You can see this one had a lot of skater style clothes, and those boots and wallets considered punk style. There was one like that nearby me that was well-lit at the time the rest of them were dark and super goth.

two types of Hot Topics during that time: These typea (in the video) and the super dark ones with the satan logo.

@@BlackSabbathfan satan logo? lol. but i do miss the REAL goth hot topic before it turned emo and normal

@@oblongfan1 The real Hot Topic was both Goth and Emo, as well as Scene and Punk. Now it's just commercialized crap

@@BlackSabbathfan not in 1999-2004. it was mostly goth. with some punk. but after that when emo started to become popular they changed their format and thats when it went downhill.

Not really lol. You still didn’t make much back then. I remember being excited when I found a job that paid $8/hr. You could support yourself, but definitely not a family.

Exactly. It wasnt the 70s​@mplslawnguy3389

Don't romanticize it lol. This guy was lucky if he was married, definitely had no kids, most likely had an alcohol problem and managed a staff of teenage girls to learn how to understand women. 😂

Back when jnco jeans were “normal” from the width. lol Now they took it way too far

Nah fr, now that can get u basically nothing

Not true. I was 16 then and I remember wanting classic Adidas and they were $65 and never, ever went on sale.

Those were Payless shoes. They were not good shoes. I’m sure those young ladies had very sore feet by the end of homecoming.

@@ryanhilliard1620 I've bought payless shoes that were the most comfortable shoes I've ever owned, and wore them every single day for a couple of years until they were too worn out to stay on my feet lol. Bought them to wear to a wedding actually. Payless did have good shoes, but it probably depended on what pair of shoes you bought.

Hell no it didn’t 40 bucks maybe but that’s on sale

especially 1990-1992.

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Everyone says it was the 80s, but the 90s were really kinda the decade where affluenza and the 'more of everything' consumerism mentality really took hold. You can see it in the malls of the 80s vs those in the 90s.

Everything was better. From Music with Rock, hip hop, and even night clubs with better dance hits, sports like MJ dominating the basketball world, and sit coms, and cartoons like south park, beavis butthead, and much more. We cant forget for those who are wrestling fans from the past during the attitude era, and the monday night wars with wcw and then nWo

@@DANNY10MADRID Yep, you nailed it the 90's was on fire it had so much amazing things going on. It was the last great decade I like to say.

My childhood had minecraft buddy.

@@Wald4267 I'm so sorry.

lol things didnt really change, you’re just old and jaded

Exactly. Even the Hot Topic stores we have today are more "goth" than this one.

@@ville666sora I wouldn't say that.

​​@@ville666soraI went to a Hot Topic two Christmases ago and got her a dress. It's cool how there are always teenagers who want to dress Goth, punk, etc., even tho those subcultures originated in the 1970s and '80s. I never went to Hot Topic during my punk teen/ young adult years in the '90s, as there were other stores that "weren't corporate, man". Funny enough, my niece will go to Hot Topic but prefers a non-corporate store nearby that sells everything from clothes, T-shirts, and records.

What you're saying doesn't surprise me. The 2000's fashion/culture/aesthetic began in 1997. Before 1997 it was pure retro cheese.

I used to live in California in the mid 90s when I was 13 and our mall had two Hot Topics inside but i forgot what the reason was for the other store 🤷🏼‍♂️and there was a virgin music store where you could enter from one end then out the other with the neon red virgin music hanging from above. I used to love going to the bookstore to purchase Beavis & Butthead merchandise and then this other store to buy more pogs from the allowance I got as a kid for helping around the house.

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I loved the way Payless smelled.

80s actually

@@robroy6374 if you guys know what decade pax americana was it.. was in the 1950s to early 1960s. 1970s was when america started going downhill.

@@cosmeticscameo8277 nope. that's your opinion

@@robroy6374 no that's not my opinion have you ever heard of anyone calling the 1980s the peak of pax americana....

@@cosmeticscameo8277 nope. that's your opinion, as usual

Right? I didn't even know there WAS a time Hot Topic didn't have a grunge/emo look

@@aortaplatinum I was very surprised seeing as I've been familiar with HT's emo phase, but never seen a HT in a much older format in real life until this video.

Debit cards were a thing back in 1982

@@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000 Sure, but you didn't really see people using them at checkouts to pay for things though. That started more in the 2000's.

@@ville666sora oh

You're welcome 😁

Awesome! Glad you liked it...hope she does as well 😊

Continue paying in cash. Prevent the cashless society.

Out of 1990-1999 which period was most memorable early 90 s mid 90 s late 90 s

@@danielsantana540 For me the early and mid 90s were amazing. The early 90s still felt and looked like the 80s. We dressed the same as the 80s for the most part until it started changing around 94, at least in my area in Florida. In the early 90s we had rock music, grunge just started, we had hip hop, and punk music as well. The mid 90s seemed more rap than hip hop. The mid 90s also were great, especially the malls. Skateboarding was so fun in the 90s, surfing as well. The only reason I didn't like the late 90s was because at that point I was around 20-22 years old and all my friends from high school either moved away, had jobs, and everything seemed different. Once high school ended it was like damn, now I have to be serious and figure out life. I also didn't want the 90s decade to end. We were all scared into thinking that either the world would "end" or there would be massive chaos due to the Y2K scare which meant all the computers of the world wouldn't know how to work once it became January 1st, 2000.

@@danielsantana540Late 90's for me. I like the mid 90's, but not a fan of the early 90's. 1998-2008 had such a vibe unlike other eras. And in that era, all kinds of media and fashion, you name it, was at its peak.

They're still about music, and pop culture. I only ever went there to buy music tee's and merch, which they still sell.

🤣🤣 Yeah. Let's not rush it Victor. Times goes by to fast.

I was only 6 so my memories of this time are getting blurrier and blurrier. Unfortunately it’s becoming like that with every year before 1998-1999. That’s why I tend to focus on those years and 2000-2007 the most.

I'm the same way, I was born in 99. I feel strongly for the first half of the 90s. 97 to 02 is what I'm familiar with though. I'm also a march baby too

The 2070s will be nothing like the 1970s were same thing goes for the 2080s and 2090s

I'll be 90 in 2071 too! I love this channel, it takes me back to a much less stressful and laid back time. These days stress is an ongoing ordeal.

Same, I used to wear some shoes from there as a kid.

Don't remind me... Lol

Yes!

Thank you John. This comment makes me happy 😀

And poor girl after her didnt do the bogo with the lady in front woulda got that bogo!

In the UK, these EPOS systems were largely replaced by the newer SurePOS series, but the John Lewis Partnership's department stores still continued to use them until around 2008-9, with the original Model 2 printers intact (though a handful of stores that were new 90s openings used 4694s, presumably with the Model 4 printers). TRU in the UK also used them, though their printers were replaced with SureMarks in the 00s.

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All of which are ugly as heck lol

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Lol it's been goth/pink since the late 90s

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the days are long...but the years are short you think that's bad imagine the teenagers in 1996.... theyre 41-45 now..

​@@cosmeticscameo8277 42 here😊

@@zen_mindset1 the last of an era.

Yes