@Interstate 60 2002 You're completely entitled to your opinion and free to share it. If hearing someone else's opinion is so offensive, maybe refrain from sharing yours? I'm not here to have some kind of p*ssing contest with you.
@Interstate 60 2002 ALRIGHTY THEN! You should know opinions are like aholes, everyone has one and they all stink. I'm curious, were you even born before the 80's?
I was born in 1982 in New York City. We moved to the suburbs of Northern New Jersey when I was around 5 years old. I remember our neighbors all knowing each other very well. There were BBQ’s and everyone in the area seemed to be invited. No one came empty handed. Kids would hang out at each others houses and the parents all looked after each others kids. We rode bikes, climbed trees, played hide and go seek, in the summer there were pool parties and day trips to the shore/beach. In the winter we made snowmen and went sledding. It was a community. It feels like we were the last generation of that old world, if you will. Where did it go? There was an innocence and a simple joy about it that I’ll always cherish. Once upon a time….
I think the 80s was the last decade where kids would cruise around their towns on Friday and Saturday nights. That was so much fun and a great way to meet people.
This is fact. Want to know who put a stop to that? Look no further than Nancy Reagan with her "Say no to drugs" and "Don't talk to strangers" campaign. While her heart was in the right place, it was the parents that reacted with paranoia.
I remember that we getting in our car. Go to Garret Mountain. We would look for a heartbeat Road. Dead Man's Curve. Going for pizza or Rogers are going to a movie it was great back then.
I was born in ‘73, so my entire growing up years (7-17) was the 1980s. Every single thing you mentioned I had, did, saw, or remembered. With fondness of a simpler time. Thank you for the memories.
Also born in 73, and you stole my line. Lol. Man, I wish we could go back in time, and take the whole country with us. Show every one of these millennials and zoomers, see ya whiney little shit, it was not a dystopian hellscape of bigotry and racism. We had our problems sure, but we were making it better. Hell the difference in just racial crap from 80 to 89 was amazing. The rise of hip hop and rap, break dancing. We were getting there. My personal thoughts are 9/11 ruined everything, that was the turning point where everything began going downhill. And we're headed for that cliff like Thelma and Louise.
Was helping clean out a house of a friend who's last parent had died recently. Among the stuff we were moving around we found her childhood Atari 2600, all the accessories and a good dozen games, all preserved in a box in pristine condition complete with manuals. Seems she had a Sega as well and played it instead of the Atari, and we found it too, it was well worn. She gifted me the entire 2600 collection for helping and I've very excited to have one once again. When it first came out, I mowed yards all summer to buy one only to have our house broke in to a week later and it was stolen. The nostalgia is again in my possession.
I was a kid in the 80s and remember all of this. The movies, TV shows, cartoons, music, toys, and the Atari 2600. My first grade class watched the Challenger disaster live on TV. I remember Jordache jeans and high-top shoes, and circling what I wanted for Christmas in the Sear's catalogue. Great memories!
I remember that explosion...I was in high school and a friend and I were just coming out of Spanish class and another teacher came in wide-eyed telling everyone _The shuttle just blew up!_ I remember what a huge shock that was.
'87 represent in effect. Sorry if I pants you in the hall when you wore sweats of if I shot spit was down the bleachers into your hair. You underclassmen took a lot of abuse.
I graduated in 89 too. Those were happier days in my opinion. Not perfect. We had our problems too but people weren’t quite as crazy as today. Great memories.
One of the defining features of the 80's was that a person really gained more personal choice because of technology. VCRs and video tapes, dual cassette 'boom boxes', more cable channels along with the Sony Walkman allowed you to watch or listen to what you wanted when you wanted.
😂🤣 In the country we had one TV channel and no place to rent a VCR or disc player. My boom box was a cassette player the size of a tissue box with one little speaker. Today my tractors and combines talk to each other and drive themselves.
@@joeschmoe8320 I can name a few that are pretty damn close that never leave the road. My wife's new Volvo SUV is nearly like floating, her driving is the only thing that lets you know you're not.
I dreamed of having a portable TV I could bring with me so I didn’t have to miss my favorite shows. A pocket sized wireless TV with video was science fiction.
I agree with you there it was the most fun to take your Walkman listen to your favorite songs that you recorded off the radio or listen to your live concert broadcast as well and put it on to a 90 minute cassette tape that was the best believe it or not I still have a box load of cassettes they're still interesting condition today thank goodness they were destroyed by magnets strong magnets that is but anyway I had box tapes of vhs's of certain movies shows and things like that and unfortunately my brother got a hold of him recorded over him or so did my mom as well but they were the best and if you're lucky you'll be able to transfer them over to DVD if you're lucky
Oh the 80’s …these were truly the best years of my life and I can’t believe it was so long ago as it seems as it was just a few years ago to me. People always say I don’t look my age, I guess it’s because in my mind I still feel as though I never went forward and grew old mixed with all the fun that I had and still have as if we were still in that decade.. we were really lucky to have lived it as the best movies and bands came out then… I say, never grew old in your mind and always you will stay young…
I agree with you totally I had the best life in that era My parents gave me everything, we weren’t rich but Damn when I see things like in this video it takes me back to a good time in my life. I to don’t look my age. I’m almost 50 and I seriously look in my late 30s. I collect the barbies and things I had as a child and teen in the 80s , I am so grateful to have experienced this time. ❤
In elementary school one of my 6 grade teachers would wear those blouses with huge shoulder pads and one day she walked in class and I said, "Looks like you are about to play football with the size of those shoulder pads on" up to this point I swore or thought my teacher has a joking sense of humor, I was wrong. I got detention and a day of Saturday school but that was nothing compared to the respect I got from the other kids for saying stupid shit. My parents actually laughed in the teachers face when the teacher told them what I said. The teacher looked shocked. I'll never forget that day.
I was born in 1976. The 80s were an awesome time to grow up. I would go back to the 80s and 90s if I could. They were the best. All the horror movies, action movies, sci-fi movies. Computers were taking off, that was a mistake. I had a Gemini game system. Atari was too expensive for my parents to afford. But then we got NES system. That was awesome. But our first computer was a Comodore 64. We had Donkey Kong and Pong. They were great times for sure.
I miss going to my skating rink in the mid 1980's. They had a arcade, skating, and served cheeseburgers, hot dogs, nachos and french fries. Between playing Tempest, Q Bert or Pac Man, we would skate. Awesome times!!!
The Birth of MTV, That was a big cultural moment. I remember watching videos for hours initially, then the Real World show became huge. The 80’s covered my middle school, HS and college years. I started off the decade getting my first kiss listening to Styx and ending the decade attending and getting Sunburned at a Bon Jovi, Cinderella and Ratt concert.
I miss being a kid. Walking home from school on a fall day . No responsibilities. Getting home and changing my school cloths and then off to my friends till dinner time . These videos bring back so many memories. There good but but it makes me sad in a way.
I wasn't born until 1991, but my parents were in their late teens/20s in the 80s. My mom graduated from high school in 1980 (and my dad did a year earlier in 1979), then they both graduated from college in the mid 80s and got married in 1984, and then had their first child (my older brother) in 1987. They always say it was a great decade! Kind of wish I could have been around to experience it, even though growing up in the 90s and 2000s was fun too.
Man I miss Saturday morning cartoons eating a big bowl of trix cereal and those trips to toys r us and walking the toy aisles looking at the floor to ceiling toys
Loved the 80's! I would ride in the back of the car between the luggage and back seat. It was a great spot. Our station wagon had a picture in the back window. Another big difference is that hardly anyone had a food allergy and parents could make food for your class.
Me too Dec 7 69 80s rocked we all got along I was always up in trees, had farm too horses broke horses at 11 rode at 6 had my own horse , got to live in suburbs and on a farm best times ever pink stripe Jeans man loved - jordache wrangler played arcade at mall shop after school donkey kong I got so far up to the pies turned around bout 15 guys behind me watching cuz I got so far
I was a freshman in HS in ‘86. Loved cruisin’ in town with the older kids with a license. No particular destination. Just cruised the same route while racing and parking to hang out. Small town stuff in the Midwest.
The 80’s was about meeting with friends and hanging out. Today, kids are on their phones and preoccupied with what other people do. I loved the 80’s, I was just a regular kid and didn’t mind going outside to play.
I was outside playing in the snow when the Challenger blew up... went inside to warm up and it was playing on the news. I stood there with my mouth open in shock. The hype leading up to that day was so exciting because of the first school teacher going up on it. The world was in shock. President Regan made an awesome speech.
My first child was born in 1980, I was 23, and I remember her having a Teddy Ruxpin and her begging for jelly shoes which she got lol. I would imagine she remembers much more about the 80's than I do.
Haha I remember all the girls having jelly shoes and bracelets! My mom says the same thing about raising us up in the 80’s it was a really great childhood!
My teen and young adult years!! 11 1/2 when the decade started, 21 when it ended. Graduated high school and joined the Navy in 1986. Was stationed on my ship(USS Belleau Wood)from JAN 1987 and stayed until JUNE 1989.
I watched ET in 1983 at the drive-in! Oh and jellies were cute and stylish, but not at all comfortable. They gave you blisters and made your feet sweat horribly! 😂
I saw ET in one of the first multiplexes in NJ. Was built on the grounds of an old Drive In near the Raritan River in South Amboy. We were in a huge line within the complex & the guy in front of me said So do you think we’ve crossed the bridge by now. The place was massive. Hear it’s closed down
Yes, I wasn't around yet in the 80s, but I was in early elementary school when jellies made a brief comeback in the late 90s. I remember I wanted a pair SO bad, but then one day I wore a pair of my friend's jellies when I went to her house and we played outside. My feet got blistered so bad, and then I definitely didn't want a pair anymore 😂
I could never understand why anyone liked those things. I was about 5 or 6 when they were popular. I remember some 3rd grader having them, but I thought they were ugly and looked uncomfortable.
The 80's were basically my Wonder Years, and while things were far from perfect I still miss them a lot. There will never be another decade like that. From the music to the tv and movies and culture it was just amazing. And crazy in a lot of ways...lol!
We grew up without a lot of money, so I loved watching “silver spoons” wishing I had all that stuff. I remember going to my friends house and playing test drive on his Commodore 64.
Another great one! I grew up in the last half of the 50’s into the 1960’s……but both of my children were 80’s babies. I loved that era and remember so much of it, of course. It was a great time to raise children.
Riding my bike on the gravel roads sometimes after doing homework and chores but yes the music was always there- and Atari which was cool as well, but then in 1985 The NES came out- I kept mine and I still have it in my collection 👍🏻
You are so awesome to do a part 2! Of course I just remembered that Smurfs were huge in the 80's, also Chia Pet, Easy Bake Oven, fixing cassette tapes with a pencil. Knight Rider and Moonlighting!!!! Love Boat and Fantasy Island! 😊😊😊
@@xenafriend97 One of my favorite weekly shows was Air Wolf. I have the DVD box set of that series. I look back at the show now and realized how far fetched it was but it's better than most things you see on TV today. Everything's pretty much not too interesting reality shows. Nothing good on TV anymore, even with all the abundance of channels..
My son's were born in the early 80's so I remember the transformers and them watching the reading rainbow with Levar Burton. My youngest thought he would get a Teddy Ruxpin for Christmas and was heartbroken when he didn't get one. I still feel terrible that I couldn't afford it at that time!
I was in my 20's, in the 1980's. I, was working for Montgomery Wards from 1980 until 1985. Then, I did a Montgomery Wards Department Store 🏬 Closing in 1985. Then, I got another job at Kmart from 1985 until 1996. I remember the Wendy's Commercial, "Where's the Beef "?I, also remember the Commercial from Dunkin Donuts 🍩, Time to make the Donuts 🍩
Monky Wards on Independence Ave? My favorite thing there was the old guy with the tamale cart in the parking lot. Otherwise I liked the Green Stamp store better. Still have a yellow milk crate I got from there.
The 80’s had a lot of great entertaining memories for me as a kid growing up with sports, video games, movies, wrestling (WWF,WCW), music t.v. Shows etc, etc. Than came the 90’s to keep the thrill going😢 how I miss those 2 decades.
You hit the mark on so many levels. The Atari controller missing the cover cut deep for me. Activision games like Pitfall and River Raid were my favorites.
Amen.....the joystick missing the cover was my "go to" weapon. I still have my 2600 and pull it out to play once in a while. My adult kids still use the biggest bullshit phrase of Atari gaming......."this joystick is messed up". Not any more messed up than it was 40 years ago is what I tell them. What's crazy is that all the old game moves instantly come back...like a reflex
Pitfall and River Raid were my top two games!!!! Played them until my arms and hands were numb, sitting crossed legged on the carpet, joystick in my lap…… Thanks for bringing that memory back for me. ❤️
I had the "Jellyfish" swatch watch(1987). I bought it new for $30 at our mall back then. I also bought the rubber bands accessory for that watch. I was stylin'😎
Loved this! Part 3.? Vans Off The Wall tennis shoes, Sergio Valente & Jordache jeans, multiple ear-piercings, acrylic nails, neon nail polish, rockabilly / mod dress, Vespa / moped, Devo, Moon Unit Zappa's Valley Girl, Go-Go's, Chinese Jacks, open HS campus leaving school at lunch, aerobics, Gunny Sack dresses, Bubble Yum, seat belt law, frozen yogurt, Members Only jackets, Dolphin Shorts and french cut bikini swimsuits. Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue, Modern English's I Melt With You, and Boy George's Culture Club. Bain De Soleil or baby oil for sunbathing. I was all over the place in the 80's. It was a long, fun and confusing decade.
Ugh. Good stuff, man! Teddy Ruxpin, Jellies shoes (with matching Jellies purse), those twisty straws, Orange Julius, Mr. Wizard and Reading Rainbow! I want to go back. So, so good.
Ahhh...I remember when wearing 3 or more Swatch watches at once was a fashion statement back then. And let's not forget the required Swatch guards to protect those watch faces. LOL! 🤓
Once again, another out-of-the-park video! Love remembering all the things I thought I forgot. We needed Reading Rainbow to balance us out from too many hours of Atari. And I forgot about the Micro Machines. Used to be a circle of us kids at the schoolyard buying, selling, and trading them like were on Wall Street.
Everyone has a period in time that means a lot, but never truly appreciated till decades later... The world is a far different place, these days, than when I was younger. I guess this is how my parents feel as they grow older. I was in my teenage years back in the 80s. We would hang out at the malls, movie theaters, and arcades. Miller's Outpost was trendy place in the mall to get the latest fashion, and you could hit the record stores and food courts while there. Levi, Ocean Pacific, and Vans Shoes were some popular fashion "must-haves" with us -as were parachute pants😁. You could find pet stores in malls and snack at Hickory Farms. Apple Computer was hitting the schools about mid/late 80s -I had an Apple IIC and a dot matrix printer my parents scrimped and saved for. Older 50s era, stand-alone, Sears and JC Penny stores were phasing out as they moved to the more popular shopping malls of the time. 1984 Olympics dominated everything that year and I had a chance at seeing one of the torch runners. Who didn't have a favorite AM of FM station they listened to? Japanese Anime was popular -such as Robotech and Star Blazers. Heck, our JROTC still had 22 caliber rifles for marksmanship. Here I go rambling...🙄🤐 My God... What happened to us...? What happened to our world...? Things were never utopian, but compared to now...
The 1980s stand out because it was the beginning of the peak of 'American culture' as it were. Growing up as a kid then was just too much fun. There was never anything like it, nor will there ever be again.
aww watching this bring back my childhood. The 80 s was the last great decade. I was blessed to be alive. I was 10 in 1983 and every body had to have one. Life was simple and easy back then. The music food and toys were better. We had our bikes and we had our favorite tv shows particular soul train. Animation cartoons like transformers, Voltron, g i joe. We had family reunion s and toys were iconic. There will never ever be a decade like the eighties particularly the early 80's. The memories of my childhood will be with me to my dying bed. Thanks for sharing
The things that come to my mind about the 80's are ...going to Alpha Beta grocery store and seeing Movie rentals for the first time, it was in its own little area and they had them in wooden cabinets with glass windows under lock and key😄 I remember going to Gemco and seeing Jackets inspired by Michael Jacksons Thriller for sale, alot of Pac Man T shirts and caps in fact my mom worked for Atari from 1980-1984 she got to meet Michael Jackson when he went to visit the factory in 81 in Sunnyvale Ca, I also got access to arcade games and had some at my birthday parties, when the cabbage patch kids craze happened and my sister couldn't get one I remember going to the flea market to get the fake cabbage patch kids...they we all piled up and individually packaged in plastic bags, as I got older I was definitely a Debbie Gibson fan, going to the mall was the thing, I remember going to Merry Go Round to shop for middle school clothes and the acid wash jeans, at school those rubber bangles of various colors including neon were very popular as well as neon shoe laces, Musicland for my records and tapes, oh and Chuck E Cheese and Bullwinkle's pizza parlors!...oh man i could go on 🤐☺
wait when u said Alpha Beta & Gemco i was like that sounds like Pomona in my 80s but then u said Bullwinkle so i know u had 2 live in Los Angles county, u must remember Montgomery Wards also
@@marinosgoat9208 no more north...Silicon Valley...and yes I remember 'Monkey Wards'..'Zody's' a store we had here i havent heard of anywhere else was called 'The Treasury'
@@marinosgoat9208- I grew up in Costa Mesa in the 80's, & 90's. My family would go to the Huish Family Fun Center in Fountain Valley to play Miniature Golf, next door to Bullwinkle's. We shopped at Alpha Beta, Stater Bros, Gemco, & Fedco. I got a lot of my Atari 2600 games at Toys R Us. I rode my first Rollercoaster The Corkscrew in 1981 at Knott's Berry Farm. I worked for Edward's Cinemas in the early 90's for 3 years as a teenager. I even worked for Fedco for 3 years, before moving to Arizona in 1997. MEMORIES❕👍 Hello from Phoenix Arizona❗🔥
Awesome part 2!! I love your videos. Maybe a part 3??? Who doesn't love the 80s! These were the best times ever!!! If I could only take my Delorean back in time....
I was born in 1969 so I grew up half in the 70's and half in the 80's. I feel lucky. I graduated high school in 1987 and would never trade it. These videos are very fun! Thanks!
Malls were AWESOME. I think they still are. I love shopping, and going to the Movies. But I use to spend hours in Record Stores. I drove my friends and Family crazy because I would spend so much time looking and deciding what Records or Cassettes I wanted to buy. Had Mad crushes on Tom Cruise, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Michael J. Fox.
I was fortunate enough to grow up in the 80s, I was 7 in 1980, so I grew up with all this stuff. Some of the greatest times of my life. The only regret I have about growing up in the 80s is that fact I'm still alive for the shit show the world turned into today.
I remember being a kid back then and all these things and we thought it all sucked lol. Looking back it was amazing and just a good time. I don't care how great tech is now the 80s were a great time to be a kid.
What a glorious coming-of-age decade the 80's was for me! While we didn't have the Atari 2600, we did have the Odyssey 2 and later on the Colecovision Adam. That made the middle part of the 80's a very fun time. Summer excursions to the beach or to my cousin's house to swim in their pool were always looked forward to with eager anticipation. I also played little league baseball and took guitar lessons, and the 2nd one I loathed because my teacher was a jerk. Christmas, Easter and my birthday were always exciting times. I remember getting Transformers, record albums, A-Team action figures, Star Wars action figures, Tonka trucks, pre-recorded movies on VHS, board games, comic books, Lego sets, slot car sets, etc. And lest we forget all of those awesome TV shows that had me glued to the screen, like The A-Team, Knight Rider, WWF wrestling matches, Cheers, Silver Spoons, The Facts Of Life, Growing Pains, Gimme A Break, My Two Dads, Jake And The Fat Man, Father Dowling Mysteries, Archie Bunker's Place, Murder She Wrote, etc. And finally, the classic movies -- Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom, National Lampoon's Vacation, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Commando, Predator, Aliens, The Terminator, The Road Warrior, Crocodile Dundee, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Gremlins, The Lost Boys, Ghost, Red Dawn, etc. So much excitement and legendary entertainment packed into one decade! There will never be another time like it. Anyone who spent their pre-teen and teenage years in the 80's will attest to this overwhelming fact! Quite honestly, subsequent decades have been dull and uninspiring.
Probably could have split the 80s up into two or three sections, early, mid, and late 80s. This is particularly true for music, which had pre-MTV, post-MTV, and then the arrival of rap.
I agree the late 80s was looking very different from the early/mid. By rap do you mean corporate style, or that it changed? you may recall, this is early 80s music ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zEmg5GaAHbk.html some of the best coming out of the 80s / defining the 80s.
@catalyst_99 "Popular" and mainstream are two different things. Rap didn't become mainstream until the mid to late 80s. I'd just as soon it had stayed in the ghetto where it belonged, personally.
In 1986, my third grade class sang "We Are the World" and "That's What Friends Are For" in a school program. My teacher led the production and was very moved by the famine in Ethiopia and Ryan White.
My decade!! Great job 👍 Miami Vice and Moonlighting were the best. Watched them in college. Loved everything 80's. 😊 Again, thank you for the memories.