12 Things Gone FOREVER...1980s - Life in America

[@davidgoodman6924]

Bartles and James: "And thank you for your support."

[@amymeyers9682]

I loved these! I was sad to see them go. It felt like you were having boat drinks without the heavy alcohol.

[@mgk920]

They were also the source if some of the most iconic 'bum drunk' liquids.

[@ntvypr4820]

I adopted that catchphrase and used it every time someone did something i liked or I had asked them to do.

[@flowerfaeri]

I just add sparkling water to wine and create my own 😊

[@notrightmeow3357]

I remember that just walking around the mall was a fun thing to do in the 80’s.

[@calbob750]

One thing frighteningly gone forever is civility and cooperation in American politics.

[@benadams3569]

That has never actually existed

[@roberthightower9889]

Hello Cal Bob, back then both “sides” agreed on the same ending and merely had different ideas on how to get there. Today both sides have mutually exclusive, diametrically opposed goals/destinations, etc. Compromise is just not possible, it is now a game of tug of war

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

@@benadams3569 It did actually. You just been conditioned to deny it ever existed

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

That ironically has its origins in the 1980s actually with the Reagan Administration. It wasn't really the administration but it was at this point in time that the religious right started coming to power and many of the hard right would start coming into the party. Telivangalist would also begin their rise at this point and they would greatly influence conservatives and cause a growing social and religious divide.

[@summer-np6fx]

It's hard to meet in the middle with the left inducing killing babies. Woman thinking their men. And men thinking their woman.

[@bearforce187]

The 80's were not perfect by any means, but oh how I would love to go back to those days. I was a teen and into my early 20's back then and it was simply a great time to be around.

[@johnmcintyre1965]

I went to High School and college from 1980 to 1989. Like you said, they weren't perfect but they sure were better than where we are now. You got that Time Machine dialed in?

[@jazzman1626]

@@johnmcintyre1965 I’ll drop you off on my way back to the 1960s 😁.

[@bearforce187]

@@jazzman1626 LOL, it's a deal

[@bearforce187]

@@johnmcintyre1965 I wish I had one.

[@perapelman7687]

John Mcintyre I started school att age 7 in 1986.

[@jamesday9701]

If you do a part 2, you should mention something that is definitely falling by the wayside these days...shopping malls. They were THE place to be in the 80s. Now they are fast becoming a distant memory

[@scottfulps2065]

Spot on! Malls meant everything in the 80's!

[@thomastaylor6699]

We used to go to the mall and eat at either Furrs cafeteria or Wyatts cafeteria before heading to the stores in the mall. It was a great time back in the early 80's!

[@perapelman7687]

James Day yes I know.There was built way to many malls before Internet shopping took over. The middle class and malls are something we all can read about in history books soon😣 P.S:I'm from Norway living in Norway🇳🇴

[@stevek8829]

@@scottfulps2065 guess what, they were a thing in the sixties and seventies as well. The rent on the square footage was high. Commercial space is exorbitant.

[@Ozzy_2014]

Lots of channels covering the dead and dying malls. The best found in the DMOD. Dead Malls Of Dicord. Dan Bell, Ace's Adventures, Retail Archeology ( out of Arizona) some of my favourites. No breaking in to places. No urbex. No damaging property. Just honest filming. Some do deep dives into the history. Some just casual research. But Sal does some of the best research. I know what vaporwave is because of them. Lots of those videos and links to the discord in description boxes. Some have humourous audio effects. Some include footage, advertising that goes back to the vintage 60s and 70s. Many malls especially in the NE and mid west covered multiple times over the years. Its a rich community. History is being preserved.

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

I saw someone who I went to school withs cousin, who I knew, on a milk carton in my refrigerator! That freaked me out completely! Despite the bad times, I’d still rather go back to the 80s. Even if it’s just for a short time. Those bad times don’t compare to now.

[@KenanTurkiye]

I don't know how it may seem to others but when I remember old times I get a feeling almost like when you remember someone you loved dearly but lost, a fuzzy excited feeling of remembering the good times yet slightly depressing when realizing it is gone. We had more sincerity and innocense back than, all cultures and people all around the world has in various degrees lost that. :/ I think this realization is making us feel as such. So to those who feel the same and miss the sincerity and innocense we had back than, I salute you all with love and respect, may you have a great day(s)! take care and best wishes. ;)

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

@@KenanTurkiye indeed!

[@UmmYeahOk]

@@KenanTurkiye I was born in 1982, while my brother was born in 1991. Only 9 years apart, I feel as though we had two completely different childhoods.

[@KenanTurkiye]

@@UmmYeahOk I hear you!

[@BunnySlippers82]

@@UmmYeahOk Agreed. I was also born in '82 and my brother in '90, and he and I have little in common. We had two totally different childhoods with different types of worlds growing up, and now hold vastly different views on life.

[@justsumguy2u]

Man, you really nailed the 80's. I was a teen throughout the 80's, and I can relate to so many of these things. Everyone had a mullet (including me), also Trapper Keepers (I had a few), parachute pants (I had the tight variety), boom boxes (every guy had one), and even the Blue Light Specials. Thanks for the trip down memory lane

[@jamesslick4790]

I had a "Trapper Keeper" in 1978! That was the first, last and only time I was AHEAD of a trend, LOL.

[@BrandyTexas214]

Trapper keepers lmao oh those things were so cool! I had plenty

[@perapelman7687]

Eidelmania yes I know,a great time we had.I listened to pop/rock/ballad music often all day long all the way up to the millenium decade.I miss mostly all the video rental stores we had.I was for years a big video film and Tv slave.Dallas-Falcon Crest-Dynasty-Cagney and Lacey-The Increadible Hulk and Little house on the prairie and Twin Peaks just to mention some😊

[@noladarling1597]

Awesome 😎

[@keithdean9149]

@@noladarling1597 TOTALLY AWSOME!

[@mattm597]

The 80s were the best. I am so glad I grew up during that decade. Technology was at a perfect equilibrium. It was advanced enough to make our lives interesting, convenient, and enjoyable, but it had not yet taken over our lives and made us miserable and subservient. We were technology's master--not the other way around. And the best music and films came from the 80s. I'm so glad I grew up when I did!

[@marinhusky8863]

I have often thought that as well about technology of the 80s

[@spazbobstinkpants]

I have heard it said "Progress is great it just went on for too long."

[@norwegianblue2017]

I would argue that technology was pretty awesome and non-intrusive up until the era of smart phones and social media.

[@angeladay1534]

I had moved out of my family home and got my first full-time job! 1980! 😆

[@dpr821]

Matt M: Well said.

[@bobsebring3377]

The 80s was such a magical decade. Decades just kept getting duller and duller as time when on. But with the 80s there was so many things going on, music, fashion, fads. It was the last decade that was actually fun.

[@perapelman7687]

Bob Sebring you completely nailed it right on👍🎉

[@nicholaskenny4684]

Believe it or not the 90,s 2000’s and 10’s had music, fashion and fads. Just not the ones you like

[@mariaellis2882]

@@nicholaskenny4684 well, the 40s, 50s, 60s were great too

[@christine3043]

@@nicholaskenny4684 ..they definitely did but things as a whole became more depressing and the music less organic and more of a business.

[@bobsebring3377]

@@christine3043 Bingo! That's a huge part of it. Also losing MTV as a music channel where kids could emulate thier favorite artist with thier looks. The 90s had grunge which meant looking like a dirty bum and rap which isn't even music had guys exposing thier underwear trying to look gangster. Rap really had killed the fun. It's culture ruined everything. Disrespect, and violence are not only not fun, but it's not cool either.

[@crazy8skml]

I recently bought a trapper keeper from Walmart. This definitely brought back so many memories! Thank you!

[@specialed6357]

But they are gone forever and you can't get them anymore, didn't you watch the video! LOL I'm just being sarcastic.

[@JT-1969]

The 1980’s, maybe because I was a kid during this decade, but it is by far the best out of any decade. When the time machine is invented I’ll be first in line to go back to the 80’s!

[@justayoutuber1906]

Yet people in the 80's wanted to go back to the 50s.

[@thelogicaldanger]

@@justayoutuber1906 Maybe some, I grew up in the 80's, and I never heard anyone say they wanted to go back to the 50's. Maybe stuff like "oh, high school is the best years of your life, I wish I was still in high school", but never anything about how great the 50's were. I heard a lot of bad about the 50's area, many people still had outhouses, almost everyone knew someone who had died from a disease that is now prevented with vaccines, about how kids had it easy because they weren't beat by parents and teachers like in the older days, how hard it was to travel because all the roads were dirt or at best gravel. This was a rural area, maybe people in the big cities felt differently.

[@angeladresser60]

@@thelogicaldanger You can forget the BS. I lived through 50s and fondly recall

[@thelogicaldanger]

@@angeladresser60 You may fondly recall, but did you want to go back to the 50's when you were living the 80's? As I said, maybe people in the cities felt differently, but no one I knew in the 80's wanted to go back to the 50's.

[@truthandfreedom885]

I tell people younger then me, you'll never understand how great America was at one time.

[@footballlvnlady]

I still have my boom box and it works great to play the 80’s music.

[@hilltopmachineworks2131]

I had a big old Sanyo boom box. Sucker took 8 D batteries and would last maybe a week before I needed fresh ones. Tape player eventually quit working and the volume knob wore out.

[@howyoudurrinhunneh]

Still carry it on your shoulder or does it hurt your back now :)

[@dragonfly111cute]

I wish I still had mine! So many memories made!

[@kathleenking47]

@@hilltopmachineworks2131 the boxes with CDs were better, but even They cost between 100-200 dollars..similar to Sony Walkmans

[@recreatethe80s]

Loved it! Can we get a Part 2, please??

[@600joe]

Another thing gone forever from the 80s is FUN!!!!

[@perapelman7687]

Jepp,nothing is funny anymore,just sorrow and eternal worries over everything+loneliness.

[@iggyvonkoopa]

I’m a 90’s kid and I agree I wish so much to go back life was much more fun and felt free!!

[@leesashriber5097]

Best decade ever 😉 I'd definitely go back. Greatest memories.

[@steveferguson823]

Was class of 1980 best decade. Every

[@leesashriber5097]

@@steveferguson823 , class of '86.

[@justayoutuber1906]

Don't forget AIDs, Crack babies, Starvation in Africa, Acid Rain, yuppies, the death of manufacturing jobs, Japanese takeover...etc.

[@davidpearson3304]

Class of 89….snuck in just under the wire. 😬

[@bp39047]

Last decade of free speech in the US. PC movement took over completely. No more laughter in the work place.

[@bicyclist2]

I count myself very lucky to have grown up in the 80's. I used to drink Bartles & James wine coolers in the 90's. I wish we could still get them. The 80's were magical. Thank you.

[@marcovarela6702]

Left out the “Sony Walkman”-I got mine in 1985

[@bostongirlsandy]

I won a Sony Walkman in 1996 in an art competition where I had to draw Brazil.

[@marcovarela6702]

@@bostongirlsandy Excellent! that was my favorite device, I bought mine while I was stationed in Germany in 1985... “Sony Walkman” a classic

[@jeffphillips8820]

I still got one. I was going to plug it in my Jeep since it has no cassette or cd player. And it's a 2016. Am I the only one who doesn't listen to digital music in their vehicle?

[@marcovarela6702]

@@jeffphillips8820 nope you’re not the only one, miss the old cassette days

[@kathleenking47]

Very expensive 100 dollars

[@einstein3509]

One thing that disappeared after the 80’s was “ Cruising Main Street” or “ Bombing Main” It was the way to meet people, show off your car, jack up the backend with loud exhaust, stoplight to stoplight drag races, pick up girls, go parking, and of course getting the occasional ticket for having a little too much fun. As far as I know this started in the 50’s and ended in the early 90’s with cities posting “ no cruising ordinances” Some cities put up barricades to prevent cruising other cities changed their four lanes into two lanes to prevent cruising. Friday and Saturday night cruising is gone forever.

[@brodriguez11000]

Ronco-Mr Microphone.

[@montanatony5838]

Hell, just saying pickup girls will get you canceled today hahaha! Oh man, Everyone partied and for the most part got along.. Even the police might bust the party up but you wouldn't go to jail.

[@einstein3509]

@@montanatony5838 It sure was a great time back then.

[@montanatony5838]

@@einstein3509 yes it was!!

[@lucky43113]

We still cruise here but its organized not quite the same but close

[@hoppas77]

Wow, look at all those cashiers at Kmart 6:11 I went to a grocery store yesterday and there was only one cashier the rest were all self-check-out lanes. Made me sad.

[@samanthab1923]

KMarts are gone near me. PA/NJ. I cannot stand to check my own groceries. Same with gas. Drive over to NJ.

[@misterhat5823]

@@samanthab1923 Kmart is gone everywhere. There's like two in the US.

[@gregggoss2210]

@@samanthab1923, now the powers that be are pushing for self serve gas stations in Jersey. They claim the price of gas will go down, but it's a load of horse 💩. Our prices have been lower than PA. and Del. for years without self service. They said the same crap about EZ Pass. Get EZ Pass and you'll save money. So they got rid of the toll takers and switched to EZ Pass, now there is no longer a discount for EZ Pass users. So all of those people lost their jobs for nothing, just like the gas station attendants will lose their jobs. Our politicians serving themselves instead of serving the people they are supposed to be serving.

[@cherie623]

Dollar General has them

[@appleforever6664]

No different walking into a bank. There use to be many tellers at branch and now your lucky to see two or three tellers.

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

#1 -- And we thank you for your support! And always support us responsibly!

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

Thanks for putting a smile once again on this old Woman's face :)

[@ClarkieandJoseph]

There was also sun country wine coolers. And “riunite on ice..that’s nice” 😊

[@jeffphillips8820]

And Bartels and James.

[@otherworlder1]

Lol. And grey poupon

[@mikefisher2673]

we had California coolers.

[@angeladay1534]

I had to forgotten about Sun Country and California Coolers. My favorite was Bartles and James. I bought the others if the stores were out. Long before the big "Discount Liquor Warehouses". The only tasty malt based, go to, best seller was....Pink Champale! Now, I think the so-called "Coolers" are malt based. I so grateful, I don't drink anymore. Hallelujah! 📖🥰🙌🏽🛐🙏🏽

[@vickiatabi4235]

California Coolers:the only alcoholic beverage I ever enjoyed☑️

[@lindaeasley5606]

The 1980s were a great decade ❤️

[@keithdean9149]

One thing that keeps coming back from the 80's is Ripped Jeans. And I'm finding some more, younger people rediscovering 80's Rock.

[@youthfulcurmudgeon3627]

Good job but you missed a vital aspect of childhood in the 80s.....Saturday Morning Cartoons, the classic era.

[@jeffbengert2863]

Nostalgia makes me very sad.....and depressed, but thanks.

[@justayoutuber1906]

It happens to every generation. My grandparents hated the 80s

[@jeffbengert2863]

@@justayoutuber1906 Your grandparents were correct; the 80's were the beginning of the downfall....70's underrated and great. Be happy.

[@geordiewishart1683]

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be...

[@RainForestSoul]

Same here. I’m 64 and would sell my soul to be 20 something again.

[@CarsandCats]

I was blessed enough to have 16 years of Ronald Reagan's leadership. The first eight years as the Governor of California.

[@StageRight123]

Ah yes, the beginning to the downfall of American democracy. Such wonderful times.

[@AFMMD-q8]

@ Cars & Cats: 💯 In agreement with your sentiment, the “Gip-per” was awesome! Tough on international policies, tough on crime, and a dollar went long ways during his administration. Oh, did I mention he protected the Country and its citizens from illegals crossing borders unchecked? I remember at one point a Gallon of Arco ⛽️ gasoline was 1 dollar, amazing times, sadly not to be seen again. 😭

[@AFMMD-q8]

@@StageRight123 The beginning and downfall of America’s democracy started under Obama.

[@noladarling1597]

The stories you find in the comments are a real treat!

[@Rainman75]

I grew up in the eighties and it was a simple time. Uncomplicated.. Good times...

[@Cathy-xi8cb]

I was an adult in the 80's. I can assure you that it was particularly complicated for adults.

[@retiweisberg7906]

The 80's...awesome memories

[@bryanj7063]

Ha I remember typing my college papers on a Brother typewriter but on my dorm hall a guy had this thing called a Mac!! He let me type my papers on it and I was hooked! ❤️

[@t-bo2734]

Hopefully, MTV will join this list soon.

[@PBryanMcMillin]

The Kmart blue light special started in the mid 60s and ended in the early 90s (they did bring it back for a short time). I remember in the 70s, at least in the area I grew up in, it was used to describe something of questionable quality. If someone had anything that broke or just fell apart not long after they got it, people would comment that it must have been a Kmart blue light special. If, by chance, you did have something that was bought on a blue light special, you kept that information to yourself.

[@MelvisVelour]

One time I was in Kmart in Raleigh looking for some doodad my Grandmother insisted she would stop breathing if she didn't get and by accident, I found myself in front of a wall of Cabbage Patch kids (it was on the downside of the fad) and the flashing blue light went on and I practically had to fight my way out of a horde of ravenous shoppers who swooped down to get their hands on them...thanks to that experience, I know what a gladiator must have felt like...

[@scrappyjunk8793]

yea in the 70s they new where your clothes came from and would agrevate you all year about the blue light special clothes then wearing old veit-nam army clothes and boots came in style and feild jackets

[@iLikeMyOwnPosts]

hahahaha yes! Your comment caused me to remember people saying "must have been a blue light special!" when I was a kid.

[@kerensabirch5214]

Kmart is still big in Australia but is now becoming synonymous with poor quality and gadgets that don't last long. Is Walmart any better?

[@PBryanMcMillin]

@@scrappyjunk8793 When I was growing up, it was, "School starts soon. Let's go get you some nice school clothes.", and a trip to Sears followed. The rest of the year was, "You've worn out those pants already? Let's go see what's on sale". and it was a trip to Kmart.

[@cheriestelzer9969]

80’s movies were and still are some of the best.

[@gweebs824]

Bartles and James : wow thanks for that recollection!

[@southernmermaid2526]

Thank goodness they brought the Trapper Keeper back. I got some for myself and both of my grandkids and they absolutely loved them too ! 😎💜

[@angeladresser60]

I agree, back to the good old days.

[@Hevynly1]

Trapper Keepers are back, actually! And I still keep potpourri in my home. I didn't realize this made me 80s, but I'm totally owning it. 80s forever!

[@kallen868]

I remember the blue light specials!

[@glennso47]

Arnold Schwarzenegger left Europe to seek freedom in the USA, but last year he had a commercial for the Covid injection and that we should forget about freedom. 🤔

[@RoryChalcraft]

The 80s were a combination of joy and absolute darkness for me as it was the AIDS epidemic and I helped 79 of my friends plan their funerals - and then attended each of them. The darkness was obvious as so many people died; and the joy was my privilege in helping my closest friends transition.

[@RoryChalcraft]

And today, thanks to effective treatment, a person with HIV can live a normal and as healthy life as anyone else. Undetectable = Untransmittable

[@rhyfeddu]

So sorry for that, so many losses. My wife was a "buddy" for those w no family involved, to be a companion as they passed. I only witnessed this on the periphery, but it was devastating. I'm glad you made it through and hope you regained some joy.

[@lucky43113]

Pick a different life style

[@otherworlder1]

I am so sorry you went through this. Devastating.

[@rhyfeddu]

@@lucky43113 Pick up a soul sometime...

[@NGMonocrom]

Trapper Keeper ~ Another reason they fell out of favor is because the all-plastic binder rings had a tendency to break and snap off. Rendering the binders useless. Had several of them all through elementary school. All would eventually break in the same way. Plus, I was never hard on mine. Just too fragile.

[@howyoudurrinhunneh]

I got a new one every year and they always held up. The binders with metal were the ones that bent over time, making page turning harder.

[@Jdo4031]

I never had a trapper kerper ring break,

[@specialed6357]

I had no problems with metal ringed ones.

[@lucky43113]

I had them break often

[@debbiegum2226]

They took up way too much room in the desk Lol

[@CoyoteSeven]

Thank you for your support.

[@timebong8366]

Last best decade, after that all down hill

[@shadykitty7493]

no it was still shit

[@kathleenking47]

I got married at 30. In 1989 I couldnt imagine being single in the 90s 80s was the last best decade to be single

[@timebong8366]

@@kathleenking47 I got married when I was 30 too but divorced 9 years later.

[@wildlifewarrior2670]

The year 2050 pretty cool

[@timebong8366]

@@wildlifewarrior2670 that experimental product you took cool too⚰️

[@artdeco64]

High school class of ‘89! I remember all of this like it was yesterday.

[@OgaugeTrainsplusslotCars]

Born 1971 remember all this♐️👍

[@MrDan708]

Wine coolers were my introduction to alcohol when I was a young man in the 80's. I preferred Seagram's Golden to any other. I got my first Trapper Keeper in the late 70's, so I guess I was slightly ahead of the curve? The efficacy of the Just Say No campaign is hard to know since you can't easily measure a negative; how many kids never tried drugs at all because of what they learned, then?

[@mgk920]

You forgot the most iconic thing of all that disappeared forever during the 1980s - the Berlin Wall and the Cold War (November, 1989)!

[@shaunsteele8244]

that "just say no" campaign really worked... I was scared to touch drugs throughout my entire childhood. I didn't even try weed until I was about 25 lol

[@elultimo102]

I have a T-shirt that features a pic of Moe Howard of the Three Stooges and says "JUST SAY MOE."

[@kathleenking47]

I never did🙂my daughter did, and found out she couldn't smoke it without the parsnoia

[@mikethemechanic7395]

I did not do drugs as a teen. Glad I waited till my late 30s…

[@hoppas77]

have some great memories involving wine coolers lol

[@rhuephus]

like . . a dozen kids .. all named after them ....

[@hoppas77]

@@rhuephus lol not

[@drusmith3480]

I want my MTV! 📺

[@22lilacsky]

You could literally make tons of videos of the 1980s alone. Keep em coming!!

[@bluelionsage99]

Ah man, Trapper Keppers. Forgot all about them until the vid reminded me. Man I loved my Keepers back in school.

[@Jonathan_Taylor]

Mead still makes the Trapper Keeper. You can get it on Amazon. But there is only one picture design and it looks more 90's than 80's..

[@brendancarlson1678]

I loved my Swatch watch.

[@flyingbeaver900]

1968 boy here. Great job with the flashback, all we’re so familiar, excerpt the power glove - probably because I wasn’t a big gamer in the day? Weird to not recall at all? I guess it also goes to show how great it was that we were constantly blitzed with sales & marketing with social media, as it didn’t exist!

[@bikeny]

I'm a little older and I recalled all except the keepers thing and the glove thing. Never had a mullet, as I was losing my hair by then. And the pants weren't my style, though. And boom boxes, ah, the joy of riding the NYC bus and subways to work and getting to hear all the classical music wafting out of them. /s

[@johnsanborn7339]

I had a green trapper keeper back in 1981 in the 7th grade, junior high. That seems like another planet and a lifetime ago now. We always thought the future would be better but we were so wrong.

[@matthewlane518]

Your right about the "just say no" thing it's long gone, everyone just says YES PLEASE! now lol

[@kevinbossick8374]

Most said yes back then too. They just pretended that they would say no. I remember the drug free pledges in high school. Then on the weekends it was party time.

[@matthewlane518]

@@kevinbossick8374 lol I'm a child of the 70s and 80s I remember those weekends and the stupid pledges

[@kevinbossick8374]

@@matthewlane518 I remember talking to someone in class, about the hypocrisy. Turned out they were with the student paper. And my interview was published. It was hilarious.

[@matthewlane518]

@@kevinbossick8374 that's pretty cool thou!

[@mikki3961]

Thank you for your support...Loved those wine coolers.

[@tsormmh3590]

#1 thing gone forever....privacy!

[@recreatethe80s]

Yes! Making our lives a public (instead of private) pursuit has really devolved our society.

[@misterhat5823]

Only if you're willing. Nobody is forcing you to be glued to Facebook, Twitter, and other such garbage.

[@tsormmh3590]

@@misterhat5823 cameras are EVERYWHERE my friend. Just because you don't want to be on Facebook doesn't mean that your picture isn't. I bet you can find yourself in plenty of background pictures. God I miss the 80's!

[@SMac-bq8sk]

Wow, you got that right!

[@samerabdallah82]

I remember a teacher was dressing up as a rockstar punk as I was 6 years old in elementary school and drove a Pontiac Firebird.

[@jamesrichey2434]

I used to work in a Kmart in the late 80's and til 2003 actually, and I used to love the blue light specials! I always got enlisted to do them if I was there, but I really didn't mind, they were fun to do, like being an announce just the audience wasn't right in front of your face lol. Often times, they actually did have really good deals and within minutes of making the announcement, I'd be swarmed by crowds of people shoving the product towards me to re-ticket. Good times and good friends, miss those days :)

[@andyusfca]

3:07 I actually still have a file keeper(not trapper keeper) with the exactly same print as the trapper keeper in the front(the one with fruit shapes). That is my favorite file keeper since childhood.

[@perapelman7687]

I'm age 43 and had my childhood that decade.My upbringing with Walkman,great music-movies-Tv shows was beyond everything.The last decade before Internet came.We had music and video rental stores.LP og tapes was in use everywhere,but the CD and Discman started to come more out in the late 1980's.Outside people biked or jogged. We wore oversiced clothes-converse shoes-headbands,highwasted jeans and jeans jacked.College jacked and trim suit eighter in nylon/polyester or oversiced jogging suit was popular. Oversiced cardigan/knitting jackets with shoulderpads was supercool to wear with baggy pants and white socks.Leggwarmers and pilot suits for girls often wearing a big stumack belt. Hairstyle was big perm hair or straight mullet like hair with bangs.Black RayBan sunglasses with or whitout an mirror outside the glasses. This was the last and best decade of horror/thriller and slasher movies era. People wore very sporty and danced a lot because of the great music everywhere. Street style/break dance/hip hop music. People had better time and more respect for other's.We had phonebooks with the yellow pages in another book.Tekst Tv and satelite dish was super cool and expensive to get.Home decor was pinewood-water bed-sacco bean sack-pappasan chair-whitepink colors,big leather sofa's.MTV came in 1981 and only aired music videos. VCR and Microwave was a big deal and expensive to purchase.Downtown people used phoneboot to call for a taxi-friends-lovers e.t.c.Loneliness was not much around,everybody had a close friend eighter inside or outside the family. Very easy to find or change your occupation/finding a new job. The 1980's was very colorful,pink,purple,mint green and baby blue colors.My list goes on and on.

[@VH-OU812]

Well said!! I loved the 80’s!! I remember going to concerts was a big thing, hanging out before the show, people outside selling lower quality t-shirts but were great for work. Did you ever see the movie/documentary HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT? Check it out if you didn’t. Stay safe & healthy out there..Long Live the 80’s!!

[@kathleenking47]

The 80s styles were better than the 70s..more COLOR

[@perapelman7687]

Hehe,yes I remember that much more color😊

[@vforvillain77]

I almost cried when I saw the trapper keeper. Always remembered and loved it. I miss being a kid in the 80's :(

[@MrMusicfan65]

i do remember the 1980s very well

[@luv2sail66]

Thank you for the memories. I still remember the taste of wine coolers from parties during college…and the smell of hair mousse while slow dancing.

[@kristineholcroft9163]

Would love to go back to the 80s

[@pongop]

Oh, now I understand a Futurama episode and character much better: Slurms McKenzie, The Original Party Worm! Another 80s video video on this channel helped me understand a Simpsons reference and character: The Noid. Great stuff on this channel!

[@talfacprez]

Another clothing style in the 80s was Painter's Pants often the overalls version was quite the rage in the 80s. Another one is MTV back when they actually played Music Videos.

[@justmejenny7986]

One of my favorite outfits was a mini skirt with suspenders that I wore with leg warmers. 😎

[@garywagner2466]

Painter’s pants were actually useful. All those pockets and a loop to hold your hammer. Just what you needed for a night on the town.

[@musicmamma]

I had white ones. Another popular thing we used to do, was put big goody-tooth combs in the back pockets. Mine was animal print. I was "cool".

[@squigtonianmayhem4602]

...and thanks for your support.

[@BELCAN57]

"And thank you for your support".

[@Nitephall]

You forgot to mention that the Bartles and James ads would always end with them saying "Thank you for your support."

[@appleforever6664]

Oh yes, the mullet which equals to business in the front, party in the back!

[@angelosantaniello4113]

Fear the mullet

[@Derek-no8fu]

I still rock a mullet till this day bro !!

[@johnmcjunkin4613]

So much fun remembering things from back then.

[@Lkydog8165]

The 80's were the BEST in my opionion Wished I could go back to the fun times back then and also 86 was when I had my 1st child hard to believe it's been almost thirty-six years since the first time I became a mama

[@scottyellis3442]

Thanks for the video, thanks for the memories. I was 13 years old in 1980 so that was definitely the decade I grew up in.

[@bretthibbs6083]

I absolutely loved the 80's I had the best time of my life even typing this now I'm getting flashbacks of all the things I did during that decade. I'm glad that I grew up in the 80's and I started high school in the 80's it was only for about 2 years but hey at least I got my license in 1989. Thanks for the memories I remember everything in the video.

[@rewind1960]

Things gone but we can get back : morality, reason, compassion, tolerance, family, justice, national pride, willingness to listen to others ideas, freedom, democracy, common values, hope, respect for the environment, money that had value, teachers and doctors that cared about their students/patients more than money, and politicians and police that worked for the people instead of against them.

[@marlenepearson3936]

Never thought I'd miss hearing about blue light specials. And I liked the mullet!

[@stealthimaster8583]

I still have all 4 of my trapper keepers from high school. Don't forget Sun Country wine coolers as well.

[@jasonnorthcutt3771]

It was probably 86 or 87 before I ever heard somebody that didn't speak English as their native language. Now my old school is 75% Hispanic & all of the convenience stores & motels/hotels are all owned by foreigners. Thinking about what has happened to my society makes me very sad. Now there's blue haired Pajama people walking around my little town at 2:00 in the morning And a homeless encampment. And everybody seems to think this is OK.

[@jamessteele7102]

No ... it’s not OK. I agree with you. Our politicians in both parties betrayed us. They ruined what was once a great nation and people. I saw this coming in 1990 when they increased the legal immigration rate from 100k per year to 1 million per year. Just do the math and factor in the high birth rate of all these newcomers since 1990 and the severely declining birth rate of those born on our soil. A major change in such a targeted country is inevitable. Demographics is destiny.

[@jasonnorthcutt3771]

@@jamessteele7102 Thank God somebody understands. Everything you say it is correct but it goes much deeper. Our declining birth rate has been manufactured I'm afraid And we are being forced to pay for offspring that are not ours. They have slowly destroyed our most sacred religious institution. Of course I'm talking about marriage. They have destroyed our families and our nation. Well almost anyhow.

[@danielnovak4284]

You did great. God bless you!

[@kallen868]

Bartles and James!😍

[@kirkmorrison6131]

Thank, you for your support

[@sonyafox3271]

Wine Coolers are still out there,Walmart and all the Liquor Stores still sell them because, I still actually buy them. There’s other companies that have followed suit, love the Hard Lemonade Black Cherry! The Blue Light was around in the 70s and, I can’t begin to tell you how many times, I chased down after that darn thing so, my mom could continue to shop! Then, I’d have to go back and tell her what it was and, then, if she wanted whatever they were, I’d have to hurry up and get however many she wanted and, then, go take them back to her. Shopping with my mother always felt like workout and, the time she got done in one store alone, I was exhausted and ready to go out to eat!

[@bigred3164]

Part of the reason why I love Back to The Future, was because it was set in one iconic decade, and traveled to another iconic decade. I thought that was kinda funny how that eventually would be like that. The 50s was too people in the 80s, as iconic as today we think of the 80s.

[@BK-si7hs]

Thought I was the only one who thought that. Lol. 😁

[@timvanarsdel]

If you do a follow-up to this or the 90s, don't forget the truly iconic status symbol: the car phone, complete with its portable charging station you could tote in a zippered black vinyl or leather carrying case.

[@justayoutuber1906]

"Boom Boxes" is a PC 90's term. They were known as "Ghetto Blasters" in the 80's.

[@jamesslick4790]

Yep. In fact, "Ghetto Blaster" was used as far back as the mid-late 1970s when they first became popular The actual original industry term for such devices is "portable stereo". Source: I worked at Radio Shack in the old days.

[@davidpearson3304]

We called them boom boxes in the 80’s.

[@Mr.Huck64]

@@jamesslick4790 Agreed. I also heard the term, 'n****r box,' which I didn't care for. But in those days racial slurs were still casually thrown around quite a bit in my area.

[@justmejenny7986]

I grew up in the 80s, it was a boom box . Maybe different places called them different names.

[@MisterMikeTexas]

@@Mr.Huck64 In the 70s, Richard Pryor had an album titled "That N*****'s Crazy!"

[@ratdad48]

The mullet has never gone away!!! It's probably been around thousands of years! Geez man!

[@Larry]

What about Sugar? Sugar was in everything in the '80s :D

[@syxepop]

Hello, You! Guru, maybe that was in "that side of the Atlantic", since on this side seems more like the late '60s and the '70s (things like Sugar Crisp and Sugar Frosted Flakes breakfast cold cereals and the "Sugar, Sugar" song by the comic book / cartoon-inspired "The Archies").

[@TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores]

In 1985 the chemical company Monsanto began marketing an artificial sweetener called NutraSweet and ever since, sugar has been seen as being bad for you. Post even had to rename their breakfast cereal "Super Sugar Crisp" to "Super Golden Crisp".

[@alimsylla5367]

The boom box was a major status symbol in diamond mining area of Sierra Leone. The alluvial diamond digger who sells a tiny crates of diamond. Gets a large boom box and starts entertaining his village.

[@jackhackett80]

Was born in 1980 so this is my childhood! Remember all things mentioned fondly!

[@markw208]

Some great memories 👍

[@wayfarer4578]

Man, I haven’t heard the name Bugle Boy in decades! Totally forgot about that brand 😂

[@Code.Name.V]

Gennera and Ocean Pacific were also popular.

[@wayfarer4578]

@@Code.Name.V yes! OP!

[@SilverGorilla1776]

Haha. Nailed it! Great times, and thanks for the memories.

[@rosezingleman5007]

Actually there was scented room spray for decades prior to the potpourri trend. Remember Lysol spray? For a while they had different scents but there were other brands too.

[@SMac-bq8sk]

Yuk...Lysol! Oh, I remember it; smelled like a toxic chemical factory. And none of Lysol's various scents were an improvement over the original concoction. It wasn't a room spray, it was a room evacuator.

[@cuspsoftheoverworld]

Pretty sure scented car whatsits to hang on the mirror were a thing. I remember using a promo one once and not liking it

[@chrisdavis9400]

What about Carpet Fresh? Your mom would sprinkle it all over the carpet and then vacuum and it would make for a smell that might last as long as your guest arriving. LOL

[@Sköldpadda-77]

Trapper Keepers faded out at my school because the spoilsport teachers hated the sound of the Velcro and banned them from our classrooms. Stills, they were great.

[@rachelthomson1980]

I miss you 80's!! Please come back 😎

[@jenniferhansen3622]

If only...😔

[@veronicaferguson8548]

Ohhhh the wine cooler.When they had real wine in them not malt liquor like now. What about Alex,the Strohs German shepherd?I liked him better than Spuds. Parachute pants ,a polo with a flipped up collar, boat shoes, big heavily sprayed curled hair and makeup going to Skateworld on Friday night.Good memories

[@kevinbossick8374]

Yeah, it is not like the wine cooler went out of fad. But they were forced to change the formula due to government regulation or something.

[@areasevenpro]

Missed Opportunity: Since you put Bartles & Jaymes at No. 1, you should've ended the video with "Thank you for your support." Damn, I'm old.

[@SkittleKicksPlays]

"And we thank you for your support!