This is the 2022 version of Rolling Acres, what a mess this place has become. On your next visit to a mall like this, make sure to bring backup. If something happened to you inside, you may not be able to call for help. Be careful out there, we want to keep watching your videos!
The storytelling at the beginning of this episode, with the combination of cinematography and Music Choice was truly special I really appreciate content creators such as yourself that take the time to create such unique and meaningful content in the ever convoluted landscape of meaningless content
man, 10-15 years ago my stepdad would take me to see movies at the jamestown mall. the mall was pretty much abandoned except for the theater, but even now that's completely destroyed. what a bummer. on a brighter note tho, thanks for the video, it brought back lots of good memories and your artistic editing style is super cool.
There’s a whole lot more to the story. Too bad I didn’t know you was going to do this video. I spent 2.5 years there helping the caretaker keep it secure. The county made us leave in 2018. Jamestown mall tour here on YT was the video I took in 2017. after we left the county sold scrapping rights and it went downhill fast. Too bad they scrapped the giant sculpture in the center court. I tried to get a county sculpture park to take it there but they never responded.
Was this the statue near the start of that(at the time I visited) walled off hallway that once led to Stix, and later a furniture liquidation store? And it also wasn't too far, from where the movie theater was. If so, I REALLY wish that sculpture could've been preserved. Once visited this mall, and I get the sense it was a much nicer mall back in the day. At least the neon inside the food court still worked, when I visited in(I think) 2014.
That really should have been snatched up by the county for Laurmeier park or at least a home found for it somewhere. Those sculptures were a bit weird but definitely should have been saved.
Jamestown mall is officially now the new rolling acres with no future and with the mall decaying at a rapid rate. You look at videos from 5 to 6 years ago and the mall almost look intact and now it looks it is going to collapse any second. Great video north!
I was 8yrs old in1980 so I literally grew up in the 1980's and going to malls and arcades was the fun thing to do on the weekends. It's sad to see these once busy and thriving malls abandoned or closing their doors forever.
This video really hit my wife hard. She grew up across the river in Roxana,IL. She would go to Jamestown Mall to hang out with friends and shop in the early 90’s when she was in high school. She said she even bought her prom dress there. Boy… your video of going back n’ forth between the apocalyptic mall today and what it once was almost made her cry. Plus that Forever Young song just burned it in even further. I wish your generation had the experiences we did. What a time you missed.
Love how you layer the old images of what the mall was against the reality of its decay. It's like seeing ghosts from the past. Great choice of music too! This one hot me in the feels, even without ever stepping foot into this mall. Great work!
I grew up in North County and my childhood was spent in this mall. During the Holiday season, it would be so packed full of people you could hardly move. It makes me so sad to see what has happened to the entire NoCo area over the the years.
What a video man. I can't believe you don't have a lot of subs with this amazing content. You are the pioneer channel of the Proper People. Keep exploring but please be safe. All the best Adam.
That was a really good, immersive video. Especially your first visit! I had this sense of dread the whole time, where the saying goes that you're not afraid of being alone in the dark, but afraid of NOT being alone in the dark. But that said, this was really entertaining too, both visits. I can't wait for your next video!
Thanks for making this. Not all of us drive by without thinking about it. Some of us spent a large part of our youth there in the 70s and 80s and seeing it like this just makes me sad. I guess we really did think we would stay forever young.
This was a really good video. I was afraid for you when you were on that 3rd floor of the long abandoned Dillards. I always enjoy when you intersperse the old pics with the video you took to show the contrast of what that space used to look like as opposed to now. Love your abandoned mall videos. Keep up the great work!
I grew up a few miles from Jamestown Mall. I spent many a Friday and Saturday night there and watched several movies in the theater shown. I drove by the old mall today after having left the area in 2000. While driving by I thought..."what happened?". There was a lot more graffiti on the outside than is seen here. This is a sad ending indeed. Glad you got out safe.
Awesome video. I was there last Fall just to look at the outside. As I walked up to the main entrance, I could hear noises within. That was enough for me to turn away. Terrifying.
I see comments like these all the time on the dead mall videos. Then on the thriving mall videos I see comments like at least some are doing well they aint all closing. Kind of contradicting.
I remember the looooong line inside the mall for the theater when Star Wars came out. Sad part is, the growth they had hoped for came after the mall fell apart.
You really researched this. The last time I went there the furniture store was in the old Stix, so I guess that would have been 2011. It was actually a motel surplus store selling ratty old motel furniture and electronics -old couches, desks, telephones, etc. I'm not surprised they didn't last long. You could already see the mall was on its last legs, so I walked around and explored while I was there. The Stix store was mostly dark and the escalators didn't work. The unused department store cabinets and display cases were still there. The upper level was blocked off and there wasn't any access to the mall. You could look down on the abandoned wing though from the upper stories of Stix and see the empty stores and the wall closing it off from the rest of the mall. Very strange. In the main mall, the fountains were empty and the plants weren't being taken care of. There was an mma gym and the family theater, but I don't remember much else being there. What I do remember is there was no sense of dread around the place then, unlike the huge Northwest Plaza mall before it closed, where you'd walk out of the Sears and into a desolation of never ending, totally empty halls lined with dead stores. One other thing your video made me remember is that Jamestown and Chesterfield both had the same skylights and style of stainless steel sculptures and fountain fixtures. Chesterfield was way more ambitious, but they got rid of their fountains and other 70s/80s design elements when they did their boring redesign. It's all sad, especially for an 80s kid like me, but the economic story of malls in St Louis is just a never ending shifting of deck chairs on the Titanic. The Mills kills Jamestown, and then Chesterfield kills its own mall and the Mills by opening its outlet malls to spite St Charles. There's no happy ending. Jamestown wasn't my mall (I went there in the 70s and 80s with my grandma, played at the arcade and ate at some medieval themed restaurant a few times. I fell asleep watching Return of the Jedi in the movie theater) but I have some good memories there. Anyway thanks for doing it justice. The historic elements you added in were a lot more satisfying than just a walk through the ruins.
I grew up in that area and frequented that mall in my childhood and early teens. Sad but interesting to see it the way it is now. I've been wanting to go explore it myself and a group of my friends but we've been busy. Thanks for sharing!
You are one brave soul … and living proof of what people will do for there art … that is some scary nightmare shit on every level how you navigated your way around any of that is way beyond the imagination can handle … that heap of crap is barely recognisable as a mall … I was so freaked out watching this … I can’t believe you went back !!!! But I thank you for documenting it all for us all to see (comfortably from our lounge rooms ) your channel is by far the best in the dead mall channels on RUclips ..always giving us the rich history of these once thriving places for people to shop and meet now sorry ..sad and down right apocalyptic centres .. I do have one burning question … do you ever have nightmares when you rest your weary head at night ??? I ask this as when I watch few videos in a row I seem to dream about dead malls myself …
You’d be surprised, but I actually don’t have nightmares about the malls too often, if anything I have nightmares about being caught! 😆 thanks for watching!
new here! binged your videos all night and found them pretty fascinating. im in new zealand, we don't really have abandoned malls here that i'm aware of, but what we call plaza's (like mini malls) have become pretty dead. seeing all out abandoned malls in your videos feels like a glimpse into our retail future. luckily things like amazon aren't super big here but online shopping has definitely taken a hit on our malls and that's obvious. the liminal space and eerie vibes in your videos are immaculate. :) keep it up
Thank you so much! I’m glad your enjoying them all! Hope you stick around for the future because I have so much planned for you guys that I know you’ll love, thanks for watching!❤️
I can remember going to the mall my Junior and Senior years of school. I grew up in Jennings and watched River Roads die. Same thing happened here as did RR and NW Plaza. Stores began tailoring to the wrong element in town. Happened here at Jamestown as well.
I don't think I made a visit to Jamestown past 05 or 06 but I don't remember it having the same troubles with youth as RR or NW, I figured it was just too far for most anyone to want to got to.
North C, insane work. A very well put together video, again your use of past/present is superb. I live in this area, I drive to Jamestown probably once every 2 months, but I am never brave enough to step inside. I commend your bravery for our benefit.
Absolutely outstanding video! It’s crazy to see a mall get into this type of condition, and I really hope to get to explore the inside of an abandoned mall like this one day
@@NorthCdogg22 Oh yes, I would love to see Northridge Mall. I live in Rockford, Illinois it's in Milwaukee but it's a long way from me. I would love to see your Northridge mall tour!!! 🤗❤️🤗❤️🤗❤️
My mom and I drove by this summer of 2022 for nostalgia and take dashcam video. This was my mall during high school in the 80s. We took that same route as this video! There was a meeting this past Sept 21, 2022 to vote on what to do with it: Jamestown Green Estates: A set of subdivisions with solar energy, restaurants and retail space along with greenery. Jamestown Village: A populated residential area such as a senior living facility. An agriculture production facility for groups like UMSL, 39 North and Cortex.
Great job with your research. This was my local mall growing up and you had the history down very well. My last visit there was in 2012 and aside from the movie theatre, there wasn't much going on. Sad....
Thanks for so very much for the photos of the mall in it's heyday!!!! I loved seeing the pictures!!!! You did excellent as always!!! Excellent music selections too!!!! Thanks so very much!!!! Take care and stay awesome!!!! 👍🏻😬
So sad. I grew up going to different malls, where I'm at. including the downtown mall that lasted until 1980. The only mall left is in Cherryville, and the stores I used to go are now gone.
Thanks so very much for covering this mall!!!! And thanks so very much for covering the St. Louis Mills Mall!!!! I really love your videos!!!! You do an excellent job and you and Anthony at Ace's Adventures are my favorite dead mall RUclipsrs!!!! I love the music too!!!! I went and put Forever Young by Alphaville in my Apple Music Library!!!! Thanks again so very much for your excellent videos!!!! Take care and stay awesome!!!! 👍🏻😬
This was a great nightmare video. The footage, the editing, the music, the history, the danger was like being in a horror video game. I had to watch it a couple of times because I'd drift off into a weird synth horror dream and have to restart the video. Finally seeing the whole video you did a great job. The nostalgia and horror are real and your video captured that elegantly.
Thanks for the reference to Elephants Foot. Never knew it existed until you mentioned near the beginning. Apropos to the mold saturation you found. Good work on this episode.
I don't live very far from this mall. At the current time, the mall is being demo'ed. They started the demolition back in September. I remember this mall in its heyday it was a very neat mall with lots of stores and it was alive with people. It's sad that these places are dying a slow decaying death. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
What a great video - so interesting!! I love the edits where you were in an abandoned section, then it would show a picture of what the area looked like when the mall was open. It’s crazy how fast nature will take over a building if left deserted.
Really liking your videos, though I do wonder why you didn’t have anyone else around, I would be too terrified to go in here without at least two others
I am a new subscriber tonight hon and that was my first video I’ve watched of yours and you did an excellent job I look forward to watching your other videos❤️
This is the first of your videos I have seen, and wow - great job. I was engrossed and fascinated. You have more courage than I do to go inside that abandoned mall which indeed has an apocalyptic feel to it. I could imagine it inhabited by flesh eating zombies. Similar thing happened in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio to the now demolished Salem Mall, where I spent much time as a teenager. Great memories. I now reside in Virginia near the Tennessee border and the Fort Henry Mall in Kingsport, TN is doing well. Also the Mall at Johnson City, in Johnson City, TN, is very much open and seems to be doing well. Of course, both of those malls are surrounded by businesses and restaurants so I am sure that is a factor. The mall in my town of Bristol, Virginia closed a few years ago, but was bought and is now on the verge of becoming a hotel and conference center with a casino being the big draw. We'll see. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Cheers.
Like you show photos of what it look like before in better times and the decay in now. Outside doesnt look as bad as inside. Brave to try again in another spot. Obviously they gave up trying to secure it.
HA! That was us. And you are right. We were in there for about 6 hours. I wish I would have taken more footage and pics. I was wondering why I didn’t, then I remembered, that place is whack. You have to watch where you are walking and your head. The darkness surrounds you and swallows you, even with 4 flashlights. You get backwards and lost easily. That’s why there are so many holes in the walls, people just started busting through them. I mainly got pics of our “crime scene” aka my sons accident.
11:52 With all the degradation and vandalism* I am honestly surprised at the mirrors not being broken and those wood pillars looking as nice as they are. *Is it still vandalism the right word if no one cares about the property being destroyed? 35:02 I slid down that exact rail almost every time I went to that mall. I still remember when I made it all the way down without falling off. I was waiting for my mom to finish her shopping and I was hanging out with a friend. So many great memories of this place.
The intro lmfao Calm, Soothing music.....with sudden panic and running for ones life. I'm sorry, I lost my mind laughing at that whole circus scene, it happened quickly. The overlays that reflect it's previous life, fading back to the same shot today is just super emotional, the one from the stairs back at your original Chesterfield visit nearly made me fall out of my seat. And I appreciate what you do with the music editing. I've been following this playlist since Episode 1, You're really kicking off good.
@@NorthCdogg22 And Thank You! Your documentation is insanely valuable. I’d buy you a beer if I could. St Louis Mills is my Fav, that design and layout concept was wild out, I really wish I had known about that place and been able to visit it in it’s more successful days. Stay safe out there, I’ll be following along.
@@NorthCdogg22 Consider taking a skilled, smart and trusted friend with you on these types of expeditions man. If something were to happen to you, you NEED someone to be able to go for help calmly without becoming a casualty themselves, because your phone will not always have service in these buildings. And invest in a little drone for areas you cannot safely go into. A brighter flashlight from Fenix or StreamLight isn’t a bad idea either. I did Urbex in the late 90s early 2000s, back before these commodities. If you’re covering your lungs you should probably cover your eyes as well, wild stuff can float in the stagnant air and get in your eyes, I’ve literally seen this happen, gangly infection that got expensive. Sorry to pester you. Have a good evening my friend, from an old Urbex’r to a younger one.
@@DasMoose9001 dude it means a lot you care thank you! I’ll need to make a bit more cash but investing in those, a drone and bringing a friend is a great idea. Who knows that could happen.. Since this video I’ve invested in a better mask and goggles, also my 2000 lumen flashlight which is more than enough for me lol, thank you!
@@NorthCdogg22 Absolutely my friend!! If you can, connect with “The Proper People”, Bryan and Michael are a wealth of information, in fact they visited the Landmark Mall in VA the day before it’s demo started, their video on it is worth the watch. I miss Urbex, I did a 2 week mission through abandoned Detroit with 2 friends. We camped out on the roofs of towers…. Was the wildest place, and honestly saw way too much crazy stuff for a group of teenagers. I envy y’all. I’m watching the chesterfield revisit currently 🤙🏻 I was subbed by S1E3 man, so I’ll be seeing you around! It has been a pleasure chatting with you.
Wow, really crazy to see what has become of Jamestown mall. I grew up in North St.Louis in the 1980's. I use to meet my friends from Jr. high school at that mall every Friday and Saturday night. Jamestown mall was the hang out spot for kinds back in the 1980's. I remember seeing that movie The Goonies at that Wehrenberg movie theater. I think the vandalism and destruction by drug addicts and homelessness is the worse part. And I don't understand why they want to deface and destroy everything. Anyway, I left St.Louis in the fall of 1995. I haven't been to Jamestown Mall in maybe 30 years. Thanks for the video, Stay safe.
murder suicide reference once again a northern films exclusive. your own pace for number 1 of all time. lets see how this finishes.great narration very existential
Hi friend!!! The pic of the food court is actually mine!!! 😊 could you credit me please? I am going to try to direct message you with proof! Thank you for using it!! 😊 super excited to see it!!!
County will do nothing with it, as it has done to other old, historic buildings and structures. They just let them die and fall. If someone else wants to pick up the tab, then you’ll see progress. They have left a lot of old historic buildings just fall apart. If it takes too long, a mysterious fire will happen; which will decr
Hey my friend! When did you go in? We were in there a couple of months ago. In fact I saw some familiar tags. I was wondering because we went in on a similar day and it would have been funny if you heard us talking
Yup! Those “A”s are my sons tags. He had a pretty bad accident right at the escalators. If you would have looked down you would have seen his blood everywhere. We were watching this, he said on the 3rd floor you were close to one of the homeless dens. The cops gave us permission to go in because they had lost a phone and stuff.
If you go back and watch, at the escalators, on the ground is allllll blue. That’s glass. The floor is actually carpet until you get around the escalators, then it’s marble. He hit the marble floor, slid and his face ate shit in the glass. His buddy carried him up the escalators, jumped out the 3rd story window to get help while they called 911. It was bad. Just a little lower and it woulda got his carotid.
I moved to that area in 1982 and was at that wall mall many many times. Last movie I saw there was probably 1989 roadhouse. Wow it has really been destroyed. Obviously not a safe environment. My friend Missouri is a concealed carry state if you have one and are able to carry where you were doing these videos I would advise it. Thanks again. 34:23
Quick question, mate. Those crt tvs in one of the stills at the beginning. Are they still there? I'll make sure they get picked up lbs. Could still be good. I actually make a hobby of collecting old electronics especially dating from the 1980s to mid 2000s. 🙃
I’m not sure, In the deadmalls.com video I know they find a load of crt TVs in one of the old anchors but I’m not sure which one.. if you could find them tho that would be an awesome save!
@@NorthCdogg22 I'll look into it best I can. See what I can do to save them if they're still there. The tubes are still usable if the caps and boards are shot. Finding a new old stock tube, even if the caps and boards are shot, can put new life into a failing unit.
No they are long gone... that picture was back when one of the stores (in the video) resold old hotel crap.. it was worthless back then, even more worthless now (if it was still there).... that shit has been gone for about 10 years.
one of our former high end malls in CA in woodland hills the Promenade was bought over As part of that divestment, the dead mall was sold in March 2022 to an unnamed investor group that was later confirmed to be sports owner and real estate developer Stan Kroenke, with anticipated plans to convert the property into a mixed use development and practice facility for the Los Angeles Rams
My goodness what a Mall in its heyday! 1973. Been remodeled. Just really sad. A beautiful luxury mall. We have Dillard's in Evansville. Just seeing Dillard's after renovation was awesome. Cannot believe it will collapse probably close now in 2024. Really sad.
Great video but as someone who grew up in the area it's been sad and frustrating to watch it deteriorate. So many Pine Wood Derbies, new school clothes shopping trips, movies, quarters spent in Aladdin's Castle. Supposedly the county is gathering money to demolish in hopes that an empty lot will have a better chance in getting a developer but I'm way too sceptical that will happen. I think the big reasons why the area surrounding the mall never developed more was due to location and geography. As you know the area is in the far northwest corner of the county, not really near anything including a highway (367 has only been in it's current form for about 15 years). Also the area is littered with sink holes, so much so it's a wonder what's there (mall and surrounding neighborhoods wise) was even built. At this point I would just prefer it all be torn down and restored to it's natural state. Better to have a nature area or park than this sad and dangerous eyesore.
This is the 2022 version of Rolling Acres, what a mess this place has become. On your next visit to a mall like this, make sure to bring backup. If something happened to you inside, you may not be able to call for help. Be careful out there, we want to keep watching your videos!
I don't think Rolling Acres had a water main break
RTX on
it's literally on fire right now and two firefighters were hurt. solid advice
Rolling Acres similar to this and just as dangerous
Came here to make this same comparison!
The storytelling at the beginning of this episode, with the combination of cinematography and Music Choice was truly special I really appreciate content creators such as yourself that take the time to create such unique and meaningful content in the ever convoluted landscape of meaningless content
man, 10-15 years ago my stepdad would take me to see movies at the jamestown mall. the mall was pretty much abandoned except for the theater, but even now that's completely destroyed. what a bummer. on a brighter note tho, thanks for the video, it brought back lots of good memories and your artistic editing style is super cool.
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There’s a whole lot more to the story. Too bad I didn’t know you was going to do this video. I spent 2.5 years there helping the caretaker keep it secure. The county made us leave in 2018. Jamestown mall tour here on YT was the video I took in 2017. after we left the county sold scrapping rights and it went downhill fast. Too bad they scrapped the giant sculpture in the center court. I tried to get a county sculpture park to take it there but they never responded.
That would’ve been a beautiful preservation, I wish the county would’ve gotten back to you
Was this the statue near the start of that(at the time I visited) walled off hallway that once led to Stix, and later a furniture liquidation store? And it also wasn't too far, from where the movie theater was. If so, I REALLY wish that sculpture could've been preserved. Once visited this mall, and I get the sense it was a much nicer mall back in the day. At least the neon inside the food court still worked, when I visited in(I think) 2014.
That really should have been snatched up by the county for Laurmeier park or at least a home found for it somewhere.
Those sculptures were a bit weird but definitely should have been saved.
doesnt sound like smart move for county
Tem vídeo da época dentro do Jamestown?
Jamestown mall is officially now the new rolling acres with no future and with the mall decaying at a rapid rate. You look at videos from 5 to 6 years ago and the mall almost look intact and now it looks it is going to collapse any second. Great video north!
Thanks!
I was 8yrs old in1980 so I literally grew up in the 1980's and going to malls and arcades was the fun thing to do on the weekends. It's sad to see these once busy and thriving malls abandoned or closing their doors forever.
This video really hit my wife hard. She grew up across the river in Roxana,IL. She would go to Jamestown Mall to hang out with friends and shop in the early 90’s when she was in high school. She said she even bought her prom dress there. Boy… your video of going back n’ forth between the apocalyptic mall today and what it once was almost made her cry. Plus that Forever Young song just burned it in even further. I wish your generation had the experiences we did. What a time you missed.
Love how you layer the old images of what the mall was against the reality of its decay. It's like seeing ghosts from the past. Great choice of music too! This one hot me in the feels, even without ever stepping foot into this mall. Great work!
Thank you so much!
It is devastating kinda sad.
It's sad to see malls abandoned
I grew up in North County and my childhood was spent in this mall. During the Holiday season, it would be so packed full of people you could hardly move. It makes me so sad to see what has happened to the entire NoCo area over the the years.
I grew up down the street from mall.
That Wehrenberg Intro took me back instantly. I grew up in the STL metro, I went to the Jamestown Mall as a young kid, thanks for the nostalgia.
What a video man. I can't believe you don't have a lot of subs with this amazing content. You are the pioneer channel of the Proper People. Keep exploring but please be safe. All the best
Adam.
That was a really good, immersive video. Especially your first visit! I had this sense of dread the whole time, where the saying goes that you're not afraid of being alone in the dark, but afraid of NOT being alone in the dark. But that said, this was really entertaining too, both visits. I can't wait for your next video!
Thank you so much! It was so terrifying😂especially the first time
@@NorthCdogg22 did you ever go on the 4th floor of Dillard’s to see what was left of the restaurant?
@@retroryan838 I wish I would’ve but when I was up there that’s when I heard noises coming from the old restraunts location which spooked me
Thanks for making this. Not all of us drive by without thinking about it. Some of us spent a large part of our youth there in the 70s and 80s and seeing it like this just makes me sad. I guess we really did think we would stay forever young.
This was a really good video. I was afraid for you when you were on that 3rd floor of the long abandoned Dillards. I always enjoy when you intersperse the old pics with the video you took to show the contrast of what that space used to look like as opposed to now. Love your abandoned mall videos. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
I grew up a few miles from Jamestown Mall. I spent many a Friday and Saturday night there and watched several movies in the theater shown. I drove by the old mall today after having left the area in 2000. While driving by I thought..."what happened?". There was a lot more graffiti on the outside than is seen here. This is a sad ending indeed. Glad you got out safe.
Awesome video. I was there last Fall just to look at the outside. As I walked up to the main entrance, I could hear noises within. That was enough for me to turn away. Terrifying.
Sadly, malls are an endangered retail species, and are quickly becoming a thing of the past. The Zombie Apocalypse could be filmed in that mall.
I see comments like these all the time on the dead mall videos. Then on the thriving mall videos I see comments like at least some are doing well they aint all closing. Kind of contradicting.
Oh dear... You're so brave for exploring this abandoned mall I could never do something like this.
I used to shop there, right after it was all built and new. Such a shock to see the mall in this condition. WoW.
I remember the looooong line inside the mall for the theater when Star Wars came out. Sad part is, the growth they had hoped for came after the mall fell apart.
You really researched this. The last time I went there the furniture store was in the old Stix, so I guess that would have been 2011. It was actually a motel surplus store selling ratty old motel furniture and electronics -old couches, desks, telephones, etc. I'm not surprised they didn't last long. You could already see the mall was on its last legs, so I walked around and explored while I was there. The Stix store was mostly dark and the escalators didn't work. The unused department store cabinets and display cases were still there. The upper level was blocked off and there wasn't any access to the mall. You could look down on the abandoned wing though from the upper stories of Stix and see the empty stores and the wall closing it off from the rest of the mall. Very strange. In the main mall, the fountains were empty and the plants weren't being taken care of. There was an mma gym and the family theater, but I don't remember much else being there. What I do remember is there was no sense of dread around the place then, unlike the huge Northwest Plaza mall before it closed, where you'd walk out of the Sears and into a desolation of never ending, totally empty halls lined with dead stores.
One other thing your video made me remember is that Jamestown and Chesterfield both had the same skylights and style of stainless steel sculptures and fountain fixtures. Chesterfield was way more ambitious, but they got rid of their fountains and other 70s/80s design elements when they did their boring redesign. It's all sad, especially for an 80s kid like me, but the economic story of malls in St Louis is just a never ending shifting of deck chairs on the Titanic. The Mills kills Jamestown, and then Chesterfield kills its own mall and the Mills by opening its outlet malls to spite St Charles. There's no happy ending. Jamestown wasn't my mall (I went there in the 70s and 80s with my grandma, played at the arcade and ate at some medieval themed restaurant a few times. I fell asleep watching Return of the Jedi in the movie theater) but I have some good memories there. Anyway thanks for doing it justice. The historic elements you added in were a lot more satisfying than just a walk through the ruins.
I grew up in that area and frequented that mall in my childhood and early teens. Sad but interesting to see it the way it is now. I've been wanting to go explore it myself and a group of my friends but we've been busy. Thanks for sharing!
You are one brave soul … and living proof of what people will do for there art … that is some scary nightmare shit on every level how you navigated your way around any of that is way beyond the imagination can handle … that heap of crap is barely recognisable as a mall … I was so freaked out watching this … I can’t believe you went back !!!! But I thank you for documenting it all for us all to see (comfortably from our lounge rooms ) your channel is by far the best in the dead mall channels on RUclips ..always giving us the rich history of these once thriving places for people to shop and meet now sorry ..sad and down right apocalyptic centres .. I do have one burning question … do you ever have nightmares when you rest your weary head at night ??? I ask this as when I watch few videos in a row I seem to dream about dead malls myself …
You’d be surprised, but I actually don’t have nightmares about the malls too often, if anything I have nightmares about being caught! 😆 thanks for watching!
new here! binged your videos all night and found them pretty fascinating. im in new zealand, we don't really have abandoned malls here that i'm aware of, but what we call plaza's (like mini malls) have become pretty dead. seeing all out abandoned malls in your videos feels like a glimpse into our retail future. luckily things like amazon aren't super big here but online shopping has definitely taken a hit on our malls and that's obvious. the liminal space and eerie vibes in your videos are immaculate. :) keep it up
Thank you so much! I’m glad your enjoying them all! Hope you stick around for the future because I have so much planned for you guys that I know you’ll love, thanks for watching!❤️
I remember being a kid in the late 90s and a car drove straight though the front door of the food court, the mall was pretty packed that day
I feel like that was in the early 00s. I remember the food court being boarded up for a long time (not sure it was ever fixed).
It was a kid went to school that was involved in that ….he wouldn’t talk about it but a lot of ppl knew it was the talk around school
I’m from St. Louis and I would go there as a kid accompanying my sister and older family memebers. It was thriving back then.
This just in: Jamestown mall to be fully demoed. Demolition just started today.
I can remember going to the mall my Junior and Senior years of school. I grew up in Jennings and watched River Roads die. Same thing happened here as did RR and NW Plaza. Stores began tailoring to the wrong element in town. Happened here at Jamestown as well.
I don't think I made a visit to Jamestown past 05 or 06 but I don't remember it having the same troubles with youth as RR or NW, I figured it was just too far for most anyone to want to got to.
If I was in a abandoned mall and I heard something running at me, I would just die of fear
You’re a brave soul to go into the dillards 😳
North C, insane work. A very well put together video, again your use of past/present is superb. I live in this area, I drive to Jamestown probably once every 2 months, but I am never brave enough to step inside. I commend your bravery for our benefit.
Thank you! Yeah it was a really hard move to make going in😂
Absolutely outstanding video! It’s crazy to see a mall get into this type of condition, and I really hope to get to explore the inside of an abandoned mall like this one day
Thank you! And yes it was terrifyingly bizzare! Northridge is my next hope for an abandoned mall lol also thank you for sharing my video!
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Oh yes, I would love to see Northridge Mall. I live in Rockford, Illinois it's in Milwaukee but it's a long way from me. I would love to see your Northridge mall tour!!! 🤗❤️🤗❤️🤗❤️
My mom and I drove by this summer of 2022 for nostalgia and take dashcam video. This was my mall during high school in the 80s. We took that same route as this video! There was a meeting this past Sept 21, 2022 to vote on what to do with it: Jamestown Green Estates: A set of subdivisions with solar energy, restaurants and retail space along with greenery. Jamestown Village: A populated residential area such as a senior living facility. An agriculture production facility for groups like UMSL, 39 North and Cortex.
Great job with your research. This was my local mall growing up and you had the history down very well. My last visit there was in 2012 and aside from the movie theatre, there wasn't much going on. Sad....
The restaurant at Stix Baer and Fuller was amazing . On my honeymoon, my new wife and I stopped there on our way west. Incredible experience.
This was great! Music was spot on!
One of your best videos man! I came back to it to watch it once again.
Thanks for so very much for the photos of the mall in it's heyday!!!! I loved seeing the pictures!!!!
You did excellent as always!!! Excellent music selections too!!!!
Thanks so very much!!!! Take care and stay awesome!!!! 👍🏻😬
So sad. I grew up going to different malls, where I'm at. including the downtown mall that lasted until 1980. The only mall left is in Cherryville, and the stores I used to go are now gone.
Fantastic work, man! This was quite immersive, the time flew by.
Thanks!
Thanks so very much for covering this mall!!!! And thanks so very much for covering the St. Louis Mills Mall!!!! I really love your videos!!!! You do an excellent job and you and Anthony at Ace's Adventures are my favorite dead mall RUclipsrs!!!!
I love the music too!!!! I went and put Forever Young by Alphaville in my Apple Music Library!!!!
Thanks again so very much for your excellent videos!!!! Take care and stay awesome!!!! 👍🏻😬
This was a great nightmare video. The footage, the editing, the music, the history, the danger was like being in a horror video game. I had to watch it a couple of times because I'd drift off into a weird synth horror dream and have to restart the video. Finally seeing the whole video you did a great job. The nostalgia and horror are real and your video captured that elegantly.
Thanks for the reference to Elephants Foot. Never knew it existed until you mentioned near the beginning. Apropos to the mold saturation you found. Good work on this episode.
I don't live very far from this mall. At the current time, the mall is being demo'ed. They started the demolition back in September. I remember this mall in its heyday it was a very neat mall with lots of stores and it was alive with people. It's sad that these places are dying a slow decaying death. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
It's weird to see a mall I visited as a kid with my Dad in tatters. The funny thing is St. Louis Mills mall is also a dead mall.
I have a video about that mall on my channel also lol
What a great video - so interesting!! I love the edits where you were in an abandoned section, then it would show a picture of what the area looked like when the mall was open. It’s crazy how fast nature will take over a building if left deserted.
Almost pure hype....big ol' abandoned shopping mall. "That's really scary, huh, kids?!"
Really liking your videos, though I do wonder why you didn’t have anyone else around, I would be too terrified to go in here without at least two others
Sheer awe and spectacle make a person like me stupid🤷♂️
Great video. The intro on this video was fantastic. Thanks for filming.
love your music selection, very different!! 👍👍
It's the mall music that makes this absolutely perfect. 👌 Really eerie.
So sad seeing this once-beautiful mall go the same route as Rolling Acres did in 2008.
I am a new subscriber tonight hon and that was my first video I’ve watched of yours and you did an excellent job I look forward to watching your other videos❤️
I feel like I'm asphyxiating while just watching this. It gives new meaning to the word "putrefied".
Excellent, absolutely the greatest. The Dead Mall King does it again.
This is the first of your videos I have seen, and wow - great job. I was engrossed and fascinated. You have more courage than I do to go inside that abandoned mall which indeed has an apocalyptic feel to it. I could imagine it inhabited by flesh eating zombies. Similar thing happened in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio to the now demolished Salem Mall, where I spent much time as a teenager. Great memories. I now reside in Virginia near the Tennessee border and the Fort Henry Mall in Kingsport, TN is doing well. Also the Mall at Johnson City, in Johnson City, TN, is very much open and seems to be doing well. Of course, both of those malls are surrounded by businesses and restaurants so I am sure that is a factor. The mall in my town of Bristol, Virginia closed a few years ago, but was bought and is now on the verge of becoming a hotel and conference center with a casino being the big draw. We'll see. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Cheers.
Like you show photos of what it look like before in better times and the decay in now. Outside doesnt look as bad as inside. Brave to try again in another spot. Obviously they gave up trying to secure it.
Those voices you heard in Dillard's were probably other urban explorers. It was such a wreck I doubt skells would be living there.
Honestly your probably right, the first day I went there was another car parked in a loading bay nearby so that would make sense
That car! Was it a gray car?!
I parked there to kinda “hide”
@@suziecollum1893 it was
HA! That was us. And you are right. We were in there for about 6 hours. I wish I would have taken more footage and pics. I was wondering why I didn’t, then I remembered, that place is whack. You have to watch where you are walking and your head. The darkness surrounds you and swallows you, even with 4 flashlights. You get backwards and lost easily. That’s why there are so many holes in the walls, people just started busting through them.
I mainly got pics of our “crime scene” aka my sons accident.
Not the first video on this mall i have seen, but certainly the best documented. Loved those old photos !
11:52 With all the degradation and vandalism* I am honestly surprised at the mirrors not being broken and those wood pillars looking as nice as they are.
*Is it still vandalism the right word if no one cares about the property being destroyed?
35:02 I slid down that exact rail almost every time I went to that mall. I still remember when I made it all the way down without falling off. I was waiting for my mom to finish her shopping and I was hanging out with a friend. So many great memories of this place.
The intro lmfao
Calm, Soothing music.....with sudden panic and running for ones life.
I'm sorry, I lost my mind laughing at that whole circus scene, it happened quickly.
The overlays that reflect it's previous life, fading back to the same shot today is just super emotional, the one from the stairs back at your original Chesterfield visit nearly made me fall out of my seat.
And I appreciate what you do with the music editing.
I've been following this playlist since Episode 1, You're really kicking off good.
Thank you!
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And Thank You!
Your documentation is insanely valuable.
I’d buy you a beer if I could.
St Louis Mills is my Fav, that design and layout concept was wild out, I really wish I had known about that place and been able to visit it in it’s more successful days.
Stay safe out there, I’ll be following along.
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Consider taking a skilled, smart and trusted friend with you on these types of expeditions man.
If something were to happen to you, you NEED someone to be able to go for help calmly without becoming a casualty themselves, because your phone will not always have service in these buildings.
And invest in a little drone for areas you cannot safely go into.
A brighter flashlight from Fenix or StreamLight isn’t a bad idea either.
I did Urbex in the late 90s early 2000s, back before these commodities.
If you’re covering your lungs you should probably cover your eyes as well, wild stuff can float in the stagnant air and get in your eyes, I’ve literally seen this happen, gangly infection that got expensive.
Sorry to pester you.
Have a good evening my friend, from an old Urbex’r to a younger one.
@@DasMoose9001 dude it means a lot you care thank you! I’ll need to make a bit more cash but investing in those, a drone and bringing a friend is a great idea. Who knows that could happen..
Since this video I’ve invested in a better mask and goggles, also my 2000 lumen flashlight which is more than enough for me lol, thank you!
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Absolutely my friend!!
If you can, connect with “The Proper People”, Bryan and Michael are a wealth of information, in fact they visited the Landmark Mall in VA the day before it’s demo started, their video on it is worth the watch.
I miss Urbex, I did a 2 week mission through abandoned Detroit with 2 friends.
We camped out on the roofs of towers….
Was the wildest place, and honestly saw way too much crazy stuff for a group of teenagers.
I envy y’all.
I’m watching the chesterfield revisit currently 🤙🏻
I was subbed by S1E3 man, so I’ll be seeing you around!
It has been a pleasure chatting with you.
Nice history of the mall.
FANTASTC!!! Nice work! A good time! Thank you!
I wonder if you heard ghost in that department store. Scary neat
Great video here mate love the old stores and all the retro vibes of this place .big up from London
Wow, really crazy to see what has become of Jamestown mall. I grew up in North St.Louis in the 1980's. I use to meet my friends from Jr. high school at that mall every Friday and Saturday night. Jamestown mall was the hang out spot for kinds back in the 1980's. I remember seeing that movie The Goonies at that Wehrenberg movie theater.
I think the vandalism and destruction by drug addicts and homelessness is the worse part. And I don't understand why they want to deface and destroy everything. Anyway, I left St.Louis in the fall of 1995. I haven't been to Jamestown Mall in maybe 30 years. Thanks for the video, Stay safe.
I used to go here as a child we would get our family pictures done at the Sears there
Love your channel! But the eerie liminal spaces and decay make me realize all over again we're all slowly dying
murder suicide reference once again a northern films exclusive. your own pace for number 1 of all time. lets see how this finishes.great narration very existential
Always come back to this video. It’s a masterpiece
Awesome Video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Nice video! Really enjoyed it!
Hi friend!!! The pic of the food court is actually mine!!! 😊 could you credit me please? I am going to try to direct message you with proof! Thank you for using it!! 😊 super excited to see it!!!
I often wonder if this is what will become of south county mall some day as well.
I’m surprised South County has made it this long.
oh well bronze medalist this week. Unexpected circumstance
Spent my teen years in this mall. Sad to see it like this.
You can see Jamestown Mall in 1989 in the book 'Malls Across America' by Michael Galinsky.
Holy shit!! So creepy yet so cool!
County will do nothing with it, as it has done to other old, historic buildings and structures. They just let them die and fall. If someone else wants to pick up the tab, then you’ll see progress. They have left a lot of old historic buildings just fall apart. If it takes too long, a mysterious fire will happen; which will decr
18:19 props to the photographer for capturing a photo of this mall, ft. a dude with a KICK ME sign on his back
Story feels like being on death row…😮😢 nice commentary 😊
Hey my friend! When did you go in? We were in there a couple of months ago. In fact I saw some familiar tags. I was wondering because we went in on a similar day and it would have been funny if you heard us talking
That would be crazy if it was you lol, I forget what week exaclty but it was near the end of February
Yup! Those “A”s are my sons tags. He had a pretty bad accident right at the escalators. If you would have looked down you would have seen his blood everywhere. We were watching this, he said on the 3rd floor you were close to one of the homeless dens. The cops gave us permission to go in because they had lost a phone and stuff.
It was about January 13 when we were in there.
Yes. We were in Dillards. My son had an accident right at the escalators
If you go back and watch, at the escalators, on the ground is allllll blue. That’s glass. The floor is actually carpet until you get around the escalators, then it’s marble. He hit the marble floor, slid and his face ate shit in the glass. His buddy carried him up the escalators, jumped out the 3rd story window to get help while they called 911. It was bad. Just a little lower and it woulda got his carotid.
really high quality video, your narration is top notch, keep it up!
too much to comment on in one viewing...your longest to date thanks for day 2's effort
Amazing job
Love the retail music.
The perfect place for a haunted house!!
I moved to that area in 1982 and was at that wall mall many many times. Last movie I saw there was probably 1989 roadhouse. Wow it has really been destroyed. Obviously not a safe environment. My friend Missouri is a concealed carry state if you have one and are able to carry where you were doing these videos I would advise it. Thanks again. 34:23
God that place sure has taken a beating
I watched this vid under our Pizza Man account, and this one also, Liked
Oh so that was you😂 thank you!
@@NorthCdogg22 absolutely 👍👍😊
Quick question, mate. Those crt tvs in one of the stills at the beginning. Are they still there? I'll make sure they get picked up lbs. Could still be good. I actually make a hobby of collecting old electronics especially dating from the 1980s to mid 2000s. 🙃
I’m not sure, In the deadmalls.com video I know they find a load of crt TVs in one of the old anchors but I’m not sure which one.. if you could find them tho that would be an awesome save!
@@NorthCdogg22 I'll look into it best I can. See what I can do to save them if they're still there. The tubes are still usable if the caps and boards are shot. Finding a new old stock tube, even if the caps and boards are shot, can put new life into a failing unit.
We searched pretty hard core around there. Everything was destroyed and what wasn’t was succumb to the elements.
@@suziecollum1893 Thank you. I appreciate the info.
No they are long gone... that picture was back when one of the stores (in the video) resold old hotel crap.. it was worthless back then, even more worthless now (if it was still there).... that shit has been gone for about 10 years.
one of our former high end malls in CA in woodland hills the Promenade was bought over As part of that divestment, the dead mall was sold in March 2022 to an unnamed investor group that was later confirmed to be sports owner and real estate developer Stan Kroenke, with anticipated plans to convert the property into a mixed use development and practice facility for the Los Angeles Rams
My goodness what a Mall in its heyday! 1973. Been remodeled. Just really sad. A beautiful luxury mall. We have Dillard's in Evansville. Just seeing Dillard's after renovation was awesome. Cannot believe it will collapse probably close now in 2024. Really sad.
Oh my goodness. That Wehrenberg song…😢
Great video but as someone who grew up in the area it's been sad and frustrating to watch it deteriorate. So many Pine Wood Derbies, new school clothes shopping trips, movies, quarters spent in Aladdin's Castle.
Supposedly the county is gathering money to demolish in hopes that an empty lot will have a better chance in getting a developer but I'm way too sceptical that will happen.
I think the big reasons why the area surrounding the mall never developed more was due to location and geography. As you know the area is in the far northwest corner of the county, not really near anything including a highway (367 has only been in it's current form for about 15 years). Also the area is littered with sink holes, so much so it's a wonder what's there (mall and surrounding neighborhoods wise) was even built.
At this point I would just prefer it all be torn down and restored to it's natural state. Better to have a nature area or park than this sad and dangerous eyesore.
Really great channel
Thank you!
That mall cought fire like 2 months ago.
You did this alone? You are brave!!
This is by far the scariest dead mall I've seen
Omg the first half of the video was soo scary! Being chased by someone ... urgh! Stuff of nightmares right there.