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Shopping for clothes at a mall in 1989 (no phones, big hair, and mullets)
YouTube ^ | June 24, 2023 | Vampire Robot

Posted on 07/18/2023 7:16:12 PM PDT by DoodleBob

32,197 views Jun 24, 2023 #levis More video from the South Shore Plaza mall in Braintree, Massachusetts in February.

Sorry all, no toys or video games in this one...🥲

A simple one here, as it's been too long since that last upload:

- - At a mall - - In the late 80's - - Buying clothes

Some fun footage complete with a 'Gnarly soundtrack!

Shots of various customers looking at items and trying the products on in the store, etc.

This one last close to 9 minutes.

#southshoreplazamall

#levis

#gatewaysoccer


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Society
KEYWORDS: malls; the80s
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It’s worth the 9 minutes of your life.

The songs were fresh back then…now they’re oldies.

1 posted on 07/18/2023 7:16:12 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

I miss ladies with big, beautiful hair. Maybe still in Texas?


2 posted on 07/18/2023 7:19:27 PM PDT by twister881
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To: DoodleBob

I lived that 9 minutes back in the 80s.

An 80s mall tour checking out the big hair and showing all the stores that no longer exist, maybe with a video arcade tour showing all the classic arcade and pinball machines might be a better video


3 posted on 07/18/2023 7:19:44 PM PDT by algore (tv)
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To: DoodleBob

I like the blond who thinks she’s Rod Stewart.


4 posted on 07/18/2023 7:21:45 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: twister881

And eight gallons of hair spray


5 posted on 07/18/2023 7:22:47 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: DoodleBob

I knew the world would never be the same again, at least for girls...

Batch in 1999 inside a Walmart, I saw two teens, walking side-by-side, talking on their mobile phones... but...

they were talking to each other over the phones, while they were only 2 feet from each other.

Still happens today, but through texting.

If the world were to take away the smartphones from girls, they would all end up depressed and in need of meds.


6 posted on 07/18/2023 7:26:46 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Nifster

>>And eight gallons of hair spray<<
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“Ultra Clutch?”
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7 posted on 07/18/2023 7:28:49 PM PDT by twister881
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To: DoodleBob

The trans stuff now would never have occurred in the 80’s because back then everyone accepted androgyny.

These days if a boy likes the color pink he is immediately labelled a girl and registered for the “sausage” chopping machine


8 posted on 07/18/2023 7:30:10 PM PDT by Rattlesnake_Snook
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How bleeping boring. You should go back there now and get some video. You might even see a shooting. If there were some ICE buses parked outside there now, they’d be constantly loaded.

Much of the 80s sucked.


9 posted on 07/18/2023 7:31:18 PM PDT by CletusVanDamme (The breaking point will be reached soon. )
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Made in USA Levis.

Forgot all about that. And they weren't even that expensive.

10 posted on 07/18/2023 7:32:15 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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I think something happened with the aspect ratio when it was transferred to digital because everyone looks short and fat and I can assure you, that wasn’t the case.


11 posted on 07/18/2023 7:34:57 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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Sorry, I lived in the 80’s and the only song that I recognized was the Steve Winwood thing at the end.


12 posted on 07/18/2023 7:39:15 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: DoodleBob

The last time I had to go to a mall was in 2016 for a phone, and I was really surprised by the elaborate food court.


13 posted on 07/18/2023 7:40:34 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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“”””Much of the 80s sucked.””””

Camouflage, guns, mercenaries, Reagan, small wars everywhere with Russia and Reagan going at it, survivalists, a very close nuclear war period, international intrigue, and danger, the movie “Red Dawn” banned in parts of West Germany, Latin America in conflict between Reagan and Russia, Africa, Savimbi, Rhodesia, South Africa.

There was so much intensity going on in the 80s.


14 posted on 07/18/2023 7:51:56 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Now they play Van Halen in the supermarket.


15 posted on 07/18/2023 7:53:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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There was so much intensity going on in the 80s.

And yet it was like a peaceful day soaking in the rays at the beach compared to 2023.

16 posted on 07/18/2023 7:57:48 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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That wasn’t my perspective.


17 posted on 07/18/2023 8:07:54 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DoodleBob

No tattoos, nose rings, guys in dresses, or people openly shoplifting. And not one single face mask.


18 posted on 07/18/2023 8:12:59 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, but it’s never anything from Fair Warning or anything good.. It’s usually Jump or nonsense from Diver Down.

That said, you know you’re old when the soundtrack of your youth accompanies a journey down the low carb snack aisle.


19 posted on 07/18/2023 8:27:27 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: crusty old prospector

I heard Sting and Basia.


20 posted on 07/18/2023 8:28:28 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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