The best part of this video was knowing that everyone I loved who passed away were still alive and only a call away....If I could crawl into this video...I would
Christmas 1984: My husband bought a microwave and a VCR as gifts for us. The price for both was over $1000.00! That "high-tech" Christmas was the talk of our entire families. The first VHS movie I bought was "White Christmas" and it was $35.00! They might have been the good old days, but I'm glad some of those prices have gone way down.
I think a lot of that comes from the old commercials having been shot on film. Now that everything's digital, it's cleaner and sharper, but there's definitely a trade-off. Then again, I only really remember one or two Christmas commercials... EDIT: Also, a lot of the commercials you remember likely came from smaller, local department stores. Wal-Mart has pretty much razed all of them to the ground, more's the pity.
Yes, but it's been longer than recently. Everything seems stale. A lot of them use pop music instead of jingles. A lot of them aren't memorable and not creative. They cram so many in the breaks. I'd rather watch shot on film.
@majesty10xu1 That's a good one. Nice mention. There is also another one that brings nostalgia when I listen to it. It's only 15 seconds and should be longer. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zbdHVrrKIcM.html If you see a comment by a user named Yes, click on the View 3 replies. Someone posted a link to Soundcloud. If you don't see it, let me know and I'll post the link.
I remember Christmas time in the 70's and 80's Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer coming on TV was a national event!!! It seems like Christmas was so much better back then.
The family had no choice but to get together because it only played once or twice during the holidays. On that Friday at school, you would hear “Rudolph” or “Frosty is on tonight” it would always add excitement to our day. We would prepare all of our snacks in advance of the show and sat by the TV five minutes in advance. We would run to the washroom during commercial breaks. So comforting to watch these as they played over and over in our homes.
Even though you can slip a dvd in to watch Christmas specials now, There was something magical about anticipation of when a special came on TV and we all sat down together to watch it. Even the variety Christmas shows were great. I sure miss these times and the great commercials and specials that were on. Nothing like it today, that's for sure.
I used to get so excited when I knew Rudolph the red nose Reindeer was coming on, and A Charlie Browns Christmas!! Here I am, 66 years old, and still get a little excited. I guess I never really grew up😶😶😅😅,,!!
I agree, having those special shows to watch at any time, the magic is gone. I remember the anticipation of knowing that a certain special was going to air.
I miss the old Folgers coffee commervial wher Peter comes home from college, the little sister comes downstairs and he brews coffee and the smell brings the rest of the family downstairs and they see their son and brother. And I also miss that Campbells Soup commercial Let It Snow. Where the smowman comes inside and sits down at the table and he turns from a smowman into a little boy.
The excitement of the Sears Wish Book, the JCPenney and Montgomery Wards catalogs could be overwhelming. Looking at the toy and sporting goods sections.
The late 80's were great , the economy was doing well ,I had a good job and I thought I was just steps away from a great life .I was in my 20's , my mother and father were still alive and things were just going to get better . Oh well .
I miss when Christmas really meant family, traditions and commercials that reflected it. Sadly, so many companies are gone. Online shopping is the norm versus actually going out, which I do. I love grabbing a coffee, heading to the mall and listening to Christmas music. It’s the experience of it all and savoring the moments.
I so agree. I love the lights and decorations and music at the mall, just the Christmas atmosphere. And finding something perfect that you never would have thought to look up online, or couldn't easily find online. It's so much better than sitting on a laptop ordering stuff and waiting for boxes that you open just to re-wrap.
Knowing my mom and grandparents were alive , being a kid, going to toys r us brings tears to my eyes. Wish I could leave this nightmare world and go back...
Amen!!! These were simpler times band you didn’t see all this crap that’s on tv now and what is out in the world now.. Everything PC and ridiculous! I love watching these, it brings back my childhood..
I was a young child in the 70s...great times! The Christmas catalogs were so anticipitory. Thanksgiving was not bombarded upon and life in general was far simpler. Oh I miss those days and my grandmother's floor model TV.
You are so right Deanna. The one thing I really notice about life today, there is no anticipation for anything - all is served instantly via the internet. It may seem silly but there was so much joy in waiting for something to come via mail order...
Back when we got a few simple gifts and we were happy. Nowadays everyone goes out to kill others on black friday to get the latest super expensive electronic gadget. It is no fun anymore.
You got that right. I remember magnetic wheels and slinkees kept me entertained for hours on Christmas morning. Now, kids are too spoiled and get bored too easy, demanding more and more. Greed became the focus and that zaps the fun out of any pastime.
And the prices just keep getting lower as the days get closer to Christmas. Plus I used to work at the fabulous Walmart. What a damn joke! I seen with my own eyes the associates throwing the televisions on the sales floor. I don't go anywhere near Walmart during Christmas time.
@@ScorpioBornIn69 I know how you feel. I may not be a republican or a democrat, but I am no liberal, puritan or conservative. I'm more of a empathetic humanitarian philanthropist. I care for all the people of the world. Rubbish shows and fake news will become a thing of the past, extinct and forgotten. I'm planning to put together a Retro Decade Revival Project. Our goal is to bring pure originality and diversity, real entertainment, true talent, old school and more back into the public mainstream, starting with the 1980s.
@@ScorpioBornIn69 the people making commercials want to disturb people not catch their attention. i still heard a few local radio commercials with great music.
Me too. Remember that Jesus has told us, the stop looking back at our old lives, and to think of Kingdom things. And that's what I've been doing, just imagine what the Kingdom of Heaven would be like. Even though it says that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, the wonderful things that God has in-store for those who love him.
Yep. People had to learn how to interact with others, there was no middle man like there is today, the internet and social media. You had to face people, there was nothing to hide behind so your behavior was more honest.
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I miss the Christmases back in the 80s, today people are so nasty, uptight and just make the holidays miserable! Also the online shopping and technology itself just ruined a lot of the sentiment it once was.
We'll get those back, dear. I'm planning to put together a Retro Decade Revival Project. Our goal is to bring real entertainment, true talent, pure originality and diversity, old school and more back into the public mainstream, starting with the 1980s. People will no longer be so nasty, uptight or making holidays miserable anymore and there will be no more ruining a lot of the sentiment it once was. Never say Never, Jami.
I did mostly catalog shopping back then, I hated the crowds at the mall, made meclaustrophobic, I love shopping online, though I agree it'd madeus all a bit more introverted anda less polite and considerate populace, so sad a trade off
It's really sad. We see no real commercials anymore because the companies were all bought up! There is no competition or need to push a product anymore. Corporations killed traditions and computer geeks are into a bleak godless world.
U and I are on the same page this year, I started watching this particular block of commercials after thanksgiving and I just keep coming back to it since, it put me back into that sense of wonder I felt as a kid, it makes me remember the magic feeling I had lost.
Hickory Farms, I miss you..LOVED going to the mall during the holidays, listening to the music, seeing people shopping, friendly customer service, TALKING to each other and getting samples at Hickory Farms
Today's Christmas commercials are mostly young couples buying new cars and other crap for each other and wonder why after the novelty wears off they are in huge debt.
I wish my children could know the love and excitement of the old days. I cherish those days. Christmas was something everyone looked forward to, of kindness and lights.
We spent childhood rushing to be older, wanting to do adult stuff, not be "told what to do", getting more privileges, complaining how bad doing a few chores & homework was. Then spend our adult life wanting to slow down the clock, go back & enjoy the 'good old days'. Just remember to cherish today, because someday it WILL become the good old days!
@Jangler333 I remember mine , I was 13yrs old & able to keep it until 2013 when stolen. Although a gift I had stipulations . That & my small cube transistor radio, I felt I had entered adulthood, haha
Yeah rotary phones party lines as a kid I would pick it up someone was talking my mom would say boy put that phone down someone's using it boy I miss those days 😢
Oh yeah the party lines were big fun for us back in the day. Sometimes we’d have 4 or 5 of us talking over each other. I told my 13 year old son that a few months ago and he was like oh that sounds like fun (sarcastically of course) lol Ah those were great times.
I wish I could just go back to these simpler times, and have all of my family back that have passed. I’d give anything for that warm safe feeling I had as a child surrounded by so much family and love, especially through the holidays. Thinking back hurts, but I cherish the memories. The world just isn’t the same as it was back then. God bless us all. Not me sitting here tearing up………..
i’m 16 and it seems like these commercials had more of the “Christmas Spirit” today is just entertainment and for the money. i remember when amazon wasn’t a thing when i was about 5 or 6 and being so happy when my mom came home with the Kmart or Wal-mart Catalog
This style of commercial promoted good anticipation. The voice-over quality, images of people enjoying shopping for others, reminders to remember loved ones & friends with cards, get-togethers of all sorts. They weren't entirely focused on ourselves, but others. There is a joyousness in that.
I wish I had enough gas in my car to get back to the 80's. It's a cliche when people say things were better back when, but when you look at the state of humanity now versus then, you can see society unraveling. You see people rioting, protesting, screaming profanities, and trying to shut down and silence anyone they disagree with in the name of not offending anyone. It's insane the things we're witnessing now.
There was rioting over injustices then too, always has been..no time in history is perfect. I think the decade you were a kid seems the nicest because we were--well, kids. I mean I miss the 70s and look at all that was going on then.
We lived in the last of best decades in America! The 70’s and 80’s were the best times of my life. We did not have the technology like today but we were a more hospitable people and we were more patient because we had to wait for almost everything! Even pictures and pop corn… it was just a better time for all of us who lived it. God Bless our county and everyone have a beautiful and Merry Christmas this year in 2021…
I can remember growing up in the 70s. And even though it was cold outside during the Christmas season, at the same time, the winters were warmer because of the love, the laughter, the smiles and the magic. These memories are a cozy blanket I wrap up in and drown myself in nostalgia.
These commercials gave me a bad case of Nostalgia…When life was so much simpler . Gave me memories of my brother & I going out over the holidays with the neighborhood kids playing our pond hockey or Sleding. My brother along with some good friends has since passed so these . But these commercials helped me expand my memories of christmases passed.
@@anthonypalermo8816 ikr, I loved putting on tensile. No one uses it anymore. I thought it made the tree glisten. Even the lights now are mostly white lights, no color
12:10-13:00 that Miller beer commercial should be on every Christmas. It's timeless. Filmed in Vermont in winter of 1976 and first aired on tv for the 1977 Christmas season.
Phone rental is something I forgot about. I remember the fee was added to the phone bill. I share these commercials with my daughter, so she can see how awesome the 70's and 80's were.
I'm so sad now. The one commercial that always let me know that Christmas was coming was the Santa riding the Norelco Triple Head through the snow. I always looked forward to it every year and then it was gone. Sigh.
"And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." -Matthew 24:10-12. These words were written over 2 thousand years ago.
It was awesome if you were fortunate enough to grow up in the 70's and/or 80's. Between the toys, decorations, ornaments, music, etc. -- it made x-mas that much more magical and wholesome. I grew up in both decades, and I got to see the advent of such popular toys as Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Go Bots, Shogun Warriors, Smurfs, Cabbage Patch Kids, etc.
Funny the vcr for 500 bucks and the size of the 19" TV for sale.. I just bought a 17" laptop and an adapter for a TV tuner that you can record like a VCR for less than $400.00 brand new. Technology is good but looking back on these commercials is great.
I thought the same thing yesterday!! Omg, I have a colored string from years ago, certain colors are kind of faded looking. Took me right back to when I was a little kid 😢
Do you notice how much calmer commercials were back then? In today's world, there's 5 minutes of 20 commercials of hyperactive kids and other people and you don't even remember what they are selling. Oh....and not to mention a third of them are prescription drug commercials. :(
When I was a poor kid growing up, I saw these ads and wanted a nice home in the suburbs with an intact family. Nothing fancy--just a husband who had a decent job and a few kids. As an adult, I was blessed with a wonderful husband and three great kids. We made some great Christmas memories. I worry about kids today. They're shown a bunch of weirdos on "reality" TV. I shudder to think what kids think "normal" is these days.
I want Santa to bring back Michelob and that contoured bottle for Christmas. And I mean real Michelob, not that Ultra Light 90% foam crap that killed the good name of Michelob! In exchange, you can take Coors and Coors Light back west to the Rockies. And while I'm at it, I want to see Charlie Brown kick the football--or Lucy square in the head! I want an Arthur Treacher's on the Berlin Turnpike. I want my Two Guys department store and Hardees (with it's Big Twin) back on the Berlin Turnpike, along with the Hartford Drive-In, and drive-ins in general. I want that Miller High Life horse and sleigh commercial after every quarter of NFL football on the last weekend of football before Christmas. And I want to see those Lowenbrau "Here's to Good Friends"--even if I don't have any--commercials as well as Lowenbrau and it's thick foil-topped bottles in six-packs at all my package stores. I want Nyquil in my medicine cabinet at all times. I want all Christmas cartoon specials to end with the audio and visual of the Rankin-Bass logo. I want my popcorn air-popper back to pop Orville Redenbacher popcorn and I want to douse it with Hickory Farms Popcorn Salt and Popcorn Seasoning (wait, I might still be able to have that). I want to see and hear James Garner once and for all tell Mariette Hartley to "Shut the f**k up" ... and get a One-Step! I want to grow my hair long like Michael Landon and not be laughed at by everybody. You can keep that winter vest, however. I want my paper route money back that I spent on those ColecoVision games...but I also want back my ColecoVision and those games--I think I once played Lady Bug for 36 hours straight! I want to see no blue M&Ms ever and I want tan plain M&Ms to come back. I want to be able to tip my mailman this year--not necessarily with a box of chocolates--except these days I never see the same mail-person twice. I want to see Tony Randall and Jack Klugman via my cable TV--i.e. reruns of classic "The Odd Couple", not Love Sidney or Quincy. And I want Matthew Perry to burn in hell for "creating" and starring himself as Oscar in a 21st century failed and unfunny version of "The Odd Couple". I want to see tire stores and gas stations selling Christmas albums again--and I want to know who that is at 36:45. And I want every Hess truck from each year back when they first came out. I want to be able to again get glassware from Taco Bell, or any fast food place (I still have a Mayor McCheese glass that I wouldn't let Jesus use if he visited my house). I want everyone to help each other like that Eat'n'Park tree helped that struggling star. And finally I want the Minnesota Vikings to win the Super Bowl.. and I want to be able to like the Boston Bruins and forgive all their fans, their fans being the reason I don't want the Hartford Whalers back--only Bruins fans bought tickets to and went to their games. And only to chant "Hartford Sucks", even if the Bruins weren't playing that night! May not always believe in God, but I've always believed in Santa Claus (as a spirit of course, not as a real person who's fat and dresses in red and is old and never shaves and...ah, why spoil it now? Happy Holidays if you read this far.
I wish I could go back to the early '80's when I worked at Woolworth's. And it was in the Mall. Right outside their door was The Brown Derby restaurant. All us friends from Woolworth's would stop at the Brown Derby restaurant, their lounge, after work and have a 24 ounce, ice cold Michelob Draft, then another and another and so on. You're right, Michelob was the ultimate champion of beers back then. Good times. Good friends. Good life.
Slower pacing in commercials back then. Its nice to actually pause and take in the whole commercial. Now everything is speeded up, and the music is assaulting to the ears. But, what do I know. Im old. lol
Never say never. The Retro Decade Revival Project will bring the slower pacing in commercials back into the mainstream. Everything won't be speeded up and the music won't be assaulting to the ears anymore.
A lot of these commercials are using symphony music unlike now where creepy sesame Street hip hop music is used.disco music lasted about 8 years but rap. Has lasted 30 years in a rigged marketing system that does not represent what people want
Big Pharma has taken over the airwaves. I count at times 9 to 14 commercials between programs. And most of them are Big Pharma's. Some are over 5 minutes long.
@@rhondabitler2461 I worked in a warehouse recently and they packaged medical supplies for diabetic patients. I sometimes glanced at the prices. A meter, like Dexcom would sell for around $450.00 in one state and in say, New York, same meter was $550.00. That's the same thing, different state and $100.00 more. And the patient's insurance paid for most of them. I saw a lot of that. A lot of crooks in Big Pharma. Stay well.
Am I the only one that feels like it's a whole different world now? I mean everything about it was different back then I can't even describe what I mean but I am so home sick for that world as I watch these,so much more than nostalgia 😔🏠👨👩👧👦🌍📼💟☎️ and time itself is going by faster than then but that's another subject.
Yes, it is truly a very different world now in 2024 compared to those days portrayed in these commercials our world was much better back then and it truly is heartbreaking when you compare the two time periods
0:00 Coca-Cola 0:31 Ben Franklin 1:00 Nabisco Crackers 1:30 Energizer 2:00 Michelob Beer 2:29 Pillsbury 2:59 Gemco 3:29 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer 3:49 Sears Before Christmas Sale 4:19 Canada Dry 4:49 Kodak Photo Paper 5:19 Chex Party Mix 5:49 Arthur Treacher's 6:19 Firestone Retailers 6:49 Radio Shack® 7:19 NyQuil 7:49 Alpha Beta 8:18 Hardee's 8:47 Eckerd 8:57 Sears 9:27 Bell Telephone 9:56 Polaroid 10:11 Pizza Hut 10:40 Frederick & Nelson 11:10 How The Grinch Stole Christmas/Frosty The Snowman Promo 11:20 Wendy's 11:50 Milk Bone Dog Biscuits 12:05 Miller High Life 13:05 Radio Shack® 13:35 Gimbels 14:05 Orville Redenbacher 14:31 Bentley's Luggage 15:00 Sears 15:29 Stanley 15:59 A Charlie Brown Christmas/'Twas The Night Before Christmas Promo 16:19 National Lampoons Christmas Vacation Promo 16:49 Red Lobster 17:19 Two Guys Discount 17:48 Sun Bank 18:17 Sprite 18:47 Hickory Farms 19:17 Target 19:47 Sears 20:17 Gemco 20:45 Polaroid 21:14 The First Christmas Promo 21:24 The Year Without A Santa Claus 21:34 Sears 22:04 Mervyn's & TV5 22:13 Kodak Ektralite Camera 22:42 Hallmark Cards 23:12 Michelob Beer 23:42 Hills 24:12 Zales 24:41 Genovese Drug Store 25:11 Texas Instruments 25:40 M&M's 26:10 Scrooged Movie Promo 26:40 Hallmark Store 27:09 Coors 27:39 Ivey's 28:09 Pillsbury 28:37 Radio Shack® 29:07 White Christmas Movie Promo 29:37 Kodak Disk Camera 30:07 Whitman's Chocolate 30:37 McDonald's Gift Certificates 31:37 Safeway Gift Certificates 32:07 Winn-Dixie 32:37 Christmas TV Specials Promo 32:57 Old Spice 33:27 Sears. Roebuck 34:03 Kodak Film 34:33 Skaggs Drug Center 35:00 Herda's Discount 35:30 Olympia Brewing 33:59 JCPenny 36:14 Good Year Service/ Chrisritmas Is... Album 37:14 Toys "Я" Us 37:43 Kodak Tele-Instamatic Camera 38:14 Zody's Department Store 38:44 Taco Bell - Pepsi Glasses 39:10 Frosty's Winter Wonderland/Leprechauns Christmas Gold Promo 39:41 Michelob Beer 40:10 Kroger 40:39 Black & Decker 41:09 American Greetings 41:40 Eat'nPark 42:10 Nester The Long Eared Christmas Donkey Promo 42:40 K-Mart 42:55 Estée Lauder 43:25 André Champagne 43:55 Jeno's Pizza Rolls 44:25 Kodak Disk Camera 44:40 Pizza Hut - Paddington Bear Glasses 45:10 Commodore 64 - 1351 Mouse 45:40 Cinnamon Toast Crunch - Santa Bear
GOD saved me on Christmas Eve in 1972, (according to St John 16:24)! I prayed, "FATHER touch me, in the name of JESUS! Immediately.... (after TWO WHOLE DAYS of my weeping, reading a KJV New Testament, and praying wrongly)...PAPA GOD sent HOLY GHOST down into my heart! The Bible had cleansed my filthy atheistic spirit, and I'd learned how to forgive! GLORY! I woke up Christmas Morning BORN AGAIN! HALLELUJAH!
I don't know anything about microwave oven prices, but let's say Sears' normal price for a microwave then was $300 (so it was being marked down 40% for the sale). With inflation (since the 80s), that "normal price" figure today would be at least $600 (twice as much), I think. If they cost less than $120 now (say, $100), that means--in "1980s dollars"--microwaves today are only 1/6 as expensive as they were in the 80s--and (apparently) twice as powerful. That's not bad!
@@markfoster1520minimum wage in the 70’s was $1.45 a hr 80’s $3.10 . Unless your parents had money you didn’t go to college . It was just as hard to make it back then as it is now , except people didn’t care as much .
I really love these camercials it's a little ironic though that back then when I was watching show or movie I would be angry at these same camercials and all these years later I look for these and am happy to see them you know wa I mean.
It's hard to believe the '80s existed at all. A time of warmth, intellect, and camaraderie. Now, there's just pure narcissism, blaming, stupidity and segregation.
