Eerily Empty: Video Shows Open San Francisco Mall Deserted Days Before Christmas

Posted • December 18, 2024: Photographer Tom Hawk has released a video from inside the Crocker Galleria mall in San Francisco. One would expect the mail to be full of shoppers with Christmas fast approaching, but the mall is eerily empty. The video is from just before 5 PM on Tuesday. Take the tour. Look at all of these beautiful Christmas decorations at the Crocker Galleria mall in San Francisco. It’s 4:47 PM and everybody should be shopping and buying Christmas presents for their family, but nobody is in this mall. There are only three stores left that are open here. The escalators hum on inside this beautiful but empty decorated mall. Outside on Market Street the fentanyl addicts lay folded over while a street performer sings Last Christmas to an empty Street. -- Hawk says the mall only has three stores still open. Everything else is shuttered. Hawk explains why there are no homeless people roaming the mall, they are not allowed in.

Many people have great memories of the mall during its heyday, but some say its decline has been going on for several years. Many blame Governor Gavin Newsom, Democrat leadership and progressive policies. Past shoppers say the area is not safe, so it’s not worth risking your life and property to go there. (…)

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