Following a guy around in a motorhome in 1978
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Traveling with a rural Pennsylvania salesman in his RV.
Video of him in the states of West Virgina and Ohio and eating at a local cafe.
He comes home to his loving wife in the end...predictable ending! 😜
This video last around 14 minutes.
#salesman
I was born in 1974. The world has changed so much I do not recognize it anymore. Growing up in the mid-1980s was the best time ever.
Born in 75. Yes it was! \m/
'75 here too! Brother has it ever changed! I miss the simple, happy times.😔
The 50s and 60s were arguably the best times "unless you were black."
72 here. 80's was the best..
The world is much the same. Only difference we are exposed to a lot more now. Also the population has heavily increased.
This type of video is priceless compared to the unlimited garbage we get in 2023.
If you think it's garbage, then it will be garbage.
9:12 that boat tail Riviera, oh man
love this guy and the vibe of this video....frank zorn 1925-2017 rip
Officer: your driving without a seat belt and talking on the phone
Driver: it's fine, I had a couple drinks to center me
Officer: fine, carry on
Officer anything else ?can I get a bite of your hot dog
“Can you hear me now ?” Launched for the first time in history .😊
For the young people watching this, mobile phones such as he had were very rare. As a kid during that time I only saw them on TV shows.
Charlie's Angel's had what looked like regular house phones in the center consoles of their cars. Lol I remember either of the brown hair ladies pulling it out while investigating. I was so amazed! Lol (71 baby)
I grew up in the 90s. I got a cell phone until I was older
They were big as bricks at this time too
Someone told me those large structures with smoke coming out of them were called "factories".
it looked like a nuclear powerplant
Before those jobs were outsourced overseas
@@johnfoltz8183 Now China has all that pollution.
@@johnfoltz8183 You know who advocated for sending manufacturing overseas. Now he's acting like a hero against it.
@@fidelcatsro6948 that's what he's saying
When I went to Black Sea in Romania almost every vacation back in the 80’s I remember Germans, Polish & Italians with their small motor homes by the sea. Wonderful times
I Was 17. The great last era Of innocence before Big Brother and insanity took over. An era the likes we will never see again. No school shootings, no school police, no massacre's, no metal detectors in schools hospitals or public buildings. Kids could be kids and not have to worry about being shot for carrying a toy gun. A time in society where Individuality was encouraged and life was laid back because everyone was given space. A time when society actually trusted you to be responsible. A way of life sorely missed.
Before Reagan and every president after him you mean lol
Back then crazy people were locked away in asylums. Now they are our representatives.
Bullshit .. kidnappings , serial killers, lots of ghettos , people disappeared without a trace and never got justice cause forensics was non existent..it wasn’t a fairytale
Reagan ushered in the end of the innocence.
@@FUBBA Reagan was the beginning of legalized organized crime.
Great boat tail at 9.20
Was my wedding car. I still own a 1978 transam. Nice cars over the days. Still love them
I also focus mainly on the cars when watching this old videos
I like seeing the older classic cars
There is something about the 70s, 80s, and rain/cloudy skies. I would fall right asleep if I were to jump in this video lol.
My Father was a Furniture Sales Rep in Ohio and traveled the same roads in a Southwind Motorhome during the same period. Fun to get a glimpse of his day.
Same here man, I live in the wheeling area so seeing what things were like before my time is quite bittersweet.
Wow! This is great stuff! Love seeing raw video of the cars and the interaction with things of the time. I also recognize a lot of the highways since I traveled many times from Charlotte, NC to Pittsburgh, PA to Cincinnati, OH etc.
I couldn't be more shocked when he started talking on the phone while driving the RV. This stuff is so far before my time i just had no concept that was possible in the late 70's. I cant believe what i just seen. What an amazing video.
Actually, Radiophone technology was available all the way back in the late 1950s... Big Shot surgeons and lawyers, etc... Had it.
“Can you spread the blue cheese on there please??” “MMMK”
There was a video I saw about this mobile phone technology from the 1940s. I imagine this is somewhat what this guy had. But even then it would have been extremely rare. Car phones were barely starting to take off in the late '80s. It would be a very expensive phone call back in those days.
I don't know why this video was so interesting to me, but I enjoyed it! 🙂
Well, we're all glad you thoroughly enjoyed it. If there's anything else we can do to make your day, do not hesitate to ask. You come on back now, you here?
This is the only channel i watch every video start to finish... thanks for the journry.
Wow thanks .. The average view duration on this channel is around 30 seconds. Glad to read comments like yours 😃
i was waiting for ponch and john to pull him over on their motorcycles 🤣
57 cents per gallon
The Buick Riviera shot…awesome car!
The “mobile” base station call! Haha!!!
Those were the days.
After meeting with a (then) young Pablo Escobar, Mr. Zorn delivered the kilos throughout the east coast using the motor home gifted to him by Pablo, and then returned home to his loving wife, eagerly anticipating that "special thing" she always did for him after a long road trip.
home made chicken biryani meal with papadoms...
🤣
Legend has it…….. he’s still following the RV 😂
I was born in 1971, and seeing the cars and roads of that time, bring back alot of memories. Seeing gasoline for 57 cents a gallon, wow! I can tell you one thing for sure, having a telephone in your vehicle at that time, was a luxury of incredible proportions! It was very very expensive! What a journey back in time, to what was just an mundane ordinary day in 1978!
This is freaking amazing footage!😮😮😮😮
Very cool to get a glimpse of the way things were in '78. Thanks for sharing.
What amazes me is that our forklift can pick that Motorhome up along with that Buick. Great times back in ‘78. My godfather was just coming home from the penitentiary in April of ‘78.
I have commented on many of videos ,while I’m watching this I’m reading the signs ,I’m from ohio,l was born in zanesville,columbus was my hangout ,plus I had relatives that lived there.Oddly enough in the late 80’s I lived in Parkersburg WV,Morgantown Wv,fairmont Wv,and my x husband worked in the clarksburg mall,freaked me out! Now in 1978 I was 13,great video❤️
Yeah. I read your comments and enjoy them Lori. Thank you. Glad you liked the video 😀
@@vampirerobot hey you. Do videos of jack in the box restaurants, ihop, Taco Bell, taco johns, Hardee’s, Sams club, and my personal favorite gas stations(chevron, shell, conoco, Mobil, Exxon, Phillips 66, Texaco, etc.) Got it. Good
I remember the tornado went through Zanesville we had a restaurant in fire drill Ohio
My dad he work for brownie Greyhound bus company in Columbus we would go to church upper Delaware Ohio Ropewalk Eastside Westside
Barnesville Ohio
Born in 74 ,
& I can see you guys ,
were already sneaking around.
Good quality film, perfectly synced.
Frank and Dorothy Zorn. RIP
I want to know who this guy is and what he did? Was he a business owner/ entrepreneur, Wall Street exec, famous inventor of a revolutionary product that sold his patent for millions, or was he just a rv salesman doing a promotional stunt? Either way, I but this guys life story is pretty interesting. I also appreciate how all of vampire robots video footage is very high definition for the time period. The video equipment used in these clips must of been extremely expensive as this was the time period where most videos taken were with a super 8, and super 8s with sound are even rare to find nowadays. Very very interesting look into the past since the quality and definition of the footage does not make the past shown seem so distant.
Rv engine sounds like it was about to blow up lol
The steel mills of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania First beginning of this
What's the disco song and artist played at 8:22? Also, it took me awhile to realize he wasn't wearing a seat-belt the whole trip. I remember those days.
The Bee Gees should be dancing
@@samuelcantley5500 Hope that was sarcasm....
I can only imagine the size of that camcorder in 1978. It was a luxury to even have one, but holy cow were they huge.
I've been binge-watching your videos and knew at some point they'd get weird, but I didn't expect you to suddenly be IN the motorhome. LMAO. And those stop effects are creepy. LOVE IT!! Ooh, and a cameo from Three Mile Island, too.
Lol... that's too funny Rachel. Great eye btw. Somebody finally noticed Three Mile Island!
I miss the way of life we used to have.
6:23 Wow, $30 to put 52 gallons of gas in that RV back then?
Good eye Mark .. that's a scary thought!
@@vampirerobot you are lying. That’s pretty cheap
Please bring that back God
About $140 in todays dollars; not a great deal.
@@M00n_G1rl Stop the video at 6:24 it says This sale $30.09 and under that 52 gallons. Where is the lie?
I love this. I was newly married in this era. Those phones were available in the sixties too. I sat in a vehicle that had one. The Sec. of State in Mi, James Hare, had a summer cottage in my neighborhood lakes area, and he would come out there on the weekends often. I hung out with his kids. A very down to earth family. We sat in his state owned vehicle. Good times!
Gas was 39 cents a gallon then. Due to oil embargo it jumped to 53 cents. Still cheap compare to today.
I admire this man. Hope he is well now.
He is looks about 50 here....That would put him at about 95 today.
@@matrox and smoking probably already signed up for a dirt nap
He’s dead buddy
@@matrox More like mid forties.
he should about 100yrs old today, still alive as smoker unless it was some other type than a cuban cigar
Funnily enough, I happen to have a Dodge Landau motorhome... It looks about like this one, but it's a larger 34 foot model.
The one in the video looks to be a 1972-1976 model because of the round headlights... Mine is a '77, they switched to square quad headlamps and used those until 1980 when production ceased.
There aren't many AT ALL registered anymore... DMV records from the US and Canada show on six of any year still only the road.
Very cool look at someone using their coach!
Cheers!
Expensive to run on gas. They don't get great milage, but the old ones are very nice inside.
these contraptions mustve drank gasoline like fast tap water flowing !
@@lesleylesley5821 hiya Lesley-
Well... it's going to get really expensive to run it now.
But it actually gets about 10mpg if you keep your foot out of it... Going a steady 60 mph.
With a tailwind, it'll get a good 12 mpg on flat ground.
If I had my way, I'd put a Gear Vendors overdrive and a two speed axle in it. I'd bet it'd get close to 16-20 mpg.
The ten mpg doesn't sound like much, but one has to remember that the thing weighs about 16,000 pounds... Plus we don't have to spend money on hotels or restaurants for about two weeks at a time... It's fully self contained.
I guess that with both tanks full, it'll go about 500 miles.
We usually take it to Florida once a year, and up to Michigan once a year.
Otherwise, we take it around Ohio where we live and just stay weekends in it.
They're convenient and a lot of fun if they're properly maintained.
Cheers!
@@fidelcatsro6948 they're not horrible, considering everything you'd need for a week or two is right there with you.
Our old Dodge Landau motorhome gets an honest 10 mpg on the highway at 60 mph.
It's paid for itself over the fifteen years we've owned it.
Cheers!
I’ve been to that restaurant many times. Have no idea why this came up for me. Pretty cool.
Did you "Enjoy our LIVER AND ONION DINNER"?
@@johnfitzgerald2339 omg lol yes! Do you remember Stone and Thomas.
My dad had a dream about driving us across country in a motorhome; he would talk about it but it never came to fruition. It been about 40 years we have been waiting.. maybe this decade?
He shoulda been on the phone to EF Hutton selling that xerox stock short. That's what a real bigshot would have done in 1978
Beautiful
I'm picking up that vibe of how simple and easy his life was. Got take a trip while talking to some other people on a CB radio I believe? I wish I lived that life. I always thought that the 70s were different in basic life perspectives, but it was basically 2023 but old cars, buildings technology, Knowledge. I guess all of the really bad quality footage I've seen over the years painted the picture that the 70s was very distorted. But this video and other videos from you open my perspective on life in the 70s and 80s.
Wow. lol
You actually think everything was distorted? Lol
@@dougfisher1813 Not like that, just I couldn't wrap my head around it.
I get what you mean it's like when you imagine life in the 1800s all you can see is black n white cause that's all we have
I was born in '71 and clearly remember everything since '79, you are currently living in the worst times I have experienced.
I like watching these and with my parents as well lol my dad was in Germany with my grandpa in 1978 when my grandpa was in the military and my mom was like oh eight years old and playing outside with my aunt lol
Wow, i noticed that interstate. Im from Ohio, it looks like he was traveling through. Crazy to see that 20 years before i was born!
Crazy to see the left lane actually being used as a passing lane
Whoa. Satellite phone in '78? Dude had money...
they were wireless phones that still needed an operator to make calls for them
@@fidelcatsro6948
True but he must have had some money because not many people used them. They were not cheap.
Was that satellite? Or just early cellular? Or am I asking the wrong question?
@@C.Church Probably an earlier cellular. But could only be used while the car was running.
Frank Cannon had one on the TV show. I think they were VHF and operated over radio.
My dad had that polka dot shirt lol.
The radiotelephone use was a bonus. I remember one of the running gags in WKRP in Cincinnati (not that far from Columbus either) was a lawyer having one of those in his briefcase. Usually only the pretty well off had those. They were somewhat rare. And the footage from inside a restaurant. Wow, what a deep cut into culture of the late 1970s that video was. A true treasure. A much different world as others have pointed out. I would have been in elementary school when that was filmed, probably on super-8 film with sound, which would have been another toy of the fairly well off in those days.
My favorite film of 1978 is magic. Antony Hopkins. And I first saw it in the mid 90 s on TBS
That is a very good movie Daniel.
@@vampirerobot yes indeed. .
I loved that Movie.
Its about 45 years late, but ya might wanna check the tire pressures at the passenger rear....
I love seeing those steel mills running with good paying jobs.
1978 ac DC powerage one of my favorite 1970 s album if I have any.
If this man is alive he must be 110 now.
I would love to know why this was shot and how this unedited video lasted this long.
Hell yeah. No seat belt laws.
And that’s where the cars are all metal and not plastic you see today there kid.
Seat belts were required on vehicle starting in 1963 but most people didn't use them
@@richthepontiacguys1412 Yeah in the 70s I don't ever remember my mom making us wear them. By the eighties though we had to.
8:37 peak 1978 badass mode engaged
herb tarlek lives on with that stylin shirt lol lol...
In dusk til.dawn 1996 film the motor home that is driven by Harvey keitel is a 1978 model
Great video. I used to drive I 70 back and forth from Rhode Island in 1970 when I was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri . Never had a mobile phone though. Stopped once in Ohio by the Ohio State Police.
That Whaletail!! \m/
Distracted Driving in the 70s didn't know they had that back then ,
Our Phones are a lot more distracting nowadays !
I like his white pointed black shirt...
And the hair, dude...!!!!
Cool, nice ....💯👍❤️
10:00 Verizon Wireless ripped off this guy with their commercials! 🤣
Hahahaha😆
I thought he was going to say "good" after that pause.
Wow. This footage is especially notable for showing some of the last remnants of Industrial age America. I'm sure all those smokestacks were gone within five years of this being filmed.
@ 9:30 - Those phone calls must've cost him $20 each back then! He probably spent more on the phone calls than he did on the fuel to fill that beast up @ 6:00
He was on a VHF phone repeater. It's a phone patch using radio to landline. HAM was the way to go before cellular was introduced years later. Needed a operator license to use a phone patch.
@@ratcatcher4804 I guess that explains why he's giving his call sign.
Bell allowed that?
Phone call with ten cents a loaf of bread was 5 sent s
@@R Marca
Yeah... Those Mobile Radio calls were expensive back then... I don't remember exactly how much each one initially cost, maybe $8.00, and then you were charged per minute afterwards.
My parents had a good friend that was sort of a playboy back in the Seventies... Everything he owned MATCHED.
My "uncle" Denny...
He had a '75 Mark IV, a '76 Eldorado convertible, a '77 or '78 Harley Super Glide, a boat... You name it. And they were all silver with maroon interiors.
All of the cars and his motorhome had a radio phone in them... And he'd always really impress us kids when he'd call our mom and dad to tell them we were on our way home from getting ice cream or after he'd be stealing something 🤣
He'd "borrow" us kids and take us with him to certain places, to use as decoys... For instance, his name was Denny... And he was going to throw a big holiday party one year.
So he took us kids to the local Denny's and asked the waitresses to please keep an eye on us while he "checked the 'Welcome to Denny's' sign out front.... He was a "Service Technician"😉
Well, no one noticed him TAKING the sign. He tossed it in his silver van and came in and grabbed us... Thanked the waitresses for watching us, tipped them each ten bucks apiece... And off we went... He called out folks from the Radio Phone on the way...
His holiday party was a bit and NOBODY missed his house because of the flashing 'Welcome to Denny's' sign out front.😂
Yeah... He was KLASSY.
Yes, gasoline at 58 cents a gallon. I could keep my 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Holiday coupe happily near full for $20! Today, I also have my 1976 GMC motorhome! $208 for a fill-up.🤑
Gas was pretty expensive back then too...That is $2.68 per gallon there,converted to todays money..
@@01trsmar I have a problem with those conversions
Does your motorhome have the 455 Oldsmobile engine?
wow ! all classic cars so amazing beautiful ! some is found on Driver 2,Driver 1,Granturismo 1-4,test drive 3-6 video game !
I use to live between Fairborn & New Carlisle in Rona Hills...hilarious
Super cool... from Fairborn as well... born in Xenia but lived in Fairborn... moved to Maryland with my dad but my mom lived there her whole life!
Vehicles.... one of the things that has definitely improved since the 70s and 80s.
You think? They seemed more durable back then.
Not even close to true
1978. We had Muhammed ali vs superman comic book
Smoking was not considered criminal, Driving whilst using radio communication device was perfectly legal, gasoline was cheaper than cat food, traffic was lighter back then..
The golden rule of a street mailbox a second look ✌️
8:20 omg I love that song ! So lovely and catchy
He forgot to seal the large envelope. Is there any way to check whether the contents arrived intact?
Why oh why is the world so ULTRA different now? It has changed, but not in a good way.
.57 per gallon gas.. mattress me want to cry. I was 19 turning 20 in '78..
Can anyone identify the song playing around 8:25? Or the one after?
What type of car that was right by the mail box on video time on the 5 to 10 seconds mark it was a white color car.
Ford Maverick, produced from '69 or '70 until '77.
Ford Maverick. 1970-77 vintage.
I drive those roads all the time
WHOA, Vintage Tape Stop SFX
I had a Winnebago just like that in the 1970s. Lived in Oklahoma. I sold it to some guy named David Parker Ray from New Mexico. Not sure what happened to it, he just wanted to renovate it for some reason.
We went to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Pittsburgh it wanted them cars 1976
Sam Raimi's car 5:41 before he did Evil Dead.
Wonder where this guy is now here in 2023?
Sounds and looks like the game HARD TRUCK 2.🤣
Amazing since most heavy industry has left the US how much cleaner the skies are today then back then.
10:00 - Can you hear me now? - lol
Speaking of 1970 s film projects that began in 1970 s I purchased dirty Harry dvd collection it was 7 bucks.
I bet your daddy got those for him to watch but only has a Roku on the tv and no dvd player at all so you kid gonna get a Xbox to watch that movie with your daddy. Hmmmm
Man that cut at 5:19 was gnarly.
Where is that boat tail Buick Riviera from the thumbnail!? Love those cars lol
9:20
How did he get where he was going without a GPS?
Road Atlas almost every car I ever rode in as a kid had em in it.
Love the Buick ❤
RV 5 miles to every gallon of ⛽ gas.
the freeways are so empty!
Dawn of the dead, 1978 baby!