I remember working retail in the late 80’s where you had to manually enter in bar codes and stamp the charge cards and everything was gobs of paperwork! Lol! It was a pain in the neck but times were a lot more easier and people were more kind than people today!
These registers are actually more hi-tech than what I was use to seeing in my town mall. I remember them pressing and sliding a carbon copy receipt for credit card purchases. LOL
@daniellewis5474they are not the ones who love those who shoplift without impunity. Seems those who think like you are the problem as to why we have gone to the crapper.
@daniellewis5474no weirdo they were all Reaganites back then and no normal person talked politics like the snowflake leftwing nutjobs. you are completely detached from reality and you are your own goofy dishonest strawman. typical liberal evil loving traitors to humanity. republicants are not great but anything is better than wacko looney space cadet narcissist fake race heroes liek you. 🤮
@@michelle-zd2nc I remember when the millennials like yourself were being born. The media called it "the new baby boom". I was an unimpressed teen🙃. OK, people are having babies, who cares??
Notice how calm people are and not in a hurry and stressing about everything like in the mall today, nobody displaying any self entitlement or needing to be noticed on video or arguing with store cashiers etc. This is what made the 80's so great!
@@GremmPaltakin I never use "smart"phones. I only type from my computer and that's it. I find smartphones annoying and very distracting to the world around people.
Watch Supernatural it's was pretty good, but at the last season they throw in an okay character that's a lesbian and/or disabled to be woke. The show is like the masculine version of the OG Charmed. Can you imagine them trying to make the OG Charmed a masculine show. Sigh! Or making the Cosby show white. They have to sell or the TV shows lose market share.
would’ve loved to see what life was like then! i happened to be born in 2001 lol, good thing is i can always talk to tons of elders n ask all the questions ab the 80s 🤘🏽
@@a-a-ron9571I wouldn't trade my 80s youth and young adulthood for anything. I consider myself blessed😊. Even though I'm middle-aged now, LOL. Sometimes I think that some young people - anyone under 25 - don't appreciate all the technological miracles we have today. For me, sometimes it's like living in a sci-fi movie, no kidding.
Remember Layaway plans? I recall going with my mom to Sears to make a layaway payment each month. They also had a ticketmaster office located in there to buy concert tickets.
We did too. The Sears on Olympic Blvd in LA was within walking distance from our home and we spent al lot of time there. My mom always put stuff on layaway, we went every payday to make a payment. It was always so exciting when we made the last payment and could bring our items home.
You mentioned the ticket master office, and I worked at a retail store that had one in the early 80s. I went to work where I had to open our store. I arrived to see a small group of teens waiting. The more the time passed, the more the kids were showing up. I noticed they had Black Sabbath tee-shirts, and quickly figured out that they were there for concert tickets. The Black Sabbath, BOC show, or if you can remember, the Black and Blue tour. Mostly males, and looking to buy that extra ticket for a girl, or maybe a friend to go with. By the time the store was to open, there were at least a couple hundred kids. The venue was in another city, because the city I lived in was still pretty small to hold a major concert event. I put the key to lower the all glass door, and it was at least a good seventy feet long, and 12 feet high. It was hydraulic, and lowered into the ground. Once I turned the key, the kids pressed forward, and when there was space, started to climb over the wall as it was lowering. I immediately stopped the key, and shouted hold it!!. I told the kids, who were also my age, that I was not lowering the door until everyone climbed back down. Lucky for me they did so. I then proceeded to lower the door again until it was fully down. I then said go for it, and the race was on to get to the ticket office four floors above. Never saw anything like that in my life. It was a very dangerous event, and I always felt security should have been watching that door. They were trained better, and someone could have been crushed by that door, or ran over trying to get upstairs. Of course the store would get sued if that would have happened. That is a lot of responsibility for someone who was severely underpaid, and those who were trained and paid more were drinking coffee somewhere in the security office. But,that is how they did things.
I MISS Mall Shopping in the 80's ! It was a simpler time, less stress, and kinder people. I actually, got tears in my eyes watching this and remembering.... WHAT has happened to our world
And God being removed from our schools and country in general. It's how the devil worked his way in and we can all see the destruction caused by Satan! We need GOD back and we need Trump back!!
Yes. MTV was new and actually showed music videos that were fun. TV sitcoms were simple and funny. We all had landlines and some had a machine that said leave me a message like on Rockford Files.
Same here, same year. I actually had time and money to keep in top physical shape which means I looked good in clothes and in a classic speedo swimsuit! 😊
No face tattoos, bright-colored hair only if you were punk, no piercings all over the face. Everyone dressed respectfully, no one on their phones ignoring the world around them. There were no mall shootings, no school shootings, and the music was great. No one was arguing or fighting, and the food was great - no worries about gluten issues from eating it. Times were so good back then. I had such a great '80s childhood.
I was a teenager, then young adult during the 1980s. I'm sorry for the people who didn't get to experience it. The 80s weren't perfect, but pop culture was slot better then, I think. People's standards were higher.
Best part about malls of this Era is the REAL game rooms they had🥳🥳🥳pinballs and arcades..classic..nostalgic in todays world..was a different place when you were a teenager like I was back then😎
I was 8yrs old in 1983. That year was the best Halloween trick-or-treating, haunted house, and scary movie night with friends/siblings EVER. It was the best feeling of a "kids being kids."❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I was eight in 1983 too and I agree that it was a great year. 1983-1986 were the best years for everything. Holidays, school, music, clothes, toys, movies etc. The 80s were the best time to be a kid.
There is a comforting familiarity in this video. I was seven years old in 1983. Going to the mall was a special treat because we didn't have one in our small town and would have to drive into the city which usually meant making a day of it. My mom loved Bloomingdales. I could picture myself following her around in there, feeling bored and trying to wait patiently for my chance to go to the toy store. Everything in this video makes me feel so happy...the clothes, the hair, the cash registers, the lack of cell phones. I love how people randomly look at the camera like "what are you doing?" lol I know the world wasn't perfect, it never has been, but the 80s was absolutely the best time to grow up.
Yes, we didn't get an indoor mall in our town until 1991. So, going to any mall in the 80s was kind of a treat. I was a teenager in '83. The things I really liked in the mall were the record store, Radio Shack, and Spencer's Gifts. And, there was a clothing store called The Weathervane I liked.
Same for me! It was so exciting going to the city and to the mall. I can still remember the smell of it - a unique and pleasant mingling of perfume, coffee, and new shoes. The hum and pulse of activity. Everything tangible, sensory, and immediate. It really was a communal experience. The internet and cellphones have given great things with one hand... and stripped us of great things with the other.
I was 21 in 1983. This brings back a lot of great memories. The colorful fashions, the music, the hairstyles and people with style and class. Looking back, this was absolutely the best decade in my opinion. It truly was a blast.
What stands out to me is that they express their style and class without brand names emblazoned across everything. Taste was about proportion and colour along with a well-chosen belt, necklace or scarf.
I was only 1 in 1983. That being said it’s strange to think most the folks in this video are either in their 60’s-80’s now if they are still living. Enjoy everyday. Life goes by fast
That's exactly what I was thinking - how many of these people have since passed on. In one sense, I know it was a long time ago, 40 years. But, in another way, it seems like it was just yesterday😢
@@davoid96 you're wrong. You have no clue how those people in the video ( that you don't even know) are reacting to said situation. What an ignorant observation.
@@mark3464 no , they most certainly were not. With the onset of more n more technology, the masses have become increasingly more impatient over time. And anyways, how would you know ? You seem to make comments on these posts just to be combative instead of thinking first.
I’m 57 and I must say the 80s were the best years of my life. Our society still had morals and people weren’t glued to their phones. It was ok to say hello to a stranger !
I'm almost 57 and I totally agree. My big pet peeve is wearing pajamas in public.... back then it was unheard of. It was a form of laziness and a lack of tack. My parents would've never let us out of the house in pj's.
Being a child of the 70's and 80's this is so wonderful to look back on, it was in my mind the finest time to be a child, and it is bittersweet to look back on and think how many people in this video who were thriving have since passed on, time sure goes so fast, and it just shows us all to really cherish each day Thank you for sharing these amazing videos. 💖💖💖💖💖
You took the words right out of my mouth, all of it. And I was 13 in 1983 and it definitely was the best time to grow up. My teenage son even wishes he'd grown up when I did. I just wish we had taken more pictures and videos of everyday life back then.
I was born in 76' so I'm more of a child of the 80's-90's. The 80's were my favorite though and it makes me kinda wish I were born a few years earlier. It would be nice to go back to that era for sure! I'd do a lot differently.
You took the words out of my mouth and I was also 24, rarely did we have arguing BUT we did have a Cabbage Patch' punch up as I brought a flatbed with about 30 dollar roped and stacked from the freight elevators down the aisle toward toys and hardware BUT never made it. Women grabbed and ran and when they couldn't punched and kicked I backed off astonished!
I was 13 years old back in 1983, and going to the mall was one of my favorite things to do. Parents didn’t need to worry so much back then. Times were different. My friends, and I would get dropped off at the mall, and stay for hours. This video brings back so many memories. Thank you
Yep! Same. And the big difference in kids is they weren't destructive and mean and respected people and property because parents back then did something called "parenting". No such thing today. The new thing is called "Child-Led Parenting" or some BS where they let kids do whatever they want and no discipline. I couldn't believe it when I heard that. Sadly, our planet will get much worse before it gets better. I'm glad I'm closer to death now so I don't have to deal with it. LOL!!
Yes. I was 13 also. We rode our bikes to the mall. We didn't have to lock them up either. We would start off at the arcade, then go get an Orange Julius, go browse through the record stores (Hastings here in Texas) and go to Kaybee's to check out the new Atari games.
I'm in my 50s, was a teen in the '80s. Seeing this reminds me of how people dressed better back then just to go shopping than they do now for a wedding or funeral! Times have changed, and not necessarily for the better.
I miss those days! We didn’t leave the house without hair and makeup done, and we dressed much nicer. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find decent clothing anywhere, everything is shredded like jeans. I realize from watching this that my standards have slipped, and it’s a nice reminder to step it up!
I wasn’t born until the 90’s but I do agree! While I don’t judge others and try not to, personally, there’s something so awesome about how put-together people looked, and this is a nice reminder for myself!
Proud 80s kid here. I turned 12 that year. The 80s was the best time to be a kid. Thriller was released in 1982, so this was the year Michael Jackson ruled. At our malls, everyone was dressed like MJ. I looked a lot like him back then so I had all of the girls, and the boys were jealous of me. They all called me MJ lol.😂 You could not go to a mall without seeing MJ merchandise. I remember the entire Sears Department Store upstairs was MJ merchandise, and they even had The Making Of Thriller playing on loop. What a magical era that was. I really miss those days, and I feel so sorry for the kids today. They will never know how it was living in the greatest era. 🥰
Look at all these civilized people, well dressed, actually working, having conversations with one another. In 1997 I worked at Lord & Taylor, it was just like this video. Miss these times.
Remember when Lord and Taylor had no registers..you had to add up the purchases on a pad and actually count the money owed back to them with no calculator..😂😂 can you even imagine that now 😂😂 Some people can't even count to 20 😂😂
Ah, before all of the headache, constant rush, and distraction of today. When people actually talked with each other, you could get high quality products, and customer service wasn’t a joke, or just handled by a recording or a bot. I was only 4 at the time of this, but I still have so many awesome memories of the mall from around 1983 to 1989.
Spectacular! Need a VR version of this so we can walk the mall, shopping alongside these pleasant 80’s people and surroundings☺️ Thanks for these awesome videos!
@@matthiasheppe It's cause everything these days are cooked in seed, and vegetable oils while stuff back then used ingredients such as beef tallow. It's the explicit reason why McDonalds fries and food changed so much in flavor due to their change from the use of tallow to oil. It's likely also why people always feel like shit because any oils other than Avocado, Olive, and Coconut are linked to inflammation of the gut and intestinal tract which can result in higher occurrence of cancer cells developing due to intestinal and stomach cells frequently being damaged through the inflammation process. But, hey, at least you wont have a heart attack eating McDonalds every day while they use oils, as said by Phil Sokolof, who funded the studies that linked oils to being better for consumption than tallow (doubt).
Amazing, the stores are clean and organized, and have both staff there to help, as well as products in stock to sell! What a concept! Some stores now look like a hurricane blew through them and there are 2 people working the whole store.
I think it's because people like keeping it simple nowadays. The past 10 years or so, the whole minimalist movement has taken place, and it emphasizes neutral colors when it comes to clothing. Having neutral or darker tone clothing also makes you look smarter, more classy, etc. Colorful clothing gives off the impression that this person is lower class, has lower intelligence, etc. This goes all the way back in the days, it's not a new thing. The 60s was the start of the rebellion age, where the norms started to break apart. That's when you started to see culture change, women started wearing pants in the 70s, teens rebelled against their parents, rock n roll, so on and so forth.
People are far more lifeless and vibrant now then they were then. It makes sense to me that they would wear more colorful clothing then. Today even people's voices are monotone with little difference inflection. It is unfortunate that drab is the current lifestyle choice.
Color has nothing to so with how classy a person looks. Just look at the Amish! The drab lifeless colors people wear today reflect the times we live in. The vast majority of people now being chronically depressed and morose lines up perfectly with today's style choices. @@jukio02
In high-school 1981-84 my sister always wore Gloria Vanderbilt and Jordache jeans, I wore Calvin Cline's and Ralph Lauren polo's with Cole Hann leather loafers. It was all about being preppy. Those were the days.
This was the year before I got married. People had social skills, manners and spending money. We dressed nicely, ate better, had no cell phones to look for items, we actually shopped and if a chain store had no stock, they transferred in the item from another location. Salespeople were available. Its nice to remember when woman had class!
Yes the contrast of how women dress and act today and comparing it to back then is sickening and disturbing. Guys like me dressed nicely too and took pride in our appearance. We didn't look like bums and slobs that just crawled out of a goodwill box the night before. Back then, maybe 1 out of 500 young women were s**ts. Now it's 499 out of 500. Back then, Women had class, self respect and took pride in their appearance and acted like a lady and expected to be treated like a lady. I tell the young guys this all the time when they tell me how these young women behave these days.
I was probably five or six years old during this time. One thing I noticed is people look polished and put together. You don’t see anyone looking like they just rolled out of bed.
God I miss going to the mall in the 80's and even 90's. Now I have to do all my shopping online. But the real point is that going to the mall on Saturday's with my parents and grandparents and brother was the highlight of my weekend. As a teen I lived at the bookstore or music stores. I miss those days.
Same here,,,I can't stand going out dealing with the rap music on the store speakers people wanting to fight you for glancing at them,,,I shop online too and stay home in my made time capsule of my own
I just told someone the other day how i miss the mall at Christmas. It got you in the spirit. All the decorations & music. And back then they weren't afraid to play Christmas music and say Merry Christmas. Miss those days.
Yes!!! Everyone was scurring around looking for gifts, stressed, but it was a fun stress, lol. People were happy and excited even in the shopping chaos. The decor and music made it magical.
I graduated in 1983, now being 58 and lived thru several decades,it was a different time and I am fond of it,people from this time cannot understand ,yes life is more modern now,but less freedoms,different attitudes,being PC,seeing the escalators ,how everyone dressed,there behavior and communication,most were not overweight,l wish I could go back just for a short time to re live this decade .Thank you for posting this ❤️
Class of 83 as well and agree with everything you said! Simpler times, nicer people!! Our country really has lost a lot when you compare today to back then. Wish we had a time capsule! Miss it very much!!
You didn’t have to be politically correct then cause people had manners and knew how to act like they had some damn sense, had respect for others, so if you don’t want political correctness, learn how to act/behave again, everyone these days don’t wanna respect anyone but don’t want political correctness either and then wonders why todays world suck so bad smh
Notice how much better people looked on average? Thinner, groomed hair, well dressed. These days some people really don't care how they look. It's like going to the movies, people used to dress up, guys would even wear a tie if it's a date night. Now people wear flip flops, put their feet all over the chair in front of them, it's like society has gone downhill. I guess in the 80s there was still that cultural thing from yesteryear where you actually make an effort.
Okay, to be clear. Nothing wrong with wearing flip flops to a damn movie theater. Everything wrong with putting your feet on the chair in front of you, no matter wtf you’re wearing.
i was born in the early 90's but for whatever reason i always get nostalgic & instant goosebumps running all over my body when i watch vintage videos like this from the 80's & beyond ❤️🥺 thank you vampire robot for this one keep em coming!
I was 11 in 1983. To quote Eddie Money, “I wanna go back, go back and do it all over, but I can’t go back I know” ❤ I’m 51 now and waiting on the time machine to be invented (it probably is, we serfs probably just don’t get to have access).
It's a given that because of the time frame that we wouldn't see people on cell phones. What stands out the most is not just how quiet the store is without some loud, braying pop star being blasted over the speakers, but also how much pride in appearance the people have. They not only look clean and nicely dressed, but actually fashionable. The majority seen here are also not morbidly obese and poured into yoga pants. I'm a man who just turned 50. I remember these times, and this isn't some one-off that the people seen here look and act the way they do. We had higher standards then. Now, if the bar for what is considered a standard for personal hygiene, conduct, and dress were set any lower, one could step over it. We've regressed as a society.
Things I noticed--there's not loud music pounding. There aren't mirrors everywhere, like the store decorators are attempting to disorient you and keep you from finding the exit. Even though it's busy, I didn't hear any screaming or other loudness. I can't even go in places like Macy's today because it literally causes severe anxiety--too many mirrors, loud music, loud people, too many signs, maze-like layout/can't find anything. Also, I remember the rigamarole we used to go through to use a credit card to pay. Those old cash registers are hilarious!
Coming here to watch how polite society used to be. I was 12 years old in '83...I sure miss how America used to be. I remember how the department store employees were very professional and classy. Today, half of them I can't even understand.
I think some of the women must have gone to the mall after work. I was a teenager in the 1980s and i dont remember anyone putting on dresses and pantyhose just to do shopping.
@@ellemjayI was 26 in 83 and I remember it just the opposite from you. We did dress nicely to go shopping, or to go anywhere publicly for that matter.
I always ask my dad what it was like to be alive in the 80s. I wasn’t born yet unfortunately, but I’m so glad accounts like yours exist so i can have a glimpse! Thank you for all you do.
Life was slower-paced back then, than it is today. Women really did wear much more colorful clothing than they do today. Even men's sportswear was much more colorful.
I miss not having to answer a bunch of annoying questions from the cashier about your zip code, telephone number, whether you’re a rewards member, whether you want a bag, what kind of bag (paper or plastic), whether you want cash back, where you want your receipt, whether you want to make a donation, circling your receipt and telling you about your discount ‘next time’……..all mindless chatter. Back then you paid for it, they dropped your receipt in the bag and you were done! They turned something very simple into something overly contrived and invasive! 👎🏻
Just like when I was a child when going shopping with my parents at our once active local mall back in 1983 here in NW PA shopping at Hills, Sears, JCPenney, Bon Ton, etc... I remember just before school going to back to school shopping at these stores and trying clothes out in fitting rooms with my Mom complimenting me as to how handsome I was in the new clothing. And when checking out, grabbing her check book and pen writing and signing checks as the cashiers at the stores we shopped at used these same machines as well. Love the childhood memories of shopping like this with Mom that this video brings back!
Watching this 1983 vintage video of a busy shopping mall forty years ago breaks my heart. It's not because of the ecstatic and timeless experiences I spent in malls lovingly in New Jersey years ago, but that in time, these plazas will soon torn down for commercial properties and will be remembered as engaging pleasure grounds of the past, thanks to online shopping that makes it happen. It's astounding a convenient buying trend can eradicate these complexes that were once our spending and fun-filled sanctuaries.
@@ColtraneTaylorI meant other commercial replacements like medical facilities and high-rise condos to replace these soon-to-be mall demolitions. Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, NJ, will face the wrecking ball next year.
Black Rock corporation is turning the malls into housing for all the illegals they are purposely flooding the country with to destroy us (and replace us).
1. Let’s consciously divest from Amazon. 2. Let’s put our phones away. 3. Let’s wear something nice. 4. Let’s cultivate an attitude of cheerfulness, despite our circumstances. 5. Let’s take our time and stop rushing ourselves and others. 6. Let’s get together with friends and family, while overlooking differences. 7. Let’s turn off divisive media. 8. Let’s give others the benefit of the doubt. 9. Let’s delete TikTok. 10. Let’s use our energy to set positive intentions for a better society/pray. 11. Let’s insist that businesses turn down intrusive music so we can hear ourselves think/converse with others. Any others?
what do you count as divisive media? :0 (i've noticed ive been in a better mood since i stopped watching the news for anything but weather updates/world changing actually important news)
I like #11 -- the music is so that you do not think and just act like a mindless robot. There is actual science to this -- consultants advise businesses. The louder the music the more you seek relief in SPENDING
Everyone is so patient and nice - these are all mostly ladies working, shopping, it's so quiet.., that one old lady in the carnival blouse on the keypad, so careful ringing it all up..that was fantastic. I love her!! 💗 I was 9 at this time in 83 And this week we were waiting in line outside of a Bradlees with Mum for a chance to get Cabbage Patch Kid for my sister - it was peaceful everyone got a ticket in line for the ammount of Cabbage Patch Kids they had in the store.
My future husband worked for a department store during the cabbage patch craze. He thought they were ugly. He did see an elderly man snatch a cabbage patch doll out of a little girl's hands. So obnoxious.
I remember in the late 70s-early 80s all the adults talking about how the country had gone to hell and the terrible crime and life being worse - and how 'life was simpler' and 'people were kinder' in the 50s. I'm pretty sure every generation feels that way. For one, you were a kid so of course life was simpler and kinder. There are historical records of the ancient Greeks making the same complaints.
Can we please leave the Greeks out of it? Don't piss on my back and tell me its raining. Those of us old enough to remember see the decline and its not nostalgia. It's just reality.
Before Amazon and internet. Social media was called the telephone or Face to face. No smart phones. People paid with cash, credit cards or checks. Made in USA was still prevalent and stores and malls all over were thriving. Cost of things was a little higher than today but Consumer goods were made to last longer versus cheap and throwaway now. The media just reported the news not opinion. Better times Could go on ………… 😞
Credit cards, aka bank loans were only available to upper class. Working middle class or working poor were not allowed to have Credit cards. Working middle class and working poor could only purchase items by cash or store layaway.
The technology we have today is great. It's the philosophy of 1983 we need to bring back. Everyone wasn't offended by everything. You could fight back in self defense. We did not have school uniform requirements in public schools. Your safe space was your private bedroom. Oh yes and kids bedrooms doors had locks built into them like every other room in a fucking house and you didn't hear anyone scream "kids have too many rights!" Oh and when a kid used a phone in 1983 nobody screamed "kids under 18 should be banned from using phones."
Yes I love that too,,, and the different indicator lights on the board above her fingers( for bank check info)?would love to have one of those registers today but cannot find one 😢those were real cash registers 💯
It is interesting! Because I doubt we were much more disciplined in eating. Mayyyybe smaller portions? I also notice (and sorry to be slightly inappropriate) the apparent rarity of implants and cosmetic surgery
@@uib137 I think fewer people overate as much. It's really common nowadays. No doubt there was plastic surgery back then, too, but it was mostly celebrities or really wealthy people. Nowadays, it's super common.
@ I was still a kid then but I think you’re right about less overeating now that I think about it. And general standards for weight and portions. Remember the “can you pinch an inch?” Special K commercial and lots of discussion about not having seconds, etc? These days that could be seen as abusive to others or self-cruelty. Not trying to gripe or accuse people, just find it interesting. Many of the people in that video are today looking and acting quite differently I’m sure
The quality of this video is outstanding! I’ve always been fascinated with years, time and how much simpler life was back then compared to today. I wish I got to experience that more during my lifetime.
Great that someone actually had the foresight to capture this very mundane nugget of history. With smartphone cameras everywhere today, we'll probably have more than we know what to do with 40 years from now
Does anyone remember the ring tones that you would hear in the department stores? Like a bell sound? I worked for Macys in the 90’s and learned that these bells were how we summoned a specific manager. Sort of like morse code… depending on the sequence of the bells a manager would know if it was for them.
Back when malls allowed smoking, and everything was there and relatively new still. Ah how much I miss the 80s. If they ever make time machines a real thing, I'd disappear back to the 80s and just live there forever. I remember in elementary school in the 80s when cans of coke were just 50 cents and anything in the vending machines snack/candy bar wise was 50 cents or less as well. So for $1 you could get yourself a soda and a candy bar.
Like Sylvie living in the 80s McDonald's in Loki to escape apocalypse. Can't say I haven't had that thought before seeing footage of them. Those skylights! Sure they were typically greasy, but if you worked there you could fix that.
It was a better time things made sense. If I had the ability to go back in time to 1983 empty handed or stay here with all I earned, I’d genuinely leave here empty handed and start over in 1983.
I believe malls allowed smoking throughout the 90s as well. In certain designated areas of course. I know that the Cambridgeside Galleria in Cambridge, Massachusetts did anyway.
Malls in the 80s were where all the teenagers hung out. No guns, no cell phones, just innocent fun. I met my wife at four seasons mall in Greensboro NC in March of 1986. We've been together for 37 years. We just walked around and went to Spencer gifts, the arcade, or shared some fries at McDonald's. Mostly just walked and talked to other people our age. You never knew who you were gonna see at the mall. Some of the best times of my life. We would usually catch a ride with someone and head to putt putt on the main strip, High Point road. Everyone cruised high point road. There would be bumper to bumper cars from stop light to stop light. Nothing but teens hot rods and 80s music blaring everywhere. Hanging out with my gf cruising the strip and smooching a kiss from her on a Friday night was beautiful memories.
Parenting has gone out the window and therefore children are raised without discipline at home and schools can't do it so as a result, the younger generations are destroying this planet. Sadly, it will get worse before something changes. Hope I've croaked by then because I don't want to witness it getting any worse. I cherish growing up in the 80s for the same reasons. Complete innocence, yet respect for people and property and the mindset was never mean or destructive like kids are now. Where did it go wrong? Social Media is the biggest influence I feel. Kids are being taught by kids, not parents. They stick a phone in their hand and expect them to learn anything positive? Nope! Parents need to go back to basics and teach respect and kindness for starters.
@@Trekopolisthis is true! I work either kids every day if the week, and reading articles that 5 month olds are given cells phones, and seeing all of the 11 year olds with them really stinks. There are people out there like me and my work that are trying to make these kids better for the future, but I do understand a lot still falls on the parents, and it doesn’t take much to undo the few hours they spend with us. But we try ❤
Miss the 80s miss my mum & dad. At this time on that day I was probably getting a hiding for doing something dumb but at least they were alive. Love from New Zealand ❤
Yes, I know. I remember, during the Christmas shopping season in 1980 in a mall in Wayne NJ, the mall I was in was so crowded, that I can't believe the occupancy laws weren't being broken. You almost couldn't walk.
I grew up in CT. and when the new malls were completed by 1977 they were so packed Friday nights and the weekend it was shoulder to shoulder and bumping into people in front of you and people bumping into you from behind. It was crazy.
I indulge myself by remarking very often that malls were the area's de facto town squares in their heyday. One seemed more likely to meet old friends or see neighbors at the mall than almost anywhere else.
Was 23 then. Love watching these old video clips. Blows me away seeing no one with a phone and no scanners at checkout. But when phones and scanners did come out, that was really cool to see. Awesome memories! Great channel👍
i was 13 in '83. the mall was my babysitter. so nice to reflect back at a more simpler time when amazon wasn't killing the malls. p.s. shop local people!
The ripped jeans come about 4 or 5 years later at least for myself as I sought to look like my favorite band at the time: Def Leppard. Also take note that it’s mostly women shopping. For the most part men worked and women were wives and moms and homemakers. Great time to be a kid. I was 11 in ‘83
@@johnsmith-ug5tp Sorry. You’re late for the party. Waaay late. It started in the 60s. “Transitions Through The 60s, 70s, and 80s With the ’60s and the hippie culture, we had a new evolution, the ripped jeans stabilized their idea everywhere and became, “officially”, a status symbol. With the ’70s and the change of generations, this trend became more and more popular, especially among the younger generations. The ’80s witnessed a huge number of subcultures embracing this trend after which, its acceptance increased year after year arriving at the peak with the grunge culture at the end of the 80’s/beginning of the ’90s”.
1. This was shot inside a Bloomingdale’s store in 1983. At that time they were a higher-end department store that attracted older and generally more affluent shoppers who would be more likely to dress conservatively. 2. Pink/green/purple hair, Mohawks, tattoos, ripped jeans, army jackets, combat boots, and piercings very much existed then. In the early 80’s if you were walking around malls and other public spaces (mostly in large cities), you would see young people wearing this style. They were usually called punkers from the punk rock style popularized in Western Europe in the late 70’s. Admittedly, the look was not as widespread as it is today, but it did exist along with the preps, the jocks, the geeks, etc… I was alive and well at that time. There were plenty of older people from the 50’s and 60’s griping about what “the kids were wearing” back then, as well.
Ahh, back before the world felt like you were living in constant surveillance and awareness of everything. So much more relaxed, easy-paced and light-hearted.
I never would have dreamed in a thousand years that I would rather be watching this than ANYTHING on TV here in 2023.
🤣🤣🤣
I'll second that!
lol
Anything my ass! There are still some good TV shows out there.
Anything my ass! There are still some good TV shows out there!
The 80's was such an awesome era!
Much better than the 90's/
@@bobwreck3775No, the 90’s were way better. Then murika ruined the world with 9/11.
I remember working retail in the late 80’s where you had to manually enter in bar codes and stamp the charge cards and everything was gobs of paperwork! Lol! It was a pain in the neck but times were a lot more easier and people were more kind than people today!
True 80s❤
No lol
The sound of those cash registers printing out the receipts are so satisfying for some reason.
Yes they definitely are❤ would love to find one to own today and put it in my living room!!
These registers are actually more hi-tech than what I was use to seeing in my town mall. I remember them pressing and sliding a carbon copy receipt for credit card purchases. LOL
Nostalgia is awesome
@@eyeseer1nostalgia is definitely awesome 👏
It's satisfying because you miss your childhood and this reminds you of it genius
Look at how neatly people dressed, how politely they act and speak to each other. We have lost so much.
Trump has been a cancer
@daniellewis5474they are not the ones who love those who shoplift without impunity. Seems those who think like you are the problem as to why we have gone to the crapper.
And how modestly women dressed compared to today.
@daniellewis5474no weirdo they were all Reaganites back then and no normal person talked politics like the snowflake leftwing nutjobs. you are completely detached from reality and you are your own goofy dishonest strawman. typical liberal evil loving traitors to humanity. republicants are not great but anything is better than wacko looney space cadet narcissist fake race heroes liek you. 🤮
@@daniellewis5474 It wasn’t Republicans that were out rioting, looting, and burning our cities down 3 summers ago.
how many people want to go back to 1983? I was 16! Awesome times indeed!!!💕
I'm about your age. I'd go back in a heartbeat, only not with the acne, LOL.
It was so much fun to hang out at the mall. Everyone was so much happier back then and we all seemed to get along. @@jackdotblue
Sure. I was still in the womb, growing. Then finally in 1984, I arrived.🥳🎂🎈. ..So proud of our generation.
@@michelle-zd2nc I remember when the millennials like yourself were being born. The media called it "the new baby boom".
I was an unimpressed teen🙃. OK, people are having babies, who cares??
I’m your age, would love to go back to those awesome times! We all would have our whole lives ahead of us again.
Notice how calm people are and not in a hurry and stressing about everything like in the mall today, nobody displaying any self entitlement or needing to be noticed on video or arguing with store cashiers etc. This is what made the 80's so great!
I know no Karen's anywhere 😊
@@jackietcarroll5679 lol yeah
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Seeing any group of people where you don't have 70% of them staring mindlessly at their phones is utterly heartwarming.
Mindless shopping is so Buddhist and awesome.
That was when people actually looked forward to socializing face to face. If I didn't answer the phone when you called me I wasn't home.
Funny because people like you all say the exact same thing in these kinds of videos. Maybe y'all are the ones that are mindless.
Do you even go to the malls anymore? No one does this wtf
@@GremmPaltakin I never use "smart"phones. I only type from my computer and that's it. I find smartphones annoying and very distracting to the world around people.
It is crazy that this is actually more entertaining than movies and tv shows out today. 😍Where is my popcorn!🍿😂
Sooooo true
Watch Supernatural it's was pretty good, but at the last season they throw in an okay character that's a lesbian and/or disabled to be woke. The show is like the masculine version of the OG Charmed. Can you imagine them trying to make the OG Charmed a masculine show. Sigh!
Or making the Cosby show white.
They have to sell or the TV shows lose market share.
@@elliecherise1968 "woke" a word that's lost all meaning.
@@elliecherise1968 Yeah the woke mess is out of control and has ruined so many tv shows and movies. Look what happened in June.
@@Austin-t3k Nothing to see here, just a gay dude pissed at the word woke.
Born in 72 and was able to enjoy malls and hanging out with my friends! No cell phone just pay phones to call for a ride. The 80’s were so RAD!!!!!!
Ypu are not watching this on your phone? You do not own a phone?
Rad indeed!
The 80s were the best decade ever for malls, and arcades. What a time to be a high schooler. Class of 85 and loved every minute if it.
would’ve loved to see what life was like then! i happened to be born in 2001 lol, good thing is i can always talk to tons of elders n ask all the questions ab the 80s 🤘🏽
@@a-a-ron9571I wouldn't trade my 80s youth and young adulthood for anything. I consider myself blessed😊. Even though I'm middle-aged now, LOL.
Sometimes I think that some young people - anyone under 25 - don't appreciate all the technological miracles we have today. For me, sometimes it's like living in a sci-fi movie, no kidding.
Class of 85 also, so many great memories!
We used to go to the arcades at lunch time in high school,pockets full of quarters and always late getting back to class☺️
Class of ‘84 here and I agree, it was a wonderful time to come of age.
Remember Layaway plans? I recall going with my mom to Sears to make a layaway payment each month. They also had a ticketmaster office located in there to buy concert tickets.
We did too. The Sears on Olympic Blvd in LA was within walking distance from our home and we spent al lot of time there. My mom always put stuff on layaway, we went every payday to make a payment. It was always so exciting when we made the last payment and could bring our items home.
And now Sears is gone! It lasted over 100 years and we killed it.
Clearly summer shopping.
You mentioned the ticket master office, and I worked
at a retail store that had one in the early 80s. I went
to work where I had to open our store. I arrived to see
a small group of teens waiting. The more the time passed,
the more the kids were showing up. I noticed they had
Black Sabbath tee-shirts, and quickly figured out that they
were there for concert tickets. The Black Sabbath, BOC
show, or if you can remember, the Black and Blue tour.
Mostly males, and looking to buy that extra ticket for a
girl, or maybe a friend to go with. By the time the store
was to open, there were at least a couple hundred kids.
The venue was in another city, because the city I lived in
was still pretty small to hold a major concert event. I put
the key to lower the all glass door, and it was at least a
good seventy feet long, and 12 feet high. It was hydraulic,
and lowered into the ground. Once I turned the key,
the kids pressed forward, and when there was space,
started to climb over the wall as it was lowering. I
immediately stopped the key, and shouted hold it!!.
I told the kids, who were also my age, that I was not
lowering the door until everyone climbed back down.
Lucky for me they did so. I then proceeded to lower the
door again until it was fully down. I then said go for it, and
the race was on to get to the ticket office four floors above.
Never saw anything like that in my life. It was a very dangerous
event, and I always felt security should have been watching that
door. They were trained better, and someone could have been
crushed by that door, or ran over trying to get upstairs. Of course
the store would get sued if that would have happened. That is a
lot of responsibility for someone who was severely underpaid,
and those who were trained and paid more were drinking coffee
somewhere in the security office. But,that is how they did things.
@@avalondreaming1433 But how? Technology? Human error?
Economics?
Wow. Everyone was so healthy looking! Breaks my heart for what’s here now.
You mean everyone was so skinny and famished.
@@TheAncientColossus No. We were thin and healthy. I was there.
I MISS Mall Shopping in the 80's ! It was a simpler time, less stress, and kinder people. I actually, got tears in my eyes watching this and remembering.... WHAT has happened to our world
And God being removed from our schools and country in general. It's how the devil worked his way in and we can all see the destruction caused by Satan! We need GOD back and we need Trump back!!
Please don't cry
Same here😢
@@tammyscott3706 best comment!
I was 14 and back people gave eye contact and smiled!! But….. Now it’s all about divided us.
The 80s. What a time to be alive! Take me back!! 😭❤
Yes. MTV was new and actually showed music videos that were fun. TV sitcoms were simple and funny. We all had landlines and some had a machine that said leave me a message like on Rockford Files.
What an eye opener. Born in 1960. So grateful to have grown up in more civilized times.
I was born in the same year. So, so grateful.
me too, I wouldn't trade it for anything. I was born in 64.
Same here, same year. I actually had time and money to keep in top physical shape which means I looked good in clothes and in a classic speedo swimsuit! 😊
My mom was born in 1960 and I was born in October 1983 as an older millennial
Exatly the 1960s when certain skin colors couldnt vote. Certainly more civilized times. 😅😂
No face tattoos, bright-colored hair only if you were punk, no piercings all over the face. Everyone dressed respectfully, no one on their phones ignoring the world around them. There were no mall shootings, no school shootings, and the music was great. No one was arguing or fighting, and the food was great - no worries about gluten issues from eating it. Times were so good back then. I had such a great '80s childhood.
I don't see any Mallrats
@@briankelley7918that was the 90s. LOL. Kevin Smith film 😂
@@josebro352 there were always mall rats. I was a mall rat in the mid 80s
Seeing all the chicks with the Madonna look.
Just saying that brings me back
Also no flashmobs that's stealing everything not chained up
I was a teenager, then young adult during the 1980s. I'm sorry for the people who didn't get to experience it. The 80s weren't perfect, but pop culture was slot better then, I think. People's standards were higher.
I was a teenager in 83 stomping around these Malls, you gave us a portal to relive these great times Vampire Robot! Thank you!! 👍
Best part about malls of this Era is the REAL game rooms they had🥳🥳🥳pinballs and arcades..classic..nostalgic in todays world..was a different place when you were a teenager like I was back then😎
We all must pass through the Gloomy Portal
I must admit I have a tear in my eye watching this because I really miss the 80’s
So do I. So do I.
I know what you mean.. Life passes by so quickly and we get old and now our generation is so irrelevant..
I was 8yrs old in 1983. That year was the best Halloween trick-or-treating, haunted house, and scary movie night with friends/siblings EVER. It was the best feeling of a "kids being kids."❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
What were you for Halloween? What scary movies did y'all watch do you remember?
You don’t even remember 😂😂😂
@@Archer_out Friday the 13th was a really scary movie I+II+III1980-1984
I was eight in 1983 too and I agree that it was a great year. 1983-1986 were the best years for everything. Holidays, school, music, clothes, toys, movies etc. The 80s were the best time to be a kid.
I was 3 then but I remember 1983 what a nostalgic slice this is
There is a comforting familiarity in this video. I was seven years old in 1983. Going to the mall was a special treat because we didn't have one in our small town and would have to drive into the city which usually meant making a day of it. My mom loved Bloomingdales. I could picture myself following her around in there, feeling bored and trying to wait patiently for my chance to go to the toy store. Everything in this video makes me feel so happy...the clothes, the hair, the cash registers, the lack of cell phones. I love how people randomly look at the camera like "what are you doing?" lol I know the world wasn't perfect, it never has been, but the 80s was absolutely the best time to grow up.
Yes, we didn't get an indoor mall in our town until 1991. So, going to any mall in the 80s was kind of a treat.
I was a teenager in '83. The things I really liked in the mall were the record store, Radio Shack, and Spencer's Gifts. And, there was a clothing store called The Weathervane I liked.
Noticed that to but the camers back in the day were so big you could not help but see people useing them.🤠
Miss those registers too❤
Same for me! It was so exciting going to the city and to the mall. I can still remember the smell of it - a unique and pleasant mingling of perfume, coffee, and new shoes. The hum and pulse of activity. Everything tangible, sensory, and immediate. It really was a communal experience.
The internet and cellphones have given great things with one hand... and stripped us of great things with the other.
I was 5 in 1983, and I share your sentiment! ☺️
I was 21 in 1983. This brings back a lot of great memories. The colorful fashions, the music, the hairstyles and people with style and class. Looking back, this was absolutely the best decade in my opinion. It truly was a blast.
What stands out to me is that they express their style and class without brand names emblazoned across everything. Taste was about proportion and colour along with a well-chosen belt, necklace or scarf.
I was only 1 in 1983. That being said it’s strange to think most the folks in this video are either in their 60’s-80’s now if they are still living. Enjoy everyday. Life goes by fast
I was 20 in 1983. After 20 your life skips by so fast. So yeah live every minute.
Forty years just vanished @@AntipodianMusic
I was 21 in 1983 (turned 22 in October) I remember everything clearly:). It doesn't seem that far back....
That's exactly what I was thinking - how many of these people have since passed on. In one sense, I know it was a long time ago, 40 years. But, in another way, it seems like it was just yesterday😢
Yes sir I was 16 back in 1983 now nocking on 57 boy the time just flys doint it.🤠
Checkout was much slower then. But you don't see people getting impatient. It was just part of the shopping experience.
People were just as impatient back then
@@mark3464Yeah, nobody’s gonna act up when some guy is filming them.
@@davoid96 you're wrong. You have no clue how those people in the video ( that you don't even know) are reacting to said situation. What an ignorant observation.
@@mark3464 no , they most certainly were not. With the onset of more n more technology, the masses have become increasingly more impatient over time.
And anyways, how would you know ? You seem to make comments on these posts just to be combative instead of thinking first.
@@kaleendavis8427 what? It’s all relative. I was alive in the 80s. Just as impatient as now except everyone smoked then.
I’m 57 and I must say the 80s were the best years of my life. Our society still had morals and people weren’t glued to their phones. It was ok to say hello to a stranger !
I'm 58, let's not go crazy. 😂
We weren't saints.
Even with the crack era....
The crack heads even had morals.
You’re right, I’m about your age, maybe a bit older than you, I graduated high school and 79
@@tstahler5420I was going to say the same thing. I hate when people try to make the 70s and 80s like the 50s.
I'm almost 57 and I totally agree. My big pet peeve is wearing pajamas in public.... back then it was unheard of. It was a form of laziness and a lack of tack. My parents would've never let us out of the house in pj's.
Being a child of the 70's and 80's this is so wonderful to look back on, it was in my mind the finest time to be a child, and it is bittersweet to look back on and think how many people in this video who were thriving have since passed on, time sure goes so fast, and it just shows us all to really cherish each day Thank you for sharing these amazing videos. 💖💖💖💖💖
You took the words right out of my mouth, all of it. And I was 13 in 1983 and it definitely was the best time to grow up. My teenage son even wishes he'd grown up when I did. I just wish we had taken more pictures and videos of everyday life back then.
@@lisalisa13Yes, I agree about taking more pictures. I have so few from those days.
@@lisalisa13Born in 1970 also.
Nice,this year is 9 years before I was born.
I was born in 76' so I'm more of a child of the 80's-90's. The 80's were my favorite though and it makes me kinda wish I were born a few years earlier. It would be nice to go back to that era for sure! I'd do a lot differently.
I was 24 in 1983 and this brings back so many good memories. Everyone was so much more mannerly and civilized.
18…
Before our country negrefied.
You took the words out of my mouth and I was also 24, rarely did we have arguing BUT we did have a
Cabbage Patch' punch up as I brought a flatbed with about 30 dollar roped and stacked from the freight elevators down the aisle toward toys and hardware BUT never made it. Women grabbed and ran and when they couldn't punched and kicked I backed off astonished!
That was exactly the thought I had watching this.
Nice to see some analog, instead of so much digital and A.I. such as today.
I was 13 years old back in 1983, and going to the mall was one of my favorite things to do. Parents didn’t need to worry so much back then. Times were different. My friends, and I would get dropped off at the mall, and stay for hours. This video brings back so many memories. Thank you
Yep! Same. And the big difference in kids is they weren't destructive and mean and respected people and property because parents back then did something called "parenting". No such thing today. The new thing is called "Child-Led Parenting" or some BS where they let kids do whatever they want and no discipline. I couldn't believe it when I heard that. Sadly, our planet will get much worse before it gets better. I'm glad I'm closer to death now so I don't have to deal with it. LOL!!
The 80's were definitely not a safe time. Lots of child predators active at that time. It's just the nostalgia that makes us feel safe.
Yes. I was 13 also. We rode our bikes to the mall. We didn't have to lock them up either. We would start off at the arcade, then go get an Orange Julius, go browse through the record stores (Hastings here in Texas) and go to Kaybee's to check out the new Atari games.
This is when shopping was fun. My mom and I would go shopping when I was a kid. Lots of stores to browse.
I'm in my 50s, was a teen in the '80s. Seeing this reminds me of how people dressed better back then just to go shopping than they do now for a wedding or funeral! Times have changed, and not necessarily for the better.
So true.. And the women were so feminine and classy.. They didn't strut around like truck drivers with green tattoos and a mean look in their eyes..
@@QueensNativeNYCOmg! I never considered us feminine and classy back then but by “ comparison”, I suppose so. ( Scary.)
The 50’s and 60’s, definitely.
Ok boomer
@@Abbyisreal929 Yep. I may be "old", but I got to experience this country before it went to sh*t.
@@elleo1864 look i am a old person *cough* *cough* *cough* i am from generation x *cough* *cough* LMFAO 🤣 🤣 🤣 *cough* dislike button *cough*
lots of great style then. The clothes were really nice back in those days and more selection.
More style.
I miss when people were normal. There was no second, sub-universe in everyone’s pockets.
the irony is not lost that you're mentioning this on a social platform and possibly on a phone?
Now it's like everyone is double agents; just waiting to film your humiliating demise from public life (supposedly).
@@AdmiralBison this is a good thing about it. We get to watch what once was. There is good to many things and also bad.
But theres a difference when you dont have to walk...shop....eat....sleep next to your phone. Maybe you missed the whole point. @AdmiralBison
@@lastcall170 what point?
All I see is nostalgia and rose-tinted glasses when it comes to things in the past.
I miss those days! We didn’t leave the house without hair and makeup done, and we dressed much nicer. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find decent clothing anywhere, everything is shredded like jeans. I realize from watching this that my standards have slipped, and it’s a nice reminder to step it up!
I'd rather go without makeup. I like to have more of a natural look.
I wasn’t born until the 90’s but I do agree! While I don’t judge others and try not to, personally, there’s something so awesome about how put-together people looked, and this is a nice reminder for myself!
@@kelle0285- Natural makeup is a thing. Mascara and lipstick before leaving the house.
Proud 80s kid here. I turned 12 that year. The 80s was the best time to be a kid. Thriller was released in 1982, so this was the year Michael Jackson ruled. At our malls, everyone was dressed like MJ. I looked a lot like him back then so I had all of the girls, and the boys were jealous of me. They all called me MJ lol.😂 You could not go to a mall without seeing MJ merchandise. I remember the entire Sears Department Store upstairs was MJ merchandise, and they even had The Making Of Thriller playing on loop. What a magical era that was. I really miss those days, and I feel so sorry for the kids today. They will never know how it was living in the greatest era. 🥰
I was 12 in 1980, so was a teen all thru the 80,s
No one who didn't live it would believe how awesome the 80s were
Thriller came out in 1984
@@rebeccaa2433 Thriller album was released on 11/29/1982, and the single was released on 1/23/1984.
You're both a 70s and an 80s kids if you were 12 in 1983.
Look at all these civilized people, well dressed, actually working, having conversations with one another. In 1997 I worked at Lord & Taylor, it was just like this video. Miss these times.
Remember when Lord and Taylor had no registers..you had to add up the purchases on a pad and actually count the money owed back to them with no calculator..😂😂 can you even imagine that now 😂😂 Some people can't even count to 20 😂😂
@@jennifer7330Lol! So true!
@veganhigler6541"Nothing comes closer to home." 😂
@veganhigler6541 No that was the song from the 90s commercial remember?
Stouffer's Nothing Comes Closer To Home 1993 / William Thompson
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Look how modest everyone was dressed
Ah, before all of the headache, constant rush, and distraction of today. When people actually talked with each other, you could get high quality products, and customer service wasn’t a joke, or just handled by a recording or a bot. I was only 4 at the time of this, but I still have so many awesome memories of the mall from around 1983 to 1989.
+1 regarding high quality products. Now it's just all shit no matter how much you pay
1981 to 1989 were great years
And if workers were rude they got fired. Now workers can be rude and it's normal, heck can barely find people to work!
Spectacular!
Need a VR version of this so we can walk the mall, shopping alongside these pleasant 80’s people and surroundings☺️ Thanks for these awesome videos!
Is there a VR that allows you to taste food? Because I swear the food was better back then.
@@matthiasheppeyeah, it might have been closer to real food than the processed product we eat now
@@missmia196
Lab-grown hamburgers nowadays. Or since the 2010s at least.
@@matthiasheppeyes it was better. It was real food then.
@@matthiasheppe It's cause everything these days are cooked in seed, and vegetable oils while stuff back then used ingredients such as beef tallow. It's the explicit reason why McDonalds fries and food changed so much in flavor due to their change from the use of tallow to oil. It's likely also why people always feel like shit because any oils other than Avocado, Olive, and Coconut are linked to inflammation of the gut and intestinal tract which can result in higher occurrence of cancer cells developing due to intestinal and stomach cells frequently being damaged through the inflammation process. But, hey, at least you wont have a heart attack eating McDonalds every day while they use oils, as said by Phil Sokolof, who funded the studies that linked oils to being better for consumption than tallow (doubt).
Amazing, the stores are clean and organized, and have both staff there to help, as well as products in stock to sell! What a concept! Some stores now look like a hurricane blew through them and there are 2 people working the whole store.
A shopping trip was a real event back then.
At 6:18 everyone is well dressed and the mall decor is warm and welcoming.
Not a mall. This is Bloomingdale’s in the heart of Manhattan.
@@chalkloungeYes, but it's the same difference there's still that mellow 80s lighting instead of the interrogation led lighting we have now.
@@chalkloungeSome old people are famous now.🤭
@@chalklounge incorrect. This is a Bloomingdale's at a mall in upstate NY.
The care with which those ladies were selecting a tie for someone!
Back then I remember making careful decisions in what to buy. Every purchase seemed special. 🙂
Wish the world was still like this.
It was the best time ever. Miss these days ❤
COLOR ! COLOR EVERYWHERE!! people were not afraid of wearing something not black or neutral it made for an overall uplifting mood it seems.
I think it's because people like keeping it simple nowadays. The past 10 years or so, the whole minimalist movement has taken place, and it emphasizes neutral colors when it comes to clothing. Having neutral or darker tone clothing also makes you look smarter, more classy, etc. Colorful clothing gives off the impression that this person is lower class, has lower intelligence, etc. This goes all the way back in the days, it's not a new thing. The 60s was the start of the rebellion age, where the norms started to break apart. That's when you started to see culture change, women started wearing pants in the 70s, teens rebelled against their parents, rock n roll, so on and so forth.
People are far more lifeless and vibrant now then they were then. It makes sense to me that they would wear more colorful clothing then. Today even people's voices are monotone with little difference inflection. It is unfortunate that drab is the current lifestyle choice.
Color has nothing to so with how classy a person looks. Just look at the Amish! The drab lifeless colors people wear today reflect the times we live in. The vast majority of people now being chronically depressed and morose lines up perfectly with today's style choices. @@jukio02
@@askmrschaffee yes, for fear of being labeled "cringe" many are afraid to say or do anything that might stand out.
Yep! Very little originality today. @@nellena7777
I so want to go back in time and exchange pleasanties with these people as I buy a striped polo.
Oh yes my too! A striped polo...love it ❤!
It's almost a supernatural notion, today.
In high-school 1981-84 my sister always wore Gloria Vanderbilt and Jordache jeans, I wore Calvin Cline's and Ralph Lauren polo's with Cole Hann leather loafers. It was all about being preppy. Those were the days.
A striped polo preferably from Chess King. 😂
lovely - I was 17 in 1983. What a time. :)
My mom was 16
I was 14
I really miss that decade. I honestly feel like I live on another planet and that I was alive a thousand years ago somewhere else.
Me too.
This isn't my world anymore...ppl today aren't all there if ya know what I mean.
There was no _🏳️🌈_ it was much safer for children
This was the year before I got married. People had social skills, manners and spending money. We dressed nicely, ate better, had no cell phones to look for items, we actually shopped and if a chain store had no stock, they transferred in the item from another location. Salespeople were available. Its nice to remember when woman had class!
That was the year I married too 😊. I sure miss those times!
Yes the contrast of how women dress and act today and comparing it to back then is sickening and disturbing. Guys like me dressed nicely too and took pride in our appearance. We didn't look like bums and slobs that just crawled out of a goodwill box the night before. Back then, maybe 1 out of 500 young women were s**ts. Now it's 499 out of 500. Back then, Women had class, self respect and took pride in their appearance and acted like a lady and expected to be treated like a lady. I tell the young guys this all the time when they tell me how these young women behave these days.
@@johnsmith-ug5tp I agree. The world has changed.
@@Benice337 me too.
@@johnsmith-ug5tp You can say the exact same thing about men
I was probably five or six years old during this time. One thing I noticed is people look polished and put together. You don’t see anyone looking like they just rolled out of bed.
Life was so much different and enjoyable before social media!!
It was way different a lot better and fun
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God I miss going to the mall in the 80's and even 90's. Now I have to do all my shopping online. But the real point is that going to the mall on Saturday's with my parents and grandparents and brother was the highlight of my weekend. As a teen I lived at the bookstore or music stores. I miss those days.
Same here,,,I can't stand going out dealing with the rap music on the store speakers people wanting to fight you for glancing at them,,,I shop online too and stay home in my made time capsule of my own
I just told someone the other day how i miss the mall at Christmas. It got you in the spirit. All the decorations & music. And back then they weren't afraid to play Christmas music and say Merry Christmas. Miss those days.
Yes!!! Everyone was scurring around looking for gifts, stressed, but it was a fun stress, lol. People were happy and excited even in the shopping chaos. The decor and music made it magical.
I graduated in 1983, now being 58 and lived thru several decades,it was a different time and I am fond of it,people from this time cannot understand ,yes life is more modern now,but less freedoms,different attitudes,being PC,seeing the escalators ,how everyone dressed,there behavior and communication,most were not overweight,l wish I could go back just for a short time to re live this decade .Thank you for posting this ❤️
Me too. Class of 83😊
Class of 83 as well and agree with everything you said! Simpler times, nicer people!! Our country really has lost a lot when you compare today to back then. Wish we had a time capsule! Miss it very much!!
Class of 82 and thinking the same as you!
Class of 99 here and I agree with you totally even the 90s was better than now
You didn’t have to be politically correct then cause people had manners and knew how to act like they had some damn sense, had respect for others, so if you don’t want political correctness, learn how to act/behave again, everyone these days don’t wanna respect anyone but don’t want political correctness either and then wonders why todays world suck so bad smh
Notice how much better people looked on average? Thinner, groomed hair, well dressed. These days some people really don't care how they look. It's like going to the movies, people used to dress up, guys would even wear a tie if it's a date night. Now people wear flip flops, put their feet all over the chair in front of them, it's like society has gone downhill. I guess in the 80s there was still that cultural thing from yesteryear where you actually make an effort.
Being really overweight in those days was unusual.
people care so much about how they are perceived what do you mean? i’d say on an obsessive level nowadays
Okay, to be clear. Nothing wrong with wearing flip flops to a damn movie theater. Everything wrong with putting your feet on the chair in front of you, no matter wtf you’re wearing.
@@fluffycuteish you should cover your feet because you might have foot odour.
@@Inaworldoflove Or you could try washing them.
Our country has fallen so far, so fast. This is better than anything on network TV (which is now toxic and dismal).
i was born in the early 90's but for whatever reason i always get nostalgic & instant goosebumps running all over my body when i watch vintage videos like this from the 80's & beyond ❤️🥺 thank you vampire robot for this one keep em coming!
I experience the same exhilaration about the decade before I eas born- for many reasons I can identify and many I can not. (1964 here :) )
Yeah, the 80s was the best. I'm lucky to have been 12 during the filming of this video.🥰
I was born in 1992 but I would like to travel to the past, to watch all this wonderful time
I miss my mall days., I loved the book stores , Walden books , I used to shop there for hours then lunch in the food court after.
I loved the book stores too. Seems they were the first thing to go.
I was 11 in 1983. To quote Eddie Money, “I wanna go back, go back and do it all over, but I can’t go back I know” ❤ I’m 51 now and waiting on the time machine to be invented (it probably is, we serfs probably just don’t get to have access).
I was told "wormholes" in the deep woods would also do the trick of going back in time.
You really need to educate yourself if you actually believe time machines have been, or will be, invented. 😂
@@ColossalMcBuzz I heard it only works when wearing a tin foil hat wired to a flux capacitor. 😝😝😝🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's a given that because of the time frame that we wouldn't see people on cell phones. What stands out the most is not just how quiet the store is without some loud, braying pop star being blasted over the speakers, but also how much pride in appearance the people have. They not only look clean and nicely dressed, but actually fashionable. The majority seen here are also not morbidly obese and poured into yoga pants. I'm a man who just turned 50. I remember these times, and this isn't some one-off that the people seen here look and act the way they do. We had higher standards then. Now, if the bar for what is considered a standard for personal hygiene, conduct, and dress were set any lower, one could step over it. We've regressed as a society.
Yes. That's what happens at the end of an empire. So be it.
That’s what happens when you throw away the future for short-term profit.
No one slathered in ugly tattoos either. I can't understand how it became popular to look like I drew all over myself with permanent markers.
Lmao "morbidly obese poured into yoga pants" 🤣🤣🤣
@@j.sony.^ and this, ladies and gentlemen, is how dress styles change over time lol
Things I noticed--there's not loud music pounding. There aren't mirrors everywhere, like the store decorators are attempting to disorient you and keep you from finding the exit. Even though it's busy, I didn't hear any screaming or other loudness. I can't even go in places like Macy's today because it literally causes severe anxiety--too many mirrors, loud music, loud people, too many signs, maze-like layout/can't find anything. Also, I remember the rigamarole we used to go through to use a credit card to pay. Those old cash registers are hilarious!
Boy, I miss those days! Great music, great movies, great malls with great arcades and no social media!
Thank you for the wonderful footage my friend. Many blessings.
Thank you!! It's so weird how this happened. Always love your comments.
@@vampirerobot you're more than welcome my friend 😊😊
Coming here to watch how polite society used to be. I was 12 years old in '83...I sure miss how America used to be. I remember how the department store employees were very professional and classy. Today, half of them I can't even understand.
Everyone is respectfully dressed. No one is wearing their pajamas & slippers.
No one wearing those ugly slide slippers with socks
Fashion changes and so do its arbitrary and subjective "rules"
I think some of the women must have gone to the mall after work. I was a teenager in the 1980s and i dont remember anyone putting on dresses and pantyhose just to do shopping.
No one wearing crocs
@@ellemjayI was 26 in 83 and I remember it just the opposite from you. We did dress nicely to go shopping, or to go anywhere publicly for that matter.
I always ask my dad what it was like to be alive in the 80s. I wasn’t born yet unfortunately, but I’m so glad accounts like yours exist so i can have a glimpse! Thank you for all you do.
I was 19 when this was filmed. I'm like you, but I look at the 50s and 40s.
@@guerralg63 i enjoy looking back at that time too. Sometimes i feel i missed out on a better time.
@Groovyahni no era is problem free, but I have to say that it was a very fun time. I think you would have enjoyed it.
@@guerralg63 agreed! ✨
Life was slower-paced back then, than it is today. Women really did wear much more colorful clothing than they do today. Even men's sportswear was much more colorful.
I miss not having to answer a bunch of annoying questions from the cashier about your zip code, telephone number, whether you’re a rewards member, whether you want a bag, what kind of bag (paper or plastic), whether you want cash back, where you want your receipt, whether you want to make a donation, circling your receipt and telling you about your discount ‘next time’……..all mindless chatter.
Back then you paid for it, they dropped your receipt in the bag and you were done!
They turned something very simple into something overly contrived and invasive! 👎🏻
Just like when I was a child when going shopping with my parents at our once active local mall back in 1983 here in NW PA shopping at Hills, Sears, JCPenney, Bon Ton, etc... I remember just before school going to back to school shopping at these stores and trying clothes out in fitting rooms with my Mom complimenting me as to how handsome I was in the new clothing. And when checking out, grabbing her check book and pen writing and signing checks as the cashiers at the stores we shopped at used these same machines as well. Love the childhood memories of shopping like this with Mom that this video brings back!
Watching this 1983 vintage video of a busy shopping mall forty years ago breaks my heart. It's not because of the ecstatic and timeless experiences I spent in malls lovingly in New Jersey years ago, but that in time, these plazas will soon torn down for commercial properties and will be remembered as engaging pleasure grounds of the past, thanks to online shopping that makes it happen. It's astounding a convenient buying trend can eradicate these complexes that were once our spending and fun-filled sanctuaries.
A mall is a commercial property...
@@ColtraneTaylorI meant other commercial replacements like medical facilities and high-rise condos to replace these soon-to-be mall demolitions. Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, NJ, will face the wrecking ball next year.
@@isabelbeckerman9226 Righto. I think the malls worth keeping are those which kept their older design.
Our Sears has completely been turned into a medical equipment store by the monopolized hospital system here.
Black Rock corporation is turning the malls into housing for all the illegals they are purposely flooding the country with to destroy us (and replace us).
I was going to watch this but it would be TOO PAINFUL. lol....Damn a Great Era I had the pleasure to live through!!
I could watch this for hours. I wanna go back so badly!
You and me both.
Me too
me too just not with the smoking indoors everywhere. I'm glad weve gotten rid of that at least
The fact that you have all this random footage is extraordinary. Thank you.
All the dresses and skirts! I was only 6 in 83, but I didn't remember that aspect at all until watching this.
1. Let’s consciously divest from Amazon.
2. Let’s put our phones away.
3. Let’s wear something nice.
4. Let’s cultivate an attitude of cheerfulness, despite our circumstances.
5. Let’s take our time and stop rushing ourselves and others.
6. Let’s get together with friends and family, while overlooking differences.
7. Let’s turn off divisive media.
8. Let’s give others the benefit of the doubt.
9. Let’s delete TikTok.
10. Let’s use our energy to set positive intentions for a better society/pray.
11. Let’s insist that businesses turn down intrusive music so we can hear ourselves think/converse with others.
Any others?
what do you count as divisive media? :0 (i've noticed ive been in a better mood since i stopped watching the news for anything but weather updates/world changing actually important news)
C'mon man
We could just move to Russia, which seems to be having a renaissance. They still have some values over there.
I do all this already!!!
Hell, I still get dressed up, full makeup, flying somewhere! Haha..
I like #11 -- the music is so that you do not think and just act like a mindless robot. There is actual science to this -- consultants advise businesses. The louder the music the more you seek relief in SPENDING
Everyone is so patient and nice - these are all mostly ladies working, shopping, it's so quiet.., that one old lady in the carnival blouse on the keypad, so careful ringing it all up..that was fantastic. I love her!! 💗 I was 9 at this time in 83 And this week we were waiting in line outside of a Bradlees with Mum for a chance to get Cabbage Patch Kid for my sister - it was peaceful everyone got a ticket in line for the ammount of Cabbage Patch Kids they had in the store.
My future husband worked for a department store during the cabbage patch craze. He thought they were ugly. He did see an elderly man snatch a cabbage patch doll out of a little girl's hands. So obnoxious.
I remember in the late 70s-early 80s all the adults talking about how the country had gone to hell and the terrible crime and life being worse - and how 'life was simpler' and 'people were kinder' in the 50s. I'm pretty sure every generation feels that way. For one, you were a kid so of course life was simpler and kinder. There are historical records of the ancient Greeks making the same complaints.
Can we please leave the Greeks out of it? Don't piss on my back and tell me its raining. Those of us old enough to remember see the decline and its not nostalgia. It's just reality.
@@D.D.-ud9zt Well if you're older than me (half a century) then you remember the trash-littered, gas lines, and high crime of the 1970s.
Before Amazon and internet. Social media was called the telephone or Face to face. No smart phones. People paid with cash, credit cards or checks. Made in USA was still prevalent and stores and malls all over were thriving. Cost of things was a little higher than today but Consumer goods were made to last longer versus cheap and throwaway now. The media just reported the news not opinion. Better times Could go on ………… 😞
Credit cards, aka bank loans were only available to upper class. Working middle class or working poor were not allowed to have Credit cards. Working middle class and working poor could only purchase items by cash or store layaway.
My mom and Grandma had a credit card back then, and they definitely were not upper class
The technology we have today is great. It's the philosophy of 1983 we need to bring back. Everyone wasn't offended by everything. You could fight back in self defense. We did not have school uniform requirements in public schools. Your safe space was your private bedroom. Oh yes and kids bedrooms doors had locks built into them like every other room in a fucking house and you didn't hear anyone scream "kids have too many rights!" Oh and when a kid used a phone in 1983 nobody screamed "kids under 18 should be banned from using phones."
@@matthewvoss7365 you got that right 👍
Miss those days so much need to bring back human connection
I love watching these type of videos! I can instantly recall the sound of the cash register when it prints the receipts!
I loved that sound then and now...instantly relaxes me
Yes I love that too,,, and the different indicator lights on the board above her fingers( for bank check info)?would love to have one of those registers today but cannot find one 😢those were real cash registers 💯
Not a single person overweight. It's really fascinating.
So true. It was rare back then, especially in young people.
It is interesting! Because I doubt we were much more disciplined in eating. Mayyyybe smaller portions? I also notice (and sorry to be slightly inappropriate) the apparent rarity of implants and cosmetic surgery
@@uib137 I think fewer people overate as much. It's really common nowadays.
No doubt there was plastic surgery back then, too, but it was mostly celebrities or really wealthy people. Nowadays, it's super common.
@ I was still a kid then but I think you’re right about less overeating now that I think about it. And general standards for weight and portions. Remember the “can you pinch an inch?” Special K commercial and lots of discussion about not having seconds, etc? These days that could be seen as abusive to others or self-cruelty. Not trying to gripe or accuse people, just find it interesting. Many of the people in that video are today looking and acting quite differently I’m sure
Everybody we’re skinny 😮😮. And all we are fattys😂😂
Man what a time capsule! I was 20 years old in 83! Yikes 😳 how times fly!!
I turned 20 in November of 1983. I'm 60 now. Inside I don't feel any older, but outside that's a different story 😮
@@guerralg63 same here🙏
@@guerralg63I know what you mean about not feeling older inside (compared to the outside!!!). Turned 22 in October of that year:)
@@guerralg63 I turned 21 in March of 1983 and you are exactly right ! I was crestfallen when I discovered Minoxidil wouldn't work for me...
The quality of this video is outstanding! I’ve always been fascinated with years, time and how much simpler life was back then compared to today. I wish I got to experience that more during my lifetime.
Great that someone actually had the foresight to capture this very mundane nugget of history. With smartphone cameras everywhere today, we'll probably have more than we know what to do with 40 years from now
Does anyone remember the ring tones that you would hear in the department stores? Like a bell sound? I worked for Macys in the 90’s and learned that these bells were how we summoned a specific manager. Sort of like morse code… depending on the sequence of the bells a manager would know if it was for them.
Yes! I remember in Gimbels Department Stores, the sound was sort of a bink, bink, bink. Good 'ole days!
Yes, and also a bell sometimes to signal the store was closing soon.
Back when malls allowed smoking, and everything was there and relatively new still. Ah how much I miss the 80s. If they ever make time machines a real thing, I'd disappear back to the 80s and just live there forever. I remember in elementary school in the 80s when cans of coke were just 50 cents and anything in the vending machines snack/candy bar wise was 50 cents or less as well. So for $1 you could get yourself a soda and a candy bar.
Like Sylvie living in the 80s McDonald's in Loki to escape apocalypse. Can't say I haven't had that thought before seeing footage of them. Those skylights!
Sure they were typically greasy, but if you worked there you could fix that.
It was a better time things made sense. If I had the ability to go back in time to 1983 empty handed or stay here with all I earned, I’d genuinely leave here empty handed and start over in 1983.
And the kids of today who spend $3 for a plastic bottle of Coke will think back...to the good ole days...when dollars were a thing.
I believe malls allowed smoking throughout the 90s as well. In certain designated areas of course. I know that the Cambridgeside Galleria in Cambridge, Massachusetts did anyway.
The description is wrong. This is not a shopping mall. It’s Bloomingdale’s in Manhattan.
Pure awesomeness🎉!! REAL life as it was....thanks for the upload
I turned 10 that year, and I love watching this. Thanks, and cheers from northeast Ohio! :)
Belden village mall!
Great Lakes Mall
@@marcusmaximus. , yep, I went there a lot!
@@barbara8802 , good to hear it!
@@marcusmaximus. , yes! That is the main mall that we went to. I'm from Canton, and BVM is up in North Canton.
Malls in the 80s were where all the teenagers hung out. No guns, no cell phones, just innocent fun. I met my wife at four seasons mall in Greensboro NC in March of 1986. We've been together for 37 years. We just walked around and went to Spencer gifts, the arcade, or shared some fries at McDonald's. Mostly just walked and talked to other people our age. You never knew who you were gonna see at the mall. Some of the best times of my life. We would usually catch a ride with someone and head to putt putt on the main strip, High Point road. Everyone cruised high point road. There would be bumper to bumper cars from stop light to stop light. Nothing but teens hot rods and 80s music blaring everywhere. Hanging out with my gf cruising the strip and smooching a kiss from her on a Friday night was beautiful memories.
Parenting has gone out the window and therefore children are raised without discipline at home and schools can't do it so as a result, the younger generations are destroying this planet. Sadly, it will get worse before something changes. Hope I've croaked by then because I don't want to witness it getting any worse. I cherish growing up in the 80s for the same reasons. Complete innocence, yet respect for people and property and the mindset was never mean or destructive like kids are now. Where did it go wrong? Social Media is the biggest influence I feel. Kids are being taught by kids, not parents. They stick a phone in their hand and expect them to learn anything positive? Nope! Parents need to go back to basics and teach respect and kindness for starters.
Oh there was guns back then too.
@kelle0285 Yes, just not everyone carried one.
Man you captured time in a bottle with this comment. I want every day to feel like this ❤
@@Trekopolisthis is true! I work either kids every day if the week, and reading articles that 5 month olds are given cells phones, and seeing all of the 11 year olds with them really stinks. There are people out there like me and my work that are trying to make these kids better for the future, but I do understand a lot still falls on the parents, and it doesn’t take much to undo the few hours they spend with us. But we try ❤
Miss the 80s miss my mum & dad. At this time on that day I was probably getting a hiding for doing something dumb but at least they were alive. Love from New Zealand ❤
I can’t get over how
Crowded that mall was. Unbelievable
Yes, I know. I remember, during the Christmas shopping season in 1980 in a mall in Wayne NJ, the mall I was in was so crowded, that I can't believe the occupancy laws weren't being broken. You almost couldn't walk.
I grew up in CT. and when the new malls were completed by 1977 they were so packed Friday nights and the weekend it was shoulder to shoulder and bumping into people in front of you and people bumping into you from behind. It was crazy.
Nowadays it feels kinda empty
ha@@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000
It’s just one store I guess
Prob on a Sat too lol
Don't know why I love these vids so much but I do:) I was 12 in 83, I still miss the 80's! Thank you.
I was twelve for most of 1983. However I was 11 for part of 1983. The first part I was 11 and then I was 12.
I indulge myself by remarking very often that malls were the area's de facto town squares in their heyday. One seemed more likely to meet old friends or see neighbors at the mall than almost anywhere else.
I was 23 yrs old then and pregnant with my son who’s 40 yrs old now. What a different time we lived in then I miss it
Another fantastic footage of time. Thank you for posting. Not a cell phone in sight to capture any rude behavior. 😆
I simply miss the feeling of seeing people so present at the moment
Was 23 then. Love watching these old video clips. Blows me away seeing no one with a phone and no scanners at checkout. But when phones and scanners did come out, that was really cool to see. Awesome memories! Great channel👍
i was 13 in '83.
the mall was my babysitter.
so nice to reflect back at a more simpler time when amazon wasn't killing the malls.
p.s.
shop local people!
Amazon didn't kill the malls. The culture of the new America did. Just thugs and punks. Mall thrive in places where that hasn't seeped in fully.
Magical yr for me I turned 17 where have these days gone, so bittersweet watching these vids.
No ripped jeans,sagging pants,pink hair or tattoos. People sure dressed much better . Our standards have sure slipped in 40 years.😢
The ripped jeans come about 4 or 5 years later at least for myself as I sought to look like my favorite band at the time: Def Leppard. Also take note that it’s mostly women shopping. For the most part men worked and women were wives and moms and homemakers. Great time to be a kid. I was 11 in ‘83
@@innocente7795 ummmm…ripped jeans was a hippie era thing, the 60s and 70s.
Started with the loser bum grunge and hiphop in 93.
@@johnsmith-ug5tp Sorry. You’re late for the party. Waaay late.
It started in the 60s.
“Transitions Through The 60s, 70s, and 80s
With the ’60s and the hippie culture, we had a new evolution, the ripped jeans stabilized their idea everywhere and became, “officially”, a status symbol.
With the ’70s and the change of generations, this trend became more and more popular, especially among the younger generations.
The ’80s witnessed a huge number of subcultures embracing this trend after which, its acceptance increased year after year arriving at the peak with the grunge culture at the end of the 80’s/beginning of the ’90s”.
1. This was shot inside a Bloomingdale’s store in 1983. At that time they were a higher-end department store that attracted older and generally more affluent shoppers who would be more likely to dress conservatively.
2. Pink/green/purple hair, Mohawks, tattoos, ripped jeans, army jackets, combat boots, and piercings very much existed then. In the early 80’s if you were walking around malls and other public spaces (mostly in large cities), you would see young people wearing this style. They were usually called punkers from the punk rock style popularized in Western Europe in the late 70’s.
Admittedly, the look was not as widespread as it is today, but it did exist along with the preps, the jocks, the geeks, etc…
I was alive and well at that time. There were plenty of older people from the 50’s and 60’s griping about what “the kids were wearing” back then, as well.
I remember the sound the registers made. Have t Heard- that in a long time
Look at all the beautiful ladies dress so well in those times
the 90's a re better
@@ReynaldoAbasrTechnically 80s was the beginning of the exotic fashion era, 90s had something of their own.
Ahh, back before the world felt like you were living in constant surveillance and awareness of everything. So much more relaxed, easy-paced and light-hearted.
correct
Love seeing everyone’s clothes and hair in this video!