@@tommieev5589 My local places would charge 50 cents. My family wound up buying a special machine that's sole purpose was to rewind VHS tapes because they didn't want to put the stress on the VCR lol
Having been a teenager of the 80s I think the best part of it was no cell phones we did a lot of stupid stuff and we do not have it on videotape you know for the world to see forever thankfully
It was such a game changer when programmable VCRs were introduced and you could record something that you weren’t home to watch. I got through decades of General Hospital episodes that I could watch after work. And, you could always count on Grandma to call and talk to Mom on Sunday night when the long-distance rates were cheaper. Different habits, for sure! Peace …
USA for Africa they sung We Are The World. Everyone sung a part of the song. You can watch the video on UA-cam. The singers came from every music genre.
I remember Expo 67 being from Montreal and La Ronde. I think the theme was “Man and his world”. Did you know that those islands were build from all the dirt dug out to build the Métro. Thank you Mayor Jean Drepeau. Merci beaucoup Jean Drapeau.
😂 Liomel was there but you pointed at singer John Oates (Hall & Oates)...Robin Williams???? No hun...that was country singer Willie Nelson! You should really watch the video. So many great legends!!!
When he said Michael Jackson and Madonna was the only two Mega Stars in the 80's ..he was totally incorrect... Michael, Madonna and Prince we're definitely the trinity but we had a slew of other superstars like Janet, Lionel Richie, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston.... An abundance of old and new rockstars...All Took stardom to the highest levels in the 80s... This was the peak of Mega Stars.... Is Taylor Swift big ..yes she's probably the biggest living working star on this planet now.... but she is nowhere near any of the Trinity at their peaks... Remember they all became that big without the help of the internet.. just radio and MTV.... And to this day all three are icons that are still talked about in every form of music..... You cannot talk music without all three or one of them coming up.... PERIOD...
There used to an announcement that would come on the tv "it's 10 pm, do you know where your children are?" It was a wild time to grow up in. We were also supposed to carry an emergency quarter in case we needed to call home from a pay phone.
It amazes me that cursive is no longer taught in (a lot of) schools and people can barely write in print. Penmanship was a big thing back in the day and now you have young adults who write on par with a 3rd grader from an earlier generation. And often can't read cursive at all. I'm on genealogy forums and there are frequently people looking for someone to tell them what a document says because they can't read cursive.
My sister is a high school librarian and helping the seniors applying for scholarships, they need to sign their names, but can't even write their own name in cursive, so she came up with having them print their names then connect all the letters with lines!
The Oregon trail game actually follows the old historical Oregon trail route. It’s a lot of stories from there. Basically you’re trying to make it from Illinois to Oregon through the northern route through the Rockies. Honestly you usually die of some disease somewhere in the Great Plains in the game. The real trail was very rough and people had to go through the Great Plains as it was the easiest route. The people often stopped in the city of Independence, Missouri to get supplies for the real challenge the Rocky Mountains. It’s not easy to get to the first stop point either. Laura ingalls wilder made a stop in Independence, Kansas which is on the same trail for a year for her dad creating a homestead there just outside town, they were forced to return to Wisconsin due to a financial issue with their old home there. Unusually the family should have stayed as their financial situation was much better in Kansas. They had a little farm about to get going and would have made a bit of money if they kept going. The family never made it to Oregon although they chose Iowa to settle down in after years of wandering around picking up work wherever they could. The father even worked for the early railroad. The father became a pastor and ran the general store of the town, the daughters became schoolteachers, Laura herself became an author though she taught on the side but she was like her dad wandering around until settling down to become a farmer although a poor one until a few years later.
Yep. My family owned a video store in the 90s. We charged 50¢ per movie that wasn't rewound. We had a thing that would rewind them super fast but it was still a pain
That makes sense. Can you imagine the wear and tear on their machine from rewinding so many videos every day. Probably hundreds in a month I’m guessing.
Kabir, my first exposure to computers in school was using a freakin' PUNCHCARD to make the computer do something! Look THAT up when you get the chance. Also, the whole "rewinding VHS tapes" thing was real! video stores would charge you $2.00 or more if you didn't. Because rewinding helped wear your VCR out faster, I ended up buying a device specifically TO rewind tapes. 4:40 - When I was a kid, if you couldn't "sit still", or "got antsy", we'd get stimulated on our backside..... then we'd learn to cope with it.
Nope, even back then, we begged for our own phones so our parents couldn't ease drop on our phone calls. Yup, Blockbuster and West Coast Video, both rented VCRs and West Coast, had an adult section in the back of the store. You'd get a rewind fee because the clerk had to rewind it, which kept that movie off the shelf. No, not Robin Williams, it was Bono. Yeah, the modern-day special effects were just getting started. My first wife and I used to love playing Zelda! Yeah if you had a pair of rainbow suspenders people were giving you the Mork from Ork greeting Nanu Nanu all day in school. The 80s also gave us U2 The Police, and Men At Work to name a couple. Welch's Grape Jelly started selling their grape jelly in 8 ounce glasses that you could drink from after they were empty but that started way before the 80s. The say applies to Saucy Susan shrimp cocktails but that was in a juice glass. Yes that's the Olsen twins! I saw a picture of Gene Hackman at 90+ and you wouldn't recognize him, just like Clint Eastwood with a white beard, it's mind-blowing. Yeah, "Just Say No" failed DARE, I believe, worked somewhat. I'd give my right ___ to go back to the 80s for a do over. Hindsight is always 20/20 right?
If you didn't rewind the VHS tape before returning it you had to pay a fine. That's how the saying on the Blockbuster Video sticker "be kind. Rewind." entered the lexicon.
"Rewind and Be Kind" or you got fined. My kids? They are in their 20's are rediscovering my Atari, NES and 64... And have quit playing their PS. Oh and Elvis is still more iconic. We did collect calls from the PHONE BOOTH to our parents, when the operator asked our name we would say I'm at the mall come get me, and hang up. The operator was required to say... You have a collect call from... I'm at the mall come get me. And they would refuse the call and come get us. 🤣 Until deregulation, commercials could only occupy a 2 minute segment, and only 2 commercial breaks per 30 min, plus neither Lawyers or pharma could advertise, now every other commercial is pharma, and the ones who aren't are injury lawyers... I liked it better when Morris the Cat was selling Meow Mix and I didn't sit through 3 min of drug and lawyers every 6 minutes of show time. (Btw have a degree in broadcasting, and that's an actual course segment in broadcast History.)
It was one of the Olsen twins, but both were on the show. Due to laws limiting how much time kids of a certain age could work each day, when you had a very young character, they hired twins to play the character so they could get double the amount of time. So one young character was played by twins.
Michael Jackson co-wrote We Are The World and several of his siblings participated in the chorus: Jackie, La Toya, Marlon, Randy, and Tito Jackson. The actor Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers) was part of the chorus too.
And cosplay was most certainly a thing. Scifi & comic book conventions had been around for decades, long before ComicCon was ever a thought. The oldest is WorldCon which has been held every year since the 1930s (except during WW2). Its Masquerade (costume call) can take hours. I was going to cons in the 1980s, most attendees were in costume.
@@peridot1706Yeah but cosplaying and going to conversations for your favorite comic books and movies back in 80s and 70s was a niche. Nowadays geek culture has become more normalized and mainstream. Adults and teens having those interests were get made fun at, called a nerd or autistic like I did in those days while my teen years, though I am in the spectrum and I still do like watching cartoons and reading comics from the time.
Kabir, how old do you think we are from the 80s that we don't go to IMAX? We're only in our 50s and early 60s!Realize how much technology we saw advance. I'm so glad I was a teen and in college in the 80s!!
Drugs were very different in America in the 80s, the marijuana back then was incredibly weak - even “Maui-wowie” was week by todays standards; other common drugs were speed and downers; LSD; and cocaine and heroin were rich folk drugs but very few people used them to excess. In the 80s we had dance parties and in large cities there were “after hours “ clubs, where the stopped serving alcohol and you could dance till 6am. Raves did not get started until the 90s and for the first 6 years or so only took place in large cities. I think 1978-1992 were the best times for someone to be in their 20’s. Even the protests were better back then, people weren’t cowards - they didn’t cover their faces; they rarely did any damage because the police weren’t cowards; people went on very public and lengthy hunger-strikes (they didn’t cry for delivery like college students today) . During protests people didn’t damage businesses or loot stores - police and shop owners could shoot you for looting. Oh, and pharmaceutical ads did not appear until the 90s.
I worked in a Video Rental Store in 1990. The tapes had stickers that said "Be Kind, Rewind". ANYONE who brought in a non-rewound tape would get a $1.00 charge added to their account (At the time a new Release rented for about $4.00. Back then it was CHEAPER to drive home, rewind it and drive back because gas was cheaper than the rewind fee. Most of us only charged the mean folks with the rewind fee... Then there was always the kid who rented a dozen movies while their parents were away and had a party at the house, didn't rewind ANY of them. The discussion with the parents when they had a $12.00 REWIND fee on their card when their precious Johnny was supposed to be in his room doing homework.
Growing up, the only glasses we had, except for the "guest" ones, were from some fast food restaurant. There were 4 from Battlestar Galactica (the original). We all used them as a family, until hardly any of the features printed on it were visible, as they slowly degraded each dishwasher run.
Omg, going to the computer lab and playing Oregon Trail was always so amazing. Blockbuster used to have a catchphrase " Be kind, please rewind" Classic fundraising telethons were a staple The dog from Duck Hunt was the first celebrity roast everyone fell victim to I can't believe they mentioned the Noid. No one else I ask ever knows it. I still have a stuffed one.
I am from West Yorkshire, England. My nearest city, Bradford has the only Imax cinema in England. I've been there a few times. It's very effective, especially for sci-fi films like '2001 - A Space Oddessy.'
If you don’t rewind the VHS tape, you were charged an additional fee by the video rental store. You could even buy a dedicated VHS-rewinder machine with the idea of not stressing your VHS player.
I was born in 1974, and I think things just FELT brighter. I suppose we seem as naive to Gen Z and Millennials now as 50s kids seemed to US, back then. When I retired from the federal government five years ago, we were still using overhead projectors and transparencies. Also a similar machine that would project text directly from regular printed paper and books. I heard/read that Michael Jackson himself bought millions of copies of the 'Thriller' album so it would take the #1 spot over Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' - which also had an unfair advantage in that the U.S. government bought copies of 'White Christmas' for every American serviceman overseas during WW2.
That was one of the Olsen twins, lol. I'm really happy I got to grow up in the 80's. It kinda feels like we're the in-between generation. Especially where technology is concerned.
Usually there was a fee charged by the rental store, they would use a high-speed rewinder that would rewind a 2 hour film in about 30 seconds. Only Elvis in the '70s really had the same wide pop culture appeal," As far as "is that one of the Olsen twins?" the short answer is yes. Both of them played the part of Michelle in "Full House".
Our local store rented movies for $5 for a row night rental. The fee for not rewinding was $7. The store had a vhs tape rewinder machine. Stick the tape in like you would in the player, but its sole function was to quickly rewind the tapes.
I remember going to d.a.r.e. camp in 1999 and that was fun made friends from different towns. I had 6th grade camp too they did away with that at the school my kids go too - because the camp area isn't in use anymore. I remember going to blockbuster. I'm in southern indiana. I loved TGIF every friday night would watch with my grandma. I was born in 86.
As an 80s teenager, I am not blown away by modern technology because we have been a part of its progression. Revisiting 80s movies blows my mind; how real it looked back then to me, and how amateur it actually was. Though, Star Wars is still impressive, considering that the OG were from the late 70s and early 80s.
You're killing me, Smalls! USA for Africa. Bottom left: Paul Simon, Kim Carnes, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Qincey Jones, Smokey Robinson, Ray Charles, Sheila E, Randy Jackson, LaToya Jackson, Bette Midler. Second row left: Tina Turner, Don't know, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, James Ingram, Bob Dylan, Ruth Pointer , Tito Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Marlon Jackson. Third row left: Darryl Hall, Dionne Warwick, Al Jarreau, Kenny Rogers, Huey Lewis, John Oates, Jonny Colla, Anita Pointer, Not sure, Not sure. Fourth row left: Lionel Ritchie, Kenny Loggins, Not sure, Dan Akroyd, Harry Belafonte, Not sure, not sure, not sure.
As someone who was a kid in the 80s we got sucked into the fantasy movies and never worried about what were puppets or actors in makeup. Nowadays that is all that movie watches worry about.
Elvis was the *first* superstar. He's still gaining fans 47 years after his death. My kids were born in '83. The 80's were my 20's. The kids came home from kindergarten talking about using computers and I was clueless. 😂 $1 charge most places if you didn't rewind the tape before returning it.
LMAO talking about "someone from the 80s" having our minds blown by going to an IMAX theater...we're not cavemen witnessing modern magic we've never seen before! 🤣 Geez louise, I'm only 55. And personally I find CGI effects are not immersive or satisfying...give me the old practical effects to really feel like you're there.
I was a child of the 80s. 1-10 yrs old. I was the best time! We were forced to be independent and find our own fun. It was the best!! You actually had to have imagination. No iPad, no phone. Computer time was special because it wasn't frequent and you went outside and actually played! I'm kinda sad it's lost on recent generations
I went with my brother to buy an Apple II computer in 1980. The only game he had at first was "Apple Invader" a knockoff of Space Invaders, which you loaded from a regular audio cassette.
I remember having to buy some crazy expensive calculator for a math class (Trig?) back in the 80s. I swear it cost more than a phone does today, and it only did math problems! (To be fair, it could do graphs, but probably so can my current cell phone).
I think the guy who you were pointing to thinking he was Lionel Richie is actually John Oates from the duo Hall & Oates. Lionel Richie is in the picture, though, to the left of Ray Charles, whom you seemed to recognize but couldn't remember his name. When you said Robin Williams, you were pointing at Willie Nelson.
DARE was actually updated not launched again. It’s not as effective as you might think as it simply got people curious about drugs not prevention. I went through the DARE program myself and honestly it doesn’t really work as it really doesn’t address the problem of peer pressure and the reason why people start. The program needs a complete revamp into something more modern and targeted towards pain killers and strange drugs that are coming onto the streets. Although I’ve stayed away from stuff like drugs unless it’s medication.
Oh, but that heady alcohol ink smell. The cool, still slightly damp feel of just printed "ditto sheets". All the kids picking up their copies and sniffing them to get a nose full as the papers were being handed out. I can still smell it! 😌
If you did not rewind the movie your account would be assessed a fine. Usually a dollar for each movie you did not rewind. The reasoning behind it is that if you did not rewind the movie, an employee had to do it so the movie was ready to be rented again.
What really sucked was when they changed seasons you know in your season for the winter would be over they would always leave you on a really big cliffhanger it sucked
I never played Oregon Trail in the 80's. Not even sure that we had it on our computers. I did play it later on in life, as in a year or so ago. I made it to Oregon without dysentery...and without half of the people on the journey :)
A good thing about the 70's, 80's & early 90's was the limited access to porn movies & sexually explicit materials. Yes, we still had nudey magazine's & sex shops for the 18+ crowd. Nearly every boy of pubescent age, raided the dad's playboy or penthouse collection. When dad found out that you were into his private stash of mags, you could get into trouble. On the odd occasion you'd find a porn VHS tape, Bom Chicka Wah! Wah!, it was shared between your social group. This definitely changed in the era of the internet. IMHO for the detriment of society.
2:30 Remember the Apple II computers? They had 56k memory. Your average wristwatch has 1,000 times more computing power. The Space Shuttle has less computing power than a cheap smartphone does today. My 15 year old Casio watch had more power.
Bro, the first movie I ever owned was the original Star Wars and it was real too real and it actually had a cassette tape for the sound. So we had a projector that did the real to real and you had to make sure that it didn't get stuck because it would burn through the tape who. Remembers that day.
Actually, calls today are not free. We have phone plans with cell phone companies, and they are more expensive than what we paid in the 80's for our landlines.
Every video tape I rented always had a sticker on it somewhere that read: "Be Kind, Rewind".
I was about to type that. Some places even charged a fee if you forgot.
HAHA and became the title of a a pretty great movie!
@@tommieev5589 My local places would charge 50 cents. My family wound up buying a special machine that's sole purpose was to rewind VHS tapes because they didn't want to put the stress on the VCR lol
I remember the saying posted all over video rental places that says "Be kind, rewind"
I remember that too. Along with the melted VHS cassette to
remind you not to leave the tape in your hot car.
Not going to lie, I said it out loud 🙂
Having been a teenager of the 80s I think the best part of it was no cell phones we did a lot of stupid stuff and we do not have it on videotape you know for the world to see forever thankfully
The 1980s was the best time to be a child! I’m so glad I was front row, center to all of these memories!!❤
It was such a game changer when programmable VCRs were introduced and you could record something that you weren’t home to watch. I got through decades of General Hospital episodes that I could watch after work. And, you could always count on Grandma to call and talk to Mom on Sunday night when the long-distance rates were cheaper. Different habits, for sure! Peace …
I was born in '82, and I still maintain, the best cartoons are the stuff that predates 2000's.
Me Too!
You have died of dysentery. Haha. I burst out laughing. Didn’t expect that.
USA for Africa they sung We Are The World. Everyone sung a part of the song. You can watch the video on UA-cam. The singers came from every music genre.
We hate drug ads. The US and New Zealand are the only countries that advertise drug ads.
Oregon trail definitely engrained in my brain computer lab was always looked forward too
IMAX was in use in the 1970s. It was used for Expo 67 The Montreal World's Fair. Also, VCRs were in use in the 1980s.
I remember Expo 67 being from Montreal and La Ronde. I think the theme was “Man and his world”. Did you know that those islands were build from all the dirt dug out to build the Métro. Thank you Mayor Jean Drepeau. Merci beaucoup Jean Drapeau.
Prince was up there as far as artists.
Freddie and Elton too. Lauper was good but not quite as high as Madonna
😂
Liomel was there but you pointed at singer John Oates (Hall & Oates)...Robin Williams????
No hun...that was country singer Willie Nelson!
You should really watch the video. So many great legends!!!
When he said Michael Jackson and Madonna was the only two Mega Stars in the 80's ..he was totally incorrect... Michael, Madonna and Prince we're definitely the trinity but we had a slew of other superstars like Janet, Lionel Richie, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston.... An abundance of old and new rockstars...All Took stardom to the highest levels in the 80s... This was the peak of Mega Stars.... Is Taylor Swift big ..yes she's probably the biggest living working star on this planet now.... but she is nowhere near any of the Trinity at their peaks... Remember they all became that big without the help of the internet.. just radio and MTV.... And to this day all three are icons that are still talked about in every form of music..... You cannot talk music without all three or one of them coming up.... PERIOD...
I remember all of these things, I graduated in 1986. That was to me was the best time
There used to an announcement that would come on the tv "it's 10 pm, do you know where your children are?" It was a wild time to grow up in. We were also supposed to carry an emergency quarter in case we needed to call home from a pay phone.
It amazes me that cursive is no longer taught in (a lot of) schools and people can barely write in print. Penmanship was a big thing back in the day and now you have young adults who write on par with a 3rd grader from an earlier generation. And often can't read cursive at all. I'm on genealogy forums and there are frequently people looking for someone to tell them what a document says because they can't read cursive.
My grandchildren are all learning to write in cursive in 2nd grade again!
Didn’t u hear it’s a new “test” on Tick tok to see if u can write your name w/out lifting your pen off the paper-🤦🏼♀️
They still were teaching it in my middle school back around 2001 or 02.
My sister is a high school librarian and helping the seniors applying for scholarships, they need to sign their names, but can't even write their own name in cursive, so she came up with having them print their names then connect all the letters with lines!
They started teaching it again in our school district a couple years ago.
I love Recollection Road
The Oregon trail game actually follows the old historical Oregon trail route. It’s a lot of stories from there. Basically you’re trying to make it from Illinois to Oregon through the northern route through the Rockies. Honestly you usually die of some disease somewhere in the Great Plains in the game. The real trail was very rough and people had to go through the Great Plains as it was the easiest route. The people often stopped in the city of Independence, Missouri to get supplies for the real challenge the Rocky Mountains. It’s not easy to get to the first stop point either. Laura ingalls wilder made a stop in Independence, Kansas which is on the same trail for a year for her dad creating a homestead there just outside town, they were forced to return to Wisconsin due to a financial issue with their old home there. Unusually the family should have stayed as their financial situation was much better in Kansas. They had a little farm about to get going and would have made a bit of money if they kept going. The family never made it to Oregon although they chose Iowa to settle down in after years of wandering around picking up work wherever they could. The father even worked for the early railroad. The father became a pastor and ran the general store of the town, the daughters became schoolteachers, Laura herself became an author though she taught on the side but she was like her dad wandering around until settling down to become a farmer although a poor one until a few years later.
Back in Elementary and Middle school, there were classes that used those old overhead projectors and that was in the 90s.
I was in a computer class in the 90s that was using outdated computers from when I was born.
If you didn't rewind the movie you were charged a fee before getting another movie.
Wow, I’m glad mine didn’t do that I’d have been broke 😂
@@charlottehardy822 It was only a $2 charge
Hahaha... Yeppers
Yep. My family owned a video store in the 90s. We charged 50¢ per movie that wasn't rewound. We had a thing that would rewind them super fast but it was still a pain
That makes sense. Can you imagine the wear and tear on their machine from rewinding so many videos every day. Probably hundreds in a month I’m guessing.
Oregon trail was a fun way to learn a little history and geography. It was quite engaging.
Elvis was up there with Michael.
I would argue that Elvis is above MJ.
Elvis was huge in the 50s and 60s, but he died in 1976.
I loved my overhead projector, even after smartboards. I love my smartboard too.
Kabir, my first exposure to computers in school was using a freakin' PUNCHCARD to make the computer do something! Look THAT up when you get the chance.
Also, the whole "rewinding VHS tapes" thing was real! video stores would charge you $2.00 or more if you didn't. Because rewinding helped wear your VCR out faster, I ended up buying a device specifically TO rewind tapes.
4:40 - When I was a kid, if you couldn't "sit still", or "got antsy", we'd get stimulated on our backside..... then we'd learn to cope with it.
Elvis was pretty iconic. I have a full set of unused Smurf glasses from Hardee's in the 1980s.
I still have a few sets from when the freebie drinkware was glass. Star Trek, Star Wars, and soda fountain style Coca Cola glasses.
Nope, even back then, we begged for our own phones so our parents couldn't ease drop on our phone calls.
Yup, Blockbuster and West Coast Video, both rented VCRs and West Coast, had an adult section in the back of the store. You'd get a rewind fee because the clerk had to rewind it, which kept that movie off the shelf.
No, not Robin Williams, it was Bono.
Yeah, the modern-day special effects were just getting started.
My first wife and I used to love playing Zelda!
Yeah if you had a pair of rainbow suspenders people were giving you the Mork from Ork greeting Nanu Nanu all day in school.
The 80s also gave us U2 The Police, and Men At Work to name a couple.
Welch's Grape Jelly started selling their grape jelly in 8 ounce glasses that you could drink from after they were empty but that started way before the 80s. The say applies to Saucy Susan shrimp cocktails but that was in a juice glass.
Yes that's the Olsen twins! I saw a picture of Gene Hackman at 90+ and you wouldn't recognize him, just like Clint Eastwood with a white beard, it's mind-blowing.
Yeah, "Just Say No" failed DARE, I believe, worked somewhat.
I'd give my right ___ to go back to the 80s for a do over. Hindsight is always 20/20 right?
I graduated High School in 1982.
I played with those helicopters seeds so much. It was so exciting when it was the right season for them.
They were the seeds of the sycamore tree.
If you didn't rewind the VHS tape before returning it you had to pay a fine. That's how the saying on the Blockbuster Video sticker "be kind. Rewind." entered the lexicon.
Haven't you ever heard : "Be kind; Rewind" ? Some shops were strict. They would check your returns, if you didn't rewind, they'd charge a rewind fee.
I was in grade 4 to HS graduate in the 80s. And university and clubbing in the 90s. It was a GREAT time.
I’m young and in early 2000s during my middle school years, I remember teachers were still using a 10 years old projectors.
5:21 was Wr Are The World. Its a great song
Gosh I'm old! I joined the Navy in 1980!
Same here 😀
"Rewind and Be Kind" or you got fined.
My kids? They are in their 20's are rediscovering my Atari, NES and 64... And have quit playing their PS.
Oh and Elvis is still more iconic.
We did collect calls from the PHONE BOOTH to our parents, when the operator asked our name we would say I'm at the mall come get me, and hang up.
The operator was required to say... You have a collect call from... I'm at the mall come get me. And they would refuse the call and come get us. 🤣
Until deregulation, commercials could only occupy a 2 minute segment, and only 2 commercial breaks per 30 min, plus neither Lawyers or pharma could advertise, now every other commercial is pharma, and the ones who aren't are injury lawyers... I liked it better when Morris the Cat was selling Meow Mix and I didn't sit through 3 min of drug and lawyers every 6 minutes of show time. (Btw have a degree in broadcasting, and that's an actual course segment in broadcast History.)
It was one of the Olsen twins, but both were on the show. Due to laws limiting how much time kids of a certain age could work each day, when you had a very young character, they hired twins to play the character so they could get double the amount of time. So one young character was played by twins.
Michael Jackson co-wrote We Are The World and several of his siblings participated in the chorus: Jackie, La Toya, Marlon, Randy, and Tito Jackson.
The actor Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers) was part of the chorus too.
I am so happy to be from the 80"s, so much fun!
The US and New Zealand are the only two countries that allow advertising for prescription medication.
How dare this guy say you were never truly immersed in 80s fantasy movies. CGI doesn't create immersion.
And cosplay was most certainly a thing. Scifi & comic book conventions had been around for decades, long before ComicCon was ever a thought. The oldest is WorldCon which has been held every year since the 1930s (except during WW2). Its Masquerade (costume call) can take hours. I was going to cons in the 1980s, most attendees were in costume.
@@peridot1706Yeah but cosplaying and going to conversations for your favorite comic books and movies back in 80s and 70s was a niche. Nowadays geek culture has become more normalized and mainstream. Adults and teens having those interests were get made fun at, called a nerd or autistic like I did in those days while my teen years, though I am in the spectrum and I still do like watching cartoons and reading comics from the time.
Not just Ronald, no more Mayor McCheese or Grimace. And the others Officer Big Mac, Captain Crook and The Hamburglar.
Kabir, how old do you think we are from the 80s that we don't go to IMAX? We're only in our 50s and early 60s!Realize how much technology we saw advance.
I'm so glad I was a teen and in college in the 80s!!
40s, 50s and 60s…
Drugs were very different in America in the 80s, the marijuana back then was incredibly weak - even “Maui-wowie” was week by todays standards; other common drugs were speed and downers; LSD; and cocaine and heroin were rich folk drugs but very few people used them to excess. In the 80s we had dance parties and in large cities there were “after hours “ clubs, where the stopped serving alcohol and you could dance till 6am. Raves did not get started until the 90s and for the first 6 years or so only took place in large cities. I think 1978-1992 were the best times for someone to be in their 20’s. Even the protests were better back then, people weren’t cowards - they didn’t cover their faces; they rarely did any damage because the police weren’t cowards; people went on very public and lengthy hunger-strikes (they didn’t cry for delivery like college students today) . During protests people didn’t damage businesses or loot stores - police and shop owners could shoot you for looting. Oh, and pharmaceutical ads did not appear until the 90s.
There were pharmaceutical commercials. They were OTC but pharmaceutical all the same.
I worked in a Video Rental Store in 1990. The tapes had stickers that said "Be Kind, Rewind". ANYONE who brought in a non-rewound tape would get a $1.00 charge added to their account (At the time a new Release rented for about $4.00. Back then it was CHEAPER to drive home, rewind it and drive back because gas was cheaper than the rewind fee. Most of us only charged the mean folks with the rewind fee... Then there was always the kid who rented a dozen movies while their parents were away and had a party at the house, didn't rewind ANY of them. The discussion with the parents when they had a $12.00 REWIND fee on their card when their precious Johnny was supposed to be in his room doing homework.
I would return to the 80’s in a heartbeat & take my kids with me.
Absolutely!!! Me too!
Growing up, the only glasses we had, except for the "guest" ones, were from some fast food restaurant. There were 4 from Battlestar Galactica (the original). We all used them as a family, until hardly any of the features printed on it were visible, as they slowly degraded each dishwasher run.
Yeah, I grew up with a bunch of Disney ones being half of our glasses. Nostalgic for sure.
8:50. That was Robin Williams in the Sitcom " Mork abd Mindy " that's the show in 80's that Robin Williams got his start up.
Actually “Mork and Mindy” was spinoff of “Happy Days”.
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the Start of Robo Williams
Omg, going to the computer lab and playing Oregon Trail was always so amazing.
Blockbuster used to have a catchphrase " Be kind, please rewind"
Classic fundraising telethons were a staple
The dog from Duck Hunt was the first celebrity roast everyone fell victim to
I can't believe they mentioned the Noid. No one else I ask ever knows it. I still have a stuffed one.
I remember watching imax at the science museum in the 80’s in Minnesota
I am from West Yorkshire, England. My nearest city, Bradford has the only Imax cinema in England. I've been there a few times. It's very effective, especially for sci-fi films like '2001 - A Space Oddessy.'
The latest McDonald's remodel has no character. It's not a place you want to sit and eat in.
It's also not a place that serves what I would consider food.
If you don’t rewind the VHS tape, you were charged an additional fee by the video rental store. You could even buy a dedicated VHS-rewinder machine with the idea of not stressing your VHS player.
I was born in 1974, and I think things just FELT brighter. I suppose we seem as naive to Gen Z and Millennials now as 50s kids seemed to US, back then.
When I retired from the federal government five years ago, we were still using overhead projectors and transparencies. Also a similar machine that would project text directly from regular printed paper and books.
I heard/read that Michael Jackson himself bought millions of copies of the 'Thriller' album so it would take the #1 spot over Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' - which also had an unfair advantage in that the U.S. government bought copies of 'White Christmas' for every American serviceman overseas during WW2.
I think there's one Blockbuster Video in Lake George, New York.
Bend, Oregon. . . .
@@mortensen1961 oh,that's right.Oops! Another one like it in Burbank, CA called Be Kind Rewind.
That was one of the Olsen twins, lol.
I'm really happy I got to grow up in the 80's. It kinda feels like we're the in-between generation. Especially where technology is concerned.
I was born in 1978 so I do miss the 80's. If you don't rewind the V.H.S. sometimes you will be charged for it.
Be Kind, Rewind ❤
the beatles are still the biggest performers, and paul mccartney is still big
Usually there was a fee charged by the rental store, they would use a high-speed rewinder that would rewind a 2 hour film in about 30 seconds.
Only Elvis in the '70s really had the same wide pop culture appeal,"
As far as "is that one of the Olsen twins?" the short answer is yes. Both of them played the part of Michelle in "Full House".
Our local store rented movies for $5 for a row night rental. The fee for not rewinding was $7. The store had a vhs tape rewinder machine. Stick the tape in like you would in the player, but its sole function was to quickly rewind the tapes.
In 1975 in my Jr HS, I took computer class & learned Fortran.
I never beat the oregon trail lol
I don't remember anyone beating it. I think I died like, every week. 😂
@@Traci2000 I got close but damn lol 😆
Robin Williams was Willie Nelson! 🤣🤣🤣
I remember going to d.a.r.e. camp in 1999 and that was fun made friends from different towns. I had 6th grade camp too they did away with that at the school my kids go too - because the camp area isn't in use anymore. I remember going to blockbuster. I'm in southern indiana. I loved TGIF every friday night would watch with my grandma. I was born in 86.
Dang... I graduated in the 80's some of the best years
As an 80s teenager, I am not blown away by modern technology because we have been a part of its progression. Revisiting 80s movies blows my mind; how real it looked back then to me, and how amateur it actually was. Though, Star Wars is still impressive, considering that the OG were from the late 70s and early 80s.
My 4 year old grandson is better at Minecraft than me, and I'm 67. He couldn't read yet but he memorized everything.
You're killing me, Smalls! USA for Africa. Bottom left: Paul Simon, Kim Carnes, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Qincey Jones, Smokey Robinson, Ray Charles, Sheila E, Randy Jackson, LaToya Jackson, Bette Midler. Second row left: Tina Turner, Don't know, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, James Ingram, Bob Dylan, Ruth Pointer , Tito Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Marlon Jackson. Third row left: Darryl Hall, Dionne Warwick, Al Jarreau, Kenny Rogers, Huey Lewis, John Oates, Jonny Colla, Anita Pointer, Not sure, Not sure. Fourth row left: Lionel Ritchie, Kenny Loggins, Not sure, Dan Akroyd, Harry Belafonte, Not sure, not sure, not sure.
My friend kept a tape-recorder where he recorded the insertion of quarters in a pay-phone booth which allowed him to make free calls.
Lionel wrote the song with MJ.
As someone who was a kid in the 80s we got sucked into the fantasy movies and never worried about what were puppets or actors in makeup. Nowadays that is all that movie watches worry about.
Elvis was the *first* superstar. He's still gaining fans 47 years after his death.
My kids were born in '83. The 80's were my 20's. The kids came home from kindergarten talking about using computers and I was clueless. 😂
$1 charge most places if you didn't rewind the tape before returning it.
LMAO talking about "someone from the 80s" having our minds blown by going to an IMAX theater...we're not cavemen witnessing modern magic we've never seen before! 🤣 Geez louise, I'm only 55. And personally I find CGI effects are not immersive or satisfying...give me the old practical effects to really feel like you're there.
Be kind and rewind.🙂 Inflation is going down, though.
I was a child of the 80s. 1-10 yrs old. I was the best time! We were forced to be independent and find our own fun. It was the best!! You actually had to have imagination. No iPad, no phone. Computer time was special because it wasn't frequent and you went outside and actually played! I'm kinda sad it's lost on recent generations
I went with my brother to buy an Apple II computer in 1980. The only game he had at first was "Apple Invader" a knockoff of Space Invaders, which you loaded from a regular audio cassette.
I remember having to buy some crazy expensive calculator for a math class (Trig?) back in the 80s. I swear it cost more than a phone does today, and it only did math problems! (To be fair, it could do graphs, but probably so can my current cell phone).
I think the guy who you were pointing to thinking he was Lionel Richie is actually John Oates from the duo Hall & Oates. Lionel Richie is in the picture, though, to the left of Ray Charles, whom you seemed to recognize but couldn't remember his name. When you said Robin Williams, you were pointing at Willie Nelson.
When George Harrison was alive he put together a concert to benefit Bangladesh and a lot of famous artists were in that video
DARE was actually updated not launched again. It’s not as effective as you might think as it simply got people curious about drugs not prevention. I went through the DARE program myself and honestly it doesn’t really work as it really doesn’t address the problem of peer pressure and the reason why people start. The program needs a complete revamp into something more modern and targeted towards pain killers and strange drugs that are coming onto the streets. Although I’ve stayed away from stuff like drugs unless it’s medication.
MJ
I could've bought a 3 bedroom house today with the quarters I put into arcade video machines in the 80's...
When we wanted a drink of water and we were outside playing, WE HAD TO DRINK HOT WATER FROM A GARDEN HOSE that tasted like the garden hose
Nah arcades were still going strong in the 80s in New Jersey and our first console was the Atari.
Prince is an iconic as well. 1977 here.
Yes that is an Olsen twin.
I hated the mimeograph machine. I had purple fingers.
Oh, but that heady alcohol ink smell. The cool, still slightly damp feel of just printed "ditto sheets". All the kids picking up their copies and sniffing them to get a nose full as the papers were being handed out. I can still smell it! 😌
Back in the day you had to rewind tapes.
If you did not rewind the movie your account would be assessed a fine. Usually a dollar for each movie you did not rewind. The reasoning behind it is that if you did not rewind the movie, an employee had to do it so the movie was ready to be rented again.
It was a great time to be adolescent.
What really sucked was when they changed seasons you know in your season for the winter would be over they would always leave you on a really big cliffhanger it sucked
I never played Oregon Trail in the 80's. Not even sure that we had it on our computers.
I did play it later on in life, as in a year or so ago. I made it to Oregon without dysentery...and without half of the people on the journey :)
Oh and, just to let you know, I had to literally facepalm when you said "that's Sting, isn't it". Sorry :)
Also, I was a lot less shell-shocked with the latest Dune movie than you think. Sorry :)
Elvis was HUGE, bigger than Michael Jackson. He was the man who brought rock and roll to the masses.
I heard the other day that time travel will be possible some day but you won't be able to go back in time any further than when we invent time travel
You would be charged a fee if you didn’t rewind before you rented more movies. They had a sticker on each vhs tape saying- BE KIND REWIND
i was born in 83 so i grew up in the 80s and 90s
Hi Kabir, the 80s weren't as cool as the 70s, but there was still a lot of fun stuff to do.
Elvis was(is) way bigger than Michael!
A good thing about the 70's, 80's & early 90's was the limited access to porn movies & sexually explicit materials. Yes, we still had nudey magazine's & sex shops for the 18+ crowd. Nearly every boy of pubescent age, raided the dad's playboy or penthouse collection. When dad found out that you were into his private stash of mags, you could get into trouble. On the odd occasion you'd find a porn VHS tape, Bom Chicka Wah! Wah!, it was shared between your social group. This definitely changed in the era of the internet. IMHO for the detriment of society.
2:30 Remember the Apple II computers? They had 56k memory. Your average wristwatch has 1,000 times more computing power. The Space Shuttle has less computing power than a cheap smartphone does today. My 15 year old Casio watch had more power.
I preferred the 70s and 90s even though I was a teen back the. I mean, come on ... Madinna vs. Led Zeppelin? Pleeeeez!
I hate the Oregon trail game.
Bro, the first movie I ever owned was the original Star Wars and it was real too real and it actually had a cassette tape for the sound. So we had a projector that did the real to real and you had to make sure that it didn't get stuck because it would burn through the tape who. Remembers that day.
I knew of a kid that stuffed a peanut butter sandwich in a vcr slot 🥺
Actually, calls today are not free. We have phone plans with cell phone companies, and they are more expensive than what we paid in the 80's for our landlines.