CLOSING TIME: Inside Metcalf South Mall For The Last Time
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Immerse yourself in the final days of the abandoned Metcalf South Mall in Overland Park, Kansas (a suburb of Kansas City). 4K ultra HD video and sound. These are some of the last images taken of the mall before demolition. If you listen closely, you can still hear the hustle and bustle of shoppers, diners, and the trickle of fountains.
Metcalf South Mall opened in Overland Park, KS at the corner of Metcalf Avenue and 95th Street in 1967 as the first enclosed shopping mall in the Kansas City area. It thrived for decades as the premier indoor shopping destination in the region. By the 1990's, a plethora of other indoor and outdoor shopping centers had sprung up around the area and tenants began to leave Metcalf South. By the mid 2000's, the majority of the facility was empty except for two anchor stores (Sears and Macy's), the small Glenwood Theater, and a handful of small boutique shops scattered throughout the cavernous structure. In the spring of 2014, the original owner / developer of the property MD Management finally sold Metcalf South to Lane4 Property Group. In 2017, Lane4 announced plans to demolish and redevelop the property (excluding Sears).
For more photos: www.flickr.com...
Beautiful, sad and haunting Video. R.I.P. Metcalf South Mall. 😢
Sad indeed. Wish they could've repurposed the building instead of demolishing it.
Oak Park Mall was just to close. It is newer more up to date and has better freeway access which is why it survived and Metcalf did not.
@@dvferyance not everything has to be up to date to be great. Metcalf south had a more old fashioned charm about it. Many storefronts in that mall had early 1900s style structure, look at Victoria secret or Gloria Jean coffee bean storefront for example
@GREATNESS NEVER DIES yes, I know. I love your name, and so true. I was saying in my other comment about the great old fashioned charm Metcalf south had
I'm now 68 yrs old and this was a hang out place while in my teens
Great memories, I'm sure. Thanks for watching!
My whole childhood was spent here,, My mom worked at Jones for 20 years. My Grandma wolf Brothers and I worked at Taco Via ...I am my only one alive left in family now .. Thanks for memories 😢
Wow, sounds like the mall holds a special place with your family. Glad to capture some images before it was torn down. Thanks for watching, Kyle.
I remember walking around this mass when I was little. It was mostly abandoned at that point, with only the sears, theatre, and topsy’s being left, but my mom would take my brother and i to get our energy out!
Awesome memories, Sylvia. Even at the end of its life, it was still a great place to walk around and explore.
When I was a kid in the 70's and 80's, this was my mothers favorite mall. We were always there. I remember eating at Putsch's Cafeteria, Sears, Jones Store, etc. I still have fond memories of the mall. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for sharing!
This was very beautifully done! Definitely did it justice. Still sad it’s completely gone now. Lots of memories there
Thanks so much! Yes, so sad it’s gone.
Of all the older malls, this one was by FAR the best maintained one. I walked in and around at the few stores that were left back 2010, and the fountains were all still running, the floors still shiny and polished. It just mystifies me as to WHY the malls, with all their individual store cubicles partitioned off...caould not be turned into indoor office parks, filled with doctor's offices, accountants, attorneys, etc.
Yeah, I was hoping they would've repurposed Metcalf South, rather than demolish. Coulda been a really neat office park! And I also found it fascinating that it was so well maintained all those years after most of the stores left. There are rumors that the original owner Sherman Dreiseszun had a soft spot in his heart for the building. Kinda sweet/bizarre.
I always thought this was a very beautiful and unique mall compared to all the others in the Kansas City area. I always preferred the look and feel of this mall over Oak Park any day. It is sad that they tore down such a beautiful Mall, it seems like such a waste to me. Thank you for this video, it is nice to know that I can still watch this video to remember the mall.
You’re welcome. Yeah, it was such a beautiful place!
I used to go to this mall a lot. My dad and I would go here and the Mission Center Mall just to walk around.
My younger brother took karate lessons here, and I would visit Gifts and Accents nearby which had Webkinz and Thomas Wooden Railway. This was when the 3rd floor was already empty. We used to go down that all at 10:29 to where we parked.
The summer Library sale was held here for many years in various parts of the mall.
I also went to the Sear's after the rest of the mall closed to get my mom a robe for Christmas, and volunteered for the Christmas bureau with my school the next year after Sear's left.
Awesome memories!
I got my ears pierced at Claire's there in 1992. I loved the weird colorful fountain. Saw Pocahontas and the lion king at Glenwood on my birthdays...i remember thinking that movie theatre was so fancy. Good video.
Lindsey JAMZ Thanks for watching, Lindsey. Lots of great memories for so many people at Metcalf South.
Amazing to see it again. I used to go there and walk all the time when I lived closeby. Ppl called it The Dead Mall but it was alive for those of us who came there to walk and enjoy the solitude. Long Live Metcalf South Mall!
I went here in the early 2000's with my dad and grandpa. The mall always reminded me of him because it was the only trip I've ever taken with him and my dad, I was a sad when it was torn down. My grandpa passed in 2015. Thank you for sharing this, it brought back a lot of memories.
thank you for keeping images of my child hood
Hi Josh.
Thanks so much for making and sharing this great video!
I moved to Overland Park, KS in June, 1969, and started my senior year of high school at Shawnee Mission West in early September, 1969.
I didn't have to take many courses to graduate, so I got a part-time job at Sears in Metcalf South.
I worked in sporting goods a few nights per week and Saturdays.
On Saturdays, I worked all day and had a lunch hour. I'd go out into the mall to the cafeteria (name forgotten) for lunch.
It was my first job and I was pretty excited (made $1.80 per hour).
1969 was the first year of the Royals, and they played in old municipal stadium.
I went to around 20 games that summer/fall, and about the same number the next summer.
I went into the Navy (submarines) on 09-09-1970.
I'd appreciate anycomments of those that remember the mall and Sears in that time period.
I'd also like to know what cafeteria was in the mall at that time.
Thanks, and God Bless!
Love it, Ken! Thanks for sharing.
Great shots...lots of memories there. I know it had been converted to office space, but it's too bad you weren't able to make it up to the third floor. I always wondered what that looked like after it was closed-off to the public.
Yeah. I went up there several times and peeked into the closed off area. It was its own weird early 2000's time capsule. I wish I could've accessed that area.
Wow, I remember walking through the empty mall with my grandma. I can recall almost every image. I wish I could have captured it but you did a great job.
Thanks for watching! Glad it brought back memories for ya.
Used to hang out here with my boyfriend back in 1969 - 1971. Great memories of a first love walking around the mall - going to Orange Julius :)
Awesome times!
I was a kid going there from 1967 through 1972. I went to East Antioch Elementary, and our choir would sing Christmas carols at the mall. We ate at Putsch's Cafeteria. And my mom loved shopping at Jones. My grandma, a tall woman, shopped at Lane Bryant. I remember, too, a display at the mall of Hitler's cars. All at Metcalf South. Such a plethora of pieces of varied memories. I drove by there a couple of days ago with my new husband, as I wanted do show him the place where some of the stories of my childhood came from. How sad to find a Lowe's where this once-glorious mall had been.
I love the old lights in this place.
Dennis W Me too!
Anybody remember Orange Julius at Metcalf South?
Topsy or Dairy Queen.
It was on the ground floor, west entrance, next to a large drug store (Katz?).
i remember driving from belton mo just to get one of those drinks
I remember going to Carousel Park when I was a kid
This is very very well made. Your use of the music and sound effects make this very impactful.
Thanks!
This mall was a large part of my early childhood. In these images I still see the places I roamed as a six and seven year old boy. My Dad had a job at an engraving kiosk on the second floor called "Impressions" I see the spot where it used to be. I see the empty store that used to house a pizzeria. It was where I played Super Mario Bros for the first time. (Didn't even make it past the first Goomba.)
I worked at Topsy Popcorn & Resturant while going to Shawnee Mission South HS 71, great memories met beautiful girls and caught movies and Pizza . The mall was my Facebook, amazon, & eBay
Topsy’s is amazing. Great memories!
Thanks for making and uploading this tribute. I thought the mall's architecture was unique and cool. Too bad it's gone. Great video.
Nancy Darling thanks Nancy!
These Dead Mall videos are becoming really popular and I love them. Malls just aren't gonna exist anymore and there's nothing we can do about it. They have a certain feeling about them because before our modern computers and phones, we would actually go to the mall to see and been seen. The fixtures and decorations inside them used to provoke our thoughts and inspire us. Now they're literally left to decay or be torn down. Sad doesn't even begin to describe it.
Theres always going to be malls, no matter what way you slice it. Sure, there might be less, but I think Oak Park’s continued success, even during Covid, is proof that there’s a market. Kansas City still has 3 major malls, and a handful of small ones too, and I can only see 1 going out of business in the decade (Independence Center, and not even because of economics, mostly because of crime.) Not only that, but urban malls like 900 Michigan are thriving because of their pedestrian accessibility and density.
Last time I was here I bought some clothes to wear to the Chis Rock show at the midland theatre. He made the joke that he made it the mall and feels like he did it all in Kansas City. I wonder if it was metcalf south.
Cool memory, Adam. Thanks for sharing!
Really enjoyed this video! I like the background sounds! I worked at that Gap store once upon a time. It was great to have this video to help preserve memories of an era gone by. Thanks!
Thanks for watching! Glad I could capture the memories before they tore it down.
We drove by the old mall yesterday. The Sears portion of the building still exists, but they are already building something else on the other part. My mother said it was so wasteful to tear down a perfectly good building when it could have been upcycled into something else.
A Sears museum !
I remember falling into the fountain that was in this mall when I was 5. good old memories
Good memories all around, Diego!
abc 123 a
I think my brother and his friend's put soap in it once because it was a dare! Lol 😆
Thank you for this video!
The two things I’ve always remembered are the TALL water feature and the Carousel area.
You're welcome! Yeah, the tall fountain was the stuff of dreams.
Thank you. I heard the people and relived my fast walks through the mall. The floors are still as pristine as they once were. It is a beautiful shopping mall. I remember when it was first built and the excitement that went on with my girlfriends. Good times.
Nostalgic for me!!! I miss home.
Very respectfully done. Thanks for the memories. Enjoyed the fitting Blade Runner-esque music.
Glad it took you back!
I'm so glad someone was able to get a video of its final days. I went in there the last day it was supposed to be open and got chased out by security pretty much as soon as they saw my phone come out.
I will always remember the fountain there.
I worked at The Jones Store that used to be in that mall. Went through them being bought out after Mercantile. They went through being owned by Dillard’s then Famous Barr and it just wasn’t the same after that. I used to go on my lunch breaks to the food court or go get my nails done. Those were the good ole days!
Now, this is sad. All these stunning mid-century architectural designs splashed throughout the Metcalf South Mall to end up completely unappreciated and erased. Such a shame. RIP beautiful mall.
Yes, indeed. Thanks for watching!
I think that building could have been repurposed.
It would also be a great place to film a movie if they needed a scene that takes place back in the early era of shopping.
That building had so much of the classic ornate look. It seemed like a walk back in time.
Good idea. Why didn't you repurpose it?
They could use Oak Park for that, but I get what you mean. Office Complex would’ve been a good use for it
The small brings back so much memories.
Great video! Used to visit this mall as a kid and always had to walk across the little walk way going across the fountain. Walked the mall a few times in recent years for nostalgias sake. Fun to see it one more time in this video
JJ Thanks! Yeah, it was a remarkable place for a lot of us. 😀
My mom told me this was the place everyone would hangout when they were teens
i did
The pictures said a thousand words, very nicely done.
Thanks Linda!
Nicely done.
Thanks!
Great stuff! Although we spent most of our time at Oak Park Mall with friends and family in the later 70's and the 80's, I first used to go here because it was the mall my mother and grandmother went to in the 60's and early 70's. Even through the remainder of the 70's and early 80's, my grandma who lived in Roeland Park would continue to go to this mall if she didn't shop in Mission. And even though Oak Park became *the* mall for most Shawnee, Lenexa kids like me, my brother and I continued to regularly go here as it had Nickelodeon(later Red Baron) arcade and Clint's Comics South here, as well as our favorite burger place Smak's until it closed sometime around 85 or so. I remember my older brother and I would but our latest comic and a burger from Smak's and climb that "fire escape" tower with the logo on it and eat our burger and read our comics for the first time. Metcalf South will always be a place I miss from my childhood..more than Oak Park Mall.
Love it! Thanks for sharing.
Sad that they could not turn this area into a rec center for our youth. Not sure how long you have been in the area Josh but I moved there in 1987. I wish they would prevent further sprawl into farmlands. Leave that area alone at 159th and Nall. Develop the rec center at this location.
Yeah, rec center would've been good! I agree, it's sad that they couldn't repurpose the existing structure instead of demolish.
Why didn't you turn it into a rec center?
@@joshweinstock who is "they"? It takes money to do these things. If it isnt lucrative then no one would spend the money like that on a rec center
I remember, when I was about six years old, going with my father to this location. It was under construction, and he worked as an off-duty OPPD officer, working security on the site, when construction crews were not there. Of course, I grew up around the mall. When I became a police officer, I also worked off-duty providing police security duing mall hours on the weekends. I hate that this mall is gone. It had a dignity to it.
worked upstairs across from Topsy in the 80s...sold beer signs in the middle of the mall...sad to this.
I hear so many comments like yours, from folks who used to work in the mall and have fond memories. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome video! I rabbit trailed down memory lane and stumbled across your video. I remember spending many hours in this mall as a kid in the 80's. My first kiss happened in Glenwood Theater. It was a magical and pivotal moment in my life that I'll never forget, and those pictures made it seem like yesterday. I also spend a lot of time and money in the Hobby Haven, Skagg's Drugs (and later Osco), and Topsy's! I always enjoyed the cobalt blue fountains. Ah, those were good, simple times...
Thomas Hess Great stories. Glad to bring those memories back for you. Thanks for watching!
I’m pretty sure I could name every store in there. It was the first place I was allowed to walk or ride my bike to as a child. So many memories. Sorry no one could ever find a way to resurrect it😢
Damn, why did this make me so sad? I sometimes rode my bike out there from 85th & Lamar in the early 70s. (Broadmoor Jr. High kid). I really loved that fountain.
TNX dude for uploading this. It sucked that I never went into the mall, my mom wouldn't let me go in for some reason. Glad to see peple still upload the Mall I wish I couldve visited.
The Who ate pizza inside this Mall. 1967. After a concert at SM South HS.
The Who gave a concert AT the high school???
@@youarepredictable Yes, just before they became popular. The first time they broke their guitars was at Shawnee Mission South concert/dance.
i meen just seeing it after a while it makes me sad that eveytime i was in that area of the mall or how should i say it driving by it but so sad that it got taken down and i dont know why there is a lowes now right by home depot have a good Christmas
At least there’s a Chick Fil A there now. Haha!
they built a god damn Lowes on top of it. rip childhood.
I like the film projector sound at 11:40.
ThePoreproductions Good catch!
Bought my X-Men cards at a store in this mall. That was the early nineties and it was dying then.
Yeah, I think that was the beginning of the exodus.
Was probably Clint's Comics. A south KC landmark!
Sad... My home away from home during my youth. Tons of wonderful memories.
How sad, all the malls are going away...
I think i saw home alone at this mall.
Great video, For Real, nice to see it illuminated, Seph Lawless just uploaded one of this prior to demolition
And now Sears is closing by September of 2017
What a shame. So much more character than a modern dull shopping mall.
I wish Metcalf South lived on and Oak Park Mall was torn down.
Goodbye Metcalf South
So sad to see that we humans prefer to be alone and order everything online vs supporting local shops and malls. I think modern technology and Amazon is the blame for the downfall of American retailers.
Great video. Very good choice of music for it. I guess the fate of the mall is what some people call progress. I'm not sure I do. By the way what was the music used on this video. Very beautiful and haunting. Thanks for your efforts.
Thanks Michael! The music is several different stock tracks from various libraries. I think it includes: BackTraxx, Incompetech, Muse Music, and Sound Ideas?
It has got a second lease of life - as a Amazon distribution center.
What was the yogurt place called by the food court? I loved there strawberrie shortcake waffle cones! I turely miss those. I always bugged my mom for one! I always thought it was called Cone a Cone or Cone Within A Cone you went up the escalator by the fountain as you got off it was right in front you could walk right over. I hope someone else remembers. My father was a salesman at Sears he's retired. I remember when they had carving show's in the center of the mall back in the 80's I was very young. I would just like to see a picture of the yogurt place again. I tried Google it nothing comes up 😥
I’m not sure, but was it possibly TCBY?
@@joshweinstock I don't think so I remember those it had a really unusual name it was also at Ward Park Way.
Kinda sad. I used to walk with my two cousins to Metcalf south. I held several little jobs there when I was 15 or so. It's definitely part of my history. I remember the orange Julius stand. Those days were wonderful.
We knew greatness... America's soul is dying. Thoughtless people, replacing wonders, with faceless nothing that will never be remembered, when they, too, are gone... Thank you, for the fitting video and strikingly, appropriate music! So sad😞
Thanks for watching David! American retail is definitely changing.
This mall was a wonder?
Goodnight, sweet prince...
No escalators.
Hadn’t Metcalf South lost all of its chain stores by the mid 2000s??? Just wondering.
Yes, I think for the most part. The anchors Macy's and Sears remained until basically the end. But most of the rest were gone by the mid 2000's.
@@joshweinstock Even GNC and Bath & Body Works?
And NOW Sears announces the closing of it's store there. Liquidation beginning August 1st, 2017.
They could of done something with it.
This was a great mall and now the property looks like crap. Please overland park kansas do something with that property. Looks like someone dropped a bomb on the property. No more senior living areas either tired of seeing those places popping up. Build place where people can have jobs and commerce.
Loved that Hobby Haven. Spent quite a bit of money there on unfinished products. There used to be a video game rental store on the second level next to Jones. Used to rent NES/SNES games from there weekly.
How long, if anything, was this mall abandoned before demolition began? It still looks to be in pretty good shape...???
Glamour Girl 212 the inside of the mall was still open until 2014 even tho the only stores were a Macy's and sears at opposite ends, it was wierd because of how empty the inside was because you could walk around
Also John's Tailor Shop.
I use to work down the street and went out there(inside) in 2015 about 5 times before it closed and use to go out there during work hours(outside) after it closed and hide in the west side parking garage dock. I'm thinking the ward parkway mini- mall should close next!
I don't like it, but it seems to be where America is heading, it is what America wants.
The music makes me want to order Chinese food.
So very odd to come across a mall in the United States with my family's last name. Sad to see that it was demolished
I can hear the whack of foosballs and I can smell pizza from the Pizza Hut around the back.
A E S T H E T I C S N E V E R D I E
Big Thumbs up New Subbie here now, I liked the variety of videos on your channel, very similar to that of our three channels combined, look forward to more uploads
Thanks for the kind words & the follow. Be sure to check out my new channel WyJo Media for new content: ruclips.net/channel/UCkknu4_wEwG8yoJanCJXOiQ
Wow that was a beautiful mall, i don't get why people stop shopping in malls, i have always shopped in them to this day, but i have an idea why some don''t. Ponder this theory, People have to walk down long skinny hallways in a mall, that means, that they are close to people they would not otherwise rub shoulders with. Nobody wants to be laughed at in the world and the long skinny corridors sometimes have people hanging out in them and they can be cruel to other people. Now for instance, overweight people and less attractive people are laughed at. Probably more in the older days of the 80's and 90's and early 2000's than the more progressive PC society we live in today. Just a theory and mabye its more a combination of reasons why , such as the layout never changes, but anyways, I am sure the business also don't want to pay high rent as well and overbuilding played a terrible roll. What other reasons can you think of? ?????? Peace :)
like this comment if you learned to drive a car in the parking lot of this mall
As far as I know Ward Parkway Mall had that honor of being the second enclosed mall in the Nation. Am I wrong?
Sad
Total waste