Dead Malls Season 5 Episode 22 - Market Street Mall

In its infancy and early life, Market Street Mall would thrive, but not only thrive, it would excel. It would alone pioneer a new generation of retail for the small town of Marshall, Minnesota. Throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, JCPenney, Woolworths, and Red Owl would anchor down dozens of national name retailers and brands found nowhere else in rural Minnesota. Simply put, you couldn’t go anywhere without seeing Market Street Mall. And today, it sits quiet, dark, and lit up only by a single Maurice’s.. How, and why did it get like this? And how much longer can it say open? Join me today as we walk through an tell the story of Market Street Mall and find out where it’s going for this classic beauty..

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[angelm]

This little mall has a lot a character. It is heartbreaking to see it like this.

[BradenKennelly]

I love these little small town malls, they have such a cozy atmosphere.

[DoomieGruntVentures]

Having been here in August, I am impressed you're able to just walk the mall corridors as you please. It's surreal to see the only thing open being a Maurice's, while everything else is closed up for the day. Now, granted you're here in the evening, and I was there on a Sunday, but still. Only Maurice's keeping the lights on at the end with the occasional mallwalker walking by.

[PinkAgaricus]

Mortar and Pestle. That's what the decals on the window of the closed pharmacy are.

Also watching this in a mall.

[JoshYT]

I find it surprising that this Maurices has the updated storefront when there are many Maurices in these types of dead malls that don't update; with that old beige and blue lamp look. They must be doing something right! Also, can we take a minute to appreciate that ending shot in the parking lot with nobody else but the green lights; with the slow drive away into the evening. Gosh that scene was just great! 😭🤩

[rowleyma]

Said it before. I love liminal spaces and vapor wave music - so this channel is for me!

[kitw]

Yeah I don’t think anyone has seen a mall open to one lonely store. I’d be surprised if they get much business. You’d think they would move someplace else.

[RR]

In 2008 Marshall was the scene of the unsolved Brandon Swanson disappearance, which remains one of the country's most perplexing missing persons cases ... not to mention one of the very few involving a male subject that gets any attention.

[Pbarski]

Browsing through your past to current videos on this channel with the DM focus, it's impressive to see your adaptation of storytelling form. Seeing you start off as a generic one-off video of a random mall with no great detail of context or insight and speedy blips through the average eye; transforming into an enthusiastic, lore driven scholar with a trained eye, ear, and vision for your video impacts and delivery is one of the foundational platforms of a great content creator. You've tapped the fine artistry of urban decay, and it flows well with you.

Keep it up, man.

[KW]

Awesome video. I am a 50 year old one-time mall rat whose mother ran the bridal registry for an Elder Beerman formerly Lasalle’s department store on the outskirts of Toledo, Ohio. The work you do to capture all this is awesome. I wish there was a Google Streetview classic where you could see what used to be where in 1980! I’d love to show the younger generation how things were once upon a time.

[szgproduction]

Realising how sad this is heding where malls use to dominate and declining rapidly there in America. Here in Australia mall is still considered hang out for everyone we call it shopping centres haha.

[mathislaroche]

It way be weird but i think that you're voice is very soothing and soft to listen. You give good vibes !

[Chelsie]

Wow!!! I've been a dead mall fan for many years but I've never seen a mall that I had a personal connection with. I just found your channel and your quickly becoming my favorite. You do so many of these little town malls it's great to see. I love the you do the history and you don't do revisit after revisit. I only wish you could have done more of the history but I understand why you couldn't

I moved to Marshall in 2003. By then it was used more for medical things. One the anchors was the clinic and then they had big stone therapy. That's why there was a drug store so the people could get there drugs after their appointment. There also used to be a Clarie's and a books store. I always laughed because they would put up posters from the college. I was always like "who the hell will see them."

My favorite memory of the mall is when I had to leave my wheelchair at the mall. I'm a wheelchair user and one night I was going to Kmart, which was located a little ways behind the the mall. (It was a separate lot, not an out parcel.) And I made it to the mall before my battery ran out. I was a college student at the time and I called a professor that dealt with students with disabilities and he came to got me. We had to leave my wheelchair there overnight and I was worried because my wheelchair cost $30, 000. But my professor said "don't worry no one ever comes to the mall and if they do they are used to seeing wheelchairs. (Marshall has a big population of students with disabilities)

I was wondering if you have done Yankton mall in Yankton SD? I thought I saw a video of it but I can't find it in your channel videos.. That was technically my "hometown" mall. I grew up 30 miles from it and it was the cloest mall growing up. It wasn't until I got to Marshall that I knew what it was like to have a mall in your community. But the yankton malll was a dead mall for as long II can remember

[Aaron.Michael]

Amazing upload as always 👍 I luv how you're documenting these dead malls but you're so present and respectful.. your editing and music choices draw you in, and the ever present smile in your voice is so wholesome and very cool! Good on you for being able to deliver such a great experience to your viewers. 😊 thankyou.

[OneStragePerson]

The drug mixing bowls is called pestle and mortar

[kaillobhunter]

Love your videos man good vibes always when I see you upload

[marvelousme]

Hi!!!! Nice job and excellent video as
I hope you have a wonderful Saturday and weekend!!!! Take care and thanks again so very much for the wonderful video!!!! 👍🏻😃

[thejigisup]

This might be my favorite of season 5. Keep up the great work North, never stop doing these awesome videos.

[rockersrobloxandmore]

ah i aready know this is gonna be small mall but im gonna love it

[funecheeseofficial]

Of course the mall i get right is one of the coolest malls you’ve visited