scrubbedexpat091

The photos are amusing, I was too young to remember most of the 80's and didn't realize exactly how badly people dressed and oh those hair cuts...

Here Are Shopping Malls In All Their '80s Glory

Shirtback

Oy!! do you realise how long it took in front of a mirror to achieve those hairstyles??

scrubbedexpat091

I'll guess a good chunk of time....lol

I suppose had I been born 5-6 years earlier in the early 70's, I'd have been participating in those hair styles....lol

bats

Lol, so very American

beckiwoo

Great photos. Kind of wish I had taken photos of my local shopping mall when I was younger and see all the renovations get undertaken (as well as the fashion)!

I grew up in place called Milton Keynes in the UK and the shopping mall was built in the 70s. It was featured in a cliff richard video where he is on rollerskates. Although they have done some transformations. Some dodgy 70s artwork by one the big dept stores is still there today (and I think featured in cliff's video).

Mikeypm

You actually made it out of Milton Keynes, I thought the large of use of run about was stop inhabitants from getting out

beckiwoo

haha yeah I made it out 10 years ago unfortunately I ended up in an even worse place...Northampton

caretaker

Before there were malls Regina had two shopping centres, the Golden Mile and Northgate, (both very new when I got here), and they eventually got closed-in and became malls. The main deal was still here, downtown. In 1964 the tallest building in Regina was the 13 story Sask Power Building (background).

bats

oh poor you. Northampton! I used to live near MK and usually end up shopping there on my trips back, oh and eating lunch at Carluccios. If only there were decent malls like that near me now.

bats

Isn't a shopping centre a mall??

caretaker

Or when is a shopping centre a mall? I don't think we called them malls here until they became closed in so there was a common concourse, before that they were shopping centres.

BristolUK

Growing up in Keynsham, we had the High St which was full of shops and at one end was a block with a Victor Value supermarket and other shops. That was the shopping centre - even though there were plenty of shops all along the high st.

In Bristol we had Broadmead Shopping centre (more pedestrianised now than it used to be) but later there was the "closed in" Galleries. Nobody called it a Mall even though all under cover and enclosed.

Just outside Bristol there is "The Mall" which is also enclosed but it was built for that. Standing inside The Galleries seems no different to standing inside The Mall.

Perhaps a shopping centre is where the shops happen to be but it's a Mall if it was designed (in isolation?) that way.

Then there are strip malls but not every row of shops is a strip.

Inse

Showing my age but was that Keynsham, spelt K E Y N S H A M.....

Happy Christmas, I'm gone,

caretaker

Mall didn't really become a verb until the advent of Valley Girl culture.

bats

Milton Keynes is called a shopping centre but its also a mall. Otherwise it's just 'the shops" innit?