⚠️👽ATTENTION PHILES👽⚠️ This is the announcement you’ve all been waiting for and it’s finally here. We are so proud to announce our next two guests and don’t worry, we are not even close to finished👀
“As much as it pains me to admit it, that’s a huge mood. In multiple senses of the term.”
“Please tell me you’re joking.”
“In some ways, sure.”
“You’re really going to stand there and say with a straight face that the God of Mischief has never once been relaxed.”
“First of all I take offense to the suggestion that there is anything straight about me, especially in this, the holiest of months for my people. Secondly, it’s called anxiety, look it up.”
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Happy Birthday, Mall of America! Bloomington's megamall opened August 11, 1992 to the joy of many and the bewilderment of others. At the time, the mall filled 4.2 million square feet, including seven acres for Knott's Camp Snoopy, the nation's largest indoor amusement park.
By noon on opening day, all 13,000 parking spots at the Mall of America were full. About 150,000 people total visited the mall that first day. A few other opening day statistics as reported in the Star Tribune:
20,000 point-cards sold for rides at Camp Snoopy by 1:30 pm
500 strollers checked out from Guest Services by 5:00 pm
200 payphones available
750 children put handprints in the new cement outside Macy's
Brochure excerpts celebrating the mall's grand opening from the Mall of America files in the Minneapolis and Hennepin County Vertical Subject Files.