10 Popular Things From The '80s… That We've Abandoned
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My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel is from the 70s, not the 80s.
Wilson's leathers and Jekyll and Hyde Incorporated
Other ‘80s things now gone: huge brick & mortar toy stores, Saturday morning cartoons, and video games not just in arcades and malls, but in every pizza place, convenience store, laundromat, and pretty much anywhere else people were likely to be 🙂
My favorite was Children's Palace at Eastgate Mall in Indianapolis. The toy store looked like the Disney World Castle from the outside!
@@frankb821 I remember that store too, in Columbus, OH. I think it eventually got bought out by Toys R Us.
Pac-Man at the Pizza Hut, the sit down style, that's the 80's right there (with Bon Jovi blasting on the jukebox).
I saw the Toys R' Us where I lived go out of business, become derelict, and finally get torn down sometime in the last 10-15 years.
Saturday morning cartoons spilled over into the '90s. My generation, Gen Y a.k.a. Millennials, was the last generation to grow up with them.
The only places I see arcade games now are in bars/restaurants (think Dave & Buster's or something similar). Pure arcades (Read: Not attached to a larger establishment such as a bowling alley or bar) are dead now. Why pay upwards of a dollar a throw when you can buy the game for a console or PC and be done with it?
as an adult who grew up in the 80s, I can say I didn't know how lucky I was. I would NEVER want to be a teenager now. we had FUN, we went out, socialized and did not come home until the street lights came on :)
But when we got older, we didn’t come home til the street lights were about to go off 🥳
Best of times
Life for teens on 2023: Sitting in their room on Tik Tok and taking anti-depressants.
We grew up in the best time in the history of the planet.
My kids always want to know about the 80s. The really think the mall was amazing. They are right! We still have a few malls but now they are overpriced restaurants and specialty stores. There’s nothing fun. I remember my best friend’s older sister who could drive would drop us off at the mall. We’d have $10 in our pockets and for that we could have hours of fun and a snack.
I WOULD GO BACK IN A HEARTBEAT!!! The 80's were far and away BETTER than today in every way.
Couldn't agree with you more!!
A lot of it is Nostalgia and a desire to go back to our youth there were problems in the '80s
Drugs, violent crime and illegal immigration were far more of a problem than they are today.
Every decade has its problems
@@jamesricker3997are you kidding? The things you just said are way worse now!
Especially the music. And the dance clubs!
@@jamesricker3997 Absolutely WRONG. The deaths due to illicit drugs are the WORST IN US HISTORY in 2022. Drug use is the WORST it's ever been in US history. Overdoses are a RECORD HIGH.
One thing I remember from the 80's was on Friday nights we would take the kids and all go to the video store to get movies. It was something we looked forward to every weekend. We would get a couple of movies for the kids and a couple for us to watch later, and make popcorn and make a really nice family night for all of us.
I miss that!
@@angelavenable7308 So do I
I was an adult in the 80's too and Friday night was always spent the same way, in a video store looking for movies for the weekend. It could be annoying because the latest releases were often gone but it was still a lot of fun and meant the weekend had arrived! You would also find off beat movies that you otherwise would probably have never heard of.
@@Gamble661 Yeah, we found a lot of surprising good movies that way. Hidden gems. I was in my early 20's then, 2 kids.
I can still smell Blockbuster.
What I miss is my family who were all alive and together then 😥 I wish I could go back and have one more day. My grandma was my best friend and she's been gone 12 years.
😭
Damn that was a hammer blow. I miss how close most of my family was then. All my bothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles etc.. now we go years without ever talking much less see one another.
I'm sorry for the pain you still feel.
Holidays are the hardest
Awww...me too! Families were a cohesive part of our lives, it's so different today! I miss that time in my life for sure!
From the mid 70s to early 00s was the apex of media, music, and entertainment. The sad part is, no matter how hard they try it will NEVER be replicated.
The best part of the 80s was the music.40 years later, it is what I still listen to.
ya 'everybody run the homecoming queen has a gun' is classic. lol JK i loved the 80s despite songs like that.
The 80s gave us the music CD, and the music video and music sales went through the roof.
Greatest decade to be a teenager. Style, music and pop culture were on point. The parents were divorcing each other leading into the dark times in the Nineties but giving us high schoolers some truly awesome party opportunities every weekend! The 2000s until now are completely different. We lived through last of the best times. Cheers middle-aged people!
I agree. Some times it just hits your soul hard how good the 80s were and how different things are now. Every single one of my teenage years was in the 80s. Thank you mom and dad! 😂
The 80s were a terrible time in America. Inflation was twice what it is in 2023, the homicide rate in the early 80s was twice what it is now, and the homeless rate was dead level with what it is now, about 1.6%. So yeah, we haven't seen the last of the best times. We just realize now that the best times weren't all that good.
@@ko7577 how old were you then? Homeless, murder rate, blah blah blah...Those issues didn't effect the vast majority of high schoolers and teenagers are oblivious to realities like that unless effected by them directly.
It was a great time to be a TEENAGER not a middle-aged party pooper.
@@ko7577 You're an idiot LOL
@@ko7577 But nowadays all the bad things are forgot
I grew up in Columbus Indiana, cruising up and down the strip, listening to rock music and stopping to talk with friends was big in the mid 80’s. I’d love to go back to that simple time.
JT… you’re not far from me. My 80’s were spent in Greensburg Indiana.
Here from Louisville, TOTALLY understand! THANKS!
Grew up in New Albany, Indiana... 53 now... teen of the 1980's... I agree with you 100%!
Columbus, IN is still a rad town, a kind of time capsule that is closer to that which we all miss in many ways.
I lived in Paoli throughout the 80s, but spent a lot of time in Bloomington and Clarksville. Ah, the Greentree Strip!
I really miss the 80’s, and how much easier life was back then. What I miss the most is my loved ones who are no longer here with me.
When I left college in the mid 90d I got a job as a department supervisor at Sears in their shoe department. People loved one on one service where the sales person happily gave them what they wanted and made the customer feel valued. When Sears got rid of their sales people and relied on bins for customers to pick through the merchandise their sales plummeted. Customers left Sears almost immediately.
I remember shopping for my appliances at Sears and having a sales man tell me everything about ea. item....now u on ur own....
I use to work for Sears replenishment (stock) department. I was an In Stock Specialist for Lingerie and Hosery. I also also stocked the purses/wallets and nightwear sometimes.
If I've ever done anything wrong in my life - I used to work in the Sears stock room, and periodically I would swap out brand new shoes for the ones I was wearing. At work, did you ever open a shoe box and discover an old pair of size 10 Nike's wrapped in tissue paper? LOL
I remember always being told customer service would never leave the U.S. because we didn’t want to deal with foreign accents… WELL GUESS WHAT HAPPENED.
Shoe know it
It's amazing how many things have changed and become obsolete since the 80's. It was all so long ago, but at the same time it just seems like yesterday.
Valid observation
The 80s really aren't terribly far back. 30+ years isn't the same as say, 50 years or longer.
@@christiangonzales7429 Try 72.
Things from the 80s we've abandoned? Good taste in music and any semblance of rational behavior.
How many of the 1980’s bands and songs are still played today ?
Unlike the 1960’s and early ‘70’s, from which the iconic bands and music are played on multiple FM stations today.
@@sactopyrshep You're making my point...
@@sactopyrshep 70s still popular
@@sactopyrshep I don’t know what frequencies you’re listening to, but where I live there are a ton of stations playing 80s music. In fact, the Top 40 and other so called “new” music formats seem to still play that one Kate Bush song from 1986, or sample other 80s songs. What’s messed up is this one oldies station my parents used to listen to when I was a kid. They used to play 50s, 60s, and 70s, and people would say “I KLUV my oldies.” But supposedly the format changed, and they now play 70s, 80s, and 90s. When callers say “I KLUV my oldies,” the DJ would correct the caller, claiming they don’t play oldies. If they were oldies playing 30yo songs then, then they are oldies playing 30yo songs now.
We’re among the last generation to actually play outside
I am genuinely so very blessed and thankful to have grown up in the 80's!!!
Never before nor after was there a better decade to be a kid than then in my humble opinion. 😁😎🤜🤛
Without a doubt, the last great decade to be a kid. I was 12 in 82.
wholeheartedly agree! so blessed and didn't know it
Giuseppe, there's literally not much of a different from being a kid in the 90s and early 00s lol.
@@tias.6675 Is this when you were a child/grew up, the 90s through early 00s? I was in my 20s during this time and while I don't know what the child experience was like, I know that during this time, things looked, seemed, and still felt "normal" to me. I don't remember hearing anything crazy about what was happening in the schools or other weird & unpleasant stuff. It's good to know kids were still OK then.
@@69ChevyGarage Same here, Giuseppe, I turned 12 in September of '82 and it's hard not to agree with you now that we can look back. I just always remember having a sense of well-being and thinking "this place is alright", if that makes sense.
Oh wow…I was one of the 80s girls with the big hair 😅 we had a mom and pop video store that usually had new releases when Blockbuster didn’t…I loved going there, the owner had some really great recommendations for us to try. Oh how I miss the world of the 80s… thank you for the memories
My hair looked just like those girls, too. It was amazing.
My kids think I'm crazy, but I miss the big hair you girls wore. I watched my girlfriend do her hair one time. Wow the trouble you went through for that look lol.
@@DJ7mph How many of you guys really appreciated all that trouble? I was in my 30s during the 80s, and I stuck with my 60s look of long straight hair with bangs. I was married at the time, and that's what hubby loved. It was a simpler look, and easier to take care of. I promised him I would keep my hair long and straight providing I could always easily comb out the tangles after washing it. The day I had to spend an hour trying to comb out the tangles would be the day I would have it cut short.
@@DJ7mph I loved the big hair on the girls, but I abhorred the shoulder pads.
The eighties was the last decade with lots of truly excellent pop music. Not saying there was no good pop in the 90s, but it was hard to find.
I'd agree. From my only ever music crush, Linda Ronstadt, to, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and Judy Collins, there was a lot of great folk rock. Of course, there was also Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Journey, Starship. There were also still record stores. My favorite was also a "head shop" for those who liked to "enhance" their listening pleasure - or so I'm told. 😉
I don't miss the 'Late Fees' but the one thing I miss the most is, that there were way more smaller, little known movies/unknown to choose from at the Video store than today on Netflix, etc. I can't tell you how many times I've walked down the aisle(s) for the 'older movies' at the video store and found something that I have never heard of before and took a chance on, sure some/a lot sucked but some were real good/great aka 'hidden gem' . It makes me sad that 1,000s of movies will disappear forever someday, never to be seen or heard from again.
Try subscribing to "The Criterion Channel" and you will be very pleasantly surprised. Lots of classics there ... Kanapy is good as well.
@@Zenocrat That's cool but I wasn't talking about "classics" because so called classics are easy to find, I was talking more about the "100s" of lesser known smaller movies that use to come out/be made every year.
I can relate (even though I'm not from the U.S) there's something "nostalgic" about going to a video rental store (or a store selling DVDs) and having the "old" movies (esp. from the 90's). Having a physical copy of your favorite movie is awesome.
What I regretted was not buying some of the titles that I liked. In my country, the last chain of video stores selling DVDs closed in 2018.
Ah yes, forbidden fruit like "9 1/2 Weeks" or "Two Moon Junction." 😉. As a young teen we found those ssssooooooo sexy. A couple years ago I tried to watch TMJ again and could not even finish it due to the horrible script/dialogue/acting.
@@Zenocrat I discovered "L'eclisse" about 20 years ago. Today it is my favorite DVD from Criterion. Another hidden gem is "My Dinner With André." 🎟🎬
I can never get enough of these videos, it's so great to see so many things of my youth. How life has changed since the 80's.
I was one of those who rushed home to watch the latest Afterschool Special, I loved those SO much!
As a kid I also had a friend who had a water bed! I hated those shoulder pads, ugh! I remember that shoe store too & I hated being measured. Blockbuster was my favorite place & I miss those days actually.
That was done so the people working there could fart and you wouldn't notice.
I'm so old I remember when shoe stores had an X-ray machine for your feet. They were setting out with no protection and kids loved to put their feet in to see their bones. Yikes!
@@beverlyjohnson3025 😮 Around what years was this? I’ve never heard of X-ray machines being in shoe stores.
@@Nan-59I think it was in the early 70’s. I remember seeing it, but my mom didn’t want us to have it done. She was a Registered Nurse and knew better.
I never,ever watched the afterschool specials....I'd get home,,tell my mom I was home,go to the fridge, get some koolaid, go get on my bike and was GONE!!! ......
Another thing we've pretty much abandoned - full service gas stations. I remember rolling into the gas station in our small town when I was a kid. The guy would pump the gas, wash the windows, check the oil/tire pressure, and except payment. You didn't even leave your car.
He also had that changer attached to his belt.
Yep! My father owned a Mobil in Portland, OR in the mid 70s and had my older brothers pump gas and clean the windows at the full service. I believe it died out in the early 80s. Memories!
they still do that in some countries
I miss cruising. In my home town so many people would cruise that it would take 2 hours to get from one end to the other. It was great. Lots of friends , music blasting.
In Milwaukee, it was Highway 100. EVERYBODY was there on the weekend. It was finally banned. I can imagine all the boost the business received from it went down after that.
Cruising was the best. Now it's a big crime to leave the house.
Meeting up at the park and just hanging out for hours. Every mistake a kid made didn’t end them up arrested.
Whenever time travel becomes available I am definitely going to the 80s, it was truly the last good decade we ever had
both the 70s and the 90s are runner ups, though.
70s and 80s all the way! I’ve been looking for someone with one! I think these guys with these channels are onto something!😂
and the 85 Bears were good 2
Amen.
I would go to the year one
The 80s were better than today in almost every way
Exactly!
The best decade God ever created. I fully expect God will have the '80's enshrined in a kind of heavenly shadow box, the way we might display a little league trophy.
Drugs costed more & you made less $$
The 80s and the 90s both rocked! When the new millennium hit, everything went into a tailspin!
@@christiangonzales7429 bingo
I recall the Members Only jackets that were popular for awhile. I had a Burgundy one. Also, the pullover "surfer" ponchos girls and guys wore.
Ah, the 80s. My High School and College years. Looking back, I loved that decade.
Mine, too. Not sure if it was the best decade, but it holds the best memories for me.
Late 80's to early 90's were the the best times as far as I'm concerned. I'm not in my 40's yet but I still blame the rise of social media for the fall of social behavior.
I agree, though I think that talk radio may have started the process back in the 80s. Social media gave everyone their own broadcasting station in a way - ushering in the era where anyone can become "famous," too often by being outrageous.
I liked the way the independently owned video store near my home smelled. They had plug-in air fresheners and it always smelled good and clean in there. I liked the movie posters, the candy, popcorn and soda one could purchase at Blockbuster.
Yep...Clean in the front, dirty in the back. There was absolutely no talking while selecting. Pick yours, and leave. No judging.
Until 2 employees on Friday nights & it became Lackluster Video...thanks corporate...you did it again.
I hated Blockbuster with a pssion. So glad they went BK.😡😡😡
@@Riverrockphotos that's a lot of anger from so long ago! Did some manager charge you a lot of money for forgetting to "be kind and rewind?" 😉 Please; we need the story.
LOL. The world behind the curtain. "Oh, hey, Bob. I thought this was where they kept the vintage Disney animation."
The 80's was so much fun. I remember watching Miami Vice on TV with their cool bright color clothing and wearing leather shoe without socks. The 80's song are one of the best from soft rock to rock and roll. I remember the war between VHS and Beta video players. Radio Shack where you can find anything in electronics. Damn that is 40 years ago!
Ah, yes, the Shack. I built speakers using parts and an instruction book from there for my poor man's bachelor pad in the 80s. I think they still have a couple of physical stores somewhere, but they're online. I got an antenna from them a while back. It's not as much fun as it was browsing the aisles and occasionally getting a free battery though.
Still have my VCR and it works like a charm drag the old ones out ever once in a while and go over my recollection road
I had the Clapper, belonged to Columbia House, and used Aqua Net, and loved the Afterschool Specials! I miss the 80's, my favorite decade.
I'll take those days over these anyday. Im just happy I got to experience the 80s and 90s.
"Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"
Where's the beef?
The 80s was the best decade IMO💖 I just loved watching the after school specials, the punk era, and the awesome movies that came out. VHS tapes was everything as well as going to our local video store every week. Shoulder pads are making a come back, I still have a red blazer in my closet with shoulder pads and it gets lots of complements.💖💖Great video TFS. Happy New Year!!
Women’s hair in the 80’s was really something!
Back then Aqua Net hairspray was what kept things "nice and stiff". Today that is done by Viagra.
Was it really? Sure it was big but at least it was a color found in nature..i don't find it any more out there than mermaid side shaved wtf people rock now
@@evil1by1 saying it is " really something" doesn't mean that they liked it. Although I rather liked that I was about 4" taller during those days due to my big hair 🤣
Loved the 80's girls and their big hair!
@@strongdelusion9442 I remember girls used to leave their curling irons plugged in and ready to go in the bathrooms in my suburban high school. At some point crimping irons came into style, yet I only knew one person who had one.
We've abandoned the wide variety of GREAT MUSIC we had in the 80's !!
My first wife was with Glamour Shots from day one, she helped in stores but also worked cooperate, made a lot of money in those early years
I loved those shows. School house Rock and the after school specials. I was a bit older, but enjoyed the messages they taught. These should be brought back!
I learned way more about the parts of speech, nouns, verbs and worse, from School House Rock that I ever did from teachers. Turns out I had ADD back when it was called STUPID.
I bought the videos and my kids loved school house rock
When you addressed the topic of the shoe stores, not only do you have to try on the shoes yourself but many shoes I buy now list their size like 6-7, 8-9, and so on. Shoe buying has gone so down hill in the 21st century.
Not sure when I first encountered it, but my size can be 12 or 13 depending on the brand. I mostly see the 6-7, 8-9, etc on stuff like slippers and sandals.
I loved shoe stores!
also, you could get shoes in half sizes that disappeared!
Lol half sizes are still wildly popular. Just bought a couple from different stores.
I learned a cool trick when I shopped at a Payless Shoe Store. I didn't like most of the styles or colors I found in the women's section, so the salesgirl clued me in that I could find my equivalent size (different number) in the kids section, and the shoes would still fit me and I could find styles and colors I liked better.
Example: I take a woman's size 7 1/2 medium or wide. I can get a 5 1/2 in a kids size and it still fits me just like the women's 7 1/2 does. Perfect fit, perfectly comfortable, and I like the bling that's on kids' shoes and the brighter color choices.
So, now I have more options.
The color palettes used in the day - pastels, neon and bright colors are for me distinctive feature of that decade.
Clap on 👏 👏 clap off 👏 👏 clap on, clap off, the clapper! That's gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
You did it to yourself my man. 🤣😂😅😄
Oh how I wish I could go back to my young 1980’s self, knowing what I know now. A few of my favorites were video arcades (my dad was the manager which was ‘totally awesome dude’) long telephone cords that stretched throughout your house, parachute pants and concert jerseys. Also being able to see a live band in concert without having to sell a kidney.
FUQ'N "A", DUDE!! And Cruising "the strip" after the Mall closed.
I've watched my share of afterschool specials including "But It's Not My Fault" and "The Wave". Many apartments prohibited waterbeds due to the risk of leaks. A friend gave me a Columbia House cassette he wasn't interested in. It was the third album from the Cars: "Panorama".
It's a good thing they still don't do after school specials now, with the sick, woke values our modern culture has pushed. At least in the '80's, observable truths were still universally accepted and kids were actually helped.
I guess the After School special didn't work at teaching kids considering what the wave was about. If it had, the current generation would understand what fascism really looks like.
And the weigh, water weighs 8 pounds to the gallon. A queen size water bed holds about 190 gallons of water or around 1500 pounds.
@@jasonrhodes9683 Imagine that leaking all over if a hole in the mattress were to happen! Imagine the tenant's renter's insurance premiums skyrocketing after the landlord turns in the claim.
@@MisterMikeTexas I slept on waterbeds for close to 30 years and any leaks I ever had were pin hole leaks, I have patched one without fully waking up. When you buy a waterbed, you usually get liner that you put in the box and your mattress lays inside it. You have to cut a waterbed mattress to get a big leak.
I miss video stores. Gave you something to GO do. Just look around and see what literally caught your eye.
Ty for another walk down memory lane of the 1980's. Is, and will always be my best memories.
I can not imagine wanting to start my young adult life in any other decade than the 80's, music, fashion, movies, shopping malls, nightclubs, and great new restaurants. We had them all. And there were jobs, lots of them.
So, so pleased and grateful to have experienced this wonderful decade.
My husband built our waterbed in 1980. We had it for 12 years. Then, it got a leak. We have two wood looking cabinets with VHS tapes. Hubby recorded movies in the 80’s. There are three movies on each tape. 100 tapes. No use anymore. The shoulder pads were a hit in the 80’s. I had many clothes with them.
Love your content it's like a time machine going back miss the 80s. Thanks for the memories...
I never had a clapper, but my great grandmother had a lamp you could turn on and off (and change the brightness) by tapping the base. Haven't seen them in a few decades.
Those are still around. Recently bought one for my office.
@@sapperstang Really? That's cool.
I wasn't around for The Clapper but I had to laugh because the modern day equivalent is asking a-l-e-x-a to turn off the light.
I wonder if people, like me, always said "Thank you" after The Clapper turned off the light??
You can still find them at flea markets and such sometimes.
Yeah touch lamp. I still have one.
I absolutely HATED shoulder pads! They would always double over on themselves when I put on the blouse or dress that had them, and I finally got so frustrated with them that I removed them, altogether. I never did find that look very attractive. It looked stiff and sharp edged. And they didn't feel natural, either.
I never was a fan either....nor a fan of the big hair thing!
Cutting out the shoulder pads was the first thing I did when i got those things home!!
Thing I remember about shoulder pads was that when you washed a garment with them, they'd poof out, so one would be purifier than the other, and it wouldmbe uneven. And since blouses, sweaters, vests, and jackets often had them, so if a woman wore enough layers, she looked ready to accessorize with a helmet and hit a tackling dummy.
@@75aces97 Shoulder pads were one of the most UNattractive clothing accessories of that era. They were just plain annoying to work with, so when I got a garment that had them in, they quickly disappeared.
They only look good on slimmer, hourglass or pear shaped women. Apples, rectangles, and inverted triangles looked a mess in them.
I loved the ABC After school specials. And getting home just in time to watch the last 10 minutes of General Hospital. 😊 Sure did have my share of shoulder pads and I'm pretty sure I still owe Columbia House. 😁
I had a waterbed my whole childhood. The only reason I got rid of it was because the heater died and by that time (early 2000’s) they were very hard to find/repair. I was headed to college, and was kinda just over the hassle of it so I decided to switch to a regular bed. I miss my waterbed. Most comfortable bed I ever had.
Just like the 9 months you spent in the womb.
There’s different class of waterbeds. One with just water, one with water and stuff inside to keep the waves down, and the third which had zero waves.
Until it sprung a leak ... tenants in second story apartments were never allowed to have them, for that reason.
@@jrnfw4060 the liner was supposed to contain the water. I never had a leak, so can't say it would hold. I lived on the second floor and my landlord was skeptical, but about the weight of it all. Also, supposedly, the weight was spread out so it wasn't too heavy in one place. But a great bed!!!!
Born in 1963 the '70s and 80s were fantastic.
They were the best with the best music too!
I was born in 1960. The 70's and 80's were good times.
63 for me too…and I loved the sharp look of shoulder pads and bright colors!
Thankfully I was a kid in the 80's. I really miss it terribly. Great memories to last a lifetime. Kids these days don't have a clue. Thanks.
Thinner people...including teenagers is some thing that is mostly missing that we had in the 1980s.
YES!! No fat people in catalogs or on clothing websites, either.
Sadly we Gen X are the first generation that looks better and can outrun our own children.
less junk in foods. Now if you look onto containers, their are more chemicals than food....you can barely eat anything and gain 10 pounds of chemical bi-product. SAD.
It's really quite astounding, the impact a photo can have on a person, especially when you haven't seen something in a VERY long time. That's how I felt seeing the Aqua Net hairspray line-up photo! My eyes immediately recognized my 2 "go tos". Then I wondered why I'd never seen the orange "ultimate hold" before??? WHO KNEW? Bloody hell.
P.S. How many ladies here had a pocketbook big enough that carrying your can around with you was "no bigee"?
Yeppers..the can..big comb.. complete make up bag..female products..wallet..and more..😂
Jajaja those giant bags!
I ran home from school to see "Dark Shadows" but I'm old and that was in the 1960s.
Are you aware that Pluto TV has a Dark Shadows channel? It plays episodes 202 to about 600 24/7. My favorite episodes are the black and white ones. Once the storyline with Adam started, it got too sci fi and camp for me. It lost its spookiness. Which episodes are your favorite?
A decade ago I went to a book signing at B & N with Katherine Leigh Scott. She was a wonderful lady, she really seemed so much like Maggie/Josette.
Respect is the number 1 thing we've abandoned.
I did Columbia House and BMG probably at least 10 times all the way from 8 tracks to CDs. Amassed a huge music collection. Miss those days.
Me too. Made so many variations of my name to open more accounts.
@@danieldaniels7571 🤣🤣👍🏻
We want you back!
me too😀
Where did my Air Supply cassette collection go?
Also remember the days when you were a kid. You went out all day on the weekend, but you had to start heading home once the street lights turned on before dark.
My husband and were both part of Columbia House and BMG Music Clubs. We ended up collecting over 300 cd's, that's after switching from collecting cassettes. I don't remember what happened to the cassettes we had. The cd's all got left behind in a move, thankfully I downloaded all the songs that I had.
I started college in 1981, so all of these things resonated with me. Especially the Glamour Shots (my wife did it, we still have the pictures somewhere, but I don’t know where).
The 80s were great. My sister did the Glamour Shots photo shoot while I worked for Thom McAn. I still owe Columbia House for my cassette collection. Love this channel
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that I still owe Columbia House a small fortune myself! 😆😆😆
I remember that store!
Water beds disappeared but I know a few people that own one but it’s honestly not that comfortable to sleep on. The water bed was replaced with memory foam which was much better.
Laughter/fun in the work place was what I missed most in the 80's and prior decades.
agreed!! everyone is so serious now. except for me! LOL
@@chelseagirl278 You can only laugh outside the work place since the 90's began, but only among close friends.
And flirting & all the buff bodybuilder guys
@@HeadNtheClouds Where are those guys now? sigh.............
Yup. I worked in a video store, right before DVDs came out. Loved it. You'd see tons of your friends in and out all shift, especially on the weekends. Then you could grab whatever wasn't rented at closing, and do a late-night movie with the girlfriend. Most we never finished.... but we won't get into that.
I remember all of these. Believe it or not, one of the malls near me still has a Glamour Shots store! Thanks for the memories!
I also had a water bed with full wave so it was super wavy to sleep on. It never sprung a leak luckily, but they were a lot of work to set up and when you decided to get a normal; bed you had to have a hose to siphon the water out the window and it took hours to get all the water out. I can definitely see why water beds went out of style.
I had two hand me down waterbeds; one full wave and the other was a king and had separate mattresses. Both were so amazing and growing up in northern Michigan, were an asset in the wintertime. My ex wife wanted us to get rid of our last waterbed in the late 90's when we bought our second house. I miss them.
Still have a watered, waveless. We love it especially in winter.
Does the water turn green after some time??
@@rallypoint1 Don't really know. I never did get a good look at it, but I would imagine it probably does. IDK
@@ITIsFunnyDamnIT thanks for reply! One of those things I thought about. Didn’t have one but loved going to a furniture store and lay on them. So cool!!
I was already 17 when the 80s decade started but I still love everything related to that era.
I DO NOT miss the VHS Tape, but I DO MISS Renting Videos/DVD's.
Thanks for ALL the Videos, and Happy New Year 😀
Streaming is undeniably more convenient, but there really was something special about simply going to the video store. We always rented two -- one for Saturday, one for Sunday, because we couldn't afford more. What I almost never seen mentioned is the sheer number of *children's* clothes that had shoulder pads. I hated them, so I always cut them out, which just made the shoulders fit weird. I have pictures of myself at age nine in a dress my grandma had given me for Christmas that had shoulder pads in it, and it looks absolutely ridiculous.
Oh yes, the "convieniences" of today. This is the main reason why we are disconnected with each other!! Good day
OMG Columbia House - that was a '70's thing for me.
Seemed to be most popular in the early 80s, but I do remember it in the late 70s too. By the time 1986 came about, I don't recall anyone ever even so much as mentioning it.
Do you remember trying to QUIT Columbia House?….that was the bigger issue.
I had no clue what that was about when I saw "Reality Bites" and Janine Garofalo's character makes a comment about the "Columbia record and tape house"! A lot of things I didn't get having just moved to the states!
@@zeroceiling That's what made them go bye bye. Once people realized it was so difficult to quit the "service", people just stopped using them altogether. They screwed themselves with that dirty tactic.
@@maxxxmodelz4061 ..yes..the “negative option marketing model”…serves them right the scoundrels!
I was just in Kohl’s the other day. I was looking around the shoe department and the place looked like a bomb went off. Boxes all over the place, piles of slippers all over the floor, abandoned shoes that people tried on and left anywhere. It was a mess. I saw a foot measuring device which surprised me. But I had to get out of there. The place gave me claustrophobia. The rows if shoes were so close together you could barely move through them. The stores used to be so much neater at one time. And you could not only find people to help you but when you got someone to help they not only cared about helping you they knew what they were talking about. Hobby Lobby is terrible for service. A ll of their staff is checking out customers but you can barely find anyone out on the floor. It’s like people have forgotten what customer service is all about. Anymore it’s all about keeping the investor happy and the heck with the customers who put the money in the investors pockets.
AMEN TIMES THREE!
Problem with stores today is finding and keeping good employees. Seems no one wants to work. Or barely does the minimum, or pretends to. Management isn't any better. And during the holidays, it's the worst customer service, because you're dealing with seasonal employees who are there just to get a few bucks. Essentially, there isn't any customer service any more.
In 1978 I bought a king size waterbed along with matching night stands & dresser. I liked it & finally replaced it about 5 years ago!!! 🙄
I had mine 36 years!
Therre are many things that have been abandoned from the 80s. Here is just a short list of the ones that have come into my mind just now:
Leg warmers (maybe only being used in dance schools)
Bright neon-colored leotards
pocket protectors
Rubik's Cube (maybe some still play with them, but not as much as in the 80s)
miniature golf courses (yes there are still some around, but not as many as in the 80s)
Drive-ins (now there are just some nostalgic ones around)
Playing board games like Candyland, Trivial Pursuit, and Life (some people might still play, but nowhere in the quantity and frequency as they were played in the 80s)
You mentioned blank video cassettes, but forgot audio cassettes (for audio recorders, mixed music tapes, walkmans, car stereos, boomboxes, etc)
Boomboxes (the closest now are portable Wifi speakers)
walkmans and recorders (this can now be done by the cellphone tablets)
Poppin and Lockin (Breakdancing) (again some may still do it, but not like the 80's)
Thomas Guide (replaced by MapQuest and Google Maps and OnStar)
Yellow and White pages
Personal phone books (now 'Contacts' on your mobile phone)
pocket calculators (cell phone again)
Children playing outside until dark or dinner time (maybe small towns and rural areas have it)
The Classified pages in newspapers or independent mailers like the PennySaver
Comic Book stores not as prevalent as in the 80s
Full arcades like Nickle, Nickel (where kids could be there for a long time with only $10-20)
Bowling alleys to some big extent
Music / Record stores (like movie video stores, they have gone out of fashion with few left)
Tamagotchi
The Slinkey
Speak 'n Spell
Sharper Image store (not as popular as in the 80s)
Playing Jacks or Marbles
With more thinking, I am sure I could come up with another 10 to 40 items or activities or trends that were staples of the 80s that are now rare or no longer done / existing
I still carry a "little black book". My phone dies, my contacts are there!
@@LadyGreenEyes964 Congratulations!! you are among the less than 5% that still has one. But unfortunately, most people have 'abandoned' such practices. Sad(((
@@silverlobo2135 I hear that! I've had it for a while, and it has birthdays, anniversaries, and other dates in it, so it's going nowhere. People depend too much on tech these days. I love the tech, but I want backups!
@@LadyGreenEyes964 I keep an address book with phone numbers at home just in case.
OMG yes: re chilling outside when you could . I know someone who's all like: omg no youneverknowwhatkindpervertsarearound. Feel sorry for her kid because that was how I met some friends I still keep up with to this day!
The secret to returning unwanted Columbia House albums was to write “Refused - Return to Sender” on the front and chuck it right back in the mailbox… i did it dozens of times 😋
We use too get them over a legal barrel for the fact you can’t make a contract with a minor and tell them to go pound sand.
Thank you so much Recollection Road for uploading this great video, I appreciate it!
I think the real reason the waterbed vanished is because there was a large scare about them hurting your back and not providing proper support when you sleep. My parents had a waterbed in the 1970s and 80s, bought me one in the 80s that I used until the early 2000s, traded it to my room mate for an entertainment stand where he used it for another 5 or 6 years hahaha
I agree. My sister bought and began using a waterbed while in college, 40+ years ago.
She is still sleeping on that same bed today.
My parents slept on a waterbed for yrs....I would lay on it and it was uber, uber uncomfortable AND it did hurt my back....it was also hard to move or even get out of it...
And also them beds leaked water and it wasn't no good when the heater went out of them
@@sarahsimpkins1311 That was a rude awakening in the middle of the night when the power went out. Brrr!
I fell like part of the demise was landlords putting a clause in leases prohibiting them.
I was in my twenties in the 80’s, great times, I would tape my soap operas every day when I went to work and come home and watch. Today there aren’t many left🤷♀️
My mom had one those Glamour Shots done in the mid 90's as a birthday gift from my dad. She loved it.
I did the Glamour Shots. I loved it!!
In about 50 years from now there’s probably gonna be a channel on UA-cam like RecollectionRoad making nostalgic videos about the early 21st century. I’m all for it when it happens, and I’ll be like all the nostalgic people in the comments of these videos who were around in the 20th century rather than a young person getting insight into what life was like back then.
Warms my heart I loved the 80s
I was actually a teenager in the 70's but that era was a mixed bag.The 80's era was far more interesting & exciting.The music (New Wave,New Romantics,Depeche mode....etc),the fashion & relaxed culture was where it was at.There was no road rage.No one was in a hurry,especially if you drove in a full size sofa on wheels.
I own a collection of the best 80's movies on DVD.
I remember Armstrong's Department Store that measured our feet for shoes and the waterbed I forgot it wasn't a mattress and poked my sewing needle in it and forgot it wasn't a regular mattress anymore. Columbia House I remember. Thanks for the memories!
The Secret of Nimh and Heavy Metal being on the same tape is an interesting combo.
I remember standing behind girls with the big hair in the restroom and catching the mist of the AquaNet, never had to bring my own lol 🤣
Video stores were awesome , there was something extremely satisfying about the tactile sensation of picking up a video checking out the cover , reading the description on back , going through the older section , 3 for 1 deals and take and bake pizzas , the family setting together not on their phones , having conversations with family !!!
If I remember correctly, when VHS movie cassettes first came out, they cost $60 and up each. Renting them was the way to go.
I went to get rid of my VHS machine at a pawn shop and they said they wouldn’t give me 5 cents for it so I went home and put it in the trash.
Yeah it wasn't until sometime in the 90s that the studios figured out that they could make money selling new movies at a decent price, And the video stores started selling used copies after they had been rented enough times to pay for themselves
And the VHS player started with only 2 heads.
Especially when you were only making six fiddy an hour...
@@DMS-pq8 the movies you rented cost way more than retail movies of the same movie. Big movies could cost video stores $300 to $600 dollars and they had so sign agreements that they wouldn't rent retail movies or sell rentals, they were supposed to be returned. If you were caught, you could be sued and none of the companies that leased rental movies would work with you, you were blackballed.
After School Specials started in the 1970s and most of their most memorable movies were from that time. I agree it is a shame they are gone, but they were well underway when the 80s arrived. What I found fascinating about the "local video stores" was that they were almost always run by recent immigrant families. Families came to America as the land of promise and owned their own businesses. The store names often demonstrated that some things do not translate well, but they had the movies I wanted to see.
They certainly started in the 70s, but they were a little more varied in those early years. Some of the 70s specials were reenactments of historical events, modern interpretations of classic theater, or just whimsical or humorous teleplays. Then by the late 70s they mostly settled into weighty, topical lessons for teens.
This is about things we abandoned in the 80s.
the early, smaller VHS rental stores (sometimes local or regional) would have membership fees that could be as much as 200 per year on top of rental fees. rewind fees were common, and lost or damaged tapes could be as much as 80-100 dollars to replace.
Guess I was lucky as I don't remember any charge for getting a rental card or fees for not rewinding
probably something from back then that none of us miss.
I miss my parents, love you mom and dad.
While streaming services like Netflix are super convenient, there was just something nice about heading to the video store on a Friday after work/school picking out some movies for the weekend, maybe getting a deal that included snacks and drinks. Often times you would find a movie you never heard of and turned out to be great. I do miss those days.
Always loved a waterbed and a movie from the video store. Good times. Thanks for sharing these great memories. These are one of the few UA-cams that bring a real smile to my face. Just remembering the little things we’ve forgotten over the years is really a pleasure to see again…
Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Mario Bros, Duck Hunt it was the beginning of an era. I was an unbeatable champion of Galaxian. I had the high score in all the bars. I bet that I would still kick a__.
Defender took all my quarters.
I still have many VHS tapes and watch them often. From vacation videos to back in the days you could tape shows and movies on tv. Looking at the old commercials takes me back to where I used to live at different times. I bought one of the last combo dvd/vhs players and also have a backup vhs player when this one craters.
One thing I really miss from that era was the Saturday morning PBS how-to shows. This Old House (the original), The Woodwright's Shoppe, Hometime, and The New Yankee Workshop. I learned so much from those and probably saved myself thousands over the years.
How about Gardening with Paul James? Now there are no gardening shows on HGTV. Now it's just HTV, but still the channel is called HGTV.. I really miss the gardening shows.
@@Bluerose888 Thanks for the reminder! After watching a season of "Square Foot Gardening" I built an 8x8, the kids used that for years.
@@TheOtherBill Your welcome. Glad the kids enjoyed that.
I miss the 80s so much, it definitely is the best decade to me. I remember going to the video stores, we had a couple different ones in my hometown. When I was in middle school, my friends and I loved the group Menudo, I recorded them when they were on the Love Boat, still have that tape, along with other VHS tapes I kept. I love these type of "remember when " videos! Thank you!
The VCR and making home movies and Blockbuster rentals!!!
Good music and people were still civilized!!!
#BeKindRewind !!
Heartwarming, I will always miss these magical days of yore-thanks so much!👍
Only the single bladder waterbed became unpopular. The hybrids that came out afterwards would have multiple tubes of water with only about 3 in instead of a foot of water. The original ones were not good. But the hybrids was a padded cover were much easier to move and or waveless so you didn't disturb your partner when you got up or came to bed. And since they had a padded zip up cover that enclosed all of the tubes it look like a regular mattress and did not need a heater because the pad insulated you. The reason they become popular was they were just some plastic tubes and the price went up and up and continue to go up until people refused to pay a couple of $1,000 for six plastic tubes. This was on purpose by the mattress companies because they wanted to sell even more expensive mattresses that were not nearly as comfortable because you could adjust up or down small amounts of water in the hybrid and make it perfect for your own personal comfort. And nowadays mattresses as far as I'm concerned have gone downhill and cost as much as a car. It is just screwing everybody out of their money like every other Corporation screws everybody out of their money.
Flotation Mattress - I've slept on one for 40 years.