Going to the movies in 1987 

@ 2:13 lady questions her $6.66 change from $20. I'm tripping that a loaf of bread is now $6.99🙄

When there was something to watch at the movies.

That's because the USD has discreetly converted from "purchasing power" that's backed by gold and silver to "Debt" it's writing on the US dollar bills the mockering that the bogus Federal Reserve wholly intended to be.

Not really

Now $20 barely gets you a bottled water. 😂😂😂SMH...

Except people dress nicely in 80s and 90s. Today people dress ugly, full pajamas, terrible fashion and ugly hair colors.

People wear pyjamas to the movie now? Lol

i was just about to say the pajama part. so true. what a sad society we live in today

Happy to see it's just not me seeing youngsters in pajama bottoms and crocs and they all look like they just got out of bed and slipped the crocs on and walked out the door

That’s because smart phones did not exist back then. That’s why

Good times

hope you have a happy 62nd

Just move to a less developed country that are still in the 80s Stop being so dramatic

​@@PPB_ArmyYou're the only drama queen here.

You miss your youth!

agreed buddy

This is gonna sound weird, but another great place to experience time travel is your local landfill. I worked on the line of a garbage plant, sorting out milk jug plastics, and you wouldn't believe the old stuff people just toss away. 8-tracks, for example! 😅

This is why as a Gen Xer I love RU-vid. I get to watch everything I loved from the past.

Only to the past

Until Ai extract our memories and turn them into real life experiences😮

golden times

Everyone thinks that. Back in the 80's people were saying the same thing about the 50's. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

Going to the movies is one of the things that hasn’t really changed. The experience isn’t much different

Also the movies were way better back then…….

Hollywood movies are lame now….

yes sur.👐🏿👐🏿👐🏿

Do we ever, this world now has gone to downhill..I miss these days!!!

Tbh the world has always been a mess in terms of wars, economics, geopolitics etc, its just in the 80s pre internet we were exposed to it far less than we are now, I’m sure the older generation in the 80s were saying they wished it was the 60s again. But i get what you’re saying, the world seemed like a larger place in the 80s, kids played in the streets more and some of the greatest movies in history were being made in this decade.

True!!!…the movies were awesome!!!…have a wonderful night..peace to you!!!

We can't get our first trillionaire if we went back to this. The elite are too comfortable. This will never happen again.

That was very kind of you!

Very nice of you ❤

Neat story❤

😭 ❤

BEAUTIFUL

It's antisemitic for them to have such thing .. they need to get paid much less and work much more hours .. and tickets need to be much more expensive

Back when a minimum wage paycheck could actually buy things. Today an hour of minimum wage wouldn't even get you one movie ticket

@@maxwindu2907 it's antisemitic for commoners to have a comfortable life

...although it was so easy to find a job. When I was a student, I worked 2, sometimes 3 jobs @ a time, if you have a fight with your boss or don't like the job atmosphere, you don't care much because you know you can find another one in no time... still we were so dedicated & happy when we get the paycheque.

You got that right, pal.

I wish I was able to return for even just one day 😢

@@sonhuynh8222 iSay the same thing everytime iSee videos, movies or when iHear music from that era. Simply the best.💪🏼

no the 2010s were. In 2019, My gen z and gen alpha friends went to Haysville, PA to capture some NS trains, after capturing an intermodal train, manifest train, and a OCS train with 2 heritage units on it, we went to Wendy's to get 2 baconators for each one of us. We ate all of that under 30 mintues, and then we went to play Roblox on my PC. We played multiple games like "The last person to drown in lava wins" "Murder mystery 2" and a couple of other games. after this, we went to play hide and seek outside. After that, we went BACK to austell ga but not to capture more trains. We needed to find eggs there because we heard that the residents in austell ga placed a lot of eggs that year, and this happened around April. My friend Billy found 8 eggs, I found 47 eggs, my friend Carl found 12 eggs, my friend Stinkhands (the reason he's named that because he doesn't wash his hands or wipe his butt after taking a dump) found 19 eggs. My friend Joseph found 25 eggs, my friend Junior found 3 eggs, my friend Cody found 89 eggs, my friend Andrew found 6 eggs, my friend Jeffy found 34 eggs, and my friend Scooter found 10 eggs. After this, we went new York to visit our other friends, came back to where we lived and did way more stuff together. Best decade ever, can't convince me otherwise.

@@MystiC71038 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yup, A kid in the 80’s in a teenager in the 90’s is a sweet spot of memories.

Yep me too!! It was great!!

We didn’t know it back then, but Yea it was. Est1978

yup 100%

I was a kid in the 90s. I feel incredibly lucky that I was a kid in the 90s the music, the movies, the cartoons and the video games were awesome

It's filmed for news broadcasts.

@@Cave_Monsterand I’m so thankful that the newsreel has been digitized for our viewing pleasure!!!

@@nathanbush6781 Yep, Something we couldn't have done in 1987, watching something like this at the flick of a button.

Yeah, they hardly ever smile anymore at the concessions and act like they don't even want to be there. People have lost their souls.

@@austinwillcut4919 exactly. I feel really bad that younger generation just find how much social media and smartphone begin to changed, its not like if they born late 90s or early 00s since they have great and excitement how much the movies, games, music and everything too look at it until now This world today is pretty shitty and thats about it.

And no *🏳️‍🌈* s anywhere!

And no comment sections where people can spew their repugnant bigoted views.

​​@@karinadelmain simple words, today Most people don't live in the natural or real world and keep things simple .... On not doing so ,we have eventually destroyed true peace and happiness within and sadly most aren't aware of this because they mainly believe in what they see.

I miss these times myself

My sentiments exactly

What’s taking so long for the selfies to stop since 2013?

I wish I was born in those times, but I was born too late.

The color of civility

Yes, now everyone seems lazy wearing crocs, pajamas, wife beaters etc. I blame Walmart LOL

Jobs paid well, you could afford housing and clothing. Ah, the "good old days."

​@@TheyRiseBandIt's not about $... today people prefer to look trashy.

Look good; feel good.

I worked at a movie theater in 1986, they paid student wages $2.85 per hour.

It sure was. I was 13 and remember going to the cinema with my dad and brothers to watch bond movie The Living Daylights.

I was 11 that year

I was 2 at the time I'm sad I really didn't get to experience the best years this country had I graduated just before the big economic crash of 08 family recovered only to lose it all again during the pandemic the only country I got to experience is constant corruption war and incompetent leaders at least a lot of my classmates died from the oxy the government and pharma pushed on to the public

@@adamvose2651i felt the same... but you realize that corruption and war have always been around.

100% facts. I was 12 years old in 1987, and it truly was a “magical” time.

Yeah, that's really cool. I remember reading that from you before. Do you still have them?

I kept mine. Wish I kept a lot more. I wrote down the names of the people who I went with. Kinda cool because I forgot a lot of them. lol

@@vampirerobot I didn't collect'em consistently, - I wish I had that disciplined thought back in the day, but I do still have some!

The thing I miss is physical media stuff like CDs and cassette tapes etc. It's not the same streaming media.

@@steelstreet79 We're tactile. We're designed to use our hands and fingers for touching, it's a part of us. Losing that is literally taking a piece of us away.

It it was nice right. Now it's costly 😂

Ordering from the catalog back then, if the stores didn't have what you wanted or needed, is basically predecessor to online shopping.

@@KenKen-ui4ny oh thr physical catalog was nice tho. The waiting process .

I'm 42 and my wife and I still go to the mall and movies regularly. We enjoy it so much.

I’m 40 years old and was 6 years old in 1989/1990 and the nostalgia really takes me back

Ah yes. Waiting in line for 30 minutes to buy movie tickets. Not knowing if the movie is any good unless you buy a newspaper. What a time to be alive!

@@tycanuck You sound like a lot of fun.

It sure was a time to be alive

It's ok if you miss a movie... in few months you can rent a VCR tape from a blockbuster store.

@@3abbosi But don't return it late lest you pay an axhorbitant fee. A fee so big you could buy 10 brand new copies of the movie to put back on the shelf.

Thank you 😄

@@vampirerobot I need you to please delete all of @JDO145 and @jimmystrickland1034 and @InflatableConan’s comments from your channel, they are just brainless of them thinking that the world sucked and saying it was better which is not true, today’s people are brainless, people are getting really upset from what these 3 guys said, please delete all of their comments so we can be happier. Also delete any comments of people got getting over 9/11, it happened a long time ago and it only makes sense if they talk about it exactly the day it happened.

Well, we're here to support it.

I share everyone of them

Heck yeh

That was crazy high too back then

yeah that was high for then, soda and popcorn sold separately anywhere else would've been under a dollar each

i dont eat popcorns

@@coolmonkey5269 cool story bro

For most people I'm assuming they're seeing a movie right after getting off of work or they're going out for a date

@@ChibiFighter or they care about the way they look in public..

​@@emil2321back in those days, they would work corporate jobs, and hire a babysitter, and they would go from work to the theater. They would simply leave their doors unlocked for the babysitter, and put the money right on the counter. Back in the day, families in my neighborhood would take vacations, and wouldn't even bother to lock the door. We would even go into our neighbors houses and water their plants, or whatever they needed done. We would even dogsit, and catsit. We didn't use kennels back then. Simpler times.

​@@emil2321be careful, you might hurt the Croc Community 💀

I agree. I remember growing up and dressing nice with make up just to go to the grocery store. Wouldn’t be caught dead going anywhere looking loungey. I still am that way. Why is that? Does it really matter? Not to others but it matters to me. That’s what’s important.

I was a junior in HS as well. Class of 88 🎉

I was 3 going on 4 years old in 87.

I was 4 going on 5 in 1987, in Kindergarten. (The year before we start school in Australia) The first film I ever saw very late in 1987 was "The Chipmunk Adventure"

I was 2 going on 3 in 1987!

Thing about all that butter makes your breath stink asf after exp mixed with Coke

Wow ! You are old lol. Well I'm 49 as well😂😂

lost boys, hellraiser, robocop, running man,

Adventures of babysitting, La Bamba and Back to the beach.

Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, Blind Date, Beverly Hills Cop II, The Untouchables, Good Morning Vietnam were all in theaters in 1987.

Totally

Inner space The Witches of Eastwick Dragnet The Living Daylights Evil Dead 2 Nightmare on Elm Street 4

agreed david

I was born in 82. I pride myself on being able to help people. Recently, someone called me the last nice person in the world. An exaggeration, but it was nice to hear.

I was a junior and the local cinema had $1 movies and Rocky Horror Picture Show every Friday at midnight. The Good Old Days!

@gertexan🎬 🎞 🎥 🎓 👨‍🎓 🎓 👩‍🎓 University Classes of '87 🤔...Brooke Shields ...etc...

These days it's still a treat for poor students too, probably even more so than in the past!

​@@Roger__Wilco There's no such thing as a poor college student. It's a contradiction in terms. If you can afford college tuition in the first place then you're definitely not poor.

@@josebro352 lol, I only got up a couple hours ago and I think I might have already read the dumbest comment of the day.

i'm in .

I wish😊

jump it in!

And it hurts😂

The question is though, why do memories get even better (and more painful) over time ?

Old? Hardly. I know 2 other motor officers and other leo's who are a few years older than you, some near 70 in fact. And today people are living longer than ever. Heck you're about the same age as Tom Cruise, Keannu Reeves or Brad Pitt. Age is just number man look a Capt Kirk dude is like in his 90's but still looks in his 60's. Mental and physical gymnastics is the key 😉

​@@hanskurtmann6781yup gotta be prepared for the upcoming Civil War!

Man you just depressed us all with that description. Pretty good word-smithing! 😅

🤣🤣🤣

Even going to hang out at the mall on Friday and Saturday was so much fun?

If u listen, the guy paid 12 for 2 here

My time machine is big screen westerns old time family viewing Amazon has many old movies . My record player works perfectly and youtube has plenty of old movies . When weather nice go for a bike ride . Actually other than miss the very old family that passed . Moved to much less crime town than in the 80’s .

😢

its a fun job ...

i agree. i was 21yoa my girlfriend 20yoa. in college. i swear, to this day-we had our clothes off more than on, on any given weekend or friday night! today she is divorced, has her own business and a grandmother...go 'figure.

This popcorn and soda is making me so hungry! They way the machine drips the butter in top. Wow!❤

i worked for cineplex odeon down the road at La Brea the Showcase theatre ,,, real butter ,,such a beautiful art deco theatre

Class of 90!

@@BreakTime10101 the 90’s was a great time for me. I turned 20 in 92.

I also was fifteen in 1987, but only from Jan. 1 through April 1.

@@mike727272 me too. Class of 90 here. The 70’s, 80’s and 90’s were the best.

@@I_Fight_Instacart in 87 I turned 15 April 21

I just commented the same

and half the time you get short-changed.

Me too!

Yep, fun was only reserved for the 80s. Fun was outlawed in 1990, nobody ever has fun anymore. It is not allowed.

Tin Men, starring Danny Devito, Richard Dreyfus, Barbara Hershey, John Mahoney and a whole bunch of other talent is one of the most underrated movies from the 80's. The movie really captured a slice of time in 1960's Baltimore that just pulls you into that era, even somehow successfully weaving in modern music from the Fine Young Cannibals. Masterful work, a must see.

#6 😢

1988 had way better releases. Hell comes to Frog Town, Colors Coming to America, blood sport etc

@@TheSaturnV Yes

@@TheSaturnV I completely agree. Haven't seen it in ages but I remember it being really good.

There were phones back then but not like "smartphone" just a regular phone call and texting. But yeah, i just love that people back then are friendly, polite, gentlemen and nice not like today just the fact they are now rude, anti-social, strangers, not very friendly as much you talk face to face to humana today and pretty much how social media(except internet) and ruined EVERYTHING that happens since late 00s and begin mainstream since 10s. I wish i was in late 90s even early 00s........

@@karinadelma it's true, social media makes people more angry, anxious, and depressed.

@@kris78787 except today.

@@karinadelma there was no texting in the 80's. and cell phones were considered a luxury, i'm assuming. texting was invented in the early 80s, but wasnt used until the late 90s/2000. most people didnt have cell phones until around then, as well. they were commercially made in 1985, but werent a norm until 90s/2000. pagers were the thing.

Instead of looking at my phone, I still had my anxiety back then as a anxious little boy. I don't think alot of you understand why sometimes people look at their phones. It's because some of us have social anxiety. Wtf is the point of living in the moment is we don't feel same. Our phones help us help anxious people feel safe unless we are with others we trust. I get that back then people didn't believe or understand mental illness much but geeze these comments still don't get it. As someone mentioned we didn't have cell phones to text or stare at during the times but if they did have them, they would be doing the same. That's how some people live in the moment because we are different than people like you who are more confident and didn't have get past our traumas. It's hypothetical to say you prefer back then when you all are now using the Internet to communicate with each other. There are purposes for phones instead of just "social media". I don't even use main stream social media. I game and watch stuff on my phone. It's basically a mini computer.

That's funny. I was 14 in 1987, and I Remember all the grumpy old people saying how horribly dressed, and disrespectful all us teens were

​​@@vicepresidentmikepence889even people todays too.

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 compared to now they were dressed nice though

@kris78787 Again, that's literally exactly what the " grumpy old people" said in the 80's. " compared to now, people dressed so much better in the fifties"... And, I wasn't around in the fifties, but I heard all the grumpy old people, in the fifties, were saying " How dare these kids wear blue jeans to school, especially the girls"

I was a kid that year and people were just as rude then as they are now. It just seems like more now because rude people are recorded and uploaded to youtube all the time.

Mainly looks to be a clan of Jehovah’s Witnesses that came in with folders and books. Pointless to dress up to go to a movie 🍿 theater as people are not the attraction.

Back then, going to a Saturday night movie WAS a big deal; also, remember VHS players were around a couple grand each to own.

I purchased my second VCR a Panasonic, for about US $450.00. About the average price for a vcr then, even the more expensive Sony's and Aiwa did not cost 2 grand.

@@pandaman1968 how does one improve the people around them? They’re too f ing high to follow good examples.

R U HIGH ITS the beverly center ! wow man

@@roystonmason9125 I’m almost positive nobody is high here. This isn’t 2024z

@@TinHatRanch dude i lived there and i worked for cineplex odeon down the road on La Brea luxurious arthouse called the SHOWCASE theatre and my friends and i went to Beverly center all the time free and HIGH as a KITE IN HOLLYWOOD MY D !

@@TinHatRanch haha

Funny one of the last times I was in a movie theater was around this time, therefore I have nothing to compare this to.

Happy you enjoyed it! 😊

I was born August 1987

It Sounds Like Star Wars Music Inside The Movie Theater.

I remember even in the 90s and early 00s the movie theater use to play music.

Now we watch lame commercials in the theater instead of at home.

We used to go to the movies every Sunday afternoon back then...I remember there being blobs on the screen before the movie, like the inside of a lava lamp.

They dont to that anymore, everything is gone and instead hear annoying crowd noises. Its strange i never remember how music started background noises in theathers.

I'm about to turn 47. Yes, us 80s kids were lucky! 😊

I'm 52 and totally agree. those were some great times.

I'm the same age, I can't believe we're in our 40s now lol

Yes, Me Too.

Same

Yes.

That part! 😊

Mega Dittos 👍

zactly ??? Canadian??/

Dang what else have you done lol

@I_Fight_Instacart That was it. Talk about peaking early amiright?!?

@@I_Fight_Instacart watched Blade and Mortal Kombat for free I bet

yep, that pretty much lasted until the 21st century

And $20,000 a year was a good salary

And it’s now $25.00 for a small

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 That's 56k in 2024 with inflation adjustment, which is about median income in major metro areas.

$3.35 federal minimum wage too.

And I used to complain about that price! When I would go on a date with a girl, I would buy candy at 7-11 and then make her hide it in her purse until we go to the movie theater seats. I would just pay for drinks.

Lies because 80s is when the high fructose corn syrup was introduced especially for fountain drinks

@@Chiefs1991 not widespread until 1990s

good stuff not "Bioengineered"

cineplex odeon used real butter too

@@cajuncyclerestorations145 Wrong.

@@roystonmason9125 Nope. You got the chemical stuff for free or you'd pay extra for "real" butter.

@@tycanuck you don't know ! real butter does cost more ... and they served no grease

Omg, you’re right!

Wow, we’re the same age… Nice 😊👍

​@princessunicorn669 I turned 56 in January.

Blah blah. People say that about every decade.

same... my grandparents were in their 60s at the time, younger than my parents are now lol. I wish I'd been able to talk to them more as an adult.

I believe the mid 90's is when plastic and rubber gloves where starting to get mandated by health departments for handing food at most establishments. before then, it was a thing you mainly saw at the school lunch lines or at the odd restaurants. Some establishment were starting to take card around the 80's, But it was that ink compression device, that the clerk puts the card in, then slides it back and forward.

Not being nostalgic over not wearing gloves. My guy the germs though 🤡

Everyone survived, and stronger for it

@@KenKen-ui4ny We used to call that device the knucklebuster.

Here we go with the rose-colored glasses. No one wore gloves, but food borne illnesses were also quite prevalent AND deadly. Also, at most movie theatres popcorn/concessions are still handled without gloves, only hot foods are handled with gloves. Folks really do love coming into these comment sections just to talk out their asses. Meanwhile I'm from the same gen lol.

I prefer a debit card, to having 100 pennies in my pockets

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 No way. Change was the best part. Go cash it in after collecting spare change.

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 There is the take a penny leave a penny thing at a lot of places. Though I do think it has been past time to discontinue the penny like the half cent was. Still can price to the cent (or if your a gas station 9/10 of a cent). just round the total. $9/hr is a penny every four seconds. ~Half of U.S. states pay $10+ now for minimum wage. In Reply to: " @vicepresidentmikepence889 6 days ago (edited) I prefer a debit card, to having 100 pennies in my pockets "

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 Also I would rather not have to go though multiple companies dependent on the network, then you have to get approval (most account contracts / agreements can decline you for a multitude of reasons) from the network, card issuer to name a few parties involved. In reply to" @vicepresidentmikepence889 6 days ago (edited) I prefer a debit card, to having 100 pennies in my pockets "

Yep. Paying with cash means no third party businesses or AI programs will know your purchasing patterns.

Raiders of the Lost Ark was the first movie I had to wait with a long line to watch. The 2nd was Return of the Jedi, then 1989's Batman. Those were the days of enthusiastic people who want to go out and watch upcoming movies.

Thank goodness for technology and assigned seating. So much time was wasted back in the day,

​@@tycanuckYeah, quicker means to obtain stuff, with the instant gratification feeling and a lack of human contact which leads to a dehumanizing behavior. Sounds amazing.

@@stolasthegreatprince4166 Yet here you are on YT.

@@tycanuck That has nothing to do with what I replied, but anyway, sometimes I forget that kids today have cognitive impairment.

Now the 1970's was the time when your parents made you dress up to go to the movies. I'll never forget that. It was a hold out from their era. An evening at the theater was a big deal. I witnessed Star Wars also in the theatre opening week in '77.

Under 5 bucks for both - now 20+

I wish i was there even through i born mid 00s, i still had nostalgic from old stuff.

I wish I could relive the 80’s to mid 90’s over and over… I was in my late teens and early 20’s

I know that I enjoyed it. And it isn't just sentiment. Sure there were bad days, but on the whole I felt great, my friends felt great, my family felt great, we enjoyed being alive.

@@princessunicorn669 just like i said that and was pre-teen since early 20s!

@@scotsmith2391 yeah whatever.