@Kate Jagger my husband is still astonished that I know so many 80th songs and the bands name. I lived for the music when I was a teenie. Did you made your best friend a tape, too?
@@marvincosby7060 or the worst case scenario, we in Germany called it "Band Salat" I don't know how you would call it in English, the moment your tape was in the player and it was out of the tape box and totally messy. Do you know what I mean. Everytime when that happened I had to pray that I could wind it back and it worked again and wasn't totally damaged.
maggiesue35 hahaha genau band salat und dann ne stunde mit nem kuli wieder aufwickeln - just talking about using a ballpen to wind back tape once it got loose.
And, when we send text or email, people can't read your emotion. Unless you insert emoticons. More than a few times, people have thought I was being short with them or they didn't get my sense of humor.😂
Getting mad at the radio DJ for talking over the beginning of your favorite song while you're trying to record it with the built in cassette player. D'OH!!
1970s stuff ❤ We went outside and came back when it started getting dark. No computers, we had to go find something to do, like every kid before us. We had rules, and punishments when we broke them. We respected our elders.
Nah. The 80s had all that without the inflation and economic problems of the 70s. Plus, the 70s had the Vietnam War and the cold war. Yes, the cold war was going on in the 80s but relations with the USSR began to thaw. The 80s were way better
@@Styxswimmer I think you're right, the 80s were way better than the 70s. More prosperous and cooler stuff in the stores, plus the energy crisis was mostly over. I can remember seeing Jimmy Carter making his speeches on TV. We all had a sense that he was this namby-pamby fool who couldn't get the hostages free. Everything on the radio was this soft rock, over produced, chick-singer BS. By the time Reagan came along we had punk, new wave, MTV, reggae, rap, and National Lampoon. It all seemed to exciting and fresh. Growing up in the bourgeois UES of New York we felt like characters in a John Hughes movie.
Blackavar WD you know why because many phones didint come with front facing cameras at the time and people would ask others to take photos of themselves still making it a selfie
@@souljahkin2017 WHAT!? There was no such thing as " front facing cameras" HAHAHA If you had someone take your pic you were usually with someone. (You wanted a pic with them) Maybe someone took a pic in front of something by themself, but I never saw one IRL. Usually OTHER people made you stand somewhere and took your pic. Not a selfie.
Troy Purnell We did , they'd hit a bump you'd all go flying up in the air lol...it was great till someone would fly out but it never happened so awesome.....
@Fremont Jablonski and they will never have the pleasure of hearing that particular warble the songs took on when you listened to that cassete so much that the tape started to stretch!
80s were the best time to live in. The best products, the best music, and freedom as a young one to not have to worry if someone was going to take you or do bad things to you. We could stay out all night and play ditch em down our whole block, which was basically hide and seek, and you had all the neighbors yards to hide in ❤️🇺🇸
Yup, we had the permissiveness of the 70s, with the politics and prosperity of the 50s. And AIDS hadn't yet killed the party. AND no political correctness yet. At college you could yell the n-word at the top of your lungs and nobody gave a shit.
@@Laidengizer011 - parents just weren't ridiculously paranoid about it back then. Thing is, it still happens now so parents' attempts at preventing their children from playing outside, etc are hardly working, are they?
I miss making mixed tapes, after school cartoons like Thundercats & He-Man, early morning cartoons like Robotech, and Saturday morning cartoons like Thundar The Barbarian, Dungeons & Dragons, & The Smurfs. I miss 80's TV ads and most of all, I just miss being a kid. Paying bills sucks.
You asked a girl for her number, and she gave you the house number, because nobody had cell phones. anytime you called, a family member picked up. And you were always polite to whomever pickups the phone, because proper manners where essential.
@@Ron_EZ we grew up on a dead end street. There were train tracks and high voltage power lines, running behind the back end of the street. My older brother forbid me from climbing the massive tower for the power lines, but we did have fun putting pennies on the train tracks, and watching them get flattened. Now I think back, and say my God, my parents would have been put in jail for us doing shit like that nowadays.
Lol I was going to say "being the remote control and TV aerial". I also remember being sent to the shops in the middle of ur program, and ur parents got u to do it by saying "I'll time u". I've tried it with my kids, and my friends with theirs, but kids are SOOOO different now. Pre Millennium was definitely better.
OMG the absolute funniest/truest comment. I would get called from downstairs by my mom just to go change the channel... and thought nothing of it. At least until I was a teenager. :)
God I hated being the remote for adults. The other thing I hated, at least when it came to us kids, is if you left the room the next kid who came into the room got to choose what to watch. I'd sit there till I damn near had to pee myself before getting up to finish The Dukes of Hazard, The Incredible Hulk, or Knight Rider. House full of girls. So go figure. On the bright side. It was better than the voting my parents implemented at first. Because I never got to watch anything I wanted with 3 girls outvoting me on a regular basis.
Me and two neighbour kids used to ride about a half-hour away from home to a bridge where we could catch crayfish and that sort of thing. And in the winter, we'd bring our skates to the middle of the woods and play ball hockey on the ice clearings. Nary an adult in sight.
We actually went on adventures. We would ride all around town or to the woods and hang out. After cartoons on Saturday we would go fishing. I miss those days.
When MTV wasn't a reality show, not going to the hospital unless something was broken, getting dirty bc you wanted too & not just bc you're poor, making toys last bc it's all you had, watching reading rainbow, spending all day outside playing, & so many countless days being a 80's kid was awesome..
I was born in '71. I miss everything...all of it. The music, Saturday morning cartoons, After school specials,American Bandstand, Solid Gold. The clothes and hair styles the under age dance clubs, adult dance clubs not having to worry about getting roofied. School, I loved school. It was a safe place. Hanging out in arcades, roaming around the neighborhood. Getting older sucks and our kids these days...I have a 19 year old son and I can't imagine what kind of world he is growing up in. We were so lucky to have been able to be kids when we were kids. Great times!
I hear that ,I totally agree , everything you mentioned is everything I loved and miss today about those times,I personally wished that my kids would be able to enjoy all of those things but it's all been banned,removed ,buried,and steered away from ,these poor kids these days just aren't living,nor are they educated.
I was born in '73, so I feel ya! I think my favorite thing was getting to take offon my bike with all my friends who had bikes, and LITERALLY roam for miles around our side of town! As long as we were home when the streetlights came on, none of our parents cared what we did and where we went, as long as they didnt get any complaints from the neighbors about our "manners"!
One of my fondest memories of being an 80's kid is going to an actual Pizza Hut. They had a a pizza buffet, arcade games, and a salad bar. The adults could even get beer. Ahh those were the days.
Going to the video store was the biggest treat!!! It was so exciting and if you were even luckier a stop at McDonald's or pizza on the way home too! I VERY much miss slumber parties n going to pick out the videos and snacks
One of my favorite memories of the 80's (born in 1977 here) was going to a Video Game Arcade and losing yourself in hours of beat'em up and adventure games...and then realizing you spent your entire allowance on video games lol but MAN IT WAS WORTH IT!!
"I got a pocket fulla quarters and I'm headn to the AR-CADE!" Summer of `83 I got totally addicted to the game "Tutankhamun", which is the formal egyptian name for King Tut. That game had me hooked like it was crack!
*Phone rings* 5yo me: hello? Caller: Hi, is [mom's name] there? Me: Are you a salesman? Caller: Yes, is your mothe- Me: my Mom doesn't like salesman *click* Mom: wtf lolololol
Oh, man! Does anyone else remember listening to the top 40 countdown with Casey Kasem? My older sister would play it at night and I remember falling asleep to Casey's soothing voice. That was the best. I also used to sneak into my Mom and Dad's room to stay up and watch the Johnny Carson show while they were in the living room. We also had to turn an actual dial on the TV to change the channels.
Omg Casey Cassum!! I was absolutely obsessed with the countdown growing up. And I would get SO Mad if one of my brother's turn off my stereo or pulled my attention away before I'd gotten to hear number 1
Casey Kasem and Wolfman Jack was my favorite Radio Hosts, Dick Clark American Bandstand was one my favorite Dance Show, Soul Train was my other favorite, Donald Cortez Cornelius was another unique host that no one could replace, I loved watching both shows as a kid, Loved the music, The Dancers, And Fashion !😊
I was born in 1971 and one thing i completely remember as a 70's/80's kid that you don't hear about much anymore are sleepovers. I know my best friend back then would come over for a sleep over and we'd get into all kinds of mischief and in turn i would go to his house and we'd have a grand ole time.
I lived in the country, so I had to walk about 2 miles to my best friends place. We played Intellivison all night. Intellivision was state of the art back then. a big step up from TV tennis.
Hell yeah. I hated Count Chocula but his toys were good. Same with Smack (the cereal with the frog on the front and it tastes like styrofoam coated with fake honey). I still see Smack in grocery stores and I can't believe its lasted this long.🤢
I remember that when Microsoft was advertising on cereal boxes. for xbox 360 and had small hand on made in china little games and it around my little sister was born. We found them by accident in a box of corn pops.
Right- - the 16mm projector was a pleasure. Or if you were pre-80s the self-contained projector. It was just like a big screen TV on wheels. Our schools used them from the 50s through the 70s. By the early 80s they were gone, replaced by VCRs the size of a small coffee table... When the SLIDE projector came into the classroom we knew it would be instructional & boring 😴
Born in 75, Grew up during the 80s and loved it. Saturday Mornings were the best time to be an 80s Kid. I remember everything mentioned on this list. I used collect Garbage Pail Kids cards. Sadly I wish I still had them to just look at. Kids today have no clue what many of had. I am still aiming to find all 80s Cartoons to own. Very hard to find most of them.
I miss the 80s so bad it makes my want to cry!! It felt so free and I miss people socializing in person. Makes me sad my kids never got to experience it.
Then teach them. I have an 18 and 15 year old and I've taught them to socialize in person. They have always, as a group, go out and do adventures. Build forts etc. You have to teach them. They will LOVE it!
@@Frostymemer It's deppressing. Chances are you are less than sixteen years old. No amount of your brainwashing public school can hammer even basic punctuation into your head. 1 in 5 of your friends are obese. 1 in 10 are deppressed. 1 in 3 have introverted personalities. Don't make me tell you what those numbers were in the 80s. It's tragically ironic that the internet was supposed to bring us closer together. Seems like it did the complete opposite. Honestly, most kids parents should be ashamed of what they've done to our world.
I was born in the 70's. I got to fully enjoy the 80's. Truly a spectacular time to grow up. Leave with your friends in the morning and come back home after dark. Maybe check in at one of our houses to have lunch. But our parents wouldn't see us for many hours.
@TheVosack, You were allowed to come home after dark!😲 I had to be home before dark...my mom's phrase was if the street lights are on your butt better be in the house! 😂😂😂
Always having a blank cassette ready in your stereo to quickly hit record when your favorite song came on... all my songs back then were missing the first 3 to 10 seconds.
All the memories of taping songs off the radio are spot on for me too. For me i will always associate some songs with another because of recording. e.g when i hear like a prayer by madonna it always reminds me of pink sunshine by fuzzbox just because i had a tape where one followed the other and i listened to it for YEARS. I aways wondered why the shops all sold blank cassettes and all the stereos had record buttons considering the fact that home recording was illegal!
As an 80's kid I experienced all of these. The thing I miss most about the 80's was the freedom to do...well...just about anything without fear of being hurt, killed or shamed. It's true that you never know how good something is until it's gone. RIP 1980's. ⚰ 😭
@Dale Poncy I’m with you! We ran BUCK WILD outside without our parents needing to do more than have us check in for lunch and when the street lights came on. The words “ NOT IT” we enough to start a RIOT, playgrounds were essentially leftover construction equipment, and your mode of transportation defined your place in the complex hierarchy of neighborhood leadership (tricycle to Big Wheel to first bike w/training wheels to first bike w/o training wheels to COOL gender specific bike to ten speed). 😎 To be fair, though, we had a different level of social responsibility then. You made sure everyone was okay when you played because if someone got hurt or complained, you’d NEVER get to do what you wanted without adults around again. Plus, the early 80s is when all the dangerous stuff (child abduction/abuse, toy recalls, candy & medication tampering, etc.) started making national news. Combine that with the rise of video gaming and you can see why kids will never be able to experience the times we did. Even if we ditched the tech & made the world safe, we seem to have effectively stamped out that individual creative spark that made play so exciting. We’d almost have to TRAIN kids to play make believe/pretend. 😞
I wasn't born in the 80's, but I know what it was like. The freedom. I miss it. Just like when people could roam around whenever they wanted on horseback.
I miss the 80's. Leaving the house at 10am and not coming home till the street lights come on and no one knew where you were. No smart phone, cellphone or pager.
Street lights come on = We best be on our way home. Also, the city was treacherous but certainly not dangerous. Maybe there were some stabbings, but I never remember all the fatal shooting that we have now.
All facts dinner time and street lights was literally a alarm clock for us in the 80’s my fuckin kid wont even leave the damn house let alone come in at a certain time Smfh
I remember my childhood being that way (in the 2000's). I guess in some areas of the US, we hadn't yet moved on to the newer aspects. Just ride bikes with neighborhood kids all day, buy sodas at the cornerstore (literally on corner lol), play hide 'n' go seek, play tag. Big difference here, we'd eventually go back to my house or another friends house to play Gamecube games. If you had a videogame system, you were the cool kid 😎
Man. Watching all these videos of the 80s and Gen X has made me realize how much times have completely changed. It's fun giving a kid something we had in the 80s and asking them to use it. Have you ever seen the look on one of these kid's face when you show them a rotary dial phone?
Lmao.. I showed one to my daughter and her friend, when I was clearing some stuff outta my grandma's house after she passed, and their reactions were BEYOND EPICALLY HILARIOUS 🤣🤣🤯🤯😱😱😭😭😵😵
Playing outside in the summer..Unsupervised.. until the Street Lights came on.. running in and out of one another’s houses all day! No one locked their doors!! 😢🙄
I heard my dad whistle after the street lights came on, I knew I was in trouble, he could really whistle! I'd be say 10 blocks away and I heard him whistle, ran my ass home so fast lol.
Play in front yard??? My siblings and I (plus all the neighborhood kids) would leave in the morning, ride our bikes for hours and our parents had no clue where we were for 8 hours.
WORD!!!!! Life wasn't as confusing or chaotic as it is today. It feels like the younger generation/s growing up now has/have a lot more uncertainty and difficulties to contend with, my hat's off to all of you. I'm glad I grew up in the time I did.
Now my parents won’t even let me go for a walk And it’s not like it’s our parents fault People just have just changed and so as time we have creeps and weirdos and kids going missing nearly everyday so I see why parents would be a bit worried back in the early 2010s for some reason I had a bit more freedom when I was little I’m almost 15 now and I can’t really do anything Like that anymore it’s sad
Lol I still say that 2day. I will send a message 2 a bud on ps4 and be like " hey bud you coming out 2 play 2nite, need 1 more for the raid" and he would send back what r we 10 now".
I miss everything on your list don't really have much else to say just disappointed in the way things are today I would take a pair of gardening shears or something big giant scissors cut little Pathways in parts of the backyard that were overgrown use my toys like it was war in a jungle and the grass was the jungle one of the many things I did nowadays kids can't hold those kind of toys in their hands because they're not safe nothing is safe everything is dangerous wrap them in bubble wrap Lord forbid they get a scratch
I miss that so much! Summer holidays were the ultimate in kickass-ness. They don't make any drugs that give a high that's comparable to the entirely naturally high mood I could experience as a young kid during the summer. Pure magic. I'm 43 now and if I ever went biking after sundown I'd be worried about getting mugged :)
You glossed right over the MALL, and the MOVIES I remember the uncomfortable seats in the theater and the nasty sticky floors, if you dropped something on the floor at the theatre, then it was dead to you. And the ARCADE, and going to the music store to buy the latest cassette of you favorite rockers!!!!! Hello?!
When we were 10 years old, walking out of the house to play at 7 AM, riding our bikes miles from home and no one excepting see you again until dinner time.
Here's a good one: My cousins and I would run around our neighborhood, through other people's yards, playing hide and seek with realistic looking toy guns and we never got the cops called on us.
Razum I remember when the fucking NRA and the feds outlawed Super-Soaker plastic water guns, claiming these large, bright, multi-colored fake guns were dangerous and could be mistaken for the real thing. Typical hypocrites.
@@incorporeal7614 Hide and seek/cops and robbers. Kids are creative. They'll mix it up. :) Call it an early form of laser tag, but without the lasers, or the admission fee. :)
Being born in the late 80s, I was mostly a 90s kid. But still experienced most of what 80s kids did. My favorite memory took place during an elementary school dodgeball game where I showed my true colors to the other team. I did this by being able to dodge all the balls until I was the last one left on my team! An awkward moment though, as I had all the balls on my side and the other team had none.😂 So, one by one I just kept throwing balls to get my teammates back on the floor. Maybe my greatest sport moment ever!🎉
Scholastic book fairs, the single TV being wheeled down the hallway to your classroom, the mobile star dome, playing under a giant parachute in gym, etc.
Overhead projector and acetate sheet slides. OH! Oh wow heres one 80s kids did that future kids wont. SNOW DAYS. Close the school ? Oh well, everyone on Zoom please.
I'm 46 and I'm still 10 when I watch that movie! Saw it in Michigan summer 85 on a family vacation . great times to be a kid .......80s had it all! New and cool too....not remakes !
💯% agreed. Just to have everyone at the same dinner table (not just on holidays); Watching TV in front of the SAME TV; Walking the block (with the family dog, or followed by the cat) to have spontaneous conversation with neighbors; Tennis or volleyball matches at the local park; Playing LP's & 45's until midnight Saturday night while playing "Tank" or "Asteroids" on Atari; A night socializing at the town hub (in my hometown it was burgers & shakes at Braum's Ice Cream Store, or Frito pies at an old Taco Bueno); or Friday or Saturday nights having burgers on the patio while the adults played cards & dominos at our house or a neighbor's house :') It's terrific that the Internet has us chatting with our British, French, Italian, Greek, & even Russian neighbors worldwide. But to not even know the people living on the same street with you, or in your same town? That's pitiful I haven't forgotten the "old" ways of socializing, but it sure is harder to get people together in the same place at the same time, these days. What a sad social dichotomy where young folks only seem to want to communicate through electronics! I must believe that eventually, as they mature, they'll finally put those contraptions down & realize there's no substitute for just BEING THERE. Your physical presence is infinitely better than your image on a video or an impersonal text typed through a computer!
@@jimmyduncan7650 4 or 5 'teens & 20-somethings sitting in the same living room, chatting to one another through their phones instead of simply talking 🤷
Thats because everyone started suing everyone else for everything and nothing ALL AT THE SAME TIME so people dont interact with strangers much anymore. Its too socially risky.
MTV absolutely ROCKED in the 80s! Now it’s practically back to back to back reality crap, maybe with a few crappy post 80s videos thrown in. Thank goodness for the MTV Classic channel.
Mrs Russ, I wish things were like that now, I am 41 now and have two teenage daughters, who have no clue what to do without their stupid cellphones. The world was a much better place
Yup once that light went off it's like all the kids in the neighborhood knew and we all scattered home. And All the moms had dinner ready at the same time..
Andrew Maxwell...or whoever else is reading this....Now I think they put people's driver licenses in cereal boxes because of the way people drive...😂...( pulling out in front of traffic), turning without using their signal light, "riding their brakes, lol...i can go on and on but I guess y'all see what I'm saying. Man, I wish I could find the cereal box some people get their license out of......😁😂😂
I was a 70/80’s kid, the days of party lines where you had to wait your turn to use the phone, I loved to pick up the phone and listen to the older ladies talking, I didn’t have anyone to call, we all just gathered outside and played. Pre VCR days were awesome in certain ways, the excitement build up to Christmas when the kids Christmas shows came on only one time a year, it really was such a wonderful experience leading up to a favorite holiday, speaking of holiday, The Sears Wishbook, this glorious catalog was a huge collection of all of the toys for girls and boys, we would anxiously await the arrival of this book and pick out things we hoped Santa would bring us. I really cherish those days, we had something to look forward to, we were very social and active, we had imaginations.❤😢
So much nostalgia. Rolling back the clock, 40 years, it's like we lived in another world entirely. In fairness, some things are a lot better, now, but...some things were a lot better then. You kind of had to live it to really get it. As great as "Stranger Things" is, most of us just got to enjoy the '80s without, well, supernatural weirdness interrupting our bike rides.
Oh man, I STILL catch myself getting ready to ask for ", non-smoking" tables in restaurants. Thank heavens most if the wait staff greeting customers today are in too much if a hurry to get you to table and out of their faces. If given 3 seconds more, I KNOW I would be asking for non-smoking everytime...just ingrained in me.
I used to go behind some kid I hated and clap them over his head rapidly, he looked like Casper, Got sent to the Heads office a lot of times for that. TOTALLY worth it!
I remember High Top Fades, Rat tails hairstyle, Bucket Hat's, Punky Brewster, New Kids on the Block, Snow, Chico sticks, leaving to get lunch on Lunchbreak starting Middle school, Food Stamps currency, rope climbing, 25 cent chips, penny candy, and ACTUALLY playing outside through ALL seasons. I use to come in after playing in the 🌨️ from hours w my friends. I use to run my hand and feet under water to unthaw them! My kids hardly EVER go out side.
I remember watching Thriller when it premiered... how many nightmares I had after that video. And I had an ET / Michael Jackson promo poster on my wall and covered it up after that as MJ spooked me :P
Apart from Top of the Pops,we had shows like Channel 4's The Tube in the 80s. TOTP was never what it was once they moved it from Thursday to Friday evenings in the late-ish 90s. In the 90s there was the Chart Show on ITV,first on late at night in the very late 80s and then moved to Saturday mornings. Cable TV brought us the Box in the middle and late 90s,and stuff like VH1. They still had some music on the Saturday morning children's shows in the late 90s and early 2000s and I did watch a Channel 4 show called Popworld that ran on Sunday mornings between about 2001 and about 2006,the same year an ailing TOTP finally died,maybe just past that. Apart from Later with Jools Holland there doesn't seem to be all that much on terrestrial now.
I used to listen to the Top 40 charts every Sunday to record songs onto cassette, but they didn't play every song in the charts, just about 1 every 5 or so songs, except of course the number 1 song which was always played.
It damn sure was !! Those of us who grew up in the 1970s & 1980s , grew up in an awesome time !! I would go back in a heartbeat !! I even devote my weekly column for Z News on the era !!
I agree. I'm glad I'm not any younger. Atari came out when I was around 12, but no one in my neighborhood had one because we were relatively poor. Play outside from Dawn till dusk. We have more in common with seniors than young people when it comes to growing up.
Using a pair of pliers to change the UHF/VHF channels on the old ass TV because the knobs broke off before you were born. Leaving your bike out on the front lawn all night and finding it there in the morning. Having PIZZA for lunch at school and coming home to drink from the garden hose.
@Missingthe80's I can remember breaking for lunch and supper but afterwards my friends and I would be back outside playing until the street lights came on. 🙂🙂🙂
@@rogersepeda My junior high school had a pay phone. If I wanted to spend time with my girlfriend, I'd "miss" the bus and do this for my mom to give me a call back. "Yea, you can just pick me up from Rhiannon's house..." lol Granted, this was 1999, not the eighties
We called home from after school activities for a ride home. You couldn't talk without depositing the quarter in the payphone so we just clicked the hangup switch several times and home could hear that.
We used the candy cigarettes outside in the winter, the cold air breath made it look like smoke. With the cereal....don't forget they had prizes in them.
Sometimes the assembly process was such that no prize was included. It made me sad and disappointed. However one box was almost 1/2 full with the prize. (I think it was some vessel with a balloon attachment you would put in a body of water). There must have been 20 of them. That still today is one of the few real breaks I ever got in my life.
I was born in 82 and did every single one of these things. My sisters and I were seriously free-range, latchkey kids. I walked home from kindergarten and stayed home by myself until my sister got home from 2nd grade a few hours later. We spent weekends walking around town for miles to spend our $5 weekly allowance on “pizza pockets” from Kmart or go to a matinee at the movie theater. My parents had no idea where we were and as long as we were home by sundown they didn’t worry.
Damn kindergarten...I didn't get full latchkey "emancipation" until third grade. Same thing dad worked late. Before that I had some type of sitting in the afternoon...but when I was nine I asked my Dad if I could just chill on my own after school.
I literally don't think anyone's opinion matters to me unless I value them in the first place (like friends and family). Some stranger or rude kid at school means nothing to me because they don't know me like those close to me do. Wish my generation (Gen Z) thought the same. Wish I had a time machine to take me to the 80s so I can live there.
To be fair, some words, depending on usage tone, etc were, and still are verbal declarations of war and one responds accordingly ie: racial slurs, disparaging one's mom, sister, grandmother etc. even in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s
ix Nine your comment made me laugh out loud actually, after thinking about it for 5 seconds :D now everybody are musicians :p I make some music myself so its not like Im lauging of ya'll, but of the situation. peace and harmony all
Yup and people could actually sing. A computer did not do it fir them or replace the band completely. Now their us no bang. The lip-synchro prerecorded music with no band in the back. It sucks.
Another thing: Many radio stations did not have 24 hour programming. Those stations were only licensed to play until midnight. Then you’d hear the national anthem play before those stations went off the air for the night. The same thing happened at midnight on many TV stations, hence the popularity of VHS and movie rentals back then.
The TV stations shut down around 11 o' clock. At least the 2 stations we had did. We watched them on a little 12 inch black, and white with the tinfoil on the rabbit ears.
That's what we did. When our bikes broke, we had to put our heads together to figure out how to get them going again. We couldn't wait until our fathers got home to fix them, so you had to DIY. And we had "this or nothing" for dinner most nights. I may not have liked everything put in front of me, but somehow I made it through. And riding in the back of my father's pickup as a kid wasn't even special. It was just what you did when there wasn't room up front. And I lived in a suburb of Boston, not even a rural area, so it wasn't like cops didn't see you back there. As long as you weren't being stupid, they left you alone.
Parents were not afraid to tell you that you screwed up, and they werent doing it to make you feel bad, they were doing to conditioning you to get up and try harder. We had no safe rooms and no one cared if something they said made you feel bad
Haha...not really. I know plenty of people who grew up before the 90s who are little children in grown bodies. The Boomers and Gen X are some of the worst (at least, the worst people I know are from those generations). They are incompetent, lazy, petty, and insecure, just like some people in younger generations. Attending the school of hard knocks doesn't change anything, and neither does being born in a particular decade: you have competent and secure, as well as incompetent and insecure people from any generation.
@@chapachuu Agreed. Every generation has it's share of good and bad, it's just that the whole "politically correct" bs didn't start until the 80's. Unfortunately, discrimination was normal and you either grew thick skin or were bullied relentlessly. It didn't make anyone more mature though.
Same. Get up, eat breakfast then, right out the door till it was time to eat lunch. Then back out dinner time. We would wander/bike or ride horses in about a 3 mile area around the house depending on what we wanted to do that day. Had scattering of woods, in between housings or pastures and even a gravel pit to chose from :P Sure if parents knew we were often at the gravel pit climbing all over the place, they would of been nope. I remember once, we took the dogs with us and my sister tricked me into grabbing an electric fence, I got the sensation of the jolt but, my poor dog at the end of a metal chain leash got the worst of it :( And yes! tons of time in the back of a pickup truck to do manythings including camping.
I liked it when you could go into a store and see and pick out what you wanted, instead of having to wait, just to see if they got the order right. And you didn't have to get on the god-damned phone for an hour while some crooked bank decides if they're going to give you credit for a fraudulent charge or make you eat it. The increasing refusal of banks to stand behind their customers over fraud charges is what caused me to cancel all my credit cards. Every time I read where some hack took a bank for a multi-million dollar ride, I laugh myself to sleep! Couldn't happen to a more deserving buncha thieves.
I’m glad that as a 90s baby my parents made sure I experienced basically all of this. I was born right before the cusp of things changing, I miss childhood sm
Being born in 1968, I was 12 in 1980 and 21 in 1989. The 80s were the best 10 years of my life! I like the point about playing outside and parents not worrying. I can remember in 1980...I and my 9 year old brother camping out in the back of our 150 acres for 2 and 3 days alone without ever going to the house. We would also ride our BMX bikes 6 miles to our county fair and then ride back at 11pm. We even did that in the late 70s and no one ever worried!
Me & my friends: all 1971-73. My sister & her 'teen friends: 1961-66. Adults in my village were just a little to "sticky" to let us be out to camp by ourselves, or when we did camp in family groups, away from camp for more than 1 night. Other than that we 100% lived every word you said ✨💎 To me the 80s made the world way too much "life in the fast lane." I cane out of the 70s accustomed to & expecting to live at that same natural mon-fri pace But the 80s was a wrecking ball to the life I knew: 6 day workweeks; Home depot, walmart, & the indoor malls open on sunday. Eventually e v e r y t h i n g was open on sunday; A sudden proliferation of businesses that became 24/ 7 when they were just mon-fri before; Liesure time (weekends & weeknights after work) for working adults either diminished or disappeared completely I had some great memories back there. Not bad being a kid/ 'teen in the 80s, really. But I hated the 80s anyway. It was like trying to adjust to an alien world I could just never get used to, because it went mad. People in the city became impatient, nervous, & to easily given to yelling & fighting over n o t h i n g . Too many of my classmates became that way, too
I didn’t realize how much I missed the 80’s. Riding in the bed of my dads pickup truck and spending Saturday night on the phone trying to get through to the local radio station for the request and dedication hour......... ahhh. Good times
Yeah... that was the good old days. I remember riding in the back of my dad's truck bed too and going to get Garbage Pail kids cards at our local Circle K
We also knew how to take care of ourselves. We were taught self independence and reliance. We were taught to use our own brains by parents and teachers not who to borrow your neighbor's. We also had important decisions to make like "Is this worth the butt whoopin' I know I'll get for doing this?!?". Don't forget the all nighters at the roller rink. Or Secret Santa's workshops that came around Christmas in elementary school, how exited did you get to be able to buy your family presents at that age😊? I miss back then and wish I could provide that level of security and childhood to my children and grandchildren. There was messed up things back then but it wasn't today that's for sure. Loved this video! Had to ramble😂
Breaking lock tabs off a cassette tape to "lockout " recording/erasing music, only to hav to place scotch tape over them 2 wks later, to record new content..lol...good times👍✌
You forgot a big one for kids in the 80's. Using the streetlights as a timer for playing outside. I was a teenager in the 80's and when you went to play with friends. There was no set time to go home. Everyone had the same time. When the streetlights lit up. when they turned on. You better be home before they were fully illuminated or there were consequences to pay.
Streetlights were timers for when to get your butt home at least as far back as the 1950's; you could hear kids 2 or 3 city blocks away yelling, "FIRST STREET-LIGHT!", as the streetlights began to come on. (Yes, I am that old).
I'm from The Netherlands and we did the same thing. When the streetlight went on you get your ass back home. If you weren't home on time. Boyboy.. I'm from 1990.
Paul Byrne 80s music was classic & good i still listen to & luv a lotta 80s music but when it comes to music. Nothing can even come close to touching 90s music that was thee hands down absolute best decade for music in my opinion. 😎😉💿📀
I'm a 2000's kid and I love the old 80's and some 90's music. Now music is a bunch of noises and words put together to sound cool but make absolutely no sense. I hope someday music changes into something better.
I went to school all through the 1980s and I graduated in 1989 and I’ll tell you that we used to do some pretty stupid stuff that you could never get away with today.
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Keeping a blank tape in the cassette player to record songs off the radio.
And the DJ talks into the end of the song. Noone needed that 😉
More 70ies though I’d say. But still YEAH.
@Kate Jagger my husband is still astonished that I know so many 80th songs and the bands name. I lived for the music when I was a teenie. Did you made your best friend a tape, too?
@@marvincosby7060 or the worst case scenario, we in Germany called it "Band Salat" I don't know how you would call it in English, the moment your tape was in the player and it was out of the tape box and totally messy. Do you know what I mean. Everytime when that happened I had to pray that I could wind it back and it worked again and wasn't totally damaged.
maggiesue35 hahaha genau band salat und dann ne stunde mit nem kuli wieder aufwickeln - just talking about using a ballpen to wind back tape once it got loose.
As an 80s kids we did this cool thing called talking. To each other. In person. As in face to face. W no distractions.
And, when we send text or email, people can't read your emotion. Unless you insert emoticons. More than a few times, people have thought I was being short with them or they didn't get my sense of humor.😂
Except for jukeboxes.;)
And fought each other outside, and not in video games!
I remember almost every neighborhood kids played outside...I don't see that anymore 🏌️🏋️🤸⛹️🤾🚴🚵🤽🤹🤼
😂 True
Getting mad at the radio DJ for talking over the beginning of your favorite song while you're trying to record it with the built in cassette player. D'OH!!
OH Yea!!! That pissed me off greatly.
Ahh yess I remember that your Totally right.. Did you ever use that Cassette to play in the Car
Wonderful...thats made me chuckle...😍😜😜😜
Oh yeah! 😂😂
I hated that. They would cut in at the end of the song too. It made us so mad!
1970s stuff ❤ We went outside and came back when it started getting dark. No computers, we had to go find something to do, like every kid before us.
We had rules, and punishments when we broke them. We respected our elders.
I didn't. 😎
Nah. The 80s had all that without the inflation and economic problems of the 70s. Plus, the 70s had the Vietnam War and the cold war. Yes, the cold war was going on in the 80s but relations with the USSR began to thaw. The 80s were way better
You should of been a kid in the 50's, Heaven on earth for us !!!
@@hellskitchen10036 You lucky b*******
@@Styxswimmer I think you're right, the 80s were way better than the 70s. More prosperous and cooler stuff in the stores, plus the energy crisis was mostly over.
I can remember seeing Jimmy Carter making his speeches on TV. We all had a sense that he was this namby-pamby fool who couldn't get the hostages free. Everything on the radio was this soft rock, over produced, chick-singer BS.
By the time Reagan came along we had punk, new wave, MTV, reggae, rap, and National Lampoon. It all seemed to exciting and fresh. Growing up in the bourgeois UES of New York we felt like characters in a John Hughes movie.
People would also take photos of other people rather than themselves.
It's true...it was more fun to take photos of others than of yourself.
I don't think a single person took a picture of themselves! Ever!
Blackavar WD you know why because many phones didint come with front facing cameras at the time and people would ask others to take photos of themselves still making it a selfie
@@souljahkin2017 WHAT!? There was no such thing as " front facing cameras" HAHAHA If you had someone take your pic you were usually with someone. (You wanted a pic with them) Maybe someone took a pic in front of something by themself, but I never saw one IRL. Usually OTHER people made you stand somewhere and took your pic. Not a selfie.
Ah the good old days!!
How many ever rode in back of a pick up truck? On the highway.
Troy Purnell We did , they'd hit a bump you'd all go flying up in the air lol...it was great till someone would fly out but it never happened so awesome.....
I did! Was a fun experience! Good Times!
I did and it was awesome!!!
Yup!😂
I did! We rode in the back sitting on lawn chairs drinking cocktails on our way to see the tall ships! Hey who saw the tall ships
Kids today will never recognize the phrase "Be Kind, Rewind."
Blockbuster baby!
Show them a casset tape and a pencil, and watch the look of confusion spread across their faces
@@lionsroar2512 Ahh, yes, that good old secrete - until you only have a circular-shaped pencil. Thanks for reminding me that!
@Fremont Jablonski and they will never have the pleasure of hearing that particular warble the songs took on when you listened to that cassete so much that the tape started to stretch!
Lol at my video store they charged 50¢ if u didn't rewind! 😂 My mom was always sayin Rewind that tape!
80s were the best time to live in. The best products, the best music, and freedom as a young one to not have to worry if someone was going to take you or do bad things to you. We could stay out all night and play ditch em down our whole block, which was basically hide and seek, and you had all the neighbors yards to hide in ❤️🇺🇸
But kids did get abducted back then. They always did. Someone even tried to lure me into his vehicle when I was a young child.
Yup, we had the permissiveness of the 70s, with the politics and prosperity of the 50s. And AIDS hadn't yet killed the party. AND no political correctness yet. At college you could yell the n-word at the top of your lungs and nobody gave a shit.
@@Laidengizer011 - parents just weren't ridiculously paranoid about it back then. Thing is, it still happens now so parents' attempts at preventing their children from playing outside, etc are hardly working, are they?
@@mattylamb9194 But are they happening in the same numbers??
Not only in America but Europe as well ! We had the best 90’s parties
Born in 68 and grew up in the 70’s and 80’s . You forgot about boom boxes, tape recorders, and the great music of the 80s
I was born in 68 also & remember most of this from the 70's.
Recording mix tapes from songs on the radio.
@@scottyellis3442 '68 was the best year for contemporary music.
80s metal music was awesome.
And great music of the '70's! ✌🏻
What about knowing 175 different phone numbers by heart?
Or use a address book.
I still remember my childhood phone number and my best friend's number from the time.
How about using a telephone with a rotary dial?
Lol you nailed it with that one! So many numbers memorized
Not that many, but I still remember the number we had when I was in high school- and now the area code for that town is changed!
Crank calling random numbers because no one had caller ID.
Lol so true
You still can Just dial *67
Joshua Crispin that wasn’t a thing until the mid nineties.
Or calling 867-5309 and asking for Jenny!
"Is your fridge running?"
I miss making mixed tapes, after school cartoons like Thundercats & He-Man, early morning cartoons like Robotech, and Saturday morning cartoons like Thundar The Barbarian, Dungeons & Dragons, & The Smurfs. I miss 80's TV ads and most of all, I just miss being a kid. Paying bills sucks.
You asked a girl for her number, and she gave you the house number, because nobody had cell phones. anytime you called, a family member picked up. And you were always polite to whomever pickups the phone, because proper manners where essential.
Then we lied about our names so we couldn't be tracked
We in the early 70s actually had a phone etiquette class!
Don't forget, your house was almost never locked & you could play in the yard (neighborhood) w/o adult supervision
@@Ron_EZ we grew up on a dead end street. There were train tracks and high voltage power lines, running behind the back end of the street. My older brother forbid me from climbing the massive tower for the power lines, but we did have fun putting pennies on the train tracks, and watching them get flattened. Now I think back, and say my God, my parents would have been put in jail for us doing shit like that nowadays.
And my voice was so low in middle school, I never had a girlfriend who’s mom was very suspicious.
Kids today will never know the feeling of being the remote for the TV
Or holding the aerial in just the right position.
Lol I was going to say "being the remote control and TV aerial". I also remember being sent to the shops in the middle of ur program, and ur parents got u to do it by saying "I'll time u". I've tried it with my kids, and my friends with theirs, but kids are SOOOO different now. Pre Millennium was definitely better.
OMG the absolute funniest/truest comment. I would get called from downstairs by my mom just to go change the channel... and thought nothing of it. At least until I was a teenager. :)
God I hated being the remote for adults. The other thing I hated, at least when it came to us kids, is if you left the room the next kid who came into the room got to choose what to watch. I'd sit there till I damn near had to pee myself before getting up to finish The Dukes of Hazard, The Incredible Hulk, or Knight Rider. House full of girls. So go figure. On the bright side. It was better than the voting my parents implemented at first. Because I never got to watch anything I wanted with 3 girls outvoting me on a regular basis.
D@mn, forgot about that! :-D. And like someone else said, moving the antenna around.... :-P
My favorite thing to do as an 80s kid was riding my bike with all my friends. Good times man, good times.
Me and two neighbour kids used to ride about a half-hour away from home to a bridge where we could catch crayfish and that sort of thing. And in the winter, we'd bring our skates to the middle of the woods and play ball hockey on the ice clearings. Nary an adult in sight.
And NOBODY wore a helmet.
@@charlesritter6640 Exactly! Good point!
Me too with my 4 friends
We actually went on adventures. We would ride all around town or to the woods and hang out. After cartoons on Saturday we would go fishing. I miss those days.
When MTV wasn't a reality show, not going to the hospital unless something was broken, getting dirty bc you wanted too & not just bc you're poor, making toys last bc it's all you had, watching reading rainbow, spending all day outside playing, & so many countless days being a 80's kid was awesome..
I was born in '71. I miss everything...all of it. The music, Saturday morning cartoons, After school specials,American Bandstand, Solid Gold. The clothes and hair styles the under age dance clubs, adult dance clubs not having to worry about getting roofied. School, I loved school. It was a safe place. Hanging out in arcades, roaming around the neighborhood. Getting older sucks and our kids these days...I have a 19 year old son and I can't imagine what kind of world he is growing up in. We were so lucky to have been able to be kids when we were kids. Great times!
I hear that ,I totally agree , everything you mentioned is everything I loved and miss today about those times,I personally wished that my kids would be able to enjoy all of those things but it's all been banned,removed ,buried,and steered away from ,these poor kids these days just aren't living,nor are they educated.
As well I was born in 72
I was born in '73, so I feel ya! I think my favorite thing was getting to take offon my bike with all my friends who had bikes, and LITERALLY roam for miles around our side of town! As long as we were home when the streetlights came on, none of our parents cared what we did and where we went, as long as they didnt get any complaints from the neighbors about our "manners"!
Totally agree
I'm with you! I miss all that stuff!
One of my fondest memories of being an 80's kid is going to an actual Pizza Hut. They had a a pizza buffet, arcade games, and a salad bar. The adults could even get beer. Ahh those were the days.
True
Shakies Pizza?
Book-It!
@@list25 yes
We still had a dine-in PH in my hometown right up until COVID. It was great.
Dont forget.
Be kind please rewind.
Shawn Carr oh yes!!
Here in Europe we had to pay if you didn't rewind VHS when you returned it
Icefyre Dragon same here
Going to the video store was the biggest treat!!! It was so exciting and if you were even luckier a stop at McDonald's or pizza on the way home too! I VERY much miss slumber parties n going to pick out the videos and snacks
I used to tape over it with “be kind please do me from behind”.
One of my favorite memories of the 80's (born in 1977 here) was going to a Video Game Arcade and losing yourself in hours of beat'em up and adventure games...and then realizing you spent your entire allowance on video games lol but MAN IT WAS WORTH IT!!
"I got a pocket fulla quarters and I'm headn to the AR-CADE!"
Summer of `83 I got totally addicted to the game "Tutankhamun", which is the formal egyptian name for King Tut. That game had me hooked like it was crack!
Answering the phone with no clue who was calling lol
Party lines/Private lines
*Phone rings*
5yo me: hello?
Caller: Hi, is [mom's name] there?
Me: Are you a salesman?
Caller: Yes, is your mothe-
Me: my Mom doesn't like salesman *click*
Mom: wtf lolololol
Telemarketing was a thing
Prank calls
@@pdarn27 That was totally one I thought would go on the list.
Born in 1970 I look back and smile a kid in the 70’s, a teen in the 80’s, and in my 20’s in the 1990’s great time to be alive...
Fk YEAH..The Final Frontier before the pansies era.
I agree joel.
1971 here.....absolutely agree!!
Me too totally agree best time to live.
Lucky !!!
Oh, man! Does anyone else remember listening to the top 40 countdown with Casey Kasem? My older sister would play it at night and I remember falling asleep to Casey's soothing voice. That was the best.
I also used to sneak into my Mom and Dad's room to stay up and watch the Johnny Carson show while they were in the living room.
We also had to turn an actual dial on the TV to change the channels.
Omg Casey Cassum!! I was absolutely obsessed with the countdown growing up. And I would get SO Mad if one of my brother's turn off my stereo or pulled my attention away before I'd gotten to hear number 1
Casey Kasem is buried in Oslo, Norway because of a feud between his wido and Casey’s children - so sad they’re fighting over his money!
One of 3 channels
Casey Kasem and Wolfman Jack was my favorite Radio Hosts,
Dick Clark American Bandstand was one my favorite Dance Show,
Soul Train was my other favorite,
Donald Cortez Cornelius was another unique host that no one could replace,
I loved watching both shows as a kid,
Loved the music,
The Dancers,
And Fashion !😊
The Countdown with Casey Kasem while reading the lyrics in Song Hits.
I was born in 1971 and one thing i completely remember as a 70's/80's kid that you don't hear about much anymore are sleepovers. I know my best friend back then would come over for a sleep over and we'd get into all kinds of mischief and in turn i would go to his house and we'd have a grand ole time.
I lived in the country, so I had to walk about 2 miles to my best friends place. We played Intellivison all night. Intellivision was state of the art back then. a big step up from TV tennis.
Never heard of a head lice back then.
A lawn full of bikes let you know which house everyone was at, and who was there.
So true. And no 2 were ever the same
Ride to “the Barrens”
I spit taked my coffee
And you knew which kid was which because of their bike.
😁yep
How about it
Who remembers buying the cereal you didn't like just for the toy inside.
Hell yeah. I hated Count Chocula but his toys were good. Same with Smack (the cereal with the frog on the front and it tastes like styrofoam coated with fake honey). I still see Smack in grocery stores and I can't believe its lasted this long.🤢
OMG yess
I remember that when Microsoft was advertising on cereal boxes. for xbox 360 and had small hand on made in china little games and it around my little sister was born. We found them by accident in a box of corn pops.
Even in the 2010s i miss that
I did
The pleasure to see in grade school when the TV cart wheeled in.
I remember the projector! Being half blinded when the film was over and the tape ran out...the brightest light ever!!! 😂😂
That was the 90's in school too
that was early 2000s school too
Right- - the 16mm projector was a pleasure. Or if you were pre-80s the self-contained projector. It was just like a big screen TV on wheels. Our schools used them from the 50s through the 70s. By the early 80s they were gone, replaced by VCRs the size of a small coffee table... When the SLIDE projector came into the classroom we knew it would be instructional & boring 😴
I forgot about this ;)
Born in 75, Grew up during the 80s and loved it. Saturday Mornings were the best time to be an 80s Kid. I remember everything mentioned on this list. I used collect Garbage Pail Kids cards. Sadly I wish I still had them to just look at. Kids today have no clue what many of had. I am still aiming to find all 80s Cartoons to own. Very hard to find most of them.
I miss the 80s so bad it makes my want to cry!! It felt so free and I miss people socializing in person. Makes me sad my kids never got to experience it.
Ohhh boo hook they have an easier time communicating stfu
Then teach them. I have an 18 and 15 year old and I've taught them to socialize in person. They have always, as a group, go out and do adventures. Build forts etc. You have to teach them. They will LOVE it!
What is weird is ppl don't know how to talk to ppl anymore. Its depressing. I still do it the old school way
@@Frostymemer It's deppressing. Chances are you are less than sixteen years old. No amount of your brainwashing public school can hammer even basic punctuation into your head. 1 in 5 of your friends are obese. 1 in 10 are deppressed. 1 in 3 have introverted personalities. Don't make me tell you what those numbers were in the 80s. It's tragically ironic that the internet was supposed to bring us closer together. Seems like it did the complete opposite. Honestly, most kids parents should be ashamed of what they've done to our world.
I miss the 80s too! Class of 1985.
I was born in the 70's. I got to fully enjoy the 80's. Truly a spectacular time to grow up. Leave with your friends in the morning and come back home after dark. Maybe check in at one of our houses to have lunch. But our parents wouldn't see us for many hours.
TheVosack yep same here. Born in ‘71
Born in the 60's; same deal.
'77 here. Those were awesome times.
So true lol
@TheVosack,
You were allowed to come home after dark!😲 I had to be home before dark...my mom's phrase was if the street lights are on your butt better be in the house! 😂😂😂
Always having a blank cassette ready in your stereo to quickly hit record when your favorite song came on... all my songs back then were missing the first 3 to 10 seconds.
Hahaha! Speaking TRUTH
And sometimes accidentally overwriting a favorite song you recorded earlier lol.
All the memories of taping songs off the radio are spot on for me too.
For me i will always associate some songs with another because of recording. e.g when i hear like a prayer by madonna it always reminds me of pink sunshine by fuzzbox just because i had a tape where one followed the other and i listened to it for YEARS.
I aways wondered why the shops all sold blank cassettes and all the stereos had record buttons considering the fact that home recording was illegal!
Yep.
@@alexc6324 Really?
Born in '69,I spent my childhood in the '70's and my teenage years in the '80's couldn't have been better.
With you there man ! Born in 70 !
69'er here too. It was great
67 model here... Couldn't agree more.
1966 same here!
Same
As an 80's kid I experienced all of these. The thing I miss most about the 80's was the freedom to do...well...just about anything without fear of being hurt, killed or shamed. It's true that you never know how good something is until it's gone. RIP 1980's. ⚰ 😭
You guys are the parents not giving the kids freedom
Perfectly said!
@Dale Poncy I’m with you! We ran BUCK WILD outside without our parents needing to do more than have us check in for lunch and when the street lights came on. The words “ NOT IT” we enough to start a RIOT, playgrounds were essentially leftover construction equipment, and your mode of transportation defined your place in the complex hierarchy of neighborhood leadership (tricycle to Big Wheel to first bike w/training wheels to first bike w/o training wheels to COOL gender specific bike to ten speed). 😎
To be fair, though, we had a different level of social responsibility then. You made sure everyone was okay when you played because if someone got hurt or complained, you’d NEVER get to do what you wanted without adults around again. Plus, the early 80s is when all the dangerous stuff (child abduction/abuse, toy recalls, candy & medication tampering, etc.) started making national news. Combine that with the rise of video gaming and you can see why kids will never be able to experience the times we did. Even if we ditched the tech & made the world safe, we seem to have effectively stamped out that individual creative spark that made play so exciting. We’d almost have to TRAIN kids to play make believe/pretend. 😞
I wasn't born in the 80's, but I know what it was like. The freedom. I miss it. Just like when people could roam around whenever they wanted on horseback.
most of these things are still normal😅
I miss the 80's. Leaving the house at 10am and not coming home till the street lights come on and no one knew where you were. No smart phone, cellphone or pager.
I had to be home by the time Dad got home because if he had to come find me it would be very bad
loved those days
Its like the Invasion of the Body Snatchers happened. Kids are not allowed to play outside anymore. How many hold kite fights anymore? . :(
80's had cell phones and pagers.
@@informationoverload2487 ya but not everyone and especially not kids
You could literally leave the house at 7am and do pretty much whatever you wanted. as long ss you were home in time for dinner.
Street lights come on = We best be on our way home. Also, the city was treacherous but certainly not dangerous. Maybe there were some stabbings, but I never remember all the fatal shooting that we have now.
Home before the street lights came on
All facts dinner time and street lights was literally a alarm clock for us in the 80’s my fuckin kid wont even leave the damn house let alone come in at a certain time Smfh
I remember my childhood being that way (in the 2000's). I guess in some areas of the US, we hadn't yet moved on to the newer aspects.
Just ride bikes with neighborhood kids all day, buy sodas at the cornerstore (literally on corner lol), play hide 'n' go seek, play tag.
Big difference here, we'd eventually go back to my house or another friends house to play Gamecube games. If you had a videogame system, you were the cool kid 😎
Street lights meant come home
Man. Watching all these videos of the 80s and Gen X has made me realize how much times have completely changed.
It's fun giving a kid something we had in the 80s and asking them to use it.
Have you ever seen the look on one of these kid's face when you show them a rotary dial phone?
Lmao.. I showed one to my daughter and her friend, when I was clearing some stuff outta my grandma's house after she passed, and their reactions were BEYOND EPICALLY HILARIOUS 🤣🤣🤯🤯😱😱😭😭😵😵
@@jennifermoody6987 There's a video on RUclips where it takes a kid 5 or 10 minutes to figure out how to use a rotary dial phone.
😆
@@firestream93 Well you could easily mess up the dial. I always hated them.
@@Laidengizer011 True
@@Laidengizer011 Just spray it with DW40, it'll work jus fine
Playing outside in the summer..Unsupervised.. until the Street Lights came on.. running in and out of one another’s houses all day! No one locked their doors!! 😢🙄
No one had valuables either like today lol
@@oo0RECON0oo yes we did.. they were just too heavy to steal back then. Tv’s & stereos weighted 200-500 lbs!! 🤣😁🙏
@@lisade5643 lol lol lol soooo true!!
I heard my dad whistle after the street lights came on, I knew I was in trouble, he could really whistle! I'd be say 10 blocks away and I heard him whistle, ran my ass home so fast lol.
People didn't put so much emotion in material objects then, now a days people love crap human life is basically dog shit to people now.
Play in front yard??? My siblings and I (plus all the neighborhood kids) would leave in the morning, ride our bikes for hours and our parents had no clue where we were for 8 hours.
I did the same on my horse.
And only come home because we were hungry or it was getting dark.
Yes! Coming home for lunch then coming home when the street lights came on.
Come to Baker City, Oregon. It is still that way here for the most part.
Fuck off
Being a kid in the 80's, and a teen in the 90's... I'll never regret that.
United colours of benneton
Golden
WORD!!!!!
Life wasn't as confusing or chaotic as it is today. It feels like the younger generation/s growing up now has/have a lot more uncertainty and difficulties to contend with, my hat's off to all of you. I'm glad I grew up in the time I did.
Yeah, where I'm from, we are cca 15years behind, so even I'm 90's kid, I still know most of those things very well
Born in 78, I remember the 80's and 90's quite fondly. Growing up as a kid and a teenager in this era, I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I’m from the eighties and I miss riding my bicycle everywhere. It was my car back then. And of course the music we had the best music and concerts.
Missed the days when kids were able to wander outside until it got dark.
Now my parents won’t even let me go for a walk
And it’s not like it’s our parents fault People just have just changed and so as time we have creeps and weirdos and kids going missing nearly everyday so I see why parents would be a bit worried back in the early 2010s for some reason I had a bit more freedom when I was little I’m almost 15 now and I can’t really do anything Like that anymore it’s sad
Again this is not a good thing you are pointing out.
i was born in 2006 and i used too and still play with the neighborhood kids until its dark we play soccer, hang out or bike racing
We played ghost in the graveyard until really dark. You could play it on the front sidewalk.
@@treemoon6394 is that a multiplat for PS5, Xbox series X and switch?
Knocking on a friends door to see if they could play.
Playing Knock and run
My kids and their friends do that still.
Lol I still say that 2day. I will send a message 2 a bud on ps4 and be like " hey bud you coming out 2 play 2nite, need 1 more for the raid" and he would send back what r we 10 now".
@@sgtnutnut2466 I'd be like yes! Yes we are! Now get your butt over here! I have hot pockets and jolt!😎🤣
Being able to go all the way across town on foot or bike. You still can. It's different now, though.
I loved growing up in the 80's! I would take off on my bike and come home when the street lights came on.
As long as we stayed out of trouble and came back in time for dinner it was all good.
90s baby
I miss everything on your list don't really have much else to say just disappointed in the way things are today I would take a pair of gardening shears or something big giant scissors cut little Pathways in parts of the backyard that were overgrown use my toys like it was war in a jungle and the grass was the jungle one of the many things I did nowadays kids can't hold those kind of toys in their hands because they're not safe nothing is safe everything is dangerous wrap them in bubble wrap Lord forbid they get a scratch
I miss that so much! Summer holidays were the ultimate in kickass-ness. They don't make any drugs that give a high that's comparable to the entirely naturally high mood I could experience as a young kid during the summer. Pure magic.
I'm 43 now and if I ever went biking after sundown I'd be worried about getting mugged :)
karate mom lucky
You glossed right over the MALL, and the MOVIES I remember the uncomfortable seats in the theater and the nasty sticky floors, if you dropped something on the floor at the theatre, then it was dead to you. And the ARCADE, and going to the music store to buy the latest cassette of you favorite rockers!!!!! Hello?!
When we were 10 years old, walking out of the house to play at 7 AM, riding our bikes miles from home and no one excepting see you again until dinner time.
Same here!! My god the miles I put on my bike!!
And no phone, but you had a dime/quarter just in case.
Exactly. With just 10p in the pocket for your Funny Feet break.
Here's a good one: My cousins and I would run around our neighborhood, through other people's yards, playing hide and seek with realistic looking toy guns and we never got the cops called on us.
Razum I remember when the fucking NRA and the feds outlawed Super-Soaker plastic water guns, claiming these large, bright, multi-colored fake guns were dangerous and could be mistaken for the real thing. Typical hypocrites.
We played outside ALL day and came home when the street lights came on 😂
@@teamcougars same here. We walked or rode bikes all over town and no one thought anything bad of it.
Why would you play hide and seek with the guns?
@@incorporeal7614 Hide and seek/cops and robbers. Kids are creative. They'll mix it up. :) Call it an early form of laser tag, but without the lasers, or the admission fee. :)
Getting the Sears catalog in the mail and circling what I wanted for x-mas.
Then there was some of us who liked it for all the wrong reasons !!
@@edkarter7062 Sears had hot models
That was the best jcpennys for me
YES. And the JCPenney catalog. With three kids in the household, we would put our initials in the bottom of the circle.
Yep, that, national geographic, and checking under every mattress you could find. That was about it.
Being born in the late 80s, I was mostly a 90s kid. But still experienced most of what 80s kids did. My favorite memory took place during an elementary school dodgeball game where I showed my true colors to the other team. I did this by being able to dodge all the balls until I was the last one left on my team! An awkward moment though, as I had all the balls on my side and the other team had none.😂 So, one by one I just kept throwing balls to get my teammates back on the floor. Maybe my greatest sport moment ever!🎉
Scholastic book fairs, the single TV being wheeled down the hallway to your classroom, the mobile star dome, playing under a giant parachute in gym, etc.
Scholastic book fairs are still around??
Bro we still have the parachutes and scholastic book fairs
Overhead projector and acetate sheet slides.
OH! Oh wow heres one 80s kids did that future kids wont. SNOW DAYS.
Close the school ? Oh well, everyone on Zoom please.
As a gen Z, I had all of those except for the mobile star dome. And scholastic book fairs are still a thing today, albeit less popular
wow..i remember this! they had this also as a kid in 90's.
46 and proud to be an 80s kid! Goonies never say die!
I’m 14 and love that movie
I'm 46 and I'm still 10 when I watch that movie! Saw it in Michigan summer 85 on a family vacation . great times to be a kid .......80s had it all! New and cool too....not remakes !
@@phildodson6141
I really don’t care, but was I was saying is that kids these days still like the content you 80s kids like
Yeah I know ....i get ya!
@@phildodson6141 𓆏
Strangers actually talked to one another more in the 80's, which was great. Now everyone has their nose in their phones.
We knew everyone on our block and in our neighborhood back then.
💯% agreed. Just to have everyone at the same dinner table (not just on holidays);
Watching TV in front of the SAME TV;
Walking the block (with the family dog, or followed by the cat) to have spontaneous conversation with neighbors;
Tennis or volleyball matches at the local park;
Playing LP's & 45's until midnight Saturday night while playing "Tank" or "Asteroids" on Atari;
A night socializing at the town hub (in my hometown it was burgers & shakes at Braum's Ice Cream Store, or Frito pies at an old Taco Bueno);
or Friday or Saturday nights having burgers on the patio while the adults played cards & dominos at our house or a neighbor's house :')
It's terrific that the Internet has us chatting with our British, French, Italian, Greek, & even Russian neighbors worldwide. But to not even know the people living on the same street with you, or in your same town? That's pitiful
I haven't forgotten the "old" ways of socializing, but it sure is harder to get people together in the same place at the same time, these days. What a sad social dichotomy where young folks only seem to want to communicate through electronics! I must believe that eventually, as they mature, they'll finally put those contraptions down & realize there's no substitute for just BEING THERE. Your physical presence is infinitely better than your image on a video or an impersonal text typed through a computer!
That's still weird to me when you're in a waiting room and everyones trying to be invisible.
@@jimmyduncan7650 4 or 5 'teens & 20-somethings sitting in the same living room, chatting to one another through their phones instead of simply talking 🤷
Thats because everyone started suing everyone else for everything and nothing ALL AT THE SAME TIME so people dont interact with strangers much anymore. Its too socially risky.
MTV absolutely ROCKED in the 80s! Now it’s practically back to back to back reality crap, maybe with a few crappy post 80s videos thrown in. Thank goodness for the MTV Classic channel.
Who else remembers getting thirsty and drinking from a hot hose on a hot day?
No bottled water for us.
Who doesn't? Especially if you have a well.
George Echeveste I love to do that
Heck yeah
Just remember to let it run first ... otherwise you’d burn your mouth!
Mmm that metal tint.....loved it
I remember when we all played outdoors till the streetlights came on and our parents called us in
Those were the best days
Every day all day yes sir!!
Mrs Russ, I wish things were like that now, I am 41 now and have two teenage daughters, who have no clue what to do without their stupid cellphones. The world was a much better place
Yup once that light went off it's like all the kids in the neighborhood knew and we all scattered home. And All the moms had dinner ready at the same time..
I mean I’m 13 and still do
I remember they used to put toys in the cereal box. That was the best!
Cereals back then were awesome.
Man..we are getting old.
i still remember having those. i think they were there until like early 2010's (where i live)
Andrew Maxwell...or whoever else is reading this....Now I think they put people's driver licenses in cereal boxes because of the way people drive...😂...( pulling out in front of traffic), turning without using their signal light, "riding their brakes, lol...i can go on and on but I guess y'all see what I'm saying. Man, I wish I could find the cereal box some people get their license out of......😁😂😂
REAL toys- I was eating some cracker Jack's a couple weeks ago and it had a tiny sticker(big as a fingernail) AND a website address 😡😥
I was a 70/80’s kid, the days of party lines where you had to wait your turn to use the phone, I loved to pick up the phone and listen to the older ladies talking, I didn’t have anyone to call, we all just gathered outside and played. Pre VCR days were awesome in certain ways, the excitement build up to Christmas when the kids Christmas shows came on only one time a year, it really was such a wonderful experience leading up to a favorite holiday, speaking of holiday, The Sears Wishbook, this glorious catalog was a huge collection of all of the toys for girls and boys, we would anxiously await the arrival of this book and pick out things we hoped Santa would bring us. I really cherish those days, we had something to look forward to, we were very social and active, we had imaginations.❤😢
When MTV actually played music.
And having to practically wait all day just see a video you've been looking forward to seeing. 🙄🙄😊
Lol and then it became a maternal channel.
First time seeing thuggish ruggish bone was on mtv
I remember having to stay up really late to watch Michael Jackson videos.
Yo! MTV Raps &. Headbangers Ball
waiting all night to record a song off the radio with a cassette
and then when they play the station name or talk over the start grrrrr hahaha
The start(for the first 2 minutes) and the end of the song(last 2 minutes) about the next song, he'd talk through.
Did this a lot especially when I was lucky enough for the dj to announce they were going to play one of my favorite song(s) next
😂Im from the 90s and did that as well lol
oh my god yes
The 80's were magical.
Looking back yes but at the time , not so much. Still had fun though right?
The music was the best ever!
the 80s were SHIT
And the 70s and 60s too, kids today have no idea what fun we had!
@@captmack007 Sucked to be you huh? I had a blast growing up 80s.
So much nostalgia. Rolling back the clock, 40 years, it's like we lived in another world entirely. In fairness, some things are a lot better, now, but...some things were a lot better then.
You kind of had to live it to really get it. As great as "Stranger Things" is, most of us just got to enjoy the '80s without, well, supernatural weirdness interrupting our bike rides.
The 80s were the best years of my life, I miss the 80s.
I absolutely agree! I grew up in the '80s. I miss them so much!!
mine to mate
I wasn't a kid in the 80s but it was a great and fun decade! Wish I could go back.
100% agree
"Do you want 'Smoking or Non-smoking,' Sir?" (in a sit-down restaurant environment)
Oh man, I STILL catch myself getting ready to ask for ", non-smoking" tables in restaurants. Thank heavens most if the wait staff greeting customers today are in too much if a hurry to get you to table and out of their faces. If given 3 seconds more, I KNOW I would be asking for non-smoking everytime...just ingrained in me.
I remember going into arcades and seeing ashtrays screwed into the games kids were expected to smoke
Cigarette vending machines!
I used to steal ash trays from fast food joints; my one man war against smoking.
Airplanes too. Hospital Rooms too!
remember beating the blackboard erasers together to clean them making a cloud of white chalk dust?
The only time I ever did that, was when I got in trouble for something. I had to do it a lot.. Lol
That was the juul of the 80s
We don’t even have dry erase boards in school anymore. We have electronic “smart boards”. Well maybe not all, but my public high school has them.
I used to go behind some kid I hated and clap them over his head rapidly, he looked like Casper, Got sent to the Heads office a lot of times for that. TOTALLY worth it!
Hahaha. Our teacher used that as a "reward". "Let's see who gets to clap the erasers today."
I remember High Top Fades, Rat tails hairstyle, Bucket Hat's, Punky Brewster, New Kids on the Block, Snow, Chico sticks, leaving to get lunch on Lunchbreak starting Middle school, Food Stamps currency, rope climbing, 25 cent chips, penny candy, and ACTUALLY playing outside through ALL seasons. I use to come in after playing in the 🌨️ from hours w my friends. I use to run my hand and feet under water to unthaw them! My kids hardly EVER go out side.
What kid now an adult doesn't still remember the lyrics to snow - " informer" 😂
I miss when "Video Killed the Radio Star" because then MTV was actually 24-hour Music Television!!!!!!...🎶🎸🎹🥁😥😡🤬
And don't forget the 2nd video played on mtv...PAT BENATAR!! Man oh man....life long crush ever since. LOL.
I remember watching Thriller when it premiered... how many nightmares I had after that video. And I had an ET / Michael Jackson promo poster on my wall and covered it up after that as MJ spooked me :P
Marta Quinn,Ggrrrrr!😙
I remember when that song got to number 1,actually back in October 1979. It knocked Message in a Bottle by the Police off the top.
Apart from Top of the Pops,we had shows like Channel 4's The Tube in the 80s. TOTP was never what it was once they moved it from Thursday to Friday evenings in the late-ish 90s. In the 90s there was the Chart Show on ITV,first on late at night in the very late 80s and then moved to Saturday mornings. Cable TV brought us the Box in the middle and late 90s,and stuff like VH1. They still had some music on the Saturday morning children's shows in the late 90s and early 2000s and I did watch a Channel 4 show called Popworld that ran on Sunday mornings between about 2001 and about 2006,the same year an ailing TOTP finally died,maybe just past that. Apart from Later with Jools Holland there doesn't seem to be all that much on terrestrial now.
Trying to record songs you like off the radio... sitting there for 40 minutes hoping it comes on and trying to cut out the talking😆
I used to listen to the Top 40 charts every Sunday to record songs onto cassette, but they didn't play every song in the charts, just about 1 every 5 or so songs, except of course the number 1 song which was always played.
Mixtapes to your girlfriend
i used to do that, it took me like 14 years to find out the name of a song because it was before the internet existed
Lmao good old days
Using cassette tapes to record and play music...
Most of these also apply to 70's kids. I was a kid in the 70's and started jr high in 1980. What a great time to grow up.
It damn sure was !! Those of us who grew up in the 1970s & 1980s , grew up in an awesome time !! I would go back in a heartbeat !! I even devote my weekly column for Z News on the era !!
Me too
I grew up in the 70s and 80s too. It was a most excellent era.
I agree. I'm glad I'm not any younger. Atari came out when I was around 12, but no one in my neighborhood had one because we were relatively poor. Play outside from Dawn till dusk. We have more in common with seniors than young people when it comes to growing up.
@Disturbia Hudnut Me too, I was class of '85. I would go back in a heartbeat if I could.
80's Hair Bands were the best. Long live the 80's!
Using a pair of pliers to change the UHF/VHF channels on the old ass TV because the knobs broke off before you were born.
Leaving your bike out on the front lawn all night and finding it there in the morning.
Having PIZZA for lunch at school and coming home to drink from the garden hose.
Adjusting the rabbit ears on a tv if the screen was too snowy or the signal was fuzzy
Apparently, having ass TV happened, too. :D
Tyler Durden ewww
Lol.😁 . Good times.
Parking the bike between Dad's truck and the house and having it still be there when Dad went to work the next day.
I remember back in the 80’s as kids our idea of social networking was seeing ALL of our friends bikes in the front yard. 😊😊
@Missingthe80's I can remember breaking for lunch and supper but afterwards my friends and I would be back outside playing until the street lights came on. 🙂🙂🙂
@Missingthe80's Lynda Carter aka THE BLACK CAT!!! Wish I looked like HER!!! ❤️
@Missingthe80's Lynda Carter looks like a black cat to me. If I had a female black shorthair cat I’d name her Lynda Carter. 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
@Sam Doe Lol!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Yes! And you knew everyone's bike so you knew where all your friends were based on whose lawn their bikes were on!
We wrote notes to each other...on paper!! And stretched the phone cord as far as possible to talk "in private"
Remember trying to unravel it? 😅
And you usually wrote that note in cursive.
The little fortune telling origami thingy...
I would sit in the closet for hrs on the phone.....😎
The 70's-80's were the golden age of Malls. Hanging out at the Mall for no nefarious reasons.
Who remembers calling collect and when it said say your name you said something like , " mom pick me up from the mall"
Or simply reading the number for the pay phone you wanted them to call back on
@@JamesStec never thought of that
@@rogersepeda My junior high school had a pay phone. If I wanted to spend time with my girlfriend, I'd "miss" the bus and do this for my mom to give me a call back. "Yea, you can just pick me up from Rhiannon's house..." lol
Granted, this was 1999, not the eighties
@@JamesStec fucking genius
We called home from after school activities for a ride home. You couldn't talk without depositing the quarter in the payphone so we just clicked the hangup switch several times and home could hear that.
We used the candy cigarettes outside in the winter, the cold air breath made it look like smoke. With the cereal....don't forget they had prizes in them.
Yes ! The prizes ! Thank you for reminding me.
@Shon Seibert I'm assuming you meant to say "gum"
@superkami guru Same. I ate candy cigs in the early-mid 2000s and never touched a cigarette ever lol. Definitely just some overreaction.
Sometimes the assembly process was such that no prize was included. It made me sad and disappointed. However one box was almost 1/2 full with the prize. (I think it was some vessel with a balloon attachment you would put in a body of water). There must have been 20 of them. That still today is one of the few real breaks I ever got in my life.
Bazooka Gum.
you forgot about when MTV was actually music videos and not stupid shows like "i'm 16 and pregnant".
Or worrying that your girlfriend would get pregnant at 16 and your Dad would knock you into next week.
yeah.new shows on mtv.im 16 and prolapsed
Amen!
TDM, good rockin tonight, stue jeffries, Samantha taylor.
They had shows but they were like Beavis and Butthead and Headbangers ball the goodshit yo
Wow that list makes me feel old. I remember doing 95% of that list. Lots of love from Canada 🇨🇦
I was born in 82 and did every single one of these things. My sisters and I were seriously free-range, latchkey kids. I walked home from kindergarten and stayed home by myself until my sister got home from 2nd grade a few hours later. We spent weekends walking around town for miles to spend our $5 weekly allowance on “pizza pockets” from Kmart or go to a matinee at the movie theater. My parents had no idea where we were and as long as we were home by sundown they didn’t worry.
I wish I could experience that 😭
Amy, you lived a blessed childhood
Born in 81. Gone all day till dark. The good ol days.
Privileged vs orphaned., but mine was the same, but weekly.
Damn kindergarten...I didn't get full latchkey "emancipation" until third grade. Same thing dad worked late. Before that I had some type of sitting in the afternoon...but when I was nine I asked my Dad if I could just chill on my own after school.
80's kids
sticks and stones may break my bones...
2020 kids
Words are literally violence.
Well yeah bullying and all that
@@Mr_Green52 shut up fool
I literally don't think anyone's opinion matters to me unless I value them in the first place (like friends and family). Some stranger or rude kid at school means nothing to me because they don't know me like those close to me do. Wish my generation (Gen Z) thought the same. Wish I had a time machine to take me to the 80s so I can live there.
To be fair, some words, depending on usage tone, etc were, and still are verbal declarations of war and one responds accordingly ie: racial slurs, disparaging one's mom, sister, grandmother etc. even in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s
@@eatdirtnetwork 😂
when being a musician meant you actually were talented
Reminds me of something I read this week. "Back when even though you were ugly you could still become a famous singer".
I will totally second that!!!
ix Nine
your comment made me laugh out loud actually, after thinking about it for 5 seconds :D now everybody are musicians :p I make some music myself so its not like Im lauging of ya'll, but of the situation. peace and harmony all
Yup and people could actually sing. A computer did not do it fir them or replace the band completely. Now their us no bang. The lip-synchro prerecorded music with no band in the back. It sucks.
Truth Sayer! Yassss!
Another thing: Many radio stations did not have 24 hour programming. Those stations were only licensed to play until midnight. Then you’d hear the national anthem play before those stations went off the air for the night. The same thing happened at midnight on many TV stations, hence the popularity of VHS and movie rentals back then.
The TV stations shut down around 11 o' clock. At least the 2 stations we had did. We watched them on a little 12 inch black, and white with the tinfoil on the rabbit ears.
Fixing your own bicycle.
Eating what's for dinner or starving
Playing in bands with real instruments
@sheri davis yeah that's illegal nowadays..
That's what we did. When our bikes broke, we had to put our heads together to figure out how to get them going again. We couldn't wait until our fathers got home to fix them, so you had to DIY. And we had "this or nothing" for dinner most nights. I may not have liked everything put in front of me, but somehow I made it through. And riding in the back of my father's pickup as a kid wasn't even special. It was just what you did when there wasn't room up front. And I lived in a suburb of Boston, not even a rural area, so it wasn't like cops didn't see you back there. As long as you weren't being stupid, they left you alone.
Yep, we actually learned young how to deal with disappointment, conflict and rejection and therefore can cope with LIFE. 🙄
Parents were not afraid to tell you that you screwed up, and they werent doing it to make you feel bad, they were doing to conditioning you to get up and try harder. We had no safe rooms and no one cared if something they said made you feel bad
Haha...not really. I know plenty of people who grew up before the 90s who are little children in grown bodies. The Boomers and Gen X are some of the worst (at least, the worst people I know are from those generations). They are incompetent, lazy, petty, and insecure, just like some people in younger generations. Attending the school of hard knocks doesn't change anything, and neither does being born in a particular decade: you have competent and secure, as well as incompetent and insecure people from any generation.
Yeah, now days they grab a firearm & shoot up the place. Whatever happened to roughing it out to build character?
To the point. Thank you. 😎👍
@@chapachuu Agreed. Every generation has it's share of good and bad, it's just that the whole "politically correct" bs didn't start until the 80's. Unfortunately, discrimination was normal and you either grew thick skin or were bullied relentlessly. It didn't make anyone more mature though.
be kind... rewind. on VHS tapes. telling you to rewind your rental movie before returning it.
I had totally forgotten how to record something through a vhs tape until I asked my mom.. It's been so long!!!
... and then came the magical grey box called Nintendo ...
Remember the VHS vs Beta debate?
Ask kids what a vhs tape is.
They wouldn't know which end of the tape goes in first.
Crazy it's been 30 years!! I loved roller skating under the black lights decked out in neon!!
40 years*
So much of this could work for '70s kids as well. Those endless days riding bikes and staying out until dark!
.....til those street lights come on....your butt better be at home or get embarrassed 😂😂😂
90s kid here and I got to do all of these things. Born in 86 though
I was both. Born in 71. And you're right! I'll always miss those days.
When I was at my grandparent's my grandmother would ring a big bell when she wanted me to come home...
I miss those days.
Leaving out to play in the morning and not coming home except for lunch and then right back out til the sun went down.
Less fat kids back then.
"Honey, you better be home within 5 minutes of the street lights coming on"
Same here. We went out after breakfast, came home for lunch and back for dinner
@@hustlinghard8081 The street lights! My sarcastic father asking me what those funny bright things up there are!
Same. Get up, eat breakfast then, right out the door till it was time to eat lunch. Then back out dinner time. We would wander/bike or ride horses in about a 3 mile area around the house depending on what we wanted to do that day. Had scattering of woods, in between housings or pastures and even a gravel pit to chose from :P Sure if parents knew we were often at the gravel pit climbing all over the place, they would of been nope. I remember once, we took the dogs with us and my sister tricked me into grabbing an electric fence, I got the sensation of the jolt but, my poor dog at the end of a metal chain leash got the worst of it :( And yes! tons of time in the back of a pickup truck to do manythings including camping.
I am so thankful I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Not having cell phones made us much more creative with our time.
so true so very true
I have never owned a cell phone.
I liked it when you could go into a store and see and pick out what you wanted, instead of having to wait, just to see if they got the order right. And you didn't have to get on the god-damned phone for an hour while some crooked bank decides if they're going to give you credit for a fraudulent charge or make you eat it.
The increasing refusal of banks to stand behind their customers over fraud charges is what caused me to cancel all my credit cards. Every time I read where some hack took a bank for a multi-million dollar ride, I laugh myself to sleep! Couldn't happen to a more deserving buncha thieves.
I totally agree we were gone from the very beging if the day and were gone till the lights came on only coming home for lunch or dinner
And the cell phones were big, clumsy, cinderblocks.
I’m glad that as a 90s baby my parents made sure I experienced basically all of this. I was born right before the cusp of things changing, I miss childhood sm
Being born in 1968, I was 12 in 1980 and 21 in 1989. The 80s were the best 10 years of my life! I like the point about playing outside and parents not worrying. I can remember in 1980...I and my 9 year old brother camping out in the back of our 150 acres for 2 and 3 days alone without ever going to the house.
We would also ride our BMX bikes 6 miles to our county fair and then ride back at 11pm. We even did that in the late 70s and no one ever worried!
'69 for me. The 80's rocked.
Me & my friends: all 1971-73. My sister & her 'teen friends: 1961-66. Adults in my village were just a little to "sticky" to let us be out to camp by ourselves, or when we did camp in family groups, away from camp for more than 1 night. Other than that we 100% lived every word you said
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To me the 80s made the world way too much "life in the fast lane." I cane out of the 70s accustomed to & expecting to live at that same natural mon-fri pace
But the 80s was a wrecking ball to the life I knew:
6 day workweeks;
Home depot, walmart, & the indoor malls open on sunday. Eventually e v e r y t h i n g was open on sunday;
A sudden proliferation of businesses that became 24/ 7 when they were just mon-fri before;
Liesure time (weekends & weeknights after work) for working adults either diminished or disappeared completely
I had some great memories back there. Not bad being a kid/ 'teen in the 80s, really. But I hated the 80s anyway. It was like trying to adjust to an alien world I could just never get used to, because it went mad. People in the city became impatient, nervous, & to easily given to yelling & fighting over n o t h i n g . Too many of my classmates became that way, too
I remember using the clothes drying line outside with blankets to build a tent.
I didn’t realize how much I missed the 80’s. Riding in the bed of my dads pickup truck and spending Saturday night on the phone trying to get through to the local radio station for the request and dedication hour......... ahhh. Good times
Yeah... that was the good old days. I remember riding in the back of my dad's truck bed too and going to get Garbage Pail kids cards at our local Circle K
Thats dope. Mark suckerburg and steve jobs ruined those days. Now on to the new tech world!
You can still ride in the back of a puck up truck in so many countries and it's totally legal.
My buddy had a Subaru Brat with the plastic seats in the bed. Dangerous as hell but incredibly fun.
Oh my gosh yes! I totally remember that!
Who remembers learing to type on a typewriter? I took a few typing classes.
Yes, sore fingers when they slipped between keys
I had one of the fancy typewriters, mine did black AND red!
Yup. I was right on the cusp, so I started on the typewriter, and then went to a keyboard in middle school.
I had a typewriter that wasn't electric. Sometimes the keys would get stuck.
Just barely missed that one, I learned how to use a typewriter at home, but learned how to type in elementary school on a mac
We also knew how to take care of ourselves. We were taught self independence and reliance. We were taught to use our own brains by parents and teachers not who to borrow your neighbor's. We also had important decisions to make like "Is this worth the butt whoopin' I know I'll get for doing this?!?". Don't forget the all nighters at the roller rink. Or Secret Santa's workshops that came around Christmas in elementary school, how exited did you get to be able to buy your family presents at that age😊? I miss back then and wish I could provide that level of security and childhood to my children and grandchildren. There was messed up things back then but it wasn't today that's for sure. Loved this video! Had to ramble😂
Saturday Morning Cartoons hand down! If you weren’t there you’ll never know.
And Bob Ross always came on right after!
Growing up in Jordan, I watched Friday morning cartoons. 😁
Saturday morning cartoons were great! i especially liked "The Jetsons, the Flintstones, and Superfriends.
@@susie6301 I love Superfriends!
@Timothy Duffy we watched soul train & home turf
Breaking lock tabs off a cassette tape to "lockout " recording/erasing music, only to hav to place scotch tape over them 2 wks later, to record new content..lol...good times👍✌
YES!! I'm sure I did that to every tape I owned!
Spending forever to get the tape stopped in the right position so your mixtape sounded perfect after the radio ruined your song with big mouth
@@AwhileAgo-n3s welcome to the old school. I learned it from seeing my dad do it to VHS tapes that he didn't like the movie of 🍻 salute to your dad
@@AwhileAgo-n3s also remind your dad about opening up the tape to replace parts lol I bet he would love to show you how to do it 🍻 salute to your dad
Same with vhs tapes
You forgot a big one for kids in the 80's. Using the streetlights as a timer for playing outside. I was a teenager in the 80's and when you went to play with friends. There was no set time to go home. Everyone had the same time. When the streetlights lit up. when they turned on. You better be home before they were fully illuminated or there were consequences to pay.
Streetlights were timers for when to get your butt home at least as far back as the 1950's; you could hear kids 2 or 3 city blocks away yelling, "FIRST STREET-LIGHT!", as the streetlights began to come on. (Yes, I am that old).
I had that rule when I was 10 back in 2011...
Bro read the tittle...
I'm from The Netherlands and we did the same thing. When the streetlight went on you get your ass back home. If you weren't home on time. Boyboy.. I'm from 1990.
We didn't have street lights in the country, so my mom would yell for us (her voice really carried!), and our neighbors' dad would whistle for them.
There was also that awesome "illness" we all caught in the early 80s known as Pac-Man Fever 😂
Best thing about the 80's, the music, music now-days sucks big time!
Paul Byrne 80s music was classic & good i still listen to & luv a lotta 80s music but when it comes to music. Nothing can even come close to touching 90s music that was thee hands down absolute best decade for music in my opinion. 😎😉💿📀
Remember how awesome that was when all that was on the radio was 80's songs? Gawd what an era!^^
honestly! sadly i was born in the wrong generation :/
I'm a 2000's kid and I love the old 80's and some 90's music. Now music is a bunch of noises and words put together to sound cool but make absolutely no sense. I hope someday music changes into something better.
VHS and cassette tapes snagging in the player and tearing
The thrill of having quarters and going to the arcade!!!
if it didn't tear, you would use a pen or pencil to put in the spool and turn to try and get all the loose tape/ vcr stuff back to normal.
Winding up the cassette with a pencil when the tape got tangled
The 80s....chewing on Bazooka Joe while reading the tiny comic within!!
They still sell those at the gas station near my house
Oh damn I forgot about that 😂
At the 7-11 playing arcade games before renting comando on vhs .
Oh yes!!
What about "Big League chew" in the tobacco pouch 👍👍
I went to school all through the 1980s and I graduated in 1989 and I’ll tell you that we used to do some pretty stupid stuff that you could never get away with today.