People watching at a mall in 1996
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2023
- Video from "The Falls", a mall based out of Miami Florida.
Footage from November 1996, with people browsing about at various stores including Macy's and Bloomingdale's.
Fun ride down the escalator.
This video last around 12 minutes.
#thefalls
#macys
#bloomingdales
I was 8 years old. Like y’all don’t understand how warm and cozy the 90’s were compared to today. I can’t explain it 😭
We definitely do understand bro, that's why we just spent 30 minutes watching this random video
@@forhealdan And we definitely didn't say bro
@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk damn, I guess all my 90s experiences are cancelled out now. Thanks for letting me know. Very helpful comment.
@@forhealdan cool
sure dude@@forhealdan
Is it just me or does everyone seem to look healthier than people today?
100%. Thinner, but also just healthier, and better. I noticed within 1 minute.
I don't think it's all "our" fault. More processed food uses more corn syrup, seed oils, and GMO ingredients now vs them.
There was likely less microplastics everywhere, and people got more ☀️ sun.....
Also, people are stressed to the max now, don’t sleep enough or as well and work too much.
@@mrjon75 It's absolutely your fault if you're obese. Everything you listed is an excuse.
@@Incomudro1963 Mudro, you seem hurt. Shook. Obsessed.
No purple hair, tattoos, piercings or people obsessed with phone.
People were so much more present in the 90s. I honestly wish social media had never been invented.
Yes, much more present and less anxious too.
Your literally on social media right now commenting on a CZcams video but saying u wish it was never invented😂 yet you use it
@@itsmartv0309 I think there’s a big difference between social media and CZcams, CZcams was invented as a video search engine. The social media I’m referring to is where you have to add photos and videos of your own life and add friends. Hilarious, right? You’re so smart!!!!! You really got me!
@@itsmartv0309😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 oeo😂o😂o😂o😂o😂i😂u😂u😂😂🫃😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@itsmartv0309I abuse substances too but I know they aren't good for me and I'd be better off without them
i wonder if the person filming this knew they'd be a social archeologist one day. Thanks for sharing this glimpse of our past--it's sadly missed and fondly remembered 💗
They probably just got a new camera and was looking to put it to use and then got bored with it soon after
❤
Well said.
I see people from all over the world under one flag together
No phones, no social media, everyone being human.
Yeah nothing is more naturally human than walking around a massive store to buy useless junk. Gimme a break
You can hear all the background chatter. You don’t hear that too much there days, unless in a crowded restaurant. You would hear that everywhere back then, but then everyone got a smart phone, and got dumb.
They had mobile phones and social media during this era along with pagers. It was the late 1990s, not the 1970s.
No one looking down on their phones
@@queenmoreau2098 they weren't smart phones though dummy
Who remembers playing hide and seek and hiding in the middle of the clothes rack. Those were the good ol days.😊
I think that's just a "you" thing. lol
Just playing hide and seek anywhere😅. I was born in the 90s and we were allowed to go (with other kids) around the neighborhood, no cellphones... There were way less cars then, so we would literally walk like in the movies... In the middle of the road😅
My brother and I were too damn dumb for that. We would have gotten lost from our mother and no cell phone.
Every time my brother and I were out shopping in a retail clothing store with my mom and not my dad hahaha. We would even grab a hanger each and use it as a gun and try to find each other like it was an imaginary paintball war hahaha
Oh man those were the days. I remember the countless times when ever my mom dragged me and my brother to go shopping with her we played hide and go seek in the clothes racks and chased with each other like maniacs.
Everybody’s gangster until one us accidentally ends up in the lingerie section.😅
Not one person stopped to ask “why are you filming me?” 😂
The blk couple even smiled at him. Such a sweet moment ❤
The sound of the receipt machine hits hard in the nostalgia.
Soriana must kept these receipt machines used in formerly Gigante stores.
As someone who was a little kid in the 80’s and a teenager in the 90’s, experiencing all of both decades, seeing footage like this makes me want to cry. I miss this time SO much, and in the last 10-12 years I’ve finally just not been able to adapt, slipped into a deep depression and been out of work. In the earlier days of the internet, cell phones, and things like digital music and the start of the iTunes Music Store in May of 2003, I embraced it all and loved it. But I never wanted, nor did I imagine that all of that would largely lead to physical stores going away, physical media largely being gone, and even physical interactions dwindling away. Today, I feel like I have no where to go, nothing tangible that I own, and that I never actually see anyone or talk yo them face to face. I just hate it. I have two younger nephews born in 2006 and 2008, and I’m told that they’re completely fine with the ways things are today, having grown up with it. But I most definitely am not. I feel like whole generations of people my age and older now need massive amounts of counseling with how things today are compared to before. But it’s all largely ways that I frankly don’t want to get “used to”. Human beings are physical creatures. It’s not good for us to just be in the same place all the time, hardly interact with anyone in person, and hardly ever physical handle or have anything tangible. I really hope that it can change. But as long as younger generations like my nephews are just fine with things today, I fear it never will.
Agree, I miss the vibe, going to record shops and book shops were one of my favourites things to do and having conversations about the last album of x band or saving money x the next tour.
I was happy
I really do miss the 90's...I'm a 90's baby but seeing this brings me back. Admittedly I move hung around the malls much as a teen but I think that's when social media started and people were starting to get obsessed with their phones. I cant say much since I got stuck on my games but atleast I liked interaction with others. Everybody was obsessing about the newest iPhone. Atleast games when I was a kid you either played by yourself or you found a buddy you knew and played the game in the same room but atleast we could put the game down and go outside. I still remember using my first mp3 player at a music store that no longer exists...it turned into a sports then turned into rubble.
@@sethnaugle984 It’s nice to know that some people do feel a little of the same way that I do on these things. Lots of times I feel alone about all of this stuff. I actually am one of those people who upgrade their phone about every 12-15 months. But, for as much as I do use my phone, I’m not tied to it. For instance, I get really annoyed by people bringing their phones or tablets into restaurants and using them. My phone stays in mg car. I’m there to eat and talk with friends or family. Not take calls from other people, look stuff up online, or play games. And I usually just leave my phone in my car when I’m in the grocery store. I can go 15-20 minutes without it. But it’s a sticking point if others aren’t that way, and I ask them if they can put their phones away in those situations. Just like with buying music digitally, I was pretty on board with social media in its earlier years. But over time as people became obsessed with it, and it started to make me feel bad about myself having other’s successes in my face all the time, I used it less and less, until I finally just deleted all of my various accounts. Aside from CZcams I suppose, if you consider that social. I honestly don’t miss any of it at all. But it does sometimes make it more difficult to communicate, when most people use that as their primary communication today.
Reminds me of when people couldn't adapt to the blip in avengers: endgame, and captain america was counseling a few people about the massive change lol
I also remember the change of tone to tv commercials around the 2000s era. The many colorfully cheesy, happier jingles of the ads became silent, monotone, post modernistic and filled with pharma.
People looked a lot more normal thirty years ago
They were
People knew that they were male and female.
And the women didn't have tattoo's all over their arms.
And there was virtually no obesity or even overweight.
People these days have lost their minds.
Not one cellphone everyone was happy, alert, communicating with friends, aware of their surroundings...wow huge difference
Back when only the drug dealers had cell phone
After the 90s, everything went to heck. This is nice to watch. Thank you.
Especially after 9/11 😞
@@Tha90sKid You got that right.
It started way before the 90s. The 90s were dark and ugly. Idk what everyone’s talking about here. Getting their years mixed up!
@@LastSaturday09what about the 80s?
@@aziza000 80s were upbeat and awesome!
I swear these videos are the closest thing we have to a time machine 🤧 I wanna go back.
😢
I agree, I'm binge watching these videos today.......
When i think I’m depressed I see comments like these and realize at least I’m not binge watching 90s CZcams videos all day hoping against time and reality for some nonsense.
Yup, me too want back.
@@pickleraspa2458Are you sure? You did watch this one. 🤔😂
I turned 20 in 1996. I met my husband then. I remember how packed malls used to be at Christmas. I used to love going to the mall!
Same it was fun back then!
I was 18 and in college back then. The mall was my usual hangout spot and I could spend hours just walking around and going to different stores. Those were the days.
Lmaooooo I was 4 years old
Same!
I was 13... good time 😊
The way people are just patiently waiting in line not staring into their phones. I was 11 years old and loved seeing this, brought back so many memories: )
Look how pleasant people were. I really miss those days. What a beautiful time❤
I think the last bit of this sort of life and nostalgia ended around 2007, just before the first smartphone, and before Facebook went from just a college student geared website, to letting everyone and their grandparents on it. It's been a terrible slide downhill for the human mind/psyche.
for me too, once i joined Facebook in 2008, my mindset changed to always being engaged with something on a screen
Ok boomer
Agreed
So very true
I saw it happen. As soon as they let the weak minded rift raft get ahold of FB, it was all over.
it's just surreal to see people walking at the mall without phones and looking around. Everyone was basically people watching . I guess it's called being human.
Yep. Jobs, gates, Zuckerberg and the rest ruined society. They traded the natural human experience for BILLIONS in personal net worth.
Yeah, now if you people-watch, people think you're some kind of pervert or weirdo. Everyone is supposed to be dutifully glued to a screen.
@@markwaldron8954I notice that, if you look around too much, people start looking at you suspiciously 😂
@@markwaldron8954 Yup.
@@ILoveTheAllCreator because they hate freedom. Conformist attitudes of the 21st century. I literally once just glanced at this guy and he literally had to open his mouth and say "who you looking at". Growing up in Florida, it used to be very normal to people watch because it was the thing in the 90s to be appealing, crowd comforting and social. Now people are antisocial and have terrible attitudes. 2023 just sucks.
I was 16 in 1996 and i remember the malls well.we loved hanging out there.🤗
Same
Me too
I want to go back in time and get some of those clothes! The 90s were such a great time to live!
Look how normal everyone was back then. It didn’t matter what their race or sex was, everyone just went about their business with so much more humanity and normalcy
You can thank our useless politicians for changing that. All they're good for is creating division which they then promise to fix in exchange for votes. Only instead of fixing it, they make it worse, dividing everyone up into little boxes and playing us all against one another. The current things we're going through as a country are not normal, and it will end badly if we don't come together as one people.
That's exactly how I remember it too as a child of the 80's and I say this as a minority. It wasn't until 2008 when race, sexual orientation, and religion started becoming major points of division. It was obvious how media, politicians, and academics all pushed for this change that brought division and backwards logic to the forefront of society. What's the most weird thing to me though is how people can't see it. It's as though many people can't see how cleverly the masses are manipulated. Interesting times we live in.
@@__-pr1of yep, I remember it like that too.
Notice that the styles haven't changed all that much. This was 27 years ago. And 27 years before that was 1969. But the styles are pretty close to today’s; Think about how different styles were between 1969 and 1996.
Looks can be deceiving
Notice how friendly everyone was... I miss those days!
Still like that in some places, you just have to get away from large democratic cities.
It was so casual
@@dapper892 Or visit developing countries like India.
I do too. It seems like everywhere you turn now there's someone that's hateful or uncontrollable with anger.
People are friendlier now. I remember you'd look at someone back in the 80s/90s and you might get 'what are you looking at?' or "take a picture it will last longer!'
Refreshing not to see one person glued to a cellphone screen .. people seemed more carefree and happier in the 90s
Feels like I'm a lil kid again . Thanks for taking me back. This is how I exactly remember the good days with my parents.
No one walking around in pajama bottoms starring at a cell phone. How nice it was...
EDIT: Thank you for turning my stupid comment into a fight forum.
No one walking around with weird piercings, pink, blue, green, purple, or rainbow colored hair either. Women didn't have tattoos unless they were punk or emo and men with beards weren't much of a thing back then either. Sigh. I miss these times. I miss when people dressed better and didn't dress like someone who just came out of the mental hospital.
EDIT: I love reading all the butt hurt comments that I'm getting lately. The fact that you are offended/upset by my post, tells me I'm absolutely 💯% correct. A little history lesson for you young turks who think regular people of the 80s & 90s look like the people of today, rainbow hair was never a thing with normal people in the 90s. If you grew up in the 90s, you would know this is a fact. Any of you who tell me otherwise, you're obviously not from the millennial generation. I grew up all through the 90s and never saw a single normal person who looked like my description above.
Yes, people colored their hair back in the 90s but the normies never colored their hair like the punk/emo people did. Back in those days, punk/emo people were seen as mentally unstable/depressed people. Normies only colored their hair with natural colors (and that was usually only with older women/men who were going gray) and younger people (usually kids and teens, never adults) bleached their hair as far as coloring goes but they never colored their hair with wild, unnatural colors. These days, you see old ladies with unnatural hair colors. If you can tell me where there are normies or old ladies in any of these kinds of videos (not movies) with wild hair colors like humans today, I'll gladly hear you out but I highly doubt you'll be able to find a single one! Even if us normies did color our hair like they did today, we wouldn't be caught dead doing it. We would have gotten our asses whooped or laughed at by bullies. How privileged you babies are that you can look like a clown every damn day. I know it's hard for you to believe that no normie colored their hair wild hair colors back then but that is a fact.
As I stated in my original post above, that was only a punk/emo thing. Hilarious that you're so upset over my opinion and keep trying to tell me that my eyes have lied. Keep it up, clowns! You're doing an amazing job of showing how embarrassing you are and how out of touch you really are with history.
@@TokyoACR didn’t realize self-expression was a bad thing?
@mychaelabeauregard8389 you call that self expression? More like attention seeking imo. There's healthier ways to self express than putting chemicals on your body.
@@TokyoACR dying your hair, whatever colour you want IS a form of self expression. you want attention seeking?, how about worrying about who’s been plaguing our TVs for the past 15 to 16 years , instead of getting upset over some dumb hair dye, tats, or piercings . Please 🙄
@@mychaelabeauregard8389 Cry about it. Oh wait, you already are. 😂
It's weird to think my 16 year old self could have driven to this mall and appeared in this video. 1996 feels like yesterday in some ways, but seeing this video makes me realize how long ago it was, and clearly a different era that has passed.
The last 20 years really did a number on this country and society.
I was 17
I was 11 or 12 depending on when this video was made.
I’d say Christmas 1996… I was 15… take me back 😢😢
I'd say the last 10 years is where the sharp decline started. Specifically when social media became the default medium everyone had to use.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusicme too!
This was what we grew up with!!!!!! Look at the fact that there are people of all different ages, races, ethnicities, languages & backgrounds all enjoying shopping and living together ❤️ People used to love each other
Then Sh*tbama came in by 2008 and turned it all upside down.
Divide and conquer
It was only subtly anti-white then
Early to mid 90s, Malls were still going pretty strong! The Mall of America was truly a marvel. I miss going to buy SNES and Sega games, brand new! 🔥
I wish it was still like this
Me too
Is still some what is
It is do you ever go outside?
@@rollitupmars Yes lol it’s not same though 😅
@@rollitupmars in what sense are you saying it's still the same?
You mean we still use your left and right feet to walk?
You mean people still breathe oxygen to stay alive?
The sound of that receipt printing is something I haven't heard in a long long time. I miss the 90's a lot, such a great decade.
Really? I hear it every time I go shopping.
@@shoutuckerdidnothingwrong
No, its definitely a different sound now. They didn't use the heat paper. It was a loud ass printer.
@@hashvendetta7226 Oh, okay.
dot matrix printer
probably not, that's a dot matrix printer, the current ones use heat paper@@shoutuckerdidnothingwrong
Its wild to think in 28 more years we'll be watching cam footage of malls in 2024 with the same feeling of noatalgia and longing to go back... psyche!
No mall is this crowded anymore, obviously there’s some positives to that but mostly it’s sad. A part of my childhood was “going to the mall” was like a weekend event
Honestly, I see my local mall pretty crowded when I go and visit. That said, it tends to be a lot harder for kids to go out nowadays with the way that public infrastructure is designed. A lot of teens dread driving on high traffic roads, and part-time jobs do not give them much disposable income either.
Malls well integrated with public transit around the world are usually crowded
People dressed better back then and also look healthier and happy
So true, better dressed and not everyone was obese.
Definitely
Yes because crocs hadn't been invented yet.
They looked a lot older too due to how they dresses haha. But considering America's obesity epidemic is getting worse it's not surprising that in the past they were thinner.
Back when it was a way of life. Teens meeting at the mall. Seniors going for their daily walk and families going to a movie. Life was so much better.
Now, all we have in malls these days is shootings.
My teen goes to the mall every weekend with friends to hang out. Our mall has a daily senior walking club. & we regularly go to the movies as a family, even have memberships for monthly passes. Not saying malls, movies + socialization hasn't died in many ways, but these things are still available in many areas if you get off your phone + actually seek them.
brutal, my town might be closing my local mall soon
Todays malls not so cute?
@@alyssapage1585 life was totally not better in the 90s, other than the lack of smartphones and social media
Even the sound of the fingernails on the keyboard of the cash register brought back a nostalgic feeling for me 😂
I was 14 in 96 and during the holidays, the Westland mall in Ohio was packed.
From what I can remember about those times is we all took it for granted. At that time in 1996 things seemed as modern as they could be then and we all thought the world would just stay like that. The internet was around and everything nobody could ever imagine things like I phones, youtube, social media and even online shopping was unheard of to most people then.
The internet and phone tech had not taken over yet 😢
The internet was around, yes but the difference is the internet was like the wild west back then. No censorship and it wasnt as regulated as it is today. I miss those days being a kid going on blogs and random websites to play games on. Hell even in the early to mid 2000’s it was still good. Everything changed around 2010 it seems.
Most of us didn't think about terrorism war and economic and societal collapse. All things that are very possible in America in 2023.
I was on Compuserve in those days and it was really expensive
The internet was a thing on one computer in the local library and the word was common but no one knew what it really was or did
No matter how old i get, i will always feel truely blessed to have been a kid in the 70's a teen through the 80's and in my 20's during the 90's.
Same here
gen x had a good time
Same! We were lucky!
I was born in 81. I feel very blessed but I have thought about how great it must have been to experience things from the 70s. I’d say that being born in mid 70s would have given someone a really amazing experience for their childhood, teen years and young adult years.
@@VideoJAO you're a millennial, this is a conversation for GenX, kiddo.
Oh my God!! Time flies!!
I remember when I was just a teenager, now I'm almost a grandfather, when I watch this video I feel so nostalgic, I miss those good old day and I hate getting older.
I would like to go back in time and stay in it.
Man that printing sound brings me right back.
Such a vibe. The 90s were truly special times.
Some key takeaways:
1. People walked around without staring at their palm.
2. People weren’t paranoid about being filmed in public by a stranger.
3. People were in considerably better shape.
Racial hate was not as wide spread or as dangerous as some would love us to believe.
@@Krix6426 I was around then. I don't know. I think it's always been present for whatever odd reason humans do that for. But it tends to spike and then settle down.
No soulless cell phone stores. No pajamas.
@@Krix6426 Racial hate was wide spread at the time. You just didn't here about it as social media was at its infancy in 1996
No purple hair, no BLM shirts, no gender neutral bathroom stalls, and people of varying races and religious backgrounds weren’t being told one group is oppressing another and that another group should view themselves as victims.
Look at how BUSY it is. And now malls sit empty… rotting away. I was 15 when this was filmed. I worked a cash register like that, too. Running checks through the printer part, swiping cards - you never swiped your own card. You would have laughed if someone told you one day people would be just ringing themselves up for their purchases. Crazy!
"You don't have to have anxiety about going out, no one's watching you."
Nobody really cares when you actually look around you
The sounds of the keyboards and receipt printers. I didn't realize how long it has been since I had heard one of those. Reminds me of shopping with my mom years ago.
Same thing I was thinking when I was watching this.
Macy’s replaced their CRTs with LCDs and their Model 4s with 4610 thermals in the early 2000s. That should be the next Macy’s video.
It's funny because I don't remember the last time I had to sign when paying with my card, I think it's definitely a think of the past now...
They still exist printer and keyboard and they still do them in some shops there’s little receipts sometime you can barely make out what’s on the receipt lol
@@ryujigoda3445 All the major stores replaced their Model 4s to reduce noise pollution. They had to do that. They’ve been long discontinued since 2005. The Suremarks remained in production for a long time and changed shape a little over the years.
I always admire people who had the foresight to realize that one day, before you even know it, these times will be gone... so record it.
Those camcorders were rare and cost big money back then!
I wonder if it was part of mall promotion/PR.
WOT a wonferful time capsule!! Thank you so much! Shopping at the mall was so normal and something expected on the weekends. My mom and I would go to the now Google offices of the former Westside Pavilion, beautiful and bright neighborhood mall ❤
At 3:40 nowadays ppl would be looking at the cameraman weirdly, then angrily asking them "why are you filming me," and probably call the cops.
The 90s were so chill. Even as a child at the time I still knew how good things were.
Times have changed so much
I was 7 in 1996, this brings me nostalgia. Thanks for posting!
I marvel at how orderly and calm most people are in these videos compared to today. I hate to say it, but it is just so soothing to watch people shop and interact like normal humans. We have lost this part of ourselves in the last 15 years or so.
there were outbursts then just as there are now.. go in any store, and you’re more than likely to find mostly decent people going about their lives. we only think all those public freakouts are common cos we have more access to them now, on CZcams or Reddit or TikTok.. there will always be people like that!
It’s because you were younger than and you had the Patience? now you’re old and everything irritates you. You act like children and people were Saints back then.
Alot of that is antagonized now because people pull out their phones & record. That didn't happen back then & yes, in my experience, people were much nicer & shopping was calmer back then, even at Christmas time. Even Black Friday wasn't as demanding as it is nowadays.
Have you seen the movie Jingle All The Way? It came out precisely in 1996 and describes this behavior 😂😂😂
Yeah….. what happened to people?
Look at how physically healthy people were.
Pre-"vanity-sizing"...
When "fat shaming" motivated people to get healthy.
@@bassage13 You have it backwards. The push to end fat shaming isn’t causing people to get fat.
So many people are now fat that we’re naturally moving away from fat shaming.
No GMOs
@@Rschr101 There was GMO's in the 90s, its been around since the 80s in United States.
I was born in ‘91 and I can tell you I loved the 90s. Even though I was barely 4-5 years old when this video was recorded. I remember going to Tyrone Square mall in St. Pete Pinellas county, FL where I live. My entire life during holidays we would have a blast at the mall. My mom would take me to Orange Julius and we would buy clothes, Take pictures in the kiosk and look at Halloween and Christmas stuff. What’s sad is that we will never see a peaceful, quiet world like this anymore. People live inside of their smart phones. I’m so thankful I was born in ‘91 and not 2001! Thank you god! That 10 DIFFRENCE matters! Social media has poisoned our entire world, and this is just the beginning. 🙌
This is awesome. I was in 9th grade. The 90’s was a great era. Life was pretty chill back then. Thanks for filming & sharing. Most people didn’t even have a cell phone back then much less one w/ a camera on it.
I was 16 and remember putting on my best clothes to go to the mall. We met with friends, made new friends and spent most of our time at the food court, music store and the arcade. My mom and grandma would take us kids Christmas shopping and it was simply a great time. Have a great day every one!
It was certainly a great time to live. Thankful for the memories.
Prayers and Blessings.........
ok so you are 43 years old. good to know
@@Alex_Gordonso you're a kid. Good to know
Ditto,,,,and was 16 too
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing your memories.
One thing I noticed is how much better dressed everyone is. Nobody is walking around in skanky outfits even though its warm enough to do so. Look how many men & women are wearing a collared shirt & how many have their shirts tucked in. Just an overall better shopping experience back then.
20 seconds in, short shirts and a skimpy tank top.
@@Mike.T. Thank you for that necessary fact check, overall every one was dressed better.
Some women dress like skanks at Walmart and Wegmans and it makes me disgusted and not turned on
People didnt look obese either, since there was no amazon at the time everybody had to walk around malls to get their shit to bring home (and yes i noticed an obese person in one part of the video but that wasnt the majority)
@@Mike.T. While that is fairly provocative, such a majority of girls on a night out or even at daytime this century are quite literally dressed like prostitutes.
😮 Imagine going to the store today and obviously sitting there recording someone's credit card as they were purchasing something 😂
People would throw a fit and their paranoia and accusations would kick in full gear
@@j-tenn226like being filmed in the bathroom?
Man i miss this time period
Back when we talked in person and didn't have our heads on social media!
everyone watched the same idiot box channels and believed what the news told them.
@@lolwtnick4362 And people don't today? lol
How original different eras
Quite a few people gravitated so strongly to the Internet because the functions of society were a failure. The same is still true. The cart didn't come before the horse
@@lolwtnick4362 Everyone still does that today. Except some replace TV news with internet news.
I was 19 back then. An amazing year, in a normal world which we took for granted. Miss that era so much 😢
100%
I was 17.
And fucking miserable. I do not miss the superficiality and shallowness of that era, not a bit.
18
@@Shorty_Lickens you sound quite content with the state your current life situation. 👀
@@Smiles4UFL Weird. Because nothing I said would indicate that at all.
You must not be very intuitive.
I would have been 11.5 years old...how totally sentimental. Loved the sounds of the hustle & bustle...especially around 3:32 when you can actually hear the clacking of the clear beads in that little girls hair! Never thought something simple like that would trigger such nostalgia. Thanks!
I was 14 in 96! Great times!
The fact that people are waving and smiling at the stranger holding the camera immediately shows how different it was then. I was 6 when this was filmed 😊
Yess
Maybe we would have been friends. I was 5
Cameras were still a fun novelty at that time. If someone was filming you at a public place it meant you might be on local TV in the near future, so smile and look your best! I love seeing people waving
It was so different. Way friendlier. Way more family oriented, and way easier times. Girls were less promiscuous and dressed more conservative. All the TV shows and movies were about family and friends. It’s basically the direct opposite of what is being promoted and shown today. 80s and 90s was the best era and you will not convince me otherwise.
@@The_Primary_Axiom Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. I wish those values were prevalent today.
I went to the mall yesterday and it was empty. All the stores are soulless and serve no purpose when you can just order everything online. All the workers hate their jobs and are barely making a living. Half the stores in the mall are closed. Times have really changed.
Same here. Mall is dead & when I do go just to try & get out the house, I have to look over my shoulder & make sure people don’t start shooting which has become very commonplace here in Charlotte, NC. We even have poor police dogs on patrol inside.
All the malls near me have closed down due to shoplifting and crime. Ugh
In hindsight, technology really has changed the world.
it only comes alive when i come around
So true!! great comment!
Everyone moving about not feeling triggered or disturbed. I was 19 at the time of this video. Thank you Vampire Robot for putting this video up. Nostalgic overload!!
Awesome video. I wish we could go back to the 70's/80's and 90's and stay forever!
Yes there were global problems but life was just better back then. No social media and "influencers"... a simpler time.
The influencers were large media companies who decided who got to be seen/heard.
No BLM ✊🏾 no illegals….. 😢
@@minipandora22 racist
@@angelinaduganNy I absolutely said nothing racist , SHAME on you.
@@angelinaduganNy saying no BLM isn’t racist!! BLM is a terrorist organization that caused millions of dollars in damage.
I miss the 90s. The 90s feel like a warm blanket on Christmas day. It's so comforting to me.
Man, malls were all the rage in the 80s and 90s.
They were the place to go to hangout with friends, window shop with mom, hear up and coming artists do small concerts, watch talent/fashion shows, admire punks, goths, urban teens for their individuality, get stuck in the food court trying to figure out what to eat, flirt and check out hot people, avoid those survey people who I now wish I had taken the time to answer their questions, avoid people who worked at those kiosks who were heckling you to come over and try some snake oil.
Though things were far from perfect, man what a great time to be alive and experience!
I feel like this is B roll film for some news station that would use it in backgrounds to talk about the economy. But it brings me back, in such a good way.
The sound of the receipt paper printing is nostalgic alone
I like the sound....
Agreed
It took me back to that year that I was working at Liz Claiborne😢I miss those day❤
I still hear it sometimes
Look how everyone looked? They looked happy, calmed, collected, friendly, healthy.
there were just as many people during that time who looked the exact opposite
Life wasn't as tragic then. The economy was good..... Terrorism was almost unheard of in the USA, and people ate a bit healthier then.
LOL, how exactly does *everyone* look all those ways you describe?
@@mizztery2994 because I was around at that time and I'm still alive today and based off both of my observations people believe it or not we're a lot happier back in the day even when I went to grade school I didn't see kids taking psychotropic medication or even heard of that, I didn't even see or even know what a homeless person was because there weren't any.. The world was a lot different back in those days
@@ATLKing404 Well, if that was the case based off of my observation, I was around during that particular time I've never seen that many people hang out, for example, at the pharmacy in or near department stores.. Go to a pharmacy today and you got lines and lines of people so what did I miss?.. I also never saw homeless persons back in those days either and I live in a large city so again, what did I miss??..
Thank you. I needed that trip back to when things were good😊
I just lost my dad 2 weeks ago in march. Looking at this video has me thinking in 96 he was alive well. Wishing i could jump through this screen into 96 and go warn him to make better decisions with his health.
Ah yes, I was still working retail in '96. Christmas sure was a wild time. We should show this footage in schools now and tell the kids "THIS is what normal looks like".
@@NES-sh6dq Guilty, but these were better days.
American consumerism… all totally normal according to you. All we did is simply return to the normal, actual state of the world.
@@NES-sh6dq This from the keyboard warrior with NES in his name. I guess you're a boomer wanna-be 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Of course, Florida.
@@NES-sh6dq Sad that normal for you are mall and school shootings. We had to adjust to this crap, being that our times of normal and safety were not compromised by any thugs or gangs. "Ok boomer." We were very Ok with what we had then, millie. 🤡
This is so soothing. The changes in a few decades become so apparent when watching this. Cashiers and workers are not machine-like, clients stroll around in a calm demeanour. They also look around with curiosity and have real human emotions. Lots of people talk to each other, it's incredible. They do not carry themselves in a frozen manner. It's almost like ASMR.
With the sound of Model 3/4 impact printers, that wouldn’t be soothing.
yeah , and i can’t even watch it … too slow 😞. and i’m 58 !!
Everyone's calm because prices were lower and not price gouged. Shopping is not fun anymore.
@flowerempress4632 Finally an intelligent comment. People need to understand that the current economic situation has created the tension and anxiety most people feel in public. In 1996 people could afford a house or apartment weren't overworked and has way less stress levels. Now people can't. The lack of affordability and stability in western countries is one of the main reasons why people have changed.
@@JesusChrist2000BCBut our President says that his plan is working and we are in an economic boom. Can't you feel it?
Wow, thanks for posting this!
I was 9 in the Christmas of '96. I can't put into words how much I miss this. I know from generation to generation everyone always says things were better when they were younger. But you can't look at this and compare it to today and even compare the longing I don't think. These days, where there are malls, it's scary to go to them. Nobody in this mall in 1996 was afraid of a mass shooter. People were just with friends and family, shopping and interacting. No phones, just peoples company. Pre 911 and world politics wasn't nearly as terrifying either. I'd give anything to go back. Thanks for this glimpse into a time missed and never forgotten
Wow the cashier registry sounds instantly unlocked some childhood memories.
I would even play pretend I was a cashier at home, with scanner and all lol
This looks to me like what the 50s looked like to me when I was a kid in the 80s/90s. Wholesome.
Wow that is just crazy the 90s and the new 50s and 60s!!! Time flies
@@PraveenSriram yes, my friend, you are right.
@@robloxvids2233 in 2050 the 2020s will be ancient in a bad way due to Covid-19 pandemic 😷 which we will probably look back on with horror
Scary to think in 30 years kids will think 2024 was wholesome. 😟
No one alive will ever witness this type atmosphere EVER again on this planet!!!! Period!!!
Life was so much better back then.
I turned 14 that year. Life was so vivid back then. The holidays were next level in those years! You can feel the spirit and intention everywhere.
capitalism didnt start selling christmas things until mid-late november. Now its here in october. Not that special if you see it more often.
Holy shit, that means you're 67 now
1982 ❤ My mother’s birth year
@@wileecoyote5749 nice math
What a bizarre feeling watching this. It’s like I remember it, but it also feels like a different lifetime, reality or planet.
Yess! This is exactly what I feel every time I watch a video from the 90s. It's like it's in another dimension even though we've lived it.
I was born in 1994, so while a 90s baby, most of my childhood school-age years were in the 2000s. I vaguely remember some things about the late 90s. I just remember that everything was simpler, and people were more mannered and well behaved. Kids actually went outside to play. Sure, in the 2000s, tech became more apparent, but for most of the 2000s, it wasn't consuming. Sure, I looked forward to watching my favorite cartoons and playing my video games, but I wasn't so dependent where I was always reaching for a device for most aspects of my everyday life.
The early days of cell phones and the internet. Mobile phones back in it's basic functions. I grew up in the 90's and had a simple life back then. Thanks for sharing this. It feels so weird seeing footage from back then and the life we live in now. People are zombies on smart phones and social media. I'll do anything to go back in time and relive those great moments again. These where the basic times. The era I was growing up in.
When people still wore nice CLOTHES, not pajamas and “gym wear” that is more like sports bras and underwear. A time when people still considered pajamas as sleepwear only and enjoyed going out and interacting together with real human connection. Phones are no excuse and people can choose to put them away when they’re out or anywhere together.
its happening in the UK too i was in a shop called Home Bargains a bit like dollar Tree and a woman in front of me at the check out was wearing pj s .
@@Goldi3loxrox oh nooooo! Not the UK! 🙈😳😫🙀
The women changed. Men didn't. Though today, I feel like more and more guys are becoming either more Feminine or more immature
@@Novaximus yes very true
What's wrong with people wearing clothing that they feel comfortable in? It's not a damn job interview lmao why should I care about dressing up for random strangers?
For some reason, high-waisted jeans look so much better on adults in the 90s. Love it. Wish I was a 90s teenager.
You would've been all about those jnco jeans like half the teens back then.
Specifically 96
Wow the 90’s look so old now. It literally seems like it was just yesterday. The good ol days. So blessed to have been alive during such a magical fun time ❤
Nothing is decked out to this degree for Christmas anymore and it crushes my heart 😢
I was ten years old in 96. Kids these days have no idea. Going to the mall was so much fun back then! I remember it was always packed on the weekends and especially during the winter holiday season when all of the stores would be decked out with fancy Christmas adornments. No matter what city you lived in, no matter how big or small your town was, the malls were THEE place where teenagers from all over would go to hangout. Good times that forged a lot happy memories for millions of people.
I was born in 1986. :-)
I was 10 in 96 as well I sure miss those days!
People were more active back then!
Same age, as well. Spot on.
I turned 9 on November 96
Crazy how people used to get mad when the malls were so crowded back then and now EVERYONE wishes it would be that crowded just for old times sake !
Yes I agree. Being in a dead empty mall is so eerie and depressing, and sadly many malls today are just that: Desolate, lifeless, sad.
My first guess when i saw the multiple escalators and after I heard so much Spanish speaking I thought it might be The Falls in Kendall. Then I saw Bloomingdale's and had to check description and I was right! I know my Miami! 😁😁
Thanks for sharing this gem!
When i first glanced at this video i knew it must be Florida bc the shorts and Christmas decor lol
I still have 3 good malls not so far from me. My kids absolutely love going to the mall and want to go often, so we make the 40 minutes trip at least once a month. We have the power to bring malls back by supporting businesses and stopping shopping everything online.
The biggest thing I notice is how no one is distracted by a cell phone. I think that carrying phones with us does way more damage to us than we realize. Back then people were present and looking around. Today it is hard to even make eye contact with someone, and when you do there is an awkward tension because people are afraid of each other- at least that's how it hits me. When I was in middle school we would spend so much time walking around the mall. We didn't have money to buy anything, but it was fun to just walk through the shops and spend time with friends. It was our first taste of independence to be dropped off at the mall by our parents and be allowed to spend a few hours on our own. Malls today are a bit eerie, especially around the holidays. Everything is decorated but no one is there. :(
In 1996 there were cell phones used by regular folks, and more commonly people, including teenagers, carried annoying pagers, so you are about a decade too late actually. It was more of an 80s and earlier thing if you want to make a point about electronic devices.
@@oldtwinsna8347most teenagers didn't walk around with a cellphone or pager lol even in the mid 90's. The only internet access we had was on one family computer. Just not being plugged into the Internet all day long makes a big difference in how we act, in my opinion.
It's a great escape for people, that little screen. We are all more closed off than we ever have been.
@@oldtwinsna8347 There’s a huge difference between cell phones just used to make phone calls and the phones we have today that are basically TVs and social media updates constantly
@@directorbeau Your wrong. A lot of teenagers had pagers and cell phones at the time in the mid and late 90s. The thing was cell phones at the time were for calls only and pagers were when you were needed/and to call back a number sent to you. You only had a set amount of minutes/hours a month of call time in your cell plan so people were sparing on there phone when they used it; hence why you never really saw people on there phone allot in that time period
Going to the mall was fun back then, the energy and expectation of the holidays especially! Everybody was happy, you could feel it as they shopped for gifts for others. It’s as if you could feel the spirit of giving in the air!
Yes, I remember that too.
I'm still happy when Christmas comes and I know a lot of people who are
Late 90s early 00’s, we would routinely go up there, just to hang out.
Everything and everyone was so inviting as well
Yeah, the economy hadn't gotten worse, and you didn't have high inflation and declining wages. People could afford to shop back then. You also didn't have a bunch of politically correct leftist types going around harassing your for saying Merry Christmas or wanting to sing a Christmas carol or put up a Christmas tree.
I Remember This So Vividly...1995/1996 Shopping At The Mall With My Girlfriend At The Time...And Other Times With Family...
I am not that old yet, I am only 39 and I was 11 years old in 1996. These past few months, I had the weirdest experiences that I can only think is brought by getting old, and depressed. For about a year I would have dreams that I was a teenager again and back to college. The feeling of getting back to my younger body that I know will never happen, saddens me, but even though those were just dreams, it still made me happy.
I also would always listen and watch videos like these to relieve the moments from my childhood years. The 90’s were still the best times of my life, we were poor but life back then was very comforting, kids were happy, it was just a simple time, a lot of people were kind. I finally understood why old people listen to the music they used to listen to, having to experience those things again keeps you sane, it makes you feel that you are still alive while the world around has completely changed. I wonder how I will be when I reach ripe old age, but I will be more understanding and kinder to old people because they are warriors. Not only that they have to experience their body getting weaker everyday, face many hurdles in life, but they are also faced with the reality that their time is coming near, that life is passing them by.
I love how they zoomed in on the debit card numbers 😂 it just seems like fraud and deception weren't readily on people's minds all the time like it is now
Well there were less avenues to credit fraud, but it definitely existed. Keep in mind that this footage is most likely the raw b-roll captured for use in something such as a news segment on TV. By the time it made it to whatever it was used for it would have been edited and those numbers would have likely been blurred out (if the shot was even used at all).
Lol I know just zooming on in to someone’s whole card in 1996 😂
I was 17 in ‘96. These were good times. The people were smiling when looking at the camera. We weren’t used to being recorded in public like this. Not like today.
Same here. Just think of that camera though. It was a giant camcorder on someone's shoulder walking around the mall lol.
@@jdd3786by now we had the smaller ones that used the smaller vhs-c tapes, but still strange to think people were just walking around filming. We had to pay for storage back then, now it all goes straight onto CZcams or somewhere else for free
ok so you are 44 years old. good to know
@@Alex_Gordon You're not old enough to remember a time like this. Good to know.
@@Alex_Gordon you’re part of the reason people are missing the times in the video. Don’t be a prick.
It is refreshing to see no one glued to a smartphone. Just folks going about their business and attentive to reality.
Love this! It’s so nice to see people with no cell phones and they see a video camera and think they’re on tv 😂😂