Jams, Shark watches, Converse super high tops you fold down with different colors and striped socks, and all we did was play outside. You saw so many kids out back then, now most are inside.
I was 8 when this was taken,,,, people who weren't around pre Internet and cell phone will never understand what they missed out on......id trade all the years I have left for just a couple good 88's
Yeah does years looked fun and amazing to be in instead of wasting my time on my phone and video games I would’ve been playing outside hanging outside with friends
I started kindergarten in 1988. I found this video because I'm always searching for videos from the 80s and 90s. It's like opening a time capsule from my childhood years.
2000 to 2010 wasnt as big of a jump as it had been 1970 to 1980 and 1980 to 1990, etc. and 2010 to 2020 now seems even slower. It was the rise of technology and since 2000 we have been slowing down, 70 to 00 the tech jump was so huge it literally changed how life was lived.
Yeah the decade styles (music, fashion) usually overlap the 3 years of the previous decade. The early 70s had alot of folk music left over from the late 60s. So 1966 - 1974 could be like one decade. 1977/8 - 1983 have alot in common. When people think of the 80s they usually reference things from 1984 - 1987 period (fashion music tv movies). 1984 is when the 80s seemed to have officially started prior to that there was aloy of throwback from the late 70s. This video for example is from 1988 and it looks very early 90s more so than 80s. These kids style and look resemble 1990 more than 1984. 1987/88 - 1993 are one distinct period. The 90s also had 2 very distinct periods one from 93 - 97 and the other 97 - 2003 with the Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Nsync pop music culture. There's lots of gray areas and certain times of the year will overlap with previois or following years but you get the idea. A high schooler from 1990 or 1991 would have more in common with someone from 1988 than a high schooler from 1999 (and 99 more in common with 2001) even though they tehically attended school in the same decade.
@im married to my child I disagree when people think of Britney Spears they think of Nsync and when they think of Nsync they think of Backstreet Boys. The late 90s carried over into the early 2000s because by 2003 those boy band pop groups BSB, Nsync, 98 degrees, Britney, Christina, Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore etc had seriously wanned in popularity. Go to any of their videos all you'll see is how people miss the "90s". I get what youre saying that its very late 90s but it still defines the 90s in peoples minds instead of the 2000s. Backstreet Boys started in 1996. Spice Girls started even earlier. And even earlier than that if you count NKOTB which orginated in the 80s but is considered a early 90s group. That bubblegum pop is firmly rooted in the 90s with its origin and carried over into the early 2000s. By 2002 there was a shift away from bubblegum pop and by 2003 it was nearly gone. The nineties covers a real spectrum of music from grunge to gangster rap to rock bands to bubblegum pop.
I find it so awesome to look at these videos. It's like looking through a magic looking glass backwards in time. Imagine if you could watch videos from 1000 years ago.
Thank you for the videos, Gilbert. I'm a little older than you and moved from Boston to Orange County in the 80's. I was only there for about a year, but loved California, especially the weather. Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I stayed in Orange County. Again, thank you for the look back to the past. Also, just subscribed.
I feel like the styles people wore at this school were uniquely SoCal compared to other high school videos I've seen from this year. There's more of a skater or punk vibe to a lot of the clothes and there are fewer perms, but lots of big bangs with straighter hair!
I would to go back in time someday to lived in the 70s, 80s, 90s & early 2000s. Without technology & no social media’s. 2010s & this new decades are the worst.
I was born in October 1992 and this is nice to see what those old decades were like. No phone and all that. I'm curious about the style of hair and the wide clothing haha. thanks for sharing !
WOWWWWW this video was made Exactly 8 years before I was BORN!!!??? My parents weren't even married yet!!! That shit is sooo fucking crazy! Goddamn!! May 10th 1988??? That is INCREDIBLE how all that life was going on without me present hahaha like that is unbelievable! This isn't a movie or TV, this is real life!
Gilbert Arciniega it's mind boggling how shit just went on. I find it insulting how life carried on with out my ass even being thought off. A baby will be born a week from now and people are living doing their thing! Now this footage is 29 y/o!? Just wow.....
@DaOld You are one sick little puppy. Not only did the world exist before that particular portion of your anatomy came into existence, but it was a much better place.
These videos feel nostalgic and the closest thing to these cameras I have ever seen was a sony handycam. I always keep a place in my heart for these old machines. Hopefully I'll buy an old 90s or 80s camcorder sometime.
I would love to find a video like this in the state I was actually born in because California was so different than where I grew up! Thanks for the upload!
we didnt have SJW's back then, or if they were they didnt voice it they were quiet. It was sports kids who were king, cheerleaders were there girlfriends and popular, and being a nerd was a bad thing you were picked on for. The group in the middle were just normal and didnt bother anyone just had fun.
@@davidca96 Are we seriously getting through the whole "SJW" boogeyman again? 🙄 Just so you know there were literally many states during this time that still legalized oppressing minorities so I don't think the "offending" was invalid.
@GILBERT A I an so glad as a young teen you with your hobbies, love, or passion to record. I'm not sure what it was maybe all or the above. I have seen less than a dozen of your videos but I do watch more as I can, this is a great documentary of history you captured. I wish someone at my High School would have done the same. 3:20 Funny thing the only thing that did not change over time is cats/animals, but the people, buildings, clothing and vehicles have changed.
Still wondering, "how did I get here". I've been watching these videos by Gilbert too. Amazing that you captured your life and overcame some struggles and loving every about life now
Totally aweome ! The Best times were late 80s and early 90s. So great and nostalgic. Kids borned in 2000s and later have all missed best times période. Poor Kids !
I was 16 in 1988, so I can completely relate to everything we were so fortunate to have growing up during the 70's and 80's. The coverage you got in your videos of the 80's is absolutely priceless!! You're one of the few if not the only person literally on RU-vid w/ such extensive amount of coverage of the golden era!! I don't know what possessed you to spend so much time doing something during a time in our lives which was considered almost bizarre and mundane, but thank you!!! The cars, the hairstyles, the music... PRICELESS!!!
I was born 5 months and 14 days later this same year in 88. It was so much better back then the 80s and 90s. Even though i was born in 88, my high school days from the mid 200s and shit even my college days were wack. If only i was born in the mid 70s. This generation of mine is trash. Good video dude.
I have to point out one thing American culture puts too much emphasis on how people were in high school....it's your life after high school that truly counts.
Another good one. I think I'm about a year younger than you Gilbert. I'm still in West Covina, though I went to graduate school in San Francisco so I lived there for a while. I didn't go to public school though. I went to Don Bosco in Rosemead. Drove there every morning. I think I know the streets you were driving on in this video. It looks like you were on Woodgate Drive, but I'm not totally sure, if not that street, then probably on one of the streets in the Shadow Oak area. Then it looks like you may be on Azusa Ave. It's funny to see the bus blowing up smoke; they're all electric around here now. Plymouth dealership ... that's extinct now. Where's that Lisa Coffee Shop? I'm not familiar with it. Gilbert, it's like you are Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in Back to the Future, taking us to see how the Puente Hills Mall, West Covina, and Covina, and more was back 30 years. Thanks for sending us back and making us feel like teens again. You may have no idea how nice a treat this is for a lot of us. They probably teased you for carrying such a huge camera around but I bet everyone would in your videos who sees them will have a great big smile on their faces.
If I was going to say whether I liked life then vs now. I would have to say, I like life better now. Because of all the things I can do now vs then. Technology speaking. For instance: If I wanted a specific song, I had to either wait for radio to play it or going and buy the LP record. Today, we just go to youtube. And not to mention the great improvement of today's electronics. Like a 1080p video camera on your phone, vs the BIG bulky $2000 VHS camera. If not talking about technology, back then I complained about lack of love life and feeling unwanted by the "peers". TODAY, this is no longer an issue. (on that aspect). So all in all, I have to say. I like life now than I did then
88 was the year I graduated high school in Chicago. I love watching this shit. Brings back so many good memories. Thanks for sharing!! Who would have known that thousands of people would be watching VHs recording!!
This is Patrick Walters. I attended Northview Highschool during this year. We won the football championship in 1988 against Los Altos. Michael Hollowell and I were two of the best looking black guys in the school. We rolled around in his all black muscle car bumping EPMD. I lived like a king with the Charbonrau family. Greg Charbonrau was like my brother. Greg's dad bought a white Limo and he use to take me to school every day. Felt like "Different Strokes." Mario Tapia, Eddie Frijo, Erick Kline Venessa Galindo, Mike Galindo, Carla Wicks, so many good people to remember. I was a Jr. During 1988. I left to go back to Los Angeles to attend Manual Arts Highschool. I was known for doing backflips and breakdancing. Those were the days. Later in life I continue break dancing and touring with Jurassic 5. I also attended Las Palmas middle school. I remember beating Cory Nocatoni in a wrestling match which he said because of my Jerry curled hair is why I won. Lol. Those were the days. Truth.
Had i not seen the date i would have assumed this was the early 90s. Decades styles are grouped different. The last 3 years of the decade and the first 3 are usually the same. Example 77 - 83, 87 - 93, 97 - 2003.
Wow I was only 8 back then. I thought high school Seniors were such old adults back then 🤷 The 80's were definitely very cool I must say. For one, I was kid enjoying life back then and two, there was so much cool stuff out there like movies, music, and t.v. shows, in particular. I was not from this area though. Seems like they were having good times, too. 35 years ago....wow
LOL! I was not anything of popular. But I sure liked attention! And it was problematic to get attention since I was way too shy! So I naturally did what I can to "earn" the kind of attention I want! The only ways that helped me was to own (and "show off) anything that is DIFFERENT! And I would love the "temporary" attention. But I had to keep "showing off" my cool stuff time after time to "maintain" the temporary attention. Since I just could NOT break out of my shyness! This included a few one of a kind shirts, my Elite 150 scooter, and ULTIMATELY my $1000 camcorder! I tell ya! Back in my day, when I first got my camcorder,. I COULD NOT WAIT to show it off to everybody, haha. BUT in reality, it was a BIG hope for me to get people coming to me and talking to me and make me feel "special" and even HOPES to even earn a girlfriend. THAT WAS ME and my hopes! BUT the thing is, being too shy PREVENTED me from ever getting what I wanted. Apparently showing my cool stuff only HELPed. But could not get me what I wanted. hahahahaha. True though. IF I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO BACK IN TIME, I WOULD TELL MYSELF: "MAN, YOU NEED SNAP OUT OF YOUR SHYNESS, you won't get anywhere if you don't!"
@@fueledbymusic3 yea I was shy too, had little friends in highschool, no gf, so I kinda know what you mean, but I wish I had a 1000 dollar camcorder back in my times...
@@fueledbymusic3 I'm pretty sure if you did over come your shyness you would have been known more popularity is overrated anyways I rather have real friends than fake ones also I had a whole bunch of girls that liked me but I was to shy to say something so I feel you on that
so crazy, 1988 we had an influx of Spanish speaking kids, we didn't know how to act and I'm sure it was worst for them, however, all these English learning programs started and it was a huge deal, i was always a slow learner,i got kick through the curb and cracks because everything was about the thousands of kids coming from Mexico,it sucks because I never di d graduate, (point taken i cant speel) everything was focused on them and it's never stopped , its 2023 every school in LA county is majority hispanic immigrant kids, im hispanic but i wasnt lucky ,i was born here, grew up beyond poor, but the immigrant are takin better care of than natural born citizens, I pay a mortgage because I work, my neighbors get section 8 and get money and food from welfare for free, crazy it's still happening. yet our american vets are homeless
This is awesome. You literally had in mind that soon off thi gs like the cars and schools, and ma y more other things were gonna change in the next couple of years! Awesome videos! I wish i got to see the 80s! But sadly i was born in the 2000s, its a nice way to look at how life was nack in its time
Quick question, does anyone have the 1987 Northview vs Covina game? ( NV) won CIF that year. It was on cable, and was a blowout 56-0 (NV). Covina's football archive of games was wiped put in a fire in the locker room/ coaches offices in the late 80's early 90's..
Shows of today that are set in the 80’s really don’t get it right. They go a little over & do so much cliche stereotypes of the 80’s. Not everyone dressed like Madonna & Michael Jackson
This is the late 80’s HUGE difference from the early and mid 80’s .... dressed way different when the 80’s was just getting started .... fashion literally made a huge change every year
