UCLA 1988

[@peppersalt]

Thanks for uploading this. I am a freshman at UCLA and just finished ori a few days ago. It's bizarre and interesting to see the same places 34 years apart

[@caocao45590]

Thank you for this video I went to UCLA from 1985 to 1990. Great memories...

[@norcal7888]

I'm a UCLA sophomore myself and my parents also went to UCLA around this time, surreal to see this

[@teddmented]

Thanks so much for uploading this. I was a student there at the time, so this was a nice return to that time and place. It brings back a lot of memories. Oddly, I don’t remember much about the thing that consumed most of my time - studying and taking classes. I remember the personal events.

[@PismoBeach]

You're welcome, Bat Soup Chef. Very pleased you liked it. It would be great if you could see yourself in the crowd scenes.

[@johnnylee546]

WE HAD A BOWLING ALLEY?? Thanks for sharing this!

[@irislee4026]

Hi - this is awesome! I'm a current student at UCLA graduating this year and wanted to thank you for uploading this. It's really surreal to see the same campus from years before. :)

[@BetterThanObits]

You're welcome, Iris. I'm so pleased you like it. I graduated in 1970 but went back in 1988 to video it (camcorders didn't exist in my school years - neither did cell phones or notebook computers...). Please feel free to share the video's link with friends & profs.

[@DrDrift-rl6cc]

As a sophomore (stuck at home) right now, it's strange to see the same buildings, but with these old cars and people dressed weird. Also many of the interiors are the same which.... explains a lot. No more bowling though :( Thank you PopularOrNot for posting this!

[@PopularOrNot]

You're welcome. It's so gratifying that someone like you got to watch it. Please share it far & wide. And yes, no computers back then, except for the IBM 360 mainframe that did our schedules.

[@tachikaze222]

aah, I was looking for me when you were on A-Level Ackerman! But you didn't go into the arcade, or towards the Coop. 25 years ago! I don't think fashion has changed *that* much since then, this was before grunge LOL but most people in this video wouldn't look out of place today. 25 years before 1988 was 1963 (and Ackerman was 2 years old) No iPhones, heck no cell phones back then. No laptops either. Thanks for posting! I was hoping somebody like you existed when I searched for this video!

[@VietLe-USA]

Thanks for the video. I took a walk down memory lane with your video. I was a freshman at the time you videotaped this. I was a bit emotional to "walk" along with your video and kind of hope to see myself or someone that I could recognize from your video. I wish you had taken a left turn instead of the right when you entered the study area in Powell Library since that was the area that I've come to study more frequently. But then you've made it all up by visiting Young Hall. I was a Biochem major and could walk those halls blindfolded. Although I've come back to visit UCLA once in 2015 since graduation, the scenery was a bit different from the day I left. I wandered around the courtyard in front of Young Hall thinking about all the tests that I've taken in those halls and friends I've met there. Your video truly brought me back to my younger days. Again, thanks for helping me take a walk down to my college memory lane.

[@PismoBeach]

Gratified that you enjoyed this video. I graduated in 1970 but that was before the invention of camcorders. When they were, in the 1980's, I returned to my old haunts to record them.

[@teddmented]

I studied at Powell too. But nothing useful like biochem. Lol.

[@algismorales]

Oh wow!Thank you so very much for posting this! It's like going home for me. I remember spending summers there just walking around campus finding interesting things to do and watching NBA players playing in pickup games at Pauley. A lot of them former Bruins like Kiki Vandeweghe,Rod Foster,Mike Sanders,Reggie Miller, etc.Then being able to attend UCLA was like going where I was naturally going to go to school anyways I know that campus like I know my own home.Thank you so much!

[@SmokeyGoodness]

Thanks for the update! My only experience with AMF was from when we were kids, hanging out at a small 12 lane house, a LONG time ago! Although I've always preferred the AMF pinspotters, I worked in 2 houses with Brunswick A2's. Sure wish I could spend an evening behind those triangle masking units, even today.

[@PopularOrNot]

There's more footage I shot around town back then - including Fedco & Santa Monica Pier - on my main KZbin channel: PismoBeach Hope you'll find some things you like there. Even some older footage: MacArthur Park and the Buena Park Alligator Farm. And more recent footage from trips to Tokyo & HCM City.

[@PopularOrNot]

You're welcome, but I should be thanking you. It's because of your kind words for my 1987 footage that I took the trouble to digitize and upload this 1988. And now, because of you, lots (I hope) of other people will be able to see it, too.

[@Riverphoenixisinheav]

Thank you so very much for doing this. I was born in the 90s but I love the 80s!

[@calm713]

I was a student at UCLA during this time, and i watched the video just to see if i was somewhere in it. But no, not there. Did you notice how no one was looking down at their smartphones or such? It's because what cell phones that were available back then were few and far between, and most students didn't have computers then either. We were all just a tiny bit more unto ourselves then.

[@SmokeyGoodness]

Thoroughly enjoyable video, Steve! (I finally got a chance to watch). Everything from a Debbie Gibson hat, to the Elements, to Hare Krishna's to AMF 82/70 pinspotters (I'm guessing, based on what was the norm for that time), and a fantastic GM "New Look", which, like my bus, has that distinctive window rattle! There's a better than average chance that I might have been in LA at that time! I took a lot of loads to warehouses all over the southland in '88 & '89! Liked and fav'd!

[@tachikaze222]

>AMF 82/70 pinspotters 82-30 I believe. Ackerman was built in 1961 and the spotters had that big pan that the pins fell into coming off the wheel. (I worked in the bowling alley / game center for 5+ years in the 1980s) I was at UCLA two weeks ago and saw a modern LA bus, and thought 'wow! that's pretty futuristic!'

[@creativecatproductions]

Class of 2005! I met my wife right where that guy was informing the public about idolatry and hell. Excellent 😂

[@o7jimmy]

Thanks Steve.

[@PopularOrNot]

I'm very grateful for this comment. You really make me glad I uploaded it.

[@tachikaze222]

Just did a quick tour of the campus 2 weeks ago (I live in N Cal so don't get down to LA that often). All the new development on Westwood Blvd ruined S campus. Zero thought to pedestrian aesthetics, they just put up big-ass buildings right next to the street. Plus renaming Circle Drive for Chancellor Young was a joke. Funny thing about Ackerman A-Level -- it was probably the primest real estate in LA. Bruin Bowl lost money during prime business hours, it really had to go, LOL.

[@Zalnut1]

Much better camera work. How can I contact you? Would like to use some of this footage?

[@BetterThanObits]

[e-mail]

[@lauradigiovanni7086]

Hi, I would like to license the rights for brief parts of this footage, whom should I contact? Thank you very much.

[@PismoBeach]

Please contact me (the videographer), Steven Brattman, [e-mail] (what's the project that will use this footage?)

[@BMeister22]

Do you have footage of the bowling alley?

[@Am-Not-Jarvis]

What would people use the computers for in those days?

[@BetterThanObits]

Just big mainframes, IBM360s, to manage all students' class schedules.

[@teddmented]

We had microsoft programs like word, excel, and powerpoint. Not shown are the computer labs. All our work was done on computers by then. We didn’t have internet until the early 90’s. That’s why everyone’s at the library.

[@tachikaze222]

@@teddmented 3rd floor of Boelter (the CS floor) had a map of the internet posted then. UCLA was on it of course, but not many other nodes.

[@tachikaze222]

The Laserwriter had made Macs a good way to type up your term papers. ASUCLA had a Mac rental room for that. I worked in the office you can see on Ackerman A-Level and we got IBM PCs in 1987 to run basic word processing w/ Word Perfect, and Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheeting. No email for us then. We also got 2 Mac SEs for Excel, Word, and even 4th Dimension which was a pretty nifty database/reporting tool.

[@zorroblue5530]

Back when White People still went to school there .....