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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- A video I made dedicated to those who remember and love old & cozy shopping malls.
Hopefully no one minds me using their footage. Enjoy.
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Well this made me throughly sad. Remembering those times. All the newness of things. Having a cool mall to go to where people didn't get shot and the displays weren't vandalized. When it was a special thing to go to the mall!! Not everything was wonderful in the 70's, but it was a great time to be young.
Ya and no riff raff fighting and pulling out weaves
The 70s were a lot peaceful than it is now, that's for sure. Going to the mall with my friends or family, I miss those times😀
Your either white or from the suburbs lmao cause fighting has always been around and hair pulling and wigs and fake hair has always been around it just isn’t a exaggerated
@@SuV33358 lol
There were never any black employees at those Mall concession stands...I wonder why?
I wish malls were still like this
toplaycool21 it was fun
toplaycool21 Ya true I just wanna go see it
well, I don't understand what "9/11" has to do with it, but yeah, it's a piece of _real_ life the cellphone face generation will never grasp.
@John Bold I agree. 9/11 seemed like a watershed moment of human consciousness. It feels like nothing has been right since then.
Im still glad in my area it still is.
I just love 1970's mall architecture.
they always had fountains
It’s weird, but it gives me anxiety. And yet here I am
I like the colored carpets.
@@dindog22 Not King's Plaza Mall in Brooklyn.
Me to
I'm a eighty's child but I cry man, vinyl, vhs, Memorex tapes, plastic plants and cotton candy, memories...
I remember when the mall was a place where teens and their grandparents could frequent together and not be considered "uncool" the way that kids feel now. It was a great time and we could always go to a theatre for a movie while they shopped...
born in 1981 I know how you feel and I'm fortunately I deal with some of these kids in my little side operation called ride-sharing. It's like they weren't taught anything.
Well, i was born in 1999, but i really love going to the malls, since i was little. Idk why, the teenagers considered going to this places, in that way.
@@mariananicolemendozalopez1068
Malls are important places. Go there, buy stuff, have fun, say hi to somebody you don't know!
You could be helping more than any Billion dollar Amazon ever dreamed of.
@@monkeywkeys3916 well malls are not really for moms and pops businesses exactly
Malls and the way of life seemed so much better back then. I wish I could have been around during the 70' s. I've always had a fascination with previous eras.
Interesting insight you have... We thought it was very cool to live back then.... And we know it was a special error.... But No way would we envision... People in the future looking back on our era the way they do... It amazes me... To have been part of it
Man, this video is groovy and far out! Who else loves 70s malls?
Greg Lee I dig those groovy malls they are out a sight! man!
@@nicoladouglas3270 I second that emotion.
I was there. They weren’t so great.
Grew up then.
A huge part of mall shopping was the scene. In those pre-computer days, we didn’t have a lot to do, so we’d get together, go to the Mall, and hang out for a few hours. Sometimes we’d split up: “Allyson and I are going to the bookstore. We’ll meet you at 8:00 at the Food Court. Be there or be square”. You’d meet, shoot the shit, chow down, and then go home. It was a great way to spend the evening.
I have to as I was there!
I almost feel like shedding a small tear because I miss these great days. I was born in 75 and today its just crap!
I was born 77
How do you think I feel Sandra? I grew up thru all this and miss it all. Born August 1958 here.
Born in ‘72 and today it’s just crap
1954 - nuff said ? Multiply what you feel by 3x!
Shopping in the 70s was sooooo fun. 5 Kids in the family and we always loved when mom took us out. Shopping for school clothes at the end of every summer for the new school year was enchanting.
all those products now, in a landfill somewhere
As a preteen in the late 70s/early 80s, these were my favorite places in the mall: the iron-on tee shirt kiosk; Spencer’s Gifts; Woolworth’s /Kresge’s 5 & 10 (cheap make-up, toys, and GREAT luncheonettes with the best fries!);Orange Julius; the record store; the store that sold Jelly Belly jellybeans and Mrs. Grossman’s stickers; Sears’ candy and nut counter!
Back when people were happy and malls were fun places to be. I am so glad I grew up in the 70s and can remember this!
Fully agree! Good days for sure 🍻
I don’t know but I see images of malls in the late 70s and they seemed to have the coolest fountains ever
The point was to create an outdoor feel inside; hence the fountains and the trees. Someone was responsible for keeping it all in too top shape.
Our mall was built in 1972 the year before my big sister was married. Such sweet memories of shopping with my family on Saturdays. The mall kept expanding over the years and is still going strong. I moved away but in my mind I can still smell the fresh popcorn and the soft big pretzels with mustard. In Lubbock, Texas called South Plains Mall.
Dude I love that 70's shopping atmosphere
It was more human and a thing for all ages...now money just goes elsewhere
There was hope back then. Now not so much.
Back then they were at war with Vietnam lol
@@golddustwoman4993 I think they were when I wrote this.😄
@@golddustwoman4993 It depends on the actual year. The war ended in 1973.
@@wordivore
But the general consensus would say the problems were... over there. So to speak.
@@golddustwoman4993 This is from the mid to late 1970's judging by the clothes. War over.
These songs are just the perfect "muzak" for a video like this. Great music selection
Totally agree!
inkey2 these are part of an actual Muzak soundtrack
OG Based Gucci Samuel ジューシーな m
I'd love to have a time machine and go to the 50's, 60's, 70's, & 80's and do cool things.
Me too!
Far out man!
I was doing cool things in the 70’s and 80’s without a time machine and can attest that America was simpler and much kinder back then. I am 49 and it’s very hard to see how things have changed in the last 20 years.
Donald Trump is the cause.
@@dwightpowell6673 For lower gas prices and more jobs and a stable economy.
This is fantastic ! Thank you ! I was a teenager in the 70's; best time of my life (I am 60 now); I only wish AT THAT TIME I took some time to cherish those times and realized life would go downhill after that. I don't mean times were worse after that, just not as fantastic ! My favorite years were 1976, 77, and 78, graduated in 78. Geez why am I typing this, like anyone even cares - LOL. Anyway, thanks again for this video !!!!
Tammy I'm 62... it's ok to reminiscence...my parents hated me...I wish I could go back and make them love me.
Ahhhh the 70s...I miss ya baby
me too :,( man those were some really crazy times, and I mean that in the best way :)
I remember the 70’s and 80’s. People actually were not afraid to make eye contact and cute girls were more flirty and friendly.
I miss the old malls
A time when life was fun. The mid 70s were great times.
I was a 70's mallrat. I kind of miss those days. My local mall has only a few shops that are still open.
Such a different time it was! When staying home was un-cool. I kind of wish those days were still around.
Then go out!
Staying home is cool?
Shannonm75
Will you marry me and move to China together?
@@theDavidChannel1 😂😂
@@222222225574 Why would you wanna move to China of all places?...
Sometimes my mom would take me to the mall when I was a kid in the 1970s.
They had EVERYTHING.
And going was good exercise , too with all that walking around
Look at all of the happy people! I remember going to the mall in the 70's, 80's and 90's. I can honestly say life was so much better in so many ways. Somehow we were happier without cable TV, the internet, Facebook and cell phones. I'm glad I know what it was like, I only wish I could go back! Love it and miss it!! thanks for sharing!
The 70s was the best time of my life...thank you for this footage and music
You're welcome and thank you!
I have been on a "Malls of the 70's and 80's" kick for the past year. You have the best footage I've seen; thank you for making and posting this. These malls were palaces.
You and me both, Moses! Thank you - all I did was scour the internet and RUclips for the best footage and photos I could find, none of that footage is mine. Thanks again.
Yes, to visit a mall was an event...we lived in Lubbock, when we took a trip to Dallas, we absolutely had to visit "The Galleria." It was like going to a wonderful event that we could go back and tell our friends about, and dinning at a restaurant near the ice rink was spectacular...
Love to cherish the 70's 80's en 90's if i could only bring back the passed.
Wasn't around in the 1970s but this was the peak of the shopping mall.
Wonderful Video, Cozy is right. All new malls are sterile, no fountains, seating areas with carpet have been replaced with benches here and there. The Mall was a place to shop, meet friends, hang out, smoke, pick up chicks, see a movie, play video games, and relax. Now they are all dying.
+Marty McFly The internet killed the malls just like Wallmart killed small town business's. The lure of just sitting home at 2am eating left over pizza and making a few key strokes on a computer, getting a great price and fast shipping is what drove the wooden stake through the heart of the Malls. I used to LOVE looking around the malls in the 60s/70s/80s. Orange Julius, York Steak House, Sears (the anchor store of the mall), The sharper Image, Spencer Gifts. It was especially fun around Christmas with all the decorations and lights
+Ed Foster Haha
Look Mr. Trump stop posting :)
+Ed Foster. damn fella take that to congress & Make them stop dont put it on just black folks causing problems your causing an uproar posting ur hate on here so tell ur story walking
Ours in Greece NY (Rochester) had groovy sunken lounges and interactive art scuptures. Then in the mid-late 1980s they ripped it all out and made the mall just like every mall with tons of rental kiosks. Ahhh the mall used to B THE place to B. In the near future, due to web commerce, will there B indoor malls? Just replaced with outdoor plazas (or as in the west say "strip malls") Oh yeah and WAL MART and Target will B the only surviving Dept. Stores.
Sincerely, that was wonderful. Thank you.
You're very welcome and thank you!
I like the 1970s TV overlay. Cool touch
Thank you.
Classic. Love this footage. The orange colors may be ugly '70s, but at least it was vibrant. Aladdin's Castle reminds me of the Escape Hatch we had in our local mall. It was the place to go for games in the '70s and early '80s.
I LOVE ORANGE !!!!!!!!!
Agree that the orange is ugly as well as the carpet, but at least the malls were lively. That was heartbreaking at the end.
Most of my memories as a child during the seventies involves the colour orange :)
Daniel Westfall The 70's were so Charmy. Love that era.
Nemie125: Yep, brown too...
Shopping used to be fun. All that's gone now, but this video is fabulous!!!
I still remember in early 90's, people smoke cigarettes inside a mall.
Jamie Lacson :)
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Amazing images. Fantastic music. There is NOTHING like a great mall.
Awesome video. Brings back memories when I was a kid.
It seems like the older I get, the more I yearn for a return of the great shopping malls of the 60s and 70s.
Man it was so fun...the arcade...the pretty girls...seeing your friends from school. Im so glad i had the chance to experience the mall when it was fun
No cell phones, no social media, no bullying, no computers, or i tunes! People actually talked! It was alive back then and now everything is shit and The malls were the in thing and fun too for the most part! Such a different time it was! Now you can't do anything or talk to anyone and everything you say everyone takes offense to it! I hate 21st Century! I i wish I had a time machine to back in time and stay there! We took everything for granted and now all those memories are all gone! Now every mall is dying now! Pretty soon movie theaters will be gone too! I hate staying at home and there is nothing to do! RIP MALLS what next!
Wish I had a time Machine too! Man would I love to go back to the 70's and live it all over again as an adult this time!
That's why I hate Amazon. It is eating up retail stores.
And racism! The whole package
Bullying didn't happen back then? Um ok.
I was thinking that. Maybe not as much.
Christmas time in The Mall was oh so special! God I miss those days
I wish I could go back in time to this era.
You can, think about for a hour before you go to sleep and see what happens!
I start my days with these glorious tracks
Very nice presentation. The old TV in the background is spot on.
Thank you, ;)
I was a kid in the 70's and up north at least, malls were huge, they were a destination all their own. What comes to mind when I think of that era is, Sea Monkees, Orange Julius, pet rocks, sand terrariums, game rooms, food courts, going in to the scale model store. I remember going to birthday parties at the mall, you'd buy stuff for the birthday boy, play video games, eat food, wander around, it was great for a kid back then. Haven't been to a mall in 40 years now, it may be another 40 before I get back that way.
great time trip back to the glory days of the mall.
Cinderella City And Buckingham Square were my malls growing up in Denver.
I'm 65 yrs old & this video brought back some very fond memories. TY for sharing.
Yes it really did Cheri. I'm 63 and watching, it was like I stepped back in time. A good time and a good place with good and warm people all around.
This is the best vintage mall footage on RUclips. Thanks for uploading!
Thanks so much, Dale Newby! I wish I could find enough footage to make another one!
miss those times 😟
No wonder everyone in the 70s-80s looked so happy, when you got chippy music like this at the mall how could you be in a bad mood?
Love the background music, reminds me of the ol Ceefax Pages (1974-2012). Takes me back to the days when I was first discovering music in the early-mid 80s. I missed out on the 70s as I wasn't born until 1982 but the 80s was still keeping the 70s alive in a strange way.
If only someone made a video on the Haymarket Shopping Centre in Leicester way back in the 70s, 80s and early 90s before it's facelift in 1996.
EXCELLENT! You made the scenes and music flow real good.
The decades of past when shopping was fun at the super malls...miss that feeling these days. Internet shopping and several other things have killed those super malls. What a shame.
Love the MUZAK style music.
Thank you, Tom Foster. I miss that feeling, too. I loved putting together this video and wish I could find enough footage for a part 2!
Malls in the 70's were awesome, remember Spencers, Learners, Orange Julius, Fredricks of Hollywood, Packman? Now they scare me.
I miss Orange Julius
I loved going to the mall- trying on clothes & actually taking them home with you. Everybody got a piece of the pie- manufacturers to stores & salespeople... yeah you paid more but there is so much more involved than that. I miss socializing
Back B4 smartphones & the loss of the middle class Randall Park was THE place to go.Glad I in my youth got to enjoy it then isn't the same now.😟
Those were the days we have real friends instead of social media crap
It's the people like you post who you're praying for on facebook
@@kieraneustace2875 lol
And RUclips. People posting about a video. Jeesh!
Dump SpaceBook, InstaScam ect all of it.
The 21st century sucks I want to live in this time
Lots of these U.S features were replicated exactly as I remember them from visiting The Galleries in Washington, Tyne and Wear back when it opened in the mid 70s. Fantastic video
I worked at a JCPenney from 1977-1981. That part of the video showing JCP was especially nostalgic. Whole video brought back many memories. I grew up in the Mpls-St Paul area where the first indoor mall was built in Edina: Southdale. Other “Dales” followed. I worked at Rosedale. Sad to see what has happened to brick and mortar retail in general.
love the cut in scene's from dawn of the dead
I was born in the mid 70s, but wish I was born 25 years earlier. I would have then spend my childhood in the 50s, been a teen of the '60s, a twentysomething in the '70s,...and now I would be in my mid '60s in father time, waiting to leave this horrible state this planet has become.
Hi !! I was born in 1960 !!!!!
Julie Erin I hear ya, i was born 1975.
Julie Erin I was born in the 90s and I feel the same way😰😞
Fucking A, born in 1970. Never thought I'd miss that old mall or elevator music. Look at me now, all grown up and shit, acting like my parents did listening to music from my childhood. Geez.
Our parents are the lucky ones.
Great video of done very majestic and classy malls. Love the instrumental version of "I am Woman" at the beginning. Too funny!!
Thank you. Ha ha, I didn't know what song that was, I just new it was some sweet Muzak!
LOVE the mall music!! GREAT CHOICES!!
At about the 1:24 mark i saw a walden books! God I remember that we had one in the Volusia Mall before books a million moved from the old daytona mall to the volusia mall.
Yep. And it was located right next to Camelot Music!
Dale Newby The good ole days.
Now you have Hollister Co. and Buckle lol
@@dalenewby1366 Sam Goody music store.
Wow, what a nice place to hang out. 🙏👏👌💪😎🙂😉
Good old days in America...
WOW!!!, Thank you for sharing that. Even though we cannot go back in time to those day's, and believe me we did have our issues, social unrest, at the time fuel shortages, political rhetoric and other things , it was a time where we could still determine right from wrong and not be criticized or called hate speakers or called intolerant. The malls were the very fabric of suburban Americana, the very back bone of our freedom and good will. We lived, we laughed and we enjoyed. We looked forward to our weekend excursions to the mall. We met old friends and made new friends while at the same time helping our economy grow a flourish. I was a teenager in the 70's and now that I look back on it through this video I think to myself, why was I so much in a hurray to be older. As a great author : George Bernard Shaw once wrote: Youth is such a wonderful thing it is a shame to waste it on young people. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to rant, and my apologies if I have. Once again thank you for sharing this and allowing me to return to the past even for the short 7 minutes and 17 seconds.
Beautiful video! Great job! Really felt like a time warp!
I could cry. Love this so much
So glad you enjoyed!
This is how things used to be. Malls used to be like a sort of community center, in addition to a shopping center under one roof.
Today, the Town Centers are springing up everywhere. And remaining malls have turned into nothing but venues for large groups of teens looking for a place to get stupid. Every Friday & Saturday night, one can find the “blue light specials” here.
ALADDIN'S CASTLE! Oh that brings back memories!
I rememberer the Metrocenter in Jackson, MS. My favorite places to hang out were Camelot Music and Aladdin's Castle.
This made my nerd senses tingle because i spotted a few clips from Dawn of the Dead 1978. Well played ;)
Ha ha, thank you. Not much 70s mall footage out there so I had to use whatever I could find.
They heyday of shopping malls in the USA. Before the internet turned shopping, and everything else upside down.
Which is a shame.
Ken Havens video games are better now though.
Sad how many malls are dying today. You can see it on channels like “This is Dan Bell”, “Ace’s Adventures”, “Doomie Grunt”, “Retail Archaeology”, and others. Back then the malls were hopping places for community.
I agree
@@mr.2cents.846 Please... Most popular video games these days are trendy CoD-inspired first person shooters like Fortnite and Medieval role playing games... You hardly see any platformers and racing games on the market these days, besides the big franchises like Sonic and Mario... And just because a video game has state of the art graphics and a long-ass story line doesn't automatically make it a good game. All *true* gamers care about is mainly just the gameplay.
People were in better shape back then.
Weren’t sitting on their fat rump!
That's because we all went outside and play....
@@normacorella2250 And we weren't eating genetically modified foods packed in chemical plastics for years....
I remember my mom dragging me to these as a little kid . We would spend all day . Love video games and big cookies and slushies
Brings back some great memories of being a kid and getting to go to the mall. That was a big deal to a small-town kid like me. Fun time to be a kid!
The mall in the thumbnail is southdale, constructed in the mid-50s. The footage of the clock of nations in Midtown plaza was from 1963. There were also pictures of the elevator in Westland center (1965)
Great video - 6 years after the fact! I remember working at Kings Plaza in Alexander's Dept. Store in the '70s. What a great time - such good memories.
70,s less crime families were close and friends were great friends
Did you know that positive race relations were at an all time high in the 1970s. People were all inter mixed. There didn't seem to be people angry at each other. Music had whites, chicanos and blacks all together. People seemed so much more easy going.
I agree with you in every way but one - Crime hit its all-time high in the early '90s and has been decreasing ever since. Don't believe everything you hear.
Um no., Not true. Detroit and New York were at their zeniths in crime. Times Square as the perfect example. Crime as a whole didnt start going down significantly until the early 90's.
William Straughan That's because children back the were still thought what's right and wrong.
Boston and Providence were quite scary in the 70s too...
I dig them groovy 70's funky music, man. SOLID! Haha!!
I love coming here.
I would love to go back in time to visit a 70s shopping mall
Absolutely Awesome!
Thanks for posting. 😆
You're welcome and thank you, BaldMaxx!
Excellent!
I searched for this and found exactly what I was looking for...
A simpler time when you had traffic in malls.
Love this video! The fountain with the lights in it at 0:29 reminds me of the former fountain in the Village Shopping Center here in my city.
This was great, I loved the video and the feel it gave. Malls truly were a work of art in their time. Sad they are dying.
Thank you, Josh. I agree!
I Am Woman. It Never Rains in Southern California. Some weird disco thing (I hate disco). It's Not Easy Being Green.---- I'm glad I still have a mall to go to. It opened in 1970, back when I was 10 years old.
Pre cell phones. Those were the days.
I remember going to Aladdins Castle, another favorite arcade was Fun Way Freeway at Gold Circle Mall in Circleville Ohio
This is the Randell Park Mall in Ohio. This mall is not just dead, but gone. All of it has been demolished except for the anchor stores.
My mom has been here in the 70s... crazy
It's completely gone,now is a newly opened big Amazon fulfillment facility.📦
Actually Muzak genre was defined as "Stimulus Progression". I have every demo record they produced. Muzak provided music which gradually increased in beat and intensity so that listeners would have a energy boost every 15 minutes. Interesting concept. Not positive it would work today, though. Loved the video and remember at least one of those malls very well.
Life was so nice back then.
Some of this is definitely 80s
Ahhhh back when malls were great....smells of hickory farms, hot sam pretzels, and cigarette smoke. All was right in the world back then...✌️😊😍
Love the colors of the 70’s
One mall that I used to go when I lived in Gurnee Illinois was called Lakehurst. It was built in 1971 and took down in 2004. That mall had 1970’s vibe in it. I do missed that mall.
This is amazing and artfully edited. Thank you !
You're welcome and thank you!