Dead Malls Season 6 Episode 14 - Woodland Mall (OH)

Nothing says small town comfort, like a small warm golden mall. And Woodland Mall, in Bowling Green, Ohio was all that and so much more.. I fell in love with Woodland the second I saw its silver finished tiles which coated the malls food court pillars, and exterior entrances. This aesthetic overload continued throughout the malls food court and many different wings. Ceilings of which lined in mirror finishes. All dead.. It’s a strange and beautiful place; it feels like a hidden gem that was never truly picked up by its residents. But alas, within our warm morning visit, we were able to discover the mall in its entirety. And I for one, am so excited to share its golden ambiance, and tell its story. So join me today! As we tell the story of, and explore, in its entirety, Woodland Mall in Bowling Green, Ohio.

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[eiguajardo]

is so nice to see these places being well kept and clean and not forgotten. small malls in small towns are heaven, now everything is so big and loud and unpersonal .
great episode

[wyattkelly]

I'm a local to this place. I remember when it first opened. Waldenbooks, Radio Shack, a dollar store, toy store, lots of clothing stores, a Claires...The movie theater was great to go to on a Friday night. The Arcade was bustling. But as time went on, it just faded away. Now it's just a husk of what it once was.

[KeightLogan]

We call it the Small! Glad to see you here in our town ❤️❤️ i really miss our little movie theater

[jamiperez]

I work at this mall. I clean it in the mornings. Believe it or not, every single unit is being rented out. But Elder Bierman's the coffee shop.
The red food shop in the food court are the only three not being Rented out. A lot of the places are only by appointment and some of the other places are rentting out of spot and selling their stuff in other places.

[junimoony]

I love checking out this mall! I go with my brother whenever he needs sports stuff but I'm mostly there to look at the beautiful empty space

[galford]

Love the Elder Beerman storefront. Iconic, nostalgic, majestic … so much wrapped up into a fairly simple space. Very cool.

[BarfingGerbil]

I've seen and been to enclosed malls that subjectively "feel" like this mall, but they were usually smaller and have more tenants. These are mini-malls that are economical survivors. They were neither popular or unpopular, neither beautiful or ugly, advertise in a pleasant and understated way but otherwise don't revel in themselves, and have a simple, pleasant, durable, minimal, unchanging plainness to them. They are usually very quiet, slow, sleepy, clean, well-maintained but never upgraded or renovated. The dedicated, competent, and intentionally boring management spends relatively little money, but are very efficient with money and good with maintennance. These mini malls are are usually unchanging (and highly dated), but the base of reliable customers either don't care or actually like the stable ambiance. They have low rents and high occupancy with stable tenants, and the traffic and customer base is small but very reliable with repeat business.

[kellyfoster]

Music track list please? All the songs used are pretty good! New to this channel, earned a subscriber!

[SuperBuickregal]

The Piqua Center is another Mall Company property, Piqua and Carnation both had Hotels attached to them, great video and Keep em Rolling!

[zafarshaik]

Awesome video northcdogg. I just started exploring some synthwave, dreamscape, vaporwave genre because there's songs that just sound like heaven. Nothing is more important when you introduce beats that makes someone who hasn't even been or seen that mall feel nostalgic. Thank you for TELEPATH - KISS OF TEMPTATION 🔥

[scottchancey]

Thank you for doing this mall, BG is where my wife is from. The next mall I would guess is Fort Steuben Mall in Steubenville, Ohio...

Also I would love to see you do New Towne Mall and Ohio Valley Mall 😃

[KB]

I really appreciate the research that you do to be able to tell a mall's story. Thanks.

[sirekumasutra]

My favorite dead mall. First came here for a blind date that I got stood up for. Glad I came here because I loved the place. Went here a week or 2 before you filmed this video and was a nice sight. I always buy a lanyard from Sports Zone. Also shout out to Alehouse Grill which had yummy fries. And the Asian buffet in front of the mall is amazing too.

[JoshYT]

That Elder-Beerman sign is so gorgeous, I always think of this one as the "Rural mall with that vintage Elder Beerman". I do hope they preserve many of the aesthetics, and judging from the history it seems like this place will be chugging along with the status quo for a good while. Hope to catch the livestream next week!

[OtterloopB]

Yet in other parts of Ohio, like the Fairfield Mall located in Beavercreek, it was positively packed yesterday (8-4-24)!

Fascinating how mall traffic varies, even within the same state.

[KW]

In 1994-95 I was a remote broadcast engineer for a Toledo radio station and I did a couple Saturday afternoon gigs there. Christmas 1994 it was pretty prosperous but you could still see a failure to launch with a few vacancies. Much of the interior looks the same as it did in 1994.

[benb]

Take that little leaf near Dunham's Sports. You should get that Edler Beerman signage for the Dead Mall Museum haven't seen the signage before other than the gold front near the entrance. Woodland Mall in OH looks like a nice and beautiful space glad to see it is in good shape and gym inside the mall and not just empty spaces. Those trees look like the trees inside Maple Hill Mall in Kazoo which got De-malled 19 years ago and is now a strip mall.

[RedDawnWOLV]

I made the mistake of taking summer classes at BGSU in an apartment without AC so that summer we pretty much went to every movie released just to get out of the heat. I think the theater was the only place I went in that mall.

[YnJin]

In town we call it the Small 😂 After graduating high school in the early 2000's my first few jobs were at this mall, the best was on Friday's a group of co-workers and I would close up whatever store I was working in at the time and head to the movie theater and seeing whatever the newest release was! Fun times, but since COVID and the theater shut down, not a lot is happening there. Most of us, who grew up in the area, wonder how it has stayed open since the theater closed.

[imfittted]

I attended BGSU and we called this mall “the small” and pretty much only went to see movies here.