70s-80s childhood here. Rode in the very back, also rode in the back of the truck, and in the cabover camper while parents drove. It's a wonder any gen x-ers are still alive, but if you have one in your life, they are who you want on your side during the zombie apocalypse
@johnw8578
15 сағат бұрын
The thing about GenX is even though we watched GenX current day media, we also watched and listened to media from the generations before us in the form of reruns. As a kid, I watched tv shows from the 50s and 60s in the form of reruns and movies from the 30s to the 60s. We only had so many channels so we were pretty much all watching the same thing. It drew us all together in culture in ways that the newer generations (who have so much choice and access to tons of current day media both good and bad) will never understand or appreciate.
@evawettergren7492
8 сағат бұрын
This is soooo true. My dad was excited when The Macahans was shown as a rerun on TV, as he could share a show he liked from his younger days with us kids. And me and my sister loved stuff from the 70's. And all of the Elvis movies. At the same time our older brothers rented home videos with Alien and Ghostbusters. I think I got to experience the best of both old and new as a kid who grew up in the 80's. (And Thundercats, TMNT and He-Man are still unbeatable as early morning cartoons...)
@jimf2892
6 сағат бұрын
YES! I used to watch Gilligan's Island, Dobby Gillas, Bewitched(in black and white and in color) I Dream of Jeanne...and probably many more that I can't quite remember lol. I also remember listening to 'oldies' back then, as we didn't have any say what played on the radio in the car and had to listen to whatever mom and dad wanted to, so we listened to the music they grew up on!
@misslora3896
4 сағат бұрын
@@johnw8578 I think all the various entertainment on demand and having endless options (w/shopping as well), though it may seem nice, has actually been detrimental. People have become accustomed to instant gratification with so many things... It's had negative effects on all of us, but especially in the development of younger people. And the endless options in seemingly everything just makes it confusing and choices much more difficult. We spend much more time just trying to decide what to choose and we also usually end up with more than we planned to get because of it. Like TV... we were exposed to a lot of really great old shows and movies that we likely would have never chosen to watch given the option. There's a lot to be said for more limited choices and delayed gratification.
@kramermccabe8601
23 сағат бұрын
calling your crush and having to talk to her father first was so stress inducing
@TrineDaely
22 сағат бұрын
Not as nerve racking as meeting many of those dads. Mine is retired military, he would take my dates into the den, show off his gun collection, shot targets, military ribbons for marksmanship, and inform them what time I was to be returned.
@lynnw7155
21 сағат бұрын
We had a cord on the phone long enough that you could squeeze yourself into the linen closet for privacy.
@sassykat2000
20 сағат бұрын
And this built resilience to stress inducing situations we have to handle later.
@khatzeye
5 сағат бұрын
@@sassykat200080s kids ❤ We’re Ford tough 💪🏾
@dgeneeknapp3168
2 сағат бұрын
I had a friend who's father was a Cobb county Ga sheriff's deputy..... he'd clean guns if he knew a boy was going to come see her😂. He'd keep a couple of weapons constantly disassembled for cleaning, in case a boy came over on short notice. They had escaped a serious gvt overthrow in Peru about 40+ years ago. He was a big guy too 😂.
@ashrak12
21 сағат бұрын
In the 70s we could make prank phone calls with no worry about caller ID. People would hitchhike without worrying too much about being kidnapped. We would leave our front door unlocked when we went out to play with nobody home.
@Liv-r1d
21 сағат бұрын
My father was a software engineer for IBM and was one of the pioneers for creating at home software for the PC. I used to go to work with him and he'd let me go into the giant computer room which had a very specific smell and was loud and contained huge machines. He'd let me watch their dot Matrix and tear the paper off. It was extremely satisfying.
@pinktastic6159
5 сағат бұрын
Kids today: haha we have all these computers! Boomers and Gen X: who do you think invented that? Haha
@baneblackguard584
22 сағат бұрын
I can't imagine what my early life would have been like if I wasn't free to just jump on the bike and go on an adventure. I think life as a kid would have felt like prison without that. A HUUUUGE one he didn't mention is arcades. they were everywhere, every mall had one (there were a lot of malls back then) many strip malls had one (usually next to a laundromat). Arcades and roller rinks were THE places to go. 90% of social life for kids in the 80's happened at an arcade or a roller rink.
@nonenone6884
20 сағат бұрын
my mom put me out of the house after school. and told me to come home when the street lights came on.
@The_Winter_Raven
23 сағат бұрын
It is shame that kids today don't have as much chance to just hang out with a friend all day having to find stuff to do. We made forts from branches, just because it seemed fun. No reason, but we did learn along the way. Not sure what I learned from climbing onto the school roof, but that's another story... 😅 love your content! 😅
@johnw8578
15 сағат бұрын
Yep. We built some tree forts that sort of fell apart. Luckily, I asked my father (who was an engineer) for some tips and we learned to build a long lasting, sturdy fort.
@Jetz316
22 сағат бұрын
I was born in 1978. I literally grew up in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. I miss how simple life was. * I still have all my Garbage Pail Kids cards. Including first edition cards.
@NyxinOwl
17 сағат бұрын
Born in 1976 and same with the Garbage Pail Kids :)
@Ultima742
16 сағат бұрын
born 77 and still have my GPK stash
@TacomaGirl
14 сағат бұрын
1979 and same! I have James Flames on my fridge right now 😁
@pinktastic6159
5 сағат бұрын
I loved those. I think they tried a comeback but people were offended lol
@lightsalt8530
59 минут бұрын
@@pinktastic6159of course they were lol
@OtterMayhem
16 сағат бұрын
Waterbeds were much more durable than you would think. Leaks were usually slow and could be patched without draining it. Now when the heater went out during winter and your bed temp dropped to the 60's or 70's, that sucked.
@departmentofredundancydept4121
19 сағат бұрын
Water beds had heaters. Nice and warm in the winter. Turn off the heater for summer to stay cool at night 😁
@KrisThroughGlass
21 сағат бұрын
When we were kids in the 80s/90s we spend every free minute in the summer at the local public swimming pool. Without parents of course. We went there by bike and every group of friends had their favorite spot to have their base with the towels and bags, so you always found your friends.
@johnw8578
15 сағат бұрын
That or the mall! We would spend the whole day at the mall -- movie theater, food court, water slide, arcade, skating rink, hide-n-seek in and amongst the stores and sneak into the tunnels underneath until someone chased us out. Summers would fly by!
@patriciacanadiansenior8130
23 сағат бұрын
I wandered all over the place alone when I was 4-5 years old. But then again, I was born in 1947. I still have a landline with coil wire. I also have my smartphone.💙
@johnw8578
15 сағат бұрын
The thing with GenX and older generations, we lived in both pre-internet and post-internet worlds. We know both.
@patriciacanadiansenior8130
13 сағат бұрын
@@johnw8578 Yes, we've seen a lot of change. The young people now wouldn't know how to survive if a major world occurrence happened. No electricity, planting/growing food, making clothing, keeping warm, no fuel for cars......
@katrinalarsen4048
9 сағат бұрын
BOOMERS LOL
@pinktastic6159
5 сағат бұрын
My mom did that in the 30s.she could take the trolley all over town. She'd go watch movies for a whole day.
@corwyncorey3703
11 сағат бұрын
The thing about us Gen X ers is simple... we learned that being stupid *hurt.* Consequences were an early part of our lives. So was accountability. They went hand in hand.
@danielepps8729
19 сағат бұрын
TV had to remind parents: It's 10pm do you know where your children are
@ericcaouette2166
22 сағат бұрын
Gen x kids were responsible for their own safety like it should be. You had to be able to evaluate risk and lives with the consequence of your actions.
@jhood758
17 сағат бұрын
We had fun, lots of kids and lots of wonderful memories. I wouldn’t trade my life for anything. I can look back at the great times and still have most of my friends today. A couple have passed on but they will never be forgotten.
@Destyn2b
19 сағат бұрын
I am genuinely enjoying these Gen X videos. Great memories. 😊
@belkyhernandez8281
20 сағат бұрын
It's actually safer today than in the 80s. Parents need to chill. If your child isn't a toddler and knows traffic rules, it's gonna be fine.
@flemingmarshall8560
17 сағат бұрын
The problem is their parents don't even know the traffic rules. I mean look at the way they drive and it is so rare for me to see somebody actually ride a bicycle correctly. I mean we were taught as kids. Hey you ride on this side of the road. You do this. You do that you know. Yeah we may not have done it in our neighborhoods as much but when we went out onto a road that was going a little further than our neighborhood. We tended to follow the bicycle rules better kids today. Don't even know the damn rules
@DoktorLorenz
23 сағат бұрын
Jesus yeah I had cigarette sweets in the early 80s in the UK. Playgrounds had real tarmac, none of this bouncy rubber or wood chips for soft landings. I was lucky to have a ZX Spectrum 48k, when the cassette tapes used to take from 5-15 mins to load, if it loaded properly. Those of us in the know used to use a jewelers screwdriver to adjust the mechanism to adjust the position and tone. Chalk erasers were full of dust and hurt if you threw it at someone. Smoking amongst parents was just normal and I hated the smell even back then. Making huge home made BMX ramps and the best huge jumps had an old soggy wet mattress at the end. Rope swings hung on trees that always were made of the worst fraying rope that's ready to snap and you were scared you'd fall but making the swing was awesome. Your coming Home time was either dinner or when the street lights all came on, no phones for parents to call us on lol.
@adventuresinmusic2487
21 сағат бұрын
Crime rates and kid kidnapping stats are way overblown. Crime is lower than it has been in 50yrs. Radically lower than the 90s. Almost all kidnapping is done by a parent. A childs chance of kidnapping is a million to one. The safety thing is ruining our kids. A lack of confidence. Fear of everything. Young people are getting out of college totally unprepared. For instance... I had a job when I was 10. Two hours, after school. I was paying social security at 16. Holding full time jobs during summer. I left home the day after high school graduation. None of this was odd amongst my peers. I worked a couple years and put myself thru college, working full time to do so.
@johnw8578
15 сағат бұрын
So true! I know some younger people who have major anxiety issues because they are afraid of everything.
@SteelCurtain024
21 сағат бұрын
6:19 fair question, “How did we, 80s kids, survive?” A lot of luck 🍀😉🤘🏻my father always said, “It’s better to be lucky than good.” Garbage Pale kids were cards you collected. Cabbage Patch Kids were dolls you collected. You mixed up the two. FYI mate. I miss my water bed. They were temperature regulated. They were great for the changing temperature outside.
@pinktastic6159
5 сағат бұрын
I got stickers with my Garbage Pail kids and put them all over my notebooks. Trapper Keepers ftw!
@khatzeye
5 сағат бұрын
Real talk, they beat the competition out of Gen Z 😂 I had to troll my son relentlessly to finally get him to be competitive. It so weird. And that it’s all or none? Kids were left out, it happened. We didn’t make a big deal about it. Quite frankly I blame the schools for undermining how us as parents. Telling kids the will get in trouble for defending themselves against bullying especially.
@CelestialKitsune13
16 сағат бұрын
All the adults when I was growing up always told us to get home before dark instead of before the lights came on. Not that even as kids we weren't aware that going outside after dark was the height of stupidity, since that's when the snakes and coyotes came out. 😅 And dude no, the original Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles is so much different than what you got after Nickelodeon bought it.
@rono776
12 сағат бұрын
#24: We didn’t really wear seatbelts ever back then. #22: You could typically hear when someone picked up the phone. The main issue was determining which house had the annoying little sibling trying to listen the convo. 😂 What was also annoying was hearing someone dial a number before verifying whether the line was free or not. #19: Merry-go-rounds FTW lol. #12: Adam Bomb! Bruised Lee! New Wave Dave! … loved the names. #10: no no no… but 1-3 Swatches on each wrist-absolutely. #7: Saturday morning cartoons were the best. #3: We sometimes made collect calls with devised code names to convey messages. The person being called would “not accept the charges” but would know the intended message by the name used-a perfect way to save a quarter haha.
@jimf2892
5 сағат бұрын
We had a merry-go-round at our middle school that we called 'The Puker' it was your typical merry-go-round, but with one big difference, it was just a skeleton, it had the wooden seats still, but the center where the wood would've been was completely gone, so we could throw 6 kids in the middle to push! It was like a very low tech carnival ride lol. There would be kids that would hold onto the bump between the benches and kick their legs out and go till they couldn't hold on any more. It was a great time!
@Danceofmasks
23 сағат бұрын
Bold of you to assume that in 30 years, humans will even have feelings.
@kerriniemi9525
22 сағат бұрын
😂😂😂
@baneblackguard584
22 сағат бұрын
humans will have feelings, it will be mandated, you'll have to schedule a weekly feelings exposure session with a licensed emotional support officer. It will only be the feelings you are authorized for, of course, and only for the half hour session... but humans will still have feelings in 30 years. The complete ban on feelings doesn't happen until 2093.
@kerriniemi9525
21 сағат бұрын
@@baneblackguard584 🙊🙈🙉
@TrineDaely
22 сағат бұрын
If you think making ashtrays in art is wild, the guys in wood-shop class almost always made rifle racks as their first project. In high school a lot of kids who had trucks had rifle racks mounted in the rear window, and almost all of us, guys and gals, carried a pocket knife (yes, even to school).
@TheMrGreen28
16 сағат бұрын
Yep, those racks weren't empty at school either.
@johnw8578
15 сағат бұрын
How do kids today survive without a pocket knife?
@johnw8578
15 сағат бұрын
@@TheMrGreen28 Yet no school "incidents". What changed?
@TheMrGreen28
Сағат бұрын
@johnw8578 Colombine, making schools gun free zones. And I think the over prescription of SSRIs and other antidepressants. I started taking them when I was 26 by 27. I stopped because the only emotion I could feel was anger, and they removed any give a f I had about anything. From what I understand, that happens more the younger you are also. Plus, most of them state in the possible side-effects are homicidal thoughts or actions.
@krystleklearcentral
19 сағат бұрын
#13 yes we we offered a sip of beer, but i think it was because our parents knew we wouldn't like it.
@johnw8578
15 сағат бұрын
True.
@TacomaGirl
14 сағат бұрын
My grandma would pour me a little juice glass of beer and water it down 😂 I hated it but I always asked her for some
@jimf2892
5 сағат бұрын
I remember when my sister was teething, mom would put brandy on her gums to alleviate the pain. Imagine doing that now, you'd have CPS knocking at your door faster than you could screw the top back on the bottle!
@NyxinOwl
17 сағат бұрын
Correction- you CAN still get candy cigarettes' at gas stations. I just recently bought a case of them from my rural town in Colorado. The nostalgia that a taste can bring back is WILD! BTW I have nearly every Garbage Pail Kids.
@quicksilver212
19 сағат бұрын
Finally, there was a trick to make those pay phones "call" themselves. If there was a whole row of them like the ones pictured, you could activate each one, walk away and leave them ringing. If someone "answered" one, they'd get a weird tone, only for it to start ringing again as soon as they hung up. We'd watch mall security play "pay-phone-whack-a-mole" trying to make the damn things stop.
@krystleklearcentral
19 сағат бұрын
16:45 #6 Waterbeds didn't just 'pop'. Occasionally, there would be a leak (really small), but they came with a repair kit (kind of like a tyre repair kit), but even if you didn't have that, a bit of duct tape would do the trick. I guess if you didn't put the cover on, leaks would be more frequent, but i can only remember one on mine, and I had it for years,... Who is taking knives or scissors to bed?
@LilFireFox
19 сағат бұрын
Ah the smoking thing... My sister was born in '76, younger brother '83 and myself in '82. I do remember my brother and I making ashtrays for my parents b/c they both smoked and here is a funny bit. My mom stopped smoking when she was pregnant with my sister but smoked with my brother and I while pregnant. Now my sister smokes like a chimney and my brother and I don't. lol.
@GEN_X-075
8 сағат бұрын
I broke my nose from falling off the monkey bars lol I miss the 80's
@TrineDaely
22 сағат бұрын
I pity the fool who doesn't get this reference 😉 I still smoke cigarettes. Not the candy ones or electronic ones.
@noself7889
16 сағат бұрын
You lookin pretty good in them jeans, boy 😉
@TacomaGirl
14 сағат бұрын
How much is it for a pack these days? 😬
@noself7889
13 сағат бұрын
@@TacomaGirl My brother smokes, it’s about ten to twelve dollars a pack here in Colorado. I chew tobacco, that’s about seven to eight dollars a can. Ten years ago it was half that price roughly.
@vikkibuchan3450
14 сағат бұрын
I was born in 78, grew up in the 80's, at the park we used to swing as high as possible and then jump off to see where you landed, provided you didn't get caught on the swings chain, I do remember having the garbage pale kids in the UK in the 80s. I recently found the movie on Prime it wasn't as funny as I thought as a kid🤔, we played dodgeball outside of school, we also used to play kerbie where you and a friend stood at opposite sides of the road from each other and threw a ball to try and hit the pavement (sidewalk edge) kerb so it bounced back and the person who got moved forward and got an extra throw. I remember the Mr T cartoon along with the Ewoks/Pole Position /Dogtanain / Willy Fog / Silverhawks /Dark Wing Duck and the other cartoons mentioned along with the Rackoons/ Moomins and Willow the Wisp, then shows like The A-Team/Airwolf/Knight Rider / Streethawk/ Fall Guy/ Dukes Of Hazzard. We never called our friends, we used to just go round and see if they were coming out, and we we're alway's told to be back by a certain time or supper (dinner) would be in the dog, then the introduction to the Nes and for me it was the Sega Master System before the Sega Mega Drive I could never beat that Bonanza Brothers game
@OSykesisdynomite
21 сағат бұрын
My dad dropped a cig on the waterbed. The water kinda oozed out slowly. But my mom had a patch kit to fix it. So you didn't lose the bed.
@alexandradeheus
23 сағат бұрын
I was the one that did not get many cards but life is not fair and I learned early. not a bad thing to learn
@johnw8578
15 сағат бұрын
I was always told that "fair" was where you go to play games and eat pie -- that's the only "fair" in life.
@kellypatterson8506
21 сағат бұрын
You would have loved growing up in the 70s/80s was fun.
@DreidMusicalX
22 сағат бұрын
We were actually free. One thing, we were in a 1983 Datsun pickup truck riding in the back of the truck. My mother was driving god rest her lovely soul. We pull into Thomas and Mac Center for Van Halen concert and out in the parking lot. David Lee Roth was out riding his 10 Speed before the concert. My friends and I went flying when she stomped on the brakes because she almost ran him over. This was Van Halens 1984 tour in Las Vegas NV. But I can tell you some killer stuff that we did as kids. Riding our bikes all over the country. The drugs as pre teens, most teens were having sex at age 11 - 13 was the common starting age. Ive personally lived at least 6 lives before 1990. I was born in 1968 and my era has experienced nearly everything. Drinking smoking , weed, acid, hash, pills, you name it we all did it. And don't think that you know more about technology then we do. Gen X are not Boomers. I used to put computers together back in the late 1990's. I was building custom PC towers and selling them. We are still on the computer. Most 80's kids that would wear Neon were either poser kids, girls, and later Gen X of little kids. Not the old Gen X born to lat 60's early 70's. We were into Rock N Roll, concert shirts, half shirts, cut off jeans and flip flops, Vans, or OP shorts. Then came ADIDAS which stood for All Day I Dream About Sex shoes. yeah corny, but it was a saying on the west coast.
@departmentofredundancydept4121
19 сағат бұрын
We had to program our computer, typing in code, debugging it. They didn't come setup out of the box. But these kids think we don't know anything about computers 😂👍
@misslora3896
18 сағат бұрын
You aren't kidding one bit about sex... I swear Nikes, "Just do it" campaign was a nod to us. That's all we heard from our peers in Middle/Jr.High School. "You should just do it and get it over with". The pressure was intense. That culture that developed during the 60's, but especially the 70's with younger and younger kids was awful. I think of movies like 1973's Jeremy with Robby Benson. Or the 1979 made for TV movie Sooner or Later with Rex Smith and Denise Miller (I was only 10, but watched with my older sister)... Both were packaged and sold as young love stories, but ultimately they were meant to normalize the idea of having sex to their young pre-teen and teen female audience. Entertainment has been used to drive culture for decades... it's far worse and MUCH more direct now than EVER before. It was still at least somewhat subtle and often even romanticized when we were kids.
@noself7889
16 сағат бұрын
I seen the 1984 four tour in Albuquerque, Nm. It was my first concert. Was a blast ! VH!
@misslora3896
12 сағат бұрын
@@noself7889 My 1st concert was in 1983. But it was Van Halens future lead singer, Sammy Hagar on his "I can't drive 55" tour. Would have loved seeing VH with Davis Lee Roth.
@DreidMusicalX
9 сағат бұрын
@@misslora3896 I as under 15 so my mom took me at the time to all these concerts. I started in 1978 Van Halen and seen them every year and twice in 83 with US Festival. My mother was really cool and concerts was my friends and my moms thing to do for all of us. Ive been to a concert every week from 1978 to around 1986 with her, then I was going myself with friends if she didn't want to come. My mom was a hard core rocker.
@gender_anarchist
21 сағат бұрын
One of my early jobs was doing sales and inventory reports for a local beverage distributor, and the satisfaction and calm from tearing off those end strips was necessary to soothe your nervous system after an entire sales force worth of reports printed out
@krystleklearcentral
19 сағат бұрын
#2 I LOVED Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego. It was a great game. They even made a TV based on the game in the early to mid 90's (in the US)
@jimf2892
5 сағат бұрын
Cartoon AND kids game show if I recall correctly!
@carlacarla3384
22 сағат бұрын
You do know that 40-50 years from now, the 20 yr olds will think the same way about YOU. They'll be amazed at how backwards and crazy your younger life was. You know that, right? Every new generation thinks that of their parents/grandparents. What amazes me is that y'all think you're different. 😂😂😂
@davidtullis2810
17 сағат бұрын
Wearing a cast on a broken bones was a rite of passage. Parents would sleep in on Saturdays
@justanotherwhitegirla7093
19 сағат бұрын
As far as the computer went nobody had a PC at home but the school had them. You either played Number Munchers or Oregon Trail. When I was 5 my mom let me sip her Bartles & James wine coolers and my dad would let me sip his Colt 45. Yeah, everything he said is as real as a heart attack. Fun times
@jimf2892
5 сағат бұрын
For my group of friends, it was Zork! Nothing better than a text based game where you would have to input what you wanted to do but didn't always know how to word it so the game understood what you wanted!
@WandaGale66
22 сағат бұрын
2 memories. 1. Trying to remain balanced while on your knees. We did this in the back of the station wagon while Daddy drove like a race car driver. The sharp turns around the mountains were difficult. There was a lot of falling over and slamming into your sibling. 2. This skit was performed in my high school during the talent show. Yes, it was allowed. There were 4 boys, and yes, they won. kzitem.info/news/bejne/p5BsyId4gaB-fIY They switched the song to an upbeat Beethoven melody.
@misslora3896
18 сағат бұрын
I almost think the playgrounds and toys of Gen X'ers and older were deliberately designed in an effort to "thin the heard". Fortunately, kids turned out to be much more resilient than they expected. Something that's since been forgotten.
@jimf2892
5 сағат бұрын
Oh, most definitely! I had remarked in my own post about the metal strip in the slap bracelets. But I also remember Tonka trucks were made with metal and functioned just like the real vehicles they were modeled after, not some Little Tikes plastic with barely any moving parts!
@tyffmccullough2306
19 сағат бұрын
I miss the neon clothes 😂 and being able to be relatively SAFE playing outside or riding bikes (my granddaughters do this today, but I'm out front with them and sometimes it's just too dang hot!)
@jimf2892
5 сағат бұрын
I wonder what Jay would think about Hypercolor clothing lol
@EyeKahnography
16 сағат бұрын
the slap bracelet had a laterally curve to the metal inside the satin bracelet so it's hold it's shape rigid until slapped against the arm inverting that bend and it'd wrap around. iirc there were a few accidents and lacerations it was metal. also the Garbage Pail Kids were a satire of the popular wholesome Cabbage Patch Kids toys. The Garbage Pail Kids cards would be a card set with a stick of awful gum having rhyming names like RV Stevie and the kid on the card might be part television. it capitalized on the kid mentality that gross can be funny. I think it had a movie
@telisaluther6602
17 сағат бұрын
1. My uncle put a play pin in the back of his full sized van and placed my cousin in it while driving. 2. I broke my collarbone in a accident as I was standing behind the front seat of the driver's side. 3. Garbage Pail Kids were a trading card/sticker spoof of the insanely popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. 4. I used gasoline to wash the oil off my hands when helping my dad work on the car. 5. I walked and bought my mom her cigarettes. 6. I was given brandy as a gum numbing when I was teething. 7. Had my first beer/wine cooler at 10. 8. The computer when it first came out they said oh 250 gb hard drive was enough space for a lifetime lol... now we have TB HDs. 9. DOT Matrix came in two versions plan and green/white stripes. 10. Lit my mom and aunts cigarettes for them. 11. Dodge ball was a slaughter. 12.Slap bracelets were fabric covered medal that when it started to cut through they were sharp. 13. The zip zip zip sound of some of the fabric like corduroy and the old wind breaker fabric would give you away in hide and seek. 14. Water Beds are still sold and the material they made the mattress out of was pretty thick. 15. late 80's early 90s. The show America's Most Wanted was hosted by a guy who's son was kidnapped and gruesomely SAed and murdered and that was the reason for him to host the show. 16. We didn't have participation awards or all or none Valentines cards. 17. Lawn Darts. metal tipped short arrows that you were supposed to throw in the air aimed at the circle laid on the lawn... we threw them at each other lol.
@jucadvgv3449
20 сағат бұрын
when nieces and young cousins spent the night at my house they absolutely drawing on my driveway with chalk. (bro & sil got furious when i let the kids do it on their driveway.) the kids thought it was great to do it at my house, though. their parents didn't like that either because the kids wanted to do it at home as well. anyway, they'd spend half the day drawing on my driveway.
@jimf2892
5 сағат бұрын
wth, all they would have to do would be take pictures of their kids art and then break out the hose and clean the driveway...how sad they stifle those kids budding artistic talents!
@annaandgary1
22 сағат бұрын
Just think what people are going to think of your MacBook in 30 years, obsolete 🤣
@staceytuhey9372
14 сағат бұрын
Honestly it was really fun. and we called the back of the station wagon the “way-back”
@michaelkibble740
9 сағат бұрын
The candy cigarettes were very chalky. I miss these even though they were chalky as heck
@jimf2892
5 сағат бұрын
Didn't they have like a minty flavor to them too?
@michaelkibble740
3 сағат бұрын
@@jimf2892 Not that I can remember
@AlystraKriss
18 сағат бұрын
The water beds evolved through time but they were a thick rubbery material and didn’t pop so easily. I once accidentally over filled mine and walked into the room to a water ball! I panicked and prayed it would drain out and not pop first 😂
@amystahl4977
3 сағат бұрын
The mid to late 80's is when stranger danger became a thing. I remember Adam Walsh was kidnapped in a mall while there with family. After that, there were other child abductions. The change in the freedom kids had happened slowly. I graduated high school in 1992, and I was still pretty free then, but my mom began to worry more and always had me call if I was going to change my plans after I left the house.
@Eniral441
2 сағат бұрын
They still have waterbeds today. They have gotten much better with a lot of options for matresses. And they aren't as easy to pop. My Husky loved our and Beebe punched a hole in the mattress with her claws. I still have one, obviously. It's not hard to maintain, but it is harder to find bedsheets these days.
@quicksilver212
19 сағат бұрын
Also, I distinctly remember my aunt and mom at a cookout drinking something called Malt Duck, which was a grape beer or something. One of them gave my four-year-old cousin a sip. She kept grabbing it, taking swigs and they were just laughing. Everyone just thought it was funny as hell. 😄
@richardbast7243
20 сағат бұрын
The cereals were always part of "this" healthy breakfast. They would show healthy items alongside their super sugary cereals in the commercials.
@Cerinaya
16 сағат бұрын
I was born in the early '80s so I lived in a time when everything got switched from hard copies to digital. The smoking thing is something I'm happy has changed because people used to spoke everywhere. I did have a lot of fun wondering around everywhere as a kid though.
@AntaresSelket
17 сағат бұрын
Instead of a stamp collection, 80s kids collected stickers. Puffy stickers, scratch 'n' sniff, and my sister even had "Where's the beef?" stickers. It was common to have colored strings safety pinned to your backpack so you could sit in class and braid friendship bracelets. In the 70s and 80s we had a lot of child serial killers, but in the 70s the kids were called runaways and by the 80s people couldn't ignore how many went missing. So they started putting missing children's faces on milk cartons and teaching children about "Stranger Danger."
@Jtr_ceral_killer
23 сағат бұрын
if you want to see how the kids in america lived in the 80s, research how kids in japan live today. some differences, but not much. the rearward facing seat in the family station wagon was great. i used to pretend i was a tail gunner in ww2.
@Buggins2000
22 сағат бұрын
A dirt lot near us had the front of a ship in it. We were always playing World War with someone. We didn't care about rattlesnakes or bees nests. It was the best.
@samswords9993
18 сағат бұрын
In the late 80's when I was in upper elementary school, I biked 2-3 miles to friends who lived on farms or out to Lake Michigan to play on the beach.
@silentrage5425
15 сағат бұрын
I have a few opinions about this video, but I'll try to keep it short. "play in the front yard." Who ever stayed in the front yard? Maybe the front yard of my friend's house three blocks away. "Ride in the back of the car." Yeah, we had a pickup truck, try that at 70 mph on the highway. Playing unsupervised, yeah it was early Gen X parents that stopped that in the mid 90's. We know what kind of things we did unsupervised. I'm not so sure stopping it was a good thing. I mean look at what we did to the generations after us.
@johnw8578
15 сағат бұрын
I know young folks filled with anxiety because they are scared of everything and are not confident in their decisions.
@kristilicea1472
2 сағат бұрын
There were people from different households shared a phone line and my friend I found out that they shared a phone line with the people all of us kids hated so we would constantly be checking to see if they were using the phone. We'd make all kinds of noises and just would constantly be listening in on their conversations 😂😂😂
@tinas7653
10 сағат бұрын
My childhood was the seventies. Wonderful time!
@jamesbowring9528
6 сағат бұрын
I knew kids couldn't go wandering off now, but playing in the front without supervision!? What kind gestapo level parenting is that? I miss the 80s as a kid, getting on a bike and riding miles into the New Forest. That was our playground when visiting family down south
@irmulc
Сағат бұрын
For me sadly, there was a kid that was taken when he was in the bookstore with his mom, and was killed behind a mall. She wasn’t close by when it happened. I remember hearing about it and then playing against his baseball team a couple weeks later. It was tough to hear about and then to see the complete shift in the freedom I had going forward. After that, my parents wanted to know where I was at all time, and I got in serious trouble if I didn’t call home to let them know where I was.
@K10House
2 сағат бұрын
My friend was in the back of his mom's station wagon when he was young, and she was unaware that the back door had come unlatched and that he'd rolled out when she went around a corner. It took several blocks before she noticed what had happened 😂😂😂 She was a teacher not for nothing
@terrahatch5861
15 сағат бұрын
Consider a large family with 5-7 kids making an ashtray every year through primary school 😂😂that's 25-35 ashtrays in one family. My parents still have a few for the odd smoker 😅
@Miss-Sarah-Lumen
21 сағат бұрын
I just love your content here 🥰 funny thing is my mother was in like therapy and cause she's like born 1970 the only thing she knew to make in therapy group art was a ashtray. The ashtray was then gifted to me and I still have but I don't smoke 😂
@samswords9993
18 сағат бұрын
Dodge ball is still played by kids in the midwest. I don't know if it is at school or not, but our local church boys' club had a father/son dodgeball party for Christmas.
@krystalryan9174
13 сағат бұрын
"Stranger Danger" stopped children being too far away from home for too long. Made parents totally paranoid
@sammic7492
12 сағат бұрын
I used to sit in the back of my dads work van in amongst all his tools. There was just as much danger around for kids in the 80's it's always existed what has changed is how we respond and act on it, now everyone is so paranoid and afraid of everything and kids are tracked by parents like we track parcels, and this is partly why young people are always so anxious and nervous and lack resilience or resourcefulness.
@shanaleelmt
8 сағат бұрын
LOL you said the same thing about the cereals
@keikonooner3756
4 сағат бұрын
I miss those parks. They were so fun. You could go so high on the swing. Seesaws would go way, high! I miss the fairy go rounds! Everybody would gather in the center and one of your parents would spin it and you'd try to stay on it without flying off! It was great. Climbing on top of the monkey bars was great! Trying to get to the highest part of the playground was fun. I don't miss the metal slides. Those hurt a lot in the summer. Not a good idea but the slides used to be way higher and way more fun.
@noself7889
16 сағат бұрын
The waterbeds had a thick plastic mattress and they were almost impossible to pop. If you did poke a hole in one they had patch kits that worked pretty good.
@justincase3828
12 сағат бұрын
60's childhood here. Those long stretchy cords on the phone were the upgraded new thing in the 70's. 60's kids had very short black cords on the phone. The phone was in the living room on a small stand. Mom would put a comfortable chair next to the stand. You either stood next to the phone to take your call or sat down in the chair. When we got the new longer cords, we could answer the phone and then walk into the kitchen. Any person walking from kitchen to living room or vice versa had to duck or step over the long phone cord. Occasionally you'd be talking on the phone in the kitchen and hear a loud thump only to discover your parent or sibling had tripped over the cord. Then you'd get yelled at by one of the parents who wondered what the hell you were doing dragging the phone into the kitchen. Some good teen conversations were cut short that way. Imagine that.
@richardbast7243
20 сағат бұрын
Those edges could be used for making things. Most common for me was to fold two of them together hole to hole over and over until I had a long springy thing.
@aliciavelarde6200
19 сағат бұрын
I remember riding in the very back of the station wagon thinking it would be fun. That's how we found out i ger motion sickness. If there is one thing I miss about my childhood, it's going out bike riding with my friends. That was the best.
@flemingmarshall8560
17 сағат бұрын
The bicycle thing 18:48 started to taper off in the '90s. Parents were getting a little more touchy about it by the late '90s for the most part. They were keeping their kids right in their own neighborhoods. Just a block away getting get much further than that. Parents get all nervous. You know unless you lived out in the countryside then you know your closest friend's house was several city blocks away. Maybe a couple of miles. Plus kids were staying inside a little more in the late '90s computers were starting to get those games that are iconic now and help set the stage for pretty much everything coming along. You not only had your sega's and nintendos but by the late '90s you had the first PlayStation so kids were staying in a little more to at least part of them oh and the kind of chalk they were showing was art chalk. You would use that on sidewalks. Your chalkboard at home blacktop to draw pictures and stuff. You could use it in school as well but not often. Yeah only in our class generally and actually there are some artists that made really amazing chalk artwork and you know people would take pictures of it or whatever cuz once the rain comes it's gone
@gailcotter4228
7 сағат бұрын
You should order candy from that era and rate it on your show!
@thesimwarlock
21 сағат бұрын
At 18:33 this had a lot to do with the abduction of Adam Walsh in"74" and was found beheaded in "81" about 4 years later his father John started a show called America's Most Wanted, targeting missing children, although if he had been watching his kid at sears this would probably not be the case
@Desert_Daisy
11 сағат бұрын
One thing I don't think I've seen mentioned is taking public transportation without an adult, which city kids did.
@phoebewoodruff1101
5 сағат бұрын
Garbage Pail Kids was like a cross between Pokemon cards and Cards Against Humanity. It was a dark take on the Cabbage Patch Kids (weird-looking baby dolls with birth certificates and twee backstories), and you were edgy af if you were into GPK--when you were 12, lol.
@dgeneeknapp3168
2 сағат бұрын
Anyone ever realize their floppy disc wasn't in the protective holder....and bent all to bupkis?? 😂
@sevantofra
21 сағат бұрын
Garbage Pail kids were collector cards, whose purpose was to.... collect. They had different characters on them and had strange names the picture depicted. Like Slimy Sue would be a girl with ooze incorporated into the picture.
@chrisjarvis2287
22 сағат бұрын
Candy cigarettes & The same sugary cereals are still around and kids still eat them, matter of fact!, there are more .
@angieciro3501
23 сағат бұрын
You did have to watch out for holes in waterbeds, but try sleeping on one when the heater goes out. Fridged! 🥶🧊🥶
@allenruss2976
22 сағат бұрын
Electric blanket under the sheet
@masterquan4891
4 сағат бұрын
Waterbeds were a nightmare, pop them, flooding time. They also have to have a heater or they are cold, thus hard to maintain. Plus any movement and it was not baffeled wound wake you up or your partner. Don't Miss them.
@krystleklearcentral
19 сағат бұрын
#17 My first computer was a Commodore Datassette Cassette Player. It was about 1/3 the size of a PlayStation, and the games were on cassette tapes. You plugged it into the TV for a screen, and plugged in a keyboard as well and that was it... This would have been late 80's... In 93 or 94 we got a 'proper computer' that had the big floppy disks (as opposed to the more modern smaller not floppy, floppy disks), and in 98 or 99 we finally got a computer that had windows and connected to the internet (via dial-up, where the first thing i downloaded illegally was a tv show, it took an entire week, and when i finally got to play it, it was audio only - I still remember the disappointment). (i think we had a couple of second hand computers between the floppy disk PC and the windows 98, because i know i used windows 95, but maybe that was at school?)
@Slymentsra
22 сағат бұрын
We pretty much had all the same risks running around unsupervised back then as kids do now days. The only real difference is that there was no internet. So people didn't hear about it as much as they do today.
@prevosfr
7 сағат бұрын
I saw a video where 2 mothers are sitting in the front yard with their 2 kids playing in the little pool. A neighbor called the cops saying there was a big loud party across the street.
@bertiesark
10 сағат бұрын
in the very very early 1991/92 where we lived kids stopped being unsupervised due to a little boy going missing at the end of our street, our son never went out unsupervised afterwards
@jimf2892
6 сағат бұрын
The trick with payphones was to call your parents collect. When you called collect it didn't cost the caller anything, but the cost of the receiver of the collect call was extremely high. So, when you called collect you would be given a prompt to say your name. At that prompt you'd just say I'm ready to be picked up, or something along those lines, and then your parents would decline the call and then come and pick you up! Garbage Pail Kids were a collectable card series(think any professional sports cards), I think they had 2 different generations to them. They were popular with boys, mostly, because they had gross imagery on them. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the ORIGINAL series, was in the late 80s into the early 90s. Since then there have been a few different incarnations of the turtles, but nothing will beat the original! I remember when my parents first wanted us to wear seatbelts in the car(I think I was around 7 or 8). And my staunch refusal, unless THEY wore them too...hey, if it was good enough for us, then they should have to wear them too!
@jimf2892
5 сағат бұрын
Oh! In regards to 'slap braclets' all they were was a slightly bowed piece of metal surrounded by a thin piece of cloth with a design printed on it...eventually, I think, they went to putting plastic in them, but I think that was because someone got cut by a metal one when it wore through the cloth.
@FujishimaAkiko
Сағат бұрын
Wow, even before your time, but in the UK, TMNT used to be called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles...lol Yes, it's 80s, but the franchise didn't enter the UK until the 90s.
@KatyFaulkner-f6c
21 сағат бұрын
You are a soooo gen z pampered! I broke my leg when I was 8 and then got chicken pox under my cast! That’s what makes us strong! 😂
@johnw8578
14 сағат бұрын
I might be able to beat that -- I got chicken pox during our only Walt Disneyworld vacation. We drove there and I got it just as we reached Florida. So guess who got to spend the entire vacation (almost) in the hotel room?
@charlesquick3091
2 сағат бұрын
As a kid I was usually riding in the back of the pickup, or the back of a old panel van.... Our play grounds were more of a military obstacle course... Concert or asphalt on the playground.... Phonecord was a leash... Computer game was pong.. Teachers loved scrapping chalk along the blackboard just like fingernails.... Smoking by 12... First drink by 10. Brothers... Cabbage patch kids .. nope.... Dodgeball was combat training.... Slap bracelet? Nope... Never wore neon.... Saturday cartoons was rare for me had work to do by time i was 10, chopping wood, garden work, or going to swap n shop with stepdad... Had a water bed... Great until brother sat on it with knife in pocket, took all day to clean up.... Bbj was a staple.... Anywhere on a bike. Neighborhood, across town, in the streets, on highway, woods, anywhere.... Payphone was only for emergency... Carmen Santiago? Nope... Valentine... One card per kid.. Fist fight to settle things... Everyone carried a belt knife in my school... Guns in truck window racks at school... Smoking area for students... And more
@bluharkness3921
8 сағат бұрын
TMNT started as a comic book. I had one in 87'. Them tv destroyed the TMNT Made it for 10 and under 😢
@merfwriter
22 сағат бұрын
"You had to pray that you didn't get rear ended in a car accident." That actually happened to my family in the 80s. In 1986 or 1987 we were in a miner car accident (nobody was seriously injured or died). We were in North Carolina visiting my grandparents. We went on a family outing. It was me, my brother, my mom, my Dad, and my grandparents in the car together. We were in my Mom's 1986 Chevy Celebrity Station Wagon driving along a highway. My Dad was driving the station wagon and my grandfather was in the front seat. My grandmother and I were sitting in the middle seat. My Mom and my brother were in the way back sitting in a spair seat that faced the back window (so they were riding in reverse looking out the back window of the car). All of a sudden my Dad slammed on the breaks real heard at a high speed because we were on a highway going 60 or 70 mph. My Dad was trying to avoid hitting another car on the road. The seat belts back then, we had cross section shoulder belts in the front seats but only lap belts in the back seats. When Dad slammed on the breaks, me and my grandmother, our heads slammed into the back of the front driver and passenger seats. My forehead started bleeding and my grandmother got wip lash. My brother recalls that someone slammed into the back of our car with my Mom and brother in the way back. Anyway, I don't know how (with out cellphones), but an ambulance was called. I'm guessing it was someone's CV radio. The ambulance took me and my grandmother to the hospital to get checked out in the ER. We had to get the car repaired at a auto shop but luckily it wasn't totaled.
@shanaleelmt
8 сағат бұрын
The song cord was something fun to do with your hands
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