YEs 80s was good. But I’ll take the mid 90’s (1993-1996 my early adult years 19-22) if I had access to a Time Machine, that’s where I’d go and never come back
the Columbia House music (cassette tape) club : getting 10 tapes, for like a penny ?!?! I remember tapes which cost $15-$20.; 12" inch (regular) albums, 12" singles (remixes, for the DJ's in nightclubs or on radio stations) or 45 LPs (7" singles) = vinyl/wax records...
I never got too many records but what was nice where you had a cassette tape you could stop the tape and start where you left off like a vinyl record too....Hard part was when a song you hear on the radio you want real bad you had to wait a while our luck was having a tape player or boom box if you were lucky if it had a record button on it
They always had remotes for the televisions back then. They called them Kids. Dad would smack you in the back of the head and say "Change the channel."
Changing channels was no big deal, I was already standing there anyways...holding the aluminum foil extending from the rabbit ears just so the picture came in clear.
Every time I see one of these videos about the 80’s, I get so sad. I’m 50 and grew up in the 80’s. It was fantastic. I miss it so much, especially because the world really sucks now. I remember how excited I would be on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons, or how great it was when we finally got a color tv and cable. Waiting all week for a new episode of Knight Rider only to have the president make a speech on every channel. Riding bikes around the neighborhood with my friends and staying out until the street lights came on. I remember waiting by the radio with a cassette recorder trying to make a tape of my favorite songs. I feel bad for kids these days. Too much adult content in front of them and not much time spent with physical friends outdoors. Just a cell phone or game console and Netflix! They don’t know what they are missing!
I put the cassette recorder next to the television speaker and tape recorded movies and episodes of WKRP, so I could listen to them endlessly in my room. Didn't get a VCR until about 1990, when I was in high school.
Much the same here John, such simple pleasures, like you said riding bikes, waiting for the street lights to come on, simple wholesome home cooked food, waiting for a fav track that the DJ might just play and hoping you did not have to use the wash at the time, yes and the frustrating bIt , when your fav track gets played, that's when the cassette player or rather the cassette jams!!!
I remember getting up every Saturday morning as a kid to watch cartoons during the 80's. The cartoons would only run for so long; the time constraints made you look forward to every moment they aired. THANKS FOR REMINDING ME OF SUCH GREAT MOMENTS IN MY LIFE!!!
Saturday and Sunday mornings were the only time I willingly woke up at 5 am ready, silently making breakfast for myself and watching TV. mom didn't wake up before 11 and the news was starting so time for me to go out.
The Children and teenagers of to day would be so bored and would not last long on the city streets. Non are street smart or tough enough to last a one night. They are to wrapped in cotton wool these days.
The 80s and 90s were a great time to be a kid. It's hard now being a parent of a teenager that never got those joys. All of what you said and come home when the street lights come on, or go to the park around the corner and come when I yell your name
In 80s there came a time, at least for me, when a neighbor would call the police if they saw your kids alone in the front yard. I've met some kids now who don't even know that there was ever a time you COULD play in the front yard
Yep, I used to walk to school when I was 7 (though I was with my older brother). No way would you let a 7 year old walk to school alone now. Thanks so much for watching.
It's so weird to think now that our parents didn't know where we were. They just knew we would always be in a group and so that was okay. I miss those days zooming around on my BMX.
@@LittleBitofHistory80 My brothers and I were always being told to "go play in the yard" whenever we were underfoot while our parents needed to get something done.
@@jimcalhoun361 Yes, this was a popular phrase in our house too. I used to play on the lawn and the dry bits were little houses or shops, had a whole town of dried bits of lawn. Now as an adult I realize we probably had a beetle problem lol.
Going from child to teenager the 80s was the greatest decade of all. We didn't have ipads and mobile phones but who needed them when you had your friends the streets and your imagination 😮
I agree. We used to go camping and I would play with the fallen honky nuts. I see kids being so bored now. I don't remember even being bored as a kid. Thanks for watching.
Isn't it just crazy!? I remember going into the teachers staff in room in school as a once off for something and it being filled with smoke. But hospitals?? Crazy.
It's funny. In the 80s you had less tv channels than you do now. But if you had cable tv, you had more variety back then than you do now. Now all you get is reality tv.
That might be but with all these choices people have a lot less opportunities to compare notes on what they watched the next day due to everybody watching something different.
And MTV played music! And music videos were amazing. She blinded me with science was really only good because of the video. The old guy with the mallets.
The 50s-90s were a pretty great time to be a kid in America. But young people always tend to favor the time they grew up. My grandmother said the 30s were awesome! Those would have been her high school years.
That was a nice little trip down memory lane. We never felt deprived or bored with what we had, we felt like we were on the cutting edge of technology! Imagine what another 40 years will bring.
If you even hinted to your mom you might be bored, the first thing out of her mouth was "Go outside, you're wasting a beautiful day." , even if it was snowing.
I'd say the the thing I remember most about the 80s beside the NES and Saturday morning cartoons was riding a bike. Kids rode their bikes everywhere back then and being able to ride one was central to being able to fit in with the others.
Born in 68, teenager pretty much throughout the 80's great time to be young. If I ever get a time machine I'll swing by and pick you up Marty McFly style and we will go back for a while. JK... We that were young in this era were truly lucky. I have great memories as well. Kinda funny seems like yesterday, time is scary fast. Peace.........
"Why do they put this stuff in children's movies?" To toughen us up in preparation for the real world. And we are all better off for it. Trauma or not, lol.
They didn't protect us from the fact that life ends but tried to keep us innocent about S. (the word that, If I type it, will get my comment deleted) Now, we have literal graphic S in the class rooms but kids think meat is made at a grocery store and we don't need farms because you can just go to the store.
Reminds me of those rental videotape movies - you'd go to watch one and find massive creases/lines in any of the nude scenes because some bozo who rented it before you saw fit to freeze-frame that part.
Back in the day, the kids would disappear for hours at a time after school to meet up with friends, play all sorts of games etc. Parents weren't worried even if there is no way to contact them generally. It was safe and we became independent. We became tough; scratches and falls from activities were normal. We walked everywhere, crossed roads, and explored. No smartphones, no apps, no Internet. I miss those days. Sad that the current and future generations likely will not experience them like we did in the 70s and 80s. But c'est la vie. Thanks for the video. From Malaysia.
When i was a child i tried NOT to cry at anything, and we were shown the neverending story in the fourth grade and the horse scene played and i couldn't stop the tears but I was not alone even the tough guy was bawling lol
It´s quite funny to ask "Why did they include the scene?" Because it is in the book. I´m German and have read the original novel by Michael Ende several times and listened to a very intense audio play of it as a child. The original story is absolutely brilliant, much better than the film was. In fact, Ende was very unhappy with the film in the end. Also, half the book wasn´t even included in the film.
Thanks for this. I admit I haven't read the book but I bet it is wonderful. It is such a beautiful story and I love the message that you have to keep believing in magic / keep that childhood wonder alive as much as possible. I know authors often have to think - okay, what's the worst thing that can happen now. But that scene was a lot to handle. :-(
@@Punki80They did finally make the second half with The Neverending Story II…part III was not part of the original book, and it showed. The book is far superior.
Going to the public swimming pools and diving off the towers and springboards.Young people had their radio/cassette players on their towel and it was a nice atmosphere. Such good days.
My parents had a remote. It was me. We had 3 main channels and then we had channel 44. Channel 44 was on 24 hours a day and usually showed horror movies.
I'm English so some of these I don't recall, but here's some 80s things I do remember, Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, Panini sticker albums, Chelsea Girl and C&A for clothes, Osh Kosh dungarees, Roland Rat, cigarette sweets, Smash Hits, Look In and Jackie magazines, rotary phones, 4 tv channels, neon legwarmers, moussed big hair, Golden Girls, Back to the Future, and some seriously good music like John Foxx, Thomas Dolby, Tears for Fears, Sparks, Kraftwerk etc. I was only a little kid in the 80s so got into some of these later on, but it was still a great decade for music, film, tv and I don't ever remember being bored unlike now where most stuff seems crap.
As a teenager in the 80’s I begged my parents for a private telephone line in my bedroom. After about 5 months I finally got it. I think they actually gave in because I was spending way too much time on the house phone. I was always having to run outside to use the pay phone. I paid for it out of my earnings from working at the movie theatre as a “candy girl”. I wanted it for the convenience of not running out of nickels on the pay phone. Best time of my life, thanks for the memories.
My best friends parents bought his brother his own phone line for the same reason. They never suspected he was a drug dealer (pot). They just thought he was very popular at school.
Playing outside, actually going off somewhere without your parents hovering over you. My friends and I would disappear for the entire day, down the park, to the pools or where ever and then turn up at home again at dinner time. Now if you let your kid out of your sight for 1 min you can be charged with neglect. We would also go swimming in the local creaks and streams, we could play on the school playgrounds after school and over the weekends and we could built tree houses without having to get council permits or engineering inspections done. We actually went outside and enjoyed the sunshine or even the rain, often racing ice block sticks down the gutter in the rain to see whose would win. We could slide along the grass and get grazes without being dragged off to the hospital for any tiny cut or graze. And we ran around in bare feet all the time, we almost never wore shoes until we got to intermediate and then we took them off as soon as we got in the class room anyway. Milkshakes were really big and cheap, now they only about a mouthful and cost an arm and a leg. Even at primary school we would walk to school on our own and home again, and again all without wearing shoes, now days you get a warning letter from the teacher and principal if your child dares to come to school without shoes. We also looked around at our surroundings, looked both ways when crossing the road twice and kept our wits about us. We could talk with our neighbors or the people down the road and we could light and buy fireworks even at ten years of age. Lollies like the Sherbet Fizzy lollies were 2 for 1 cent, so if you had a dollar that meant watching the poor shop keeper count out 200 for you to guzzle down. We could go to the movies on our own even under ten years old and we could get jobs like the 5am morning paper run, which is now illegal for kids to do. We had much more exciting playground equipment and we also had imaginations that allowed us to make up all kinds of game. Boys and Girls all played together as well, the girl climbed trees and while not many boys played with dolls, they could if they wanted t, just because a girl wanted to climb trees or tackle the boys in a friendly game of rugby did not mean she was confused about her identity, just that she like to have fun.
I definitely remember the 80s very well😊 so much freedom back then..what I miss the most is most of my relatives were still alive then..that really made it special..getting old really stinks
I graduated High school in 1983. Big Hair. Jazzersize. MTV that actually played MUSIC Videos. Big Hair. Wow i could listen to your voice all night long ;)
80s was my childhood. Neverending story where the the horse sunk made me cry 😢 I remember the 80s a lot from 1985. The latest songs like “Everybody wants to rule the world” by Tears for Fears. Many of the songs by Madonna. VCR, Dynasty, Dallas, TJ Hooker TV series
I grew up in the US in the 80s. I didn't know Aussie and US life was so similar back then. Bop magazines, 4 TV channels, metal playgrounds, etc. Even highlighting the different shows in the TV guide was the same. The only thing on this video that I never experienced as a child was the corded TV remote controllers. We went straight to cordless. Good times!!!
one of the best things, just going and doing, and not having your face stuck in your phone. and not being home for 16 hours a day, or worried about if you hurt someone's feelings, or them worrying if they hurt yours. But, that 55 nation speed limit, you can leave that in the 80s
The invention of the Laserdisc revolutionized home entertainment... ...For about 2 months. Inavailability of all titles, and not everyone wants to have to permanently buy the movie they just want to watch only once or twice, and a lengthy contract with Radio Shack, led to its demise.
As a child of the '80's I remember all those things well. We would go to the mall on Saturday's to hang out with friends, go to the movie theater (at the mall), or go to the arcade and play video games. This was of course AFTER Saturday morning cartoons. We went outside and rode bikes or played games with our friends. I can also remember riding in the back of the pickup truck even going down the Interstate. I remember vinyl records and cassette tapes. What I time to be young.
I definitely remember in the late 80s being under the age of 10 riding with my older brother in the back of my dad’s pickup truck while he drove 60+ mph on the highway. What a time to be alive!! 😂😂😂
Thank you! Yes, I love that we have this collective shared memory. Of course some things will be different, but for the most part share this love of the 80s in the Western world.
Although there's a persistent legend regarding toilets being flushed at the same time crashing water systems during popular broadcast events, from Amos 'n' Andy to the Superbowl, there does seem to be legitimate evidence that there really was a massive increase in water flow due to the simultaneous flushing of toilets at the end of the MASH finale, exactly as indicated in this video.
I miss the 1980's!, ever since midnight on January 1st 1990 I used to call it 1990-80 then 1990-81 then 1990-82 & so on & so on!, I call this year 2020-84!!!... HA! yeah right?, only joking!, so many changes have happened since the 1980's & quite a few demises as well?... analogue t.v📺, walkmans, cassette players, cassette tapes, video recorders, video tapes, 3-in-1 stereo systems, mullet haircuts (although some die-hard bogan people still follow the look today!), old Holden commondore & Ford falcon cars🚘, the old traditional weekday before school & Saturday morning cartoons on t.v plus old traditional afternoon sit-com re-runs on t.v(the only free-to-air channel that still airs old afternoon classics is 9Gem!), and Pizza Hut 🍕 dine-in restaurants!(some still exist but not very many.), If any more I missed out then leave a comment. 80's forever!😄👍
I remember going to a restaurant with the smoking and non smoking tables. Are around the late 1980s the canteen in work reeking of stale smoke and the smell of food. Also staff kitchen with kitchen staff. Today is all gone. In canteens now it's all vending machines. Of course the stale smoke has gone. Which is a good thing no more breathing in stale smoke.
My dad used to joke (or maybe he was serious) that he only had kids so he'd have us to change the channel for him. Of course we also had to turn the dial or move the antennas on the rabbit ears. He only got cable in 1980 because the picture was 100 times better. The 10 or so extra channels were just a bonus.
I grew up as a kid in the 90's and remember having most of these and a lot more like audio cassettes and VHS tapes as well as projectors. It was fun and lively back then.
I live you the Uk and remember everything you said except for two things we only had three channels and then we got Channel 4 so it made it four channels until people started to get cable. Also we didn’t have driving movie theatres here which is a shame because I would’ve loved to done that. Yeah, it was a better time to play out as a kid, so many things in a lot of ways so much better than now more innocent too everything is so put out there due to the Internet. Kind of spoiled being a kid as you have to see everything online . I left school in 1984, stayed on a year and the sixth form then went to college for a year so in the year 1987, I had a full-time job. I remember the telephone phones so much, especially those two phones in the house and I’ll be talking on one and then my sister would get on the other one on my dad just to annoy me or shut up get off the phone. I remember when I first started work I rented myself a television and a video recorder and I thought that I was so it in a television and recorder VHS recorder. Should I say in my bedroom. Thank you for this trip down Lane.💖🐩🐩💖👍👍🌷🪻🍄🕊🌈🇬🇧
I'm so glad you liked it. Thanks for sharing these great memories. Love it. Drive in movies were great but I'm guessing the UK doesn't have the weather for it. It's no good in the rain lol. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Born in '74... I'll be 50 next month and I remember ALL of it! Good good memories. 😌Almost every saturday I was out and about with my friends roller skating while listening to the latest Michael Jackson or Rick Astley song on my walkman. Hands down, that was BY FAR the best time to grow up 🥰 Proud to be an 80's kid! 🥺
We had one phone upstairs I bought a long extension cord for it so I could take it into my room with the cord under the closed door then I would take it back in the hall and my sister could take it into her room to make a private phone call, my parents had a bedside phone and we had one phone downstairs in the kitchen. No such thing as cell phones for us back then.
Kids today don’t realize how different things were for their parents growing up. We didn’t have cell phones, computers, game stations, blue ray players, or color tv. We had to do everything by hand and learn/develop skills to do what is now easy to do with technology. Have you even seen a child today hand write a letter? Remember the joy of mailing a letter and receiving one back in the mail from your friend. Actual handwriting is no longer taught in schools! Have you seen the their writing? It’s terrible!
I agree. I've just loaded up a new video on skills kids today don't get. I've been reading that a lot of kids these days don't have the hand muscles developed to hold a pencil when they get to school age, because they just aren't doing it before they get to school - it's all pushing screens and swiping. Very sad. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I know, right???? I was in my 20s when a housemate told me that the horse really did live. I re-watched it (skipping that scene!) and then had to ring my mum and apologize lol. Thanks for watching.
FYI: Photo Satellite were in fact still video TRANSMISSION then exposed to a film because we didn't have an HD printer. The film was never inside the satellite as people thought. (Which is IMPOSSIBLE to do)
I wasn't born until 1992, but I love history and I am fascinated by these videos. What I am glad is gone is smoking. Look how much technology has advanced in four decades.
Witnessing the evolution of telephone technology. Dialup rotary phones. push button phones, push button phones with buttons in the cordless handpiece, mobile phones of today. Star trek really nailed it handheld communicators. 1999 went by no moonbase on moon 2015 came and went. No back to future flying cars.
ah, when people were much freeer, much less obese, having much more sex, less sucked into partisan politics, and actually looking forward to the future
In Canada toy commercials were illegal. So we had straight 20 min of cartoons and then a host (entertainer) for 10 min or non-toy commercials which by a huge "coincidence" were partnered with a kid theme (movie, cartoon, etc.)
Oh man the death of Artax is still brutal. I sitll get all misty, Neverending story was the first movie I saw in theaters too. Back then you could smoke anywhere, I sitll see Mcdonalds and Burger King astrays from time to time. Cigarette butts littered grocery stores and my mom would sent little 9 year old me down to the store with a note to get her a $9 carton of Marlboro 100s (which were in a gold package back then). Dot Matrix Printers are still used today, many places use them for check printing. Movie rental places were a blessing, unless that tape you rented wasnt one of those "Priced to own" if your VCR ate it, you'd be out $50-$75 for that tape (in the 80s!!!!)
The 80s were so awesome in my young teenager years I remember the MTV videos girls 🚬 the boys bathroom in 🏫 oh the good old days wish I could go back to my young teen year's rock music movies cruising the strip on Friday night's and Saturday night stay out late 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Almost everyone wear some sort of jeans. Jean jacket. I let my kid listen to 80s music. It's better than today trash music. After mid 90s, the music are awful like rap trash.
I have a huge tote full of pictures and the negatives😂 Also, I remember the infomercials selling tapes of 70’s and 80’s love songs, or new kitchen gadgets everyone must buy! Always at a hot deal with an extra item threw in😂😂❤❤❤❤
The last movie i saw at a drive-in was Race With the Devil.... The drive in was behing Turn Still and its ALL gone even the shopco that replaced it every thing move to the Regency Mall, now they are tarring that down as well.. Progress 🤷🏻♀️
We had Fat Albert, Zorro, Tonto, and The Lone Ranger. We had a black kid and the gang, a Mexican guy, a Native American guy, and a white guy. Not once did we ever think about race. For us. Race is what you and the other kids did to show up on each other.
Living in West-Berlin my childhood was clouded by the cold war, fear of a third world war and nuclear war. Plus acid rain, the ozone hole and the nuclear accident of Tschernobyl. But looking back I was very free. I could visit my friends without making an appointment first, ride my bike wherever I liked, there was no internet and no social media, so no cyber-mobbing, nobody would film me when I was embarrassing myself. I guess life was easier back then.
Columbia house records, they supplied all my music. 12 cassettes for $.01 and you only had to buy 1 more at regular price. I must have filled out 50 of those things.
Dogs and teenagers could legally ride as passengers in the bed of a pickup truck. You could drink and drive until about 1982, before most, if not all, states had enacted open container laws.
