Random Fact: Harry Houdini hated Psychics and Clairvoyants to the point he would break off friendships with people. He actively spent years of his life debunking them, at one point catching one claiming to be channelling his mother, and addressed him as Harry. His birth name is Erik, Harry is a stage name. Not related to malls at all, but I remembered it when I saw the psychic commercials lol
Dan Bell is str8 up RU-vid’s best kept secret, OG chronicler of modern American economic decay, so many imitators now but ain’t no Dan like the real Dan!!
The graffiti in that Wal-Mart looks like stuff you would see in a beat-em-up game from the 90's hahaha. "someone died here", anarchy symbols, "smile, your'e on camera", "becca was here".
Well as Dionne Warwick has said, “girlfriend it’s time for you to lay down.” Thank You Dan Bell for another entertaining episode of the Dead Mall Series.
I went to school in an abandoned Walmart building during 6th and 7th grade, so I actually have seen what one looks like completely empty, and it had been abandoned for at least 15 years before the school moved in. They put up partition walls to make classrooms and they kept a lot of the old fixtures to use for classroom storage. It was supposed to be temporary but ended up staying there for 8 years.
FROM WHAT I REMEMBER ABOUT THIS PLACE I SAW ON ANOTHER EXPLORERS CHANNEL, THAT THE ENTIRE PLAZA WAS BUILD ON A LANDFILL AND WASTE SITE, I WAS NOT JUST SINKING, BUT THE CHEMICALS COMING FROM THE GROUND MADE PEOPLE VERY ILL, AND AFTER INVESTIGATION THEY DECIDED TO CLOSE UP THE PLAZA, AND ITS BEEN VACANT AND NO DISCUSSION ON WHAT TO DO WITH THE PROPERTY
I worked for Wal-Mart in the late 90's. They built a Supercenter right next to the old "Division 1" (no groceries) store, so I got to see both the new store and the old one completely empty. That store you visited must have been one of the last Division 1 stores built. There aren't many left. Some were converted by expanding the footprint. If you ever walk into a Wal-Mart with a drop ceiling in the center, that's the old store and either side with high ceilings is the expansion. On a different note, a RED Ames cart, that is seriously old and rare.
Talk about perfect timing for Dan to upload this video - it's cold, windy & snowing where I am tonight. Perfect weather, company & night to watch a new Dead Mall video from Dan Bell! Thanks Dan!!
The "emergency shower" is where the maintenance guys would fill up and empty mop buckets, There would have been a dispenser there that automatically mixed the cleaner/water.
