After speaking to an employee here I was told this store is set to be remodeled next month. A sad end to a Neon Era is coming to a close at this Target.
My friend and I just visited yesterday and grabbed lots of photos. About 50 containers and even a tent outside full of new shelves and such for the remodel. One section of the floor and shelves has sadly already been removed.
The only way it could come back in todays day and age would be if they were a streaming service, or maybe a movie store/ movie and video games collectibles and memorabilia store as well. In addition to the streaming service. I could imagine block busters selling retro collectibles like ghost buster action figures, a slimer plushie, Disney memorabilia old and new, or maybe like old school James Bond collectibles. That I think is the only way they could live today.
@@kvjbreaker7054 it wouldn’t be the same if they turned into a streaming service plenty of ppl don’t use streaming services and even with those who do blockbuster would still have customers if they came back without changing thousands want them back
Yuck I can throw up if I want it to if I saw target having that in person it’s to old r just ewww the 80 yuck life is better especially when ur 14 in 2022
It would be cool if stores would preserve a store before each remodel. They could literally make them almost like tourists sites. Imagine if wal mart had a store before every remodel.. I love looking back in time even if it wasn’t that long ago.
I was just thinking about that. Imagine one giant chain in each every US region preserved and saved just one store with every remodel. That would be incredible.
As someone that worked at a Target that still had neon, I appreciate that you documented these quickly disappearing stores. They really ramped up renovations in the past few years but thankfully COVID seems to have stalled that. It's a shame that the trend of almost all retail stores/chains these days is this minimal, modern, high-end grayish adult look that makes me miss the days of red-roofed McDonalds and colorful neon. The updated stores also have background music now, which totally goes against their old stance on having a quiet shopping experience.
Burlington. Rue21, and old navy is pretty colorful compared to other stores I’ll say. But from what it looks like it’s not the same with bold colors....(I wish I could’ve seen it...)
I think we all forget sometimes that the 80s had alot of colors, and alot minimalistic colors too, that's where alot of the colors now are coming from, due to the 80s and 90s trends in fashion and music back popular
@Tyrone Watermelon Is this satire or are you actually trying to argue that the giant corporation's business decisions, all aimed at maximizing profits, are "socialist?"
The neon lights on the walls and the food court/cafe made Target look like a pizza-parlor entertainment complex or a mall back in the 80s and 90s, honestly.
@@dtxspeaks268 My local Target (opened in 2009) still had that vintage look until summer 2016 when the Pizza Hut express closed down and they stripped the walls of their old neon lights.
It makes me sad seeing everything so modernized, everything used to have so much character. Maybe it's just me who liked the way it was back then, everything just seems so bland and boring now.
The more and more people shop online the less effort they put into brick and mortar remodels. Before online shopping your store was everything and the only thing you had to represent your company and image. Really shows the details and design they put into old Targets
I agree. Take McDonald’s for example. They look like depressed square blocks of concrete now with one little yellow M. I HATE the minimalist/modern bs they feed us now.
I remember in my city that there was a candy isle where there were cubies of candy and u can grab them and put them in a bag then pay for em now i understand why that was removed cause people just keept taling the candy and not paying for it
@@JamAttack Unfortunately, I'm 29. The above was supposed to be a hypothetical conversation between me and you. I edited to make the idea more clear, but I suppose it's too late for that now. 😅 Yes, if you were born in '99, you didn't quite get the 90s experience. I remember it all! From Bill Clinton to Gameboy Color and the Y2K scare of '00 and Prince's hit Party Like it's 1999. Yes, I am a 90s baby and proud of it! ☺️
What’s funny is that this looks so much cooler than what they are doing now. 😢 You can still sell modern products and keep this theme. Especially because “retro” is in now. It’s a warm feeling I get watching you tour the store. Can’t explain it. Take us back!!!
I worked at Target in the early 2000s and the neon lights signified the different major departments! So the clothing and accessories had yellow lights and were called the “yellow zone” by employees. I think you were hired for one zone specifically.
We get hired for one department but are expected to work in several... 😂 One of the stores in a nearby district just got done remodeling and I have to say that I kind of liked the old styling more. All the neon signs have been removed and the sturdy rounded plastic carts have all been replaced by the smaller and rust-prone metal ones. Kind of strange as the toy Target carts they sell are still of the older rounded plastic cart design.
I was in high school in the 90s and across the street from my high school was a burger and malt shop that was built in 1962. My middle school was right behind the high school and I had to pass it to walk home. So all through middle school and high school I was stop at the malt shop and get burger, basket of fries and a milkshake before going home. It was like something out of the 60's complete with a soda jerk where I would sometimes order a cream soda with chocolate or a root beer with vanilla. Unfortunately, a couple years after I graduation high school they converted into some kind of store. Almost 100% of their customers were kids, and the owner told me the kids respected the place and never trashed it. I remember how proud us kids were of having that place right across from our school. It was like a nice, clean, wholesome place we could hang out that looked like something out of Happy Days or Grease.
Across the street from my high school was a Getty Mart that we all called the "Ghetto Mart"... it was dilapidated, filthy, bars on the windows, and had been there since my dad was in there sometime back in the 80s... It had been robbed I believe, because we had to go into lockdown and you could hear the gunshots from across the parking lot.
As a 5 year old in 92 I was in a major power outage at a target and let me tell u it was scary af and a whole lot of boosting was going down , but when those neons came back on? What a beautiful and comforting sight ❤️🔥
My local target has been expanded and updated, but they left the snack bar(complete with neon). There’s now a Starbucks next to it but the cafe is still there.
This one target near me used to have the whole popcorn and table and chairs Cafe and neon lighting on the walls but now theres just a Starbucks and no neon :/
Love the homage to the movie “Career Opportunities” - used to watch that a lot in my HS days in the early 90’s when I worked at my local Target - best John Candy scene ever 👍🏽😂
Love the neon! Gotta be honest, old-school Target doesn't really look dated compared to modern Walmart. I think it even looks nicer. Walmart feels more like you're shopping in a warehouse rather than a nice store like Target.
Hopefully they do not update this location. Nostalgia is still big, even more so with all going on. I'd rather shop here vs this new ones, brings back memories of the early 90's going to mine. I remember ours having a bulleyes logo on the floor when you first walked in the neon lights would reflect down onto it.
All of the Targets in my area are the new redesign save this one. They changed all the cafes into Starbucks. The funny thing is there are Starbucks brick and mortar stores in front of the Targets to begin with! Dull primer gray sedued colors. Same thing happened to all the bright colored McDonald's turning to depressing "Mc Cafes"
@@-NateTheGreat Where I’m at, Target has a Starbucks inside, and a half block away is a Starbucks store, along with the Kroger Marketplace store about three blocks up that has (you guessed it) a Starbucks... and another Starbucks across town.
I haven't been to the one lately about 25 minutes away from me from back when my parents would take us there as kids. I've been meaning to go there soon just to check it out again because I'm eager to see if the Target cafe is still present. My brother came down from the Chicago area a few years ago and wanted to meet up there specifically just to have something to eat at the cafe. I do remember the neon all over up and down the walls and always liked following it from the cash registers to the back of the toy section and over to the electronics. I wish stores would keep the nostalgia because I think too many stores nowadays make everything look drab, boring, and monochromatic. It's almost as if no thought is put into the aesthetics anymore. Even the new store signs look so lazy as if they just went onto Microsoft Word and chose Arial font for their new logo.
@@waeldri921 my target has a Starbucks and a Target Cafe. Although the target Cafe is closed right now due to covid. Still I've always thought it was redundant to have both.
I worked at Target in 2014 and loved having the cafe to get a soft pretzel, and we had a Starbucks as well. It was a blip in history when both existed in most targets. Sadly most Targets got rid of their cafe in 2018/9.
@@80s_Boombox_Collector Dude, Target is ridiculously overpriced compared to Walmart, Sam's Club, Woodman's, Aldi, etc. So much so that even if you have an employee discount, you'd still save more money by shopping elsewhere. I know this from experience lol. Target's continued existence relies on people remaining too snobbish to "dare" to shop at a cheaper store.
Today's design aesthetic literally seems to be an anti aesthetic. Everywhere is looking increasingly bland. Layouts have improved over the years though, as I remember a lot of old stores being low ceilinged, narrow, dark and over stocked/crowded, but this was mostly remedied by new ones being built much larger.
It’s sad really. When you look at a lot of commercial designs. Look at McDonalds. They went from vibrant to looking like an asylum ☹️ My youngest, who’s 18, noticed this the other day.
Yes! Exactly. A friend and I were just talking about how much decorations and designs in stores and houses seem to be so simple and minimalistic. I remember watching 80s/90s movies and tv shows and seeing children's and teens bedrooms and how no room is the same. Knick knacks and just so many different cute things. Gives off such a cozy homey fun look. Now seeing bedrooms that are in just seem so simple compared .
For the most part this looks pretty modern. The neon lights is pretty much the only thing that looks old school about it. The actual target mascot though is something I haven’t seen in a target since the early 2000s though. Glad they hold on to the cool stuff at least.
The 80s aesthetic will ALWAYS be better than the new modern designs they use nowadays. I wished we can just time travel back when things we much more funner and colorful. Brought out signs of happiness.
Happiness for you because you were happy during it. What you didn’t know is that there was probably someone in 80’s who hated this look and was thinking about the 50’s when they were happier
@@DrunkenSlob I’m 19 lol. I’m satisfied with the 80s aesthetic. Everything popped out much more than it does nowadays. When you walk into a local target everything is just basic white, minimalist and modern. I’d love to take a trip past time. If my parents said the 80s were much funner in their time I could imagine how much of a blast I’d have.
As someone who live in Southern California I appreciate this so much I haven’t seen a target look like that in so long. Made me feel so nostalgic. The kmart in my area shut down last year I think maybe the year before but was very much a time capsule feel as well. I wish I would’ve taken pictures or videos before their closing. They still had a little caesars inside the cafe 🥰
The last K-Mart in NYC just closed last year. It's going to be turned into a Wegmans Supermarket. The last Sears in NYC closed earlier this year & Target moved to it's place.
I wish all targets still had neon and colors like they used to be. The popcorn smell when you walked in was the best. Brings me back to my childhood with my mom.
I remember when stores looked like this. It seems like yesterday and I can’t believe it is considered old now. I can’t be that old. Where did the time go.
My local Target was a former mall. Target took the entire thing. It’s still weird walking through the electronics section and remembering it was once a sushi bar.
That is the weirdest most amazing thing I've seen in awhile. Bravo to Target for saving the exterior architecture of the mall in a time when malls across America are disappearing! Thanks @Nope NotGonna for the info.
It's funny how familiar this aesthetic feels to me, despite the fact that I live a whole ocean away in the UK and have never had the chance to go to the USA until now - I'm going for the first time this coming February! The neon lights, the contrasting colours and the strong bold text on the aisle signs reminds me of many a day spent wandering around supermarkets in the early 2000's. Everything had its own unique identity at this time, and since then, I feel like a lot of the chains have unified their design styles, making them feel less unique. This is some seriously cool footage - it's great to see a visual preservation of the area before it was brought up to date.
I couldn't remember if that cafe style actually existed or if it was just a fever dream of mine! I have the vague memory of seeing it as a little kid, and really liking the design. I hope it doesn't get refurbished!
I was born in 1997 but this looks like the target of my small Midwest town in the early 2000’s. We had a Pizza Hut in ours though. I used to beg my dad to take me to get pizza and icees before we did our shopping. Usually we would go to blockbuster afterwards. So nostalgic 🥹❤
I worked at the Gateway Mall in Springfield Oregon from 1999-2004, and this is, inch by inch, and exact twin of how the Target in that mall looked then. Never imagined that would be something to be nostalgic for, but here we are!
@@gerard7417 it’s not that it’s modern, it’s sterile and no fun. When I was growing up all the McDonald’s had playgrounds an statues of Ronald an grimace an such. They used to give kids awesome shit for instance I had a 1992 dream team basketball I got from McDonald’s as a kid that said dream team on it an had fake signatures from NBA legends like Larry bird an Michael jordan on it. The toys were actually good not pieces of crap an the play place was so fun. it was like a playground where I got to play with kids from my neighborhood an other neighborhoods after eating happy meals. You had to be there in the 80s an 90s to understand. I feel bad for kids now they don’t have shit.
@@gerard7417 McDonald’s used to be a real family place where you would hear kids laughing an see them running an having fun. Some families an kids would even hang out at McDonald’s all day. Now the only people that hang out all day at McDonald’s are homeless alcoholics and drug addicts looking for a place to sit down, charge their phones and steal Wi-Fi.
As someone who lived in Minnesota, we were not too far away from the first target store ever built, I believe it was 1962. It only has been renovated perhaps several years ago. Before Super Target, there was “Greatland Target”-Many were upgraded to Super Targets in the mid 2000s.
Man, growing up in the 2000s and early 2010s, the Target my Grandma and I would go to was one of these. As another comment mentioned, the smell of the popcorn from the Cafe set a whole atmosphere and the neon was really cool. Interestingly enough, though, by the end before its remodel it was looking pretty damn rough around the edges, but the Target in this video was immaculate. Nice to see there's at least still one around.
Never understand why retailers referb their shops for such a bland, boaring look after they had somet striking and iconic. Here in the uk we used to have virgin megastores (record/music store), their stores used to have neons, stage lights, video screens and giant videowalls everywhere, really had a wow factor, then towards the end of the 90's they totally gutted them all and referbed them all to a really blad look, was so boaring to visit after. They did the same with woolworths here too, before they all closed down, bland referb. Such a shame when modernisation kills the magic of places.
I guess they're changing their visions with a new demographic in mind? I mean me personally, that target is so outdated and I probably wouldn't shop there. Granted, I'm only 17, so I was exposed to a specific type of a target layout, so I am used to that layout. I think the grey does add a more modern look to it, cliche I know lol.
I thought we were supposed to progress and get better as a society, improve and improve and improve. Honestly I think were regressing. Idiocy and lack of common sense is at an all time high
As someone who works at a Target I will say I do miss the neon light fixtures and was sad they removed it, so I’m glad to see this as it just brings a lot of nostalgia. Though one thing I wish we didn’t keep that seems to be removed in the Target in the video are the old metal shopping carts, a lot of them clunky and very much beyond needing fixing. Much prefer the plastic carts
Right when the video started, I went "this looks like the Toledo Target" and you immediately go "I'm in my hometown of Toledo, OH" LOL I just KNEW by the outside.
Thanks for sharing. I love 80s and 90s aesthetics in stores. One of the Target's in my area is still a little old school, but not as much as this one. I always get kinda sad when places are updated, modern designs are just kinda bland.
I remember as a kid in the 2000s our target still had the neon lights all throughout it! I loved it so much lol it was so unique compared to other stores
I worked for Target in the 90s, and the color of the neon lights had a significance. The departments were divided into colors, if you notice color on the department signs match the neon lights. We would always refer to the departments as the color. For example someone might say over the radio there's a customer on Green side that needs help.... lol I totally forgot about that tidbit until now
It opened in 1990, so that kind of would have been impossible to go there in the 80's. This is Toledo, Ohio, and the opening date for it is Feb 21, 1990. www.flickr.com/photos/153110292@N07/40221263693
My local target remained like this until about a year ago. I honestly hadn't given much thought to the design being retro until this video. I live in a pretty rural area so my target is the only one within probably two hours and to me that's just what Target has always looked like to me! When they remodeled ours they left the cafe for a few months but then didn't reopen it after closing it for Covid. Super sad about that, I always loved those white cherry icees!
Anyone else shed a bit of a tear watching this? It’s like I got transported back to my childhood , I don’t know just seeing how well it’s been kept up and how it just looks like…target 😅 it’s amazing . Love the video
Awesome example of the P90 “colorworld” design layout. Even still has the original overhead signs in the corresponding color sections, and the so hard to find yellow neon! If this was built in ‘89, it must’ve been one of the first “colorworld” stores as this scheme was mass rolled out in ‘90.
i wonder if they remodeled the cafe after the store opened. I used to work on some of the remodeling scope and that iteration was called 'skedaddles' and was I believe from the mid 1990s.
@@NewWaveArch90 yeah, this is a 90's Target, but somehow people wrongly call the 90's the 80's. They're very, very different, but I guess it's because Saved By the Bell is considered an 80's show despite running 1989 to 1993, the early-90's seem to be considered the 80's to those too young to remember them.
Our SuperTarget in Shawnee, Kansas, built in 1998, was remodeled from this "colorworld" layout to the current design a couple of years ago. They also walled off a decent portion of square footage along the west side of the store, I think because they intended to create an additional exterior strip mall space along that side of the building. They haven't done anything with it since, though, so I assume they're just using it for storage.
@@madi7178 I'm against wearing masks period! They do nothing but show your compliance to the Globalist rulers. If you start with "but science" I'll remind you that "science" once told us that cigarettes were good for you, the food pyramid was healthy, butter was not and eggs were not...I could go on...you are free to be a lemming if you want, and you're free to feel like you have a moral superiority too...but those of us in the know are laughing at you!
This must be perfect for filming 80s and 90s movies, shows, etc. There was a VHS store owned by a small family in my town up until about two years ago. People still went there and they filmed a lot of movie scenes inside of it
I was born in 1991 so many stores looked like this during my childhood. Than once I got into my teens and my 20’s they were all remodeled. Where I live on Long Island New York we didn’t even have any Target stores until the late 90’s or early 00’s. Many were remodeled since they’ve opened. At this point we don’t have anymore retro design stores like this one and we probably never did given when they came to our area. I work for Nabisco and pack out their stuff in various stores Taget being one of them and I’ve gotten to see these stores be renovated in recent years. The recent remodels look better than the look it had prior but nothing beats the neon light design.
I’m on LI too and thought Targets were a brand new store when I first started seeing them pop up around here in the 2000s. I didn’t realize they had been around for a while in the rest of the country.
@@KraZvEgGyBuRgEr I'm about a mile away from the first Target store (T1) in Roseville, MN that originally opened in 1962. They tore it down and rebuilt it in 2005. I can still walk the old store in my head.
michello826 great to see another fellow long islander that’s watching this same video. It seems Long Island is always the last to get what the rest of the country has. I was told that we were the last area to have any Walmart’s with the Middle Island location being the first when it opened back in 1992. Sure that was the case with Kmart too(only 1 Kmart still exists on the island and it’s in Bridgehampton). We weren’t the last area to get Target stores that was Vermont but I’m sure we were either in 2nd or 3rd Place. It seems like when a particular chain is new to us it’s been around other parts of the country way longer.
I was born in 1979 grew up in levittown li and went to my first target late 90s in Westbury I think before the levittown one opened years later I love target I'm in newburgh ny upstate one is minutes away from me and I live in there lol
Same. Grew up in Northport and totally remember when they tore down the roller rink and flea market on Jericho in Commack and built the stand alone Macys and Target. Had to be the early 90’s.That’s the first Target I ever saw and thought it was the first on the Island. It totally looked just like this one inside. The cafe, the neon, the old school registers and department signs. Then they kind of half-azz remodeled it but you can still see the old bones. I still miss the roller rink though. 🛼😎
I used to work at a Target like this back in 2008 and 2009, I used to work in the Food Court, so watching this brought back a bunch of memories. Thanks for the video, cheers!
I'm glad you brought this up because I remember when target would make nuggets and fries, also pizza. Now they put a starbucks there, lines would be long as hell but now everything is fast and they have self checkout. It's funny how things change.
I wasn't born in the 80s or 90s but I absolutely love the neon style you guys had at the time same goes for all the bright colored restaurants I always thought it looked so cool! My mom always thought I was weird because I liked things from that time lol
My favorite memories about target was the cafe. I remember as a kid just staring at all the popcorn. Smelled so good. Wish this target could just hold on forever.
This takes me back. I remember going to the target in Tuscon, AZ with my mom when I was a kid. I remember those neon lights and getting icees at the cafe. Miss those days.
I was always so jealous of the cafe when I was a kid 😂 My parents would *never* let me get anything there. The only times I ever got something from there was once when our car was getting fixed, my dad took my sister and I to Target for a snack, and once when I had strep and needed a penicillin prescription, my dad got me an icee from Target
There’s a target in Westbury NY that opened in the late 90s/early 2000s as target Greatland that had the similar look with the neon lights and overhead signs. When they dropped the Greatland theme the neon was removed. It was remolded again in 2018 and looks completely different
I hope they never update this target, this is so freaking awesome as a kid born in the 80's it brings back so many memories to when everything had life and wasn't so industrial and boring.
I was born in 1980, and you are right. Things back then were more vibrant and had life. Neon lights, big fountains at shopping malls, everything thing today just looks boring compared to back then.
The target near my hometown where I grew up used to look like this when I would go back in like early 2010s. Doubt it still looks like this still but man the little food court was great! Getting pretzels, popcorn and pizza while mom was shopping, miss it.
I was telling my wife just now when i clicked on the video, "we will see how old-school this Target by the layout of the store, where Guest Services is located, and if theres neon surroundingthe walls of the store" Being a kid i always knew that when i walked into a Target youd walk in, and make a Hard Left and head straight down to the Electronics, while looking at the swooping neon lights that bordered the store, then usually right next to that would be the toy section
If I wouldn’t have run across this video, I would have thought the current Targets were the originals. I forgot all about the old Target. Thanks for sharing!
I have a Super Target in my town that's in this weird phase where it's clearly very 90s but trying to look modern with more modern painted walls and such. Ours also has a Starbucks in it. I remember when it had neon, I miss that. But it's still a really good looking Target inside, very relaxed and home feeling. Exactly what you'd expect from a small midwest city.
I hope they never change it. There should be a set number of stores that keep their old school flair. Some of my best memories growing up take place in a 90’s mall, or store.
BRING BACK THE NEON SIGNS IN TARGETS! PEAK DESIGN RIGHT THERE! Makes me think of being a little kid and being dragged to Target with my mom and younger brother, picking out Mickey Mouse bandaids and getting Pizza hut and and Icee if I behaved
There used to be a McDonalds where I lived in Fremont, CA where they had all these nostalgic happy meal toys in glass cases surrounding the place. And it was very old school, everything was brick and mortar but a few years ago I went back and they MODERNIZED everything. I felt so sad, like my childhood was taken away. There was also another McDonalds around the area that was 80s style, neon colors, with carousel horses decorating the dining area but I don't know if they changed that one.
Richmond, Indiana used to have an Old Target Store just like that many years ago which is now Hobby Lobby and it first opened back in September 6, 1980 and it was Ayr-Way before that and the only difference was the drop ceilings had the old big fat round AC Vents which is in Hobby Lobby in Richmond, Indiana and they were the Ayr-Way style drop ceilings.
That’s crazy that that location has had so few updates. This is more how I remember my closest Target built around 1990/1991. It was oddly attached as an anchor in our brand new mall that opened at the same time. But I lived in such a small area that it was the first Target within an hour’s drive of us. Target at the time was so much cooler to me than say, Wal Mart. They actually felt nice, and almost modern or pop culture-like. But I vividly remember walking in an, like another commenter here mentioned, smelling popcorn from the cafe. And I’d spend a long time looking in the electronics section, and checking out video game stuff. They always had those playable kiosks there for systems like the SNES, Genesis, and Game Boy.
