DEAD MALL SERIES REMASTERED : Vulnerable Marley Station Mall Ft Music by S U R F I N G 

This is the greatest episode of the Dead Mall Series that Dan Bell has ever produced. Everything about this episode is perfection! I will be very sad when this mall finally closes, and it WILL be closing soon - there’s almost nothing left in the mall to keep it going except for the movie theater. Dan Bell’s prediction in the video came to pass…

I remember this mall was still full of stores and packed in the early-2000s. Last time I went there was to see "Blades of Glory" in 2007. Sad to imagine that in only 15 years the place is now deserted and destined for demolition like many of the other once popular malls in DelMarVa.

I remember in the ‘80s, when I took down a notorious drug dealer in Florida. After seizing his mansion, it turned out the local businesses knew “Mr. Coke” was dead, but they refused to pay protection. I went down to the mall, and in under five minutes I trashed all the businesses there. I took down a security firm protecting a sports bar at the beach, then I torched a café at the mall. After that everyone paid me protection money…oh wait, that was one of my favorite video games. Never mind.

The good feelings this video evokes are magical It takes me back to the good old days when I didn't know many worries.. And hold my mothers hand

Really wish you'd keep making these. They're relaxing to watch and I can't get enough.

I’m not a big commenter, but I adore your channel-especially those 80s/ 90s clips. My millennial daughter looks forward to watching those with me. 80s styles are quite comical to her. I can’t imagine why. 🙃 Dan, if you’re ever down near the S.C.coast, we have several “dead-ish” malls. The Inlet Square in Murrells Inlet is finally breathing its last gasps. It was a nice, generic little mall in the day. In North Myrtle Beach, there’s the Colonial Mall, which is about half leased out, but has a great 80s vibe. And an old-time video arcade! The place even SMELLS like the 80s. Not sure that smell is, but I think Gen-Xers will recognize it. 🤣 In Charleston, there’s the Citadel Mall. You might get mugged out there, but the place hanging in there, on life support - mainly because Target is an anchor store. 🤷‍♀️

All of your vids bring me back to my childhood to the pre-opulence era Natick mall in Natick MA in the late 80s. It was pretty dead in there. I can still hear the reverberated music and smell of stale cigarettes. Thanks

I worked at Sam Goody's Music through out high school. I graduated in 1999. The mall I worked at in Longview Texas is still there, the front of Sam Goody is still there but its a clothing store now. Our mall has changed a lot since it was built in 1978 I think. But I am glad it is still going. Our anchors are Dillard's, JC Penny, Dicks Sporting Goods, and Conns.

When the intro music began to fade and the barren, dark parking lot was shown, a wave of sadness swept over me. 😞 R.I.P. Dead Malls

Don't often say this but I'm genuinely so happy that I stumbled upon this channel. So interesting and creepy looking and exploring around abandoned Shopping Malls across the USA, we don't really have it like this over in the UK. Really looking forward to more videos.

The mall, the 80s was my dad's paradise, his prime. To see these neon dreams crumble with time makes me sad in ways I can't fully express. There was so much promise in these mega complexes and now we've moved past the need for them. Before the internet existed this was the pinnacle of modern civilization..

Growing up in the 90s, I have fond memories of malls. Most of the good stores are gone now. Sam Goody, Montgomery Ward's, KB Toys, Orange Julius, ect.

People paid to listen to other people crying? wtf. Another awesome remaster Dan!

Loving these remastered videos! keep em comin!!

I remember always going to Ann's foot longs as a kid. When I can, I swing by to get a bite with the Menacing Marley in the back. I remember seeing the old newspaper articles in Ann's talking about the building of the mall and how Ann's was saved from being demolished. It's weird seeing two very familiar places on the internet.

@Dan Bell’s Remastered Mall Series Great job Dan. It’s sad that your prediction of the anchor stores were so accurate. Except for the fact that Simon Malls took over JCPenney hopefully to save it. I hope in addition to remastering your current Mall Series, you will continue to create new videos for your Mall Series. Thanks Dan.

I live less than 10 minutes from this mall. Have frequented it my entire life and even though it's dead AF I still stop by once or twice a month to grab some Japanese Grill and play some rhythm games at the arcade. Many of the stores that were even in this video are gone now. Pretty sure Spencers was the most recent one to go poof.

Love the 80s video footage. We need more.

The nostalgia I get from your videos is really high.

At 7:42 , I caught that Star Wars reference... "I have a really bad feeling about this" and the Luke Skywalker cut out LOL

The crying hotline intrigues me. Is that like a counselling service you reckon?

I love the Marley Station mall. Such amazing NEON art throughout the mall and the fact that Dan worked there makes it even better. Amazing videos as always! Thanks so much Dan for re-mastering these awesome videos.

There is nothing, anyone can't say to convince me that 80's and 90's weren't the best 2 decades of the past 50 years......specially the 80's

Dan, you are NEVER going to run out of material.

These vids got me threw some hard times back in the day and great to see them again remastered as things are not great now gain ...good prediction about Sears and JC Penny at the time Dan...

I love these vids really takes me back to working at the mall in the 90’s❤ thank you Dan!!!!

If you search Marley Station free hugs you can find a video all the way back from the early days of RU-vid. The video is from 2006 and it's a teenage girl going through the mall offering free hugs. You can actually see what the mall used to look like in the mid 2000's. It's really depressing seeing it back then and what it looks like now. It's a huge difference. The mall was lively. It had actual stores.

Man! Some of the stuff you edit into these are 🔥

Dan, your videos make me happy. Thanks!

This was great. Between the neon and the geometry of the planters, the mall has a nice look. Thanks!

Great video danny boy keep em coming. That Corey haim intro was so weird it's like why are you laying like that corey?!?! Think about doing a video on the dawn of the dead mall,70s version of course.

Marley is my fave out of state mall ever. Glad I went here 2x in 2019 and 2020 and experience Anne's Dari Creme.

If this Marley Station mall closes maybe it can be a Marley Station museum. It can have history of WW1, WW2- the Europe one, about the great depression in the 1930’s, 1950’s suburbia Maryland, The hippie movement of the Baby Boomers, Mall culture of America, dead malls, the Rolling 1920’s, and American culture in general

The mall has a lot of character I love the neon lights.

Was that Corey Haim at the beginning?

Still can't believe no one caught the very cool Star Wars reference Dan makes at 7:43 as his camera spans down to show Poe Dameron.

RIP Corey Haim

Thanks Dan Bell for another Dead Mall remastered, you make them well produce and well Directed like a Hollywood director. Take Care now.👍👍🙂

yay! always loved the way this one was mixed with SURFING!

trying to think back on when malls began to die, i started seeing it in 1996-1997 for sure, because i recall going to play games in the mall near me in the arcade, since at the time home consoles could only do so much. so titles for neo geo, and games like mortal kombat you needed to go to an arcade, and nothing would be there aside from an arcade and a movie theater with a handful of kiosks

It's so interesting to see how much malls around the US are fading. Wish I could have experienced the malls in Minnesota in their glory days.

So Dan got to smell feet. How enlightening. Lol Great video. I miss shopping til I dropped back in the 80’s, 90’s 2000. How many pair of shoes do you really need with only having two feet? 👍🙏🇺🇸😂💕

These videos give me a good 80's vibe! Thanks.

One of my favorites! 😍

Boy, has Marley Station gone down hill since this was re-masteered. I remember going to this mall when I lived less than two miles away while in the service. I moved away back in 1990. A much newer video shows this place not to long ago, and in further decline. I forgot, next month driving to Maryland from Arizona, and will stop at Ann's but will go inside the mall as well.

Update on the mall, it's still open, barely. The theater is the only spot regularly getting business. The Spencer's shut down and unfortunately hot topic is finally going sometime this September. It was a good run, but if it's not to go to the theater, then I'm not going back to Marley at all. Real upsetting for how I remember it being when I was a kid.

Dan, have you ever thought about reaching out to the History Channel or A&E to get your series on CABLE???

One thing Malls in the States don’t do is have Grocery stores in them or butchers bakery’s etc. Malls in Australia all have Grocery stores food shops and Malls in Australia are doing well. Different cultures but it works Malls here super busy. Check out two online here in Western Australia Karrinyup or Garden city.

beautiful mall brings back memories 80s 90s, so sad these places are closing, Im surprised Sears is still around in US - after Canada Sears completely folded few years ago, US Sears is on its way closing its doors forever just like Macy’s and JCPenney

You gotta go to Harford Mall in Bel Air, MD and Eastpoint Mall in Dundalk.

You're the Man, Dan!😎👍

I worked at "Afterthoughts" at the mall-early 90's when I was in my early 20's-it was so much fun!! 55yrs old

Go to the bay city Michigan mall there’s only a handful of stores and a movie theater. also the flint mi malls food court is the most depressing one I’ve seen.

There's this mall near me called the Lebanon outlet mall and it's super eerie. it's not like it's haunted or anything it just.... reject humanity. I went to the food court late at night once and it was immensely dark, all the lights outside of the stores were off and only one store was open that was bathing the most of the court in a warm orange light. It was a physical incarnation of Hill House

10:47 I like the end where Dan can't help laughing about Ann's Famous Footlong. I mean, it's "extra thick," according to the news article quoting the then-assistant manager Pat Schrieber.

the intro.... I need more, whats that, its moar. what does that mean...

This feels eerily similar to Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax VA. Are they built by the same builder?

highly recommend westminster mall if you haven't already

I live close to this mall About a 15 minute drive away. I remember going there with my parents in the 90's and it was packed back then. Matter of fact it was a busy mall even back in the early and mid 2000's. But this wasn't my moms favorite mall. That was down the road aways called Glen Burnie Mall or later on The Center at Glen Burnie which was always a stupid name for a mall. They should have left the old mall name alone. Doesn't matter now because it's gone. The Glen Burnie mall was where I spent most of time as a kid when I went to mall. My parents would go to other malls but Glen Burnie was the most visited. There was Security Square mall, West View and Marley once in a while. Marley started going down hill in the late 2000's, around 2008.

Marley Station still has 58 businesses in it. How is it doing now? It sounds like they need to try and generate more foot traffic.

Watch the intro (first few minutes). Concludes: *Youth is wasted on the Young*

It’s fun shopping at Spencer’s.

Man those were the days some kids nowadays don't even know what a rotary phone is

I wonder why the community doesn’t have much interest in this mall. Is it hard to get to? That’s the main reason I don’t go to malls where I live. The malls in the greater Atlanta area are mostly next to an interstate exit which makes it a pain to get in and out of because of the awful overpass traffic lights. They need to have malls near where people live that isn’t a pain in the arse to get to. Interstates are too congested now because for decades Congress ignored our infrastructure. I remember growing up in Dade County Florida and a nearby mall called the Cutler Ridge Mall was actually located near where people lived. It wasn’t a pain to get to, but that was back in the 80s. I don’t buy the excuse that online shopping killed the malls. It hurt malls a little bit, but it wasn’t just shopping that attracted people to malls. It was the overall experience. If it’s a pain to get to it ruins the experience. Also, average Americans don’t have the disposable income they used to have. But, location is still a key factor whether a mall can do well or go bankrupt. And that is true for any retail business. Malls that are located off a congested interstate exit and not close to where people live are doomed. People are sick of bad traffic.

WTF was that 1-800 CRY thing? Are we just gonna waltz past that?

PLEASE DO IVERSON MALL IN PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY MARYLAND!!! That place is a vintage retail gem, and a very dead place

Not sure how worth it it would be to look into, but there's a dead mall in PA called clearview mall

10:06 the thing on the other line is the inflation figures.....

"What makes people all over American break down and cry like this?" Perhaps they saw the phone bill for 1-900-9099-CRY?

If someone with enough money and smarts needs to turn all these dead malls into apartment complexes. They already have parking, public areas, cinemas, arcades and food courts. Toss in a grocery store and a liquor store and you have a self contained village.

I still had a reason to go to this mall in 2016, they had an FYE and a Gamestop. Now both are gone. An so is the Sears.

Hey Dan which one of these places did you work in part of the mall

If your ever passing through ohio off the turnpike that goes east to west in the north part of the state stop by midway mall in Elyria Ohio it’s right off an exit and is super ghostly

When are we going to see more another dirty room??

R.I.P. Corey Haim.

Way to paint the picture at the beginning with the transition and everything.

My daughter just quit her job at Simon Property Group in Indianapolis, found a better job. Now I can share all your dead mall series with her, lol.

Simon divided itself into 2 companies. They spun off the non performing properties to a new company to get the sold or let them die. Deemed not worth future investments. And the other company, of course, has the performing malls.

Marley was one of my stops back in the day when I lived on Kent Island / Stevensville and then Annapolis back in the mid 90's. Used to haunt the EB's and Babbages of all the malls on the Rt 2 corridor. Complete mall rat.

Is Marley Station still going or did they closed down?

How many of the anchors are now gone?

If you find any of Debbie Gibson’s Electric Youth perfume, it’s mine! Lol

Wassup?? Hello!

Thanks

What was the source material of the intro?

Now online has killed both small and larger business .... that being said i think dying malls are sign of much bigger problems then online shopping ... in some ways i think dead malls are a sign of the West dying as a superpower ... Covid just accelerated it further since .. Malls used to be grand social place to go and meet people and look around even if you were broke ..

Anyone know where this dude went? Ace’s Aventures hasn’t posted anything new for two months, and we haven’t seen anything new from Dan in over three months. Definitely not their normal content pattern….

Keep The neon art at the museum

Seems more like a slow mall than a “dead” mall.

Damn that Corey Haim was so cute.

30 to 40 dollar hair cut is crazy to pay.

Why is there no more mall videos I get your trying to reshape yourself but seriously we need more videos it's 2023

What's up? Hello.

Dan 🥰

This channel seems to be as dead as some of these malls. Best part? People asking questions and Dan doesn’t even care to respond. Super awesome.

Just hit the five year mark on the original video, and some way, some how, Sears is still limping along.

Unsubscribing. Nothing for 5 months. You lied about this channel

Boring channel. Nothing new for 2 months.

Macy's, JCPenny, and Sears needs to go away like the boomers.