Shopping at a mall in 1984

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  • Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
  • Video from the Tyson Corner Center mall located in the great state of Virginia.
    Footage of shoppers at the mall and going into various stores.
    This video last around 9 minutes
    #tysoncornercenter
    #brookstone

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  • @DucatiGTS
    @DucatiGTS Рік тому +29

    These videos are so nostalgic, I was 9 in 84, I remember how fun it was to go to the mall, I don't care what anyone says, life was better then.

    • @edjsjjsjsjeje3751
      @edjsjjsjsjeje3751 Рік тому +2

      People died from aids more often so life was not better lol

    • @DucatiGTS
      @DucatiGTS Рік тому +6

      @@edjsjjsjsjeje3751 That's called cherry picking, you can do that for any decade or era. Nice try though.

    • @edjsjjsjsjeje3751
      @edjsjjsjsjeje3751 Рік тому +1

      @@DucatiGTS so you basically said u don't care about people dying from aids

    • @DucatiGTS
      @DucatiGTS Рік тому

      @@edjsjjsjsjeje3751 You're an idiot to assume that, the point is , you can cherry pick any tragedy, you could say the same about covid and this decade. It doesn't take away from how good someone feels this time period was for them. So please spare us the dramatic bs.

    • @kristineholcroft9163
      @kristineholcroft9163 11 місяців тому +1

      So true it really was

  • @depletable
    @depletable Рік тому +54

    For me, old Mall / Arcade vids are some of the most top-notch things to see in regards to nostalgia and trying to get a sense of part of the culture back then. I'm glad I found this channel.

  • @ryanhilliard1620
    @ryanhilliard1620 Рік тому +20

    Wow. I forgot how crowded malls were back then. I went to the mall 3 days before Christmas this past year and parked in the first spot outside Macy’s, walked in and it was pretty much a ghost town. I was at that same mall on Christmas Eve day with my mom in 1999 and it was a total mob scene. Sad that malls are dying.

  • @teresapflaumer5717
    @teresapflaumer5717 5 місяців тому +2

    1984, age 12. The malls were my haven. Burlington Center, Moorestown Mall, Cherry Hill Mall. The stores, the clothes, the hair, the music, the people...all awesome!

  • @blueshirt725
    @blueshirt725 Рік тому +22

    Back when you could shop without getting your head blown off, by a mall shooter, I miss those days ❤RIP 80s&90s😢

    • @Religious_man
      @Religious_man 9 місяців тому

      No but...
      a sudden heart attack? You bet.

  • @9Ballr
    @9Ballr 10 місяців тому +11

    In 1984 I was fresh out of high school and had no idea how I was going to make it in life. Here we are almost 40 years later, and I still have no idea how I'm going to make it in life.

  • @troy2000me
    @troy2000me Рік тому +35

    This is the kind of video you could convert the audio to a cassette tape or CD, and in the event of the apocalypse, go to a mall that has sunny areas, bring a battery powered boom box, play this in the open area, sit on a bench and stare at the floor and imagine that people and society still exist. The ambience of a mall full of mumbling, shuffling shoppers.

    • @Anarchist86ed
      @Anarchist86ed Рік тому +6

      🤨Then the cannibals hear it and come for you.

    • @Bemfactor98
      @Bemfactor98 Рік тому +6

      I like the way you think.

    • @QueenNoTeetha151
      @QueenNoTeetha151 Рік тому +1

      I love the thought you put into that. Would be a great scene in a movie. You’d make a good writer.

  • @GasMaskParade
    @GasMaskParade Рік тому +21

    It all changes,but then it all remains the same.If you close your eyes,the sounds of humanity never change.

    • @electric_girl
      @electric_girl Рік тому

      Oh* yeah they* do*!* People* were happier* then*!*!*!* Music*, food*, F*U*N*!*!*!* 🥳💘☄️😇🌟🎡👆✨💫🌈🍦🍨🪐🍕🧀🚀😇🌈🌠💘🥳✨👄🍭🍬🎡👆🌟🌈☄️😇

    • @BeerBreath702
      @BeerBreath702 Рік тому

      FrFr. No cap.

  • @Kevin-ht1st
    @Kevin-ht1st Рік тому +9

    1984 looked like the 70s, much like how 2004 looked 90s

  • @vissttaa
    @vissttaa Рік тому +16

    Where's the obesity?

  • @timewarpambience1956
    @timewarpambience1956 Рік тому +11

    Your channel is amazing! 😊

  • @ktmggg
    @ktmggg Рік тому +11

    I remember 1984 as the year that shopping just took off! It seemed like everyone had to buy a new tv, stereo system, games, toys and loads of clothes, shoes, accessories and jewelry. I don't remember the buying spree slowing down until 1993. I worked in retail and the malls were packed every day of the week.

    • @davidmitchell6873
      @davidmitchell6873 Рік тому +1

      Senseless over consumption.

    • @bmcagent
      @bmcagent Рік тому

      The economy boom under Regan

    • @plawson8577
      @plawson8577 Рік тому

      @@davidmitchell6873This was during the CRASH. You could literally buy 2600 Cartridges in Bargin Bins at the time.

  • @BreakdowntheFacts
    @BreakdowntheFacts Рік тому +11

    Boy do I remember the Cabbage Patch Kid craze…. Huge, next to beanie babies.

  • @nickc9224
    @nickc9224 Рік тому +27

    What is something that is missing? No hoochie mommas,walruses showing everything. People had more class,dressed better,behaved better. i remember black friday being civil. plus most stuff was still made in USA! Better quality!

    • @barnabyjones7823
      @barnabyjones7823 Рік тому +1

      Yeah what's the deal with cows wearing spandex and think their shiot don't stink , gross

    • @bluebonnet1014
      @bluebonnet1014 Рік тому +1

      So true

  • @rodc2678
    @rodc2678 Рік тому +11

    Funny how we get all misty over big malls in their hey day, easy to forget how hated the developments where for destroying what was there before be it older buildings or just nature. Not to mention the many smaller long standing businesses badly affected and closed due to a mall development in a community.

  • @David-eu1ms
    @David-eu1ms Рік тому +6

    The big hair trend was in effect.

  • @cgeorge6786
    @cgeorge6786 Рік тому +12

    I feel for the guy at 6:42 stressing out over picking the "right one" that will make her happy.

    • @halloweenville1
      @halloweenville1 Рік тому

      @cgeorge6786, Stressing out, where???????

    • @michelle7286
      @michelle7286 Рік тому

      @@halloweenville1man’s was really thinking hard

    • @halloweenville1
      @halloweenville1 Рік тому

      @@michelle7286 Thinking hard is not stressing out. they are not the same thing.

    • @michelle7286
      @michelle7286 Рік тому

      @@halloweenville1 I didn’t even argue that just saying what I observed 😂 it’s all good 🙏🏻

    • @halloweenville1
      @halloweenville1 Рік тому

      @@michelle7286 I didn't say you were arguing. I was pointing out that the guy isn't stressing out.

  • @bmcagent
    @bmcagent Рік тому +5

    The background noise seems so much less than today. It's very calming.

  • @halloweenville1
    @halloweenville1 Рік тому +4

    Back when you wore your best for a trip to the mall, it was the highlight of the week. Now people think they are cool if they walk out in their pajamas. nothing cool about being a slob.

  • @wyldedaisy
    @wyldedaisy 2 місяці тому

    Yes! Proof of the Sanrio store that was at Tysons--thanks for posting this video.

  • @rhiannancaraway
    @rhiannancaraway Рік тому +3

    Anyone else find videos from their birth year and find yourself shocked and appalled at how ancient it looks 😮

  • @raisa_cherry35
    @raisa_cherry35 Рік тому +5

    Amazing ❤ indeed took me to a decade i didn’t exist in.

  • @ronaldhelmsr.7369
    @ronaldhelmsr.7369 9 місяців тому +1

    Memories of being a teen I'm the 80s will never be challenged
    We went from then, to a dark, twisted and evil world.

  • @NISSANZ33
    @NISSANZ33 Рік тому +6

    Where does all this high quality footage come from? Were you the camera person?

  • @untetheredmoon6971
    @untetheredmoon6971 Рік тому +8

    Are these videos you have taken? This is an awesome channel! Glad i stumbled across it.

    • @untetheredmoon6971
      @untetheredmoon6971 Рік тому

      @@carryeveryday910 There is a whole channel full of videos

  • @Springbok295
    @Springbok295 9 місяців тому +1

    Malls brought people together. The internet drove them apart.

  • @teresapflaumer5717
    @teresapflaumer5717 5 місяців тому +1

    5:47. This has to be 1984 because parents aren't killing each to buy Cabbage Patch Kids! 😁

  • @melbrown6019
    @melbrown6019 4 місяці тому

    I was 8 in 1984. I remember being dragged to malls and I didn’t like how crowded it was. Now malls are so empty! It was neat seeing original Cabbage Patch Kids again. I bet this mall is now closed.

  • @buddweiser4457
    @buddweiser4457 Рік тому +31

    Notice how well dressed they are. Unlike today you see lazy people wearing pajamas looking all dirty at the mall. Disgusting 😂

    • @samanthalake5011
      @samanthalake5011 Рік тому +2

      Yessss!!

    • @scarpfish
      @scarpfish Рік тому +4

      They dressed nicer because we still had some semblance of a middle class back then

    • @stonedmega1
      @stonedmega1 Рік тому

      How do you feel about transgender people? You're a bigoted garbage human being. There is NOTHING good about you.

    • @apersonwhoknows
      @apersonwhoknows Рік тому

      Not everyone dresses like that.

    • @chadking574
      @chadking574 Рік тому +2

      The demographics were way different

  • @cjgem80
    @cjgem80 Рік тому +3

    1:37 I had that brown one when I was a kid!!!

  • @MarkMeadows90
    @MarkMeadows90 Рік тому +2

    Our first "super mall" opened in 1984. Madison Square Mall was the name. Was demolished in 2017 for the place called Mid City Town Center.

    • @smadaf
      @smadaf Рік тому +1

      And there we have the modern penchant for excessive euphemism. It used to be that you gave a suburban mall a name as straightforward as "Springfield Mall". Now you try to pretend it's in the middle of a colonial village, even though it's not in the middle, it's not colonial, and it's not a village-things like "Village Crossing", "Towne Center", "The Shoppes at Fairfield Commons", with zillion-acre parking-lots surrounded by six-lane roads, while the actual downtown degenerates into pawn-shops, high-priced junk-food & lottery-tickets convenience-stores, pot-shops and vape-shops, and payday-loansharks.

  • @nerdbamarich2063
    @nerdbamarich2063 Рік тому +2

    Beautiful

  • @2MomCrew
    @2MomCrew 7 місяців тому

    Hi there! This is GREAT footage! Did you film this yourself?

  • @its_davidserret
    @its_davidserret Рік тому +1

    Crazy, these young teenagers are like my parents age now today!!

  • @ajace1000
    @ajace1000 Рік тому +2

    This is fascinating. Where do you find all this footage? I assume it's B-roll from news stations and such. Is there a website?

    • @tartgreenapple
      @tartgreenapple Рік тому +5

      I believe he was the one creating the footage and has ownership of it.

  • @btimec5290
    @btimec5290 Рік тому +6

    Curious- who shot this and why?

    • @dashiellsbarelyusedyoutube2053
      @dashiellsbarelyusedyoutube2053 Рік тому +4

      Don’t quote me on this, but I believe that these were used as B-roll, which would be used for the news (I think)

    • @lesleylesley5821
      @lesleylesley5821 Рік тому

      I bet for newscasts, as background or to be edited later. There must be millions of these.

  • @janefrommel
    @janefrommel Рік тому +2

    oh yeah they did used to use paper shopping bags

  • @mrobertson188
    @mrobertson188 Рік тому +14

    Back when people had self respect

    • @Wald4267
      @Wald4267 Рік тому +4

      And common sense and knowledge and actually when people were able to socialize and focus

    • @davidmitchell6873
      @davidmitchell6873 Рік тому +1

      When did you lose your self respect?

    • @mrobertson188
      @mrobertson188 Рік тому +4

      When I found out the world was full of David Mitchell types.

    • @davidmitchell6873
      @davidmitchell6873 Рік тому +1

      I'm glad your mom doesn't feel that way.

    • @mrobertson188
      @mrobertson188 Рік тому +1

      @David mitchell she does. She told me about you. She told everyone. Your tiny dick is a legend.

  • @ManningTaylor
    @ManningTaylor Рік тому +1

    I saw the Woodward + Lothrop price tags.

  • @womandela7225
    @womandela7225 Рік тому +10

    Back then you heard a lot more clickety-clack sound when people walked. Everybody wears rubber-soled shoes now.

  • @ThenativeIraqi
    @ThenativeIraqi Рік тому

    today I was at Tyson's Corner !! the Video was shot 3 years before I was born !! wow

  • @lesleylesley5821
    @lesleylesley5821 Рік тому +7

    It looks odd to not see people with a phone in their hands, everyone walks upright.

  • @ILOVEBACONBOY2018
    @ILOVEBACONBOY2018 11 місяців тому +2

    I miss the electronics of the 80s. Fun times.

  • @solascripturamjc9681
    @solascripturamjc9681 Рік тому +1

    Really brings back memories. And nobody's wearing a mask- wow!!

    • @edjsjjsjsjeje3751
      @edjsjjsjsjeje3751 Рік тому

      People died from aids almost everyday back then compared to now where u will most likely survive

  • @AbadaWeeeeeeee
    @AbadaWeeeeeeee 2 місяці тому

    The pace of life was so much better…shoot, almost everything was better

  • @randabeast
    @randabeast Рік тому

    This was when i was in my hanging out at the mall phase hoping to meet girls.

  • @AaronC143
    @AaronC143 Рік тому +1

    I was born that year.

  • @thatjpwing
    @thatjpwing Рік тому +1

    I saw an IBM 3683 or 3684 in the background @5:06

  • @nunyabuziness8421
    @nunyabuziness8421 Рік тому +5

    Not a person w their phone in their face

  • @philbenson6041
    @philbenson6041 Рік тому

    I was 18 that year. Got my first job also

  • @treavy1
    @treavy1 Рік тому

    Did u work at all these places on ur channel ? And why did u film all these just curious

  • @MiketheratguyMultimedia
    @MiketheratguyMultimedia Рік тому +2

    This is interesting but where are the toy stores dammit?

  • @superboy3229
    @superboy3229 Рік тому

    Thomas The Tank Engine wasn't there but it was in England, UK in 1984 only.

  • @MK-fc2hn
    @MK-fc2hn Рік тому

    Where were all the store swarmings in these videos??.. didn't people know back then how to get the "100% OFF" specials??

  • @Zibi21
    @Zibi21 5 місяців тому

    The times where to get something you actually had to move your ass off the couch. Now you order stuff from bed and it will be delivered streight to your door.

  • @Lemmon714_
    @Lemmon714_ Рік тому +4

    Where is all the trash at?? There isn't anyone yelling and fighting.

  • @joeswanson733
    @joeswanson733 Рік тому

    i didn't know 1980s camcorders could be this high res.

    • @grapeape9098
      @grapeape9098 8 місяців тому

      I was 12 in '84. They were actually pretty clear at the time, but the tape quality degrades over time.

  • @dawgfranco2471
    @dawgfranco2471 Рік тому

    Do You Remember Sears Funtronics

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому

      Honestly. No. I had to look that up. Interesting...

  • @Wald4267
    @Wald4267 Рік тому +1

    Probably not the same as online shopping just the experience is different. Clicking a few buttons on a screen seems very simple but its surely unpleasant and boring

    • @nicksmith4378
      @nicksmith4378 Рік тому +2

      Online you have better selection and price choices.

  • @MarkWhich
    @MarkWhich Рік тому +3

    Makes me wonder why some cameraman would waste their expensive batteries just filming everyday things like a Mall.

    • @jsan2548
      @jsan2548 Рік тому +6

      It’s B-Roll footage for a local news story about Christmas Shopping.

  • @causticass578
    @causticass578 Рік тому +21

    Sad to think that some of the older folk shown probably aren’t with us anymore. Overall a great video, I just thought I would share my incite, regardless of how depressing it may seem.

    • @lesleylesley5821
      @lesleylesley5821 Рік тому +3

      Insight, not "incite".

    • @grapeape9098
      @grapeape9098 8 місяців тому

      @@lesleylesley5821 I felt incited by his insightfulness tho.