World Wide Magazine - St. Louis Centre, the perfect family atmosphere

An excerpt from World Wide Magazine, a public access TV show from St. Louis, MO. The show was created by the late Pete Parisi. It ran from 1986 to 2001.
This clip takes place at St. Louis Centre, which when it opened in 1986 was the largest urban shopping mall in the United States, with over 120 stores and 20 restaurants. Without much of a residential presence in downtown St. Louis, the mall was fairly vacant by the late 1990s, when this was likely shot. It was eventually closed completely in 2006 and awaits redevelopment.
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[@jid314]

I would seriously love to see a reunion of everyone in this episode.

[@paxmule]

Have 'em all on Springer!

[@Cardzfan1980]

Pete can't.

[@mikeperez4819]

They were on before Springer.

[@Brettdyt]

I would bet most of the gang bangers are dead.

[@earthy_girltarot]

My thoughts

[@DonJuanSeville]

St.Louis Center......Good ol days

[@lowkeymoneylowkeymoney1178]

This is wild!!!!😂😂😂

[@zachmorley158]

This is gold. Truly. God bless Pete Paresi

[@mikeperez4819]

To my memory, we were out to improvise, probably about issues about the site that had been raised in local media. I don't really know. I knew the kids a little. They were stunned like me to walk into this set and so they stayed w/Mom. The light was okay, we were new to using a wireless lapel mic and so I thought to alternate between both mics. Other than this, these gents were pretty awesome on the spot.

[@zachmorley158]

You participated in comedy gold. Providence stepped in and made sure of it.

[@chucks806]

Just by the comment you seem like you were the cameraman. Years after the Mardi gras thing he was my dad and stepmom's landlord. Building on Arsenal & across from Tower Grove Park? Sounds familiar? I remember helping him dig his taxi out of the snow around winter '98-'99. He was cool.

[@chucks806]

Got a bug up my butt to check out old Worldwide Magazine videos from back in the day. I'm a St Louisan and a fan of Pete. He even did a piece with me at Soulard Mardi Gras 1997 I think. Signed my forearm. RIP PEP

[@RoseMaddison]

The mall is now becoming a parking garage, movie theater, and some retail.

[@jaycook2385]

It is that now

[@Scodel]

You should see downtown St Louis today. This video looks like Disneyland compared to it

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

"WHAT'S GOING ON??" I feel like a more relevant question has never been asked.

[@paxmule]

"Nothing sir... Stop recording!

[@mikeperez4819]

It would be hard to do this today. It's a document of a changing city. Nostalgia from the future.

[@rickyrayrosenberg420]

This is the perennial refrain

[@ArthurPope]

I miss them St. Louis city bus.

[@rickyrayrosenberg420]

I can smell them - and the various people on them. And that sound of the engines - still clear in my mind

[@erict.7647]

The guy rapping at 9:17 actually had impressive vocal control.

[@WilliamChillWillFletcher]

He went by the name "Murderous".

[@kaelonpatrick4200]

😅

[@CertifiedHuSTLer]

Hes passed​@@WilliamChillWillFletcher

[@ThePeteParisiArchives]

​@@CertifiedHuSTLer Murderous died?

[@jsb06g]

St. Louis people crazy lol I miss it there lol

[@mikeperez4819]

I did not think to compare Peter's change in direction from the productions that I noticed before he granted me entrance. We were kinda sorta directly in one public event after another including discussions with supremacists. Therefore, St. Louis Centre turned out to be an artifact of a changing city and P the pro edited this improvisation. I am proud of this segment.

[@mikeperez4819]

Good guys on security and this awesome unit of freewheeler artists. I was very happy and so was P when we looked at it. He edited per his style but, really, there was less editing than necessary. These cats were awesome. I never spoke to any of them at all. Wonderful and, well, provocative enough to get tossed out.

[@WilliamChillWillFletcher]

I remember this rapper, his name was Murderous

[@jvaragona]

Very real. Plenty more in my videos.

[@mikeperez4819]

Good job! We got lucky on an improvisation. These cats were awesome and we never talked to them on site very much. It was very easy to take these pictures.

[@thewatchman7773]

They guys that got kicked out the mall 2 of them from my neighborhood

[@mikeperez4819]

Papa Woody 1996 CD. Come to think of it, this sample-based music was pretty prescient.

[@mikeperez4819]

I'm pretty sure P had acquired a CD by an avant-garde band Ether Bunny. I still like my cy a lot

[@BuddhaIron]

I haven't been down there since I was a young teen in the mid 90's it was pretty dead..but then again at that age I didn't know what a "dead" mall was..i loved it...I miss it..so what are they doing with all the mall itself..did they knock it down or is it just vacant?

[@skeletal13]

It was converted over into a parking garage.

[@BG-yk9fk]

People live there now, also has a hotel, parking garage, and street-level stores.

[@mikeperez4819]

Type ether bunny Chauncey gardener for the 1996 sample-based music.

[@morgnt56]

Haven't those mall cops ever seen "Roadhouse"?

[@paxmule]

Good one! More like they all seen Paul Blart!

[@ryanhilliard1620]

All of what is documented here is why St Louis Centre failed. Sad.

[@midwestgrammar2941]

Before smartphones and tablets

[@Chaz63110]

Pete would say, "Fine Young Cannibals". He liked the song, "She Drives Me Crazy", because of Denise. I agrreed with him.

[@Ironskillet]

@gravelandgrain100 hmmm, I dunno. There are malls downtown malls elsewhere w/ relatively negligible populations in direct proximity. And now there is a significant population of people w/ disposable income as residents DT and there is an abundance of hotels. Also the Centre definitely was not dead from the get go, I went to that mall for the first few years all the time and it was THE STL mall until the Galleria expanded. Of couse, how would your logic work for Crestwood? Malls suck anyway

[@mikeperez4819]

We went there on a kick. No idea what would happen. In short, we got lucky and I was glad Linda was there to handle the cool kids

[@medic51976]

Metrolink killed Galleria. This place was doomed from the start. Behave yourselves and watch society flourish. It's not that hard.

[@miqiee]

The Zoo's downtown satellite location.

[@colbymercury]

Welcome To St. Louis. Enjoy your stay.

[@WinXPerience]

Rappers YAAAAY!

[@Klackner1]

Went to the STLC about 20 years ago on a Sunday. My father and myself watched a kid steal something from a store and run his ass into the pavilion as the cops chased him. This place was dead from the start.

[@rickyrayrosenberg420]

LOL - that is exactly the St Louis experience

[@snatchedwaistcuteface5415]

LMAO🤣🤣🤣 What year was This🤣🤣🤣 PLEASE TELL ME, I BEG 🙏🏻!!?!?😁

[@ryanhilliard1620]

It says 1986 in the description. I'm thinking it might have been a little later. I don't think it had declined this much by 86.

[@HavingFun-nj5oc]

@@ryanhilliard1620 1997

[@HavingFun-nj5oc]

1997

[@kivrin22]

are they the St. Lunatics? because they are star quality.

[@Scodel]

Let me guess…. You got kicked out of there for behaving like model citizens.

[@tonifrench6869]

St.louis center, that was gangbang city, that's why they got kicked out 😂.

[@earthy_girltarot]

😂

[@stomp919]

lol!

[@MissMaddy881]

Some people are stupid..

[@satanertau2689]

Should've just arrested the lot of them.

[@MissMaddy881]

Definitely!

[@gravelandgrain100]

This mall was doomed from the beginning. Everytime I was in there it was dead, as a doornail. There are no residential areas around the Centre, so who is gonna shop there??? It was a grand attempt to make downtown-"the" premier shopping area in the city. Plaza Frontenac, Chesterfield, and the Galleria already had them beat. It is now a dead mall.

[@pwnshhhop51]

Chesterfield is pretty much dead now too.

[@medic51976]

​@iWasTheTurkey Progress around Chesterfield mall's area, killed that place.... Not this virus. This virus mutated and killed the Galleria. It's working on West and South county malls now.

[@rickyrayrosenberg420]

My mom worked at Famous Barr there so I got to see it a lot. It was always either dead of crime ridden. Great place

[@RonnieDobbz1978]

well its nice to see fedoras were cool back in the day too. 30ft inside and we can see why St. Louis sucks.

[@survivor147]

This is fake. Not even the blacks went to that mall

[@Toddon14th]

This mall has not right to exist.