I felt like i was with my mom and sister on an ordinary Saturday in 1996. She's taking us to the mall to return a sweater. She buys us those sugar cookies with rainbow sugar crystals. We beg to go into the Disney store, but we go to the Gap Kids instead. We play pretend while my mom shuffles through the sale rack. What a mediocrely great day. I'm 25 now and still love those ordinary days with my mom and sis... the 3 of us live in different states now... Missing them...
I remember when a lot of malls in southern California used to have neon pastel colored signs and lighting fixtures and giant sand filled planter boxes with fake palm trees. When Taco Bell used to have those hard plastic booth seats with neon pastel colored "cushions." When they used to serve water in those SOLO Jazz cups.
@@RETROGEMS I know of one Taco Bell, still in business today, that still has the old design. I used to remember a mall from my childhood that had the 70s-80s aesthetic, a large bronze statue of a horse on the first floor, and a low cost movie theater that used to show old movies.
people who had video cameras were so excited to use them to film anything and everything, I mean I don't kno where it's taken from but I can totally see a regular guy dutifully adding his local mall to his video collection.
Place looks pretty empty. It was probably a dying mall at the time and he wanted to get it on video before it closed for good. Maybe it's where he an his friends hung-out when they were teenagers. I shot some video of a near abandoned mall about ten years ago just because it looked so sad and desolate and I found it interesting. Now it's been demolished.
If he went during the early morning on the weekday, it's very possible for it to be this empty. If you had a video camera in 1994, you filmed EVERYTHING. It was really one of the only ways to store your own memories at the time.
I grew up going to this mall as a kid. It was dying off since the 2000s sadly. Its a great area. Currently they are getting ready to tear down Landmark Mall and make a new upscale community with shops, restaurants, offices, and living.
The golden days when video arcades and cartoons were my life. Before everyone lost their freaking minds due to unsocial media. When everyone wasn't racist, when you could walk around without hate in the air, when you could actually enjoy the day without some partisan nonsense injecting itself into every facet of life. Before syrup was racist and burning down a city was considered peaceful.
@@matheuscruz8574 Nah... I doubt it's that. At least for me, it's not that. I can spend it and it won't hurt my pocket. But still... it all feels normal now. As a kid, each purchase was very exciting. Couldn't wait to open the packaging etc. Nowadays I buy shit and throw it on the PC desk and open it 8 weeks later.
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@NO NAME Exactly. It’s not because I have to spend my own money. It’s because of exactly what you said.
Also, I used to live in the Baltimore/DC area... malls like this are all over... many of them get closed and torn down and usually replaced by smaller strip malls or megastores... but some of these 80-90's era malls survive... It's like stepping into a eerie time machine. However, I do feel like the person who shot this video made sure to go on like a Tuesday morning right when it opened and he knew there would only be staff there...
This Is Dan Bell - he shoots a whole "Dead Mall" series here on TH-cam. He's from somewhere in Maryland. I as well grew up in MD going to Owings Mills Mall - GONE
The only places these sort of malls still exist and kind of still work are in larger towns or small cities. It was a bit of a fad I guess and everyone wanted a piece of that pie but most of these large malls died fairly fast when online shopping caught on leaving one maybe two for an area.
Landmark Mall opened in 1965, and was the first mall in the Wahington D.C. area to feature three anchor department stores. Originally an outdoor mall, it was enclosed in 1990.
why can't open dead malls open drone races inside the mall maybe they can raise money donations for the mall maybe they can put theme parks inside the these dead malls.
Some of this footage is such good quality it almost looks like it could've been filmed yesterday. But really, this all happened nearly 30 years ago. That's crazy.
It’s like Lincoln Square Mall in Evansville Indiana where my some of my family lives. A doctors office and a restaurant are probably the main things keeping it open. Also mall walkers. There’s also a snack stand and an antique store. Though actually this mall is doing better and quite a bit larger.
Honestly I think someone messed up and dated it wrong because most of the clothing, hairstyles and even technology looks too outdated to be 1994. Definitely looks more like the 80s
@@winterlynn9012 another reply mentioned this mall was open air before 1990, and the video shows it as having a roof, so maybe it was the people who were a bit behind the times?
@@winterlynn9012 There are twitter and facebook signage in this video. This is not the 80s, or 90s, in fact it has to be mid thousands or later, sorry to burst your bubble.
Man, you had to have money and some dedication to drag one of these bad boy camcorders into the mall in the early 90s. I don't know when they started to get more handheld.
I live in the area now and I have never visited Landmark Mall, but I've heard about it in conversations or I've read about it in the Post. I know this was posted quite a while back, but I enjoyed this mix tonight while just piddling around on my computer. One of the coolest things about this clip, cinematically, is watching the kids from the 80s shopping in the department store (trying on hats, checking out records, being silly). Are they a group of friends? Are some of them lovers (couples)? Are any siblings? Who are each of these people and how do they all know one another? Are they still alive? Do they still keep in touch? (etc....) Their outfits are interesting, sure, and so's the hair, but you get a window into a different time, which is also fascinating... notice the guy in the skinny black tee holding a cigarette? Back then (even though it was steadily becoming less common), things like that (smoking in public spaces, in this instance) were allowed. It would be unheard of now. So much has changed: some of it for worse, but some of it for the better, too. I enjoyed this (the music mixes and the music-and-video, together) this evening -- thank you!
The thumbnail is the Eatery of my childhood local mall (RIP). Last time I went to that mall was to see one of the Hobbit movies shortly before it was demolished. Walking through the empty, darkened halls with the tall arching central pillar lit by a dim light from below felt very poetic and fitting after seeing the abandoned city in the movie. Anyway, that mall was super retro by the time it was torn down, but most of my memories are full of even more neon lighting and wacky 90s carpeting. Obviously nostalgia brought me here.
this is whats happening to our malls across the United States..tons of anchor store closings and little to hold interest....even pre-covid.. Everything is going online...sighs
Not a mall per se, but I feel sorry for some of the run-down parts of West End in Dallas that were thriving in the 1990s but that fell on hard times once the 2000s hit....there were some cool "indoor market" kinds of spaces, including a working carousel....all gone now....sad.
It is, and it has to be at least 10 years later than the title says because of the social media signage. Earliest 2004 but I doubt most people advertised their FB pages immediately.
I miss malls with a passion, if something happened to the Internet and it gets demolished, we’re going to go back to the malls again and make them popular again. Give me malls, or give me death! ✊🏽😎
it says: as of april 2015 only two anchors remain (sears and macy`s) parts of the rest of the mall are occupied by hair salons and furniture stores doens empty stores have been gated shut or concealed behind walls
Yeah after commenting to a bunch of posts about how this is actually from the mid thousands; I realize that there are multiple videos in this mix, Dan Bell, Landmark and possibly a third mall.
I used to go to this mall with my family as a child in the 90s... Landmark Mall. Funny it is still there and empty. Being used by Amazon and sometimes big studios to film. There are large plans by developers to turn it a urban condo community with shops and streets.
I want to purchase an now bankrupt mall and restore it to 90s glory, then create a paintball experience throughout the mall set to vaporwave tunes over the speaker system
should i start recording the malls where i live so 25 yrs from now people will say" holy chit, you used2b able to buy stuff in a brick n mortar and talk to real people instead of just buying chit on amazon&having the delivery driver unceremoniously chuck it on your doorstep w/o knocking?
Back when I was a kid in the 90s, I always get psyched up when it comes to going to the mall with my family. Of course the mall that I grew up with is empty right now. The movie posters and phone booths are not there anymore. But the one thing that remains unchanged, is the colored flooring I remember. 😭
The 2nd / 3rd Floor is always totally dead in these malls. Must be cheap rent, for all those sub-par shops to still be open. Gotta say, they sure kept this mall in great shape, and keeping its originality over all these years.
Idk how urbex is still a thing being an explorer in cali, but I love doing it for what I can find (very small in state stuff) but I do know for sure that out here we actually DO have an actual “Carousel Mall” it’s been abandoned for a long time tho
9:20 The classic Oprah Winfrey theme!!!!!! I still remember that to this goddamn day! Holy shit I feel so young from hearing it now I feel so old at 40 at the same time!
I remember the excitement of going to the mall.... kids these days don't know what that is. They have everything on their stupid phones. I hate what the world has become.
I felt like i was with my mom and sister on an ordinary Saturday in 1996. She's taking us to the mall to return a sweater. She buys us those sugar cookies with rainbow sugar crystals. We beg to go into the Disney store, but we go to the Gap Kids instead. We play pretend while my mom shuffles through the sale rack. What a mediocrely great day. I'm 25 now and still love those ordinary days with my mom and sis... the 3 of us live in different states now... Missing them...
goth hunty time is crazy
a sense of millennium runs to me
How dare you copy my exact life.
and they were never seen agan kuz spongeboy found out where they lived (:
Right in the feels with that last sentence...
I remember when a lot of malls in southern California used to have neon pastel colored signs and lighting fixtures and giant sand filled planter boxes with fake palm trees. When Taco Bell used to have those hard plastic booth seats with neon pastel colored "cushions." When they used to serve water in those SOLO Jazz cups.
Did someone say Jazz Solo Cup?
I remember that old-school Taco Bell design, wow!
Seriously what the fuck happened? We have strayed far from what made America great: High-Lo tech and no smartphones.
@@RETROGEMS I know of one Taco Bell, still in business today, that still has the old design. I used to remember a mall from my childhood that had the 70s-80s aesthetic, a large bronze statue of a horse on the first floor, and a low cost movie theater that used to show old movies.
Damn sounds like a time where you could just feel the energy & adrenaline cause there was always something happening around you
It's the proof we are living in the future we are on the internet in nostalgia crying about real places we have enjoyed.
I'm still wondering what caused a 1994 man to take such an absolutely designed and comfortable record of a mall.
people who had video cameras were so excited to use them to film anything and everything, I mean I don't kno where it's taken from but I can totally see a regular guy dutifully adding his local mall to his video collection.
Place looks pretty empty. It was probably a dying mall at the time and he wanted to get it on video before it closed for good. Maybe it's where he an his friends hung-out when they were teenagers. I shot some video of a near abandoned mall about ten years ago just because it looked so sad and desolate and I found it interesting. Now it's been demolished.
If he went during the early morning on the weekday, it's very possible for it to be this empty. If you had a video camera in 1994, you filmed EVERYTHING. It was really one of the only ways to store your own memories at the time.
It looks like he's filming a lot of random people unawares. Maybe he was a serial killer!
I grew up going to this mall as a kid. It was dying off since the 2000s sadly. Its a great area. Currently they are getting ready to tear down Landmark Mall and make a new upscale community with shops, restaurants, offices, and living.
Setting this music to a Dan Bell video? Bravo, fucking bravo!
The golden days when video arcades and cartoons were my life. Before everyone lost their freaking minds due to unsocial media.
When everyone wasn't racist, when you could walk around without hate in the air, when you could actually enjoy the day without some partisan nonsense injecting itself into every facet of life. Before syrup was racist and burning down a city was considered peaceful.
I miss going to the mall as a kid.... Its not the same now that I'm older....
Because now you have to spend your own money
@@matheuscruz8574 Nah... I doubt it's that. At least for me, it's not that. I can spend it and it won't hurt my pocket. But still... it all feels normal now. As a kid, each purchase was very exciting. Couldn't wait to open the packaging etc. Nowadays I buy shit and throw it on the PC desk and open it 8 weeks later.
@NO NAME Exactly. It’s not because I have to spend my own money. It’s because of exactly what you said.
Very true.
"mommy why is this guy recording the mall?"
Keep quiet. He's recording a time portal for the future.
Because of A E S T H E T I C S
Because of the 80's my son
He thinks in 26 years, what he's recorded will still be relevant. Don't stare at him....
Also, I used to live in the Baltimore/DC area... malls like this are all over... many of them get closed and torn down and usually replaced by smaller strip malls or megastores... but some of these 80-90's era malls survive... It's like stepping into a eerie time machine.
However, I do feel like the person who shot this video made sure to go on like a Tuesday morning right when it opened and he knew there would only be staff there...
Cherry Voodoo yep
This Is Dan Bell - he shoots a whole "Dead Mall" series here on TH-cam. He's from somewhere in Maryland. I as well grew up in MD going to Owings Mills Mall - GONE
The only places these sort of malls still exist and kind of still work are in larger towns or small cities. It was a bit of a fad I guess and everyone wanted a piece of that pie but most of these large malls died fairly fast when online shopping caught on leaving one maybe two for an area.
Only one still realign thriving close to me is Montgomery mall,lakeforest and white flint are both either gone or good as gone noe
Spending money you don't have on things you don't need. The mall.
-George Carlin 2005
Half the price of anything there was to pay for the big mall.
70-80s retro was even big in the 90s!
The 80s truly was the last real decade.
This is how we say goodbye to the decade we were born in
Anyone else feel sorry for all the mall plants withering away and left behind?
Landmark Mall opened in 1965, and was the first mall in the Wahington D.C. area to feature three anchor department stores. Originally an outdoor mall, it was enclosed in 1990.
Adler Hitolf OMG I live near that mall! Too bad it's dying off.
iskandir really dude?
It used to have an FYE and a Chick-fil-a, but not anymore.
Darrrn youuu Amazon!!!!!!
This is very good. Just watched Logan's Run (1977) so I was in the mood for some V Wave.
This looks a lot more like 1984. I can't believe it's 1994. The styles are so 80s.
The Early 1990s still looked a lot like the Late 80s, things didn’t stop looking 80s until like 1995, so 1994 still had a lot of late 80s influences
Crazy man malls used to be the shit specially being a teenager in the 90s this is where you went to meet girls or go to the arcade or movies
Love Dan Bell's Dead Mall Series... perfect match for vaporwave music.
The start of this video is Dan Bell's video from The Landmark Mall.
why can't open dead malls open drone races inside the mall maybe they can raise money donations for the mall
maybe they can put theme parks inside the these dead malls.
nice work on the Laura Branigan remix, 15:32.
17:00 LAURA BRANIGAN!!! "Self Control" I recognized the guitar instantly! :-)
Some of this footage is such good quality it almost looks like it could've been filmed yesterday. But really, this all happened nearly 30 years ago. That's crazy.
It was filmed a couple years ago lol
It's sad how you look into the future and you realize that malls might not even exist anymore...
So true
oh you know just out testing my new Sony Handycam VHS tape recorder
I remember those well - the cameras that had a 1.5 to 3hr battery life. lmao
in 2005.... yall need to pay attention.
i,ve never known pleasure like this
It's weird that this video recording was done as if to be included in this TH-cam video 22 years later.
What's weirder is that there are facebook signs and facebook wasn't public until 2004... HMMMMMMMMMM
Seeing such lively hubs of human activity become a lifeless shell of a place.... I get so dang depressed.
20:14 I wonder how blown away this woman would be if she was watching this one day and saw herself 22 years ago. She's gotta be like 26 or 27 now.
This video is at MOST 15 years old, there are facebook ads on signs. I appreciate everyone's blind love for this lie though.
@@taylordcraig timestamp?
It’s like Lincoln Square Mall in Evansville Indiana where my some of my family lives. A doctors office and a restaurant are probably the main things keeping it open. Also mall walkers. There’s also a snack stand and an antique store. Though actually this mall is doing better and quite a bit larger.
so great that you got vintage videos of the mall!
He didn't. These are all Dan Bell Videos.
@@utubeisCensorred not all of it right?
seeing all this footage reminds me of my childhood mall which (after being abandoned for like 3 yrs) just got torn down :(
The guy doing exercises on the top floor is like something out of a David Lynch movie.
I was here yesterday...Ｉ ｎｅｖｅｒ ｌｅｆｔ．
this was 1994 but the people look like they from 1984 the way they are dressed in this video. .
Honestly I think someone messed up and dated it wrong because most of the clothing, hairstyles and even technology looks too outdated to be 1994. Definitely looks more like the 80s
@@winterlynn9012 another reply mentioned this mall was open air before 1990, and the video shows it as having a roof, so maybe it was the people who were a bit behind the times?
@@winterlynn9012 There are twitter and facebook signage in this video. This is not the 80s, or 90s, in fact it has to be mid thousands or later, sorry to burst your bubble.
Yeah, with the greenish lighting, the merchandise, and the way people are dressed, I'm sure it's from 1984, especially @ 21:00
33:19 That Sakura Card Captor music tho.
Dude writing the title was also high as hell.
Let me tell you, as an native Spanish speaker, that the title makes no sense xD
Man, you had to have money and some dedication to drag one of these bad boy camcorders into the mall in the early 90s. I don't know when they started to get more handheld.
first song is sampling black moon- who got the props I believe
Nick Bond Ronnie Laws - Tidal Wave
Kinda need the sources for these,
Some of these slap pretty hard when you speed them up. lol
I live in the area now and I have never visited Landmark Mall, but I've heard about it in conversations or I've read about it in the Post. I know this was posted quite a while back, but I enjoyed this mix tonight while just piddling around on my computer. One of the coolest things about this clip, cinematically, is watching the kids from the 80s shopping in the department store (trying on hats, checking out records, being silly). Are they a group of friends? Are some of them lovers (couples)? Are any siblings? Who are each of these people and how do they all know one another? Are they still alive? Do they still keep in touch? (etc....) Their outfits are interesting, sure, and so's the hair, but you get a window into a different time, which is also fascinating... notice the guy in the skinny black tee holding a cigarette? Back then (even though it was steadily becoming less common), things like that (smoking in public spaces, in this instance) were allowed. It would be unheard of now. So much has changed: some of it for worse, but some of it for the better, too.
I enjoyed this (the music mixes and the music-and-video, together) this evening -- thank you!
The thumbnail is the Eatery of my childhood local mall (RIP). Last time I went to that mall was to see one of the Hobbit movies shortly before it was demolished. Walking through the empty, darkened halls with the tall arching central pillar lit by a dim light from below felt very poetic and fitting after seeing the abandoned city in the movie.
Anyway, that mall was super retro by the time it was torn down, but most of my memories are full of even more neon lighting and wacky 90s carpeting. Obviously nostalgia brought me here.
Cries in being unable to live through the 80s/90s.
this empty ass mall gives me the creeps.
This is 1994!? looks like 1987
22:32 Akogare from Card Captor Sakura identified. 😌
Update: 33:19 also a CCS soundtrack. 😆
this is whats happening to our malls across the United States..tons of anchor store closings and little to hold interest....even pre-covid.. Everything is going online...sighs
Not a mall per se, but I feel sorry for some of the run-down parts of West End in Dallas that were thriving in the 1990s but that fell on hard times once the 2000s hit....there were some cool "indoor market" kinds of spaces, including a working carousel....all gone now....sad.
Wait.. this is video straight from This is Dan Bell..
..I think.
Arctiblaine it is
It is, and it has to be at least 10 years later than the title says because of the social media signage. Earliest 2004 but I doubt most people advertised their FB pages immediately.
I miss malls with a passion, if something happened to the Internet and it gets demolished, we’re going to go back to the malls again and make them popular again. Give me malls, or give me death! ✊🏽😎
This made me cry
Looks like a whole new world that was forgotten
it says: as of april 2015 only two anchors remain (sears and macy`s) parts of the rest of the mall are occupied by hair salons and furniture stores doens empty stores have been gated shut or concealed behind walls
dude this place was the "THE BOMB.COM" IN THE 90'S
Beautifull side of capitalism
Some of the mall footage is from Landmark Mall in Alexandria, VA! I used to go there all the time as a kid. RIP
Yeah after commenting to a bunch of posts about how this is actually from the mid thousands; I realize that there are multiple videos in this mix, Dan Bell, Landmark and possibly a third mall.
I'll be surprised if the pandemic doesn't finish off a lot of Malls that were already dying on the vine.....
22:32 Marcandrea - Fotos y Videos
is a slightly distorted version of a track of the Card Captor Sakura OST.
33:19 Marcandrea - Antes de hacer algo con miedo lo piensa o también llamado no temas (no del verbo temer sino significando canción)
also
There was an ad on this! Curious to know what company would market to vaprowave listeners, looked like a museum..it was too fast.
The music gets you really pumped when he's going down the escalator
well these malls are good for "mallwalkers", noticed a few in the video
Good old days when people recorded in front of them, without sticking their faces into the camera and taking selfies
dan bell is great, nice mix.
22:28 did my man really just go for the booty creep shot ??
Apparently scenes in _Wonder Woman 1984_ was filmed in this mall🤔
I LOVE DAN BELL!
I hear the 1979 Fuji TV intro at the beginning!
I used to go to this mall with my family as a child in the 90s... Landmark Mall. Funny it is still there and empty. Being used by Amazon and sometimes big studios to film. There are large plans by developers to turn it a urban condo community with shops and streets.
I want to purchase an now bankrupt mall and restore it to 90s glory, then create a paintball experience throughout the mall set to vaporwave tunes over the speaker system
I'd like to go to the mall sometimes where I live but things got a little too, you know.
should i start recording the malls where i live so 25 yrs from now people will say" holy chit, you used2b able to buy stuff in a brick n mortar and talk to real people instead of just buying chit on amazon&having the delivery driver unceremoniously chuck it on your doorstep w/o knocking?
Yea but 25 years from now it won’t be a delivery driver. That job would long be taken by a machine or drone by then!
16:15 Like every dude I went to high school with..
My local mall was looking like this at one point. Thankfully more businesses had the opportunity to move there and did.
Really 94? I was thinking 84?
I've gotta get video of the mall that's dying near me
I thought the "Old Fart's Wife" hat was classy.
The exterior of the store @ 41:40 is amazing. I've never seen one like it.
Very cool. It looks like 1930s streamline moderne storefronts.
Back when I was a kid in the 90s, I always get psyched up when it comes to going to the mall with my family. Of course the mall that I grew up with is empty right now. The movie posters and phone booths are not there anymore. But the one thing that remains unchanged, is the colored flooring I remember. 😭
22:40 tho
I just love that late 80s/early 90s decor that starts around 8:48.
The 2nd / 3rd Floor is always totally dead in these malls. Must be cheap rent, for all those sub-par shops to still be open. Gotta say, they sure kept this mall in great shape, and keeping its originality over all these years.
Idk how urbex is still a thing being an explorer in cali, but I love doing it for what I can find (very small in state stuff) but I do know for sure that out here we actually DO have an actual “Carousel Mall” it’s been abandoned for a long time tho
Whoa, it looks so Mall...éfique
こいつぁーすげえや
This is Dan bells video am I right
Yup, you're correct!
9:20 The classic Oprah Winfrey theme!!!!!! I still remember that to this goddamn day! Holy shit I feel so young from hearing it now I feel so old at 40 at the same time!
Yo its the Land Mark mall in Alexandria, VA XD
I remember the excitement of going to the mall.... kids these days don't know what that is. They have everything on their stupid phones.
I hate what the world has become.
Where's the place in the thumbnail?
You know the answer?
From someone who lives down the street from a Carousel mall, the mall video was a bit too lively. Still great though.
I use this to fall asleep at night
Ditto ! #VaporwaveLife2020💫😙💨
So sad, now all these malls are being torn down and being turned into condos and luxury apartments.
It says the name of the mall on a sign. Landmark Mall.
1994? I think that's a typo. Video definitely seems like it's from '84.
Awesome video! Super place to shoot a Vaporwave video
Woah! Duuuuuuuuuude the type of videos you could make in this place, A E S T H E T I C wise
Man, this mall could jut as well be the Lloyd Center here in Portland, OR.
Man, love the variety in this mix. Nice one.
So much n o s t a l g i a
That sample of Who Got Da Props by Black Moon is dope