More video from a mall in St. Louis, Missouri but this time in 1989. Footage of people meandering about, shopping at various outlets, etc... This one last around 8 minutes or so. #famousbarr
Yes. We actually got dolled up to go to the mall or any shopping, library. I saw a finely dressed man at a Walmart a few weeks ago and was just so thankful to see someone dressed nicely.
Right, I saw a grown man today in a smily avocado 🥑 fluffy blanket hoody thing. He was at the store and it was about 12pm. I’m like wow things have changed!!!
Kids and adults everywhere. I was at 6flags and saw a lady in pajama pants with clouds on them and a while later I saw one in Christmas pajama pants. Unreal
@@spirals7354 just because I'm using it now does not mean that it makes life any better. I was speaking about a human level of connection. Sure it has it's uses, but it has also disconnected our level of human connection and that's a real problem. For the same reason that kids are suffering from psychological problems because they were at home during covid and not in the classroom.
@@spirals7354 You missed the point. If we did not have these gadgets there would be more cohesion between people and it would be more like the 1980s with less anxiety, chronic depression, etc. Yes, it is ironic that the only way to experience the 1980s is via technology.
I was 14 too, jamming out to Metallica one, dating some skank named Erica who always wore a crop top dirty dancing t shirt showing her tight ass stomach. Good times.
Christmas shopping was so much fun back then. I remember being a kid and not having much money but the quest to find things within my budget made all the frustration worth it once I finally found it with all the sounds and decorations part of the backdrop
love to go back to about 1983 or 84 and hit up famous Barr in saint Louis or Marshall fields in Chicago with the family before going to see my grandparents over Christmas vacation. (talk about back in the day I am being to date my self)
Yes! Like why the fuck would you film the old school cash register? Like so deliberately? To illustrate it being different than the future? Nobody around seems to think he’s weird. In 2023 his idea was brilliant
Graduated HS in 1989 and I remember hanging out in the mall, going to the food court and getting food and chatting with your best friends. Everyone seemed a little more relaxed.
I graduated in 1987. Couldn’t agree more. There was just a whole different vibe then. People actually cared about how they presented themselves & it reflected in how people interacted with one another.
I was 7 in 1989. The footage on this video was 30+ years ago but all of this looks normal to me. I cannot stand how people behave these days. Their mannerisms, their constant phone b.s. and their self-absorbed nonsense. Me. Me. Me. I know it will never be like this again but it's nice to see that it did exist I'm not just imagining things.
I'm older than you, graduated high school in 1989. I understand the feeling, we remember that people were completely different and no its not our imagination. Technology may play a role, but really it's way more complicated than that.
I was 8 in 1989 I love being a super grown man in 2023 💪🏽 👊🏽 🤜🏼 🤛🏼........just like Frank Sinatra .....I do/ did it my way but not in 1989 when I was a kid I had a bedtime still lol 😆 😅 😂
It's too bad that people born after 2000 never lived in the 80's and 90's. They have nothing to compare today's world filled with hate and division. Thank you for sharing this video.
There was definitely hate and division then, even more then in fact....especially if you weren't white or lgbtq. You are glamorizing a fantasy. It looks like there is more hate now only because it's out for everyone to see online. Really, so many more people are open and accepting now compared to the past.
Every generation says the same about "their own time period". Also hate and division have existed for thousands of years, you'd know if you picked up a history book.
The thing I miss most about this era was the sense of connection and there was more social cohesion. This was before everyone had their social needs met online. They had to get their social needs met by interacting with other humans in the real world. Everyone was just friendlier overall and they had more interest in each other. Try talking to a stranger today and it’s awkward as hell. Half the time they’ll ignore you or give you a dirty look.
You should be here in Elko Nv its riff with shallow self centered weird a s s holes that want to be left along uless you can do somethng for them I am totally alone with no freinds I need get the new business going and get the hell out of here
I'm glad I don't live where you do. In Tennessee it's easy to strike up a conversation with strangers, or at the very least exchange a friendly nod or wave. Well, maybe don't try that in Memphis. You're more likely to just get shot there. But the rest of the state is pretty nice.
Back when life was pretty normal. No mass shootings or toxic chemicals blowing up. The skies were actually blue compared to now. I miss those days. I was ten in 89. Great time to be a kid!
The skies looked so much more normal and natural back then. Now they’re spraying so much filth up there, all these hazy silvery skies and fake clouds look like something out of dystopian sci-fi film. Have you seen The Dimming? Sure explains why we have all these health problems and everyone’s hair is falling out.
Whenever I watch a video like this, part of me always wonders where these random people are now and if they had any idea of the cultural sweet spot they were in.
I was 25 then, and had no idea how different things would be now. My life is actually better now, despite my declining health, but I wish America was more like it used to be.
I do that with old pics, especially if they're from the '80s or '90s. I will see people in the background of a personal pic shot in public and I will wonder if said individuals are still living and, if so,what are they up to now.
What stands out to me is the speed in which people are walking. They are leisurely walking and taking in the atmosphere. Theres no anxiety/stress/tensed people. They seem calm
I miss that. I'm still someone who does that when I go shopping and it makes me feel out of place when everyone else in the store is rushing through the store as if the store is going to explode or something if they're not out in 10 minutes.
I work in retail and it is so interesting for me to watch how customers act at the check-out in this video, versus today. I have to stop and wait during check-out for the client to be done texting/taking a call/facetiming more times than I can count during the day. I've even had people on Zoom calls 😅 The customers in this video are so attentive to what the cashier is doing ❤ I'm so grateful that footage like this exists! I loved going to the mall with my family in the 80s and early 90s ❤
Definitely! And I hate going to stores and seeing people endlessly taking selfies and short videos of themselves in the mirrors. I was at a shoe store today and these girls there could not stop taking pictures of themselves in the mirrors, posing with different shoes. Come on, that's freakin' ridiculous.
I am attentive to the cashier and they make me feel awkward cause they look at me than away like wth are you looking at. Lol like sorry just trying to be respectful and pay attention to what you're doing my bad 😅
I remember the first time I saw someone do that. It was in Cali at a grocery store and I thought it was just a regional thing. Now I see people doing it everywhere. It's super rude tbh
Everyone is so nicely dressed. Even in simple clothes. They’re all clean and put together. Also, it’s so quiet. Voices are soft spoken and no blaring music or screaming children.
reminds me of when my mom use to make me go to Talbots with her...I hated shopping with mom, an I would hide in the center of those round clothing racks and make believe it was a fort to pass the time...would love to re-live those days, and would do anything to be able to go shopping with mom again.
I remember shopping with my mom during the holidays in the late 80s. It was such a wonderful and majestic time. I remember walking through the mall and seeing the Christmas animatronics everywhere, the robotic and whine up toys set up outside the shops, the Christmas music blurring in the background, everyone interacting with each other instead of being glued to phones, the smell of the food, and so many more wonderful things. I wish malls in the US could be like this again.
@@blackroan2276 Grub hub, Uber eats and a bazillion Chinese and pizza delivery places. I have no more friends because all they wanna do is watch reality TV, gaming and sit on the couch staring at their IPad or 📱. It's all about roku, Netflix and whatever else the beast system can program people with. I do believe we have lost many a good soul over these inventions.
Yes! I’ve been feeling lately like there’s so much depression and anxiety worldwide because of the extraordinarily negative, 24/7 media that tries to convince everyone the world is about to end every second of every day. Back in the ‘80s, our news consumption was limited to newspapers, magazines and the half-hour nightly news, all of which focused more on actually reporting the news than on trying to grab the attention of the public with gloom-and-doom headlines. Any negativity was balanced out by a lot of silly sit-coms, newspaper comics, more light-hearted movies, and more upbeat music than we have today.
Back then propaganda and anxiety was drilled into people's heads through tvs, through radios before that, through publications before that, and through word of mouth before that. Humanity is the propaganda machine, but the medium though which it spreads changes.
Damn straight. We need to restore the Smith Mundt Act to make propaganda illegal in the US again. It’s been legal for over 10 years and look how far we have fallen in that time. Thank Obama. The govt needs to be replaced entirely. What we have now is a cabal of criminals masquerading as a legitimate govt but they are just putting on a puppet show for the gullible. It’s all a farce. We have no leadership representing the interests of the American people. I would love to see RFK Jr get elected though.
Keep the uploads coming my friend. Love this nostalgia! Seems like Christmastime during this time period and into the 90s were much "warmer" to me than modern days for some odd reason.
Same here in England. I can only think it might be the tech or lack of. Although I really enjoy our tech now and would of killed to have it then, it was just so different. In the UK we only had 4 TV channels. Cable was rare or you had to have a nice bit of cash to get it (we never did but then there was 4 of us kids so no wonder). Growing up in the 80s and early 90s (was an adult by 94) we grew up on American movies, TV Shows and culture. So some of my nostalgia is from that. One particular movie that has the American nostalgia, oddly, is Invitation To Hell :) came across it on TV one day surfing the channels.
@@TheStevenWhiting I lived in England for a short time as a child. I left in 1981. I still remember the 4 tele channels of which you speak. ATV, BBC 1, BBC 2, and ITV. My favorite show back then was Hammer House of Horror. as well as Saphire & Steel
Thanks so much for sharing this! I especially enjoy the retail videos. I was reading your comment and had to reply and say that Jesus loves you so much! What your discerning is that society back then had more reverence for God!
People engaged with one another, even the couple appeared actually in awe over the porcelain nick nacks in the window. That struck me. genuine pleasantness abound. Thank you so much for sharing these!
Man. GOD is *good!* In 1989 I was a 25-year-old African-American single parent with a little girl. My hair was always “done” and I wore a suit or skirt and blouse to work every day. Every now and then I wore slacks. I had a civil service position and could afford a (new) car, a nice apartment in Los Angeles (and eventually bought a house), clothes, food, entertainment, and had GREAT medical, dental, and retirement benefits; all with no outside financial help (including child support) and no college degree. That’s an almost impossible dream today.
Your little girl is pushing 40 now. Damn pretty soon she will be what many consider sadly and unfortunately middle aged. So Sad how time has flown by so fast.
I took my daughter to Disneyland in January 1989 and paid for parking, full admission for two, food, and souvenirs: Mickey Mouse sweatshirts for both of us, a personalized embroidered sailor hat for my daughter, and a full-sized Minnie Mouse stuffed toy, and all I brought with me was $100. I got the tickets at a (slight) discount from my job, but still.
I try not to look at the past with rose tinted glasses. There was problems then, bad people, rudeness, self absorbed people, and a lot of the political and social issues we have now were brewing in the background then. But compared to today we were doing better then as people.We got out of the house and interacted more. And especially during Christmas time going to the mall was an experience. Even though I hated the crowds I would almost in a weird way prefer it over the convieniance of online shopping. My parents would take us to the mall and we would split up into groups to do our Christmas shopping and afterwards meet up in the food court to have lunch and if we had some leftover change my brothers and dad would go to the arcade for a while while my mom and sister shopped around some more. Now Christmas shopping is just open laptop, find what people want, order it, and that's it. Convenient yeah but not really creating those warm and fuzzy memories like I did in the past
You’re right, so much tactile, sensory experience has been lost in this internet age. I was 13 in 1989 and I vividly remember going Christmas shopping at the mall around that time. It was always PACKED but it was also fun and exhilarating and really got me excited about Christmas-the music, the Christmas trees, the decorations, the pictures with Santa….I’m sure it was a stressful time of year for my parents, but as a kid I loved it!
Yeah. There were the same systemic political and economic issues, but in terms of economic conditions, there were a lot less cash scrapped people back then even if you were making the national median income. Your paycheck would take you a lot further back in those days, despite systemic problems still being there. Trust me. I notice firsthand from the 80s-early 2000s the people around me were just less stressed out overall.
I’m was 29 ready to get married and have kids. I met my wife in person not in an app. We had to either go home to retrieve calls or you could carry a pager. Less traffic and less stress for sure
For everyone talking about how great this era was and i wonder if anyone knew how special this time was while they were shopping..the answer is yes i did..i felt the slow change of the 80s as music was changing fast to alternative rock and all the great groups of the 80s were fading off..it was felt in the mall too maybe i was out growing it since it was my teen years and they were quickly behind me by 1989..but there was a feeling of something wonderful slipping away
@@abramjones9091 where are you getting your crime stats from? Vice Magazine? Tell me you’re a useful idiot democrat without telling me you’re a useful idiot democrat.
@@carlossebastiannecroticgot7232 yes there's crime everywhere, but crime rates vary depending on economics and cultural behaviors. crime in the usa is really high now, but was even worse in much of the 1980s. Both eras are absolutely inexcusable
I was 5 years old in 1989. I loved going to the mall with my family. My grandpa bought a handheld video camera in the 1980's and recorded everything he possibly could. I have videos of my relatives taking me and the cousins to the mall, the zoo, the waterpark, etc. There's also videos of us opening our Christmas presents, having Easter egg hunts and attending 4th of July parades. There's one video from the early 90's of a family reunion at my great-uncle's farm. The women were gossiping while they prepared salads in the kitchen (they kicked my grandpa out when they saw the video camera, lol), while the men were outside grilling a pig over the fire pit and the children (me included) were off playing with the horses, jumping on hay bales and trying to catch the feral cats. I love watching my grandpa's old videos because it brings back nostalgic memories. I'm probably remembering things with rose tinted glasses but everything seemed much less stressful back then (I was just a kid so that's probably part of it) and people seemed nicer and less crazy.
I graduated high school in 1987. The world was a better place. I wonder what the mall looks like now in St. Louis. It's probably unshoppable like every city in this dying country.
Malls were an escape to a place where you could look for something new and cool and eat something good while you watched every age group enjoying themselves.
I was 15 in 1989 and this a totally what I remember our local mall was like. I moved away and literally lived in the boonies for 20 years then went back to the mall and it was a ghost town, the stores all closed, only a few left.
Yeah, somebody claimed we like strip shopping centers better and that malls are out of fashion. It was probably a construction contractor that spread that rumor.
Oh this video brings back the memories ,I was 24 yrs old and I loved the malls,saddens me this type of lifestyle is gone ,to be young and in the 1980’s, your videos always make me reminisce ,it’s bittersweet❤️
King of Prussia outside of Philly still gets heavy foot traffic. Honestly i'd say more than whats shown here but i'm assuming this mall is probably nowhere near the size.
Many malls have plenty of traffic. It really depends on where they are located in terms of being near optimal demographics and just the overall management like anything else out there. There have been a lot of population shifts over time where demographics changed and so a mall may no longer be in a desirable area. The fallout of the 2008 foreclosure housing crisis greatly amplified this effect. Other malls flourished because not only did demographics get better, but they also adapted strategies to make mall stores cater more to local desires.
@spirals 73 They do it now too. I didn't say that part of it was good. I just meant it was better without phones. When people were people. Now people are controlled by their phones. I am 44. I was only 10 back then. I'm glad i grew up when i did. I enjoyed life better when people weren't constantly preoccupied with their phones. It doesn't feel like people are present when they are looking down at their phones. It's like they are living in an alternate reality with these phones.
I need a time machine just for a little while. No cellphones. No internet. No smartphones. No social media. And we were fine!! We didn't know what we were missing, or what was to come, and we still lived our lives as happily as we could! We went to libraries. We used encyclopedias. We used payphones. We called friends on the phone, talked and/or made plans, and met in person. I was a teenager in 1989. I would see my friends. Hang out with my family. Listened to my tapes on my Walkman. I used my brain to do my homework...no going on the internet for quick answers. I used cursive writing when composing essays because the teacher would not accept typed papers. I could go on, but now I'm beginning to feel a bit depressed. The 80s was the last "pure" decade. Just my opinion. ✌🏾
the 90s still had some of that, though things were changing. The real loss of innocence in America came with 9-11. Everything has been downhill since then.
Every time period has its problems but the 80s going into the 90s still had things going on that were positive and have been replaced with more toxic behaviors and fads. Going to the mall, amusement park, zoo, the movies etc felt more exciting. We went to people’s homes more often. Mundane life was good. Now, it’s isolating and divisive.
SO TRUE. "Toxic" is the perfect word. I think that starting in the late 90s, all sorts of things and behaviors started to kind of gradually decline in various ways.
This is so nostalgic to me. I remember shopping malls being like this. No cell phones in sight! Just everyday people going shopping and having fun at the mall. ❤
Something struck me when the mom was showing her child the teddy bear music thing..I got sad because now the moms are shoving phones and tablets in their kids face while they shop..the innocence is gone
Now people would be annoyed if you did that I interact with my kids a lot like that in stores especially since they have A LOT of questions and people seem irritated by it like move or shut up already look and vibe. The only ones the will stop, smile and say a nice comment about my kids to me or them are always 100% of the time people 50 and older.
I was 26 in 1989 i loved shopping in malls then now not so much, this was the golden age i am always saying i wish it were the 70's or 80's again life was so much different then today more social more interaction with people. It was a fun time, way better then everyone looking at their phone or computer.
@@____________aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I was going to add that above! Back when people introduced themselves to people in person they found attractive or interesting. You actually went out to restaurants/bars/events and started conversations with NORMAL, emotionally and mentally stable young women back then. Asked them out for a date and progressed from there to a NORMAL, healthy, caring and loving relationship. I met, and had 3 long term relationships that way. Fast forward to the early 2000's and internet dating, after several dozen dates, I have yet to find a NORMAL and sane woman. All of them are on big pharma cry baby meds, Radicalized by modern misandrist feminism, mean, selfish, confrontational, lushes that have slept with 50 to 100+ men!!! In recent years I kick myself for not getting married 30 years ago. Ya a lucky man. ha
Well will your look at that... People of all different races, persuasions, religion, ethnicities and incomes living life and doing normal, everyday things without finger pointing and name calling. I wish it was still that way.
Keep the uploads coming my friend this is a throwbacks of every generation.seems like everyday the holiday season during this time period,and takes you back to the 80's,were so much warm to everybody compared to the last decade and this decade.
The 80s was an amazing decade to grow up in. Toys, candy, cards and stickers, cartoons, movies, all that stuff felt really creative and fun. The 80s were a decade of expression, character, personality. Everything was colorful and interesting.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia The music and electronics and tech are my favorites. I love that synth pop, new wave, punk, goth, style they had going on then. I got lots of 80s music on vinyl and tape! 1976-1986 best decade for music HANDS FREAKIN DOWN!! I also love disco and funk too.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia I like stuff like The Cure, Devo, Talking Heads, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Prince, The Cars, Van Halen, The Time, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Midnight Star, Donna Summer, Thompson Twins, Tears For Fears, The Clash, Eurythmics, Human League, The Police, Hall N Oates, Earth Wind and Fire, ect
@@oldradiosnphonographs Oh man, the music. I forgot about the music. I'm also a fan of disco and funk. The tech too, you're right. The popularization of VCRs, arcades, the rise and fall and rise of home video games. Man, I have trouble thinking of anything I didn't like about the 80s.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia I like the Cassette decks, Turntables, early CD players, boomboxes, Laserdisc players, Betamax, CED, Vidicon Tube video cameras, the last gasp of Super-8 home movies
Used to love going to the mall back in the 80s when i was a teenager. My best friend would borrow his mom's car and we would go to the mall and walk around go into different stores and look around. Back then people really shopped and were not looking at their iphones like they do nowdays.
Cell phones existed back then , smartphones didn't...smartphones weren't invented till four years later while cell phones existed since 1973 but took till 2000 to become popular.
It's very surprising how shopping has changed over the years. Back then we would have to go to the malls or shopping centres , but now you can shop online from the comfort of your home .... Back then it was a lot more civil compared to today
You went to the mall then because you could literally get anything. Fabric shops, coffee shops, electronics, clothing, shoes, candles, leather goods, books, all anchored by the big shops, Penny’s, Sears, etc. Going back to school shopping, Christmas shopping, that’s what we did. I know we had problems back then, but it just seemed like life was more enjoyable.
Unless you were poor or near being poor then malls were horribly overpriced to being unaffordable. Nothing enjoyable about that when you can't buy anything because the store has to pass on gross sale percentages to the mall owner.
@@oldtwinsna8347 rubbish. In the 80’s Deb shops were considerably cheaper than most shops, and people ordered from Sears catalogs and JC Penny’s, also more affordable. The malls in the 80’s were a mixture of affordable and higher priced shops.
I can hear the Christmas tunes playing in The background over the stores system in the video. Really hurts heart with desire to go back to the late 80's and just stay there. We really had no clue about how good we truly had it ,did we.
Everyone was properly dressed. Everyone got along regardless of race with no hate or divide. Nobody was confused about who they were. Such a beautiful time in America. Life was simple and pure.
You obviously weren't there or you had your head under a rock. There has ALWAYS been the problems you mentioned. Back then you weren't hand fed every 10 seconds from your phone.
People did dress up more and I think there was less political division, but there were definitely problems then just like there are now. They just weren’t broadcast continuously on a device you can carry around with you wherever you go.
I worked in retail in the 1980s and cash was the primary form of payment from customers. I remember the store manager always asking if there were any credit card sales for the day. Most transaction were in cash.
It was a better time back then. People talked slower and weren't hooked on cellphones. It was definitely a more innocent time. When my family went to the mall, my dad would sit on the bench and tell us he was going to watch the human circus while each of us would look around. I would go to the music and game stores.When we would come back to where he was sitting, he would say that he saw a lot of characters that day.
My grandpa would always straggle along just to sit on a bench and people watch. Sometimes he'd be talking to another man when we came back. He passed away May 2012, about a week after my son was born. I always thought he hung around just long enough to see his great grandson.
89, last gasp of the glorious spirited upbeat, charming, resplendent 80's. Then the bilge started seeping in in 1990, the melancholy, usherance of the deathly age we are in now.
Yep! The good times lingered into 92, but once that bilge nirvana/pearl jam, Seattle gloom, doom, cutting, drinking blood, heroin, PROZAC/Xanax, dressing like one slept in and crawled out of a goodwill box, gangstaaah hip hop and goth, it was all over! Its been a disgusting leftist communist race to the bottom of the barrel since 1992
You have a new subscriber, these videos bring back so much bitter sweet memories. I literally cry watching these because life was so simple back then, my grandparents, pets, a few childhood friends, favorite teachers, and my parents were still alive. When I feel down when Seasonal Depression kicks in, watching these kinds of videos soothe me a little bit. God knows I miss these day's.
They don’t play Christian inspired Muzak (Background music) anymore in stores. I wonder when that stopped. So nice to hear. This was amazing footage. I loved that music box store. I can’t remember the last time a store clerk told me Merry Christmas😢
Remember the days when you put a camera in front of someone and they would smile and wave? Decades later you put a cell phone in front of a person's face, they catch up with you half mile down the road and slit your throat. Wow, social media and constant access to just about anything really has destroyed humanity.
“Back when kids were kids and men were men..and the sky was blue and had clouds and people had eyes and hair and ears, and people wore clothes and ate food…”
