The Ultimate 1980s Mall Experience

[@3rdcoastobs467]

As a 80s baby 90s teen there was something magical about the mall..no cell phones, people actually talking and arcades!

[@RetroDaze]

Absolutely! The 80s AND the 90s were great times for mall adventures. So many good memories.

[@ryansmurda1552]

Its sad to see American malls slowly dyeing. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, we were always at the mall. If you went there on the weekend you would see all your friends from school there. I remember going to the arcade in the early 90s and seeing like 50 kids huddled around the mortal kombat 2 machine. It was great!

[@RetroDaze]

It’s an unfortunate result of the changes in our shopping habits. I hope that malls can somehow have a renaissance and become relevant again. But whatever happens, we’ll do what we can to help those memories live on.

[@hollypierce3076]

Yes actually holding all your gossip for your bestie when your sister/brother would get off the phone😂😂

[@RetroDaze]

@@hollypierce3076 Not easy to keep to yourself patiently. 😆

[@johncantrell614]

I can’t really understand why malls fell out of favor. Inside, It was warm in the winter, cool in the summer. And if it was stormy outside, you still stayed dry as you shopped. Today’s shopping centers are all separate stores, and you are at the mercy of the weather when going from one store to the next one. No, the old way was better to me, at least as far as shopping went.

[@RetroDaze]

Agreed. I don’t understand it either.

[@30AndHatingIt]

The argument is people like shopping from home… but people still like going out, so I just don’t get it. In fact, it’s more complicated… one of my local malls is dying, but the other is jam packed and raking in cash. No reason or rhyme.

[@MysteryAGMLegend]

The problem is now you can order anything online now, and if you didn’t have a credit card or didn’t want to use your card you can get a gift card from most gas stations or nearby grocery store which was likely to a shorter trip. Sure you might have to wait a few days, but say if you were looking for a certain game, and likely the local game store likely didn’t have it, you can just order it or pre order it ahead of time. I still love a good mall, but the problem is that malls todays are more of a modern bleakness to them now. One of the best malls in PA was Franklin Mills Mall, it use to be color with different color sections making things easier to know where a certain store is, but now your lucky if they even update the directory, it’s more grayish modern now, and the mall has lost it’s personality specially when changed the name to Philadelphia Mills Mall.

[@johncantrell614]

@@MysteryAGMLegend yup, such a shame…..

[@DrSkull1939]

In some cases Teens started to take over. Also people starting shopping online.

[@Pakh2n]

Such a huge difference between today’s dead malls and the late 80s and 90s malls! We had so much fun, I miss it!

[@RetroDaze]

Absolutely. It was a different experience back in those days.

[@theomartin7339]

I miss the 80's and 90's. Life isn't the same.

[@RetroDaze]

Indeed, it isn’t. But there are great things about today too. Still, miss many of the great things of the past.

[@theomartin7339]

@RetroDaze I don't see the great of today. The cost of living is out the roof. Hours get cut for profit. Healthcare is disastrous. People keep their heads in tablets, and no communication face to face.

[@LukeDodge916]

The older i get the more emotional i get regarding the 80s and 90s. I genuinely have this ache for the way we lived before the internet. I love the convenience of the internet but i wish it didnt destroy the very fabric of society here in the west. I just want to go back so damn badly...

[@RetroDaze]

We absolutely feel the same. It's the reason this Celebrating Yesteryear series exists. Just a desire to try and capture a tiny little bit of how awesome things were, bottle it up, and share it.

[@robertboisvert2226]

Your Not alone with that feeling, I miss the 80"s and 90"s I was born and raised in the 70"s, i have to Add people are so addicted to their mobile phones they take them everywhere they take him to the bathroom they're walking their kids their dogs and they're on their phone direct dinner table put their family or their friends and they're on their phones they give more attention to their phones and they ignore those around them technology is the strongest human race and it very much saddens me there's no communication no interaction between people (Albert Einstein ) once said and I quote" I fear one day when technology surpasses the human interaction We will have a generation of idiots" damn that's so true it's happening

[@robertboisvert2226]

I have the same feeling brother( in Jesus) can't tell you how many times I reminisce about the times back then I cannot stand these times, yes I believe the internet made everything a lot more convenient for us today, but as for respect discipline and mannerism and behavior I blame the internet and the parents being so nice and having No wisdom ,they're so ignorant and lazy don't want to be bothered with their kids today slot of kids don't even know how to socialize how to speak to one another etc.. like I said I miss the good times we were a lot less stressed and we all had real friends. But you're not alone I feel the same way with these times the way that parents and kids behave , I can go on with my frustrations but what good is this going to do remember I'm from the 70s you and I are the blessed ones internet and phones.

[@robertboisvert2226]

I feel like I want to do a huge Live webinar or event about growing up in the 70, 80s and 90s and showing these kids today what it was really like to grow up back then without the internet and phones ,how they too can survive without I'm still brainstorming on this concept.

[@JJGutierrez-ob5vc]

Yeah no doubt. I'd give anything to go back to the 80's/90's! Epic epic times. Hair metal...arena rock concerts...after hours parties...bad ass house parties... beastie boys..MTV...MTV spring break Daytona Beach '90!!! all that shit.

[@barrett7893]

I miss the late 80s and the 90s so much. I wish I could go back and be a kid again and be with all the loved ones that have passed away and all my friends. 😢😢❤❤

[@RetroDaze]

That would be so wonderful. While it’s sad to think of what we’ve lost, we should also feel blessed to have lived through those amazing years.

[@hpmetabolics7558]

Maaaann I feel ya!😢

[@managerof3monsters]

I worked at the mall when I was in high school…best days of my life. Seriously, if you weren’t there, no one could imagine just how great the 80s and 90s truly were. So bittersweet.

[@RetroDaze]

Agreed. At least we can look back fondly and feel blessed to have lived through those amazing years.

[@crazycatbutler9506]

I miss the waterfalls in the malls in the 80s. The sound, the mist, the sight of one everytime you walked out of a store. It was a total vibe.

[@jesseestrada5903]

Omg me too. Puente hills Mall had one then somewhere in the mid 2000's, it became a dead mall. Which is sad cause that's where they filmed part of back to the future, in the parking lot, when Doc showed Marty the DeLorean time machine

[@RetroDaze]

It was the Twin Pines mall?

[@jesseestrada5903]

@RetroDaze yes, in the movie back to the future

[@kevinluschak5241]

@crazycatbutler9506 Used to make wishes in the fountains by throwing coins in.

[@marshallsobin4879]

@@crazycatbutler9506 let’s not forget THE GALLERIA AND WESTCHESTER OF WHITEPLAINS NY….. “HIGH” class with a whiff of pot always lingering among designer fashion…. Not to mention THE MALL AT SHORT HILLS,NJ…. Think they filmed a SEINFELD EPISODE IN THE PARKING STRUCTURE. And THE BIGGEST BY WALKING LENGTH …. FRANKLIN MILLS IN PHILADELPHIA, 1 mile long from on end to the other.

[@thecynicallife7096]

I cry every time I see a throwback video. We aren’t getting this time back again!

[@RetroDaze]

All we can do is try to capture a little of that magic. We try to.

[@dicw98439]

Time marches on and things change. It's an unavoidable reality of the human condition.

[@Sigma-Male-of-the-Most-High316]

Growing up as a kid in the 80s was the absolute best! Man do I miss it so much! If I could go back, I would in a Back to the Future second!

[@RetroDaze]

As would we! If you figure out how to, let us know!!!

[@Kismetakiss]

So agree!

[@Noonelikesme01]

I would give anything to go back to the 80s.

[@inesealvarez4087]

Malls helped connect us to each other and the community.

[@RetroDaze]

It was great for socializing. Get a group of friends together, maybe run into others from school.

[@strangelovesupreme4985]

I was between the ages of 7 and 17 during that awesome decade and lived only a mile from Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was then the largest and most fabulous mall in the country. It was like a second home, what a wonderful youth.

[@RetroDaze]

That is a perfect age range to appreciate all the malls of the ‘80s had to offer!

[@cdgee6399]

I'd go back and live in the 80s forever! I miss everything about it.

[@boxerblvd3514]

I'll go with you. The best of times. 🙋‍♀️

[@RetroDaze]

If you figure out how, let us know!!!

[@tommcdonough6086]

Hear you 12/21 throughout the 80's. Where's Marty McFly and Doc when you need them. The polar opposite of today's world, us that were young in this era were truly lucky great time to be young. My parents couldn't keep my sister and myself in the house. Funny how you never see young people playing outside anymore. SAD...........

[@theejuicygoldengoose271]

Same 🙋🏽‍♀️😢❤

[@theejuicygoldengoose271]

@@boxerblvd3514I wanna go too! 🙋🏽‍♀️

[@mixmix1487]

If you grew up in the 80s, I believe you had the best childhood in US history. We had good gents, we had it good.

[@RetroDaze]

That we did. We’re a lucky bunch to have lived through those years.

[@JayOsaka-y2o]

I was a kid in the 80s it was a magical time to be young. The malls, movies, music, fashion, culture, food...the true freedom unlike today. It was surreal.

[@joelfernandez2333]

In the 80s you dressed up to go to the Mall with your most fashionable dress. You sometimes planned out with friends to meet up with the same outfit or designer wear. Those were the best times to in. Now I see people wearing pajamas or something night wear to the Mall.

[@RetroDaze]

Yeah it was definitely more of an event or special occasion to us back then. Had to dress right for it.

[@teetoo3790]

I use to work at a mall when I was a teen in the early 1990s. At a Shoe store. Met a lot of women. Good times. 😊

[@RetroDaze]

You got to experience the mall from both sides. Very cool.😎

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

Please send me back to the 1980s. A great era.

[@RetroDaze]

If only! You ever figure out how... let us know!

[@aquicktake]

Can't even dream about dropping off a 9, 10, 11 year-old at the mall alone nowadays. In early 80s it was common for me to ride my bike there and spend hours. Sad world we live in now.

[@RetroDaze]

Agreed. So many are now unsafe for kids alone.

[@shaunthomas3826]

Facts. I would ride the neighborhood at 5and had fun. Now my son im always watching 👀. These times suck

[@kenb2671]

I remember getting my license and driving to the mall to hang out with my friends. Then dropping off my sister and her friends so a bunch of 13 year old girls could hang out. One time my brothers and I walked to the mall to play in the big arcade. Which was right next to the only Chick-fil-a in town at the time. Back then Kentucky Fried Chicken (not KFC) was king

[@josiffexplosiff1]

@@kenb2671 huh? it’s the same thing

[@cdubz265]

I can remember when pet stores (with live pets) were inside malls

[@jarethforever5846]

I miss spending time in the mall bookstores, trolling the aisles and landing at the mag racks.

[@RetroDaze]

They had something for everyone usually. Even those who didn’t care to read much.

[@KelsiKouture]

💯💯💯🙌🏾🛼🛼💯💯

[@jacobnichols4907]

Born 1980.. nothing was like the mall in 1985-1999. Do I dare say the best place on earth for a teen. I still miss 3 brothers' pizza and the pet shop

[@RetroDaze]

The best thing was you could waste so much time in there, and not necessarily break your wallet to have fun.

[@Kismetakiss]

I live in Minnesota. Southdale Mall and THE MALL of AMERICA... has put our state on the MAP OF MALL HISTORY! 😊

[@RetroDaze]

Minnesota is kind of the mall capital of America. 😆

[@Nobody-be8lf]

I miss these days... Organic relationships.. playing outside. ❤❤❤❤

[@RetroDaze]

As do we! Great times.

[@tswain92_]

I don't see kids playing outside anymore, even in the summer.

[@camstone5001]

My favorite memory was going to Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour in the 70s as a kid. You had the experience of an early 1900s shop decor, music, old fashioned sweets, and the employees were in full wardrobe, great stuff

[@RetroDaze]

That would have been amazing.

[@LSwick-ss6nm]

They had one at Town East Mall in Mesquite Texas. We went there for special occasions.

[@ghostdogzx-1474]

My biggest regret about being a teen in the 80’s was not realizing that I was a teen in the 80’s. Youth is truly wasted on the young.

[@RetroDaze]

It is only in hindsight that we could have realized how special that time truly was.

[@Styxswimmer]

@RetroDaze I was a 90s teen. While the 90s were different, they were equally epic as the 80s. I had so much fun in the 90s. Friends, sleepovers, sports, weight lifting and LOTS of drugs. I remember about half of high school because I was high through much of it. And I was a B student.

[@jasonhoward9770]

I loved the 90s.👍💯

[@highwayman187]

In a pre-internet pre-smartphone time The mall was the hub of your town if you weren't there to meet someone, you would definitely run into them there it was so awesome the atmosphere the stores Man, being a kid in the '80s was great

[@RetroDaze]

Absolutely! Few places could bring so many facets of our social lives together.

[@glennharmes1629]

I was a mallrat at age 13 in 1970 in Denver. I cruised mall till the late 80s Great times

[@RetroDaze]

Great years to be hitting the mall on the regular!

[@mrtoadslove]

I miss malls. I have purchased so many ill fitting, cheaply made, nothing like the photos, items from Amazon and other internet sites. Some can be returned and some not making for a financial nightmare for me but not the crappy sellers. There’s nothing like trying something on, feeling the fabric, knowing it fits. There’s nothing like buying a dress and walking a hundred feet to find matching shoes. And Christmas at the mall was the best, all your shopping in one stop! Please bring these back!

[@RetroDaze]

They still exist, just fewer of them. It’s definitely a better overall shopping experience than online. Just not as convenient.

[@ellaMel4632]

So true, never grew to like online shopping. It used to be a pleasant experience, meeting place for a meal, entertainment. I remember Christmas shopping was busy but magical at the same time, made the season even more special, with nice decorations, Christmas trees, Santa. Seniors walking around mall in the mornings and then stopping for snack and coffee. I even liked some salespeople, you could chat, they helped with shopping when needed , it was before cellphones became so popular and all human interactions changed for worse in my opinion. Miss these times so much.

[@bonscott9936]

I'm 54 😮! My entire life revolved around going to the Rockaway Townsquare Mall in Rockaway, NJ. Every Friday and Saturday. Best arcades, movies, clothes, food, smells and most importantly good looking skinny, and active young adults all looking for a great time!!! I miss the 80s Soooooo much😢.

[@RetroDaze]

You and me both. Your weekend adventures to Rockaway sound amazing. All of the most memorable features of perfect mall trips are present. Thank you for sharing that!

[@AnthonyJRapino]

I lived in Brooklyn in the 80s and early 90s, and we'd drive out to the Rockaway Mall around Christmas almost every year. :-) Loved that place.

[@KBlessedbyfire]

Turn these old malls into Assisted Living for Gen Xers for when we get older. What a Great Idea ! To spend our old age living in a Mall that we used to run around in !!!

[@RetroDaze]

A nursing home we’d look forward to! 😂

[@sandrasmith7091]

My mall days were in the 70s.. movies, walking around. Shopping for clothes for new school year with family. Fun

[@RetroDaze]

A great decade for malls. Such a happening spot in the ‘70s.

[@Truthster772]

In the 80’s and early 90’s some road trips were centered around going to different malls. Malls are a staple of my childhood. Many many memories. Glad to be GenX.

[@RetroDaze]

Indeed! Road trips to malls could be some of the best.

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

I love the malls and hope they make a comeback! I was just at the mall yesterday. Nothing beats in person shopping and socializing. Malls need to adapt in order to survive. I have noticed many malls having restaurants, food courts and entertainment not just shopping only. Plus, there are many things I prefer to buy in person like clothing because you want to try it on, feel the fabric and see how it looks on you. Malls are still my go to place if I want to buy shoes and clothes. I was just at the mall yesterday and loved it!

[@RetroDaze]

Many are saying that Gen Z is set to make malls relevant again. Let’s hope so!

[@jeremygould492]

Step back in time when things seamed simpler

[@fee4900]

They 80s was the absolute best time in the USA

[@RetroDaze]

You’ll get no argument here! 😉

[@unbroken1010]

The 90s was. Stop fronting

[@ogbigwhoopyoassnogga4854]

​​@@unbroken1010both 80s & 90s

[@unbroken1010]

@@ogbigwhoopyoassnogga4854 there you go

[@edwardfischer1397]

80's don't compare to the 70's

[@michaeldesmondwoods3193]

I saw Star Wars “A new Hope “ at our brand new Mall in 1977!

[@RetroDaze]

What an awesome memory to have!

[@Dbodell8000]

Back when people actually spoke to each other. Before the cellphone zombie apocalypse.

[@RetroDaze]

Pretty sure cell phones were an Umbrella Corporation invention… 😆

[@Dbodell8000]

@@RetroDaze No doubt.

[@Chrismw81]

I believe that's actually why malls are dying. It's not online shopping, otherwise Target and Walmart wouldn't be doing as well as they are. The mall was a place to socialize, and maybe get some shopping in. People don't socialize the same anymore. Sucks, but that's the way it is. My friends and I used to bum around the mall for hours as kids. Now people run in and out of Target to buy what they need and sprint out, because the place is a dystopian hellscape with no soul of its own.

[@aliaperez7809]

You can't learn anything significant with these phones.

[@donmcatee45]

I was one of the mall rats/flowers back in the day, man I miss my concert jerseys, 501’s and Nike Hi-tops, when I still had luxurious locks of hair…. Where have all the good times gone? If you remember that, then you were there too!

[@RetroDaze]

Those particular good times live only in our memories, but we’re here to help them resurface now and then. 😉

[@John-f3d9l]

Wish we could go back to this no drones,no tick tock,no google, little bit slower pace of life Jerry curls,and big hair with lot's of hair spray, roller skating, and dating was a little more chill unlike now!!!!

[@RetroDaze]

Definitely! It's hard to imagine how different things are now.

[@vicpak20]

But we get to trade in the newstand and bookstore and videoshop adult section and keep pornhub ,onlyfans, and homemade celebrity videos like Pam anderson, paris hilton and Bea Arthur,

[@Realistic316]

if i could literally go back to this time i would… everything was so much better back then…

[@RetroDaze]

If only Deloreans actually had that feature. 😆

[@Realistic316]

@@RetroDaze lol right?

[@ssQ2U]

I would, too

[@strawbrryfld1]

We didn’t have fighting or shooting at the mall either. For the most part kids were good. There were the “heads” 😜, but they kept to themselves mainly…

[@michellejohnson5176]

I think it was better but then we didn’t have all the media we do today that constantly reminds us of how bad things are today

[@flashback7273]

I was fortunate enough to work in a mall for years at many locations. Kay bee toys, century theatres, att cell phone kiosk, espresso kiosk, all wound up toy store, and finally the parking lot itself. Years of wandering the mall on and off work days and work hours. It was a time to be alive. The community of workers in the mall all kind of knew eachother and had a code of hooking things up for free. Free movies, free drinks, side hustles, and places to smoke...like the world behind the walls. Customers don't see the maze of hallways that connects all the stores behind the scenes.

[@RetroDaze]

Getting to live out the mall experience both inside and out… few people have that to remember. Thank you for sharing that.

[@coffeetalk924]

I remember seeing Michael Jackson Billy Jean jackets in the windows in the 80's. I was really young but that still stands out in my 80's mall memory

[@RetroDaze]

@@coffeetalk924 Seemed like they were pretty expensive too!

[@mjz16]

Bring back malls. I was like online shopping but in real life and better cause you could do it alone or with friends. You “scrolled” through looking at everything, from one “site” to another until you saw what you wanted and then you could chill at the food court with an Orange Julius and people watch. Better than spending hours in front of a screen only to be disappointed when your package arrives or is stolen off your porch.

[@RetroDaze]

So true. The experience of shopping and socializing at the mall was a more enjoyable and healthier use of our time.

[@muerte9O9]

It also sucks when the clothes don't fit you exactly how you expect. That's why it's better to go in and try them on a lot of times even if it's the same brand and kind of clothing item you get. Sometimes the tag don't match the size of the item I had that happen to me a few times.

[@kimgordon3695]

😂 supply chain collapse will be

[@GeOsmomGina]

I'm so happy, I grew up in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Everything went down the drain from there. My second time watching this video.

[@RetroDaze]

That is awesome! Repeat viewers are our favorite people. 😆 Like you, we feel privileged to have grown up in the best decades ever.

[@jennellew.6036]

I miss the malls especially around Christmas time and during the summer months.

[@RetroDaze]

They were especially fun during those times.

[@KimLangston]

The mall isn’t the same at Christmas at all.. our mall sucks😞every body forgets who Christmas is about and worry about loosing business by offending someone ✝️🙏

[@Heene1028]

In 1970 I remember going to the mall with a dollar and I was able to get a slice of pizza $.25 a soda for $.10 a pretzel for five cents and I still had $.60 left over to buy a little trinket and an ice cream … And have fun hanging out with my friends.

[@RetroDaze]

That’s so awesome. We could do so much with with so little. Something not so easily done these days.

[@sunshineandwarmth]

Where was this mall? We rarely ate at a mall bc they were outrageously expensive.

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

I miss the good old days of the shopping mall

[@RetroDaze]

We hear you. Miss those days tremendously.

[@ConcertFootageNate]

Born in 75, man the mall was all I wanted to do as a kid..I remember getting my license in 91 and took my first solo drive to the mall to hang with friends..I also saw a pic of tape world in your video. Man I spent a fortune of mommas $ In that store..Our arcade in Northern Ky Florence mall was called Tilt! Amazing times in there! I always wanted to be the quarter person, haha

[@RetroDaze]

We had a Tilt in the Grand Central Mall in Vienna, WV!

[@RetroDaze]

We had a Tilt in the Grand Central Mall in Vienna, WV!

[@johnwarner6909]

The 1970's malls were awesome too! Our hangout from Jrhi- HS! Going to Spencer's gifts, the record store ours was called Peaches records, & Tapes! University Square Mall Tampa Florida!

[@RetroDaze]

Thank you for sharing those memories with us John!

[@aaronflowers8881]

I don't think I could properly explain how much I love this video. I am in love with the 80s and the mall. I still frequent the mall often but it seems like there was something magical about it back then. One of my time traveling fantasies is to go back to 1986 be a teenager and be in the mall with a bunch of my friends. I was a little kid then but it has always been such a magical, fun place especially in my beloved decade. At 7:24 it looks like my childhood favorite mall, Northland in Southfield Mi. Some of my early childhood memories are being in the mall with my mom. That's why I still love them today.

[@Heidi-e5m]

I was 14 in 1986 and the malls were at there peak at that time. Whenever anyone asked me if it was fun growing up in the 1980's I say absolutely. Good times.

[@RetroDaze]

Thank you so very much for sharing that with us Aaron. If you ever do find a way to make that time traveling fantasy a reality, please consider bringing us along for the ride! In the meantime, we try to do a little bit of that with each of our videos, and we hope that comes through each time. 🥰

[@aaronflowers8881]

@@Heidi-e5m I love that! I turned 4 that year lol.

[@aaronflowers8881]

@@RetroDaze I definitely will and thank you for this fun video.

[@RichardM1366]

Going to the mall is better than online shopping. You can't have your bank account stolen! Better to be safe than sorry.

[@RetroDaze]

Well, you can still have information stolen. Just not as easily. Unless you use cash at the mall. Then I’d say you’re pretty safe for sure. 😆

[@ab6ixblindforloveismyultja641]

I miss browsing the crowded shelves of Kaybee Toys

[@RetroDaze]

They always had a wide selection of toys, some even discontinued and unavailable elsewhere.

[@ab6ixblindforloveismyultja641]

@@RetroDaze most importantly, they had affordable, cool, & decently made toys for kids with chore money, & didn’t break the piggybank.

[@heroknaderi]

This is why I miss the old days

[@RetroDaze]

Totally understand. Hopefully we can bring some of that nostalgic joy back to you. ;)

[@fidelperezvazquez2638]

I miss so much the 80 decade.❤❤❤❤

[@RetroDaze]

As do we! Such a great time to have experienced.

[@PaulGuzman-zk7kw]

Thanks for reminiscing on a better time. Truly miss many of the stores that no longer exist. The 80's were the best.😁

[@RetroDaze]

They really were! Great times to be a kid growing up.

[@bojo2770]

"It's a Friday night in the late 80's".... and I'm going skating! Malls were for the actual weekend! ALL day Saturday's!

[@RetroDaze]

Then for Friday, this is what you’ll need… kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaOYiaCwhNR1ibssi=ld5gws--iMfIsswH

[@Zeb75]

I loved the mall when I was a kid. Straight to the movies then the arcade last was the food court. Those days will never be forgotten.

[@RetroDaze]

@@Zeb75 Agreed. They are forever etched into our memories.

[@legsdiamond6]

The internet fucked up social interaction

[@RetroDaze]

It’s had an impact for sure.

[@JetPackFlame]

Not the internet per se, but mobile internet technology, social media and apps.

[@aarontrombley5891]

You are 💯% correct 😢!

[@Kdawgcub]

Exactly

[@shawnstatzer95]

Spot on.

[@hpmetabolics7558]

8:04 Me and my Bros had a schedule... Arrive by 10am Saturday window shopping until movie time Watch a movie Orange Juliesfor a corn dog n lemonade or a big slice of Sbarro Pizza next to it. Then games arcade until our parents picked us up!

[@RetroDaze]

That sounds like a perfect mall trip! Very nice!

[@odrisrosario2465]

The good old days 🥹 nostalgic 🌼

[@LiesaPinkBunny]

I would love to go back to the 80s even if just for one day 💔💕💕💕

[@RetroDaze]

As would we! Just to be a fly on the wall and watch everything unfold.

[@catrinahartz944]

Same! I was a teenager in the late 80s. 🎉

[@LiesaPinkBunny]

We had The best time's 💕

[@XoiUhdheen]

Spencer's was "Taboo"😂😂😂😂😂

[@RetroDaze]

Ha! Yeah, tame by today’s standards!

[@pamelamckinven1790]

I’ll be 54 this year and have such good memories of going to the mall to hang out as a teenager . Ski ball at the arcade . Daltons books for magazine section to see out favourite rock bands Spencer’s gifts long John silvers at the food court the cool clothes stores like merry go round to get our frosted jeans Woolworths for our wet n wild makeup And going into Hickory farms to got those mini cheeses . The mall was part of teen culture back in the 80s . I miss those days and will never forget how lucky we were no phones no internet just hanging out trying to look cool and have fun .

[@RetroDaze]

@@pamelamckinven1790 We are VERY lucky to have experienced the ‘80s, and particularly the mall culture of the decade.

[@philsmith8306]

The good ole days!

[@RetroDaze]

Good days indeed!

[@racheltuomi8695]

Shopping for music and eating at the food court was fun❤

[@RetroDaze]

@@racheltuomi8695 You could end up spending hours on just those two activities!

[@racheltuomi8695]

@RetroDaze I did in the music store because I'd write down all the bands and their albums I got out of magazines that I wanted to check out🤣

[@StONed-yx5qq]

80s kid here…. It was Saturday afternoons…. AT THE FOUNTAIN!

[@RetroDaze]

That was the meeting place eh?

[@lt.spears1889]

I’m 60 and the Mall was all that, it was like a nightclub for teens, and it was perfect.

[@RetroDaze]

We really couldn’t have asked for more from A place to hang out.

[@DrJohnRen]

The Mall of America is stronger than ever.

[@RetroDaze]

It’s nice knowing there are still malls out there going strong!

[@babeena_gt_3645]

My older sister told me that kids always hung out in the mall back in the 80s,but in the 90s fights started always breaking out by teens using the mall as a meet up to fight. Now the malls (most of them) have a age limit when alone.

[@RetroDaze]

There seems to have been an influx of violence as the 2000s approached. Unfortunate for sure. Thankfully it was not a nationwide thing.

[@babeena_gt_3645]

@RetroDaze I noticed that too

[@ratzass2]

As a teenager that went to the malls in the 80's Spencer's was a must.

[@RetroDaze]

Indeed! It was such an oddity at the time. Not so much now though.

[@wettaloca2923]

Yes! I'm in my 40s. I still go to the mall and I still go to Spencer's. Salem Oregon!

[@justindearmond1]

I was born in 1980 and I remember going to the arcade when I was younger in the late 80s and early 90s. It was so much fun.

[@RetroDaze]

Arcades back then were places you could spend hours, sometimes on just one game. Now every arcade is focused on redemption games that cost way too much for a second or two of trying to win some prize.

[@NatHenrickClarke]

79' and I loved the arcade as well, same time frame as you, those were the days

[@waynegilchrist3535]

I miss so bad going to the mall. My kids have no idea what it was really like.

[@RetroDaze]

Nowadays the mall experience is so different that it’s hard to imagine our children “getting” it.

[@tswain92_]

I mourn the loss.

[@edwardfischer1397]

I liked the 70's, one evening I was just people watching and a Beautiful Young Lady walked out of National Record Mart and gave me her phone number. And She was Worth the call.

[@RetroDaze]

That’s awesome! Not much that could connect you more to a mall than finding love.

[@JoshuaTraffanstedt]

I do ok financially, but i cant help but envy my parents for being able to work and live in the 1980s. Even my grandpa told me he did better financially in the 80s than he ever did before or since. Great video!

[@RetroDaze]

Thanks Joshua! Sure we had our woes in the ‘80s… like every decade. But it did feel optimistic and hopeful then. Like things were on the way up.

[@sgt_slobber.7628]

Nothing ever beats NOSTALGIA!!!!!🤗🤗🤗

[@RetroDaze]

It’s chicken soup for the soul. 😆

[@pamelajohnson7813]

Anyone remember the candle store called, Wicks & Sticks? Remember a store called, Things Remembered? They had picture frames & glass mugs, etc. you could have engraved? I bought all my coworkers a lighter for Christmas with their names engraved for like $5! Lots of cool memories of great Christmas displays, too!

[@kimgordon3695]

Things remembered was a gift stop... 1990's

[@RetroDaze]

We remember Things Remembered! 😆

[@Heatherj-yg5vs]

Wicks and Sticks was so awesome. They had the most delicious sandalwood body oil back in the day.

[@pamelajohnson7813]

@@Heatherj-yg5vs Wished I had seen that! My parents still have a big log-like thing that has 2 green mushroom candles on it. It sits on the headboard of my old water bed. They now have regular mattresses in it!

[@ICEsmokeMirrors9]

There was nothing like the mall back then. Movies in the mall and arcade. Talking to girls

[@RetroDaze]

@@ICEsmokeMirrors9 Great times.

[@gohanson8846]

Ever since videos games consoles came out, arcades slowly died. Social media and technology killed everything

[@efraineaceibo747]

80s 90s it was the golden era of the US back then the country was cleaner now it seems dead

[@steelstreet79]

I was born in August 1979 and i remember going to the mall in the late 80s. Favorite time. My favorite era for malls were in the late 80s. 87-89.

[@RetroDaze]

That was an amazing time to visit a mall! Peak mall culture right there.

[@Styxswimmer]

Ive been so nostalgic for the 80s and 90s. I really miss mall culture. I remember after school my friends and I would immediately go to the mall and just hang out for hours. You just earned my sub

[@RetroDaze]

That was as cool as life could possibly get... those days!

[@Styxswimmer]

​@@RetroDazea local mall near me that had been open since 1972 closed just 4 months ago. I spent so much time there, especially at the arcade and Enzos pizza. Guys would play inside the arcade and we noticed girls would hang around the outside of the arcade checking the guys out. Better times

[@RetroDaze]

Really great times for sure.

[@thegreypath1777]

My friends and I spent a LOT of time just hanging out at the mall.

[@Styxswimmer]

@@thegreypath1777 the mall was a place to hang out, meet friends, make new friends, possibly a new friend of the opposite sex, and just have a good time. Now teenagers spend all day on their phones and game systems.

[@1drummer172]

I’m happy to report that the mall is still a big and exciting place for all ages in the country and city that I live in.

[@RetroDaze]

Excellent! Always great to hear of the ones still out there doing well.

[@manestage5403]

I also remember when music artists would sometimes sign albums at the mall music stores! ❤❤

[@RetroDaze]

Guessing that was a feature exclusive to malls out west. We didn’t get that in our area.

[@BlueberryMuffin-nt7ew]

Waldenbooks and B.Dalton lured me in with the latest hardcover books and comics. Then it was off to the food court that had everything from Chik Fil A to great Chinese food. Godfather's Pizza served up great slices right next to the arcade, across from which there was a Circuit City. 1984-1991 were mall hopping years for this mall rat.

[@RetroDaze]

That’s awesome! So much mall nostalgia packed in there. Doesn’t get much better.

[@ricecornbeansmeat]

Some malls are still doing ok, enjoy while you can now.

[@RetroDaze]

Indeed. Hopefully they continue to do well.

[@coastiegirl711]

Loved Spencer’s such a cool store.

[@jessmcnulty3043]

Spencer’s still exists in 2 of the malls local to me. I still enjoy walking through it and looking at all of the funky keychains ;)

[@markstein1916]

Better days! Please someone invent a time machine and get us outa here!

[@RetroDaze]

Let us know when that happens!

[@vicpetrishak7705]

Sears and Roebuck Craftsman tools and JC Penny escalators !

[@RetroDaze]

So that the tools to fix the escalators are available. 😆

[@atom-bomboriginal6387]

3 things ruined it. Young teens started causing problems. People like shopping online more because its convenient. And shoplifting and theft was rising more

[@RetroDaze]

Not to mention rent prices!

[@alicebrown1108]

Absolutely correct. The dreadful virus starting with a “C” ending with a “D” put the nail in the coffin of malls.

[@davidfrank3728]

I would rather go to the mall, than shop on line!!

[@RetroDaze]

I second that!

[@ricmightybonefeliciano9800]

I miss the old days... sigh

[@RetroDaze]

Agreed. If only time travel was a real thing. 😆

[@dicw98439]

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

[@aaronflowers8881]

I absolutely love the mall and the 80s. There's something about the combination of the two I love. Being in the mall in the 80s is something I'd do if I had a time machine. My mom and I would go often when I was a kid back then.

[@RetroDaze]

It was just a different experience back then. A better experience.

[@aaronflowers8881]

@@RetroDaze Yes

[@SuperLEOLADY1]

I miss Malls

[@carolann1727]

As a teenage girl from 83-87, Bergen Mall in Paramus, NJ was my stopping ground. Sterns, Lerner shops, Walden Books, Fanny Farmer, World Imports, Newberry’s, music stores, and video games. It was not too expensive to buy posters, stickers, food & cassettes-albums were a little more expensive, and you could buy concert tickets in the mall. It was safe to be there in groups or just with one girlfriend. When we were done with the mall we WALKED to the RKO 10plex on Route 4 for a movies-which had an arcade in it. We would go down the shore every summer for two weeks-because that too was affordable-and hit Ocean County mall on the rainy days. How I wish my 15 yr old could have the same experiences. My life was literally a compilation of all the great 80’s John Hughes movies-it makes her so jealous. I go nostalgic every now and then just to touch base to a simpler time. My daughter likes Dior lip gloss, Sol de Janiero #40, Lululemon. I wore Ambush perfume, jelly shoes and Lip Potion lip gloss. Coke was in a glass bottle, Twinkies were bigger and 75 cents, I saw the premiere of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, I had sleepovers and watched MTV for hours, HBO was a new premium station on cable, it took 4 hours to set up the vcr, I drew all over my blue fabric binder and used actual textbooks (which I covered in grocery bag brown paper). My first date was in a Camaro! How times have changed and not for the better. For all those who remember, wasn’t it awesome?

[@RetroDaze]

It was incredible. Even the not-so-great things seem desirable in comparison. It’s cliché, but the truth is times were indeed simpler, and life was more personal.

[@spencerdean4181]

I lived in Poland for a year, and malls there are packed at all hours of the day. Kids hanging out, you don’t see many faces glued to phones.

[@RetroDaze]

Now that's living!

[@marlenafina3481]

🎉That's how it is in many other countries but not here in America. Ssd.

[@mattbendzinski4945]

Back when malls weren't just women's clothes, we often went and spent the whole afternoon there. Pizza and a soda for 95 cents, games stores, book stores, and more. Great place to go. Now it is mostly expensive women's clothing so I generally don't go any more.

[@RetroDaze]

Unfortunately you’re right. Most of the mall of today is dominated by shoes, clothing, and jewelry… mostly catering to women. To find a mall with a large variety of shops in this day and age is a rarity.

[@jennlyn328]

Hot Topic and Spencer’s! Those were the best places to get all of my favorite band posters and collectibles.

[@RetroDaze]

Spencer’s was around but Hot Topic didn’t even open their first store until ‘88, so it was quite a while before they were in most malls.

[@jessecuster5877]

I miss Malls. Nothing compared to getting together with family or friends and spending the day keeping those shopping mall floors warm!!

[@RetroDaze]

It really was a perfect place to socialize and spend time together.

[@coriarkinson7660]

O.M.Gosh had so much fun when went to the mall . It's really sad kids don't get to experience anything like that . The 80s was so fun .

[@RetroDaze]

Agreed! They’ll never know what they missed, but for us… it’s hard to not feel a bit sad that they missed out on it.

[@valerieprimbscole7726]

My teen son (18) grew up watching 80s movies and TV shows--he now says that the 80s looks so much better than today's stuff and he wished life was like the 80s! Lol! So, funny because he never grew up in the 80s but knows so much about it via me and the movies/shows growing up. Its like he did grow up in the 80s in some way. 😂❤

[@atk047]

I was born in 1990 and I miss the old school feel of going to the mall. Now shopping can be done at home which gets old fast for me personally.

[@RetroDaze]

Exactly. It’s convenient but really not an experience like going to the mall.

[@garyskadra5236]

I used to head straight for the record stores. I also used to go to the book store to sneak a peek at Playboy & Penthouse. Back then they just kept the nudie mags high above all the other magazines. It didn't stop me from getting my hands on one

[@gregoryholmes3514]

Yes I would always hit the food court and the arcade. Good times

[@RetroDaze]

You’re the reason they moved them behind the counter! 😆

[@KeY-StO]

🤣

[@WaverBoy]

Suncoast! I spent so much money on VHS movies there! And Orange Julius! I REALLY miss Orange Julius!!!

[@RetroDaze]

It would be amazing to see the return of some stand-alone Orange Julius locations!