Sadly, that what happens with time it all just becomes memories. I was just there this past week doing some last minute Christmas shopping and I was out of there in less than an hour. With the remodel, it does look nice; but all of charm and coziness of the original is gone. With the original mall, I easily could spend over an hour there just window shopping and browsing and that be a successful outing. However since the remodel, I don't go to the mall too often, when I do it's usually just for Target. If I do go inside the actual mall, it's only as far as Five Below.

Happy to know you loved the video

Nothing will ever come to close to the original mall, it had everything and appealed to everyone as well. The original food court had just about anything you wanted to eat from a cheesesteak at Jerry's, a burger at Flammer's, fries at Boardwalk and for desert frozen yogurt at Everything Yogurt.

This video is one of my most popular to date. I'm glad you enjoy re-watching it regularly. When did you work at the mall?

around 1997- 2000s

@@springroll703 I was regularly at the mall during those years, I could have seen you multiple times without knowing you, especially at Time Out. When did you leave there? Do you happen to remember if your boss was a fat man with glasses by any chance?

@@SignalsOverTheAir The manager for the lower Time-Out was a white skinny white dude with a pony tail named Joe. After i quit i think the fat manager took over. But i probably did see u if u go to lower Time-Out when i was working there.

@@springroll703 When did the lower Time Out open? I went in that one a couple of times through out it's run of business, but I went to the upstairs one the most.

Classics are always rewatchable.

Yup same here same with dazed & confused & other 90's classics

@@whocares8584 They don't make teen comedies like they used to.

Sì, lo è, uno dei migliori dell'intero decennio degli anni '70. Purtroppo, però, non vedrai mai più qualcosa del genere.

Who's that?

@@SignalsOverTheAir, Watch the full movie and he's basically the owner of the line/ship and is pushing Leslie Nielsen to beat their schedule.

@@hhluvzmagik I know who Linarcos is, I don't know who that other person you mentioned.

@@SignalsOverTheAir, Leslie Nielsen (best known for The Naked Gun series) is the captain of the ship.

@@hhluvzmagik I know who he is, who is J. Bruce Ismay?

That's a recurring thing with this film apparently.

I thought drive-in's only showed horror/sci-fi and comedies, as drive-in's were mostly aimed for teenagers by the time of the 70's.

@@SignalsOverTheAir The Drive In theater experience was the place to be in the 70's. I spent that decade at the Drive In every Friday/Saturday nite. The movies 🍿 shown were Block busters , as they were called back down. At the premieres , you would receive a keepsake magazine of the movie... the late night movies would show "Adult" movies. My last drive in movie was 1984 Footloose. Months later a tornado would close the Drive in . Thanks for your comment and interest 😃

​@@ScottRandolph-dd7dr I didn't think drive-in's showed blockbuster films, I thought they were solely b-movies, horror, and comedies as that's what teens mostly wanted to see, especially if they were there for date nights. Twister basically ended you're drive-in experience, foreshadowing what was to come 12 years later.

@@SignalsOverTheAir yes, l guess that is true about Twister. 😂 1996, saw that on our ,at that time, new curved screen and surround sound at our indoor theater. Sadly, Katrina in 2005,would take it. Sir, the drive in experience was a wonderful time full of memories.

@@ScottRandolph-dd7dr Two natural disasters taking out both theaters, 21 years apart that's some unlucky area you live in. I've heard a lot about the drive-in experience from my parents over the years. By the 90's, the drive-in's time had come to an end so they weren't around much, especially here in Northern Virginia were if there's a tree; it's chopped down and an apartment building now take it's place.

12 times!!! So you helped contribute to the film staying at number one for almost 3 months straight then.

That's quite the praise, but there have been other films before this one that have had such an assembled cast of Hollywood's best stars.

@@SignalsOverTheAir There may have been more, but JAN came to my mind first

Not just a huge cast, but all Academy award winners and nominees.

It's my favorite as well.

Yes, it is along with Airport, Earthquake, and The Towering Inferno.

This a very, very rare thing to happened these days, you're more likely to die from food poisoning while on cruise than having a monster wave crash into it.

@@SignalsOverTheAir ... I guess you don't know what a joke is ?

@@vulcan2882 Sarcasm is hard to detect through text.

@@SignalsOverTheAir ... that's true.

I think it's in both versions, I ripped this from the Remix! Special Fan Edition back in 2006.

Empire records

I have that scene from them setting up for Rex, but I can't upload it due to copyright restrictions.

What is that?

Glad you enjoyed the video.

​@SignalsOverTheAir ARTFOLIO was my families art gallery. It was good to see it again. I was a mall rat there from 94-2000

@@Peaceseeker917 I never saw anyone ever in that store, my mother joked a lot saying that the store had to be front for something else.

Yea we had customers, mostly on the weekends. That store was around almost 20 years. I would mostly be upstairs at Time Out rocking everyone at Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.

@@Peaceseeker917 I was at the mall almost every week from the age of 2 in 1990 until it closed in 2012. Anytime I walked past Artfolio I would see the same paintings and art work in there month after month and they never moved once from where they were sitting in the store. The customers that came in on the weekends, must of been really big spenders that kept the store open for as long as it was. Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat weren't my taste as kid, at Time Out I would be found at skee-ball and the Spider Stomp game, and I think they had a game that had a gun that shot balls at clowns too.

The Disaster movies of the 70's were all about the large casts of Hollywood legends of old and new. Pamela Sue Martin, Eric Shea, and Gene Hackman are the only ones left of the main cast.

What happened at Cinnabon?

For Disaster movies at least

@@SignalsOverTheAir yep!

What's wrong with the music?

@@SignalsOverTheAir it’s annoying

@@marcywaldick8050 You could mute the sound if you don't like it or go watch someone else's video instead of mine.

😕???

"Self standing Principles Never let You down." - St. Trip."

@@andrewwhitbread9362 Don't SPAM the comments

Mark saved the day

There was no restaurant down stairs in that area of the mall. Next to KayBee was Foot Locker and next Kitts was Walden books. The only restaurants on the lower level of the mall were the Mexican next to hair salon and Target that caused the mall to go downhill due to the gangs associated with it. The Italian over by Sam Goody, and Ruby Tuesdays which was near the food court. Over By Sam Goody there was a small food court that had Burger King, Chinese, and something else, that food court was were that Italian restaurant was. That place was dark looking, I don't know of anyone who ever eat there.

@@SignalsOverTheAir yes there was certainly a restaurant downstairs next to the KITTS PIANO, their specialty were honey baked chicken and baked potatoes. This was in the early mid eighties, I remember me and my grandmother going there every time we went to Springfield. If we went to Tysons Corner it was a restaurant called 'The Hot Shop' but I cannot remember the name of that specific restaurant next to KITTS.

@@ShamasAhman I only know what was at the mall from the 90's till it closed in 2012. That restaurant was long gone by the time I started visiting it in 1990/1991.

Both Liv and Rene were at their best during the 90's and early 2000's.

@@SignalsOverTheAir agreed and their hottest. Renee fell off shortly after this film, Liv's hotness lasted until the LOTR movies.

Actually I just looked her up now, she is still pretty F'in hot and a year older than me.

@@Xanderfied Bridget Jones was good for Renee, but afterwards not so much though.

@@Xanderfied Liv takes after her dad, and he hasn't aged too much in the last 30 years.

A 3yo isn't going to be interested in this film, the teenagers however would more likely be interested instead.

Several others have asked about the table and chairs. From what I've been told by others and researched myself, ocean liners like the Poseidon had their dining tables and chairs usually anchored to the floor so that when the weather was rough they wouldn't slide around.

@@SignalsOverTheAir I've been on the Holland American Cruise back in summer of 2019, they don't bolt the chairs to floor in their dining rooms.

@@Perich29 Holland America is a cruise ship, whereas the Poseidon is an ocean liner. The difference between the two ships is that cruise ships are for entertainment and relaxing while ocean liners are older and there main purpose was that they were built for speed. Holland America is a modern ship and is designed to make sure tables and chairs wont usually slide around or fall over during rough weather.

Record stores were at their peak from the 80's through early 2000's. In the past I applied at a few local ones around me, but never go work in any of them though.

There's no song playing in this scene.

​@@SignalsOverTheAir I think he meant in general the movies music was good

@@JackBright8899 It's possible

@SignalsOverTheAir I was on a ship a few dayd ago and we were in a hurricane next to Texas and I guess a wave hit the side like a rouge wave hit the side and the ship tilted 40 degrees to its side i thought we weren't gonna make it but the ship righted itself but we had a 5 degree list to it's side

@@JackBright8899 Capsizing is very possible today if a ship is tilted to a certain degree. Within the last decade, a lot of cruise ships have come very close to capsizing; the most recent was the cruise ship, Viking Sky in 2019 when it suffered engine failure of Norway and was tossed around by large waves.

It's a underrated classic

Nobody died during the making of this film.

Brace for impact

The recipe calls for Orange Juice, but I can't drink it as it tears up my in-sides pretty badly.

@@SignalsOverTheAir I understand that, what about using orange zest to give it that extra orange flavor? I'd try that

@@vanessatrinidad7745 Give it a try and see how it turns out.

Which movie theater did you see it in? Which level was Audio Associates located on? Love the Tenchi profile pic, it's one of favorite Anime's.

@@SignalsOverTheAir I don't remember what the theater chain name was. They played those silly Spring Mall Dodge commercials before the movies. "Spring Mallability, that's dependability, that's what you get from Spring Mall Dodge!" I think Audio Associates was on the ground level in an angle front location. They had a big table out front showing off the top of the line turntables of the day.

@@participantparticipant506 Which theater in the mall, the one across from Bennigan's or the one above the food court? I don't remember a store with turntables, was that store there in the 90's?

@@SignalsOverTheAir Mid 1970's. There was only a single theater and Audio Associates may have gone out of business by then or bought out.

@@participantparticipant506 I don't know much about the mall prior to the 90's when I started going.

Bye, bye Ernest

Fun, hope none of you got tangled up though.

I'm glad that you enjoyed this video trip down memory lane. The original Springfield Mall is and will always be the best version of the mall.

I don't have any photos, mostly everything featured in this video I found online from Google images and a few personal photos as well.

Where was Lums located back then?

Can't really remember, it had one of the small spots on the side, maybe top floor? I was there when it closed, (Lums that is) @@SignalsOverTheAir

@@georgeclooney-b1dI've never heard of that place, what type of restaurant was it?

Cheap food, burgers, beer, etc, kind of like Dennys. had a bunch of restaurants around NOVA (Ballston/Alexandria/Tysons Corners etc) but slowly went bust , they tried turning some into Summers *bar / grill type) but that failed too. Fun place to work@@SignalsOverTheAir

You got to experience the mall in it's final years as a kid. I've never heard of Jeepers, what floor was that located on?

Springfest was a real, so many places to chose to eat. That food court had just about every cuisine you could imagine.

A&W is where I had my first ever corndog. The mall had so much to see and do back in the 90's, glad you enjoyed the video trip down memory lane.

In English??

A modern cruise ship today is very unlikely to capsize and even if it did, it would only be briefly and the ship would turn right side up again. The damage done by capsizing today would still be about the same as it is in the movie, maybe just a bit worse though.

Queen of Apostles?