Abandoned Dairy Queen - Franklin, PA

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 18 авг 2019
  • Abandoned Dairy Queen - Franklin, PA. Closed in early 2019, this place never saw life for any customers during the summer season here. Once featured a lunar module outside of its front doors. It also has an airplane inside. Sad that it closed and never reopened as signs said it would.
    Subscribe to Bradley here.
    Flame Dragon: / blackwidowmaster
    If you enjoy my content and wish to help make my channel grow, become a Patron! You can make a contribution at / wallieb26 .
    There is no obligation and I'm not asking you to! All proceeds go toward expenses involved in travelling to film for you guys. I do not make a profit. Thank you!
  • РазвлеченияРазвлечения

Комментарии • 198

  • @jeremyfisk6266
    @jeremyfisk6266 4 года назад +33

    I have never seen a Dairy Queen with a plane! A first for me! And I love Dairy Queen! As always awesome video Wallie! Love your videos! Stay awesome!

  • @mallaholicretailadventures
    @mallaholicretailadventures 4 года назад +19

    A long time ago, the Ottawa IL McDonald's had an old fashioned car in it and you could sit in it and eat. Long gone now. Cool that there was a plane in that one.

  • @elizabethorsillo7187
    @elizabethorsillo7187 4 года назад +24

    What??? DQ in Franklin is closed?! I haven’t been up that way in a while. They had a space capsule in the front of that building, which was as neat as the plane inside! ☹️

    • @jeffyaboss4394
      @jeffyaboss4394 4 года назад +2

      Sarah Harris the person he left it to didn’t have the money to open in the spring

    • @jeffyaboss4394
      @jeffyaboss4394 3 года назад

      @@6043ron I know. I was referring to the person that commented but they deleted it

    • @Megan37308
      @Megan37308 Год назад

      There is a airport next to it

  • @catinacherry4222
    @catinacherry4222 4 года назад +5

    I was born in Franklin, Pa and raised my 2 youngest children there and this was a staple in our summer...my son loved the airplane. Sad to see it close. 😧😧

  • @BrokenInside365
    @BrokenInside365 4 года назад +4

    What an oddly unique Dairy Queen. Never seen one like that before, I get all kinds of vibes from it.

  • @DXKramer
    @DXKramer 4 года назад +8

    There is a restaurant near my work that "closed for the winter" around New Years 2016 and still hasn't opened.
    Though the place still has power.

    • @robminmonaca
      @robminmonaca 4 года назад +1

      DXKramer why can’t they just say closed plain and general and not for the winter BS.

  • @news89
    @news89 4 года назад +9

    Wow. That is one cool airplane seating is neato. Some ice cream and chicken strip basket sounds good right meow.

  • @AdventureswithBeck
    @AdventureswithBeck 4 года назад +10

    That plane is so awesome. Hopefully somebody can get it out and put it to good use. Nice video!

    • @jeffyaboss4394
      @jeffyaboss4394 2 года назад

      They are making it a new ice cream shop but not dq

  • @iseespots6014
    @iseespots6014 4 года назад +8

    i never seen a airplane in a dairy queen but i had a mcdonald that was themed around the 50s with records and poodle skirts

    • @ericheld4382
      @ericheld4382 3 года назад

      Cuyahoga falls Ohio? I worked there in the 90's

  • @InkCityClothing
    @InkCityClothing 4 года назад +6

    I used to go here alllllll the time growing up.

  • @broomsnickle
    @broomsnickle 4 года назад +1

    all of us that grew up in franklin, that's part of our childhood memories...eating a cone in the airplane at dairy queen. so sad that it's closed and I can't pass this cool spot on to my kids. hopefully someone will buy it and reopen someday!

  • @vflrockytop
    @vflrockytop 3 года назад +1

    Its funny I found this video. I'm a trucker and I deliver chemicals from Tennessee to a plant in frankin. Every time I drive by that dq I find it strange. That hill can on down the road can be brutal in the winter.

  • @DoctorWizzard
    @DoctorWizzard 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for the video man. My family used to drive to and through Franklin a lot and we always stopped here on the way back home.

  • @EBS-Studios
    @EBS-Studios 4 года назад +2

    Hello WallieB26! Another Epic Video! Shout Out To Kayla & Bradley! Congratulations Again On The Z24! Thank You! & “Stay Awesome” 😎

  • @SearsCool
    @SearsCool 4 года назад +3

    That’s pretty nice, back then we used to have a lot of Dairy Queen’s but they all closed, but one opened last year and that’s the only one we have

  • @ZeeMann_Retail
    @ZeeMann_Retail 4 года назад +2

    Awesome looking place!
    Great video man!

  • @JackVegetables18
    @JackVegetables18 4 года назад +4

    Such a cool looking dairy queen ashame they had to close awesome video bro

  • @brandonb.6099
    @brandonb.6099 4 года назад +2

    That plane is awesome. I like the vintage logo. I enjoy your videos , wallie. Stay awesome!!!

  • @DAVIDSRETAILADVENTURES
    @DAVIDSRETAILADVENTURES 4 года назад +2

    Good video wallie. Haven’t seen one of these abandoned in awhile. I liked how you started. “I can’t get Ice cream for real” good video lol

  • @angie6514
    @angie6514 4 года назад +2

    Awesome video, wallie

  • @FlameDragon
    @FlameDragon 4 года назад +5

    This was a fun time! Shame we didn't get food! I wanted a cheeseburger and a blizzard!

  • @danieljwilson7918
    @danieljwilson7918 4 года назад

    Awesome Video Wallie. Love that plane in there. Looks like it is in decent shape. Too bad they can not reopen it. Stay Awesome!!!

  • @edwardsr70
    @edwardsr70 4 года назад +4

    I've never saw a grill and chill close during the winter. Awesome plane. This location had an apollo command module boilerplate 1 of only 4. Shame its gone.

  • @tygreenwood472
    @tygreenwood472 4 года назад

    As a truck driver I went by that place all the time when picking up loads in areas just north of there always wanted to stop and enjoy some ice cream along with checking out the uniqueness of that place but never could squeeze the time in to do so, ashame it's closed down!

  • @NumisNate
    @NumisNate 4 года назад +1

    Woah so cool i watch ur vids every day!

  • @andrewwilks2147
    @andrewwilks2147 4 года назад

    I grew up in Franklin pa since i was 6 years old. I been to this dairy queen many of times since my childhood. Very sad to see this permanently closed and sad to see the removal of the Apollo space capsule as well. For me, this DQ is filled with childhood memories when family and us siblings would all go here for ice cream, sit at the airplane, and look at the Apollo space capsule as well. Very sad and depressing to see and very depressing to not see the Apollo space capsule there anymore. I found out earlier today on my way to a dental appointment in mercer about this dairy queen being closed up. My dad was saying on way to appointment that this DQ is up for sale. I hope someone buys this DQ up and opens it back up preserving it the way it was. I would also love to know where the Apollo space capsule was taken to. Thank you Wallie B26 for posting and sharing this! Totally agree with you guys about how very sad this is!

  • @camhowe349
    @camhowe349 4 года назад

    Amazing video as always! Looks like they were gonna do construction on it but it never happened and it just ended up closing up once they sold all the stock locked up and just left and never came back to empty the place out! Hopefully they do something with the property soon and all that stuff gets emptied and figured out where its going! Enjoy your night

  • @slackingpacking
    @slackingpacking 4 года назад +2

    Those air planes though 😍

  • @richardhudson3014
    @richardhudson3014 4 года назад

    The air plane was really cool and it's a shame to see a place like that just close up and like you say it's all about the charm of the place and that place has charm and I love dairy queen and stay awesome always really good videos Willie!

  • @EpicGamer2010YT
    @EpicGamer2010YT 2 года назад +1

    New people bought it and it is now called The Brain Freeze. I always got their ice cream sandwiches and burgers! 10/10

  • @jeffrogosz7198
    @jeffrogosz7198 3 года назад

    Remember going there in the late 90s with parents and grand parents still remember playing on those as a kid I am 31 now I stopped here a week before Thanksgiving in 2018 got my last flamethrower burger and blizzard oreo on 😂 I talked to ths young kid who was working he told me they would not be reopening sad memories now

  • @Optopolis
    @Optopolis 4 года назад +1

    Wow that plane is stinking amazing! Definitely the first one I've seen with an airplane! I bet that car has been there since they closed 😂 The door at 5:25 too XD Had a theatre here that had doors that high XD Absolutely vintage too! I love that old-school pickup/order window at 8:06 too! We had a couple or three here; now there's only one that was upgraded to grill and chill a few years ago.

  • @shanemn123
    @shanemn123 4 года назад +8

    I hope you stopped at the Spaceship Toy Store on the left coming back down 8.

  • @saxman112
    @saxman112 4 года назад

    Dang, you and your bad luck with DQs! That one looked cool! The coolest one I've seen around my parts in MN is this one in Roseville (one of the burbs just north of St. Paul). It's a treat only one, but it still has all the old signage, and it looks awesome.

  • @RichardDremdenWolf
    @RichardDremdenWolf 4 года назад +1

    *_That was such a cool location. VERY unique, and such a shame it closed and never reopened for this summer. I checked the website, and it says "under construction," so it doesn't seem to belong to this DQ anymore. Appears to be gone for good. Sad!_*

  • @melodybeitzel5378
    @melodybeitzel5378 4 года назад

    Love your videos, sad to dairy queen closed really wanted ice cream , so anyway thanks for sharing and stay awesome

  • @Christopher0817
    @Christopher0817 4 года назад

    That was a pretty cool looking DQ there just a shame it never reopened I loved that giant blizzard just lying over out there

  • @robertsilva8097
    @robertsilva8097 4 года назад

    Thank you for the Great video

  • @clarky417
    @clarky417 2 года назад

    That plane ✈️ is totally awesome 😎

  • @julielake598
    @julielake598 3 года назад +4

    The local story goes that the long, long time owner passed away. He owned it so long that he was grandfathered in on what he paid for use of the Dairy Queen name and brand. Anyone who bought it to open and operate it as a Dairy Queen would have to pay current prices to use the Dairy Queen name and brand. We never understood why they had indoor seating but were never opened in the winter. The kids loved sitting in the airplane to eat their ice cream. The last I knew, the building and land were for sale. We really miss it. It was a double whammy for my sister as she didn't have a DQ in her town and she loved to go get her Blizzard when she was visiting her. Now she can't get her Blizzard in either town.
    The space capsule was loaded up and hauled away. I don't have any idea where it went.
    The last I knew, the building and land were for sale. Rumor has it that the airport bought the land and are going to tear the building down. At one time the owner had red lights up high but had to remove them because they were confusing to the airplanes flying into and out of the Franklin Airport.

  • @Arcticwolf689
    @Arcticwolf689 4 года назад +2

    We had a Dairy Queen a long time .ago it shut down because the owner saleing bad candys if u know what I mean in 2016 we got a new Dairy Queen i notice a. Sign that said comeing soon I was so excited 😆 i can’t believe our luck i love your videos thx u so much in love the theme of this Dairy Queen especially that airplane in the old school sign

  • @joannlaneking8725
    @joannlaneking8725 4 года назад +1

    I love The old school seating i hate the new crap! My dairy queen i grew up with had tiffany style overhead lighting it was so pretty and awesome! Thanks for sharing

    • @gaylenewood7707
      @gaylenewood7707 4 года назад

      Those one chairs they swivel which are my favorite McDonald's use to have those type of chairs but not anymore they got rid of them cause kids get their legs stuck in the back of those chairs😭.

    • @tiahio8315
      @tiahio8315 2 месяца назад

      Was just telling my kids about this place. I grew up there. It was my second job. Fun times working there. Not your typical fast food place. It was a franchise and the owner just did things his way. They closed on the winters because nobody wanted to drive up the hill in the winter to get burgers or ice cream. If I remember correctly, the owner lived in the house right next to it. Not sure if he’s still around. He was probably in his 50s when I was a kid working there. The space thing out front was cool. Wonder what happened to it.

  • @ChiralSpirals
    @ChiralSpirals 4 года назад +9

    Tune in next week to find out if wallie will ever get to eat....spoiler...he dosent

  • @shawnsr8459
    @shawnsr8459 4 года назад

    That was a really cool place!👍🤘

  • @shannondolgos1206
    @shannondolgos1206 4 года назад +1

    I worked at this DQ when I was in high school. Kim, the owner, passed away a short time ago and the location hasn't reopened since his passing.

  • @liztrainer895
    @liztrainer895 3 года назад

    The vintage blizzard cups had cartoon Dennis the Menace and his dog Ruf printed on them.

  • @racheldehaan1331
    @racheldehaan1331 4 года назад

    Love your channel.just subscribed

  • @benjaminguiste5734
    @benjaminguiste5734 4 года назад +2

    My local Dairy Queen is strange. The outside is old looking while the inside has been updated.

    • @gaylenewood7707
      @gaylenewood7707 4 года назад

      Aw you need to send wallie.the pic of that place it'll be cool.

  • @carlavision6143
    @carlavision6143 4 года назад

    I've never seen a DQ with a plane in one. Our DQ doesn't have no plane nor does the one in Durant. Awesome and cool video Wallie!

  • @liztrainer895
    @liztrainer895 2 года назад

    I love the blizzard . Haven’t had one in a while.wish that giant blizzard was real. I could share it with a bunch of friends.

  • @jenniferwright8355
    @jenniferwright8355 4 года назад +1

    Wow, I used to go there every year at Applefest.

  • @ryanryder1091
    @ryanryder1091 4 года назад +1

    There was a very unique dairy Queen in garretsville Ohio it had alot of old toy cars old traffic lights and vintage gas pumps I have no idea if the place is around anymore

  • @clr0654
    @clr0654 4 года назад +2

    And, yes, there was a real space capsule out front

  • @summerwinter6348
    @summerwinter6348 4 года назад

    I loved sitting in the airplane as a kid. It was fun. You kinda had to be first or wait forever to get the seats. The rumor is that the owner got sick and just couldn’t reopen it for the summer, the only time of year that it opened ever. The whole town looked forward to getting food and ice cream from there and lines of people would jam pack the inside. Franklin is a small town and you’d always run into people you knew there at DQ. My grandma would always take orders for people who wanted ice cream after dinner and we would take the 5 minute drive to get there. By the time we got back, the ice cream would be melted. Still always fun

  • @donnasfocus2050
    @donnasfocus2050 4 года назад

    Aww so sad....I have never ever seen a DQ like that one! Oh and so clean looks like it will open any time now.... The ones we have in okla is nothing like that.

  • @troydefrancescotheplotagon3245
    @troydefrancescotheplotagon3245 2 года назад

    At least our DQ still has the red barn also in Duncansville

  • @diehardfan22
    @diehardfan22 4 года назад

    unusual to see a dairy queen closed especially such a cool dairy queen

  • @Gil-jw3om
    @Gil-jw3om 4 года назад

    Very Cool

  • @damonbuilder4978
    @damonbuilder4978 Год назад +1

    I remember when I was a kid and going to this place, also, it got turned into a BrainFreeze, they still have the plane

  • @jfrFK28ST01fan
    @jfrFK28ST01fan 4 года назад +2

    Cool video!! Did you perhaps to walk by the power meter to see if the power was still active?

  • @dawnroberts1653
    @dawnroberts1653 3 года назад +1

    The owners of this retired. I used to love sitting on the airplane

  • @jeremyfisk6266
    @jeremyfisk6266 4 года назад +1

    There’s your Blizzard! Lol

  • @sciulliconcrete
    @sciulliconcrete 4 года назад +3

    was that blizzard cup heavy to bad you didn't have a pickup truck

    • @gaylenewood7707
      @gaylenewood7707 4 года назад

      I bet if you had a pick up and wallie.call you to come pick it up up you'll do it wouldn't ya?

  • @shawnchambers9494
    @shawnchambers9494 4 года назад +2

    The owner passed away and that’s why it never opened back up

    • @brendadeloe8718
      @brendadeloe8718 4 года назад

      DO YOU KNOW WHO OWNS IT /WHO TO GET AHOLD OF
      THXU

  • @thecrackshack3130
    @thecrackshack3130 4 года назад

    The original owner of the Dairy Queen in franklin, Kim, passed away a while ago. A guy Colton owned the place, and now he abandoned it. My sister was married to him, so they both ran the place around 2017-2018. They don’t speak to eachother now, but that’s what happened. Colton is supposedly in New York now.

  • @lanaarmstrong8943
    @lanaarmstrong8943 3 года назад

    This has to be truly one of the coolest Dairy Queens in America.
    Such a shame they closed it.

  • @jeremyfisk6266
    @jeremyfisk6266 4 года назад +3

    Don’t go out that door Wallie!

    • @gaylenewood7707
      @gaylenewood7707 4 года назад +1

      I wonder how many drunks went through that door before they sober up?😉.

  • @pennguy20
    @pennguy20 4 года назад

    From what I heard, the owner was cheap and refused to keep it open in the winter due to it only having a wood stove. But I loved the airplane themed seats. If I had the money, I would open up the place. Just sad how economically depressed the area has become over the past 30 years.

    • @pennguy20
      @pennguy20 Год назад

      Update: Someone beat me to opening up the place because it’s another ice cream place now. Apparently still has the same airplane seating.

  • @amtraktraveler9118
    @amtraktraveler9118 4 года назад +1

    There used to be an space capsule in front of this location. According to Yelp.com.

  • @justinmiller9014
    @justinmiller9014 4 года назад

    I live right down the road from there used to go there as a kid

  • @nickrodgers5882
    @nickrodgers5882 4 года назад +4

    I live in Franklin they had pretty good food to

  • @robertsilva8097
    @robertsilva8097 4 года назад

    Thank you for your videos there's a Dairy Queen here in California that closed two days before I went there the door was unlocked and there's a person inside that said they were a Dairy Queen employee and I was able to get a Dairy Queen dipped cone a blizzard and then when I left I was wondering why did the did not charge me

  • @killakyleism
    @killakyleism 4 года назад

    My grandfather did all the brick and stone work to this building... Ashame nobody can run this place!

  • @tc12productions72
    @tc12productions72 4 года назад

    There is a old Dairy Queen in Altoona pa in then it closed but it’s now a new ice cream shop

  • @GadzooksEugene
    @GadzooksEugene Год назад

    Previous owner died, left it to some kid in the will who then sold the space capsule that was outside as scrap. Now renamed as "Maurer's Brain Freeze" as part of JGM Enterprises, same guy that owns Maurer's Trading Post just a little ways down the road away from the main town.
    The lunar capsule was actually legit, from one of the test launches back when. Guy found it in a scrap yard alongside one other, set it up in front. The way I hear it, the owner died and there was some argument with the will about who it should be given to, then the new owner sold the capsule for scrap (I assume). Driving past, it looked like he rented 2 cranes (first wasn't big enough), then the second crane was kept for longer because he couldn't get a truck big enough to move it. Guy never reopened after that, then it was sold to Mr. Maurer during the coof. It's seasonal at the moment, with kayak rentals available on the same lot, but he's working on a year-round menu, if he could get a good crew put together to run the place. He's looking at adding mini golf, as well.

  • @chelseaswab7976
    @chelseaswab7976 2 года назад

    I grew up in that place my grandmother worked there I was in the back all the time. Update they are now open but it’s not dairy Queen anymore the name of it is called brain freeze I do believe.

  • @brianthompson8514
    @brianthompson8514 4 года назад

    Grocery store bought ice cream will never come close to a dairy queen, used to be a place on Brookline blvd that sold hand packed ice cream but closed now.

  • @sombrashibe
    @sombrashibe 4 года назад +1

    Never saw a DQ with a plane!! Awesome

  • @DaFloridaMapper
    @DaFloridaMapper Год назад

    Atleast my local Dairy Queen has a train on the ceiling

  • @gaylenewood7707
    @gaylenewood7707 4 года назад

    Too bad you couldn't take that big blizzard with you guys it'll be a cool keepsake.

  • @katiebarron7460
    @katiebarron7460 4 года назад

    This dq always closed in the winter I think cause their was no heat in it. It was bought by a new owner in late 2018 early 2019. And dq wanted them to update it and the new owner didn’t want to put that kind of money into it and here it sits now empty

  • @tammybeer1834
    @tammybeer1834 4 года назад +1

    you Need to check out The abandoned CAMP GROUND iN LINSEVILLE PA

  • @spongebobsquarepants725
    @spongebobsquarepants725 4 года назад +2

    DQ closes in the winter up there? Down south DQ is open year round.

    • @gaylenewood7707
      @gaylenewood7707 4 года назад

      Well there's a dairy queen in hamilton illionis that is open all year round and so is a couple in Quincy Illinois and they are very good better the one in keokuk iowa the guy who bought it made the ice cream there taste like freezer burnt no flavor it's like licking cardboard..

  • @billbaum4177
    @billbaum4177 Год назад +1

    The best ice cream was polly's ice cream out from Franklin Pennsylvania

  • @ruthpullis9279
    @ruthpullis9279 4 года назад +1

    My question ! In the future .so many jobs are closing what will it be like to live

  • @michaelblair5767
    @michaelblair5767 4 года назад

    That was cool

  • @ELHONDEROPR
    @ELHONDEROPR 4 года назад

    Thats sad they just recent opend a new dq in my town

  • @danielleswab7216
    @danielleswab7216 4 года назад +1

    I worked there for 20 years sadly once the owner died in November 2018 that was it he was such a amazing man.......he left it to a idiot that ran it into the ground. The house next door is where the owner lived..........

    • @bruceheflin5931
      @bruceheflin5931 3 года назад

      Whatever happened to Amanda that worked there?

  • @RevofOne
    @RevofOne 2 года назад

    Wow, what happened in Franklin? From a a different part of the country. So sad to see towns go down like this.
    Did businesses go down for good or just move?

  • @qwartal
    @qwartal 3 года назад

    'We will reopen in March of 2019 depending on the weather'.
    'Depending on weather'? 🤔
    This is not a roller coaster in the summer park. This is a separate brick building!
    Could you explain to me how restaurant may be closed for the winter? Cause in Europe restaurants are open in winter, in spring, in summer and in fall. All year round.
    Thanx a lot. Great vid! LIKE IT!!! 👍👍👍

  • @Theprodogegameeytp82
    @Theprodogegameeytp82 10 месяцев назад

    That’s Odd.Dairy Queen and KFC in Franklin Pennsylvania are closed BUT have the sign on it.VERY CONFUSING lol

  • @mischiefmakerstudios9900
    @mischiefmakerstudios9900 4 года назад

    That sucks that it was closed.

  • @kimkelly-kline8387
    @kimkelly-kline8387 4 года назад

    Looks like almost everythings abandoned in Franklin...have to show my hubby he's familiar with that area,hes from Oil City.

  • @letaloudone
    @letaloudone 4 года назад

    Hell take that blizzard cup!

  • @monalovejoy6341
    @monalovejoy6341 4 года назад

    😞😔😢 I live here. And I missed Dairy Queen. I did not know that oh Dairy Queen is the only one with a plain inside. I always like that plane. And I do miss going now. I miss my blizzard. And I miss my peanut butter buffet. And they are wavy. They can for the video

  • @WinDogeFromYouTube
    @WinDogeFromYouTube 4 года назад +2

    Closed DAIRY queen with signage up after a whole summer: *exists*
    Me: CLICKBAIT

    • @gaylenewood7707
      @gaylenewood7707 4 года назад

      Friggin summer is almost gone😭😭 PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!😥😥😢😢😭.

  • @clr0654
    @clr0654 4 года назад

    I’m from Franklin. Went there all the time. Heard that it closed pending the outcome of a divorce settlement.

  • @Carman1744
    @Carman1744 4 года назад +1

    I’m sure the menu at that DQ is different from the ones In Texas

  • @ju6536
    @ju6536 3 года назад

    I remember going to that dairy queen

  • @michelewinger1442
    @michelewinger1442 4 года назад +1

    The coke machine sign says No Ice...not Noice.