Abandoned 80s Pizza Hut | They left everything INSIDE! 

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I haven't been to a Pizza Hut like that since 2002. It bums me out that Pizza Hut doesn't have their old iconic look anymore. All restaurants are starting to look homogenized now.

Unless you're our age, no one quite gets why there's a great nostalgia for 1980s Pizza Hut. Because Pizza Hut was sit-down, this is a place you went for a special or semi-special occasion. You'd go in and wait to be seated. They were dark inside. And in their most Golden of Golden Ages around 1980-1985, the juke boxes were playing music from Huey Lewis and the News, Kenny Rogers, Olivia Newton-John, Men at Work,. John Cougar. And then when everyone finally agreed on what kind of pizza you were going to order---because no family could ever easily agree on either Thin n Crispy or Pan Pizza, you could enjoy your Pepsis in their red glasses and the pitcher they'd bring. Maybe dad ordered a beer, becuase this wasn'a pizza shop. It was Pizza Hut. And then while you were waiting for your food to come, you'd go over and play Pac Man if it was available. And then when it came to the table, you had that great music, the red and white tablecloths, the overhead lights, the candles on the table, and then the waitress would serve everyone their first slice from that piping hot pan. And that smell (Really? Fairy Dust?) All of your senses were experiencing something great,and because this is a place where you went as a step up from a pizza shop, our memories of 1980s Pizza Huts are very special to us. And, oh yeah, at the end of the meal after you paid the bill, they gave you little peppermit disk candies. Somewhere in the 90s Pizza Hut became more about something else that I can't pinpoint. But the quality started to go downhill around then too. Only recently (since COVID-19) does their Pan Pizza actually resemble the taste of 1980s food. But Googling PIzza Hut in the 80s, I stumbled across a somewhat sarcastic article about nostalgia for 1980s PIzza Hut. Unless you lived it, you just won't get it. I'm glad you guys get it and can help share the magic of these memories.

It's just got this cozy vibe to it like I can't describe. Like it's full of family memories that I never got to experience.

Pizza Hut in the 80s/90s was the shit. Something about the _vibe_ of the place... Those transparent red textured cups, the exposed brick, the Pac-Man arcade, the overall low lighting, the Tiffany style lights, the waxy wood tables, the hologram Book It pins. Not to mention the genuinely excellent pizza...that signature thick crispy almost fried crust with thick cheese in those heavy black cast iron personal pans....sprinkled generously of course with that cheap grated parmesan cheese. The entire a e s t h e t i c of 90s Pizza Hut will always live in a very special part of my mind... To this day I honestly sometimes have dreams that take place in environments that are similar in an uncanny way....

I live in Maryland and we still have tons of Pizza huts that still resemble the same exterior and interior design from its past. It’s ironically one of the very few franchises I’ve seen not make drastic changes. Pizza still tastes great and I love the memories. The Pizza Hut next to my house is literally a spitting image inside and out of this video you took. And it’s fully operational!

Back when Pizza Hut made good pizza. The thing that I remember strongest beyond the visual aesthetic, was that fresh pizza smell that would hit you when you walked in. There's nothing else like it. I remember birthday parties there too. Or doing the book club thing of read so many books to get a free personal pan pizza. They were placed to be then. I can remember calling a pizza order in, going to my local video store, renting VHS tapes, picking up the pizza, and going home to watch movies and eat pizza. Those were the days.

I swear their pizza was so much different in the 80-s early 90s

This literally brought a tear to my eye. The green carpet, the checkered table cloths, the lamp shades... Just so many good growing up memories. My dad wasn't always around, one of the best childhood memories, was when my family and I would go eat at pizza hut on Sundays after church and then hit up the movie theater. Such happy times. This Internet/delivery world we live in is "convenient" but it's definitely taking away from all the get together places. Like malls, movie theaters and restaurants. Where family and friends could get together and just enjoy being out of the house. Looks like the only thing thriving these days are bars. 😕

why am i crying over a abandoned pizza hut video 😢 wtf is wrong with me, this was hard to watch it just reminded me of a saturday or sunday afternoon with the familly eating pizza and ice cream at our pizza hut in the 90s. iconic place totally gone from out city. funny that block buster was mentioned .... really hammering the final nail in the coffin of that era.

I still don't understand why these closed? Everybody loved the place. I loved there salad bar also.

I loved going to PIzza Hut in the 80s.....fountain drinks, pizza buffet, arcade games!!

Pizza hut was the best in the 80s now not so much.. very education videos

Pizza hut buffet 😋

There was nothing more chill, then a deep dish on wooden pan, and a pitcher of bepsi!

That's so sad I love old school Pizza Huts They taste so much better the looks and smell make you so hungry we have one here In Baltimore and it's great

It's a shame they started using frozen ingredients instead of fresh ones. To eat at one of those restaurants back in the 80's was a very cool experience.

I was born in 1971 im a 80's girl all the way totally. I miss the 80's

Great video guys. I hate to see these places closing like that, so sad. Pizza hut used to be one of my favorite places. I actually googled where they started when the video first came on then you ended up telling us anyway. Way cool. Yummy looking pizza at the end too!

I was born in 2005, and I love my era to death so much. But I must admit the 80s had the best Pizza Hut design. lol great video

Don’t forget Book It!! They still do it, but my kids don’t get to experience the big button that you put the stars stickers on!! The Pizza Hut in Shell Knob is pretty much like stepping back into the 80’s!

So awesome to see this! I am a restaurant General manager for a Pizza Hut in my town and this one looks so awesome!!!!

Sadly there aren't that many sit down Pizza Hut restaurants now. They demolished the one in Salina just to turn it into either carry out, delivery, and now drive thru.

I was born in 1990, but I am pretty sure the Pizza Huts I went to growing up were in the style of the 80s. Good times!

So nostalgic! I'd buy the property and just move in there if I could. Eighties themed pizza parties for everyone!

I miss those Pizza Huts. They had a really inviting atmosphere where you kind of enjoyed hanging out there.

Surprising that roof is still in that iconic red color. Normally when an original Pizza Hut closes up shop for good, they change the color of the roof to not only mask labelscars, but differientiate it from an open one.

There's a Pizza Hut restaurant still open here in Lemoore, CA. It has the iconic exterior look, but the interior has a few crane arcade machines, no buffet setup and tables spaced far apart. I rarely see people eat there. It's mainly takeout. It stays in business, so that's good.

I remember going here after school in the late 80s and early 90s. I used to get highlights magazines from the pizza hut Bookit club. Brb, Im gonna go cry in nostalgia

I remember when Pizza Hut was actually good. It was a treat to go there with a good atmoshere and good food. Not the fast food vibe serving cheesy cardboard that it is today

that moment when you realize its not nostalgia goggles and things actually were better back then

We did Book-It for the free personal pan pizza all through elementary school in the mid 80s. There was always an hour wait for a table on Friday nights and I remember being sooooooo hungry! Good times.

That's amazing! I remember going to pizza hut in the 80's. Especially for the back to the future 2 sunglasses.

They Didn't Have The Older Pizza Hut Light Fixtures In There ? I Would've Told Keith To Grab Some Of Them Jokers And Roll Out 🤣 Take Them Fixtures And Bail Dawg !

I was born in 91 and I'm getting nostalgia I rember my mom used to take me and my brother to a vintage pizza hut in Marina del rey CA. Back in the 90s

They should turn it into a pizza hut classic

I'll always remember walking into a Pizza Hut in the winter and that incredible smell and warmth near the kitchen. And, after we were finished, we'd wait in the entryway alcove for my dad to pull the car next to the door. Good times.

The Retro DEcade Revival Project will bring Pizza Hut back into the public mainstream, starting with their dine-in restaurants.

The good ol days.

They still have the old school pizza hut like this in my home town of Wahoo, Nebraska and yes its still running and popular as ever. Pizza hut pizza is still my favorite pizza.

I was first introduced to Pizza Hut in 1969 as a six year old child. I thought it was a very unique restaurant, the brick interior walls, the trapezoidal windows, and most striking to me, the Early American mate's chairs. The thing that was so striking to me about the mate's chairs was the guitar shaped solid wood seat. I wondered which came first, the guitar or the mate's chair. There were two periods when they had the mate's chairs. They had them when I was first introduced to Pizza Hut in 1969, and then in 1973, they changed them out for those stupid cafe style bentwood chairs, with the rimmed cane seats. But in 1976, they went back to the mate's chairs. They had them until 1984 when they went to those stupid bentwood chairs again. The guitar shaped seat was one thing that was striking to me about the mate's chairs, but my first student desk, which came unfinished came with a mate's chair. Over the years, I did a lot of artwork and homework in that mate's chair and had lots of interesting people sit in it. In high school, I refinished that chair to match a new Eathen Allen desk. I now have a bass guitar that has a mate's chair seat for the body, which came from a sadly mutilated mate's chair found at a curbside put out for trash pickup. Also when I was introduced to Pizza Hut, I fondly remember the Wurlitzer Americana juke box, which I first heard many of my all time favorite rock classics on, CCR "Proudmary", Shocking Blue "Venus", the Beatles "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" the Rolling Stones "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honkytonk Woman", and most fondly, the Rolling Stones "Shaddered". Sitin' up there in that old mate's chair, I laughed my socks off at the way Mick Jagger sang "Laughter joy and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex and look at me! I'm in tadders! Uh Shadoobie!' I'm shaddered!" Today my friends and I have a hip lingo that comes from that song. We first made it up when I was in 8th grade. "Shaddered", means chilling and having a good day. If you're shaddered, and somebody asks you, "Are you shaddered?", you say "Shadoobie!" That mean's "Yeah I'm shaddered". I was hoping for a third period for the mate's chairs, but it never happened. I made up an elaborate fantasy about Christine, Stephen King's demonic '57 Plymouth Fury, being the one to bring back the mate's chairs for the second period. Filled with a car load of mate's chairs, and her radio blaring out the "Falling Pebbles" 1968 hit, "I Wanna See Her Sit'n My Mate's Chair", she pulls her starboard side up to the customer entrance in the wee hours of the morning. She opens her starboard door, and you can hear her radio blasting. She uses her supernatural powers to unlock and open the Pizza Hut door. Inside, the bentwood chairs scoot out from under the tables all at once. The mate's chairs drift in mid air, out of Christine and into the dining room, placing under the tables. Christine then extracts the bentwood chairs in the same fashion, piling them into her. She then lets go of the door and relocks it, closes her starboard door and puts her wheel hard a starboard. She turns around, pulls out, and heads for the next location. On the way to the next location, she uses her reversal odometer snd supernatural powers to transform the bentwood chairs into mate's chairs, piece by piece. She repeats the same process at the next location.

Back when Pizza Hut used to be good. Every since #YumBrands took them over, they’ve become awful since they got rid of the brick restaurant

Thank you for taking us back to some Great Days. I enjoy revisiting those times.

Almost made me cry, So many Friday nights at the the all you can eat. The food was good quality and was awesome to meet up and there and have a good time.

Grew up as an 80s boy in Canada and I don’t remember there ever being a winter during the 80s 😂 you guys are lucky living in a warm state with nice weather. Keep it 80s!!

As them if you can go inside. I'm from Boston (area) and I grew up with Papa Gino's. They used to have hand painted Italian murals on the walls, a juke box, a birthday party room and a waitress would bring your pizza, subs or spaghetti to the table. Mine was beneath tge company's hq still is and now, it just looks like a shitty fast food restaurant with disinterested employees and no decor or value at all.

I would go to a Pizza Hut lunch buffet as recently as 2003, which I now realize was not so recently anymore. Even then, a lot of Pizza Huts had been closed and turned into other things.

This interior design looks so better than the New interior!!

We never went into a pizza hut to sit down and eat like a restaurant. We went to a place called round table or Zesto's was another huge popular one in Washington state.

Definitely miss good old days when kid play pacman thanks for sharing

I just love retro Pizza Huts!

Ahhhh the good ol'days! You're in my brother's neck of the woods :) So cool! I'm coming home tomorrow - maybe we need to do drive by on this one :D

It’s the music and the view for me.

Pizza hut used to be a Every other Friday night holiday back in the day

Pizza Hut I remember from my childhood. Used to go there as a child. They all used to look like that until they changed in the 1990s. Their pizza used to be good but I think the quality has gone downhill in recent years.

I loved going here as a child!!!!!

I had my 2nd birthday party in 1982 good memories

There’s a Pizza Hut museum?!!!!!! NO WAY!!!!

I think that was late 80's or early 90's look.

Hey guys i still remember the arcade and the book club in school

I wanna cry 😢 I remember to this day the jukebox playing reo speedwagon journey......after football games in high school!!! Good days. I'm 52 from south of st louis mo ⚾

I definitely remember going to Pizza Hut as a kid! We had close to us that I remember taking our cousins to almost 20 years ago when their baby brother was born. I remember they had a really good buffet with breadsticks you dipped in pizza sauce. Sadly that location has been demolished but a takeout Pizza Hut opened right across the street. Definitely not the same!!

There's a sitdown Pizza Hut in my hometown. However the food has declined significantly.

Cool Starcourt T-shirt,everything was so cool in the 80s,miss them so...

Omg, he worked at blockbuster's, I use to love that store. The last one in my state which is Washington went out of business in 2010 or 2011, sad times.

Pizza hut was a rare treat had two while it was open im in the uk remember it as a teenager in the 1980s in England uk the perfume was the best

OMG this brings back so many memories for me, and I think Yum! Brands made a HUGE mistake by not embracing this model. I LOVED Pizza Hut growing up. What was Domino’s or Little Caesar’s, right? 😂

Don't get how Domino's and Papa John's is everywhere, but Pizza Hut is failing. To me, it's much better food than the other two, especially Papa John's, which BTW is the worst pizza I ever ate!!!!

Was class of 1980 wish was still open the crazy. Things. We did in 80s

I haven't been to dine in Pizza Hut since the late 80s. I read on wikipedia that Pizza Hut restaurant style dine-in still exists but I haven't seen one in the Bay Area in decades. Uno's in the 90s, Patxi's in the 2000s, and Zachary's in the 2010s... who will be Pizza Dine In King for the 2020s?

Great vid as always fam and thanks so much for sharing

Wowww what a find. Everything inside looks like the place is still in use. Even garbage cans with liners are there. Amazing.

Pizza Hut, makin' it great! 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕

Im from new Zealand but I miss pizza hutt here too they closed them down over 10 yrs ago :( we always went for the 10 dollar all you can eat pizza pasta and dessert Lunch :D Best Pizza ever ! and even had a few birthdays there preferred that to mcdonalds someone needs to buy this store and hopefully revamp Pizza Hutt again!

Watching this on Dec 25th! Wonder when it closed Dec 24th? Although still open in some areas they just aren’t the same as back then. Memories!

It's like an 80s time capsule.

Thanks for this. Used to like their unlimited buffet lunches!

I miss those days

BRING BACK THE 70s and 80s!!!

Oooh my god!!! You are now officially my favorite RU-vidr!!! I am a vintage Pizza Hut fanatic!! I am obsessed with Pizza Hut!!! You’re gonna think I’m a total nut case when you hear my story. On my 38th birthday, I made my parents take me to an old Pizza Hut that hadn’t been remodeled and still looked like it did in the 80’s, that was 45 minutes minutes from their house and 2 hours away from my house! I called the restaurant first and asked them if they had remodeled the place in any way. Hahaha. I went out and bought red and white checkered table cloths and a plastic red coke glass! I brought them with me to that Pizza Hut. I also brought my Pizza Hut Barbie and Pizza Hut ken dolls with me! I posed for pictures with my Pizza Hut barbies inside and outside the restaurant. And...the manager loved my Pizza Hut barbies and wanted to buy them from me! He also asked me to take a picture of him holding one of them! Needless to say, I didn’t sell my p.h. Barbie! Ahaha I have vintage Pizza Hut magnets. I have vintage Pizza Hut coolers. I saved the boxes from my latest pizzas and cut out the retro logo and hung them on my wall in my bedroom. I looove the old 80’s style Pizza Hut. In fact, I sent several emails to their corporate offices asking them to bring back the old logo and the table clothes. I never got a response, but I just saw a commercial recently that had the old logo and the red and white checked table cloth!!! I like to think that maybe, just maybe I was responsible for them bringing back their old logo.

Still have one building open in Menomonee Falls Wisconsin with a different color roof of dark gray silver.

I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s but the 80’s was better to me

You wore your pac man shirt on the wrong day. LOL. Used to love their Priazzo or that pizza pie they used to sell. Yummy. Interesting they haven't liquidated everything.

I'd love to reopen it and have a bunch of arcade games in it too

GOD I MISS GOING INSIDE A HUT AND PLAYING STREET FIGHTER AND PAC MAN

Will this ever be reopened renovated and updated please!!???? By the way you almost look like dolph lundgren

I used love old school Pizza Hut great memories

I live in San Antonio Texas and about 5 miles from my house they still have one of these 80's/90's style pizza hut's with the red roof,wooden walls, checkered tables and chandeliers over tables...I actually went in today and ordered some pizza Togo for mother's day (my wife was craving it) lol... anyways, great video! Love nostalgia myself

I was born in 2001, but I love everything 80s, for some reason I feel nostalgic for a time a never knew! Everything's so different now and it's not the same but I love your channel and hearing about your experiences growing up ☺ p.s. I have that same Starcourt Mall top you're wearing at the end! Are you both fans of Stranger Things?

The old Pizza Hut was way better!!!!

Our Pizza Hut still looks exactly like this one!

I work in 2 similar stores 1 from 80's other bigger one form 90's

Pizza Hut is my personal favourite pizza joint.... Anyhow, I remember the 1980s.... It was my childhood....

Wow!!! This was so cool!! None of the pizza huts here in NY look that retro! There’s only one that does, and it’s back in Maine. I love that red roof!!! And remember the juke box! That was the best part of going there! The arcade game too!

I spent a lot of time in Pizza Hut as a teenager. It was the best!!! Awe…good memories. ♥️🍕🤗

We would go triple. Dates eat at pizza. Hut frist. Go to movies. Drink many pitchers. Beer there

Poor Pizza Hut, it’s gone down the drain since being the TOP pizza chain in the US for decades! It’s now considered the poorest quality of all major pizza chains.

There’s an abandoned Pizza Hut in Belleville, KS. That building looks exactly the same as this. It would be interesting to see if they left everything in that one as well. The Pizza Hut in Concordia, KS still has the red roof, but has been remodeled on the inside with new furniture.

That red roof design is actually from the 1970s. Here in suburban New Orleans, all our original Pizza Huts closed many years ago but a few of the buildings remain and other restaurants moved in - and still have that very noticeable roof. I loved the original Pizza Hut pizza - I don’t like it today, they changed the recipe... There are small Pizza Hut places here again (but in strip malls), and the pizza just isn’t as good as it used to be. I think they tried too hard to compete with other chains and they wound up with a product that, if you bring one home in your car, then your car smells like smelly shoes for a few days. But I love the old pizza huts! This is amazing, I feel like I just took a trip back in time there... thank you!

On God!!! I loved this place as a kid! Restaurant experience but with a pizza menu pizza was SLAMMING my god please just for one day take me back