Footage from Lawrence High School located in Lawrence, Kansas from early December 1987. Shots of the various students in the hallways as they parade along their daily lives. This video last around 3 minutes or so. #GOLIONS
@@andydhillon1977 This creator didn't take those videos. From what I've read he makes requests for footage from news stations who have this stuff in their archives.
You are the greatest RU-vidr ever. I have enjoyed so many of your videos, and have so many more to explore. I think I speak for us all when I say, we can’t thank you enough!
Werent y’all the ones with beepers and with phones inside cars and have phones outside on every corner?? There might’ve been no social media but teens in the 80’s- 90’s were the most rebellious out of any generation…….
@Ju4nnx teens in the 50s and 60s were very rebellious. Teens today are so consumed with their phones and themselves that have. So obviously they aren't going to do the same stuff people in the past did.
@@thecensoredmuscle563 - At least there will hopefully be more peace amongst today’s youth. If the worst thing most teenagers do is use their phones often, then we might be halfway to world peace.
There has always been rebellion. What we didn’t have were teachers being beaten by students, school shootings and constant disrespect and constant anxiety and mental health crises. We didn’t have blue hair either.
I think it’s the other way around. Girls mature faster, look way older and wear too much makeup now. Guys look older because more have “Dad bods” at a young age vs. back then.
It’s so true! My son is a senior in hs and I teach college freshmen. They look like babies still. My son keeps telling me it’s the food and water. It’s proven testosterone levels are much lower in kids today.
My freshman year. This almost brought me to tears feeling old lately, not even my school but thank you for the memories brought back. I saw a shirt that I actually had. lol
@@rodmunch69 It's been almost 40 years but the majority of these kids are more than likely still alive. A few more gray hairs and wrinkles by now but still kicking.
Priceless footage. Just think, those kids are in their 50’s now! We thought the way things were back then would be forever…The internet brings us so much. But it has destroyed so much too!
@@trophyscene5015 Absolutely! Another reason why it’s all so hard to believe but here’s the evidence that people weren’t always so spiteful and nasty and classless
@chris7077 Funny you say that. I still remember my dad warning me of thar when I was 18. It has to do with the proportion of a year to your age. So the older you get, the shorter a year will feel to you. Funny thing is I can vividly remember the 90's. Everything after started to be a blur. 91-99 was my high school through college years.
The contrast that strikes me looking at this is at today's schools every student carries a backpack but nobody has any books. Everyone has books in this video but no backpacks and they are aware of their surroundings and not mentally trapped by their phones.
Maybe it's because I went to a relatively small high school, but we kept everything in our lockers and the backpack was only for hauling homework to and from school. It wasn't until college that I took a backpack to every class, and that took a while to get used to. 😂
@@MRRR30It's true, sadly. As amazing as the technology we have now is, I am now certain it is doing more harm than good. I fear it's eventually going to cause humans to go extinct. 😢 For all this technology has given us, it is simultaneously taking away our humanity.
I was also a senior in December of 1987. I couldn't wait to leave. Now it seems that every time I look up old friends, 75% of them have passed away too young. I knew the 1980s were a good time, I just didn't realize how great it really was.
In 1987, most of the students were born from 1969 - 1973. Basically, this means they're around the same age as Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah, 2pac, Eminem and Pharrell Williams.
I was a senior in December 1987, class of 1988. I remember thinking that the year 2000 was so far away, only 12 years. Now here in January 2024 we're twice that distance from the year 2000. Damnit time goes by way too fast.
I was finishing up 9th grade in 1987. It seems like yesterday. I'm 51 years old now. It's hard to believe that most of those students are older than me
@@tennillej9601 It was very relaxed, great pop culture, great pride in our country, citizens shared a core set of values, our government wasn't weaponized against us (either that, or it wasn't obvious), we would hang out in person with friends and actually talk and physically engage, we were more respectful of each other because we didn't have the anonymity of social media, we'd actually have to go out and engage with the world, it seemed that more people were spiritual and their lives had a purpose greater that themselves. Of course, nothing is utopia, but it was still a much happier and meaningful era in my opinion.
@@MrEkzotic You realize thats because their parents were religious right, like even carl sagan the athiest of the time in the 70s and 80s, god was the cosmos and it all had purpose, that's called having religious parents. He just called it the cosmos, everybody still had religious morals they didnt know.
Love this channel . The 80’s were the best for music, films and life in general was so much better than the messed up world we live in now. Growing up in the Uk in the 80’s was a far cry from the country we all live in now.
I suppose 1988 could be the pinnacle. I just like everything from 1977 to 2007. Older than that, we get into "Boomer years", more recent than that, we get into "social media" years (aka "idiot years").
Every Millennial would fight you on that. Their perfect 90s childhoods was the peak of America, the world, and humanity. Somewhere around 1998-99 when they were 8 years old. Even Gen Z'ers would agree the late 90s was the peak of America/world/humanity/universe.
One thing i love to see is how most people in all these videos seem happy. Another surprising thing is most didn't even acknowledge the camera. That's surprising.
Video cameras were something only your weird uncle or the geeks in the AV club used on a regular basis back then. Partly because people in the past were much more into enjoying the moment than documenting it and partly because video cameras were pretty expensive and somewhat bulky at the time. It's a shame though, because I have almost no photos, let alone videos of me and my friends when I was this age. Just fading memories.
We interacted with friends face to face daily. There wasn't any texting or social media. Very few narcissistic people in those days. In general, yes we were happy, healthy kids.
You are an absolute mystery. So many videos over an extensive period of time, across different parts of the country, all more or less with the same observer's personailty of hanging back and zooming into scenes of people's lives. And so many people who dont even seem to pay the recorder any mind at all. This channel is almost a Twilight Zone on RU-vid. I feel so lucky to have found your uploads. It's easy to take for granted how many recordings you've given to all of us. Hope you're having a great start to the new year ❤
I've had the same thought too. Time Traveller? The people don't seem to notice someone standing there with a huge video camera. It would be huge for the time period.
I'm fairly certain the OP was a camera person for a local news broadcast. These videos are unedited footage shot for news reports, hence the slow pans and zooms. So in many instances, the people being filmed would have been informed beforehand to expect the camera crew.
@@poldarkpirahna5809 Every decade has its weird, flashy subculture -- Hippies in the 60's, Disco in the 70's, 'New Wave' in the 80's & 90's, Emo/Scene kids in the 2000's, and hipsters in the 2010's.
@@thecensoredmuscle563 true but this video being filmed at the end of 1987 in Kansas in the middle of America where trends take the longest to reach, captures just a glimpse of what 80s style and life was.
No its not lol, some of the retro colors and stripes maybe, but not tight and tucked into your belt like they are doing there. Also that hairspray they used then isnt made anymore, so nobody's hair is going to look like that. But yes the retro colors and stripes from the 80s and early 90s are in again.
I’m class of 86. This brought me back. Besides the obvious “no cell phones,” I also noticed very little obesity compared to today. The American food supply has gotten worse - more high fructose corn syrup and chemicals in processed “food” that interrupt the human endocrine system. We had chemicals back then, but fewer of them.
It's not that, what is happening is that Americans by and large do not make "meals" anymore. Back in the day we actually had things to do before and after eating. We'd all sit down and eat at the dinner table. Nowadays we do things while eating. Eating has become our routine away from the dinner table.
@@atlantic_love that’s part of it. But our food supply has definitely changed in the last 40 years also. And lifestyles have changed. The obesity problem is complex and multifactorial, it’s not as simple as “no one eats dinner together anymore.”
@@calisongbird It really is as simple as eating less throughout the day, and healthy foods/cooking being part of your culture. The food supply is an issue throughout the world, but other countries do NOT have the problem that we have with obestity. Not even close. It's not debatable. I've been around for a long time, this lack of planned meals and eating better stuff was not nearly the problem then that it is today.
Weight issues has always been a thing man can yall stop with this whole notion that weight issues became a thing post 00s or after 2010 it’s always been a issue, there just wasn’t no social media at the time.
@@pearllee08do my research? I lived through those decades I have seen a good amount of dudes struggling with weight problems it’s always been an issue so once again stop spreading my false narratives
@@pearllee08 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44656/#:~:text=The%20prevalence%20of%20obesity%20changed,children%20during%20the%20same%20period. Do my research lmao ok if u actually did ur research you knew by the 80s had gone up way more compared to the 70s and 60s
They were actually experiencing the world around them. People now are locked in the matrix of some sort. Dealing with people has become an option and many times a waste of time. It's amazing and not in a good way.
This makes me feel like I'm in HS in the 80's all over again. I'm 50 now, and I don't even recognize the country I grew up in anymore. It's all gone so......terribly.......wrong.
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” We are at the part of the cycle where hard times are creating strong men, so we do have something to look forward to.
@@MrEkzoticNot sure about that, culture creates strong people that weather the storms and do better because of their culture. Culture can override things and create better people or systems. 80s had alot of week boomer men and there won't be any boomer old ladies handing out candies.
Thanks for this! I turned 14 years old in September 1987, so, I am a couple years younger than them (I was in 8th grade). I turned 50 a few months ago, and there is probably nothing I like more than seeing these old school videos. It's especially nice when a professional camera person like that one captures things, because of the picture quality. ... That was when school was simply school, no complications from social media. I miss the 1980's! Cheers from northeast Ohio! :)
So many great movies were about to come out over the next couple of years…..Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, breakfast club, Ferris Beuller….and so much good rock and roll too, that it felt like it would last forever. We took for granted there would always be another great thing to come along and entertain us. We’re always in some golden-age that we won’t recognize until retrospection.
I was a month old when this footage was taken. I’d give anything to have been that age back then. That’s the world I belong in. 😭 Thank you so much for posting all these true gems!
@@franklin8618 I just hate how there’s dozens of retro channels in tiktok or insta that steal his archives and put the dk music over it without credit, this channel seriously is the greatest time machine
Whoa! No one walking around like zombies glued to their iPhones. 😂 I was in grade school in 87. It was a fun time to grow up. Enjoyed the video! Thanks for posting!
@@calisongbirdthat's not true. We had multiple vending machines in my school. There was plenty of processed food everywhere. One difference is we didn't sit on our butts all day!
There is always one person making a comment like this times change people change I bet folks that went to high school in the 60s were saying the same thing you are saying about these kids that you are saying about the current batch of kids hell I graduated in 2003 and I'm saying this about high schoolers now it's generational I'm almost 40 I can't expect things to stay the same forever in other words I realize I'm getting old and out of touch it is what it is.
@@albear972 no it’s not. Teenagers are teenagers in every era. It’s just that the fashions then are probably still worn by many people in their 50s now, who were teens in 87.
@leonardticsay8046 Oh, I figured she meant smartphone. I still hear of people finally getting smartphones. Pretty neat. Smart phones are those technologies that once you get used to it, it's hard to live without.
Yep. I got mine around 2016-17, due to a family medical situation. If not for that, I would've happily stayed with a flip phone forever.@@leonardticsay8046
My eldest sister would have been in high school that year. I was born during her senior year in 1990. Too bad I didn’t get to experience the 80s but at least I can watch it! 😁
Remember when you'd be waiting for class to start, sitting at your desk, and someone not even in your class loops in and drops a folded up piece of paper. The run-on diatribe within was written not by the messenger, but someone else. Now you've got the contents of that note in your head for the next 40 minutes. Today you text message before class.
I love it, it looks perfectly "late 80's". Not early 80's (with the Luke Skywalker haircut on every guy), and not early 90's (with everyone becoming "grunge").
So it says in the description that this video was shot in December of 1987. I would've been in fourth grade then, so I had five years to go before starting high school, lol! Nevertheless, this was a really cool and intriguing video to watch. As always, thanks for yet another interesting video upload! 😊👍
I am so grateful that I got to experience and be part of the 80s. The greatest of times!!! If I had a time machine, I would be back in the 80s right now...
I went to Cranberry High School here in Pennsylvania starting in 1988 and graduated there in 1992. The old cranberry high school I went to looked much like this with the big lockers in hallway with lots of room and huge classrooms with these same exact styles of clothes back then as well. Back then, all disciplinary matters were handled by the schools regardless of severity and only on rare occasion where things truly need police, police and criminal justice system getting involved. Now today, for many things that were handled strictly by school and parents back then now get outsourced unnecessarily to police departments with juveniles being charged with things us students were never charged with back at time I went to high school and with sometimes the whole students of today's lives being unnecessarily ruined through the criminal justice system over the same issues that were once handled only between school and parents back in day I went to high school. And also now a high school students life sometimes even being ruined through the criminal justice system just for doing the natural things teens do which didn't happen back in my high school days either. Also now, schools look much more prison like compared to back then as well with security guards monitoring the hallways just waiting for a student to "act out" so they can have the student charged, arrested, and even sometimes have their whole lives destroyed on top of charge and arrest over just doing the natural things teens tend to do as I said above. Back when I went to high school, it was teachers only acting as hall monitors with things kept between school and parents as the schools back in 1980s and before here looked much more welcoming and much less prison like compared to today. It is ashame how schools have changed here in USA over these last 40 years and feel bad for today's students having to have it so rough in school today compared to back then having to walk on eggshells to protect themselves from falling into the justice system over the pettiest of things that can still be handled strictly by the school and parents only. On a note: One watching this video can absolutely sense how much more free high school was back then and see how the students were very free spirited then without seeing a security guard in sight and the stress and anxiety this would cause and whatever adult would be present in these friendlier looking hallways of back then, would only be the school staff doing hall monitoring.
Agree 100%. I was born in '89, and during the mid/late 90s a lot of laws became more punitive and a number of states actually dropped their juvenile ages, so if a 17 year old was charged with a non-violent crime like weed possession, he'd get an adult record and end up sharing a jail cell with someone 30. One of the states that did this was Wisconsin, and apparently two 17 year olds sexting would result in them getting charged as "adult" sex offenders for distributing CP. It's insane.
@@twiff3rino28 ABSOLUTELY!!! Most certainly is! I was thinking of these things when I typed my comment above without mentioning these things. Speaking of the SO registry for texting, back in the 1980s and before when there was no SO registry nor many things either that schools to this day could of still handled on their own without getting outsourced to law enforcement, if two teens were consensually having sex with each other at school back in the 1980s and before and caught by school staff then, the school staff and parents would handle that themselves without getting law enforcement involved and all involved then would also educate the teens about safe sex giving helpful advice. Now to this day still here in USA since the late 90s early 2000s, if two teens now are caught doing the same thing here by school staff, this now gets outsourced to law enforcement with these teens life being TOTALLY DESTROYED being forced to register as a SO, sometimes even for life ALL over the two teens here naturally experimenting in their pubic stages and consensually having a sexual relationship! I have even heard and read about little kids being forced to register as a SO just for "playing doctor" with their whole lives destroyed as well for something that a little child doesn't fully understand yet! From how it was in the 80s here and before and how it is now with these things ABSOLUTELY PROVES how MAD and CRAZY of a society the USA has become over the decades! I should also add that Though USA society may not of totally "lost it" yet, those anti marijuana and drug laws and the start of trying of Children as adults were all red flags I feel that prove that even in 80s, USA society was just starting to go off a deep end. These bad laws of the 1980s here refused to consider that children don't think like adults and with these bad anti drug laws, even if one was with someone with an illegal substance of then, they would go down and get charged as an accessory, even if they didn't know about their friend or relative having the substance on them! Thank you for your reply! On a note: I came up with a name for people like you who were born between the years 1989 and 1991: Children of the Winds Of Change hence the Winds Of Change that occurred with the collapse of Eastern European dictatorships/Communism, Berlin Wall falling, Germany reuniting, Western things coming to Russia such as the historic moment when the first McDonald's in Moscow Russia opened up in 1990, and collapse of the USSR with Russia becoming a democracy in 1991. And the song Winds Of Change from the Scorpions that sang and made a video of this wonderful beautiful historic time just before society here in States decided to go off the deep end with all its madness. Winds of Change from the Scorpions was a very beautiful song and video as well. It is REALLY ASHAME and SAD what things have come to decades later not only in USA, but also in certain parts of the world in recent years as well.
I agree. I graduated from a suburban high school around 25-30 miles from Cranberry Twp in the same era as yourself. Columbine changed the way suburban schools protected the premises. There wasn't a THOUGHT of guns being brought to school in my area, but now there are metal detectors and police on campus.
@@MMoses87Which cranberry TWP were you near? Venango county cranberry or Butler Cranberry? Speaking of guns, to my understanding, if one carried a gun to school in the 1980s, this was still dealt with between parents and school only.
