This Old House | The Woburn House [Part 2] | 1982

[@JH-qi7fz]

These older episodes are great! It's so much more interesting watching then the more polished show today.

[@hollywoodmkx]

Classic episode. The flannel, the boots, the tools. Bob at his best.

[@HipsterDoofus100]

Bob Vila is a national treasure. He’s an asset to America the likes of which we may never see again. Plus he’s hung like a horse.

[@tborg9173]

Back when they actually showed you how and why to do things. Today it is just spend a million or two and call it done.

[@whitelion1111]

Used to watch this program every Saturday morning back then

[@scottslotterbeck3796]

Me too. Took awhile to get in the local Sacramento channel, but this and Hometime were my Saturday mornings.

[@oskarbjornstad877]

The good ole days where TOH worked on homes that weren’t only $500,000+

[@tjlovesrachel]

Lolll well I haven’t seen the new episodes...but idk where you live but that’s average for where I live in this market... and I just appreciate how budget conscious they used to be

[@Foxonian]

This was back when WGBH owned the show. Even with some corporate sponsorship, it's still a PBS station doing it on tight budget. In the late 90' s when GBH sold This Old House to Time Inc., the money flowed right in.

[@tjlovesrachel]

@Jacko Sargs yeah it is... and I get the point... but do you get my point as well?... and I haven’t done the inflation calculation to see what that would be in today’s dollars

[@tjlovesrachel]

@Jacko Sargs I feel you

[@johnroberts9560]

I just love these older episodes of TOH !! 👍😘🛠

[@james8583]

Love this immensely (I know that isn't the coolest word, but couldn't think of one that was fantastic (lol)). It shows you the ease of some things and the prices today are off the charts. I loved watching this show because I started out about that time in general contracting but in the city, I lived in an apartment but love the look of working in and near those trees and the freshness of the cool crisp air, I could work all day long. Plus, way fewer people all around you. Gosh, I wish they would show all of these on t.v. again. Let's start a channel??? God Bless brothers and sisters!!!

[@johnnynbk]

That porch is immense. You gotta admire Vila's positivity. That's a major task.

[@277kne]

I watched this when it first came out on WGBH. And I recorded all the shows on my VCR.

[@JM-yx1lm]

Isn't that illegal?

[@277kne]

@@JM-yx1lm It's not illegal. I wasn't selling copies or distributing them. It's ok to do for personal viewing at a later time.

[@farmcentralohio]

@@277kne If you haven't already you should get them copied to cd or something, the vcr tapes breakdown over time.

[@277kne]

@@farmcentralohio Good idea. I think DVD"s are available.

[@youtert]

@@JM-yx1lm "You wouldn't VCR a car"

[@markh3271]

Am I the only one who thinks Tom Silva watches these old shows when he needs a good laugh?

[@mrpiccolo23]

Young Norm! I love this! Thank's for uploading.

[@HipsterDoofus100]

Look at Horsecock Bob manhandle that jackhammer!! We love you Horsecock Bob!!!

[@rawbacon]

Obviously some editing but this is basically how people used to work.....Work on one thing then the truck shows up and you switch gears and pour the concrete....Constantly getting things done.

[@tjlovesrachel]

I feel this is how I still work... lolll I just bought a 3500sq foot 5 bed 3 full bath.... trust me I’m jumping from this to that back to this lolllll I have my work cut out for me but once I’m done it will give me so much more equity and it will be the way I want it....the only thing I’m not doing myself is the siding

[@mikeyj990ify]

@@tjlovesrachelthats a big house. People who buy that size house dont usually work on them too lol

[@mikeyj990ify]

@@tjlovesrachelbtw i commend you for doing it

[@kenborne8215]

My Favorite episode of the 1980s

[@JohnAckerman93]

I just enjoy watching This Old House. I like to build Lego sets, and whenever I work on one I always have This old House or The New Yankee Workshop in the background. Gives me the impression that I’m a carpenter lol

[@davidgarfinkel7033]

Nice hearing protection,Bob !!

[@joemalicki3504]

Real men back then didn't wear hearing protection

[@HipsterDoofus100]

Vila’s no pussy

[@williamkiely9523]

I and deaf today due to years of running jack hammers when nobody thought about ear protection.

[@joemalicki3504]

Yeah , you won't see any this old house host these days doing any man work like that...Long live Bob Vila !!!

[@governmentphone7933]

The modern this old House does stuff like that just only to expensive homes or places for charity

[@dustinschmelzle7326]

@@governmentphone7933 thats because the old episodes the homeowners only paid with sweat equity not actual cash as apposed to now a days

[@tonyw2136]

the good old days of $50 a yard

[@stanleysiewierski]

Love it!! Thanks!!

[@PuffPuffPass0420]

So many of these old episodes were filmed in fall/winter for some odd reason.

[@carycurley6029]

damn norm looks like bob from bobs burgers w just the mustache 🤣

[@vealejohn6214]

He does!

[@FNGstationtwentyeigh]

Apparently ..safety glasses was an optional thing back in the day...watching Bob swing a hammer tacking the sheathing on was hysterical

[@jasonrfoss248]

What’s so hysterical about it?

[@bugtusslealien3931]

The year is 1982, input from a dummy terminal, into an IBM or HP mainframe. Who knows perhaps information is fed using punch cards.

[@tahasokhandan1913]

part 1?

[@TTundragrizzly]

Its under “ this old house with bob vila s3 ep1”

[@ericsamuelson5656]

I was born by 12/7 of this season. This was the last year Norm Abram used his razor.

[@stevenshiller1600]

If Bornwell's old apartment needs to upgrade, Why Mr. Vila gonna reorganize & redesign his old apartment for my finanial accents?

[@ericpreston5826]

lol at 20:33 "Hey cement truck driver, can you say yea?"

[@Neil_SM]

"How bout I sing it?"

[@tjlovesrachel]

The “helper” loll (Mexican)

[@jeffreylarson8533]

this will later be removed circa 2004

[@mikeyj990ify]

Where in woburn is this?

[@johnanonyimous5007]

little awning windows in the main bedroom; asthetically bad choice

[@johnenright4969]

Ha! PK Lindsay compressor went out of business shortly after this video! Farmington NH

[@mr.samurai901]

Glad to see you drop this knowledge about the compressor. I thought it was odd looking. I was born in 1980, so I don't remember this era. I do remember as a kid about 84-85 my dad renting a lot of equipment at the golf course he was the maintenance super at, big trenchers and bobcat s. I remember too that renting stuff like this seemed like a really new-fangled thing at the time.

[@garydodson6737]

Norman

[@areareare9953]

Pronounced "Woobin", of course.....

[@ronallen6578]

I always had a real problem with Bob including himself as having done anything on the show. Any show he's been in is always the same. He was a joke and an insult to the real workers.

[@garydodson6737]

Exactly. Bob is a poser. Norm is the GOAT

[@ronallen6578]

@@garydodson6737 Yes he is. I actually met Norm one time!!

[@garydodson6737]

​@@ronallen6578jealous

[@SteelheadTed]

This whole episode he is doing stuff!

[@22bryant]

Is not villa is viya

[@thesaexplorer]

It's Bob Vila, there isn't 2 L's

[@stevejensen3471]

Strange - Vila acting like a contractor who is doing everything and Norm acting as the host and asking questions?!