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Exploring dead malls, retail history, and retro games & toys | Featured on ABC News, The New York Times, and more.
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A new episode of Retail Archaeology is out now! It's been almost 6 years since I did a video covering this mall. I wanted to do something fun for this update video, so I brought along old digital cameras for some lo-fi photography 📸 💾
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Chuck E. Cheese has filed for bankruptcy. He doesn't look so good.
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@notsofiacoppola
The store I shop at does that too, and the lights in the display flicker and flash to simulate lighting. It's pretty neat.
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All of my NES carts fit perfectly in this box.
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This building was originally a really old Taco Bell that was last updated in the 90s. It still has a lot of 90s Taco Bell theming inside.
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Ａｒｔｉｓｔｉｃ ｔａｓｔｅ
𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓫𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓭
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Hell yeah
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They were also a lot classier when they had art like this. I took these pictures 5ish years ago at a McDonald's in City of Industry, CA.
I think we can all agree that a McDonald's dining room was a heck of a lot classier with one of these Tiffany-style light fixtures hanging over your booth. (1981)
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I took the worst digital camera I own to the mall this afternoon. I believe America Online sold this thing back in 2001 directly on their online service. I don't think it was available in stores. It's an overall terrible camera, but it's fun to play with.
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Me: *playing Animal Crossing*
Wife: Are you pulling weeds in that game?
Me: Yeah.
Wife: There's weeds in the backyard.
Me: How many bells you paying per weed?
Wife: What?
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I miss Super Saver Cinema. Movie tickets were a $1.50 and the theaters looked like this:
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Holy crap this McDonald's still has Playstation 2 consoles.
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What, your phone doesn't have a floppy drive? Floppy disks are the future.
#vaporwave
CC:
@DanMasonVapor
@strudelsoft
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I miss colors. Everything is neutral, bland, and boring now.
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This is in Los Angeles. I must go here.
The fact that Koreatown Plaza still looks like an ‘80s mall 🥹
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DRM for fountain drinks.
More evidence this is the bad timeline.
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What’s your dream Star Wars item to own but you’re convinced you’ll never get? Mine is kind of silly, but I still want one really bad. I want an Episode 1 Pepsi Machine.
What’s your dream Star Wars item to own but you’re convinced you’ll never get? Here’s mine!
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Patty, my older dog, passed away. Her health suddenly started to decline rapidly over the last 4 days. Yesterday I had to make the decision to let her rest. It feels emptier in my house without my piglet oinking around.
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Welcome to OfficeMax where it's still 1999. You can get a VHS to DVD device, and TI-93 calculators are $100.
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I think one of the ultimate liminal spaces in malls are these corridors in old department stores. The ones with the portrait studio, optical department, the salon, ect that lead to an exit. They're usually kind of quiet and eerie now.
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I took these pictures in a mall about about an hour ago. Seeing this made my soul smile.
btw there's more than this there 🙂
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Name a restaurant from your childhood that is NOT around anymore.
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One of the neat things about having a YouTube video do well is that you get to read some of the fucking dumbest comments imaginable.
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Holy shit, 100,000 subscribers. Thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed over the years and stuck around for my nonesense 😁
I'm kind of speechless.
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Remember when Friday night was X-Files night?
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Anyone got that one V A P O R W A V E video?
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As promised in this week's video here's the unedited footage that's blurred out in the video.
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Is Arizona really the only place where Water and Ice stores exist? Any time I've shown one or talked about them in a video I get a lot of "what the hell is a Water and Ice store?" comments. They are magical places when you live in a desert.
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Ok
@TeamYouTube
it's now been over a month that your team has been working on fixing your mistake on my channel. This is getting absurd. My channel does not "feature minors". We explore old and troubled malls and stores. Please re-enable the comments on my videos.
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I might be the first person to play an Atari Lynx at the mall since 1991.
I might be the first person ever to play Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on the Atari Lynx in the mall the movie was filmed in 😁
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Coming soon exclusively to the Sega CD.
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On my way out of CA I stopped at a vintage McDonalds for breakfast. I never thought I'd see a fresco at McDonalds 😛
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The sign says the machines are shutting down on the 22nd. It looks like this one shut down early.
RIP Redbox
2002 - 2024
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The Macy's furniture department feels like a weird floor of the backrooms.
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I did a video a little over a year ago about Joann being in trouble. A lot of arts & crafts people were mad in the comments, telling me I didn't know what I was talking about and that Joann was fine.
Joann, the 81-year-old fabric and craft retailer, has filed for bankruptcy as it struggles with customers cutting back on discretionary spending.
However, its roughly 850 stores and website will remain open for business.
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@johnblueriggs
@PeanutButterGmr
Last night I saw a commercial for ball sack deodorant. The lady in the commercial straight up told her boyfriend "you have smelly balls".
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A disgruntled WB employee has the opportunity to do the fucking funniest thing ever and leak the film.
‘COYOTE VS ACME’ is now expected to be shelved and deleted forever.
Warner Bros wanted $75M - $80M for the film and rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon & Paramount, refusing to let them counter-offer.
(Source: )
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Oh look. Walgreens figured out how to make these coolers use MORE electricity.
WTF are we doing?
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Empty department store vibes.
Music by VHS Jazz
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They're putting old movie quotes on empty stores at the mall.
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Did you know Montgomery Ward still puts out a Christmas catalog?
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My kid and I had a retro pizza night.
It's not the best pizza in the world, but a pan style pepperoni pizza always scratches a nostalgic itch.
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Age yourself with a store.
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Dear mall owners,
Vintage mall aesthetics appeal to a wider audience. Stop turning malls into bland, uninspired, characterless husks.
-Your Friendly Neighborhood Retail Archaeologist
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I know racism is real because any time a non-white person is in any of my videos I have to go through and delete so many horribly racists comments. It's some of the grossest shit I've ever seen. If you think racism isn't still an issue in this country please educate yourself.
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"Hello everyone and welcome to Retail Archaeology. In this episode we'll be taking a look at Twitter."
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I think this is a brilliant mascot. Kids are into weird shit and the Milk Walker will make these safety tips stick in their brain.
I think this is possibly the worst mascot design of all time.
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The whole Stanley cup thing is dumb. What you really need is a Batman The Ride cup.
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Found a nice VHS tape for my collection while out thrifting today.
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I found a neat tape rack at a thrift store for a $1 😀
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There's a Denny's at my hotel and it has a lounge. It's simultaneously the coolest and saddest thing ever. Late night beers at hotel bars are great but having one at a Denny's lounge makes it even better 😂
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Hey everyone, I'm sure you've noticed my videos have been pretty sporadic lately. I'm dealing with some difficult things in my personal life right now that have made it hard to focus on making videos. I'm getting to a better place now mentally but it's all still a lot to process.
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I've got a vintage Pizza Hut vibe going on tonight. The old school logo is on the box, I got a pepperoni original pan style, some arcade games, and root beer in a magical red cup. All I'm missing is the table cloth 🍕
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I found a
#Kmart
shopping cart while I was out taking pictures the other day. It was in pretty good shape. The nearest Kmart is 100ish miles away and this wasn't here the last time I was here taking pictures. I wonder where it's been hiding?
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A few years ago it was announced that all Fuddruckers restaurants would be closing. This didn't actually happen though. The franchise business ended up getting purchased and many franchise locations like this one in Mesa, AZ are still open.
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@thisisdanbell
@brookehouts
What a disgusting human being she is. This is how you handle your pet when they are screwing up your filming:
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I just finished filming a dead mall and had a fantastic time. The owners of the mall reached out to me and invited me to come film the place 😁
The fact that mall owners are now understanding the importance of documenting these places is a big win.
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Found some old friends at the ice skating rink today.
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Wow, it's been a grest day for the channel 😁
Today's video is doing fantastic, and I got to 120K subscribers today.
I have a new video out now! Let's take a look at Best Buy. Video link is in the replies.
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Store closing.
These were taken with my Sony Mavica floppy disk camera 💾
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Kids: We wanna go to Chuck E. Cheese!
Mom: We have rat pizza at home.
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When I was in high school I had a classmate who worked at Walmart. He chased after a guy shoplifting a TV. He was shot and killed. He died trying to save a big corporation a few hundred bucks.
You're not a cop. The store doesn't pay you for loss prevention. Don't do this.
If you see someone shoplifting, stop them. If the police won't stop them, you should. Don't tolerate disorder, chaos, and evil in your neighborhood
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My grocery store just started carrying these. I've heard people on here say they're good so I picked some up to try.
That's a damn fine potato chip.
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Twitter is becoming the Sears of social media.
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They're using novelty pool rafts in the dead half of my local mall to advertise the food court.
It's creative, but it's still giving dead mall vibes.
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