Carew Tower and its Dead Mall | Art Deco Perfection in Cincinnati, OH | ExLog 121 

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Prayers for Baltimore today.

This place is a gorgeous palace.. amazing! Such a shame so meany shuttered shops as it seems to be following the trend with other dieing and dead malls. Thanks for another fantastic masterpiece.Hope you had a great stolen helicopter B-day🎉🍷

Your style and take is unparalleled with these exlogs! Fullview always ❤

Opening shot of sweet sweet leaks? You hit it out of the park Sal!

Holy cats, being a Deco nerd, almost exactly four years ago today I had plans to stay in this hotel while attending a symphony concert. We all know how that went. But I've been thinking I need to resurrect that trip and all this footage has convinced me of that.

Will be at work unfortunately during the premiere. Happy birthday Sal and hopefully you can get Marna bailed out. 🤣🚁

I can see this building from my backyard from across the river in Kentucky. An amazing building and many thanks for the visit. Easily one of your best.

Enjoyed the video, good memories visiting Carew Tower in 2010 and 2011, interesting to see the mix of the old foodcourt skylight with the new parking garage.

Happy Birthday, and thanks for posting this. I lodged at this hotel for work in downtown Cincinnati 7 years ago and it was an amazing stay. I opted for the bar's Manhattans (w/ Four Roses), which were superb, and like you, I would get a to-go glass to take back to the room. I wandered around the mezzanine, staircases and 3rd and 4th floor ballrooms gaping like a Muppet at the murals, the mirrors, the lighting and the all the other stunnning decorative fixtures. But I didn't know all of the history, of the site, beyond the bits curated and posted by Hilton in the wall display cases scattered around. so thanks again for the deep dive and detail! It is hard to capture the scale and ambience of a place like that in photos but you did a great job with your video. I hope that little diner in the below lobby arcade is still operating. It is (or was) a well preserved midcentury coffee shop, I got an early egg breakfast there a few times. Saks was still open when I went, as well as a Macy's across the street, but they were both nearly empty of shoppers any time I went in.

Another exceptional work Sal, bravo!

That was epic!! Your video production is mind blowing. Thanks Sal for the tour and the amazing nostalgia brought to light. Love the building, the music, history, and the art. Just epic. I want more!!

Downtown Cincinnati is one of the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky gems. Yet a lot of people in the area as well as outside continue to think that Downtown Cincinnati is not a good place to visit. Yet the geographic heart of the area is in Downtown, Fountain Square Plaza. Today the Fountain is looking towards the South. Oddly South is the location of the Riverfront. Oddly the Riverfront has help the region very well. The river is the region's blood. On the Sunday before Labor Day, there is Riverfest one of the nation's best Fireworks shows. Riverfest symbolizes the end of Summer in the region. While the region has its flaws, it is a good place to visit. One of the problems in the Region is the weather. Yet if anyone wants to visit the region, they need to plan very carefully. They have a great choice of hotels to select from. Also there are a variety of places to visit.

This was great! So nostalgic for me, and informative. I spent a lot of time at Tower Place as a teen in it's heyday. I wish there was more footage available to show it at it's peak. It used to be packed with people every weekend. You did it justice, Sal! Happy belated birthday!

I used to work downtown in the office tower in the Westin building, in the late 90's and early 2000s and spent a lot of time in and around Tower Place mall before moving away. I knew the mall had closed but had no idea that they actually turned the middle of it into a parking garage! That place used to be absolutely bustling during the day, so it's so strange to think of it as dead. We used to go to the food court for lunch some days and I can remember there used to be one of those Japanese stir-fry places that to this day, I remember as the yummiest of those ever. I can also specifically remember there was a Best Buy in the mall, where I bought a Sony VCR that I think I still have to this day. The Skywalk in Cincinnati used to connect nearly all of the buildings along Fourth and Fifth street (and used to go even further) above ground level so you could easily go from one shopping location to the next. I used to park several blocks away but since you could walk entirely on the Skywalk, I'd go through that lobby every day. Thanks for putting this together and sharing it! It's bittersweet to witness the demise of the former mall, but wonderful that the Carew Tower is still beautiful and well kept.

I love your weird videos so I waited for this special thing. Great stuff! 👍

Wow, what are the odds that the security guard is familiar with your channel? That's awesome. :D And a wholly great video. Really cool place.

Another thing I have to say is that the last time I was in that mall in the late 90s it was going downhill at that point. There were not a lot of shops then.

What a gem xxx

That British fella in the intro clip. He was in It’s A Mad MAd MAd Mad World! Awesome. Excellent video and worth the wait, as always.

HBD Sal, the electro swing in the intro is ✨chef’s kiss ✨

Thank you for the great video.Cincinnati is my home but I have never been to the Carew Tower. Before I die I want to stay at the Netherland. Safe travels Sal.

Built by the emery family probably the most influential family in Cincinnati!

Bloody fantastic Sal,well worth waiting for👍🏻🔥👏🏻hope you had a wonderful birthday

I loved tower place mall when I was a child in the 90s. Even worked there in 2009-10.

I live North of the Dayton Ohio area very close to Piqua ( pronounced like Pick-Wa ).... Lol None the less I have been to Cincinnati tons of times and had never heard, known about it or seen it!!??!!..... Kinda crazy!!

I LOVE Art Deco architecture, and Art Nouveau as well. Sal, I wonder if you'd have any interest in going to the old Bullocks building on Wilshire Blvd. In Los Angeles...not a dead mall per se, but a former shopping center, a historical landmark, and a architectural icon...also very Art Deco. I think you can only access it at certain times of year, and even then only parts, but if you explain to them what you do and your channel etc., it might segue into a more extensive tour or access. It would be a worthwhile episode, and I'd line up for it. Food for thought.

My fav hotel in Cincinnati! Loved the video

That place looks like "The Shining".

Came here several times as a kid, and most recently in 2016 when the observation deck was still open. The view from up there is incredible.

Marna made me laugh SO LOUDLY!!! GREAT JOB SAL!!!!

YOU AND DAN BELL ARE THE BEST IN DEAD MALL VIDEOS!! NORTHCOG IS GOOD TOO

Funny, I remember that mall from when I was a kid. Quite well actually. My grandmother was president of the school board.

Unfortunately couldn’t make the premiere, but I can’t wait to watch it! Happy birthday Sal! 🎉

I recently completed an extensive pre-renovation environmental inspection on the Carew Tower. This building is about to be renovated top to bottom.

The Carew Tower is being converted into condos. It’s such an awesome building. In the 80s, the hotel was sold and renovations began. Under miles of paneling they found all the beautiful Art Deco.

Such a beautiful building. Thank you for the tour. It could only been better if I walked thru myself.

I looked forward to this all day! What a beautiful place. I owe myself a roadtrip up there to use some Hilton points. Sending some good vibes out to Baltimore as well

What an amazing video, great job sal!

Great producto Sal! Ya know it's funny, every time Sal posts a new exlog, I start singing the chorus to Rock Me Amadeus by Falco. Such a great tune!

I grew up in Cincinnati, but left in 2011, so I found this video fascinating…. I remember eating at the food court in tower place a few times…So weird they left the skylight in the parking garage? Sad to see it fall into decline

Very nice video! As a 90s kid, whenever someone says the word "arcade," my attention perks up!

More please!!

They killed that building and allot of stores when they took down the sky walk .

The most outstanding aspects of this hotel are there for all to see and the story behind the Art Deco designer could make an intriguing hour-ling story. The vantage points are captured by many people who visit there. I would love to see coverage on that and the architectural details of the dead mall as part of it. The hotel, by itself, is worthy of an in-depth narrative and professional video prospective. No hotel like it in the world ! That would be a great story!

Derby in the UK had an Art Deco bus station it was destroyed and had a hotel and souless bus station in replacement.

I worked in a few stores in the mall. It was great at one time; a nice mix of stores and so convenient.

Happy Birthday Sal! Thanks for another great video!

I love the Piqua mall🥰🥰🥹 that's my local mall unfortunately you just missed so much they have recently been putting up alottt of walls for maintenance😭😭😰

That tower is so so beautiful from the inside and out of that building in America

Happy birthday, thanks for the vacation Sal. 🎉

Another fantastic video! Missed it on release date but watching it now. Cheers!

I couldn't watch this because the music and sound effects gave me a migraine from hell!

AWESOME video

Exquisite building and excellent video worthy of the building.

you play the violin? cool. my boy is huge into classical stringed instruments. he got to play a $1.5 MILLION dollar Stradivarius in a show. he said it was amazing.

I could picture wedding receptions in the center arched space.

There have been several cities that had Downtown malls or arcades that are dead or dying. It might be interesting to do a video on their history. I can think of three that I have been to. Columbus City Center in Columbus, Circle Centre Mall in Indianapolis, and Tower City Center in Cleveland.

I’ve been in that hotel bar you were in at the Omni. They ripped me off once. Never went back. I loved going to Hunt Club Clothier in that mall. They used to be over in the 5/3 building. They closed simply because the owner was ready to close and retire, not for COVID or poor sales. Carew Tower also used to have a TJ Maxx.

Happy bday bro🎉🎉🎉🎉

Thanks Sal.

I was the Night Manager of the Hotel for 9 months in 2022-2023. I have video of the basement turning into a swimming pool when the fire main broke. “Not our problem”, said the city. Incredible spot, featuring sub-mediocre ownership. Couldn’t keep staff to save our lives, couldn’t find anyone to care. Worst job I’ve ever had, and I was deployed to Iraq as Marine Infantry. Miserable experience. Very sad place for as far as it had fallen. Thanks for the memory trip!😅

Happy birthday!!

Seeing a more modern mall refitted (somewhat) is surreal. I’m used to seeing much older structures refurbished (the Pearl in San Antonio comes to mind) or malls to just get completely destroyed. This place is in the Twilight Zone

So crazy.. That hotel looks awesome. I spent all my time at Forest Fair Mall an Tri-county... So regret not going there to see that mall.. I was in Hamilton Only about 35 40 min away.... But I always hated driving in Cincinnati traffic waw always so bad.. But now when I make it back home going to have to go see it an grab a steak at Mortons..

Happy Birthday sal, hope it was exciting

This video looks like if Metropolis and The Shining had a baby

4:51 OMG, is that Joe E. Ross (late of _Car 54, Where Are You?_ and _It's About Time_ ?

It's interesting how in America inner cities are decaying and generally worst places to live, while in most European countries the inner city is the nicest, most expensive place to live.

stayed here once and every time i entered a (fully operational btw) elevator, it got stuck between floors. i should also mention these were different elevators so it’s not like i was just hoping for better luck on the same faulty car 😂

Basically the same thing was done to Saint Louis Centre - turning the bones of a dead downtown mall into a parking garage.

god. i love art deco

Hey Sal, great Video once again! Say, could you please tell me in which video you talked about walter benjamin? I feel like this was the one that put you above the rest of the dead mall documenters as you now only put historical facts in context with the footage of the malls but also bring onthological concepts into the equation. Thx in advance!

The era of jazz, also ment weed! Because of prohibition of alcohol!

Hey, I've been there 🙃

First! 😅 Happy Birthday Sal! 🥳

So, I am absolutely driven to distraction by that piece of music that was playing when you were talking about the drone and it was raining. It’s so familiar, but I can’t remember what it’s called., or what I know it from. Please help it’s breaking my brain.

1:00:29 - Duke Energy Center is a sports and concert arena?

Have you tried out King of Prussia Mall?

Great video. 37:33 what happened here? Awkward lol

Polaris Fashion Place had nothing to do with the failure of any Cincinnati downtown mall/stores, because that's Columbus. Anyway, Carew Tower is cool and it's a bummer that the Observation Deck has never opened back up. The Skywalk was also really neat and it's unfortunate that there's very little of it still accessible.

Honestly, the only mall doing well in Cincinnati is the Kenwood Towne Centre, in case you do a serious on thriving malls.

Similarities between this and Main Place (another dead mall in service to its tower)

That's some serious Not Drone Weather.

It's ironic how you're doing this right now while the dow continues to crash

👍🏻🎥

24:01 am I crazy or does he kinda look like Ed Helms? 😂

American planners could learn a thing or two about the visionaries who create great city living spaces in Europe.

Is that Frisch's Big Boy still open?

I was born in the wrong time.

I've been through less than 10 Revolving doors in my life but I was not a big fan.

low commerce levels in 2021..... .doesnt mean much. we have a very large mall in our home town. went nuts from when Opened in early 2000's. solid people till 2020. now its looking at closing. covid killed it. SEEMS LIKE covid killed more stores than people. (ok. take it easy. it a simile)

You’re still obsessed with manny?

33:25 This was the entrance to what was once a TJMaxx. I worked there as a teenager. 💛 Walking around this mall definitely gave you a regal, back-in-time kinda feeling.

You’re still in that depressed Dmod server?

When these kinds of videos include footage from multiple visits spanning several years I find it much less satisfying than videos that are just from the present day. As soon as I realized you were going to be inserting footage from multiple visits to this mall I simply clicked off of this video and found something else to watch.

You sound so depressed

Your dmod server is a joke

to bad its in Cincinnati.