Sad to think that despite its modernist underpinnings, it's still a hell of a lot more interesting architecturally that whatever monolithic data centers will take its place.
Sears decline began back in the 60's with its aging, apathetic workforce who were unmotivated and just hanging around waiting for retirement. Closing their catalog operation, just at the beginning of the internet, sealed their fate. They attempted to rebound with online sales. I tried ordering a couple hoodies online but their systems were so screwed up it turned into a nightmare. But nobody cared by then. Sears used to be the go-to store for a lot of stuff. I still have Sears and Kenmore appliances, still working after decades and boxes stuffed with Craftsman tools, fortunately purchased in the 60's and 70's when they were still made in the USA and lasted.
My dad is an architect and used to help design these big corporate buildings in the burbs back in the 80s up to the early 2000s. I’ve sent him videos of other buildings like this that are abandoned and scheduled for demolition. It’s truly a sad waste. The trend of the suburban corporate campus barely lasted 30 years. If some people thought that working in these buildings was kind of a dystopia, seeing them being knocked down, with not too many middle class jobs, makes it feel like a real dystopia.
@@suspiciouswatermelon7639You would ironically like a certain type of architecture because you know it's kitsch, impractical, whatever, but you still enjoy it. The person you answered genuinely likes early '90s architecture; thus, unironically.
Makes me so angry what Eddie Lampert did to Kmart and Sears! 🤬 I used to work for Kmart and let me tell you Eddie DESTROYED the company. Kmart had issues before he came along but he made it worse especially when we were merged with Sears. After the merger it went all downhill from there. I miss my store, associates I worked with and I miss shopping there. Nothing but a sad memory.
100%. Controlled demolition by Fast Eddie. My father was a cabinet maker and later owned a cabinet shop. We spent a lot of time in Sears. I'm glad I still have all of my American-made Craftsman tools. That mid-tier/low pro-grade tool line is a thing of the past. It's either Harbor Freight garbage or Gucci Bag tool trucks with a few exceptions. Sears was awesome.
How else do you expect him to get his golden parachute and buy the company for an insane discount? Executives are pretty much all useless af making a ton of money for doing basically nothing. You have the stock market followers who worship them, since they control their "investments". Both scum IMO.
Miss the days of my youth, did this all through the mid 90s early 2000s. Now in my 40s I can watch you do it and recall the energy I felt while doing it,love it.
@rogerburch69 we all don't share the same health. Plus us wiser ones don't want to deal with any legal ramifications so we let these younger bucks take the risk for us.
This was supposed to be where I would have grown my career and eventually retired from. It will forever be in my opinion the greatest retailer in history and the shining example of what was once middle class America. Absolutely devastating how Eddie ruined two American icons.
Sears was the backbone of many malls in the US, and when they began closing stores there, some malls couldn’t get a replacement for the Sears store and eventually shut down themselves A good portion of the MA locations were in malls, and every NH location was within a mall too.
Awesome video. Love seeing these types of abandoned corpo HQs. Wish you made it to the Executive Suites or the B Building; I heard a lot of under the table stuff happened in B.
30:00 YES! I love you, you know. Thank you for pointing out the apostrophe my brain was screaming about, too! You just earned a subscriber for life. We have got to be related, LOL.
Even though this building was built 32 years ago (in 1992, and is has that definitely 1990s fashion sense to it), it always struck me as strange when I see perfectly good, attractive, clean, well-maintained buildings intentionally being destroyed. It's worse when good, attractive buildings are destroyed to create a unremarkable huge tin sheds.
I still have my Kenmore dryer that I bought from Sears 23 years ago as it's still going strong as it gets used multiple times a week as my only dryer. Sadly it's sister Kenmore washing machine died about 7 year ago, but I still can't complain as it was replaced with a Speed Queen top load.
Fun fact: Sears used to have a corporate aviation department at the DuPage Airport (DPA) in West Chicago, IL until Sears made the decision to close it down in 2010. I know this because back then, I worked for a 3rd party janitorial service company they hired out to clean their offices and part of the shop. They had two Bombardier Learjet 60s.
Hoffman Estates, what a massive majestic complex. Many people that worked there detested that place. But it really did represent Sears’ last gasp of prosperity before everything went to shit with the new Millennium.
I'll play old man for a second...I remember when everything west of Barrington Road was corn. The announcement that Sears was moving to Hoffman Estates happened right before I left the Chicago area so I haven't seen HE with the sports arena and the rest of the added development that began with Sears.
@ haha so cool, I have no clue there was virtually nothing out there prior to Sears building their HQ. Really must’ve been exciting back then. I’m surprised they didn’t keep any of it just because of how somewhat modern the complex was.
I like reading those old papers strewn about, even if it's some miscellaneous stuff it gives a nice snapshot of the work life they had. also love the quiet dark empty spaces, i was going to compare it to caves but maybe that doesn't really fit in with man-made stuff.
I was there back in 2003 for 2 weeks of training. Very impressive building. If you want to blame somebody for the failure Sears/Kmart his name is Eddie Lampert.
I worked in a Sears Auto center Way back in the 80a the pay was good, benefits good, they didn't play around with the Highering they had their own Dr to check possible employees for Lung issues before they could work in the auto center. This was also when the Auto center was fairly Honest , unlike the last decade they were trying to make $$$ any way possible. They ripped customers off a lot at a store I knew of guess they didn't care knowing their days of employment were numbered.
That’s my best guess too. The fire extinguisher at the entrance to the room had its hose pulled out and looked like it was briefly discharged into the room.
I can concur with that… I had to discharge a dry chemical fire extinguisher at a small kitchen fire. The powder comes out at an amazing velocity, and it gets everywhere right away, and it is so fine that we were finding a layer of yellow dust all over the house.
you're so cool. your care for the details is so satisfying. I love how organized the description is. the wobbling intro is incredibly aesthetic. your music taste is sophisticated. your voice during the exploration is soothing and the ambience is ASMR to me. 34:00 is my favorite part. From the bottom of my heart I wish you all the best.
At @#33:37 quite complicated POS network Sears had going.... SNA implies IBM Mainframe. At @35:26 likely a pile of mainframe coax cable. At @35:38 Nortel Networks.... also out of business. At @35:46 blur.... but likely IBM networking equipment sitting on the table.... might be related to mainframe SNA. At @36:05 possibly a tape drive unit sitting on the table. At @36:12 hello rack of computer gear! I do not recognize much.... lower two items look to be removable storage shelves. Nice tour, before it is history.
Eddie Lampert was a loser. He didn't know how to manage the company at all. Mismanaged money and after the merge with K-Mart, it was a sinking ship. The entire process was a tremendous failure. Look at the in-store layout of Sears and K-Mart from years ago compared to what it's competition was doing.
All those reports, wall charts, etc that were shown abandoned in the office cubes. Some low level flunky made those, with his boss looking over his shoulder, probably had to go through 4 or 5 revisions. Got told it was super-important to get it right and was pressured to get it done now!, because we needed that info now! and the bigger boss was waiting for it now! And what did it all mean in the end? Nothing. Now they lie there abandoned, left behind and covered with dust. Not even worth the effort to throw away when the last person turned out the lights for the last time. something to think about. I'm sure there's some philosophical lesson in there somewhere .
40:58 Dorothy Williamson died and THIS is how I find out about it?! 31:56 That's an NCR branded IBM 4683 register very close to the ones we used at Target.
A to the amazing when I was a kid (90s) I kept telling people one day the malls and mega offices will be gone or few and far between. This is exactly what I pictured. Thank you for the history as well for perspective I'm 36. Also I agree they DO need to rake those leafs!
Nice explore. I was part of a construction crew that remodeled the Sears buildings in the Twin Cities around the year 2000. In the 2010s My daughter and I walked through the Sears at Mall of America twice a month because we parked in the Sears lot. Was sad seeing it slowly die. They didn't seem to try very hard to stop it though. They kept doing what wasn't working even though the rest of the mall was still fully busy until the pandemic came along.
Crazy thing is MOA signed a 100 years lease with Sears. Still 70 years left and MOA can't touch the Sears corridor. MOA are now suing the company that owns Sears to break the lease.
Grandmother was a 40 year employee of Sears. Worked central phone swithboard. Old style ( think Mable the operator). This building and the original Sears tower exemply the whole problem of Sears thinking. Sears should have been the originator of Amazon style of operation. They had the bones of catalog operation. While Sears was still buying / aquiring product with a 50's way of operating; Wal mart was doing cutthroat sales weasel way of acquisition of product to undercut everyone else's price point. Walmart is China incorporated. Now it is Walmart scrambling to play catchup with Amazon.
I bet the idea of a data center angers a lot of old timers that got the boot. But what a waste to start with. The sears tower offered about the same amenities roughly. Not that it would have saved them in the long run, but it definitely didn't help them in the long run. Especially with lose Eddy at the wheel
My dad used to sell animal furs to Sears back in the day. And I bought most of my cloths from Sears. It was the store to buy anything anyone could possibly want.
It actually makes me so sad to see this beautiful building demolished :( I love the aesthetic. It looks so liminal. I wish some community college or something bought it and kept the structure. Seems like that would've been a good use. The building and surroundings actually remind me a lot of the Sheridan College, Oakville campus in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. I wish companies that buy these big properties at least offer tours before demolition. People would've paid good money to tour that building, I bet. I certainly would have.
I always find these videos interesting and I like how they expect one security guard to keep buildings this size secure. LOL I'm sure people have taken little mementos Of course it's not like someone can take spools of copper but I suppose anything is possible.
I remember them leaving the Sears Tower to go to the suburbs. Think how many employees there were. It's like the AT&T complex next door. I was in there when it was full of people.
I was in that building and it was extremely impressive. The economics of allowing it to be demolished boggles the mind. It’s right up there with the decision of Sears leadership, when starting to drown, asking for a Kmart anchor instead of a life preserver.
Sometimes that much dust could be generated quickly through concrete sawing or drywall preparation for painting , but I think it might be more like the concrete sawing.
There will probably be remnants of Sears in the USA for a long time. They used to sell Kit homes actual well made homes they shipped to your property and you assembled it. I lived in a Sears house it was built way better than anything made in the last 40+ years!!! Unless they are all eventually torn down to build something else they will stand proud! Unlike the garbage kits you can buy on ScamAzon today that require no construction knowledge or ability just unfold and latch together. Those things won't last!!! Sears definitely left an impression on America that's here to stay even if you were never in a Sears.
Great video! 🎉🎉🎉 SUBBED! 🎉🎉🎉 Wish I would have started filming stuff like this when I was your age. Be safe. Don’t chase clicks when your safety is at risk.
It's kind of crazy that trashing the buildings for the land is all that was done with the site. The size of the place and the number of people making good wages are also kind of crazy. Did they need all those people? Was it more necessary before computers and the internet? Nemf, you should get an external mic like a DJI Mic or something similar so the autofocus sound isn't constantly in the background and a bright flashlight for the big open areas.
What's with the Geiger counter like sound throughout the video? I'm genuinely curious what that obnoxious sound was throughout the video. Was that sound for effect?
Good ol Sears. Dude, you went by yourself? How did you make it home with clean pants? OMG LOL! Balls of Steel!! I did stuff like this when I was younger. Miss those days. 40:21 it might actually happen with ai. Not bad, Awesome video!
At 16:37 those are the largest indoor Ficus Trees I've ever seen all of those leaves are because they are no longer watered and are going into drought/ cold shock. A waste for large specimens like that to die.
38:48 If you had the chance of returning to the building, could you possibly check the other scattered discs to check if there's more commercial reels. Not condoning stealing but it was cool to see old Sears commercials in good quality from the DVD you snagged.
I don’t understand how your economy works I am not from USA but where I live the people really love malls and sears and that stuff it is interesting to me this videos 😮
Sad to think that despite its modernist underpinnings, it's still a hell of a lot more interesting architecturally that whatever monolithic data centers will take its place.
Don't be so pessimistic! It could easily become a massive warehousing complex.. /s
First it was Amazon warehouses. Now its ai data centers lol
I used to work for Kmart to.
Sears decline began back in the 60's with its aging, apathetic workforce who were unmotivated and just hanging around waiting for retirement. Closing their catalog operation, just at the beginning of the internet, sealed their fate. They attempted to rebound with online sales. I tried ordering a couple hoodies online but their systems were so screwed up it turned into a nightmare. But nobody cared by then. Sears used to be the go-to store for a lot of stuff. I still have Sears and Kenmore appliances, still working after decades and boxes stuffed with Craftsman tools, fortunately purchased in the 60's and 70's when they were still made in the USA and lasted.
My dad is an architect and used to help design these big corporate buildings in the burbs back in the 80s up to the early 2000s. I’ve sent him videos of other buildings like this that are abandoned and scheduled for demolition. It’s truly a sad waste. The trend of the suburban corporate campus barely lasted 30 years. If some people thought that working in these buildings was kind of a dystopia, seeing them being knocked down, with not too many middle class jobs, makes it feel like a real dystopia.
Have you seen the proper people's video of the TRW headquarters? Fascinating.
@@Nickles5Khad friends who worked for T.R.W.
@@Nickles5K A lot in there that could be smashed up before the demo. Classic new wave urbex smash fest property.
Its too bad. I unironically love early 90s corporate chic
How do you "ironically" like something anyway? You either like it or you don't.
@@suspiciouswatermelon7639You would ironically like a certain type of architecture because you know it's kitsch, impractical, whatever, but you still enjoy it.
The person you answered genuinely likes early '90s architecture; thus, unironically.
@@mediochreeuchre8391 Only gays use the word 'kitsch".
Makes me so angry what Eddie Lampert did to Kmart and Sears! 🤬 I used to work for Kmart and let me tell you Eddie DESTROYED the company. Kmart had issues before he came along but he made it worse especially when we were merged with Sears. After the merger it went all downhill from there. I miss my store, associates I worked with and I miss shopping there. Nothing but a sad memory.
@ yup the guy is a real sleaze bag. I’ll never get over what he did to our company. He deliberately ran it into the ground.
I pray for karma but realize the rich get away with everything.
100%. Controlled demolition by Fast Eddie. My father was a cabinet maker and later owned a cabinet shop. We spent a lot of time in Sears. I'm glad I still have all of my American-made Craftsman tools. That mid-tier/low pro-grade tool line is a thing of the past. It's either Harbor Freight garbage or Gucci Bag tool trucks with a few exceptions. Sears was awesome.
I remember KMart, it already sucked compared to Target which now also sucks.
How else do you expect him to get his golden parachute and buy the company for an insane discount? Executives are pretty much all useless af making a ton of money for doing basically nothing. You have the stock market followers who worship them, since they control their "investments". Both scum IMO.
Miss the days of my youth, did this all through the mid 90s early 2000s. Now in my 40s I can watch you do it and recall the energy I felt while doing it,love it.
You only in your forties and have lost energy? I was wide open thru my forties.
What year did you graduate? Class of 2k here
@rogerburch69 we all don't share the same health. Plus us wiser ones don't want to deal with any legal ramifications so we let these younger bucks take the risk for us.
This was supposed to be where I would have grown my career and eventually retired from. It will forever be in my opinion the greatest retailer in history and the shining example of what was once middle class America. Absolutely devastating how Eddie ruined two American icons.
They were kinda already going under, it was inevitable, now there are other companies, that's just how it goes in a competitive market.
Sears was the backbone of many malls in the US, and when they began closing stores there, some malls couldn’t get a replacement for the Sears store and eventually shut down themselves
A good portion of the MA locations were in malls, and every NH location was within a mall too.
Very well filmed. Was interesting throughout. Keep it up!! Subscribed for hopefully more of this in this exact format. 🎉
Awesome video. Love seeing these types of abandoned corpo HQs. Wish you made it to the Executive Suites or the B Building; I heard a lot of under the table stuff happened in B.
30:00 YES! I love you, you know. Thank you for pointing out the apostrophe my brain was screaming about, too! You just earned a subscriber for life. We have got to be related, LOL.
The autofocus noise is a vibe killer. Hope you get it resolved. Great video.
Pretty sure he’s adding that sound and the far shot effect fuzzing the camera. Super annoying. Or just crap equipment. iPhone would do better. Haha
The sound is beyond obnoxious.
I don't often comment on videos, but man, this is a well put together video! Love it
Even though this building was built 32 years ago (in 1992, and is has that definitely 1990s fashion sense to it), it always struck me as strange when I see perfectly good, attractive, clean, well-maintained buildings intentionally being destroyed. It's worse when good, attractive buildings are destroyed to create a unremarkable huge tin sheds.
I still have my Kenmore dryer that I bought from Sears 23 years ago as it's still going strong as it gets used multiple times a week as my only dryer. Sadly it's sister Kenmore washing machine died about 7 year ago, but I still can't complain as it was replaced with a Speed Queen top load.
That dryer probably a Whirlpool or LG with a Kenmore badge.
@@ForkLiftCertified most likely whirlpool if its 23 years old
I replaced my old Sears washer (brown - it was that old) with a Speed Queen several years ago. I went for durability, not fancy features.
Used to work there. Wish you'd gone to the B building. 🙂
What was in building “B”?
Fun fact: Sears used to have a corporate aviation department at the DuPage Airport (DPA) in West Chicago, IL until Sears made the decision to close it down in 2010. I know this because back then, I worked for a 3rd party janitorial service company they hired out to clean their offices and part of the shop. They had two Bombardier Learjet 60s.
19:01 Fire extinguisher leads to 20:00 all that "dust" you see everywhere.
The fact the the author had no idea what the "dust" was. Common sense is lost amongst our youngins.
Hoffman Estates, what a massive majestic complex. Many people that worked there detested that place. But it really did represent Sears’ last gasp of prosperity before everything went to shit with the new Millennium.
I'll play old man for a second...I remember when everything west of Barrington Road was corn. The announcement that Sears was moving to Hoffman Estates happened right before I left the Chicago area so I haven't seen HE with the sports arena and the rest of the added development that began with Sears.
@ haha so cool, I have no clue there was virtually nothing out there prior to Sears building their HQ. Really must’ve been exciting back then.
I’m surprised they didn’t keep any of it just because of how somewhat modern the complex was.
dude that's an insane video🤯 100% will blow up🚀
I like reading those old papers strewn about, even if it's some miscellaneous stuff it gives a nice snapshot of the work life they had. also love the quiet dark empty spaces, i was going to compare it to caves but maybe that doesn't really fit in with man-made stuff.
11:02 I used to work in the A building. Crazy to see it demolished now.
What was it like for you? Did you enjoy your time at this facility? If so what was your favorite thing about it?
Just wanted to say, amazing video.
I was there back in 2003 for 2 weeks of training. Very impressive building. If you want to blame somebody for the failure Sears/Kmart his name is Eddie Lampert.
Too bad you never got to the executive offices. That would have been a treat.
I worked in a Sears Auto center Way back in the 80a the pay was good, benefits good, they didn't play around with the Highering they had their own Dr to check possible employees for Lung issues before they could work in the auto center. This was also when the Auto center was fairly Honest , unlike the last decade they were trying to make $$$ any way possible. They ripped customers off a lot at a store I knew of guess they didn't care knowing their days of employment were numbered.
I dont know why I was recommended this video but I'm glad I was. What a gem. Very backrooms feeling to it with real nostalgia. Great video.
At 20:00 can you ask why one particular room was so dusty; it's because vandals activated a fire extinguisher shown at 19:06. They make a huge mess.
That’s my best guess too. The fire extinguisher at the entrance to the room had its hose pulled out and looked like it was briefly discharged into the room.
I can concur with that… I had to discharge a dry chemical fire extinguisher at a small kitchen fire. The powder comes out at an amazing velocity, and it gets everywhere right away, and it is so fine that we were finding a layer of yellow dust all over the house.
you're so cool. your care for the details is so satisfying. I love how organized the description is. the wobbling intro is incredibly aesthetic. your music taste is sophisticated. your voice during the exploration is soothing and the ambience is ASMR to me. 34:00 is my favorite part. From the bottom of my heart I wish you all the best.
btw you might want to review your "Urbex With Nemf" playlist as the 1st video is still public since it's in a playlist
this brings back some nostalgic memories for me. very cool for sharing!
Great video. Thank you for uploading awesome content.
At @#33:37 quite complicated POS network Sears had going.... SNA implies IBM Mainframe. At @35:26 likely a pile of mainframe coax cable. At @35:38 Nortel Networks.... also out of business. At @35:46 blur.... but likely IBM networking equipment sitting on the table.... might be related to mainframe SNA. At @36:05 possibly a tape drive unit sitting on the table. At @36:12 hello rack of computer gear! I do not recognize much.... lower two items look to be removable storage shelves. Nice tour, before it is history.
Love the creepy mystery music. Thx 4 video! Subscribed!
Eddie Lampert was a loser. He didn't know how to manage the company at all. Mismanaged money and after the merge with K-Mart, it was a sinking ship. The entire process was a tremendous failure. Look at the in-store layout of Sears and K-Mart from years ago compared to what it's competition was doing.
Has anyone published a post mortem somewhere? Did they do a whitepaper at a university? What specifically could Eddie have done differently?
No ... Eddie the winner in all this, still very wealthy. It is everybody else - employees and customers - who are the losers.
Everything from the backstory at the beginning to the mini-map bits and exploration were amazing. How do you have less than 1k subs?
All those reports, wall charts, etc that were shown abandoned in the office cubes. Some low level flunky made those, with his boss looking over his shoulder, probably had to go through 4 or 5 revisions. Got told it was super-important to get it right and was pressured to get it done now!, because we needed that info now! and the bigger boss was waiting for it now!
And what did it all mean in the end? Nothing. Now they lie there abandoned, left behind and covered with dust. Not even worth the effort to throw away when the last person turned out the lights for the last time.
something to think about. I'm sure there's some philosophical lesson in there somewhere .
40:58 Dorothy Williamson died and THIS is how I find out about it?!
31:56 That's an NCR branded IBM 4683 register very close to the ones we used at Target.
A to the amazing when I was a kid (90s) I kept telling people one day the malls and mega offices will be gone or few and far between. This is exactly what I pictured. Thank you for the history as well for perspective I'm 36. Also I agree they DO need to rake those leafs!
Nice explore. I was part of a construction crew that remodeled the Sears buildings in the Twin Cities around the year 2000. In the 2010s My daughter and I walked through the Sears at Mall of America twice a month because we parked in the Sears lot. Was sad seeing it slowly die. They didn't seem to try very hard to stop it though. They kept doing what wasn't working even though the rest of the mall was still fully busy until the pandemic came along.
Crazy thing is MOA signed a 100 years lease with Sears. Still 70 years left and MOA can't touch the Sears corridor. MOA are now suing the company that owns Sears to break the lease.
@PaleOpal21 yeah, Sears is all walled off. I don't park in that lot anymore because we have to walk around it.
This is a good video
Grandmother was a 40 year employee of Sears. Worked central phone swithboard. Old style ( think Mable the operator). This building and the original Sears tower exemply the whole problem of Sears thinking. Sears should have been the originator of Amazon style of operation. They had the bones of catalog operation. While Sears was still buying / aquiring product with a 50's way of operating; Wal mart was doing cutthroat sales weasel way of acquisition of product to undercut everyone else's price point. Walmart is China incorporated. Now it is Walmart scrambling to play catchup with Amazon.
Need a yellow filter to make it feel like the backrooms
Nice video !!!!1 Keep making more(but dont get caught), still insane video !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sears Christmas catalog is one of my most treasured memories as a kid..
This video deserves tens of millions of views. It's incredibly compelling. Wow.
I bet the idea of a data center angers a lot of old timers that got the boot. But what a waste to start with. The sears tower offered about the same amenities roughly. Not that it would have saved them in the long run, but it definitely didn't help them in the long run. Especially with lose Eddy at the wheel
This guy is still it the sears rooms to this day
I think you found a new Back Rooms level.
That quiet haunting music dubbed in at 26:00 has a "This Is Dan Bell" urbex vibe to it. A tip of the hat to the great Dan Bell?
Fantastic video. I've been wondering for a few years what they were going to do with this building and if it was abandoned or not!
My dad used to sell animal furs to Sears back in the day. And I bought most of my cloths from Sears. It was the store to buy anything anyone could possibly want.
Could you explore the Westinghouse Research Center just outside of Pittsburgh? Been abandoned for decades and it is a mystery as to what's in there.
I still use my Kenmore vacuum cleaner I bought from Sears in 1991.
It actually makes me so sad to see this beautiful building demolished :( I love the aesthetic. It looks so liminal. I wish some community college or something bought it and kept the structure. Seems like that would've been a good use. The building and surroundings actually remind me a lot of the Sheridan College, Oakville campus in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
I wish companies that buy these big properties at least offer tours before demolition. People would've paid good money to tour that building, I bet. I certainly would have.
22:58 He just realized that he way overpaid for his prescriptions and didn’t know if he should laugh or cry. So he laughed. 😂
Great video!
Glad I wasn’t the only one who caught that wrong apostrophe 😅. Awesome vid!
u should wear Eddie lambert mask that way nobody would question you
I always find these videos interesting and I like how they expect one security guard to keep buildings this size secure.
LOL
I'm sure people have taken little mementos
Of course it's not like someone can take spools of copper but I suppose anything is possible.
I remember them leaving the Sears Tower to go to the suburbs. Think how many employees there were. It's like the AT&T complex next door. I was in there when it was full of people.
Nobody else wondering what that crackling noice was though out the entire video?
That noise was made by the electronic stabilization rig the camera was mounted on.
Likely autofocus or a stabilizer. The fact you can hear it at all highlights how dead quiet it was in there.
It’s so crazy to me this company went out of business.
They could’ve been Amazon. It took an expert level of corporate mismanagement and inertia to get to that point.
I was in that building and it was extremely impressive. The economics of allowing it to be demolished boggles the mind. It’s right up there with the decision of Sears leadership, when starting to drown, asking for a Kmart anchor instead of a life preserver.
Sometimes that much dust could be generated quickly through concrete sawing or drywall preparation for painting , but I think it might be more like the concrete sawing.
It most likely from vandals discharging the fire extinguishers.
There will probably be remnants of Sears in the USA for a long time. They used to sell Kit homes actual well made homes they shipped to your property and you assembled it. I lived in a Sears house it was built way better than anything made in the last 40+ years!!! Unless they are all eventually torn down to build something else they will stand proud! Unlike the garbage kits you can buy on ScamAzon today that require no construction knowledge or ability just unfold and latch together. Those things won't last!!! Sears definitely left an impression on America that's here to stay even if you were never in a Sears.
The house directly in back of me is a Sears catalog house from the 20's, confirmed. The house two doors down is a possible Sears house.
Great video. Sad how Sears went downhill. Moving to nowhere in Hoffman Estates was plain stupid. One of many bad decisions.
Nope, the one in Bridgehampton is gone
That place is massive! Great explore man Your really brave for going in to that backrooms looking place alone !
Who payin for all that power?? Our bills are late they have that shut off lmao
It's strange seeing a building I have spent so much time in on a urbex video.
What could they have done differently? What adaptations did they fail to make in a timely fashion? And why?
Great exploration. I always wondered about this building
You walked right past it......a discharged fire extinguisher not dust😮
20:00 - you notice the fire extinguisher at the door -- that white dust everywhere used to be inside it!
You need brighter lights when you are in places like this. Very cool.
Great video! 🎉🎉🎉
SUBBED! 🎉🎉🎉
Wish I would have started filming stuff like this when I was your age.
Be safe. Don’t chase clicks when your safety is at risk.
Looks like corporate hell
Stop complaining and get me those TPS reports!
@@rustynail6819 not now Lumberg, I’ve got a meeting with the Bobs
That's awesome dude. You deserve way more views. Keep up the good job!!! Invest in a better microphone :)
It's kind of crazy that trashing the buildings for the land is all that was done with the site. The size of the place and the number of people making good wages are also kind of crazy. Did they need all those people? Was it more necessary before computers and the internet? Nemf, you should get an external mic like a DJI Mic or something similar so the autofocus sound isn't constantly in the background and a bright flashlight for the big open areas.
What's with the Geiger counter like sound throughout the video? I'm genuinely curious what that obnoxious sound was throughout the video. Was that sound for effect?
autofocus motors most likely.
Yeah it was the autofocus. I agree the sound is incredibly annoying and I’ll probably ditch it in future videos.
Change to a different microphone. Dont use the camera microphone.
Right!? So annoying!
@@nemfratic7782 thought in made it more erie
They're about halfway done with demolishing the whole place.
Good ol Sears. Dude, you went by yourself? How did you make it home with clean pants? OMG LOL! Balls of Steel!! I did stuff like this when I was younger. Miss those days. 40:21 it might actually happen with ai. Not bad, Awesome video!
Stacks of old Sears catalogs are hidden behind the toilet paper in the men’s bathroom.
At 16:37 those are the largest indoor Ficus Trees I've ever seen all of those leaves are because they are no longer watered and are going into drought/ cold shock. A waste for large specimens like that to die.
I think, the dust in that room was from someone setting off the fire extinguisher that was on the floor as you walked in.
I woulda got a few of those bottles those were kinda cool
Cool video. I got sick watching it because the camera is flying all over lol.
38:48 If you had the chance of returning to the building, could you possibly check the other scattered discs to check if there's more commercial reels. Not condoning stealing but it was cool to see old Sears commercials in good quality from the DVD you snagged.
I love abandoned C suite HQs.
I don’t understand how your economy works I am not from USA but where I live the people really love malls and sears and that stuff it is interesting to me this videos 😮
Great vid. Is this ur voice or AI?
Man, what I’d do to be able to order one of them Sears catalog houses these days…
On the map that you showed, I saw a few stores that I used to go to.
Where did all that dust come from in the room with the 20&or less seats that was a power fire thing what puts them out
I wonder if repurposing the entire structure as mixed use residential was considered
24:05 discovers Backrooms, very creepy.
Wonder when most stockholders realized what was happening and sold out or were some also involved?
If only you could find the warehouse where Craftsmen Tools were returned to!
That building could’ve been converted into a high school
or college campus
Or appartments to live
Camera rattle is delightfully creepy