On of are workers last day on the end of 1987 can see a lot of the McDonald's workers back then. 12/31/1987 Russ Burns is in this video with a lot of others.
Actually, there were way more teenagers working fast food back then than today. The only adults you used to see were the managers and shift managers. Today it is mostly adults who barely speak English.
@@mther9187 Not most of them. Most of them were making $3.35/hr which was very little money even back then. But that was okay because most of them were part time high school or college students just trying to make some spending money or maybe a down payment on a car. Only the management types made an actual "living wage".
There's a study how often people laugh and smile in a day. This study been going on for decades. People back in the 80s actually laughed more in a day then now. So shows that life really was more enjoyable back then.
I moved to Chi-town back in 1982 and I agree . When I was out and about walking around in public the women smiled more. Now their on their Smart phones . Wouldn't give a guy a smile unless they knew him or liked him.
I was around more people in the 80s so of course I laughed more. Nowadays I work at home so I'm by myself a lot and yeah, I don't laugh quite as much. But I'll tell you what, I'm happier now than I ever was in the 80s and 90s. Laughter isn't the only indication of happiness.
Back then, fast food workers were happier because they were treated better by the bosses. Now, the bosses look at the employees as "the enemy" along with the customers.
There's a study how often people laugh and smile in a day. This study been going on for decades. People back in the 80s actually laughed more in a day then now. So shows that life really was more enjoyable back then.
Notice how there are two people up front and like a ton of people in back. People weren't overworked. They also made at least $4 an hour, or $11 today.
People from the 1950s said the same thing about people I the 1980s. They said if you listened to rock n roll or played dungeons and dragons it would turn into a satanist.
I'm 57 years old right now and I worked for McDonald's in the early to mid 80s, these videos are like historical documents to me! I was serving in the U.S. Navy when these videos were made.
Same here. I worked in a McDonald's NE Ohio 1983. It taught me to be an adult. Now I live in SoCal and only Mexicans, older and a few younger, work for McDonald's. I recently got brain damaged, lost my memory, and had to quit my career as a math teacher. I would have enjoyed working part time at fast food as I recovered, but there are no whites working fast food in SoCal. 😢
The manager looks to be in his 40's. While I wouldn't classify that as being "old" by any means. Time wise now he would be like in his 70's. That would leave a question mark as to if he is still alive or not. Given that we don't know its 50/50 chance either way. The other workers are probably still around minus any unforeseen illness or a fatal accident of some type.
Better class of people? My high school girlfriend worked at McDonalds in 1988. She had sex with her 35 year old manager. Gross, and probably illegal. So classy.
@@mogdor I think what they meant to put was, that people back then had more manners and respect for one another. It was completely different than this self serving way of community that exists today. You just had to be there to know.
@@ItsBriezzy Well that sounds like pretty much the same thing, saying people were "better" back then. Why do you assume I wasn't there? I'm almost 50. All these nostalgia videos have people saying pretty much the same thing - back then was great, today is crap, young people suck. Oh, and lets not forget complaining about cell phones! Gotta do that of course. The comment sections for these sort of videos make gen X and older sound like a bunch of jerks.
@@coolnamebro You know what really bothers me is people can't just enjoy a nice blast from the past. They gotta compare and complain. Whine, whine, whine. It's like the same 3 or 4 complaints I see on all these videos
Bottom line is that there was a hell of a lot Less people! All the Borders were Not Open to All walks of life! Look what America looks like Now! Sorry just a Right Fact!
I was 18 years old at the time. I'm so happy to watch this, brings back soooooo many memories. I miss my youth, tremendously. If only people these days could be happy, kind, laughing, caring, having fun like this. The world SUCKS these days...this is a miserable, unhappy, narcissistic, uncaring humanity now. 😢 p.s. it's funny that everyone is so shy to be on 'tape', lol. Waaaaaaaay different now. No wonder I loathe social media and avoid it.
I 100% agree with your whole, entire comment "Phoenix Light". Everything does, indeed, suck these days, and I'd give anything to go back to that time in my Life. Everything was better back in the '80s, simpler too. I had my childhood during the '80s, best time of my Life. My teen years were in the '90s, and I wouldn't change any of that either. I really miss my Family that has passed since then too. It sucks a*s getting older.
@@mikevogler5455Ever wonder what the hell is this place and why were we put here for only a few decades then gone? I'm right with ya I'm 58 and frustrated watching this it doesn't seem like 35 years already seems like 20 years ago. The food was better and everyone wasn't obese wearing stretch pants and pajamas and Crocs smh
I worked at McDonald’s in 88 as a teenager. The manager asked me what size I was for my uniform. I told him size 2. He said good, because guys don’t make passes at girls with fat a$$. No lie. He was such a jerk.
Back then if a customer acted like an a$$hole like you see today, the manager would personally throw them out, banned from the restaurant. Life was better in the 80s.
People generally did not act like a D 35 years ago. I just banned and trespassed a customer from my work the other day for being completely out of line.
I 100% agree with you "Runnin' Rebel". Life really was better back in the '80s, much better. Even though I know that it's impossible, I would give anything in the World to go back to that time, and I do mean anything too. All of my family were still alive, and things really were so much more enjoyable, and even more importantly, much more simpler as well. I know that a big piece of that is simply because I was younger, but still, it was a great time and I miss it, and my family back then too.
The McDonald's restaurants near me are always very clean and professional and everyone's always really nice and helpful. Then I have also seen places in other areas where standards weren't there. It usually mostly just comes down to owners/managers treating customers like shit- understaffing, overworking, and underpaying. Employee turnover tends to be very high in these sorts of places. No one wants to work for these people and so they end up with especially low hiring standards. This is how things work in general, not just at McDonald's. I've worked in many restaurants in different parts of the country. And at places where employees are treated well, you usually end up with a healthy, clean, functional workplace with high standards. At places where they aren't , you don't. When I go to the jack in the box near me, it's a depressing disaster. When I go to the McDonald's or in n out, it's much like this video. This was also the way things worked in the 80s; there were shitty spots back then too. Also works the same in other industries. I've had great working environments working for some construction contractors and terrible environments with others, depending how they treated employees in general. And the quality of the work usually lacked accordingly
Back in the day of the fast food booming industry , and love the different characteristics of the employees, remembering going to an American McDonald's in the nineties around that time the staff back then such full of charm and energy 😁👌
@@jellojoe00got paid better????? 😑….. sir…… in 1987 in Oregon, we were making 3.10 an hour, which was well BELOW the federal minimum wage at the time of 3.35 per hour…. Keep in mind, in 1987 inflation was terrible… not like right now, right now it’s extreme… but back in 1987, we were struggling.. inflation was high.. It was minimum wage… we were not “getting paid better”… you started at minimum wage and stayed there for quite a while… if you were lucky, you’d get a .10 cent raise at the 1 year mark… Burger King was my first “real” job at age 15… (besides picking berries since age 8, every summer) fast food was the hardest work ever…. Stressful, very underpaid and they used to violate child labor laws all the time, on the regular…. McDonalds was no different, they did the same thing…I had many friends that worked there also… they’d have me clock off and continue working, so they wouldn’t get dinged for violating child labor laws, I was to young at the time to stick up for myself… I had to work, my mom was a single mom and my dad never paid his child support for me and no lie…if I wanted to eat, I had to work … I was to afraid to say anything about Burger King treating us poorly (meaning us young kids)… I needed a job to survive… I started picking berries at age 8 for my school clothes each summer… that was back breaking work that of course is also now very illegal, again… due to child labor laws. It was literal slave labor for very little pay…. I worked 5 days a week from 6AM to 2pm picking berries and after 2 months of that… I only made 300 dollars, if you do the math it averaged to about 1 dollar an hour …So compared to berry picking… I was thankful for the fast food job.
@trina7274 you're right. I was just going off what I made in an hour. My first job washing dishes I got around 5 an hour. And at 15 going on 16 worked over 30. Don't see that these days.
People who weren't alive in the 80s can never fully appreciate just how great the world was to live in back then. The 90s were just as great too. Then 2000 came and the party was over. 😢
@@andrewstallard6927 Agreed. 9/11/01 was the birth of the New World Order which has led to our current dystopian world. Those of us who lived in the last decades of the 20th century are incredibly lucky to have experienced the old world.
Those of us who were alive at that time can tell you that generally, of course not everyone, people were happier and a lot less uptight than people generally are today. It was a whole different energy.
Wow! My first job was in 1982 at McDonalds. And I remember the Mc DLT. Not only was it a better time back then but the food actually tasted better because it was made hot, now it’s just made and stuck inside a tray. The cheese is not even melted when you get it. Everything is so wrong now here in 2024 and nothing is like the last best decades of America that we grew up in. Noticed people are actually working. They’re not fat. They’re not standing around playing with their iPhones. Our society has gone straight to hell. I miss those days so much and glad I lived them and have great memories of it all.
@@edwardkim2511 Around 1990 they switched from animal fat with beef tallow to vegetable oil with fake flavoring to mimic the beef tallow flavor. i noticed right away and hated the change. They've tinkered with different plant oils and flavor additives over the years and gotten the fries a bit closer to what they were pre-1990, but they are never as good as the old fries were even on a bad day. I'd kill to eat those OG McD's fries again! Better than any street drug!
My aunt was an executive at their headquarters in Georgia back in the early eighties. They were a good place back then. And they still served real food.
We all used to work, engage, joke, play, converse and physically move before the takeover of the internet and cell phones. WE LIVED!!! I lived these years and remember the moments like this. God, did we have it all and had a lot of fun. We had friendships, laughter, after-work gatherings and long conversations without the interruption of anti-social-media and the constant anti-smartphone use of today. I did not work at McDonalds, yet this is what it was like at similar retail jobs. These were the years, and the world will NEVER be like this again.
Hopefully God will give us a life next time like this and a lot longer! I messed up my life I'm 58 and live in a mobile home and just living on borrowed time with no future.
Yes and back then you could make friends lots easier than today,,,today you try n talk to a stranger you're either harassing them or etc today sure sucks 😢that's why I stay in my house 90 percent of the time because too much BS today
Some of us still do and we notice everything unfortunately the same hearing that allows me to Cross highways on foot naturally hears darn near everything around me
In 1987, I worked at McDonald’s as a teenager outside of Chicago. Times have changed, but not drastically. As immature teens, we got in trouble for socializing and being idle. We ate fries and other things when nobody was looking, which was a big no no. We’d give extra items to our friends when they visited. Some employees would tamper with food if customers were rude. Gross stuff too. Back then, to track the freshness of food we made, we marked batches of burgers with an L-shaped metal card that had a specific number on it. You can see them in this video. The numbers represent the minute hand on a clock. If I cooked a batch at 2:42 PM, the manager would add a number card on the batch indicating the minute hand expiration. So, after ten minutes, any unsold items would go in the trash- so wasteful! One way to get fresh fries was to ask for no salt. Also, back then any modified order (like no onion or extra pickles) meant you got a freshly cooked burger every time.
I would always order my burger plain with no condiments or cheese, and for some reason my "special order" would take forever and still get to me cold. I think they would make it, then get distracted filling orders that came after mine (that were easy to do with pre-made burgers) then eventually discover the lonely "special order" burger waiting to go out to me.
It really stems from the fact that many fast food places are trying to "maximize profits" so they intentionally run understaffed, which really make staff short fuse all around. Look at Chic-Fil-A in general they normally run a decent amount of staffing, this creates a far better an a more positive atmosphere. Plus they know they will at least get Sunday off versus a Tuesday or Wednesday.
@@laquintaknox5907 the employees also have to be paid decently and treated well in general. The places around me that pay better and are managed competently are usually always running like clockwork with a bunch of friendly, smiling people, much like in this video
The latest fast food crazy video, some crazy rats are throwing chairs behind the counter of a waffle house. The little white girl behind the counter is deflecting chairs left and right. One of the rats tries to jump the counter, falls on her face and the little girl beat the living snot out of her!
Oh how things have changed in the United States. Good food, good service, clean, polite, workers valued their jobs. I don’t even want to go in a McDonald’s to use the restroom today.
To be honest the McDonald's bathrooms could often be filthy even back then. They had better food and usually kept the dining areas and lobby clean, but the bathrooms needed more attention! These days not only are the bathrooms often dirty, they tend to be vandalized more than ever. Why vandalize a fast food bathroom?!
1970s-early 80s was Peak McDonald's. Once they started trying to offer stuff like salads, shifted the fry oil from beef tallow to vegetable oil, things went downhill. McDonald's really kind of sucked in the 90s and early 2000s. The food got a bit better since then, but the restaurant experience went downhill with the boring-ass renovations and lack of kids/families eating there. Dining room used to have a fun boisterous energy. Now when I eat there it's usually grim adults and maybe a few punk teens, but often hardly anyone at all. It's all shifted to drive-thru.
@@kevinwood5317 100% agree with all of what you said. Especially the change away from beef tallow to vegetable oil. Everything from that point forward was downhill. smh
It was so much better. People lived in the moment, in their surroundings. They didn't have the weight of the world on them every second like they do now.
They actually said thank you come again. Nowadays the cashier at the drive through won’t even look at you or say thank you! They just take your money and give change and slam the glass window!!!!
That's why I go to the local Mom and Pop restaurants or IN-N-OUT. The last time I went to a McDonald's, it was in a military base so it wasn't bad. That was several years ago, though.
@@JohnSmith-fm1ht I haven't eaten at a McDonalds since at least the late 2000s... I stopped that long ago...just thinking about it as I type this... I think the only fast food I've eaten since then has been chic filet a few times...
I have not been to any fast food restaurant in about 10 years myself. I'm afraid I'd get sick from their food. Plus they all seem so ugly looking these days.
I worked part time at a McDonald's in Mission Hills, California while in high school back in 1983. I remember it being a soul-draining experience even back then. One time I was taking trash bags from the building out to the dumpster and some jerks in a pickup truck came by with a water-filled fire extinguisher and sprayed me with it before quickly taking off. Another time I heard the gal at the drive through scream because some idiots (the same ones, probably) doused her with it from the pickup window.
@@TheUtuber999 No, my family moved to Long Beach in 83 and I've been here and the Lakewood area for most of my life. I lived in San Diego a few years ago before moving back to Long Beach. That's where I discovered they had a Mission Hills as well...lol
Now most of these people are probably retired or about to retire. 37 years ago, how time flies. I was 21 at this time and now almost 60 it just amazes me. Hope these people went on to have good lives and they're happy.
Nobody looks anxious or panicked. The MCD corporation as a whole could really benefit from treating their employees better. They have forgotten that going to MCDS was an experience and now that has been lost for the sake of go go go knowing you’ve had your burger slapped together with as much panic as possible.
It likely has little to do with MCD as a corporation. It is the caliber of people that makes a difference. The culture as a whole has degenerated. The family structure has been subverted. Cell phones and internet culture capture the attention and generate selfish characters.
It's also fewer people. I go to McDonald's a lot, and most locations have maybe 3-4 people working the kitchen, with 1-2 skipping back and forth between the register/counter and the kitchen to take orders and help fulfill them. They cut staff long before the demand for higher wages, like 10-15 years at least.
Breakfast at McDonalds, that was my time: almost 2 years every day 1986-1988 on my way to the office. It was great back then! I even dated one of the waitresses!
I want everyone watching this video to notice something very important, the employees are actually WORKING! I bet every order was exactly as ordered and no one was pulled up to a parking space. These guy's weren't paid jack crap either $3.25 maybe. Gee wonder why everything looked and worked so smoothly.....Look around Einstein!
The Dairy Queen near me closed solely because they had crap employees. Google reviews all said the same thing: that it took half an hour at the drive thru and that the order was wrong that they saw people goofing off. Not long before they closed I ordered at the counter and there was a large white board where the owner told the employees to stay off of their phones. How can American businesses succeed when franchisees lose all their money because their location shuts down? It is the same at other fast food places when there is no adult manager around. The ones that do function really well and I get great service.
back then it was a rule , hard rule to not let them wait longer than two minutes. Pre made food sitting under the lamp/warmer was the trick ( 10 min). At some point, they were forced not to let food sit in a warmer anymore. Then they had to make the food made to order. So speed was dependent on those making the food, and managers could not front load stuff for rushes or the general pace of customers. Combine with slow preparers, general poor work ethic of staff these days, and you get "park over there." they now just throw in the microwave ( a warmer) when they get busy.
yeah these people have actual well being. like they look like they have a home to go home to. No one working there nowadays would even be able to afford a cruddy loft apartment and would be lucky if they were even able to bathe properly on their paycheck.
Back when you can work at McDonald's and earn enough to have a nice two bedroom apartment, groceries, a car, and enough money to put into a savings account in a non-lead position.
My Baby Boomer stepdad dropped out of high school and was still able to afford a house, two cars, three kids, and a stay-at-home wife. Now he watches Fox News and complains about how all the Millennials working three jobs and living six to an apartment are lazy and entitled.
I really enjoyed looking at this I even enjoyed the packaging for the food much better to me and the workers everybody look happy and more professional and I don't know if I heard correctly but I thought I heard someone say the burger meat was put on a grill versus now being put in the microwave great times God I miss this and also I miss the mcdlt😁
the clam shell grill. you could put 20 burgers on it at one time. Once it beeped done, you scooped onto a toasted buns laid on a table behind the grill, squirted the ketchup and mustard from big trigger dispensers on each patty, laid onions on like spreading seed in a garden, threw 2/3 pickles at them, topped them with the bun, wrapped them and slid them to the front, where they would sit in a warmer for no longer than 10 min. mostly thrown into an order within 30 sec to a minute. I had toaster burns on the top of my fingers and hand fishing out buns kind of stuck. Good times.
it's all so sad. I was in a McDonalds in Frankfurt am Main in Germany in 2019 and I drank a cup of green tea. The workers actually scared me. They seemed so primitive and I knew they would hate or violate me if I were to work there. Most of all I got some depression just by being near them in the restaurant. It was a very early morning at the main train station.
wow I worked at that time 1987 at a McD's man that really brings back memories of my McD's I was a teenager 17 to be exact. My store was later getting a remodel too. My Uniform was Grey'ish white Black pins stripe, and black slacks
they don't have arrested development. For example they all look liek they have well being and can afford adequate housing and bathing. That's not possible now on a mcdonalds paycheck.
I think this was when burgers used to cost like 0.59 cents and cheeseburgers were like 0.69 cents. Back when Mickey D’s used to be the fast food value king. How unfortunate how times have changed.
Imagine people wearing ties at McDonalds. The further you go back in time the cleaner and better dressed people look. Its a strange phenomenon. Its almost like society is slowly unraveling
Back then people didn't mind you filming them either,, nowadays they threaten to sue you or pull out a gun it's scary depressing times we live in today😢
That was the time when you could afford a burger at McDonald's. Nowadays the prices are so high that you can afford a 2 course, decent meal at a restaurant with waiters for the same price as they demand for a meal and a soda
I gripe all the time about customer service when my 22 year old daughter and I are out shopping and she always says, "Dad, take it easy, it's not that big a deal". I just take a deep breath and replay, "Sweetie, you have no idea what it used to be"
In general McDonald's got tired of renovating old stores. Many of them they tore down and rebuilt them on the existing site or move it to a new location. At a few old locations that McD. didn't tear down. The store underwent massive overhauls. This included some expansions to the old stores. Now in the covid era. McDonald's has closed off the kitchen area from the front and squeeze the front counter space down.
It wasn't better. The 1980's sucked ass. Divorce, violent crime, and personal bankruptcies all skyrocketed. Everybody rushed to the mall to be little social climbing conformists so terribly worried about what everybody else thought about them. Teens were getting wasted every weekend and crashing cars, girls were getting assaulted at parties, and everybody put their heads in the sand to pretend it was all great.
"That's what you get when FEMALES work up front." You could probably get locked up for saying something like that nowadays. I miss the old days. When a queer was a queer.
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When managers were adults and not teenagers.
They get promoted so fast compared to older generations... Evolution!
The managers in this video are only 20-23 yrs old... boys became men much younger back then
They were also making what today would be considered a living wage..
Actually, there were way more teenagers working fast food back then than today. The only adults you used to see were the managers and shift managers. Today it is mostly adults who barely speak English.
@@mther9187 Not most of them. Most of them were making $3.35/hr which was very little money even back then. But that was okay because most of them were part time high school or college students just trying to make some spending money or maybe a down payment on a car. Only the management types made an actual "living wage".
There's a study how often people laugh and smile in a day. This study been going on for decades. People back in the 80s actually laughed more in a day then now. So shows that life really was more enjoyable back then.
I moved to Chi-town back in 1982 and I agree . When I was out and about walking around in public the women smiled more. Now their on their Smart phones . Wouldn't give a guy a smile unless they knew him or liked him.
I was around more people in the 80s so of course I laughed more. Nowadays I work at home so I'm by myself a lot and yeah, I don't laugh quite as much. But I'll tell you what, I'm happier now than I ever was in the 80s and 90s. Laughter isn't the only indication of happiness.
Today every mcdonalds employee looks depressed af
With tattoos on their faces
Back then, fast food workers were happier because they were treated better by the bosses. Now, the bosses look at the employees as "the enemy" along with the customers.
There's a study how often people laugh and smile in a day. This study been going on for decades. People back in the 80s actually laughed more in a day then now. So shows that life really was more enjoyable back then.
Notice how there are two people up front and like a ton of people in back. People weren't overworked. They also made at least $4 an hour, or $11 today.
@@darth6129I only made 5.00 at the time. When I became manager I only made 7.41 an hour. At the time it was enough for me.
Better class of people back in those days compared to now.
People from the 1950s said the same thing about people I the 1980s. They said if you listened to rock n roll or played dungeons and dragons it would turn into a satanist.
@@alwillkI’ll take Satan over tiktok
Better class of Citizens.
These people are still around now
Thinking that means you're part of the problem.
I'm 57 years old right now and I worked for McDonald's in the early to mid 80s, these videos are like historical documents to me! I was serving in the U.S. Navy when these videos were made.
Same here. I worked in a McDonald's NE Ohio 1983. It taught me to be an adult. Now I live in SoCal and only Mexicans, older and a few younger, work for McDonald's.
I recently got brain damaged, lost my memory, and had to quit my career as a math teacher. I would have enjoyed working part time at fast food as I recovered, but there are no whites working fast food in SoCal. 😢
I was just thinking that I was in the Navy when this video was made as well. Just finished training in Idaho and headed to a sub in South Carolina
@@evolveyourself9518too bad your brain damage didn't ...lose your bigotry...karma sucks
@@evolveyourself9518...good...you would keep forgetting the fries..with every order..( fog brain)
@@evolveyourself9518Thank sleepy Joe, hopefully Trump gets the undesirables out!!
It’s been 35 years. Wonder how all of these people are doing today.
Well enough I hope.
The manager looks to be in his 40's. While I wouldn't classify that as being "old" by any means. Time wise now he would be like in his 70's. That would leave a question mark as to if he is still alive or not. Given that we don't know its 50/50 chance either way. The other workers are probably still around minus any unforeseen illness or a fatal accident of some type.
@@bfg9000d1 You have to bring in the slight chances of one them getting kidnapped and muredered too.....
Probably retired or dead
@@chadster123 We can only hope
I was 27 in 1987. The 80's were so great compared to now. We were so much more social, society was just more pleasant.
I was 20 years old in 1987, miss those days.
Better class of people back then.
The younger generation will never understand.
I sure miss the 80's! 😔
Better class of people? My high school girlfriend worked at McDonalds in 1988. She had sex with her 35 year old manager. Gross, and probably illegal. So classy.
There is no "better class" of people simply based on time period. We are all individuals.
@@mogdor I think what they meant to put was, that people back then had more manners and respect for one another. It was completely different than this self serving way of community that exists today. You just had to be there to know.
@@ItsBriezzy Well that sounds like pretty much the same thing, saying people were "better" back then. Why do you assume I wasn't there? I'm almost 50. All these nostalgia videos have people saying pretty much the same thing - back then was great, today is crap, young people suck. Oh, and lets not forget complaining about cell phones! Gotta do that of course. The comment sections for these sort of videos make gen X and older sound like a bunch of jerks.
@@coolnamebro You know what really bothers me is people can't just enjoy a nice blast from the past. They gotta compare and complain. Whine, whine, whine. It's like the same 3 or 4 complaints I see on all these videos
Back when the food was amazing. The ice cream machine was never broken and you got service with a smile. 80s was truly the best ❤
Food was always trash ya idiot
Bottom line is that there was a hell of a lot Less people! All the Borders were Not Open to All walks of life! Look what America looks like Now! Sorry just a Right Fact!
You got that right, 2024 sucks.
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These replies are insane holy shit
I was 18 years old at the time. I'm so happy to watch this, brings back soooooo many memories. I miss my youth, tremendously. If only people these days could be happy, kind, laughing, caring, having fun like this. The world SUCKS these days...this is a miserable, unhappy, narcissistic, uncaring humanity now. 😢 p.s. it's funny that everyone is so shy to be on 'tape', lol. Waaaaaaaay different now. No wonder I loathe social media and avoid it.
Right there with ya.
I 100% agree with your whole, entire comment "Phoenix Light". Everything does, indeed, suck these days, and I'd give anything to go back to that time in my Life. Everything was better back in the '80s, simpler too. I had my childhood during the '80s, best time of my Life. My teen years were in the '90s, and I wouldn't change any of that either. I really miss my Family that has passed since then too. It sucks a*s getting older.
I despise social media. I believe it's literally destroying the fabric of society.
@@mikevogler5455Ever wonder what the hell is this place and why were we put here for only a few decades then gone? I'm right with ya I'm 58 and frustrated watching this it doesn't seem like 35 years already seems like 20 years ago. The food was better and everyone wasn't obese wearing stretch pants and pajamas and Crocs smh
I was 18 also in 1987. Everything seemed so much better back then. I miss the 80's
Notice how they are all polite, clean cut, and actually in good physical shape as well.
There were a couple of fatty's in this video.
I worked at McDonald’s in 88 as a teenager. The manager asked me what size I was for my uniform. I told him size 2. He said good, because guys don’t make passes at girls with fat a$$. No lie. He was such a jerk.
@@fahq He would but the community is awful and everyone is fat so he doesn't want to
If you're from Delco, you say it like this. Notice how nobody's rude, dirty, fat, weird tattoos, fat, stupid, doin meth, uneducated and fat.
@@fahqWhen where you born 2005? 😂
People were so sweet and full of joy. I was a 9 year old boy at that time. The 80s were a special time. Magical actually.
The Mickey D’s back then were very clean and customer friendly
Back then if a customer acted like an a$$hole like you see today, the manager would personally throw them out, banned from the restaurant. Life was better in the 80s.
People generally did not act like a D 35 years ago. I just banned and trespassed a customer from my work the other day for being completely out of line.
I 100% agree with you "Runnin' Rebel". Life really was better back in the '80s, much better. Even though I know that it's impossible, I would give anything in the World to go back to that time, and I do mean anything too. All of my family were still alive, and things really were so much more enjoyable, and even more importantly, much more simpler as well. I know that a big piece of that is simply because I was younger, but still, it was a great time and I miss it, and my family back then too.
Who do you think made the policy of "the customer's always right" and started tolerating bad behavior? The younger generation didn't create that.
@user-nc7cf4sp1r When did I ever say or imply it was the customers? How can customers make a policy? 🤔
I agree.
We had law and order back then but now nobody is scared about going to jail anymore.
Miss those times! 😔
You compare this with now and I don't see our country lasting much longer.
No one going ballistic over their chicken Mc nuggets.
I agree
The McDonald's restaurants near me are always very clean and professional and everyone's always really nice and helpful. Then I have also seen places in other areas where standards weren't there. It usually mostly just comes down to owners/managers treating customers like shit- understaffing, overworking, and underpaying. Employee turnover tends to be very high in these sorts of places. No one wants to work for these people and so they end up with especially low hiring standards. This is how things work in general, not just at McDonald's. I've worked in many restaurants in different parts of the country. And at places where employees are treated well, you usually end up with a healthy, clean, functional workplace with high standards. At places where they aren't , you don't. When I go to the jack in the box near me, it's a depressing disaster. When I go to the McDonald's or in n out, it's much like this video.
This was also the way things worked in the 80s; there were shitty spots back then too. Also works the same in other industries. I've had great working environments working for some construction contractors and terrible environments with others, depending how they treated employees in general. And the quality of the work usually lacked accordingly
I know what you mean...
It’s 2004 what do you think now ?
Back in the day of the fast food booming industry , and love the different characteristics of the employees, remembering going to an American McDonald's in the nineties around that time the staff back then such full of charm and energy 😁👌
you'd never see a fast food employee working this fast now days
These people got paid better. McDonald's pay isn't competitive so they get garbage employees now.
@@jellojoe00got paid better????? 😑….. sir…… in 1987 in Oregon, we were making 3.10 an hour, which was well BELOW the federal minimum wage at the time of 3.35 per hour….
Keep in mind, in 1987 inflation was terrible… not like right now, right now it’s extreme… but back in 1987, we were struggling.. inflation was high..
It was minimum wage… we were not “getting paid better”… you started at minimum wage and stayed there for quite a while… if you were lucky, you’d get a .10 cent raise at the 1 year mark…
Burger King was my first “real” job at age 15… (besides picking berries since age 8, every summer) fast food was the hardest work ever…. Stressful, very underpaid and they used to violate child labor laws all the time, on the regular….
McDonalds was no different, they did the same thing…I had many friends that worked there also… they’d have me clock off and continue working, so they wouldn’t get dinged for violating child labor laws, I was to young at the time to stick up for myself…
I had to work, my mom was a single mom and my dad never paid his child support for me and no lie…if I wanted to eat, I had to work … I was to afraid to say anything about Burger King treating us poorly (meaning us young kids)… I needed a job to survive…
I started picking berries at age 8 for my school clothes each summer… that was back breaking work that of course is also now very illegal, again… due to child labor laws. It was literal slave labor for very little pay…. I worked 5 days a week from 6AM to 2pm picking berries and after 2 months of that… I only made 300 dollars, if you do the math it averaged to about 1 dollar an hour …So compared to berry picking… I was thankful for the fast food job.
@jeffbruce3588 😂😂 that was a min wage at about 5.25 then to start. Unless you worked your way up. And they even still look like they liked there job.
@@Lesspaw41 we for sure didn’t make 5.25 an hour in 1987….. The Federal Minimum wage was 3.35 until 1988…..
@trina7274 you're right. I was just going off what I made in an hour. My first job washing dishes I got around 5 an hour. And at 15 going on 16 worked over 30. Don't see that these days.
People who weren't alive in the 80s can never fully appreciate just how great the world was to live in back then. The 90s were just as great too. Then 2000 came and the party was over. 😢
That fateful day in September fu*&êd the world for good.
@@andrewstallard6927 Agreed. 9/11/01 was the birth of the New World Order which has led to our current dystopian world. Those of us who lived in the last decades of the 20th century are incredibly lucky to have experienced the old world.
It came in my recommendations and now I'm happy I get to see what life was like when everyone was happy
Everyone was not happy
@@gregorsamsa1364 In modern days yes
@@DirectX1164 late 80s were pretty modern days. And there were plenty of miserable people
@@gregorsamsa1364 ehhh your not wrong
Those of us who were alive at that time can tell you that generally, of course not everyone, people were happier and a lot less uptight than people generally are today. It was a whole different energy.
This is the happiest McDonalds environment I'd ever seen. Everyone seems so pissed off or lazy in the ones I go to nowadays.
Wow! My first job was in 1982 at McDonalds. And I remember the Mc DLT. Not only was it a better time back then but the food actually tasted better because it was made hot, now it’s just made and stuck inside a tray. The cheese is not even melted when you get it. Everything is so wrong now here in 2024 and nothing is like the last best decades of America that we grew up in. Noticed people are actually working. They’re not fat. They’re not standing around playing with their iPhones. Our society has gone straight to hell. I miss those days so much and glad I lived them and have great memories of it all.
Dick
Lettuce
Tomato?
Ronald McDonald was creepy though 🤡 🍟
McDonald ''s fries tasted better in the 80's. It got smaller like match sticks and doesn't taste as good.
@@edwardkim2511 Around 1990 they switched from animal fat with beef tallow to vegetable oil with fake flavoring to mimic the beef tallow flavor. i noticed right away and hated the change. They've tinkered with different plant oils and flavor additives over the years and gotten the fries a bit closer to what they were pre-1990, but they are never as good as the old fries were even on a bad day. I'd kill to eat those OG McD's fries again! Better than any street drug!
My aunt was an executive at their headquarters in Georgia back in the early eighties. They were a good place back then. And they still served real food.
And no kid standing in the back ground stuck to a smart phone😂
We all used to work, engage, joke, play, converse and physically move before the takeover of the internet and cell phones. WE LIVED!!! I lived these years and remember the moments like this. God, did we have it all and had a lot of fun. We had friendships, laughter, after-work gatherings and long conversations without the interruption of anti-social-media and the constant anti-smartphone use of today. I did not work at McDonalds, yet this is what it was like at similar retail jobs. These were the years, and the world will NEVER be like this again.
Well said
Hopefully God will give us a life next time like this and a lot longer! I messed up my life I'm 58 and live in a mobile home and just living on borrowed time with no future.
Yes and back then you could make friends lots easier than today,,,today you try n talk to a stranger you're either harassing them or etc today sure sucks 😢that's why I stay in my house 90 percent of the time because too much BS today
@@shawnaburns5158 I completely agree and understand. Society is definitely not what it used to be.
Some of us still do and we notice everything unfortunately the same hearing that allows me to Cross highways on foot naturally hears darn near everything around me
Back when it was run like a well oiled machine. Manager, Asst. Manager, Shift Managers and it appears an actual office manager a true rarity.
I just want to see a "where are they now" video on the staff
I love random nostalgia videos❤
I was 9 years old back thin. This is Amazing, folks are so happy 😊
In 1987, I worked at McDonald’s as a teenager outside of Chicago. Times have changed, but not drastically. As immature teens, we got in trouble for socializing and being idle. We ate fries and other things when nobody was looking, which was a big no no. We’d give extra items to our friends when they visited. Some employees would tamper with food if customers were rude. Gross stuff too.
Back then, to track the freshness of food we made, we marked batches of burgers with an L-shaped metal card that had a specific number on it. You can see them in this video. The numbers represent the minute hand on a clock. If I cooked a batch at 2:42 PM, the manager would add a number card on the batch indicating the minute hand expiration. So, after ten minutes, any unsold items would go in the trash- so wasteful!
One way to get fresh fries was to ask for no salt. Also, back then any modified order (like no onion or extra pickles) meant you got a freshly cooked burger every time.
Not sure about your area, but where I lived homeless people to use raid the dumpsters after closing to get all that thrown out food
I would always order my burger plain with no condiments or cheese, and for some reason my "special order" would take forever and still get to me cold. I think they would make it, then get distracted filling orders that came after mine (that were easy to do with pre-made burgers) then eventually discover the lonely "special order" burger waiting to go out to me.
That’s dedication, look how they work and there actually happy to work. You don’t see that same quality of service today
I was born six weeks before this was made, this is cool to see
born 6 mounth before this was made lol
Wow! What a different time it was. It's completely different now. :-(
I was a Crew Chief back in the early 80s at McDonalds. It was really fun, my first job at 16. I made 3.35/hr.
Fast food workers were friendlier back then now alot are very rude. Some fight with the customers...I never seen anything like that before
It really stems from the fact that many fast food places are trying to "maximize profits" so they intentionally run understaffed, which really make staff short fuse all around. Look at Chic-Fil-A in general they normally run a decent amount of staffing, this creates a far better an a more positive atmosphere. Plus they know they will at least get Sunday off versus a Tuesday or Wednesday.
@bfg9000d1 alot are hiring like crazy like McDonald's and Burger King and most jobs like restaurants too are short of staff as well
@@laquintaknox5907 the employees also have to be paid decently and treated well in general. The places around me that pay better and are managed competently are usually always running like clockwork with a bunch of friendly, smiling people, much like in this video
We were better at hiding our disrespect back then.
The latest fast food crazy video, some crazy rats are throwing chairs behind the counter of a waffle house. The little white girl behind the counter is deflecting chairs left and right. One of the rats tries to jump the counter, falls on her face and the little girl beat the living snot out of her!
Oh how things have changed in the United States. Good food, good service, clean, polite, workers valued their jobs. I don’t even want to go in a McDonald’s to use the restroom today.
To be honest the McDonald's bathrooms could often be filthy even back then. They had better food and usually kept the dining areas and lobby clean, but the bathrooms needed more attention! These days not only are the bathrooms often dirty, they tend to be vandalized more than ever. Why vandalize a fast food bathroom?!
A lot more professional acting back then.
Mc Donald's was at the top of the game at this time (late 70's into the mid 80's). Wish we could get back to those times...
Absolutely. The food is GARBAGE now.
@@USAbLaStAnd obesity and clothing is terrible, stretch pants and pajamas and Crocs lol
1970s-early 80s was Peak McDonald's. Once they started trying to offer stuff like salads, shifted the fry oil from beef tallow to vegetable oil, things went downhill. McDonald's really kind of sucked in the 90s and early 2000s. The food got a bit better since then, but the restaurant experience went downhill with the boring-ass renovations and lack of kids/families eating there. Dining room used to have a fun boisterous energy. Now when I eat there it's usually grim adults and maybe a few punk teens, but often hardly anyone at all. It's all shifted to drive-thru.
@@kevinwood5317
100% agree with all of what you said. Especially the change away from beef tallow to vegetable oil. Everything from that point forward was downhill. smh
I can’t imagine a world without the internet, without smartphones. I envy that experience.
It was so much better. People lived in the moment, in their surroundings. They didn't have the weight of the world on them every second like they do now.
You can still see yourself in these people it's just a different time period
To even have a video camera in the 80's was a luxury my family could not afford. Heck getting a color tv and a Vcr was already a taste of heaven.
I wish I had been alive during the mid-80s to do blow while playing the Legend of Zelda on NES. Robin Williams style
I remember when my dad bought our first VCR. You'd think he was buying a new house, new car, and a boat with how excited we all were lol
They actually said thank you come again. Nowadays the cashier at the drive through won’t even look at you or say thank you! They just take your money and give change and slam the glass window!!!!
That's good. The food is poison and the sensitive people will stay away from that place. 😊
That's why I go to the local Mom and Pop restaurants or IN-N-OUT. The last time I went to a McDonald's, it was in a military base so it wasn't bad. That was several years ago, though.
I don’t see any 350 lb twelve year olds whining about “where’s my burgers”?
😂😂
Came along this video, beautiful. Beautiful...
This era is what made McDonald's explode!
looked so clean... I'll bet the actual quality of the food was so much better then than now
The quality hasn't changed much since then. It wasn't good then and it isn't good now.
Pretty much the same. I'd say a big Mac was bigger then but I was smaller so...
Everything was better quality back then. And that's across the board. And that's not nostalgia it's the truth.
@@JohnSmith-fm1ht I haven't eaten at a McDonalds since at least the late 2000s... I stopped that long ago...just thinking about it as I type this... I think the only fast food I've eaten since then has been chic filet a few times...
I have not been to any fast food restaurant in about 10 years myself. I'm afraid I'd get sick from their food. Plus they all seem so ugly looking these days.
Even at McDonald’s back then there was so much Pride !!!!!!!
I worked part time at a McDonald's in Mission Hills, California while in high school back in 1983. I remember it being a soul-draining experience even back then. One time I was taking trash bags from the building out to the dumpster and some jerks in a pickup truck came by with a water-filled fire extinguisher and sprayed me with it before quickly taking off. Another time I heard the gal at the drive through scream because some idiots (the same ones, probably) doused her with it from the pickup window.
Was it the Mission Hills in San Fernando or San Diego? I used to live in Mission Hills in San Fernando from 79-83
@@daisymae3883 Oh, nice! Yep, it was Mission Hills in the San Fernando Valley. I was living in Sepulveda at the time.
That's cool. I used to live under the freeway overpass right next to O'Melveny Elementary school.
@@daisymae3883 Are you still living in the SF Valley? I'm up near Fremont in the SF Bay Area these days.
@@TheUtuber999 No, my family moved to Long Beach in 83 and I've been here and the Lakewood area for most of my life. I lived in San Diego a few years ago before moving back to Long Beach. That's where I discovered they had a Mission Hills as well...lol
Now most of these people are probably retired or about to retire. 37 years ago, how time flies. I was 21 at this time and now almost 60 it just amazes me. Hope these people went on to have good lives and they're happy.
This is what mcdonalds is like in Croatia today. I never ate mcdonalds before coming here.
That was back in the day when burger workers still said thank you to the customers….
An absolute Moment In Time
Nobody looks anxious or panicked. The MCD corporation as a whole could really benefit from treating their employees better. They have forgotten that going to MCDS was an experience and now that has been lost for the sake of go go go knowing you’ve had your burger slapped together with as much panic as possible.
They look very quick in this video.
It likely has little to do with MCD as a corporation. It is the caliber of people that makes a difference. The culture as a whole has degenerated. The family structure has been subverted. Cell phones and internet culture capture the attention and generate selfish characters.
Bible prophecy is undefeated
Instant hamburger, fries made of chemicals today back then they were real, the fish sandwich was 10× better and the girls were prettier!
@@timl998 Yep. Been saying the end is near.
For 2000 years.
Today, none of the fast food establishments has a team that works as hard as they do.
It's also fewer people. I go to McDonald's a lot, and most locations have maybe 3-4 people working the kitchen, with 1-2 skipping back and forth between the register/counter and the kitchen to take orders and help fulfill them. They cut staff long before the demand for higher wages, like 10-15 years at least.
Breakfast at McDonalds, that was my time: almost 2 years every day 1986-1988 on my way to the office. It was great back then! I even dated one of the waitresses!
I want everyone watching this video to notice something very important, the employees are actually WORKING! I bet every order was exactly as ordered and no one was pulled up to a parking space. These guy's weren't paid jack crap either $3.25 maybe. Gee wonder why everything looked and worked so smoothly.....Look around Einstein!
i worked part time at burger king in high school from 1985 to 1988 and we were paid $3.35 lol
The Dairy Queen near me closed solely because they had crap employees. Google reviews all said the same thing: that it took half an hour at the drive thru and that the order was wrong that they saw people goofing off. Not long before they closed I ordered at the counter and there was a large white board where the owner told the employees to stay off of their phones.
How can American businesses succeed when franchisees lose all their money because their location shuts down? It is the same at other fast food places when there is no adult manager around. The ones that do function really well and I get great service.
back then it was a rule , hard rule to not let them wait longer than two minutes. Pre made food sitting under the lamp/warmer was the trick ( 10 min). At some point, they were forced not to let food sit in a warmer anymore. Then they had to make the food made to order. So speed was dependent on those making the food, and managers could not front load stuff for rushes or the general pace of customers. Combine with slow preparers, general poor work ethic of staff these days, and you get "park over there." they now just throw in the microwave ( a warmer) when they get busy.
...yup, i was one of them...great people , great food - foam containers, fond memories!
Back when the american dream still existed
yeah these people have actual well being. like they look like they have a home to go home to. No one working there nowadays would even be able to afford a cruddy loft apartment and would be lucky if they were even able to bathe properly on their paycheck.
@SlumberBear2k someone said they made $3.30 an hour then now it's $ 15.00 an hour or more
@@KenWesaw-up5wf yeah and back then it was enough to have happy workers with well being and now everyone is miserable and can't afford to survive.
@@SlumberBear2k maybe they're just miserable people
@@KenWesaw-up5wf maybe. what's changed?
McDonald's 1984-86 for my employment, Orlando Fl
Look how many employees they have
Going to self serve kiosk and robots now.
Cool to see!!!!!!!! Good times!
When you watch this video, what’s the main difference you see from any fast food restaurant today.
It’s amazing how much one factor can change things.
A day in the life. Where are they now?
Maybe the ones who look younger in the video still working in that same macdonalds.
I was legit a few weeks old when this was recorded lol
My birthday is 12.7.1987 Lmfao
I was 4 months 🎉8/6/87
What's so hilarious about your birthday! 🤡🥱🙄
The food was much better and the people were friendly and worked harder back then.
Yes white people only work hard
Im 37 in the early 90s micky dees was the hangout for kids playpit was awesome
AS BILLY JOEL SANG >>> These are the times to remember because they will not last forever ... These are the days you'll hold onto ...
Funny, I was listening to Billy Joel, "We did not start the fire" while doing dishes in the back of a McD. Sunday top 40 count down.
Awww everyone is so sweet
Even McDonalds was probably a fun place to work in those days.
Back when you can work at McDonald's and earn enough to have a nice two bedroom apartment, groceries, a car, and enough money to put into a savings account in a non-lead position.
My Baby Boomer stepdad dropped out of high school and was still able to afford a house, two cars, three kids, and a stay-at-home wife. Now he watches Fox News and complains about how all the Millennials working three jobs and living six to an apartment are lazy and entitled.
I really enjoyed looking at this I even enjoyed the packaging for the food much better to me and the workers everybody look happy and more professional and I don't know if I heard correctly but I thought I heard someone say the burger meat was put on a grill versus now being put in the microwave great times God I miss this and also I miss the mcdlt😁
It doesn’t go in a microwave lmao it does on a flat top the burritos are in fact reheated though
the clam shell grill. you could put 20 burgers on it at one time. Once it beeped done, you scooped onto a toasted buns laid on a table behind the grill, squirted the ketchup and mustard from big trigger dispensers on each patty, laid onions on like spreading seed in a garden, threw 2/3 pickles at them, topped them with the bun, wrapped them and slid them to the front, where they would sit in a warmer for no longer than 10 min. mostly thrown into an order within 30 sec to a minute. I had toaster burns on the top of my fingers and hand fishing out buns kind of stuck. Good times.
It’s like another planet!
My first job.. McDonalds, S. Westnedge Ave, Portage MI summer 1988-Dec 1991
nice daughter in school craft
you can tell that their paychecks are actually worth something. every single one of them has well being.
it's all so sad. I was in a McDonalds in Frankfurt am Main in Germany in 2019 and I drank a cup of green tea. The workers actually scared me. They seemed so primitive and I knew they would hate or violate me if I were to work there. Most of all I got some depression just by being near them in the restaurant. It was a very early morning at the main train station.
@@TauruSeason I know exactly what you mean.
Look how well staffed it is
Social Media before Social Media
A McDonald's? 🤣🤣🤣
And whoever recording was using a big recorder with the casette insude
I'm guessing all the guys in that store had a crush on the cute drive-thru chick.
wow I worked at that time 1987 at a McD's man that really brings back memories of my McD's I was a teenager 17 to be exact. My store was later getting a remodel too. My Uniform was Grey'ish white Black pins stripe, and black slacks
Yes! I was wondering if anyone else had the pinstripes! We were late getting the updated uniforms too.
I was about 6 weeks old when this video was taken. Cool.
Strange how young folks look alot more older back in the days. 🤷♂️
they don't have arrested development. For example they all look liek they have well being and can afford adequate housing and bathing. That's not possible now on a mcdonalds paycheck.
it's the autism epidemic 😉
Not a phillipino in sight. What a time to be alive.
Ok hitler what did phillipinos ever do to u
yeah could u imagine being a teenager now and u cant even get a job at mcdonalds or any fast food restaurants no more summer employment
Today I'm grateful for Ray.
This is amazing, I worked at McDonald’s in Hawaii around 1986, fun to watch
Has any of the actual employees on this tape chimed in?
I think this was when burgers used to cost like 0.59 cents and cheeseburgers were like 0.69 cents. Back when Mickey D’s used to be the fast food value king. How unfortunate how times have changed.
59 cents and 69 cents (no decimal point).
59 cents = $.59
Imagine people wearing ties at McDonalds. The further you go back in time the cleaner and better dressed people look. Its a strange phenomenon. Its almost like society is slowly unraveling
McD's didn't suck then.
Back then people didn't mind you filming them either,, nowadays they threaten to sue you or pull out a gun it's scary depressing times we live in today😢
yeah because nowadays potentially the whole world can see you on video unlike in the 80s.
That was the time when you could afford a burger at McDonald's. Nowadays the prices are so high that you can afford a 2 course, decent meal at a restaurant with waiters for the same price as they demand for a meal and a soda
$25 for 2 people there now.
McDonalds is basically poison. Eat somewhere else.
I gripe all the time about customer service when my 22 year old daughter and I are out shopping and she always says, "Dad, take it easy, it's not that big a deal". I just take a deep breath and replay, "Sweetie, you have no idea what it used to be"
The good ole days…love it!
Ok sorry, but... the manager with the sideburns is so handsome, especially with that smile🥹I wonder how he's doing today, if he is still around..🥺
What a glorious time to be alive.
I was a month and 1 day old when this was filmed. Does this Mcds still exist?
Most likely most Mcdonalds don't shut down
In general McDonald's got tired of renovating old stores. Many of them they tore down and rebuilt them on the existing site or move it to a new location. At a few old locations that McD. didn't tear down. The store underwent massive overhauls. This included some expansions to the old stores. Now in the covid era. McDonald's has closed off the kitchen area from the front and squeeze the front counter space down.
Back when fast food was an entry-level stepping stone to a further career, filled by intelligent, educated people.
Employees should be instructed to go to this video for training. This is not how most McDonald's employees are today.
The uniforms back then actually looked good, and the workers were adults.
Mannnnn i was born in 98 but this looks wayyyy better than the shit society at mcdonalds we have today
It wasn't better. The 1980's sucked ass. Divorce, violent crime, and personal bankruptcies all skyrocketed. Everybody rushed to the mall to be little social climbing conformists so terribly worried about what everybody else thought about them. Teens were getting wasted every weekend and crashing cars, girls were getting assaulted at parties, and everybody put their heads in the sand to pretend it was all great.
"That's what you get when FEMALES work up front." You could probably get locked up for saying something like that nowadays. I miss the old days. When a queer was a queer.
I WOULD SAY THIER PROBABLY IN THIER LATE 50'S TODAY I WAS 21 BACK THEN
love it