Remembering Gen X Items! 

I'm a Gen x and those days are I really miss those days.

Nowadays, the commercials on TV are almost nothing but big pharma!

I miss my 80s childhood so much sometimes. Those carefree days of playing outside all day, climbing trees, riding bikes, building forts in the snow in the Winter time. Those were the days! I miss video rental stores. There was just something magical about going in and picking out a movie. 😊

I miss Saturday morning cartoons the most.

GREAT episode.....Back in the day we actually memorized important phone numbers. Now ??? 🥴

I still cherish the postcards I got as a kid from my grandparents. They would send me one whenever they went on a trip.😊

Every generation does wonder how the prior survived, but there are a few things the newer ones are missing, that can't be replaced. Like the bonds formed between friends when we talked and didn't have a phone, and the ability to read faces. We learned patience, and how to look forward to, and appreciate little things. We also had to learn about others, by talking to them, not though facebook or snapchat. And we also knew, we better respect adults, all adults, or our lives could be cut very short by our parents. And thanks Rhetty for another great walk down memory lane.

No dating apps. No text messaging. No social media. We had to talk to the person you wanted to ask out. You had to call and speak with a person. A newspaper was the media along with local and national news on TV.

Using traveler's checks when traveling on vacation

Movie Theaters and Drive In Theaters were also huge back in the day.

The 70’s and 80’s were a great time to grow up. Social media and cell phones ruined society.

When MTV used to actually be music television.

I used to think Whitney Houston was singing "How will I know if he's stinking ugly"! 🤣🤣🤣

Is it just me or anyone else feels like life seem more wholesome back then?

I don’t even see or hear the ice cream trucks nowadays. Hearing the icecream man coming down the street was such a delight!

🎵Blinded by the light. Wrapped up like a douche in the river of the night🎶

I miss Vogue magazine with all the free perfume samples as well as interior design mags. It was exciting getting a new mag in the mail or gosh even a letter from a far away friend.

Thank you Rhetty for History for another great stroll down memory lane. Yes the commercials on tv were actually entertaining. Oh how I miss the better, simpler times.

My magazine of choice was "Nintendo Power" and when DVD was coming in from VHS tapes the rental place would put that "Please be kind, rewind" stickers on the DVD or case!! 😂😂 Really smart!! 😂😂

I always felt the CD clubs (Columbia House, mainly) were worth it. Helped grow my collection. I dont remember having to return crappy mandatory albums very much.

I feel blessed to have experienced all of this - wish it didn’t change so fast

We had VHS auto rewinders in two rooms of the house. Before CDs, everyone had a Sony cassette walkman. I remember several late night drives down to Blockbuster to return a rental before they closed to avoid the late charge. We always wrote notes on envelopes from the mail. You'd open your mail and save the envelope for notes next to the phone. Standalone caller IDs were common in my house.

I often think about younger people today saying they've never heard a song or seen a show because it's from before their time. I thought that was crazy because I grew up in the 80s with lots of media from before my time. Then I realized there are so many options today that it makes sense. When I was a kid almost everything on TV in the daytime was reruns of old shows. Now you have to purposely seek those out if you want them.

I miss my MTV😢

So blessed to be Gen x. I really do miss those days. So thankful I live through it ❤

80s music, fashion, movies, technology vehicles were less complicated than today's! Wouldn't trade that for today's complicated world!

The best way to defeat the generations that came after gen-X is a car with a physical key you have to turn and a stick shift.

Gen - X Raised on hose water & neglect!😂

Poor BMG and Columbia House 😂😂😂… I can’t even remember how many names I used to get the penny CDs! 😂😂😂

when CD's came around, it wasn't the quality that got me, it was not having to turn it over

I remember going to blockbuster with my family to rent movies on VHS and later DVDs

So many memories!

Arcades!! They were the best for a 12 year old in the 80’s! And the arcade pizza somehow tasted good too. 😂

Youd send someone a post card and they wouldn't get it until a few days after you got back from vacation 😂😂.

I'm so glad that I was born in 1972...🤘

Ah, the days when we always laughed when we heard the intercom call for someone that their mom is there to pick them up. Running through the sprinkler then drinking from the same hose, good times.

I still buy post cards and mail to people from my vacation

Getting photos processed used to be so exciting. I remember when 1 hr photo became a thing and they had photo processing booths on the street.

Thanks Rhetty for the memories. Even though I don't know them, these photos look as if they could have been my family and friends. Gen X is great!

In a parking lot recently the car next to mine had a ton of cassettes in it, strewn everywhere and in little containers. It was like a trip to the past. No idea that ppl still drive around playing cassettes in their cars.

Don't forget infomercials

Wow Rhett, you never disappoint !! Cant get enough of these memory lane vids 👍 you rock !! ✌️❣️ Joined... finally

One of my hobbies in the '70s was reading maps.

Great video! As a Millennial on cusp of Gen X, I can relate to everything here. I still have VHS tapes, including Disney and some of the CDs shown. The best part of going to the video store was getting the hookup from friends who worked there. =) Thanks for the fun memories.

Thise candy/toy machines are still around. But they're A DOLLAR NOW!

All the grocery stores here have the little vending machines at the front. Temporary tattoos, gumballs, or cheap little toys. My kids always want me to get them something out of those😂

Remember listening to the music cycle to record a song you loved? The one that sticks out for me is Tonight, Tonight by Smashing Pumpkins

I still have a bunch of CDs from BMG and Columbia House. The trick was to cancel the subscription before they started charging you.

Fortunately the local grocery store still has the gumball machine and the ones that have the temporary tattoos

All I needed as an 80's kid was video games, MAD Magazine junk food & the many watchable cartoons that were on TV at the time. Good Times. 😊

I miss Morris the cat! 😸

Gen X here as well. I can feel the plastic and hear the squeak of opening up a Disney movie. If you think about it, many of our days off were spent running a lot of errands like dropping off our film, spending way too long at blockbuster, organizing the CDs in the tower. I’d love visiting my friend, knocking on the door only for their mom to tell me, they just left for the mall. Darn! Good times, I miss those simpler days.

As a kid of the latter 60s and the 70s we didnt worry about germs,germs worried about us as we were wide open,didn't have helmets,spent more time outside than in,cept for school days,knew the quickest shortcut to anywhere(lol),knew a drink of water was as close as the nearest houses outdoor faucet, knew every kids name within 5 miles of us,rode more miles on our bikes than we did in automobiles most years,knew to be home by the time the security lights came on,ate at whatever kids house we were visiting,shared whatever we had amongst the group,climbed trees without fear,rode 2 strokes, dove in and swam without fear of drowning as we all knew how to swim,ran barefoot most everywhere at least 9 months of the year,every dog was our friend,we had zero fears,and zero cares other than the switch bushes,and not getting to go somewhere if we misbehaved,sassed,or back talked elders... We lived,and didn't hide out in video games,or indoors,or in ac,or in "safe places".. We'd jump any ramp built over anything,or any one,or even group of kids.. Our parents wouldn't helicopter around us preventing us from falling down,or getting skint knees,broken arms,having whatever we brought home as pets,but did do their best to raise us as normal,well educated(compared to todays kids),well balanced,able to survive on our own adults.. I really do miss those days of hanging out with any kids who came around and wanted to talk,play,run,climb,jump,be kids... That whole adulting thing sucks... 😮

Thanks Rhett ❤️ I miss it all 😢

I didn't expect to see a Childrem of Bodom album in this video hahahaha. Great video by the way. Lots of nostalgia here.

Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.

One of my favorite pastimes now ( other than watching videos from this nostalgic channel) is watching old commercials on RU-vid , go figure. It’s like a virtual Time Machine , from the 50’s, 60’s , 70’s ,80’s , 90’s , even 2000’s are nostalgic because so many things have changed even since then…

Good Morning Rhett 🙋🏽. I love this video. Some of those things even seem Old to me.😆😂😄😅🤣 LOL. Enjoy your Weekend ‼️😊👋🏾

Dec 1969 here. Feeling extremely lucky to have been a part of the most forgotten and the most memorable time ever. Proud to be a Gen X. Awesome time in history.

Great video as always. This is my favorite nostalgia channel and brings back great memories. One thing that came to mind was when you were a kid, you had the cool birthday cakes. They had those molded pans of cartoon and comic book characters. I remember having a scooby doo cake, a batman cake, and a superman one as well. I never see those anymore. My mother use to make those cakes and decorate them with frosting herself. Anyway, keep up the great work. Love the channel.

in the 90's Mtv got simpler, for my music, Headbanger's Ball, and 120 Minutes, late at night..then after i could watch Rhonda Shear, on USA "Up All Night" horror movies

When we were calling a friend or person just a few towns over it was actually long distance. My mom would say don't talk too long since you are calling long distance. A girl I dated in high school lived 30 minutes away from me. But it was a long distance phone call if we called each other. Also looking through phone books to find phone numbers. Getting that giant phone book once a year at your front door was always a thrill.

I sang: “In the western town of Danwalsh(?) The Eastern boys and Western girls” Reality: In a West End town, a dead end world The East End boys and West End girls”

The smell of a payphone will always stay with me. Just disgusting, but yeah.. still used it. LOL

Ah, but the satisfaction of filling up both sides of a radio mix tape.

There are corner shops, food trucks and delis in NYC that only take cash, so we have to carry money if we want to buy food from them. That also means you have to know math which a lot of Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids don't.

😁👍 All true. It’s funny to look back and remember we really did all that! Ha!! Hi Jodie! 👋😁🇦🇺

This is Columbia House, you ALL owe a balance for them cassettes! 😂🤣😂🤣

Your videos take me back I'm Gen X 1979 and I want to Cry looking back on simpler times and things

I grew up with VHS and the great outdoors indoor fun was playing with my action figures on the ancient splinter infested wooden floor. Dad would always rent movies before the weekends

Gen-X made the great music that Gen-Y and older millenials grew up listening to.

It is not true that the record companies would send you the "selection of the month" and you would have to return it if you did not want it. They sent you a card on which there were several options: Among these were: send the selection of the month immediately, send nothing or send something else. If you did not send the card back in then they sent the selection the month to you. PS we never welcomed commercials.

Had most of the cassettes featured in that drawer 😎

Thanks Rhetty for the memories😊👍

One more thing about Gen X'ers, we were probably the last to have to spend weekends tuning our cars to keep them running right. Everybody had a timing light and a dwell meter, and knew how to adjust the idle mixture on the carburetors. Had to do it every 10,000 miles or so or else our cars would starting doing weird things like stalling at intersections.

Every truck in my high school parking lot had a rifle rack in the back window in it was a rifle and a shotgun

Speaking of pictures, i remember taking rolls of film to those drive up photo kiosks. I imagine those were turned into drive up ATMs.

Getting postcards was always pretty cool back in the day. My grandparents would send them from Yellowstone and other "far away" places. I simply had to go there myself someday (which I eventually did). I still think it is amazing that I can send a postcard from a place like Hawaii to anywhere else in the US for less than a dollar. Of course, I can take a picture of something and send it via a text message today for free (well, not exactly, as I still get a bill for the use of the cellphone). Many vacation spots today are far too commercial for me. I like the "quaintness" of those tourist traps we stayed at growing up. Those old mom and pop motels are mostly gone now. The rooms had a real unique scent to them after they were cleaned. Ever notice how all the gift shops had the same trinkets in them no matter where you were? But that is a story for a different segment I think!

Thank you! Ah the good old days! I loved reading magazines. I enjoyed Seventeen and Teen Beat, Tiger Beat etc. Totally had CD towers💿📀

Columbia House was 100% worth it. I went through two CH phases: 1st was building a collection of several hundred cassettes, 2nd was building a collection of over 1000 CDs. I loved Columbia House! 😂

Yep, I'm officially old

Honorable mention goes to the Sears catalog. My sisters and I would pour through that catalog when it came out every fall just to check out all the cool toys that would be in the brick-and-mortar stores by December of that year. We also made a lot of cassette mixtapes back in the day, so much so that Maxell and Memorex owe us an endorsement! LOL! Or how about having a tape deck, 8-track player or CD player in your car? Talk about a throwback to times gone by! That all went away and was replaced by smartphones, streaming services and satellite radio.

Two more things to add to the list: I remember the 1-900 numbers that were advertised on TV, anywhere from .50 per minute to maybe 1.99 or so. Usually you had to have a touch-tone phone for these. And they had credit cards back then, but I remember using that carbon paper slip to make copies of the transactions when I worked at a hardware store in 1987. No machines to swipe them in back then!

What really makes me feel old is the fact that I watch these videos...and enjoy them. 😂 This just proves we're officially old now, what would our younger selves say!

I’m on the cusp of Gen X/Millennial. One thing I’ll never give up is owning my own media. I have no problem with streaming, but I just hesitate to depend on the House of Mouse and others to determine which movies are appropriate for me to watch. And the same goes for my music. Another great video! Thanks!

Almost everyone I know owns Columbia house money to this day!

As a boomer, some of my teen years overlapped with Gen X kids. I have to say that the 60s was the best decade of TV there has ever been. Late 60s muscle cars were awesome. As for directions, I always carried a huge paperback road atlas in the car because there was NO WAY I was stopping and asking. My wife would get so angry about it but, although I'd have to doubleback here or there sometimes, I always found our destination.

Music clubs got scammed all the time. One guy I partied with in the 90’s sent 50 membership cards in and used a different persons name and address he never paid a dime for about 300 cds. The extra songs from artists make sense because not every song that is written either fit an album or was just something random they came up with. I remember as a kid going in and grabbing beer and cigarettes for family because they were to lazy to get out of the car and of course the clerk would sell it to me because they knew who it was for. That changed around the time I started driving because the drink and drive laws had changed.

Millennial here. I thought these was the bees knees, the wonderful thing. It is just a shock to see it on old. I often wondered why old people always talked about the past and now I do it too....soon the Rotary Landlines and satellite dishes will be added to the list since, they be obslete next year

Using a land line phone to call the weather, information, local time, movie information, or to have a robo dialer call you back to test your line.

😂 retro greetings from coastal Mississippi. Growing up in 70/80,l remember all these things and still have most of these items. Especially the music clubs. I was a member to all of them, also the video movie clubs. I love magazines, yet today they are Expensive. 😂 Thanks for the research and memories

The fact that most Gen X'ers are now in our 50's says we're getting old.

1:09 anyone else remember the machine that would have a chicken lay a plastic egg with a prize inside after spinning and bawking a little diddy? I think there was also a Flintstones one where Fred was signing about Dino laying you an egg, but…yeah, didn’t make much sense. Lol

Pre video games ...we played pinball at the pizza shop

TV Commercials were when we attempted to do our homework....but usually failed, especially during the ABC Sunday night movie!

I think the Liberty Mutual are the only commercials that have the jingle/memorability that old commercials had.

Regarding the part about manually writing things down, I was on the board of our homeowner associate a few years ago and the others were in their 30s. They thought I was a genius for placing a dry erase board at the clubhouse door for people to read its message (they only thought in terms of sending a text message). Furthermore, I just wrote regular print, but they complimented my neat penmanship, when it was just ordinary!

I miss Blockbuster.

I do like the modern card catalogs (electronic) in today's libraries, you could find out what was available, without going through the cards, put "holds" on materials through interlibrary loans. Palmer Public Library, Massachusetts! And my former hometown, Monson, next door!

I *STILL* have a Discman and most of my CD collection. I had a couple towers. One of them was even featured in the video! (The squiggly ‘S’ shaped one).