1990s Oxford Street, London, Shoppers

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  • From the Kinolibrary archive film collections. To order the clip clean and hi-res or to find out more visit www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref DW010911.
    23/10/1995
    GOOD GVS - OXFORD ST.
    GVS FOR SALE SIGNS FOR COMMERCIAL PROPERTY
    MARBLE ARCH
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  • @embisonjones4996
    @embisonjones4996 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    Gosh, I miss those days. It seems like a lifetime ago. Just watching people walking around without phones is very surreal,

    • @Harry-fk5of
      @Harry-fk5of 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      People seem so present and aware of their surroundings

  • @tnetroP
    @tnetroP 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    The 90's was my generations 60's. So much fun. So much to live for. It was great.

    • @bittasweetsymphony726
      @bittasweetsymphony726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      i saw the entire 90's, it sucked, sure it was ok, plenty of hashish available, but nobody had ten pounds to spare.

    • @alexisalex702
      @alexisalex702 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not a fan of 90s since it was chaos for many countries, but whenever I see peaceful and silent countries like UK I start to wish I was able to see 90s. Very interesting timeline. No phones and unhealthy foods were rejected by people mostly.

    • @sidewindersid4180
      @sidewindersid4180 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@bittasweetsymphony726 there was more money spare back then than today.

    • @christopherchristos7275
      @christopherchristos7275 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bittasweetsymphony726 Eh?

    • @marktaurus206
      @marktaurus206 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@bittasweetsymphony726 Worse today everyone is broke and miserable in the UK.

  • @matthewsmith2787
    @matthewsmith2787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    I loved the 1990s, last decade of the old fashioned world

    • @hqcf
      @hqcf ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Old fashioned world being prior to the widespread use of the internet?

    • @sapphirelatina
      @sapphirelatina ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@hqcf 90s was full of the internet. 1989 would be the end of the old fashioned world. 1990 the first website was made, 1991 internet was available and 1994 was first smartphone & first internet search engine...

    • @hqcf
      @hqcf ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@sapphirelatina In 1999 only 4% of the world population used the internet. Today it's 70%...
      And in the UK, where this video is shot, in 1999 only 10-20% of the population used the internet, whereas today it is 90%...

    • @dorkbrandon4422
      @dorkbrandon4422 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Didn't have Internet at home until 2002, in late 90s we had 1 computer at primary school but only twice ever got to use Internet briefly and it was basic compared to today

    • @crazyforcoffee5950
      @crazyforcoffee5950 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@hqcf prior to 9/11

  • @said-fo5vw
    @said-fo5vw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    So many people in the world miss the 90s

    • @user-ie5ez7rd9k
      @user-ie5ez7rd9k 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Only those born in 1970s that miss the 90s

    • @jonathanayres6005
      @jonathanayres6005 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The last great decade

    • @ellen5276
      @ellen5276 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      we do!!!

  • @southlondonlad9144
    @southlondonlad9144 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    I totally agree with you. The 90s were much better times than today. People back then we're a lot more real and up front. Today we have miserable, stuck up people who won't even look at you or are constantly looking at they're phones when they walk down the streets.

    • @SenorPenor1337
      @SenorPenor1337 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Late stage capitalism

    • @MT-kx2uc
      @MT-kx2uc 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Lol people said the same in the 90s 😂😂

    • @scentsoftravelmeditation
      @scentsoftravelmeditation 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      You needn’t go back all the back to 90’s. It was a paradise even until end of 2008.
      I recall waking up in the morning, my mother always cooked Tesco fish fingers & fries. We went out & just walking the streets or taking a ride on the bus was a pleasant experience because the atmosphere was stress-free. During weekends we walked a lot to town centre & bought lots of delicious cheap snacks from Poundland’s. Went to parks & football was so fun. Everywhere in London was wonderful then. It was the best city in the world.
      Now even my mum turned to a psychopath.

    • @georgeorwell-il2wz
      @georgeorwell-il2wz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@SenorPenor1337👈There's always one....
      Everywhere you go they turn up.
      I'm convinced it's a disease.

    • @dappergent9422
      @dappergent9422 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      100% right. I noticed this in Leeds recently. The commute to work is like a zombie land of people who are literally detached. No eye contact, no talking, just oblivious to the world around them. The only thing which they engage in is their social media accounts.

  • @fausto123
    @fausto123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    The fun thing is to see people act amazed to see a camera. In these times if you do not have a camera in your hand you are a weirdo.

    • @nostalgiahits3311
      @nostalgiahits3311 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      When you come to Pakistan vlog here, people stare you, its cause its new to them.

    • @leesmith8366
      @leesmith8366 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Bloody mobiles the curse of modern life

    • @ryanessex7978
      @ryanessex7978 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Actually just laughed reading that.

    • @bls3746
      @bls3746 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What you talkin bout lol almost everyone I knew back then had a camcorder

    • @mythos2490
      @mythos2490 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well I’d be weirded out if someone had a camera in my face tbh.

  • @eddisonfoncette9103
    @eddisonfoncette9103 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    The Oxford Street of the 80's & 90's was magnificent, my favourite street in the world. I loved Virgin, HMV, Athena and many of the great shops, that have vanished that I miss so much. Stopped going there because it breaks my heart.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Although, let's be honest, the prices they charged for CDs in the 1990s was absolutely ridiculous. £15 for a CD, whereas in the United States they were $15 which was about £8.

    • @maccagrabme
      @maccagrabme 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@ajs41 It was much more exciting a place in the 80s and 90s, scruffier yes but far less corporate. Tottenham court road had some great electronic shops, mostly gone now and replaced with boring designer shops. The music industry wrecked itself being so greedy, had they not charged ridiculous prices piracy wouldnt have been such a problem and they wouldnt have needed to get rid of most of the creative artists to replace them with manufactured trash. The rot set in around the mid 90s imo, went from a very creative period to robot music and still hasnt fully recovered and probably never will, a lot of genres got destroyed in the process.

    • @bond0666
      @bond0666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes it's now finished, big corporations, the buzz is gone

    • @davidmccann9811
      @davidmccann9811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Remember Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus? 🤣😂

    • @davidmccann9811
      @davidmccann9811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ajs41
      Even video cassettes where about £12 for a movie. A lot of money then.

  • @danbus180
    @danbus180 5 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    Not one person on a phone back then. Wish I could return to them days again

    • @MrDatta10
      @MrDatta10 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree.

    • @afx1200
      @afx1200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      OK boomer

    • @grass1
      @grass1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @9 Lives And Counting ok boomer

    • @gd9655
      @gd9655 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      People like you just like to moan about every little thing, the smart phone is one of the best technological invention that has graced the earth, it makes our lives so much easier. The transformative power of smartphones comes from their size and connectivity. Size makes them the first truly personal computers. The phone takes the processing power of yesterday's supercomputers--even the most basic model has access to more number-crunching capacity than NASA had when it put men on the Moon in 1969. You can use your mobile for work, music, movies and even video calling family members who live on the other side of the earth, but people like you just want to moan moan complain cry and moan.

    • @user-bl8xf2oi7e
      @user-bl8xf2oi7e 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Baz Fresh your On a phone now hypocrite

  • @smd4246
    @smd4246 2 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    Born in 93, i was only about 7/8 when the 90s ended but even i could feel that the energy in the world was alot more positive back then, i could even sense as a child that adults had a lot less stress than we do today

    • @maccagrabme
      @maccagrabme 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      A lot more inclusive back then, you didnt have to be wealthy or on benefits to live in London.

    • @PaigeBrown93
      @PaigeBrown93 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Born In 1993 Too Lol

    • @hitchslap8254
      @hitchslap8254 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Born in 1977 so I got most of the benefit of the 90s. You shouldn't look back it was a great decade but you can replicate a lot of the benefits. Meet up with friends and family in real life as much as possible. Limit your time on social media. Know your neighbours better than you do people thousands of miles away. If you're a parent, don't think there's a murderer behind every tree, there isn't so let your kids play out. When you go to bed, leave your phone in another room. I know I'm a hypocrite writing this on social media but we're on this video because we miss the 90s even if we weren't even born. It was definitely the last "simple" decade.

    • @elliotrose8836
      @elliotrose8836 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So cool I've seen this comment as I am a 94 baby and its weird that I kinda sensed life was easier in the 80s even though I was only 6 when it ended

    • @rawan-w20
      @rawan-w20 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Born in 1993 too ✌🏻

  • @user-vu8pm4dw6d
    @user-vu8pm4dw6d 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    This reminds me of how depressed I became towards the early 2000's.
    90's really were a different time for me in childhood.

  • @terrybunch7313
    @terrybunch7313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I don't care what anyone says, the 90s were the greatest time to be alive.

    • @RaptorJesus.
      @RaptorJesus. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      you are correct!

    • @jacksoncrate
      @jacksoncrate 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yep

    • @blastproces
      @blastproces 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I find people are manic now especially on the roads the disrespect is very eviden

    • @NatashaNewtonArt
      @NatashaNewtonArt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've noticed this too! @@blastproces

  • @CC-dd6fm
    @CC-dd6fm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    The 90s was London's last hurrah. It was still romantic and local. Before we gave up on optimism, colour, and truly decided to just copy-paste our American friends. When we could express what we liked and didn't seek a reason to hate one another.

    • @irishcountrygirl78
      @irishcountrygirl78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      So true.

    • @rmg5111
      @rmg5111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      All over the uk tbh

    • @ParisCoulsonBritishPatriot
      @ParisCoulsonBritishPatriot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Blairs fault for opening up the boarders in the late 90s.

    • @southlondon86
      @southlondon86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Absolutely right. I wish we could go back to those good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley.

    • @chuckdusac9394
      @chuckdusac9394 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ParisCoulsonBritishPatriot and thatchers for bringing in all the yuppies

  • @badlefthook624
    @badlefthook624 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Soho just round the corner was a favourite of mine on a weekend in my teens during the 90s. All those record shops I'd spend all day in and rush home on the train buzzing to get the tunes on the decks. The 90s were the golden years for electronic music in my opinion. House, techno, hip hop all coming into their own, everything exciting and new. The club scene was buzzing and us youths at the time had something to work all week for. God knows what the kids today look forward to on a weekend. I feel blessed to have had those days.

    • @frankrizzo9761
      @frankrizzo9761 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I couldn't agree more. Remember that? The excitement of having a bag full of new tunes... the culture is all gone now, alas.

    • @THELONDONCHANNEL
      @THELONDONCHANNEL 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And the brasses , they were cheaper back then 😉

    • @FriedChairs
      @FriedChairs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I believe it was 1995 that I visited London for a couple of weeks with my best buddy. I was 22 at that time and one of my memories is going to a record store and buying Portishead’s Dummy. Whenever I listen to it I think about the time in London. I’m from NC, USA.

  • @seamusblack5876
    @seamusblack5876 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    People were far more friendly back then before the Internet there was still a bit of mystery

  • @tgazz7721
    @tgazz7721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Not a smartphone in sight, bliss ! Amazing to see people looking where they are walking 😂

  • @DrWillis1990
    @DrWillis1990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Everything was better before social media and smartphones

  • @rockstar78970
    @rockstar78970 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The most interesting thing about pre internet world is that people on the streets were actually TALKING to each other, not like today where everyone looks to the phone down or just walks away without even speaking to close person

  • @queensberryrulez5306
    @queensberryrulez5306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Always see videos like this and can’t help but think that the teenagers and young adults you see are all now in their 40s. I hope you went in hard in the naughties and enjoyed the ride guys! ❤️

    • @christopherchristos7275
      @christopherchristos7275 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I did indeed!
      I turned 14 in March 1990......now 46.
      It was an amazing decade, and London was a great place to grow up in 👍🏾👍🏾

    • @stuartpaulsmith3186
      @stuartpaulsmith3186 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes, I had a great time, thanks 😊

    • @markwilliams7054
      @markwilliams7054 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      all those pigeons are dead now

    • @leod-sigefast
      @leod-sigefast 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yes, born in 1980. The late 90s and 2000s were probably the best. Partied, met loads of good mates and girls, travelled, lived abroad a bit, good times. Downhill from then! Nowadays sucks (Tory governments suck!!), although it is probably me just struggling to come to terms with being in my 40s now. Middle aged... Sheez!!!

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@leod-sigefast All Tory government is bad but this is the worst in living memory and of all time. History will condemn it for its disgraceful record of failure.

  • @TheRealMike1976
    @TheRealMike1976 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The 90s was the last decade of the old London

  • @Brookman59
    @Brookman59 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Lived 5 minutes from Oxford Street for a few years, bought my first home in NW London mid 90s until 2005 before moving to south Manchester. The 90s in London was absolutely fantastic.

  • @jacksoncrate
    @jacksoncrate 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Look how smart everyone looks.

  • @AndoCommando1000
    @AndoCommando1000 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I love the running jump onto the moving double decker bus into the open-air back door!

  • @Bloxdio_God
    @Bloxdio_God 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I was working on Marylebone Lane then went to
    Oxford St for lunch every day. Great days. Long for them.

  • @ed_leonardi
    @ed_leonardi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Fashion didn't change much after almost 30 years. I remember in the 90s when we looked back at the 60s...wow, it was a different world!

    • @sapphirelatina
      @sapphirelatina ปีที่แล้ว +5

      90s really set the tone for the new age fashion, couldnt get better than 90s-2000s fashion imo.

    • @Eurobrasil550
      @Eurobrasil550 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      A very interesting observation,!, and very true.

  • @ronnie2764
    @ronnie2764 4 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    I miss those days so much yet I didn't even exist until 2002 lol

    • @eliasversaceable
      @eliasversaceable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Sorry to hear that
      But you miss incredible times..believe.

    • @adamdavies66
      @adamdavies66 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@eliasversaceable not really. It wasnt that great back then but of course the absence of phone tech was a good and bad thing.

    • @eliasversaceable
      @eliasversaceable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@adamdavies66 that the point...!!!..no cellphone, no internet...no social media.
      The people used interacting more.
      Again believe me you missed Beautiful times.

    • @adamdavies66
      @adamdavies66 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eliasversaceable I should know... I was there!

    • @eliasversaceable
      @eliasversaceable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@adamdavies66 welll...we see the things in different point the view.!!!!
      Maybe it's wasn't good for u.????
      But was great for me.

  • @TheImatube
    @TheImatube 6 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    It was funny seeing how people reacted to been on camera. Its the norm today

    • @kell8721
      @kell8721 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ohworldywoo hoo because of integration it's not recognisable you mean?? 😂

    • @ililiilili3366
      @ililiilili3366 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I hate technology and cellphones *watches video on cellphone*

    • @goonerman6370
      @goonerman6370 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I still throw a middle finger up lol

    • @rmg5111
      @rmg5111 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah because theirs so many days weeks months years since this video was recorded to your comment in twenty eighteen

    • @KittyKat-vb1nd
      @KittyKat-vb1nd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Before social media made every boring git on the planet believe they were far more interesting and important than they are. Society had not been overrun by narcissists.

  • @londonghoulchannel6409
    @londonghoulchannel6409 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I was born in 93 yet I remember 1999, it was just like this, I lived down the road from oxford street, I still do its soo much worse now sadly,

    • @rosemarylloyd9190
      @rosemarylloyd9190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same, oxford street is lost

    • @maccagrabme
      @maccagrabme 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rosemarylloyd9190 Very few shops worth looking at nowadays, it might look cleaner now but its boring and overpriced.

  • @brendanmccormack8374
    @brendanmccormack8374 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Lovely Decade

  • @hazardous1990
    @hazardous1990 5 ปีที่แล้ว +447

    I miss 90s London, nowadays its soulless.

    • @pb.1
      @pb.1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I miss 60s London, the 90s were soulless.

    • @pb.1
      @pb.1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @sarah jones would you prefer to live in a monocultural London?

    • @tonyzyklon9328
      @tonyzyklon9328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Philip. Who the fuck wouldn’t?

    • @kell8721
      @kell8721 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      sarah jones Forced diversity is the name of the game!

    • @alexandrealphonse69
      @alexandrealphonse69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@tonyzyklon9328 I'm not a Brit so it's not my call, but I find pretty silly to expect big cities to be monocultural... as much as I find it tremendously unpleasant (truth be told) for lesser known places to not be so (that, for me, is far more distressing than multicultural London, Paris, New York, etc.) In the case of England, a multicultural Cornwall would drive me nuts, for example.

  • @oiq2966
    @oiq2966 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Not a coffee cup or phone In sight 😂

  • @ryanohara476
    @ryanohara476 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Born 1991 I loved the 1990s I remember 1995 very well being only 3 and 4 at the time easily the best decade of my life 😢!

  • @rockyro777
    @rockyro777 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I was 12 to 22 in the 1990s. I feel so lucky to have had the best years of my life in a decade as wonderful as that.

    • @7beautifully_flawed797
      @7beautifully_flawed797 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was 13 to 23 in 90s studied GCSEs A levels and degree, had my first son in December 2000, we were blessed

    • @TheRealMike1976
      @TheRealMike1976 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I turned 14 in 90. A great time to grow up.

  • @adelina2000ac
    @adelina2000ac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Ahh yes there it is, the nostalgia for a time I haven’t lived in is kicking in

  • @GokTurkBey
    @GokTurkBey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    i like how everything was simple back then. now everyone lives to for social media

    • @e.kablan8223
      @e.kablan8223 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      exactly kanka

    • @GokTurkBey
      @GokTurkBey 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@e.kablan8223 birsey degil kanka

    • @crazyforcoffee5950
      @crazyforcoffee5950 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No COVID either

    • @user-uh4ub4ke3t
      @user-uh4ub4ke3t 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@crazyforcoffee5950 flu was pretty bad then

    • @looplst
      @looplst 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TrashMarineMusic lmao

  • @mas3974
    @mas3974 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Loved this decade. I was in my twenties and felt so excited coming here with my brother for drinks or just cycling around. Also had many great times meeting friends here too. Glad I was a part of it.

    • @desmondstrose8582
      @desmondstrose8582 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I used to get so excited going up West. Not any more. That spark died many moons ago

    • @frankrizzo9761
      @frankrizzo9761 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Same here!

  • @name998
    @name998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    People looked normal and calm, you need to do a thorough search now before being able to find one!

    • @alexisalex702
      @alexisalex702 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jonesroberts3640 do not get amazed by this footage only. In 90s' nights people were also aggresive.

  • @LunaPhoenix2009
    @LunaPhoenix2009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I grew up in London and this what it was like before computers and smartphones...Good memories

    • @Julmaa87
      @Julmaa87 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This was 1995, there certainly were computers back then. No smart phones though, you're correct there.

    • @sapphirelatina
      @sapphirelatina ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Julmaa87 smartphones came out in 1994 sir

    • @ndzalln
      @ndzalln 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sapphirelatinaI was there, dont remember smartphones then but we did have mobile phones and pagers😅

  • @johnclark7065
    @johnclark7065 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Stress free days in the 1990s not like the horrible society we live in 2021 hostile people lots of hate and miserable people in society of today the UK society of today has gone into decline .

    • @user-ie5ez7rd9k
      @user-ie5ez7rd9k 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not just 2021 the 2020s decade the third decade of the 21st Century the 90s are way too long ago now

    • @maccagrabme
      @maccagrabme 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It was good in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s too but I dont like post 2k London at all.

    • @akbar657
      @akbar657 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Social media my friend social fucking media

    • @Mrfacts_ge
      @Mrfacts_ge ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Make it stressfree 🙃

    • @HShango
      @HShango ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hate existed in 90s London too, do not try and make out 90s London was somehow special 🙄

  • @charliedovlander1269
    @charliedovlander1269 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I have never liked Oxford Street, but at Christmas time some time in the mid-late 90s. Riding the top deck of a bus and looking at the christmas lights was really nice. And visiting Hamleys

  • @dorkbrandon4422
    @dorkbrandon4422 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We were happy enough with our Snes/ps1/N64 , 4 TV channels and blockbuster vhs rentals and Virgin megastore record shops in the 90s

  • @chik4t1l0delabundy7
    @chik4t1l0delabundy7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Last days of balance between modernity, progressivism, technology and comfort. The world wasn't balanced for centuries already, but the 90s were truly the last years of some genuine happiness in the west. From 2000 onward everything has become simple exageration, disruption and fear, too many "too muches" of everything, imbalance.

  • @CaLI0w
    @CaLI0w 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I love watching all this archive footage. You never know who’s gonna walk past. For all we know, Amy winehouse or skepta could walk past as kids in this video. The 90s was so pure. The last of the great decades before the internet ruined everything mid 2000’s

  • @SimonMartinForPrimeMinister
    @SimonMartinForPrimeMinister 2 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    What a breath of fresh air it is seeing people walking without there heads buried in a smart phone. Look they are actually communicating like human beings were designed too!

    • @shadytube84
      @shadytube84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      You say whilst having your head buried in a smartphone watching this lol… oh hey.. I’ll let you off tho for that cracking volley you scored against the scousers!!!

    • @auntmissedperiod
      @auntmissedperiod 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@shadytube84 Your username makes sense now

    • @shadytube84
      @shadytube84 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@auntmissedperiod huh?

    • @LG-ro5le
      @LG-ro5le 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@shadytube84 why assume they are on a smartphone, im watching this on a mac

    • @chickedee1085
      @chickedee1085 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What’s wrong with looking at something more interesting than taxi’s buses’s building’s and other boring city scenes.

  • @seansmith445
    @seansmith445 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Love the old buses with the rear platform. Most provincial cities used to have them but they got rid of them much earlier than London.

  • @hassankhan384
    @hassankhan384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Back when every one was a human, and had styles, and things were great, times were great, every one looked good, cars were great looking. And buses. I really want to go back in time.

    • @sophie6390
      @sophie6390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      And better music

    • @hassankhan384
      @hassankhan384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Boi well thats true, its not that those days were great I mean there was crime, there was bad stuff still happening then and racism, nothing has changed, the only thing has changed is us people and thoughts, and things.

    • @KittyKat-vb1nd
      @KittyKat-vb1nd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I am in my 40s now and thank God not in my early 20s now. What's happened to people is shocking. So many good looking fellows back then. We were more spoiled for choice and had no idea.

    • @spidyman8853
      @spidyman8853 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm glad I was in my youth in the 90s. The best time for me was:-
      1. Got my 1st full time work
      2. Went out every day
      3. Young, free, single, happy go lucky and no bills to pay
      Route Master buses were brill, life was much simpler and less faster, although it started to change later on (late 90s).
      Pay packet was better than today.
      We had no mobile phones till late 90s (1998) which is a good thing to keep in touch.
      There are many advantages of the 90s to mention.
      The disadvantages of the 90s are a few. Racism in various forms including institutional Racism.
      By the late 1990s (1998/1999), we started to Import American ideas.
      More emphasis was on Profit and loss in businesses that resulted in wage rises being poor as the focus was on making more money.

    • @Internationzo
      @Internationzo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yez cuzzy

  • @gustavogoncalves3900
    @gustavogoncalves3900 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    People talked more to each other compared to now

  • @charlottewormwood263
    @charlottewormwood263 4 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    I just came here for 90s style fashion

    • @pizza7738
      @pizza7738 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      U should watch usa news footage from 80s/90s .. especially crack era

    • @Sawrattan
      @Sawrattan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Is it me or have we not really changed since the 90s? I mean 80s, 70s, 60s look distinct, but 90s onwards look every like now.

    • @pizza7738
      @pizza7738 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Sawrattan things have definitely changed since the 90s but I wouldn't say its changed for the better. My home town is a shell of what is was in the 1990s.

    • @Sawrattan
      @Sawrattan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pizza7738 I meant more about the fashion and the way people look. Before the 90s people looked more different from now.

    • @Anonymous-kq8oh
      @Anonymous-kq8oh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Sawrattan no way! people dress way better today then what you see on here...if you go down the west end today most men would be wearing skinny jeans and smart blazers etc. The 90s was ok but you can’t beat today’s fashion.

  • @namesurname2958
    @namesurname2958 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The irony of nostalgia for pre internet/social media days, while viewing this on social media. Ah, the 90s.

  • @phvondel
    @phvondel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I was 9 when this was filmed, and although I’ve only visited London for the first time in 2009, this feels nostalgic, mainly because of the songs on the radio, many of which I still listen to today. What also strikes me, as a petrolhead, is the lack of luxury cars in comparison with today’s traffic, and SUV’s as we know them were only just invented. Someone should do a remake of this video!

  • @davidfreesefan23
    @davidfreesefan23 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    1995. The time of the Spice Girls and Britpop - Blur, Oasis, Supergrass, the Verve!

  • @person.X.
    @person.X. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Funny the comments about phones. We did have mobile phones in the mid 90s but they were just phones, not smart phones, so there was no point staring at the monochrome lcd screen unless you were typing in someone's phone number. I had a Motorola brick back in those days. I didn't get a smartphone till much later - 2010/11 I think. Happy with old Nokia phone till then.

    • @bimbobaggypants4820
      @bimbobaggypants4820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I didn't know anyone who had a mobile until about 1998. I got my first one in 2000.

    • @rmg5111
      @rmg5111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Smartphones and social media are mainly from the late 2000s into the 2010s n now 2020s they didn’t exist in the late 20th century of course

    • @photosmithy
      @photosmithy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup had my first mobile in 1995. It had features such as Make a phone call. Necessary requirement for my 300 mile motorway( round trip) daily commute.

    • @southlondon86
      @southlondon86 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bimbobaggypants4820 Same

    • @scp-080
      @scp-080 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rmg5111 bro talking about the 20th century like its the rennaissance 🤣🤣🤣

  • @DanChippendaleMusic
    @DanChippendaleMusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I miss Mash. That shop had all the fresh clothes in the 90s. I remember travelling all the way up on the train from west Sussex with my best mate to Oxford St. We went to mash and got some Karl Kani gear and bought some White Owl cigars from a kiosk on a side st. We smoked them walking around like we were the Wu Tang. We were probably 15 🤣

  • @projectedthoughts6046
    @projectedthoughts6046 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    90s was the last great decade. I may have only been 11 when the decade ended but I remember playing outside all day and it just felt so authentic and the community was United.
    The neighbourhood was so lively, no-one worried about letting their kids play outside & there were no smart phones to scare monger the masses like today. I go back to my old stomping ground once in a while and no-one is playing football or running around like we used to. Remember 20-30 people would come out to play football so we had to make teams. Nowadays, can you even get 3 people outside.

    • @RICKEYDD
      @RICKEYDD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      what I wouldn't give to go back to this time... what I wouldn't give

    • @pagethreemodel
      @pagethreemodel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was born in '91 and I agree. My childhood wasn't entirely the best so this isn't nostalgia talking either. After the 00s hit, the world went to shite.

    • @davidmccann9811
      @davidmccann9811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kids were outside because there wasn't really any Internet or social media and the mobile phones that existed just made calls.

    • @michaelmale2739
      @michaelmale2739 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol projected thoughts indeed

    • @natashaferran
      @natashaferran 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats because of the amount of forgeiners and their kids that live going around stabbing people

  • @peroquetoiseau933
    @peroquetoiseau933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Those were the days even though I was born in 1997 you could see people actually had character and the city was booming now is so full and souless

  • @MB-ox9ff
    @MB-ox9ff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Loving this kind of video. It seems to be there, throwback to the far 1990

  • @MrDatta10
    @MrDatta10 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Life was quality in the 90s Today life has been affected by mobile phone. We do not look around. Just at the screen and we feel it is important to share everything. People interacted in 90s. I will always cherish these moments and not ones today that much.

    • @johnclark7065
      @johnclark7065 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      True well said social media has caused so much hatred and divisions in the UK and nothing will change.

  • @chibudaking9235
    @chibudaking9235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Life was better when if a bus was leaving you could just leap in on the back lol

  • @james5353
    @james5353 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Not a mobile phone in sight - people looked happier

  • @jasonrandall5148
    @jasonrandall5148 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Uk people were much thinner in the 1990s

    • @abdurahmanmohamed3378
      @abdurahmanmohamed3378 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂😂😂

    • @InhabitantOfOddworld
      @InhabitantOfOddworld 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      Whiter too

    • @calibre92
      @calibre92 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Thinner, whiter, nicer I'd say. All pure English folks left London long ago.

    • @deanashraf12
      @deanashraf12 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ​@@calibre92rule of thumb - every nostalgia video on TH-cam has to have its fair share of bigoted replies. Yes, it was absolute nirvana before any foreigners arrived.

    • @user-vk7rs5oj2n
      @user-vk7rs5oj2n 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ⁠​⁠@@deanashraf12It’s not bigoted to state that race is a reality, I understand why people are tired and hate constant newcomers.

  • @SA786.comChannel
    @SA786.comChannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    i am proud to be born in the late 90's even though i never got to experience much for the 90's as i was born in the late 1996 but the old period is one to remember!! man i remember growing up in the early 2000's and barely anyone was using internet and i was just a kid having fun with pokemon cards and being obsessed with different types of dog breeds lol XD but as i grew older to the age where i knew how to read and write properly and how to use a computer is when all the internet stuff kicked in!! i'm pretty sure everyone was hooked on the internet lol!! but man the old period is one to remember for sure!! i just wish i had a chance to experience the 90's to it's fullest as a teenager or an adult but i am still very proud to have been born in that period at least

    • @SlimHandle
      @SlimHandle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You would have probably been able to bring your smartphone into school or whatsapp school friends. Most of my mid-latter childhood in the 00s was staring out the window bored and frustrated but the 90s was rewarding for me.

    • @donlogan83
      @donlogan83 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was born in 83, and it’s literally no different now to how it was in the 90s, apart from some slightly different technology.
      You are just nostalgic for your youth.

  • @cassisbrook
    @cassisbrook 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    O.56 - I used to buy trainers at that Olympus, the 'famous' Olympus 301.

  • @DayWhitmore
    @DayWhitmore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was the wrong age in this decade

  • @steveodonoghue2772
    @steveodonoghue2772 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The good old days , I miss em so bad. 😞

  • @Blindswordsman1994
    @Blindswordsman1994 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Era of Britpop. What a great time to live in the U.K.

  • @delcio9038
    @delcio9038 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    the 90s had to be the time where ppl had the best clothes & the camera made it look even better, idk wth ppl wear today but yeah

    • @ktiitfa2491
      @ktiitfa2491 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      now people wear a lot of our generation´s styles

  • @johnmitchell2269
    @johnmitchell2269 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    People walking with upbeat confidence, purpose, a little swagger, chins up, paying attention to what's Infront of them, a smile.
    Now when people walk they look downwards, shoulders sloped, glum faces, poor posture. Those of you who are observant will recognise it.

    • @user-ie5ez7rd9k
      @user-ie5ez7rd9k 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s the way the world 🌍 works

    • @s.andrewchandler-byrne4611
      @s.andrewchandler-byrne4611 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Your absolutely correct John.

    • @johnmitchell2269
      @johnmitchell2269 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @bob simmonds Not in the UK they don't. Well, some people might, but most I see don't.

    • @southlondon86
      @southlondon86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bit negative John...

    • @asmrfoodieuk7965
      @asmrfoodieuk7965 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Because what is there to look forward to in the UK nowadays? Its a bloody cesspit since 97.

  • @youruniquestyle
    @youruniquestyle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was 10 months before I was born woah.

  • @kenjayromanalo6350
    @kenjayromanalo6350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    im watching this 2021!

  • @206898195311
    @206898195311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Oxford Street in the 90's....I remember all the fake perfume and Ralph Lauren shirt guys. You'd see them running like the wind with their bread crates full of pony gear...

  • @josephcosta1699
    @josephcosta1699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    i'm an american i love London . i never been there , but your videos ? take me there , thank you so much .

    • @Tony11806
      @Tony11806 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So if you came to London in 2023 what do you think London would be like.

  • @sslaughhter
    @sslaughhter 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    wish i was old enough to experience the 90s

  • @bennylush
    @bennylush ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Isn't it amazing how people reacted to the camera. Everyone waving or pulling a face. That's because it was a novelty to be filmed these days people don't vat an eyelid as we are all used to being under surveillance or filmed.

  • @s3ra9h1m
    @s3ra9h1m 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I miss the days before the zombie apocalypse struck

  • @namesurname2958
    @namesurname2958 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The telling and unsettling sign you know the internet has creeped in and taken over your life, when you can look back at a time from your past, and think everybody is weird as they havent gotten phones. All at the same time as viewing it on your phone.

  • @anythingelseplease123
    @anythingelseplease123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Look at everyone with their heads down looking at their cell phones.

  • @johnmills7716
    @johnmills7716 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    All those Routemaster buses, proper London. Lot of private cars around then, no Congestion Charge, cycle lanes or ULEZ, and all moving okay.

  • @andremp03
    @andremp03 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    And not an American 'Candy' Store in sight

  • @stud105
    @stud105 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It felt electric and positive. 80s London was just as atmospheric.

  • @jeea18
    @jeea18 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I miss this. Went to London on 1996 for 3 months.

  • @subscriptions007
    @subscriptions007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The last generation without Smartphones

  • @ManCave1972
    @ManCave1972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Remember when they MOVED Marble Arch ?!🤯

  • @shepski8065
    @shepski8065 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Bloody brilliant.. REAL!!
    ..noisy sluggish but ultra reliable diesel engines..4 star smell..leaded..cars had a proper driving feel..and individual sound..👍

  • @Brakdayton
    @Brakdayton 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Used to work just round the corner on Gt. Titchfield Street. I keep looking to see if I’ll see myself or some of my old colleagues.

  • @djpeekay25
    @djpeekay25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Oh how I miss the Routemasters!

  • @Andrew_Tate_Personal
    @Andrew_Tate_Personal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Not sure who here will remember Trocadero arcade. I remember hopping on the bus for 70p and not paying if the ticket inspector didn’t see me

    • @beardedbaldie2698
      @beardedbaldie2698 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember Trocadero well! Brings back so many memories of what London used to be!

  • @gracelloyd1750
    @gracelloyd1750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Makes me cry so much, why is our society today ruined 😭😭

    • @maccagrabme
      @maccagrabme 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      greed and globalism.

    • @jacklancaster6927
      @jacklancaster6927 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Immigrants delight

    • @sapphirelatina
      @sapphirelatina ปีที่แล้ว

      the members of the Bilderberg pushed the liberal agenda like crazy since 2010

    • @marktaurus206
      @marktaurus206 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Narcissistic people selfish mindset in the UK with the racism issues also .

  • @ghostpanic
    @ghostpanic ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember these days so well, it's so funny to see people not glued to their phone screens like nowadays, smart phones were really expensive in the 90's so almost nobody had one.

  • @davidc4408
    @davidc4408 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hey look it's a camera. When cameras were a novelty

  • @gabrielcarvalho6085
    @gabrielcarvalho6085 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Everybody says nowdays we are zombies in cellphones. However, take a look in filmes walk thru London on youtube. It's the same. Nobody WALKS on streets looking at phones all the time

    • @jag6138
      @jag6138 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think zombies are just part and parcel of major cities irregardless of the era

    • @ktiitfa2491
      @ktiitfa2491 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      uh the energy is different

  • @Loseandcruse
    @Loseandcruse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    Everything look exactly the same except we become more zombies walking with screen on our faces

    • @grass1
      @grass1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      ok boomer

    • @afx1200
      @afx1200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ok. Boomer

    • @LCFC_Chris
      @LCFC_Chris 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      mate last time i went to london, the only time i saw people on their phones was on the tube, open your fucking eyes and accept the future not everything was greater back then...

    • @Mr_M_
      @Mr_M_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Clothes are different, cars/buses are different, certain store chains are different too

    • @oiu8927
      @oiu8927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      times running out boomer

  • @Emulous79
    @Emulous79 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2:19 The bearded face is thinking, "I'm so bored from being up here for so long. All I have to look forward to is pigeon-droppings on my head while I stare into space."

  • @RosieHarp
    @RosieHarp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Beautiful memories of a better Britain

  • @elliotrose8836
    @elliotrose8836 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Watching this makes me realise I'm getting fucking old

  • @ronnie2764
    @ronnie2764 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    It's weird to think that someone in that video is probably not alive anymore, yet we were all just watching them walk past the camera alive and just living their life, who knows maybe they died the very next day.. no one knows :/

    • @adamdavies66
      @adamdavies66 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I wonder if anyone in this footage ever happens across it on here now and by sheer coincidence recognises themself, is highly unlikely of course.
      As you say its interesting to wonder what happens to the people in this footage, the kid walking with his friend for example who makes the goofy expressions at the camera, he'd be a full grown man roughly in his 30s now and could had grown up to be a plumber, a builder, a respected doctor, a career criminal, a drug addict, could be physically disabled or could had died in a random car crash 10 years after these shots were taken. So many possibilities that is fascinating to speculate in this sort of thing.
      Or maybe I'm just getting weirder with the lockdown isolation.

    • @dreamerdreamer2978
      @dreamerdreamer2978 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      my thought exactly. Some of the people are dead now. Also, people are more natural to say, no Kim K. butts, no false eye lashes, just people doing some shopping.

    • @KittyKat-vb1nd
      @KittyKat-vb1nd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dreamerdreamer2978 True. The grotesque and freakish look was not a norm. And none of us were morbidly obese.

    • @rmg5111
      @rmg5111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@adamdavies66 my uncle and auntie died in the late 1990s so yeah

    • @StarWarsJay
      @StarWarsJay 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Andrew Wilson 42

  • @claudiofransson9333
    @claudiofransson9333 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I lived in london at that time. Best times.

  • @NeedMoarRage
    @NeedMoarRage 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    No cheap tacky money laundering American Candy stores here.

  • @Guanjyn
    @Guanjyn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It’s crazy to think that all of these people are dead now.

  • @iainv4092
    @iainv4092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Old enough to remember late 80s and 90s. God the world is depressing now

    • @matthewsmith2787
      @matthewsmith2787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rmg5111 1999, was only 21 years ago, it’s not that old when you think about it.

    • @ParisCoulsonBritishPatriot
      @ParisCoulsonBritishPatriot 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rmg5111 No mate 21 years really isn't that long ago. Time goes quick. The 60s wasnt that long ago. WW2 wasn't that long ago. We still have people from them eras very much with us today.

    • @lieutenantcandlewax
      @lieutenantcandlewax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't act like the world wasn't depressing in the 80s and 90s. Because it was.

    • @underneonloneliness2
      @underneonloneliness2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@matthewsmith2787 but so much has changed in that time. For the worst

    • @underneonloneliness2
      @underneonloneliness2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lieutenantcandlewax If you was very poor yes but for the most part it was the decades of fun.

  • @nazrasool6063
    @nazrasool6063 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Take me back any day!!!!!

  • @cianog
    @cianog 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A big difference from today was it felt like a british capital city.