@juanpabloarena2724 You bet man! What you think about the comparison vids recently posted? 2024 Madison and Nashville vs the 1980/1981 driving vids. Gals and guys, yaw can find them ez in the Playlist titled "Driving Thru the Decades". Thanks again for enjoying these rides back in time with us.
I remember the 4th of July 1980 very clearly. I turned 8 that summer, and i remember some kids from school invited me and my brother to their 4th of July block party. They lived 5 blocks from us. I remember swimming all day and watching fireworks at night. I specifically remember all of us kids dancing in the street to the song Funky Town
@daved1535 #daved1535 Thats awesome. I turned 8 less than 27 days later. lol. I have not many memories except memories of decades of watching these videos. So, memories of the videos that may supplant actual memories of the times. Were you guys around Harris Street in Madison?
@TimeVault1 We are very close in age. I turned 8 on Auguat 21st of 1980. I didn't grow up in Tennessee. I grew up North of Buffalo ny in a town called Wheatfield
@Harmonarealtor #Harmonarealtor Belated welcome to Mid-TN man and glad you enjoy the vids! And as a former Realtor from Crye-Leike I appreciate your career! You should step up your YT channel and get that going! I'm sure ur business is doing great but multiple streams of income are always aWeSoMe too! lol Whether your a landlord, property manager, commercial/residential real estate agent, or flipper/investor you got the look and the personality man. I look forward to seeing what you have in the future on your channel...because in time it too will be something for future generations to see how living/housing was in our current times! #buyersagent #nashvillerealtor
@Harmonarealtor #Harmonarealtor Belated welcome to Mid-TN! You are welcome man! Glad you enjoy the vids-same here. Older I get the more I find myself living in the past. lol.
I know every square inch of that route. You passed the house I lived in and my old church. Nashville was a lot Different more of a home town feel. Now its over developed and the traffic in horrible. Thanks for sharing.
I sure hope the person that made this antique video is getting credit. Its such a blessing. I was born in 85 and I think about my parents in this video. They're no longer together. But, it's just crazy. They got married in 79 and had my oldest brothers in 1980 and 1981 and me in 85 and my sis in 91.
@bryanblanton2046 our dad gets the credit for filming it as much as our mom does for all the driving she did in the vids. Sorry to hear about your folks; ours divorced within a couple years of these vids being made. Glad you enjoy the trips down memory lane.
I actually get incredibly depressed when I watch videos like this, because I realize how good these times use to be. No internet, no advance technology. Everything seemed so much more chill and more people seemed happy. Nostalgic depression isn't fun. I didn't watch the entire video for that reason, just the first couple of minutes.
Yeah, family members start tearing up or flat out crying over a few of the videos. Sorry it got ou down. I found myself getting a little too down and have been off here since mid-February. W/the exception of a few car videos posted.
As a counterpoint, people still suffered - had depression, mental illness, abuse, poverty, dissapointment back then. I know, I lived it. If you can take off the rose colored glasses that whitewash the past, you may find more peace and contentment today. It’s a hard thing to do, and watching these videos can certainly transport us (I’ve been watching them all evening!). This is just a gentle reminder to be kind to yourself 😌. @TimeVault1, thank you for posting!
@diskoboy1974 #diskoboy1974 just drove thru Nashville today. If only they'd spend a couple $ to fix that KDF for some pride? or just to make that cityscape view tad more pleasant.
I'm still trying to figure out who in this large family station wagon had enough coin to film this video in 1980? Expensive😮. Glad they did. Lots of memories.
@jameswood231 #jameswood231 my dad was an artist...he and Mom flipped houses and ...errrr/. He stopped paying taxes in the 1950s. lol. And no fast food and no AC and cheap cars and no debt. He got the camera set up to make way in the at the time new dating scene. He had an art store on Gallatin Rd/Pike just a walk away from Harris St. And bought the equipment to form Date Mart. A video dating service....There's a great story to what happened to both businesses for a later time.... Unless anyone up on news of that era discovers it first and posts it. ie. The Nashville Banner and maybe the Tennessean newspapers would have the info. Also, Whatever you discover, just know children and family are not the same as the man. Glad you enjoying the vids James.
@@ekop1778 WOW! That's aWeSoMe EKOP!! Last year I got new tags....and by coincidence they happened to have as the last three letters....MY dang initials. I'm gonna try keep these for long time this time around. lol
Love[d] the music too. Little book markers for our memories. That station wagon was a beast. Mom babysat back then. So, her three kids plus all the others, phew!
I remember going to Nashville in that time period with my mom and dad to see my aunt and uncle seeing this brings me back to that time when it was more simple and the memories.. god where did the time go
#Jerrywindhamjr @Jerrywindhamjr I'm glad you enjoyed the vid. Hope the other vids in the Playlist "Driving thru the Decades" has some more memories for ya. Time..... phew, yeah it catches up with yeah.
Remember all of this well ,lived on that road by the Kwick Sak. Walked to school up the hill - that was my fifth grade school on the left, this would Have been 1972. Does anyone remember the pizza shop by Harvey's, I remember you could go downstairs and watch old monster movies on a projector screen. Man what memories. Moved to Hendersonville the next year.
@michaelbowman4515 THat Drive-In Movie theatre on Dickerson Rd. was the bomb. Saw Empire SB there. Countless other movies we'd see there with kids in the trunk of a Maverick we had at one point, heheheheh. Sad moment when they shut it down. But for a couple years we had the Drive-In Theater between Rivergate and Gallatin or Hendersonville. YOu guys ever go to that one off Gallatin Road? I don't recall the pizza shop by Harvey's but if this was '72 I was just born. lol
i was only 4 in 1980, and grew up in new england, but these videos brought back memories of what it was like riding in the car with my parents at that time. Whoever manned the camera picked up on the same details i would have noticed then.
@rpm773 awe that's awesome. The photog was our dad. He was a local artist; he had a pretty good eye. Glad you enjoyed this one and maybe the other videos under "Driving thru the Decades" playlist?
Yeah, thats our family in the Kingswood Estate Wagon. Dad was super cheap though, radio delete, no AC, but same wagon with my brother falling asleep in the middle of most rides. Ahhhh the late 70s early 80s how I truly miss you.
@@TimeVault1 Oh no sorry I meant that the video of family and siblings all together in the wagon listening to music is exactly what my family did so many, many times. Especially with Mom driving, whom I miss beyond words. Truly thank you for posting that vid, brought me back to those great days in the 70s.
@@kevincostello3856 That's awesome man. SOrry to hear. Our mom's still with us turned 70 this year. Dad passed back in 2016. It's awesome that you guys are enjoying these memories. THat's what it's all about. I only regret not posting these sooner before we lost so many family members in the last several years. Luckily, we were able to convert some to dvd ourselves and pass them out to them before some of them left this life. I'll dig up new old stuff in time. Currently, just modifying some of our old videos here from when I just started out and didn't know much about YT.
wait a minute....I didn't know that Big Star grocery was in Ewing Lane Plaza in 1980! I remember it being a bingo parlor in by 1984. when it closed it became a Bill Martin's grocery store and now its a dollar general store
@xoacatl I don't recall the Big Star either, just the arcade/pool hall at the end of the strip mall. More detailed 2024 version/comparison video is coming. Thanks for the history. That's awesome!
I lived on Brick Church in the late 70's (in my teens) in a rock house on the right -it was (at least back then) the last house on the right driving away from Trinity Lane and toward the I-24 overpass/ Ewing Dr intersection.
@carpricetony Happy you enjoyed it man. I wish Dad had the Mustang running but it sat defunked the backyard. Ya'll may be able to get a glimpse of it in some of videos showing part of the backyard. Around this time we had a Maverick too. Not sure if it's in any of these vids.
Thank you so much Good memories My first summer job was at Zayre In Record Dept was a blast I just sub your channel I drove to Zayre by way of Briley Pkw With WMAK radio on
@cwilson6990 #cwilson6990 You're welcome no thanks needed. Just love that others get 2 relive/recall/enjoy the memories of way back when. Loved Zayre/s. That's aWeSoMe that ur 1st job was there. And in the Record Dpt especially!! Dang. What channel was WMAK? I know of back then WKDF was 103.3 and Y107.5 and Q92.9
Well, maybe if you were in TN in the 80s and 90s we may have you on film. LOL. Awesome that you like these. THey mean a lot to my family and I as well. There are more to post. Just takes some time. Plus I'm big ole procrastinator
The main thing to notice about old footage from the 80s and earlier is how the country was so much less crowded. Fewer cars on the streets. Fewer people walking around. More open, undeveloped spaces. I miss that most of all. I hate how crowded and overpopulated the US has become.
I recognized from where the vid started on Brick church Pike and they turned right at the intersection on to Ewing lane. At the very start of the vid the Food Town sign on the right-when I was a kid ( around 8-10 yrs old) I got caught stealing candy from there! From where they turned left on to Brick Church at the start of the vid that would have been where the Maynards lived at that time in the late 70's & early 80's! In 1980 I was 17 and man did I keep those very same roads hot! Grew up living on Ewing lane, Brick Church Pike and in Madison off E Due west Avenue in an apartment ( I think they were called Hampton Terrace back then). Went to Brick Church elementary and Maplewood high. The 7-11 on the left on Ewing lane just before the intersection at Dickerson rd-just out of high school a buddy( Kenny Farmer-lived in Parkwood) worked the graveyard shift there briefly- I remember hanging out there all night a few times-he'd let me grab some free cigs and snacks! I shopped at tthat Zayre many times over the years it was there! Cool old "rat rod" (we didn't call'em that back then though) that turned off of Gallatin Rd on to Neely's Bend! What about that Chevy Kingsman station wagon? What a "land yacht"! I listened to 92Q and 103 KDF back then too! Man O man the memories!!! Not all good though-What I wouldn't give to go back knowing what I know now at 61 years old! :(
@bmead144 #bmead144 That's awesome. My family the Ellithorpes and Maynards lived on Ewing Lane and Brick Church Pike. I practically lived there in the 80s and 90s on the weekends and summers. lol THanks for the details of the streets. Yeah, we rode the hellz outta that wagon. lol
@capricetony Thanks tony! It feels awesome to know others enjoy these vids, these moments. The old architecture, the old streets, the old retailers and restaurants and how or what folks wore and styled and drove. YEAH, I love it all. I think my first two YT videos I watched that others did from the 70s-90s were a channel I think called Home Movie Collection? that had their family filmed driving from their home in Franklin, TN to Nashville. and another channel was of some kids doing the mall and their high school just messing around hanging out.
Rite off the rip that KDF 103.3 rock and roll sticker in the window just took me back to my youth. I just wish I didn't have to come back to present time. It was so much better thin.
@jasonnorthcutt3771 #jasonnorthcutt3771 That sticker was/is iconic . I love seeing the signage downtown when we're on the interstate. Well, hey, at least they don't have that glue factory or burn trash thing that was AWFUL ssmeeellling at night. Do you guys remember that plant? I'd always smell it on Friday nights making my way to the Maynard's on Brick Church Pike and smell that place as the interstate splits left to 8th Ave and my way to the right to Trinity Lane.
@TimeVault1 No. I'm not actually from nashville. I'm from mcmunville , well within the listening range of k d f. I have very fun memories of riding the strip on Friday and Saturday nights.And the KDF stickers was on almost every vehicle. I remember everybody always calling in to request songs. And they would always give a shout out to the area the caller was from. The police shut the strip down in the nineties were allowed to go out and ride it once a year now on back to the strip nite. Modern times really suck.
@@jasonnorthcutt3771 That's awesome. If it's McMinnville, thats where I'm at many weekends currently; got family down there. That's a trip shutting down the strip. dang.
@TimeVault1 Yes it is mcminnville. My accent and speech to text does not get along. Hour strip used to be booming.People used to come from all around to ride. In the eighties it was hard to get through town the because of it. Then thay made it illegal to make more than three laps. After everybody quit coming They have kind of laxed up on it now but it will never be the same.
@@jasonnorthcutt3771 I heard that . My little nephew just got busted for "drag racing" in McMinnville a while back. July 1st it becomes a felony....ugh. He was just passing someone. McMinnville is beautiful. That town makes me feel like I'm going into a 1980s movie town like "Gremlins" , "The Goonies", etc. The local radio station 107.7 playing adds to the vibe too with John Tesh from Entertainment Tonight DJ'ing and the oldies playing. Ya'w lucky to have such a great area.
I worked in a dental lab from '72 to 2019 when I retired. We were on Madison St. from about '79. Most of my life was spent in Madison. At the 11:13 the house with the white fence was Col. Tom Parkers house. He was Elvis Presley's manager. At 15:09, the brown gravel parking lot on the right is where the dental lab was. This is funny.
Thank you for sharing this video! I love glimpses into the past like this. And it was so cool to hear Rodney Crowell's version of "Ashes By Now" on the radio!
My grandparents house was down Due West at the end towards the river. I remember when the bank at Due West and Gallatin road closed (where the CVS is now). The building was torn down and all that was left was the vault for a little while.
I lived on Due West at Brookwood Apts. Worked at the McDonald's as a fry cook making Big Macs for a dollar a piece on Gallatin and Due West in Madison. I attended NADC in 1982-83. Used to ride my 10 speed up and down those streets. Attended Dickerson Rd Baptist Church. Used to call home on the payphone at the hospital on Old Due West. Crossed the 2 lane bridge over I 65 and watch the cars go by. More simple times.😊 Shopped at Warehouse Foods and Winn Dixie. Went to the Drive In where the big hospital sits today. Much has changed. I live in Columbia South of Madison today. Thanks for the video memories of my youth.😊
@billknight9552 #billknight9552 Thanks for sharing that man. Our dad and my brother and I walked in the creek at our house at Harris St. all the way to the river/// well to a cliff I think where it emptied to the river. I'm sure it went toward that area near or at ur grandfolks.
@jameswood231 #jameswood231 Man, on rare occasions (NOT WHEN our father wwas around-THANK YOU MOM and MEME) we ate at that MC'D's back when just up the road was the Madison Square Amusement *Arcade* . It was our Christmas gifts--- McDonald's bucks or coupon books! LIke play money===anyone else remember those... they were set up like Food Stamps booklets. LOL. YOU probably made our meals man!!! Woooo HOOO! THE mosT SCRUMPTIOUS foooood. MY /our first ever Chkn Nuggets... Happy Meals...mmmmm AMEN to you brother. THE Food back then (Don't tell us otherwise if ya'll messed w/the food. lol) Don't ruin the dream. heheheh. I had a couple cousins attend NADC a few years later. One went on to be a truck driver and the other went on to be a mechanic I believe. WHen our parents divorced in that time frame just a year or so after these videos my brother and I lived with dad for a year *5th grade for me*, and we walk to Winn Dixie (next to SHoneys), get the pre-made fried chicken at night and sit on the hill/incline that separated Shoneys parking lot and the church(?) and look over the Madison Square parking lot, listening to the traffic pass by like waves of the ocean slapping the shore and watch the folks carry about the last bit of their business before they go to bed for the evening and have those deep talks father and sons have...and eat that cold chicken... mmmm . Guess I do have some dang memories that I can recall not from video. lol Don't recall that Warehouse Foods--- where was that located? ANd that Drive-IN?? where was that located? I remember seeing EMpire STrikes back or SW A NEw Hope at the Drive-IN Movie theatre at Dickerson ROad where Home Shopping Network set up shop in the 90s I think>? ANyone know for sure?? Dang, James, You're WElcome good sir! ANd thanks for sharing too.
@@TimeVault1Correct. Skyway Drive In was on Dickerson Rd. Warehouse Foods was on Gallatin Rd. down from Winn Dixie. Spent time watching traffic pass by in Madison Shopping Center as well. I used to drive out to the Nashville Airport, Opryland Hotel and Rivergate Mall, Cedar Hill Park on Old Hickory Blvd. 😊 Thanks for reading and sharing my post! That was over 42 years ago.
@@jameswood231 That's awesome! You are very welcome man. Much time has passed indeed. THis how we keep the memories alive brother. Looking forward to your insight/comments regarding the other driving vids.
I was two, three, and four in 1979, 80, and 81 respectively. But my family and I didn't move to Middle Tennessee until 1982 and didn't make my first trip into Nashville until the fall of 1983. But I remember in the town we lived in Central Florida, Lakeland, in the early eighties, I remember it had a Zayre and I remember my Mom and I shopping there a couple of times while my older brother and sister were in school. I actually remember that it was a nice store and the only Zayre I ever remember going to.
#TrevorBarnhill @TrevorBarnhill Thanks for watching and sharing man. Loved Zayre's and K-Mart as a kid. Hills Department store was the best and closest (at the corner of Old Hickory Blvd and Gallatin Road) to our house in Madison. Wish we had video of our experiences of the interior fun. But there are other channels that have some and we enjoy watching them. Is funny we lived in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida off and on thru-out the '70s and 80s. Now that was some fun too!
@@TimeVault1 You're welcome. We had K-Mart in Lakeland, Florida and also in McMinnville, Tennessee where we moved to when I was a kid. I remember Lakeland had Zayre, K-Mart, Montgomery Ward, and TG&Y. I remember we lived a couple of miles from the shopping center that had TG&Y in Lakeland. Mom would take me to get the toy I wanted at TG&Y and then do her grocery shopping afterwards next door at the Winn Dixie. When we moved to McMinnville in Middle Tennessee in 1982, we had a K-Mart at the local mall we sometimes went to. Also, that year, the first Walmart opened in McMinnville. First time we ever seen or been to a Walmart. We had those places and Roses. But Roses closed in 1994 and it became a Big Lots. We never visited Hill's in Nashville, although I wanted to. We just never got the opportunity to do so. I now live in Smithville. But my grandparents moved from Florida to Smithville in 1983 or 1984. Sometimes when we'd go visit them, we would go by the TG&Y in Smithville and shop. Then head over to the Pizza Inn for something to eat. Both places are gone now, just like our K-Mart in McMinnville. It closed over 20 years ago and is now occupying its spot at the local mall as another Roses today.
I was 16 and worked at the Shoney's there at Madison Square and my best friend worked across the street at Krystal's. I wish I had a dollar for every time we cruised the back parking lot of Madison Square.😂
#victorianmelody46 That is AwEsOme! Our 1st Krystal's came from that one only when our Meme / grandmother took us. And that Shoney's was the last place I shared a meal w/Meme. And don't get me started on that "back parking lot of Madison Square"....lol. Who remembers the twin cinema theater there? What movies did you folks see? There we saw Song of the South , Snow White and the Seven Dwarves , The Jerk .... The last movie was Goldie Hawn's Wildcats ['86] so maybe 1987 was the last time? p.s. 1980 I was 8 yrs old
@@TimeVault1i remember all that and when the parents wanted chinese food we went to that fancy place across from Madison Square.. That was so special!
I recognize a lot of this in Madison didn't know they had a Sears, & Zayers there wow. You passed Springhill Cemetery & Kmart too. That Shoneys is gone , was a Bojangles but now gone.
And Hills Department store where or next to the old location of The Great Escape! both fav's. Our family is buried there at that cemetary and a few of our vet family members across the street at the National Cemetary. Shoneys was Awesome because that is where we'd eat with our mothers mom. AND across the street you remember the Krystals? I think that was the first fast food I can recall eating back then. Close after McD's. Dad was strict. We only got those three places when grandmother would take us kids and Mom out> :) Hope you're enjoying the vids @OurBackwoodsHomestead #OurBackwoodsHomestead Thanks for the comments.
I grew up really poor in TN during the 1980s. Felt like my family was cut off from the rest of the world sometimes. We had no indoor toilet for a decade , used an outhouse until the 90s. Fun and hard times.
#JasonMax01 The house we lived (just b4 the Madison home) in the 70's in Pleasantview had only well water and we had to walk ACROSS a tiny bridge over the stream / creek in it's backyard to get to the sheet shack. But we got used to it and come to kinda miss it. Oh, and we had to go to our family's homes to wash our clothes.. LOL no washer or dryer. Well, we had a dryer , it was clotheslines. And the washer we had was one of those old timey tubs with a ringer on it. NO electric on that bad boy. heheheh. Man, thanks for sharing that info. I thought we were the only ones. Oh, and no color TV for our family until 1983. :)
@TimeVault1 No, but we eventually had Hill's, and at 1 time Atlantic Mills in the 60s early 70s it was right next door to Tom's potato chip plant, I worked there 73 - 78, General Mills bought Tom's at that time, I made $2.17 an hour and that was top pay for the plant workers, everything seemed simple then!
Songs I recognize in this clip: - "The Rose" by Bette Midler - "Answering Machine" by Rupert Holmes - "Ladies Nite" by Kool & the Gang - "Ashes By Now" by Rodney Crowell
Long gone are the days of Madison hillbilly days,cruising Madison square and making the loop at old hickory beach. Born and raised in Nashville when it still had the nickname smoky Joe.
Simpler times for sure but it was also a difficult time for a lot of people with inflation at 12.5% and unemployment 7% in the summer of 1980. My wife and I luckily both had jobs and our son wouldn’t be born for another two years so we could still live cheaply.
Thank you sharing this wonderfully nostalgic video! The areas you are cruising was basically my first experience of Nashville in the same time frame, coming from Kentucky to visit Opryland via I-24 to I-65, then to the Briley Parkway. I can't remember if I was ever on Brick Church Pike, but I sure remember the big signs showing the exit(s) for it. I also distinctly remember that huge K Mart with its large parking lot and slanted parking lot lights on Gallatin Pike at Briley Parkway and the cemetery next door to it. I recall several other places along Gallatin Rd. seen here, such as Harvey's, Western Auto, Winn Dixie, etc., and continuing all the way up to Rivergate Mall. I have a few questions for you, if you don't mind. How many children were in the station wagon? I think I counted six or seven. Were they all boys and were they your children, with your wife driving? Sorry if I'm way off assuming you are a man, but with not seeing or hearing you, I thought maybe this might be your family. Thanks again for sharing your life from 44 years ago.
@retrounderground1 #retrounderground1 Awwwe THANK you so much for the kind words. Hope you've had a chance to find the other 80s/90s vids too!? I love questions. Will reply in next comment.
Well, after accidentally deleting the most perfect response to this awesome response @retrounderground1 #retrounderground1 I will try to redo a simpler version of it. but dang. that was awesome. but what happens happens for a reason, eh? lol 1. IDK the #of kids in the wagon some say 7 or 8. lol . there were lots. There was 3spots in front. 3-4 in the middle row and in the cargo area a hidden flip up sideways seat that sat one or 3 small kids? so, 7 minimum/ 10 max? lol At various times boys and girls. My mom had a babysitting business. There were only us 3 siblings -2boys (almost 8 yr old me/3 yr old bro) and one 2 yr old sister. 2. I'm a dude. You can see the evolution from that 7/8 year old to his 20s and 30s in the Air Force videos and 90s/2000s vids in the playlists. :) 3. Mom was the driver and dad was the recorder. 4. Again, Thank you soo much for watching, and I'm/we're happy you enjoyed the memories. THese chats/messages are aWeSoMe too because they often bring up lost memories and I get to type them out here and that is GREAT! You are very welcome. p.s.... Damn, I really worked hard and long on the previously mentioned page I had typed as a reply to this originally. lol. one right click erased it all. lol
Nice! Which ones? In the early 80s it seemed like my brother and I owned that place. From Rivergate Mall to the ole "Twin Cinema" at Madison Square to the old Arcade just before the two story Sears (what's that cross street with Gallatin Road?) Glad you enjoyed it.
@anthonysmohawkspeedshop324 That is the jam right there. Briley Pkwy was only built up to Dickerson Rd. at that time. There was a big wall or rather NO Briley Pkwy where Brick Church Pike leads to a section of the BP.
This begins on Brick Church Pike going north from a point just south of the I-24 overpass. The first right turn is onto Ewing Drive. The major intersection is Ewing at Dickerson Rd, with a turnaround to retrieve the item in the street. We return to Ewing and Dickerson and turn left going north on Dickerson. We take Briley Pkwy to Gallatin Rd, then take a right onto Harris St in Madison. The video ends as the driver turns into the driveway at what appears to be 220 Harris St.
@@ekop1778 Same here early 50s., ANd same here in Nashville, TN - parking lot during rush hours. The state/cities just can't keep up the road expansion to match the traffic, eh?
The old office building at the corner of Neely’s bend rd and Gallatin Rd was replaced with a Walgreens, Madison market is a Mexican grocery, Sherman’s music store behind it went out of business sometime in the late 80’s.
This makes me think of Mike Patroni’s (surely not spelling it right) Italian restaurant in Inglewood. I know it was the other way up Gallatin Rd but my dad took me there as I little kid in the 80’s.
We used to have family reunion dinners there whenever aunt and uncle came to visit from Virginia. Lived down the street right next to Patroni’s, until moving to Madison in 67.
Who remembers the little bitty, bitty Walmart at Tusculum Plaza when it opened? It was about the size of a small shoe store. And we didn't have Lowe's or Home Depot. We had Ace Hardware. Things were definitely better & more simple.
@JeffreyHill-zv5xd If that wally world was the one that was in the street mall across the street from what would become Toys R Us. THen yeah, we played a NINTENDO mario bros for the first and many times at that lil wally (NOT Super Center) lol. My dad had a store in the heart of Madison on Gallatin Pike, it was an art store but he got this video equipment in order to start a business called Date Mart. I remember when I first saw wal mart that "dang, they stole your idea Dad". lol
Gas was $1.19? What a gouge. That would be like $4.75 a gallon in 2024. No wonder the camera focused on the sign. In 1972 I filled my tank for .19 cents a gallon during the local gas war . The “energy crisis”, oil and gas crunch and embargoes changed all that in the mid to late ‘70’s. That Chevy station wagon was probably getting 14-15 mpg at best..
@deweygill1973 #deweygill1973 WOW! $.19!!! And the truckers did a "Blockade" or strike too. We had a Maverick too and a 60s Mustang(broke down) but for all the kids. Yep, Bad gas mlge wagon. lol
@@TimeVault1 I worked at a gas station during high school. Normally gas was in the .28 to .34 cents a gallon range. but for a few weeks that summer it was real cheap. BTW, that year my Dad bought a 1972 Olds Custom Cruiser station wagon, talk about bad gas milage in that thirsty 455 Thanks for the journeys back in time
@johneckert1365 Sweeeet~ We loved Zayres. BUT Hills Department Store was OUR jam!!! We played the heck outta those toys on their shelves/floors. It looked like a kids bedroom when we arrived and left that toy section.
The Zayres in West Allis was under the squiggly roof of the old Treasure Island. Now a Pick n’ Save food store. TI was a Penny’s discount chain. Bought all my model kits and 45 rpm records there in the 1960’s
@deweygill1973 Is that kinda close to the Menards there, like a little north of Cleveland on Hwy 100? I was pretty young then. Lived at the Lincoln Crest Apartments next to the freeway right after parents divorced in Franklin. My older sister was getting into trouble there with other tenants so we ended up moving to the duplex on 111th & Lincoln. That's roughly the time I remember the Zayre's store. After that we moved to 99th & Coldspring on the opposite side of the freeway haha.
Oldest sister and husband lived on Lanier Dr unit around 70 when they moved to goodletsville. Ran the streets all over the area on my first motorcycle as a teenager.
Curious what their last names are. I know the ridges meadows and cavanaughs. Lived right there on brick church pk. My aunt lived on haney st. First house on left
@midtennprepper6200 #midtennprepper6200 My cousin married a Ridge and we know the Meadows. I'll have to check on the Cavanaughs tho. Stoney, Rockey, Sandey (Beaney), Dustey and their lil sis. Maynard and Ellithorpe family
@@Autocar87 I worked at 84 lumber in Madison then in a body shop downtown next to the river while going to school. Work for Volvo Trucks now. Good education!
I know this was 1980 and everything changes overtime but its so crazy how you drove through Madison and gallitan road and its like a whole different area😂 and that 7/11 is crazy Nashville didnt have 7/11 fot a long time until 2017/18.
@jason615lakers Yeah, 7-11 was gone for a long time in Mid-TN it seems like. Our street in Madison was like the movie E.T. on Halloween with all us kids and/or parents walking all the streets in that area for treats...and tricks. LOL.
This would have been July of 1981. The radio station in the background of the video was promoting an “Elvis” concert on Sunday July 5th which would coincide with the calendar of the year 1981 when July 5 falls on a Sunday in 1981.
No. It was filmed in 1980. The man speaking on the radio at 6:00 CLEARLY says “It’a time to celebrate America… This Friday, July 4th”. In 1980 July 4th fell on a Friday. In 1981 it was on a Saturday.
In it's heyday all of the department stores like Zayre, Montgomery Ward, K-Mart and even drug stores like Woolworth's had sit down restaurants with waitresses/waiters. Think Denny's in it's better days. Along the way that (for the worse) morphed into fast food, and the remnants of that can be seen in Target and WalMart today that often have a fast food stand or a mini-Subway.
@MalleusDei275 THat;s funny. Because I did couple years ago. As a matter a fact, I did Nashville, Madison, and Pleasantview Comparison vids. Haven;'t done Old Hickory and that bridge vid yet. I didn't publish them because I didn't think yaw'd like that since it's not 30 yrs ago. You Gals and Guys really want them? I'll get to work on it if I hear enough of ya wanting them too!
I shared your video with a our local Growing up in Madison Facebook Group. They went crazy but one question came up. What type is video camera was being used in 1981. vHS recorders came out in 83 and they was high dollar.
I'll have to get back to you, but I thought it was VhS. ANd that's AwEsomE that they loved it! I didn't know there was a FB group. I'd like to check it out.. Do you have any ideas on what video recorder set up it would be from 1980? Have you guys seen the other Driving Videos in the Playlist ?
Probably a Sony Beta 3000. The camera was separate from the bulky recorder that you carried with a shoulder strap. I think you bought them separately. These were on the market around mid- 1980, so this was probably a brand new toy for Dad. The all in one video camera came out around 1983
@@deweygill1973 Nice. But ours was not the small Beta (beta max) type. Big ole regular VHS type . Still hunting down folks that may remember what name brand it was. Dad passed a few years ago so that's a "dead"end. lol Mom is not sure. Is that Sony Beta you're referring to a regular size cassette type or the Beta Max smaller type?
. Pretty sure that unit I mentioned used the full sized Beta tape. The smaller beta tape might have been used in the one piece cam corder that was introduced in 1983. The Sony Beta 3000 was introduced around spring 1980, that’s why I thought it was a good fit
Weird.. Those kids don't have phones or screens in their faces. If this is 1980, I was 14 then. Going by the clues on the radio, this appears to be late June 1980.
#Laura-ef1mb @Laura-ef1mb , did you catch any of the other vid's like this in our playlist "Driving Thru the Decades"? or the other Thru the Decades playlists?
Did they really find a random blanket in the road and just pick it up? wow. no one would do that today. I was born in september that year. always was curious what everyday life was like then.
@coolbluelights , got info on it. It was a baby bed mattress/blanket that had been on top of our station wagon from Brick Church Pike, It just decided to fly off at the end of Ewing Lane at Dickerson Pike. I think I muted the fun part... Both parents yelling at each other. I need to go edit that back in ....Comedy gold!!
#Blando7887 #Blando7887 Daaaang! Nice. I was 8 if the vid was in 80. but I'm starting to think it may have been 1979. I'm not sure now. My sister and brother were 2 and 3 if it was 80.... Thanks for watching hope you're enjoying all the 80s vids?!~
@VintageToyTheatre #VintageToyTheatre there's a cool vid on YT that shows the change of both cities starting in the 70s to current. Interesting how socio-eco-politics change things/places.
Awesome right @chrisauten2039 #chrisauten2039 Dang. That was still high just after the gas / oil crisis of the 70s. I remember in 88 or so paying 84cents/gallon I think during high school. Anyone remember the gas from 88-92? I Know i got pissed when Exxon Valdeze [sic] occurred cause then the prices shot up again.
😮 wow! Way too easy of a time, traffic a bare minimum, I didn't know 7-Eleven existed then, "Lady's Night" easy listening, KMART was Walmart 😅 no handhelds, gas was $1.21 😮 no unhoused meth heads panhandling about, No Rap music, yet😂
just to recap after a long time..>!! "Ladys' Night" maaaan I wish we had Ladies nites again. Is that even a thing now a days? !! I haven't seen a club/bar with that or karaoke in years. :( @shevn_fut5453 #shevn_fut5453
It played most of the way through before I finally started to vagely remember it. I can see why no radio station EVER plays it anymore. It was a stupid song. I had so forgotten about it, that for years I assumed Rupert Holmes' only other hit besides the Pina Colada song was the one called "Him".
I noticed 96* and $1.17 and $1.21 for gas. Goble warming and cheap gas. LOL We already moved to Mt. Juliet in 1975. Use to go back roads sometimes to see my parents on Jones Ave. in East Nashville. I would drive back roads to Old Hickory and cut through Due West down Gallatin Rd. to West End and the back road to Jones Ave. Good Memories
That's awesome! Love those back roads. My brother and I walked all over - from Harris to Madison Square theatre and even near Due West where and arcade was located; to Rivergate Mall; and up and down the railroad tracks. phew
In 2023 when you posted this reply that 1.17 gas would have been $4.33. Energy prices were part of what caused inflation to be so high in 1980 with a rate of 12.5% in the summer that year. Unemployment was 7% so not so rosy for everyone.
Man I miss those days. Simple, full of fun and family members that were still with us. Thanks for sharing.
@stephenbyrn9097 They are missed and they were fun indeed. You're welcome and thAnks For watching man.
Awesome video. I remember (all) of these places very well. 😁 Great nostalgia. 👍
awesome. Gl;ad you enjoyed
This is going back in time without necessarily having the time machine... Thanks for the ride 👍🇦🇷
@juanpabloarena2724 You bet man! What you think about the comparison vids recently posted? 2024 Madison and Nashville vs the 1980/1981 driving vids. Gals and guys, yaw can find them ez in the Playlist titled "Driving Thru the Decades". Thanks again for enjoying these rides back in time with us.
I remember the 4th of July 1980 very clearly. I turned 8 that summer, and i remember some kids from school invited me and my brother to their 4th of July block party. They lived 5 blocks from us. I remember swimming all day and watching fireworks at night. I specifically remember all of us kids dancing in the street to the song Funky Town
@daved1535 #daved1535 Thats awesome. I turned 8 less than 27 days later. lol. I have not many memories except memories of decades of watching these videos. So, memories of the videos that may supplant actual memories of the times. Were you guys around Harris Street in Madison?
@TimeVault1 We are very close in age. I turned 8 on Auguat 21st of 1980. I didn't grow up in Tennessee. I grew up North of Buffalo ny in a town called Wheatfield
@@daved1535 WOW! Nice. small world
As someone who moved to Nashville in 2006, and has an affinity for the way things used to look, I find this absolutely fascinating!! Thank you!!!
@Harmonarealtor #Harmonarealtor Belated welcome to Mid-TN man and glad you enjoy the vids! And as a former Realtor from Crye-Leike I appreciate your career! You should step up your YT channel and get that going! I'm sure ur business is doing great but multiple streams of income are always aWeSoMe too! lol Whether your a landlord, property manager, commercial/residential real estate agent, or flipper/investor you got the look and the personality man.
I look forward to seeing what you have in the future on your channel...because in time it too will be something for future generations to see how living/housing was in our current times! #buyersagent #nashvillerealtor
@Harmonarealtor #Harmonarealtor Belated welcome to Mid-TN! You are welcome man! Glad you enjoy the vids-same here. Older I get the more I find myself living in the past. lol.
I know every square inch of that route. You passed the house I lived in and my old church. Nashville was a lot Different more of a home town feel. Now its over developed and the traffic in horrible. Thanks for sharing.
#thomasmoorman5328 You're welcome man. Thanks for watching the videos. Have you seen the others?
Nashville Beautiful Scenic quick drive on i-65 to Birmingham AL in 1980, 2024 major city growing to be like Houston of the South East USA
#fgjr96way @fgjr96way 👍
I sure hope the person that made this antique video is getting credit. Its such a blessing. I was born in 85 and I think about my parents in this video. They're no longer together. But, it's just crazy. They got married in 79 and had my oldest brothers in 1980 and 1981 and me in 85 and my sis in 91.
@bryanblanton2046 our dad gets the credit for filming it as much as our mom does for all the driving she did in the vids. Sorry to hear about your folks; ours divorced within a couple years of these vids being made. Glad you enjoy the trips down memory lane.
I actually get incredibly depressed when I watch videos like this, because I realize how good these times use to be. No internet, no advance technology. Everything seemed so much more chill and more people seemed happy. Nostalgic depression isn't fun. I didn't watch the entire video for that reason, just the first couple of minutes.
It only got worse…last minute brought tears to my eyes
Yeah, family members start tearing up or flat out crying over a few of the videos. Sorry it got ou down. I found myself getting a little too down and have been off here since mid-February. W/the exception of a few car videos posted.
Sorry @AustinBarnes #AustinBarnes . Great times. Hopefully you all/we all have/can make new better ones? but there is nothing like the past..
@@TimeVault1 You didn’t bring me down! It really raised me up in a way. The human experience is a fascinating one. Thank you for the video
As a counterpoint, people still suffered - had depression, mental illness, abuse, poverty, dissapointment back then. I know, I lived it. If you can take off the rose colored glasses that whitewash the past, you may find more peace and contentment today. It’s a hard thing to do, and watching these videos can certainly transport us (I’ve been watching them all evening!). This is just a gentle reminder to be kind to yourself 😌. @TimeVault1, thank you for posting!
Kool and the Gang Ladies Night on the radio. Cool tune.
@holtridge7337 Yeah, the music really helps to make the driving videos a time capsule
With a KDF sticker on the window.
It doesn't get any more Nashville than this.
Tru dat!
@diskoboy1974 #diskoboy1974 just drove thru Nashville today. If only they'd spend a couple $ to fix that KDF for some pride? or just to make that cityscape view tad more pleasant.
Rock 106 and kdf
I'm still trying to figure out who in this large family station wagon had enough coin to film this video in 1980? Expensive😮. Glad they did. Lots of memories.
@jameswood231 #jameswood231 my dad was an artist...he and Mom flipped houses and ...errrr/. He stopped paying taxes in the 1950s. lol. And no fast food and no AC and cheap cars and no debt. He got the camera set up to make way in the at the time new dating scene. He had an art store on Gallatin Rd/Pike just a walk away from Harris St. And bought the equipment to form Date Mart. A video dating service....There's a great story to what happened to both businesses for a later time.... Unless anyone up on news of that era discovers it first and posts it. ie. The Nashville Banner and maybe the Tennessean newspapers would have the info.
Also, Whatever you discover, just know children and family are not the same as the man. Glad you enjoying the vids James.
Cool KDF sticker!!!!
All the cool people had one 😅
Of course we did! hehheheheh
@@TimeVault1 I have fond memories of KDF especially at night, back in the day. Special times and great memories !
@@arlynking1300 Heck yeah. Love the past!
Love the KDF sticker in the window.
@seangarrison3599 HEllz yeah! old KDF rocks. Loved the sticker
Summer of '80, I was a few hundred miles NE of here, a 7 year old kid in Dayton, OH.
Good times, and we didn't even realize it.
That's awesome! They sure were. @jameslovitt994
Look at all those station wagons! pre-Mini Vans & SUVs.
@geofbrit59 Wild how history repeats itself?
MY MOM HAD A 77 OLDS
TODAY SHE STILL HAS THE SAME NUMBER PLATE FOR LAST 47 YRS
COLOR IS DIFFERENT NOW
@@ekop1778 WOW! That's aWeSoMe EKOP!! Last year I got new tags....and by coincidence they happened to have as the last three letters....MY dang initials. I'm gonna try keep these for long time this time around. lol
Nice. Love the light music playing in the background. That good AM type stuff.That car can carry an army!
Love[d] the music too. Little book markers for our memories. That station wagon was a beast. Mom babysat back then. So, her three kids plus all the others, phew!
Bette Midler. “The Rose” opened this video
@@TimeVault1oh yea, love the KDF sticker!
Thank you for sharing this video. I truly miss the "original" Nashville/ Madison I grew up in.
Glad you enjoyed it! Those were great times. @08SVPR @O8SVPR
I remember going to Nashville in that time period with my mom and dad to see my aunt and uncle seeing this brings me back to that time when it was more simple and the memories.. god where did the time go
#Jerrywindhamjr @Jerrywindhamjr I'm glad you enjoyed the vid. Hope the other vids in the Playlist "Driving thru the Decades" has some more memories for ya. Time..... phew, yeah it catches up with yeah.
Remember all of this well ,lived on that road by the Kwick Sak. Walked to school up the hill - that was my fifth grade school on the left, this would Have been 1972. Does anyone remember the pizza shop by Harvey's, I remember you could go downstairs and watch old monster movies on a projector screen. Man what memories. Moved to Hendersonville the next year.
@michaelbowman4515 THat Drive-In Movie theatre on Dickerson Rd. was the bomb. Saw Empire SB there. Countless other movies we'd see there with kids in the trunk of a Maverick we had at one point, heheheheh. Sad moment when they shut it down. But for a couple years we had the Drive-In Theater between Rivergate and Gallatin or Hendersonville. YOu guys ever go to that one off Gallatin Road? I don't recall the pizza shop by Harvey's but if this was '72 I was just born. lol
Wow, these videos are something else.
Just like stepping into a time machine and it lands into that year.
THat's great to hear @crlaw75 . I'm glad you're enjoying the vids.
i was only 4 in 1980, and grew up in new england, but these videos brought back memories of what it was like riding in the car with my parents at that time. Whoever manned the camera picked up on the same details i would have noticed then.
@rpm773 awe that's awesome. The photog was our dad. He was a local artist; he had a pretty good eye. Glad you enjoyed this one and maybe the other videos under "Driving thru the Decades" playlist?
My hometown, I miss the old Madison square, cool cars, brings back memories.
Glad you enjoyed man
Yeah, thats our family in the Kingswood Estate Wagon. Dad was super cheap though, radio delete, no AC, but same wagon with my brother falling asleep in the middle of most rides. Ahhhh the late 70s early 80s how I truly miss you.
@kevincostello3856 WOW! THat's nuts. Now, are you saying you kids are the ones in our station wagon or one the other wagons on the road?
@kevincostello3856 Is it at the 24m44s mark that blue ish station wagon turning left at the intersection?
@@TimeVault1 Oh no sorry I meant that the video of family and siblings all together in the wagon listening to music is exactly what my family did so many, many times. Especially with Mom driving, whom I miss beyond words. Truly thank you for posting that vid, brought me back to those great days in the 70s.
@@kevincostello3856 That's awesome man. SOrry to hear. Our mom's still with us turned 70 this year. Dad passed back in 2016. It's awesome that you guys are enjoying these memories. THat's what it's all about. I only regret not posting these sooner before we lost so many family members in the last several years.
Luckily, we were able to convert some to dvd ourselves and pass them out to them before some of them left this life.
I'll dig up new old stuff in time. Currently, just modifying some of our old videos here from when I just started out and didn't know much about YT.
That was my route as UPS man from 2004-2010. I knew every spot they were driving down Gallatin Rd. Very cool
@BobaJett That's awesome man. Glad you're enjoying the vids
wait a minute....I didn't know that Big Star grocery was in Ewing Lane Plaza in 1980! I remember it being a bingo parlor in by 1984. when it closed it became a Bill Martin's grocery store and now its a dollar general store
@xoacatl I don't recall the Big Star either, just the arcade/pool hall at the end of the strip mall. More detailed 2024 version/comparison video is coming. Thanks for the history. That's awesome!
Real change happens slowly, so slowly, in fact, that you don't even realize it. Look how far we've slid. The pace is glacial, but real.
@TheBigdog868 very philosophical Big dog! Thank you.
The classic boiling frog. Turn up the heat in small increments & before long the frog is in boiling water. Never saw it coming
@@stevengallant6363 lol
@@stevengallant6363 😄
I sure miss these days , I always thought back then it would never end
@marioncobaretti2280 didn't we all, phew. Well, at least we have YT or Rumble or the other sites to revisit our pasts. Thanks for watching.
I miss the good ole days. So much depression now.
True 'dat!
Kind of cool to see Brick Church Pike before it was widened
Right! Thanks for watching!
I lived on Brick Church in the late 70's (in my teens) in a rock house on the right -it was (at least back then) the last house on the right driving away from Trinity Lane and toward the I-24 overpass/ Ewing Dr intersection.
@@bmead144 My Cousin Dustey Maynard asks if it's the house with a well?
I actually used to live on Harris Street Around 82, 83. I lived in the brick house just past the creek. My mom used to work at steak and eggs.
@incantation521 #incantation521 Sweeeet. Our Dad stayed in that house until he died in 2017. Was it Steak N Eggs or Steak N Ale?
@@TimeVault1 it was steak n eggs. They used to be all around nashville.
@@incantation521 ahhhhh.
Love the music from the single speaker Chevy radio in the car. ☺️
That single speaker gives it that comforting vintage sound. It’s hard to explain 😊. I was 4 when this was made.
@@chriscallen6897 I know ☺️I have a 78 Chevy Caprice Classic with a single speaker am/fm radio and it’s the best to hear old music on it as I drive…
@carpricetony Happy you enjoyed it man. I wish Dad had the Mustang running but it sat defunked the backyard. Ya'll may be able to get a glimpse of it in some of videos showing part of the backyard. Around this time we had a Maverick too. Not sure if it's in any of these vids.
@@capricetony that's awesome
@@chriscallen6897 Awesome take on the sound vibe. Yeah, you right. Four. I was nearing 8 yrs old.
Thank you so much Good memories My first summer job was at Zayre In Record Dept was a blast I just sub your channel I drove to Zayre by way of Briley Pkw With WMAK radio on
@cwilson6990 #cwilson6990 You're welcome no thanks needed. Just love that others get 2 relive/recall/enjoy the memories of way back when. Loved Zayre/s. That's aWeSoMe that ur 1st job was there. And in the Record Dpt especially!! Dang. What channel was WMAK? I know of back then WKDF was 103.3 and Y107.5 and Q92.9
I love watching videos like this. Moments in peoples lives captured to relive again. Sometimes I wished I had videos of some of my past days.
Well, maybe if you were in TN in the 80s and 90s we may have you on film. LOL. Awesome that you like these. THey mean a lot to my family and I as well. There are more to post. Just takes some time. Plus I'm big ole procrastinator
At 2:44, I think that was me in my red VW 411 approaching you in the oncoming traffic by the drivers side!
Wow! Awesome! @ayseeef #ayseeef
@anita.fringe #anitafringe NO wAy??!!! Get out! U joking? That's a trip if it was you in the car approaching.
The main thing to notice about old footage from the 80s and earlier is how the country was so much less crowded. Fewer cars on the streets. Fewer people walking around. More open, undeveloped spaces. I miss that most of all. I hate how crowded and overpopulated the US has become.
@aequoria2949 #aequoria2949 That's true. But you can always drive around here and find some country life. It's awesome. But I hear ya.
I recognized from where the vid started on Brick church Pike and they turned right at the intersection on to Ewing lane. At the very start of the vid the Food Town sign on the right-when I was a kid ( around 8-10 yrs old) I got caught stealing candy from there! From where they turned left on to Brick Church at the start of the vid that would have been where the Maynards lived at that time in the late 70's & early 80's! In 1980 I was 17 and man did I keep those very same roads hot! Grew up living on Ewing lane, Brick Church Pike and in Madison off E Due west Avenue in an apartment ( I think they were called Hampton Terrace back then). Went to Brick Church elementary and Maplewood high. The 7-11 on the left on Ewing lane just before the intersection at Dickerson rd-just out of high school a buddy( Kenny Farmer-lived in Parkwood) worked the graveyard shift there briefly- I remember hanging out there all night a few times-he'd let me grab some free cigs and snacks! I shopped at tthat Zayre many times over the years it was there! Cool old "rat rod" (we didn't call'em that back then though) that turned off of Gallatin Rd on to Neely's Bend! What about that Chevy Kingsman station wagon? What a "land yacht"! I listened to 92Q and 103 KDF back then too! Man O man the memories!!! Not all good though-What I wouldn't give to go back knowing what I know now at 61 years old! :(
@bmead144 #bmead144 That's awesome. My family the Ellithorpes and Maynards lived on Ewing Lane and Brick Church Pike. I practically lived there in the 80s and 90s on the weekends and summers. lol THanks for the details of the streets. Yeah, we rode the hellz outta that wagon. lol
I lived in Parkwood then. Knew Kenny and Ted farmer. Ted married my childhood sweetheart Cindy gregory. I heard Kenny had passed away.
Love you posted these it like a Time Machine 😢😊😊😊😊👍
@capricetony Thanks tony! It feels awesome to know others enjoy these vids, these moments. The old architecture, the old streets, the old retailers and restaurants and how or what folks wore and styled and drove. YEAH, I love it all.
I think my first two YT videos I watched that others did from the 70s-90s were a channel I think called Home Movie Collection? that had their family filmed driving from their home in Franklin, TN to Nashville. and another channel was of some kids doing the mall and their high school just messing around hanging out.
Rite off the rip that KDF 103.3 rock and roll sticker in the window just took me back to my youth. I just wish I didn't have to come back to present time. It was so much better thin.
@jasonnorthcutt3771 #jasonnorthcutt3771 That sticker was/is iconic . I love seeing the signage downtown when we're on the interstate. Well, hey, at least they don't have that glue factory or burn trash thing that was AWFUL ssmeeellling at night.
Do you guys remember that plant?
I'd always smell it on Friday nights making my way to the Maynard's on Brick Church Pike and smell that place as the interstate splits left to 8th Ave and my way to the right to Trinity Lane.
@TimeVault1 No.
I'm not actually from nashville. I'm from mcmunville , well within the listening range of k d f. I have very fun memories of riding the strip on Friday and Saturday nights.And the KDF stickers was on almost every vehicle. I remember everybody always calling in to request songs. And they would always give a shout out to the area the caller was from. The police shut the strip down in the nineties were allowed to go out and ride it once a year now on back to the strip nite. Modern times really suck.
@@jasonnorthcutt3771 That's awesome. If it's McMinnville, thats where I'm at many weekends currently; got family down there. That's a trip shutting down the strip. dang.
@TimeVault1 Yes it is mcminnville. My accent and speech to text does not get along. Hour strip used to be booming.People used to come from all around to ride. In the eighties it was hard to get through town the because of it. Then thay made it illegal to make more than three laps. After everybody quit coming They have kind of laxed up on it now but it will never be the same.
@@jasonnorthcutt3771 I heard that . My little nephew just got busted for "drag racing" in McMinnville a while back. July 1st it becomes a felony....ugh. He was just passing someone. McMinnville is beautiful. That town makes me feel like I'm going into a 1980s movie town like "Gremlins" , "The Goonies", etc. The local radio station 107.7 playing adds to the vibe too with John Tesh from Entertainment Tonight DJ'ing and the oldies playing. Ya'w lucky to have such a great area.
Such a cool time capsule!
Thank you. Slowly digging up more vids to share from the 80s and 90s
I worked in a dental lab from '72 to 2019 when I retired. We were on Madison St. from about '79. Most of my life was spent in Madison. At the 11:13 the house with the white fence was Col. Tom Parkers house. He was Elvis Presley's manager. At 15:09, the brown gravel parking lot on the right is where the dental lab was. This is funny.
THat is awesome.
Great, lived there at that time, wonderful memories
#boboneil6479 Glad you enjoyed the Time travel back.
Omg! I'm 16 again! I'm sharing this with so many people!
@tinarush9217 That is awesome! Glad you enjoyed it . ANd THanks for sharing. THat means a lot!
Thank you for sharing this video! I love glimpses into the past like this. And it was so cool to hear Rodney Crowell's version of "Ashes By Now" on the radio!
That's awesome #MotorCityMotorhead , glad you enjoyed it. There are more like this in the "driving thru the decades" Playlist.
Baby sitting in the front seat is great. Also the ad about Hills department store, the anit-inflation store was great. We need one of those nowadays.
@flpanhead LOVED LOVED Hills Dpt STore. We sure do need another Hills!
Me and them boys in the back are about the same age. 1976
@jasonfields192 Awesome! Hope you enjoyed the vids.
My grandparents house was down Due West at the end towards the river. I remember when the bank at Due West and Gallatin road closed (where the CVS is now). The building was torn down and all that was left was the vault for a little while.
I lived on Due West at Brookwood Apts. Worked at the McDonald's as a fry cook making Big Macs for a dollar a piece on Gallatin and Due West in Madison. I attended NADC in 1982-83. Used to ride my 10 speed up and down those streets. Attended Dickerson Rd Baptist Church. Used to call home on the payphone at the hospital on Old Due West. Crossed the 2 lane bridge over I 65 and watch the cars go by. More simple times.😊 Shopped at Warehouse Foods and Winn Dixie. Went to the Drive In where the big hospital sits today. Much has changed. I live in Columbia South of Madison today. Thanks for the video memories of my youth.😊
@billknight9552 #billknight9552 Thanks for sharing that man. Our dad and my brother and I walked in the creek at our house at Harris St. all the way to the river/// well to a cliff I think where it emptied to the river. I'm sure it went toward that area near or at ur grandfolks.
@jameswood231 #jameswood231 Man, on rare occasions (NOT WHEN our father wwas around-THANK YOU MOM and MEME) we ate at that MC'D's back when just up the road was the Madison Square Amusement *Arcade* . It was our Christmas gifts--- McDonald's bucks or coupon books! LIke play money===anyone else remember those... they were set up like Food Stamps booklets. LOL. YOU probably made our meals man!!! Woooo HOOO! THE mosT SCRUMPTIOUS foooood. MY /our first ever Chkn Nuggets... Happy Meals...mmmmm AMEN to you brother. THE Food back then (Don't tell us otherwise if ya'll messed w/the food. lol) Don't ruin the dream. heheheh.
I had a couple cousins attend NADC a few years later. One went on to be a truck driver and the other went on to be a mechanic I believe.
WHen our parents divorced in that time frame just a year or so after these videos my brother and I lived with dad for a year *5th grade for me*, and we walk to Winn Dixie (next to SHoneys), get the pre-made fried chicken at night and sit on the hill/incline that separated Shoneys parking lot and the church(?) and look over the Madison Square parking lot, listening to the traffic pass by like waves of the ocean slapping the shore and watch the folks carry about the last bit of their business before they go to bed for the evening and have those deep talks father and sons have...and eat that cold chicken... mmmm . Guess I do have some dang memories that I can recall not from video. lol
Don't recall that Warehouse Foods--- where was that located? ANd that Drive-IN?? where was that located? I remember seeing EMpire STrikes back or SW A NEw Hope at the Drive-IN Movie theatre at Dickerson ROad where Home Shopping Network set up shop in the 90s I think>? ANyone know for sure??
Dang, James, You're WElcome good sir! ANd thanks for sharing too.
@@TimeVault1Correct. Skyway Drive In was on Dickerson Rd. Warehouse Foods was on Gallatin Rd. down from Winn Dixie. Spent time watching traffic pass by in Madison Shopping Center as well. I used to drive out to the Nashville Airport, Opryland Hotel and Rivergate Mall, Cedar Hill Park on Old Hickory Blvd. 😊 Thanks for reading and sharing my post! That was over 42 years ago.
@@jameswood231 That's awesome! You are very welcome man. Much time has passed indeed. THis how we keep the memories alive brother. Looking forward to your insight/comments regarding the other driving vids.
I was two, three, and four in 1979, 80, and 81 respectively. But my family and I didn't move to Middle Tennessee until 1982 and didn't make my first trip into Nashville until the fall of 1983. But I remember in the town we lived in Central Florida, Lakeland, in the early eighties, I remember it had a Zayre and I remember my Mom and I shopping there a couple of times while my older brother and sister were in school. I actually remember that it was a nice store and the only Zayre I ever remember going to.
#TrevorBarnhill @TrevorBarnhill Thanks for watching and sharing man.
Loved Zayre's and K-Mart as a kid. Hills Department store was the best and closest (at the corner of Old Hickory Blvd and Gallatin Road) to our house in Madison.
Wish we had video of our experiences of the interior fun. But there are other channels that have some and we enjoy watching them. Is funny we lived in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida off and on thru-out the '70s and 80s. Now that was some fun too!
@@TimeVault1 You're welcome. We had K-Mart in Lakeland, Florida and also in McMinnville, Tennessee where we moved to when I was a kid. I remember Lakeland had Zayre, K-Mart, Montgomery Ward, and TG&Y. I remember we lived a couple of miles from the shopping center that had TG&Y in Lakeland. Mom would take me to get the toy I wanted at TG&Y and then do her grocery shopping afterwards next door at the Winn Dixie.
When we moved to McMinnville in Middle Tennessee in 1982, we had a K-Mart at the local mall we sometimes went to. Also, that year, the first Walmart opened in McMinnville. First time we ever seen or been to a Walmart. We had those places and Roses. But Roses closed in 1994 and it became a Big Lots. We never visited Hill's in Nashville, although I wanted to. We just never got the opportunity to do so.
I now live in Smithville. But my grandparents moved from Florida to Smithville in 1983 or 1984. Sometimes when we'd go visit them, we would go by the TG&Y in Smithville and shop. Then head over to the Pizza Inn for something to eat. Both places are gone now, just like our K-Mart in McMinnville. It closed over 20 years ago and is now occupying its spot at the local mall as another Roses today.
I was 16 and worked at the Shoney's there at Madison Square and my best friend worked across the street at Krystal's. I wish I had a dollar for every time we cruised the back parking lot of Madison Square.😂
#victorianmelody46 That is AwEsOme! Our 1st Krystal's came from that one only when our Meme / grandmother took us. And that Shoney's was the last place I shared a meal w/Meme. And don't get me started on that "back parking lot of Madison Square"....lol.
Who remembers the twin cinema theater there? What movies did you folks see? There we saw Song of the South , Snow White and the Seven Dwarves , The Jerk .... The last movie was Goldie Hawn's Wildcats ['86] so maybe 1987 was the last time?
p.s. 1980 I was 8 yrs old
@@TimeVault1i remember all that and when the parents wanted chinese food we went to that fancy place across from Madison Square.. That was so special!
it's still such a trip to watch this and think in July 1980 I was still in my mother's womb lol
@coolbluelights #coolbluelights 🤣
Times were definitely different, no seatbelts no boosters and those kids were well behaved
@nickfortunato2938 #nickfortunato2938 yes sir!
I recognize a lot of this in Madison didn't know they had a Sears, & Zayers there wow.
You passed Springhill Cemetery & Kmart too.
That Shoneys is gone , was a Bojangles but now gone.
And Hills Department store where or next to the old location of The Great Escape! both fav's. Our family is buried there at that cemetary and a few of our vet family members across the street at the National Cemetary.
Shoneys was Awesome because that is where we'd eat with our mothers mom. AND across the street you remember the Krystals? I think that was the first fast food I can recall eating back then. Close after McD's. Dad was strict. We only got those three places when grandmother would take us kids and Mom out> :)
Hope you're enjoying the vids @OurBackwoodsHomestead #OurBackwoodsHomestead Thanks for the comments.
I grew up really poor in TN during the 1980s. Felt like my family was cut off from the rest of the world sometimes. We had no indoor toilet for a decade , used an outhouse until the 90s. Fun and hard times.
#JasonMax01 The house we lived (just b4 the Madison home) in the 70's in Pleasantview had only well water and we had to walk ACROSS a tiny bridge over the stream / creek in it's backyard to get to the sheet shack. But we got used to it and come to kinda miss it.
Oh, and we had to go to our family's homes to wash our clothes.. LOL no washer or dryer. Well, we had a dryer , it was clotheslines. And the washer we had was one of those old timey tubs with a ringer on it. NO electric on that bad boy. heheheh.
Man, thanks for sharing that info. I thought we were the only ones. Oh, and no color TV for our family until 1983. :)
@@TimeVault1 You made and sounds like better for you.......bless you
@@scotquest12 thank you. Glad you enjoying the vids.
My mom worked at Zayre!
Nice! Did you guys get counts? Loved that store and Hills Department Store in Madison. @edieking4753 #edieking4753
@TimeVault1 No, but we eventually had Hill's, and at 1 time Atlantic Mills in the 60s early 70s it was right next door to Tom's potato chip plant, I worked there 73 - 78, General Mills bought Tom's at that time, I made $2.17 an hour and that was top pay for the plant workers, everything seemed simple then!
my dad managed K-mart and stepmom worked at Friendmans army supply. What I wouldn't give to back just for an afternoon.
@@TimeVault1 Great video! What are counts?
Awesome
Songs I recognize in this clip:
- "The Rose" by Bette Midler
- "Answering Machine" by Rupert Holmes
- "Ladies Nite" by Kool & the Gang
- "Ashes By Now" by Rodney Crowell
@crlaw75 That's aWeSoMe law, thanks for listing them!
IF YOU LIKE PINA COLATAS
@@ekop1778 lol. never had those. I like it simple- Jack n Coke. or Vodka Juice these days. heheheh
Very good. Four awesome songs too.
@@holtridge7337 That's how we rock! lol
We had Gold Circle and Giant Tiger here also in Cleveland.
@raylamo4505 Wow! Haven't seen those before.
I was 14 and I miss the America I grew up in. Today's America is disgusting!
@davidv.3135 #davidv.3135 at least we have these here memories
Home Sweet Home.
#jameswood231 amen @jameswood231
Long gone are the days of Madison hillbilly days,cruising Madison square and making the loop at old hickory beach. Born and raised in Nashville when it still had the nickname smoky Joe.
@Dracsmolar Dang. I had never heard that nickname. Now I gotta go ask the elder family about that. Glad you enjoyed.
Simpler times for sure but it was also a difficult time for a lot of people with inflation at 12.5% and unemployment 7% in the summer of 1980. My wife and I luckily both had jobs and our son wouldn’t be born for another two years so we could still live cheaply.
@guylr7390 that's true. But for us kids....it was awesome. Had no idea we were po' folks. LoL
President Reagan got the BS straightened out in a few years 👍🇺🇸
I tell young ones now, if you thought inflation is bad now, they have not seen 1980.
@@crlaw75 yep
that KDF sticker, YES!
@wanderingweh405 HEllzz yeah!
My area. Thanks for sharing.
Same. 1980 to mid '90s
oh, and glad you enjoyed it. More 80s Madison/Nasville in the playlists.
@@TimeVault1 Yeah! Totally, they're a treasure.
6:00 July 4th was on a Friday in 1980, so this is defiantly 1980.
@geofbrit59 Awesome detective work. THanks for that. Helps put a time stamp in the ole noggin
I saw Western Auto. Oh I do remember those days
@warrenscott9990 #warrenscott9990 lol. What was the club they turned western auto into in the 90s? Denim and Diamonds?
@@TimeVault1 Indeed! believe that is exactly the name of that club.
Thank you sharing this wonderfully nostalgic video! The areas you are cruising was basically my first experience of Nashville in the same time frame, coming from Kentucky to visit Opryland via I-24 to I-65, then to the Briley Parkway. I can't remember if I was ever on Brick Church Pike, but I sure remember the big signs showing the exit(s) for it. I also distinctly remember that huge K Mart with its large parking lot and slanted parking lot lights on Gallatin Pike at Briley Parkway and the cemetery next door to it. I recall several other places along Gallatin Rd. seen here, such as Harvey's, Western Auto, Winn Dixie, etc., and continuing all the way up to Rivergate Mall. I have a few questions for you, if you don't mind. How many children were in the station wagon? I think I counted six or seven. Were they all boys and were they your children, with your wife driving? Sorry if I'm way off assuming you are a man, but with not seeing or hearing you, I thought maybe this might be your family. Thanks again for sharing your life from 44 years ago.
@retrounderground1 #retrounderground1 Awwwe THANK you so much for the kind words. Hope you've had a chance to find the other 80s/90s vids too!? I love questions. Will reply in next comment.
damn... I had a big page of answers...and stories...and they got deleted.
I am sad now. lol oye. that was a half hour at least of typing just gone.
Well, after accidentally deleting the most perfect response to this awesome response @retrounderground1 #retrounderground1 I will try to redo a simpler version of it. but dang. that was awesome. but what happens happens for a reason, eh? lol
1. IDK the #of kids in the wagon some say 7 or 8. lol . there were lots. There was 3spots in front. 3-4 in the middle row and in the cargo area a hidden flip up sideways seat that sat one or 3 small kids? so, 7 minimum/ 10 max? lol At various times boys and girls. My mom had a babysitting business. There were only us 3 siblings -2boys (almost 8 yr old me/3 yr old bro) and one 2 yr old sister.
2. I'm a dude. You can see the evolution from that 7/8 year old to his 20s and 30s in the Air Force videos and 90s/2000s vids in the playlists. :)
3. Mom was the driver and dad was the recorder.
4. Again, Thank you soo much for watching, and I'm/we're happy you enjoyed the memories. THese chats/messages are aWeSoMe too because they often bring up lost memories and I get to type them out here and that is GREAT! You are very welcome.
p.s.... Damn, I really worked hard and long on the previously mentioned page I had typed as a reply to this originally. lol. one right click erased it all. lol
Wow! I remember some of these places.
Nice! Which ones? In the early 80s it seemed like my brother and I owned that place. From Rivergate Mall to the ole "Twin Cinema" at Madison Square to the old Arcade just before the two story Sears (what's that cross street with Gallatin Road?) Glad you enjoyed it.
Look how light the traffic is lol
@anthonysmohawkspeedshop324 That is the jam right there. Briley Pkwy was only built up to Dickerson Rd. at that time. There was a big wall or rather NO Briley Pkwy where Brick Church Pike leads to a section of the BP.
This begins on Brick Church Pike going north from a point just south of the I-24 overpass. The first right turn is onto Ewing Drive. The major intersection is Ewing at Dickerson Rd, with a turnaround to retrieve the item in the street. We return to Ewing and Dickerson and turn left going north on Dickerson. We take Briley Pkwy to Gallatin Rd, then take a right onto Harris St in Madison. The video ends as the driver turns into the driveway at what appears to be 220 Harris St.
Nice
lol, yeah
I wanna go back just to get het one of those cars❤
Heck ya. That would be sweeeet!
Clamshell Wagon. ‘71-‘76 GM. Beasts of the road.
#DaveStewart hope u enjoyed! And thnx 4 watchin'. Thanks for the Intel on the "Beast" too.
I noticed that also. I was wondering what year it was. The fenders looked like possibly a '73 or '74.
Imagine, most of the kids in this car are now in their 50's. I was 11yrs old in 1980. The country today is disgusting.
@synthartist69 RIght you are on both counts. Glad you're enjoying the ride thru the past with the rest of us.
I WAS 9 THEN IN MY EARLY 50S NOW
SICK AMERICA
EVEN HERE IN NY CT TRAFFIC IS A PARKING LOT NOW
@@ekop1778 Same here early 50s., ANd same here in Nashville, TN - parking lot during rush hours. The state/cities just can't keep up the road expansion to match the traffic, eh?
The old office building at the corner of Neely’s bend rd and Gallatin Rd was replaced with a Walgreens, Madison market is a Mexican grocery, Sherman’s music store behind it went out of business sometime in the late 80’s.
@Dracsmolar #Dracsmolar Well, I'm happy all these years they kept that old Welcome to Madison signage at the corner in front of Walgreens.
This makes me think of Mike Patroni’s (surely not spelling it right) Italian restaurant in Inglewood. I know it was the other way up Gallatin Rd but my dad took me there as I little kid in the 80’s.
That's cool man.
We used to have family reunion dinners there whenever aunt and uncle came to visit from Virginia. Lived down the street right next to Patroni’s, until moving to Madison in 67.
Who remembers the little bitty, bitty Walmart at Tusculum Plaza when it opened? It was about the size of a small shoe store. And we didn't have Lowe's or Home Depot. We had Ace Hardware. Things were definitely better & more simple.
@JeffreyHill-zv5xd If that wally world was the one that was in the street mall across the street from what would become Toys R Us. THen yeah, we played a NINTENDO mario bros for the first and many times at that lil wally (NOT Super Center) lol. My dad had a store in the heart of Madison on Gallatin Pike, it was an art store but he got this video equipment in order to start a business called Date Mart. I remember when I first saw wal mart that "dang, they stole your idea Dad". lol
Gas was $1.19? What a gouge. That would be like $4.75 a gallon in 2024. No wonder the camera focused on the sign. In 1972 I filled my tank for .19 cents a gallon during the local gas war . The “energy crisis”, oil and gas crunch and embargoes changed all that in the mid to late ‘70’s. That Chevy station wagon was probably getting 14-15 mpg at best..
@deweygill1973 #deweygill1973 WOW! $.19!!! And the truckers did a "Blockade" or strike too. We had a Maverick too and a 60s Mustang(broke down) but for all the kids. Yep, Bad gas mlge wagon. lol
@@TimeVault1 I worked at a gas station during high school. Normally gas was in the .28 to .34 cents a gallon range. but for a few weeks that summer it was real cheap. BTW, that year my Dad bought a 1972 Olds Custom Cruiser station wagon, talk about bad gas milage in that thirsty 455
Thanks for the journeys back in time
@@deweygill1973 You're welcome Gill, Awesome you enjoying the vids.
During the mid-80's gas was around $1.00
I remember "Zares" stores. There was one in West Allis WI
@johneckert1365 Sweeeet~ We loved Zayres. BUT Hills Department Store was OUR jam!!! We played the heck outta those toys on their shelves/floors. It looked like a kids bedroom when we arrived and left that toy section.
The Zayres in West Allis was under the squiggly roof of the old Treasure Island. Now a Pick n’ Save food store. TI was a Penny’s discount chain. Bought all my model kits and 45 rpm records there in the 1960’s
@deweygill1973 Is that kinda close to the Menards there, like a little north of Cleveland on Hwy 100? I was pretty young then. Lived at the Lincoln Crest Apartments next to the freeway right after parents divorced in Franklin. My older sister was getting into trouble there with other tenants so we ended up moving to the duplex on 111th & Lincoln. That's roughly the time I remember the Zayre's store.
After that we moved to 99th & Coldspring on the opposite side of the freeway haha.
@@johneckert1365 I think I recall hearing of a Menards... but what type business was it?
@@deweygill1973 noice!
Lived on Lanier Drive in 71.Been in Madison now since 2006. Sure has changed.
Nice
Oldest sister and husband lived on Lanier Dr unit around 70 when they moved to goodletsville. Ran the streets all over the area on my first motorcycle as a teenager.
It hasn't changed for the better either.
@@Dracsmolar Nice! Yeah, we ran the streets from KMart to Rivergate Mall- all walking lol and the rail road tracks too!
@@holtridge7337 sadly
Damn shits crazy almost 40 years ago my hood Ⓜ️ADSIDE 615
Word! Ditto '79-'90s
Now been my hood since 2006,.
@Randy Groves Nice! #RandyGroves
Looks like that kid was trying to open the car door but brother stopped him..🤣🤣
lol
We're playing punch buggy watching this...😅
@MalleusDei275 THAT is an awesome Idea! dang. Will have to try that later.
Curious what their last names are. I know the ridges meadows and cavanaughs. Lived right there on brick church pk. My aunt lived on haney st. First house on left
@midtennprepper6200 #midtennprepper6200 My cousin married a Ridge and we know the Meadows. I'll have to check on the Cavanaughs tho. Stoney, Rockey, Sandey (Beaney), Dustey and their lil sis. Maynard and Ellithorpe family
we went 2 Zayed on Murfreesboro rd. By airport in 70s and 80s kmart on donelson pike winn dixie beside kmart all of r gone today
@tonyrhoton6613 yyeah. progress eh?
Lived in Madison in 1980! Went to NADC
I lived on Strouse in the early 90s. Used to watch the guys leaving nadc smash out everyday after class
Nice. I had family go to there too.
I lived in Madison in ‘02-03 and went to NADC as well!!
@@Autocar87 I worked at 84 lumber in Madison then in a body shop downtown next to the river while going to school. Work for Volvo Trucks now. Good education!
@@OgleBilly nice
I know this was 1980 and everything changes overtime but its so crazy how you drove through Madison and gallitan road and its like a whole different area😂 and that 7/11 is crazy Nashville didnt have 7/11 fot a long time until 2017/18.
@jason615lakers Yeah, 7-11 was gone for a long time in Mid-TN it seems like. Our street in Madison was like the movie E.T. on Halloween with all us kids and/or parents walking all the streets in that area for treats...and tricks. LOL.
This would have been July of 1981. The radio station in the background of the video was promoting an “Elvis” concert on Sunday July 5th which would coincide with the calendar of the year 1981 when July 5 falls on a Sunday in 1981.
I thought Elvis died in 77.
Idk. I thought so too
No. It was filmed in 1980.
The man speaking on the radio at 6:00 CLEARLY says “It’a time to celebrate America… This Friday, July 4th”. In 1980 July 4th fell on a Friday. In 1981 it was on a Saturday.
Man Evlis is still gettn us all confuzd
@@ToxiCom-777 lol
In it's heyday all of the department stores like Zayre, Montgomery Ward, K-Mart and even drug stores like Woolworth's had sit down restaurants with waitresses/waiters. Think Denny's in it's better days. Along the way that (for the worse) morphed into fast food, and the remnants of that can be seen in Target and WalMart today that often have a fast food stand or a mini-Subway.
Awwesomeeeee reminder.
Do a remake today going the same route.
@MalleusDei275 THat;s funny. Because I did couple years ago. As a matter a fact, I did Nashville, Madison, and Pleasantview Comparison vids. Haven;'t done Old Hickory and that bridge vid yet.
I didn't publish them because I didn't think yaw'd like that since it's not 30 yrs ago. You Gals and Guys really want them? I'll get to work on it if I hear enough of ya wanting them too!
@@TimeVault1I think it would be pretty cool to see how time has changed everything since then
@@deebleesvr6395 I'll get to work digging up the footage from a while back or just head out this week and do them again. THanks deeble
@@TimeVault1 no problem man It will probably be sad to see how its changed but Id watch it
@@deebleesvr6395 how you like the new 2024 comparison vids? more on the way.
Wow didmt know the current wallgreens in Madison thats been there for years used to be all houses
@jason615lakers I thought it'd been there for decades. Like that sign welcoming ya to Madison. That ancient metal greeting sign is awesome too, eh?
I shared your video with a our local Growing up in Madison Facebook Group. They went crazy but one question came up.
What type is video camera was being used in 1981. vHS recorders came out in 83 and they was high dollar.
I'll have to get back to you, but I thought it was VhS. ANd that's AwEsomE that they loved it! I didn't know there was a FB group. I'd like to check it out.. Do you have any ideas on what video recorder set up it would be from 1980? Have you guys seen the other Driving Videos in the Playlist ?
@staceyclayton8764 #staceyclayton8764 just joined Growing Up in Madison. Look forward to checking it out and seeing new Old videos.
Probably a Sony Beta 3000. The camera was separate from the bulky recorder that you carried with a shoulder strap. I think you bought them separately. These were on the market around mid- 1980, so this was probably a brand new toy for Dad.
The all in one video camera came out around 1983
@@deweygill1973 Nice. But ours was not the small Beta (beta max) type. Big ole regular VHS type . Still hunting down folks that may remember what name brand it was. Dad passed a few years ago so that's a "dead"end. lol Mom is not sure.
Is that Sony Beta you're referring to a regular size cassette type or the Beta Max smaller type?
. Pretty sure that unit I mentioned used the full sized Beta tape. The smaller beta tape might have been used in the one piece cam corder that was introduced in 1983. The Sony Beta 3000 was introduced around spring 1980, that’s why I thought it was a good fit
Weird.. Those kids don't have phones or screens in their faces. If this is 1980, I was 14 then. Going by the clues on the radio, this appears to be late June 1980.
“The Rose” is heard as well as Ladies Night.
lol @shawnbegay7220 no phones indeed. That date seems to be about right. I know we have a lot of that 4th July on tape.
Do you have anymore videos like these ? They're great.
Sure do @Laura-ef1mb !
#Laura-ef1mb @Laura-ef1mb , did you catch any of the other vid's like this in our playlist "Driving Thru the Decades"? or the other Thru the Decades playlists?
Start. L on Brick Church Pk. R on Ewing Dr. Cross Dickerson Pk onto Broadmoor Dr to L on Gallatin Pk. N on 31E. R on Hickory St. End ~ 332 Hickory.
yep
Did they really find a random blanket in the road and just pick it up? wow. no one would do that today. I was born in september that year. always was curious what everyday life was like then.
it was a baby blanket or something. Will release unedited video one day
@coolbluelights , got info on it. It was a baby bed mattress/blanket that had been on top of our station wagon from Brick Church Pike, It just decided to fly off at the end of Ewing Lane at Dickerson Pike. I think I muted the fun part... Both parents yelling at each other. I need to go edit that back in ....Comedy gold!!
@@TimeVault1 Yeah, stuff like that is so cool to see now. I have a lot of video I took in the 90s myself.
@@coolbluelights we look forward to seeing it!!!! you gonna YT it? let us know. I will sign on
@@TimeVault1 I have a few videos up on my channel already
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@tonyB3864 Thanks man. Happy you enjoyed the vids
I was 1 and a half then
#Blando7887 #Blando7887 Daaaang! Nice. I was 8 if the vid was in 80. but I'm starting to think it may have been 1979. I'm not sure now. My sister and brother were 2 and 3 if it was 80.... Thanks for watching hope you're enjoying all the 80s vids?!~
Back when Memphis had the better roads and landscaping winning city beautiful awards compared to Nashville.
@VintageToyTheatre #VintageToyTheatre there's a cool vid on YT that shows the change of both cities starting in the 70s to current. Interesting how socio-eco-politics change things/places.
10:58 Check out the price of unleaded at the Mobile gas station....$1.17/gal
Awesome right @chrisauten2039 #chrisauten2039 Dang. That was still high just after the gas / oil crisis of the 70s. I remember in 88 or so paying 84cents/gallon I think during high school. Anyone remember the gas from 88-92? I Know i got pissed when Exxon Valdeze [sic] occurred cause then the prices shot up again.
@@TimeVault1 I WAS 9 THEN HERE IN CT!!!!!!
USED TO BE 95 CENTS HERE
@@ekop1778 Sweeeeet! Well, perhaps in the next 12 months the gas and other prices will coast down to a reasonable point, eh?
😮 wow! Way too easy of a time, traffic a bare minimum, I didn't know 7-Eleven existed then, "Lady's Night" easy listening, KMART was Walmart 😅 no handhelds, gas was $1.21 😮 no unhoused meth heads panhandling about, No Rap music, yet😂
@shevn_fut5453 you are correct!! lol
@@TimeVault1 amen
just to recap after a long time..>!! "Ladys' Night" maaaan I wish we had Ladies nites again. Is that even a thing now a days? !! I haven't seen a club/bar with that or karaoke in years. :( @shevn_fut5453 #shevn_fut5453
@@scotquest12 😆
What song was that at 3:30
'Answering Machine' by Rupert Holmes
It played most of the way through before I finally started to vagely remember it. I can see why no radio station EVER plays it anymore. It was a stupid song.
I had so forgotten about it, that for years I assumed Rupert Holmes' only other hit besides the Pina Colada song was the one called "Him".
Very nice blast from the past.
lol
sweeet Thanks for watching and Glad you enjoyed the vids!
I noticed 96* and $1.17 and $1.21 for gas. Goble warming and cheap gas. LOL We already moved to Mt. Juliet in 1975. Use to go back roads sometimes to see my parents on Jones Ave. in East Nashville. I would drive back roads to Old Hickory and cut through Due West down Gallatin Rd. to West End and the back road to Jones Ave. Good Memories
That's awesome! Love those back roads. My brother and I walked all over - from Harris to Madison Square theatre and even near Due West where and arcade was located; to Rivergate Mall; and up and down the railroad tracks. phew
@@TimeVault1 I meant to say Due West. l changed it. l don't know why l had Mile End on my mind.😂
Actually the gas prices were really high back then when you adjust for inflation gas is cheaper now. 1.21 in 1980 equal to 4.60 in 2024.
In 2023 when you posted this reply that 1.17 gas would have been $4.33. Energy prices were part of what caused inflation to be so high in 1980 with a rate of 12.5% in the summer that year. Unemployment was 7% so not so rosy for everyone.
I remember gas being 86 cents in South Carolina in 1998.