It was manufactured happiness instead of manufactured outrage, which is much more tolerable in the long run
I'd so much prefer if global megacorporations just stuck to making bright commercials to convince you that their pair of jeans are going to cure your depression and get a supermodel to suck your wiener instead of running Twitter accounts to take a stance on abortion rights
It's insane how ignorant the average person was about nutrition that they could sell white rice as dietary.
Not that most people are any better nowadays, but there has been a small improvement.
Things always get optimized. I'm sure if people lived 400 years, you'd have 300 year old boomers complaining that air transit wasnt as soulful as taking a steam boat across the atlantic, or that taking a car across the country wasnt as much fun as a horse drawn caravan.
Online commerce is way more convenient than going to a dedicated mall and having to physically root around for what you want with no search bar. The sense of community the american shopping mall provided is what's missing.
Going shopping at a mall during christmas time was amazing. They'd deck the place out with lights and trees and it really felt like you were doing something important. Now it's just like 5 clicks and it's at your door 3 days later.
Depends heavily on the mall.
Malls with the luxury designers like Gucci, Zegna, Chanel, etc. Havent seen a decline in traffic, if anythign there’s more mainly because its part of the experience.
>WHY CANT WE GO BACK TO WHEN EVERYBODY WENT TO BIG, CROWDED, AND LOUD BUILDINGS AND WANDERED AROUND CONSOOOOMING CHINESE PRODUCTS FROM STORES OWNED BY CORPORATIONS!?!? IT WAS SUCH A GLORIOUS TIME TO SEE THE EXTERMINATION OF MY CITY'S LOCAL BUSINESSES AND FOR THEM TO BE REPLACED BY HOT TOPIC AND WALDENBOOKS!!! I HATE HAVING TO BY MY NINJA SWORDS ONLINE NOW!!!!
>IT WAS SUCH A GLORIOUS TIME TO SEE THE EXTERMINATION OF MY CITY'S LOCAL BUSINESSES
That's Amazon, you moron Plus 90% of amazon goods are chinese knock offs.
Youre a fricking moron or a zoomer if you think that was Amazon's doing kek
Local businesses got killed by Malls/Corporate stores, which are now getting killed by Amazon.
Youre a fricking moron or a zoomer if you think that was Amazon's doing kek
Local businesses got killed by Malls/Corporate stores, which are now getting killed by Amazon.
Both had their effect on the per war CBD. But the stuff amazon did, malls could only dream of. and are we just going to pretend small business didn't relocate to malls in significant numbers.
>The sports stores had batting cages, golf simulators, indoor basketball courts. Could challenge friends to competition during summer heat.
>food court: never an argument about where to eat, everyone got what they liked and ate at the same table.
>arcade:the inception of vidya culture
>friends wanted to split up and meet back up?: no problem ill go hang at the bookstore and read with a coffee for an hour while you guys hit the arcade when youre done well go see a movie.
>shelter from elements: when its a hundred degrees or snowing out you can walk a mile inside the mall in perfect temperature and the ambience
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Things always get optimized. I'm sure if people lived 400 years, you'd have 300 year old boomers complaining that air transit wasnt as soulful as taking a steam boat across the atlantic, or that taking a car across the country wasnt as much fun as a horse drawn caravan.
Online commerce is way more convenient than going to a dedicated mall and having to physically root around for what you want with no search bar. The sense of community the american shopping mall provided is what's missing.
Going shopping at a mall during christmas time was amazing. They'd deck the place out with lights and trees and it really felt like you were doing something important. Now it's just like 5 clicks and it's at your door 3 days later.
Malls are still pretty packed where I live despite online shopping. There are hoards of lower class people due to more efficient public transport than ever, but the high-end stores and restaurants still get costumers.
This. My family used to own a condo in Killington, Vermont since the late 90s then when the recession was about to hit my dad sold it because times were about to get shit. Anyway around a decade later I decided to visit, rent a condo, get some skiing in and relive some teenage memories. Fricking disaster. Literally full of Blacks. The old Rutland mall which was peak 90s kino had barely any units open in it and was filled with Somalians. O'Bomber really did a number on the US. He was fricking right about bringing change and it wasn't good.
Real question, why do blacks have to walk everywhere and make the areas they're in look worse than they are? I can drive through a 98% white town and the one black in the area will surely be on the sidewalk, walking down it with his shitty phone overboosted playing completely incoherent "music". Everywhere you go, always. They're always walking with seemingly no destination in mind. No projects to work on? No place to be? Ever?
Anon you've posted copy/paste memes about consumerism 20 times now.
Get some new material.
Or better yet come up with something original?
But you won't.
It'll just be another dull response a million people have posted before.
ops image reminds me of the food court at the mall by where i used to live, i used to go there when i was child and teenager rest in peace cary towne center
there's no reason to go to a mall when you can order whatever you want online. And of course the ethnic and cultural homogeneity of the previous century is never coming back
Gay morons. Capitalism and goyslop are both fun and tasty it's just the internet made everyone a dumb homosexual and made them believe its okay to have parasocial relationships with gay shit like starwars or furry shit because there are other freaks just like you.
not like before no, but having a high end mall in your area that was mostly built in the late 80s/early 90s is still kino. Look at this postmodern monster.
There was no Cinemaphile back in the based 90s which make it automatically better. All of you were stuck in obscure Google Groups, locked away from the civilized world
are you living under a rock or something? the current year is the worst year in the entirety of human history, even 20 years ago was 100x better. things only get exponentially worse. you should know this by now.
Come down to Boynton Beach, FL. Our mall is stuck in 1985.
corporations figured out the power of propaganda. Companies used to actually believe that you had to have a genuinely good product and experience to sell people. But they realised that if you just tell people something is good and pay for advertisements masquerading as authentic news articles that people will literally buy anything no matter how garbage the actual quality of the service is.
This is literal late stage capitalism. A civilisation that exists to cannibalise itself.
Products used to actually be made with the consumer in mind. Now every product is created like a highly efficient corner cutting machines where all that matters is the bottom line.
Lol some blm ppl were doing hands up don't shoot at Opry Mills and and a dude kept yelling back pants up don't loot. Cop there was laughing his ass off.
just go to some gas station fast food thing? it's same looking
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[...] >WHY CANT WE GO BACK TO WHEN EVERYBODY WENT TO BIG, CROWDED, AND LOUD BUILDINGS AND WANDERED AROUND CONSOOOOMING CHINESE PRODUCTS FROM STORES OWNED BY CORPORATIONS!?!? IT WAS SUCH A GLORIOUS TIME TO SEE THE EXTERMINATION OF MY CITY'S LOCAL BUSINESSES AND FOR THEM TO BE REPLACED BY HOT TOPIC AND WALDENBOOKS!!! I HATE HAVING TO BY MY NINJA SWORDS ONLINE NOW!!!!
>”STOP HAVING FOND MEMORIES OF YOUR CHILDHOOD JUST WORK AND PAY TAXES!!!”
pretty sure you can still go to a shitty restaurant and shovel goyslop into your moronic face if you want to
>t. punchable millenials/zoomers who can't even throw a punch
It's not the mall they miss. It's the sense of community and white majority culture. Globohomosexual corporatism is pure cringe and isn't going anywhere anytime soon
bro have you been to a mall in the last like 15 years? they are just dirty shitholes that teenage blacks hang around in vandalizing shit and fighting each other.
Yes I fricking hate malls. But have to go there sometimes because hurr durr because city decided to build a mall so all the shit is there.
Too many people just grandpas and grandpas having meal coffee and families running around with million kids and shouting. Then drunks and teenagers menacing the outside. Horrible stuff. I just want to buy a bottle of gin or pick up post package but have to deal with all that shit
I'm surprised some nostalgic crypto millionaire hasn't opened a recreation of this or a Blockbuster. It probably wouldn't make much money but it seems like enough people would be into it.
I loved malls as a kid for some reason. I don't hate them now, but I'm mostly indifferent. Maybe it's from all those shopping sessions with my gf where my knees felt like they were about to explode.
seeing this image makes me feel like something died inside me
i actually experienced this
i got to actually experience 90s chicago and NY when before they turned into the shit they are now, and of course, got to experience late 90s NY after it got cleaned up as the shithole it was from the 70s to 80s
Black person that subaru on the right is like from 2010
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you're the one coping by pretending that scene is from the 90s
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hello 90s comfy poster i rememeber you
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i've since lost my folder, but this is my current favorite.
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looks so nice
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11/10 - would do coke in again
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forgot to add, lost all my screenshots.
There's a movie of Arnold Schwarzenegger titled Raw Deal where it has excellent 90s offices. It hits me with its 90s greys, pastel pinks, gold fixtures
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why can't we go back to this?
greetings fellow traveler.
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What a pile of shit. Looks like it was designed by a legitimate moron with playschool building blocks.
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whens the last time you been in a building and looked out the window and saw something like thisi can see no adverts no moronic construction being done somewhere
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Spectacular error of judgement to not rebuild them.
Looks pretty, but this is when New York was at its filthiest. End of the 80s early 90s NY was just gross as frick. It's getting there again to this day, but doesn't touch the vomit alleys of back then.
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Even watching Seinfeld is really weird how they make casual jokes about brutal serial killers and stuff. Must've been a nightmare living there during that time.
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>Looks pretty, but this is when New York was at its filthiest.
lolwut?
nyc in the 70's was a disgusting crime ridden shithole. 90's nyc is vastly better.
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>i saw rlm review the warriors kind of
no
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you can just look up the statistics. nyc was better in the 90's by nearly every metric. 1970s nyc was definitively the worst era of the modern city.
>OH MY GAHD REMEMBAH DA NINETEES!??!?1 IT WAZ SO QUIRKY AND WEACKY I LOVE THE BRIGHT FLASHY COLORS AND NEON NICKELOADEEAN SLIME SEGA GENESIS HOLY CRAP SO QUIRKY AND RELATEABLE
We get it, you love consuming plastic crap. Now get a job.
There are places outside of North America that still had these aesthetics up until quite recently/still have this aesthetic.
But if you're specifically still looking for these aesthetics, you can still find them all over.
Las Vegas still does it.
You can find this aesthetic in a lot of places still.
And not just places that have been maintained since the '80s/'90s but throwback places all over.
Where do you guys even live. If you left your house once in a while you'd see they're still around.
She was just mad that no one sat with her and they called her dragon lady. She would have been captain fricking america with a good american guy laying pipe
When will the 90s nostalgia appear in movies/shows? And I mean full on in your face Im blue dabedeedabada, y2k, 90’s nostalgia just like they do with the 80s shit nowadays. Come to think of it, 20 years from now, will they make shows set in 2010 with stranger things levels of detail? >party rock anthem >supra sneakers >colorful skinnyjeans >shuttershades >ipod shuffles >toyota prius >moder warfare 2 on 360 etc
>look it up
why? i decide things. why should i let some homosexual people in labcoats do that. zoomer is 99 and above. you just belong to those empty inbetween years where you fit in nowhere cause you were destined to be a FREAK
Plenty of the 50s-80s was archived into contemporary digital form already before social media blew up, now we're in the Information Soup World Of Adam Curtis nothing from the 90s and 00s is going to be preserved enough for decent believable nostalgia in tv/film covering those more-recent-but-not-recent-enough periods
>went to the mall for the first time in years to get something I needed that day >Black folk, fatties, spics, and other undesirables everywhere >not a single early 20s attractive white girl >retail obese niggress gives me the wrong thing and takes 10 minutes in the back to get it >stop at food court chik fil a, and for no reason there are so many little homies "working" behind the counter they can barely move, in fact they just stand and talk >my chicken sandwich literally had no top bun, they forgot to put it on >come out and my moon roof is slightly moved, someone tried to break in to get my gravel bike but gave up
Loved the scenes in the mall in that flick. Takes me back. Even though I didn't live in California, I wondered what it was like to grow up there back then
Christmas time in the mall felt so magical in the 90s. I recently visited my childhood mall and, despite it being well kept, loads of shops were empty and only big chains like starbucks, footlocker and zara seemed to have survived. It really gave me a feeling of melancholy like I wasn’t supposed to be there anymore. It felt like walking trough your old neighborhood while all your friends have left to have careers and family's…
I feel you, anon. My childhood mall had a Warner Bros store with the rocket tunnel, KB Toys, Disney store, Sharper Image, EB Games, Brookstone, a Sony store later on, and more shit that I'm forgetting but it was fun just to walk in and see the sights. All of them have been replaced by high end fashion boutiques and the only surviving stores after 20 years are the big department stores. Walked through Sear's the other day and it's just all discounted appliances and mattresses when it used to have a huge electronics section with all the new games.
Hmm I guess, I was just wondering if there was some special name for the architectural minimalist rebranding all these chains went trough in the late 2000s
The real reason is because it's cheaper to prefab one design and sell it to many different companies. Additionally, many 80/90s stores had different designs in different locations, corporate usually imposes a cost reduction method to make the minimum functioning design that is uniform
I used to hate modern architecture but since watching amazing houses or some shit on Netflix I have a new appreciation for it. It'd be shit to live in without a maid though, they look like garbage unless everything is perfect all the time.
The straighter a building is, the easier it is to design, the cheaper it is to build. Omitting the fake mansard roofs McDonalds used to have probably saved tens of thousands of dollars per store. Any sort of curved or irregular structural element will be more expensive and wasteful than straight lines. That's partly why you don't see Pizza Huts/Dairy Queens with mansard roofs, McDonalds with huge golden arches piercing the building, Taco Bell and Chick-fil-A don't have curvy architectural flourishes, and so on.
But what's old becomes new again, the boxy era will pass as well... whatever comes after it may be better but probably worse.
Whenever we would go to the mall Id have to stay with my mother while she shopped. I hated never getting to go to the arcade. Most of my childhood was spent witnessing others do fun/cool shit while I was on the sidelines.
Shopping malls are still popular in Australia but they've all been modernised. I can remember one I went to as a kid had a foodcourt that was still stuck in the 80s despite it being the late 90s. It was very cosy.
it was always too loud. it becomes a yelling match over the rest of the customers, like a carrabbas.
one time at the mall in 06ish, me and a friend both spotted money on the ground. i got to it and stepped on it first, then used it to buy us and the friends we were with chick fil a. back when $20 meant something
Malls were fine but true Americana consumerism was giant fiberglass advertisement on the side of major highways. >locally owned businesses >garish eyesores >larger than life >car culture
true America.
It’s shortsighted to imagine that the peak of human civilization coincided with your childhood.
My pick would be the early 1600s, a period which includes the plays of Shakespeare and the paintings of Velazquez. Pic related: a portrait Velazquez made of his slave before he freed him.
if you live in a city malls still look like this, they still look like malls looked in the 90s, depending on the area of the city still, it's really only maga hell holes and nowheresville, that malls have become zombie centers, nobody wants to put a mall in maga country
All 4 anchors are closed at my childhood mall and are literally crumbling away. The only stores left inside are black hair salons and budget cell phone shops. There used to be a comfy gigantic multi-tiered water fountain in the center that they removed. I frickin' loved consoooming there as a kid. Peak comfy. Thanks for reading.
There really was nothing like going to EB toys then grabbing a slice at Sbarro's. Got me a stretchy ass ninja turtle and a Primal Rage dinosaur. Good fricking times.
My local mall is doing well compared to others (still has Macy's, Kohl's, Dick's, JCPenny's as core anchors), and even still has most stores but it's definitely gone downhill, it just feels dirtier, less well kept, fewer workers. Not nearly as crowded as it used to be (still a decent amount of people though). I can't imagine how depressing malls are in places that got really culturally enriched with very poor refugees (Minnesota comes to mind).
every idiot with a phone looking for a "gotcha" moment that then use for witch hunting is the only thing about the modern world I hate because you didn't have to walk on eggshells everywhere you went. If you got into some scuffle with your neighbor then it stayed between you and your neighbor and no one would upload a video of it for reddit points
9/11 was the end of America in many ways. The richest government in the world committed a terrorist attack against its own people to drag the US into an era of regime change, oil wars, technological surveillance, insane amounts of political and financial corruption, a recession, and DARPA-sponsored social media control grids (Facebook, Google, Amazon). 9/11 was when America finally lost all soul - the era of TSA, Snapchat, unchecked immigration, skyrocketing obesity, masks and lockdowns, pinkhaired diversity courses and transgender children.
one of my earliest childhood memories was being at the mall with my parents sitting in the footcourt eating mcdondalds while staring at the box for a bionicle my parents just bought me at toys r us (it was Lehvak-Va) excited to get home and play with it. That used to be a pretty comfy mall, all the architecture there was 90's as frick but they've been renovating it in the last few years to make it soulless and modern now.
There is a big local mall that is still doing good. It's always busy on weekdays and weekends.
There was an older one that got mogged by the newer one, even though the older one had a better aesthetic to it. The owners of the older one just didn't take good care of it and it lost a lot of stores. I had a lot of good memories there. It had KB Toys, EB Games (before Gamestop bought it out). It had a good food court and even a bookstore. Unfortunatley the older one got torn down and is going to get turned into apartment buildings. Hooray, just what we need more people.
The newer one is still kept care of and is thriving fortunately.
>from small town >mall in the "city" about 1.5 hours away >make a mall trip every few months >if i was a good boy i could pick up a toy or a video game >couldn't wait to play with said toy or game when i got home. read the box art over and over.
now i can buy whatever the frick i want instantly. i prefer the now.
I don't. The limited options for media and consumption meant that you actually enjoyed and appreciated things to a much higher degree. We are now completely oversaturated in everything that it's almost impossible to decide what to consume and when you consume it you don't appreciate it and have a real experience with it as much because you can switch to something else the second that you get bored. Why do you think so many people still pine over shit like blockbuster and other old methods of consumption? It's because when you had these experiences they were 100x more memorable than torrenting some movie, music or game whenever you want.
one thing i miss about late 90s/early 00s is arcades. i dont mean dave and busters shit, i mean real arcades where you could play fun games for hours on $5. i do understand why they arent around anymore though.
In the 90s when certain new games would drop in arcades that shit was hot.
I remember the time Mortal Kombat II came to arcades and that was like a gathering.
>YES YES YES, FAST FOOD, STYROFOAM, MADE IN CHINA SHIT """TOYS""" AND BIDEO GAYMES!! hahaha YEEEEAH BRO!!! >LE SOULFOUL HFCS, LE SOULFUL INDONESIAN SWEATSHOP 90S LE COOLIO CLOTHES, MARIO HECKING TOYS IMPORTED FROM BANGLADESH, YEEAH BRO! >IS...IS THAT A FAST FOOD MEAL? ARE THOSE ARTIFICAL FLOURESCENT LIGHTS?!?! LE SOUL, LE SOUUUUUUUL! >I HECKN LOVE TO COONSUME DOOD. I HAD NO FAMILY OR MEANINGFUL HOME LIFE, THEREFORE I MUST BUY. ME BUY OLD THING, ME FEEL GOOD! ME FEEL LIKE ME HAPPY NOW! >IS...IS THAT SURROGATE MEANING?!?! IS THAT ROSE GOGGLED NOSTALGIA FOR MULTINATIONAL CRIMINAL CORPORATIONS! THEY LE CARED ABOUT US DOOOD. WE HAD LE SOUL, LE MASS MEDIA, LE ADVERTISIMENT! HECKING SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUL!!!
Jackie Brown. Half the movie takes place in a 90s shopping mall.
That's an eighties movie moron
1997 is very 80s yes.
frickin rekt
You're the fricking moron you dumb Black person
You are an absolute fricking moron.
im not really into the vaporwave shit so much as malls in general
dawn of the dead is good but theres no ppl 🙂
It was just shitty consumerism but it did have a certain joy to it
Shit the frick up.
Rampant communal consumerism is pure soul.
It was manufactured happiness instead of manufactured outrage, which is much more tolerable in the long run
I'd so much prefer if global megacorporations just stuck to making bright commercials to convince you that their pair of jeans are going to cure your depression and get a supermodel to suck your wiener instead of running Twitter accounts to take a stance on abortion rights
It's insane how ignorant the average person was about nutrition that they could sell white rice as dietary.
Not that most people are any better nowadays, but there has been a small improvement.
was born in the mid 80's, so grew up as a 90's kid and hell this takes me back
why can't we go back to this?
just go to some gas station fast food thing? it's same looking
talking about the racial composition of that picture
because that was when there was still some of america that wasn't sold to china yet, and china no lefund
Things always get optimized. I'm sure if people lived 400 years, you'd have 300 year old boomers complaining that air transit wasnt as soulful as taking a steam boat across the atlantic, or that taking a car across the country wasnt as much fun as a horse drawn caravan.
Online commerce is way more convenient than going to a dedicated mall and having to physically root around for what you want with no search bar. The sense of community the american shopping mall provided is what's missing.
Going shopping at a mall during christmas time was amazing. They'd deck the place out with lights and trees and it really felt like you were doing something important. Now it's just like 5 clicks and it's at your door 3 days later.
Damn anon, I'm not even American and I'm nostalgic for some mall in Maine in 1998 I've never seen now.
Home Alone, part of the Monica Lewinski season from American crime Story.
>Damn anon, I'm not even American and I'm nostalgic for some mall in Maine in 1998 I've never seen now.
That's romanticism, not nostalgia. Nostalgia is from experience, romanticism is from lack of it.
Air travel is 10000xs shittier than when it started.
>Zoomies will never know what it was like to fly before 9/11
Depends heavily on the mall.
Malls with the luxury designers like Gucci, Zegna, Chanel, etc. Havent seen a decline in traffic, if anythign there’s more mainly because its part of the experience.
>WHY CANT WE GO BACK TO WHEN EVERYBODY WENT TO BIG, CROWDED, AND LOUD BUILDINGS AND WANDERED AROUND CONSOOOOMING CHINESE PRODUCTS FROM STORES OWNED BY CORPORATIONS!?!? IT WAS SUCH A GLORIOUS TIME TO SEE THE EXTERMINATION OF MY CITY'S LOCAL BUSINESSES AND FOR THEM TO BE REPLACED BY HOT TOPIC AND WALDENBOOKS!!! I HATE HAVING TO BY MY NINJA SWORDS ONLINE NOW!!!!
Yes, problem zoomie?
>IT WAS SUCH A GLORIOUS TIME TO SEE THE EXTERMINATION OF MY CITY'S LOCAL BUSINESSES
That's Amazon, you moron Plus 90% of amazon goods are chinese knock offs.
Youre a fricking moron or a zoomer if you think that was Amazon's doing kek
Local businesses got killed by Malls/Corporate stores, which are now getting killed by Amazon.
Holy shit, you are fricking dumb if you think that malls weren't killing off local businesses.
Both had their effect on the per war CBD. But the stuff amazon did, malls could only dream of. and are we just going to pretend small business didn't relocate to malls in significant numbers.
Waldenbooks had smutty photography books.
This one would dot the shelves.
Why malls were cool
>The sports stores had batting cages, golf simulators, indoor basketball courts. Could challenge friends to competition during summer heat.
>food court: never an argument about where to eat, everyone got what they liked and ate at the same table.
>arcade:the inception of vidya culture
>friends wanted to split up and meet back up?: no problem ill go hang at the bookstore and read with a coffee for an hour while you guys hit the arcade when youre done well go see a movie.
>shelter from elements: when its a hundred degrees or snowing out you can walk a mile inside the mall in perfect temperature and the ambience
top tier comfy movie
Malls are still pretty packed where I live despite online shopping. There are hoards of lower class people due to more efficient public transport than ever, but the high-end stores and restaurants still get costumers.
pretty sure you can still go to a shitty restaurant and shovel goyslop into your moronic face if you want to
Malls are filled with Black folk now. The Obama administration spread Black folk across America.
This my local mall got destroyed when it connected a bus route to the city.
are just anarchy now
This. My family used to own a condo in Killington, Vermont since the late 90s then when the recession was about to hit my dad sold it because times were about to get shit. Anyway around a decade later I decided to visit, rent a condo, get some skiing in and relive some teenage memories. Fricking disaster. Literally full of Blacks. The old Rutland mall which was peak 90s kino had barely any units open in it and was filled with Somalians. O'Bomber really did a number on the US. He was fricking right about bringing change and it wasn't good.
Oh wow, someone who knows where I live. That mall closed down a few years ago, 2018 iirc.
Are there any pornos that also teach me about financial literacy?
Real question, why do blacks have to walk everywhere and make the areas they're in look worse than they are? I can drive through a 98% white town and the one black in the area will surely be on the sidewalk, walking down it with his shitty phone overboosted playing completely incoherent "music". Everywhere you go, always. They're always walking with seemingly no destination in mind. No projects to work on? No place to be? Ever?
>why can't we go back to this?
Look at this idiot that wants 80s mall back. You long for Blockbuster and leaded gasoline too?
Mom n Pop Video Store>>>>> MemeBusters
This. Stop obsession over dead billion dollar corporations you consoomers.
Anon you've posted copy/paste memes about consumerism 20 times now.
Get some new material.
Or better yet come up with something original?
But you won't.
It'll just be another dull response a million people have posted before.
>have stage 4 cancer
>boy, stage 1 cancer was alot better than this nightmare
>WHY DO YOU LOVE CANCER SO MUCH BRO?
nice one
jews
>only Hitler disliked israelites
demographics
why do you want to go back to this? it's soulless
better than now
Inb4 le israelites le blacks or Muslims.
It's because Amazon and internet shopping killed malls.
ops image reminds me of the food court at the mall by where i used to live, i used to go there when i was child and teenager rest in peace cary towne center
Oh shit watup triangle bro
Outsourcing to China.
there's no reason to go to a mall when you can order whatever you want online. And of course the ethnic and cultural homogeneity of the previous century is never coming back
>go back
it never went away
Cinemaphile, Reddit, and places like that are the new shopping malls. Everyone just shows up and hangs out.
there were more black people back then fyi, but a lot less of other racial groups
Gay morons. Capitalism and goyslop are both fun and tasty it's just the internet made everyone a dumb homosexual and made them believe its okay to have parasocial relationships with gay shit like starwars or furry shit because there are other freaks just like you.
>WHY THE FRICK CAN'T WE GO BACK TO CONSUMERISM BUT WITH PRETTIER LIGHTS
malls were a form of simulated reality that grew too expensive to maintain
less than zero
not like before no, but having a high end mall in your area that was mostly built in the late 80s/early 90s is still kino. Look at this postmodern monster.
God damn zoomers must be soulless.if they want to go back.to 90s degeneracy
There was no Cinemaphile back in the based 90s which make it automatically better. All of you were stuck in obscure Google Groups, locked away from the civilized world
are you living under a rock or something? the current year is the worst year in the entirety of human history, even 20 years ago was 100x better. things only get exponentially worse. you should know this by now.
maybe I will.
maximalism was kino, then it went.
cope
Come down to Boynton Beach, FL. Our mall is stuck in 1985.
because it makes libtards seethe and unfortunately they control the media
The opening credits montage from Chopping Mall.
We're never going back, are we?
It's in your nature to destroy yourselves
corporations figured out the power of propaganda. Companies used to actually believe that you had to have a genuinely good product and experience to sell people. But they realised that if you just tell people something is good and pay for advertisements masquerading as authentic news articles that people will literally buy anything no matter how garbage the actual quality of the service is.
This is literal late stage capitalism. A civilisation that exists to cannibalise itself.
Products used to actually be made with the consumer in mind. Now every product is created like a highly efficient corner cutting machines where all that matters is the bottom line.
Mallrats
i grew up in the town it was filmed at. the town sucks and so does that mall.
90s were hella cringe sis
cope
>not a single obese, black or trans person in sight
kinos for this feel as well?
https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
Store speaker ambience including promos from actual K-Mart audio tapes.
1990s was the peak, it's only been downhill since
Wow, white people in a mall. Truly it was a different time.
Lol some blm ppl were doing hands up don't shoot at Opry Mills and and a dude kept yelling back pants up don't loot. Cop there was laughing his ass off.
yo cuh wuzzup wut u bang mah homie
>t. punchable millenials/zoomers who can't even throw a punch
The world has worn people down so much that they're now waxing nostalgia about fricking shopping malls.
Online shopping is turbo cringe
Ain't life grand?
What should we be nostalgic about, killing persians? People alive now went to malls and now they probably don't.
malls are stuffed where i live
It's not the mall they miss. It's the sense of community and white majority culture. Globohomosexual corporatism is pure cringe and isn't going anywhere anytime soon
>they miss community
>so keep destroying it
The absolute state of morons.
no phones, smartphones .. that alone shows what a different time it was. no laptops or anti social stuff (i'm antisocial btw).
That's just how much things fricking suck now
are you mad because there's noone with bright colored hair in the pic homosexual?
Underrated 80s kino
the set of this movie is kino and pretty much nobody talks about it
What was that ugly frickin' sculpture in the middle?
Why are people in this thread romanticizing the fricking mall food court?
You wouldnt understand zoomer
What exactly prevents you to go and eat food at mall? I don't think corona restrictions are a thing anymore in most places
Like i said, you dont get it
Explain it then? Is it because people there use smartphones now?
bro have you been to a mall in the last like 15 years? they are just dirty shitholes that teenage blacks hang around in vandalizing shit and fighting each other.
Yes I fricking hate malls. But have to go there sometimes because hurr durr because city decided to build a mall so all the shit is there.
Too many people just grandpas and grandpas having meal coffee and families running around with million kids and shouting. Then drunks and teenagers menacing the outside. Horrible stuff. I just want to buy a bottle of gin or pick up post package but have to deal with all that shit
You really don't have any idea about what the United States was like before 2000 or what made pictures like this possible.
I feel bad for you, whatever cursed thing you are
We must return............
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
I'm surprised some nostalgic crypto millionaire hasn't opened a recreation of this or a Blockbuster. It probably wouldn't make much money but it seems like enough people would be into it.
I just miss it
demoralization thread to make you feel nostalgic and hate anything new
there has been some strange bot posting on Cinemaphile lately with demoralization threads
Its called SOUL
chopping mall, kinda
I loved malls as a kid for some reason. I don't hate them now, but I'm mostly indifferent. Maybe it's from all those shopping sessions with my gf where my knees felt like they were about to explode.
Mallrats.
>a bunch of white people dressed the same sitting around
Fricking creepy
>post an image of Amber Turd
of course
its called business casual attire, lounging around during lunch in the park in ny
dipshit
>doesn't understand business office attire
>posts Amber Turd
Shocking.
>shit skin
Jordan?
Career Opportunities
seeing this image makes me feel like something died inside me
i actually experienced this
i got to actually experience 90s chicago and NY when before they turned into the shit they are now, and of course, got to experience late 90s NY after it got cleaned up as the shithole it was from the 70s to 80s
it will never come back
anon why do you do this to me
We can only hope then when its all over, we get to do it all over again
Black person that subaru on the right is like from 2010
Please learn to cope
you're the one coping by pretending that scene is from the 90s
hello 90s comfy poster i rememeber you
i've since lost my folder, but this is my current favorite.
looks so nice
11/10 - would do coke in again
forgot to add, lost all my screenshots.
There's a movie of Arnold Schwarzenegger titled Raw Deal where it has excellent 90s offices. It hits me with its 90s greys, pastel pinks, gold fixtures
greetings fellow traveler.
What a pile of shit. Looks like it was designed by a legitimate moron with playschool building blocks.
whens the last time you been in a building and looked out the window and saw something like thisi can see no adverts no moronic construction being done somewhere
Spectacular error of judgement to not rebuild them.
Don't cry too loud
>Smart Phones dont exists
>Every single person is just existing in the moment
We must return
More like everyone is desperate to ignore everyone else and at least with phones we can be distracted from all the morons around us.
You will never know what life was like before phones zoomie
Looks pretty, but this is when New York was at its filthiest. End of the 80s early 90s NY was just gross as frick. It's getting there again to this day, but doesn't touch the vomit alleys of back then.
Even watching Seinfeld is really weird how they make casual jokes about brutal serial killers and stuff. Must've been a nightmare living there during that time.
>Looks pretty, but this is when New York was at its filthiest.
lolwut?
nyc in the 70's was a disgusting crime ridden shithole. 90's nyc is vastly better.
>i saw rlm review the warriors kind of
no
you can just look up the statistics. nyc was better in the 90's by nearly every metric. 1970s nyc was definitively the worst era of the modern city.
is was its worst in 88-89
this is a late picture, probably 2007-08. Toys R Us was already in terminal decline then, along with a lot of mall and department stores.
Good Burger. Their rival Mondo Burger and it's architecture is like this aesthetic.
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>OH MY GAHD REMEMBAH DA NINETEES!??!?1 IT WAZ SO QUIRKY AND WEACKY I LOVE THE BRIGHT FLASHY COLORS AND NEON NICKELOADEEAN SLIME SEGA GENESIS HOLY CRAP SO QUIRKY AND RELATEABLE
We get it, you love consuming plastic crap. Now get a job.
You sure showed them, Dad.
most millennials have a job ya doofus
>”STOP HAVING FOND MEMORIES OF YOUR CHILDHOOD JUST WORK AND PAY TAXES!!!”
>trying too hard to make nostalgia look cringe
meant to reply to instead of
This, but unironically. Also, it's not just nostalgia, it's about aesthetic.
There are places outside of North America that still had these aesthetics up until quite recently/still have this aesthetic.
But if you're specifically still looking for these aesthetics, you can still find them all over.
Las Vegas still does it.
I loved this story from the past week. It reminded us of what we've lost.
You can find this aesthetic in a lot of places still.
And not just places that have been maintained since the '80s/'90s but throwback places all over.
Where do you guys even live. If you left your house once in a while you'd see they're still around.
>You can find this aesthetic in a lot of places still.
Where
I literally typed in 'diner' into google maps and there are like over a dozen of places like this near me.
That is a completely different architectural design from a different era
What era do you want? Just type in '50s-'90s styled diner and you'll find one.
>I HOPE AMERICA TURNS BROWN IN THE NEXT 35 YEARS
She was just mad that no one sat with her and they called her dragon lady. She would have been captain fricking america with a good american guy laying pipe
When will the 90s nostalgia appear in movies/shows? And I mean full on in your face Im blue dabedeedabada, y2k, 90’s nostalgia just like they do with the 80s shit nowadays. Come to think of it, 20 years from now, will they make shows set in 2010 with stranger things levels of detail?
>party rock anthem
>supra sneakers
>colorful skinnyjeans
>shuttershades
>ipod shuffles
>toyota prius
>moder warfare 2 on 360 etc
Unironically based.
Like 50% of the stuff in that image isnt zoomer at all
zoomer=born after 2000
Yeah moron, 50% of the stuff in that image isnt zoomer at all
zoomers were born either 95, 96, or 97. look it up. i was born in 98 and that pic is literally me
>look it up
why? i decide things. why should i let some homosexual people in labcoats do that. zoomer is 99 and above. you just belong to those empty inbetween years where you fit in nowhere cause you were destined to be a FREAK
I dunno I would expect a 90's nostalgia movie to be mostly
>dude remember NIRVANA??
Give it a few years, hell early 2000s fashion is already back, so late 90s/early 2000s media will soon follow
Didn't Captian Marvel have a bunch of 90's nostalgia wank in it?
90s nostalgia started in 2010 with the 90s memes on buzzfeed/Reddit/9gag, Jurassic world, and the 90s are all that block on nick.
Plenty of the 50s-80s was archived into contemporary digital form already before social media blew up, now we're in the Information Soup World Of Adam Curtis nothing from the 90s and 00s is going to be preserved enough for decent believable nostalgia in tv/film covering those more-recent-but-not-recent-enough periods
frick off zoomer
t. zoomer
Chopping Mall
>went to the mall for the first time in years to get something I needed that day
>Black folk, fatties, spics, and other undesirables everywhere
>not a single early 20s attractive white girl
>retail obese niggress gives me the wrong thing and takes 10 minutes in the back to get it
>stop at food court chik fil a, and for no reason there are so many little homies "working" behind the counter they can barely move, in fact they just stand and talk
>my chicken sandwich literally had no top bun, they forgot to put it on
>come out and my moon roof is slightly moved, someone tried to break in to get my gravel bike but gave up
Never again
>not a single early 20s attractive white girl
Hey Chris-Chan, glad to see you're out of jail.
>chicfila
>shit service
doubt
Degeneracy always existed but in those times people hide it more now its okay to be a homosexual
>not a single phone out
goddamn we have strayed so far from god.
Phones didnt exist then, atleast not in the way we know them today
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Loved the scenes in the mall in that flick. Takes me back. Even though I didn't live in California, I wondered what it was like to grow up there back then
the best part about the malls were all the christmas decorations during the holidays. max comfy as a kid
Do malls even have Santa anymore or is that not kosher? I remember massive lines just to take a picture.
Santa is probably sexist or something now and you need to have a Female Santa or something
Christmas time in the mall felt so magical in the 90s. I recently visited my childhood mall and, despite it being well kept, loads of shops were empty and only big chains like starbucks, footlocker and zara seemed to have survived. It really gave me a feeling of melancholy like I wasn’t supposed to be there anymore. It felt like walking trough your old neighborhood while all your friends have left to have careers and family's…
I feel you, anon. My childhood mall had a Warner Bros store with the rocket tunnel, KB Toys, Disney store, Sharper Image, EB Games, Brookstone, a Sony store later on, and more shit that I'm forgetting but it was fun just to walk in and see the sights. All of them have been replaced by high end fashion boutiques and the only surviving stores after 20 years are the big department stores. Walked through Sear's the other day and it's just all discounted appliances and mattresses when it used to have a huge electronics section with all the new games.
Check out Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
zoomies don't understand soulful consumerism vs. mindless sterile consoomerism
I hate the way shit looks today, its so soulless
The most disturbing thing is going from that beamer to a vegana Benz cuckover
why did they turn their house into a dentists office
>JUST LET ME BUY WORTHLESS SHIT WITHOUT QUESTIONING
Is there a name for the “box with rectangle to the side” architecture from the bottom? Im kinda interested in learning where it came from
Modernism
It's been around since the late 50's.
>What if everything looked like it was made by a computer program
Frank Lloyd Wright would puke at what people have bastardized [architecture] in order to emulate him
Hmm I guess, I was just wondering if there was some special name for the architectural minimalist rebranding all these chains went trough in the late 2000s
The real reason is because it's cheaper to prefab one design and sell it to many different companies. Additionally, many 80/90s stores had different designs in different locations, corporate usually imposes a cost reduction method to make the minimum functioning design that is uniform
I used to hate modern architecture but since watching amazing houses or some shit on Netflix I have a new appreciation for it. It'd be shit to live in without a maid though, they look like garbage unless everything is perfect all the time.
prison and guard towers
it came from hell.
The straighter a building is, the easier it is to design, the cheaper it is to build. Omitting the fake mansard roofs McDonalds used to have probably saved tens of thousands of dollars per store. Any sort of curved or irregular structural element will be more expensive and wasteful than straight lines. That's partly why you don't see Pizza Huts/Dairy Queens with mansard roofs, McDonalds with huge golden arches piercing the building, Taco Bell and Chick-fil-A don't have curvy architectural flourishes, and so on.
But what's old becomes new again, the boxy era will pass as well... whatever comes after it may be better but probably worse.
I miss it so much, bros.
You think this is SOVL or whatever but you can tell those children are going to be screaming constantly.
Just posting some S.O.U.L.
i never thought they'd leave
>Dead Rising 2
Just like mama used to make.
What'd you bros do while senpai was shopping? Mom would give me money and I'd go to the arcade till it was time to meet at the food court.
Go to Waldenbooks and buy Conan novels.
Whenever we would go to the mall Id have to stay with my mother while she shopped. I hated never getting to go to the arcade. Most of my childhood was spent witnessing others do fun/cool shit while I was on the sidelines.
Manufacturing Consent.
>no more Valley View shopping center
Shopping malls are still popular in Australia but they've all been modernised. I can remember one I went to as a kid had a foodcourt that was still stuck in the 80s despite it being the late 90s. It was very cosy.
it was always too loud. it becomes a yelling match over the rest of the customers, like a carrabbas.
one time at the mall in 06ish, me and a friend both spotted money on the ground. i got to it and stepped on it first, then used it to buy us and the friends we were with chick fil a. back when $20 meant something
>06ish
pleb zoomie
but ii'm nearly 40
Back then $20 was food for 6 friends (the garbage disposal guy doesn't count)
Today is is food for 2 and .5.
Dawn of the Dead
Malls were fine but true Americana consumerism was giant fiberglass advertisement on the side of major highways.
>locally owned businesses
>garish eyesores
>larger than life
>car culture
true America.
How come it's not full of morbidly obese shafts?
AHHHHHHHHHHH
The 90's were the peak of human civilization, it's all downhill from here. The west is finished.
agent smith was right in the end
50s were probably the real peak
late 2000s Singapore is better
It’s shortsighted to imagine that the peak of human civilization coincided with your childhood.
My pick would be the early 1600s, a period which includes the plays of Shakespeare and the paintings of Velazquez. Pic related: a portrait Velazquez made of his slave before he freed him.
1910-1945 was the peak. Since you could read every good text you wanted at a university.
if you live in a city malls still look like this, they still look like malls looked in the 90s, depending on the area of the city still, it's really only maga hell holes and nowheresville, that malls have become zombie centers, nobody wants to put a mall in maga country
>if you live in a Black person infested shithole malls are still full of white people
lol
>americans are nostalgic about consooming in the 80's
nuke that country already please
nah
All 4 anchors are closed at my childhood mall and are literally crumbling away. The only stores left inside are black hair salons and budget cell phone shops. There used to be a comfy gigantic multi-tiered water fountain in the center that they removed. I frickin' loved consoooming there as a kid. Peak comfy. Thanks for reading.
Exactly the same as me dude. At night roving gangs of black teenagers terrorize people unopposed. I don't even know who goes there anymore.
You nerds would still be outcasts no matter the decade
bill & ted's excellent adventure
>american culture
Yes
still a troony
>hitler was a troony
>a troony killed 6 million of your people for bants
kek
Nazis were harmless trannies who couldn't kill anyone
true, the holocaust never happened.
Yes. israelites absolutely dabbed on nazis without losing anyone
do you have evidence the nazi trannies killed anyone?
>nazi's were pussies becuase they hurt my feelings rrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I WANT TO GO BACK
TAKE ME BACK
online shopping was the first frontier of bugpodism
John Hughes movies.
No, but he's not wrong that 2007 is the year of The Beast
Frick Fayette Mall
imagine living in kentucky
Keep thinking that.
The less of you here the better it is.
Not scrolling through the whole thread to see if it's been mentioned or not, but pic related obviously
reminder - this board is filled with mexicans. in this very topic are mexicans all replying to eachother.
reminder - they do this to impress white men who no longer use this website
You're all doomed and you don't even know it.
give me evidence israelites were killed by the nazis then
I can give you plenty of evidence of the ~~*Allies*~~ raping the germans p easy
There really was nothing like going to EB toys then grabbing a slice at Sbarro's. Got me a stretchy ass ninja turtle and a Primal Rage dinosaur. Good fricking times.
My local mall is doing well compared to others (still has Macy's, Kohl's, Dick's, JCPenny's as core anchors), and even still has most stores but it's definitely gone downhill, it just feels dirtier, less well kept, fewer workers. Not nearly as crowded as it used to be (still a decent amount of people though). I can't imagine how depressing malls are in places that got really culturally enriched with very poor refugees (Minnesota comes to mind).
The only thing I hate about today is Social Media
every idiot with a phone looking for a "gotcha" moment that then use for witch hunting is the only thing about the modern world I hate because you didn't have to walk on eggshells everywhere you went. If you got into some scuffle with your neighbor then it stayed between you and your neighbor and no one would upload a video of it for reddit points
That's the only nice thing about those times
9/11 was the end of America in many ways. The richest government in the world committed a terrorist attack against its own people to drag the US into an era of regime change, oil wars, technological surveillance, insane amounts of political and financial corruption, a recession, and DARPA-sponsored social media control grids (Facebook, Google, Amazon). 9/11 was when America finally lost all soul - the era of TSA, Snapchat, unchecked immigration, skyrocketing obesity, masks and lockdowns, pinkhaired diversity courses and transgender children.
one of my earliest childhood memories was being at the mall with my parents sitting in the footcourt eating mcdondalds while staring at the box for a bionicle my parents just bought me at toys r us (it was Lehvak-Va) excited to get home and play with it. That used to be a pretty comfy mall, all the architecture there was 90's as frick but they've been renovating it in the last few years to make it soulless and modern now.
Why did everything have to go to shit after the 90s bros?
There is a big local mall that is still doing good. It's always busy on weekdays and weekends.
There was an older one that got mogged by the newer one, even though the older one had a better aesthetic to it. The owners of the older one just didn't take good care of it and it lost a lot of stores. I had a lot of good memories there. It had KB Toys, EB Games (before Gamestop bought it out). It had a good food court and even a bookstore. Unfortunatley the older one got torn down and is going to get turned into apartment buildings. Hooray, just what we need more people.
The newer one is still kept care of and is thriving fortunately.
>from small town
>mall in the "city" about 1.5 hours away
>make a mall trip every few months
>if i was a good boy i could pick up a toy or a video game
>couldn't wait to play with said toy or game when i got home. read the box art over and over.
now i can buy whatever the frick i want instantly. i prefer the now.
I don't. The limited options for media and consumption meant that you actually enjoyed and appreciated things to a much higher degree. We are now completely oversaturated in everything that it's almost impossible to decide what to consume and when you consume it you don't appreciate it and have a real experience with it as much because you can switch to something else the second that you get bored. Why do you think so many people still pine over shit like blockbuster and other old methods of consumption? It's because when you had these experiences they were 100x more memorable than torrenting some movie, music or game whenever you want.
one thing i miss about late 90s/early 00s is arcades. i dont mean dave and busters shit, i mean real arcades where you could play fun games for hours on $5. i do understand why they arent around anymore though.
In the 90s when certain new games would drop in arcades that shit was hot.
I remember the time Mortal Kombat II came to arcades and that was like a gathering.
malls are still pretty popular in Australia. Are they non existent in American now?
I would say most of them are dead. Only a couple in my state are still popular. Zoomers rarely hang out together and most people shop online
>YES YES YES, FAST FOOD, STYROFOAM, MADE IN CHINA SHIT """TOYS""" AND BIDEO GAYMES!! hahaha YEEEEAH BRO!!!
>LE SOULFOUL HFCS, LE SOULFUL INDONESIAN SWEATSHOP 90S LE COOLIO CLOTHES, MARIO HECKING TOYS IMPORTED FROM BANGLADESH, YEEAH BRO!
>IS...IS THAT A FAST FOOD MEAL? ARE THOSE ARTIFICAL FLOURESCENT LIGHTS?!?! LE SOUL, LE SOUUUUUUUL!
>I HECKN LOVE TO COONSUME DOOD. I HAD NO FAMILY OR MEANINGFUL HOME LIFE, THEREFORE I MUST BUY. ME BUY OLD THING, ME FEEL GOOD! ME FEEL LIKE ME HAPPY NOW!
>IS...IS THAT SURROGATE MEANING?!?! IS THAT ROSE GOGGLED NOSTALGIA FOR MULTINATIONAL CRIMINAL CORPORATIONS! THEY LE CARED ABOUT US DOOOD. WE HAD LE SOUL, LE MASS MEDIA, LE ADVERTISIMENT! HECKING SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUL!!!
OP, the film you want is Hypernormalisation.
it was more so that it was easier to enjoy the illusion. It might have been built on lies but it was a nice dream
My childhood sucked: the post.
weird science