@@jamill79 the majority of that culture shift has been the government's doing. They have been allowed to become way bigger and influence american's daily lives far more than the founding fathers ever intended. We aren't that different than a typical european country at this point where the government oversees nearly everything. Since they have that power they've put in so many regulations that control what we can and can't do and they brainwash people constantly in the media (who yes at this point the majority of the mainstream media is just a propaganda wing of the government not real journalism) to be afraid and to not do this or not support that because it could lead to societal collapse or an 'existential crisis'. I'm sure you've heard talking heads mention that one. They got to the kids with brainwashing in schools nearly 30 years ago; now we're starting to see the ramifications of that. Its scary but we need to reduce the size and power of the federal gov if we want things to go back to relative normalcy (not the same but not as fearful and dystopian) like it was in the 80s/90s by voting in people who don't believe in big government. The last president we had to even mention that government was too big and was a problem was Reagan.
I remember sitting in the back of my friend's dad's pickup to go to the tobogganing hill. Then there were the times we crammed 7 people into little hatch backs. Basically you could cram in as many as you liked as long as all the seat belts were being used.
My daughter asks me " why were the 80's so great?" I have no words to describe it! The only thing that I can say is " it felt...easier...simpler..fun." I miss those days. I miss my childhood friends. The 80's were the best!!❤😁
I grew up in the late '60's and 70's and remember riding bikes and skateboards at full speed, climbing very tall trees, playing Little League without a batting helmet, climbing on the roof to get the whiffle ball and jumping back down onto the picnic table (it was quicker), "I'm going to Tommy's house"-"I'm going to Gene's house"-we'd hop on Bart and spend the day in S.F.-but back home before the street lights came on! Played with firecrackers! Walked a mile to school and back every day. Uphill. Both ways! (we wern't very smart back then) in the snow! (ok, it doesn't snow in Bay Area). And I'm not going to tell you what we did on Halloween! Those records are sealed! And what happened in the house stayed in the house ("Only Women Bleed"-Alice Cooper). But, we respected ourselves and our Parents, watched our language when "grownups" were around, took care of ourselves and our families. Made it through the late '70's and early 80's economy when inflation was worse then it is now, un-employment was 8-10% and interest rates were 12-20%. We traded baseball cards, played "real" games with each other-not ourselves on some stupid device. Bought and sold "bricks", "lids" and "dime bags", usually around 4:20 in the afternoon(?) (well, they did. I stayed away from that stuff) and listened to the best dang ("watch your mouth!") music ever made! So...when did it all go wrong? 😥Have a great day!
It all went wrong September 12th 2001. Beginning the day after started overloading the federal law enforcement anti-terrorist, but not watching outside the borders watching inside the borders looking at US citizens. Started at the airports treating people like sheep terrorist sheep. Copping a feel with everybody's Grandma ,mamas, little sisters, without even asking past trauma strip searching rape victims of the past. Yeah we lost every goddamn Freedom we ever experienced before New Year's Eve 1999. All in one day they set us up for inside total Destruction of our constitutional freedoms.
In 1983 I met my husband on my 20th birthday! Growing up in the 70s and 80s was amazing! I remember everything on that video! You guys are cute! Your wife, I am who? So this year in January we have known and been together for 40 years, we got married in 1989! Mannn I feel old now, lmao you do the math! My husband is one year older than me. Thanks for the video, for me it's like going down memory Lane! Good Times!
I am older than you two youngsters. But, we have memories of our lives. Kids today only have what they save on an electronic device. We had personal social memories and even though we were brought up in more stricter times; I can look back and smile and think of all the crazy (though innocent things) I did together with friends. You respected your elders and if one didn't they would knock you into next week. Which is why the kids today are a complete mess. No direction in life and social media with no moral standards. Kids don't talk anymore; they text. They've lost a lot that we had years ago. It's sad to deprive your child's innocence and mental growth for a quick way to make them grow up way beyond their years. That's why most are emotional wrecks. Being a protective and responsible parent has been left to machines today. Families today are like a bad instant product; it's a substitute for the real thing. Nowhere near to what it should be. That includes everything from politics to children.
That station wagon full of kids . . . in 1985, we bought a big old white wagon, that had previously been a Miller Lite distributor car. The decal on the side had been painted over, but you could still read it in the right light. We bought it down on the border and rode around Mexico for two years . . . with 4 children, two giggling maids, and a collie/golden retriever mix. We were a sight to behold. Lol! Yes, I remember buying cigarettes for my dad, and later, for my juvenile self. Times truly were different.
@@shahyadesfandiary7234 I would say that the 60's-70's paved the way for the 1980's, but I would put them in this order: 1#: 1980's. #2 1970's, #3 1960's.
I just turned 44 last Friday so I've been thinking back over my life recently. There was a certain freedom during the 80's that I didn't appreciate properly because I was so young, but I remember watching the original Star Trek reruns with my dad on his days off and watching Dark Shadows reruns with my mom while he was at work. I remember a chicken pox party my parents threw when I caught it because my dad had just got an Atari shortly before so all the other kids got a turn on it. One of my brothers drives a truck now and I hopped in with him a couple years ago and we ended up in northern California at a rest area and there were still payphones there.. they didn't work.. but it was still a blast from the past. Thanks for this video and the trip down memory lane!
Blessed to have been a kid in the 60’s, a teen in the 70’s , and in my 20’s in the 80’s, the best music, recording artists, movies, tv shows, sports, even tv commercials , and we were all social with each other in real life, not on some device…
YES I remember station wagons and riding in the back of pickup trucks. Yep, go out and play! Be home by dark! When the streetlights come on, time to RUN home! The phone calls. We would line up at the payphone, dial parents' number, and when the parent answered, we'd click the phone three times. They heard it and came to pick us up! I was sent as a child to buy beer and cigarettes for my dad. Physical punishment was at home and school. If the teacher had to spank you, you'd get a second round at home. Some of the seniors had guns in their cars because the whole school practically shut down on the first day of deer hunting, OR harvest. It was just a farm tool. When fights happened, guys beat each other up. Then got drunk together. I bet you nearly all of them have driven a tractor and carry a pocket knife, by the time they're in high school. By junior high they can field strip a deer. So we had the SKILLSET and tools to create chaos...we just didn't.
I’m with you, discipline needs to be brought back. In the home first and at school. Things would be so much better. Still no cussing for me and I’m 55. We raised our boys not to cuss and they are now 19 and 23 also spanked our kids for misbehaving and also washed out their mouths with soap for saying they hate each other or someone else, etc. Also had the two for one spanking rule. If they got in trouble at school they were getting a spanking at home. Needless to say neither of our boys have ever been in trouble at school or anywhere else ever. People thought we were hard on our boys and told us so but I raised them the way I was raised and I never have been in trouble myself so figured if it works why change it. Those that said we were to hard on our boys have had nothing but trouble with their kids which they made excuses for when they were in school but now they’re grown adults and causing their folks all kinds of heartbreak and misery. Parenting starts at home with rules and consistent discipline when the rules are broken and of course love and attention too.❤ Love our grown children and guess what with the spankings and love and time we spent with them over the years, they respect us and still want to hang out with their old mom and dad. I don’t regret teaching our children how to behave at home and in public. Disciplining our children was very difficult sometimes. But my grandfather gave my mom and dad a good piece of advice for raising us and they passed that advice on to us when we started having children. My grandpas advice was: “Don’t tell your kids you’re going to do something, whether it’s discipline if they break the rules or taking them for ice cream, and then not follow through with what punishment or treat you told them. Because if you don’t follow through then you’re a liar and kids pick up on that real fast. Then they know you’re a liar and you are not to be believed and you lose trust, plus they now know they have a 50/50 chance or higher that they won’t be disciplined for breaking the rules. So you’re going to have more trouble. Always follow through no matter how difficult it is and make sure that whatever you tell them from the start is something you CAN follow through on. If you can’t follow through on your word then you’re better to not say anything to them at all.” I think it’s one of the best pieces of advice my parents gave us besides praying for guidance in raising our kids and praying for our kids in every aspect of their lives whether it be for God to send them good friends, the right girlfriend, their safety, good decision making, moral standards, standing up for what is right when it’s not popular or convenient, etc. We have been blessed by following God’s Word in raising our children and the advice of fellow Christians like our parents and grandparents. Thankful and grateful for that guidance. God is good!❤
Great nostalgia and memories. In the 70’s, I remember my cousin and me sitting on the back door (window down, legs inside) of my uncle’s station wagon playing firemen on a hook & ladder while he was driving on Washington Ave in Brentwood NY. And he would swerve the car left and right for added excitement!!! Imagine seeing that today. Crazy
I remember driving to the beach in my mom’s station wagon, a group of people in the next lane gave us a thumbs up and held up a sign saying ELEVEN…. that’s how many of us were in her Toyota. Yes it was a Toyota wagon.
Man as a kid in the 80s it was awesome, I remember rotating weekends staying at friend's houses, once Friday after school hit you would run home grab your backpack with D&D stuff and a few cassette tapes let Mom and Dad know you would be back on Sunday and out the door you went grab the bike and hit the sidewalks and ride across town to meet up at the friends house you were staying at, drop everything there. Then it was off to the store to grab the Jolt cola , a bunch of snacks and stuff and go back drop all that, then it was outside to play till it got dark, back inside eat dominoes pizza and then a pack of 4-8 kids out the door to midnight movie time at the theater! Allday Saturday would be exploring storm drains and walking the mall, playing tackle football with no pads or helmets getting torn up, cuts, bruises, hell even a broken bone now and then lol. Saturday night was a couple VHS tapes and then D&D till people passed out. Sunday was always a big breakfast cause lots of baseball, basketball, or football then go to a fast food place then usually back to the house you were staying at, everyone would call and check in and then chill out for the rest of the afternoon pack up everything eat dinner at who evers house you stayed at each parent always made a big meal on Sunday around 6pm we would all eat and then say see you at school tomorrow and then ride home and then get ready to see the friends that you went to school with on Monday to start planning what you were going to do the next weekend lol. Some of us had money some didn't have a lot but everyone took care of each other when we were together, no one went hungry, everyone got something we all took care of each other, we all knew without saying anything, those that had extra brought extra those that didn't brought what they could it didn't matter we just had fun.
Chicken-pox parties! I'd forgotten all about that, but I can now remember that being a thing. Madness, lol. I o agree that kids get away with more nowadays, especially in public. If some kids/teenagers start shouting and swearing at me, I don't feel I can tell them off or say too much back, in fear of being falsely accused of abuse. We live in worrying times in that sense.
We lived in a rural area. We had to be home before dark. I remember catching “lightning bugs” and putting them in a jar. I also remember one of my cousins rubbing the ‘light’ off the bottom of the lightning bug and rubbing it on her clothes. She was weird. I also remember riding in the back of a pickup truck with my older cousin and younger sister. Nobody thought anything about it. If you haven’t seen the movie, Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen, you need to find it and watch it. It’s a really good movie. I watched it on TV just yesterday. I wondered if I remembered it as being so good because of a poor memory, but it was still as good as I remembered.
I grew up in the 70's. Gen X and Y struggle to believe when I tell them we would disappear from the house with our friends at 8 years old in the morning, and not return until dinner sometimes. The LAST thing we would do on a sunny day was stay inside. That would be crazy!
In so many ways, for those of us who can remember growing up in the 80’s, it’s pretty sad that these things are no longer socially acceptable 😢. We had so much fun doing those things like riding in the back of a pickup with my siblings & being able to play outside in the streets until the streetlights came on & we’d get called in for dinner. Just one of the many fond memories from such a fun time period 👍😌
@@mmille10 … Imagine how the woke brigade & all the “Karen’s” of the world today would react if people were still doing some of this stuff today… They’d absolutely lose their minds 🤣🤣🤣
I was a young adult in the 1980s. I disagree that few people wore seat belts - we always wore them. I knew one man who didn't wear them and was glad he was thrown through the windshield during a car accident -- the car was destroyed after he was ejected from it. Also, I never heard of a chicken pox party.
I grew up in the 70's in Alaska. We had a rifle team at our high school and lots of kids who drove to school had gun racks and rifles in their car. No one thought twice about it. I live in northern Mexico now and still see things here that remind me of my child hood like a bunch of construction workers packed into the back of a pickup truck getting taken to work. Helmets and knee and elbow pads have removed all the great "How did you get that scar?" stories. Ah well.... And of course the music as you have discovered!
I flew in the smoking section of a flight from NY to Tampa and back between my parents who both smoked. Great to be in the back of the plane. I was a latchkey kid before 911. :(
The thing with the bench seats in the cars and not wearing seatbelts was mainly in the 70s. In the mid-80s is when seat belt laws started being passed. But yeah I remember all this stuff. Hey, who remembers *Orange Drink??* 🤣
Times were way better back then. No one was governed into insanity at this point and even this period was the beginning of far too much government involvement in our lives. I imagine people were even more free in the 70's and further back. The key thing here is we were all MUCH happier and MUCH more respectful
My parents never smoked, but I remember how all the seats in the ER and doctor's offices had ashtrays built in the armrest. And it wasn't unusual for the receptionist to smoke. And I remember seeing those cigarette vending machines everywhere.
Boy, that station wagon brings back memories. On long road trips , I'd spend many hours sitting in the back of that wagon getting the truckers to honk their horns.
As a Texas country girl, we always rode in the back of a pickup. We lived on 23 acres of farmland, so we were kicked out of the house in the morning and didn't come back until lunchtime. Then, back outside until supper. The paddle needs to make a comeback for the rotten kids nowadays. Mom drove a red Datsun station wagon, and we didn't always wear seatbelts.
The 70s-80s were great. Lawn mowing money and glass bottle recycling was spent looking at those McDonald's menus. Or going to Thirftys for the 15 cents a scoop ice cream cones.
Had to reply to this comment, 2 nights ago I was talking about those Thrifty ice cream cones to my wife. The choices, it was always a hard decision on what flavor to get. Dad always got a double scoop, but since he was paying, it was all good.
I was an only child. So I was always home before my parents from school. I had to make sure I did my chores, and there were some times when I had to start dinner. I even got left home by myself for a weekend when my parents went to Vegas. My dad gave me $40 so if I wanted to order a pizza or something I could. Funny thing was I went to the store and bought myself a big potato and a steak. We were good friends with her neighbor so I had someone to check in with if I needed to. I was 12 years old when they did that. Now , 5 years later, my parents went away to Vegas again and they had my aunt come stay with me cuz they didn't trust me by myself. LOL The good old days
Thanks for the walk back brother. We used to squeeze 3 adults and 7 kids into a chevy impala in New Zealand in the 80s. Nobody wore seat belts. The more people in the car meant nobody moved around.....answering adults back was a no go zone lol
I Miss all of these things from the 80s lol People weren't so fragile & just enjoyed life Smoking 2nd smoke has been greatly exaggerated & smoking data use 2 pack a day smokers 😂😅
Yes, I went to my cousin's house for a chicken pox party. My parents and grandmother smoked in the house and all the bikes out front was big in my neighborhood. Just look out the window down the block neighbors front yard is full of bikes...
I personally think that the 80s was thee greatest time period the world has ever seen and will ever see. My childhood was so fun. It was so much better not having the distracting interent. Everything was new and fresh. Movies had reached a certain technology where fresh ideas were made. There were so many movies that were massively popular. Also, the world was more positive, and all the commercials were wholesome and innocent in many ways. I absolutely loved it its a shame and sad to see how the world has changed and not for the better imo.
Remember going into a restaurant and the hostess asking, "Smoking or non?" Referring to what section of the restaurant you wanted to be seated in. Not that I'm a smoker, but so many things that just faded out. Like the phone booths, riding in the back of trucks and on your bikes without helmets, your parents telling you to "go outside and play", which meant, "I don't want to see you until it's time to go to bed." Haha.
The 80s may seem wild by modern standards but the 70s have the 80s beat by a mile. lol Even the 80s kids don't believe the stuff we did and got away with.
Yeah one of the problems with the big for-profit RU-vid channels is that they're often lazy with their graphics packages. That McDonald's menu was from 1973. Big Macs were a buck fifty by 1985.
11 years old in '72- me and my buddies decided to bike to the state park - 30 miles away on a 2 lane with narrow shoulders. Took a couple bucks for food. Left at 6am and said we'd be back by 6pm, and we were.
The 70’s was More Station Wagons than the 80’s for crying out loud. I know because I lived in it and we had two of them growing up as a family. The 70’s Was A Great Decade to Live in Mostly back then Compared to Nowadays ! I Miss The 70’s 😢
I think that that menu with super low pricing was from the 1960s not the 1980s. Pricing was low compared to nowadays, but around $2 burger NOT 33c!!! ATMs were newly invented & I made withdrawals for college town bagels, pizza etc. 33c burgers was pre 1970s inflation.
The only working pay phone that I know of is in the middle of the forest in a small community. Apparently one of the residents of the community got tired of people knocking on the door to ask to use the phone, and paid to have it installed. The area is still a cell phone dead spot, and the phone still works. It's also in an actual phone booth. However about 7 or 8 years ago, I had a situation where my cell phone was broken, and I couldn't get a replacement right away. I searched the internet, and tried looking everywhere, my town doesn't have a single payphone anymore. But, if I'm ever in the right part of the SanJuan Mountains, I know where Superman changes!
The fact that kids since the 2000s have been so sheltered, and not allowed to explore, be in danger, and get hurt is a huge reason why males born in the mid-late 90s and later are so weak and effeminate. I feel really bad for those kids (who are now adults), and especially those that grew up with internet their whole lives. They were just born at a terrible time.
no one likes to say how old they are but all these memories are good ones. i always tell my kids about the good old days. I never wanted to be when i was ur age yada yada yada but when i started having kids and we go to the store it was i was ur age these cost ..... or could buy smokes with a note or heres a beer ot everyone was drunk every weekend but still took you out to garage sales . good lord i could go on for the ever but kids dont have the good old days
We would literally just be out ALL DAY long, just gone. No cell phones. Just out riding bikes for miles, and getting into mischief. Parents would have no idea where we were. We could have been kidnapped, beat up, etc 1000x over so easily back then. So crazy, thinking about it now.
Awesome Retrospective. Being a Gen-X'er the 80's was my era. It's so different now. Nice Sennheiser headphones which model are they? I have had Sennheiser's for over 10 years now.
i grew up in the 1950s/1960s, and corporal punishment was not a 'thing', at least not in schools. i got swatted a few times, but it was a *far* cry from abuse. Don't be fooled by that McDonald's menu board. The prices may look cheap, but as a percentage income, when many jobs paid $2.00 or less per hour, the cost was equivalent to today's prices.
With 4 growing boys, dad started buying station wagons when we were little. Being an Army SFC he wasn't into frills. The station wagons were all base model, 6 cylinder, 3 speed manual with an AM radio. They all had the rear facing seat. Kept us kids from fussing on trips.
My favorite era was the 80's. Great music, fun times. I was a grown woman and enjoyed going to the malls with my sister and the nightclubs with her. I miss those times.
I'll always remeber the 80's as the greatest decade (in my lifetime at least). And I'll never give two s**ts abut what's "socially acceptable" today, because today is awful.
A friend of mine who lives overseas came back to visit and was surprised how many freedoms Americans lost and that was back in 2000. We've lost even more in the past 20 years.
Bike riding, water gun wars, pellet gun wars, tee peeing, shredding toilet paper and dumping it on people's lawn's BEFORE it rained and soaping people's windows during tee peeing, going to the pool (at the country club) on our bikes, running up my dad's tab ordering food for my friends at the country club (NEVER forget that one) and of course playing video games downstairs in the basement on really hot summer days also going to the music store on our bikes looking for cassette tapes then later CD's for all the great music back then! Oh and not to mention going by on our bikes and trying to look in the hottest girls bedroom window as we were racing back home before we got punished for staying out too long !
The best era ever. No overbearing government and bureaucrats. No one tried to control every little thing of your life. People were nicer to everyone. People understood humor, jokes, and didnt get offended over every little thing. There was a feeling of hope and optimism for the future. You just felt free in those days. Nowadays its the exact opposite.
@4:22 the real mind fuck about the payphones is that none of us memorize phone numbers anymore, I know 1 number for emergencies but everyone else is just stored in the phone. And yeah I learned to keep quarters in the door where you close the door, still useful for putting air in tires. My gpaw used to keep a cup with change in cup holder (not a high crime area) 5:26 I was still able to smoke in restaurants here at 13 and no one said a thing lol ahhh nostalgia 6:49 spanking and switches are an effective deterrent lol I know I didn't do the stuff again after I had to pick out my own switch lol
Raised my kids in the late 70s and 80s, There were some things not so good, society had started changing from when I was a kid, small liberties were being lost and we knew it. But all in all it was a fun time, the kids had fun and those kids look at things now days and are completely dumbfounded how many idiots are on the loose.
Jamal I born in 1964 and grew up in the 70's. Those things back then were considered bad such as dangerous lawn darts. I used to jump ramps on my bikes. Sometimes, I get injured from wrecks from the jumps. I am amazed that I survived those times. Now, I am 59. Now, kids focusing social media not playing outdoors.
@Jon M Wow! One of friends tries to jump a deep ditch in the woods near our homes on his bicycle. He crashed big-time and suffered minor injuries. Growing up in the 70's was crazy
I remember we would meet when school was finishing and all agree a time we should meet at the park on the bikes and if someone didn't show we would all ride around looking for them in a group of like 10. If the sun was out so was we that's just how it was back then
So much nostalgia! I remember all us neighborhood kids piling in the back of my father’s pickup. And bike helmets? Ha! They were lucky to get shoes on our feet. 🤣
It’s a miracle any of us survived 😂😂😂 I told my grandson the other day that if a kid wore a helmet when riding a bike when I was a kid it meant he or she was a special needs child.
I didn’t have a baby seat I was secure in the back of a VW Beetle. Having grown up in a town of 350, so we were never too far from home. Street lights were our “come home” warning. Dad smoked pipes till I was about 3. The party store people knew me and my brother well. Rode in the back of many many pick-us(everyone had them). My parents never ever raised a hand to the 5 of us, not once, being the oldest of 5 I rarely ever swore. Didn’t want my younger sibs learning bad words.
Corporal punishment in schools had pretty much ended by the time the 80's came around. I remember it was still happening in the 70's when I was in school.
It depended on where you live, it was illegal in the schools I went to in the 70s. My parents said it was allowed there in the 50s when they went to school.
I was born in 1960 so we didn't have any of the vehicles with seat belts or any of the safety standards like they have today. We always had change to call at a pay phone and it only cost 10 cents. My dad used to smoke a pipe and cigars and did so when we were on trips. We rode our bikes every where and any where.
