1970s Nostalgic Mall Muzak playing in an empty mall
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2022
- This is one of my Father's Day gifts to my Dad who loves mall music from the 70s because he grew up in the era when malls were popular and the new place to go shopping. I too find the music from 60s and 70s malls to be relaxing and make me nostalgic for a time I never experienced.
Thank you Dad so much for being a big support in growing my channel and making me the person I am today!
Thank you--this totally captures my memory when I worked at a shoe shop in Northridge Mall, Salinas, CA in mid 80s. Sherman Williams Piano shop/lounge next to the store. The only staff I saw was a stately gentleman who almost always wore 3-piece suit or a tuxedo. I would have a snack at the beautiful water fountain with the lush and waxy plants strategically placed along perimeter of fountain, checking out the thousands of coins in the water, tossed by well wishers . The smell of the water is ingrained in my mind--a combo of stale chlorinated water is the best description. Best time of the day was just before opening when I would have my donut from the mom & pop donut shop (THE BEST donuts I've ever had) next to Carl's Jr's (when it was actually a diner with ambient lighting and plush booth seats). Absolute best time was just after the mall closed with no customers in the mall. Just custodian, security and us. We were all acquaintances and everyone friendly. We'd have shoe fights before tidying up the store. Once work was done, I would wait for friends to go out for a bite and dance the night away. Simple life and would love to go back just to experience again, if just for one day/night.
Now that I see how the world is, I am so glad I grew up in the 70s
My sentiment always in today's day & time glad to have had the experience!
Yes and the 70’s music is awesome! So glad I was able to enjoy those songs on the radio. RIP Karen Carpenter - her songs always made me cry.
Even though I was born in the 80s, God helped me see the corruption in the modern world, and I happened to appreciate the vestiges of innocence in the 20th century captured in its music and movies.
One thing I wish I saw with my own eyes was how men and women dressed back then. The majority of women wore dresses and skirts. No tattoos, no crazy piercings, no green hair. Must have been comforting.
No smash & grabs. People didn’t wear pajamas to shop. No cell phones attached to their body like barnacles. Glad I grew up when I did.
I miss fountains in malls. Always threw a penny and made a wish, and that sound was so soothing.
Those were happy times.
...and the smell of the chlorine!
I fell into a mall fountain horsing around with my little brother. Talk about a soaking wet walk of shame through the mall afterwards 🤦
@@JoeSlops And now you have a funny story to tell at Thanksgiving!🤣
Any come true?
life was better in those days..2023 sucks
i love the architectural designs of these old malls
The former Baystate West's "Cube" in Springfield, MA, which is now "Tower Square"
I would never have thought at one time of searching for “late 70s mall atmosphere”. I am amazed at how this relaxes me and the memories and thoughts it evokes, incredible how that works.
Sadly, I can remember malls when they looked like these photos. It was a different time in life then.
Wow I was blessed to live during that time. The seventies were absolutely magical.
I was born in 72... I agree. I miss the 70's and the 80's... I feel like everything change around 87 or so.
@@ericdraven7185 changed for the worse when Clinton was elected
weren't we ever
What a great and thoughtful Father's day gift! I doubt anyone from this era would disagree that we all now find this music soothing and uplifting and wish to be taken back. We had everything we needed...As they say "hind sight is 20/20" - I'd easily give up my cellphone, laptop, internet and even my heated/cooled car seats to go back to this time!
I'm right behind you! I'm not thrilled with today's world
Going to the mall in the 70's and early 80's as young boy was like going to disneyland to me. Everyone seemed so happy there. I miss those times!
True Music!!! thank you very Much !!!
I remember the feeling of “airiness” that this Muzak provided as it played softly in the background. No one ever thought anything about it - at least I didn’t as a young boy. It was just another day at the mall, but oh does that “airy feeling” ever come back when I hear this music. To be able to go back to that time for just a day would be the biggest thrill.
I wish that everyday.
Mmm, yes. To be a kid in 1970 again❤
The TV show, 'The wonder years" was a glimpse of that world we once knew.
The nearest mall was about 40 miles away from the town I grew up in, so it was a special treat to go holiday shopping with the folks, eating out, falling asleep in the backseat on the drive home. Sweet memories ❤
Ahhh this reminds me of Mom and Dad! Thank you for sharing this bit of nostalgia with the rest of us. ❤❤❤
Young folks nowadays cannot imagine how free and upwardly mobile we were back then.
We weren't upwardly mobile. Women married rich guys for their money.
The 70's.🙂
I miss the 70's and 80's so much!!!😥💔
Tampa Bay Mall... Barnie's Coffee... my late husband...
I’m sorry for your loss.. hope all is well even though that most likely happened a while ago.
May he RIP. I grew up in Clearwater in the 70s and 80s, and washed dishes in a restaurant in Clearwater Mall in the early/mid 80s for my 1st job as a young teen, The best of times.
@@Spookje09 Thank you!!🥲❤🙏... We went to Clearwater Mall too!!
@@OGFluffduck Thank you!!!🥲❤ It's been 36 years.... somehow it feels like yesterday sometimes. Honestly, you just learn to carry it with you. Life goes on... and you carry on. But I just treasure everything. The past, the present and the future..... it's all so very precious. Wishing you joy and happiness!!😊❤
@@Spookje09 They truely were the best of times!!! 😊 Wishing you joy and happiness!! 🙏❤
From a time long since passed away.
What do you call something you never really even made note of during the moment, but long for now that it is gone? In Mad Men...the episode where Don Draper pitches the marketing for the Kodak Carousel, he speaks of nostalgia. He says, "Nostalgia - it's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means 'the pain from an old wound". That is so accurate. Listening to this is bittersweet nostalgia.
Muzak always sounded like someone playing a music recording in an empty hall...or mall...
i work an office job and sit alone for most of the day entering data. I'm always looking for background music to help the time go by, and this is perfect! great ambiance.
I am so glad you enjoyed this dreamscape, each and everyone of my viewers are important and special to me! I have another 70s mall muzak playing in an empty mall coming up but this time it will have Christmas muzak!
Sending you a virtual hug,
Gracie 🤗
This is wonderful. I had grown up listening to music like this. K-mart and other department stores. It was even on the radio. Thank you for posting.
Surreal nightmarish to listen to that in an empty mall
I grew up in the '70s and always wanted to go to the mall with my mother. Then, as I got older, I realized that the only way to go shopping on your own was with a car, because nothing you wanted was available in the few Main Street stores left. But guess what - I miss Muzak too!
I remember my first 'modern' mall, Cerritos in Norwalk CA in '71. It was one floor but had 4 huge anchor stores. The first large multi-story I remember was Westminster in Westminster CA around '79 or so. There was an earlier one we went to in Lakewood CA but I don't remember much of it because I was about 5 or so. I kept thinking I would run into the girl I liked but never did. Great times though.
I feel so lucky to have grown up on this type of music which was played in malls and stores. Today, they play loud Top 40 noise.
My local supermarket played Muzak a long time ago. Now it plays hits of the 1980s. Someone apparently decided, "You WILL listen to Baltimoro's 'Tarzan Boy' while shopping for essential groceries and you will LIKE IT!" 😡
I thought the instrumental music was much nicer to listen to while shopping. It was usually playing softly in the background. Never blasting or irritating.
I hear this, and know I'm within 20 minutes of getting the back of my father's hand for running too far ahead.
I have to share this with everyone , back in the day , I worked at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport and always tried to name the songs playing over the intercom . my friends and I really enjoyed it ! hearing this style of music brings back a lot of beautiful memories .
I wasn’t born until 1984 , my local malls looked just like this in the late 80’s … I was in the baby stroller looking the big hair , excess Makeup & shoulder pads women wore in the 80’s .. I miss those days . The red carpet & conversation pits were EVERYTHING! I would get in trouble for talking to the other kids & running around.
This brings back so many great memories of being a kid back in the 70s and 80s. I miss those days now more than ever before, I truly believe that we were blessed to have experienced those times 🤔
Your right. I feel that this generation missed out on a special time
I'm 27, born in '96. I am so eternally jealous of your generation. I got a small taste of how things were while growing up. The world as it currently is depresses me immensely, and as I grow older and the world grows shitter it depresses me more and more.
Amen, if a genie came to me and said he can make me 15 again, I would refuse. Not losing these great memories for modern youth. In fact, I feel sorry for kids & teenagers today.
I've heard this over and over....awesome! Brings back memories when I was a kid in the 70's. Please post others...you take things for granted as a kid, but when you get old like me, almost 60, then all the memories have special meanings along with the sounds, smells and experiences. Thank you so much, this music takes me back to shopping at The Esplanade Mall with my mom and cousins, which was the first fully enclosed mall in Ventura County California back 1970! Years later, I would drive myself down there to shop with friends....great memories! The music definitely is a part of growing up in one of the best times in decades, thank you again!
Loved this when I was a child in the 70's and we used to go to the only Harrod's outside London, in Buenos Aires. It was on a pedestrian street (Florida) wich was one of the most sophisticated at that time, years before the word aspirational was on fashion and Argentina's middle class could afford to be "aspirational" without that being something negative. Happier and better times 🤷🤦; sadly I can see, reading the comments, that that happened almost everywhere 🤦. Here, Harrod's closed in the early 80's (there's still that beautiful empty building, wich although a good thing, makes it even worse for those who enjoyed its splendor and sweet times: Taking letters to Santa (Papá Noel here) and The Three Wise Men (Reyes Magos, wich oddly translates as Wizard Kings 🤔) , Child's/Mother's/Fathers' Days, birthdays and anniversaries. Modern, soul-less shopping malls opened in the 90's only to remind us of that beautiful era when people dressed up with their best clothes just to go shopping, as well as going to the cinema, eating outside...well, you know, social life; won't be repetitive about how ugly and idiotic (thank you "smart"phones) all those activities look today.
Muzak and easy listening was part of my childhood and still enjoy it. Being an electronic music collector, I love when some artist sample that kind of music (Luke Vibert comes easily to mind).
Now a recommendation, if you enjoy sound "experiments", open this in two or three different windows, put the three of them in 0,5 speed and play them with some delay from one another, very interesting result.
Greetings from Buenos Aires to all 👍👋.
Just can't get enough of these musical strains of nostalgia that take me there, for happy times. Thank you
I am so glad you liked this! I enjoyed making this dreamscape! My channel is to make people feel nostalgic and also a way to relax and feel at peace!
@@timewarpambience1956 You STOLE THIS from Just Muzaks channel and did not even give credit....you are a THIEF and a COWARD with NO original thought or talent of your own....LOSER!!!
Agreed. But to put it in perspective, it was a happier time if you were young. But if you were 70 years old then , the happier time was probably the 1920s
@@ramencurry6672 And don't think I don't TRY to put that into perspective...I really do. I realize it is cyclical...but the selfish part of me finds my time in the mall as a kid the GREATEST, lol.
@ramencurry6672 You tap into that peaceful nostalgia also over on the vintage music channels on UA-cam! As a 70's kid, it's nice that we can mix and match our highly compartmentalized earlier life experiences here.
In the beginning of that picture it's a picture of fairlane town center mall in Dearborn Michigan! Lol! I used to love throwing dimes and nickels at the waterfalls..... it's all gone now they turned it into a large play area for kids and set up coffee tables and leather couches for ppl to enjoy the elevator is still the same! :)
Thanks!! I said the same thing to in an above comment. LOVE that mall. I remember the tram too that used to take you from the mall to the Hyatt Regency.
I so love mall music
It's haunting to see all those people in the pictures and think "where is all that people? are some of them still alive?"
Brings back memories of Seaview Square Mall in Ocean Twp. NJ circa 1979. Aladdin's Castle was the best arcade to drop all available quarters.
Who knew you could buy something like this this is great. They all sound like Herb Albert wrote them and performed them
AlPert
I remember being at the mall... just a place to be, with the lights and colors and atmosphere. Not to mention a delicious treat from the food court or other eatery!
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Greetings from "Love of neorealistic Cinema Cinema" 2022. S.O.A. Italy
Fantastic music , Paramus Park in Paramus NJ was the place to be in the late 70s and early 80s as a kid.
Thanks! Your comment made me smile!
Yes was always there especially at Christmas 🎄
Happy times, I wish that could time warp back to then. An amazing time to grow up. I really appreciate and enjoyed every second. I live in Melbourne Australia.
The picture above looks like Eastridge Mall in San jose, ca circa late 70's
spooky and haunting....
I could be wrong, but I want to say that the first photo might be Fairlane Mall in Dearborn, Michigan.
Possible or could be a mall in California since a lot of malls look similar pretty much in every major city in America
We looked at the comments. Other people have said the same thing about it being the Fairlane Mall
Thanks for posting this wonderful music, I love this music from the 70s.
Eastridge Mall is on here a few times!!
The pecanland mall in Monroe Louisiana still sounds like this at Christmas
Thank u for sharing I wish I grew up in these times
I did. We didn't know how good we had it. Everything is different now and its sad.
@@womandela7225 Everything went to hell after the twin tower attacks (911).
@@roblabow9702 and its getting worse under the democRATS
@@roblabow9702Amazon and online shopping created dying malls. I so remember growing up from the 70s into the 80s as a kid going to Kay Bee Toy store and having lunch in Strawbridges or Woolworths with my Late Grandparents, my Late Dad, my Mom, and Brother!!! They were such happy times! And if you told me as a kid that malls will someday be in the process of dying and that there will not be any more toy store chains, I would not have believed it!. A lot of things today that are happening in America, like January 6th I would have not believed it in a million years as Kid. I'm just grateful for the times that I had with my family in America during the 1970s and the 1980s and even into the 1990s!!! I do not know how much time we have to be free in America or how much time we will live in America as a free Country. I am very scared. And I will always love reminiscing of what was, even though things were not perfect when I was a kid! And pray that our freedom will not be taken away from us in 2024 and that at least some of the malls will continue to thrive despite all the changes with online shopping.
Love this compilation and images... bittersweet nostalgia.
Great job!
Could imagine this music playing barely audible while teams explore the backrooms....
This is so cool! 💖💖💖
My parents were teenagers in the 70s! You gotta new subscriber! 👍🏽😎
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I recognize the mall in the picture. That was fairlane mall in Dearborn, MI
yes and I think the one with the big bird cage is Universal Mall in Warren Michigan.
Who here went to Oxford Valley Mall in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the '70s? 😃
Valley view maell
It came from within.
i’m obsessed with this OMGGG
Thank you so much! I am so glad I have enjoyed this dreamscape.☺
you want to hear something really creepy? play two instances of this, one running about 3 seconds slower than the other
Sounds like an echo, an echo of the past. Thank you so much, I actually really enjoyed that!
Gen Z here =)
As much as I love this music, the reverb is somewhat nightmarish --- but in a good way. Haha!
Watching a mom whoop her kid in Macy's with this music 👍
I like this, thank you.
Of course! You are so special to me! And you viewers mean a lot!
Your channel deserves more likes, views and subscribers! I am so glad I subscribed to you!
@@timewarpambience1956 Thank you very much for your nice words.
I subscribed your channel too.
1970s Nostalgic Mall Muzak playing in an empty mall? That picture has people in it.
memories........
ghosts........following the muzak as it fades
Painful nostalgia...too bad there isn't any of Los Cerritos Mall, Cerritos, CA...But...whatcha gonna do?
The music is the reason why shopping malls in zombie movies brought all the brain-dead back together 😆
When the world wasn't so techocentric, we were a nation under God. I would of enjoyed it more had I known what the world would be like in 2024...😮💨
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Is that a picture of Woodfield mall in Schaumberg Il?? in the beginning of this video?? They are the ONLY mall Ive ever seen that closure fiberglass /plastic stuff thats made up
of square panels to close off a store thats under constuction.
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Is that beverly hills mall? I remember bumping into TLC there once.
Isnt this the mall from innerspace ?
the walten files....
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those malls are NOT empty.
The past.......people in our memories.......think of these images as a way to remember your childhood.😊🤗
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