Josh Pandolph I was just about to comment and ask that. I love how they made a point to bring that up in the Grand Opening video like people are going to travel to the mall just to get a look at those marble floors.
I have never been to this Mall, I don't even live near the area, but looking at this, I feel a sense of sadness. This is a piece of Americana gone. I fear that this is the way that all malls will go one day. Like so many other things, malls will more than likely become a piece of American history.
It’s the cycle. In the early to mid 20th century everyone did their shopping in downtown districts where department stores housed multiple levels in their own buildings, and that was replaced by suburban malls...
oh this is so sad.. First my high school closes and now Owings Mills Mall! All my childhood memories are being demolished! Right about this time every year my family always made an annual trek to Owings Mills Mall for our back to school shopping which was a highly anticipated yearly ritual marking the beginning of a new school year. 🙁
This made me look up the mall where I had my first "real" job. It is still there, but barely and the plans to demolish and redevelop the area are in the works. I was there the first day the mall opened and I cannot believe that time has passed to the point of it"s imminent destruction. I was able to find a picture of the Baskin-Robbins I worked at and was a bit overwhelmed. I am sure I too would pick up a brick if I could. Good film Dan.
it really doesn't even occur to me to go to a mall if I need something. I just go to Target or somewhere like that. Malls are just a place where kids wander around now.
I generally go to a mall, but only because I live near one. Even then, I generally only go to the big stores there unless I'm looking for something specific.
I can agree. Often, my parents will just get their shit at Walmart or Khols. There's only a few times when we go to the mall: Friday nights when I want to hang out with my mom, rainy Sunday afternoons, and every December 23rd to do some last-minute Christmas shopping with my dad.
Goodbye mall of my teenage years. I had a flashback seeing the entrance to the conservatory. I think there was a uno pizzeria there. I remember the Esprit and Benetton stores and I think The Banana Republic was there when it was cool and looked like a jungle safari inside.
Maybe it's me, but this was a very sad video. It seems that malls are truly dying piece by piece. They were a big part of my life in the 19700s and1980s and now malls have become historical icons. But I'm glad Dan was able to get before/after videos of this mall. Someone, it could've been Dan himself, said that having these kinds videos on youtube are the only visual moving reminder we have before 99% of the malls in America disappear for good. I'm so glad Dan is able to record them. I don't see anyone else doing the kind of work he does in a professional yet personal manner. I look forward to before/after malls but I'm sure I'll feel a twinge of sadness as well.
Wow, you're kidding. It really is the end of an era, end of the 80s. Fancy malls like this were about believing in affluence and upward mobility. So much for the vision that the middle classes would share in prosperity. I inherited a collection of Gourmet magazines from the 80s and early 90s, it was all about this. It's weird to read the confident gushy consumerism compared to post-recession attitudes. One Christmas issue profiled the opening of a fancy mall in Boston. At the time, it felt like the start of a new chapter of the American Dream. Little did we know it was the last chapter. Here we are, welcome to the Internet. Makes you wonder what will happen to Asia's new middle classes in 5-15 years.
Hey +TheSportCompact I had a look and can't find the issue of Gourmet. It was a December issue maybe mid 1980s, about a high end galleria that had just opened. It was all about the amazing imported expensive stuff you could buy at each store and the spas and gourmet restaurants there. The tone was pure luxury consumerism. I'm pretty sure it was Boston. I found one issue of Bon Appetit, December 1997 that profiled Christmas in Boston. But that wasn't the main issue I'm talking about.
+TheSportCompact I checked Gourmet Dec 1990 and couldn't find it, the year the galleria opened. If I find it I'll come back to this thread and tell you.
Watching your Dead Mall series always makes me reflect on how things have changed. For some the malls are long gone, the others have renovated and adapted to survive. W.E.M. the big tourist stop up here, I remember when it used to have 4 submarines running in it. Now they are scrap aluminium/copper/lead.
This is so sad. I was there for the grand opening. It was a beautiful mall, but it opened amid changes in the area. Ahhh, the good old days. Thanks Dan and Will for sharing this with us. You guys are awesome. Your faithful follower. Kathy B. (fairylady0227)
I really felt sad watching this even though I have never been to this mall. It's always heartbreaking to see something demolished that brought joy and happiness to people .
It's sad looking back on that grand opening 80s footage in the other video, everyone was so happy and the mall was beautiful. Now... I know I'm being over dramatic but it's almost like watching a murder!
Amazing videos as always Dan, thank you. Seeing these is watching the passing of a part of my youth when the mall was the big deal in town. We have 5 major malls in the Oklahoma City Metro area. Oddly, the oldest one is the only one still thriving and busier than ever. Penn Square: 1959, thriving, can't find a parking space on weekends. Shepherd Mall: 1963, died in the early 1990s, now repurposed into a huge office complex. Crossroads Mall: 1974, once one of the largest and most modern malls in the country, died as a real mall in the early 2000s, it now stands 90% empty and in poor condition as a community center. Quail Springs: 1981, still operates as a mall and in reasonable condition, but only half as busy as it was many years ago. Has almost closed half a dozen times in the past 20 years. Heritage Park: 1979, the saddest one. It has a Sears still open, sealed off, but the mall itself is abandoned and literally crumbling. Light poles rusty and falling over, broken faded signs falling off, smashed windows boarded up. Incredible. It was once the shopping Mecca of the eastern metro area. You should check them out of you are ever out this way.
Thanks Dan for doing this. There is a local mall near me that has many fond memories that is near extinction called the Echelon Mall in Voorhees New Jersey. It's just a shadow of its former self now. I remember going to the cinema there to see Rust Never Sleeps at the midnight show.Woke up the next day with the first and worst hangover ever. Keep doing what you do Dan. Very much appreciated.
Excellent series Dan! I've very much enjoyed the Dead Mall Series. As someone who is stuck in the 80's I miss the malls. Thank you for bringing some nostalgia back!
That wasn't the Saks wing by the way in the beginning of your video. That was the original location for the Macys, and Macys left that space for the other side when the Hecht Co. vacated. The Saks Fifth Ave was in the building that was more recently JC Penny. (Right up until the end. Also, during the opening sequence where you peeked inside i believe you were absolutely correct about that area to your left being the spot where the steps were leading up to the food court because that sure looks like the facade to the former Yankee Candle store opposite the bottom of those stairs. Great video bro. I was tempted to get out of my car and take a pic or two myself of the inside like you did at the Conservatory entrance but I chickened out!
The Dead Mall videos have always been my favourite serious of yours, Dan. It's how I originally found this channel. I believe it was even this exact mall that you were filming. Like they say, "You'll always remember your first!"
My wife and I took the tour around the outside just a few days ago. Visited every entrance. We remember the days when you couldn't find a close parking space to any of these doors...
Just earlier today I checked your channels to see if there were any new mall videos that I had missed! Thanks for uploading, Dan. I find your mall series fascinating!
There were 2 malls in my home town. One was bought by a church. They lease space out of it and use part as their youth and activities center. It was built in the early 70s. The newer mall was built in 1980 and still operating at full capacity seeing as how there is nothing else to do in my hometown. They did take out all trees planters and fountains and fill in with concrete.
What a sad thing to see...many fun times were had at this mall. We spent so many hours walking around here when my son was small , he was even on Channel 13 news for a Christmas story. My son, Coolduder is on RUclips too and loves all your work !!!! He got me to watch all your videos. He is so sad to see all his favorite malls disappearing.
Sadly a sign of the times. Owings Mills is almost demolished. Granite Run is demolished. Rolling Acres is about to be demolished. The malls we knew and loved are dying out. Great vids Dan keep up the amazing work.
I'm very glad you are able to get footage of the progress of this demolition, I loved this mall and I'm very disappointed they couldn't just save the mall structure and repurpose the surrounding area with an outdoor shopping outlet. They really could have just tore down the anchor stores and repurpose the mall, such a waste
There probably is security there after daylight hours. Unfortunately security guards get paid very little. All they do is tell people to get off property and if people DO get past them and get into the building, they aren't going to go inside to get them out. I worked security at a worse site than this (think meat factory) and I sure as shit wasn't going to go inside to tell someone to leave. The cops even made it clear they weren't going in either.
Keep going back and making vblogs on this. This mall seems to be interesting to so many people. I'd love to see a compilation of this from heyday to vacant lot.
What a pity, it really was a beautiful mall! Here in South Africa there is a shopping centre down the road that has been abandoned for 10 years. There is an ongoing feud among residents whether it should become a new shopping centre or a mental hospital. Consequently no action is taken and it just remains empty- ivy is even growing from inside the building out through the windows!
Dan, just discovered your channel. Really cool stuff. Thought I'd make a recommendation for you. In South Texas there's a very small town called Premont. My husband and I have driven through it a few times and it looks like a town Freddy Krueger took over. There's an abandoned elementary school there. The doors are boarded & the windows are all broken. There are still old desks, computers, lockers and textbooks just lying around. No one bothered cleaning it out. There's a dead little town square too. It's all boarded up and very creepy and I think it'd make a cool video.
Sad to see a once-thriving place come to an end like this. It would have been great if you walked right in with a shopping bag, merchandise and receipt from a former store and when confronted state you were there to exchange something, and then demand to know what they did to the store!
I live in the area and have just driven by there on occasion. Last week was the most recent time. I was wondering what was going on inside, since I didn't stop. From the outside it just looks empty and boarded up. I used to shop at this mall all the time in the years passed. I haven't been to a mall in so long now that I'm not really that sad it's coming down. Seems that every mall in Maryland except for Towsontowne Center, the Mall in Columbia and White Marsh Mall are being demolished. Then there is the new shopping area coming up not to far from the Owings Mills Mall. It's called Foundry Row and will have the new Wegmanns. Good for shopping, but bad for traffic! Keep up the good work, Dan!
Theresa Strakna I was there this afternoon. Hard to find a parking space. The day after Thanksgiving until the second week of January. It's impossible. People park on the grass and in the fire lane
Sad! it was a beautiful Mall nicer the any of our malls here in Tacoma and Seattle built in '65 can't help but wonder if the malls here will go down too?
Wow, I noticed in the area shown toward the end that they didn't even bother to resell or give away those quarter kiddy rides. Guess the owners were just happy to finally get rid of it.
It's kinda sad to see malls go because they were such a huge part of a lot of our upbringings, but on the bright side maybe we'll see a resurgence of small businesses with the absence of them.
Google 'C-47 Base'. I got in a few years ago. It's in ok shape. Closed in 1972. The buildings are a bit rough and the nuclear missiles silos and the fallout shelter are under water. But the the missiles doors are and everything else are something to see from the Cold War era.
Just watched a news report on RUclips regarding this mall and the plans they had. It was from mid 2011 and they had just signed off then on this mall been replaced by an open air avenue type shopping precinct. The plans were for it to be demolished by mid 2013 and the new shopping precinct open by late 2014. I guess it managed to survive a couple of years longer than they planned.
The remains of the Conservatory really got to me. Just seeing all the dead plants, the final fading memory of what was once a proud feature.
The mall music has silenced, the conservatory has served its last meal and the last shopper has left the building. Rest in Peace Owings Mills Mall.
What's going to happen to the "Marble floors imported from France"
Too bad he couldn't have taken a piece of those as a souvenir!
the floors were on the auction block i tried to bid for a few feet to re use in my kitchen but was out bid so sad
That'd be awesome being able to say that your kitchen floors are marble floors from the Owings Mills Mall
Josh Pandolph I was just about to comment and ask that. I love how they made a point to bring that up in the Grand Opening video like people are going to travel to the mall just to get a look at those marble floors.
They were ripped out “with a cat bulldozer imported from Peoria, IL” 😂😂
Bye Owings Mills Mall, I had great memories there.
Building demolished, Bath and Body Works still there.
Anthony Micari and don’t forget the GNC lol
I have never been to this Mall, I don't even live near the area, but looking at this, I feel a sense of sadness. This is a piece of Americana gone. I fear that this is the way that all malls will go one day. Like so many other things, malls will more than likely become a piece of American history.
They're alive and well here in Australia. 😀
+MsWaggydog We have some malls in the area that are doing well
I think their is a dead mall in Australia. Sadly, there are many dead or dying malls across America.
What city?
It’s the cycle. In the early to mid 20th century everyone did their shopping in downtown districts where department stores housed multiple levels in their own buildings, and that was replaced by suburban malls...
3:25 "I'm not taking a brick,haha!" 4:49 "we decided to take a brick" Im dying.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Now Dan will always have a piece of his childhood mall with him.
@@GiovanniCloud LOL dead
oh this is so sad..
First my high school closes and now Owings Mills Mall! All my childhood memories are being demolished! Right about this time every year my family always made an annual trek to Owings Mills Mall for our back to school shopping which was a highly anticipated yearly ritual marking the beginning of a new school year. 🙁
This made me look up the mall where I had my first "real" job. It is still there, but barely and the plans to demolish and redevelop the area are in the works. I was there the first day the mall opened and I cannot believe that time has passed to the point of it"s imminent destruction. I was able to find a picture of the Baskin-Robbins I worked at and was a bit overwhelmed. I am sure I too would pick up a brick if I could. Good film Dan.
This is so sad. My parents first apartment was in Owings Mills, and they can remember when that mall opened.
So many good times reminds me of how much fun I had so sad !!
Very sad my first job, and all of my teen years spent in this mall.
The sick part is that this is a fairly new mall being torn down roughly 30 years after being built as a crown jewel of local malls.
it really doesn't even occur to me to go to a mall if I need something. I just go to Target or somewhere like that. Malls are just a place where kids wander around now.
Me too. I go to TJMaxx, Marshalls, Ross, Burlington, etc. Everything at the mall is overpriced.
Yeah, it's such a hassle going to a mall, having to park, walk a lot, etc.
I generally go to a mall, but only because I live near one. Even then, I generally only go to the big stores there unless I'm looking for something specific.
hardly *anyone* seems to wander around them, anymore. lol
I can agree. Often, my parents will just get their shit at Walmart or Khols. There's only a few times when we go to the mall: Friday nights when I want to hang out with my mom, rainy Sunday afternoons, and every December 23rd to do some last-minute Christmas shopping with my dad.
Don't call it a food court! It's a conservatory! ;)
+Beth G
I was about to say that lol.
sad day always to see a mall being demolished. It's like loosing a good friend. thanks for posting the demolition of the Owings Mill mall.
Goodbye mall of my teenage years. I had a flashback seeing the entrance to the conservatory. I think there was a uno pizzeria there. I remember the Esprit and Benetton stores and I think The Banana Republic was there when it was cool and looked like a jungle safari inside.
Maybe it's me, but this was a very sad video. It seems that malls are truly dying piece by piece. They were a big part of my life in the 19700s and1980s and now malls have become historical icons. But I'm glad Dan was able to get before/after videos of this mall. Someone, it could've been Dan himself, said that having these kinds videos on youtube are the only visual moving reminder we have before 99% of the malls in America disappear for good. I'm so glad Dan is able to record them. I don't see anyone else doing the kind of work he does in a professional yet personal manner. I look forward to before/after malls but I'm sure I'll feel a twinge of sadness as well.
Bye Owings Mills. You'll live on through Dans channel and our memories~
Wow, you're kidding. It really is the end of an era, end of the 80s. Fancy malls like this were about believing in affluence and upward mobility. So much for the vision that the middle classes would share in prosperity. I inherited a collection of Gourmet magazines from the 80s and early 90s, it was all about this. It's weird to read the confident gushy consumerism compared to post-recession attitudes. One Christmas issue profiled the opening of a fancy mall in Boston. At the time, it felt like the start of a new chapter of the American Dream. Little did we know it was the last chapter. Here we are, welcome to the Internet. Makes you wonder what will happen to Asia's new middle classes in 5-15 years.
+Spacebaby21
I live 30mins north of Boston. You wouldn't happen to remember what mall it was talking about would you?
Spacebaby21, I know exactly what you mean.
Hey +TheSportCompact I had a look and can't find the issue of Gourmet. It was a December issue maybe mid 1980s, about a high end galleria that had just opened. It was all about the amazing imported expensive stuff you could buy at each store and the spas and gourmet restaurants there. The tone was pure luxury consumerism. I'm pretty sure it was Boston. I found one issue of Bon Appetit, December 1997 that profiled Christmas in Boston. But that wasn't the main issue I'm talking about.
Spacebaby21
It might be the CambridgeSide Galleria
+TheSportCompact I checked Gourmet Dec 1990 and couldn't find it, the year the galleria opened. If I find it I'll come back to this thread and tell you.
Such a beautiful mall in such a perfect location, so weird how it failed...
Watching your Dead Mall series always makes me reflect on how things have changed. For some the malls are long gone, the others have renovated and adapted to survive. W.E.M. the big tourist stop up here, I remember when it used to have 4 submarines running in it. Now they are scrap aluminium/copper/lead.
Makes me think of the old Carol Burnett song she did at the end of all her shows.....
This is so sad. I was there for the grand opening. It was a beautiful mall, but it opened amid changes in the area. Ahhh, the good old days. Thanks Dan and Will for sharing this with us. You guys are awesome. Your faithful follower.
Kathy B. (fairylady0227)
I worked there. I wonder how many of us worked in the mall?
Dan remember golden ring mall?? a lot of time spent in timeout arcade,sadly its gone too,it was in eastern Baltimore county
I really felt sad watching this even though I have never been to this mall. It's always heartbreaking to see something demolished that brought joy and happiness to people .
Thanks for sharing. Awesome video. I'm really shocked they don't have some type of fence or security around as well right now.
Thanks dan i remember in the early 90's when that mall was a glorious place!
Thanks Dan, so sorry for the loss of another place filled with memories for so many people.
It's sad looking back on that grand opening 80s footage in the other video, everyone was so happy and the mall was beautiful. Now... I know I'm being over dramatic but it's almost like watching a murder!
Amazing videos as always Dan, thank you. Seeing these is watching the passing of a part of my youth when the mall was the big deal in town.
We have 5 major malls in the Oklahoma City Metro area. Oddly, the oldest one is the only one still thriving and busier than ever.
Penn Square: 1959, thriving, can't find a parking space on weekends.
Shepherd Mall: 1963, died in the early 1990s, now repurposed into a huge office complex.
Crossroads Mall: 1974, once one of the largest and most modern malls in the country, died as a real mall in the early 2000s, it now stands 90% empty and in poor condition as a community center.
Quail Springs: 1981, still operates as a mall and in reasonable condition, but only half as busy as it was many years ago. Has almost closed half a dozen times in the past 20 years.
Heritage Park: 1979, the saddest one. It has a Sears still open, sealed off, but the mall itself is abandoned and literally crumbling. Light poles rusty and falling over, broken faded signs falling off, smashed windows boarded up. Incredible. It was once the shopping Mecca of the eastern metro area.
You should check them out of you are ever out this way.
Happy belated birthday, Dan! That video was so awesome I could almost smell the dust from the demolition of the mall!
Thanks Dan for doing this. There is a local mall near me that has many fond memories that is near extinction called the Echelon Mall in Voorhees New Jersey. It's just a shadow of its former self now. I remember going to the cinema there to see Rust Never Sleeps at the midnight show.Woke up the next day with the first and worst hangover ever. Keep doing what you do Dan. Very much appreciated.
That's sad, used to go there a lot when I was younger , really cool video tho dan!!!
Excellent series Dan! I've very much enjoyed the Dead Mall Series. As someone who is stuck in the 80's I miss the malls. Thank you for bringing some nostalgia back!
Dan you were already one of my favorite people alive but when you said anyway and didn't say anyways, you became my hero!
That wasn't the Saks wing by the way in the beginning of your video. That was the original location for the Macys, and Macys left that space for the other side when the Hecht Co. vacated. The Saks Fifth Ave was in the building that was more recently JC Penny. (Right up until the end. Also, during the opening sequence where you peeked inside i believe you were absolutely correct about that area to your left being the spot where the steps were leading up to the food court because that sure looks like the facade to the former Yankee Candle store opposite the bottom of those stairs. Great video bro. I was tempted to get out of my car and take a pic or two myself of the inside like you did at the Conservatory entrance but I chickened out!
Very sad. I worked near this mall and shopped there many times. Thanks for the last look Dan.
Ha. I love your quote at the end "what a sad day, kind of."
The Dead Mall videos have always been my favourite serious of yours, Dan. It's how I originally found this channel. I believe it was even this exact mall that you were filming. Like they say, "You'll always remember your first!"
published on my birthday! happy birthday to me!! :) Love Dan Bell!!
Happy Birthday, Heather!
You like to celebrate your Birthday with demolition and destruction. I like it. ;-)
Will Heather get the brick as a birthday present!
You should make one on December 12, which is my birthday too. Maybe an abandoned department store?
Happy birthday, Heather Booker!!!!
I have never actually seen the demo of a mall before so this was especially interesting to watch. I'm glad you took a momento, very cool.
My wife and I took the tour around the outside just a few days ago. Visited every entrance. We remember the days when you couldn't find a close parking space to any of these doors...
Wow great video ! It's a shame that malls are becoming obsolete. Good that you got a brick as a souvenir from times past .
Just earlier today I checked your channels to see if there were any new mall videos that I had missed! Thanks for uploading, Dan. I find your mall series fascinating!
just think of all the people that walked on that brick rushing to black Friday sales
Just wow. I remember when going to this mall was an 'event'
Have seen all your videos of this mall and I can't get over how lovely it was! Such a sad waste
:( So sad. From watching your other videos, I can see what a gorgeous and young mall that was.
There were 2 malls in my home town. One was bought by a church. They lease space out of it and use part as their youth and activities center. It was built in the early 70s. The newer mall was built in 1980 and still operating at full capacity seeing as how there is nothing else to do in my hometown. They did take out all trees planters and fountains and fill in with concrete.
queue: Semisonic - Closing Time
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end"
What a sad thing to see...many fun times were had at this mall. We spent so many hours walking around here when my son was small , he was even on Channel 13 news for a Christmas story. My son, Coolduder is on RUclips too and loves all your work !!!! He got me to watch all your videos. He is so sad to see all his favorite malls disappearing.
and the Owings mill mall videos were my favorite
I feel like a broken record saying "what a great video" everytime so instead I'll just say hello! 💓
Sadly a sign of the times. Owings Mills is almost demolished. Granite Run is demolished. Rolling Acres is about to be demolished. The malls we knew and loved are dying out. Great vids Dan keep up the amazing work.
I'm very glad you are able to get footage of the progress of this demolition, I loved this mall and I'm very disappointed they couldn't just save the mall structure and repurpose the surrounding area with an outdoor shopping outlet.
They really could have just tore down the anchor stores and repurpose the mall, such a waste
Total lack of security for an active demolition site. How many laws were the company breaking by not protecting the site? Lawsuit waiting to happen.
I was surprised someone didn't chase him out of there. Demolition zones aren't exactly safe places for the casual observer.
Dan's been in the Maryland newspapers at least 4 times. Maybe they were expecting him.
There probably is security there after daylight hours. Unfortunately security guards get paid very little. All they do is tell people to get off property and if people DO get past them and get into the building, they aren't going to go inside to get them out. I worked security at a worse site than this (think meat factory) and I sure as shit wasn't going to go inside to tell someone to leave. The cops even made it clear they weren't going in either.
Did they bother to salvage the imported marble they were so proud of l?
We had the snow plow contracts during the 80-2003 time frame. Good memories- how times change.
Oshit, someone's released the alien eggs! GET OUT OF THERE!
Keep going back and making vblogs on this. This mall seems to be interesting to so many people. I'd love to see a compilation of this from heyday to vacant lot.
It's always pity when an abandoned building gets demolished!
Farewell Owings Mills Mall 1986-2016 r.i.p :(
very sad. I still love the atmosphere you caught in this video. good work
Come to Canada! Love the dead mall series :)
Sad progress. Thank you Dan Bell.
What a pity, it really was a beautiful mall! Here in South Africa there is a shopping centre down the road that has been abandoned for 10 years. There is an ongoing feud among residents whether it should become a new shopping centre or a mental hospital. Consequently no action is taken and it just remains empty- ivy is even growing from inside the building out through the windows!
Dan, just discovered your channel. Really cool stuff. Thought I'd make a recommendation for you. In South Texas there's a very small town called Premont. My husband and I have driven through it a few times and it looks like a town Freddy Krueger took over. There's an abandoned elementary school there. The doors are boarded & the windows are all broken. There are still old desks, computers, lockers and textbooks just lying around. No one bothered cleaning it out. There's a dead little town square too. It's all boarded up and very creepy and I think it'd make a cool video.
R.I.P Owings Mills Mall 1986-2016
OMG!!! This mall used to be so fantastic! :(
You should come out to Long Island NY and check out the Mall at The Source in Westbury NY. Depressing.
I will never forget the periscope Dan did from here on I believe it was Macy's last day.
Goodbye, Owings MIlls. So depressing to see it like this. Another one gone...
Sad to see a once-thriving place come to an end like this.
It would have been great if you walked right in with a shopping bag, merchandise and receipt from a former store and when confronted state you were there to exchange something, and then demand to know what they did to the store!
I wonder what they are going to build there now. Great video.
Great update Dan, so sad that they demolish it.
Looks like mall demolition is going to be the new norm.
Like the brick memento, I have a tile from the entrance of Splendid China in Florida. Keep up the good work Dan
I live in the area and have just driven by there on occasion. Last week was the most recent time. I was wondering what was going on inside, since I didn't stop. From the outside it just looks empty and boarded up.
I used to shop at this mall all the time in the years passed. I haven't been to a mall in so long now that I'm not really that sad it's coming down. Seems that every mall in Maryland except for Towsontowne Center, the Mall in Columbia and White Marsh Mall are being demolished.
Then there is the new shopping area coming up not to far from the Owings Mills Mall. It's called Foundry Row and will have the new Wegmanns. Good for shopping, but bad for traffic! Keep up the good work, Dan!
Arundel Mills is doing well
Oops, I forgot about that one!
Theresa Strakna I was there this afternoon. Hard to find a parking space. The day after Thanksgiving until the second week of January. It's impossible. People park on the grass and in the fire lane
My local mall is always pretty busy... But then again, it's not in a bad part of town, and it's relatively newer (2001)
Sad! it was a beautiful Mall nicer the any of our malls here in Tacoma and Seattle built in '65 can't help but wonder if the malls here will go down too?
kinda weird i grew up going to this mall and they're demolishing it as soon as i left for college
RIP Owings Mills
Me too!! Any chance for some of your longer abandoned videos?!?! Thanks!!! By the way,love your voice!😀
watching the era of the mall come n go makes me feel like a dinosaur. probably accurate.
R.I.P.
and it is gone at least they are not just letting the. building sit there empty
how sad!
Whoa it looked different back then! Glad it's redeveloped today, relying on this region for employment now.
Wow, I noticed in the area shown toward the end that they didn't even bother to resell or give away those quarter kiddy rides. Guess the owners were just happy to finally get rid of it.
It's kinda sad to see malls go because they were such a huge part of a lot of our upbringings, but on the bright side maybe we'll see a resurgence of small businesses with the absence of them.
need more dead mall films
Actually, we need more live malls. #bringbackmalls
Not that fond of live malls. Do enjoy watching dead mall videos, though.
It's so sad to see it go
Just went there a few weeks back
So Long..........Owings Mills Mall...RIP.
Please do a update video of the Granite run mall, there's soooooooo much demolition going on there you wont believe it!
Google 'C-47 Base'. I got in a few years ago. It's in ok shape. Closed in 1972. The buildings are a bit rough and the nuclear missiles silos and the fallout shelter are under water. But the the missiles doors are and everything else are something to see from the Cold War era.
can't help but feel a little sad seeing it like that.
Let us know what they do with the land if you would Dan. That is so cool that you kept a brick.
Just watched a news report on RUclips regarding this mall and the plans they had. It was from mid 2011 and they had just signed off then on this mall been replaced by an open air avenue type shopping precinct. The plans were for it to be demolished by mid 2013 and the new shopping precinct open by late 2014. I guess it managed to survive a couple of years longer than they planned.