Consume Product

Some of them were black. Lots of them were made of metal, and a few even had wood. Today, everything is made of plastic unless it's a "rare earth" metal, in which case it can't be plastic. The 80s were the last, dying gasp of the artisan. We are now in the age of the bean counters, where everything is undertaken on a cost-benefit analysis.

Malls were better when there were dedicated electronic stores. Now all electronics have been consolidated into a Sony/Apple store that can't even fix half the problems you'd visit them for anyway. Also there were a lot les nons in those days.