Dead Mall: Pt 1. Fond Du Lac Forest Mall

Check out this dead Mall that lost two department stores in 2014 and is on the brink of extinction.

Sheboygan Memorial Mall

[maphoozgaming]

Why is this making me emotional watching this 😭 so many childhood memories and nostalgia for it

[karenp]

1 of my favorite malls loved it and now it's totally gone except for Kohl's

[maphoozgaming]

4:03 that use to be a cool little GameStop up there I remember going in there, closed way before the mall probably cause there was another GameStop like a minute away across the Johnson street road. And probably many other reasons

[critterallywithjohnernest.]

It's too bad they charged too much for renting store space. They had to sell a lot of product just to pay for the outrageous rent. It's like a chain reaction. One store leaves, then another and another. They needed a nice food court to make people want to shop. Look at the Appleton mall. They have so many different types of food and that mall is flourishing. Nice video of a thing of the past that couldn't adapt to a rapidly changing market.

[Zahnclassof]

It's about time someone does dead Malls in Wisconsin .I use to go here and in my town shut down .but put offices in an a over priced restaurant which when you walk through the old mall it smells moldy an mildew do and buckets for leaking roofs

[Youngstown]

As of 2021, this mall has mostly been torn down with some of the stores remaining as stand-alone. The city wisely saw this as an opportunity to make a good first impression with a new development.

[ryanhopp]

Now in 2024, nothing remains. Nothing. Just kohls and now a TJ Maxx. The entire mall was torn down, and a hospital and bank are being built. It's so sad now seeing your video. I used to go there so much growing up. And even cruising around the mall with car friends. Memories now 😢

[sejm]

I used to go to that mall a lot with my mom when I was young (1980s). My favorite place to go was Aladdin's Castle, which was an arcade (I had Pac-Man fever). There used to be a water fountain in front of JC Penney. Before there was Younker's, there was Prange's. Before there was Kohl's, there was Montgomery Ward. Before there was Sears, there was Prange Way. They also had Musicland, Sam Goody and FYE. Outside, there was an auto repair shop, Firestone. Before there was Firestone, there was JC Penney Auto Center. Good times!

[metaldetectingwisconsin]

You should revisit. I live in fondy and decided to stop there the other day for fun. There are like 5 stores and the two main ones are closing.

[TheTGRproductions]

It was sad to see this Mall go! Some friends and I would come to this Mall often a few years ago, up until it closed, and just bum around the place, and play in the Arcade. Something about it's aesthetic and "stuck-in-time" feel and look just drew us in many times over. We never got to experience this Mall at it's peak, which is kinda sad to me personally. But I'm glad we got experience it before it's demolition! But if you back to it today, you can still see some remnants of the Mall, which does put a smile on face! But I will always reminisce on the times me and my buddies would just go there to walk around and play House of the Dead in the arcade, sometimes baked out of our minds 😂

[saintzero]

Just a little update on this mall. It's all but dead. You walk down the aisles and all you see are chain gates covering old stores. Only a few places remain open.

[matthewnugent]

I used to go there all the time back in the 90s. It was busy back in the day.

[BubbaBrock]

I used to go here my first ever date was here glad someone did a walk through b4 it got destroyed

[TVTruther]

My family went to this mall from '73 to 80; took a few pictures with Santa in this mall, last memory of it was watching a Muppet movie; moved to another state in '80

[Jay--pp]

Awesome narrating. Great job
Name of soundtrack?

[farnorthwoods]

God this hurts my heart! Such beautiful buildings just sitting and rotting! Bring back the malls & jobs!!
Love from Wisconsin❤️
*Edited type error🤭

[TheWeilaphobia]

Glad I found your channel. Haven't seen many of these Wisconsin malls. Keep up the good work.

[WallBreakerOfficial]

This Mall is now completely dead, I just did a brief walk through. Only 4 businesses were left, outside of Kohl's and Staples. And is set to be tore down and replaced my a Meijer's, just like the mall in Sheboygan.

[lilliancornils]

Use to walk my little siblings through the mall in the 2010s

[Melinacabin]

Does anyone know if there was anybody that got a video of the Valley Fair mall in Appleton before that got demolished? I was looking but haven’t found anything.