Inside a 1970's ABANDONED Days Inn Hotel
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In the country side of Pennsylvania and off a major highway junction, sits a former Sheraton Motor Inn hotel, now a decaying Days Inn. Opened as a luxury roadside hotel, complete with indoor pool and lots of amenities. It was a product of the time and a wonderful hotel for many decades. However after declining occupancy and raising maintenance costs, the building was shuttered and left to the elements. After scrappers, vandals and nature took hold, this once luxury hotel is now in an unbelievable state. Let's take a look inside and discover it's lodging roots.
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I totally know this place as the Sheraton. When I was young, we’d stay there as a mini “getaway” when visiting family in the area. So sad to see it gone. I loved swimming in the pool. My parents always got a balcony room off the pool area so they could keep an eye on me. Haha. The restaurant was nice as well. Thanks for sharing this with us!!
@@watershed44 It's who they are.
i think i remember going to a convention but i was really little when that happened i just know that this place looks exactly the same to me as that place but it was kind of nice but worn when i was there i think that was around the 2012 area but i agree it was a nice place and im sad to no longer see it being open
@@watershed44 No one censored my post. It remains in its entirety and it is all I need to say about them in regard to this topic.
@@watershed44 yeah I was seeing that because I seen a post that was so random.
@@watershed44 You would think they have something better to do than remove posts like yours. Things like making sure people don't post alternative viewpoints in remedies to diseases which leads to thousands of people dying.
I had the privilege of working at this location in the late 90’s into the early 2000’s. I started out as a dishwasher, and even worked at the front desk. The restaurant was named four seasons, and the bar was called whispers. I remember one of the items on the menu was chef Tim’s chicken harbor side.
During your time there, would you consider it busy?
Man, remember when hotel bars all had names like Rumors and Whispers? SOOO 1988!
@@jbrooks9567 yes indeed, it always seemed like whoever had ownership at the time, realized they were never going to get their money back.
this is nuts, i've driven past this place so many times wanting to stop by and check it out but it always felt too dangerous to go... i'm glad i finally got to see it this way. awesome work
Probably a good call. If I were homeless in that area. I'd be there.
Same. I've driven by it countless times on my way to and from Penn State in the early 2010s wondering about this place.
Where is this located?
@@LuchadorMasque ...and you'd be dangerous to explorers?
@@mikenevitt7516 i looked into it. its in Danville, Pennslyvaina.
It's incredible how quickly nature takes back what humans leave abandoned.
Vandals do it quicker
Thats a nice thought, but the concrete alone will take hundreds of years to melt away. This eyesore will be around a long time.
I'm wondering if a tornado, maybe at the F-1 or F-2 scale hit this place some time after it closed.
It would explain the extensive structural damage this building sustained in a short (8 year) amount of time.
This was a Sheraton Motor Lodge I had the privilege of staying at numerous times as a youngster. This place was epic.
What was great about it? (genuine question)
Wow, you must be at least 35
It looks like it was hit by a hurricane. It's hard to believe how quickly it got to that state.
@@yourstruly4817 no way! Surely nobody on you tube is over 23
Jake, Ive been watching your channel for years. Love to see how its grown.
I used to do urbex myself over 25 years ago, long before the word "urbex" existed, and we did it for the sheer joy of examining forgotten and abandoned places, taking only oldschool film pix to share with our friends, and not vandalizing the areas we visited - me and my friends were the only people we knew who did it and many people thought we were weird for wanting to explore abandoned places. One of the weirdest thinks we found (somewhere in a group of rowhouses in PA) was a home made liquor still, with mason jars of hooch nearby. Its crazy to think how urbex became a thing since then. There seemed to be less overall spraypainting back then, but people have always ripped out copper ect for money.
Thanks, this was a great watch.
Me too on urbexing before the term was coined. We had a partially demolished mall with the jcpenney wing being the last standing piece, tons of old abandoned barges on the river, old warehouses on the river and a few old abandoned neighborhoods (due to hurricane Katrina) in the area I grew up in.
Where I grew up, we had an old abandoned high school that burned down one night in the early 90s.
I wanted to explore the place before the fire happened, but my parents said that people who entered the high school would be arrested, so this discouraged me from doing just that.
It was a beautiful old building until a couple teens decided to burn it down one night. :-\
I always had a fascination with abandoned buildings but didn't start exploring them until I met my fiancee
I did a 'shoot' at South of the Border. It was a huge tourist trap on I-95 at the North / South Carolina state line. I shot a lot of different angles, all the signs and buildings, etc. Then I drank dinner. Then I slept it off. Then I shot the same angles in the night - using long exposure of the neon signs. Fun.
It's insane to think that the condition is this poor after only 8 years.
I think so too. BUT... Remember, it's 50 years old. That is OLD for a motel. Not sure when it actually closed and fell victim to looters, vandals, etc. BUT I would guess maintenance has been sorely neglected for twenty years.
Super weird that someone made up those beds almost 10 years ago and they’ve just sat there ever since.
This style of hotel has seen a comeback, in a way, with places like the Great Wolf Resorts. Granted, they're water parks, but they're hotels designed to entertain the whole family on-site. Great episode, Jake!!
I used to go to a hotel that looked like that called the "Holidome" in northern Michigan as a kid. I loved that place, I hear it is also abandoned now. My step sister got married in a hotel that's similar architecturally and age wise that has stayed on the semi-upscale range in Ann Arbor and survived. Michigan is so cold most of the year that these resorts with the indoor pool atrium thing are really appealing.
The Holidome was a bold experiment to make Holiday Inns seem more upscale with climate-controlled features. I have some old magazine ads with garish illustrations touting the luxurious wonders of a Holidome. But humidity from the swimming pools deteriorated the roof and caused leaks.
I lived in a holidome with my family for like six months after hurricane Lilly when I was a kid, the one in Lafayette LA. The fond memories give me a soft spot for hotels with atriums lol.
Oh yea. Michigan had many Hollidome hotels. Most are gone. The one in South Bend across the border in Indiana is long gone. I don't know of one open. Last time I was there, kids and punks ran the show.
@@danielmorse4213 I loved this one!! We stayed there many times growing up. I’d say the last time was in ‘04.
Very nicely done man 👌🏻 great presentation of this location!
Imagine how much crack and meth smoked in this place, I used to go to days in on my home time every month truck driving, I'd have my dealer meet me with four 8balls of crack, a hooker (she was free if I shared my crack lol). I'd always get the 90 dollar a night jacuzzi room and proceed to see if I could make my heart explode for 2 days. 1 hooker had a heart attack, paramedic picked her up and he sent another one, the people that ran it cared less what I was doing lol but this was just outside of Detroit in the suburbs but people were used to crime and drugs
Absolutely incredible
I would pay for a Bright Sun channel before Nat Geo at this point. Thank you!
I’ve stayed at hotels I thought were abandoned and I paid for a room! “Any staff hear those thirty people partying at 4AM?”
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I did a photography project inspired by you and others urban exploration giving my photos the abandoned feel by going to places nearby that had been unoccupied for years. One of them was a former Thrifty car rental building that was pretty much trashed. I’ve been fascinated by the concept of abandoned properties for years because they’re time capsules from a time before my birth. Their heyday happening when my parents were young between the 50s and 70s. Thanks for all you do, I’ve enjoyed your channel’s content for years. I think I’ve followed you since 2016.
We would go to the club and then stay in a room. Partied there a bunch of times. It was a nice place at the time. The ambiance of that place with the pool and how the rooms were adjacent was definitely cool. The local gov has been trying to find the owners for a longtime they have some court stuff going on for years. Allegedly the owners left to go back home to India. If that place would have been managed properly it could have still been a nice place. The downfall wasn't due to the area or lack of need.
It blows my mind that this hotel has only been abandoned since 2014. That just goes to show how harsh nature's elements are when maintenance and utilities suddenly cease. I think there is even a law of thermodynamics that basically states that nature will always reclaim itself upon destruction
Dec 2014… so basically since 2015.
Always enjoy watching the videos. It's hard to imagine that people stayed there, had fun there, and just enjoyed their time. When the doors closed on the hotel, it also closed careers as well. I hope the people who were employed there was able to find better careers/jobs.
I also believe that the owners of the abandoned places should tear down the structure and plant trees. We need more trees than empty buildings.
How is your son Michael going?
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307
My son Michael?
or we could take care of these buildings and home the homeless!! ☺️
@@mariekt313 Or you could do it a cheaper way instead of fixing a run down building owned by another person!
@@clemsonvoorheis3923 Sorry your son Jason Voorheis!
Jake the quality of your videos has gone through the roof. Every episode seems like an extension of your "closed for storm" doc. Great work👍🏼
My thoughts exactly
Loved the 70's-dinner commercial vibe for the HelloFresh segment! Lol 😂
Can you look into a store called VENTURES, It was like Walmart and Target.
Also add children’s palace
Venture (singular). I worked for them in 1997-98.
Venture. My dad worked there in the 90s
Look into this.
Had two of those stores in Des Moines, IA
Pennsylvania is such a wild place lmao. I can't imagine how hot and humid that place gets in the summer to have all that beautiful greenery inside
Trashy people with NO respect can really mess up a place. water and mold I get but just braking Glass and throwing things in the pool !! Why?
Agreed, why is it that seems like when you see abandoned motels with pools, ppl have thrown the furniture in it? ...
Not to mention that pile of CRT’s in the lobby.
Bruh those are kinda rare now
You could’ve preserved them, but you decided to break the vacuums and make some implode.
Good job.
anyways, sorry about the rant, I just like old technology
I think my favorite part of these videos is seeing how quickly nature reclaims abandoned buildings. There is something very beautiful about that
I don’t know why but the vines and the color of the pool with the furniture looks so beautiful
It always comes down to the roof. If the roof had been done recently, the building wouldn't have gone so quickly but most of the time as properties get old they don't bring in enough money to cover the cost of a new roof so they just patch here and there and when it closes small leaks turn into big holes after the wood under the leak rots away.
Great job on the video!
The mix of footage & history is why this content is so amazing
I’m amazed how intact some of those rooms are.
I look at all the abandoned buildings I've been, or ones I see online in videos like this, and I picture all the people and good times had in those spots, the memories. It really is the peril of life I guess, to watch your entire life crumble and fade around you. I love you guys, take care of yourself, make lasting memories with your loved ones and hold them close, tight and don't ever let go of the memories
The middle of this run down hotel reminds me of what Florida airport looks like as they have trees and lights in the waiting area before you go to your desired gate to travel back home. Its always a shame that these places are left unloved and abandoned. One good thing is that people like yourself Jake show us what's left of the buildings and their history. Your research is remarkable.
That aerial drone shot of the top of the hotel really encompasses how much it sticks out like a sore thumb in stark contrast with the rest of the surrounding landscape. The hotel boasts such a dilapidated, monotone, and depressing facade, it’s worn down rooftops and lack of lush vegetation beyond its own parking lot also adding to its poor demeanor. The vandalized and outdated interior of the hotel is almost as if it was stuck in a time loop, never being able to escape, never being updated. The walk through of the hotel reminds us of an innocent time where we’d stay as kids on a vacation trip with our families, a time that we will never get back, a time that is so close, yet so far away. The hotel is so out of place, but radiates such a familiar energy that is so alluring, like a moth drawn to an open flame.
Great work as always BSF.
You write amazing poetry, my friend.
The vine reaching through the window and half-way across the cot. Nature for the win. Great Channel, Jake!
Holy crap! I thought this place looked familiar! My family and I stayed at this hotel in the early 2000s. The pool is the dead giveaway. We thought it was pretty amazing for a hotel. I remember swimming in the pool and feeling like everyone was watching you from their room balcony lol. Very unique. I had no idea it closed!!
I literally work at the hospital just 4 miles away from this place. I'm a travel nurse, so I stay at one of the other hotels in the area, but I have always wanted to know what this place looks like inside! Kind of eerie that this place is so close to me! Great video and thanks for doing the exploring so I didn't have to! :)
Thanks for your story :-) cool !
Was this in Lancaster County Penn.? Somewhere's near Hershey Park?
there are lots of abandoned hospital videos you can enjoy too
@@Dreaded88 Montour County. Danville, to be exact. Just off I-80.
@@jonstrine3144 :
Thanks.
I can't tell which part of the video I like more, Matthew's score or the sponsorship ad. Either way, makes the video all the more special and awesome to watch
I live in this area. Amazing to know that this place was good enough for you to come all this way. It has turned into a big tourist spot and is so easy to get to that it gets worse as kids come in and vandal it. It can be easily seen as well. Honestly the condition is due to all the vandalism that is going on with almost every window smashed and every door open or off. It’s just a matter of time before the city says it’s unsafe and it has to come down.
Abandoned hotels and motels are really interesting. Thanks Jake!
i think saying that place is trashed is a massive understatement
I can just picture what this place must have been like when it opened, even with how trashed it is. And the plant life is actually beautiful in its own way. Thanks again for another great video.
i am hooked on these videos! there's something so haunting and ghostly about seeing places that time has left behind. thinking of all the people and money and efforts and LIFE IN GENERAL that occurred in these places over the decades, but then one day it just ends and slowly mother nature begins to reclaim it minute by minute
I have watched your videos for so long. Your content has become so beautifully put together and your commentary is professional, yet still has a lightness to it. Love your channel and movie!
I absolutely love your work Jake!!
In my opinion you are one of the best there is at what you do. I have said it before and I’ll say it again. Your enthusiasm and passion is one of my favorite aspects of your channel. Thank you for another amazing video!!
I pass this place every single time we visit my mother in law. I’ve always wanted to see what it looked like. Thank you for this
Jake, each outro you have is perfection. As an editor, it is always a delicate execution. Love the crescendo, and credit drop. Bravo.
Well done Bright Sun Films. I just subscribed. Enjoying all the adventurers that go out and search these abandoned places, indoors and outside as well. It never ceases to amaze me that percentage of people, that their first instinct, is to destroy stuff. But I guess with nobody around and seemingly nobody caring, makes it all right. Personally, just seeing what was left behind and wondering what happen is enjoyment enough. Keep up the good work. And stay safe. Happy Hunting.
I love how I was already on a BSF Abandoned rabbit hole and I see this come up and it says “8 minutes ago”. Awesome video as always Jake!
Love your videos and these locations! Love how you dig up the history of it as well… keep them coming!
The camera work in this is gorgeous! Love the drone shots
So good, jake!!! The intro gave me chills
Jake I loved this video! You always do such a good job with filming and editing down to sound and visuals it always leaves me wanting more. I recently watched 'Closed for Storm' during a storm watch in my area since it only felt fitting to do so lol Keep up your great work dude!!
Always nice when you drop a vid!! Thanks for the content!!
Combining the way you present these videos with the stories and topics of the abandoned series to me is stepping up/evolving your content, and definiftly puts you on a path towards growing beyond youtube into other platforms. Which if i had to take a guess is where you would like to go.
I'm addicted to every thing jake posts 🖤
Another great video jake! these hotels are so interesting, everytime I stay in a hotel I think of crazy places like these. Also Matthew makes another banger score.
That indoor pool-turned jungle is urbex gold! looks so cool with all the vines and older interior styles
The next video that I suggest for BSF to make is a Bankrupt video about the White Star Line, and how it went from one of the most prestigious maritime companies to gone before WWII.
Great video Jake! You never fail in creating awesome content! Keep up the good work!👏🤟
Thank you so much!
Danville, Pa WOW that place was fun and convenient to stay at back in the day. So much up in that area to do. We stayed there when we were kids with my mom and dad. Lots of great memories from that place. Sad to see it now.
This was the first channel I subscribed to and you never disappoint.
Thanks for the history. Very interesting video. But I often wonder, why do people, mostly children and young adults, feel that they have to destroy things and places like this. What a damn shame.
The set up reminds me of the (Former) Red Lion Hotel in Connecticut... They had that same, tropical indoor pool set up, suites with indoor balconies, and huge convention venues... It was a huge, dim, VERY dated, and downright creepy place to stay, imo. They closed suddenly in 2021 but that building was recently purchased by another group. I can't wait to see what they do with it~
Hartford? If so used to stay there when I went to concerts at the XLcenter.
@@chrislongbeard It was in Cromwell. Not Hartford exactly, but in the central CT area. Hopefully it's completely renovated with the new owners. I would love to see what it could look like with an update~!
i was the maintenance guy for this property after it became abandoned. i remember my first time going in there it was untouched like it was frozen in time. Its decayed so much since then.
When did you stop maintaining it?
@@johnkay6197 guessing they quit paying him at some point
Hello Jake. After Watching Closed for Storm. I feel this video has the Same Class of Production and Creepy Vibe. This video is So Great. I cannot wait for the next installment. Take Care!
Huge compliment you think so, thank you!
That place looks like it'd make for a cool mansion. The indoor courtyard and pool converted into a park would be awesome. It would take some work to convert the rooms to some larger nicer purpose rooms. I don't know that I'd want a mansion off the highway in Pennsylvania. It would need the entire roof replaced, the exterior walls redone, and all those rooms gutted. It may just be cheaper to build a new structure.
Awesome video Jake. Good job as usual.
Another banger video Jake! Keep it up
Insane,I drive by this place quite frequently and I've always wanted to explore it, great video keep up the great work
very excited when i got this notification!!! love ur videos so much
It's amazing how little time it took for that motel to become a ruin
What an amazing video! Great work! You sure got some beautiful shots of the structure
I love the drone shots! Also, the painted black sign reminds me of a tombstone.
The production quality on this video is top tier. The intro really caught my attention, it looks like a movie!!!
I can't believe I never saw a glimpse of this as many times Ive been in the area. thank u for exploring!
I live on the east coast of Florida and I think it's really cool how they've repurposed a lot of the old motels instead of tearing them down or letting them rot. A lot of them are turned into apartments or office parks.
This is my first time watching on of your videos. Thank you for great footage. As many of viewers have already said, it's really crazy just how quickly this motel deteriorated. It closed in December 2014; so, it has only been vacant for 7½ years. Wow! With all of the moisture, mold and mushroom growth, it appears that the owners did little to no maintenance. Of course, it hasn't helped that vandals destroyed lots of the furnishings. Thank you again! I look forward to watching more of your channel. 🙂
Great documentary and exploration! Also love how you advertised the sponsor, different from the monologues of other channels!
2014? No way! That was only yesterday! The state of decay is awe boggling
Well I mean it was 8 years ago.
@@TrojanViruzz my brain still thinks 2008 was 2 years ago 🙃
Another great Brightsun explore!
Love the channel! Cheers from New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦
Love your abandoned videos bro, been with you from the start and watched them all. Thank you
Im surprised when you do walk thrus of places like this you don't stumble upon homeless people who have made these places their "home" and potentially try to run you out of there. Considering how people sleep in the open and under highway overpasses these places would seem like a much nicer situation to be in.
Watch the window in the upper floor at 8:31. You’ll see a curtain being pushed aside.
@@mbrown001 I see. I can't quite make out if there is a person there or not.
I know or squatters or homeless people!
@@mbrown001 You are right! Good catch! Something or someone is moving that curtain? 😱 🎪🏘🏯🏯🏯🏰🏫🏣🏣🏫🏣
2/28/22....DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENT for anyone trying to lice there...even poor homeless ppl. Foul air/broken windows & doors/NO running water/all kinds of bacteria & germs from wildlife & mold & vegetation growth inside & around the building. Possibly asbestos & other bad construction materials also.
Too badly ruined to re-hab for homeless shelter b/c it would need complete destruction/removal of all debris & construction materials from the premises before grading & installing new plumbing & other utilities.
HAHA I love the WOOOOSH SOUND when flying past the sign! Nice touch!!🤗🤗🤗😄😄😄
I stayed here in 94,95,96,97 and 98. It was a Days Inn at that time. This place rocked. I came in for a truck show that still goes on to this day in Bloomsburg. This was one of the cool places to stay at. We would usually reserve a year in advance as rooms were so hard to come by. Tons of cool memories from this place. I so wanted just to see the outside one more time for real but I am glad to see a vid of it. Thankyou!
A bunch of urbex explores have been here but Jake did an awesome job
This was fascinating, thanks Jake!
I loved this exploration. Thank you !
This hotel is awesome, good job, Jake.
Again, another wonderful video!!! Thanks Jake!!
Great video! Jake is truly underrated!
Why didn’t they sell the furniture? Who technically “owns” all of this stuff?
Evidently they’ve left the country.
Always thinking ,if caught in time , we could have done something for veterans with these places.
100% yes.
Or all homeless in general
I LOVE this channel good job jake. I really appreciate the way you tell the story’s as well
Always love BSF videos. Great commentary
Looks like it was a great place to stay especially back in the day like maybe the 70's . Bet it wasn't real expensive either.
Great vid, as usual. Just the best🌟🌟💥
Wow Jake has your channel grown since I first started watching it. Great job! and your cat is adorable 🥰
I've done a lot of *urbex* all across Asia and a little in Canada, but you take it to the next level. Nicely done!
Amazing that this is even possible. I'm from the Netherlands and only the price of the land here is so high that buildings in terrible state are quickly sold off for land value. After which everything will be torn down and the land reused. Not to mention government regulations on the state of buildings. To me watching, this is truly something from another world.
same here, americans have so much land they just abandon buildings and build new ones somewhere else
I've stayed in a few hotels with similar layouts in the Niagara Region. I can see it working well with kids. Thanks for another great video
Great piece. My maternal grandparents are from Shamokin, a few miles south, and we always stayed at this Sheraton, later days Inn, when we came to visit the area. Lots of memories of walking up and down those hallways/the game room in the lobby, and of course, the grand tiki pool area.’
Great job Jake. Love your video.