I always love back when people actually had to go back to the stores to get things they needed for the Holidays and etc at malls or other stores. I’m pretty thankful that the mall I go to is still around doing great.
Your videos bring me back to a time in my life when I loved being alive being alive in America today is kind of null and void I'll have to admit I miss these days thanks for the memories
@@IanSpradlin definitely not you sound like a boomer though your generation is anything but cool. Generation z is what changed it and actually no you're incorrect it'd be generation alpha after generation z and they are in their teens now thank you.
I am an X'r and we raised our kids to be our friends and not our children and it backfired causing mass destruction in the usa. the liberal type voting and oking ( anything goes type ) and here we are.@@Spokaneexploration
@@SexAndCandyHair92 what's interesting is malls are huge in other countries. Like the malls in China and Dubai are crazy with what they offer. Probably because malls are somewhat new to them and we've had them for 50+ years.
If anything, I blame our federal government that went into the Iraq war and afghan war. Obama and Biden respectively made things worse and I fully denounce them and the dems.
@@Etaoinshrdlu69 Hey now, it wasn't pure hell for *all* of us, it depends on who you ask and where they lived. The Late 80's & 90's was when we started flocking to the suburbs, and more celebrities & entertainers from the hood like 2pac would become Hollywood stars to leave their environment.
@@mrconroy4672What is this ridiculous revisionist history you're trying to pull here? 🙄 It was Republican war criminal George W. Bush that got us in Iraq and the never ending Middle East wars.
Only one guy had a cell phone in this video, and it was pre smartphone. Refreshing to see that I lived that in that time and survived. Now, heads are down 90% while walking. Amazing.
This was when times started changing in the USA after the 9/11 attacks. Nothing was ever the same afterward. Mobile phones were also starting to gain popularity. I was in 9th grade and wanted one so bad. Now I wish for simpler early 90s time :(.
As someone else put it, this was the time when being alive in America, or just alive at all, was such a wonderful feeling. Nowadays I grapple with that feeling, such a natural "joy" that I felt every day at one point, has become so foreign to me now. I am never truly happy, and have not been for a very, very long time.. but I also see some adults in these old videos, particularly the employees/shoppers, and I can recognize that same void in their eyes. When the void becomes numb, it's really dangerous. You lose sight of the difference between light and dark, everything is all the same to you. Life was always better before that void comes about, no matter when you are born..
Something I liked about growing up in the 90s/ early 2000s was we had technology like the internet and all that but it didn't control our lives yet. People still went to the mall, kids still played outside, it was a nice balance.
@@EntehrterKrieger I used to work in a mall back in the early 90s. Christmas time wasn't fun. It was extremely crowded, you were overworked and burned-out. The people were rude sometimes as well. I remember being so happy when January came and it was all over with.
This was right when the wounds of 9/11 were still fresh. I can only imagine what the mood and thoughts were of the folks here. I was only in second grade then so I didn't have quite the emotional awareness to pick up on that.
Even though we had just suffered a tragedy in our country a couple months from this video, seeing people shopping, smiling, and trying to return to a somewhat normal life made me thought it was the late 90's again.
I was 25 at the time, late 40s now, and I think of 2001 as pretty much “current.” I guess I’m showing my age, but most of life was the same as it is now, clothes were more or less the same, etc.. A fair amount of people didn’t have cell phones, and smartphones didn’t exist, so you do see people looking around at their surroundings more. Social media as we know it now didn’t exist, either. This was not long after 9/11 and there was definitely a shift in mood in the country at that time - I remember it very clearly. Not only did we not have the sort of division we’ve had in recent years, we really had the opposite. Even advertisers got into the act. Not only was there a spike in patriotism, there was this shift to kind of sappy/homey family-oriented advertising. It’s kind of hard to explain, but we saw something somewhat similar during the height of the pandemic with all the “togetherness”-type ads. Reality didn’t quite mirror what was shown in those ads, but there really was, at least briefly, a little bit more friendliness/consideration shown, at least where I was. In any case what struck me here is how well-dressed everyone is. People always note that when seeing footage from the ‘80s and earlier, but I don’t think of 2001 still being in that more “mannered” era. (Not that the ‘80s were so well-mannered, but people still dressed better and there was certain etiquette surrounding dress which was still observed.) Maybe it’s just the region in which this mall is located or maybe it’s cold weather, or something.
I remember in 2001 our mall was so packed you where lucky to find one chair let alone a table to sit at in the food court. It was so loud you could bearly hear anything. Then in the next 10 years it shrank. By 2011 you could sit at any table without an issue. Maybe 20 people or so where there on average regardless of the day or time. By 2020 the food court was empty most of the time. Even on Christmas. Lately our mall has a new owner and he's trying to get it up and going and so far he's doing great. The mall and the food court are filling up again. But nowhere near what it was in 2001. Probably never will as people can online shop now and covid has made people afraid to go out.
@@mattmc5069 I was 26 in December 2001 and worked in a mall. The parking lot was so crowded from Thanksgiving to Christmas that employees weren't allowed to park there. We had to park behind a used car lot across the street and shuttle to the mall.
I was 21, almost 22 in December of 01'...9/11 changed everything. I agree 100% on the 80's, I remember it well. Most of the Men still wore suits or dressed up attire when going out to eat or shopping (and smoked everywhere) same with the women. The gov't did something to us and ruined our culture by indoctrination and modernism. I'd give my life to go back to the 80's and 90's..(i'm sure the 50'-70's were even more amazing) but this time here is the very tail end of greatness to behold.
Back when malls were thriving and alive, now they're bleeding out and the inevitable death is around the corner. Some of the malls in my area are already going belly up and closing down due to bankruptcy.
I was six in 2001. Honestly this video takes me back to a more “together” or “warm-vibe” feeling. It’s hard to describe, but it’s a very different feeling than I have today. The decor, the lights, hardly any cell phones, just a refreshing thing to see. I’m very glad you upload these videos.
Considering this was only 3 months after 9/11, I would bet a good chunk of the people in that mall were probably afraid that they were going to be the victims of a terrorist attack....
@@xpensfanatic2009No, they weren't. 9/11 was a tragic event, no doubt about it, but we weren't living in constant fear of anything. We just lived our lives the same way that we did before just like every other era with major tragedies.
November 2001 syphon filter released on PS1 it is a last gen exclusive. Not made on PS2 which had been out since october 2000. Syphon filter 3 my favorite in whole series
i miss thos days in 2001. when i use to be with my mom at mall i use to always feel happy going to the video game area. its just not the same anymore when i buy games on nintendo eshop. when i go stores were video games are now grown up its just not the same anymore. everything is diffrent now we shop on azmon and buy games online and download em and stream movies online. the only time i,ll ever go to a store in town is to buy a new controller.
Crazy to think there are adults alive now who weren't alive when this was shot. I was born in 86, so this doesn't quite hit the nostalgia spot of the 90's stuff, but it's still great. A time when the internet existed, but not smart phones. Most people didn't have high speed internet at this point. Cool stuff. Without a device in your pocket, there were *actual* people to people watch lol.
I was born in 86 too. 90s is nostalgia for me all the way. This is close and definitely brings back memories of the last little bit of the world in a simpler time.
How could you say this was a happier time in America since this was not long after 9/11? I wouldn't quite say this was a happy time in America. The years prior to 9/11 I would say were much happier than this.
This was only 3 months after 9/11. You're insane and there's no way you were alive or old enough to remember the last few months of 2001 if you think it was a happy time.
@@xpensfanatic2009 Nostalgic for most of us who were kids in primary school, at least. 😅 Definitely not a happy time for many people, but, in retrospect, the unity, the patriotism and more respect for the police & our military during the Bush era was the one good thing to come out of 9/11. Like, for instance, we'll probably *never* see patriotic rappers like The Diplomats ever again in our current political climate since BLM. Or artists like Destiny's Child singing about their love for soldiers. No era is perfect, but every era has its pros & cons and things we took for granted, like the stronger sense of unity & patriotism, even though it was unjust.
@@GalidorquestI was 10 in 2001, but I guess I was gifted with the sense of not thinking the USA three months after 9/11 was a happy and cheerful place. All I remember from those last three months after 9/11 is a fear of another terrorist attack at any large public space and also the anthrax scare with the mail.
Miss these days,I think I’ve been at malls a few times one being,Panorama Mall & Northridge Mall,if only I can afford to go back into these malls & enjoy it,I was 4 yrs old around this time,what I give back to feel the good vibes,and though malls were still good around the 2010’s Ugh,the times to be a little kid/kid again where you weren’t constantly fed with social media etc like most kids nowadays are & though I watched a lot of cartoons they were better,awesome & still I had a lot of imagination going on,I used to draw so much,especially what I dreamt of doing that I could’ve done but it got squashed & I’m just well ok but really miss those days so so much!
Looks like part of the mall I loved going to when I was younger, which is no longer around (demolished in 2017, Madison Square Mall). I sure miss Christmas shopping in the mall.
This is practically yesterday to me. Some people are talking about online shopping as if it wasnt happening then. Even in 2001, I preferred to shop online and did not like going to a mall.
I was thinking the same thing. Online shopping definitely existed although I do remember that there were still people at that time (like my parents) who were afraid to enter credit card information online. Returns could be a hassle - I was just thinking the other day about how you’d often still have to call the company to get “permission” to a return an item, and start the return. So, I suppose that would drive people to malls for Christmas shopping in particular. But, malls were still thriving. I bought most of my clothes in stores up until maybe 10-12 years ago even though I bought a lot of stuff online, too.
The one guy on his cellphone is at 4:17. Fascinating to wonder what business he might've been attending to. To need to be on the phone at the time when everyone else wasn't.
Only one person on cellphone because we are still a few years away from smartphones. Once internet and social media hit our phones it was faces glued to devices lol.
I recently went to a restaurant (not fast food) and absolutely everyone was staring at their phone. Occasionally they take a bite of food and quickly return to the phone 😂
@@MorganNyeGuessing they believe the online world is more interesting and important than the world around them on which the online world is based. We think those online relationships and the knowledge we gain as we swipe and click are important, compared to the world around us. This despite that most of us remember what it was like to pay attention to the physical and spiritual world around us, like everyone else in every culture from the past. We are truly neglecting out humanity, but believe we are not.
@Morgannye958 I think we get used to taking life for granted, not being thankful for or even respectful of the everyday world that surrounds every one of us. I mean, the food I eat doesn't come from the internet, it comes from somewhere in the real world. I do think that there is real good in going out into the world to get that food, if you have the time,energy, and ability. Why? People in the past from many different cultures have done the same, and often they had to prepare it and even catch it themselves. If all those people could do it, I can too because I am as human as any one of them, and we have a common and shared humanity with those in the past. I imagine some of those people imagined people in the future like me doing something like they did. So it's a universal and shred value across multiple cultures across time. It really is living life the way it should be lived, with its happiness and its pains.
2001 both WCW and UFC were sold to new ownership WCW for 7 million which includes entire video library and UFC to zuffa for 2 million including video library. For Wrestling fans WCW buy out was a sad day on 3 26 2001. However as of 2014 since wwe network launch and now currently on peacock fans are able to 100 relive all of wcw glory days😊
Man... I member how bummed out everyone was that christmas, everyone had applications into the military, everyone talked about the attacks and who they knew that was already in the military getting ready to go, super depressing.
I remember Christmas shopping that year. Sales were up because George Bush told everyone to go out and shop to support the economy. It felt weird, though. Like, we were all trying to go on normally, but a sickening sense that our lives had just changed forever.
I love people watching, I just love being a fly on the wall. To anyone who experienced 2001 christmas in the U.S., did it feel any different from the years prior and after? I am very curious, did the tragedy have any effect on the holidays?
It felt different, but not to the magnitude of COVID different or the current decade different. There was an energy in the air back then that was just so magical that isn't here today.
It's really hard to believe this was only twenty two years ago. If this is indicative of the direction we're heading, I'm not sure I want to be here twenty years into the future.
Does anyone remember a talking Rudolph animatronic at the malls? I remember one at a mall in Indiana by Santa. Scared the literal crap out of me as a 2 year old 😂
I live in California and the mall one town over is still super busy all the time. You go on a random weekday at 11am and there will be people everywhere.
Although I’m someone that prefers the previous decades, it’s quite funny to see people STILL claiming how different things were after 9/11 happened, when this is a video 4 months after that situation! Things still appeared to be normal after that situation happened. If this video didn’t have the year, I would have thought it was from the 90s.
Ahh yes back when the economy wasn't as messed up as it is now and people were still excited for the future, it was a new millennium still fresh in people's minds also what happened a few months earlier but we still had a sense of simplicity it feels like a completely different world compared to now.
Yes I remember that. I was 32 that year. I'm 55 now. I remember seeing Lord of the Rings in the theater that Christmas and worrying about an anthrax attack.
I was 7 years old at the time this was recorded. I am now in my late 20s. My relatives rarely ever went to the mall to go shopping. They don't like walking around in the mall. My family is a dysfunctional family.
People seemed to be thinner back in the day. You actually had to leave your house and walk around to buy stuff. These days we are fat and ordering online.
Some people gotta stop acting wimpy cause COVID is almost gone completely when going outside and look at their phones all day I saw 2 days ago at the Bart station and in the train, almost everyone was on their phone, what happened to the days where people weren’t on them all day prior to January 2014? Why do they want them to be forgotten? Why can’t they stop and why are they still doing it? I need an answer and why do I feel like they thought the way they hang out was boring originally? I do not want anyone to say never.
You ever just watch these nostalgic videos and wonder where these people are nowadays and how their life was after this I sure do
I do as well, and it makes me feel a bit strange knowing that at least some of these people have died.
Always
It’s refreshing to see people walking around without them looking down at their smartphones.
Of course, yes when you see these scenes in 2001 on the smartphone in 2024.
I always love back when people actually had to go back to the stores to get things they needed for the Holidays and etc at malls or other stores. I’m pretty thankful that the mall I go to is still around doing great.
Im glad we dont have to fight malls anymore for most the things we need, the people, the parking..etc...
Yeah these kinds of videos are great for nostalgia, but I love the internet
Our is mostly deserted these days. We still go, but it's not the same.
Your videos bring me back to a time in my life when I loved being alive being alive in America today is kind of null and void I'll have to admit I miss these days thanks for the memories
That's a very nice comment! Thank You 😀
American Culture is now Mediocre and Pathetic.
so sad i wish ur gen didn’t change so much about the world :/
@@IanSpradlin definitely not you sound like a boomer though your generation is anything but cool. Generation z is what changed it and actually no you're incorrect it'd be generation alpha after generation z and they are in their teens now thank you.
I am an X'r and we raised our kids to be our friends and not our children and it backfired causing mass destruction in the usa. the liberal type voting and oking ( anything goes type ) and here we are.@@Spokaneexploration
I miss those days. It's just not the same sitting in front of a computer ordering everything from Amazon and waiting for the truck to drop it off.
Completely agree. Great comment 👍👍
Physical interaction with other humans is what is missing today.
In about 10 years or so I think malls will be gone. Online shopping has taken over. I haven’t been to a mall in about 2 years.
@@SexAndCandyHair92 what's interesting is malls are huge in other countries. Like the malls in China and Dubai are crazy with what they offer. Probably because malls are somewhat new to them and we've had them for 50+ years.
There are still stores you can go to I’m assuming
I remember going to the mall when with my mom when I was younger. It felt like such magical place. Feels so much different now
No arcades, no cheap prices, just depressing.
When the dollar still went a long way. Miss that 90s/ early 2000s economy
If anything, I blame our federal government that went into the Iraq war and afghan war. Obama and Biden respectively made things worse and I fully denounce them and the dems.
@@mrconroy4672 those wars were some of the biggest mistakes in the last 50 years. Trillions spent that we could have used on our country.
If you were black or brown or Latinx or LGBTQ things were pure hell.
@@Etaoinshrdlu69 Hey now, it wasn't pure hell for *all* of us, it depends on who you ask and where they lived. The Late 80's & 90's was when we started flocking to the suburbs, and more celebrities & entertainers from the hood like 2pac would become Hollywood stars to leave their environment.
@@mrconroy4672What is this ridiculous revisionist history you're trying to pull here? 🙄 It was Republican war criminal George W. Bush that got us in Iraq and the never ending Middle East wars.
Only one guy had a cell phone in this video, and it was pre smartphone. Refreshing to see that I lived that in that time and survived. Now, heads are down 90% while walking. Amazing.
This was when times started changing in the USA after the 9/11 attacks. Nothing was ever the same afterward. Mobile phones were also starting to gain popularity. I was in 9th grade and wanted one so bad. Now I wish for simpler early 90s time :(.
The government sabotage on its own people masked as a terrorist attack.
As someone else put it, this was the time when being alive in America, or just alive at all, was such a wonderful feeling. Nowadays I grapple with that feeling, such a natural "joy" that I felt every day at one point, has become so foreign to me now. I am never truly happy, and have not been for a very, very long time.. but I also see some adults in these old videos, particularly the employees/shoppers, and I can recognize that same void in their eyes. When the void becomes numb, it's really dangerous. You lose sight of the difference between light and dark, everything is all the same to you. Life was always better before that void comes about, no matter when you are born..
That vintage holiday spirit..!
Indeed!
The 90 s were a great time to be a child the early 2000 s were the last great time to experience early adolesence. .
I’d definitely say 1990-2012 were the last great years to experience adolescence. I do relatively agree to some extent.
I'd say 1990-2019 were the last great times to experience adolescence.
Agree 100%
Something I liked about growing up in the 90s/ early 2000s was we had technology like the internet and all that but it didn't control our lives yet. People still went to the mall, kids still played outside, it was a nice balance.
@@JGD185why doesn’t the internet stop taking over?
The mall at Christmas time is always wonderful.
Not if you work there it isn't. Trust me.
True. I once worked at borders books during xmas it was insane. @@josebro352
@@josebro352 That sounds interesting, why you dont recommend working on a mall? Im curious
@@EntehrterKrieger I used to work in a mall back in the early 90s. Christmas time wasn't fun. It was extremely crowded, you were overworked and burned-out. The people were rude sometimes as well. I remember being so happy when January came and it was all over with.
This was right when the wounds of 9/11 were still fresh. I can only imagine what the mood and thoughts were of the folks here. I was only in second grade then so I didn't have quite the emotional awareness to pick up on that.
Even though we had just suffered a tragedy in our country a couple months from this video, seeing people shopping, smiling, and trying to return to a somewhat normal life made me thought it was the late 90's again.
The nostalgia is real with this one. I remember those days well.
Nostalgia we used to live as young kids.
Nice video. This was one of the last years before virtually everyone had a cell phone, which is cool to see.
I was 25 at the time, late 40s now, and I think of 2001 as pretty much “current.” I guess I’m showing my age, but most of life was the same as it is now, clothes were more or less the same, etc.. A fair amount of people didn’t have cell phones, and smartphones didn’t exist, so you do see people looking around at their surroundings more. Social media as we know it now didn’t exist, either. This was not long after 9/11 and there was definitely a shift in mood in the country at that time - I remember it very clearly. Not only did we not have the sort of division we’ve had in recent years, we really had the opposite. Even advertisers got into the act. Not only was there a spike in patriotism, there was this shift to kind of sappy/homey family-oriented advertising. It’s kind of hard to explain, but we saw something somewhat similar during the height of the pandemic with all the “togetherness”-type ads. Reality didn’t quite mirror what was shown in those ads, but there really was, at least briefly, a little bit more friendliness/consideration shown, at least where I was. In any case what struck me here is how well-dressed everyone is. People always note that when seeing footage from the ‘80s and earlier, but I don’t think of 2001 still being in that more “mannered” era. (Not that the ‘80s were so well-mannered, but people still dressed better and there was certain etiquette surrounding dress which was still observed.) Maybe it’s just the region in which this mall is located or maybe it’s cold weather, or something.
I remember in 2001 our mall was so packed you where lucky to find one chair let alone a table to sit at in the food court. It was so loud you could bearly hear anything. Then in the next 10 years it shrank. By 2011 you could sit at any table without an issue. Maybe 20 people or so where there on average regardless of the day or time. By 2020 the food court was empty most of the time. Even on Christmas. Lately our mall has a new owner and he's trying to get it up and going and so far he's doing great. The mall and the food court are filling up again. But nowhere near what it was in 2001. Probably never will as people can online shop now and covid has made people afraid to go out.
@@mattmc5069 I was 26 in December 2001 and worked in a mall. The parking lot was so crowded from Thanksgiving to Christmas that employees weren't allowed to park there. We had to park behind a used car lot across the street and shuttle to the mall.
I'm the same age as you and I agree.
I was 21, almost 22 in December of 01'...9/11 changed everything. I agree 100% on the 80's, I remember it well. Most of the Men still wore suits or dressed up attire when going out to eat or shopping (and smoked everywhere) same with the women. The gov't did something to us and ruined our culture by indoctrination and modernism. I'd give my life to go back to the 80's and 90's..(i'm sure the 50'-70's were even more amazing) but this time here is the very tail end of greatness to behold.
And to think, 9/11 happened only 3 months before this video was taken.
Yup it definitely was a different vibe during the holidays in 2001.
People were scared there was gonna be more terrorists attacks.
I’d give up all the technology to get this dynamic back.
Back when malls were thriving and alive, now they're bleeding out and the inevitable death is around the corner. Some of the malls in my area are already going belly up and closing down due to bankruptcy.
I was six in 2001. Honestly this video takes me back to a more “together” or “warm-vibe” feeling. It’s hard to describe, but it’s a very different feeling than I have today. The decor, the lights, hardly any cell phones, just a refreshing thing to see. I’m very glad you upload these videos.
That’s cause your memories of that time were from the perspective of a 6 year old
Considering this was only 3 months after 9/11, I would bet a good chunk of the people in that mall were probably afraid that they were going to be the victims of a terrorist attack....
@@xpensfanatic2009No, they weren't. 9/11 was a tragic event, no doubt about it, but we weren't living in constant fear of anything. We just lived our lives the same way that we did before just like every other era with major tragedies.
@@malbrojay4740lol you're full of crap. You clearly weren't alive or old enough to remember those last few months of 2001. No one was happy
It's called nostalgia
November 2001 syphon filter released on PS1 it is a last gen exclusive. Not made on PS2 which had been out since october 2000. Syphon filter 3 my favorite in whole series
Thank you for your videos. They are very nostalgic. I enjoy watching them
I was born 2 days after Christmas in 2001! This is so cool to see!
Happy birthday in advance! 🎉
@@coldsamon thank you!!!
Naciste el 27?
i miss thos days in 2001. when i use to be with my mom at mall i use to always feel happy going to the video game area. its just not the same anymore when i buy games on nintendo eshop. when i go stores were video games are now grown up its just not the same anymore. everything is diffrent now we shop on azmon and buy games online and download em and stream movies online. the only time i,ll ever go to a store in town is to buy a new controller.
0:57 < Classic dad smacking his jokester kid's butt before his kid could land a hit is a classic dad move.
Classic dad spidey-senses saw it coming a mile away.
Ah 2001. The year I turned 14. What a different time it was back then, compared to now.
Crazy to think there are adults alive now who weren't alive when this was shot. I was born in 86, so this doesn't quite hit the nostalgia spot of the 90's stuff, but it's still great. A time when the internet existed, but not smart phones. Most people didn't have high speed internet at this point. Cool stuff. Without a device in your pocket, there were *actual* people to people watch lol.
Ikr? Kyle Rittenhouse wasn't even born yet. lol
It was a better time for sure.
This was the start of the high speed internet era actually.
I was born in 86 too. 90s is nostalgia for me all the way. This is close and definitely brings back memories of the last little bit of the world in a simpler time.
@@Charmedone9805 It wasn't fully mainstream until the Late 00's, actually.
2001 was probably the last good year of life for me.
2009 for me.
2003 for me.
A much happier time in America, its changed so much for the worse sadly. Take me back.
How could you say this was a happier time in America since this was not long after 9/11? I wouldn't quite say this was a happy time in America. The years prior to 9/11 I would say were much happier than this.
@@kevingreen5793 and it can be 2003ish-2019 as well
This was only 3 months after 9/11. You're insane and there's no way you were alive or old enough to remember the last few months of 2001 if you think it was a happy time.
@@xpensfanatic2009 Nostalgic for most of us who were kids in primary school, at least. 😅 Definitely not a happy time for many people, but, in retrospect, the unity, the patriotism and more respect for the police & our military during the Bush era was the one good thing to come out of 9/11. Like, for instance, we'll probably *never* see patriotic rappers like The Diplomats ever again in our current political climate since BLM. Or artists like Destiny's Child singing about their love for soldiers. No era is perfect, but every era has its pros & cons and things we took for granted, like the stronger sense of unity & patriotism, even though it was unjust.
@@GalidorquestI was 10 in 2001, but I guess I was gifted with the sense of not thinking the USA three months after 9/11 was a happy and cheerful place. All I remember from those last three months after 9/11 is a fear of another terrorist attack at any large public space and also the anthrax scare with the mail.
Christmas 2001 was lit. I got an Xbox and a desktop computer 😂
2000s stuff we enjoyed
Have u seen mall rats 1995.?? The same mall used in tha film was in minneapolis minnesota in which 2011 i got to visit😊
@@paulgetty5405 yes indeed it is
Jay & Silent Bob were the bomb!
@@josebro352 yup
Before smartphones and social media destroyed humanity
I think arrogance when it comes to the down fall. I'm 54 and have seen a lot. Every one trying to be better and have better.
…but 9/11 had recently happened!
At least smartphones are gone cause they failed but not social media
Instead we were all living with the trauma of life only 3 months after watching planes crash into buildings
@@xpensfanatic2009 let’s not talk about that anymore, please get over it
“I wish you knew were in the good ole days… before you left them.”
Miss these days,I think I’ve been at malls a few times one being,Panorama Mall & Northridge Mall,if only I can afford to go back into these malls & enjoy it,I was 4 yrs old around this time,what I give back to feel the good vibes,and though malls were still good around the 2010’s Ugh,the times to be a little kid/kid again where you weren’t constantly fed with social media etc like most kids nowadays are & though I watched a lot of cartoons they were better,awesome & still I had a lot of imagination going on,I used to draw so much,especially what I dreamt of doing that I could’ve done but it got squashed & I’m just well ok but really miss those days so so much!
Looks like part of the mall I loved going to when I was younger, which is no longer around (demolished in 2017, Madison Square Mall). I sure miss Christmas shopping in the mall.
I'm still searching Mark.
I just found your channel today and the upload is of my local mall!!! How cool!!!
This is practically yesterday to me. Some people are talking about online shopping as if it wasnt happening then. Even in 2001, I preferred to shop online and did not like going to a mall.
I was thinking the same thing. Online shopping definitely existed although I do remember that there were still people at that time (like my parents) who were afraid to enter credit card information online. Returns could be a hassle - I was just thinking the other day about how you’d often still have to call the company to get “permission” to a return an item, and start the return. So, I suppose that would drive people to malls for Christmas shopping in particular. But, malls were still thriving. I bought most of my clothes in stores up until maybe 10-12 years ago even though I bought a lot of stuff online, too.
2001 the year i got my first PC A dell pentium 3.
My first PC was a HP. Purchased december 2001. 😊
@@coldsamon awesime.i got mines around february 2001
They don’t have the gift wrappers anymore
Such a contempt for how things are now in the comments. Was it really that much better back then? Is it really that bleak right now?
It most definitely is very bleak right now.
There was light and shadow then, and no society is perfect, but it is darker now, and we are far more divided and antagonistic towards each other.
specifically end of 90s to about 2001 I loved going to the gaming store and seeing the PC games all in their colorful boxes. PC games were so exciting
The one guy on his cellphone is at 4:17. Fascinating to wonder what business he might've been attending to. To need to be on the phone at the time when everyone else wasn't.
Systematic destruction from within. Decades of dedication.
Only one person on cellphone because we are still a few years away from smartphones. Once internet and social media hit our phones it was faces glued to devices lol.
I recently went to a restaurant (not fast food) and absolutely everyone was staring at their phone. Occasionally they take a bite of food and quickly return to the phone 😂
@@coldsamonwhy is that?
@@MorganNyeGuessing they believe the online world is more interesting and important than the world around them on which the online world is based. We think those online relationships and the knowledge we gain as we swipe and click are important, compared to the world around us. This despite that most of us remember what it was like to pay attention to the physical and spiritual world around us, like everyone else in every culture from the past. We are truly neglecting out humanity, but believe we are not.
@@delftfietser Well why do they act like the world was boring before they do it since 2014?
@Morgannye958 I think we get used to taking life for granted, not being thankful for or even respectful of the everyday world that surrounds every one of us. I mean, the food I eat doesn't come from the internet, it comes from somewhere in the real world. I do think that there is real good in going out into the world to get that food, if you have the time,energy, and ability. Why? People in the past from many different cultures have done the same, and often they had to prepare it and even catch it themselves. If all those people could do it, I can too because I am as human as any one of them, and we have a common and shared humanity with those in the past. I imagine some of those people imagined people in the future like me doing something like they did. So it's a universal and shred value across multiple cultures across time. It really is living life the way it should be lived, with its happiness and its pains.
I was 16 and in year 10, i thought we were already at the height of technology lol
Surprised you have all this footage very nostalgic especially the fashion
Damn, I still miss Sears a lot. Thats where i got my foosball table with my family for the first time.
2001 both WCW and UFC were sold to new ownership WCW for 7 million which includes entire video library and UFC to zuffa for 2 million including video library. For Wrestling fans WCW buy out was a sad day on 3 26 2001. However as of 2014 since wwe network launch and now currently on peacock fans are able to 100 relive all of wcw glory days😊
Dude. How do you get this awesome footage?!
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Yes! Can you do please Christmas Shopping in Baby Einstein Products 2004 at Target.
Man... I member how bummed out everyone was that christmas, everyone had applications into the military, everyone talked about the attacks and who they knew that was already in the military getting ready to go, super depressing.
@vampirerobot do you have any Pa vids?
I remember Christmas shopping that year. Sales were up because George Bush told everyone to go out and shop to support the economy. It felt weird, though. Like, we were all trying to go on normally, but a sickening sense that our lives had just changed forever.
Cumberland, Lennox Square, and Town Center in Kennesaw - ATL STAND UP!!!! 🍑
I love people watching, I just love being a fly on the wall. To anyone who experienced 2001 christmas in the U.S., did it feel any different from the years prior and after? I am very curious, did the tragedy have any effect on the holidays?
It felt different, but not to the magnitude of COVID different or the current decade different. There was an energy in the air back then that was just so magical that isn't here today.
I can never forget that year also the same year, my great grandmother passed away❤
Yes! Can you do please Christmas shoppers at a mall in 2002.
Would you happen to have any shopping footage from the Albertsons on 6700 West Freeway in Fort Worth?
Oh man the nostalgia! 😊
It's really hard to believe this was only twenty two years ago. If this is indicative of the direction we're heading, I'm not sure I want to be here twenty years into the future.
@@ralphholiman7401 right?! I thought the same too! Nowadays you go to the mall and it’s almost empty except for maybe the food court, sad😕
Not a cell phone in sight ! Just people walking and talking and shopping !
(Middle School Girl is holding a Camcorder)
Girl: Merry Christmas
Does anyone remember a talking Rudolph animatronic at the malls? I remember one at a mall in Indiana by Santa. Scared the literal crap out of me as a 2 year old 😂
I live in California and the mall one town over is still super busy all the time. You go on a random weekday at 11am and there will be people everywhere.
I was 12 and this brought me back to 2001.
Before we switched timelines. Miss the old world.
Funny to see women actually wearing pants and not just leggings.
Although I’m someone that prefers the previous decades, it’s quite funny to see people STILL claiming how different things were after 9/11 happened, when this is a video 4 months after that situation! Things still appeared to be normal after that situation happened. If this video didn’t have the year, I would have thought it was from the 90s.
Ahh yes back when the economy wasn't as messed up as it is now and people were still excited for the future, it was a new millennium still fresh in people's minds also what happened a few months earlier but we still had a sense of simplicity it feels like a completely different world compared to now.
This was filmed a few months after 9/11...... People looked a bit depressed in this video, like they lost their innocence or something....
What mall is this
ugh now mostly today is all about online shopping…y’all ever see places or malls like this anymore??
The holiday season where George W Bush told people to shop or else they were letting the terorrists win
Yes I remember that. I was 32 that year. I'm 55 now. I remember seeing Lord of the Rings in the theater that Christmas and worrying about an anthrax attack.
Ah yes the good ol days
Amazing how BUSY this mall looks!
sears still open?
Did you record all these videos?
I was 7 years old at the time this was recorded. I am now in my late 20s. My relatives rarely ever went to the mall to go shopping. They don't like walking around in the mall. My family is a dysfunctional family.
Christmas after 9/11. After that, everything went downhill
Chrstmas 2001 i got an xbox.
Must have been awesome!
@@vampirerobot yeah and the games i got for xmas 2001 was halo nba live 2002 max payne nfl fever oddworld munchys oddysee
@@danielsantana540 I still play Max Payne....
No flash mobs looting anything, nice. What a simpler time.
Like that didn’t happen back then……
@@Galidorquest did you eat a brain tumor for breakfast?
The clothing has changed idk how but it wS different
كان هناك الكثير من الاحترام في ذاك الوقت وخاصة في اللباس عكس الان كارثة بكل المقاييس تعري صارخ وسراويل مقطعة لا تفرق بين الذكر والانثى.
…but your bin Laden hijacked some planes just before this!
Our Mom took me and my brother to Target that year to get the new Microsoft XBOX system. Oh to be 10 years old again
that was good the times when shopping was at it best
Before Dr. Evil *cough* I mean Jeff Bezos killed all our awesome malls...
Where do you find these videos or did you film it yourself
2001 is the year that wcw and ecw Went out of business.
People seemed to be thinner back in the day. You actually had to leave your house and walk around to buy stuff. These days we are fat and ordering online.
I think weight is the last thing I would worry about in this degenerate decade.
Augusta (GA) Mall??
Christmas and New Years were pretty muted that year. Most people weren't in much of a mood to celebrate.
I can only imagine how much Christmas was on the mind for those shoppers and absolutely nothing else. 🥰
Sarcasm?
Some people gotta stop acting wimpy cause COVID is almost gone completely when going outside and look at their phones all day I saw 2 days ago at the Bart station and in the train, almost everyone was on their phone, what happened to the days where people weren’t on them all day prior to January 2014? Why do they want them to be forgotten? Why can’t they stop and why are they still doing it? I need an answer and why do I feel like they thought the way they hang out was boring originally? I do not want anyone to say never.
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2001 windows xp launched. The first Ipod launched. I did learn windows xp ran better on pc s released at least 8 years after windows xp released.
Late September or October the release?
@@onlybananabob october released along with tha iconic gta 3 ps2 devil may cry first game which is a sleeper hit.
Can you do a Video on 1996 that’s my birthday year beautiful times
He has a video from November 1996.
The good old days before Democrats started smash-n-grabs.
Wikipedia was launched in 2001
Cool info!
@@vampirerobot yep
Nice vid
I wonder if that lady ever got any better at wrapping presents?