Just another day at the mall in 1996
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- čas přidán 19. 04. 2024
- Footage from the Twelve Oaks Mall located in Novi, Michigan from November of 1996.
Shots of people walking about, customers browsing various products, etc...
This video last around 7 minutes.
#jcpenney
#therightstart
#suncoast
If only we knew we were living in the last of the best times. There was enough tech to play with friends but not enough to consume your entire life. Out the doors with your friends street hockey, packed malls and theaters. Kids on the corners with bikes not iPads and above all no CZcams adds and Instagram. You could show up to an airport a minute late and run on the plane. Just real life. Yaaa the 90’s wow.
What happened to the days where people weren’t on them all day prior to January 2014? Also when will selfies stop completely since 2013? They were always pointless, why do they want them to be forgotten? Why can’t they stop and why are they still doing it? I need an answer and why do I feel like they thought the way they hang out was boring originally? I do not want anyone to say never. Also when will social media just stop being too popular since 2013? It’s creepy that famous actors and voice actors and animators even have accounts, I wanna tell them it’s creepy that they do have them, when will old school CZcams come back since 2012? What’s taking so long for no ads, emojis and hearts and pins and community tabs and memes and shorts and coppa, and 2009-2012 UI’s to comeback, teenagers look good again since 2013 by not having stupid ass hairstyles and custom hair colors and clothes and makeup, teenage boys should have shaggy hair again and adults stop having weird ass hairstyles and hair colors and faded futuristic clothes, 0:01 women stop having makeup on their faces too, and people tell me that the world and CZcams were boring prior to 2014, if any of you do, you have no life like I said, also why can’t people just stop watching Netflix and streaming on their phones, Netflix became shit in 2015 when originals for whatever reason started! If anyone says that they LIKE Netflix since 2015 which their shows, you suck and have no life. Did you guys honestly thought the world was boring before social media and phones became so popular in November 2013? Everyone in the world should use cameras again without microphones and not phones to take pictures and record videos frequently again! When will all the original charm come back since 2013! What’s taking so freaking long?! You guys don’t need to constantly mention the phone craze, we all get it. People should use DVD’s and cable again often in the world since 2017! I also want tiktok and Snapchat to be banned and disappear.
The best is yet to come. I promise you. It’s going to be even better than the 80s and 90s.
@@gregdsmusiccaptures1578 No. Agenda 2030 is your future. Utter desolation.
@@gregdsmusiccaptures1578 from your mouth to Gods ears. We’re all ready for the better times
You're watching this on CZcams. 😂
80s and 90s mall was so fun. I miss arcades.
we all do...best of times..today is just sad..everything is either closed or hella expensive...litttle jerk kids play alone in their rooms instead of socializing at arcades..its sad
Me too. My parents always knew where to find me if I dont phone back lol
The AI responders always miss arcades. They are still around in Free Play form.
70's 80's 90's were the best now I don't recognize this world. 🤡
@@AmazonEnforcer A.I responders? Are you saying i'm a bot?😂 You just can't beat going to a physical arcade and spending all your quarters.
Remember when "going to the mall" was something that you just did for entertainment? You may or may not be intending to purchase anything at all and nobody found it weird.
It was still fun to do, walk around, get a snack at the food court, it still made for a nice day. Or stop in to grab something on the way home from work, it was fun. Our mall now , well, both of them, are so bad with crime, I don't go by myself anymore. I never had an issue back then and never thought about it. Not now though. Very sad to see what is happening to it.
What's remarkable is how little fashion has changed. This was 28 years ago, and almost anyone transported to today would fit in. But 28 years before this was 1968, and fashion was _very_ different. It's like we all found the perfect wardrobe in 1992 and haven't changed it since.
@@cdevidalI’ve wondered about this now, it seems like the last couple decades haven’t been real. I was pondering how different it would be to go from 1980 to 2000 vs 2000 to be 2020. I feel like the transition would be far extreme in areas other than fashion including tech and yes in spite of tech advances in the last couple decades even smartphone technology existed in an early form at the open of the 21st century
I sure do! Me and my buddies went to the mall every 2-3 weeks. Just to walk around and see who we ran into and hopefully meet girls. None of my nephews or nieces have done that nor have they ever built a tree fort and that’s sad lol
It was a way more people used to mingle with the rest of society. We can do all that from behind a computer screen now, and isolate ourselves from the human interaction we used to get like this.
I'm a 49 year old man and I'm literally in tears right now. My first long term girlfriend worked at a mall and I used to buy her gifts at The Body Shop. 1996 is my favorite year.
I’m 36 and these videos always get me in my feels more then I expect
Breathe.
Same. I'm 54 and my first long term girlfriend also worked at a mall in the 90s. Though I used to buy her stuff from Victoria's Secret which was located in the same mall. We had record stores back then too as I'm sure you remember. I'd always stop in there and buy her the latest CD from her favorite artist. Life sure has changed since then.
Your my moms age
Seriously?! The body shop went out of business at my favorite mall recently 😭
The 90’s, the last great decade. Smart phones and social media ruined it all if you ask me.
I agree
And the irony.. more than likely, you typed your comment with a smartphone and via the CZcams app, a form of social media. 😂🤣
@@cbgg1585 I was an early adopter of social media posting on AOL IM and Myspace back in the day. Despite using these technologies, I fully admit that they killed off society and genuine human interaction.
@@cbgg1585 There are people who use the internet mainly with a computer. I'm one of them.
@@cbgg1585And the irony also is in fact needing such to function in this day and age 😂 🤔
1996. The year I graduated from high school 😊 If only we knew back then, the new world we were headed to 😢
Same here. 👍
It's funny, in the past we dreamed about technology, now, seems many of us regretting it.
@jasonz4545 Technology is a huge part of the problem, but to me, it goes way deeper than that.
Wait until the left, gets its wish of a non white America, wut a mess it will be
@@IK_4Yes it does 👀
These videos no longer invoke feelings of nostalgia as much as they invoke sadness and grief. We will never experience a simple life like this ever again and I do not know how to cope with the fact.
Coffee helps
Nail on the head.
I used to watch vids like this and it would trigger great memories, now all those memories do is remind me of how far away those times are, how many of the people from those times are gone and how alien the times we live in are by comparison.
No a**hole youtubers/ tiktokers pranking anybody, no one live streaming themselves with selfie sticks or taking selfies, no Karen flip-outs and people recording them, no one flipping out about being misgendered or not being addressed with the correct pronouns, no one ruining anything with paint or soup or gluing themselves to anything in protest of whatever, no one eavesdropping on people's conversations so they can publicly confront them while being recorded for social media clout;
people just living their lives and going about their day in a public place like a functioning society.
The covid pandemic may be over, but the pandemic of narcissism is still in full effect.
Your parents and grandparents felt the same way.
It's tough realizing that the time you grew up in doesn't exist anymore but that's reality for every person who has ever lived at some point.
Focus on making new memories and finding those places/things today which people will be nostalgic for in another 30 years. They exist, there's just no guide telling you where the good old days are happening when you are living through them.
Unplug.
@tula1433 Right on.
I'm trying to remember who said it in a video I watched recently,
they said that the unprecedented access we have to each other in our current tech age is still pretty new and it's evident it's having a negative impact on society.
People can call, send texts, message over multiple apps, look up someone's location, go through their social media, etc. and if they don't get the immediate response they want, it depresses them.
They say necessity is the mother of invention. When I was a kid, if none of my siblings were home and none of my friends were available, I would just play in my room or go out riding my bike.
Now, we have so many devices and apps designed to entice us to engage with them, we need to unplug like you said and find the happy medium that works for ourselves.
The magic of Holidays n Christmastime at the decorated mall, especially in 80s 90s! So Beautiful and Stunningly Captivating!🎄
Agree. Winter is no longer festive. I miss those times so much where all the malls were decorated and you can feel the holidays 😊
I was talking to my mom about this a few days ago. There was always something magical about taking a trip to the mall around Christmas with the family. It always gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Our small town mall would be so crowded the week before Christmas.
That shot of Suncoast, I wanna cry now.
I swear that’s when I first saw anime
@@alissagiannola6197yep... I remember paying $20-30 each for 3-4 episodes or an anime film on VHS, going home to watch it with friends, and the waiting several weeks for the next volume like it was yesterday. I can't even start to recall how many times I saw the previews for Neon Genesis Evangelion and Bubblegum Crisis on ADV cassettes.
It's so odd looking at this and not see one soul staring at their phone, it will never be this way again
It would be amazing if we could go back for one weekend. Not having smartphones would be grand.
@@Lonovavir lol try it, we have gotten very use to them. Go to another country with no sim or data. Watch you scramble for wifi 😂 I don't think we realise how much we use them anytime when we're lost don't know where we are need to look up information need to contact people need to check stuff.
@@Lonovavirwhy are people still doing it for 10 years?
Yeah it's weird, I keep thinking why nobody looked at the cellphones. What's wrong with those people. Oh of course it was 1996!
@@Lonovavir hello?
Back before Amazon KILLED RETAIL
Walmart killed it before them.
Some of the blame can be placed on private equity firms. Ask Toys R Us and Borders.
Or ... retail gave up the ghost.
Many products I prefer to inspect in person, but the range in shops is so tiny; next day shop deliveries do help though.
Digital music and video killed a huge part of it. Amazon killed the rest
I used to LOVE Suncoast.
Are they still around?
I loved Suncoast until looters burned it down thanks to Hurricane Katrina 2005 !!! Never forgive
OMG Suncoast! I still have some memeroablias
Me too, but they were expensive
Suncoast Video was awesome BUT expensive
I’m SO glad my childhood was the entirety of the 90s. Long before cellphone addiction and chronic loneliness in a world now where we’re somehow always “connected.” Those were the days when playing outside alone was stimulating enough and we all somehow connected first in person.
connected? more like surveilled ha
I'd give up wi-fi and smart phones to go back to the 90s.
@@Lonovavir nothing is stopping you😂 but we can't go without our smartphones travel to another country without a sim and data, you'll be searching for wifi quick.
@@LonovavirI agree
I miss it every day 🥺
Born in 1986 and 1996 is my favorite year ever
90s was the best
I was born in 86 too...90s were definitely the best. Though I also miss the early 2000s..but mainly for the music
1996 was a nice and wholesome year. I was in third grade and that's the year Arthur released!
Well, I was 12 that year but still... the future generations, I can't help but feel a little sorry for them.
Also born in 86. I miss the 90s :(
It’s like being dropped off in a distant memory where my folks -now gone- had a meeting place outside of a given store where we would meet up ahead of dinner. You might see one or the other wandering around different stores separately in the hour or two before that meal. Aimless meandering and casual reading at B. Dalton Bookstore. Many memories before being a teen of just wandering these malls alone. Good times, especially growing up in a small town with just one movie theater. More arcade scenes please.
Ahh yes I also remember going to the mall with a parent that is no longer here. Nostalgia is strange
(Sigh!) I used to work at B. Dalton in 1993-1994. Great memories. I remember it was when Oprah's cookbook was released and it sold out quickly. Couldn't keep a copy on the shelves. Stephen King had just published Nightmares & Dreamscapes and people still bought magazines and newspapers as we had a section for them at the front of the store. Bill Clinton had just begun his presidency and things were soooo different. No cell phones, no social media, and no millenials. Just a simpler, happier time.
Same. Thanks for putting this into words so well. I really loved B. Dalton especially, and Waldenbooks too.
Some of these are hard to watch, because they were such amazing times. Very different from today. I have so many wonderful memories in the mall… with my family, my friends. In ‘94 during my junior year of HS I saw this beautiful girl working one of the makeup stations at Glamour Shots. I sent my buddy in to let her know I thought she was pretty and if she was interested and did she want to trade numbers etc. I was shy-ish, and that’s how some of us living in the real world at the time did things. That girl liked me back, we married in ’97 and we’ll be celebrating 27 yrs this fall. They said we’d never make it. We literally had a family while both going to college and living in this tiny apartment. But we did it and we had so much fun!! God those times were great and it’s all just gone by so fast. As of 2023 we’re now empty nesters and enjoying life like we did when we very first started going out.
So just looking back on these vids from the 80s and 90s brings wonderful memories but also some sadness too because it’s kind of a bygone era. Young people today live their lives mostly online. Times are hard, there’s so much division, very little stabilization (to put it lightly). It wasn’t like this when we were coming up. We put ourselves thru school (with some help from one grandparent) we had cars, we bought our first home and then traded up years later. How could the every day young family even do that today? I worry about my own kids, their kids someday. We really missed the mark somewhere as a society in recent years. Apologies for sounding so glum.
Edit: and thank you so much for these time capsule of vids, they’re real treats. 🙏
millennials and up will never find true love
Love this post ❤❤
We used to be a functioning society.
When will that comeback?
@@MorganNye when liberalism is defeated and the immigrants stop coming
@@liamloxley1222 IT BETTER COMEBACK!!! Did they never like how the world was pre 2014?
@@liamloxley1222 Yeah I know that!
Now we're all independent, don't need each other, so can burn bridges and live in isolation hooked on our Internet God.
Worked in the mall for 15 years, best time of my life. Always good food, had a nice culture of people that would hang out before and after work. Always had someone to spend time with or have a conversation with. The movies were always close by. Never missed a record release, was always first to the box office for concert tickets. I always tell people to go ahead and work there if the opportunity is right. Mall culture can be awesome if you embrace it a certain way.
Same. When I was a teen, I worked for some retail shops in the mall from record shops to clothes. You are trained how to deal with people of all walks of life, happy or angry, etc. at a young age, think what they are thinking, and it has helped me in business.
Honestly phones messed this generation up people are looking down on their phones and no more human interaction 😢
Yup I managed a full service restaurant (with a bar and all) located in a mall from 1998 till 2001, my late 20s till I was 31, and those were some of the best years of my life. I would trade the manager of a nearby theater a bar tab for movie passes all the time. To top it off, I lived in an apartment that was literally a block from the mall the whole time, some wild stuff went down in that place with various mall employees !!!
@@treysimmons7707 that wasn't The Meadows Mall in Las Vegas, was it?
@@treysimmons7707 and I guarantee you that the rent you were paying in that apartment was only a QUARTER of what the rents are today!!! Oh how I wish I could go back to the simplicity of the 80s and 90s. Life was just so much better.
The 90’s was like a spin off of the 80’s great times!
Yes, the party was winding down at that point.
The 80's truly ended around 93, I kind of feel like the 90's stretched into 2005.
@@devinc9 I agree … I noticed a big change start to take place after 2015-2016
I remember spending hours every week walking around various malls in my area. I was young, single, bored, and penniless, yet the mall gave me something to do with my time. This video reminds how good those place used to be, thanks.
A VERY different world. Thanks for posting!
Just looked up The Body Shop on Wikipedia. I hadn't seen one in years and was wondering if they were still around. Turns out they dissolved just last month - March 2024.
Lol, Thank you, I was just trying to remember the name of the store. Thank you and was wondering too, if they were still in business.
The Body Shop at my local mall here in Henderson, NV closed not too long ago...
Well, that's too bad. They have some great products. I just looked on eBay, and it seems that sellers already know that they can charge more for my favorite items.
Another one gone.
@@Mexicano1768 The Galleria? yes, the only place I see Body Shop products is at Ulta now. they have a very small section of it and it is always stocked. no one really buys it anymore. it used to be such a thing, but not now.
The fun and the electricity of the Malls is gone. Especially on Saturday when we would spend the whole day there. I really miss those times… 😢
This electricity in malls still exists in Japan. I hope it never goes away there.
Fun and electricity is gone period. 😢
@@PeepGamePopoff agreed! 👍
@@iamsoogi I love Japan & the shopping experience in Tokyo. I can’t wait till I can afford to go back there again
@@donsatman2273 Me too. I just got back from visiting and I was happy to see the liveliness of the 90s still persists over there!
It's so close I feel like I can go right back. I know I can't but I want to every day. These days it's all soulless, self check out digital bs. I genuinely miss the 90s.
Can't go back. Can go to a lot of these same malls but now they are either remodeled or abandoned. You may still see the signs of stores like Suncoast but now they are just a distant memory of a time gone. Suncoast was part of the themed entertainment boom of the 90s. It's like wanting to go home but it doesn't exist anymore.
You're definitely not alone! I feel this just about every day, as well. Soulless is a perfect way to describe modern times and society. I also hate self-checkouts. I still enjoy the human interaction at a register with someone behind the counter.
People were so much more approachable back then. Less egotistical, not everything was about themselves or their looks or showing off. People were genuinely kind. That was one reason why the mall experience won't ever be the same even if malls were to ever make a comeback.
Thanks to Social Media for making people awkward and dislikable.
The make up of our population now assures we can never go back. Just look at Mall of America.
I worked at a mall in 96 (Kay-Bee Toys on Christmas eve, omg) and trust me: there were just as many assholes then as there are now, back then they simply didn't get filmed and posted to tiktok.
Don't forget Amazon arriving and eliminating the need for malls altogether!
@@traderduke2 Malls die to mismanagement and not being to adjust to changing local demographics, not Amazon. I have a mall near me that is pretty dead, but there’s tons of retail surrounding it that’s thriving. I also have malls (that’s right, plural) that are doing great because they have stores that people actually want to shop at.
Vampire Robot with another dose of nostalgia. Thanks for sharing all the slice of life that you do.
Thanks 😊
I was a HS freshman in 96. We went to the mall just to hang out. Most of the time just ate at the food court, played arcades, and walked around just to chill out with friends. Miss those days.
1996 was a great year Scream Resident Evil and Tom. Raider were released that year
Along with Donkey Kong Country 3 and Nintendo 64! Playing Super Mario 64 was mind-blowing back in 1996!
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire 🎮
Marilyn Manson: Antichrist Superstar 💿
Rammstein: Seemann (single) 💿
@@treystephens6166 Fellow Rammstein fan here! Went to see them twice! Been a fan of them since Spring 1998!
@@Silvergun_Raven RAMMSTEIN IST DIE BESTE 🔥 they're my NUMBER ONE!!!
Suncoast!!!!! Holy hell, i cant even remember the last time i was in a suncoast store. Also good to see Independence Day playing on the tv screen.
I used to love that store myself! 😊
Remember when DVD Movies were like $59.99 or more? I remember buying 5 movies for $285 after tax thubking was a good deal. Lol 😂
@@mrsjackbauer1 The mall by me still has the front of a Sun Coast video (the movie marcee, the spaces for all the tvs etc. etc.). I believe it is still there. I haven't been to the mall in quite awhile!
thats where my grandma would take me to buy godzilla imported vhs!!
@@JamesNGames No… I can’t remember when DVDs were that expensive… I remember when VHS movies were insanely expensive for a while after they were first released, but the price dropped after a year. Jurassic Park was the first movie I remember NOT having that 1 year expensive gap. I remember DVDs being relatively cheap all along.
Born in 81' and the 90s mall were my teen years. Greatly recall the early 90s arcades fighting game and beat-em-ups resurgence, and who could ever forget the absolute majesty that was Christmas time? You thought Santa's area is busy now? People were crowded for him! I loved shopping for CDs but buying VHS tapes wasnt really the norm as renting was mostly what people did. Still, stores like Warner Bros and the Disney Store were greatly ambitious and this was the funnest place to be, period. So glad I was there during all this.
Ur kid
Look, no cell phones in sight. People are talking to one another.
Cell phones were around in 96 poor people could not afford it yet
@@MondeyKing Plus they were just for making calls so people didn't have their heads in them!
@@MondeyKing Yes but they were flip phones for making emergency calls. No apps. No internet. No social media. No mindless addiction.
@josebro352 I was around on life in 1996 cell phones were around the 95 movie clueless proved it but yeah technology was slow in 96 cell phones would become more advanced with internet access by 2002 so 6 years later
@josebro352 Yeah but billions of people did not care about cell phones are social media people would hang around other people for entertainment in 1996 life is different now people rather be on there cell phones then be around other people in 2024
Looking at our decaying civilization now just makes this horifically depressing to look back on.
Hard to believe in seven minutes of mall footage from November 1996, the song "I Love You Always Forever" was not playing at any point! A true miracle! I seem to remember hearing that EVERY time I went into KB Toys for like a year straight 😂
That or "Breakfast at Tiffany's" which was also everywhere.
Roll to Me was by Del Amitri was in heavy rotation too
@@plutothe9th361 Ooooh very good, I can't believe I forgot about the ubiquity of that one. Let's not also forget "Name" by Goo Goo Dolls or "One of Us" by Joan Osborne.
I always considered Scream to be more 1997 though because it was released at Christmas time in 96. I think I saw it three times in 1997.
The original Jumanji had just released a year prior
I was 19 is 1996. 😭The mall was my jam.
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i was -12 in 1996
16 here!
19 also.
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I used to love going to the mall.... Unfortunately they are dying off these days
I wish they can come back to popularity.
To be fair they were a rip off
@@MorganNye Wow that's a great way to start off a Saturday morning!
@@Ultrajamz going to the mall was an experience, a day out, and the convienience of having everything in place as a one stop shop, if you wanted to buy stuff for cheap you dont go to the mall
@@coolvibe20Thank you!
The last great decade and the best to grow up
Born in '87 and am glad I got to experience the '90's as a kid. Society and pop culture's been on a steady decline since the 2000's. 2000's weren't too bad. 2010's and 2020's, however, have been pretty awful.
man it's not even 30 years ago, but the culture was sooo different, look how those store workers talk to the customers, you can really tell they take their jobs very seriously, they sound so clean, so educated, it's like different world
They were paid better too, these days companies hire whoever for the lowest dollar they can.
How do you "sound" clean? That's such an odd thing to say.
@@MidnightSonnet not odd at all
@@apmanti12 explain it so I can understand what you mean
God i love that I was a 90's kid. I'm still stuck in that decade because it will always be the best one ever. I'd do anything to go back.
Same. I'd even take the early-mid 2000's back. Lots of good music back then. "Tell All Your Friends" by Taking Back Sunday, "The Artist in the Ambulance" by Thrice, "Full Collapse" by Thursday, "They're Only Chasing Safety" by Underoath, etc. TAKE ME BACK! 🥲
You and rinse repeat are my two most favorite channels on this platform, period. Whether during my childhood or before it, there’s nothing i love more than being sent back in time and experiencing just how fun and dynamic everything was back then, compared to now. So thank you, thank you for preserving my nostalgia, along with many others’. 👍❤
Appreciate the kind words 😊
@@vampirerobot My pleasure!
A lot of those 90's looks is coming back 🎉❤
Fashion may but this never will. It can't. Malls have too much competition now.
@@randomfools808 its cheaper to run a warehouse than a nice store
@@randomfools808 Nah - they’re just mismanaged. It’s harder to run a mall, but you need to have a plan. It used to be you “had something for everyone” but to be successful today you have to be more strategic. I have a mall near me that’s doing very well because they have a strategic demographic. I have another mall where it’s practically dead but there’s tons of retail surrounding it that’s thriving - the mall inside is completely random and they just accept anyone willing to pay the rent.
they never really totally went away- turned on the internet in the mid 90's and it's been a very similar pop culture landscape beyond people being hypnotized by their phones.. the jump between 67' and say 87' is way larger than 96' to today. It's the same stuff, with more wack a doo social norms.
@@richardludwig3673 Good points - give the people what they want, that should be the motto.
It's still shocking to me this isn't normal anymore
These clips PROVE that the world was a better place and we're not just wearing rose colored glasses.
Thank you so much for posting these videos. It means so much to be able to get a glimpse into these nostalgic moments 🥲
That Suncoast place looks like it would have been my jam!
It was pretty cool. Definitely me and my brother's jam.
i used to get all my Laserdiscs from them back then. where i lived in OK, there was no one selling DVDs yet or Laserdiscs still. and i had just purchased a Pioneer Elite combo player (in early 96). so had to drive 100 miles S to Lewisville, TX mall to get movies for it. Suncoast always had everything! ☮
That indeed was my jam! I was Assistant Manager in that exact Suncoast from 1993-1995. Great place to work, largely because the people that worked there were just the best people you could ever want to work with. Much love to Bob, Randi, Tim, Tom, Debbie, and a host of others wherever you are now. It was fun while it lasted!
Suncoast was awesome. Think FYE or Sam Goody but way more themed.
90s American Society is probably the peak of human achievement.
Jerry Springer 😄
Apologies to Iraq, Rodney King, Oklahoma, Yugoslavia, Columbine high school.
before the internet ruined society
Since the Pandemic, it's got even worse. You know, people in the UK just love to get their food delivered in a box - too lazy (or busy, yeah right) to get to the store.
Hearing spare change hitting the counter is something we don't really hear anymore.
that one quarter that always bounced up and spun around , lol..yep..
Now we hear 'spare change' when homeless people ask for it. Sad world.
@@josebro352 and then get mad at you when you offer to buy them food instead of giving them your money
I was 32, and it’s a nice snapshot of back then, seeing others about my same age as we’ve hit 60 or very close to that age now.
Holy Cow! 12 Oaks Mall in '96? I've gotta check this out, I'm probably wandering around there in some shots LOL
I thought this looked like the 12 Oaks Mall. I spent quite a bit of time there in the late 90's.
This is the greatest channel on CZcams. Thank you so much for these videos. I was born in 1993 and I can slightly remember the good times like these when everyone seemed a lot happier.
Man oh man. This stuff is so comforting. 95 was my year but damn it the run didn’t last til around 99.
1996 was pretty wonderful time.
I just remember how friendly people were and being alive and
In The US was the best place to be....Take me back
My heart hurts looking at this, I miss this America SOOOO much man.. dang it.
I love this channel. It's so refreshing to see old videos that actually look authentic and not like movies 😊
My absolute favorite videos!! Thanks again for letting us use the Time Machine!
I love your channel so much one question though how did you get all this footage it's beautiful
Cellphones ruined everything
TAKE ME BACK! 😭😭I wish I could relive the entirety of the 90s.
I worked at Lord &Taylor in 84 for few years at Braintree South Shore Plaza. Great times and people.
I remember moving from Cleveland Ohio to Louisville Ky back in 1998. The difference between those 2 cities at the time was night and day. I couldn't believe the world I had walked into. Malls jammed packed and one mall across in Indiana with the second floor having indoor golf, an arcade and many other things. 5 years later it became a ghost town. And that's probably 95% of malls these days.
I worked at a store a few stores down from a Suncoast. Probably half my breaks were spent browsing the movies in there.
Time is such a strange thing
1996, age 24. I am living the good life at the local malls, movie theatres, Yankees Stadium, Atlantic City, Saratoga Park, and the Jersey Beaches. But the Malls are still my favorite, my clothing haven!
Remember Deb? or Mandee's? lol not sure if I spelled it correctly but as a freshman in college, we would find our bathing suits or some skirts at Mandee's and Merry Go Round.
I was hoping to see some footage of a Spencer's Gifts. That was my place back in the day. I had all the cool lights and posters and even now, I still have a bunch of those decoration lights.
And when it was someone's birthday you went there to get the gag gifts!😆
Those still exist I think
Spencers is one of the few to survive from that era and still resemble what it used to be.
I miss this time period. Malls were such a fun place to be back in the day. Could spend the whole day there with friends
We all love being nostalgic and love thinking about our childhood. But man, would I love to go back to the 90s but as an adult!
This mall was a few minute drive away from where I grew up. We'd go here all the time, so this one hits extra hard. I would have been 7. Thanks for sharing!
This was so fun for me to watch! I worked at The Body Shop in December 1996, so a true dose of very enjoyable deja vu. Thank you!
We all lived just fine without cell phones, Wi-Fi, 5G and social media. Great times
The old world we used to love, I like watching old scenes of the past.
I was born in 86 malls like this were cornerstones of my childhood. That and shoneys.
'96 was the most dynamic year of the 90's imo.Far as sports, fashion, music etc.etc.Seems like everything hit a peak.That's just looking through my own scope.Could've been a different year for you.
I was a kid but I lived through those days and now miss them in every moment. Though I have noticed that the decoration of the mall hasn't changed that much. The interior of the mall still looks the same compare to today's mall
In 1996 I was 34 and worked at GNCs corporate office in Pittsburgh. That December, at our annual Employee gathering, the CEO of the company got up on stage and said ladies and gentlemen, we have to rethink our way of doing business. This world wide web is becoming a real thing and I believe there will come a time, when people will decide its easier to shop for their vitamins on their computers! I honestly thought that was 20 years down the road, who wanted to shop from a computer screen when you couldn't touch or try things on? 😢
In the 80's I'd be hanging out at Sam Goody's or Midland Records.
90's it was Suncoast. lol
Dude Sam Goody's lasted until 2000s. It was one of my favorite places.
1996. This year was my first year after high school. Good times.
Mine too, but why now side with Washington's Ukrainian proxies?
@@beingsshepherd if you have to ask the question why I support Ukraine then the answer I would give you would never suffice
@@BAYBAY_316 I don't suppose that you consistently stood with Iraq when the nuclear U.S. coalition illegally invaded.
@@beingsshepherd I am not sure what IRAQ has to do with Ukraine but no I did not support the Iraq War. I don't give a s*** which country is murdering innocent civilians , it's just flat out wrong , in the Iraq War it was us (USA), in the Ukraine war it's the Russians. We invaded Iraq and Russia is invading Ukraine. America killed innocent civilians in Iraq and Russia is killing innocent civilians in Ukraine. We invaded Iraq and Russia invaded Ukraine. I'm not sure how else you would like me to compare the two but after I had a moment to think about it yes there are a lot of correlations between the two sadly. I'm really not sure what you were expecting me to reply with but here you go. Truthfully I'm not a very big fan of people bringing this s*** up in a comment section that has absolutely nothing to do with this serious subject matter but I know some people just want to stir things up.
Late 80's and early 90's what a time to grow up in!
As a teen in the 90's suncoast and sears were a big part of my life, getting school clothes from sears and wrestling vhs and shirts from suncoast. Suncoast was also where i saw my first sailor moon shirt that got me interested in the show and manga. simpler times!
I just want to go home 😢
Before the planet turned into whatever the Hell it is today.
A bygone, missed era of life.
The ones who were there would know this was the golden age of life. No wars, economy booming and shopping malls as far as the eyes can see ..... God I miss the 90s !
I was a teen in 1996 and practically lived at the mall in those days…this brought back so many memories
Reminds me that the score for Independence Day slaps
We didn’t have Suncoast, but a similar looking store called “Saturday Matinee - The Movie Store” and that was where I found Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead on VHS, along with the Trigun DVD set and Dragon Ball Z VHS tapes that were uncut… and expensive. So many great memories of that place!
Trigun was great. Probably the only anime I actually watched.
We don't necessarily miss the decade, but instead we miss the people and places. Kids now will be nostalgic for this time, just as we who are of the right age are nostalgic for the 90s.
Highland Mall in Austin TX was my favorite place! Arcade, toy store, food court, the best ❤
the Body Shop part pretty eerie! after having recently watched TheProperPeople's video of an abandoned mall where the Body Shop was just all decayed and dusty, but some products were actually left behind! was kinda ghostly looking 😵💫
Ex-Body Shop employee: "Man...we really *couldn't* give that away, could we?"
That's the sad part looking at this mall. Knowing what it looks like now if it hasn't been torn down. If you do watch abandoned mall videos, you know how many stores are vacant now. This is long gone and it's kind of hard to watch.
@@randomfools808 yep!
Malls in third world countries remind me of how malls used to be in the U.S. 20-30 years ago. Technology advancing and delivery services are the problem.
Malls in much of the world outside North America are thriving.
I disagree - I think, in most cases it’s mismanagement. Example: I live in short (30 min or less) of 5 malls (six if you count the outside mall, which is a weird choice for an area that is below 50 for at least half the year). Two of those five malls are thriving, one is doing okay, and two others are pretty dead. The thing is, of the two that are pretty dead, there is a TON of retail surrounding the mall that is doing great! If it was just about technology, all the other retail stores would be closing as well. What happens is that malls have a challenge to understand the changing demographics and fill their spaces with stores to meet those demographics. Instead of trying to do that, they tend to take anyone willing to pay rent, even if said store doesn’t match the need. The point of a mall is to appeal to a wide variety of people and if you’re just taking anyone who comes along, you’re hurting your ability to appeal and retain other stores. There are so many retail options now, they don’t need malls and if a mall isn’t willing to work to bring in complementary demographics by having a plan, then there’s little reason to choose a mall and instead get a store front in a strip mall or even build your own.
@@nathanventura548 Here in the UK, mini malls (or retail parks, as we call them) are a big thing now. Mainly because our town centres have become riddled with drug addicts and other social issues.
If you have a family, the retail park (mall) is still the place to go.🙂
1996 -- when mall shopping was at its peak before online sales came along and shot everything to hell. In the mid 90's, my local mall was packed and every store space was rented out. There were 3 music stores with about a 50/50 inventory of CD's and cassettes. One store had a 99-cent cut-out bin where I picked up some awesome VHS videotapes of 80's metal bands. And yes, VHS tapes were still a hot commodity at the time, as DVD's were still a few years away from hitting the market. The 2 computer software stores we had were just getting onboard with CD-ROM technology, and you could still buy software on the 3.5-inch disks. Nowadays, forget it! So many empty store fronts now, and it never gets busy to the point where parking is difficult like it was back in the day. All 3 record stores are long gone. They don't even bother decorating the mall for the x-mas and Easter holidays anymore. One mom-and-pop vintage vinyl record store moved in a few years ago, and that's basically my only reason for going there now. It's mostly clothing boutique stores now like Forever 21, Charlotte Russe, Macy's, etc. It's so quiet in there on any given day, you could hear a pin drop! How that mall still manages to hang on is anybody's guess.
I remember going there as a kid growing in there ;)
If only I were to see a flashback clip like this of the Columbia, Mo mall. There used to be a nice theatre in the entrance where Barnes In Noble is now.
And, a CPI 1-hour photo shop next to it. Remember orange grid ceiling in the food court? Good times.
This era was during my mid-twenties. Watching this, I feel like an anthropologist studying an ancient civilization.
Please post more of these. These are the best reflections of the past because it's all on video!
Holy cow - I clicked on this because I love these videos and a few minutes in I realized that this is the mall I work at right now!!! I was born in '96 as well. This is amazing!
Things were better overall back then, but it wasn't perfect. It still had it's problems, just like we have problems today. The best aspects of the past and the present should be combined to make the best future.
90s overall is better even early 00s even though they have problems, we still can make fun as much people aren’t polarized as today.
People seemed so... normal.
Their minds had not been altered by the over use of cell phones and social media.
The style of hair and dress was infinitely classier back then than it is today.
As someone from 1994, I barely remember. But growing up, I do remember things like..how great the mall visit was, or so many other places. I miss that era. It feels like none of that exists anymore.
I wish I knew then, how good I had it. Now malls are extensions of the ghetto.
Your weird what are you thinking
Back when sales associates used to walk around and talk to you about the various selection of store items. Now you gotta look around to see if anyone is there to assist you.
well, they're all locked up so you have to get someone to unlock it anyway...
And they know nothing about anything.
Yes, exactly. People are definitely more willing to help and friendlier and don’t get me started on trying to call Customer Service if you can get anyone to even answer the phone anymore.