80s Mall
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- After the 70s mall came the 80s mall. Known for being the ultimate after-school hangout destination, packed with dimly lit arcades, food courts, novelty stores and other awesome nooks and crannies, their glory days have sadly come and gone.
Hopefully no one minds me using their footage. Enjoy.
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As a 2000s kid I’d do anything to go back in time and experience the 80s everything just seemed so much more lively and colorful. Nowadays, you barely see any of that anymore. I hope one day we normalize mall shopping and arcades again that would be a dream.
It was indeed more lively and colorful. Compared to today it was a dreamworld. As a teenager you thought the rest of the world was like this oblivious to the fact that the rest of the world was in the crapper relatively speaking.
You are SO right man. Today things are just so MINIMAL and boring. Even a McDonald's location was ADORNED in the 80s! There was liveliness and NEON everywhere ---- not to mention amazing beats!
Honestly,it was a better time, I miss it.
It may just be nostalgia. but I'd give anything just to go back in time to perhaps 1984 for one day.
You got that right....
Yes
Eileen Kauffman..... Did you see the size of the soft drink cups compared to the Mega size we have now, geesh; that's why we were so skinny then.
What I wouldn't give to go back to the 80s and relive my childhood 😥
I graduated in 1981 from HS...the 80’s were AWESOME!!!!
The mall in the 80s was GREAT! Never was or will be like it again. All the different surrounding neighborhoods kids were there on weekends. Great time to be a teen
Michael Knight
Isn’t it still like that the the kids today?
An arcade, a Waldenbooks, Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, Babbages/Software Etc./Electronics Boutique, Radio Shack, Sears having electronics and entertainment sections.. I miss some of the ones I've been checkin' out in my dreams. I seriously wish VR would return us to such places soon.
I have loved the mall my entire life. I always said it looks like going to the mall as a teen in the 80s looked like so much fun. I was a kid then.
It feels good to know that your brain wasn't lying to you. A lot of stuff really was better back then. It wasn't just Rose Colored Glasses.
It also feels very sad too.
PeteChris Amusements
It is sad but hey at least we got to enjoy it unlike todays youths
I know it wasn't just a dream.. The 1980s were the best decade ever..
@@melissaann1401 it really was special. I know i'll be raising my kids like it's 1989. I want them to actually have a real childhood.
Mel Gibson after Two Beers I know right!! By the way your user name made me laugh 🤣
I know you posted this 2 years ago but try watching it these days, it makes you feel even worse :(
No computers back then.. Just people having tons of fun outside and gathering places.
No computers? Speak for yourself. I had a TRS-80 CoCo 2, a Commodore Vic-20, and an Amstrad PC. And kids didn't spend that much time outside. Just like this video shows, we went to the MALL. That isn't technically outside.
My kids gather with other kids at gathering places. Not much has changed.
@@JNugent74 i was born in the 2000s and Which is gen z and trust me theirs nothing really special about this gen. My age group is majority full of gossip drama smoking having sex gang violence etc. Society has a huge play in that. Social media clearly ruined a lot they promote negative things for people in my age group to see and copy. We don’t have a lot of positive influences
@@vminajj1267 Social media amplifies the negatives way too much.
God I remember all of this back in the 80’s walking from one in to another going into the stores seeing beautiful people it was always packed. Guys and gals who wants to go back there with me
Me! I want to go back to my childhood
Me!!!!
Take me please!!!
Come aboard all. It will be a one way ticket though meaning closing the door on our present day of who we are
i do i grew up then what fun times
I hope Heaven is a mall set in the 80's
Mine is.
There will be malls in heaven, and even better than what you remember now 😇
People walking through that mall must be shocked at all the dead malls today. They thought malls would never die.
WulfOne Online shopping has been killing malls! Why buy stuff at a mall when it's a lot cheaper online and with online shopping, you don't have to go store to store to find something that's hard to find.
Online shopping only makes up 8% of over all retail sales. It accounts for very little. Just a several years ago it was at 5% of over all retail sales. It's not online shopping that's killing the malls. It's the fact that the American middle class is eroding. Wages are stagnant or going down and there isn't many jobs in the US.
WulfOne Sure lol. Jeff Bezos didn't become the new Bill Gates by investing in shopping malls.
@@wulfone5961 thanks to nafta.
SIMON MALLS are still nice....and very busy...they are only located in high population areas with lots of $$...Miami Beach Area one....downtown Indianapolis has one...SIMONS know how to do it!!! Most are 3 levels or more!!
Man, does this bring back a lot of good memories. I miss these years.
Me 2
And with all this mess going on these days, I miss it even more! Nothing enjoyable now, nothing. Everything technology is not necessarily a good thing.
@Neheb Sehetep Netjeru Sekhet-Aaru I can understand that. I often think of how nice it would be to just throw my phone in the ocean and be done with it lol. I think rewinding like that is a great idea, I do days where I call them 80's days, too. Music, tv , movies..no internet. It is so peaceful and relaxing. I don't care to hear about this or that celeb, I don't care, they don't care about us, I do not need to know what they ate for bfast that day, who cares lol. I think some people now are so self impressed and self important, they lost their manners and respect for everyone else. It was just a great, better time back then. It's nothing but a headache now...look at the headlines, nothing but chaos , every single day, you don't get a break from it. We have to give ourselves a break from it. Good idea losing the phone. We survived just fine without it back then, we are too conditioned to think we can't go down the street to run one errand without it now. It's ridiculous.
I miss the 80's. What a kick ass decade!
Robert Keefer Did you have smelly feet ! Many white males born from 1967-1970 had some of the stinkiest feet.
seeing this footage just like a dream but im not born yet in that year
That’s the Ronald Reagan decade for a reason. Class.
@@felix121984 you must be on a good trip
1. Put your smart phone down.
2. Stop ordering off amazon.
3. Say hi to a stranger.
It start with you. I’m going out more n more for past 3 years. Supporting all local businesses.
The mall was more than just a place to shop. It was a neighborhood to me. The mall was better than taking a walk outside because it was always perfect weather inside. The sights, displays, fragrances and the people. I met people at the mall that I would have never met anywhere else.
And the smells! I still remember walking into our mall and smelling the pizza place that was right around from the entrance.
Yes!
I miss the 80s Soo much what happend to simple times you could meet someone and make a friend out of that what happend I don't get this era at all
it’s about to be 4am and im up way good this
Funny how we take for granted we see everyday. I never would have thought the 80's would make anyone (me) happy 40 years later.
Makes me wonder what I've missed lately.
I was born in the late 90s but I have such a fascination with the mall vibes in the 80s. I wish I could experience what it was like in that time. I love watching dead mall series and listening to the mallsoft music on Spotify. So jealous, I wish I was a teenager during this time!!
I graduated from the 6th grade in 1987.
I was old enough to remember this era.
What an amazing time.
The mall was a great place to hang out with friends. We literally lived in the video arcade playing Donkey Kong, Mario Bros., Popeye, Tron, Vs Super Mario and more! Other times we were at Camelot Music, Hot Sam (pretzel), McDs, Luca Pizza, Orange Julius, Sears, JCP, Loews Theatres or just walked around the entire mall. The mall was the focal point for young people. The 80s mall scene can be summarized in the movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Malls were awesome in the 1980s & 90s.
And the 2000's.
KB Toys. Hot Dog on a Stick.
@@starwhisper7869 No one really wanted to eat at Hot Dog on a Stick but we all remember it lol
I love this comment. I'm a VERY BIG 80S and mall fan. You put those 2 together and I'm in heaven on earth. I wish I had a time machine. I'd go back to 1985 and make myself 16 and go to the mall with all my friends.
I was a teen in the 80’s. Best decade ever....I’m so lucky I got to live it!
I will never forget going to see Nightmare on Elm St and Friday the 13th at the mall movie theater. Arcades at the mall. Orange Julius drinks, Spencer’s gifts. The mall was the place to be!
When I was a kid I couldnt wait to be a teenager to go to the mall with my friends, now I lack friends to go with and a mall to go to
😔
It's much harder to meet people today. They are too interested in their social meeting fake life to be engaged in a real one.
I miss those days. Miss our malls. Our local mall like so many others, looks like a ghost town now. It once was filled with shoppers and walkers, fun stuff to do. At Christmas, it was so fun. I miss brick and mortar stores. This isn't progress to me.😥😠
This sure brings back memories. I worked for Lerner (loved the glimpse of a Lerner sign in this vid) from 1986 to 1997 and then for Macys until 2009. Things have changed so much, I miss the 80s and my youth! 😭
it sure ia sad to think that these days are gone forever but at least we have the memories
I know it's sad, but at least you got to live it! That was the best time to be alive! Today's youth have nothing to look forward to, really. I feel bad for them. I was born in 1986, so I do remember the very tail end of 1989 onwards! Luckily for us, the early 90's still had some of that 80's magic in them!
Bring back the 80's !
This brought back so many childhood memories. I practically grew up at the malls near me in the 80's. So many store names that I remember like Kinney Shoes and Lerners and that old color scheme of Orange Julius. The arcades! So many quarters used up. Thank you for the memories!
what about chess king
Orange Julius was delicious.
Those 80s drum hits! 😃😀😁 🥁 🥁
I miss the 80s aesthetic. Bring back wood paneling in the living room lol
We had paneling in the basement. In the living room we had a wall of mirrors.
Old school furniture and styling love it.
chandelier, carpets, wallpaper oh yeah jazz music
Things look better with neon squiggles too.
I think wood paneling in the living room started in the 70s. My grandfather had wood paneling in his living room.
Back when the food court was not full of mexican and asian food. I saw some stores well missed...Lerners, KayBee Toys, B. Dalton Booksellers, The Limited, J. Riggins to name a few. Some of my favorite stores from that era was 5,7,9 Structure, Merry-Go-Round, Units.
5 7 9, The Limited , Abercrombie (before it became crap) and Merry go Round, yes! those were my go to stores then!
I wish i was alive at that time to experience such a great era in history...now it's long gone....
Sad to think about really
I know that all things must come to an end, but the "mall culture" era was a magical time. What malls that are still running, just aren't the same.
Even tho I was born in the 2000s I want to go back see what it was like back then
Jehieli Donis same
One day they'll say the same about THE TIME YOU WERE BORN! enjoy where you are NOW!,before it becomes a memory as this time,the eighties has become,i was born in the days of tv being black and white,always wanted to live in The 21st century. NOW THAT I'M HERE, apart from some tech i would have KILLED for back then,i WISHED i hadn't spent all my life wanting to be in this century,sad,sad mistake. Have a great life,YOU ONLY GET ONE!
I was a teenager in the 80s. If I could time travel to any decade, I would go back to the 80s
@@jujuseducer6055 exactly
Grateful ‘85 baby here. I was born in the sweet spot so I could enjoy an existence and normalcy of living like this before the paradigm shift of information technology and the social media’ization of the internet from a potential utility for good into one that has caused anti intellectual echo chambers and been divisive and not helping being people together. I mean it does too but you know what I mean. Also Columbine in ‘99 and 9/11 changed everything too.
There’s no way that times will ever be able to be like what they were from the 80s-90s. I am the last generation that was able to straddle living life before culture changed from analog to digital, and from digital liquid to digital steam and beyond which we see today.
Long live vintage footage of days past!
Peace and Love everyone. Thanks for making and sharing!
I was in my 20's during the 80's. I miss those times
First song:
“Sony Boogie” by Master Stryker.
I 💖 the 1980s
Love the 80s to cheers
I'm just a teenager in the 80's, let's go!
Its crazy the 80s actually look like the Future
That’s what prosperity looks like!
I feel like it would be a cool idea to open up a mall that looks like it’s from the 80s and 90s or something, and if any big stores like McDonald’s want their store in there we would make em make an old style McDonald’s
I think you're on to something.
With arcades and vinyl stores. Apart from shopping for clothes and makeup, me and my best friend used to play arcades until we ran out of quarters and A good chunk of my paycheck went to buying albums. I miss the human interaction of 80s mall culture. If this 80s mall is ever created NO CELL PHONES ALLOWED. People watching was part of the fun of 80s mall culture !!
@@ED80s "Vinyl stores".....THEY'RE CALLED RECORDS. Unless you mean flooring
@@KingFahtah lol. My son is in his 20s and the kids today call them vinyls .... Albums and records....you are right 😂
remember back when people didnt walk around like mindless drones constantly staring at their phones i grew up in this decade sure do miss it
And I want to go to the 80s cause I’ve never seen them
Really cool background music. Even though I was born in '82 I can remember being a little kid in malls in the late 80s with my parents, aunts & grandmother
I was born in '82 as well and I remember the mid-late 80's mall experience too. And the 90's. It was the place to go if you wanted something to do on the weekend.
Born in '82....me too!!! ✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽
@@merfwriter yup you are right
I remember it all
Can we go back?!?
1. Put your smart phone down.
2. Stop ordering off amazon.
3. Say hi to a stranger.
I’m living 80s already. Ppl like to vibe with me. Buy an old school car- best way attract old school.
The arcade games! That's one of the highlights of going to the mall back in the late '70s to about the late '90s.
Also, the multiplex. In such theaters, I've seen movies like "The Empire Strikes Back", "Return of the Jedi", "Top Gun", "Crocodile Dundee 2", "The Dark Crystal" (better than "Labyrinth"), "The Neverending Story" (I've also seen the 2nd one, which was *meh*), "Star Trek 4", "Tron", "Fantasia" (when it had this "new" digitally recorded soundtrack), my second time in my life when I saw "Snow White", and my first time seeing "Cinderella", "The Land Before Time", "Superman 2"... that's about all the '80s movies I can recall seeing in the mall multiplexes.
Great comment, ThisGuyFrritz! Mall theatres had an extra-special vibe, IMHO!
even though I wasn’t born in the 80s or 90s I feel like I have a connection to the era
Awesome!!! Reliving my childhood!!! The 80's were an AMAZING DECADE!!!!
Look at the arcades! That was my fav as a kid at the mall. I can spend all day in there just watching people play because I didn't have any money or would run out. Those were they good old days
Magical times!
Yes
one word NEON!!
I’m so greatful to be born in 84’ and to remember when malls looked like this. So packed and awesome. Thanks to amazon, eBay and all other online shopping. We will never experience this awesomeness anymore.
Damn I’m 13 and this makes me feel nostalgic? I wish I lived in the 80s though
I wish the 80s and 90s never ended. Better days, far from perfect, but better for the majority of the U.S.
@Makenzie Child I think I know how you feel. I sometimes used to feel bad that I was born in the 1980s because of what I missed from the 1970s, but now I clearly understand that my parents would’ve been too young to know how to raise me back then. There is no such thing as a wrong era to be born in. If you think the past was better, you’re not trying hard enough to make the best of your present time. Not many people do nowadays because they’re too selfish! I’d stay away from those people!
This made me cry. I saw Belden Village and Rolling Acres in there. Realizing that the U.S. will NEVER return to that kind of temperament or civility... these poor kids today have NO CLUE what's coming to them in ten years... and how great the world once was.
Everyday this world is becoming worse
our kids were rob of their childhood by dystopian megacorporations.
All this because of vanishing malls??
@@daphne4983 it's not the malls themselves, it's the ideas they represent.
@@melgibsonaftertwobeers6119 what do they then represent?
Everything is virtual now.. this is when we were still more creative and empathetic to each other.
Untrue. Racism was much more blatant, and people were jerks to each other. The world hasn't changed that much. Don't be blinded by nostalgia. I long for some of my childhood memories as well, but try to keep some perspective. My children have much more empathy than I had 35 years ago.
@@JNugent74 you’re just being ridiculous. Racism today is far worse than any point in history. Gimme a break. Even a a teenager knows racism it’s that sad.
80s was a revival times. Seen and read enough about it to know.
Look at those people socializing without mask, having to actually go to the stores and shop and filling every crevice with retail shopping?
What I’ve give to go shopping for a day like this again.
Feels like home
I think I spotted some Christmas decorations not holiday decorations. Back when mall decorated for the different seasons. Christmas being the biggest. They would go all out. It was great. Now people say" It doesnt feel like Christmas" Gee I wonder why. You sit at home and shop from your phone , If you do venture out you make a B line to the closest big box, and your in and out. Not too many decorations in those stores
That’s my America !
I used to love an Orange Julius with a warm, salted, pretzel. The good times!
Awesome music!
Love the retro TV border.....wish i ciuld i turn that on 24/7 !!!
2:22 : Song Alex Bugnon - Around 12.15.
KB toys was awesome when I was a kid. Toys to the ceiling, you could find anything and be surprised by toys you never knew existed. KB blew the shit out of the Walmart of today toy aisles.
The quality of the toys where also superior. Better materials and construction.
The 80s was the best
Great time to be alive!
I really miss those days..😪
Ahhh the 80s. The last decade where the teenagers looked like early 30 year olds... love it!!! Looked up to those folks
Also need this soundtrack
I remember this restaurant called the copper kettle it was kinda like a cafeteria style restaurant, we used to go there after school .those were better times
The 80s felt the same to me no matter what mall I visited in any state. Truly a great decade to enjoy and grow up.
This video literally CRUSHES ME, as I remember when the Malls (and the world itself) looked JUST LIKE THIS :(
Mall in the 80 was the golden era until online shopping took over
No It’s the erosion of the middle class that is killing malls
Ah 80s America, for those of you who were there, congratulations. For those who got this stolen from you, I am sorry. I wasn't there either, but we have to ask ourselves, why were the 80s so good? Can we replicate these times again?
I don't think we can ever replicate these times. The internet and social media really screwed everything up. Even the guys who started Facebook predicted this would happen.
Being born in 1980, I remember when malls used to be the ultimate teen hangout and there were always to s of events going on and even had water features. Today, malls are just dull and boring and many are about dead.
Back in the day you could just market anything and people would buy.
This, is time travelling...
I’d go back in a heartbeat if given the chance and have no problem leaving everything behind ❤️
There is an episode of Black Mirror called San Junipero. I'd pay to go back (as my younger self) to the 80s anytime!
why does this make me nostalgic i was born in 2003
BillyBlocks
Vaporware is a fever dream mixture between past and future, the music equivalent of deja vu
Lite OS
Vaporwave = a dream that you can't remember, but you keep trying to
This was aesthetic asf.
great atmosphere of its music around. can't believe what i seen is during the 80s
The world we know is now gone.
I Love how Nobody is Looking at a Cell Phone in their Hands
@Neheb Sehetep Netjeru Sekhet-Aaru I got rid of mine 2 yrs ago for the same reason, and don't miss it at all (have a land line and tablet though). We still have control over a few things in our life. Never bought anything from Amazon, still listen to 80's CD's on my JVC player (I bought in '86), still go to actual stores if I want something. I have no idea who the 'stars' are today, mostly read books, watch old movies and avoid much news. If the weather is decent, I'm outdoors.
@@SK-bb6ms damn bro I can't ever
We didn’t have them.
Great video. I love the malls. Being out , hanging out in a beautiful structure either alone or with friends provides a niche that in my mind will never be obsolete. It is not just about shopping. Probably most of the time it's not about shopping at all. The mall serves a huge asthetic and social need. Thank you for posting the video..BD
Based on the movies in the marquee this was March-April 1984
oh how i WISH i was born in the time where i can experience the 80s
WOW!!! People actually interacting..........WITH EACH OTHER!!!!!
Yep, even made eye contact and smiled!!! Now you'd be considered a creep for that!
OMG they still do that
So cheesy yet awesomely nostakgic..glad I grew up when malls were like this.❤
(I was typing in "old lerner's stores" in search bar and found this:) Some of my best shopping at Lerners as a teen and early twenties from 76 to around 83:)) B Dalton Booksellers, Orange Julius, the movies from 1984! wonderful video!
Yeah Lerners!!! The movies were great too Romancing the Stone, Children of the Corn, Friday the 13th woohoo
Remember Hot Dog On A Stick? lol It was always next to Orange Julius
My favorite store for clothes was Casual Corner. My first job was in 1979 doing inventory for the Squire Shop (competition was the Jean Machine).
Middle class. People had bank accounts back then.
I miss the malls of the USA thats why I am a loner now.
I miss the way people acted back then, that's why I'm a loner now lol
@@kimwarner1681 very true indeed. But there are old school ppl out there still. I meet them here and there. At grocery stores etc.. somehow you know the old school way when you interact with a likd minded person.
New age wannabe ? Forget it they don’t even respect their parents on anybody.
Being at home reading toxic social media garbage 2019's ultimate after-school hangout destination, PROGRESS!
This reminds me of the Starcourt Mall, every little detail, the Burger King, Orange Julius, Hot Dog on Stick, Jcpenney, Montogmery Ward.
Remember when malls were the place to be growing up!!! I wish I could have experience the 80s mall, they seemed like the place to be, I went to malls in the 2000s and 2010s, but they didn't have the spark and charm of the 80s malls.
Being born mid 80's, I only have very vague memories end of 1989, but I do remember as a young kid my mum taking me around the shopping centre as we call them here in the UK early 90's... Being quite similar to the video. However I think it's sad today, kids get stuck in their phones... and the only places they hang out is outside convenience stores and Mcdonald's.
I'd have loved to have been a teenager in the 80's, you can see from this video and movie's of that period, that they were simpler better times. Arcade machines are a rarity nowadays, where people play their games on phone's instead.
Nostalgia for a time I never experienced!
Look up Vaporwave art and music, as well as Outrun music.
@@ayabrea7920 oh don't worry ik everything about synthwave 😉
Oh how I miss those days..especially now..I would go back in a heartbeat and gladly throw my cell phone in the ocean before I go.
The 80's, when people had something known as "disposable income."
The best days. Amazing times. Kids today have no idea….
It's so chill
Back then you could smoke in malls.
I was born in 88,I wish I would’ve got to experience 80-87. The 90s are special to me,particularly 90-93 but the 80s seems fun.
I lived through both decades. The 90's were just as good, in my opinion.
@@mastrtonberry2 Agree, 80s and 90s where awesome, 2000-2007 where decent.
I miss the all of this! Now people are just getting shot everywhere.
this music is fantastic
What is the beat at the beginning. The perfect 80's sound and i love it
I remember when my oldest brother vomited at Orange Juice Julius at Randall Mall. He put too many toppings on his hotdog.I miss the 80s-90s♥️
Oh wow! I worked in a mall in the 80s! Was supposed to be trained for management. (Never happened!) But I remember stores like that! I never got into video games or computers!
Do have some memories of the mall in the 1980s but then they get redeveloped into big white boxes where it loses it charm and all look the same.
good times... :)