Why is it every time a mall is built, the architects are always thinking "let's make the back service corridors as spooky as humanly possible?"
@jeprusan
2 ай бұрын
The silence of your video is heartbreaking. I remember working in this mall right after high school and loving the sound of rushing water and musical chimes every time I walked past that fountain to go to work. It was the signature feature of this mall; it could be heard throughout the commons. When they shut the fountain off and filled it in with planter boxes, I knew it was the beginning of the end.😥 I have so many memories working, dating, and making friends in and around this mall. A sad end to a nostalgic place. 😔💔
@Cerstani
Ай бұрын
Oh man, that fountain was a triumph of aesthetic and engineering. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any pictures of it online..
@jeprusan
Ай бұрын
@@Cerstani I always wondered what day/year they shut it off, because when they did, they killed that place.
@Cerstani
Ай бұрын
@@jeprusan Hard to say for sure, but I seem to remember it disappearing in the mid 90's..
@alextorres693
Ай бұрын
All thinghs must come to a end
@linphillips8331
2 ай бұрын
Yup, when I moved to Houston in 2000, my brother told me this place was called "Gunspoint," and I can honestly say that I've never set foot in there.
@Semper_
2 ай бұрын
I went inside the Abandoned Macy's April of 2023 and traversed the whole thing, I was the first to film it and upload it on KZitem actually. You didn't miss too much, but there were some interesting pieces of history on the second floor. Old Restaurant, Old Appliances from the 80s, all kinds of stuff. I know many people have went in there though after I uploaded my video, that's usually how it is. So things may be missing up there, I can already tell there's missing (unimportant) things on the first floor. The entrance to the Macy's wasn't even all boarded up like that in what y'all called "The Moldy Wing". That's how I got in, there was a loose board. Also I can see that somebody has been living in that part where the open door was, that trash wasn't there. Anyway it's cool seeing what changed since I last been there in October.
@Chevytraverseshorts
2 ай бұрын
Yeah I saw Your Vid
@jdwv2891
2 ай бұрын
I watched it too, that was some good footage you had!
@westhoff-
20 күн бұрын
Really enjoying your abandoned mall exploration videos. Good stuff
@stretcharmstrong306
2 ай бұрын
Your car is currently being stripped in the parking lot. 😂
@Polothemius
Ай бұрын
😂
@christiangonzales7429
2 ай бұрын
I went here a few months ago and after exploring the food court area, a security guard asked me if I was taking pictures when I got back to the center court. I already felt uncomfortable feeling that he was going to stalk my every move so I just left. He made me feel very uncomfortable.
@Semper_
2 ай бұрын
The Mall Pigs are just petty fake cops who didn't make it in the police academy so they take it out on everybody else. Acting like they have some sort of high authority over everybody.
@Polothemius
Ай бұрын
The security dude when I was there didn't even get out of his chair I think they gave up
@eriksalinas3294
2 ай бұрын
I was a kid when I went that mall im 29 now oh how time flys by
@ricj7517
2 ай бұрын
Love you mall videos Golden..Do more abandoned houses too 👍 (awww love cats 🐈
@Polothemius
Ай бұрын
I need to film houses and mansions I don't think ive ever done a house or mansion on my channel but I know a few spots
@ShrillVerve
2 ай бұрын
18:12 there's no way somebody didn't intentionally keep that sound running, literally almost everything else in the mall is abandoned/rotting.
@Cerstani
2 ай бұрын
I knew it would be the 'children laughing sound before I clicked the timestamp..🤣
@Polothemius
Ай бұрын
It creeped us out just hearing it off in the distance 😂
@KevinRichards-my5oj
2 ай бұрын
Looks like a ghost town. They'll probably demolish it like they did the San Jacinto Mall over in Baytown, TX.
@vintagegalholly1518
2 ай бұрын
I guess they’re turning it into housing.
@cindyl760
2 ай бұрын
I’ve been there a couple times too, last time I went there was 2014
@mattyjay1711
2 ай бұрын
They're going to build an apartment complex there
@KevinRichards-my5oj
2 ай бұрын
@cindyl760 later on January 4, 2020, it closed but left JCPenney & Macy's to stay open a little while longer. While those 2 stores were the only ones open, if you wanted to go from one store to the other, you'd have to go outside & either drive or walk around because the indoor exits that lead out to the mall were closed off. Later in the fall of 2021, JCPenney closed. Last, Macy's which was the last & only store left finally closed on February 2022. After that, the whole mall was abandoned & left in ruins for a while until it finally got demolished in the fall of 2022. Today all that's left are the big sign on I-10 & some of the parking lot light poles. The property the mall use to be on has a fence around it.
@rublanco87
Ай бұрын
They finally demolished San Jacinto mall? Haven't been in Baytown for years.
@jayhob1114
2 ай бұрын
Great video
@Polothemius
Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@paulhoffer3123
2 ай бұрын
"TEAR DOWN THIS MALL"! Mayor.
@jdwv2891
2 ай бұрын
Cool footage man, that place is creepy for the whole neglect and apocalyptic factor. I wonder how many stashed bodies are stuffed away in that place.
@KevinRichards-my5oj
2 ай бұрын
Hard to believe from once was a nice, clean, & popular shopping destination to an abandoned building left in ruins.
@Polothemius
Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it the place felt like a ghost town
@Mayito_Tamps
2 ай бұрын
11:57 Nostalgia 🥺 My Mom Used To Work At That Macy’s
@stares_mthrfckrly
2 ай бұрын
UPDATE: It’s now officially closed. They shut doors and evacuated tenants on July 31, 2024. The only thing that’s open is the Fitness Connection. I grew up and still live about 3 miles down the road from this mall. I was a kid when this mall still had a little bit of life to it, I’d say it officially became a dead mall when they took down the playground (which stayed as an empty corridor for a while and then was replaced by the movie theater, that didn’t go up until 2014 as an attempt to save the mall, the movie theater was a casualty to COVID) and then when SEARS left. My mom is also former Army and that exact recruiting office is where she went to enlist. I have so many memories from this mall, I just can’t believe it’s gone now. Yes, there was crime here, but there’s crime all over Houston, TX. There’s been robberies and kidnappings at the Galleria mall, which is the rich folk area to this day. So “Gunspoint” is kind of hypocritical, it’s literally everywhere. This isn’t even the “worst” area in Houston, it’s just another impoverished area the city barely cares about. 10:22 this back corridor where there’s some like, architecture with a bunch of plants on it and the ceiling has blurred windows, they had already removed it in the 90s before I was even thought of 😂 but there’s used to be this like, sort of Xylophone water fountain in the shape of a piano and it would play music that would travel throughout the mall. There’s old pictures of it and it’s really neat, I don’t think there was enough money to maintain it and that’s why they removed it and replaced it with plants. Unfortunately, the people stopped coming due to competition that’s literally 10 miles away in a few directions from Greenspoint. Willowbrook Mall is about 10 miles west, the Woodlands mall is north about 15 miles and Deerbrook is about 13 miles northeast, both malls built in the 80s (Woodlands the 90s I believe) and are all thriving to this day. People believe it’s worth the drive to go to these better taken care of malls than Greenspoint. I say unfortunately because I would’ve loved to bring my son to a places that holds a lot of my childhood memories and hoped it would’ve thrived in the future. It’s hard to let go sometimes. EDIT: I was actually wrong about the movie theater, it had actually BEEN there but they closed it off for a while, I was also wrong about the playground, it was actually in corridor of where the play machines were. It’s been a long time since I remember being there, so I apologize if I get anything inaccurate.
@ashgonza92
2 ай бұрын
Can't blame people for not wanting to be around blacks
@Some_Dumb_Nerd
2 ай бұрын
Cool
@ChillyFrisander
2 ай бұрын
Greenspoint mall finally closed permanently today
@rbjones72703
2 ай бұрын
😢😢😢
@jmcd21182
2 ай бұрын
😕
@jeprusan
2 ай бұрын
😔
@DrOrr
2 ай бұрын
It was only a matter of time, place was on life support
@slackingpacking
2 ай бұрын
What a beautiful mall too bad this place is falling apart.
@jaymChrist4ever
Ай бұрын
The memories there man❤️💯💎
@cindyl760
2 ай бұрын
Last time I went there was 2 years ago in 2022 it looks much worse now. Same movie posters too lol. They finally permanently closed the mall like wow about time, can’t believe those retailers stayed till the end
@tijuetexploration1805
2 ай бұрын
Good explo ❤❤❤❤❤
@Polothemius
Ай бұрын
Glad you liked it
@johnnyflores1978
2 ай бұрын
I have more memories of northwest mall
@Polothemius
Ай бұрын
Went to that mall before this one
@sjcflawless
2 ай бұрын
Upon popular belief, there’s videos explaining how the name gunspoints were first created. However, most of my friends and classmates came to the conclusion and based on stories. The reason how it got that name was because of people lining up to buy J’s at the shoe store. To subsequently getting robbed after stepping out of the mall. Hence the name gunspoints was born. This is only a theory by some of the locals here. I would assume the videos about it nickname were the root ideas.
@jasonmurdoch9936
21 күн бұрын
I hate to bust your bubble it was called guns point way before then since the early 80s
@sjcflawless
21 күн бұрын
@@jasonmurdoch9936 there’s been videos saying it was established in 2000’s.
@jasonmurdoch9936
21 күн бұрын
@@sjcflawless and then there's people that have lived in greenspoint all their lives 50 plus years native houstonians who can verify that this term has been used since the early eighties the reason why it has been used since early eighties that's the same reason why HPD used to patrol the parking lots in the early to the mid-1980s because of this issue
@sjcflawless
21 күн бұрын
@@jasonmurdoch9936 I did remember a HPD headquarters. It was right by Walden Books.
@markdelz299
18 күн бұрын
@@sjcflawless Native Houstonian here. Term came from the early 80s. In the 70s it was a nice part of town but then Exxon moved their headquarters out of there and all the rich office workers left. The apartments had to cut their rents and the neighborhood got rough. People started getting robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot, or worse like the female cop that got kidnapped and murdered in the parking lot in 1991. The name stuck.
@steddyk
2 ай бұрын
Stayed at the Hilton across the street last week. This shit was crazy to see. How the hell do you let a security guard work in there safely?
@Polothemius
Ай бұрын
The security was sitting in his chair and didn't care that we were wandering he gave up
@b3j94
2 ай бұрын
This in Houston, Texas?
@rbjones72703
2 ай бұрын
Yes
@lynettearnold8190
2 ай бұрын
I REALLY MISSED TILT WHICH WAS THE ARCADE PLACE AT THE MALL BUT IT WAS TAKEN OVER BY BOXING CORPORATIONS.
@jth_printed_designs
2 ай бұрын
With the state of the building, it looks like it should have been shuttered 10 years ago. 5 years ago at the least.
@Chevytraverseshorts
2 ай бұрын
6:15 That Was A Hidden Sears Wing That Closed In May 2010
@elis3651
Ай бұрын
11:30 yep, the folgies, later to be Macy's wing. Not hidden, same as sears wing at 6:15. And jcpenny at 14:00. Montgomery ward at 10:40
@vlad-130z70
2 ай бұрын
Sounds like there were some kids running around
@soullessprincess6473
2 ай бұрын
The mall definitely is haunted in some way
@bugluvr22
23 күн бұрын
How’d you get into the back areas? Security was so bad about it.
@MathiasMeasinger
Ай бұрын
When I see these abandoned malls. I think in the near future someone will come up with a 'disrupter' to amazon . "What if we created a place where people, instead of sitting in front of their computer. Will go to a 'place' where you can actually see and feel the item. And if you want it you can take it home right there" .... Boom!
@ThePrintZone123
7 күн бұрын
my question is is it safe to explore as of now? i know that even when the mall was active this was a dangerous place but im just wondering how safe it would be now.
@tomwhite716
2 ай бұрын
We enjoyed many hours in that mall until that local area went straight to hell. It is bulldozer food now……
@jefffuell9109
Ай бұрын
Very depressing to see. Back in the 80's I worked at Sam Goody Records and then Sears. Good times.
@jasonmurdoch9936
22 күн бұрын
Yes I remember Sam goody and then it was Hastings or the other way around play in 1499 for newly released CDs
@Mayito_Tamps
2 ай бұрын
16:26 My Moms Department 😭
@tragicdaze
10 күн бұрын
does anyone remember the arcade that was at the food court?
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