Let’s go to the mall in 1996

[J.E.T.S]

Tell your mom to drop you at the mall at 3 on the weekend and be in that bytch till closing time

I was right up the street from King of Prussia too

Looking back I still can’t figure out how I stayed in the mall 5+ hours doing nothing.

The best times were when you met someone/kids, vibe, y’all dip to go do other shyt. I remember meeting this one girl with a car at the Woldchase Galleria and we rode to East Memphis and smoked with her brothers. Then they got the fighting with some nikkas from Whitehaven. Some nikka pulled up to bring her brother some fire lol…

Literally one of the most fun, but dangerous times I had as a teen.

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

I wonder do kids even play with toys anymore

 

[Paper Boi]

zoomers stay out

 

[Afrodroid]

I wonder do kids even play with toys anymore

Nope

Toys nowadays, especially action figures are adult hobbies

 

[Paper Boi]

that's like 20-50 retail/food establishments per mall.

and considering a good percentage of malls are simply dead now those are jobs that just don't exist anymore.

and don't get me wrong i hated working those jobs when i was in high school, but it's still sad that they really don't exist and those wal-mart/amazon jobs that replaced some of them ain't any better.

 

[Brehcepticon]

Remember when Killer Instinct 2 came out
Used to fukk up the arcade every day after school
C..C..C..CC..CC.....Combo Breaker
Simpler times

ULTRA COMBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Redwood]

I wonder do kids even play with toys anymore

I really don't see any matter of fact

 

[Magic Mulatto]

I wonder do kids even play with toys anymore

They just go to YouTube to watch certain other kids play with toys…

Those certain other kids who are now rich from all the views have parents that were committed to showing their children how to play with toys and also smart enough to record them doing it and uploading for the world to see…

 

[hex]

Cool thread.

I used to go to Bannister Mall (in KCMO) back in the day, that whole area was prefect for teenagers.

Had the mall, then right across the street in one direction was a Hypermart. I don't even know if you cats remember those.

Anyway, across the street in another direction was a Just For Feet, a Toys R Us, and a Funcoland.

We'd fukk around in Just For Feet (it was one of the big ones with a basketball court, etc.) and go play game demos at Funco and Toys R Us.

I know people say Gen Z don't go outside, etc. but the fact of the matter is there isn't any areas like that for teens in 2023.

Fred.

 

[spliz]

Good times.

The mall is where you would meet girls from other schools in the area. That shyt was a beautiful feeling when you see a pretty girl you never saw before and her crew sees your crew. I was usually the brave one to step up and start talking. Y’all had to exchange numbers and if she didn’t have a cell phone or beeper you had to call the crib. No asking for their IG or FB page where they got 10k other nikkas from across the planet trying to trick off.

bytches wasn’t wearing weaves like that.

No surgeries and fat transfers.

No caterpillar eyelashes and blond wigs.

If you told a bytch you worked at foot locker they didn’t laugh. Damn bytch I’m 17 I’m supposed to be the CEO of Blackrock? Foot Locker was a cool little job for high school college kid plus you got the latest shoes.

If you or anyone in the crew had a car any car you were winning.

Drugs weren’t prevalent. Some weed and people drank. Nobody was an open junkie like these kids now.

Homo shyt was kept behind doors. Nobody was non binary cross gendered. You didn’t have to worry about talking to a 17yr old that used to be a boy freshman year. Never happened.

You could scrap without shyt getting posted on social media.

90’s was GOAT!!!

Exactly. ALL of this. Perfect mix of physical and digital.

 

[Originalman]

Remember when Killer Instinct 2 came out
Used to fukk up the arcade every day after school
C..C..C..CC..CC.....Combo Breaker
Simpler times

 

[spliz]

Cool thread.

I used to go to Bannister Mall (in KCMO) back in the day, that whole area was prefect for teenagers.

Had the mall, then right across the street in one direction was a Hypermart. I don't even know if you cats remember those.

Anyway, across the street in another direction was a Just For Feet, a Toys R Us, and a Funcoland.

We'd fukk around in Just For Feet (it was one of the big ones with a basketball court, etc.) and go play game demos at Funco and Toys R Us.

I know people say Gen Z don't go outside, etc. but the fact of the matter is there isn't any areas like that for teens in 2023.

Fred.

This is facts.

 

[Laidbackman]

The first thing bought me back was the big computer monitor that brother was on. They probably had a Windows 95, or maybe something slower, like a 286 or 386...I can't remember the letters behind those numbers. I think there was a 486 or something right before Windows 95 was released. But it was ridiculous how you almost had to buy a new $2,000 computer nearly every other year. It felt like if you didn't, the world was gonna pass you by.