7:10 I get what you're saying here, and I'm reminded of something that Marshall McLuhan said about advertising: “Do you know that most people read ads about things they already own? They don’t read ads to buy things, but to feel reassured that they have already bought the right thing. In other words, they get huge information satisfaction from ads far more than they do from the product itself,”
The thing I hate about everything going digital is it makes you loose the social aspect in everything. It’s less common to go to the mall with your friends now instead of just staying home and ordering what you want. I’m a very social person so accepting that new reality has been difficult.😭
I live near the rich malls (Fashion Island, South Coast Plaza Mall, Spectrum Mall) which are still thriving. If i go to other malls, they're all dead. One that is dead near me is going to have an anime convention in the entire mall.
The video you just posted to the main channel focused on a mall outside of Chicago for one segment and immediately I recognized the layout, architecture and even bad corporate sculpture. Turns out the same company built one of my childhood malls, Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg, MD. I recently moved out of the US and the month before I left was actually the last month Lakeforest was in operation. I went there one day and did a complete lap just for nostalgia's sake...most of the stores had been long closed by that point but that same layout, bad sculpture, etc was still there. I definitely have fond memories of visiting the mall with my mother and grandmother as a child. Goofing off to kill time as a teen. As of writing this I think the mall just stands empty, though I hear they have plans to tear it down and build housing. Though it's maybe interesting to note that the original site was a community park and man-made lake, where the mall took its name from...dust to dust etc.
Feeling so fortunate to live near a thriving mall. Went a few days ago and saw a girl begging her mom to let her get a revealing dress and she was saying NO. Tale as old as time!!
Malls are still incredibly fun and convenient, especially in places where the weather is sketchy for a good portion of the year. I feel as if the successful malls these days have a healthy balance of restaurants, entertainment, and attractions to go along with the usual shopping.
As a Canadian, let us forever be grateful for Sunrise Records for hanging in there with consistent business (at least at my local mall) in an increasingly digital music world. They’re not immune to things like diversifying or attempting to back old brands, but I did my transition to work there for my last three high school semesters, and let me tell you, seeing such consistent business almost every day I was there felt *real* good. And while we’re at it let’s be just as grateful for our Toys R Us stores for many of the same reasons ❤️❤️❤️
Sunrise and Toys R Us is the same company up here, and sadly, Sunrise just closed down something like three stores (I know of) in my city in the last eight months or so. In fact, in one mall, BOTH Toys R Us AND Sunrise moved out, and with the Disney Store having left before them, there's literally no reason for me to go to that mall anymore XD
I love online shopping sure but like nothing beats the mall and the big anchor stores and eating in the food cort or catching the latest blockbuster movie at the cinema if your mall had one and just there's nothing like the way things used to be in general like i was born in 2004 and feel like im part of the last generation to actually experience all this!
Malls reached their peak with West Edmonton Mall, but alas, even that has seen better days. It's still pretty much full, but almost all the cool stuff is long gone or a shadow of its former self. There was a wonderful sense of fauxpulence there, with Ming vases and exotic animals surrounded by brass and glass leading you on to the submarine ride or World Waterpark or Fantasyland (now Galaxyland Powered by Hasbro). It was mall-by-way-of-themepark, making the shopping mall into a full recreation destination (including its own hotel on site).
The Nostalgia Economy is real. I over payed on Taco Bell items simply because they were beloved items I missed. And a few that were before my time were great to get, feeling like I was kind of time traveling. 😂 I’m a big consumer of nostalgia though. Watching old “What It Was Like” videos on social media are like crack to me. 🤣
My best memory would be shopping with my mom at Sears, Dillard's and so forth. It's been 4 years since I stepped inside the mall in my city. I worked at Suncoast video from late 98 to late 2003 and then Borders books and music 2006 to 2008. I loved those years. So when I visited the mall here in 2020 before Covid hit. None of the stores opened until 11am and everything closed by 7pm everyday. It was dead and really the only people walking around were over 70 getting their daily exercise. It was sad to see nothing I remember existing anymore. Macy's was open but maybe 3 others were shopping . All there is are overpriced jewelry stores, cell phone kiosks and shoe stores. Hot topic was open but the atmosphere was lame. 😢
Ok, this is a crazy idea, check it... Imagine making a choose your own adventure movie about going to a new kind of multiverse mall. It quantum transforms and you visit various mall dimensions. In one, it combines social media with physical malls so people can visit the physical mall via a Tesla robot and VR rig. In another dimension, the mall goes back to ancient Rome. In another, its a whole mall world,etc. Logan's Run was shot at a cool mall in Canada, so was Scanners. You could go to any other movie with a mall scene that is all part of the same Hollywood mall.
It’s true that this year is probably the worst year for Black Friday I have ever experienced but I remember that people were tired of all the Black Friday mayhem- myself included, because it was just so negative. Also, it’s not fair to employees of these stores to put them through that. I have zero nostalgia for that mess.
Im also canadian my favorite mall was the county fair mall in fort erie Its torn down now its a hospital for the first elderly the penn center I live in Florida now
7:10 I get what you're saying here, and I'm reminded of something that Marshall McLuhan said about advertising: “Do you know that most people read ads about things they already own? They don’t read ads to buy things, but to feel reassured that they have already bought the right thing. In other words, they get huge information satisfaction from ads far more than they do from the product itself,”
The thing I hate about everything going digital is it makes you loose the social aspect in everything. It’s less common to go to the mall with your friends now instead of just staying home and ordering what you want. I’m a very social person so accepting that new reality has been difficult.😭
I feel the same. Look, I shop online plenty. But I’m starting to push back. Being around people is more fun than clicking a buy now button
shopping with my mom and eating at the mall were my favorite memories... also the mall at christmas time when they had the giant trees everywhere
I live near the rich malls (Fashion Island, South Coast Plaza Mall, Spectrum Mall) which are still thriving. If i go to other malls, they're all dead. One that is dead near me is going to have an anime convention in the entire mall.
The video you just posted to the main channel focused on a mall outside of Chicago for one segment and immediately I recognized the layout, architecture and even bad corporate sculpture. Turns out the same company built one of my childhood malls, Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg, MD. I recently moved out of the US and the month before I left was actually the last month Lakeforest was in operation. I went there one day and did a complete lap just for nostalgia's sake...most of the stores had been long closed by that point but that same layout, bad sculpture, etc was still there. I definitely have fond memories of visiting the mall with my mother and grandmother as a child. Goofing off to kill time as a teen. As of writing this I think the mall just stands empty, though I hear they have plans to tear it down and build housing. Though it's maybe interesting to note that the original site was a community park and man-made lake, where the mall took its name from...dust to dust etc.
Feeling so fortunate to live near a thriving mall. Went a few days ago and saw a girl begging her mom to let her get a revealing dress and she was saying NO. Tale as old as time!!
As a guy in his 60's, it still amazes me that RCA and Sears ceased to exist. Those were cornerstone names that seemed immortal.
Malls are still incredibly fun and convenient, especially in places where the weather is sketchy for a good portion of the year. I feel as if the successful malls these days have a healthy balance of restaurants, entertainment, and attractions to go along with the usual shopping.
As a Canadian, let us forever be grateful for Sunrise Records for hanging in there with consistent business (at least at my local mall) in an increasingly digital music world. They’re not immune to things like diversifying or attempting to back old brands, but I did my transition to work there for my last three high school semesters, and let me tell you, seeing such consistent business almost every day I was there felt *real* good.
And while we’re at it let’s be just as grateful for our Toys R Us stores for many of the same reasons ❤️❤️❤️
Sunrise and Toys R Us is the same company up here, and sadly, Sunrise just closed down something like three stores (I know of) in my city in the last eight months or so. In fact, in one mall, BOTH Toys R Us AND Sunrise moved out, and with the Disney Store having left before them, there's literally no reason for me to go to that mall anymore XD
I love online shopping sure but like nothing beats the mall and the big anchor stores and eating in the food cort or catching the latest blockbuster movie at the cinema if your mall had one and just there's nothing like the way things used to be in general like i was born in 2004 and feel like im part of the last generation to actually experience all this!
Good Video J
Malls reached their peak with West Edmonton Mall, but alas, even that has seen better days. It's still pretty much full, but almost all the cool stuff is long gone or a shadow of its former self. There was a wonderful sense of fauxpulence there, with Ming vases and exotic animals surrounded by brass and glass leading you on to the submarine ride or World Waterpark or Fantasyland (now Galaxyland Powered by Hasbro). It was mall-by-way-of-themepark, making the shopping mall into a full recreation destination (including its own hotel on site).
The Nostalgia Economy is real. I over payed on Taco Bell items simply because they were beloved items I missed. And a few that were before my time were great to get, feeling like I was kind of time traveling. 😂
I’m a big consumer of nostalgia though. Watching old “What It Was Like” videos on social media are like crack to me. 🤣
Hey, be careful watching those videos cuz it's like the Ring. If you watch it for too long, you will become a part of that dimension. Just kidding. 😄
My best memory would be shopping with my mom at Sears, Dillard's and so forth. It's been 4 years since I stepped inside the mall in my city. I worked at Suncoast video from late 98 to late 2003 and then Borders books and music 2006 to 2008. I loved those years. So when I visited the mall here in 2020 before Covid hit. None of the stores opened until 11am and everything closed by 7pm everyday. It was dead and really the only people walking around were over 70 getting their daily exercise. It was sad to see nothing I remember existing anymore. Macy's was open but maybe 3 others were shopping . All there is are overpriced jewelry stores, cell phone kiosks and shoe stores. Hot topic was open but the atmosphere was lame. 😢
Ok, this is a crazy idea, check it...
Imagine making a choose your own adventure movie about going to a new kind of multiverse mall.
It quantum transforms and you visit various mall dimensions.
In one, it combines social media with physical malls so people can visit the physical mall via a Tesla robot and VR rig.
In another dimension, the mall goes back to ancient Rome.
In another, its a whole mall world,etc.
Logan's Run was shot at a cool mall in Canada, so was Scanners. You could go to any other movie with a mall scene that is all part of the same Hollywood mall.
It’s true that this year is probably the worst year for Black Friday I have ever experienced but I remember that people were tired of all the Black Friday mayhem- myself included, because it was just so negative. Also, it’s not fair to employees of these stores to put them through that. I have zero nostalgia for that mess.
Im also canadian my favorite mall was the county fair mall in fort erie
Its torn down now its a hospital for the first elderly the penn center
I live in Florida now
WTF r u even talking about?! My mall is perfectly alive and thriving maybe u need to do better research on that