1980s Things That Are Not Socially Acceptable Today

The 1980s was a time of change for many different things. What was acceptable by the beginning of the decade started to become unacceptable by the end of the decade. There were a lot of safety standards adopted in the auto industry that we follow still to this day. In this video we will have a look at some of the 1980s things that are not socially acceptable today.
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[@raer1313]

I get so jealous of people who grew up in the 80s-90s. The amount of freedom y’all had as kids and teens without the fear of being recorded or getting exposed over a mistake.

[@jamessteele7102]

Yeah, nowadays it sucks because we are all under constant surveillance. There are cameras and microphones in countless places. Even this comment may go into my “master file.” If only “they” knew all the crazy stuff I did back in those days when nobody (or more correctly-nothing) was watching.

[@michelewalburn4376]

Not recorded meant only that people could make up whatever lies they wanted and tell everyone. Only your very closest friends wouldn't believe that crap. Yeah great days. Lol. We had fun. We pushed the rules into they shattered. When we had children we were terrified of them acting like us. That is why things have changed. We were the first bad generation, I mean across the country BAD. The hippies weren't as wide spread as most people think. I remember seeing my first hippies actually. The real drug/rebellion/sexual revolution happened in the 80's in the USA. Oh what a beautiful time to be young. Hahahaha.

[@michelewalburn4376]

@@jamessteele7102 you're wrong. Every single call we've made since the 50's has been recorded. There were cameras in many places that we knew nothing about. No our parents, school, nor local police had access to them. Do you know why ladies started going to the bathroom in groups? To turn on the water and whisper. Most spies have always been ladies. My granny was one. You'd be surprised, no shocked..better yet horrified to learn that all that crap you pretend you didn't do in front of your kids, grandkids, is recorded somewhere and still exists. Every beer you drank, every wild drive, every backseat boogie. All of it was recorded by our government with technology so good your third grade teacher could identify you. Do I care, well yeah, but I drank a lot so I've forgotten a lot and I'd love to see some of it now. When I had the chance I was still too young and dumb. Ugh.

[@michelewalburn4376]

No I'm not contradicting myself here. I know someone is going to say that. Our friends couldn't record us, nor our parents, school, or local business back then. That is what I mean in the first comment.

[@Kit_Bear]

You have no idea how awesome the 80's were. It's something you'd have to be there for to understand. It was a magical time. Something that only happens once in a thousand years, in-fact, It's perhaps the only time such greatness ever existed.

[@kari2570]

As an 80's kid, hearing that first line "40 years ago" that hurts :(

[@nieczerwony]

Just translates "in better times".

[@cocoaorange1]

Sure does.

[@russianprussian4683]

I was invited to my 30th high school reunion last year…… I started doing ALOT of thinking after that

[@jesusislordoverall4530]

Sure does.. i had to count it for myself... 😭

[@peaceonearth351]

Rest assured that every generation goes through that.

[@Horm999]

Born in ‘71, growing up in the 70’s and 80’s was truly an awesome time to be alive! I would give anything to go back to the way things were back then and get rid of all this ridiculous social media crap!

[@joshuakaeble7810]

Agreed!

[@tinastanley4444]

71 too totally agree

[@thesnesgeek]

Do you know how to solve this problem? Just don’t use it.

[@sunrisings292]

@@thesnesgeek ...Agree. I haven't used my FB account for years. If I want to know how somebody is doing, I just call them and say hello. Easy.

[@inertiaforce7846]

Damn straight. Born in 77 here.

[@kellyhughart9600]

The 80's was a great time to be a kid. I was born in 1968, so all of my teenage years were in the 80's. Life was very different when those of us who are Generation Xers were growing up. In those days, there was no social media and no cell phones. People had home computers then, but those computers were word processers, not online computers. We remember when Spam was a lunch meat, and when a tweet was a sound a bird made, and not a comment you posted on Twitter. We remember when "tick-tock" (TikTok) was the sound a clock made. We remember when liking something meant that you were fond of it, not because you clicked the "Like" button on Facebook or KZbin. How times have changed! I miss those days! The 80's weren't perfect, but life was definitely better back then.

[@jmsessn]

i too was a 80s kid and 90s youth and i must disagree, particularly the 80s were awful in every aspect be it fashion (extremely cringe), music (mainly synth pop and hair metal, cringe of all cringes there could ever be), lack of decent tech and communication, limited access to information. instant communication and access to info should've been a birth right even way before the 80s, though. decent music was inaccessible, one would have to spend a fortune on multiple albums. today, any music and genre is at our fingertips. i'm grateful i could catch the internet era when i was rel. young and would be even more grateful if i'd been born somewhere late 90s or early 2000s.

[@leathese9696]

Some good and some bad times

[@kellyhughart9600]

@@jmsessn I think a lot of it depends on the person. There were things about the 80's I didn't like, either. I started listening to country music when I was 13 years old. Being a teenager at the time, a lot of people in my age group thought this was strange. They would say things like, "Why don't you listen to Michael Jackson?" or, "Why don't you listen to Madonna?". Well, as far as pop/rock music goes, I prefer the kind from the 70's, like David Cassidy, or The Carpenters. A lot of pop/rock from the 80's just doesn't appeal to me. And I hate heavy metal! Country music is still, and will always be, my favorite music genre. 80's and 90's country, that is. As far as 80's fashion, I remember when parachute pants were all the rage, but I never wore them. I just wore jeans and a casual top or a pullover sweater, and either tennis shoes, sandals, or boots, depending on what time of year it was. I wasn't your typical teenage girl, as far as my taste in music or clothing. But I do have fond memories of that decade. Like I said, it wasn't perfect, but definitely better than the decade we're living in now. The 90's was a great decade too. I'm not at all fond of the way life is in the 21st century. If time travel was possible, I'd go back to the 20th century in a heartbeat!

[@sunnybearbuds]

Yeah, and a friend was...a friend. Not some random person you add onto your social media.

[@rogermoreno1152]

I was born in Feb 83 so I experienced the best of both worlds, I’m old enough to remember an analog world, but young enough to remember the emergence of the internet and the rise of the cell phone and everything else. I first played video games on the Atari 2600 and still game today on a PlayStation 5 because I fell in love with gaming from those old primitive games and my interest in games continued. I remember all the great music from the 80s, and some of my first cassette tapes were hand me downs from my older Gen X sister, including Metallica, Guns N Roses, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, etc. I remember rollerblading in the 90s all over town with my friends, and I learned to drive on a manual transmission car. Even though I only have vague memories of the late 80s, I love going through all my old photos from childhood.

[@wolfeadventures]

No internet, no cell phones, real human interaction with friends. Loved it.

[@jorgeguardado6015]

Plus nobody was covered with ink all over their bodies, unlike today people look like billboards with all their tattoos.

[@jorgeguardado6015]

Life wasn't perfect but we had it good thank God I was part of that wonderful decade.

[@mrbenz2392]

@@jorgeguardado6015 Yes the 80s was the best!

[@Streetrocker28]

@@jorgeguardado6015 euhm no , still knew people back in that day who were all tatted up , it was more underground , but it was definitly there

[@johndardani9224]

@@jorgeguardado6015 the freedom I had at an early age made me independent and resourceful. Danger was everywhere but we managed to avoided it. We had to solve our own problems and get out of trouble before the adults found out. SF native genX.

[@nelsonvanvickle8862]

Isn’t it ironic that we have the internet to thank for showing us all how great life was before the internet..

[@Seeker0fTruth]

Enter: Existential dread 😅

[@soothsayer1964]

I think if the internet had just been limited to information and commerce (with rules applied from the start to level the playing field to protect physical stores), we'd be a lot healthier mentally than we are. Social media has quite honestly allowed people a platform who belong in an asylum. It's done a lot of damage.

[@V3ntilator]

​@@soothsayer1964Social media and cell phones is the worst thing ever invented, because it made people stop visiting each other. And when people visit someone they are still sitting on social media on the phone...As you say mental problems became a huge problem because of social media. KZbin is the only "social media" i use, because KZbin doesn't control you unlike Facebook, Twitter etc. If Facebook didn't exist, most people would have a better life. The good days of internet ended around year 2000. I used internet since 1991.

[@soothsayer1964]

@@V3ntilator absolutely. It has essentially provided the means for people to disconnect themselves from the rest of society. In the wake of that has come a kind of psychopathy born of remoteness from a sense of community with real people. As a result someone dying in the street nowadays is more likely to be met with a host of camera lenses for a throwaway online post than with any level of empathy and compassion. I'd like to see the lot switched off for the sake of western society. The freaks that influence others on it can go through cold turkey. At least they'd be losing their audience of vulnerable and malleable young minds.

[@jimsteinmanfan80]

It seems smart phones made dating apps much worse also @@V3ntilator

[@lnyenhuis3765]

I was born in 1963, graduated in 1981. This video absolutely represents how we grew up. It was fantastic time.

[@leahartlee29]

The same for me too!

[@barbaralucas4506]

Me too.

[@Julia-p7q-b4t]

Do you all also remember Top Gun 1986? 😍

[@workingguy6666]

You being born in 1963, that era to grow up in might have been the best there ever was.

[@jeffbell2266]

Yep me too except for the smoking we did everything mentioned here.

[@Ifoughtpiranhas]

This is a blast from the past. "Helicopter parenting" wasn't a a thing back then, unless the kid's parents were very religious. One of my best friends from elementary to high school had religious parents, and I used to let him hide his Heavy Metal t-shirts and cassettes at my house. Before we walked to school (about a 1.5 miles), he'd come to my house first and change his t-shirt, and then change back after school before he went home. LOL, good times.

[@naturalnashuan]

That's definitely a difference. The only kids I knew who had helicopter parents were in very wealthy uppity families. One was told that she had to stop being friends with me because her parents only wanted her to be seen with wealthy kids who had expensive clothes. Meanwhile, I was blowing up cans with firecrackers in an abandoned barn with my cousin. Our parents knew what we were doing, that's who gave us hundreds of fire crackers!

[@Zodinthara-jo5yi]

You were there for your friend. Thsts great.yeah, heavy metal was the thing then

[@mikek0135]

I envy your friend, you were a good friend!

[@damongirl66]

Good old Satanic Panic! Watch out! They wear black and they listen to demonic music! Some of them have long hair and lots of eyeliner and black nail polish. We did the Devil's work.

[@maguffintop2596]

Ironically- we the generation who had this freedom became the Helicopter parents.

[@tracylalonde4972]

80’s girl here. I must say that I think kid’s have it much harder than we did. Having social media everywhere is brutal to young people.

[@TheodoreRizzo]

Indeed. I think today’s kids live with enormous amount of pressure to mesure up to the cool kids on social media . We didn’t have that pressure back then we were who we was and that was it

[@injanhoi1]

Agreed. There's a lot of ego nowadays. People like to brag and show off on social media. Hey look at me. I'm great kind of thing. It gives the idea you have to meet that standard so kids are under a lot of pressure these day.

[@TheodoreRizzo]

@My Pronoun is WTF unfortunately today’s kids don’t have the will power to turn off social media like you and I have they’re control by the pressure from it. Subconsciously they’re immune and numb to social media pressure

[@ajs41]

But using social media is a choice. You don't have to use it. I hardly do.

[@tracylalonde4972]

@@ajs41 True

[@TaliaIGhul]

As a kid back then, I can tell you that things were so much more relaxed back then.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Talia al Ghul!

[@Travybear1989]

Yeah, there were still just as many pedo's but we weren't bombarded with the news so we didn't really know about it.

[@AR15.666]

Hitting kids is was relaxing?

[@kifacorea]

True. But harder if you were a picture.

[@hollyedwards4789]

I agree im 40 years old now these is the most accurate description of how us kids grew up in that time frame

[@DukesMusic84]

The reason Stranger Things worked in it's early seasons is because that's actually how kids interacted in the 80s. These are memories of those early years that were long dormant. Stuff I didn't even know I remembered, but we actually did all of this.

[@RX-12]

Not really. The kids who had those experiences were the lucky ones but it wasn't a universal experience.

[@estherhardcastle2732]

Growing up in the 70s as a teen was awesome! No cell phones, no cameras to forever record your mistakes, and no internet to display said mistakes for all time and everyone to see! Much simpler times.

[@sunrisings292]

Agree. I was an 80s teen, and enjoyed all the freedom I had.

[@vladdracul5072]

I guess you had a reason to fear those recordings then. I for one just didn't think about these things because they simply didn't exist back then, but now they do and claiming to want to go back to a time without them is hypocritical. For the record, I was already an adult in the 80s and grew up even without a lot of things kids in the 80s took for granted. That didn't make me want to revert progress though.

[@rogerstephens8019]

I'm 68 and I grew up in those times and you bet they were a foundation to build on in life however they weren't all that damned sweet to some of us kids from those times !! Might I add probably the only sane explanation as to how I'm sitting here all these years later and replying ! Parents in those days were no different than those of today as far as love goes only they had to rule some of us with an "iron love" ,some call ,"Tough love "! In other words there were no time outs . The only times out we had was out the door and gone or get the shit beat out of you so you remembered the next time ! TOUGH LOVE !!! Now don't get me wrong young people parents have a vision of where they want you to be in life even if they beat you there . All generations are lucky to have parents who give a damn enough about you to care ! Think about those out there who don't have that great gift from GOD then it kinda puts things in a different light ! Right now young people do take my advice , the very same my father gave me once ,"Make your memories while you are young "! You hold the future in your hands and never leave GOD out of the picture before you as it is only going to get worse .

[@emkkahn]

The best part about being a kid back in the 70s and 80s was the Freedom!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching!

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

YES!!! I grew up in the late 60s---early 70s, and was a latchkey kid. Both parents worked, and I had a key to the house on a chain around my neck. I was alone for a few hours before Mom came home. The only thing I was required to do was my homework first before going out to play. That didn't take long. During summer vacation, I was at home all day, and hung out with friends all day. Freedom was bliss. Never got into any trouble. (Jan Griffiths).

[@midcenturymodern9330]

@@RhettyforHistory Thank you for making this video!

[@Sanderford]

Could be nice, yeah.

[@GreekGypsy]

@@douglasgriffiths3534 Same here.

[@SJUCityBoy]

Best thing of being a teenager in the 80's, NO CELLPHONES.

[@yukihirasouma4691]

Hahhaa yeah and no internet.

[@roxannemyles72]

Yes indeed. Also we knew where our friends were at. I'm glad to have been born in 72 and grew up in the 80s.

[@llunaeldas8055]

No Facebook. No Twitter. It was nice.

[@MrJestyler]

Amen and we all still survived just fine

[@JAHDUBProductions]

Out riding bikes or skateboards all day. We did our own thing with our friends instead of trying to be best friends with our parents like today.

[@zergmare7]

90s kid here, some of this stuff STILL applied to us 90s kids too. Like staying out most of the day and playing at a friends house after dark.

[@MikeB-qm4yw]

Yes, this was common until around 2000. In fact from 1970's to about 2000 things were about the same.

[@richardcrook2112]

@@MikeB-qm4yw Yes I agree.

[@flyingerasehead]

Shhhhh, the older generations have to keep acting like they own these things.

[@imwastingmytimeonthis677]

that’s pretty normal well until probably 2020 honestly technology completely took over the world so much

[@christianr1941]

@@MikeB-qm4ywnah bro, this still applies to the 2000s . Even tho phones were out in the mid 2000s smart phones where not popular and mostly our parents had them . I was born in 2001 and this seems something I use to do

[@asmith8947]

The ONLY thing that's better now is the fact you can enjoy a meal in a restaurant now without someone smoking in the next booth.

[@ownerlesscat7523]

Yeahhh no we need weed allowed in resturant back then and now dawg. People have become retarded thanks to the internet. Chasing clout instead of making actual friendships with people.

[@MikeB-qm4yw]

I would add in the car safety standards too, but for the most part you are totally correct.

[@joshuakaeble7810]

I'm not a smoker anymore either, but I still wish they would have smoking sections. It just felt like there were more freedoms back then compared to today. When I was a smoker I really enjoyed just having a cigarette with friends and sitting around drinking refills or coffee after the meal. This is something that you just don't see anymore.

[@vv--_--vv]

Good grief 😮‍💨 you must have spent your childhood locked up in the cellar.

[@peculiar_xo]

@@vv--_--vv smoking isn’t normal, it’s just back then you were more gullible and uneducated on your health. Therefore it was more widely accepted smoking in public and in front of your children.. it doesn’t mean someone was sheltered

[@GrnXnham]

I had to chuckle recently when one of my nieces asked me if I was bored all the time growing up with no cell phones in the 70's and 80's. Honestly, kids today seem to be more bored than we were. I don't think I was ever bored as a kid. I guess more gadgets does not mean less boredom.

[@mikekrause3671]

no because everything is done for you , no imagination involved.

[@LostboyXWife]

Best time EVER

[@apdorafa-rafaelalmeida7159]

We didnt have time to get bored. If we were not at school we were certainly playing in the streets with friends, riding our bikes, having fun. No time for boredom. Best time ever. I am 42 now and am happy I grew up in the 80's.

[@zerogrey3798]

Because we went OUTSIDE.

[@edwardgaines6561]

Thanks to constant handheld technology. Everyone is ovdrstimulated, and jaded...

[@floopyc1428]

It's really amazing how social media has made everyone unsocial. I grew up in the 70's & 80's, playing outside, climbing trees, a quick drink from a water hose, riding bikes with friends and so much more. I loved it.

[@DianeLake-sw3ym]

that's the way childhood should be - including drinking out the hose. Gasp! Overprotective parents. Kids drink from the hose and lived to tell the tale.

[@carlosmarx2380]

i think social media is the worst thing that happened to society in a long time (obviously excluding wars and such). the internet is fine and all, as long as you use it for information and some entertainment at home. but being available all the time and having so much stream of information flooding you all the time, especially the negative stuff, is just poison for humans.

[@jessewalters5361]

At first social media was a good thing. It gave a lot of introverts and people who struggle to find friends in person an opportunity to meet others like themselves. If you remember, only "nerds" used to use computers. It wasn't until the late 2000s when smart phones came out and it became super easy to get on the internet that it went to crap. A lot of stuff online was free and ads were pop ups that could be blocked.

[@rithvikmuthyalapati9754]

@@carlosmarx2380 It is both a blessing and a curse

[@floopyc1428]

@@carlosmarx2380 I totally agree. there's no question that the internet is very useful, but it's also destroying family unity, relationships and our society as a whole. There's a whole world out there, but now, there's nothing left for the imagination.

[@rotkev]

Born in 72 and the 80’s were awesome. My mom said our house was one of the many ‘crazy houses’ with her never knowing which one of my friends was wandering in and out of it with me. We had an empty lot down the street where we played football, baseball every day. I even got everyone playing soccer. It was our “Sandlot” for almost 10 years. I can’t express enough the amount of time we spent outside. Like in the video, we rode bikes everywhere. Trips to the convenience story to buy candy. When the street lights came on, it was time to go home. Lots of skinned knees crashing bikes, falling down while playing football, falling out of trees etc. We like football and sports, but rarely sat in front of the TV to watch a game because we’d rather be outside. Showbiz Pizza was probably the most exciting place on Earth. When a parent gave you $5 in quarters, you felt like a millionaire. I could go on forever.

[@justdiane5]

ShowBiz Pizza! That turned into Chuck-E-Cheese. I totally remember that & it was epic. They built a place so big with so many rooms of different stuff... it was awesome when they came to my neighborhood. Thanks for the memories 😊

[@Alaisha7]

Someone else who remembers Showbiz!!!! Most who grew up during that time don't remember it. Fun times. Now, my little nephew is so shy he can't even knock on his friend's door to see if he can play. Crazy.

[@stuntmoto1360]

Sounds familiar. On my street, we'd play two-hand-touch football with, like, 4 or more neighborhood kids. On the pavement, thin shoes, no pads. It was great. Other kids would drop in and join up from other streets. What was funny is most of the male kids in the 'hood were all decent football players, and fans, later in teenage years, regardless of other hobbies. We all had street experience baked-in, ha.

[@darladeibler8413]

I grew up in the late 70's through early 80's. I wouldn't trade growing up in that time period for anything. Life was so much simpler, so much less stressful. I actually feel sorry for the kids growing up in today's world. I often think if I was given the chance to time warp back to the 80's I would in a heartbeat. I'd miss some of the advances in medicine and the navigation on my phone, but other than that, I don't think I'd miss much in today's modern world.

[@HughGenvoenni]

I think you pretty much nailed it! I’ve always said I would go back in time if I could take GPS with me😆

[@yamnjam]

I'd give almost anything to be a kid back in the 70's and 80's again. The happiest time of my life.

[@ColAlbSmi]

You were happy because you were a kid, not because of the era you grew up in.

[@lm4278]

@@ColAlbSmi Not necessarily. It was a better time.

[@TheRealDrJoey]

You shoulda been there for the 50s and 60s!

[@user-je1kn8xi6s]

@@ColAlbSmi No it was because of the Era! It was great!

[@bleppyboo5969]

@@user-je1kn8xi6s No, it's just nostalgia. Being a child.

[@foreignparticle1320]

LOVED being a latchkey kid!! The whole house to myself, TV turned on loud, self-made milkshakes, and singing at the top of my lungs. Also being outside from dawn to dusk with my friends in the weekends, exploring, getting into mischief and spending our pocket money on candy and collector cards. Oh, and as a result I learned real-world applications for self-sufficiency, culinary skills, decision-making, bravery, socialisation and the value of money.

[@Facetimer864]

But never parental ❤️

[@laner.845]

BIG same. It's no wonder kids these days have all the problems they do. They never got a chance to learn to solve problems, work out issues between friends, make their own food, earn money with tasks for neighbors, or really anything born of independence and self-sufficiency. Parents do all that for them now, and if they try to make the kids do it for themselves, someone calls child services and screams NEGLECT! It's depressing and I'm so glad I didn't reproduce.

[@sabrinaeinolf5506]

And then decided not to let your children do any of that oh, and here we are.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

Same. (Jan Griffiths).

[@mlwilliams7959]

Me too!

[@WilliamNeish]

I grew up in the most amazing decade; I remember playing outside all day long with friends then coming inside and playing video games or watching MTV. There was nothing like the 80s and there will never be another great decade like the 80s.

[@sunrisings292]

Born in 1970, I would not trade places for a kid growing up today. I love the freedom I had, and the awesome music, movies and culture in general. And PRIVACY, was a given.

[@spazbobstinkpants]

Class of 85 here. Spot on. One thing to add: "This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs."

[@Jeni-ow1kl]

@ SpaBobStinkPants your comment made me LAUGH OUT LOUD!;))👍✌️

[@stephenvanburen1818]

Any questions?

[@MS-st1zb]

And come to find out the drug dealers were the least of our concern. Who was to know the people we were trusting were worse than the street dealers. Purdue Pharma, the drugmaker blamed for helping to unleash America's staggering opioid crisis, agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges as part of an $8 billion settlement over its marketing of OxyContin, the Department of Justice revealed Wednesday.

[@SKREVR]

This is your brain on drugs with a side of toast

[@mysticloverfairy1]

They played those in the 90s too.

[@happymonk4206]

I was a 80s kid. Sometimes I wish I could relive that decade.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching!

[@TheDoctor394]

Me too. More and more I feel like I don't belong in this world.

[@StevenSon-dt7zr]

Revisiting through the muse

[@andiestewart7423]

Same 😢

[@raisa_cherry33]

@@TheDoctor394 Same 😞

[@lacypierce6487]

I grew up in the ‘90’s and some of that was still true then as well. Like the lack of a food allergy acknowledgment and being able to roam without the fear of surveillance. Many of us still didn’t have a computer or internet at home back then. I also remember pay phones very well. I even remember using one myself once.

[@Crabchann]

I was in 9th grade in 2003 and I would carry change and have my friends phone numbers ready. lol

[@lacypierce6487]

@@Crabchann Wow! I was a junior then.

[@barrybrittain6157]

How i miss the 80s! This trip down memory lane makes me think of how the 2020s seem dull and depressing by comparison! I just turned 51 the other day and I'm missing my girlfriend since our relationship started growing apart last new years eve! I wish i could go back in time for a day or a week, the 80s seemed so simple and uncomplicated and i miss my mom too, she died in 2015! Very well done video, it really makes me want to go back!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Barry!

[@donnajames9240]

Riding in the back of Grandpa's old truck down long dirt roads with my cousins are some of my best memories 💓.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!

[@gregorykiernan7849]

I remember riding in my uncle's pickup down a two-track, spotting dear one evening. The tailgate was down and we were sitting on it...he driving wasn't fast. Still, he hit a dip and my cousin fell off onto the trail. He wasn't hurt...but I still laugh to this day! 😂🤣😂🤣 Those were good days! ✌

[@KenanTurkiye]

I remember riding on the back of my uncles truck, that's where we kids rode if it wasn't raining because it was fun, would still be fun even now. : )

[@Sanderford]

My father's old pickup for me. Good times.

[@stephenturner757]

Playing Star Wars in the back of the old station wagon! What bunch of wimps we've become. Sure, bad things happen but life ain't worth living with a bunch of bubble-wrap suffocating us.

[@milkbone69]

I've got one for you: In 1988, a couple of months before I turned 19 I had an appendectomy. I was a smoker, the nurse brought me an ashtray when I asked her for one.

[@jcbulldog533]

Yes, I remember that as well . I had my 1st son May of 1984 & several hours after giving birth,I too asked for an ashtray & definitely got one

[@tinydancer7426]

Whoa! That is so surprising. It was mid '80s when the smoking ban inside buildings (except bars and some restaurants) ...... and hospitals was definitely on the list of no smoking sites ..... not even outside anywhere on the hospital "campuses". 1988, you would have been told "sorry, no smoking".

[@ruthpullis9279]

When I had my son June of 1990 I was able to smoke in the hospital. January 1994 when I had my daughter I couldn't smoke in the hospital.

[@lorineilson7529]

That wouldn’t happen now a days.

[@mharris5047]

I remember a time where nurses would light cigarettes and help the elderly smoke. IIRC smoking inside commercial establishments was allowed in Michigan into the early 1990's. Smoking was banned on most domestic airline flights in the late 1980's. Nowadays you can't even legally smoke in YOUR OWN CAR on hospital property.

[@HorrorFreak68]

I am SO happy about the no smoking laws. I so wish they'd have been around when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s.

[@thecajunphoenix]

I agree with you on the no smoking laws. Just because a child is physically capable of looking after himself/herself/themselves alone doesn't necessarily mean the child should be expected to fend for himself/herself/themselves during that time. And a hard "No. Just. No." to the chicken pox parties.

[@aruvielevenstar3944]

Me too! I was a teenager in the 80’s and I never smoked, never drank, but the whole world around me smoked, also on my work in the hospital. If I said something about it, everybody shunned you and bullied you.

[@minkorrh]

The funniest thing I think about is that when I was younger, around 8 or 9. I didn't really understand the difference between 'miner' and minor', and when cigarette machines had that warning that said 'minors forbidden to operate this machine' I thought it was because of something to do with coal dust. I was smart enough to understand that coal dust is explosive, but not smart enough to see the difference between 'minor and miner'.

[@darryladams5644]

🤣

[@inertiaforce7846]

LOL

[@lookinforthe70s]

Being a child of the 70s and a teenager of the 80s was great. I have no complaints about the time period I grew up in. It's hard to describe to other people, what it was like to not be tied down to a device. They can't comprehend how it was to leave your house and not have a phone on you, for one small example. Life was much simpler, much more straight forward. You had time to think. There wasn't an endless ocean of information thrust at you 24/7. Time to breath. Time to really take in life at a normal human pace.

[@jennifergersch9126]

We still have human agency now, too. It's just a lot of people don't use it.

[@oglethorpezippelmeier2514]

still never had a phone on me, cells are lame

[@Lunafalls]

The people born in a few choice decades -- roughly the 1920s through the 1970s -- are the only humans who will EVER know what it is like both to live in the world without technology, and with it.

[@jennifergersch9126]

@@Lunafalls I agree. That said, we need to remember that the technological changes of the past 30 years pale in comparison to those of the early 20th century: Cars, planes, electricity, refrigeration, radio, etc.

[@Twobirdsbreakingfree]

@@Lunafalls oh the 80s was certainly not a world without technology. It's just it lacked many of the technologies that are especially harmful to the fabric of human society and especially conducive to mental stress, technologies like cell phones, the internet, social media, lifelike video games, CCTV cameras, tracking devices, biometric scanners, smart meters, 5G, cashless payments, automated chatbots and helplines, AI household virtual assistants, robot dogs in parks threatening people to wear masks, robot vacuum cleaners, drones, washing machines that communicate with your fridge, houses that can lock and unlock themselves, lightbulbs that come on and off automatically, and the list goes on. Technology had already gone too far by the time we reached the 80s, but then the world just went to complete extremes, and then it was impossible to pretend that everything was okay anymore.

[@danvan318]

As someone who graduated high school in 2004, I’m thankful that I was among the last groups of kids to get through my school years without smart phones existing. Society was better off before iPhones and social media.

[@rileymatthews9161]

Yes! I'm in high school right now and the energy is TERRIBLE because everyone is just staring at their phones. There are days that I go most of the day without speaking.

[@Mc.flyyy11]

Agreed.. co 03 here

[@adammiles3095]

Digital world has stuffed the future for all young and old. kids would not b able to live 30yrs ago no mobile phones or computres we wearnt alourd to use calulators let alone computers

[@rileymatthews9161]

@@adammiles3095 Agreed. I try to keep my life and entertainment off the internet as much as possible but it's so hard when we have to use technology in-class and for assignments.

[@thecarebearstare5980]

I graduated high school in 2014, so I got to see both worlds. It was pretty wild watching everything change so gradually, like from 2001-2010 everything was still pretty old school but by 2012 I remember my high school switching out text books for mac books and everybody started having cell phones that's when technology really exploded

[@bb5242]

Around '85, my grandmother got stung by a bee. Being allergic, she ran inside and tried to administer a needle containing an adrenaline shot. The needle broke off and so she failed to get the dose, later suffering cardiac arrest. The paramedics revived her, but she died in the hospital a few days later. It was extremely traumatic for me as I was like 12 at the time. The epipen came out a couple years later. When my Dad got stung sometime around '88, my mom administered the epipen and saved him from anaphylaxis. Probably saved his life.

[@sirtango1]

I found out I was allergic in ‘74.

[@Ghostrider-71]

Really glad to have lived back in the 80’s, great times. The internet is the slow demise of humanity IMO.

[@acedeucetrey]

Unironically, this is a fact.

[@BoozeandNewswithTimandDut]

I say that all the time.. internet ruined humanity. We were last generation to live without cell phones, and internet to ever be. We were the last generation who lived in a time where human interaction was a necessity not an inconvenience

[@Ghostrider-71]

@@BoozeandNewswithTimandDut Agreed.

[@Styxswimmer]

​@@Ghostrider-71born in the early 80s. While I came of age in the 90s, I also grew up in the 80s, and it had the biggest impact on me. I told my son recently that if I could take us all back to the 80s, none of us would want to come back to the present.

[@davidulrichldj6140]

The worst part of graduating HS in 1994….being alive now to see how horrifying things became for kids today. Well - all of us, really.

[@amiyrbarclift1640]

Yes, I graduated in 97. I thought it was just me.

[@kyrkosekaterinaris1328]

Blame our generation. We are the parents of today's high schoolers and we really should know better.

[@Will-tn8kq]

THIS. I have taught high school, am so horrified but the joyless hateful culture kids have today. what's even more horrifying is the young people think they are morally superior to the past. they have no way of knowing because they didn't see how much better life used to be. The past had it's flaws, but the misery and rage today is so much higher than it used to be.

[@VirtualAssistantAlana2020]

Yep. I graduated that year.

[@veiserexab1428]

What is it?

[@chrisauten2039]

I graduated HS in 1982 so my younger years were the 70's and 80's. I am not kidding one single bit when I tell folks I would give up all the technological advances of today if I could go back to that time. Those were the best years of my life and I know how fortunate I was to have experienced that time firsthand!

[@mikeandrews1899]

I graduated in '83 ! 1980 I was 15 and 1990 I turned 25 ...... I definitely came of age in the 80's ... And it was awesome 👍

[@lnicole2504]

I graduated in 1989, and I 100% agree with this comment.

[@Kingofportals]

So you are a late Boomer born in 1964.

[@brianhauswirth1348]

1988 Grad here. I couldn't agree more! The music, the parties, hackey sack at the hang out,... ect Best days ever!!

[@johnjones3813]

So true.

[@softaco3088]

As someone who was born in the late 80s and graduated in the early 2k. A lot of this was actually still relevant throughout my whole childhood, but dying out for sure. I was a latchkey kid since I was 10, my school didn't have allergy bans, me and my friends would go missing all day, played hooky at the mall, snuck out the window to drink/smoke with neighborhood friends after my parents went to sleep, restaurants still had smoking sections, etc.

[@user-mz1zb8du7o]

I was born in 1971 and I can tell you I would give up all modern conveniences to go back to those days. We are living in a dystopia compared to life in the '80s.

[@ceeal2943]

As an 80s/90s kid (born 1980) I can tell you that everything was way more relaxed back then

[@TheGravygun]

You were just a baby

[@ToThePointCT]

Yep

[@danielmaher7108]

I was 18 in 1980. The 1970s were even more relaxed than the 80s.

[@_I_only_work_here]

I was born in 56. I was a "free-range" kid since I was four. It's amazing any of us survived!!

[@juarezderrick9647]

I was born in 84 and all this was the same in the 90s

[@justylex]

I feel so privileged to have grown up in such a wonderful time (born in ‘73). Just yesterday, I told my kids, 18 and 20, that if I sent them back in time to the ‘80’s for a week, they would never want to come back to present time. They both agreed.

[@PureBloodedwolf]

That shows you how messed up everything is now.

[@dianem6951]

@@PureBloodedwolf Parents didn’t mess anything up to this degree. It was government that screwed things up. They’ve also forced universities to comply. Otherwise no funding for them.

[@CHRISANDREOU4199]

Well you raised them well 👍

[@jamessnavely9758]

I was also born in 73 I'm 50 and still miss the 80,s best time ever.

[@arandom1024]

It's weird getting old isn't it? I'm a little younger than you, but still considered middle aged(older than the middle of average life expectancy), seems like yesterday I was a teenager, what my parents and grandparents told me was true, youth really is wasted on the young. It's a curse that you can't appreciate it, until it's too late.

[@Leannelorenne]

As an 80s kid this video is incredibly accurste to me growing up in Canada, brought back alot of memories, i miss those much simpler days, i think this is the way life should be. Sometimes i think the internet destroyed much

[@FujikkoJP]

*No wonder why people back then is so tougher and smarter then nowadays.*

[@williamrobinson1973]

It's crazy I still remember at least 20 telephone numbers from the 1980s.

[@jpsned]

Same here! 🙂

[@eaglegold3303]

Ditto 😂and those are some of my passwords now 🤣🤣🤣

[@williamrobinson1973]

@@eaglegold3303 Nice..I haven't thought about that.

[@GTSN38]

I only remember 867-5309.

[@nicholashylton6857]

@@GTSN38 🤣 Nice song! But I was more of a Rush and New Wave kid

[@kalevala29]

what I miss, and I wasn't even aware of it at the time, is the lack of dysfunctional politics. you had the nightly news, and that was that. no endless hours of pundits with their commentaries and opinions. not only is it exhausting, it's divisive.

[@aclark903]

Maybe where you lived. Where I lived the Irish were blowing sh$t up…

[@kalevala29]

@@aclark903 I am aware of the violence in Ireland. and I am truly sorry that you had to be a part of it or witness it. I'm not saying. things were perfect. It was just we were not subject to news 24 hours a day.

[@HalideHelix]

@@aclark903 lol....that's a very good point.

[@Takeshi357]

I would say there were plenty of dysfunctional politics in the 1980s too. Just look up the air controllers strike.

[@Shan_Dalamani]

Politics was most certainly dysfunctional. You just didn't hear about it 24/7/365.

[@Kinesiology411]

It was amazing. Born in 70 so had a little disco fun, was a teen during the 80s and the 90s were my 20s. When I say it was epic, I mean it.

[@Kauffy901]

We are exactly the age of the Stranger Things kids.

[@sunrisings292]

Agree 100%.

[@renatoathaydes3162]

I grew up in Brazil in the 80's and it's amazing how much of this video applies to us as well almost identically. The movies shots bring back good memories.

[@aidenmalecky7928]

I was wondering about that! Like how universal these things were. We certainly had them in the U.S.

[@Cindyscrossstitch]

So glad I was a teenager in the 80's. I feel bad for the kids nowadays. We had no cell phones, no computers, we had fun. A simpler time🌻🌻

[@EvRight9768]

and its awful because most kids want to go outside but theres no safety (like the danger of getting stabbed in some areas are too real), no space to go to or some people just don't go. although there are still a lot of children just being themselves, going out and playing outside :) I feel like it also falls onto parents not wanting to spend time with kids or being too busy and giving the kids ipads and games so they dont distract the parents

[@RonsaRRR]

Without the internet, you had to wait forever for a good movie to be shown. And now you can find it in a second and watch.

[@RayCromwell]

We did have computers in the 80s and video games. Maybe you forgot the Steve Jobs & Apple or Commodore, and Atari? We also had video games: the Atari 2600, the Intellivision, ColecoVision, and of course, the Nintendo NES. And of course, we had video game arcades.

[@RayCromwell]

@@EvRight9768 Parents did similar things in the 80s, the whole "Latchkey Kid" phenomena started in the 80s, and the primary pacifier for kids was the TV, instead of the iPhone.

[@RaceGrifterExtraordinaire]

eye must amit -- it was harder 2b a grifter back then. today eye can easily acuse erreyone under da sun of raycissm, get away wit it, and get paid 4 it.

[@AgentM79]

Class of ‘87 here. I wouldn’t trade my childhood for what they have today. Not for a second. Social media is something I’m so glad we didn’t have. Freedom is something they scarcely understand today. We played all day. Summer lasted FOREVER. And the street lights were the universal time clock.

[@lemhanback9595]

for me it was before it got dark, I lived in the country and there were no street lights. doors were unlocked and windows open during summer to enjoy the cool night air. home made popcorn balls and candy or Carmel apples were huge at Halloween too. we trick or treated the area with no worries. With some of the games we came up with we were lucky we didn't cripple ourselves. Wouldn't change when or where I grew up for a million bucks.😂😂😂

[@blindjustice8718]

Class of '85. And I concur.

[@LV-1969]

Class of 88 here. Ditto.

[@Non-Serviam300]

‘87 grad here. Hell yeah🤘I don’t know what keeps every young kid today from having a compete nervous breakdown.

[@qrsx66]

In the more rural environment of southern France, there was no street lights so we had to refer to sunlight, and our stomachs for dinner hour.

[@brianthesnail3815]

I became an adult in the 1980s, wrote long love letters to my wife and waited days for her to reply. We would talk on the phone once a week. We were at university together so we spent a lot of time together in term time but lived hundreds of miles apart in holidays. It was normal not to be in touch with people you knew for weeks on end. It was the very best time of my life.

[@Michael9-23-15]

Born in 1968 in the bay area and then my teenage years in Colorado Springs, Co. I'm am so thankful for having my youth in those years and those places. I feel very blessed to have experienced it all! Thank you for sharing this, this makes my day.

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching Michael!

[@GlmrGrl98]

I’m 46, and to have those days and times back as a child…. Just pure innocence and fun….. this almost makes me tear up.

[@77naaz]

Same age . Same here . Laughing and crying at the same time. We had it so good

[@teralmiles]

Same!

[@nicolerm]

I just turned 46 - I LOVED the '80s and miss them so much! Growing up during that time was so fun!

[@jimmymetal713]

That's true, I graduated 04. We had cell phones but text was barley a thing and you had a set amount of minutes lol and roaming. And we would just romed the streets and most parents got home around 5 or 6 depending on traffic. I miss those days for sure

[@nine3seven]

i was born in 1998 and i feel such a powerful feeling watching videos from the 1970s 1980s & 1990s. it makes me sad, i wish i could’ve experienced these 3 decades in all their glory.

[@MSDGAMEZ]

As a 90s kid we had so much fun playing in the woods. Our imaginations were huge

[@user-wg3wj6ur9z]

playing in the woods was fun.

[@damongirl66]

We found our parent's occult books and set up standing stones and pentagrams and altars, complete with skulls, crystals and feathers. Sure beat doing the drugs our parents did.

[@strange4change_6]

All day, everyday in the summer. We had a stream and a couple ponds that made for epic mud bogging😊

[@DankT9705]

I was born in 1973 and graduated high school in 1991. I feel like I was so lucky to have grown up in the 70s and 80s. It was such a wonderful time to be a kid. Kids from the 90s and 2000s like my children will never understand how totally awesome it was :)

[@thetruthstand]

Precious memories! I was only a child during the '80s but I remember everything you just spoke about. What a great time to be alive!

[@HighwayLand]

I was born in 79, and I still remember the days of walking over to a friends house and knocking on the front door and grabbing our bikes and riding out to the park or the community pool. No cell phones and no social media, just normal human interaction.

[@bleeneo101]

Same 79 here too

[@NEO_RedPill_2024]

Amen. Good times…

[@azh698]

Hell, I was born in '96 and we still did it up until I was about 14/15 (that's when the smartphone market exploded)

[@boredutopia]

i dont know from where you are, but in europe thaz still a thing, kid's parks are filled, kids do ride bikes, do play outside, do visit each others and play games like we did on comodore or amiga or atari in 80ties. we here manage our kid's times, they have a certain time for screens per day and thaz it. majority of kids will have cell phones when they start school, age 6/7 but only when they go outside of house, like to school, or to play or what ever, so that we are abel to reach them if they dont come home on time. at the age 12 they pretty much have it as their own all the time, but it is supervised, communication and things they do till around 16, than supervision and time managing completly stops, . then they are almost adults and old enoigh to know certain things, at 18 they are legal adults and it is on them what they will do with their lives and time.. pubs and bars are filled, night clubs too, young people everywhere interacting, same as places for younger kids and teens. it is no different when i was a kid in the 80ties..

[@joanbelmont5450]

Born in 1980 and I agree! The good old days gone forever 😢

[@Kerousmac]

I tell my boyfriend at least once a month, how I'd give almost anything to go back to a nice, crisp Autumn day in the 80s. Just to be at my Grandparents house in say 85' or 86', when I was 5/6 yrs old, just watching my Gran watching Young and the Restless, or Price is Right on any random weekday. 😢

[@nut-thing601]

Or Night Rider & the "A" Team

[@Clemthedog]

Same here as if I was watching Jefferson's what's happening and Good times right before the afternoon cartoons came on sit with my Mom in the barn listening to the rain hit the tin roof while she sang me songs I'd give anything to have that back

[@greenglitch0364]

wait do all grandmas watch young and the restless bc mine did too😭 (just so you know i was born in 2008 so sadly i have never had the ability to feel what a crisp autumn day in the 80s is like but i know that i was born in the wrong generation lol i absolutely hate phones and how they've impacted us so i would gladly go back in time if i had the opportunity haha)

[@WVgirl1959]

Yes, go back to when everyone you loved was still alive. ❤️

[@claire111]

I would love to go back for a Saturday at my Nanna's place playing with all of my cousins in the yard. Then 30 of us eating dinner in a tiny kitchen and then watching some great movie like Charlie and the Chocolate factory on the TV in one of those units that had a record player and radio.

[@danielm8151]

You picked some great examples that I also remember well. The bikes out from of the house hit me immediately with nostalgia.

[@motherearth5462]

I remember riding in the back of the pickup into Canada from lower Indiana. Almost everyone was your friend..Coming home when the Sun was dropping..Walking the Indiana Dunes by myself at 5 yrs of age..Roller Skating Rinks..Ice Skating on frozen lakes..Tobogganing in the Winter..The memories...Kids these days have NO IDEA how ruined they are by modern times..

[@TheWtfnonamez]

I grew up in the 80s. As I have grown older I have learned to appreciate what a hopeful and enthusiastic time it was. There was a natural assumption that the world was only going to get better and better and the future would always be bright. God bless John Hughes movies.

[@kathieoray2990]

Ah, but we were all worried about Acid Rain.

[@PopeNorton]

Remember the Tylenol Murders? Prior to that, there were hardly any safety seals on anything. Afterwards, it was standard.

[@MrOctober44]

I think everyone does this where they look through rose tinted glasses. Their was Aids which was killing people and no cure or even a way to slow it down. Crime/violence became worse. The market crash of 87. Drug abuse became a huge concern.

[@jamiebejune1488]

@@MrOctober44 Fausi was behind that.. it took decades of poisoning and malignant eduiction before that plandemic thing worked

[@b-genspinster7895]

No mass shootings and owning a firearm wasn’t a big deal but I remember no one really kept one in their car. The biased media wasn’t a big deal because there were other things to worry about.

[@Mickard]

This brings back a lot of fond and fun memories. I graduated high school in 1980. I remember as a kid growing up at the end of a dead-end road, and we explored the woods endlessly. We came home when it was dark, and nobody minded

[@mediocrejoker9447]

i was class of 88. we lived on the country, had dirt roads. and we'd be out til dark all the time....i miss it so much

[@Heartwing37]

I was the class of ‘79 and it was great to have total freedom as a kid! We were good kids and behaved better than move kids today who are oppressed….😂

[@sourpunk4277]

Yeah that’s why so many kids would get snatched up back then

[@mediocrejoker9447]

@@sourpunk4277 no one got snatched up. stranger danger was a made up fad. educate yrself

[@darrellmortensen9805]

Our beings came over for a card party. Her parents asked her to run home n get some potato chips. She was kidnapped. Remains found years later. No idea who did it

[@KerryW-ki1pl]

Ahhh “HEATHERS “ I sooo remember that in Jr. High.❤❤❤The original “MEAN GIRLS”

[@TheBOG3]

Heather Chandler made Regina George look like a saint.

[@billcat1840]

I remember going to the Dr's office and he was smoking at his desk....he was a cardiologist 😂

[@hp67c]

Well.... I guess you don't get heart cancer from smoking? 🤷‍♀

[@EmpoerterGeisterfahrer]

Born in 1965 and can totally relate to this Video. What a great time we had.

[@midas1929]

Born same year. I wonder how we survived with all that freedom

[@davidtucker7219]

@@midas1929 I also was born in 1965...We grew up way different than kids are now. We had way more fun and much better music back when.

[@Tigerh8r]

Same!

[@tonyp9313]

@@midas1929 How did you Survive lol. With like little to nothing.

[@midas1929]

@@tonyp9313 Man, we had it all. The biggest thing was taking Dad's wooden fishing boat and go to a little island in the river, camping for a night. We were 12 and just gone 24 hours without phones or trackers LOL

[@joethelion6016]

Best part was we didn't have social media making mush of our brains and causing social anxiety and depression. We could watch a concert without staring into a phone and we weren't constantly competing with our peers. I'm so glad I'm late middle aged

[@fandoria09]

Growing up literally out in the "sticks" as us country folks call it. The only socializing I did was during school hours. I've had social anxiety most of my whole life & depression brought on by CA & DA by my father. I'm happy with the social contact because that's how I communicate with my 4 daughters. I lived in Ohio from birth (1971) until 2007. My 2 oldest daughters & grandson still reside there, after moving to Washington State in 2007 with my 2nd husband & our two daughters, my third oldest graduating from there & moving to North Carolina for 4 years of college in 2016, & my youngest daughter still residing in Washington State after she graduated high school in 2018, I moved to the state of Missouri in 2020. So, being so far apart, we keep tabs on one another through social media. But, my girls will never experience what life was like for me growing up in the 70s and part of my childhood in the early 80s & my teen years until 1990. My adulthood / motherhood began in 1991.

[@sweetsendaedreamr]

Y'all had polaroids and sony cameras. Y'all competed with your neighbors and the cliques in your schools worse than the current generations ever did. Boomer and silent generations are the ones that gave birth to living above your means. Debt bubbles started in your decades.

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

I was glad that I grew up without social media. Social media and the net can be such a curse.

[@joethelion6016]

@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj The internet is hugely entertaining. Social Media is toxic

[@QuantumEffectResidue]

Me too; I wouldn't want to be young in this hell hole we live in today for nothing. What, so I could be all tatted up, walk around looking like I'm homeless, condoning race mixing, having no morals at all, homosexuality, trans genderism, and socialism? No thanks!

[@piobmhor8529]

I wasn’t a “latch key kid” but rather we would just leave the back door unlocked. We never had anything stolen, so we never saw any reason to lock it. We would just come home from school, open the back door and go in. Both my parents worked all day so there wasn’t anyone home when we arrived. This was considered perfectly normal back then.

[@iamalphalim]

Grew up in the 80s Was a blast One thing I don’t miss is the indoor smoking tho

[@ED80s]

As as teen in the 80s, mall culture was huge part of my life

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching ED80s!

[@quentinkaasa47]

I enjoy seeing movies with the old mall culture as you called it, when it was at its peak. Films like Smooth Talk with Laura Dern, Fast Times of course, Weird Science is another great one. I wish I could have been in a big enough city and been alive to experience it at the time. :(

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

Yea, that is one of the things I miss the most.

[@RedTachi]

I did not get to experience Mall culture until I went into the Navy in San Diego 2000. TBH. I was a rural kid 1995-2000. We would drive our cars or ride with our friends who had cars down a main street in 1995-1999. Kind of like American Graffiti, but 90s style. No joke Sincerely honest.

[@nellamorra6728]

the best ....we'd skip school for it

[@williammccoll3404]

The 70s and 80s were a great time to grow up. I feel bad for kids today.

[@subzero308]

the 90s were good too... i was born in 87 and i loved the 90s but yes 60's 70's 80's and the 90's were the best.. the 90's were the very last of the real kids doing anything and having fun and using their imagination... everything after the 90's is sad tho.

[@highoctanegames]

I wish I was able to grow up then, I don't like my generation :

[@jozefu8726]

I remember my dad putting me in his lap while he drove, during long family trips. In those days, cops didn't bat an eye to it and it was common. I miss those days..People were so chill and you could joke and mess around without fear of people getting asshurt and offended. Most everyone had a healthy and strong sense of humor.

[@mahatmarandy5977]

When I became a parent, I was very surprised to realize that kids don’t play outdoors anymore. They certainly don’t get on bikes and go tooling off all day long like we used to. It’s interesting that these things just change slowly over time and you don’t really notice them until they hit you all at once.

[@FailedChadLite]

@IsabellaShapiro Fully auto machine guns were legal before the 80s unlike now. It's not the guns that are the problem.

[@johnholmes6541]

Born '73, 80s kid. Modern life is awful. Please take me back.

[@teralmiles]

Only if I can come too. From one 1973r to another.

[@NeonAnimeDreams]

Best time to have been born in my opinion, 72-73, glad you got to experience the 80s as a teen.

[@jasontodd8071]

1977 here, I completely understand!!!

[@ville666sora]

Born 87, but consider myself a 90's kid. I was part of the last generation to grow up before we all became glued to our cellphones/smartphones and addicted to technology, and I am so thankful to have been born before "modern life". My family got our first computer in like 1999 I believe, but even the internet seemed better back then and it wasn't the only thing our lives revolved around like it is for people today. It seems like life started becoming more awful around like 2008 and kept getting worse and worse every year.

[@georgeskate78]

Well u were a kid in the 80’s tbf. I’m thinking take me back to 2015 because most of of my happy memories stem from that year in High school. Doesn’t mean the world was a better place

[@MsSylvia45]

I would relive 1980 to 1989 every single day. Phenomenal time to be a teen

[@aldoushuxleysghost]

I was a young kid in the 80s. I was a 90s teen. Not as great a time, as I hear from my older cousins, but miles better than today

[@chrissparks3254]

I agree. If you figure out how to do it let me know cause im in 😂

[@renealexander2703]

Me too. I love and miss the 80s.

[@erkl8823]

I was 4 in 89, but I wish all the time I was born 8-10yrs earlier.

[@scottwarsing9713]

Agree 100% teen from 83-89

[@Shifty3651727]

90's kid here, it was so much fun, everything in our lives was all about having fun👌🏻 Great memories

[@ricpowers1475]

I grew up in the 70s. Born in 59. Grad high school in 77...just wanted to say some of this was true, some wasnt. It was definitly a blast and care free. A time of halter tops and cut off jeans, 12 dollar top band concerts, and swimming quarries where we partied and made love. The biggest thing so much better then than now: No social poisoning that the internet, cell phones and Facebook created. Cell phones are used 50% communication, 50% avoiding eye contact.

[@someoneyoudontknow7705]

So…what wasn’t true?

[@ricpowers1475]

@@someoneyoudontknow7705 For one, no parents I knew or ever saw would leave kids in the car while they shopped.

[@willh5847]

I was a kid during the 90s (born in 85) and a lot of these applied to that decade too, at least the first 2/3 of it. I feel like that was the last decade where kids could just be kids and have some reasonable freedoms and responsibilities to go with them.

[@davidturney2975]

Dude same here. I miss those days

[@Deborahtunes]

Things began changing in the 90's for the worst. That's when the politically correct crowd took over...

[@davidturney2975]

@@Deborahtunes I never understood that

[@Deborahtunes]

@@davidturney2975 ~ It was bound to happen eventually. Now look what a disaster the country is in as a result. Kids are thin skinned, committing suicide at alarming rates. We were raised with the old "Sticks and stones...." saying. But today, if a person just says the slightest thing against another, they get punished. We are living in a world where everyone needs bubble wrap for protection even with little things...

[@travis7211]

Born in 88 here. Same applied to me, granted I grew up in a small town.

[@alexanderlyon]

I rode my bike everywhere. Now, I live in a small town with tons of kids and I rarely see kids riding bikes. It's the perfect town for bikes but you hardly see them. The kids just walk everywhere, even if it's a couple of miles away.

[@nataleeisjustchilling2737]

Dang I loved riding my bike as a kid, so does my little brother and he’s 6

[@brianjohnson5272]

Then get one and start showing off. Remind the parents that bikes exist.

[@-Joyfull]

I was born in the 80ies and I prefer walking over biking. Taking a long hike has been proven to be better for health than riding a bike anyways.

[@Nomed38]

In some places now the law requires anyone to ride a bike in the street which isn't exactly safe so that might be part of the reason.

[@nataleeisjustchilling2737]

@@-Joyfull I only like riding a bike cause it’s faster than walking lol

[@lovelyshirl]

This was GREAT! Made me smile to remember all these things. ❤

[@jhcvandenheuvel]

The one thing I am happy my kids can still experience is to cycle by themselves through the neighbourhood and come home when the streetlights turn on. The first time I let my daughter out all by herself on her bike she later came home excited and said she felt liberated and truly free like she had never felt before. It's the one thing we managed to keep where I live (in NL) that I am happy still exists. We have playgrounds through the neighbourhood and many kids still rome the streets alone and play outside by themselves with other children.

[@meh_lady]

Looking back at my childhood it feels like the 80’s were custom made for kids. I was born in ‘74 and it was just flat-out fun growing up during that time. So much freedom!

[@vaxjoaberg]

LIkewise. And somehow we all turned out fine. Well, no worse then the next couple generations will, anyway.

[@sarahperkins2340]

I was born February 23, 1974 I have seen a picture of the " carseat" that I came home in. It was a scrap of fabric on a wire frame that kinda reminds me of the bouncer seat that my eldest son had in 93 before the fancy vibrating one came out. One of my favorite memories were riding in the back of my Uncles Truck. ( however my 7th grade locker mate was killed riding in the back of a truck on a dump run, he was holding on to an old mattress that instead of letting it go it pulled him out of the back a he landed under it on his head) but for the most part my childhood was the best days of my life. We didn't even have cable just attena TV and only got PBS every day and anything else was a bonus. Yes,we had to pick a switch, but not that often because we knew that we would get it if we didn't do what we were told. But seriously, I don't think that boundaries are a bad thing at all and maybe we need more for the new generation of kids.

[@JCA51698]

Same here too. The parts of the video with the kids and their bikes brought back a bunch of memories of hanging out with friends all day safely outdoors.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

When the back seat of the car was full and I wanted to lie down, I'd climb up the seat and lie on the back dash. I did a lot of daydreaming and star gazing through the rear window on long trips.

[@joannajamerson35]

I was born in 75

[@raptureready3015]

This was real good! Made me laugh… I was born in 74 and the 80s were a great time to grow up.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Yes they were. I a lot of things have changed since then. Thank you for watching!

[@skylined5534]

As a child born in '77 I'm also glad I got to live in these times though the UK was a little different. One of the playground games of choice used to be conkers (bashing horse chestnuts on strings together to beat your opponent's conker to bits). It got banned in UK schools in the early 2000s in case injuries occurred, how ridiculous 😂

[@miked4152]

This was so awesome to remember all the commercials of the 80's. Pay phones, being out late with friends, not wearing seatbelts or helmets/ pads. Times were definitely better back then and people worried less. Those days are truly missed.

[@miked4152]

Definitely ready for the rapture my friend 😁👍

[@joaquimrodriguez8961]

Indeed.

[@SteveBaker-cq2fg]

I'll never forget a team beach party for my little league team in 1981. We all piled in the back of our coaches pickup truck and travelled the five miles on the freeway to Bolsa Chica Beach. Couldn't imagine what would happen to him today if he had fourteen 12-year old's in the back of a truck.

[@DoodiePunk]

@7:12 the best anti-smoking ad I've ever seen! I wasn't aware there were such creative ads! It's unfortunately still relevant today.

[@uplinkx1126]

Being a kid/teenager in the 70's and 80's! Best time of my life! Wish I had a time machine.

[@Frank00]

I have to ask a person that grew up in this era. Why have most of you raised your kids to be such wimps, your parents would have never put a mask on you or would have you put it on. Did you as parents become wimps?

[@raulcastro925]

Right?

[@RickOnTheDrums]

Take me with you

[@maddhatter3564]

itd have to be a big time machine, i know alot of people thatd want a ride

[@jennifer3551]

If u get one, I'm coming too!!!

[@VM-yd6zq]

Honestly, it was nice to have more freedom and less regulation.

[@angeladay1534]

Most families taught kids morals, respect and gratefulness. Sure....some of us were rebellious at times....but, swiftly learned from their mistakes. Nowadays, no one wants accountability for anything! 💔😭

[@ColAlbSmi]

Yeah life was much better when children were killed by getting launched through the windshield of the family station wagon and when people could smoke in restaurants.

[@TheRealDrJoey]

@@ColAlbSmi Yes it was. It's called freedom and personal responsibility, and recognizing we live on a mortal plane.

[@diego_z90]

@@ColAlbSmi sounds perfect to me

[@Deborahtunes]

@@ColAlbSmi ~ Oddly enough, there's probably more car accidents today than in the 70's & 80's. Because most families only had one or sometimes two vehicles if they were lucky...

[@ericapelz260]

Thanks for making me feel old.

[@William-the-Guy]

It hurts having lived in that time. I look around now and I know what I am missing. I know how much better life used to be. Kids 20 years younger than me are used to the anti-social distopia.

[@PerryDavidson-vf3cj]

Interesting way to put it. What do you find the main thing that slips under their radars is? and what do you think they miss out on the most?

[@William-the-Guy]

@@PerryDavidson-vf3cj I could probably list 20 or 30 answers to that question, but off the top of my head: they are all terrified of each other to an extent I never was. I got bullied and picked on as a kid, but what modern kids go through is so.kuch worse. Every second of every day, they fear saying the wrong thing and being denounced and kicked out their group. Because they grew up on social media, they have internalized this toxic mentality that anyone can be "blocked" by the rest of the group, and ehat's the best way to prevent the group from turning against you? Why, it's denouncing someone or some thong else. Nothing says loyalty like catching a traitor. It becomea impossible to think, because new ideas might get you shunned, conversations are reduced to looking for the cues for which memorized script to recite. It'sike all the worst qualities of shallow high school kids, except 1000 times more extreme, also they never grow out of it. I always though when these kids hit 26 or 27 years old, they'd belatedly start acting like adults, but no! There just are no adults anymore. They think this is normal. They think people complaining about it are just cranky old people who don't know what they are talking about. They are criticized for the horrible way they act so often, that they all have their responses to the criticisms memorized. Rather than ever listening or changing, it just becomea another script they recite. They just fight for their right ruin everyone's party.

[@PerryDavidson-vf3cj]

@@William-the-Guy thats insightful what you said about catching a traitor to prove loyalty. It’s actually hard to imagine. I’m in my late 20s and honestly I haven’t met many of the people you describe, I hadn’t really been involved in that kind of dynamic. I met one woke person and it was pretty “joke” but I have the right to choose who I associate with, I have quite a few friends who are older than me to. I don’t know if it runs more rampant in the states or Canada. I’m Canadian myself, I would guess Canada because the prime minister is a wokester poster boy. I guess it’s easier to not engage and find some people who don’t get offended so easily. Now I’m asking myself where I have to go to find the mentality that you speak of.

[@mtnshelby7059]

​@@PerryDavidson-vf3cj they missed out, in a good way, on not being overconnected and overwhelmed.

[@PerryDavidson-vf3cj]

@@mtnshelby7059 that’s a good point, ironically I might think that people of that time would have been primed to find face to face activity and real world interactions to be less whelming.

[@jasonallen3678]

"I'm At The Community Center " on a pay phone instead of paying that charge was hilariously genius 😂

[@HighwayLand]

I did that a few times.

[@whatsreal7506]

I turned 18 in 1980. What an awesome time! Social media and the internet destroyed it all!

[@GouShin1]

@@letupandridemarkdangelo170 There was BBS systems in the 80s and IRC chat(granted came in late 88) but the internet was fine. What ruined it was social media! as a 90s kid I was always outside, watched toonami after school and then just played with friends all night!

[@panpiper]

The main source of the destruction of the freedom children knew then was in fact the rise of cable news. 24/7 exposure to shock and scandal from anywhere it could be found started to terrify parents, which in turn led them to impose much greater restraints upon their kids, to "keep them safe". Social media came MUCH later.

[@thisaintmikel]

I wish there was a law that made phone and computer companies that made kids under 18 have a time limit with the ID verification and all. Most kids today need to go outside and lose weight lol.

[@GouShin1]

@@thisaintmikel Um no that really is the parents job to manage that not the government..

[@thisaintmikel]

@@GouShin1 Yeahh about that… Most parents nowadays can’t do their job. That’s just my opinion.

[@dankamp2872]

1981 - I was a sophomore in HS. One night over the summer we were drinking and smoking pot late into the night. There were 5 of us in my Corolla station wagon, and I let my buddy drive. At a stop sign he waited too long (thought it was a red light) and a cop sitting at the 4-way lit up and pulled us over. To summarize: driver had no license, we were all over-the-limit and underage (!), we didn't have the car's lights on, AND my friend in the backseat jumped out while I was talking to the cop on the sidewalk and threw up, some of it hitting the officer's shoes. Cop told us to go straight home with a warning! Stupid us - but you gotta love the 80's.

[@Donii_Wiinz]

lol! The collect call trick!!! People learned how to fit whole paragraphs into 30 seconds!!😂

[@teacherondabeat]

I was a teenager in the 80s...It reminds me how free and happy we were, we weren't afraid of anything, we talked to each other by looking into each other's eyes, not by texting. We formed an opinion by talking to each other and observing around us, not on social networks run by millionaires who make even more money with our personal data, where the ostentatious philosophy "Look how amazing I am - look how my life is amazing" dominates...we LIVED life, we didn't constantly take pictures of it and we rarely filmed it. Also, great music was coming from everywhere, we didn't know where to turn: Tears for fears, Depeche Mode, B-52's, Bowie, The Police, Simple Minds, Rush...today's pop makes me nauseous and smart phones = a huge planetary lobotomy...Yes, the 80s, what a time! I miss it a lot.

[@katherinemcdonnell6333]

YES! All of that. I moss the 80's and 90's. I miss normalcy.

[@maddhatter3564]

and dont forget , we had our own language, dork, geek, spaz,etc

[@DianeLake-sw3ym]

Social media should be like the phone was to us. You talked to awhile and made plans. Talked about whatever. Hung up and went out to meet up with our friends and did stuff. Social media should be like the phone to connect but, not your life.

[@elmore707]

ok grandpa

[@teacherondabeat]

@@elmore707 petit con

[@JoMarieM]

I was a child in the 1980s, and some of the things that I did as a kid, would probably give some of today's parents a heart attack. I rode in the backs of pickup trucks, with and without camper shells on them, and none of the adults in my life thought anything of it! And sometimes on long road trips, I even laid down on the dash in the back window! I played on playground equipment that was set in CONCRETE, even those spinny merry-go-round things! And when I was a kid, NOBODY wore bike helmets. Most of the ones that were available at that time were ugly, clunky, uncomfortable ones, and you looked like a real oddball if you wore one! I lived a small Midwestern town, and I could spend HOURS playing outside, sometimes alone, and sometimes with the neighborhood kids. It was a different time for sure!

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

I never wore a bike helmet either. Still don't. I do wear a motorcycle helmet though when I ride my motorcycle. But that's different. (Jan Griffiths).

[@willp.8120]

When I was a kid, I remember riding in the back of my dad's truck, the tailgate down, and myself on my belly riding with my head at the edge of the tailgate. I often would sit on the hump above the wheel well. If you ran over something, you had to make sure that you didn't bounce too high. Regarding bikes, I would regularly coast down a steep hill at high speeds without using my handle bars. We also used to get in a cardboard box and push each other down a steep hill.

[@tinydancer7426]

@@willp.8120 Oh, yes. Cardboard sledding was the best, except when we shot out into the stream and the bottom of the hill. The it was back to the grocery store to beg for boxes again. Don't know how we managed to survive riding our bikes, wagons (towed behind a bike), roller skating, riding our scooters (foot powered back in the day) and our rudimentary skateboards (that our dad's made for us using a a narrow board (1 x 2 .... now that took some footwork to stay on) and a metal ball bearing skate taken apart (usually the other skate was either broken or mysteriously went missing .... wink wink) .... rode all of those with no helmet, elbow, knee or wrist protection ..... there was only one kid in the neighbor who got hurt .... on her skates cuz she was a clumsy kid, tripped over her own feet, broke her arm, wore a cast for the requisite 6-7 weeks, cast came off, skates went on and down she went and broke the arm again, her parents got rid of the skates ...... how we never got hurt riding the wagon I don't know ..... one kid on a bike with a tow rope on the back, 2 - 3 kids in the wagon towing us up the alley and when we got to the point where you could turn to the left to another alley or stay on the the alley to go straight, we went straight ...... down a hill to where it intersected a street, and we would shoot across the street and into the alley on the other side ......

[@ritadyer9295]

My sister used to sleep in the back window on trips. Lol! There were six of us in a car driving between NC and PA until my parents got a station wagon! Then my sister and I rode in the 3 rd row seat that faced backwards with no seat belts!

[@ritadyer9295]

@@douglasgriffiths3534 yes. That is way different! My oldest son had a bad motorcycle wreck! It could have been worse. A car turned left in front of them at a light and he didn’t know because the car didn’t have the right away but couldn’t see around the car facing him. My son just remembers flying over the hood of the car! And his friend also wrecked his bike at the same time.

[@marcm9999]

Exceptionally well done young man!!

[@indientis6003]

why does this feel so nostalgic for a guy being born 3 years before the 90s ended?

[@themartyupshawchannel3248]

I miss the 80s. I wish my kids could have experienced them. The best feeling as a kid was a great adventure, and the feeling that the next day was going to be just as good or even better.

[@tonyp9313]

Yeah & then you're kids would learn that Rotary phones, a Black & white tv, access to video games would be terrible. You'll be scaring them since this generation is soft.

[@eddiev1548]

I agree🙋🏻‍♂️ I love the 80s

[@totalpartykill999]

totally miss the constant threat of nuclear war with Russia every day lol

[@TheCharleseye]

@@totalpartykill999 I don't remember being that worried about it. I had better things to do, like climb trees, ride my bike, build forts, etc. Worrying was something for the grown-ups to deal with.

[@cacatr4495]

@@totalpartykill999 A lot of us didn't worry about any of that.

[@Truth_Spoken]

Being born in 1980 was great. Kids need their freedom back. Streets need to be filled with kids on bikes again.

[@867diesel]

Kids don’t even go outside now , it’s sad to see

[@arthas640]

@@867diesel parents dont like to let them out, neighbors complain when kids make noise, and in some areas cops may even hassle them. Plus most places kids used to hang out like arcades are mostly gone and places like movie theaters, malls, and the few existing arcades are all unreasonably expensive. They cant go outside and if they do they have nowhere to go, nothing to do, and their parents will track their every move with their phones and call every so often to make sure they are where they say they are.

[@bigGaza1]

Too many weirdo pedo types produced from too much internet.

[@arthas640]

@Matrixnukum there have been news stories of people calling the cops because they saw an unattended kid riding public transport. For a frame of reference when I was around 7 in the 90s there were kids my age taking the city bus to school, in the 70s my mom rode a horse a few miles to the store starting when she was around 6 or 7 (and at around 10-12 was picking up beer and cigarettes for her parents and grandparents) and my grandma started driving on her own when she was around 7 (with wood blocks tied to the pedals) in the 40s. This wasnt even the sticks either, this was not far from Seattle.

[@user-rm7zf4bw2b]

But, now the child traffickers are out and about, so it's not safe

[@patriciaoconnor402]

I remember leaving the house in the morning ith my brothers, and coming back late afternoon, and our mom and dad had no clue where we were or what we were doing.

[@jgassman]

The photo right at the beginning of the four girls (at 0:11) is from my hometown's yearly carnival - Our Town in Coral Springs, FL. I was a child when that photo was taken but clearly remember Our Town. Great pic!!

[@brianogrady9031]

My wife lived in Coral Springs from 1978 to 1980, age 8 to 10. She went to Forest Hills Elementary school for 3rd and 4th grade.