Amusing:

Shopping mall photos from 1989

Wow!! A record store!!! And big hair and funny clothes!

lol I remember Tape World

Besides the hair styles/clothes/and some products it is basically the same as it is today. People from 2035 looking at pictures of the mall of 2015 will make the same comments "look at those hair styles" "wow they have smart phones" and so on.

So cool. Thanks for sharing

kpowers said:

Besides the hair styles/clothes/and some products it is basically the same as it is today. People from 2035 looking at pictures of the mall of 2015 will make the same comments "look at those hair styles" "wow they have smart phones" and so on.

Nah...everything is different, in every sense of the word.

I was 17. Good times.

I dunno why, but I find mall photos -- and especially abandoned mall photos -- so utterly depressing.

Pr1nceQuik said:

kpowers said:

Besides the hair styles/clothes/and some products it is basically the same as it is today. People from 2035 looking at pictures of the mall of 2015 will make the same comments "look at those hair styles" "wow they have smart phones" and so on.

Nah...everything is different, in every sense of the word.

nah to that

Lammastide said:

I dunno why, but I find mall photos -- and especially abandoned mall photos -- so utterly depressing.

1 Loss of innocence

2 you know you'll never been 16 18 or 24 again

3 those were some really great times

OldFriends4Sale said:

Lammastide said:

I dunno why, but I find mall photos -- and especially abandoned mall photos -- so utterly depressing.

1 Loss of innocence

2 you know you'll never been 16 18 or 24 again

3 those were some really great times

Perhaps. But I think I'm also put off, on the one hand, by images of an unsustainable culture of merchandising/consumption that took wing in the '80s and, on the other hand, by images of its demise across subsequent decades.

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I never heard of Tape World. Music Land was heaven when I was young. the "Mall Story" episode of Roseanne really captured this time well.

Hudson said:

I never heard of Tape World. Music Land was heaven when I was young. the "Mall Story" episode of Roseanne really captured this time well.

Music Land was where I hung out.

Hudson said:

I never heard of Tape World. Music Land was heaven when I was young. the "Mall Story" episode of Roseanne really captured this time well.

I don't remember Tape World (though, if there was one at my local mall, I definitely would've visited it, because the music stores were always my #1 destination at the mall). I loved Music Land, Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company (for buying movies on VHS tapes), and best of all Tower Records, which had a really good selection of import CDs at the time.

duggalolly said:

Hudson said:

I never heard of Tape World. Music Land was heaven when I was young. the "Mall Story" episode of Roseanne really captured this time well.

I don't remember Tape World (though, if there was one at my local mall, I definitely would've visited it, because the music stores were always my #1 destination at the mall). I loved Music Land, Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company (for buying movies on VHS tapes), and best of all Tower Records, which had a really good selection of import CDs at the time.

Suncoast! Good memories, although they their prices were high. I worked at Tower Records for like 2 1/2 years, two different locations. Great job, absolute SHIT pay. Promos were freaking awesome, though, particularly because I ended up being the electronic music buyer. That's largely what I was listening to then, so I didn't pay for half the stuff I would have bought. Also, we broke every ticket selling rule in existence during Sunday on sales. We would print tickets for every show every person on staff wanted to go to, without paying for them at the time - just print them really fast, before selling to the public waiting in line. Yeah, great job, but just the worst pay ever (like minimum wage and a tiny raise once a year).

Pr1nceQuik said:

kpowers said:

Besides the hair styles/clothes/and some products it is basically the same as it is today. People from 2035 looking at pictures of the mall of 2015 will make the same comments "look at those hair styles" "wow they have smart phones" and so on.

Nah...everything is different, in every sense of the word.

spoken like someone in their twenties. in the words of older folks everywhere: you'll see

XxAxX said:

Pr1nceQuik said:

Nah...everything is different, in every sense of the word.

spoken like someone in their twenties. in the words of older folks everywhere: you'll see

Hunh, my son thinks the 80s was the cheesiest decade that ever existed--I reminded him that was the decade he was created in.

purplethunder3121 said:

XxAxX said:

spoken like someone in their twenties. in the words of older folks everywhere: you'll see

Hunh, my son thinks the 80s was the cheesiest decade that ever existed--I reminded him that was the decade he was created in.

I lived through it and I can't really argue with that sentiment. A fraction of the music from that decade holds up, but most of it was pretty bad, and fashion and pop culture in general was extremely suspect. Don't get me wrong, I thought it was cool then, but I can look back at almost every other decade from that century and easily see that the 80s was rockin' the cheese EXTRA hard.

^you say that as though it's a bad thing

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I could go to the local mall today and take identical pictures. Kids still congregate there, elderly still just hang out, friends and families still shop. Only difference is style. The mall here is never a ghost town.

JustErin said:

I could go to the local mall today and take identical pictures. Kids still congregate there, elderly still just hang out, friends and families still shop. Only difference is style. The mall here is never a ghost town.

it's not surprising at all to see the +35 yo (aprox) people dressing a lot better (and better hairstyles as well); by that I mean timeless hairstyles and clothes that are still seen today

for example:

VS

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young people dressed like clowns back in 1977-1993 aprox (and as for the hairstyles: no comment)

now go ahead and shoot me in the neck

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dannyd5050 said:

Wow!! A record store!!! And big hair and funny clothes!

Yes and 30 years from now people will be making the same comments of people in 2015

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kpowers said:

dannyd5050 said:

Wow!! A record store!!! And big hair and funny clothes!

Yes and 30 years from now people will be making the same comments of people in 2015

I'm already LMAO at today's fashion statements ...

Empress said:

The malls in my city (Toronto) are always packed, especially on the weekends. We do have some great malls

Vaughan Mills and Eaton Centre

Cool photos. Malls were like that here in 1989 as well, flouro colored clothes, mullets, big mall hair, people looking like Corky Nemec and Corey Feldman, all the Maoris and Islanders had Whitney Houston hairdoes.

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What amazes me is the almost complete lack of obese people and mobility scooters, people are actually talking to each other, no headphones or no cellphones.