tfw your checking BLF for anything interesting and come across this
dead malls are the opposite of what he likes
nah i think they are the most interesting
ot: ive been to a few dead malls. one including the former dutchess mall (which im planning to do a YT vid on).
so it opened in 1974, a 10 minute drive from where i live in Fishkill, NY
opened with stores that you never heard of called j.w. mays and some local department store lucky platt. they eventually became jamesway and service merchandise.
it was the first mall in dutchess county, untill the opening of the south hills mall(demolished) up route 9 in 1976 and poughkeepsie galleria right next to the south hills mall in 1987.
dutchess mall couldent stand up to the 2 other malls, and eventually began losing stores. jamesway closed in 1995 as a part of the chain liquidation, and service merchandise moved to south hills in 1996. the mall itself was demolished around 2004 for a home depot. the strange thing was that they had kept the old jamesway and service merch, and a small dead strip plaza with an abandoned shoprite grocery store. the jamesway has since been reused as a flea market, and service merch and shoprite sit abandoned.
also believe it or not, there was a documentary done here called Fish Kill Flea (hence the name of the town, Fishkill, NY). there is a little dead outlet mall up the road from it called hudson valley towne center but theres no info on it. it has a movie theater and 3 outlet stores.
http://deadmalls.com/malls/dutchess_mall.html
i can list a whole bunch more dead malls ive visited/come across/researched but then this would be a pagestretch.
