DEAD MALL - SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MALL

DEAD MALL - SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MALL

My video tour of the Susquehanna Valley Mall in Selinsgrove PA

[JasonFellingham]

I certainly recognize what you do is preserving history. Thank you for doing that!

[killerpwned]

I’m from this area I’ve gone to this mall all my life. Granted I haven’t been there probably since 2014-2015. But however I’m surprised to see still some of the original stores are still there. It used to be a great mall that was always packed and it’s sad to see that go. Down across from the AT&T store used to be a huge FYE and inside the store behind it was a moderately sized arcade with some really good games in it. Then in the same area their was a really small movie theater built into the tiny section right behind where the arcade would of been. Now they have movie theater outside of the mall behind it which I imagine is still going strong. Another note that cricket store used to be a pretty awesome candy store then KB Toys was right across from Spencer’s which I’m surprised is still there in its original form from the looks of it that place hasn’t changed since the early 90s at the latest.

I was actually going to visit this mall a couple days ago I think now I definitely have to so I can see this for myself. It’s really sad seeing how many dead malls there are in Pennsylvania they are all over. Every mall I grew up around is dead or dying.

[nancydarling]

Good video! This is sad that this mall is dying. I agree with you about Wal-Mart. Can't wait for your next mall video. Thanks for filming.

[ericathegypsy]

This was my stomping ground back in the 80's and 90's when I was a kid and teenager. Can't bring myself to ever really go there anymore, to sad.💔

[esw]

I appreciated that little "not going after the mall" message at the beginning. This mall was VERY hot from the mid 2000's-2014/16ish. It was the mall you went too when you didn't want to make the drive to Wilkes-Barre or further.

Mall used to be a straight line three anchor design (Both ends, one middle) and got a major addition (that other wing). The AMC also had a big expansion later.
This mall also has some of the best roaming security I've ever seen, both on foot and vehicle.

[ywang-lh]

Thank you for making this channel and continuing to document these dead malls ( even though you work full time ). Im a dead mall fanatic and I totally appreciate your content :D

[brettr]

Great video! I was born and raised in that area when that mall was a vibrant place to go. While several factors have contributed to its decline such as the nationwide challenges of several of its retailers, the opening of Monroe Marketplace a decade ago not far down the road likely put tremendous pressure on it which hastened its decline. Hopefully, it can somehow be reinvented and preserved. Thanks for documenting it!

[lifewithtodd]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! THIS IS MY LOCAL MALL! IT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME! I REALLY HOPE IT CAN MAYBE STAY STANDING!

[lizlieberman]

I'm so glad to see that my local mall has been documented! This was THE place to hang out in the 2000s/2010s. I can remember being pushed around this mall in a stroller and the place being PACKED. Now... you're lucky to run into 20 people walking around on a Saturday afternoon.

[johndonelkovich]

It's pronounced "SEAL - insgrove"

[kamX-rzuy]

I remember going to this mall last year. My kids and another girl played the game shown at 2:59. I had lived an hour away at one point but had never been there until last year when I was on vacation and needed a new phone. I stopped at the Verizon store but they didn't have what I wanted. Then a bit further down I came to another Verizon store. Turns out the first was just a licensed independent and the second, which had what I wanted, was the corporate store. Being a PA resident for most of my life I've been to many of the dead malls featured on YouTube. Thanks for the video.

[DanJ]

Malls and 80's style music just go hand in hand....

[RogersBase]

Keep up the Dead Malls! I love Dan Bell's series too and I'm so glad I found you in my recommended!

[lifewithtodd]

My fave stores are BAM and FYE I go here once or twice a month it’s nice and a fun time

[news]

I love the old school look and feel. Even those wood tones.

[Catmannj]

Great little look at a very well designed, interesting mall that still has a little life in it. IT would a tragedy to let this place die since it has unique design elements like the marble floors, the fountains and interesting layout of the center. There are lots of vacant spaces. I think the savior of some of these malls is Boscovs and their funky designs and decent prices and selection and cupcakes.


Don't understand why people would go to a boring bland design Simon mall instead of a place like this. THanks again for documenting all these malls large and small and preserving their history. Proud to be a Patreon too.


PS: I hate WalMart too, not just for how they killed stores and malls and downtowns but their customer service is non existance. For me it's the customer service folks. Why I go to Nordstroms. and the Rack. I have still not been to a Boscovs to see how their customer sevice is.

[esw]

Unfortunately, it seems like the expansion that added Sears was a bad decision, but that's hindsight. This is one of the nicer area malls and complete shame it's failing.

[masaharumorimoto]

Just found your channel and I'm lovin it!!! fantastic work, thanks for doing what you do, I appreciate it!!

[ayayronseeka]

To answer your question around the 6:45-6:50 mark - yes, that part was an addition. The second wing (stretching from the second Bon-Ton entrance all the way down to Sears) was opened in March, 1998.

[yomamab]

I remember when Boscov's was built and was the only store there for awhile. My husband and I used to go to the mall a lot and would take our two kids there. We'd stop at the pet store and the parrot there would say, "Ernie's a bad boy" and some other things. There were absolutely throngs of people walking through the mall in the 80's and 90's. We'd also like to go to Peanut Shack for peanuts, cashews, and pumpkin seeds. We'd walk through Boscov's, JC Penney, and Bon Ton. Then after the back section of the mall was added, we also walked through Sears. Before I was married in 1980, I used to go into the arcade and play pinball and Space Invaders. My family and I loved spending part of our Friday evenings there shopping. So much fun! Besides when I went into Gertrude Hawk right before Valentine's Day, before that, a few years ago we went to Garfield's right before they closed. It might be hard for someone who wasn't alive (or very young) in past decades to know how extremely busy SVM was. Sears and JC Penney had auto centers that were kept busy, and all of the department stores had hair salons. The one in Boscov's was upstairs before the store was expanded, including eliminating the upstairs. There was a 4-register checkout area at the bottom of the steps where you could buy Ticketmaster tickets. Boscov's used to have a garden center, health & beauty area, hardware department and sold many appliances including refigerators and tv's. I'm glad that Boscov's owns their own building. Someone had told me of the extremely high rent that stores had (have?) to pay to be in malls and supposedly that's why CVS built their own store and moved out of the mall. Although I don't know for a fact but I would surmise that because of Boscov's owning their own building, it has enabled them to stay there when all the other anchors, amongst lots of other stores there, have closed. I apologize if this got too wordy but thought maybe you and others would like to read another reminiscence of the mall in Hummels Wharf.