Valley View Mall, Dallas, TX 09/10/1995
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- This video shows the Valley View Mall in Dallas as it looked in its heyday in the mid-1990's. The video was shot on a standard 8mm video camera mounted on a Steadicam JR (if anyone even remembers that gadget!) Definitely not hi-definition but at least it gives you a glimpse of the mall from back then.
Here after watching Kane's and zeroxlulu's video's respectively. Camelot music reminds me of my 1st part-time job. Working at a record store in 1988 or 89.. Memories of the best job ever!
Somehow this place is now underneath the earth
Yeah and that art piece is rolling around by itself, pretty strange
We're back!
time flies man
silly enough, i think i got locked inside, can yall call for help? thank you.
@@hellopinkteetsyo im here too, and I'm at that octopus wing, I see a person in the distance, is that you? wonder if we could team up.
They had the most amazing arcades, back in the 80's
And that smell coming from the overheated plywood sheets used for the arcade housings.
Woww i remember coming to this mall as a kid in the early 2000's when it was still alive with crowds of people and now i drive by whats left of it everyday on my way to work, Life goes on.
Where is the rolling giant?
I don't no
The rolling giant wasn’t built yet
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Wow i was 15 when you made this video...and now I'm 41 lol and from may 2002 to may 2003 I worked in the mailroom of Dillards. Very fond memories.
I was 13 when this was filmed and I worked at Hat World downstairs in 2002.
This is so cool. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas I've lived here my entire life. RIP Valley View Mall so many child memories there. Next mall to go will probably be Willow Bend Mall in Plano.
Valley View, Dallas Galleria, and Prestonwood Mall were so close to each other. That's what killed Prestonwood and Valley View in the 1990s and 2000s. As a kid, we used to shop at Valley View almost every week in the 1980s.
What KILLED Prestonwood was the dude that owned it wanted to turn it into a video game shop. A play zone for things like lazor tag. So he would not renew stores leases. As it turned out this did not work and someone else bought the property and put up some townhouses and some strip mall stores. I've not been over this area in over 15 years. Do my best to avoid 635!!!!
who khew this would become a big horror movie 25 years later...
Wow! The best years. I was 9 years old in 1995.❤ I loved my childhood then. My stepdad taking us to get school clothes before start of school year. Me and my friends being obsessed with the movie "CLUELESS!" Dressing like " Cher," and " Dionne," was my motivation ..
got my left ear pierced there in 1990
Skipped school to watch spider man 2 there.
do you have any info about the el fenix like pictures of it or anything
They had a Luby's in Valley View
Dude was vlogging before it was even a thing
Remember the McDonald’s in the early 2000s there As a kid I broke the lights under the counter lol 😆
Looks better than the boring ones we have today smh 😒
I saw remember that in valley View from here is gone today
This was recorded on the same day the Cowboys last beat the Denver Broncos to date.
Did this mall have a glass elevator that landed in a fountain?
Yea
@@Txmade214 It really did or you just yanking my chain?
@@Melissa0774 it really did . I live literally 3 mins away from the mall
@@Txmade214 It must have been it, then. I've never seen an elevator like that anywhere else, ever. I was starting to wonder if it really even existed or if I was just imagining it. I used to live in Hickory Creek, right across I-35 from Lake Dallas in the early 90's. It's the next town over from Louisville.
@@Melissa0774 yea it was nice and that’s cool
Now it’s Willowbend Mall dead.
I got really drunk in that El Fenix many times. I lived right off of Noel.
he is restless and moving about
Where is AMC MOVIE THEATERS
AMC showed up like 2007 or something not 1995
@@VoidSillyFilms no it's only 2004
Valley View was almost dead around 1990 (most people went to Galleria or Prestonwood) and the opening of Macys tried to bring it back. The Apartments around this mall made a bad part of town to be in the 90's and 2000's.
It's remarkable what he did in 1995. This was before smart phones with cameras. People didn't take as many selfies or walk around recording stuff back then as much as they do now with Instagram, RUclips, etc... He captured an important piece of history right there. I live right next to this mall on Preston and Alpha,. Thank you @Frank Harris
You’re welcome. Funny thing is, at the time I shot this, I was not even remotely thinking of the possibility that this mall would be closed. If I had had more foresight back then I’d have taken my camera and done a proper video tour of the mall…even if it was on 8mm video tape. Lol
Totally gone now… we used to go to this mall after field trips
@@MentionMyName-lq9yxWell, gladly the Mall has gained much Attention now, due to Kane Pixels Video on the Valley View Mall
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Wonderful video with amazing quality, Frank. It's a treat to travel back in time, if only virtually. I lived in Dallas from 1991 to 2002 and I have many fond memories of much of that time. If only I could do it again ... and know what I know now! Thanks for sharing this slice of history.
Love this..❤️ rip Valley View..
Crazy how he said it was one of the better malls, and now, less than 30 years later, it’s completely gone!
RUclipsrs a decade before RUclips. Absolutely priceless!
Any more videos of DFW scenery in the 1990’s? Would love to see it! Thank you for properly transferring it in 60 frames
No problem. Sorry, I don’t have all that much footage from that time. Just some video tours of the apartments I lived in back then, a little bit of Dealey Plaza, The Art Institute of Dallas (I was a student there back then) and Palo Duro Canyon.
@@seeled558 Were you in Lake Dallas, Louisville, or Hickory Creek at all back then?
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We are so so back.
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I thank you for posting this because of you i can remember the good times of my childhood when i would visit this mall every sunday after church really sad that they closed it down 👌
My pleasure!!
Me too buddy
"pretty dead right now".. wait til you see it 28 years later
The lore thickens
Who else cought that new Nissan Sentra at 2:03 😂
Wow, it's amazing to see what Valley view used to be. I went a few times a teen but by then it was already in decline. They tore it down a few years ago but it was deserted for maybe a decade before that.
if you guys are wondering why the giant isn't in the footage, it wasen't made yet until 2012
This in incredible..
Before AMC.
Before the arcade
McDs was there
Wow
I can smell the Cinnabuns now
McD's value meal was $3.99 lol
Julien Reverchon forever
anyone else here cuz of the oldest view
Uff referencia
That’s awesome 😎 thanks for sharing this great memories I’m gone miss this mall it got me thru some hard times & days thanks 🫡
This was 5 days before I was born.
Time really does fly.
Amazing time capsule!
Roman mosaics from 2000 years ago are uncovered and cherished, in America they just tear them down after 40 years.
I believe my parents meet in this mall working at Sears
There is no ( Four Escalator ) only ( Two Escalator ) with out no AMC MOVIE THEATERS
I always thought Prestonwood was one of the better malls, and of course the Galleria in N Dallas.
I thought someone stole my car at Valley View one time (84 Toyota Supra) but the problem is one store had two different exits into different parking lots and I walked out the wrong exit. I about had a heart attack until I realilzed there was another exit. That's my VV memory.
Don't feel bad, I've had the exact same thing happen just at a different mall. Sure felt good once I realized I was just in the wrong lot. The next "my car was stolen" moment was closer to the real thing - got towed.
It's so weird to see it without the AMC, I'm used to seeing the unique staggered escalators surrounding the elevator clock tower thing.
YEAH IKR!
Valley View was sorta dead when I arrived in Dallas right after college in 91/92. They spruced it up a bit a few years later,probably when you shot this,but it didn't last.. Even though I lived in the Village(who hasn't) just across Central from North Park I would go to Prestonwood or Collin Creek.
Valley View hay day was in the 70’s. After Prestonwood mall came in, I personally stopped going there.
@@amberleigh3985 I would get off work on Friday evening and go to Prestonwood and hang out until six and then hit the Happy hour buffet and half price drinks at either the Ocean Club off Arapaho or the one at Kempi's Underground at the Hotel Grand Kempinski. Great times.
There is no Rolling giant in 1995
Rolling giant only 2012
I loved the AMC Theater at the top of the mall overlooking that big open area.
Lived just west of it pretty much across the street in 1983.The area in General has changed so much like anything. Been back to visit in 2016 18 20 21.Being from Chicago went to college in the big D
my parents probably brought me to valley view mall back in 2003. I was only about 6 months to a year old at the time. There were some golden retriever puppies for sale at the time, and my parents took me to see those golden retriever puppies.
I managed that Sbarro up until February of that year, weird seeing it on camera after all these years.
Oh the memories.
the giant... beware,,...
he wasnt made until 2012 (i think)
@@jonathanpermutationthe rolling giant has always existed. He was there when the earth formed, he was there when the pyramids were built, and now he's in a mall miles underground
@@tooneysailor i know this is satire but youre wrong, he was made for the parade of giants, which happened in 2012
Now this is the oldest view.
I saw Radio Shack! Miss those.
Alan was so annoyed at the time
I turned 8 on this very day
I am surprise the mall security didn’t stop you. My friends in the 80’s were stopped by the mall security for taking pics on an escalator at a Vista Ridge Mall. We were just normal looking college kids shopping. The mall didn’t want people taking pics due to some security reasons.
Yeah I was recording the Oakwood mall in Enid OK as a teenager when I got into dead malls and urban exploration, when I got stopped by a security guard. Very weird that they do that, it's a public place. I wonder if they still do, with how much more people film stuff with their phones now
THE ROLLING GIANT AHHHHH AHA
Is this the mall off of Central Expressway? If so, I lived a couple of exits up in '79... Time really flies. This is an America that is gone in today's clown world.
Yes. It’s off of the Valley View Road exit.
Having lived in this "America that is gone," can confirm there was just as much clown back then, too. Malls always made me feel like a sheep being led to slaughter. The Glory Days of capitalism, and it kinda sucked.
"AUUUGGGHHHHH!!!!!.....I wanna send that one out to Diamond Dave, Billy The Bass Player, and all the babes at the Valley View Mall..."
-Kent (Michael Wincott), "Talk Radio", 1988
We have fence surrounding this building now looks nothing like this at all, granted I never visited the mall and have bien living my whole life in Dallas, now we go often to repair destroyed or stolen fence
no way guys the made the mall from the oldest view real!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /j
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Why did malls look better in the 90s??
This brings me back to the relatively happy times of the mid-90s. No smartphones, but in most other ways, it was better. I miss that era.
One of my favorite mall. Why will they mess up this mall?
oh my god
It's sad to see that all of these malls in texas are closing!
this is as close to the time I was walking there with my friend as you can get. Last time I was there was 97-99. Walking in my jncos and looking at the yomega yo yo stands XD