Life was better and people were friendly back in the 90s and into the early 2000s. People went outside and did things, not glued to their electronic devices. Once social media and cell phones started showing up, life changed for the worse.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic Yeah but they weren't as distracting as nowadays. And not all of them were huge, my uncle got his first cellphone around 91 or 92, it was more like a flip phone with a long antenna, but it was small enough to fit in his pocket.
I had one of those coats in the 2000's that my aunt gave me because she never wore it. But my parents had a habit of donating or tossing anything that THEY didn't want even if it wasn't theirs, so they got rid of it. I loved that coat.
@carlossebastiannecroticgot7232 Your unnecessary RUDE response totally proved Rebeccac8705’s point!!! You’re one of those that make life miserable in the present genius! 🤦🏻♀️
It's just refreshing to see a world without smartphones, i miss the simpler analog times, i am retreating more and more from this sick ultra techy society.
Those were the days when we used to have department stores to still shop at and had shopping malls to go to long ago before our technology changed the way we live now. 🤔🤔🤔
I LOVED Christmas shopping in the late 80s/90s. I loved strolling the malls, shopping til I dropped and coming home with bags and bags of pressies for loved ones and friends. There was so much love and cheer in the air you could feel it. My parents were still alive and they always made sure my brother and I had a wonderful Christmas. Those were the BEST of times!!! Take me back! 🥰
Marshall Field's on State Street in downtown Chicago! This for me was Christmas growing up in Chicago - My family had moved to Skokie in 1989, I imagine in 1990 I was among the crowd of excited children who would look in the windows at the animated figures telling stories before my family went inside and enjoyed the shopping and decorations, including the massive tree in the middle of the building that you could see from all floors of the store. The pinnacle of the visit was dinner in the Walnut Room. What a rare treat to get to see footage of it here, this was such a precious part of my childhood and one of the reasons I still treasure the Christmas season to this day. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I was born in May 1990, my childhood was awesome, Christmas time was so special and beautiful. This video really brings that energy out everything and everyone was calm, they enjoyed the little things, going to the mall, or the supermarket was a weekend event we all did together with no complaints just enjoying each other's company and enjoying the simple life. ❤
The Christmas spirit was everywhere back then, shopping malls played Christmas tunes, people were nicer, life was simple. I don’t see anyone in their pajamas in that video, people back then dressed with decency. That guy in the video was like this is bad times, when he was interviewing that lady from 1990s era. I’m like, Nowadays he’s probably wishing that he could go back to the 1990s era
I miss so much of these days. Going shopping with the whole family on a weekend! I dont even get weekends off any more and spending time with the whole family. That doesnt happen anymoe either. Paying cash. The store shelves were just packed full of stock! Toys r us was the only stop for children! The decorations!....Thats what too a whole weekend to shop. No parking cuz everyone was there shopping and had to stop to soak in the beautiful Christmas decor. Some of them were animated! .....I WANNA GO BACK!
We had a toys r us in Nice in france. I live there for now. It closed after the pandemics. Before it was very vibrant and great store. Parents were celebrating their kids birthdays. The sellers were helpful and not rude. Very patient with the kids. Its still closed to this day. A lot of shops are just gone. Very depressing.😢
So much positivity back then and people paid for things who knew! No smash and grab! Miss the 90s. The stores truly decorated for Christmas with class!
People actually still dressed nice to go shopping and spending time with each other. Bid shoulder pads and earrings were still hanging on. First Christmas without my Dad.
@@carlossebastiannecroticgot7232yeah but there should be a limit or a threshold on how much it changes. Back then you could easily adapt to the slow changes, today the shit is happening at break neck speeds, including the cost of living.
@@mr_m4613i feel like we are surviving a genocide. No one can afford housing or kids. We are being taxed to death. Wages are crap and we re more productive. So much destruction for nothing.❤
Same! In the UK, they were a familiar sound at Tesco's checkouts back in the 90s. They used the same Nixdorf POS2000 systems as in this video, but without the CRTs.
Malls and other businesses really went all out with the Christmas decorations back then. Now you're lucky if you walk into a business and see a mini tree or a couple of Dollar Tree decorations hung up.
Those Nixdorf POS2000/10 terminals! Had no idea they were used in the US until now. Tesco were a huge user of them, and the Nixdorf printers had a distinctive sound to them.
@@thatjpwing The Nixdorf POS2000 was noted for its distinctive modular design, which won the iF Design Award back in 1990. In the UK, the largest user of this system was Tesco, who chose the POS2000 for their 'scannerisation' (adoption of EAN/UPC barcodes) in the late 80s-early 90s. A handful of other retailers used them, particularly Savacentre, who used them up until Sainsbury's replaced them with NCRs, when they began to roll them out following a successful pilot in 1997. Though this video is the first time I've seen a POS2000 with a CRT, given that most I can recall in my childhood only had VFD display poles and keyboards with integrated dot matrix displays and card swipers, seeing as most users here were supermarkets, not department stores, where NCR 7052s and IBM 4683s dominated.
Staten Island NY Christmases were the best and most memorable Christmas moments for me in the 90s didnt get to experience 80s Christmases but they were still the best times to celebrate and things back then were better
I was 13 years old during this time my first year and to my teen years and remember 1990 very well and I do believe I got a game boy at that time and felt like 1 million bucks because game boys were an expensive gift for a kid in 1990 and miss the days where you could just be a kid without a worry in the world! Well without an adult worry in the world lol
The mall looked so beautiful. Very warm and welcoming. You dont feel like an inmate being watched with cameras everywhere. People seemed so calm and nice. Less aggressive and vulgar. Products werent crap breaking in two days. Its so different today.
Isn’t it crazy that someone’s sole job at a news station was shoot B roll because it had to be original for their ownership and it was not easy to do - to make it look good it took enormous amount of experience and talent - matter of fact the B roll guy was WAY higher status than the camera man who would film the reporters in location or in the studio. Now these days you can just download b roll footage it’s insane
Idk. Aside from the different fashion and reduced video quality, this video looks exactly like what I see at the malls today, even with the lack of popularity malls have today. Those of you who constantly complain about how things are so much worse today than "back in the day", are really missing out on the beautiful and new experiences that are out in the world. Quit experiencing life with the negative expectations because you'll find it. Hope you all find experiences that will provide that nostalgia you're looking for, but every day after.
Recession in 90. President Bush (senior) was in office and you had the gulf war, operation desert storm in Iraq. But American society for the most part was fine. By '92 President Clinton was in office, the war was over and the economy boomed well into the early 2000's.
Life was better and people were friendly back in the 90s and into the early 2000s. People went outside and did things, not glued to their electronic devices. Once social media and cell phones started showing up, life changed for the worse.
Yeah smartphones and more so social media definitely changed things for the worse.
Lmao no
Not true
This is why advancement is meaningless.
Technology changes our lives and the way we behave
90! Home Alone, Ninja Turtles, Nintendo, the Simpsons, Saturday morning cartoons, dinner at Grandma's, bike riding and on and on.
I miss that life
Nice! No phones to stare down at or distract. I'm blessed to remember those days.
True that
People had cell phones then. They were huge.
A friend had a 'bag phone' in 1990...it was huge
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic Yeah but they weren't as distracting as nowadays. And not all of them were huge, my uncle got his first cellphone around 91 or 92, it was more like a flip phone with a long antenna, but it was small enough to fit in his pocket.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusicThey were used to actually talk on the phone. 🤯 not for social media addiction
Love the sounds of the cash register. People dressed nicer and seemed more polite back then.
Polite
I miss the way people dressed back in those days, especially the long wool coats.
People normally dress dice for the christmas holidays It still happens in Tennessee.
You'd die of the heat once in the mall!
I had one of those coats in the 2000's that my aunt gave me because she never wore it. But my parents had a habit of donating or tossing anything that THEY didn't want even if it wasn't theirs, so they got rid of it. I loved that coat.
I miss that era, I was a preteen. Christmas was a big deal back then
Christmas is still a big deal 😂
@@KevinWay-n4jNot really.
It's just not the same
Everyone dressed nicely, behaving themselves with polite manners.....
I remember those days.
And I really miss them. 😔
Time change, people change, perspective change as well so life is unfair get used to it
@carlossebastiannecroticgot7232
Your unnecessary RUDE response totally proved Rebeccac8705’s point!!! You’re one of those that make life miserable in the present genius! 🤦🏻♀️
Because thts winter..😂
Not really depends on where you live at 😂
@@carlossebastiannecroticgot7232 your rude comment proves that rudeness has become rampant. It’s really sad
Oh my gosh!! They actually said Merry Christmas!
It's just refreshing to see a world without smartphones, i miss the simpler analog times, i am retreating more and more from this sick ultra techy society.
Those were the days when we used to have department stores to still shop at and had shopping malls to go to long ago before our technology changed the way we live now. 🤔🤔🤔
I LOVED Christmas shopping in the late 80s/90s. I loved strolling the malls, shopping til I dropped and coming home with bags and bags of pressies for loved ones and friends. There was so much love and cheer in the air you could feel it. My parents were still alive and they always made sure my brother and I had a wonderful Christmas. Those were the BEST of times!!! Take me back! 🥰
Thanks for Sharing!!! ❤️😃Love these videos!!! It probably didn’t seem like it then but times were so much simpler then!!🫶😎
Very much so Heather.
Marshall Field's on State Street in downtown Chicago! This for me was Christmas growing up in Chicago - My family had moved to Skokie in 1989, I imagine in 1990 I was among the crowd of excited children who would look in the windows at the animated figures telling stories before my family went inside and enjoyed the shopping and decorations, including the massive tree in the middle of the building that you could see from all floors of the store. The pinnacle of the visit was dinner in the Walnut Room. What a rare treat to get to see footage of it here, this was such a precious part of my childhood and one of the reasons I still treasure the Christmas season to this day. Thank you so much for sharing this.
This was filmed roughly at the same time when Home Alone Movie came out in Nov 1990.
And filmed in Chicago.
I was born in May 1990, my childhood was awesome, Christmas time was so special and beautiful. This video really brings that energy out everything and everyone was calm, they enjoyed the little things, going to the mall, or the supermarket was a weekend event we all did together with no complaints just enjoying each other's company and enjoying the simple life. ❤
You are so young...
The Christmas spirit was everywhere back then, shopping malls played Christmas tunes, people were nicer, life was simple. I don’t see anyone in their pajamas in that video, people back then dressed with decency. That guy in the video was like this is bad times, when he was interviewing that lady from 1990s era. I’m like, Nowadays he’s probably wishing that he could go back to the 1990s era
Just thinking the exact same thing.
Back when paying cash was common and free gift boxes were free with purchase!!
I miss so much of these days. Going shopping with the whole family on a weekend! I dont even get weekends off any more and spending time with the whole family. That doesnt happen anymoe either. Paying cash. The store shelves were just packed full of stock! Toys r us was the only stop for children! The decorations!....Thats what too a whole weekend to shop. No parking cuz everyone was there shopping and had to stop to soak in the beautiful Christmas decor. Some of them were animated! .....I WANNA GO BACK!
We had a toys r us in Nice in france. I live there for now. It closed after the pandemics. Before it was very vibrant and great store. Parents were celebrating their kids birthdays. The sellers were helpful and not rude. Very patient with the kids.
Its still closed to this day.
A lot of shops are just gone. Very depressing.😢
So much positivity back then and people paid for things who knew! No smash and grab! Miss the 90s. The stores truly decorated for Christmas with class!
People actually still dressed nice to go shopping and spending time with each other. Bid shoulder pads and earrings were still hanging on. First Christmas without my Dad.
Sorry for your lost
Such great memories in these 90s videos. Thanks 😊 🎉❤
I miss those days
Life change, people change, perspective change as well so life is unfair get used to it
@@carlossebastiannecroticgot7232yeah but there should be a limit or a threshold on how much it changes. Back then you could easily adapt to the slow changes, today the shit is happening at break neck speeds, including the cost of living.
@@carlossebastiannecroticgot7232 how about no lol
@@mr_m4613i feel like we are surviving a genocide. No one can afford housing or kids. We are being taxed to death. Wages are crap and we re more productive.
So much destruction for nothing.❤
News media trying to drum up problems where there are none, I guess nothing much has changed in that department since 1990!
Yeah that guy really wanted her to tell him how bad the economy was.
we were in a recession at the time so i have to guess thats why he was asking.
I absolutely love this. ❤❤❤ Thank you VR🙏
I remember the sound of those receipt printers!
Same! In the UK, they were a familiar sound at Tesco's checkouts back in the 90s. They used the same Nixdorf POS2000 systems as in this video, but without the CRTs.
Holy crap, I had that neon jacket with the pink collar (3:10) back then too. I was his age as well. I wonder what brand that was.
I miss those days. I miss my family being together and happy.
Malls and other businesses really went all out with the Christmas decorations back then. Now you're lucky if you walk into a business and see a mini tree or a couple of Dollar Tree decorations hung up.
Great year! Christmas, right when home alone came out, and filmed in Chicago. Peak Christmas vibes.
Those Nixdorf POS2000/10 terminals! Had no idea they were used in the US until now. Tesco were a huge user of them, and the Nixdorf printers had a distinctive sound to them.
Montgomery Ward used the same system before their closing
@@thatjpwing The Nixdorf POS2000 was noted for its distinctive modular design, which won the iF Design Award back in 1990. In the UK, the largest user of this system was Tesco, who chose the POS2000 for their 'scannerisation' (adoption of EAN/UPC barcodes) in the late 80s-early 90s. A handful of other retailers used them, particularly Savacentre, who used them up until Sainsbury's replaced them with NCRs, when they began to roll them out following a successful pilot in 1997. Though this video is the first time I've seen a POS2000 with a CRT, given that most I can recall in my childhood only had VFD display poles and keyboards with integrated dot matrix displays and card swipers, seeing as most users here were supermarkets, not department stores, where NCR 7052s and IBM 4683s dominated.
Nixdorf pieceofshit2000/10
This window looks a lot like Marshall Field’s on State Street in Chicago.I recognize the Santa Bear in the window.
Definitely Marshall Fields. I recognize the clocks hanging on the second floor.
Those kids must be in their 40s now and have already had kids..
Staten Island NY Christmases were the best and most memorable Christmas moments for me in the 90s didnt get to experience 80s Christmases but they were still the best times to celebrate and things back then were better
I was 13 years old during this time my first year and to my teen years and remember 1990 very well and I do believe I got a game boy at that time and felt like 1 million bucks because game boys were an expensive gift for a kid in 1990 and miss the days where you could just be a kid without a worry in the world! Well without an adult worry in the world lol
That drawer was deep and had extra ones it that one in the second horizontal row!
At 8:23 , is that Marshall Field's mall in Chicago?
The mall looked so beautiful. Very warm and welcoming. You dont feel like an inmate being watched with cameras everywhere. People seemed so calm and nice. Less aggressive and vulgar. Products werent crap breaking in two days. Its so different today.
This is State Street in Chicago.
I knew it.
Isn’t it crazy that someone’s sole job at a news station was shoot B roll because it had to be original for their ownership and it was not easy to do - to make it look good it took enormous amount of experience and talent - matter of fact the B roll guy was WAY higher status than the camera man who would film the reporters in location or in the studio. Now these days you can just download b roll footage it’s insane
the spirit of Christmas is what we are talking about in 2023
When you went out to shop 😮😅
I’m not lazy bum, so I don’t mind going out to shop
I can’t imagine someone rubbing anything on my face like that with their bare hands 😂
For real!
I didn't like being touched by random people even back then lol
Idk. Aside from the different fashion and reduced video quality, this video looks exactly like what I see at the malls today, even with the lack of popularity malls have today. Those of you who constantly complain about how things are so much worse today than "back in the day", are really missing out on the beautiful and new experiences that are out in the world. Quit experiencing life with the negative expectations because you'll find it. Hope you all find experiences that will provide that nostalgia you're looking for, but every day after.
Remember, this is what they took from you.
And so much more. This entire way of life, and peace was stolen.
No one in pajamas or houseshoes or shower caps.😅
34 years ago we all acted like people and enjoyed life especially at a mall
Back when you could pay with IOU’s…
I was a Senior in High School. Better, Simpler time then. 😊
Hmmm no tattooed ladies with purple hair and nose rings, nice.
That blonde lady could very well be a dead now. RIP (maybe)
Also Canon in D sounds pretty neat
Probably she looks like a smoker or drinker
what song is this on the piano when the video starts?
Back then people were talking about how great the 5os and 6os were and how miserable 1990 was, so...are we never happy?
Is that Pachebel's Canon?
Ewww she’s applying their makeup with her fingers 😭
Was the last time I actually did Xmas shopping at the mall
hold on and listen.... 7:27.. is that a passive aggressive Karen?
What mall is this?
I'm pretty sure that was Tonya Harding and her mother @ 8:32
why was as dec 1990 hard times? i dont get it
Recession in 90. President Bush (senior) was in office and you had the gulf war, operation desert storm in Iraq. But American society for the most part was fine. By '92 President Clinton was in office, the war was over and the economy boomed well into the early 2000's.
@mauricioramirez9744
Clinton entered office on 1/20/1993. 🙄🤦♂️
If those were tough times, they must be heaven compared to now.
@@Free_Snooki exactly
Not one soul walking a dog. Now everyone needs a pet walk.
Degenerate comment
Only saw a handful of people who were even close to being a little bit overweight.
Whre# town at?
Either Chicago, NYC or DC...one of those cities.
@@Coryraisa It's Marshall Fields in Chicago
@@thatjpwing:
Thanks.
@@Coryraisa definitely not a small town, big city dwellers
I thought it was NY until the Detroit woman said she was shopping here in Chicago.
super duper scary
That's definitely not nyc.
It’s Chicago
15:31 I don't think I like your attitude, ma'am.
The video isn't fifteen minutes long.
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i was still struggling at that time. it just sux, now in 2024 , fashions are much better but more expensive
Pan in. Pan out. Pan in. Pan out. Pan in. Pan out. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.