This is when holidays felt magical! And it was a fun special good times! Holidays don’t feel like this anymore! It’s all online shopping.. no malls,no holiday specials. No magical feel to McDonald’s. No big department stores, I’m glad I grew up in the 80s as a kid ❤️
I feel the same way im 44 yrs old when it comes to the holiday season now it ain't the same no more most of the shopping malls are closed up yeah Kmart & sears are gone let me get a time machine and go back to the 80s & 90s to relive the best times
@@BomberMonkAssassin32hey, I completely agree with you both! I'm 55 and the 70's & 80's are the very best decades of my life for so many reasons. All my family & friends were alive and well, the Macy's day parade was worth watching, it was a more peaceful time and way of life. No cellphones, no internet, slower pace of living and the music was the best. If you get a time machine gimme a heads up cause I wanna go back too! 😢
I agree 100%. My heart breaks when I think back to those days, because I know they'll never happen. I turned 45 not too long ago, and this is so nice to watch. The crowded malls, the tv specials, the sitcoms doing their holiday episodes. My parents always made the holidays special for my brother and I, and I am trying to do that for my kids. Happy holidays to all.
The holidays can still feel magical. For one, it's not all online shopping. Where I'm from, there are still people that crowd the local mall and superstores when they want to buy something around that time, and not just on Black Friday. Also, sometimes they go shopping because they can't always find what they want online, or they compare the prices. When it comes to watching holiday specials, even if they aren't always on TV, a family can make a few suggestions on what they want to watch together and plan it ahead of time. My point is that it's not all black and white/doom and gloom. There can still be a fun feeling around the holidays. It just depends on how you and other people want it to feel.
I just commented that. It always meant one of the wonderful holiday shows was coming on. So many memories. The anticipation of Christmas🎄and the wonder of the season! It was so beautiful and fun to be a kid!
Kmart was awesome when I was a kid. I would ride the merry go round and shop in the makeup and toy section. The cafeteria was nice also. Those were the good old days.
When I see these commercials I remember how the holiday spirit used to feel like. I lost that feeling by the early 90s. Something happened to the world that stripped that feeling from me, and reading some of the comments I see I'm not the only one!
Goonies1632 stop with the “PC movement” crap. It was a different time that had zero to do with what’s PC or not. The world is so much more complicated today and we (you, me, & the rest of us commenters) are getting older with much less certainty in the future.
Same here but it had nothing to do with things being PC. For me, it was because my parents divorced in 1991 and my dad died in 1992. I then had to go from living in an intact fairly normalish happy family to living in a broken chaotic home with my mom and her abusive bf.
well as Doc Emmitt Brown said it is the flux capacitor that makes time travel possible , if I could just find one , we will go back to the mid 70's & start from there reliving the holidays
All the sales are called "Thanksgiving Sales" not "Black Friday," and they start at 8 the morning after Thanksgiving and not at 3am or midnight -- or even worse -- the afternoon or evening of Thanksgiving Day! One of the sales is touted as an event "for early Christmas shoppers." These days if you dare wait til Thanksgiving weekend you'll be a 'last-minute' shopper! 😜
It’s so comforting to watch these commercials now with everything going on in the world! I was a kid when these commercials aired. I wish life was as simple as it seemed (was) back then.
I miss these commercials I used to watch them as a kid while my mom was cooking. Even though she's not here her memories are still here. Thank you for these videos!! Back in the day there use to be more thanksgiving commercials and not Christmas. Nowadays it's literally xmas in September everywhere. How times have changed.
These all remind me of cool fall days and evenings with my family. Either at home watching TV or outside or playing games. I wish those people were all still here now.
thanksgiving is my favorite of the three. the focus is on family, friends, and reflecting on the past year. no costumes, haunted houses, presents, or blinking lights.
Me too. There was just something special about Kmart. Unlike Walmart. I go in, and can't wait to get out. It's a cold type store. Kmart had warm and fuzzy feelings. Probably because the family was always together there.
okay so anybody here ready to join me in a time machine that will take us back to the late 70's so we can enjoy the holidays again during this time era
Me too! It's not just nostalgia. The world today is screwed up to the point where everything we loved is now considered (insert every hateful SJW buzzword here). Depressing.
Goonies1632 - i was 10 when the 80’s began. I loved growing up in the 80’s - didn’t have a care in the world cuz my parents had secure jobs. But all was not great. Reagan & his cronies unleashed unfettered greed which led to the runaway capitalism we see today. Companies were forced to layoff to boost share prices & executive bonuses. So spare me how things are so bad now. While many things have changed, some not for the better, the executive/shareholder greed is even worse. And yes we have more diversity today which I know upsets racists like you.
I picture my granny watching these. She had like 3 or 4 channels. Never knew of computers or cell phones. She was a very content lady. I miss it all. Rip
Goonies1632 I agree !! I watch the older shows on you tube ! I watch these commercials and almost feel homesick . Love the way they made them back years ago !
Oh the spinning CBS Special presentation always got me going during the holidays. It meant a great show was coming. Charlie Brown, Rudolph, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and Frosty the⛄Snowman!☃️ Those days are such wonderful memories for me.
What's funny is that I now have all the shows you mentioned on DVD. I can watch them whenever I want to....but, of course, it ain't the same without the family and it ain't the same without the season.
I was born in the 90’s but I find the 80’s so fascinating! What were they like? Does anyone know what year this is? I’m gonna guess 1987 judging by the parade
🤠 I don't care what anybody says here, Christmas throughout the 80s was like the greatest times ever, Christmas through 1990s weren't that bad but the 80s were so much better and look at everything we had back in the 80s to as a young kid growing up back then.
Bings back some fantastic memories watching these old commercials and I can't get over the prices on the turnkeys LOL. Wishing everyone on here a Happy Thanksgiving
THANK YOU LORD FOR LETTING ME BE BORN IN 1972 I WOULD NOT WANNA BE BORN IN THIS GENERATION IF YOU PAID ME 😡 EVEN TV COMMERCIALS WERE EVERYTHING GROWING UP ❤️
Pretty sure Kmart is to blame for the ridiculously early Black Friday shopping, which now has turned into opening ON Thanksgiving day -_- Course they wouldn't be open that early if shoppers wouldn't shop. Profits over people!
I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY BIRTH YEAR 1972 YOU CAN HAVE TODAYS COMMERCIALS TV MUSIC MOVIES AUTO TUNE SINGERS REALITY SHOWS HORRIBLE ENTERTAINMENT IN GENERAL BACK IN THE 70 80 90 AND EARLY 2000 LIFE AND ENTERTAINMENT WAS WORTH WILE WE HAD TALENT IN MUSIC MOVIES MUSICIANS ACTRESSES AND ACTORS AND TV AND EVEN COMMERCIALS TODAY NOT SO MUCH
Definitely 1987. Sigh I was in jr high school. Great times.. God take me back to 1978 and let me enjoy the last bit of disco, and the Star Wars craze again. And then let me begin the awesome 80s. And all the great stuff that was to come. Music, cartoons, toys, styles, MTV, movies, etc. I'd give almost anything to go back.
I just had a thought about the commercials and sound quality. I'd imagine these are from people recording movies and tv they wanted to re-watch. When you watch, you would fast-forward, degrading the vhs in the commercials. Now we want the old commercials for nostalgia. 😂
Compare the morning shows' content from the 80s to NOW. 80s content is mostly positive, NOW, mostly negative or controversy. Take 100 random 80s songs and the theme is mostly positive. NOW, take 100 random songs and the themes are overtly sexual, negative, obsecene (and I'm not even a Holier than though).
Man! Hearing the words "Children's Palace"....my brain dropped everything it was doing, and went on vacation to 40 years ago, just strollin' through the aisles, looking at the Star Wars and G.I. Joe figures, the Madballs, the Battle Beasts, the Hot Wheels....
Andrew Gonzalez I do not know if this is The Drew that used to live in Jackson Michigan with his mom and sister ? I am Margie Rogers who used to be friends with your Dad Chano before he passed away . Your mom and I were close friends ! Anyway stay safe !
I don’t care if peppermint patty is a girl. I’ll give her a break from Charlie Brown a break on her arms and her sandal wearing legs. And then I will take a Huge break. Why should it aired. I’ll by that the only Emmy for the creator is the thanksgiving special. A Emmy I a privilege not a right.
@@lisajackson5134 I don't remember Toys-R-Us being around before the '90's. We only shopped at Kmart and Children's Palace back then for toys. Since you mentioned Toys-R-Us was around before that, I believe you.
Being here makes me feel so good because I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s and it absolutely was a better time before all of this technology that has basically destroyed society because it hasn’t been controlled and used properly. Back then we literally did not lock our doors, families ate together and we talked to each other. It was the very basic things in fact in the 70s nothing was allowed to be open on Sundays so I remember my parents and grandparents saying hurry up and get your gas on Saturday night because you can’t get it on Sunday, it forced us to be together and go to church. We had great TV back then with great shows. The holidays were so much different and people truly were nice with more patience because we had to wait for everything even popcorn today everything’s instant and if you don’t get it in a matter of a second people get upset and love their patience.
Atari couldn't handle Nintendo gaining success in the 80's until.. Sega came in stomped them out and 90's they said let's make a super!!.. But that's another story..
