This video got a copyright claim for the Better Off Dead sequence. The music behind it is the Cars so the options were to mute it or not have the video show anymore. I chose to mute it.
I agree! Sometimes I watch old footage of shopping malls. I can’t believe how different it was then! Of course, no one had a cell phone. Everyone was taking their time, paying attention to their surroundings, and having actual pleasant conversations with each other. It makes me sad. I’m glad I was in high school in the 90’s so I got to enjoy those times. I had no idea then how much things would change!
I was 16 years old and it was absolutely a incredible time. Shopping malls actually had people in them! Arcades would be loaded with people while you were hoping to be able to have a chance to play. Girls would be everywhere trying to hook up with guys! Yeah! Great times. Infact, I'm not sure it happened, I think it just was all a dream!
I was 5 years old in 85. The 80s in general will always hold a special place in my heart. Back when things were simple especially as a kid. No cell phone in sight. Love being able to travel back in time on UA-cam.
@@lilmac9982 as weird as this sounds, I think it's cool that a lot of us were born around the same time. Give or take a few years and unite with each other over common ground.
Let me rephrase.... I was born in 81... but was 4 in 85.. the next year... 85.... got my first Nintendo...... then it created the monster I am today... lol. I still have my Games and my OG Gameboy too... Mario sleeping bag and a few of my Ninja Turtles... my Terminator VHS... and a few other keepsakes.
I was 12 years old and it was coming a beautiful snowy blizzard here in Kentucky. Both grandmas were still living and had 3 channels on tv. Life was perfect.
My childhood was during the 70's, however my teenage years were spent in the 80's. Born in 1967 I turned 13 in 1980. Everything was better, restaurants were better, all food tasted better it seemed. Even soda was better out of the bottles, glass bottles. The 70's for me were the best in the 70's however. Don't get me wrong, the 80's were incredibly special as well. But as a little kid Christmas was an event. The ambiance was so much better and had a much bigger and a far more special feeling. Christmas was in the air, and you FELT IT. Nowadays it's just not the same. I know times change. We get older, priorities change, and our lives and outlooks differ, but it seems as though Christmas went from a family holiday to a flat out Commercial joke. Sad, just sad.
@@ChristmasAficionadoActually Christmas 🎄was always commercialized, your absolutely correct. Maybe because I was a kid it wasn't so bad or affected me like it has lately. Plus thinking back, I had some really rough times in the 80's. In 1982 my Grandpa had a massive heart attack and he passed away on November 13th. He helped raise me. My parents got divorced from each other a SECOND time. So yes things were "better" for me during the 70's. However after watching some of your videos I realized I was a bit hard on the 80's. There were a lot of really great things that happened then. For one I was Confirmed, I started High School, I got my Driver's License, and I got my first car. Actually my first 3 cars. The first was a 1970 Dodge Dart Swinger, yellow with a black vinyl roof. Ugh what a POS....LOL. The second was 1976? Ford Granada. The third was my first muscle car, a 1972 Dodge Charger. Blue with a ½vinyl white top. There were some really great television specials that aired. One being a show that you gave a 👍recommendation👍for, Growing Pains. Where Ben invites a homeless girl home for the holidays and she "steals" their 🎁🎁presents🎁🎁, but she returns them. Your channel features some really great times. From 1984 to 1993 I got to see some of the most incredible and iconic Rock n` Roll band live. Aerosmith, Guns n` 🌹Roses🌹, Mötley Crüe, Iron Maiden, Ronnie James Dio, 🦂Scorpions🦂, Metallica, Megadeath, Ozzy Osborne, AC⚡DC, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Skid Row, Cinderella, Bon Jovi, KISS, Whitesnake, and other great bands. However one of them really really REALLY stands out. Pink Floyd played at Milwaukee County 🏟Stadium🏟 and it was absolutely fantastic! So now that I thought about it more the 80's were definitely a lot of fun! And 🎄Christmas🎄 during the 80's were a lot of fun!
I cannot agree with you more!! Everybody put so much effort into that time of year and it always paid off. When Sears, JC Penney, Montgomery Wards and Toys R' us released the Christmas catalogs, it was on, haha.
As an individual you have to keep things simple you can’t rely on others to make your holiday’s special that’s on you. I grew up with both parents that lived through the Great Depression, so they knew how to keep things in prospective and just enjoy being together on special days with family and friends.
@@jasonleveck8546 Bingo - spot on. Am professionally qualified, able to "retire" at 50 but I would go back to my teen years in the 80's in a flash - wouldn't even think twice about it. @Jimmy also took the key word straight out of my mouth "Vile" ("awful" as a euphemism) - so apt for today's Woke world. Greetings from the Eastern Cape, SA.
Was 19 years old, my girlfriend who would also become my wife in several years was also 19. Met her at a Christmas party back in December of '85 while watching a video on MTV. We dated for several years, married and she blessed me with three beautiful children. 37 years later we're still married and now enjoying our three grandchildren. The '80s with its music, movies, TV shows, video games, fashions and more was a memorable decade to remember. Thanks for sharing!
Me too I was 9 in 85, funnily in my 20s in the 90s and 00s I hated everything 80s ,wow now I miss them with all my heart, to see family young again ....to be excited by the annual showings of Rudolph and A Christmas Carol and count the days...... Magical
I was 7. Still believed in Santa. Liked watching He-Man and Thundercats on TV and Disney movies. Christmas was the best back then! The mall full of Christmas decorations and music. Happy times with family. Christmas will never be that way again! I'll have to save this one and watch it when the Christmas season gets here.
We're the same age i'm figuring because i'm 46 and 7 in 1985. You're right, there was a magic for a lot of years, even into the 90's yet, where you would do all the fun family stuff at the malls, go to movies at the local AMC and out to dinner. The world since the early 2000's just seems so cheap and shallow. I constantly feel a strong nostalgia to be able to go back, even though I know it's gone.
I'm 60 and I still believe in Santa. Because he IS real. Santa Claus is derived from the name Sinterklaas which is the Dutch name for Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas was Nicholas of Myra and he was a Catholic bishop who is now a saint. He was famous for giving gifts, in secret to children as well as to adults in need. The very fact that we still continue his good works keeps his memory alive.
I was only 2 and had a little baby brother, but this is nostalgic for sure. 227 is the first TV show I have memories of watching. It was nice seeing a clip from that show. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus has always been my favorite Rankin-Bass special (yes, including above Rudolph). I also thought Santa Claus the Movie was showing the real workshop when I was little. The beginning of that movie, showing how Santa came to be, I absolutely love.
Yup, my 6 year old brain thought that that's what being an adult and coming home at Christmas would always "feel like" and be like. Reality, not so much.
I was 9 in 1985. I remember being so excited for Christmas specials. Nothing at the time was on demand, and the waiting and anticipation for the special to air was really something special. You would catch a commercial for something like Rudolph, and the ad would tell you something like, “Watch Rudolph Friday night at 7pm!!!” And kids would plan there night around it all waiting for the 7pm showtime!
I remember that Christmas well. I was 9 and we were homeless. Sleeping in a basement shelter a baptist church provided for us. We had to move from one place to another every week. I remember they rented Back to the Future on VHS so we could watch it. My eyes were glued to the TV the whole time. We were fed and clothed and church parishioners even chipped in to get my siblings and I gifts. They even took us christmas caroling to a bunch of really nice houses. I found it to be a tease. But I wasn't jealous. I remember wishing I had a home just as nice though.
@@ChristmasAficionado we continued to bounce around for a couple more months until the shelters ran out of room. I remember us being all separated and I was living on my aunts couch living out of a garbage bag where I kept my clothes. Such an embarrassing time because I still got myself dressed in dirty wrinkled clothes to go to school. But, we pulled through. My mom came through and we eventually got an apt in the ghetto by spring of 86. It was a rough upbringing, but I prefer to remember the good memories of my childhood. Few and far between but they were good memories. As soon as I turned 13, I was old enough to get a job. So I did. Been working ever since.
1985 was a great year, and a wonderful Christmas. I was 8 and I did get G.I. Joe's under the tree. Also, my Royals won the World Series against the Cardinals on a controversial call at first during game 6. My Daddy was a life-long diehard Cardinals fan, and after we won game 7 I turned around and said,"Ha, ha! We won!" He told me to shut up and go to my room. What a great year!
When I seen the title for this video chills of excitement came all around my neck and down my arms. Because in 1985 I was 10 years old And I can still remember looking at the toy catalogs of target, K Mart, Zaryes and others months before Christmas I wanted this BMX bike And the black Lion that formed into Voltron with the other Lions My mom didn't buy me either Instead She bought me A Knight Rider controll car And afew other toys And She bought me the Michael Jackson Beat It Jacket.😊
This video makes me want to cry. I was 6 years old in 1985 and had just moved from Cleveland Ohio to Los Angeles with my family. Such a magical Christmas
I loved the 80's, and the 90's! I believe the downward spiral of the world started in the early 2000's when all the social media sites started popping up, and ultimately when all the smart phones came out.
I was 5 and I started using at 13. I got clean for the last time, 30 years later. When I watch this I’m looking for missing pieces of myself, my childhood home, my tire swing hanging from a tree in the back yard. I appreciate this. Thank you!🙏
This video unlocked some core memories for sure. I was only 6 years old at this time but I definitely remember a lot of those commercials and Christmas specials. Man, the 80’s was a magical time to be a kid. Someone PLEASE build a time-machine!! 😭
I was 7 that Christmas. Watched all the way through. Thanks for this. I’ll watch it with my 7 year old daughter. She’s big on the Three Stooges right now. Some things are timeless. The eighties was such a special time for me and my childhood. Every where I look now and it’s all gone to waste.
I agree. Those were the best years for toys and cartoons. I remember getting the hydrofoil from GI Joe and He-Man toys. And watching’80s Christmas cartoons. Best years ever
As a 5 year old, 1985 was and still is the greatest Christmas of my entire life! ☃️🎄🧑🏿🎄🦌i finally got the original He Man figure (i already had the thunderpunch He Man) a transformer, and a Tonka truck! ☺️
I would have been 7 years old that particular Christmas. What a wonderful time when Christmas meant something to everyone: boy, girl, rich, poor, adult, child, republican, democrat. GREAT toys, meaningful television shows and movies, just the greatest of times. Makes me smile to this day.
I remember trying that Coke II.... i was 6....my moms mom Grandma died back in April of that year...was a very emotional first Christmas with out her and The 85 Bears...Holy Cow! Thanks for sharing this!..❤
I loved the Perfect Strangers Christmas episodes with Balki and Cousin Larry. The lessons of giving and being together made me understand what Xmas is all about and made the holiday season seem so much more special.
The 80's were a great time to grow up. We obtained our first VHS for the house for Christmas '85 and the first video I rented from the local video store (of which there were many back then) was the WWF Wrestling Classic 85, that came in the big plastic "clamshell" case. Great memories of that era, that I wish could have lasted forever, but time marches on and the responsibilities of real life start to manifest. Embrace and enjoy every moment, because life is fleeting.
I was 4 in 1985. I loved watching Thundercats and Punky Brewster back then. I got my first Cabbage Patch doll that year. Ugly doll!! Haha I miss the 80s! It seems so different from nowadays.
I was 14 - I even miss how TV reception was blurry somewhat like that - seemed to stick in my memory…and always had cozy memories of watching those TV holiday specials.
I turned 21 in Oct 1985. Born & raised in L.A, but fled 4 years ago. Those were great times & not just cuz I was young! It's very sad how Calif & the country has gone to shit & it bothers me cuz I have 3 grandbabies now. 😢
@ChristmasAficionado it breaks my heart to this day but my mother took it upon herself to give all my toys away one day and it was donated to the salvation army or something like that.
I remember that year so well. I was 12 and in seventh grade. My close friend Andy,whom I had known since I was 3 and he was 2, saw rocky 4 when it first came out. The whole theater was cheering during the fight. One of my most memorable Christmas eves was that year also. During the day,Andy and me rode our three wheelers through the woods to this local store had the best hot dogs I’ve ever had and we each ate 5 of them. Who would have known he would be gone in 9 years, killed on a motorcycle less than a half mile from that same store. I miss him so much.
It’s funny cuz nobody will understand how this was the best time in history except the ones who were part of it! 1985 has always been one of my fav years ever! A teenager for the first time! Big hair, lots of hair spray, the best music, the best tv shows (70s included) the best games and not on a phone lol Rubik’s cube just a simple cube was EVERYTHING then! The 80s had the BEST EVERYTHING PERIOD❤
Remember the HBO Premier theme? Heard that earlier this summer for the first time in many years and talk about getting jerked back in time! Instantly all these memories of where I was and what time of year came crashing in.
@ChristmasAficionado Thanks. Everyone has great memories from that time, even though life for some was pretty rough. I grew up in Utah. In 1985, most people couldn't tell you where Utah was.🤣. I had the mountains all to myself many times. Even Zion N.P. I could hike and not see another person. Times have changed.
I was 18 years old and a Freshman is college. I hung homemade paper snowflakes from my dorm room ceiling and decorated the outside of the door. Also had lights in the window. Wonderful memories of a great year!! ❤
I chose to look at this year because my babies were 7&4. It was the best Christmas celebrations when they were little, my body wasn’t crippled up and life was so good!
I love the amount videos you put together for the great decade ever!! I would love to see '84? Maybe the others believe I can only imagine how long it takes to get ever and edit it.
Thank you for watching. I'm one person and it takes a long time to put each Year in Christmas episode together. I have been counting down the 80s and 1984 is in the works! Look for before the end of the year!
Everything and everyone was so wholesome, genuinely kind. Before technology seems as though everything was a lot more simple!!! I was 3 in 1985 I really wish we could go back in time. I’m an old soul and was born too late. I wish I could’ve been born in the 40’s and lived all the way up to 2010. Everything after 2010 has sucked big time!!
There were so many great specials that Fall season! Watching this is kinda giving me the same vibe as lookin through the sears catalog as I make notes of the ones I want to watch now!
I remember that Christmas. I was 13 and received a new Walkman for Christmas and a bunch of cassette tapes including Princes’ Purple Rain, which was my favorite.
Ah man, the He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special. I have my own copy now, but back then I was a big fan and could NOT believe that they'd chosen to make a Christmas special. Then (IIRC) they had the He-Man and She-Ra float at the Macy's Parade. I got the Crystal Castle either in 1984 or 1985 for Christmas. What a great time to be a kid.
@@ChristmasAficionado Unfortunately along with much of the Filmation era of MOTU it didn't age well! Although watching Skeletor try to cope with being nice is pretty funny. YMMV.
This video got a copyright claim for the Better Off Dead sequence. The music behind it is the Cars so the options were to mute it or not have the video show anymore. I chose to mute it.
Where’s Santa Claus the movie with Jon lithgow and Dudley Moore
@@centrevezgaming4862 you didn't watch all the way through to the end!
Another claim. I had to mute the music behind the parade footage.
Just the fact that there are any claims for videos like this is pathetic. It should be considered fair use, this is educational.
I was 6. God I miss this time. The world just seemed right and all seemed good. I feel like nothing since the mid-90’s has been right since.
Times change. I miss tv sitcoms
I agree! Sometimes I watch old footage of shopping malls. I can’t believe how different it was then! Of course, no one had a cell phone. Everyone was taking their time, paying attention to their surroundings, and having actual pleasant conversations with each other. It makes me sad. I’m glad I was in high school in the 90’s so I got to enjoy those times. I had no idea then how much things would change!
It’s called getting old. Im sure young people feel just like you did then and will lament for the past in 40 years just like youre doing now.
If we had that tech we would have been the same way
@@ChristmasAficionado, exactly. My opinion is that technology has ruined our world.
1985 was a damn good year!
Nothing like growing up in the 80s
I was 16 years old and it was absolutely a incredible time. Shopping malls actually had people in them! Arcades would be loaded with people while you were hoping to be able to have a chance to play. Girls would be everywhere trying to hook up with guys! Yeah! Great times. Infact, I'm not sure it happened, I think it just was all a dream!
It truly was.
@quantumfx2677 it feels like I'm living in a clown show compared to the 70s and 80s ....did we teleport to another dimension? 😮
I was 5 years old in 85. The 80s in general will always hold a special place in my heart. Back when things were simple especially as a kid. No cell phone in sight. Love being able to travel back in time on UA-cam.
I was 4
Me too. Proud to be born in 80
@@lilmac9982 as weird as this sounds, I think it's cool that a lot of us were born around the same time. Give or take a few years and unite with each other over common ground.
Let me rephrase.... I was born in 81... but was 4 in 85.. the next year... 85.... got my first Nintendo...... then it created the monster I am today... lol. I still have my Games and my OG Gameboy too... Mario sleeping bag and a few of my Ninja Turtles... my Terminator VHS... and a few other keepsakes.
I was 16 and It was a incredible time to be alive. I'm starting to believe that it never happened!
I was 12 years old and it was coming a beautiful snowy blizzard here in Kentucky. Both grandmas were still living and had 3 channels on tv. Life was perfect.
I was 10 In WV we were snowed in for a week 2 channels 5 22 and 35 acres
Same lol! I was in Lexington. It was the last Christmas i got mostly toys. I remember getting Transformers, a Huffy bike & a Trapper Keeper.
@@dr.awkward9075 so cool if I remember correctly I think I got a racetrack lol.
@@Michael-mt1zq Nice. Here we are now at 51.
@@dr.awkward9075 I turn 51 on Thanksgiving lol. Man time sure flies by.
Was 9 and it was so much better than today! Miss those days
everybody misses their childhood
@@ChristmasAficionadoThat damn Folgers commercial got me!
That rogue, finish high school in 1994 you are 49 years old some time has went by!!!!
My childhood was during the 70's, however my teenage years were spent in the 80's. Born in 1967 I turned 13 in 1980. Everything was better, restaurants were better, all food tasted better it seemed. Even soda was better out of the bottles, glass bottles. The 70's for me were the best in the 70's however. Don't get me wrong, the 80's were incredibly special as well. But as a little kid Christmas was an event. The ambiance was so much better and had a much bigger and a far more special feeling. Christmas was in the air, and you FELT IT. Nowadays it's just not the same. I know times change. We get older, priorities change, and our lives and outlooks differ, but it seems as though Christmas went from a family holiday to a flat out Commercial joke. Sad, just sad.
Looking back it was still commercialized. Hell even Charlie Brown was complaining about it in 1965
@@ChristmasAficionadoActually Christmas 🎄was always commercialized, your absolutely correct. Maybe because I was a kid it wasn't so bad or affected me like it has lately. Plus thinking back, I had some really rough times in the 80's. In 1982 my Grandpa had a massive heart attack and he passed away on November 13th. He helped raise me. My parents got divorced from each other a SECOND time. So yes things were "better" for me during the 70's. However after watching some of your videos I realized I was a bit hard on the 80's. There were a lot of really great things that happened then. For one I was Confirmed, I started High School, I got my Driver's License, and I got my first car. Actually my first 3 cars. The first was a 1970 Dodge Dart Swinger, yellow with a black vinyl roof. Ugh what a POS....LOL. The second was 1976? Ford Granada. The third was my first muscle car, a 1972 Dodge Charger. Blue with a ½vinyl white top. There were some really great television specials that aired. One being a show that you gave a 👍recommendation👍for, Growing Pains. Where Ben invites a homeless girl home for the holidays and she "steals" their 🎁🎁presents🎁🎁, but she returns them. Your channel features some really great times. From 1984 to 1993 I got to see some of the most incredible and iconic Rock n` Roll band live. Aerosmith, Guns n` 🌹Roses🌹, Mötley Crüe, Iron Maiden, Ronnie James Dio, 🦂Scorpions🦂, Metallica, Megadeath, Ozzy Osborne, AC⚡DC, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Skid Row, Cinderella, Bon Jovi, KISS, Whitesnake, and other great bands. However one of them really really REALLY stands out. Pink Floyd played at Milwaukee County 🏟Stadium🏟 and it was absolutely fantastic! So now that I thought about it more the 80's were definitely a lot of fun! And 🎄Christmas🎄 during the 80's were a lot of fun!
Your music taste is 🔥
I cannot agree with you more!! Everybody put so much effort into that time of year and it always paid off. When Sears, JC Penney, Montgomery Wards and Toys R' us released the Christmas catalogs, it was on, haha.
As an individual you have to keep things simple you can’t rely on others to make your holiday’s special that’s on you. I grew up with both parents that lived through the Great Depression, so they knew how to keep things in prospective and just enjoy being together on special days with family and friends.
I was 8 and remember it like yesterday, all family was alive and the times were wonderful
How awful the world has become
Its different for everybody. While I look back at 1985 with fondness, I wouldn't give up what I have now
@@ChristmasAficionado We may be materially richer, but spiritually and everything else that is important is diminished.
@@jasonleveck8546 Bingo - spot on. Am professionally qualified, able to "retire" at 50 but I would go back to my teen years in the 80's in a flash - wouldn't even think twice about it. @Jimmy also took the key word straight out of my mouth "Vile" ("awful" as a euphemism) - so apt for today's Woke world. Greetings from the Eastern Cape, SA.
@jimmycurrire7868: more like "vile"...
Was 19 years old, my girlfriend who would also become my wife in several years was also 19. Met her at a Christmas party back in December of '85 while watching a video on MTV. We dated for several years, married and she blessed me with three beautiful children. 37 years later we're still married and now enjoying our three grandchildren. The '80s with its music, movies, TV shows, video games, fashions and more was a memorable decade to remember. Thanks for sharing!
That’s awesome to hear. I hope the video brought back some memories!
Very cool. I am happy for you and your family. Well done.
I had just turned 19 back then.
It was a simpler time...as "advanced" as we've become, a lot of the world just "worked" better then. I miss the 80s more and more as time wears on.
Some of the 80s are a tough watch as you can see in this video, but rewatching Punky, 227, and some of the movies gives me joy
Almost everyone who got to experience the 80s wishes they could go back
Me too I was 9 in 85, funnily in my 20s in the 90s and 00s I hated everything 80s ,wow now I miss them with all my heart, to see family young again ....to be excited by the annual showings of Rudolph and A Christmas Carol and count the days...... Magical
I was 7. Still believed in Santa. Liked watching He-Man and Thundercats on TV and Disney movies. Christmas was the best back then! The mall full of Christmas decorations and music. Happy times with family. Christmas will never be that way again! I'll have to save this one and watch it when the Christmas season gets here.
My plan is to have 1984 and 1983 up before the end of the year. You can also check out 1986 - 1989. They are up now!
We're the same age i'm figuring because i'm 46 and 7 in 1985. You're right, there was a magic for a lot of years, even into the 90's yet, where you would do all the fun family stuff at the malls, go to movies at the local AMC and out to dinner. The world since the early 2000's just seems so cheap and shallow. I constantly feel a strong nostalgia to be able to go back, even though I know it's gone.
Don’t forget Transformers on tv!
Wait… what do you mean “still believed in Santa”? What are you trying to say?! 😳
I'm 60 and I still believe in Santa. Because he IS real. Santa Claus is derived from the name Sinterklaas which is the Dutch name for Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas was Nicholas of Myra and he was a Catholic bishop who is now a saint. He was famous for giving gifts, in secret to children as well as to adults in need. The very fact that we still continue his good works keeps his memory alive.
UA-cam is a miracle website where one can travel back in time!
yes! be sure to check out 1986 - 1989 of my videos for more
I was only 2 and had a little baby brother, but this is nostalgic for sure. 227 is the first TV show I have memories of watching. It was nice seeing a clip from that show. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus has always been my favorite Rankin-Bass special (yes, including above Rudolph). I also thought Santa Claus the Movie was showing the real workshop when I was little. The beginning of that movie, showing how Santa came to be, I absolutely love.
Love 227 and the art direction for Santa Claus the Movie was fantastic
Born in 75. This brings back memories! Thank you for your work
Born the same year. Thank you for watching!
75 for me as well. Cheers!
No Christmas commercial compilation is complete without the Folgers commercial. 💯👏🏽
yes!
The Folgers commercial always tugs my heart.
That's the original!
Love those!
Yup, my 6 year old brain thought that that's what being an adult and coming home at Christmas would always "feel like" and be like. Reality, not so much.
I was 9 in 1985. I remember being so excited for Christmas specials. Nothing at the time was on demand, and the waiting and anticipation for the special to air was really something special. You would catch a commercial for something like Rudolph, and the ad would tell you something like, “Watch Rudolph Friday night at 7pm!!!” And kids would plan there night around it all waiting for the 7pm showtime!
I am glad we have on demand TV these days. I was always disappointed when I missed something
I was 11 years old in 1985… I miss the 80s
The 80s were great I started this series because of it. If you haven't check out 86 - 89. 1984 will be out later this year
13 here. And I didn't know how good it was until it wasn't :(
me too the summer of 1984 was the greatest summer to be a kid. all the classic movies that came out that summer was incredible
I started collecting footage from that year. It should be a fun video
I was 12, wouldn't trade that year for the entire world
I remember that Christmas well. I was 9 and we were homeless. Sleeping in a basement shelter a baptist church provided for us. We had to move from one place to another every week. I remember they rented Back to the Future on VHS so we could watch it. My eyes were glued to the TV the whole time. We were fed and clothed and church parishioners even chipped in to get my siblings and I gifts. They even took us christmas caroling to a bunch of really nice houses. I found it to be a tease. But I wasn't jealous. I remember wishing I had a home just as nice though.
wow. did you eventually get a home?
@@ChristmasAficionado we continued to bounce around for a couple more months until the shelters ran out of room. I remember us being all separated and I was living on my aunts couch living out of a garbage bag where I kept my clothes. Such an embarrassing time because I still got myself dressed in dirty wrinkled clothes to go to school. But, we pulled through. My mom came through and we eventually got an apt in the ghetto by spring of 86. It was a rough upbringing, but I prefer to remember the good memories of my childhood. Few and far between but they were good memories. As soon as I turned 13, I was old enough to get a job. So I did. Been working ever since.
@@endofsocietybless u . Glad everything turned out ok
I was 11. Such a magical time! The 80s were the absolute best!
yes!
me too.
Oh my goodness, this makes me want to smile and cry at the same time… the 80’s were some of my absolute favorite memories of childhood…
I'm so happy this brought you joy.
80’s and 90’s were the best time to be alive and I got to enjoy every single year of both decades!
1985 was a great year, and a wonderful Christmas. I was 8 and I did get G.I. Joe's under the tree. Also, my Royals won the World Series against the Cardinals on a controversial call at first during game 6. My Daddy was a life-long diehard Cardinals fan, and after we won game 7 I turned around and said,"Ha, ha! We won!" He told me to shut up and go to my room. What a great year!
GI-JOE was the big toy for me that year too.
I was 6 and the 80ds was something special and we were lucky experiencing it .
When I seen the title for this video chills of excitement came all around my neck and down my arms. Because in 1985 I was 10 years old And I can still remember looking at the toy catalogs of target, K Mart, Zaryes and others months before Christmas I wanted this BMX bike And the black Lion that formed into Voltron with the other Lions My mom didn't buy me either Instead She bought me A Knight Rider controll car And afew other toys And She bought me the Michael Jackson Beat It Jacket.😊
Love a Knight Rider Car
I had the jacket too!!! And the one white bedazzled glove😂
@@DawnAYoung-vk4on lol😂
I was 6 years old in 85. Those were some amazing times
Love the 80s
Born in 75 also!!
I had just turned 17 and I agree, great times and precious memories.
Thanks for watching. I'm glad it brought back some memories.
i saw rocky 4 eight times in the theater it will always be my favorite rocky movie
its the best
I was 7 in 1985. Santa Claus the movie was and still is my favorite.
I enjoy it. When I was a kid it was amazing
This video makes me want to cry. I was 6 years old in 1985 and had just moved from Cleveland Ohio to Los Angeles with my family. Such a magical Christmas
I loved the 80's, and the 90's! I believe the downward spiral of the world started in the early 2000's when all the social media sites started popping up, and ultimately when all the smart phones came out.
I think you are more aware of the world and people's dumb opinions. Thanks for watching
I would say 9/11 is was when everything went down hill.
I was 5 and I started using at 13. I got clean for the last time, 30 years later. When I watch this I’m looking for missing pieces of myself, my childhood home, my tire swing hanging from a tree in the back yard. I appreciate this. Thank you!🙏
I'm glad the video helped.
This video unlocked some core memories for sure. I was only 6 years old at this time but I definitely remember a lot of those commercials and Christmas specials. Man, the 80’s was a magical time to be a kid.
Someone PLEASE build a time-machine!! 😭
If I could I would.
Those were some good times! I was 7, but I remember all the good stuff from that decade.
It’s official. Rocky IV is now a Christmas movie
He stopped the cold war on Christmas!
I was 7 that Christmas. Watched all the way through. Thanks for this. I’ll watch it with my 7 year old daughter. She’s big on the Three Stooges right now. Some things are timeless. The eighties was such a special time for me and my childhood. Every where I look now and it’s all gone to waste.
I also put together 1986, 87, 88, and 89 on the channel. I love she's big on the Stooges. So great.
I agree. Those were the best years for toys and cartoons. I remember getting the hydrofoil from GI Joe and He-Man toys. And watching’80s Christmas cartoons. Best years ever
I love GI JOE. Maybe not so much this episode 😂
It was a great year, thank you for posting.
It was. Thank you for watching!
As a 5 year old, 1985 was and still is the greatest Christmas of my entire life! ☃️🎄🧑🏿🎄🦌i finally got the original He Man figure (i already had the thunderpunch He Man) a transformer, and a Tonka truck! ☺️
Do you still have it?
This brings back such incredibly good memories 😢
I graduated from high school in 1985. It was a great year!
Good year!
I was 16 in 1985, man those were the best times, just getting my license and first car 💙
I was only 10 but this was a year I clearly remember and loved.
same here i turned 16 in may of 85,ended up with a 79 Buick regal.white exterior and red interior..v6 and terrible on gas
@@danparker1976 haha! My first car was a 76 light blue Ford Granada with a fake snake skin roof . I got it for $500 ☺️
@@kelleybrown840I turned 16 the following February. My first car was a baby blue Pontiac Le Mans.
Rocky 4 is the greatest moment in movie history !
I was 11. Prime of my childhood. This takes me back.
Me too.... born in 74.... the 80s for us were ages 6 thru 16.... it was perfect
I was 20 years old. Those were the days. I wish I could go back just for a day.
I was 9 I want to go back and stay FOREVER!! 😢
i was 11 that christmas this almost made me cry at least 4 times !
Thanks for watching. I'm glad this brought you back to those times
I would have been 7 years old that particular Christmas. What a wonderful time when Christmas meant something to everyone: boy, girl, rich, poor, adult, child, republican, democrat. GREAT toys, meaningful television shows and movies, just the greatest of times. Makes me smile to this day.
I was 8 years old. This was in the golden era of my childhood. Many great memories.
Thanks for watching!
The one near the beginning with the kids singing christmas carols reminded me of being a kid.
I remember trying that Coke II.... i was 6....my moms mom Grandma died back in April of that year...was a very emotional first Christmas with out her and The 85 Bears...Holy Cow! Thanks for sharing this!..❤
I'm glad you enjoyed it
I was 14 ...great times! I wish we could go back.
I was 7 years old. Christmas was magical. My grandparents were here and everything was perfect. I miss it so much.
You still have memories.
I turned 10 years old at the end of that month and year. Good times. Would love to go back.
I would love to go and rewatch Rocky IV in the theaters
50 years old, still young
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I loved the Perfect Strangers Christmas episodes with Balki and Cousin Larry. The lessons of giving and being together made me understand what Xmas is all about and made the holiday season seem so much more special.
Perfect Strangers was such a great show.
I WAS BORN 1979 GOOD TIMES ☺️THEY MADE IT MAGICAL FOR US KIDS
yes!
I was 8 years old in 1985 awesome toys 😎❤️
Yes. That is the best part!
The 80's were a great time to grow up. We obtained our first VHS for the house for Christmas '85 and the first video I rented from the local video store (of which there were many back then) was the WWF Wrestling Classic 85, that came in the big plastic "clamshell" case. Great memories of that era, that I wish could have lasted forever, but time marches on and the responsibilities of real life start to manifest. Embrace and enjoy every moment, because life is fleeting.
The VCR the greatest invention
My first Christmas! 85 baby!
What do you think of the movies and TV shows from that year?
I was 4 in 1985. I loved watching Thundercats and Punky Brewster back then. I got my first Cabbage Patch doll that year. Ugly doll!! Haha I miss the 80s! It seems so different from nowadays.
Every decade looks different. TV was very different back then.
I was 10 years old! I miss the1980’s so much!
My tenth year, Was a great Christmas !
I was 11, definitely the best Christmas I can remember.
why was it the best?
I was 9 years old . Back to be future is still my favorite movie . Those were the days ! Mcfly !
One of the best movies ever made
I was 14 - I even miss how TV reception was blurry somewhat like that - seemed to stick in my memory…and always had cozy memories of watching those TV holiday specials.
using any footage now is blurry or has static! LOL
I was 5. I remember watching Amazing stories when I was a kid. Great series
yes. I didn't remember this episode but was so happy to rewatch it
I was 5 years old during all this AWESOMENESS and I remember this like if it was just yesterday 😌
childhood always feels like yesterday
That was my favorite Christmas. I was 10. Everything was so great and so simple back then.
It's always simple when you're a kid
Was born in 85 but wish i was born in 75 so i could have enjoyed the 80s more. The best decade imo
that sounds great but I was born in 1975 and boy do I feel it sometimes!
I turned 21 in Oct 1985. Born & raised in L.A, but fled 4 years ago. Those were great times & not just cuz I was young! It's very sad how Calif & the country has gone to shit & it bothers me cuz I have 3 grandbabies now. 😢
I don't know if its all that different but focusing on the positive is a better way to look at the world
In 1985 I had my eye on the die cast metal VOLTRON toy. Probably one of the best toys I ever owned.
I still have mine!
@ChristmasAficionado it breaks my heart to this day but my mother took it upon herself to give all my toys away one day and it was donated to the salvation army or something like that.
I wanna go back.
Me tooo
I was 15 in 1985❤😢brings back memories 😢❤
You're welcome. Thanks for watching
I was 11 in 85 great times
I remember that year so well. I was 12 and in seventh grade. My close friend Andy,whom I had known since I was 3 and he was 2, saw rocky 4 when it first came out. The whole theater was cheering during the fight. One of my most memorable Christmas eves was that year also. During the day,Andy and me rode our three wheelers through the woods to this local store had the best hot dogs I’ve ever had and we each ate 5 of them. Who would have known he would be gone in 9 years, killed on a motorcycle less than a half mile from that same store. I miss him so much.
Rocky brings everyone together
Today they'd root for communist sub human.
It’s funny cuz nobody will understand how this was the best time in history except the ones who were part of it! 1985 has always been one of my fav years ever! A teenager for the first time! Big hair, lots of hair spray, the best music, the best tv shows (70s included) the best games and not on a phone lol Rubik’s cube just a simple cube was EVERYTHING then! The 80s had the BEST EVERYTHING PERIOD❤
yes
That Amazing Stories theme song always IMMEDIATELY takes me back!
I loved that song. I don't remember that episode but when I rewatched it for this episode it became one of my favorites.
Remember the HBO Premier theme? Heard that earlier this summer for the first time in many years and talk about getting jerked back in time! Instantly all these memories of where I was and what time of year came crashing in.
i was 13 in 1985. i was big in the transformers. i never cared for the thanksgiving Prade. but i used to watch the Christmas cartoons back then
I love watching the parade and revisiting past years. I’m about your age and Transformers was my life
i was also into he-man at the time before i got into the transformers
Transformers, G.I. Joe and Hotwheels/Matchbox. I was 12.
Me too! 😃 13 in '85!
Wow just bring back amazing memories I remember almost all of these shows and commercials thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching. Be sure to catch the rest of the series featuring 1986 - 1989!
I was 15. I got a Burton Performer Snowboard and never put on skis again. I could "skateboard" in the winter.
I have never skied or snowboarded in my life but I’m m glad you got an amazing gift!
@ChristmasAficionado Thanks. Everyone has great memories from that time, even though life for some was pretty rough. I grew up in Utah. In 1985, most people couldn't tell you where Utah was.🤣. I had the mountains all to myself many times. Even Zion N.P. I could hike and not see another person. Times have changed.
I was in my first year of high school in September 85 so I remember my
1985 Christmas very well. What a wonderful time to be alive.
It seems 1985 was a special year for a lot of people
I was 5. And I love and miss everything 80's the 90's was good too but the 80' was innocence as a kid 🔥👍👍
I was 18 years old and a Freshman is college. I hung homemade paper snowflakes from my dorm room ceiling and decorated the outside of the door. Also had lights in the window. Wonderful memories of a great year!! ❤
That is awesome!
I was 9 years old best decade to grow up in :)
yes
I was 19 years old in 1985 !!! 😊
I loved press your luck, I got Optimas Prime for Christmas that year.
No more Wammies!!!!
I was 13 ,the good old time.Missing it very much 😢
I was 12 in 85, what a great time to be a kid
I love the song they sang on the Coka Cola commercial. Miss these times. I was 10.
That was a last minute addition and realized I needed to include it.
Is it just me or is 1995 the best year yet?! Takes me back everytime I watch these!
I assume you mean 1985. I liked this one. I think my favorite is 1988 so far but this was a lot of fun to put together
I chose to look at this year because my babies were 7&4. It was the best Christmas celebrations when they were little, my body wasn’t crippled up and life was so good!
Glad it brought you good memories
So many faces and shows that I'd forgotten about! I'd just graduated from high school in June. What a memorable year!
I love all of them!
2:32 - Wait, that was a real Christmas special & not a fever dream I had when I was a kid?
yep. Andy Williams did a series of specials with the NBC kids.
I love the amount videos you put together for the great decade ever!! I would love to see '84? Maybe the others believe I can only imagine how long it takes to get ever and edit it.
Thank you for watching. I'm one person and it takes a long time to put each Year in Christmas episode together. I have been counting down the 80s and 1984 is in the works! Look for before the end of the year!
Everything and everyone was so wholesome, genuinely kind. Before technology seems as though everything was a lot more simple!!! I was 3 in 1985 I really wish we could go back in time. I’m an old soul and was born too late. I wish I could’ve been born in the 40’s and lived all the way up to 2010. Everything after 2010 has sucked big time!!
I love the Christmas movies that come out now
Excellent job, as always!!! 🎄🎄🎄
Thanks guys!
There were so many great specials that Fall season! Watching this is kinda giving me the same vibe as lookin through the sears catalog as I make notes of the ones I want to watch now!
Thanks for watching!
I was 12 those were some good times this is nostalgia overload lovin it
I was 12 too. The 80s were the best.
Thanks. I love putting these together
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I remember that Christmas. I was 13 and received a new Walkman for Christmas and a bunch of cassette tapes including Princes’ Purple Rain, which was my favorite.
my cassette walkman was attached to my hip all the time
@I went nowhere without my Walkman. My ears would hurt and burn before I would take them off 😂
Wow!! You did a great job with this and included a lot. I was 9, good times….
Thank you. Be sure to check out the 1986 through 1989
Sunshine girl, 49 years old finish school in 1994 sometime has passed by but you’re still relatively young
Ah man, the He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special. I have my own copy now, but back then I was a big fan and could NOT believe that they'd chosen to make a Christmas special. Then (IIRC) they had the He-Man and She-Ra float at the Macy's Parade. I got the Crystal Castle either in 1984 or 1985 for Christmas. What a great time to be a kid.
It's nostalgic but hard to watch as an adult.
@@ChristmasAficionado Unfortunately along with much of the Filmation era of MOTU it didn't age well! Although watching Skeletor try to cope with being nice is pretty funny. YMMV.
This is so good.
Thank you Santa!
Excellent video.
Thank you!