While watching the video I was shocked to see my father standing outside WalMart at 5:37. He passed away in 2013 and I miss him every day. Thanks so much for having the foresight to record this video and for sharing it with others.
Thanks, Kevin. So glad that your dad appeared in the video. I have nearly 400 videos on RUclips, and none have come even close to getting the response as this one. I think it brought back good memories to many, many people!
+Angle Johnson bc just because a decade ends doesn't mean the trends do its not like 2020 we're all gonna be like ok decade over everyone start new trends immediately. It takes time for trends to build up and eventually fade away
I think it could be a success if we just build malls in the 80s/90s style. That could be a good business, because a lot of people are still attracted to the nostalgia👌🏼
Hell yeah, that's why I'd like to become an architect one day and make design great again. Every time a mall or place of business gets a crappy, boring re-model, I die a little inside... Modern design is awful compared to the Late 20th Century.
Too many youth gangs causing trouble at malls now. We won't even go anymore. Security is usually afraid to do anything about them, or unable to, and there are MUCH less expensive alternatives.
Vicious Nationalist....I swear Nationalism and yearning for the 80's/90's goes hand in hand. I'm a National Populist as are my friends, and we all long for that special feeling we had in the early 90's. Before our entire country got sold out.
Yup! I was a teen ager back then 18 years old and miss those times of innocence, enjoying malls and arcades the government and world was pretty stable. Now we’re living in hell with this pandemic, thousands dying everyday and everything closed or going out of business.
This is Dan Bell. Dan Bell! I didn’t expect you here! I grew up in Southern Indiana and have many fond memories of this mall. This is the mall that captivated my interest in dead malls back in 2012. I have many old photos of this mall before and during demolition. If you’re ever down this way, we’ve got to try to get together to get in the existing side corridor and old Bacons department store. Love your Dead Mall Series!
What an awesome way to keep the camera steady and it's like you were thinking of the future with the 3D. I picture myself riding a small choo choo train around the mall in this video.
man the 90's had a vibe about them. It was like that decade where everything was still in the past but also going into the future. You could literally see the era go from one to the other very rapidly.
YES...the 90s was NOT a sleepy era...i was a kid back then but man it felt like it was moving fast even in those days. one minute you had junky box computers, the next minute you had shiny brightly colored apply monitors and then the internet on the horizon!!!
@@exil3dlivecom I know, even chuck e cheese has just become a place of token boxes you dump money into, or rather you swipe a card on to dump money into it.
Wow, does this bring back memories. I helped build the mall back in 1989-90 and after it was complete my wife and I would take our little boy to go ride the carousel, play video games and putt putt.
Actually brought a tear to my eye. Just about a year before the internet started going. Everything is normal. Then the internet ruined it all. Seeing those stores brings back great memories.
Yeah that's how I feel too. In my area the internet didn't pick up in popularity like today until around 2000. It was around but nobody I knew had it or took it seriously, and the people who did have it didn't use it much for anything other than looking up a video game website or play an old game, but consoles were way more popular. But by 2000 it was all over and everyone was expected to have it for online chatting/profiles/school, work, everything. My home didn't even have the internet until like 2003-2004 because we were poor but by then everyone had it but us and I got made fun of for not having it. The school gave us a computer since we didn't have it. Once it took hold though, life before was over and there was no going back.
Thanks for the video. I was 20 when this was filmed. No cell phones. It’s so refreshing to see everyone enjoying the mall without staring at a phone the whole time, actually paying attention to each other. What have we done.
Eh, if people don’t pay attention to each other, they’re dull and trapped. If they do pay attention to each other, they kill each other while getting a lot dumber I. The process. Which one do ya want? I can put it on my Amazon wishlist.
Honestly cell phones brought a lot of problems to our youth, did you actually think endless amounts of mostly unfiltered information delivered to your fingertips in the matter of seconds, good or bad was a good idea? Well sir the youth now was the Guinea pig for that agenda and you see how that’s turning out. So I’d say he’s on to something without internet there was no politics getting pushed on kids, people didn’t even curse on television and influencers didn’t have platforms to co parent peoples children. But yeah!!! What could possibly go wrong when you give a emotionally unstable, not mature children the options to be exposed and de-sensitized to literally anything but dogs cats and Animals. Like what would you save first a dog or a homeless person? See communication was never the issue… communication with the wrong influence is the issue that can’t be controlled when everyone has access to literally anything and everything from information to narcotics. Definitely a tool you should give the masses. What could possibly go wrong. There is bad with every good we just got to be the people it gets tested out on before they work out the kinks.
The trouble with today is that most people are more likely to talk on cell phones than meet up at a mall and talk in person. Understandable if they live miles away from each other but close by, hmmmm? One of the reasons why Malls are dying along with online shopping being the main corporate. Such a shame.
Thank you for this video. I was 23 back in 93. I remember going to ruby Tuesdays getting my drink on then going to the arcade. If I remember correctly on the other side of the train ride was a miniature golf course and food court! Thank you again
Thank you so much. I’m 44 years old and was a child of the 80s and 90s. It’s so wonderful to be transported back in time. You’ll never know the joy you’ve brought so many people.
Let's face it, the internet ruined how we as people interact with eachother. Everybody nowadays has a phone out recording their every move. The 90s rock! Sad to see how people have become.
There's a video on youtube that some kids shot with a camcorder at a 7/11 near disney world in the 1980's. They filmed their interactions with various people, the staff, etc on a friday night. The same guys went back and filmed again recently and it's striking how different people interact today compared to then. Everyone is totally checked out.
God, take me back to 1993! I was 13, turned 14 in june of that year. It was an amazing time to be a teenager! I would give anything to relive the early 90s! Thank you for is upload, it was a great trip to my youth, and an time that was just amazing!
I think social media has made the newer generation become resistant to boredom or "downtime." It's almost impossible for so many kids to relax and just soak in the present moment. They HAVE to be doing something or watching something 24/7.
Nah, the early 2000's were a sign of what was to come. Western Civ peaked in 1997. It's been downhill since. 9/11 was a big setback, and the 2008 economic collapse was the nail in the coffin. Automation will be the death blow.
Early 2000’s ugh, no thanks. George Bush Jr? 9/11? Then Iraq? Disaster upon disaster... then cell phones and the ‘08 meltdown/bailout... what a shit show.
2005-2006 was the last time to really enjoy malls. From 2007 onward, malls began a slow death. So sad because the 80s, 90s and early 2000s was the best with malls. It was your local Disneyland. It felt good to walk into Bloomingdales, Waldenbooks, Suncoast and Gap. The big question is, can we bring this back but update it for the upcoming 2020s America? If Stranger Things has proven one thing is that people still like past things.
I'd say we sorta peaked in 1998... then society began a downhill slump. 9/11 and the 2008 economic collapse were the death blows. The thing is though, kids born in the 80's are starting to have children of their own...and they see how kids now interact very differently than we did when we were their age. They see the problems, and it's making them nostalgic for simpler times.... Look at synthwave music, it's about encompassing the comfyness of the 80's/90's... People want to go back. Stranger Thing's popularity is another testament to that... Be the change you wanna see. Put down your phone, say hi to a stranger and dust off the atari 2600. Stop ordering from Amazon and start going to the shops.
Malls were still pretty popular until the first few years of the 2010s. Maybe certain ones begin dying earlier, but they were DEFINITELY packed for the remainder of the 2000s.
I hate to say this, the reason why that going to the Mall went down hill is because 1. 9/11 2. 2008 Economic’s 3. The Racial Divide from Racist Karen’s from 2012 until now 4. The COVID-19 PANDEMIC 😷 and George Floyd, and 5. The COVID-19 PANDEMIC 😷 and other BADLY THINGS AND RACIST KARENS TO, until now, my Friend.
I frequently shopped at malls growing up from infancy to my late teens/early twenties and still do when a feeling of nostalgia is present. Those times were the best, especially in the 90s-00s. I wish there was a way to rewind to those days. I miss them. Today’s kids have no idea how much fun we had. Also, those young kids would be in their thirties today.
Yup, I would have been about the same age as those little kids on the carousel, 37 today. Parents took my brother and I to River Fair all the time. Everyone I know my age thinks the wrong mall died, we were pretty heartbroken when it closed.
Thank you so much for taking the time to unload this - I have no idea where river falls is but this took me back to 1993 and hanging out at the mall and what it looked like - thank you for your time and helping me stroll down memory lane - it is GREATLY appreciated
I can't tell you how awesome it is to see the River Falls Mall the way it use to be. I was telling someone last week that Basspro use to be a mall and how awesome it had been. Thank you so much for thinking of filming this back then.
I know I never thought the mall would close or turn into something else. It's wonderful you had the idea to make this video though. Thank you for sharing it with all of us so we could step back in time for a few minutes.
Ahh the smell of cigarette smoke in the mall. Any time I’m in a place where someone has recently smoked indoors it reminds me of being a kid in the 90s in restaurants and malls.
Radioactive particles floating in the air from the burnt tobacco that collect radioactive particles. Hope you avoided as much of that second hand smoke as possible else you'll be paying for it later.
I was born in January 1993, and its sad to say that i missed out for the most part in growing up in the best decade ever in my opinion. Everything was so much easier in life, simpler, and funner. Tv, sports, music, pro wrestling, everything was better.
I was 13 when this was filmed. There's a real chance I was playing games in the arcade when this was filmed. Thank you for sharing this. If you have any more I would love to see it to. Thank you again. What an amazing trip back in time.
Man that music and footage at the beginning took me right back to being an 7 year old boy with my grandma and mother going shopping at the mall in cape. My sister wasn’t quite old enough to go with us all the time so I ended up riding in the back seat of my grandmas car laid out across the back while we drove to our local mall which seemed like it took a life time when it was only 25 minutes. When we would leave we would ALWAYS eat out before heading back. Restaurant food was INCREDIBLE back then and we used to eat at a place called the Pasta House Co. Inside the mall that was decorated as if it were on the outside. It had an outdoor seating area which you could sit at and people watch or inside where it was more busy. To this day I love their food even though they are only located in Saint Louis. They had the best damn salad and toaster raviolis you would ever have. I haven’t been there in a few years. As for the mall itself the whole place was full of so many wonderful stores and products. Venture, KB Toys, JC Pennys, Chic-Fil-A, This Nacho and Chili Dog place and they had like a dog mascot on the front it was really good. In the middle of the mall there was a HUGE area that went down into the ground I would say maybe 20 foot or so by these 3 or 4 huge steps that led to a wishing fountain full of change and that shot up in the air. I always had to climb down there and throw Pennie’s in. Oh man what magical magical times.
Thanks Duke! I was born in 1992, so a few changes probably happened since this video (for what I remember). Course being a kid at the time, I could only remember so much. I remember Walmart being there, and the neon pink ceiling lights around the mall. The train ride/rides upstairs. I always liked to watch it but never had the courage to ride the train. Guess I will never know what it was like to ride it. I remember the clothes store Dillard's, and thought it was cool that there were 2 floors (escalator in store). As time went on I swore that River Falls was about to smash the Green Tree Mall. Now look at Green Tree today! I do miss this mall, don't get me wrong. Wish the theme park was still around!
The way the wavy pink neon reflects in the glass from 6:06 onwards captures what it was like to be wandering through a mall as a kid back then. I would've been 10 years old at this time and that TOTALLY takes me back, wow! BRING BACK THE NEON!
Thank you so much for recording and uploading this. It really took me back to my teenage years. I loved that arcade upstairs. I had forgotten that you could get to Wal-Mart from inside of there. I also had forgotten the Family Fun Fair sign outside. It's been closed for more than a decade now but me and my friends still call it "the new mall" when we talk about it.
Thank you for sharing this. I was 13 at the time. To say I loved it when I could convince my grandparents to take me from New Salsbury to the mall would be an understatement. I loved that Arcade. Saw my first R rated movie at the theater. The game and music stores. I can still smell the food court in my memories sometimes and I do mean that in a good way,
My dad used to take me here nearly every weekend when I was a kid n the early 2000s. I miss this place so much! I have pictures of my friends and I riding the planes when I had a birthday party there! Such great memories! Thank you so much for uploading this!
Thank you Duke for letting me relive my childhood. I cried when I watched this video. I was born in 96 and had a lot of memories at this mall. Loved playing in the ball pin and the train rides.
This is filmed from about how tall I would have been at the time (I was 9). All I gotta say is, wow, I can walk through this place with my eyes closed but seeing it again is amazing. Thank you!
Thanks so much for sharing this! I was 11 when that place opened. So obviously it was a absolute wonderland for a preteen! Especially the arcade area, Toys R Us, and the Disc Jockey! I really miss the place every time I go to Clarksville!
Filming this while riding in a wheelchair greatly improved the quality of the film. Normally, when people film while walking the picture bounces up and down slightly. This is due to the bouncing nature of walking. However, riding in a wheelchair on a smooth floor provided a similar film capture method as that of a film crew's camera dolly.
I miss the 90's. Things felt peaceful and relatively normal. For most of the 90's the internet wasn't really a big thing yet. My friends and I would spend summer vacation days wandering the streets of our town looking for mischief or friends and the days never seemed to end. Everyone seemed fairly happy and at peace.
Thank you for this, I love malls and it is amazing to see what they were like at this time, I have never got to witness a mall as active and crowded as this, and all the old fashion and stores, fantastic!
It’s good to see a healthy mall even if it was 30 years ago. You just can’t get the experience online like you could in the big malls where you can see first hand the things businesses sold, touch and see the products, and people watch. There would be so many people in the mall that you could observe people without them knowing you’re observing them. You could tell what kind of shape you yourself were in because you had other people to compare to. The mall would let you know if you needed to start working out again. It was probably no coincidence that the golden age of malls was also the golden age of workout gyms.
Duke, thank you so much for sharing this! I often think about the River Falls Mall and the way it used to be. Although, I have found that over the years, the memories have faded and I find it hard to remember how precious that time was. I wish I could go back to the 90s at least for a day.
I'm Malaysian. I always wanted to visit American malls like these as you can find more games, toys, snacks, food etc. everything I can't get in my country. Nowadays, all of the malls are closed down, and I'm totally missing out all these cool stuff. I wish I can visit these malls 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Oh gosh, what a cool video of better days when malls were fun to go too. I sure miss the music and video stores where i would go spend my allowance at our local mall every weekend and buy a record album or a vhs movie. Seeing Radio Shack in malls was a staple at most of them having one. I bought my first stereo system with the big speakers at Radio Shack in 1987 and still have it yet in my home. Works great yet and never will get rid of it, its just a reminder of better times. Miss the big department stores too like Sears where i got my first boombox in 1983 for my birthday at Sears. Thank you for a great video of your mall. Brings back great memories very much. Oh and loved the food courts with variery of places to eat too. Ate alot of meals at those too!!
Thank you so much for this! I was such a fan of this mall growing up. We seldom went, as my mom was a HUGE Bacon’s fan in the Greentree Mall next door. I remember using my allowance in that Wal-Mart at Christmas and at other shops in the mall. Ahhhh, the good ol’ days 😢
I remember the mall back during it's hey day. Our family would go down there every once in awhile (we lived in Dubois County at the time) and it would be like a mini-vacation of sorts. The arcade / fun land area was a total blast. It's a shame the mall closed up, however I did see there is an arcade / fun center being built in Clarksville when I was down there the other week. Hopefully it'll be something special to my kids as this mall was to me when I was younger.
Duke, thanks so much for posting this video, it is so great to remember these times. Even though I have never been to that mall it reminds me of being a teenager during those years and enjoying hanging out with friends at the mall. Those days are behind us and it's sad, but at least we have the memories, and no one can take those away.
There was no Suncoast at River Falls Mall, but there was one across the street at the Green Tree Mall. What you are seeing in this video is a very similar store called Saturday Matinee, which was owned by Trans World, the company that eventually bought and eventually merged all the national mall and video store chains under the FYE brand. Apparently Waxworks (which also ended up being bought by Trans World) had another video retail store like this called Reel Collections, affiliated with Disc Jockey Records which was also at this mall, but we do not see Reel Collections in this video. I had mistakenly said this in a previous post that I have retracted. I did go to this mall and all these stores at the time, but have no recollection of Reel Collections, just Saturday Matinee. I didn't have enough money to pay for full-price videos at the time and usually just bought the $2.99 cast off tapes that video rental stores would clearance.
I was born June of that year (Jurassic Park Baby) lol Thank you for taking a video of all this It's cool to see what the 90s was like as I can only remember the late 90s.
Was talking to my son about the RF mall and all the video games,rides ect. I had to look it up and show him. So many memories watching this. Thank you 😊
I was 16 when this mall opened. A large part of my teens and 20's were spent hanging out here, particularly upstairs at the arcade/minigolf/movies. Back when teens just hung out at the mall instead of roaming in packs like wild dogs causing trouble. I wish it was still around so I could take my 5yr old here instead of driving all the way over to Louisville to places like Malibu Jacks. Those stores that are now gone that I miss: waldenbooks, suncoast, radio shack, payless, toys r us. Just saw on the news there's some kind of big announcement on Tuesday about the remaining space bass pro hasn't gobbled up. Hopefully something like malibu jacks, main event, or dave and busters. With the crappy weather around here being too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter, we need family friendly places to gather indoors. Cross your fingers!
Thank you, Duke, for posting this. I'm glad to know that someone filmed an essential part of our community's history. Have great memories of this mall in the 90s.
Thanks, glad you liked the music. I'm afraid that I don't have the original tracks on file. My best suggestion would be to download the video, then extract the audio. This software works well for me: www.4kdownload.com/products/product-videodownloader
There's enough vaporwave source material here to shake a giant vape at. Too many golden moments; the bored girl smoking a cigarette at the train ride, 1993 Jordans are here...
@@TTV_TOMTISM Same here. Even though I dislike malls these days and rarely ever go, I often find myself getting lost or finding something interesting in the malls of my dreams.
That is SO, SO, SO cool................. My youngest daughter, me, and my sister, and her ex ( deceased) husband is in the video. THIS is really, neat. I'm glad you have it , and more importantly, I'm glad you shared it.
@@DukeMarsh and watching it again, the black haired woman standing at the end of the train booth, I'm pretty sure that is my wife. She is holding my bomber jacket, prob waiting on the kids to get off the train. Again, this is SOO, SOO cool.....
If you go to Bass Pro you can still find some remnants of River Fair. Some of the motorboat water feature still exists, a movie theater screen is used for archery, and over by the water feature you can walk along part of the path of the old train. The holes for the bolts that held down the railroad ties are still there. There might be more that I haven't noticed.
Although I'm not from this area, this exceptional video brought back memories for me when l was just 16 years old. Thank you for posting this awesome time capsule!!!
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While watching the video I was shocked to see my father standing outside WalMart at 5:37. He passed away in 2013 and I miss him every day. Thanks so much for having the foresight to record this video and for sharing it with others.
Kevin Sparks he stood out to me in this video for some reason or another! Sorry for your loss, glad you got to see him in this!! ❤️
Thanks, Kevin. So glad that your dad appeared in the video. I have nearly 400 videos on RUclips, and none have come even close to getting the response as this one. I think it brought back good memories to many, many people!
+Duke Marsh how come the early 90s looks like 80s? lol i was born in 1990
+Angle Johnson bc just because a decade ends doesn't mean the trends do its not like 2020 we're all gonna be like ok decade over everyone start new trends immediately. It takes time for trends to build up and eventually fade away
Wow that is so ironic...seeing your father in the video. My Dad passed away in 2012...only 65...stupid cancer.
I think it could be a success if we just build malls in the 80s/90s style. That could be a good business, because a lot of people are still attracted to the nostalgia👌🏼
Hell yeah, that's why I'd like to become an architect one day and make design great again. Every time a mall or place of business gets a crappy, boring re-model, I die a little inside... Modern design is awful compared to the Late 20th Century.
Would be awesome to bring back arcades. People actually meeting each other, rather than headphone conversations only.
Fabio Barbagallo we can never go home again
Too many youth gangs causing trouble at malls now. We won't even go anymore. Security is usually afraid to do anything about them, or unable to, and there are MUCH less expensive alternatives.
@@Galidorquest so true, so many buildings in the 80s 90s had awesome creative designs.
I was only 13 years old when this was filmed. I had my whole life ahead of me. Today, I'm 39 and missing my younger days. Time goes by too fast.
Vicious Nationalist....I swear Nationalism and yearning for the 80's/90's goes hand in hand. I'm a National Populist as are my friends, and we all long for that special feeling we had in the early 90's. Before our entire country got sold out.
too fast if you ask me preserve your inner child and destroy maturity
Yup! I was a teen ager back then 18 years old and miss those times of innocence, enjoying malls and arcades the government and world was pretty stable. Now we’re living in hell with this pandemic, thousands dying everyday and everything closed or going out of business.
May our souls be the 90's us and Heaven is the 90's minus the bad stuff....
I was only 1 years old. So I don’t remember 1993 at all.
I miss the 90’s so bad.
This is fabulous, Duke! Thank you for sharing with everyone! The 3D does work!
This is Dan Bell. Dan Bell! I didn’t expect you here! I grew up in Southern Indiana and have many fond memories of this mall. This is the mall that captivated my interest in dead malls back in 2012. I have many old photos of this mall before and during demolition. If you’re ever down this way, we’ve got to try to get together to get in the existing side corridor and old Bacons department store. Love your Dead Mall Series!
This is Dan Bell. Actually, that was 2003... Has time flown by.
This is Dan Bell. Thanks for making my day and linking this to your FB. this video is UNREAL
So glad you liked it, and thanks for mentioning the 3D...that was my main reason for making it to begin with!
What an awesome way to keep the camera steady and it's like you were thinking of the future with the 3D. I picture myself riding a small choo choo train around the mall in this video.
man the 90's had a vibe about them. It was like that decade where everything was still in the past but also going into the future. You could literally see the era go from one to the other very rapidly.
YES...the 90s was NOT a sleepy era...i was a kid back then but man it felt like it was moving fast even in those days. one minute you had junky box computers, the next minute you had shiny brightly colored apply monitors and then the internet on the horizon!!!
This is exactly how I remember the Mall. This was my favorite place to go for the arcades! I wished we had something like this again in the area.
I miss it, too.
Most of it is gone. And if u find one with a arcade, its litteraly a rip off. Like 5$ for the good arcades.
weird in my area there a lot of arcades in malls
@@exil3dlivecom I know, even chuck e cheese has just become a place of token boxes you dump money into, or rather you swipe a card on to dump money into it.
Steam = arcade but 500x better
Wow, does this bring back memories. I helped build the mall back in 1989-90 and after it was complete my wife and I would take our little boy to go ride the carousel, play video games and putt putt.
i can't explain to you how much it meant to watch this again to relive my childhood, thank you so much! awesome video
So glad you liked it!
Actually brought a tear to my eye. Just about a year before the internet started going. Everything is normal. Then the internet ruined it all. Seeing those stores brings back great memories.
Yeah that's how I feel too. In my area the internet didn't pick up in popularity like today until around 2000. It was around but nobody I knew had it or took it seriously, and the people who did have it didn't use it much for anything other than looking up a video game website or play an old game, but consoles were way more popular. But by 2000 it was all over and everyone was expected to have it for online chatting/profiles/school, work, everything. My home didn't even have the internet until like 2003-2004 because we were poor but by then everyone had it but us and I got made fun of for not having it. The school gave us a computer since we didn't have it.
Once it took hold though, life before was over and there was no going back.
saying that as ur on the internet is ironic
@@lucymatilyn how else are they supposed to get the point across? they are on the internet to look at old memories
Exactly. Such a better time .. and then whatever good people and few things were left, COVID took them all
2:00 every parent lovingly holding their child on the carousel is so beautiful. That’s the time I grew up in, and how I grew up. I felt cared for.
Thanks for the video. I was 20 when this was filmed. No cell phones. It’s so refreshing to see everyone enjoying the mall without staring at a phone the whole time, actually paying attention to each other. What have we done.
Eh, if people don’t pay attention to each other, they’re dull and trapped. If they do pay attention to each other, they kill each other while getting a lot dumber I. The process. Which one do ya want? I can put it on my Amazon wishlist.
Honestly cell phones brought a lot of problems to our youth, did you actually think endless amounts of mostly unfiltered information delivered to your fingertips in the matter of seconds, good or bad was a good idea? Well sir the youth now was the Guinea pig for that agenda and you see how that’s turning out. So I’d say he’s on to something without internet there was no politics getting pushed on kids, people didn’t even curse on television and influencers didn’t have platforms to co parent peoples children. But yeah!!! What could possibly go wrong when you give a emotionally unstable, not mature children the options to be exposed and de-sensitized to literally anything but dogs cats and Animals. Like what would you save first a dog or a homeless person? See communication was never the issue… communication with the wrong influence is the issue that can’t be controlled when everyone has access to literally anything and everything from information to narcotics. Definitely a tool you should give the masses. What could possibly go wrong. There is bad with every good we just got to be the people it gets tested out on before they work out the kinks.
No more Cell phone in 1993. No more Mobile thing in 1993. No more Xbox in 1993.
Technology comes with a high price to pay. It’s made everything more convenient but it’s caused a great rift amongst us
The trouble with today is that most people are more likely to talk on cell phones than meet up at a mall and talk in person. Understandable if they live miles away from each other but close by, hmmmm? One of the reasons why Malls are dying along with online shopping being the main corporate. Such a shame.
Thank you for this video. I was 23 back in 93. I remember going to ruby Tuesdays getting my drink on then going to the arcade. If I remember correctly on the other side of the train ride was a miniature golf course and food court! Thank you again
Your memories are correct...that was quite a place!
Thank you so much. I’m 44 years old and was a child of the 80s and 90s. It’s so wonderful to be transported back in time. You’ll never know the joy you’ve brought so many people.
Let's face it, the internet ruined how we as people interact with eachother. Everybody nowadays has a phone out recording their every move. The 90s rock! Sad to see how people have become.
There's a video on youtube that some kids shot with a camcorder at a 7/11 near disney world in the 1980's. They filmed their interactions with various people, the staff, etc on a friday night. The same guys went back and filmed again recently and it's striking how different people interact today compared to then. Everyone is totally checked out.
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God, take me back to 1993! I was 13, turned 14 in june of that year. It was an amazing time to be a teenager! I would give anything to relive the early 90s! Thank you for is upload, it was a great trip to my youth, and an time that was just amazing!
I think social media has made the newer generation become resistant to boredom or "downtime." It's almost impossible for so many kids to relax and just soak in the present moment. They HAVE to be doing something or watching something 24/7.
My nostalgia meter is off the chart right now.
One of the benefits of shooting it from the angle of your wheelchair, is that it made me feel like I was visiting there as the kid I was back then!
This and the early 2000’s were great times
Nah, the early 2000's were a sign of what was to come. Western Civ peaked in 1997. It's been downhill since. 9/11 was a big setback, and the 2008 economic collapse was the nail in the coffin. Automation will be the death blow.
The Daily Review you have a point
Early 2000’s ugh, no thanks. George Bush Jr? 9/11? Then Iraq? Disaster upon disaster... then cell phones and the ‘08 meltdown/bailout... what a shit show.
Agreed. Things were so peaceful, even after 9/11.
2001 was great until 9/11.
2005-2006 was the last time to really enjoy malls. From 2007 onward, malls began a slow death. So sad because the 80s, 90s and early 2000s was the best with malls. It was your local Disneyland. It felt good to walk into Bloomingdales, Waldenbooks, Suncoast and Gap. The big question is, can we bring this back but update it for the upcoming 2020s America? If Stranger Things has proven one thing is that people still like past things.
toplaycool21 funny enough the next season is focused on a mall. Aces adventures has a video of the set from a dead mall down in Georgia
I'd say we sorta peaked in 1998... then society began a downhill slump. 9/11 and the 2008 economic collapse were the death blows. The thing is though, kids born in the 80's are starting to have children of their own...and they see how kids now interact very differently than we did when we were their age. They see the problems, and it's making them nostalgic for simpler times.... Look at synthwave music, it's about encompassing the comfyness of the 80's/90's... People want to go back. Stranger Thing's popularity is another testament to that... Be the change you wanna see. Put down your phone, say hi to a stranger and dust off the atari 2600. Stop ordering from Amazon and start going to the shops.
Augmented reality. Take advantage of those blank walls in the renovated mall and use it as a fabulous pallet!
Malls were still pretty popular until the first few years of the 2010s. Maybe certain ones begin dying earlier, but they were DEFINITELY packed for the remainder of the 2000s.
I hate to say this, the reason why that going to the Mall went down hill is because 1. 9/11 2. 2008 Economic’s 3. The Racial Divide from Racist Karen’s from 2012 until now 4. The COVID-19 PANDEMIC 😷 and George Floyd, and 5. The COVID-19 PANDEMIC 😷 and other BADLY THINGS AND RACIST KARENS TO, until now, my Friend.
I frequently shopped at malls growing up from infancy to my late teens/early twenties and still do when a feeling of nostalgia is present. Those times were the best, especially in the 90s-00s. I wish there was a way to rewind to those days. I miss them. Today’s kids have no idea how much fun we had.
Also, those young kids would be in their thirties today.
Yup, I would have been about the same age as those little kids on the carousel, 37 today. Parents took my brother and I to River Fair all the time. Everyone I know my age thinks the wrong mall died, we were pretty heartbroken when it closed.
Thank you so much for taking the time to unload this - I have no idea where river falls is but this took me back to 1993 and hanging out at the mall and what it looked like - thank you for your time and helping me stroll down memory lane - it is GREATLY appreciated
My grandpa worked there and drove the train, so many wonderful memories when we came to visit. Thank you for this incredible piece of nostalgia!
I can't tell you how awesome it is to see the River Falls Mall the way it use to be. I was telling someone last week that Basspro use to be a mall and how awesome it had been. Thank you so much for thinking of filming this back then.
So glad I decided to do this video back then....had no idea it would be so popular later.
I know I never thought the mall would close or turn into something else. It's wonderful you had the idea to make this video though. Thank you for sharing it with all of us so we could step back in time for a few minutes.
I'm happy that so many people enjoyed it!
3:57 Good Ol’ Waldenbooks.
Oh yes! Walden books and aladens castle! I was set! Lol
Ahh the smell of cigarette smoke in the mall. Any time I’m in a place where someone has recently smoked indoors it reminds me of being a kid in the 90s in restaurants and malls.
"Smoking or non?"
Ahhh the good ole days. I remember still being able to smoke in some doctor's waiting rooms and hospital emergency rooms in the early 1980's
Radioactive particles floating in the air from the burnt tobacco that collect radioactive particles. Hope you avoided as much of that second hand smoke as possible else you'll be paying for it later.
Please don't take this down. I need to show this to my son when he's old enough. 90s malls were the best!
Looks similar to the 2008 mall down where I live. 😂
I was only 1 years old when this came out and I feel nostalgic
I don’t envy you lol
I was born in January 1993, and its sad to say that i missed out for the most part in growing up in the best decade ever in my opinion. Everything was so much easier in life, simpler, and funner. Tv, sports, music, pro wrestling, everything was better.
I was 13 when this was filmed. There's a real chance I was playing games in the arcade when this was filmed. Thank you for sharing this. If you have any more I would love to see it to. Thank you again. What an amazing trip back in time.
This mall looked real nice! The entertainment area was like an indoor carnival. I'm in Texas, but appreciate the early 90's video.
Man that music and footage at the beginning took me right back to being an 7 year old boy with my grandma and mother going shopping at the mall in cape. My sister wasn’t quite old enough to go with us all the time so I ended up riding in the back seat of my grandmas car laid out across the back while we drove to our local mall which seemed like it took a life time when it was only 25 minutes. When we would leave we would ALWAYS eat out before heading back. Restaurant food was INCREDIBLE back then and we used to eat at a place called the Pasta House Co. Inside the mall that was decorated as if it were on the outside. It had an outdoor seating area which you could sit at and people watch or inside where it was more busy. To this day I love their food even though they are only located in Saint Louis. They had the best damn salad and toaster raviolis you would ever have. I haven’t been there in a few years. As for the mall itself the whole place was full of so many wonderful stores and products. Venture, KB Toys, JC Pennys, Chic-Fil-A, This Nacho and Chili Dog place and they had like a dog mascot on the front it was really good. In the middle of the mall there was a HUGE area that went down into the ground I would say maybe 20 foot or so by these 3 or 4 huge steps that led to a wishing fountain full of change and that shot up in the air. I always had to climb down there and throw Pennie’s in. Oh man what magical magical times.
You captured a piece of time, in ultimate HD for the times. Practically no footage exists from this era! Hats off to you!
A Wal-Mart in the mall? Interesting
Absolutely, that is shocking
Thanks Duke! I was born in 1992, so a few changes probably happened since this video (for what I remember). Course being a kid at the time, I could only remember so much. I remember Walmart being there, and the neon pink ceiling lights around the mall. The train ride/rides upstairs. I always liked to watch it but never had the courage to ride the train. Guess I will never know what it was like to ride it. I remember the clothes store Dillard's, and thought it was cool that there were 2 floors (escalator in store). As time went on I swore that River Falls was about to smash the Green Tree Mall. Now look at Green Tree today! I do miss this mall, don't get me wrong. Wish the theme park was still around!
The way the wavy pink neon reflects in the glass from 6:06 onwards captures what it was like to be wandering through a mall as a kid back then. I would've been 10 years old at this time and that TOTALLY takes me back, wow! BRING BACK THE NEON!
Thank you so much for recording and uploading this. It really took me back to my teenage years. I loved that arcade upstairs. I had forgotten that you could get to Wal-Mart from inside of there. I also had forgotten the Family Fun Fair sign outside. It's been closed for more than a decade now but me and my friends still call it "the new mall" when we talk about it.
Rick Harbin JEGS
and the panties drop!!
Yes, time slips away much too quickly!
Thank you for sharing this. I was 13 at the time. To say I loved it when I could convince my grandparents to take me from New Salsbury to the mall would be an understatement. I loved that Arcade. Saw my first R rated movie at the theater. The game and music stores. I can still smell the food court in my memories sometimes and I do mean that in a good way,
My dad used to take me here nearly every weekend when I was a kid n the early 2000s. I miss this place so much! I have pictures of my friends and I riding the planes when I had a birthday party there! Such great memories! Thank you so much for uploading this!
Thank you Duke for letting me relive my childhood. I cried when I watched this video. I was born in 96 and had a lot of memories at this mall. Loved playing in the ball pin and the train rides.
A nice blast from the past (people looked happy) , thanks for sharing!
27 years ago today I can’t believe that it has been that long ago I wish that we could go back in time to the year 1993 I missed that year
This is filmed from about how tall I would have been at the time (I was 9). All I gotta say is, wow, I can walk through this place with my eyes closed but seeing it again is amazing. Thank you!
thank you so much for this. this is an era which is just about gone and it’s beautiful to be able to go back in time like this. thanks
Thanks so much for sharing this! I was 11 when that place opened. So obviously it was a absolute wonderland for a preteen! Especially the arcade area, Toys R Us, and the Disc Jockey! I really miss the place every time I go to Clarksville!
Filming this while riding in a wheelchair greatly improved the quality of the film. Normally, when people film while walking the picture bounces up and down slightly. This is due to the bouncing nature of walking. However, riding in a wheelchair on a smooth floor provided a similar film capture method as that of a film crew's camera dolly.
So nostalgic to see life before smartphones/internet become widely available. Such different times.
Yes, kind of refreshing not to see everyone's nose buried in their cellphones!
the early 1990's simple days..wish to go back in time.
This place was great. I am glad to have been in my childhood at that point in time. Thank you for posting this.
I miss the 90's. Things felt peaceful and relatively normal. For most of the 90's the internet wasn't really a big thing yet. My friends and I would spend summer vacation days wandering the streets of our town looking for mischief or friends and the days never seemed to end. Everyone seemed fairly happy and at peace.
I loved this place so much, crazy how watching this makes it seem like it was forever ago. Glad this video exists.
Thanks...it does seem like such a long time ago now.
This mall was my childhood. I almost cried over the nostalgia of it all.
Thank you for shooting this video, and sharing it. A wonderful time capsule.
Thank you for this, I love malls and it is amazing to see what they were like at this time, I have never got to witness a mall as active and crowded as this, and all the old fashion and stores, fantastic!
It’s good to see a healthy mall even if it was 30 years ago. You just can’t get the experience online like you could in the big malls where you can see first hand the things businesses sold, touch and see the products, and people watch. There would be so many people in the mall that you could observe people without them knowing you’re observing them. You could tell what kind of shape you yourself were in because you had other people to compare to. The mall would let you know if you needed to start working out again. It was probably no coincidence that the golden age of malls was also the golden age of workout gyms.
Love this video! I was about six when this was taken, and it brings back so many awesome memories! Thanks for the nostalgia!
So glad you liked it!
Man this is incredible, closest thing to a time machine! I really appreciate you sharing this
Thank you for bringing me back to a time that I never experience
93 was the best, i was 17 had a car, girlfriend and a job at the mall...
Eric Eberle I was 17 too :)
I was only 2 by November of 1993. Even my oldest brother was only 10... I’m sure he has some good memories of the early 90’s.
Eric Eberle lmao u old
@@jakebrown1535 aint that the truth
How awesome was being 17 in 1993?...
Seriously, please just tell me about it
Duke, thank you so much for sharing this! I often think about the River Falls Mall and the way it used to be. Although, I have found that over the years, the memories have faded and I find it hard to remember how precious that time was. I wish I could go back to the 90s at least for a day.
You and me, both...we need a time machine! ;-)
Gary's daughter here... thanks for the blast from the past. I was excited to share this with my dad!
Two generations to enjoy it! Hope you both enjoyed it!
I'm Malaysian. I always wanted to visit American malls like these as you can find more games, toys, snacks, food etc. everything I can't get in my country.
Nowadays, all of the malls are closed down, and I'm totally missing out all these cool stuff.
I wish I can visit these malls 😭😭😭😭😭😭
A WALMART INSIDE A MALL????!?! This is peak early 90's nostalgia
This is so great! I'm so glad you recorded and posted it. Such a shame it's gone. This was the best place. Lots of great memories!! Thank you!
So glad you liked it!
I remember going to this mall when I first moved to Louisville back in like 2001. Thanks for filming this, the footage is amazing!
Thanks, so much!
Feels so strange to see malls filled, nowadays they're mostly empty. Crazy to think that malls were once this popular and are being forgotten slowly
I wish to have some of this in Heaven as a memorial. I love the music and video! Long live the late eighties and early 90s...
This footage is outstanding!!
Oh gosh, what a cool video of better days when malls were fun to go too. I sure miss the music and video stores where i would go spend my allowance at our local mall every weekend and buy a record album or a vhs movie. Seeing Radio Shack in malls was a staple at most of them having one. I bought my first stereo system with the big speakers at Radio Shack in 1987 and still have it yet in my home. Works great yet and never will get rid of it, its just a reminder of better times. Miss the big department stores too like Sears where i got my first boombox in 1983 for my birthday at Sears. Thank you for a great video of your mall. Brings back great memories very much. Oh and loved the food courts with variery of places to eat too. Ate alot of meals at those too!!
Thank you so much for this! I was such a fan of this mall growing up. We seldom went, as my mom was a HUGE Bacon’s fan in the Greentree Mall next door. I remember using my allowance in that Wal-Mart at Christmas and at other shops in the mall. Ahhhh, the good ol’ days 😢
I remember the mall back during it's hey day. Our family would go down there every once in awhile (we lived in Dubois County at the time) and it would be like a mini-vacation of sorts. The arcade / fun land area was a total blast. It's a shame the mall closed up, however I did see there is an arcade / fun center being built in Clarksville when I was down there the other week. Hopefully it'll be something special to my kids as this mall was to me when I was younger.
Loved the shoes and video games. Things I looked at in the mall in 93
Duke, thanks so much for posting this video, it is so great to remember these times. Even though I have never been to that mall it reminds me of being a teenager during those years and enjoying hanging out with friends at the mall. Those days are behind us and it's sad, but at least we have the memories, and no one can take those away.
Thank you Duke. This is so inspiring to me. Thank you for helping me to remember my childhood.
OMG! This mall was my childhood so many memories.
Wow was that Suncoast at 4:18? My favorite store as a kid. Waldenbooks had my heart racing with nostalgia. Thanks for this.
Those were my favorite stories as a kid too, especially Suncoast video
There was no Suncoast at River Falls Mall, but there was one across the street at the Green Tree Mall. What you are seeing in this video is a very similar store called Saturday Matinee, which was owned by Trans World, the company that eventually bought and eventually merged all the national mall and video store chains under the FYE brand. Apparently Waxworks (which also ended up being bought by Trans World) had another video retail store like this called Reel Collections, affiliated with Disc Jockey Records which was also at this mall, but we do not see Reel Collections in this video. I had mistakenly said this in a previous post that I have retracted. I did go to this mall and all these stores at the time, but have no recollection of Reel Collections, just Saturday Matinee. I didn't have enough money to pay for full-price videos at the time and usually just bought the $2.99 cast off tapes that video rental stores would clearance.
I was born June of that year (Jurassic Park Baby) lol Thank you for taking a video of all this It's cool to see what the 90s was like as I can only remember the late 90s.
Thank you for sharing this. You did an amazing job and the 3d was a nice personal and unique touch.
thanks for posting duke this mall back in the day sure was magical
Was talking to my son about the RF mall and all the video games,rides ect. I had to look it up and show him. So many memories watching this. Thank you 😊
Like a time machine. I love old videos/homevideos! Such a different world.
That arcade~! Freaking lovely.
Wow! Thank you so much for this, it really brings back memories from when I was a teenager going to malls like this in Mississauga/Toronto Canada
I was 16 when this mall opened. A large part of my teens and 20's were spent hanging out here, particularly upstairs at the arcade/minigolf/movies. Back when teens just hung out at the mall instead of roaming in packs like wild dogs causing trouble. I wish it was still around so I could take my 5yr old here instead of driving all the way over to Louisville to places like Malibu Jacks. Those stores that are now gone that I miss: waldenbooks, suncoast, radio shack, payless, toys r us. Just saw on the news there's some kind of big announcement on Tuesday about the remaining space bass pro hasn't gobbled up. Hopefully something like malibu jacks, main event, or dave and busters. With the crappy weather around here being too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter, we need family friendly places to gather indoors. Cross your fingers!
Thanks for this video greetings from Sweden
Greetings back from the US!
I remember visiting this mall as a kid 😭 I sure miss the good old days ☹️❤️
This makes me wish I could go back in time. Relive the good, change the bad. I was a kid and I CLEARLY remember the arcade lol.
The good old days!
Thank you, Duke, for posting this. I'm glad to know that someone filmed an essential part of our community's history. Have great memories of this mall in the 90s.
You did an outstanding job on the music, that vibe is pitch perfect to the era! Is there anywhere I can download or buy the tracks?
Thanks, glad you liked the music. I'm afraid that I don't have the original tracks on file. My best suggestion would be to download the video, then extract the audio. This software works well for me:
www.4kdownload.com/products/product-videodownloader
Actually, this software is better for downloading audio only:
www.4kdownload.com/products/youtubetomp3
Lol it's sad.
There's enough vaporwave source material here to shake a giant vape at. Too many golden moments; the bored girl smoking a cigarette at the train ride, 1993 Jordans are here...
al1stare i saw that! hand written “1993 jordans are here”. man i feel like half my dreams take place in big malls like this
@@TTV_TOMTISM Same here. Even though I dislike malls these days and rarely ever go, I often find myself getting lost or finding something interesting in the malls of my dreams.
So cool!! Thanks for sharing.
You're certainly welcome!
That is SO, SO, SO cool.................
My youngest daughter, me, and my sister, and her ex ( deceased) husband is in the video. THIS is really, neat. I'm glad you have it , and more importantly, I'm glad you shared it.
So glad you found yourselves in the video!
@@DukeMarsh and watching it again, the black haired woman standing at the end of the train booth, I'm pretty sure that is my wife. She is holding my bomber jacket, prob waiting on the kids to get off the train.
Again, this is SOO, SOO cool.....
I saw John Connor ... Man! how I miss the 90s ... smoke anywhere, arcades, CRT´s .... Thanks for the memories!! ♥
I totally remember all of this !!! Brings back great memories with my mommy and I 😌
So glad you liked it!
Loving this music! Great mall memories too!
thanks for sharing this, brings back so many awesome memories of this place.
So glad you liked it!
Goddamn...my inner childhood is crying...
BassDS1990 Yeah because that curse word really put emphasis on your statement.
Absolutely fantastic!!! Thank you for "taking me back" to junior year of high school!♡
I wish it were the 90’s again.... (born in 2001)
Loved this place when i was 4-5 (96-97) thank you for documenting this!
If you go to Bass Pro you can still find some remnants of River Fair. Some of the motorboat water feature still exists, a movie theater screen is used for archery, and over by the water feature you can walk along part of the path of the old train. The holes for the bolts that held down the railroad ties are still there. There might be more that I haven't noticed.
Although I'm not from this area, this exceptional video brought back memories for me when l was just 16 years old. Thank you for posting this awesome time capsule!!!