RETRO 80s MALLS COMMERCIALS 📼📼📼

[@toybarons]

Back in the day when going to the mall was a way of life.

[@bobbykiriakidis9753]

We were optimistic in the 80’s. Fun vibes

[@jenniferburchill3658]

Back when shopping was an experience... clicking an online "shopping" site cannot even begin to compare.

[@jaythames5254]

I grew up in the 80's those were the best times

[@canadianmagickstar]

OMG I'm living for these commercials! I was a young kid when these aired and I miss the 80s horribly!

[@pinlight97]

Ah, I remember when Yorkdale looked like that and the neon lights still worked at the subway station. Picking up my mom who worked at Simpsons shoes department in my footie p/js. And the Eaton Centre, another spot she worked: the fountain that shot water 3 stories up, the Magic Pan restaurant, Lime Rickey’s, and the insanity on Boxing Day when guys on ladders would use megaphones to control the crowd trying to get into all the “cool” fashion stores there. She would also shop the Annex there where my brother would hide in the round clothes racks and scare the crap out of her. The 80s hair and shoulder pads were real in these ads, LOL!

[@SeLLy261]

some of these could be tv sitcom themes...so 80s. i love it.

[@nelsonbotelho3244]

back when going to the mall was fun and safe 😃 ❤ 👍

[@johnpatterson4272]

Sheridan Mall in the southern-end of the Jane-Finch corridor at one time was the epitome of suburban shopping malls. It had great first-run movie theatres and lots of prosperous chain retail stores, on par with Fairview Mall, Town and Country Mall and Scarborough Towne Centre. By 2000 times had seriously changed. While those early 80s times now seem frivolous, it was genuinely a better time in Toronto history.

[@ronmexxxico7]

I forgot what it’s like to be out in public.

[@michellem.1749]

😷

[@bundangbear]

People really smell.

[@CannabrannaLammer]

​@@bundangbear I hardly ever smell anyone bad and even then its just a bit of BO on a summer day. Maybe America is different.

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

It feels so great to see these comments now that we are out of that mess lol

[@maxmulsanne7054]

​@@CannabrannaLammer Here in America (particularly California) we discovered that deodorant is not environmental-friendly with all the toxins that it releases in the atmosphere, so we don't use it.

[@blakeandrews3613]

Southern Ontario is such a special place ❤️

[@FrogyProd]

I miss the greenery/trees in the Eatons centre :(

[@sashineb.2114]

I'd forgotten they removed them.

[@alexsdb9712]

Removing them haha. And these big, various groups and companies always go on and on about being kind to the environment and lessening carbon footprints. Phonies!

[@ravenbaa7989]

Good I hated trees

[@angrykermit3192]

That first Eaton Centre commercial was the most 80s thing I've ever seen lol.

[@edwardbliss8931]

The mall where all students who skipped school in the 80s went to

[@jansa940]

LOL. So true.

[@luismrls04]

I had after school tutoring inside the mall, at the video arcade, it was a rip-off so parents enrolled me at a tutoring center in downtown in 1983

[@DJRitty]

how the times change...last few years the malls still had kids in them, only now they act like it's their living room, laying around with their shoes off and their feet up in the air lol

[@michellem.1749]

The 90s as well..

[@thesilentdiva]

Ty for not turning off the comments. I remember mall commercials. Mall was more than shopping ,it was entertainment

[@ytzpilot]

I used to work in Sheridan Mall, Eaton Centre and Fairview Mall, brings back memories

[@wretchedreject8700]

Three malls!? I'm impressed. I only ever worked in one mall: Galleria Shopping Center.

[@ryanhilliard1620]

@@wretchedreject8700Which Galleria? st Louis or Houston?

[@wretchedreject8700]

@@ryanhilliard1620 It was just known as "The Galleria Mall"; on Dufferin and Dupont.

[@lisaknox7722]

Our mall fell on hard times. Don't know if it'll ever come back. Rip upper valley mall.

[@CaptainVelveeta]

I love 80's mall commercials cuz they almost always used local talent which only increases the cheese factor 😅

[@BillLionaire12]

🤣🤣

[@jenniferburchill3658]

And a good way for someone to get their lucky break!

[@stickynorth]

Not gonna lie, I love that every mall had its own mini-jingle theme tune. It's cheesy as hell but memorable as all get out!

[@wrestlingwithjay3770]

Flashback in the 80’s

[@Chelz12]

Let’s go back. This 2021 isn’t working.

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

You have more people from incompatible cultures. They aren't integrating and spreading their problems in the West.

[@akuma4u]

That yorkdale mall with the mannequin that comes to life is going to give me nightmares

[@handyandy6437]

WOW how times have changed. They put a T&T grocery store in where the Sears used to be @ Fairview mall!

[@ikillforshoes]

Yorkdales commercial is like a theme for an 80s soap show

[@ceer9141]

Omg the Eaton's commercial takes me BACK! I remembered the tune and most of the words LOL, Good Times!!! ( Eeeeek to the fashion 😢🤣)

[@larkprof]

Good ol' fairview mall, That place was my one stop shop when I lived in my mom's basement for 8 months after I bailed on Thunder bay when I was 20. I could got to the LCBO and grab 12 tallboys of old mill for $21.50 and then slam a $20 down in the food court at taco bell and yell "this much in soft tacos!" I would also catch some cheap shows at rainbow cinemas from time to time.

[@80s90smovies.]

funny how i remember this but after the bar we used to hit up taco bell and get 10 soft taco and it came to $10.03 each so i guess you got 20..HAHA...good old taco bell in Ajax

[@steelstreet79]

Born in 1979 but I love the 80s and early 90s.

[@jong2368]

So many malls have closed down. Sad to see.

[@alexsdb9712]

Perhaps it's also because consider the 70s to 90s, too many malls were put up throughout North America. And it was because of the boomer generation doing all that and acting like the well could never dry.

[@DJRitty]

@@alexsdb9712 lol what? Malls closed down cuz all people buy now are shoes, cellphones and women' clothes lol ;) Can't run an entire mall based off that kiosk shit lol

[@alexsdb9712]

@@DJRitty Many factors all in one. A big one is economy and income, which affects what people buy. Globalization is another factor which hurt the developed world a lot. This type of issue and scenario isn't just one straight, narrow reason or cause.

[@sacvideo1998]

Is it really "so many malls" that have closed down though? I can think of like two examples in the GTA (Honeydale and Don Mills Centre) and one that is slated to be demolished (the Galleria on Dufferin). More common is malls that have been partially been redevloped towards open air big box plazas, like South Common Mall or the Meadowvale Town Centre, but still retain some of their original mall elements. I'm sure there are a few other example of closed malls in the GTA, but the vast majority of malls that were open in the 1980s are still around today, even if some of them are kind of in rough shape.

[@sacvideo1998]

@@alexsdb9712 Most of the malls we have were built before boomers would have realistically been old enough to be calling the shots at real estate development companies. The oldest boomer was 24 years old when Fairview opened, for example, and only 18 when Yorkdale opened. If anything it would have been members of the greatest or silent generations who decided to build all these malls everywhere, if not an even older cohort. Looking at this through a lens of generational conflict though, is really just diverting attention away from issues with capitalism itself. Though I'm not going to lie, I can't hate on capitalism for giving us all these malls, as someone who grew up in the 90s I'm a pretty big mall fan.

[@jollyrott3nn]

Am I the only one that misses the days when stores didn’t bleach out your life with a thousand fluorescent lights?

[@sashineb.2114]

3:11 Remember shoulder pads?? And helmet hair.

[@plaistowbill]

I love the big 1980s hair on the women.

[@TheCanadianWeeb5]

old malls are an aesthetic

[@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue]

No Tannery Mall in Newmarket either. It was a nice indoor shopping mall. It's now the Newmarket Courthouse.

[@jansa940]

while I prefer ordering items online now (not just because of COVID), I really enjoyed going to the mall when I was a kid. Especially when the weather was bad and not much to do outside. They had video game arcades with dozens of video games, lots of food places including the Giant Hot Pretzels, movie theaters, Spencers Gifts, a lot of other unique stores that I can't even recall the names, it was so long ago. It was just a good place to get out of the house, walk around, interact with people, etc. And you didn't really have to spend a lot of money, you could just enjoy looking.

[@thecretanbull4784]

Why do you choose to live your life in fear? Your not gonna die or get real that sick. How about this … start talking A shit load of vitamin d c etc ! Support local business. Get out and live your life the way you were supposed to be and stop listening to political medicine. Trudeau left Canada whose vax rate is a supposed 90 percent wearing a mask and went to Ukrainia with one of the lowest vax rates in the world and didn’t wear a mask. Does that seem logical to you? Stop with this nonsense and get out and stop supporting on line shit. Jeez!

[@arricammarques1955]

Eaton Centre stylized commercials.

[@dotguy5914]

Sad that they removed the fountain in Yorkdale mall.

[@jameschio756]

Real shame. Gave that place character.

[@bluewaxbill4374]

I feel the same about Limeridge Mall, loved the fountains. My mom would give me a penny and I'd toss one in after making a wish.

[@marmaly]

Used to love the pennies and occasional nickels in the water. Used to throw them down from the upstairs restaurant!!

[@davidpenn9396]

The Mall was Awesome to go to way way back into my younger days

[@mocat1]

There was more than ONE Sheridan Mall? 😳 Did they all have the super awesome climbing blocks?

[@angrykermit3192]

Omg, the climbing blocks at Mississauga Sheridan Mall! And at one time the whole platform rotated but I heard kids were mangling their fingers by sticking it in the platform gap so they stopped turning it on.

[@mocat1]

Stinky Whizzletooth 😲 I think I have incredibly vague memories of it rotating, now that you mention it. They must have stopped it, when I was still quite young. I know I wondered why there was the circular metal ring on the floor. ~ I also liked the unspoken code of bigger kids looking out for younger kids. Didn’t matter if you knew the kids. Just everyone looked out for the young ones.

[@angrykermit3192]

@@mocat1 So true! There was definitely a self governing hierarchy in place when it came to climbing block etiquette lol.

[@johnkaminsky1657]

@@angrykermit3192 Remember them well. The indoor/outdoor carpeted blocks stained with everything imaginable from chewing gum to soda pop. There was a Buster Browns and the Consumers Distributing right beside them.

[@mocat1]

@@johnkaminsky1657 Also the Hallmark Cards uh.... not exactly a pop-up, but just directly behind the blocks. My memories of it was that it felt like a bit of a maze.

[@jonleibow3604]

Eaton Centre: the one downtown mall in Ontario that was successful.

[@Ann-hm7gj]

Haha 😆 This was awesome thank you

[@DJRitty]

I wish I could find something like this for Ottawa. A few years ago they renovated a mall here (St. Laurent Shopping Center) and they removed all the OLD tiles I guess they just kept replacing OVER each other all these years....anyways ALL the way down to the tiles from the EARLY 80's. I saw this floor and waves of memories flooded back... I remembered THAT old floor... MANY renovations since them days...but I found/someone sent me an old picture of the inside and there it was, that floor lol I always thought something like this would make a great series of historical picture books for our major canadian cities...

[@julieerin115]

I'm originally from Ottawa and I so would have loved seeing that old floor! From what I remember, the floor had an ivory/grey circle pattern, and I think there was a fountain near the bus station's escalators.

[@kikib8434]

I live in Ottawa (have for almost my whole 41 years of existence but I'm from B.C.) and pre-Pandemic I'd hit St. Laurent every Tuesday with my best friend to catch a movie or 2 at Rainbow. I know EXACTLY what you're talking about 😁🖤.

[@karengerhardt6008]

Omg, I worked at the Mississauga Sheridan Mall in 1980. (Ours didn't look quite that good, lol.) What a blast from the past. 😂 (Papa Luigi's pizza from that mall is still the best I've ever had...)

[@discoveryman59]

Woolco, Miracle food mart, how about Hunts and womens bakery, Loved the chocolate covered doughnuts.

[@marmaly]

Having to leave home to get things was fun.

[@airaero5473]

Aw, man. No Lime Ridge Mall commercial XD

[@jonathanfage3435]

I remember the Lime Ridge Mall/Eastgate Square/Centre Mall ads from 1989 on CHCH 11. "For fashion and value, 'cause we're all about you..." There was one for fall, one for Christmas and one for spring.

[@bundangbear]

Museum worthy!

[@RetroGaming-gp2ef]

I miss Zellers. They had a lot of good stuff

[@haweater1555]

I don't think Eaton Centre has to run TV ads to draw visitors anymore.

[@80s90smovies.]

all the dis likes are the one's that got kicked out for hanging out to much ...in the food court

[@LasicaTV]

theres only one dislike

[@kimashmore9941]

@@LasicaTV loved your comment, and its up to 3 🤷‍♀️

[@CRtrain]

With the volume down this is a hoot

[@TheRealGaucelm]

Who would like Dan Bell to visit some of these?

[@blind_t2]

one mall that hasn’t changed much, but I wanna see, is woodbine center. I’m in the US, but I hear that’s a good mall that still has a classic charm. I’m here for fantasy fair, I know that’s kid themed, but IDC.

[@jrichard88]

Let's go to the mall, everybody!

[@MrKwiafe]

I worked at all of these malls except Midland mall.

[@thegoldendog7991]

Yorkdale, Fairview, Scarborough Towne Centre and the Eaton Centre seem to be going strong in a sea of online shopping. I wonder for how long?

[@FunnyCrazyProduction]

"Let's go to the mall....today... Let's go to the mall everyone!" - Robin Sparkles (How I Met Your Mother)

[@delphidae6610]

OMG a zellers - i had forgotten

[@nmikali3848]

3:28 that ladies red coat can u even GET bigger shoulder pads and be more 80's than that...🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@julieerin115]

And her hair!

[@jeffreyroy7639]

I need to drink some "Crystal Lite!" while watching this...

[@mysticalfox4546]

Don’t forget the cocaine🤣👍🏽

[@johnf5245]

So I’m watching commercials to watch commercials now

[@lisaknox2328]

I hopethey reopen our mall soon. And I hope it gets a better owner or owners. I'd like to see some makeover to the old place.

[@co6308]

Not with social media, and light on crime. Sad times we're entering

[@starry-shar]

I'm shocked and kinda traumatized that I lived through this... 🤣🤣🤣

[@clearlynotwoke4929]

Yes because 2023 is sooooo much better.

[@Ripplin]

Mountainview is just a glorified strip mall now. Not even sure what's in the center of the building, to be honest. Just maintenance access hallways or something, I guess. :p

[@dorian345]

Ripplin yea that's sad. I remember this mall going to the cottage..They used to have a small arcade ..good times

[@Ripplin]

@@dorian345 Ah yes, Captain Billy's. :) I still have tickets, probably from the football toss game.

[@ClintScottFischer]

Wish I could go back, then everything wouldn't be so fucked up.

[@maryvee61]

I worked at Sherway and Bramalea City Centre in my 20s it was fun.

[@deanwinchester3356]

1:56 That woman was falling over the railings lol. Why did they keep that in?

[@sacvideo1998]

She leans forward and loses her glasses, and hey land on that other guy's face

[@email5023]

I thought she fell over & died and only her glasses were saved.

[@Quan1992]

Does Eaton centre even have commercials anymore?

[@thegoldendog7991]

I haven’t seen a commercial for a mall in years.

[@Ann-hm7gj]

Ya that Yorkdale tunnel Good times coming from glencarin station on the Yorkdale line to Yorkdale subway station after church to walk to tim Hortons for tim bits and hot coffee.

[@Ann-hm7gj]

I LOVE TORONTO BEST PLACE EVER😁

[@americanidol434]

When times were good

[@julieerin115]

When I was living in the GTA, I was approached by a homeless person asking for change in the Eaton Centre food court during one of my last trips there.

[@Mikewee777]

The homeless people have always harrassed people at shopping centers. The difference is that modern security guards will be better able to chase them out if you photograph and share the data with them. Most malls have a phone number you can call too.

[@wrestlingwithjay3770]

80’s Vintage

[@TravelingwithValeman77]

The woman in the Yorkdale ad looks familiar. Any idea who she is?

[@patrickquintin4664]

It's Sandi Stahlbrand, who used to be a news reporter in Montreal and later Toronto. She had a nice side gig in movies (like the filmed in Toronto "Tommy Boy" with Chris Farley) mostly playing TV news reporters. The lady in the puffy red coat I think is Linda Kash, who did all those Philly cream cheese commercials but I could be wrong.

[@TravelingwithValeman77]

@@patrickquintin4664 thanks!

[@Listman11]

What about “you’ll get it all at Sherway gardens “.

[@JS-ps2qp]

the last one is epic. he looks like Will Ferrell

[@gregschell1094]

I think that was the actor who was in a series of Canadian Tire commercials during the late nineties to early two thousands.

[@nightazday7988]

The mall 1980-2020

[@robmclean4352]

How can this video be any more 80s? None! None more 80s...!

[@candievermeulen9858]

It's so sad 😭 malls are a thing of the pass and the ones that do remain are slowly dying

[@jackdaniels403]

That mannequin one got me creeped out.

[@StephenAndrew777]

This is great. The Christmas one really fucked me up.

[@ryanhilliard1620]

St Louis Centere looked exactly like Eaton, until the gangs started hanging out there a couple years in and ruined the mall. As for the last one...she had a half way decent looking guy in love with her and she blew him off. Today, she watches youtube, longingly looking for this commercial, alone with her cats, Liz Clairboene gift with purchase tote, reading a book, wishing she knew where that weirdo who followed her through mall was...😔

[@jeffreybaker100]

It makes me cry when I think of how now in 2022 here in the Buffalo, NY area there's really only one mall The Walden Galleria Mall and the Niagara Falls Factory Outlets Mall. I miss the now defunct Eastern Hills and Boulevard Malls.😭😞

[@Hulk2k6]

80s af here!

[@vm5500]

Oh so a mall was like Amazon irl?

[@byronjakubczyk9429]

🤠👍

[@FilCanJay]

Eaton Centre has not changed at all other than the pedestrian bridge over Queen.

[@uou_knightplaysoldchannel1557]

yorkdale use to has fountain but now just pure expensive stuff

[@mikepetri3536]

All of these malls are in Canada.

[@pandaeyes42]

These commercials are making me want to smoke a joint, play some video games and get stupid!

[@rohan34]

Now everybody in the world lives like Americans.

[@email5023]

This isn't even the US.

[@rohan34]

@@email5023 what isn't?

[@TravelingwithValeman77]

Where is Robin Sparkles? Haha

[@Jimfrommaine]

Imagine the ever exalted native Americans watching this tripe. Thinking holee smokes how did humanity become so weak?

[@philt5782]

It was a family thing

[@user-ve5ln5le9y]

Online shopping has ruined society

[@blackcaesar1441]

North York Sheridan mall was a dump by the end of the 80s LOL

[@valerierogers9609]

I missed out on such euphoria as I didn't attend malls. Today, if it's even open, same people are walking around with ugly face diapers thinking it's normal.

[@sacvideo1998]

I don't think anyone thinks living during a global pandemic is normal, that's why they are taking the sensible precaution of wearing masks to limit the risk of catching or spreading a deadly disease. I'm sure this video isn't of much interest to you as you never attend malls, but thank you for taking time out of your day to show up here anyway and encourage people to wear masks, a helpful public health message.

[@julieerin115]

Unfortunately, I've become accustomed to face diapers :(

[@brutustantheiii8477]

someone get Dead Mall Series Dan Bell to collaborate!

[@Ann-hm7gj]

That Eaton center tunnel connecting Yorkdale bus way station and the Eaton center,I've walked through that tunnel at least minimum 10 thousand times over the course of my life. I'm an 80's baby That tunnel is still going strong. I got mad when they converted that old convience store right when you open the mall doors to enter into a cellphone store during covid🤬 That's where I use to buy my MICHEDEAN patties and juice from. That was so upsetting. Then the EATON center turned into a WAR ZONE during Covid is was CREEPY AS HELL. It started to turn into a COMMUNIST MALL full with those weird gender bathrooms that was BS. The mall lost a lot of money when they did that.

[@Ann-hm7gj]

I meant parliament station not Yorkdale My bad

[@HopeLaFleur1975]

When white people existed 😮 And shopping was a place you had to go too😂❤❤❤

[@viiktorshandor4155]

Ah yes when Toronto wasn't a total cracked out dump like it is now

[@sebastianjames7423]

you can always tell someone has never lived in or visited toronto when they write a comment like this

[@viiktorshandor4155]

@@sebastianjames7423 shows what you know I've lived here all my life.

[@viiktorshandor4155]

@@sebastianjames7423 idiot

[@sacvideo1998]

You realize all these ads were made during the height of the crack epidemic? I feel like you have no idea what Toronto was like during the 1980s, or now for that matter

[@viiktorshandor4155]

@@sacvideo1998 25 years I worked at queen and sherborne I think I may have a slight clue