This was my childhood mall. I remember there was a pet store with dogs that I would always visit when I go there and the basement arcade area. Sad to see it closed and soon be demolished.
@GreenDragon1941
9 жыл бұрын
Watch out for zombies! lol
@ThrottleNet
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for allowing us to include some of your footage in our tour of the Crestwood Mall Demolition. We will miss this mall! kzitem.info/news/bejne/0K2Hv3WNoqaoeI4
@annier4464
7 жыл бұрын
Really hurts to see such a pinnacle of your childhood, where you grew up and spent time with friends and family turned into this. It seems as though my hometown of St. Louis is just taking a nose dive in to oblivion. Just the past 5 years to see how everything has changed is utterly heartbreaking.
@Miguel-xl7wf
8 жыл бұрын
damn it sucks to see the mall that you grew up with end up like this, I had so many great memories here 😕
@orangeelcrot78
8 жыл бұрын
Yeah. I use to be at this mall on the regular as well. there use to be a lil master p impersonator there every weekend. I believe it was like 1998 or somewhere around that time.
@secretweapon3821
7 жыл бұрын
Ziller omg I know and same here. it so sad and very upsetting to see this. and now it's.like torn down :(.
@arthowardatnight
9 жыл бұрын
Nice, steady camera work and no cutesy narration or obnoxious soundtrack, mostly natural sound. THIS is how you make an abandoned mall video!
@razzledazzle8747
7 жыл бұрын
I AGREE!
@thatonethattalksalot7656
6 жыл бұрын
Art Howard exactly!!
@windigo63111
9 жыл бұрын
Great video. I used to work security there about 7 years ago, when it was still open. You need to go back at night. Some freaky shtuff happens around 2am. I've heard voices, footsteps, loud unexplained booms, the faint sound of a child playing; I've seen shadow-people, storefront gates being lifted and dropped, the elevator used to operate on its own (someone told me it was a "fail safe mechanism"...could be true, idk), toilets flushed by themselves..because, ghosts need to pee too, I guess. My shirt got tugged a few times. There was a corridor by the theater that I refused to walk down at night because it felt like I was being watched. It would be great to have some of that documented, but then, you're not a ghost chaser, are you?
@ghosty1233
9 жыл бұрын
Right...
@Wowaniac
9 жыл бұрын
no such things as Ghosts you superstitious troll.
@jlilnikki14
9 жыл бұрын
Wild but there is such thing of a spirit or spirits they are everywhere you just don't realize it
@windigo63111
9 жыл бұрын
yea, ok, "ghost" is a bad term. but I was there and saw what I saw. I usually worked the day shift but worked nights on the weekends. I could chalk up the shadow-people as me being tired and just seeing things out of the corner of my eye. The feeling of being watched when I went down that corridor could have been all the electrical power cables messing with my bio-electrical field, inducing paranoia. The loud boom could have been a faulty air conditioner compressor but it sounded more like something falling through the ceiling...so.. idk. I try my best to look at things logically before saying, "that piece of paper by the vent moved on its own, it must be a poltergeist!", but when more than a few people have the same experience that cannot be explained (mainly talking about the clearly heard voices/footsteps/clothes being tugged, here), then perhaps its time to open your mind to other possibilities.
@maqui4240
9 жыл бұрын
You probably shouldn't be drinking the stagnate water that comes out of those deserted fountains anymore Windygo...
@Baldmaxx
7 жыл бұрын
That was a beautiful send off, with care and respect as your probably the last one to video the interior before demolition. Thanks for the great work of a subject that is really close to my heart. You got yourself a subscriber. 😆🖒
@MrSTi2005
8 жыл бұрын
I was in this mall within the last 48 hours... it's gone downhill fast. I grew up three blocks from here and I've wanted to go in since it's been abandoned. Tonight, a buddy of a buddy told us abt a back door being open. So me and a couple others went in. And wow. Video does not do it justice
@DieselDucy
9 жыл бұрын
WOW!!! you got in the ARCADE!!
@animalizzed
7 жыл бұрын
I went to this mall all my life. My mom used to love shopping at this mall, and later in I hung out there when I was in college. Loved going there around Christmastime with all the dine orations and the hustle and bustle. Makes me so sad to see it go!!! RIP. CRESTEOOD MALL!!
@andregrass6370
9 жыл бұрын
I managed the See's Candies shop from September 1986 to early January 1987 before getting transferred to our Galleria store through April. By the end of 1988, all of our STL stores were closed and inventory sent back to California!
@TheCMessenger23
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this video. My sister and I used to work and shop in Crestwood, and it is also where she met her now husband. He used to be a security officer in the mall. I miss this mall terribly, and hope it returns soon.
@101StudioFilms
9 жыл бұрын
You guys always find such amazing locations and I really love your videos! Greetings from France!
@rockybalboa5104
8 жыл бұрын
I don't care how "tough" one thinks he or she is........These abandoned mall videos are truly heart breaking to anybody that is between the ages of 35-70! We are from the "mall rat" generation! You have online ordering to thank for this! It really broke my heart to see that dance supply store! I am fighting back a tear now...
@Fireship1
7 жыл бұрын
Sad and kinda creepy all at the same time. That's the emotion I get as you show this. Once mighty places like this closing are a sign of the times. We had a mall here in the town I live in. Wal mart and a bunch of big box stores killed it.
@maxwellmartinez8606
8 жыл бұрын
So sad! I've been there so many times both while occupied, and abandoned. Sad to see it go; I have to many memories there.
@Larry
9 жыл бұрын
There's a few videos on YT of this place in it's final days, quite sad really.
@drsamc21
9 жыл бұрын
***** I wouldnt have thought you would be into this type of thing!
@cb7s4life
8 жыл бұрын
+Larry Bundy Jr This comment was certainly unexpected.
@Larry
8 жыл бұрын
I love these dead mall videos! I spent a whole Sunday in bed with the flu watching them a few weeks ago :D
@drsamc21
8 жыл бұрын
they can get addictive, your right. we dont usually have any shopping centres here that close and get like this though do we, its more hospitals if anything. fun exploring untill your caught!
@Larry
8 жыл бұрын
drsamc21 Where abouts are you? I've been to an abandoned school in the UK.
@lonewolfette
8 жыл бұрын
Great camera handling. Unfortunately, most "abandoned" videos I can't watch as I get motion sickness from unsteady handling. You have a very steady hand & you don't swing the camera too quickly. Thank you. Great video!
@GRINGOf10
8 жыл бұрын
just subscribed, this guy rocks.. so much better than the other UE out there.. goes into interesting places not super old crumbling places... wish there was more commentary though keep up good work
@judelayman5738
9 жыл бұрын
Good video you just earned yourself a subscriber. Also good choice on the music piece at the end. It's called In the House from 28 days later.
@arveontisburnett5125
7 жыл бұрын
I remember when I was a kid, and I walked into that arcade and saw that very flight simulator.... I was stuck in awe. Of course with me not being that old (only 19) at that time the mall was already falling and there were very few tenants at that time. Damn it's a shame to see it fall like this
@yogadork_namaste
7 жыл бұрын
Nice touch adding the 28 weeks later theme! That song is so haunting. Sucks our economy is so crappy that all these malls have to close.
@josephwilliams3185
6 жыл бұрын
I use to work at here at Sears there from 1999 -2012 I was just so sad to see it go. Now its just a pile of Rubble now!
@Kat-nt6ch
9 жыл бұрын
Nice find. It looks like this was a very beautiful place to go when it was thriving at one time.
@LikaLaruku
8 жыл бұрын
Kirk: "Mall status?" McCoy: "It's dead, Jim."
@photodan555
9 жыл бұрын
Good Job! Nice and smooth --- easy to watch Thanks
@ItsALoweNation
9 жыл бұрын
I'm an urban explorer myself but the funny thing is I was here not that long ago while it was in the process of closing. I had no idea it was going to end up this bad.
@ReyaitheShadowWolf
9 жыл бұрын
I live in St. Louis, and I usually drive by the old Crestwood Mall. It's so sad to see it abandoned.
@TheAerovons
8 жыл бұрын
1964 bought my first Beatles record here at Sears. It was called Crestwood Plaza then. Sad.
@lindsaybess3893
9 жыл бұрын
So many memories. My dad worked here for many years and I know the ins and outs of this place. Its creepy to see all of this and know exactly where they are.
@4SCARECROWS
5 жыл бұрын
Me and my friends used to go here and walk around and watch movies in the theater. There used to be a carousel ( horses ) near one of the entrances, which there was a skylight above it. That skylight would leak rain water and they would have wet floor signs under it. I bought a telescope from a shop in that mall. There was a Pasta house, and a Chevy's restaurant in there. There was a Dillards and Sears anchor stores there. We would have a good time playing in the arcade Which I can't remember the name but I know it started with the letter "G." Me and my friends would sometimes eat at the food court next to the arcade. There is just a lot a memories growing up in this place and like I said it saddens me to see that it was demolished.
@gilroylibbs2947
9 жыл бұрын
GREED killed most of these places... a Store 1st, has to PAY RENT to the mall.... 2nd, they have to pay a % OF TOTAL SALES to the mall.......3rd they have a YEARLY merchant members "assessment" they have to pay the mall.. for holiday decorating, snow removal etc they say.... what Business can pay all that, LABOR, then Inventory costs.. and still turn a reasonable profit?? One mall I knew.. years back, charged 600 dollars a month base.. for one of those "CART VENDORS" spaces you saw in several malls!! You know, the "push cart" deals like a New York Hot Dog vendor uses??
@jaywalker8309
9 жыл бұрын
Albert Johnson you are right albert the mall owners were greeeeeddddy rent by the square foot huge rents they priced themselves out too bad
@notdipperpines6626
9 жыл бұрын
+Albert Johnson this is almost what my local mall looks like because the rent is way more then people can afford. heres what left in the mall I go to, Movie theater, FYE, Shoe store, pizza place, and an antique store. And twice a year a charity opens in an old store that sells donated formal/prom/wedding dresses for $5 a dress (and trust me they have very beautiful ones) which sucks because I know just how many girls/women really appreciate this store.
@SeanDeetz31
5 жыл бұрын
Total bummer seeing this video. Went here, Chesterfield and the Dove a lot as a kid in the 90s. I remember me and my older brother shaking the coindrop machines in Exhilarama resulting in a bunch free tickets. Still got us bupkis at the prize counter. The house always wins.
@MoVet1958
9 жыл бұрын
Great video.....brings back lots of fond memories but just curious how you were able to accomplish this without getting arrested for tresspassing! Thanks for sharing!
@ExploringWithJosh
9 жыл бұрын
i like your videos!
@StoleTarts
9 жыл бұрын
I used to work here after high school around 2003-2005 at Famous Barr before it was bought out by Macy's. The buyout began a lot of dropped customers because Macy's prices were too high for the area. Crestwood isn't South County rich persay and a lot of the older steady customers of Famous Barr really didn't like new merchandise and price hike. I would say I worked here during a high point. Plenty of good stores were still open with sit down restaurants as well as the food court. I worked commission in women's shoes and sales were always really good. The movie theater was still open. Sad to see it abandoned now. I thought the plan was to make it into offices like Jamestown Mall, but it doesn't seem like the case anymore.
@cackleback2821
9 жыл бұрын
Now that's my kind of mall. No crap for sale and no crowds.
@TheChuck624
9 жыл бұрын
Nice footage. As vacancy rates continue to grow and retail rental space continues to rise coupled with maintaining these old brick dinosaurs from the 70's & 80's we will be seeing more and more of them going out of business. Malls are a thing of the past.
@andrewbrendan1579
8 жыл бұрын
The combination of muted colors of the mall interior, the indirect light and the shadowy areas in the concourses give, to me anyway, a sense of tranquility. If someone was undisturbed by a security guard it would be nice to sit down in the walkways between those empty store and enjoy the quiet and calm.---If this mall hasn't been demolished yet I wonder how long it will be until windows and skylights fall and the birds start getting in and then can't find their way out.
@RODALCO2007
9 жыл бұрын
Great video, pity the place got abandoned. Great audio track at the end.
@blackhawks81H
8 жыл бұрын
Fancy seeing you here Rodalco, huge fan of your videos. If you're interested, a KZitem user by the name of dieselducy did a tour of this mall just days before it closed for good which he has uploaded on his channel. His uploads are mostly videos about elevators, but when you have insomnia such as I do, you manage to watch a little bit of everything.
@ella7177
8 жыл бұрын
So sad. I remember going there. They're having some sort of closing ceremony today, and they're gonna tear it down in early May. This was a great mall, but, I'm sure it will be even prettier when they're done rebuilding.
@IronManXXX
6 жыл бұрын
Really sad, as a kid growing up, my folks went there to Sears, Allied radio, Styx, etc. Miss that mall - all gone now...
@dapsapsrp
7 жыл бұрын
That was the premier mall in South County area. Improved and expanded in the early to mid 1980's only to be virtually devoid of business 20 years later. I worked there for over two years. Now it is being demolished.
@garyrose9508
7 жыл бұрын
Wow, you are brave. Great camera work
@bradye21playsIndieHorror
9 жыл бұрын
Wow, I saw a video of this mall from a few years ago. It's supposedly the largest in the area and was slated to be demolished immediately. I guess that didn't happen. It was clean then, but now it just looks sad.
@EmperorSquidysChannel
8 жыл бұрын
I loved this place so much.
@katieb1285
7 жыл бұрын
I LOVE RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FORM THAT MALL! I WENT THERE MY WHOLE LIFE
@goodman68446
9 жыл бұрын
if I had the money I would fix all of the Abandoned Malls up:-) and cool video
@hellraiser666kill
7 жыл бұрын
What version of 28 days later theme is that? I can't find anywhere.
@katesmith8897
9 жыл бұрын
I remember when this mall was open!! I've been there before back when it was open!!
@annasummers5348
9 жыл бұрын
It's like a nightmare dream about my teenage years. Our country has become a very dark place
@Manderzzz1
9 жыл бұрын
Great video!!
@GrimGrieferx
9 жыл бұрын
This guy has balls of steel to go in there by himself
@tinotse2007
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome Footage!!!
@Swampzoid
8 жыл бұрын
great. i love the ominous music.
@loganhayes5435
8 жыл бұрын
i love your videos, but sometimes its hard to find off of google. But keep doing what you're doing. I love your Northeast Ohio shit. be safe!!
@kevinpugh1919
9 жыл бұрын
What song was that at the end of the video?
@jonjames7692
9 жыл бұрын
I am a huge fan of dieing/dead malls and I see you tend to do this kind of thing around St. Louis, have you thought of doing Jamestown Mall yet? It has been closed down for 6 months now I think. There is the side of the mall that has been closed for a long time. I think it would be awesome to see it again. Just think about it 😀.
@pamelablake7037
9 жыл бұрын
I live in Crestwood and for as I can tell it will be torn down.The city keeps trying to get someone to buy it and do something with it,but I don't see that happening.So sad I use to shop there all the time.
@heathwagner6351
9 жыл бұрын
I last visited this mall in February of 2011 (when it was still open). At that time it was "dead" but the mall itself was still in very good shape. It is sad to see that in just a few short years how it is beginning to deteriorate. I am surprised by the number of malls that have failed in the St Louis area in the past few years. I know Crestwood Court, Northwest Plaza, and Jamestown all come to mind, are there any more that have closed?
@brett6626
9 жыл бұрын
I don't know why but I find the buzzing noise relaxing
@ginamaria2579
9 жыл бұрын
How did you get inside ?? How many times I walked in this mall, "when open" & how many times I have driven by this abandoned place & wondered ?? Thanks for sharing really awesome, also love your music... wow Jamestown mall closed ? lol
@hershy314
9 жыл бұрын
I heard all you have to do is ask permission. I'm going to try it this April when I'm back home for a visit.
@deblea4256
9 жыл бұрын
Wow! Is St. Louis the next Detroit? Great exploration.
@redbird28able
7 жыл бұрын
WOW...How do you manage to find abandoned places that haven't been vandalized? Nice video!
@jackfrazer576
9 жыл бұрын
im kinda curious is the mega flight thing in the blue and yellow tiled area(0:42) ? if not whats in their? also i think their as a food court on that floor as well but I'm not sure on that?
@treemarie213100
9 жыл бұрын
The food court was the whole lower level directly across from the arcade which was in the blue and yellow tiled area and yes mega flight was located there. They just have the whole food court walled off. You can see where they put up the drywall between the pillars.
@josephcooke7829
9 жыл бұрын
Love your videos .. Can you tell me the name of the song at the end of this one ??
@amberf3599
6 жыл бұрын
This is sad...when I was growing up this was my favorite mall
@rEdf196
9 жыл бұрын
A skateboarders paradise.
@michaelshields7777
9 жыл бұрын
The music at the end adds to the creepiness! Sounds like something you'd hear in a John Carpenter film. Yeeps!
@johnlattier2522
9 жыл бұрын
Don't blame it on black people! It is us as human beings as a whole who ran it down. Bad business decisions and because people are buying more items online is what brought the malls down.
@cookeethecook1417
9 жыл бұрын
Never did like to go to the mall,as far as I can tell the one in my North Alabama town is still thriving, it just added a bed bath and beyond.
@wvlfhayley
9 жыл бұрын
i used to go to this mall with my friends when i was in high school because there used to be an anime store there and we would dress up like anime characters and run around because no one was really there haha
@miamifiction
9 жыл бұрын
I don't understand why they leave all those lights on. Is a pity, I like the design of this mall.
@joehillmeyer5520
7 жыл бұрын
I really miss the Cheavy's that was there. Last time I saw it, everything right of the old Cheavy's was completely rubbled.
@ngtflyer
9 жыл бұрын
Very nicely done, and very sad. I have many fond memories of times spent at various malls around my town. Some are still alive but very different from what they once were, others have closed down. Some still sit abandoned. I am curious, what is the music you used starting at about 4:23 into the video?
@BackyardExploration
9 жыл бұрын
ngtflyer It's a remake of the 28 days later soundtrack.
@ngtflyer
9 жыл бұрын
BackyardExploration Cool, thanks for the reply!
@SuperJeremi10
9 жыл бұрын
I remember when our mall here used to be packed all the time so many people and shops now I've noticed year after year less and less shops and people several years ago it was remodeled back when it was doing well it's been bout 5 years since I've been to the mall there's just no reason to go to it anymore I went once just to curies around and remember what it once was
@limeyosu2000
9 жыл бұрын
amazing how places like this go belly up surely all the rent from the stores went somewhere!
@mr300x
7 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe this was once a very busy mall until a huge tax increase caused it to empty out.
@sonocativo
7 жыл бұрын
wasn't a tax increase, they raised the rent for the spaces and they left to the South County Mall.... others closed shop. I think the SoCo mall will follow next, they wont raise their rent ( as they seen what happened) bt online sales are killing the shops.
@danielvilimek2241
8 жыл бұрын
The last time I saw CC was when they were demolishing the ceiling of the parking lot. Where are they now?
@englishrose6171
8 жыл бұрын
Did you get tempted to try and get the flight simulator working? Really enjoyed this video and to see a video titled 'abandoned mall' and it actually be an abandoned mall not just a rubbish one with only a few stores left!
@thatonethattalksalot7656
6 жыл бұрын
creepy and sad how malls are closing. btw what is the name of the song at the end?
@goodman68446
9 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@LakeNipissing
9 жыл бұрын
The music at 4:27 is well-suited for the photos.
@SueWehkingPresents
9 жыл бұрын
Oh wow! How did you get access to the inside? Who did you have to get in contact with? I would love to get in there and take photos.
@AndrewCovey
9 жыл бұрын
I spent significant time at Crestwood Mall when I was younger; mostly in the Arcade - another sort of place that isn't coming back any time soon. Domestically, especially in the Mid-West, our culture does not value public gatherings or social venues. I feel sad seeing Crestwood Mall in this condition; void of life, movement, and sound. True, Crestwood Mall was no Plaza del Sol or Retiro, but it was at least something of a social gathering place for the children of the 1990s, and in this little slice of St. Louisianian suburbia, there are few such places.
@CaptainDijango
9 жыл бұрын
OHH mega flight i been in one of those when i was 4 it wasant the best experience but it was fun XD
@woolenhat5796
9 жыл бұрын
The mall ones scare the crap out of me. The idea of the once totally densely populated area completely deserted just gives me the creeps. Yes I've been sat watching your videos for the best art of 3 hours.
@inigmo4egarevanu
9 жыл бұрын
Aw man somebody please leave some plastic flowers there for the ghosts of yesterday. This is where I first saw Pokemon the Movie.
@leewright5691
8 жыл бұрын
So good
@1050ROOSTER
9 жыл бұрын
totally makes me feel like we're walking through part of "The Last of Us" video game .... very cool
@jeremyforman4905
8 жыл бұрын
i would think this was crazier if I hadn't been here for a school event when I was 9. It was abandoned then. also they filmed part of the walking dead in it.
@everetthofherr
7 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Forman what part of the walking dead did they film in there?
@pebblesjan9
8 жыл бұрын
awesome
@Evan420
8 жыл бұрын
how long has it been abandoned?
@itz_ryan6364
7 жыл бұрын
Th at sucks this mall seems to be in really good shape to be abandoned they should try and get it to operate again instead of demolishing it
@ManiacGamingWolfcubgaming
9 жыл бұрын
Since it isn't that bad couldn't they rebuild it\ make it something else?
@thewarlockbride2205
9 жыл бұрын
why would it be guarded if its abandoned?
@bebopcola2021
9 жыл бұрын
The property is still under discussion-I hope they do SOMETHING with it. This was a great mall.
@stannisthemannisbaratheon1039
8 жыл бұрын
How do you have memories in a mall?
@jrkuzel3786
8 жыл бұрын
why is this mall abandoned good job on this video i en joy it
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