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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[colbymercury]

Welcome To St. Louis. Enjoy your stay.

[docwondernuts]

typical niggardly behavior by individuals who can purchase a $50 baseball jersey but yet neglect their oral hygine.

[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.

[morgnt56]

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

[Chaz63110]

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

[100stackfsas]

@docwondernuts Have you seen some of these cracka in STL plae face meth head zombies...do more "niggardly" shyt than the niggaz.

[100stackfsas]

@spanishlake i live in Normandy and all of the cops from Natural bridge and 170 to beverly hills have the same look. Big ass Buzz cut havin white boys.

[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

[SexyStaci21]

rain, closed entrances, fights

lmao looks like they came to that mall at the wrong time

[spanishlake]

I love the guy who says, "You're videotaping now sir. I'm going to have to ask you to disperse from that." It's the sounds of an ex-military man who found work at St. Louis Centre as a security guard. This seems to be the trend in America.....to hire a bunch of ex-military thugs to enforce the commands of the folks who are really in charge. I was in Bel-Ridge night court a couple of weeks ago, and all the cops there looked like they had recently served in Iraq or Afghanistan.

[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.