What Kids Did In The 80s

[@JessicaFallen]

80s best decade ever

[@michellegaines3568]

I agree 💯 percent ❤❤❤❤❤❤ I was born 1980

[@JessicaFallen]

@@michellegaines3568 1986 here

[@LiLgPnoy15]

80's and 90's, the best! Kids were kids back then. I am so thankful I'm a 90's kid

[@JUVI9596]

YEs 80s was good. But I’ll take the mid 90’s (1993-1996 my early adult years 19-22) if I had access to a Time Machine, that’s where I’d go and never come back

[@JessicaFallen]

@@JUVI9596 i grew up in the 90s born in 1986 90s was good too but 80s better

[@orincockfield2709]

I remember getting up every Saturday morning as a kid to watch cartoons during the 80's. The cartoons would only run for so long; the time constraints made you look forward to every moment they aired. THANKS FOR REMINDING ME OF SUCH GREAT MOMENTS IN MY LIFE!!!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Awww, thank you! I love these comments, makes me so happy. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@Starteller]

Saturday and Sunday mornings were the only time I willingly woke up at 5 am ready, silently making breakfast for myself and watching TV. mom didn't wake up before 11 and the news was starting so time for me to go out.

[@johnharts2463]

Every time I see one of these videos about the 80’s, I get so sad. I’m 50 and grew up in the 80’s. It was fantastic. I miss it so much, especially because the world really sucks now. I remember how excited I would be on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons, or how great it was when we finally got a color tv and cable. Waiting all week for a new episode of Knight Rider only to have the president make a speech on every channel. Riding bikes around the neighborhood with my friends and staying out until the street lights came on. I remember waiting by the radio with a cassette recorder trying to make a tape of my favorite songs. I feel bad for kids these days. Too much adult content in front of them and not much time spent with physical friends outdoors. Just a cell phone or game console and Netflix! They don’t know what they are missing!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

I agree. I think we got the best of it. Thanks for watching! Always nice to remember back to when we were young and free to roam around with friends.

[@keithcummings3260]

I put the cassette recorder next to the television speaker and tape recorded movies and episodes of WKRP, so I could listen to them endlessly in my room. Didn't get a VCR until about 1990, when I was in high school.

[@Robylazarus]

Much the same here John, such simple pleasures, like you said riding bikes, waiting for the street lights to come on, simple wholesome home cooked food, waiting for a fav track that the DJ might just play and hoping you did not have to use the wash at the time, yes and the frustrating bIt , when your fav track gets played, that's when the cassette player or rather the cassette jams!!!

[@mikeythezero]

The 80s and 90s were a great time to be a kid. It's hard now being a parent of a teenager that never got those joys. All of what you said and come home when the street lights come on, or go to the park around the corner and come when I yell your name

[@jimcalhoun361]

In 80s there came a time, at least for me, when a neighbor would call the police if they saw your kids alone in the front yard. I've met some kids now who don't even know that there was ever a time you COULD play in the front yard

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Yep, I used to walk to school when I was 7 (though I was with my older brother). No way would you let a 7 year old walk to school alone now. Thanks so much for watching.

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

It's so weird to think now that our parents didn't know where we were. They just knew we would always be in a group and so that was okay. I miss those days zooming around on my BMX.

[@jimcalhoun361]

@@LittleBitofHistory80 My brothers and I were always being told to "go play in the yard" whenever we were underfoot while our parents needed to get something done.

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

@@jimcalhoun361 Yes, this was a popular phrase in our house too. I used to play on the lawn and the dry bits were little houses or shops, had a whole town of dried bits of lawn. Now as an adult I realize we probably had a beetle problem lol.

[@chriskirsten8221]

Grew up in the 70's/80's - best time of my life!

[@TangerineTulip]

Mine too 😊❤

[@raystewart3648]

The Children and teenagers of to day would be so bored and would not last long on the city streets. Non are street smart or tough enough to last a one night. They are to wrapped in cotton wool these days.

[@Grammybear72-2]

That was a nice little trip down memory lane. We never felt deprived or bored with what we had, we felt like we were on the cutting edge of technology! Imagine what another 40 years will bring.

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yes, I'm so glad I got my childhood in the 80s!

[@alyzu4755]

And cars still came with cigarette lighters. ☺️

[@stephaniedavis6531]

I lived in the Caribbean in 1983. Borrowed a TV with bunny ears to watch the last episode of MASH😊

[@gertibell]

If you even hinted to your mom you might be bored, the first thing out of her mouth was "Go outside, you're wasting a beautiful day." , even if it was snowing.

[@andreveach7520]

Actually getting a WHOLE album JUST for 1 song

[@kshinokevin]

the Columbia House music (cassette tape) club : getting 10 tapes, for like a penny ?!?! I remember tapes which cost $15-$20.; 12" inch (regular) albums, 12" singles (remixes, for the DJ's in nightclubs or on radio stations) or 45 LPs (7" singles) = vinyl/wax records...

[@williammoore3747]

I never got too many records but what was nice where you had a cassette tape you could stop the tape and start where you left off like a vinyl record too....Hard part was when a song you hear on the radio you want real bad you had to wait a while our luck was having a tape player or boom box if you were lucky if it had a record button on it

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

Yes, my brother did that! He bought Whitney Houston’s album just for the song “ All at Once”.

[@tommiejonsson8952]

You didn't have vinyl singles where you grew up?

[@andreveach7520]

@@tommiejonsson8952 cassette; BUT, IF song was 'strong enough', whole damn album

[@BSDinc]

Going from child to teenager the 80s was the greatest decade of all. We didn't have ipads and mobile phones but who needed them when you had your friends the streets and your imagination 😮

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

I agree. We used to go camping and I would play with the fallen honky nuts. I see kids being so bored now. I don't remember even being bored as a kid. Thanks for watching.

[@levyoliver5363]

We use pay phones at that time

[@JackDrinkn2DollarJim]

They always had remotes for the televisions back then. They called them Kids. Dad would smack you in the back of the head and say "Change the channel."

[@hansoak3664]

🙂

[@deen1843]

Changing channels was no big deal, I was already standing there anyways...holding the aluminum foil extending from the rabbit ears just so the picture came in clear.

[@hansoak3664]

@@deen1843 True. 😆

[@DancingCurls-z5s]

Parents smacking you in the back of the head was not a normal occurrence in any decade.

[@mid-s_to_earlysViBEZ]

*The Parents did that in the 90’s, too…*

[@BSDinc]

Being 55 now I remember the 80s well. They say after you pass on you can creat any world you want....for me it will be 1985 forever!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Love this!

[@williamgrandy698]

Mine will be 1989

[@kaohsiung99]

that's sweet 16 (if I did the math right!)

[@captaincrash12]

If you build it, they will come (and me!)

[@barniebizkit]

👏

[@bobjpgr3683]

I want to go back the 80s.

[@winniewin236]

The 80s was the best time to be alive, glad i had the pleasure to be there 😊

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Same here!

[@norwegianblue2017]

The 50s-90s were a pretty great time to be a kid in America. But young people always tend to favor the time they grew up. My grandmother said the 30s were awesome! Those would have been her high school years.

[@TheresaCullen-ey8rw]

I grew up in the 80s Great time to be a teenager hope you put more videos up of the 80s i love looking at them brings back beautiful memories xx❤

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thank you, thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. More to come soon.

[@tommcdonough6086]

Born in 68, teenager pretty much throughout the 80's great time to be young. If I ever get a time machine I'll swing by and pick you up Marty McFly style and we will go back for a while. JK... We that were young in this era were truly lucky. I have great memories as well. Kinda funny seems like yesterday, time is scary fast. Peace.........

[@nicolesaunders2964]

Smoking on an airplane?? How about smoking in a hospital, a mall, a restaurant, a school. All still legal til the mid 80s/ early 90s

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Isn't it just crazy!? I remember going into the teachers staff in room in school as a once off for something and it being filled with smoke. But hospitals?? Crazy.

[@elaineb7065]

Buses, trains, taxis. And it was expected in the pub until 2006 in Scotland

[@mrhead6856]

The 80s kicked ass

[@TheOnlyOneStanding8079]

I remember as a kid in the 70s doctors smoke cigarettes at the hospital

[@TheOnlyOneStanding8079]

​@@mrhead6856Yup . Ronald Reagan was the best president we ever had...We had good times in the 80s . Alot of beer & marijuana parties

[@gwgux]

I'd say the the thing I remember most about the 80s beside the NES and Saturday morning cartoons was riding a bike. Kids rode their bikes everywhere back then and being able to ride one was central to being able to fit in with the others.

[@lookinforthe70s]

It's funny. In the 80s you had less tv channels than you do now. But if you had cable tv, you had more variety back then than you do now. Now all you get is reality tv.

[@Glittersword]

That might be but with all these choices people have a lot less opportunities to compare notes on what they watched the next day due to everybody watching something different.

[@donutwindy]

And MTV played music! And music videos were amazing. She blinded me with science was really only good because of the video. The old guy with the mallets.

[@hemihead001]

Reality TV is horrible . Talking about dumbing people down ? Just wow .

[@lilyofthevalley5586]

I remember all this! Thank you for bringing it all back. I miss the 80's!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@NetMaestro2009]

Back in the day, the kids would disappear for hours at a time after school to meet up with friends, play all sorts of games etc. Parents weren't worried even if there is no way to contact them generally. It was safe and we became independent. We became tough; scratches and falls from activities were normal. We walked everywhere, crossed roads, and explored. No smartphones, no apps, no Internet. I miss those days. Sad that the current and future generations likely will not experience them like we did in the 70s and 80s. But c'est la vie. Thanks for the video. From Malaysia.

[@Funco1979]

Going to the public swimming pools and diving off the towers and springboards.Young people had their radio/cassette players on their towel and it was a nice atmosphere. Such good days.

[@RoughJustice2k18]

COVID pretty much killed that trend.

[@tommylitz4543]

Walkman. Disc man

[@DancingCurls-z5s]

I was a young adult in the 80's and have never seen a dial phone like the green on you showed. Best generation ever!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

yes it's a special one. I would have that one in my house as décor today! Thanks for watching.

[@richardbilinski5912]

From Canada and this show proves how small the world is. Sure brought back warm memories! Thanks for that!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thank you! Yes, I love that we have this collective shared memory. Of course some things will be different, but for the most part share this love of the 80s in the Western world.

[@JUVI9596]

Winnipegger here. Born 1974. Let’s invent a Time Machine

[@chadwhite2277]

80's music was so much better than the crap kids listen to theses days.

[@bluebonnet1014]

I wish magazines were still around. I loved laying across my bed thumbing through all the magazines. A nice memory!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Me too!

[@thecajunphoenix]

Yeah. I remember print magazines such as YM, Teen, Seventeen, Sassy, Details, you name it, they printed it.

[@shescraftea9107]

I loved magazines! Sassy and also all the Heavy Metal magazines, there were several!

[@raloria9173]

Magazines are still around.

[@shescraftea9107]

Yes, you are right. Some are long gone though. There used to be 3 different metal mags at the grocery store and they were only $2.50!@@raloria9173

[@bxpress6507]

I definitely remember the 80s very well😊 so much freedom back then..what I miss the most is most of my relatives were still alive then..that really made it special..getting old really stinks

[@dazo69]

Today's teens will never understand the satisfaction of slamming the phone down on someone during an argument 😂

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Hahahaha

[@robthomas3664]

Tell me, does this sound like I'm hanging up on you? 😅😅😅

[@nicolesaunders2964]

When i was a child i tried NOT to cry at anything, and we were shown the neverending story in the fourth grade and the horse scene played and i couldn't stop the tears but I was not alone even the tough guy was bawling lol

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

It was just awful. I honestly think it still has an effect on me today. I can't stand to see an animal in distress. So traumatic.

[@CHRISANDREOU4199]

​@@LittleBitofHistory80 So that scene installed a very positive human trait? The love and protection of animals

[@Punki80]

It´s quite funny to ask "Why did they include the scene?" Because it is in the book. I´m German and have read the original novel by Michael Ende several times and listened to a very intense audio play of it as a child. The original story is absolutely brilliant, much better than the film was. In fact, Ende was very unhappy with the film in the end. Also, half the book wasn´t even included in the film.

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thanks for this. I admit I haven't read the book but I bet it is wonderful. It is such a beautiful story and I love the message that you have to keep believing in magic / keep that childhood wonder alive as much as possible. I know authors often have to think - okay, what's the worst thing that can happen now. But that scene was a lot to handle. :-(

[@accurateoutrage]

@@Punki80They did finally make the second half with The Neverending Story II…part III was not part of the original book, and it showed. The book is far superior.

[@allkindsofgroove]

I grew up as a kid in the 90's and remember having most of these and a lot more like audio cassettes and VHS tapes as well as projectors. It was fun and lively back then.

[@saulpulido9221]

😢 I miss the 80's so much I wish I had a DeLorean to travel back in time and enjoy it again

[@RoughJustice2k18]

If I had one of those, I'd travel back to 1987 - because I was 18 that year 😇 and it was better than 1985 for me.

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

I'm English so some of these I don't recall, but here's some 80s things I do remember, Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, Panini sticker albums, Chelsea Girl and C&A for clothes, Osh Kosh dungarees, Roland Rat, cigarette sweets, Smash Hits, Look In and Jackie magazines, rotary phones, 4 tv channels, neon legwarmers, moussed big hair, Golden Girls, Back to the Future, and some seriously good music like John Foxx, Thomas Dolby, Tears for Fears, Sparks, Kraftwerk etc. I was only a little kid in the 80s so got into some of these later on, but it was still a great decade for music, film, tv and I don't ever remember being bored unlike now where most stuff seems crap.

[@angelag669]

As a child of the '80's I remember all those things well. We would go to the mall on Saturday's to hang out with friends, go to the movie theater (at the mall), or go to the arcade and play video games. This was of course AFTER Saturday morning cartoons. We went outside and rode bikes or played games with our friends. I can also remember riding in the back of the pickup truck even going down the Interstate. I remember vinyl records and cassette tapes. What I time to be young.

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

I love this! It really did feel great to be a kid in the 80s. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@b_isfor_bethany]

I definitely remember in the late 80s being under the age of 10 riding with my older brother in the back of my dad’s pickup truck while he drove 60+ mph on the highway. What a time to be alive!! 😂😂😂

[@keithcummings3260]

Saving up to buy an album/cassette and listening to it front-to-back over and over while saving up to buy the next one. An album of songs was treated as unique and precious as a roll of photos.

[@BlackieNuff]

"Why do they put this stuff in children's movies?" To toughen us up in preparation for the real world. And we are all better off for it. Trauma or not, lol.

[@malvoleus]

Still not as bad as David Bowie's bulge in Labyrith

[@gertibell]

Yeah, we didn't call it trauma back then, it was just sad things that happen sometimes.

[@fuzzblightyear145]

...and we didn't have all these "trigger warnings" either. Us kids didn't get treated like we were fragile babies.

[@tarrantwolf]

They didn't protect us from the fact that life ends but tried to keep us innocent about S. (the word that, If I type it, will get my comment deleted) Now, we have literal graphic S in the class rooms but kids think meat is made at a grocery store and we don't need farms because you can just go to the store.

[@themoviehistorian2172]

I want the 80's back.

[@Chris-bn1vt]

Imagine the horror, discovering that you didn't pull the lever all the way on the camera.

[@fuzzblightyear145]

LoL, yeah and the lens cap too! 🤣🤣

[@anitaharris9095]

My parents had a remote. It was me. We had 3 main channels and then we had channel 44. Channel 44 was on 24 hours a day and usually showed horror movies.

[@joeterp5615]

Records, taps, and the radio for music. I thought I was so cool with my Sony Walkman walking around campus listening to the tape of my choice!

[@TheBlindDyslexic]

Give me the '70s & '80s over today.

[@donnellwilliams6272]

The 80’s were the Best! Movies, Music, Fashion and even the Cars!

[@Shawn666Hellion]

Music was awesome in the 80s, most of it at least

[@ivansbacon]

I graduated High school in 1983. Big Hair. Jazzersize. MTV that actually played MUSIC Videos. Big Hair. Wow i could listen to your voice all night long ;)

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Aww, thank you very much. Love this!

[@hemihead001]

I graduated in 82 . Great times and women knew how to dress . Loved the hairstyles of women then . They looked sexy .

[@Pistolerong_Pinoy]

Your video brought me down memory lane,80s for me is the best years of my life.

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Awww, thank you so this comment!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

I meant to say thank you so much. Seemed to have missed some words there 🤣

[@lordofnumbers9317]

That is a wonderful video. Thank you.👍 80's forever. ❤❤❤

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Oh thank you soo much! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.

[@MGForums]

The best thing about the 80’s. No social media.

[@trossk]

one of the best things, just going and doing, and not having your face stuck in your phone. and not being home for 16 hours a day, or worried about if you hurt someone's feelings, or them worrying if they hurt yours. But, that 55 nation speed limit, you can leave that in the 80s

[@stephb3321]

We were much more resilient and thick-skinned in the 80’s. But we also didn’t have social media to spread the hate like today.

[@christyrush228]

Don’t forget the burn from the buckle on the seat belt

[@chris45050]

Block buster needs to come back, back then when I rented five movies they will give you a free bucket of microwave popcorn

[@RoughJustice2k18]

Reminds me of those rental videotape movies - you'd go to watch one and find massive creases/lines in any of the nude scenes because some bozo who rented it before you saw fit to freeze-frame that part.

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

Thanks sooooo much for this nostalgic video! I am an 80s child and experienced all of this and miss it so much. It was the BEST decade ever. I truly miss it and feel so lucky to have grown up during this time when the net and social media did not exist yet. I wish one day, they will invent a time machine so we can go back to the good old days. ❤😊

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Aw, thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed. it. Thanks for watching. Let me know if you hear of that time machine, I would totally hitch a ride!

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

@@LittleBitofHistory80 You are welcome and yes, we can all go together!👍

[@sevenwonders1717]

I Really Miss Drive-In Movies!

[@Clovergirl7934]

I remember getting our first VCR. What a treat to be able to rent a dvd and watch it over and over and OVER again! Also, MTV got its start and watching all our favorite music videos…..Michael Jackson’s Thriller was the highlight!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Totally agree! Thanks for watching.

[@shawngraham4902]

My first MTV video was van Halen jump

[@lmusima3275]

80s was my childhood. Neverending story where the the horse sunk made me cry 😢 I remember the 80s a lot from 1985. The latest songs like “Everybody wants to rule the world” by Tears for Fears. Many of the songs by Madonna. VCR, Dynasty, Dallas, TJ Hooker TV series

[@GabrielaMartinez-of3fr]

As a teenager in the 80’s I begged my parents for a private telephone line in my bedroom. After about 5 months I finally got it. I think they actually gave in because I was spending way too much time on the house phone. I was always having to run outside to use the pay phone. I paid for it out of my earnings from working at the movie theatre as a “candy girl”. I wanted it for the convenience of not running out of nickels on the pay phone. Best time of my life, thanks for the memories.

[@tommylitz4543]

My best friends parents bought his brother his own phone line for the same reason. They never suspected he was a drug dealer (pot). They just thought he was very popular at school.

[@shaynalee]

I’m from Perth too!! Now living in Los Angeles USA . Love your video so much ❤ A walk down memory lane. Thank you

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Aw thank you so much! Yay for Perth, but I'm guessing LA is more exciting lol.

[@dn2610]

Awesome video! Was a young teenager in the mid 1980's and that decade and the early 90's were one of the best and memorable times in my life and also a sad time. Lots of firsts during that time, such as obtaining my driver's license, having my first car and going to the movies with friends, kissing a girl on prom night, having my first job, graduating high school and the list goes on. But also a sad time with a death in the family and a girl I liked moved to another state but left me pictures which when I hear the song "Pictures of You" by The Cure, brings back a flood of emotions. Today we have technology that makes our lives and doing things a lot simpler but if I had the chance, would not hesitate to go back to that special time and place in my life. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to more of your videos!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thank you for this lovely comment! Sounds like a full life lived. I love it.

[@feniksphoenix8026]

Enjoyed your video so much. 80 Big hugs from the Netherlands

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Yay! Thank you!

[@doreenbierens]

I have depression and as the child I described that exact scene how I feel when I was at a low point in my life. The person who was helping me said that it was the best explanation he ever heard and that it helped him understand how I felt and how he could help me.

[@lenapersson7450]

Grew up in 70 & 80s i loved the 80s. remember movies, music, monchichi, clothes, Sony Walkman i remember doing mixed tapes, i miss that time

[@sleepinglionarchives]

I grew up in the 80s and sincerely loved them. Kids today will never understand how hard it was and the patience required to hear a song we did not own. Before I had a boombox that could record from the radio, I held a tape recorder up to the radio we had and waited patiently for songs I liked to come on. There was no KZbin or Spotify. You also had to often buy an entire album if you just wanted one or two songs. CD and cassette singles didn't always feature the one you wanted. I remember buying singles on small records. Now, you can listen to an entire album, even new releases, here online

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

And then the radio DJ would talk over the beginning or end of the song!!!! Rahhhh! I remember it well.

[@adamlyman8293]

I went from 15 to 24 yrs old in the 80’s….what a great time to experience. Miss those times

[@RebeccaP-97]

The only one I didn't experience was the drive-in theater. Ours closed down before I was born in 1979. I had a great childhood in the 80s and I miss it to this day.

[@ronpaynter7054]

We still have one working in the next town over. I wish I could go more often.

[@j.4332]

Smoking in pubs.You didnt have to go stand outside in the rain etc.

[@chrisken8902]

You could still smoke in restaurants and pubs in the UK until late 90s. LOL 🚬🍽

[@themichael3105]

That brought back so much! Made me sad and happy at the same time. Thank you for the brilliant vid. Cheers

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

[@dannykustersautomotive5102]

A very good time ❤,A team and knight rider, air wolf, transformers and 1985 live aid concert, love the time ❤

[@fokthewef]

Born in 75, grew up on 80s and 90s music, movies, lifestyle, events. I'm one of those who adapts easily to changes, but god do I miss the 80s.

[@lonesomerider1196]

the 80s were also what i still refer to as the "radio days", when u've rushed home from wherever to listen to your favorite radio show & tape it on cassette... ;-) since 1995 i do my own radio shows, because i still love the radio as it was... & as it will always be for me... cheers! :-)

[@r.morris5589]

I just remember WTBS being on 24 hours a day with old sci fi films, classic films, elvis films, jerry lewis movies.

[@geoffstainforth352]

Very good ! Some of the observations fitted the 1970's too !

[@r.morris5589]

Tv and Dvd is still the best way to watch something.

[@DeeManson]

Born in '74... I'll be 50 next month and I remember ALL of it! Good good memories. 😌Almost every saturday I was out and about with my friends roller skating while listening to the latest Michael Jackson or Rick Astley song on my walkman. Hands down, that was BY FAR the best time to grow up 🥰 Proud to be an 80's kid! 🥺

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Love this! Thanks for watching.

[@paulmyers5017]

Amazing piece of history recollection ! Where did you find all those cool pictures ?

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thank you! I source the pictures from lots of different places, I like to think of myself as a curator, bringing them together under one topic.

[@winchesterlyon]

This has to be the best video I'm seen all year... Thank you. So often us GenXers get left out. Especially us, they grew up in the 80s, we are not only the last of genXers, we are the lost genXers.

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Love this. What a lovely comment. Glad you liked it.

[@nicolesaunders2964]

Now that's something i didn't know 😂 i could just imagine what it was like in new York that night and days after

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thanks so much for watching. Just amazing that so many people could do the same thing at the exact same time.

[@user-qe1qs5bc3b]

Although there's a persistent legend regarding toilets being flushed at the same time crashing water systems during popular broadcast events, from Amos 'n' Andy to the Superbowl, there does seem to be legitimate evidence that there really was a massive increase in water flow due to the simultaneous flushing of toilets at the end of the MASH finale, exactly as indicated in this video.

[@nicolesaunders2964]

@@user-qe1qs5bc3b yeah it has been said that it happened the night the final episode of MASH aired

[@VideoMan2024]

Best times to be a kid or teen ever, my kids also like everything from the 80's

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

I'm glad your sharing with younger generation! Thanks for watching.

[@chadwhite2277]

I remember living in the city. When street lights came on it was a signal for time to go home.

[@williamgrandy698]

I love all the talking points in this video. Thank you!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Oh my goodness, thank YOU for saying so! Thanks for watching and for this great comment.

[@Comeonlillyloo]

I live you the Uk and remember everything you said except for two things we only had three channels and then we got Channel 4 so it made it four channels until people started to get cable. Also we didn’t have driving movie theatres here which is a shame because I would’ve loved to done that. Yeah, it was a better time to play out as a kid, so many things in a lot of ways so much better than now more innocent too everything is so put out there due to the Internet. Kind of spoiled being a kid as you have to see everything online . I left school in 1984, stayed on a year and the sixth form then went to college for a year so in the year 1987, I had a full-time job. I remember the telephone phones so much, especially those two phones in the house and I’ll be talking on one and then my sister would get on the other one on my dad just to annoy me or shut up get off the phone. I remember when I first started work I rented myself a television and a video recorder and I thought that I was so it in a television and recorder VHS recorder. Should I say in my bedroom. Thank you for this trip down Lane.💖🐩🐩💖👍👍🌷🪻🍄🕊🌈🇬🇧

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

I'm so glad you liked it. Thanks for sharing these great memories. Love it. Drive in movies were great but I'm guessing the UK doesn't have the weather for it. It's no good in the rain lol. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@tommylitz4543]

Automobiles came with Am/FM Cassette players and the FM power antenna was a status symbol.

[@aussiedudeofthesoutheast789]

The test pattern at the end of TV programming was designed for viewers to adjust their colour, contrast and brightness settings on their TV's

[@Amaranthine1000]

Playing outside, actually going off somewhere without your parents hovering over you. My friends and I would disappear for the entire day, down the park, to the pools or where ever and then turn up at home again at dinner time. Now if you let your kid out of your sight for 1 min you can be charged with neglect. We would also go swimming in the local creaks and streams, we could play on the school playgrounds after school and over the weekends and we could built tree houses without having to get council permits or engineering inspections done. We actually went outside and enjoyed the sunshine or even the rain, often racing ice block sticks down the gutter in the rain to see whose would win. We could slide along the grass and get grazes without being dragged off to the hospital for any tiny cut or graze. And we ran around in bare feet all the time, we almost never wore shoes until we got to intermediate and then we took them off as soon as we got in the class room anyway. Milkshakes were really big and cheap, now they only about a mouthful and cost an arm and a leg. Even at primary school we would walk to school on our own and home again, and again all without wearing shoes, now days you get a warning letter from the teacher and principal if your child dares to come to school without shoes. We also looked around at our surroundings, looked both ways when crossing the road twice and kept our wits about us. We could talk with our neighbors or the people down the road and we could light and buy fireworks even at ten years of age. Lollies like the Sherbet Fizzy lollies were 2 for 1 cent, so if you had a dollar that meant watching the poor shop keeper count out 200 for you to guzzle down. We could go to the movies on our own even under ten years old and we could get jobs like the 5am morning paper run, which is now illegal for kids to do. We had much more exciting playground equipment and we also had imaginations that allowed us to make up all kinds of game. Boys and Girls all played together as well, the girl climbed trees and while not many boys played with dolls, they could if they wanted t, just because a girl wanted to climb trees or tackle the boys in a friendly game of rugby did not mean she was confused about her identity, just that she like to have fun.

[@athenathegreatandpowerful6365]

And there's a chance you won't get your kid back if you take your eyes of them. That's the scariest thing.

[@richardmanley2072]

I like your channel very much I miss real record stores like tower records that were open to 2am and arcades

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thank you so much for watching and commenting. I am just right now looking at DVD and CD collections lol. Love it. Arcades were great - just a bunch of kids having a good time and winning prizes.

[@markjamesmeli2520]

I'm gonna be 60 in a month...THANKS for the memories LBOH!!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Happy birthday for next month! Thanks for watching.

[@VanMichael21]

Ahh yes I'm in my mid 40's now so all of this sure feels nostalgic lol. Reading the tv guide checking to see what's on for the night or making sure my fave show is not cancelled that day for some reason. Getting so impatient and frustrated whenever I dial the wrong number on the ol rotary phone because I'd have to start all over again lol. Ahhh all great memories 🤗

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

I was always getting the numbers wrong lol. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

[@laminage]

Don't forget there wasn't Popstars, The Voice, The X Factor, or The Talent Franchise. You became a Pop Star the old fashioned way, playing in clubs, the street or pleading for an audition. You watched your favorite Popstars by watching american bandstand, soul train, the midnight special or solid gold. At least on North American Soil. In Britian it's Top Of The Pops. You bought your music and used Black Disks known as Records, or cassettes. MTV was in it's infancy.

[@gertibell]

My dad used to joke (or maybe he was serious) that he only had kids so he'd have us to change the channel for him. Of course we also had to turn the dial or move the antennas on the rabbit ears. He only got cable in 1980 because the picture was 100 times better. The 10 or so extra channels were just a bonus.

[@SickPrid3]

I am sad about the pictures We used to cherish them, often sit down and watch them in groups reminding ourselves how much fun we had that day Today people take hundreds of pictures...and never look at them again because there is just too much

[@petervandeplanck62]

I was born in 19 77 and there was nothing like the 80s truly a remarkable time

[@janepatton8100]

I grew up in the US in the 80s. I didn't know Aussie and US life was so similar back then. Bop magazines, 4 TV channels, metal playgrounds, etc. Even highlighting the different shows in the TV guide was the same. The only thing on this video that I never experienced as a child was the corded TV remote controllers. We went straight to cordless. Good times!!!

[@KardoganLR]

Grew up in the 70s/80s. It was a great time. One salary was enough for a full family (not like today where often both has to work) and we had so much less stress. As kids we were a lot more outside than 5 kids of today together. My father only always said "Be home when it's getting dark and don't go with strangers or take anything from them". That were the only rules I had as a kid in Germany.

[@tedcalouri2694]

Where I grew up we called your Ant Races the 'Snow Show' which was accompanied by a horrible noise. I remember many Friday night falling asleep watching TV and being woken up by the noise of the snow show and going to bed.

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Hahahah I can relate to this! Thanks for watching.

[@allisonwade4840]

Here's the thing about smoking and non-smoking on the planes. When smoking was allowed on planes, they refreshed the air every two minutes. In reality, you never really noticed the smoke (I had flown a lot transatlantic as a military kid back then). BUT, when they went all non-smoking, they stopped freshening the air and then noticed that their fuel consumption dropped, which means the airlines permanently stopped freshening and that's when everyone started getting some kind of cold or respiratory infection after flying because you were in an ever more crowded sealed tin can with no fresh air for hours on end.

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

That is very interesting. Thanks for watching and commenting. It's so sad that big companies are out to make more money over the comfort of their passengers.

[@athenathegreatandpowerful6365]

And the air is so DRY now. Odd to think you actually breathed fresher air with smokers than without.

[@timonsolus]

And 80’s airline economy seats were like premium economy seats are now. Wider and with more legroom.

[@gertibell]

Every time I flew I would catch something. Years before Covid, I started wearing a mask on planes & never got sick again. Those planes are petri dishes with stale, recycled air.

[@kristie3592]

Not true, as a kid flew cross Atlantic, and the smoke bothered my eyes so bad I looked like I had pink eye by the time we landed.

[@miahthorpatrick1013]

Those magazine covers......strange to think back to a time when Michael J Fox was a teen heart throb!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

He was in everything in the 80s. Very sad about his illness.

[@miahthorpatrick1013]

@@LittleBitofHistory80 Indeed. I read his most recent book and it has opened my eyes to a different Michael J Fox than I've seen in film & television.

[@MagicMonkeyMoviemakers-oo3vm]

Yeah and one of them had a blurb about "Where will River Phoenix be in 10 years?" Sad how his life ended cut short.

[@astroferret4700]

Saturday morning cartoons and cereal were some of my fondest memories with the barrage of toy commercials tells us what the new toys were

[@Starteller]

In Canada toy commercials were illegal. So we had straight 20 min of cartoons and then a host (entertainer) for 10 min or non-toy commercials which by a huge "coincidence" were partnered with a kid theme (movie, cartoon, etc.)

[@Nyctophora]

Thank you, that brought a few things back!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thanks for watching.

[@TBoneTony]

80s and 90s were like this.

[@katies3201]

The Swamps of Sadness taking the horse caused PTSD for an entire generation.

[@RexHill-yn6os]

Ren,and Stimpy..SNL.. living color, Johnny Carson, MASH..so many to watch..

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Yes, I have been looking at doing a video in 80s movies and TV, soooo much to get through. Thanks for watching.

[@j0hnf_uk]

Video recorders became the norm in the 80's. The idea of recording whatever shows you wanted, and being able to watch them at any time you wanted, once they were recorded. My Mum used to watch a lot of the soaps that were shown, week-days, but would record them and watch them once my Dad had gone to bed, because he didn't like watching them! Buying albums as LPs was a big event, as it generally took up a huge chunk of your pocket-money, so was something you didn't do all that often. The first thing you wanted to do was to record it onto tape, so you could listen to it on your portable cassette player. I don't know anyone who bought albums on tape. It was always vinyl recorded onto tape and then using the tape to listen to it. Recording the top 40 off the radio was also a thing. Every Sunday evening from 5 til 7, they'd play a selection from the top 40, and you hoped they choose ones you wanted to listen to, so you could tape them. As long as you didn't mind missing the start and finish of them, that is!

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Love this! Thanks for watching and sharing memories!

[@rowan1able]

Thanks for sharing ~

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thanks for watching!

[@commodorenut]

To add to the vinyl seats, many 70s cars that we rode around in didn’t have retractable (reel) seat belts in the rear (they weren’t law on all outboard seats in AU until 1/1/85, but some luxury models got them earlier - and they usually had cloth seats too). One of those buckles laying on a black vinyl seat in the Aussie sun would give you 3rd degree burns and a wound that took months to heal. Of course, stubbies shorts were all the rage, leaving acres of skin exposed! They gave you little hooks for the belt, but kids were too lazy to use them (or they were broken). The best cars were pre 1971 - they didn’t legally need seat belts in the back (if they weren’t fitted) so playing “corners” in one of those was awesome, especially in winter on slippery vinyl seats that had been armour-alled recently! I had a little 35cm TV in my bedroom. My remote was a long broomstick. A slot filed in one end rotated the channel knob. On the other end, I put a rubber walking-stick tip on it, and I could spin the volume knob with friction. It was common for my schoolmates to spin the “v-hold” knob on the back of the school TV units (they were a large TV with a VCR, mounted onto a trolley that they would wheel between classrooms). Then they’d play the hero for the hot 20-something teacher and magically fix it.

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Love it!!!! 🤣

[@bighofperth436]

Aaawww , getting all emotional over Never Ending Story 😢 I've still got some Canisters of undeveloped Film somewhere 🤔

[@LittleBitofHistory80]

Thanks for watching! Never Ending Story was just the worst, I'm not sure I have ever gotten over it.

[@Impossible_Emporium]

"Star Wars" + "Empire Strikes" back as a double billing at the Drive-in the week before "Return of the Jedi" opened in cinemas.