‘80s Christmas: Shoppers brave crowds and rush home with their treasures (vintage photos)
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
Before Drivers Village, this was Penn Can Mall decorated festively for the holidays.
Shoppers go up escalator at the mall in 1988. In the background is a Christmas display with a train for kids to ride on. Syracuse Post-StandardSyracuse Post-Standard
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In the 1980′s there was, of course, no such thing as online shopping.
Central New York shoppers went to the numerous suburban shopping malls, Penn Can, Camillus, Shoppingtown, Fairmount Fair, Fayetteville, Northern Lights, Marketplace, Great Northern and the Galleries, to name a few, braving crowds, and the weather to finish their Christmas lists.