1976 home movie w/sound Woodmont Blvd Nashville driving to 100 Oaks Mall

1976 with sound Woodmont Blvd Nashville driving to 100 Oaks Mall

[@paulspivey6799]

Back when times were awesome.

[@jeffcollins5188]

Fair Park

[@nickw22689]

A 1970s vlog. This was a treat.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Home movie, not a vlog.

[@bunnieroots3553]

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar HoMe MoViE, nOt A vLoG.

[@creativesparks2164]

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar 1st it was a joke comparing to the vlogs from today. (Can’t believe that needed an explanation) And Home Video*

[@donkeydan5996]

@@creativesparks2164 everything needs policing these days 😂

[@theamazingagnostic2819]

This is surreal the quality is so good. It almost seems like the present. The only thing that looks different are the cars.

[@jsat5609]

And the guy's flare leg pants.

[@tonyb3864]

These people had some bucks back then. A Mercedes coupe and a camcorder. Livin large. Thanks for putting this up. ❤

[@Jeff-sp7bg]

Cars nowadays are much much more powerful and last longer and are safer. Most cars then were worn out and barely driveable if you were lucky enough to make it to 100k miles. The fumes were something else as well lol

[@jeffkettler4712]

He pulled out of a driveway that was on Woodmont blvd. There is absolutely no cheap real estate on Woodmont.

[@styldsteel1]

​@@Jeff-sp7bgYour statement is true, but nothing today will be memorable tmrw. Are you going to cherish a Volvo X70?

[@Jeff-sp7bg]

@@styldsteel1 I will cherish my 2003 tundra Terninator edition

[@styldsteel1]

@@Jeff-sp7bg listen. There is nothing wrong with that.

[@rickilynnwolfe8357]

1976’ I was 12 years old if I could go back in time it would back to the 70s we had the best music clothes and cars ! I drive a 63’ Chevy and listen to the great music of the 70s times were simpler

[@jaceyp.8457]

the closest thing to being in the 70s I'll ever be

[@shanemarcotte2062]

I'm 55 years old and did most of my "growing up" in the 70s..........i wish I could go back!

[@vampireslayyer4305]

Was it nice cozy and magical

[@deborahchesser7375]

@@shanemarcotte2062 I’m the same age, so I’m right there with you buddy. Don’t you wish we were still riding our bikes to the pool and arcade and running around all night in the summer. I miss it too, bad.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

@Jacey P. - I lived through the decade and survived it…if there’s anything you’d like to know, just say the word lol.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@EYE_GOTCHA I lived through the 50's and enjoyed it so dearly, starting at age 13 and leaving as a man at 23. In nineteen hundred and fifty nine. Anything you need to know that you most likely won't ever know with my generations dwindling population, just ask just the same as you.

[@lemau8458]

Every car here is just fantastic

[@dixienormous6969]

That Benz is absolutely STUNNING

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

I still have it!

[@stansmith5610]

@@sneakerfreak2002 yess

[@bbc_junior4863]

@@ClassicHomeMovies Wow that’s awesome

[@mr.sanford8588]

​@@ClassicHomeMoviesGot a video of it ?

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

@@mr.sanford8588 You can see a picture of me with the car back then, in the same driveway from which this film began--AND a picture of my car and me today (well, 2018)--here: www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/garage-mercedes.htm

[@terryschnereger8531]

No phones, no GPS. The way it should be.

[@joeysplats3209]

No phones? How did people post to social media while driving??

[@terryschnereger8531]

@@joeysplats3209 I think you're in the wrong decade

[@holtridge7337]

Ahh the old days of using fold out maps.

[@kennyslg8914]

I always wanted to see life in the 70s upclose. It's pretty cool when you realize people in the 70s acted and talked the way we do today.

[@stansmith5610]

They talked different back then. The teens were able to communicate really well, now a days unfortunately most have social anxiety. I feel like phones are a big reason for that

[@Michael.1990]

@@stansmith5610 mainly the kids who have social anxiety today are the ones who’s parents have sheltered them too much

[@mikeolithory898]

We live in a world where people are becoming a bunch of hunched over, masturbating gremlins. And then they wonder why people have poor communication skills & social anxiety.

[@SantaFishes101]

lmao what would they act like otherwise? XD

[@jimkeskey]

If these were people NOW, they would be on their phones the whole video. People back then had to talk to each other.

[@mimi5769]

The cars were absolutely stunning

[@deadboy3646]

Born in 97 here, I hate the current day and age we live in and especially being apart of this generation sort of so I love watching these lately

[@AJ_Preme]

Same with me and I was born in 2001

[@GavinGardner2004]

Same with me! I love these old family videos. I was born in 2004 May.

[@AJ_Preme]

@@GavinGardner2004 that sounds great man 👍

[@LG-ro5le]

Same here born 95

[@youngdumbandbaroque1543]

mad “pick me! pick me!” energy

[@MrLyosea]

One of the only home movies prior to 1979 with real sound! Very well done!

[@ashleylacombe8935]

Ever since I saw Back to the Future when I was 6, I've been obsessed with time travel. Since it will never happen, at least not in my lifetime, I'm so happy that people post videos like this. It really is amazing to see, and so much better than just a picture. Thanks for posting!

[@satans120]

Time travel is real the government just dont want people to know about it

[@jonnysnipes3123]

@@satans120 time travel is just not physically possible

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

@@jonnysnipes3123 But how do you *really* know that? So much is hidden from the general public.

[@NeWx89]

Living in the past through virtual reality simulations is probably a whole lot closer than actual time travel.

[@Ezoangelofdeath]

Because common sense should tell you that it's physically impossible to go back in time, outside of movies, what about traveling to the past seems even minutely doable? and if it were possible don't you think everyone would be traveling back and altering the future? so nothing would ever be the future, it would be constantly changing, plus to go back in time you would have to be able to bring back dead people, replace structures that may or may not be there, go back through all the days in between, keep hoping, but not gonna ever happen, simply impossible.

[@BellefontePerson]

November 14th, 1976 was a Sunday. I was eight years old and most likely watching an Abbott and Costello movie on WPIX channel 11, a New York station that we got in central PA, and smelling the pork chops my mom was baking for supper. I was probably thinking that tomorrow is a school day, but Thanksgiving vacation was coming soon. There is no way I could have ever imagined that, perhaps at that precise moment a few states away, someone was making a film that I would be viewing on the screen of my wireless TELEPHONE 44 1/2 years later. Edit: I was hoping to see the inside of that mall. I'll bet it had a lot of the same stores our local mall used to have.

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

Oh yeah, I WISH I had filmed the inside of that mall. It would be great to see that now. Thank you for your comment. Somehow I find it a reminder that, hey, we're all in this together--let's try and enjoy it and be nice to each other. We never can know how things might intersect in the future.

[@3tonzovim]

Hah! I thought the same way watching this. I wasn't too far from you, Freeport, NY, watching the same thing you were and already drooling for Christmas. I was in 3rd grade, just about a month shy of turning 8. Meanwhile, cool dudes with a cool toy in a cool car were putting their trip in the can for me to watch decades later and smile about it.

[@audioinheritance8557]

This is my new favorite movie. Some of my favorite lines are "HUH??" and "DON'T HIT THAT GUUUYYYYYY!"

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

Thanks! Hard to believe these brilliant lines are entirely unscripted.

[@ThaSchwab]

Remarkably high visual quality and sound? Someone paid a pretty penny for this camera.

[@overpricedhealthcare]

this is higher in quality than most 70s footage i’ve seen

[@ruok3351]

Guy was using an expensive camera. Film is higher quality than digital 1080p if preserved. I mean just watch 70s movies

[@overpricedhealthcare]

@@introsation9411 that's a movie, not a home video

[@BlackSabbathfan]

Because it's clearly VHS/Betamax footage, not film reel like most 70s Home movies.

[@rell27]

Video was shot on: November 14, 1976 Me watching it on KZbin for the first time: November 14, 2023 😮

[@donswier]

Saab 96, Mazda RX-3 and a Pagoda Roof Mercedes (stickshift!). Did not expect to see in Tennessee 1976. Great carspotting video.

[@jamesbillington9280]

Look at all those big, heavy cars! Lots less road rage back then.

[@user-dm2bw6oc2j]

I was 11 months old when this was shot. Great vintage video. Love the old cars.

[@skurland]

Vintage film clips from the early-mid 1970’s, especially ones as rare as this one, are totally fascinating to me. I was alive when this was shot, but a 5 year old is only just starting to process memory in any significant way. So thanks for this!

[@MrLyosea]

My earliest memories were from when I was just below 3 years old. From May 1997-now! And my bday is July 18th.

[@SoupSandwich76]

I was 3 days old when this was filmed, yet I feel that I am much more suited to have been born in my parents or even grandparents era. I just love everything retro.

[@GoldPlatedGhost]

Man if only they had gone in and filmed that… nostalgia overload

[@RobMacKendrick]

Funny how my head just slotted right back in there. It was 1976 again, just like it's always been. Thanks for this slice of our youth.

[@chrisattigliato1]

You just blew my mind. Will never see guitar center the same 😂

[@marine4lyfe85]

I didn't see the Guitar Center.

[@Camelepiz]

What a treasure this is! You had fun playing with that zoom. :) I'm writing a story that takes place in a mall in the 70s. So great to have this image on hand. Thank you for sharing

[@osvie0167]

This is probably the most pristine home video footage from the 70s that I have ever seen. Amazing. I do have to admit though, one of my favorite documentaries is the Thin Blue Line, and when I saw the date of November 14 It hit me that 14 days after this footage was shot - the life of a man by the name of Randall Dale Adams will forever be altered when he decides to pick up a teenage hitchhiker and would be murderer Ray David Harris. Sorry, I mentioned that, but I love the footage since I like cloudy looking skies.

[@MA-ck4wu]

the 70s were full of those hitchhiking murder type stories, as well as a lot of kidnappings, abductions, that's the reason I'm here watching (think John Wayne Gacy, or Norris Bittaker)

[@noxcube6439]

47 years ago. Hope these guys are doing well. Thanks for the videos

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

Sadly the driver of the car went last year to that great Mall in the sky. I, the out-of-focus guy with the camera, am doing fine. Thanks. ... Oh, and I still have that car.

[@jimmycarter9099]

I was on the street s at that time going from friends house to house trying to find food now I am almost retired life’s crazy got to love it

[@pandabrooke]

I'm a Nashville native, born in '82. It's really cool to recognize this area and see how different it looked. My son and I go to 100 Oaks every Monday for his appointments. The mall is now part of Vanderbilt Medical Center. I remember when the mall was "rebirthed" for a while in the mid 90s too.

[@prestonmidden33]

yeah i was trying to figure out intersections. And i loved the 90's 100 oaks kinda comeback. Big Tex singing in the food court. Nothing like eating cheap food as a robot sings Garth Brooks.

[@Fo-Flats]

The footage quality is surprisingly good. Better than some feature films from the time. It's really cool to catch a glimpse of my home a couple of years before I was born.

[@jeffmercer3891]

This really is incredible. I feel like I physically got into a time machine and went back. Tears of joy and sadness. Those were simpler times. I miss it

[@12345682900]

Wow, the first KZbin video was shot in 1976! Who knew?

[@franciscourrutia3442]

This 1970s video is freaking awesome old cars old homes and the way they used to talk back in the day 1976 rock on 🤘 Fantastic and great video 🤘

[@AJ_Preme]

💯💯

[@jr.ramirez5798]

I’m so fascinated and love the cars from the 70s. These cars that where once 2k are up in price in CA so hard to get a classic now ridiculous how much people ask for there old school cars

[@redmustangredmustang]

Having a camera back then especially with sound was expensive. Very few people even back in the 70's had personal hand held video cameras and the ones that did spent a pretty penny. It wasn't until the mid 80's when video cameras for the regular American grew.

[@JJLewis-so1iq]

We had an 8mm in 73 but no sound

[@greggwagner875]

Yes! In January 1982, my Dad bought a vhs system, but in the 70's most people had 8mm or super 8 silent. This is probably 16mm at 24fps. Never seen anything like this.

[@richardsussman5446]

That car was expensive too, so probably could afford the camera no problem.

[@Jeff-sp7bg]

2 companies made a very rudementary camcorder back in. Sony and panadonic. It had a carrying case and a shoulder mounted camera. It retailed for about 2000$ in 1976 almost 10,000$ today. The camcorder as we know it where a vcr tape was physically in the camera was introduced in 1983 shoulder mounted

[@angeldesigns1385]

@@richardsussman5446I was going to say, whoever they are they already had to be making a pretty handsome living. that area has always been known as well to do. I was born in 77 and grew up in the berry hill area right across from the 100 oaks mall

[@chrisalugbuo467]

I was born in 99 but a 70s enthusiast. Seeing this right here is really astonishing, yet I always wonder how would it be like growing up in this era.

[@davemardon6756]

Lol....As a kid back then....Best of times....Worst of times lol.....Wish I could go back and re live those times.

[@chrisalugbuo467]

@@davemardon6756 best music came in that era in my opinion 👌

[@fritterfoof5146]

@@chrisalugbuo467 My 1st concert in 1976 was 15 ZZ tops world wide Texas tour , tickets 5 bucks .

[@gregdcross]

I was born in 1963 in upstate NY - @45 miles where the Woodstock festival was held on Farmer Brown's farm. I vividly remember my mother not letting me play in the front yard. She told me "Hippies could come and kidnap me." Part of me thought that might be a great thing. The 70s we really didn't worry about much, had amazing music of all types, and people had a live and let live attitude. Sad to say today that is no longer true. I think social media has gotten a lot of people to feel their opinion is always right and many have become a bigot. Also, a lot of the media now wants to divide us. Sad, very sad in what is gone now.

[@cavedour]

Wow! I've lived in Nashville for over twenty years. This was filmed on my fourth birthday. So cool to see what it looked like back then. It's crazy how much of the early drive hasn't changed (other than the tall skinnies here and there).

[@countreekidd]

I was in Nashville at that time--3 years old--almost 4--grew up there and then moved to TX. I remember 100 Oaks Mall by name mostly--didn't go there much. I think we usually went to Rivergate and Hickory Hollow.

[@DIYskate]

@@countreekidd Same. I recall 100 Oaks, but I seem to remember Rivergate and Hickory Hollow much more clearly.

[@gregdcross]

In 1979 I was in 10th grade in upstate NY where I grew up. My 1982 I was in Nashville and 100 Oaks Mall still looked that way, but there were few early 70s cars like I saw in the video. Today, the mall still has a few retail stores, but the majority of it houses Vanderbilt Medical Centers clinics and outpatient services to do various procedures. When I've been there for appointments, I can't help but walk through the main hallways and recall the stores that were once there.

[@jakkew5753]

So fascinating. I've been to 100 Oaks a few times and crossed those bridges there on Woodmont many times. I didn't realize how different it used to look. If only you'd gotten a shot of the traffic on I-65 below. This was back before everyone started moving to Nashville, and I'm sure I'd like to have the traffic from that time back!

[@danmalliard280]

To. I'm. Ouch. Jakkew. When. I. Lived. On. Battlefield. Dr. I. Watched. Them. Move. House. After. House. On. My. Street. In. The. Late. 60s. And. Early. 70s. I. Watched. Them. Take. Out. The. Tenn. Central. Rail. Road. And. Interstate. 440. Came. In. What. A. Headache. My. Friend s. Back. Yard. Was. Cut. In. Half. Your. Traffic. Is. Un. Real. Now. I. Guess. They. Call. That. Progress. S0. Many. People. Danny Malliard

[@musiccitymotorhead9061]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I wish I could've lived through that era. You were doing it right with that gorgeous MB!

[@AJ_Preme]

I agree with you and me too

[@bug______]

How is this not a national treasure it's probably first vlog ever made

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

Thank you! You made my day!

[@ChadElk88]

I love this. Beautiful car. Thanks!

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

Thank YOU!

[@mid90s19]

Wow, this is old! Beautiful cars.

[@franceslarsen4037]

This is great 😄 I was 14 in 76, (turned 15 in early October) Jacksonville Florida, I remember so much.

[@crosswired9]

I grew up in Nashville and remember the robot in that malls food court then I went to a college fair there AND THEN it was my doctors office hahah this was so awesome to see it and to see where walmart is now. Thanks man!

[@SpinningbacKFisT]

The intro/beginning affect was so ahead of it's time. I'm only 35 but my role model father figure graduation was in '74 so I've had a deep fascination with this time period and how it was/looked. Hey thanks so much this is really cool.

[@MickeyMouse-672]

3:00 His excitement for the mall really made my day

[@markjanfrancisco5156]

Great Video from back in the happy days of life the 70’s !😊. Love seeing the cars from back then was hoping to have seen my favorite kinda car a 70’s Lincoln Town Car on the highway or in the mall parking lot.

[@bjyoung11616]

I live near Nashville so this was a treat to see!

[@hoedemakerbart]

Transmission whine typical of that time love it

[@Dracsmolar]

Born and raised in Nashville. Had family in all parts of the town from Madison, Inglewood, East Nashville, Greenhills and West Nashville in the nations. Knew the roads like the back of my hand in those days.

[@cuteguy9358]

Great video. I remember shopping at this mall as a kid & I also remember this area (before) the Walmart, Carmax, Wendy's, Logan's & everything else came along. Lol.

[@deliveryguyrx]

1976 was a good year for me. I graduated high school,got my first car and my first full-time job.I'm a bit north of you guys (Baltimore MD). I want to go back!!

[@d_jm1st]

The cars are what I love most of the 70s & 80s

[@herrbela84]

Nice little Benz. Mine is a bit bigger and a bit younger :) Thank you for this movie.

[@emeraldgreen777]

Enjoyed the video 😊 I was 15 in 1976

[@1olddirtroad]

This is Great ! Thanks for sharing

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

Thank you.

[@arneminderman3770]

Great video!❤❤❤❤ thank you !

[@kimberlee8567]

I've driven that stretch of road hundreds of times.. going to the mall.. Franklin.. Green Hill's.. where I worked in the 80's/90's.. wow ..what good memories

[@southernlightning775]

The quality is Mint👍Totally enjoyed it!!! Nice ride😎✌

[@redmustangredmustang]

That must have cost a lot of money even back in the 1976 when sound for a video camera and very few people had them. As the top comment said, it wasn't until the mid 80's when the average American bought these camera. Hell my parents didn't get a video camera until I was born in the mid 80's.

[@jameseldridge3445]

Cars looked so much better back then

[@SpinningbacKFisT]

I love it! This is as close as I'll get to time travel 😊

[@mariet8434]

My family and I. Had just moved to nashville in Sept 1976. Lived on ocala ct north. Off nolensville rd.

[@ashleybit]

Incredible footage

[@AJ_Preme]

💯💯

[@nix420stuntd7]

Awesome. How this has only 1k views I'll never know. GOD BLESS

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

Thanks! Tell your friends! . . .

[@jmacdrum]

Wonderful. Post more Love this stuff.

[@BrianSiskind]

amazing footage!

[@greggwagner875]

WOW! This is the BEST home movie footage I've ever seen. This must be 16mm/ 24fps, it's really clear.

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

Thanks. No, it's Super 8 at 18fps.

[@akashmohan999]

When my uncle first immigrated to the US in 1974 he lived in Nashville TN, drove a Chevy nova. He would have been somewhere in the vicinity as a young man when and where this was filmed

[@larrynapier5003]

I was a senior in West Nashville I drove Woodmont Blvd many times

[@philipreedwallace]

My dad lived off Springbrook Dr.They pass it in this video. I was 5 years old. Pretty cool.

[@lastmichael5160]

Great trip down memory lane. It wasn't visible in this movie, but I know the statue with the horses was still there just north of Woodmont, just before the bridge.

[@DJaySplitSecond]

Wow I was three years old

[@rodneysammons5544]

I was down the road in Memphis, living in Whitehaven going to Hillcrest High.

[@antwonnyy]

This is very clear. It looks like it could’ve been taken today with one of those iMovie filters on after

[@jonaswhite5842]

I grew up just on the right off woodmont. Good times!

[@JJLewis-so1iq]

Ours doesn't have sound. Very cool. Thanks for sharing

[@ericsamuelson5656]

If anyone has home movies with sound recording TV programs from the 60s & 70s, please post them here on KZbin

[@melissaann1401]

Beautiful Cars 🚗 😍

[@michaelmcgee8543]

That was interesting. It had to be one of those sounds on film home movie cameras, cause taking the Bell and Howell camera and an audio cassette to sync the sound would have been too bulky unless that is what they used. In which back then when you got the film you attached the special audio cassette tape recorder to the bell and Howell projector and played it in sync.

[@PinkTape1]

I live in Nashville, first time seeing 100 oaks in the 70’s 🤯🤯

[@jackneidinger9544]

Malls. Stores. You could buy stuff. Whenever you wanted to. Wow.

[@theme721]

AMAZING

[@Jim-Mc]

I went to college and lived in this neighborhood from 2003-2014. It wasn't much different then.

[@dawson.strachan03]

KZbin really is the closest thing we have to time travel

[@polishherowitoldpilecki5521]

Awesome.

[@urbandisturbin]

Imagine if you actually got to live back then and have the memories and experience to juxtapose against today. Now'd be like being time traveled into a dystopian nightmare future because you can literally still feel and remember how it used to be just like it was yesterday. We were so much more important to each other back then, it made things matter and have meaning. It was such a vibe! So much more simple, fun and free. Life was easier. More jobs and better jobs, and things were cheap! Even college, homes and cars were cheap then. I was watching Corvette Summer, a silly but great movie from the 70s the other day and it made me miss the spirit of the way things were. Dazed and Confused is another good movie that brings back some memories.

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

Well, yes. I DID get to live back then. And I have the memories. And I'm still kicking today. I am, in fact, the owner of the car in the video, and the out of focus guy shooting most of the film as my friend drove the car. I do not live in a dystopian nightmare today. I think some do, but I do not. We were NOT more important to each other back then. Things matter as much now as then and have as much meaning now as then. Things were no more simple, fun, or free than they are today in most respects. Life was most certainly NOT easier for me or most people then. Good jobs were tough to find then, as now. Some things were wildly more expensive then, compared to today. A mediocre 19" TV set would cost you $300 then, which is comparatively WAY more than today. But I paid $6 a month for health insurance in 1976. Six dollars! College was way cheaper then because state colleges were essentially free. Homes and cars are roughly the same today as then. Use an inflation calculator and see the real, inflation-adjusted numbers. It was NEVER easy to buy a house. NEVER. I've bought 4 and each time it seemed I was going WAY out on a limb. The "spirit" of the '70s is a delusion. I was there. It was a confusing time in America--of high inflation, uncertainty, shameful politics in Washington, illegal political meddling in Central and South America, a recent defeat in Vietnam. We even had a name for it: "malaise." I love nostalgia. I have many times been accused of "living in the past." But I can tell you firsthand, that the past that was the '70s is nothing to aspire to. Enjoy what you can of it, as nostalgia, but it's no substitute for today. Don't waste today dreaming of something gone. Use your todays to make THEM worth remembering 50 years from now.

[@fritterfoof5146]

@@ClassicHomeMovies I was 15 in 1976 , we live in a complete different world today , 218 million Americans back then , now 335 million and the internet and cellphones, how many could afford a moving picture camera back then , not many another reason to cherish the past , and as far as today , Our society has gone to hell ,Example a piece of metal in the shape of a gun is more valuable then the lives of their Children .

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

@@fritterfoof5146 Yes, many changes. Some good, some bad. I bought that movie camera back then because it was a priority for me. Many more people could have had such cameras but they had other priorities instead. I refuse to accept that "our society has gone to hell." Oh, it sure seems like it's headed there! But it's up to US to change the direction of our society. All of us people of goodwill need to make that change happen wherever we can: Call out the violence that riddles our society--violent films and "entertainment" such as video games, football, boxing. I'm not kidding. Our society is so steeped in this casual violence that it can't even see that the position I just advocated is not extreme, THEIR position is extreme. The status quo is extreme. Next, call out the inept and bought-off politicians who fail to deliver for us and engage us in war after war. We need to point out the blood on the hands of the gun nuts who enable the ongoing slaughter in our schools and streets. None of this will not make you any friends, I can tell you that. But it is the right thing to do and it will give you the peace that comes with knowing you are a part of the solution and no longer an enabler of the problems. And for God's sake refuse to vote for any politician who offers only "thoughts and prayers" for gun violence victims or who votes to raise our obscene Pentagon budget. This means, of course, that you will be voting for very few Ds and absolutely NO Rs. But those politicians made their choices. They are free to do so. And we are free as well, free to send them a resounding "No!" by email, town hall, and the ballot box.

[@dannybarnhill3052]

I was 7 yrs old. I lived about 2 miles away. Was at the mall often eating at the shoneys big boy!!

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

Oh, I like the Big Boy. I don't recall a Shoney's there. I think we went to one in Green Hills maybe? I remember I bought a piano at that mall--in some music store. They had pianos that were "slightly" used at the grand opening of Opryland. I also remember the Cain-Sloan, the Castner-Knott (?) and another department store that started with the letter "H." Like "Harvey's" or something.

[@mauricioibarra701]

Wow that was amazing

[@3tonzovim]

I really thought the shot would come into focus when he put his glasses on. :(

[@Tennhomehaven]

I was 6 months old. 😅😅😅 Didn't move to Tennessee until '78.

[@MillerMeteor74]

I was 13 at that time, and our mall didn't open till a year later.

[@crazydiamond4565]

I graduated from Denbigh high school in Newport news Virginia in 1976

[@Bs2r5809]

Very dope

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

It is sad that the heyday of the mall has long passed. I practically lived at the mall in the ‘80s; now, I mostly order on line.

[@ClassicHomeMovies]

Yes, it's the same for me. The mall was our "downtown," or mine anyway. Being from the outer suburbs, I felt drawn to it. The REAL downtowns were still there, of course, but they were pretty far away from the suburbs. And from the time I was young I was scared away from the real downtowns by the fears and prejudices of my elders. Now that the "mall as surrogate downtown" has ceased to be viable, I think it may be time to give the real downtowns another look. Sadly, so many of them are half empty.

[@pjc2475]

long gone now...