It seems like nowadays there are more dead malls than active ones... This one just happens to have a few neat Montgomery elevators! Filmed January 2015 with TheElevatorGeek
I grew up with this mall....and still visit regularly just to walk around. There are a handful of stores still there. A Gymboree, Belk, Barnes and Noble, LensCrafters, and a cafeteria I believe. Maybe a few small stores but not sure. This used to be a real happening place. I walked through some service corridors a couple weeks back, but all the doors to the closed stores were locked. Half of the mall is closed off....inaccessible. A huge portion, actually. I think there is a call center in one side of it, or a company of some sort. I'd love to explore the closed sections further, but that would require some sneakiness and possible B&E. If anyone has done this, I'd like to hear about it. Both ends of the mall are closed, as well as most of the upper floor...if you drive around back you can see a small business in a rear parking lot across the creek, and if you look up you can see a ton of windows, that are in an area of the mall you can't get to from inside currently. Ok...enough rambling. Cool vid, but try to hit the corridors on the next one.
back in the days me and my friends used to hold on to the side of the escalator and ride half way up then jump down now that was fun but we were kids then
Man, you guys totally missed the abandoned part of the mall. About a third of it hasn't been kept up in years - roof tiles falling in, dying mannequins, all kinds of crazy stuff. It's pretty great and surprisingly few people know about it, although plenty know about Columbia's abandoned asylum.
I live right near that mall, and yeah, it's pretty fucking dead. You beat me to the idea of doing one of these here. So much wasted potential. I went here earlier today to get a book from the Barnes and Noble you passed by, and I was surprised to see people, even one of my friends, there. Just goes to show how little there is to do near where I live.
I think that, to a kid, there's something magical about elevators. When you can't drive or operate any other kind of big machinery, it's cool that you can step inside a big metal box that moves at your command. Because you pushed the button and told it where to go. Most kids lose interest and move on to other things over time, but I never did. Twenty years later I have a college degree in engineering and have a job where I work on robotics. And while by age and level of maturity I'm now an adult, but I'm still a kid at heart who gets a kick out of riding an elevator. :)
