People watching at a mall in 1996
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2023
- Video from "The Falls", a mall based out of Miami Florida.
Footage from November 1996, with people browsing about at various stores including Macy's and Bloomingdale's.
Fun ride down the escalator.
This video last around 12 minutes.
#thefalls
#macys
#bloomingdales
I was 8 years old. Like y’all don’t understand how warm and cozy the 90’s were compared to today. I can’t explain it 😭
We definitely do understand bro, that's why we just spent 30 minutes watching this random video
@@forhealdan And we definitely didn't say bro
@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk damn, I guess all my 90s experiences are cancelled out now. Thanks for letting me know. Very helpful comment.
@@forhealdan cool
sure dude@@forhealdan
I think the last bit of this sort of life and nostalgia ended around 2007, just before the first smartphone, and before Facebook went from just a college student geared website, to letting everyone and their grandparents on it. It's been a terrible slide downhill for the human mind/psyche.
for me too, once i joined Facebook in 2008, my mindset changed to always being engaged with something on a screen
Ok boomer
Agreed
So very true
I saw it happen. As soon as they let the weak minded rift raft get ahold of FB, it was all over.
People were so much more present in the 90s. I honestly wish social media had never been invented.
Yes, much more present and less anxious too.
Your literally on social media right now commenting on a TH-cam video but saying u wish it was never invented😂 yet you use it
@@itsmartv0309 I think there’s a big difference between social media and TH-cam, TH-cam was invented as a video search engine. The social media I’m referring to is where you have to add photos and videos of your own life and add friends. Hilarious, right? You’re so smart!!!!! You really got me!
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@@itsmartv0309I abuse substances too but I know they aren't good for me and I'd be better off without them
i wonder if the person filming this knew they'd be a social archeologist one day. Thanks for sharing this glimpse of our past--it's sadly missed and fondly remembered 💗
They probably just got a new camera and was looking to put it to use and then got bored with it soon after
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Well said.
I see people from all over the world under one flag together
what's sad about it? i was a child during this time & had a great time at 3 y/o in '96 but i think it's time to move on
No phones, no social media, everyone being human.
Yeah nothing is more naturally human than walking around a massive store to buy useless junk. Gimme a break
You can hear all the background chatter. You don’t hear that too much there days, unless in a crowded restaurant. You would hear that everywhere back then, but then everyone got a smart phone, and got dumb.
They had mobile phones and social media during this era along with pagers. It was the late 1990s, not the 1970s.
No one looking down on their phones
@@queenmoreau2098 they weren't smart phones though dummy
Some key takeaways:
1. People walked around without staring at their palm.
2. People weren’t paranoid about being filmed in public by a stranger.
3. People were in considerably better shape.
Racial hate was not as wide spread or as dangerous as some would love us to believe.
@@Krix6426 I was around then. I don't know. I think it's always been present for whatever odd reason humans do that for. But it tends to spike and then settle down.
No soulless cell phone stores. No pajamas.
@@Krix6426 Racial hate was wide spread at the time. You just didn't here about it as social media was at its infancy in 1996
No purple hair, no BLM shirts, no gender neutral bathroom stalls, and people of varying races and religious backgrounds weren’t being told one group is oppressing another and that another group should view themselves as victims.
The sound of the receipt machine hits hard in the nostalgia.
Soriana must kept these receipt machines used in formerly Gigante stores.
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I bet it does. It’s so sad that my generation can’t experience that.
I swear I could hear the printing noise outside of work..
I can almost feel the calm air smell the Sbarro pizza and feel the clean cotton and denim clothing keeping everyone warm with genuine smiles and hope in their eyes
Who remembers playing hide and seek and hiding in the middle of the clothes rack. Those were the good ol days.😊
I think that's just a "you" thing. lol
Just playing hide and seek anywhere😅. I was born in the 90s and we were allowed to go (with other kids) around the neighborhood, no cellphones... There were way less cars then, so we would literally walk like in the movies... In the middle of the road😅
My brother and I were too damn dumb for that. We would have gotten lost from our mother and no cell phone.
Every time my brother and I were out shopping in a retail clothing store with my mom and not my dad hahaha. We would even grab a hanger each and use it as a gun and try to find each other like it was an imaginary paintball war hahaha
Oh man those were the days. I remember the countless times when ever my mom dragged me and my brother to go shopping with her we played hide and go seek in the clothes racks and chased with each other like maniacs.
Everybody’s gangster until one us accidentally ends up in the lingerie section.😅
Is it just me or does everyone seem to look healthier than people today?
100%. Thinner, but also just healthier, and better. I noticed within 1 minute.
I don't think it's all "our" fault. More processed food uses more corn syrup, seed oils, and GMO ingredients now vs them.
There was likely less microplastics everywhere, and people got more ☀️ sun.....
Also, people are stressed to the max now, don’t sleep enough or as well and work too much.
@@mrjon75 It's absolutely your fault if you're obese. Everything you listed is an excuse.
@@Incomudro1963 Mudro, you seem hurt. Shook. Obsessed.
No purple hair, tattoos, piercings or people obsessed with phone.
The way people are just patiently waiting in line not staring into their phones. I was 11 years old and loved seeing this, brought back so many memories: )
Is it bad to stare into their phones, minding their own business?
Or it much better if we all just casually talked about our days? Honest question 🤔
I did grow up before smartphones were invented
Look how pleasant people were. I really miss those days. What a beautiful time❤
People looked a lot more normal thirty years ago
They were
People knew that they were male and female.
And the women didn't have tattoo's all over their arms.
And there was virtually no obesity or even overweight.
People these days have lost their minds.
No one walking around in pajama bottoms starring at a cell phone. How nice it was...
EDIT: Thank you for turning my stupid comment into a fight forum.
No one walking around with weird piercings, pink, blue, green, purple, or rainbow colored hair either. Women didn't have tattoos unless they were punk or emo and men with beards weren't much of a thing back then either. Sigh. I miss these times. I miss when people dressed better and didn't dress like someone who just came out of the mental hospital.
EDIT: I love reading all the butt hurt comments that I'm getting lately. The fact that you are offended/upset by my post, tells me I'm absolutely 💯% correct. A little history lesson for you young turks who think regular people of the 80s & 90s look like the people of today, rainbow hair was never a thing with normal people in the 90s. If you grew up in the 90s, you would know this is a fact. Any of you who tell me otherwise, you're obviously not from the millennial generation. I grew up all through the 90s and never saw a single normal person who looked like my description above.
Yes, people colored their hair back in the 90s but the normies never colored their hair like the punk/emo people did. Back in those days, punk/emo people were seen as mentally unstable/depressed people. Normies only colored their hair with natural colors (and that was usually only with older women/men who were going gray) and younger people (usually kids and teens, never adults) bleached their hair as far as coloring goes but they never colored their hair with wild, unnatural colors. These days, you see old ladies with unnatural hair colors. If you can tell me where there are normies or old ladies in any of these kinds of videos (not movies) with wild hair colors like humans today, I'll gladly hear you out but I highly doubt you'll be able to find a single one! Even if us normies did color our hair like they did today, we wouldn't be caught dead doing it. We would have gotten our asses whooped or laughed at by bullies. How privileged you babies are that you can look like a clown every damn day. I know it's hard for you to believe that no normie colored their hair wild hair colors back then but that is a fact.
As I stated in my original post above, that was only a punk/emo thing. Hilarious that you're so upset over my opinion and keep trying to tell me that my eyes have lied. Keep it up, clowns! You're doing an amazing job of showing how embarrassing you are and how out of touch you really are with history.
@@TokyoACR didn’t realize self-expression was a bad thing?
@mychaelabeauregard8389 you call that self expression? More like attention seeking imo. There's healthier ways to self express than putting chemicals on your body.
@@TokyoACR dying your hair, whatever colour you want IS a form of self expression. you want attention seeking?, how about worrying about who’s been plaguing our TVs for the past 15 to 16 years , instead of getting upset over some dumb hair dye, tats, or piercings . Please 🙄
@@mychaelabeauregard8389 Cry about it. Oh wait, you already are. 😂
Not one cellphone everyone was happy, alert, communicating with friends, aware of their surroundings...wow huge difference
Back when only the drug dealers had cell phone
remember ted kaczynski? he warned of the coming tech revolution and how destructive it would be, they then framed him, locked him up and killed him
ok maybe so but lets not blame social media and phones for peoples state.. in the end we choose ourselves to use them.
@@danielabatabogdanov8586nah. Social media is designed to be addicting to generate revenue. Remember if it’s free, you’re the product. Also good luck doing most errands without a smartphone or wifi connection in 2024. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
No one screaming "You can't record me!" or attacking the cameraman. Just more respectful people in general.
I want to go back in time and get some of those clothes! The 90s were such a great time to live!
As someone who was a little kid in the 80’s and a teenager in the 90’s, experiencing all of both decades, seeing footage like this makes me want to cry. I miss this time SO much, and in the last 10-12 years I’ve finally just not been able to adapt, slipped into a deep depression and been out of work. In the earlier days of the internet, cell phones, and things like digital music and the start of the iTunes Music Store in May of 2003, I embraced it all and loved it. But I never wanted, nor did I imagine that all of that would largely lead to physical stores going away, physical media largely being gone, and even physical interactions dwindling away. Today, I feel like I have no where to go, nothing tangible that I own, and that I never actually see anyone or talk yo them face to face. I just hate it. I have two younger nephews born in 2006 and 2008, and I’m told that they’re completely fine with the ways things are today, having grown up with it. But I most definitely am not. I feel like whole generations of people my age and older now need massive amounts of counseling with how things today are compared to before. But it’s all largely ways that I frankly don’t want to get “used to”. Human beings are physical creatures. It’s not good for us to just be in the same place all the time, hardly interact with anyone in person, and hardly ever physical handle or have anything tangible. I really hope that it can change. But as long as younger generations like my nephews are just fine with things today, I fear it never will.
Agree, I miss the vibe, going to record shops and book shops were one of my favourites things to do and having conversations about the last album of x band or saving money x the next tour.
I was happy
I really do miss the 90's...I'm a 90's baby but seeing this brings me back. Admittedly I move hung around the malls much as a teen but I think that's when social media started and people were starting to get obsessed with their phones. I cant say much since I got stuck on my games but atleast I liked interaction with others. Everybody was obsessing about the newest iPhone. Atleast games when I was a kid you either played by yourself or you found a buddy you knew and played the game in the same room but atleast we could put the game down and go outside. I still remember using my first mp3 player at a music store that no longer exists...it turned into a sports then turned into rubble.
@@sethnaugle984 It’s nice to know that some people do feel a little of the same way that I do on these things. Lots of times I feel alone about all of this stuff. I actually am one of those people who upgrade their phone about every 12-15 months. But, for as much as I do use my phone, I’m not tied to it. For instance, I get really annoyed by people bringing their phones or tablets into restaurants and using them. My phone stays in mg car. I’m there to eat and talk with friends or family. Not take calls from other people, look stuff up online, or play games. And I usually just leave my phone in my car when I’m in the grocery store. I can go 15-20 minutes without it. But it’s a sticking point if others aren’t that way, and I ask them if they can put their phones away in those situations. Just like with buying music digitally, I was pretty on board with social media in its earlier years. But over time as people became obsessed with it, and it started to make me feel bad about myself having other’s successes in my face all the time, I used it less and less, until I finally just deleted all of my various accounts. Aside from TH-cam I suppose, if you consider that social. I honestly don’t miss any of it at all. But it does sometimes make it more difficult to communicate, when most people use that as their primary communication today.
Reminds me of when people couldn't adapt to the blip in avengers: endgame, and captain america was counseling a few people about the massive change lol
I also remember the change of tone to tv commercials around the 2000s era. The many colorfully cheesy, happier jingles of the ads became silent, monotone, post modernistic and filled with pharma.
I swear these videos are the closest thing we have to a time machine 🤧 I wanna go back.
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I agree, I'm binge watching these videos today.......
When i think I’m depressed I see comments like these and realize at least I’m not binge watching 90s TH-cam videos all day hoping against time and reality for some nonsense.
Yup, me too want back.
@@pickleraspa2458Are you sure? You did watch this one. 🤔😂
Refreshing not to see one person glued to a cellphone screen .. people seemed more carefree and happier in the 90s
This was what we grew up with!!!!!! Look at the fact that there are people of all different ages, races, ethnicities, languages & backgrounds all enjoying shopping and living together ❤️ People used to love each other
Then Sh*tbama came in by 2008 and turned it all upside down.
Divide and conquer
This. Race issues happened in the 90s for sure. But overall people were very much live and let live. If you minded your own business usually no one bothered you. People are so political now to an extreme ane it's become a personality for many. Back then people used more common sense.
It's weird to think my 16 year old self could have driven to this mall and appeared in this video. 1996 feels like yesterday in some ways, but seeing this video makes me realize how long ago it was, and clearly a different era that has passed.
The last 20 years really did a number on this country and society.
I was 17
I was 11 or 12 depending on when this video was made.
I’d say Christmas 1996… I was 15… take me back 😢😢
I'd say the last 10 years is where the sharp decline started. Specifically when social media became the default medium everyone had to use.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusicme too!
I turned 20 in 1996. I met my husband then. I remember how packed malls used to be at Christmas. I used to love going to the mall!
Same it was fun back then!
I was 18 and in college back then. The mall was my usual hangout spot and I could spend hours just walking around and going to different stores. Those were the days.
Lmaooooo I was 4 years old
Same!
I was 13... good time 😊
Feels like I'm a lil kid again . Thanks for taking me back. This is how I exactly remember the good days with my parents.
Man that printing sound brings me right back.
it's just surreal to see people walking at the mall without phones and looking around. Everyone was basically people watching . I guess it's called being human.
Yep. Jobs, gates, Zuckerberg and the rest ruined society. They traded the natural human experience for BILLIONS in personal net worth.
Yeah, now if you people-watch, people think you're some kind of pervert or weirdo. Everyone is supposed to be dutifully glued to a screen.
@@markwaldron8954I notice that, if you look around too much, people start looking at you suspiciously 😂
@@markwaldron8954 Yup.
@@ILoveTheAllCreator because they hate freedom. Conformist attitudes of the 21st century. I literally once just glanced at this guy and he literally had to open his mouth and say "who you looking at". Growing up in Florida, it used to be very normal to people watch because it was the thing in the 90s to be appealing, crowd comforting and social. Now people are antisocial and have terrible attitudes. 2023 just sucks.
The fact that people are waving and smiling at the stranger holding the camera immediately shows how different it was then. I was 6 when this was filmed 😊
Yess
Maybe we would have been friends. I was 5
Cameras were still a fun novelty at that time. If someone was filming you at a public place it meant you might be on local TV in the near future, so smile and look your best! I love seeing people waving
It was so different. Way friendlier. Way more family oriented, and way easier times. Girls were less promiscuous and dressed more conservative. All the TV shows and movies were about family and friends. It’s basically the direct opposite of what is being promoted and shown today. 80s and 90s was the best era and you will not convince me otherwise.
@@The_Primary_Axiom Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. I wish those values were prevalent today.
No mall is this crowded anymore, obviously there’s some positives to that but mostly it’s sad. A part of my childhood was “going to the mall” was like a weekend event
Honestly, I see my local mall pretty crowded when I go and visit. That said, it tends to be a lot harder for kids to go out nowadays with the way that public infrastructure is designed. A lot of teens dread driving on high traffic roads, and part-time jobs do not give them much disposable income either.
Going to the mall on a weekend during the holiday season is extra special now because it feels like their heyday again, just for that time of year ❤
Man i miss this time period
Back when it was a way of life. Teens meeting at the mall. Seniors going for their daily walk and families going to a movie. Life was so much better.
Now, all we have in malls these days is shootings.
My teen goes to the mall every weekend with friends to hang out. Our mall has a daily senior walking club. & we regularly go to the movies as a family, even have memberships for monthly passes. Not saying malls, movies + socialization hasn't died in many ways, but these things are still available in many areas if you get off your phone + actually seek them.
brutal, my town might be closing my local mall soon
Todays malls not so cute?
@@alyssapage1585 life was totally not better in the 90s, other than the lack of smartphones and social media
The sound of that receipt printing is something I haven't heard in a long long time. I miss the 90's a lot, such a great decade.
Really? I hear it every time I go shopping.
@@shoutuckerdidnothingwrong
No, its definitely a different sound now. They didn't use the heat paper. It was a loud ass printer.
@@hashvendetta7226 Oh, okay.
dot matrix printer
probably not, that's a dot matrix printer, the current ones use heat paper@@shoutuckerdidnothingwrong
I was 14 in 96 and during the holidays, the Westland mall in Ohio was packed.
Look at how BUSY it is. And now malls sit empty… rotting away. I was 15 when this was filmed. I worked a cash register like that, too. Running checks through the printer part, swiping cards - you never swiped your own card. You would have laughed if someone told you one day people would be just ringing themselves up for their purchases. Crazy!
From what I can remember about those times is we all took it for granted. At that time in 1996 things seemed as modern as they could be then and we all thought the world would just stay like that. The internet was around and everything nobody could ever imagine things like I phones, youtube, social media and even online shopping was unheard of to most people then.
The internet and phone tech had not taken over yet 😢
The internet was around, yes but the difference is the internet was like the wild west back then. No censorship and it wasnt as regulated as it is today. I miss those days being a kid going on blogs and random websites to play games on. Hell even in the early to mid 2000’s it was still good. Everything changed around 2010 it seems.
Most of us didn't think about terrorism war and economic and societal collapse. All things that are very possible in America in 2023.
I was on Compuserve in those days and it was really expensive
The internet was a thing on one computer in the local library and the word was common but no one knew what it really was or did
I always admire people who had the foresight to realize that one day, before you even know it, these times will be gone... so record it.
Those camcorders were rare and cost big money back then!
I wonder if it was part of mall promotion/PR.
Not one person stopped to ask “why are you filming me?” 😂
The blk couple even smiled at him. Such a sweet moment ❤
@trang why not "some people actually smiled"....?
@@missladyanonymity OMG. There is always one in every comment section 😂😂
Go away!
I think it's cuz home videos used to stay at home. Occasionally it would be some filmmaker or something. Now if you're being filmed you can believe it's going up on tik tok
I miss when people walked around with their heads up and eyes forward instead of slumped over their device oblivious to the world around them.
Such a vibe. The 90s were truly special times.
Notice how friendly everyone was... I miss those days!
Still like that in some places, you just have to get away from large democratic cities.
It was so casual
@@dapper892 Or visit developing countries like India.
I do too. It seems like everywhere you turn now there's someone that's hateful or uncontrollable with anger.
People are friendlier now. I remember you'd look at someone back in the 80s/90s and you might get 'what are you looking at?' or "take a picture it will last longer!'
Wow the 90’s look so old now. It literally seems like it was just yesterday. The good ol days. So blessed to have been alive during such a magical fun time ❤
Those were the days... and yes, I was there. I was 32 years old... in the prime of my life.
I was 16 and remember putting on my best clothes to go to the mall. We met with friends, made new friends and spent most of our time at the food court, music store and the arcade. My mom and grandma would take us kids Christmas shopping and it was simply a great time. Have a great day every one!
It was certainly a great time to live. Thankful for the memories.
Prayers and Blessings.........
ok so you are 43 years old. good to know
@@Alex_Gordonso you're a kid. Good to know
Ditto,,,,and was 16 too
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing your memories.
I marvel at how orderly and calm most people are in these videos compared to today. I hate to say it, but it is just so soothing to watch people shop and interact like normal humans. We have lost this part of ourselves in the last 15 years or so.
there were outbursts then just as there are now.. go in any store, and you’re more than likely to find mostly decent people going about their lives. we only think all those public freakouts are common cos we have more access to them now, on TH-cam or Reddit or TikTok.. there will always be people like that!
It’s because you were younger than and you had the Patience? now you’re old and everything irritates you. You act like children and people were Saints back then.
Alot of that is antagonized now because people pull out their phones & record. That didn't happen back then & yes, in my experience, people were much nicer & shopping was calmer back then, even at Christmas time. Even Black Friday wasn't as demanding as it is nowadays.
Have you seen the movie Jingle All The Way? It came out precisely in 1996 and describes this behavior 😂😂😂
Yeah….. what happened to people?
"You don't have to have anxiety about going out, no one's watching you."
Nobody really cares when you actually look around you
Awesome video. I wish we could go back to the 70's/80's and 90's and stay forever!
Look how everyone looked? They looked happy, calmed, collected, friendly, healthy.
there were just as many people during that time who looked the exact opposite
Life wasn't as tragic then. The economy was good..... Terrorism was almost unheard of in the USA, and people ate a bit healthier then.
LOL, how exactly does *everyone* look all those ways you describe?
@@mizztery2994 because I was around at that time and I'm still alive today and based off both of my observations people believe it or not we're a lot happier back in the day even when I went to grade school I didn't see kids taking psychotropic medication or even heard of that, I didn't even see or even know what a homeless person was because there weren't any.. The world was a lot different back in those days
@@ATLKing404 Well, if that was the case based off of my observation, I was around during that particular time I've never seen that many people hang out, for example, at the pharmacy in or near department stores.. Go to a pharmacy today and you got lines and lines of people so what did I miss?.. I also never saw homeless persons back in those days either and I live in a large city so again, what did I miss??..
The sounds of the keyboards and receipt printers. I didn't realize how long it has been since I had heard one of those. Reminds me of shopping with my mom years ago.
Same thing I was thinking when I was watching this.
Macy’s replaced their CRTs with LCDs and their Model 4s with 4610 thermals in the early 2000s. That should be the next Macy’s video.
It's funny because I don't remember the last time I had to sign when paying with my card, I think it's definitely a think of the past now...
They still exist printer and keyboard and they still do them in some shops there’s little receipts sometime you can barely make out what’s on the receipt lol
@@ryujigoda3445 All the major stores replaced their Model 4s to reduce noise pollution. They had to do that. They’ve been long discontinued since 2005. The Suremarks remained in production for a long time and changed shape a little over the years.
Oh my God!! Time flies!!
I remember when I was just a teenager, now I'm almost a grandfather, when I watch this video I feel so nostalgic, I miss those good old day and I hate getting older.
I would like to go back in time and stay in it.
I was 7 in 1996, this brings me nostalgia. Thanks for posting!
I turned 14 that year. Life was so vivid back then. The holidays were next level in those years! You can feel the spirit and intention everywhere.
capitalism didnt start selling christmas things until mid-late november. Now its here in october. Not that special if you see it more often.
Holy shit, that means you're 67 now
1982 ❤ My mother’s birth year
@@wileecoyote5749 nice math
No matter how old i get, i will always feel truely blessed to have been a kid in the 70's a teen through the 80's and in my 20's during the 90's.
Same here
gen x had a good time
Same! We were lucky!
I was born in 81. I feel very blessed but I have thought about how great it must have been to experience things from the 70s. I’d say that being born in mid 70s would have given someone a really amazing experience for their childhood, teen years and young adult years.
@@VideoJAO you're a millennial, this is a conversation for GenX, kiddo.
No one alive will ever witness this type atmosphere EVER again on this planet!!!! Period!!!
This is awesome. I was in 9th grade. The 90’s was a great era. Life was pretty chill back then. Thanks for filming & sharing. Most people didn’t even have a cell phone back then much less one w/ a camera on it.
The sound of the receipt paper printing is nostalgic alone
I like the sound....
Agreed
It took me back to that year that I was working at Liz Claiborne😢I miss those day❤
I still hear it sometimes
Look how normal everyone was back then. It didn’t matter what their race or sex was, everyone just went about their business with so much more humanity and normalcy
You can thank our useless politicians for changing that. All they're good for is creating division which they then promise to fix in exchange for votes. Only instead of fixing it, they make it worse, dividing everyone up into little boxes and playing us all against one another. The current things we're going through as a country are not normal, and it will end badly if we don't come together as one people.
That's exactly how I remember it too as a child of the 80's and I say this as a minority. It wasn't until 2008 when race, sexual orientation, and religion started becoming major points of division. It was obvious how media, politicians, and academics all pushed for this change that brought division and backwards logic to the forefront of society. What's the most weird thing to me though is how people can't see it. It's as though many people can't see how cleverly the masses are manipulated. Interesting times we live in.
@@__-pr1of yep, I remember it like that too.
Notice that the styles haven't changed all that much. This was 27 years ago. And 27 years before that was 1969. But the styles are pretty close to today’s; Think about how different styles were between 1969 and 1996.
Looks can be deceiving
I miss growing up in the 90’s, I wish I can go back in time for one day 🥺
Its wild to think in 28 more years we'll be watching cam footage of malls in 2024 with the same feeling of noatalgia and longing to go back... psyche!
What malls? There are hardly any left- and a lot of the ones that are still going are mostly empty/ not what they used to be. I couldn't imagine too much nostalgia for 2024...
I miss the 90s. The 90s feel like a warm blanket on Christmas day. It's so comforting to me.
I was 19 back then. An amazing year, in a normal world which we took for granted. Miss that era so much 😢
100%
I was 17.
And fucking miserable. I do not miss the superficiality and shallowness of that era, not a bit.
18
@@Shorty_Lickens you sound quite content with the state your current life situation. 👀
@@Smiles4UFL Weird. Because nothing I said would indicate that at all.
You must not be very intuitive.
I was born in 2003, but I miss 90s technology, simple cds, cassettes, vinyls, camcorders, landline phones, which I have seen usually in my home while growing up. My dad used to bring in movie cds while returning from work and we all would watch it together. Now both of my parents are scrolling through Facebook in their own separate rooms. Life was way better back then :)
Look how many people!! That's how every mall was back then. They were a destination...to shop, eat, and hang out. The internet was JUST getting going. It existed but nothing like today. No social media, no youtube, and slow to login and search. It was still awesome but we had the best of both worlds. The world was looking up!
I was ten years old in 96. Kids these days have no idea. Going to the mall was so much fun back then! I remember it was always packed on the weekends and especially during the winter holiday season when all of the stores would be decked out with fancy Christmas adornments. No matter what city you lived in, no matter how big or small your town was, the malls were THEE place where teenagers from all over would go to hangout. Good times that forged a lot happy memories for millions of people.
I was born in 1986. :-)
I was 10 in 96 as well I sure miss those days!
People were more active back then!
Same age, as well. Spot on.
I turned 9 on November 96
This is so soothing. The changes in a few decades become so apparent when watching this. Cashiers and workers are not machine-like, clients stroll around in a calm demeanour. They also look around with curiosity and have real human emotions. Lots of people talk to each other, it's incredible. They do not carry themselves in a frozen manner. It's almost like ASMR.
With the sound of Model 3/4 impact printers, that wouldn’t be soothing.
yeah , and i can’t even watch it … too slow 😞. and i’m 58 !!
Everyone's calm because prices were lower and not price gouged. Shopping is not fun anymore.
@flowerempress4632 Finally an intelligent comment. People need to understand that the current economic situation has created the tension and anxiety most people feel in public. In 1996 people could afford a house or apartment weren't overworked and has way less stress levels. Now people can't. The lack of affordability and stability in western countries is one of the main reasons why people have changed.
@@JesusChrist2000BCBut our President says that his plan is working and we are in an economic boom. Can't you feel it?
Life was so much better back then.
Strange to see people walking upright and aware of their surroundings 🤣I almost forgot what is was like in the 90’s
Going to the mall was fun back then, the energy and expectation of the holidays especially! Everybody was happy, you could feel it as they shopped for gifts for others. It’s as if you could feel the spirit of giving in the air!
Yes, I remember that too.
I'm still happy when Christmas comes and I know a lot of people who are
Late 90s early 00’s, we would routinely go up there, just to hang out.
Everything and everyone was so inviting as well
Yeah, the economy hadn't gotten worse, and you didn't have high inflation and declining wages. People could afford to shop back then. You also didn't have a bunch of politically correct leftist types going around harassing your for saying Merry Christmas or wanting to sing a Christmas carol or put up a Christmas tree.
My Grandma told me stories of being a sales clerk in the 1930s in an Eaton's department store. The salesgirls were required to say "May I help you, Ma'am?" and "please and thank you" at all times. There were counters everywhere with a clerk behind it, serving the customers, eager to please and eager to make a sale. Customer satisfaction was the goal. My Grandma worked at the counter selling women's gloves, scarves, and stockings. She said the stockings came in a fancy flat box and the scarves were silk, in dozens of beautiful colors and patterns. Good quality items. The women buying from her were always pleased at the service, and left the store happy.
Yea Dollar General has really gone downhill since the 30's
@@ss_whole 😂😂😂 1 register open and the whole warehouse worth of carts and pallets in front of the items for sale. They were eager to please because the product didn't sell itself yet. We're so programmed now they're like "Here come get this shi 🙄" Us: 📱🏃🏿♂️🚶🚶🏿♀️🤼
@@ss_wholehaha
Now they have to ask the customers what their "preferred pronouns" are.
I think if I got that level of treatment in a modern store, I would feel weird. I stayed at a somewhat fancy hotel in DC once where they had a bus boy, doorman, etc. Everyone always call me Mr.[Last Name] wore neat suits, and all I could think was 'this is way to fancy for me, I'm just a regular guy, you don't need to try so hard'
I was born in ‘91 and I can tell you I loved the 90s. Even though I was barely 4-5 years old when this video was recorded. I remember going to Tyrone Square mall in St. Pete Pinellas county, FL where I live. My entire life during holidays we would have a blast at the mall. My mom would take me to Orange Julius and we would buy clothes, Take pictures in the kiosk and look at Halloween and Christmas stuff. What’s sad is that we will never see a peaceful, quiet world like this anymore. People live inside of their smart phones. I’m so thankful I was born in ‘91 and not 2001! Thank you god! That 10 DIFFRENCE matters! Social media has poisoned our entire world, and this is just the beginning. 🙌
I’m miss of colorful and creative the 90s were. Such special time to be a kid🥹🥹🥹🥹
I wish it was still like this
Me too
Is still some what is
It is do you ever go outside?
@@rollitupmars Yes lol it’s not same though 😅
@@rollitupmars in what sense are you saying it's still the same?
You mean we still use your left and right feet to walk?
You mean people still breathe oxygen to stay alive?
I went to the mall yesterday and it was empty. All the stores are soulless and serve no purpose when you can just order everything online. All the workers hate their jobs and are barely making a living. Half the stores in the mall are closed. Times have really changed.
Same here. Mall is dead & when I do go just to try & get out the house, I have to look over my shoulder & make sure people don’t start shooting which has become very commonplace here in Charlotte, NC. We even have poor police dogs on patrol inside.
All the malls near me have closed down due to shoplifting and crime. Ugh
In hindsight, technology really has changed the world.
it only comes alive when i come around
So true!! great comment!
I was 20 and just met my husband ❤ What a great time to be alive.
Imagine how exciting seen this video and seeing yourself walk by🥰🥰🥰🥰
This gives me the feeling of going home early on a snowy Friday from elementary school. Less worries, more space in my mind for my own thoughts, warm, sleepy, stress free.
Damn. Those snow days were theee best
Wow, the way describe it really captures that feeling! And yes I remember those feelings very well.
Amazing description... I was THERE!!! I can smell my Mom's homemade soup cooking, and the windows all fogged up and the snow blowing outside.. wow that's an amazing feeling. Thank you for reminding me 😊
Mobile phones/Social Media/Internet ruined it all. People had to stay in the present moment, only distraction being their own thoughts and the person next to them. Now our minds are racing and at a thousand places other than here and now. I too miss the 80s and 90s!
I was 15 in 1996 and loved every moment.
I was born in 1994, so while a 90s baby, most of my childhood school-age years were in the 2000s. I vaguely remember some things about the late 90s. I just remember that everything was simpler, and people were more mannered and well behaved. Kids actually went outside to play. Sure, in the 2000s, tech became more apparent, but for most of the 2000s, it wasn't consuming. Sure, I looked forward to watching my favorite cartoons and playing my video games, but I wasn't so dependent where I was always reaching for a device for most aspects of my everyday life.
For some reason, high-waisted jeans look so much better on adults in the 90s. Love it. Wish I was a 90s teenager.
You would've been all about those jnco jeans like half the teens back then.
Specifically 96
One thing I noticed is how much better dressed everyone is. Nobody is walking around in skanky outfits even though its warm enough to do so. Look how many men & women are wearing a collared shirt & how many have their shirts tucked in. Just an overall better shopping experience back then.
20 seconds in, short shirts and a skimpy tank top.
@@Mike.T. Thank you for that necessary fact check, overall every one was dressed better.
Some women dress like skanks at Walmart and Wegmans and it makes me disgusted and not turned on
People didnt look obese either, since there was no amazon at the time everybody had to walk around malls to get their shit to bring home (and yes i noticed an obese person in one part of the video but that wasnt the majority)
@@Mike.T. While that is fairly provocative, such a majority of girls on a night out or even at daytime this century are quite literally dressed like prostitutes.
I was 12 in 1996 and it was such a treat going to the mall back then. Kids these days can't understand.
What is great in the 90s, people were not calling each other racist, mysoginist and homophobic all the time
Wow the cashier registry sounds instantly unlocked some childhood memories.
I would even play pretend I was a cashier at home, with scanner and all lol
People dressed better back then and also look healthier and happy
So true, better dressed and not everyone was obese.
Definitely
Yes because crocs hadn't been invented yet.
They looked a lot older too due to how they dresses haha. But considering America's obesity epidemic is getting worse it's not surprising that in the past they were thinner.
@@brittneyluna9545now everyone has ozempic 😂
I WAS 28 IN COLLEGE IN 1996. I ACTUALLY WORKED IN A MALL .AVENTURA MALL IN MIAMI, FLORIDA. BEAUTIFUL TIMES
Man, malls were all the rage in the 80s and 90s.
They were the place to go to hangout with friends, window shop with mom, hear up and coming artists do small concerts, watch talent/fashion shows, admire punks, goths, urban teens for their individuality, get stuck in the food court trying to figure out what to eat, flirt and check out hot people, avoid those survey people who I now wish I had taken the time to answer their questions, avoid people who worked at those kiosks who were heckling you to come over and try some snake oil.
Though things were far from perfect, man what a great time to be alive and experience!
Back when we talked in person and didn't have our heads on social media!
everyone watched the same idiot box channels and believed what the news told them.
@@lolwtnick4362 And people don't today? lol
How original different eras
Quite a few people gravitated so strongly to the Internet because the functions of society were a failure. The same is still true. The cart didn't come before the horse
@@lolwtnick4362 Everyone still does that today. Except some replace TV news with internet news.
The biggest thing I notice is how no one is distracted by a cell phone. I think that carrying phones with us does way more damage to us than we realize. Back then people were present and looking around. Today it is hard to even make eye contact with someone, and when you do there is an awkward tension because people are afraid of each other- at least that's how it hits me. When I was in middle school we would spend so much time walking around the mall. We didn't have money to buy anything, but it was fun to just walk through the shops and spend time with friends. It was our first taste of independence to be dropped off at the mall by our parents and be allowed to spend a few hours on our own. Malls today are a bit eerie, especially around the holidays. Everything is decorated but no one is there. :(
In 1996 there were cell phones used by regular folks, and more commonly people, including teenagers, carried annoying pagers, so you are about a decade too late actually. It was more of an 80s and earlier thing if you want to make a point about electronic devices.
@@oldtwinsna8347most teenagers didn't walk around with a cellphone or pager lol even in the mid 90's. The only internet access we had was on one family computer. Just not being plugged into the Internet all day long makes a big difference in how we act, in my opinion.
It's a great escape for people, that little screen. We are all more closed off than we ever have been.
@@oldtwinsna8347 There’s a huge difference between cell phones just used to make phone calls and the phones we have today that are basically TVs and social media updates constantly
@@directorbeau Your wrong. A lot of teenagers had pagers and cell phones at the time in the mid and late 90s. The thing was cell phones at the time were for calls only and pagers were when you were needed/and to call back a number sent to you. You only had a set amount of minutes/hours a month of call time in your cell plan so people were sparing on there phone when they used it; hence why you never really saw people on there phone allot in that time period
Not a cell phone in sight. I miss those days. Much simpler back then.
Nothing is decked out to this degree for Christmas anymore and it crushes my heart 😢
I was 18 then. The 90s were the best time of my life. There's never been a better decade.
Man you’re old
@@MakelBelieveYou will be too and have kids saying the same. Shocked?
@@MakelBelieveI'd rather be old, and live like this....
@@whispersmusic6173 🥺 I know
I was 3-13 in the 90s. It was fine.
Everyone and everything seemed more civil, natural and original. I was 7 in 1996. Never did I think the "norm" of those days would die out.
None of us did.
I was 28 years old.
There were no Karens like there are today.
Dang I was 21. 😂
I was ten that was the year I discovered Playstation. Going to the pool winning free sodas. The sodas used to have Sunkist where you win a free soda like what seemed like every other time. The bottle cap would say you are a winner and you go turn that in. That was the last time I remember Penny candy as well. Me and my sister used to actually walk to the convenience store where my moms cousin worked and I would spend the quarters the man who I collected golf balls for paid me. And things like pogo sticks and skip its were so fun. Going to the movies was magic. I remember mortal kombat and some others. I'll stop there before I write too much
There actually seemed like there were more then...it just that Karen's were ubiquitous and not a scattered annoyance like now
The 90's was an awesome time to be alive. I sure miss those days...
Everyone moving about not feeling triggered or disturbed. I was 19 at the time of this video. Thank you Vampire Robot for putting this video up. Nostalgic overload!!
What a bizarre feeling watching this. It’s like I remember it, but it also feels like a different lifetime, reality or planet.
Yess! This is exactly what I feel every time I watch a video from the 90s. It's like it's in another dimension even though we've lived it.
Same
I graduated HS in 1996 and I remember those years in great detail. I can not believe 1996 was 27 years ago (2023)! I loved going to the mall then and I still do, but now, with my daughters (son doesn't enjoy as much, he just loves the food court). Malls are fading away, they still exist, just not as plentiful or filled with the same energy. Yes, people did look much more normal back then, I feel like people cared more about decency back then, a sense of pride in themselves and in their country - unfortunately, not anymore. 1996 was a big year for me, I was 18 and lots of things happened in my life that year in particular. I graduated HS, my best friend went to another country for school (he never came back the same), my father passed away, 2Pac was murdered (favorite artist at time), the pressure of trying to figure out life and so on. Countless wonderful things became of my life and I'm truly blessed - I love my life and especially my family, they are my world. I'm married to my MS sweetheart, we enjoyed those times together and still raise a family together. Hello from Maryland - 1996 was a year I'll never forget.
I was born in 1984 and miss this immensely.
Great!!! No cell phones, everything and everyone looks so Natural!!❤❤❤😊
I was 8 in 1996 and something about this footage makes me long for that time. It feels safe, simple and comforting
agree 100%...used to love going to the malls
Same here 1988 baby I kno the exact feeling you’re talking about wats funny is I can almost smell the video in weird way if that makes sense lol
Not really for me, feels like something bad is about to happen... I guess cause that's how it is today
Yep. It was. I was 17 that year. I miss the 80’s and 90’s so much. Simpler times. Far less racism and tribalism than we have now. Everyone pretty much got along back then. Everyone was just happier in general. Not that bad stuff never happened. It just seemed like culture in general was much more authentic somehow.
That's how everyone who didn't have a traumatic childhood feels about the years during which they were children. It feels safe and simple because as a child you weren't aware of the complicated and stressful things of the time.
Ah yes, I was still working retail in '96. Christmas sure was a wild time. We should show this footage in schools now and tell the kids "THIS is what normal looks like".
@@NES-sh6dq Guilty, but these were better days.
American consumerism… all totally normal according to you. All we did is simply return to the normal, actual state of the world.
@@NES-sh6dq This from the keyboard warrior with NES in his name. I guess you're a boomer wanna-be 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Of course, Florida.
@@NES-sh6dq Sad that normal for you are mall and school shootings. We had to adjust to this crap, being that our times of normal and safety were not compromised by any thugs or gangs. "Ok boomer." We were very Ok with what we had then, millie. 🤡
I was 20 at this time. And yes malls were still the place to be to meet and hang out. We had pagers, but no cell phones. 😂
Just better times all around. I was only 15 & loved every second of the 90s