Meet You At The Food Court Of My Memories!
Man, remember malls, you guys? They were really popular a billion years ago, before the Earth was covered in water. Remember when the Earth wasn't covered in water? Well, back then, there were these places where everyone used to come and shop, and also just hang out. You could grab a Cinnabon and wait for your friends by the fountain in the center of the mall. Teenagers would spend all day there! In the morning, old people came to the mall, and they did power-walks through the quiet corridors before the stores opened.
Before the Earth was covered in water, people even made movies about the mall because the mall was so interesting to people that they wanted to see a story take place there. There was Scenes from a Mall, and Mallrats, and Chopping Mall. Eventually, of course, people stopped going to the mall so much, and they stopped thinking about the mall. Then everyone spent most of their time trying to get on one of the governmental rescue "A.R.K.S." because we needed to preserve at least some of humanity from all this water everywhere.
Anyway, here is a time-lapse video of an ancient shopping mall.
That looks very dry!
(Via BoingBoing.)
Posted by Gabe at 9:30 AM in Nostalgia
Tags: 1980s | Arby's | Cinnabon | Killbots | Observe And Report | Shopping Mall
This video would be way better with the Koyaanisqatsi music instead of the lame synthesizer.
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That was the first thing I thought of too!
And I'm at work with zero sound. But awesome reference. :) One of the most arresting movies ever put to OCD inspired Phillip Glass.
DAMN him. (With arpeggiated love.)
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We need to go back to a time when men wore neon tank tops with funky, printed, short shorts.
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Let's go to the mall, today!
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Someone tell Kevin James that the mall has become irrelevant! I'm pretty sure he wants to make a sequel to Paul Blart: Mall Cop!
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Paul Blart: Amazon.com Forums Moderator
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You can do better.
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some of you may remember that mall from another video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8L9WSJi4hc check 1:16
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Another moment in mall history: http://www.mtv.com/videos/new-radicals/9470/you-get-what-you-give.jhtml#artist=503151
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i thought it was going to be a time lapse from 1990 to now, so we could see the mall slowly fill with fatter people in duller clothes... and of course rising water.
oh well, i'm headed to orange julius because those still exists.
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If today's screenwriters ever run out of ideas based upon "mainstream" children's toys and games, I'd suggest they find themselves a mall with a Sharper Image. I'd pay my $11 to see "mini pool table, the movie."
If the world's underwater by then, I suppose they could just use a skymall catalog.
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":Man, remember malls, you guys? They were really popular a billion years ago, before the Earth was covered in water"
Umm the Earth was covered in water 6000 years ago! Get your science right.
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You're not so good at understanding things.
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CHILL, SCIENCE NERD!!!!
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Growing up in Christian schools, I think I'm the only one who gets this joke.
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You remember dry land? Man, you are old.
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I just want to know what A.R.K.S. stands for. Fill us in, Gabe.
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A Raft? Kinda? Sorta?
It's a FEMA thing.
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Aquatic Rescue vessel, Kevin coSner
stretch?
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Morrow's NUT HOUSE.
that is (m)all.
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i down voted myself, fyi. i'm better than that.
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I especially like those bits where someone sits on a bench and basically does the same thing we are doing 19 years later, only in real-time - just....observing (and/or waiting for their wife to finish up sifting through the drawers at Victoria's Secret, only it wouldn't have been Victoria's Secret back then?)
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I kept thinking "This is the mall from my home town!" And then I realized this is the mall from everyone's hometown.
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4 1/2 minutes long, and not ONE fanny pack?
Obviously this erroneous omission means this video is a FRAUD!!!
Fanny packs in the 90's was not an option, it was required,
like plastic visors and slap on bracelets.
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3:41, boy in white shirt and jean shorts. & FANNY PACK.
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I wish they showed the part where Patrick Swayze's mom's dance studio put on a recital in the atrium.
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No Wicks 'N' Sticks??
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Glad your time machine is in working order. But I thought the plan was to go back and KILL HITLER, not go forward and reminisce. But enough of that, I have some online shopping to do.
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Government rescue A.R.K.S. for when the world floods? Damn Gabe that was one of my book ideas, wtf?
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I also doubt the credibility of this video. Where was Tiffany??
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This video does not really do much for me nostalgia-wise, because I'm the jersey girl stereotype who never stopped going to the mall. (Though I have gotten rid of the huge bangs and Fido Dido t-shirt.)
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So. What are we going to do with all the huge empty malls now that we all find great deals and better selections on the interwebs? I vote we turn them into giant, 24 hour roller derbys.
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So what do teenagers do now? You can't harrass the salespeople at fancy purse stores online!
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I thought I recognised that mall, but then I thought, "Nah, all malls look like that." But no. I definitely recognise that mall. Oh dear.
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