Christmas Shopping in 1980
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2025
- Various footage of people shopping at a mall during the Holiday season in 1980.
A visit to a toy store, people trying on jeans, etc...
Unfortunately, the audio goes in and out on this one.
This video last around 16 minutes.
Everyone I loved was alive back then and the end seemed like a hundred years away.
Same here. I was 8 when this video was shot, and ALL of my loved ones that I ever cared about were alive. Those were the good ole days. Now I sound like my grandpa did. LOL
@@vickieclark5931 I was 8, too.
Yes, same for me. Troubles and loss of loved ones seemed light years away. Now at age 60 I’ve lost so many that it seems like those time never existed.
I feel the same way, I was 2 years old in 1980 but still it was a cool time.
And none of them even existed for 30 billion years before this.
Who knew back in the 80's that one day we would look back with such admiration at how good life was. Such a simpler time, no cell phones, limited technology, people cared about each other. Honestly a time gone forever and we had no idea at the time how great it was, where our country would end up
Just people living in the moment.
Only challenge facing the country was high interest rates @ 9%. Carter was President & gas was .59 a gallon in 1979.
I think this should teach us to live in the moment. Back then it was excitement for the future. We always thought what's next? The '90s looked promising too despite crime did pick up more at malls and even though it seemed like we were progressing I could also see the moral decay.
Now we're depressed when we look to our past and anxiety thinking about an uncertain future. I often wonder if we can get back to better times or people and society are too far grown. Society is raising a new generation of docile children and I don't like it. They have no freedom and can't even be kids unless being locked up in your house playing videos is being a kid now.
Honestly this was the pre 9/11 world and now we have this dystopian future to look forward to. It's hard to go back to being a kid after seeing the real world and experiencing trauma. You can pretend, but it doesn't get erased, it's embedded in your subconscious. Don't let this stop you from being a kid and enjoying the '80s with your own kids. It will be a new experience living through your kids. I just wish we were in better times now and not in survival mode.
You’re so right
@@bernieudo4399 Maybe that explains why most Americans were financially stable and not living paycheck to paycheck while financing a new truck every two years. God forbid we reward savers.
The opening shot of the parking lot is what really makes this one.
I agree 💯
Yes, i liked it myself. Although I wish the camera person just swing around and catch the glimpse of the setting sun.
I immediately recognized this mall based on the unique Bloomingdale's building design. This was White Flint Mall in Rockville, MD. It survived until the early 2010s only to have most of the mall demolished save for the Lord & Taylor, which had a long-term lease agreement they refused to give up. That store remained open next to a pile of rubble for about a decade until finally closing when the chain went out of business. The originally-planned "town center" concept from the early 2010s was cancelled due to their resistance, so now the whole plot of land is vacant awaiting a new fate.
A lot of pieces of junk cars but who knew at the time.
@@jrowdygi1837🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was 22 years old during Christmas 1980. It was my first year out of nursing school, i had my first job and my first apartment. Oh those happy days were yours and mine, happy days!
Well, I was 4 months old in December 1980 and it was very important for me because they gave me my first cloth diapers. 😂😅
13. And we thought The Empire Strikes Back was the coolest thing since sliced bread!😅
Happy days 😂😂😂
I was 19 and working while going to school. I was so busy I barely had time to scratch my nose but I always found time to party. Life was so good.
I was 20 yrs old in 1980. I was in college and I applied for a cashier retail clerk part time temporary for Christmas. KB Toys hired me on the spot. And I was put in the electronics department which was as long as the store was just about a long glass counter I worked behind and kept it clean. The best thing to was I got to learn all the hand-held electronic games and I could show customers how they would work and make sales after sales. This was my job to play and I always looked forward to going back to work when I was scheduled. Fun times back then.
Wow. Time sure flew by...now I'm retired and I'm enjoying the benefits of rest and relaxing and leisure life style.
Still got my health. Thank God. ❤
If you don't have your health nothing else really matters.
Look at those racks of designer jeans. I love the way the store attendants help the customers. That is hard to find nowadays. I had a pair of Jordache cords, I didn’t like them, too hot for the South. But, loved my Jordache jeans. This video is a treasure. Takes me back to my youth, long ago forgotten. Feathers in the hair, Maybelline blush and mascara, Friday nights at the Movies in the mall with friends, the smell of Loves Baby Soft in the air. I would love to go back.
Oh yes. The '80s. Clothes, hairstyles, & makeup were essential. Young ladies were natural & clothes emphasized figures tastefully. Didn't have to expose yourself--a nice pair of jeans reminded guys why ladies were special.
@@bernieudo4399they're trash now
Sounded like Grover Washington Jr. playing over the intercom.
OMG yes, Love’s Baby Soft…😢
The days of a busy shopping mall and helpful, knowledgeable sales people are long gone 😢
I agree about busy malls but now you can learn way more about a product with your phone online than you ever could with the best sales person.
@Chris That's probably why companies don't bother to train their employees anymore 😕 retail stores, I mean
Tru dat. Worked at Sears in the Toy Department back in '87 during the fall & it was full customer service. Period. Self service didn't exist. If our store didn't have it, the manager had you call other stores in another city. Think about that. Now that was customer service.
I know - sales people who cared.
@@KittiesGalore retail companies don’t pay workers enough to tolerate physical and emotional abuse from customers.
women were way hotter back then, no fake plastic surgery .. I love a nature woman body.. lOl they dont make them like they used to. I wish I could back in time.
What I wouldn't do to be able to go back and relive this era! I was born in 1972 and I miss those days very much so...
I was born in 1967, so I was 13 while this was going on. Those were the days. I was only 13, but it was still great 👍👍👍
Such peaceful times. No mall shootings, no people addicted to their cell phones in front of their faces, people that actually look nice to go to the mall, patience... I was an '80s kid. I long for those times and I wish we could take it time machine. I hate this world that we're living in now. I never had kids and I don't envy those that are now having babies. What a time to raise a child. Fearful of going to the mall, fearful of going to a outlet mall, fearful of going to school.
There were a lot of kidnappings back then, tho. We were constantly reminded of stranger danger. I even had a 2nd grade teacher tell us to never look at the ground when we walked because kidnappers would think we had no friends and we'd be targets. It was crazy the stuff adults told us back then. It did not feel safe to even just walk to a friend's house, even though we did it anyway.
@m0L3ify there was the mall shooting in Miami by the drug cartel and Adam Walsh was kidnapped by Otis 'o toole. No one's safe both ways.
I don't have kids either I don't like them besides it's not worth having children at this difficult and dangerous times
I'm a 33 year old male and I'm not having kids either. I find the present not inspiring at all and I'm not willing to explain a child the society we live in. I can barely understand it myself. I'm happy with my life without such a responsibility.
@@m0L3ifyin the early 80s my friends and I would bike around til around 11pm weeknights… we survived… then again maybe kidnappers didn’t want us 😂
Designer jeans like Jordache and Calvin Klein a hot item in 1980.
You got the look, the Jordache loooooook……..
and before that.... Ditto !! Jeans
Is Jordache around anymore? I haven’t seen them anywhere.
Yeah...no such thing as plus size cause we were all skinny as hell.
Uh Ohhhhhh Sergio!!! Haha Sergio Valente jeans were hot too lol
Back to those days , old days when life seemed to be so quiet and peaceful 😌
I cant deal with the fact that this was 44 years ago.... i just can't. It's so fucking depressing man.
👖 jean quality was even better 💯
And the Girl Quality in those jeans 🤣 was MUCH BETTER
@christophergaudreau9265 true 😆
Those jeans were quality material back then.
actually... still are !
@plutoplatters My Levi's are typically destroyed and ripped with holes in a couple months. My Dad still has Levi's from the 70s been washed hundreds if not thousands of times. Quality not the same whatsoever
@@ricochetey maybe you should buy the jeans that are not worn out already a little stiff but they last way longer
Probably because they were made out of hemp and not cotton right?
They're still quality....just cost 3x as much though
I was 14 years old in 1980 ,I wish we could go back in time too enjoy everything back then, I miss my late mom ,may she R.I.P! 😥🤧🌺🥀💐🙏🕊
@@pedro_0791 I hear ya my friend! 🤜🤛
Thank you for posting this... It really brought back warm memories of shopping with my mom as a child... The 80's were a great time to be a kid, and things just seemed to be a little more simple than nowadays...
It was even better as a teenager
The good old days back when things were normal.
You’re delusional
I was 7. Wow I wish we could go back !! My life was all about the Dukes of Hazard the Dallas Cowboys matchbox cars Larry Bird and playing my hand held electronic football game that I played day and night !! I think I got the Smokey and the Bandit matching car with Jerry Reeds trailer set that Xmas. Always a nerf football that I would keep the plastic on for a day or 2. Im grateful that I was part of a generation that weren't attached to the internet and social media. The 80's were the best time to be a kid !!!
Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas on Friday night and than Saturday night was love boat and fantasy island or abc/nbc/cbs night at the movies
1975 baby over here.i was 6 years old in august of 80'.lots of relay racing,and catching fureflies in jars at night and watching them light up! Skinned knees and climbing trees
❤❤❤
What I like about some of these videos from the early 1980s is the transitional styles that people wore. Some people still wore the 70s hair and clothes. It's educational to see the gradual changes in the way people changed their appearances.
I was 11 years old...Life was so much different and peaceful. Seeing this footage takes me back to being a kid again. 😊❤ Thanks a bunch for the upload! 😊
Those clerks at the jean store were salesmen. Now you can't get anyone to look away from their phone to help you.
People then took pride in their jobs because they knew they were getting a paycheck for doing a service. Nowadays people act like they are doing you a favor and aren't paid enough to do a job. Back then we knew we weren't being paid enough, but also knew that you use that time in to build a work ethic and work your way up. Yeah it was hard work and sucked at times but we sucked it up. It's incredible to me how little effort people are motivated to put in these days and feel like they are owed something.
@@lulub1433if this isn't bang on
@@lulub1433Entitled rude customers don’t help much either. It’s not always the workers. Dealing with selfish people all day can get to someone eventually
Almost anyone working retailer will tell you how disgusting it is that job bc customers are hellish, mean and rude. Culture has changed, it's not just kids who are rude, it is also adults, perhaps kids are rude bc parents are rude, everyone is just so baby today, zero manner.
In 1980 I was a happy 8 year old. Mom and I took bus trips to the Moorestown Mall every couple of months. To me, it was like being in Disneyland. This mall had fountains, trees, little bridges, ducks! Sometimes they held a petting zoo (a goat ate my sweater) or a famous character visited (Big Bird visited in '80). The huge Winnie the Pooh was at the anchor store Sears, Kay-Bee toy store was a kids paradise, and Roy Rogers restaurant had the best burgers and fries. Those were good times!
I used to love when Winnie the Pooh was at Sears! 😊
Sadly the Moorestown mall doesn’t have the ducks or bridges anymore. I heard stories about it. The mall is struggling to stay afloat with Cherry Hill mall just down the street.
@@HeadNtheClouds We was missing some black n decker, that bear...He don't come around hear no more.
I see all the comments about how great a time it was back in the 80’s and 90’s and it’s true but I read people saying we will never get back to a time like this. It’s up to us to bring this back. Put away your cell phones , go out shopping, stop ordering online and most important be kind to people. We make our own reality.
but u can't do it by your self society becoming more and more garbage
Gotta mass deport to get back to that
delusional
You can’t make things that no longer exist come back.
Because of my beliefs I cant take my own life, but watching this and the pull I feel for what was a better time and then having to snap back into the insanity that is this reality...is hard.
I was born in 89, but I get where you're coming from.
I don't think your depression is what people were looking for in response to this video...
@@areality40 Maybe he’s just venting
@@areality40 What was the point of that comment? You're entitled to your opinion, but there was no reason to write that.
I don't want to take my own life , but I was from that same time & I totally understand what you mean & feel the same, minus wanting to take my life. Stay alive, you're special😊
Watching video’s of life back then really get’s me emotional…. 😢😔 Our country now is such a mess!….. I miss the 80’s…..
I miss seeing cars of all types of colors like in the parking lot footage in this video.
80s cars that were amazing to drive.
A disgusting nut created this new dull bland grey color that a bunch of depressed people are buying, but even as a gift I'd say no, or paint it as soon as I got it home!
Now we have this dull bland grey color, 😝 and I'd probably decline if offered a free car that color, or immediately repaint the thing!
The little blonde kid looking at the robot toys is about 45 years old at Christmas 2024. Yikes. I'm 71. The 1980s ...my favorite decade.
Ahhh the 80’s we never realized how good we had it compared to now what an utter tragedy
bro, your channel is a national treasure. I swear.. that you remind me of me in the 80's. I video taped every single event in my life. let us not forget "Vidal Sassoon" ha ha.. I knew a guy who wore them in high school. they called him "sassoony" and mocked him relentlessly. one day he exploded and beat them down to a pulp. jammed his thumb down this guys throat. they never bothered him again
Ooo, La La, Sassoon!
I remember that brand. Girls wore them alot when I was in high school and junior high. Also Calvin Klein jeans were popular with the girls.
Jordache
I was 12 at this time. I remember how exciting it was rolling with the changes from 70's into a new decade. The fashion, music , culture, everything. Even then I thought to myself "Oh yeah, this is my era!"
Everything was full of life and hope
You can clearly see how the electronics were slowly creeping into everyone's life.
It was much better then no cell phones social media or any other junk
I love the time spent on the child staring at the toy. They zoom into the object and stare at it as if to try and see what the child does. Truly fascinating filming here.
Still couldn't work out what he was staring at maybe the sound would have helped there does it talk to him perhaps ?
2 years before the cabbage patch could came out! Can you believe that????? Can you imagine just one pair of vintage jordash jeans in mint condition today? I would LOVE to have a pair today.
Wow... Just an amazing piece of video! Thanks for sharing it!
@Stacy L., I have a pair of vintage jordache girls jeans,that were my daughter's, I just came across them the other day!! I think size 18 months!!?!! I'll have to look again!
I remember my first and only pair of Jordache jeans. Somehow my dad managed to buy a pair for me and a pair for my sister, even though, looking back, i know he couldn't afford to buy designer jeans at that time. My mom and dad were the best ever!! I still remember shopping for those jeans. I was probably 14 or so. Wish i still had them but after i outgrew them i gave them to a younger girl who was so excited to have them. Good memories. Miss those times.
@@kayfitzgerald309 Sweet!!
@@GrandTime-17 Awww! Thank you for sharing your story. Our parents were awesome! Not too overprotective but just enough to scare the crap out of us yet love us and want to make us happy.
The youth of today have a very different body type now.
1980 - "Do these jeans make my butt look too big?"
2020 - "Do these jeans make my butt look too small?"
I was 14 in 1980 my brother was 24 a fantastic era !!! My parents and brother have now passed on 🙏😢 i wish i could go back to my happier times thank you for this !
Now we live in a hellscape, by design of course
I loved those days. People used to look each other in the eye and smile, stand close to each other. Things got gift wrapped at the store. People actually cared. There wasn't rampant assault and crime everywhere.
God help us.
And now we don't make eye contact with anyone and we don't want people near us
@@carlossebastiannecroticgot7232for a " connected" world, we are now , unconnected.
I graduated in 1980. I remember designer jeans, Izod shirts, Candies slip on, Terri cloth dresses and Sperry topsiders. I had to buy my own clothes. So, I didn’t have a lot of designer things. I was lucky to be given a car and needed to keep it running. When I got out of college and had a better paying job. I got my designer clothes.
So your parents paid thousands of dollars to put you thru college, gave you a free pre owned car, and a weekly allowance to help you "buy your own clothing"?? That's not "luck".. it's called "White Privilege". 😂
I'm glad their investment in you paid off with more designer clothes.. ( once you started to actually pay your own way.. ) Just remember the wise words of former president Barack Obama:
"YOU DIDNT BUILD THAT"..
He was so right.
About how much were a designer pair of jeans back then? I was 7 in 1980 wow
@@DJaySplitSecond I don’t remember. I think Nana bought me some Gloria Vanderbilt corduroys for $10. That was when that brand was high end. They were on sale and Nana worked at Jefferson’s and got a discount. Otherwise, Jordash and Sassoon were about $20. I am guessing at that. Because, I know that they were expensive and $20 was a lot of money. In 1990, I think spent $30 for Guess jeans. That was a lot of money, then. Now, I can get Jeans between $10 and $40 and am not as brand conscious. I went through this phase in the 2000’s and 2010s with designer purses.
@@cindyeisenberg8367 IKR?? In 1998 I paid $70 for a pair of designer jeans to impress my girlfriend, and it works but now we can get designer jeans at a Burlington Coat factory for about $25 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️😜😜😜😜
@@DJaySplitSecond I agree. I used to get Coach shoes there.
As people who were alive during this time I have to say that we’re really lucky to have these videos to bring us back for a while. Generations of people before us never had such a unique opportunity to revisit and re experience their lives like this. It’s painful but at the same time exquisite.
$24+ for a pair of jeans was pretty expensive back then.
They would last and never wear out lol
That would be like $90 today. Very expensive
Federal minimum wage in 1980 was about $2, so almost 8 hours of work for jeans.
Now that 24 dollars will buy you a chesseburger at McDonalds.
That 2XL was the shit back in 1980. Eyes would light up red and damn thing talked to you.
i can still hear what it sounded like ....
Born 1966... I still have my Colleco head to head sports games I bought back then!! Cool to see them new again.
Nothing in those stores was made in China in 1980. China was still suffering the effects of the Cultural Revolution. Mao was a NITWIT.
Maoism is making a comeback but in the US this time.
When good customer service was a thing 👍🏽
I actually remember a young girl helping mom and I find jeans for me when I was a kid. Boy have times changed!
The good ole days...it was sure good fun while it lasted!
Those jean girls were so cute! 😍
Watching these now makes me feel like an alien watching an entirely different civilization.
Enjoy the parking lot shots. Nice to see the days populace of the different car models.
The Jordache look🤩
Now it’s a rare site to see more than 2 cars in a mall parking lot
UA-cam is the closest time machine we have
We were fortunate to have lived in that time. Greatly missed.
I was born in December 1980 and of only 3 weeks old this is a surreal and simple vision to a past few could comprehend.
This is a glowing time capsule of a different outlook in people and society.
The cameraman is fearless
I didn't realize they made those anti-theft devices seen on the jeans way back in 1980! I recall seeing those until the 90s.
Yeah I was surprised too. Didn't realize the tech went back that far.
They actually started implementing the technology in the late 70s. My mom bought me a pair of jeans somewhere in the mall. I got it home and said Wtf is this plastic bath tub stopper on the bottom of my jeans? We tried to cut it off but couldn’t. We had to take it back to the store and luckily had the receipt. They had just started tagging the clothes that week and the sales clerk forgot to take it off. The door detector also failed to go off.
We had to drive an hour just for them to take it off. My mom was not happy. 😆
Christown Mall in Phoenix opened in 1966 or 67. Much larger than Town and Country mall in Scottsdale. It had Broadway,Sears, Montgomery Wards, JCPenny, plus a fountain, movie theatre and a great food court. It was the hangout for many years. I saw Bobby Kennedy there during the 1968 Pres Campaign. Just before he was shot in LA.
Where's this filmed ?
1980 I was 14, lived in Phoenix. Saw my first concert; Rush with 38 Special opening. Fun times.
I can't tell you how many of those handheld games my teachers took from me. And my mom had to come up to the school to get it back. 🤣🤣
Great to see this video from a time when it was novel and only enjoyed by cutting-edge techies. I'll be back here often!
These videos are treasures!!
I wasn’t born yet for another 4 years but this looks and feels oddly familiar.
The year I was born. LOVE these videos! ❤❤❤
I STILL have my 2XL robot-- box and all. Great memories.
Oh ..I remember mom taking me to Beall's for all the school clothes. Cordoroid pants in every color you could imagine. I loved them.
It was the last time corduroy was out
I'd love for long corduroy skirts to come back for.winter
@@kathleenking47Corduroy was popular in the 90s.
My mom was 14 at that time, but did not live in the US. Im always fascinated by the 80s and 90s, being a 90s (93 to be exact) baby myself.
I graduated high school in 1980 and we wore Lee painter jeans with leather converse all stars. We could change the stars out in different colors. Levis were popular to but not as much as Lee painter jeans. Boys and the girls wore them.
1980-1981 was my senior year in high school. We loved our designer jeans, Izod shirts, Candie’s and Sperry’s shoes!
6:48 That cashier woman is delicate and feminine.
No phones, no lip injections, no blue hair or facial piercings, not a fat person in sight, respectfully dressed people. How far we’ve fallen. Our Grandfathers warnings about our future was unfortunately worse than they imagined. What have we become?!
nose piercings are kinda tight though. everything else though can go
Fully-packed parking lots, making it very difficult to find a decent parking space that doesn't require you to run a marathon from where you parked to the mall's entrance -- Lord, I miss those days! Loved seeing that VW Beetle parked next to the Trans Am Firebird!
notice how slow things seem to be, proof that actual time is moving faster and we move faster in it, we are in end days.
This is correct. Time is 100% moving faster now.
Wow. Not a cell phone in sight. Just people living in the moment.
1980 looks like a cool time and I like it.😊❤
Awesome video! Like some of the others, I was wondering where this mall is. I remember these portable electronic games when I was 8 years old. I remember when I was little when our family had a set of grandparents that lived in Bucks County PA. One such time when visiting these grandparents in about 1980 here when I was little, I remember family and I shopping and hanging out at a large shopping mall nearby Philadelphia PA close to Bucks County PA.
On a note: imagine a video being put up on this channel showing shopping at a large shopping mall in and or nearby Philadelphia PA in 1980 and that video happening to be the time when family and I went to the large shopping mall I remember from back then and in such a video seeing and recognizing me when little with seeing my parents and siblings, grandparents and other family members in the video and recognizing them all in video from over 40 years ago when us siblings were children and recognizing my younger looking parents of then as well and recognizing the grandparents to! That would be very coincidental, cool, and awesome! This could happen.
I think the mall was called Park City
@@georgegreenhalgh993 Isn't Park City in Lancaster Pa?
You might be thinking of Franklin Mills or Philadelphia Mills as the youngsters call it today.
10:29 I had this toy. It accepted an 8 track tape. It would ask you mulitple choice questions and then you answered by pushing the A, B or C button. It was actually pretty cool because it didn't just run through a list of questions, it also gave background on the topic and even played little audio clips. They tried to give it a personality.
I remember 1980 so well. I was 7 years old. I had just switched elementary schools. Tensions with Iran, the hostage situation, the USA hockey team comprised of 20-21 year old college kids beating arguably the greatest hockey team ever to play at the Olympics in lake placid. What a wonderful time to be alive.
I was 6
So weird to think even the youngest of these kids are in at least their 40’s now
If you look at the crowd in general in that shopping mall 50% of them would not be alive today.
Cadavers mostly now, sadly.
@@johnbravo7542 . . I was a teenager in 1980 . . Guess what . . . I'm still here . . . And I know plenty of other people from back then and they were older than me . . But we are all still here . . . Hahaha 😂😂😂 . . . We ain't dead yet .
The only important event in 1980 was the release of The Empire Strikes Back. The greatest movie ever.
I'm always curious who taped these? Did they know that one day this would be like a time capsule? Did people know that they were being filmed so closely? I'm sure they had permission, but I find it so strange that to think someone was walking around with a video camera lol
Most likely it was the local news filming B roll for a news story. There is one in target in 1994 and you hear the camera man tell someone "just act normal, I'm just doing a story on the layoffs".
Video cameras were not the norm so people either tried to ignore it or got smiley and nervous. They were huge cameras and had bright lights so I'm sure everyone noticed them.
@@jenjen462 I say the same thing when people see me outside their windows recording them 😏
OMG we had that same game at 9:37 -- I hadn't thought about it in years, good times! Thanks Vampire Robot!
They even had to make the packing lines big enough to fit big vehicles back then. Unfortunately, I grew up in the late eighties and nineties. Now I’m old as fudge!
You don't look old
I noticed not 1 fat person in the video. they were all fit and sexy inn those days.
I noticed that too.
There were some big girls back in the day but most of them still had a shape.
i notice that as well
😂😂😂 true. Thats cause we didn't have all the food choices we have now. Too much variety. My mom would always get so frustrated looking for jeans for me. I was so darn skinny.
They need to levy huge taxes on food based on how much sugar, fat, and salt they contain, and use that money to subsidize healthier foods...which always seem to cost more.
The denim jeans and clothing were made with such high quality! Better than half the so called luxury clothing these days.
Totally agree. Higher quality, clothing made to last.
It’s surreal seeing the mall with all that inventory out and no one running in and grabbing it. Things have really gone downhill in 40 years.
5:01 the fact that she fix it is crazy I was born in 2008 but now the stores like target if that happens the hanger falls off no one will fix it just the workers that’s why the place looks like a mess
That's White Flint Mall in Rockville, Maryland. Bloomingdale's, I. Magnin, and Lord & Taylor. That mall was torn down about six years ago. The only building that remains is the abandoned, boarded-up Lord & Taylor. In it's day, it was a beautiful, very upscale, and successful mall.
Mind-blowing.
All gone in 2024. Even the nearby Metro station name has been changed from White Flint to North Bethesda. I miss that mall...
Ahh the 80’s-the last time I was happy
Yikes.
That 2XL Robot at 10:56. I loved that so much!
Back when malls were packed, unlike now where they are either ghost towns or gone altogether. 🙁
Wish I could travel back in time to 1980!!!! I would definitely stay there!!!!
I want to go back NOW!!! I was seven years old in 1981, and it was awesome!!! We would always go up to Almeda Mall in Houston, and my mom would shop at Foleys & Joskes.
Can we please go back? What a great time it was then.
The reason for voicemail: 2-XL.
Thank you, Mr Freeman.
So it turns out the game she's playing at 8:50 is "I took a lickin from a chicken".
Great video! The kid playing handheld games brought memories. Head to Head Football was the first one I had. Great times…👍🏼
I think I see our family car! 1978 Cutlass Supreme!
Outstanding footage
Before the faded and ripped Jean look became popular. I remember getting a new pair of jeans for that dark blue color before it got washed many times and faded.
I love my Jordache Jesns Sassoon Levi’s