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
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.
@@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.
@@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🍻😂
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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😊😊😊
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....
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
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 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.
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 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
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)
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).
@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.
I feel like more people would have used credit cards back then if it wasn't such a hassle. It was faster to pay with cash. Now paying by credit card is the faster, easier option.
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 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.*
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
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.
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.
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.
I bet people's feet were more healthier back then overall. Most didn't wear flip flops and Crocs and didn't walk around the house barefoot on hard flooring. Many wore shoes inside their house and those that didn't probably had carpet. Shoes back then were really comfortable and lasted a long time.
@@scaboi not really. It’s weird because you were not brought up that way. It’s safer and better for your feet. There is also a convenience factor. I think it’s weird how so many people have hard flooring and go barefoot in their house. I mean at least wear slippers.
@@billyfowler9423 It is weird because you are at home, not outside or in public. What do you mean wearing shoes at home is safer and better for your feet? As long as you keep your floors clean you shouldn't have any problems. I assume you must be also against home nudity.
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.
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.
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....
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.
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.
Wow they never helped me get the shoe I wanted like this, they just hand me the shoe and walk away 😭 I would go to the mall more if they had customer service like this.
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.
Not only did I have the same Reebok high tops but i also bought Asiics wrestling high tops for street wear. Seems like only last week, the styles the mall music, shoes were leather then.
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.
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!
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.
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.
The “soundtrack” made me more nostalgic than anything else.
It's pretty cool Chris for sure.
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
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.
Heck yeah, heck yeah! This took me back to when I was 9 years of age in 1989 yeah!
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
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).
The music in the background takes me back.
Yeah it's awesome stuff!
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! 😀
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.
So cool! Loved the mid-80's through the 90's!
Thanks for sharing!
I lived this! Love all the songs on the radio at the time.
You were lucky!
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
Life seemed so much simpler then...
Oh lord…the music, the ambiance…i’m back to my sweet 80’s😊
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.
When you used to try on shoes and not just buy them and walk out. Classic music too.
I still try on shoes before I buy them. How else do you know if they'll fit?
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
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 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
89 when i graduated from high school
Life was good and fun in the 80s I was lucky to be there.
This channel is the greatest!
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....
Shoes were made so much better back then. Many were more comfortable too.
This channel is goated 💯🫡
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
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)
Such good times!
No hypebeast, no resellers, no shaming on what kind of sneakers you’re wearing, no social media, no influencers… just life at its peak.
Trust me, they shamed you for your sneakers then. The 80s were VERY materialistic.
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.
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 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
Johnny hates Jazz, & 38 Special! Classic
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)
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😂.
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.
I feel like more people would have used credit cards back then if it wasn't such a hassle. It was faster to pay with cash. Now paying by credit card is the faster, easier option.
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.
Those grey New Balances towards the end of the video are a classic!
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.*
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.
This brings back memories. I would have been the same age as him back in 89, very cool video.
They're playing the best 80s music in this store.
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
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.
Back when buying shoes was a dignifying feeling
This makes no sense
@@joshramirez7 why?
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.
Reading comments is a plus with channel because we all can relate and miss these times
Shoes were still Made in the USA 🇺🇸
Most Nikes and all Jordans of the day were made in Korea.
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
I bet people's feet were more healthier back then overall. Most didn't wear flip flops and Crocs and didn't walk around the house barefoot on hard flooring. Many wore shoes inside their house and those that didn't probably had carpet. Shoes back then were really comfortable and lasted a long time.
I think it's weird walking around the house with shoes on.
@@scaboi not really. It’s weird because you were not brought up that way. It’s safer and better for your feet. There is also a convenience factor. I think it’s weird how so many people have hard flooring and go barefoot in their house. I mean at least wear slippers.
@@billyfowler9423 It is weird because you are at home, not outside or in public. What do you mean wearing shoes at home is safer and better for your feet? As long as you keep your floors clean you shouldn't have any problems. I assume you must be also against home nudity.
As a UW Madison alumni, I loved seeing that vintage Wisconsin shirt. Go Badgers!
This video was filmed somewhere in the Boston area
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.
Take me back 🥹
I wish
Jeans rolled at the cuff.
Word.
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.
Man the credit card carbon copy. That's a sound I forgot about completely.
Thank you for doing this
Bring back the days!
80's music in the background,,,,is killing me,,,,man I wanna go back home,,,,😢
No one talking about how FIRE the shoes were back then?!? Dude looked sharp in them ASICS Tigers. Gooooot daaaaaamn
You know it's from the late 80s when you see someone with rolled jeans. 😂
People still roll their jeans 🤣 are you kidding?
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....
I was expecting Al Bundy showing up at any minute.
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.
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.
Dam both of these guys are in their 50s/60s. By the way LA Gear was pretty popular at this time.
Wow they never helped me get the shoe I wanted like this, they just hand me the shoe and walk away 😭 I would go to the mall more if they had customer service like this.
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.
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.
Shoe stores had a special "Back To School " new rubber smell.....That I Hated❗🤬
That kind of customer service no longer exists
I bet all those sneakers are higher quality and more comfortable than today's shoes!
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.
Credit card? You got it!
The good old days
The sounds and the whole look. Even in the uk it was so similar.
I was a freshman in high school then. I loved going to the mall.
bro was looking fresh
Not only did I have the same Reebok high tops but i also bought Asiics wrestling high tops for street wear. Seems like only last week, the styles the mall music, shoes were leather then.
Duran Duran and 38 Special in the background
Looking on the wall, a lot of these shoe designs are starting to make a comeback and some I had no idea were from the 80s because I wasn’t alive then
Jeans rolled up perfectly 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
That accent! Massachusetts no doubt! Crazy how much American regional accents have diluted and faded in 3-4 decades.
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.
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.
Cool I was just looking at Craigslist saw a 1989 Toyota super delux shortbed. Super cheap
aww this is beautiful!
Thank you very much for this videos wonderful💘
look at those clothes in the back lol
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.
now u gotta work 3 days worth to buy a pair, back then one days work
Omg Johnny Hates Jazz SHATTERED DREAMS is playing in the background. Lol wow niceee.
I need a time travelling De Lorean big time!!🤔😉👍🏻👍🏻
Wow buying shoes back then was a long process.
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.
i can smell the credit card carbon paper 👃🏻
Oh man those songs take me back, Johnny Hates Jazz (Shattered Dreams) and 38 Special (A Heart Needs a Second Chance).
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.