I worked at Sears in 1982. We all dressed nicely and treated each other respectfully. There was a knowledgeable person in every department.. Honestly, it WAS as good as it looks. I'm glad many of you miss these times. It means you're good people. ❤
I was in retail management back then and yep the dress code was coat and tie at all times when on the floor. We had great employees who actually came to work as per their schedule and busted their butts.
I worked at a Sears store considerably later (in the 2000s), but yeah, it was still very much as you describe it, in terms of the dress code and the professionalism on the sales floor -- you basically had to know your stuff (I worked in Electronics), and the company made darn sure you got constant trainings and updates, which they provided. Really great place to work.
No doubt !!! Right in the middle was the full uniforms and gear for your favorite NFL teams and players. I got the Cowboys uniform, helmet, and all the gear ! Tony Dorsett, #33. Best Christmas Present Ever
My beloved father that died not too long ago bought me an Atari 2600 at Sears in 1982 for Christmas. I still remember how excited I was holding the box in my arms before we left the store. What a great memory.
Those were the best!! Today, you spending time hunting your xmas gifts from fedex or ups because you know, the one and only job they have, to deliver packages - they can't even do that.
My son says these types of videos are like looking through a time machine. He loves them. He was born in 1999, so this is ancient history to him. I wish I could take him to 1982 so he could experience firsthand how awesome of a time the 80's were.
Not really. The economy then was terrible, very high inflation, high unemployment, high gas prices, industrial plants shutting down . . . it was a pretty dreadful time until it started to improve in the mid '80's. Was better still in the late '80's.
I wish I could take my kids to that time as well. No "always on" connectivity in your pocket at all times... I think they'd balk at the concept, but it certainly made for much more meaningful and deep relationships with friends and family.
100%, life was so much better back then. Growing up sucks and the world becomes stranger every day. 80's cannot be beat in any way. I'd give all the tech away just to be back then.
I spent a lot of time going through the catalogs with an ink pen drawing mustaches on all of the ladies and making black eyes and pretend scars on everyone.😅
I was born in 67 so when I watch a video about the 1980s I think what I wouldn’t give to relive and go back to that time that for me was the best time of my life
One more memory, for the young people. Sears had a service department, usually entered from a separate door in the back of the building, or even in a separate building (as mine was). You could go in with the model and serial number of any Sears product, and buy replacement parts. I bought a moped at a garage sale that was 30 years old, and they were able to get me a replacement throttle. In an age where lawmakers have to sue to give consumers the "right to repair," back then you could actually keep durable goods like washing machines, refrigerators, vacuums, etc. running for years by fixing parts that broke.
Companies actually block their service manuals from leaking out of the company now. They archive and encrypt them so only an employee with a badge ID and code can access the system. Miele does this, so does Tesla and Apple, and Dyson.
Sears used to advertise their mufflers real cheap, then when you went to buy the muffler, you found out the little tailpipe on the end was going to cost three times more than the muffler.😅🤣😂
My dad got a Craftsman drill for his wedding on June 30, 1959. It broke in July, 1994. He went back to Sears and they gave him a new one! lol I still have it. It still works great!
The MBA's ended that generous policy! They had to! Craftsman tools are now made in China like everything else! Not sure who owns the Craftsman brand now, but it's no longer Sears, if Sears even exists anymore.
My folks had a dryer from Sears that lasted 37 years until they couldn´t find a replacement part for it. I can´t remember the brand, but dad was proud of keeping it going for so long.
In 1993 my cat knocked my old clock radio off of the nightstand, breaking it. I went into the local Sears and bought a new one. That 30 year old alarm woke me this morning. It has started every single day of my adult life. Just thought of that. Had I bought it at Walmart it would have broken in my hand while taking it off of the shelf.
I also have a space heater I bought at Sears around 2004, and its still sitting at the corner near my bed that has warmed me every winter for close to 20 years now. I bought it with my employee discount as my first retail job while in college.
as someone who was a kid back in 1982, this video is great! being able to buy computers and video games for home use was relatively new and exciting. I certainly remember walking these aisles, checking out the merchandise, and wishing I had it all. Also the Muzak playing in the background is the cherry on top nostalgia-wise.
The dumbest comment. No it’s people that are evil and corrupt . Maybe find some higher beliefs. The internet is a reflection of a more true reality. If you look into humans and such you will find we are all energy, and all life is one. So the internet is a mirror of our interconnectedness. The 80s was just as bad as any decade and just as good. Don’t let your bias become facts
I remember going in every week so my grandma could pay on her layaway. That’s the only way she was able to afford Christmas but she always had a good Christmas for me. I miss her every day
Back when things were made in the US, appliances had colors and lasted more than a few years, clothes last more than a few months and Christmas actually still meant something.
The meaning of Christmas will always be about the Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. What has changed is the rise of atheism and Marxist “political correctness” from hell, gaining power and brainwashing the masses leading to the current global problems we have that will be getting much worse. One day 2020-2023 will be looked as “the good old days” in comparison when the depopulation obsessed Marxist globalists continue on their Satanic “progressive” agenda to destroy the world/humanity. This chastisement will end when Russia is finally consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Viva Cristo Rey!
Look at those old Whirlpool built belt drive Kenmore washers and dryers. Those were great washers and dryers. When quality actually meant something. I was 15 years old in 1982 at this time.
Technologically, these early computers and consoles were so magical. Also, look how more calm and relaxed people appear since smart phones did not exist yet. No ear buds and no text notifications. People are actually viewing their surroundings. I miss those days.
Every different computer back then had its own unique charm. Today I don't really feel sentimental about any particular PC I've had in the last 25 years.
@@sa3270 You were lucky to be able to afford them back in the 80s. Many of us could not and it was not so sentimental when you could only use other people's systems. Today, I can find whole, new, laptops for 150 bucks or so. Adjusted for inflation to the early 80s that's less than $50
Ear buds were out in 1982. I got a pair with a mini cassette tape player from my Dad back then and I remember walking around in a store listening to a Loverboy tape.
@@Helmuesi911 no. It was different then. People talked to their neighbors...associated with them. People could walk down the street and be invited by a lonely soul for chit chat and not have the authorities called for strange unknown persons walking in the neighborhood. Kids grew up outside together (I was one of 22 kids in a ten house area on the street I lived on that played, dreamed and adventurized with daily and that was not during school hours). There is no closeness any more, not even among families. It's instant gratification now...no waiting 6 weeks for that tee shirt or comic book ordered or buying the package for Star Wars figures and Toys before they were even released to the public. Life was slower, steadier. There was fear no doubt. Racism is always there no matter the decade or century but i remember being taken care of by a black woman and her daughter and the son was like a brother to me and as much as I knew, it was like that everywhere ( to my ignorance because the news did not instantly travel like it does now). Arcades were the weekend destination and kids for the most part only got competitive with each other there seeing who could get the high score on pac man. Guns were there but nothing like today....violence was there but nothing like today. Fear was there but I honestly think fear today has been traded for Trending and likes instead of true fear. It's nothing remotely like it was in the 80s. Either you were not born or you were older already.
For me, it was just another day back in 1982. Nostalgia can be depressing. You can never go back and when you compare it to what's in front of you, it can get you down. Be happy you got to live it.
Nostalgia does more. It makes us miss the present while obsessing over the past. Right here, right now is what you will be reminiscing over in the future. 2023 comes only once.
The nostalgia and brainwashing in these comments is truly crazy. I was there in 1982, it wasn't that amazing and in most ways not any different than now. Recognize that these nostalgic delusions is crazy.
@@culwin Ask them this simple question. Which would they rather choose? Stay here and be that young and simple again or sent back to the 80s as old and jaded as you are now? I bet they choose to stay because I believe its not the decade they miss. They miss being that young and naive. The times weren't innocent. They were.
@@ouknow1446 Sure, most people miss their childhood (unless it was real bad). That has nothing to do with the 80's specifically. And many comments here (and elsewhere) are propaganda from people who don't even care about that. Nostalgia is a drug that people can take advantage of.
@@TwistyEntertainment Pretty amazing that the company that literally invented mail order couldn't figure out the Internet?!? Still boggles my mind even today.
Still have my all-metal Sears Kenmore sewing machine from 1976. Works like a charm and still valuable and sought after. Back in the day, Sears stood by their products 100% for life, so they manufactured some of the best quality products - and they're still running today bcs of easy serviceability. I do my own oiling and repairs on the sewing machine. We also still have Sears power tools working great from the 70s and 80s
My mom had a Maytag washer that lasted her from about 1975 to 1995 with no parts ever put on it but belts. I still have (will be repairing soon- tub bearing finally went out)a Maytag Performa that I bought in 1998 and lasted till 2022 with only the motor being replaced around 2015 and a few belts of course. I did not replace with Maytag brand as I heard they were now Whirlpool, have heard nothing but bad stories about Maytag/Whirlpool washers. Decide to go with G.E. Hotpoint instead, but stupidly didn't do any research assumed it was still American G.E.....come to find out they are now owned by Chinese Haier. Piece of crap lasted 2 days past the 1 year warranty and is now making grinding bearing noises. I will be fixing my 1998 Maytag. You cant buy jack anymore that isn't some low quality Chinese excuse for a product. And all for the greed of a few and because of the betrayal of American workers who had always made great products.
Still have a 20 year old Sears Kenmore vacuum cleaner. Only part that I replaced (from ebay) is the hand beater brush stair cleaner. Hoses, suction, attachments, and motor still work perfectly.
I have an old acme juicer built in 1964 that still runs fine. Not sure if it was from sears but goes to show how much quality was put into products before billy Clinton sent all our jobs to china.
There is a Eddie Money song that perfectly encapsulates how I feel about this time period and video. I wanna go back. Sears, Ames, Montgomery Wards, Roses, K-Mart, Woolsworth, People's Drug store, and just so many more I forgot. I am not ashamed to say this video almost brings a tear to my eye. Glad I at least lived through it once, and the present is hell itself compared to those glorious years gone but never forgotten. Thank you for the post, it made these dark days a tad brighter.
Remember those t shirts at the mall? The ones they printed with a hot iron? Usually had some kind of Smurf or something on the t shirt? Said your name on the back with blue letters?
Thanks for posting this raw footage. I used to work at Sears, back in the 1990s, which was pretty much their last hurrah. Fascinating to see this take from 1982.
Hello Anthony Ghretta who worked at Gamestop then the Peabody Sears.. it’s been a long time! I hope you found what you were looking for in ARIZONA. I bet you didn’t and that makes me happy.
@@burnthecandleatbothendz Sears is still full steam ahead and going strong in many areas ! Sorry such a wonderful store was closed in your area, BUT, it will eventually be back! bigger better stronger!
I just think of how thicker the steel was in those appliances back then. I started working at a Sears during this time. We were always respectful to customers and I learned everything working in paint and hardware there. Older coworkers actually were the last of the Sears’ retirees.
and the morons that didn't throw them out by now will find they still work. i dumped out my 2007 POS Maytag for a nice 1970's Kenmore set. Never gave it a second thought and my clothes are like brand new again.
@@MrWolfSnack Yep, I bought a home that had a 1970's fridge in the garage. I keep my beer in there because it is COLD. New fridges can't get that cold.
Loved this so much! I was a camera operator in the late 90s. I just loved watching this person get B-Roll and very much enjoyed all the 80s nostalgia. ❤
Yes..no tattoos, unless you were in Navy...they look messy, and some are paying to get them removed Men wore TIES.. Like those in Sears Now, even cops look like thugs complete in sleeves
I was 7 years old..and our house had that green sage carpet 😂 I was the human remote control for 4-5 channels on that moster click click nob T.V.!! I'm actually amazed I made it this far in life being a reckless kid. Mom worked at K-Mart and Dad was making pizza at Round Table's. So we had clothes and food. Thx for the flashback!! ✌😊
I loved going to our Local Mall and Sears with my Family as a Kid and checking out all the new stuff. It was a big event, followed by dinner at Farrell's. Great time to be a kid.
The older washing machines and dryers were particularly impressive from a reliability standpoint. I remember we had ours until 2001 when my family moved to a new home, and they were still in perfect working condition. Parents bought a front loading machine that I don't think even lasted 10 years.
Looks like a dream. I'm a millennial, born in 93. And I often like to think about what the 80s was like. The employees really knew their stuff. And everybody was present in their own lives. More meaningful.
You can say that again. Life was so much better back then. Growing up in the 80's was fantastic. The times we live in now are beyond depressing and anxiety inducing. Very hard to enjoy life these days. It's all about surviving. I wish I could go back.
@@alainportant6412 And commercials weren't required to have black men married to white women. And white men actually appeared to have a brain - and actually appeared in commercials. And when black people pillaged and raped, the news would actually give names and race. Ahh, the good old days.
@@michaeldalton8374 people weren’t as heavily burdened by debt. Sure, every time has its own issues, but this was definitely a more simplistic time. I enjoyed it.
Yea white hair wrinkled face and with a cracked saying now let me see what take is it again 1 no wait 3 say what? can't hear speak louder camera man "sears closed down no more takes" says the camera man who's old too😉.
Going to department stores at Christmas as a kid in the '50's was an event. Especially Sears. The smell of popcorn, the beachball twirling over the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner or was that a Kenmore? The Christmas decorations, Santa in the toy department and just a swirl of shopping activity in the store.Brings back fond memories of a simpler time.
@@small_ed Because they conflate their simple life as a child to that time since they didn't have the grown-up problems and bills like they do as an adult. It's simple psychology but not so simple to many adults.
Those washer and dryers at 1:50 are some of the most reliable. I hate the front loaders of today. I know so many people that have trouble with them and have to replace them after a few years. I still have my water guzzling top loading Kenmore from more than 20 years ago. Works like a charm.
People are probably shocked by those prices, but those appliances were made in the USA, and they would last you decades. I still remember my family having a microwave from before I was born - it lasted 20 years. A lot of items were also repairable + came with warranty.
Not all of them. Somewhere around that time we bought our first microwave, it was a Sharp, and that thing lasted something like 30 years. I'm not sure it ever did break, my parents just wanted a smaller one.
If they lasted decades why are they not working today? my fridge is made in china is now 19 years old works great. my stereo receiver made in china 30 years old works great, my toaster is 15 years old made in china. those Ataris where made in china lol. just please stop talking.
A lot of things made today are still repairable. In fact, it's far easier to find parts, service documentation, exploded views, etc... online. I've repaired appliances, outdoor equipment and power tools. In some cases, the low price of replacing the item makes it not worth repairing.
These videos are awesome. In the 80s there was more togetherness and peacefulness, but looking back at these videos, its almost like we were asleep. Now no one could sleep if they tried.
Was born seven years later but this feels wild to me. Everyone and everything looks so normal and happy. Nobody staring at phones. Everyone conducting themselves with class, no screaming kids or people taking selfies. Places that didn't have $ for upgrades could still look like this in the 90s and i remember seeing so much of this stuff at friends houses even like 2002. Thank you for uploading this.
Same age and remember alot of this or similar products in our home and friends homes, took it all for granted as a kid thinking things would stay relative. Seeing stores like this reminds me of shopping as a kid much more than now. We all know current leadership is ruining the once great America
Vectrex! I remember playing that console in a hardware store counter just like this one...it had color overlays you could place on top...and it was great! The vector graphics were so crisp, like the Tempest & Star Wars...nothing like that feel. Love this stuff, thanks!
Vectrex was the first console I saw. A neighbour had one and we would go to his house and play all day long sometimes. I´m talking about Colombia in the 80´s when the country was way different from now. Imagine.
In 1982 I was 9 years old, my dad refused to buy me an atari 2600/Atari 800, collecovision or Intellevision despite getting good grades at school and he having the income for it. I was very frustrated as a kid being the only kid in my neighborhood and private school without one. However, when they bought me a PC with a Intel 40486 CPU in 1989(top of the line), it completely changed my world and even allowed me to study computer engineering and be top of my class in college and graduated with honors because of that advantage. In fact, in 1989 I was the only one with a real computer in my neighborhood. A few years later, I found out without they knowing, they took a 2 year loan for 7 grand back in 1989 to pay for that PC, with a dot matrix printer, VGA color monitor, floppy disks, mouse and hard drive. Now, in their elderly age I take care of my parents by providing them with the best possible life because of that amazing gesture they had with me.
My dad was the same when it came to an Atari 2600. I wanted one. My Dad would say to me "save your money". I remember back in the summer of 1982 I was doing various jobs around the neighborhood just to earn $5 here and $10 there and etc. By September '82 I had over $120 to then buy one at a local Child World Toy store
@@AshleyMckendree Even modern Apple computers and iOS devices are cheap compared to the prices that were for their products back in the 80s and 90s. An Apple Powerbook in 1996 was like $10,000
It's amazing this footage exists, wow. Definitely remember video game kiosks in department stores and even grocery stores. And goodness, malls with packed parking lots...who'da thought, sheesh. Times long gone, but thankfully still with us thanks to you, Vampire Robot! Subscribed 🙂
I was 9 in December of 1982. I remember Sears as a child and how exciting it was to visit the video game department. I had an Intellivision and Sears had the Super Video Arcade games which were compatible. Fun times and fun memories. At the beginning of the video you could hear arcade games in the background. Sears used to have a small arcade section near the candy department.
Man I would love to go back to those days when everybody was well-mannered, kids were respectful, and children stood by their parent's side not running aimlessly through the store screaming. And the adults were not hellbent on rushing around the store and running into and over one another.
To be fair, I used to walk to the mall by myself in '82 when I was 11 and just hang out. I liked going to Sears because they had great displays for video games and if I didn't have money for the arcades (which was usually), I could still get my video game fix. But I certainly wasn't running around.
This is when Christmas actually meant something. The build up and suspense of new toys and gadgets. Nothing like an 80's Christmas. Man i miss those days.
I worked for this great company 7 years from 1999 to 2006. The first 5 years of that period were wonderful. Then came Lampert and he destroyed it all. I will always treasure what I learned and the man it helped me become.
I was 5 yrs old in 82. Lol I remember kindergarten very well and playing with my neighborhood friends but never knew really what was going on in the grownups world. So cool to see this. Thx!
In the words of Cinderella, "You don't know what you got till it's gone". Back in 1982, Sears was still the retail master! They knew what they were doing.
I graduated High School in 1982. The 70’s were the greatest time to grow up in suburbia America, and the 80’s the greatest time to come of age, the 90’s to build your life. Then the 2000’s came, everything is falling apart and country is in a great decline, probably never to recover. The 1900’s in America, from the greatest rise to the greatest fall in only 100 short years!
Watching these videos makes me wish I would've just enjoyed it more than I did then. At 12 years old I was just starting down the road of many bad choices. Many of which I regret to this day, but somehow I manage.
My parents gave me the Atari 800 and Floppy Disk Drive and cassette tape reader that year along with a bunch of game copies from a friend that worked at a software store. I am 54 years old and that was the best Christmas gift to date. Hahaha. Good times!
Wal-Mart and Target existed back then. Wal-Mart was mostly in small towns at the time. I recall one in the town of 5000 where my grandparents lived maybe opened in 1981. Target moved into my mid-sized city in this same year, and still at the same location.
@@TECHLOVER_91 Who gives a shit? All that store does is attract the dregs of society where it spawns. Now Walfart has to close stores because of all the shoplifting problems, seems like even they couldn't defeat the Moth crap they attract.
If you think about it though, 41 years before that would have been 1941. Imagine the people, dress, and products from 1941 to 1982. That's going to be a huge change too. Granted though, technology has changed way more from '82 to '23 than from '41 to '82.
When my grandfather was a teenager (1920's) he bought a 12ga shotgun from Sears for $12.95. He left it to me in his will. I still have it and it still functions as good as new.
I remember this time. I was 3 years old. The real old people back then were born in the late 1800s maybe 100 years before I graduated High School. When the old people were babies. Cars and everything that you see were not around yet. Their parents were born in the civil war. WW2 vets were a lot younger than The Great world war vets. Wow what a crossroads of generations all together shopping at Sears.
I remember this year so well as a kid. The young man there at 5:20 playing the Atari looks to be twice my age at that time probably between 15 to 17 years old, and he's now at least 55 or closer to 60 more like it. Yeah, looking back throughout the years [more like decades past], all of this moves way too quickly. I miss that era, too. It wasn't perfect back then either, but I'll take that any day over this... this b.s. that we're living through. We had less but were happier and had more fun. Nowadays, we have too much and no one is happy... or pretending to be. Yeah, crazy how things did a 180 in a way.
Sears is alive and well in Mexico. Here in Texas, my hometown sears closed down 5 or 6 years ago. I thought maybe they were all gone, but as I started traveling in Mexico, I started seeing them in several malls. And looked to be doing very well there. Pretty nice to see
@@Religious_man It was nice to see a sears open again because it reminded me of older days. It is similar to Radio Shack or other stores that are mostly gone, a store from childhood that seems to not exist anymore. But then you walk past one again and it takes you back in time
I was engaged in Oct. that year and remember having so much fun & love browsing the mall during the holidays with my fiancé. 1982 will probably always be my favorite year.
We had an Atari 2600, then an Intellivision, and then a Coleco. The electronics were advancing so quickly in that era, it was an exciting time to be alive. I don't miss the crappy clothing or shoes at Sears, but their tools and appliances were amazing.
You were crazy lucky! It was all most kids could hope for, just to have one of those consoles I remember receiving a Sears Telegames Video Arcade (Atari) for Christmas 1981. Over and over, I would find myself staring at it - in complete disbelief that I owned an Atari!!
I used to find old crappy condition Craftsman tools in cars I bought, or even found on the ground and take tbem to Sears where they would trade me for new ones. That's a good warranty, and good service.
@@Imagezone61 Back in 1987 worked for SEARS in toy department & customer service was #1. All departments. If there was a line you could go to another department. If you had a problem, there was a solution. We were even calling other SEARS to see if they had what the customer was looking for. No self service. Customer was #1. CRAFTSMAN enjoyed a lifetime guarantee. Even if you broke it the customer was due a replacement. Who does that now?
Young kids today could not comprehend what the 80s were like. No cell phones, no internet, out in the streets playing every day, arcades, heavy metal, and MTV. It might as well be a foreign language.
1982 I got the Star Wars rebel transport for Christmas. Still one of my favorite toys. In 2016 my wife bought me a complete one, including the box and a flea market. Reunited and it feels so good
That's Vectrex _Minestorm_ at 5:55 (without the screen overlay that came with the game). Vectrex was launched November of '82, so it was pretty much brand new during this filming segment. The early '80s was a great time to be a kid. I'd just turned 12 years old in the '82 holiday season, and I distinctly remember the first time I saw a Vectrex demo unit at our local _Federated Group_ (an electronics store) in West LA. While my dad shopped for VCRs and other devices, he'd leave me alone, unsupervised, for what seemed like hours as I played several different Vectrex games (e.g. Minestorm, Scramble, Star Castle, Armor Attack) to my heart's content. I already had an Atari VCS at home, but Vectrex's all-in-one gaming console and its pristine vector graphics really blew my mind. Those things are extremely hard to find these days, and if you do, they're usually around $700. I think the lowest price I've seen was $500. They're totally cool, though.
@@tony--james funny you mention that; at the same time, the Federated Group also had a Colecovision demo unit on the floor, with a Donkey Kong cartridge. That was the first time I'd ever experienced the "real deal" away from an arcade. It was an _exact_ copy of the original! It was so surreal to be able to replay the game endlessly without spending a single quarter. The console and the games were expensive, though… I only knew 2 people in my school that ended up getting one.
For me watching these videos is a double edged sword. On one hand I love the nostalgia and seemingly going back in time to a less stressful, great time in my life. The scan of the parking lot almost made me cry. I owned or at least rode in several of those cars. On the other hand I know this is just a snapshot in time. A time I will never see again, and it if forces me to accept my own aging and mortality. Regardless, the good outweighs the bad and I am thankful for the memories.
I’ve spent the weekend binge watching all of your videos because there’s something so fascinating to me about seeing everyday life well before my time. Please don’t ever stop posting!
In 82, I was 16 years old. Seeing those video games after so many years brought beautiful memories back. In those days, people were better, calmer, and more professional. We didn't have the term "road rage," and all Americans rallied around the Red, White, and Blue. Look at the Sears employees; they are all clean-cut, wearing ties, and clean language. It was such a wonderful time.
@@TECHLOVER_91 Lol I know what 53 years is and I know what a century is. If you think 53 is almost 100 - all I can say is I'm glad you aren't my accountant. I see you now fixed you original post to save a bit of face... 🤣
I was 16 in 1982 and life was so-so. Now 42 years later, as I am watching this with nostalgia, I’m sure it’s not because times were better; but I was young and had my whole life still ahead of me.
Me too, I worked there in the late 80's. Best job I ever had in my life. The pay wasn't much but my coworkers were the best. We had great times after work.
I worked there 17 years also. 1978 - 1995. Loved working there. Started on the dock unloading trucks, Home Improvements, Lawn & Garden and Hardware before being the Auto Center Manager for the last 9 years. Job was eliminated on May18th 1995 10 days after my 17th anniversary with them. Did get a great exit package.
My mom worked at a Sears but in Peru South America, as a young teen in the 60s, she was not even 16 yet, it was her first job and she often talks about the fun she had working there. She still has a gorgeous porcelain clock with birds on it that her coworkers gave her as a parting gift before she left so she could move to the U.S.
It either means so many people are stupid or so many are wise. It depends on the subject matter. Therefore, that's not my focus, and you have 0 uploaded videos with only 1 subscriber in your channel and you have been a YouPoop member since 2012 @man52? Why are you such a lowlife?
*_Oh man... what I'd give to go back to 1982 - if only for just a few precious hours... and also to go back to the exact day this video was made! So hard to believe it has been nearly 41 years! What a simpler, more innocent time it was... and we didn't even realize it at the time._* *In 1982, I was just a 15 year old, innocent (aka: 'virgin' - LOL), naive, pimple-faced high school freshman. At the end of that school year (Summer of 1983), my next (16th) birthday was in late June. What an awesome time of my life (the 1983 summer) it was! I swear... that summer still has yet to be matched (in terms of sheer awesomeness & just overall stress-free joy)!!!* 😁 _I remember getting my first car (a white 1972 2-door 302 V8 Ford Maverick) that summer & buying the latest cassette tape of one of my favorite bands back then (and still are now)... The Police. The album was titled Synchronicity. I must have played that entire album about 100 times during that magical summer. It (the summer of 1983) is (and forever will be) etched in my mind._ _These das, every time I hear 'King of Pain' or 'Wrapped Around Your Finger', etc. from that album, I stop in my tracks... and if at all.possible, I ALWAYS crank up the volume... all while I gradually beckon back to a much more simpler time... in my mind... I slowly re-live that 'magical summer' of 1983! Wow... just wow._ *Anyway... my apologies for rambling on about that. Anyway... thanks so much for sharing this video! It definitely sparked my 'memory cells', that's for sure. BTW, I just subscribed. THANKS AGAIN! 👍🏼*
I graduated high school in 1982 and I recall fondly, being excited about getting the Sears Christmas Catalog and just thumbing through it. These were wonderful times.
We have to remember that back in 82, the minimum wage was $3.35 an hour and the prices you see on the items in this video are near todays prices for some things which meant that many things were out of reach for most of us. I thought life was great when we got a black and white TV in 1979! But back then I never considered myself low class since I always managed to find deals at garage sales and thrift stores. It was my grandmother that made my Christmases amazing and I miss her every day and I’m 57 now.
We lost a lot when we lost Sears. If it's leadership had been smarter it could have been Amazon... it actually WAS the Amazon of the mail order world. A century ago you could even get HOUSES from them, nice ones too. I know of a family that ordered a Sears house, their order went out on the morning train and their house, a "Magnolia", the biggest house Sears had, arrived on the evening train THE SAME DAY! And that was in the era of telegraphs and steam trains.
Back in 81, my dad gave me a "Sears Telegames" for Christmas, which was an Atari 2600 rebranded for Sears. This was common, as Sears not only had it's own indigenous products, but sold many others under their "relabeling". This led me to a life long love of videogames and computers. I retired from the Air Force a few years ago, and still to this day have that Atari my father gave me. But now in addition to console game collecting, I now build my own game consoles and rebuild arcade games. It's a hobby I'm glad to have given my children. When I saw one of the last "big" Sears stores close in Roswell New Mexico, it was a sad day for me. When Sears closed for the last time, America truly lost something. It lost a retail store that has sold everything from kit houses, to go karts, to its own appliances, to just about everything even food!! Now it at least exists a little in my own home, I bring out the 1982 and 1983 Sears Christmas Catalogs for Christmas decoration. And I tell my kids "THIS is what kids in the 20th Century used to dream about the toys they wanted for Christmas."
Yeah, people forget how insanely expensive the earliest computers and game systems and VCR's were. Because so many companies started competing, the prices dropped to being more affordable 2 or 3 years later.
Yup. Just consider today's smart t.v.s. The pre smart 50' back in 2000+ was $1,500. It was flat but what an upgrade from the big box. Just regular digital, but not smart. Now you see a 55' smart for under $500! Technology advances & price lowers when there's competition.
I never thought when I was 10 years old (in 1982) , that 41 years later I would be interested in watching video of a parking lot from 1982 😃
Dude even watching the PARKING LOT is making me feel nostalgic! I like the way the cars looked back then!
Me too, the cars tho 😂😂😂😂outta curiousity you're how old? I'm 44 &was only 3 going on 4 in 1982 .
@@evagonzalez7777 I am 50 years old, I had to cut back on the nostalgia videos cause making me too depressed
I was thinking the exact same thing.
@@grapeape9098 No. Whats depressing is we are marching into the 5th Industrial Revolution and its gonna crush a lot of us.
I worked at Sears in 1982. We all dressed nicely and treated each other respectfully. There was a knowledgeable person in every department.. Honestly, it WAS as good as it looks. I'm glad many of you miss these times. It means you're good people. ❤
I was in retail management back then and yep the dress code was coat and tie at all times when on the floor. We had great employees who actually came to work as per their schedule and busted their butts.
Now everyone thinks they can do whatever they like without consequences, especially the entitled Americans of all races.
Long before that vampire Eddie Lampert sucked it dry. 😮
I worked at a Sears store considerably later (in the 2000s), but yeah, it was still very much as you describe it, in terms of the dress code and the professionalism on the sales floor -- you basically had to know your stuff (I worked in Electronics), and the company made darn sure you got constant trainings and updates, which they provided. Really great place to work.
I miss those days......
The Sears catalog Christmas Wish Book was the best thing ever for a kid in the 80's.
I agree!
Omg! Yes!
Yup! Right to the bras section and then the toys.
Yup lingerie section!
No doubt !!! Right in the middle was the full uniforms and gear for your favorite NFL teams and players. I got the Cowboys uniform, helmet, and all the gear ! Tony Dorsett, #33. Best Christmas Present Ever
My beloved father that died not too long ago bought me an Atari 2600 at Sears in 1982 for Christmas. I still remember how excited I was holding the box in my arms before we left the store. What a great memory.
Those were the best!! Today, you spending time hunting your xmas gifts from fedex or ups because you know, the one and only job they have, to deliver packages - they can't even do that.
Wow, asteroids, space Invaders, dig-dug! We begged our father for three years and played "Combat" that came with it!
Do you still have the game and cartridges?
@@Helmuesi911 I doubt it. If my mom goes before I do and I have to totally clean and clear her house where I grew up, I may come across it.
I have a very similar memory
Being a kid in the 80's was a truly amazing experience.
It sure was!
It was, and I was only 7 when the decade ended but i still recognize that the 80s was a whole different frequency than today.
My dad bought me the NES deluxe bundle with Rob the robot in 1985 when I was 6 and is one of my fondest memories with my father.
Your Mom was a truly amazing experience. 🙂 ... last Night!
...Sorry. In the 80's we used to always...
well, nevermind...
Tell that to Adam Walsh.
My son says these types of videos are like looking through a time machine. He loves them. He was born in 1999, so this is ancient history to him. I wish I could take him to 1982 so he could experience firsthand how awesome of a time the 80's were.
Not really. The economy then was terrible, very high inflation, high unemployment, high gas prices, industrial plants shutting down . . . it was a pretty dreadful time until it started to improve in the mid '80's. Was better still in the late '80's.
at least he got a good ten years in, before everything went to hell LOL ...
@@TanManFixes
And only getting worse .....
I wish I could take my kids to that time as well. No "always on" connectivity in your pocket at all times... I think they'd balk at the concept, but it certainly made for much more meaningful and deep relationships with friends and family.
@@robertd9850 Thanks, Reagan.
This makes me want to cry...😢 Want to go back to that time...😢
If I could, I’d take my family back to the 80s and have my kids grow up 80s 90s, the 2 best decades
Me too.😞
Hey life goes on, I wish I could too, but here we are, we just have to make the best out of what we have.
Oh my, took the words out of my mouth
Me to I'm 44 miss the old days. Everything is falling apart.
Man when I was a kid I loved the Sears catalog during Christmas.
Yes!!!!! I loved it also, those were the days, I’m 44 years old now. Lol I miss the 80s.
100%, life was so much better back then. Growing up sucks and the world becomes stranger every day. 80's cannot be beat in any way. I'd give all the tech away just to be back then.
@@stephengyves884 different time for sure.
I spent a lot of time going through the catalogs with an ink pen drawing mustaches on all of the ladies and making black eyes and pretend scars on everyone.😅
The toys and the ladies section. Everything I young man needed back then
I was born in 67 so when I watch a video about the 1980s I think what I wouldn’t give to relive and go back to that time that for me was the best time of my life
Same. Those were the good old days when people had respect for each other. They dressed nice and didn't go out in their pajamas😒
@@rocker76m88crazy how much the world has changed. I wasn't even alive back then, but still nostalgic for it. 29 yo
@@Tipman2OOO 👍❣️
Born in 66, those times seem almost like a dream now. Keep hoping I get shaken and this current time is a dream and I wake up and go back to the 80s.
VCR
One more memory, for the young people. Sears had a service department, usually entered from a separate door in the back of the building, or even in a separate building (as mine was). You could go in with the model and serial number of any Sears product, and buy replacement parts. I bought a moped at a garage sale that was 30 years old, and they were able to get me a replacement throttle. In an age where lawmakers have to sue to give consumers the "right to repair," back then you could actually keep durable goods like washing machines, refrigerators, vacuums, etc. running for years by fixing parts that broke.
Companies actually block their service manuals from leaking out of the company now. They archive and encrypt them so only an employee with a badge ID and code can access the system. Miele does this, so does Tesla and Apple, and Dyson.
Nowadays durable goods are now disposable goods. Lucky if you get 5 years outta a fridge now.
@@KingIstvan friggin’ “planned obsolescence”.
Sears used to advertise their mufflers real cheap, then when you went to buy the muffler, you found out the little tailpipe on the end was going to cost three times more than the muffler.😅🤣😂
I wish I could go back in time and stock up on washing machines 😂 the new ones suck so much.
My dad got a Craftsman drill for his wedding on June 30, 1959.
It broke in July, 1994. He went back to Sears and they gave him a new one! lol
I still have it. It still works great!
Wow amazing!!!
The MBA's ended that generous policy! They had to! Craftsman tools are now made in China like everything else! Not sure who owns the Craftsman brand now, but it's no longer Sears, if Sears even exists anymore.
I still have a Sears drill from the 40s that I found in a horse pasture in 1984. It still works!
Yep, Craftsman warrantied and replaced their tools for life.
My folks had a dryer from Sears that lasted 37 years until they couldn´t find a replacement part for it. I can´t remember the brand, but dad was proud of keeping it going for so long.
I was just turning 13 in this year. What a magical time. I would give anything to relive the 80’s again!
1988
In 1993 my cat knocked my old clock radio off of the nightstand, breaking it. I went into the local Sears and bought a new one. That 30 year old alarm woke me this morning. It has started every single day of my adult life. Just thought of that. Had I bought it at Walmart it would have broken in my hand while taking it off of the shelf.
Great comment...so true 👍
I also have a space heater I bought at Sears around 2004, and its still sitting at the corner near my bed that has warmed me every winter for close to 20 years now. I bought it with my employee discount as my first retail job while in college.
I have a General Electric clock radio my late aunt gave me in 1986 for a Christmas gift. Still going strong, everything works!
But that cat isn’t around anymore, and that is the sad part. I am sick of pets passing away. Death must be stoped
@@Shinnosuki till it starts a fire and burns down your house, space heaters need to be replaced every few years
as someone who was a kid back in 1982, this video is great! being able to buy computers and video games for home use was relatively new and exciting. I certainly remember walking these aisles, checking out the merchandise, and wishing I had it all. Also the Muzak playing in the background is the cherry on top nostalgia-wise.
I was 9 in 1982 and didn't realize how good we had it. It feels like the internet ruined it.
the internet did ruin western civilization. it's linked up extremists all across the world with each other.
Then get off the internet
I know the Internet has ruined everything..it is the root cause of ALL DECAY.
Technology has dehumanized society.
The dumbest comment. No it’s people that are evil and corrupt . Maybe find some higher beliefs. The internet is a reflection of a more true reality. If you look into humans and such you will find we are all energy, and all life is one. So the internet is a mirror of our interconnectedness. The 80s was just as bad as any decade and just as good. Don’t let your bias become facts
I remember going in every week so my grandma could pay on her layaway. That’s the only way she was able to afford Christmas but she always had a good Christmas for me. I miss her every day
+1 to this one, same for me and my grandma
My parents did the same thing. Remember the big Christmas catalog from Sears?
Do you miss her or do you miss those Christmases?
Our grannies were godsends. Don't know what I would have done without mine.
I certainly remember the layaway. Do stores do that anymore
Back when things were made in the US, appliances had colors and lasted more than a few years, clothes last more than a few months and Christmas actually still meant something.
It’s wasn’t a QC paradise
The meaning of Christmas will always be about the Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. What has changed is the rise of atheism and Marxist “political correctness” from hell, gaining power and brainwashing the masses leading to the current global problems we have that will be getting much worse. One day 2020-2023 will be looked as “the good old days” in comparison when the depopulation obsessed Marxist globalists continue on their Satanic “progressive” agenda to destroy the world/humanity. This chastisement will end when Russia is finally consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Viva Cristo Rey!
@@jogmas12 maybe not for you.
@@Brian-li5up I seen complete failure of 1980 made in USA products
Look at those old Whirlpool built belt drive Kenmore washers and dryers. Those were great washers and dryers. When quality actually meant something. I was 15 years old in 1982 at this time.
The World was so much more realistic back then. Great time to live. Great time to be a kid!
realistic? LOL
@@SR-iy4gg yeah it’s so fake now
Certainly, if you didn't have parents who were freaks!
@@SR-iy4ggYeah, you newbies are phony and miserable.😊
1990
Technologically, these early computers and consoles were so magical. Also, look how more calm and relaxed people appear since smart phones did not exist yet. No ear buds and no text notifications. People are actually viewing their surroundings. I miss those days.
Every different computer back then had its own unique charm. Today I don't really feel sentimental about any particular PC I've had in the last 25 years.
@@sa3270 You were lucky to be able to afford them back in the 80s. Many of us could not and it was not so sentimental when you could only use other people's systems. Today, I can find whole, new, laptops for 150 bucks or so. Adjusted for inflation to the early 80s that's less than $50
mee too
Well also the news was not corporate ran on if it bleeds it leads and what new outrage can we tell you about today.
Ear buds were out in 1982. I got a pair with a mini cassette tape player from my Dad back then and I remember walking around in a store listening to a Loverboy tape.
This video is amazing to me. Life was so simple, people were mellow, and not a cell phone in sight. On top of that, this was my first Christmas.
we talked to each other instead of screaming and fighting over nothing
Yes, everything was peaceful and harmonious.. not a care in the world 🤦🏻♂️
Get real.. the only difference now is everyone records everything.
Ummm because they didn't exist yet but trust and believe y'all would have been using them 🤦🏽♂️
@@Helmuesi911 no. It was different then. People talked to their neighbors...associated with them. People could walk down the street and be invited by a lonely soul for chit chat and not have the authorities called for strange unknown persons walking in the neighborhood. Kids grew up outside together (I was one of 22 kids in a ten house area on the street I lived on that played, dreamed and adventurized with daily and that was not during school hours). There is no closeness any more, not even among families. It's instant gratification now...no waiting 6 weeks for that tee shirt or comic book ordered or buying the package for Star Wars figures and Toys before they were even released to the public. Life was slower, steadier. There was fear no doubt. Racism is always there no matter the decade or century but i remember being taken care of by a black woman and her daughter and the son was like a brother to me and as much as I knew, it was like that everywhere ( to my ignorance because the news did not instantly travel like it does now). Arcades were the weekend destination and kids for the most part only got competitive with each other there seeing who could get the high score on pac man. Guns were there but nothing like today....violence was there but nothing like today. Fear was there but I honestly think fear today has been traded for Trending and likes instead of true fear. It's nothing remotely like it was in the 80s. Either you were not born or you were older already.
@@scruf153 sounds like you should talk to other people about the 80s. You were in a bubble apparently.
For me, it was just another day back in 1982. Nostalgia can be depressing. You can never go back and when you compare it to what's in front of you, it can get you down. Be happy you got to live it.
I feel you. I really do.
Nostalgia does more. It makes us miss the present while obsessing over the past. Right here, right now is what you will be reminiscing over in the future. 2023 comes only once.
The nostalgia and brainwashing in these comments is truly crazy. I was there in 1982, it wasn't that amazing and in most ways not any different than now. Recognize that these nostalgic delusions is crazy.
@@culwin Ask them this simple question. Which would they rather choose? Stay here and be that young and simple again or sent back to the 80s as old and jaded as you are now? I bet they choose to stay because I believe its not the decade they miss. They miss being that young and naive. The times weren't innocent. They were.
@@ouknow1446 Sure, most people miss their childhood (unless it was real bad). That has nothing to do with the 80's specifically. And many comments here (and elsewhere) are propaganda from people who don't even care about that. Nostalgia is a drug that people can take advantage of.
I really wish I would have kept some of the Christmas Wishbook catalogs from the 70's and 80's. What fun they would be now!
It would be a nostalgic blast for sure!
@@vampirerobot also money
@@TwistyEntertainment Pretty amazing that the company that literally invented mail order couldn't figure out the Internet?!? Still boggles my mind even today.
My grandmother and mother kept all of their catalogs 😂 my mom has them now😅
Can still find entire catalogs online (to look at on screen).
Still have my all-metal Sears Kenmore sewing machine from 1976. Works like a charm and still valuable and sought after. Back in the day, Sears stood by their products 100% for life, so they manufactured some of the best quality products - and they're still running today bcs of easy serviceability. I do my own oiling and repairs on the sewing machine. We also still have Sears power tools working great from the 70s and 80s
My dad has a Sears metal power drill from the ‘50s that still works.
My mom had a Maytag washer that lasted her from about 1975 to 1995 with no parts ever put on it but belts. I still have (will be repairing soon- tub bearing finally went out)a Maytag Performa that I bought in 1998 and lasted till 2022 with only the motor being replaced around 2015 and a few belts of course. I did not replace with Maytag brand as I heard they were now Whirlpool, have heard nothing but bad stories about Maytag/Whirlpool washers. Decide to go with G.E. Hotpoint instead, but stupidly didn't do any research assumed it was still American G.E.....come to find out they are now owned by Chinese Haier. Piece of crap lasted 2 days past the 1 year warranty and is now making grinding bearing noises. I will be fixing my 1998 Maytag. You cant buy jack anymore that isn't some low quality Chinese excuse for a product. And all for the greed of a few and because of the betrayal of American workers who had always made great products.
@@elliegonzales8212 You got that right. GREED of the 1%
Still have a 20 year old Sears Kenmore vacuum cleaner. Only part that I replaced (from ebay) is the hand beater brush stair cleaner. Hoses, suction, attachments, and motor still work perfectly.
I have an old acme juicer built in 1964 that still runs fine. Not sure if it was from sears but goes to show how much quality was put into products before billy Clinton sent all our jobs to china.
Im glad i got to grow up in the 80s and 90s. You young people have no idea what you missed👋
well maybe we didnt get that opportunity
True, the 1890s were an amazing time. If you weren't there, you are a real loser.
@@kingofspedupNo crap. They're just telling you what great times you missed out on.
It was an amazing time, we thought it would last forever.
Sears was awesome, they always had one of their Tele-Games units set up to play Atari 2600 games. What an amazing time to be 14 in 1982.
Than you get older and realize...video games are just rules to follow with graphics
@@nickh7777 You ok bro?
@@joeg4707 happy go lucky ain't so happy go lucky anymore
@@nickh7777 easy there kid
There is a Eddie Money song that perfectly encapsulates how I feel about this time period and video. I wanna go back.
Sears, Ames, Montgomery Wards, Roses, K-Mart, Woolsworth, People's Drug store, and just so many more I forgot. I am not ashamed to say this video almost brings a tear to my eye. Glad I at least lived through it once, and the present is hell itself compared to those glorious years gone but never forgotten. Thank you for the post, it made these dark days a tad brighter.
Those were the best times of my life. I wanna go back, go back and do it all over. But I can’t go back, I know
Remember Service Merchandise?
Ames was my store. Worked there from 1993 to 2002.
Omg my first job was at Ames Department store 😄 I worked at Jamesway Department store during the Summer on college break.
Remember those t shirts at the mall? The ones they printed with a hot iron? Usually had some kind of Smurf or something on the t shirt? Said your name on the back with blue letters?
Wow this is like a time machine. Thank you for the upload ❤
Thanks for posting this raw footage. I used to work at Sears, back in the 1990s, which was pretty much their last hurrah. Fascinating to see this take from 1982.
Hello Anthony Ghretta who worked at Gamestop then the Peabody Sears.. it’s been a long time! I hope you found what you were looking for in ARIZONA. I bet you didn’t and that makes me happy.
The sears in my city just went out of business 2 years ago
@@burnthecandleatbothendz Sears is still full steam ahead and going strong in many areas ! Sorry such a wonderful store was closed in your area, BUT, it will eventually be back! bigger better stronger!
Worked at the Sears in Hanover Mall, MA in 1998 - 99 while in high school. Great times.
Work at Sears in the late 80's. Best job I ever had in my life. The pay wasn't much but I had a great time hanging out with my coworkers after work.
Never ever felt Sears would be gone forever.
@@jackd.ripper9216 Jack agree
Plenty of them in Latin America same feel as always and growing
I think there are still some in the US.
@@billymatthews7346 it is not gone they have a website ok
It never will be.
I just think of how thicker the steel was in those appliances back then. I started working at a Sears during this time. We were always respectful to customers and I learned everything working in paint and hardware there. Older coworkers actually were the last of the Sears’ retirees.
Notice how patient everyone is
White people only thats why
You mean when we had a classier group of people and not praising garbage on tv and not everyone had a gun with an ax to grind?
No cellphones.
@@suomenpresidentti less blacks 👶🏿👶🏿😂😂
and no salty attitudes from a journalist.
Nearly all of those appliances back then were made in America, by union trades people.
and the morons that didn't throw them out by now will find they still work. i dumped out my 2007 POS Maytag for a nice 1970's Kenmore set. Never gave it a second thought and my clothes are like brand new again.
@@MrWolfSnack Yep, I bought a home that had a 1970's fridge in the garage. I keep my beer in there because it is COLD. New fridges can't get that cold.
@@MrWolfSnack That POS Maytag was a Kenmore in 2007 (Whirlpool bought out Maytag in 2006).
Sewing machines were made in Japan then later Taiwan (But quality went down)
@@muziklvr7776 That explains why I was finding identical parts but with Kenmore part #'s
Loved this so much! I was a camera operator in the late 90s. I just loved watching this person get B-Roll and very much enjoyed all the 80s nostalgia. ❤
For some reason when I feel depressed I always watch old stuff like this to feel better
Me too
Amen me too!
Yes..no tattoos, unless you were in Navy...they look messy, and some are paying to get them removed
Men wore TIES..
Like those in Sears
Now, even cops look like thugs complete in sleeves
Living in the past is not healthy.
Same for me
I was 7 years old..and our house had that green sage carpet 😂 I was the human remote control for 4-5 channels on that moster click click nob T.V.!!
I'm actually amazed I made it this far in life being a reckless kid.
Mom worked at K-Mart and Dad was making pizza at Round Table's. So we had clothes and food.
Thx for the flashback!!
✌😊
I loved going to our Local Mall and Sears with my Family as a Kid and checking out all the new stuff. It was a big event, followed by dinner at Farrell's. Great time to be a kid.
Wait you said Farrells, Brunswick Square Mall ?
I get an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia watching these videos.
Im drooling at those appliances, the ones that last for decades without any issues, compared to the junk for sale today
Back when kenmore was kenmore
The older washing machines and dryers were particularly impressive from a reliability standpoint. I remember we had ours until 2001 when my family moved to a new home, and they were still in perfect working condition. Parents bought a front loading machine that I don't think even lasted 10 years.
amen.. Kenmore was the bomb!
You can thank regulations for the poor appliances we have today.
@@Rio_Seco it’s always the government’s fault, right TK? Try googling “planned obsolescence”!
Looks like a dream. I'm a millennial, born in 93. And I often like to think about what the 80s was like. The employees really knew their stuff. And everybody was present in their own lives. More meaningful.
Better times than today.
You can say that again. Life was so much better back then. Growing up in the 80's was fantastic. The times we live in now are beyond depressing and anxiety inducing. Very hard to enjoy life these days. It's all about surviving. I wish I could go back.
@@YoBoyMarcus I see but at least now you have trans kids going mainstream.
@@alainportant6412 And commercials weren't required to have black men married to white women. And white men actually appeared to have a brain - and actually appeared in commercials. And when black people pillaged and raped, the news would actually give names and race. Ahh, the good old days.
Yes. 18% interest rates were awesome!
@@michaeldalton8374 people weren’t as heavily burdened by debt. Sure, every time has its own issues, but this was definitely a more simplistic time. I enjoyed it.
Legend has it that guy is still there doing takes.
🤣🤣🤣 2 funny!
Good one!😬
The take number would be at least six digits long now.
Take 3 Ataris? Ok! Lololol.
Yea white hair wrinkled face and with a cracked saying now let me see what take is it again 1 no wait 3 say what? can't hear speak louder camera man "sears closed down no more takes" says the camera man who's old too😉.
Going to department stores at Christmas as a kid in the '50's was an event. Especially Sears. The smell of popcorn, the beachball twirling over the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner or was that a Kenmore? The Christmas decorations, Santa in the toy department and just a swirl of shopping activity in the store.Brings back fond memories of a simpler time.
I don't understand why some folks think times were simpler during their childhood, regardless of decade.
@@small_ed Because they conflate their simple life as a child to that time since they didn't have the grown-up problems and bills like they do as an adult. It's simple psychology but not so simple to many adults.
@@cyborg266Cirúrgico
I still have my kenmore vacuum cleaner. I bought it new in 1973. It's green, like my appliances used to be. I only replaced the plug and the hose.
Those washer and dryers at 1:50 are some of the most reliable. I hate the front loaders of today. I know so many people that have trouble with them and have to replace them after a few years. I still have my water guzzling top loading Kenmore from more than 20 years ago. Works like a charm.
People are probably shocked by those prices, but those appliances were made in the USA, and they would last you decades. I still remember my family having a microwave from before I was born - it lasted 20 years. A lot of items were also repairable + came with warranty.
Not all of them. Somewhere around that time we bought our first microwave, it was a Sharp, and that thing lasted something like 30 years. I'm not sure it ever did break, my parents just wanted a smaller one.
Had a made in USA 1981 amana radarange until 2015
yep still have a Kenmore microwave from '85 that still works
If they lasted decades why are they not working today? my fridge is made in china is now 19 years old works great. my stereo receiver made in china 30 years old works great, my toaster is 15 years old made in china. those Ataris where made in china lol. just please stop talking.
A lot of things made today are still repairable. In fact, it's far easier to find parts, service documentation, exploded views, etc... online. I've repaired appliances, outdoor equipment and power tools. In some cases, the low price of replacing the item makes it not worth repairing.
These videos are awesome. In the 80s there was more togetherness and peacefulness, but looking back at these videos, its almost like we were asleep. Now no one could sleep if they tried.
Was born seven years later but this feels wild to me. Everyone and everything looks so normal and happy. Nobody staring at phones. Everyone conducting themselves with class, no screaming kids or people taking selfies. Places that didn't have $ for upgrades could still look like this in the 90s and i remember seeing so much of this stuff at friends houses even like 2002. Thank you for uploading this.
Same age and remember alot of this or similar products in our home and friends homes, took it all for granted as a kid thinking things would stay relative. Seeing stores like this reminds me of shopping as a kid much more than now. We all know current leadership is ruining the once great America
Oh Hush Up you probably keep your face buried in your phone but keep whining about a time before them people like you are a Trip 😂🤣
same age as well. this decade looks nice and peaceful. too bad we won't be able to experience it, but the 90's were pretty magical too, am I right?
Technology is destroying humanity. And it's going to get worse. This year is the beginning of A.I. and now things will really accelerate.
Phone's you stsre at, werent around until TH-cam
This is the best channel I discovered this year so far. Thank you for saving all these great time capsules.
Whoever thought to do this, you're a genius.
Vectrex! I remember playing that console in a hardware store counter just like this one...it had color overlays you could place on top...and it was great! The vector graphics were so crisp, like the Tempest & Star Wars...nothing like that feel. Love this stuff, thanks!
Yeah, my friend Paul S. had one. It was really cool!
Vectrex was the first console I saw. A neighbour had one and we would go to his house and play all day long sometimes. I´m talking about Colombia in the 80´s when the country was way different from now. Imagine.
Oh no! Spike!
Molly!
December 1, 1982 was the day I was born. And all of this was already going on while I was still sleeping in my crib.
In 1982 I was 9 years old, my dad refused to buy me an atari 2600/Atari 800, collecovision or Intellevision despite getting good grades at school and he having the income for it.
I was very frustrated as a kid being the only kid in my neighborhood and private school without one.
However, when they bought me a PC with a Intel 40486 CPU in 1989(top of the line), it completely changed my world and even allowed me to study computer engineering and be top of my class in college and graduated with honors because of that advantage. In fact, in 1989 I was the only one with a real computer in my neighborhood.
A few years later, I found out without they knowing, they took a 2 year loan for 7 grand back in 1989 to pay for that PC, with a dot matrix printer, VGA color monitor, floppy disks, mouse and hard drive.
Now, in their elderly age I take care of my parents by providing them with the best possible life because of that amazing gesture they had with me.
God bless you. ❤
The 486 PC was a far better gaming machine than Atari or Intellivision.
My dad was the same when it came to an Atari 2600. I wanted one. My Dad would say to me "save your money". I remember back in the summer of 1982 I was doing various jobs around the neighborhood just to earn $5 here and $10 there and etc. By September '82 I had over $120 to then buy one at a local Child World Toy store
Thats amazing, 7000 in 89 would be the equivalent of buying a computer for 17,600 today! They really loved you lol
@@AshleyMckendree Even modern Apple computers and iOS devices are cheap compared to the prices that were for their products back in the 80s and 90s. An Apple Powerbook in 1996 was like $10,000
It's amazing this footage exists, wow. Definitely remember video game kiosks in department stores and even grocery stores. And goodness, malls with packed parking lots...who'da thought, sheesh. Times long gone, but thankfully still with us thanks to you, Vampire Robot! Subscribed 🙂
I was 9 in December of 1982. I remember Sears as a child and how exciting it was to visit the video game department. I had an Intellivision and Sears had the Super Video Arcade games which were compatible. Fun times and fun memories. At the beginning of the video you could hear arcade games in the background. Sears used to have a small arcade section near the candy department.
That's Awesome! I had an Intellivision then too. What was your favorite game? Mine was the Baseball.
That parking lot footage is better than most shows on TV these days...
Is that what that was?
@@small_edDuh.
100% more entertaining than SNL
Mall of America
What a flashback. Turned 17 that year. Remember this time so well and Sears also. I severely miss them both.
Man I would love to go back to those days when everybody was well-mannered, kids were respectful, and children stood by their parent's side not running aimlessly through the store screaming. And the adults were not hellbent on rushing around the store and running into and over one another.
To be fair, I used to walk to the mall by myself in '82 when I was 11 and just hang out. I liked going to Sears because they had great displays for video games and if I didn't have money for the arcades (which was usually), I could still get my video game fix. But I certainly wasn't running around.
Exactly 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
They were well-mannered because they were disciplined. No coincidence
Parents were actually able to be parents and discipline their kids the way they were supposed to be and not bound by so called abuse laws.
I ran screaming right to the Atari display LOL
What I mostly miss about 1982 is my youth. Also, a lot less people and a lot less craziness.
Just found your channel. Its PURE GOLD!!!. Subscibed.
My Kenmore dryer purchased in 1983 continues to run perfectly today. Only the heating element has been replaced. (Aug 2016 $19.95)
Yeah, they will run forever.
This is when Christmas actually meant something. The build up and suspense of new toys and gadgets. Nothing like an 80's Christmas. Man i miss those days.
I feel the same way about a completely different decade; it's just whatever time period during which you were a child.
Nah, people were still complaining how Christmas was better in the 70's.
I worked for this great company 7 years from 1999 to 2006. The first 5 years of that period were wonderful. Then came Lampert and he destroyed it all. I will always treasure what I learned and the man it helped me become.
"Thank you" for sharing that. Knew some good workers in 1987. Pay was low, but we enjoyed our toy department.
There are so many incredibly wonderful memories that happened during the 70's and 80's. Far too many to list, but they were wonderful memories.
I was 5 yrs old in 82. Lol I remember kindergarten very well and playing with my neighborhood friends but never knew really what was going on in the grownups world. So cool to see this. Thx!
In the words of Cinderella, "You don't know what you got till it's gone". Back in 1982, Sears was still the retail master! They knew what they were doing.
Obviously they didn't know what they were doing as they were not able to adapt to changing conditions and failed.
I graduated High School in 1982. The 70’s were the greatest time to grow up in suburbia America, and the 80’s the greatest time to come of age, the 90’s to build your life. Then the 2000’s came, everything is falling apart and country is in a great decline, probably never to recover. The 1900’s in America, from the greatest rise to the greatest fall in only 100 short years!
Agree JohnConnor, and that’s why I live there and fully support Governor DeSantis for President 2024!
Watching these videos makes me wish I would've just enjoyed it more than I did then. At 12 years old I was just starting down the road of many bad choices. Many of which I regret to this day, but somehow I manage.
My parents gave me the Atari 800 and Floppy Disk Drive and cassette tape reader that year along with a bunch of game copies from a friend that worked at a software store. I am 54 years old and that was the best Christmas gift to date. Hahaha. Good times!
No wal-mart, no target, no internet shopping---we were better off without those.
walmart was around back then
Speak for Yourself! Don't say we 🙄 Walmart has been around since 1962 do your research 🤦🏽♂️
Wal-Mart and Target existed back then. Wal-Mart was mostly in small towns at the time. I recall one in the town of 5000 where my grandparents lived maybe opened in 1981. Target moved into my mid-sized city in this same year, and still at the same location.
Right on the third, dead wrong on one and two lol
@@TECHLOVER_91 Who gives a shit? All that store does is attract the dregs of society where it spawns. Now Walfart has to close stores because of all the shoplifting problems, seems like even they couldn't defeat the Moth crap they attract.
It all ended with cell phones. These videos are the last years we were truly alive.
It all started with Columbine.
Who would have known at the time of recording something so simple would be so different 41 years later
More like 40 yrs
If you think about it though, 41 years before that would have been 1941. Imagine the people, dress, and products from 1941 to 1982. That's going to be a huge change too. Granted though, technology has changed way more from '82 to '23 than from '41 to '82.
When my grandfather was a teenager (1920's) he bought a 12ga shotgun from Sears for $12.95. He left it to me in his will. I still have it and it still functions as good as new.
Ok. 👍
I remember this time. I was 3 years old. The real old people back then were born in the late 1800s maybe 100 years before I graduated High School. When the old people were babies. Cars and everything that you see were not around yet. Their parents were born in the civil war. WW2 vets were a lot younger than The Great world war vets. Wow what a crossroads of generations all together shopping at Sears.
I remember this year so well as a kid. The young man there at 5:20 playing the Atari looks to be twice my age at that time probably between 15 to 17 years old, and he's now at least 55 or closer to 60 more like it. Yeah, looking back throughout the years [more like decades past], all of this moves way too quickly. I miss that era, too. It wasn't perfect back then either, but I'll take that any day over this... this b.s. that we're living through. We had less but were happier and had more fun. Nowadays, we have too much and no one is happy... or pretending to be. Yeah, crazy how things did a 180 in a way.
I'll bet there are still a good amount of those 1982 washer and dryers still in service today.
Almost get a lump in my throat watching this. Life was so much better back then. Sad what this country has become.
Sears is alive and well in Mexico. Here in Texas, my hometown sears closed down 5 or 6 years ago. I thought maybe they were all gone, but as I started traveling in Mexico, I started seeing them in several malls. And looked to be doing very well there. Pretty nice to see
That's pretty screwed up. Are you still their representative or what?
@@Religious_man I never worked there
Why did you say "It's pretty nice to see" after you said you spotted Sears in Mexico? That must be a different Sears.
@@Religious_man It was nice to see a sears open again because it reminded me of older days. It is similar to Radio Shack or other stores that are mostly gone, a store from childhood that seems to not exist anymore. But then you walk past one again and it takes you back in time
@@Religious_man you're not the sharpest crayon in the box, are you? 😂
I'm in my 50's, so this was the golden age for me..What a difference now!!
I was engaged in Oct. that year and remember having so much fun & love browsing the mall during the holidays with my fiancé. 1982 will probably always be my favorite year.
I remember the Xmas catalogs and circling all the toys I wanted.
We had an Atari 2600, then an Intellivision, and then a Coleco. The electronics were advancing so quickly in that era, it was an exciting time to be alive. I don't miss the crappy clothing or shoes at Sears, but their tools and appliances were amazing.
You were lucky
You were crazy lucky! It was all most kids could hope for, just to have one of those consoles
I remember receiving a Sears Telegames Video Arcade (Atari) for Christmas 1981.
Over and over, I would find myself staring at it - in complete disbelief that I owned an Atari!!
I used to find old crappy condition Craftsman tools in cars I bought, or even found on the ground and take tbem to Sears where they would trade me for new ones. That's a good warranty, and good service.
Colecovision rocked!
@@Imagezone61 Back in 1987 worked for SEARS in toy department & customer service was #1. All departments. If there was a line you could go to another department. If you had a problem, there was a solution. We were even calling other SEARS to see if they had what the customer was looking for. No self service. Customer was #1. CRAFTSMAN enjoyed a lifetime guarantee. Even if you broke it the customer was due a replacement. Who does that now?
Young kids today could not comprehend what the 80s were like. No cell phones, no internet, out in the streets playing every day, arcades, heavy metal, and MTV. It might as well be a foreign language.
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you forgot, making phone calls and having real long conversations on the phone....gossiping about classmates and hot girls.
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Also party land lines. Pay phones. Of course us in 1982 looking back 40 years would be the same. "No TV? What did they do? No videogames?" Etc.
1982 I got the Star Wars rebel transport for Christmas. Still one of my favorite toys. In 2016 my wife bought me a complete one, including the box and a flea market. Reunited and it feels so good
Did you ever live in Houston Tx as a kid?
@@EddieLealnope. Never been to Texas
That's Vectrex _Minestorm_ at 5:55 (without the screen overlay that came with the game). Vectrex was launched November of '82, so it was pretty much brand new during this filming segment.
The early '80s was a great time to be a kid. I'd just turned 12 years old in the '82 holiday season, and I distinctly remember the first time I saw a Vectrex demo unit at our local _Federated Group_ (an electronics store) in West LA. While my dad shopped for VCRs and other devices, he'd leave me alone, unsupervised, for what seemed like hours as I played several different Vectrex games (e.g. Minestorm, Scramble, Star Castle, Armor Attack) to my heart's content. I already had an Atari VCS at home, but Vectrex's all-in-one gaming console and its pristine vector graphics really blew my mind.
Those things are extremely hard to find these days, and if you do, they're usually around $700. I think the lowest price I've seen was $500. They're totally cool, though.
I'm surprised there isn't a Colecovision display/demo, as that console was released August 1982..
it's also possible it's there, just not filmed
Scramble was awesome!
We had one on loan for demo at our house. I couldn't believe how cool it was.
@@tony--james funny you mention that; at the same time, the Federated Group also had a Colecovision demo unit on the floor, with a Donkey Kong cartridge. That was the first time I'd ever experienced the "real deal" away from an arcade. It was an _exact_ copy of the original! It was so surreal to be able to replay the game endlessly without spending a single quarter. The console and the games were expensive, though… I only knew 2 people in my school that ended up getting one.
For me watching these videos is a double edged sword. On one hand I love the nostalgia and seemingly going back in time to a less stressful, great time in my life. The scan of the parking lot almost made me cry. I owned or at least rode in several of those cars. On the other hand I know this is just a snapshot in time. A time I will never see again, and it if forces me to accept my own aging and mortality. Regardless, the good outweighs the bad and I am thankful for the memories.
I’ve spent the weekend binge watching all of your videos because there’s something so fascinating to me about seeing everyday life well before my time. Please don’t ever stop posting!
Very kind words 😊 Thank you for that.
Glad you're getting to experience it through these videos. We definitely did not realize just how good we had it. I suppose people rarely do.
I love watching stuff like this! I watch vintage commercials frequently.
In 82, I was 16 years old. Seeing those video games after so many years brought beautiful memories back. In those days, people were better, calmer, and more professional. We didn't have the term "road rage," and all Americans rallied around the Red, White, and Blue. Look at the Sears employees; they are all clean-cut, wearing ties, and clean language. It was such a wonderful time.
I'm jealous, I wasn't born until '89
I was ten years old in '82. That Christmas I got the Atari 2600 and "Spring Session M" album by Missing Persons. Still remember it like yesterday!
I was nine in 1982. I was the master of Atari 2600 Asteroids!
@@perfectsplit5515 I wore out Centipede and Space Invaders and later Pacman when it came out.
We’re the same age
Thoroughly enjoyed seeing the process of taping the whole closing sequence of the news story including outtakes.
I'd go back in a HEARTBEAT!!!! Love the 70s!!!!
The 70's is so OLD Now it's near half a Century ago LET IT GO 🤦🏽♂️
@@TECHLOVER_91 hillarious. Obviously u weren't a kid then or in the 80s too bad. 70s were about a half century ago but u knew that right u nitwit
@@TECHLOVER_91Almost a century ago? What are they teaching kids in math these days?... 🤦
@@patricks8876 (1970) was 53 years ago that's almost a Century which is 100 years 🤦🏽♂️ The 70's are long gone get over it
@@TECHLOVER_91 Lol I know what 53 years is and I know what a century is. If you think 53 is almost 100 - all I can say is I'm glad you aren't my accountant. I see you now fixed you original post to save a bit of face... 🤣
I was 16 in 1982 and life was so-so. Now 42 years later, as I am watching this with nostalgia, I’m sure it’s not because times were better; but I was young and had my whole life still ahead of me.
I’m with you buddy; I was 18 in 1982. Life is a lot more fun at 18 than 60.
Worked 17 years (1975 to 1992) at Sears, commissioned sales in Home Furnishings. It was a great place to work in those days!
Me too, I worked there in the late 80's. Best job I ever had in my life. The pay wasn't much but my coworkers were the best. We had great times after work.
I worked there 17 years also. 1978 - 1995. Loved working there. Started on the dock unloading trucks, Home Improvements, Lawn & Garden and Hardware before being the Auto Center Manager for the last 9 years. Job was eliminated on May18th 1995 10 days after my 17th anniversary with them. Did get a great exit package.
My mom worked at a Sears but in Peru South America, as a young teen in the 60s, she was not even 16 yet, it was her first job and she often talks about the fun she had working there. She still has a gorgeous porcelain clock with birds on it that her coworkers gave her as a parting gift before she left so she could move to the U.S.
It was the Best of Times!
And it was the worst of times. So what does this mean?
Web were in a huge recession in '82
@@Religious_man He got 60 likes. You got 2. What does that mean?
It either means so many people are stupid or so many are wise. It depends on the subject matter. Therefore, that's not my focus, and you have 0 uploaded videos with only 1 subscriber in your channel and you have been a YouPoop member since 2012 @man52? Why are you such a lowlife?
Yes and the MUSIC was fantastic too! I liked almost every new song that came on the radio.
*_Oh man... what I'd give to go back to 1982 - if only for just a few precious hours... and also to go back to the exact day this video was made! So hard to believe it has been nearly 41 years! What a simpler, more innocent time it was... and we didn't even realize it at the time._*
*In 1982, I was just a 15 year old, innocent (aka: 'virgin' - LOL), naive, pimple-faced high school freshman. At the end of that school year (Summer of 1983), my next (16th) birthday was in late June. What an awesome time of my life (the 1983 summer) it was! I swear... that summer still has yet to be matched (in terms of sheer awesomeness & just overall stress-free joy)!!!* 😁
_I remember getting my first car (a white 1972 2-door 302 V8 Ford Maverick) that summer & buying the latest cassette tape of one of my favorite bands back then (and still are now)... The Police. The album was titled Synchronicity. I must have played that entire album about 100 times during that magical summer. It (the summer of 1983) is (and forever will be) etched in my mind._
_These das, every time I hear 'King of Pain' or 'Wrapped Around Your Finger', etc. from that album, I stop in my tracks... and if at all.possible, I ALWAYS crank up the volume... all while I gradually beckon back to a much more simpler time... in my mind... I slowly re-live that 'magical summer' of 1983! Wow... just wow._
*Anyway... my apologies for rambling on about that. Anyway... thanks so much for sharing this video! It definitely sparked my 'memory cells', that's for sure. BTW, I just subscribed. THANKS AGAIN! 👍🏼*
I graduated high school in 1982 and I recall fondly, being excited about getting the Sears Christmas Catalog and just thumbing through it.
These were wonderful times.
I remember when parking lots were full of square vehicles. Wow.
I was 12. I remember going to Sears and drooling over the consoles like INTELLIVISION. 😊
We have to remember that back in 82, the minimum wage was $3.35 an hour and the prices you see on the items in this video are near todays prices for some things which meant that many things were out of reach for most of us. I thought life was great when we got a black and white TV in 1979! But back then I never considered myself low class since I always managed to find deals at garage sales and thrift stores. It was my grandmother that made my Christmases amazing and I miss her every day and I’m 57 now.
We lost a lot when we lost Sears. If it's leadership had been smarter it could have been Amazon... it actually WAS the Amazon of the mail order world. A century ago you could even get HOUSES from them, nice ones too. I know of a family that ordered a Sears house, their order went out on the morning train and their house, a "Magnolia", the biggest house Sears had, arrived on the evening train THE SAME DAY! And that was in the era of telegraphs and steam trains.
Back in 81, my dad gave me a "Sears Telegames" for Christmas, which was an Atari 2600 rebranded for Sears. This was common, as Sears not only had it's own indigenous products, but sold many others under their "relabeling". This led me to a life long love of videogames and computers. I retired from the Air Force a few years ago, and still to this day have that Atari my father gave me. But now in addition to console game collecting, I now build my own game consoles and rebuild arcade games. It's a hobby I'm glad to have given my children.
When I saw one of the last "big" Sears stores close in Roswell New Mexico, it was a sad day for me. When Sears closed for the last time, America truly lost something. It lost a retail store that has sold everything from kit houses, to go karts, to its own appliances, to just about everything even food!! Now it at least exists a little in my own home, I bring out the 1982 and 1983 Sears Christmas Catalogs for Christmas decoration. And I tell my kids "THIS is what kids in the 20th Century used to dream about the toys they wanted for Christmas."
Regular price for an Atari 800 was $779? Holy smokes! That's like $2500 in today's dollars.
And that was way less than the comparatively gimpy Apple computers of the day.
If only parents invested that $779 in Apple stock in 1982. It’d be worth over 200k in today’s dollars.
Yeah, people forget how insanely expensive the earliest computers and game systems and VCR's were. Because so many companies started competing, the prices dropped to being more affordable 2 or 3 years later.
Yup. Just consider today's smart t.v.s. The pre smart 50' back in 2000+ was $1,500. It was flat but what an upgrade from the big box. Just regular digital, but not smart. Now you see a 55' smart for under $500! Technology advances & price lowers when there's competition.
Yeah that's why we never had one lol .