Never thought I'd live in a more oppressive society as a 50 yr old in the 2020s than I ever did as a teen in the 1980s.
@Lockdown-y5y
7 ай бұрын
I feel like we are in the Twilight zone.....I never thought I'd see the things happening now...I'm 46 ....God bless everyone! God bless America🇺🇸
@onahamilt2907
7 ай бұрын
Very oppressive now. It's so hard to believe life has changed so much and nit for the better.
@ladyd3674
7 ай бұрын
Facts.
@LadyPhucnTee
7 ай бұрын
I'm 63. The more things change the more they stay the same. So much hate in the air. SMH
@kentuckyfloyd7990
7 ай бұрын
i was born in 96 and its crazy to me
@GymbalLock
7 ай бұрын
Local TV stations would have a public safety ad at night: "It's ten o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"
@LadyPhucnTee
7 ай бұрын
I remember that
@adrian-vu6gt
7 ай бұрын
The minute you said "jelly" I knew we finally had you. You are now an honorary American.
@S.O.P.O.G.
7 ай бұрын
Not yet! He's gotta do the Oreo cookie thing! 😊
@Dj87887
7 ай бұрын
The second word he said in this video is "fings."
@ericgelinow
7 ай бұрын
To be fair, we have both jelly and jam. My daughter prefers grape jam, I prefer grape jelly. It’s a consistency thing. Know if we’re talking, Apple butter, I prefer that as a jam
@JoyDonald-f5g
7 ай бұрын
Same here in Canada! We have jelly and jam. I prefer the crab apple jelly.. lol
@Victoria_Randolph
7 ай бұрын
When I was a young child, probably between 3-7 yrs old, my great grandmother had a plum tree on her property. An elderly lady that lived nearby apparently noticed at some point and stopped in to ask my great grandmother if she'd mind her coming by and picking some. My gr. Grandmother told her to take as many as she would like. So, for several years this lady would come and pick bushels of plums and in return would bring a pint jar or two of plum jelly or jam... I'm unsure. I just remember LOVING it as a small child. Unfortunately the lady passed away, the tree was cut down, and my great grandmother passed away 5 months ago, at the age of 98 yrs. I wish I knew the recipe, or the type of plums grown on that tree!! 😢 I've searched everywhere I've been for something similar, but I've not found anything like it. This was in a tiny West Virginia town. So the only places I've really looked for it is at local markets, fairs, and grocery stores. So, I'm sure it exists somewhere. I'm sad to say that sweet lady didn't have any descendants, at least to my knowledge. I hope one day I can recreate the wonderfully sweet treat or at least find it, and slip back into my fond memories with my grandmother. 💞🥰💞
@TammyFraleyfraleyfoto
7 ай бұрын
I grew up in the 60s and 70s and never heard of a peanut allergy when I was young. We absolutely wrote our own notes to get cigarettes or an excused absence from school. The fear of physical punishment didn't stop us if we really wanted to do something we weren't supposed to do. And smoking was everywhere. There was even a smoking section at my high school where all the cool kids hung out 😅
@suanbean2135
7 ай бұрын
I never heard of one either & even now I only know of one reported peanut allergy & my cousin had a bee allergy & had a kit I had to learn in case she got stung. It was basically the Epipen. & yes, writing your own notes was common. But usually we just got cigarettes out of the machine. No one really paid attention
@judylee9022
7 ай бұрын
Yeah we went to our local convience store that had cigarette machines beside the coke vending machine, just put your quarters in and pull the knob and out came a pack of cigarettes, is how very young kids got their cigs
@cyberprompt
5 ай бұрын
I can understand the school notes, but where did you need a note to buy smokes? Not proud, but from 16 on we just bought them. Maybe you mean like 12?
@kimbixler6821
4 ай бұрын
I was a teen in the 70s.80s in my 20s. best life ever.No regrets.
@S.O.P.O.G.
7 ай бұрын
Collect calls: You had to announce who you were so the receiver of the call would know who it was and decide whether or not to accept the charges. The trick is to just very quickly announce where you were in the 2-3 seconds. Then they could reject the charges but know where to come get you.
@lauriloo38c
7 ай бұрын
You also paid attention to what time it was if you dialed long distance because it was much cheaper at night and other times.
@terrikoyne232
7 ай бұрын
NOONE, not one person, in our entire school was allergic to peanuts (graduated in '86) - there were even HUGE jugs of peanut butter and loaves of sandwich bread on a table in the cafeteria for the kids who forgot their lunch money so they would have something to eat. Yes - chickenpox, measles, and mumps parties were a thing back then. My cousin caught the chickenpox at school. Me and all my cousins went to stay at granny's house (she had the largest house) to let it run its course through all of us - same with mumps. And you are right - it is much safer to have them as a kid. My youngest cousin caught them and had to go stay with a neighbor whose kids had them too because my uncle never had them - would have been very dangerous for him to get them as an adult.
@DaveMiller2
7 ай бұрын
I never heard of peanut allergies until fairly recently. We had peanut butter all the time in school too. (Also class of '86)
@jenniferbush41
7 ай бұрын
I never knew anyone w/ a peanut allergy until I was 22.
@flamingpieherman9822
6 ай бұрын
I agree. Class of 85 here in Florida. We never had anyone with a peanut allergy. In fact, if a kid had glasses or was little sickly it was a rarity. We might have had one or two people with glasses in our entire school... I blame it on vaccines and bad eating all the allergies we have now
@ladyjstyedye
7 ай бұрын
Those McDonald’s prices were for real, bro. Very early 80’s, but yeah. I also remember laying down to sleep in the back of the station wagon when on long trips.
@gotham61
7 ай бұрын
That McDonald’s menu is from between 1973 when the Quarter Pounder was launched and 1975 when breakfast items were added. Prices are about right for 1973. The Big Mac was 45 cents when it was launched in 1967
@misslora3896
7 ай бұрын
My parents put a mattress in the back of the station wagon on cross country road trips. My older sister, brother and I would lay on our backs and dance on the roof.
@S.O.P.O.G.
7 ай бұрын
I remember about 12 of us kids in the bed of a pickup truck going to a day trip to Canada from Detroit. Great Summer day! 😎
@gotham61
7 ай бұрын
@@misslora3896I drove across the country nonstop as recently as four years ago, with two friends taking turns driving and sleeping on a mattress in the back. It was in a Ford Excursion.
@koreanforrabbit
7 ай бұрын
My first car was an '84 Chrysler Town & Country wood-paneled station wagon. You could fit a lot of teens in one of those babies. When we'd play hooky from school, we'd load' er up with kids - typically 7 or 8, but sometimes more - and drive into Chicago to hang out at that Dunkin Donuts on the corner of Belmont and Clark. It was a good time to be a miscreant. 😎
@johnw8578
7 ай бұрын
We were "grounded" as punishment -- meaning we had to stay in our rooms for whatever duration the punishment was. It was horrible! No outside? No tv? My relative gave his kids a choice -- grounding or a spanking. They would always choose to be spanked (at least that was over in a few minutes) as opposed to grounding which was torment!
@susanengel-ix8bl
6 ай бұрын
We used to sneak out our windows, sometimes it worked.😂😂😂
@adancer3592
Ай бұрын
It was the 80s Alot went down That's all I'm sayin
@CoolPaDuke
7 ай бұрын
I remember when they started having smoking sections at restaurants. For some reason, many restaurants thought it was a good idea to have the non-smoking section at the back so you had to walk through the smoking section to get there.
@kebonhawk1081
7 ай бұрын
I was asked a question the other day at a restaurant I never thought I'd ever hear again. "Smoking or Non-Smoking?" This restaurant let you smoke in the bar section. I didn't know how to respond for a few seconds.
@jreyman
7 ай бұрын
Gen-X ("latchkey kids" born 1965-1979) were grown up by 9. If they were hungry, they had to feed themselves, had to make sure their homework was done, had to watch their younger siblings, etc.
@IMCODERED
7 ай бұрын
This is so true. I was cooking for myself at 6. Probably why I act like a kid now.
@tweevers2
7 ай бұрын
genx goes thru 1980...I was born in 1980 the last of the Genxers
@lightsalt8530
7 ай бұрын
Yep, but the time I was 8 years old I knew how to run a house
@Xassaw
7 ай бұрын
@@lightsalt8530me too
@Mr._Anderpson
7 ай бұрын
Yep. Those of us who were country mice also had to learn to operate a tractor and/or a truck so we could help out with chores and make sure things were done. When we got into high school, it wasn't uncommon for guys to drive the farm truck to school with a rifle or shotgun on a rack behind the bench seat. That way, we could go hunting after class before it got dark. Imagine kids driving up with guns & leaving them unattended in a school parking lot today.
@shattered_helix
7 ай бұрын
If your mind is blown by this, then this will really mess you up. When my grandpa (Dad's Dad) was in early school, he was probably 10 or 11, he took his muzzle loading pistol to school and charged the other kids 5 cents to shoot it on the playground, and the teaches just stood there and watched, and sometimes would asked if they could shoot it, and he'd let them shoot it for free. This was in the 1930s. He bought the pistol himself with his allowance, it cost him four dollars, which in today's money is about $89. That five cents he was changing would be about $1.10, so after about 80 shots, he had his gun paid for.
@darkneon1737
7 ай бұрын
When I was in high school my senior year, my woods class teacher would let us reload shotgun shells for him. I remember I made a crossbow and blow gun in that class as well.
@tabethaweirich6848
7 ай бұрын
It was nothing to see my classmates riding around on campus with their shotguns hanging in the back window on a gun rack. That was stopped around 1995.
@Keepurreciept4uralibi
7 ай бұрын
My senior project was to build a gun that fired. I took woods, metal, ag, and ROTC. We final tested on the ROTC firing range under the football stadium benches, right on school grounds. (Side note we carried rifles and shotguns in gun racks in our trucks and most of the time unlocked in the school parking lot)
@mids5854
7 ай бұрын
@@tabethaweirich6848 Yeah, We all left our rifles in gun racks in our pickup trucks. I remember an announcement over the loudspeaker at maybe my junior year at highschool. There had been a broken windown and somone's gun got stolen from their truck, students were urged to bring our firearms into school and put them in our lockers instead of leaving them in our cars.
@tabethaweirich6848
7 ай бұрын
@@mids5854 oh damn! 🤣
@jeffrielley920
7 ай бұрын
It was possible to call collect from a pay phone, but the trick was when you were asked to say your name for the person answering to decide if they wanted to pay for the call, was to instead say your quick message. That way the person who answered would get the short message, then decline the call so they didn't have to pay.
@kendallmarie5375
3 ай бұрын
Omg I forgot about that!! You're so right! 😂
@jikook7457
7 ай бұрын
At my high school in 1983-1986, we could smoke on campus. Crazy to think of that now.
@misslora3896
7 ай бұрын
Mine too. My friends and I would spend every break congregated in the smoking area. This was in Southern California where the schools aren't in an enclosed building, when you step out of the classrooms you're outside. Went to a high school in Indiana for one year where it was an enclosed building and they didn't have a smoking area for students. You had to leave campus.
@allenruss2976
7 ай бұрын
Didn't every campus have a smoking area?
@Uniquely2Divine
7 ай бұрын
Right before I started high school the rule changed to off campus smoking.... you'd see a crowd across the street of the bus drop off/ pick up😂
@rtyria
7 ай бұрын
I was in high school in the early 90's and kids were still smoking on campus then.
@newgrl
7 ай бұрын
We all just wandered off to our cars to smoke.
@fafnyrslair
7 ай бұрын
'80s were wild. we would have a cigarette commercial and then an anti-smoking commercial back-to-back 😂 Growing up, I did not know a single kid with a peanut allergy. I'm pretty sure I was an adult the first time I met someone who was allergic to peanuts
@redoctober25
7 ай бұрын
Yup… those McDonald’s prices were in cents… food was waaaay cheaper back in the day. Joey Lawrence… “woooaaah!” The brother on the TV show “Blossom”… that’s probably his most well known role. Smoking… yup… in our school, the smokers would hang out on the bleachers by the baseball fields over the lunch break. There were even times that teachers would join them for a smoke break. It was a totally different vibe back then. And as for driving… I grew up on a farm… I was driving a pickup truck to and from the fields from around the age of 10… and it was legal because it was for agricultural purposes.
@LittleNemoGaming
7 ай бұрын
"Everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school!" ~Motley Crue in the 80's.
@DanielBisagni
7 ай бұрын
@LittleNemoGaming yeah that's why they hid behind the soccer field and smoked or in the bathrooms when no-one was looking. Also the teacher's lounge reeked of cigarette smoke half the time...
@toddashi
19 күн бұрын
I think it's still allowed for minors to drive on private property.
@nininoona
7 ай бұрын
I was an 80s kid and I can absolute testify to the "going out and hanging with friends all day until the street light came on" thing. Though, we lived in the country, so it was until sundown. We could go pretty much anywhere in the neighborhood, go trekking through the woods, do what ever...and at sundown mom would come outside and blow the horn on her truck for 20sec. So long as we stayed within range of hearing that horn, and came straight home, we never got in any trouble.
@chrispruett81
7 ай бұрын
Yes.. I was a kid in the 80's.. and boy do I MISS THE 80's!! lol . Btw.. ALL of this is True... Especially him talking about kids just taking off with friends and be gone all day. That is very true... We would take off and basically.. not come home until the street lights came on.. that would be when the sun goes down basically/dinner time.. so as a kid.. you get up early.. and disappear until dark :) Sooo much freedom and fun! 80's Ruled!!
@jasoneagleson926
7 ай бұрын
Growing up in the 80's was a blast... Use to ride in the back of my granddad's truck going fishing , and yes playing outside till the street lights came on
@MrPenguinLife
7 ай бұрын
You asked about peanut allergies, while they were a thing in the 1980's (I am allergic to tree nuts, but not peanuts), they were much more rare, or at least seemed to be. Some studies show that that there has been over a 10 times increase in peanut as well as other food allergies in the last 30 years. Some studies also show giving peanuts to very young children lowers the rate of peanut allergy, therefore these exact bans on peanuts in school and for young kids may be causing the very peanut allergies people are trying to protect against.
@TheBaldr
7 ай бұрын
It been well established that a lot of allergies are caused by a lack of exposure to animal dander and germs as a newborn. We are to clean.
@calendarpage
7 ай бұрын
My son has a 3 yr old. His pediatrician said to expose him to nuts early, exactly for the reasons you stated.
@MrPenguinLife
7 ай бұрын
@@calendarpage Jut tell him to be careful, my first known exposure to tree nuts was eating mixed nuts out of a bowl on the coffee table at one of my parents friend's house while they were having dinner, I was 2 or 3 that evening ended up in the ER
@shaneg9081
7 ай бұрын
Peanut allergies were so rare that I didn't know it was a thing until I saw the movie Mrs Doubtfire. And yes, it's the lack of exposure at an early age that has been the cause in the huge increase. There's a reason babies put absolutely everything they can in their mouths - they are building up their immune system.
@martyb5807
7 ай бұрын
Comes from parents dipping their kids in purell and wrapping them in bubble wrap.
@jennifercoulter6886
7 ай бұрын
The 1980s was a great time to be a kid for the most part. We were always outside, very active, and ran wild until sundown. Most of the time my parents didn't know where I was. If they need to track me down they would drive around town looking for the house with the bikes in front. I remember not wearing a seatbelt, riding in the backs of a trucks on a highways, smoking was everywhere. The worst was airplanes. As soon as the smoking light came on all adults lit up. Teachers had paddles and could spank you. Most of all I'm just happy I did all my stupid kid stuff with no social media record of it.
@TeePetersen
7 ай бұрын
The 80s were a fun time to live through, IMO. Had a steady group of 17 friends, 14 guys, 3 girls. We were always playing D&D on weekends, shooting each other with paintball guns without wearing protective gear, hanging in the parks or malls as a group. laughing, loud music and group activities were the bomb back then. Now. my kids are always online and have no large groups of friends to hang out with. It is so sad.
@tubedude54
7 ай бұрын
No one hangs at any of the malls that are left... they are mostly vacant! The mall was THE place to go on the weekends back in the day... now kids have nothing but the internet...sad!
@217_Walker
7 ай бұрын
💯
@mzpinkeyez407
7 ай бұрын
We even had an PSA "It's ten o'clock do you know where your children are!". Ten pm at night reminding your parents they have kid's!!!🤦🏻♀️😂🤣
@sagittarius420cheefie
7 ай бұрын
Facts AF
@jonrynearson31
7 ай бұрын
Paint ball? You must have been in a rich neighborhood. The majority of us just used BB guns, and the fact the majority of us didn't know what paint ball was until maybe the 90's at the earliest. D and D.. lmfao, where I lived, only the nerds played D and D.
@TAmberTaylorStudio
7 ай бұрын
I never knew peanut allergies were a thing until I was an adult. I do remember sitting on my brother's lap to steer while he drove (he's a decade older than I am), and we only had lap belts anyway, so nobody really knew if you were wearing them or not. I remember standing in the back seat turning my head sideways to watch the world go by at an angle, but that was probably just me lol. I did stand in the back of my dad's van on the highway and put on puppet shows for the cars behind us, and police were always laughing when they saw them. His van had no real seats in the back either, so no seat belts. It was wood covered in floor to ceiling shag carpet. The station wagon I almost always sat in the back, as the baby. Cars with a back dash I'd lay in the window and watch the cars (or stars at night). McDonald's prices were definitely that low, and Taco Bell was cheaper, but they were rare to go to. I also remember when cars started having shoulder belts and my grandma would tuck it under her leg without clicking it so she wouldn't wrinkle her dress. My mom and I both would hold the shoulder belt if we passed police and then let go of it again afterwards. Also, getting sent to the paddle room was traumatic. Only happened once with me. It was definitely a different time...
@deonthompson4931
7 ай бұрын
I remember McDonald's having ashtrays 😆
@ik7578
7 ай бұрын
Remember the coffee spoons? 😂
@deonthompson4931
7 ай бұрын
@ik7578 yes perfect for a lil bump of sugar 😆
@vernonharden
7 ай бұрын
I remember when they were made of glass, then they went to tiny little ones made from aluminum. It only took four to six cigarettes to fill them, or about two tiparillos.
@Mr._Anderpson
7 ай бұрын
McDonald's? Remember Burger Chef?
@Peter95111
7 ай бұрын
I am a true product of the eighties. My entire adolescence was defined by that decade. I graduated high school in 1990. I was also a latch-key kid, which without adult supervision allowed me to get into all kinds of shenanigans. LOL The 80's was a great decade to grow up in, the music, the fashion, it was the best!
@kellyokinneally3955
7 ай бұрын
I was 17 yesrs old and a senior in high school in 1988-1989...OMG I MISS IT SO MUCH!! I'm 52 now.
@darkneon1737
7 ай бұрын
Wine me, dine me, Class of '89 me! I'm 53 so I'm right there with ya.
@KimberMcC
7 ай бұрын
Pictures?? Haha! Dude… we got away with everything because there weren’t cameras everywhere, and we used only cash. 😅 Good times.
@AmosCheek
7 ай бұрын
Growing up in the 80's was awesome!! Totally carefree and fun. From the music, staying out all day riding bikes, hanging with friends and as long as you were home in time for dinner everything was cool. Not to mention getting home from school and catching all of the afternoon cartoons like Transformer, G.I. Joes, He-Man and so many others. Great times
@ddp247
7 ай бұрын
I loved watching looney tunes, the Flintstones, Tom and Jerry and the smurfs.
@Mr._Anderpson
7 ай бұрын
I approve this message.
@tonyahice614
7 ай бұрын
Joey Lawrence was a child actor on a show (the latter seasons) called Gimme a Break. He was also the "dumb jock" brother (his most famous line was, "Whoa!") on Blossom with Mayim Bialik & later on he starred in Melissa & Joey & did a season on Dancing With The Stars. Idk if that helps, but those are his biggest roles.
@timfeeley714-25
7 ай бұрын
Yes, we forged many notes for cigarettes. After a while the local mom-and-pop store got so used to us coming in for "cigarettes for our parents" we didn't need a note anymore😂. Also I remember in 1997 you could still get a Whopper for 99 cents, a slice of cheese was an extra dime.
@kendallmarie5375
3 ай бұрын
Nowadays, if you receive a Collect call... the caller is in jail. Period. 😂
@AlzheimersCaretaker
7 ай бұрын
I rarely, if ever, see kids playing outside now. and i live in a very safe suburb. When I was a kid I came home to an empty house after school and spent the entire rest of the day riding bikes and doing whatever with my friends (not coming home until well after dark). my parents had NO idea where I was, who I was with or what we were doing. I'm so happy to have been a kid at that time because we had (maybe reckless) levels of freedom and independence.
@missandi1971
7 ай бұрын
I was between 10 years old and 18 years old through the 80s. We were raised to be very independent.
@jessebest5961
4 ай бұрын
Didn't realize the 80s lasted 8 years...
@BouillaBased
7 ай бұрын
Not all parents were big on teachers using corporal punishment on their kids. One of the fourth grade teachers made the mistake of pushing my brother and one of my cousins against a wall. One phone call and mere minutes later, and that teacher had my dad and uncle directly in his face letting him know exactly what would happen if he ever put his hands on any of us at any time in the future.
@monarch818-
7 ай бұрын
Kids back in the 1980's were more afraid of cops telling their parents about getting in trouble, than the cops themselves. I'll never forget begging a cop not to tell my parents, when I got caught trespassing once at a construction site with friends.
@onahamilt2907
7 ай бұрын
We used to take out my friend's mother's car at night and drive around. We did wheelies on the baseball field. Cop caught us. He just followed us home.
@rockyroad7345
7 ай бұрын
When I was in high school in the 70s, my house was the place everyone in the neighborhood hung out after school and where everyone wanted to be. Most other moms worked but I thought it was because my mom let everyone smoke outside on the back porch. Years later she told me she did it because she knew where I was and wasn't getting in trouble. She actually kept us all in line. Those were the good old days.
@john-dm1rx
7 ай бұрын
I'm probably a little older than you. I went to high school in the 60s, and I couldn't agree with you more. My house was also the gathering point. Great moms' minds think alike.
@NotMVZZL3
7 ай бұрын
(3:26) The way collect calls worked is you would dial home and the phone would say "You are receiving a collect call from..." on the parents side On the caller's side it would say "Caller, please state your name..." then it would beep on the caller's side. Instead of saying just their name, the kid would say "Hey, it's me, [name], I'm at the [place]" and that would be a loophole of getting free collect since your parents could just decline the charges afterward
@gwendolenyoung4198
7 ай бұрын
And to do this ,you pressed 0 and a human would answer who was known as the Operator. I remember this being automated by the late 90s, so you'd pick up the receiver and it would say on the screen to press 0 to call collect. (I hadn't seen anyone mention how you actually did it; I know you yourself know lol but i'm figuring the creator will think of that question as a shower thought later.)
@InstantCrazy1
7 ай бұрын
I didn't know a single kid with a peanut allergy, I started babysitting when I was 11, and my 23 year old kid still isn't as old now as I was then. We just had to grow up faster and be more independent than kids today. One of my most vivid memories as a kid was when my great-aunt was shocked I was cooking for myself at 10.
@Mr._Anderpson
7 ай бұрын
I grew up in a rural area and one of my chores was to watch the garden. I had a rifle and my job was to pick off groundhogs, rabbits, crows, & the occasional snake. People today would freak out at the thought of a 12-year old basically playing sniper in the backyard.
@willowbeederouaux4750
7 ай бұрын
"I didn't know a single kid with a peanut allergy" 🤨 Um, probably b/c back then, if you were allergic to peanuts, YOU JUST DIED. 🙄🙄🙄
@n.d.m.515
7 ай бұрын
@@willowbeederouaux4750not always true. I knew kids with allergies (very few) and it was the parent's and kid's responsibility and no one else's to be careful. Only if they were not careful did it become other people's problem to make sure they didn't die, but such instances were rare. If a parent or child did request no peanuts, it was ONLY for that one kid.
@willowbeederouaux4750
7 ай бұрын
@@n.d.m.515 Hey, so tell me how schools protecting kids with peanut allergies affected you personally? Can you share how banning peanuts in schools caused you or anyone you love real harm? I mean, can't these children who can safely consume peanuts wait until they get home from school to eat these beloved peanuts?
@n.d.m.515
7 ай бұрын
@@willowbeederouaux4750 you answered the question within your question. How did it effect me? I can't eat things unless I am in my own home. I become at the mercy of the predilections of the few or almost non existant. Freedom is reduced for everyone to try and accomidate for a tiny minority.
@AttackChefDennis
7 ай бұрын
Our insult game among friends was absolutely deadly. We were professionals at it.
@revgurley
7 ай бұрын
Dad used to let me sit in his lap and "drive" around the neighborhood. Of course my feet couldn't reach the pedals, so if I was going off course, he could brake. When actually learning to drive, cemeteries are the way to go. Lots of roads, places to practice 3-point turns, stop and yield signs, yet you probably weren't going to hurt anyone except yourself and your car. Restaurants used to ask, "Smoking or non?" when seating people. There was a smoking section. Heck, there was a smoking section on planes! Sitting in the back, you could smoke on planes. Still stank like smoke through the plane, but much worse in the back. Then, Georgia (at least) made laws that you couldn't smoke in restaurants, but you could in bars/pubs (where a certain high percentage of sales was alcohol). Not sure you can still do that, though. No kid that I knew had a peanut allergy in the 80s-90s, and my high school class was over 600 people (times 4 for 9th, 10th, and 11th grade). I have a horrible allergy to horses, and could probably use an EpiPen, but learned about it in the early 80s, so could only take an anti-histamine and stay locked in the car at the ranch. It wasn't a fun experience. I was a victim of a Chicken Pox party. As soon as one kid in pre-school got it, everyone brought their kids over to play with the sick kid so we'd all get it. It did suck, and itched like MAD, but it's hard to remember details, like how long it lasted. A friend who didn't get it as a kid got Chicken Pox in high school and was out for a month. The disease is much worse the older you get. There was no vaccine for it back then.
@rtyria
7 ай бұрын
One of the kids at the elementary school I attended was sent to school with it and all the students came down with it. Found out later that the parent knew their kid had chicken pox and sent them anyway. Lots of parents were unhappy about that, not everyone believed in chicken pox parties. I missed over a week of school.
@lindaroberts8384
7 ай бұрын
I never had a chicken pox party. I caught it at school. But my cousin next door caught it at the same time. The first time Mother let me out of the house, I met up with my cousin and we compared the our spots to see who had it worse. (She won.) I started wearing seat belts as soon as they became available to me. Another cousin had recently had an accident without them. She had a broken jaw and most of her teeth knocked out because her face bounced off the steering wheel. I wanted to make sure that didn't happen to me. And as for smoking and non smoking sections, when it started, the nonsmoking section was pretty small. It gradually changed until the smoking section was smaller. Then the smoking section disappeared entirely in a lot of restaurants. My Dad and my sister both smoked around me a lot when I was a kid, at home and in the car. I think that helped me to decide I never wanted to smoke.
@anastasiabraucht2645
7 ай бұрын
Yup! 😂 I'm an 80s kid and we had the station wagon. The back of that wagon was pretty much a playroom for me. I had blankets and toys back there. One time my mom forgot to put the emergency break on and I rolled back into the road. It was no big deal haha Definitely looked for bikes in the yard, made collect calls, and smoked in McDonald when I was a teen. McDonalds used to have ashtrays on their tables and my mom would send me across the street to the hotel to buy her cigarettes from the machine. No problems or weird looks. It was craazy but I'm so glad I grew up when I did!
@guruofdoodoo
7 ай бұрын
One thing they missed was it was tradition to spike the punch bowl at prom
@flyingsodwai1382
7 ай бұрын
4:53 Even more.... When I was 11 (1981) I bought a bottle of wine from the Hillshire Farm mall store. My friend said just tell em its a Christmas present for your parents... it worked!
@markiusgalfordii9248
7 ай бұрын
I remember cramming five of us in one truck on one bench seat. Or laying in the bed of the truck watching the trees go by.
@bscar
7 ай бұрын
Grew up in the 80s and I can tell you it was normal- usually encouraged- to go hang out with the local kids to do things, like ride your bike, go swimming if someone you knew had a pool or there was a community pool, go sledding in the winter, go play by the creek/river if one was nearby. You might go home for lunch or one of the mothers of the kids you hung out with would fix you something to eat and drink, but it was common to only be home at night for dinner and everyone would talk about their day, and maybe you'd sit down after dinner and watch TV if there was anything on the 5 available TV channels. Otherwise you might play board or card games to pass the time before bed. edit: For the best example of collect calls, look up the old Geico commercial about Bob having a baby Dine-in areas used to give you a choice of smoking or non smoking and would seat you accordingly. Usually the bathrooms were in the non-smoking area, but not always. Bars would typically be all smoking area. Hell, the factory where I work used to let people smoke while they worked on the line, then call the fire marshal to come put out the fires that started when the idiots threw their butts into the trashcan and didn't put them out first. And yeah, we may have had both parents that smoked, but I don't recall other kids really wanting to smoke, but they also grew up to be smokers themselves. My mom would smack me with a large wooden serving spoon instead of an actual paddle, but it still got the point across. I don't remember anyone in school having peanut allergies, so there wasn't any procedures. I don't remember having pox parties, but I do remember getting chicken pox as a kid. But, if you always hung out with your friends everyday, it was bound to happen anyways. 12:00 That is a young Joey Lawrence of Blossom fame
@kennethvaughan8195
7 ай бұрын
The first time I got pulled over by a cop I was 12 years old. The reason for pulling me over is he couldn’t see anyone driving. He seemed more concerned about me being able to see over the steering wheel. The out come was he made my uncle come around and drive and he said once we were out of the city limits I could take the wheel again. Love my small town ! Still live there to this day.
@proto-geek248
7 ай бұрын
I was caught drunk driving at 3am, age 16 without a license & was escorted home with a warning & they didn't alert my parents. Just told me not to do it again. Funny thing is, I never did it again.
@kennethvaughan8195
7 ай бұрын
@@proto-geek248 Lol. We couldn’t get away with a fraction of things we use to do.
@NashvilleNative-0
6 ай бұрын
8:05 Never heard of peanut allergies when I was in grade school 1980 to 1993
@kookiekris
7 ай бұрын
Growing up in the 80s ROCKED!! We would play anywhere and everywhere at anytime! Never getting in trouble because there was no handy phones or cameras. It was so easy and fun. Nowadays every second of your life is monitored and everyone is so scared of everything. I actually feel so bad for this generation because they will never know how free life can actually be. Not it's hashtags, the web, pictures of your food, "I'm triggered", gatekeeping diagnosis etc...
@misslora3896
7 ай бұрын
That freedom was how we learned independence and confidence. We were able to test our limits. And being with your friends we had to learn interpersonal skills and diplomacy.
@proto-geek248
7 ай бұрын
We were Gods & didn't even realize it.
@onahamilt2907
7 ай бұрын
Amen. The best.
@nicoley2133
7 ай бұрын
no lives being ruined over one stupid slip of sanity.
@izzyjoy7057
7 ай бұрын
I was born in 2002 and I’m in my twenties, I can’t even imagine going out without being constantly paranoid about things. Honestly how is my generation going to interact with each other when we’re all scared to go out.😭
@ericajako403
7 ай бұрын
I love your reaction 😂 I was an 80’s kid, born in 1982 I often wish my kids (born in the 2000’s) had the opportunity to live through the 80’s it was a very different world back then.. playing with your friends meant actually being with them out side making up games and as soon as those street lights came on you grabbed your bikes or ran home cause you knew if you dilly dallied you’d get your butt whopped. We bought smokes for our parents and made sure we brought every single cent of change home, no penny candies cause if we were one cent short well we’d get our butts whopped. We used scrunchies in our hair, we ate big chew, we listened to our walkmen and played with our skippit. We talked to our friends on the house phone and wrapped the cord around everything that got in our way. We owned hardcover books and did chores, we listened to our teachers, buss drivers and our elders but most of all our parents. ( cause if we didn’t, well you know what would happen 😉)
@lauripettit1879
7 ай бұрын
In the late 60s and early 70's we slept with front door open with only screen door locked. In the late 70's we could smoke at our school, you had to have permission from our parents and they would stamp the back of our social security card and we had to carry it with us. I truly believe we had the best music and time growing up in the 60s and 70's
@ms.wilson6439
3 ай бұрын
That kid is Joey Lawrence from Gimme A Break and Brotherly Love.
@calendarpage
7 ай бұрын
I was in college in the '70's. When I got back to my dorm after a visit home in another state, I'd call collect and give another name. My mother would refuse the call because she knew it was me and that I arrived safely. Long distance calls were expensive, and this was a way to get a free call. I went to Catholic school - the nuns spanked the kids all the time and parents were fine with it.
@davidburns5374
7 ай бұрын
I worked at McDonald's 43 years, I remember when prices were low. Of course minimum wage was $3.35
@CheshyLARK
7 ай бұрын
You’re hilarious! I watch videos like these because I truly miss the way I grew up. I wish my kids could’ve experienced the freedom that I experienced as a kid. It’s sad, to me, that times have changed so much. As to the peanut allergy question: If you had an allergy, to any food, you simply stayed away from it. Why make everyone do without PB&J sandwiches when most people could eat them just fine? It was our responsibility to not do something dumb - like eating something we were allergic to. 😂
@rosemadder5547
7 ай бұрын
Calling a payphone a device struck me as odd 😂😂 Cracker Barrel had cigarette smoke filling it up.. We picked out our own Willow tree switches to be whipped with 😅 I steered my papaws truck a BUNCH lol I remember going on vacation, stuffed between the suitcases and the back hatch door 😂 we'd stare at all the people stick behind us 😅 I was always afraid that door would pop open on the interstate.
@agrotta1650
7 ай бұрын
The 80's and 90's were actually the most free we ever were. Now everyone is a Tyrant.
@johnw8578
7 ай бұрын
Ah yes, the old -- go and get a switch from the tree in back. You knew what was coming! Luckily as I was the youngest child, I never got it except a slap in the face once. The worse I got was go-stand-in-the-corner for 15 minutes (the longest 15 minutes ever!). We did what our parents told us, so they said stand in the corner, then we did. Grounding meant staying in our room (so no outside time!) -- which was horrible.
@agrotta1650
7 ай бұрын
@@johnw8578 Yup. I got the switch a few times. Mostly the belt or paddle before it broke. I won't go into all the ways I was disciplined. When I say "Jump", you say "How high"!! Millennials are so f'ing entitled and they have no right. Spoiled rotten brats (not the damned doll either, rather the meaning of the word BRATs).
@TAmberTaylorStudio
7 ай бұрын
Oh I forgot about cutting your own switches!
@brrjohnson8131
7 ай бұрын
I first heard of peanut allergies in the 90's. Chewing on weeds playing cowboy was common.
@pamysue
7 ай бұрын
I had a kid by the 80s. There were no seatbelts in cars when I was a kid. Later, they were an option you could pay more for. It is illegal to ride in the back of a pickup now, but we did it all the time. We were told to stay in the car if Mom was just running in for something. My son could leave after breakfast and had to be home by dark. On collect calls, if it was ok to stay they wouldn't accept the charges. If it wasn't they would say NO I WON'T ACCEPT and you got your butt home. I remember my dad and my doctor both smoking in the doctor's office while I was being seen. I bought my Dad's cigarettes all the time and never needed a note, Latch-key refers to kids letting themselves into the house with no one home. My son stayed home alone after school until I got home from work by the age of 10. I am allergic to peanuts and you just had to be super careful when eating out that things weren't fried in peanut oil. I never ate PB&Js. I grew up by 6 Flags amusement park and was dropped off with friends, we'd run the park all day and be picked up at closing. I exposed my son to chicken pox because it was while school was out and it was better than missing school, which also meant me missing work. Older friends or siblings would let us into the movie theater through the Exit doors inside the theater. There was no alarm on the door like now. I saw R rated movies at a very young age. Times have certainly changed and they will continue to change.
@TAmberTaylorStudio
7 ай бұрын
My dad had a reel to reel projector and foldout screen so we could watch current movies at our house.
@debbiedigger
7 ай бұрын
Yes, the prices at McDonalds were correct. In 1990 I remember smoking on an airplane. I worked in an office and smoked at my desk. On the other hand my son was born in late 1982 and the hospital made me show them the car seat before I could left the hospital with him
@stevewhiting556
7 ай бұрын
We merged with another company that had a location just up the road. The manager smoked at his desk…this was 2016. When we shut down his store and moved it to ours, the first thing he did was light up a cigarette in the showroom. I told him that he wasn’t going to last very long if he wanted to keep doing that. I smoke, but I can’t stand it in an enclosed space.
@melonyreesemc1658
7 ай бұрын
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@jimcoleman6151
4 ай бұрын
We never HEARD OF peanut allergies until MY kids were growing up in the 90s/2000s.
@williamscoggin1509
7 ай бұрын
I don't have any knowledge of anyone I've ever known having a peanut allergy. It is way over hyped except for the rare person.
@onahamilt2907
7 ай бұрын
So rare. Never knew anyone that was allergic.
@AlmaPerry
7 ай бұрын
Wow! This brought back so many memories! We have video driving down the freeway on our way to the Grand Canyon (1981). Mom was holding the baby, the next older kid sitting on dad's lap "steering" and the rest of us (6 more kids) "hanging out" in the back of the car with the seats down. Left at home, left in the car while mom was shopping, and running feral all day in the summer were definitely good times!
@RockinMamaT
7 ай бұрын
Yeah gen x here and we didnt piss our parents off.They could trust us because we knew what was coming if we did something wrong
@rtyria
7 ай бұрын
It wasn't just fear that kept us in line either. We had genuine respect for our parents and other adults. And that respect was often mutual as well.
@RockinMamaT
7 ай бұрын
@@rtyria Absolutely we did
@proto-geek248
7 ай бұрын
Exactly.
@StoneE4
7 ай бұрын
Oh give me a break... I'm a Gen Xer as well and there was all kinds of trouble we got into. One of the biggest past-times my family has at family get-togethers is to sit around talking about all the stuff we got away with that our parents never found out about. I'll agree that we, as a generation, showed more respect towards adults in comparison to younger generations, but you make it sound like we were a bunch of goody two-shoes.
@eaglelove00
7 ай бұрын
Whaaaat? I don’t remember being obedient. I remember being very sneaky yet accepting the severe punishment that came when I got caught. Didn’t stop me from doing what I wanted though. I did learn personal responsibility though … Accept consequences for bad choices 😂
@maryelizabethtucker-gonzal1340
7 ай бұрын
I was born in 1978. This brought back so many good memories. We just skate or ride our bikes everywhere, and we would stop to drink water from the water hose in the front of a friend's house. I miss piling into a station wagon or truck bed to go to the drive-in. Childhood was so much fun.
@rtyria
7 ай бұрын
Those prices for the MacDonald's menu were correct. I remember when their prices went over a dollar it was such a shock for everyone. The biggest change I remember is when plastic started taking over everything. Pop used to come in glass bottles, but at some point during the 80's they switched over to plastic. Paper cups were coated with something like wax, which would leak if the straw scratched too much of it off or if you took too long to finish your drink. Then the cups just stopped leaking because the paper was coated with plastic. Meats went from being wrapped in paper, to being sold in trays wrapped in plastic. Pop went from using sugar as the sweetener to high fructose corn syrup. I'm not allergic to peanuts, but rather cigarette smoke. You just avoided places where too many smokers would hang out. Smokers were exceptionally rude then too. If I started coughing they'd actually blow more smoke in my face to "make me stop acting out" and would accuse me of guilt tripping them. My sister had to call an ambulance for me once because I had an allergy attack that was so bad I almost stopped breathing.
@Mr._Anderpson
7 ай бұрын
Do you recall the ash trays in McDonald's as a kid? They had big ones made from heavy plastic with golden arches rising up from the center.
@rtyria
7 ай бұрын
@@Mr._Anderpson I remember there being big ash trays, I don't remember the arches.
@tabethaweirich6848
7 ай бұрын
The 80s were probably one of the best and last decades to be so carefree. Definitely staying out until the street lights came on playing with our friends all over the neighborhood and in the little patches of woods building forts from wood pallets we got from a small warehouse in the neighborhood. If mom needed us home before the street lights came on she would give out the loudest whistle a human could possibly make. 😂 Only problem is, if we didnt hear her whistles, that meant we were too far away. And she would come get us in the car. We were in big trouble when we saw mom rolling up in that huge car. And of course being embarrassed in front of our friends was bad enough. Jelly vs Jam: i personally dont like jelly. Its too gelatinous for me and tears up my bread. But never heard of peanut allergies when i was kid. We lived behind the drive in theater when i was a kid. And during the day, it made the best bike track ever. At night on weekends we would walk through the small patch if woods, set up chairs and had our own drinks and snacks and watch whatever was playing through the broken slats of the wood fence for free. One time we regretted it because it was a horror film. And well, at 8 yrs old, walking through the woods at night, that also had a very old cemetery in it, made for some freaked out kids that yelled for Mom and Dad to come rescue us. 😂😂😂 Parents just laughed and said, i bet you wont do that again. But we did....We figured out to look at the bulletin board for the list of movies playing when we rode our bikes in there. I also remember seeing a bunch of teenagers jumping out the trunk of the vehicle they came in. It was very common. Riding in the bed if the truck or in the back of the station wagon was normal. When taking long trips in the station wagon, we would make a pallet with blankets and read books or play board games or sleep. Man! Those were some of the best days of my life!
@onahamilt2907
7 ай бұрын
Great memories. It was me crawling out if the trunk.😅 best times.
@miamidolphinsfan
7 ай бұрын
yes that was theMcDonald's prices....I could get a Big Mac, fries, apple pie and a cheeseburger for around $2
@tubedude54
7 ай бұрын
The first time I was at a McD's I remember hamburgers for 15 cents... and it was an outdoor drive up. My parents complained when I asked for 2! lol
@wishingb5859
7 ай бұрын
I was talking with my cousin yesterday about how much fun it was to ride in the back of a truck and how we would sit in the car with the windows open while our parents went into the store. There were one or two missing kids in the whole country. But nobody was thinking about it.
@ScribbleScrabbless
7 ай бұрын
My dad actually let me steer the car at 5 years old 😊
@RockinMamaT
7 ай бұрын
Mine too😂
@TheBaldr
7 ай бұрын
I remember steering my family's station wagon (estate car).
@faithnself
7 ай бұрын
80s kid here- was cooking and learning to can at 4 years old. Went anywhere and everywhere. Smoked at 9, started drinking and partying at 11. I forged my mom's and all my friends' parents' signatures for us to skip school, buy cigarettes, or anything we wanted. As for Latchkey- was home alone with a 4-year-old sis at 8 years old. I back-talked anyone and everyone, talked circles around most adults, and didn't hesitate to tell anyone, ESPECIALLY those in "authority" exactly where to go and how to get there. I was a true wild child🤪. Moved out on my own at 15 and never looked back.
@DanielBisagni
7 ай бұрын
HAHA We have 8 kids in our family and had a Chevrolet Chevette. We would put 2 kids in the front passenger seat (bucket seat cause it was a manual) Mom and 3-4 kids in the back seat and 4 kids in the trunk/hatchback... Thats how we got the family to church on Sunday, and we younger kids would get mad b/c they wouldn't let us in the trunk until you were 11 or 12....
@floco1438
7 ай бұрын
Immediately i think of the commercial. "Do you accept a collect call from 'hadababyitsaboy?'"
@paulloper3940
7 ай бұрын
I remember when the I was under age the cigarette machines were perfect, but when they banned them we would stand outside a cornerstore and ask people to buy them for us. And the people that would kept the change.
@jikook7457
7 ай бұрын
Worked at way with beer too lol
@misslora3896
7 ай бұрын
As young teens we wrote our own notes. The trick was to include a phone number. They usually figured it was legit then, but we'd often have the oldest sounding friend waiting by the phone just in case.
@fredgilbert2032
7 ай бұрын
Those machines are still around in a few places. As much as smokes cost it would be funny to see people trying to pay with quarters now lol.
@UncleD153
7 ай бұрын
In 1980 I was 12 years old. I graduated high school in 1986. I started skateboarding in the 70s with no helmet or any kind of protection. I rode in the station wagons where we sat in the back facing the traffic that was behind us. When I got older and smoked, the back 6-8 rows of an airplane were designated for smoking while you were flying. Into the 90s you could smoke at bars inside of a restaurant. You could walk around the mall smoking. We didn’t have computers, we didn’t have cell phones. When we left on our bikes, we were told what time to be home and to call if we would be late. We would use the payphone and make sure we always had a quarter on us to pay for the call. Pay phones are pretty much nonexistent. You hung out with your friends, you actually talk to them, face-to-face, and social groups were more prevalent. It was a much better time without all the technology, because kids actually went outside and got exercise with their friends. Smoking in public , no seatbelts, no safety equipment, it was a whole different world. But we survived. ☮️
@Thorn99855
7 ай бұрын
Lol. I remember being about 12 and on vacation with my divorcee Dad in Myrtle Beach. He had already trained me to drive via his lap over the past couple years. I drove us back to the hotel one night because he had drank too much and I could steer better. Lol. Kids these days are so sheltered and its wild what we used to get away with back then. I got us back safe and sound with no cops too. 😂🎉
@Merica2107
Ай бұрын
I graduated in '87, I'm 54 now. I started working part time at 11 y/o after school...to help out my parents pay the bills. I felt so proud when I gave my mom my first paycheck. I WILL NEVER FORGET IT.
@tragicshaun1
7 ай бұрын
You were 100% spot-on about kids not being disciplined these days
@GApeach1313
7 ай бұрын
I was born 06/09/1982. 4 days after I was born I was on tv. At that time North Carolina, where I was born, had just passed the law about having to buckle in your child’s car seat. A public service announcement (PSA) was being filmed about how to buckle the car seat in & they asked my mom if they could use me as the kid in the car seat. Because my mom worked for the hospital they didn’t think she’d say no. 😂😂😂 They said I cried the whole time. Parents should’ve realized then that I’d never shut up. 😂😂 And I loved that movie Heathers (the clip he had up at the beginning on this video. That & the legend of Billy Jean. That was one of my favorites. 😊
@jeanine6328
7 ай бұрын
You’re spot on as to why kids in the 80’s could be trusted. They were disciplined, actions had consequences. Not now. I’d injur myself doing something I knew I wasn’t supposed to do and hide it from my mother. But I prayed she didn’t see it because I didn’t want to lie. Lying was as bad as stealing in my house. I don’t lie well, people can always tell.
@lynetteoliva1256
2 ай бұрын
Hey Lewis, I was both a 70s & 80s kid. I was 7 1/2 to 8yrs old when 1980 came around. The whole not having to wear a seatbelt was true. While in a regular car, I would put my seatbelt on all the time after age 7. When I was 7 & seated in the front passenger seat, my mom made an abrupt stop & I flew face 1st into the dash. I got a swollen & split upper lip. I still have a faint scar. I loved riding in the back of my uncle's truck w/my brother & cousin. When he would make a turn, we'd go sliding, sometimes into each other, unless we were holding on to the edge of the truck bed. As kids, we were often left in the car if our parents needed to do a quick shop @ the grocery store. My mom would rarely do that, but my aunt would do it every time she needed to get a few things @ the store @ night. One night, my brother, my cousins & I were waiting in the car, & the eldest of my cousins hopped over the front seat to change the radio station. Well, when he hopped over, he accidentally released the parking brake & the car began to roll backwards. I asked "Why is the car moving?" My cousin exclaimed "O shoot!" He quickly pulled the parking brake. My aunt came back to the car wondering why it wasn't in the same position she left it.😄 Yes, those were the real prices @ McDonald's back in the day.😄 I was a teenager in the mid to late 80s. I wasn't really into going to the mall back then. I would spend my weekends playing sports w/my brother & my cousins, or going over to my best friends house to hang out, go swimming because her family had pool or sit around watching MTV. I couldn't watch MTV @ my house because we didn't have cable. @ my house, I could watch the poor man's MTV which was VH1(Video Hits 1). I also watched American Bandstand & Soul Train.😊 Occasionally, my best friend & I would get dropped off @ the movie theater, & use the pay phone to tell one of our parents to pick us up. U see she didn't get her license until she was 18, & I didn't get mine until I was almost 21. I had anxiety about possibly hitting someone so that's why I waited so long.
@weebeevillaging587
7 ай бұрын
You could smoke in any type of store in Texas. I was stationed at Fort Cavazos (old Fort Hood) in the early 1980’s . People smoked around soft goods (clothes) as well as groceries 🤯
@princessl0llie421
7 ай бұрын
Born in the 80s, grew up in the 90s... 1. Yup we used to sit in "trunk" of my dad's car or the bed of the truck...used to wave at the driver's behind us. 2. Homade ramps for bikes/ skateboards..no helmets..home by dark 3. My dad was a smoker. We sat in smoking section of restaurants. He had a large tall ashtray that looked like a bird bath. 4. I've sipped an adults beer n thought it was soo gross. Had my first wine cooler at age 12. 5. I was paddled with belts, wooden spoons, etc 😢 ( I wasn't a bad kid either) 6. I ate PBJ sandwich at school everyday! (K-12) 7. I went to movie theaters , pizza shops and icecream parlors alone with my friends ( didn't live near the mall) 8. Never had chicken pox or a party..thankfully 9. Yes fast food and snacks were cheaper back then. 10. Collect calls and party calls were common
@ritaconley9544
7 ай бұрын
Our jelly is like jam that has no fruit or seeds in it. It's clear the same color as the fruit, but only has the juice of the fruit in it. Our Jello is like your Jelly. Jello is eaten as a salad or dessert. Jam is fruit spread with the fruit and sometimes the seeds in it. So we have both peanut butter and Jelly and Peanut butter and jam sandwiches, but everyone in America calls them Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches. McDoland's burgers were 15 cents in the 1960's and a coke was a dime.
@TAmberTaylorStudio
7 ай бұрын
Technically, jam, jelly, and preserves are made differently, so have different consistencies.
@donnadubyak6504
7 ай бұрын
This is so true. I was 4 and gone for 6 hours playing, the police were called. I was fine. Yes I rode in the back of a truck and waited in the car many times.
@reneascott6596
7 ай бұрын
In my high school '82-'86, there was a smoking area, that was outside, for students to smoke. It was an amazing time and a great era. Yes, McDonald's was cheap back then and was alot better food.
@stevewhiting556
7 ай бұрын
Ours was right across the street. It was forbidden on campus, so kids would park on the road instead of the student parking lot so they could keep cigarettes in their cars.
@wilburross9709
6 ай бұрын
There's a documentary about high school life in America in the 1980s called 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High.' Yes, it really was like that!
@usdutchkitty
7 ай бұрын
I remember 89 and after but… yes, barely any fast food was over a dollar unless it was something big.
@WuznMe
7 ай бұрын
Bro, I remember my mom smoking in the supermarket. My high school had a smoking section. This video just brings back so many memories and you nailed everything on the head.
@ik7578
7 ай бұрын
Lew, younger people wonder why we DGAF, it's because only the strong survived. We would get thrown out the door and our parents had no idea what we would be doing.
@everwhat013
7 ай бұрын
yep. your curfew was when the streetlights came on.
@mrrajsingh
7 ай бұрын
Jelly and Jam are two different things. Jam: Jam is made from crushed or chopped fruits, which are heated with sugar to create a thick, spreadable consistency. It contains small pieces or chunks of fruit, giving it a thicker and more textured consistency compared to jelly. Jelly: Jelly is made by extracting the juice from fruits and then heating it with sugar. The juice is strained to remove any solids, resulting in a clear and smooth texture without any fruit pieces. Jelly has a more gelatinous and translucent appearance than jam. Oh and marmalade is just citrus jam with the peel or zest.
@grauen1989
6 ай бұрын
I remember we had a station wagon in the 80s and when we went on holiday my older sister and I sat on the backseats while my little brother had to stay in the trunk. We were driving about 10 hours to our destination at the autobahn in Germany (so with high speed). When we wanted the sleep we just turned the seatbelt off so that we could lay down more comfortable or if we wanted to play and the seatbeld was hindering us. My little brother (3 to 4 years old back then) was as already said put with the other luggage in the trunk an slept there, just laying on some pillows. Because it was a station wagon and it was an open trunk to the backseat that was absolutely fine back then. I also remember while my mother was shopping that I stayed alone in the car if I didn't want to go with her into the shop. We lived near a big and busy road but we were allowed to play outside the whole day without supervision and nothing happend because we already knew as a little child that the road was dangerous and we stayed away from it. We climbed into trees or played at the river building a little dam of some branches and stones or something like that. Nobody found it dangerous to play alone at the river. Or we bound a rope on a crotch of a tree and used it to swing and jump into the river. With my grandma we made some fires on our meadow to burn wood and foliage and we were poking with some branches into it without burning ourselfs. When the custard was flavored with some rum or the cream of the cake had some wine in it, nobody cared about it. This little amount of alcohol wouldn't hurt a child. We also already drank coffee when we were 5 years old with a lot of milk and some sugar. Today parents wouldn't allow coke because of the caffeine not to mention coffee at all. How did we survive all this? Todays parents would freak out.
@bernicearthur8655
7 ай бұрын
My brother and I were born in 1955. So my brother in the car alone with his son, would drive with his son between his legs. As the babies got older they might even have their hands on the wheel. We just thought it looked cute. My mother even took a picture of it. The non smoking section had less smoke in restaurants. The neighborhood shop owner learned your mom's signature. Your behind belonged to your parents if you got in trouble. It hurt!!! You had to like pain to persist in doing bad things. Plus your adult neighbors could discipline you ie. hit you. If they saw you doing something wrong. You then might get hit for making the neighbor exert themselves.
@Danielle-jg4qn
7 ай бұрын
Parents held the baby. Usually the dad was driving and the mom held the baby. One of my earliest memories was sitting on my dad’s lap steering on a road in the Rockies in Colorado. I was around 3? Rode horses and bikes and never wore a helmet. Learned to drive a stick shift truck at 9 so I could help around the farm. I was driving a tractor with equipment attached by myself by the time I was 12. lol My parents taught me to be self-reliant. My parents sent me outside to play daily. I had a big farm to play on so me and my friends would play war. lol
@hillbillysimmer7120
7 ай бұрын
My parents taught me to drive when I was 13 years old. We lived in a rural area, and I would drive, without a license, to the local general store for food, fuel, and feed, while my parents were at work. Also, we had a dairy farm, and they didn't get home until late, so we did the afternoon milking, fed the horses and the calves, and did our homework after we got home from school. We knew what had to be done, and if we goofed off, Mama would make us cut our own switch, and she'd peel the bark off of it, and whip us with the green wood underneath. It didn't do any real damage, but it stung like a son of a gun. When we had free time, we'd go hang out with the neighbor kids and ride horses together. I miss those days. I graduated high school in 1983, met the love of my life in 1984, and we got married in 1988. It really was a great time to be young. There was no internet, no cellphones, personal computers were just coming on to the market, with black and white screens, and 64K of RAM. Gaming was done with board games or a visit to the local arcade. We turned out pretty well.
@kristymurphy9361
7 ай бұрын
1989, when I was in 1st grade, we had to take home a form for our parents to sign stating if they were ok with the teacher/principal distributing spankings if their kid was acting up, and if they were ok with the use of a paddle or not. There was a kid in my class that would always act up, and one day he went too far and his mom came to class and paddled him in front of everyone until he was screaming/crying that he was sorry.
@Eniral441
6 ай бұрын
The paddling went out before I went through school in the 80s, but the paddles still hung in the principals' offices. They often had holes in them too.
@jabreck1934
7 ай бұрын
I spent the 80s going to the Sunset strip in Hollywood. Every musician alive played on the strip!!! I saw at least 100 live performances of some of the best musicians and groups in history. The Roxy, the whiskey a gogo, the troubadour, the rainbow room and the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach were my favorite venues. (small venues, 500 people max)
@footnotedrummer
7 ай бұрын
As someone born in the 60s... the 80s were amazing. Between the advent of video games, malls, BMX and skateboarding in the 70s and then music in the 80s... it's hard to beat the experiences that someone who's currently in their 50s has had. I wouldn't change a thing.
@GymbalLock
7 ай бұрын
5:13 Kids were more disciplined compared today (teachers were allowed to paddle disruptive kids, instead of sending them to the principals office for a break and a cookie), but parents were role models. Parents who drank and smoke had children who drank and smoked years before they were legally permitted to do so. It wasn't a matter of discipline, respect for authority, or fear of punishment. Children simply act like their parents.
@MA-jd4ui
4 ай бұрын
I grew up in the late 70s and 80s. We were just disciplined. Now that I am grown up, I am a police officer and sometimes you get calls to go. A person's house because they have a problem. And when you get there, you know why they're kids are acting up. Cause the parents are the same way
@johnpaulbacon8320
7 ай бұрын
Wonderfuil retrospective of the 80's. I experienced most of the stuff in the video personally. My mom who did smoke never asked me to buy any for her. Another thing that was popular in the 80's that aren't as popular now or as often are Garage and Yard Sales. Oh ya those price were real ; back in the 80's the family budget went further then it does now. Had $.05 ( cent ) candies. I had my BMX bike with the MAG wheels - did all the stunts in the video and a lot that weren't shown. Looking back on those times is so entertaining. Go Gen-X'ers
@noobplayz6798
7 ай бұрын
😂😂 my uncle had a 71 Nova race car,pad locks on the hood,one seat. But he was my babysitter. He'd put me in the spare tires in the back seat area, to go race the car behind the metro airport. He road me on the motorcycle w/no helmet on me. Best times and cherished memories ❤
@kittylynnlpn
7 ай бұрын
This one was the best! I remember riding in the back of my Papaw's pick up truck every summer. Also there were no seat belts. I remember the principal in elementary school had a paddle hanging above his door and the paddle had holes in it. I never got spanked or anything in school probably that was the reason why. Those McDonald's prices were spot on back then. They forgot to talk about roller skates. I used to roller skate all the time without knee pads or elbow pads or helmet. We should go to the roller skating rink every weekend. And for the '80s they forgot the big hair and the fashion. But I guess this was things you couldn't get away with nowadays. But the '80s were a special time to grow up as a teenager that's for sure. I wouldn't change it for anything. Graduated 1987! Thanks for the trip down memory lane again. Love your reactions. I've been a sub since almost at the beginning of your channel. I recommend it to everybody I know. I love you and Lawrence and Mr h and jolly! You guys make my day! Oh and I can't forget Kabir! You guys rock
@Eniral441
6 ай бұрын
I loved waiting in the car while my parents shopped. We'd role down the window to sit there and watch Star Wars playing at the Drive-In movie theater. We had it memorized, so we didn't need the sound. We often rode in the back of pickups, but now it's illegal in most places. I didn't wear a seat belt until the late 80's after I lost a friend who flew through a windshield. Babies were either in baby carriers (not belted to the seat), set on the seat, or held by another adult. I knew someone that insisted on putting her child on the floor in the backseat on a bunch of blankets while a sibling sat in the backseat.
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