Exploring the Abandoned Richland Mall - 80s in Decay
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
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In this episode we're exploring the Richland Fashion Mall. Opened in 1988, the Richland Mall was struggling from the beginning with vacant anchors and only half of the retail space leased. The mall remained open while mostly empty until 2022 and demolition began in 2024.
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0:00 Intro
2:41 Sponsored Message
4:22 Parisian Anchor
9:38 Parisian Concourse
10:45 Food Court
13:12 Mall Concourse
21:07 Cinema
24:09 Main Atrium
28:45 Office Space Conversion
35:44 Dillards Concourse
37:57 Dillards Anchor
43:16 Mall Concourse
51:12 Outro 
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It's so weird seeing things like "wifi" and "like us on facebook" in a building that is starting to rot and fall apart due to being abandoned.
Just last year the barnes and noble was still open. I live like 4 minutes from this and my wife went here all the time as a kid. They are in the process of starting to tear it all down and develop something new here, but i forgot the details.
Hopefully Facebook is right behind them lol
@@MSGsTreasureswow. Interesting.
@@MSGsTreasuresthe details were given at the end. Restaurants, apartments, supermarkets, and green space
@Scoobis925 yeah I watched the whole thing, jumped the gun a little lol
That intro was awesome!! 😄
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I had a bunch of those panasonic green and black SVHS cassette tapes back in the day!
Best freaking intro off any video that I've seen in a good ol minute!!
Yall have no idea how much this means to me! This is in my hometown and since my husband and I are in the military I have not been home in awhile. I remember going to this mall with my grandmother who is no longer alive. My father and I spent many hours at the Barnes and noble. I saw many movies there in college. It was emotional to see this. Thank you so much 🫡🥹
And now it's mostly gone.. they started demolition in May 😢 I'm going to try to sneak over there and grab a chunk of something as a keepsake.
Same!!!! I just went to the b&n last Christmas to get gifts for my cousins kids. This is so so surreal!!! I screamed at the animatronic bear orchestra being uncovered 😭😭 they STILL MAKE ME JUST AS FREAKED OUT AS THEY DID WHEN I WAS A KID!!!
The fact that they went out of their way to cover up all those high ceilings and natural light in the converted office space makes it extra depressing
I went to a Baskin Robbins that I had gone to in my childhood back in the 1970s. The place originally had a very open ceiling, but they put a drop ceiling in it and it just made it depressing.
This keeps happening in dying malls too, even when they aren't converted to offices. I wonder if it's an attempt to reduce energy costs from heating and cooling? Either way, it detracts from the appeal of the space.
Cheaper to AC or heat. Profit over employees wellbeing always
@@bentucker2301 That's exactly why they did that
Mate that intro was probably an absolute pain in the ass but the result is spectacular. Bryan and Michael lots of appreciation for your dedication to content,from Australia
It's cool that y'all, all the way across the pond, got to see something from my hometown. Love to Australia
VHS, light buzz sound, moist carpet.. welcome to the backroom
Yeah… I really like abandoned malls that just give off that vibe. It seems calming almost
@@My_Random_Brainamen.
Sort of a helpless calm, like when you sprint all the way out to the road, & look both ways but realize they're gone, you're alone.
they *actually left without you*
Like "welp, might as well look around while I wait to die" type of calm.
Why do backrooms always have that buzzing sound?
"huh weird I don't remember my basement having this hallway"
@@christiangonzales7429the ballast is what runs fluorescent lamps and commonly buzzes during operation
I have to be in the right mood to watch these because the emptiness of such once lively & occupied places reminds me of being at a funeral. It's this sadness at what has been lost to time.
Especially for an 80s kids like me; so many of my happy memories are at the mall!
@@ttintagel
I'm more of a 90s kids but we still hung out at malls. I know it's just progress & how things change with time but there's just something about all that empty space & all the energy that went into creating it that isn't there anymore.
I get the same feeling watching where they explore old abandoned once-beautiful homes.
People had lives here, I just imagine the employees coming in hating their lives. The people walking by the stores wanting something they'll never buy. Celebrating a special occasion at the buffet all these memories that energy of 1000's of people's life's now still in quiet
@ashleybrooke2087 I agree, very saddening to see what was once a super popular mall now become probably unusable, i bet this mall made a ton of kids/adults holiday even better, sad sight to see
As someone who suffered from mold toxicity this video was extremely triggering! Mold will wreak havoc on your health even if only exposed for a short amount of time. You guys should wear protective gear, it can take years to recover from mold toxicity.
The animatronic bears were a whole little orchestra they would put out at Christmas and they would play like every 30 min, and each cycle was a good length of time.
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And now they look like 12 Nights of Christmas at Freddy's
I screamed when they uncovered those!!! WHAT MEMORIES!
I found them in a news article, looks like @TheProperPeople discovered The Leonard Bernstein Symphony Orchestra.
What a trip. Used to go here in high school for movies, Barnes and Nobles, and Christmas tree lighting each year. That was about 12 years ago now
The locked room in the VZ call center with the Hazardous markings would have been a large UPS location to supply backup power to the call floor. Having a call center go down on customers creates more issues for customer perception so it is cheaper to power the call floor itself.
The numbers on the hazard diamond match one for sulfuric acid, per an MSDS for sealed lead acid batteries - the type used in a typical UPS system - so I'd say that tracks.
It's interesting to see the rate at which a complex deteriorates once abandoned. It gives you an idea of how expensive and time consuming it would be to maintain such a huge complex for decades while it is open. Locating leaks, roof repairs, painting, etc.
I imagine that's why the a/c systems are left on 24/7 to reduce the amount of moisture within the complex and prevent mold and mildew building up.
Great video!
The building maintenance costs of malls makes store leases too expensive. With SC's hot summers air conditioning alone would kill you with all the glass letting the warming sun in.
This mall was falling apart before the closed, most malls are. Leaky roofs were the biggest killers of malls before they stared dying off.
Hard to believe the theater was still in operation just a few months before this video. I actually live not far from this mall, and it's sad to see how bad of a shape it's in.
How long is a few months? It seems so decrepit for that length of time, that's really shocking it got to that state so quickly but I suppose if you leave somewhere with moisture, air and time it doesn't take long for mould to grow like that.
they really underestimated how much ppl don't want to be around ppl. The mall in my hometown is still going for now, but, as kids, we were really the only ones there. People only went for stores that could only be found there, but those died out too. Other than that, teens met up there as it was an easy way to avoid questions by parents. JCP, Sears, Hollister, American Eagle; all can be ordered online, usually cheaper now.. fun idea, but not viable anymore.
Yeah I haven’t been in the mall for a few years but it is shocking to see it now or at least when this was filmed. LensCrafters was in there just a few years ago
@combatwombat2134 not even 6 months ago, there was an operational Barnes and Noble, the only one for over half an hour's drive on a good day. Now they've moved about 5 miles down the road to a completely different shopping center.
@@gmsloep Jesus... That's alarming. It really doesn't take long at all; that leaking water has really, really screwed the place up.
For those who don't know. Richland Fashion Mall is now mostly torn down. I live in the area and drive by it everyday. It's being torn down and being replaced with a mixed used complex of Shopping and Apartments.
Do I know you?
I drove by it the other day. It's looking sad. I was 2 when this mall opened.
It's probably what the did down here in Florida.. tore down a mall and built one of them drive malls, got a parking lot but there's no big mall like this. You'd have to walk across the street to see the other building or if you can get a parking spot in front of the place you want to see.
Basically they are tearing down the mall to put in another structure for stores that will be similar to the original open mall feeling back when s&s cafeteria was there. Crazy how it comes full circle.
😂 So American it's funny! Mall life or van life? Both please! 😊
I have been watching y'alls videos religiously for years, and am always in awe with the level of detail and albeit charm put into these videos. But the icing on the cake for me will always be the music. I dont know where y'all find it or its original, but it never fails to always meet the atmosphere of every location. Kudos on another fantastic piece of abandonment.
It reminds me of a word I first learned from another urban explorer, Jon Revelle -- obsolescence. We build these huge structures with the idea that they will last forever or at least for an age, but they fall into disuse and quickly become irrelevant. It's a clear lesson about the passage of time and the utter temporariness of everything.
Who knew the younger generations would be afraid to leave the apartment or house?
Its funny, cause we still have dozens of big malls here where I live, dating back to the 70's, and they just keep on renovating them for the times. We're probably still the mall capital per capita of people, in the world, even 20 years later.😅
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I miss Dan Bell . You all are keeping this history going. Thank you.
Remember, everything is temporary if you give it enough time......
I’ve lived in Columbia since 2016 and remember walking through this mall before they closed most of it off to the public and before it got so vandalized. I’m glad y’all came and documented it before they demolished it. Loved seeing the areas I’ve hadn’t seen before!
25:57 A chair just chillin' _and_ Christmas decorations in one spot.
Wow, that cubicle hell with the cliche motivational quotes all over the walls - what a depressing place to show up to every day. "Cubicle 2333, why aren't you at your post?!!"
Why are you commenting on RUclips videos? Where are your TPS reports?!!
You would have thought that office with the cubicles was run by Lumburgh.
There's no way it was one single call center with that many cubicles.
I can practically picture that office being active, the low talking sounds, phones ringing, and the overall feeling of tension and depression. Is it 5:00 yet? Oh, it's only 2:54, oh well it's break soon at least.
looks like something Budget Cuts VR would have gotten inspiration from or something....
I used to walk with my grandparents around the mall and we would get to go to the bottom floor to dollar tree and get the grab bags. Good memories at that place. Makes me miss my grandfather a lot.
That original food court looked nice
It was a huge downgrade going from that one to the new one. Most people hated the changes and kind of knew that it was the beginning of the end for the mall
@@alantherock225 If you want to breathe new life into a mall, downgrading things seems like a dumb way to go.
It was. I grew up with this mall in the early 90s. I think the last time I went to the theater there was 2015 or 16. and I went to Belk several times before they closed. The original food court, for me as a kid, was fantastic. There was a really great sit-down German restaurant. All of the mobile sculptures hanging from the ceiling going at once in the skylight area were so cool.
@@andrewwhite5194 There was an arcade at the original food court as well. That's what I missed the most as a kid.
Always find the Mall Management, Maintenance/Janitorial and Security offices. Sometimes you can find some interesting things there in regards to the Malls history.
The curtain in front of the movie screen used to be the norm. All movie theaters used to do it. It would split down the middle and pull back to both sides or it would raise up into the ceiling. I don't know why or when they stopped doing it but I remember it well from being a kid in the 80s. I also remember there being just curtains on the edges and they would be in one spot for the previews then when the movie started they would pull back further. And then the curtains just went away completely.
More equipment to maintain lol. Honest answer. Cost cuts, probably. Many theaters run very low margins, and they're already relying on that $10 popcorn.
I had completely forgotten about the big curtain reveal.
Much more than the primary colors and neon of stranger things, this sort of bluish green and bright brass with the soft pink accents is what I think of when I remember 80s design. Cool that you got to document it!
Agreed! Teal + light pink + brass is quintessential 80s in my mind, it was everywhere when I was growing up in the 90s.
Yeah it really peaked from 1987-1993.
I could literally cry. It's like all of my hopes for seeing everything about this mall have finally been answered! It's been over a decade since I first discovered this place and I've been extremely intrigued about it ever since. I never thought I'd get to see anything of the original food court (either vintage photos or what it looks like today), but you guys made the impossible come to fruition. Thank you so much! I thought no one would be able to top Sal's video back in 2020, but this is the true ultimate Richland Fashion Mall adventure. You guys covered every nook and cranny of this place. I can't thank you enough! This feels like a proper complete farewell to this extremely interesting, yet cursed piece of Columbia, SC retail history.
The nice light buzzing of lights, the blank white walls in areas, you're like 2 steps from a liminal space.
Also, I'm gonna count that messed up Gingerbread man as a a tally for Christmas decorations yall normally look for haha.
42:42 This is very high risk for legionnaires disease. Be careful in these situations, that's a very old and clearly unmaintained chiller system.
They're not careful. You can hear how heavy they were breathing in the moldy JackSons buffet without masks or respiratory equipment 😂😢
They never wear respirators anymore man, it sucks
I've seen a few of these videos and I'm wondering why they don't take precautions for these sorts of things. Got to adventure safely.
@@ryatt1 YOLO
After surviving my last apartment, I am convinced I am immune to almost anything.
In 1988 I was 22 years old. You wouldn’t believe how great of a time it was. The mall reflected America and the country was booming. You went there for everything. When you began dating your girlfriend it’s off to the mall for shopping, dinner and a movie. Then you bought an engagement ring at the jewelry store. It’s depressing what has happened. It’s not the country I remember.
@@map3384 um. Get a life?
REASON IS DEMOCRATS
GOP WAS IN RULING POWER IN 1988
ECONOMY ALWAYS EXPAND WHEN GOP IN RULING POWER
TRUMP 2024 OR ELSE
@@JohnRohoboth Keep spreading the cheer there, Mr. Happy!
🎉🤗
im 16 rn, you are (roughly) around the age of my paternal grandparents, maybe a few years younger. it makes me sad to know i will never experience the world they talk about, and that none of my relatives understand how depressing and hard it is these days. i wish id got to experience the malls of the 80s, and the wealth and prospects everyone felt were guaranteed with a little elbow grease- it just feels so hollow and pointless nowadays, and theres no one to turn to for advice cos no one gets it. glad to see some of your generation understand just how different our lives are nowadays :/
@@JohnRohoboth I have more of a life than you do.
I thought this looked familiar! My wife and I lived in Columbia, SC for 6 months in 2019. We visited here when there was just a few stores open still. Crazy how much more rundown it looks now. Excited to watch this whole video!
I USED TO GO TO THIS MALL! I CANT BELIEVE YOU CAME TO MY HOMETOWN!
That was a sick transition from the intro to title theme
@@jakespeaks6095 transitions won't be the only sick thing, so will they
@@vidmasterK1 Why?
@@AJ-vi4nl they don't wear masks or respirators when walking through all those moldy mildew areas
was looking up those “___ but it’s in an abandoned mall” videos and found this..
this was the mall my grandma took me to play at as a kid about fifteen years ago & this place was still nice but definitely a ghost town then. i now live across the country and it’s absolutely crazy to see one of my favorite childhood memories in such a decrepit state
Wow, you guys! That intro was magic. I had so many memories come up when watching that, even though I've never stood foot into that building before. The classic shades of pink, teal and gold combo! I can only imagine how regal everything would have looked with the lighting. Its bittersweet to think about how the 80's-00's used to be so community based. Holidays, celebrations, fashion shows, time capsules, you name it; I even remember entering every colouring contests I could get my hands on when I was a kid... and for it to slowly fall apart and have it filled with cubicles, florescent lighting, covered windows and skylights creating a depressing grey abyss. Its heartbreaking... and makes you think...
My wife works across the road from the now almost completely demoed mall. She said that when the work started, people asked if they could park in her work establishment's parking lot, just to observe the mall being tore down. That makes me think that they had alot of memories there...or they just found destruction of the building interesting. Back when Barns And Noble was in operation there, we walked in and looked around, eventually making our way to the back of the store with this glass wall, and metal door type thing. I recall the smell at that door not being very pleasant. I also remember there being 2 or 3 cars being on the other side (mall side of course) of the glass wall. They looked like dirt track cars to me. I wonder what happened to them? 🤔...probably junked. Any any rate, I never went into this mall (as far as i can remember)...other than the time i went into the book store with my wife. I always ended up Columbiana Mall, off Harbison. Richland Mall seemed a bit more classier to me. More sophisticated, due to ceiling designs, lighting arrangements, and all the glass for skylights, and certain entrance points from the roof top parking. I bet that food court with the glass walls and ceiling was LEGIT back in the malls prime. Certainly something to experience. But...I tell you one thing. That call center was DEPRESSING. It's a textbook example of what a call center would look like. Cubicles everywhere. Not a window in sight. Stereotypical office lighting. RIP to the mall. But not that call center 😅.
Used to do mold removals. When you guys walked into this area, my chest tightened a bit. I would recommend a respirator, bros. 42:00
Awesome to see a local exploration here in Columbia! Would love to see more SC explorations.
Surprised it closed because there ain't $_!t do do in Columbia.
Very cool intro! One of my favorite things that you guys do is tell the history of the places you explore, and that took it up a notch! I also had to look into that time capsule and luckily it sounds like it will be reburied in the park that will be built in that area.
As a young chap in the 60's, the closest thing to a "mall" then was the Sears & Roebuck Dept. store. They sold everything from eye glasses to Ted William's shotguns and rifles. You could even pay your light and phone bill while you were there. My dad was a minister and thusly we moved around a good bit. In the early 70's, he pastored a church in Livonia MI. They had an actual Mall there. Their "anchor" stores were, of course, a large Sears and a smaller J.C Penney. What fascinated my, 11 or 12 year old self, were all of the smaller stores that was in between them, under one roof.
My first memory is of my parents holding my hands and walking me through a Sears to go have my Christmas picture taken. This would have been in 1995 or 1996. I also remember going with my Dad to get his tires fixed at the Sears auto center. Sad to think about how it isn’t around anymore.
That is awesome!! I loved sears before it closed, i specifically remember my grandma taking me there to go buy swimming gear for the long summers off school! I loved their ceiling fan display and their old Sears Kenmore/Lady Kenmore washing machines
I visited this mall in 2018, my wife needed to visit a glasses store. It was dark and mostly abandoned already. Funny coincidence about your sponsor, we also used MyHeritageDNA tests that year to see our own heritage. It was interesting and we've enjoyed the conversations that resulted from it.
Actually, I think I can give this mall credit for me eventually finding your channel. I was intrigued by it and started watching Dan Bell's dead mall videos. That linked my youtube to recommend The Proper People.
The bears were part of the Leonard beartsein symphony orchestra. They had arm, mouth, and head movements, they performed at the Milwaukee grand avenue mall from 1999-2017. I hope this was helpful.
This really hits me in the feels considering my own local mall, the Charleston Town Center mall in Charleston WV, has been being slowly demolished. The core of the mall is still there but the two anchor stores of Sears and JC Penny were demolished with the latter in the last month.
You guys are always stretching it a bit - I appreciated the use of the original promo, slipping right into your intro. Nice. As a former mall rat, I was surprised by the rooftop parking and that a mall of that size had unknown anchor tenants. This was a great way to kick off the weekend, thanks!
What do you mean by stretching it a bit?
Those weren't really unknown department stores in the South... JB White's was really big, as was Dillards and Belk.
@@andrewwhite5194 They're probably referring to Bonwit Teller and Parisian. No one in the South ever heard of Bonwit. Parisian was unfamiliar to most people outside of Alabama before the 90s and Dillard's was unfamiliar to the Southeast before the 90s. J.B. White (and later Belk) was the figurative AND literal centerpiece of this mall and the only department store that was well known in the state at the time. If it wasn't for that store, this mall would've never seen even the small ounce of success it ever saw.
They dug up the time capsule and relocated it to a more, suitable location. IIRC, they are going to build a new community.
I thought the time capsule was a bit optimistic, given the circumstances, but at lest it was moved.
I have lived in columbia sc since 1985. I have worked, shopped, and hung out in this mall. I remember the old food court. It was depressing to see that we lost that beautiful, big, bright food court for such a horrific office space. Thanks so much for covering this! My husband and i were saying how much we hoped yall would!
Man, I miss the 1980s/90s aesthetic
So do I. Much better than the modern boring, bland, cold, sterile, soulless look.
@@jscountrygirl85_326 A sign of the times. 80's-90's was vibrant and peak civilization. Now squandered and shit.
Agreed. Can't stand how everything is grey now
And the malls from the 70s with their water features and planters were equally amazing.
@@cris_261 Some of the malls we went to regularly still had planters and fountains well into the 90s and early 2000s. I loved them and miss them! The mid-late 2000s is when a lot of malls started renovating into the ugly modern look.
Richland Mall was never a super busy mall. It is where all the "mall walkers" went so they could do laps without too many crowds. It only ever got busy around the holidays. Columbia Mall saw a lot more traffic, especially with the younger crowd. Columbiana Mall is still doing pretty good.
As hot as it gets here, I wish indoor shopping malls weren't on the way out.
I live near here! This is my mall! I was last here in 2022, and it's facinating to see how fast things decay in just 2 years. They stopped actively maintaining the place a few years before covid, like they cleaned things and kept the elevator working but when lights went out they'd wait to put a new one in for months. Covid was just the nail in the coffin.
The china max you saw, I don't remember ever being open, so it must've closed down before 2011 when I first visited. You should have tried using the elevator, the bell makes the most forlorn ding. I never knew the display cases near the front used to be stores, so much space back there. That hazard diamond you saw, if it is to be believed, means "extreme danger: health hazard", and based on the rest of the building, probably black mold. Be glad you couldn't open the door. Those verizon offices are straight up just the backrooms. That mold in dillards looks like its dissolving the mall. Pretty sad, and also understandable why they've decided to just demolish the whole thing. Thank you for this video.
I used to frequent that mall at least once a month in the 90s and 00s. The Barnes and Noble, a sports memorabilia store that had Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments in the back. So many memories. It's sad to see it now.
Thumbnail has some serious Rolling Giant energy
facts
I legitimately thought this was part of that series from the thumbnail.
The Rolling Ginger
Nothing beats a well done dead mall video. Well done gentlemen!
I went here as a teenager back in the day! Moved, decades later came back around 2013 and it was sad spooky. Much love Columbia.
Malls were such a staple of my childhood and teenage years. It's incredible to watch them all just...fall down now.
Makes my day every time a notification pops up for a new video :)
They should convert old abandoned malls into retirement homes for Gen X and Millennial's. Keep the food court, arcade, theater and cvs or something and turn the rest into apartments.
The money spent to convert a mall to retirement homes etc, would have a really high return on investment that, probably wouldnt be returned by a retirement home. Or apartments, the rent would be extremely high that wouldnt be viable with the surrounding area.
@@SRW_ how about investigating in currently dying but not closed and continue to use it as a mall till construction is complete and d do it bit by bit and eventually have a full takeover. I’ve seen people convert schools and baseball stadiums to apartments, if you got a major retirement home investor involved, you could easily make it happen
@@GeneralChurch
But you said “convert” which means making the mall into the apartments.
So your doing construction while using it as a mall. Possible yes but not appeasing to shop near a construction site.
@@SRW_ it’s better than tearing it down or letting a dead mall rot. Example, not far from me is a mall, half is closed off because they can’t find tenants and it’s starting to look visually ugly. Start a take over, work on that whole side, project a close date for the mall, and work bit by bit after that. Keep restaurants that have outside access as well as theaters so regular people can enjoy them, but block off the interior as a renters only area with stores specifically for them or food courts, arcades etc. it’s pretty easy to do while phasing out
This is the video I've waited for from you guys. I have so many memories of this mall. I grew up going, and have made several nostalgia-driven visits in the last few years before it finally closed for good. It's sad to see it in a state of disrepair and now being demolished, but I'm glad that it has been documented for everyone to see. Thank you for the video.
Man, used to go to this mall for the theater and the Barnes and Nobles routinely when I was in college maybe 10 years ago. Would have loved to see this Mall in it's prime and not on the downward spiral.
We used to go there when we were in college too back in circa 06' It looked remarkably similar to what it looks like now. Sadly this is one of the few malls that never really had a heyday and struggled for it's whole life.
80's malls were awesome places to hang out in.
It's kind of sobering to me when I remember being a kid & enchanted by exploring the malls & never once thinking they wouldn't be there in twenty or thirty years. It makes me feel so old.
@@christophercatoe8841 It was actually pretty full in the 90s. I would definitely say it had a heyday...it just didn't last very long.
It was pretty full in the 90s when I went when I was little. I remember the Disney Store in there and I remember going to see Santa every December :)
I live next to a mall that is alwyas changing - office space, empty stores, shifting food court, ever-changing stores - feels like the beginning of the end. I enjoy your videos but I find myself feeling sadly nostalgic for my youth when watching you wander an abandoned mall
now this is something i can watch while im supposed to be asleep
It’s so crazy to me how still so recent and quickly malls became obsolete and abandoned once online shopping became the dominant method for consumption. An unbelievably sudden and catastrophic blow to a once vibrant facet of American culture
As always, I greatly appreciate you guys' dedication and care in documenting these abandoned spaces. I also worry intensely about the condition of your lungs with all the mold and mildew exposure.
One thing I noticed whenever something gets repurposed for office space it closes not long after.
That gingerbread snowman was definitely the star of the episode. Nice one, guys! Thanks for the great video!
I don't know if I trust him though 🙂
I can almost guarantee that the developer was in the business since 1982 and was like "I know what a fancy mall should look like!" Commence with neon lighting and pastel tile art.
Also, that theater seating wasn't just the "old style" it was vintage. It wasn't too long after that when theaters started introducing a greater angle that you had to use stairs to go up. Also entering in at the bottom and going up, rather than entering at the top and having a slight slope down.
Being from Birmingham, seeing that old Parisian logo is sending me back in time! 🤩
This was before DIY mechanical keyboards were a thing. 12:03 That dead space is not likely because they weren't expecting big crowds. Malls of that era were packed. Most likely the tables were removed and sold/stored as the place was shutting down.
Your abandoned malls episodes are my favorites because I get the 80s nostalgia .. You really made my day
those 3 colors gold teal pink always seem be a theme
It was EVERYWHERE from 1986-1993. Then greens and purples started coming in for the latter half of the 90s and the brass went away and was replaced by silver.
As someone who shopped in that mall from the time it opened to the time it closed, Barnes and Noble shopping was odd with the dead mall all around it. But it was what it was. Thanks for filming this!
In the wisdom of Mitch Hedberg, a broken escalator is basically a flight of stairs😅😅😅.
These abandoned malls make me sad to see them in such a state of decay, but the crazy thing is they’ve only been around for just under 35 years, wish they could be renovated back to their former glory and not into office complexes or completely destroyed to have new buildings built on top of them.
They must've had an insane electricity bill with all the incandescent lighting. Also the janitors problably spent most of their duty constantly changing light bulbs and (in the recent years) building improvised waterslides or emptying water buckets. Crazy job.
Massive air conditioners
Changing high light bulbs isn't necessarily that hard. They make long handled extension poles that can grab and twist them from ground level.
@@jgood005 Until it snaps off and you have to walk all the way back to operations and get the cherry picker, then find the breaker so you don't get killed and remove the glassy stump. Trust me, been there. My building had such lights on a 35 foot atrium ceiling, try handling a 35 foot pole. You end up smacking into it and the glass part snaps off. Used to have to test smoke detectors by blowing a cigarette down a long pipe.
I used to go there when it was an open air mall in the 60's.
Very neat video guys, and excellent job on the intro and the audio, I thought both the music and effects were very fitting for an 80's mall. I bet that chemical sign in the callcenter was likely a door leading to their server type room and had something to do with a battery backup and/or fire suppresion system for said room.
The special intro really set the mood! I super appreciate the full run time (feels like forever since we've had a proper nearly 1 hour video). Excellent exploration as always.
That intro was straight up badass guys awesome work! Been watching you guys forever and I recommend your videos to anyone I know who watches RUclips. The quality of research and filming is a whole different level. Never stop!
Decaying 80s/90s dead mall + nostalgic decor and distorted mall soft music + overcast weather = one of my top favorite eerie atmospheres and overall vibes. As always, The Proper People hit it out of the park again, especially with that amazing intro!
Possibly the most backrooms feeling place you have yet recorded. That storage room made of stained timbers and chicken wire (7:02) seemed particularly creepy. 46:59- that background growl and animatronic bears do give the chicken wire storage room a run for it's money though,
I am so excited to watch this! I LOVE EVERYTHING you guys do- but for some reason the Malls and the Power Plants are my favorite!
Man it’s a shame that these things basically just go fully abandoned and get left to rot until the demo teams come in to pull it down. My local mall has thankfully survived for the 40 years even though it’s gone through bankruptcy and handed over twice. It has two of eight anchor stores remaining with only one major anchor left that being Belk, the other three where JCPenney, Sears, and Boscovs.
Another Classic Abandoned Mall Video ❤
Aw man that’s so sad to see it decaying like that
They are tearing it down now
Crazy how one side is so pristine and the other was so run down.
I lived near here throughout the '90s and in the early '00s. Richland Fashion Mall felt like a big, open, bright, brass & glass crystal palace and was one of the two main malls in Columbia. The movie theater on the top was the main spot we saw every new release up to the Recession. The Harbison area far out of town began expanding in the late '90s and by the '00s had quadrupled in size, drawing lots of the shopping traffic from Columbia Mall, Dutch Square, and Richland Fashion. I love seeing it memorialized and appreciated here.
"An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs."
Abandoned malls, peak Proper People videos
Nice! Live 5 mins from this mall in Columbia. Used to frequent this place regularly in the early 90s when it was in its prime.
After most of the anchors closed they chopped it up and turned a large part into office space, been going down hill slowly after that. Sad to see it finally go.
I live 10 minutes from here. I’ve always wondered, but I wonder no longer! Thanks for awesome upload PP!
The only other rooftop parking I've seen was a video about this.....
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
"On April 23, 1988, within minutes of the grand opening of a new Save-On-Foods store, a 6,400 square foot portion of the roof collapsed, sending the rooftop parking deck and 20 automobiles crashing into the produce section below."
omg. I wonder if this was the Algo Centre Mall? Something similar happened there and it was a mall in Canada.
Lots of rooftop parking around Vancouver, BC
That mall was awesome back in days
still wish i had friends willing to do this with me 😔
The editing from promo video to your intro is top notch on this one.
That gingerbread cutout is giving me “Rolling Giant” vibes. Just needs wheels!
That's what I thought too
Aw yes, grate for eary liminal spaces
Sorry I don’t know English that well to type.
Thank you for doing this thorough documentation of what was a beautiful mall before it was torn down. The Teddy Bear Orchestra was brought in around '04 or '05 to boost Christmas shopping traffic. We took our young daughters there to visit Santa and watch the Teddy Bear Orchestra. It was animatronic, and while those things are often creepy, that orchestra was really cute. The Jackson's Buffet was an S & S Cafeteria for years, we'd go after church as they had 99¢ kids meals. Thanks for the trip down memory lane
Getting Dan Bell vibes from the opening.
The Barnes and Noble location at that mall operated there rent free at least since 2006....it was the only reason they stayed there so long.
OMG..... Are you serious? That's crazy. How do you know that if I may ask?
Super nice, thanks for sharing!
Wow! Thanks for doing this video. Trips to Richland fashion mall were one my early childhood memories. It was a big loss to the community when it closed, but its nice to see it being rezoned and revived into something new.
It’s really sad that malls will soon become forgotten things of the past
Is it though
@@YourLocalGP Yes, thats why they said it... duh?
@@evanmrozinski Is it really though?
@@O_Cachorro_Carameloyea look up the mall name and see all the people once there and the music the open stores all gone
I live near this mall. It's already half torn down. It's a childhood mall and it's sad to see it go