The best times. We had the coolest cars cheapest they'd ever been. Play Pac-Man for one little quarter. Oh yeah and when is Student wage something like a dollar twenty-five an hour!?!?
Same here, $2 Tuesdays for movies, half price Tuesdays at the Pizzaria, PAC Man, Space Invaders, Defender. Smoking sections in restaurants and movie theatres, reasonably priced concert tickets, so even us could go see bands like the Who, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, AC/DC also Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Billy Idol, U2, Depeche Mode. Reasonable prices for sports venues, so every once in awhile we could go to an NHL, MLB, NFL or NBA games. Those times rocked, but they’re gone and they ain’t coming back
Growing up in the 70s and 80s was such a great time to be alive in America. Thank you for giving me a ride back to a time when America was such a great place. 👍
So, JM, you can then with ease understand why we even more seasoned ones trumpet this same, regarding our upbringings from the Forties and Fifties, no? Even though youthful-still you are not left out as there are PLENTY of samples of it to which to refer, for substantiating the claim. Congratulations! You're 3/4 of the way there already. RR will help with the rest.
Yeah, the world was suddenly turned completely upside down in 1992, & it's never recovered since. :( How many kids now have asked me what it was like growing up in the 70s & 80s because they wish they had, 2? & I feel really sorry 4 them.
I've always said that growing up in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, no matter if you were a kid, teen, or young adult, the times and the nostalgia can't be replaced.
One of the most ridiculous things I saw in the 80s, was people carrying these gargantuan ghetto blasters on their shoulders. I'll bet their shoulders had something to say in return, a few years down the line. As in "ouch"!
You can still buy the huge boom boxes. I have seen one in Costco. It had a cassette player and a radio. I used to have one in the late 80's and it sounded good blaring my New Kids on the Block tapes.
Mall rat here..Paramus Park, The Plaza, Willow Brook, The Orange Plaza, just to name a few. We always headed to Sam Goody’s or Record World first to check out all the latest records and posters. I’m so glad I was a teen in the ‘80’s, great memories!😊
I remember when the plaza was out doors as well, my mom took me to see big bird there once. Also at Christmas time they had the big Santa that was on top of the chimney. I also remember a great restaurant there called Laurie’s. 😊
Yup, spent many Saturdays hangin out at the mall. Never thought, at the time so many stores would be going out of business. Sears, Montgomery Ward and others. Montgomery Ward still maintains an online presence.
Classic!!! I grew up in the 80s. Had the micky mouse phone, then advanced to the see through phone 😂 my mom was ripped because she did the Jane Fonda videos and jazzercise lol. My entire family also had all of the classic color block track suits, along with one piece neon ski suits hahaha. And my moms hair was frizzy, curly and perfectly poofy for the 80s. This may be the most classic era of all time. Totally out of control 😂
You should listen to Wouldn't It Be Good by Nik Kershaw, from 1984. It shows how people look at someone's life and wish it could be theirs, not liking the world they were in. You'll see how nothing really changes, nothing that matters.
I was kid in the 1980s and a teenager in the 1990's. When I was in college in the late 90s to early 2000's some professors still used overhead projectors and some used PowerPoint. Some wanted you to hand in assignments on paper, others wanted them emailed. It is interesting to look back and think about the old and the new existing side by side. Often from one class to the next.
I am a medical secretary and it was interesting to see usage of both the paper charts and computers and printers starting in the 1980s. There is still plenty of paper, but a lot less than there used to be.
I’m a 99 baby and I remember overhead projectors being used in 8th grade. It wasn’t as often by that point but I remember a few teachers using them. It was always the math teachers and the english teachers XD
close to you age, perhaps a couple of years younger, had a stats instructor in college using an overhead projector in 2010 and i think my math/calc teacher was using one too. course i was much older than the other students having done time in the navy. so, i remember them being used in elem school in the 80's to 90's and during middle/hs in the 90's.
4:11 We still used these in high school in the 90s. Once my math teacher turned it on and someone had written "you stink" on the film which was funny because she did. She said "guys, you shouldn't talk about each other that way". They were not talking about other students. LOL
Yes! I loved those watches but wasn't willing to shell out the big bucks to get one. I was in college when they appeared and 50+ dollars was too much then. 😢
I had the one that had different plates where I could put lightening bolts, hearts, or stars in my hair too. Its no wonder how my hair survived between all the crimping, teased bangs, and Aqua-Net hairspray I did use. LOL 🤣
I had seen a crimping iron on Amazon and I was tempted to buy it..... Maybe I will now. I used to crimp my hair in the late 80's every morning before school.
Oh man! Aside from the other track suits there were also the pastel velour ones I would see women in the wealthier community wearing in peach, mint green and pink! These were also worn with incredibly expensive matching track shoes that I'm sure never actually saw a workout! Haha! In my early college years of the 80s students would often bring in little cassette tape recorders to class and have them on to record the lectures!
You were pretty brave to risk getting caught turning on a big ol honking, shining tv in the wee hours, inserting a phone book sized object into a clackity ol vcr under the light of said honking tv, just for a few precious commodities! 😂
I was a 90’s kid and used those old shoulder vhs cameras to make homemade videos with my sisters of our barbies having adventures. My grandma was wealthy so she let us play with it whenever we wanted. She converted the vhs tapes into dvds. Now we have a lot of really funny ‘episodes’ of my barbie stories lol🥰💓
I was more of a kid of the 90s (I was in Kindergarten when the 80s were over), but several of these have spillover to the the early-mid 90s as well, so much was still relatable. I had the overhead projectors in class...my elementary school aged kids today have touchscreen "smart boards" in their classrooms. Times, they've changed!
Ah I was also a teacher in early 90s and used photo copier for everything. We designed our own stylish worksheets. I just made up any old shit on the spot as I was an art teacher. Never planned a thing. Got great result s as followed mood of high school kids at a Bronx like school here in Australia. Now the whole scene is administered and run by morons who can't think outside the marking criteria box. That is why kids lack imagination and creativity as they must meet the marking criteria. How can you get any pudding if you don't tick that box?? Pink Floyd 👌💜🤮
Greetings from coastal Mississippi. Being a teen in the early 80's, I remember all these items. Still have alot of these products. Memories are the minds mirror reflection 🎉
In the late 90s I called one of those psychic hotlines for laughs but I couldn't believe, she told me that I had just broken up with a tall, beautiful, redhead and that was absolutely true. Also that I'm a creative person, I do art for a living. And I hadn't given her any information about myself. I still don't believe in it but that was eerie.
The Snoopy Sno-Cone machine was disappointment in a box! You could never grind that ice down. My mom couldn't, even my father had a tough time of it. Child cruelty right there.
I had the Snoopy sno cone machine but, back in the 70's. I loved Crossroads Mall in OKC. My Aunt Verna would let me go with her to take my Grandma to her drs appointments and we'd go to the thrift stores and go out to the mall. Those were the good old days.
Dad always wore a suit and tie to the office (Something that didn't last much past his mid 40's) Big Wheels Action Figure Playsets i.e.; Ghostbusters Ecto 1 and Thundercats Lair and the figurines Ahh the 80's 🥰
My dad wore a suit or sport coat all the time as well. And he worked some longer hours sometimes, but he _never_ worked as many hours as we get stuck doing these days. What I miss from the 80s was that when you were off the clock, you were off the clock. Nowadays, we work even more hours, and beyond that, you're accessible through a cell phone 24/7 late at night, on the weekends, and even during family funerals (don't ask how I know this...).
I was going to comment on the same thing.The VW logo blows my mind too.There was never any gap between the V and W in my old reality,but now it's always been there.Strange days have found us!
They still use projectors in public schools in 2023. My teachers used projectors till the day I graduated from high school in 2006 then later in college they still used them.
I bought a Mickey Mouse phone for my daughter in the early 80’s. Her room was Disney themed. I had one of those wind suits. I got it in 1992. It was white with green/yellow/dark pink. No idea why I thought this was fashion. I never bought any of the exercise tapes. But I had the leotard with coordinating tights and leg warmers for my aerobic classes. I remember watching the video countdown on Friday nights from 10pm-midnight (cst) on MTV.
I believe those were better times growing up than today. I believe we were so lucky to have experiences that most kids today have never experienced. We also would copy music on cassettes from our stereos. If you had a car that could play cassettes, you were the envy. Walkman's were our way of listening to music on the go.
I don't recall any of that being particularly heaven. It was just *there*. Few people actually liked the era they were living in, until it was 20 or 30 years gone, then the pre senility kicked in, aka nostalgia.
That is what I miss the most. If I can ever afford a house I can start building my cabinets. Game consoles just are not the same. You loose so much. I really miss the 80s. I would mow lawns all weekend just to have a stash of quarters to go to the arcade.
Arcade games: I remember at my local bowling alley whenever a popular game was installed (Nick Danger for example), I would see a line of quarters across the upper face of the game, all queued up for the next person's turn.
I remember my first serious boyfriend and his brother arguing over where we were going to watch the Super Bowl one year. My boyfriend wanted to watch at his house and brother wanted his own house. Why? Because there was going to be a HUGE publishers clearinghouse prize awarded after the game and they were both convinced they were going to win so each wanted to be home. 😂surprise, surprise, neither of them won. Shocking, I know.
The Lollipop Dragon was shown at our school a lot! The record player/TV, with the plastic slide strip that advanced up to the next picture slide during the story! 🤗🥰 Princess and the pea is the story I remember most!
@@Mick_Ts_Chick exactly! Best was teachers that you could ask questions, and they'd forget about class till the bell rang, or getting a substitute that would bring in records to listen to! 🤗 At Halloween she'd play the story that ended with: Husband: "Take that ribbon from your neck!" Wife: "If I do you'll be sorry!" Snip he cut the ribbon, and her head rolled to the floor, as he heard her faint words, "I told you you'd be sorry!" Loved those creepy kids records!!😚 ( "The Velvet Ribbon" ua-cam.com/video/nEN5rHEwids/v-deo.htmlsi=5XUr4DVb9WBmnBuX) And we actually had holidays in school, each one we had cupcakes, cookies, candy, that fit the season. Halloween we dressed up, Christmas we exchanged gifts, you know like people that weren't treated totally like we were in a prison of indoctrination, and don't you dare have fun! (Still kinda felt like prison to me then, but seeing the kinda crap they go through now I thank the Lord for when I was born!!)
The arcade was special. There's a vintage 80s arcade near me that I still go to. I remember the watch, but what I had was a Transformers watch. I still have it somewhere...
Sadly, Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes is still HUGELY popular, mostly among the elderly and lower income of the US. I only recently left the third party call center that took all the customer calls for the sweepstakes and all the "As Seen on TV" products they sell. TBH: One of the WORST jobs I've ever had to deal with.
"The hairstyles were as bold as our ambitions." Well said! Our ambitions were sky high in the 80s. We were unstoppable. How far we have fallen into safety and mediocrity...
I graduated in 1981. I remember overhead projectors through at least the last 8-10 years of school. My mom took us out of the public schools when I started 6th grade. Our public elementary school had an overhead projector in every classroom. But there was also something called an Opaque Projector, but there was only one of those in the entire school. I remember our teacher using it once in a while. It was really cool. She could put an open book on there, and it would be projected up on the screen. My dad had both a VHS camcorder and a Hi-8 camcorder. But he didn't use either one of them very much. Hi-8 tapes are like mini VHS tapes.
I had the Snoopy ice machine i had forgotten about that. Plus I had one of the Casio watches also. Oh Lord don't get me started about the arcade. So many memories from the arcades i miss those days.
I had the Garfield phone, and still have a Garfield alarm clock. Those overhead projectors used a high wattage bulb (750 or so) bulb with a short life ( around 30 hours). The transparent plastic was loaded onto two spools, and advanced/reversed as needed. I had a calculator watch, but seldom used the calculator feature...it also had a car racing game I used a lot. The buttons were tiny and a little difficult to use, so I sharpened a short piece of wooden dowel as a stylus of sorts. I miss the little round stick on lcd clocks. They were inexpensive, and useful.
LEG WARMERS!!! Overhead projectors with the grease markers. Loved them. Darken the room… poof bangs made my flat head (square shape) and high forehead look much better. Miss poof bangs SO MUCH! The Mall! Just being younger and having everything to look forward to.
I actually owned the Garfield phone back in the 80’s. I really miss the days when I would go hang out at the arcade for hours on end. The 80’s were some of the best years of my life, and I wish that the world would be the way it was back then. ❤
I did too it was on my Christmas wish list I was 16 years old! I did get my own line but that’s because there was already a installed line in my bedroom that used to be an office. I miss roller skating on Friday nights too, and the arcades!
Yah I remember all of that. And yes I miss the arcade myself they were fun to go to and play and some of them had little go cart racing and bating cages and miniature golf courses. It was the cool hip place to be in our days. Besides the mall.
Malls were great. I still can't fathom buying clothes on line. I like to be able to see the actual item, feel the material, and try it on for size...You just can't get that same experience on line 😮😮😮
😊I loved our mall, still do! But as a teenager in the 80s I never had that big hair. I had a bob. This was also a fashion. I never wore those tracksuit either. I did have a denim jacket. But wore the yearly pattern designs. Tarten pants in 1986. Paisley pants in 1987. My style was gothic!! Black velvet. Also wore jumpsuits which were big and layered skirts with boots from London Oxford st. Never wore those disgusting fringed boots or denim jackets with metal studs but remember others wearing them with stonewashed jeans. There was a big alternate movement with gothic music like the cure, sisters of mercy, the smiths and style council. The vintage 60s was in as well as houndstooth mens jackets. I also wore black velvet pointy boots, like pinklewickers. Witchypoo 😂😂
Late 80's I was in elementary, then middle school. I remember the skirts that were ruffly fabric but with jeans material on the top. Similarly, I remember the super short jean shorts that had material ruffles. I don't think I wore either of those, but I probably wanted to. We wore skater tshirts and heavy metal tshirts. Didn't find goth until about 11th grade.
@@L.Spencer yes, I remember that style too. In 83 pencil skirts and crop tops were in. Baggy jeans, polo shirts, and cable jumpers. I was in primary school in 80 - 82. I wore peddle pusher shorts, king gee shorts in Australia and desert boots. I remember the wedding of Diana and those Netherlands jumpers came out. 1982 was drop waist 1920s EVERY THING!! KISS, VIDEO KILLED RADIO STAR, AND NUT BUSH! Rock on. And then... Xanadu and village people.. So cool. Went to year 7 in 83 and it was Atari, pack man, fluro socks and choose life shirts (wham), culture club and dexis midnight runners. And then.. 1983 in the middle of our school disco, an Asian kid suddenly started break dancing!! Run DMC loved it!! The 80s were so defined each year. Wouldn't have a clue now, been that way for 20 years 🦘🦘🦘🦘💜👌👌🥰🥰
@@L.Spenceryeah that's it... then in the 90s when I was teaching it was the Marky Marky look with designer boxer shorts or Calvin Klein underwear sticking out of baggy pants tied by a belt at the hips and half way down your arse. I was so afraid they would fall of some of my year 9 students bum as they didn't have much to fill them out at 15. A horror story😮😮😅
The coolest thing you can do with an overhead projector is what they did in the 60s. I believe they took glycerin water and food coloring to create that tie-dyed swirling effect✌
I was born in the late 60s, was a kid in the 70s, a teen in the 80s, and a young adult in the 90s. I am so grateful for these experiences!
Me too, some good times there!
Me too !! I had a ball growing up 70s,80s,90s.
Felt
The best times. We had the coolest cars cheapest they'd ever been. Play Pac-Man for one little quarter. Oh yeah and when is Student wage something like a dollar twenty-five an hour!?!?
Same here, $2 Tuesdays for movies, half price Tuesdays at the Pizzaria, PAC Man, Space Invaders, Defender. Smoking sections in restaurants and movie theatres, reasonably priced concert tickets, so even us could go see bands like the Who, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, AC/DC also Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Billy Idol, U2, Depeche Mode. Reasonable prices for sports venues, so every once in awhile we could go to an NHL, MLB, NFL or NBA games. Those times rocked, but they’re gone and they ain’t coming back
Growing up in the 70s and 80s was such a great time to be alive in America.
Thank you for giving me a ride back to a time when America was such a great place. 👍
So, JM, you can then with ease understand why we even more seasoned ones trumpet this same, regarding our upbringings from the Forties and Fifties, no?
Even though youthful-still you are not left out as there are PLENTY of samples of it to which to refer, for substantiating the claim.
Congratulations! You're 3/4 of the way there already. RR will help with the rest.
I live in the UK and the Christmases in the US in the '80s just seemed like pure magic.
This is very easy to believe. @@Larry
Yeah, the world was suddenly turned completely upside down in 1992, & it's never recovered since. :(
How many kids now have asked me what it was like growing up in the 70s & 80s because they wish they had, 2? & I feel really sorry 4 them.
@@LarryThat was something I always wished I could see... sigh... that must have been wonderful.
I've always said that growing up in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, no matter if you were a kid, teen, or young adult, the times and the nostalgia can't be replaced.
The only thing I looked forward to in the Summer of 1993 was on and on episodes of Beavis and Butthead and Married with Children on MTV and FOX.
@user-wu2xr7kd9d two shows that I absolutely loved as a kid!!!@ i watched those religiously!!!
I had that clear ConairPhone! It lit up when it rang, and all my friends wanted one! But you forgot the giant boom boxes, the bigger the better!
I remember that mine rang quite loud. It was such a cool phone!
I had a clear but gray one, with red in it. It was cool!
One of the most ridiculous things I saw in the 80s, was people carrying these gargantuan ghetto blasters on their shoulders. I'll bet their shoulders had something to say in return, a few years down the line. As in "ouch"!
You can still buy the huge boom boxes. I have seen one in Costco. It had a cassette player and a radio. I used to have one in the late 80's and it sounded good blaring my New Kids on the Block tapes.
@@angelinaduganNyI had a Panasonic boombox with the extra bass system. I loved that thing! Blasting out Prince and Janet Jackson! 😁
I loved Richard Simmons “Sweatin’ to the oldies” with all of his pals. It was so entertaining!
I was going to come on here and say he forgot to add Richard Simmons to the fitness segment lol!
You know he never wore a head band or wrist bands,crazy
He was very entertaining.
I'm in my late 40s. My mom had his LP records
I was 34 in 1980 but fondly remember most of this. The music of the 80's was pretty good too.
Dam your old
I was a kid in the 80s, and this one really took me back. (My sister -- nearly a decade older -- was a teenager and had a Snoopy phone in her room!)
I had a Micky Mouse phone in my room.
My twin daughters, found my 80’s CD collection, they loved ‘em!
Great music never gets old. 😊
An 80’s “CD” collection couldn’t be very big……
@@braddoss4990 This is in the mid-90s, CDs were made then of 80s music.
Mall rat here..Paramus Park, The Plaza, Willow Brook, The Orange Plaza, just to name a few. We always headed to Sam Goody’s or Record World first to check out all the latest records and posters. I’m so glad I was a teen in the ‘80’s, great memories!😊
paramus park had trees inside. I worked at Bambergers Willowbrook Mall 3rd floor in 1980
I wonder why posters aren't popular anymore. Where does one even buy them?
I hit all those same spot. I remember when the Garden State Plaza was an outdoor mall. Great times.
I remember when the plaza was out doors as well, my mom took me to see big bird there once.
Also at Christmas time they had the big Santa that was on top of the chimney. I also remember a great restaurant there called Laurie’s. 😊
Yes, I definitely remember the trees and the big turkey or bird and the fountain. I remember Bambergers, too!😊
Another lovely walk down memory lane! thanks!💖💯🤍👍!
Great times, great memories! How I wish that I could wake up in 1982.
Me too. Was born nearly 20 years too late but the 80s looked like such a fun, happy time.
Gen X Forever 💗♾️
Me too! I graduated from high school and started college in 82. Best time of my life!
Same here-BEST TIME EVER!@@Mick_Ts_Chick
I wish I could go back to ‘82. I’d take State! 🥩
Yup, spent many Saturdays hangin out at the mall. Never thought, at the time so many stores would be going out of business. Sears, Montgomery Ward and others. Montgomery Ward still maintains an online presence.
Thanks amazon
Best decade ever!!! Many great memories. Thank you my friend 😊
I grew up in the '80s. I miss them so much! This video sure brought back a lot of fun memories!
Classic!!! I grew up in the 80s. Had the micky mouse phone, then advanced to the see through phone 😂 my mom was ripped because she did the Jane Fonda videos and jazzercise lol. My entire family also had all of the classic color block track suits, along with one piece neon ski suits hahaha. And my moms hair was frizzy, curly and perfectly poofy for the 80s. This may be the most classic era of all time. Totally out of control 😂
I had one of those clear phones too. So cool!
Like, Totally!!!
You're story has pure 80s written all over it literally.
Ahh the memories of the past 💞, how I long for those days now
Same!
You should listen to Wouldn't It Be Good by Nik Kershaw, from 1984. It shows how people look at someone's life and wish it could be theirs, not liking the world they were in. You'll see how nothing really changes, nothing that matters.
@@keithbrown7685 I will simply enjoy this channel and smile as I remember.
I was kid in the 1980s and a teenager in the 1990's. When I was in college in the late 90s to early 2000's some professors still used overhead projectors and some used PowerPoint. Some wanted you to hand in assignments on paper, others wanted them emailed. It is interesting to look back and think about the old and the new existing side by side. Often from one class to the next.
I am a medical secretary and it was interesting to see usage of both the paper charts and computers and printers starting in the 1980s. There is still plenty of paper, but a lot less than there used to be.
I’m a 99 baby and I remember overhead projectors being used in 8th grade. It wasn’t as often by that point but I remember a few teachers using them. It was always the math teachers and the english teachers XD
HS from 98-02, but in a rural school. We definitely only used overhead projectors, tube TVs, & VCRs.
close to you age, perhaps a couple of years younger, had a stats instructor in college using an overhead projector in 2010 and i think my math/calc teacher was using one too. course i was much older than the other students having done time in the navy. so, i remember them being used in elem school in the 80's to 90's and during middle/hs in the 90's.
4:11 We still used these in high school in the 90s. Once my math teacher turned it on and someone had written "you stink" on the film which was funny because she did. She said "guys, you shouldn't talk about each other that way". They were not talking about other students. LOL
Anybody remember Swatch watches and then Swatch phones? My first ever phone was a pink and green Swatch phone. It was awesome.
Yes! I loved those watches but wasn't willing to shell out the big bucks to get one. I was in college when they appeared and 50+ dollars was too much then. 😢
I didn’t have a real Swatch, but I had a couple knock-offs. One of the off-brands made ring watches; I had a few of those too.
I had that exact crimping iron. I can still smell it.
😂😂😂
I had the one that had different plates where I could put lightening bolts, hearts, or stars in my hair too. Its no wonder how my hair survived between all the crimping, teased bangs, and Aqua-Net hairspray I did use. LOL 🤣
I had seen a crimping iron on Amazon and I was tempted to buy it..... Maybe I will now. I used to crimp my hair in the late 80's every morning before school.
Oh man! Aside from the other track suits there were also the pastel velour ones I would see women in the wealthier community wearing in peach, mint green and pink! These were also worn with incredibly expensive matching track shoes that I'm sure never actually saw a workout! Haha! In my early college years of the 80s students would often bring in little cassette tape recorders to class and have them on to record the lectures!
Yeah, I never saw anyone wearing track suits except yuppie women and occasionally their husbands.
Plus sequin and rinestone baseball caps.
Workout videos were also a great comoddity for teenage males late at night when everyone else had gone to bed :P
You were pretty brave to risk getting caught turning on a big ol honking, shining tv in the wee hours, inserting a phone book sized object into a clackity ol vcr under the light of said honking tv, just for a few precious commodities! 😂
I was a 90’s kid and used those old shoulder vhs cameras to make homemade videos with my sisters of our barbies having adventures. My grandma was wealthy so she let us play with it whenever we wanted. She converted the vhs tapes into dvds. Now we have a lot of really funny ‘episodes’ of my barbie stories lol🥰💓
I was more of a kid of the 90s (I was in Kindergarten when the 80s were over), but several of these have spillover to the the early-mid 90s as well, so much was still relatable.
I had the overhead projectors in class...my elementary school aged kids today have touchscreen "smart boards" in their classrooms. Times, they've changed!
Loved growing up during that time, 80s were the best decade ever.
As a brand new teacher in the early 90’s I was so jazzed to get a transparency roll for my overhead. Pretty cool😊
Do you miss the days when kids just passed notes
instead of looking a phones?
@@invisigoth777 Teachers would intercept the note and you prayed they didn't read it in front of the class 🤣
Ah I was also a teacher in early 90s and used photo copier for everything. We designed our own stylish worksheets. I just made up any old shit on the spot as I was an art teacher. Never planned a thing. Got great result s as followed mood of high school kids at a Bronx like school here in Australia. Now the whole scene is administered and run by morons who can't think outside the marking criteria box. That is why kids lack imagination and creativity as they must meet the marking criteria. How can you get any pudding if you don't tick that box?? Pink Floyd 👌💜🤮
I hoped the teacher would read it aloud! It was a great way to disrupt class! I was a weird kid...@@Soldierboy39
I graduated in 1981. Womens hair and clothing styles in the 1980's were AWESOME!
The Snoopy ice cone machine came out in the 70's. We got ours for Christmas in '74.
I went to school until 1971 and the overhead projector was used from when I started until I graduated.
Greetings from coastal Mississippi. Being a teen in the early 80's, I remember all these items. Still have alot of these products. Memories are the minds mirror reflection 🎉
1:37 The 'Golden Girls' entire wardrobe were 'Shell Suits' for the run of the show. Or, Kaftans for Bea Authur, but I think that was 'Maude'!
Not only were shopping malls big in the 80s, I remember ours going smoke-free in 1986.
In the late 90s I called one of those psychic hotlines for laughs but I couldn't believe, she told me that I had just broken up with a tall, beautiful, redhead and that was absolutely true. Also that I'm a creative person, I do art for a living. And I hadn't given her any information about myself. I still don't believe in it but that was eerie.
The Snoopy Sno-Cone machine was disappointment in a box! You could never grind that ice down. My mom couldn't, even my father had a tough time of it. Child cruelty right there.
We had the snowman yrs ago in the 70s and, it did work and, I did have a Snoopy one later in the 80s it worked but, the ice was much more chunkier!
My cousin had one. You have to use a hammer to crush the ice wrapped in a dish towel, first.
That thing sucked, you just got ice chunks slightly smaller than ice cubes.
1980s Nostalgia is the GOAT
Truly
I had the Snoopy sno cone machine but, back in the 70's. I loved Crossroads Mall in OKC. My Aunt Verna would let me go with her to take my Grandma to her drs appointments and we'd go to the thrift stores and go out to the mall. Those were the good old days.
THERE ya go Carla!
Such precious sweet memories we do have.
Dad always wore a suit and tie to the office (Something that didn't last much past his mid 40's)
Big Wheels
Action Figure Playsets i.e.; Ghostbusters Ecto 1 and Thundercats Lair and the figurines
Ahh the 80's 🥰
My dad wore a suit or sport coat all the time as well. And he worked some longer hours sometimes, but he _never_ worked as many hours as we get stuck doing these days. What I miss from the 80s was that when you were off the clock, you were off the clock. Nowadays, we work even more hours, and beyond that, you're accessible through a cell phone 24/7 late at night, on the weekends, and even during family funerals (don't ask how I know this...).
My wife still has the Garfield Phone shown in your thumbnail & your 1st showing!
I have Goofy
She must really hate mondays
Mandela effect, in the 80s I grew up in Ed McMahon delivered publishers clearing house checks. That dimension was so much better, FACTS
I was going to comment on the same thing.The VW logo blows my mind too.There was never any gap between the V and W in my old reality,but now it's always been there.Strange days have found us!
I was in that dimension too
I know how you feel, But he worked for American Family Publishers.
@@onechillhill5718 no, he didn;t, not in my dimension.....sinbad also made a genie movie called shazaam, and every 80s kid knows it...cheers
Loved the parachute pants had a few pairs 😂
They still use projectors in public schools in 2023. My teachers used projectors till the day I graduated from high school in 2006 then later in college they still used them.
Thanks for sharing another fantastic video. God bless 🙏
I bought a Mickey Mouse phone for my daughter in the early 80’s. Her room was Disney themed. I had one of those wind suits. I got it in 1992. It was white with green/yellow/dark pink. No idea why I thought this was fashion. I never bought any of the exercise tapes. But I had the leotard with coordinating tights and leg warmers for my aerobic classes. I remember watching the video countdown on Friday nights from 10pm-midnight (cst) on MTV.
That's when MTV was an actual music video channel!
I believe those were better times growing up than today. I believe we were so lucky to have experiences that most kids today have never experienced. We also would copy music on cassettes from our stereos. If you had a car that could play cassettes, you were the envy. Walkman's were our way of listening to music on the go.
Every generation thinks that.
Lol, I don't think kids today missed out on copying music into cassettes from stereos
It's because you were a kid lol
I don't recall any of that being particularly heaven. It was just *there*. Few people actually liked the era they were living in, until it was 20 or 30 years gone, then the pre senility kicked in, aka nostalgia.
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 no, but we would go outside, build treehouses, fly kites rather than spending all day on iPhones.
I remember going to church and seeing the words to the worship songs that were on overhead projectors.
The Snoopy Snow cone machine (at 3:30 )was something that we had in the early 1970's, as well.
I was late 70s, man I miss the 80s,and90s😢
Love your videos! Thank you! ❤
That Snoopy snowcone machine was from the 70s. I had one.
Of the things from the 80s the one I miss the most is the Arcade halls. A lot of people now have retro full arcades at their homes.
That is what I miss the most. If I can ever afford a house I can start building my cabinets. Game consoles just are not the same. You loose so much. I really miss the 80s. I would mow lawns all weekend just to have a stash of quarters to go to the arcade.
I'm 60 and I still use my hair crimper LOL Love it!
I still have mine too..i may have to plug it in to see if it still works.
Arcade games: I remember at my local bowling alley whenever a popular game was installed (Nick Danger for example), I would see a line of quarters across the upper face of the game, all queued up for the next person's turn.
When life was fun people were happy the good old times.
Nobody is happy today???? You have obviously never watched someone dancing on a tiktok video
Nonsense. You should know better.
I remember my first serious boyfriend and his brother arguing over where we were going to watch the Super Bowl one year. My boyfriend wanted to watch at his house and brother wanted his own house. Why? Because there was going to be a HUGE publishers clearinghouse prize awarded after the game and they were both convinced they were going to win so each wanted to be home. 😂surprise, surprise, neither of them won. Shocking, I know.
Yep, I never heard from PCH either. Still working, lol. Now it's the powerball or megamillions we wait for.
Did people actually win that?
@@22ergie I assume so. The Feds would have been all over them if something that publicized wasn't legit. Major fraud if it was bogus.
"Serious" boyfriends are the BEST kinds of us! 😋
I doubt anyone won. I remember my dad sending in his entry ever year, haha.
That was fun!❤❤❤
Back in the 80's I remember my mom Sweatin' to the Oldies with Richard Simmons!
Either way I have that exact Black Casio watch. That watch help me pass hard math classes😂
Shoulder pads that made even the slenderest woman look like a middle linebacker.
I went to the arcade so often, i once considered them a home away from home.
How i miss them. 🕹️
Ah, yes, overhead projectors and reel-to-reel films at school.
The Lollipop Dragon was shown at our school a lot!
The record player/TV, with the plastic slide strip that advanced up to the next picture slide during the story! 🤗🥰
Princess and the pea is the story I remember most!
@@ct3po776 we would get educational films on reel to reel. Mostly history or social studies, I think.
Yep we used to love seeing a filmstrip in class. Got a break from the teacher talking. 😂
@@Mick_Ts_Chick exactly!
Best was teachers that you could ask questions, and they'd forget about class till the bell rang, or getting a substitute that would bring in records to listen to! 🤗
At Halloween she'd play the story that ended with:
Husband:
"Take that ribbon from your neck!"
Wife:
"If I do you'll be sorry!"
Snip he cut the ribbon, and her head rolled to the floor, as he heard her faint words, "I told you you'd be sorry!"
Loved those creepy kids records!!😚 ( "The Velvet Ribbon" ua-cam.com/video/nEN5rHEwids/v-deo.htmlsi=5XUr4DVb9WBmnBuX)
And we actually had holidays in school, each one we had cupcakes, cookies, candy, that fit the season.
Halloween we dressed up, Christmas we exchanged gifts, you know like people that weren't treated totally like we were in a prison of indoctrination, and don't you dare have fun! (Still kinda felt like prison to me then, but seeing the kinda crap they go through now I thank the Lord for when I was born!!)
Yes and the film broke every five minutes.
Graduated high school in 80. Wonderful time to be a young person entering adulthood... A simpler Wonderful time
The arcade was special. There's a vintage 80s arcade near me that I still go to. I remember the watch, but what I had was a Transformers watch. I still have it somewhere...
We dropped those quarters in like they were pennies. We didn’t realize how much that quarter was worth in those days.
Thank you for another trip back in time:) Now when I hear PCH all I can think of is scammers:(
Nothing like Miami Vice fashion....also popular were tight rolled jeans, LA Gear, and massive bows and wired ruffles on formal gowns. And Boom Boxes!
How about big hair, and shoulder pads sharp enough to put someone's eye out? : )
I'm sad that we didn't have a video camera. I would love to have old home movies to watch.
Sadly, Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes is still HUGELY popular, mostly among the elderly and lower income of the US.
I only recently left the third party call center that took all the customer calls for the sweepstakes and all the "As Seen on TV" products they sell.
TBH: One of the WORST jobs I've ever had to deal with.
"The hairstyles were as bold as our ambitions."
Well said! Our ambitions were sky high in the 80s. We were unstoppable. How far we have fallen into safety and mediocrity...
I graduated in 1981. I remember overhead projectors through at least the last 8-10 years of school. My mom took us out of the public schools when I started 6th grade. Our public elementary school had an overhead projector in every classroom. But there was also something called an Opaque Projector, but there was only one of those in the entire school. I remember our teacher using it once in a while. It was really cool. She could put an open book on there, and it would be projected up on the screen.
My dad had both a VHS camcorder and a Hi-8 camcorder. But he didn't use either one of them very much. Hi-8 tapes are like mini VHS tapes.
At 6:18, that shopping mall looks so much like the mall that was used as the set for the futuristic city in the movie Logans Run from the 1970s.
I had the Snoopy ice machine i had forgotten about that. Plus I had one of the Casio watches also. Oh Lord don't get me started about the arcade. So many memories from the arcades i miss those days.
Rest in peace to Susanne Sommers
I had the Garfield phone, and still have a Garfield alarm clock. Those overhead projectors used a high wattage bulb (750 or so) bulb with a short life ( around 30 hours). The transparent plastic was loaded onto two spools, and advanced/reversed as needed.
I had a calculator watch, but seldom used the calculator feature...it also had a car racing game I used a lot. The buttons were tiny and a little difficult to use, so I sharpened a short piece of wooden dowel as a stylus of sorts.
I miss the little round stick on lcd clocks. They were inexpensive, and useful.
Thanks for the memories :)
Miss Cleo is still taking calls.
Hahahahaha 😂👏🏻
Boy these bring back great memories thank you 🙏
RIP Susanne Sommers.
R.I.P Sozane Summers
In Germany we still use Overhead projectors at many schools 😅
RIP Suzanne Somers ❤
LEG WARMERS!!! Overhead projectors with the grease markers. Loved them. Darken the room… poof bangs made my flat head (square shape) and high forehead look much better. Miss poof bangs SO MUCH! The Mall! Just being younger and having everything to look forward to.
I actually owned the Garfield phone back in the 80’s. I really miss the days when I would go hang out at the arcade for hours on end. The 80’s were some of the best years of my life, and I wish that the world would be the way it was back then. ❤
I did too it was on my Christmas wish list I was 16 years old! I did get my own line but that’s because there was already a installed line in my bedroom that used to be an office. I miss roller skating on Friday nights too, and the arcades!
Oh the memories. As a guy from back then I have no.idea how you girls spent so much time on your hair
I use to love going to the mall and just people watch.
And 'cruising' for some. 🥴
The 80s were a lull time in my life. No kids at home and no grandchildren yet. I missed out on all of this.
Yah I remember all of that. And yes I miss the arcade myself they were fun to go to and play and some of them had little go cart racing and bating cages and miniature golf courses. It was the cool hip place to be in our days. Besides the mall.
Malls were great. I still can't fathom buying clothes on line. I like to be able to see the actual item, feel the material, and try it on for size...You just can't get that same experience on line 😮😮😮
I graduated high school in 1981. I remember all these things.
😊I loved our mall, still do! But as a teenager in the 80s I never had that big hair. I had a bob. This was also a fashion. I never wore those tracksuit either. I did have a denim jacket. But wore the yearly pattern designs. Tarten pants in 1986. Paisley pants in 1987. My style was gothic!! Black velvet. Also wore jumpsuits which were big and layered skirts with boots from London Oxford st. Never wore those disgusting fringed boots or denim jackets with metal studs but remember others wearing them with stonewashed jeans. There was a big alternate movement with gothic music like the cure, sisters of mercy, the smiths and style council. The vintage 60s was in as well as houndstooth mens jackets. I also wore black velvet pointy boots, like pinklewickers. Witchypoo 😂😂
Late 80's I was in elementary, then middle school. I remember the skirts that were ruffly fabric but with jeans material on the top. Similarly, I remember the super short jean shorts that had material ruffles. I don't think I wore either of those, but I probably wanted to. We wore skater tshirts and heavy metal tshirts. Didn't find goth until about 11th grade.
@@L.Spencer yes, I remember that style too. In 83 pencil skirts and crop tops were in. Baggy jeans, polo shirts, and cable jumpers. I was in primary school in 80 - 82. I wore peddle pusher shorts, king gee shorts in Australia and desert boots. I remember the wedding of Diana and those Netherlands jumpers came out. 1982 was drop waist 1920s EVERY THING!! KISS, VIDEO KILLED RADIO STAR, AND NUT BUSH! Rock on. And then... Xanadu and village people.. So cool. Went to year 7 in 83 and it was Atari, pack man, fluro socks and choose life shirts (wham), culture club and dexis midnight runners. And then.. 1983 in the middle of our school disco, an Asian kid suddenly started break dancing!! Run DMC loved it!! The 80s were so defined each year. Wouldn't have a clue now, been that way for 20 years 🦘🦘🦘🦘💜👌👌🥰🥰
And don't forget poo catcher pants and bubble skirts late 87..And the FERGI BOW in 86 for Sarah and Andrew wedding!! So defined.
@@bluefoxblitz8416 We called those MC Hammer pants, but I don't remember people actually wearing them.
@@L.Spenceryeah that's it... then in the 90s when I was teaching it was the Marky Marky look with designer boxer shorts or Calvin Klein underwear sticking out of baggy pants tied by a belt at the hips and half way down your arse. I was so afraid they would fall of some of my year 9 students bum as they didn't have much to fill them out at 15. A horror story😮😮😅
Great times back then, thanks for the video.
Classic 80's Vibes
The arcade was a right of passage in our town growing up.
I miss all of it !😢
For me who grew up in the Edmonton area, I can say West Edmonton Mall is as busy as it ever was. Still arcades around too.
Fellow Edmontonian here. Can confirm
Because there nothing do in Edmonton.
I had an adidas track suit when I was in High School. Someone stole the the jacket at school and I was devastated 😖
Oh wow that sucks. I had my TI-55 II calculator stolen in high school. My parents were NOT happy!
The coolest thing you can do with an overhead projector is what they did in the 60s. I believe they took glycerin water and food coloring to create that tie-dyed swirling effect✌
Rest in peace, Suzanne Somers.
I wasn't born 'till 92 but I get nostalgic for the 80's. I grew up on 80's films & Music.
I remember ed mcmahon working with publishers clearing house but now ot seems its a mandella effect.
Love these videos
Members Only jackets were big in the early 80s. Also acid washed jeans also came out in mid 80s.
Yes, and Izod shirts