Same here. I was 8 when this video was shot, and ALL of my loved ones that I ever cared about were alive. Those were the good ole days. Now I sound like my grandpa did. LOL

@@vickieclark5931 I was 8, too.

Yes, same for me. Troubles and loss of loved ones seemed light years away. Now at age 60 I’ve lost so many that it seems like those time never existed.

I feel the same way, I was 2 years old in 1980 but still it was a cool time.

And none of them even existed for 30 billion years before this.

Just people living in the moment.

Only challenge facing the country was high interest rates @ 9%. Carter was President & gas was .59 a gallon in 1979.

I think this should teach us to live in the moment. Back then it was excitement for the future. We always thought what's next? The '90s looked promising too despite crime did pick up more at malls and even though it seemed like we were progressing I could also see the moral decay. Now we're depressed when we look to our past and anxiety thinking about an uncertain future. I often wonder if we can get back to better times or people and society are too far grown. Society is raising a new generation of docile children and I don't like it. They have no freedom and can't even be kids unless being locked up in your house playing videos is being a kid now. Honestly this was the pre 9/11 world and now we have this dystopian future to look forward to. It's hard to go back to being a kid after seeing the real world and experiencing trauma. You can pretend, but it doesn't get erased, it's embedded in your subconscious. Don't let this stop you from being a kid and enjoying the '80s with your own kids. It will be a new experience living through your kids. I just wish we were in better times now and not in survival mode.

You’re so right

@@bernieudo4399 Maybe that explains why most Americans were financially stable and not living paycheck to paycheck while financing a new truck every two years. God forbid we reward savers.

I agree 💯

Yes, i liked it myself. Although I wish the camera person just swing around and catch the glimpse of the setting sun.

I immediately recognized this mall based on the unique Bloomingdale's building design. This was White Flint Mall in Rockville, MD. It survived until the early 2010s only to have most of the mall demolished save for the Lord & Taylor, which had a long-term lease agreement they refused to give up. That store remained open next to a pile of rubble for about a decade until finally closing when the chain went out of business. The originally-planned "town center" concept from the early 2010s was cancelled due to their resistance, so now the whole plot of land is vacant awaiting a new fate.

A lot of pieces of junk cars but who knew at the time.

@@jrowdygi1837🤣🤣🤣🤣

You’re delusional

I agree about busy malls but now you can learn way more about a product with your phone online than you ever could with the best sales person.

@Chris That's probably why companies don't bother to train their employees anymore 😕 retail stores, I mean

Tru dat. Worked at Sears in the Toy Department back in '87 during the fall & it was full customer service. Period. Self service didn't exist. If our store didn't have it, the manager had you call other stores in another city. Think about that. Now that was customer service.

I know - sales people who cared.

@@KittiesGalore retail companies don’t pay workers enough to tolerate physical and emotional abuse from customers.

Well, I was 4 months old in December 1980 and it was very important for me because they gave me my first cloth diapers. 😂😅

13. And we thought The Empire Strikes Back was the coolest thing since sliced bread!😅

Happy days 😂😂😂

Oh yes. The '80s. Clothes, hairstyles, & makeup were essential. Young ladies were natural & clothes emphasized figures tastefully. Didn't have to expose yourself--a nice pair of jeans reminded guys why ladies were special.

​@@bernieudo4399they're trash now

Sounded like Grover Washington Jr. playing over the intercom.

If you don't have your health nothing else really matters.

but u can't do it by your self society becoming more and more garbage

Gotta mass deport to get back to that

delusional

You got the look, the Jordache loooooook……..

and before that.... Ditto !! Jeans

Is Jordache around anymore? I haven’t seen them anywhere.

Yeah...no such thing as plus size cause we were all skinny as hell.

Uh Ohhhhhh Sergio!!! Haha Sergio Valente jeans were hot too lol

actually... still are !

​@plutoplatters My Levi's are typically destroyed and ripped with holes in a couple months. My Dad still has Levi's from the 70s been washed hundreds if not thousands of times. Quality not the same whatsoever

​@@ricochetey maybe you should buy the jeans that are not worn out already a little stiff but they last way longer

Probably because they were made out of hemp and not cotton right?

They're still quality....just cost 3x as much though

@@pedro_0791 I hear ya my friend! 🤜🤛

There were a lot of kidnappings back then, tho. We were constantly reminded of stranger danger. I even had a 2nd grade teacher tell us to never look at the ground when we walked because kidnappers would think we had no friends and we'd be targets. It was crazy the stuff adults told us back then. It did not feel safe to even just walk to a friend's house, even though we did it anyway.

​@m0L3ify there was the mall shooting in Miami by the drug cartel and Adam Walsh was kidnapped by Otis 'o toole. No one's safe both ways.

I don't have kids either I don't like them besides it's not worth having children at this difficult and dangerous times

I'm a 33 year old male and I'm not having kids either. I find the present not inspiring at all and I'm not willing to explain a child the society we live in. I can barely understand it myself. I'm happy with my life without such a responsibility.

@@m0L3ifyin the early 80s my friends and I would bike around til around 11pm weeknights… we survived… then again maybe kidnappers didn’t want us 😂

People then took pride in their jobs because they knew they were getting a paycheck for doing a service. Nowadays people act like they are doing you a favor and aren't paid enough to do a job. Back then we knew we weren't being paid enough, but also knew that you use that time in to build a work ethic and work your way up. Yeah it was hard work and sucked at times but we sucked it up. It's incredible to me how little effort people are motivated to put in these days and feel like they are owed something.

​@@lulub1433if this isn't bang on

@@lulub1433Entitled rude customers don’t help much either. It’s not always the workers. Dealing with selfish people all day can get to someone eventually

Almost anyone working retailer will tell you how disgusting it is that job bc customers are hellish, mean and rude. Culture has changed, it's not just kids who are rude, it is also adults, perhaps kids are rude bc parents are rude, everyone is just so baby today, zero manner.

I used to love when Winnie the Pooh was at Sears! 😊

Sadly the Moorestown mall doesn’t have the ducks or bridges anymore. I heard stories about it. The mall is struggling to stay afloat with Cherry Hill mall just down the street.

It was even better as a teenager

Still couldn't work out what he was staring at maybe the sound would have helped there does it talk to him perhaps ?

@Stacy L., I have a pair of vintage jordache girls jeans,that were my daughter's, I just came across them the other day!! I think size 18 months!!?!! I'll have to look again!

I remember my first and only pair of Jordache jeans. Somehow my dad managed to buy a pair for me and a pair for my sister, even though, looking back, i know he couldn't afford to buy designer jeans at that time. My mom and dad were the best ever!! I still remember shopping for those jeans. I was probably 14 or so. Wish i still had them but after i outgrew them i gave them to a younger girl who was so excited to have them. Good memories. Miss those times.

@@kayfitzgerald309 Sweet!!

@@GrandTime-17 Awww! Thank you for sharing your story. Our parents were awesome! Not too overprotective but just enough to scare the crap out of us yet love us and want to make us happy.

The youth of today have a very different body type now.

Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas on Friday night and than Saturday night was love boat and fantasy island or abc/nbc/cbs night at the movies

1975 baby over here.i was 6 years old in august of 80'.lots of relay racing,and catching fureflies in jars at night and watching them light up! Skinned knees and climbing trees

❤❤❤

Ooo, La La, Sassoon!

I remember that brand. Girls wore them alot when I was in high school and junior high. Also Calvin Klein jeans were popular with the girls.

Jordache

I was born in 89, but I get where you're coming from.

I don't think your depression is what people were looking for in response to this video...

@@areality40 Maybe he’s just venting

@@areality40 What was the point of that comment? You're entitled to your opinion, but there was no reason to write that.

I don't want to take my own life , but I was from that same time & I totally understand what you mean & feel the same, minus wanting to take my life. Stay alive, you're special😊

They would last and never wear out lol

That would be like $90 today. Very expensive

Federal minimum wage in 1980 was about $2, so almost 8 hours of work for jeans.

So your parents paid thousands of dollars to put you thru college, gave you a free pre owned car, and a weekly allowance to help you "buy your own clothing"?? That's not "luck".. it's called "White Privilege". 😂 I'm glad their investment in you paid off with more designer clothes.. ( once you started to actually pay your own way.. ) Just remember the wise words of former president Barack Obama: "YOU DIDNT BUILD THAT".. He was so right.

About how much were a designer pair of jeans back then? I was 7 in 1980 wow

@@DJaySplitSecond I don’t remember. I think Nana bought me some Gloria Vanderbilt corduroys for $10. That was when that brand was high end. They were on sale and Nana worked at Jefferson’s and got a discount. Otherwise, Jordash and Sassoon were about $20. I am guessing at that. Because, I know that they were expensive and $20 was a lot of money. In 1990, I think spent $30 for Guess jeans. That was a lot of money, then. Now, I can get Jeans between $10 and $40 and am not as brand conscious. I went through this phase in the 2000’s and 2010s with designer purses.

@@cindyeisenberg8367 IKR?? In 1998 I paid $70 for a pair of designer jeans to impress my girlfriend, and it works but now we can get designer jeans at a Burlington Coat factory for about $25 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😜😜😜😜

@@DJaySplitSecond I agree. I used to get Coach shoes there.

C'mon, try to think. They have a video camera pointed at them. So they're not going to show their true selves.

Occasionally (at best) there were people like that, even then. We did not publicize it so it's harder to tell how common or uncommon. Plus it was very important to be considered normal back then.

@@sean2015 Your probably too young to remember the 80s, but trust me, it was much better back then. It wasn't perfect, but there was a lot more care than what you see now. More patience and sales staff that actually helped you. I'd go back if I could.

@@vickieclark5931nah I'm in my mid-40s so I remember the 1980s quite well. I don't really understand, though, why you say things were "better" back then. 🤔The thing that never really changes over time is people. There will always be evil, selfishness, greed and aggression. We may dress differently and drive cars that look different and wear different hairstyles, but who we are as a human race never really changes. The nostalgia that you feel for that era may be simply because you associate that era with a friend or family member that you had around, who made life enjoyable for you. I sometimes get nostalgic for childhood simply because I didn't have to work 40+ hours a week and pay bills. Or deal with all the aches and pains (both physical and mental) that go along with aging. Maybe you feel the same way.

​@@vickieclark5931Yes I agree with you I really miss those days now more than ever before. There was a different feel to the world back then it's hard to describe unless you actually lived through it 🤔

And now we don't make eye contact with anyone and we don't want people near us

​@@carlossebastiannecroticgot7232for a " connected" world, we are now , unconnected.

Yeah I was surprised too. Didn't realize the tech went back that far.

Maoism is making a comeback but in the US this time.

If you look at the crowd in general in that shopping mall 50% of them would not be alive today.

Cadavers mostly now, sadly.

​@@johnbravo7542 . . I was a teenager in 1980 . . Guess what . . . I'm still here . . . And I know plenty of other people from back then and they were older than me . . But we are all still here . . . Hahaha 😂😂😂 . . . We ain't dead yet .

Where's this filmed ?

It was the last time corduroy was out I'd love for long corduroy skirts to come back for.winter

​@@kathleenking47Corduroy was popular in the 90s.

This is correct. Time is 100% moving faster now.

I think the mall was called Park City

​@@georgegreenhalgh993 Isn't Park City in Lancaster Pa?

You might be thinking of Franklin Mills or Philadelphia Mills as the youngsters call it today.

I was 6

Mind-blowing.

You don't look old

Most likely it was the local news filming B roll for a news story. There is one in target in 1994 and you hear the camera man tell someone "just act normal, I'm just doing a story on the layoffs". Video cameras were not the norm so people either tried to ignore it or got smiley and nervous. They were huge cameras and had bright lights so I'm sure everyone noticed them.

@@jenjen462 I say the same thing when people see me outside their windows recording them 😏

Yikes.

Me too. Good days.

me too 1972.

1975 baby.old enough to remember 1980

I was 8 also. I miss those days.

I was also 8 in 1980… and around the same time, John Lennon was killed. I remember running around the house telling my older brothers who were Beatles fans “John Lemon was shot. John Lemon was shot.” They both laughed at me and corrected me of his last name.

It must've been one expensive video camera he bought..

That is what many of these are, along with homemade videos. I wish I would have recorded more back then.

Thank you internet 😢

where do you live in 2080

@@skywishr1313 Mars.

I love my Jordache Jesns Sassoon Levi’s

Or maybe ☠💀who knows

Yeah, it's interesting seeing those kids and teens in there and then realizing that they are all either my age or older.

@vickieclark5931 I was already in 9th grade, then and I now recently turned 57 yrs old...😄

Does it still work?

@Vampire Robot It's been yesrs since I checked. Last time it seemed like the 8 track tape was degrading. It's at my mom's house in another state.