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A Blast From The Past: 60 Pictures From A Shopping Mall In The Summer Of 1990
Ned Hardy ^ | May 13, 2013

Posted on 05/14/2013 7:50:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

You won't believe how much has changed since then. Notice anything peculiar (other than the fashions) in some of these photos? (Many photos at link)


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; History; Society
KEYWORDS: fashion; history; malls; mullets; smokingiscool
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To: virgil283

Will do. But I am in Texas now
Ours used to still have car hops when I was a teen in the 70’s
And we liked it.
Cool is cool.

They still have them in the south too, but they are no longer a viable place.
They are labors of love that some folks keep alive.


141 posted on 05/14/2013 8:43:18 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear what is unlawful.)
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To: steve86

Suspicious that the place is totally empty behind him.


142 posted on 05/14/2013 8:43:23 PM PDT by Viennacon (h)
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To: penelopesire; Conservative4Ever; freeandfreezing; mylife; 2ndDivisionVet
Thank You All, you are too kind.

I had to count the candles on my cake to determine when that was taken (my photo folder is a mess)

I know most of you think I am pretty dare young, but I know what a record is, a Cassette tape is, I remember a time before computers and the internet.

Hell, I remember when flash drives were brand spanking new. We still used Floppys in High School.


143 posted on 05/14/2013 8:44:35 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: wku man

One thing about the “olden days”, women did look like women. I remember the mini skirt era. My boss loved it. He could sit in his office and look down the aisle and see nothing but bear thighs. Then there were hot pants which, along with slacks, our office dress code did not allow. One particularly cheeky gal from keypunch department showed up in a pair one morning. Boss told her she had to go home and change. She went into the ladies room, cut the crotch out and they became a mini skirt so she was good to go back to work.

Everyone around me smoked, drank and ate at their desk while they were working. We had a great time and really cranked out the work.

Just a whole different time. Life was fun.


144 posted on 05/14/2013 8:46:38 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: mylife
They still have them in the south too, but they are no longer a viable place ...ours is now a bakery...They kept the giant mug 'sign' by taking the handle off and painting it as a giant cake.....still remember those chili dogs----yum !!!
145 posted on 05/14/2013 8:48:48 PM PDT by virgil283 ( ... Mama say : if'n you can't say someting good don't say nutting...)
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To: virgil283
Is that Chester , California ?
146 posted on 05/14/2013 8:49:18 PM PDT by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: virgil283

A giant cake!! LOL

OMG!!


147 posted on 05/14/2013 8:49:32 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear what is unlawful.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The 80s — a bad hair decade.


148 posted on 05/14/2013 8:51:03 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Grams A
He could sit in his office and look down the aisle and see nothing but bear thighs.

You've got to be kidding. How unsafe was that?

149 posted on 05/14/2013 8:52:10 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: Viennacon
My dad gave me a couple of his snow white shirts. We just rolled up the sleeves. Awesome!!

Of course there was a drawback....we had to iron them!!

What's an iron Grandma?? ;-)

150 posted on 05/14/2013 8:52:29 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No “ GREEN “ economy propaganda.


151 posted on 05/14/2013 8:54:47 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: virgil283

Isaly’s is another of the dying old lunch/breakfast places.
I think the Isaly’s Busy Bee is still around in Youngstown Oh.

The head quarters in Ytown has been shut down for 40 years.

http://www.isalys.com/about-us/


152 posted on 05/14/2013 8:55:52 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear what is unlawful.)
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To: dfwgator

LOL

Took my Mom to see An Officer and a Gentleman
when the one guy hung himself over that girl I just started laughing and my Mom hitting me in the ribs wasn’t helping. To make things worse some chick in the audience was also laughing.

Sohhhhh, I’m at the skating rink and sharing my experience with this chick I always liked and she starts laughing her ass off.

It was freaking her!!!! she was the girl laughing at. The movies!!!

We went out for a few months until both our egos needed to move on.

Dan that girl was babelicious!!!! Schwing!!!!


153 posted on 05/14/2013 8:56:04 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: dfwgator

Guns n’ Roses was still bridging the gap between glam metal and grunge.

Hard to say which genre is more dated today. I’ll call it a draw. Grunge is certainly more miserable.


154 posted on 05/14/2013 8:57:22 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I later went into Macy's. It was almost as bad, but it had a couple shoppers here and there. They looked insignificant in the vastness of the floor.

JCPenny seemed to have more customers than I've seen there in a long time. For many months, it has been almost totally bereft of customers.....and clerks as well.

In a nutshell, the mall's concourses were almost empty....and it was a beautiful, sunny Florida afternoon.

Another thing doesn't help....many, many of the smaller stores have gone broke during Obama's reign of terror and their windows are dark. In some of these empty shops non-quality, fly-by-night businesses that belong in flea markets have moved in with strange, cheap merchandise laid out on temporary wooden tables and shelves.

It's only going to get worse....here and everywhere.

Thanks, Obama.

Leni

155 posted on 05/14/2013 9:00:03 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are not 100 spy cameras everywhere you look.

I rested awhile in a Wal*Mart today. From where I was sitting near the front doors, just for grins, I counted 37 cameras. Some might be fake but that’s still a lot of cameras.


156 posted on 05/14/2013 9:00:46 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I can go back and listen to classic glam tracks and it sounds like a masterpiece compared to what is popular today.
Grunge was extremely miserable, the anthem to Columbine someone once described it to me as. I always wondered what had pi$$ed grunge bands off so much.


157 posted on 05/14/2013 9:01:14 PM PDT by Viennacon (h)
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To: upchuck

Malls have slowly been invaded and absorbed into the ghetto. Lots of shop-lifting, people killing each other over basketball shoes.


158 posted on 05/14/2013 9:02:31 PM PDT by Viennacon (h)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Uv0U5j-1w


159 posted on 05/14/2013 9:05:17 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear what is unlawful.)
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To: Viennacon

Lets be fair.
The internet killed big malls.


160 posted on 05/14/2013 9:07:01 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear what is unlawful.)
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