Be sure to check me out on Patreon : www.patreon.com/rangerricktv In this episode I take you inside the abandoned Eastfield Mall in MA. #abandoned #abandonedmall #deadmalls #rangerricktv
That was amazing. There is nothing like being alone in an abandoned mall. This mall was a real gem. Pretty much untouched by vandals. I just love the quiet and the sounds of dying alarms and water dripping. Great video man!
There is one Mall (I forget where) that closed down, and a developer bought it and turned all the shops into private condominiums for residents. The Mall was still closed in for the residents.
It seems like malls are on their way out. Sad, because some of my best memories as a teenager was "strolling the mall" ! To see and be seen was the name of the game back in the 70' s!
This mall is currently under demolition, and it closed for good on July 15, 2023. It was the Eastfield Mall in Springfield, MA, and operated for over 50 years. My last visit there was for the vaccine on May 29, 2021.
It’s also lucky to get demolished that quickly as many other closed malls end up being abandoned for many years or decades before finally getting demolished and redeveloped. The Dixie Square Mall is a great example of that as it closed in 1978 due to the mall becoming a major hub for local crime gangs and it’s still sitting abandoned to this day with it remaining as it was since they filmed The Blues Brothers movie in there in 1979-1980.
I subbed to this channel.Amazing mall coverage.Great job.Saw first video this morning of the North Carolina mall closed down with all of those 12,000 dollar a piece nut cracker drummers.Amazing.Abandon malls are just the creepiest,especially the ones popular in the 80s that are long shut down.You can just imagine all the people rustling thru there and that mall music playing,especially around Christmas time they were magical.I was born in 65 so malls were a huuuge part of my growing up.
Something to think about. In under 150 years, people have gone from ordering from the Sears catalog by mail, to going to malls and big box, to essentially ordering from a digital Sears catalog.
I love watching your documentaries on abandoned malls. One thing i wish you would do is if you can or are able to is when you walk the mall is point out what stores were in there.
What would be really awesome in these mall shows is if someone could find the mall map laying out the stores - so we can get an idea what stores existed there. The mall closure must've been recent - I saw 2023-24 dates.
I thought the same thing, lol! But other than that, there was hardly any decay at all. Vandalism, yes. But hardly any decay. It was impressive, honestly.
If you think about how many abandoned structures there are in just the US, with lights still running and water lines leaking everywhere, that’s an astronomical amount of water and power just being wasted, simply because no one wants to pay for workers to go through and in one week or so, shut off all the pipes and fix leaks so that water isn’t just pouring out. No wonder we’re running out of fresh water.
It is great to see a man who is passionate to explore abandoned places and documenting it as much as he can for the people to see before they get demolished/redeveloped.
Probably a good thing. So often we see abandoned malls just sitting there rotting for years, blighting the city they're in, attracting mold, vermin, and criminals, and becoming health and fire hazards. At least they're doing something with the land this one sat on.
How can an abandoned mall still have power? I saw lights on everywhere. That buckled floor tells me there's a water leak somewhere. Water and electricity - great combination!
The convenience and wider selection killed in person retail for the most part, why wait in the lines at stores when you can just chose what you like on your phone and wait for it to arrive at your home? Two of the big malls in my city have been transformed to swap meets to survive.
Yeah, hittin' up friends to be at Orange Julius at 12 on Saturday FIRST, because the MOVIE starts at 12:45..then we can go cruise Spencers on the lower level to the right and slightly behind the escalator...that was the 80's for US🤘🤘
There’s sections of this mall that’re giving me real ‘Dixie Square’ vibes. Like the open area with the skylights right above the store fronts…just wild. Obviously they updated it at some point but the vintage style of the time it was built is still very apparent. Top tier quality video here, very cool.
These videos make me so depressed 😔 Malls in the 80's and 90's were so fun. This damn device I'm typing this on, a smartphone, is the cause of their downfall. Sigh 😔
Great video.. Answer my question? How would they know you took anything from that mall.. They're going to destroy everything.. Other than that great video.Thanks for taking me on the trip with..👍🙏🙂
24:50 ranger Rick awesome video of such a beautiful mall. Certainly a eerie vibe with the lights on and the fact that there's two easy points of entry must've kept you on edge. I was under the assumption that you did this explore alone but during this point of the video it seemed as if someone stood in the door way directly behind you but once you then moved the camera to the other side of your head showing the same doorway clear 😮😮
@@RangerRickTV why I brought it up was because on your other videos, you've always introduced your audience to the people that you explore with. So at first I wasn't sure if it's a mirror with your reflection or a door way so I was very compelled to enquire. Thank you for your response. Your confirmation of being there unbeknownst to someone else also being there shows exactly how scary abandoned explorations can be. Could've been someone also exploring or Could've been someone with nefarious intentions but either way glad you guys hadn't run into each other. In this case that person had seen you first. I think they stood at the door way as you turned your back but I didn't think they realized you had turned the camera onto it's selfie mode.
@@RangerRickTV I went back and looked, and that freaked me out at first, too. But the more I looked, I think it might have just been your reflection, in a mirror attached to the door under the exit sign. Even so, you never know who might be in an abandoned building with you. You are certainly braver than I! I could never do that. But I'm glad I get to live the thrill vicariously through you, and creators like you!
sadly the eastfield mall has been completely demolished. i was lucky enough to be able to document almost the entire demolition from the inside and was able to save a lot of pieces of this beautiful mall, including parts of one of the archway signs. i will always remember this mall for its neon beauty, and for how well she treated me during demolition.
I work for a government agency and our office is in a closed mall that has been transformed into offices and one end a two level area where a number of colleges hold classes. Great repurposing of space.
Retail is dying in the states; but in Canada, 80s/90s malls have been renovating; and people shop online, and in store; maybe not as much as in the past, but the malls are still thriving here; and the parking lots are sometimes full.
I knew this mall existed, and I had heard it closed, but for some reason I just forgot that it existed. Love that the power is still on but I’m shocked over all the stuff that got left behind.
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It's. Me again.. The mall's been abandoned for fifteen years or more.. You think it would make a difference if people took stuff out or not? I love the great video.👍🙏🙂
non american here and i have a question for you guys, why so many of these abandoned malls and big places in general still has electricity and even running water on? what's the purpose of someone to keep paying for these if the place is non functional anymore.
It's usually done as a liability thing when trying to sell. Also if they have anyone maintaining the building, gotta be able to have lights and water for them to do their job.
What left this mall, like a long and growing list a dead mall is straightforward- local people got poorer as wealth got redirected to the one-percenter's pockets. The few malls that remain in areas with sufficient income survive and even thrive, but the vast array of retail corpses mark the vanishing herds of consumers that were able to spend at a mall to begin with- and the people that could work in them and support the retail life cycle that sustains malls to begin with. Despite all the Christmas stuff, this mall officially closed July 15th, 2023- the decorations simply got left in place as stores got into the common post-Xmas-we're-kaput death march. A festive shroud for another once-vibrant corpse.
As much as I detest Amazon, and I REALLY do, Bliss there is right. Amazon didn't kill malls. It just stepped into the void left when they started dying. And then it exploded in popularity, which didn't help the malls' situation. But they were already on the downslide, when Amazon came about.
That shoe repair shop has old equipment, and I believe you are right about the money invested in that equipment. My late husband did metal engraving and he had a lot of manual engraving machines that he swore did a better job than the laser machines!
I grew up n lived in Montgomery aka the gump . I remember going to the Montgomery mall. When it adomended .! But part of it they turned it into a fire station !
I used to go to mocha emporium at the east field mall shortly after the Hampshire Mall spiked the rent to the long running mocha emporium. It would be 35 years of operation. Hope to see you around Mo!
Awesome video. Your storytelling at the beginning had me spellbound. And so rare to see an abandoned mall in almost perfect condition, as this one was. Very cool place. Sad to know it's gone.
Can you do a video about LCpl Rother. He was abandoned in the Mojave Desert/Twentynine Palms after a marines training exercise. It was 40 hours before they realized he was missing. It was over 100 degrees in the desert. They found him 4 months later. He had walked about 17 miles before he collapsed, found about 2 miles from the base. 3 marines failed to mention he was missing. He was around 20 years old. Can you tell his story?
The back door wide open and giant hole in the wall was to make it easier for trespassers to get in 🤣 the blinking cameras were recording your every move.. that creepy bust head looked voodoo 👺 probably bad luck 👀
With all the abandoned mall videos I've seen... One thing seems to be very common. Many of them seem to have closed with the christmas decorations, at least in part, still up. Seems christmas was the last hope
It's crazy how back in the day when malls first started to open in the 80s and 90s, it killed off a lot of small businesses, especially in small towns. Nowadays, it's the malls that are getting killed off because of Amazon and online shopping.
My thought was broken pipe, too. And all the water soaking in/through the walls and subfloor is what is causing the parquet to buckle, in the main store area. Ranger Rick, did it still smell like a Bath & Body works? Or did it just smell like mold? LOL!
I can use the Eastfield Mall as a filming location for one of my movies. That way, more people will come to Eastfield Mall and business will thrive once again.
Actually keeping the lights on in abandoned places is a very common practice worldwide. If the lights are turned off, homeless people, squatters, thieves, etc, will be more likely to vandalize and destroy the place. If the lights are kept on, most people trying to use it for nefarious purposes tend to actually think twice. “Crap, the lights are on. Maybe someone’s here.” You’d be truly surprised how much money people who own abandoned properties like this save by keeping the lights on. It’s a small bill to pay to keep 95% of people away.
What a waste of a perfectly good mall. From what I could see online, this mall still had a good bit of business when ownership decided to pull the plug. This mall looked really good when they still had the neon squares lit up.
Anybody ever noticed how the malls in the United States are failing because of proximity to where they were built but in comparison to malls in Europe and Canada and India and Afghanistan. Because those malls in those locations are making money hand over fist.
Your channel reminds me of when I started watching Adam the woo 11 years ago! He used to do these great urban place until they started writing him tresspass tickets and mailing them to him and then got a lifetime ban from Disney for visiting the forbidden island lol
