I get so jealous of people who grew up in the 80s-90s. The amount of freedom y’all had as kids and teens without the fear of being recorded or getting exposed over a mistake.
Yeah, nowadays it sucks because we are all under constant surveillance. There are cameras and microphones in countless places. Even this comment may go into my “master file.” If only “they” knew all the crazy stuff I did back in those days when nobody (or more correctly-nothing) was watching.
Not recorded meant only that people could make up whatever lies they wanted and tell everyone. Only your very closest friends wouldn't believe that crap. Yeah great days. Lol. We had fun. We pushed the rules into they shattered. When we had children we were terrified of them acting like us. That is why things have changed. We were the first bad generation, I mean across the country BAD. The hippies weren't as wide spread as most people think. I remember seeing my first hippies actually. The real drug/rebellion/sexual revolution happened in the 80's in the USA. Oh what a beautiful time to be young. Hahahaha.
@@jamessteele7102 you're wrong. Every single call we've made since the 50's has been recorded. There were cameras in many places that we knew nothing about. No our parents, school, nor local police had access to them. Do you know why ladies started going to the bathroom in groups? To turn on the water and whisper. Most spies have always been ladies. My granny was one. You'd be surprised, no shocked..better yet horrified to learn that all that crap you pretend you didn't do in front of your kids, grandkids, is recorded somewhere and still exists. Every beer you drank, every wild drive, every backseat boogie. All of it was recorded by our government with technology so good your third grade teacher could identify you. Do I care, well yeah, but I drank a lot so I've forgotten a lot and I'd love to see some of it now. When I had the chance I was still too young and dumb. Ugh.
No I'm not contradicting myself here. I know someone is going to say that. Our friends couldn't record us, nor our parents, school, or local business back then. That is what I mean in the first comment.
You have no idea how awesome the 80's were. It's something you'd have to be there for to understand. It was a magical time. Something that only happens once in a thousand years, in-fact, It's perhaps the only time such greatness ever existed.
Indeed. I think today’s kids live with enormous amount of pressure to mesure up to the cool kids on social media . We didn’t have that pressure back then we were who we was and that was it
Agreed. There's a lot of ego nowadays. People like to brag and show off on social media. Hey look at me. I'm great kind of thing. It gives the idea you have to meet that standard so kids are under a lot of pressure these day.
@My Pronoun is WTF unfortunately today’s kids don’t have the will power to turn off social media like you and I have they’re control by the pressure from it. Subconsciously they’re immune and numb to social media pressure
Born in ‘71, growing up in the 70’s and 80’s was truly an awesome time to be alive! I would give anything to go back to the way things were back then and get rid of all this ridiculous social media crap!
I had to chuckle recently when one of my nieces asked me if I was bored all the time growing up with no cell phones in the 70's and 80's. Honestly, kids today seem to be more bored than we were. I don't think I was ever bored as a kid. I guess more gadgets does not mean less boredom.
We didnt have time to get bored. If we were not at school we were certainly playing in the streets with friends, riding our bikes, having fun. No time for boredom. Best time ever. I am 42 now and am happy I grew up in the 80's.
LOVED being a latchkey kid!! The whole house to myself, TV turned on loud, self-made milkshakes, and singing at the top of my lungs. Also being outside from dawn to dusk with my friends in the weekends, exploring, getting into mischief and spending our pocket money on candy and collector cards. Oh, and as a result I learned real-world applications for self-sufficiency, culinary skills, decision-making, bravery, socialisation and the value of money.
BIG same. It's no wonder kids these days have all the problems they do. They never got a chance to learn to solve problems, work out issues between friends, make their own food, earn money with tasks for neighbors, or really anything born of independence and self-sufficiency. Parents do all that for them now, and if they try to make the kids do it for themselves, someone calls child services and screams NEGLECT! It's depressing and I'm so glad I didn't reproduce.
The 80's was a great time to be a kid. I was born in 1968, so all of my teenage years were in the 80's. Life was very different when those of us who are Generation Xers were growing up. In those days, there was no social media and no cell phones. People had home computers then, but those computers were word processers, not online computers. We remember when Spam was a lunch meat, and when a tweet was a sound a bird made, and not a comment you posted on Twitter. We remember when "tick-tock" (TikTok) was the sound a clock made. We remember when liking something meant that you were fond of it, not because you clicked the "Like" button on Facebook or RUclips. How times have changed! I miss those days! The 80's weren't perfect, but life was definitely better back then.
i too was a 80s kid and 90s youth and i must disagree, particularly the 80s were awful in every aspect be it fashion (extremely cringe), music (mainly synth pop and hair metal, cringe of all cringes there could ever be), lack of decent tech and communication, limited access to information. instant communication and access to info should've been a birth right even way before the 80s, though. decent music was inaccessible, one would have to spend a fortune on multiple albums. today, any music and genre is at our fingertips. i'm grateful i could catch the internet era when i was rel. young and would be even more grateful if i'd been born somewhere late 90s or early 2000s.
@@jmsessn I think a lot of it depends on the person. There were things about the 80's I didn't like, either. I started listening to country music when I was 13 years old. Being a teenager at the time, a lot of people in my age group thought this was strange. They would say things like, "Why don't you listen to Michael Jackson?" or, "Why don't you listen to Madonna?". Well, as far as pop/rock music goes, I prefer the kind from the 70's, like David Cassidy, or The Carpenters. A lot of pop/rock from the 80's just doesn't appeal to me. And I hate heavy metal! Country music is still, and will always be, my favorite music genre. 80's and 90's country, that is. As far as 80's fashion, I remember when parachute pants were all the rage, but I never wore them. I just wore jeans and a casual top or a pullover sweater, and either tennis shoes, sandals, or boots, depending on what time of year it was. I wasn't your typical teenage girl, as far as my taste in music or clothing. But I do have fond memories of that decade. Like I said, it wasn't perfect, but definitely better than the decade we're living in now. The 90's was a great decade too. I'm not at all fond of the way life is in the 21st century. If time travel was possible, I'd go back to the 20th century in a heartbeat!
I was born in Feb 83 so I experienced the best of both worlds, I’m old enough to remember an analog world, but young enough to remember the emergence of the internet and the rise of the cell phone and everything else. I first played video games on the Atari 2600 and still game today on a PlayStation 5 because I fell in love with gaming from those old primitive games and my interest in games continued. I remember all the great music from the 80s, and some of my first cassette tapes were hand me downs from my older Gen X sister, including Metallica, Guns N Roses, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, etc. I remember rollerblading in the 90s all over town with my friends, and I learned to drive on a manual transmission car. Even though I only have vague memories of the late 80s, I love going through all my old photos from childhood.
Being a child of the 70s and a teenager of the 80s was great. I have no complaints about the time period I grew up in. It's hard to describe to other people, what it was like to not be tied down to a device. They can't comprehend how it was to leave your house and not have a phone on you, for one small example. Life was much simpler, much more straight forward. You had time to think. There wasn't an endless ocean of information thrust at you 24/7. Time to breath. Time to really take in life at a normal human pace.
The people born in a few choice decades -- roughly the 1920s through the 1970s -- are the only humans who will EVER know what it is like both to live in the world without technology, and with it.
@@Lunafalls I agree. That said, we need to remember that the technological changes of the past 30 years pale in comparison to those of the early 20th century: Cars, planes, electricity, refrigeration, radio, etc.
@@Lunafalls oh the 80s was certainly not a world without technology. It's just it lacked many of the technologies that are especially harmful to the fabric of human society and especially conducive to mental stress, technologies like cell phones, the internet, social media, lifelike video games, CCTV cameras, tracking devices, biometric scanners, smart meters, 5G, cashless payments, automated chatbots and helplines, AI household virtual assistants, robot dogs in parks threatening people to wear masks, robot vacuum cleaners, drones, washing machines that communicate with your fridge, houses that can lock and unlock themselves, lightbulbs that come on and off automatically, and the list goes on. Technology had already gone too far by the time we reached the 80s, but then the world just went to complete extremes, and then it was impossible to pretend that everything was okay anymore.
It's really amazing how social media has made everyone unsocial. I grew up in the 70's & 80's, playing outside, climbing trees, a quick drink from a water hose, riding bikes with friends and so much more. I loved it.
that's the way childhood should be - including drinking out the hose. Gasp! Overprotective parents. Kids drink from the hose and lived to tell the tale.
i think social media is the worst thing that happened to society in a long time (obviously excluding wars and such). the internet is fine and all, as long as you use it for information and some entertainment at home. but being available all the time and having so much stream of information flooding you all the time, especially the negative stuff, is just poison for humans.
At first social media was a good thing. It gave a lot of introverts and people who struggle to find friends in person an opportunity to meet others like themselves. If you remember, only "nerds" used to use computers. It wasn't until the late 2000s when smart phones came out and it became super easy to get on the internet that it went to crap. A lot of stuff online was free and ads were pop ups that could be blocked.
@@carlosmarx2380 I totally agree. there's no question that the internet is very useful, but it's also destroying family unity, relationships and our society as a whole. There's a whole world out there, but now, there's nothing left for the imagination.
@@jorgeguardado6015 the freedom I had at an early age made me independent and resourceful. Danger was everywhere but we managed to avoided it. We had to solve our own problems and get out of trouble before the adults found out. SF native genX.
I remember riding in my uncle's pickup down a two-track, spotting dear one evening. The tailgate was down and we were sitting on it...he driving wasn't fast. Still, he hit a dip and my cousin fell off onto the trail. He wasn't hurt...but I still laugh to this day! 😂🤣😂🤣 Those were good days! ✌
Playing Star Wars in the back of the old station wagon! What bunch of wimps we've become. Sure, bad things happen but life ain't worth living with a bunch of bubble-wrap suffocating us.
what I miss, and I wasn't even aware of it at the time, is the lack of dysfunctional politics. you had the nightly news, and that was that. no endless hours of pundits with their commentaries and opinions. not only is it exhausting, it's divisive.
@@aclark903 I am aware of the violence in Ireland. and I am truly sorry that you had to be a part of it or witness it. I'm not saying. things were perfect. It was just we were not subject to news 24 hours a day.
@@MikeB-qm4ywnah bro, this still applies to the 2000s . Even tho phones were out in the mid 2000s smart phones where not popular and mostly our parents had them . I was born in 2001 and this seems something I use to do
This brings back a lot of fond and fun memories. I graduated high school in 1980. I remember as a kid growing up at the end of a dead-end road, and we explored the woods endlessly. We came home when it was dark, and nobody minded
Our beings came over for a card party. Her parents asked her to run home n get some potato chips. She was kidnapped. Remains found years later. No idea who did it
I think if the internet had just been limited to information and commerce (with rules applied from the start to level the playing field to protect physical stores), we'd be a lot healthier mentally than we are. Social media has quite honestly allowed people a platform who belong in an asylum. It's done a lot of damage.
@@soothsayer1964Social media and cell phones is the worst thing ever invented, because it made people stop visiting each other. And when people visit someone they are still sitting on social media on the phone...As you say mental problems became a huge problem because of social media. RUclips is the only "social media" i use, because RUclips doesn't control you unlike Facebook, Twitter etc. If Facebook didn't exist, most people would have a better life. The good days of internet ended around year 2000. I used internet since 1991.
@@V3ntilator absolutely. It has essentially provided the means for people to disconnect themselves from the rest of society. In the wake of that has come a kind of psychopathy born of remoteness from a sense of community with real people. As a result someone dying in the street nowadays is more likely to be met with a host of camera lenses for a throwaway online post than with any level of empathy and compassion. I'd like to see the lot switched off for the sake of western society. The freaks that influence others on it can go through cold turkey. At least they'd be losing their audience of vulnerable and malleable young minds.
I graduated HS in 1982 so my younger years were the 70's and 80's. I am not kidding one single bit when I tell folks I would give up all the technological advances of today if I could go back to that time. Those were the best years of my life and I know how fortunate I was to have experienced that time firsthand!
Growing up in the 70s as a teen was awesome! No cell phones, no cameras to forever record your mistakes, and no internet to display said mistakes for all time and everyone to see! Much simpler times.
I guess you had a reason to fear those recordings then. I for one just didn't think about these things because they simply didn't exist back then, but now they do and claiming to want to go back to a time without them is hypocritical. For the record, I was already an adult in the 80s and grew up even without a lot of things kids in the 80s took for granted. That didn't make me want to revert progress though.
I'm 68 and I grew up in those times and you bet they were a foundation to build on in life however they weren't all that damned sweet to some of us kids from those times !! Might I add probably the only sane explanation as to how I'm sitting here all these years later and replying ! Parents in those days were no different than those of today as far as love goes only they had to rule some of us with an "iron love" ,some call ,"Tough love "! In other words there were no time outs . The only times out we had was out the door and gone or get the shit beat out of you so you remembered the next time ! TOUGH LOVE !!! Now don't get me wrong young people parents have a vision of where they want you to be in life even if they beat you there . All generations are lucky to have parents who give a damn enough about you to care ! Think about those out there who don't have that great gift from GOD then it kinda puts things in a different light ! Right now young people do take my advice , the very same my father gave me once ,"Make your memories while you are young "! You hold the future in your hands and never leave GOD out of the picture before you as it is only going to get worse .
YES!!! I grew up in the late 60s---early 70s, and was a latchkey kid. Both parents worked, and I had a key to the house on a chain around my neck. I was alone for a few hours before Mom came home. The only thing I was required to do was my homework first before going out to play. That didn't take long. During summer vacation, I was at home all day, and hung out with friends all day. Freedom was bliss. Never got into any trouble. (Jan Griffiths).
THIS. I have taught high school, am so horrified but the joyless hateful culture kids have today. what's even more horrifying is the young people think they are morally superior to the past. they have no way of knowing because they didn't see how much better life used to be. The past had it's flaws, but the misery and rage today is so much higher than it used to be.
How i miss the 80s! This trip down memory lane makes me think of how the 2020s seem dull and depressing by comparison! I just turned 51 the other day and I'm missing my girlfriend since our relationship started growing apart last new years eve! I wish i could go back in time for a day or a week, the 80s seemed so simple and uncomplicated and i miss my mom too, she died in 2015! Very well done video, it really makes me want to go back!
I feel so privileged to have grown up in such a wonderful time (born in ‘73). Just yesterday, I told my kids, 18 and 20, that if I sent them back in time to the ‘80’s for a week, they would never want to come back to present time. They both agreed.
@@PureBloodedwolf Parents didn’t mess anything up to this degree. It was government that screwed things up. They’ve also forced universities to comply. Otherwise no funding for them.
It's weird getting old isn't it? I'm a little younger than you, but still considered middle aged(older than the middle of average life expectancy), seems like yesterday I was a teenager, what my parents and grandparents told me was true, youth really is wasted on the young. It's a curse that you can't appreciate it, until it's too late.
I tell my boyfriend at least once a month, how I'd give almost anything to go back to a nice, crisp Autumn day in the 80s. Just to be at my Grandparents house in say 85' or 86', when I was 5/6 yrs old, just watching my Gran watching Young and the Restless, or Price is Right on any random weekday. 😢
Same here as if I was watching Jefferson's what's happening and Good times right before the afternoon cartoons came on sit with my Mom in the barn listening to the rain hit the tin roof while she sang me songs I'd give anything to have that back
wait do all grandmas watch young and the restless bc mine did too😭 (just so you know i was born in 2008 so sadly i have never had the ability to feel what a crisp autumn day in the 80s is like but i know that i was born in the wrong generation lol i absolutely hate phones and how they've impacted us so i would gladly go back in time if i had the opportunity haha)
I would love to go back for a Saturday at my Nanna's place playing with all of my cousins in the yard. Then 30 of us eating dinner in a tiny kitchen and then watching some great movie like Charlie and the Chocolate factory on the TV in one of those units that had a record player and radio.
As someone who graduated high school in 2004, I’m thankful that I was among the last groups of kids to get through my school years without smart phones existing. Society was better off before iPhones and social media.
Yes! I'm in high school right now and the energy is TERRIBLE because everyone is just staring at their phones. There are days that I go most of the day without speaking.
Digital world has stuffed the future for all young and old. kids would not b able to live 30yrs ago no mobile phones or computres we wearnt alourd to use calulators let alone computers
@@adammiles3095 Agreed. I try to keep my life and entertainment off the internet as much as possible but it's so hard when we have to use technology in-class and for assignments.
I graduated high school in 2014, so I got to see both worlds. It was pretty wild watching everything change so gradually, like from 2001-2010 everything was still pretty old school but by 2012 I remember my high school switching out text books for mac books and everybody started having cell phones that's when technology really exploded
As an 80s kid this video is incredibly accurste to me growing up in Canada, brought back alot of memories, i miss those much simpler days, i think this is the way life should be. Sometimes i think the internet destroyed much
I grew up in the 80s. As I have grown older I have learned to appreciate what a hopeful and enthusiastic time it was. There was a natural assumption that the world was only going to get better and better and the future would always be bright. God bless John Hughes movies.
I think everyone does this where they look through rose tinted glasses. Their was Aids which was killing people and no cure or even a way to slow it down. Crime/violence became worse. The market crash of 87. Drug abuse became a huge concern.
No mass shootings and owning a firearm wasn’t a big deal but I remember no one really kept one in their car. The biased media wasn’t a big deal because there were other things to worry about.
@@tonyp9313 Man, we had it all. The biggest thing was taking Dad's wooden fishing boat and go to a little island in the river, camping for a night. We were 12 and just gone 24 hours without phones or trackers LOL
Born in 1970, I would not trade places for a kid growing up today. I love the freedom I had, and the awesome music, movies and culture in general. And PRIVACY, was a given.
Absolutely. I often feel sorry for modern generations, they'll never know how different it was, a time connected to a feeling that cannot be described to anyone who hasn't lived it.
We found our parent's occult books and set up standing stones and pentagrams and altars, complete with skulls, crystals and feathers. Sure beat doing the drugs our parents did.
That's true, I graduated 04. We had cell phones but text was barley a thing and you had a set amount of minutes lol and roaming. And we would just romed the streets and most parents got home around 5 or 6 depending on traffic. I miss those days for sure
i was born in 1998 and i feel such a powerful feeling watching videos from the 1970s 1980s & 1990s. it makes me sad, i wish i could’ve experienced these 3 decades in all their glory.
I remember the 80’s quite well. I had a good childhood, and most of what was said here applied to me and my friends growing up. I survived, I lived and I loved it.
Yeahhh no we need weed allowed in resturant back then and now dawg. People have become retarded thanks to the internet. Chasing clout instead of making actual friendships with people.
I'm not a smoker anymore either, but I still wish they would have smoking sections. It just felt like there were more freedoms back then compared to today. When I was a smoker I really enjoyed just having a cigarette with friends and sitting around drinking refills or coffee after the meal. This is something that you just don't see anymore.
@@MikeB-qm4yw Yeah car safety is better but I think people are worse drivers, and there are more of them. People just don't pay attention or take it seriously anymore. When people got into an accident before, it was usually because they were drunk.
Best part was we didn't have social media making mush of our brains and causing social anxiety and depression. We could watch a concert without staring into a phone and we weren't constantly competing with our peers. I'm so glad I'm late middle aged
Growing up literally out in the "sticks" as us country folks call it. The only socializing I did was during school hours. I've had social anxiety most of my whole life & depression brought on by CA & DA by my father. I'm happy with the social contact because that's how I communicate with my 4 daughters. I lived in Ohio from birth (1971) until 2007. My 2 oldest daughters & grandson still reside there, after moving to Washington State in 2007 with my 2nd husband & our two daughters, my third oldest graduating from there & moving to North Carolina for 4 years of college in 2016, & my youngest daughter still residing in Washington State after she graduated high school in 2018, I moved to the state of Missouri in 2020. So, being so far apart, we keep tabs on one another through social media. But, my girls will never experience what life was like for me growing up in the 70s and part of my childhood in the early 80s & my teen years until 1990. My adulthood / motherhood began in 1991.
Y'all had polaroids and sony cameras. Y'all competed with your neighbors and the cliques in your schools worse than the current generations ever did. Boomer and silent generations are the ones that gave birth to living above your means. Debt bubbles started in your decades.
Me too; I wouldn't want to be young in this hell hole we live in today for nothing. What, so I could be all tatted up, walk around looking like I'm homeless, condoning race mixing, having no morals at all, homosexuality, trans genderism, and socialism? No thanks!
Ah the good old days! My kids all were out playing all day long until street lights came on. And yeah the collect calls from "the movie is over now". Have to love the ingenuity! Another great, memory-filled video.
Those collect calls came in handy unless your parents were running around somewhere or outside. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories with your kids.
i remember the recorded collect call thing..but there must have been a time before that when everyone could hear each other and a human operator, because i remember a friend who went to college out of state and when his parents wanted to see if he was ok and not pay for long distance (hmm now i don't even think of long distance charges) they'd call him and he'd answer and when the operator asked to speak to a donald, he'd say "donald's practicing the trumpet right now" which would mean he's ok.
I was JUST telling my kids about the collect calls back then! We would call our friends collect (cause we had no cell phones) and instead of our names, we would say "I'm at the arcade on the boardwalk" or wherever we were lol
I rode my bike everywhere. Now, I live in a small town with tons of kids and I rarely see kids riding bikes. It's the perfect town for bikes but you hardly see them. The kids just walk everywhere, even if it's a couple of miles away.
I was a kid during the 90s (born in 85) and a lot of these applied to that decade too, at least the first 2/3 of it. I feel like that was the last decade where kids could just be kids and have some reasonable freedoms and responsibilities to go with them.
@@davidturney2975 ~ It was bound to happen eventually. Now look what a disaster the country is in as a result. Kids are thin skinned, committing suicide at alarming rates. We were raised with the old "Sticks and stones...." saying. But today, if a person just says the slightest thing against another, they get punished. We are living in a world where everyone needs bubble wrap for protection even with little things...
I have to ask a person that grew up in this era. Why have most of you raised your kids to be such wimps, your parents would have never put a mask on you or would have you put it on. Did you as parents become wimps?
I grew up in Brazil in the 80's and it's amazing how much of this video applies to us as well almost identically. The movies shots bring back good memories.
and its awful because most kids want to go outside but theres no safety (like the danger of getting stabbed in some areas are too real), no space to go to or some people just don't go. although there are still a lot of children just being themselves, going out and playing outside :) I feel like it also falls onto parents not wanting to spend time with kids or being too busy and giving the kids ipads and games so they dont distract the parents
We did have computers in the 80s and video games. Maybe you forgot the Steve Jobs & Apple or Commodore, and Atari? We also had video games: the Atari 2600, the Intellivision, ColecoVision, and of course, the Nintendo NES. And of course, we had video game arcades.
@@LadyCrest Parents did similar things in the 80s, the whole "Latchkey Kid" phenomena started in the 80s, and the primary pacifier for kids was the TV, instead of the iPhone.
eye must amit -- it was harder 2b a grifter back then. today eye can easily acuse erreyone under da sun of raycissm, get away wit it, and get paid 4 it.
I was born in 79, and I still remember the days of walking over to a friends house and knocking on the front door and grabbing our bikes and riding out to the park or the community pool. No cell phones and no social media, just normal human interaction.
i dont know from where you are, but in europe thaz still a thing, kid's parks are filled, kids do ride bikes, do play outside, do visit each others and play games like we did on comodore or amiga or atari in 80ties. we here manage our kid's times, they have a certain time for screens per day and thaz it. majority of kids will have cell phones when they start school, age 6/7 but only when they go outside of house, like to school, or to play or what ever, so that we are abel to reach them if they dont come home on time. at the age 12 they pretty much have it as their own all the time, but it is supervised, communication and things they do till around 16, than supervision and time managing completly stops, . then they are almost adults and old enoigh to know certain things, at 18 they are legal adults and it is on them what they will do with their lives and time.. pubs and bars are filled, night clubs too, young people everywhere interacting, same as places for younger kids and teens. it is no different when i was a kid in the 80ties..
Around '85, my grandmother got stung by a bee. Being allergic, she ran inside and tried to administer a needle containing an adrenaline shot. The needle broke off and so she failed to get the dose, later suffering cardiac arrest. The paramedics revived her, but she died in the hospital a few days later. It was extremely traumatic for me as I was like 12 at the time. The epipen came out a couple years later. When my Dad got stung sometime around '88, my mom administered the epipen and saved him from anaphylaxis. Probably saved his life.
I was a child in the 1980s, and some of the things that I did as a kid, would probably give some of today's parents a heart attack. I rode in the backs of pickup trucks, with and without camper shells on them, and none of the adults in my life thought anything of it! And sometimes on long road trips, I even laid down on the dash in the back window! I played on playground equipment that was set in CONCRETE, even those spinny merry-go-round things! And when I was a kid, NOBODY wore bike helmets. Most of the ones that were available at that time were ugly, clunky, uncomfortable ones, and you looked like a real oddball if you wore one! I lived a small Midwestern town, and I could spend HOURS playing outside, sometimes alone, and sometimes with the neighborhood kids. It was a different time for sure!
When I was a kid, I remember riding in the back of my dad's truck, the tailgate down, and myself on my belly riding with my head at the edge of the tailgate. I often would sit on the hump above the wheel well. If you ran over something, you had to make sure that you didn't bounce too high. Regarding bikes, I would regularly coast down a steep hill at high speeds without using my handle bars. We also used to get in a cardboard box and push each other down a steep hill.
@@willp.8120 Oh, yes. Cardboard sledding was the best, except when we shot out into the stream and the bottom of the hill. The it was back to the grocery store to beg for boxes again. Don't know how we managed to survive riding our bikes, wagons (towed behind a bike), roller skating, riding our scooters (foot powered back in the day) and our rudimentary skateboards (that our dad's made for us using a a narrow board (1 x 2 .... now that took some footwork to stay on) and a metal ball bearing skate taken apart (usually the other skate was either broken or mysteriously went missing .... wink wink) .... rode all of those with no helmet, elbow, knee or wrist protection ..... there was only one kid in the neighbor who got hurt .... on her skates cuz she was a clumsy kid, tripped over her own feet, broke her arm, wore a cast for the requisite 6-7 weeks, cast came off, skates went on and down she went and broke the arm again, her parents got rid of the skates ...... how we never got hurt riding the wagon I don't know ..... one kid on a bike with a tow rope on the back, 2 - 3 kids in the wagon towing us up the alley and when we got to the point where you could turn to the left to another alley or stay on the the alley to go straight, we went straight ...... down a hill to where it intersected a street, and we would shoot across the street and into the alley on the other side ......
My sister used to sleep in the back window on trips. Lol! There were six of us in a car driving between NC and PA until my parents got a station wagon! Then my sister and I rode in the 3 rd row seat that faced backwards with no seat belts!
@@douglasgriffiths3534 yes. That is way different! My oldest son had a bad motorcycle wreck! It could have been worse. A car turned left in front of them at a light and he didn’t know because the car didn’t have the right away but couldn’t see around the car facing him. My son just remembers flying over the hood of the car! And his friend also wrecked his bike at the same time.
Class of ‘87 here. I wouldn’t trade my childhood for what they have today. Not for a second. Social media is something I’m so glad we didn’t have. Freedom is something they scarcely understand today. We played all day. Summer lasted FOREVER. And the street lights were the universal time clock.
for me it was before it got dark, I lived in the country and there were no street lights. doors were unlocked and windows open during summer to enjoy the cool night air. home made popcorn balls and candy or Carmel apples were huge at Halloween too. we trick or treated the area with no worries. With some of the games we came up with we were lucky we didn't cripple ourselves. Wouldn't change when or where I grew up for a million bucks.😂😂😂
Looking back at my childhood it feels like the 80’s were custom made for kids. I was born in ‘74 and it was just flat-out fun growing up during that time. So much freedom!
I was born February 23, 1974 I have seen a picture of the " carseat" that I came home in. It was a scrap of fabric on a wire frame that kinda reminds me of the bouncer seat that my eldest son had in 93 before the fancy vibrating one came out. One of my favorite memories were riding in the back of my Uncles Truck. ( however my 7th grade locker mate was killed riding in the back of a truck on a dump run, he was holding on to an old mattress that instead of letting it go it pulled him out of the back a he landed under it on his head) but for the most part my childhood was the best days of my life. We didn't even have cable just attena TV and only got PBS every day and anything else was a bonus. Yes,we had to pick a switch, but not that often because we knew that we would get it if we didn't do what we were told. But seriously, I don't think that boundaries are a bad thing at all and maybe we need more for the new generation of kids.
Same here too. The parts of the video with the kids and their bikes brought back a bunch of memories of hanging out with friends all day safely outdoors.
When the back seat of the car was full and I wanted to lie down, I'd climb up the seat and lie on the back dash. I did a lot of daydreaming and star gazing through the rear window on long trips.
This is a blast from the past. "Helicopter parenting" wasn't a a thing back then, unless the kid's parents were very religious. One of my best friends from elementary to high school had religious parents, and I used to let him hide his Heavy Metal t-shirts and cassettes at my house. Before we walked to school (about a 1.5 miles), he'd come to my house first and change his t-shirt, and then change back after school before he went home. LOL, good times.
That's definitely a difference. The only kids I knew who had helicopter parents were in very wealthy uppity families. One was told that she had to stop being friends with me because her parents only wanted her to be seen with wealthy kids who had expensive clothes. Meanwhile, I was blowing up cans with firecrackers in an abandoned barn with my cousin. Our parents knew what we were doing, that's who gave us hundreds of fire crackers!
Good old Satanic Panic! Watch out! They wear black and they listen to demonic music! Some of them have long hair and lots of eyeliner and black nail polish. We did the Devil's work.
As a kid in the 70s, we never really appreciated how much freedom we had in our own time, until now. Rarely had time to get bored. At the time, things mentioned in this vid were just common place. Today, we look back on them so fondly. Yes. Summing up, childhood years _are_ the happiest years of our lives.
I remember we played outside with our neighbourhood friends. We played hide n seek. We had those banana seat bikes. It was simpler. Things changed in the early 90's and parents didn't let their kids play outside anymore.
The one thing I am happy my kids can still experience is to cycle by themselves through the neighbourhood and come home when the streetlights turn on. The first time I let my daughter out all by herself on her bike she later came home excited and said she felt liberated and truly free like she had never felt before. It's the one thing we managed to keep where I live (in NL) that I am happy still exists. We have playgrounds through the neighbourhood and many kids still rome the streets alone and play outside by themselves with other children.
As a child born in '77 I'm also glad I got to live in these times though the UK was a little different. One of the playground games of choice used to be conkers (bashing horse chestnuts on strings together to beat your opponent's conker to bits). It got banned in UK schools in the early 2000s in case injuries occurred, how ridiculous 😂
This was so awesome to remember all the commercials of the 80's. Pay phones, being out late with friends, not wearing seatbelts or helmets/ pads. Times were definitely better back then and people worried less. Those days are truly missed.
the 90s were good too... i was born in 87 and i loved the 90s but yes 60's 70's 80's and the 90's were the best.. the 90's were the very last of the real kids doing anything and having fun and using their imagination... everything after the 90's is sad tho.
I was born in 1973. The thing I miss the most is feeling safe and secure. The biggest issue I think we dealt with was stranger danger. I remember watching a video in elementary school about Lester the molester in a yellow rain jacket. "Don't talk to strangers" was the big saying back then. If I only could turn back time for the teenagers now, I would if I could.
And, don't hitchhike or pick up hitchhikers. I once saw a 17-year-old high school girl hitching a ride along a busy highway. I figured if I didn't pick her up, some molester just might. So, I picked her up, and she just wanted to get home. I asked her where it was. She told me, and I took her there. But, before I let her out of my car, I gave her a stern lecture about the dangers of hitchhiking. I told her she was lucky I picked her up and not some pervert. She said I scared her. Good! Hopefully, she quit doing it. I probably wouldn't get away with that, today. And that's the ONLY time I've ever picked up someone I didn't know. I was taking a chance, as some of today's modern youth aren't above knifing someone like me, and I supposed it could have happened back then.. But I could feel that this girl was okay. She just wanted to go home. Perhaps she had missed the school bus?
I was born in 1973 and graduated high school in 1991. I feel like I was so lucky to have grown up in the 70s and 80s. It was such a wonderful time to be a kid. Kids from the 90s and 2000s like my children will never understand how totally awesome it was :)
We had a lot of freedom... And that freedom was coupled with the understanding that actions have consequences. Little by little we traded freedom for safety... But in doing so we also traded in common sense and accountability.
I was a teenager in the 80s...It reminds me how free and happy we were, we weren't afraid of anything, we talked to each other by looking into each other's eyes, not by texting. We formed an opinion by talking to each other and observing around us, not on social networks run by millionaires who make even more money with our personal data, where the ostentatious philosophy "Look how amazing I am - look how my life is amazing" dominates...we LIVED life, we didn't constantly take pictures of it and we rarely filmed it. Also, great music was coming from everywhere, we didn't know where to turn: Tears for fears, Depeche Mode, B-52's, Bowie, The Police, Simple Minds, Rush...today's pop makes me nauseous and smart phones = a huge planetary lobotomy...Yes, the 80s, what a time! I miss it a lot.
Social media should be like the phone was to us. You talked to awhile and made plans. Talked about whatever. Hung up and went out to meet up with our friends and did stuff. Social media should be like the phone to connect but, not your life.
I enjoy seeing movies with the old mall culture as you called it, when it was at its peak. Films like Smooth Talk with Laura Dern, Fast Times of course, Weird Science is another great one. I wish I could have been in a big enough city and been alive to experience it at the time. :(
I did not get to experience Mall culture until I went into the Navy in San Diego 2000. TBH. I was a rural kid 1995-2000. We would drive our cars or ride with our friends who had cars down a main street in 1995-1999. Kind of like American Graffiti, but 90s style. No joke Sincerely honest.
The funniest thing I think about is that when I was younger, around 8 or 9. I didn't really understand the difference between 'miner' and minor', and when cigarette machines had that warning that said 'minors forbidden to operate this machine' I thought it was because of something to do with coal dust. I was smart enough to understand that coal dust is explosive, but not smart enough to see the difference between 'minor and miner'.
Born in 68, was a teen throughout the 80's this video is so accurate!! Being a kid in the 70's , and teen in the 80's people who were young in this era were truly lucky!!!! Today's youth are being cheated!!!!
But the kids who are growing up today don't think it sucks. To them, it's just regular life. When they're older, they will say the present time was "the good old days". (But we know better, haha.)
I miss the 80s. I wish my kids could have experienced them. The best feeling as a kid was a great adventure, and the feeling that the next day was going to be just as good or even better.
Yeah & then you're kids would learn that Rotary phones, a Black & white tv, access to video games would be terrible. You'll be scaring them since this generation is soft.
@@theniteowl7777 I don't remember being that worried about it. I had better things to do, like climb trees, ride my bike, build forts, etc. Worrying was something for the grown-ups to deal with.
I grew up in the 1950s and a lot of the things covered in this video are very familiar, especially kids having the freedom to roam the neighborhood for the entire day without any adult supervision. I remember buying a pack of cigarillos at the corner store when I was nine years old. I just told the guy behind the counter but they were for my dad and there were no questions asked. My friend and I smoked them (at least tried to, they tasted really bad) as we rode our one speed bikes around town feeling very cool. We put pennies on the railroad track to to see if they would get crushed. The main difference is that in the 1950s we didn’t have malls. Older kids hung out at a local diner or the Tastee Freez. There were only three TV channels with only one television in the home. It was black and white and was always breaking down. It was common to have a TV repairman come out to replace one of the many tubes that had burned out. Most people today don’t even know what a tube looks like!
@@haleytruslow7200 Well, really, all CRT TVs up until they made LCD TVs were "Tube" TVs. The reason is because the CRT IS the tube (Cathode Ray TUBE). The screen is literally just a massive vacuum tube with a reactive chemical coating on the inside to give the picture.
I was born in 64 so that was a bit before my time but of course I've heard about all the things you talked about. The late 60s and early 70s were still pretty care free times to be a kid also, maybe not as much as the 50s but pretty safe. We still had one TV in the house although I did know people by the 70s that had a second set, usually in the parents bedroom. We had a big mall within walking distance so it was always a hangout for teens and kids, it had an arcade with pinball and later video games and a pool hall which we hung out in more when we were in our teens. Back when both of us were kids you had to leave the house and go see your friends to have fun, now kids have cell phones, computers, video games. 100s of TV stations etc and don't even have to go anywhere to be entertained.
In the 1980's there was always that cool friend who's parents had the big console TV, cable service and a VCR. We thought being able to rent VHS tapes was modern and luxurious!
@@haleytruslow7200 Actually the tubes I was referring to were small vacuum tubes about the size of a salt shaker that were found on the inside of the TV. By the 1960s these small tubes were replaced by transistors which were much more compact and reliable. The vacuum tubes in early TVs were always burning out and you had to call a TV repairman (it always was a man) to remove the burned out tubes and plug in new ones. In addition to the TV repair man we had a milkman who delivered bottles of milk every few days. The milk came in heavy glass bottles that were reusable. The empties were placed in a small insulated chest located near the front door. The milkman would pick up the empties and put in a couple of filled bottles. In retrospect, I have no idea why it was handled this way since there were food markets (smaller versions of modern supermarkets) where my mother shopped for vegetables, meat, and canned goods. For all I know these old food markets also sold milk but most people still had milk delivered to their houses. Finally, while I’m on this nostalgia trip there were door-to-door salesman who sold vacuum cleaners, encyclopedias, and hairbrushes (referred to as Fuller Brush salesmen named after the company that dominated the market). These door-to-door salesmen would literally go from house to house knocking on doors asking if the housewife (in middle class families most mothers did not work outside the home) was interested in buying what they were selling.
As a zoomer a couple things jump out. As a kid, my friend came over for an hour or two and his bike was stolen during that time. So the idea of kids leaving their bikes in the yard is unfathomable. Higher trust neighborhoods back then. The chickenpox thing is quite jarring given the state of things in the 2020s. I think social media has exacerbated fear in people to an insane degree.
It's true though. In my old stomping grounds during the late 70's & very early 80's, my sister left her bicycle outside all the time, and no one bothered it. Now, you can't even have a flower pot sitting there, someone will steal it. Kids can't go outside and play either without risk of being attacked by other kids...
@@travis7211 ~ Since they have a vaccine for chicken pox now, probably not. My son had the cp shot at around 8 or 9 years old. He's an adult now, and he's never had chicken pox...
I can confirm that our lives was exactly like this in the 80'es. I am so happy that I was young that time and not now , we enjoyed so much those years. We had freedom and friendship, we listen good music and play sports all the times. We always meet our friends in reality, not on the media platforms and we always enjoy each other company, having fun with the girls, dancing or listen music in the parks, planning hikes in the mountains or parties. And laughing a lot. Since then, the life downgraded every year under the burden of bans and stupid rules.
@@paulquantumblues3599 Well I guess everything happens in the world, what I meant was they weren't a common thing. Who would intentional expose their child to an infection?
I'll never forget a team beach party for my little league team in 1981. We all piled in the back of our coaches pickup truck and travelled the five miles on the freeway to Bolsa Chica Beach. Couldn't imagine what would happen to him today if he had fourteen 12-year old's in the back of a truck.
I’m an 80s baby but a 90s kid. I remember all of these things growing up. I also remember when they started to fade them out and implement new things. What a time to be a live.
The reason Stranger Things worked in it's early seasons is because that's actually how kids interacted in the 80s. These are memories of those early years that were long dormant. Stuff I didn't even know I remembered, but we actually did all of this.
I was born in 85, and I sure as hell dont envy kids today. Most of the stuff in this video also applied to the 90s and it was amazing how much freedom we had as kids. Our parents trusted us to take care of ourselves outside the house. Ofc the lack of constant adult supervision meant that accidents that would send you to the hospital could very well happen more often than today, but our parents knew that we would learn from our mistakes on our own.
@@user-rn6gw6hg9w 80s culture with early 2000s technology sounds like a dream world, I want this so bad and I want this to persist forever, never changing.
A trip to the hospital for my brother's & I was a half hour to an hour away so we had to be seriously injured or near death before we'd get taken to the hospital.
Agreed about the loitering thing, There's so few places people can go to just to loiter and just exist without being expected to spend a fortune. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. It's strange how there's like nothing to do for free without getting harassed by cops for just chilling.
Idk man, that's not really a thing in Tennessee. Still pretty much the same as always. It's just that there's less places to go do that because not as many people go hang out anymore, it more online now.
@@rameynoodles152 Same in Florida. Most beaches are free, maybe $2 to park. A lot of our natural springs are also free entry. Also, I visited Smokey mountains a few months ago and Tennessee was truly beautiful. I’d love to go back one day.
The genius of a lot of ‘kid’ rated stuff from the ‘60’s, ‘70’s and’80’s is that kids were still pretty innocent, so while there was enough ‘kid’ humour to make stuff work, it’s rewatching it in adulthood when you see the things that you weren’t old enough to get the first time round. Kids these days know too much. I miss that more than anything, innocence.
I was born in 1971 and I can tell you I would give up all modern conveniences to go back to those days. We are living in a dystopia compared to life in the '80s.
Pretty much spot on. Graduated high school in the class of 1983. Hell, in high school, we (students) had our own smoking area. Now I'm stuck with COPD so yeah, consequences. But for the most part, growing up in the 70's and 80's was about as awesome as you can imagine. Freedom and opportunity were boundless. I can't imagine growing up in these times we're living now, and I feel bad for anyone who has to. I guess you can't miss what you never had, but for those of us who had it, we know what you're missing.
Born 87, but consider myself a 90's kid. I was part of the last generation to grow up before we all became glued to our cellphones/smartphones and addicted to technology, and I am so thankful to have been born before "modern life". My family got our first computer in like 1999 I believe, but even the internet seemed better back then and it wasn't the only thing our lives revolved around like it is for people today. It seems like life started becoming more awful around like 2008 and kept getting worse and worse every year.
Well u were a kid in the 80’s tbf. I’m thinking take me back to 2015 because most of of my happy memories stem from that year in High school. Doesn’t mean the world was a better place
I wasn’t a “latch key kid” but rather we would just leave the back door unlocked. We never had anything stolen, so we never saw any reason to lock it. We would just come home from school, open the back door and go in. Both my parents worked all day so there wasn’t anyone home when we arrived. This was considered perfectly normal back then.
Loved growing up in the 80's,the music,the nightclubs,the live pub bands,the fashion,the hair,less rules and regulations and no drama!!! The 80's rocked! 😍
My BFF’s parents used to send us to the convenience store to buy cigarettes at around 7pm on school nights. It was dark by 4:30pm in the winter. 2 large packs of Rothmans every time they sent us. We were 8 years old. Out buying smokes, in the dark on a school night. Ahhh, good times lol.
I had a friend who was 12 (and who looked like he was 12) that used to buy cigarettes at the local gas station. No questions asked. No ID required. The 1980s were a totally different universe from today.
Just a quick ride on your Raleigh Tuff Burner to the shops and a lot of jealous jaw drops from kids as you ride past on something they could never afford.
I remember being 5 years old and my mother would give me a note for a few things at the store, including her cigarettes. I just handed the note and the money and they gave it to me.
Looking through these comments most all of the complaints about life now are cell phones and social media. If it's that bad can't you just turn them off?
1980 graduate here so I spent my youth in the 70s, what a great time to be alive and young. Music was our internet, super bands were all the rage and many of them were putting out albums like crazy and touring. socializing was all the rage not being alone and looking at your phone.
I remember watching "Dazed and Confused" with my dad and uncle once while getting incredibly stoned. My uncle, who was in high school the year the movie took place, said that being a high schooler in '77 was EXACTLY like that movie.
I grew up in the 70s. Born in 59. Grad high school in 77...just wanted to say some of this was true, some wasnt. It was definitly a blast and care free. A time of halter tops and cut off jeans, 12 dollar top band concerts, and swimming quarries where we partied and made love. The biggest thing so much better then than now: No social poisoning that the internet, cell phones and Facebook created. Cell phones are used 50% communication, 50% avoiding eye contact.
I get so jealous of people who grew up in the 80s-90s. The amount of freedom y’all had as kids and teens without the fear of being recorded or getting exposed over a mistake.
Yeah, nowadays it sucks because we are all under constant surveillance. There are cameras and microphones in countless places. Even this comment may go into my “master file.” If only “they” knew all the crazy stuff I did back in those days when nobody (or more correctly-nothing) was watching.
Not recorded meant only that people could make up whatever lies they wanted and tell everyone. Only your very closest friends wouldn't believe that crap. Yeah great days. Lol. We had fun. We pushed the rules into they shattered. When we had children we were terrified of them acting like us. That is why things have changed. We were the first bad generation, I mean across the country BAD. The hippies weren't as wide spread as most people think. I remember seeing my first hippies actually. The real drug/rebellion/sexual revolution happened in the 80's in the USA. Oh what a beautiful time to be young. Hahahaha.
@@jamessteele7102 you're wrong. Every single call we've made since the 50's has been recorded. There were cameras in many places that we knew nothing about. No our parents, school, nor local police had access to them. Do you know why ladies started going to the bathroom in groups? To turn on the water and whisper. Most spies have always been ladies. My granny was one. You'd be surprised, no shocked..better yet horrified to learn that all that crap you pretend you didn't do in front of your kids, grandkids, is recorded somewhere and still exists. Every beer you drank, every wild drive, every backseat boogie. All of it was recorded by our government with technology so good your third grade teacher could identify you. Do I care, well yeah, but I drank a lot so I've forgotten a lot and I'd love to see some of it now. When I had the chance I was still too young and dumb. Ugh.
No I'm not contradicting myself here. I know someone is going to say that. Our friends couldn't record us, nor our parents, school, or local business back then. That is what I mean in the first comment.
You have no idea how awesome the 80's were. It's something you'd have to be there for to understand. It was a magical time. Something that only happens once in a thousand years, in-fact, It's perhaps the only time such greatness ever existed.
As an 80's kid, hearing that first line "40 years ago" that hurts :(
Just translates "in better times".
Sure does.
I was invited to my 30th high school reunion last year…… I started doing ALOT of thinking after that
Sure does.. i had to count it for myself... 😭
Rest assured that every generation goes through that.
80’s girl here. I must say that I think kid’s have it much harder than we did. Having social media everywhere is brutal to young people.
Indeed. I think today’s kids live with enormous amount of pressure to mesure up to the cool kids on social media .
We didn’t have that pressure back then we were who we was and that was it
Agreed. There's a lot of ego nowadays. People like to brag and show off on social media. Hey look at me. I'm great kind of thing. It gives the idea you have to meet that standard so kids are under a lot of pressure these day.
@My Pronoun is WTF unfortunately today’s kids don’t have the will power to turn off social media like you and I have they’re control by the pressure from it. Subconsciously they’re immune and numb to social media pressure
But using social media is a choice. You don't have to use it. I hardly do.
@@ajs41 True
Born in ‘71, growing up in the 70’s and 80’s was truly an awesome time to be alive! I would give anything to go back to the way things were back then and get rid of all this ridiculous social media crap!
Agreed!
71 too totally agree
Do you know how to solve this problem? Just don’t use it.
@@thesnesgeek ...Agree. I haven't used my FB account for years. If I want to know how somebody is doing, I just call them and say hello. Easy.
Damn straight. Born in 77 here.
As a kid back then, I can tell you that things were so much more relaxed back then.
Thank you for watching Talia al Ghul!
Yeah, there were still just as many pedo's but we weren't bombarded with the news so we didn't really know about it.
Hitting kids is was relaxing?
True. But harder if you were a picture.
I agree im 40 years old now these is the most accurate description of how us kids grew up in that time frame
I had to chuckle recently when one of my nieces asked me if I was bored all the time growing up with no cell phones in the 70's and 80's. Honestly, kids today seem to be more bored than we were. I don't think I was ever bored as a kid. I guess more gadgets does not mean less boredom.
no because everything is done for you , no imagination involved.
Best time EVER
We didnt have time to get bored. If we were not at school we were certainly playing in the streets with friends, riding our bikes, having fun. No time for boredom. Best time ever. I am 42 now and am happy I grew up in the 80's.
Because we went OUTSIDE.
Thanks to constant handheld technology. Everyone is ovdrstimulated, and jaded...
LOVED being a latchkey kid!! The whole house to myself, TV turned on loud, self-made milkshakes, and singing at the top of my lungs. Also being outside from dawn to dusk with my friends in the weekends, exploring, getting into mischief and spending our pocket money on candy and collector cards.
Oh, and as a result I learned real-world applications for self-sufficiency, culinary skills, decision-making, bravery, socialisation and the value of money.
But never parental ❤️
BIG same. It's no wonder kids these days have all the problems they do. They never got a chance to learn to solve problems, work out issues between friends, make their own food, earn money with tasks for neighbors, or really anything born of independence and self-sufficiency. Parents do all that for them now, and if they try to make the kids do it for themselves, someone calls child services and screams NEGLECT! It's depressing and I'm so glad I didn't reproduce.
And then decided not to let your children do any of that oh, and here we are.
Same. (Jan Griffiths).
Me too!
The 80's was a great time to be a kid. I was born in 1968, so all of my teenage years were in the 80's. Life was very different when those of us who are Generation Xers were growing up. In those days, there was no social media and no cell phones. People had home computers then, but those computers were word processers, not online computers. We remember when Spam was a lunch meat, and when a tweet was a sound a bird made, and not a comment you posted on Twitter. We remember when "tick-tock" (TikTok) was the sound a clock made. We remember when liking something meant that you were fond of it, not because you clicked the "Like" button on Facebook or RUclips. How times have changed! I miss those days! The 80's weren't perfect, but life was definitely better back then.
i too was a 80s kid and 90s youth and i must disagree, particularly the 80s were awful in every aspect be it fashion (extremely cringe), music (mainly synth pop and hair metal, cringe of all cringes there could ever be), lack of decent tech and communication, limited access to information. instant communication and access to info should've been a birth right even way before the 80s, though. decent music was inaccessible, one would have to spend a fortune on multiple albums. today, any music and genre is at our fingertips. i'm grateful i could catch the internet era when i was rel. young and would be even more grateful if i'd been born somewhere late 90s or early 2000s.
Some good and some bad times
@@jmsessn I think a lot of it depends on the person. There were things about the 80's I didn't like, either. I started listening to country music when I was 13 years old. Being a teenager at the time, a lot of people in my age group thought this was strange. They would say things like, "Why don't you listen to Michael Jackson?" or, "Why don't you listen to Madonna?". Well, as far as pop/rock music goes, I prefer the kind from the 70's, like David Cassidy, or The Carpenters. A lot of pop/rock from the 80's just doesn't appeal to me. And I hate heavy metal! Country music is still, and will always be, my favorite music genre. 80's and 90's country, that is.
As far as 80's fashion, I remember when parachute pants were all the rage, but I never wore them. I just wore jeans and a casual top or a pullover sweater, and either tennis shoes, sandals, or boots, depending on what time of year it was. I wasn't your typical teenage girl, as far as my taste in music or clothing. But I do have fond memories of that decade. Like I said, it wasn't perfect, but definitely better than the decade we're living in now. The 90's was a great decade too. I'm not at all fond of the way life is in the 21st century. If time travel was possible, I'd go back to the 20th century in a heartbeat!
Yeah, and a friend was...a friend. Not some random person you add onto your social media.
I was born in Feb 83 so I experienced the best of both worlds, I’m old enough to remember an analog world, but young enough to remember the emergence of the internet and the rise of the cell phone and everything else. I first played video games on the Atari 2600 and still game today on a PlayStation 5 because I fell in love with gaming from those old primitive games and my interest in games continued. I remember all the great music from the 80s, and some of my first cassette tapes were hand me downs from my older Gen X sister, including Metallica, Guns N Roses, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, etc. I remember rollerblading in the 90s all over town with my friends, and I learned to drive on a manual transmission car. Even though I only have vague memories of the late 80s, I love going through all my old photos from childhood.
Being a child of the 70s and a teenager of the 80s was great. I have no complaints about the time period I grew up in. It's hard to describe to other people, what it was like to not be tied down to a device. They can't comprehend how it was to leave your house and not have a phone on you, for one small example. Life was much simpler, much more straight forward. You had time to think. There wasn't an endless ocean of information thrust at you 24/7. Time to breath. Time to really take in life at a normal human pace.
We still have human agency now, too. It's just a lot of people don't use it.
still never had a phone on me, cells are lame
The people born in a few choice decades -- roughly the 1920s through the 1970s -- are the only humans who will EVER know what it is like both to live in the world without technology, and with it.
@@Lunafalls I agree. That said, we need to remember that the technological changes of the past 30 years pale in comparison to those of the early 20th century: Cars, planes, electricity, refrigeration, radio, etc.
@@Lunafalls oh the 80s was certainly not a world without technology. It's just it lacked many of the technologies that are especially harmful to the fabric of human society and especially conducive to mental stress, technologies like cell phones, the internet, social media, lifelike video games, CCTV cameras, tracking devices, biometric scanners, smart meters, 5G, cashless payments, automated chatbots and helplines, AI household virtual assistants, robot dogs in parks threatening people to wear masks, robot vacuum cleaners, drones, washing machines that communicate with your fridge, houses that can lock and unlock themselves, lightbulbs that come on and off automatically, and the list goes on. Technology had already gone too far by the time we reached the 80s, but then the world just went to complete extremes, and then it was impossible to pretend that everything was okay anymore.
It's really amazing how social media has made everyone unsocial. I grew up in the 70's & 80's, playing outside, climbing trees, a quick drink from a water hose, riding bikes with friends and so much more. I loved it.
that's the way childhood should be - including drinking out the hose. Gasp! Overprotective parents. Kids drink from the hose and lived to tell the tale.
i think social media is the worst thing that happened to society in a long time (obviously excluding wars and such). the internet is fine and all, as long as you use it for information and some entertainment at home. but being available all the time and having so much stream of information flooding you all the time, especially the negative stuff, is just poison for humans.
At first social media was a good thing. It gave a lot of introverts and people who struggle to find friends in person an opportunity to meet others like themselves. If you remember, only "nerds" used to use computers. It wasn't until the late 2000s when smart phones came out and it became super easy to get on the internet that it went to crap. A lot of stuff online was free and ads were pop ups that could be blocked.
@@carlosmarx2380 It is both a blessing and a curse
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I totally agree. there's no question that the internet is very useful, but it's also destroying family unity, relationships and our society as a whole. There's a whole world out there, but now, there's nothing left for the imagination.
No internet, no cell phones, real human interaction with friends. Loved it.
Plus nobody was covered with ink all over their bodies, unlike today people look like billboards with all their tattoos.
Life wasn't perfect but we had it good thank God I was part of that wonderful decade.
@@jorgeguardado6015 Yes the 80s was the best!
@@jorgeguardado6015 euhm no , still knew people back in that day who were all tatted up , it was more underground , but it was definitly there
@@jorgeguardado6015 the freedom I had at an early age made me independent and resourceful. Danger was everywhere but we managed to avoided it. We had to solve our own problems and get out of trouble before the adults found out. SF native genX.
I was born in 1963, graduated in 1981. This video absolutely represents how we grew up. It was fantastic time.
The same for me too!
Me too.
Do you all also remember Top Gun 1986? 😍
You being born in 1963, that era to grow up in might have been the best there ever was.
Yep me too except for the smoking we did everything mentioned here.
I'd give almost anything to be a kid back in the 70's and 80's again. The happiest time of my life.
You were happy because you were a kid, not because of the era you grew up in.
@@ColAlbSmi Not necessarily. It was a better time.
You shoulda been there for the 50s and 60s!
@@ColAlbSmi No it was because of the Era! It was great!
@@R74-b7p No, it's just nostalgia. Being a child.
Riding in the back of Grandpa's old truck down long dirt roads with my cousins are some of my best memories 💓.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
I remember riding in my uncle's pickup down a two-track, spotting dear one evening. The tailgate was down and we were sitting on it...he driving wasn't fast. Still, he hit a dip and my cousin fell off onto the trail. He wasn't hurt...but I still laugh to this day! 😂🤣😂🤣
Those were good days! ✌
I remember riding on the back of my uncles truck, that's where we kids rode if it wasn't raining because it was fun, would still be fun even now. : )
My father's old pickup for me. Good times.
Playing Star Wars in the back of the old station wagon! What bunch of wimps we've become. Sure, bad things happen but life ain't worth living with a bunch of bubble-wrap suffocating us.
what I miss, and I wasn't even aware of it at the time, is the lack of dysfunctional politics. you had the nightly news, and that was that. no endless hours of pundits with their commentaries and opinions. not only is it exhausting, it's divisive.
Maybe where you lived. Where I lived the Irish were blowing sh$t up…
@@aclark903 I am aware of the violence in Ireland. and I am truly sorry that you had to be a part of it or witness it. I'm not saying. things were perfect. It was just we were not subject to news 24 hours a day.
I would say there were plenty of dysfunctional politics in the 1980s too. Just look up the air controllers strike.
Politics was most certainly dysfunctional. You just didn't hear about it 24/7/365.
@@kalevala29 so true
90s kid here, some of this stuff STILL applied to us 90s kids too. Like staying out most of the day and playing at a friends house after dark.
Yes, this was common until around 2000. In fact from 1970's to about 2000 things were about the same.
@@MikeB-qm4yw Yes I agree.
Shhhhh, the older generations have to keep acting like they own these things.
that’s pretty normal well until probably 2020 honestly technology completely took over the world so much
@@MikeB-qm4ywnah bro, this still applies to the 2000s . Even tho phones were out in the mid 2000s smart phones where not popular and mostly our parents had them . I was born in 2001 and this seems something I use to do
This brings back a lot of fond and fun memories. I graduated high school in 1980. I remember as a kid growing up at the end of a dead-end road, and we explored the woods endlessly. We came home when it was dark, and nobody minded
i was class of 88. we lived on the country, had dirt roads. and we'd be out til dark all the time....i miss it so much
I was the class of ‘79 and it was great to have total freedom as a kid! We were good kids and behaved better than move kids today who are oppressed….😂
Yeah that’s why so many kids would get snatched up back then
@@sourpunk4277 no one got snatched up. stranger danger was a made up fad. educate yrself
Our beings came over for a card party. Her parents asked her to run home n get some potato chips. She was kidnapped. Remains found years later. No idea who did it
Isn’t it ironic that we have the internet to thank for showing us all how great life was before the internet..
Enter: Existential dread 😅
I think if the internet had just been limited to information and commerce (with rules applied from the start to level the playing field to protect physical stores), we'd be a lot healthier mentally than we are. Social media has quite honestly allowed people a platform who belong in an asylum. It's done a lot of damage.
@@soothsayer1964Social media and cell phones is the worst thing ever invented, because it made people stop visiting each other.
And when people visit someone they are still sitting on social media on the phone...As you say mental problems became a huge problem because of social media. RUclips is the only "social media" i use, because RUclips doesn't control you unlike Facebook, Twitter etc.
If Facebook didn't exist, most people would have a better life. The good days of internet ended around year 2000. I used internet since 1991.
@@V3ntilator absolutely. It has essentially provided the means for people to disconnect themselves from the rest of society. In the wake of that has come a kind of psychopathy born of remoteness from a sense of community with real people. As a result someone dying in the street nowadays is more likely to be met with a host of camera lenses for a throwaway online post than with any level of empathy and compassion.
I'd like to see the lot switched off for the sake of western society. The freaks that influence others on it can go through cold turkey. At least they'd be losing their audience of vulnerable and malleable young minds.
It seems smart phones made dating apps much worse also @@V3ntilator
I graduated HS in 1982 so my younger years were the 70's and 80's. I am not kidding one single bit when I tell folks I would give up all the technological advances of today if I could go back to that time. Those were the best years of my life and I know how fortunate I was to have experienced that time firsthand!
I graduated in '83 ! 1980 I was 15 and 1990 I turned 25 ...... I definitely came of age in the 80's ... And it was awesome 👍
I graduated in 1989, and I 100% agree with this comment.
So you are a late Boomer born in 1964.
1988 Grad here. I couldn't agree more! The music, the parties, hackey sack at the hang out,... ect Best days ever!!
So true.
Growing up in the 70s as a teen was awesome! No cell phones, no cameras to forever record your mistakes, and no internet to display said mistakes for all time and everyone to see! Much simpler times.
Agree. I was an 80s teen, and enjoyed all the freedom I had.
I guess you had a reason to fear those recordings then. I for one just didn't think about these things because they simply didn't exist back then, but now they do and claiming to want to go back to a time without them is hypocritical. For the record, I was already an adult in the 80s and grew up even without a lot of things kids in the 80s took for granted. That didn't make me want to revert progress though.
I'm 68 and I grew up in those times and you bet they were a foundation to build on in life however they weren't all that damned sweet to some of us kids from those times !! Might I add probably the only sane explanation as to how I'm sitting here all these years later and replying ! Parents in those days were no different than those of today as far as love goes only they had to rule some of us with an "iron love" ,some call ,"Tough love "! In other words there were no time outs . The only times out we had was out the door and gone or get the shit beat out of you so you remembered the next time ! TOUGH LOVE !!! Now don't get me wrong young people parents have a vision of where they want you to be in life even if they beat you there . All generations are lucky to have parents who give a damn enough about you to care ! Think about those out there who don't have that great gift from GOD then it kinda puts things in a different light ! Right now young people do take my advice , the very same my father gave me once ,"Make your memories while you are young "! You hold the future in your hands and never leave GOD out of the picture before you as it is only going to get worse .
The best part about being a kid back in the 70s and 80s was the Freedom!
Thank you for watching!
YES!!! I grew up in the late 60s---early 70s, and was a latchkey kid. Both parents worked, and I had a key to the house on a chain around my neck. I was alone for a few hours before Mom came home. The only thing I was required to do was my homework first before going out to play. That didn't take long. During summer vacation, I was at home all day, and hung out with friends all day. Freedom was bliss. Never got into any trouble. (Jan Griffiths).
@@RhettyforHistory Thank you for making this video!
Could be nice, yeah.
@@douglasgriffiths3534
Same here.
I was a 80s kid. Sometimes I wish I could relive that decade.
Thank you for watching!
Me too. More and more I feel like I don't belong in this world.
Revisiting through the muse
Same 😢
@@TheDoctor394 Same 😞
The worst part of graduating HS in 1994….being alive now to see how horrifying things became for kids today. Well - all of us, really.
Yes, I graduated in 97. I thought it was just me.
Blame our generation. We are the parents of today's high schoolers and we really should know better.
THIS. I have taught high school, am so horrified but the joyless hateful culture kids have today. what's even more horrifying is the young people think they are morally superior to the past. they have no way of knowing because they didn't see how much better life used to be. The past had it's flaws, but the misery and rage today is so much higher than it used to be.
Yep. I graduated that year.
What is it?
How i miss the 80s! This trip down memory lane makes me think of how the 2020s seem dull and depressing by comparison! I just turned 51 the other day and I'm missing my girlfriend since our relationship started growing apart last new years eve! I wish i could go back in time for a day or a week, the 80s seemed so simple and uncomplicated and i miss my mom too, she died in 2015! Very well done video, it really makes me want to go back!
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Barry!
I feel so privileged to have grown up in such a wonderful time (born in ‘73). Just yesterday, I told my kids, 18 and 20, that if I sent them back in time to the ‘80’s for a week, they would never want to come back to present time. They both agreed.
That shows you how messed up everything is now.
@@PureBloodedwolf
Parents didn’t mess anything up to this degree. It was government that screwed things up. They’ve also forced universities to comply. Otherwise no funding for them.
Well you raised them well 👍
I was also born in 73 I'm 50 and still miss the 80,s best time ever.
It's weird getting old isn't it? I'm a little younger than you, but still considered middle aged(older than the middle of average life expectancy), seems like yesterday I was a teenager, what my parents and grandparents told me was true, youth really is wasted on the young. It's a curse that you can't appreciate it, until it's too late.
I tell my boyfriend at least once a month, how I'd give almost anything to go back to a nice, crisp Autumn day in the 80s. Just to be at my Grandparents house in say 85' or 86', when I was 5/6 yrs old, just watching my Gran watching Young and the Restless, or Price is Right on any random weekday. 😢
Or Night Rider & the "A" Team
Same here as if I was watching Jefferson's what's happening and Good times right before the afternoon cartoons came on sit with my Mom in the barn listening to the rain hit the tin roof while she sang me songs I'd give anything to have that back
wait do all grandmas watch young and the restless bc mine did too😭
(just so you know i was born in 2008 so sadly i have never had the ability to feel what a crisp autumn day in the 80s is like but i know that i was born in the wrong generation lol i absolutely hate phones and how they've impacted us so i would gladly go back in time if i had the opportunity haha)
Yes, go back to when everyone you loved was still alive. ❤️
I would love to go back for a Saturday at my Nanna's place playing with all of my cousins in the yard. Then 30 of us eating dinner in a tiny kitchen and then watching some great movie like Charlie and the Chocolate factory on the TV in one of those units that had a record player and radio.
As someone who graduated high school in 2004, I’m thankful that I was among the last groups of kids to get through my school years without smart phones existing. Society was better off before iPhones and social media.
Yes! I'm in high school right now and the energy is TERRIBLE because everyone is just staring at their phones. There are days that I go most of the day without speaking.
Agreed.. co 03 here
Digital world has stuffed the future for all young and old. kids would not b able to live 30yrs ago no mobile phones or computres we wearnt alourd to use calulators let alone computers
@@adammiles3095 Agreed. I try to keep my life and entertainment off the internet as much as possible but it's so hard when we have to use technology in-class and for assignments.
I graduated high school in 2014, so I got to see both worlds. It was pretty wild watching everything change so gradually, like from 2001-2010 everything was still pretty old school but by 2012 I remember my high school switching out text books for mac books and everybody started having cell phones that's when technology really exploded
As an 80s kid this video is incredibly accurste to me growing up in Canada, brought back alot of memories, i miss those much simpler days, i think this is the way life should be. Sometimes i think the internet destroyed much
It's crazy I still remember at least 20 telephone numbers from the 1980s.
Same here! 🙂
Ditto 😂and those are some of my passwords now 🤣🤣🤣
@@eaglegold3303 Nice..I haven't thought about that.
I only remember 867-5309.
@@GTSN38 🤣 Nice song! But I was more of a Rush and New Wave kid
I grew up in the 80s. As I have grown older I have learned to appreciate what a hopeful and enthusiastic time it was. There was a natural assumption that the world was only going to get better and better and the future would always be bright. God bless John Hughes movies.
Ah, but we were all worried about Acid Rain.
Remember the Tylenol Murders? Prior to that, there were hardly any safety seals on anything. Afterwards, it was standard.
I think everyone does this where they look through rose tinted glasses. Their was Aids which was killing people and no cure or even a way to slow it down. Crime/violence became worse. The market crash of 87. Drug abuse became a huge concern.
@@MrOctober44 Fausi was behind that.. it took decades of poisoning and malignant eduiction before that plandemic thing worked
No mass shootings and owning a firearm wasn’t a big deal but I remember no one really kept one in their car. The biased media wasn’t a big deal because there were other things to worry about.
Born in 1965 and can totally relate to this Video. What a great time we had.
Born same year. I wonder how we survived with all that freedom
@@midas1929 I also was born in 1965...We grew up way different than kids are now.
We had way more fun and much better music back when.
Same!
@@midas1929 How did you Survive lol. With like little to nothing.
@@tonyp9313 Man, we had it all. The biggest thing was taking Dad's wooden fishing boat and go to a little island in the river, camping for a night. We were 12 and just gone 24 hours without phones or trackers LOL
Born in 1970, I would not trade places for a kid growing up today. I love the freedom I had, and the awesome music, movies and culture in general. And PRIVACY, was a given.
Absolutely. I often feel sorry for modern generations, they'll never know how different it was, a time connected to a feeling that cannot be described to anyone who hasn't lived it.
As a 90s kid we had so much fun playing in the woods. Our imaginations were huge
playing in the woods was fun.
We found our parent's occult books and set up standing stones and pentagrams and altars, complete with skulls, crystals and feathers. Sure beat doing the drugs our parents did.
All day, everyday in the summer. We had a stream and a couple ponds that made for epic mud bogging😊
I’m 46, and to have those days and times back as a child…. Just pure innocence and fun….. this almost makes me tear up.
Same age . Same here . Laughing and crying at the same time. We had it so good
Same!
I just turned 46 - I LOVED the '80s and miss them so much! Growing up during that time was so fun!
That's true, I graduated 04. We had cell phones but text was barley a thing and you had a set amount of minutes lol and roaming.
And we would just romed the streets and most parents got home around 5 or 6 depending on traffic. I miss those days for sure
i was born in 1998 and i feel such a powerful feeling watching videos from the 1970s 1980s & 1990s. it makes me sad, i wish i could’ve experienced these 3 decades in all their glory.
I remember the 80’s quite well. I had a good childhood, and most of what was said here applied to me and my friends growing up. I survived, I lived and I loved it.
The ONLY thing that's better now is the fact you can enjoy a meal in a restaurant now without someone smoking in the next booth.
Yeahhh no we need weed allowed in resturant back then and now dawg. People have become retarded thanks to the internet. Chasing clout instead of making actual friendships with people.
I would add in the car safety standards too, but for the most part you are totally correct.
I'm not a smoker anymore either, but I still wish they would have smoking sections. It just felt like there were more freedoms back then compared to today. When I was a smoker I really enjoyed just having a cigarette with friends and sitting around drinking refills or coffee after the meal. This is something that you just don't see anymore.
@@MikeB-qm4yw Yeah car safety is better but I think people are worse drivers, and there are more of them. People just don't pay attention or take it seriously anymore. When people got into an accident before, it was usually because they were drunk.
Smoking was already disallowed then.
As an 80s/90s kid (born 1980) I can tell you that everything was way more relaxed back then
You were just a baby
Yep
I was 18 in 1980. The 1970s were even more relaxed than the 80s.
I was born in 56. I was a "free-range" kid since I was four. It's amazing any of us survived!!
I was born in 84 and all this was the same in the 90s
Best part was we didn't have social media making mush of our brains and causing social anxiety and depression. We could watch a concert without staring into a phone and we weren't constantly competing with our peers.
I'm so glad I'm late middle aged
Growing up literally out in the "sticks" as us country folks call it. The only socializing I did was during school hours. I've had social anxiety most of my whole life & depression brought on by CA & DA by my father. I'm happy with the social contact because that's how I communicate with my 4 daughters. I lived in Ohio from birth (1971) until 2007. My 2 oldest daughters & grandson still reside there, after moving to Washington State in 2007 with my 2nd husband & our two daughters, my third oldest graduating from there & moving to North Carolina for 4 years of college in 2016, & my youngest daughter still residing in Washington State after she graduated high school in 2018, I moved to the state of Missouri in 2020. So, being so far apart, we keep tabs on one another through social media. But, my girls will never experience what life was like for me growing up in the 70s and part of my childhood in the early 80s & my teen years until 1990. My adulthood / motherhood began in 1991.
Y'all had polaroids and sony cameras. Y'all competed with your neighbors and the cliques in your schools worse than the current generations ever did. Boomer and silent generations are the ones that gave birth to living above your means. Debt bubbles started in your decades.
I was glad that I grew up without social media. Social media and the net can be such a curse.
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj The internet is hugely entertaining. Social Media is toxic
Me too; I wouldn't want to be young in this hell hole we live in today for nothing. What, so I could be all tatted up, walk around looking like I'm homeless, condoning race mixing, having no morals at all, homosexuality, trans genderism, and socialism? No thanks!
Ah the good old days! My kids all were out playing all day long until street lights came on. And yeah the collect calls from "the movie is over now". Have to love the ingenuity! Another great, memory-filled video.
Those collect calls came in handy unless your parents were running around somewhere or outside. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories with your kids.
i remember the recorded collect call thing..but there must have been a time before that when everyone could hear each other and a human operator, because i remember a friend who went to college out of state and when his parents wanted to see if he was ok and not pay for long distance (hmm now i don't even think of long distance charges) they'd call him and he'd answer and when the operator asked to speak to a donald, he'd say "donald's practicing the trumpet right now" which would mean he's ok.
I was JUST telling my kids about the collect calls back then! We would call our friends collect (cause we had no cell phones) and instead of our names, we would say "I'm at the arcade on the boardwalk" or wherever we were lol
Or 6 I clock came around. Whichever came first. You'd better be home. Or else. No questions asked
I rode my bike everywhere. Now, I live in a small town with tons of kids and I rarely see kids riding bikes. It's the perfect town for bikes but you hardly see them. The kids just walk everywhere, even if it's a couple of miles away.
Dang I loved riding my bike as a kid, so does my little brother and he’s 6
Then get one and start showing off. Remind the parents that bikes exist.
I was born in the 80ies and I prefer walking over biking. Taking a long hike has been proven to be better for health than riding a bike anyways.
In some places now the law requires anyone to ride a bike in the street which isn't exactly safe so that might be part of the reason.
@@-Joyfull I only like riding a bike cause it’s faster than walking lol
I was a kid during the 90s (born in 85) and a lot of these applied to that decade too, at least the first 2/3 of it. I feel like that was the last decade where kids could just be kids and have some reasonable freedoms and responsibilities to go with them.
Dude same here. I miss those days
Things began changing in the 90's for the worst. That's when the politically correct crowd took over...
@@Deborahtunes I never understood that
@@davidturney2975 ~ It was bound to happen eventually. Now look what a disaster the country is in as a result.
Kids are thin skinned, committing suicide at alarming rates.
We were raised with the old "Sticks and stones...." saying. But today, if a person just says the slightest thing against another, they get punished. We are living in a world where everyone needs bubble wrap for protection even with little things...
Born in 88 here. Same applied to me, granted I grew up in a small town.
Being a kid/teenager in the 70's and 80's! Best time of my life!
Wish I had a time machine.
I have to ask a person that grew up in this era. Why have most of you raised your kids to be such wimps, your parents would have never put a mask on you or would have you put it on. Did you as parents become wimps?
Right?
Take me with you
itd have to be a big time machine, i know alot of people thatd want a ride
If u get one, I'm coming too!!!
I grew up in Brazil in the 80's and it's amazing how much of this video applies to us as well almost identically. The movies shots bring back good memories.
I was wondering about that! Like how universal these things were. We certainly had them in the U.S.
So glad I was a teenager in the 80's. I feel bad for the kids nowadays. We had no cell phones, no computers, we had fun. A simpler time🌻🌻
and its awful because most kids want to go outside but theres no safety (like the danger of getting stabbed in some areas are too real), no space to go to or some people just don't go. although there are still a lot of children just being themselves, going out and playing outside :) I feel like it also falls onto parents not wanting to spend time with kids or being too busy and giving the kids ipads and games so they dont distract the parents
Without the internet, you had to wait forever for a good movie to be shown. And now you can find it in a second and watch.
We did have computers in the 80s and video games. Maybe you forgot the Steve Jobs & Apple or Commodore, and Atari? We also had video games: the Atari 2600, the Intellivision, ColecoVision, and of course, the Nintendo NES. And of course, we had video game arcades.
@@LadyCrest Parents did similar things in the 80s, the whole "Latchkey Kid" phenomena started in the 80s, and the primary pacifier for kids was the TV, instead of the iPhone.
eye must amit -- it was harder 2b a grifter back then. today eye can easily acuse erreyone under da sun of raycissm, get away wit it, and get paid 4 it.
I was born in 79, and I still remember the days of walking over to a friends house and knocking on the front door and grabbing our bikes and riding out to the park or the community pool. No cell phones and no social media, just normal human interaction.
Same 79 here too
Amen. Good times…
Hell, I was born in '96 and we still did it up until I was about 14/15 (that's when the smartphone market exploded)
i dont know from where you are, but in europe thaz still a thing, kid's parks are filled, kids do ride bikes, do play outside, do visit each others and play games like we did on comodore or amiga or atari in 80ties. we here manage our kid's times, they have a certain time for screens per day and thaz it. majority of kids will have cell phones when they start school, age 6/7 but only when they go outside of house, like to school, or to play or what ever, so that we are abel to reach them if they dont come home on time. at the age 12 they pretty much have it as their own all the time, but it is supervised, communication and things they do till around 16, than supervision and time managing completly stops, . then they are almost adults and old enoigh to know certain things, at 18 they are legal adults and it is on them what they will do with their lives and time.. pubs and bars are filled, night clubs too, young people everywhere interacting, same as places for younger kids and teens. it is no different when i was a kid in the 80ties..
Born in 1980 and I agree! The good old days gone forever 😢
Best thing of being a teenager in the 80's, NO CELLPHONES.
Hahhaa yeah and no internet.
Yes indeed. Also we knew where our friends were at. I'm glad to have been born in 72 and grew up in the 80s.
No Facebook. No Twitter. It was nice.
Amen and we all still survived just fine
Out riding bikes or skateboards all day. We did our own thing with our friends instead of trying to be best friends with our parents like today.
Around '85, my grandmother got stung by a bee. Being allergic, she ran inside and tried to administer a needle containing an adrenaline shot. The needle broke off and so she failed to get the dose, later suffering cardiac arrest. The paramedics revived her, but she died in the hospital a few days later. It was extremely traumatic for me as I was like 12 at the time.
The epipen came out a couple years later. When my Dad got stung sometime around '88, my mom administered the epipen and saved him from anaphylaxis. Probably saved his life.
I found out I was allergic in ‘74.
damn
I was a child in the 1980s, and some of the things that I did as a kid, would probably give some of today's parents a heart attack. I rode in the backs of pickup trucks, with and without camper shells on them, and none of the adults in my life thought anything of it! And sometimes on long road trips, I even laid down on the dash in the back window! I played on playground equipment that was set in CONCRETE, even those spinny merry-go-round things! And when I was a kid, NOBODY wore bike helmets. Most of the ones that were available at that time were ugly, clunky, uncomfortable ones, and you looked like a real oddball if you wore one! I lived a small Midwestern town, and I could spend HOURS playing outside, sometimes alone, and sometimes with the neighborhood kids. It was a different time for sure!
I never wore a bike helmet either. Still don't. I do wear a motorcycle helmet though when I ride my motorcycle. But that's different. (Jan Griffiths).
When I was a kid, I remember riding in the back of my dad's truck, the tailgate down, and myself on my belly riding with my head at the edge of the tailgate. I often would sit on the hump above the wheel well. If you ran over something, you had to make sure that you didn't bounce too high. Regarding bikes, I would regularly coast down a steep hill at high speeds without using my handle bars. We also used to get in a cardboard box and push each other down a steep hill.
@@willp.8120 Oh, yes. Cardboard sledding was the best, except when we shot out into the stream and the bottom of the hill. The it was back to the grocery store to beg for boxes again. Don't know how we managed to survive riding our bikes, wagons (towed behind a bike), roller skating, riding our scooters (foot powered back in the day) and our rudimentary skateboards (that our dad's made for us using a a narrow board (1 x 2 .... now that took some footwork to stay on) and a metal ball bearing skate taken apart (usually the other skate was either broken or mysteriously went missing .... wink wink) .... rode all of those with no helmet, elbow, knee or wrist protection ..... there was only one kid in the neighbor who got hurt .... on her skates cuz she was a clumsy kid, tripped over her own feet, broke her arm, wore a cast for the requisite 6-7 weeks, cast came off, skates went on and down she went and broke the arm again, her parents got rid of the skates ...... how we never got hurt riding the wagon I don't know ..... one kid on a bike with a tow rope on the back, 2 - 3 kids in the wagon towing us up the alley and when we got to the point where you could turn to the left to another alley or stay on the the alley to go straight, we went straight ...... down a hill to where it intersected a street, and we would shoot across the street and into the alley on the other side ......
My sister used to sleep in the back window on trips. Lol! There were six of us in a car driving between NC and PA until my parents got a station wagon! Then my sister and I rode in the 3 rd row seat that faced backwards with no seat belts!
@@douglasgriffiths3534 yes. That is way different! My oldest son had a bad motorcycle wreck! It could have been worse. A car turned left in front of them at a light and he didn’t know because the car didn’t have the right away but couldn’t see around the car facing him. My son just remembers flying over the hood of the car! And his friend also wrecked his bike at the same time.
Class of ‘87 here. I wouldn’t trade my childhood for what they have today. Not for a second. Social media is something I’m so glad we didn’t have. Freedom is something they scarcely understand today.
We played all day. Summer lasted FOREVER. And the street lights were the universal time clock.
for me it was before it got dark, I lived in the country and there were no street lights. doors were unlocked and windows open during summer to enjoy the cool night air. home made popcorn balls and candy or Carmel apples were huge at Halloween too. we trick or treated the area with no worries. With some of the games we came up with we were lucky we didn't cripple ourselves. Wouldn't change when or where I grew up for a million bucks.😂😂😂
Class of '85. And I concur.
Class of 88 here. Ditto.
‘87 grad here. Hell yeah🤘I don’t know what keeps every young kid today from having a compete nervous breakdown.
In the more rural environment of southern France, there was no street lights so we had to refer to sunlight, and our stomachs for dinner hour.
Looking back at my childhood it feels like the 80’s were custom made for kids. I was born in ‘74 and it was just flat-out fun growing up during that time. So much freedom!
LIkewise. And somehow we all turned out fine.
Well, no worse then the next couple generations will, anyway.
I was born February 23, 1974 I have seen a picture of the " carseat" that I came home in. It was a scrap of fabric on a wire frame that kinda reminds me of the bouncer seat that my eldest son had in 93 before the fancy vibrating one came out. One of my favorite memories were riding in the back of my Uncles Truck. ( however my 7th grade locker mate was killed riding in the back of a truck on a dump run, he was holding on to an old mattress that instead of letting it go it pulled him out of the back a he landed under it on his head) but for the most part my childhood was the best days of my life. We didn't even have cable just attena TV and only got PBS every day and anything else was a bonus. Yes,we had to pick a switch, but not that often because we knew that we would get it if we didn't do what we were told. But seriously, I don't think that boundaries are a bad thing at all and maybe we need more for the new generation of kids.
Same here too. The parts of the video with the kids and their bikes brought back a bunch of memories of hanging out with friends all day safely outdoors.
When the back seat of the car was full and I wanted to lie down, I'd climb up the seat and lie on the back dash. I did a lot of daydreaming and star gazing through the rear window on long trips.
I was born in 75
*No wonder why people back then is so tougher and smarter then nowadays.*
This is a blast from the past. "Helicopter parenting" wasn't a a thing back then, unless the kid's parents were very religious. One of my best friends from elementary to high school had religious parents, and I used to let him hide his Heavy Metal t-shirts and cassettes at my house. Before we walked to school (about a 1.5 miles), he'd come to my house first and change his t-shirt, and then change back after school before he went home. LOL, good times.
That's definitely a difference. The only kids I knew who had helicopter parents were in very wealthy uppity families. One was told that she had to stop being friends with me because her parents only wanted her to be seen with wealthy kids who had expensive clothes. Meanwhile, I was blowing up cans with firecrackers in an abandoned barn with my cousin. Our parents knew what we were doing, that's who gave us hundreds of fire crackers!
You were there for your friend. Thsts great.yeah, heavy metal was the thing then
I envy your friend, you were a good friend!
Good old Satanic Panic! Watch out! They wear black and they listen to demonic music! Some of them have long hair and lots of eyeliner and black nail polish. We did the Devil's work.
Ironically- we the generation who had this freedom became the Helicopter parents.
As a kid in the 70s, we never really appreciated how much freedom we had in our own time, until now. Rarely had time to get bored. At the time, things mentioned in this vid were just common place. Today, we look back on them so fondly. Yes. Summing up, childhood years _are_ the happiest years of our lives.
Not for the kids today.
The kids today are miserable though. In spite of being more spoiled than ever before...
What if you don't have friends?
I remember we played outside with our neighbourhood friends. We played hide n seek. We had those banana seat bikes. It was simpler. Things changed in the early 90's and parents didn't let their kids play outside anymore.
Yes I grew up in the 80s and loved every minute of it. I miss the 80s. I would go back to that time in a heartbeat. 🥰
Amazing music back then
Mo too !!!
Yes me to
Except for all the hair. Everywhere.
I think most everyone would go back to their childhoods unless they were Jenny.
The one thing I am happy my kids can still experience is to cycle by themselves through the neighbourhood and come home when the streetlights turn on. The first time I let my daughter out all by herself on her bike she later came home excited and said she felt liberated and truly free like she had never felt before. It's the one thing we managed to keep where I live (in NL) that I am happy still exists. We have playgrounds through the neighbourhood and many kids still rome the streets alone and play outside by themselves with other children.
This was real good! Made me laugh… I was born in 74 and the 80s were a great time to grow up.
Yes they were. I a lot of things have changed since then. Thank you for watching!
As a child born in '77 I'm also glad I got to live in these times though the UK was a little different. One of the playground games of choice used to be conkers (bashing horse chestnuts on strings together to beat your opponent's conker to bits).
It got banned in UK schools in the early 2000s in case injuries occurred, how ridiculous 😂
This was so awesome to remember all the commercials of the 80's. Pay phones, being out late with friends, not wearing seatbelts or helmets/ pads. Times were definitely better back then and people worried less. Those days are truly missed.
Definitely ready for the rapture my friend 😁👍
Indeed.
The 70s and 80s were a great time to grow up. I feel bad for kids today.
the 90s were good too... i was born in 87 and i loved the 90s but yes 60's 70's 80's and the 90's were the best.. the 90's were the very last of the real kids doing anything and having fun and using their imagination... everything after the 90's is sad tho.
I wish I was able to grow up then, I don't like my generation :
I was born in 1973. The thing I miss the most is feeling safe and secure. The biggest issue I think we dealt with was stranger danger. I remember watching a video in elementary school about Lester the molester in a yellow rain jacket. "Don't talk to strangers" was the big saying back then. If I only could turn back time for the teenagers now, I would if I could.
And, don't hitchhike or pick up hitchhikers. I once saw a 17-year-old high school girl hitching a ride along a busy highway. I figured if I didn't pick her up, some molester just might. So, I picked her up, and she just wanted to get home. I asked her where it was. She told me, and I took her there. But, before I let her out of my car, I gave her a stern lecture about the dangers of hitchhiking. I told her she was lucky I picked her up and not some pervert. She said I scared her. Good! Hopefully, she quit doing it.
I probably wouldn't get away with that, today.
And that's the ONLY time I've ever picked up someone I didn't know. I was taking a chance, as some of today's modern youth aren't above knifing someone like me, and I supposed it could have happened back then.. But I could feel that this girl was okay. She just wanted to go home. Perhaps she had missed the school bus?
I was born in 1973 and graduated high school in 1991. I feel like I was so lucky to have grown up in the 70s and 80s. It was such a wonderful time to be a kid. Kids from the 90s and 2000s like my children will never understand how totally awesome it was :)
We had a lot of freedom... And that freedom was coupled with the understanding that actions have consequences.
Little by little we traded freedom for safety... But in doing so we also traded in common sense and accountability.
integrity and respect went away 22 years ago, true fact
So true
Accountability is better than common sense because common sense isn't so common. So we got a fair trade off
i agree.
Right on, dude.
I was a teenager in the 80s...It reminds me how free and happy we were, we weren't afraid of anything, we talked to each other by looking into each other's eyes, not by texting. We formed an opinion by talking to each other and observing around us, not on social networks run by millionaires who make even more money with our personal data, where the ostentatious philosophy "Look how amazing I am - look how my life is amazing" dominates...we LIVED life, we didn't constantly take pictures of it and we rarely filmed it. Also, great music was coming from everywhere, we didn't know where to turn: Tears for fears, Depeche Mode, B-52's, Bowie, The Police, Simple Minds, Rush...today's pop makes me nauseous and smart phones = a huge planetary lobotomy...Yes, the 80s, what a time! I miss it a lot.
YES! All of that. I moss the 80's and 90's. I miss normalcy.
and dont forget , we had our own language, dork, geek, spaz,etc
Social media should be like the phone was to us. You talked to awhile and made plans. Talked about whatever. Hung up and went out to meet up with our friends and did stuff.
Social media should be like the phone to connect but, not your life.
ok grandpa
@@elmore707 petit con
As as teen in the 80s, mall culture was huge part of my life
Thank you for watching ED80s!
I enjoy seeing movies with the old mall culture as you called it, when it was at its peak. Films like Smooth Talk with Laura Dern, Fast Times of course, Weird Science is another great one. I wish I could have been in a big enough city and been alive to experience it at the time. :(
Yea, that is one of the things I miss the most.
I did not get to experience Mall culture until I went into the Navy in San Diego 2000. TBH. I was a rural kid 1995-2000. We would drive our cars or ride with our friends who had cars down a main street in 1995-1999. Kind of like American Graffiti, but 90s style. No joke Sincerely honest.
the best ....we'd skip school for it
The funniest thing I think about is that when I was younger, around 8 or 9. I didn't really understand the difference between 'miner' and minor', and when cigarette machines had that warning that said 'minors forbidden to operate this machine' I thought it was because of something to do with coal dust. I was smart enough to understand that coal dust is explosive, but not smart enough to see the difference between 'minor and miner'.
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LOL
Finding it out the wrong way for all the right reasons! 😆
Born in 68, was a teen throughout the 80's this video is so accurate!! Being a kid in the 70's , and teen in the 80's people who were young in this era were truly lucky!!!! Today's youth are being cheated!!!!
Exactly.. it frustrates me so much. It’s so sad the direction it has headed and nobody seems to notice or care
Born in 66. You said it. Life was good. Social media has destroyed all that.
Agreed! Born in 75.
born in 68 too london in the seventies and eighties was a different world .
Do you believe 9/11 made parents to act overprotective of their kids even when the kids became adults?
The 80s definitely were the greatest time to be a kid. I'm glad I'm old now because today would absolutely suck to grow up.
Judging by your comment, you're not old. :)
But the kids who are growing up today don't think it sucks. To them, it's just regular life. When they're older, they will say the present time was "the good old days". (But we know better, haha.)
I miss the 80s. I wish my kids could have experienced them. The best feeling as a kid was a great adventure, and the feeling that the next day was going to be just as good or even better.
Yeah & then you're kids would learn that Rotary phones, a Black & white tv, access to video games would be terrible. You'll be scaring them since this generation is soft.
I agree🙋🏻♂️ I love the 80s
totally miss the constant threat of nuclear war with Russia every day lol
@@theniteowl7777 I don't remember being that worried about it. I had better things to do, like climb trees, ride my bike, build forts, etc. Worrying was something for the grown-ups to deal with.
@@theniteowl7777
A lot of us didn't worry about any of that.
The amazing 80's , the Style, the music , the movies , the romance , the innocence , .. and so much more! The Amazing 80'S .
The 80’s and 90’s just hit different. I’m really happy I grew up in that era.
I grew up in the 1950s and a lot of the things covered in this video are very familiar, especially kids having the freedom to roam the neighborhood for the entire day without any adult supervision. I remember buying a pack of cigarillos at the corner store when I was nine years old. I just told the guy behind the counter but they were for my dad and there were no questions asked. My friend and I smoked them (at least tried to, they tasted really bad) as we rode our one speed bikes around town feeling very cool. We put pennies on the railroad track to to see if they would get crushed. The main difference is that in the 1950s we didn’t have malls. Older kids hung out at a local diner or the Tastee Freez. There were only three TV channels with only one television in the home. It was black and white and was always breaking down. It was common to have a TV repairman come out to replace one of the many tubes that had burned out. Most people today don’t even know what a tube looks like!
I didn’t even realize that the slang “tube” term for TV referred to an actual tube in original television sets 😂 You learn something new everyday.
@@haleytruslow7200 Well, really, all CRT TVs up until they made LCD TVs were "Tube" TVs. The reason is because the CRT IS the tube (Cathode Ray TUBE). The screen is literally just a massive vacuum tube with a reactive chemical coating on the inside to give the picture.
I was born in 64 so that was a bit before my time but of course I've heard about all the things you talked about. The late 60s and early 70s were still pretty care free times to be a kid also, maybe not as much as the 50s but pretty safe. We still had one TV in the house although I did know people by the 70s that had a second set, usually in the parents bedroom. We had a big mall within walking distance so it was always a hangout for teens and kids, it had an arcade with pinball and later video games and a pool hall which we hung out in more when we were in our teens. Back when both of us were kids you had to leave the house and go see your friends to have fun, now kids have cell phones, computers, video games. 100s of TV stations etc and don't even have to go anywhere to be entertained.
In the 1980's there was always that cool friend who's parents had the big console TV, cable service and a VCR. We thought being able to rent VHS tapes was modern and luxurious!
@@haleytruslow7200 Actually the tubes I was referring to were small vacuum tubes about the size of a salt shaker that were found on the inside of the TV. By the 1960s these small tubes were replaced by transistors which were much more compact and reliable. The vacuum tubes in early TVs were always burning out and you had to call a TV repairman (it always was a man) to remove the burned out tubes and plug in new ones. In addition to the TV repair man we had a milkman who delivered bottles of milk every few days. The milk came in heavy glass bottles that were reusable. The empties were placed in a small insulated chest located near the front door. The milkman would pick up the empties and put in a couple of filled bottles. In retrospect, I have no idea why it was handled this way since there were food markets (smaller versions of modern supermarkets) where my mother shopped for vegetables, meat, and canned goods. For all I know these old food markets also sold milk but most people still had milk delivered to their houses. Finally, while I’m on this nostalgia trip there were door-to-door salesman who sold vacuum cleaners, encyclopedias, and hairbrushes (referred to as Fuller Brush salesmen named after the company that dominated the market). These door-to-door salesmen would literally go from house to house knocking on doors asking if the housewife (in middle class families most mothers did not work outside the home) was interested in buying what they were selling.
Ahhh “HEATHERS “ I sooo remember that in Jr. High.❤❤❤The original “MEAN GIRLS”
Heather Chandler made Regina George look like a saint.
Thank you for watching Kerry!
As a zoomer a couple things jump out. As a kid, my friend came over for an hour or two and his bike was stolen during that time. So the idea of kids leaving their bikes in the yard is unfathomable. Higher trust neighborhoods back then. The chickenpox thing is quite jarring given the state of things in the 2020s. I think social media has exacerbated fear in people to an insane degree.
It's true though. In my old stomping grounds during the late 70's & very early 80's, my sister left her bicycle outside all the time, and no one bothered it. Now, you can't even have a flower pot sitting there, someone will steal it. Kids can't go outside and play either without risk of being attacked by other kids...
Do kids not get chicken pox anymore?
@@travis7211 ~ Since they have a vaccine for chicken pox now, probably not. My son had the cp shot at around 8 or 9 years old. He's an adult now, and he's never had chicken pox...
I've had three bicycles stolen from my garage: one in the late 70s, one in the early 80s, and one in the mid-90s.
Bikes were stolen back then too. Chicken pox parties still exist with anti vaxxers.
This was a fun trip down memory lane. I really miss how easy and natural it was to flirt/meet people, and the arcades were awesome!
I can confirm that our lives was exactly like this in the 80'es. I am so happy that I was young that time and not now , we enjoyed so much those years. We had freedom and friendship, we listen good music and play sports all the times. We always meet our friends in reality, not on the media platforms and we always enjoy each other company, having fun with the girls, dancing or listen music in the parks, planning hikes in the mountains or parties. And laughing a lot. Since then, the life downgraded every year under the burden of bans and stupid rules.
Best times of my life!
Except there were no "Chicken pox parties". What the heck?
@@paulquantumblues3599 Well I guess everything happens in the world, what I meant was they weren't a common thing. Who would intentional expose their child to an infection?
I'll never forget a team beach party for my little league team in 1981. We all piled in the back of our coaches pickup truck and travelled the five miles on the freeway to Bolsa Chica Beach. Couldn't imagine what would happen to him today if he had fourteen 12-year old's in the back of a truck.
I’m an 80s baby but a 90s kid. I remember all of these things growing up. I also remember when they started to fade them out and implement new things. What a time to be a live.
The reason Stranger Things worked in it's early seasons is because that's actually how kids interacted in the 80s. These are memories of those early years that were long dormant. Stuff I didn't even know I remembered, but we actually did all of this.
Not really. The kids who had those experiences were the lucky ones but it wasn't a universal experience.
I was born in 85, and I sure as hell dont envy kids today. Most of the stuff in this video also applied to the 90s and it was amazing how much freedom we had as kids. Our parents trusted us to take care of ourselves outside the house. Ofc the lack of constant adult supervision meant that accidents that would send you to the hospital could very well happen more often than today, but our parents knew that we would learn from our mistakes on our own.
@@user-rn6gw6hg9w 80s culture with early 2000s technology sounds like a dream world, I want this so bad and I want this to persist forever, never changing.
A trip to the hospital for my brother's & I was a half hour to an hour away so we had to be seriously injured or near death before we'd get taken to the hospital.
Precious memories! I was only a child during the '80s but I remember everything you just spoke about. What a great time to be alive!
I'm so glad I grew up in the 80's. I got to make my own mistakes and learn from them without them showing up on social media. Those were the days.
I grew up in the '90s a lot of stuff from the '80s spilled over into the 90s
Amen!
Agreed about the loitering thing, There's so few places people can go to just to loiter and just exist without being expected to spend a fortune. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. It's strange how there's like nothing to do for free without getting harassed by cops for just chilling.
You have to know your rights. Then, exercise them blatantly.
It's all about the money. Just hanging around doesn't maximize stockholder's equity.
There was a wave of loitering bans in the south during reconstruction... you will never guess why.
Idk man, that's not really a thing in Tennessee. Still pretty much the same as always. It's just that there's less places to go do that because not as many people go hang out anymore, it more online now.
@@rameynoodles152 Same in Florida. Most beaches are free, maybe $2 to park. A lot of our natural springs are also free entry. Also, I visited Smokey mountains a few months ago and Tennessee was truly beautiful. I’d love to go back one day.
The genius of a lot of ‘kid’ rated stuff from the ‘60’s, ‘70’s and’80’s is that kids were still pretty innocent, so while there was enough ‘kid’ humour to make stuff work, it’s rewatching it in adulthood when you see the things that you weren’t old enough to get the first time round. Kids these days know too much. I miss that more than anything, innocence.
As a kid born in the early 2000’s, I get it. Because of the internet and limited restrictions, kids now lose innocence around 8, sadly.
I was born in 1971 and I can tell you I would give up all modern conveniences to go back to those days. We are living in a dystopia compared to life in the '80s.
I would relive 1980 to 1989 every single day. Phenomenal time to be a teen
I was a young kid in the 80s. I was a 90s teen. Not as great a time, as I hear from my older cousins, but miles better than today
I agree. If you figure out how to do it let me know cause im in 😂
Me too. I love and miss the 80s.
I was 4 in 89, but I wish all the time I was born 8-10yrs earlier.
Agree 100% teen from 83-89
Pretty much spot on. Graduated high school in the class of 1983. Hell, in high school, we (students) had our own smoking area. Now I'm stuck with COPD so yeah, consequences. But for the most part, growing up in the 70's and 80's was about as awesome as you can imagine. Freedom and opportunity were boundless. I can't imagine growing up in these times we're living now, and I feel bad for anyone who has to. I guess you can't miss what you never had, but for those of us who had it, we know what you're missing.
A single mum with 2 small children in the 80s, best years of my life. Great clothes, great music, great hair!
You guys across the pond also had the greatest sex pest, Jimmy Saville! Our beloved Bill Cosby could only accomplish a quarter of what that guy could.
So true!!
You still single? Asking for me
This is so well done. As someone who was born in 1976 and grew up in the 80s this was spot on. Such great memories.
Man I miss the 80’s! It was so carefree and easy going. Movies, music and people were happier!
That's why the best movies are from the 80's and 90's
80s music was the best
The arcades! Oh how I miss real arcades!! and music, good tv, and not being tethered to a blasted phone lol.
You only needed ten bucks to have a good night. That included food, fuel and some cigarettes.
We stole the beer!
Buy a history book.
I was born in 1976 this is all accurate. The 80's and 90's were the best we had so much fun!
'74
I was born in '76 as well. I LOVED the '80s and miss them so much!
the final year for us X'ers before Millennials began being born. We are the final teens of the 80's, and grew up under Reagan/Bush.
@@jackson5116 I'm from 1977, does this mean I'm a millennial?
@@rijjhb9467 no it started in 1981
Born '73, 80s kid. Modern life is awful. Please take me back.
Only if I can come too. From one 1973r to another.
Best time to have been born in my opinion, 72-73, glad you got to experience the 80s as a teen.
1977 here, I completely understand!!!
Born 87, but consider myself a 90's kid. I was part of the last generation to grow up before we all became glued to our cellphones/smartphones and addicted to technology, and I am so thankful to have been born before "modern life". My family got our first computer in like 1999 I believe, but even the internet seemed better back then and it wasn't the only thing our lives revolved around like it is for people today. It seems like life started becoming more awful around like 2008 and kept getting worse and worse every year.
Well u were a kid in the 80’s tbf. I’m thinking take me back to 2015 because most of of my happy memories stem from that year in High school. Doesn’t mean the world was a better place
I wasn’t a “latch key kid” but rather we would just leave the back door unlocked. We never had anything stolen, so we never saw any reason to lock it. We would just come home from school, open the back door and go in. Both my parents worked all day so there wasn’t anyone home when we arrived. This was considered perfectly normal back then.
Loved growing up in the 80's,the music,the nightclubs,the live pub bands,the fashion,the hair,less rules and regulations and no drama!!! The 80's rocked! 😍
Rocking on
HAIR BANDS......
@@maddhatter3564 punk bands! 😉
Nightclubs???!!! live pub bands?!?!,,,You didnt grow up in the 80's then,,,you must have been a TEENAGER in the early 70's
Scrunchies 👍
"I'm At The Community Center " on a pay phone instead of paying that charge was hilariously genius 😂
I did that a few times.
My BFF’s parents used to send us to the convenience store to buy cigarettes at around 7pm on school nights. It was dark by 4:30pm in the winter. 2 large packs of Rothmans every time they sent us. We were 8 years old. Out buying smokes, in the dark on a school night. Ahhh, good times lol.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
I had a friend who was 12 (and who looked like he was 12) that used to buy cigarettes at the local gas station. No questions asked. No ID required. The 1980s were a totally different universe from today.
Just a quick ride on your Raleigh Tuff Burner to the shops and a lot of jealous jaw drops from kids as you ride past on something they could never afford.
I remember being 5 years old and my mother would give me a note for a few things at the store, including her cigarettes. I just handed the note and the money and they gave it to me.
Grew up in the 80s
Was a blast
One thing I don’t miss is the indoor smoking tho
The 80's were such a great time to be a kid. Glad I got to experience an amazing decade.
born in 53, so was 18 in 71. Great time, life was so much better before cell phone and social media.
Music was the best in the 70's, it's still all I really listen too. Born in 72.
Looking through these comments most all of the complaints about life now are cell phones and social media. If it's that bad can't you just turn them off?
1980 graduate here so I spent my youth in the 70s, what a great time to be alive and young. Music was our internet, super bands were all the rage and many of them were putting out albums like crazy and touring. socializing was all the rage not being alone and looking at your phone.
So true ..
I remember watching "Dazed and Confused" with my dad and uncle once while getting incredibly stoned. My uncle, who was in high school the year the movie took place, said that being a high schooler in '77 was EXACTLY like that movie.
I grew up in the 70s. Born in 59. Grad high school in 77...just wanted to say some of this was true, some wasnt. It was definitly a blast and care free. A time of halter tops and cut off jeans, 12 dollar top band concerts, and swimming quarries where we partied and made love. The biggest thing so much better then than now: No social poisoning that the internet, cell phones and Facebook created. Cell phones are used 50% communication, 50% avoiding eye contact.
So…what wasn’t true?
@@someoneyoudontknow7705 For one, no parents I knew or ever saw would leave kids in the car while they shopped.
I graduated from high school in 1990. So the '80s were a great decade for me!
'92 grad,eighties were great 👍
Me too! I also graduated 1990!
Class of 90 baby !!!!!!!!.......
I graduated the same year...Never thought America would almost trade places with the former USSR nowadays. Incredible how history works.
class of '93, and yes, the '80's were amazing!
Born in '71, I can confirm every single word of this video. Very well done! Oh the nostalgia!
I was 1967 and yes, the freedom was #1