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I grew up here in the 80s. Shopped in all those stores. My husband worked in the cinema. Hung out with my friends in high school. A very emotional video to watch. Thanks for making it.
Suddenly after watching this video the sadness has reached me. One day Americans will look back nostalgically remembering indoor shopping malls like they do with classic cars, vintage rock n roll, and drive in movie theaters, and we will really miss them. It will be a slice of Americana that is sadly gone, but hopefully remembered as a fond memory of our pasts where we can tell our grandchildren, and great grandchildren of all the fun indoor shopping malls gave to us in our youth. This is certainly a labor of love you do Dan. I really appreciate all the footwork and filming you do so we can all remember the joy these places once brought to each of our lives. Please back these videos up to a hundred hard drives so we will never lose them. Thank you so very much for all you're hard work.
It's crazy Malls took shopping out of old downtown Main StreetUSA at one time. And know there closing. And know cities and towns are revitalizing old downtown to bring it back .and in most cases it's working . Only in America 😎
Now a days my job hours are so demanding and the work is so intense, I don't have the energy to go to a mall or the time. I shop mostly online. I also have less disposible income as I once did.
This takes me back! I caught a glimpse of the tile floor in the beginning of the video. It was grey with blue squares along the border. When I was a kid, I would try to jump from blue tile to blue tile without touching any grey. The movie theater wing of the mall was a kid's dream. It had the movie theater, arcade, card/comic shop, angelina's pizza, and auggie doggie hot dogs. I remember going there a lot as a kid. There was the Chevy Chase Bank with pink tiles, Peebles (before it moved across the street), and taking lessons at Music & Arts (before it moved to Hill Top). There was also a Roy Rogers in the parking lot. The mall itself started to decline long before Bowie Town Center was built. It was poorly managed and needed repair so all the stores slowly went to the other shopping centers. Shortly before the movie theater closed down, there was an incident where ceiling tiles fell onto patrons who were in the seats. By the time I was in high school, the mall was effectively dead except for the Safeway and surrounding shops on that end. Kids used to hang out and skate at the bank (where you guys entered). I'm glad to see it's finally gone.
I remember that video arcade too and that pizza place directly across from it. I actually bought a game from there that was for sale back around 1988 or so.
I remember the JP Morgan bank, a stand alone in the parking lot. They had a video store there but it was a mom-n-pop operation. There was a People's Drug as soon as you walked in to the right, I think it was turned into a CVS later. Memories!🥲
Oh he adds the music? I was thinking it was just what was playing in the malls. But with this one, it wouldn't make sense that music would be playing with everything torn up.
Lol, I did not realize it was added. I was going through this whole video wondering why the mall itself was torn to shreds but the music was still playing lol.
Do you ever try to get inside the movie theaters of these abandon malls? I love seeing abandon auditoriums and projection booths. Thanks for the videos. You must do a lot of traveling to get these to us, and it's appreciated.
+Christopher Digital Check out "Urbex : Extremely Creepy Abandoned Mall w/ Power" from this same series, he goes into the malls movie theatre in the tail end of that video
Take a look at the "Neon Dreams" video. It's the same mall that the previous replied mentioned, but this time, he visited it at night, and explored the theater in more detail.
+Jenni Case no shame here! i am in no danger of spending money when i go to the mall with dan! especially when you notice he never goes into bath and body works even when its the only store open in many of these places
Been watching your Mall Series, Dan. And I must say. Whenever you stop in front of certain areas, I watch and imagine what the service of each shop. Like that movie theater for example. I saw the cashier and people buying their tickets. I suppose it's an active imagination that keeps me guessing what these places were like. I love exploring the unknown, history and overall unexplained. Thank you for your videos!
I remember seeing The Matrix at that theater, my friend and I were goofing around in front of that counter as his mom talked the girl selling tickets into letting us see it by ourselves even though we were only 15. The theater closed a few months later, so that was definitely the computer she rung our tickets up on. Never thought I'd see that spot again.
Seems I'm about 5 years too late finding this video on RU-vid. This was my mall growing up. It was relatively small and still even at the best of times had a couple vacancies. But that doesn't matter, the mall had what every adolescent needed... Across the street from the mall is a large cubicle building (I don't know if that's still there) ... it was a carpet store. But before that it was the Bowie movie theater. All 2 screens of it. In 1981 or 1982 it closed and for 4 or 5 years there was no movie theater in Bowie. The closest movie theater was the Lowe's Cinema in Crofton that had 4 screens. In 1986, Market Place Mall went under a huge renovation, before that it was an open shopping center, then they enclosed it into a mall and a bunch of new businesses opened up. Among those was the Cineplex Odeon movie theater. Not only did Bowie have a movie theater again...it had one with a whopping 6 screens!!! I remember when it first opened up, Pee Wee's Big Adventure was playing there. I saw so many iconic films there!!! Most of the time on opening weekend. I remember being there to see Tim Burton's Batman, I'd never seen so many people at that theater. I ended up seeing Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman and Robin there. I saw Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles there, which was another huge opening! Even though he had already seen it earlier at Crofton, when Back to the Future showed up there I had to see it again. Gremlins also came back around and I saw it for my second time there. Back to the Future, part II opened up there and I saw it on opening night. Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Die Hard 2, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Lethal Weapons 2 - 4, Superman IV, Better Off Dead, Teen Wolf, Mannequin, One Crazy Summer, UHF, Ernest Goes To Camp, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, What About Bob?, Groundhog Day, Mrs. Doubtfire, Adventures in Babysitting, Little Shop of Horrors, Star Trek IV, Independence Day, Big, Flight of the Navigator, Jurassic Park, The Lion King, and Toy Story were all movies I saw there. One of the last movies I saw there was The Matrix. Next to the movie theater and opening up around the same time (though it closed around 5 years earlier) was the video arcade. I also spent hours and hours...and a whole lot of quarters... there! Next to the arcade there was a baseball card and comic book store for a while. Across from the movies was Angelina's Italian Restaurant. You could always get a decent slice of pizza there! A little further down was a Crown Books, I bought so many books there!!! Next to that was Mr. Chicken and Ribs. Across from that was People's Drug (until CVS bought People's Drug out). I used to go there for a better selection of candy at cheaper prices that I would then sneak into the movies. Seeing that bank of payphones...oh man that bought back some memories!!! After a movie let out it was a race to get to them before they were all taken up by other kids who needed to call for rides home too. Unless you were coming out of the late movie, the mall would be closed up and you were made to leave from the back door of the theater. If you were unfortunate to not have a ride you had to walk to the gas station to find a phone then wait out in the night until someone came to pick you up. If I was caught in that situation I at least had one more option...my grandmother lived right up the street. So many times I'd go stay at my grandma's, walk down and see a movie and walk back. The community swimming pool I belonged to was also in that area. In the summer I could get dropped off at the pool at 11am, swim for most of the afternoon, go see a movie, play in the arcade, then walk to my grandma's and spend the night there. The next day I could walk back to the pool or mall or whatever. Sometimes I wouldn't be home for days. The feeling of freedom for a kid before he could drive was wonderful! Back to Market Place Mall...that Ben Franklin Crafts store, I'm sure many other people have some nice memories of it, but it held nothing of interest for me, I never went in there. Further up the mall was an Athlete's Foot...I bought some Reboks there once or twice and wigwam socks. There were a couple of hair salons, one was where my grandmother went for a while. A couple mom and pop video stores (but I belonged to one elsewhere). There was the Safeway grocery store we shopped at a lot. For a while it was the only grocery store in the area that stayed open 24 hours. As a later teen many times after work on a Friday night I'd stop there on the way home from work and spend $20 on cereal, milk, and chips to get me through the weekend. Also at that end there was the Baskin Robbins ice cream shop and the China Chef (mediocre food at best but I had a thing for their Chinese BBQ ribs!) They had a Bob's Big Boy there since before they enclosed the mall. I loved it when we went there as a kid... the burgers were great and on Sundays they had all you can eat breakfast buffets. One time I ate so much there I got sick! After Big Boy's closed up a few different restaurants tried to go in there. None of them worked until Boston Market went in and was successful for a while. Out in the parking lot they had a free standing Roy Rogers fast food restaurant. Back in the day their roast beef sandwiches were at least twice as good as Arby's...and their not fudge brownie sundae...to die for!!! Memories!!! They can tear down the mall but the memories will live on and on!!!
Oh man, I had a blast reading this comment. The Bob's Big Boy and Baskin Robbins were huge fixtures of my childhood. I remember the theater well, and spent so many of my friends' birthdays at Angelina's and the arcade. So much Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II, I never bothered to get any good at either of those no matter how much I played.
@@funghaziI loved the sit down Choplifter game at the arcade. Also, Afterburner was amazing! It had a cockpit to sit in and the whole thing moved while you played it. The only thing was 1 game cost a whole dollar, so playing it was only once in a while. You had to decide on whether you wanted to spend 4 quarters on 4 games with other arcade machines that would last a while (depending on how good you were), or 1 game that was an entire experience but only lasted a few minutes at best (because who had dollars and dollars to spend to build up enough time and experience to get good at this game?) That arcade also had a Budweiser Tapper game. I was great at that, normally I could play for a half hour or more on 1 quarter. However, it wasn't at that arcade that I became an expert at it. It was when they had it at Lucky Luciano's Pizzeria in Crofton. I had a single game of Tapper there that lasted over an hour and gave me the high score no one could ever get close to beating!
I've assumed its added after the fact, there is no way the speaker system is still working given power is off and asbestos removal has torn up a big chunk of everything.
I happened to stumble on this video through facebook. I grew up in Bowie and I definitely remember going to Marketplace on Friday nights for Movies/Arcades, at its peak it had a, correct me if I'm wrong, "SportLand" with rock climbing, laser tag. It started to decline while I was in high school and to be honest I didn't really care what the reasons were at the time, but I'd love to know why it sank and sank so fast, people who lived in Bowie or surrounding areas remember Marketplace was there one day and gone the next.
Laser tag, rock climbing, video games, pizza, and a room full of plastic food, for some reason. The ceiling fell on some patrons, so they shut down the indoor part. A few of the shops on the outdoor part stayed open for a bit, and the mall across the street.
This was an intense watch. I didn't think I'd be overwhelmed by the sense of my own mortality watching videos about dead malls, but holy shit this video definitely gave me that.
Actually, that shopping center was built in the early sixties. It was expanded a couple of times in the sixties and seventies and enclosed in the eighties.
Yep I remember when it was still an outdoor place. They were in the process of enclosing it around 1983 when I moved there. I used to take violin lessons in the Music & Arts Center.
@@christophercoleman1895 Ironically 1 such mall I grew up spending my saturdays at: warden woods mall in east toronto ended up as a location for a zombie movie in the early 2000's shortily before it was demolished.
I also grew up in Bowie in the 70's and 80's. I have vivid memories of going to the movies with friends here and getting pizza and going to the arcade to play Dig Dug and Donkey Kong. I remember seeing "Better Off Dead" twice here and occasionally shopping at Bradlee's and the hobby shop. I do remember it seeming dark in there since there was a bad balance of sunlight from the skylights and the artificial lighting. The arcade, I think, was called "Time Out" unless that was the arcade in Crofton that was on the corner near Pappy's Pizza and Dart Drug near the Cinema 4 (where I saw Rocky, Star Wars, Jaws, and Vacation). That plaza still exists I think. I live in NY now, and once in a while I have dreams that put me in old malls like Freestate with the big fountain near Woolco/Super Giant and Fathers Gay Nineties and Four Seasons The Candy Store (and the Record Store), or this mall which was harder to identify. I also remember that across the side street there used to be a twin cinema near Hardee's that was a real relic around 1978, but I only saw like two movies there--I think it was called "Belair 1 and 2". Anyhow, thank you for the great work, it took me back down memory lane to the age of BMX bikes, Ocean Pacific shorts, and video arcades!
I grew up in Bowie. Going to this mall was a treat in my youth. Remember my mother driving me there in the old station wagon with my little brother. Dropping us off and handing us 10 dollars each. Enough to watch a movie..Get a snack or ice cream. Then always end up at the arcade to spend the last bit of cash we had left..The Arcade was there to the left of the entrance you came in at. Tons of games..Crowded with kids..The newest game at the front..Street fighter 2..Putting up your quarters to call next game.So strange seeing it like that..Dust in the wind. Now it exists only in my memories. and this vid.
It’s so amazing to see your mall videos, the thought of a now run down deteriorating place was once a modern booming, busy and full place of people, businesses. It’s also sad to think the people who once visited these places are either older now, very old, or have already passed away.
This is surreal. I grew up in Bowie, the main mall closed when I was about 7 or 8. We used to eat at Angelina's Italian Restaurant (it was our fancy restaurant for special occasions) and it's so weird to see somewhere you distantly remember so corroded and empty.
Yo same! We’re probably around the same age, I remember my grandpa lived a stones throw away from this mall and he used to take me and my cousins to that collector store to get beanie babies. I also remember going to “sportland” as a little kid. I would absolutely kill to see photos of this place when it was actually still open.
The music you used sure gave it that old-school mall memories feel. Thanks! I remember that feeling while going with my grandma to an old mall in Ca. over 30 years ago. They played the similar style music while ladies would be in department stores shopping for those polyester clothes :)
Wow, so many memories here, the arcade, the movie theater, the pizzeria, the Baskin-Robbins, the hobby shop. I spent so much of my childhood here and at Free State Mall across the street.
Another oldie but goodie... The memories abound here. I have rather intimate knowledge of this little local mall. I spent a lot of time in Bowie. I'm actually living back here at present. This was a bustling location in the heart of town at one time. I grew up around here from the late 70's through the early 90's. It started life as an open air plaza and the property has been returned to it's original format at present with successful storefronts such ad Firehouse Subs and Harris Teeter. Sometime in the early 80's (to the best of my fuzzy recollections) they enclosed the mall and it was then home to Safeway, Music and Arts Center, Waldenbooks, and CVS to name a few. As a matter of fact I am pretty sure you entered the service corridor by CVS behind what used to be Mellon Bank (that white building attached to the side of the mall with the drive up windows). Fast forward a bit to the 90's. I worked in the mall as a janitor part time and at that point it was already in decline. At that point Sportland (which was sort of a generic Discovery Zone), Angelina's Italian restaurant, Bowie Cinema 6, Ben Franklin, and CVS were all that remained of the main mall. Safeway was sort of it's own entity at the other end, and I think there was a Merchant's Tire at the rear. Legend has it that this property and many others in MD were purchased by a fellow by the name of Norman Jemal. Mr. Jemal allegedly ruined many a mall by raising the leases on retail space and forcing out most tenants. Not sure what his strategy was there, but he apparently laid many a local mall and plaza to waste via this practice. I miss Angelina's the most. The food was excellent. I also have fond memories of seeing Thrashin' at the cinema and proceeding to skate the hell out of the loading dock behind Waldenbooks.
I grew up here and the mall was demolished when I was about 25. I have such fond memories and decided to see if there were any pictures ever taken of the inside so I could see the purple bench structure again. We never think about the small things until they were gone - I was totally delighted to come across your video. Even better than pictures. I gasped seeing that the Ben Franklin sign was still up. Wow such nostalgia. Thank you for making this.
My entire teenage years just came back, open luch was a blast, hooked up with my first love Terri there, was so nervous asking for her number. May she Rest in Peace. This was such a fun place to hang.
Dan you should check out Fort Casey, an abandoned military base from the 1920's and 1930's in Washington State. It is currently a tourist attraction in a park and its being repainted to its original appearance, but it has some dark corridors worth checking out.
I remember eating at Angelina’s with my family, the restaurant you start showing at 8:51, when I was a kid. We would then go across the hall and see a movie at the theater. I remember seeing The Mummy there in 1999! Crazy memories, thanks for posting this. Kind of sad.
We have a mall here in NC that was abandoned a few years ago. Premium Outlets in NC. It's small and might not be the easiest to get into. It was supposed to be torn down and turned into a China Town, but that never happened.
Yeah, probably. It's right off a main road to the airport and there are buildings all around that are occupied. I think there's even a Strayer University back in there. The food court may or may not still be partially open, too. Also, the floors were wood, so if they haven't been doing maintenance inside it could be a rough walk. There is a back entrance that is below ground level, but there is zero place to park a car that it wouldn't be seen. And I believe it is security patrolled. If you call the building owner, though, he might grant permission. Couldn't hurt. And I'd love to see a video of the inside after this long.
+This is Dan Bell. If your in NC you may want to check out the Reidsville mall. It is still open, but is completely unaltered from it's original bones.
If you want to try something out the US. There is this place called "Spencers Plaza" in Chennai India. Its a Mall with office spaces built in 1972 and opened in 1982. From the time of its opening till 2014, it was one of the most widely visited malls in the city. But after more advanced and Modern malls came up near by, it just died. people barely visit it anymore. Would be a great idea if you're thinking of doing something about overseas malls.
all these malls that are being torn down that are useful should rehabbed into homless residences,medical and training and education complexes and keep the food court area as cafeterias etc.
I love your idea that is so awesome I love repurposing things. It really saddens me is on that beautiful neon tubing and signs!! I collect neon and I would've loved to get a hold of all that!!!
A place for people who dont work get shelter living off our tax dollars and probably bringing down property values? Yikes im not tryna sound selfish here but come one we work hard to give drugs addicts money from welfare for cryin out loud
it used to be an open mall! with a pet shop, lake, food stores, jewelry stores, shore stores. and a wonderful turtle every kid played on! it was such a masterpiece. Time has ruined Bowie. It makes me sad.
Thank you! I was trying to figure if thats where it could be, but I didn't remember it being an indoor mall. I was 12 when we left Bowie in 78' so didn't recognize the name. We just called it the shopping center. But when people mentioned there being a bigger mall across the street I figured it had to be. I remember the turtle, and there was McCrorys, Marty's Cards, Buster Bron Shoes and Mr. Chicken - The best broasted chicken ever!
That wasn't asbestos dust. It was sheet rock and ceiling tile dust. The only place you'd use asbestos is on hot water pipes and malls have surprisingly little in the way of heating systems in them. They count on store lighting for the heat. Malls do have air conditioning systems though.
One by one, they closed the stores, not to re-lease. By the early 90's, if not earlier, the mall was virtually abandoned, and only one end was accessible to get to the Safeway. This place is virtually the same as it was 20 -30 years ago, because it has been closed up for so long. When I moved to Bowie in 1976, it was a vibrant, fun place to shop; still an open mall with public courtyards. I never cared much for the enclosed mall, but it was a great place to go to hang out. I am looking forward to the new building in a little over a year.
SPQR2K It wasn't virtually abandoned until the end of the 1990's. The movie theater didn't close until 1999. I spent much of my time growing up at this mall and the main times I remember were from 1994-1999. When Titantic came out in 1997 my friend had his birthday party at the Angelina's pizza place across from the theater. I am 30 years old now and miss those times so bad!
Is it by chance going to one of those "Lifestyles" because I hate those things with pure hatred! Or are they going to build another enclosed mall on the site because I would really love to one of them built again! Or is it going to be something else? Like another another Wal-Mart because you all know how wallie world loves to tear old shopping malls and build their stores on the grounds of them! Fuckin' Nazi-Mart!
***** any ideas on what this new mall is going to be? Is it actually going to be another true mall or is it going to be one of those stupid lifestyles that everyone rants and raves about. Or is it just going to be a typical strip mall? (Which would be ironic because this first opened up as an outdoor mall in probably 1963 then was enclosed in the '70s or '80s. And then they decided to go back to an outdoor mall again! Like really?)
SPQR2K -- I lived in Bowie from 1961 until I graduated from Bowie High in 1974, left for good in 1976. I know its been a couple of years since you posted, but any chance can you tell me if this was the mall on Rt. 450 on the same side of the road as the high school? I feel like it must be, we really didn't have any other "malls" in Bowie back then, but its in such bad shape I can't even tell. If that 's the place, I spent most of my latter high school hangout time in there, many many memories connected with the way it was back then.
Great video, Dan. As the mall music played, I started picturing the place as I imagined it would have been years ago. The only thing missing would be the sounds of the people walking through its corridors. Kind of sad in a way. Given that the place is going to be demolished, could you get in trouble if you were caught taking memorabilia?
***** People around a dead/abandoned mall usually are ready for those suckers to be demolished. We had one here in Kansas City named Bannister Mall that closed in May of 07 and was finally completely demolished in January of 2010. However, for the most part the residents of the community in which those sorts of malls exist are the reason it is dead/abandoned.
I've been watching your videos for a couple days and today I told my bf that I wanted to go to the mall. Not necessarily for shopping but to actually notice the building it self and try to see things I've never noticed before. We'll see tomorrow!
Haven't been there since 1983, it was still an outdoor mall. Been there a million times but I don't even recognize any of it. Bought my first guitar there. There was a drugstore there that I would buy National Lampoons and Heavy Metal Magazines, no one else around there sold them. One of my first jobs was at the Capitol Centre in Largo which was imploded, you can see that on youtube, also. Kinda strange seeing your old haunts demolished.
This was a nifty little mall. It wasn't large like Landover Mall or Laurel Mall. It was also called Bowie /Belair Marketplace, that's how I remember it. I used to go to PG College back in the 80s and I would take the old T11 bus route from Marketplace to Addison Road(a long ride trust me!) but scenic. This was before Bowie Town Center. But this mall was convenient coming or going to PGCollege. The music added has feeling and is quite touching. I didn't know they had torn this mall down. RIP Bowie/Belair Marketplace.
I love your work, Dan. I'm a part of the Ace's Adventure's team and just wanted to say that i'm a big fan of your channel.. I've watched the entire series and can't wait for more material.
I vaguely remember the inside of this mall. I grew up in Bowie in the 90's and used to go there a lot. But man...the music you added to this made it super creepy! Thanks for the flashback though! I felt like I jumped into a time machine.
If you get to Ocean City, check out the small indoor mall at 94th street. Two anchors are still open, a Superfresh, and a Roses (like a K-mart). It's been closed down for years. Also check out the Gold Coast mall a few blocks away. Still open but creepy quiet especially in the winter months.
Really? If the meaning is conveyed, who cares if the spelling is off. It's a waste of time to correct peoples spelling. Like literally, you wasted your time!
I imagine they would if he walked in and vandalized or stole things, but all he does is walk around with a camera, so I don't think the legal fees would be worth it.
Dan thank you so much for these wonderful documentaries you do on dead malls. For taking us back to when malls very fun, exciting, & thrilling. Without you people like me would've never knew about some these malls. Again thank you keep up the great work.
omg this is from my childhood!!!!! I used to take piano lessons here. So crazy. This place has been completely transformed now. I wish you could have done landover mall when it was dying. I used to practically live there. That was a slow and painful death let me tell ya.
Be sure to check out Seminole Mall in St. Petersburg Florida. I have no idea how much of it is left but it is said to be demolished partially soon to make way for a smaller outlet complex. It isn't much and the cinema (recently closed) was already demolished, but it might be something to check out.
I remember when that mall was an outdoor style mall with some awnings that you could be under in case it rained... with a small playground in the middle area with a stone turtle to climb on (where I think that Ben Franklin Crafts was). Then in the late 1970s or early 1980s, they enclosed it to make it a more traditional indoor style mall.
Man, as an elementary school kid in the 80s, I was in bike-riding distance of this mall. I haven't been here since 1991, but it is uncanny how much of this is familiar memories buried deep within my brains.
+Jill Sandwich gives ME and feeling of nostalgia, as though it's sad that the mall once was a place of life, people and enjoyment and is now nothing and forgotten.
Sad to see, took my daughter with her friends to see NATIONAL Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation in 1989. I loved the little pizza shop near the movie entrance. 😊 I used to bank at Suntrust 😊there was a great Chinese food carry out in the front near Baskin n Robins ice cream also.😊there was also a mall across the road on rt. 450. Two malls across from each other.
I am a new viewer to your channel and I was curious about the businesses that you filmed and I was curious to know if they still exist. Glory Days Grill the first name I saw have restaurants in 5 different states all east coast. The Ben Franklin Crafts is actually still around with locations on the west coast and Hawaii but I did find out that another family owned business just bought Ben Franklin and will keep them open. Lastly I looked up Napier Jewelers and found out that Napiers Jewelry is no more but their jewelry is sold at Kohl's department stores, ebay and amazon for costume use. The jewelry had a total 80's look for sure so keep up the great work Dan and I will continue to watch and enjoy your videos cheers.
I used to go into this mall a lot back in the mid-80's and there was never really a lot of activity on the inside.--there were quite a few empty stores on the inside even back then. I think it was mostly the stores with outside access like the Safeway, Bob's Big Boy, Trak Auto and others that kept it living as long as it did.
