I was sure I’d posted bout this before, but a cursory search of ye olde blog didn’t turn it up. Oh, well. Anyway:

1989

America’s malls

A bunch of photos taken in shopping malls in the late 1980’s. A few things you might notice right off… there were a lot more people in the malls, and yet there was a lot less of each person back then. How the hell did we get so fat in a quarter century? Also: big, big hair, and some long-vanished fashions. I don’t care what all y’all say, 80’s chicks were teh awesome. Well, they were in the 80’s, at any rate. They’d stand out today.

And there’s the relevant Fark thread, where a bunch of Farkers my age and beyond bemoan their lost youth and Kids These Days.

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And then there’s this, wholly random outta nowhere:

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