Monroeville Mall

Final question mark, probably maybe final living dead weekend.

So, you know, Pittsburgh lore, of course, Dawn of the Dead, one of the famous zombie movies by George Romero was filmed at the Monroeville Mall.

It's become kind of this shrine, this mecca for zombie fans.

There's a living dead museum inside.

But Monroeville Mall is probably going to be getting torn down next year.

Walmart bought it.

There has been plans to demolish it, but the timeline is a little bit unclear, all of which is to say this summer there was sort of this big to do about this annual convention that happens in the mall when zombie fans, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead fans like descend and celebrate and dress up, descend, rise from the grave, whatever, however you want to describe it.

It's happening at the mall October 16th to 18th.

And it's very depressing.

Well, funny you say that because I live in Pittsburgh and there is a mall here, the Monroeville Mall.

that where George Romero filmed Dawn of the Dead, the original Dawn of the Dead.

And it's funny, you go and you look and you see the side-by-sides of what the mall looks like today and then what it was in the film of like this desolate kind of overtaken post-apocalyptic thing.

Crazy going to the mall.

And we went on the tour where you go behind the scenes and saw like the... like the the room where they had the like the control room where they got the keys and then you know fought a zombie and it was just i had been to the monroeville mall before it was remodeled in the early 2000s and i went to this living dead weekend a couple years ago and this time i brought my brother who is a make of effects artist now and like oh

cool

savini was like the savini and then thriller were like the two big inspirations for him

You do look fantastic, George.

Always, always looking fashionable.

George was just telling me, Stephen, before you popped on, he recently visited the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh for the Days of Dead.

Yeah, because they're going to demolish the mall, right, George?

Such a cool place to be.

And the Monroeville Mall, obviously, which anyone who has not had a chance to go to the mall, do it because they are going to fucking knock it down next year.

So unfortunately, so now's your chance.

Go check it out.

Dude, insane.

Last year at fucking Monroeville Mall, me and our good buddy of ours, Chase, we were there setting up to do some vending, and across from us, and this other guy who's like an older, who just had some random fucking movie stuff, was this vhs tape sitting there nice for a price that was insane as far as a steel go to chase

by it

so yeah he did

Right.

And we see that with just what recently happened with Monroeville Mall.

It fell victim to the entity that is Walmart.

Boo.

Each year they have a Living Dead Weekend, which is a giant horror convention in tribute to Dawn of the Dead.

Walmart has recently purchased of this mall and it's slated to become a one of their distribution centers so they're going to tear down an iconic piece of film history and not just me but thousands of other people specifically youtubers have made these videos and they're out there and hopefully they stay up there forever and because someday iconic sad iconic filming spots do disappear and it will disappear just like george a romero's was classic that's uh that's something that if you didn't know about that they're going to have one more living dead weekend at the monroeville mall coming up mid-october so if you haven't seen that they have the living dead museum in there too you might want to go take a look at that the museum will live on somewhere else but if you want to see the original location if you're a fan of all the zombie movies you might want to put that at the top of your list um i believe tickets are available it was a good plug for them good point

love that okay we do have some questions coming in so we're gonna tell one more story and then we're gonna open it up to the Q&A we're

gonna do one story and then we're gonna do one big story yes

Back in those days, me and my friends used to go on weekend road trips to haunted locations.

We took trips to the Bunny Man Bridge, the Happy Birthday House, the Monroeville Mall, and the Graveyard in Night of the Living Dead.

My birthday's in late October, so the gang thought it'd be a guess to celebrate my 21st at one of the bars in Tarrytown, New York.

Tarrytown, as you probably know, really plays up this Sleepy Hollow business for the tourists.