You’re kidding about the TV right? You have to push a button for channel in the 80s it was a push button keypad like a telephone and then they had finally had remotes that were connected by wire and oh they were fun! Not! You’re too funny watching these and look at some of my comments and you’ll get a kick out of it
Back then when l would check in for my flight they would ask if I wanted smoking or non smoking the smokers sat the back of the plane which I was one of them.
Chicken pix is a virus. It is part of the Herpes family. Yes herpes one strain is a STD. Chicken pox of course is not. Later in life chicken pox one who had it could get shingles.
Who remembers saying something along the lines of “pick me up at school” on the recording of your name for a collect call, so you wouldn’t get charged for the call?
Who remembers parents who weren't both working and you were on your own to get to and from school? In my neighborhood, you had to live outside a circle around the school at a certain distance to get schoolbus service. If you lived inside the circle, though, you could walk away from the school until you were outside and catch a schoolbus. Or you just walked or biked to school. Our parents definitely weren't chauffeurs in those days.
@@brettmuir5679 One improvement today. Just a few weeks ago I was checking out of the supermarket using one of those do-it-yourself machines and out spits a $20 bill. Seems the person before me had forgotten to check the "change" slot. Better than Las Vegas.
I will also add that the 80's had the best prime time shows (and it was free). Knight Rider, Airwolf, The A-Team, Magnum PI, Riptide, Simon and Simon, Miami Vice. I could go on forever. Glad we had a VCR.
I was a teenager in the 80's, and my favorite TV show from that decade is "Scarecrow And Mrs. King.". I also love "Beauty And The Beast," "Magnum P.I.," "Matlock," "Night Court, "The Fall Guy," "Dallas," "Knots Landing," "Falcon Crest," and "The Dukes Of Hazzard.". Those were the days!
My girl friend lived 50 miles away back then and long distance phone calls were expensive so we would write. I loved getting her letters that smelled like her " wind song" perfume and seeing S.W.A.K on the back of the envelope which meant " sealed with a kiss" ❤❤❤❤😊😊
My high school was a long distance call from my home . After football practice I would make a collect call home to tell my mom to come pick me up . The operator would ask my mom if she would accept the call and she would just say no so she wouldn't have to pay the extra fee . Then come pick me up .
Yeah. They don't even remember when cell phones came out you had to buy minutes to use for long-distance calls. Also, don't forget about 976 phone numbers. My mom beat my ass one month cause I called like once every day.
Our phone line was a party line. There were four families using that line. You could hear a clink when someone picked up. Any one on the line could listen in on what was being said. Our neighbor demanded to be able to use the line when he picked up. He expected you to hang up if you were on a call when he picked up.
Ooohhhh, prank calls were the best!! My bff and I tried the other day using call block, but cell phones don't sync like land lines did. We are now in our 40s and we'll be toys r us kids forever!!
In the 1980's there were no remote controls for the TV. You had to change the channel on the TV. The buttons on the TV you asked about is how you would change the channel.
There were remote controls back then. They were just wired. Can't forget the games. Dungeons and dragons, axis & allies. Could punch a bully and not worry he would shoot you for it.
Back in the 50s and 60 my dad had a service station and as a kid I worked in it. From the age of 9 to 14. Gas was 23 cents per gallon. The station and a garage and we did everything from changing oil to major engine repair. We sold tires and batteries. We did a lot of tune ups. When you pull up to the pulls. We came out and put the fuel in and washed your front and rear windows. We checked you oil and battery water looked at you hoses and belts and checked the coolant. If you asked we checked your tires air pressure.
Yeah cause there was no remote. You had to hate what you were watching so much that you’d get up and change the channel… to one of the other 4 or 5 available channels 😂
The first TV remote control I ever saw was a "clicker" that would rotate the dial one channel at a time with a great "kachunk...kachunk...kachunk...kachunk" sound. The clicker was self explanatory. The dial only went clockwise so if you missed your channel you had to go all the way back around (kachunk..kachunk..kachunk) again. There were 13 settings on the dial but only 3 or 4 stations to watch :)
Long distance was very expensive. My Grandmother lived 500 miles away. A 3 minute call was $5.00. Gas was 35 cents a gallon. My dad would joke that it was cheaper to drive to my Grandmas than a 1 hour phone call.
My sister called a guy (at the time they were friends but ended up marrying) from Washington to Texas it seemed like every other day with one calling one day and the other calling the next day. Her phone bills were $100s/month. I don't think she even pays as much now on cell service as she did back then.
I still remember calling overseas to my sister when her husband was transferred there. Now that was long distance and ~$7 per minute. Needless to say, those were short calls and only made for special occasions.
@@missbluepants888 I remember those days. Germany to Florida! I need to look up how much that was per minute. I was pretty young back then and don't remember.
I'm so old I can remember when we had a big wooden box on the wall. You cranked the handle on the side and held the ear part to your ear. Then you told the operator who wanted to call. You had a party line so more that one house was on the line. You had to count the rings to know if the call was for you or someone else. It was possible but very rude to quietly listen in on the neighbors calls. And that's the way it was:)
I was born in 57. We had wall phone in the kitchen with 25’ cord. You could go to the bathroom or into the garage. You could smoke in the hospital, restaurants and airplanes. 3 tv stations with b/w tube tv. Got color tv and a/c in 67, great year. Had add about numbers to call your cartoon superhero at 1.50 a minute. Gas was .40 cents a gallon. Dad would whip your ass if that showed up on the phone bill. We weren’t stupid.
Born 1962. The music and movies were great in the 70s and 80s. I loved growing up before cell phones and the internet. We were free-range kids, outside all day and our parents had no idea where we were.
When you eventually lost the power knob for the giant floor TV, you had to use needle-nose pliers to turn it on. Also, before there were such things as remote controls, the kids were the remote control 😂.
LOL love your reactions, yes all of these things were very real. Of course I was a kid in the 70s so some of this was past my childhood. Aluminum on the rabbit ears would increase the signal. When I started driving it was normal to pull in and have them fill it for you, check the oil and antifreeze, and clean the windows. I remember challenger exploding, it was heartbreaking. I got chicken pox but I was a teen and got very sick. We were not bored as kids, being bored meant chores, we got creative in finding things to do, thankfully I was a book lover and a tree climber. Climb in a tree and read your book and no one knew where you were.
Im in my 60s. I could tell you some interesting stories growing up in the 60s and 70s. During the summer I would get up around 8am and be on my Schwinn crate bicycle by 9am and come home by 5pm for dinner. Then out until 10pm and back home, take a shower, go to bed and do it all over the next day. And each day was different.
We didn't have to wear seat belts, we rode in the back of trucks, we could buy cigarettes at any age, and we could roam miles away from home so long as we made it home before dark.
We packed upwards of 9 kids in a civic and went to McDonald's during school lunch. We packed half the football team into the back of someone's truck after practice. With all our gear.. As for roaming ... we'd have football games on the other end of the county and we'd all stay for the dance afterwards, we'd be lucky if we got home by midnight. But if we weren't in the house at 1215, we'd miss the next game. Coach would call to make sure.
I remember going to Denny's with the cigarette vending machines. I had friends who would buy from those while one kept look out to make sure the hostess was away from her station.
Was born in 69'. I'm grateful for growing up when I did. It was by no means a perfect world, but people were SO MUCH more kind and considerate in general. That era also makes me think about the saying, "keep it simple stupid"... Technology has made some things easier in a worthwhile way, but ultimately, I think it was a lot better when most things were simpler.
First year GenX in ‘65! We had a milk man who delivered milk to our garage fridge each week! Our phone was a party line that was shared with someone else. My sister and I used to eavesdrop on their phone calls until we got caught! We played outside all day with all of the kids in the neighborhood and nobody cared where we were as long as we were home when the streetlights came on. In my teens in the 80s there were no cell phones so no evidence of all the crazy things we did! There weren’t cameras everywhere! We had so much freedom then that kids today can’t even imagine! We had the best music!
if you were born around 1960.. 10 years b4 or 10 years after.. you enjoyed the best of life in the US. Most freedom, best music, best food, best relationships with other people, good times without the government trying to control every aspect of your lives and many more things that TH-cam would probably delete my comment if I brought them up.
Using foil on the antenna was definitely a thing...I remember once someone using wire and a fork to keep me from missing the end of my show😂...And yes my entire childhood was surrounded by smoke.Ashtrays were everywhere, even in stores.We had cigarette machines.
Sometimes we used to force my little brother to stand in the middle of the living room holding the foil covered rabbit ears, so we could see the end of our show.
The 80s were pretty amazing. Not having a leash (aka cell phones) on you 24/7 meant you could leave the house, be gone all day and friends wouldn't get upset at you for not responding immediately to missed calls/texts.
you can still do that today, my kids are addicted to gadgets but whenever I tell them to put it down, I made sure I offer them something more fun. meaning, I bring them biking on the park with their favorite snacks. they loved it or bring them to place lazer tag if you got a budget, also Bring them to museums, no budget? there's museums that are free weekly. one silver lining of gadgets is that less people are now turning into drugs because it got replaced with another one, gadgets lol but at least less damaging.
I remember the rotary dial phones. They were big, clunky extremely heavy. The part I loved the best was if you were angry when you finished the phone call you could bang the receiver down on the cradle as hard as & as many times as you wanted to. You have no idea how satisfying that was. The greatest anger & stress reliever there was. You know how some times you feel like throwing your cell phone at the wall? If you picked up the rotary dial phone and threw it at the wall the phone would be just fine. However, you'll have to fix the wall that the phone went through. I really miss those phones.
I was 9 years old and in the fourth grade when my entire school watched the space shuttle Challenger explode shortly after takeoff on live TV. Among the seven killed was the first teacher to go to space and all across the US school children were watching. A very definitive life moment for many of my generation.
I was 22 years old and at work listening to my Walkman radio (remember those?) when it happened. Everyone and everything at work just came to a screeching halt.
What I miss MOST about the 1980's? Rock concerts. I saw so many bands it's hard to recollect them all. It could've easily been a hundred in that decade. Rock bands were my favorite.
I miss mosh pits. My youngest insists they still have them, but then describes all the rules. Yeah, I miss the mosh pits. The only rule we had was "don't fall down" ...
I went to a Monsters of Rock concert with three opening acts and four headliners; Def Leppard, BonJovi, Ozzy, Scorpions. Sure I went to other concerts (second place was actually seeing Springsteen at the Stone Pony), but that Monsters one is still at the top of the list. We also know that all recordings before September 1997 do not have Auto-Tune, so these were real people, really singing, and really hitting those notes. It is not that way today... Edit: If you look at Def Leppard's "Hysteria" album notes, there is a photo of the back of the band looking toward the crowd. You can see ME in that photo!
In San Francisco there was a place that was a Filipino restaurant converted to a punk rock nightclub. Place was called the Mabuhay Gardens. Among the local bands that performed regularly were The Adaptors, Avengers, Dead Kennedys, The Contractions, The Nuns, Crime, Dils, Sid Terror's Undead, Pearl Harbor and the Explosions, the Tubes and Wall of Voodoo, The Dead Boys, Nico, The Runaways, Devo, X, The Police, SVT, The Go-Go's, Motörhead, Sun Ra and his Arkestra, Patti Smith, Primus, The Jim Carroll Band, REM, The Fabulous Titans and others. Comedians such as Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams also made early appearances at the venue.
I went to world series of Rock at soldier field in Chicago and saw...Derringer,UFO,Bob seager and Frampton. Lasted all freaking day! Then went to see Fleetwood mac the same summer. Great times!
The keypad on that console TV was the channel and volume control. These came out to replace the tuning and volume knobs found on older TVs. You'd punch in the channel number you wanted to tune to, and there were up and down buttons for the volume. Some even had up/down channel buttons. This was a cheaper alternative to a remote control - the earliest of which were corded as opposed to wireless. Sometimes, foot folds without remotes, the nearest child was the remote. Dad might sit in his recliner and tell one of the kids to sit by the TV and start changing channels until he saw something he wanted to watch. Then he'd tell you to go back if you passed it. Fun times.
I would drive my family crazy by pulling up one of our swivel loungers just to the right of the tv. Ours was in a built in wall cabinet thingy and I would sit there with my feet up on the counter. It was much easier to then change the channel with my toes. Everyone just LOVED that!
12:30 That's the keypad. It had the power (on/off) switch, a volume knob, tint & balance controls, and buttons numbered 0-9 for changing the channel. Back then, there were no remote controls, so you had to get up and walk to the TV to change the channel or adjust the volume.
Yes, long distance was expensive but you could make calls late in the evening for cheaper rates. You also had to pay for really expensive "roaming" charges when you were out of your area when cell phones first came out. I just usually took it on long trips in case of emergency (aah the brick phone). You were also charged a lot if you talked over your alloted minutes or texts before smart phones.
When I was in kindergarten I had a coloring book, some crayons, a few matchbox cars, some G.I.Joes, a huffy bike, friends to play outside with, and it was fun.
I'm 46 and can say, ahhh nostalgia! The good ol days when kids were being kids. 😊😊 I was so addicted playing with my GI Joe's that I used to play with them on my lap while using the toilet 😅😅😅😅
@@jashanestone To be honest, never played with dolls of any kind. It seemed creepy and barely ok for girls. The closest was the little one and half inch plastic green army dudes where you could set up the armies them shoot them with Nerf guns.
@@thefuppits GI Joe's weren't dolls in the 80s dude.. 😂😂 They were action figures. Way smaller than doll but a little bigger than the green army men. They had jets, tanks, all types of military weaponry including ACTUAL prototypes that are used now. From guns to equipment to even fatigue colors. *TH-cam 1980s GI Joe's?* And we used to Nerf, shoot them with pellets or BB's from my brothers guns. He had collections and would use on my GI Joe's and frogs 😂😂
We LoVe YoU! I was born in the '80s. Our parents would say "Be home by the time the street lights are on or you'll end up on a milk carton!" All students also watched the Challenger disaster LIVE in SCHOOL.
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster happened on January 28, 1986. I remember I had come from the printing store to have resumes printed as I just had graduated from college and was searching for jobs. It was the clerk at the printing store who told me the Challenger blew up shortly after lift off. I immediately turned on the television to watch the news coverage when I got home. Needless to say, a very shocking and sad time for the space program. Wikipedia has some very in-depth information entitled Space Shuttle Challenger disaster if you want to learn more about it.
I live in Texas, when the Challenger blew up my house shook and the windows rattled. My dog ran to the window and started barking at it. It was so tragic
I was a college student preparing to be a teacher. I never found out until my professor rolled in a tv during class so we could watch the news. I was the only one that didn’t know, and I was inconsolable. When I was student teaching, I worked with a teacher who was second in line for that flight. Even though the space shuttle blew up, she was sad to not go.
I worked at the space at that time! It was very tense because it was so cold and several delays. We didn't go outside to watch , we were inside and I remember along with many others something was wrong right after lift off just at The trajectory or the shuttle! It was. Devasting to everyone!
That “keypad” on the old television is the dial for the on/off switch, a dial to change the channels, and volume control. Yep, you had to get up to change the channel.
I remember when the Challenger space shuttle blew up. Because there was a teacher on board, every classroom in America was watching when it blew up while taking off. We were all stunned. My teacher was one of the runners up to be on that flight. My husband's teacher (different school) was the next in line and barely missed the cut. When it happened, they both left their classrooms.
I remember how excited we all were when they rolled in the cart with the TV so we could watch. We had even had an astronaut come spend the day with us beforehand. I was about 6 years old so it both the first and last NASA launch I watched in the classroom
What a cruel joke that the first time they decided to send up a regular citizen (a teacher), it was a catastrophic disaster. I remember it well... but we weren't watching it in my classroom... it was being watched in the neighboring class, though... and they ran over to tell us that she shuttle exploded. Everyone was in shock.
All of the students were brought into the lunchroom and mats were set up for us to sit on them then the tv was wheeled out. The little kids K-3rd were in the front while the older students 4th-8th were in the back and the teachers were on the outside of the groups. I was in 3rd grade so I had an up close and personal view. My mom had put her name on the list to go up but she was nowhere near the top of the list. I told her “Never apply to go on a rocket again because they explode.”
Some of your reactions make me keel over in laughter. Paying for long distance calls, foil on rabbit ears...YES A THING! Hitting the TV some times became the kids jobs. Smoking in restaurants really hasn't been gone too long.
OMG I'M 47, AND I REMEMBER ALL OF THESE! The numbers you saw on the tv were for changing the channel... there were no remotes to those tv's and you had to actually get up to change the channel. We kids back then were called from other rooms in the house where we'd be playing to come and serve as our parent's remote control LOL.
I giggled when you asked about the key pad on the TV. Lol! That's the controls for the TV! You dial in the channel. It's the fancier version of a knob.
My grandparents had one of those big wooden tvs, but on that one the number pad flipped out like a flip phone and there was no remote so we had to walk up and manually enter the channel. I even managed to hook up a play station to it via a VCR in the late 90s and played Tomb Raider on it. 😂 My aunt still has it and it still works.
I can remember - it was a running joke that if your doctor was taking too long calling you back for your appointment, all you had to do was light up your cigarette, and you'd be called back almost instantly! Lol
I was born in 1967 and the 70's and 80's were a completely different society. Kids were like little adults and taught to take care of themselves. We were tough and smart because we had to be, the dumb and weak died.
Also everyone was bullied or teased for one silly reason or another . You just shrugged it off and kept going . Your friends always the ones teasing and would stand up for you if anyone else tried it .
@@matthewlofton8465 Yeah, I was going to say. Pushbutton channel selectors would have seemed a newfangled invention in my childhood. But the real question is whether the dial (or buttons) went higher than 13 because I think it was in the 1960s higher channels became available.
12:30 that was a keypad for direct tuning to the channel you wished to view. Instead of the knobs you didn’t have to click, click, click. If you were on channel 4 just press 3 then 9 you were on 39.
I remember we used to swap out where one weekend everybody would stay at one person‘s house then following weekend at another so all the parents ended up with a weekend free. That I am old I know what was going on, but my friends just across the street. Had the clapper and every time that everybody was sleeping over at my house at night their bedroom light would be on off on off on off a year later, the younger brother was born. He was about eight years younger than the group of kids that I grew up with and when we hit those later teenage years, we figured out why the lights were going on and off all the time we also nicknamed him clapper.
The eighties is when i saw most of the concerts i went to and met a lot of the bands. Still have ticket stubs and pics and autographs. I saw cheap trick, billy idol, Metallica, Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, deep purple, scorpions, motley crue, to name a few and the tickets were all under 15 dollars. What a time we had sometimes we would go out of town on road trips like to see Judas priest, Twisted sister, dokken... peace from Central Texas Hook'em Horns 🤘
Not only did you have to pay more for long distance calls, you also had to use an entirely different service for your long distance calls. You only had local calling unless you also signed up and added a long distance company like ATT or Sprint, or whatever.
The key pad on the TV was the channel changer (sometimes it was a dial to turn on some models) & your "remote control" was the youngest kid in the house who had to jump up & manually change the channel. 😂
Omg I laughed so hard when he asked what the keypad was for. That’s how we changed the channel. That was before we had remotes. I remember my dad would squat down in front of the tv changing channels over and over until he decided what he wanted to watch. If there was a commercial he would check on the next round. We had it better than my husband though. His dad made him sit there and change the channel until he was satisfied. I was so happy when we got our first remote.
@@eaglerider1826 reminds me of the joke in X-men days of future past when he said we have all four networks and pbs. Like it was a major accomplishment. We had local channels too plus PBS so we had maybe 10 channels.
@@occheermommy I know it's a running joke , but it is true that whenever the president came on t v it was always at 7:00 during prime time shows and he would be on all three channels . as a kid we would pray he would talk faster so we could get back to our show .
Long Distance calls got weirder. We could call my aunt who lived about 10 miles away at regular rates but for my aunt to call us would cost her long distance rates, so when she called, she would ring twice and hang up -- we would then call her back (to save on rates).
Aluminum foil could increase the surface area of the antenna which gave a slight boost to the signall. RF (Radio Frequency) Modulators were used as an adaptor to allow you to connect an old computer (like a Commodore 64 or Atari console or NES console) to use your TV as a monitor. Some had multiple inputs so you could switch between a VCR and a videogame console. Cheaper electronics had components that would work loose from the vibration from the speaker or being moved around or the heat from the components warping things. Giving it a good whack sometimes settled the loose components back into place. A lot of the components were also adjusted with switches and dials at the factory and sometimes they would get loose, but a good whack might knock them back into place.
12:33 - I'm sure somebody already told you, but that is actually the control panel for the TV. Some TVs had remotes, some didn't. All TVs had either a dial that you turn to change the channel, or buttons like that, to either type in the channel, turn the volume up or down, etc.
1968 here .I'm an aircraft mechanic and when I started in 1988 one of the nastiest jobs was when the" new guy "had to change the cabin air filters.They were black/yellow from all the smoke and I swear I can still smell it to this day.
Loving your channel. I'm an American who grew up in the 70s-80s and I can break some of this down .. 1. Long distance calls were basically anywhere you called outside the county you lived in (not country but county) 2. The antenna was how we got to watch our local news channels and some nationwide news channels. Now if you want free TV you have to buy ab HDMI antenna. And yes the foil was real lmao. 3. You used to be able to drink alcohol on airplanes if you were under 21 because there was no drinking age limit on an airplane 😂 4. Gas stations were on almost every corner and they would have "price wars" on Fridays...you could get gas for 39 cents a gallon when they really went at each other. 5. The space shuttle disaster was viewed live on TV by kids all across America. Teachers had set up TV's so everyone could watch it because there was a teacher on board. It was a slap from reality to every kid that things can go wrong. 6. Chicken pox parties were real. In adults it is called Shingles and can cause bacterial infections of the skin, soft tissues, bones, and sepsis and is very painful. 7. The clapper commercial....Clap on..clap off...the clapper 😂 8. Bell bottom pants have already come back into style but those were pre 80's lol
At 3:09…… there were 4 tuner knobs on the tv sets during the 1960’s: volume, channel changer, vertical hold, and horizontal hold. Color TV was not a thing until (?), not sure when. They were very expensive. The first TV show I saw was “Bonanza”. Gramma’s brother called her one summer day and asked if she and the family would like to watch their new TV. I was so used to watching shows in black&white(actually shades of gray), the colors were amazing to me!
2:30 yep, or a coat hangar, or other bits of metal. Sometimes, the TV would not get good reception no matter what one did with the antenna, so we'd have to add things. The really frustrating part was when one's body made a good antenna. Adjusting the antenna worked fine until one let go of it, so you'd have to kind of guess and let go a lot, or just stand there holding the antenna if something really important was being shown.
We lived out in the country. HUGE antenna on a pole out in our back yard--and we could only get 3 channels; which 3 depended on you going out and using vise grips to point the antenna in a certain direction.
When I called from a payphone, you would hear, "Will you except a collect call from?" Then, I would say, "I'll be home in 15 minutes," super fast, lmao. Then, they say no so they don't have to pay. Drinking from the garden hose was awesome! 😂
I am quite nostalgic for the 1980s. The music was awesome, much better than today. There is a video of two teenagers (cousins) trying to figure out how to make a call on a rotary phone (like the yellow one in the video). It is hilarious. The VCR and movies not rewound....the movie rental place would have stickers on the video cassette saying "Be Kind. Rewind." You could even buy a gadget that would rewind movies separate from the VCR. Never heard of "chicken-pox parties." Must have been a California thing.
In gulf states (LA) we did that but never knew they were called parties. I did the same with my son, when I found out a friend had chicken pox, they let me bring him over for a play date. It is so much safer to introduce kids to these things at an early age. Your body can build it's immune system on its own without all these vaccine effects
I remember picking up the receiver to see if the line is clear, we had a party line. That meant other people, usually neighbors, used the same phone line as us. If you heard someone talking, you were supposed to hang up, wait a while and check again. Most times we did! LOL
The Clapper, I still remember the commercials, reminded me of a scene. I can't remember what it was from, but they had a Clapper for the lights. Someone was being repeatedly being slapped and the light was turning on and off as they were slapped. It went from clap on clap off to slap on slap off.
RF modulators were used to connect devices such as a VCR, Cable TV, gaming console, etc, to older TV sets that didn't have a coaxial port or RCA ports on them. I remember TVs from my childhood that just had a pair of screws on the back for each connection you could make. The RF modulator would essentially assign the signal coming from the external device to a preset TV channel, such as channel 3 or 4, sometimes with a switch to pick channel so that it wouldn't interfere with your local TV channels.
Hearing you say, "What is that?" Has me laughing tears! I remember pulling into the gas station with 1/4 tank of gas and a ten dollar bill. I would leave with a full tank of gas, a carton of cigarettes, and change. I never had to open the door of the car! They even cleaned my windshield! The pilot wasn't the only one smoking. There were ashtrays built into the seats. There were even ashtrays inside movie theaters & In every restaurant. BTW - chicken pox is caused by a virus. There is a vaccine now, but it wasn't introduced until 1995.
Highlights magazine was one of my favorites. I had to get allergy shots every week and after being exhausted from wrestling w my Dad every time he tried to get me in the car to go to the clinic, reading Highlights Magazine was a great way to calm down and save my energy for the fight with the doctor trying to give me the shot.
on the tv, that panel was how you controlled the tv 😅😅 Volume, channel, any tuning adjustments you might have had too. And yes, The Clapper was around back in the 80s over here in the states 😅
About the fish and chips in a paper wrapper vs. on a plate... It will 100% be better in paper since the paper will absorb extra oil while you eat it, keeping it crispy. On a plate, the crispy aspect will get steamed by the flat side of the fried fish that's sitting on the plate, making the whole thing less crispy.
Smoking in airplanes ended by the late 80s. I remember people smoking right outside hospital doors, forcing everyone to walk through a cloud of smelly smoke 🚬 Hitting the TV jiggles the tubes inside the TV, sometimes improving the picture temporarily, in 1970s sets. Eventually, you have to take the suspected bad tubes to the store and test them, replacing the bad ones.
My dad was a tv repairman and owned a store. He still has two big cases (bigger than suitcases, hinged and swing open like doors, meant for doing mobile repair calls) full of those old tubes.
The keypad on the console tv was how you changed the channel. You had to actually get off the couch and walk across the room to manually change the channel. Yes, putting foil in the rabbit ears was a real thing and actually worked. Metal coat hangers worked too. Yes, we had to pay extra for long distance calls and if you were away from your house and needed to make a call, you had to find a pay phone, 15-25 cents for a 3 minute local call, 1 dollar for a long distance call. I remember it was no big deal sitting in the waiting room at a doctor's office and adults were smoking cigarettes. Even our school bus drivers smoked while driving their routes with kids on the bus. The guy didn't explain the converter connector very well. You had to attach it to the antenna screws in the back of your tv. There was a toggle switch for "tv" or "game". Your game console would plug into this converter box by a coax cable, turn your tv to channel 3, then toggle the switch to "game" so you can play your games. When you are done playing, you toggle the switch back to "tv" so you can watch tv. If you forgot to switch the toggle back to tv and turned the dial to the station you wanted to watch, all you would see is squiggly lines.
~ We had one of those converters for the t.v. My dad bought me an Atari 2600 back in the 80s and we'd have to switch the tv converter back and forth. ~ Also, the great thing about those older phones was that if you were mad at someone on the line, you could slam the phone down. Was so satisfying lol ~ Used to be able to smoke at work, at my desk in 1987. ~ I remember the missing kids on the side of the milk carton. Also, we still get milk in half gallons. ~ Remember when the Challenger blew up. Every school tuned in to watch it because of the teacher on board. We were stunned at what happened. ~ Loved Highlights! ~ The keypad on the t.v. was to change the channel. We only had about 8 or 9 channels.
I used to work in Customer Service for a Long Distance carrier. We got so many calls from parents questioning these charges that a special office was created for the sole purpose of handling complaints about these "900" calls. The company would usually give parents a break the first time, but they also warned them that the companies that owned the "900" numbers would sometimes try to collect in other ways, such as lawyers and collection agencies. There was a similar problem with video games. Some games had "900" numbers that kids could call to get hints on how to get to the next level or to win. Yep, the charges could be .99 cents a minute and on up. "900" numbers also existed for "Adult" entertainment. They were even more expensive.
I don't remember the details, but my little brother called a video game 'hint' service that was either one off from an adult service or a transposition. Either way, he called an adult service. The nice lady tried to help him as her son played the same game. I remember thinking yeah, and $.99/min is still money in the bank. :D
I only got rid of my rotary phone around 20 years ago! I had so much fun watching my son's buddies the first time they had to use my phone....it was a riot! the eighties were the last decade of true freedom and your rights were still respected. it was the last decade of innocence. big hair? I had a dyed black Mohawk!
I was born in ‘91 and while I’ve never had the pleasure of using a rotary phone in the US- I got to use one in Japan. I lived in Japan for six years and my wonderful neighbors let me use their still working rotary phone to call a neighbor! This was around maybe 2012 and we all laughed about how excited I was to use one 😂
We still have a functioning rotary phone. It saved us one time when our phone number was spoofed and people from all over the county were "calling us back" from their point of view. The rotary phone allowed us to take the phone off the hook and leave it off the hook until we needed to make a call. Can't do that with digital/cordless phones, they time out when you leave them off the hook.
That big ass wooden TV had a keypad for changing the channels. Like if you wanted to see channel 9, you would enter in "009" or "09". The Clapper was a sound activated "remote control" that would turn on or turn off anything plugged into it by making a clapping noise or some other sharp noise. The ad campaign was "Clap On! Clap Off! The Clapper!" I actually had a cheap remote control car that worked like that with a spring activate "clicker". Some TV's had that, too. You pushed a button and it had a piece of sheet metal inside that would bend and make a loud clicking noise you would use to change channels or turn the tv off with. It had a noise sensor listening for that frequency.
The big box tv on the ground. Those switches off to the side was how we changed channels. When i was younger my siblings and i always fought to be channel changer. We fight to sit as close as we could to the tv so we could be the channel changer. I miss Saturday morning cartoons laying on my belly eating cereal watching cartoons. Has to wake up really early though so we didnt miss it.
1980’s - It was really cool back then. The music, concerts, and the fun we had with them. The prices were way cheaper for concerts. The most I spent was probably around $27. Just a real fun decade
Born in ‘72 so grew up in 70s and 80s. BEST time! And yes, if the call was outside of your area (may only be 15 miles down the road) then it was considered a “long distance call” and you paid by the minute extra. Could be as much as 10 cents per minute. You didn’t make a long distance call unless you HAD to. Then they came out with a flat fee per month that allowed you to call most areas that were considered long distance. We DID put aluminum foil on the rabbit ears and it did actually help get better reception. We didn’t have cable. Ppl could smoke anywhere in the 80s. Remember we didn’t know just HOW dangerous second hand smoke actually was back then. I remember full service stations. They would not only clean your windows but they would check your oil too. I remember watching with the rest of my class when the space shuttle Challeger exploded right after it took off. It was so shocking and unbelievable! I was in the 8th grade. That was the “remote” on the console tv. There was no remote that you had at your chair. You walked over and pushed those buttons to change the channel. OR if you did happen to get a new model with an actual remote you still had the option of using the pad on the tv to change the channel, volume, contrast, brightness, etc. We still have TV trays but they’re nice wooden ones with their own rack. This is from the 90s but what is so surreal to me is to see my son (33) and my granddaughter (14); she is his niece, play Pokémon together. I never imagined when he was just a little boy and got sooooo into Pokémon that one day he would be sharing that passion with my granddaughter. Crazy! Love these videos! Keep ‘em coming 😊have a great day! ❤️
That square thing on the console TV is the knows for volume and changing the channel. No such thing as a remote control, we had to get up and manually change the channel, we only had 8 or 9 channels to choose from... I was born 1964, so I was in my 20's during the 80's and last generation that could drink at 18. They raised the legal age to drink to 20, but anyone already 18 or 19 was "grandfathered" and were still allowed to drink. Same for when they increased it to 21 2 years later.
Long Distance Calls: It used to be wherever you lived, you had a few area codes that were considered "local" so if you called them you'd get charged a base fee for the call, and if you called outside the 'local' area codes, you'd be charged extra. Calling to other countries would be charged even more. This has largely gone away with the popularity of various mobile phones. The thing on the TV there: That's the controls for the television. Those were made before the days of the remote control, so one had to use that keypad to control the channel the TV was on, or change the volume
Yes, in the US a call outside your "Local Calling Area" was called "Long Distance" and [if I remember correctly from Agatha Christie] it was called a "Trunk Call" in the UK. Here's the kicker, even within your "Local Calling Area" there could also be "Local Toll Charges".
I do have a friend that still gets the NY Times delivered to him in paper form. heh Joke is, he claims he ends up mostly reading it online, anyway. It works out for me, though... he gives me his old papers and I use them to line my parrot's cage. ;-)
The 80s were the BEST decade to be a teenager in!!!! Chicken Pox. Painful, itchy, fluid-filled blisters that were highly contagious. We did have chicken pox parties, so everyone was exposed and had the chicken pox behind them. Everyone was going to get them anyway. They were very itchy and painful. You don't know about them because you were probably vaccinated against them, as you are the age of my kids who received the vaccination. I'm so glad my kids were vaccinated in the 90s against the chicken pox, just like my mom and dad were glad we were vaccinated against the mumps and measles (highly contagious in the 1950s and 1960s) due to the vaccinations we received in the 1970s and 1980s. Shingles are the 'adult version' of the chicken pox. and are extremely painful. Although I had chicken pox when I was 9 years old, I still get the shingles vaccine. I don't want shingles. BIG HAIR AND BRIGHT, TIGHT CLOTHES!!!! Welcome to the 80s!!! I miss being a teenager!
Console TV - hahaha that is a keypad so you can change the channel. The older console tvs had knobs, usually one for UHF channels and one for VHF channels. Channel 13 and below is VHF, and 14 and above is UHF. The "newer" console tvs had a keypad and you just punched in the channel number and pressed enter
I loved growing up in the 80's. We got to experience the evolution of technology, but we still knew what it was like to be without it. We were not chained to tech like the youth of today. we had tons of freedom, and no social media. Our mistakes were never permanently documented on the internet. We got to see the fall of the Belin wall and the demise of the Soviet Union. New and interesting styles of music were created almost everyday. We played real dodgeball and enjoyed the tradition of Saturday morning cartoons. We would take off on our bikes, mopeds or motorcycles for the day, and no one was concerned as long as we checked in by dark.
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We also were able to smoke in the cinema the back rows were for smokers.
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You’re kidding about the TV right? You have to push a button for channel in the 80s it was a push button keypad like a telephone and then they had finally had remotes that were connected by wire and oh they were fun! Not! You’re too funny watching these and look at some of my comments and you’ll get a kick out of it
Back then when l would check in for my flight they would ask if I wanted smoking or non smoking the smokers sat the back of the plane which I was one of them.
Chicken pix is a virus. It is part of the Herpes family. Yes herpes one strain is a STD. Chicken pox of course is not. Later in life chicken pox one who had it could get shingles.
Who remembers saying something along the lines of “pick me up at school” on the recording of your name for a collect call, so you wouldn’t get charged for the call?
We did it all the time.We just said what we had to say really fast and hung up.
And check the coin return slot just in case
😂😂😂, yes!
Who remembers parents who weren't both working and you were on your own to get to and from school? In my neighborhood, you had to live outside a circle around the school at a certain distance to get schoolbus service. If you lived inside the circle, though, you could walk away from the school until you were outside and catch a schoolbus. Or you just walked or biked to school. Our parents definitely weren't chauffeurs in those days.
@@brettmuir5679 One improvement today. Just a few weeks ago I was checking out of the supermarket using one of those do-it-yourself machines and out spits a $20 bill. Seems the person before me had forgotten to check the "change" slot. Better than Las Vegas.
When he says you could smoke anywhere, he means ANYWHERE. The grocery store, the hospital. EVERYWHERE!
YES, the plane, train, taxi, everywhere.
absolutely true.
Yeah, that's one thing I'm glad stopped.
Even in high school! But not in class.
In this area, smoking in movie theaters was banned by the theaters in the mid 70's or so.
hospital rooms, delivery rooms, the nursery, teachers in school.....
Not only did people use aluminum foil on their antennae's but they would also use wire coat hangers, stretched into a circle
And some channels required someone to stand in a funny uncomfortable position so others could watch the show hahahahahah
@@ConspiracySmurf And kids were the remote control.
Omg now I wanna know how old he is! like of course foil!
haha. Married with Children. Fox viewing positions
I will also add that the 80's had the best prime time shows (and it was free). Knight Rider, Airwolf, The A-Team, Magnum PI, Riptide, Simon and Simon, Miami Vice. I could go on forever. Glad we had a VCR.
Don’t forget them Duke boys from Hazard County on Friday nights…7-8pm
Was so surprised to see Riptide, I almost never find anyone who remembers that one, also Hill St Blues!
I agree….Riptide is rare for people to remember. Think Remington Steele was on that night in the 10p slot 😅
Did you have the old remote or the fancy, hand held one? The old one was whichever kid was closest to the TV, was told to change it.
I was a teenager in the 80's, and my favorite TV show from that decade is "Scarecrow And Mrs. King.". I also love "Beauty And The Beast," "Magnum P.I.," "Matlock," "Night Court, "The Fall Guy," "Dallas," "Knots Landing," "Falcon Crest," and "The Dukes Of Hazzard.". Those were the days!
Calls were so expensive that we learned to WRITE letters to long distance friends and relatives.
Or exchange cassette tapes.
You are so right, long distance was to expensive for sure🤗
My girl friend lived 50 miles away back then and long distance phone calls were expensive so we would write. I loved getting her letters that smelled like her " wind song" perfume and seeing S.W.A.K on the back of the envelope which meant " sealed with a kiss" ❤❤❤❤😊😊
My high school was a long distance call from my home . After football practice I would make a collect call home to tell my mom to come pick me up . The operator would ask my mom if she would accept the call and she would just say no so she wouldn't have to pay the extra fee . Then come pick me up .
Yeah. They don't even remember when cell phones came out you had to buy minutes to use for long-distance calls.
Also, don't forget about 976 phone numbers. My mom beat my ass one month cause I called like once every day.
The days when the phone would ring and you answered not knowing who was calling. Prank calls were fun till Caller ID came along
Our phone line was a party line. There were four families using that line. You could hear a clink when someone picked up. Any one on the line could listen in on what was being said. Our neighbor demanded to be able to use the line when he picked up. He expected you to hang up if you were on a call when he picked up.
Is your refrigerator running?
Ooohhhh, prank calls were the best!! My bff and I tried the other day using call block, but cell phones don't sync like land lines did. We are now in our 40s and we'll be toys r us kids forever!!
Do you have Prince Albert in a can?
Bartender: "Hello?"
Prankster: "Can I speak with my mom, please?"
Bartender: "Yeah, sure. What's her name?"
Prankster: "Reckonwith."
Bartender: "Do you know your mom's first name?"
Prankster: "Yes, it's Amanda."
Bartender: (yelling out) "Amanda Reckonwith? Anybody? I'm looking for Amanda Reckonwith!"
Customers: (laughing)
GenX ( the 80s kids) - we were unsupervised, played with knives, guns & explosives.. the dumb kids didn't survive.. 😂😂
That's why most of us are pretty smart. Natural selection.👍
I’m all for removing warning labels, now, and letting this mess sort itself out!!🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
@@kaciewolf772 Hear, hear!
@@kaciewolf772look out yall big brain thinking over here😂😂😂😂
In the 1980's there were no remote controls for the TV. You had to change the channel on the TV. The buttons on the TV you asked about is how you would change the channel.
We had a TV with a dial too. Tuned in like a radio 😂
They did have remotes. It was the kids, we were the remote control
There were remote controls back then. They were just wired. Can't forget the games. Dungeons and dragons, axis & allies. Could punch a bully and not worry he would shoot you for it.
And the first remote control came out in the 50’s too yet we still had that dumb little box with the 30 foot cable
Vertical and horizontal hold. Who else remembers having to adjust them? 😅
“If you don’t stop you’re going to end up on the side of the milk carton!” was a REAL threat from someone. Felt like you would never be seen again.
I still say that to my grandkids. 😂
Hahaha. I remember that thanksssss for the reminder! Wooww flash backs to the past...!!
I was born in 1969. So the 70s and 80s were my childhood. It's crazy how much things have changed.
You feel that way because it’s your good memory , and value it because it’s gone and it’s a lost perspective .
The thing on the tv , is the controls for the tv . It may but mostly likely wouldn’t have a remote control .
That was how you turned the channel
Things sure have changed a lot not for the better. I was born in 1965
Same here! September 69
I was born in 86 but my older sister was born in 1970
Yes we put foil on the rabbit ears. The converter box was for flipping between games and tv. 😂
Back in the 50s and 60 my dad had a service station and as a kid I worked in it. From the age of 9 to 14. Gas was 23 cents per gallon. The station and a garage and we did everything from changing oil to major engine repair. We sold tires and batteries. We did a lot of tune ups. When you pull up to the pulls. We came out and put the fuel in and washed your front and rear windows. We checked you oil and battery water looked at you hoses and belts and checked the coolant. If you asked we checked your tires air pressure.
12:36
"Is That A Keypad To A Safe?"
Nope, that's how you'd changed them TV channels
Yeah cause there was no remote. You had to hate what you were watching so much that you’d get up and change the channel… to one of the other 4 or 5 available channels 😂
And you never wanted to be caught as the closest kid to that keypad. Because you have “remote control” written across your forehead.
@@cathydantzler4949yes there was a remote. It was me. With cable dad added extra coax so the box could be next to the couch
The first TV remote control I ever saw was a "clicker" that would rotate the dial one channel at a time with a great "kachunk...kachunk...kachunk...kachunk" sound. The clicker was self explanatory. The dial only went clockwise so if you missed your channel you had to go all the way back around (kachunk..kachunk..kachunk) again.
There were 13 settings on the dial but only 3 or 4 stations to watch :)
My mom used a long stick to reach the TV from the sofa to push the buttons to change channels 🤣🤣
Long distance was very expensive. My Grandmother lived 500 miles away. A 3 minute call was $5.00. Gas was 35 cents a gallon. My dad would joke that it was cheaper to drive to my Grandmas than a 1 hour phone call.
Lolol!
Remember calling and speed talking to get all the info relayed within 5 to 10 mins.
My sister called a guy (at the time they were friends but ended up marrying) from Washington to Texas it seemed like every other day with one calling one day and the other calling the next day. Her phone bills were $100s/month. I don't think she even pays as much now on cell service as she did back then.
I still remember calling overseas to my sister when her husband was transferred there. Now that was long distance and ~$7 per minute. Needless to say, those were short calls and only made for special occasions.
@@missbluepants888 I remember those days. Germany to Florida! I need to look up how much that was per minute. I was pretty young back then and don't remember.
I'm so old I can remember when we had a big wooden box on the wall. You cranked the handle on the side and held the ear part to your ear. Then you told the operator who wanted to call. You had a party line so more that one house was on the line. You had to count the rings to know if the call was for you or someone else. It was possible but very rude to quietly listen in on the neighbors calls. And that's the way it was:)
“And that's the way it is”
- Walter Cronkite
I was born in 57. We had wall phone in the kitchen with 25’ cord. You could go to the bathroom or into the garage. You could smoke in the hospital, restaurants and airplanes. 3 tv stations with b/w tube tv. Got color tv and a/c in 67, great year.
Had add about numbers to call your cartoon superhero at 1.50 a minute. Gas was .40 cents a gallon. Dad would whip your ass if that showed up on the phone bill. We weren’t stupid.
Born 1962. The music and movies were great in the 70s and 80s. I loved growing up before cell phones and the internet. We were free-range kids, outside all day and our parents had no idea where we were.
Yes I feel sorry for the children after, even though when I think about it some of the things we did how are we still alive?
Same with me.
When you eventually lost the power knob for the giant floor TV, you had to use needle-nose pliers to turn it on. Also, before there were such things as remote controls, the kids were the remote control 😂.
Grew up as the TV remote 😁😂
@@jessieshepherd6642 only time when it was ok to sit too close to the tv 😂
Needle nose pliers - Been there done that. Plus using a wire coat hanger for the rabbit ears.
also, when you had one TV and no VCR but 4 kids, you had to bargain/cajole/trick your siblings so you could watch YOUR show.
LOL love your reactions, yes all of these things were very real. Of course I was a kid in the 70s so some of this was past my childhood.
Aluminum on the rabbit ears would increase the signal.
When I started driving it was normal to pull in and have them fill it for you, check the oil and antifreeze, and clean the windows.
I remember challenger exploding, it was heartbreaking.
I got chicken pox but I was a teen and got very sick.
We were not bored as kids, being bored meant chores, we got creative in finding things to do, thankfully I was a book lover and a tree climber. Climb in a tree and read your book and no one knew where you were.
Im in my 60s. I could tell you some interesting stories growing up in the 60s and 70s. During the summer I would get up around 8am and be on my Schwinn crate bicycle by 9am and come home by 5pm for dinner. Then out until 10pm and back home, take a shower, go to bed and do it all over the next day. And each day was different.
Ah those crates ...my folks could not afford shwinn😂 i had Western flyer😂😂😂😂
We didn't have to wear seat belts, we rode in the back of trucks, we could buy cigarettes at any age, and we could roam miles away from home so long as we made it home before dark.
We packed upwards of 9 kids in a civic and went to McDonald's during school lunch. We packed half the football team into the back of someone's truck after practice. With all our gear..
As for roaming ... we'd have football games on the other end of the county and we'd all stay for the dance afterwards, we'd be lucky if we got home by midnight. But if we weren't in the house at 1215, we'd miss the next game. Coach would call to make sure.
Man, those were the days😊
I remember going to Denny's with the cigarette vending machines. I had friends who would buy from those while one kept look out to make sure the hostess was away from her station.
I sure do miss the old world 😢
Station wagon ftw going to show biz pizza
I was a '70s kid and a teenager in the '80s! Best time ever!!
It sure was,best times
Was born in 69'. I'm grateful for growing up when I did. It was by no means a perfect world, but people were SO MUCH more kind and considerate in general. That era also makes me think about the saying, "keep it simple stupid"... Technology has made some things easier in a worthwhile way, but ultimately, I think it was a lot better when most things were simpler.
Truth!! Bless you fellow Gen X'er!!!
I was a kid in the 50s , a teenager in the 60s. We had the best of everything. Cars, music, hamburgers and ice cream at Fosters or PDQ.
@@garycamara9955 You must be white.
First year GenX in ‘65! We had a milk man who delivered milk to our garage fridge each week! Our phone was a party line that was shared with someone else. My sister and I used to eavesdrop on their phone calls until we got caught! We played outside all day with all of the kids in the neighborhood and nobody cared where we were as long as we were home when the streetlights came on. In my teens in the 80s there were no cell phones so no evidence of all the crazy things we did! There weren’t cameras everywhere! We had so much freedom then that kids today can’t even imagine! We had the best music!
if you were born around 1960.. 10 years b4 or 10 years after.. you enjoyed the best of life in the US.
Most freedom, best music, best food, best relationships with other people, good times without the government trying to control every aspect of your lives and many more things that TH-cam would probably delete my comment if I brought them up.
Using foil on the antenna was definitely a thing...I remember once someone using wire and a fork to keep me from missing the end of my show😂...And yes my entire childhood was surrounded by smoke.Ashtrays were everywhere, even in stores.We had cigarette machines.
My sister had foil on her antenna as recently as last year
Sometimes we used to force my little brother to stand in the middle of the living room holding the foil covered rabbit ears, so we could see the end of our show.
And nobody monitored those cig machines ... very few people noticed or cared if some 10-year-old kid was buying packs from them.
If I remember correctly, some of the shopping carts had a tiny ashtray built into them.
The 80s were pretty amazing. Not having a leash (aka cell phones) on you 24/7 meant you could leave the house, be gone all day and friends wouldn't get upset at you for not responding immediately to missed calls/texts.
you can still do that today, my kids are addicted to gadgets but whenever I tell them to put it down, I made sure I offer them something more fun. meaning, I bring them biking on the park with their favorite snacks. they loved it or bring them to place lazer tag if you got a budget, also Bring them to museums, no budget? there's museums that are free weekly. one silver lining of gadgets is that less people are now turning into drugs because it got replaced with another one, gadgets lol but at least less damaging.
The kitchen appliances were gold, green and brown.
The toilet paper came in a variety of colors to match the bathroom decor.
I remember the rotary dial phones. They were big, clunky extremely heavy. The part I loved the best was if you were angry when you finished the phone call you could bang the receiver down on the cradle as hard as & as many times as you wanted to. You have no idea how satisfying that was. The greatest anger & stress reliever there was. You know how some times you feel like throwing your cell phone at the wall? If you picked up the rotary dial phone and threw it at the wall the phone would be just fine. However, you'll have to fix the wall that the phone went through. I really miss those phones.
And you had that satisfying ding from the ringer.
I was 9 years old and in the fourth grade when my entire school watched the space shuttle Challenger explode shortly after takeoff on live TV. Among the seven killed was the first teacher to go to space and all across the US school children were watching. A very definitive life moment for many of my generation.
That was definitely the saddest for that time. I remember it too.
I was 22 years old and at work listening to my Walkman radio (remember those?) when it happened. Everyone and everything at work just came to a screeching halt.
That's devastating
I miss my Walkman radio!!!
Same here. I remember watching it in school
What I miss MOST about the 1980's? Rock concerts. I saw so many bands it's hard to recollect them all. It could've easily been a hundred in that decade. Rock bands were my favorite.
I miss mosh pits. My youngest insists they still have them, but then describes all the rules. Yeah, I miss the mosh pits.
The only rule we had was "don't fall down" ...
I went to a Monsters of Rock concert with three opening acts and four headliners; Def Leppard, BonJovi, Ozzy, Scorpions. Sure I went to other concerts (second place was actually seeing Springsteen at the Stone Pony), but that Monsters one is still at the top of the list. We also know that all recordings before September 1997 do not have Auto-Tune, so these were real people, really singing, and really hitting those notes. It is not that way today...
Edit: If you look at Def Leppard's "Hysteria" album notes, there is a photo of the back of the band looking toward the crowd. You can see ME in that photo!
In San Francisco there was a place that was a Filipino restaurant converted to a punk rock nightclub. Place was called the Mabuhay Gardens. Among the local bands that performed regularly were The Adaptors, Avengers, Dead Kennedys, The Contractions, The Nuns, Crime, Dils, Sid Terror's Undead, Pearl Harbor and the Explosions, the Tubes and Wall of Voodoo, The Dead Boys, Nico, The Runaways, Devo, X, The Police, SVT, The Go-Go's, Motörhead, Sun Ra and his Arkestra, Patti Smith, Primus, The Jim Carroll Band, REM, The Fabulous Titans and others. Comedians such as Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams also made early appearances at the venue.
I went to world series of Rock at soldier field in Chicago and saw...Derringer,UFO,Bob seager and Frampton. Lasted all freaking day!
Then went to see Fleetwood mac the same summer. Great times!
i saw megadeth open for alice cooper in 1986
The keypad on that console TV was the channel and volume control. These came out to replace the tuning and volume knobs found on older TVs. You'd punch in the channel number you wanted to tune to, and there were up and down buttons for the volume. Some even had up/down channel buttons. This was a cheaper alternative to a remote control - the earliest of which were corded as opposed to wireless. Sometimes, foot folds without remotes, the nearest child was the remote. Dad might sit in his recliner and tell one of the kids to sit by the TV and start changing channels until he saw something he wanted to watch. Then he'd tell you to go back if you passed it. Fun times.
I would drive my family crazy by pulling up one of our swivel loungers just to the right of the tv. Ours was in a built in wall cabinet thingy and I would sit there with my feet up on the counter. It was much easier to then change the channel with my toes. Everyone just LOVED that!
I'm 71 and I liked the 80s the most.
Just watching you react to this makes me feel older than dirt. Lol
Hey, at least you get to say you saw Jordan play at his top tier self and Muhammad Ali fight his last fight 😂😂😂
12:30 That's the keypad. It had the power (on/off) switch, a volume knob, tint & balance controls, and buttons numbered 0-9 for changing the channel. Back then, there were no remote controls, so you had to get up and walk to the TV to change the channel or adjust the volume.
The keypad on the television is the power, volume, and the only channels that were offered. ❤📺
Yes, long distance was expensive but you could make calls late in the evening for cheaper rates. You also had to pay for really expensive "roaming" charges when you were out of your area when cell phones first came out. I just usually took it on long trips in case of emergency (aah the brick phone). You were also charged a lot if you talked over your alloted minutes or texts before smart phones.
When I was in kindergarten I had a coloring book, some crayons, a few matchbox cars, some G.I.Joes, a huffy bike, friends to play outside with, and it was fun.
I'm 46 and can say, ahhh nostalgia! The good ol days when kids were being kids. 😊😊
I was so addicted playing with my GI Joe's that I used to play with them on my lap while using the toilet 😅😅😅😅
Don't forget... A metal spoon 😊
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@@jashanestone To be honest, never played with dolls of any kind. It seemed creepy and barely ok for girls. The closest was the little one and half inch plastic green army dudes where you could set up the armies them shoot them with Nerf guns.
@@thefuppits GI Joe's weren't dolls in the 80s dude.. 😂😂 They were action figures. Way smaller than doll but a little bigger than the green army men. They had jets, tanks, all types of military weaponry including ACTUAL prototypes that are used now. From guns to equipment to even fatigue colors. *TH-cam 1980s GI Joe's?*
And we used to Nerf, shoot them with pellets or BB's from my brothers guns. He had collections and would use on my GI Joe's and frogs 😂😂
I was born in the 70s, and I'd say the 90s were the best time in almost every aspect.
We put foil on rabbit ears and use to bang the tv to get it to work better
We LoVe YoU! I was born in the '80s. Our parents would say "Be home by the time the street lights are on or you'll end up on a milk carton!" All students also watched the Challenger disaster LIVE in SCHOOL.
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I watched the challenger blow up on TV when I was in my 40s.
@@garycamara9955 That was indeed horrific.
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster happened on January 28, 1986. I remember I had come from the printing store to have resumes printed as I just had graduated from college and was searching for jobs. It was the clerk at the printing store who told me the Challenger blew up shortly after lift off. I immediately turned on the television to watch the news coverage when I got home. Needless to say, a very shocking and sad time for the space program. Wikipedia has some very in-depth information entitled Space Shuttle Challenger disaster if you want to learn more about it.
I live in Texas, when the Challenger blew up my house shook and the windows rattled. My dog ran to the window and started barking at it. It was so tragic
I was a college student preparing to be a teacher. I never found out until my professor rolled in a tv during class so we could watch the news. I was the only one that didn’t know, and I was inconsolable. When I was student teaching, I worked with a teacher who was second in line for that flight. Even though the space shuttle blew up, she was sad to not go.
I worked at the space at that time! It was very tense because it was so cold and several delays. We didn't go outside to watch , we were inside and I remember along with many others something was wrong right after lift off just at The trajectory or the shuttle! It was. Devasting to everyone!
I remember at school they brought tvs into all the classrooms so we could watch lift off. There was no shielding us from the tragedy that day.
@@beepndigr3634 I also got to see the event live at my school. Tragic day for all.😢
That thing on the old fashioned TV that looks like a keypad is where you changed the channels manually. 📺
That “keypad” on the old television is the dial for the on/off switch, a dial to change the channels, and volume control. Yep, you had to get up to change the channel.
I remember when the Challenger space shuttle blew up. Because there was a teacher on board, every classroom in America was watching when it blew up while taking off. We were all stunned. My teacher was one of the runners up to be on that flight. My husband's teacher (different school) was the next in line and barely missed the cut. When it happened, they both left their classrooms.
I remember how excited we all were when they rolled in the cart with the TV so we could watch. We had even had an astronaut come spend the day with us beforehand. I was about 6 years old so it both the first and last NASA launch I watched in the classroom
What a cruel joke that the first time they decided to send up a regular citizen (a teacher), it was a catastrophic disaster. I remember it well... but we weren't watching it in my classroom... it was being watched in the neighboring class, though... and they ran over to tell us that she shuttle exploded. Everyone was in shock.
All of the students were brought into the lunchroom and mats were set up for us to sit on them then the tv was wheeled out. The little kids K-3rd were in the front while the older students 4th-8th were in the back and the teachers were on the outside of the groups. I was in 3rd grade so I had an up close and personal view. My mom had put her name on the list to go up but she was nowhere near the top of the list. I told her “Never apply to go on a rocket again because they explode.”
Growing up a kid in the 80's was honestly so great..
I miss those times so much.
Some of your reactions make me keel over in laughter. Paying for long distance calls, foil on rabbit ears...YES A THING! Hitting the TV some times became the kids jobs. Smoking in restaurants really hasn't been gone too long.
OMG I'M 47, AND I REMEMBER ALL OF THESE! The numbers you saw on the tv were for changing the channel... there were no remotes to those tv's and you had to actually get up to change the channel. We kids back then were called from other rooms in the house where we'd be playing to come and serve as our parent's remote control LOL.
I was a kid in the 1970s and became a teen in 1980(my whole teen years were the 80s) so I had the best of both worlds! LOVED IT!
Same here. Born in 69'.
1967, Represent!!!
I giggled when you asked about the key pad on the TV. Lol! That's the controls for the TV! You dial in the channel. It's the fancier version of a knob.
Never saw those
Well said…exactly.
My grandparents had one of those big wooden tvs, but on that one the number pad flipped out like a flip phone and there was no remote so we had to walk up and manually enter the channel. I even managed to hook up a play station to it via a VCR in the late 90s and played Tomb Raider on it. 😂 My aunt still has it and it still works.
I can remember - it was a running joke that if your doctor was taking too long calling you back for your appointment, all you had to do was light up your cigarette, and you'd be called back almost instantly! Lol
Or waiting for food at a restaurant.
I was born in 1967 and the 70's and 80's were a completely different society. Kids were like little adults and taught to take care of themselves. We were tough and smart because we had to be, the dumb and weak died.
Now the script has flipped.
Also everyone was bullied or teased for one silly reason or another . You just shrugged it off and kept going . Your friends always the ones teasing and would stand up for you if anyone else tried it .
Facts!
Now kids get bullied and commit suicide. And people sue over the dumbest s#it.
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The keypad on the TV was the channel selector. 80's kid here! Born in 1978. Love these videos. 100% accurate.
I didn't experience the keypads, all our TVs had the rotary dials instead...even the ones with remotes.
@matthewlofton8465 most had dials. The keypads were 'fancy' hahaha
@@matthewlofton8465 best soundtrack of any generation.
It didn't matter in our house; only one channel was clear enough to watch (in better weather).
@@matthewlofton8465 Yeah, I was going to say. Pushbutton channel selectors would have seemed a newfangled invention in my childhood. But the real question is whether the dial (or buttons) went higher than 13 because I think it was in the 1960s higher channels became available.
12:30 that was a keypad for direct tuning to the channel you wished to view. Instead of the knobs you didn’t have to click, click, click. If you were on channel 4 just press 3 then 9 you were on 39.
80's and 90's without a doubt. No social media, far less regulation and here in the U.S., there was a unity in our culture that was really great.
The clapper was hilarious during a thunderstorm
omg i never thought of that cause we never bought own...now i want it lmao
I remember we used to swap out where one weekend everybody would stay at one person‘s house then following weekend at another so all the parents ended up with a weekend free. That I am old I know what was going on, but my friends just across the street. Had the clapper and every time that everybody was sleeping over at my house at night their bedroom light would be on off on off on off a year later, the younger brother was born. He was about eight years younger than the group of kids that I grew up with and when we hit those later teenage years, we figured out why the lights were going on and off all the time we also nicknamed him clapper.
The eighties is when i saw most of the concerts i went to and met a lot of the bands. Still have ticket stubs and pics and autographs. I saw cheap trick, billy idol, Metallica, Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, deep purple, scorpions, motley crue, to name a few and the tickets were all under 15 dollars. What a time we had sometimes we would go out of town on road trips like to see Judas priest, Twisted sister, dokken... peace from Central Texas Hook'em Horns 🤘
Not only did you have to pay more for long distance calls, you also had to use an entirely different service for your long distance calls. You only had local calling unless you also signed up and added a long distance company like ATT or Sprint, or whatever.
The key pad on the TV was the channel changer (sometimes it was a dial to turn on some models) & your "remote control" was the youngest kid in the house who had to jump up & manually change the channel. 😂
Omg I laughed so hard when he asked what the keypad was for. That’s how we changed the channel. That was before we had remotes. I remember my dad would squat down in front of the tv changing channels over and over until he decided what he wanted to watch. If there was a commercial he would check on the next round. We had it better than my husband though. His dad made him sit there and change the channel until he was satisfied. I was so happy when we got our first remote.
If there were children in the house there were remotes.
Remember the first remotes had wire from the remote and plugged in the back of the TV ..then came "Wireless Remotes"...
All I remember was the big round knob that you turned clockwise for the channel . We also only had three channels available .
@@eaglerider1826 reminds me of the joke in X-men days of future past when he said we have all four networks and pbs. Like it was a major accomplishment. We had local channels too plus PBS so we had maybe 10 channels.
@@occheermommy I know it's a running joke , but it is true that whenever the president came on t v it was always at 7:00 during prime time shows and he would be on all three channels . as a kid we would pray he would talk faster so we could get back to our show .
Long Distance calls got weirder. We could call my aunt who lived about 10 miles away at regular rates but for my aunt to call us would cost her long distance rates, so when she called, she would ring twice and hang up -- we would then call her back (to save on rates).
Aluminum foil could increase the surface area of the antenna which gave a slight boost to the signall. RF (Radio Frequency) Modulators were used as an adaptor to allow you to connect an old computer (like a Commodore 64 or Atari console or NES console) to use your TV as a monitor. Some had multiple inputs so you could switch between a VCR and a videogame console. Cheaper electronics had components that would work loose from the vibration from the speaker or being moved around or the heat from the components warping things. Giving it a good whack sometimes settled the loose components back into place. A lot of the components were also adjusted with switches and dials at the factory and sometimes they would get loose, but a good whack might knock them back into place.
12:33 - I'm sure somebody already told you, but that is actually the control panel for the TV. Some TVs had remotes, some didn't. All TVs had either a dial that you turn to change the channel, or buttons like that, to either type in the channel, turn the volume up or down, etc.
1968 here .I'm an aircraft mechanic and when I started in 1988 one of the nastiest jobs was when the" new guy "had to change the cabin air filters.They were black/yellow from all the smoke and I swear I can still smell it to this day.
Is this after you sent them to find the prop wash?
Or the centrifical paint@@hatleyhoward7193
1980s was amazing growing up with old tech and real friends.
Loving your channel. I'm an American who grew up in the 70s-80s and I can break some of this down ..
1. Long distance calls were basically anywhere you called outside the county you lived in (not country but county)
2. The antenna was how we got to watch our local news channels and some nationwide news channels. Now if you want free TV you have to buy ab HDMI antenna. And yes the foil was real lmao.
3. You used to be able to drink alcohol on airplanes if you were under 21 because there was no drinking age limit on an airplane 😂
4. Gas stations were on almost every corner and they would have "price wars" on Fridays...you could get gas for 39 cents a gallon when they really went at each other.
5. The space shuttle disaster was viewed live on TV by kids all across America. Teachers had set up TV's so everyone could watch it because there was a teacher on board. It was a slap from reality to every kid that things can go wrong.
6. Chicken pox parties were real. In adults it is called Shingles and can cause bacterial infections of the skin, soft tissues, bones, and sepsis and is very painful.
7. The clapper commercial....Clap on..clap off...the clapper 😂
8. Bell bottom pants have already come back into style but those were pre 80's lol
At 3:09…… there were 4 tuner knobs on the tv sets during the 1960’s: volume, channel changer, vertical hold, and horizontal hold.
Color TV was not a thing until (?), not sure when. They were very expensive. The first TV show I saw was “Bonanza”. Gramma’s brother called her one summer day and asked if she and the family would like to watch their new TV. I was so used to watching shows in black&white(actually shades of gray), the colors were amazing to me!
foil on the rabbit ears helped get rid of interference
Plus block the alien transmissions except Mork from Ork, or my Favorite Martian.
It didn’t but we thought it did
2:30 yep, or a coat hangar, or other bits of metal. Sometimes, the TV would not get good reception no matter what one did with the antenna, so we'd have to add things. The really frustrating part was when one's body made a good antenna. Adjusting the antenna worked fine until one let go of it, so you'd have to kind of guess and let go a lot, or just stand there holding the antenna if something really important was being shown.
We lived out in the country. HUGE antenna on a pole out in our back yard--and we could only get 3 channels; which 3 depended on you going out and using vise grips to point the antenna in a certain direction.
When I called from a payphone, you would hear, "Will you except a collect call from?" Then, I would say, "I'll be home in 15 minutes," super fast, lmao. Then, they say no so they don't have to pay. Drinking from the garden hose was awesome! 😂
I am quite nostalgic for the 1980s. The music was awesome, much better than today. There is a video of two teenagers (cousins) trying to figure out how to make a call on a rotary phone (like the yellow one in the video). It is hilarious.
The VCR and movies not rewound....the movie rental place would have stickers on the video cassette saying "Be Kind. Rewind." You could even buy a gadget that would rewind movies separate from the VCR. Never heard of "chicken-pox parties." Must have been a California thing.
In gulf states (LA) we did that but never knew they were called parties. I did the same with my son, when I found out a friend had chicken pox, they let me bring him over for a play date. It is so much safer to introduce kids to these things at an early age. Your body can build it's immune system on its own without all these vaccine effects
I remember picking up the receiver to see if the line is clear, we had a party line. That meant other people, usually neighbors, used the same phone line as us. If you heard someone talking, you were supposed to hang up, wait a while and check again. Most times we did! LOL
The Clapper, I still remember the commercials, reminded me of a scene. I can't remember what it was from, but they had a Clapper for the lights. Someone was being repeatedly being slapped and the light was turning on and off as they were slapped. It went from clap on clap off to slap on slap off.
RF modulators were used to connect devices such as a VCR, Cable TV, gaming console, etc, to older TV sets that didn't have a coaxial port or RCA ports on them. I remember TVs from my childhood that just had a pair of screws on the back for each connection you could make. The RF modulator would essentially assign the signal coming from the external device to a preset TV channel, such as channel 3 or 4, sometimes with a switch to pick channel so that it wouldn't interfere with your local TV channels.
Hearing you say, "What is that?" Has me laughing tears!
I remember pulling into the gas station with 1/4 tank of gas and a ten dollar bill. I would leave with a full tank of gas, a carton of cigarettes, and change. I never had to open the door of the car! They even cleaned my windshield!
The pilot wasn't the only one smoking. There were ashtrays built into the seats. There were even ashtrays inside movie theaters & In every restaurant.
BTW - chicken pox is caused by a virus. There is a vaccine now, but it wasn't introduced until 1995.
I could take my GF on a date, 35 miles away, go to a nice restaurant, see a movie, an go back home for $20. And pay for gas in my '73 Charger.
Highlights magazine was one of my favorites. I had to get allergy shots every week and after being exhausted from wrestling w my Dad every time he tried to get me in the car to go to the clinic, reading Highlights Magazine was a great way to calm down and save my energy for the fight with the doctor trying to give me the shot.
Wow! I got allergy shots. They were no big deal at all.
on the tv, that panel was how you controlled the tv 😅😅 Volume, channel, any tuning adjustments you might have had too.
And yes, The Clapper was around back in the 80s over here in the states 😅
About the fish and chips in a paper wrapper vs. on a plate... It will 100% be better in paper since the paper will absorb extra oil while you eat it, keeping it crispy. On a plate, the crispy aspect will get steamed by the flat side of the fried fish that's sitting on the plate, making the whole thing less crispy.
I remember watching the challenger explode in school my teacher turned that off so quick..
I was at home that day because of snow. I thought it would be cool to watch the space shuttle. Instantly you knew something was wrong
I watched it at school as well. My entire class went silent for several minutes until most of us started bawling 😢
We kept watching in my class. It was so crazy to see live in school
😂 I was already in prison when that happened 😂😂😂😂
Smoking in airplanes ended by the late 80s. I remember people smoking right outside hospital doors, forcing everyone to walk through a cloud of smelly smoke 🚬
Hitting the TV jiggles the tubes inside the TV, sometimes improving the picture temporarily, in 1970s sets. Eventually, you have to take the suspected bad tubes to the store and test them, replacing the bad ones.
My dad was a tv repairman and owned a store. He still has two big cases (bigger than suitcases, hinged and swing open like doors, meant for doing mobile repair calls) full of those old tubes.
The first plane ride i went on in 1984 i smoked.
I also smoked in the hospital when i add my first back surgery in the late eighties.
The keypad on the console tv was how you changed the channel. You had to actually get off the couch and walk across the room to manually change the channel. Yes, putting foil in the rabbit ears was a real thing and actually worked. Metal coat hangers worked too.
Yes, we had to pay extra for long distance calls and if you were away from your house and needed to make a call, you had to find a pay phone, 15-25 cents for a 3 minute local call, 1 dollar for a long distance call.
I remember it was no big deal sitting in the waiting room at a doctor's office and adults were smoking cigarettes. Even our school bus drivers smoked while driving their routes with kids on the bus.
The guy didn't explain the converter connector very well. You had to attach it to the antenna screws in the back of your tv. There was a toggle switch for "tv" or "game". Your game console would plug into this converter box by a coax cable, turn your tv to channel 3, then toggle the switch to "game" so you can play your games. When you are done playing, you toggle the switch back to "tv" so you can watch tv. If you forgot to switch the toggle back to tv and turned the dial to the station you wanted to watch, all you would see is squiggly lines.
~ We had one of those converters for the t.v. My dad bought me an Atari 2600 back in the 80s and we'd have to switch the tv converter back and forth.
~ Also, the great thing about those older phones was that if you were mad at someone on the line, you could slam the phone down. Was so satisfying lol
~ Used to be able to smoke at work, at my desk in 1987.
~ I remember the missing kids on the side of the milk carton. Also, we still get milk in half gallons.
~ Remember when the Challenger blew up. Every school tuned in to watch it because of the teacher on board. We were stunned at what happened.
~ Loved Highlights!
~ The keypad on the t.v. was to change the channel. We only had about 8 or 9 channels.
You had 8 or 9? For the longest time, other than religious channels, there was CBS, NBC and ABC. Eventually, we got FOX. What other ones did you get?
I used to work in Customer Service for a Long Distance carrier. We got so many calls from parents questioning these charges that a special office was created for the sole purpose of handling complaints about these "900" calls. The company would usually give parents a break the first time, but they also warned them that the companies that owned the "900" numbers would sometimes try to collect in other ways, such as lawyers and collection agencies. There was a similar problem with video games. Some games had "900" numbers that kids could call to get hints on how to get to the next level or to win. Yep, the charges could be .99 cents a minute and on up. "900" numbers also existed for "Adult" entertainment. They were even more expensive.
I don't remember the details, but my little brother called a video game 'hint' service that was either one off from an adult service or a transposition. Either way, he called an adult service. The nice lady tried to help him as her son played the same game. I remember thinking yeah, and $.99/min is still money in the bank. :D
I only got rid of my rotary phone around 20 years ago! I had so much fun watching my son's buddies the first time they had to use my phone....it was a riot!
the eighties were the last decade of true freedom and your rights were still respected. it was the last decade of innocence.
big hair? I had a dyed black Mohawk!
I was born in ‘91 and while I’ve never had the pleasure of using a rotary phone in the US- I got to use one in Japan. I lived in Japan for six years and my wonderful neighbors let me use their still working rotary phone to call a neighbor! This was around maybe 2012 and we all laughed about how excited I was to use one 😂
We still have a functioning rotary phone. It saved us one time when our phone number was spoofed and people from all over the county were "calling us back" from their point of view. The rotary phone allowed us to take the phone off the hook and leave it off the hook until we needed to make a call. Can't do that with digital/cordless phones, they time out when you leave them off the hook.
That big ass wooden TV had a keypad for changing the channels. Like if you wanted to see channel 9, you would enter in "009" or "09". The Clapper was a sound activated "remote control" that would turn on or turn off anything plugged into it by making a clapping noise or some other sharp noise. The ad campaign was "Clap On! Clap Off! The Clapper!" I actually had a cheap remote control car that worked like that with a spring activate "clicker". Some TV's had that, too. You pushed a button and it had a piece of sheet metal inside that would bend and make a loud clicking noise you would use to change channels or turn the tv off with. It had a noise sensor listening for that frequency.
The big box tv on the ground. Those switches off to the side was how we changed channels. When i was younger my siblings and i always fought to be channel changer. We fight to sit as close as we could to the tv so we could be the channel changer. I miss Saturday morning cartoons laying on my belly eating cereal watching cartoons. Has to wake up really early though so we didnt miss it.
1980’s - It was really cool back then. The music, concerts, and the fun we had with them. The prices were way cheaper for concerts. The most I spent was probably around $27. Just a real fun decade
Born in ‘72 so grew up in 70s and 80s. BEST time! And yes, if the call was outside of your area (may only be 15 miles down the road) then it was considered a “long distance call” and you paid by the minute extra. Could be as much as 10 cents per minute. You didn’t make a long distance call unless you HAD to. Then they came out with a flat fee per month that allowed you to call most areas that were considered long distance. We DID put aluminum foil on the rabbit ears and it did actually help get better reception. We didn’t have cable. Ppl could smoke anywhere in the 80s. Remember we didn’t know just HOW dangerous second hand smoke actually was back then. I remember full service stations. They would not only clean your windows but they would check your oil too. I remember watching with the rest of my class when the space shuttle Challeger exploded right after it took off. It was so shocking and unbelievable! I was in the 8th grade. That was the “remote” on the console tv. There was no remote that you had at your chair. You walked over and pushed those buttons to change the channel. OR if you did happen to get a new model with an actual remote you still had the option of using the pad on the tv to change the channel, volume, contrast, brightness, etc. We still have TV trays but they’re nice wooden ones with their own rack. This is from the 90s but what is so surreal to me is to see my son (33) and my granddaughter (14); she is his niece, play Pokémon together. I never imagined when he was just a little boy and got sooooo into Pokémon that one day he would be sharing that passion with my granddaughter. Crazy! Love these videos! Keep ‘em coming 😊have a great day! ❤️
That square thing on the console TV is the knows for volume and changing the channel. No such thing as a remote control, we had to get up and manually change the channel, we only had 8 or 9 channels to choose from... I was born 1964, so I was in my 20's during the 80's and last generation that could drink at 18. They raised the legal age to drink to 20, but anyone already 18 or 19 was "grandfathered" and were still allowed to drink. Same for when they increased it to 21 2 years later.
Long Distance Calls:
It used to be wherever you lived, you had a few area codes that were considered "local" so if you called them you'd get charged a base fee for the call, and if you called outside the 'local' area codes, you'd be charged extra. Calling to other countries would be charged even more.
This has largely gone away with the popularity of various mobile phones.
The thing on the TV there:
That's the controls for the television. Those were made before the days of the remote control, so one had to use that keypad to control the channel the TV was on, or change the volume
Yes, in the US a call outside your "Local Calling Area" was called "Long Distance" and [if I remember correctly from Agatha Christie] it was called a "Trunk Call" in the UK. Here's the kicker, even within your "Local Calling Area" there could also be "Local Toll Charges".
I do miss getting the Sunday paper. Miss the N.Y.Times Sunday paper. When I lived on east coast it was coffee, fresh bagels & Sunday paper.
I do have a friend that still gets the NY Times delivered to him in paper form. heh Joke is, he claims he ends up mostly reading it online, anyway. It works out for me, though... he gives me his old papers and I use them to line my parrot's cage. ;-)
The keypad on the front of the television was how you changed the channel and adjusted the volume
The keypad was the channel selector. Most TV's had a rotary channel selector, but some had the keypad.
The 80s were the BEST decade to be a teenager in!!!!
Chicken Pox. Painful, itchy, fluid-filled blisters that were highly contagious. We did have chicken pox parties, so everyone was exposed and had the chicken pox behind them. Everyone was going to get them anyway. They were very itchy and painful.
You don't know about them because you were probably vaccinated against them, as you are the age of my kids who received the vaccination. I'm so glad my kids were vaccinated in the 90s against the chicken pox, just like my mom and dad were glad we were vaccinated against the mumps and measles (highly contagious in the 1950s and 1960s) due to the vaccinations we received in the 1970s and 1980s.
Shingles are the 'adult version' of the chicken pox. and are extremely painful. Although I had chicken pox when I was 9 years old, I still get the shingles vaccine. I don't want shingles.
BIG HAIR AND BRIGHT, TIGHT CLOTHES!!!! Welcome to the 80s!!! I miss being a teenager!
Console TV - hahaha that is a keypad so you can change the channel. The older console tvs had knobs, usually one for UHF channels and one for VHF channels. Channel 13 and below is VHF, and 14 and above is UHF. The "newer" console tvs had a keypad and you just punched in the channel number and pressed enter
I loved growing up in the 80's. We got to experience the evolution of technology, but we still knew what it was like to be without it. We were not chained to tech like the youth of today. we had tons of freedom, and no social media. Our mistakes were never permanently documented on the internet. We got to see the fall of the Belin wall and the demise of the Soviet Union. New and interesting styles of music were created almost everyday. We played real dodgeball and enjoyed the tradition of Saturday morning cartoons. We would take off on our bikes, mopeds or motorcycles for the day, and no one was concerned as long as we checked in by dark.