Christmas shopping at a mall in 1995

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  • Опубліковано 7 гру 2022
  • Footage of customers meandering about at a mall and visiting various stores.
    Shots of people inside Modell's Sporting Goods store (among others) looking at different items.
    This video last around 11 minutes.
    #Modells

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  • @magamaga1827
    @magamaga1827 Рік тому +37

    1995 was really the last year before the Internet took over. It was around but not many people were using it. My "bit time" corporation in NYC didn't even have email in 1995. I'd say by 1997/98, people's behaviors started to change in society with regards to the internet. And then by 2007 with the Iphone, its been downhill ever since.

    • @RVAMotorsports
      @RVAMotorsports Рік тому +14

      Smartphones ruined everything

    • @Cause4Alarm
      @Cause4Alarm 9 місяців тому +3

      Bingo you're so right I just got my first home computer in 95 after hearing about the Great Wide Web and every corporation at that time had a joke of a website that was the multi corporations like McDonald's, Coke, Disney with non-functional interactive pages. It was still a great time to be an American to buy anything you wanted regardless of your income during holidays.

  • @vistatiger7493
    @vistatiger7493 Рік тому +21

    The Holiday season is the one time I enjoyed working in retail. So busy, never a boring moment and the time on your shift would pass so fast.

    • @halloweenville1
      @halloweenville1 11 місяців тому +6

      I loved working in malls throughout the 80's/90's, and i also loved Christmas, everybody was happier back then, and the festive decorations was also uplifting for the staff.

    • @kevinonthank
      @kevinonthank 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@halloweenville1me too! Worked in the 90s at Chess king and loved going on break and seeing all the lush Christmas decorations.

    • @halloweenville1
      @halloweenville1 6 місяців тому

      @@kevinonthank I never got bored with the Christmas songs on a loop either, lol.

  • @map3384
    @map3384 10 місяців тому +7

    Christmas of 1995 was my first Christmas married to my wife. Newly wed Christmas. Love going shopping with her at Paramus Park and Garden State Plaza Malls. The 90s were definitely happier and better times for America.

  • @LouSaydus
    @LouSaydus 5 місяців тому +4

    completely oblivious to the fact that they lived at the absolute peak of human comfort and society. Most of them are probably still alive today and look back at those times with nostalgia.

  • @plumalynne1399
    @plumalynne1399 Рік тому +11

    Would love to go back...even for just one whole day.

  • @micai.j8920
    @micai.j8920 Рік тому +15

    Christmas ‘95 was perfect for me. I believe that year we had a real Christmas tree and I still remember the smell so every time I smell them I think of my childhood

    • @atlantic_love
      @atlantic_love Рік тому +2

      Just get a real Christmas tree.

    • @ville666sora
      @ville666sora 10 місяців тому +1

      Same for me. It was nice to have a real tree for once, but it was also the last time we had a real tree due to the pine needles falling off and making a mess, and our pets wouldn't leave the tree alone. Our dogs kept trying to pee on it lol, and the cats wanted to climb it. They don't do that with the fake trees.

    • @micai.j8920
      @micai.j8920 10 місяців тому +1

      @@atlantic_love I probably will this year, nothing too big

    • @atlantic_love
      @atlantic_love 10 місяців тому +1

      @@ville666sora Our cats sure love to climb our artificial tree. We'll come home from work and there's feline tinsel hanging from the tree, and nice round indentations where kitties were raising, and branches that need to be reshaped. It's aggravating to fix, but part of the Christmas fun. It's their Christmas, too 💖😸

    • @atlantic_love
      @atlantic_love 10 місяців тому

      @@micai.j8920 We also have an artificial tree that has color-coded branches that go into certain spots on the trunk...

  • @Vendzor
    @Vendzor Рік тому +36

    Why do I find myself yet again feeling so nostalgic for an era I never lived through, and will never experience. I tell myself, it'll never be like that again. They must have had it so much better than I do now, in current year. I convince myself that they put less effort into the decorations now and that the malls would be less lively and all this nonsense. And then I think about all the people in the video who inevitably would enter the 2000s, react to 9/11, COVID-19 pandemic, and everything that came with the 21st century. I look at all the commercials and brand logos and styles and music of the 1990s and it seems like almost a perfect period for humanity. Technology was here but not too crazy, pizza hut was on its prime. Now we have to deal with oversimplified brand logos, dead malls, screen addictions, etc. Sighhhh.

    • @micai.j8920
      @micai.j8920 Рік тому +4

      I feel that way for the 80s and 90s. But I lived through all of the 90s as a kid. I can also watch commercials from those eras for hours 😂

    • @lightningblue648
      @lightningblue648 Рік тому +5

      I was born in the 80s and always longed for the 60s. Seeing more and more of these things about the 90s gives me goosebumps that I lived through that decade and it seems like we hit peak in 2000. Few could ever have expected what was right around the corner like you mentioned with 9/11, etc. but I’d add the fallout of the 2008-2009 economic collapse too.

    • @atlantic_love
      @atlantic_love Рік тому +1

      Why do people keep repeating this meme? They see the question posted somewhere, notice the likes its get, and run off to another video to repost the question.

    • @Vendzor
      @Vendzor Рік тому +5

      @@atlantic_love It's not a meme, man. At least not to me. And I couldn't care less about likes, I'm just here for conversation.

    • @atlantic_love
      @atlantic_love Рік тому

      @@Vendzor Not a man, lol. It's all good, but if you've watched comments it's the same shit asked over and over, all over UA-cam. People are literally copy/pasting.

  • @crimsoncola
    @crimsoncola 10 місяців тому +6

    I was 14 when this was shot. I thank my lucky stars I lived as a teen through the 90s

    • @lisamays912
      @lisamays912 7 місяців тому +4

      I was 12 years old in 1995 we didn’t know how good we had it

    • @crimsoncola
      @crimsoncola 6 місяців тому +2

      @@lisamays912 Amen!

  • @accordionSWE
    @accordionSWE 10 місяців тому +4

    Everything looks so decent.

  • @JunipersQuest
    @JunipersQuest Місяць тому +1

    I was 8 in 1995, The 90’s was my entire childhood and everyone actually talked to each other even in stores. The internet itself wasn’t as popular as it is today cause not many families could afford a computer with access to the internet. Prices and living costs were very affordable not like today with inflation in 2024. The Holidays where a staple in the 80’s an90’s cause back then it was mostly about being together and having a good time.

  • @Lanae8199
    @Lanae8199 Рік тому +8

    I remember the 90s like they were yesterday. I was 14 in 1995.

    • @atlantic_love
      @atlantic_love Рік тому +2

      You are a young pup. I was born 1972. This year I'll turn 51.

    • @magamaga1827
      @magamaga1827 Рік тому

      I was 23. You are on the youngest bracket of GenX. Basically mid 60s to mid 80s birth years. However I feel bad cause you really didn't get to experience the 80s/90s as an older teen/adult before the internet/cell phone zombie appocalypse.

    • @superpayaseria
      @superpayaseria Рік тому +1

      I feel the same way. I've never forgot any of it. Feels like yesterday still. Where did u live? I was Idaho.

    • @Lanae8199
      @Lanae8199 Рік тому

      @@superpayaseria I lived in Florida.

    • @ShadowWarrior88
      @ShadowWarrior88 Рік тому

      Man I was only 7

  • @mr_m4613
    @mr_m4613 Місяць тому +3

    Now THIS was America as I remembered it.

    • @Mike-xo8on
      @Mike-xo8on 22 дні тому +1

      Same. Old america is lost for good now.

  • @JDboxbox
    @JDboxbox Рік тому +1

    4:33 that big pile of golden retriever stuffies. That was my favorite childhood stuffed animal, I still have him. Crazy!

  • @user-nn2lu8ko8n
    @user-nn2lu8ko8n 3 місяці тому +1

    I deff miss the 90s

  • @kmartradio
    @kmartradio Місяць тому

    I was born in the summer of that year. My first Christmas

  • @CandyChanni
    @CandyChanni Рік тому +5

    I was born in 95 so this was my first Christmas 😍

  • @bottomfeedervideo8316
    @bottomfeedervideo8316 8 місяців тому +1

    Would you mind if I used snippets of this for the opening of a Christmas themed horror film that we are shooting? You'll get closing credits plus a few free copies of the movie on DVD when its wrapped.

  • @mermaidlu5125
    @mermaidlu5125 Рік тому +6

    I was 15 . My mom didn’t have a car or money so going to the mall was very little experience for me as a teen in the 90s . Now I hate going to the malls I feel they so crowded 😂

    • @atlantic_love
      @atlantic_love Рік тому +2

      Not in most of America. Most of the malls are gone.

  • @Wisescarab
    @Wisescarab 3 дні тому

    Weird to think that all of these people, even the children, are now long dead.

  • @banksterkid5930
    @banksterkid5930 2 місяці тому

    7:24
    My daughter almost got run over by taxi 😮😮😮
    She said it so causally

  • @nerdbamarich2063
    @nerdbamarich2063 Рік тому +4

    🥺🥺🥺

  • @user-gb9rg5bv7o
    @user-gb9rg5bv7o 3 місяці тому

    9:04 Who's the woman with the black hair and leather coat?

    • @andyavendano4574
      @andyavendano4574 2 місяці тому

      Why would anyone know that? Shes just a random person in the video.

  • @americaelibertas2453
    @americaelibertas2453 7 місяців тому +1

    I was just a few months old when this video was filmed (born in October 1995). Its incredible to see just how much more popular malls were in the 1990s. I agree with other people in the comments below that everyone and everything just seemed more lively. People were certainly better dressed in the 1990s. Their idea of dressing casual would put our idea of casual to shame. Don't see anyone in the mall wearing yoga pants.

  • @maze95
    @maze95 4 місяці тому

    Few days later i was born

  • @DemetriusFlenory-qs2dh
    @DemetriusFlenory-qs2dh 2 місяці тому

    Hi

  • @aliciahinman3388
    @aliciahinman3388 Рік тому +4

    October 31st 1995 i was born lol 💜

    • @curtiswilliams5223
      @curtiswilliams5223 Рік тому +1

      March 26 1995 for me, same day eazy passed

    • @magamaga1827
      @magamaga1827 Рік тому +1

      Lol. I was 23. Just graduating college. You wanna date?

    • @luxuryqueen42
      @luxuryqueen42 Рік тому +4

      @@magamaga1827you’re asking a woman half ur age if she wants to date? Are u gonna be her sugar daddy? Lol

    • @magamaga1827
      @magamaga1827 Рік тому +1

      @@luxuryqueen42 lol. ok how about you?

    • @gujh03
      @gujh03 9 місяців тому

      ​@@magamaga1827loser

  • @lsmithville1585
    @lsmithville1585 6 місяців тому +1

    No pushing, no shoving, no shoplifting...

  • @user-tb4el1sr1q
    @user-tb4el1sr1q 10 місяців тому

    Wtf. Huh

  • @curtiswilliams5223
    @curtiswilliams5223 Рік тому

    Around the 20 sec mark that woman looks like Kourtney Kardashian

    • @mermaidlu5125
      @mermaidlu5125 6 місяців тому +1

      Yeah kourt before her obsession with gluten and before fame and $$$$$$$$