1980s Things That Are Not Socially Acceptable Today | REACTION

[@afordhere75126]

I was a teen during the 80s. Graduated HS in 87. Pretty much my entire childhood is now socially unacceptable

[@esinohio]

I know right? I'm cringing even before he even starts. edit: shew, this video was actually kind of wholesome

[@tb9579]

Same. I graduated HS in 85. Best decade to grow up.

[@butterflymama0838]

I graduated in 1988. I loved the 80's so much!

[@shanehebert396]

'86 here... we had a blast.

[@gregs.427]

1987 Grad originally from Ohio, now in Arizona. Used to go to Geneva on The Lake EVERY WEEKEND to check out the cars AND girls.

[@echobeefpv8530]

As a guy in my 50's, I can honestly say I prefer the time before social media. Though I have many more options for everything now, I have much less real human contact. The technology that was supposed to bring us together, didn't.

[@sallyphillips9175]

Social media made us less social.

[@ballyastrocade5672]

It really ought to be called ANTI-social media. Or maybe "sociopathic media".

[@sagittarius420cheefie]

Right, I remember going to the mall or arcade to hang out or even meet new people.

[@LS-pe1rr]

sigmund freud wrote a book a hundred years ago about the same problem with the telegraph and the locomotive. We should all know by now that when something is called The ______ that will ________, the second blank is always be "make the CEO's a whole bunch of money"

[@LS-pe1rr]

@@sagittarius420cheefie don't act like you forgot where your front door is

[@Joker058]

I was a latchkey kid and loved the 80's. Everyone wasn't as divided back then and got along much better than they do now. No cellphones so you didn't get bothered or tracked when going outside and a lot less cameras. Good music and movies. Great times.

[@bryanlilly8876]

The 80's was such a magical, and different, time. I am 55 now, and would do anything to return to those days. 🙂

[@christianfischer9971]

The 80’s and 90’s were a different time. We used to sit in the back of a truck and head to the drive in movies. We rode our bikes everywhere, and explored various places. Abandoned homes had mysterious stories. Sometimes we’d peek through the windows. Coming home right before dark was common. Many of our friends played basketball and baseball. I do miss this times. Thank you for sharing!

[@mrarchaicworld]

Yep, I mostly grew up in the 90’s, don’t remember much about the 80’s, but most of this is true for the 90’s as well. I remember when California completely banned all indoor smoking in 1995, and most states followed in the early 2000’s. Same for airplanes. Bought my first cellphone when I turned 16, and remember having to call girlfriends at night to use the free minutes. Things changed real fast. People might say it’s our perception as we grow older, but I know that all my friends kids are living very different lives then we did, even the ones that still live in my old small town. They still have good childhoods, but nothing like the freedom to just live life like we did.

[@spartanswerve7575]

I remember riding in the bed of my dad’s truck on four hour trips to the lake.

[@woah_millie9931]

You just gave me a flashback. Those were good times.

[@christianfischer9971]

We also collected baseball cards. I remember being excited opening up the booster packs hoping for fleer and rookie cards. A stick of gum used to come with Topps.

[@jessicaarnold4028]

I miss the 80s so much! The music, the movies and the fashion! Times just seemed so much happier!

[@AvocadoRoyalty]

I feel the same way

[@woah_millie9931]

The 80s was the best decade.

[@triciaschymanski9348]

100% on it! I would never trade growing up in the 80's for NOTHING!

[@Cindee-Schnitman]

Amen to that Growing up in the 80’s was the best time EVER 🙌🏻

[@donnagonatas3155]

I honestly prefer the days without cell phones and social media.

[@Christophersanchez1326]

Agree

[@brannonhill4046]

I don't mind having cell phones just for the convenience, but I agree with you about social media

[@judycorbridge6470]

Word

[@roddycreswell8613]

👍

[@newera5238]

Same!!

[@MattyDardani]

I was raised in the 2000’s but Most of this stuff is how my parents raised me and my siblings and it’s how I plan on raising my kids. I feel a lot of this stuff built character and the lack of that character is what is causing a lot of the craziness of today.

[@dcbarrku4882]

Ah, the 80’s. The decade where people didn’t try to find reasons to be offended. A time when self entitlement was discouraged and critical thinking was encouraged. A time where people actually judged a person on their character.

[@faervas1234]

Politically correct was something that was being pushed at the time. It didn't stick like it is now.

[@robertterrell3065]

HAHA thanks, I needed a good laugh today!

[@Lethgar_Smith]

Ah, the 80s. The decade where people could use the "N" word in casual conversation. You could smoke in the grocery store. A time when a boss could pat female worker on the ass and not fear any reprisal. A time when people judged a person based on how big their house was and how nice a car they drove. Looking back at the past with rose colored glasses is easy.

[@dcbarrku4882]

@@Lethgar_Smith It would appear you view yourself as a professionally, oppressed victim. Good luck.

[@Lethgar_Smith]

@@dcbarrku4882 It would appear you are trying to say something but, as usual, it doesn't make any sense. Do you have a point to make or just meaningless empty hyperbole?

[@DevilFish69]

I miss the 80s. I first started missing it in the 2000s. Every decade makes me miss it more. The more insane the world becomes, the more I miss it.👾

[@chriswallace7235]

No lie, I can remember missing the 80's as far back as 1992. I look back now and think it's wild I was only 16 in "92" and already nostalgic about the 80's. Guess I already knew a special time was gone

[@CheleBoxy]

DITTO!!!!

[@pegatheetoo1437]

And the 60s & 70s are easy far behind us. Miss those days lots!! 😄

[@Felipe-u8p]

Same!

[@kathleengivant-taylor2277]

Me too. Not really a fan of most social media

[@cainemarko5021]

I was a kid in the 70s, a teen in the 80s and in my 20's in the 90s. I'm glad I got to enjoy all of that, pre-internet and social media. (Obviously some stone age internet in my 20's. Hello AOL!) I know everyone thinks their era is the best. But honestly, I feel for kids born in the mid to late 90s and 2000's, coming up now. Especially kids born after 2000.

[@Fluffy65]

You've got mail

[@Jerseybytes2]

My kids were born in the late 80s, 1990. My parents lived in europe, so we'd go visit them from time to time. One thing my kids loved was playing soccer with other kids by the building my parents lived in. They didn't even speak the same language, but they all played together and had a blast. I remember telling my parents I was going to a friend's house back in the 70s, grabbing my bike and off I went. was fun. My parents also liked to go to this place up north. Outside of meals I stayed out the whole day with my friends.

[@Jerseybytes2]

@@Fluffy65 I had prodigy back then. neat little internet provider. AOL instant messenger had the most recognizable sound tho. how about picking up the phone knowing fully well someone else was on the computer. only because you wanted to use the computer yourself, and it was easier to do this because they kept getting disconnected? or maybe it was just me.

[@mattjewett4473]

as a parent of kids now teens, I'm very sad how less "life" they've had to enjoy compared to my childhood.

[@ceezthamomentx2]

Born 81 raised thruout 90s still standing and yea...i def agree. 😐 we lived in simple times, great times always fun times.

[@chickmcgee1000]

I love my grandchildren, yet I pity them living in a world where people seem to be frightened of the prospect of their child falling out of a tree.

[@groovygrovejuiceco1760]

The extremes that child safety has been taken to is insane. The amount of forms you have to fill out for a school excursion is mind blowing. The incident reports you have to complete if your kid gets so much as a scratch. My daughters year 7 camp forms totalled 9 pages. Playgrounds are non existent as kids may injure and themselves or get kidnapped. What playgrounds do exist have the most bland uninteresting equipment - god forbid the child falls off something. Parents don’t let kids walk anywhere because of fears something will happen. Kids are not made to exercise in case they injure themselves. Safety aside, even with school reports there’s pretty much no grading/writing in red pen/criticism and kids get achievement awards for trying just like participation trophies because they don’t want to hurt their feelings or for kids to feel left out. I don’t knock being protevtive yo a certain. The problem is that all of this bubble wrapping/helicopter parenting is doing children a massive disservice as it does not prepare them to cope in the real world where most people don’t give a damn about your feelings.

[@masterofsparkshwy6974]

I had multiple fights with my ex-wife about letting our kids be kids. She'd panic if they even got dirty , whereas I'd take a waterhose, make a mud hole for every kid around to stomp through. I was wildly unpopular with mothers lol

[@danpals7678]

I always tell my grandkids that if you're always afraid to die you will never live.

[@danpals7678]

@@masterofsparkshwy6974 Our neighbor kid got in trouble if he came home sweaty. This was in Germany in the 70s. Meanwhile I got in trouble for getting grease on my jeans and smelling like gasoline and cigarettes. Lol

[@masterofsparkshwy6974]

@@danpals7678 wow, how you gonna tell a kid to never be sweaty? That's like saying never fart. Some people outclass themselves.

[@bellaklava600]

Sometimes I wonder if we tried to so hard to give our children the things we didn't have that we forgot to give them the things we DID have. GenX was a great time to grow up..

[@Andy-ju8bb]

I was a child of the 80s. During the school holidays my mum didn't see me from sun-up to dinnertime. We used to think we'd get away with stuff, but we all get home and our parents knew chapter and verse what we'd been up to. Although we never noticed, all the local adults kept an eye on us kids. The only time my mum really ever worried about me was if none of the adults in the area had seen me. She knew that meant I'd either been somewhere I wasn't allowed to be, or I was doing something I wasn't allowed to do. We never bothered with helmets or pads. If you took a tumble and headbutted the pavement/sidewalk or lost a layer of skin, you shook it off and got back on your bike.

[@elizabethsullivan7176]

Which explains the brain damage that many of us 80's kids now have 😄

[@cherylreichardt]

I was in high school! I loved every minute of the decade. Yep sat in the car, ran around the neighborhood until it was dark. Never had any fears like today.

[@jamesskelton2988]

In the 60s and 70s,but by the 80s,things were a little more regulated

[@jeffalbillar7625]

I loved the 80s, but I grew up in Buena Park CA, which is almost smack dab in the middle of Los Angeles and Orange Counties and we had A LOT of serial killers operating in the 2 counties in mostly the 70s and early 80s. And damn near all age groups and both genders were targeted. So, for me, although it was fun, there was always the reminder that someone could take you if you were not careful.

[@SurvivorBri]

It really depended on where you lived. It still does, for the most part.

[@WideAwake-bl7gw]

Same! :)

[@billolsen4360]

You weren't even afraid that Christine would run over you??

[@virginiav1704]

I was a kid and teen in the 70's/80's, and I remember how funny the sitcoms were like Archie Bunker, The Jeffersons, Three's Company. Funny stuff that wouldn't be shown on tv nowadays. Today's culture is thin skinned and you are considered a racist for just about anything

[@LN-Lifer]

A-Team Knight Rider He-Man Fall Guy Cosby Show and The Dukes of Hazzard

[@AlphaMachina]

@Let Your L⚡️GHT Forever Shine ❤️ I think you missed the point.

[@Pokedawn100]

Archie Bunker was racist as fk. Imagine watching that together as a black family. Wouldn't you feel some type of way....and not in a good way?! I don't remember any of those shows being funny at all. Except maybe for Three's Company, even though they pushed the dumb blonde BS.

[@EagleFang74]

I miss the 80’s big time. There’s so many theories why things used to be better but I think a lot of it boils down to our relationship to our world. I feel like later generations have been told over and over that the world is dying and people are ruining everything. And the more fun you have the less fun someone else must be having. So much social responsibility. And what do you see on social media? Consumerism, catastrophe, crisis. If they don’t save the world and the oppressed then they’re not good people. It’s all so heavy. When I was young there was an emphasis on finding your crew of friends and being together, spending real time together. Your crew was like your family that you got to pick. We had the same teen angst and frustration but we also had a sense that the world wasn’t ever going to be perfect so it was up to us to make our own fun. You can see it in our movies, tv and music. The stories and tales they told were mostly hopeful. I notice young people looking back on the culture from that time and they always say it looks so fun. It was! There was dreariness and maudlin music of course, but even within that there was often hope. I feel like it’s hard to have fun when you’re constantly being told the world is on fire and it’s your job to put it out. Or that our society is akin to a prison for most people and you should be ashamed if you’re a happy person. Anyway, whatever, nevermind.

[@DVincentW]

Dont buy into the NWO agenda- Klause Schwab the WEF the great reset.. "Youll be happy and own nothing" while you eat bug proteins. Forced jABS. No guitar solos no real music written by people, instead written by machines. Yes the past is dead and gone, but we are still alive. Best reagrds- DV

[@dawnrazornephilim]

I think you are right, the keep it simple stupid principle had a lot going for it.

[@mmille10]

I largely agree with what you said. There was some of the idea that, "We're ruining the world." I remember when films were shown in school, we had one or two that were environmental documentaries that worried about "the pollution" and how it's ruining our environment, and threatens our future, but at least for me, I remembered some of the claims that were made in them for a long time, and then I observed years later how their predictions didn't come true. So, I thought, okay, it was just made by people who were worry-warts, and I didn't take it seriously. Some environmental problems (pollution) were solved, and the world didn't end. I still think there are environmental problems to address, but what's struck me as bizarre is even though I've seen a lot of people around who claim to be concerned about the environment, they don't know anything about it. They're just in a memespace that's been inculcated into them re. "what the problem is, and how to solve it." I researched what they were talking about, and found, uh, no, that's not a big problem, and if you try to "solve it" the way you say, we're going to ruin our own civilization. Doesn't sound like a good idea... And meanwhile, they don't know squat about real environmental problems, because they're so focused on what the propaganda has told them. So, we have a culture now that's "really concerned," but it's being totally misdirected. I find it pretty disgusting. Back then, the only pop culture thing I saw/heard that had the same "be worried, and we must do something" idea about it was the Genesis song, "Land Of Confusion." "My generation will put it right. We're not just making promises that we know we'll never keep." I heard someone say something very similar recently, and I pointed out this song, "Dude, people were saying the same thing 35 years ago... I think we're seeing the result, ahem..."

[@CouncilOfWolves]

I was in my twenties in the 1980's working hard to support myself and having a fantastic time socially. Nobody was offended or oppressed and most folk just got along until somebody decided we all must be politically correct. ADHD didn't exist then and we had dinner forks as television aerials to improve the signal.

[@standdown4929]

They diagnosed my 6 year old daughter with ADHD in 1986.

[@CouncilOfWolves]

@@standdown4929 I never heard of it until 1997 when I returned to Britain and it was being worn as a badge of honour for young single mothers.

[@standdown4929]

@@CouncilOfWolves I wasn't a young single mother, nor did I wear it as a badge of honor. Maybe in your country people are sick like that, but not in mine. It was just away for big pharma to get an entire generation of children addicted to drugs. I never let my daughter take the drugs or any drugs. I told her she was normal, and she is.

[@CouncilOfWolves]

@@standdown4929 I never once suggested such a thing about you as I don't know who you are, nor did I assume you were female. I agree, however to what you say about big pharma. Based on my observations it does seem to be the single parents who use this condition here in the UK, possibly due to mental health issues and the attractive benefit payments they attract. I apologise if I've upset you, it was not intended.

[@standdown4929]

@@CouncilOfWolves That's good to know, I was a little shocked not upset, glad you clarified. Here in America there are no benefit payments for this that I know of. I just found it strange that all of a sudden everyone's child was diagnosed with ADHD in the 80's and they put them on Tofranil, Ritalin or Adderall. All of these drugs have bad side affects especially with continued use. I just wouldn't allow it. I have talked with parents that did allow it and now have many regrets. :)

[@sconni666]

Great time to grow up. Kids faces weren’t buried in cell phones.

[@whatchutalkinaboutwillard6547]

And adults lol

[@sconni666]

@@whatchutalkinaboutwillard6547 yep

[@JonS0107]

That’s when Cracker Jacks had an actual toy inside the box.

[@GodWeenSatan]

I remember that, the best was the little parachute guy. Now all they give is lame tattoos

[@OldMan_PJ]

Not to mention toys in cereal boxes and giveaways on products actually having whether you won or lost printed on the package rather than having to register on a website and enter a code.

[@angelotro]

"That's a cricket, good prize", said the guy behind the counter.

[@jamescampbell390]

Remember the diving Tony the Tiger in the Frosted Flakes

[@williamscott8245]

Wait! They don't have toys now?!

[@bluejay9940]

the ‘80’s were awesome! like a different world then. at the time it was ‘modern’ so we didn’t realize just how lucky we were but now in 2022 I wish for those simpler times

[@toddwilson7895]

Great vid J! I am so glad to have grown up in 1980's America. Amazin' time to be a kid! Salute 80's!

[@khutchinsoncpa1]

GenX here. Some friends from college bought houses near my family, and we all started having kids in our 30s, in the early 2000s up through just a few years ago. Our collective kids have little access to television or computers in our houses, use flip phones, ride bikes to go get ice cream, and hang out in mini gangs by age group. They read, design machines, play sports, musical instruments, and locked-down video games. There are no play dates. There is just, “I’m going outside to play”, and we’re good, for hours. They will all have free reign to enjoy swimming in the cesspool of culture when age-appropriate, and we will equip them, but to provide a safe little cove for the brief few years of their childhood has been one of the wisest parenting choices my friends and I have made.

[@nosoupforyouakadelbocavist2632]

I was born in '74 so I was really coming of age in the 80s. So much fun! We were truly the lucky ones.

[@dl3g3nd45]

Same here.

[@mikebolton3816]

I say all the time... I was raised analog, but, Im stuck in a digital world.

[@towanda2947]

I feel the same but it was the 70s and early 80s. I feel lucky to have grown up at that time!✌️❤️😎

[@JeremyEllwood]

Same! :-D hehe Now we're freaking old.

[@vhonn95]

Yes , seems things were so much simpler then.... and the human interaction gave us the sense to really have true emotions...now kids don't even understand these things

[@Nangleator22]

I miss the freedom of going anywhere on my bike, and on foot, having no conception of trespassing. It was a weird adult that didn't like you walking across his yard.

[@CondescendingOaf]

Drinking from random hoses as you were out riding your bike miles from home lol. I had regular spots. 😃

[@brushstroke3733]

No fences between yards, or if there were, they were often just partial fences to indicate the property line, but didn't enclose spaces. Kick a ball into the neighbor's yard - no problem - just walk over and pick it up. People were nice to kids, but also raised us like a village. I wasn't just raised by my parents, but by all my friends parents and strangers too.

[@masterofsparkshwy6974]

First time I saw a " keep off the grass" sign, we thought " what? Is that a joke? They think they can keep people off their grass? Who are these people??"

[@ffjsb]

We were taught NOT to cut through people's yards as it was disrespectful. We didn't need keep off the grass signs because we didn't cut through yards or go onto someone's property unnecessarily. If you were selling stuff door to door you used the walkway to go to the door.

[@stephenriggs8177]

No kidding! We used to love dashing dashing from porch to porch to dodge the worst of Houston thunderstorms. Thinking about it later, I realized how rude it was for us to be running across people's lawns and laughing loudly on their porches. But I don't recall anyone every stepping outside and telling us off.

[@billyp7709]

I was born in 1970 and "grew up" in the early 80's. I guess my childhood was different because my friends came in all different colors unlike the childhood shown in this video montage. For me that was teh best part about growing up. We weren't black, white or Hispanic we were just kids.

[@tymirra8769]

even me being born in 1987, thats exactly what it was like for me too in the 1990s up intil the early 2000s. i had black, asian, hispanic, white etc friends and to me they were just... my friends. I never once thought of anything other than them being my friends.

[@curiouser-and-curiouser]

Yet you had to bring it up & make it about race. Oh good for you, what a hero. Do you just need a pat on the back? Most of us from that era wouldn't need to bring that up because it's not an issue with us, we still don't look around to see who's of what race & how many are in that room or commercial or office or store or just anywhere at anytime & we damn sure don't feel the need to share how diverse our friendships are so we can appear morally superior & prove to everyone what a good person we are. Your way of thinking is right in line with gen z, that's where you fit in. Everybody, Bill Putiri had friends of all races. Look at him & give him attention. He's a good guy unlike whoever took these pics & made this video. His childhood was different because he befriended everyone no matter their race. There you go, got your recognition for the day.

[@faervas1234]

Have a progressive look at a year book from a large city high school. My cousin daughter were shocked to see mixed student body. The number of friends that were of not of the same color.

[@sophierobinson2738]

@@curiouser-and-curiouser Look at you being all self righteous because someone mentioned they had all sorts of friends.

[@need-to-know-]

@@sophierobinson2738 Yes. Moe is that dude that might have been in our circle of friends but only because we thought we had to because he was friends with our friends but when we could do things without him, we did. In the ‘80s, we didn’t care for that attitude too much.

[@Blacklighting1]

I remember going to the arcade in the 80s. Riding bikes as a kid was the ultimate freedom. It wasn't until I got older that I realized that the street lights were on a electrical timer for 6 or 7pm. Depended on where you were in the country.

[@justlesa7355]

I was a seventies/eighties teen and young adult. When it came to television, three characters wouldn't make it in today's climate just for their language alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Redd Foxx (Fred Sanford), Sherman Hemsley (George Jefferson) and Carroll O'Connor (Archie Bunker).

[@LordPrometheous]

I love all those and we grew up on it. My wife and I still watch those from the DVDs she bought. Honeymooners as well, though it wasn't steeped in controversy.

[@davidfaxon3336]

Hell Mighty Mouse would be dead quick af too

[@lynnschnekenburger7270]

@David Faxon - Oh, hell man....... You saved the day!!!! 😂 Thanks for making me laugh my ass off!! Just brilliant!!!

[@davidfaxon3336]

@@lynnschnekenburger7270 glad you enjoyed it. If you know you know🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀

[@n.d.m.515]

Archie Bunker the show was the forerunner to today's political climate. He wasn't the hero. He was the joke. A very preaching woke comedy.

[@tallgirlhappyme]

⏩ *There was a certain "magic" to life* back then, that is just gone now. *And a certain trust and reliance in your neighbor* that sadly doesn't even exist today. Thank you for sharing the memories!

[@paultardspambot]

however, it is difficult for people to objectively separate this from a more uniform nostalgia that recalls a special romance on the time and culture when they were young, often thinking for example the music and movies of that era were objectively better. Its not that actual differences dont exist, its hard to filter changes over decades from people's personal changes in life circumstance.

[@ranger-1214]

I'm in my 70's now so was a child of the 50's, 60's (high school), 70's & 80's (Army) and so really enjoy these lookbacks. I remember $0.29 gasoline and competing stations would have "gas wars" as each continued to mark down prices. My childhood was on the Oklahoma prairie, 15 miles from town so my day was mom packing a small lunch and then heading off to the creek on my horse with my dog, .22 rifle and fishing gear. Had to be home when the sun was a full fist above the horizon. Crazy now to think back on that - could have been thrown, snakebit, etc., but our parents made it through the Depression, so they put more emphasis on teaching us how to make it in life. Teenage country boys had to work, and at 14 could get a farm-to-market restricted license to drive the wheat truck from the fields into town, then back for another load. What was really great was the music and although this was about the 80's it is so wonderful is that Jamel is keeping the great music of ALL decades alive. Peace, love, joy and grace!

[@masterofsparkshwy6974]

I'm 54, but your life sounds like the blueprint for mine.

[@bug-lf4sg]

I remember when my cousin would drive every to the beach. We hit the couch cushions looking for change to get a couple of gallons of gas.

[@tenchraven]

You guys got to have licenses? We just drove the farm trucks and hoped no one an issue (no one ever did).

[@katiesimpson8517]

As I was too. Ahh, The Wonder Years. Loved the music too. Janis Joplin, Credence Clearwater, The Beatles. Oh yes!

[@KrissyFace]

Yes to everything except the chicken pox parties…never heard of that til I was older. We were allowed to explore, make mistakes and suffer the consequences. And anyone older could scold you…respecting your elders was not just expected but demanded!!

[@michaelmartinez3893]

All of this!

[@Fallopia5150]

We had chicken pox parties in our village!

[@seanraines5871]

I was born In 75 and hadn't heard of it. Sounds crazy lol

[@govege5130]

I disagree about respecting your elders. Respect is earned. It shouldn't be given to an elderly person simply for the reason of that person being elderly.

[@seanraines5871]

@@govege5130 go and tell that to your grandmother

[@darrielwilliams2628]

It's funny how I remember the simple things such as going to Walmart and my parents allowing us to go play in the toy section while they shopped.... I'm terrified to let my son's just go to the next aisle to pick out their cereal

[@christinamann3640]

My mother used to drag me along on errands (not sure why I couldn’t just stay home) and I stayed in the car while she went in the bank. In hindsight, if she’d brought a book or crayons, maybe I wouldn’t have been such a BORED kid, I might have left the horn alone!😆

[@MrBobDobolina]

Every now and then, when we were out playing in the neighborhood, our dad would drive by us on his way home from work. When this happened, he'd put his on the hood of his car and let it sit up there while he drove the rest of the way home. One of his favorite things to do was to pull into our driveway with us on the hood, and then slam on the brakes which, if we hadn't found something to hold on to, would throw us off the hood and onto the driveway. He got a big kick out of that, he'd laugh and laugh like it was the funniest thing in the world. When I think about what my neighbors would do today if they saw an man driving down the road with a bunch of kids on the hood of his car and then intentionally throwing them onto the driveway of his home, I can't imagine a reaction that wouldn't involve the police being called.

[@ruk2023--]

It probably was the funniest thing in the world. I used to stand on the back bumper of my grandads car going down his driveway. Got a few bleeding knees from falling off over a bump, which was part of the fun.

[@andreadanburg5649]

This is the best! I remember the good old days fondly by your post 😂

[@not1iota229]

My dad let me lay on the roof and hang onto the front roof rack while he drove home from a few streets away, He also let me drive the V8 ford LTD one night when i was a kid.

[@mikerudolph2419]

Shit do that today and it would be endangering The Welfare of a Child Charge.

[@dominic6283]

We used to hang on the back bumper of cars and buses in the snow and get dragged Up and down the streets.

[@jenniferjensen8538]

I was a teen during the 80s too... graduated in 1989. All these hit for me. My dad had a 1973 Ford Pinto station wagon. He used to click the lap belts back behind the seats! 😆 And back in the 70s when I was 6 years old, my mom DID send me to the 7-11 with a note to get her cigarettes! I walked there by myself! 🤣

[@southernmermaid2526]

Not a Pinto…oh noooo…glad the car didn’t explode and you made it. 😂🤣😂

[@sean3038]

We had a '76 Pinto station wagon. Lol

[@southernmermaid2526]

@@sean3038 🤣😂🤣 SCaRy PiNTos !

[@thomasdempsey721]

LOL...we briefly had a Mercury Gremlin!

[@MrThumbs63]

@@thomasdempsey721 that's better than a Pacer.

[@julifunnygirl71]

Thank you for this trip down memory lane! I turned 12 in 1980 and can vouch for all of this!

[@teresaweaver4441]

I was a teenager in the 80s and it was amazing!!! Even my daughters say they wish they grew up in the 80s. It was a freer and amazing time to live. Life was great then. We had so much more freedom back then. Now you can't even say or do much of what we grew up doing. Miss those days!!

[@tinameyer7080]

Amen. I graduated HS in 1984. I was blessed with the birth of children from 1991 to 2009....the experiences they have had is SO different from my own- and from each other-....

[@raremage]

I just laughed my butt off because when they started to talk about punishment, all I could think was you had to pick a switch and God help you if you brought too small a switch in. Then you might get The Belt.

[@msfeistybabe]

Some grandmothers especially seemed to let the kids get the switch of their choice, knowing they thought they were so smart & that their punishments from dear old granny wouldn't be as bad as their parents gave them. But grannies knew that the boys especially would be bringing in nice, supple, thin willow switches ;) So yeah those were said to be as bad as, or worse than, the belts with lots of holes in them!!

[@pfdrtom]

Imagine this, J: I graduated in 1981 and depending what was in season we'd often have a shotgun or rifle in our cars/trucks so we could go right from school to catch an evening hunt! In a car they were hard to see but most trucks had a gun rack in the back window with your rifle in it for all the world to see. We got into an occasional fight, we had to deal with bullies and never did we once think of getting a gun to settle it. Also, I don't ever recall anyone stealing a gun from the parking lot. A few of us were 18 year old seniors and guess what? LEGAL AGE WAS 18!!!! Legally drinking in high school! On another topic my first concert was Rush and UFO in the third row left stage for $7.00! Ah, San Antonio, Texas in the good ol' days! Love your channel, buddy! Keep up the GREAT work!

[@jeffalbillar7625]

The movie Dazed and Confused was filmed somewhere in Texas. Was it like that?

[@evabyrum3327]

Yes every pick up truck had a shot gun or two on a shot gun rack that was across the back window of the cab at our high school also. We never have it a thought and they were loaded and ready for after school hunting and some got up very early and went hunting a few hours before school started.

[@evabyrum3327]

Smoking was allowed in our high school up until 81 or 82.

[@janetnwonderland]

Oh heavens yes! I forgot about the shotgun racks in the pickups at school. No one thought anything of it. Those were the kids that went hunting. It only made sense they would have shotguns in their trucks. Half of them had just got back from a hunting trip, and the other half were leaving after last period to go on a hunting trip.

[@pfdrtom]

@@jeffalbillar7625 Pretty much. We called ourselves "headnecks = redneck + pot head. Had long hair but drove trucks or an old muscle car, still listened to country but only if it was Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings, etc. but mostly we were into rock.

[@kimberlygabaldon3260]

I remember a lot of these things from the 60's and 70's. I was in my 20's by the 80's. My kids were little then. I remember my youngest loved Garbage Pail Kids, and they both loved Nintendo. I remember seeing "Back to the Future" at a drive-in.

[@angelapastorius2377]

"Back to the Future" at a drive-in ... that is GOLD!

[@OldMan_PJ]

Born in '77, when I was a kid I was locked out of the house and told to play outside from the age of 4. Rode in the back of a station wagon and a pickup truck, mooned people from the moon window of a van. Made friends by going around the neighborhood to find kids my own age, met my first friend the year before preschool and the second friend before kindergarten. Adults smoked everywhere including grocery stores. Had my first taste of beer when I was 5, Dad made us taste it so we would realize it didn't taste great. Switches, yardsticks, and belts were all used for spankings. My parent's didn't want to pay for collect calls so they just gave us a quarter and a dime to use a payphone. If we started crying in a restaurant we got dragged out to a car and left there. Can't tell you how many times I had to pee on the side of a house or behind a bush, LOL! I walk around the neighborhood nowadays and there isn't a single kid outside, even during the Covid lockdown. The only time they ever come out is on Sunday with both parent's hovering around them for about 30 minutes. They're all going to have Vitamin D deficiencies.

[@Elementalism]

I was also born in 77. I remember being a snot to my mom and saying I wanted to leave. I was about 6 years old so my mom said great you can leave. Opened the front door for me to leave, shut the door and locked it. I still remember hearing the lock click. Immediately I am outside crying to be let back into the house lol. Today would get the cops called on my mom and social services involved. Also the last time I threw that kind of fit.

[@jfox9126]

I was born in 75. I just had a memory of the number of times I acted up in a restaurant and my dad carried me out to the car and left me there lol.

[@ruman4259]

Haha

[@christinerogers7127]

Those were the good old days. I was born in 65. I still have my high school records. I remember having a metal Donny Osmond lunch box and my brother had a Gunsmoke lunch box. I remember going with my mom to pick up my father at the airport and seeing the hari Krishna passing out daisies or such.

[@LordPrometheous]

I was born in 75, but I had a Donnie and Marie Osmond record player and an Andy Gibb portable am/fm radio. I just watched a couple episodes of Gunsmoke on KZbin a week ago. I remember my cousin telling me about the Hari Krishnas and I always thought he was saying "hairy Christians".

[@shereejones5965]

So many things I miss from the 80s. I'm a '77 baby so I remember my whole 80s childhood....Good Times! 😃

[@lilyelizabeth8173]

This video brought back so many fond memories. I was a teen in the 80's. Graduated HS in '83. Married in '86. And had my first child in "88. I loved the 80's

[@hollyhock3945]

We may have been spanked, but name a mass school shooting from the 80s. Learning bad choices cause pain was a good thing. I for one, never doubted my parents' love when I got a spanking. I never thought I was abused and I didn't hate my parents.

[@dukestuff]

There was a mass shooting at my elementary school (a couple months before my parents registered me there) which didn't get the kind of national media attention like the ones today. But, as far as safety, we just knew it was ultimately on us if we got injured and it made us hyper aware of our surroundings as a result.

[@mindofmadness5593]

We could also walk into any Mall, go to an Oshman's and walk out with an UZI, AK or Micro-Uzi. Teens boys often had shotguns and rifles in the windows of their trucks and the people who might commit mass shootings were usually too scared of getting there asses kicked to even Think about it.

[@jb888888888]

Laurie Dann.

[@jb888888888]

@@dukestuff We are statistically safer today, but because of the way news works now and instant communication we hear about things more often.

[@AnointedFlow]

Never doubted love.

[@footnotedrummer]

I graduated HS in the mid 80s and I have to say... I wouldn't change a thing. We had a BLAST as kids. My kids have constantly told my wife and me "Man... I wish I woulda grown up in the 70s and 80s". It was an amazing time to live in America.

[@justinahole336]

I sent this video to my teenager - I've told him for years that the world I grew up in was way different from the one we are in now - some for the better, some, not so much. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@joeshmoe9629]

Amen to the man that said his entire childhood would be deemed socially unacceptable. As a teenager in the 80’s life was so much more………..simple/ easy. We had cool cars, good music and none of the modern “problems” that come with social media adversely effecting everything. I wish my kids could go back in time and see how good it was.

[@delisamarchetti5926]

Me too Jamal. I miss those days so much it hurts my heart sometimes. Especially when I try to explain it to some of the younger generation and I just get blank stares in return. :). I was a child in the 70's and a young woman in the 80's. Those summer days of riding my bike around and around the block, and the daily knock on the door of the neighborhood children asking if I could come out and play. I am so sad children do not have the safety to do that today in most cities. I was so fortunate to have the childhood experiences that I had and to live during that wonderful and creative time.

[@BeeWhistler]

You made me feel a bit better… I don’t miss those times at all, so that’s one less thing to worry about. I got bullied a lot. The 80s can fry in hell.

[@Robin-en6tj]

I loved the 80's. I was the kid in the middle of the bench seat. I got to the hospital with a broken arm in the middle seat without a seat belt and didn't die. I grew up in a rural area so no other kids around. My dad could whistle so loud you could hear him from a mile away. So if you didn't get you little ass home dad was there with his belt ready to dich out the pain. I remember babysitting five cousin's when I was 12. I would of never left my daughter do that. I wish things were that easy now. Wow did things change.

[@mortimerbrewster3671]

My junior high to college years were in the 80s and they were the best. I never had/wanted kids but I did babysit when I was 12-15 years old. Why wouldn't you let your daughter do that now? Is it a legal thing or trust thing?

[@tejayschwartz7681]

I was a 80s Teen .. best era of all .. music, movies and TV all ruled 😎

[@paulamoya7956]

Word..

[@deannawalker7022]

Oh yes... A proud 80's baby. Picking a switch was an art. There was a fine line between too small and too big. If you got one too small then you were in bigger trouble. If you got one too big then you knew you were in for a bigger hurting. Also if you got in trouble out of tge house like at school or at a friend's house or just around the neighborhood you got punished then and when you get home.

[@linkfromhyrule5504]

I was a kid in the 70s and a teen in the 80s. To me, the 80s was the best decade. Didn't need a bike helmet to ride your bike. I fell off my bike plenty of times and survived. The 80s also had the best TV shows, movies and music. I wish I had a time machine so that I can go back to the 80s.

[@Gashouse69]

Born in 69' so I was 5 in 75' and 15 in 85'. Those were my formative years and I've always said the 70's were the last Great decade to be a kid. Early 80's were too. By mid to late 80's cable TV was in most homes and Gaming was big by then as well. Kids slowly began playing outdoors less and less and the progression of regulations such as seat belts, helmets, etc. began around this time as well. Soon the internet and smart phones would follow and now today's kid grows up differently. I'm sad for them in a way. Without all that we were able to remain kids and keep our innocence a lot longer than todays children.

[@FredFukkinBear]

Things were even more different in the 70's, which is basically everything in this video and then some. We had much cooler bicycles in the 70's than the BMX style everyone had in the 80's. We had the chopper style bikes with banana seats, sissy bars and the ape hanger handlebars. The 10 speed bikes were also popular in the 70's.

[@Dreamstalker8002]

We would cut the forks off an old bike and put them on ours to make it look like a chopper then put a balloon or a playing card in the spokes to give it the motorcycle sound. 😂

[@kurtsaxton823]

There were BMX bikes in the 70s it just depended on the crowd you hung out with. Growing up in Orange CA we all had BMX in 1975.

[@FredFukkinBear]

@@kurtsaxton823 Ahh ok, I guess they weren't very popular in North Texas back then. I think by 75' we were all riding YZ and RX dirt bikes. I grew up in Frisco right next to Lake Dallas. It was all farm land back then and our whole school had less than 500 people for ALL grades. Still remember the tricked out Schwinn chopper bike I had. Our "crowd" was like 3-4 kids in a small neighborhood with dirt and gravel roads. LOL

[@masterofsparkshwy6974]

Yeah, the original Schwinn Stingrays, with springers, apehangers, 3 or 5 speed with center mounted shifter ( I had the 3) slick rear tire. when I had it, I didn't want it. Now I think it was the coolest bike ever made.

[@brianbarnett1004]

The BMX of the 80's were far superior. You could do tricks. Ride half pipes and show off for the ladies. Riding the girls around on your axel pegs was a big deal.

[@joewolter7478]

I was born in 74. The 80’s they show in stranger things IS my time. All day bike rides and playing basketball outside was what we did. Local public pool was a favorite in the summer.

[@wisconsinman3590]

One of the big things I've noticed from the 80's to now, graduated in 85, is how many people you knew. It seems now days it's not like that. I grew up in the country. From the main highway to my parents house was about 2-3 miles. Yet every person from there to the house my parents knew, I knew them and they knew me. There was several houses. As well as many on the highway. Now days, I don't think it's even close. I've lived in my subdivision for 7 years now and I know 3 people. Wave to several, but never talk. God I miss being a teen in the early 80's. I tell people that those 80's movies you see with kids at parties and the mall and all that, was exactly like that, FUN.

[@lhead7226]

I loved the 80's, graduated in 89 and I am so thankful there was no internet back then. I remember making my kids call my mom from a pay phone at a travel plaza on the turnpike one time just so they could have a memory of doing it, they thought it was funny to pay for a call.

[@Mama_Terra]

I graduated high school in '86. All of this was my life. The mall was right across from my high school and the school let us go there to the food court for lunch.

[@TracyTodd2199]

Ours was too. We used to walk over there for lunch break when we had our testing days. We thought we were something.

[@Mama_Terra]

@@TracyTodd2199 yeah, we even were able to see "The Color Purple" at the movie theater there for an English Lit class outing. We were reading it in class at the time. Loved going there.

[@TracyTodd2199]

@@Mama_Terra Yeah. Times were so different back then.

[@KeithDCanada]

Man, I remember the days in the early 80's, when I was 10-12, and a local video store opened up near our house. I went down with my dad to rent a VCR and some movies, and when he set up his account, he added my name on it, and told the clerk I could rent any movies I wanted.... LOL, once we bought our own VHS player, I spent so much of my allowance renting the bloodiest horrors, the 'T & A' movies kids weren't meant to watch, and all the weirdest crap possible. All because the note on our account said I was allowed to.

[@Osprey850]

Same here. Most of my allowance went to renting movies that my parents wouldn't have wanted me renting. I almost exclusively rented R-rated movies. I was lucky that I had two video stores within a short bike ride from my house and the one that never denied me from renting something was the one that was closest. I would get home from school, race on my bike to the store, pick out something bloody, race home and hope that I finished it before my parents got home. I'd then hide it in my room until I got home the next day, returned it to the store and picked out my next movie. It was a glorious cycle.

[@xh0rsex]

Back when horror movies were about blood and gore and actually had R ratings. Now they are mainly pg13 jump scare flicks or suspense/psychological thrillers. I'll take Hellraiser or Freddy Krueger over what they have today.

[@bretthue7259]

Yes! My junior high years(82-84) were right after the 'slasher film explosion' of 80/81! You know, movies like Mothers day, Silentnight/Deadlynight, My bloody valentine, etc.etc. and the video place that me and my buddies would go to daily, totally specialized in Slasher movies!! Hundreds of them and me and my friends saw all of them!!!!Everyday after school, wed go and rent a couple! Now, in retrospect, the desensitization to sadistical violence that these movies may have played a role in(in our young minds) is still debatable, but (at the time) it seemed to be just 'good fun' , and besides, only 1 of my friends became a *serial killer later, so.........Let the goodtimes roll! No harm done right???? *joking

[@marthapetty1008]

The 80's was my favorite best yrs as a teenager. I rode my bike everywhere, came home before dark, bought my grandpa cigarettes without a note. Love playing Atari games. It was a peaceful, carefree times. Today generation wouldn't appreciate our freedom of fun, awesome fashion and awesome music. Thank you Jamel God Bless you.

[@jesuslovesme9138]

I have smoked on an Airplane, inside a grocery store and a Hospital. Times have changed!~! Also rode in the back of a pickup truck all the time standing up against the cab!

[@lorrainemiller688]

And the bank!

[@michellegarringer9631]

i was a 70's kid, 80's teen. they left out the one house phone where everybody could hear your part of the call. there was no call waiting and often i was chastised for leaving the line open for important calls. my parents were pretty strict on the hanging out but i did play outside until dark in the summer. i did not wear seatbelts ( mom's arm was my seatbelt) and i was left in the car with the windows rolled down as she grocery shopped. she did park in the shade. i rode in the back of pickup trucks and on motorcycles, and had NO helmet for my bike. i was also dropped off at the mall and walked home. i watched MTV non stop to the irritation of my stepfather. and yes.. i had mall bangs.

[@bluewolf5925]

Yep, in my house it was a phone cord that was well over 100 feet long. That thing would wind all through the house to my sister's room. Parents were always telling them to get off the phone, we don't know if someone is trying to call, they would say.

[@spriken]

7:32 Damn, I went to so many "pox parties" and never did get them! The funny thing is while pregnant with my last kid the doctor ran a test to see what immunizations I needed boosters on, turns out I had full antibodies for chicken pox.

[@SuburbanSavage]

When I was doing my baby registry, my mom said, "you don’t need a car seat! Don’t be ridiculous!" We had to explain that it was the law now. I had to ask what my parents used to bring me home from the hospital. They put me in a laundry basket full of phone books. 70's era phone books were MASSIVE and they weighed more than I did! There's also a photo of my mom the day before I was born and she's bowling, a cigarette in her teeth, and a beer bottle in her free hand. It's basically a trifecta of what not to do whilst pregnant!

[@dreamweaver1603]

Oh my God this is hysterical! My mom told me she started smoking when she was pregnant with me because my dad was in a band and the places they played were always so smoky it made her feel sick. Her friends told her it wouldn’t bother her if she smoked herself. It’s amazing we lived through all that 😂

[@seanraines5871]

Did you get asthma? My mom smoked while pregnant and I used to have real bad asthma under control now.

[@billolsen4360]

Phone books! You'd always search if your name & number & address were there. Now, we'd be scared of risking Identity Theft and Financial Ruin

[@orangie8426]

You know what's interesting... You're here now and ok... I'm 50 years old.. And I'm here.. So.. what's supposed to happen to us because of mom doing things she shouldn't while pregnant???

[@dreamweaver1603]

@@seanraines5871 no, I never had asthma but I did smoke myself later in life. I finally quit a few years ago.

[@JStarStar00]

Watch detective shows from the 60s-80s, it's always in the storyline that they have to find a pay phone to call the cops.

[@Adrian-zd4cs]

I was born in 1982 so I enjoyed the late 80s and 90s. Ah.... Nostalgia

[@melindaroop1346]

Yes! I was born in 81 and remember the mid to late 80s, very well....and the 90s were great. Everything was better when we were kids....even the holidays seemed better.

[@atlasmasterdmind4070]

Born 81 here. We definitely were the last of the last to experience this, I think it really changed by the mid 90s. Things started growing to become now

[@FunknMunky77]

I grew up in the 80's I was born in 77 so my early child hood like kindergarten through 7th grade was awesome...85-89 were some of the best years and memories of my life outside when the sun came up rode my bike everywhere.....EVERYWHERE and was home when the street lights came on then we played with the neighbor kids until it was dark dark. Man those were the days. I was also around when MTV first came out and was actually fu*kin awesome and worth watching and had real bands and music if you never saw 80's or early 90's MTV then you've never seen real MTV....also garbage pail kids...anyone remember those some G.I. Joe, looney toons,, forlorn leghorn or Heman and transformers, Dukes of Hazard and knight rider or goonies and gremlins

[@judithveley2790]

I started my first job in 1981. I was a CRT operator. I could buy a pack of cigarettes for $.45 and got to work and smoke all day at my desk at work. Now it’s hard for me to believe it was really like that. Never ever did I see a bicycle helmet or knee/elbow pads.

[@jeffwesthof9711]

The 80's were awesome! So happy to have been in high school during those times.

[@comments_from_me]

It’s funny you posted this today, at work, we were literally talking about growing up, playing in the back of a Pinto, driving the truck while riding in our dad’s lap and riding in the back of the truck. Also, riding our bikes several mile from home. So many things you wouldn’t think of doing today.

[@78zappaf]

I remember seeing McDonalds ashtrays. I also remember seeing in Ontario, Canada coin change trays beside the pile of newspapers. You'd just put the coins on the tray, grab the paper and get your own change back without supervision. Seeing Transformers and GI joe toys at the front of the Woolco store - no security. I do remember the cigarette vending machine at the front hallway of the apartment building. Also the vast variety of cereal boxes which contained tons of sugar in them. Playing these huge wooden building blocks at the JR Kindergarten. Barely any safety at the playground, metal slides, cement floors. We still had metal lunch boxes.. heck, almost every toy - cars/doll house would be made of metal. I do miss the 80s though.

[@DocMicrowave]

Most the best TV was in the 80s. So many iconic shows that are still remembered today. As opposed to the forgettable stuff out today. Same with movies. So many iconic movies. Many of which have been remade as fails as many of today's TV and Movie producers can't seem to grasp the concept of entertaining their audiences and giving them what they want to see. Too much focus on preachy teachy social commentary, virtue signalling and political correctness. The 80s practically invented the idea of the 'summer blockbuster '. No such things are very few and far between. There is a reason there why there are so many channels popping up on cable TV that show nothing but TV and Movies from the 70s and 80s. And they are doing well. While many new shows bearly last a season or two and are forgotten even faster. Man I miss 80s action flicks and shows. It was great to be able to turn your brain off and just be entertained.

[@helluvatime4562]

I love your hat, I grew up through the 80s and it was a wonderful time to be alive. I can`t believe what our country/world has degraded into, it makes me sad. I love the video man great work.

[@patrickmcgavin2245]

I was born in early 80's. I wasn't part of the whole party scene in the 80's. But I remember riding bikes hanging out with my brother,sister and friends. Also watching my favorite tv shows/movies. Great times👍👍. Thanks for this drive down memory lane.

[@donnagonatas3155]

I was born in 1960. Imagine what we did that was taboo in the 80s. Smoking for example. I started at 14. My parents found out when I was 16. Didn't say a word. They both smoked. I was smoking in the house in front of them. I was pregnant with my son at 24 and smoked the whole time! My Dr knew. I smoked in the house. My son was almost 9lbs and never had allergies. Thank God. ♥️

[@user-tf2wd1eh3g]

We smoked on the school bus. Had smoking sections at school.

[@donnagonatas3155]

@@user-tf2wd1eh3g we did too.. although we smoked all kinds of stuff! We could also leave campus if we had a study or lunch period.

[@Coldwarrior7781]

If you have Netflix watch "Apollo 10 1/2" A fictional story but it takes a great amount of time talking about the experience of being a kid in the 60s. It will bring emotions up in you.

[@johnathanmartin1504]

I was born at the tail end of 1980 so I was a kid for the eighties and the beginning of the nineties. I think we're around the same age, Jamal. Thank you for the videos you do! Long live rock and roll!

[@susanruggero426]

Thank you Jamel.... It does bring back memories. I used to hitch hike to work at 6 a.m. in Detroit. Then back home at 4 p.m. Never had a problem.

[@gmrjinx27]

Before I started school I would walk to the store and pickup things for mom. The store was a mile away. I could get a kite and a ball of string for a dime and that would keep me busy all day. We had a creek, a park and a community center to go to. This was in Greensboro NC about a block away from the Greensboro coliseum in the early 60s. It's a lot different there now.

[@jennypenny]

Thank you for this. It made me laugh. I could so relate. I was born in late 74 …. I remember going to the mall sometimes parents took us other times we were told just to ride the bus even though we would have to connect downtown in the hood lol. Things are so different back then.

[@pammym190]

I was born in the 60’s. Graduated HS in 84… I did all that.. but, the seatbelts were used. In my house anyway.. Mom worked in a lot of ER’s before she got married and knew the importance of seatbelts… yet, we had no bike helmets….✌️

[@vcancer]

We never had a mall where I was from The Bronx NY, we played on the streets! All the street game that was invented we play. We raced bikes around the block and built our own push carts with the material we found around the junkyards. We played manhunt in the abandoned building that was burnt down during the '70s when The Bronx was burning. We played stickball in the streets or at the schoolyard. Luckly we had a park with a park center that had a indoor swimming pool. The '80s was the end of Junior High and the beginning of High School. The many friends I've made and a lot we had in common as to music, movies and comics. I hung out with everyone and got along with everyone. Only had two fights in which I ended with one punch knockouts. I had an ace card in my hand since I was an amateur boxer. No one messed with me again after that but at the same time, I defended those that were being bullied. I was bullied when I was in elementary and Junior High so I learned how to box and lift weights. That changed everything. A lot of my enemies became my friends now knowing that I could kick their asses. The '80s were both bad and good but I'm still alive and breathing.

[@jentommyontheroad8089]

I remember in the 70s using clothes pins to attach playing cards to the spokes of our bike wheels to give it a motorbike sound! As a first year GenXer and ‘83 grad I was happy to get an electric typewriter in typing class rather than a manual…no computers yet!

[@karenedwards6713]

I can remember a lady having a fit when gas broke the one dollar per gallon mark. She was yelling people are not going to put up with this crap.

[@valeriewilliams8176]

I absolutely love this brought back great memories. Like most of our neighbors my father had credit at the neighborhood store. I was able to go to the store and get whatever we needed and it was put on our account and my father paid once a month. Daycare we didn't know what a Daycare was, neighbors looked out for each other.

[@susanholt4942]

Born in ‘70. All of this. Except my parents didn’t physically punish me or allow the school to do so. But, Grandma could make me pick a switch. Lol

[@thomasdempsey721]

Same here....our Granny was FEARED!

[@tonicardanini1863]

After growing up in the 70's and 80's, I resisted getting a cell phone for the longest time when they finally became a thing. I think I liked the way you had to wait until you got home to receive calls. It was less distracting at school, work and in the car to not be constantly bombarded with calls and messages. But then when I was raising my own kids, I liked cell phones because the kids could always call me if they needed help and I could check in with them.

[@cadesmith4278]

Great video! I turned 22 in '80 and was an adult (sort of) throughout the 1980s. Still my favorite decade. My favorite part of the video: The cigarette machines used to be outside the stores, and in the late 60s/early 70s, a pack of cigarettes was about 55 cents...lol.

[@lornemarmet5898]

I was born in '61. My boys grew up in the 80's. This was fun, thank you!

[@jadethorne3553]

My brother was born in 1985. When me and my dad went to pick up mom and the new baby at the hospital, they put the carrier on the floor of the footrest area of the passenger seat of the pick up truck. And off we went.

[@meltedplasticarmyguy]

While living in Missouri, in the summer of 87 my younger brother and I went to get some soda from the fridge in the garage when we noticed a case of beer for my dad's poker game that Saturday. We decided to give it a go. I'm not sure how much we had, but it was enough for us to start acting out. I was seven and my brother was six. I don't remember if we were ever punished, maybe he thought if we got sick it would be punishment enough. I do remember it was some cheap stuff like Miller or PBR.

[@blockisle9]

Graduated 81. What a great decade! I miss it so much.

[@madonna816]

I’m 51. 80’s were my jam. Nostalgia feels comforting. It is comforting. It’s not a place to live.

[@JennyJohn50]

I was born in 73. That video was large parts of my childhood & teen years. Here in Houston by the mid 80's we were out at the malls during the day and at drag strips or cruising westheimer on weekend nights. ❤

[@jamesraynard8794]

I remember it being a lot more relaxed in the '70s than they were in the '80s cause I graduated from HS in 82.

[@grindhouseglitch]

Even though there were plenty of folks who struggled to make ends meet in the '80s (including my family), it was still a great time to be a kid/teenager.

[@jeffalbillar7625]

It was a struggle for my family as well. There was 8 of us.

[@gerardroll6468]

Jamel… In 1980, I was just starting my time in high school & when the narrator was talking about how you could “disappear” for most of the day (if not, all of it)… Ahhh the memories ✋️😁. Here in Australia, my parents always told us to make sure we were inside “within 2 minutes” of the streetlights coming on or we’d have to go without dinner that night. It probably explains why we’d all literally turn into Olympic level sprinters to ensure we got fed that night 👍😋. My mother was a master at playing mind games with my brother, sisters & I whereas my dad… It was all physical if we screwed up. I miss those days 🥺🥺🥺

[@cypresslounge]

I never did the collect call thing, but I would almost always be able to find a dime on the ground somewhere in the area to use to call home. I’m so glad that I grew up in the 80’s. It was such a fun time. Bikes, arcades, parks, baseball in the street. We’d be out playing all day and come home filthy and hungry (but not thirsty because we’d drink water from a garden hose at some point).

[@chuckb.9507]

I often tell my kids, I wished they could have experienced growing up in the the 80’s. It was the best of times and more importantly people got along with one another