Going to the mall in 1978
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2024
- Footage from the now defunct Pyramid Mall in Plattsburg, New York.
Shots of people meandering about their daily lives, kids playing at the arcade and of course customers shopping the various stores.
This video last around 8 minutes.
#hickoryfarms
#jcpenney
#funland
#hallmark
Does anyone else wish society was still like this? I can't be the only one
Sadly, its not gonna be like this anymore. Society today are ruined since rise of social media and people acting like total selfish they are.
@@karinadelma so true, makes me cry tbh
@@karinadelma I don't know if I would blame social media. But the selfish self centered society that developed in the 1980s really wrecked society.
@@MaxZomboni No. Money printing and open borders are the two main things that have caused the decline.
@@joebauers3746 More money was printed in the 1970s and the border was more open then it is now. You didn't even need ID to cross the border. No Trump Wall then.
Growing up as a Gen X kid in the 70s and a teen in the 80s, I thought the world would always be like this. Boy was I wrong.
Grew up in the 80s. A really great time.
Same here! 💔
Well, it was bound to change. If you look back at the last 60 years alone, people gradually became more and more free willed with each passing decade.
Tell the truth. I never thought of stuff like that back then. I just enjoyed and lived my life. Although I never thought things would get this bad that made the 70s and 80s look like the good-ol-days.
Agreed! Back when things were simple.
Thank god I lived my childhood with no cell phone in hand
Absolutely! I feel guilty when I think of today's kids, but I am so grateful to have grown up in this better era.
How bout now?
👋🤣👉📱And now you’re enjoying watching it on CZcams on your cellphone!📲
@@anibalbabilonia1867
My point exactly 😉
I am setting the phone to the side more and more. Try to enjoy life with less stress
It’s not that everything was “perfect” back then but life was simpler and calmer and less stressful! ❤
Back when people got dressed before they left the house.
Look at the beginning-older women in "beach" clothes, younger females wearing short-shorts. Not very nice-looking.
@@thomashernandez8700But no tattoos/hideous body ink.
We put on nice shoes, a dress, had a nice handbag and sandals too. Scheez, Oh! And we weren't overweight !
@@thomashernandez8700 haven’t you noticed that young women walk around in house shoes and pajamas now? That’s called not getting dressed before you leave the house.
At least the girls aren’t wearing those skinny jeans. Guys neither!
Back when you would hear: "Behave, you're in public."
Now days, parents are so stuck in their phones they don't even notice their kids running around like maniacs. Even today, I tell my kids to behave in public. But I see so many just ignoring theirs and letting them act like monsters.
Now you hear: He's/she's just a kid!" from the parent who's allowing their kids to knock over items, run around around, etc.
That is true. I haven't heard a parent tel their kids that in decades!
Wisdom from Ten Bears. 🙏
@@nocturnalrecluse1216 There is iron in your words of praise for all of YT to read - You may go in peace.
I can almost smell the fountain chlorine, carmel corn and Orange Julius. Fantastic!
Before technology, social media, and cell phones ruined society forever. Best times!
You said it perfectly. I wish that the only thing you could do with a cell phone would be to use it to make and receive calls. Nothing else.
@jdewitt77 The Styx song Mr. Roboto was foreshadowing. Things are supposed to get better as time goes on, it's not. Rather have my Walkman anyday than a cell phone.
Tv is what is killing society. And people believing everything they see on it.
Before the dissolution of America by Mass Illegals.
I miss the warm, analogue, earth-tones aesthetic of the 70s and early 80s. Today everything is silver/grey, digital, and synthetic, all lit up by garish blueish- white LED lighting. Thanks for this little time capsule of a more simple time.
This is the world I miss.
I know what you mean, I still have my house decorated in warm earthy tones...I can't get into the sterile grey that's popular now.
I was a kid as that era phased out. I have it in my house now and I never get tired of it.
The further back we go in time where digital technology is limited, to non existent, we can notice a trend towards a general wellness in culture in every respect. From optical aesthetics (as you mentioned) to a philosophically leaning social structure in all groups of people. As digital technology increases in sophistication, our natural human ability to create objectively warm and beautiful things in mind and environment diminishes.
@@Melancholy1966 ugh... every place we look at to rent always has dark grey painted walls! I feel like im in a prison!
It’s so crazy that someone in 1978 took the time to record all this for future generations. Cherish this footage.
Nice to have a look back at the year I was born.
@@justincase190same (high five)
This guy has to be a time traveler
Ugh...😔
Back when no one would look with suspicion about someone walking around filming people.
The closest we will ever get to time travel. Thank goodness someone back then took these videos. They literally had no idea how much watching them in 2024 would mean to so many!!!
What I would not give to go back!
No cell phones… just playing together with fun and conversation. Loved these days
I was 22 in 1978. It was a great time to be alive. The USA was a much better place then.
Yeah I was 22 in 78 also. We didn't know it was a great time at the time 😄
Take off your nostalgia glasses. Every period of time has had its problems, including the 70s.
It's not nostalgia, it's the truth. Things really were better across the board. Much better.
I was 16 years old. The 70's were perfect.
@@purplemist7he said it was better. They never indicated that it was problem free.
Back when you didn't have to wear a bulletproof vest to go to the mall.
And there wasn't an 'assigned' police officer. I think there was one security guy but he didn't have much to do.
That’s right. NRA has by 2024 put 400+ millions guns on the streets.
No doubt... I haven't been to the local mall in more than 5 years.
Now, WHY would that be?🤔 Hmmm ..oh yeah, "diversity"
I’ve never felt that need.
By the time babies grow up they won't even know what a mall is. Back then people respected one another, dressed well and behaved. A sign of the times.
And prices were good and not out of control like today....even buying a simple soda is so expensive 🖕🖕🖕 these times
So few fat folk too…kind of interesting.
@@lornalewis9798 LOL! I think because it was pre-cell phone days when people actually got up and walked around and weren't addicted to their cell phones and kids went out and played instead of being on their devices also.
No riots or homeless camps around the building.
@@Number4lead True. It says in the bible that in the end times men's hearts will wax cold and they certainly have in the last few years. People are mean and rude with no conscience. I see clips of them walking out of Walmart with full grocery carts that they didn't pay one dime for.
I am Gen x and I so miss mall days. Meeting up with friends, clothes shopping, then lunch at food court. Yes we have that now. It's not the same. Everything was cheaper and more accessible. Like I miss Sanrio store, it was my fave place. Granted every store has hello kitty now, but it isn't the same. Ppl were friendlier and customer service was great. It was happy times as well as affordable times. Buying cassettes of ur fave music. Getting the latest release. Clothes were in bright neon colors and it smelled so good everywhere u went. It was so pleasing environment, just to sit and enjoy water rippling on rocks. I want to go back everyday.
Notice the calm,NOT yelling and drama everywhere.The time when people had good common sense!
And RESPECT for oneanother.
We weren't wired by the electronic gadgets in our hands - we had time to take in the actual, real world.
And I guess we’re going to COMPLETELY ignore the demographics in this video? Yeah no violent rap thug culture here..
Let’s go back to this time period!!
I was 12 in 1978. The "Greatest Generation" was in charge that is why it was so peaceful.
I love watching old footage like this, but at the same time it makes me so sad. I feel like I'm im constant mourning for the world we've lost.
Pre-boomer generations felt that way about the pre-World War II era back then. That’s how we got *Annie.*
@@AttmayI'm not a boomer and that doesn't make how I feel less relevant or true.
@@jayalexander3356. I was 14 that year so yes you are right. The people that are gone hurts the most. A cool thing though is the woods have doubled in size and old cow pastures are loaded with pucker brush and tree saplings giving more habitat for game and critters.
Heart attacks and cancer were mostly fatal.
@@scottstempmail9045 - And not as common because people did not have as many chemicals in their foods (cancer) and were more active and slimmer (heart attacks).
Those were the days that people enjoyed going to the mall on the weekend, checking out the stores, eating at the food court and a place that teenagers hung out to socialize. No one would even think of doing a hit and run theft of stores in the mall. Much more dignity, honest and morals back then.
Something else you rarely see nowadays: good customer service..the gentleman helping the lady trying on shoes.
I miss those days when America was populated with normal people.
Same.
And no one was walking around with their nose in a cell phone
@@takethestagelv202 But if they had them, they would have. You get that, right?
It was never populated with normal people. No matter what decade it was. Things went downhill after the silent generation.
The days before the crazies could all meet each other and exchange ideas on social media were the days to be living.
The one thing that really stands out is virtually all the people are thin and in good shape.
That's bodyshaming 😂
That's post-shaming.@@alaminhussain5302
It's because the food back then was organic produce, meat, dairy, very little processed foods...nothing like we have today. And PE was a real thing back then too. Also, spent way more time outside, doing physical things, it was easy to keep weight off. When we eat more healthy foods, our bodies don't need to be fed constantly, since it's a absorbing the nutrients, and fiber, etc. I had to start back eating organic foods only, due to a health issue, and I've noticed I don't eat near as much as before, and feel much more satisfied. Yes, it's definitely pricey, but since you're not over eating, it's easier to fit in. Balances out. ❤🥂💃
@@alaminhussain5302No, it's truth.
Before vegeteable oils where in everything people ate animal fats.
I live in Japan and I always tell my friends back in the USA it's like living in the 70s here.
People are polite, calm, woman have style class and dignity, very little crime, and you can trust the food.
Seeing these videos makes me never want to return back to the USA as it really is like that here and better.
What about the men?
@@purplelove3666 ....What about them?
Very little crime? You really don't know Japan at all.
@@samdunk4445 ......HAHAHAHA.....Yeah I don't know even though I have been here for over 7 years.
The fact is compared to the USA there is exstremely very little crime. The majority of crime is perfomred by their maffiea and they pretty much keep that to themselves.
No gangs of thugs smash and grabbing shutting down whole cities like that toilet country.
This is when everyone behaved. I could shop without fear!
The world felt a lot cozier back then..............
because it really was
A perfect way to put it. I agree.
PERFECT WORKING! The USA felt COZY in the 70's 80's, not anymore
As someone who was there, yes it did. It started to change after MTV, Reagan, etc. People became aware of dressing trendy and it changed things, sadly. My mom's friends went from post-Hippie earth tones, to butch hair, shoulder pads, Yuppie on steroids look
america was still america back then. a lot more open space, n a lot less cement.
These poor people had no idea back then of the nonsense world that would come in the 2020s
I doubt that very many of them had seen *Myra Breckinridge.*
You can say that again😮.
I was one of those poor people of 1978 and I am dismayed at this nonsense world of the 2020's lol.
@@danieltucker4821Me too. I hate these times.
They were too busy with the nonsense in their present. The 70s were a landslide of social upheaval and moral decay, which is all connected to our current time.
I see Hickory Farms in the background. Loved that place!!!
I miss Hickory Farms being open year round. And even though I was around for it, it's still weird seeing pre-Pac-Man arcades.
We had it so good. And we messed it all up.
💯💯💯💯
We didn't mess it up the crazy and worthless politicians messed it up.... But we let them.. IT'S NEVER TO LATE TO TAKE IT BACK. THERE IS MORE OF US THAN THEM
We done dirty bad good dad didn't we
I don’t think we did…our government did it!
Ronald Reagan got elected in 1981 and then it started it all
Three words: NO MOBILE PHONES 🎉
And no computers unless you worked in the industry.
mobile phones were around in the 70s, n 80s, but very few had them. were huge.
Technically there were cell phones then, I believe they were first available in 1973 but weren’t as commercially popular compared to today.
💯
Phone booths!
I miss arcades. Not just video games either. I miss the ski ball games and pinball machines.
It was such fun
I was terrible at pinball but great at pac man and miss pacman when they came out a couple of years later.
There is the complete absence of the din of stultifying pop music that sadly today inhabits our public spaces nearly everywhere. Also, the complete absence of people wearing headphones of any description, being the late 1970s, adds to the sense of community.
Omg I wanna go back in time so bad and just stay there.
Tell me when you figure that out. The late 80s and early 90s were great times.
Me too. 70’s and 80’s for me.👍😎
Me too, in the arcade!
I was 12 in 1978, brings back strong memories of my mall experiences at that age. I can smell that Hickory Farms store, like wood and summer sausage. A great time to be young!
Same for me! 12 years old in 1978 and it was a glorious childhood.
I was 15 years old.
I was 12 in 78, and as soon as I saw Hickory farms in the footage, I could smell it in my mind.
I was 11.
A great time to be alive.
3 to 13 during the 70's
13 to 23 during the 80's.
Was a Awesome time to be young.
I turned 7 at the end of that year.
Shoutout to whoever owned a video camera in the 70s. If you would have told me what the world would be like 50 years later, I wouldn't believe it. I miss those days.❤
I was born in Plattsburg but grew up in different malls that all had that similar 70's brown orange style. The best thing is that you could go to the arcade, book store, music store, toy store while your parents did their thing. But this also reminds me of the 1978 DAWN OF THE DEAD.
DOTD was filmed in the Monroeville Mall in PA.
I LOVED that movie!
You have no idea how much I miss those days. This was back when things made sense.
Wow. The shoe salesman is in a suit.
Ikr?😮
Wow. The shoe store has a salesman.
@@bradsmack1😂😂😂
I was 9 years old in 1978. Wish I could go back to the 70's. 😔
This was a time when the mall was an enjoyable place! Especially for going back to school shopping and during Christmas. I do miss those days!
The good old days, before mass shootings, fake breasts, and cellphones, I try to walk in my mall nowadays and I’m constantly trying to avoid collisions with people whose faces are buried in their phones, mindless zombies
Well said!
not only that, we're usually the only whi te person there! I won't even go to a mall anymore.
Mellinials and Gen z
When people finally realize ALL they've lost the real sadness will come when they realized there was nothing to lose in defending it. Thats why they're taking things very slowly.
If people understood what they were really after all the govs on earth combined couldn't defeat their populations.
Are you kidding? Plenty of fake breasts in the 80s.
So serene when compared to the nonsense in malls these days. Miss the 70s and 80s.
What's a matter? You don't like smash and grab at malls?
@@roderickcortez138 need to think on that one ...
That’s what people said back then. People always complain about the present
@@TheTrueAdonis1 racist much ? Lol. Jk
@@TheTrueAdonis1😂😂😂😂
It's amazing how much style changed in just 2 years from 78 to 80
I'm happy to be old enough to remember these days.
Everything so slow, everything so calm. Take me back this is awesome.
Go to the mall right now. I guarantee you it’s exactly like this. Everything was so slow so calm? What are you talking about?
I love the 70s mellowness
@@cmichael6117 you don’t know about 70’s and people were more friendly and polite back then.
He or she is absolutely correct!! The pace of life was much better and people were civil. Thank God for that time back then. America was not in dystopia!!!@@cmichael6117
@cmichael6117 most malls are dying and getting robbed
I was 11 in 1978 - crazy all those kids are approaching their 60's, including ME!!
I was 5 in 1978. I'm gonna be 51 in 2 months. I can't believe how fast time past the older you get.
Me too 😢
I was too !
I heard an old lady recently say "one day I was 25, then I blinked and I was 85." 😂I can't remember the exact ages but that was the gist. But really it's a privilege just to be able to live to an older age.
@@darrellpasion8925 yeah, it seems like time zooms by faster and faster every year. It's January, then you blink and it's December already.
I had just graduated from high school and I assure everybody that is looking at this with nostalgia that we were all part of the problem that has led us to where we are today in 2024. Think about it
I feel the same -- this is part of when the seeds were sown. It's all great if it was good for you but for black and brown people or females it was oppressed.
@@lesliemacdonald7976 Well taken but I was thinking more in terms of A subtle and insidious decline that took place in our society that stemmed from such actions as getting off the gold standard and people pursuing their own ambitions rather than realizing what was happening all around them was harming families regardless of color and society as a whole.
@@lesliemacdonald7976Oh for Pete’s sake, you all never stop. Same tired lines over and over.
The same thing could be said about or parents.. We lived the life and culture we were brought up in. I dont feel guilty one bit about it...
@@gator7082 AMEN TO THAT!
Gone are the days of carefree happy people thin people!
Now we're stuck with eating machines that weigh in at about 500 lbs that we are forbidden to mention which has only enabled the problem to grow.
If this 1978 mall video was 10 hours long I’d sit here and watch the whole thing!
Absolutely Sensational!☺️
If it interests you that much, watch Dawn of the Dead 1978, almost the entire film is shot in a mall like this.
@@NemeanLion- Yes, excellent movie! I’ve seen it several times over the years. Great mall from PA in that! Been awhile, absolutely deserves another watch✌🏽just sth about the realism of these videos tho😌
@@NemeanLion- now I know what I'm doing tonite lol. Thx for making my Friday nite! I've never seen it but it sounds like something I'm going to like! 👍☺️
@@LeeLeeCRN it’s one of the top horror films I’ve ever seen, but it’s not for everyone. You’ll definitely get that 70s flavor for sure
@@xevvy6857 that’s great. I’ve seen it dozens of times. It’s got a real 1978 feel to it.
People were so calm and kind compared to today.
And thin. No ugly tattoos.
@@suzanneblaylock9598 there a few people used tattoos but not many everyone has it. Now today they used most of all time.
The words you are civil and civility
My thoughts exactly. Well said.
Before big pharma were pumping out narcotics to all the kids
This is my childhood, gone forever, replaced by...well....it's comforting to recollect that opiate rush you would get on weekends at the mall as an adolescent, nothing to trouble you, you are being taken care of with by parents back then I had no clue what was coming.... and just like my childhood, pure brick and mortar stores, video game arcade, Hickory Farms, landlines, all vanquished.
The best of America is certainly behind it. Just glad that I was there to experience it
For those of us that lived through this era, all we have are these vids and our memories. It's too depressing to walk through a mall now, (and unsafe) that is if you can find one open. But just the people out with friends and family, and nobody stuck with their faces in a cell phone brings back happier times.
I remember mid 80s, the mall scene was absolutely glorious during the holidays as the holiday music echoed throughout and hired Carolers and band would roam around with great cheer… Ahhhh the nostalgia 😢
Yes, I almost forgot.
Watch the beginning of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. That's the mall we Boomers and GenXers remember.
Before Amazon, cell phones.... I am class of '78, and this really pulled my heart strings. Sad, but glad to see it. "You can never go home". No Rap gangsters, no purple hair, no sex confusion, personal customer service was the norm, no hardware in people's faces.... thanks for the memories, Vampire Robot!
Ahhh!... No computers, no hand-held "devices" glued to people's faces. lots of pen & paper... and people writing out checks to pay with... Awesome!
Seeing no cell phones or people looking down is strange, I love it!
Me, too! Sick of a society addicted to screens.
@@TVY2013 What were you looking at when you made this comment?
@@HorrorQue There's a big difference between being ADDICTED to screens and being on a wired computer at home periodically. I have no cell phone, no ipad -- just an old computer which I avail of sometimes. Never said the internet has no place -- obviously it holds the potential to open up a world of possibilities. The problem lies in millions of people -- especially young people -- being hooked on screens at the expense of real social interaction.
Right. They were more aware of their immediate surroundings.
ive always only had a flip phone which i seldom use, im only online at home and when in public im just like all these people in this vid however no one pats me on the back or even cares in fact it makes me an oddball.
I've been to the Pyramid mall in Plattsburgh, NY, many times as a Montrealer during the late 70s - many weekend drives to Whiteface mountain, Ausable Chasm, Santa's Workshop, ferry to Vermont, etc. when I first got my driver's license. The video brought back many fond memories!
Those were the days the good old days.😊❤❤❤❤❤
The old shoe store experience…can’t remember the last time I ever had shoe store service like that where the salesperson would unlace the shoe and make sure it was the right size.
Yes, and you put your foot on that metal foot measuring tool to get your size!
@@annb1The Brannock Device!
My first full time job (1980) was a shoe salesman. So long ago
I was born in 1974 and remember those shoe stores. Actually until this video I had forgotten them.
There's a family owned new balance in south windsor connecticut that still does it! Great old school service.
Nobody on cell phones, people actually talking with each other. I remember the 70’s. It was the best. 😊
No one were on cell phones because they didn't exist yet. That's the only reason. The same people in this video that are still with us have cell phones and use them daily.
@@Mike.T. And? The point is that people had to learn social skills, and not just being a keyboard warrior. And having a cell phone doesn't mean you have to be on it every instant. Some people know moderation. They can have a meal without a computer in front of their face.
Cellphone are good, but they killed human dialog interaction with a sense of attitude and entitlement
Man I remember when I could just openly mock people for no reason or something beyond their control. It was awesome.
@ohana8535 I can assure you if cell phones and TV existed 1000 years ago, people would be addicted to them. Because they're designed to be addictive to what's essentially lizard brain software we're running.
That's a memory that footage! I'm from Montreal, Canada and went there a lot with my parents and grand-parents! I recognized it right away with the Hickory Farm store. Great memories.
I just suddenly realized that one of the things that my local malls don't have anymore are water features (fountains, shallow pools, rock art with flowing water, etc.)
They were all ripped out and replaced with more blank floorspace for walking and shops when my local malls got renovated in the 2010's.
I guess the mall managers also had enough of people/kids trying to dive into the water features, wetting the surrounding area, and sometimes collecting the coins that other visitors tossed into the fountains.
This is the year I was born. My dad worked as a delivery driver for a small company and my mom worked part time at K-Mart. They were able to buy a three bedroom two bath house in California. How times have changed.
Hello fellow 45 yr old 😊 This was a great time to be born and be a child of the 80s.
Now they'd only be able to afford a large cardboard box.
Yes I remember K-mart! Our neighbors worked there. Back then people could actually afford to have only the husband working outside the home & the mothers stayed home. We kids played all summer long with all the other neighborhood kids who got to stay home in the summer. It was an absolute blast.
64 years old here- my parents bought a home in Piedmont, Ca.- a very exclusive part of the Bay Area as my dad sold life insurance n my mom was a Avon rep. Go figure….😂
@@mauricesoulis1590 My parent lived in the bay area too!
Can we please go back to this 😢
ancient history. only way to "go back", is by watching it on a screen.
That was me in 1978, as a freshman in high school, hanging out at the local mall with my friends on a Friday night 😊
Geez, I was 17 in 1978. My friends and I practically lived at the mall on the weekends. We had so much fun shopping, eating at the food court and checking out all of the cute guys! A beautiful time to be young........
Me too, class of '78! Good times...simple sadness looking back.
I was 22yr working in a hair salon. We were so busy, making good money. I had my own place, people wanted to get out and make their own way in the world. We had so much fun, glad I was there to live it ❤
I was 15. and dreaming about the day I turned 16 so I could drive.
Yep, this is what it was like in the 70's at a mall! I was in my teens then - hanging out at malls was so common back then. Love seeing the 70's hairstyles and clothes - just a simpler time as others have mentioned - none of the craziness of our current times.
1978, age 6. The mall was like paradise to me. The Moorestown Mall in NJ had everything a kid would love...Kay-Bee toys, Roy Rogers Restaurant, petting zoo, fountains with the pennies and ducks swimming in the ponds. But Sears was the best because they had that giant Winnie the Pooh in the kids section and I loved Pooh!
Hickory Farms during the holidays simply the best!
If malls were still like this, I’d go back. I was a teenager and took it all for granted. Now I’m grateful for all of it. I’d love to go into a “Spencer’s Gifts” one more time.
Unfortunately, you'd hardly recognize it these days. I miss the old Blacklight Section where they had all the posters and such. :)
After Wal-Mart moved into my area the local shopping mall was almost completely gutted. We used to have a great shopping experience, but now it's just Wally World.
I'd love to go into another KB Toys, or an arcade
I remember Hickory Farms, Swiss Colony, B Dalton Books, and Kinney Shoes. Then came Millers Outpost. Sees Candy was also in a lot of malls. Emporium Department Store competed with Macy's. Back then there was also help and service from store clerks, and the bag was free. Now everything is self serve, no service, and there is a bag fee. Jc Penney, Wards, and Sears also had catalogs back then too.
@@ericknoblauch9195 Yeah, before Wal-Mart moved in, we had places like Sam Goody, B. Dalton, Foot Locker, K-Mart, Old Navy, and so many old stores that I can't even remember the name for... The shopping experience was just so much better before Wal-Mart... That you should realize that America was a better place without free trade with China... I'm sorry, but it just was.
Fun to remember the good days… not one face buried in a cell phone, not worried about looking at someone sideways cuz they might shoot you and everyone nearby. Just carefree shopping. So sad that malls are struggling to survive & scary to think what life brings in just 20 more years.
Have you ever even looked at crime statistics in the USA from the past 75 years?
I so agree! I remember college in the 90s. No cell phones! It was great.
If malls these days really wanted to survive they would start adding more interesting stores besides the over-saturated clothing/shoe stores. You can only buy so much clothes. Malls in the good old days had a wealth of different and exciting stores. It brought people in and stay.
We won't make it another 20 years.
Good timing. I was at a mall last week and found myself thinking “What county am I in?” Everyone was dressed cheap, were overweight, and obnoxious.
Wild.
Thanks for posting this....and thanks to the person that had the foresight to make this back then. It really is a small time capsule of the way things were when I was growing up.
Oh wow! It’s like stepping back into time
Yes it is, isn't it? I only wish that when I pause the video, that it would allow me to perminently step straight back in to 1978 knowing that I'd never have to return to 2024 ever again. Hmm ... Now that just might be a pretty good idea for a movie someday. And in addition I'd be more than happy to leave every last dongle, screen, and bit of current technology here in the year 2024 as well as have a little eye-opening chat in 1978 with the future parents of Mark Zuckerberg as well as wih a few others.
A window out of time.
I started watching this and told my husband, "That looks so much like the Pyramid Mall." And then it was! That was a blast from my childhood.
Where's Pyramid Mall?
Nevermind, it's shown at the end of the video 😂
I'm pretty sure it's gone now....
LoL you don't have a husband.
@@Gamble661 it is gone..tore down in the late 90's.... only original part left is the Kmart building, which is a Runnings store now
I got lost in this video, remembering and feeling how it was back then. Better times!
I was 13 at this time. Eastridge Mall here in Gastonia, NC (outside of Charlotte) was a huge hangout for us junior high and high school kids on Friday/Saturday nights. The 3rd floor had about 8-10 restaurants/snack bars and a large arcade called Time Out. Hanging out with friends. Making new ones. Flirting with girls, lol. No drama. No fights. No yelling/acting stupid. This video is a great example of this. It stopped being a hang-out spot around in the late 1990's. The mall is still open, but not nearly as crowded as it once was. It still has enough shoppers to keep the mall going. I am so, SO glad to have lived, experienced, and grown up during this time period. Thanks so much for posting. God bless whoever videoed this for future generations to see.
We used to hang out at Hanes Mall up in Winston-Salem. Stratford Road was a big cruising strip back then. Miss those days for sure. Best of times playing video games at Aladdin’s Castle… lol
Another thing I noticed: no morbidly obese people. We still cooked and ate real food back then, we didn't get everything delivered in plastic containers cooked by strangers - strangers that may hate their jobs (do you KNOW what young cooks are capable of?!). Being fat didn't become popular until Oprah realized she'd never be thin and made it fashionable. There are some people that are naturally large, but for the most part THIS is what human beings are supposed to look like.
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No it didn't, so now I have to censor certain words. But anyway, even when I've worked low paying jobs I hated, that never stopped me from doing a good quality job with an honest effort. This nonsense where people think "I hate my job so I'm gonna do a bad job" and also the rude customer service some employees have, is plain out unacceptable. These people need to be $la**pped across the f.4ce a good few times.
And when there were Hallmark stores and a card didn't cost A minimum of $5.00-$20.00 plus. I also worked at a Hallmark store, as a young teen, as with Hickory Farms.
The best times were Christmas. The malls n parking lots decked out with xmas decorations, Santa clause, n people gathering together as a community. What a sad world we live in today with internet
Yep...Internet and politically correct democrats
if it wasn't for the internet we wouldn't be able to see this video! i'm happy that it's so easy to get glimpses into the past like this now (:
@@fusetunes that's the sad part though the world we once lived in is forever gone
So true. Christmas was always so special then. We would always go to see the neighborhood lights on Christmas Eve and the tree 🌲 decorating was something we looked forward too. Not as big deal now it seems as it was then.
@@RP-vy8st that's true, but the world is always changing- the 70s were once massively different from what people in the 1920s grew up with. change is never easy but on the bright side, at least we have things like this to preserve that history on top of our own memories.
This reminds me when I worked at Hickory Farms in the early 80s. I really had fun working there.
You had to do it 🤣 I put Hickory Farms in my map and there is a store 25 minutes away 😃 . love those Beef Summer Sausage with crackers or scrambled eggs 😋
As a kid, I definitely liked getting the free samples from Hickory Farms, I do miss the old school arcades for sure
The Hickory Farms store made me smile. That was a must stop for my parents and I. ❤
My first job..."would you like to try a sample of our cheese ball?" I was 18. Best times ever. Closed the store at night and made the store deposit to the bank slot. This was a walk to the other end of the mall which I did by myself. Can you imagine an 18 yr old girl doing that today???
Unreal! What a great story! Back in the day we were given more responsibility younger. We grew up faster but in a good way.
Every Xmas! I would mostly eat those strawberry candies included in the paper grass packaging. Even got saved choking on one since my mom had JUST learned the Heimlich maneuver.
It’s weird and sad that the elderly people walking by in the video are all dead now. They were alive back then, shopping, not knowing we would view them momentarily in a video passing in 2024
They're better off to have lived before this.
@@davidriesz8791 every generation bitches about the new generation. You are not unique!
I always think the same thing. Maybe one day it’ll be us.
This video brings back memories. The person with his new home video camera never knew that his videos would ever be uploaded on a platform for millions to watch I often see old home movies and wonder where and how the children ended up and who all is still alive. This of my era that I grew up and I can imagine where the adults are now. Some are with the 😇 up in heaven and some are still alive. Thanks for the memories
Back when the malls were full of stores and you knew not to act like a a$$ in public
I love it when you get 70's footage Vampire, and this time you struck gold. This one has it all. The primordial pre-80's arcade. The funky looking mall. Shopping for the fashions of 78. The hairdos. It's amazing just how different the world looks in '78 compared to say just six years later in '84.
Thank you. You are so right about the difference in years. You can definitely tell.
"Primordial" is a good word for it 😂 I was hoping they would zoom in on that game with the racing wheel. Probably a square block on the screen passing as a car. Kids were easily amused back then.
@@ZefTillDeath8878 That's what they will be saying about kids of today when everyone is hopelessly lost in the metaverse.
Arcades were still mostly pinball and mechanical machines at this point. Some video games existed (namely Star Wars, Lunar Lander, Asteroids & Space Invaders from '78) but they were primitive, and didn't really become what we think of as an arcade until about 1980 with the release of Pac Man, which was mega-popular and began the shift to mostly video titles.
“Struck Gold” is the perfect description for this video, and interestingly such an understatement, as well!
Phenomenal video, and one of my favs that has been posted here!
It was such a wonderful time to be alive and it is absolutely true that EVERYTHING was better. I was 11 in 1978 so I've been aware of everything going on since then but I have no clue as to when/where/how things changed. Probably a combination of things that can never be reversed. I do think we were all happier then and you can see it on most of those people's faces in the video. Everyone in the video is socializing, talking, smiling and hanging out in groups, close to each other. Sure many people smoked and most cancers were a death sentence, but we seemed healthier as well. A grown man or woman could actually earn a living as a retail associate in a mall. My uncle was a bartender and my aunt was a homemaker but they could afford a modest home, car, etc. and travel a little. Same with my parents.
And back then cancer was a very rare disease - even twenty plus years ago it was still more rare than today. I wonder how this isn't brought up publicly? Now the media tells us that almost half of us will die of cancer at some point in our lives, that's far from normal.
Boy does this bring back memories going to the mall have lunch at Woolworths and watch people walk by , I miss this so much I was 23 in 1978 the good old days now am afraid to go out of my house to many crazies out there
I was born in 1985 but still remember this feel, friggin miss when things just seemed simplistic and people were all-around decent and respectful.
Only a year and a half older than you born in October 1983
It was such a better time. Like a different world. If you werent there, there is no way you can even begin to imagine how much better EVERYTHING was . I miss America, I will never forget it. And what killed it.
I was fourteen in 1978, and I agree with everything you said.
CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN
Mark, I think about that very thing every day. I like reminiscing, but mostly it's grieving what we lost. I was 16 in 1978.
Obama killed it.
It's like a window into another world. A better world. I'd go back in a heartbeat!
I Wish We Could Go Back Such Great Times😊I Was 22 Years Old In 1978❤
Just look how relaxed it was and clean 🥳🥳
Alot of us high school kids hung out there on Friday and Saturday nights. Now, most of the store fronts have locked down cages because they’re empty 🫤 Only ones hanging out these days are elderly people walking laps because of bad weather 🚶🏼🚶🏻♀️
SAD !!🥺
I graduated in ‘76 and the 70’s were the best of Times !!
...people looked at each other in the eyes and we spoke -and listened- to each other. Now when I try to make eye contact with people, they can't hear me or see me. They're all in their own little electronic bubbles. I'm very glad I'm old and almost dead.
no cell phones no TikTok no internet etc just plain living having fun with family and friends
😭😭😭 This made me miss my grandma sooo much … I was 9 in 78 and what a sweet, sweet time … My grandma and I would walk arm in arm and get all the tasty treats …It was so calm and people were authentic … this nostalgia breaks my heart … thank you though, it’s beautiful ❤
46 years ago! Time flies! 😢
Watching this in the UK, we didn’t have malls in the 70’s we were about 10 year behind with the malls 😊 good old High Street in town for us, loved Saturday afternoons going round the shops choosing our new out fit for night out on the town 🕺🕺😊😊