Yes. That and anachronisms are what bug me about TV and movies set in the decade. It's like they exaggerated 1984 and 1987 and throw them together. Kids in high schools were rather subdued anyway, especially this time which has to be no later than early 1984.
I graduated high school in 89. I’m surprised the decade has become so beloved. I had a great time. We had our positives and negatives but I do think the youth were happier. The Information Age and technology nowadays is absolutely amazing. The only problem is too many youth are lost in it, identify too much with it and it encourages separation and loneliness. If you’re part of this generation, do your best to limit social media, PlayStation and live in this world like we used to. If you do, you’ll have everything we did and much, much more. It’s really up to you where you live your life.
@@daveanderson8927 ironic considering I graduated from a middle-class high school in New Jersey lol. I don’t think it was Jersey though because the cars had faux plates in the front. It was always law there you had to have plates in the front as well as the back.
I graduated in 87 and agree with all you said! We did have tv, though, and it did plenty of programming. I did wear weird clothes- parachute pants, lots of black and bleached my bangs blonde. My mom freaked out, yes I got made fun of, but the following week, 8 or so classmates had bleach-blonde bangs, lol. So, not entirely innocent, but also nowhere near what's happening today. Too much having kids lead the world and having to grow up too soon. 🤦🏼♀️
I think a substantial problem with loneliness in modern day stems from systemic issues, particularly around the way infrastructure and cities are designed. Youth enjoy spending time with one another, and oftentimes technology can actually enhance that experience. But with the increasing amount of city planning around roads rather than walkable cities with expansive public transportation, it makes it difficult for people to spend time in person. It also does not help that the public school system has become so obsessed with testing culture, preparing students for the SAT and ACT, rather than allowing them to enjoy their time in school. By the time I graduated, having 4+ hours of homework per night was not uncommon, and that level of workload on students is not conducive to a healthy social life. Certain forms of social media are genuinely quite damaging, though a lot of people will play games or watch television shows as a social activity.
i was born in 69, this was exactly my high school time in Germany. People talked to each other, meeting after school where usual. We hung around listend to the 80s music and talked. Friends seemed to be more reliable, came to appointments. There where no talking 10 times on the phone , before meeting. They just showed up! I´m really glad that i grew up without www. Cellphones and Internet destroyed this unique atmosphere we joined during the 80s. Always knowing about the political situation between east and west made us living in the now. Looking at my kids (16 / 13) makes me feel kind of sorry for them. At these days everything is digital, nothing analog. They spend way to much time in their rooms. Corona did it´s part as well....
My school (Interboro outside Philadelphia) had an exchange with kids from Krefeld who attended the Fichte Gymnasium , nice kids taught us German slang when all we learned was Proper German LOL
you are so lucky i am sadly a teenager in this time and i do not like anything at all. the clothes from now, the music having dirty lyrics etc. everything just seemed better in the 80s.
When I watch this, I feel an equal mixture of warm nostalgia and the soc1al fear and phobias. I often felt like I didn't fit in and was an outcast. Still loved our culture and way of life. G e n X forever baby.
I'm not saying it wasn't bettter. No doubt it was, but it was far from perfct. There were subtle soc1al things to be popular that if you weren't good at you wouldn't fit in. That's why there were so many subcultres of outcasts like metal, punk, proto-goths, skns, etc. Lots of teeens were despressed but they weren't put on medicat1on like now.
@@sleepisaluxury Don't try and go there. We are living in totally different times. "They" thought that technology would actually bring people closer. Actually the opposite has happened. Unbelievably sad.
Alert, attentive, no phones distracting them, no social media corrupting their minds, no threats of a shooting, great music... This was the greatest time in human history to be a young person. Nothing else is even close.
It's cool to see these old high school videos in the USA I had the dream of studying in these schools and of course seeing this tranquility in the video shows that the country's culture is very different
@@anotheraccount444 right. I don't think there was so much diversity in that time. Speaking abaut race of people. I'm 38 i'm not sure if it was like that. How was it at school in that time?
There is one major difference here ...I did not see one obese or overweight teenager in this clip...if you look at any high school now in 2022 most of the teenagers are overweight or obese....another reason I miss the 80s...we had home cooked meals and food wasn't so processed and we actually went outside and rode our bikes and or played kickball or hop scotch or we just went for long walks ...we didn't sit in front of a computer all day ..this is a few reasons why kids from the 80s were in better shape ...everything was better at that time ..including music and movies also....the movies didn't rely so much on special affects so they actually had a story and a plot!!!!
Agree! Wife and I are in our early 50s and we have 3 mid-teen girls in our home! We limit their phone use and we just try to do things together a lot of the times. They don't have any Facebook or Tiktoc accounts also. My wife and I think that the invention of the "smart" phone and those apps have really been the downfall of us. We refuse to comply!!
This is very true. Very few obese kids back then, there were some, but the ones I knew had been overweight since elementary school. We didn’t sit around on our phones at lunchtime, I remember eating then getting up and taking walks around campus just to meet up with other friends. Kids were definitely a lot more active back then.
These look so much like the video I took in high school, yet it was another town and state, but here we are connected by a shared GenX history. Love it.
I was born in 1963 I'll be 60 I graduated in 1982 these really were the best times to be alive and living in the bay area .The concerts the beach santa cruz to san Francisco by today's standards was pretty safe I miss them for sure.
Really? Based on my cousins, the 60's were a great time to be young. It was a very relaxing time. You had the Twilight Zone on tv and every other good show. Cars were great too. 80's were better than today for sure.
I imagine you can still find people like that who are friendly, when I look around most of the time it seems like everyone is in a hurry and always in a rush to get somewhere
It actually was a special time. I was in HS from 1984-1988. I think, from the responses of so many like yours, is that a lot of the younger people now are longing for just simpler times. The technology with phones and "social" media and such has been too taxing. This is not normal. What we are watching here is "normal." Wish you well.
@gamercreature 25 this is a Serious Point. But I think too it has also to do with a different Attitude and Less Egoism....yeahsSure Cameras were Way more Rare and met with more Naive Curiosity. We actually Blew many technical Advantages to The Worst Imaginable pretty Fast. Life today is straight up Awful in many Ways. The Society and Culture needs to React.
your comment is without context sir. there was no concept of a large public free and universally accessible video storage system back then and if someone was filming in the 1980s it was event - it was fun- because it was different. now, everyone is a survelliance hawk. the issue is not the "people". the issue is the advancement of technology and the massively increased infringement of privacy.
Wow! That's Brookline High School in Massachusetts, my alma mater! 1980 was the year I graduated from that great place. I don't appear to be in this video, but it brings back memories of simpler and more energetic, optimistic times than today's vaccine/mask generation is enduring, and when kids talked to each other more before cellphone fixation became the new normal. Thank you!!!!!
I'm placing this at Spring of 85. Girls wore more make-up in 83. By the Fall of 85, they were wearing more layered haircuts and oversized clothing. Though, the cars in the background look more 84.
@@ryanhilliard1620 Yep, early 80s girls wore a lot of skin-tight Jordache jeans and sometimes spandex. Later moved on to Guess jeans and Benetton and often copied the Madonna look. Started seeing more hats too. Classy chicks dressed like Sloane in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
My guess is early 1984. It is hard to tell with a small town high school because many of the people might have been more practical in their clothing, but haircuts look more pre-summer '84. Sometimes it depends on whether they had cable and followed certain magazines.
From the Nissan the RX7 and a few members only jackets I’d say mid 80’s as well. Could be 84 85 or 86. I thought I caught a few stone washed jeans too. So possibly 87 👍🏽
It’s good to see how those teens had no cell phones. They talked face to face and had real conversations. Unlike teens today whose hands are glued to cell phones and they don’t have meaningful conversations with each other. I’m so glad cell phones didn’t exist back then. I wish I could have experienced the 1970s and 1980s. Seemed like good times.
No cell phones true. I went to high school 1985 -1990 it wasn't perfect life was still not easy, but more dynamic with conversations - kids seem a bit different today i don't know, maybe world weary by their minds being somewhere else/distracted by social media on the brain. Back then it mostly was our tapes/CDs stereo some books/magazines, a push bike to explore places and the family TV set. Definitely no 24hr news cycle. And content (as people like to call it today) seemed more original in what we listened watched and read. Today culture seems all over the place fragmented as well as compressed in its life cycle with so many things vying for people's attention.
You said this on social media today's technology...you don't know shit what was going on in 90s and 80s stop saying things which you have minimal knowledge of.
I remember those days. I was in High School in the very early 1980's. I didn't ride the bus to school however. I usually walked to school by myself. When I was a junior, I got a car, but only drove to school if the weather was bad or if I had something to do right after school. Those were the days.
As a kid growing up in the 80s it wasn’t perfect by any means but I would like to go back in live in that time again. It was awesome and so glad I got to experience it first hand. The food was amazing and I miss it so much 😢❤!
I miss it so much and it feels like it was the other day. Damm it goes fast!! I tell my young teen daughter to not worry and try to enjoy each day she has school. But easier said than done. They all like us are stressed from the tests!
As a high school teacher it is very odd watching kids arrive with their heads up, smiling and talking to one another. It is a rare site these days. Most kids arrive heads down, ear phones in and eyes on their phone.
I was born in 1991 was a kid in the 90’s wish I was a teenager back then would have been awesome 😎 love 80’s horror movies 🎥 and 80’s music I had a dream a few years ago I time traveled back to the 80’s wearing my clothes and people were all staring at me asking who’s that guy it was awesome..
Dont worry mitchell we find a way. Maybe Time Traveling in 2050-70 maybe when we die we can choose where we want to respawn in which year or planet. Dont give up next life 80s
It was a wonderful time to be alive. Such things as school being different, hanging with friends on some arcade places trying to get the high score, revolutionary electronics, Saturday cartoons, how most toys were based from those shows, music was somehow better than what late 2010s had to offer, movies were different & most of all people trusted one another. I know a bunch of this even born in early Y2K. I believe that I was reincarnated because at a young age, I still grew up with late 90s pieces. Most of it being the n64, ps1 & a bunch of stuff recorded in vhs. As time passed, I double thought some stuff that I saw & kept thinking why is all of this seems familiar? & this was before having fake nostalgia was a thing online. When I bring conversations about the 80s, I think of having the old friends I had. We cared for each other, had fun together. Although there could've been some mild drama, we end up patching things together. But something that triggers me is the thought of losing them. Yesterday, I was going through some memory lane, the 80s. Something I can't describe broke me in tears. Almost as if I've experienced this before & the situation was too familiar. When I put that on the modern people, I was concerned of I was going to lose them again. A question I have is how did I died back then? There had to be something that went wrong & how I was born in Y2K. One conclusions is maybe I sacrificed myself just for everyone to stay alive. When I was a toddler, growing up with previous decade stuff was almost as if I'm remembering or getting my old memory back. It's not 100% confirmed but it's a strong believe I had since sometime in mid 2010 or late 2000s.
I think the main thing, for us Gen X or baby boomers is not to blame the current young generation. It is just the world they grow up in. If anything, it is the failure or our generation to leave them with such a world.
Something I tell my 14 yr old nephew is that back then you notice all of us carried our bags on one shoulder. Not across both shoulders like a little dorky kid would do. lol. We also used duffle bags for school bags. And America back then was mostly white sprinkled with some black, hispanic and asians. we all got along.
Yes, you did, and carrying bags on one shoulder is actually horrible for the back and across both shoulders is correct, as doctors later found out and told everyone in the 1990's, when it finally stopped.
Two qualities that made the 1980s truly unique from any other point of time in history. Hope and Optimism. The 1980s did have a lot of problems in the real world but people during that time had two important qualities that truly made the 1980s feel magical and truly special and no matter how bad things got or how bad things seemed to be there was always light at the end of the dark tunnel. Hope and optimism is what made that time unique and still one of the greatest in human history. People felt like they could do anything and because they could. Their culture reflected that with movies, songs, and lifestyles. Dreams did some true because kids, teens, and young adults in the 1980s had hope and optimism two of the best of humanity's qualities that went away afterward.... it makes me sad to always realize that, but watching these videos always gives me hope and positivity. I hope someday that humanity can regain those qualities that bring out the best in people. 😊
As someone who was born in 2007: this video really DOES feel like all the movies I’ve seen. Back to the future (yes it was filmed in 85 but still) and countless others have such similar hairstyles, clothing, etc… i wish I could live during this time
No long hairs/heavy metallers which seems strnge. I'm guessing this school was in a slightly wealthier neighborhood than mine. Still otherwise it is very accurate.
@@eirakudrow lol today is today unfortunately. When I met Time Machine it was The actual years themselves. The Miami Vice look , members only jackets, and like the Michael Douglas Wall Street look I’d Rock in a second though today if they came back or if I had the money. Shit was fly 💯
@@generalkayoss7347 EXACTLY! This fact is so remedial. Yet some people still keep blaming... unbelievable. It is the downfall of society people! We, especially the younger people, need to talk to one another IN PERSON again!
My high school days. To the young ones of today: Note: no smart phones. We talked to people, passed notes in class, sometimes in the form of spitballs (launched with a pen) and planned weekends. After homework on weekdays , we'd burn up the telephones (yes, the ones attached to a wall) . Good times, good times!
High School students were whay more mature and social back then. Smoking 🚬 was the norm, Drinking was considered permissible. Students parking was a thing Driving you and your friends to school in yours or your parents car was acceptable. Hanging out was a thing. Dating and going out on Dates. I recall our Home Ed. Class was mandatory like Phys Ed. and a handful of Already or a soon to Be Teenage Parents in my H.S. Senior Graduation Class. I Remember when Socializing & Hanging Out was Totally Radical & Awesome 🤘🏽😎 🤙🏽 80’s 90’s Rocked…… We Made It.
I am c/o 86, and at the high school I went to, this is not how kids dressed or did their hair when I was there. This seems more like 88 or 89 to me. Of coarse schools on either coast were probably a couple years ahead of us in the middle of the country.
Ooh,this is a very lovely video just as I remember my childhood,started school in August-1986 age 7 and this video here must have been shot in between 1985-87 as I remember the time period of the fashion and hairstyles(oversized clothes-big hair) The 1980's never realy started up until 1983-84 and lasted to around 1995.It was a very nice time to be young all the way. I'm an norwegian person living in Norway,greetings to all,thank you😊
Nobody had their head down looking at a phone while ignoring the world around them, no black hoodies up hanging over their face as they walk slouched over, kids are actually talking to each other. Just imagine, having a face to face conversation with a real person. Todays kids could learn a lot from watching this 3+ minute video.
Ok boomer. It’s actually not. Old people always think the younger generations are greedy lazy and selfish because they forgot what they were like when they were young that they were the EXACT SAME WAY. Aristotle said that the youth in Ancient Greece were lazy selfish bastards with their heads down reading books and not doing physical activity. Humans are just humans old people always are afraid of young people.
could learn what exactly. 80s teens would be exactly the same as todays children if they were under the current technology and crisis circumstances. and i’m sure older people back them complained about kids not being “proper” like they were in the 50s.
Right? And we had soda machines in the schools!😱 Guess it was all that Tab and Diet Pepsi? Just ONE calorie....We were worried about "pinching an inch."
@@ZelixPL Yes, internet. But I believe about 2007 and the "smart" phone and the "social" media is what catapulted this mess we are currently living through. Can this society reverse?
As teenagers,They were always thinking about future but didnt know that theyre living in the best era
Yeah..
1950s was the best era in USA. Best time ever.
the outfits, people being friendly, nobody caring about anything, friendships bro the the 80’s must of been awesome
It was. :)
The 80s was also the peak of the crack epidemic
It was awesome but there we're still mean people of course
Social media and smartphones fuked us
People being friendly lol. There were criminals. You're funny!
I like the fact that this shows real people wearing real clothes instead of some movie costume designer's idea of the 80s.
Yes. That and anachronisms are what bug me about TV and movies set in the decade. It's like they exaggerated 1984 and 1987 and throw them together. Kids in high schools were rather subdued anyway, especially this time which has to be no later than early 1984.
Yes I agree, often times 80s nostalgia entertainment such as Stranger Things seem a bit cartoonish.
So 1984 and 1987 were completely different? How? (Born in 2001)
@@BradThePitts stranger things seems too modern for 1980s
Stranger things season 3-4
I graduated high school in 89. I’m surprised the decade has become so beloved. I had a great time. We had our positives and negatives but I do think the youth were happier. The Information Age and technology nowadays is absolutely amazing. The only problem is too many youth are lost in it, identify too much with it and it encourages separation and loneliness. If you’re part of this generation, do your best to limit social media, PlayStation and live in this world like we used to. If you do, you’ll have everything we did and much, much more. It’s really up to you where you live your life.
I'm cur1ous where this schoool was. I'm guessing an upper middle clss neighbrhood in New Jersey or the mid-Atlantic region.
@@daveanderson8927 ironic considering I graduated from a middle-class high school in New Jersey lol. I don’t think it was Jersey though because the cars had faux plates in the front. It was always law there you had to have plates in the front as well as the back.
Couldn't agree any more...
I graduated in 87 and agree with all you said!
We did have tv, though, and it did plenty of programming. I did wear weird clothes- parachute pants, lots of black and bleached my bangs blonde. My mom freaked out, yes I got made fun of, but the following week, 8 or so classmates had bleach-blonde bangs, lol. So, not entirely innocent, but also nowhere near what's happening today. Too much having kids lead the world and having to grow up too soon. 🤦🏼♀️
I think a substantial problem with loneliness in modern day stems from systemic issues, particularly around the way infrastructure and cities are designed. Youth enjoy spending time with one another, and oftentimes technology can actually enhance that experience. But with the increasing amount of city planning around roads rather than walkable cities with expansive public transportation, it makes it difficult for people to spend time in person. It also does not help that the public school system has become so obsessed with testing culture, preparing students for the SAT and ACT, rather than allowing them to enjoy their time in school. By the time I graduated, having 4+ hours of homework per night was not uncommon, and that level of workload on students is not conducive to a healthy social life. Certain forms of social media are genuinely quite damaging, though a lot of people will play games or watch television shows as a social activity.
i was born in 69, this was exactly my high school time in Germany. People talked to each other, meeting after school where usual. We hung around listend to the 80s music and talked. Friends seemed to be more reliable, came to appointments. There where no talking 10 times on the phone , before meeting. They just showed up!
I´m really glad that i grew up without www.
Cellphones and Internet destroyed this unique atmosphere we joined during the 80s. Always knowing about the political situation between east and west made us living in the now.
Looking at my kids (16 / 13) makes me feel kind of sorry for them. At these days everything is digital, nothing analog. They spend way to much time in their rooms. Corona did it´s part as well....
people still do all of that today
You just can't against the progress.
My school (Interboro outside Philadelphia) had an exchange with kids from Krefeld who attended the Fichte Gymnasium , nice kids taught us German slang when all we learned was Proper German LOL
Yeah.. agreed.. no smartphonephone and no fck sosial media!. No Justin Bieber. All just real thing!
no i am glad to have phones
I’m glad I grew up then. Life was more innocent for kids.
So true😥
you are so lucky i am sadly a teenager in this time and i do not like anything at all. the clothes from now, the music having dirty lyrics etc. everything just seemed better in the 80s.
When I watch this, I feel an equal mixture of warm nostalgia and the soc1al fear and phobias. I often felt like I didn't fit in and was an outcast. Still loved our culture and way of life. G e n X forever baby.
Del Boca Vista kicked your ass in the 1986 District Championship 🏈 game💪🤙🏄🏼♂️🏈🐬⛸️!
Del Boca Vista Rules! 🏈😊🫡😂
Richard Button ⛸️🏈. Remember me? Del Boca Vista 😏😮💨😀
Beautiful 80s kids😊born 71 so was a teenager in the 80s best days of my life
Nothing but good vibes from every single person, unlike today.
People have become very petty
this is on camera... you think everyone was "good" and nice? there were horrible evil self conceited people even back then.
@@lovelock444 But not like today, now it's even worse.
@@stephengezit thats true. its because of social media i think. i wish i could have experienced a time without it.
No phones. Way less stress from social media and the internet. Life was much better then it is for kids today.
I'm not saying it wasn't bettter. No doubt it was, but it was far from perfct. There were subtle soc1al things to be popular that if you weren't good at you wouldn't fit in. That's why there were so many subcultres of outcasts like metal, punk, proto-goths, skns, etc. Lots of teeens were despressed but they weren't put on medicat1on like now.
This is so beautiful people are friendly wearing respectable clothes, being friendly and laughing, what has become of the world...
This world become egotistical the moment stupid people were allowed to flash themselves on the Internet for fame and praises.
Older people probably said the same thing in the 80s, Mina.
@@sleepisaluxury Don't try and go there. We are living in totally different times. "They" thought that technology would actually bring people closer. Actually the opposite has happened. Unbelievably sad.
@@sleepisaluxury i'm sure they did. think about how the 50s looked in the 80s.
True…no butts or boobs hanging out. Very refreshing.
How the quality is in this video, is how I imagine high school in the 80s in general.😂😂😂. Especially with the fog.
sameee 😂
Nope. Crisp and clear.
@@globalfamily8172 weird video on RUclips about a limited guy shooting a wolf to his deaf cried and fear
Same hehehehhehehe 🤣
Alert, attentive, no phones distracting them, no social media corrupting their minds, no threats of a shooting, great music... This was the greatest time in human history to be a young person. Nothing else is even close.
It's cool to see these old high school videos in the USA I had the dream of studying in these schools and of course seeing this tranquility in the video shows that the country's culture is very different
80's were so fun, I was in elementary so these kids were the big kids to me.
Looks like a high school scene from any Netflix series based on 80's plot 😍
Which series pls
Yes, but Netflix try to push diversity, when in real life it wasn't like that.
@@anotheraccount444 right. I don't think there was so much diversity in that time. Speaking abaut race of people. I'm 38 i'm not sure if it was like that. How was it at school in that time?
@@rockwhk If you were different you could become a very big target for a lot of people and not just kids from your school
There is one major difference here ...I did not see one obese or overweight teenager in this clip...if you look at any high school now in 2022 most of the teenagers are overweight or obese....another reason I miss the 80s...we had home cooked meals and food wasn't so processed and we actually went outside and rode our bikes and or played kickball or hop scotch or we just went for long walks ...we didn't sit in front of a computer all day ..this is a few reasons why kids from the 80s were in better shape ...everything was better at that time ..including music and movies also....the movies didn't rely so much on special affects so they actually had a story and a plot!!!!
Amen Cheryl
Agree! Wife and I are in our early 50s and we have 3 mid-teen girls in our home! We limit their phone use and we just try to do things together a lot of the times. They don't have any Facebook or Tiktoc accounts also. My wife and I think that the invention of the "smart" phone and those apps have really been the downfall of us. We refuse to comply!!
I miss riding my bike
This is very true. Very few obese kids back then, there were some, but the ones I knew had been overweight since elementary school. We didn’t sit around on our phones at lunchtime, I remember eating then getting up and taking walks around campus just to meet up with other friends. Kids were definitely a lot more active back then.
Absolutely. Unlike obesity today and the woke cult saying it’s ok to be fat.
Nice to see nobody staring at their screens while walking or socializing with other people
These look so much like the video I took in high school, yet it was another town and state, but here we are connected by a shared GenX history. Love it.
Gen X forever baby!
I graduated in 81. What a wonderful time to live in.
I graduated high school in 1986.
Crazy how some of these kids now have grand kids 😮
I was born in 1963 I'll be 60 I graduated in 1982 these really were the best times to be alive and living in the bay area .The concerts the beach santa cruz to san Francisco by today's standards was pretty safe I miss them for sure.
Really? Based on my cousins, the 60's were a great time to be young. It was a very relaxing time. You had the Twilight Zone on tv and every other good show. Cars were great too. 80's were better than today for sure.
I miss the 80's
Gen X pride will never die
I was 17 in 1980 best times going to night school , people were friendly not like today
I imagine you can still find people like that who are friendly, when I look around most of the time it seems like everyone is in a hurry and always in a rush to get somewhere
so jelous that i wasnt alive in the 80s, looks so freaking awesome
It actually was a special time. I was in HS from 1984-1988. I think, from the responses of so many like yours, is that a lot of the younger people now are longing for just simpler times. The technology with phones and "social" media and such has been too taxing. This is not normal. What we are watching here is "normal." Wish you well.
Nobody cared to be recorded now people call the cops and others would say “ sir this is private property sir!!
@gamercreature 25 this is a Serious Point. But I think too it has also to do with a different Attitude and Less Egoism....yeahsSure Cameras were Way more Rare and met with more Naive Curiosity. We actually Blew many technical Advantages to The Worst Imaginable pretty Fast.
Life today is straight up Awful in many Ways. The Society and Culture needs to React.
your comment is without context sir. there was no concept of a large public free and universally accessible video storage system back then and if someone was filming in the 1980s it was event - it was fun- because it was different. now, everyone is a survelliance hawk. the issue is not the "people". the issue is the advancement of technology and the massively increased infringement of privacy.
Because the internet wasn’t as big as it is today? 💀
Today all the faces would be blurred out, people are basically being erased now we must all be this collective same grey mass... lol
Wow! That's Brookline High School in Massachusetts, my alma mater! 1980 was the year I graduated from that great place. I don't appear to be in this video, but it brings back memories of simpler and more energetic, optimistic times than today's vaccine/mask generation is enduring, and when kids talked to each other more before cellphone fixation became the new normal. Thank you!!!!!
Must be good time man . I live in canada 🇨🇦. Just got here 6 months ago . I love America. Hope one day get there .
Cellphones are great!
@@ERTChimpanzee Cellphones without the capability to browse... used for phoning.
@@globalfamily8172 Technology advancing. Soon we use our minds to communicate with each other. Dr. Michio Kaku talked about it. You're welcome!
Do you recognize anyone in this video?
Graduated in 1987 in southern California. Trying to peg the year of this, judging by the clothes. Guessing around 86. Definitely not early 80s.
I'm placing this at Spring of 85. Girls wore more make-up in 83. By the Fall of 85, they were wearing more layered haircuts and oversized clothing. Though, the cars in the background look more 84.
@@ryanhilliard1620 Yep, early 80s girls wore a lot of skin-tight Jordache jeans and sometimes spandex. Later moved on to Guess jeans and Benetton and often copied the Madonna look. Started seeing more hats too. Classy chicks dressed like Sloane in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
My guess is early 1984. It is hard to tell with a small town high school because many of the people might have been more practical in their clothing, but haircuts look more pre-summer '84. Sometimes it depends on whether they had cable and followed certain magazines.
I was born in 1985 in Santa Monica (SoCal) nothing like it back then. Couldn’t beat it
From the Nissan the RX7 and a few members only jackets I’d say mid 80’s as well. Could be 84 85 or 86. I thought I caught a few stone washed jeans too. So possibly 87 👍🏽
Oooh I miss the 80’s. I was in high school and remember those days well!!
It’s good to see how those teens had no cell phones. They talked face to face and had real conversations. Unlike teens today whose hands are glued to cell phones and they don’t have meaningful conversations with each other. I’m so glad cell phones didn’t exist back then. I wish I could have experienced the 1970s and 1980s. Seemed like good times.
No cell phones true. I went to high school 1985 -1990 it wasn't perfect life was still not easy, but more dynamic with conversations - kids seem a bit different today i don't know, maybe world weary by their minds being somewhere else/distracted by social media on the brain.
Back then it mostly was our tapes/CDs stereo some books/magazines, a push bike to explore places and the family TV set. Definitely no 24hr news cycle. And content (as people like to call it today) seemed more original in what we listened watched and read. Today culture seems all over the place fragmented as well as compressed in its life cycle with so many things vying for people's attention.
@@bradford_shaun_murray Good points indeed!
@@daystar4909 oh thanks :)
I went to high school circa 2002-2006, no smart phones to be specific...cell phones are not allowed at school...so glad there was no social media
You said this on social media today's technology...you don't know shit what was going on in 90s and 80s stop saying things which you have minimal knowledge of.
I remember those days. I was in High School in the very early 1980's. I didn't ride the bus to school however. I usually walked to school by myself. When I was a junior, I got a car, but only drove to school if the weather was bad or if I had something to do right after school. Those were the days.
SO nice not seeing phones.
As a kid growing up in the 80s it wasn’t perfect by any means but I would like to go back in live in that time again. It was awesome and so glad I got to experience it first hand. The food was amazing and I miss it so much 😢❤!
The ‘80s, best decade since the ‘50s.
and the best and last good decade since! I wonder if we can reverse this mess? I don't see it though, technology is ruining people.
Yep 80s pop culture was 50s pop culture on steroids
@@john5389 A lot of the things we use now are run by computer I don't think that's something we can reverse
Peaceful! I love seeing the cars from back then.
And some turned out to be collector items now
I miss it so much and it feels like it was the other day. Damm it goes fast!! I tell my young teen daughter to not worry and try to enjoy each day she has school. But easier said than done. They all like us are stressed from the tests!
Man that was a serious school they went to. The fog made the building look even more majestic.
What a difference? Today the girls look like they are going to work at a brothel .
And the hair style on this video the best part🤣
I grew up in one the best decades. Probably the last golden era of America.
As a high school teacher it is very odd watching kids arrive with their heads up, smiling and talking to one another. It is a rare site these days. Most kids arrive heads down, ear phones in and eyes on their phone.
Wow! a Mazda RX-7 and a Nissan 280/300zx int he very first shot .... must have been a pretty affluent neighbourhood!
Thinking about the movie breakfast club. 👍👍
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You would be correct! Definitely Fall of 84/Spring of 85.
I was born in 1991 was a kid in the 90’s wish I was a teenager back then would have been awesome 😎 love 80’s horror movies 🎥 and 80’s music I had a dream a few years ago I time traveled back to the 80’s wearing my clothes and people were all staring at me asking who’s that guy it was awesome..
LOL same here~
Born in 88
92 I turned 4 started pre k
Was a kid in throughout the whole 90s
Preteen early 2000s
Teen mid 2000s
Now I'm an adult
Dont worry mitchell we find a way. Maybe Time Traveling in 2050-70 maybe when we die we can choose where we want to respawn in which year or planet. Dont give up next life 80s
The 90s were great though I was a teen in the 2000s.
It was the best time to be a kid
The 80s super fun times
ah when teenagers can walk into class without a fight breaking out
when teenagers actually could talk with each other without sounding like their favorite rapper
@@ceoofmemes1967 hahahaha xD
The fghts were after school and on weekends.
You'd be put on a special list filming students these days. Different world. Given the fashion and vehicles on the street, I'm guessing 1985?
I say 92 ish
Our parents still had to sign a release at the beginning of school just like now
@@markadl6783 1980's, not 90's.
I would say 83-84, maybe spring of 85. By 85, the girls were wearing more layered hair cuts and ovresized clothing.
85 or 86
It was a wonderful time to be alive.
Such things as school being different, hanging with friends on some arcade places trying to get the high score, revolutionary electronics, Saturday cartoons, how most toys were based from those shows, music was somehow better than what late 2010s had to offer, movies were different & most of all people trusted one another.
I know a bunch of this even born in early Y2K. I believe that I was reincarnated because at a young age, I still grew up with late 90s pieces. Most of it being the n64, ps1 & a bunch of stuff recorded in vhs. As time passed, I double thought some stuff that I saw & kept thinking why is all of this seems familiar? & this was before having fake nostalgia was a thing online.
When I bring conversations about the 80s, I think of having the old friends I had. We cared for each other, had fun together. Although there could've been some mild drama, we end up patching things together.
But something that triggers me is the thought of losing them. Yesterday, I was going through some memory lane, the 80s. Something I can't describe broke me in tears. Almost as if I've experienced this before & the situation was too familiar. When I put that on the modern people, I was concerned of I was going to lose them again.
A question I have is how did I died back then? There had to be something that went wrong & how I was born in Y2K. One conclusions is maybe I sacrificed myself just for everyone to stay alive.
When I was a toddler, growing up with previous decade stuff was almost as if I'm remembering or getting my old memory back.
It's not 100% confirmed but it's a strong believe I had since sometime in mid 2010 or late 2000s.
How old are you ?
No cell phone zombie walking, no earpods, talking to each other. Ahh the Good ol' days.
Well u forget that some people had their Walkmans on and didn't listen to the others
@@ilyas80s65 the rich kids hahahaha
@@Pix2008L they're still expensive tho and in 84 there was ton of cheap walkman
Walkmans were the beggining of loneliness. Thats what the old teachers used to tell us 😆
I think the main thing, for us Gen X or baby boomers is not to blame the current young generation. It is just the world they grow up in. If anything, it is the failure or our generation to leave them with such a world.
Something I tell my 14 yr old nephew is that back then you notice all of us carried our bags on one shoulder. Not across both shoulders like a little dorky kid would do. lol. We also used duffle bags for school bags. And America back then was mostly white sprinkled with some black, hispanic and asians. we all got along.
I hate that grown men now days always carry a backpack.
Yes, you did, and carrying bags on one shoulder is actually horrible for the back and across both shoulders is correct, as doctors later found out and told everyone in the 1990's, when it finally stopped.
Those old Datsuns were cool.
Two qualities that made the 1980s truly unique from any other point of time in history. Hope and Optimism. The 1980s did have a lot of problems in the real world but people during that time had two important qualities that truly made the 1980s feel magical and truly special and no matter how bad things got or how bad things seemed to be there was always light at the end of the dark tunnel. Hope and optimism is what made that time unique and still one of the greatest in human history. People felt like they could do anything and because they could. Their culture reflected that with movies, songs, and lifestyles. Dreams did some true because kids, teens, and young adults in the 1980s had hope and optimism two of the best of humanity's qualities that went away afterward.... it makes me sad to always realize that, but watching these videos always gives me hope and positivity. I hope someday that humanity can regain those qualities that bring out the best in people. 😊
Some scientists please build a time machine
It's probably built already
What for?
So these people nowadays to go back and ruin it?
We aren't worthy of it no longer. This world is spiralling downwards and you know it.
Some of them are the ones who keeping you healthy with their knowledge of today
1980s was Golden Decade in USA
Bro I'm so sad and jealous that I wasn't born to live in the 80s.
I love seeing this after hesring my parents say their struggle going to school....
"Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club"
back when people walked upright. Not slouched over glassy-eyed staring at that damned "smartphone"!
As someone who was born in 2007: this video really DOES feel like all the movies I’ve seen. Back to the future (yes it was filmed in 85 but still) and countless others have such similar hairstyles, clothing, etc… i wish I could live during this time
likewise i was born in 2006 and i hate this time
No long hairs/heavy metallers which seems strnge. I'm guessing this school was in a slightly wealthier neighborhood than mine. Still otherwise it is very accurate.
Born in 90 lol. But my parents had me young were 80s kids. No decade beats the 80s. I would live 76-93 on a loop if I had a Time Machine
@@zr1cvette Personally, would you prefer the fashion aspect of the 80s to fully exist today or like actually actually live on a full 80s loop? Curious
@@eirakudrow lol today is today unfortunately. When I met Time Machine it was The actual years themselves. The Miami Vice look , members only jackets, and like the Michael Douglas Wall Street look I’d Rock in a second though today if they came back or if I had the money. Shit was fly 💯
that time when school shootings were a totaly unthinkable stuff.
I will say, even in elementary school, in the early 80s, I thought it was weird that the doors were all unlocked. Anybody could have walked in.
And we had just as many guns....
@@generalkayoss7347 EXACTLY! This fact is so remedial. Yet some people still keep blaming... unbelievable. It is the downfall of society people! We, especially the younger people, need to talk to one another IN PERSON again!
Crime and violence statistically peaked in the 80s-90s
The best part, besides the obvious, it was the 80s....There were NO CELL PHONE'S!
1:02 That blonde girl is so pretty
It is not giving stranger things like feeling 😂😂
My high school days. To the young ones of today: Note: no smart phones. We talked to people, passed notes in class, sometimes in the form of spitballs (launched with a pen) and planned weekends. After homework on weekdays , we'd burn up the telephones (yes, the ones attached to a wall) . Good times, good times!
I was a freshman around then. 85? Is that an 85 Mazda RX-7 in the beginning? Foggy, geez.
Yeah, I would say Fall 84/Spring 85.
this video will be such a great memorie for the kids in it
Love that some have a textbook in their hands. Something we need to bring back to the schools today!
All these people now are about to turn 60 years old crazy to think about
High School students were whay more mature and social back then. Smoking 🚬 was the norm, Drinking was considered permissible. Students parking was a thing Driving you and your friends to school in yours or your parents car was acceptable. Hanging out was a thing. Dating and going out on Dates. I recall our Home Ed. Class was mandatory like Phys Ed. and a handful of Already or a soon to Be Teenage Parents in my H.S. Senior Graduation Class. I Remember when Socializing & Hanging Out was Totally Radical & Awesome 🤘🏽😎 🤙🏽 80’s 90’s Rocked…… We Made It.
2:18 We were all "foggy day sunglasses" at one point or another
every school door unlocked back then. great days.
I can’t help but imagine where they are now.
I am c/o 86, and at the high school I went to, this is not how kids dressed or did their hair when I was there. This seems more like 88 or 89 to me. Of coarse schools on either coast were probably a couple years ahead of us in the middle of the country.
Class of 86 here too.
Today everyone would wear a cap and baggy pants, all depending on what their favourite rap artist would wear
Today there's just a bunch of drones looking down at their phones :/
Yup, that's how we all looked. Good times. Good times, indeed.
Ooh,this is a very lovely video just as I remember my childhood,started school in August-1986 age 7 and this video here must have been shot in between 1985-87 as I remember the time period of the fashion and hairstyles(oversized clothes-big hair)
The 1980's never realy started up until 1983-84 and lasted to around 1995.It was a very nice time to be young all the way.
I'm an norwegian person living in Norway,greetings to all,thank you😊
That camera and moment was invisible to the opening chick. She was like, you are not here!
I went to this high school at that time, wow!
Me, too, class of 1991. I wish this video was labeled with the exact year it was taken, but I think perhaps a few years before I got there.
They all look like grown ups. I miss the 80s, best decade ever.
The phones were plugged in at home.
The first girl walks by like a celeb or a model ignoring paparazzi
Boys holding the door for girls. I remember that. It was a good time.
that in body stabilisation is something
Mazda RX-7 in the first frame :D
I had an orange 79' Rx-7 in high school. 3 spark plugs. Had a rotary engine.! I did maintenance myself!!! It was really easy.
great days
I miss the 80's so bad.
Yep I was one of them (1986-90).
Nobody had their head down looking at a phone while ignoring the world around them, no black hoodies up hanging over their face as they walk slouched over, kids are actually talking to each other. Just imagine, having a face to face conversation with a real person. Todays kids could learn a lot from watching this 3+ minute video.
The loner kids just stared at the ground as they walked.🤣
Ok boomer. It’s actually not. Old people always think the younger generations are greedy lazy and selfish because they forgot what they were like when they were young that they were the EXACT SAME WAY. Aristotle said that the youth in Ancient Greece were lazy selfish bastards with their heads down reading books and not doing physical activity. Humans are just humans old people always are afraid of young people.
@@frost1183 Because young people are morons.
@@johnrmcclure1 ok boomer
could learn what exactly. 80s teens would be exactly the same as todays children if they were under the current technology and crisis circumstances. and i’m sure older people back them complained about kids not being “proper” like they were in the 50s.
Must have been an Expensive camera to get footage this clear in the 80’s
Notice no one is obese.
Right? And we had soda machines in the schools!😱 Guess it was all that Tab and Diet Pepsi? Just ONE calorie....We were worried about "pinching an inch."
NO SMARTPHONES OR CELL PHONES OR MODERN INTERNET. GREAT (I WAS BORN IN 1991)
What a wonderful time, I wish I could experience that time
It is indescribably wonderful NOT to SEE PEOPLE GLUED TO THEIR PHONES LIKE ZOMBIES. What a positive difference it makes.
The outfits were kinda cool
Pretty foggy the kids seemed well behaved entering the school in a orderly fashion no drama or anything.
We were so damn proper back then... I don't know what the hell changed, but we're not like this anymore. No where close...
This is my biggest gripe. We had respect for others. Well, except there always were bullies.
internet?
@@ZelixPL Yes, internet. But I believe about 2007 and the "smart" phone and the "social" media is what catapulted this mess we are currently living through. Can this society reverse?
Social media ruined everything
@@john5389 no it cant. in fact, its only going to get MASSIVELY WORSE in the near future with A.I.
That was 40!!! Years ago.
Looks like stock news footage.
What a fine time to be in high school.
I love that girl's style. Basic white shirt, wide-legged jeans. Zoomers take note!