Shoe shopping at a mall in 1989
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Footage from The Athlete's Foot inside the South Shore Plaza mall in Braintree, Massachusetts.
Shots of various customers looking at shoes, trying them on, checking out at the counter, etc...
This video from February last around 5 minutes.
#theathletesfoot
#adidas
#nike
#reebok
The “soundtrack” made me more nostalgic than anything else.
It's pretty cool Chris for sure.
This is what UA-cam should be for. no for influencers and shameless sales
This was real UA-cam
@@GUYFROM2047 until 2012…..
@donnell188For what lol there was influencers before it became huge
@@rollitupmars Yeah, but they had to actually put in the work! Nowadays unfortunately we live in a fallen state of society whereas 80% of the people are influenced by any and everything! #weaksheep🍻😂
It’s a grit now
These videos are pure treasures. It encapsulates the whole feel and experience of being there that day. The clothes, the music, everything! I was only 2 here but remember going to shoe stores with mom and dad with this same exact ambiance
Brings back so many great memories of shopping at the mall. Such a simpler better time
The music in the background takes me back.
Yeah it's awesome stuff!
They were playing some good music in that store....Steve Winwood, Johnny Hates Jazz, .38 Special. The music of my childhood. ♥️♥️♥️
it's mindblowing how no one feels weird about their credit cards being closely observed by a large camera
I know right! They act so natural we forget this is being filmed
I see that in a lot of these older films.
I worked at a retail store 10 years ago and we had those manual credit card things but only used them when the system would go down. I felt very uncomfortable using them since we had their CC info but I was never tempted to steal anyones credit card number because 1 it's just dead wrong and 2, I love my freedom!
No different than giving your card to a waiter as he walks out of sight, to do whatever.
Cameras everywhere, always… don’t sweat it.
I love so many things about this video. The clothes, music, hair, acid washed jeans, high tops, old credit card technology, and the customer service in this store! The young salesman actually helping to fit the customer was something from the past. I have not had an experience like that in the past 20 years at least.
That old credit card tech….aka “knuckle busters” 😎
Yes washed out jeans kicks easy vibe .......
You forgot his pants are pegged at the end ( folded into itself and wrapped tighter).
It's kind of funny how 34 years later, while the music is different, the prices are different and the method of payment is a little different, this is still the exact same vibe you get going into a store like this in a mall. Tiny store. Only a few employees. Try on shoes. Small talk. "Receipt's in the bag, have a nice night." "You too. See you later."
Something about malls being incredibly left in the past (and on the brink of death) have preserved a shopping experience that you don't really get anymore anywhere outside of that setting.
Everything has changed yet nothing has changed.
The only difference is that so many malls during that era are long gone.
@@WolfenEXE RIP
Many good memories. The mall near where I grew up (Superstition Springs Center in Mesa, Arizona) is barely alive today and a bunch of other malls I went to in Phoenix are gone. Every time I go back home and go there, it's like a time machine. Malls came with us into the 21st century, but the 21st century never really came into the mall infrastructure. I now live in Syracuse, NY and Destiny USA is a very big mall here with a lot of modern amenities...but you go into the food court and it's all the same. Bunch of options with no automation at the counter surrounding a bunch of tables and a carousel at the front facing outwards.
Maybe having nostalgia for something that was always so homogenized is lame, but I don't really care.
I was in high school in 89 and loved the mall, worked in the mall for a few years. Sad to see it’s dying and online shopping is taking over everything. I still love going to the mall. It’s not the same but I’ll keep going until they are gone.
And living with mom and dad and spending 90% of my money at Footlocker.
Dude your videos are absolutely incredile. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! They bring back such awesome memories.
Wow. So awesome to read comments like the one you wrote!! Very much appreciated! 😀
When you used to try on shoes and not just buy them and walk out. Classic music too.
Heck yeah, heck yeah! This took me back to when I was 9 years of age in 1989 yeah!
So cool! Loved the mid-80's through the 90's!
Thanks for sharing!
I find the smart phone useful, but I can remember back then. And I can tell you that many of us were more "present" in the moment when we did not have tech at our hands. Many of us are still present when we are out and about, but there are those moments we are taken out of the moment, albeit briefly, but just something different with how we were back then to this current time. And that includes both positive and negative too for the combined experiences....just something...different....
Did the same person film all the videos on this channel? The style of shooting is so consistent. Clear footage with no talking from the camera person. It’s truly amazing.
It's b-roll for news reports, from different stations across the country
It's just b roll footage.
@@vampirerobot how did you obtain all these if you don’t mind me asking? Did you work or are still working at a company with vaulted b-roll footage?
@@timbryan3441 😮😮😮
@@OzoneGamerStation I'm so curious too. Wish he would explain where the vids came from.
My favorite UA-cam channel right here! I was born in 1989, and I feel like I missed it - the good times of life in society. I loved the early 2000's for the fashion, but that's about it. I'm not a depressed person or anything, I always felt like I was born in the 1930's and died in the 80's, and then was reincarnated into who I am now, but I've always been unsure of what my purpose is. It's fun trying to figure it out, so I just keep trudging on, and doing the right thing! Anyway, thanks again!!
lol...I feel the same way Emmy.
Just be happy though you at least got to grow up during the amazing 2000's.
And your welcome 😀 .. glad you like the videos!
@Donnell O But great music
@donnell188it was 80s fashion and 80s fashion is awesome lol
I’ve been enjoying the new leave it to beaver 🦫 on UA-cam it’s from the 80s with the Haskells and cleavers as adults with their own kids
I was 10 in 1989. I remember when the Reebok Pump, as well as Nike's version, came out and everyone had to have a pair.
Remember the different colored shoe laces. I had like 3 different ones in my LA gear lol
Growing up, I remember my brother telling about the Nike Air Pressures around that time and how it came with a pump and a massive case like it was the most epic thing. I finally got my pair when they came back out in 2016.
@@GermanShepherdDaphneREGULATOR
The guy buying the shoes looked so young to have a BofA Visa Card. I think I heard the sales guy ask him if it was his credit card. I love that 80's music playing in the background. The 80's were a great time to be young.
I thought the same thing about the credit card.
I just felt safe normal times everywhere
Today's a ramped up s***show
Yep, I remember working retail then and if it was their parents card they had to show us a note from their parents that they could use it.
@@jennieepp8263 like buying cigarettes for a parent 😉
or getting back in school out sick 🤣👌
Now they don’t ask a thing.
I miss the 80s. Great time to be alive.
It looks conservative and soulless. Build the body, give up the brain and soul.
We were lucky. If you look back in history there were good times and bad times and the eighties were awesome times.
80s was my childhood, I miss this era of time.
Imagine taking 5-10 minutes to pay by credit card. What a time to be alive!
This channel is goated 💯🫡
It was interesting seeing the shopper use a credit card. Many ppl used cash back then.
Not to mention zooming in on the number.
@donnell188where I grew up it was more common to see cash. At this time I worked as a waitress and I NEVER, from 87-89, had anyone put my tip on a credit card. It was always cash.
Many people wrote checks in the mall.
Now i want one of those credit card sliders on my work desk as a time machine. Every time i want to go back to the 80s i can just slide it back and forth. ..... and 💨 im gone)
I lived this! Love all the songs on the radio at the time.
You were lucky!
My dad bought me the Nike Air Flight ‘89s this same year. I still have them, lol. Well, a different pair but identical colors.
The Flights were really popular in 1989. That was when I really started to get into sneakers and I got my first pair of Nike's. They were the Flight high tops, blue and white. They were so comfortable.
This channel is the greatest!
I was 19 years old in 89' and the malls were the hangout back then and South Shore Plaza and the Hanover Mall was where I did most of my shopping. The clothes were pretty cool back then too, most were still made in the USA before NAFTA came along.
People do not realize how each successive administration further sold our People down the river.
Those grey New Balances towards the end of the video are a classic!
This is so nostalgic for me, I was 7 back then, but brings back memories I really miss the 80’s and 90’s , think u for showing these clips from the past. I feel like I’m living it again😊😊😊
Aaaayyyeeeeeeeee!!!! '82 Born REPRESENT........ 🤘🏽
Same here born in ‘82, the 90’s was the last great decade imo
This video was filmed somewhere in the Boston area in February 1989. 🕵🏻♂️
In the background, you can hear the radio playing WZOU
94.5 FM, which used to be a FM radio station until 1992 when it changed format to WJMN 94.5 (Jammin’ 94.5).
You can also hear the DJ talking about a concert by the band Cheap Trick the following night. Cheap Trick performed two concerts in Massachusetts that year: one in Boston (on 2/2/89) and the other in Springfield (on 2/3/89).
*So, the date of this video was February 1, 1989.*
Oh lord…the music, the ambiance…i’m back to my sweet 80’s😊
Fantastic 80’s vibe!
I was rockin’ some Reebok Pumps with the tennis ball ‘pump device’ on the tongue
Miss those great times!
Lol wow I remember those but I didn’t get a pair until sometime in 1990 and remember how you would always assume they would make you jump higher but come to find out they only made your shoe fit snugger
Oh wow- I was 18 in 89… this was when their was actually someone to help you try on the shoe.
“ you have a WIDE foot”. Lol. Thanks guy,
Like I didn’t know already. Awww. Lol
The song playing I remember having on a 45!!!! Shattered dreams!
I, too, was 18 in 89! Special times we were in definitely!
I’m on a binge of these type of videos, love the days of people happy, living in the moment, having a good time.
Such good times!
The Athlete's Foot! Wow! I haven't seen one of those since the late 1980s! We had one in the Moorestown Mall in NJ. Then Foot Locker came to our mall and The Athlete"s Foot had no chance. Then around 1991-92 a fire burned the side of the mall with this store and Herman's Sporting Goods. Sad day but nice memories on the first athletic shoe store I can remember (and it still exists).
I always thought it was funny that they named a store after a skin infection😂.
Johnny hates Jazz, & 38 Special! Classic
Shoes were still Made in the USA 🇺🇸
Most Nikes and all Jordans of the day were made in Korea.
You know it's from the late 80s when you see someone with rolled jeans. 😂
People still roll their jeans 🤣 are you kidding?
This brings back memories. I would have been the same age as him back in 89, very cool video.
Going shoe shopping back in Foot Locker back in the day was a much more pleasant experience. These days for whatever reason Foot Locker has become so obnoxiously hip-hop centered that it detracts everyday folks and families from wanting to even walk inside.
zappos
WHO'S EVERYDAY FOLKS??????🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@ema9635 blue collar
@@ema9635 decent non-hip-hop-gutter-ppl/urban lowlives
As a UW Madison alumni, I loved seeing that vintage Wisconsin shirt. Go Badgers!
This video was filmed somewhere in the Boston area
The song "Second Chance" by 38 Special plays. I just heard that in Publix last month for the first time in many years.
This is just on the cusp of the Nike Air shoes really becoming ubiquitous, along with Reebok Pumps. It seemed ridiculous to most people to get $100 sneakers. Now I get a pair of $100+ shoes for durability and to wear a few years.
I remember going to the mall in 1989 to buy some Jordan’s 4’s which was the hottest shoe on the market in 1989. A lot happened in my hometown of Savannah Georgia in 1989. Hurricane Hugo was so big when it hit Charleston that we got a lot of effects from the storm, then later on that year we had a snowstorm in Savannah that almost shut down the city. Then my family friend Councilman and civil rights attorney and activist Robert “Robbie” Robinson was killed at his office downtown Savannah near the old WTCO/CBS11 building on Abercorn Street. What a horrible tragedy, all he did was opened up a package that was sent to his office by UPS and then the package exploded. He was still alive when emergency crews arrived, and he was in shock and didn’t feel any pain even though he was missing his arms and other extremities. He told emergency crews that he wanted to go home and then he blinked out and never gained consciousness again. My family and I heard the blast all the way down the street from my mom’s office which was on Abercorn Street as well.
The year 1989 was a strange year for me, had its ups and downs but one great thing about the year is that I started dating one of the most beautiful young lady. She had this beautiful shiny coco brown skin and light brown eyes, even her feet were so soft and beautiful and well manicured. Ari Lennox the singer reminds me of my ex girlfriend. She was a amazing volleyball player who went on to attend University Of North Carolina Chapel Hill and now she’s an orthopedic surgeon who’s well respected in Southern California. We were torn apart due to her attending college in North Carolina and myself attending college in Florida. But she’s a Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority member and so is my wife who’s a pediatrician, so I got a chance to catch up with her at our sorority/fraternity ball in Atlanta last year. I’m Omega Psi Phi which is the brother fraternity of Alpha Kappa Alpha. But yeah………. I will never forget 1989 the good and the bad. And I still rock Jordan 4’s *WITHOUT* jump man in the back because the original J-4’s had *Nike Air* on the back with the *Swoosh* logo in the middle
1988-1992, we stay at the Oglethorpe Mall traveling 2 hours to get there. Savannah Ga, had the best mall around during the late 80s early 90s. Good Memories
Life seemed so much simpler then...
Take me back 🥹
I wish
I was expecting Al Bundy showing up at any minute.
Thank you for doing this
No one talking about how FIRE the shoes were back then?!? Dude looked sharp in them ASICS Tigers. Gooooot daaaaaamn
They're playing the best 80s music in this store.
Growing up in MA. this was cool to see. "Shattered Dreams" by Johnny Hates Jazz. Great tune. Remember those days at the mall so well. Sure miss the 80's.
Shoes were made so much better back then. Many were more comfortable too.
I gotta say, the stye of shoes and brand have not changed in all these years. Amazing how clothing style has changed. But honestly, if you look at many designs and patterns today, it seems that the 60's, 70's 80's and some 90's styles have come back albeit it slightly changed, but the trend has come full circle.
Reading comments is a plus with channel because we all can relate and miss these times
Just bought a pair of Adidas shell toes on clearance for $30 (from $110.) Looking at how much I paid for them, that made me wonder how much shoes were back in the 90s. Although, 1989, this is close enough. Crazy to think I paid almost 1989 prices for these shoes.
Back in the fall of 1989, I went on a wild goose chase looking for royal blue, burgundy, and brown Nike cortez shoes and could never find them. 5 years to 10 years later, I found all brands of Royal blue, brown, maroon, even teal color shoes. Today? You can find any color tennis shoes you want. In Men's shoes that is.
Those old credit card carbons were a pain for businesses.. If you lost 'em, and/or didn't deposit them at your bank.. you weren't getting paid. But it's just how it was then.
Love the musak in the background and love your vids Vampire Robot whoever you are. You have brought so many memories back for an ole fart like me
I never understood that brief period of time when people were just wearing wrestling shoes as regular shoes. To me it was like wearing football cleats for jogging on the sidewalk, there was just no way that was comfortable. There was nothing but a thin bit of rubber for the sole.
Back when buying shoes was a dignifying feeling
This makes no sense
@@joshramirez7 why?
I was 16 in 89 & you see the black & white shoe at 5:32 with cross training under it? That is a British Knights Ultra or back then we also used to call them Royals, one of the most popular shoes of 1989. My father was supposed to buy me a pair for my 16th birthday, we went to Footlocker & the shoes were there in my size BUT after I tried them on, my father asked the sales guy to bring out a different style of BK's from the ones I wanted. The style he told him to bring out was $10 cheaper than the Ultra's so the sales guy told my father he would give him a discount on the Ultra's so they would cost the same as the other BK's BUT my father still said no. I was puzzled at why he did that, I had been asking for those shoes for a couple months & my dad promised we would get them for my birthday. Later on when we got home, I overheard him tell my younger brother that I didn't deserve them, that's why he didn't buy them. That's how my father was though, he never did anything for me that I wanted, it's OK though cause eventually I got a pair anyway once I was grown. These days, now surprisingly enough now whenever my dad's birthday or Christmas comes, guess what the first thing he always ask for is? One year he even asked me to get him some Jordan's, I must have laughed for three hours straight....
Oh yeah I remember shoe shopping in 1989, got my first pair of Reebok Pumps for basketball that year. They were so comfortable.
Did they smell good?
Same. I still have the original box. Reebok twilight zone. I was 12yo. Wore jr. Boys size 5. They were dope. Took a month of delivering newspapers.
I need a time travelling De Lorean big time!!🤔😉👍🏻👍🏻
I bet all those sneakers are higher quality and more comfortable than today's shoes!
Dam both of these guys are in their 50s/60s. By the way LA Gear was pretty popular at this time.
80's music in the background,,,,is killing me,,,,man I wanna go back home,,,,😢
Credit card? You got it!
Wow I went back in time for a moment this was great
Cool I was just looking at Craigslist saw a 1989 Toyota super delux shortbed. Super cheap
89 when i graduated from high school
Life was good and fun in the 80s I was lucky to be there.
i can smell the credit card carbon paper 👃🏻
Ooooh. Johnny Hates Jazz
Shoe stores had a special "Back To School " new rubber smell.....That I Hated❗🤬
Anyone else noticed the British Knight shoes? BK's were very popular when I was growing up!
A local DJ in my town boasts about how his favorite shoes were BK shoes. People in town recognize him because he still wears his BK's around town. Not sure how those shoes held up all these years, but he's still rocking them!
That's the first brand I looked for. Had them back then. Diadora also in the video, not as popular.
Omg Johnny Hates Jazz SHATTERED DREAMS is playing in the background. Lol wow niceee.
Those shoes look like they could take a beating. Im not from that time but aside from my Brooks i've always looked for low-profile athletic shoes with an older look like my K-Swiss, Onitsuka Tiger, and a couple Nikes with the waffle.
I got a nice screen shot of that credit card number. Can't wait to ring up this guy from 1989's bill with my online shopping spree.
The sounds and the whole look. Even in the uk it was so similar.
Gotta love "Shattered Dreams" by Johnny Hates Jazz. Funny thing is good 80's music is still heard at existing malls and banks, restauraunts.
Bring back the days!
1989 I was 13 and I remember constantly going to Footlocker especially when the Air Jordan 4 came out!💯🏀🐐 Dudes didn't dress like a chick wearing Pink and Purple and looking like a mix between a bag of Skittles and a box of Fruity Pebbles 😆😂 I need a Delorean Time Machine stat!
Duran Duran and 38 Special in the background
Johnny Hates Jazz's Shattered Dreams is such a good song
What a treat to hear it in this video. Also 2nd Chance by 38 Special. Suddenly I was 18 years old again.
Jeans rolled up perfectly 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Wow buying shoes back then was a long process.
Back when you look for shoes and the sales person has to go in the back for the shoe box to bring upfront to you. Now no salespeople and the boxes are in front of you and most of the time shoes are all over the place.
I don’t know the places you’re shopping for shoes but that’s only the case in places that seem cheap shoes that will be destroyed in a weak.
aww this is beautiful!
I had them reeboks he was wearing they were the most comfortable shoes i ever wore in my life. They don't make em like that anymore.
Did they smell good?
@@sneakerfreak2002 if you mean the new shoe smell? I guess. they did smell diferent. Go into a nike store today - you won't get that smell again. The old reeboks were real leather except for the top of the sides.
@@parteibonza yes new smell, but also the nicely worn scent you get after wearin em around n they’re a little damp inside. Yum
The cash register sounds like a Sharp standalone register.
Since it's 1989, and im inside Shoe Shopping, i guess im buying High Top Trainers and Slouch Socks. 3 pairs (Avia Aerobics, Reebok Freestyle Hi in White, and Nike Aerofits)
I was 12 years old and remember this year quite well so funny how we rush to grow up and when we get old, we wish to be young again
I would definitely take 1989 over this horrific 2024 any day
I was a freshman in high school then. I loved going to the mall.
“Ay bub you got the new penny hardaway 2s?” “Just sold our last pair” “How about the Dominique Wilkins Converse Hightops?” “We got em in red and black” “get me a size 6 1/2 fella” wow how the times have changed!!!
Wasn't Penny just a kid then? 🤔
The Penny 1s came out in 1995. It was all about the Jordan 4s and Nike Air Flights in 1989.
@0:51 telling a customer "you got a wide foot" here in 2023 would be considered racist, sexist, and the grounds for a lawsuit with the right lawyer. Man, I miss the 80's!!!
Shut up 🤫
1:09 Shattered dreams!! God I love that song!!
Say less and just Payless ❗I remember the Payless ProWings , Penny Loafers, LA Gear, Brooks, Dia Dora, K Swiss, Bally, Fila, MCM, Chuck Taylor's, British Knights , Run over and Keds❗😭
The girl in red @ 4:27 in the background reminds me of Nikki Cox (T2 Galleria girl questioned by the T1000) and Robyn Lively from Karate Kid 3/Teen Witch.
The good old days
Lovely experience. I recalled my 1st shoes were reebook pump and a Mizuno - due to Ivan Lendl.being sponsoree by Mizono at that time. Miss how credit card being copy.
You guys remember this was a big year for British nights. I got a pair that year, but of course they went out of style pretty fast.
I don't know where these videos come from but thank u