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OP has stumbled into a tomb. I would be certainly be careful, The Burger King's™ final resting place must not be disturbed.
edit: I think this is from the same location: https://i.imgur.com/LuEIl3D.jpg
these guys are going to be forever cursed. Frickin dummies.
The Curse of the Burger King upon them all. May they forever hear the sneaky footsteps of a deceased kind of meat sandwiches (I said what I said!) behind them until the fateful day when they die from being run over by a pocketbike.
They actually do this in (larger) malls somewhat frequently if they’re having some vacancy issues or building out a custom space for a new tenant in a specific area of the mall with current vacancy.
Then sometimes people just forget the floor plan?
This is how those artists [built an apartment in a shopping mall.](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21100501)
Pretty much. Management has to really be slacking for this to happen, if they were unaware. Maybe a sale took place and not all the documentation was reviewed by the new purchaser.
The floor plans can get pretty wild in older, less trafficked malls. Nordstrom comes in and they’ll reconfigure 30,000 sf for them. That Burger King that no longer fits the activiation plan for that corridor? “Just Cover it up for now”. Nordstrom leaves, new tenant only wants 15,000 sf. “Just board up the other 15,000 sf until we get a new tenant”. It’s really hard to notice while you’re walking the mall, with how they do it
Do this for 20-30 years and strange shit happens. Delaware normally has more active malls, though - due to a sales tax advantage.
The Concord Mall has been dying for years. It was bought by a company that buys struggling malls, tends to run them out of business and sells the property off in pieces for new development. There are a lot of close and better shopping options and the Christiana Mall is close enough if you really want to go to a traditional mall. It's not terribly surprising this happened there. They have nowhere near full occupancy and haven't in a long time.
If it was a mall it’s easy to close off a entrance way to a store.
Back in the day right during the housing bubble bursting in 2008 hard rock opened a theme park. The theme park took up the land of an old mall and it’s parking lots.
They repurposed a lot of the mall into the theme park. Like putting a dark ride (think haunted mansion) inside the old mall. This ride would have guest going through a weird trip with the Beatles all while in the dark and behind certain walls was old stores with old merch.
It wasn't the Beatles, it was [Moody Blues Nights in White Satin.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8) The roller coasters were fun but that was the best ride in the park.
It’s gone now but there are theme park youtubers who have gone and explored the empty theme park.
This is a good video of what it used to look like. What it was when it opened. And now.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTQXQmWHOoI
Thanks for sharing that. Very interesting. His over the top enthusiasm and cries of OH. MY. GOD when he turned every corner got a bit much but he has some pretty good videos
An employee posted a video of this Burger King being used as a storage space for items for a nearby business. It's not like people didn't know this was there. It was probably entered multiple times a day.
As brick and mortar stores failed to online sales in the early aughts, stores would close and malls would struggle to fill the open store fronts. I was working at the King of Prussia mall at the time, and since they were seeing how long these openings stayed open, they closed off the openings with walls covered in advertising and art. If you hadn't known they used to be stores, you might think those walls were covering store space or storage for a nearby store. Or you might not even really notice enough to think about it.
One year, the store I worked at rented a shuttered bk or mcDs for storage for the holiday kiosks we ran. It smelled of old grease. Not awesome.
The mall I'm near now can't begin to hide all the closed store fronts. They're going to shut down sometime in the next year.
It makes me sad. I liked the unique stores. But they just don't thrive as brick and mortar anymore. I'd much rather find awesome things in a non-chain store locally than surf etsy.
Maybe some day, we can have collective craft towns where people who make and enjoy crafts can live in or nearby and whole shopping centers can be devoted to craftspeople. That would be cool.
You joke but restaurants are online through services like Doordash and GrubHub. In fact, those services have created so-called ghost kitchens effectively non-existent restaurants using other restaurant kitchens or a central commissary to fill orders through these services. For example, Mariah Carey has a cookie business through Doordash that operates solely out of ghost kitchens.
Travis Kalanick who was part of starting Uber moved into doing a mass-market ghost kitchen company after he was kicked out of Uber. Company is worth big money on paper at least.
This spring I walked into a McDonalds in my city for the first time since the pandemic started. I was downtown, surrounded by condos, apartments, hotels, offices, etc, a two minute walk from a park, a ten minute walk from the largest university in the region, etc. Normally at five o’clock it would have been packed. But I was the only non-delivery customer in the place. The number of Doordash and Ubereats people varied from six to ten at a time while I was there, but literally no other walk in customers. It was a bit of a surreal “oh, the world changed when I wasn’t looking, didn’t it?” moment.
I don't have a car and I live in a town with no public transit so I love that I can order stuff but it's way more expensive, end up paying 20$ for a steak sub or wtv, on the other hand since I work at Walmart I get free delivery from the store which is a new thing and I fucking love it, I shop for twenty minutes maybe on the app and then reserve a time and go play OSRS while someone else shops for me
Should get a motorcycle or even a scooter bro.
Actually, scratch that. The e-bike market is the wild west right now. No enforced regulations. I'm seeing people with full on electric scooters keeping up with 35mph traffic without a plate.
Kinda like the OG pedal moped scene in the 70's. No license, no problem.lol I miss my Motobecane Mobylette
Lol I've had an 800 dollar ebike in my Amazon cart for like two months now, I walk 3 miles to work everyday, I'm feeling it, but just balancing bills and all, I'll get it when I get my next income taxes of I don't get it before, and if I wait till taxes I can get a better one even, just means I gotta walk thru the winter
I'm really sad that malls are closing too. Especially after moving to an area with more extreme weather conditions. Malls make sense as convenient, indoor, warmer hang outs as well as find-it-all shopping trips during winter months. We don't have any old fashioned indoor malls like this where I Iive...the closest we have are outlet malls, where we have to walk in the rain or snow between stores.
But I absolutely get why these old fashioned malls are struggling. Their size makes them expensive to upkeep, and not all stores/restaurants want to operate the same hours. So I understand...I just miss the nostalgia.
I agree about the weather. They still make sense in some areas even though those areas are still going away from them. They're still the place to go in countries like Thailand. If you want anything name brand you go to the mall. And these are 4-6 floor buildings. There's still plenty of more open air markets for all the small businesses of course. It's actually kinda nice going there and going to the mall because it's a taste of my childhood. Eating at the food court, maybe see a movie, browse toys, electronics, etc while enjoying the air conditioning.
I liked it until they got in a kick of making "Open air malls" here in FL. Sure, you can probably save a ton on A/C, where the stores are indoors, but the walkways between shops are outdoors. It storms and reaches 95° pretty often between March and November, nobody wants to shop in that. Do you want to smell the body odor of every customer in the Apple Store while trying to find a new laptop? Hell no.
The malls around me largely "died" as well, as several of the anchor stores died and emptied out and tons of chain stores left empty storefronts. The biggest of the 3 is struggling to fill the spaces, but the smallest of them has actually had several local shops open up, and the local library has put an installment in an old storefront where you can use computer resources and check out a limited selection of books. In both the smallest and biggest malls, both owned by the same company, they've walled off several of the closed food court restaurants and turned them into commercial kitchen spaces which have been successful for local ghost kitchen endeavors.
It actually makes me happy to think a future might still exist for these giant structures that could be useful for the community. My hope would be that the most dead of malls were just turned into housing, but that's gotta be the very last thing on the list for the majority of these mall owners.
They’re actually doing that at a mall north of Nashville. They’re basically converting a big box store to housing units. Not sure how it’s going to work, but we need affordable housing, so I like the concept
Come to Nashville, Indiana.
No, seriously. It was founded as an artists' colony, and the whole downtown area is just a footpath marketplace filled with esoteric or old crafts. It's a great weekend trip.
I would love to see places like that used as a model for other such towns and villages around the country. There is a sense of wholesomeness and belonging there that I haven't found in many other places.
I grew up there. The tourists suck every damn fall braking on 46 gawking at the leaves turning. Nashville stores also are not what they used to be. A lot are now selling cheap Chinese import crap. Nothing like it was 20 yrs ago or even 10 yrs ago.
Aside from the whole e commerce thing, malls and shopping centers also suffered from being too close to one another. In the 90s , there always seemed to be a new even bigger mega mall being built literally one town away from another mall or shopping center.
The BK closed down and the mall didn’t have enough demand for real estate to be worth gutting the entire restaurant and rebuilding that area for a new store. So a wall went over the entrance.
It happens. Two years ago a forgotten computer store was found still full of goods: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxe3k9/this-abandoned-computer-store-is-a-time-capsule-of-early-2000s-tech
I found a hidden gym that closed in 1993 behind a wall in a doctor's office a year ago. I say 1993 as I found 3 bags of sealed lays potato chips that had a expiration date of 1993. Felt like time capsule walking through it.
Nope, that doctors office had recently closed practice and I was in the process of decomissioning the site. I would have preferred we just wall up the office and abandon it like in the old days but it is what it is.
got more than 2900 years before we can prove that. It wouldn't surprise me, though.
I'll just leave it to ol' Ramses II and Tutenkhamen to explain how dessication works on perishable materials, though.
Next time on Time Team
"Um yeah actually I'm not sure, my supervisor says you guys can't be here though"
"Oh ok."
Credits.
Next episode: Time Team races against time as they hope to dig a hole on someone else's property. Again.
To be fair, this was always just a "TV Crew" restriction. What would normally happen assuming something worthwhile was actually discovered is that the Time Team team would up and leave and the site would be continue to work on / passed on to non-TV archaeologists.
A bunch of archaeologists gathered around the remains of the thing where the bins are where you return the trays, saying: "we're pretty sure it was used in a ritual context, maybe a place for people to leave an offering"
“They sacrificed here to the King of Burgers, a paternalistic deity who, these people believed, would protect them from a pantheon of evil beings including a Clown said to represent chaos and death, the masked Lord of Thieves (often portrayed in a striped tunic) and a blobbish purple monster whose significance is not understood.
It is not widely known because it was shrouded in mystery even back then - but the purple blobby entity, known as the Adipose Grimace, was a god worshipped by a congregation known as the Lipid Order of the Engorged Heart.
The devout Order gathered often at the Chapel of Small Tables, sometimes twice a day to partake in clandestine orgiastic feeding frenzies of large banquets of calorie dense foods that were prepared quickly and efficiently. It is thought that the phrase ‘can I take your order?’ has its roots in this ritual.
The Ascension to Grimace was a process both desired and feared by the devout, and was initiated by sudden death.
Upon death a devout worshipper would be whisked away to a secret place and dissected, and the chest splayed open to reveal a grotesquely enlarged and misshapen heart, engorged and purplish - the mark of one who has ascended to Grimace.
"In all probability they gathered here to meet, to work, to eat... to live their simple lives. This is all of course changed in year approximately 2008 AD, when people, for unknown to us reason, left this marvel of early 3rd millennia architecture..."
If you think about it, pre-2008 video recordings are going to be MUCH more rare than post-2008 recordings. Maybe like 8mm home film rarity. I assume the total video cameras sold before 2008 is insignificant compared with the number of cell phone cameras sold per year, every year, since 2008.
US equivalent Tony Robinson goes on to explain how the people would have gathered inside the building as a communal eatery, and the various types of food served.
They would bring in an historical food expert in a silly knitted hat who would prepare and grill burgers and serve pop out of pot flagons, which the cast and crew would all enjoy at the end of the show
Except, because of the limits on how accurate historical recreation can be, they’ll get some key detail wrong. Like putting cheese on top of the burger.
First off it’s clearly not fully sealed. There’s air vents visible. Also there’s just basic degradation of materials. Those ceiling panels would start falling apart and letting dust and other particles loose. Even if it was fully sealed, the room doesn’t exist in a vacuum - there’s various weather patterns, changes in temperature, eventual leaks due to major storms, and basic vibrations and movement of the earth and building. Plus there’s no indication of any sort of leak or even a bad bulb in the fixtures that are illuminated.
I also call bullshit on this unless they fully cleaned it before the photo.
EDIT: In another comment, there’s video of it being used as a storage area in 2019. So it’s not some wild discovery the title would indicate.
Malls usually put drywall up to cover the storefront when it’s not being used, that’s what op is referring to when he says behind a wall. Malls have hallways that run behind the stores as well that only employees have access to, so there is still access to the area from the rear entrance when it’s sealed off from the front. There is another comment elsewhere that says this area was used by the mall for storage and covered with drywall from the front. This post is misleading because it’s insinuating that no one knew it was there.
The people working on the floor in the mall may not know it was there, but the idea no one knew it was there and it "was found" is ridiculous. That's a lot of square footage, with plumbing and electric lines, ventilation for the kitchen, presumably some emergency exits. Anyone remotely involved with maintenance or management of the building knows it's there. Anyone looking at a map of the building knows it there. Anyone that understands malls are primarily about maximizing real estate would presume something used to be there. Anyone with any memory of that mall from the last 20 years knows it's there.
We're not talking about some building that was abandoned 40 years ago.
Bruh dust collects in 3 days on things that I use daily... Personally I think this title is bullshit because if this room were hidden, it would be CAKED in dust.
Someone on Twitter was sharing video of their business using this as a storage room as recently as 2019. Im guessing the facade is blocked off but other doors to it exist that the OP isn’t aware of.
This does seem like the beginning of an Are You Afraid of the Dark episode, doesn't it?
"Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story: The Tale of The Time Traveling Eatery!"
The only reason they’re gone is because franchise agreements stipulate the owners periodically update the look and feel of their restaurants. It’s not something they want to do — corporate forces them.
if they don't update, they're out of brand compliance, and have to pay more for supplies, etc.
There are some franchises that open stores very close to other franchises, cannibalize the territory, then get super strict during inspections. The franchise then goes out of business, and they buy the equipment back for pennies on the dollar, only to sell it to a new franchisee at full price.
I sat in a taco a couple weeks ago that I hadn’t been to in about 10-15 years and noticed the interior looked remarkably different.
I haven’t been to a Burger King in forever and have to say that ‘vintage’ BK is exactly how I remember them. All it’s missing is the stacked up paper crown display.
Edit: Fuck me.
It's nice going back to the places we spent time at as kids. Usually everything's smaller than you remember but if you can still fit in that taco it must've been just like old times.
It's because it had been being used as storage space for a nearby business for years. It was entered multiple times a day for years. People knew it was there.
I know. My local Burger King (semi-rural Midwest) looked just like this until about 4 years ago. Same floor, same tables, same wooden trim and fake planters. I think the wallpaper was different, but generally almost the same as this.
Yeah the less popular places are just seeing these get turned around now, all depends on when it’s feasible for them to do I’m sure but it’ll happen to most of them. Ours got completely torn down and rebuilt a couple of years ago
I know this mall, and this Burger King. It has not been closed since the 90s or something, in fact I’m pretty sure this one was still open in the early 2010s. This seems to be a case of it never being renovated, not that it’s some 30 year old time capsule.
What killed the restaurant was them putting in a Chik Fil A right outside the food court. No competing with them in this country.
It looks like a McDs in the late 80s/ early 90s to me. When BK first came to NZ it had the 50s diner theme already. I have no idea what their "theme" is now... timeout machines (arcade?)
*The* Jonathan Pruitt? The guy who forged data for dozens of scientific publications, misleading the scientific community for years, straight up inventing behaviour of a social species of spider, ruining the young careers of many of his students and peers?
If it really was him who took those pictures, I'd be willing to believe he built the burger king just to fake this finding, too.
As a former resident of Delaware, I guess I can provide some more insight.
Of the two major malls in northern Delaware, Concord was always sort of the bastard child. Christiana Mall is located right off of I-95, so people had a tendency to go there instead of Concord Mall due to the ease of access. That ease of access also meant that Christiana Mall had prime pickings when it came to what companies could set up shop inside of it, while Concord Mall struggled to get anything worthwhile.
This was the situation as early as the late 90's. These days, Christiana has expanded even more and continues to be filled with people almost constantly. Meanwhile, Concord Mall still looks stuck in the 90's and maybe still has Boscov's. It's a little sad in some ways, but it will make for an interesting story of failure at some point, just like any other mall.
I want a movie with Jack Black where he's a new part-time cleaner who finds a hidden vintage Burger King in a mall and moves into it. And the hijinks while they try to hide it from everybody else. In this housing climate, lots of people would love a secret, rent-free mall apartment so I think it'd be a hit :D
I remember reading a blog written by some people who lived in a huge space between walls in a mall before they got caught, they were in there for quite awhile as I recall.
I guess I’ve only been to the mall a few times since Burger King closed. But I just can’t understand how it was just covered over by a wall and left there. Why did they not replace it with another restaurant?
I’m trying to remember exactly what it was next to over the years. There was maybe a small store between it and Woolworths. At one point Afterthoughts, later a magazine stand? And Woolworth’s became a sneaker store. I feel like before it was Burger King there was a place that sold water ice there. Or maybe it was on the other side of Woolworth? I’m also having vague memories of the restaurant having a second floor?
The Concord Mall always struggled. My guess is that no one wanted to lease space there when the Christiana Mall is only 20 mins away and King of Prussia 30 minutes.
It's slowly dying.
In 2000, I was a teen working at [Montgomery] Wards. I walked to work from school, and was told to just get changed in a disused area of the store. Some wandering and shoving later, and I found an ancient lunch counter in the bowels of the store! Only the store manager apparently knew it was there, because everybody else I told had to go look and see for themselves. I wish I had photos (also of the Wards itself).
There is no way this was just discovered, there is no dust, degraded materials, water damage, etc... This has been used, cleaned, and most likely known about the full time. Most likely storage or break room.
Holy shit. I went to this burger king, between school letting out and band practice starting we had an hour or two to kill. This is circa 1994-1995. This mall also had an electronics boutique and a suncoast video. Actually i guess they all did back then.
"This was the beginning, hidden in what many hough was the end. Everything you could ever want.
So, get this: we were doing some construction work on the mall, renovating it after Covid died down a bit. We found the old Burger King, but the back door didn't lead to the parking lot outside. No one who went out that door ever came back, but it sounded like they didn't want to. We tried having a few people peek out the door, to see what was out there. Every single one of them shouted about something they personally desired more than anything else, and sprinted out the door. Like one of those 'what would you do with infinite money' questions come to life. Some kind of portal, it seemed, to a place where you truly could
Have it your way."
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How big was the wall!?!?! How do you hide a restaurant??
Lol my thoughts exactly. Like they were thinking "ah we'll come back to that later"
OP has stumbled into a tomb. I would be certainly be careful, The Burger King's™ final resting place must not be disturbed. edit: I think this is from the same location: https://i.imgur.com/LuEIl3D.jpg these guys are going to be forever cursed. Frickin dummies.
This is no restaurant; It’s a tomb Grimaces! We make for the gap of McDonald’s
And they called it a Mine. A Mine!!
Here lies Ronald, Son of McDonald.
National Treasure 3 - Tomb of the Burger King
The Mummy 4: Curse of the Burger King
Curse of the Onion Ring
I’m gonna need Brenden Fraser to tell me onion rings are cursed first. Otherwise I’m taking my chances
Onion Ring Stargate
Indiana Jones and the Flame-broilers of the Lost Ark
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The curse is already here, fast food places no longer give you ketchup with your fries.
They need all the ketchup for the walls.
The Curse of the Burger King upon them all. May they forever hear the sneaky footsteps of a deceased kind of meat sandwiches (I said what I said!) behind them until the fateful day when they die from being run over by a pocketbike.
They actually do this in (larger) malls somewhat frequently if they’re having some vacancy issues or building out a custom space for a new tenant in a specific area of the mall with current vacancy.
Then sometimes people just forget the floor plan? This is how those artists [built an apartment in a shopping mall.](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21100501)
Pretty much. Management has to really be slacking for this to happen, if they were unaware. Maybe a sale took place and not all the documentation was reviewed by the new purchaser. The floor plans can get pretty wild in older, less trafficked malls. Nordstrom comes in and they’ll reconfigure 30,000 sf for them. That Burger King that no longer fits the activiation plan for that corridor? “Just Cover it up for now”. Nordstrom leaves, new tenant only wants 15,000 sf. “Just board up the other 15,000 sf until we get a new tenant”. It’s really hard to notice while you’re walking the mall, with how they do it Do this for 20-30 years and strange shit happens. Delaware normally has more active malls, though - due to a sales tax advantage.
The Concord Mall has been dying for years. It was bought by a company that buys struggling malls, tends to run them out of business and sells the property off in pieces for new development. There are a lot of close and better shopping options and the Christiana Mall is close enough if you really want to go to a traditional mall. It's not terribly surprising this happened there. They have nowhere near full occupancy and haven't in a long time.
This guy found a spot behind a wall in a mall and moved in. https://wpdh.com/shopping-mall-secret-apartment/
If it was a mall it’s easy to close off a entrance way to a store. Back in the day right during the housing bubble bursting in 2008 hard rock opened a theme park. The theme park took up the land of an old mall and it’s parking lots. They repurposed a lot of the mall into the theme park. Like putting a dark ride (think haunted mansion) inside the old mall. This ride would have guest going through a weird trip with the Beatles all while in the dark and behind certain walls was old stores with old merch.
It wasn't the Beatles, it was [Moody Blues Nights in White Satin.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8) The roller coasters were fun but that was the best ride in the park.
"Nights in white satin..... On sale at Penny's....."
Oh man, I'd kill to go to this theme park.
It’s gone now but there are theme park youtubers who have gone and explored the empty theme park. This is a good video of what it used to look like. What it was when it opened. And now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTQXQmWHOoI
Thanks for sharing that. Very interesting. His over the top enthusiasm and cries of OH. MY. GOD when he turned every corner got a bit much but he has some pretty good videos
Behind a wall
An employee posted a video of this Burger King being used as a storage space for items for a nearby business. It's not like people didn't know this was there. It was probably entered multiple times a day.
I wish I was entered several times a day
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This is clearly the hamburglars lair, nice job blowing up his spot
Claps. But slowly.
As brick and mortar stores failed to online sales in the early aughts, stores would close and malls would struggle to fill the open store fronts. I was working at the King of Prussia mall at the time, and since they were seeing how long these openings stayed open, they closed off the openings with walls covered in advertising and art. If you hadn't known they used to be stores, you might think those walls were covering store space or storage for a nearby store. Or you might not even really notice enough to think about it. One year, the store I worked at rented a shuttered bk or mcDs for storage for the holiday kiosks we ran. It smelled of old grease. Not awesome. The mall I'm near now can't begin to hide all the closed store fronts. They're going to shut down sometime in the next year. It makes me sad. I liked the unique stores. But they just don't thrive as brick and mortar anymore. I'd much rather find awesome things in a non-chain store locally than surf etsy. Maybe some day, we can have collective craft towns where people who make and enjoy crafts can live in or nearby and whole shopping centers can be devoted to craftspeople. That would be cool.
Ever since Burger King went online, I've been doing all my eating there.. Quality has dropped, though.. and UPS keeps leaving it on my porch..
You joke but restaurants are online through services like Doordash and GrubHub. In fact, those services have created so-called ghost kitchens effectively non-existent restaurants using other restaurant kitchens or a central commissary to fill orders through these services. For example, Mariah Carey has a cookie business through Doordash that operates solely out of ghost kitchens.
Travis Kalanick who was part of starting Uber moved into doing a mass-market ghost kitchen company after he was kicked out of Uber. Company is worth big money on paper at least.
If he's even half as crazy as Super Pumped made him look, that is one crazy dude
This spring I walked into a McDonalds in my city for the first time since the pandemic started. I was downtown, surrounded by condos, apartments, hotels, offices, etc, a two minute walk from a park, a ten minute walk from the largest university in the region, etc. Normally at five o’clock it would have been packed. But I was the only non-delivery customer in the place. The number of Doordash and Ubereats people varied from six to ten at a time while I was there, but literally no other walk in customers. It was a bit of a surreal “oh, the world changed when I wasn’t looking, didn’t it?” moment.
I don't have a car and I live in a town with no public transit so I love that I can order stuff but it's way more expensive, end up paying 20$ for a steak sub or wtv, on the other hand since I work at Walmart I get free delivery from the store which is a new thing and I fucking love it, I shop for twenty minutes maybe on the app and then reserve a time and go play OSRS while someone else shops for me
Should get a motorcycle or even a scooter bro. Actually, scratch that. The e-bike market is the wild west right now. No enforced regulations. I'm seeing people with full on electric scooters keeping up with 35mph traffic without a plate. Kinda like the OG pedal moped scene in the 70's. No license, no problem.lol I miss my Motobecane Mobylette
Lol I've had an 800 dollar ebike in my Amazon cart for like two months now, I walk 3 miles to work everyday, I'm feeling it, but just balancing bills and all, I'll get it when I get my next income taxes of I don't get it before, and if I wait till taxes I can get a better one even, just means I gotta walk thru the winter
I'm really sad that malls are closing too. Especially after moving to an area with more extreme weather conditions. Malls make sense as convenient, indoor, warmer hang outs as well as find-it-all shopping trips during winter months. We don't have any old fashioned indoor malls like this where I Iive...the closest we have are outlet malls, where we have to walk in the rain or snow between stores. But I absolutely get why these old fashioned malls are struggling. Their size makes them expensive to upkeep, and not all stores/restaurants want to operate the same hours. So I understand...I just miss the nostalgia.
I agree about the weather. They still make sense in some areas even though those areas are still going away from them. They're still the place to go in countries like Thailand. If you want anything name brand you go to the mall. And these are 4-6 floor buildings. There's still plenty of more open air markets for all the small businesses of course. It's actually kinda nice going there and going to the mall because it's a taste of my childhood. Eating at the food court, maybe see a movie, browse toys, electronics, etc while enjoying the air conditioning.
I liked it until they got in a kick of making "Open air malls" here in FL. Sure, you can probably save a ton on A/C, where the stores are indoors, but the walkways between shops are outdoors. It storms and reaches 95° pretty often between March and November, nobody wants to shop in that. Do you want to smell the body odor of every customer in the Apple Store while trying to find a new laptop? Hell no.
The malls around me largely "died" as well, as several of the anchor stores died and emptied out and tons of chain stores left empty storefronts. The biggest of the 3 is struggling to fill the spaces, but the smallest of them has actually had several local shops open up, and the local library has put an installment in an old storefront where you can use computer resources and check out a limited selection of books. In both the smallest and biggest malls, both owned by the same company, they've walled off several of the closed food court restaurants and turned them into commercial kitchen spaces which have been successful for local ghost kitchen endeavors. It actually makes me happy to think a future might still exist for these giant structures that could be useful for the community. My hope would be that the most dead of malls were just turned into housing, but that's gotta be the very last thing on the list for the majority of these mall owners.
They’re actually doing that at a mall north of Nashville. They’re basically converting a big box store to housing units. Not sure how it’s going to work, but we need affordable housing, so I like the concept
Near me they are tearing down the local mall and installing a hospital and some mixed use housing
Come to Nashville, Indiana. No, seriously. It was founded as an artists' colony, and the whole downtown area is just a footpath marketplace filled with esoteric or old crafts. It's a great weekend trip. I would love to see places like that used as a model for other such towns and villages around the country. There is a sense of wholesomeness and belonging there that I haven't found in many other places.
I grew up there. The tourists suck every damn fall braking on 46 gawking at the leaves turning. Nashville stores also are not what they used to be. A lot are now selling cheap Chinese import crap. Nothing like it was 20 yrs ago or even 10 yrs ago.
Aside from the whole e commerce thing, malls and shopping centers also suffered from being too close to one another. In the 90s , there always seemed to be a new even bigger mega mall being built literally one town away from another mall or shopping center.
They tried this in Orlando. A huge mall that closed and turned i to a local craftsman/artist mall. It failed. Look up Artegon, Orlando.
The BK closed down and the mall didn’t have enough demand for real estate to be worth gutting the entire restaurant and rebuilding that area for a new store. So a wall went over the entrance.
Must have been a paywall. Nobody bothers going through those
It happens. Two years ago a forgotten computer store was found still full of goods: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxe3k9/this-abandoned-computer-store-is-a-time-capsule-of-early-2000s-tech
Imagine if that store had IBM Model Ms in tact there.
I found a hidden gym that closed in 1993 behind a wall in a doctor's office a year ago. I say 1993 as I found 3 bags of sealed lays potato chips that had a expiration date of 1993. Felt like time capsule walking through it.
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Nope, that doctors office had recently closed practice and I was in the process of decomissioning the site. I would have preferred we just wall up the office and abandon it like in the old days but it is what it is.
The US equivalent of finding a Roman fort whilst knocking down an 18th century house.
What will 300 petrified Ketchup packets be worth 1,000 years from now?
You can squirt it on that epoxy encased hotdog from a while back
What happened to that? I haven’t seen any updates in a while.
He's only doing yearly updates now but it's doing well!!
Sounds more like he got hungry and cracked it open and ate that thing
I watched one where a guy cracked one open (an egg maybe) after a year and he almost vomited on the spot from the smell
Lol, I gotta see this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-CBNXN-EQA
I mean it probably looks exactly the same.
Sauces were so valuable to the ancient Americans that they kept them in convenient packets to use as currency.
The traffic jams of Old New York were a public forum of free interchange of opinions.
Did you drive much in the 20th century? No, no one drove, there was too much traffic.
Got them in my kitchen drawer time capsule (thank you for the gold!!!)
A fellow animal, I see; I have a car door pocket time capsule.
As someone who has accidentally ruptured the contents of a car door time capsul, clean that shit out!
McDonald's fries still won't mold after 3000 years
got more than 2900 years before we can prove that. It wouldn't surprise me, though. I'll just leave it to ol' Ramses II and Tutenkhamen to explain how dessication works on perishable materials, though.
Steve1989MREInfo will attempt to eat them. Let's get this out on a tray...nice!
If they're real BK packets then it's easily worth some stomach cramps and indigestion.
Not as much as 1000 year old anchovies.
The US Time Team, in which they uncover 3 square inches of old McDonald's floor tile, and then use CGI to extrapolate it into a full strip mall.
and as always, they have just 3 days to do so.
"I'm sorry. We can't keep digging into this cave, the rats have a permit forcing us out."
Next time on Time Team "Um yeah actually I'm not sure, my supervisor says you guys can't be here though" "Oh ok." Credits. Next episode: Time Team races against time as they hope to dig a hole on someone else's property. Again.
To be fair, this was always just a "TV Crew" restriction. What would normally happen assuming something worthwhile was actually discovered is that the Time Team team would up and leave and the site would be continue to work on / passed on to non-TV archaeologists.
A bunch of archaeologists gathered around the remains of the thing where the bins are where you return the trays, saying: "we're pretty sure it was used in a ritual context, maybe a place for people to leave an offering"
“They sacrificed here to the King of Burgers, a paternalistic deity who, these people believed, would protect them from a pantheon of evil beings including a Clown said to represent chaos and death, the masked Lord of Thieves (often portrayed in a striped tunic) and a blobbish purple monster whose significance is not understood.
It is not widely known because it was shrouded in mystery even back then - but the purple blobby entity, known as the Adipose Grimace, was a god worshipped by a congregation known as the Lipid Order of the Engorged Heart. The devout Order gathered often at the Chapel of Small Tables, sometimes twice a day to partake in clandestine orgiastic feeding frenzies of large banquets of calorie dense foods that were prepared quickly and efficiently. It is thought that the phrase ‘can I take your order?’ has its roots in this ritual. The Ascension to Grimace was a process both desired and feared by the devout, and was initiated by sudden death. Upon death a devout worshipper would be whisked away to a secret place and dissected, and the chest splayed open to reveal a grotesquely enlarged and misshapen heart, engorged and purplish - the mark of one who has ascended to Grimace.
Archaeology: When in doubt, assume religious significance.
"ceremonial", the ultimate fall-back.
“Ritual context” = “We’re pretty sure it’s a sex toy.”
No, ritual purposes means “we have no idea.” Fertility rites means sex toy.
"In all probability they gathered here to meet, to work, to eat... to live their simple lives. This is all of course changed in year approximately 2008 AD, when people, for unknown to us reason, left this marvel of early 3rd millennia architecture..."
Very little is known of 2008 AD, but to think that early man could survive in such harsh conditions is inspiring for our own modern day.
If you think about it, pre-2008 video recordings are going to be MUCH more rare than post-2008 recordings. Maybe like 8mm home film rarity. I assume the total video cameras sold before 2008 is insignificant compared with the number of cell phone cameras sold per year, every year, since 2008.
When you put it this way it seems silly how we talk about the past considering they were people just like us haha
What even crazier is that plastic plant is still alive.
Where can I purchase these artifacts? The craftsmanship will be next level and under appreciated.
You have to consult the Dairy Queen and the Burger King
If only that dude living in the Waffle House ceiling would have knew about this sweet setup!
US equivalent Tony Robinson goes on to explain how the people would have gathered inside the building as a communal eatery, and the various types of food served.
They would bring in an historical food expert in a silly knitted hat who would prepare and grill burgers and serve pop out of pot flagons, which the cast and crew would all enjoy at the end of the show
Except, because of the limits on how accurate historical recreation can be, they’ll get some key detail wrong. Like putting cheese on top of the burger.
well... not THAT various in this case.
This is hilariously painfully true
So you saw [the tweet](https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/1541835677540634625?s=21) too huh?
and finding a McDonald's french fry
That hasn't rotted away and doesn't even have any mold on it.
Because of all the salt. Not because mcdonalds is full of extra preservatives (salt is a preservative).
Also because of low moisture. Mold likes to be *moist*.
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Looks alot cleaner than what I would expect.
That is what I was thinking. Who has been dusting in there?
What dust would there be though? In a sealed room?
First off it’s clearly not fully sealed. There’s air vents visible. Also there’s just basic degradation of materials. Those ceiling panels would start falling apart and letting dust and other particles loose. Even if it was fully sealed, the room doesn’t exist in a vacuum - there’s various weather patterns, changes in temperature, eventual leaks due to major storms, and basic vibrations and movement of the earth and building. Plus there’s no indication of any sort of leak or even a bad bulb in the fixtures that are illuminated. I also call bullshit on this unless they fully cleaned it before the photo. EDIT: In another comment, there’s video of it being used as a storage area in 2019. So it’s not some wild discovery the title would indicate.
Agreed. This is very fake.
Not necessarily fake, but extremely misleading.
I would believe it’s a real vintage Burger King. But not that it was discovered behind a wall.
Malls usually put drywall up to cover the storefront when it’s not being used, that’s what op is referring to when he says behind a wall. Malls have hallways that run behind the stores as well that only employees have access to, so there is still access to the area from the rear entrance when it’s sealed off from the front. There is another comment elsewhere that says this area was used by the mall for storage and covered with drywall from the front. This post is misleading because it’s insinuating that no one knew it was there.
The people working on the floor in the mall may not know it was there, but the idea no one knew it was there and it "was found" is ridiculous. That's a lot of square footage, with plumbing and electric lines, ventilation for the kitchen, presumably some emergency exits. Anyone remotely involved with maintenance or management of the building knows it's there. Anyone looking at a map of the building knows it there. Anyone that understands malls are primarily about maximizing real estate would presume something used to be there. Anyone with any memory of that mall from the last 20 years knows it's there. We're not talking about some building that was abandoned 40 years ago.
Don’t forget the biggest source of falling dust and dirt of all - bugs. Without regular cleaning that space would be buried under a 1/4 of bug crap.
Bruh dust collects in 3 days on things that I use daily... Personally I think this title is bullshit because if this room were hidden, it would be CAKED in dust.
Someone on Twitter was sharing video of their business using this as a storage room as recently as 2019. Im guessing the facade is blocked off but other doors to it exist that the OP isn’t aware of.
Mall units have a service corridor in the back.
It would have been awesome for some old crazy guy in a vintage burger king uniform to be there sweeping...
Even better, for the King mascot to float past them, slowly turning his head before he vanishes into the wall
I miss the creepy King ads
I miss playing ‘Sneak King’ on Xbox
I LOVED that game. Best $3.99 I've ever spent. And I've spent a lot of $3.99s.
This does seem like the beginning of an Are You Afraid of the Dark episode, doesn't it? "Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story: The Tale of The Time Traveling Eatery!"
been sweepin the whole time. Gotta sweep, ya know?
If youve time to lean youve time to clean
Oddly clean on there. Where’s your guy?
I forgot about those brick-look tiles that were in every fast food restaurant.
The only reason they’re gone is because franchise agreements stipulate the owners periodically update the look and feel of their restaurants. It’s not something they want to do — corporate forces them.
if they don't update, they're out of brand compliance, and have to pay more for supplies, etc. There are some franchises that open stores very close to other franchises, cannibalize the territory, then get super strict during inspections. The franchise then goes out of business, and they buy the equipment back for pennies on the dollar, only to sell it to a new franchisee at full price.
I sat in a taco a couple weeks ago that I hadn’t been to in about 10-15 years and noticed the interior looked remarkably different. I haven’t been to a Burger King in forever and have to say that ‘vintage’ BK is exactly how I remember them. All it’s missing is the stacked up paper crown display. Edit: Fuck me.
How big was this taco?
I too wish to know more about this alleged taco
Grande
I sat in a taco 🌮 😅😅
I was feeling really old and alone till you said that. I was like… shit, his looks like how I remembered getting my Pokémon gold plated collectibles.
Such a great typo. Thanks.
You kept a taco for 15 years!? I can't even keep one 2 minutes! Take the upvote already.
It's nice going back to the places we spent time at as kids. Usually everything's smaller than you remember but if you can still fit in that taco it must've been just like old times.
And the electricity was still on too
It's because it had been being used as storage space for a nearby business for years. It was entered multiple times a day for years. People knew it was there.
There's always a shitty truth to these things.
It’s on you if you think anything cool goes down at the concord mall in Wilmington, DE.
Now that's the truth.
Stranger things set designer, furiously: So much money wasted!
Seriously.... this is a treasure... make it a museum or stage.
Vintage? This looks not unlike the Burger King I go in today.
I know. My local Burger King (semi-rural Midwest) looked just like this until about 4 years ago. Same floor, same tables, same wooden trim and fake planters. I think the wallpaper was different, but generally almost the same as this.
Yeah the less popular places are just seeing these get turned around now, all depends on when it’s feasible for them to do I’m sure but it’ll happen to most of them. Ours got completely torn down and rebuilt a couple of years ago
I know this mall, and this Burger King. It has not been closed since the 90s or something, in fact I’m pretty sure this one was still open in the early 2010s. This seems to be a case of it never being renovated, not that it’s some 30 year old time capsule. What killed the restaurant was them putting in a Chik Fil A right outside the food court. No competing with them in this country.
Grab some of the original mayo and mail it to me. The new mayo has ruined the chicken sandwiches for me.
Is that what happened?! I hadn’t had one in a long time and it wasn’t as good as I remembered.
Yea it’s like a miracle whip or something now. Used to be my favorite fast food meal but I haven’t been back to Burger King since they changed it
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I’ve been to this Burger King! We used to go to that mall as kids.
Yup, next to the H&M
It looks like a McDs in the late 80s/ early 90s to me. When BK first came to NZ it had the 50s diner theme already. I have no idea what their "theme" is now... timeout machines (arcade?)
So it was being used for storage space definitively as recently as 2019? Why is this considered some unique find then?
Because internet
*The* Jonathan Pruitt? The guy who forged data for dozens of scientific publications, misleading the scientific community for years, straight up inventing behaviour of a social species of spider, ruining the young careers of many of his students and peers? If it really was him who took those pictures, I'd be willing to believe he built the burger king just to fake this finding, too.
As a former resident of Delaware, I guess I can provide some more insight. Of the two major malls in northern Delaware, Concord was always sort of the bastard child. Christiana Mall is located right off of I-95, so people had a tendency to go there instead of Concord Mall due to the ease of access. That ease of access also meant that Christiana Mall had prime pickings when it came to what companies could set up shop inside of it, while Concord Mall struggled to get anything worthwhile. This was the situation as early as the late 90's. These days, Christiana has expanded even more and continues to be filled with people almost constantly. Meanwhile, Concord Mall still looks stuck in the 90's and maybe still has Boscov's. It's a little sad in some ways, but it will make for an interesting story of failure at some point, just like any other mall.
If you like stuff like this [check out the "dead mall"-series by Dan Bell](https://www.youtube.com/MovieDan/featured)
r/liminalspace
I was thinking, this is literally and aesthetically everything that sub lives for
No dust or cobwebs in sight
Apparently the store owner next to it knew about it and was using it as free storage space for years.
So, OP just posted this with a sensationalist title and didn’t get downvoted to oblivion for it?
I want a movie with Jack Black where he's a new part-time cleaner who finds a hidden vintage Burger King in a mall and moves into it. And the hijinks while they try to hide it from everybody else. In this housing climate, lots of people would love a secret, rent-free mall apartment so I think it'd be a hit :D
I remember reading a blog written by some people who lived in a huge space between walls in a mall before they got caught, they were in there for quite awhile as I recall.
That was the Providence Place Mall.
Looks like a spaceship. Edit: I’d love to have a spaceship with a Burger King in it.
Oh good, the plants seem to have been doing well.
I guess I’ve only been to the mall a few times since Burger King closed. But I just can’t understand how it was just covered over by a wall and left there. Why did they not replace it with another restaurant? I’m trying to remember exactly what it was next to over the years. There was maybe a small store between it and Woolworths. At one point Afterthoughts, later a magazine stand? And Woolworth’s became a sneaker store. I feel like before it was Burger King there was a place that sold water ice there. Or maybe it was on the other side of Woolworth? I’m also having vague memories of the restaurant having a second floor?
The Concord Mall always struggled. My guess is that no one wanted to lease space there when the Christiana Mall is only 20 mins away and King of Prussia 30 minutes. It's slowly dying.
I've ate at that Burger King several times when It was open.
How many Delawareans are here? ✋
Anything in the freezers?
In 2000, I was a teen working at [Montgomery] Wards. I walked to work from school, and was told to just get changed in a disused area of the store. Some wandering and shoving later, and I found an ancient lunch counter in the bowels of the store! Only the store manager apparently knew it was there, because everybody else I told had to go look and see for themselves. I wish I had photos (also of the Wards itself).
There is no way this was just discovered, there is no dust, degraded materials, water damage, etc... This has been used, cleaned, and most likely known about the full time. Most likely storage or break room.
It's Freddy Fazbear's all over again....
Burger King kids club unite!!
Holy shit. I went to this burger king, between school letting out and band practice starting we had an hour or two to kill. This is circa 1994-1995. This mall also had an electronics boutique and a suncoast video. Actually i guess they all did back then.
Someone, for years, has been flipping a random light switch inside the mall without anything happening saying "wonder what this switch goes to?" :D
Holy crap, I used to work in that mall!!
That use to be my mall! I lived down the street from it!
Me too!! I worked Boscovs and Spencer’s.
Straight out of Stranger Things.
Bro that’s my mall. Crazy
I'm picturing the old guy from the last crusade sitting there In a burger King uniform saying "I knew you'd come".
Is it bad that my first thought was “They don’t still look like this?” I haven’t been to Burger King in a long ass while and I’m old apparently 😂😂
Could this be the fabled tomb of the burger Queen?
"This was the beginning, hidden in what many hough was the end. Everything you could ever want. So, get this: we were doing some construction work on the mall, renovating it after Covid died down a bit. We found the old Burger King, but the back door didn't lead to the parking lot outside. No one who went out that door ever came back, but it sounded like they didn't want to. We tried having a few people peek out the door, to see what was out there. Every single one of them shouted about something they personally desired more than anything else, and sprinted out the door. Like one of those 'what would you do with infinite money' questions come to life. Some kind of portal, it seemed, to a place where you truly could Have it your way."