I’m addicted to watching these kinds of videos. I remember as a kid there was so much excitement and anticipation going into the mall to purchase things.
Yeah, people never had attitudes back then that’s so ridiculous. You were just a kid and things didn’t bother you back then. and you didn’t even notice.
@@Jacob-nu4nd to be fair they really aren’t quite the same these days. Many malls are shutting down due to online shopping. Also you have things like mass shootings at malls that happen way more often. Just today 9 people killed and 7 hospitalized by a mass shooter in a mall in Allen TX just a few hours ago
@@vampirerobot Of course! Thank you! I was born in '86 so journeying back to the everyday life of the 80's and early 90's is something special and something I never thought I'd get to experience. I thought my own family's home videos were all I had. But of course those are mostly just birthdays, Christmas, Easter. Special occasions to be sure. But the memory of everyday life was lost forever to me. Going to a mall. Accompanying my mom and dad to the car lot. Etc. etc. Your ability to capture this stuff is so valuable on a personal level.
The first minute is already awesome. The sounds of those old cash registers, the phone ringing, and someone actually writing a check. My mind is blown. Those were good times. Wish I had a Time Machine I would totally go back.
The fact that these people had no idea they were being recorded and will be put on TH-cam 31 years later is so crazy to think about ..it's crazy how times have changed
the common theme that makes these videos so appealing is, there is NO social Media or cell phones. People have to interact with each other and it was a glorious time!
@Dxrk It was actually a better time for Introverts because you didn't have to worry about people bugging you all the time. No cell phones - no internet - if you wanted to be left alone you took your phone off the hook and set it aside, so people would get the busy signal if they tried to call lol
10:22 :D Inside a Natural Wonders store! I have been searching for video/images of inside one for years! Looooveeeed that store! I lost all interests in going to the mall once that store closed. Thank you!
Whenever I’m in a sour mood, I come back here and watch these videos and tell myself “you’ll always have these memories and they can’t be taken away”. It’s only downhill from here but at the very least I got to live in 90’s nirvana.
It's always cool to see stuff from different times. My parents were young & my grandparents were around middle aged when this was filmed. I almost feel like it helps me understand their stories better by getting a glimpse into the era.
The Mall was the place to go to get just about everything back then.(The Mall was just special during the Holiday's. They made it feel like that.) Especially was the place to hang out as a teen.
@EarthsGeomancer Nobody hangs out at the Malls where I live. The ones that are opened are empty except for a few stores. Seems like the only people in the Malls are the walkers
This is great... Going to the mall and walking the long stretch to get to KB Toys was always an event.... Couldn't wait to see what Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo products were laying out, although I didn't get a Sega til the following year, I always spent most my time looking at the Hasbro WWF action figures (Macho Man, Jake the 🐍 Roberts, Undertaker, Million Dollar Man, Giant Gonzalez.... I had a ton)
I mean it is quite long ago really. This is 31 years ago. That is a long time. The majority of the people are likely still alive with exception to anyone who is 50+ in the video.
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This was my mall growing up! Loved the Gold Mine Arcade upstairs, and in the middle of the mall there used to be an elevated garden-like space with planters that had greenery flowing off the side. Man I miss that time and version of Cumberland
I was born in December 1992. I always wondered how the general public was dressing at the time… it looks very much like the 90s but with little traces of the 80s still leftover lol
Love the shot at 5:25 - 5:51 So much going on! You can see the outside upper floor ppl, escalator motion, lower floor, & the shoppers/ employees at the counter! So Great!
I miss this generation when people actually smiled cared about the next person and didn’t try to start fights with the manager. I’m so lucky to have grew up in this generation not this sad pathetic one
Grew up right up the road from that mall. I remember my Mom & Aunt in awe describing their first visit there when it opened (when Malls were a 'new' thing). A decade or so later one of my first jobs was at Cumberland Mall. Along with many dates, birthday dinners and many hours shopping there.
8:38 We had a green phone on the coffee table in our basement, just like the light blue one! My Sis put a sticker on it that said ’FeelsGreat’😂 Amazing memories from watching these vids!
@@fuwa9616 I’m a 90s kid and I remember when I was about 11, I told my dad that I was lucky to grow up in the perfect time, cos we had cool stuff like computers and video games that he didn’t have as a kid, but when I’m an adult, it’ll be too much technology and people will be too obsessed. I was right.
I was 21 in 1992 and remember these days well. Things were so much more civilized then. People were so much better dressed. It’s good to see this but also sad as well. Things are so ghetto now compared to this, it’s sad.
We still have busy and bustling shopping centres (malls) all over Australia like this.. Still have friendly and helpful staff.. Not much has changed except technolgy.. We are lucky I suppose..
Seeing those phones was so nostalgic. I remember my mother would go to this mall in New Philadelphia in Ohio and pay her phone bill sometimes. In that store they had all kinds of different phones. They had Train Phones, helmet phones etc etc. That was when having a phone on your room as a teen was a big deal 😂.
I was a kid in San Francisco then. My friends and I would go to the mall downtown. I remember riding our bikes down there. Except for a couple small pockets, it was really clean and safe back in those days. I miss that. Felt like a simpler time.
We might be fortunate enough that he’s a time traveler. He goes back to shoot footage, and returns to 2023 to upload. It’s an important task because the world is ending, and he wants us to have a little comfort before everything passes.
@@leonardticsay8046 or better theory he’s a time traveling hamster who gains superpowers by filming old places and getting reactions from other people. He needs the powers to take over the world.
I do wonder where the footage comes from. I know that one source came from a previous uploader who was just uploading old B-ROLL footage, but I'm seeing a bunch here that I didn't see from the internet archive.
Watching a lot of these nostalgic 90s-00s vids, I thought, ooh maybe I should go out and record things now in 2023 so we can be nostalgic 20-30 years from now... and then I realized things aren't nearly as cool as they used to be lol. Plus, everyone's already recording everything now. Social media is overflowing with everyone's recordings of all the same places. Just doesn't hit the same.
I'm sure in 80 years, people will be curious about the insane and dark times of the 2020s were westerners unironically mentioned their pronouns, the US empire ended and just before the great war.
Me too thinking I should record, but we are too late. I used to own a camcorder back in the 90's. I wish I had used it a lot more to film all the places I went to.
I’m really curious for what purpose a lot of this footage was originally shot. Just kinda lingering shots of contemporary settings with no particular subjects like someone’s kids or anything.
This was a year before I was born. I stayed about 15 minutes from Cumberland Mall growing up. My job is right next to it. It's about a 90 second drive lol.
No worries about mass shooters and it felt like home away from home. You woukd the whole day there even if you only had a couple dollars from allowance. It just made u happy on your saddest days. Just to window shop and people watch.
Watching them shop for clothes makes me wonder how a basic pair of jeans was so durable and easy to find back then. Today, jeans come in all these specialized versions(like "tummy control" and "petite cut") and you're lucky if they last more than a year and a half!
IBM 4683 or 4684 register @0:46. I miss the receipt printing as we went along instead of thermal tape shooting out of the printer at the end of a transaction, and I especially miss the sound of dot matrix printers. Receipt format does not look like IBM's General Sales Application. It must be third party software running on the controllers in the back.
The printers sound off, given that the pitch of the print engine is supposed to sound higher than in this video. Perhaps the pitch in this video is a bit off, yet the Fujitsu ICL 9518/200s towards the end sounded right.
Remember my parents taking us to King of Prussia mall around the holidays. All the displays. Was just different back then. Cell phones... Ruined everything
I agree. It should start with a social media revolt (except TH-cam so we can still watch these videos). I got off all my socials two years ago and I’ve never been happier. It’s not a natural way to live and we are seeing it’s ill effects on society now. Makes me sad. Wish we could go back to times like this.
Hmm I’m 51 year old business owner and my success risen dramatically due to advertising on social media platforms. Without advertising on social media, 2/3 of my general production profits would have gone to advertising and marketing. Especially *E-Commerce Marketing and Sales* which skyrocketed in 2020. Besides during the decades of 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s saw a huge decline in entrepreneurship and small businesses according to *US Department Of Commerce/US CENSUS* and increased numbers of Americans working for large corporations. Now we’re seeing a decline in American workers and big corporations, because we realize that we’re just using our talents to help someone become more richer while we’re living paycheck to paycheck. That’s not a comfortable way to live your life, working hard every single day just to get paid hourly. With my employees, I mentor them to create their own business and to use my establishment as a platform for their business one day. You guys can have the 80’s and 90’s because I love living in todays society, sure I can go back and listen to my favorite music which is on social media but that doesn’t mean that I want to regress instead of progressing forward
OMG I had to be about 6 or 7 back in '92. Going to that mall was a rare thing for me back in the 90's since we lived on the other side of town. When we went to the mall, all I cared about was if my mom allowed me to go to KB toys so I can play the video games there. Even as a kid I knew life was so simple back then.
I'm not sure why I haven't seen all of your videos being shown on my subscriptions. I even have notifications set to all. Oh well. What I'd do to go back during those times.
I don't know Mark. I know others have said the same. Sometimes I think I forget to check or uncheck the notification button before I "submit" the video. Between you and me, I'm pretty stupid. Have been all my life. Surprised I don't walk randomly into walls.
This is when malls were amazing. It was the place to be. You could just walk around as a teen and look for chicks or buy a bunch of stuff to look coo to pick up chicks
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Being 9 years old at this time, I distinctly remember hearing those kind of beeping sounds at a Sears store connected to the mall in our area. (You can hear beeps at the JCPenny in this video) Beeps over the intercom would go on for many minutes at a time. Was this some kind of code alert?
I would love to know the phenomenon and psychology behind why people looked older back then. I’m 39 now, and some of these people in this video are likely same age as me or early 40s but they just look.. older, more adult than 30 and 40 year olds of today, it’s strange. Is it perception? A mirage? Is it because I was a kid during this time so when I watch these videos, it’s almost like I’m viewing it through my kid eyes where everyone looks old and not my 39 year old eyes?!
Most likely a 9518/200, judging by the display poles. The 9500 series had many different configurations, and given their ICL origins (they were also badged as ICL or Fujitsu ICL), they were ubiquitous in many UK retailers including Marks and Spencer, who were the largest high street user of the 9500 series until their replacement with a bespoke Fujitsu ICL system by the turn of the Millennium. Sainsbury's also used them in their supermarkets, except Savacentre, who used the Nixdorf (later Siemens Nixdorf) POS2000 system.
@@AurumUsagi Kmart here in the U.S. was also running with Fujitsu registers at some locations, running the same software they were running on IBM and NCR equipment in other stores (PSI software). I liked the ICL/Fujitsu registers of this era.
People around me think I'm nuts when I say you don't hear a "hum" when you walk into a business anymore. You can literally hear it in this video. Anyone else notice this?
@@malvolio01 you know when you're in a restaurant thats moderately busy and you hear a lot of random conversations but nothing discernable you can make out, then you hear the sound of clinking of silverware on the plates? Sort of like an asmr if you just close your eyes and think of it. The hum being referred to is all the background noise that just indicates busy and life.
12:06 That’s my ex-girlfriend sister lol 😂 I just noticed her. I had to keep rewatching over and over again to make sure it was her…….and yes it’s her lol 😂. She’s a Pentecostal minister, and my ex-girlfriend is the *Praise Team Leader* and owns her own beauty shop not too far from Cumberland.
its so weird to think about a time where smartphones didn't exist. Like I can't remember what we use to do when we had down time while out and about or what about people at jobs like this? what were they doing when the stores were empty?
3:00 Can’t make out her exact words, but the cashier asks the customer about opening some sort of account with the store, and she chuckles when he declines. It’s funny to think how long stores have been doing that.
The big thing for me in these videos is how much merchandise is in the stores. There's way more merchandise in the stores than there is now unless maybe you go to Walmart. Now stores are focusing on asthetic and setting up the merchandise in a way that it is sparse, and not stocking enough product. Maybe there's not a market for a lot of merchandise now that everything is online. No wonder I used to spend hours in malls.
Checkout with check and cash in the first part of the department store (and last with Natural Wonders) parts of the video there was *paper bags* instead of plastic bags.
I’m addicted to watching these kinds of videos. I remember as a kid there was so much excitement and anticipation going into the mall to purchase things.
It was exciting. I loved the toy stores and would run into the store when I got there.
It's all doom & gloom now.
@@PerceptionVsReality333 It's all so tiresome.
@@Superman-xr1oh because your old ASF boomer
It’s because you were using your parents money
When malls were hustling and bustling. People are friendly. Store representatives were always smiling. 😔 Miss those days
What if we can get it all back?
9/11 changed EVERYTHING
Yeah, people never had attitudes back then that’s so ridiculous. You were just a kid and things didn’t bother you back then. and you didn’t even notice.
@@Jacob-nu4nd All they had was good attitudes.
@@Jacob-nu4nd to be fair they really aren’t quite the same these days. Many malls are shutting down due to online shopping. Also you have things like mass shootings at malls that happen way more often. Just today 9 people killed and 7 hospitalized by a mass shooter in a mall in Allen TX just a few hours ago
These videos are the closest thing we have to time travel. This channel is a gift. Thanks for the uploads.
That's a very nice comment...thank you ☺️
@@vampirerobot Of course! Thank you! I was born in '86 so journeying back to the everyday life of the 80's and early 90's is something special and something I never thought I'd get to experience. I thought my own family's home videos were all I had. But of course those are mostly just birthdays, Christmas, Easter. Special occasions to be sure. But the memory of everyday life was lost forever to me. Going to a mall. Accompanying my mom and dad to the car lot. Etc. etc. Your ability to capture this stuff is so valuable on a personal level.
That sounds of that cash register is real ASMR right there! 😀
It was ASMR back then too. The sounds of the buttons. Ahhh.
I thought ASMR was only about voice whispering?
The first minute is already awesome. The sounds of those old cash registers, the phone ringing, and someone actually writing a check. My mind is blown. Those were good times. Wish I had a Time Machine I would totally go back.
Agreed 🙂
The fact that these people had no idea they were being recorded and will be put on TH-cam 31 years later is so crazy to think about ..it's crazy how times have changed
Maybe your comment will be put on a new platform 20 years from now showing how youtube an smartphones are old technology
In 31 years from now it will be the year 2054 and there will be a new AI generation
Oh they knew they were being recorded. Cameras back then were huge. They just didn't care. "Don't record me!" is a modern mental illness.
These videos are absolutely beautiful. I was 17 at this time and loved the mall.
Me too!😂
Ah Man! Brings so many memories I want to relive!
the common theme that makes these videos so appealing is, there is NO social Media or cell phones. People have to interact with each other and it was a glorious time!
@Dxrk It was actually a better time for Introverts because you didn't have to worry about people bugging you all the time. No cell phones - no internet - if you wanted to be left alone you took your phone off the hook and set it aside, so people would get the busy signal if they tried to call lol
@@TommyBoy82 your stupid delete your comment
@@TommyBoy82 we'd just sit and read a book, it was that easy
I used to frequent this mall a lot in my younger years. I love seeing old footage like this.
10:22 :D Inside a Natural Wonders store! I have been searching for video/images of inside one for years! Looooveeeed that store! I lost all interests in going to the mall once that store closed. Thank you!
Whenever I’m in a sour mood, I come back here and watch these videos and tell myself “you’ll always have these memories and they can’t be taken away”.
It’s only downhill from here but at the very least I got to live in 90’s nirvana.
Memories can be taken away, look at Joe Biden he has amnesia.
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@@Steve_jones113 he is prolly a robot anyways
It's always cool to see stuff from different times.
My parents were young & my grandparents were around middle aged when this was filmed.
I almost feel like it helps me understand their stories better by getting a glimpse into the era.
I was 8 going on 9 years old in the year 1992 and my 31 year old brother was born in may 14, 1992.
I love your channel it's like traveling in a time machine.. thank you for posting this and for the people who shot the b roll back in the day
The Mall was the place to go to get just about everything back then.(The Mall was just special during the Holiday's. They made it feel like that.) Especially was the place to hang out as a teen.
It still is...
🤣
@EarthsGeomancer Nobody hangs out at the Malls where I live. The ones that are opened are empty except for a few stores. Seems like the only people in the Malls are the walkers
@@daved1535 yeah, is he serious or what?
In certain other countries, he would be correct. The malls in much of the US are pretty empty nowadays. Ah I’m glad I grew up in the 90’s…
Whoa. Department Store chimes. I never thought I'd hear those again.
The Liz Claiborne Perfume sets bring back so many memories 🔺🔻
Eternity❤
I am glad i came across this video! Love these mall videos of back when malls were big!
This is great... Going to the mall and walking the long stretch to get to KB Toys was always an event.... Couldn't wait to see what Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo products were laying out, although I didn't get a Sega til the following year, I always spent most my time looking at the Hasbro WWF action figures (Macho Man, Jake the 🐍 Roberts, Undertaker, Million Dollar Man, Giant Gonzalez.... I had a ton)
Whenever I watch footage like this I can't help but wonder how many of these people are still alive even though it wasn't that long ago.
Me too
I mean it is quite long ago really. This is 31 years ago. That is a long time. The majority of the people are likely still alive with exception to anyone who is 50+ in the video.
31 years is a long time lol. I was born then have 5 kids now & another on the way. ❤😂! Time sure does go.
@@jackieliz6809 Shesh, you’ve been busy 😂
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Paying with a check! So many cash transactions, too!
Good eye!
When JC Penney had decent quality clothes! I soooo miss real malls.
I miss 90s malls alot.
I remember going to Best Buy in the 90's, and playing all the video game consoles. Donkey Kong Country, Toy Story, Mario, Madden, NHL.
This was my mall growing up! Loved the Gold Mine Arcade upstairs, and in the middle of the mall there used to be an elevated garden-like space with planters that had greenery flowing off the side. Man I miss that time and version of Cumberland
I was 22 in 1992 and the perfume counter ladies was my sweet spot. Picked up many dates and many gifts lol.
I was born in December 1992. I always wondered how the general public was dressing at the time… it looks very much like the 90s but with little traces of the 80s still leftover lol
Your vids are so strange to me but, man I love them!!! Thank you!
Back when they would actually answer the phone and speak to you also I love the fact that you put with the mall was thanks
Love the shot at 5:25 - 5:51 So much going on! You can see the outside upper floor ppl, escalator motion, lower floor, & the shoppers/ employees at the counter! So Great!
I miss this generation when people actually smiled cared about the next person and didn’t try to start fights with the manager. I’m so lucky to have grew up in this generation not this sad pathetic one
I’m an older millennial and definitely respect my elders unlike woke generation z
Grew up right up the road from that mall. I remember my Mom & Aunt in awe describing their first visit there when it opened (when Malls were a 'new' thing). A decade or so later one of my first jobs was at Cumberland Mall. Along with many dates, birthday dinners and many hours shopping there.
Lived right around the corner from Cumberland from 1994-99. Good times there, and across the street at the Galleria.
I loved going to mall in the early 90s as a kid, this is so much nostalgia. Was always such cool places and things for kids to do in them as well.
8:38 We had a green phone on the coffee table in our basement, just like the light blue one! My Sis put a sticker on it that said ’FeelsGreat’😂 Amazing memories from watching these vids!
We have declined sooo much in this country that it's barely recognizable.
Yes, and there were people in the 90s who saw this coming, and yet, if you tell them the causes, they won't like what they hear and will deny it.
@@fuwa9616 I saw it coming by the mid 90s
@@fuwa9616 I’m a 90s kid and I remember when I was about 11, I told my dad that I was lucky to grow up in the perfect time, cos we had cool stuff like computers and video games that he didn’t have as a kid, but when I’m an adult, it’ll be too much technology and people will be too obsessed. I was right.
Stop voting democrat
@@fuwa9616 what were the causes?
I forgot how old Cumberland Mall is..i didn't live too far away in Marietta, me and my friends used to go here all the time in high school.
Incredible footage
The store at the end was Natural Wonders (in business 1986-2004).
If I could I'd go back to 1992, I tell ya.
I was 21 in 1992 and remember these days well. Things were so much more civilized then. People were so much better dressed. It’s good to see this but also sad as well. Things are so ghetto now compared to this, it’s sad.
We still have busy and bustling shopping centres (malls) all over Australia like this.. Still have friendly and helpful staff.. Not much has changed except technolgy.. We are lucky I suppose..
"Am I gonna be famous?" Yes ma'am, you sure are 🥹 Hope she sees this video!
God I would hate to be those people, in a world with no TikTok or smartphones or pride months… it sounds like hell! (eyeroll)
Seeing those phones was so nostalgic. I remember my mother would go to this mall in New Philadelphia in Ohio and pay her phone bill sometimes. In that store they had all kinds of different phones. They had Train Phones, helmet phones etc etc. That was when having a phone on your room as a teen was a big deal 😂.
I was a kid in San Francisco then. My friends and I would go to the mall downtown. I remember riding our bikes down there. Except for a couple small pockets, it was really clean and safe back in those days. I miss that. Felt like a simpler time.
This channel is simply incredible. This is a bad question, but how much footage do you have left? I hope a lot. This is so cool.
We might be fortunate enough that he’s a time traveler. He goes back to shoot footage, and returns to 2023 to upload. It’s an important task because the world is ending, and he wants us to have a little comfort before everything passes.
@@leonardticsay8046 or better theory he’s a time traveling hamster who gains superpowers by filming old places and getting reactions from other people. He needs the powers to take over the world.
I do wonder where the footage comes from. I know that one source came from a previous uploader who was just uploading old B-ROLL footage, but I'm seeing a bunch here that I didn't see from the internet archive.
Possibly a news crew getting B footage to play in the background of a story. I love the sound of those old receipt printers.
@@Alkatross definitely looks like B roll to me. I also love that receipt printer sound. Almost brings me a nostalgic/comfort feeling lol
How are you time traveling so easy????? I would loveeeee to know, promise I wont alter anything .
Hey ! He can’t give his secrets up so easily ! Just Like a magician 😉
Right out the gate with that floral tie! Maximum drip right there.
Watching a lot of these nostalgic 90s-00s vids, I thought, ooh maybe I should go out and record things now in 2023 so we can be nostalgic 20-30 years from now... and then I realized things aren't nearly as cool as they used to be lol. Plus, everyone's already recording everything now. Social media is overflowing with everyone's recordings of all the same places. Just doesn't hit the same.
I'm sure in 80 years, people will be curious about the insane and dark times of the 2020s were westerners unironically mentioned their pronouns, the US empire ended and just before the great war.
Me too thinking I should record, but we are too late. I used to own a camcorder back in the 90's. I wish I had used it a lot more to film all the places I went to.
I’m really curious for what purpose a lot of this footage was originally shot. Just kinda lingering shots of contemporary settings with no particular subjects like someone’s kids or anything.
Obviously a time traveler
Good old days
Before the "diversity is our strength" crowd ruined the greatest country ever.
Malls in GA…top of the line when we had Rich’s !
People had common sense back then unlike today's standards.
This was a year before I was born. I stayed about 15 minutes from Cumberland Mall growing up. My job is right next to it. It's about a 90 second drive lol.
No worries about mass shooters and it felt like home away from home. You woukd the whole day there even if you only had a couple dollars from allowance. It just made u happy on your saddest days. Just to window shop and people watch.
Even though I was a kid in 1992 those days were sweeter times. People were actually polite and nice Back than
It would be so interesting to see where all these people are in 2023….what their lives became…
I'd love to know aswell
Watching them shop for clothes makes me wonder how a basic pair of jeans was so durable and easy to find back then. Today, jeans come in all these specialized versions(like "tummy control" and "petite cut") and you're lucky if they last more than a year and a half!
I need you to tell me where the hell you got these old videos from
lol nuts dude, i used to live out there, cumberland towne center mall , trippy.
IBM 4683 or 4684 register @0:46. I miss the receipt printing as we went along instead of thermal tape shooting out of the printer at the end of a transaction, and I especially miss the sound of dot matrix printers. Receipt format does not look like IBM's General Sales Application. It must be third party software running on the controllers in the back.
The printers sound off, given that the pitch of the print engine is supposed to sound higher than in this video. Perhaps the pitch in this video is a bit off, yet the Fujitsu ICL 9518/200s towards the end sounded right.
Remember my parents taking us to King of Prussia mall around the holidays. All the displays. Was just different back then. Cell phones... Ruined everything
I swear we need a revolution. Tear the whole damn thing down, and start all over. Hit restart.
I agree. It should start with a social media revolt (except TH-cam so we can still watch these videos). I got off all my socials two years ago and I’ve never been happier. It’s not a natural way to live and we are seeing it’s ill effects on society now. Makes me sad. Wish we could go back to times like this.
@@Liz_4Him Just get rid of section 230 and watch it come crashing down.
Hmm I’m 51 year old business owner and my success risen dramatically due to advertising on social media platforms. Without advertising on social media, 2/3 of my general production profits would have gone to advertising and marketing. Especially *E-Commerce Marketing and Sales* which skyrocketed in 2020. Besides during the decades of 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s saw a huge decline in entrepreneurship and small businesses according to *US Department Of Commerce/US CENSUS* and increased numbers of Americans working for large corporations.
Now we’re seeing a decline in American workers and big corporations, because we realize that we’re just using our talents to help someone become more richer while we’re living paycheck to paycheck. That’s not a comfortable way to live your life, working hard every single day just to get paid hourly. With my employees, I mentor them to create their own business and to use my establishment as a platform for their business one day.
You guys can have the 80’s and 90’s because I love living in todays society, sure I can go back and listen to my favorite music which is on social media but that doesn’t mean that I want to regress instead of progressing forward
Pre-internet and social media.
OMG I had to be about 6 or 7 back in '92. Going to that mall was a rare thing for me back in the 90's since we lived on the other side of town. When we went to the mall, all I cared about was if my mom allowed me to go to KB toys so I can play the video games there. Even as a kid I knew life was so simple back then.
I'm not sure why I haven't seen all of your videos being shown on my subscriptions. I even have notifications set to all. Oh well.
What I'd do to go back during those times.
I don't know Mark. I know others have said the same. Sometimes I think I forget to check or uncheck the notification button before I "submit" the video.
Between you and me, I'm pretty stupid. Have been all my life. Surprised I don't walk randomly into walls.
@@vampirerobot don't feel bad. I am a bit clumsy myself. I randomly bump my shoulders and elbows into things LOL
This is when malls were amazing. It was the place to be. You could just walk around as a teen and look for chicks or buy a bunch of stuff to look coo to pick up chicks
But then get turned away all the time.
1991 1992 in honor of magic Johnson nba retirement. Charles Barkley decided to wear number 32 magic johnsons nba number instead of his own number 34. Also 1992.larry bird retired from nba due to reoccurring back injuries
Sesame Street? Wow!
Best year 1992! Year I was born
Watching this makes you think about the people what did they do before or what are they gonna do after or are they still alive?
Being 9 years old at this time, I distinctly remember hearing those kind of beeping sounds at a Sears store connected to the mall in our area. (You can hear beeps at the JCPenny in this video) Beeps over the intercom would go on for many minutes at a time. Was this some kind of code alert?
I always wondered that too. It's like you would hear it every 5 minutes.
10:36 Is that Rhea Perlman?
I would love to know the phenomenon and psychology behind why people looked older back then. I’m 39 now, and some of these people in this video are likely same age as me or early 40s but they just look.. older, more adult than 30 and 40 year olds of today, it’s strange. Is it perception? A mirage? Is it because I was a kid during this time so when I watch these videos, it’s almost like I’m viewing it through my kid eyes where everyone looks old and not my 39 year old eyes?!
Lol people dressed older back then
And Fujitsu register @ 11:42. I don't know my Fujitsus very well so I can't speak to the model.
Most likely a 9518/200, judging by the display poles. The 9500 series had many different configurations, and given their ICL origins (they were also badged as ICL or Fujitsu ICL), they were ubiquitous in many UK retailers including Marks and Spencer, who were the largest high street user of the 9500 series until their replacement with a bespoke Fujitsu ICL system by the turn of the Millennium. Sainsbury's also used them in their supermarkets, except Savacentre, who used the Nixdorf (later Siemens Nixdorf) POS2000 system.
@@AurumUsagi Kmart here in the U.S. was also running with Fujitsu registers at some locations, running the same software they were running on IBM and NCR equipment in other stores (PSI software). I liked the ICL/Fujitsu registers of this era.
I miss this type of shopping. I can't do it now because most of these stores near me have shut down and I can't afford it either.
I hear you. It's really sad
cumberland mall is still there for those that are in the area that want to go there now.
People around me think I'm nuts when I say you don't hear a "hum" when you walk into a business anymore. You can literally hear it in this video. Anyone else notice this?
*HUGE THINGS THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW!!!!*
Not following. Explain.
@@malvolio01 you know when you're in a restaurant thats moderately busy and you hear a lot of random conversations but nothing discernable you can make out, then you hear the sound of clinking of silverware on the plates? Sort of like an asmr if you just close your eyes and think of it. The hum being referred to is all the background noise that just indicates busy and life.
It's because everyone is on a device these days. Back then they actually communicated with each other
@@Person-tk7kx It's a good thing that everyone is on a device because most people have nothing interesting to talk about anyway.
8:49, that CD-i kiosk got my attention. I actually played that Sesame Street game on PC.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa Cumberland mall? Ru from South Jersey author of this channel??
Hey, I actually think the mall depicted here is Glendale Galleria in Glendale, CA. Plus The Broadway was a Southern California/Arizona chain.
i know i looked at one footage where the ID said California which tells me it its not Atlanta GA
Back when every store accepted checks.
12:06
That’s my ex-girlfriend sister lol 😂 I just noticed her. I had to keep rewatching over and over again to make sure it was her…….and yes it’s her lol 😂. She’s a Pentecostal minister, and my ex-girlfriend is the *Praise Team Leader* and owns her own beauty shop not too far from Cumberland.
Holy crap, I go to this mall all the time. It’s right next to my university here in Atlanta. Crazy how much it’s changed.
I live about 5 minutes away from Cumberland
Ah... every kid's favorite video game system... *drumroll* ... the Philips CD-Interactive.... said no one ever... 🤣
I was just here on Thursday lol
this is so CRAZY cause i literally go to this mall and it’s the closest mall ever, so cool!
Oh my god they are so uncomfortable being filmed it's like when state comes to inspect your restraunt
It's too bad that the timestamps on the top right of the screen don't display the day and month as well...
I was 6 years old ❤
I was born in June 1992, it's been a long time 🤭
@@Slippydead007 I was born in June 1982. And I feel way older than you. Lol
@@Steve_jones113 ☺️☺️
its so weird to think about a time where smartphones didn't exist. Like I can't remember what we use to do when we had down time while out and about or what about people at jobs like this? what were they doing when the stores were empty?
Double dragon released on snes as well as contra the alien wars in 1992
Going to malls around this time was great now in 2023 its gone downhill.via a bunch of rude people
which shirt looks better with this tie? neither, the tie is hideous lol
3:00 Can’t make out her exact words, but the cashier asks the customer about opening some sort of account with the store, and she chuckles when he declines. It’s funny to think how long stores have been doing that.
It was one of the last Broadway Stores in the country. She asked him if he wanted a Broadway charge card. It went bankrupt back in the mid 90's.
My dads oldest credit card is 34 years old from sears. They get you young.
@@JClaus1221 it was literally in the bankruptcy process when this was filmed!!!
The big thing for me in these videos is how much merchandise is in the stores. There's way more merchandise in the stores than there is now unless maybe you go to Walmart. Now stores are focusing on asthetic and setting up the merchandise in a way that it is sparse, and not stocking enough product. Maybe there's not a market for a lot of merchandise now that everything is online. No wonder I used to spend hours in malls.
Checkout with check and cash in the first part of the department store (and last with Natural Wonders) parts of the video there was *paper bags* instead of plastic bags.
I wish that they would have kept these malls open.
I'm 100% literally crying cuz all the malls are dying out😢 now it's nothing but abandoned joints well some of them
How do you have these videos … ?
Time travel