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'80s Christmas: Shoppers brave crowds and rush home with their treasures (vintage photos)


‘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. ....

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Christmas in the '80s: Rubik's Cube, Cabbage Patch dolls, Nintendo. Here are the top, must-haves from the decade


Christmas in the ’80s: Rubik’s Cube, Cabbage Patch dolls, Nintendo. Here are the top, must-haves from the decade
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
Do you remember Christmas in the 1980s?
If you were growing up during the decade you probably have a fond remembrance for the toys, the ones which shaped our childhood and changed forever the way the holiday was marketed.
People stood in lines for hours for the Nintendo Entertainment System and a Cabbage Patch Kid.
Those were the biggies, but there were so many more:
Strawberry Shortcake, Teddy Ruxpin, Rainbow Brite, Laser Tag, Star Wars, Barbie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Rubik’s Cube, Pee Wee Herman, and ALF! ....

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