Inside An Abandoned Ames In Kentucky *Tons Of Items & Cars Inside*
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Inside An Abandoned Ames In Kentucky *Tons Of Items & Cars Inside*. What a ridiculous exploration. We've never seen so many things in an abandoned place before. We also found 3 expensive cars. Probably close to $750,000 in merchandise.
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OMG! What an amazing find! Awesome work, fellas!
Thank you! It means something to get your attention with a video of mine and it means even more that you enjoyed it and chimed in. I really appreciate the support. Thanks again!
Nice! You have the attention of the King of Urban Explorers!
Do you know if the pin ball machines are still there?
@@WallieB26 👍
@@WallieB26 When it comes to the Urban Explorers Universe, you'll get no bigger or better endorsement than one from the man that pretty created the genre. This video was superb too.
I don't know why, but my favorite abandoned videos are the ones from Ames. And you have two of the best abandoned Ames videos on all of You Tube in my opinion (this one & the "LOOK AT THE FRONT! WHERE IT SAYS AMES *REAL BIG!!!!!"* video).
I don't know what's sad , the fact that everything is dirty, disorganized and decaying or the fact that it's still cleaner than dollar General.
ceiling fans and stuff omg you’re so right about the Dollar General 😂
I know right 😂🤣
LOL!
lmao
ceiling fans and stuff it’s so true.
The irony is this abandoned Ames still has better customer service than Walmart
Walmart customer service is pretty bad. My mom was in Walmart last month buying a 6 hundred dollar TV and still had trouble getting service.
It sure did
You can never find anyone to help you in walmart
@@ethelhoose9755 they are off hiding trying to get out of work and probably keeping one eye open for the boss so they don't get fired.
Jeffrey Druin LOL! No doubt !
This has to be one of the few abandoned places I would actually take something from.
It literally made me upset that he didn’t take some of the stuff he came across. Like bro PALLETES FULL and you didn’t even touch it
@@colenace6037 the unopened boxes of merchandise is weird, even weirder is it’s probably still there. Maybe some cameras outside
there's probably laws that might allow discovery, but not "theft". These guys would be the ones that could time travel without affecting the timeline. You would not :D
As a teen this place was so easy to shoplift from. Not proud of that, but it's true. I couldn't imagine walking in there now. The nostalgia ❤️
I would have grabbed one of those brand new fans still in the box. It's only stealing to the worthless cops but trust me the owners left it behind because they didn't want it they're not going to come back sometime in the future for that stuff. lol it's not stealing when it's abandoned and left behind.
The presence of the old Corvette, Jaguar, and Porsche blow my mind.
Dude that place is GOLD!!!!
To Collectors....that’s a Crazy Time Capsule for Real!!
This is the BEST Abandoned Explorers video I’ve seen YET!💯
Great video. You and Kayla are good tour guides. Extremely interesting and enjoyable. I’am an old dude 78 years and kinda shut in so I really enjoyed it. Thanks again and best of everything.
My Mom worked at that store when it was a Murphy's Mart! Astounding to see how badly it has decayed.
What year was it
Yeah what year did she work at Murphy's Mart? Also I have never heard of Ames, Grant's nor Murphy's Mart before I seen Wallie's channel. In one part of this vid he showed a shopping cart that said "HOUCHENS" on it. Probably cuz I live in a state where it doesn't have locations with those stores ✌
Mom worked there from around 1977 to the summer of 1985 - first on the sales floor and later in the cash office. I didn't notice the cart marked 'Houchens' - that was a local grocery chain that I believe finally went under around 2000.
My mom worked at Murphy's in redmar plaza (the building in the video) in the mid 70s also.
That store was very disgusting inside I don't know why they would leave a store so filthy like that and what's even more sad is all that stuff in there was ruined. I want to thank your channel so much because your youtube Channel gives us an opportunity to see how disgusting abandoned stores are. Awesome video sir!!
No one to maintain the roof so nature takes its course
When its your last day/week and you're hardly paid anything but a crap wage, you know you're never coming back again no one cares!
It's being torn down as we speak.
Dude, finally watched it. This place is a freaking gem. Holy *bleep*ing crap. Everything. This is the jackpot. The boxes of nostalgia, the game machines, the claw machine, the cars, Ames as itself, dude. This is one for the books Wallie. My god man, I am jealous. This is absolutely insane.
I'm still shocked this exploration happened. I literally thought I would do my typical walk around the place outside and talk about my story about Ames etc. But then the wide open door changed that. I literally didnt touch a thing to walk inside and explore and walk down memory lane.
WallieB26 Dang dude, what a gem
Where is that at?
I have to admit I’d would’ve taken that Marlboro clock.
Haha, same thoughts...and the Cars :D
That corvette or the goodyear sign for me lol
I wouldn't mind having the old RC cola sign;)
I'd take the Porsche 911
same as well as a lot of other stuff in there the jag would be nice if its running and the engine hasn't stuck,
whats really screwed up is how you have so many people now with families jobless, no money, or homeless, yet here you have a store filled with toys, fans, etc... and nothing can be donated to anyone? food expires, but you think that the pink Barbie car couldn't be donated or all the toys in boxes to needy kids? This is how f**ked up and greedy this world really is that businesses rather let products rot away than to give charity. That's a disgrace right there.
Could also provide a place to live.
Don't forget the vett and the Porsche in there
A series of big ol' sidewalk/parking lot sales would clear everything out of there, and what didn't sell could be donated to charity thrift stores or scrap dealers could show up in their pick-ups and haul it away. It is strange that so much stuff in there.
My roommate and I were thinking the same thing. It's a damn shame to see all this stuff sitting in that building rotting and decaying when there is a fair amount of it that could probably be sellable. Mold can be cleaned off if it's not really bad. It looks like they were processing the place to bring a lot of that stuff somewhere else, and something happened to put a stop to it.
mark you said it i agree its american greed.
That definitely was some kind of flea market situation but to leave all that behind seems odd almost like they were locked out from getting their stuff.
That's what I wonder. I'd be mad as all get out if I was a vendor there and that happened and I couldnt get my items back and lost a lot of possessions/money as a result.
WallieB26 anyway to contact you at all? I’d take the legal route to buy some of the items seen here. I’ve done this at other abandoned locations in the northeast with good results
Probably died off. Spoiled kids didn't want that garbage...
in australia.. if the company goes bust,, they are locked out.. even tradesmen doing work there will have there tools locked in ,, even though they have nothing to do with the company..
@@peterbrittain1963
Weird Aussie law. I'd think even in Australia there's be a legal battle if that were to happen.
Holy cow, that's quite a surprising find! Three cars in a row?! As a car guy, I would have nearly had a heart attack seeing those sitting there.
I can't really figure much on that Corvette, other than it clearly being a C3.
The Jaguar appears to be an XJ40 generation XJ Vanden Plas. I can faintly see the Vanden Plas on the emblem on the right. That would be a late eighties or early nineties model. Very sharp, those were the top of the line models.
Then, the Porsche. Definitely the most valuable of the bunch. Looks like it's got the 5-MPH bumpers mandated in 1974, but it's got the 930 style bumper without the wide flared fenders, which would likely make it later model (mid-late 80's) Carrera 3.2.
I hope someone gets the chance to buy and fix/clean up those cars, especially the Porsche. It deserves better than to sit there languishing...I mean, those Fuchs wheels...so iconic!
Also astonishing how much stuff was still in that building. Shame that hardly anything in there can be salvaged now...other than possibly the arcade stuff and the skill crane. Those could certainly be restored, for sure.
Thank you for taking time to post! i feel the emotion in your voice and memories of Ames when filming , time will not stand still but memories will. Best wishes from UK. x
I'm glad to see you still at it, and more popular than ever. I am glad to see another intact abandoned Ames video!!!!!! I definitely need this at this point in my life.
Broke my heart to see that Jag, Old Corvette and Classic 911 all cooped up in that dusty garage.
Yeah right I was more sad about that black Porsche
I'm betting they were stolen, being stashed there.
They should all be saved
@@richardm3023 Very highly possible!
@@Titanic19127 Yup
I worked in this store from 1987 until it closed.all the other ames dept stores particularly the one in salem indiana used to send us their "junk" they couldn't sell and have us store it.before this store in Radcliff was ames it was Murphy's mart and before that it was W.C.Grant's.
Does it feel weird seeing it like that after working there for so many years?
@@Videocipher Not really, just brings back a lot of memories.There were lots of great stores in this shopping center at one time.
When did the Ames close?
@@BluegrassFilmsKY The ames in this video closed in 1989.
It was W T Grants
I used to love going to Ames. Always great bargains. My Mom's favorite place. I loved Hills too. Thank you for preserving these old memories. Ames stores were very special to me and my family too💜
Incredible video, Wallie! Thank you for taking the health risk to get this footage! I too have fond memories of Ames and Hills. Nice work 👌
great video! vintage cars and Kayla even said what we all wanted to hear..." Look at the front, where it says Ames real big"...lol
Hands down the greatest urban exploring video ever imo. This is a legendary video dude. I’m in total shock threw this whole video. WOOOOOW.
Thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I tried to be as respectful as humanly possible as per the urbex code. We literally left this place the way it was before we walked around and filmed the place. I was happy to save the memory of this place through my eyes and perspective as Ames meant something to me when I was young.
It was s walk down memory lane and I cannot believe just how ridiculous this exploration was. A surprise around every corner.
I can’t believe nobody has come by and taken anything.
Must be the white part of town.
It’s probably the crazy amount of mold in there that’s keeping looters away
David Pringle lmfao
@@BraveFencerI've seen people wear respirators and grabbing stuff out of abandoned places, so I can believe anything.
David Pringle I don’t think any black people even live in Kentucky haha.
What a find and thanks for sharing this with us♥️ All I got is WOW!!
Wallie your reaction to those cars was priceless
Ohhh 40 minutes? this ought to be good
*EDIT* I Was right, seeing that C3 Corvette and the Porsche in that condition broke my heart.
Also that Street Fighter 2 pinball machine is impossible to find.
Insert orgasm
It's dust. Not the end of the world.
OMG. So excited seeing this. I miss Ames. Really great memories. Thank you so much
My mom made me return and apologize for some candy I took from Ames in Liverpool ny. I’ll never forget it. This brought back a lot of memories, hills was always a big day out for me too
Canastota here
that was my ames!
What a great visual transition effect through that front window.... I'm impressed!
That was a really cool beginning scene through the window great job Wallie!
I remember Grants. I'm 63. When I was a teenager, I worked at Murphys.
I’d love to bring that Porsche back to Pittsburgh and get it going.
Or any of the other 3 things in that room
That car will never drive again. Been sitting there for probably 15 years
@@claudespeed277 it can drive again with some work.
@@claudespeed277 i took a mustang that had been sitting for 8 years in a field on blocks and after a month drove it home
find who owns the property. or go there record the Vins and do a trace online find who the last owner was and see if they will sell or talk to your local DMV about abandoned cars. i tried to do a trace on the TX plate but its so old there is no info on it.
What an amazing place you could spend a week in there going through everything and still not see it all thanks for sharing 👍🏼🖖🏼🇬🇧
I really really wanted to see the date that was on the swiss rolls
Doesn't matter. Still edible.
@@richardm3023 no, that's a myth and isn't true.
flickr.com/photos/kzoocowboy/
@@richardm3023 All it takes is 12 seconds in the microwave.
I thought it was twinkies that don't go bad not swiss rolls...
To answer your question they expired in September 29 2016!
That is amazing that everything was just left there and the cars wow, great video sir.
Very cool find! I had a stocking hob with them in VT in the evenings during the 2nd half of the 80’s while I was in college. My first wife had a job with them as well in VT and in Albany, NY in the 90’s. Not being in the Northeast anymore I had no idea they went the way of the dinosaurs. Thanks for sharing!
Here we go boys, grab the popcorn
And girls 😊 🍿
DEFINITELY SO EXCITED TO WATCH THIS!!!!!! ❤️ These videos are why I got into urban exploration. Ames brings back so many memories of me going with my grandpa when he would go there for anything he needed. He loved that store so much. When they went out he was so upset and said that the store who took over wasn’t the same. Thank you for allowing me to relive these memories ❤️❤️
Awesome video Wallie! Haven't finished watching it all yet but, will watch the rest later. I could have a really good yard sale with that stuff.
Gimme 2 days in there ... Your right I bet there's amazing finds in there ... I worked for Ames dept store in liberty ny from 1995 to 2000 and it was one of my FAVVVVVORITE jobs I ever had in my life ... Thank you for showing it ...i also opened many if the stores in and around where I lived in ny ...i did every single job thats Ames had to offer and I'm freinds with almost every single person I worked with back tgen still to this day
That was pretty wild. Makes me think of what the apocolypse looks like. It's such a shame how much commercial property around this country is going to pot. Thanks for sharing and glad you guys are being safe; mold is some yucky stuff...
Great video bro. Have a safe and good trip. Can't wait to see u when u return
Great video, thanks for sharing this ! Without efforts to preserve memories of places like this, they will be forgotten forever. No one seems to care about preserving the past anymore, but intent on destroying it. Sad.
Looks like a hoarder was renting it for storage or a flea market
Computer User It was probably a corporate decision .
Probably looters went thru and threw boxes all over looking for stuff as well
It was a flea market for several years. I got some very good deals on tools there back in the day.
yeah....Ames wouldn't
keep their stock in Chiquita banana boxes ....I reckon..
HOLY CRAP!!! Wallie this is one for the ages this explore was epic very super cool find I just can not belive all the stuff left to rot like that those poor cars tractor and them pinball machines dam what a waste. Thank you Wallie for filming this place I loved every second of this amazing video and this is why I am a huge fan of your channel. 😁😁
Great video! They must have been in a real hurry to get outta there since they left all that stuff. Goodness, even the cars got left behind!
Wow! Awesome video! I've been tuning in to your videos, after discovering your K-mart where you and the gang were filming. Just want to say, your videos ROCK!🤘😁
As an avid railfan, i know that Ames sold alot of lifelike brand model trains. Was there any model trains in there lol?
I didn’t notice any at all when I was here. You’d think there’d be at least something but I guess not.
i live one mile from it and yes there is a lot of the trains. do you have snapchat? i can take pictures and show you
@@Braylon2322 I have an Instagram. Same as my RUclips channel name
I feel yah brother. My grandmother used to take me to Ames and Montgomery wards when I was a little kid.
Looks like someone was getting dirty in that jaguar. You see those hand prints lol
LOL!
Wow! This is unreal! I can't believe it is still standing.Too bad it all has so much damage.Great job on this full coverage of this former Ames.Take care Wallie and Kayla!
Great video.Thanks! I really love your Ames/Hills videos.
Is it bad that I recognized it as Ames on ur FaceBook post even though I've never personally visited an ames? 😆 lol Super cool explore!
Great find Wallie, unbelievable, us collectors would love to see what they have in there, probably lots of rarities
Believe me, I would have loved to spend the time going through things just to see what's all there but everything was pretty moldy and not to mention it would have taken me a week to go through everything. Lol
I anticipated taking a walk down memory lane but didnt anticipate to see all the items inside. I was happy to at least create a video looking back at some things from the past. Many items I did see and had in the video made me feel like a kid again.
The older items reminded me of my dad and other family members who arent here anymore and it made me feel pretty sad so i didnt want to get upset by possibly unveiling something I know my dad had or whatnot.
Great find bud!!! Especially finding the cars!!!
Ames, Hills and Zayre's used to be the go-to department stores before Walmart took over. Great explore, and thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Awesome vid!!! The “final vacate checklist” was torture. She should have just said peace out let’s roll...
Wow. I remember when I was a kid, my family shopped at that Grant store; we moved away before I became an Ames store
Fun video. Its fascinating seeing all this old stuff from a different generation. It would have been fun for you to poke the camera inside a few random boxes along the way. Just to see items from earlier in our lives. Thats so fun to see! Thanks for taking us around in there. A super cool place with lots of memories!
As a kid, I was actually in W. T. Grant's mansion in Greenwich CT. This is late 60s/early 70s. The property sat facing Long Island Sound. I enjoyed trying to count all the rooms/bathrooms. My favorite was the billiards room. Of course there was an outdoor pool, but also a putting green. Mr. Grant was elderly and infirm but inside the house with nurse, cook etc. - but never got to see him. I like to think he enjoyed hearing kids having fun there.
When you mentioned Grants it brought me back to my youth as Ames does you. I remember buying my turtles at Grants and eating there on Sundays before visiting relatives that are no more. I feel ya dude.
Alright. That was epic. You brought me back with this one, damn. Not gonna lie, I would of been tempted to snag a tamagotchi 😂 great video dude!!
Hi Wallie 26 . I just saw this Ames video in Kentucky. With tons of stuff left behind and abandoned.
It’s sad to see this happen to a great store that was once open. Now it’s closed and gone.
so cool wallie! i love your videos and this one is my favorite so far. keep up the good work.
Damn shame all that stuff just rotting away in there
That Fisher price little people house is worth some good money .i collect all things Fisher price.
RIP Little People horses
@corey Babcock then it would be stolen. You do not freeload from abandoned places.
Impressive! My son got on a kick of watching abandoned place videos, and found your channel and loves you guys! Easy sub! I was touched by the story mentioning what Ames meant to you. I actually live in the town where is was founded (Southbridge, MA. Didn't know that until Bright Sun's vid on Ames). My nearest Ames was my childhood one next town over, it's now split into an Ocean State Job Lot and Tractor Supply. Meant a lot to me also. Keep up the good work, you guys!
Awesome vid! Thx 4 posting!
I was watching The Perfect Storm not long ago and one of the characters said she was late because she stopped at Ames because they were having a sale. I thought wow! Ames! The nostalgia hit me like a brick.
this kills me on the inside. The collector in me is mad that shit was left there to waste. On the other hand, makes for a great abandoned adventure.
@Tazimo Dragon I would make it a museum or tourist attraction, there might be some interest in people wanting to experience the past again.
Thanks for sharing!
Awesome Video. I could tell how excited you was . The camera was flying back and forth to show everything LoL. Still super cool. Sad to see so much go to waste. would have never seen it if you didn't go. Thank you. And be safe
That poor old 911. The Vette looks like an interesting old custom. And crazy all that stuff was left. Something shady definitely went down here!
My mom used to work in the jewelry department of the Ames in Medina, NY
I grew up going there!
All of that vintage merchandise! I am drooling! What an amazing location. 😍
an excellent, genuine, non-clickbait video. This is gold on youtube.
This breaks my heart in more ways than one, I don't know what's worse the fact that Aims is dead or everything was left behind, all of those old pallets of boxes of stuff still shrinkwraped are probably what killed it, when you stop and consider the fact that some discount retail stores have enough in the back to resupply a few times a day and they got more on back order from suppliers yeah that be great for perishables but what about non perishables how much stuff sat on shelves before it got bought and what about everything on back order that they wasted money on?
They could have handed all of that stuff down to other stores to make sure it still got sold and made a lil cash to cushion the bankruptcy or returned it all to the manufactures and canceled the rest, maybe they could have gotten enough cash back to save it.
I went to Aims growing up to you never expect the good places to go under, I always figured Aims Walmart Kmart Tops and the dollar stores would be around forever they're such house hold names that you would think they'd have a "save you're local retailers" commercial on for it but they never did.
I got old enough to get out of the house on my own and I figured Aims would be as big as the Makinly mall that was gonna be my regular hang out every week, I was gonna blow my allowance there and window shop for the stuff I couldn't afford lol.
Kinda makes me wanna cry, eh what the hell I'm gonna go cry why not.
I cried a little as well. Just purely because there was no reason to leave everything, it could have been donated to any number of charities or goodwill, etc. there's too much disgrace, too many big corp's buying out others, too much wrong with the world. This just hit too hard. Really wish things were different
@@mastercleanseNOTdiet owners may have passed away. Only problem is laws make it very hard if not impossible for anything too be done with the items. Unless direct relatives give permission then nothing can be done with the stuff inside except eventually into landfill or incinerator if possible. Cars and equipment could be possibly sold but title work may not be worth it.
Target has mostly replaced these companies, in both atmosphere and products.
Wow so awesome and unbelievable ! My mom had taken me to Ames during my adolescent. Zayres was my childhood store. Kinda waste they abandoned all the vintage stuff. U could have take some and sell on eBay but too bad they’re moldy!! Thanks for sharing!!!! Seeing all the stuffs brings me back in time!
That was a surprise every turn. Amazing.
Wow, those DBZ table covers triggered a memory of a birthday party I had with that table cloth.
Timestamp?
According to the local newspaper - the property has been purchased by the city of Radcliff. Demolition of the property should begin in August 2023. About time. Was used recently as a Ford truck storage lot during the pandemic/parts shortage.
It is so sad tax payers had to pay to haul all the garbage away. They should have been more transparent where all the garbage and things ended up unless the owner took some stuff out before the city took over the building. I hope they charged the previous owner for the clean up inside of the building for not properly maintaining it. I also hope this owner did not write it off on his taxes,
Thank you for sharing your urban exploration.
That was incredible man. The video just kept getting better and better
LOL well I can almost guarantee after putting this video up, someone is going to show up and clean out all those signs and potentially those cars. Good money to be made there.
That’s why I’m saying.. beautiful finding, but all of that is going to get stolen and stripped.
That stuff is mostly still there as of November
@@sydwhitaker5776 How do you know
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e cause I went there
I'd love to see those cars rescued and restored.
Hello! I think this is probably a collector's storage area. A friend's dad buys up old retail buildings sometimes with merchandise still in them and uses them for his personal storage. I went into one of the buildings with my friend and others to help our friend try to get a handle on what to do with all of his dad's stuff, and to our surprise it looked about the same (with the ceilings leaking and moldy, etc.). It must be nice to have that kind of money to buy up all of that retail real estate and all of those collectables and department store displays, like my friend's dad, and let all of it go to waste. I appreciate and love your quest, sorry that you couldn't find anything with Ames written on it. That was a pretty cool store. We had a few here in VA too. Brings back memories 😃
I agree, especially with all of the banana boxes, and things wrapped up on pallets. Also, no Ames would have had all the National Geographic magazines stored. As a former employee of retail stores of 1997-2003 magazines were not kept like that. You tore off the cover where the title was and the issue with date, those were given in for credit. The rest of the magazine was trashed. We used to send them to the local high school because the art teacher used them for collages. Also, AMES would not have taken back beer cans. There is no way the Ames closed looking like this. They liquidate everything including fixtures. This is clearly a hoarding situation.
My favorite part was when you found the corvette. I was thinking whoah look at that. And then you go WHOAH! LOOK AT THAT! Awesome video man! And good form in just documenting and having respect for the place.
That Was One The Coolest And Best Videos Of Abandoned Places Ever. Thanks For Filming The Video Of The Ames For Us All Too Watch.
Till this very day I feel like this Wallie’s greatest discovery yet.
That building is sixties vintage, still has old style burglary foil on the windows
I use to shop with my parents at a store in Ft Walton Beach, fl. It was Zayre then Ames or other way around. There both gone now. Not sure what is in its place now. The shopping center has been updated, but its been a few yrs since I been in that area of town. Thanks for sharing.
I live in Radcliff KY so thank you for covering this
It's so sad to see it all rot away and eventually the whole building is going to collapse.
Yeah it's amazing all that dead stock just left behind..the cars as well. That's crazy and such a waste.
The cars were an awesome find and all of the products still rapped amazing
Very neat place. Thanks for the video
The trailers were used for layaway, and are probably full of merch.
I drove by this place every day while serving at Ft. Knox. It’s been out of operation since before 2003. Nothing has changed since.
My late mother loved going to Ames & Hills back in the 90's. It is sad places like this are gone.
Awesome video! Soo much stuff!!