Believe it or not but the malls over the weekend's would look like this in the early 2000s. This was probably on a Wednesday or Thursday, it doesn't look to packed but it still has that alive glow to it.
I am so psyched to see some old footage of the Hanover Mall!!! My friend and I were just reminiscing about all of the old stores that used to be there.
Absolutely wonderful! The movie theater nearby is where I saw all those awesome movies from the 80's as a kid ! Back to the Future , karate Kid etc. Miss it all
Sundown798 Yeah though back in those days there was no smartphones or Internet and this mall now would be on some Internet series like Dead Malls and those people really are either gone or really old now.
+Kelly Chuang The teens would be in their 40s now so that's far from old I'm probably about 13 years younger than most of them. And no shit we didn't have smartphones back then. We had cell phones but they were just for making calls so wasn't a big demand for them.
Kelly Chuang I was 13 in this year. A couple years later me and my friends would ride our bikes then later drove to the Hanover Mall to hang out. You could smoke cigarettes in the mall. We were "Mall rats" lol. To meet girls "hopefully" or just have a good time. Was very busy on the weekends always year round. The mall was our "internet" in these days my friend! If you even had a cell phone was like $1 a minute lol.
I've left a comment on the latest video of youtuber Dan Bell's Dead Mall Series informing him of this mall. Hopefully he'll videograph the place before the owners knock it down.
You're missing the middle step. A lot of these malls were busy because there was nowhere else to go. Independence Mall opened up in Kingston about 15 minutes south of Hanover and took a lot of the teen business with it. Kingston had an attached theater and a pretty good food court, but Hanover hada theater on the other side of the parking lot and it kinda sucked.
The Hanover Mall in its original incarnation! I remember it from my teens way back in the 70s. And young people dressed better and had better hairstyles back in the 70s and 80s than they do today. And I just saw another Hanover Mall vid just prior to this one - it was filmed just this year and it showed the mall as a much quieter place now than it was back then.
They're actually tearing the Hanover Mall down within the next few months, and turning it into Hanover Crossing, an outdoor shopping center. There are only five stores left in the mall, the only anchor store being Macy's.
I don’t think there can ever have been a hairstyle that so many people had at the one time all across the world, the perm literally took over the world especially in the late 80s. My mum, Gran, great Gran and every other woman I remember in my life had a perm in some shape or form
GRA-EME D I don’t get why. It’s so ugly looking. It’s what my hair looks like on a hot humid day and it doesn’t shape your face at all. It looks like a hot mess. It also makes your hair look very thin.
It just proves that as a society, nothing is new under the sun when it comes to fashion, everyone wants to look hip (the same). Each era dating back to the late 1600s had a trend for both adults and youth.
I grew up in the 2000s and I loved this mall!! My mom and dad always told me about the fountain... I'm so depressed that this place is closed and is being demolished... I still have mad shit from this place 😢😭
I was the age of one of those kids. My mom's generation were the boomers, i.e. their youth was in the 1960's. My father who was 12 years older was the generation before that (young in the 50's). He was from Don Draper's generation. My mom was the one who instilled in me a sense of manners and respect for others. However, even when I rebelled with my clothes, I never had a bad attitude. However, I have something to add to others who criticize female attire as being skanky today. I suppose some of my clothes were considered racy. I didn't have much guidance. Female teens often don't know the difference between sexy and skanky. Experimentation is how people learn. Young people also often emulate female singers and actresses. People learn by example. Well there's my 2 cents.
Ah the 80s. I was 21 in 1988. Good times. The 80s were cool, for that time period, and I would not trade my memories for anything, but the 80s have come and gone. Time to move on.
hahaha what a delight! them big hair gals were the best.... and there was always a trans am and a "point" to park it at. Life is lame today by those standards.
still lots of people here at our malls, except every single person is on their phone texting strangers from overseas instead of engaging in current convo or people watch. its so sad!!
... back in the 80s we were raised with respect honor and loyalty today the Millennials do not have that at all. That's why you see what I can see this is real this is how we were
I bet the two girls at the end with natural non-permed hair ar the only ones now that aren't bald. So much fried, bleached, crispy damaged hair in this, lol love it 👍🏼
That's because it *was* more vibrant back then. I heard the mall is such a dead mall now, that the owners are going to tear it down and build a "lifestyle center" - just a big U-shaped strip mall/power center with luxury apartments on the side.
This place is a dying mall all the way. Just visited it today I counted about 13 stores closing. And many of the other stores were having clearance sales. The radio shack is closing the A C morre is closing the Jcpenny closed And many many store were abandoned with steel gates covering the entrances.
June 1988? I wasn’t born til November 1991. My older brother wasn’t born til Sept 1988. And my 2 oldest siblings were 3 and almost 5. Wow. I wonder where all these people are now.
This could have been a mall anywhere back then. I was more into cruising and street racing but I had to stock up on acid washed jeans and Iron Maiden cassette tapes occasionally.
Also how easy would it have been to pick up chick in the 80s. Walk around with a video camera and say you're from MTV. Nobody hardly owns one in the 80s so everyone will be blown away and believe you! Be really look at how pretty all the girls are and how they dress, compare it to today. 80s win
Classic80sStuff I like how the guys back then dressed. In the 90s they started wearing ridiculously large clothes, way too big for them. In the 80s they wore tight jeans, and clothes that fit. I don't really know how teenagers dress anymore, but I still see the thug look sometimes.
Video cameras were popular in the late '80s, but were mostly used for family activities or special events. People just didn't carry them everywhere all the time recording everything.
Awesome Mullet. Must have been popular in Maryland, which was out of touch back in the 80's before cable tv and the Internet. I bet these guys are used car salesmen now.
It is still operating but EXTREMELY dead. It was just purchased by a large development company and there are plans to renovate the entire area. I'm pretty sure they're going to tear it down to the ground. Nostalgia is nice, but man does it need to be renovated!
Is there any way possible you could go in there and film it before they close it down? I really enjoy the Dead Mall Series by Dan Bell and I think this would be a great mall to film, especially since you have this footage of it during it's hey day.
It was in terms of social media not being all over the place, gas was still affordable, houses didn’t cost 700k for a 1 bedroom shack and college wasn’t 40k for 1 semester and you didn’t make minimum after several years getting a business degree. Everyone for thousands and thousands of years have had problems, bad days, terrible lives, poverty and so on. No one is thinking about that per se when talking about this. What they’re talking about is the quality of life, economy and social situation.
I was thinking the exact same thing about the girl that comes on at 5:20! Sadly wherever she is if she was 16 when this was filmed she would now be 42. 1988 really doesn't seem like it was that long ago.....
This amazing. 80s MTV and 80s mall all in one! It really was fun and special and meaningful then. I miss it.
Barry Goldsbury 0
I never thought I'd see the mall when it looked like this again. So many memories came flooding back watching this. :)
Believe it or not but the malls over the weekend's would look like this in the early 2000s. This was probably on a Wednesday or Thursday, it doesn't look to packed but it still has that alive glow to it.
So awesome that this footage even exists!!! Great job capturing the "flavor" of the 80's man.
I am so psyched to see some old footage of the Hanover Mall!!! My friend and I were just reminiscing about all of the old stores that used to be there.
Absolutely wonderful! The movie theater nearby is where I saw all those awesome movies from the 80's as a kid ! Back to the Future , karate Kid etc. Miss it all
And now the Hanover mall is gone 😭
Kaelan The Chuck E. Cheese Fan hey kaelen it’s Jaylynn lol I’m watching the video too
@@GlamMetalSiren oh heeyyyyy! This was my local mall 😭
nowadays not a single person would talk to you.
The clothes and hair were horrible but I was 20 in 1988 so please take me back, I need to go back.
I was 5 in 88 and I sure want to go back as well! ! Someone needs to make a time machine. I'd be out of 2018 so fast!
all those kiddos are in their late 40s and early 50s now...
If you consider I was 7 in 88, then that would make most of them between 45 - 49 so yeah about right
So am i
This mall was always super busy back in those days. Was the place to go as a kid. Now it's dead with stores closing and not like this anymore!
Sundown798 Yeah though back in those days there was no smartphones or Internet and this mall now would be on some Internet series like Dead Malls and those people really are either gone or really old now.
+Kelly Chuang The teens would be in their 40s now so that's far from old I'm probably about 13 years younger than most of them. And no shit we didn't have smartphones back then. We had cell phones but they were just for making calls so wasn't a big demand for them.
Kelly Chuang I was 13 in this year. A couple years later me and my friends would ride our bikes then later drove to the Hanover Mall to hang out. You could smoke cigarettes in the mall. We were "Mall rats" lol. To meet girls "hopefully" or just have a good time. Was very busy on the weekends always year round. The mall was our "internet" in these days my friend! If you even had a cell phone was like $1 a minute lol.
I've left a comment on the latest video of youtuber Dan Bell's Dead Mall Series informing him of this mall. Hopefully he'll videograph the place before the owners knock it down.
You're missing the middle step. A lot of these malls were busy because there was nowhere else to go. Independence Mall opened up in Kingston about 15 minutes south of Hanover and took a lot of the teen business with it. Kingston had an attached theater and a pretty good food court, but Hanover hada theater on the other side of the parking lot and it kinda sucked.
Please bring malls back........i wanna go back to the 80's and 90's, i didn't like the 2000's much and i hate the 2010s and 2020's so far.
..summer 1988 movies big, rambo 3, Poltergeist III, bull durham, who framed roger rabbit, die hard, ..what a time to be alive ! 80's
I was 14 years old in 1988.🌏😎❤️
,,,,me too ,,I was 13 turning 14
I was 17 living in South Weymouth
I could just cry seeing this I miss these better times
Those sprayed up, fluffy hairstyles were soooo popular.
Kids back then.....
Q: What's your favorite part of MTV?
A: The countdown!!!
Kids today.....
Q: What's your favorite part of MTV?
A: What's an MTV?
RazorFriendly I’m 12 and know what that is lol
The Hanover Mall in its original incarnation! I remember it from my teens way back in the 70s. And young people dressed better and had better hairstyles back in the 70s and 80s than they do today.
And I just saw another Hanover Mall vid just prior to this one - it was filmed just this year and it showed the mall as a much quieter place now than it was back then.
They're actually tearing the Hanover Mall down within the next few months, and turning it into Hanover Crossing, an outdoor shopping center. There are only five stores left in the mall, the only anchor store being Macy's.
I missed a great decade! I was born just three years later..bleh where could I get a time machine :( Thanks so much for sharing
I don’t think there can ever have been a hairstyle that so many people had at the one time all across the world, the perm literally took over the world especially in the late 80s. My mum, Gran, great Gran and every other woman I remember in my life had a perm in some shape or form
GRA-EME D I don’t get why. It’s so ugly looking. It’s what my hair looks like on a hot humid day and it doesn’t shape your face at all. It looks like a hot mess. It also makes your hair look very thin.
It just proves that as a society, nothing is new under the sun when it comes to fashion, everyone wants to look hip (the same). Each era dating back to the late 1600s had a trend for both adults and youth.
good job with this. photos/videos have so much Power. How else would we be able to time travel like this?
I grew up in the 2000s and I loved this mall!! My mom and dad always told me about the fountain... I'm so depressed that this place is closed and is being demolished... I still have mad shit from this place 😢😭
Headbangers Ball was the best part of MTV back then
Funny how shy and nervous most of them were. These days kids would probably be jumping in front of the camera.
J L hmm I wonder what generation the parents of those kids come from
I was the age of one of those kids. My mom's generation were the boomers, i.e. their youth was in the 1960's. My father who was 12 years older was the generation before that (young in the 50's). He was from Don Draper's generation. My mom was the one who instilled in me a sense of manners and respect for others. However, even when I rebelled with my clothes, I never had a bad attitude. However, I have something to add to others who criticize female attire as being skanky today. I suppose some of my clothes were considered racy. I didn't have much guidance. Female teens often don't know the difference between sexy and skanky. Experimentation is how people learn. Young people also often emulate female singers and actresses. People learn by example. Well there's my 2 cents.
What...i would never
@@Gonzalo.Escobar Our parents were mostly "Silent Generation," and early "Baby Boomers." Mostly born between 1938-1945.
Ah the 80s. I was 21 in 1988. Good times. The 80s were cool, for that time period, and I would not trade my memories for anything, but the 80s have come and gone. Time to move on.
MTV my ass! You were tryin to pick up muff! Im proud of you.
100% accurate.
hahaha what a delight! them big hair gals were the best.... and there was always a trans am and a "point" to park it at. Life is lame today by those standards.
Back when malls had people. It was the place to go and be social.
still lots of people here at our malls, except every single person is on their phone texting strangers from overseas instead of engaging in current convo or people watch. its so sad!!
Total 80’s hair bro
Rip the Hanover mall :(
wow the girls seemed to be really cute and nice, no attitude, and they didn't dress like skanks.
and the guys were much less douchey.
apparently its not hip too be nice anymore. sad :-/
... back in the 80s we were raised with respect honor and loyalty today the Millennials do not have that at all. That's why you see what I can see this is real this is how we were
@@TyhlerNovac oh ya example you can have friends at work but after work everyone goes thier own way
what did he say to about that girl "See if ___ is missing a patient?" anyone catch it?
@@ArtimusDragon It used to be hip to be square. sad.
You see all those middle aged women at your Walmart? This is them in there youth, now it's your turn.
You are correct!! Lol!
I bet the two girls at the end with natural non-permed hair ar the only ones now that aren't bald. So much fried, bleached, crispy damaged hair in this, lol love it 👍🏼
it seemed so vibrant in that mall back then compared to nowadays, but being from Braintree I guess I've been spoiled by the Plaza...
That's because it *was* more vibrant back then. I heard the mall is such a dead mall now, that the owners are going to tear it down and build a "lifestyle center" - just a big U-shaped strip mall/power center with luxury apartments on the side.
This place is a dying mall all the way. Just visited it today I counted about 13 stores closing. And many of the other stores were having clearance sales. The radio shack is closing the A C morre is closing the Jcpenny closed And many many store were abandoned with steel gates covering the entrances.
Was my dad there?
What's your dad's name?
Oh the 80s I miss it so. :/
Take me back please!! 😢
June 1988? I wasn’t born til November 1991. My older brother wasn’t born til Sept 1988. And my 2 oldest siblings were 3 and almost 5. Wow. I wonder where all these people are now.
Sounds like you had a kick ass 90s like I did. Born in 92, sister 89 and big bro 84..
Mall's gone now. Torn down.
This could have been a mall anywhere back then. I was more into cruising and street racing but I had to stock up on acid washed jeans and Iron Maiden cassette tapes occasionally.
I say let’s take down phone companies and bring back 80s fashion
It it back but its more muted and the hair now is way less interesting
Also how easy would it have been to pick up chick in the 80s. Walk around with a video camera and say you're from MTV. Nobody hardly owns one in the 80s so everyone will be blown away and believe you! Be really look at how pretty all the girls are and how they dress, compare it to today. 80s win
Classic80sStuff I like how the guys back then dressed. In the 90s they started wearing ridiculously large clothes, way too big for them. In the 80s they wore tight jeans, and clothes that fit. I don't really know how teenagers dress anymore, but I still see the thug look sometimes.
cabbagepatch777 Well I should dress as an 80s guy and you dress as an 80s girl and we'll go out on an 80s date lol
Classic80sStuff AMEN😃
Video cameras were popular in the late '80s, but were mostly used for family activities or special events. People just didn't carry them everywhere all the time recording everything.
Classic80sStuff right I'm thinking these guys aren't from MTV 😂
Filmed with a no-phone1.
HAHA! Yup. Also known as a Panasonic OmniMovie PV-220.
wheres chess king?
LOL !!!! I thought I was the only one who remembered that store !
I remember that store!
2:48 Today she's wishing she'd been named something else.
Awesome Mullet. Must have been popular in Maryland, which was out of touch back in the 80's before cable tv and the Internet. I bet these guys are used car salesmen now.
Brett Vogel - Maryland was a bit behind the times. Mullets lasted till the 90's. Lol!
Massachusetts not Maryland
Maryland??? Lol...cant you tell by the accents this is NOT Maryland
If guys looked like they did then they wouldn’t be so lonely
Awesome!
No lights on that camera. Everything is so dark.
The woman at 3:59 looks like Kate Middleton
Enjoy sixteen
Too bad this mall totally blows now. It was a lot more different back then.
3:59 looks like Kate Middleton
It's probably her.
Is this mall still operating today? If so, doing well or is it a dead mall?
It is still operating but EXTREMELY dead. It was just purchased by a large development company and there are plans to renovate the entire area. I'm pretty sure they're going to tear it down to the ground. Nostalgia is nice, but man does it need to be renovated!
Is there any way possible you could go in there and film it before they close it down? I really enjoy the Dead Mall Series by Dan Bell and I think this would be a great mall to film, especially since you have this footage of it during it's hey day.
I can definitely do that. I'll get some shots next week.
That is awesome! Thank you!
I hope they don't renovate before September. I want to film there when I travel up north.
I wish people would stop talking about how much better it was back then. It wasn't. Trust me. It wasn't.
It was in terms of social media not being all over the place, gas was still affordable, houses didn’t cost 700k for a 1 bedroom shack and college wasn’t 40k for 1 semester and you didn’t make minimum after several years getting a business degree. Everyone for thousands and thousands of years have had problems, bad days, terrible lives, poverty and so on. No one is thinking about that per se when talking about this. What they’re talking about is the quality of life, economy and social situation.
lol the Duxbury girls look prim and proper as they do in 2017.
Makes sense! Dulexbury!
Kahhen from Maahhhshfield
She was a nice girl. She died her junior year of high school from cancer ☹️
Is this Hanover pa?
No, this is Hanover, Massachusetts.
Looks kinda the same😍😂
Girl at 2:38 is so cute. Wonder where she is!
I was thinking the exact same thing about the girl that comes on at 5:20! Sadly wherever she is if she was 16 when this was filmed she would now be 42. 1988 really doesn't seem like it was that long ago.....
Classic80sStuff Are you a lot younger? Judging by your comments I thought you grew up in the 80s, too.
cabbagepatch777 No I'm not real young lol
The girl at 2:32 died when she was 16 of cancer. ☹️ I went to high school with her.
@@brookesmith1550 Did you mean at 2:38?
are these Canadians ?
No they're from the South Shore of Massachusetts, near Boston.
Omg those bangs, I don’t understand why! They look so old.
Bouffant hairdos, of course, were de rigueur among teenagers and young adults 30 years ago.
those girls that were 16 looked like 30!
MallTV
My god hair was straight up awful in the 80's lolol
Charmedone9805 Or awesome.
high hair rocks! lol.. mullets and frizzy hair lol
No immigrants.lol