Retail Nostalgia: 1980s Shopping Mall Aesthetics | Sleepcore

[@mauricioramirez9744]

Grew up as a kid in the 80's. The feeling of optimism was everywhere. A stark contrast to the expensive and violent environment we find ourselves in the 2020's.

[@jamesrecknor6752]

It sure does, SM Mall Cebu. @@SanTropez680

[@wintercat2605]

The 80's had inflation, drugs and AIDs, Iran-Contra and threat of nuclear war. Being a kid, you didn't have to worry about that.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

Yep. I too grew up in the 80s and will never forget how fun and vibrant life was, and how the future looked. The economy was strong, almost everyone you met was in favor of the president, people were happy and having fun. Now everything is miserable.

[@cash5627]

Also 80s kid here. It seems that those who slander baselessly this Golden age are simply jealous of what we had. What I wouldn't give to be back there again.

[@10rrtyyssx769]

Bro when you’re a kid, there’s always optimism in the air. Barring any unfortunate circumstances that is. Even then children remain optimistic.

[@lucyterrier7905]

The mall was a place where we young teens could go with our friends & have a good time. Arcades, movies, restaurants, record shops, clothing stores etc... Our parents knew we were safe all day & picked us up after several hours. It's so sad that kids today are so addicted to their phones & social media. They don't go out anymore. 😢

[@JoeGator23]

All by design... we will be a third-world labor factory by 2050.

[@leviticuscornwall9631]

Their parents don’t let them go out

[@illusionxmuta]

Going to a different mall in a different town was always a thrilling experience. What stores did they have? What kind of different food was in the food court? Something so simple brought so much joy.

[@VictorianMaid99]

Same here. I love old malls.

[@ChonkySlotDonkey]

Omg I felt the same way, even to this day!!!

[@butlernov2006]

I remember an old clothing department store in my area from way back in the early 90's called Geyfer's. I think the Dillard's store chain bought them out. My dad used to joke about it and he called it Gopher's. I remember he'd always sit on the bench outside the store while we shopped. I miss those times so much. Malls were weirdly quiet, kind of like this video, if I remember correctly. I would go and disappear inside a clothing rack and fall asleep while my mom tried on clothes. Great times.

[@Bookworm214-y3d]

I gave my first bj at the mall!! 😝

[@cr218]

This is brilliant. There is nothing like 80's mall culture... those were the days...

[@ytr3488]

That's what Archie Bunker said

[@jamesrecknor6752]

Aaaaarchie!....EDITH!! @@ytr3488

[@sergie2822]

I miss the aethetics and vibe of the 80's mall. Growing up, my parents would go to the mall, just to walk around.

[@garrettrice4885]

Watching the Compuserve ad and seeing people basically perform an Amazon purchase 40 years ago… wild

[@VictorianMaid99]

Going to the mall was an all, encompassing experience back then. I miss it.

[@mareanylizbeth6616]

I swear I was a kid/teen in the 80s in my previous life. I’m obsessed and love the aesthetic of old malls. I have such a nostalgic feeling even though I wasn’t born until the late 90s. Wish I could go back and experience this :(

[@kiethblack3870]

Hi -- I was a teenager in the 80s. Malls literally were fun, even just the walking from one end to the other without going in any stores. Just indoor window shopping. It was like being in a smaller indoor city. There was the bad stuff too, like everything, but I remember it being better than worse. They'd have special events too. We saw 'Darth Vader' come to sign autographs in the late 70s right after the first SW came out! [:-)]

[@JSGuitar80]

I was born in '85 so I was there for this, and also for the weird transition away from this into internet shopping. Very weird. And yes, malls were just as magical as they looked.

[@ms.pirate]

Same, I was born in 2000

[@kibby8823]

There isn’t any “past life” you just enjoy how the 80’s looked -_-

[@laurenchristianna2092]

@@kibby8823 Who are you to tell her if there is a past life or not? You have no proof one way or another so maybe just keep your opinion to yourself and enjoy this lady's comment, 🤡.

[@shawno66]

I'm so glad I got experience the 80's as a highschooler (class of 84). The best times.

[@twinkincarnate]

😢 love that for you. i graduated in 2018, completely different universe than you

[@Baldmaxx]

Me too! We experienced peak American culture and retail. Unfortunately, nobody will experience better ever again.

[@thebluetarp]

Class of 1987 here! Such good times and memories

[@laurenchristianna2092]

​@@twinkincarnate Don't be upset. Even us 80s babies didn't get to experience the 80s the way we would've liked to. We were young children. Sure we got a taste of that atmosphere but it's way different than being a young adult and actually being able to have an immersive 80s experience than being a lil baby (damn near.). I was born in '82 and was only 7 when the 80s ended. And I did Not like the late 90s aesthetic, when I was a teen! Blah 🤮.

[@LydiaBisland]

@@laurenchristianna2092same!! Born in ‘82

[@ThatTsuiBoy]

OMG THANK YOU, I absolutely love the aesthetics and vibes of 80’s malls, so this is awesome!!

[@jpbanksnj]

We all dressed up for everyday life back in the day. It was fun and showed that we appreciated every experience as a luxury. You can't get that from a computer screen these days....

[@QueenOfTheNorth65]

Yes; you never would have seen ANYONE walking around in public in pajamas!

[@reneismaelcochran]

I wish the old malls were still open.😟

[@JSGuitar80]

Me too. It wasn't just about shopping. Like, shit, at least create the facades so old bastards like us can go and wander around. lol

[@hno6159]

Seriously. I hate seeing them shut. As convinrent online shopping is, the truth is nothing makes up for the feel and being able to touch what you’re buying. Also the store atmosphere makes for memories. I only have fond memories of the malls I’ve been in, I can’t remember or feel anything special towards online shopping whatsoever lol.

[@hno6159]

@@JSGuitar80 I’m not even old and honestly feel those back in these times experienced a period of freedom and fun, without the sensitivity and BS we have now.

[@kasumiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin]

Behold, the innocence and the simpleness of the eighties...

[@CantosHype]

I don’t know if we 80’s generation realized how good we had it with the Mall Culture at the time!!!

[@hno6159]

@@CantosHype you had it very special. I sadly saw the very end of most of it, it’s depressing. Including stuff such as skate rinks, bowling etc. The tail end was the early 00’s it was painful.

[@SirenaSpades]

Ok..

[@brandyyolidio4213]

Women covered themselves up so much better 😊

[@Forklift_Fella]

I can't get enough of your SleepCore videos... especially the 80's ones.

[@olliesmith8489]

In the 80s using the computer to shop sounded crazy nowadays if you do that you’re a normal person

[@MsLila44]

Computers made it easy but also boring.. worth the conveniences but life prE computers was fun in the 1984-1990 at south coast plaza.

[@dena81]

I love how they label him 'Computer shopper '. Little did they know 40 years later that's what we all are

[@mistywyatt7109]

Oh my goodness, I was a model for Dillard's back in the late to early 90s...good times ❤

[@mccloaker]

I remember when malls were all about upscale businesses everyone could afford instead of struggling stores for struggling patrons. Everyone, everywhere, struggling.

[@jamesrecknor6752]

Building Back Better

[@IntergalacticPirateRadio]

Who would have thought something like the Internet would otherwise completely cripple American culture?

[@willwen6600]

revenge of the nerds

[@Spiritualchick82]

Yay!! You Did upload more 80's footage. Love this era.

[@laurenchristianna2092]

Me too! I Adore the 80s era. Born in '82 as well!

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

While I enjoy shopping online, there are advantages to mall shopping! Comfortable, everything(mostly) under one roof, shopping, eating, socializing. Fabulous!

[@blueamenaa749]

Im jealous of the people who have been able to experience this decade. It looks so perfect.❤❤❤❤

[@dreamingoffall7694]

It wasn’t perfect but it was great. Going to hang out with your friends at the mall, going to the movies, riding your bikes all over town til nighttime, staying on the corded phone all night while you and your best friend fell asleep. I miss it so much and I get sad that my kids didn’t get that kind of childhood.

[@blueamenaa749]

@@dreamingoffall7694 if you do that today, people will call cps on you. There s no freedom anymore. This world is a nightmare. I also understand why birth rates are declining. Everything is expensive and forbidden. There s no middle class anymore. We are slaves. Take care.

[@aleshiabarnett6104]

I know I'm going to have a good day when I see a new sleepcore upload ❤

[@GeekFilter]

Ok the girl at 10:26 is the earlier version of Vicki from Small Wonder! Seriously, I didn’t think anybody ever would wear an actual dress like that even when the show came out but apparently it exists!

[@ednarupp1631]

She looks exactly like my friend who lived in Pennsylvania, who had the exact same dress, so much so that I am convinced that is her, although a few years before I knew her. She also had a blue version of that dress, so, yes, it existed. What state was that girl filmed in?

[@mascara1777]

​@ednarupp1631 the mall was in New Jersey

[@mascara1777]

Dresses like that for little girls in the 80s were common. Our mothers were born in the 40s or 50s, and little girl dresses still had plenty of lace and feminine touches.

[@laurenchristianna2092]

​@@mascara1777 Yes back when they dressed children age appropriately. And didn't try to put them into what a teen or young adult would wear. Very adorable.

[@mikec6640]

We took malls for granted as kids.

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

I don't think I've ever had a job I enjoyed as much as putting up the Christmas decorations at the mall.

[@Videotime-bu2hu]

Sad to see how materialistic people were (still are today) that they couldn’t enjoy the outing to the mall, the social interactions, the holiday decor and music bc they just had to buy buy buy so much and waited till the last minute and gave up a pleasant experience to be in another place touch merchandise try it on see it be around others for one dimensional isolated online shopping. They didn’t enjoy the experience of the holidays traded it in for “convenience” now the malls are dead and people are lonely and miserable. What a shame

[@morkorson4196]

Shopping by computer? How preposterous, that'll never catch on. The mall is forever.

[@earthhippie]

I knooow right. Gag me with a spoon, I could never shop on a compuuuter. So boooring. (I was trying to sound like a valley girl lmao)

[@cacatr4495]

@@earthhippie You succeeded in sounding like a valley girl. 😂

[@jenniferhansen3622]

​@@earthhippieAs I was reading your comment in my head I was reading it in a valley girl voice.😂😂

[@Autostade67]

Yorkdale was the original megamall. Though it was not the first mall in Canada - that honour goes to West Vancouver's Park Royal (which, built as a testing ground to see if this new retail concept called a Shopping Centre would catch on, is still going strong after 70+ years) it was, at the time of its opening in 1964 the largest enclosed shopping space in the world - and holds a special place in the history of Toronto as it gathered speed in replacing Montreal as the economic and population hub of Canada.

[@KarmasAbutch]

When I moved to Toronto it took me 10 years to not get lost in the Easton Centre… 😂 it was like exploring a small indoor town and so wondrous at Christmas -

[@dergutejunge]

Those videos open up lanes to a foreign country, even more so because as euro this really has cultural anthropology qualities. The US culture is quite fascinating.

[@KarmasAbutch]

Canada

[@ChatGPT1111]

@@KarmasAbutchSome were U.S. since you can see the USA Today Newspaper Dispensers and they used Cincinnati Ohio newscasts among others.

[@micosstar]

facts especially it’s obsession with car to the point of making stroads (Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns) and not in my backyard activists enforcing single family spread out houses to the point of consuming farmland and further encouraging cars instead of other transportation systems

[@Cuteyhoney57]

Haha my mom was a huge fan of Connie Seleca and Hotel!! I remembered so well this era! I was little but the sound of the mall shop, the little music in the mall : like the instrumental of Cats « Memories »who was in my local mall or all the Barbra Streisand songs in instrumental !

[@QueenOfTheNorth65]

Same here! Though I was in high school when it was on, not a little girl.

[@Funeeman]

0:38 This way of buying would be like a stake in the heart for so many shopping malls.

[@danc1197]

South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa is still the largest mall on the west coast but it's not the same feel as it was in the 80s and 90s. Spent a lot of time there and the Orange county fairgrounds swap meet back in the early 80s.

[@ENigma-um8zw]

Wow that Hal Sparks footage is quite the vintage :D

[@ryanhilliard1620]

Surprisingly, I don't remember that show. Was it on Nicolodeon?

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

I’m going to get everyone I know Compuserve for Christmas. For myself I’m getting Connie Sellecca’s autograph.

[@SCU3A_S7EVE]

She likes a man who looks fabulous, but looks like he didn’t put much thought into it.

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

@@SCU3A_S7EVE That’s totally me!

[@mccloaker]

The Mall was like ComicCon: People were dressed crazy, celebrities signed autographs, arcade games to play - except it was year-round and you didn't have to buy tickets.

[@_JoeMomma]

2:13 Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights Mi (14000 Lakeside Circle, Sterling Heights, Mi 48313) used to be an amazing mall with so many stores to shop and place to eat! It was amazing. It's really sad to what it's become.

[@jerrywood4508]

I was thinking about how depressing the malls would have been to hang out in. And then it ended with the incredibly dreary celebration of the opening of The Promenade in Toronto. That sent me into a tailspin of hopeless boredom. Thank you for making appreciate just how exciting my life is by comparison.

[@justjet175]

I saw Tiffany and New Kids On The Block at Stage 2 in 1988. I miss the 80s and 90s.

[@Cheirosa81]

People were more active and social back then.

[@kevincarrier9977]

Niagara Falls, ON, CAN had an old 80's mall called Niagara Square and it has sadly since been demo'd. I thought to myself when the closing was announced that they should remodel it back to the 70's 80's look and bring back replica's of old retail outlets of the past too. Like the old Oragne Julius with the plastic oranges in the counter and an arcade with retro video and pinball games. As a tourist destination already, there would've been crowds to draw from all over the world. Not sure how well long term this might have done but if they were going to demo it anyway why not give it a try. Sadly I'm not a wealthy real estate developer and this idea is as dead as Malls are. Long live the memories of the glorious days and nights at our local malls, truly magical places in all our hearts.

[@gatheringleaves]

I wasnt even around back then and I feel nostalgic

[@nicksullivan4994]

I can’t wait to see What You have planned for Christmas This Year!😍❤️📺🎶🎄👍🏻

[@gunnarbiker]

Compuserve...the beginning of the end for greatness. Vernon Park Mall in Kinston, NC is now permanently closed. Sad.

[@morsmaj]

yes the 80 mall make me so happy :)

[@idrawpeopleandanimals]

Awesome compilation. Thank you!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@pryncecharming2133]

I miss 80s mall culture. Such a big colorful communal experience. 😂

[@Satanna.avemaria]

Even though I was born in 1994 I’m pretty sure some malls kept their 80s interior 😂🥰 and I’m so glad I experienced that. I went to a hospital the other day and even though it’s supposed to be a depressing place the interior was very eighties which put a smile on my face.

[@cdylancarter9968]

Early 90s we all use to meet in a mall and chill Saturdays as a teen. I still love them, but they are all closing down and some deserted now.

[@drewski1535]

Miss the old mall atmosphere

[@yaywhewclips242]

Shopping at home with a com-pu-ter??? WWTTON! What is the Eton Centre (DT Toronto) called now that Eton is bankrupt? BTW this video is very soothing. Our local news now is: Murder, car theft, smash and grab robbery.

[@natashaschmidt5908]

That music at the end was amazing and beautiful

[@Harbalz]

Happy Holidays and regifting 🎁 🎅 Ho Ho Ho 🤶

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

This video is fun and retrospective, thanks!

[@goldwinger5434]

Maybe it's just that I'm in my 60s but malls are boring now. Malls were touted as the new version of the town square and like the town square there used to be interesting things going on. I remember bands playing at the mall. Art exhibits. Flower shows. Antique sales. I haven't been to a mall in nearly a year and I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

[@ramon78433]

This is how folks shopped on Amazon in the 80s

[@renouchkin]

Ah. Inspiration. Well thank you very much. Good evening.

[@mingo2024]

This was the best time of my life!

[@morenofranco9235]

Horrid. I would not want to go back there. It WAS fun... but I have moved on. Thanks for the memories.

[@wrestlingwithjay3770]

80’s Vintage

[@every1665]

Love that ad for Yorkdale. By the way - is it true that in USA the big shopping mall thing is slowly dying?

[@MrMarckeedee]

More or less already dead. Been dying for about a decade or more.

[@nonnobissolum]

Been dead for over a decade. Started dying late 90's.

[@mattbugr4283]

@@mhpoe1970 was the same in England '83, '84, security could sniff out a roll of lino or ghetto blaster at 100m.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Most malls have fences around them to keep them from becoming unauthorized shelters for the homeless. The job market in the U.S. has died too.

[@ryanhilliard1620]

Yes, it is true, sadly. We still have malls, but they do not feel the same as they did in the 80s and 90s-at all! The ambience is gone, along with most of the fun stores. The stores that still exist look trashy and messy now. No customer service. Everything seems very down market, even at malls that were very upscale 20 years ago. We have 1 luxury mall in my city, but the demographic there is completely different from the 80s/90s. People buying Gucci shoes, counting out their pennies. Sad.

[@mariebelladonna437]

NGL this was actually a great video. Hit me right in the nostalgia. However, I will say that random "You're watching Sleepcore. Pleasant dreams..." felt slightly more evil than pleasant, lmao. Still subbing though. 😊👍

[@texaswunderkind]

9:36 - I don't know when I have laughed so hard at a retro video. The Innsbruck Mall ad with the shabby run-down fake façade, and the shot at 9:43 of old people climbing a two-story stairwell. Doesn't Asheville get snow? Nothing would enhance Christmas shopping like slipping and falling down a 20-foot flight of snowy stairs.

[@mikeyzero2439]

27:00 to 32:00 - This is five of the most malevolent and disturbing minutes I've ever spent punctuated by repeated and unanswered pleas such as "what the fuck is going on?" and "who are these people, and why can I smell their cologne through my laptop and across time itself?" Great. Now I have to take more pills.

[@robinlanier6886]

I miss going to the mall to shop for Christmas gifts. Our Sarasota square mall has been abandoned for about 20 yrs now. 🤔😢

[@aaronflowers8881]

I absolutely love the mall and it was at it's height in the 80s.

[@Nickecho7979]

These days there are 24 customers a day and 365 less stores.

[@MrMarckeedee]

Was there a “Lakeside Mall” in EVERY major and middle size city? I think there was.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

Thank God computers were only a fad!

[@Emily-r1n]

I like the lakeside mall spring inspiration display it reminds me of the bellagio

[@robertosborne1753]

It was soo much cooler back then. Going to the mall was a cool thing; you could shop for stuff (with it in your hand, not on a dumb computer screen) and eat, and socialize. As a kid, that was everything all rolled up into one. My brother and I used to ride our bikes to the mall, and it was awesome. Now, kids are lazy, fat, and dont socialize lol. At any rate, look at the girls on stage at 4:53. Reminds me of The Jets. Remember them?

[@cornjobb]

we've got it all! even the beautiful connie selleca!

[@mirandack4350]

Ordering online and having it sent to your home has destroyed many retail businesses, and many jobs here in America are gone cause of ordering merchandise online. Good stores and malls have closed down cause of it, we need to get back into buying things at stores and quit shopping online. Lets get America back to the way it used to be.

[@mascara1777]

It's not that simple. Mall rents were too high. And why drive if gas is $4/gallon when you can just order something from online? It all got too expensive and all these stores declared bankruptcy

[@laurenchristianna2092]

Things change. What is so difficult about that concept?

[@simoneleles5209]

Great work!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🫂

[@cbishere311]

21:45 thats my locals town mall. I wasnt born in the 80's so I never got to experience the mall being like that, ever since i was born in the 2000's era it has just completely gone down hill. Only a few shops open there at the mall.

[@Torrestorres2624]

13:10 don’t F*ck me Tony. Don’t you ever F*ck me.

[@prudencepineapple9448]

The clothes, the big hair!

[@YearsOfLeadPoisoning]

Ayy Yorkdale

[@dennisk1326]

Hal Sparks has the best hair helmet ever

[@nummer10]

Backpacks backpacks, come get your backpacks

[@gogglespisano24]

How did that woman get hired for the Jetson and Flintstone show? She was off key more than on.

[@dextervlug820]

The demise of the holidays

[@LightSkinLovely]

The first man was way ahead of his time..he knew..he knew😂

[@vincebagadonis8016]

Is that Bill O'Reilly in the beginning of the video? F it! We'll do it LIVE!!

[@deadsirius3531]

Damn, I forgot about Tiffany--my first celebrity crush. An older woman to boot, since I was about 6 at the time. Haven't heard anything about her since the 80s

[@sonhuynh8222]

Can we please go back 40 yrs and freeze it !!

[@micosstar]

compuserve baby!!!!(now amazon) came from youtube recommend

[@nonnobissolum]

24:30. Sleepcore did it to me. Now I'm doing it to you. Good luck getting THAT out of your head for the next several hours. You're welcome.

[@earthhippie]

I'm actually more scarred by the store front named thrift drugs. Uhm, what exactly did they sell. 🥵🥵

[@johnmartin3749]

Preach!

[@dena81]

I remember being a teen in the 90s and as soon as I found a new mall, I'd beg my mom to take me to it.

[@eugeniovasquez3780]

Shout out to Tiffany 😍

[@kerrbear1980]

Tiffany sounds like a young Stevie Nicks?!? In what horrendous reality is that? 2 diff artists entirely. Stevie is my pref

[@Ritzy87]

Ive never heard of shopping on a computer or even writing a comment on youtube.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

Needs a Goblins soundtrack lmao

[@vapidrabbit198]

Fun fact… Vernon park mall is in North Carolina…. It’s got 2 stars on google.🤔

[@super_horror74]

back when news was news and not fear mongering

[@earthhippie]

The Hal Sparks segment has me 💀

[@GloucesterODaugherty]

Yorkdale was lit

[@adamogilvie6951]

Yorkdale was my mall back in the day. Many, many happy memories. Now it is just garbage. The mall has completely changed. So goes the end of an era. 😭😭😭

[@namseer]

I recognize Hal Sparks as the host of the game show. 17:48

[@stevenpike7857]

The commerical in the biginning with the man in the 70's porn stache was funny.