We drove through Cisco several times from the mid 80s to the mid 90s going to Moab from Colorado... it was creepy but interesting as the houses were all still standing painted white and totally empty. Fascinating.
#1 Bodie, California is well worth visiting when traveling Route 395 along the CA/NV Sierra mountains east side escarpment. If heading to Lake Tahoe, Mammoth Lakes, Yosemite NP or Bishop, this is a fun half-day detour to explore the well-preserved town.
Cisco Utah! Years ago, I worked as a trainman for the Denver & Rio Grande Western. One trip, we had a carload of lumber that was starting to shift so we ended up setting it out at Cisco. As we started setting the car out, a pickup truck with two men and a boy came down the road, stopped, and watched us. After some time, they left but right as we got the train back together and were departing, they reappeared only this time, they had a large flatbed truck!
Used to stop at the cafe in Glenrio when I first started my career in trucking. I remember when that section of I-40 opened up and the impact on the cafe was immediate.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I was in a mall. 15 years? I’ve been to far more ghost towns than malls. All the ones you had that are out west, plus many others I’ve had the pleasure of visiting.
I’ve been to Tombstone, Calico, Jerome, and Bodie. They are all fun places but Bodie is the best! The only mall I go to infrequently is Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego.
Is Fashion Valley still open?! I used to shop there when I was a student at SDSU (Go Aztecs!). Moved to Tahoe after graduation and took my San Diego friends to Bodie!
When I lived in Edmonton Alberta, I used to go to West Edmonton Mall, largest mall in the world at one time, about once per month. Since moving from there, I got to malls only for the food courts as sit down restaurants are too expensive and fast food is gross.
Shopping on line is so convenient and easy that I rarely go to a mall anymore. While you might have to go from store to store looking for a certain type of item and maybe never find exactly what you're looking for, Amazon will likely have dozens of choices.
I only go to a mall maybe once a year. However, I wouldn't want to see malls end. They are places where people who aren't computer-savvy can walk around and look at things and even meet people. You even get some exercise doing that.
I hated having to _drive_ to numerous places and still not find what I’m looking for. And dealing with crappy customer service and traffic. Online I find what I want in 5 minutes and it’s on my porch the next day. Amazon has decreased my carbon footprint substantially.
I've driven through Centralia, PA twice. Once in 1991 when the "Graffiti Highway" was still an open public road and the other time in 2016 while I was on a business trip in nearby Frackville. I went back to the same area in 2023 on business and told my co-workers who I was traveling with about that town. I was surprised that none of them heard about it.
Tombstone is an awesome stop. Also interesting, if I remember rightly, Foothill cemetery is not situated where it used to be...still very cool, though.
There is a ghost town in the mountains above death valley that is currently being rebuilt. He has a channel called "Ghost town living" that covers the rebuild. Great channel.
Very interesting video. To answer your question, my husband and I went to Willow Grove Park Mall in Pa once in 2023. There were a decent amount of people there at the time and my husband ended up getting sick. I haven't had the need to return.
Very interesting video, Briggs. Well Done!! You did forget one location. Ludlow, CA. Visited there 3 years ago. Very interesting site. Maybe check it out for a future video.
Ludlow is a good one! The town that won't die! First, the railroad was rolling and a lot centered there. Later commerce on Route 66 was the main commercial concentration. Then, when 40 came through, that was the place to serve the people and still is. I'd love him to research Ludlow, too!
I go to the mall only when I need something very specific, maybe once a year, which might be surprising considering I live easy walking distance from a really nice one.
Minnesota has a ghost town called Lilydale on the banks of the MS River near St Paul. It was on a flood plain and many houses were raised on concrete blocks that let the flood flow under the houses. Hit was a great fishing spot and the road leading out on a bluff was the St Paul Yacht Club a private group with a great restaurant. The County bought out remaining homeowners and it is now part of a regional park but the road was moved away from the river and raised above flood level. Not sure if anything remains of Lilydale other than an open train trestle no longer in use. What they did have in the 50's and 60's were three bars that drinking age was 18 not 21. They would take your word you were 18. It was popular teenage hangout.
We have a fairly small mall here in Charlottesville, Virginia and I have only been there once in the last 5 years. I used to go once every few months maybe. Once Sears and JC Penny moved out, it kinda went downhill.
My wife and I went to Bodie, California and I took some pictures. Four months later, my wife left me for another woman. So yeah.. I guess it is cursed.
Bowdie is a great place to visit. There are historical stores, motels, and classrooms with books displayed. It's largely intact, providing a vision of what it was like to live there long ago. You can buy food there and be lectured about its history. But it's hard to drive to, isolated on a road that isn't being maintained. Yet I think its worth the effort. One of the most remarkable places I've ever seen in the Sierra Nevada region.
I don't have air conditioning at home, so i go to major malls, Del Amo mall in Torrance, California, South bay galleria in Redondo Beach, California Westfield's mall in Culver City, California, Northridge, California, mall and Westfield's Topanga mall etc etc.
My old stomping grounds!!!! Cool to hear!!! If your into air planes you gotta check out proud bird on aviation and if you like fried chicken you gotta go to well... its kinda hood on Manchester and western. I miss pho, taco truck and in and our burger. My wife n I moved to Japan in 2017. Let me know if you try the places I mentioned. 😊😊😊
Have been to Centralia as it is 103 miles from me. The fire underground is heading north towards the next town farther away. Saw graffiti hiway there with the smoke before it was covered over with mounds of dirt.
Interesting ghost towns... Anyway, I go into SunValley Mall in Concord, CA maybe once a year at most. (For a short while after it was opened in maybe 1968-ish, it was the world's largest fully indoor mall).
@Kìddman32 wow! I use to love going to that mall! My grandparents lived in Orinda and I always had an excuse to visit them, I knew they would let me go to the mall❤ Good days
We went to Thurmond this past Sunday. Definitely a cool area. We heard a tour guide say they are working to restore every building and house to its original look.
Cisco can easily be seen if you are driving on I-70 through Utah. It's also on an alternate route down to Moab and that's a beautiful drive on its own. Bodie is well worth a trip to see. The climate there has preserved so much of the town that you can visualize the miners walking around. SO many ghost towns to choose from - especially in the West. Love this video!
Tombstone is most definitely still alive. Most of Tombstone not shown in the video (or most videos about its historical significance) looks just like any other small town in America with traffic lights, gas stations, modern conveniences, etc. The old part is well preserved tourist trap, fun to visit, and they actually have the roads of the old part blocked off to cars, so you have to walk around in it to visit. Pretty cool.
Hi, Briggs and viewers. This is one of your best videos ! ! * It's an Excellent video and very informative. "Thank you" for sharing it ! ! * I really enjoyed viewing and listening to the history of each town... Excellent video... "Semper Fi" Mike in Montana :)
Appropriate tie in with Ghost Towns and Malls. We used to have Horton Plaza in San Diego downtown but they started charging an arm and a leg just to park and people stopped driving there and shops ran out of business and it was remodeled into something else. The last mall I went to was Grossmont Center and that was just to take some classes there.
I can't think of the last time I was at a major mall for shopping. We have a movie theater we go to a few times a year that's attached to a mall (not sure if it qualifies as a major mall). Even though we have to go in the mall to get to the theater, we make a beeline from the door, to the theater. After the movie, it's straight from the theater to the door and our car. We spend zero time shopping (window or otherwise). As one person posted, Amazon makes shopping so easy. Their prices are in line with brick and mortar stores, there's no 20 minute commute each way, I don't have to deal with crowds, I don't have to wait in line to pay for my stuff. What items I can't/won't get at Amazon, I'll get at one of the strip malls that are much closer (clothes, hardware, etc.).
Pretty interesting. As for a Mall visit, I'm pretty sure I have been to Picher OK more recently than a major mall. Funny how they used to be a regular staple in life, now not so much. But the main reason I went was to visit Sears and check out the Craftsman Tools, so not any reason to go...
Have not been to an indoor mall in a while, usually now i only go for the local apple stores when i go. when i do go its the westchester in white plains ny. Back in the 80’s it was for software stores, high end chocolates, clothing, or a book store
Bodie is in a state of arrested decay. Meaning they're not restoring it to its past glory but they are keeping it from decaying further. It's a place that everyone should see if they want to see what a real 1800s mining town looked like. It's an amazing place.
How often do I go to a mall? I don't. Most of the malls around me are gone. The nearest mall from here is fourty five miles and has almost nothing in it. I do go around Christmas time, and that's about it.
Trippy post! My wife and I have been watching your content for a very long time. Loved your recent Portland video! Keep doing your thing, we’ll keep watching ☀️
I worked at Calico Ghost Town as a kid! I started working there at age 12 until 17. I lived three miles away from there. Father worked for the railroad that is gone now. We had a lot of fun in Calico. It is still there. You can camp up there. Right off the 15 in CA close to Barstow.
Halfway through, I started wondering which ghost town the Brady went to and then figured it was probably a studio. Then you mentioned them! In my memory, it looks like Brodie, but I can't really trust my memory anymore. LOL
Bodie California wow that brings back a lot of memories. I made many trips there in my teens and early to mid 20s back then there was no booth with a Ranger in it. There was an early snowstorm one September and they cleared the road to the dirt road, and then it was not cleared. I stopped in my 1966 Mustang sitting looking at the road. 2 Four-wheel-drive came up and they said will each be one in front one behind you get stuck will pull you out. I drove in that snow that was a good 2 feet high in that Mustang it made it all the way to Bodie and it was some incredible shots of Bodie in the snow. I think the last time I was there was 25 to 30 years ago. Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I still drive by the turn off every time we go fishing on the Walker River but I just don't turn down it.
In the late 70's as a teenager the malls were the center of my social life. Now maybe once a year I go to Fashion Squire in Scottsdale AZ to get a Christmas gift for my wife and conduct it like a Commando mission - get in and get out as quickly as possible!
Surprised you didn’t mention Bodie’s elevation and harsh climate, oftentimes one of the coldest spots in the lower 48 throughout the winter (at least of the reported areas)
I was raised in the DFW area back in 60s-80s therefore we went to the mall about 3-4 times per month. I now live in the OKC area and semi retired. Therefore, the mall I got to now is Walmart about once a week. 😆 🤣 😂
Don't know if you'll see this or if you read all the comments, but the death knell for Picher was a tornado that went through and pretty much finished it off. I don't remember if I saw your 2018 video on this topic, as that was 6 years ago. Another place worthy of mention is Cairo, Illinois. Again, don't remember if you've ever done a video on Cairo but it has one hell of a history.
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Malls...about once a month we go to two malls here in Charlotte NC... Concord Mills Mall and Southpark Mall. Concord Mills is the average suburb type of mall and South Park is high-end with stores like Gucci, Tiffany, Coach and Nordstrom.
I go to a mall about once every couple of months. I used to go several times a week. Unfortunately, at least one of the malls near me (Meriden Mall in Connecticut) is dying, with their anchor stores gone and about three fourths of their stores closed. It’s sad to see.
The shopping mall we go to is Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, AL. I have been 3 times within the past year. It’s not my go to for shopping, however, there are still several stores in the huge mall. There have been shootings inside and outside the mall over the past few years. I have seen an increase in police/security presence and search dogs within the mall. Even so, my visits will likely not increase.
There’s probably at least one or more of these boom to bust ghost towns in every state. One guy had a blog of on an abandoned town in northeastern Minnesota that included video images touring a lot of the houses with old cars left in their garages. It was very strange and spooky because no one lived there since the early 1970s. It even had an abandoned hospital.
USE TO GO TO THE MALL WHEN I LIVED IN CHICAGO MOVED TO LINCOLN, NE WENT. THE DAUGHTER WHERE YOUNGER. NOW TWO ADULT KIDS .DON'T GO TO THE MALL OFTEN BECAUSE DAUGHTER ARE GROW UP NOW . THANKS FOR THE VIDEO DOING A GREAT JOB .
I used to go to the mall in Torrance, CA at least once a week. Living in Oregon went to Clackamas Mall once a month. Here in Pocatello, ID, I'm maybe once every 6 mos since it has no real stores except for Hobby Lobby.
Haven’t gone to a mall since covid. Before that we went about four times a year. Rosedale Mall or Mall of America were the malls we were most likely to go to.
Jerome is also the home of Maynard Kennan of Tool and his incredible vineyard Caduceus. It’s a great place to visit if you ever get a chance. In fact, the entire verde valley is just incredible.
I go to Roosevelt Field (and all the surrounding midi and mini malls) on Long Island maybe 4 or 5 times a year. Green Acres Mall, also on Long Island but much closer to Queens, about once or twice a year.
My mom's family is from the 4 corners area where Kansas, Arkansas,Missouri, and Oklahoma come together. My grandmother's oldest brother was a baptist minister in Pitcher and I had many extended family there. We visited in 1976 and the threat of cave in was very real.Many neighborhoods had warning signs saying enter at your own risk!! It was my understanding that at some point in the late 1980's when the town was down to a few hundred residents ,a tornado hit destroying everything and blowing around a lot of polluted dust. The EPA would not allow anyone to return or rebuild after that
I briefly lived in Barstow, CA, which is just a hop, skip, jump from Calico. They have a really neat house made of bottles. As for malls, there was a huge one in Phoenix, AZ, in the 70's that had an ice skating rink. I loved visiting it whenever I visited my cousin in Scottsdale. Today, though, in Spokane, WA, both the Valley and Northtown malls are slowly dying. They were always 90% clothing stores anyway.
The mall closest to me is in Marion Ohio that we went to frequently but it only has a few stores and a movie theater. We use to go all the time but now just a few times a year.
From '91-'93 I worked at one of the biggest stores in our mall. I haven't been back in nearly 20yrs until about 6 months ago. The store I worked at is closed, as are half the other stores. Fun fact, there is now a zoo in there. Turtles, birds, fish and I don't know what else. I wasn't going to pay $20 to see what else might be in a 3000 sqft mall zoo.
Regarding your question about mall shopping, someone in our family goes to Tysons Corner Mall in Fairfax County, VA roughly every 2 months, usually to see a movie at the AMC cineplex. Sometimes the women in the family check out the clothing and perfume stores, but rarely buy anything.
This was a really interesting one. Nice work Briggs.
I agree, those are some cool ghost towns especially Centralia and Bodie
The folks in Centralia tried to burn the garbage in the open town dump but there was an open vein of coal and whoosh... the epa can't contain it.
Oh dear. . .
Oops.
That amazes me. With all the technology and time to think it through and no one can figure out how to stop the fire.
@@douglasdea637 Yeah, that really strange. I don't think any companies supply products for the "underground, 40-year fire" industry 😮
Yes, well, remember, Pennsylvania is where young men have been known to punish wayward turkeys by rogering them.
We drove through Cisco several times from the mid 80s to the mid 90s going to Moab from Colorado... it was creepy but interesting as the houses were all still standing painted white and totally empty.
Fascinating.
Centralia, the inspiration for the town in the video game Silent Hill. That's one way to be remembered.
@@paultomaszewski1964 also a fantastic horror movie
Didn't know that
#1 Bodie, California is well worth visiting when traveling Route 395 along the CA/NV Sierra mountains east side escarpment. If heading to Lake Tahoe, Mammoth Lakes, Yosemite NP or Bishop, this is a fun half-day detour to explore the well-preserved town.
I agree it’s pretty cool but gosh I hate the road getting out there.
And there are also other deserted places along 395 that are not as well known.
I agree!!
Cisco Utah! Years ago, I worked as a trainman for the Denver & Rio Grande Western. One trip, we had a carload of lumber that was starting to shift so we ended up setting it out at Cisco. As we started setting the car out, a pickup truck with two men and a boy came down the road, stopped, and watched us. After some time, they left but right as we got the train back together and were departing, they reappeared only this time, they had a large flatbed truck!
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The Dragon! A popular rail to buy early in Boxcars/Rail Baron.
Used to stop at the cafe in Glenrio when I first started my career in trucking. I remember when that section of I-40 opened up and the impact on the cafe was immediate.
Thanks for another video Briggs
Thank you
I honestly can’t remember the last time I was in a mall. 15 years? I’ve been to far more ghost towns than malls. All the ones you had that are out west, plus many others I’ve had the pleasure of visiting.
I’ve been to Tombstone, Calico, Jerome, and Bodie. They are all fun places but Bodie is the best!
The only mall I go to infrequently is Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego.
Tombstone and Jerome are awesome. Boot Hill grave yard is hilarious 😂.
Is Fashion Valley still open?! I used to shop there when I was a student at SDSU (Go Aztecs!). Moved to Tahoe after graduation and took my San Diego friends to Bodie!
Another interesting topic! 👏
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Tombstone was really neat to visit. Saw some other smaller ghost towns in Co and Wyoming.
When I lived in Edmonton Alberta, I used to go to West Edmonton Mall, largest mall in the world at one time, about once per month. Since moving from there, I got to malls only for the food courts as sit down restaurants are too expensive and fast food is gross.
Fast food is corporate factory made “food.”
Shopping on line is so convenient and easy that I rarely go to a mall anymore. While you might have to go from store to store looking for a certain type of item and maybe never find exactly what you're looking for, Amazon will likely have dozens of choices.
So true!
I only go to a mall maybe once a year. However, I wouldn't want to see malls end. They are places where people who aren't computer-savvy can walk around and look at things and even meet people. You even get some exercise doing that.
Support your monopolistic corporate overlords.
Just that guy Bezos? Wants you to do.
I hated having to _drive_ to numerous places and still not find what I’m looking for. And dealing with crappy customer service and traffic. Online I find what I want in 5 minutes and it’s on my porch the next day. Amazon has decreased my carbon footprint substantially.
I've driven through Centralia, PA twice. Once in 1991 when the "Graffiti Highway" was still an open public road and the other time in 2016 while I was on a business trip in nearby Frackville. I went back to the same area in 2023 on business and told my co-workers who I was traveling with about that town. I was surprised that none of them heard about it.
Tombstone is an awesome stop. Also interesting, if I remember rightly, Foothill cemetery is not situated where it used to be...still very cool, though.
There is a ghost town in the mountains above death valley that is currently being rebuilt. He has a channel called "Ghost town living" that covers the rebuild. Great channel.
Cero Gordo probably had a higher population than most of the towns on this list.
Yeah, I was looking to that one being on this list and cannot fathom why it would not be.
Cerro Gordo?
@@ms.annthrope415 That is the one.
Very interesting video. To answer your question, my husband and I went to Willow Grove Park Mall in Pa once in 2023. There were a decent amount of people there at the time and my husband ended up getting sick. I haven't had the need to return.
I used to go there from time to time about 20 years ago. I no longer live in that area.
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Very interesting video, Briggs. Well Done!! You did forget one location. Ludlow, CA. Visited there 3 years ago. Very interesting site. Maybe check it out for a future video.
Ludlow is a good one! The town that won't die! First, the railroad was rolling and a lot centered there. Later commerce on Route 66 was the main commercial concentration. Then, when 40 came through, that was the place to serve the people and still is. I'd love him to research Ludlow, too!
Did you do Virginia city, Nevada last time? It’s fascinating! We were just there last week.
Been there. Yeah. I was expecting to see it here. But I haven't seen the other video, either. Total tourist trap when I was there in the 80's.
Next time you make this list, make a visit to Jeffrey City, Wyoming. A modern day version.
I came here to mention Jeffrey City. I was a kid in town during the uranium boom.
I go to the mall only when I need something very specific, maybe once a year, which might be surprising considering I live easy walking distance from a really nice one.
Loved this one. Great job. I go to a "shopping mall" about 2 - 3 times a year.
Minnesota has a ghost town called Lilydale on the banks of the MS River near St Paul. It was on a flood plain and many houses were raised on concrete blocks that let the flood flow under the houses. Hit was a great fishing spot and the road leading out on a bluff was the St Paul Yacht Club a private group with a great restaurant. The County bought out remaining homeowners and it is now part of a regional park but the road was moved away from the river and raised above flood level. Not sure if anything remains of Lilydale other than an open train trestle no longer in use.
What they did have in the 50's and 60's were three bars that drinking age was 18 not 21. They would take your word you were 18. It was popular teenage hangout.
We have a fairly small mall here in Charlottesville, Virginia and I have only been there once in the last 5 years. I used to go once every few months maybe. Once Sears and JC Penny moved out, it kinda went downhill.
A very interesting video !! Thanks Briggs
This video makes we want to do some exploration.
Thanks Briggs
Me too. I started researching this and started making plans
My wife and I went to Bodie, California and I took some pictures. Four months later, my wife left me for another woman. So yeah.. I guess it is cursed.
Maybe it was coincidence?
@@ankhpom9296 I’m sure of that! Her lover coincidentally won over $600K, after taxes, in the lottery. Totally coincidentally of COURSE!
I’m sure your better off
Could be a blessing in disguise......
Bowdie is a great place to visit. There are historical stores, motels, and classrooms with books displayed. It's largely intact, providing a vision of what it was like to live there long ago. You can buy food there and be lectured about its history. But it's hard to drive to, isolated on a road that isn't being maintained. Yet I think its worth the effort. One of the most remarkable places I've ever seen in the Sierra Nevada region.
Did you take a pebble from there?
@@ankhpom9296 No but my car tires did. They had some bad luck afterwards.
I don't have air conditioning at home, so i go to major malls, Del Amo mall in Torrance, California, South bay galleria in Redondo Beach, California Westfield's mall in Culver City, California, Northridge, California, mall and Westfield's Topanga mall etc etc.
My old stomping grounds!!!! Cool to hear!!! If your into air planes you gotta check out proud bird on aviation and if you like fried chicken you gotta go to well... its kinda hood on Manchester and western.
I miss pho, taco truck and in and our burger. My wife n I moved to Japan in 2017. Let me know if you try the places I mentioned. 😊😊😊
Have been to Centralia as it is 103 miles from me. The fire underground is heading north towards the next town farther away. Saw graffiti hiway there with the smoke before it was covered over with mounds of dirt.
It never got close to being a ghost town but look into Barberton, OH. Normal rust belt bust but interesting boom.
My first job after HS was at B&W in Barberton. Great memories.
Interesting ghost towns... Anyway, I go into SunValley Mall in Concord, CA maybe once a year at most. (For a short while after it was opened in maybe 1968-ish, it was the world's largest fully indoor mall).
@Kìddman32 wow! I use to love going to that mall! My grandparents lived in Orinda and I always had an excuse to visit them, I knew they would let me go to the mall❤ Good days
We went to Thurmond this past Sunday. Definitely a cool area. We heard a tour guide say they are working to restore every building and house to its original look.
Great job Briggs. Never miss a video even when it has NOTHING to do with my situation!
I go to a couple malls probably once a month, Chandler Fashion Square in Chandler, AZ and Arizona Mills in Phoenix.
Cisco can easily be seen if you are driving on I-70 through Utah. It's also on an alternate route down to Moab and that's a beautiful drive on its own. Bodie is well worth a trip to see. The climate there has preserved so much of the town that you can visualize the miners walking around.
SO many ghost towns to choose from - especially in the West. Love this video!
Tombstone is most definitely still alive. Most of Tombstone not shown in the video (or most videos about its historical significance) looks just like any other small town in America with traffic lights, gas stations, modern conveniences, etc. The old part is well preserved tourist trap, fun to visit, and they actually have the roads of the old part blocked off to cars, so you have to walk around in it to visit. Pretty cool.
We shop in the Arcadia, California or Montclair California malls 3 times a month. During the summer we may exercise in either mall everyday.
Hi, Briggs and viewers. This is one of your best videos ! ! * It's an Excellent video and very informative. "Thank you" for sharing it ! ! * I really enjoyed viewing and listening to the history of each town... Excellent video... "Semper Fi" Mike in Montana :)
Appropriate tie in with Ghost Towns and Malls. We used to have Horton Plaza in San Diego downtown but they started charging an arm and a leg just to park and people stopped driving there and shops ran out of business and it was remodeled into something else. The last mall I went to was Grossmont Center and that was just to take some classes there.
I can't think of the last time I was at a major mall for shopping. We have a movie theater we go to a few times a year that's attached to a mall (not sure if it qualifies as a major mall). Even though we have to go in the mall to get to the theater, we make a beeline from the door, to the theater. After the movie, it's straight from the theater to the door and our car. We spend zero time shopping (window or otherwise).
As one person posted, Amazon makes shopping so easy. Their prices are in line with brick and mortar stores, there's no 20 minute commute each way, I don't have to deal with crowds, I don't have to wait in line to pay for my stuff. What items I can't/won't get at Amazon, I'll get at one of the strip malls that are much closer (clothes, hardware, etc.).
Great video Briggs. The whole Western theme at Knott's Berry Farm makes total sense now. 😄
Like this list.
I go to Clackamas Town Center mall every other month, to the Barnes & Noble book store
Pretty interesting. As for a Mall visit, I'm pretty sure I have been to Picher OK more recently than a major mall. Funny how they used to be a regular staple in life, now not so much. But the main reason I went was to visit Sears and check out the Craftsman Tools, so not any reason to go...
I grew up between Bodie and Calico and visited both as a kid. I now live near Tombstone and visit every year. I have a thing for old towns.
Have not been to an indoor mall in a while, usually now i only go for the local apple stores when i go. when i do go its the westchester in white plains ny. Back in the 80’s it was for software stores, high end chocolates, clothing, or a book store
Bodie is in a state of arrested decay. Meaning they're not restoring it to its past glory but they are keeping it from decaying further. It's a place that everyone should see if they want to see what a real 1800s mining town looked like. It's an amazing place.
What about the alleged curse?
@@ankhpom9296it's true as far as I know.
How often do I go to a mall? I don't. Most of the malls around me are gone. The nearest mall from here is fourty five miles and has almost nothing in it. I do go around Christmas time, and that's about it.
That is me as well. Only during Christmas
Silver City, Dickshooter, Idaho has some interesting sites. Greenhorn, Sumpter, Ironside, Oregon has a few as well.
Love Tombstone and Jerome 👍💯
Picher, OK is truly eerie. With a few buildings that remain and the HUGE piles of slag you just keep on moving.
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I worked at Calico Ghost Town as a kid! I started working there at age 12 until 17. I lived three miles away from there. Father worked for the railroad that is gone now. We had a lot of fun in Calico. It is still there. You can camp up there. Right off the 15 in CA close to Barstow.
Halfway through, I started wondering which ghost town the Brady went to and then figured it was probably a studio. Then you mentioned them! In my memory, it looks like Brodie, but I can't really trust my memory anymore. LOL
One of my favorite videos to date.
Interesting episode!
Bodie California wow that brings back a lot of memories. I made many trips there in my teens and early to mid 20s back then there was no booth with a Ranger in it. There was an early snowstorm one September and they cleared the road to the dirt road, and then it was not cleared. I stopped in my 1966 Mustang sitting looking at the road. 2 Four-wheel-drive came up and they said will each be one in front one behind you get stuck will pull you out. I drove in that snow that was a good 2 feet high in that Mustang it made it all the way to Bodie and it was some incredible shots of Bodie in the snow. I think the last time I was there was 25 to 30 years ago. Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I still drive by the turn off every time we go fishing on the Walker River but I just don't turn down it.
I go to the mall less than once a month, The Avenues Mall in JAX, FL.
I do not know if this has already been covered, but Madrid, New Mexico.
In the late 70's as a teenager the malls were the center of my social life. Now maybe once a year I go to Fashion Squire in Scottsdale AZ to get a Christmas gift for my wife and conduct it like a Commando mission - get in and get out as quickly as possible!
This was a really cool video!
Surprised you didn’t mention Bodie’s elevation and harsh climate, oftentimes one of the coldest spots in the lower 48 throughout the winter (at least of the reported areas)
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I was raised in the DFW area back in 60s-80s therefore we went to the mall about 3-4 times per month.
I now live in the OKC area and semi retired. Therefore, the mall I got to now is Walmart about once a week. 😆 🤣 😂
I don't go to malls verry often these days, but when I do it's Plaza Bonita in National City, California.
Interesting video ! I just wished you showed where on the map all these towns where.
He did, you have to open your eyes
@@crewser004 On a few. Not all Open your eyes
Now that I'm back in my hometown, Westfield Trumbull Mall. I was expecting it to be a dead mall. Nope. It's never going to die out. SIGH.
Don't know if you'll see this or if you read all the comments, but the death knell for Picher was a tornado that went through and pretty much finished it off. I don't remember if I saw your 2018 video on this topic, as that was 6 years ago. Another place worthy of mention is Cairo, Illinois. Again, don't remember if you've ever done a video on Cairo but it has one hell of a history.
Yes I've seen his video on Cairo
What about a program or video on the best over 55 locations there are lots of folks hitting 55 plus> It mught hit a loy of folks! Thanks, love your videoa!
Malls...about once a month we go to two malls here in Charlotte NC... Concord Mills Mall and Southpark Mall. Concord Mills is the average suburb type of mall and South Park is high-end with stores like Gucci, Tiffany, Coach and Nordstrom.
Maybe once a month. The Treasure coast Mall or the Palm Beach Gardens mall!
Thank you for the video
I go to a mall about once every couple of months. I used to go several times a week. Unfortunately, at least one of the malls near me (Meriden Mall in Connecticut) is dying, with their anchor stores gone and about three fourths of their stores closed. It’s sad to see.
Definitely was a Brady bunch episode!
Amazing how Centralia, PA.looked alot like downtown Philadelphia back when it was booming...😅
The shopping mall we go to is Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, AL. I have been 3 times within the past year. It’s not my go to for shopping, however, there are still several stores in the huge mall. There have been shootings inside and outside the mall over the past few years. I have seen an increase in police/security presence and search dogs within the mall. Even so, my visits will likely not increase.
Can't even remember the last time I went to a mall. Thank you, mail order and internet!!!
There quite a few 4X4 trails around Calico, Ca. Some of them are very challenging.
Good on you for including Silent Hill in the list 🔥🔥🔥
My mom was born and raised in Hinton, West Virginia. The same railway that goes along the New River and through Thurmond also runs through Hinton.
I've been through Hinton. I lived in West Virginia for a couple years and did some exploring of the state.
There’s probably at least one or more of these boom to bust ghost towns in every state. One guy had a blog of on an abandoned town in northeastern Minnesota that included video images touring a lot of the houses with old cars left in their garages. It was very strange and spooky because no one lived there since the early 1970s. It even had an abandoned hospital.
USE TO GO TO THE MALL WHEN I LIVED IN CHICAGO MOVED TO LINCOLN, NE WENT. THE DAUGHTER WHERE YOUNGER. NOW TWO ADULT KIDS .DON'T GO TO THE MALL OFTEN BECAUSE DAUGHTER ARE GROW UP NOW . THANKS FOR THE VIDEO DOING A GREAT JOB .
I used to go to the mall in Torrance, CA at least once a week. Living in Oregon went to Clackamas Mall once a month. Here in Pocatello, ID, I'm maybe once every 6 mos since it has no real stores except for Hobby Lobby.
Witch mall in Torrance we had the delamo mall and the galleria
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Haven’t gone to a mall since covid. Before that we went about four times a year. Rosedale Mall or Mall of America were the malls we were most likely to go to.
Mr. Knott use to work in Calico with his uncle. That’s why he bought it.
I go to the Killeen mall about 2 times a week. They have a toddler play area and currently my toddler is obsessed with the “Halloween store” spirit
❤❤❤ this video!!!!
Cool video!
Jerome is also the home of Maynard Kennan of Tool and his incredible vineyard Caduceus. It’s a great place to visit if you ever get a chance. In fact, the entire verde valley is just incredible.
I go to Roosevelt Field (and all the surrounding midi and mini malls) on Long Island maybe 4 or 5 times a year. Green Acres Mall, also on Long Island but much closer to Queens, about once or twice a year.
My mom's family is from the 4 corners area where Kansas, Arkansas,Missouri, and Oklahoma come together. My grandmother's oldest brother was a baptist minister in Pitcher and I had many extended family there. We visited in 1976 and the threat of cave in was very real.Many neighborhoods had warning signs saying enter at your own risk!!
It was my understanding that at some point in the late 1980's when the town was down to a few hundred residents ,a tornado hit destroying everything and blowing around a lot of polluted dust. The EPA would not allow anyone to return or rebuild after that
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No malls, but when I do it's PBG mall or Mall of America
It's been several years since I've been to Park Meadows Mall in the Denver metro area.
I briefly lived in Barstow, CA, which is just a hop, skip, jump from Calico. They have a really neat house made of bottles.
As for malls, there was a huge one in Phoenix, AZ, in the 70's that had an ice skating rink. I loved visiting it whenever I visited my cousin in Scottsdale. Today, though, in Spokane, WA, both the Valley and Northtown malls are slowly dying. They were always 90% clothing stores anyway.
In Tehran, Iran of places they have a hugh mall lined with shops selling luxury goods and fab Persian food!
The mall closest to me is in Marion Ohio that we went to frequently but it only has a few stores and a movie theater. We use to go all the time but now just a few times a year.
well that was a great 17 minutes of interesting American town facts
From '91-'93 I worked at one of the biggest stores in our mall. I haven't been back in nearly 20yrs until about 6 months ago. The store I worked at is closed, as are half the other stores. Fun fact, there is now a zoo in there. Turtles, birds, fish and I don't know what else. I wasn't going to pay $20 to see what else might be in a 3000 sqft mall zoo.
I loved going to the mall back in the day. Vancouver, WA but now i NEVER go. I now live in the foot hills of Mt Spokane. I just order off Amazone 😅
Regarding your question about mall shopping, someone in our family goes to Tysons Corner Mall in Fairfax County, VA roughly every 2 months, usually to see a movie at the AMC cineplex. Sometimes the women in the family check out the clothing and perfume stores, but rarely buy anything.