What a wonderful job you did on this series! So thorough and so authentic. We enjoyed watching every minute of it, and I was looking forward to watching the next year each evening after work! Thank you for all your hours of effort to create not only this series, but also all your content. This is one of my family's very favorite channels on You Tube!❤🌼👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏*thunderous applause*
This whole series was so enjoyable and fantantastic to watch emma🔥 thank you for all the work and the research you must have gone through creating the great series. Quadrophenia🔥. 🌼🙋♂️
Congratulations Emma on finishing up on two very tumultuous decades. I can only imagine the amount of work that you placed into researching and presenting an epic era of recent (to me at least) history. Fantastic job. I was very impressed. My first real after-college adult job was at a large aerospace company. Hours and dress were “traditional.” I’d have to wear a suit and tie. I hated ties. The seventies style of suits was jackets, matching trousers, and a three-button vest if you really wanted to look like a dork-nope. Worse yet, wide ties were the height of fashion for men. I felt like I was wearing a lobster bib.
Fortunately, one of my wife’s theatre associates had a solution: the skinny tie would be coming back in a big way. He had the wardrobe guy at the Performing Arts Center where he worked whip up a half dozen two-inch-wide models in assorted muted colors with horizontal stripes. For the first time in my life, I was ahead of the forefront. In a couple of years, the 80s hipsters would be following my lead.
By spring, Carolyn and I had serious decisions to make. We were informed by doctors that, for medical reasons, if we wanted a child, WE needed to get pregnant right away. Okay, WE didn’t get pregnant back then; I needed to get her pregnant. The woman does all the hard work, and a decent partner supports all he can. We had other before plans: travel, a house, establishing careers, and having time alone together. The was no question of priorities. At 24 and 23, respectively, we became parents. Were we ready yet? No, but who is? Our daughter arrived as one of the last of the Gen Xers that year.
My budget suddenly precluded me from buying new records. It was a shame. There was some good stuff that came out that year. The Wall by Pink Floyd, Highway To Hell - AC/DC, Tusk - Fleetwood Mac, Damn The Torpedoes - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young, The Long Run - the Eagles - all great records. I bought none of them. I listened on the radio during daily commutes and can now stream them when I run.
By the time she neared her teens, my daughter had appropriated most of my “vinyl” collection. I consoled myself with the thought that I was passing great music onto a new generation to discover and enjoy.
Thanks so much for all your hard work researching and recording this series - I really enjoyed it and it brought back so many happy memories. I realise I was very fortunate to live through and experience these decades. Have a very happy Christmas with your beautiful family
I was looking forward to 1979 because that was the year I graduated high school. You touched on many memories from that year. Thank you for this series. I enjoyed every episode. Have a Merry Christmas!
Thanks so much, Emma for elucidating 1979. It was a year of transformation. I was born in April, 1960 and was attending the School of Visual Arts in 1979. To this day Im still grappling with the expected introduction to the 1980s. Much of my contemporaries never rose to the Aventurious Metermorphisis. Like the Nicaraguan Revolution or Woody Allens, Manhattan. However, the frontier of Rock Music was still mysteriously active. STRANGE DAYS, INDEED!❤😢😅
Well done, Emma. You must have worked so hard. Congratulations on 23k subscribers! I've been hovering around the time you had 8/9k subs. Wishing you a happy, healthy and creative 2025.❤
The single biggest demoninator for change was the movie from wideleg to straightleg pants - at least on the west coast in so called 'hip' cities and I'd guess elsewhere certainly, NY. In '79 in greater Seattle, bolder people had begun wearing exclusively straight legs in '78 and, it became a ground swell in '79. I was at a "New Wave" show in '79 where folks were hassled for wearing flares and polyester shirts.The business-driven, 60's worshipping, Go-Go 80's, were right around the corner.
Very true. I ditched my flares in '79, and went total straight leg from then on. To this day I only wear straight leg trousers. I've seen girls and women wear flares in the nineties, but I guess that was meant to be a back-handed slap to the eighties. Guys will probably never wear bells again, but who knows? Another popular, and very well remembered hit of '79 was Supertramp's smash hit album, 'Breakfast in America.'. Funny, she never mentioned that amongst the other popular releases that year. Since this is Christmas evening, I wish you a Merry one, what's left of it. Happy New Year, too! 🎄🎉🥂😊
You did such a nice job of capturing all the things that made the time period from 1960 to 79 so unique and un-repeatable. Great as always!
What a wonderful job you did on this series! So thorough and so authentic. We enjoyed watching every minute of it, and I was looking forward to watching the next year each evening after work! Thank you for all your hours of effort to create not only this series, but also all your content. This is one of my family's very favorite channels on You Tube!❤🌼👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏*thunderous applause*
This whole series was so enjoyable and fantantastic to watch emma🔥 thank you for all the work and the research you must have gone through creating the great series. Quadrophenia🔥. 🌼🙋♂️
Congratulations Emma on finishing up on two very tumultuous decades. I can only imagine the amount of work that you placed into researching and presenting an epic era of recent (to me at least) history. Fantastic job. I was very impressed.
My first real after-college adult job was at a large aerospace company. Hours and dress were “traditional.” I’d have to wear a suit and tie. I hated ties. The seventies style of suits was jackets, matching trousers, and a three-button vest if you really wanted to look like a dork-nope. Worse yet, wide ties were the height of fashion for men. I felt like I was wearing a lobster bib.
Fortunately, one of my wife’s theatre associates had a solution: the skinny tie would be coming back in a big way. He had the wardrobe guy at the Performing Arts Center where he worked whip up a half dozen two-inch-wide models in assorted muted colors with horizontal stripes. For the first time in my life, I was ahead of the forefront. In a couple of years, the 80s hipsters would be following my lead.
By spring, Carolyn and I had serious decisions to make. We were informed by doctors that, for medical reasons, if we wanted a child, WE needed to get pregnant right away. Okay, WE didn’t get pregnant back then; I needed to get her pregnant. The woman does all the hard work, and a decent partner supports all he can. We had other before plans: travel, a house, establishing careers, and having time alone together. The was no question of priorities. At 24 and 23, respectively, we became parents. Were we ready yet? No, but who is? Our daughter arrived as one of the last of the Gen Xers that year.
My budget suddenly precluded me from buying new records. It was a shame. There was some good stuff that came out that year. The Wall by Pink Floyd, Highway To Hell - AC/DC, Tusk - Fleetwood Mac, Damn The Torpedoes - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young, The Long Run - the Eagles - all great records. I bought none of them. I listened on the radio during daily commutes and can now stream them when I run.
By the time she neared her teens, my daughter had appropriated most of my “vinyl” collection. I consoled myself with the thought that I was passing great music onto a new generation to discover and enjoy.
Mine too; at Boeing but at MOST it was business casual at Boeing in 1979 until you were well beyond middle management - and boy, I was not.
Thanks so much for all your hard work researching and recording this series - I really enjoyed it and it brought back so many happy memories. I realise I was very fortunate to live through and experience these decades. Have a very happy Christmas with your beautiful family
Brilliantly done, thank you for this terrific series. Merry Christmas!!!
I was looking forward to 1979 because that was the year I graduated high school. You touched on many memories from that year. Thank you for this series. I enjoyed every episode. Have a Merry Christmas!
Let's hear it for the class of '79! 🎓🎉😊
This series was awesome! 💯
So well done on this entire series! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
It was so lovely to tune in to this series the past few weeks :') Happy Holidays!!!
Thanks so much, Emma for elucidating 1979. It was a year of transformation. I was born in April, 1960 and was attending the School of Visual Arts in 1979. To this day Im still grappling with the expected introduction to the 1980s. Much of my contemporaries never rose to the Aventurious Metermorphisis. Like the Nicaraguan Revolution or Woody Allens, Manhattan. However, the frontier of Rock Music was still mysteriously active. STRANGE DAYS, INDEED!❤😢😅
Well done, Emma. You must have worked so hard. Congratulations on 23k subscribers! I've been hovering around the time you had 8/9k subs. Wishing you a happy, healthy and creative 2025.❤
'79 was a great year
Great video! Well done. 😊
You did such a great job on this series! I wish you could do one on the 80's and 90's.
I enjoyed the series! Nice video and great footage 😊
great work! thanks very much!
Awesome video, if I known you I'll hand you my black leather jacket and a t-shirt of The Clash logo to wear for the segment. Happy New Years!
The single biggest demoninator for change was the movie from wideleg to straightleg pants - at least on the west coast in so called 'hip' cities and I'd guess elsewhere certainly, NY.
In '79 in greater Seattle, bolder people had begun wearing exclusively straight legs in '78 and, it became a ground swell in '79. I was at a "New Wave" show in '79 where folks were hassled for wearing flares and polyester shirts.The business-driven, 60's worshipping, Go-Go 80's, were right around the corner.
Very true. I ditched my flares in '79, and went total straight leg from then on. To this day I only wear straight leg trousers. I've seen girls and women wear flares in the nineties, but I guess that was meant to be a back-handed slap to the eighties. Guys will probably never wear bells again, but who knows? Another popular, and very well remembered hit of '79 was Supertramp's smash hit album, 'Breakfast in America.'. Funny, she never mentioned that amongst the other popular releases that year. Since this is Christmas evening, I wish you a Merry one, what's left of it. Happy New Year, too! 🎄🎉🥂😊
No 1989s??
I enjoyed dancing at the Disco. Groups such as Chic and Village People dominated , and Donna Summer was queen of the Disco sound.
This Raiding Our Cultures And Telling Our Stories Is Creepy As Hell
Why does she keep repeating her self
I've enjoyed this series. It begs the question; why are we all so fixated on this period?🤔