@@vicepresidentmikepence889 They didn't have Saturday Morning cartoons, TVs, video games, pizza dude, or any reasonable way to make mix-tapes, hell they didn't even get a pet rock.
my childhood hero of the 80’s was weird Al I watched him on the Disney channel back in 1996 on his theirs no going home concert special I have his albums on cd plus I went to his concerts and watched altv on mtv I watched a lot of mtv back then mtv jams yo mtv raps mtv springbrake mtv unplugged beavis and butthead
Or when they talked over the intro! Stop talking. Stop talking!! STOP TALKIIIING!!! Definitely spent lots of time waiting for Casey to play the song(s) I wanted to record!
I can also say I miss those too and a lot of the businesses then are either closed or barely holding on along with changing and not always for the better. ☹
@@francoisregis2155 I feel that too also and these times really just got hostile and dangerous and like the video that isn't going to work today even if it got the shows it's not always acceptable if you took a look closely of them.
I got paddled and seen others get smacked with a wooden paddle in middle of class several times, that was a private school in the early 90s in grade school..
Same. Technology was almost identical. Things didn't really change until the internet. But it's not like everyone had a computer around that time either. And VCRs were still popular until about 2000 or so.
Ya... I miss my mom. All my grandparents and uncles and aunts. Always a family party somewhere on the weekends. Now everyone is dead. My sister and brother are still alive but live in other states. I really do miss having a big extended family.
I would love to sit in the corner of one of those 80s Christmases or thanksgivings. Just to listen to all of my family that are gone. The holidays just aren't the same.
The 80’s were the best decade because we had just enough technology to not be in the “dark ages” but not so much technology that it took the fun and adventure out of life and destroyed human interaction in person and made everyone depressed and miserable. Sorry kids today! The 80’s rule!
Man you said it... just enough technology. That's the truth of that. You would think someone would want to just be able to hop on the internet and find a movie to watch. Back then though going to the movie store was a part of the experience. Even though its more convenient and easy the way things are now. It def takes the fun out of the experience. Everything was just convenient enough and we had to interact and go out into the public.
We had so much freedom to roam our neighborhood, as curfew was when “the light on the pole” in front of our house came on. Riding in the bed of a pickup truck and station wagon were fun too.
I just had to step around a woman at the Dollar store yesterday who was using the speaker while talking on the phone. (It took all my energy to not grab her phone and launch it across the store! 😂) So damn rude and she was upset I was trying to get around her!!
I think that many people of those days dreamed to have phone w/o wire! We think that they enjoy the 80's!? I don't think so! But, after the 1980's the whole worlds societes has gone to hell! From today's point of view, the wire phone is something we seen as a something better then cell phones, but in those days , back in the 80's , I think that people dreamed of easier way to communicate...
Oh man, what a great decade to spend your pre-teen and teenage years! Saturday morning cartoons, little league baseball, video games on my Colecovision, the explosion of hard rock and glam metal on FM radio and MTV, making mixtapes, renting VHS movies, Transformers, G.I. Joe, drinking water from the garden hose on a hot summer day, riding my Huffy bike, etc. I consider myself super-fortunate to have grown up in that decade.
@@kellychuang8373 Like he says in the video, we had the perfect amount of technology. Wish I knew that then, I had a Walkman and envied the discman so bad lol
I remember the early days of shopping malls when they would keep the mall and its stores open until 10pm and often until 12am on weekends. Everyone hung out at the mall with no cellphones involved, fun times!
That was definitely a lot of fun. Many of those places have went out of business and the ones that I do still see are nowhere near as crowded. Thank you for watching and sharing what you loved to do on the weekends.
Man I miss those mall days with my friends!! It was definitely the social media of the 80’s. Kids today will never understand how hugely important the mall was to us, unless maybe we take their phones away.
I'm with you! The mall was a huge part of socializing for us back then. Meeting other kids from different towns and schools. Me and my friends went to our local mall all the time, and the local arcades. 😁👍🏻
Take their phones away & they wouldn’t know how to function. It would be like taking corded phones away from an 80s teen. I got my own phone so my family could make/get phone calls
One of the best things about being an 80s kid was that the education system was not out to corrupt our hearts and minds. They wanted to teach us how to think critically instead of wanting to teach us what to think. Great content brother. Thanks for sharing.
DON'T BE FOOLED, THE BRAIN WASHING WAS TAKING PLACE, BUT BECAUSE OF YOUR YOUTH, YOU WEREN'T AS AWARE AS YOU ARE NOW. BUT IT IS GETTING WORSE AND MORE OBVIOUS NOW. WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL THAT IT IS MORE OBVIOUS NOW, BECAUSE EYES ARE FINALLY OPENING.
@meauxjeaux431 I won't argue with that. The indoctrination started when they began removing God from the classroom. I think it started becoming truly obvious when the theory of evolution became evolution. It wasn't taught as a theory anymore, but as fact even tho it still cannot be proven.
That was life. Full of life. My childhood. Never to be forgotten. Nintendo games, playing that gold game, Zelda, super mario bros.. Watch cartoons, buying toys, heman, transformers, turtles.. amazing times. No stress. Today im 44. Sometimes I close my eyes just to dream back for a while.
I miss the music and fashion of the 80’s. I was ages 4-13. I remember roaming the neighborhood and playing without my parents knowing where I was. I remember ringing friends’ doorbells to see if they were home and playing outside or in the woods. It was such a wonderful carefree time!
Thank you so much Rhetty for History for all your videos. Oh to go back to the days before social media when we actually went outdoors to play and be with our friends.
Yep. All of us cousins cruising around in the back of my uncle's orange and white pick-up truck. And sitting on my mom's lap in the front passenger seat of the car. 😂
Those truck beds could be fun! Especially when it was bouncing down the road or they were slamming on the brakes and turning fast. You could slide all over it. Thank you for watching Katclem47!
Super emotional for some odd reason. My mom sent this to me because she couldn’t believe how much time has actually gone by. When my 14 year old was around 3 he had an old school tv and vcr with stacks of tapes. He thought it was the coolest thing and others were in the “wtf get that boy a real tv and some dvds”. People just don’t know what they’re missing ❤
"Just the right amount of technology" I love this thought! And video rental stores are the perfect example for this. I really miss browsing the shelves and feeling the excitement of discovering something brand new you've never heard of before. Streaming sounds so convenient on paper, imagine having access to every movie in the world at the push of a button! But everything is simply dumped on us, filtered through an algorithm that is more interested in what someone wants to sell me than what I'm actually looking for. And good luck finding some actual classics on there! I would much prefer to have just the right amount of technology.
I was born in the late 80's. I don't have much memory of it but now in the 30s I find myself yearning for it. The culture, the music, the movies and the overall feeling of freedom of the 80s.
How about sleeping in the car while your mom was in the store grocery shopping, or sleeping on the back ledge of the rearview window on a long road trip? I remember doing those things growing up in the 80s.
In the late 70's and early 80's my brothers, cousins and I could pile into the bed of my uncle's Datsun pickup truck to go for ice cream. Today that would be considered reckless child endangerment. lol
Some of my favorite things as an 80s kid: Atari, rollerskating, Saturday morning cartoons/cartoons after school (G.I. Joe, She-Ra, He-Man), prime time shows like Family Ties, Facts Of Life, Scholastic book fairs, book order day at school, riding bikes, going to Blockbuster to rent movies for the weekend, watching MTV and VH1 when it was all music videos, playing games like yard darts, all the cool music back in the day, fun toys that people are collecting now. I am so grateful I got to be a part of that decade.
Really feel like I hit the sweet spot as far as having been a kid throughout the 80's and teens throughout the 90's and jaded early 20s in the 2,000's.
The 80's watching Saturday morning cartoons while eating a bowl of cereal afterwards when all morning cartoons were finished we go outside and ride our BMX bikes all day 😢
I miss 1980s, I born in 82 and I remember so much stuff like camping, road trips, Disneyland, friends riding bicycles, rollerblading, life on dairy farm, so much activities outside, no distractions on phone or internet, I glad I grew up in that era to experience that…
Yeah, I particularly miss not knowing what others were thinking, having to suppose. I even miss being depressed when I would find out that I was wrong about them! 👍
To me, the coolest thing about going to the mall in the eighties was being able to meet kids from other schools. My town didn’t have one so all the kids from the general area’s schools would go to the one in a neighboring town. New friendships were made, sometimes only for the day, but it was always lots of fun!
I was born in 1976. This is spot on. I enjoy telling my 8 yr old son about that time of my life. We definitely spend time watching movies like karate kid lol
MTV and Nickelodeon were always on. When we got a VCR we were always recording TV shows and commercials just for the fun of it. My sister and I loved browsing Tower Records and Blockbuster Video. We went through so many radio cassette players in the 80's; we always wanted the latest ones. Our cousins had a Commodore 64 and we loved watching them play video games while munching on Cheetos and drinking 7Up.
Nickelodeon didn't get good until the 90s. MTV is where I saw my first Tool music video and man, do I miss catching a random music video at 6:30 right before I had to go to school.
@@crashburn3292Late Night with David Letterman was awesome. I loved his gags and stunts. Oh and when Sandra Bernhard was guest on show. I loved watching her flirt with David Letterman.
@@crashburn3292Late Night with David Letterman was awesome. I loved his gags and stunts. Oh and when Sandra Bernhard was guest on the show. I loved watching her flirt with David Letterman and just seeing her act silly.
I always say that what the 80s were to us, the 50s were to our parents. The 80s produced some of the best movies, TV shows, and music. It was a great time to be alive. Glad that I grew up as an 80's kid!
Born 1980 and remember everything....beautifull time and so much love, peace, happyness and yes i was young but music and television was not with lot of violence, negativity etc......was more with each other
Take me home to the 80s. Nothing seems right to me anymore in 2024. All my close family has passed away and all my close friends have moved away. I sure miss this time of life. Could be that I was young and still had my whole life ahead of me, but I think its more than just that.
The 80's were great to grow up as a teenager. Loved the time the diversity in music, crazy fashion (bright), VHS and your friends. That was all you needed. We hardly seen our parents, unless at the dinner table.
First kiss, first love, first truly broken heart. The girls' hair, the music, the friends. Bittersweet memories but the radest decade ever! It was supercalifrgilisticexpialidocious! Like, for sure! Gag me with a silver spoon.....
Dude you took the words right out of my mouth. Literally word for word and I've been saying this for a long time. "The 80s Had Just Right Amount Of Technology!"
One of my girlfriends had a pink phone in her room, I thought she was the ants pants. 😁 I had to sit in the corner of the lounge room and whisper, as my parents would be watching the tv 📺 in the same room and could hear everything I said. 😬 I love all the old footage Rhett, thank you. ❤Jodie 🇦🇺 🌈 Hi Paul 👋😁🇺🇸
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Jodie. I never was fortunate enough to have my own phone but I sure wanted one for the same reasons that you mentioned with your parents.
G'day mate, tell me all about the 70s and 80s, I'm 62 so I've seen those days go past... Really fast.. This is the type of stuff I post on my Facebook group, Thanks for the wonderful video 😊🇦🇺
The best years of my life were spent in the 80s, there was a sense of joy everywhere I went, it was like a euphoria in the air when I watched a movie or listened to the radio, even in school. I dont know if it was the great friends i had through the 80s but it seemed even the adults were just happy to please one another and everyone around. I miss my 80s teenage life very much.
I was a kid in the 80s and absolutely loved everything about that time. I have wonderful memories and life just seemed slower and more laid back then. I would go back to the 80s in a heartbeat. ❤🥰❤️
One of my favorites, now that I have examples otherwise, is healthy parents. Most parents I meet now are completely neurotic and have aged 10-15 years further than actual age due to CONSTANTLY having to babysit their own kids, 24/7. They don’t have lives of their own anymore because kids don’t disappear until the street lights come on. We were so independent too, that no longer carries over to new adults.
Dude, you can't even let your kid walk to the park anymore lest a nosy neighbor reports you to CPS even though they let their kids do the very same thing back in the 80s.
The family phone is surely something that would terrify kids today. Imagine: You want to call a girl for a date, and all your siblings are sitting around watching you and listening. And you run the very likely risk of having to navigate one (or both) of her parents. Those were the days, my friend.
Being 10/11 years old in 1980 and 19/20 years old in 1989 you couldn't ask for a better decade to grow up in ❤ Born October 1969 Melbourne Australia. Grew up in Lalor ❤
Did anyone else have “that one annoying, nosy neighbor kid” that would come to your front, squish their nose on the glass, peek inside, and then knock once they already seen you were home and it was too late to hide? 🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣I did.
@@angelaharris1112, Betamax was a better was product, but Sony refused to share their BetaMax with other companies. That’s what gave JVC the upper hand with their VHS because they were open to sharing technology.
Fantastic video and all of it true. The 80’s was hands down the best decade to be a teenager and a young alcohol consuming adult. All of it was awesome! Great concerts that didn’t break the bank, the absolute best music, and girls hair was incredible. In the immortal words of Eddie Money, “I wanna go back, go back, and do it all over”.
The 80’s was a time of good technology. Personal computers as an example were just getting started. They we helpful but not all consuming. Now if the computer network shuts down the world will practically come to a stop. Hi Jodie! 👋😁🇦🇺
You're right about the networks running the world now. I had a Commodore 64 in the 80s and I loved it. Crazy to think back and realize how far we have come in the computer world. Thank you for watching my friend!
Lmao I remember when a 27” TV was GARGANTUAN- now I have a 50” tv in my bedroom and it was 1/8 of the price - I also remember taping movies off of HBO - I loved the 80’s I am so sad my kids won’t experience the self reliance and freedom of no cell phones or social media
Yeah, and back then you took the TV to get repaired, instead of tossing it out like we do today. TVs back then were a big investment. I remember my dad spending $700 on a 27" console color TV. That was almost a month's pay for him in early the late 70s.
@@jbrou123 you’re absolutely right - TV/ELECTRONICS repair shops were everywhere - and it was absolutely an investment I think my dad paid the same price for a 27” wood console on a swivel base. Also the TV’s were good quality I have a tube 24” TV that is 40 years old and works like new
@@WoodsPrecisionArms The only bad thing about those console TVs, or any tube TV, is how heavy they were when you had to move them. But you didn't have to worry about a thief running off with one of those!
Glad I was born in the 70’s, too! It’s ironic, ain’t it! The technology has advanced exponentially since then and it’s been done under the guise of making our lives easier. It’s done just the opposite. Just like how smartphones have made people dumber. People have literally plunged to their death falling off a cliff while trying to take a selfie, or walked into an open manhole while looking down at their phone texting or facebooking. We now live in a backwards, upside down, and completely inverted world
Thank you so much for the wonderful memories. I watched this with a huge smile on my face. I remember getting our vcr in '85 the first thing i taped was the he-man and she-ra christmas special. Im 45 and i still watch it around christmas time to this day! The 80s was the best decade wish i could go back.
I was born in 71 so i remember everything about the 80s and i believe it to be my favorite decade of my life. So many great memories of every year in that decade. The bikes alone were the best back then so many great brands. Break dancing and Michael Jackson Billy Jean and his famous moon walk debut.
Summer days were the absolute best in the 80s. Most parents were at work so the kids were on the loose. Me and my friend would cut grass for money, but we never could save a dime. After we had some dough we would head out on our bikes. Some days we would just go to the movies. Other times we would go out exploring and push the limits further each day. On one occasion we found a traveling carnival set up in a shopping center parking lot several miles away. $5 bought an all day unlimited ride wrist band. We went there every day until they left town. You couldn't get me on those rides today but back then I was fearless.
I remember taking the bus all over town with my cousin when I was just 12 years old. We went to the movies, the mall and the arcade. As long as I was home before it got dark my parents didn't care. Fun times. There were no cell phones and somehow we survived!
