out Arcade. I like the aesthetics in that mall quite a lot! Too bad the fountains no longer work, and really unfortunate the mall is in such poor condition!
This mall was built on land that was a golf course. Sadly, it never reached it's full potential after Ashland Oil left the area. Sure do miss that golf course.
I live in ashland. That mall has a hard time in the past few years. It did good when it first opened. The ashland town center mall is doing better. I just waiting for the KYOVA to close it will soon
This one looks like it's in good shape. Most of these malls deteriorate slowly, maybe get vandalized before they eventually close. This one looks like it dies before falling into disrepair.
Odd that the tiki bar interior doesn't match the exterior at all (perhaps they ran out of cash), and is the movie theatre still open? You didn't say...
@@peterstean2138 Yup! I'm local to Kyova Mall, and I've passed the mall more than once. Last time I passed within the past month, the theater was open.
You can also find the movie theater info on kyova10.com (assuming that the website isn't dead). But they have a Facebook page which they've been updating.
Too bad Jefferson Mall and Oxmoor Mall in louisville are going downhill. St. Matthews will thrive for a bit longer, I dont know how Kentucky Oaks mall and Florence Yall (Says that on the water tower) are doing.
Hey Anthony-What a great location! It appears brand new in most of the space. Literally like you could bring in the merchandise and open up as a new Mall! I wonder what they will do with this space...
The mall may not have many stores. But I have had my store for 10 years plus. Also, the movie theater is the best one in the area. Plus how many malls can say they have a library? Not many. We may have only a few stores. But for the ones of you all calling it a dump you're wrong.
@@AcesAdventures1 I'm talking about comments calling it a dump. But btw did you notice the sign about no photography or video without permission? Just wondering.
Brain Of Blood i could care less about what the signs say, don’t be bitter about the video, be grateful you will have memories about what it was like there when it closes, be mad at the lackluster owners who do NOTHING with the place
@@BrainOfBlood He didn't diss your store. He didn't know it was there. He wants to see the mall be successful and the owners barely look like they care. He wanted to see the mall. If he "knows nothing" as you say, then feel free to say more. Sour grapes much? gheez.
The problem, as I see it, is that this mall looks cheap. The floor tiles, the lighting fixtures (the lamp posts look like something you can buy ant your local garden center ... 10:42), the planters, etc. The most successful malls I visited: King Of Prussia, the Mall At Short Hills, Bal Harbour, etc. - have something in common: an upscale, even elegant look ... that create a "shopping experience" ... Honestly this place looks cheesy.
Let's be honest here: OF COURSE this mall won't have as high of an amount of shops, vs. say a mall like King of Prussia, Bal Harbour, etc. Honestly, those comparisons are UNFAIR vs. Kyova Mall, and of course a fairer comparison would be a mall serving a smaller city or rural area, that is struggling. There are a lot of malls that are struggling out there in a similar boat, like Kyova is. That said, it does look like the inside of this mall has least been kept up well, unlike certain malls I've visited in the past(i.e. Sandburg Mall in Galesburg, IL, never mind that mall is now closed). Actually in a way this mall reminds me of the now closed Charlestowne Mall in Saint Charles, IL, where at that mall on my final visit there(when it shuttered in November 2017) only Carson's, Von Maur, and an 18 screen movie theater remain there. As of now in 2019, only Von Maur and the movie theater remain, because of Bon Ton's bankruptcy.
I can’t understand why dead malls are not converted into nursing homes and rehabilitation areas. It would be so easy to do. Food courts stay as food courts, boutique stores are converted to rooms with a plumber to come in and add handicap bathrooms, anchor stores are turned into ICU and rehabilitation areas.
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I see people could shop at 3 clothing stores, second go to the arcade, third go to the computer store play video games, and finally finish the busy day at the movies.
Even though I didn't see a janitor there, the mall is kept clean!
The mall is well kept clean and the workers are all friendly. I have had a toy store in the mall for 10 years. I happened to be closed the day he was filming cause I had some personal issues going on recently. This mall also has a lot of vendor events as well as craft shows. People may find it hard to believe but it can be busy on the weekends. Plus Christmas time they never charge for pictures with Santa like other malls do.
This is so clean.
Thank you for finally covering this mall! I'm from this area and grew up going to this mall, but more so going to the Ashland town center. It has always out shined this mall. The Kyova mall was never all the way full, and when I was little we would spend the night there with our girl scout troupe every year! Now it is so dead it's sad
This is exactly what this mall looked like at the grand opening in '88 when my friends and I skipped school to be there (excited hillbillies!) It SUCKED then and we got caught - 3 days detention for this sad shit!! It never got better 🙁😕😔
I remember my mom and dad taking me to this mall on Saturday when I was a kid in the 90’s and 00’s. The mall had a lot of different variety of stores and I remember I used to get my haircut at master cuts on Saturday. Seem like stores kept vanishing from about 03 or 04 to now it’s current state. Hopefully the Kyova mall gets a revival soon.
That's awesome! I live in Ashland and grew up with this mall. I remember it as a kid when it was bustling. When the Kmart left then the sears, it went downhill fast. the people from this area seem to still love the mall tand even though we know it'll never come back to life we still all kinda hope it does. Pretty much how all of us locals feel about the area as a whole. Great video! You're welcome in our neck of the woods anytime!
Dustin Adkins I use to take my kids there back in the 90's, when we lived over in Kenova.
I grew up here too! Yes I agree, when Kmart left it was bad, but when Sears left it went down fast.
its great to have this documented sense the now. the Mall has been turned into Camp Landing. which is awesome. its full of life once again.
You have such a GIFT for capturing nostalgia. Keep up the amazing work! 👏👏👏
Anthony.. I really love the production value on this. The opening especially. Keep up the good work
I remember when this mall was fully active. It is sad that it has became this empty. The library is leaving the mall soon
It’s great to this video. Sense this past week, They announced turning the whole mail into Expo Center with a Malibu Jack. Construction started today July 19 2021
I talked to Dan about 3 weeks ago. He was in Ashland so there's a good chance he will be covering this mall too.
Abandoned PKB - 👍🙂 cool!
I sent pictures of this dump to Dan last year (when Elder Beerman was having their going out of business sale). I believe they're just down to Rural King, the movie theater, and a library.
@@lorddalek I believe you're wrong. I had a store in this mall for 10 years plus.
Dan and Anthony stopped speaking to each other a year or two ago.
And nobody here cares about Dan! This is the ACE show!
Is it wrong that my 33yr old self is rocking out to the music at start of this video?
Mall soundtracks have me rocking out these days. Hahahaha
It has now been rebranded Camp Landing and a Malibu Jacks indoor theme park put in. The only thing remaining is the Rural King store.
Hey Ace good news about this mall!! someone just bought the entire mall for millions, they are moving in a new sports complex and malibu jacks in this area.
I think greed greed is also a cause of failures of malls,I know here in NYS there’s many retail failures due to higher rent increases
malls as well as general retail space!! It’s like landlords just want empty retail space,very sad😢😢
20,000 people live in Ashland, KY.
The average income is 40,000.
This Mall was DOA
Great opening scenes and music to the video!!!
Excellent video as usual, greetings from Spain.
Love that 80s music in the beginning. Cool videos. Cheers from Arizona.😎
It's actually not from the 80's at all haha, it's by a singer named Michael Oakley - Crystal Ships. He's just one of the many great growing artists in the Synthwave/Retrowave music scene. Highly recommend taking a look at The Midnight, FM-84, Timecop 1983, Betamaxx, Siamese Youth, GUNSHIP and others if you like this style of music
@@endlessdrive8421 thank you I have checked them out and these bands are awesome. I have lots of great memories of this style of music back in 1982 playing Dragon's lair and Space ace in the arcades. Cheers.🍻😎
@@bladerunner752 Very cool! It's a very timeless style of music for sure. Although I was born in the 90's, I appreciate the style of sounds more than any other type of music. Glad to have introduced you to more music for you to enjoy :)
This Great American Mall tour is one of your biggest successes. The malls are dead or near death, but as I said I like seeing smaller, off the path places who because of countless circumstances faded into death. Bon Ton and company closing probably put a lot of malls into dead status, others into life support.
Hate to say it but when Sears and KMart go the ranks of dead malls will sour. Irony is more for you and all the awesome urbexers to film.
Excited what the next video is going to be. Looks like it will be epic.
I’ve been to that mall a fair few times when I was at college at Marshall, but mainly to RJ Kahunas, which I gotta say was a fairly delicious wing restaurant. Too bad that went away as well.
The truck in the opening reminded me of the abandoned truck at Forest Fair in Cincinnati.
This mall is about 2 hours drive from Cincinnati, Ohio; also 2 hours from Lexington, Kentucky. Or 1 hour away from Charleston, West Virginia. Better have the best items at best prices, for that long drive!
Try living here! 😂😭
The saddest thing is that I lived in Ashland about 10 years ago, and the footage you shot was pretty much how it looked back then, with the exception of the Rural King.
What you said was pretty much true. It was too far away from the town to draw Ashland residents regularly and there was a better mall and movie theater in town.
I live in Ashland and it looks as dead as it did when I was a kid 20 years ago!
There was a trampoline park In that mall called extreme air but it’s now in barboursville
Malibu Jack’s moved in where elder beerman used to be
Excellent video Ace. The store at the 10:35 mark reminded me of Chess King.
One of your best so far!
The Sundance [not the channel] Horse kiddie ride. I would love using horse/bull kiddie rides in dead mall and for my legs.
so sad malls are pretty much gone. so is unity.
Hi my Friend Awesome Video and Keep it Up and take care
The intro is top notch! Totally awesome! AAA++++
Yessss!
When it first opened, it was the "Cedar Knoll Galeria" (which some called the Cedar Knoll Gonorrhea). Named after a golf course, which was in turn named by a development of homes on the large knoll overlooking the current land (not because it had Cedar Trees, but because the developer's name was Cedar). It had a Sears store with auto center, a K-Mart, a Stone-and-Thomas store which was later a Elder Beerbelly store), and a PharMore, all closed now. As many of us predicted, there just wasn't enough population base to support two super-malls which were built at about the same time. And of course, Wal*Mart was a final death knoll for this property.
So sad. And kinda spooky.
The kid laughing from that coin-op ride wasn't slightly terrifying.
This whole place was a liminal space. Always felt creeped out walking through it.
So if a dying mall is called a "dead mall", what do you call a dead mall?
I can hardly wait to check this one out after work with a nice glass of bourbon!
This place is gorgeous, a true time capsule. If I were a billionaire I'd buy it, keep it up, visit and stay there sometimes :-)
What is it about dead food courts that makes them soooooo creepy! And SERIOUSLY, what IS it with those laughing/giggling kiddie rides? I mean, SOMEONE thought it was a good idea...John Wayne Gacy, perhaps.
"closed private party"
I don't know about that mate....cause too many that party looked depressing as hell.
I used to work in this mall at the Library and the Mini Golf place that used to be in there.
Interesting to hear some of the facts here reflect what's happening at my local mall. The occupancy is still decent, but it's mostly a mall walker's paradise now and the food court has one restaurant. Our Sears also closed in 2014, then our Elder-Beerman, and our local library has a little branch there, too.
It's a shame the vide left out so much that was still open. Frozen Yogurt place. Wilma's Dress Shop, Callihan's American Pub & Grill as well as my store. That is cool you have a Library branch as well.
Brain Of Blood The library branch is supposedly temporary, because of some major roadwork, but it has been interesting having it there.
You are doing an amazing 😉 job Anthony!!!
Maintenance vehicle at the beginning is a strong sign what the state of the mall is in.
So much space yet so little happening. Fascinating yet depressing as well.
LOVED HOW YOU ENDED THAT! POWERFUL MESSAGE!!
Hmm, My mall in Cheyenne Wy had a Time Out Arcade. I like the aesthetics in that mall quite a lot! Too bad the fountains no longer work, and really unfortunate the mall is in such poor condition!
Love your Dead Mall videos and once again, your taste in music is so similar to mine. Love Michael Oakley! Thank you and well done!! :)
Here in Michigan we had Carson's and parisians
First time viewer... Your video is just as good, if not better than Dan Bell's! Great work.
That is one dead mall!
The mall is still in pretty good shape surprisingly
Agreed, it is pristine. If I lived near there I would definitely check it out, tons of nostalgia there.
This mall was built on land that was a golf course. Sadly, it never reached it's full potential after Ashland Oil left the area. Sure do miss that golf course.
That mall is beautiful
Your videos make me sad
Awesome work as always.
10:14 dang
I would swear that Zamias (from Johntown. PA) built this mall out of the extra material used to construct the York Galleria.
Looooove the score on this one!
I live in this area they are redoing it and stuff
You actually said something nice about Dan Bell?
Excellent, Ace.
Wish I had known you were there. I went to this mall as a kid!
Paul - wow
Great commentary and history. If you're in the ohio area southern park mall has alot of history and the demolition of sears going on
I live in ashland. That mall has a hard time in the past few years. It did good when it first opened. The ashland town center mall is doing better. I just waiting for the KYOVA to close it will soon
This one looks like it's in good shape. Most of these malls deteriorate slowly, maybe get vandalized before they eventually close. This one looks like it dies before falling into disrepair.
Who did your intro?
The restaurant/bar at the end has Zero atmosphere
OMG that's depressing...like 2 people walking around....:(
I bet the Rural King is like a Blain's Farm & Fleet.
That is a SWEET theatre!!!
Damn Walmart
Odd that the tiki bar interior doesn't match the exterior at all (perhaps they ran out of cash), and is the movie theatre still open? You didn't say...
It is still open.
@@ghoulthekitty really? Wally walked through in the video and there was no-one there...
@@peterstean2138 Yup! I'm local to Kyova Mall, and I've passed the mall more than once. Last time I passed within the past month, the theater was open.
You can also find the movie theater info on kyova10.com (assuming that the website isn't dead). But they have a Facebook page which they've been updating.
Great track
Love the intro!!!
Not all malls are dying. But there certainly is a thinning of the herd going on.
Too bad Jefferson Mall and Oxmoor Mall in louisville are going downhill. St. Matthews will thrive for a bit longer, I dont know how Kentucky Oaks mall and Florence Yall (Says that on the water tower) are doing.
Hey Anthony-What a great location! It appears brand new in most of the space. Literally like you could bring in the merchandise and open up as a new Mall! I wonder what they will do with this space...
Rip
The mall may not have many stores. But I have had my store for 10 years plus. Also, the movie theater is the best one in the area. Plus how many malls can say they have a library? Not many. We may have only a few stores. But for the ones of you all calling it a dump you're wrong.
Brain Of Blood these videos are not to bash the place, just purely documenting it, i hope it turns around 😁
@@AcesAdventures1 I'm talking about comments calling it a dump. But btw did you notice the sign about no photography or video without permission? Just wondering.
Brain Of Blood i could care less about what the signs say, don’t be bitter about the video, be grateful you will have memories about what it was like there when it closes, be mad at the lackluster owners who do NOTHING with the place
I'm not bitter and the mall not going anywhere. You know nothing at all.
@@BrainOfBlood He didn't diss your store. He didn't know it was there. He wants to see the mall be successful and the owners barely look like they care. He wanted to see the mall. If he "knows nothing" as you say, then feel free to say more. Sour grapes much? gheez.
Very good looking mall. Shame to see it in this state.
Thats sad, just sad.
Love the theatre, and your new intro is awesome
I find that most of these dead mall videos don't explore the movie theatres in more detail, a bit disappointing tbh
I give it 10 years tops...
I heard someone playing air hockey lol :)
As others have said 09:35 creeped us TF out!
More like 09:32
No one should be caving to dan bell. He is not the king everybody is equal. With being said ace is one of my favorites.
I’m there just driving around it
Not much commerce going on in there
The problem, as I see it, is that this mall looks cheap. The floor tiles, the lighting fixtures (the lamp posts look like something you can buy ant your local garden center ... 10:42), the planters, etc. The most successful malls I visited: King Of Prussia, the Mall At Short Hills, Bal Harbour, etc. - have something in common: an upscale, even elegant look ... that create a "shopping experience" ... Honestly this place looks cheesy.
Mr. Butch I take it you don’t like the vintage tiles and aesthetics.. okay
It's an ugly mall, yes
Let's be honest here: OF COURSE this mall won't have as high of an amount of shops, vs. say a mall like King of Prussia, Bal Harbour, etc. Honestly, those comparisons are UNFAIR vs. Kyova Mall, and of course a fairer comparison would be a mall serving a smaller city or rural area, that is struggling.
There are a lot of malls that are struggling out there in a similar boat, like Kyova is. That said, it does look like the inside of this mall has least been kept up well, unlike certain malls I've visited in the past(i.e. Sandburg Mall in Galesburg, IL, never mind that mall is now closed). Actually in a way this mall reminds me of the now closed Charlestowne Mall in Saint Charles, IL, where at that mall on my final visit there(when it shuttered in November 2017) only Carson's, Von Maur, and an 18 screen movie theater remain there. As of now in 2019, only Von Maur and the movie theater remain, because of Bon Ton's bankruptcy.
11:18 those small TV's! 🤔
I can’t understand why dead malls are not converted into nursing homes and rehabilitation areas. It would be so easy to do. Food courts stay as food courts, boutique stores are converted to rooms with a plumber to come in and add handicap bathrooms, anchor stores are turned into ICU and rehabilitation areas.
warmsunny today well get started. You’ve got a lot of work to do.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ashland Town Center is still thriving so this mall was pretty much DOA.
09:44 if I was a local I'd be there all the time!
Why was there children laughing sounds.
I think those were coming out of the ride-on machines, like part 9f the sound effects they play. It was very creepy.
3Dsjk - yes, we have the same kid rides that make those sounds
2 DAYS?! Ugh 😑
Still some ppl there