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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:08 pm to
Posted by Celery
Nuevo York
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:08 pm to
These are by Michael Galinsky. I believe the photos are from 15 different malls between NYC and South Dakota.
Posted by LSUEnvy
Hou via Lake Chas
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:08 pm to

Bakers Shoes just sold women’s shoes. Best job I ever had...
Posted by LSU316
Rice and Easy Baby!!!
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:08 pm to
Yep you will never see that again in this world.
Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:09 pm to
Ladies & Gentlemen, presenting Mr & Mrs Wee R. Dead
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Like Sammy Davis told Liberace when they met in Purgatory, “Libby baby, one way or another, those butts will get us all in the end!”
Posted by GEAUXT
Member since Nov 2007
29275 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:09 pm to
I try not to be all "things were better back in my day."

However, a lot of things really were. My daughter was asking me earlier today where toys come from. I was just thinking that she'll never have the joy of going in a place like kaybee toys, or toys r us.

Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:10 pm to
IMO it’s too bad things aren’t that way today......
Posted by Pooturd
Knoxville
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:11 pm to
I was born in the early-mid 90s. My memories of the Houma mall being like this are so faded they barely seem real. I always felt I was born just in time enough to be peripherally aware of the good times of the 80s and 90s, but a little too late to experience it myself.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
84885 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:11 pm to
Ahhh Cortana Mall



Start off with a slice at Mama Brava



Own fools at Revolution X



Go bug my friend’s older sister who worked at Wet Seal



Toss a quarter in the fountain



Grab a coke at the Orange Julius



Then pick up the latest Resident Evil at Electronics Boutique




Good as it gets if you grew up in Baton Rouge
Posted by LSU316
Rice and Easy Baby!!!
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:14 pm to
quote:

I was just thinking that she'll never have the joy of going in a place like kaybee toys, or toys r us.


I think my daughter remembers Toys R Us...she's 7....but yea it's gonna be hard to walk them around Amazon
Posted by Mike da Tigah
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:15 pm to


Trying to date this. I’m thinking 83 or 84 on that Coke shirt. Could be an old shirt too though. I remember the rugby coke shirts came out around then.
Posted by The Dudes Rug
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:15 pm to
Posted by boxcarbarney
Above all things, be a man
Member since Jul 2007
22777 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:17 pm to
Man, I loved going to Babbages to pick out my next Commodore 64 game.

Or was that Electronics Boutique I used to go to? Damn I'm getting old.
This post was edited on 5/6/20 at 4:19 pm
Posted by S
RIP Wayde
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:18 pm to
Stranger Things S4 nailed it pretty good.
Posted by fallguy_1978
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:20 pm to
quote:

Trying to date this. I’m thinking 83 or 84 on that Coke shirt. Could be an old shirt too though. I remember the rugby coke shirts came out around then.


I had one like below. Funny my daughter has a shirt a lot like that guy is wearing in the OP.

Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
84885 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:20 pm to
If you went to Cortana, EB was narrow but went back aways. Babages was more or less a normal rectangle.
This post was edited on 5/6/20 at 4:21 pm
Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
25532 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:20 pm to
Things really were better then.

Parents dropped kids off and picked them up at a specified time and location without needing cell phones. As a kid, you had so much responsibility. If you had a few bucks in your pocket, you had to figure out a way to make it last.

Don’t even get me started on social skills.

The atmosphere also promoted more physical exertion.
Posted by Wolfhound45
Hanging with Chicken in Lurkistan
Member since Nov 2009
120000 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:24 pm to
quote:

This guy fricks
His ‘stache has a side piece.
Posted by boxcarbarney
Above all things, be a man
Member since Jul 2007
22777 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:25 pm to
quote:

Things really were better then. Parents dropped kids off and picked them up at a specified time and location without needing cell phones.


Hell I remember being 6 and my mom leaving me at the arcade for a few hours while she shopped. Nowadays parents would go to jail for child endangerment for pulling something like that.
Posted by LSU316
Rice and Easy Baby!!!
Member since Nov 2007
29313 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:26 pm to
quote:

If you had a few bucks in your pocket, you had to figure out a way to make it last.


Damn right that probably would have had to last you at least 3-4 mall trips worth in the arcade.
Posted by Mike da Tigah
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:26 pm to
quote:

I had one like below. Funny my daughter has a shirt a lot like that guy is wearing in the OP.


Everyone I knew had that shirt except me I guess. Never got around to getting one. If I remember correctly they were pretty pricey, or it was probably I was just a broke arse HS kid who blew everything he had at New Generation.

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