Dan Bell CUTTING/ROOM/FLOOR Ep. #17 : ROLLING ACRES MALL
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2016
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I grew up coming to this mall. I worked at the movie theater one summer during my college break. I can't believe what a mess it is now.
The area is creepy. It doesn't help that there is a cemetery right next door. I haven't been on that side of town in a long time.
Thank you Dan for your interest in our state''s abandoned mall. There is another one, Chapel Hill, that is dying and it's not too far via highway from this area.
I will watch out for updates from you.
It's gone now... the mall interior itself is gone, and they're demolishing the JCPenney building now; the entire demolition project is slated to be completed sometime this month, one year after it started... #RIPRollingAcres
The cemetery next door offered to by a large chunk of the land (because they are full and need the space) but the city turned it down. The city would not say why the turned down a cash offer which is not to smart as they could have really used the money and if anything cemeteries are at least well kept up. I think Chapel Hell would make a great Deal Mall video! It is so interesting that the strip malls and stand-alone stores are doing great in that area but the mall is dying.
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The city will get more money in tax if someone else uses the property for redevelopment. Which has happened since Amazon is using it.
What I love most about Urbex is how it's basically urban archaeology. I always thought I was a weird kid growing up who loved abandoned places, turns out it's a universal human thing!
Love you!!!! I can't express enough how much joy you Put in my life!!!! I could watch your videos every day and second if my life and never ever get tired of you!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Small update, I went in TODAY, 08/16/17 even though most of the main structure has been torn down. A door into JC Penny was open that led down through a pitch black stairwell into the bottom floor and you could walk around the entire store, all the way from the shipping area near the Macy's side, and on the opposite side to the back of the store and up to the second floor through another dark stairwell. If you go, you have to be extremely careful, there is hanging debris from the ongoing demolition and glass everywhere. It was very interesting to walk around and look out through the open spaces where the rest of the mall once was. I did not see any cameras that were active however and nobody showed up to question me during the hour I was there.
I noticed that the traffic lights at 3:08 were in flash mode. Unless it was a malfunction, that's usually a sign that an area has lost a lot of road traffic in recent years.
Great observation
That area as an entirety is pretty much a ghost town. Especially since the murder there
Your videos help me take my mind off my anxiety, I really look forward to them. Well done & thank you. :)
Another day on RUclips, another comment about anxiety
I know his voice his relaxing.
Nice video Dan, that mall sounds like it has some dark history surrounding it. I have talked to police who have no idea why some people like urban exploration. They just don't understand it.
Dan: I am an Akron native. The last time I was in this mall, was late 2002 and it seemed dead then. I went there with my dad because I was an amateur stamp collector at the time and for some strange reason, the main Akron Post Office (USPS), opened a small post office near the main entrance of Rolling Acres Mall. They also put their stamp collecting office at that mall too, for all of the Akron Stamp collectors. I don't know how long it was there for or when the Postal Station moved. But I remember we asked why on earth would the main post office open a stamp collecting office at Rolling Acres and the Postal Clerk said it was in a desperate attempt to bring more traffic to Rolling Acres Mall. Jamie.
Two teenage girls were taken behind the mall in the mid 80's, raped and killed, of the men involved one was given the death penalty, when the time came to kill him he claimed that he was too fat to be executed. The girls were driving on a nearby highway when a rock thrown from a bridge by the men broke their windsheild, the girls stopped and the men offered to help, instead they kidnapped them, and took them behind the mall, the rest must have been hell on earth for the girls.
I just read about this. Absolutely chilling. Those poor women.
Is there a way in to Macy's? Shouldn't gang break entrance window in the mall, if it happen, then you could've explore former Macy's
Like a hard rock able to break the wood or a large pickaxe
Theres a storage record warehouse in the macys there are cameras and keep out signs on the entrances
I saw something about this also... the killer you're referring to was executed a couple weeks before the mall closed...
"...low-life trespasser" cracks me up! Well, Dan, we your viewers and subscribers know that Dan Bell is one of the high-class explorers and are glad to learn of your growing and well-deserved recognition.---That was something to learn about the power being cut off and tenants up and leaving. It would be interesting to know more about that: were people actually in the dark in stores full of merchandise that had to be cleared out? That sudden shutdown makes me think of the 1968 movie "Hotel" when the decision was suddenly made to close the Hotel St. Gregory while it was still in operation and then people were leaving the building like they were evacuating the place.
Some of the things you said about old malls is very poignant and applies to people too. I took care of my aging parents and now I'm no spring chicken either. Like these malls In youth one is attractive, active, has friends and fun. But I've witnessed old age take over in people from the days gone by. . . no longer attractive, active . . . . . many alone, forgotten and abandoned. Hard to believe what you see in their old photos is really them and the life they once had. Like these malls their popularity and usefuless no longer recognized.
Now that's some heavy stuff right there....
Yes aging creeps up on you and then hits hard .I'm 62 and life is getting less fun .
26:17 "You drove from Baltimore to Ohio to film a mall?"
Not just any mall, THE Rolling Acres Mall.
Which is now an Amazon building 😂
That's a long drive.
I love hearing you experiences and thoughts will you are observing every thing. I think one of my biggest grips about some videos of abandoned places is when they are set to music and people don't tell the viewer what they are seeing in real time. So I love this little extra insight into such an amazingly beautiful place
I agree with how intrguing dead malls are. For me I do get a little emotional(I know lame) becuz I myself was also a teen in the 90s and seeing all these malls goes just makes me feel like a part of my teenage and childhood is going. Thank you Dan bell for another great video. I love the cutting room floor videos and I hope you can go back to rolling acres. That would be awesome
Dan, thanks for making these videos. I'm an archaeologist, and I agree with your commentary about documenting these buildings 100%. They are part of the recent cultural and economic history of the country and in 20 years, or 100 or even 500 the records of these buildings will be invaluable to the memory of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Good work and keep it up.
I'm a product of 1980 and grew up in malls and that is why dead malls fascinate me as well. It is so hard to believe that a once beautiful thriving mall can come to complete ruins like this one. Out of all your dead mall series this one was my favorite so far even though you filmed two dead malls I frequented growing up (Middleton mall in Fairmont WV and mountaineer mall in Morgantown WV). Just glad you didn't get hurt or arrested filming this one! Thanks again for sharing!
Once again Dan another awesome Cutting/Room/Floor. It's fun hearing the stories behind your videos and the adventures that happen on and off camera. Looking forward to your next video!
I always watch the rolling acres mall video when I feel bad or anxious and we had to put my dog down today and honestly this is the first time I've felt calm all day. I appreciate your voice and work so much. 💙
I can't get enough of seeing Rolling Acres Mall! It's just so creepy and I can't stop watching!
Are you from Ohio?
@@aurelpopa1581, No. I'm from San Bernardino. A pretty sizable city about an hour northeast of Los Angeles and the largest county (San Bernardino County) by size in the US.
can't wait for a revisit, hope it comes through. this place fascinates me so much. i miss the malls from the past. awesome work as always dan!
I love all your abandoned series, Dan, and I share your feelings about documenting the spaces before they are no longer around. They are a reminder of the excesses of the generation born in the last half of the 20th century.
I grew up in semi-rural central Virginia and from an early age, I was fascinated by abandoned houses and buildings and even an old tobacco factory mere bike rides from my house. They were markers of times gone by, ruined reminders of the impermanence of human creations.
Your videos remind me of my early explorations and of the transient nature of material things. Thanks for all your hard work! I'm so glad the police let you go easy in this one!
I love when you crack yourself up, Dan lol
One of my absolute favorite videos of yours, Dan. Something about the atmosphere, music, and commentary comes together so well and has a sort of tragic nostalgic feel to it. Would love to see a return!
This Dead Mall series video was the 1st or 2nd video I saw of yours, and I've been a huge fan of your work ever since. I'm so happy you did a CRF on it. Keep em' coming!
Great job, Dan!!! I'm a devoted fan of all your staff there. Watching you from Europe. Keep on.
Hey Dan, im British and our high streets are dead, empty and depressing. Our malls are booming, more than ever, more and more malls opening every week. I currently live in Bangkok, Thailand, and the malls are booming here also, I think this is purely an American thing. Great work Dan, your editing skills are amazing.
I don't get emotional when I see these videos, but seeing videos like the Burlington Mall in NJ... that made me a little nostalgic because that was the mall we were taken to as a special treat when I a teenager too young to drive. That mall was, for some reason, special when I was younger. And I'll admit, it made me a little sad when I saw your walk through and saw it dying the way it was. I didn't get emotional about it, but I was thankful that you got there while it was still open to document it... but I also had no idea it declined so badly until I saw it, so you were the one to break the news to me. Now I will admit... I have watched that video three times.
Also, I think the indoor mall is a dying thing, so these videos, at some point, are going to be super cool for folks to show their kids, and since you don't over sensationalize them, it will be great for people to tell their kids stories and all as you go through their teenaged haunts.
Yes. The humanity that strode the mall left some sort of spirit that one can feel. I find it fascinating. Thanks, Dan.
Great video and commentary! I live in Barberton, which boarders Akron, and the street I live on is about 5 minutes away from Rolling Acres. It is a terrible shame what happened to this place. I was only 9 years old when it closed, but as a really little kid, I remember how awesome I thought the place was, the size, the glass elevator, the fountain, it blew my mind. My parents stopped taking me there around 2006 because it was too unsafe. The crime was so bad that the police had to constantly patrol the parking lot. What was once a booming area is now a deserted and eerie wasteland that we have to drive through to reach the highway. Supposedly, Akron has reached a deal with the owners, which is that they have until this July to find a buyer, after July the property returns to the city. I hate to say it, but the only outcome I see is the mall being demolished. It's almost hard to believe. My dad said that in the 70s and 80s, Rolling Acres was the place to be. It was one of the best malls in the state. After only 30 years of operation, it sits in ruin.
I've become fascinated with the Rolling Acres Mall and your video is part of that. Thanks Dan
Dan thank you for making these videos! Love your perspective and commentary!
I love watching these late at night!
+Daռɨɛʟʟɛ Aռɢɛʟɨռa just not the scary series videos, the abandoned children asylum gave me nightmares :(
+RevToTheRedline I had to stay at my parents because of the night at the kids asylum video
One of my absolute favorites. That is so cool to hear of a Japanese company wanting to use your footage. It'll be interesting to see how popular these videos will be in the next decade or so.
Great to see this one again. Great interesting commentary and of course the ending! I just love the C/R/F ones.
I know I've said this before, but not only do I enjoy your "regular" uploads, but your CRF's are excellent. I really enjoy your thoughts on the site, and commentary on the tour. This was a great one. Thanks for consistently interesting videos and quality camerawork.
Glad you did this! One of my favorite videos!
I couldn't agree more about your interest in dead malls. It's amazing how it was once so crowded and alive. Love your videos.
The Rolling Acres Ruins , fascinating!!!!
good cuting room. this was the first of your videos that I have watched and I have been hooked since
Dan just perfectly described how I feel. Is the contrast of what something was and what that something is now. I'm not from America but I live in America now and I am always amazed about how some places can just vanish and not exist anymore. It is not sentimental but it it never stops to amaze me.
I enjoy hearing the extra commentary. I find these places compelling also. I had to think about it for a while to understand why exploring around abandoned places is fun. I think alot of people are more interested in the past rather than the future. I know part of that is true for me. One cool thing about malls is, older people who used to frequent these places, as well as younger people who didn't go, will both find the stories interesting. I think back about exploring abandoned buildings with my mother, at the time I didn't realize so many people were into this sort of thing. I've learned over the years that people have different reasons for exploring, unfortunately some are there for destruction only. I have done some glass breaking myself in the past, so I understand to a degree. Thanks again for taking the time and the risk to attain these videos. chester
I recently found out The Black Keys actually used a shot of the broken glass entrance of this mall for one of their single covers... Cool stuff.
Great video Dan, these videos never fail to fascinate.
The entrance The Black Keys used was the south entrance of the Macy's building...
Enjoyed this my friend. It inspires me to explore some of the old abandoned places out in MA. There are quite a number out this way. Stay well and walk in peace.
Thank you so much for uploading this Dan. I really wanted a C/R/F of this place. Perfect example of abandoned to me. This place was spooky!
I love the dead mall series because I worked at one in the Chicago suburbs in the mid to late 80's while in high school. That was *the* place to hang out back in the day and one of a few legal and relatively safe places for teens to hang out.
BTW, Dan, I found your channel because RUclips started recommending you in the right side panel. I think it's because I watch strange little channels like Dark 5 and some listverse type vids. In any case, love the channel and the cutting room floor. Keep up the good work.
Dan, that was AWESOME!!! I SO appreciate ALL of your videos, but the Rolling Acres ones are my favorites. I'm from Florida, and knew nothing about Rolling Acres until just recently. I instantly became obsessed. I think I've seen every video of this once great mall at least twice. What an AMAZING place! Did you take home any souvenirs from Rolling Acres? I would LOVE to have a piece of tile from that gorgeous fountain, a piece of stationery with the mall logo on it, or most anything else pertaining to the mall. I feel strangely very close to a place that I have never even seen before in person. It's hard to explain. Anyway, I'm babbling on, but thank you VERY much for all you do. GREAT stuff ALWAYS!!!
Loved this cutting room floor! The original video was great, and sooo interesting! - so getting a CRF on this one is excellent!
its so awesome you explaining why you do these videos, it also answers for me why i love watching them so much..I wish i could sneak you in to the East Gate Consumer Mall that used to be open in Indianapolis..that was one of my favorite malls to shop at when i was a kid till it was closed down.
You nailed it when discussing the waste, it's something to behold
(: Dan, I remember when this video came out. I had just found your channel and was checking out your work. I had watched your other dead mall videos and once I was finished with them, I saw you had JUST put up the Rolling Acres video! ^^ glad to see how far the channel has come, and great commentary.
one of the best, Dan. Great stuff!
That was great, thank you so much. Love your vids and Cutting/Room/Floor.
This is the first video I saw of yours and immediately fell in love with your work! Keep it up 😬😬😬😬😬
Good storytelling and such creepy stores. I like these videos as well as your abandoned motels. Abandoned places are beautiful, scary and oh so mysterious.
Awesome Video. Always puts a smile on my face. I am going through a though time right now and I want to thank you for making me laugh again. Keep up the good work.
I'm watching your videos like crazy. Love them, and I love the sound of your voice. :)
I understand how you feel. There is something bitter sweet seeing a dead mall. It's hard to put into words. Glad you didn't get arrested! Great video!
I love your videos. The reminiscing and the shame of a waste of good space. The eerieiness of your videos is awesome! almost horror movie like
I enjoyed that, Dan! Thank you:) You express yourself so well, and it jives with my way of thinking:)
Another awesome video!
Everything I watch this video, I am always amazed that you made it up and down those escalater steps without slipping and falling off.
Oh yeah so excited to see this cutting room floor!!
jumping up and down AWESOME! I wished and wished you would do a CRF on Rolling Acres! I love your commentary and the wave in the mirror was GREAT.
Love your videos they are fantastic. You easily did the 30 minute talk mate so no worries there. Would love a daily cutting room floor vid but i know that's impossible. So great to see the videos twice in your channel with raw then commented version. Brilliant idea and it works perfect for you. Keep up the good work!
Another fantastic video. Well done!
Your videos are well worth the time it takes to watch them!
I was 16 back in 1993 and going to the mall was the cool thing do to hang-out, to shop. Now it's about Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Ebay. My mall is Amazon and I hang-out with friends on Facebook. Things have changed since the 90's! :)
Another great cutting room floor episode!
Great Video Dan! have watched this video numerous times
As someone who came of age in the 80s, no malls have closed here in the Seattle area. In-fact most have expanded in size. Dead malls must be more of a east of the Rockies issue.
It all really depends on area, if a mall is in a nice or safe area, it's more likely to thrive.
I'm from Michigan and i've watched Mall grow massively (Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi,MI) , i've watched malls slowly shrink (Meridian Mall, Okemos) and i've seen mall completely close up (Livonia Mall, Livonia) and get demolished (Wonderland Mall, Livonia). In my opinion, it boils down to the economy of the area. Richer people = More Business. When the economy in cities start to fail, so do the malls.
@@loganknowsnoneofyourbusine263 like one mall here, the area surrounding it has suddenly become a huge retail corridor, tons of new stores and stuff
Oh yeah and the mall has 8 anchor tenants now which is just insane, including a very nice movie theater built 2 years ago
The downside is that there's a lot of empty retail further down the road but hopefully that will change soon
@@GummyDinosaursify yea exactly, I'd say Southland Center is getting better
The Anthropological/Archeological aspect if your work is what attracted me to your work. So, I certainly agree with what drew you in.
I think that video was the first I saw of yours. Still love the police at the end...enjoyed hearing all about the trip.
IF you do go back, see if you find or get any footage of the infamous underground tunnel that supposedly flows from the fountain to the kenwood forest I believe it was called. That could be interesting too. Thanks Dan, you're the best at this stuff. Would love to see more of the inside of the Cinema area as well. Thanks again!! :)
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!!!!!
The combo of the fountain and the ceiling at 18:58 is fantastic! I can imagine when that fountain was in use that the orange tile would just glow. Combine that and the diffused skylight with its geometric supports, it created a nice aesthetic.
search for Rolling Acres Mall and you will find video of when it was open and the fountain was working. It was beautiful.
keep up the excellent work and I love the series
Niiiice! Been hoping for this!
Your an awesome RUclipsr man, great videos! Keep it up!
The video that introduced me to this awesome channel!! :) Amazing video as usual :)
There are actually dead malls here in Norway too. Kverntorget is one of them, it shut down in the early 2000s, it was demolished in 2006, but if you look it up, there are some shots of it full of decay. As for America, I don't really think your economy is failing, it's just adjusting, it seems to me, that there was just simply an over abundance of malls, at some point in time, that will just burst. But it's rarely the complete end of something.
I agree, in the akron area there were about 4 malls, this was bound to happen!
Thanks Dan. Great video. I used to go there when I was a kid, Arcade was downstairs by the food court.
Another great video KEEP IT UP DAN!!!
"stark contrast" yes, i like that. I love abandonment and I love popular culture and a dead malls totally connects the two. Thanks for your great videos.
It's been a long boring day, until now. Thanks Dan.
Love your videos. This one was spooky.
You know I think the fascination with malls closing is also about fantasizing about the end of society in general. How many post apocalyptic movies make references to malls.
FUN C/R/F! It was photos from Seth Lawless that had me doing a RUclips search on this mall several months ago. I found your channel, and of course I've been hooked ever since.
Dan, you may never read this comment and you may receive similar comments any way, but your channel is awesome and I'm a geek with these abandoned places too and am eternally grateful for your channel. It's provided me hours and hours of entertainments on boring/sad/rainy days etc. that most other channels don't do for me so thank you! I posted on one of your other videos about abandoned places here in the Philly suburbs so if you ever need a lead on a new abandoned place around these parts let me know! Keep up the awesome work btw!
The video that made me a subscriber. Very interesting commentary version!
Wanted this video for so long
Dan, you should be on Coast To Coast A.M. The places you find and film are awsome and what a story they tell.
yessss!!!! thank you ☺ lots of my friends grew up going to this mall when it was awesome
I think it was a fantastic place when they went
would love to see another video from you in this mall! Just so fascinating!
[i am following you from germany, by the way ;)]
I really hope you can go back and do another video of this mall.I love all your mall videos keep em comming.
Love this. But watched with a bit of pain in my heart. I miss these malls. South Park in Strongsville is our newest mall, still going strong after about 20 years. I must get my husbands wheelchair out and go out there before it is gone. I just love the indoor malls. Especially here in northeast Ohio. Last couple of years of Rolling Acres we used to go to the last two stores that were still open, Sears and JC Penny's. Just went because we didn't want to give up on this beautiful mall.
Great video as usual.
As Dan was saying about when it first closed and it was wide open, the scrappers would have had a field day !! As an ex scrapper that building would have been the holy grail for me !!
Very cool, Dan! Love it! :D
I went to rolling acres last Saturday and let me tell you...
4 cop cars patrolling the parking lot, one stopped to question me.
I was only outside taking photos.
The mall will probably be gone by the end of 2016 so thank you for making these videos for history's sake.
and now its demolished ! so glad you filmed
I reckon he never got to do that return trip he mentioned in the video
I like listen to you describe your video's please don't stop. thanks for this video very good.