The Expedition Log

Hey guys! Thanks for coming on this walk through The Esplanade, in Kenner Louisiana with me. This mall has seriously tanked in the last couple years, and it's currently at less than 10% occupancy, according to the /r/deadmalls subreddit. I'm afraid I won't be getting to re-visit this fantastic place any time soon, so if you're local, go pour one out in the parking lot for me (water only, please).

Man, I'm a sucker for Jim Rouse. Every one of his malls is just such a treasure, and the Riverwalk is no exception.The mall was booming just one year ago (2019)...and when I visited most recently in October 2020, it was a ghost town. This mall is most certainly not a "dead mall", but it's in a nose dive right now.

Happy Valentines Day, everyone! The Natchez Mall is a wonderful little dead mall, and has quite the unique character. I was getting some nasty stares as I filmed this place, so my camera was a little extra shifty, but when I went back in to talk to the folks they were super nice. But...when I tried filming again, they gave me a pretty gnarly stink eye...hence, the short episode. Regardless, this mall is relatively unknown in the community, and I had to pull some strings to get the information on it. Stick around for the trip back up north, and thanks for watching!

Welcome to the upside down... This mall was featured in Stranger Things Season 3, where they turned the Sears concourse into the Starcourt Mall. Thanks to @AcesAdventures1 for providing that footage! I appreciate you guys taking a walk with me through this Moonbeam nightmare. It's such a shame what happened to Silling Man, and I really hope her family has found some peace.

Thanks for coming on this walk through the Staunton Mall with me! Getting to walk around in here, what turned out to be the final moments of this mall being open, it was a treat, but it was also pretty sad. While I strive to film these malls to preserve their history, I don't like seeing the tenants left in the dust, especially by horrible owners.

Thanks for coming to the tautology of my vision of Iverson Mall! Back in 2018, we got to see this mall while it was relatively expected for the renovations to happen. These days? Not so much, and Spock needed to jump in to show Captain Kirk how to do it....

Thanks for walking through the Centre at Forestville with me, everyone! This mall is pretty awesome, and a great example of what malls actually used to look like, rather than the neon trope paraded around by lazy advertisers.

Thank you all so much for watching my video tour through Union Station! Having the opportunity to tell the history of this incredible place, along with showing the vintage footage along side my own 2021 footage is a treat, and I'm grateful for your investment watching this. Please stick around for the upcoming films in the ExLog, and make sure to catch up on my older stuff so you get all the inside jokes, buddy. Thanks for watching!

Mazza Gallerie could've been a spectacular place if it were just more honest with itself. While the direct area surrounding the mall has the yearly income to justify such a boujee elitist shopping experience, the entire building was just not equipped for the world to change. Only time will tell where Mazza Gallerie will land. Can it survive? We'll see...

Chevy Chase Pavilion is just one part of the retail throuple that makes up the Wiscon and Western Ave. shopping district in Friendship Heights. This area spans the Washington, DC and Chevy Chase, MD border...and there are now two dead malls right across the street from each other. It's pretty crazy to think how long these two places coexisted. Thanks for watching!

Ellsworth Place, née City Place Mall, was born of the Hecht's building that was constructed in 1947. A once dead mall, it defied the odds, despite rampant failure surrounding it. This place is awesome, and if you're in town, you must visit.

Welcome to the Turquoise Admiral, built by the legendary Crown American Realty Trust company! The Uniontown Mall is legend in its own right, and a dead mall struggling to keep up, yet shining with its beautiful aesthetic. Thank you all for watching!

Welcome to the Laurel Mall! This dead mall is now in retirement, and living on as a flea market now! The management here have done an incredible job keeping this mall relevant for the community, and I'm impressed with how they've done.

Chapel Hill and Rolling Acres seemingly couldn't exist without each other. The moment Rolling Acres began to go terminal, providence intervened to bring an agnate and lethiferous fate to its sibling, Chapel Hill Mall.

Tower City Center is a fantastic place, but unfortunately taken out by 2020. This mall is legendary, and the younger sibling to both Rolling Acres, and Chapel Hill Mall. Thanks for watching!

Eastpoint Mall! It's still your mall! It's my mall, too! I'm a mallrat for Eastpoint. This mall is amazing, and I'm so glad to have finally done it justice...I hope? Did I? I really hope so. This mall rocks, and so do you for watching.

Thank you all for watching! Have any of you had a chance to have this burger at Friendly's? Definitely the best I've had inside a dead mall.

This mall is serving a life sentence as a time capsule containing amazing 70's aesthetics and horribly toxic black mold. Make sure to visit!

The Main Place Mall is truly a time capsule, and stood as a vintage dead mall for decades. The mall has finally shuttered for good, and awaits redevelopment.

Happy Halloween, Legion of Explorers! In this episode, Fritz and I visit the abandoned catacombs at Fort Armistead in Baltimore, Maryland. It's creepy, disgusting, and full of questionable practices and people floating around. Stay spooky, and have a terrifying night.

McKinley survived the accession of Walden Galleria to the greater Buffalo area. It survived the 2008 recession, and it survived the regression of the late 2010's. But now, McKinley Mall has fallen into the gross hands of Mike Kohan's greasy empire, and I can't see a happy ending...Thanks for watching!

This dead mall is now fully abandoned, and showcases the vintage aesthetic language that used to be present in the Forest Fair Mall in Cincinnati, OH. We were actually going to have a DMOD Summit at Richland, but the mall closed before we could get there. Thank you all so much for 50,000 Subscribers, and for putting up with 100 episodes of my content over the last 4 years! You all rock!

The largely vacant Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills in Tarentum, PA is massive, and the security guards kept locking the doors in front of us...so we decided to find ways into the abandoned anchor spaces and closed movie theater. Merry Christmas, everyone! See you all in 2022!