it was a warehouse that Kraftmaid Cabinets used and offered to the public cabinets that were scratch and dent and have sales once a week.. it would open to the public but i believe Kraft Maid stopped doing that..just a few weeks ago they repaved the parking lot so something is in the works there unless they plan on doing the cabinets again..odd they repaved it as it wasn't really that bad..
We still have a lot of BK restaurants in the Chicagoland area. Ponderosa was one of my favorite places to eat when I was a kid. That place closed in my city long ago. There is a Thornton gas station there now.
Employees cared back then food was fresh and didn’t taste nasty. Back in the day, use to take my nieces and nephew here to play in the playground. Was usually clean and didn’t stink. Always clean on the outside. Politicians haven’t done anything to bring in business and the mayor let’s not even go there. Thanks for visiting 👍
It's so sad seeing more and more of these abandoned places back to back. Makes you wonder if it's all being done on purpose? Thanks for the video you are doing a great job and keep up the good work. ☮️😊
Which is ironic, because the last Ponderosa I've ever been to was in either Vermont or New Hampshire, trying to remember which, but it seemed that they were FAR MORE sophisticated of a buffet and/or restaurant than they EVER were here in the Cleveland area. It's almost like New England's a whole new America when it comes to their chain restaurants. Just shows how things are the further west in the Eastern Time Zone you go. LOL!
5:30 You were right, it was the vehicle clearance sign. It's amazing how clean this one is, I assume they must have a janitor or someone come in and maintain the place. Tables look clean enough to eat an $9.19 Whopper off of.
There's one in old Brooklyn OH that's still standing that also has a former Fazios grocery store next to it! Was Gold Circle, then Hills and lastly an Ames before abandoned since 2002
@@MondayNightRAWsRKO2024-xk9ew Wow, I was wondering about Fazio's when writing about Gold Circle. Played my first Pac-Man game at a Fazio's and bought a lot of super balls from the vending machines.
@@MondayNightRAWsRKO2024-xk9ewhills and ames were good but fazios was the best store. Gold circle was basically a slightly fancier Kmart/Penny's if I remember correctly.
The guy that owned and ran that burger king, he ran all the burger Kings in warren and when he went to jail they closed them all and the ons in Howland. Im from warren. I could show you or give you a list of some awesome abandoned places there you could check out. Have a good day. 👍
We have a bk in my town that still in operation and has been that way for many years. The one think i love the most was the smell of the flame grilled beef patties coming out of the smoke stack on the roof. That smell is so glorious 🤤👍 Thanks for another adventure. See you on the next one lyd 😏👍
I would go in there and play too! I love this, I have the same kind of nostalgia for these old Burger Kings and Ponderosa etc. You hooked me when you went inside that massive movie theater!! That was so bad ass!! ❤
Im from Vienna so I used to be in Warren all the time & we went here alot. I moved states 8 years ago & had no idea they closed this. We used to go to the Ponderosa across the street quite often with our kids & they closed during covid, along with most buffet style restaurants. This BK was built I think in the 90s, it used to be up the road & they closed that one & built this one. The one up the road is just past Taco Bell, across from DiLucias. When my kids were little we used to go to that one all the time when they had the good toys like the Disney cups, sticker packs for like Lion King & other nice kid meal toys then. That BK is the older style & you can tell immediately it was a BK. I know several little businesses have been in & out of there over the years. That building where Taco Bell is used to be Ames, we shopped there a little towards the end & I bought some good stuff in the last days of them closing. Looking at Taco Bell, on the left there used to be an Arthur Treacher's but they bulldozed it. That was closed before we even moved 8 years ago but I loved getting food there. Going back up towards this BK, there before the light were the Nissan dealership is, that small building next to it, last I knew it was a car rental place, that was Long John Silvers. They are using the same building from when it was a restaurant. That big old store by BK used to be Finest grocery store. It has been closed down for years & years! We used to shop there briefly back in the day, late 90's-early 2000's. That whole area where Finest & BK is now, that used to be a huge trailer park. They kicked all those people out & built up these businesses, only for them all to now sit abandoned. Most of Elm Rd, which used to be extremely busy, is now close to a ghost town. Gabe's in Niles, used to be Finest too. The DIY place next to BK, it is not something that is open all the time. I recall they have certain days when they have craft maid cabinets that they open to have a big sale, unless they have it open all the time now, I dont know. I just remember while coming in & out of BK, seeing the signs & barriers trying to keep the semi's from parking there all the time. That Dollar Tree building used to be Kmart. The Family Farm building with Perkins in the lot & across from Menards (used to be Walmart), back in my day used to be Stambaugh Thomson. My parents shopped there all the time & my oldest son one time when he was about 3, almost went to the bathroom in one of the display toilets but I caught him in time, lol. It is so weird seeing the angle of you walking through the drive thru, it is a major flashback of me driving through there for food. I'll have a burger, onion rings & cherry slush float please! I know alot of what used to be in buildings or locations in these areas. Another that sticks out to me is in Niles, where Aspen Dental & the Verizon store is, that used to be Denny's & we ate there all the time. My sister & I would go shopping & stop there for lunch, I always got the chef's salad or the BLT, so good! Dicks sporting goods used to be Hills, my ultimate favorite place to shop! Quality clothes that did not fall apart like that sold in other stores like Kmart & Walmart. Speaking of Kmart, up the road past the BK in Niles on Youngstown Warren Rd., last I knew it was Allorica (cell phone call center) but I am not sure if that is still it now, that was Kmart. They moved from there when they built the super center that was torn down a few years ago & Meijer was built. I have a photo of my toddler boys on a coin operated horse out from of there. They kept the building so that structure is still the original Kmart. In front of there in the lot as you come in, there is a loan place, that used to be Taco Bell. I hated the drive thru there. After Taco Bell, it was briefly a hot dog place, I cant remember the name, but their chili was so freaking greasy. We got chili cheese fries there & there was a literal inch of grease in the container of fries, so disgusting!
TOM’s King franchise - who owned lot of Burger King ( shut them down - cause the franchise went bankrupt ) I know that watching WallieB26 here on RUclips.
From what I hear from the inside, many local BK's franchisees were either told to upgrade or close down. In these times the one that owns many locally here shut many down & upgraded the few profitable ones. I think Mentor had like 5 or 6 BK's at one time & now down to 1.
Good exploration as usual! Burger Kings are pulling out of SE Louisiana; seeing more and more of them closing up shop and other chains taking over locations. Thank you for some more camera/window ASMR! Good work lil buddy!
wow, lol another one in Warren, those play places, many think MCD's but might not remember if BK had any. Thank you, amazing, and more to say soon and emojis apply, thanks again! :)
i believe that was the clearance sign to warn large vehicles to stop as the over hang on the building where you pay is a danger to damage big vehicles..they need an Arby's over there..another decent fast food was Long John Silvers.. moved out too..The old Topps Grocery store was abandoned next door then the bank out front now i heard U-haul took it over but you can hardly tell..Elm road is a busy road you would think property would be prime for that area but instead so many empty store fronts so someone is loosing out on business..
I worked at Global Fitness in the plaza next to it. I've been there lots of times. I was surprised when it closed. I don't think the inside dinning was busy but the drive-thru always had a line of cars.
Warren is a dump since the late 70s/early 80s. Im more surprised when i see an open restaurant there. Its a shame bk went downhill so badly, and so many franchise owners failed from that or their own mismanagement. Thanks for showing us memories of yesteryear!
Tacoma, I have not lived there in long time. Used to work at the BK on 6th Ave.. My guess is that it is long gone by now. It was before Lyd would have been born. All I remember is that it was on Narrows bridge side of 16 and the south side of 6th lol. Last time lived there was off North 8th. Remember even before that when I was younger going to the Rialto Theater and the Awesome Tacoma Mall Theater that I was told got torn down back in early 2000's..
You know this video really got me thinking. Could I have been to any of these retro places. In my youth traviling with my parents though out my young childhood. I mean for all I know I could have been in that exact BK back in the day as a child. Now of course I have been in Mac Donald’s,BK,Pizza Hut you name it in my home town all the time. But I was just thinking Damn could Mom and Dad had taken me to a lot of these places in these other States.
BKs were great in the 70s. Today many cook their burgers in an oven. Yuk! No flame broiled flavor. 😐 Pizza Hut will be the next to fall. They ruined their hand tossed crust. And the wings are barely cooked. $55 straight into the trash can. And Parma just lost Antonio's😳
I was hearing the "broiled flavor" is then added. I'm getting a Jet's by me, though I hadn't ordered out for pizza in close to 20 years (aside of work lunches). Thanks for DiGiorno, & other BTR pizzas.
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If you come back to L.I. NY, have I got an abandoned BK for you! LOL Well it's in my town of Syosset LI, it close down for good about 12 years ago or so now, no idea why, it's right on Jericho Tpke. Syosset LI, and I notice people keep tending to the grounds around it, but it's sitting there derelict with some graffiti on the windows, for years, and the town cannot seem to entice anybody to redevelop it. It's a total eyesore. It's right across from the Dunkins I go to every morning for breakfast. Nothing that stands out about it, otherwise, just an intact, dead BKs. I drove by a very nice modern looking townhouse type huge BKs though that is open, which is out in Smithtown LI.
The days of BK having a playplace are long over. McDonald's started phasing theirs out when they decided kids were no longer their target audience and I guess BK is following suit! Gone are the days when fast food restaurants have character. Now they are all just bland grey shoeboxes which result in all of them looking identical.
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In the video I state the DIY is abandoned but it turns out the building is repurposed for a cabinet warehouse!
Lol
I had my money on a Spirit Halloween. I guess people need cabinets too though.
it was a warehouse that Kraftmaid Cabinets used and offered to the public cabinets that were scratch and dent and have sales once a week.. it would open to the public but i believe Kraft Maid stopped doing that..just a few weeks ago they repaved the parking lot so something is in the works there unless they plan on doing the cabinets again..odd they repaved it as it wasn't really that bad..
We still have a lot of BK restaurants in the Chicagoland area. Ponderosa was one of my favorite places to eat when I was a kid. That place closed in my city long ago. There is a Thornton gas station there now.
Lovely and cute Lydia. Excellent video
What a beautiful lady! Cool vid too.
I agree !
Employees cared back then food was fresh and didn’t taste nasty. Back in the day, use to take my nieces and nephew here to play in the playground. Was usually clean and didn’t stink. Always clean on the outside. Politicians haven’t done anything to bring in business and the mayor let’s not even go there. Thanks for visiting 👍
It's so sad seeing more and more of these abandoned places back to back. Makes you wonder if it's all being done on purpose? Thanks for the video you are doing a great job and keep up the good work. ☮️😊
Ponderosa lol. Haven't heard that name in YEARS.
I never heard of it at all 🤔🤷♂️
Miss that place, remember York?
Which is ironic, because the last Ponderosa I've ever been to was in either Vermont or New Hampshire, trying to remember which, but it seemed that they were FAR MORE sophisticated of a buffet and/or restaurant than they EVER were here in the Cleveland area. It's almost like New England's a whole new America when it comes to their chain restaurants. Just shows how things are the further west in the Eastern Time Zone you go. LOL!
@@CSmith-gb1slYork steakhouse was good when I was a kid lol
@@WedgeBobI agree. I ate at one in PA when I lived in Cleveland and it was a lot better than the ones I had been to (Kent, mentor, etc).
And our abandoned Ponderosa across the street 😢
In Vegas we can get a double stack angus burger, or western,chili, with fries or another side at a sit down place for 7.99 , RIP fake food places.
5:30 You were right, it was the vehicle clearance sign. It's amazing how clean this one is, I assume they must have a janitor or someone come in and maintain the place. Tables look clean enough to eat an $9.19 Whopper off of.
LOL!!
This one was my goto back in the day 😢
I'd love to see a relic from a Gold Circle department store show up in one of your GREAT videos!
There's one in old Brooklyn OH that's still standing that also has a former Fazios grocery store next to it! Was Gold Circle, then Hills and lastly an Ames before abandoned since 2002
@@MondayNightRAWsRKO2024-xk9ew Wow, I was wondering about Fazio's when writing about Gold Circle. Played my first Pac-Man game at a Fazio's and bought a lot of super balls from the vending machines.
Lol I went to all those stores there too. It was a gold circle in the 70s maybe up to the early 80s if I recall
@@MondayNightRAWsRKO2024-xk9ewhills and ames were good but fazios was the best store. Gold circle was basically a slightly fancier Kmart/Penny's if I remember correctly.
The guy that owned and ran that burger king, he ran all the burger Kings in warren and when he went to jail they closed them all and the ons in Howland. Im from warren. I could show you or give you a list of some awesome abandoned places there you could check out. Have a good day. 👍
We have a bk in my town that still in operation and has been that way for many years. The one think i love the most was the smell of the flame grilled beef patties coming out of the smoke stack on the roof. That smell is so glorious 🤤👍
Thanks for another adventure. See you on the next one lyd 😏👍
Cool video as always Lydia
I would go in there and play too! I love this, I have the same kind of nostalgia for these old Burger Kings and Ponderosa etc. You hooked me when you went inside that massive movie theater!! That was so bad ass!! ❤
Thanks Lyd!
Thank you so much!!
Im from Vienna so I used to be in Warren all the time & we went here alot. I moved states 8 years ago & had no idea they closed this. We used to go to the Ponderosa across the street quite often with our kids & they closed during covid, along with most buffet style restaurants. This BK was built I think in the 90s, it used to be up the road & they closed that one & built this one. The one up the road is just past Taco Bell, across from DiLucias. When my kids were little we used to go to that one all the time when they had the good toys like the Disney cups, sticker packs for like Lion King & other nice kid meal toys then. That BK is the older style & you can tell immediately it was a BK. I know several little businesses have been in & out of there over the years.
That building where Taco Bell is used to be Ames, we shopped there a little towards the end & I bought some good stuff in the last days of them closing. Looking at Taco Bell, on the left there used to be an Arthur Treacher's but they bulldozed it. That was closed before we even moved 8 years ago but I loved getting food there.
Going back up towards this BK, there before the light were the Nissan dealership is, that small building next to it, last I knew it was a car rental place, that was Long John Silvers. They are using the same building from when it was a restaurant. That big old store by BK used to be Finest grocery store. It has been closed down for years & years! We used to shop there briefly back in the day, late 90's-early 2000's. That whole area where Finest & BK is now, that used to be a huge trailer park. They kicked all those people out & built up these businesses, only for them all to now sit abandoned. Most of Elm Rd, which used to be extremely busy, is now close to a ghost town. Gabe's in Niles, used to be Finest too.
The DIY place next to BK, it is not something that is open all the time. I recall they have certain days when they have craft maid cabinets that they open to have a big sale, unless they have it open all the time now, I dont know. I just remember while coming in & out of BK, seeing the signs & barriers trying to keep the semi's from parking there all the time.
That Dollar Tree building used to be Kmart.
The Family Farm building with Perkins in the lot & across from Menards (used to be Walmart), back in my day used to be Stambaugh Thomson. My parents shopped there all the time & my oldest son one time when he was about 3, almost went to the bathroom in one of the display toilets but I caught him in time, lol.
It is so weird seeing the angle of you walking through the drive thru, it is a major flashback of me driving through there for food. I'll have a burger, onion rings & cherry slush float please!
I know alot of what used to be in buildings or locations in these areas. Another that sticks out to me is in Niles, where Aspen Dental & the Verizon store is, that used to be Denny's & we ate there all the time. My sister & I would go shopping & stop there for lunch, I always got the chef's salad or the BLT, so good!
Dicks sporting goods used to be Hills, my ultimate favorite place to shop! Quality clothes that did not fall apart like that sold in other stores like Kmart & Walmart.
Speaking of Kmart, up the road past the BK in Niles on Youngstown Warren Rd., last I knew it was Allorica (cell phone call center) but I am not sure if that is still it now, that was Kmart. They moved from there when they built the super center that was torn down a few years ago & Meijer was built. I have a photo of my toddler boys on a coin operated horse out from of there. They kept the building so that structure is still the original Kmart. In front of there in the lot as you come in, there is a loan place, that used to be Taco Bell. I hated the drive thru there. After Taco Bell, it was briefly a hot dog place, I cant remember the name, but their chili was so freaking greasy. We got chili cheese fries there & there was a literal inch of grease in the container of fries, so disgusting!
More videos of Warren's abandoned places please! Great video. It's so sad but also glad you can capture these empty shells of what was...😊
I was there in 1995 all those shut down businesses were crowded the day we were there ! Your Awesome Lydwetzel
TOM’s King franchise - who owned lot of Burger King ( shut them down - cause the franchise went bankrupt )
I know that watching WallieB26 here on RUclips.
From what I hear from the inside, many local BK's franchisees were either told to upgrade or close down. In these times the one that owns many locally here shut many down & upgraded the few profitable ones. I think Mentor had like 5 or 6 BK's at one time & now down to 1.
Great video😊
Good exploration as usual! Burger Kings are pulling out of SE Louisiana; seeing more and more of them closing up shop and other chains taking over locations. Thank you for some more camera/window ASMR! Good work lil buddy!
wow, lol another one in Warren, those play places, many think MCD's but might not remember if BK had any. Thank you, amazing, and more to say soon and emojis apply, thanks again! :)
another one bites the nugget dust
All the kitchen items, tables, and other stuff still there! Thank you for letting me be with you for a walk around! 🥰😍😡😉😘👑😚🌹❤️🌃
It’s so weird seeing a Burger King like this being abandoned, And it looks like it was renovated around 2016.
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I work across the street I ate there the last day it was opened in July 2022 I also was at ponderosa before it closed
i believe that was the clearance sign to warn large vehicles to stop as the over hang on the building where you pay is a danger to damage big vehicles..they need an Arby's over there..another decent fast food was Long John Silvers.. moved out too..The old Topps Grocery store was abandoned next door then the bank out front now i heard U-haul took it over but you can hardly tell..Elm road is a busy road you would think property would be prime for that area but instead so many empty store fronts so someone is loosing out on business..
I worked at Global Fitness in the plaza next to it. I've been there lots of times. I was surprised when it closed. I don't think the inside dinning was busy but the drive-thru always had a line of cars.
Warren is a dump since the late 70s/early 80s. Im more surprised when i see an open restaurant there. Its a shame bk went downhill so badly, and so many franchise owners failed from that or their own mismanagement. Thanks for showing us memories of yesteryear!
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Tacoma, I have not lived there in long time. Used to work at the BK on 6th Ave.. My guess is that it is long gone by now. It was before Lyd would have been born. All I remember is that it was on Narrows bridge side of 16 and the south side of 6th lol. Last time lived there was off North 8th. Remember even before that when I was younger going to the Rialto Theater and the Awesome Tacoma Mall Theater that I was told got torn down back in early 2000's..
You know this video really got me thinking. Could I have been to any of these retro places. In my youth traviling with my parents though out my young childhood. I mean for all I know I could have been in that exact BK back in the day as a child. Now of course I have been in Mac Donald’s,BK,Pizza Hut you name it in my home town all the time. But I was just thinking Damn could Mom and Dad had taken me to a lot of these places in these other States.
BKs were great in the 70s.
Today many cook their burgers in an oven. Yuk! No flame broiled flavor. 😐
Pizza Hut will be the next to fall. They ruined their hand tossed crust. And the wings are barely cooked. $55 straight into the trash can.
And Parma just lost Antonio's😳
I was hearing the "broiled flavor" is then added. I'm getting a Jet's by me, though I hadn't ordered out for pizza in close to 20 years (aside of work lunches). Thanks for DiGiorno, & other BTR pizzas.
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At 2:41, all I can think about is "At Spatula City, we sell spatulas.... and that's all".
I spent many days with my grandchildren there!
Are you related to a Josh Wetzel, a sportscaster in Upstate, NY? BTW - How does a Burger King CLOSE??
the parent company isnt doing well last I heard. Yes, this was a franchise but it might not have pulled in enough $$$ to justify it staying open.
If you come back to L.I. NY, have I got an abandoned BK for you! LOL Well it's in my town of Syosset LI, it close down for good about 12 years ago or so now, no idea why,
it's right on Jericho Tpke. Syosset LI, and I notice people keep tending to the grounds around it, but it's sitting there derelict with some graffiti on the windows, for years,
and the town cannot seem to entice anybody to redevelop it. It's a total eyesore. It's right across from the Dunkins I go to every morning for breakfast. Nothing that stands out
about it, otherwise, just an intact, dead BKs. I drove by a very nice modern looking townhouse type huge BKs though that is open, which is out in Smithtown LI.
It was announced Walgreens is closing stores and soon you can expect another closed business soon very close to the closed that Burgerking..
The grocery store next door is being turned into another U-Haul storage facility
The cost for a storage area is rivaling the cost of my first apartment.
Get some disposable gloves. That weird container could have been many things.
What a wretched area for businesses I guess
That's an updated Burger King. Dosen't make sense closing it.
We could have a picnic there and reminisce
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The days of BK having a playplace are long over. McDonald's started phasing theirs out when they decided kids were no longer their target audience and I guess BK is following suit! Gone are the days when fast food restaurants have character. Now they are all just bland grey shoeboxes which result in all of them looking identical.
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Yep, yet another Tom's King location, considering what's been said about their so-called "franchise" of sorts.
Girard PA or Ohio? Don't believe BK came to Northern Ohio until the early '70's.
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