DEAD MALL SERIES : Landmark Mall (CLOSED 1/31/17)

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Photographed and Edited by Dan Bell

[TheRealSuperJ]

When you work in a mall and see Dan Bell filming. Must be like seeing the grim reaper.

[o_august]

it makes me sad to think how many jobs and dreams died in this mall

[bradsimpson]

The distant echoes, The elevator music, the lack of people, it’s so melancholic. Iv always found large open empty buildings, so sad. Hauntingly depressing 😒😒

[LadyJay]

I notice that for many of these dead malls, the final straw was the 2008 financial crisis.

[BuccaneerBruce]

I once owned a store in a dying mall, many, many years ago Bannister Mall here in Kansas City. I closed my store in 2000, and the mall itself closed for good in 2007. It was just awful the last 6 months I was there. Nothing more depressing than seeing a dead mall that you know used to be popular and filled with good stores.

[mrs.s]

These malls can be used for living spaces for the elderly. Enough spaces for bingo, a movie theater, medical clinic and a dance club.

[tileslasher]

I'm a tile contractor, I'll tell you. Just look at the thousands and thousands and thousands of sq. ft. of tile and granite. I worked on 3 malls in my 28 years of doing this work. They spend millions and millions on these malls I mean just so much money you can't even believe. It's so sad.

[ilikecereal]

"They're real crazy about pictures and video"

Films the security station

[spayseestaysee]

OMG. I know I'm late to the party, but I lived in VA mid/late 90s and this mall was THE PLACE to go. High class, always crowded. I am flabbergasted.

[prezetter]

The 'Stage' you referred to in the food court used to have a piano and live pianist. It would have been roped off to keep people away from the piano, though the piano was locked. I fondly remember as a kid eating my bourbon chicken and watching/listening to the talented pianist.

[redbeard]

why do malls put rest rooms down those long corridors? those are like prime mugging and stabbing areas

[Dorian_Barber]

This place would make a cool and different type of college or high school. Fuck it right, just make it a school. The store could be classes

[kamilaa]

I want to thank you for this. I was very sad about not being able to go see it before it closed. I spent so many moments here with my grandmother growing up. I remember having my first passport pictures taken there. I lost a tooth a the Burger King there when my grandma would be sneaky and let me have junk food. We'd go to the dollar store or cvs and get snacks and little nik naks. Later she'd watch me play and we'd have our little adventures together.
Thank you, this means the world to me.

[layparisss]

Sears is ALWAYS the last surviving store in these old malls

[RJedmiston]

anyone else binge watching this series?

[everydaybodybuilding]

I feel like it would be sweet to turn a mall into a community college lol

[Hamadau]

My first ever job was in this mall. Crazy af to see this

[wonderboy]

It's going to be great to see this mall restored to its 80s glory in Wonder Woman next year. A big sequence was filmed in the mall which was dressed to look like 1984!

[proeyebry]

In the immortal words of Mitch Hedberg, "I love escalators because they can never breakdown, they just become stairs."

[DrXQuinn]

This is a true DEAD mall. I watch a lot of these videos bc I work in retail and sometimes I'm like ehhh that could be better or fixed or revived. But no, this is truly dead.