Mall City Documentary 1983 NYU Film Roosevelt Field Mall Culture and Song "Mall City" 

Like the misogyny and sexism that existed in the 80's how about that?

Ellie Murphy yes

@@NA-oc7eq Yeah. It was because of back in the day that there's still racism and sexism so let's not deal with it now but blame the past.

Hahaha totally!! Simpler times!

@@NA-oc7eq Seems to me the sexes got along and had more thrill with each other back then.

Yep!

Ikr 😂😂

10 years ago people were identifying as Vampires or Werewolves. Now they're identifying as pronouns, the opposite gender, sexual orientation, different species, mental illness or a culture.

The government is holding us back

True dat

I, too, MISS the 80s! The only thing I can do WITHOUT, is the smoking!

Me also!

You can still have those accents.

The Member Only Jackets!!

Part of that is likely because there wasn't youtubers(& a few tv shows) who routinely exploit the public, antagonize them, or are sarcastic/fake. It was reasonable then to assume that there was no ulterior motive when being asked.

@@DoubleMonoLR You're probably right, which is sad to admit. American culture hasn't aged terribly well in some respects.

@@scotey some? lol Not that the shopping mall was ever the paragon for culture, but we're socially retarded compared to these folks.

Idk I'm hearing a good amount of snark and sarcasm in these responses. It's just part of being young, I guess.

"American" culture???? This Is western culture. Most western nations have a shared culture, especially the us

Woah, what's that?

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY FUCKING WAY YOU PIECE OF SHIT! -love, an average new yorker.

That was before the cell phone and the internet now people can be beside each other and not even talk they just text each other

They should track down everyone of them and do a sequel

lol

terrible, ignorant, racist, and you are looking at it with rose tinted glasses

Yep, except the Mall was a lot healthier than the internet and didn't destroy economies. I miss those days so much.

@@mirr1984 late stage capitalism

Correct and the mall actually required you to walk around and develop social skills. The internet hinders both of these things

@@mirr1984 Except all the smoking.

OK, boomer... "Back when we had social skills" The irony is flabbergasting.

@@patrickstromann3836 Patric is offended.. oh the irony!

​@@patrickstromann3836lol and you're one of those people that gets offended easily, proven only by YOU LOOOOL

Right?! I was 14 in 1983. Today, you'd never see 14 year olds hanging out in the mall without their parents. Heck, malls are pretty dead now but it's just sad that teenagers are almost always with their parents because of the crazy world we now live in.

I grew up in the 80s too. It sucked. And fantasy world? These kids were living in just as much of a fantasy world. A consumer nightmare of shallowness.

👎

lol.... hilarious..

Same conversation in 2022. "CHILD ABUSE! I'm gonna call child services!"

@@jzen1455 EXACTLY! people need to wake up, seriously.

time stamp!!

And apple was just a fruit.

@@Emotionengne Ever heard of the Apple II one of the most popular computers of the 80s?

@@CapCor But it wasn't part of common vocabulary yet.

And Samsung was just an Asian man walking on the sidewalk.

These comments are hilarious!

I'm 52 and I condemn these racist videos.

AMEN or LIKEWISE!

Yep! Me too!

AMEN or LIKEWISE!

If I had a dollar for every time I read this unoriginal comment I’d be rich enough to actually buy a time machine

@@pjnugget333 the same lmao

@@pjnugget333 maybe that's true but he or she is of the same mind as alot of us. miss the 80s!

For now, at least.

@@pjnugget333 fr… this comment is on every old video lmao

LoL. Dave's mom rocks...

It was her car. Didn’t say she drove.

@@misskim2058 Then shout to Dave's mom for letting him use her car that day.

@Meedeeuh Areliars Oh, they are still around, and having more fun than they ever were...

@@misskim2058 yep:))

All adults agree we wouldnt want to be kids these days.. schools and even universities got their fingers so far up the kids holes these days they cant be themselves.

I honestly feel so blessed to have grown up in the 80's and 90's

We all know why it ended.

@@KB-ke3fi Yes. 1990 happened.

Looking back, what I find most quirky about the 80s is the fashion. From shoulder pads for women to be more broad shouldered, to mullets, to big frizzly hairstyles, headbands, super high waist jeans that could stand on its own without the wearer etc. 80s was a wild decade. What's funny is all these fashion trends looked so cool during that time.

Back then people hid in the closet a lot more

@@brandondetroitfanmichaels4325 Yeah that's probably very true. I guess they come off as more sure of themselves in these interviews and others I've seen in the time period than what I see nowadays. That could also be my misinterpretation.

True. Kids today are too cool in their mind. They are also entitled and spoiled beyond belief. Ironically enough, it was the parents (kids in this video) that kinda ruined them ,lol

I was 16 at that time lived in levittown it was a good time back then lots of memories

Kids are to duchey these days back then everyone seemed to vibe with eachother was less judgment. Everyone seemed less superficial

@@joshuakirschenbaum417 I agree man. No one has anything in common anymore. Also, teens aren’t social at all now. No more true layed back natural confidence( within yourself). Only fake artificial confidence.

@@willwillisproductions159 amen very true sadly

@John Dough Aint that the truth... and yes, lots of people dont realize the essence of time (instant or later).

time is a heinous bully.

Pink Floyd taught me that the there's no better time than now to start running your race. Everyone else is running theirs. "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"

@@billschlafly4107 FOCK YA 😈

Yup....

I wonder what adults in their 50s, 60s, and 70s would have said about these kids. Smoking, flirting, being lazy. Times change. Not for the better, not for the worse. Just different.

My 13 year old daughter does this. She goes to the mall with her friends and hangs out. Same with her cousin that is the same age. They aren't smoking and being friendly with strangers though.

Kids still do this. Yeah they have their phones but teens still act like this

Lots of fights today and men and women detest each other today, really pathetic era

AH MALE KAREN so not talk to me or my son again please without a lawyer present

It is called Soul , feelings !!

The irony is that it is precisely this consumer lifestyle that has the world in the void it's in. They just got to live in it before the cracks were so big.

@@naderkhouri9468 I think the part we messed up was the excitement of going out and meeting people in person. I was a mall rat in my late teens in to my early 20’s and what I miss the most is meeting new people in a place where meeting people was the point. This video is magical because what stands out are the connections between people being made, not the consumerism. Malls are the same today as they were 30 years ago. What is missing are all the people and our new meeting place is right here in the comments section. And that’s how we ruined everything.

@@mikebarriga man, you need to get out more and stop hanging out in the comment section. Haha People are still out and meeting new people in places. Sure, malls are dying but there’s things going on. Just cuz you don’t do it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

@@1zDiegoz1 sure there's people out meeting up with others to socialize, but socializing in general has radically changed since the advent of smart phones and social media.

@@1zDiegoz1 name a place cooler than the mall though

Yeah which is code word for the DeLorean Motor Car

FACT

❤ the mall it had great restaurants, places to shop, eye 🍬 candy, great place to hangout with friends, girlfriends

Mine too.

@@lloydkline6946 and you could always smell the pizza place that was in the mall when you first walked in, it hit like a ton of bricks lol.

💯🎯

well done to you. a sad but also feel good story to read

Nice work! Life is good.

And hating some thing or somebody

Maybe it is because they were able to smoke indoors, lol...

Don't forget offended by everything and anything.

Not everyone. It’s a choice.

Life was slower paced. Better times.

Goes with the old adage of "Don't judge a book by it's cover."😊

And then they ask the dude Yo wanna go out for a smoke and he shushes them haha

Hippy hold-over from the 70s. More power to him.

That's sad to think homeless can't be Educated,I've watched lots on TV about the homeless ppl & they all have there stories. In 80s you'd have EX Nam vets to all sorts of thing's & it's still sad to Me... ✌

LoL True

In the 80s I remember older people complaining about the modern world and how it was better in the 60s.

I think our current needy relationship with the smartphone and other technologies is a fad because the honeymoon period is ending and people, most especially the teenagers and the young adults, are looking for whatever it is that imbued pre-social media society. Vaporwave and the genuine and heartfelt nostalgia that people feel for the 80s, 90s and early 2000s are among the symptoms of this desire to live a more human life. Old people are always nostalgic, but now it's rampant among the youth too - that's how we can tell that it's significant and an indication of things to come. Anemoia, nostalgia for a time one never personally experienced, is a bizarre and very real phenomenon, and it's in the air now all across the Western world.

Class of 97' 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@@AircaliburGod, I hope that you’re right. I don’t recognize this world anymore. I’ll be turning 24 soon and even in my lifetime, I have noticed a complete change and disconnect from my childhood days to the emptiness that seems to be prevalent now. RU-vid is the only “social media” I have, and I find it so difficult to make meaningful connections. We need communication back! Let’s make malls popular again!

​@@squeakyb.7709 That's interesting that a person your age feels that way, and I think it says a lot to how much things have changed for the worst, because when I was 23 in 2006, I didn't feel any disconnect from how life was as a child, things changed but it still felt like I was part of the same world that the 80's and 90's took place in. But somewhere in the last decade or so, that all started to change, I started feeling the disconnect you mentioned and it feels like I'm in a completely different world than the one I was in at 23 and as a child. I can't quite pinpoint when things started to change or feel different, but I'd say around the 2010s. Maybe 2012 or so. Then the pandemic made it feel even worse

Was that kid ralph macchio lol looks just like him

It's a Great Documentary about culture, people wanting to interact with other people socially. That's the genius of a Mall. Today our social activity is sadly just Facebook, and posting messages. Walmart is certainly not a place to meet cool people and hang out, and buy an album, and a snack, and get a date. The Mall use to be, during the 80s. and Yes, that was ralph macchio in the video lol.

@@markwiygul6356 i knew it was i skimmed the comments to see if anyone else picked that up!!!

@@talesfromthelotuspodcast I thought the same thing.... sounded just like him too!

Lol! yes producers consume and have expendable cash. Back then we had to go to brick and mortar shops to buy something today you shop online and Amazon delivers it.

Where did you go Upstate? I was born in Oswego and everyone around there, Syracuse and Watertown don't sound much different.

@@hendo337 RPI in Troy. There were a lot of New Englanders that went to school there with their own thick accents, and a lot of people not from the Northeast at all.

✊ same. Wow. Such awesome girls over there. Its taken me decades to appreciate that time & people around me. Even the ones I never met. 🤜🤛

@@anthonyfoppiano5024 I am born in 71' lived in Bklyn but parents would take me to RF every weekend. Got my computer fixes from ToysRUs (not in the mall). I live about 10 min from RPI (Albany Suburb) :lol:. I guess Crossgates is our RF, it is sad what it it became. Kids under 18 need 21+ Guardians.

I got emotional reading this.

Time machine? I'm in! When do we leave?

RetroJoe When we get a 1981 DeLorean and a Flux Capacitor

I was 17 and my wife was 16 :) Sucks being mid 50s, stuff is starting to hurt lol But yeah we were talking about how we didnt have instant video access like now. So much less was recorded!

You and me both, 83 was a great year, I was about the same age as yourself. I would go back in a heartbeat.

yeah, RIP MALLS because everybody go to shopping on-line now

Where is it?

Same with my dad I used to walk around here with my dad.😊

I know...

@@aldehame 0:58

I'm so sorry you lost your mom. 💐

Mullet will never die.

They all have the same haircut it’s crazy

Yea I’m around your age and yes the world seemed smaller and simpler in 1983 minus the internet. Although I guess I can say the internet has really connected people all over internationally especially now with zoom during the Pandemic which is awesome in a way. If the Pandemic happened in 1983 not 2020 then people would definitely have felt more lonelier during quarantine

Yeah, I'm with you 💯

@@analogkid4957 there wouldn’t have been a quarantine in the 80s, people wouldn’t have gone for that.

I was young in the 80s, but it was an amazing time from my recollection. Arcades, food courts, talking to random strangers - good times.

At this point, I'd give my left tit just to have Record World back!! And Tower Records later on, of course.

Because they were entitled to be themselves. To think critically (or not), to speak their minds without getting cancelled. Yeah you had to have a little guts but you knew you were probably going to be ok. Today?

@@blueeyedsoulman Today, forget it! Everyone’s seems to be caught up with this fake political bs and mannerism just for “likes”. Social media has turned people into the society of shallow brainless zombies.

Correct 👍

@@CaptainPlanet007 yesss 😭😭😭

I bet none of the kids in this video ate Tide.

They spray our skies now.. and block the sun

Yeah, because we were young. Other than that nothing special. But I love to think of those hairy and sweaty snatches.

💯💯💯💯 I was 7 years in 83. So many memories

I would turn 11 at the end of that year. Man. What a time to be alive

100%. I’m an 80’s baby and I’m so thankful for the memories I have during that time

Technology honestly ruined society. I was born in 87. My childhood was the 90's and my teens to college years I watched society transition into the social media boom. I watched some of my friends turn into narcissistic selfie obsessed attention seeking people and everyone put half their lives into a computer. 2000-2010 was the last good decade.

You could go to your eye doctor for your exam, get some clothes, some food or sign up for piano lessons if you wanted to, find out the REAL scoop on who's dating who, It really did have everything lol

@@kimwarner1681 Yeah, and there was even a dentist down on the lower level. I remember malls having much more of a variety of stores when I was growing up in the 80's.

@@belindaczerkowicz5465 My husband and I went to the mall yesterday , actually. Kind of busy but not like it used to be. A lot of overpriced stores still in business, not sure how they manage to stay in business charging 255 for a pair of jeans and it wasn't a store you would expect prices like that from, I had never heard of this store, forget what it was called but we were looking at jeans for my husband. He did get me an early bday present, a summer flowy type top I had my eye on at Nordstrom's (they have always been pricey but they carry the higher end brands, quality is a little better on most of the brands, I expect those prices there) but some of the stores were the regular, run of the mill, nothing special types of stores with crappy material, charging 70 or more for a casual summer dress to hang out in, nothing fancy. The food court was open but it was empty, I was surprised, no one was eating there but then again, it was not the usual , fun places that made up the food courts. The only store that was packed and had a line and a security guard patrolling out front was the Apple store lol. You read on here how no one has any money for extras , doom and gloom yet this Apple store told a whole other story. Unless, they were paying with their stimulus checks lol. The security guard was all hyper vigilant, lol, you should've seen him. Every single person that got in line, us included, he comes over and gives the 20 questions, why are you here, what are you looking for, etc. Good Lord, not even Nordy's had a security guard roaming around , it was hilarious. Then, of course, the Bath and Body Works, Victoria Secret, etc., the staples. Victoria's Secret tho, I used to get a lot of things there but now I just can't justify it. The quality has gone down so badly, I refuse to pay 60 or more for a pair of pj;s or a bra when you can go anywhere else and get them on sale. I usually get the PINK 2 for 50, those last forever but the fancier ones I have found do not last, even hand wash, and who the hell has time for that crap, laying them out to dry, quality just sucks anymore. All in all, fun day but every other store was some overpriced place we had not heard of, except for Nordstrom's.

Yeah the mall was a replacement for normal stores for suburbites.

A local "dead" mall in my town recently put a music studio in there, they teach signing, guitar lessons, piano etc. Funny thing this mall is less popular within our city it's not updated still looks the same from the 80s but they have the most interesting stores such as sewing lessons, karate, a reading nook for children, a gym, and the music lessons. Sunland Park Mall in El Paso, Texas.

When

You think cause someone wasn’t born then that they don’t know when cellphones were invented?

Omg i was a kid too this is crazyyyyy or maybe far out LOL

I was 12

I was 14 in 1983 too 😊

I was born in 83, my momma was 25. Came here to see what people looked like the year I was born 😂

Same age and yep

Im gonna throw my computer and phone in the thrash, cancel my ie subscription, get a hair transplant and pretend im living in the 80s again. A truly wonderful time 😁

How long you been in the house? lol

glhf

Lol, let's go lol

To funny 😂

Yet 1983 was the peak of Cold War.

@@jimbotron70 It was political, not an actual war. A war of words.

@@crtgamer2355 Maybe you don't remember well, but in 1983 we were close to a nuclear war than ever since the Cuban Crisis.

@@jimbotron70 That's exactly what they want you to think to keep you in constant fear and panic.

@@crtgamer2355 The Star Wars announcement, the Evil Empire speech, the KAL007 downing, the Stanislav Petrov event, the Able Archer event... all in 1983.

Amazing and weird. Now you can see what you were like back then, and how you become.

@@bomenorange. yeah and imagine nowadays, everyone will have to cringe at how we are acting on tik tok 38 years later…..

U would be 38 or even 48 if that was true ur a liar .... Why are u lying ur birthday is 1992 wtf !!!

@@memotank2089 married FOR 28 years ya dum dum

@@memotank2089 jeez. You're not the brightest crayon in the box. She has to be older than that. My parents are 54 and they're younger than the people in the video.

Did you write out the lyrics to your mix tapes like I did? It took forever, but was worth it.

Why would anyone make a mix tape in the mall.

@@9852323 allow me to field this inquiry....... Everyone made mixtapes at the mall! Only lame dweebs did that at home. Best set up was the display case at Hot Sam. The aromatic scent of fresh pretzels really warmed the mix. Now the lyric transcribing procedure required more finesse than possible at the food court. This was best performed on the clearance table at Chess King

@@maxi-me wow I didn’t know. That’s cool. The 80s sound awesome.

I miss going to the Mall as a teen. Even though I was a teen in the late 90s. Mall culture truly is not the same anymore

Yes, but as a Generation X er (I was 11 years old at the time this was filmed), most teens at that time did not write in cursive unless they had to. Girls wrote in this weird bubble type script. Different from the older baby boomers who wrote in cursive exclusively.

Yep you're right, it sounds horrible.

Super liked❤

This was so well written. And perfectly put my exact thoughts into words.

Nailed it. What you mentioned relates to dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin. It seems social media hijacks our dopamine system without the rewards of serotonin and oxytocin we would get from these meetings if they were in person. MOST of communication isn't verbal. We miss all of that on social media.

​@@OperatorGnosisRecords Exactly right. And technology isn't intrinsically bad, but how we use it, is.

Agreed. I was born in 87 but this still feels nostalgic to me. I remember going into restaurants and my parents being asked "smoking or non-smoking". I remember growing up and no one had a cell phone. Kids still took off in the morning and came back for dinner with no way of contacting their parents. I remember when if you said you were going to meet someone somewhere, you had to damn well be there or you would be standing them up. There was no flaking out via text.

100%! I’m an 80’s baby and now totally remember well into the 90’s hanging out at the mall. So innocent and fun.

Simpler times 😭

Me to I went to the malls to hang out and to look at the boys and to shop for clothes jewelry etc..❤️😎🌏💋

I'm curious if kids still are hanging out at the mall today. Me and my friends did as teenagers in the early 2000's.

Ain’t that the truth! Too much convenience since the internet has made a lot of things accessible. If there internet would go back to being used for research and some entertainment but, cut the social media aspect and shopping, people would likely spend more time elsewhere and at home doing other things. I can see RU-vid and other video sites as useful tool for how-to’s and some entertainment but, cut out the comments.

@izapsense2323 Well you're an exception.

@izapsense2323 You're 17 means you're still a kid and don't have a clue what you're talking about.

​@@robp9746Exactly, when I was growing up in the 80's and 90's I lived in a huge apartment complex that had plenty of room for kids to play outside, ride bikes and even a pool for us to swim. When we weren't doing that we'd go exploring in the woods that surrounded the complex. We had a swamp that had alot of surrounding trees and vines, and I remember us kids turned one of the vines into a swing that was awesome and we were so proud of it until a slightly older, overweight boy sat on it and broke it, and ended up soaking wet in the swamp when the vine snapped from his weight, lol. I lived there from birth up until age 9 and I remember at least 40 kids living there, always outside. Maybe 10 of those kids were teens, and while they didn't play like us young ones, they'd spend lots of time outside. The neighborhood i moved to at 9 was also filled with kids. But fast forward to 2017, I went back as a adult to my old complex because I was considering moving back to it but now with a child of my own and first thing I noticed, was despite it being a gorgeous summer day, there were only 2 kids outside, no older than 4. I bumped into an older neighbor who still lived in the complex and I remembered her from my childhood years. I asked her if there were still as many kids living there and she said yes,there were tons, moreso then there was in the early 90's when my family moved out, but she said that they rarely if ever played outside, and that she noticed as the years went on, especially in the mid to late 2010s she saw less and less kids coming outside, even with the pool still open. By 2017 she said she barely saw anyone and that even the adults/parents were not friendly with one another. As a kid I remember all our parents and other adults in the complex hanging out together on the front steps of the apartments, having barbecues and playing cards while us kids played. Everyone knew everyone in that complex and there was a sense of community. I was disappointed that it changed so much and didn't end up moving back. I feel bad that my kids are not having that experience i did as a kid playing outside all day. My eldest plays outside but gets bored as in our current neighborhood,despite there being kids, we don't see them. My youngest isn't old enough to walk yet so obviously cannot be playing outside. Sad that even parents are not as friendly, I introduced myself to some neighbors with kids when I moved into my neighborhood and they looked at me strange, said hello back and that was it, I never see them outside either, at my kids bus stop they stay apart from one another and that's the only time besides in school that my kid, who is extremely outgoing, gets to interact with some of them. Seems that isn't just kids who aren't as social, but many adults too. Long comment, I apologize but this comment thread made me realize just how disconnected many people, not just the kids have seemingly become. Complete opposite from my parents experience in the 80's and 90's. I remember neighbors coming up to welcome us when we moved to a new place in the 90's.

Is it out of sync for you?

No, it's fine

Same

What do you mean, social aspect. It was what it was

@@michaelj.weinstein4016 what do you mean what do I mean

I was like " let me watch 5 min" and ended up watching the whole vid

@@visionop8 ..you are so right about this, hard to believe that this kind of mall microcosm existed

Preach 🙌

😂same. Except the girl part lol

Same. Wouldn’t change it for anything.

As a teen I agree.

Too bad they didn’t learn health skills.Every single person smoked back then.

Cringe

@@BrooklynBalla a lot of people still smoke, it’s not a big deal. I wish people would stop trying to shame smokers.

@@glockdude5472 Smoking is offensive to non smokers. At least my bad habits don't affect you and your health. Cigarettes are repulsive...I can't stand the smell of a smoker.

Awful

I never realized we sounded like that, a lot of our parents came from places like Brooklyn, Queens etc so it came from that.

Probably changed when a lot of people came and went over the years

They were like that in many places I feel like. Here in NYC, there's so much diversity these days. I feel like I'm always hearing a new accent every day. A lot of people from NYC go to this mall too. Since it's the best option. Especially for people living in Queens and Brooklyn.

I think the internet and reality tv evened out most people's accents

Also born in ‘83 & worked at the mall. Victoria’s Secret & a coffee shop. Some of my friends worked right above me at Abercrombie. You must have been cute because they only hired cute guys!

I know, right. Ya can't make that stuff up.

In reality, those are the shit for brains that proclaim autonomous zones, burn police buildings, and get people killed for ideology today ... some people are just miserable to see a lot of other people being happy and enjoying themselves.

@@larebear1902 You seem like one of them.

@@JaJaM.C. really? How so?

@Clyde Wellington listen to what they say a few more times and then contemplate ...

Thank God the 1980s are over.

@@davidralphs4 u like today better really?

@@NidalWorld yeah I'd miss the convenience of today's living. I'm not saying it's perfect because there are many faults, but once you're used to this, its hard going without it.

@@davidralphs4 Thanks for leaving us.

@@_loss_ Back then you couldn't miss what was never there.

The young man @ 38:15 with the leather jacket made alot of good points

So true! 😂

Regularol Poet Stargate/ wrong decade

Yes, in 1983 I would have been 15 and they built the mall in our town.. Such a great place, and the hangout for the teens. It was about a block from my house. So spent lots of time there. That mall is so struggling now, and not sure how long it will continue with the anchor stores all gone.

@@loki6253 Not long. Cheap Chinese junk kiosks doesn't exactly pull the big spenders. They'll call it a dump and shop elsewhere.

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 This is so so sad, but I am sure you are correct. Selling out our production to China to line the big man's pocket wen to far. Makes me sad I was so hoping our nation's future was just that "our future" hopefully we can reverse that enough in the near future to make a difference...

,Mario,Nintendo NES,Star wars,

Is it out of sync for you?

@@AMEER-114- a little. That’s just the 90s tech.

@@jrthetravelingsalesman6357 The very title says 90s to your eyes? Ok. It was the 1983 camera that had the sync issue... Not a issue with the upload and modern tech

@@AMEER-114- that’s what I meant, 80s tech. My fault. That’s the cause of it though, for sure.

@@jrthetravelingsalesman6357 Oh yeah.. For sure... That is how he submitted it at NEW YORK UNIVERSITY and how he showed it to people back then.. Out of sync. For sure.

Damn...bro I'm 20 now I get the nostalgia behind the 80s

​@rob biglin I was born in 83, so I've had a glimpse of that splendid decade. I'm much more fond of the 80s than I am of the 90s especially when it comes to music. From what I recall and have seen in videos of the 80s, people were more willing to talk to strangers and be sociable. All that socializing allowed people in the 80s to have more lively and interesting personalities and be better conversationalists. Since the internet was barely a thing and other forms of tech weren't as addictive, people socialized or they'd get restless and bored fast. If you were at home alone, there were maybe books or other reading materials, records/cassettes, and very basic video games on Atari/computer to keep you occupied. I think Nintendo was the beginning of the downfall of society and internet led to a freefall. Technology has allowed people to spend much more time alone and sedentary. Some gamers spend nearly every waking moment of their free time at a desk for days or even years on end. Being that sedentary and alone in the 80s would require the discipline of a monk or someone who was an extremely introverted hermit. Imagine covid lockdown happening in the 80s!

Nailed it!

Wow, you stated it all PERFECTLY.✌

Yes I believe this as well

They might have to say hello...God forbid! They just want to go home and play their video games or on their social media...they will talk all day that way but face to face? They act like they don't know what to do. Even some of the baristas where I get my coffee, one kid is so awkward, the manager had to apologize on his behalf because he comes off as rude but he has no social skills. How he got hired, I have no idea. Especially when you deal with people all day. Odd he picked that type of job but I guess at his age, he is not qualified for much else. I thought he was special needs but one day, he was so rude to guy in front of me, the manager came out and said something, basically he cannot get anyone that has social skills anymore, he tries to train on customer service but it goes in one ear and out the other. Poor guy, he must have the patience of a saint, lol.

@@kimwarner1681 as a 16 year old I agree. I try to be as social as possible. Many kids today are empty vessels, even many adults!!!

@@willwillisproductions159 Yes, you're right. I have or had one friend I have known since grade school. All she does is text. To get an actual call was like pulling teeth. All she ever said was I miss you sister, love you, etc. miss you. yet she never wanted to actually talk and catch up. She sent me a text that said we haven't texted in a few months. I replied, and asked, you don't see something wrong here? I changed my number and never gave it to her. No loss. While there are some positives to all the tech and social media we have, all the negative is now showing and it is outweighing the positive, imho.

I prefer that actually. You get to be however you wand without worrying about bored basic people staring at you because you're different than them.

@@kimwarner1681 I agree with you. I find the same awkwardness everywhere.

Vaxxccines

@@danamuller5016 they had vaccines in the 80s you fool

Although a New Yorker, I have lived in Las Vegas for nearly 40 years. The amount of obesity today incredible. We have "The Fashion Show Mall" a very large place with international visitors, one in three people are obesed, even tottlers. The is a documentary called "The men who made you fat" is British. Back in the 90s there were people actually working on making the food cheap, and fattening for the sake of profit. If you can find it, makes it clear how we got were we are.

Then STOP TEXTING !!!!!!!!!!

@@LannieLord WE CANT ITS LIKE DRUGS WE NEED SOMETHING TO FORCEFULLY STOP IT

true, then 2005 hit and the economy tanked

Yeah I think the days of young people going to the mall to hang out are long gone. Where do they go to hang out now?

@@brianmeen2158 virtual spaces, sadly! We need to give the mall a "vibe" again. Right now it looks like a sanitized corporate no emotion place

@@brianmeen2158 online

@@svsproductions1 Thats all of America, its all hydrogenized corporate garbage. Everything has to be scanned, tracked, etc.

You are absolutely right, I just thought that those times would last forever. Boy was I wrong.

I don't miss the cigarettes at all though. They were everywhere...you couldn't get away from 'em.

@@rustydemz7919 100% agree.

This actually showed how hyper modernism and crass consumerism had taken over like when they were like why would I read a book or walk in a park or do the stuff that everyone did historically

Life was ruined because the young adults of the 80's got greedy

I don't think we would like the outcome. Haha

@aofmual Hardly in 1983, maybe one or two in the largest cities. Where I lived, midsized towns like Braunschweig, Celle, Göttingen had none. Now they all have more than one.

it's true, but the technology was emerging, as video games, MTv was huge, music was improving, cars were too...the computer wasn't far behind, the Mac came out in 1984...rip S Jobs

Agreed… just may go down as the last best time to be alive…

Same here. 51 now. Wish I could go back. To me this world is a hellscape compared to then

@@whitetornado603 it's just boring...no one out doing jack anymore

I had a feeling the internet would destroy society back in the 2010’s…when it was becoming more prevalent in our everyday lives. Guess I was right. Sad.

I'm a high school teacher and a lot of teens are still like that.

What accents?

@@keithmccormack6248 you must be from Long Island!

"The shyness of these teens is very endearing." They're literally ok to be be filmed and doing interwiews randomly 😂

@@Hauntolo-G I’m a HS teacher as well; snd A LOT are NOT shy and absolutely CRAVE the spotlight.

Ugh! I HATE that frickin song! I wish we could just flush the 80’s and it’s music down the toilet. The 80’s sucked.

@@Suddenlyits1960 Lol! Well can we agree to disagree? Early 80s is pretty much my favorite era for music.... but I guess bc I was born in the 70s and that's when life was by far the most carefree for me.

Now people just go on Tinder.

Me neither

If anyone remembers Nathan’s on Central Ave in Yonkers.

@@joshstephens3650 i love how u think tinder still works

@@Mocs6574 thursday nights!!!

lol....

Remember Brittannia jeans? LOL

@@thiscorrosion900 Never heard of them.

lucky

Frank Janosko I miss bookstores in the malls 😥

That's funny; I applied for a job at that B.Dalton in 2011 when I was a senior in high school. Didn't get it, but they closed down very shortly after (Jan. 2012)

Remember Fortunoff down the block?

I loved B. Dalton, that's one of the stores I miss.

UGH MEATWAD! MEATWAD! UGH! MEATWAD!

i think, easy to impressing

@Brian Jones Just because it is painted in better light does not imply that it is false light.

Nostalgia

Agreed ❤️

Oooooooh YEAH! DIG IT!

As someone who lived through this, no thanks. We left behind indoor smoking, unbelievably terrible hairstyles, and having absolutely nothing better to do with our time than sit around in malls for a reason

​@@Dr.Quarex And now most people have even less to do, and will sit around online all day instead. I was 1 years old in 1983 so can only remember the latter part of the 80's but the mall was much more entertaining than a smartphone or computer. I can do without the indoor smoking and the hairstyles, but I'd go back to the 80's in a heartbeat.

Distrust, crime, fear… pick one

@@Brando-wc8fz That's too vague. The smartphones really drove things into isolation.

40 ensuing years wherein most tv shows have been about cops, crime, criminals, courtrooms, serial killers, forensic crime scene analysis, America’s Most Wanted, psychopaths, narcissists, terrorists, rapists, unsolved mysteries, SVU, and then sensational xenophobic news, FOX news, etc. 40 year slow drip of paranoia becoming a river, even the most heretofore rational person isn’t immune after 40 years of deliberate programming to make one fear strangers.

Social media addiction and online shopping/amazon.

​@@tiasara5967accurate

Online shopping was the nail in the coffin but the relevance that malls had on culture was declining well before online shopping and broadband internet was a thing. The video is a glimpse into the peak of mall culture. Decline of malls which was underway by 1990 seemed to be from the following 1.) Oversaturation of malls cannibalizing each other 2.) Arcades were becoming less relevant with home consoles becoming more powerful. There might be some other factors as well that caused people to simply hang out less at the mall. In 1983 there was simply a lot less entertainment options in your home. VHS was just starting and cable TV was still in infancy stages. By 1993 you had 60 cable TV channels and VHS was extremely common along with lots of home consoles video games..etc.

I grew up during this era and I truly miss it! Back then you had everything under one roof to enjoy as a teen! It was a teenager's playground! 😊

Crime is another big reason malls close. Had one close here because of it. The Dead Malls channel by Dan Bell is really good to watch

And foxes

No wonder people are considered overweight these days, everything is in front of them at their computers, and back then you had to leave the house to do the above things you listed, people are more sedentary now.

Online shopping was the final nail in the coffin.

Not just malls, it ruined local economies. Stores like Walmart lowered their prices so much that local mom and pop stores couldn't compete. So instead of the money from people in the town going to other people in the same town, that money is being extracted by massive corporations, never to be seen by that community again. That was the beginning of the widening of the income gap to what it is today. They robbed us of so much. We can't even grasp it really. So much wealth from the working class siphoned up and hoarded by corporations and billionaires. Reagan, and the insidious lie of "trickle down economics," was the nail in the coffin. Black Wall Street, prior to the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, is a great example of a local (black) community uplifting itself and prospering due to everyone in the area supporting businesses owned by people who live in the community. And then they fucking FIREBOMBED them. Killed a bunch of them and completely leveled several city blocks. With firearms and ammunition provided by the Government.

Sure did. They wiped out all of the local flavour. EVERY mall everywhere had at least that to offer and it disappeared by the 2000's.

Most the people in this video probably have no idea its online with 383,000 views lol. I always wonder about people in old videos like this. They would probably be thrilled to find it online.

If you look down the comments the girl from about 4:45 posted a comment about 7 months ago.

we go to macys and walk around lol same with the 90's tho

big time!

If they do see it I'd bet word would spread pretty fast.... ✌

Amen brother

Have fun with your lung cancer 'freedom'