@Interstate 60 2002 You're completely entitled to your opinion and free to share it. If hearing someone else's opinion is so offensive, maybe refrain from sharing yours? I'm not here to have some kind of p*ssing contest with you.
@Interstate 60 2002 ALRIGHTY THEN! You should know opinions are like aholes, everyone has one and they all stink. I'm curious, were you even born before the 80's?
I was born in 1982 in New York City. We moved to the suburbs of Northern New Jersey when I was around 5 years old. I remember our neighbors all knowing each other very well. There were BBQ’s and everyone in the area seemed to be invited. No one came empty handed. Kids would hang out at each others houses and the parents all looked after each others kids. We rode bikes, climbed trees, played hide and go seek, in the summer there were pool parties and day trips to the shore/beach. In the winter we made snowmen and went sledding. It was a community. It feels like we were the last generation of that old world, if you will. Where did it go? There was an innocence and a simple joy about it that I’ll always cherish. Once upon a time….
I think the 80s was the last decade where kids would cruise around their towns on Friday and Saturday nights. That was so much fun and a great way to meet people.
This is fact. Want to know who put a stop to that? Look no further than Nancy Reagan with her "Say no to drugs" and "Don't talk to strangers" campaign. While her heart was in the right place, it was the parents that reacted with paranoia.
I remember that we getting in our car. Go to Garret Mountain. We would look for a heartbeat Road. Dead Man's Curve. Going for pizza or Rogers are going to a movie it was great back then.
I was born in ‘73, so my entire growing up years (7-17) was the 1980s. Every single thing you mentioned I had, did, saw, or remembered. With fondness of a simpler time. Thank you for the memories.
Also born in 73, and you stole my line. Lol. Man, I wish we could go back in time, and take the whole country with us. Show every one of these millennials and zoomers, see ya whiney little shit, it was not a dystopian hellscape of bigotry and racism. We had our problems sure, but we were making it better. Hell the difference in just racial crap from 80 to 89 was amazing. The rise of hip hop and rap, break dancing. We were getting there. My personal thoughts are 9/11 ruined everything, that was the turning point where everything began going downhill. And we're headed for that cliff like Thelma and Louise.
I was a kid in the 80s and remember all of this. The movies, TV shows, cartoons, music, toys, and the Atari 2600. My first grade class watched the Challenger disaster live on TV. I remember Jordache jeans and high-top shoes, and circling what I wanted for Christmas in the Sear's catalogue. Great memories!
Was helping clean out a house of a friend who's last parent had died recently. Among the stuff we were moving around we found her childhood Atari 2600, all the accessories and a good dozen games, all preserved in a box in pristine condition complete with manuals. Seems she had a Sega as well and played it instead of the Atari, and we found it too, it was well worn. She gifted me the entire 2600 collection for helping and I've very excited to have one once again. When it first came out, I mowed yards all summer to buy one only to have our house broke in to a week later and it was stolen. The nostalgia is again in my possession.
One of the defining features of the 80's was that a person really gained more personal choice because of technology. VCRs and video tapes, dual cassette 'boom boxes', more cable channels along with the Sony Walkman allowed you to watch or listen to what you wanted when you wanted.
😂🤣 In the country we had one TV channel and no place to rent a VCR or disc player. My boom box was a cassette player the size of a tissue box with one little speaker. Today my tractors and combines talk to each other and drive themselves.
@@joeschmoe8320 I can name a few that are pretty damn close that never leave the road. My wife's new Volvo SUV is nearly like floating, her driving is the only thing that lets you know you're not.
I dreamed of having a portable TV I could bring with me so I didn’t have to miss my favorite shows. A pocket sized wireless TV with video was science fiction.
I agree with you there it was the most fun to take your Walkman listen to your favorite songs that you recorded off the radio or listen to your live concert broadcast as well and put it on to a 90 minute cassette tape that was the best believe it or not I still have a box load of cassettes they're still interesting condition today thank goodness they were destroyed by magnets strong magnets that is but anyway I had box tapes of vhs's of certain movies shows and things like that and unfortunately my brother got a hold of him recorded over him or so did my mom as well but they were the best and if you're lucky you'll be able to transfer them over to DVD if you're lucky
'87 represent in effect. Sorry if I pants you in the hall when you wore sweats of if I shot spit was down the bleachers into your hair. You underclassmen took a lot of abuse.
I graduated in 89 too. Those were happier days in my opinion. Not perfect. We had our problems too but people weren’t quite as crazy as today. Great memories.
Oh the 80’s …these were truly the best years of my life and I can’t believe it was so long ago as it seems as it was just a few years ago to me. People always say I don’t look my age, I guess it’s because in my mind I still feel as though I never went forward and grew old mixed with all the fun that I had and still have as if we were still in that decade.. we were really lucky to have lived it as the best movies and bands came out then… I say, never grew old in your mind and always you will stay young…
I agree with you totally I had the best life in that era My parents gave me everything, we weren’t rich but Damn when I see things like in this video it takes me back to a good time in my life. I to don’t look my age. I’m almost 50 and I seriously look in my late 30s. I collect the barbies and things I had as a child and teen in the 80s , I am so grateful to have experienced this time. ❤
I remember that explosion...I was in high school and a friend and I were just coming out of Spanish class and another teacher came in wide-eyed telling everyone _The shuttle just blew up!_ I remember what a huge shock that was.
I miss being a kid. Walking home from school on a fall day . No responsibilities. Getting home and changing my school cloths and then off to my friends till dinner time . These videos bring back so many memories. There good but but it makes me sad in a way.
In elementary school one of my 6 grade teachers would wear those blouses with huge shoulder pads and one day she walked in class and I said, "Looks like you are about to play football with the size of those shoulder pads on" up to this point I swore or thought my teacher has a joking sense of humor, I was wrong. I got detention and a day of Saturday school but that was nothing compared to the respect I got from the other kids for saying stupid shit. My parents actually laughed in the teachers face when the teacher told them what I said. The teacher looked shocked. I'll never forget that day.
I wasn't born until 1991, but my parents were in their late teens/20s in the 80s. My mom graduated from high school in 1980 (and my dad did a year earlier in 1979), then they both graduated from college in the mid 80s and got married in 1984, and then had their first child (my older brother) in 1987. They always say it was a great decade! Kind of wish I could have been around to experience it, even though growing up in the 90s and 2000s was fun too.
The Birth of MTV, That was a big cultural moment. I remember watching videos for hours initially, then the Real World show became huge. The 80’s covered my middle school, HS and college years. I started off the decade getting my first kiss listening to Styx and ending the decade attending and getting Sunburned at a Bon Jovi, Cinderella and Ratt concert.
The 80’s was about meeting with friends and hanging out. Today, kids are on their phones and preoccupied with what other people do. I loved the 80’s, I was just a regular kid and didn’t mind going outside to play.
Another great one! I grew up in the last half of the 50’s into the 1960’s……but both of my children were 80’s babies. I loved that era and remember so much of it, of course. It was a great time to raise children.
Loved the 80's! I would ride in the back of the car between the luggage and back seat. It was a great spot. Our station wagon had a picture in the back window. Another big difference is that hardly anyone had a food allergy and parents could make food for your class.
The 80's were basically my Wonder Years, and while things were far from perfect I still miss them a lot. There will never be another decade like that. From the music to the tv and movies and culture it was just amazing. And crazy in a lot of ways...lol!
Me too Dec 7 69 80s rocked we all got along I was always up in trees, had farm too horses broke horses at 11 rode at 6 had my own horse , got to live in suburbs and on a farm best times ever pink stripe Jeans man loved - jordache wrangler played arcade at mall shop after school donkey kong I got so far up to the pies turned around bout 15 guys behind me watching cuz I got so far
I was born in 1976. The 80s were an awesome time to grow up. I would go back to the 80s and 90s if I could. They were the best. All the horror movies, action movies, sci-fi movies. Computers were taking off, that was a mistake. I had a Gemini game system. Atari was too expensive for my parents to afford. But then we got NES system. That was awesome. But our first computer was a Comodore 64. We had Donkey Kong and Pong. They were great times for sure.
I was a freshman in HS in ‘86. Loved cruisin’ in town with the older kids with a license. No particular destination. Just cruised the same route while racing and parking to hang out. Small town stuff in the Midwest.
My teen and young adult years!! 11 1/2 when the decade started, 21 when it ended. Graduated high school and joined the Navy in 1986. Was stationed on my ship(USS Belleau Wood)from JAN 1987 and stayed until JUNE 1989.
I miss going to my skating rink in the mid 1980's. They had a arcade, skating, and served cheeseburgers, hot dogs, nachos and french fries. Between playing Tempest, Q Bert or Pac Man, we would skate. Awesome times!!!
Man I miss Saturday morning cartoons eating a big bowl of trix cereal and those trips to toys r us and walking the toy aisles looking at the floor to ceiling toys
Ugh. Good stuff, man! Teddy Ruxpin, Jellies shoes (with matching Jellies purse), those twisty straws, Orange Julius, Mr. Wizard and Reading Rainbow! I want to go back. So, so good.
You are so awesome to do a part 2! Of course I just remembered that Smurfs were huge in the 80's, also Chia Pet, Easy Bake Oven, fixing cassette tapes with a pencil. Knight Rider and Moonlighting!!!! Love Boat and Fantasy Island! 😊😊😊
@@xenafriend97 One of my favorite weekly shows was Air Wolf. I have the DVD box set of that series. I look back at the show now and realized how far fetched it was but it's better than most things you see on TV today. Everything's pretty much not too interesting reality shows. Nothing good on TV anymore, even with all the abundance of channels..
My first child was born in 1980, I was 23, and I remember her having a Teddy Ruxpin and her begging for jelly shoes which she got lol. I would imagine she remembers much more about the 80's than I do.
Haha I remember all the girls having jelly shoes and bracelets! My mom says the same thing about raising us up in the 80’s it was a really great childhood!
I was outside playing in the snow when the Challenger blew up... went inside to warm up and it was playing on the news. I stood there with my mouth open in shock. The hype leading up to that day was so exciting because of the first school teacher going up on it. The world was in shock. President Regan made an awesome speech.
You hit the mark on so many levels. The Atari controller missing the cover cut deep for me. Activision games like Pitfall and River Raid were my favorites.
Amen.....the joystick missing the cover was my "go to" weapon. I still have my 2600 and pull it out to play once in a while. My adult kids still use the biggest bullshit phrase of Atari gaming......."this joystick is messed up". Not any more messed up than it was 40 years ago is what I tell them. What's crazy is that all the old game moves instantly come back...like a reflex
Pitfall and River Raid were my top two games!!!! Played them until my arms and hands were numb, sitting crossed legged on the carpet, joystick in my lap…… Thanks for bringing that memory back for me. ❤️
Once again, another out-of-the-park video! Love remembering all the things I thought I forgot. We needed Reading Rainbow to balance us out from too many hours of Atari. And I forgot about the Micro Machines. Used to be a circle of us kids at the schoolyard buying, selling, and trading them like were on Wall Street.
We grew up without a lot of money, so I loved watching “silver spoons” wishing I had all that stuff. I remember going to my friends house and playing test drive on his Commodore 64.
Awesome part 2!! I love your videos. Maybe a part 3??? Who doesn't love the 80s! These were the best times ever!!! If I could only take my Delorean back in time....
I watched ET in 1983 at the drive-in! Oh and jellies were cute and stylish, but not at all comfortable. They gave you blisters and made your feet sweat horribly! 😂
I saw ET in one of the first multiplexes in NJ. Was built on the grounds of an old Drive In near the Raritan River in South Amboy. We were in a huge line within the complex & the guy in front of me said So do you think we’ve crossed the bridge by now. The place was massive. Hear it’s closed down
Yes, I wasn't around yet in the 80s, but I was in early elementary school when jellies made a brief comeback in the late 90s. I remember I wanted a pair SO bad, but then one day I wore a pair of my friend's jellies when I went to her house and we played outside. My feet got blistered so bad, and then I definitely didn't want a pair anymore 😂
I could never understand why anyone liked those things. I was about 5 or 6 when they were popular. I remember some 3rd grader having them, but I thought they were ugly and looked uncomfortable.
I'm hitting 50 next year. It blows me away just how foreign the 1980s are to my kids as the 1960s were to me at that age. Can't wait to see what this generation comes up with.
My son's were born in the early 80's so I remember the transformers and them watching the reading rainbow with Levar Burton. My youngest thought he would get a Teddy Ruxpin for Christmas and was heartbroken when he didn't get one. I still feel terrible that I couldn't afford it at that time!
The 80’s had a lot of great entertaining memories for me as a kid growing up with sports, video games, movies, wrestling (WWF,WCW), music t.v. Shows etc, etc. Than came the 90’s to keep the thrill going😢 how I miss those 2 decades.
Riding my bike on the gravel roads sometimes after doing homework and chores but yes the music was always there- and Atari which was cool as well, but then in 1985 The NES came out- I kept mine and I still have it in my collection 👍🏻
I had the "Jellyfish" swatch watch(1987). I bought it new for $30 at our mall back then. I also bought the rubber bands accessory for that watch. I was stylin'😎
The things that come to my mind about the 80's are ...going to Alpha Beta grocery store and seeing Movie rentals for the first time, it was in its own little area and they had them in wooden cabinets with glass windows under lock and key😄 I remember going to Gemco and seeing Jackets inspired by Michael Jacksons Thriller for sale, alot of Pac Man T shirts and caps in fact my mom worked for Atari from 1980-1984 she got to meet Michael Jackson when he went to visit the factory in 81 in Sunnyvale Ca, I also got access to arcade games and had some at my birthday parties, when the cabbage patch kids craze happened and my sister couldn't get one I remember going to the flea market to get the fake cabbage patch kids...they we all piled up and individually packaged in plastic bags, as I got older I was definitely a Debbie Gibson fan, going to the mall was the thing, I remember going to Merry Go Round to shop for middle school clothes and the acid wash jeans, at school those rubber bangles of various colors including neon were very popular as well as neon shoe laces, Musicland for my records and tapes, oh and Chuck E Cheese and Bullwinkle's pizza parlors!...oh man i could go on 🤐☺
wait when u said Alpha Beta & Gemco i was like that sounds like Pomona in my 80s but then u said Bullwinkle so i know u had 2 live in Los Angles county, u must remember Montgomery Wards also
@@marinosgoat9208 no more north...Silicon Valley...and yes I remember 'Monkey Wards'..'Zody's' a store we had here i havent heard of anywhere else was called 'The Treasury'
@@marinosgoat9208- I grew up in Costa Mesa in the 80's, & 90's. My family would go to the Huish Family Fun Center in Fountain Valley to play Miniature Golf, next door to Bullwinkle's. We shopped at Alpha Beta, Stater Bros, Gemco, & Fedco. I got a lot of my Atari 2600 games at Toys R Us. I rode my first Rollercoaster The Corkscrew in 1981 at Knott's Berry Farm. I worked for Edward's Cinemas in the early 90's for 3 years as a teenager. I even worked for Fedco for 3 years, before moving to Arizona in 1997. MEMORIES❕👍 Hello from Phoenix Arizona❗🔥
My decade!! Great job 👍 Miami Vice and Moonlighting were the best. Watched them in college. Loved everything 80's. 😊 Again, thank you for the memories.
I was born in 1970! I loved growing up in the suburbs back then. Coming home from school and getting together with friends to play outside was all we did!! A lot different nowI guess! Great video!!
Probably could have split the 80s up into two or three sections, early, mid, and late 80s. This is particularly true for music, which had pre-MTV, post-MTV, and then the arrival of rap.
I agree the late 80s was looking very different from the early/mid. By rap do you mean corporate style, or that it changed? you may recall, this is early 80s music th-cam.com/video/zEmg5GaAHbk/w-d-xo.html some of the best coming out of the 80s / defining the 80s.
@catalyst_99 "Popular" and mainstream are two different things. Rap didn't become mainstream until the mid to late 80s. I'd just as soon it had stayed in the ghetto where it belonged, personally.
I was fortunate enough to grow up in the 80s, I was 7 in 1980, so I grew up with all this stuff. Some of the greatest times of my life. The only regret I have about growing up in the 80s is that fact I'm still alive for the shit show the world turned into today.
Loved this! Part 3.? Vans Off The Wall tennis shoes, Sergio Valente & Jordache jeans, multiple ear-piercings, acrylic nails, neon nail polish, rockabilly / mod dress, Vespa / moped, Devo, Moon Unit Zappa's Valley Girl, Go-Go's, Chinese Jacks, open HS campus leaving school at lunch, aerobics, Gunny Sack dresses, Bubble Yum, seat belt law, frozen yogurt, Members Only jackets, Dolphin Shorts and french cut bikini swimsuits. Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue, Modern English's I Melt With You, and Boy George's Culture Club. Bain De Soleil or baby oil for sunbathing. I was all over the place in the 80's. It was a long, fun and confusing decade.
born in 1978, now 2022 and feeling older each day, i was a boy in the 80s and it was the best decade and i remember all of this well. Most of my days were spent at arcades, malls, blockbuster, library and enjoyed outside with friends. I miss the days of 80s fashion, MTV and music, pay phones, Teddy Ruxpin, saturday morning cartoons, sugar loaded cereals, garbage pail, pagers, analog tv and rabbit ears, VHS/ Betamax and cassette tapes, card catalog, Atari and NES, the walkman, and much more. Hell, i even miss school and having homework. It was great before cell phones, internet and everything changed everything. If i could go back, i would and relive it all over again.
I remember being a kid back then and all these things and we thought it all sucked lol. Looking back it was amazing and just a good time. I don't care how great tech is now the 80s were a great time to be a kid.
In 1986, my third grade class sang "We Are the World" and "That's What Friends Are For" in a school program. My teacher led the production and was very moved by the famine in Ethiopia and Ryan White.
aww watching this bring back my childhood. The 80 s was the last great decade. I was blessed to be alive. I was 10 in 1983 and every body had to have one. Life was simple and easy back then. The music food and toys were better. We had our bikes and we had our favorite tv shows particular soul train. Animation cartoons like transformers, Voltron, g i joe. We had family reunion s and toys were iconic. There will never ever be a decade like the eighties particularly the early 80's. The memories of my childhood will be with me to my dying bed. Thanks for sharing
If you had a satellite dish antenna which is also a very 80s thing, you could see the Bozo show out of WGN Chicago on the Galaxy 1 satellite, still remember it very fondly, otherwise I think they became a syndicated show in the late 80s into the 90s.
@@gussalazar449, my friend watched it on Cable, via WGN. We didn't have cable, and it wasn't broadcast, in Detroit, so I had never heard of it, either, until that day, lol.
The 1980s stand out because it was the beginning of the peak of 'American culture' as it were. Growing up as a kid then was just too much fun. There was never anything like it, nor will there ever be again.
I was in my 20's, in the 1980's. I, was working for Montgomery Wards from 1980 until 1985. Then, I did a Montgomery Wards Department Store 🏬 Closing in 1985. Then, I got another job at Kmart from 1985 until 1996. I remember the Wendy's Commercial, "Where's the Beef "?I, also remember the Commercial from Dunkin Donuts 🍩, Time to make the Donuts 🍩
Monky Wards on Independence Ave? My favorite thing there was the old guy with the tamale cart in the parking lot. Otherwise I liked the Green Stamp store better. Still have a yellow milk crate I got from there.
Ahhh...I remember when wearing 3 or more Swatch watches at once was a fashion statement back then. And let's not forget the required Swatch guards to protect those watch faces. LOL! 🤓
i got my Atari 2600 in 1980 for Christmas that got me into video games. i do remember the gobots came out before the transformers. the gobots was known as the poor kids transformers back then. my family had a vcr back then. but we very rarely rented movies. if there's a new movie we wanted to watch we wait until it come's on hbo.
I'm an 80's kid & I truly believe it was last great decade of our Nation. I thank God I experienced it!
Ugh. It is eternal. This mindframe. Did you watch the misogynist rape fantasy films? Just stop.
@Interstate 60 2002 Having seen 5 decades come and go, IMO the 80's was the best in so many ways.
@Interstate 60 2002 You're completely entitled to your opinion and free to share it. If hearing someone else's opinion is so offensive, maybe refrain from sharing yours?
I'm not here to have some kind of p*ssing contest with you.
@Interstate 60 2002 ALRIGHTY THEN!
You should know opinions are like aholes, everyone has one and they all stink.
I'm curious, were you even born before the 80's?
@Interstate 60 2002 I thought so. 🤡
Graduated 1982, married 84, babies MID 80s. Life was good. Our world was different, better. God help us in today's world. 🙏
Because the world was a whole lot better then than it is now
And that’s fact
I was born in 1982 in New York City. We moved to the suburbs of Northern New Jersey when I was around 5 years old. I remember our neighbors all knowing each other very well. There were BBQ’s and everyone in the area seemed to be invited. No one came empty handed. Kids would hang out at each others houses and the parents all looked after each others kids. We rode bikes, climbed trees, played hide and go seek, in the summer there were pool parties and day trips to the shore/beach. In the winter we made snowmen and went sledding. It was a community. It feels like we were the last generation of that old world, if you will. Where did it go? There was an innocence and a simple joy about it that I’ll always cherish. Once upon a time….
Yessss❤❤❤❤
If you have to question that statement, you are not up on your history.
At 47, I feel a little old today but I would never give back growing up in the 80’s!
Your a Puppy ...
Yes for sure! I’m 46 so you are old lol
Me too
I miss the 80s
AM 49 I remember all of this 80s we're the best time for me
I think the 80s was the last decade where kids would cruise around their towns on Friday and Saturday nights. That was so much fun and a great way to meet people.
This is fact. Want to know who put a stop to that? Look no further than Nancy Reagan with her "Say no to drugs" and "Don't talk to strangers" campaign. While her heart was in the right place, it was the parents that reacted with paranoia.
We did this in the 90s too. Graduated in 96.
My best friend and I would do that, cranking up the music and trying to be cool.
@@tanyalarose8907 You and Janeen were a lot of fun. I always liked her cutlass.
I remember that we getting in our car. Go to Garret Mountain. We would look for a heartbeat Road. Dead Man's Curve. Going for pizza or Rogers are going to a movie it was great back then.
Who thinks we need a Part 3 of the 80s???? 🙏🏻✝️💯🤗
@Alan I think they just meant a Part 3 video from this channel. 😊
@Alan You call TODAY'S TIMES PROGRESS? Other than the TECHNOLOGY this isn't PROGRESS. It is COMPLETE CRAP.
Probably, but we lived it. So that part 3 will always live in our minds.
@@chriszeien9112👍
Me!
80s was the last decade of real America. Life just hasn't been the same. Beautiful decade the 80s was
So pretty much that generation effed everything up😢
90s were ok too.
So true 😎😎
Everything was fine till 2012 then everything went to hell in America
@@heathjohnson2575 agreed more or less
I was born in ‘73, so my entire growing up years (7-17) was the 1980s. Every single thing you mentioned I had, did, saw, or remembered. With fondness of a simpler time. Thank you for the memories.
Also born in 73, and you stole my line. Lol. Man, I wish we could go back in time, and take the whole country with us. Show every one of these millennials and zoomers, see ya whiney little shit, it was not a dystopian hellscape of bigotry and racism. We had our problems sure, but we were making it better. Hell the difference in just racial crap from 80 to 89 was amazing. The rise of hip hop and rap, break dancing. We were getting there. My personal thoughts are 9/11 ruined everything, that was the turning point where everything began going downhill. And we're headed for that cliff like Thelma and Louise.
Yep 1974 for me
1970 for me... 😊
Everybody's favorite decade is the one they experienced as children and teenagers.
Same here 1974 June 2.
I was a kid in the 80s and remember all of this. The movies, TV shows, cartoons, music, toys, and the Atari 2600. My first grade class watched the Challenger disaster live on TV. I remember Jordache jeans and high-top shoes, and circling what I wanted for Christmas in the Sear's catalogue. Great memories!
Was helping clean out a house of a friend who's last parent had died recently. Among the stuff we were moving around we found her childhood Atari 2600, all the accessories and a good dozen games, all preserved in a box in pristine condition complete with manuals. Seems she had a Sega as well and played it instead of the Atari, and we found it too, it was well worn. She gifted me the entire 2600 collection for helping and I've very excited to have one once again. When it first came out, I mowed yards all summer to buy one only to have our house broke in to a week later and it was stolen. The nostalgia is again in my possession.
Congrats!
My red walkman...
Wow!! I am so happy for you!! You have an awesome friend!! Have fun!!! 👏🏼👏🏼
wow that's awesome. I can remember us kids begging our parents for an Atari after we went to my aunt's house and saw my cousins playing it.
Still have a couple working 2600s in my closet
And at least 25 games.
Turned 10 in 1980. This brings things back
I finished Kindergarten in June 1980. I was young, for the entire decade, but old enough to remember the whole thing.
haha you're old... ah crap so am I... dammit
Shit I was only 3
Turned 10 in 1980 too 😋
The 80’s were the best. The clothes the hair the music the movies EVERYTHING
Graduated in 81 and joined the Army for a 20 yr career! 3 of my sons were born in the 80s! 7 decades in life, 80s was the best!!!
So many good memories, Friday nights renting a VCR & movies. Outside playing with your friends. Riding bikes, it's not the same no more. Miss the 80s
One of the defining features of the 80's was that a person really gained more personal choice because of technology. VCRs and video tapes, dual cassette 'boom boxes', more cable channels along with the Sony Walkman allowed you to watch or listen to what you wanted when you wanted.
😂🤣 In the country we had one TV channel and no place to rent a VCR or disc player. My boom box was a cassette player the size of a tissue box with one little speaker. Today my tractors and combines talk to each other and drive themselves.
@@joeschmoe8320 I can name a few that are pretty damn close that never leave the road. My wife's new Volvo SUV is nearly like floating, her driving is the only thing that lets you know you're not.
But boy those Walkmans went through the batteries!
I dreamed of having a portable TV I could bring with me so I didn’t have to miss my favorite shows. A pocket sized wireless TV with video was science fiction.
I agree with you there it was the most fun to take your Walkman listen to your favorite songs that you recorded off the radio or listen to your live concert broadcast as well and put it on to a 90 minute cassette tape that was the best believe it or not I still have a box load of cassettes they're still interesting condition today thank goodness they were destroyed by magnets strong magnets that is but anyway I had box tapes of vhs's of certain movies shows and things like that and unfortunately my brother got a hold of him recorded over him or so did my mom as well but they were the best and if you're lucky you'll be able to transfer them over to DVD if you're lucky
Im 46. Thx so much for bringing those memories back in this video.
The 80's were unique in that, the culture grew with the kids.
@Eidelmania i don't think so. Not nearly to the extent that the 80's did.
@@Godric_71 if you missed them, you missed out.
@@Ozzy_2014 Exactly
Couldn’t have said it better… So many new and exciting things came into existence in the 80’s.
@@allend6137 Like so many others, I couldn't wait to grow up. Now, I'd give anything to go back.
Growing up 80’s and 90’s was a blast.
Awww man, how I miss the 80's. Yes cheezy but loved that decade. I graduated in 1989
Agreed! I thought it was a corny decade myself. Graduated 1988. Now the 90's....THAT was my style!!
'87 represent in effect. Sorry if I pants you in the hall when you wore sweats of if I shot spit was down the bleachers into your hair. You underclassmen took a lot of abuse.
@@onecoolcat2478 1990 graduate 🎓 here! Best times ever! 🙏🏻✝️😊 Miss the 80s
1988 here..
I graduated in 89 too. Those were happier days in my opinion. Not perfect. We had our problems too but people weren’t quite as crazy as today. Great memories.
Oh the 80’s …these were truly the best years of my life and I can’t believe it was so long ago as it seems as it was just a few years ago to me. People always say I don’t look my age, I guess it’s because in my mind I still feel as though I never went forward and grew old mixed with all the fun that I had and still have as if we were still in that decade.. we were really lucky to have lived it as the best movies and bands came out then… I say, never grew old in your mind and always you will stay young…
ABSOLUTELY.
One hundred percent with you here....what great times.
Never grow old; stay young at heart, and we can laugh forever....no matter what.
I used to put my heavy metal cassette tapes into my little sister's Teddy Ruxpin to watch it spaz out while Judas Priest was blaring out of his mouth.
@@brianmoore6490 That is awesome.....Ruxpin rocking out to a Glen Tipton guitar riff.....now THAT would be great to see!
I agree with you totally
I had the best life in that era
My parents gave me everything, we weren’t rich but Damn when I see things like in this video it takes me back to a good time in my life.
I to don’t look my age. I’m almost 50 and I seriously look in my late 30s.
I collect the barbies and things I had as a child and teen in the 80s ,
I am so grateful to have experienced this time. ❤
U sound like what I feel like in my own life that’s crazy
80s kids grew up in the best decade! Thank you for the nostalgic memories!
Nickelodeon was so so much better in those days along with MTV!!
I want my MTV!!!!!
man, I miss MTV!!
Country Music TV was better then too.
YES!!!!!!
That’s because they’re parent company was MTV Networks,Inc.
I was on vacation with my family to Florida in 86 and we went to see the liftoff of Challenger. My mother cried for a month.
I remember that explosion...I was in high school and a friend and I were just coming out of Spanish class and another teacher came in wide-eyed telling everyone _The shuttle just blew up!_
I remember what a huge shock that was.
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Joe, you will always be a Schmoe with jokes like that 🙄
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I heard that gross joke sometimes also, cept Christa, Judy, Ellison and Ron all had dark brown eyes.
I must have been home sick from school the day The Challenger blew up🤔 I was watching it when it happened. I’ve never forgotten it.
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It has never left me, I had nightmares a long time afterwards.
I miss being a kid. Walking home from school on a fall day . No responsibilities. Getting home and changing my school cloths and then off to my friends till dinner time . These videos bring back so many memories. There good but but it makes me sad in a way.
You nailed the mall and of course those 80's fashions :) . I swear everything I wore had those huge shoulder pads hahaha
I used to cut the shoulder pads out of every shirt and jacket I got. I hated those things!
@@aequoria2949 Me too!
@@aequoria2949 We did too! LOL 😆
@@aequoria2949 me too 😆
In elementary school one of my 6 grade teachers would wear those blouses with huge shoulder pads and one day she walked in class and I said, "Looks like you are about to play football with the size of those shoulder pads on" up to this point I swore or thought my teacher has a joking sense of humor, I was wrong. I got detention and a day of Saturday school but that was nothing compared to the respect I got from the other kids for saying stupid shit. My parents actually laughed in the teachers face when the teacher told them what I said. The teacher looked shocked. I'll never forget that day.
It was a great time to be a kid. I love my 80s music 💕
I was already an adult in my early 20s, thanks for the memories.
Lol I remember people in their 20s being so old when I was a kid in the 80s. Now here I am at 44, as my 20s are long behind me.🚀✨🚀✨🚀
But you are still young enough
best decade ever
I wasn't born until 1991, but my parents were in their late teens/20s in the 80s. My mom graduated from high school in 1980 (and my dad did a year earlier in 1979), then they both graduated from college in the mid 80s and got married in 1984, and then had their first child (my older brother) in 1987. They always say it was a great decade! Kind of wish I could have been around to experience it, even though growing up in the 90s and 2000s was fun too.
@@angeldesigns1385 im 44 & when we were 11 & 12 a 15 16 year old seemed super old 2 us lol
The Birth of MTV, That was a big cultural moment. I remember watching videos for hours initially, then the Real World show became huge. The 80’s covered my middle school, HS and college years. I started off the decade getting my first kiss listening to Styx and ending the decade attending and getting Sunburned at a Bon Jovi, Cinderella and Ratt concert.
I didn't start watching MTV until the late 80s when they came out with out YO MTV RAPS
Yes!! MTV influenced everything in the 80s--music, styles, art, celebrities!
The 80’s was about meeting with friends and hanging out. Today, kids are on their phones and preoccupied with what other people do. I loved the 80’s, I was just a regular kid and didn’t mind going outside to play.
Another great one! I grew up in the last half of the 50’s into the 1960’s……but both of my children were 80’s babies. I loved that era and remember so much of it, of course. It was a great time to raise children.
I believe most mothers of the 80's would agree with you! Mine would! The fads, fashions and culture overall, we're enjoyed by all ages!
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I loved the 1980's!
Loved the 80's! I would ride in the back of the car between the luggage and back seat. It was a great spot. Our station wagon had a picture in the back window. Another big difference is that hardly anyone had a food allergy and parents could make food for your class.
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The 80's were basically my Wonder Years, and while things were far from perfect I still miss them a lot. There will never be another decade like that. From the music to the tv and movies and culture it was just amazing. And crazy in a lot of ways...lol!
Last best decade. Born in 69. Loved the 80s where playing outside all day long
Me too Dec 7 69 80s rocked we all got along I was always up in trees, had farm too horses broke horses at 11 rode at 6 had my own horse , got to live in suburbs and on a farm best times ever pink stripe Jeans man loved - jordache wrangler played arcade at mall shop after school donkey kong I got so far up to the pies turned around bout 15 guys behind me watching cuz I got so far
@@movebichgetouttheway8486 nice did u have some parachute pants😂😂
I was born in 1976. The 80s were an awesome time to grow up. I would go back to the 80s and 90s if I could. They were the best. All the horror movies, action movies, sci-fi movies. Computers were taking off, that was a mistake. I had a Gemini game system. Atari was too expensive for my parents to afford. But then we got NES system. That was awesome. But our first computer was a Comodore 64. We had Donkey Kong and Pong. They were great times for sure.
Yes, I’m a bicentennial baby as well, we were lucky and the perfect age to experience the best of the 80’s and 90’s!!
EXACTLY. On every level of your comment.
What a great time in which to grow up. I loved it all and truly miss it.
I grew up in the 80's(It was my childhood). The 80's wasn't perfect, but it was truly among the best of times.
I was a freshman in HS in ‘86. Loved cruisin’ in town with the older kids with a license. No particular destination. Just cruised the same route while racing and parking to hang out. Small town stuff in the Midwest.
Jason Shebuam is that you? I used to scoop the loop with Hicks and Ferguson.
Good times in Michigan, cruising Gratiot
Why did we cruise parking lots going in a counter clockwise circle?
My teen and young adult years!! 11 1/2 when the decade started, 21 when it ended. Graduated high school and joined the Navy in 1986. Was stationed on my ship(USS Belleau Wood)from JAN 1987 and stayed until JUNE 1989.
I was just 2 when it started and 12 when it ended. I loved the 80s.
I miss going to my skating rink in the mid 1980's. They had a arcade, skating, and served cheeseburgers, hot dogs, nachos and french fries. Between playing Tempest, Q Bert or Pac Man, we would skate. Awesome times!!!
Went to the skating rink every Saturday night in the early '80's. Loved playing Tempest.✌
@Barbara Chieppo Thanks! During the songs, when couples would "slow skate" together, we would go play Arcade...lol
@@davidgoodman6924 Same for me.😊
@@barbarachieppo9603 😊
Do they even have skating rinks anymore? That and drive in movie theaters, of course sneaking in a few friends 😊
Man I miss Saturday morning cartoons eating a big bowl of trix cereal and those trips to toys r us and walking the toy aisles looking at the floor to ceiling toys
I remember putting Guns n Roses cassettes in Teddy Ruxpin. Wow times were easier then.
I did that with a NWA tape. 😂😂😂
Master of Puppets was my Ruxpin jam!
Ugh. Good stuff, man! Teddy Ruxpin, Jellies shoes (with matching Jellies purse), those twisty straws, Orange Julius, Mr. Wizard and Reading Rainbow! I want to go back. So, so good.
You are so awesome to do a part 2! Of course I just remembered that Smurfs were huge in the 80's, also Chia Pet, Easy Bake Oven, fixing cassette tapes with a pencil. Knight Rider and Moonlighting!!!! Love Boat and Fantasy Island! 😊😊😊
Yes!!!! Where's Knight Rider? I loved KITT!
@@xenafriend97 One of my favorite weekly shows was Air Wolf. I have the DVD box set of that series. I look back at the show now and realized how far fetched it was but it's better than most things you see on TV today. Everything's pretty much not too interesting reality shows. Nothing good on TV anymore, even with all the abundance of channels..
My first child was born in 1980, I was 23, and I remember her having a Teddy Ruxpin and her begging for jelly shoes which she got lol. I would imagine she remembers much more about the 80's than I do.
Haha I remember all the girls having jelly shoes and bracelets! My mom says the same thing about raising us up in the 80’s it was a really great childhood!
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This was great! Can we get a Part 3 please???
I totally agree! We need a Part 3 💯
You should check out Timeline on the Weird History TH-cam Channel. They have 1980 - 1989 and the 90s as well.
@@Nick_Nightingale Thank you, I absolutely will.
I agree!
I was born in 76 and was smack in the middle of the 80s culture growing up.
Awww how I missed those Friday nights staying up late.
Best years ever as a kid
I'm definitely a child of the 1980's. Proud Gen X'er here. I remember all of this.
Spent a lot of time at the mall video arcade, and local skating rink. So much fun and carefree hours.
I was outside playing in the snow when the Challenger blew up... went inside to warm up and it was playing on the news. I stood there with my mouth open in shock. The hype leading up to that day was so exciting because of the first school teacher going up on it. The world was in shock. President Regan made an awesome speech.
Malls, acid jeans, neon colors, big hair, shoulder pads, Miami Vice and don’t get me started on NKOTB!
That's how I think of the 80's.
You hit the mark on so many levels. The Atari controller missing the cover cut deep for me. Activision games like Pitfall and River Raid were my favorites.
Amen.....the joystick missing the cover was my "go to" weapon. I still have my 2600 and pull it out to play once in a while. My adult kids still use the biggest bullshit phrase of Atari gaming......."this joystick is messed up". Not any more messed up than it was 40 years ago is what I tell them. What's crazy is that all the old game moves instantly come back...like a reflex
two of my favorites, but Chopper Command was my jam.
I never lost my covers,
Pitfall was the best! Berserk was pretty cool too
Pitfall and River Raid were my top two games!!!! Played them until my arms and hands were numb, sitting crossed legged on the carpet, joystick in my lap…… Thanks for bringing that memory back for me. ❤️
Once again, another out-of-the-park video! Love remembering all the things I thought I forgot. We needed Reading Rainbow to balance us out from too many hours of Atari. And I forgot about the Micro Machines. Used to be a circle of us kids at the schoolyard buying, selling, and trading them like were on Wall Street.
We grew up without a lot of money, so I loved watching “silver spoons” wishing I had all that stuff. I remember going to my friends house and playing test drive on his Commodore 64.
Us too Hade to watch Night Flick on TBS late night no MTV ...
I guess I was the "rich kid" then 😆
I miss the 80s I grew up in the 80s life was good unlike now
so cool to watch these, I'm 45 now, every one of these hits home
Awesome part 2!! I love your videos. Maybe a part 3??? Who doesn't love the 80s! These were the best times ever!!! If I could only take my Delorean back in time....
Your Delorean would probably break down since they were junk.
Bugle Boy was my whole wardrobe in the 80s, even boots
501's OP Shirt, Shorts and Vans ... Also, Dock Sides and Members Only Jackets ...
I can't believe it was that long ago!
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I loved the 80s. We had the best cartoons tv shows movies just everything about the 80s. Great video.
Remember that show "Alf",?😅
@@denisepleines1513 yes yes I do. In fact I have every season on DVD. It’s one of my favorites along with Punky Brewster.
I watched ET in 1983 at the drive-in! Oh and jellies were cute and stylish, but not at all comfortable. They gave you blisters and made your feet sweat horribly! 😂
I saw ET in one of the first multiplexes in NJ. Was built on the grounds of an old Drive In near the Raritan River in South Amboy. We were in a huge line within the complex & the guy in front of me said So do you think we’ve crossed the bridge by now. The place was massive. Hear it’s closed down
I Did too in California ET in 1983 at the drive-in!
Yes, I wasn't around yet in the 80s, but I was in early elementary school when jellies made a brief comeback in the late 90s. I remember I wanted a pair SO bad, but then one day I wore a pair of my friend's jellies when I went to her house and we played outside. My feet got blistered so bad, and then I definitely didn't want a pair anymore 😂
I could never understand why anyone liked those things. I was about 5 or 6 when they were popular. I remember some 3rd grader having them, but I thought they were ugly and looked uncomfortable.
Remember Candies?
Born in 1970..a kid in the 70’s a teen in the 80’s..great time to be alive
Thank you for your TOTALLY AWESOME work and contributions to life.
I'm hitting 50 next year. It blows me away just how foreign the 1980s are to my kids as the 1960s were to me at that age. Can't wait to see what this generation comes up with.
My son's were born in the early 80's so I remember the transformers and them watching the reading rainbow with Levar Burton. My youngest thought he would get a Teddy Ruxpin for Christmas and was heartbroken when he didn't get one. I still feel terrible that I couldn't afford it at that time!
I remember so much from this video.
OMGosh, Trivial Pursuit. I forgot all about those marathon games I played back then. Thanks for that hearty smile:)
The 80’s had a lot of great entertaining memories for me as a kid growing up with sports, video games, movies, wrestling (WWF,WCW), music t.v. Shows etc, etc. Than came the 90’s to keep the thrill going😢 how I miss those 2 decades.
The 80's had the best TV shows and films.
Wish I can go back to this era!! These were the best times!!
Riding my bike on the gravel roads sometimes after doing homework and chores but yes the music was always there- and Atari which was cool as well, but then in 1985 The NES came out- I kept mine and I still have it in my collection 👍🏻
I had the "Jellyfish" swatch watch(1987). I bought it new for $30 at our mall back then. I also bought the rubber bands accessory for that watch. I was stylin'😎
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It was a great time to be alive😊
I am a 80s kid so happy I grew up than I would live in the 80s again I guess I still do. Love the music of the 80s.
The things that come to my mind about the 80's are ...going to Alpha Beta grocery store and seeing Movie rentals for the first time, it was in its own little area and they had them in wooden cabinets with glass windows under lock and key😄 I remember going to Gemco and seeing Jackets inspired by Michael Jacksons Thriller for sale, alot of Pac Man T shirts and caps in fact my mom worked for Atari from 1980-1984 she got to meet Michael Jackson when he went to visit the factory in 81 in Sunnyvale Ca, I also got access to arcade games and had some at my birthday parties, when the cabbage patch kids craze happened and my sister couldn't get one I remember going to the flea market to get the fake cabbage patch kids...they we all piled up and individually packaged in plastic bags, as I got older I was definitely a Debbie Gibson fan, going to the mall was the thing, I remember going to Merry Go Round to shop for middle school clothes and the acid wash jeans, at school those rubber bangles of various colors including neon were very popular as well as neon shoe laces, Musicland for my records and tapes, oh and Chuck E Cheese and Bullwinkle's pizza parlors!...oh man i could go on 🤐☺
wait when u said Alpha Beta & Gemco i was like that sounds like Pomona in my 80s but then u said Bullwinkle so i know u had 2 live in Los Angles county, u must remember Montgomery Wards also
@@marinosgoat9208 no more north...Silicon Valley...and yes I remember 'Monkey Wards'..'Zody's' a store we had here i havent heard of anywhere else was called 'The Treasury'
@@marinosgoat9208- I grew up in Costa Mesa in the 80's, & 90's. My family would go to the Huish Family Fun Center in Fountain Valley to play Miniature Golf, next door to Bullwinkle's. We shopped at Alpha Beta, Stater Bros, Gemco, & Fedco. I got a lot of my Atari 2600 games at Toys R Us. I rode my first Rollercoaster The Corkscrew in 1981 at Knott's Berry Farm. I worked for Edward's Cinemas in the early 90's for 3 years as a teenager. I even worked for Fedco for 3 years, before moving to Arizona in 1997.
MEMORIES❕👍
Hello from Phoenix Arizona❗🔥
@@pinball541 wow man the real good ol days!!!
The 70s and 80s in the united states at least was a great time to be a young 👍👍
My decade!! Great job 👍 Miami Vice and Moonlighting were the best. Watched them in college. Loved everything 80's. 😊 Again, thank you for the memories.
Let's not forget El Debarge, New Edition, Pat Benatar, Duran, Duran. Exc- All Big in the 80's.
...also Kids Incorporated.
Candy Girl is now playing in my head.
I was born in 1970! I loved growing up in the suburbs back then. Coming home from school and getting together with friends to play outside was all we did!! A lot different nowI guess! Great video!!
I had so many Swatches 😂 and the Speak and Spell was my favorite toy. And you can't beat 80's cinema.
Probably could have split the 80s up into two or three sections, early, mid, and late 80s. This is particularly true for music, which had pre-MTV, post-MTV, and then the arrival of rap.
I agree the late 80s was looking very different from the early/mid. By rap do you mean corporate style, or that it changed? you may recall, this is early 80s music th-cam.com/video/zEmg5GaAHbk/w-d-xo.html some of the best coming out of the 80s / defining the 80s.
@catalyst_99 "Popular" and mainstream are two different things. Rap didn't become mainstream until the mid to late 80s. I'd just as soon it had stayed in the ghetto where it belonged, personally.
Isn’t it funny how the most famous and influential rap stars of the 1980s were actually white?
I was fortunate enough to grow up in the 80s, I was 7 in 1980, so I grew up with all this stuff. Some of the greatest times of my life. The only regret I have about growing up in the 80s is that fact I'm still alive for the shit show the world turned into today.
Loved this! Part 3.? Vans Off The Wall tennis shoes, Sergio Valente & Jordache jeans, multiple ear-piercings, acrylic nails, neon nail polish, rockabilly / mod dress, Vespa / moped, Devo, Moon Unit Zappa's Valley Girl, Go-Go's, Chinese Jacks, open HS campus leaving school at lunch, aerobics, Gunny Sack dresses, Bubble Yum, seat belt law, frozen yogurt, Members Only jackets, Dolphin Shorts and french cut bikini swimsuits. Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue, Modern English's I Melt With You, and Boy George's Culture Club. Bain De Soleil or baby oil for sunbathing. I was all over the place in the 80's. It was a long, fun and confusing decade.
Swatch watches!
Vans are skater shoes, not "tennis shoes"...
@@AndromedanNomad Sure. However those that don't skate ware them as such. Have a wonderful day.
Mmm...French Cut Bikinis....👙🤤
@@chelleb3055 I loved them!
born in 1978, now 2022 and feeling older each day, i was a boy in the 80s and it was the best decade and i remember all of this well. Most of my days were spent at arcades, malls, blockbuster, library and enjoyed outside with friends. I miss the days of 80s fashion, MTV and music, pay phones, Teddy Ruxpin, saturday morning cartoons, sugar loaded cereals, garbage pail, pagers, analog tv and rabbit ears, VHS/ Betamax and cassette tapes, card catalog, Atari and NES, the walkman, and much more. Hell, i even miss school and having homework. It was great before cell phones, internet and everything changed everything. If i could go back, i would and relive it all over again.
I remember being a kid back then and all these things and we thought it all sucked lol. Looking back it was amazing and just a good time. I don't care how great tech is now the 80s were a great time to be a kid.
I sure wish I could go back in time
In 1986, my third grade class sang "We Are the World" and "That's What Friends Are For" in a school program. My teacher led the production and was very moved by the famine in Ethiopia and Ryan White.
aww watching this bring back my childhood. The 80 s was the last great decade. I was blessed to be alive. I was 10 in 1983 and every body had to have one. Life was simple and easy back then. The music food and toys were better. We had our bikes and we had our favorite tv shows particular soul train. Animation cartoons like transformers, Voltron, g i joe. We had family reunion s and toys were iconic. There will never ever be a decade like the eighties particularly the early 80's. The memories of my childhood will be with me to my dying bed. Thanks for sharing
Don’t forget the guy who held the record for speaking the fastest. He was in some kids toy commercials.
I was a kid the whole 80s. I remember all the things mentioned here except the Bozo show.
If you had a satellite dish antenna which is also a very 80s thing, you could see the Bozo show out of WGN Chicago on the Galaxy 1 satellite, still remember it very fondly, otherwise I think they became a syndicated show in the late 80s into the 90s.
Me too i was born in jan of 81 ... he missed the big wheel tho 🤣
Yeah, I was lost on that too. Never heard of it.
Romper Room, i was 5 maybe 6, never will 4get
@@gussalazar449, my friend watched it on Cable, via WGN. We didn't have cable, and it wasn't broadcast, in Detroit, so I had never heard of it, either, until that day, lol.
The 1980s stand out because it was the beginning of the peak of 'American culture' as it were. Growing up as a kid then was just too much fun. There was never anything like it, nor will there ever be again.
Edward Van halen influences a generation of guitar players in the 80s.
I Remember the 80's I was a kid I Remember the music the movies my Childhood I Remember Everything I miss the 80's 😥😢 🎷🎸📺📼
I was in my 20's, in the 1980's. I, was working for Montgomery Wards from 1980 until 1985. Then, I did a Montgomery Wards Department Store 🏬 Closing in 1985. Then, I got another job at Kmart from 1985 until 1996. I remember the Wendy's Commercial, "Where's the Beef "?I, also remember the Commercial from Dunkin Donuts 🍩, Time to make the Donuts 🍩
I miss Kmart.
@@bostongirlsandy Me too
Monky Wards on Independence Ave? My favorite thing there was the old guy with the tamale cart in the parking lot. Otherwise I liked the Green Stamp store better. Still have a yellow milk crate I got from there.
I watched both videos. Such nostalgia. The best time to be a kid. I’d go back in a heartbeat.
I really enjoyed this video, very nostalgic. This might be your best work yet that you've put together.
The toys, cartoons, prime time comedy TV shows, bmx, rock music......all better than anything since.
Ahhh...I remember when wearing 3 or more Swatch watches at once was a fashion statement back then. And let's not forget the required Swatch guards to protect those watch faces. LOL! 🤓
Oh yeah, and friendship bracelets!
Wow a great time to be a kid.
i got my Atari 2600 in 1980 for Christmas that got me into video games. i do remember the gobots came out before the transformers. the gobots was known as the poor kids transformers back then. my family had a vcr back then. but we very rarely rented movies. if there's a new movie we wanted to watch we wait until it come's on hbo.