I didn't realize this was going to be the best time of my life I'm 48 and life can never be as great as it was in 83 im depressed more then u will ever know
@@Eddie-zz1el I'm 48 years old also. The 1980's weren't any more special decade than any other decades done past. You all just miss getting your alls bratty ways and your parents pandering to them.
Living in Burlingame 82/84 and being there watching the 49er The Catch and their first Super Bowls,what an amazing time and great memories in the Bay Area.
As a kid i couldnt wait for the commercials to be over with, now here i am purposely watching them on youtube premium so i dont have to watch ads while watching commercials.
Watching 80s commercials from a time I probably wasn't born always feels like i'm looking into a dream land. What makes it even more special is when its holiday themed. Late 80s early 90s is when things start getting familiar for me.
These commercials seem to be from the time of my earliest memories. I’m not sure the exact year of these but there’s enough to estimate it was most likely late 1983. As cool as nostalgia can be I’d never wanna go backwards,it’s fun to look back though
I was also born in 77 and finally remember this amazing decade but if I were to go back for one day I would be so happy to be back there during a time when you had no worries in the world and there wasn’t all of this crazy political correctness nonsense going on like today The country was united and more patriotic and the world was more peaceful and not saying we didn’t have issues just better circumstances
When I die I want to go back to this era. I was 18 yrs old in 1986 and was a teen at the perfect time. This era was really laid back and just really fun to be alive. And watching these commercials just brings me back and makes me kinda of sad seeing the madness we’re in now.
I’m 18 years old. It’s 2022. I work a full time job as a school cleaner. 3-11 Monday-Friday. And let me tell you. That is about the only good thing to come out of life for me these days. I’ve tried having friends but that never works out. I’ve tried keeping girlfriends but all they ever want to do is party, smoke weed, vape, and do other bad immature things constantly. I listen to mostly 80s music. I watch mostly 80s movies. And I grew up with my dad always bringing me to shopping malls. Now the malls are mostly gone and shutting down so I can’t enjoy those. What is there good from life anymore? I just want a good girlfriend to spend my life with than I’ll be fine. But that may not happen at this point. I’m sick of this modern culture. I’m sick of what is happening. I’m sick of what has been normalized. Nobody can just be a genuine mature person. I can’t even watch television without getting woke crap thrown in my face either. I can’t go to the store without seeing trashy people and high prices. I can’t do nothing.
@@pepsi_man4962 I was a teen in the 80s/90s too. Turns out - people pretty much sucked then too. Kids drank and smoked pot a lot then and, like you, a lot of kids felt lonely and isolated. Labor jobs had just as shitty working conditions. Politics were just as ineffectual. Worries about war and nuclear meltdowns. An 80s economy that was backed on outrageous debt fell like a house of cards at the end of the decade. People turned blind eyes to social, economic, and medical problems if they weren’t in their backyards (and usually they were - that’s how bad we had our heads in the sand). I get it. Your life isn’t exactly ideal at the moment, but shopping malls and not having to see a gay character on TV suddenly wouldn’t turn it all around. Plenty of us were miserable as fuck in the 80s too.
@@Horriflick now imagine the struggle of the 1980s on top of all of the struggles these days. So times 10. There were struggles in every decade. But now a days something is off. Simply walk into a Walmart or Home Depot and you won’t see one normal person there. In the 80s you didn’t have dangerous freaks of nature walking among you. The 80s was not perfect just like every decade. But I can assure you the 1980s was one of the most normal decades for the American middle class (people like us). Now you can’t even send your child to school without anti American sentiment being shoved down their throats. Little kids can’t even watch tv anymore without seeing a black, trans, lesbian, dog fetish person in Nickelodeon. The 90s and 2000s was way better than it is now to tell you the honest 100% truth!!!
It's amazing how video games went from $5-$7.25 to $70. I'm just fortunate to see video games from its humble beginnings to now. It both amazing and a privilege.
Man these commercials take me back to a happier time. I would trade my age now for living in those days. I had that Kracko stereo system in my 72 Monte Carlo.
Oh boy, commercials recorded in the SF bay area, back when I was growing up there. I remember most of these commercials, and my older sister was working at a Brooks cameras store.
I remember we got a car that did that if it was open more than a few seconds, and my Dad and I would both laugh and say, "No, it's a door!" Ah, memories.
Thank you for sharing these. The🎄Christmas🎄holidays were always special! The JC Penny's Christmas Catalog was always a great way to look at all the cool new toys. The Sears Wish Book was another epic publication lol. These are great memories, so again I thank you. God Bless you and your family.
Use to always sing that Merry Christmas from Payless jingle back when I was shopping with family in the 80s. Payless and Pay N Save were great drug stores back then. CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid don't even compare.
Not really Mark Meadows,it was just another decade for a majority of us children. The ones that want to go back to the 1980's are the Toy R US kids that are now in their 40's still sleeping with their Geoffrey Giraffes because they couldn't figure why no woman wanted to marry them. So today to boost their egos they troll middle school girls on social media. I am a married man myself to a real woman. Some of them also make up the alphabet people.
These bring me back to such a magical time in life. If I could go back to those for just a spell I would in a heartbeat. Nostalgia is a beautiful thing but it also breaks my heart knowing those days are long gone.
Normally, I don't want to see anything Christmas related this early in November, but it's Dave so I'll allow it. Clearly, the Payless shoe store and the Payless in these ads are two very different things. 6:24 - 6:27 Huh, Micheal Bay must've worked on that commercial. 13:25 - 13:53 Somehow, I knew that was a fragrance ad before they even said the word. Something about how I had no clue what the ad seemed to be for five seconds in tipped me off.
Thank you dave , ktvu channel 2 Barbara Simpson , yes sir I'm a Oakland native born in early 70's that made these old commercials extra special . Merry xmas from payless .
I'm a millennial but I totally miss the 90s and we all agree things were simpler back then-less politics, less division, and everyone was more focused on entertainment.
Less politics and less division??? Lol lol lol you don’t remember anything then.. I grew up in the 80s and into the early 90s.. it was the same.. the fall of the Soviets, the Berlin wall.. the first Iraq all the way to 9/11.. the internet was popular in the mid 90s it was just slow.. ebay and Amazon are from 1994.. u have a bad memory kid
@@juliedunken1150 No, it wasn't the same. Politics will always exist no matter the age. In the 80s you didn't have the internet or social media. People embraced Christmas. You didn't have crazy organizations starting riots and taking over the government. Communism was taught to be bad and capitalism was good. Being black was just being black and being white was just being white. Our government didn't stoke racism like today. I miss the 80s and what it represented. Being a boy was just being a boy and being a girl was just that. We had only two genders now we have an unlimited number. No, you aren't from the 80s. I lived the best days of my life back then. People gave a shyt back then.
@@dirtmerchant4718 umm I was born in 1975 so for F&(; sake I was alive in the 80s and you have some rose tinted revisionist glasses on. Get real, it was never that simple
@@juliedunken1150 I was born in 1970. It was much simpler than it was today. Back then the only major issue was the cold war. Government back then wasn't knocking at your door like it is today. Please, explain how it wasn't that simple. Or you could be a drama queen?
We'll be seeing those 10.9% interest rates on cars again real soon. Unfortunately, we won't ever see those lower inflation-adjusted prices again.....I do miss those days!
You know what's crazy?? We actually have 2 that was given to us by my father in law. Thinking about hooking them up. My husband and I enjoyed this one. Thanks Dave!
13:22 - 10.9% interest is considered a "deal" for a car loan. We are heading back to that way. A time when people saved up to buy things and used less credit.
If I had a time machine, I would go back 39 years to a simpler time, and stay there. I do miss the 80's.
Bring us with you....
Except for the 10.9% financing on those cars…
Take ME!!!!!
I feel the same bout the early 90s, being born in ‘86..
@@JWH808 10.9% financing on a $9,700 truck doesn’t sound too bad..
Who remember having to adjust the tracking on VHS every time you wanted to watch a movie? 😂 kids these days will never know the struggle.
I could watch these old ads for hours 😂
Commercials* 😏😆 Sorry, had to 🤣
Yep me too
@@jozefk.7720 My thoughts exactly 😂 I remember hating them now I look for them exclusively
Especially the Christmas ones. Make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
So many great memories as a kid in the 80’s during the holidays 💯🙏📼📺🧈
same
Same. Best was waking up
Christmas morning to a new NES the year it came out in the USA.
They were priceless. I remember going to Best with my mother. The toy aisle was my spot
This brings tears to my eyes remembering those awesome days thanks for sharing 🥰
Heck yea i wanted to grow up fast and be independent. I didn't realize i had no financial worries.
I love the 80, s the greatest decade ever 🇺🇲
Amen to that
Nah. I'm a child of the 80's and I liked the 90's better.
I was so lucky to spend my teenage years in the 80s.
A simpler time with killer music
@@Christopher-ii6tr when you assume you make an ass out of yourself. Sorry you grew up in the 90s Nickelback fan.
@@Christopher-ii6tr your favorite band was stryper.
The holiday ones always seem to have a bit more of that nostalgia ‘punch’ to them. Must be the memories of family and friends now gone.
I didn't realize this was going to be the best time of my life I'm 48 and life can never be as great as it was in 83 im depressed more then u will ever know
For sure
@@Eddie-zz1el I'm 48 years old also. The 1980's weren't any more special decade than any other decades done past. You all just miss getting your alls bratty ways and your parents pandering to them.
Living in Burlingame 82/84 and being there watching the 49er The Catch and their first Super Bowls,what an amazing time and great memories in the Bay Area.
I miss the 80s much simpler times indeed. Transformers, and Nintendo were my childhood.
I love how the commercial narrators had a different kind of voice than today.
As a kid i couldnt wait for the commercials to be over with, now here i am purposely watching them on youtube premium so i dont have to watch ads while watching commercials.
I watch using Opera, so I don't see ads either.
I don’t think anybody in 40 years is going to be feeling nostalgic for TH-cam ads though
@@Eman-vp5wk true. They were so annoying I couldn't take it anymore which is why I got a premium subscription
Love these holiday commercials!!!
Watching 80s commercials from a time I probably wasn't born always feels like i'm looking into a dream land. What makes it even more special is when its holiday themed. Late 80s early 90s is when things start getting familiar for me.
These commercials seem to be from the time of my earliest memories. I’m not sure the exact year of these but there’s enough to estimate it was most likely late 1983. As cool as nostalgia can be I’d never wanna go backwards,it’s fun to look back though
You dreamt about the best decade in history.
I was born in 1977, spent my "childhood" in the 80s. It would be so nice to go back there and "recharge", if only for a day.
I was also born in 77 and finally remember this amazing decade but if I were to go back for one day I would be so happy to be back there during a time when you had no worries in the world and there wasn’t all of this crazy political correctness nonsense going on like today
The country was united and more patriotic and the world was more peaceful and not saying we didn’t have issues just better circumstances
Born in 1976. I want to go back to the 80’s too.
Our teen years were in the 90s though. The rot had started to set in by then.
When I die I want to go back to this era. I was 18 yrs old in 1986 and was a teen at the perfect time. This era was really laid back and just really fun to be alive. And watching these commercials just brings me back and makes me kinda of sad seeing the madness we’re in now.
I’m 18 years old. It’s 2022. I work a full time job as a school cleaner. 3-11 Monday-Friday. And let me tell you. That is about the only good thing to come out of life for me these days. I’ve tried having friends but that never works out. I’ve tried keeping girlfriends but all they ever want to do is party, smoke weed, vape, and do other bad immature things constantly. I listen to mostly 80s music. I watch mostly 80s movies. And I grew up with my dad always bringing me to shopping malls. Now the malls are mostly gone and shutting down so I can’t enjoy those. What is there good from life anymore? I just want a good girlfriend to spend my life with than I’ll be fine. But that may not happen at this point. I’m sick of this modern culture. I’m sick of what is happening. I’m sick of what has been normalized. Nobody can just be a genuine mature person. I can’t even watch television without getting woke crap thrown in my face either. I can’t go to the store without seeing trashy people and high prices. I can’t do nothing.
@@pepsi_man4962 I was a teen in the 80s/90s too. Turns out - people pretty much sucked then too. Kids drank and smoked pot a lot then and, like you, a lot of kids felt lonely and isolated. Labor jobs had just as shitty working conditions. Politics were just as ineffectual. Worries about war and nuclear meltdowns. An 80s economy that was backed on outrageous debt fell like a house of cards at the end of the decade. People turned blind eyes to social, economic, and medical problems if they weren’t in their backyards (and usually they were - that’s how bad we had our heads in the sand).
I get it. Your life isn’t exactly ideal at the moment, but shopping malls and not having to see a gay character on TV suddenly wouldn’t turn it all around. Plenty of us were miserable as fuck in the 80s too.
@@Horriflick now imagine the struggle of the 1980s on top of all of the struggles these days. So times 10. There were struggles in every decade. But now a days something is off. Simply walk into a Walmart or Home Depot and you won’t see one normal person there. In the 80s you didn’t have dangerous freaks of nature walking among you. The 80s was not perfect just like every decade. But I can assure you the 1980s was one of the most normal decades for the American middle class (people like us). Now you can’t even send your child to school without anti American sentiment being shoved down their throats. Little kids can’t even watch tv anymore without seeing a black, trans, lesbian, dog fetish person in Nickelodeon. The 90s and 2000s was way better than it is now to tell you the honest 100% truth!!!
1980 I was 11 and I remember getting the Atari for Christmas....
Great times
A 24 hour sports only cable channel?? It'll never last...
No it won't. ESPECIALLY when it goes WOKE in 2020.
“I ain’t paying to watch TV.”
-My Dad 1981
It did, but really didn't if thinking about it. Then it was 100% sports, now sports are more a prop for political leanings.
Too bad it did
Sammy Davis did commercials?
It's amazing how video games went from $5-$7.25 to $70. I'm just fortunate to see video games from its humble beginnings to now. It both amazing and a privilege.
I seem to recall Video Chess for the Atari 2600 was like a $50 cartridge.
That was during the video game crash... they were a lot more expensive (especially adjusted for inflation) than today.
That inflation is transitory. 👈 Joe Biden did that
@@nowthatsjustducky perhaps for the Atari 5200 games were as much as $50.00
I like to watch vintage tv ads or commericals from the 60's, 70's or 80's.Please keep these videos coming !!
These commercials are more entertaining than what on Amazon Prime for certain.
Damn, you could tell this was a LONG time ago when you see that Sammy Davis Jr. was still alive and doing promos.
SAMMY AINT DEAD!!
@@frankbolander2239 He'll live on in our hearts and in his songs, but the man died in 1990.
@@Nightweaver1 LOL SORRY, MY FUTILE ATTEMPT AT SARCASTIC HUMOR!
Ted Danson in the Aramis ad!
Thank you so much for posting this. I miss the late 80's and early 90's really effin bad and am not kidding.
The 80's was the best. Wish I could go back to those times and just stay there. All I would take back is a Almanac. ✌🤣
I think it’s hilarious how some of these prices are so random….$297.63…or $117.87…or $397.63. I’m so used to prices ending with .99.
I was noticing the lack of .95 and .99 pricing as well.
@@nowthatsjustduckyI was reading this comment as I saw a 22.95 at 4:45
I almost cried. I wish I was back in 80's
8:03 Wow, Irene's glasses are enormous! 👓👀
The 80s were the BEST! Can we go back, please?
80’s Classic
Man these commercials take me back to a happier time. I would trade my age now for living in those days. I had that Kracko stereo system in my 72 Monte Carlo.
You sound like my parents in the 80s when they would talk about wanting to go back to the 50s before MTV and rap music.
Growing up in the Bay Area back in the 80’s it so amazing watching these and remembering the best decade to be a kid. Love the 80’s!!!
80s was the best time to grow up
OMG watching these commercials takes me back! I was singing along and laughing and just having the best time, thank you so much for that!
Oh boy, commercials recorded in the SF bay area, back when I was growing up there. I remember most of these commercials, and my older sister was working at a Brooks cameras store.
"the door is ajar" "the door is ajar" "the door is a jar"
I remember we got a car that did that if it was open more than a few seconds, and my Dad and I would both laugh and say, "No, it's a door!" Ah, memories.
80’s toy commercial’s from the holidays please!
Thank you for sharing these. The🎄Christmas🎄holidays were always special! The JC Penny's Christmas Catalog was always a great way to look at all the cool new toys. The Sears Wish Book was another epic publication lol. These are great memories, so again I thank you. God Bless you and your family.
I wish I could turn back the hands of time, and do it all over again.
the 80's were so awesome! times were so much simpler back then, best times of my life tbh
Another Bay Area KTVU 2 nostalgic banger! ❤💯 Thanks Dave!
Also @1:03 : yung Ted Danson
4:10 got this Olympus for Xmas 1985. Still have it. Thx!
Use to always sing that Merry Christmas from Payless jingle back when I was shopping with family in the 80s. Payless and Pay N Save were great drug stores back then. CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid don't even compare.
I kinda wish I lived through the 80s. Simpler times it seems.
As one who experienced the 80s as a kid, teen, and young adult, you are correct.
Amazing times I was in 1st grade and remember all these commercials. Christmas seemed different also.
Were there any black people back then?
@@richardlawson6787 what the hell does that have to do with anything. I'm black from the waist down.
Not really Mark Meadows,it was just another decade for a majority of us children. The ones that want to go back to the 1980's are the Toy R US kids that are now in their 40's still sleeping with their Geoffrey Giraffes because they couldn't figure why no woman wanted to marry them. So today to boost their egos they troll middle school girls on social media. I am a married man myself to a real woman. Some of them also make up the alphabet people.
Everything was BIGGER and MORE EXCITING in the 80's! It's so sad that we will NEVER have a decade with this abundance again.
Who remembered the old school HBO intro just before the movie ? 🤣😅
The one where the Camera raced up Main Street?
I am humming the song now.
@@pedropedroki9070 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂👍
Makes me happy how far we have come!!!
These bring me back to such a magical time in life. If I could go back to those for just a spell I would in a heartbeat. Nostalgia is a beautiful thing but it also breaks my heart knowing those days are long gone.
Such better times. So cool seeing those car dealership commercials
I grew up in the Bay Area in the 80's. These hit all the right buttons for me. 🥺
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS 😊
i❤the 80's
80s: The voice on every commercial sounds like a feature item announcement on The Price Is Right. Monotone enthusiasm! Simple yet effective. 💜🕶💚
LAST GREAT ERA.. MISS THE 80s alot....
Normally, I don't want to see anything Christmas related this early in November, but it's Dave so I'll allow it.
Clearly, the Payless shoe store and the Payless in these ads are two very different things.
6:24 - 6:27 Huh, Micheal Bay must've worked on that commercial.
13:25 - 13:53 Somehow, I knew that was a fragrance ad before they even said the word. Something about how I had no clue what the ad seemed to be for five seconds in tipped me off.
Wow, even the old Atari games were 30 bucks back then.
Back when the phrase "Merry Christmas" was still alive and well :)
Born in 1974 so I remember a lot of these
I now must seek out that Solid Gold Christmas Special. As a kid and teen, that was one of my secret favorites of the time. Giggity giggity.
Glad I was born 40 years ago and these take me back
I Miss The 80's Immensely, But At Least I Can Say I Loved It 👍👊
OMG that Olympus Camera was sweet!
Growing up in the San ose Bay Area, this was fun to watch. Thanks
I laughed and I cried. Thank you for the trip.
Lol at the wine bottle with the handle 😂😂😂
Great episode Dave!
You’re getting close to 500!
Stay retro !
🎥🎞😎
Did anyone notice Sammy Davis Jr., advertising binoculars? He had one glass eye… for real.
The period pads compared to bricks! 😂
Just a beautiful memories.😭😭😭😭
They certainly weren't afraid to say "Christmas" back then. Folks weren't as sensitive as they are now.
Brilliant.. Sammy Davis Jr selling cameras. ❤️👍
Irene, those glasses… do NOT go out into the sun. Your eyes will ignite
Thank you dave , ktvu channel 2 Barbara Simpson , yes sir I'm a Oakland native born in early 70's that made these old commercials extra special . Merry xmas from payless .
Dam !!! Things were expensive back in the day!!!!!....no wonder mom wouldn't ever buy me sh!t!!!!!
I'm a millennial but I totally miss the 90s and we all agree things were simpler back then-less politics, less division, and everyone was more focused on entertainment.
Less politics and less division??? Lol lol lol you don’t remember anything then.. I grew up in the 80s and into the early 90s.. it was the same.. the fall of the Soviets, the Berlin wall.. the first Iraq all the way to 9/11.. the internet was popular in the mid 90s it was just slow.. ebay and Amazon are from 1994.. u have a bad memory kid
@@juliedunken1150 No, it wasn't the same. Politics will always exist no matter the age. In the 80s you didn't have the internet or social media. People embraced Christmas. You didn't have crazy organizations starting riots and taking over the government. Communism was taught to be bad and capitalism was good. Being black was just being black and being white was just being white. Our government didn't stoke racism like today. I miss the 80s and what it represented. Being a boy was just being a boy and being a girl was just that. We had only two genders now we have an unlimited number. No, you aren't from the 80s. I lived the best days of my life back then. People gave a shyt back then.
@@dirtmerchant4718 umm I was born in 1975 so for F&(; sake I was alive in the 80s and you have some rose tinted revisionist glasses on. Get real, it was never that simple
@@juliedunken1150 I was born in 1970. It was much simpler than it was today. Back then the only major issue was the cold war. Government back then wasn't knocking at your door like it is today. Please, explain how it wasn't that simple. Or you could be a drama queen?
My oldest uncle used to have an Atari back in the day and even though they were very expensive then, the game quality wasn't anything to brag about.
Compare it to what came before, Pong, Atari Video Pinball, and the granddaddy of them all, the Magnavox Odyssey.
Anyone else get oddly choked up at the Payless Christmas jingle?
10.9% financing. Damn. We will be there soon again
The photo accessories game was STRONG back in the early 80's apparently. Must have been some kind of bucks in that market lol
Love this
Live and grew up in the Bay Area
Nice to see you took footages from here
Nice throw backs
Much love
$29.88 for Star Raiders was pretty expensive back in the early 1980s
I grew up in the Bay Area and this freaks me out because I remember some of these commercials from when i was like4 or 5. Crazy! Great video!
I miss these days, what a great time in America when we loved each other more.
No hip hop in any commercial
It was better back then! My dad and mom were young and ok.
my god 1981 xmas getting a atari 2600 the envy of the street kids..cheers dude
Merry Christmas from Payless merrryy Christmas! I haven't heard that for 30 years!
Dam miss the good times
Super nostalgie...Merci !
5:00 - That first Gemco jingle is really nice actually!
My sister had an 1980 Firebird like that one in the Kraco commercial.
10.9% apr for a new car....🤣
🍻"First beer Fresh!"👍
10.95 financing on a dodge? What a great deal! I want that in 2022
Yes…but how much would you have been financing? Total cost much cheaper then than now.
We'll be seeing those 10.9% interest rates on cars again real soon. Unfortunately, we won't ever see those lower inflation-adjusted prices again.....I do miss those days!
RETRO COMMERCIALS 495TH VOLUME 5 MORE FROM MY 500TH VOLUME
RETRO COMMERCIALS 495TH VOLUME 5 MORE FROM MY 500TH VOLUME
This brings back all kinds of memories for me I miss the good ol days everything was better back then now everything is just to crazy
You know what's crazy?? We actually have 2 that was given to us by my father in law. Thinking about hooking them up. My husband and I enjoyed this one. Thanks Dave!
13:22 - 10.9% interest is considered a "deal" for a car loan. We are heading back to that way. A time when people saved up to buy things and used less credit.
"Mom ! My maxipads !!"
@1:33 did he needed the cash?
Remember when, the commercials came on, we'd run to the kitchen to grab more pizza slices?