We take a look at the dying Berkshire Mall located in Lanesborough Massachusetts. **UPDATE** It was recently announced that JCPenny will close, leaving another empty anchor.
If little tokyo closes, it is over. Theyve been there since i was a kid in the early 90s. And kudos to you for the vice city mall music. don't think that i didn't notice😎
I grew up in Pittsfield and this mall was THE place to go in the late 80's and 90's. Actually, it was the ONLY place to go! Lots of good memories there for me. Met my first girlfriend there at the coffee shop that was outside of where Best Buy was. Of course, the Best Buy was Service Merchandise at that time. I even saw Gene Shalit and Edward Furlong there in the early 90's. So sad to see that place going to waste.
Recently, J C Penney and Payless Shoes both announced closings of their spaces inside Berkshire Mall. It's only a matter of time before Sears closes down and what can you say about a food court that can't hold on to a McDonald's? I remember when it first opened and it was busy and you hoped you were lucky enough to get seats in the food court. Berkshire Mall is indicative of the area it's located in. Like the mall, Northern Berkshire County is slowly but surely dying. I moved West nearly 15 years ago and as time goes by it feels more and more like I escaped. So to those of you who are back there I say save yourselves, get out while you can.
How have no idea how this upsets me emotionally. I used to go to the Berkshire Mall in the late ‘80s early ‘90s and it was thriving at the time. It was packed. Now that it’s closed it’s heart breaking. It’s a sure bet that online shopping has killed the malls. Just think of every employee that has lost his or her jobs because of online shopping, literally thousands of individuals. It’s a crying shame. Memories is all we have left if the Berkshire Mall.
You should see Fiesta Mall here in Mesa, AZ. Last year, both Dick's and Best Buy closed at opposite ends of the year. I visited Best Buy on the day it closed and it was sad. The two stores were even stacked on top of each other. Also saw the exterior sign laying on the ground the day it came down. Now the entire food court is defunct.
came across this i grew up in my early childhood here and it’s very sad to see it go mall has been closed for a while. someone has bought it again and supposedly fixing it up. the craze in online shopping killed this place fully.
You don't often see mom and pop video game stores in malls, and almost always GameStop! And years ago, Electronics Boutique(EB Games) was in a lot of malls too, before GameStop bought them out. So interesting that one apparently took the place more than likely, of either a GameStop or EB that used to be in this mall. Great vid, for sure. I will watch your other dead mall vids later for sure, such as Walpole Mall.
It's like you can just feel the depression coming off of the walls inside some of these malls. I live on the north shore of Massachusetts and I grew up always going to the square one mall in saugus, North Shore Mall in Peabody and the Liberty tree Mall in Danvers. North Shore Mall has always done the best out of the 3 malls on the north shore and is still pack every single day.. as for square one mall in saugus it just has that 90's look and you do get that feeling like it's slowly dying aswell. The liberty tree mall was always the smallest of the 3 and that mall was always horrible and by far the worst and definitely only a matter of time before it's gone. The AMC theatre is the only thing keeping it alive with afew decent restaurants left.
Payless shoes is gone and interestingly, so are the children rides that were just outside of Sears area there too...I plan on going there in a few days to look at the halloween store that comes by every year now, its pretty good, but yeah not much for regular stuff anymore...really sad as I grew up with this mall andremember when it was thriving...heck i was a little kid but I remember the pet store and babbages and other stores that were there at the time too. Really scary to see and think about this change of time but I guess that's how time works
Many years ago I worked in Pittsfield, this was just up the road, boy things have gotten bad there, I remember people lined up outside the Best Buy for Xbox 360's, wonder where they go now. They just put the Target in after Ames closed, they had to blow up more bedrock on the side of Target, can only imagine downtown.
Went there a few months ago with my friend to the cinema. One thing you don't mention is that their cinema is the best cinema I've ever been to. The seats recline for fucks sake.
Wow, I remember going to that mall 10+ years ago. They had a game stop and either an eb or Babbages across the hall from it. Ames was where target is now. The food court was full of restaurants. "Little Tokyo" is still there, which was nice to see. The mall used to have a Subway, a Victoria secret and even a sword shop. My, have things changed. With jc penny and Sears leaving soon, folks in Berkshire county won' t have a central place to shop anymore. Rather sad.
