Inside Mall of America on opening day [1992]

Footage shot on August 11, 1992.
Opening day.
#mallofamerica

[@pugmalley]

While I didn't go there opening day. I have gone there on a regular basis since 1992. In 1993 I went there one morning after hearing a local radio station was giving out 92 pairs of tickets at a couple different entrances. I had nothing better to do so I went out there and 30 minutes later I had a pair for Paul McCartney in the Metrodome.

[@Winners24-x8n]

These were the good old days!! 👍

[@kevmex8119]

I used to come here every weekend during my junior year of high school. Go to the arcade’s and buy a Cinnabon which was $3.00, went a couple weeks ago and now it’s almost $8! Thanks for the video, brought back a lot of great memories 😢

[@ruddyguzzman]

I was there last weekend it was 8.65 for a cup of pretzel bites

[@MadPlasmatist]

Wow this is really cool. I drove across the country from Florida with my family National Lampoon Vacation style - with a dachshund on my lap for most of it - this is about exactly what it looked like when I was a kid there in 1994 =)

[@kieranwhippy4137]

Reading this with a Dachshund on my lap 😆

[@drewski1535]

Take us back to these times will ya I miss the malls a lot

[@HandsomeSteveJacobson]

They should’ve never gotten rid of Camp Snoopy

[@TeacherNik1924]

This is how the mall looked when my family would go once a year. I was a pre-teen when this opened and it was amazing to me. We would go for our back to school clothes shopping, which consisted of usually just buying a pair of shoes and a pair of jeans and maybe a shirt if we were lucky but mostly it was our last hurrah before school started and we’d spend most of the time in the amusement park (we didn’t live very far from here at the time, edit: we were about 4 hours away).

[@daveosland]

Thanks for posting! Brings back a lot of memories. I was 18 years old and switched between operating the Log Ride and Bumper cars all that weekend in my Camp Snoopy uniform with my socks pulled up to my knees. 😃 Was quite an exciting event! Them days are looong gone...

[@MadPlasmatist]

I've still got my Camp Snoopy penny-in-a-glass-jar souvenir!

[@767kevin]

brings back memories!!

[@icollided]

Man. This makes me feel really old. I remember when it opened. I still think of it as the "new" mall.

[@evanwilliams6406]

Where the film Jingle All the Way was filmed. This was the mall where Arnold Schwartzeneggar's character and Sinbad's character shopped for Turbo Man.

[@flvbbernvggets]

"HE GOT TWOOOO"

[@RToddJones]

So much fun! Thanks, VR

[@kasteman1]

I remember this time in MOA, and seeing its evolution throughout the years. Now that I live local, I wish I could see it now, how it was then, a mall paradise... It still is to a degree, but nothing like it was in the 90's.

[@kel7588]

I only seen the outside of this mall, i was stuck at the diesel mechanics garage in this area in 2005 getting my tractor repaired, I worked for Taylor Truck Lines out of Northfield. I always wanted to see inside of the mall of America.......thank you for this video. 🙂

[@user-ot7li4fm8f]

You should of gone inside !

[@Blink_____]

hard to imagine a time when toddlers were safe

[@MrMitchelljung]

My mother turned 36 that day!!

[@vampirerobot]

That's pretty cool!

[@MrMitchelljung]

Yeah, wish I could've been an adult in this era, I was only 6 in 1992

[@Bro96101]

This must be summer of ‘92

[@thanhhuynh7549]

Why you guys change it ! Brin back memories in 2023!

[@brandongaming1049]

happy 30th anniversary!

[@lexthebookwormarchive95]

Do you have any old video archive for Eastwood Mall?

[@vampirerobot]

I don't. Sorry Lex.

[@phoenixpruett2097]

The carousel organ's bells always make me mistake that one for Cafesjian's Carousel at Como

[@brickinterviewertv]

i wasnt even born yet i was born in 1998 im 25 now i went one time back in 2016 with my brother and i havent been back since then

[@KAISER-OUTDOORS]

RIP - the met center

[@GrCent]

I was there with my friends that day! I'm looking for myself here haha! Bloomington born and raised baby!

[@tyhairston5397]

Back when the mall use to be pack out

[@econhelp583]

Cell phones, online shopping, streaming movies, and the Internet’s “free” entertainment and communication options; this has made the USA insular and “cliquey”. Malls have died and the fun shared-community feeling we once knew has taken a beating. Family members have dinner, all focus on their smartphones, now living in their own little world.

[@alecrechtiene558]

At least MOA is still very much alive

[@user-my7li2kf1k]

I haven’t been back since 92/93/94……

[@Mike-xo8on]

The old MOA was very special. Now it is a bland looking and feeling place full of boredom.

[@mabelmartian]

30 years and I still have not gone

[@m2i3chael30]

Don’t it’s a waste of time and really confusing

[@mabelmartian]

@@m2i3chael30 still want you to

[@trevour]

Camp Snoopy > Nickelodeon Universe

[@beaujackson7699]

I thought I remembered a theater in there

[@Nnoreaga]

There is 1:17 and 6:57

[@johnnylee1320]

동시대 한국 생각하면 도저히 같은 행성에 있는 곳이라고 느껴지지않는다.

[@garylarson4415]

Nothing distinctive about the time. It looks like now.

[@crazyman9517gunner]

Bad

[@122cadet]

no cell phones in people's hands, everyone looks happy, life was better without social media and being tired to some sort of electronic

[@jamesdavid1185]

I get what you mean but does everybody have to say that in every video that is about the past, it’s literally every video. I understand what you are saying but it just gets tiring and unoriginal reading the same comments over and over again.

[@Battlefield1918]

@@jamesdavid1185 It's true, social media has had such a huge impact on how people think, act, dress, etc. Back then as one might say, it was more simple times. No people with bright pink hair, emo boots, weird outfits, really tells you alot.

[@fbi538]

@@Battlefield1918until youre in an emergency and have no way of calling for help

[@Battlefield1918]

@@fbi538 Who said anything about banning cell phones?

[@KyleEvra]

Shut up Granny. 😂