I love that antique mall/store. We went there last summer right after they just reopened from the shutdown. Couldnt believe just how dead the mall was. I'll bet the businesses in the mall hardly make any money at all.
I have also been to Chambersburg Mall couple times too. Its dead. I remember Burlington and Bon Ton there. This mall has a similar layout as " Capital City mall " at Harrisburg. PA.
These dead mall videos are depressing, because it's happening everywhere. I was a mall rat in the 90s. These videos remind me of once in a lifetime experience. The days when going to the mall was exciting.😢
Yea if you live in the area like me it’s been dead a long time I’m 14 and was born 2006 and even when I was a toddler it was dead a lot of teens hangout there I think
Having lived in Lavelle, Pa ( adjacent to Ashland, Pa) I would drive over to Frackville to the now legendary Schuylkill Mall. That was twelve years ago and even then it was very dead. That mall also had a Black Rose Antique store located in it. I collected old bottles and would find quite a few there to round out my growing collection. I would dig old dumps for bottles and dug at the old Pottsville dump countless times. This mall brings back many memories of the Schuylkill Mall. Love the channel, keep it up!!
WOW. I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was this bad. I haven't been in there since BonTon closed. When we first moved here in 2003, this mall was still doing pretty OK and I used to go several times a year. WOW ....
St. Lawrence Center ACE in Massena NY. An arcade, Wendy’s and a “hidden and closed off wing to the left” , not to mention a defunct strip center just to the right of the mall. Truest worthy of some history before it’s all gone. 5-7 stores left maybe including JCP. I’d love to see what’s behind the false wall in the abandoned section!
If you have ever been to the Cornwall Square, that mall has become super dead esp. over the past few years. Ever since we lost No Frills, Sears, La Senza...and more.
Haven’t been to this mall in 15 years but last I went it was full or near full occupancy, part of me believes if I went I would catch the mall alive as I remember it, in line tenants were major brands too - I paused the vid quite a few times to name off stores and their VERY scant food choices circa 2000. I killed a lot of time here in the summer when I had no AC.
Haven’t been to the mall in a few years since moving out of my parents to the New England area… but all we did recently was go to TMobile and the antique store! I remember going to the mall for fun in the middle school and going to Bonanza! It seemed full of life then, I can only imagine what it was like for my dad who is from Shippensburg. He recounted how his family was excited for the opening of JCPenney and such stores.
I have very vivid memories from this mall; My mother and I stopping in the old Subway there for lunch, shopping for a winter coat as a kid in Burlington, even shopping for an Easter dress in the Pennie's. Sad to see it so empty, it was so lively before.
Like most malls...this place was happening back in the 80's & 90's when I was a teenager. EVERYONE went to this mall on a Friday & Saturday night. The movie theater was always jumping....they had some of the trendiest stores...there was always something happening on the main stage....I miss it when it was like it that. I worked here in a few of the stores...Hallmark, Value City & Sears in high school. I miss the Bon Ton & JC Penny so much and the smaller stores as well. So sad to go out there now. We only visit for the antique mall & sometimes Bath & Body Works. One of my fondest memories of this mall was the Friday evening dinners with my family at Bonanza. I would try to eat as fast as I could so I could go meet up with friends to hang out n shop :) RIP Chambersburg Mall.
I vividly remember going to this mall almost every weekend as a kid/tween. it used to be somewhat lively and I love the story my parents tell about before I was born. they went there to see a movie and walk around and even then some storefronts were empty and guys were in the middle of the walkways playing D&D. thanks for the video!! I havent seen this place in 4 years!!
The mall of my childhood in the 80’s and 90’s. I still think about this place from time to time. Lot’s of great memories with my family and friends. I remember it when it was thriving. I also remember walking through Hess’s department store after it was almost cleared out and only displays remained right before it was shuttered in the mid 90’s.
I actually got to walk through this mall before the Pandemic and I spoke to the person who runs As Seen on TV and Extreme Themes (yes, he runs both of them). He seemed like a pretty nice dude, but he also seemed desperate for customers to come in. Honestly, it would have been best for this mall to close years ago. It's sad to see the mall I grew up with in such a state.
i just did recently he needs to move the stores into the town or something noone even thinks this mall is open at all i went to tmobile and seen bath and body still open too
Last time I was at that mall was when the Sears was closed now it's probably back in 2014 or 15 can't remember I'm surprised that place is still open Crazy have you ever done Apple Blossom Mall here in Winchester Virginia it's getting that way now I think
Instantly subscribed after seeing the video, thank you! I'm from Germany where malls like that just became a Thing in the late 09s/early 2000s so I'm really interested to see if they will face a similar decline in the future. A big difference is that they also have grocery stores pushing traffic and are usually inside the cities not in the outskirts. Anyways, keep up the great Work!
While the mall may be in bad shape Chambersburg itself is a center for warehousing and distribution. Target, Ulta cosmetics and Proctor & Gamble all have huge distribution centers in the area.
This has sadly been dead for years 😔 I remember going to the movie theater with my friends. We would much rather go to Capital City Mall because there were more store selections. You should check out North Hanover Mall! Also though not a mall, Boyd's Bear Country in Gettysburg that has been abandoned for around 12 years or so.
In the late 80s I used to hang out at that mall but the last time I was in there was 2003 and it was going dead then the writing was on the wall. I live only 25 minutes away from there.
Live 30 minutes from here i remember 15 years ago this was 100% full of stores i am shocked it is still open.They are trying everything to bring people back they even wanted to bring resturants to the area but no one will come because it is a dry County County .With all the major development 5 miles down the road like Target,Kohls and other places it was the begining of the end for this mal.But i did hear they remodeled the movie theather
It’s so weird watching this since that was the closest mall to me growing up. Went back a few years ago and was just behind knocked back by how dead it was then let alone now.
I’m from here and grew up at this mall. Crazy to see it so dead years ago, and even worse now. This was the place to go, with nothing else to go do. I can smell the place through the screen. Old and dusty. This mall may as well have died in 2008.
Not as bad as you think. They milked them for the rents, took depreciation and reported no income, kept refinancing mortgages and squeezed out cash. It's why Sears is still around and Eddie Lampert has so much money. Eventually a bank will foreclose on it, tear it down and give the ruined property back to the township, having taken a big tax deduction.
I grew up going to malls very frequently. It’s crazy to think that possibly in the next 5-10 years all malls will be extinct. I just went to neshaminy mall in neshaminy PA. It was so dead and like 1/3 of the stores were closed. Such a weird/sad vibe.
I’m from the area and was born in 2006 and from the time I could remember from when I was a toddler each time I was there there was less stores and now it’s hangout spot for a lot of teens my age
I used to work at the mall during 2009-2012 and I can only tell you that at that first store at the end you were jokingly waiting at the gate - The food mostly burgers fries hotdogs smoothies were ALWAYS really over done and over priced. I remember their food sales didnt do so great so they ended up getting one of those scratch off lotto ticket machines and selling / cashing those out as well. I havent been back to the mall since I stopped working at the mall - I moved away but I remember killing time at FYE, grabbing a slice a the cheap pizza place followed up by a milkshake at Gardner's Candies... Sometimes Aunties Anne's pepperoni pretzel w/ some marinara was just the fix you needed after work...
I've been waiting on this video, never shopped there much but use to love Burlington coat factory, when then left the mall haven't been back... other than a lap around the exterior this summer on the Harley and the place looked abandoned then!
@@MJA5 Note they have shortened their name to Burlington, and no longer are called Burlington Coat Factory. Though once in an infrequent while, I'll see an older store of theirs still remaining with the older Burlington Coat Factory signage.
Virtual Mall will take over these brick and mortar malls soon. It's sad because the physical interaction with people and the material environments is what made them a great experience.
I was at Black Rose a few weeks ago and actually wondered if the rest of the mall was open at all, because the gates at the front of the store were closed. You could only get in and out from the parking lot entrance, which is what most people use any way. Watching this video, I can still picture all the people crowded around the Value City entrance. It was always a zoo at that end because of the popularity of that store, the Auntie Anne's, and the arcade all creating a choke point. I can still absolutely remember the smell of some of the stores like Sea the Source.
This mall definitely reminds me of our mall in Fergus falls Minnesota its called westridge mall its about 223 square feet only stores are Dunhams and dollar tree growing up it had jcpenny woolworths herbergers a Claire's footlocker vanity clothing store a biffleys a hallmark gold brown walk in clinic a drug store hamburger hamlet God father's pizza 🍕 pirates den arcade and a movie theater originally it had 54 stores. When it opened in 1978. And a Montgomery wards.
Even a lot of the interior reminds me of Schukyll Mall. I don’t know if the two anchors are related in any way but one of the last anchors of the Schukyll mall was a Black Diamond antiques.
This is the third or fourth video I've watched about this mall. It's sad to see it (and many others) decline. I went there a few times when I lived in Shippensburg, and it was thriving. Years later, I stopped when passing through; the first couple of times in the early '00s, it was doing OK, but I don't think I've stopped in since the anchors starting closing up shop, mostly because it looked dead from the highway. 🙁
Is Hagerstown, MD more economically vibrant? The company I work for has media properties in this market (I believe the studios are in downtown Chambersburg).
im telling you. i went to century iii in 2014 and it was still kinda popular, and i went in 2018 and oml i swear it was DEAD like there were only like 10 other people in there
on 8/21/21 i came to this mall and walked barefoot. in your video it appears they haven’t put up a blockade around the former Sears? making possible for me to see the whole mall. there is a security guard there. came back to chambersburg mall again in september of 2021. (barefoot) i needed to use the restroom. just as i was turning to continue my walk. he was entering the restroom. it made me question would he say something about my bare feet and tell me to leave the dead mall? then again what rules am i breaking?
