Outdoor and hiking is still a very big thing , and unlikely to change anytime soon . We are to fond of hiking , skiing , paddling and posting about it on facebook From my experience , they only dub programs for kids and pre teens . After a certain age you are expected to be able to read and therefore everything else is subbed . With regards to shopping centers closing at 89 . You are probably correct . I am getting old and remembers the eighties and forget sometimes that alot had changed as early as the ninites . The same can probably be said about Halloween . It was unheard of in my childhood and the fist time I heard about it being a thing for kids was about 1012 years ago . But it did not become a big commercial event with shops advertising Halloween sales and all that until the last 58 years . But to be honest , I may have missed out on the whole Halloween mania until I had kids of my own I live in the south west , so I cannot say for sure for the rest of the country . But since my town Stavanger probably has a larger percentage for US expats than the rest of the country I imagine it became popular here first .