(I Had To Show My Wife) 1980s Things That Are Not Socially Acceptable Today | REACTION

[@renecasillas1308]

Back in the 80's the ice cream machine at McDonald's actually worked

[@purpleprince2598]

LMBO

[@LyonByTheSea]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jackiesueann3476]

My daughter asks me " why were the 80's so great?" I have no words to describe it! The only thing that I can say is " it felt...easier...simpler..fun." I miss those days. I miss my childhood friends. The 80's were the best!!❤😁

[@loveathome7041]

We could cherry pick from Boomers and Millennials. I was an 80s kid and happy we had so much fun until now.

[@kenwilson3066]

We had more freedom. Less law's to control us.

[@richardgrey659]

From eing a 60's child, the 70's were better than the 80's.

[@FWDSUXARSE]

I'm glad to have been an 80s kid. Last of the analog generation. Part of the 90s was the end of it. 😊

[@taraupchurch9389]

I do miss cruising around in the truck bed with all our friends blasting Iron Maiden. Kids now will never know that freedom.

[@jamill79]

Exactly. Most are scared to leave the house these days

[@pc2555]

@@jamill79 the majority of that culture shift has been the government's doing. They have been allowed to become way bigger and influence american's daily lives far more than the founding fathers ever intended. We aren't that different than a typical european country at this point where the government oversees nearly everything. Since they have that power they've put in so many regulations that control what we can and can't do and they brainwash people constantly in the media (who yes at this point the majority of the mainstream media is just a propaganda wing of the government not real journalism) to be afraid and to not do this or not support that because it could lead to societal collapse or an 'existential crisis'. I'm sure you've heard talking heads mention that one. They got to the kids with brainwashing in schools nearly 30 years ago; now we're starting to see the ramifications of that. Its scary but we need to reduce the size and power of the federal gov if we want things to go back to relative normalcy (not the same but not as fearful and dystopian) like it was in the 80s/90s by voting in people who don't believe in big government. The last president we had to even mention that government was too big and was a problem was Reagan.

[@Neverasheep]

Greatest time in America! The 80’s and 90’s were FREAKING AWESOME!

[@grennhald]

I remember sitting in the back of my friend's dad's pickup to go to the tobogganing hill. Then there were the times we crammed 7 people into little hatch backs. Basically you could cram in as many as you liked as long as all the seat belts were being used.

[@jeffhaynes5429]

freedom was traded for the cell phone

[@wearinganapron]

That station wagon full of kids . . . in 1985, we bought a big old white wagon, that had previously been a Miller Lite distributor car. The decal on the side had been painted over, but you could still read it in the right light. We bought it down on the border and rode around Mexico for two years . . . with 4 children, two giggling maids, and a collie/golden retriever mix. We were a sight to behold. Lol! Yes, I remember buying cigarettes for my dad, and later, for my juvenile self. Times truly were different.

[@MikeHart72]

I was a teenager in the 80’s and I can say this from experience and first hand knowledge…..the only bad thing about the 80’s is that they ended

[@whutzat]

Agree. Born in 1970 over here...

[@shahyadesfandiary7234]

As a teenager in the 80s many things were fantastic but music took a step down from the 70s and 60s

[@whutzat]

@@shahyadesfandiary7234 I would say that the 60's-70's paved the way for the 1980's, but I would put them in this order: 1#: 1980's. #2 1970's, #3 1960's.

[@suzannebaan1337]

So right!!!

[@cdgee6399]

No truer words sooken! 80s ruled 🎉

[@genecase9464]

I grew up in the late '60's and 70's and remember riding bikes and skateboards at full speed, climbing very tall trees, playing Little League without a batting helmet, climbing on the roof to get the whiffle ball and jumping back down onto the picnic table (it was quicker), "I'm going to Tommy's house"-"I'm going to Gene's house"-we'd hop on Bart and spend the day in S.F.-but back home before the street lights came on! Played with firecrackers! Walked a mile to school and back every day. Uphill. Both ways! (we wern't very smart back then) in the snow! (ok, it doesn't snow in Bay Area). And I'm not going to tell you what we did on Halloween! Those records are sealed! And what happened in the house stayed in the house ("Only Women Bleed"-Alice Cooper). But, we respected ourselves and our Parents, watched our language when "grownups" were around, took care of ourselves and our families. Made it through the late '70's and early 80's economy when inflation was worse then it is now, un-employment was 8-10% and interest rates were 12-20%. We traded baseball cards, played "real" games with each other-not ourselves on some stupid device. Bought and sold "bricks", "lids" and "dime bags", usually around 4:20 in the afternoon(?) (well, they did. I stayed away from that stuff) and listened to the best dang ("watch your mouth!") music ever made! So...when did it all go wrong? 😥Have a great day!

[@lisaquigley-moon9583]

Me too.

[@davidcollver6155]

It all went wrong September 12th 2001. Beginning the day after started overloading the federal law enforcement anti-terrorist, but not watching outside the borders watching inside the borders looking at US citizens. Started at the airports treating people like sheep terrorist sheep. Copping a feel with everybody's Grandma ,mamas, little sisters, without even asking past trauma strip searching rape victims of the past. Yeah we lost every goddamn Freedom we ever experienced before New Year's Eve 1999. All in one day they set us up for inside total Destruction of our constitutional freedoms.

[@shawnsparkman7916]

I grew up in the 1980's so this was a good reminder of growing up. I'm in recovery from my second heart attack, so this was a treat.

[@Verdillac2]

we grew up in the golden age of arcade games.

[@tortimeese]

I hope you are feeling better soon. ❤‍🩹

[@darthken815]

Wishing you a speedy recovery, Shawn. 👍🏾

[@shawnsparkman7916]

@@darthken815 thank you

[@JF-kv1gm]

Best wishes, Shawn. Just don't laugh too hard.

[@Lovejazz01]

Blessed to have been a kid in the 60’s, a teen in the 70’s , and in my 20’s in the 80’s, the best music, recording artists, movies, tv shows, sports, even tv commercials , and we were all social with each other in real life, not on some device…

[@Proud.American58]

Great nostalgia and memories. In the 70’s, I remember my cousin and me sitting on the back door (window down, legs inside) of my uncle’s station wagon playing firemen on a hook & ladder while he was driving on Washington Ave in Brentwood NY. And he would swerve the car left and right for added excitement!!! Imagine seeing that today. Crazy

[@Boxermom0317]

Long Island Represent! I grew up in Lindenhurst in the 70's and 80's. :)

[@Proud.American58]

@@Boxermom0317 I grew up in the Bronx. My cousins lived in Brentwood in the 70’s. It was like going to the country to me. Great times and memories

[@pagevaughn9194]

In 1983 I met my husband on my 20th birthday! Growing up in the 70s and 80s was amazing! I remember everything on that video! You guys are cute! Your wife, I am who? So this year in January we have known and been together for 40 years, we got married in 1989! Mannn I feel old now, lmao you do the math! My husband is one year older than me. Thanks for the video, for me it's like going down memory Lane! Good Times!

[@TheSidhe1979]

I just turned 44 last Friday so I've been thinking back over my life recently. There was a certain freedom during the 80's that I didn't appreciate properly because I was so young, but I remember watching the original Star Trek reruns with my dad on his days off and watching Dark Shadows reruns with my mom while he was at work. I remember a chicken pox party my parents threw when I caught it because my dad had just got an Atari shortly before so all the other kids got a turn on it. One of my brothers drives a truck now and I hopped in with him a couple years ago and we ended up in northern California at a rest area and there were still payphones there.. they didn't work.. but it was still a blast from the past. Thanks for this video and the trip down memory lane!

[@martindunstan8043]

Great smiles from you two, very uplifting, the late 70s and the 80s were brilliant for me as a kid, such fun. You two take care now 👏👏🙏

[@CarolAnn-gh9fl]

I remember driving to the beach in my mom’s station wagon, a group of people in the next lane gave us a thumbs up and held up a sign saying ELEVEN…. that’s how many of us were in her Toyota. Yes it was a Toyota wagon.

[@RebornLeveller]

Chicken-pox parties! I'd forgotten all about that, but I can now remember that being a thing. Madness, lol. I o agree that kids get away with more nowadays, especially in public. If some kids/teenagers start shouting and swearing at me, I don't feel I can tell them off or say too much back, in fear of being falsely accused of abuse. We live in worrying times in that sense.

[@anthonyeldridge4358]

Yep, I had chicken pox as a little kid, and my generation was encouraged to spread it around. No biggie.

[@RebornLeveller]

@@anthonyeldridge4358 It was a biggie for those who died from it.

[@Deeluvpara56]

I am older than you two youngsters. But, we have memories of our lives. Kids today only have what they save on an electronic device. We had personal social memories and even though we were brought up in more stricter times; I can look back and smile and think of all the crazy (though innocent things) I did together with friends. You respected your elders and if one didn't they would knock you into next week. Which is why the kids today are a complete mess. No direction in life and social media with no moral standards. Kids don't talk anymore; they text. They've lost a lot that we had years ago. It's sad to deprive your child's innocence and mental growth for a quick way to make them grow up way beyond their years. That's why most are emotional wrecks. Being a protective and responsible parent has been left to machines today. Families today are like a bad instant product; it's a substitute for the real thing. Nowhere near to what it should be. That includes everything from politics to children.

[@davidstufflebean3285]

Man as a kid in the 80s it was awesome, I remember rotating weekends staying at friend's houses, once Friday after school hit you would run home grab your backpack with D&D stuff and a few cassette tapes let Mom and Dad know you would be back on Sunday and out the door you went grab the bike and hit the sidewalks and ride across town to meet up at the friends house you were staying at, drop everything there. Then it was off to the store to grab the Jolt cola , a bunch of snacks and stuff and go back drop all that, then it was outside to play till it got dark, back inside eat dominoes pizza and then a pack of 4-8 kids out the door to midnight movie time at the theater! Allday Saturday would be exploring storm drains and walking the mall, playing tackle football with no pads or helmets getting torn up, cuts, bruises, hell even a broken bone now and then lol. Saturday night was a couple VHS tapes and then D&D till people passed out. Sunday was always a big breakfast cause lots of baseball, basketball, or football then go to a fast food place then usually back to the house you were staying at, everyone would call and check in and then chill out for the rest of the afternoon pack up everything eat dinner at who evers house you stayed at each parent always made a big meal on Sunday around 6pm we would all eat and then say see you at school tomorrow and then ride home and then get ready to see the friends that you went to school with on Monday to start planning what you were going to do the next weekend lol. Some of us had money some didn't have a lot but everyone took care of each other when we were together, no one went hungry, everyone got something we all took care of each other, we all knew without saying anything, those that had extra brought extra those that didn't brought what they could it didn't matter we just had fun.

[@CoiledDracca]

This was beautiful. Many of the same memories (minus sports). Thank you for sharing! 🤍

[@gerardroll6468]

Some of the 80’s fashions 😱😱😱… “Round of applause” for Adrienne 👏👏👏👏

[@richardterrass7502]

I was definitely one of these back of the station wagon kids

[@delphi-moochymaker62]

I grew up in the 70's. Gen X and Y struggle to believe when I tell them we would disappear from the house with our friends at 8 years old in the morning, and not return until dinner sometimes. The LAST thing we would do on a sunny day was stay inside. That would be crazy!

[@jrsmac5081]

Yep

[@DavidThomas-vj3eu]

I remember that huge station wagon and I played in the back seats and power back winshield. Movie theaters did have smoke all over.

[@tiffanytosh1569]

We lived in a rural area. We had to be home before dark. I remember catching “lightning bugs” and putting them in a jar. I also remember one of my cousins rubbing the ‘light’ off the bottom of the lightning bug and rubbing it on her clothes. She was weird. I also remember riding in the back of a pickup truck with my older cousin and younger sister. Nobody thought anything about it. If you haven’t seen the movie, Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen, you need to find it and watch it. It’s a really good movie. I watched it on TV just yesterday. I wondered if I remembered it as being so good because of a poor memory, but it was still as good as I remembered.

[@Rarpz2024]

Thanks for the walk back brother. We used to squeeze 3 adults and 7 kids into a chevy impala in New Zealand in the 80s. Nobody wore seat belts. The more people in the car meant nobody moved around.....answering adults back was a no go zone lol

[@vistalite-ph4zw]

Yes, I went to my cousin's house for a chicken pox party. My parents and grandmother smoked in the house and all the bikes out front was big in my neighborhood. Just look out the window down the block neighbors front yard is full of bikes...

[@GodWeenSatan]

They left out sneaking under a blanket in the back of the stationwagon to get in free at the drive-in

[@gerardroll6468]

In so many ways, for those of us who can remember growing up in the 80’s, it’s pretty sad that these things are no longer socially acceptable 😢. We had so much fun doing those things like riding in the back of a pickup with my siblings & being able to play outside in the streets until the streetlights came on & we’d get called in for dinner. Just one of the many fond memories from such a fun time period 👍😌

[@mmille10]

I agree with his wife. More of that stuff should be legal. It's not good to wrap people in the proverbial bubble wrap.

[@gerardroll6468]

@@mmille10 … Imagine how the woke brigade & all the “Karen’s” of the world today would react if people were still doing some of this stuff today… They’d absolutely lose their minds 🤣🤣🤣

[@purpleprince2598]

​@@gerardroll6468 LMBO

[@GamerDog2024]

I was a young adult in the 1980s. I disagree that few people wore seat belts - we always wore them. I knew one man who didn't wear them and was glad he was thrown through the windshield during a car accident -- the car was destroyed after he was ejected from it. Also, I never heard of a chicken pox party.

[@lisamareepritchard6375]

I absolutely loved this video, thank you 💕 I was a teenager in the 80's, so many great memories 🥰 I still have my rollerskates lol

[@mrt77wv]

My parents never smoked, but I remember how all the seats in the ER and doctor's offices had ashtrays built in the armrest. And it wasn't unusual for the receptionist to smoke. And I remember seeing those cigarette vending machines everywhere.

[@JayBee-JB69]

Boy, that station wagon brings back memories. On long road trips , I'd spend many hours sitting in the back of that wagon getting the truckers to honk their horns.

[@GenXer79]

Remember going into a restaurant and the hostess asking, "Smoking or non?" Referring to what section of the restaurant you wanted to be seated in. Not that I'm a smoker, but so many things that just faded out. Like the phone booths, riding in the back of trucks and on your bikes without helmets, your parents telling you to "go outside and play", which meant, "I don't want to see you until it's time to go to bed." Haha.

[@scottstewart5784]

11 years old in '72- me and my buddies decided to bike to the state park - 30 miles away on a 2 lane with narrow shoulders. Took a couple bucks for food. Left at 6am and said we'd be back by 6pm, and we were.

[@davidgray347]

The 70s-80s were great. Lawn mowing money and glass bottle recycling was spent looking at those McDonald's menus. Or going to Thirftys for the 15 cents a scoop ice cream cones.

[@randumguy2733]

Had to reply to this comment, 2 nights ago I was talking about those Thrifty ice cream cones to my wife. The choices, it was always a hard decision on what flavor to get. Dad always got a double scoop, but since he was paying, it was all good.

[@davidgray347]

@@randumguy2733 I always got the pineapple.

[@valkyrie1066]

YES I remember station wagons and riding in the back of pickup trucks. Yep, go out and play! Be home by dark! When the streetlights come on, time to RUN home! The phone calls. We would line up at the payphone, dial parents' number, and when the parent answered, we'd click the phone three times. They heard it and came to pick us up! I was sent as a child to buy beer and cigarettes for my dad. Physical punishment was at home and school. If the teacher had to spank you, you'd get a second round at home. Some of the seniors had guns in their cars because the whole school practically shut down on the first day of deer hunting, OR harvest. It was just a farm tool. When fights happened, guys beat each other up. Then got drunk together. I bet you nearly all of them have driven a tractor and carry a pocket knife, by the time they're in high school. By junior high they can field strip a deer. So we had the SKILLSET and tools to create chaos...we just didn't.

[@sandrajohnson2489]

My favorite era was the 80's. Great music, fun times. I was a grown woman and enjoyed going to the malls with my sister and the nightclubs with her. I miss those times.

[@KingOrpheus]

I flew in the smoking section of a flight from NY to Tampa and back between my parents who both smoked. Great to be in the back of the plane. I was a latchkey kid before 911. :(

[@JulieLWilliams]

As a Texas country girl, we always rode in the back of a pickup. We lived on 23 acres of farmland, so we were kicked out of the house in the morning and didn't come back until lunchtime. Then, back outside until supper. The paddle needs to make a comeback for the rotten kids nowadays. Mom drove a red Datsun station wagon, and we didn't always wear seatbelts.

[@anjoleeeickhoff6800]

I’m with you, discipline needs to be brought back. In the home first and at school. Things would be so much better. Still no cussing for me and I’m 55. We raised our boys not to cuss and they are now 19 and 23 also spanked our kids for misbehaving and also washed out their mouths with soap for saying they hate each other or someone else, etc. Also had the two for one spanking rule. If they got in trouble at school they were getting a spanking at home. Needless to say neither of our boys have ever been in trouble at school or anywhere else ever. People thought we were hard on our boys and told us so but I raised them the way I was raised and I never have been in trouble myself so figured if it works why change it. Those that said we were to hard on our boys have had nothing but trouble with their kids which they made excuses for when they were in school but now they’re grown adults and causing their folks all kinds of heartbreak and misery. Parenting starts at home with rules and consistent discipline when the rules are broken and of course love and attention too.❤ Love our grown children and guess what with the spankings and love and time we spent with them over the years, they respect us and still want to hang out with their old mom and dad. I don’t regret teaching our children how to behave at home and in public. Disciplining our children was very difficult sometimes. But my grandfather gave my mom and dad a good piece of advice for raising us and they passed that advice on to us when we started having children. My grandpas advice was: “Don’t tell your kids you’re going to do something, whether it’s discipline if they break the rules or taking them for ice cream, and then not follow through with what punishment or treat you told them. Because if you don’t follow through then you’re a liar and kids pick up on that real fast. Then they know you’re a liar and you are not to be believed and you lose trust, plus they now know they have a 50/50 chance or higher that they won’t be disciplined for breaking the rules. So you’re going to have more trouble. Always follow through no matter how difficult it is and make sure that whatever you tell them from the start is something you CAN follow through on. If you can’t follow through on your word then you’re better to not say anything to them at all.” I think it’s one of the best pieces of advice my parents gave us besides praying for guidance in raising our kids and praying for our kids in every aspect of their lives whether it be for God to send them good friends, the right girlfriend, their safety, good decision making, moral standards, standing up for what is right when it’s not popular or convenient, etc. We have been blessed by following God’s Word in raising our children and the advice of fellow Christians like our parents and grandparents. Thankful and grateful for that guidance. God is good!❤

[@dionshare7103]

You do still occasionally see a pay phone. Not as easy to spot as they used to be. But they do exist.

[@Boxermom0317]

I was just about to say this. There's a pay phone at one of the local supermarkets that still works! It probably costs $10 to make a call, though. :)

[@landonbelveal8574]

The only working pay phone that I know of is in the middle of the forest in a small community. Apparently one of the residents of the community got tired of people knocking on the door to ask to use the phone, and paid to have it installed. The area is still a cell phone dead spot, and the phone still works. It's also in an actual phone booth. However about 7 or 8 years ago, I had a situation where my cell phone was broken, and I couldn't get a replacement right away. I searched the internet, and tried looking everywhere, my town doesn't have a single payphone anymore. But, if I'm ever in the right part of the SanJuan Mountains, I know where Superman changes!

[@kevinhooper3003]

I am privileged to have lived through every glorious moment of the 80s as a teenager.

[@richardkawucha1232]

With 4 growing boys, dad started buying station wagons when we were little. Being an Army SFC he wasn't into frills. The station wagons were all base model, 6 cylinder, 3 speed manual with an AM radio. They all had the rear facing seat. Kept us kids from fussing on trips.

[@lisazaccardimeunier8378]

So much nostalgia! I remember all us neighborhood kids piling in the back of my father’s pickup. And bike helmets? Ha! They were lucky to get shoes on our feet. 🤣

[@jasonmatson4155]

Your folks did well. I appreciate being able to watch your videos with my son and not have to worry about you swearing.

[@tinakeith5822]

The station wagon was just like my first car…mine had the little seat in the back that looked out the back window!!!

[@ScarzChosenspokesmen]

Times were way better back then. No one was governed into insanity at this point and even this period was the beginning of far too much government involvement in our lives. I imagine people were even more free in the 70's and further back. The key thing here is we were all MUCH happier and MUCH more respectful

[@clemdane]

They were!

[@TheC.O.-VISIT]

Definitely!

[@RealTechZen]

The beginning of far too much government in our personal lives was named Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

[@purpleprince2598]

EXACTLY 💯!

[@lisaquigley-moon9583]

Your mom raised a sweet boy. My mom tore my butt up with anything handy. I love her so much 😢 applause to the lovely wife

[@MrTech226]

Jamal I born in 1964 and grew up in the 70's. Those things back then were considered bad such as dangerous lawn darts. I used to jump ramps on my bikes. Sometimes, I get injured from wrecks from the jumps. I am amazed that I survived those times. Now, I am 59. Now, kids focusing social media not playing outdoors.

[@jonm7888]

I almost killed my friends father with a lawn dart. I didn't know he was in the backyard.

[@MrTech226]

@Jon M Wow! One of friends tries to jump a deep ditch in the woods near our homes on his bicycle. He crashed big-time and suffered minor injuries. Growing up in the 70's was crazy

[@jonm7888]

@@MrTech226 Maybe we did have too much freedom. 🤣

[@MrTech226]

@@jonm7888 yes we did

[@brendadickenson3547]

I grew up in the 50's and 60's! We survived and had respect for people, especially "your elders!" We had a great childhood!

[@hyprjay]

just wanted to say Congrats and thank you. i just happened to notice u passed 900K and i remember when i followed u back when lock downs began in september of 2020 and it was like 25k or so. i found u after watching a video from Mr.Lboyd reacts and he was starting out too. now your about to hit the 1 million sub count and Mr.Lboyd is closing in on 800k and he had like 16k. its been so cool watching you two and i understand yall have no idea who each other pry are and such, but yall been part of my daily life since covid took my brother. yall remind me of him. calm and collected. its like the tone of which u speak. thank you and i look forward to the next video. sorry i rarely comment. tbh i usually smoke and listen and enjoy the memories i remember that come up through out ur reactions and comments. and this video gave me so many. thanks man.

[@jimmybobsap8729]

@4:22 the real mind fuck about the payphones is that none of us memorize phone numbers anymore, I know 1 number for emergencies but everyone else is just stored in the phone. And yeah I learned to keep quarters in the door where you close the door, still useful for putting air in tires. My gpaw used to keep a cup with change in cup holder (not a high crime area) 5:26 I was still able to smoke in restaurants here at 13 and no one said a thing lol ahhh nostalgia 6:49 spanking and switches are an effective deterrent lol I know I didn't do the stuff again after I had to pick out my own switch lol

[@rxlxviii]

A friend of mine who lives overseas came back to visit and was surprised how many freedoms Americans lost and that was back in 2000. We've lost even more in the past 20 years.

[@timothyosborn1697]

Thanks for the memories of my 20 years... I was a teen during the 70s. Brings back memories of my Air Force days. Great job!

[@bookjeannie]

After slamming on the brakes Mama threw her arm across the car seat to keep my nose from hitting the dashboard. Seatbelts? Pifft you big babies

[@tortimeese]

I lived my 20's in Los Angeles in the 80's--right near where La Tijera and W. Centinela meet. I came back to the east coast at the end of the 80's but I look back at that time as one of the best eras of my life. Hey, I was 20 and living in 1980's L.A. in one of the coolest (I thought so) areas of the city! Thanks for the throwback!

[@lamplighter5545]

My oldest was born in 1984. We were required to have a car seat for kids, but the requirement was new.

[@lancelessard2491]

Yep. We rode in the back of the truck all the way from San Diego to Modesto a number of times and nobody thought anything of it.

[@JPinthe719]

I used to love rolling around in the back of my aunt's station wagon with my cousins. Or, laying down in the back of my mom's Mustang fastback, looking up at the stars - trying to guess how far from home we were. Seat belts? We never had a key, the backdoor was always unlocked.

[@brianhart1764]

Best decade ever...

[@susanfontaine5214]

We were just talking about this the other day. I’m 64. Everyone rode in car, no seatbelts, car seats, EVERYONE SMOKING IN CAR! Craziness.

[@tazylab6233]

I was born in 1980, so my childhood was part in the 80 and the 90, but I remember that we went outside to play with the kids of our block, sometimes even in the front of the house, when we bought the new house (I was 3-4 ) it didn't have bars, they were installed later . It was normal to go with your friends to ride your bike, at Christmas we had fireworks for children like little flares, or the sparkle bars, well the chasqui boom, it still is available today (is like a little ball of paper that you throw hard to the floor and does a little , I wouldn't call it explosion, maybe a spark??)

[@averyce2]

"So if you had allergies, you just had to hope you didn't die"... 100% FACTS

[@jonathanmingori9505]

Even into the 90's, seats and seatbelt laws were lax. Early 90's I drove a cargo van: 2 seats in it, and would pack up to a dozen hippies at time. They sat in bean bag cushions and upon a communal queen mattress.

[@thephantomeagle2]

I didn’t have a baby seat I was secure in the back of a VW Beetle. Having grown up in a town of 350, so we were never too far from home. Street lights were our “come home” warning. Dad smoked pipes till I was about 3. The party store people knew me and my brother well. Rode in the back of many many pick-us(everyone had them). My parents never ever raised a hand to the 5 of us, not once, being the oldest of 5 I rarely ever swore. Didn’t want my younger sibs learning bad words.

[@kehdepermit]

We didn't lock our doors at night. Hard to imagine now.

[@jimc3786]

70s and 80s were by far the best decades to be a kid. . .

[@LyonByTheSea]

I graduated 1984. All that stuff applies to me. We almost never heard back talk and I couldn't believe it when it happened because we KNEW how to behave.😊😊

[@sarahkinsey5434]

My parents got onto facebook a few years ago and my dad has been reconnecting with old classmates. They talk and reminisce about the old neighborhood and classmates. They try to figure out what businesses used to be where x is now, etc

[@EmmaChihuahua81]

My youngest sister, born in 84 had a baby carrier but the rest of us were carried in slings and we didn't have car seats. We all rode home from the hospital in my mother's arms and dad drove super carefully. According to my dad driving home from the hospital with a new baby were the most stressful drives he ever faced.

[@TheDivayenta]

As a 50’s and 60’s kid I virtually lived outdoors on my bike. My gf’s and I even played “ dress up” with old clothes and rode the bikes!

[@ginibelle1416]

Hi Adrien, hi Jamal, this was a cool video , thank you, much blessings to you both from England UK🙏❤❤

[@righty-o3585]

There is a working pay phone at the 7-11 maybe 1/4 mile from my house lol 🤘😁

[@waneemo9067]

Riding in back of trucks was fun but I personally know several people who fell out and died or where severely injured. I grew up in the late 70s and 80s. It amazes me what my mom allowed us to do unsupervised on the farm and how we didn't die. We were always outside, riding motor cycles, exploring out buildings or the grove, playing down at the creek around the cows. We had a brand new fake wood sided station wagon that we took a family trip, 4 kids, to Washington state from Iowa stopping at national parks and other sight seeing places. Yes, my mom also had my twin sister and I sleep with my little brother when he had chicken pox so we would all get them at the same time.

[@brigitteleafbarnes1441]

I think that that menu with super low pricing was from the 1960s not the 1980s. Pricing was low compared to nowadays, but around $2 burger NOT 33c!!! ATMs were newly invented & I made withdrawals for college town bagels, pizza etc. 33c burgers was pre 1970s inflation.

[@Chrisrob90406]

I graduated high school 1980 so many of these references came after I was a teenager. One factor I want to point out that a collect call would use an actual operator (no automated system) so that trick was not usable for us kids then. Also growing up in different areas as a kid (rural, suburb, urban) not all the trappings were the same as what is shown in the video. I was an early latch-key kid by second or third grade though. Most kids had someone at home but my mom was working so I had to let myself it (one of the only kids in school with a single parent ... it was a small college town).

[@pennycousineau946]

As a kid I clearly remember our station wagon and it looked identical to the one in the video.😅 I also remember sitting with our legs hanging out the back end. My Mom was learning how to drive at our camp ground.. let's us say I still have the scars on my knees from my Mom hitting the gas just a little to hard and I went flying out the back. Fun times.😂😂 Thanks for bringing wonderful memories of good times, good friends and quality time with family. ❤❤

[@mmland100]

80s teen here too. Regarding car seats, I remember being tasked with holding my much younger sister on my lap in the car, if my mom and dad were in the car then my mom would hold her while my dad drove. There are pictures of me in a car seat, which was no more than a tubular aluminum frame and fold down seat that hooked over the top of the front bench car seat so I could see out the window. It probably would have either launched me through the window or impaled me if there would have been an accident.

[@mmille10]

I'm sure the idea was, though, to thread the seatbelt over the back end of the frame, so it wouldn't jerk forward. However, I think what you're trying to say is the seat didn't have any straps, just a fold-down bar. I agree, that doesn't sound secure for a child. I should talk. I didn't have a car seat when I was a kid in the '70s, just seat belts, which only went across the waist, and we rarely used. My mom actually got into an accident when I was in the car, in the early '80s. I was about 11/12 years old. Neither of us were wearing seat belts. She drove a muscle car, and while she was turning out onto a road, an SUV rear-ended us on the passenger side. I got thrown a bit. My right side might've lightly bumped into the passenger door, but no injury. It was just scary.

[@Uriahjw]

If you can find Sinbad's comedy show that was on HBO. He talks about what it was like growing up in the 1970's. He is From Denver Colorado and to hear him tell the stories was just like being a child again. I was born in Denver and then moved to Pueblo Colorado in 1973. Boy, the fun times we had growing up in that decade.

[@caroleann_2142]

That was 70s as well..packed in the back of a Station Wagon, going from Philly to Boston to visit more cousins 😂🎉

[@lh8956]

We would literally just be out ALL DAY long, just gone. No cell phones. Just out riding bikes for miles, and getting into mischief. Parents would have no idea where we were. We could have been kidnapped, beat up, etc 1000x over so easily back then. So crazy, thinking about it now.

[@clemdane]

My Mom used to park illegally and leave me in the car while she "just ran in for five minutes." I was terrified because she told me what to say "if a police officer comes by."

[@pennytipp]

Haha, latchkey kid here, knew how to cook when I was 9, neighbors kept an eye out until my dad got home 20-25 minutes after me. Those were the good ol days.

[@jonok42]

I was a kid in the 70s, and teen/early 20s in the 80s. We definitely had car seats. My cousin and my bestie had babies in 83, and they had car seats. By 86 in most places it was required to leave the hospital with your newborn. I never heard of a chicken pox party, unless it was to isolate those with it. In my state there was no 911. I didn't know anyone who would have dared to go somewhere and NOT tell their mom first. We may have been latchkey kids, but we still had rules. Only kids in big cities hung out at the mall all day. If you were a teen you had chores and homework to do before you could hang with friends, and most elementary school kids weren't allowed to play every day.

[@MrEvenStranger]

My dad bought a porch swing bench, put it in the back of the truck, up against the cabin, and that's where my brother and I sat all the way home!

[@edwardlongshanks827]

Where I lived in Canada, seat belts use had been mandatory starting in 1977. Growing up as a kid in the 60s and 70s, the last car my dad owned that did not have seat belts in the back and only lap belts in the front was a '64 1/2 Mustang he bought in 65. If the car had seat belts, we wore them. My dad was an engineer and had raced sports cars in the '50s.

[@beach_bum777]

I grew up in the 70's in Alaska. We had a rifle team at our high school and lots of kids who drove to school had gun racks and rifles in their car. No one thought twice about it. I live in northern Mexico now and still see things here that remind me of my child hood like a bunch of construction workers packed into the back of a pickup truck getting taken to work. Helmets and knee and elbow pads have removed all the great "How did you get that scar?" stories. Ah well.... And of course the music as you have discovered!

[@tjerwin1]

I was born in 1960 so we didn't have any of the vehicles with seat belts or any of the safety standards like they have today. We always had change to call at a pay phone and it only cost 10 cents. My dad used to smoke a pipe and cigars and did so when we were on trips. We rode our bikes every where and any where.

[@dwhite-mann5399]

I remember we would meet when school was finishing and all agree a time we should meet at the park on the bikes and if someone didn't show we would all ride around looking for them in a group of like 10. If the sun was out so was we that's just how it was back then

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Awesome Retrospective. Being a Gen-X'er the 80's was my era. It's so different now. Nice Sennheiser headphones which model are they? I have had Sennheiser's for over 10 years now.

[@michaelhubbard5246]

Born in 1969. (Class of 87). I grew up in a 69 Mustang, which was the first car to come standard with seatbelts. Separate lap belt and shoulder belt, manually tightened, and the shoulder belt was seldom used. We never owned a carseat, though as a little kid, I did have a booster seat. I indeed would ride my BMX bike all day just to meet my friends in another town for lunch. Yes, if Dad wasn't at the pickup point, I rode a mile to a payphone to call home. I LOVED Girl-watching at the mall. SO Many girls that looked like they could be on TV or in the movies. None of the stupid tatts or facial piercings. It was a long-distance call (10 cents per minute) to call a girlfriend who lived in the next valley over, even though it was only about 2 miles. My 8th grade science teacher bought the first computer I'd ever seen in person. $99 Texas Instruments TI-99. Basically a paperweight. All that said, the 80's were GREAT!

[@TheWynch]

Raised my kids in the late 70s and 80s, There were some things not so good, society had started changing from when I was a kid, small liberties were being lost and we knew it. But all in all it was a fun time, the kids had fun and those kids look at things now days and are completely dumbfounded how many idiots are on the loose.

[@genecase9464]

I used to sit on the center consol of my grandfathers 64 Thunderbird. Or on top of the junk in the back of a pickup on the way to the dumps!

[@bobthebear1246]

The thing with the bench seats in the cars and not wearing seatbelts was mainly in the 70s. In the mid-80s is when seat belt laws started being passed. But yeah I remember all this stuff. Hey, who remembers *Orange Drink??* 🤣

[@JMartin0409]

I was born in 1970 and was a teenager in the 80’s. Those were hands down the best times! Just shows how the government has got in our business way too much.

[@MrSirwolf2001]

MTV began August 1st 1981, I was 14. I did have a "car seat" in 1967-70ish. It was rigid and made of steel tubing with vinyl covered foam cushioning in strategic locations with a Luan plywood seat and back which was similarly covered with gold colored Vinyl Naugahyde and faced forward with the child sitting straight upright (teaches good posture and all, never mind the whiplash...)with the child restrained by what amounted to an amusement park ride, safety bar, one size fits all adjustable seat...It was built like a Sherman tank! albeit a slightly padded one, It also matched their gold Barracuda Fastback. By the 70's my brother's car seat contained considerably more plastic and was much more ergonomically designed and adjustable positions, but only fit up to age 4 or so. and fit in the 1974 Ford Country squire station wagon with the faux wood paneling on the sides and the rear facing rumble seat. 1983's National Lampoon's Vacation only ~*slightly*~ exaggerated with the Griswald family's "Wagon Queen Family Truckster". We Star Wars at the Drive-In in that car. Ohio had a big debate about making seat belts the law in 1984-85, until it became law in 85. I always wore it anyway and refused to even move the car unless everyone was. My parents were the same. I still do it to this day. The drinking age was 18 until 1985 when it became 21, unless you had already turned 18 in which case you were "Grandfathered". I was Grandfathered but my father told me that if I ever got caught DUI that he would leave me there! I KNEW that he would too! Before getting my license, I went everywhere on my bike. My mother once yanked me out of a Muscular Dystrophy Bike-Athon because she had sponsored me for $1.00 a mile and I had already gone 40 miles and was going for the last 10 mile loop. School clothes came from Sears and JC Penny. Everybody waited for the Sears Christmas Wish Book Catalogue. We went to "the mall" and the arcades. We roller skated and skateboarded. Skateboards were skinny. Skyborn XXX Drive-InTheater was a thing (if you know, you know)... Two words,...BIG HAIR! Feathered hair*cough*roach*cough* clips, RUSH! Glam Rock, Headbanger's Ball, Kennedy suuuucks! (actually, she wasn't my favorite, but she was just meh,...) "Smoking In The Boys Room" was not really that uncommon, but we had a designated Smoking Area with Butt cans and ashtrays out back of the High School. Teachers would join us. Minimum wage was $3.35 hr. I was "the brain" (although a LOT better in Shop class) hanging out with "the criminal, the basket case, the princess and Carl".

[@jameskirschling7887]

I wore bell bottoms, I had a mood ring and "the inevitable pinhole burns all down the from of my favorite satin shirt." My only satin shirt. I never was one for fashion trends. I dressed comfortably in jeans and t-shirts. I had a friend who wore four inch platforms because he was five foot six inches tall.

[@kimberlygabaldon3260]

I had my kids in the late 70's. I didn't have a car, but one of my friends had a baby ar the same time, and she always had a car seat for her baby. Most of us did wear our seatbelts, by the late 70's, but they were just the regular ones that went across our lap. No shoulder strap.

[@AWBepi]

In the late 70's family friends had an enormous white wagon. Quiet Mrs. OShea would pack 9 kids (ours and theirs ages 6-16) into the wagon for swimming lessons. One road was full of dips and we would chant go go go and she would punch it through the dip and we would all go flying. Truly good times.

[@melisia8876]

Ahhh the 80s! I miss them so much!!!! A time when everyone just had fun and were able to laugh. Were there bad things - yes; but the good out numbered the bad - we were just more mindful back then. I want to time travel back... and stay. :-) Continue to be Good Humans all.

[@genecase9464]

Watch these movies to get a feel for the times. "American Graffiti" for the early '60's, "Dazed And Confused" for the mid-'70's and Fast Times At Ridgemont High" for the early '80's. "Breakfast Club" as well. And "The Goonies" really nailed what the Central Oregon Coast is like. Coos Bay hasen't changed in 40 years!

[@cathygravino9189]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Enjoyed you and your wife's reactions to the content. All the stuff you just seen is true. It is so funny to see all the changes over the years and decades. I use to go to see a Saturday Matinee movie or double feature for 10 cents it then went up to 25 cents. Loaf of bread 35 cents😂😂😂 I could just go on and on. God bless💜

[@robb-s6s]

the biggest injustice was removing physical discipline . Words only work for so long. I personally never had to use physical discipline on my kids but it was used for thousands of years before the pockets of self important groups existed.