I graduated in 1982. It’s hard for me to believe I’m now retired and 60 years old . I got to experience things that will never happen again. I sum my life up now with one word . THANKFUL .
@tekman196 I am also 60 and a 1982 graduate from Moore, Oklahoma. We lived during the very best times. I am thankful also for the times I lived through.
lol out of nowhere, words like “vintage” and “classic” started becoming associated with an era that felt like yesterday. Yes it took me a while to get used to that one too!
Yeah. It was the radio that really jolted me into realization. In LA there's a station called K-EARTH 101 that has always been an oldies station. In the 80's they were playing stuff like Mamas and the Papas, Elvis, The Kinks, etc. Then one day in 2019, I was in a laundromat that had it on and it was playing Duran Duran. Like the same exact program my favorite pop stations were playing in '82-'86. That really tore me up.
I'm 59 I remember the 80's really well and all of the tv shows, movies, music, food, candy, soft drinks, comic books, video games, old tape cassette players, pro wrestling magazines, so much more, etc and Thanks for the Memories.🇺🇲🎆📺📻🎆🇺🇲
I'm the same when it came to the music from the 80s (different channel) I was at work and didn't realize how it was going to effect me. I cleaned up before the next customer came in.
@@KentKaliber just no Smartphones, the problems are the same, drugs, domestic violence, accidents, sickness, wars and double standards, back then peoples cry about heavy Metal but nowadays every sh*t got recordet by surveilance and Smartphones and goes viral into the www
The world has always had its problems regardless of era, but it just seems like the glow that life once had to offer, went away quickly after the turn of the century/2000’s
@@angeldesigns1385I agree. After 9/11 it seems the world just went to crap. Air safety changed forever and the 2010s housing crisis ruined finances and then Covid finished it all. The last 25 yrs of misery in a nutshell 😢
@@sonhuynh8222 Isn't it funny that back in the 80s we all wondered what life would be like in the year 2000 and beyond. Now that it is here, it kind of sucks.
I loved the 80’s! I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. I married in 1978 and had my daughter in 1980. I loved the 80’s music and style. Both my hubby and I had good jobs. The economy where we lived was great. I had fun buying my daughter clothes and toys. I remember buying a Cabbage Patch doll, Alf stuffed toy, annual Barbie holiday doll, many Barbies and Barbie clothes.
That's rad! My sister was born in 80 and I was born in 81 so I have your child's perspective! I still obsessively collect Garbage Pail Kids to this day! Lol! I also still have my He-Man castle and my sister's She-Ra castle! I miss those days so much!
Ahaaahaaa! We did the same, or we would ask, "Are those Bugle Boy jeans you're wearing?" We also made signs saying "Yeessss" or "NOT" and hold them up..this was right around the time of Wayne's World coming out, lol. I lived in a small town, so driving around was one of the few things to do. 😅
I’m going to have to retire my oft said line “Mikey likes it” because people are starting not to know what it means and wonder why I’m calling someone Mikey. 🥲
I was in my 20’s the whole 80’s decade, but as a 62 year old, I believe as great as the 60’s, 70’s and 90’s were in my time, the 80’s was definitely something extra special and cool to have experienced in real time . Actress and comedian Margret Cho described the 80’s perfectly in a stand up routine , saying “ the 80’s was an Oh Mickey You’re So Fine time “ , and she was right, something about the pop culture , a combination of the attitude , the clothes, the hair, the music, the movies, the entertainment , and consumer products made everything cool, classy and fun, for kids, teens, young and old. It was a very special time that I feel so blessed to have been young and experience. It was a decade that I didn’t want to end, and I’ll never forget 1980 to 1989.
Id give anything to wake up saturday morning again, excited for cartoons, cereal, and whatever the day held outside with my friends. I miss my mom too, she was great.
Always enjoy remembering anything 80’s on Recollection Road!! Thank you! I graduated in 1983 and was going to marry Martha Quinn! lol The 80’s will forever be the best decade ever! I miss it for sure. Great memories!
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Cars, Asia, Van Halen, Pat Benatar, Hair Metal Bands, New Wave, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Toto, Rick Springfield, Loverboy, and many more!
Born in ‘77 so the 80’s will always be the greatest decade ever. Waking up early on a Saturday morning and watching cartoons till noon, then playing outside till the street lights came on or in the backyard till it was time for bed will always be great memories for me. Playing Atari was what we did when the weather was bad, week nights we were in the house by 5:30 to eat dinner and then watch your favorite shows like the A-Team, Dukes of Hazard or Night Rider. Watching V-the Final Battle and then acting it out on the playground at school the next day will also be one of my greatest memories as well
It was wonderful to graduate HS in 1982 and be in my 2os in the 1980s too. Not too much technology to make life stressful or messed up - but just enough technology to make life more exciting and better. I enjoy my life today very much - but i definitely look back at the 80s with MUCH warmth and fondness. I feel so lucky to have grown up when I did. Things seem so much harder today for younger people. ☮️💟
I really feel blessed that I was born when I was. I was a kid through the 80's (best cartoons, movies, music, etc.). Teen in the 90's (music, freedom, etc.). Great times.
The Smurfs were my favorite Saturday morning Cartoon. I had a Cabbage patch kid and a Rubix cube and Super Maro Brothers was the crap. I miss the days of video arcades and Reading all those book series and Garbage pail kids. I remember a bunch of us neighborhood kids outside riding bikes. Middle school was awesome. I remember all this stuff. I loved the Mall and the music was amazing. The Atari is my earliest memory of home video games. This really takes me back to being a kid of the 80's. I used to love skating. I grew up in the 80's and 90's. I had a Teddy Ruxpin. It makes me sad to see the way this world is today.
Dang, your likes and life was my likes and life lol. The only thing different but maybe not, is I loved Strawberry Shortcake as a little girl, I still remember the Christmas of 100% Shortcake stuff :)
I loved the mall. In my hometown the mall is still thriving! There was a fountain in the middle and a Chelsea's pub. You could smell the fountain and good food! Miss it so much!❤
I remember the first time I saw an advertisement for he man toys. I was at my grandparents house watching cartoons after school because we lived out in the country and didn’t have cable. The ad came on and I was awed. When my dad picked me up I told him all about it. A short time later, my dad took my sister, me, and my great aunt to Albany where there was a toys r us, and I got he man, stratos, and zodak, all of which I still have. We then ate dinner at the ground round and went to a movie afterwards. It was such a magical time in my life.
I was 5 when the 80's hit and I think it was great age because the 80's was truly a decade where a kid could be a kid, this video brought back those great childhood memories.
The world was absolutely a better place back then. It was social, exciting, mysterious and fun. There were no worries about Facebook comments or pictures. When you went to do something, you focused on it and enjoyed what you were doing and not doing it just to show off some pictures on social media, more focused on your phone then the event lol. When you talked to someone, you TALKED to them, in person or on the phone. We actually went outside and played, no way my Mom was going to let me sit around on a nice day! Shows and music were just fun and didn't have to try to be more shocking than the next. There was no internet to put all these crazy ideas into peoples heads. You accepted who you were and dealt with it, just becoming stronger. Too many things to list, but I wish the kids today, could experience the 70s,80s and 90s.
No doubt about it. The 80s was the best time to be alive. Born in 73. This video brought back so many memories for me. I wish i had my own delorean time machine and go back to that time again. Re-live and adjust my decisions alightly to change my future just a bit. 😊
I was a kid in the 80’s who experienced extreme abuse from my parents, and it wasn’t ok to call this out. So, my teachers couldn’t do much. I’m so grateful for social media and the progression of not tolerating abuse!
I am so sorry you went through this. I can definitely see why you would have appreciated having social media and the internet. I hope your adult life has been much more peaceful and happy.
I loved the 90 minute glorious CBS syndication of The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show with all uncensored cartoons. I accepted no phone calls, no work, nor interruptions during this show. Chuck Jones was a genius with fantastic master cartoonists, Merry Melodies orchestra music, and wickedly funny satire. And yes, MTV did play music with televised live epic world level shows. Lastly, concerts of all kinds were played all year long in nearly every town let alone huge city in America at an average of about $20 tickets. I treasure all my wasted money that I earned buying tons of albums and concert tickets.
i spoke to Chuck Jones one day on the phone. He needed a business phone installed in his semi circular house in Orange County CA,. NIce man. He asked me " do you know who I am?" boy did i. Then i saw a documentary that he had a rough childhood. I went to a store in Costa Mesa that had his drawings and told the rep there( who never met him) what a nice person he was.
My husband and I used to go to Metal concerts when we met in the 90's (it was the kind of Metal that wasn't played on the normal radio) and we would always go to this place in Philadelphia and you could buy either general admission (which had no seats) or for a couple dollars more you could get balcony seating (which we did). Well my birthday was last week and he was going to surprise me and take me to a concert that is having 2 bands we love and we haven't been to a concert in years. Well, he went online to get the tickets, and they are $250 to $500 A PIECE!!!! Like I said, they aren't like very well known, radio played bands! Jeez, even tickets for Ozzfest 97 for 7th row center was like $75 a piece, and that show had A LOT of great bands!
I was born in '78. I miss the '80s 😢😢. That was probably my favorite decade. It was a much simpler time, no social media , we actually played outside. If I could go back in time I would tell my younger self to just enjoy your childhood responsibility will be waiting soon enough. We had cool toys cool kid shows. Definitely good times.
I loved Blockbuster, MTV,John Hughes movies, The Wonder Years, Growing Pains,Family Ties, ALF,E.T.,Orange Julius, roller rinks,Scooby Do and SO much more! Oh,the 80's memories📼
The 1980s was such a great decade for a boy age 5-10yrs growing up. Holidays, Wrestling, Video Games and BMX bikes or playing war with your buddies in the woods. Going on road trips with your parents or a trip to McDonald's or the movie theater to see a Stallone or Schwarzenegger movie! Great era to be a kid! Sad those times are gone!
I was born in 1983….I feel like we were so lucky to have an organic childhood experience….playing outside away from social media and wholesome tv shows and family movie nights…..I wish kids now could have the innocence we experienced too.
Born in 1980. In a million years in a galaxy far far away they will NEVER replicate what we experienced. Never. I am still stuck here WISHING when I die I can return to 1986-1987…. It truly was absolutely heaven. It was so long ago now & we’re so far away you wonder if it even happened..?
I was born in 83, So most of my memories of the 80s come from the late 80s of 87 -89. Some of the best memories I have of those days were the family going to Drive-in movie theaters.
ya I remember watching ET at the drive in theatre. My dad let us crawl up on the roof of our Van and watch from there. I had no idea that those great times would not last forever.
That’s funny. I grew up in the eighties, and I remember all the “grumpy old people” saying “I think the 50’s were the last decade when kids could still be kids”
@@gustavsorensen9301 Well, in the 90s into the early mid 2000s up until the internet age kids don’t go outside but, sad and, unfortunately are outside world is not safe for a kid of any age no more, our outside world isn’t even safe for us adults! 17:20
I grew up in the ’50’s and ‘60’s, so I ignored all of this. It all seems dreadful to me, but we identify with the things we grew up with, so 80’s kids are digging this, I’m sure. You could still grow up a normal kid in the 1980’s. I feel for today’s youth.
50s to the 90s were amazing decades to grow up in. I was born in 1971, so I grew up in the 70s-90s basically. 80s were so much fun to be a kid. My parents enjoyed the 50s and 60s a lot. Those looked like great times too.
as a kid in the 80's. boy, how I mis going to the record store and buying a 45 record or album/and then couldn't wait to get home and play it on the RECORD PLAYER. remember those. LOL...like Archie and Edith said. THOSE WERE THE DAYS.
The Smurfs ,Care bears, Strawberry shortcake and the Shirt Tails were my favorite. I remember my mom getting a Cabbage patch and I had dozens of strawberry Shortcake dolls.
Blockbuster has become synonymous with video rental, but let's not forget you could rent videos from convenience stores, grocery stores and some other choices.
I was born in 1971. I remember the 80s it was awesome and I miss K-MART and I grew up watching the VON ERICS wrestle and yes MTV was good at one time but not anymore
We couldn’t afford Cabbage Patch Kids but my grandmother handmade 3 “adoption dolls” for me… 2 girls and a boy, anatomically correct. I cherished them. I named them Christy and then Mindy and Phillip (from Guiding Light)! ❤❤❤
I had a homemade cabbage patch doll as well! Made by a lady from our church for my birthday. ❤ Later I got an actual cabbage patch doll from my Grandma. But I loved them both.
Born in 76, an 80s/90s boy, all these things genuinely bring back memories I love. These things were my life. What a trip down memory lane. Feeling nostalgic.
I was a young adult in the 80's, but that didn't stop me from partaking in many pursuits like going to the arcade, renting videos from Blockbuster & even getting Garbage Pail Kids stickers for my younger brother. 😁
I remember Smurfs colorforms and the Strawberry Shortcake dolls that had the scent of fruit that corresponded with each of the dolls. We only played Oregan Trail in school since we didn't have a computer at home. Only the rich kids did. 😂 My very first Cabbage Patch Kid was a boy. And his name was George Bailey. I thought that was so cool because I loved (still love) "It's a Wonderful Life." Garbage Patch Kids were the bomb! Lol
Ya Oregon trail man.... by the time you made it to the first river half your people where dead. You def where out of food and supplies. With little or no way to continue. I wonder if anyone ever made it to the end of the trail?
@@marcussmith4913 I have yet to know anyone who has. It was definitely fixed so as to not let anyone to ever make it to the end. No winners. No survivors. Lol
I'm definitely grateful to have experienced a lot of great things in the 80s. Todays generation just couldn't comprehend what is like back in those days.
I couldn't believe that I had never realized before that Michael Vale, the "Time to make the donuts" guy, (Fred the baker) was also the Breakstone's guy, Sam Breakstone. "Not thick enough."
I used to love getting up on Saturday mornings to watch some of my favorite cartoons with cereal. While I loved the sugary cereals (Frosted Flakes, Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, the Monster cereals, Lucky Charms, the Marshmallow Krispies cereals, the Pebbles cereals, et cetera), I also liked Cheerios, Rice Krispies, Corn Flakes, and a few more of the healthier brands. Although I've heard of The Oregon Trail game, I can't recall actually playing it. I think my older sister loved Cabbage Patch Kids along with Rainbow Brite dolls, but I never cared for either of them. I also didn't care much for any of the He-Man merchandise, although the animated series was not bad. I could never figure out how to solve the Rubik's Cube, no matter how many times I twisted those colored blocks. As such, I quickly grew frustrated and bored with it. Ah, Nintendo. This was my favorite thing to play as a kid in the 1980s. I enjoyed playing many games on the NES, although I admit that some games were frustratingly difficult for me. We didn't have a Blockbuster Video store where I lived back then, but there was a local video store where I often rented some good movies to watch, especially over the weekend. Of course, I was too young to watch scary horror movies. Remember that I was only a kid and in my single digits until March of 1989 when I turned 10. Damn! That blonde-haired boy in the arcade room (facing away from the camera) almost looks like me when I was that age. Maybe that *WAS* me and I just don't remember having my picture taken at the time. I know that I used to love playing arcade games when I wasn't playing the NES games. I never cared for or even liked Garbage Pail Kids, mostly because I hated (and still hate) garbage. I often got sick when I heard someone throw something in the garbage at home. I also didn't care for The Baby-Sitters Club or Judy Blume books. They just weren't my thing. I only liked Hulk Hogan in *Rocky III* (1982) when he fought Rocky Balboa in a charity match. I never cared for wrestling itself. MTV had some good music videos, but my favorite one at the time was *Open Your Heart* by Madonna. I admit that, even as a kid, I had quite a crush on her. I even wished I could have been that young boy in the video, especially when she kissed him. To be continued in another comment...
I had that exact Rubik's Cube book. My brother and I one Sat night figured it out. He read the book, I manned the Cube. Took us awhile but we figured it out.
@@muzerhythm2242That Pyramid was so easy to solve. Two moves enough times and it would go back right. I also remember the snake you could turn into a ball.
I was an 80's kid & I loved Mr.T cartoons! yay not to mention Pac-Man Cereal!! StarWars, Snorks, Alvin & the Chipmunks, TMNT, Ghostbusters, the 1984 Summer Olympics with McDonalds giving away coupons for free stuff! Jem & the Holograms yay!!! Parachute Pants & the Black & Blue Nikes!!!! woooo
My sister had a teddy ruxpin, we used to put my Izzy Osborne tape in it and laugh about seeing teddy ruxpin singing I think it was bark at the moon. I loved going to pizza parlors, we’d take our pizza to a table game like Pac-Man and play while we ate, those games were a greasy mess.
I was born in the early 1980s. What a time. Almost everything about the 80s was awesome. Awesome cartoons, awesome tv shows, awesome toys. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I really miss it. A much simpler time
I was born in 78,I'm 46 now. Growing up in the 80s for me was both hard and exciting for me. But I enjoyed every minute of my life back then. And I'll never forget those days.
I was born in 1974, and I am SO GRATEFUL to have lived during this beautiful period of time. They were wonderful years and the peak of humanity. My only regret is not being born 10 years earlier so I could enjoy it more.
I graduated in 1982. It’s hard for me to believe I’m now retired and 60 years old . I got to experience things that will never happen again. I sum my life up now with one word . THANKFUL .
Amen! Same here born in '64. The 80s were the best decade EVER!
@tekman196 I am also 60 and a 1982 graduate from Moore, Oklahoma. We lived during the very best times. I am thankful also for the times I lived through.
It's hard to believe it sure went by fast . Entering the fourth quarter my friend.
Born in 1968 and definitely thankful!
I graduated in '81 and feel much the same way.
Seems like yesterday but was 40 years ago can’t believe it
lol out of nowhere, words like “vintage” and “classic” started becoming associated with an era that felt like yesterday. Yes it took me a while to get used to that one too!
Seems like yesterday that my wife died in 2021.
@@glennso47 Its OK my friend. At least we all have some of the eighties shows together. Hang in there
Tell me about. I'm 51 now. More of a simple time
Yeah. It was the radio that really jolted me into realization. In LA there's a station called K-EARTH 101 that has always been an oldies station. In the 80's they were playing stuff like Mamas and the Papas, Elvis, The Kinks, etc. Then one day in 2019, I was in a laundromat that had it on and it was playing Duran Duran. Like the same exact program my favorite pop stations were playing in '82-'86. That really tore me up.
Best decade ever, wish I could go back to those days.
Best decade because it was the one you grew up in.
@@williamwilson6499thus, best decade...
That was truly the best decade to be a kid. I miss it so much.
I'm so glad I was born in 1972...memory's that I will carry forever!
Born in 1973 right here.
1971
1971 for me
‘74 here. About to put on some White Lion for my morning coffee.
Memories.
Born in Austria on 1972.
Being a kid in the 80's and young adult in the 90's was the greatest gift a generation has ever got.
I'm 59 I remember the 80's really well and all of the tv shows, movies,
music, food, candy, soft drinks, comic books, video games, old tape cassette players, pro wrestling magazines, so much more, etc and
Thanks for the Memories.🇺🇲🎆📺📻🎆🇺🇲
Betsy Russell! Phoebe Cates! Jennifer Jason Leigh! 😊
WWF !!! "Oh Yeaaaaah" by the Macho Man Randy Savage, wooooo!
I m the same age 65 baby!
Am I the only one that cried when I see these. Life was so simple back then.
Life was simpler and yet fundamentally more FUN and fulfilling.
I'm the same when it came to the music from the 80s (different channel) I was at work and didn't realize how it was going to effect me. I cleaned up before the next customer came in.
@@KentKaliber just no Smartphones, the problems are the same, drugs, domestic violence, accidents, sickness, wars and double standards, back then peoples cry about heavy Metal but nowadays every sh*t got recordet by surveilance and Smartphones and goes viral into the www
@@KentKaliber Just without Smartphones
I did cry too. It just brought back so many good memories because i experienced ALL these things.
I was born during Nixon and grew up in the 80's. Looking back now it seems like a whole different world, and I miss it more and more every day.
The world has always had its problems regardless of era, but it just seems like the glow that life once had to offer, went away quickly after the turn of the century/2000’s
@@angeldesigns1385I agree. After 9/11 it seems the world just went to crap. Air safety changed forever and the 2010s housing crisis ruined finances and then Covid finished it all. The last 25 yrs of misery in a nutshell 😢
@@sonhuynh8222 Isn't it funny that back in the 80s we all wondered what life would be like in the year 2000 and beyond. Now that it is here, it kind of sucks.
That's for sure.
@@angeldesigns1385 in the 80s there was way more violence in USA than today and since the 90s the numbers of crimes like murdercases are going lower
I loved the 80’s! I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. I married in 1978 and had my daughter in 1980. I loved the 80’s music and style. Both my hubby and I had good jobs. The economy where we lived was great. I had fun buying my daughter clothes and toys. I remember buying a Cabbage Patch doll, Alf stuffed toy, annual Barbie holiday doll, many Barbies and Barbie clothes.
@@footballlvnlady I used to have tons of Barbies and accessories.
That's rad! My sister was born in 80 and I was born in 81 so I have your child's perspective! I still obsessively collect Garbage Pail Kids to this day! Lol! I also still have my He-Man castle and my sister's She-Ra castle! I miss those days so much!
In born 1980
Our favorite question to ask people in traffic in the '80s was, "Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?"
Ahaaahaaa! We did the same, or we would ask, "Are those Bugle Boy jeans you're wearing?" We also made signs saying "Yeessss" or "NOT" and hold them up..this was right around the time of Wayne's World coming out, lol. I lived in a small town, so driving around was one of the few things to do. 😅
I’m going to have to retire my oft said line “Mikey likes it” because people are starting not to know what it means and wonder why I’m calling someone Mikey. 🥲
@@novelidea6939I still say "you got it, Toyota". The looks I get says it all. 😊
"But of course!" 😂❤
Where’s the beef!
I was in my 20’s the whole 80’s decade, but as a 62 year old, I believe as great as the 60’s, 70’s and 90’s were in my time, the 80’s was definitely something extra special and cool to have experienced in real time . Actress and comedian Margret Cho described the 80’s perfectly in a stand up routine , saying “ the 80’s was an Oh Mickey You’re So Fine time “ , and she was right, something about the pop culture , a combination of the attitude , the clothes, the hair, the music, the movies, the entertainment , and consumer products made everything cool, classy and fun, for kids, teens, young and old. It was a very special time that I feel so blessed to have been young and experience. It was a decade that I didn’t want to end, and I’ll never forget 1980 to 1989.
Hello my childhood. Nice to see you again 🥹
Id give anything to wake up saturday morning again, excited for cartoons, cereal, and whatever the day held outside with my friends. I miss my mom too, she was great.
@@marcussmith4913 me too. I think back to those days when I just thought my mom would be here forever.
Watching the Smurfs
@@annmarie1569 Same. Lost my mom in 86 when I was about to turn 13. Even so, I’d still go back to that time.
We were so lucky to have John Hughes movies when we were teenagers in the 80s. Lucky lucky lucky.
I just bought weird science a couple of weeks ago. That completed my John Hughs collection.
I still love Home Alone
Great movies
Always enjoy remembering anything 80’s on Recollection Road!!
Thank you! I graduated in 1983 and was going to marry Martha Quinn! lol
The 80’s will forever be the best decade ever!
I miss it for sure.
Great memories!
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Cars, Asia, Van Halen, Pat Benatar, Hair Metal Bands, New Wave, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Toto, Rick Springfield, Loverboy, and many more!
ASIA is touring the USA- eastern half so far. 1st concert was last night.
I just saw Bret Micheals in concert yesterday and I was a teenager all over again 😂
Men at Work!!! You forgot Men at Work!!! My heart still aches for them!!! RIP Greg Ham😢!!!
@@karenrowe786 If you like Glen Campbell too, check out Colin Haye's cover of "Wichita Lineman". It's on RUclips.
Actual bands. Not the auto tuned non sense of today. Yes todays music sucks and it's not because I'm older.
I graduated in 1992… I was 17. The 80s were simply the best time to be a kid.
Class of 90’ here. I’m with u 💯
I also graduated in 1992 and was 17!
Me too. Let’s go back!
1991 for me!!!!!! You're not kidding!!!!!!!
I can't believe we Gen-Xers are in our 50s plus now! Where did the time go? 😊
I spent most of the 80's wishing it was the 60's, but even still, I'd do it over again in a heartbeat.
you remember the 60's as a kid
for most, it was the most turbulent time in america...up till now
@@thewkovacs316 The most turbulent time in America was the '60s. The 1860's with the Civil War.
@MrOnyxRaven I believe the implication was a lot of the civil rights unrest of the latter part of the 1960’s. Yes, very turbulent times then.
@brentwebster6341 I kinda think there was a lot more "unrest" over "civil rights" in the first half of the 1860's.
Born in ‘77 so the 80’s will always be the greatest decade ever. Waking up early on a Saturday morning and watching cartoons till noon, then playing outside till the street lights came on or in the backyard till it was time for bed will always be great memories for me. Playing Atari was what we did when the weather was bad, week nights we were in the house by 5:30 to eat dinner and then watch your favorite shows like the A-Team, Dukes of Hazard or Night Rider. Watching V-the Final Battle and then acting it out on the playground at school the next day will also be one of my greatest memories as well
I love going down memory lane with these videos!!!
It was wonderful to graduate HS in 1982 and be in my 2os in the 1980s too. Not too much technology to make life stressful or messed up - but just enough technology to make life more exciting and better. I enjoy my life today very much - but i definitely look back at the 80s with MUCH warmth and fondness. I feel so lucky to have grown up when I did. Things seem so much harder today for younger people. ☮️💟
I really feel blessed that I was born when I was. I was a kid through the 80's (best cartoons, movies, music, etc.). Teen in the 90's (music, freedom, etc.). Great times.
Muppet Babies! Loved that cartoon
ya me and my sister loved to watch that show.
The Smurfs were my favorite Saturday morning Cartoon. I had a Cabbage patch kid and a Rubix cube and Super Maro Brothers was the crap. I miss the days of video arcades and Reading all those book series and Garbage pail kids. I remember a bunch of us neighborhood kids outside riding bikes. Middle school was awesome. I remember all this stuff. I loved the Mall and the music was amazing. The Atari is my earliest memory of home video games. This really takes me back to being a kid of the 80's. I used to love skating. I grew up in the 80's and 90's. I had a Teddy Ruxpin. It makes me sad to see the way this world is today.
Dang, your likes and life was my likes and life lol. The only thing different but maybe not, is I loved Strawberry Shortcake as a little girl, I still remember the Christmas of 100% Shortcake stuff :)
I loved the mall. In my hometown the mall is still thriving! There was a fountain in the middle and a Chelsea's pub. You could smell the fountain and good food! Miss it so much!❤
@@mandilynn24 Our Mall is gone now. Its set to be Demolished.😔
@annmarie1569 😪😪. That's so sad! So many memories. Even Hastings records and tapes. I worked there. Makes me wish for those days again!
Good times.. I’d go back in a heartbeat…. World was such a better time…..
Ndeed!
I remember the first time I saw an advertisement for he man toys. I was at my grandparents house watching cartoons after school because we lived out in the country and didn’t have cable. The ad came on and I was awed. When my dad picked me up I told him all about it. A short time later, my dad took my sister, me, and my great aunt to Albany where there was a toys r us, and I got he man, stratos, and zodak, all of which I still have. We then ate dinner at the ground round and went to a movie afterwards. It was such a magical time in my life.
The 1980s had all the unique stuff. There will never be another decade like it. Ever. I miss the 80s so much.
And I remember watching Rankin and Bass, Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer during December 👍🏻🎄🎄🎄
No other decade will ever come close. If given a chance i would go back in a heartbeat. Im truly sorry for all thoes who missed out!
Thank you for taking us down memory lane. Nothing will ever compare to the 80’s! It was a great time!!!!!
I was 5 when the 80's hit and I think it was great age because the 80's was truly a decade where a kid could be a kid, this video brought back those great childhood memories.
The world was absolutely a better place back then. It was social, exciting, mysterious and fun. There were no worries about Facebook comments or pictures. When you went to do something, you focused on it and enjoyed what you were doing and not doing it just to show off some pictures on social media, more focused on your phone then the event lol. When you talked to someone, you TALKED to them, in person or on the phone. We actually went outside and played, no way my Mom was going to let me sit around on a nice day! Shows and music were just fun and didn't have to try to be more shocking than the next. There was no internet to put all these crazy ideas into peoples heads. You accepted who you were and dealt with it, just becoming stronger. Too many things to list, but I wish the kids today, could experience the 70s,80s and 90s.
I Grew Up in the Best Era EVER!! I was Born in 69.. I Witnessed THE Best Concerts ever!! Texas Jams.... 1985-1989! Yup, I was There!!
No doubt about it. The 80s was the best time to be alive. Born in 73. This video brought back so many memories for me. I wish i had my own delorean time machine and go back to that time again. Re-live and adjust my decisions alightly to change my future just a bit. 😊
I was a kid in the 80’s who experienced extreme abuse from my parents, and it wasn’t ok to call this out. So, my teachers couldn’t do much. I’m so grateful for social media and the progression of not tolerating abuse!
I am so sorry you went through this. I can definitely see why you would have appreciated having social media and the internet. I hope your adult life has been much more peaceful and happy.
I loved the 90 minute glorious CBS syndication of The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show with all uncensored cartoons. I accepted no phone calls, no work, nor interruptions during this show. Chuck Jones was a genius with fantastic master cartoonists, Merry Melodies orchestra music, and wickedly funny satire. And yes, MTV did play music with televised live epic world level shows. Lastly, concerts of all kinds were played all year long in nearly every town let alone huge city in America at an average of about $20 tickets. I treasure all my wasted money that I earned buying tons of albums and concert tickets.
i spoke to Chuck Jones one day on the phone. He needed a business phone installed in his semi circular house in Orange County CA,. NIce man. He asked me " do you know who I am?" boy did i. Then i saw a documentary that he had a rough childhood. I went to a store in Costa Mesa that had his drawings and told the rep there( who never met him) what a nice person he was.
Those Bugs Bunny and Road Runner cartoons was better than anything Disney ever made then and now.
My husband and I used to go to Metal concerts when we met in the 90's (it was the kind of Metal that wasn't played on the normal radio) and we would always go to this place in Philadelphia and you could buy either general admission (which had no seats) or for a couple dollars more you could get balcony seating (which we did). Well my birthday was last week and he was going to surprise me and take me to a concert that is having 2 bands we love and we haven't been to a concert in years. Well, he went online to get the tickets, and they are $250 to $500 A PIECE!!!! Like I said, they aren't like very well known, radio played bands! Jeez, even tickets for Ozzfest 97 for 7th row center was like $75 a piece, and that show had A LOT of great bands!
I was born in '78. I miss the '80s 😢😢. That was probably my favorite decade. It was a much simpler time, no social media , we actually played outside. If I could go back in time I would tell my younger self to just enjoy your childhood responsibility will be waiting soon enough. We had cool toys cool kid shows. Definitely good times.
Well , this video just hit me like a freight train. Literally made me depressed aching to back to this time . . . and stay there.
Those were the days. What a great time! I miss them terribly.
Lots of awesome inventions in the '80s
Was in my teens and twenties during this era and miss it greatly.
I loved Blockbuster, MTV,John Hughes movies,
The Wonder Years, Growing Pains,Family Ties,
ALF,E.T.,Orange Julius, roller rinks,Scooby Do
and SO much more! Oh,the 80's memories📼
The 1980s was such a great decade for a boy age 5-10yrs growing up. Holidays, Wrestling, Video Games and BMX bikes or playing war with your buddies in the woods. Going on road trips with your parents or a trip to McDonald's or the movie theater to see a Stallone or Schwarzenegger movie! Great era to be a kid! Sad those times are gone!
I was born in 1983….I feel like we were so lucky to have an organic childhood experience….playing outside away from social media and wholesome tv shows and family movie nights…..I wish kids now could have the innocence we experienced too.
In my early 20s in the 80s. What a time to be alive❤️
Born in 1980.
In a million years in a galaxy far far away they will NEVER replicate what we experienced. Never.
I am still stuck here WISHING when I die I can return to 1986-1987….
It truly was absolutely heaven.
It was so long ago now & we’re so far away you wonder if it even happened..?
I was born in 83, So most of my memories of the 80s come from the late 80s of 87 -89. Some of the best memories I have of those days were the family going to Drive-in movie theaters.
ya I remember watching ET at the drive in theatre. My dad let us crawl up on the roof of our Van and watch from there. I had no idea that those great times would not last forever.
@@marcussmith4913You're lucky! I watched that crappy Megaforce movie at the drive-in. Lol
I think the 80's were the last decade when kids could still be kids.
That’s funny. I grew up in the eighties, and I remember all the “grumpy old people” saying “I think the 50’s were the last decade when kids could still be kids”
I agree!
The 80's were the best. The 90's were still pretty fun for kids. But WOW after the year 2000, it all went downhill.
I raised my kids in the mid 90’s and they still got to be kids at that time. It was after every kid had phones that it changed. Imo
@@gustavsorensen9301 Well, in the 90s into the early mid 2000s up until the internet age kids don’t go outside but, sad and, unfortunately are outside world is not safe for a kid of any age no more, our outside world isn’t even safe for us adults! 17:20
I grew up in the ’50’s and ‘60’s, so I ignored all of this. It all seems dreadful to me, but we identify with the things we grew up with, so 80’s kids are digging this, I’m sure. You could still grow up a normal kid in the 1980’s. I feel for today’s youth.
50s to the 90s were amazing decades to grow up in. I was born in 1971, so I grew up in the 70s-90s basically. 80s were so much fun to be a kid. My parents enjoyed the 50s and 60s a lot. Those looked like great times too.
as a kid in the 80's. boy, how I mis going to the record store and buying a 45 record or album/and then couldn't wait to get home and play it on the RECORD PLAYER. remember those. LOL...like Archie and Edith said. THOSE WERE THE DAYS.
The Smurfs ,Care bears, Strawberry shortcake and the Shirt Tails were my favorite. I remember my mom getting a Cabbage patch and I had dozens of strawberry Shortcake dolls.
Me too! Loved it all! Miss it so much! ❤
Hey don't forget Muppet babies and the wuzzles!!!!
Yes yes I do remember wish I could go back the best days of my life 😢
When I eat cereal it's still the sugary kind!😁
I've been eating a lot of Honeycomb cereal lately. 😊
Peanut butter Crunch every weekend! I’m 54.
I am 63, and I still like Froot Loops cereal.
Yes!! And remember the sugar bowl? What was that for?? It was for more sugar on your CEREAL!
Blockbuster has become synonymous with video rental, but let's not forget you could rent videos from convenience stores, grocery stores and some other choices.
Blockbuster had the best selection but the worst deals and late fees. I rented from ma/pa places.
That's right! I grew up in a small town, so there were some small local video stores. I forgot you could rent from the grocery store too! 😊
I never went to Blockbuster. I went to a locally owned video rental store.
There was a time, that there were Video rental stores opening up everywhere lol. It was a money maker during the 80s for sure.
The best video rental stores also had a tanning bed in the back 😂. One stop shop!
Can’t get enough of remembering the 80s 😃
Those of us who grew up in the 70's, 80's and 90\'s were the last truly "free" generation. No internet, no cell phones.
I remember the 80's fondly. I was a teenager then and to this day I think it was the best time ever
Wild to think about how differently I view that iconic Cosby Show photo today compared to back in the 80s. "America's Dad". Frightening.
We were more social before social medias.
I was born 1980, and I loved that decade, A lot of memories with family and friends
I was born in 1971. I remember the 80s it was awesome and I miss K-MART and I grew up watching the VON ERICS wrestle and yes MTV was good at one time but not anymore
80's child here....I was 8 y.o. in 1980, and graduated H.S. in 1990, got to experience all of it....😊
I loved Bookit! Lol. 😂
Still have my walkman and tons of the calif raisins.
Definitely cried watching this. I had all this!! I'm soo glad I was able to share it w my own children. Oh n still have all the game systems
Simpler times and honestly better. 🙏🏻
We couldn’t afford Cabbage Patch Kids but my grandmother handmade 3 “adoption dolls” for me… 2 girls and a boy, anatomically correct. I cherished them. I named them Christy and then Mindy and Phillip (from Guiding Light)! ❤❤❤
I had a homemade cabbage patch doll as well! Made by a lady from our church for my birthday. ❤ Later I got an actual cabbage patch doll from my Grandma. But I loved them both.
@@jenniferhansen3622 awww nice 😊
You didn't want to name one Reva? :)
@@jwb52z9 🤣🤣🤣 at my age back then, I was more into the Beth, Mindy, Phillip and Rick stories. But I love me some Reva and Josh 👍💕
Born in 76, an 80s/90s boy, all these things genuinely bring back memories I love. These things were my life. What a trip down memory lane. Feeling nostalgic.
I've said before and I'll say it again: The 1980s will forever be the GOAT.
70s and 80s 👍
💯🤘🏻
Will never be beaten.
Amen
You just made me feel young again. 😊
I was a young adult in the 80's, but that didn't stop me from partaking in many pursuits like going to the arcade, renting videos from Blockbuster & even getting Garbage Pail Kids stickers for my younger brother. 😁
i'm eating a big bowl of sugary cereal as i watch this video. love the 80's.
I remember Smurfs colorforms and the Strawberry Shortcake dolls that had the scent of fruit that corresponded with each of the dolls. We only played Oregan Trail in school since we didn't have a computer at home. Only the rich kids did. 😂 My very first Cabbage Patch Kid was a boy. And his name was George Bailey. I thought that was so cool because I loved (still love) "It's a Wonderful Life."
Garbage Patch Kids were the bomb! Lol
Ya Oregon trail man.... by the time you made it to the first river half your people where dead. You def where out of food and supplies. With little or no way to continue. I wonder if anyone ever made it to the end of the trail?
@@marcussmith4913 I have yet to know anyone who has. It was definitely fixed so as to not let anyone to ever make it to the end. No winners. No survivors. Lol
I had a boy too, and his name was Jonas Gavin 😊
What a time to be alive 😂 I remember getting my first Nintendo and blowing the cartridge to get it to work.
I'm definitely grateful to have experienced a lot of great things in the 80s. Todays generation just couldn't comprehend what is like back in those days.
I love the 70 and 80s I would love to go back too ...I remember all of this ... Born 67
To go back and spend a week in the 80's again.........
80s were awesome. Miss the malls, our skating rink, & the bowling alley.
I couldn't believe that I had never realized before that Michael Vale, the "Time to make the donuts" guy, (Fred the baker) was also the Breakstone's guy, Sam Breakstone. "Not thick enough."
My childhood was in the 1990's, so I grew up with most of the stuff that carried over from the 1980's.
It will forever be the best decade in the history of the world... hands-down.
Ahhhh... being the absolute 1st generation of MTV.
Btw, I believe they came out with an updated version of the Oregon Trail a few years ago.
I remember MTV launched on my birthday!
I used to love getting up on Saturday mornings to watch some of my favorite cartoons with cereal. While I loved the sugary cereals (Frosted Flakes, Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, the Monster cereals, Lucky Charms, the Marshmallow Krispies cereals, the Pebbles cereals, et cetera), I also liked Cheerios, Rice Krispies, Corn Flakes, and a few more of the healthier brands.
Although I've heard of The Oregon Trail game, I can't recall actually playing it.
I think my older sister loved Cabbage Patch Kids along with Rainbow Brite dolls, but I never cared for either of them.
I also didn't care much for any of the He-Man merchandise, although the animated series was not bad.
I could never figure out how to solve the Rubik's Cube, no matter how many times I twisted those colored blocks. As such, I quickly grew frustrated and bored with it.
Ah, Nintendo. This was my favorite thing to play as a kid in the 1980s. I enjoyed playing many games on the NES, although I admit that some games were frustratingly difficult for me.
We didn't have a Blockbuster Video store where I lived back then, but there was a local video store where I often rented some good movies to watch, especially over the weekend. Of course, I was too young to watch scary horror movies. Remember that I was only a kid and in my single digits until March of 1989 when I turned 10.
Damn! That blonde-haired boy in the arcade room (facing away from the camera) almost looks like me when I was that age. Maybe that *WAS* me and I just don't remember having my picture taken at the time. I know that I used to love playing arcade games when I wasn't playing the NES games.
I never cared for or even liked Garbage Pail Kids, mostly because I hated (and still hate) garbage. I often got sick when I heard someone throw something in the garbage at home.
I also didn't care for The Baby-Sitters Club or Judy Blume books. They just weren't my thing.
I only liked Hulk Hogan in *Rocky III* (1982) when he fought Rocky Balboa in a charity match. I never cared for wrestling itself.
MTV had some good music videos, but my favorite one at the time was *Open Your Heart* by Madonna. I admit that, even as a kid, I had quite a crush on her. I even wished I could have been that young boy in the video, especially when she kissed him.
To be continued in another comment...
I had that exact Rubik's Cube book. My brother and I one Sat night figured it out. He read the book, I manned the Cube. Took us awhile but we figured it out.
Do you remember the pyramid version called Pyramix? I eventually solved that one...but couldn't solve the Cube without the book.😂😂
@@muzerhythm2242 Yes. A friend had it. I never owned one nor tried to solve it.
@@muzerhythm2242That Pyramid was so easy to solve. Two moves enough times and it would go back right. I also remember the snake you could turn into a ball.
I was an 80's kid & I loved Mr.T cartoons! yay not to mention Pac-Man Cereal!! StarWars, Snorks, Alvin & the Chipmunks, TMNT, Ghostbusters, the 1984 Summer Olympics with McDonalds giving away coupons for free stuff! Jem & the Holograms yay!!! Parachute Pants & the Black & Blue Nikes!!!! woooo
These videos make me cry but in a good way
My wife and still say "time to make the donuts " when getting up in the morning. Love the memories.
My sister had a teddy ruxpin, we used to put my Izzy Osborne tape in it and laugh about seeing teddy ruxpin singing I think it was bark at the moon. I loved going to pizza parlors, we’d take our pizza to a table game like Pac-Man and play while we ate, those games were a greasy mess.
the 1980's was a great decade for heavy,thrash and speed metal metal blade records a true metal staple for the 1980's
Sat morning cartoons got over right at noon !
I miss the After School Specials. Plus, the "very special episode" of each show. 😊
I was born in the early 1980s. What a time. Almost everything about the 80s was awesome. Awesome cartoons, awesome tv shows, awesome toys. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I really miss it. A much simpler time
I was born in 78,I'm 46 now. Growing up in the 80s for me was both hard and exciting for me. But I enjoyed every minute of my life back then. And I'll never forget those days.
I was born in 1976. The 80s were the best decade ever.
So many great memories
Even though I was born in 1983, I actually experienced a lot of stuff in this video, and what a time it was!!!
My era man those was the days!!! Miss you 80s..
I was born in 1974, and I am SO GRATEFUL to have lived during this beautiful period of time. They were wonderful years and the peak of humanity. My only regret is not being born 10 years earlier so I could enjoy it more.
My 1st born was in 1972, 2nd in 1980, 3rd in 1984, and 4th in 1988. I remember them playing with some of these things.
Aqua net and rave hairspray was the best for big hair!!