While I didn't go there opening day. I have gone there on a regular basis since 1992. In 1993 I went there one morning after hearing a local radio station was giving out 92 pairs of tickets at a couple different entrances. I had nothing better to do so I went out there and 30 minutes later I had a pair for Paul McCartney in the Metrodome.
Wow this is really cool. I drove across the country from Florida with my family National Lampoon Vacation style - with a dachshund on my lap for most of it - this is about exactly what it looked like when I was a kid there in 1994 =)
I remember the sound of human activity rumbling throughout the building. I remember all the plants gave it such a natural feel. I miss what it used to be.
Thanks for posting! Brings back a lot of memories. I was 18 years old and switched between operating the Log Ride and Bumper cars all that weekend in my Camp Snoopy uniform with my socks pulled up to my knees. 😃 Was quite an exciting event! Them days are looong gone...
I used to come here every weekend during my junior year of high school. Go to the arcade’s and buy a Cinnabon which was $3.00, went a couple weeks ago and now it’s almost $8! Thanks for the video, brought back a lot of great memories 😢
This is how the mall looked when my family would go once a year. I was a pre-teen when this opened and it was amazing to me. We would go for our back to school clothes shopping, which consisted of usually just buying a pair of shoes and a pair of jeans and maybe a shirt if we were lucky but mostly it was our last hurrah before school started and we’d spend most of the time in the amusement park (we didn’t live very far from here at the time, edit: we were about 4 hours away).
This would have been peak 90s mall awesomeness, wish I could have visited the mall back then...😢 in the 90s it was the thing to hang out at the mall and arcade. Man do I miss those days..
My family would make a yearly trip to the Mall of America through the 90s. It was always one of my most anticipated events of the year. This bring back so many memories. I remember eating at that German restaurant at the protest of my cousins and I. I can still smell the water in the air at Camp Snoopy. I still remember some of the things I purchased there. The place felt magical back then.
I remember this time in MOA, and seeing its evolution throughout the years. Now that I live local, I wish I could see it now, how it was then, a mall paradise... It still is to a degree, but nothing like it was in the 90's.
I only seen the outside of this mall, i was stuck at the diesel mechanics garage in this area in 2005 getting my tractor repaired, I worked for Taylor Truck Lines out of Northfield. I always wanted to see inside of the mall of America.......thank you for this video. 🙂
Cell phones, online shopping, streaming movies, and the Internet’s “free” entertainment and communication options; this has made the USA insular and “cliquey”. Malls have died and the fun shared-community feeling we once knew has taken a beating. Family members have dinner, all focus on their smartphones, now living in their own little world.
Lot's of empty storefronts in January 2025! A few have been empty for many years! Sears and the former Tony Roma's which is on the 3rd floor right next to the Cadillac Ranch restaurant.
I get what you mean but does everybody have to say that in every video that is about the past, it’s literally every video. I understand what you are saying but it just gets tiring and unoriginal reading the same comments over and over again.
@@jamesdavid1185 It's true, social media has had such a huge impact on how people think, act, dress, etc. Back then as one might say, it was more simple times. No people with bright pink hair, emo boots, weird outfits, really tells you alot.
While I didn't go there opening day. I have gone there on a regular basis since 1992. In 1993 I went there one morning after hearing a local radio station was giving out 92 pairs of tickets at a couple different entrances. I had nothing better to do so I went out there and 30 minutes later I had a pair for Paul McCartney in the Metrodome.
I was at that show except no free tix and not at Metrodome, but in Milwaukee at County Stadium wow! that's unheard of!
@@wickster2121It was up in the nose bleed section but it was a straight line view. Almost sure it was done to fill in the seats.
Wow this is really cool. I drove across the country from Florida with my family National Lampoon Vacation style - with a dachshund on my lap for most of it - this is about exactly what it looked like when I was a kid there in 1994 =)
Reading this with a Dachshund on my lap 😆
I remember the sound of human activity rumbling throughout the building. I remember all the plants gave it such a natural feel. I miss what it used to be.
Thanks for posting! Brings back a lot of memories. I was 18 years old and switched between operating the Log Ride and Bumper cars all that weekend in my Camp Snoopy uniform with my socks pulled up to my knees. 😃 Was quite an exciting event! Them days are looong gone...
I've still got my Camp Snoopy penny-in-a-glass-jar souvenir!
brings back memories!!
any crazy ride mishaps?
Where the film Jingle All the Way was filmed. This was the mall where Arnold Schwartzeneggar's character and Sinbad's character shopped for Turbo Man.
"HE GOT TWOOOO"
@@flvbbernvggets GET THE MAILMAN
They should’ve never gotten rid of Camp Snoopy
I Wish They Didn't Do That
I used to come here every weekend during my junior year of high school. Go to the arcade’s and buy a Cinnabon which was $3.00, went a couple weeks ago and now it’s almost $8! Thanks for the video, brought back a lot of great memories 😢
I was there last weekend it was 8.65 for a cup of pretzel bites
Take us back to these times will ya I miss the malls a lot
This is how the mall looked when my family would go once a year. I was a pre-teen when this opened and it was amazing to me. We would go for our back to school clothes shopping, which consisted of usually just buying a pair of shoes and a pair of jeans and maybe a shirt if we were lucky but mostly it was our last hurrah before school started and we’d spend most of the time in the amusement park (we didn’t live very far from here at the time, edit: we were about 4 hours away).
The original anchors were Nordstrom, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, and Sears
These were the good old days!! 👍
Man. This makes me feel really old. I remember when it opened. I still think of it as the "new" mall.
I remember going here on my mom's 40th bday in 1997 as a 9 year old and puking after I rode on the Snoopy Camp Bus ride.
This would have been peak 90s mall awesomeness, wish I could have visited the mall back then...😢 in the 90s it was the thing to hang out at the mall and arcade. Man do I miss those days..
My family would make a yearly trip to the Mall of America through the 90s. It was always one of my most anticipated events of the year. This bring back so many memories. I remember eating at that German restaurant at the protest of my cousins and I. I can still smell the water in the air at Camp Snoopy. I still remember some of the things I purchased there. The place felt magical back then.
I remember this time in MOA, and seeing its evolution throughout the years. Now that I live local, I wish I could see it now, how it was then, a mall paradise... It still is to a degree, but nothing like it was in the 90's.
I only seen the outside of this mall, i was stuck at the diesel mechanics garage in this area in 2005 getting my tractor repaired, I worked for Taylor Truck Lines out of Northfield. I always wanted to see inside of the mall of America.......thank you for this video. 🙂
You should of gone inside !
Cell phones, online shopping, streaming movies, and the Internet’s “free” entertainment and communication options; this has made the USA insular and “cliquey”. Malls have died and the fun shared-community feeling we once knew has taken a beating. Family members have dinner, all focus on their smartphones, now living in their own little world.
At least MOA is still very much alive
hard to imagine a time when toddlers were safe
Lot's of empty storefronts in January 2025! A few have been empty for many years! Sears and the former Tony Roma's which is on the 3rd floor right next to the Cadillac Ranch restaurant.
So much fun! Thanks, VR
Back when Mall of America was brand new
My mother turned 36 that day!!
That's pretty cool!
Yeah, wish I could've been an adult in this era, I was only 6 in 1992
@@MrMitchelljungLet me guess, you're either a Nirvana or gangster rap fan.
Great video! Are they still busy like this?!?!
This must be summer of ‘92
Why you guys change it ! Brin back memories in 2023!
30 years and I still have not gone
Don’t it’s a waste of time and really confusing
@@m2i3chael30 still want you to
i wasnt even born yet i was born in 1998 im 25 now i went one time back in 2016 with my brother and i havent been back since then
Back when the mall use to be pack out
The carousel organ's bells always make me mistake that one for Cafesjian's Carousel at Como
Camp Snoopy > Nickelodeon Universe
Do you have any old video archive for Eastwood Mall?
I don't. Sorry Lex.
this is the minnesota I miss
happy 30th anniversary!
RIP - the met center
I was there with my friends that day! I'm looking for myself here haha! Bloomington born and raised baby!
I haven’t been back since 92/93/94……
I thought I remembered a theater in there
There is 1:17 and 6:57
I miss camp snoopy
동시대 한국 생각하면 도저히 같은 행성에 있는 곳이라고 느껴지지않는다.
Nothing distinctive about the time. It looks like now.
The old MOA was very special. Now it is a bland looking and feeling place full of boredom.
Bad
no cell phones in people's hands, everyone looks happy, life was better without social media and being tired to some sort of electronic
I get what you mean but does everybody have to say that in every video that is about the past, it’s literally every video. I understand what you are saying but it just gets tiring and unoriginal reading the same comments over and over again.
@@jamesdavid1185 It's true, social media has had such a huge impact on how people think, act, dress, etc. Back then as one might say, it was more simple times. No people with bright pink hair, emo boots, weird outfits, really tells you alot.
@@Sparaconuntil youre in an emergency and have no way of calling for help
@@fbi538 Who said anything about banning cell phones?
Shut up Granny.
😂