Shopping at a mall in 1983
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- čas přidán 11. 11. 2023
- It's ladies' night out (kind of) at a busy local mall in upstate New York sometime in July.
But what will they buy?
Something radical for sure, but let's go to the video and find out just in case:
Shots of customers buying the latest fashions and employee processing transactions in what can only be a machine from the future.
Also, a fun ride down the escalators at the Bloomingdale's department store.
This video last around 10 minutes.
#bloomingdales
#christiandior
#bigbrownbag
I never would have dreamed in a thousand years that I would rather be watching this than ANYTHING on TV here in 2023.
🤣🤣🤣
I'll second that!
lol
Anything my ass! There are still some good TV shows out there.
Anything my ass! There are still some good TV shows out there!
Look at how neatly people dressed, how politely they act and speak to each other. We have lost so much.
Trump has been a cancer
Thank racist Republicans for that
@@daniellewis5474they are not the ones who love those who shoplift without impunity. Seems those who think like you are the problem as to why we have gone to the crapper.
And how modestly women dressed compared to today.
@@daniellewis5474no weirdo they were all Reaganites back then and no normal person talked politics like the snowflake leftwing nutjobs. you are completely detached from reality and you are your own goofy dishonest strawman. typical liberal evil loving traitors to humanity. republicants are not great but anything is better than wacko looney space cadet narcissist fake race heroes liek you. 🤮
The sound of those cash registers printing out the receipts are so satisfying for some reason.
Yes they definitely are❤ would love to find one to own today and put it in my living room!!
These registers are actually more hi-tech than what I was use to seeing in my town mall. I remember them pressing and sliding a carbon copy receipt for credit card purchases. LOL
Nostalgia is awesome
@@eyeseer1nostalgia is definitely awesome 👏
It's satisfying because you miss your childhood and this reminds you of it genius
I MISS Mall Shopping in the 80's ! It was a simpler time, less stress, and kinder people. I actually, got tears in my eyes watching this and remembering.... WHAT has happened to our world
And God being removed from our schools and country in general. It's how the devil worked his way in and we can all see the destruction caused by Satan! We need GOD back and we need Trump back!!
Please don't cry
Same here😢
@@tammyscott3706 best comment!
I was 14 and back people gave eye contact and smiled!! But….. Now it’s all about divided us.
Seeing any group of people where you don't have 70% of them staring mindlessly at their phones is utterly heartwarming.
Mindless shopping is so Buddhist and awesome.
@@GremmPaltakin sent from iPhone
That was when people actually looked forward to socializing face to face. If I didn't answer the phone when you called me I wasn't home.
Funny because people like you all say the exact same thing in these kinds of videos. Maybe y'all are the ones that are mindless.
Do you even go to the malls anymore? No one does this wtf
The 80's was such an awesome era!
Much better than the 90's/
@@bobwreck3775No, the 90’s were way better. Then murika ruined the world with 9/11.
I remember working retail in the late 80’s where you had to manually enter in bar codes and stamp the charge cards and everything was gobs of paperwork! Lol! It was a pain in the neck but times were a lot more easier and people were more kind than people today!
True 80s❤
No lol
Everyone is respectfully dressed. No one is wearing their pajamas & slippers.
No one wearing those ugly slide slippers with socks
Fashion changes and so do its arbitrary and subjective "rules"
I think some of the women must have gone to the mall after work. I was a teenager in the 1980s and i dont remember anyone putting on dresses and pantyhose just to do shopping.
No one wearing crocs
@@ellemjayI was 26 in 83 and I remember it just the opposite from you. We did dress nicely to go shopping, or to go anywhere publicly for that matter.
The 80s. What a time to be alive! Take me back!! 😭❤
how many people want to go back to 1983? I was 16! Awesome times indeed!!!💕
I'm about your age. I'd go back in a heartbeat, only not with the acne, LOL.
It was so much fun to hang out at the mall. Everyone was so much happier back then and we all seemed to get along. @@jackdotblue
Sure. I was still in the womb, growing. Then finally in 1984, I arrived.🥳🎂🎈. ..So proud of our generation.
@@michelle-zd2nc I remember when the millennials like yourself were being born. The media called it "the new baby boom".
I was an unimpressed teen🙃. OK, people are having babies, who cares??
I’m your age, would love to go back to those awesome times! We all would have our whole lives ahead of us again.
Notice how much better people looked on average? Thinner, groomed hair, well dressed. These days some people really don't care how they look. It's like going to the movies, people used to dress up, guys would even wear a tie if it's a date night. Now people wear flip flops, put their feet all over the chair in front of them, it's like society has gone downhill. I guess in the 80s there was still that cultural thing from yesteryear where you actually make an effort.
Being really overweight in those days was unusual.
people care so much about how they are perceived what do you mean? i’d say on an obsessive level nowadays
I really miss that decade. I honestly feel like I live on another planet and that I was alive a thousand years ago somewhere else.
Me too.
This isn't my world anymore...ppl today aren't all there if ya know what I mean.
There was no _🏳️🌈_ it was much safer for children
I was 24 in 1983 and this brings back so many good memories. Everyone was so much more mannerly and civilized.
I miss when people were normal. There was no second, sub-universe in everyone’s pockets.
the irony is not lost that you're mentioning this on a social platform and possibly on a phone?
Now it's like everyone is double agents; just waiting to film your humiliating demise from public life (supposedly).
@@AdmiralBison this is a good thing about it. We get to watch what once was. There is good to many things and also bad.
But theres a difference when you dont have to walk...shop....eat....sleep next to your phone. Maybe you missed the whole point. @AdmiralBison
@@lastcall170 what point?
All I see is nostalgia and rose-tinted glasses when it comes to things in the past.
It is crazy that this is actually more entertaining than movies and tv shows out today. 😍Where is my popcorn!🍿😂
Sooooo true
Watch Supernatural it's was pretty good, but at the last season they throw in an okay character that's a lesbian and/or disabled to be woke. The show is like the masculine version of the OG Charmed. Can you imagine them trying to make the OG Charmed a masculine show. Sigh!
Or making the Cosby show white.
They have to sell or the TV shows lose market share.
@@elliecherise1968 "woke" a word that's lost all meaning.
@@elliecherise1968 Yeah the woke mess is out of control and has ruined so many tv shows and movies. Look what happened in June.
@@ausis6214 Nothing to see here, just a gay dude pissed at the word woke.
1. Let’s consciously divest from Amazon.
2. Let’s put our phones away.
3. Let’s wear something nice.
4. Let’s cultivate an attitude of cheerfulness, despite our circumstances.
5. Let’s take our time and stop rushing ourselves and others.
6. Let’s get together with friends and family, while overlooking differences.
7. Let’s turn off divisive media.
8. Let’s give others the benefit of the doubt.
9. Let’s delete TikTok.
10. Let’s use our energy to set positive intentions for a better society/pray.
11. Let’s insist that businesses turn down intrusive music so we can hear ourselves think/converse with others.
Any others?
what do you count as divisive media? :0 (i've noticed ive been in a better mood since i stopped watching the news for anything but weather updates/world changing actually important news)
C'mon man
We could just move to Russia, which seems to be having a renaissance. They still have some values over there.
I do all this already!!!
Hell, I still get dressed up, full makeup, flying somewhere! Haha..
I like #11 -- the music is so that you do not think and just act like a mindless robot. There is actual science to this -- consultants advise businesses. The louder the music the more you seek relief in SPENDING
What an eye opener. Born in 1960. So grateful to have grown up in more civilized times.
I was born in the same year. So, so grateful.
me too, I wouldn't trade it for anything. I was born in 64.
Same here, same year. I actually had time and money to keep in top physical shape which means I looked good in clothes and in a classic speedo swimsuit! 😊
My mom was born in 1960 and I was born in October 1983 as an older millennial
Exatly the 1960s when certain skin colors couldnt vote. Certainly more civilized times. 😅😂
Checkout was much slower then. But you don't see people getting impatient. It was just part of the shopping experience.
People were just as impatient back then
@@mark3464Yeah, nobody’s gonna act up when some guy is filming them.
@@FreeportHometown you're wrong. You have no clue how those people in the video ( that you don't even know) are reacting to said situation. What an ignorant observation.
@@mark3464 no , they most certainly were not. With the onset of more n more technology, the masses have become increasingly more impatient over time.
And anyways, how would you know ? You seem to make comments on these posts just to be combative instead of thinking first.
@@kaleendavis8427 what? It’s all relative. I was alive in the 80s. Just as impatient as now except everyone smoked then.
I was 8yrs old in 1983. That year was the best Halloween trick-or-treating, haunted house, and scary movie night with friends/siblings EVER. It was the best feeling of a "kids being kids."❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
What were you for Halloween? What scary movies did y'all watch do you remember?
You don’t even remember 😂😂😂
@@ArcherHHS Friday the 13th was a really scary movie I+II+III1980-1984
I was eight in 1983 too and I agree that it was a great year. 1983-1986 were the best years for everything. Holidays, school, music, clothes, toys, movies etc. The 80s were the best time to be a kid.
I was 3 then but I remember 1983 what a nostalgic slice this is
eat your heart out gen Z you missed the party
I feel sorry for them.
@beverlycrowell_ Me too, it's very sad how they've been conditioned to live. Even sadder that their Grandkids & especially GreatGrandkids will be totally F-ed & suffering greatly because our species has destroyed our habitat beyond repair. Along with Global Warming. 2023 has officially been declared the hottest year temperature-wise in the history of human kind. People think having babies these days is making them an "immortal" person. No, your bloodline's gonna go 100% kaput to the wayside sooner than later. Just like the Dinosaurs. I guess just enjoy life while ya can.
I graduated class of 1988, & feel SO lucky to have been a pre-teen, teenager, then very young lady all through the 80's.
It was truly a BLAST!!!!!
Millennials missed the party too. 😢
they prefer to have pity parties anyway, and film themselves crying
They surely missed it!!
I'm in my 50s now, was a teen in the '80s. Seeing this reminds me of how people dressed better back then to go shopping than they do now to go to a wedding or funeral. Man times have changed, in so many ways. And sadly not for the better.
The 80s were the best decade ever for malls, and arcades. What a time to be a high schooler. Class of 85 and loved every minute if it.
would’ve loved to see what life was like then! i happened to be born in 2001 lol, good thing is i can always talk to tons of elders n ask all the questions ab the 80s 🤘🏽
@@a-a-ron9571I wouldn't trade my 80s youth and young adulthood for anything. I consider myself blessed😊. Even though I'm middle-aged now, LOL.
Sometimes I think that some young people - anyone under 25 - don't appreciate all the technological miracles we have today. For me, sometimes it's like living in a sci-fi movie, no kidding.
Class of 85 also, so many great memories!
We used to go to the arcades at lunch time in high school,pockets full of quarters and always late getting back to class☺️
Class of ‘84 here and I agree, it was a wonderful time to come of age.
Life was so much different and enjoyable before social media!!
This is my era and why I still dress up just to shop. I was taught to present your best in public and that has never left me.
Also, you know this camera man stood out filming back then
Finally, apparently the cashiers had much more to do in those days!
The lack of majority obesity is stunning. STUNNING.
Stunning x2
Can we please go back to these times 😞
in dreams
Crack cocaine and AIDS?
@@thingserik7269 I think in 1983 most people didn't know what crack was. Most people had probably heard of AIDS, but it was not something an average person worried much about. Those were developing problems, but we didn't know how much of a problem. The 1980s was a good time. Especially the first half of the decade.
@@MaxZomboniyeah, all of the people who didn’t worry about it died in the late 80s-early 90s.
@@FreeportHometown Yes, but we are not talking about late 80s-early 90s. We are talking about 1983. No AIDS deaths were recorded in 1983. Also the vast majority of people who didn't worry about it, didn't die. Like 99.99999999999999999%
I was a teenager in 83 stomping around these Malls, you gave us a portal to relive these great times Vampire Robot! Thank you!! 👍
Best part about malls of this Era is the REAL game rooms they had🥳🥳🥳pinballs and arcades..classic..nostalgic in todays world..was a different place when you were a teenager like I was back then😎
We all must pass through the Gloomy Portal
I must admit I have a tear in my eye watching this because I really miss the 80’s
This was the year before I got married. People had social skills, manners and spending money. We dressed nicely, ate better, had no cell phones to look for items, we actually shopped and if a chain store had no stock, they transferred in the item from another location. Salespeople were available. Its nice to remember when woman had class!
That was the year I married too 😊. I sure miss those times!
Yes the contrast of how women dress and act today and comparing it to back then is sickening and disturbing. Guys like me dressed nicely too and took pride in our appearance. We didn't look like bums and slobs that just crawled out of a goodwill box the night before. Back then, maybe 1 out of 500 young women were s**ts. Now it's 499 out of 500. Back then, Women had class, self respect and took pride in their appearance and acted like a lady and expected to be treated like a lady. I tell the young guys this all the time when they tell me how these young women behave these days.
@@johnsmith-ug5tp I agree. The world has changed.
@@Benice337 me too.
@@johnsmith-ug5tp You can say the exact same thing about men
I so want to go back in time and exchange pleasanties with these people as I buy a striped polo.
Oh yes my too! A striped polo...love it ❤!
It's almost a supernatural notion, today.
Remember Layaway plans? I recall going with my mom to Sears to make a layaway payment each month. They also had a ticketmaster office located in there to buy concert tickets.
We did too. The Sears on Olympic Blvd in LA was within walking distance from our home and we spent al lot of time there. My mom always put stuff on layaway, we went every payday to make a payment. It was always so exciting when we made the last payment and could bring our items home.
And now Sears is gone! It lasted over 100 years and we killed it.
Clearly summer shopping.
You mentioned the ticket master office, and I worked
at a retail store that had one in the early 80s. I went
to work where I had to open our store. I arrived to see
a small group of teens waiting. The more the time passed,
the more the kids were showing up. I noticed they had
Black Sabbath tee-shirts, and quickly figured out that they
were there for concert tickets. The Black Sabbath, BOC
show, or if you can remember, the Black and Blue tour.
Mostly males, and looking to buy that extra ticket for a
girl, or maybe a friend to go with. By the time the store
was to open, there were at least a couple hundred kids.
The venue was in another city, because the city I lived in
was still pretty small to hold a major concert event. I put
the key to lower the all glass door, and it was at least a
good seventy feet long, and 12 feet high. It was hydraulic,
and lowered into the ground. Once I turned the key,
the kids pressed forward, and when there was space,
started to climb over the wall as it was lowering. I
immediately stopped the key, and shouted hold it!!.
I told the kids, who were also my age, that I was not
lowering the door until everyone climbed back down.
Lucky for me they did so. I then proceeded to lower the
door again until it was fully down. I then said go for it, and
the race was on to get to the ticket office four floors above.
Never saw anything like that in my life. It was a very dangerous
event, and I always felt security should have been watching that
door. They were trained better, and someone could have been
crushed by that door, or ran over trying to get upstairs. Of course
the store would get sued if that would have happened. That is a
lot of responsibility for someone who was severely underpaid,
and those who were trained and paid more were drinking coffee
somewhere in the security office. But,that is how they did things.
@@avalondreaming1433 But how? Technology? Human error?
Economics?
I miss those days! We didn’t leave the house without hair and makeup done, and we dressed much nicer. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find decent clothing anywhere, everything is shredded like jeans. I realize from watching this that my standards have slipped, and it’s a nice reminder to step it up!
There is a comforting familiarity in this video. I was seven years old in 1983. Going to the mall was a special treat because we didn't have one in our small town and would have to drive into the city which usually meant making a day of it. My mom loved Bloomingdales. I could picture myself following her around in there, feeling bored and trying to wait patiently for my chance to go to the toy store. Everything in this video makes me feel so happy...the clothes, the hair, the cash registers, the lack of cell phones. I love how people randomly look at the camera like "what are you doing?" lol I know the world wasn't perfect, it never has been, but the 80s was absolutely the best time to grow up.
Yes, we didn't get an indoor mall in our town until 1991. So, going to any mall in the 80s was kind of a treat.
I was a teenager in '83. The things I really liked in the mall were the record store, Radio Shack, and Spencer's Gifts. And, there was a clothing store called The Weathervane I liked.
Noticed that to but the camers back in the day were so big you could not help but see people useing them.🤠
Miss those registers too❤
Same for me! It was so exciting going to the city and to the mall. I can still remember the smell of it - a unique and pleasant mingling of perfume, coffee, and new shoes. The hum and pulse of activity. Everything tangible, sensory, and immediate. It really was a communal experience.
The internet and cellphones have given great things with one hand... and stripped us of great things with the other.
Before Amazon and internet. Social media was called the telephone or Face to face. No smart phones. People paid with cash, credit cards or checks. Made in USA was still prevalent and stores and malls all over were thriving. Cost of things was a little higher than today but Consumer goods were made to last longer versus cheap and throwaway now. The media just reported the news not opinion. Better times Could go on ………… 😞
Credit cards, aka bank loans were only available to upper class. Working middle class or working poor were not allowed to have Credit cards. Working middle class and working poor could only purchase items by cash or store layaway.
My mom and Grandma had a credit card back then, and they definitely were not upper class
The technology we have today is great. It's the philosophy of 1983 we need to bring back. Everyone wasn't offended by everything. You could fight back in self defense. We did not have school uniform requirements in public schools. Your safe space was your private bedroom. Oh yes and kids bedrooms doors had locks built into them like every other room in a fucking house and you didn't hear anyone scream "kids have too many rights!" Oh and when a kid used a phone in 1983 nobody screamed "kids under 18 should be banned from using phones."
@@matthewvoss7365 you got that right 👍
Boy, I miss those days! Great music, great movies, great malls with great arcades and no social media!
I’m 57 and I must say the 80s were the best years of my life. Our society still had morals and people weren’t glued to their phones. It was ok to say hello to a stranger !
I'm 58, let's not go crazy. 😂
We weren't saints.
Even with the crack era....
The crack heads even had morals.
You’re right, I’m about your age, maybe a bit older than you, I graduated high school and 79
@@tstahler5420I was going to say the same thing. I hate when people try to make the 70s and 80s like the 50s.
The care with which those ladies were selecting a tie for someone!
Back then I remember making careful decisions in what to buy. Every purchase seemed special. 🙂
lots of great style then. The clothes were really nice back in those days and more selection.
I could watch this for hours. I wanna go back so badly!
You and me both.
Me too
me too just not with the smoking indoors everywhere. I'm glad weve gotten rid of that at least
I graduated in 1983, now being 58 and lived thru several decades,it was a different time and I am fond of it,people from this time cannot understand ,yes life is more modern now,but less freedoms,different attitudes,being PC,seeing the escalators ,how everyone dressed,there behavior and communication,most were not overweight,l wish I could go back just for a short time to re live this decade .Thank you for posting this ❤️
Me too. Class of 83😊
Class of 83 as well and agree with everything you said! Simpler times, nicer people!! Our country really has lost a lot when you compare today to back then. Wish we had a time capsule! Miss it very much!!
Class of 82 and thinking the same as you!
Class of 99 here and I agree with you totally even the 90s was better than now
Being a child of the 70's and 80's this is so wonderful to look back on, it was in my mind the finest time to be a child, and it is bittersweet to look back on and think how many people in this video who were thriving have since passed on, time sure goes so fast, and it just shows us all to really cherish each day Thank you for sharing these amazing videos. 💖💖💖💖💖
You took the words right out of my mouth, all of it. And I was 13 in 1983 and it definitely was the best time to grow up. My teenage son even wishes he'd grown up when I did. I just wish we had taken more pictures and videos of everyday life back then.
@@lisalisa13Yes, I agree about taking more pictures. I have so few from those days.
@@lisalisa13Born in 1970 also.
Nice,this year is 9 years before I was born.
I was only 1 in 1983. That being said it’s strange to think most the folks in this video are either in their 60’s-80’s now if they are still living. Enjoy everyday. Life goes by fast
I was 20 in 1983. After 20 your life skips by so fast. So yeah live every minute.
Forty years just vanished @@AntipodianMusic
I was 21 in 1983 (turned 22 in October) I remember everything clearly:). It doesn't seem that far back....
That's exactly what I was thinking - how many of these people have since passed on. In one sense, I know it was a long time ago, 40 years. But, in another way, it seems like it was just yesterday😢
Yes sir I was 16 back in 1983 now nocking on 57 boy the time just flys doint it.🤠
God I miss going to the mall in the 80's and even 90's. Now I have to do all my shopping online. But the real point is that going to the mall on Saturday's with my parents and grandparents and brother was the highlight of my weekend. As a teen I lived at the bookstore or music stores. I miss those days.
Same here,,,I can't stand going out dealing with the rap music on the store speakers people wanting to fight you for glancing at them,,,I shop online too and stay home in my made time capsule of my own
I was 13 years old back in 1983, and going to the mall was one of my favorite things to do. Parents didn’t need to worry so much back then. Times were different. My friends, and I would get dropped off at the mall, and stay for hours. This video brings back so many memories. Thank you
COLOR ! COLOR EVERYWHERE!! people were not afraid of wearing something not black or neutral it made for an overall uplifting mood it seems.
I think it's because people like keeping it simple nowadays. The past 10 years or so, the whole minimalist movement has taken place, and it emphasizes neutral colors when it comes to clothing. Having neutral or darker tone clothing also makes you look smarter, more classy, etc. Colorful clothing gives off the impression that this person is lower class, has lower intelligence, etc. This goes all the way back in the days, it's not a new thing. The 60s was the start of the rebellion age, where the norms started to break apart. That's when you started to see culture change, women started wearing pants in the 70s, teens rebelled against their parents, rock n roll, so on and so forth.
People are far more lifeless and vibrant now then they were then. It makes sense to me that they would wear more colorful clothing then. Today even people's voices are monotone with little difference inflection. It is unfortunate that drab is the current lifestyle choice.
Color has nothing to so with how classy a person looks. Just look at the Amish! The drab lifeless colors people wear today reflect the times we live in. The vast majority of people now being chronically depressed and morose lines up perfectly with today's style choices. @@jukio02
@@mrs.chaffee3517 yes, for fear of being labeled "cringe" many are afraid to say or do anything that might stand out.
Yep! Very little originality today. @@nellena7777
No face tattoos, bright-colored hair only if you were punk, no piercings all over the face. Everyone dressed respectfully, no one on their phones ignoring the world around them. There were no mall shootings, no school shootings, and the music was great. No one was arguing or fighting, and the food was great - no worries about gluten issues from eating it. Times were so good back then. I had such a great '80s childhood.
I don't see any Mallrats
@@briankelley7918that was the 90s. LOL. Kevin Smith film 😂
@@josebro352 there were always mall rats. I was a mall rat in the mid 80s
Seeing all the chicks with the Madonna look.
Just saying that brings me back
Also no flashmobs that's stealing everything not chained up
I was a teenager, then young adult during the 1980s. I'm sorry for the people who didn't get to experience it. The 80s weren't perfect, but pop culture was slot better then, I think. People's standards were higher.
Wish the world was still like this.
It was the best time ever. Miss these days ❤
Malls in the 80s were where all the teenagers hung out. No guns, no cell phones, just innocent fun. I met my wife at four seasons mall in Greensboro NC in March of 1986. We've been together for 37 years. We just walked around and went to Spencer gifts, the arcade, or shared some fries at McDonald's. Mostly just walked and talked to other people our age. You never knew who you were gonna see at the mall. Some of the best times of my life. We would usually catch a ride with someone and head to putt putt on the main strip, High Point road. Everyone cruised high point road. There would be bumper to bumper cars from stop light to stop light sometimes. Nothing but teens hot rods and 80s music blaring everywhere. Hanging out with my gf cruising the strip, and smooching a kiss from her on a Friday night was beautiful memories.
You know you're getting old when a normal part of your youth is seen as historical footage now. I remember seeing Darth Vader at the mall in the late 70's and even Alphonso Ribeiro (Carlton from the Fresh Prince) signing autographs at Sears in the 90's. It's weird how quickly things change and for the worst. As a kid you went to the mall with your mom and sisters and sometimes your grandparents. As a teenager you went to the mall to hang out with friends, you got good-n-high, wandered around the stores and ate enough pizza in the food court to make yourself sick. Then you get in a Silly String fight and mall security kicks y'all out. Now everyone including myself sits in front of a screen reading reviews and trying to decide what's worth buying.
The mall I worked had Ed McMahon showing up.
Richard Simmons did a workout there, met him.
All the security team got dressed up for him, like
it was the Oscars. I was laughing. They never met
him. He was snuck in under their noses. lol! His
limo driver was interesting. He was an old timer
who drove for Gina Lollobrigida. She was telling
him to drive faster on the freeway, but in America,
they have speed limits. lol! She did not know that.
Best place to get high were the fire exits. Nobody
used them of course. And all the phone numbers
from the countless, and now faceless girls. I can't
remember most of them. Just a few who I ended
up dating, and breaking up with. Great to be young
then. Kids today just try to grow up too fast. Stand
in line at Starbucks waiting with their friends, or mom
while they spend dad's money. Nothing has changed!
Except what you said about screens, and reading
reviews.
@@tomodonovan5931 I did see Richard Simmons once in person because my mom worked out at one of his Jazzercise places outside of Denver and he made a public appearance to promote it.
And some of us watch CZcams… a lot.
Look at all these civilized people, well dressed, actually working, having conversations with one another. In 1997 I worked at Lord & Taylor, it was just like this video. Miss these times.
Remember when Lord and Taylor had no registers..you had to add up the purchases on a pad and actually count the money owed back to them with no calculator..😂😂 can you even imagine that now 😂😂 Some people can't even count to 20 😂😂
@@jennifer7330Lol! So true!
@@veganhigler6541"Nothing comes closer to home." 😂
@@veganhigler6541 No that was the song from the 90s commercial remember?
Stouffer's Nothing Comes Closer To Home 1993 / William Thompson
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Everyone is so patient and nice - these are all mostly ladies working, shopping, it's so quiet.., that one old lady in the carnival blouse on the keypad, so careful ringing it all up..that was fantastic. I love her!! 💗 I was 9 at this time in 83 And this week we were waiting in line outside of a Bradlees with Mum for a chance to get Cabbage Patch Kid for my sister - it was peaceful everyone got a ticket in line for the ammount of Cabbage Patch Kids they had in the store.
My future husband worked for a department store during the cabbage patch craze. He thought they were ugly. He did see an elderly man snatch a cabbage patch doll out of a little girl's hands. So obnoxious.
I miss my mall days., I loved the book stores , Walden books , I used to shop there for hours then lunch in the food court after.
This is when shopping was fun. My mom and I would go shopping when I was a kid. Lots of stores to browse.
No ripped jeans,sagging pants,pink hair or tattoos. People sure dressed much better . Our standards have sure slipped in 40 years.😢
The ripped jeans come about 4 or 5 years later at least for myself as I sought to look like my favorite band at the time: Def Leppard. Also take note that it’s mostly women shopping. For the most part men worked and women were wives and moms and homemakers. Great time to be a kid. I was 11 in ‘83
@@innocente7795 ummmm…ripped jeans was a hippie era thing, the 60s and 70s.
Started with the loser bum grunge and hiphop in 93.
@@johnsmith-ug5tp Sorry. You’re late for the party. Waaay late.
It started in the 60s.
“Transitions Through The 60s, 70s, and 80s
With the ’60s and the hippie culture, we had a new evolution, the ripped jeans stabilized their idea everywhere and became, “officially”, a status symbol.
With the ’70s and the change of generations, this trend became more and more popular, especially among the younger generations.
The ’80s witnessed a huge number of subcultures embracing this trend after which, its acceptance increased year after year arriving at the peak with the grunge culture at the end of the 80’s/beginning of the ’90s”.
1. This was shot inside a Bloomingdale’s store in 1983. At that time they were a higher-end department store that attracted older and generally more affluent shoppers who would be more likely to dress conservatively.
2. Pink/green/purple hair, Mohawks, tattoos, ripped jeans, army jackets, combat boots, and piercings very much existed then. In the early 80’s if you were walking around malls and other public spaces (mostly in large cities), you would see young people wearing this style. They were usually called punkers from the punk rock style popularized in Western Europe in the late 70’s.
Admittedly, the look was not as widespread as it is today, but it did exist along with the preps, the jocks, the geeks, etc…
I was alive and well at that time. There were plenty of older people from the 50’s and 60’s griping about what “the kids were wearing” back then, as well.
Look at all the beautiful ladies dress so well in those times
the 90's a re better
@@user-zu3md5qz8yTechnically 80s was the beginning of the exotic fashion era, 90s had something of their own.
lovely - I was 17 in 1983. What a time. :)
My mom was 16
I was 14
Ah, before all of the headache, constant rush, and distraction of today. When people actually talked with each other, you could get high quality products, and customer service wasn’t a joke, or just handled by a recording or a bot. I was only 4 at the time of this, but I still have so many awesome memories of the mall from around 1983 to 1989.
+1 regarding high quality products. Now it's just all shit no matter how much you pay
1981 to 1989 were great years
And if workers were rude they got fired. Now workers can be rude and it's normal, heck can barely find people to work!
At 6:18 everyone is well dressed and the mall decor is warm and welcoming.
Not a mall. This is Bloomingdale’s in the heart of Manhattan.
@@chalkloungeYes, but it's the same difference there's still that mellow 80s lighting instead of the interrogation led lighting we have now.
@@chalkloungeSome old people are famous now.🤭
The year I graduated high school. I worked retail all through high school and college, the cash registers brought back so many memories. I forgot how we never left the house without our hair done, makeup and dressed up no sweats, yoga pants or cell phones.
I love watching these type of videos! I can instantly recall the sound of the cash register when it prints the receipts!
I loved that sound then and now...instantly relaxes me
Yes I love that too,,, and the different indicator lights on the board above her fingers( for bank check info)?would love to have one of those registers today but cannot find one 😢those were real cash registers 💯
Spectacular!
Need a VR version of this so we can walk the mall, shopping alongside these pleasant 80’s people and surroundings☺️ Thanks for these awesome videos!
Is there a VR that allows you to taste food? Because I swear the food was better back then.
@@matthiasheppeyeah, it might have been closer to real food than the processed product we eat now
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Lab-grown hamburgers nowadays. Or since the 2010s at least.
@@matthiasheppeyes it was better. It was real food then.
@@matthiasheppe It's cause everything these days are cooked in seed, and vegetable oils while stuff back then used ingredients such as beef tallow. It's the explicit reason why McDonalds fries and food changed so much in flavor due to their change from the use of tallow to oil. It's likely also why people always feel like shit because any oils other than Avocado, Olive, and Coconut are linked to inflammation of the gut and intestinal tract which can result in higher occurrence of cancer cells developing due to intestinal and stomach cells frequently being damaged through the inflammation process. But, hey, at least you wont have a heart attack eating McDonalds every day while they use oils, as said by Phil Sokolof, who funded the studies that linked oils to being better for consumption than tallow (doubt).
Back when malls allowed smoking, and everything was there and relatively new still. Ah how much I miss the 80s. If they ever make time machines a real thing, I'd disappear back to the 80s and just live there forever. I remember in elementary school in the 80s when cans of coke were just 50 cents and anything in the vending machines snack/candy bar wise was 50 cents or less as well. So for $1 you could get yourself a soda and a candy bar.
Like Sylvie living in the 80s McDonald's in Loki to escape apocalypse. Can't say I haven't had that thought before seeing footage of them. Those skylights!
Sure they were typically greasy, but if you worked there you could fix that.
It was a better time things made sense. If I had the ability to go back in time to 1983 empty handed or stay here with all I earned, I’d genuinely leave here empty handed and start over in 1983.
And the kids of today who spend $3 for a plastic bottle of Coke will think back...to the good ole days...when dollars were a thing.
I believe malls allowed smoking throughout the 90s as well. In certain designated areas of course. I know that the Cambridgeside Galleria in Cambridge, Massachusetts did anyway.
The description is wrong. This is not a shopping mall. It’s Bloomingdale’s in Manhattan.
Ugh! I was 23 in 1983, hanging out at the video games in the Sherman Oaks Galleria in Los Angeles. That's the interior of the mall in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," and also "Commando." Watching this I feel really old now 😅
Well you are old but its okay, u lived a good life
The fact that you have all this random footage is extraordinary. Thank you.
Back before the uncivilized took over. One of the major reasons malls died.
Yup.
Our mall in Abilene TX is still busy, but not much going on in department stores except for JC Penny’s. We have a used music, dvd and game store that always has a lot of shoppers whenever I go. Physical media is alive and kicking but corporate America is trying to kill it.
I was 11 in 1983. To quote Eddie Money, “I wanna go back, go back and do it all over, but I can’t go back I know” ❤ I’m 51 now and waiting on the time machine to be invented (it probably is, we serfs probably just don’t get to have access).
I was told "wormholes" in the deep woods would also do the trick of going back in time.
You really need to educate yourself if you actually believe time machines have been, or will be, invented. 😂
@@ColossalMcBuzz I heard it only works when wearing a tin foil hat wired to a flux capacitor. 😝😝😝🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In 1983 someone was asking “why the hell are you filming this”? Now we know why. This is great
Things I noticed--there's not loud music pounding. There aren't mirrors everywhere, like the store decorators are attempting to disorient you and keep you from finding the exit. Even though it's busy, I didn't hear any screaming or other loudness. I can't even go in places like Macy's today because it literally causes severe anxiety--too many mirrors, loud music, loud people, too many signs, maze-like layout/can't find anything. Also, I remember the rigamarole we used to go through to use a credit card to pay. Those old cash registers are hilarious!
All the dresses and skirts! I was only 6 in 83, but I didn't remember that aspect at all until watching this.
i was born in the early 90's but for whatever reason i always get nostalgic & instant goosebumps running all over my body when i watch vintage videos like this from the 80's & beyond ❤️🥺 thank you vampire robot for this one keep em coming!
I experience the same exhilaration about the decade before I eas born- for many reasons I can identify and many I can not. (1964 here :) )
Yeah, the 80s was the best. I'm lucky to have been 12 during the filming of this video.🥰
I can’t get over how
Crowded that mall was. Unbelievable
Yes, I know. I remember, during the Christmas shopping season in 1980 in a mall in Wayne NJ, the mall I was in was so crowded, that I can't believe the occupancy laws weren't being broken. You almost couldn't walk.
I grew up in CT. and when the new malls were completed by 1977 they were so packed Friday nights and the weekend it was shoulder to shoulder and bumping into people in front of you and people bumping into you from behind. It was crazy.
Nowadays it feels kinda empty
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It’s just one store I guess
Prob on a Sat too lol
I just told someone the other day how i miss the mall at Christmas. It got you in the spirit. All the decorations & music. And back then they weren't afraid to play Christmas music and say Merry Christmas. Miss those days.
Man, everyone is a normal size!! Not poisoned!
Proud 80s kid here. I turned 12 that year. The 80s was the best time to be a kid. Thriller was released in 1982, so this was the year Michael Jackson ruled. At our malls, everyone was dressed like MJ. I looked a lot like him back then so I had all of the girls, and the boys were jealous of me. They all called me MJ lol.😂 You could not go to a mall without seeing MJ merchandise. I remember the entire Sears Department Store upstairs was MJ merchandise, and they even had The Making Of Thriller playing on loop. What a magical era that was. I really miss those days, and I feel so sorry for the kids today. They will never know how it was living in the greatest era. 🥰
I was 12 in 1980, so was a teen all thru the 80,s
No one who didn't live it would believe how awesome the 80s were
Thriller came out in 1984
@@rebeccaa2433 Thriller album was released on 11/29/1982, and the single was released on 1/23/1984.
You're both a 70s and an 80s kids if you were 12 in 1983.
Man what a time capsule! I was 20 years old in 83! Yikes 😳 how times fly!!
I turned 20 in November of 1983. I'm 60 now. Inside I don't feel any older, but outside that's a different story 😮
@@guerralg63 same here🙏
@@guerralg63I know what you mean about not feeling older inside (compared to the outside!!!). Turned 22 in October of that year:)
@@guerralg63 I turned 21 in March of 1983 and you are exactly right ! I was crestfallen when I discovered Minoxidil wouldn't work for me...
I was going to watch this but it would be TOO PAINFUL. lol....Damn a Great Era I had the pleasure to live through!!
This is literally the year id want to go back in time to and start over.
It's a given that because of the time frame that we wouldn't see people on cell phones. What stands out the most is not just how quiet the store is without some loud, braying pop star being blasted over the speakers, but also how much pride in appearance the people have. They not only look clean and nicely dressed, but actually fashionable. The majority seen here are also not morbidly obese and poured into yoga pants. I'm a man who just turned 50. I remember these times, and this isn't some one-off that the people seen here look and act the way they do. We had higher standards then. Now, if the bar for what is considered a standard for personal hygiene, conduct, and dress were set any lower, one could step over it. We've regressed as a society.
Yes. That's what happens at the end of an empire. So be it.
That’s what happens when you throw away the future for short-term profit.
No one slathered in ugly tattoos either. I can't understand how it became popular to look like I drew all over myself with permanent markers.
Lmao "morbidly obese poured into yoga pants" 🤣🤣🤣
@@j.sony.^ and this, ladies and gentlemen, is how dress styles change over time lol
Does anyone remember the ring tones that you would hear in the department stores? Like a bell sound? I worked for Macys in the 90’s and learned that these bells were how we summoned a specific manager. Sort of like morse code… depending on the sequence of the bells a manager would know if it was for them.
Yes! I remember in Gimbels Department Stores, the sound was sort of a bink, bink, bink. Good 'ole days!
Yes, and also a bell sometimes to signal the store was closing soon.
We lived at the mall in the 80's! 👍🏻👍🏻💕
No gross tattoos or weird piercings to be found. No furries, sexually confused or perverted people. Thanks for posting a glimpse of better days. We never knew how good we had it.
They actually had very healthy relationships back then in the 80s and all of the 99s. Things really declined after September 11th
I read your comment, and I realized that it's not just in my country that people notice how life in the past was calmer, and there weren't so many strange things.
I think it's a perception across the world.
Thank you for the wonderful footage my friend. Many blessings.
Thank you!! It's so weird how this happened. Always love your comments.
@@vampirerobot you're more than welcome my friend 😊😊
I was 23 yrs old then and pregnant with my son who’s 40 yrs old now. What a different time we lived in then I miss it
You mean to tell me that people had respect for each other in public places and no one was freaking out and destroying a store fronts for being labeled incorrectly? Wow, I'm impressed.
This is exactly as I remember it as a toddler, dark and boring. Thank God for the present day!
Ahhh,When folks were aware of their surroundings,and not LOST in a dam smart phone.
But later you would be like, oh what happened to smart phone days. So take a look around an take one step at a time, you don't know what you are missing. Am I right? 👥🤳 😢
I get tired of these old fogies complaining about technology and can’t move on. Get over it. If you want to stay stuck in the Stone Age go right ahead but not everyone wants to remain that way.
@user-14t50u4 Why do you get so offended when people point out how enslaved everyone is to their devices? Truth hurts? How social media has made everyone antisocial, even hostile and overly aggressive. It has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the sad people who have become unaware of their surroundings.
Old farts complaining about technology is always funny.
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Old farts complaining about technology is always funny.
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This is great. One thing I noticed, no one is wearing pajamas! Yeah people didn't go out looking like slobs back then, they tried to have some class.
Ain't that the truth! I was eating at Cracker Barrel a couple of days ago and three teens or maybe early 20 somethings came in with their flannel pj's on!! That's just gross in my opinion.
As a teenager, not a good idea to wear pajamas looking for a chick.
more like, they cared TOO much. everyone dresses "crazy" now because no one cares what anyone else thinks and i think thats amazing! theres room for creativity, and in the end its all made of fabric so why should you care? they are limits to it though, like a wedding party or a funeral, obviously you need to dress nice! but if im going to the store to grab a carton of milk im not walking outside like im going to be a model for vogue.
I wish i could go back to those days. I remember going shopping alot with my mom and the stores would be playing soothing, subtle music in background. It was soothing. But now, you walk into a store its like a nightclub with the music blaring. I cant even concentrate on what im supposed to get. Makes shopping stressful. I went into a Belks the other day and it was nice. Music was subtle. I walk into Marshalls, Walmart. TJ Max, those kinds of stores and i couldnt hardly hear the person that was talking to me. AND the choice of songs are even worse. Im like they lost my business.
Back in the 80’s it was musak with hits of the day made into elevator music. They could do the same thing with todays music, but unfortunately they don’t.
in 83 I had been married 5 years (we're still marred 45+ years later.). My two oldest would have been 3 and 4. We lived in L.A. and actually went to the malls (there were a bunch) quite a bit to shop, eat or just window shop and people watch. It was a totally different time and culture back then. They were great times and I would go back in a flash
Bring back the days!
Go visit a mall.
I still like to shop at a mall. I find it to be therapeutic
1983, age 11. By this time, my beloved Burlington Center Mall in NJ was a year old and had incredible stores...The Space Port Arcade, Kay Bee Toys, Heaven, Spencers, Pier One Imports, JCPenney, Strawbridge & Clothier, Farrington Music Store, Musicland, Sam Goody, Sears, Friendly's ice cream, Chik-Fil-A. People looked beautiful and had better manners. 1983 was a great time for me.
Short Hills mall, there was one off of rte 46, I forget the name, it was good and then later on Bridgewater mall.
Back when people had class and took pride in the way they dressed along with the way they looked.
Yep people in this generation the women dress like they just came out the shower
Watching this 1983 vintage video of a busy shopping mall forty years ago breaks my heart. It's not because of the ecstatic and timeless experiences I spent in malls lovingly in New Jersey years ago, but that in time, these plazas will soon torn down for commercial properties and will be remembered as engaging pleasure grounds of the past, thanks to online shopping that makes it happen. It's astounding a convenient buying trend can eradicate these complexes that were once our spending and fun-filled sanctuaries.
A mall is a commercial property...
@@ColtraneTaylorI meant other commercial replacements like medical facilities and high-rise condos to replace these soon-to-be mall demolitions. Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, NJ, will face the wrecking ball next year.
@@isabelbeckerman9226 Righto. I think the malls worth keeping are those which kept their older design.
Our Sears has completely been turned into a medical equipment store by the monopolized hospital system here.
Black Rock corporation is turning the malls into housing for all the illegals they are purposely flooding the country with to destroy us (and replace us).
2:16 that register! The status lights! Like a car instrument cluster!
The good old days are long gone but not forgotten…the classy dresses are now replaced by dirty slippers and pajamas
I remember a store in our mall called Bergner's that was very nice. Escalators and glass elevators. I'm glad I was able to experience this in the 80s as a kid. The customer service and one-on-one interaction is so strange now.
We came from much better days...❤
i was 13 in '83.
the mall was my babysitter.
so nice to reflect back at a more simpler time when amazon wasn't killing the malls.
p.s.
shop local people!
Amazon didn't kill the malls. The culture of the new America did. Just thugs and punks. Mall thrive in places where that hasn't seeped in fully.
I turned 10 that year, and I love watching this. Thanks, and cheers from northeast Ohio! :)
Belden village mall!
Great Lakes Mall
@@marcusmaximus. , yep, I went there a lot!
@@barbara8802 , good to hear it!
Coming here to watch how polite society used to be. I was 12 years old in '83...I sure miss how America used to be. I remember how the department store employees were very professional and classy. Today, half of them I can't even understand.
Amazing, the stores are clean and organized, and have both staff there to help, as well as products in stock to sell! What a concept! Some stores now look like a hurricane blew through them and there are 2 people working the whole store.