Memories of 1983 Where Were You ? 

January 1983: I just was hired at a publishing company. My first career position. Michael Jackson’s Bille Jean was climbing the charts. Dad was still with us, for another 3 years anyways. Prime of my life.

I was 14 in 1983 lol. Interesting to see all the old stuff again😄

Was born in 1983. Great time to be born, the early eighties.

@Johnnyboy792 Just so you know, you're work is incredibly important and valued by those of us who watch it. When I'm having a crap day, I simply watch one of your videos, go back in time, and relax... It saves me a fortune on psychotherapy... So keep up the good work! You're the best!!! No, seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow! I checked in to look at some older ones again and found 1983! I love these; they're such great history lessons....and memories. Oh, and Elizabeth Shue.......

Great movies in '83: Trading Places, Sudden Impact, Matthew Broderick and Alley Sheedy in Wargames, Return of the Jedi (RIP Carrie Fisher), among others! BTW, who else owned a Commodore 64 with the cassette tape drive?????

Excellent job putting this video time capsule together. They're always so fun to watch this year in review without narration. It doesn't need it! Thanks, Johnnyboy for letting us go back to better times. I was 6 years old going on 7.

Hes done it again!! I was in 10th grade back then and remember all those events!!

Your up to '83!?! Oh No! We're Running out of cool years! Pretty soon you'll be in the (I don't even want to say it!) 21st century! Well... that's the problem with nostalgia, it's good while it lasts! Thanks as always! Your posts always manage to brighten my day!

1983- Classic DC and Marvel. ‘Nuff said.

I was in Marine bootcamp! ; ) Thanks as usual Johnny !

In 1983 I was 19 years old just barely out of high school. Working and living in my very first apartment. 🙂

Hey Johnny Boy. For most of 1983 I was still serving in the US Army. My last 7 months I was an AIT instructor at the " Lance Missile " school located at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. I had plans to start a Professional Photography Studio with a civilian partner in Houston, Texas when I got out of the Army in Aug 1983. Every weekend I would drive my 1982 Ford Pinto ( Chariots of Fire ) from Lawton, Oklahoma to Houston, Texas to help my partner get the business setup. It was an 8 hour drive. I would leave Houston Sunday at 10 pm and get to Fort Sill about 6 am in time for PT.

Enjoyed as always, thanks again! I was one year out of high school, remember almost all of these clips though. Lot of memories again.

I was 7. I had a Cabbage Patch doll, but I had to wait a couple of years for my parents to give in to spending that much for it 😁

Seeing Sally Ride talk about her flight on Challenger was kind of sad for me as I remember being a college student in FL on a very cold January 1986 morning in Tampa (25F that morning, lots of ice everywhere) and I remember seeing a flash in the Eastern sky. We would soon learn that it was the Challenger exploding with all aboard lost including Christa Mcauliffe who was to be the first teacher in space. Extremely sad.

Awesome video! Can you do another video about 1997 after you do 1984. 1997 is the year i was born! Thanks! :)

May 1983: I graduated HS. August 1983: I began my freshman year of college at West Virginia U!

Wow! Karen Carpenter was the first one. I did a 12 page term paper on that because of her. Love your uploads!!!

I was still in Elementary school. But remember all this.

I was 8 and living in Scotland. What I remembering that time - the miners' strike a war in some place called the Falkland Islands, Culture Club on Top of the Pops, E.T at the cinema, and lots of freedom to play outside. War Games was such a good film, as we're Trading Places and Educating Rita LOL at young Andrew McCarthy in the Burger King ad. I loved Cheers and Scarecrow and Mrs King

Thanks, Johnnyboy792 for all the great vids that you put together. You always have nuggets of gold in each one of these vids. Keep up the great work and thanks again for the memories

Another great video, Johnny! I had my oldest son in 1983. 😎

Jne kf my favorite years.

Thank you again Johnny!

You’re back! Excellent! Thank you!

Somehow I missed this, thank you so much Johnny!

Thank you Johnnyboy. Great as usual.

Holy cow!!! The background music they used in that Norelco commercial was also used in the classic era Porn film " Little Girls Blue " ( 1978 ).

Ok I need a smile for today

Woo hoo Johnny Boy!!!! You've done it again. Gee. I had forgotten about Trading Places. A brilliant movie. Thanks so much. 💖💖😎

Just discovered your fantastic time travel vlog 👍👍👍 will binge view it Thanks for sharing

Well Johnny, you did it again! Great job and as always, thank you!

Punky Brewster came out in Miami Vice was debuted

*Damn: I remember the Cabbage Patch dolls! A friend of mine was a loss prevention schmuck in a department store, and they were a daily arrest item for months!*

Thanks!

Celebrities turned into 46 in 1983 Warren Beatty Loretta Swit Chad Everett ( R I P 1937-2012) Jack Nicholson Billy Dee Williams Bill withers Jane Fonda Dustin Hoffman

Very nice (glad your back). Hope your good, x-mas, new years is all over, thank goodness. We are looking forward to spring (65/70 degrees in 3 days, flower's growing, tree's growing, very strange winter). Be good, be safe sir !!

Another great memory, honorable mention, Prince's "Little Red Corvette"!!

I always enjoy your videos. I just wish you would have included a few more made for tv movies. I still miss having those on tv at times

Celebrities turned into 47 in 1983 Michael Landon ( R I P 1936-1991) Robert Redford Burt Reynolds ( R I P 1936- 2018) Mary Tyler Moore ( R I P 1936-2017) Alan Alda

This was a great one!

Some adults did not like the growth of technology - they said it would take jobs awzy and do and do away with good service/customer service. They were tight. 11:30

I remember it so clearly. My 1st year of college. Everything was exciting yet uncertain. Glad i experiemced that time/year as a young adult. Things were not perfect -there were recessions and high interest rates and unemployment but those things did not affect me or my family. They started to take funding awzy from mental illness population ehich dramatically increased homelessness and “just say no” did not do much to fight the huge drug problem. But it was a great time if you wee a young white person from a middle class or upper middle class family.

Thanks. Don't wait us so much

Can we find a way to go back, it's all I want now

Ah yes, the year when I was born 🤣

in the 10th grade they were good times

I was 10 ❤

My mom turned 10 and my dad graduated high school (we don't have seniors back then it just have in 2016)

In popular music, while Micheal Jackson dominated the scene of the early to mid 1980s (and rightfully so), all of the great new artists of the day seem to get left out of these retrospectives. The "new wave" of rock and pop, and the post-punk scene which gave us R.E.M., The Talking Heads, B52s, The Cars, The Cure, the Go-Go's, Squeeze, etc. One other observation, Cheers, in my opinion, stands as the greatest situation comedy of the 1980s.

Jessica Savitch - she died in 1983 - she was in a station wagon that fell in a canal.

Anyone august 13th 83?

LOL - "I don't like their face, but I want one" - funny.

the current education stats would cause permanent vacation instantly!!! beyond bad!!!

Mr Johnny Did you 1982? I can't find it. I know you did 81. Can't wait til you do 1984(year I was born)

1983 Schools were failing . Update 2020 - Failing worse now .

Celebrities turned into 1 in 1983 Alison Brie Nicki Minaj Kelly Clarkson Sophia bush

I was living in a trailer park in the middle of nowhere, had baby #3 that summer, cable was being wired into homes, but we lived too far out and only got a few TV channels. I remember seeing Return of the Jedi, Octopussy and War Games. Korean Airlines 007 was shot down by a Russian missile, Philippines President Aquino (returning from exile) was assassinated at the Manila airport right after stepping off the plane, the terrorist bombing of the USMC (and French Army) barracks in Beirut, killing over 200 servicemen.

Hi Im just checking in to see when new videos coming out. But under these circumstances nowadays it maybe trying...your videos makes me happy. Are you working on 84-85?

At home watching Pertwee Doctor Who repeats, and waiting for ROTJ to come out.

My Mom & Stepdad bought my 6 yr old daughter a cabbage patch doll. My Late Ex-wife & I sure couldn't afford to buy her one.

I wonder how most people living in USA can be insensitive to these videos. Even though I live in Turkey I have been waiting patiently a new content. Such quality content should be watched much more.

Celebrities turned into 2 in 1983 Britney Spears Natalie Portman Justin Timberlake

Happy Easter Johnny! Stay Safe!

Flash Dance - what an awesome movie. Damn that woman was hot.

I’m have a GoPro and just one camera view from the body.

you should have included Videodrome in the movies section and Psycho II

Samantha Smith = Poster Child for Soviet Union, she died in 1985 in an airplane crash along with her father.

The Day After taught us if WW3 ever happens you better find the nearest Volvo to get into. Because if you in a Volvo - you will survive Nuclear Armageddon.

Graduated from high school

No Dennis Wilson or Tennessee Williams?

I remember the cabge pach kide yes remember .icklejason

You forgot to include A Christmas story, Scarface, Christine.

this was the year i was 8

Celebrities born Mila Kunis Adrienne Bailon Andrew Garfield

Jesus Christ - that is like the saddest McDonald's Commercial ever.

the day after was required watching by our 7th grade teacher

Andrew McCarthy and Elisabeth Shue? John Hughes and Melrose Place?

God Bless Ronald Reagan

Punky Brewster actually came out in 1984 not 2983.

Johnnboy, is that you narrating?

Hi, are gonna do more decade videos anytime soon. You haven’t made one in a while. Thanks! :)

Where’s 1982 ?

Isn't that Andrew McCarthy and Elizabeth Shue in the Burger King commercial?

23:48 - is that supposed to be Mario?

Have you ever seen short circuit?

Scarface should have been included too

for the tv shows why wasnt Webster and V included?

Jedi? What the hell is a Jedi?

at the very beginning, the elderly lady talking about Cabbage Patch Dolls saying "I don't like their faces, but I want one." then seconds later, at :13 President Reagan, him saying "they are the focus of evil in the modern world." I was like, what the hell - I know the Cabbage Patch Dolls were like everywhere, and it was a madhouse to try and get one, but "the focus of evil..?" i know President Reagan was talking about The Soviet Union but it was a funny bit of splicing....

Cheers - back when sexual harassment in the workplace was fun and okay.

Hmmmm zero on the music??? Largest rock show of the 80's was in 1983...the US Festival....330,000 attendees on Heavy Metal Sunday alone! And what about the other great 1983 music...not even a mention??? smh... Otherwise I liked it...but no music? C'mon man!

We were looking for more ALCOHOL and GIRL'S and trying to learn the drums and how to drive drunk and try not to get dui.