Or when they talked over the intro! Stop talking. Stop talking!! STOP TALKIIIING!!! Definitely spent lots of time waiting for Casey to play the song(s) I wanted to record!
Ya... I miss my mom. All my grandparents and uncles and aunts. Always a family party somewhere on the weekends. Now everyone is dead. My sister and brother are still alive but live in other states. I really do miss having a big extended family.
I would love to sit in the corner of one of those 80s Christmases or thanksgivings. Just to listen to all of my family that are gone. The holidays just aren't the same.
Same. Technology was almost identical. Things didn't really change until the internet. But it's not like everyone had a computer around that time either. And VCRs were still popular until about 2000 or so.
I can also say I miss those too and a lot of the businesses then are either closed or barely holding on along with changing and not always for the better. ☹
@@francoisregis2155 I feel that too also and these times really just got hostile and dangerous and like the video that isn't going to work today even if it got the shows it's not always acceptable if you took a look closely of them.
I got paddled and seen others get smacked with a wooden paddle in middle of class several times, that was a private school in the early 90s in grade school..
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 They didn't have Saturday Morning cartoons, TVs, video games, pizza dude, or any reasonable way to make mix-tapes, hell they didn't even get a pet rock.
my childhood hero of the 80’s was weird Al I watched him on the Disney channel back in 1996 on his theirs no going home concert special I have his albums on cd plus I went to his concerts and watched altv on mtv I watched a lot of mtv back then mtv jams yo mtv raps mtv springbrake mtv unplugged beavis and butthead
We had so much freedom to roam our neighborhood, as curfew was when “the light on the pole” in front of our house came on. Riding in the bed of a pickup truck and station wagon were fun too.
Oh man, what a great decade to spend your pre-teen and teenage years! Saturday morning cartoons, little league baseball, video games on my Colecovision, the explosion of hard rock and glam metal on FM radio and MTV, making mixtapes, renting VHS movies, Transformers, G.I. Joe, drinking water from the garden hose on a hot summer day, riding my Huffy bike, etc. I consider myself super-fortunate to have grown up in that decade.
I remember the early days of shopping malls when they would keep the mall and its stores open until 10pm and often until 12am on weekends. Everyone hung out at the mall with no cellphones involved, fun times!
The 80’s were the best decade because we had just enough technology to not be in the “dark ages” but not so much technology that it took the fun and adventure out of life and destroyed human interaction in person and made everyone depressed and miserable. Sorry kids today! The 80’s rule!
Man you said it... just enough technology. That's the truth of that. You would think someone would want to just be able to hop on the internet and find a movie to watch. Back then though going to the movie store was a part of the experience. Even though its more convenient and easy the way things are now. It def takes the fun out of the experience. Everything was just convenient enough and we had to interact and go out into the public.
@@kellychuang8373 Like he says in the video, we had the perfect amount of technology. Wish I knew that then, I had a Walkman and envied the discman so bad lol
That was definitely a lot of fun. Many of those places have went out of business and the ones that I do still see are nowhere near as crowded. Thank you for watching and sharing what you loved to do on the weekends.
I just had to step around a woman at the Dollar store yesterday who was using the speaker while talking on the phone. (It took all my energy to not grab her phone and launch it across the store! 😂) So damn rude and she was upset I was trying to get around her!!
I think that many people of those days dreamed to have phone w/o wire! We think that they enjoy the 80's!? I don't think so! But, after the 1980's the whole worlds societes has gone to hell! From today's point of view, the wire phone is something we seen as a something better then cell phones, but in those days , back in the 80's , I think that people dreamed of easier way to communicate...
That was life. Full of life. My childhood. Never to be forgotten. Nintendo games, playing that gold game, Zelda, super mario bros.. Watch cartoons, buying toys, heman, transformers, turtles.. amazing times. No stress. Today im 44. Sometimes I close my eyes just to dream back for a while.
Some of my favorite things as an 80s kid: Atari, rollerskating, Saturday morning cartoons/cartoons after school (G.I. Joe, She-Ra, He-Man), prime time shows like Family Ties, Facts Of Life, Scholastic book fairs, book order day at school, riding bikes, going to Blockbuster to rent movies for the weekend, watching MTV and VH1 when it was all music videos, playing games like yard darts, all the cool music back in the day, fun toys that people are collecting now. I am so grateful I got to be a part of that decade.
Man I miss those mall days with my friends!! It was definitely the social media of the 80’s. Kids today will never understand how hugely important the mall was to us, unless maybe we take their phones away.
I'm with you! The mall was a huge part of socializing for us back then. Meeting other kids from different towns and schools. Me and my friends went to our local mall all the time, and the local arcades. 😁👍🏻
Take their phones away & they wouldn’t know how to function. It would be like taking corded phones away from an 80s teen. I got my own phone so my family could make/get phone calls
Thank you so much Rhetty for History for all your videos. Oh to go back to the days before social media when we actually went outdoors to play and be with our friends.
I miss 1980s, I born in 82 and I remember so much stuff like camping, road trips, Disneyland, friends riding bicycles, rollerblading, life on dairy farm, so much activities outside, no distractions on phone or internet, I glad I grew up in that era to experience that…
"Just the right amount of technology" I love this thought! And video rental stores are the perfect example for this. I really miss browsing the shelves and feeling the excitement of discovering something brand new you've never heard of before. Streaming sounds so convenient on paper, imagine having access to every movie in the world at the push of a button! But everything is simply dumped on us, filtered through an algorithm that is more interested in what someone wants to sell me than what I'm actually looking for. And good luck finding some actual classics on there! I would much prefer to have just the right amount of technology.
One of the best things about being an 80s kid was that the education system was not out to corrupt our hearts and minds. They wanted to teach us how to think critically instead of wanting to teach us what to think. Great content brother. Thanks for sharing.
DON'T BE FOOLED, THE BRAIN WASHING WAS TAKING PLACE, BUT BECAUSE OF YOUR YOUTH, YOU WEREN'T AS AWARE AS YOU ARE NOW. BUT IT IS GETTING WORSE AND MORE OBVIOUS NOW. WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL THAT IT IS MORE OBVIOUS NOW, BECAUSE EYES ARE FINALLY OPENING.
@meauxjeaux431 I won't argue with that. The indoctrination started when they began removing God from the classroom. I think it started becoming truly obvious when the theory of evolution became evolution. It wasn't taught as a theory anymore, but as fact even tho it still cannot be proven.
@@russellburgan9023 Oh yeah school lol. I was in elementary school in the 80's. I have to say, while I learned how to read & write, I honestly think it's 1 of the worst experiences I had as a kid. Comparing that to now,that I work, even though work is ok, Working is so much better than when I was going to elementary school. When I work, I do pretty much what I want. At elementary school you can't do that. Then when you come home, I relax on my bed & do whatever. When you come home from elementary school I always had like 3 hours of homework.
I miss the music and fashion of the 80’s. I was ages 4-13. I remember roaming the neighborhood and playing without my parents knowing where I was. I remember ringing friends’ doorbells to see if they were home and playing outside or in the woods. It was such a wonderful carefree time!
Yep. All of us cousins cruising around in the back of my uncle's orange and white pick-up truck. And sitting on my mom's lap in the front passenger seat of the car. 😂
Those truck beds could be fun! Especially when it was bouncing down the road or they were slamming on the brakes and turning fast. You could slide all over it. Thank you for watching Katclem47!
Really feel like I hit the sweet spot as far as having been a kid throughout the 80's and teens throughout the 90's and jaded early 20s in the 2,000's.
Super emotional for some odd reason. My mom sent this to me because she couldn’t believe how much time has actually gone by. When my 14 year old was around 3 he had an old school tv and vcr with stacks of tapes. He thought it was the coolest thing and others were in the “wtf get that boy a real tv and some dvds”. People just don’t know what they’re missing ❤
MTV and Nickelodeon were always on. When we got a VCR we were always recording TV shows and commercials just for the fun of it. My sister and I loved browsing Tower Records and Blockbuster Video. We went through so many radio cassette players in the 80's; we always wanted the latest ones. Our cousins had a Commodore 64 and we loved watching them play video games while munching on Cheetos and drinking 7Up.
Nickelodeon didn't get good until the 90s. MTV is where I saw my first Tool music video and man, do I miss catching a random music video at 6:30 right before I had to go to school.
@@crashburn3292Late Night with David Letterman was awesome. I loved his gags and stunts. Oh and when Sandra Bernhard was guest on show. I loved watching her flirt with David Letterman.
@@crashburn3292Late Night with David Letterman was awesome. I loved his gags and stunts. Oh and when Sandra Bernhard was guest on the show. I loved watching her flirt with David Letterman and just seeing her act silly.
One of my girlfriends had a pink phone in her room, I thought she was the ants pants. 😁 I had to sit in the corner of the lounge room and whisper, as my parents would be watching the tv 📺 in the same room and could hear everything I said. 😬 I love all the old footage Rhett, thank you. ❤Jodie 🇦🇺 🌈 Hi Paul 👋😁🇺🇸
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Jodie. I never was fortunate enough to have my own phone but I sure wanted one for the same reasons that you mentioned with your parents.
Dude you took the words right out of my mouth. Literally word for word and I've been saying this for a long time. "The 80s Had Just Right Amount Of Technology!"
G'day mate, tell me all about the 70s and 80s, I'm 62 so I've seen those days go past... Really fast.. This is the type of stuff I post on my Facebook group, Thanks for the wonderful video 😊🇦🇺
I was born in 1976. This is spot on. I enjoy telling my 8 yr old son about that time of my life. We definitely spend time watching movies like karate kid lol
To me, the coolest thing about going to the mall in the eighties was being able to meet kids from other schools. My town didn’t have one so all the kids from the general area’s schools would go to the one in a neighboring town. New friendships were made, sometimes only for the day, but it was always lots of fun!
How about sleeping in the car while your mom was in the store grocery shopping, or sleeping on the back ledge of the rearview window on a long road trip? I remember doing those things growing up in the 80s.
In the late 70's and early 80's my brothers, cousins and I could pile into the bed of my uncle's Datsun pickup truck to go for ice cream. Today that would be considered reckless child endangerment. lol
Yeah, I particularly miss not knowing what others were thinking, having to suppose. I even miss being depressed when I would find out that I was wrong about them! 👍
First kiss, first love, first truly broken heart. The girls' hair, the music, the friends. Bittersweet memories but the radest decade ever! It was supercalifrgilisticexpialidocious! Like, for sure! Gag me with a silver spoon.....
The 80's watching Saturday morning cartoons while eating a bowl of cereal afterwards when all morning cartoons were finished we go outside and ride our BMX bikes all day 😢
The best years of my life were spent in the 80s, there was a sense of joy everywhere I went, it was like a euphoria in the air when I watched a movie or listened to the radio, even in school. I dont know if it was the great friends i had through the 80s but it seemed even the adults were just happy to please one another and everyone around. I miss my 80s teenage life very much.
The 80's were great to grow up as a teenager. Loved the time the diversity in music, crazy fashion (bright), VHS and your friends. That was all you needed. We hardly seen our parents, unless at the dinner table.
I always say that what the 80s were to us, the 50s were to our parents. The 80s produced some of the best movies, TV shows, and music. It was a great time to be alive. Glad that I grew up as an 80's kid!
Take me home to the 80s. Nothing seems right to me anymore in 2024. All my close family has passed away and all my close friends have moved away. I sure miss this time of life. Could be that I was young and still had my whole life ahead of me, but I think its more than just that.
Born 1980 and remember everything....beautifull time and so much love, peace, happyness and yes i was young but music and television was not with lot of violence, negativity etc......was more with each other
The 80’s was a time of good technology. Personal computers as an example were just getting started. They we helpful but not all consuming. Now if the computer network shuts down the world will practically come to a stop. Hi Jodie! 👋😁🇦🇺
You're right about the networks running the world now. I had a Commodore 64 in the 80s and I loved it. Crazy to think back and realize how far we have come in the computer world. Thank you for watching my friend!
I was born in the late 80's. I don't have much memory of it but now in the 30s I find myself yearning for it. The culture, the music, the movies and the overall feeling of freedom of the 80s.
Fantastic video and all of it true. The 80’s was hands down the best decade to be a teenager and a young alcohol consuming adult. All of it was awesome! Great concerts that didn’t break the bank, the absolute best music, and girls hair was incredible. In the immortal words of Eddie Money, “I wanna go back, go back, and do it all over”.
Thank you so much for the wonderful memories. I watched this with a huge smile on my face. I remember getting our vcr in '85 the first thing i taped was the he-man and she-ra christmas special. Im 45 and i still watch it around christmas time to this day! The 80s was the best decade wish i could go back.
I was a kid in the 80s and absolutely loved everything about that time. I have wonderful memories and life just seemed slower and more laid back then. I would go back to the 80s in a heartbeat. ❤🥰❤️
Wow. That part with the back of the bus had me laughing out loud. My time for that was in the 70’s but same thing. I was in my 20’s in the 80’s but my kids and I experienced all of that in the 80’s. This was so fun Rhetty. Hope all is well with you and your family.
WE had a specific pecking order - “seniors in the back, first come, first choice” for the rest. Ah well, “tough luck” for those who boarded later! 🤷♂️👍
Best Music! Best Toys! Best Movies! and People were generally fun and hilarious and didn't take offense to much, It was all about fun and crazy hair and not taking life too seriously. Loved every minute of it and you know what, to me It's still the 80's and will live life my way 80's style.
One of my favorites, now that I have examples otherwise, is healthy parents. Most parents I meet now are completely neurotic and have aged 10-15 years further than actual age due to CONSTANTLY having to babysit their own kids, 24/7. They don’t have lives of their own anymore because kids don’t disappear until the street lights come on. We were so independent too, that no longer carries over to new adults.
Dude, you can't even let your kid walk to the park anymore lest a nosy neighbor reports you to CPS even though they let their kids do the very same thing back in the 80s.
Yes, the eighties were by far the best decade ever!! Being a teen back then was just awesome. Riding Bikes, pickup football games, wiffle ball... NO CELL PHONES!!! Memories the 80's 😢
Did anyone else have “that one annoying, nosy neighbor kid” that would come to your front, squish their nose on the glass, peek inside, and then knock once they already seen you were home and it was too late to hide? 🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣I did.
@@angelaharris1112, Betamax was a better was product, but Sony refused to share their BetaMax with other companies. That’s what gave JVC the upper hand with their VHS because they were open to sharing technology.
Lmao I remember when a 27” TV was GARGANTUAN- now I have a 50” tv in my bedroom and it was 1/8 of the price - I also remember taping movies off of HBO - I loved the 80’s I am so sad my kids won’t experience the self reliance and freedom of no cell phones or social media
Yeah, and back then you took the TV to get repaired, instead of tossing it out like we do today. TVs back then were a big investment. I remember my dad spending $700 on a 27" console color TV. That was almost a month's pay for him in early the late 70s.
@@jbrou123 you’re absolutely right - TV/ELECTRONICS repair shops were everywhere - and it was absolutely an investment I think my dad paid the same price for a 27” wood console on a swivel base. Also the TV’s were good quality I have a tube 24” TV that is 40 years old and works like new
@@WoodsPrecisionArms The only bad thing about those console TVs, or any tube TV, is how heavy they were when you had to move them. But you didn't have to worry about a thief running off with one of those!
Who remembers recorded your song off the radio then get mad if the dj started talking before the song was over?
I remember listening to American top 40 and hoping to get my favorite songs on tape with the smallest amount of talking possible. 😉
Or when they talked over the intro! Stop talking. Stop talking!! STOP TALKIIIING!!!
Definitely spent lots of time waiting for Casey to play the song(s) I wanted to record!
I remember a Santana song I tried to record like a dozen times before I made it all the way through!
@@TimTurner-w7l YES 🙌
also if someone walked by the radio would go off the station for a few seconds
70s 80s were AWESOME 😊
Thank you for watching RabittsGal!
60's, 70's, 80's, music is the best, coming from a early 90's kid
Yep. I am so happy to be a '70s and '80s kid. 🥰
the think i miss the most is having family around and feeling loved. its been a long time since
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Ya... I miss my mom. All my grandparents and uncles and aunts. Always a family party somewhere on the weekends. Now everyone is dead. My sister and brother are still alive but live in other states. I really do miss having a big extended family.
I’m sorry to hear this. Growing up sucks
I would love to sit in the corner of one of those 80s Christmases or thanksgivings. Just to listen to all of my family that are gone. The holidays just aren't the same.
Amen
I wasn’t a teenager until the 90’s but I fondly remember the 80’s. Riding bikes around the neighborhood was such a good time.
Same. Technology was almost identical. Things didn't really change until the internet. But it's not like everyone had a computer around that time either. And VCRs were still popular until about 2000 or so.
The 90s was awesome too
I hear ya there...I was 14 in 1989...best times ever...government wasnt so up your ass.
@@BrianC36 I'm 48 and could not agree more
We used to almost everyday after school go to this creek out behind where I lived and catch crawdads. It was so much fun.
The 1980s was by far the best. Great TV shows, great toys and the best music. I would love to do most of it all over again.
and the best movies ever.
Miss the 80s 😢
I can also say I miss those too and a lot of the businesses then are either closed or barely holding on along with changing and not always for the better. ☹
Same I miss those times
@@Secretlady81 me too😢
Me too!😢
@@francoisregis2155 I feel that too also and these times really just got hostile and dangerous and like the video that isn't going to work today even if it got the shows it's not always acceptable if you took a look closely of them.
If your an 80's kid you ROCK! 💪🎸💪
Had a teacher throw my book bag across the room because I called him " dude ". But I was an 80s kid...
I ROCK!!!!😎
😃
You're.... means 'you are'.. if you're an 80's kid, you rock!
I got paddled and seen others get smacked with a wooden paddle in middle of class several times, that was a private school in the early 90s in grade school..
I'm a 90s kid born in the mid 80s, we rock more because we got the best of both decades.
The 80's were the best decade ever to be a teenager.
For kids too!
I grew up in the eighties, and I remember people saying, the fifties were the best decade ever to be a teenager
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 They didn't have Saturday Morning cartoons, TVs, video games, pizza dude, or any reasonable way to make mix-tapes, hell they didn't even get a pet rock.
You're so right !!
my childhood hero of the 80’s was weird Al I watched him on the Disney channel back in 1996 on his theirs no going home concert special I have his albums on cd plus I went to his concerts and watched altv on mtv I watched a lot of mtv back then mtv jams yo mtv raps mtv springbrake mtv unplugged beavis and butthead
We had so much freedom to roam our neighborhood, as curfew was when “the light on the pole” in front of our house came on. Riding in the bed of a pickup truck and station wagon were fun too.
Try growing up in the country with no street poles, it was time go in when you couldn’t see shit and heard bears rustling in the woods
Yes!!❤
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Andrew!
@@LostHorizons0 😂😂😂😂😂😂
my best friends father across the street would whistle super loud , wed here it within a few blocks and know it was time to get home.
The 80s was the best generation that one had to experience !
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Oh man, what a great decade to spend your pre-teen and teenage years! Saturday morning cartoons, little league baseball, video games on my Colecovision, the explosion of hard rock and glam metal on FM radio and MTV, making mixtapes, renting VHS movies, Transformers, G.I. Joe, drinking water from the garden hose on a hot summer day, riding my Huffy bike, etc. I consider myself super-fortunate to have grown up in that decade.
@@rjc7289 I would back in a time machine and break the knob off if I could.
@@rjc7289 that was the 90s too:)
Browsing the video store while your dad went behind the curtain 😂
While reading this I went back to the past and was there.. I thank you
I remember the early days of shopping malls when they would keep the mall and its stores open until 10pm and often until 12am on weekends.
Everyone hung out at the mall with no cellphones involved, fun times!
No cells phones, so it was, "We'll all meet at Orange Julius at noon." lol
Oh man yeah I remember that!
absolutely... the mall was a great place. Never did meet any girls there, even though I thought I would every time I went there.
Mall culture was the best
Nah. Cruising the Main Street strip with every parking lot full of kids was the best Friday and Saturday activities.
The 80’s had the best of everything. Movies, music, style. We enjoyed life. Kids now days will never have freedom like that.
Correct.
The 80’s were the best decade because we had just enough technology to not be in the “dark ages” but not so much technology that it took the fun and adventure out of life and destroyed human interaction in person and made everyone depressed and miserable.
Sorry kids today! The 80’s rule!
Man you said it... just enough technology. That's the truth of that. You would think someone would want to just be able to hop on the internet and find a movie to watch. Back then though going to the movie store was a part of the experience. Even though its more convenient and easy the way things are now. It def takes the fun out of the experience. Everything was just convenient enough and we had to interact and go out into the public.
I'd agree with that. 80's tech was nowhere near as invasive as 2020's tech is today.
Back then there was no Wikipedia. You HAD to go the library to read an encyclopedia. 😅
Glory to God
@@tameriajones593 I am so glad I didn't grow up with a computer or a smartphone.
Watching this is almost like Saturday morning cartoons. I love that so many people my age got to experience this kind of childhood happiness.
That's right and something we don't do today and also a time before ours with Internet and smartphones.
@@ChrisHoulihan I’m 46 years old. Would I do anything to be a kid again and relive my happy days watching Saturday morning cartoons.
@@kvnu2 some amazing TH-camrs have put up 5 hr slots of cartoons from the 80s and 90s, commercials and all, the nostalgia hits hard
@@kellychuang8373 Like he says in the video, we had the perfect amount of technology. Wish I knew that then, I had a Walkman and envied the discman so bad lol
@@ChrisHoulihan I do too! ❤️
One of my favorite things to do in the 80's was roller skating every Friday and Saturday night. 🤘🏻😁🤘🏻
That was definitely a lot of fun. Many of those places have went out of business and the ones that I do still see are nowhere near as crowded. Thank you for watching and sharing what you loved to do on the weekends.
Yes!!! Miss this so much
Oh yeah, the skating rink was the best! So much fun! I really miss those days!
@@paulmadsen51 I totally agree with you 100%
I am a proud 80s kid. Everything was better back then. If anyone has a time machine for sale, please let me know. 🥰
Lol, 💯
My favorite thing from the 80s was everything man I missed those years. Life was easy and everyone was normal.
80’s movie magic. Golden age of cinema for kids, teens. Most of my favorite movies of all time are from the 80’s.
Back to the Future and Indiana Jones are some of my comfort movies.
Iron eagle, war game, Darryl, Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure great time and great movies and music
Same here! I am truly an 80s child. I love everything from the 80s.
There really were some great movies in the 80s. Thank you for watching TheFelineEmpire!
All the best movies in that decade and most of them in '84!
I miss not having to hear people's phone conversations while I'm shopping.
. . . as they shuffle through the aisles in their pajamas and house shoes.
I just had to step around a woman at the Dollar store yesterday who was using the speaker while talking on the phone. (It took all my energy to not grab her phone and launch it across the store! 😂) So damn rude and she was upset I was trying to get around her!!
You and me both! Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts lovepets2781!
That's also something to consider as well really sad it went out.
I think that many people of those days dreamed to have phone w/o wire! We think that they enjoy the 80's!? I don't think so!
But, after the 1980's the whole worlds societes has gone to hell! From today's point of view, the wire phone is something we seen as a something better then cell phones, but in those days , back in the 80's , I think that people dreamed of easier way to communicate...
That was life. Full of life. My childhood. Never to be forgotten.
Nintendo games, playing that gold game, Zelda, super mario bros.. Watch cartoons, buying toys, heman, transformers, turtles.. amazing times. No stress. Today im 44. Sometimes I close my eyes just to dream back for a while.
Same thing.
I really miss going to my local video store to rent movies. Talking about movies for like an hour with people at the store. 80s was a great time 👍👍👍
It really was a lot of fun! Thank you for watching and sharing what you miss Ryan!
I'd go back to the 80s in a heartbeat!
80’s kid here born in 77 grew up in the 80’s. Different time. Calm before the storm.
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Dude! You almost missed out on the 80's. At least the 90 were pretty good too
Technically you were a seventies kid
@@LisaPFMooreI was born in seventy six
@@Wildman-zh8lg born late 71
Some of my favorite things as an 80s kid: Atari, rollerskating, Saturday morning cartoons/cartoons after school (G.I. Joe, She-Ra, He-Man), prime time shows like Family Ties, Facts Of Life, Scholastic book fairs, book order day at school, riding bikes, going to Blockbuster to rent movies for the weekend, watching MTV and VH1 when it was all music videos, playing games like yard darts, all the cool music back in the day, fun toys that people are collecting now. I am so grateful I got to be a part of that decade.
Man I miss those mall days with my friends!! It was definitely the social media of the 80’s. Kids today will never understand how hugely important the mall was to us, unless maybe we take their phones away.
Thank you for watching and mentioning what you miss drewblue1164!
I'm with you! The mall was a huge part of socializing for us back then. Meeting other kids from different towns and schools. Me and my friends went to our local mall all the time, and the local arcades. 😁👍🏻
I also feel sorry for the poor kids who don't know what REAL music is.
Take their phones away & they wouldn’t know how to function. It would be like taking corded phones away from an 80s teen. I got my own phone so my family could make/get phone calls
Thank you so much Rhetty for History for all your videos. Oh to go back to the days before social media when we actually went outdoors to play and be with our friends.
Thanks for not letting the 80's go. I have E.T. to this day on VHS. I only have a few VHS tapes half are homemade.👍🏻🇺🇲
Those was the days huh!! I always taped cartoonsand wrestling..
The movies shown in this video are from my collection. I love ET. Thank you for watching my friend!
Oh how times have changed. Kids need to go outside and play no doubt. Thanks Rhett 👍
I agree Lisa. It really is good for them to have a little more than most are having. Thank you for watching!
I miss 1980s, I born in 82 and I remember so much stuff like camping, road trips, Disneyland, friends riding bicycles, rollerblading, life on dairy farm, so much activities outside, no distractions on phone or internet, I glad I grew up in that era to experience that…
0:33 I had been given that exact Panasonic boombox as a present for my 13th birthday. I was so thrilled! I used it to record radio songs onto tapes. 😂
I loved recording songs like that but the beginning or ending of many songs were often interrupted by talk or cut off!
@@ginib6350yes, I hated that!
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with your boombox jrebecca0195!
I still have my jvc boombox I got when I was 9. Still works till this day
"Just the right amount of technology" I love this thought! And video rental stores are the perfect example for this. I really miss browsing the shelves and feeling the excitement of discovering something brand new you've never heard of before. Streaming sounds so convenient on paper, imagine having access to every movie in the world at the push of a button! But everything is simply dumped on us, filtered through an algorithm that is more interested in what someone wants to sell me than what I'm actually looking for. And good luck finding some actual classics on there! I would much prefer to have just the right amount of technology.
@@mattg-q3z yes. Me too!
@@mattg-q3z also miss libraries. They are still around, but no much easier to just find it online!
Best thing about the 80s was my youth & both my parents were alive. I wish I could go back and visit, but I wouldn't want to relive the whole decade.
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Yeah, not all of the 80s were great. Better than today though! Way better!!!
80's music was the best! Especially New Wave 😊
Oh yes! My brothers and I love NEW WAVE!
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I bought the cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, psychedelic furs, then around 1984 it was Hardcore Punk.✌️
One of the best things about being an 80s kid was that the education system was not out to corrupt our hearts and minds. They wanted to teach us how to think critically instead of wanting to teach us what to think. Great content brother. Thanks for sharing.
DON'T BE FOOLED, THE BRAIN WASHING WAS TAKING PLACE, BUT BECAUSE OF YOUR YOUTH, YOU WEREN'T AS AWARE AS YOU ARE NOW. BUT IT IS GETTING WORSE AND MORE OBVIOUS NOW. WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL THAT IT IS MORE OBVIOUS NOW, BECAUSE EYES ARE FINALLY OPENING.
@meauxjeaux431 I won't argue with that. The indoctrination started when they began removing God from the classroom. I think it started becoming truly obvious when the theory of evolution became evolution. It wasn't taught as a theory anymore, but as fact even tho it still cannot be proven.
@meauxjeaux431 I also have a reply not showing. Is it surprising? They are trying to hide the Truth.
Amen to that.
@@russellburgan9023 Oh yeah school lol. I was in elementary school in the 80's. I have to say, while I learned how to read & write, I honestly think it's 1 of the worst experiences I had as a kid.
Comparing that to now,that I work, even though work is ok, Working is so much better than when I was going to elementary school.
When I work, I do pretty much what I want. At elementary school you can't do that. Then when you come home, I relax on my bed & do whatever. When you come home from elementary school I always had like 3 hours of homework.
I miss the 60s the 70s and 80s, they were a great time to be alive
Thank you for watching my friend. Things have definitely changed!
@@RhettyforHistory We need another Ike as President now more than ever
I miss the music and fashion of the 80’s. I was ages 4-13. I remember roaming the neighborhood and playing without my parents knowing where I was. I remember ringing friends’ doorbells to see if they were home and playing outside or in the woods. It was such a wonderful carefree time!
Best decade ever!!!! I'd gladly go back. 😊👍
Thank you my friend.
You're welcome and thank you for watching Leesa!
The 80s was a better time , better people better music better everything
Yep. All of us cousins cruising around in the back of my uncle's orange and white pick-up truck. And sitting on my mom's lap in the front passenger seat of the car. 😂
Those truck beds could be fun! Especially when it was bouncing down the road or they were slamming on the brakes and turning fast. You could slide all over it. Thank you for watching Katclem47!
@@RhettyforHistory actually my son was thrown from pack of a pickup that way.
Womp womp
We had it made back in the day. I'm a 70s baby
Really feel like I hit the sweet spot as far as having been a kid throughout the 80's and teens throughout the 90's and jaded early 20s in the 2,000's.
Super emotional for some odd reason. My mom sent this to me because she couldn’t believe how much time has actually gone by. When my 14 year old was around 3 he had an old school tv and vcr with stacks of tapes. He thought it was the coolest thing and others were in the “wtf get that boy a real tv and some dvds”. People just don’t know what they’re missing ❤
Didn't have a DVD player till 2003 haha
I didn’t hang out at the mall on Friday and Saturday I would hang out with the roller skating rink. ❤ loved the 80’s
Bout time, I was just about to go outside and work on my Dyno freestyle bike!
Oh nice! Thank you for watching jkxelor1295!
Thank GOD i grew up in the '80, but how i miss those times, miss everything ❤
Thank you for watching user-dc1dw2np1w!
@@RhettyforHistory Youre most welcome 😀
Awesome video it brought back a lot of memories for me,especially my best friend who passed away about 4yrs ago, we always seemed attached at the hip!
I'm sorry ❤ my besties not doing so well. Been side by side for 40ish years.
MTV and Nickelodeon were always on. When we got a VCR we were always recording TV shows and commercials just for the fun of it. My sister and I loved browsing Tower Records and Blockbuster Video. We went through so many radio cassette players in the 80's; we always wanted the latest ones. Our cousins had a Commodore 64 and we loved watching them play video games while munching on Cheetos and drinking 7Up.
Nickelodeon didn't get good until the 90s. MTV is where I saw my first Tool music video and man, do I miss catching a random music video at 6:30 right before I had to go to school.
My high school buddy videotaped David Letterman every night and watched it the next day after school.
@@lainiwakura1776Do you remember "You Can't Do That On Television"?
@@crashburn3292Late Night with David Letterman was awesome. I loved his gags and stunts. Oh and when Sandra Bernhard was guest on show. I loved watching her flirt with David Letterman.
@@crashburn3292Late Night with David Letterman was awesome. I loved his gags and stunts. Oh and when Sandra Bernhard was guest on the show. I loved watching her flirt with David Letterman and just seeing her act silly.
One of my girlfriends had a pink phone in her room, I thought she was the ants pants. 😁
I had to sit in the corner of the lounge room and whisper, as my parents would be watching the tv 📺 in the same room and could hear everything I said. 😬 I love all the old footage Rhett, thank you. ❤Jodie 🇦🇺 🌈 Hi Paul 👋😁🇺🇸
👋😁Hi Jodie! 🇦🇺🇺🇸
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Jodie. I never was fortunate enough to have my own phone but I sure wanted one for the same reasons that you mentioned with your parents.
Dont forget about all the great movies and music from the 80s. The Top 40 countdown was a must listen on the radio.
Dude you took the words right out of my mouth. Literally word for word and I've been saying this for a long time. "The 80s Had Just Right Amount Of Technology!"
G'day mate, tell me all about the 70s and 80s, I'm 62 so I've seen those days go past... Really fast.. This is the type of stuff I post on my Facebook group, Thanks for the wonderful video 😊🇦🇺
Thank you for watching DUMPSTERDIVINGADELAIDE! It's great that you are keeping the memories alive on facebook!
I was born in 1976. This is spot on. I enjoy telling my 8 yr old son about that time of my life. We definitely spend time watching movies like karate kid lol
To me, the coolest thing about going to the mall in the eighties was being able to meet kids from other schools. My town didn’t have one so all the kids from the general area’s schools would go to the one in a neighboring town. New friendships were made, sometimes only for the day, but it was always lots of fun!
Yes, that is one of the many things I miss about the mall.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories of the mall you went to stanford-nf4jk!
How about sleeping in the car while your mom was in the store grocery shopping, or sleeping on the back ledge of the rearview window on a long road trip? I remember doing those things growing up in the 80s.
My mom had an orange Gremlin, and I'd always climb in the hatchback and wave at the people behind us.😊
Did that in the 90s too.
In the late 70's and early 80's my brothers, cousins and I could pile into the bed of my uncle's Datsun pickup truck to go for ice cream. Today that would be considered reckless child endangerment. lol
Those were the good old days before the internet.😊❤
Thank you for watching MLCMedia!
Yeah, I particularly miss not knowing what others were thinking, having to suppose. I even miss being depressed when I would find out that I was wrong about them! 👍
I was 12 years old in 1980 and I remember those days very well thanks for the trip down memory lane
First kiss, first love, first truly broken heart. The girls' hair, the music, the friends. Bittersweet memories but the radest decade ever! It was supercalifrgilisticexpialidocious! Like, for sure! Gag me with a silver spoon.....
The 80's watching Saturday morning cartoons while eating a bowl of cereal afterwards when all morning cartoons were finished we go outside and ride our BMX bikes all day 😢
1:33 We had a kid in town that wore makeup and had hair band hair. I do not know whatever became of him but he emulated 80s rocker very well.
Several kids in my school looked like that.
Sounds like me! Great times though
The best years of my life were spent in the 80s, there was a sense of joy everywhere I went, it was like a euphoria in the air when I watched a movie or listened to the radio, even in school. I dont know if it was the great friends i had through the 80s but it seemed even the adults were just happy to please one another and everyone around. I miss my 80s teenage life very much.
I remember a kid wiping out on one of those rickety bike ramps. We all supported him by saying, "You're ok, just walk it off!"
Haha! That's how it was though! Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
that was constant lol!!!
Back to the future is my all time favorite movie ! This brought back many memories ! Thanks Rhett !!
You're welcome Brian. That really is a great movie. Thank you for watching!
The 80's were great to grow up as a teenager. Loved the time the diversity in music, crazy fashion (bright), VHS and your friends. That was all you needed. We hardly seen our parents, unless at the dinner table.
Came here to reflect on my 80's childhood.
The 80s were a lot of fun, from the acid washed jeans to hair bands& MTV actually playing videos. Thanks Rhetty for another great video
You're welcome Anita and thank you for watching!
I always say that what the 80s were to us, the 50s were to our parents. The 80s produced some of the best movies, TV shows, and music. It was a great time to be alive. Glad that I grew up as an 80's kid!
Take me home to the 80s. Nothing seems right to me anymore in 2024. All my close family has passed away and all my close friends have moved away. I sure miss this time of life. Could be that I was young and still had my whole life ahead of me, but I think its more than just that.
I miss the 80's! It was such a fun and carefree time! Oh and the music was awesome!
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Born 1980 and remember everything....beautifull time and so much love, peace, happyness and yes i was young but music and television was not with lot of violence, negativity etc......was more with each other
Thanks for the great content!🤘🏻👍🏻🇺🇲
You're welcome ZMAN_420! Thank you for watching and I appreciate the super thanks!
Miss It All……Thank you for this trip down memory lane
You're welcome Ryan and thank you for watching!
The 80’s was a time of good technology. Personal computers as an example were just getting started. They we helpful but not all consuming. Now if the computer network shuts down the world will practically come to a stop.
Hi Jodie! 👋😁🇦🇺
Hi Paul 👋😁🇺🇸
You're right about the networks running the world now. I had a Commodore 64 in the 80s and I loved it. Crazy to think back and realize how far we have come in the computer world. Thank you for watching my friend!
I was born in the late 80's. I don't have much memory of it but now in the 30s I find myself yearning for it. The culture, the music, the movies and the overall feeling of freedom of the 80s.
The kids in the 80's were blessed with a cockeyed kind of optimism.
I certainly enjoyed some moments in that very decade as a teenager.
Thank you for watching Luis! It was an awesome decade!
Fantastic video and all of it true. The 80’s was hands down the best decade to be a teenager and a young alcohol consuming adult. All of it was awesome! Great concerts that didn’t break the bank, the absolute best music, and girls hair was incredible. In the immortal words of Eddie Money, “I wanna go back, go back, and do it all over”.
I miss everything about the 80's. I hate how it is now
I hate the idiots who are in political power.
I always wore seatbelt otherwise I’d be dead now .
Thank you for watching Darrell!
@@RhettyforHistory Your welcome, I like your videos
Watched while wearing my Members Only snap jacket....
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Haha! Perfect! Thank you for watching diandian9827!
@@RhettyforHistory Thank you for a great channel!
ice cream trucks, forts & bike jumps... w 80's
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Thank you so much for the wonderful memories. I watched this with a huge smile on my face. I remember getting our vcr in '85 the first thing i taped was the he-man and she-ra christmas special. Im 45 and i still watch it around christmas time to this day! The 80s was the best decade wish i could go back.
You're welcome Liz and I'm happy to hear you enjoyed this video. Thank you for watching and sharing what you enjoyed in the decade.
70’s-90’s were awesome years to grow up. Absolutely loved them. Better than any this generation has.
I love all your videos! I was born in 77. The 80's were AWESOME! Kids today have no idea what they're missing!
I was a kid in the 80s and absolutely loved everything about that time. I have wonderful memories and life just seemed slower and more laid back then. I would go back to the 80s in a heartbeat. ❤🥰❤️
Perfect statement. "Just the right amount of technology"
I'm glad to hear you thought so as well. Thank you for watching vi683a!
Wow. That part with the back of the bus had me laughing out loud. My time for that was in the 70’s but same thing. I was in my 20’s in the 80’s but my kids and I experienced all of that in the 80’s. This was so fun Rhetty. Hope all is well with you and your family.
WE had a specific pecking order - “seniors in the back, first come, first choice” for the rest. Ah well, “tough luck” for those who boarded later! 🤷♂️👍
I loved Glam Rock and Hair Bands
Thank you for watching and sharing what you loved lesbw356!
The 80's were everything!!! What I wouldn't give to go back. I want my MTV✌
I was a teenager in the 70s. And came to the US in the 80s, everything was so exciting and amazingly different ❤ Thanks Rhetty for the memories.
You're welcome and thank you for watching Monika! I didn't realize you had such a change like that happening like that.
came to the US from where?
@@marcussmith4913 Germany
Best Music! Best Toys! Best Movies! and People were generally fun and hilarious and didn't take offense to much, It was all about fun and crazy hair and not taking life too seriously. Loved every minute of it and you know what, to me It's still the 80's and will live life my way 80's style.
I WANT MY MTV!! 📺
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I loved the 80s! I'm ready to go back!
If you find a way let me know! Thank you for watching Scooby!
I remember jumping huge ramps when I was young in the 80's. I miss it so much. 80's and 90's.
Those were always a lot of fun Mitchell! Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistory you are welcome. Love the content. Keep it up.
Such a great video …. Makes me sad as these are times that are gone forever. But happy I was a 71’ baby so I got to experience the 80s as a teen❤
Thank you for watching and I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the video sonhynh8222!
The music was of course one of the best, I loved the movies, we didn't watch a lot of TV! We had family time, all of these were super in the 80's!
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories of the decade yolandagarcia-qt1le!
I would love to see the big hair and the smoke from the aqua net hairspray make a comeback.
Long live the 80's❤
Thank you for watching and letting us know what you would like to see againunicornmadness6286 !
One of my favorites, now that I have examples otherwise, is healthy parents. Most parents I meet now are completely neurotic and have aged 10-15 years further than actual age due to CONSTANTLY having to babysit their own kids, 24/7. They don’t have lives of their own anymore because kids don’t disappear until the street lights come on. We were so independent too, that no longer carries over to new adults.
Dude, you can't even let your kid walk to the park anymore lest a nosy neighbor reports you to CPS even though they let their kids do the very same thing back in the 80s.
Yes, the eighties were by far the best decade ever!! Being a teen back then was just awesome. Riding Bikes, pickup football games, wiffle ball... NO CELL PHONES!!! Memories the 80's 😢
Did anyone else have “that one annoying, nosy neighbor kid” that would come to your front, squish their nose on the glass, peek inside, and then knock once they already seen you were home and it was too late to hide? 🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣I did.
I didn't have that but I could see how that would be annoying. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
The good ole days.... simple time's filled with wholesome people and places 💯
Thank you for watching Stephanie!
70s were even more awesome! But so were the 80s. My 1st vcr was a Beta 😁
It was certainly a great decade and I am glad I got to experience it. Thank you for watching!
Remember the vcr war Beta or VHS
@@francoisregis2155 not much of a war, lol!
@@angelaharris1112, Betamax was a better was product, but Sony refused to share their BetaMax with other companies. That’s what gave JVC the upper hand with their VHS because they were open to sharing technology.
Lmao I remember when a 27” TV was GARGANTUAN- now I have a 50” tv in my bedroom and it was 1/8 of the price - I also remember taping movies off of HBO - I loved the 80’s I am so sad my kids won’t experience the self reliance and freedom of no cell phones or social media
Yeah, and back then you took the TV to get repaired, instead of tossing it out like we do today. TVs back then were a big investment. I remember my dad spending $700 on a 27" console color TV. That was almost a month's pay for him in early the late 70s.
@@jbrou123 you’re absolutely right - TV/ELECTRONICS repair shops were everywhere - and it was absolutely an investment I think my dad paid the same price for a 27” wood console on a swivel base. Also the TV’s were good quality I have a tube 24” TV that is 40 years old and works like new
@@WoodsPrecisionArms The only bad thing about those console TVs, or any tube TV, is how heavy they were when you had to move them. But you didn't have to worry about a thief running off with one of those!
It really is funny how TV sizes have changed. I sure miss TVs being an actual piece of furniture though. Thank you for watching WoodsPrecisionArms!
@@RhettyforHistory always - you do an outstanding job