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With countless families moving to the suburbs in the 1950s, fewer Americans could simply walk out onto the street to do their shopping. Shopping malls catered to this new, car-driving demographic, placing all consumer desires in one convenient location. The Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo, California did exactly that, and in 1957, pulled out all the stops to get new customers in the door. #HistoryChannel #Flashback
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@HISTORY 5 лет назад

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@hertzair1186 3 года назад

Would have been impossible to imagine back then, that shopping malls would be replaced by shopping by computers....

@dorianpreston8961 3 года назад

Online shopping is jus unbearably difficult and boring..the amout of time typing your card number ....

@jeffbryan4683 2 года назад

@@dorianpreston8961 what? Are you kidding me! 😂

@julienielsen3746 Год назад

@@dorianpreston8961 So much more fun shopping at a real store. Seeing things for real. Especially clothes. Glad I did a lot of shopping in the 70s, 80s and 90s . It was fun.

@user-qt7xn8em2n 5 лет назад

Look at all this beautiful cars ! Omg

@williamdavis7629 3 года назад

They were beautiful. Love the two-tone cars. Not made anymore.

@The_Whimsical_Stenographer 3 года назад

I came along a little later, but things were still the same. I'm so grateful I grew up during this wonderful time. ☺

@emiliafayed8365 3 года назад

The malls in the 80’s was the best thing .. wonderful memories

@cynthiapickett7403 3 года назад

The 1980s and 90s probably were last gasp for shopping malls anyway; downsizing has all but killed even strip malls today.

@aprilskutt974 3 года назад

They sure were!

@daphne4983 3 года назад

All nostalgia :)

@julienielsen3746 Год назад

70s and 80s.

@TheOrphic6931 11 месяцев назад

El Con Mall in Tucson, AZ was built in 1960. I knew it since I was 5 years old. We would go there when family visited us during Christmas season to go shopping. Later as a teenager in the 1970's my friends and I tried to go there to hang out, but soon the old folks would make security chase us out. They said they didn't want hippies hanging out, even though we were just teenagers in high school and what we wore was the style then.

@larryhall7998 3 года назад

Sorryn Northland Center was a shopping mall on an approximately 159-acre (64 ha) site located near the intersection of M-10 and Greenfield Road in Southfield, Michigan, an inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Construction began in 1952 and the mall opened on March 22, 1954.

@QuickManSimp 4 года назад

I live within walking distance of this mall. I really wish it remained this way today. It’s just so boring today. Only thing I really enjoy is the new movie theater.

@maylee2029 3 года назад

Watching and trying to get the happy feeling of buying at the mall again. 🥲

@mjbgames4963 3 года назад

Good Golly! Even The Announcer Was Excited And Joyful When Researching This!!!!

@daphne4983 3 года назад

😂

@julienielsen3746 Год назад

Back when they were good salesmen.

@larrybeckerjr3667 5 лет назад

I went to the mall yesterday.I was so sad to see how it has become.Tons of food and coffee shops..jewelry stores and ladies stores ..nothing for men at all...New technology has killed off so many jobs,and things we used to love...Malls..bowling alleys..newspaper and magazines...and so on

@jhonnycultura4455 5 лет назад

Larry Becker Jr am sorry to tell you this but this is not men's world anymore, it's womens ruled the world

@JJ_0134 4 года назад

Choque De Cultura Pretty much

@saloropeza5588 3 года назад

@@jhonnycultura4455 wrong women will always buy things even when they are broke. That's why the shops are tailored to women.,Follow the money

@elmobolan4274 3 года назад

U can thank the feminist movement for hating men so much!!

@etrapbro6958 5 лет назад

ooooo the most beautiful time of history........🤘🤘🤘🤘

@Nitroxdude 3 года назад

I’m only 31 and I believe them were the good days . I can only imagine... The days we live in are now getting only way worse and scary .

@edaj9660 3 года назад

@@Nitroxdude I think each era has its own qualities

@tualatindave3797 3 года назад

@Alias Fakename Yup... SOOOO much better now. Not.

@jamesjohnson4708 3 года назад

Sounds about white.

@chickasawstarrmountain9747 3 года назад

@@jamesjohnson4708 no I think they was black folk back then too.

@lauriedennis7256 3 года назад

We didn't have malls in the 50's we had downtown malls didn5 come out until the early 60s

@SnowBall-hz6pu 3 года назад

I had no idea there were malls in the 1950's. I assume that they were not common, as everything i have ever seen about the 50's were more about town squares on main Street...of most cities and towns.

@julienielsen3746 Год назад

Starting in California. Looked like a fun place to shop.

@NoirAngel921 2 месяца назад

I wish it was still the 1950s. As soon as 1959 ended, we'd go right back to 1950.

@Fair-to-Middling 3 года назад

I miss those great shoe stores. And the regular stock of REAL leather shoes that were crafted, not like the junk you see now.

@TheOrphic6931 11 месяцев назад

I remember when stores had manuals doors you had to push or pull to open. And I remember how impressed I was when I saw the automatic doors on Star Trek in 1960s. Then glass sliding doors started appearing on stores so we didn't have to back into or have someone hold the doors open for us when we went shopping.

@katlynlykstad5810 3 года назад

Oh what a beautiful time

@JENDALL714 3 года назад

Free parking was a selling point to get people to come to the Mall or your store if you weren't in a mall, I live in a small town and I still see faded "Free Parking" signs painted on the side of businesses's.

@mcorleonep Год назад

In the Chicago area, Marshall Fields (and Sears) were king...

@misterhot9163 3 года назад

I often dream in malls 😴

@rottiesdad 2 года назад

Imagine what they could do now with well behaved parents and children!

@monkeywkeys3916 3 года назад

Beautiful America populated by Americans.

@robinkeiger2208 5 лет назад

Wow looks awesome!!!

@artjs9 5 лет назад

I used to work there

@Alex-sm9yy 5 лет назад

How are you

@Ashpad32 3 года назад

Where are those animated toys today?

@SimirJohnson 3 года назад

Most of those stores are out of business. Macys not far behind.

@zangardo3937 5 лет назад

0:20 find the import.

@mwhunter2346 5 лет назад

There is no import in 1964,it probably starts around 1970s

@syxepop 3 года назад

zangardo - "if" there was any imported car in that parking lot most likely it'd be a VW Beetle, since in '56 I do believe neither Toyota nor Datsun were exported to (if any Crown was sold before the video it'd be soon before)California, where they were originally sold. I'd wouldn't bet on finding any other European car, even an MG or Triumph convertible...

@hebneh 2 года назад

Not sure, but I think the second or third cars in the center row, to the left of the two-tone 1955 Chevrolet, could be English. These had been actively exported to the USA since the late 1940s, and Volkswagens were already established in America by the middle '50s as well. Foreign cars really started to take off in 1958, spurring American manufacturers to produce compact cars in 1959-1960.

@myahleroy1804 5 лет назад

Depressing

@craigbrowning9448 5 лет назад

Most Malls are filled with Redundant Chain Stores Nowadays.

@ronbeck201 3 года назад

Back then it was "Christmas", not "Happy holidays" or just "holiday" as it is now.

@jamesjohnson4708 3 года назад

Go back to bed, Ron.

@julienielsen3746 Год назад

I thought that too. Christmas was so much fun back then.

@mayazen6092 5 лет назад

Loved it

@janielow8719 3 года назад

I think us Brits were about 10 to 20 years behind the U.S. America was definitely way ahead in consumerism and advertising than the rest of the world.

@janetwebster5099 5 лет назад

what is the music?? Reminds me of the Sims (1)

@thejim3501 5 лет назад

It's almost 80 years old.

@PoseurGoth 2 года назад

I know this is an old comment but just happened upon it and it was a topic I looked into a bit in the past. The original Sims was greatly influenced by the consumer culture of the 50s, along with classic sitcom aesthetics (which they sadly abandoned, along with the older edgy marketing style). The style of music you are hearing is commonly referred to as "elevator music", and was played in retail locations. It tended to be light jazz or classical music. Muzak was was the most famous brand producing it, and they were famous for creating a type called "stimulus progression" which would increase it's pace over time to make workers more productive.

@almareginainfante5233 4 года назад

its crazy to think that there was 1 in 3 cars and over 5000 parking spots but we cant keep up with 1 in 3 cars with more than 100000 spaces...🤷‍♀️

@RealSteveLarry 3 года назад

Whoa! Is this something else then alien shows on the history channel?! Pretty cool...!

@julienielsen3746 Год назад

I never watch those alien shows.

@janethanna9023 3 года назад

Sure just leave the kids at the rides and Easter event while mom goes shopping !!! Omg 😆

@woodlandgoblin2057 3 года назад

More empty malls the better! I hate the no parking and the large crowds.

@morlockmeat 5 лет назад

All the shots were of OUTside the malls. No shots of INside the indoor malls.

@JENDALL714 3 года назад

Probably not enough indoor lighting, to shoot color film in those days, it required enormous amounts of light and was expensive.

@morlockmeat 3 года назад

@@JENDALL714 - True...

@cynthiapickett7403 3 года назад

Weren't too many indoor malls anyway at the time.

@hebneh 2 года назад

This was not an indoor mall; it was entirely outdoors.

@FreddyFuFu 5 лет назад

Our civilization peaked between 1937 and 1973. Then wealth corrupted everything.

@jamesjohnson4708 3 года назад

Maybe if you're white.

@Fair-to-Middling 3 года назад

I have to say, some of those big toys were pretty creepy looking.

@julienielsen3746 Год назад

Look like the pull toys they were selling at the time. I don't remember having any of them myself.

@NAHAJI133 5 лет назад

2018 how pathic people behave when it comes to Christmas.

@thaddeusmcgrath 5 лет назад

WOW no Xbox, PS4, idiot phones, tight or sagging pants kids. Please take there please!!!

@ms.rstake_1211 5 лет назад

wow... I think you have something stuck in your butt.

@cesarferrari3385 5 лет назад

Fallout at its finest

@Mheim1911 4 года назад

Bro they got rid of the best part of this film, which is when the mention “the gayest store at the mall is the farmers market “

@wolfgirlproduction9346 5 лет назад

I would love to go shopping in the 90’s tho who else my mom said the 90’s was awesome I wish I was born in the 90’s but the 21st Century is better 2018 anyone 😂😂

@ms.rstake_1211 5 лет назад

Lol sweetie no it isn't. 90s were the last great decade.

@thejim3501 5 лет назад

The 80's and 90's was more fun than today I think.

@razor3106 3 года назад

The only way the 21st century is better than the 90's is that people that grew up in the 21st century have no concept of how good things used to be...

@julienielsen3746 Год назад

I miss the 70s. It was the best.

@XxMarkTheSharkxX 5 лет назад

it looks so surreal. Man the ruling class had such a powerful grip on terraforming the human experience exactly to have everyone in a dream like consequence less state...of course if you were white. Its so fascinating because under all this beauty I always feel this overwhelming feeling of dread at whats really going on behind the scenes.

@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu 2 года назад

some cheese to go with your whine?

@julienielsen3746 Год назад

@@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu LOL Good one.

@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu Год назад

@@julienielsen3746 thanks-I would like to remind Mark that the "ruling class" would have had servants to do the shopping, etc. The people in the flick are very middle class appearing to me

@julienielsen3746 Год назад

@@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu I think the rich would have their maids do the grocery shopping. Or have groceries delivered from the market. Shopping for clothes etc, would have been done by the rich themselves. Maybe not as much in shopping malls but, high end clothing stores where they might have custom fitting done. Probably at Macy's though. Depends on the person. Not all wealthy are snobs.