HALF OF THE NESHAMINY MALL TO BE DEMOLISHED!
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Come Sail with The Philly Captain as he goes for a walk inside The Neshaminy Mall a few days after the new owners announced big changes to mall. The Captain also goes for a scoot around the mall before the wrecking ball comes.
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Credit to the management. As empty as the mall is of both stores and customers, the mall is very well maintained. Clean, plants waters, empty stores cleanly covered.
Its like part of ur childhood gets ripped away by destroying all these landmarks. So sad to see that happen to neshaminy😢😢
Exactly how I feel. Spent my childhood going to Strawbridges and the other stores with my mom😢
I am so glad I just visited Neshaminy Mall before all of this took place. It makes me very sad as these were my old stomping grounds. I can remember eating a Monte Cristo in the restaurant above Strawbridges. I felt so fancy! And I also used to take my children to see the "Real Santa" at Neshaminy too! Thank you for this video!!!!
Oh my gosh same memories shopping with my mom at Strawbridges! And I think I remember that restaurant!
With the money I made delivering newspapers and from cutting lawns/shoveling snow, etc. I took my girlfriend to Strawbridge & Clothier's mezzanine restaurant. We were well treated there. I thought that their 'Chopped Sirloin' (hamburger) was the height of sophistication. This was in late-'72 through the summer of 1973.
I love this mall. I went there as a child and my son grew up in that mall as well. We went every Friday. I'm an in-person shopper. It's heartbreaking to see what is happening due to people ordering everything from Amazon or online stores. I like to see, touch, and try on items before buying and the options are so limited these days.
as a 80s and 90s kids it breaks my heart to see mall disappear they were everything to us we met up with our friends met girls found new video games and new music got warm cookies or pretzels fresh lemonade bourbon chicken saw great movies that became classics idk how amazon even comes close especially around the holidays
Hope they take good care of the Neshaminy Indian sculpture, I remember that as a kid and how packed it used to get around Christmas.
It was so packed you could barely take a step without bumping into someone or stepping on their foot.
Gosh I remember the excitement when NM was being built and then the big opening in 1968. It was so busy in the 1970s.
Franklin Mills and Oxford Valley Are heading on the same path. Oxford Valley has a apartment complex being built,so maybe it' can be saved....
Neshamiy Mall, Oxford Valley Mall, Woodhaven Mall, Roosevelt Mall so many good memories! I was just at that Boscov’s the other day and sadden to see the deserted stores.
Roosevelt mall is still kind of "alive" I used to walk there as a teen with my friends. I lived pretty close. We would bus it to the others! 😂
Thanks Captain as w/ so many who grew up nearby the mall was a fixture in our lives. It was where we went to meet girls, spent hours in the record stores, checked the latest shoes at Flag Bros., dates at the movies, the pet store w puppies for sale. My mom and her sisters went shopping on Saturdays, had lunch at Strawbridges. With my Dad at Sears getting tools, planning a project. Taking the kids to see Santa, the whole family just walking with the crowds and holiday decorations. It was more than a place that sold stuff, it was where we all came together.
I was born and raised in Bensalem. (Now in the poconos).My grandparents and parents would always take me to this mall. As we lived only a few minutes away. Sooooo many memories from the mid 80s to the late 90s. Gotta say it really has changed since then. Gonna miss it for sure. I remember my dad telling me stories when he seen the mall being built.😢
Yup loved that totem pole!! Shame its gone😮
When Sears went bankrupt that was the beginning of the end to this wonderful location. So many memories. The pet store was always fun. Record store, Models, Card shoppes, shoe stores. I will save your video just for memories. Thanks Captain!
Thanks for one last tour of one of my families favorite places to go when we lived in Feasterville in the early 80's.
So bittersweet... One of the malls I lived at on weekends as a teenager 😭
So many of us feel exactly the same. Spent so many days at that mall.
Man I grew up in that mall! My parents would take us there for just about any bit of weekend shopping, and in my own teenage years, in the early 2000's Id spend just about every friday/sat night there with friends.
When I was in high school from 2011-2015 this is where my friends and I would go to hang out, see a movie, eat, and just be teenagers. I have a core memory of one of my friends getting kicked out of the FYE for swinging around a Minecraft sword lol. After we graduated a friend of mine was assistant manager at the Hot Topic. I appreciate you for documenting this because I now live in Seattle and chances are i won’t get to walk this piece of my childhood again.
The seal of confidence is important. I hope The history of it doesn't get lost
One of those seals is at an antique place on a corner on the front lawn on route 130 north of Burlington
OMG how sad 😢 I have so many great memories there. I use to bring my kids there when they were little, we'd eat, go to the movies, shop around for all the great deals💚😊💚
I'm reminded of a record album by George Harrison...All Things Must Pass. Sad to see it go, so many great memories.
They should reuse this building instead of destroying it. Ugh we are so damn wasteful
Thanks for this! I remember Strawbridges and the wide staircase... and May buttercreams... always got car parts at Sears.. and Christmas! Oh, the hustle and bustle and decorations! So sad. These stores, at one time, gave us jobs to pay for our prom gowns, our first car, our community college tuition... retirees "ends meet" money. I try so hard not to buy at Amazon, but because so many do, retail keeps limited stock these days and we have no choice. Sad.
Oh, my😢😢🖤🖤🖤. This is like tearing my Childhood memories of being at Neshaminy Mall with my Late Grandparents, my Mom, and my Brother eating on the balcony of Strawbridges, Kay Bee Toy Store, and many more memories. Now I know that the Strawridges is gone and Kay Bee Toy Store is no more, but for the Neshaminy Mall to be no more or even just cut in half is just too much😔😔😢😢🖤🖤🖤. I was hoping that the Mall could be reinvented with other stores😔😔. At least I have a few items from the Neshaminy Mall like my Blue Bunny Rabbit plush, miniature porcelain Tea Set my Late Grandfather bought for me for my Dollhouse, and my blue glass penguin figurine🤗🤗!!!! And thank you for giving us this video to also be a way to remember Neshaminy Mall.
It's such a sad site to see all these great places closing up...Neshaminy was definitely a mall my buddies and I went to ALL the time back in the day, countless movies and random weekends just hanging ( basically being Mallrats lol)
Went to so many movies there!
My parents took me to Neshaminy Mall as child back in the 70’s. I remember the Dioramas is what I always remembered well. We would always make a point to check them out. I also remember the huge sign that look
Like an Indian Totem Pole Shaped. You could see it coming up Rt. 1 South from the Trenton area. It sat real high. Sad to see it go but the times they are a changing..
My aunt and uncle used to live near the King of Prussia Mall in the 70s (it was a LOT different then). My mom would take us (at the shore) to visit often (easy as I hadn’t started preschool yet). The in late 70s they moved to Binghamton for a few years. It wasn’t until I was an adult and going up what now was 476 (vs 9 for the NE extension) that I knew what road we took - I recognized the rest stops and tunnels. But..
… by late ‘80 or in ‘81 they were back and in Langhorne area. Roughly equidistant from Neshaminy Mall and Oxford Valley Mall. I have many great 80s memories of going to those malls when visiting. I’d spend a week or two each summer. When you live at the shore it’s nice to get away. Less traffic. All the people that you don’t have to deal with are back home at the shore! 😂
I have to say I barely recognize the Neshaminy Mall since ‘88 give or take a year. And the Black Friday shopping at The Gallery … there’s something totally unlike my childhood.
At least we had those good times. And I’m thankful for that.
Black Friday shopping at all of the malls was mayhem! 😂😂😂 I remember standing in lines for hours!
Wow! That was one heck of a totem pole! A user on Facebook has the original pole in his photos: Old Images of Philadelphia.
Dude, when the Spencer closes, the mall is DONE!
I thought it’s when Auntie Anne’s or the Chinese food eatery closes. Maybe same difference?
@@nickpalance3622 I worked at the Auntie Anne's at Neshaminy Mall for 10 days. It was nuts!
FYE was orginally Franklin Music where I was a part-time audio salesman while in college (I graduated in 73). It later became Sam Goody. Having worked at the mall I well recall all the original stores and restaurants. Most turned over numerous times, and of course as you can see most are now empty. I was a regular shopper at Sears for Craftsman and Kenmore merch. Loved Cafe Riviera, the Italian restaurant. (Best lasagna ever!). And there was also York SteaK House, Cork & Crown and Strawbridges mezzanine eatery. I hate to see the mall go. Times change, yes, but not always for the better IMHO.
Great memories of Neshaminy mall! My mom, brother and I would travel on the 14 bus from Bridge & Pratt. We lived in Fishtown!
I was a teen in 2013-2019. I was always asocial. I feel like the last time malls were popular was when I was a teen but I always tried to avoid them at peak hours. I’m now kinda sad on experiences I missed out on. Especially as a teen.
Coming from someone around the same age,You started seeing the struggle in 2016 and Covid basically finished the job.
The Township historical society removed 4 of the dioramas. The other 3 could not be removed at the time because a false wall had been built by Macy’s after they acquired Strawbridge’s. i believe the historical group plans to grab those other 3 scenes before demolition.
Thanks for letting us know about neshaminy😮😮😮
Wow! I worked at Strawbridges in Neshaminy Mall in the 80’s. I especially remember my mom taking us by bus from Kensington and Somerset, to Bridge & Pratt and then jump on a bus to the Mall. Not sure if I remember, but it was Septa route #14. We’d spend hours there. It was great back in the day. We’d eat at Woolworths for lunch and shop at BonTons. At the end of the day, we’d hit up Fannie May chocolates and head back to the bus. Sam Goodies and the little pet shop were my favorite places in the mall. So many good memories. Sad to see it so desolate, knowing that it once was a hustling and bustling place to go.
Today, The Philly Captain presents "Life After People at the Mall". A post-apocalyptic dystopian journey. Where once a 15-year-old singer named Tiffany Darwish might have sung, now tumbleweeds blow across the abandoned mall plains and the once thought to be extinct American lion (Panthera atrox a.k.a. bigbadassescatess)and saber-toothed cats (Machairodontinae a.k.a. eatualivesswithasmiless) re-establish their presence.
Long gone are stores like Sears & Roebuck named after their founders Sam Seersucker & Rowrowurboat Roebuck. Now sadly, the only chance meeting of a near human might be that of a Cro-Magnon 'man' or a Witchiepoo with a wart on her nose. One mustn't despair, even though there have been reports of a ghostly lone scooter rider that was seen in the middle of a heat mirage with faint background music playing "The good the bad and the ugly" music theme...
Neshaminy is native American word for when 2 creeks/rivers meet. The totum pole was more to the front of the old Sears building.
Built in 1967 grew up and work there great video
Outside malls are dumb in the northeast. Think rain,snow,heat,cold,wind and nigh-time. Otherwise a great idea.
I agree on leaving good things alone. However, I'm looking forward to the new beetle juice 😂
Remember the Courtyard they had (1970s) with glass displays showing the early American 🇺🇸 history dioramas. I can’t remember what each display commemorated but I remember several had Native Americans. We did our Christmas 🎄 shopping at this mall every year in the late 1970’s. I made my comment before he showed them (13:00) - I can’t believe some of them they are STILL there - WOW - what a nostalgic memory for me.
I still go to that mall for the movie theater. It's great for me most of the time I am the only person in that theater sitting back watching a movie with that huge Dolby cinema screen and the rumbling seats like a boss. I'm guessing it's probably not worth it to keep it open just for me.
Online shopping has destroyed American malls!! I hate online shopping!!!!!
I used to live near there like 20+;years ago. I remember meeting Black Sabbath there.
Thank for you for documenting this for all time now. This mall means so much to me and its heartbreaking to see what its become.
The food court got one of the first Chik Fil A's i remember 1990 i think it opened up and it was a really long line.
My first job was as a busboy at Woolworths restaurant.
I probably worked there for about a year or less. Then I remember one night I got into an argument with some co-workers and it was a really bad fight.
The whole kitchen was in disarray broken glass everywhere it must have been 50 glasses and plates.
Bill Pullman is very much alive. Bill Paxton who starred in Twister is deceased.
@29:30 You should have turned around. There's a ramp that goes down into the hill to the loading docks for Stawbridge's/Macy's which is in their basement. It's pretty cool.
Used to passed out there after a great many beers
I remember going to the tobacco shop with my Dad when I was a little girl. It was over by the fountain with a life size Indian out front. I even remember what kind of pipe tobacco he used; Borkum Riff Cherry Vanilla. It smelled heavenly!
Thanks for the update video on the Neshaminy Mall. This used to be my mall back in the day. Sad to see it look the way it looks today. You have a great voice for doing this video. You are also very funny.
Cheltenham Mall converted several years ago to a outside shopping center and they stay busy now. Home Depot, Target, Marshalls, Chic fila, Wendys, as well as other eateries, and some medical centers and supermarket.
That area of Lower Bucks County still has a decent population and appeal. It could use a modern hospital and more affordable apartments. Maybe even a minor league baseball or hockey team.
They did this to Granite Run in Media. They leveled the mall and built lots of stand alone stores/eateries mixed with apartments.
It's always sad to see a mall demolished. RIP Burlington Center Mall.
I work in the Shoe Carnival and we are staying for as of right now.
Definition of a mall : an antiquated, inefficient and costly method of selling merchandise made obsolete and unsustainable by online shopping.
You should add that malls were built to accommodate the car dependent, sprawling suburbs
Only 20% of all good are sold online. The mall needs to be filled with the 80% that isn’t sold online.
Person to person interaction is crucial to to developing social skills.
@allanhenderson5978 If you think you need a shopping mall to do that, you're brainwashed
Incorrect. Made obsolete and unsustainable by the decline of peoples disposable income.
Ever since a kid always loved the way the mall sign looks on the mountain when driving down rt 1
Great video I was up there in the 70’s thru 90’s it was jammed with people it’s sad to see it desolated and stores gone Strawbridges had that restaurant over looking the mall 3 floors that blue carpet and escalators bottom floor had all the cool audio and video Sears was the housewares and auto center always at that mall my favorite I bought my sister-in-law in 81’ a scooby doo stuffed animal at fluff and stuff center store in the mall close to woolworths she was 4 then and still has it amazing. I miss the Sam Goodys and Radio Shack in that mall so many memories from teenage years and up.
The pampered pup and the Roy Rogers baby!! is where I went for break when I worked at Sears. I was in charge of stock for sporting goods and toys. I would clock in and go play pinball at the arcade and sit on the roof on fourth July. A lot of great memories.
I tanned on the sears roof when i worked on the remodel team in the mid 90s
@@phillywhateverguy yep the stockroom was on the second floor and then there was a set of stairs that went up to the roof from there at night. You can see center city and miles around people don’t realize that is the highest point in Bensalem.
I have memories of going to Roy Roger’s in this mall with my grandparents when I was very young 😢😢
Great video. I was here almost every weekend in the 90s. Sad to see the end of a part of my childhood. 😢
Thanks for documenting it, Cuz. I kinda love that place!
Lol its been abandoned since macys pulled out of there. Dont remember when that was but it was a while ago!!!
Thanks for the awesome video
I worked in a couple stores in this mall when I was a teenager. It's sad what the internet and online shopping did to malls. People are too online today instead of socializing like we did at the mall.
So sad. The 70's, 80's and 90's was my time there. In the early 70's my grandmother used to take me shopping at Strawbridge and Clothier and we would eat at that 2nd floor restaurant overlooking the fountain. One time in 1972 we were eating there I made a paper airplane with the placemat, threw it off the balcony and it hit someone in the head near the fountain... Granny slapped me silly. I'm going to have to visit there one more time and walk around for old times sake. Wait long enough and things change and disappear.
later...hate to see it go LoL
I used to love Neshaminy mall too. I've actually been there recently. I haven't been to Franklin mills in at least 20 years.
transit oriented development mixed use is key for the new development to thrive. Connect the development to the Neshaminy Falls station with trail and shuttle, and connect it to Trenton Transit center with a frequent running bus route.
And hopefully, the rent will be low enough for small businesses to open and prosper
That's a dangerous walk from the R3 to the mall
@@daveassanowicz186 it is currently, it's a shame bc it's so close by. Hopefully the new development and township can build a wide enough trail for bikers and walkers
Look, its just what happens...things change. Was just saying this to a coworker who was lamenting about technology. Dont be afraid of the future...embrace it!!
Change isn't always for the better. The lack of places to go hang out for free (third spaces) is part of the reason we're having a loneliness epidemic. Malls were that kind of space for young people, and we're not building new spaces to replace them.
Spent my childhood 1974 when mom moved to Bensalem and later Parkland, t until 1994 when I moved to Upper Bucks, mom would get her check cashed every Friday, we would eat at Roy Rodgers, Harvest House, or the Italian Resturant for dinner. Shopped at Woolworths, got my pet love of my life Spunky at the pet store, my brother worked at Sears, so sad to see this. Outside Malls have been going on for awhile one in Cherry Hill, and there is a big one in Warrington at Street Road and 611.
Did this to Granite run mall in Delco, and some maniac designed the parking lot, nothing of interest there for me anymore. I guess makes sense to repurpose the land but I feel like malls were a great social spot for the kids growing up, a shame we couldn't figure out how to keep retail space reasonable to compete with this soulless online shopping.
I hate going there, every time it's a struggle to fine your way into certain areas and just as big a pain to find your way out. Making a twisty turny maze of roads and lots in such a small space was an amazing accomplishment.
It seems like a similar development idea as what was done at the Granite Run Mall.
24:54 Yes that's where the totem pole and Neshaminy sign use to be. The sign had to be removed for structural issues
I had my first job in Woolworth’s in 197#. Then got a job at Strawbridges. I loved eating at the restaurant in Strawbriges up there where those lights are. I still go to AMC, Hallmark store, Bath and Body Works, and Boscovs.
Yes !! My aunt Gert worked at that restaurant. I also seem to recall she worked at the one in town too! Rip Gert. I wish I had a picture of her up there.
You need GOOD Anchor stores to maintain a Mall on Both ends, once Sears left, there is no reason to go down to the other end except for the movies, add to that when straw bridges/ Macy's left started a slow end to that Mall
Good vidio went there with my mom as a kid took my kids im now 60rember all depressing
They did something similar to the Shore Mall in Northfield, NJ. The long main hallway that contained the stores on either side was razed to the ground. It's now just a Boscov's and an empty TGI Fridays up front and a DMV in the back.
Hey Philly Captain, great video at the Neshaminy Mall..Great times & memories in sections of the mall there..TOODLES
You can blame what happened to Malls on Amazon , Walmart and internet e-commerce .. :) I drive by all the time will be nice to see something different than a huge parking lot.
This is so sad. I can remember so many days spent there growing up. I later brought my kids there. I sure do hope they save some of those memories. The Indian, the diorama’s. Gee another monstrosity of an apartment complex, that no one can afford. Just like Oxford Valley.
Also i thought they were selling the animatronic outside of strawbridges. I remember seeing an article on it.
I thought the Bensalem Historical Society has them
@@daveassanowicz186 I remember something from a while ago about someone buying them or being donate. I can't remember 😊🤔
As a kid I always preferred to go to Oxford Valley Mall. But Neshaminy was closer so I spent a lot of time here too. I am a little sad to see them both go. But in some way I am also looking forward to it. Every time I go in one of these malls now (in Neshaminy's case it is always to go to the theater) I just get depressed at the empty wasteland they have become. Removing it entirely will mean it can live in my memory for what it was, rather than a depressing monument to its decline that is has become.
I'm not a fan of on line shopping, id rather shop in person...I miss my Malls ..
What is happening to the world. I grew up going to the mall. Nothing stays the same. What’s going on to happen when shopping online gets old. SMH!
I’ll always remember how cool neshaminy was in the early 2000s
I use to go to the Burlington Mall when it was new. My girls loved the Hello Kitty Mall. Didn't know it was torn down. In SC now Thanks Captain for the info.
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Very similar to what happened to the Granite Run mall. Except that space has been used for practically nothing since the mall was demolished. There's apartments over there now, but idk what's going on with what was meant to be a new movie theater or something.
My kids loved going there when they were teenagers. Sorry to see it go.
Excuse my language, but Fuck the 2000's. Let this be known as the No Fun Century. I never been at Neshaminy , but I've always been familiar with the McDade mall which took me back to my childhood in Delco back in the early nineties which was also dead for years.
What an elegant interior Neshaminy has had. Saw a familiar video of Philadelphia Mills a.k.a. Franklin Mills that is having the same problem looking like ghost town. Again, the No Fun Century is taking everything away from us unfortunately and I feel yall pain of whoever grew up going to Neshaminy.
thank you
Purchased my first leather jacket at the Woolworth’s my freshman year of college in 1992
Anyone remember the Roy Rogers just outside the food court?
I do
Ps right across from The 5 &10
At one time there was a Jiffy Lube inside that Sears autocare building
I loved this mall and grew up going there. Many 1970s-80s memories. Goodbye....freddy herrmann langhorne pa.
LOVE THE REFERENCE TO "THEY LIVE" ! BEST "B" MOVIE EVER. ROWDY RODDY IS THE BEST!
The Modell's Sporting Goods was Posel's/AMC Premiere Twin Theatre
Our AMC theater is the same exact thing here New Orleans
I remember when they built that mall in 1968. My dad's girlfriend worked in the Woolworth's
14:15 there used to be a restaurant upstairs with tables out on that balcony.