I think we all would like our'80s bodies back. But I'd like to take my current brain back to the '80s with me too. Avoid some of the pit-falls and correct some of the missed opportunities. And bring some winning lottery ticket numbers along for the ride....
I’ll go back too. It was simple back then. Music was better. It was safer too. We weren’t contaminated by social media. There weren’t so much issues back then. America is too crazy now.
@@mikey6214 …Frankly I would be fine with just regular TV, movies, VCR, books, quarter arcade machines, etc. I like the idea of kids and teenagers socializing with each other outside and not being addicted to their cell phones. Even adults are addicted to them. Computers were very simple back then in the ‘80s but that’s fine. Today if the cell phone only had 2 functions (calling/texting and taking pics) I’d be totally cool with it.
Yes, it was a great time to be alive. I was in college and 21. My tuition in Texas was $4.00 a semester hour! Texas oil revenue was the reason for cheap college.
My aunt gave me a Sony Walkman with radio and cassette for Christmas in 1985. That same year she gave my mom (single mom by then) our first microwave I was still using the Walkman at college in 1990. I had no idea she had spent that much for it back then! Thanks Aunt Carol, for the gift of music where and when I wanted to listen to it, and the microwave. Things sure seemed to last longer back then. That microwave didn't die until 2005!
We had an old 80s microwave growing up too. Dam thing was massive, but it worked some good. Pretty sure my mom had that thing even when I moved out long gone 😂 they really don't make em like they use to
My mom was still using hers that she got in 1974 up until she moved into a retirement center last year. I'm sure she would've kept it except it was too big.
I never had a real walkman, I had a knockoff, I think it was either a Sharp or a JVC. It wasn't bad but it wasn't the real deal! My buddy had a real walkman, the cool yellow waterproof one you could even take it in a pool. Of course he was always "that guy" with the coolest stuff...his dad was a doctor!
Puts things in perspective for sure......I was a kid in the 80s, but would still prefer to go back there (or the 90s, 2000s or even the 10s) rather than now
A gallon of gas was under a dollar back in the late 90's. Smokes were almost as cheap. 9/11 and 2008 home loan ripoff gave them authority to constantly raise prices for no reason, not only that, but offering less and less as they raise prices. The only people who didn't notice were the politicians who were tasked to actually notice.
I turned 16 in 1997 and gas that summer was $.79 per gallon. I found out that that particular year was lower than normal. There are articles online talking about it if you google it. You could also get a pack of GPC cigarettes for $.99 per pack and if you were really lucky you could find that black and gold pack of Harley Davidson cigarettes for $.79 per pack. Yes kids, Harley Davidson had their own cigarettes for a short time.
"Adjusted for inflation" does not mean much considering most people are still making 1980's salaries. It is deficit spending that causes inflation btw. They are literally making money up that does not exist, the more they do it the less each individual dollar is worth. It is like a massive hidden tax that never ends.
@@JSchaffer214I remember the Harley Davidson smokes, they were terrible 😂. Much of the inflated price you pay today for tobacco is tax, especially depending on what state you are in. NY they are about $15 a pack now for name brands, and were about $2 a pack in 1993.
We didnt have the reclining leather seats, beer or better sound when we went to the movies in the 80s but one thing we did have was good movies compared to the bad movies today. I havent had the desire to watch a new movie in yrs.
The theater near my home had awesome sound. When they tore the theatre out in 1991 to put in a Trader Joe's and a shoe store, the fabric walls were ripped down, and the speakers exposed. Walls of 18" drivers and horn tweeters. The amplifiers they used had rows of large vacuum tubes in them. Some old guy took it all saying he was an audiophile and would not let them go to the dump. I wonder if that system is still alive. The sound would make your shirt vibrate against your skin on the explosions in Star Wars.
Ahhh..... summer of my senior year in high school. I really appreciated going back to a better time and taking a trip down memory lane. 😊 Thank you my friend.
The problem isn't that prices have remained similar when accounting for inflation. It's that inflation steals the purchasing power of any accumulated wealth. So while bananas may be a few cents cheaper when adjusted, the $1 you saved in 1980 has the equivalent purchasing power of like 50cents.
Yep. "Adjusted for inflation" does not mean much considering most people are still making 1980's salaries. It is deficit spending that causes inflation btw. They are literally making money up that does not exist, the more they do it the less each individual dollar is worth. It is like a massive hidden tax that never ends.
Not in all cases, but in many cases you got a higher quality product back then too. Automobiles are a big exception, they were mostly junk back in the day, but goods like electronics even though they were more expensive and lacked some of the features of modern stuff would essentially last forever if you took care of them and if something went wrong you could get things repaired and not have to just throw it away like you do now. It wasn't uncommon to have an old TV set or stereo system for 25-30 years. In fact I still use my 1987 stereo receiver that I bought used off a friend in the early 90's regularly.
I have 2 big memories from the mid 80's. We had a neighbor where all the teens hung out, he had a garage and body shop at home. He helped us all keep our car's running. He told me once it wouldn't be to many years before we would be hanging our TV's on the wall like pictures. I remember I responded to him by saying, Mike, I think you have inhaled to many fumes. lol He's gone now over 20 years, but so many memories there. And I was at work when a friend called and ask what I was doing after work. I said I had to go to the bank and make a car payment on my 78 Trans Am. She said her mom who lived right around the corner from me, banked at the same bank, and needed a ride to make her last house payment. I will never forget, my car payment was 80 ? something a month, and she said, boy it sure feels good to pay off this 30 year loan and have that extra 50.? something a month. Time changes everything. She's long passed now, but her house in the area where it is would market today for 250,000 or more.
Garbage Pail Kids were the highlight of 1985 for me. Used to get them from the Good Humor van. Good times...Garbage Pail Kids, a strawberry shortcake ice cream bar and a packet of Fun Dip!
I need to find a flux capacitor kit for my car to go back to the 80s and get stuck there asap. I still sit around and reminisce by listening to 80s pop and movies, it was a whole different world back then and people were a lot more stable. I also remember smoking in stores and parents could ask strangers to babysit and nothing weird would happen.❤
It probably cost more to see your local symphony orchestra perform than your favorite rock or pop star, since classical music was more popular back then. Many sporting events, and especially the price of concessions, were notably cheaper back then, back before those huge player contracts forced the gate out to consumers.
@@pannoni8449You can't even go to a sporting event anymore, except maybe a baseball game in the cheap seats, without dumping a grand. They are rebuilding the football stadium in my town and doing PSL's which will price out pretty much all average people. Fortunately for me I stopped caring about football years ago when it got so ridiculously expensive to go to a game. My town doesn't have a baseball team but it's cheaper for me to drive a few hours to go to the next closest one and see a game than to go to a football game less than 5 miles from my house.
Fun Dip, a bag of sugar, eaten with a sugar spoon lol. Somehow we lived. People are so uptight today. We just enjoyed life back then. No internet to scare you.
Rhett, I enjoyed your comparisons of 1985's prices as compared to 2024. This really was enlightening to see the differences of prices. I remember when you could buy five or six bags of groceries and now you'd be glad to buy two or three for the price now. Have a fantastic weekend. Take care 🐎
I'm so old I remember when the penny candy was two for a penny! My allowance was fifty cents a week and that was a fortune back in the day. A kite was a dime and a roll of string was fifteen cents.
Exactly. In 1982 at 19 I was making $8/hr before taxes. Here in 2024 I'm making $42/hr before taxes. That's just over $100K per year with the hours I work. Guess what? I was richer in income in 1982 than I am now once taxes, inflation and downward wage creep are taken into account.
I bought an all digital microwave in 2007 on sale for $45 at Walmart and I still use it regularly. Electronics is the one advantage where greater length of time lowers the cost.
I was 12, had my ears just pierced at a mall kiosk, parents decided to ignore my being "dramatic" at how the pain was making me feel like passing out, and continue looking at microwaves. That was 84 or 85. They bought 1 at some point, not sure if that night. I think I sat on a sofa or easy chair in the furniture dept nearby. Probably a Sears. What a gen x moment, parents calling you being in a lot of pain "dramatic". Then letting you sit nearby and not caring that you aren't right next to them OMG!1!!
@@calebwilliams7659 wow. My parents got me an Atari around 82, and then I got bored with it lol. They must have taken out a loan to buy it. I know some games were about 50.00 each to buy separate. I had been begging for it for a while " all the other kids have 1!". Only to get bored.
tape/8 track players had been a common factory option in cars since the 1960s and in some instances lasted as an option as late at 2010 such as the Lexus SC430 coupe/convertible
I remember being a little kid in the mid 70s and getting a candy bar at the grocery store for 14 cents. There was a gas station nearby that sold those old-school little coca colas for 20 cents.
I remember buying candy bars when they were 25 cents each. Closest store was a Safeway. They would sell you a cold Pepsi for 1/6 the price of a six pack, which would make them 25 cents. I used to go to a liquor store on my way back from school, they had root beer popsicles for 25 cents. The bus was 25 cents, I wish I had gone to the beach back then.
Cheapest I remember was 35 cents out of the vending machine at my parents social club and a can of soda was also 35 cents out of the 7up/A&W machine and 50 cents for the luxury of a Coke or Pepsi lol. It was always fun after dinner the adults would get a few drinks and give us kids a pile of quarters for candy and video games, they had some classics like Tron, Zoo Keeper, and Mr Do! as well a pool table for a quarter a game.
My dad got a "deal" on a new Magnavox VCR in 1985 because he got several friends to all buy one from the same place at the same time. It was $350 and they each got them for $325, nearly $1000 adjusted for inflation. But the unit is a tank and I still have it today and it still works, though the motor in it is quite loud when it plays from years of use. Even the original remote still works! Magnavox used to be very high quality back in the day. Also had a big tv of that brand from 1987 that was still working when I gave it away a few years ago.
I bought a four head VCR around 1982 for slightly over $700 as a Christmas gift for the family. It was build exceedingly well, and worked well for a couple decades.
I remember 85, I was more than half way through what was a 22 year career in the USMC and they sent me on recruiting duty starting that year. It was a miserable time because I hated recruiting but, even with 3 years of that, I'd take the 80s back over today anytime.
I know it was in 1986 but I still remember holding hands with complete strangers with the Hands across America movement. My buddy had albums full of garbage pail kids cards. Bet he wishes he still had those seeing how much some are worth.
I was two in 1985, but I still remember the 80’s very fondly and well. The world was a simpler and better place. @4:30 I also had that exact Walkman in the mid/late 90’s as a teenager, I used it to listen to mixtapes as I did my yard jobs. It’s a trip to see one again!
I put on my rose colored glasses & have fond memories of the 80s. It would be nice to go back to visit, but I wouldn't want to relive the whole decade.
You brought back sweet memories, when you showed “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure”. I was 4 years old when it came out, and I still love that movie to this day! ❤️ It’s just sad to know, that with how popular Pee-wee was, Paul Rubens only made 5 million dollars.
Hobbyists were the first PC users, and they continued to push PCs to the limit. So it was really two separate markets: The PC XT or similar for business, and the Commodore or Atari or similar for the home hobbyist.
I’m an early GenXer, and I remember the gas lines, the hostage situation, government cheese, and Reaganomics. I’ve even been binging The Beverly Hillbillies the last week or so. So as bad as it was, I loved that time. I would rather live now, but be young enough to enjoy it, while at the same time have all the knowledge and experiences growing up as a GenXer. Younger generations don’t seem to want to learn from those that came before them.
1980s were hopeful and fun even if you were a broke college kid, which I was. It was a better time too because no one was glued to a cell phone. I'd give anything to go back to 1985!
One of the movie theater's we used to go had bargain matinee for only a few dollars, and there was a second theater that the old run movies just before being pulled and they were only a quarter. Take me back any day.
Yeah, you probably won't get a hernia picking up that new TV today. But you can bet your ass you'll be back in the store in less than 2 years picking up another one.
I still have one that came with us in a move- 10 years ago. Not a full on "smart TV" though, I guess basic flat screen. I'm such a Luddite, it doesn't bother me. Does have a Roku hooked up with streaming services. TV still works fine. Washing machine on the other hand, didn't even last 10 years. But my big 1995 chest freezer still works, though the lid separated into it's 3 components a couple weeks ago. I just put removable weights on the edges to keep it sealed ( that's sooo gen x lol). Compressor going on 30 years old, still runs.
The 1980’s was one of the greatest decades this country ever had and you’re lucky if you experienced it. The infamous 1970s was a utopia compared to today.
The new home price here for 1 part of a fourplex is 2 million and the house I live in is over 6 million. I had a friend that bought his house in the 1960's for $5,000 and when he passed the same house sold for over 4 million.
You can get a microwave now for alot less, but I guarantee, you will make up the cost in the long run. Consider yourself lucky if it lasts a year. My mother bought hers in the 70"s and it was still working when she passed in 2016.
Fun fact: you can live without one. I'm in my 30s and just use the damm stove...like we did before microwaves existed. But yes, they don't last long anymore.
If you actually pay more for a good one it will last. Maybe not true now but 12 years ago I paid $300 for a high end one (you could get cheap ones then too at Walmart for $79) and it is still going strong. Had a couple cheapies before that and got a couple years out of each.
Debbie just hit the wall, she never had it all. One prozac a day, husband's a CPA. Her dreams went out the door, when she turned 24. Nothing, has been, alright since.....
I graduated high school in 1985. I remember making around 3.50 an hour working in fast food. That translates into about 10.00 an hour today. Hard to believe that so many people work at that rate now trying to pay bills and raise a family. The world was so different back in 1985. We still lived in fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Thankfully, we survived that Cold War but I'm not so sure about the one we have now with China and Russia. I'd love to go back to 1985 armed with the hard-won knowledge I have earned over the past four decades and do it all over again.
Well... At least the price on Cabbage Patch Kids has come down... Ugh.. 😂😂 Thank you for another nostalgic trip back to the greatest decade ever my friend! We are the last generation to appreciate a lot of things that most will never understand. It was an awesome time to be a kid, and it has made us who we are today. God bless...
Great content brother. That took some work to put together. Thank you for sharing. It really helps to put some things about everyday products into perspective. Gimme the 80s brother. Heck, give me the 1880s. Just had to work a bit harder, but definitely more fulfilling.
I honestly don't know how we afforded anything in the 80's $500 for a VCR $500 for a fax machine $500 for a microwave $3000 for a home computer $15 for 2 x 5.25" floppy discs $2000 for a camcorder the size of beer cooler that you had to rest on your shoulder and shot in 140P resolution. $400 for an after market tape deck for the car and $40 for a ticket to see Michael Jackson during his Thriller tour, which I refused to pay because it was such an obscene amount to charge for a concert ticket. Regrets, I've had a few.
This may your best video yet! I graduated from HS in '85 and started my undergrad in the fall. There are somethings I really enjoyed from that time period, but there are other things I could definately do without. The D&D we played back then was definately better! (No annoying bards to pull oit a lute and sing while the rest of the party enter mèlee!) Would I go back? No, but that is because I have cancer and treatments are light years better today. If I was diagnosed with the type I have in '85, I wouldn't have made it out of the decade. The heavy metal was awesome in the 80s, I will say that! Lol!
From 1983 - 1985 I was traveling around the U.S. teaching stock brokers how to use the IBM PC and they either loved it (my fellow baby boomers) or loathed it (the older, richer brokers)! Worse, I had to teach them how to use Word Processing and make spreadsheets (this was long before Microsoft Office). I do remember showing them how to get news, and we watched LIVE the space shuttle explode on TV. I was certified in DOS 3.1 and there was no such thing as click and drag. I was in my early 20's back then. Had the time of my life!! Oh, and back then, I drove a Subaru coupe, in orange, and not the AWD version. It broke down a lot.
The electronics were ungodly expensive back then. Stereo systems , televisions, etc. Shadoe Stevens has old Federated (remember them?) commercials on his YT channel. The prices back then were out of sight. $8 for a blank VHS tape. 😂 They also sold the stereo components separately, so by the time you got a complete system, you were broke.
Because it was new technology. Just like today the newest iPhone is $1500 but you can get a flip phone for less than $100. Back then a brick cell phone may have been thousands of dollars but you could get a good old AT&T Slimline landline unit for $20...but if you made a long distance call it would cost you more than the phone you were calling on 😂
I worked my first job from 1986-89 in a record store near Seattle so this took me back. I love you showed a print ad from A&B sound up in Vancouver B.C. We used to go up to Vancouver every summer for a long weekend and we just LOVED A&B...which managed to hang on for years after most record shops were closing but finally left us about a decade ago, I think.
I had graduated High School by 85. So the toy stuff was for my niece that was born that year. I remember thinking $35 for a stupid doll was Highway robbery. Seems like my father got one for her. I remember my first cell phone though was in the early to mid 90’s. It was the bomb to drive around town with a phone in the car. James Bond stuff in our 20’s mind. The biggest thing I miss from that time is fuel prices. Man if I could diesel for that price today, I could make a killing in the trucking industry
I remember back in 1985 getting a carton of milk during school lunch for 5 cents. I transferred to another elementary school across town that same year and they were already charging 25 cents! Inflation smacked me right in my childhood FACE!
I'd like my 80s body back....no wrinkles, no gray hair and no aches and pains! Lol
Me too!
Ditto!
I think we all would like our'80s bodies back. But I'd like to take my current brain back to the '80s with me too. Avoid some of the pit-falls and correct some of the missed opportunities. And bring some winning lottery ticket numbers along for the ride....
I got pretty damn buff back in '88. I wouldn't mind feeling that good and looking that good again.
I prefer the 80s. I'd go back in a heartbeat.
My dad said I would re-adjust within 15 mins lol. Like watching Young Sheldon, everything in the show seems so normal ( though early 90's).
I’ll go back too. It was simple back then. Music was better. It was safer too. We weren’t contaminated by social media. There weren’t so much issues back then. America is too crazy now.
You say that now...but I think you would find yourself spoiled for today’s toys.
Internet, computers and cell phones.
@@mikey6214 …Frankly I would be fine with just regular TV, movies, VCR, books, quarter arcade machines, etc. I like the idea of kids and teenagers socializing with each other outside and not being addicted to their cell phones. Even adults are addicted to them. Computers were very simple back then in the ‘80s but that’s fine. Today if the cell phone only had 2 functions (calling/texting and taking pics) I’d be totally cool with it.
Word!
I graduated from high school May 6, 1985. I was 17... what a time to be alive!! Thank you for this one
Were you born in 1967/68?
Yes, it was a great time to be alive. I was in college and 21. My tuition in Texas was $4.00 a semester hour!
Texas oil revenue was the reason for cheap college.
I was born May 3 1985 😂
Me too 1985 what a difference from these crazy days.
Just over 2 months before I was born.
I was 12 yrs old and watched Back to the Future in the theater. It was so awesome back then compared to now. I really miss the good days ..
I agree!
I was 12 also. February 73 baby. Getting to be a kid in the 70s and 80s was awesome. Best cartoons, toys and music.
Youngster! I was 13. We saw in the old theater in New Braunfels, Tx. I wanted that Toyota 4x4 and his girlfriend😎.
I'm old enough to remember seeing the first Star Wars movie in the theater. 1976, I was 12 or 13, and our parents felt it safe enough to drop us off.
I was 12 too in early '85. I saw Back To The Future in the cinemas also. 😊
The 80's were definitely one of my favorite decades.
The 60’s and 70’s were better .
In the 60s our leaders were being assassinated and in the 70s we had some of the worst serial killers @donaldpiper9763
Give me a break@@donaldpiper9763
@@donaldpiper9763 Right on but 80's music was good
My aunt gave me a Sony Walkman with radio and cassette for Christmas in 1985. That same year she gave my mom (single mom by then) our first microwave I was still using the Walkman at college in 1990. I had no idea she had spent that much for it back then! Thanks Aunt Carol, for the gift of music where and when I wanted to listen to it, and the microwave. Things sure seemed to last longer back then. That microwave didn't die until 2005!
We had an old 80s microwave growing up too. Dam thing was massive, but it worked some good. Pretty sure my mom had that thing even when I moved out long gone 😂 they really don't make em like they use to
My mom was still using hers that she got in 1974 up until she moved into a retirement center last year. I'm sure she would've kept it except it was too big.
I never had a real walkman, I had a knockoff, I think it was either a Sharp or a JVC. It wasn't bad but it wasn't the real deal! My buddy had a real walkman, the cool yellow waterproof one you could even take it in a pool. Of course he was always "that guy" with the coolest stuff...his dad was a doctor!
Puts things in perspective for sure......I was a kid in the 80s, but would still prefer to go back there (or the 90s, 2000s or even the 10s) rather than now
Thank you for watching topofthepalm!
Me too!
I would definitely love to go back to the 80s. The greatest time I can remember when I was a kid
It's because you were a kid, you didn't realize how awful it could get.
@@lainiwakura1776no, things are much worse now. Back then it didn't take a dump truck full of money to buy a week's worth of food.
Definitely the 80’s for sure! I was 80’s kid and really loved that period of time! Miss it a lot!
Man I miss the 80’s, I was born in the 70’s, so being a kid in the 80’s was AWESOME, miss it a lot
Thank you for watching biagiocozza8875!
The prices are a great memory. Man the 80s were the best of times for me.
A gallon of gas was under a dollar back in the late 90's. Smokes were almost as cheap. 9/11 and 2008 home loan ripoff gave them authority to constantly raise prices for no reason, not only that, but offering less and less as they raise prices. The only people who didn't notice were the politicians who were tasked to actually notice.
you nailed it!!
When I first got my license in 1999 I could buy a pack of smokes, half a tank of gas, and a honeybun for $10!
I turned 16 in 1997 and gas that summer was $.79 per gallon. I found out that that particular year was lower than normal. There are articles online talking about it if you google it.
You could also get a pack of GPC cigarettes for $.99 per pack and if you were really lucky you could find that black and gold pack of Harley Davidson cigarettes for $.79 per pack. Yes kids, Harley Davidson had their own cigarettes for a short time.
"Adjusted for inflation" does not mean much considering most people are still making 1980's salaries. It is deficit spending that causes inflation btw. They are literally making money up that does not exist, the more they do it the less each individual dollar is worth. It is like a massive hidden tax that never ends.
@@JSchaffer214I remember the Harley Davidson smokes, they were terrible 😂. Much of the inflated price you pay today for tobacco is tax, especially depending on what state you are in. NY they are about $15 a pack now for name brands, and were about $2 a pack in 1993.
$30 back then was like $100 today.
Even into the early 90's when I was in high school, you could get by on a weekend night out with a $5 bill, and really live it up with $10!
We didnt have the reclining leather seats, beer or better sound when we went to the movies in the 80s but one thing we did have was good movies compared to the bad movies today. I havent had the desire to watch a new movie in yrs.
The theater near my home had awesome sound. When they tore the theatre out in 1991 to put in a Trader Joe's and a shoe store, the fabric walls were ripped down, and the speakers exposed. Walls of 18" drivers and horn tweeters. The amplifiers they used had rows of large vacuum tubes in them. Some old guy took it all saying he was an audiophile and would not let them go to the dump. I wonder if that system is still alive. The sound would make your shirt vibrate against your skin on the explosions in Star Wars.
I met my wife in 1985, and graduated college in 1986. Our first movie was Back to the Future. This video really resonated with me.
Oh wow! That was an excellent movie to have together. Thank you for watching Rick!
So many good movies came out in 1985
I was only 1 year old
I was 7. 😀
8 yrs old 😁
I was 12
I know amazing!! I was 14, perfect for PG13 movies lol!
Ahhh..... summer of my senior year in high school. I really appreciated going back to a better time and taking a trip down memory lane. 😊
Thank you my friend.
You're welcome and thank you for watching Leesa!
The problem isn't that prices have remained similar when accounting for inflation. It's that inflation steals the purchasing power of any accumulated wealth. So while bananas may be a few cents cheaper when adjusted, the $1 you saved in 1980 has the equivalent purchasing power of like 50cents.
Yep. "Adjusted for inflation" does not mean much considering most people are still making 1980's salaries. It is deficit spending that causes inflation btw. They are literally making money up that does not exist, the more they do it the less each individual dollar is worth. It is like a massive hidden tax that never ends.
Not in all cases, but in many cases you got a higher quality product back then too. Automobiles are a big exception, they were mostly junk back in the day, but goods like electronics even though they were more expensive and lacked some of the features of modern stuff would essentially last forever if you took care of them and if something went wrong you could get things repaired and not have to just throw it away like you do now. It wasn't uncommon to have an old TV set or stereo system for 25-30 years. In fact I still use my 1987 stereo receiver that I bought used off a friend in the early 90's regularly.
I have 2 big memories from the mid 80's. We had a neighbor where all the teens hung out, he had a garage and body shop at home. He helped us all keep our car's running. He told me once it wouldn't be to many years before we would be hanging our TV's on the wall like pictures. I remember I responded to him by saying, Mike, I think you have inhaled to many fumes. lol He's gone now over 20 years, but so many memories there. And I was at work when a friend called and ask what I was doing after work. I said I had to go to the bank and make a car payment on my 78 Trans Am. She said her mom who lived right around the corner from me, banked at the same bank, and needed a ride to make her last house payment. I will never forget, my car payment was 80 ? something a month, and she said, boy it sure feels good to pay off this 30 year loan and have that extra 50.? something a month. Time changes everything. She's long passed now, but her house in the area where it is would market today for 250,000 or more.
Garbage Pail Kids were the highlight of 1985 for me. Used to get them from the Good Humor van. Good times...Garbage Pail Kids, a strawberry shortcake ice cream bar and a packet of Fun Dip!
That's interesting that the ice cream truck sold them? I never saw that. Thank you for watching!
Yeah, I totally loved fun dip.
There is a new Garbage Pail Kids game for the NES that was just released about a year ago. I bought a copy, it was a limited edition run. 😁
@@RhettyforHistoryTurn around
Look at what you see
In her face
The mirror of your dreams😊
I have 5 that I've kept since I was a child they are in excellent condition
I need to find a flux capacitor kit for my car to go back to the 80s and get stuck there asap. I still sit around and reminisce by listening to 80s pop and movies, it was a whole different world back then and people were a lot more stable. I also remember smoking in stores and parents could ask strangers to babysit and nothing weird would happen.❤
Let me know where you find the flux capacitor so I can buy 1 too. 😀
@@LaManteca76 will do 👍🏽🫡
Remember 90s riding around in cars just for fun. gas was only $1. A used car was $500
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories. $500 would have been a real bargain!
me too if i had 20 on a friday night in 90s i was rolling
Not in the 90s that was 70d and 80s
Paid $1.29 5yrs ago in 2019. Feels like 50yrs ago now. Who would believe our own prez would sabotage our way of life and let us be invaded?
Cruised up and down Main Street in the mid-to-late 70s... a $5 bill would pay for a tank of gas and a six-pack of Miller!
What people don't know is that there was a vibe in the air back then and things just felt better
It was definitely a great decade!
1985 was just here yesterday, or so it feels anyways
So true! Unfortunately my mirror disagrees with me😂
I still buy Stamps, I get a roll and it takes me about 3 years to use up the roll
Went to a Alice Cooper concert in 1986 my ticket was 18 dollars. Bought my first home in 1989. A three bedroom block home for 40 thousand dollars.
It probably cost more to see your local symphony orchestra perform than your favorite rock or pop star, since classical music was more popular back then. Many sporting events, and especially the price of concessions, were notably cheaper back then, back before those huge player contracts forced the gate out to consumers.
@@pannoni8449You can't even go to a sporting event anymore, except maybe a baseball game in the cheap seats, without dumping a grand. They are rebuilding the football stadium in my town and doing PSL's which will price out pretty much all average people. Fortunately for me I stopped caring about football years ago when it got so ridiculously expensive to go to a game. My town doesn't have a baseball team but it's cheaper for me to drive a few hours to go to the next closest one and see a game than to go to a football game less than 5 miles from my house.
I graduated in 1984! I loved the 80s! ❤
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That was year terminator 1 came out 😢🔥👍
So did I!
@@aaronwilliams6989 Wow, we're working on our 40th Reunion. Are you going?
@@laureencriss8220 Not sure what's going on yet, if anything.
WOW! 40 YEARS! Is that really US?! MAN!
I still prefer the 80's! I've just learned to accept this! 🙂 Thank you for another great video!
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I miss the 80s the simple life back than. Love and still listen to the 80s music.
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Fun Dip, a bag of sugar, eaten with a sugar spoon lol. Somehow we lived. People are so uptight today. We just enjoyed life back then. No internet to scare you.
I remember I use to buy that fun dip for 15 cent at the candy store 😊
I still have one every now and again. I really liked the sugar stick.
No helicopter parents either. It was just like "here's some quarters, you kids go have fun while we do adult things" lol
@@100percentSNAFU and Make you all stay together and no running off 😊
I miss them Days
Rhett, I enjoyed your comparisons of 1985's prices as compared to 2024. This really was enlightening to see the differences of prices. I remember when you could buy five or six bags of groceries and now you'd be glad to buy two or three for the price now. Have a fantastic weekend. Take care 🐎
I remember 85 like it was yesterday, can't believe how long ago it was, almost 40 years ago...unbelievable
And what do you remember about 2020?😞
i bought a new 1000 virago in 85 . its now an 1100 cc trike and ive been driving it for 39 years . i think it cost 4900 bucks new .
My goodness, a cell phone for over $9,000?! That cost more than most cars for sale at the time. I couldn't even imagine. 😬
Yes it would. Ridiculous right? Thank you for watching!
I didn’t think of that
The only person I knew who had one was a field reporter for the local ABC news and I'm pretty sure the station was paying for it.
Yes, but you didn't miss what you never had in the first place, so...
Back then companies weren't using slave labor to make them.
I was a kid in the 80s. I do remember 25 cents for chips. And literal penny candies!
Me too I remember Penny candy was 5 cents and 10cents
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@@DannyWildmen also the coke bottle in the glass was 75 cents or an dollar
Also the penny gumball machine but those started to disappear when I was pretty young like mid 1980's
I'm so old I remember when the penny candy was two for a penny! My allowance was fifty cents a week and that was a fortune back in the day. A kite was a dime and a roll of string was fifteen cents.
Please, bring back the 80"s😊😊
Gas is around $5 here in California. I used to live here in 1985 too and remember it was around $1 then.
68 cents in Sacramento in 1988, 89.
99 cents beach Blvd in 99
Anybody that was there knows, the air was sweeter, the sun shined brighter and people got together all the time. Damn I miss it.
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@@RhettyforHistory love your work brother ✌️🇺🇸 i value these memories more than ever, the world is backsliding.
Appreciate the conversion statistics. Problem is the wages didn't keep up with the prices. (nor social security for seniors)
Exactly. In 1982 at 19 I was making $8/hr before taxes. Here in 2024 I'm making $42/hr before taxes. That's just over $100K per year with the hours I work. Guess what? I was richer in income in 1982 than I am now once taxes, inflation and downward wage creep are taken into account.
@@zeus014 Bro.. what kind of job pays $42 an hour? I'm lucky to be at $19 working in a small metal machining plant. lol
I graduated High School in 1985😁A lot of great times back then😃Now I feel old🤣ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
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Going back to 1985 from now, would be more than going back to 1955 from 1985, like in Back to the Future!! How crazy is that!
You really didn’t have to point that out. 😅
Hell na!
Graduated in’85. Life then was much more simple. I prefer the simple life over today.
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I bought an all digital microwave in 2007 on sale for $45 at Walmart and I still use it regularly. Electronics is the one advantage where greater length of time lowers the cost.
An Atari 2600 would be over $900 in todays dollars when it came out. Electronics definitely got cheaper, but we need way more of them lol.
@@micker9830 Yeah, a new PS5 is only $500,. definitely cheaper by comparison.
I was 12, had my ears just pierced at a mall kiosk, parents decided to ignore my being "dramatic" at how the pain was making me feel like passing out, and continue looking at microwaves. That was 84 or 85. They bought 1 at some point, not sure if that night. I think I sat on a sofa or easy chair in the furniture dept nearby. Probably a Sears. What a gen x moment, parents calling you being in a lot of pain "dramatic". Then letting you sit nearby and not caring that you aren't right next to them OMG!1!!
@@calebwilliams7659 wow. My parents got me an Atari around 82, and then I got bored with it lol. They must have taken out a loan to buy it. I know some games were about 50.00 each to buy separate. I had been begging for it for a while " all the other kids have 1!". Only to get bored.
@@micker9830 It was easier to make money back then and people made more.
tape/8 track players had been a common factory option in cars since the 1960s and in some instances lasted as an option as late at 2010 such as the Lexus SC430 coupe/convertible
Candy bars didn't make the list they used to be like 50cents
I remember being a little kid in the mid 70s and getting a candy bar at the grocery store for 14 cents. There was a gas station nearby that sold those old-school little coca colas for 20 cents.
I remember buying candy bars when they were 25 cents each. Closest store was a Safeway. They would sell you a cold Pepsi for 1/6 the price of a six pack, which would make them 25 cents. I used to go to a liquor store on my way back from school, they had root beer popsicles for 25 cents. The bus was 25 cents, I wish I had gone to the beach back then.
I remember when candy bars were 10 cents.
Cheapest I remember was 35 cents out of the vending machine at my parents social club and a can of soda was also 35 cents out of the 7up/A&W machine and 50 cents for the luxury of a Coke or Pepsi lol. It was always fun after dinner the adults would get a few drinks and give us kids a pile of quarters for candy and video games, they had some classics like Tron, Zoo Keeper, and Mr Do! as well a pool table for a quarter a game.
My dad got a "deal" on a new Magnavox VCR in 1985 because he got several friends to all buy one from the same place at the same time. It was $350 and they each got them for $325, nearly $1000 adjusted for inflation. But the unit is a tank and I still have it today and it still works, though the motor in it is quite loud when it plays from years of use. Even the original remote still works! Magnavox used to be very high quality back in the day. Also had a big tv of that brand from 1987 that was still working when I gave it away a few years ago.
I bought a four head VCR around 1982 for slightly over $700 as a Christmas gift for the family. It was build exceedingly well, and worked well for a couple decades.
Thanks 😊❤for the walk down memory lane Retty
Good Morning Rhett 🙋🏽. This is a awesome video. Thank You for inviting me to watch ‼️❤️
I remember 85, I was more than half way through what was a 22 year career in the USMC and they sent me on recruiting duty starting that year. It was a miserable time because I hated recruiting but, even with 3 years of that, I'd take the 80s back over today anytime.
My play list is all 80! I was 19 in 1985 and would go back without hesitation!
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I think the 1980s were a blast new forms of entertainment and it was a much simpler time. Thanks Rhetty for bringing back all the great memories!
I love how your channel has become one of my favorites. Thanks for the memories Rhetty!@
I know it was in 1986 but I still remember holding hands with complete strangers with the Hands across America movement. My buddy had albums full of garbage pail kids cards. Bet he wishes he still had those seeing how much some are worth.
My younger sister was born in 1986 and is 37 going on 38 today in 2024
Thank you Retty. Brings back so many memories growing up in the 1980’s🎉 3:08
Last film I saw @ the movie theater was Maverick, TopGun. Haven’t gone since then, everything has become JUNK.
Agreed 💯 How many Batman and Superman etc. movies do we need?!? Hollywood has lost its originality. Remakes too. 🙄
I haven't been since before Covid. Nothing looks good to me anymore. Except maybe the new Ghostbusters. But I'll prob wait til it streams.
I agree. So has The Music.
God there was some great movies back then!! 80's was just about fun, the music movies etc..
Same!
I was two in 1985, but I still remember the 80’s very fondly and well. The world was a simpler and better place. @4:30 I also had that exact Walkman in the mid/late 90’s as a teenager, I used it to listen to mixtapes as I did my yard jobs. It’s a trip to see one again!
I put on my rose colored glasses & have fond memories of the 80s. It would be nice to go back to visit, but I wouldn't want to relive the whole decade.
I would gladly go back as an adult, but not as a teenager.
You failed the driving test,too?
@@terrytitus5291 😂😂😂
Actually never took it. My parents didn’t have insurance and the test car had to have insurance.
You brought back sweet memories, when you showed “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure”. I was 4 years old when it came out, and I still love that movie to this day! ❤️ It’s just sad to know, that with how popular Pee-wee was, Paul Rubens only made 5 million dollars.
Cell phones and home computers were around back then, but I didn't know anyone who had one.
I think they were used mostly in business.
Hobbyists were the first PC users, and they continued to push PCs to the limit. So it was really two separate markets: The PC XT or similar for business, and the Commodore or Atari or similar for the home hobbyist.
I’m an early GenXer, and I remember the gas lines, the hostage situation, government cheese, and Reaganomics. I’ve even been binging The Beverly Hillbillies the last week or so. So as bad as it was, I loved that time. I would rather live now, but be young enough to enjoy it, while at the same time have all the knowledge and experiences growing up as a GenXer. Younger generations don’t seem to want to learn from those that came before them.
Man ill never forget the first time i got to use my moms friends toaster size mobile phone 😅 another great Rhett. Cant thank you enough 👍
They were definitely huge back then! Thank you for watching Lisa!
@@RhettyforHistory hey Rhett, you remember pogs ? I can't remember if I've seen those in any of your vids. Also hackey sacks 🤭 just a thought
I@LISA.R.2112 I think I had pogs in a 90s video but I don't think I have mentioned hackey sacks. Did you do pogs in the 80s?
@@RhettyforHistory I believe your right about the pogs in the early 90s. I have a couple stored away somewhere 😅 Thanks for the reply 👍
@@LISA.R.2112 last weekend I found my pog collection from the 90's. I also found my 80's TMNT foldable T.V. eating trey. I definitely remember Pogs.
Thanks for Sharing! I was a kid in the 80's ! Great times! I forgot how funny looking and bulky the original cell phones were!
1980s were hopeful and fun even if you were a broke college kid, which I was. It was a better time too because no one was glued to a cell phone. I'd give anything to go back to 1985!
Things change so fast, especially technology. It’s fun to look back and remember how amazing we thought technology was back then.
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I graduated high school in 1985 boy do I miss those days
Graduated HS in 85. It was a great time.
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I lived near a used record store. It was awesome. I found some great old albums
One of the movie theater's we used to go had bargain matinee for only a few dollars, and there was a second theater that the old run movies just before being pulled and they were only a quarter. Take me back any day.
I graduated in 85!! Give me the 80's all over again!!!
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I enjoyed our walk down memory lane very much. Thanks for posting this video!
The Sony Walkman had a $59.99 model nobody could keep in stock.
Great concept for a UA-cam series, for sure.
I was born 25.09.1985. The world has changed massively since 2010, let alone 1985.
Thanks! 🇬🇧🇺🇸
You're welcome and thank you for watching Rich!
Lol at 3:06 Eric Stoltz in BTTF!
I saw that too. 😂I spoke out loud," hey that marque should say Michael J. Fox!"🦊😃
The movie was being filmed with Eric Stoltz until he was fired. They had to film it again with Michael J Fox.
They must have not gotten the notification that they fired him 😂
That yellow Sony Walkman sport could not be beat!
Exactly. It didn't miss a beat either 😂🎉
Yeah, you probably won't get a hernia picking up that new TV today. But you can bet your ass you'll be back in the store in less than 2 years picking up another one.
You're right about that Edward. Reliability just seems gone. Thank you for watching!
I still have one that came with us in a move- 10 years ago. Not a full on "smart TV" though, I guess basic flat screen. I'm such a Luddite, it doesn't bother me. Does have a Roku hooked up with streaming services. TV still works fine. Washing machine on the other hand, didn't even last 10 years. But my big 1995 chest freezer still works, though the lid separated into it's 3 components a couple weeks ago. I just put removable weights on the edges to keep it sealed ( that's sooo gen x lol). Compressor going on 30 years old, still runs.
Thanks Rhetty for sharing this amazing video ❤
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The 1980’s was one of the greatest decades this country ever had and you’re lucky if you experienced it. The infamous 1970s was a utopia compared to today.
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Stagflation lasted from 1968 to 1983.
The new home price here for 1 part of a fourplex is 2 million and the house I live in is over 6 million. I had a friend that bought his house in the 1960's for $5,000 and when he passed the same house sold for over 4 million.
You can get a microwave now for alot less, but I guarantee, you will make up the cost in the long run. Consider yourself lucky if it lasts a year. My mother bought hers in the 70"s and it was still working when she passed in 2016.
Fun fact: you can live without one. I'm in my 30s and just use the damm stove...like we did before microwaves existed.
But yes, they don't last long anymore.
If you actually pay more for a good one it will last. Maybe not true now but 12 years ago I paid $300 for a high end one (you could get cheap ones then too at Walmart for $79) and it is still going strong. Had a couple cheapies before that and got a couple years out of each.
I was a musician in the 80's. Such a great era . The music was awesome
Music was the best.
Debbie just hit the wall, she never had it all. One prozac a day, husband's a CPA. Her dreams went out the door, when she turned 24. Nothing, has been, alright since.....
I graduated high school in 1985. I remember making around 3.50 an hour working in fast food. That translates into about 10.00 an hour today. Hard to believe that so many people work at that rate now trying to pay bills and raise a family. The world was so different back in 1985. We still lived in fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Thankfully, we survived that Cold War but I'm not so sure about the one we have now with China and Russia. I'd love to go back to 1985 armed with the hard-won knowledge I have earned over the past four decades and do it all over again.
Well... At least the price on Cabbage Patch Kids has come down... Ugh.. 😂😂
Thank you for another nostalgic trip back to the greatest decade ever my friend! We are the last generation to appreciate a lot of things that most will never understand. It was an awesome time to be a kid, and it has made us who we are today. God bless...
Great content brother. That took some work to put together. Thank you for sharing. It really helps to put some things about everyday products into perspective. Gimme the 80s brother. Heck, give me the 1880s. Just had to work a bit harder, but definitely more fulfilling.
I honestly don't know how we afforded anything in the 80's
$500 for a VCR
$500 for a fax machine
$500 for a microwave
$3000 for a home computer
$15 for 2 x 5.25" floppy discs
$2000 for a camcorder the size of beer cooler that you had to rest on your shoulder and shot in 140P resolution.
$400 for an after market tape deck for the car
and $40 for a ticket to see Michael Jackson during his Thriller tour, which I refused to pay because it was such an obscene amount to charge for a concert ticket. Regrets, I've had a few.
Because people had way more disposable income after paying mortgage/food/utilities. Today there is hardly any meat left on the bone.
All stuff you didn't need😵💫
Cost of living was MUCH MUCH better until 2003.
Most of us didn't own personal computers or camcorders in the 80s.
Or we just didn't buy it until prices came down.
Back to the Future staring Eric Stoltz! LOL You sneaky bugger! :P
I remember when gas was .96 a gallon and value meals at McDonalds were $5.
Me too since I was born in 1983
@@PraveenSrJ01 Born December 1982 here.
This may your best video yet! I graduated from HS in '85 and started my undergrad in the fall. There are somethings I really enjoyed from that time period, but there are other things I could definately do without. The D&D we played back then was definately better! (No annoying bards to pull oit a lute and sing while the rest of the party enter mèlee!) Would I go back? No, but that is because I have cancer and treatments are light years better today. If I was diagnosed with the type I have in '85, I wouldn't have made it out of the decade. The heavy metal was awesome in the 80s, I will say that! Lol!
I miss the80s. Best time ever to grow up in.
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From 1983 - 1985 I was traveling around the U.S. teaching stock brokers how to use the IBM PC and they either loved it (my fellow baby boomers) or loathed it (the older, richer brokers)! Worse, I had to teach them how to use Word Processing and make spreadsheets (this was long before Microsoft Office). I do remember showing them how to get news, and we watched LIVE the space shuttle explode on TV. I was certified in DOS 3.1 and there was no such thing as click and drag. I was in my early 20's back then. Had the time of my life!! Oh, and back then, I drove a Subaru coupe, in orange, and not the AWD version. It broke down a lot.
It would have been cool if you had Met Captain Midnight himself John MacDougall. He was Into New Technology like that!
The electronics were ungodly expensive back then. Stereo systems , televisions, etc. Shadoe Stevens has old Federated (remember them?) commercials on his YT channel. The prices back then were out of sight. $8 for a blank VHS tape. 😂 They also sold the stereo components separately, so by the time you got a complete system, you were broke.
Because it was new technology. Just like today the newest iPhone is $1500 but you can get a flip phone for less than $100. Back then a brick cell phone may have been thousands of dollars but you could get a good old AT&T Slimline landline unit for $20...but if you made a long distance call it would cost you more than the phone you were calling on 😂
I worked my first job from 1986-89 in a record store near Seattle so this took me back. I love you showed a print ad from A&B sound up in Vancouver B.C. We used to go up to Vancouver every summer for a long weekend and we just LOVED A&B...which managed to hang on for years after most record shops were closing but finally left us about a decade ago, I think.
Ten bucks for a Michael Bolton concert? That's ten bucks too much, man.
Definitely a lot better than today! Thank you for watching!
Bahahaha!!
Yes! I remember all of this! Yes!
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I graduated in ‘85….. that cost me 13 yrs of my life!!!!😮
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I was born in 1975. I was ten years old when this stuff came out
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I had graduated High School by 85. So the toy stuff was for my niece that was born that year. I remember thinking $35 for a stupid doll was Highway robbery. Seems like my father got one for her. I remember my first cell phone though was in the early to mid 90’s. It was the bomb to drive around town with a phone in the car. James Bond stuff in our 20’s mind. The biggest thing I miss from that time is fuel prices. Man if I could diesel for that price today, I could make a killing in the trucking industry
I remember back in 1985 getting a carton of milk during school lunch for 5 cents. I transferred to another elementary school across town that same year and they were already charging 25 cents!
Inflation smacked me right in my childhood FACE!
Lunch was 25 cents & milk was 3 cents in the '60s.
Ketchup was declared a vegetable around that time.
NES came out in 1985 at $149.99 Great Content as usual!👍🏻🇺🇲 I would go back to the 80's personally.
Actually the Control Deck was $199.99. Adjust inflation and that's $449.99 today.
@@Tornado1994 It was $149.99
@@Tornado1994 Control deck? What are you talking about?
I’d do anything to be back in the 80s
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Definitely prefer the 80's over today. Any decade before say 1999 actually.