ONE STORE keeps this mall open! Olean Center Mall - Olean, NY

Hey guys, I'm at the Olean Center Mall. This place opened in 1977. The original anchors were Hills, A.M. and A's, and Sample. Now they have a J.C. Penney, a Coles, and a Dead Bonton. Just pulling up on this mall, it just feels like this is going to be a good one. It's one of those rural, small town, just dead mall, just, this is just going to be, it's like we hit gold. Let's go walk around and see what we find. Check out this entrance with the M being missing. I wasn't sure that that was even going to open, but it did. Look at the weeds. There's a J.C. Penney going on. The location is kind of interesting because you're kind of like downtown in this small town, and then all of a sudden there's a mall right there, and even malls tend to be on the outskirts of town, more just removed from the, look at that, just not as close to the downtown, but it's interesting. That cage of yours is going to still be in here. It says please come in. Brenna's Pizza. Oh, there's Manhe. This is a classic. I love it. This is not an indoor skate park. You're hit with a mosaic. That looks like a guy that enjoyed Buffalo Hill. This is incredible. It's a very nice mosaic. That old Claire's font. The cage of yours is, in fact, open. You said Auntie Anne's. I don't know anybody that doesn't like Auntie Anne's. Auntie Anne's. Do you guys say aunt or ant? Are these plants growing out of McDonald's cups? There is something so magical about like this. Look how much it's peeling. The place doesn't look to be very big, so this is amazing. Places like this are far and few between anymore. I want to say, I think, I don't know if this is true, but I think this might be true, so you guys tell me. There might be like a stigma behind dead malls, because some people, you know, you tell somebody in your life, like a family member, and they're like, I don't get it. Like, why would you, why would you want to do that? So I think it might be sort of a stigma that's sort of like a, like a little bit of a niche thing, kind of maybe like a geeky thing to do, but in my opinion, I think anybody and everybody should come to a place like this, because it's history. It's, everybody knows what a bustling mall it looks like. They're still around. We have them, but these places are forgotten about, and if we, if more people saw like how dead some of these places are, it would just allow people to just know, just be more enlightened about American history, and just, I just believe that the experience is a good one to have. It's like, what do we think of these? I mean, what do we make of this? You know, why, why is this place still around? You know. Anyways, let's continue. Oh, so you can't even get through to the JCPenney. So I noticed about JCPenney, they tend to be in rural areas. They do well there. Jeez. Look at this entrance. Oh, my. It's like you step back and it doesn't open. How long has this place been? This place doesn't open? Cindy's Craft Co-op. That's a nice tree. Lid pretzel. Oh, it looks like they might open this for like, um, yeah, they put their Santa there. I wouldn't know if they still do that. But look, 25% off. Open when we wanna, and today we don't wanna. I can't see in there. Anybody knows what the stores were? Please comment below. That was Route 21. Kohl's. That one, they don't have an entrance. I mean, why would they, right? There's the Bond Time. I'm not familiar with that store. Um, I guess, oh, the, I mean, I didn't grow up with the Bond Time, but I guess Ohio and other places have a version of Bond Time that's called Elder, was called Elder Behrman. Cyber Station. There had to be a fountain. I wanna check out the JCPenney. This entrance does look like it's been modernized. I don't know what era this is from. I feel like it's early 2000s. Look, this is like a 2004. Um, obviously I think this has been around a lot longer, but I think they did like a little bit of a, of a little update here. This is a nice store. There's some people in here. Would you consider this the heart? I would say so. Kind of a standard JCPenney, nothing really, um, all that special about it. I've seen much worse JCPenney. I've seen nicer, but you can definitely get some nice things here. They're doing crafts here. There's a salon. They got Christmas out. I hope this place stays open. I'm surprised they could support the JCPenney and Kohl's though. They have lots of those things here. $1.10 for that. Well, with 25% off, it'd still be like 90 bucks. Steelers? Oh, we're not really that close to, uh, how close are we to Pittsburgh right now? Let's just do an outside walk, see if they have anything interesting to see. JCPenney? Is that a dumping ground? Look at that mall. Can you imagine this place back in the day? Look at the old TV they threw out. That would still work. I don't see a cord though. So there's another crusty entrance. Oh no. What's the point of the bucket? Like, you really think that bucket is helping? Maybe at some point it was only dripping a little bit? Oh my god. Oh, this place is gnarly. Let me know what you think. It can get very apocalyptic on the backside of some of these places. Here's the Bond time. There's a person sitting in front of it, so I don't, it's like, but we already saw the, we already saw the inside. There's the coals. Not too much in there. It's an old dirt dump. Some broken glass. All right, now we'll complete my look at the Olean Mall in Olean, New York. Man, this is just one of those vintage finds. I don't think it's been updated since the 70s. Doesn't look too good in there. It's only open because of that Kay Jewelers. I don't know that this place will really, I really don't see it closing because we're, I mean, the Kay Jeweler, the Kay Jeweler would have to move, which I guess they could. But as soon as that happens, you know, they'll probably close. So, but I don't know if that's going to happen because this is such a small town, it's like they don't really, it seems like like they kind of don't even care that it's, I don't know. But I hope you guys enjoyed this and I'll see you on the next video.