INSIDE AMES - retail relic is one of the LAST to stand - closed 24 years

Hey guys, I'm in Horseheads, New York at the abandoned Ames. Man is this... I just, I've never seen such a relic before. I loved Ames when I was little. They all closed in 2002. I remember going to the Parma Snow Road Ames, always looking for Pokemon toys, and then when they closed I was there at their, I was there at their closing sales and I think I got like some clothes and some like a Harry Potter toy or something. It's just a memory that I have. I don't think there's too many of these Ames still standing like this. In the Toledo area, there's an Ames that got turned into a thrift store. I don't think I've seen, no, I don't think I've seen an abandoned Ames like this. No, I haven't. Definitely not. This is gonna be a real treat. I mean, look at that. Let's go walk around and see what we can find. Almost like stepping back in time. Boy does it look shabby. That is incredible. Retail space for rent. That red over there tells me this was Hills before it was Ames. I don't know if, no, because Ames took over Hills but they, they weren't all, all Ames were not all former Hills. I don't think they were anyways. Oh look, you can walk in and then. I'm not doing, I'm not gonna go and uh, crazy stuff. Holy moldy. Oh, oh, it's nasty looking back here. Oh, you could lease this. Anybody want to lease it? What is this, a blow-up? Like a blow-up toy or something? That's a little, that's like a pool. Somebody lost their jeans. This, this is terrible back here. Backs of plazas can be, can be very creepy. Now I think that's the end of uh, the Ames but even the rest of the plaza looks awful. This opened in 1972 as Hills. In 1999 it became an Ames. All right guys, check out my style. We're in the Ames. Let's go explore. It's really very gutted. There's not much of a, a semblance of an Ames left in this beast. Although I do see circle vents. That would have made Manny very happy. There's the, are those numbers? No, it says fire. There's a red strip. That would have been, that would have been Hills. Oh, this floor is wet. Oh man, I can't believe, I can't believe this was ever a store. Look at the, I do remember these. It was this, this must have been the cafe or possibly customer service. Not too sure. Oh yeah, that was the cafe because those were cup holders. This is really bad. I don't know what's humming over there but it's scaring me. I shouldn't have even walked up to it. This, this would be their back room. I am not going, uh, ooh, toilets. This must have been, uh, the, um, would have that been the employee restroom? I wonder what that was. Maybe it was layaway. The random, uh, exercise bike thing. Urinals and stuff. Oh, those would have been, uh, little spy rooms for Ames. I think a theft. You guys think, I tried to get a respirator at the Dollar General. They didn't have any. I just used what we had, which was a bandana. Yeah, please, if you guys go in places like this, please use, uh, something to cover your face. Lid Pretzel and I at the Ames. What'd you think, Lid? Oh yeah, because I just got done eating like a whole bunch of, oh yeah, sorry. Chaps.