And the DJ talks into the end of the song. Noone needed that 😉

More 70ies though I’d say. But still YEAH.

@Kate Jagger my husband is still astonished that I know so many 80th songs and the bands name. I lived for the music when I was a teenie. Did you made your best friend a tape, too?

@@marvincosby7060 or the worst case scenario, we in Germany called it "Band Salat" I don't know how you would call it in English, the moment your tape was in the player and it was out of the tape box and totally messy. Do you know what I mean. Everytime when that happened I had to pray that I could wind it back and it worked again and wasn't totally damaged.

maggiesue35 hahaha genau band salat und dann ne stunde mit nem kuli wieder aufwickeln - just talking about using a ballpen to wind back tape once it got loose.

OH Yea!!! That pissed me off greatly.

Ahh yess I remember that your Totally right.. Did you ever use that Cassette to play in the Car

Wonderful...thats made me chuckle...😍😜😜😜

Oh yeah! 😂😂

I hated that. They would cut in at the end of the song too. It made us so mad!

With you there man ! Born in 70 !

69'er here too. It was great

67 model here... Couldn't agree more.

1966 same here!

I didn't. 😎

Nah. The 80s had all that without the inflation and economic problems of the 70s. Plus, the 70s had the Vietnam War and the cold war. Yes, the cold war was going on in the 80s but relations with the USSR began to thaw. The 80s were way better

You should of been a kid in the 50's, Heaven on earth for us !!!

@@hellskitchen10036 You lucky b*******

@@Styxswimmer I think you're right, the 80s were way better than the 70s. More prosperous and cooler stuff in the stores, plus the energy crisis was mostly over. I can remember seeing Jimmy Carter making his speeches on TV. We all had a sense that he was this namby-pamby fool who couldn't get the hostages free. Everything on the radio was this soft rock, over produced, chick-singer BS. By the time Reagan came along we had punk, new wave, MTV, reggae, rap, and National Lampoon. It all seemed to exciting and fresh. Growing up in the bourgeois UES of New York we felt like characters in a John Hughes movie.

Troy Purnell We did , they'd hit a bump you'd all go flying up in the air lol...it was great till someone would fly out but it never happened so awesome.....

I did! Was a fun experience! Good Times!

I did and it was awesome!!!

Yup!😂

I did! We rode in the back sitting on lawn chairs drinking cocktails on our way to see the tall ships! Hey who saw the tall ships

It's true...it was more fun to take photos of others than of yourself.

I don't think a single person took a picture of themselves! Ever!

Blackavar WD you know why because many phones didint come with front facing cameras at the time and people would ask others to take photos of themselves still making it a selfie

@@souljahkin2017 WHAT!? There was no such thing as " front facing cameras" HAHAHA If you had someone take your pic you were usually with someone. (You wanted a pic with them) Maybe someone took a pic in front of something by themself, but I never saw one IRL. Usually OTHER people made you stand somewhere and took your pic. Not a selfie.

Ah the good old days!!

But kids did get abducted back then. They always did. Someone even tried to lure me into his vehicle when I was a young child.

Yup, we had the permissiveness of the 70s, with the politics and prosperity of the 50s. And AIDS hadn't yet killed the party. AND no political correctness yet. At college you could yell the n-word at the top of your lungs and nobody gave a shit.

@@Laidengizer011 - parents just weren't ridiculously paranoid about it back then. Thing is, it still happens now so parents' attempts at preventing their children from playing outside, etc are hardly working, are they?

@@mattylamb9194 But are they happening in the same numbers??

Well yeah bullying and all that

@@Mr_Green52 shut up fool

I literally don't think anyone's opinion matters to me unless I value them in the first place (like friends and family). Some stranger or rude kid at school means nothing to me because they don't know me like those close to me do. Wish my generation (Gen Z) thought the same. Wish I had a time machine to take me to the 80s so I can live there.

To be fair, some words, depending on usage tone, etc were, and still are verbal declarations of war and one responds accordingly ie: racial slurs, disparaging one's mom, sister, grandmother etc. even in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s

@@eatdirtnetwork 😂

And, when we send text or email, people can't read your emotion. Unless you insert emoticons. More than a few times, people have thought I was being short with them or they didn't get my sense of humor.😂

Except for jukeboxes.;)

And fought each other outside, and not in video games!

I remember almost every neighborhood kids played outside...I don't see that anymore 🏌️🏋️🤸⛹️🤾🚴🚵🤽🤹🤼

😂 True

"I got a pocket fulla quarters and I'm headn to the AR-CADE!" Summer of `83 I got totally addicted to the game "Tutankhamun", which is the formal egyptian name for King Tut. That game had me hooked like it was crack!

I lived in the country, so I had to walk about 2 miles to my best friends place. We played Intellivison all night. Intellivision was state of the art back then. a big step up from TV tennis.

Never heard of a head lice back then.

Then we lied about our names so we couldn't be tracked

We in the early 70s actually had a phone etiquette class!

Don't forget, your house was almost never locked & you could play in the yard (neighborhood) w/o adult supervision

@@Ron_EZ we grew up on a dead end street. There were train tracks and high voltage power lines, running behind the back end of the street. My older brother forbid me from climbing the massive tower for the power lines, but we did have fun putting pennies on the train tracks, and watching them get flattened. Now I think back, and say my God, my parents would have been put in jail for us doing shit like that nowadays.

And my voice was so low in middle school, I never had a girlfriend who’s mom was very suspicious.

Blockbuster baby!

Show them a casset tape and a pencil, and watch the look of confusion spread across their faces

@@lionsroar2512 Ahh, yes, that good old secrete - until you only have a circular-shaped pencil. Thanks for reminding me that!

@Fremont Jablonski and they will never have the pleasure of hearing that particular warble the songs took on when you listened to that cassete so much that the tape started to stretch!

Lol at my video store they charged 50¢ if u didn't rewind! 😂 My mom was always sayin Rewind that tape!

Lmao.. I showed one to my daughter and her friend, when I was clearing some stuff outta my grandma's house after she passed, and their reactions were BEYOND EPICALLY HILARIOUS 🤣🤣🤯🤯😱😱😭😭😵😵

@@jennifermoody6987 There's a video on KZfaq where it takes a kid 5 or 10 minutes to figure out how to use a rotary dial phone. 😆

@@firestream93 Well you could easily mess up the dial. I always hated them.

@@Laidengizer011 True

@@Laidengizer011 Just spray it with DW40, it'll work jus fine

So true. And no 2 were ever the same

Ride to “the Barrens” I spit taked my coffee

And you knew which kid was which because of their bike.

😁yep

How about it

Reminds me of something I read this week. "Back when even though you were ugly you could still become a famous singer".

I will totally second that!!!

ix Nine your comment made me laugh out loud actually, after thinking about it for 5 seconds :D now everybody are musicians :p I make some music myself so its not like Im lauging of ya'll, but of the situation. peace and harmony all

Yup and people could actually sing. A computer did not do it fir them or replace the band completely. Now their us no bang. The lip-synchro prerecorded music with no band in the back. It sucks.

Truth Sayer! Yassss!

Or holding the aerial in just the right position.

Lol I was going to say "being the remote control and TV aerial". I also remember being sent to the shops in the middle of ur program, and ur parents got u to do it by saying "I'll time u". I've tried it with my kids, and my friends with theirs, but kids are SOOOO different now. Pre Millennium was definitely better.

OMG the absolute funniest/truest comment. I would get called from downstairs by my mom just to go change the channel... and thought nothing of it. At least until I was a teenager. :)

God I hated being the remote for adults. The other thing I hated, at least when it came to us kids, is if you left the room the next kid who came into the room got to choose what to watch. I'd sit there till I damn near had to pee myself before getting up to finish The Dukes of Hazard, The Incredible Hulk, or Knight Rider. House full of girls. So go figure. On the bright side. It was better than the voting my parents implemented at first. Because I never got to watch anything I wanted with 3 girls outvoting me on a regular basis.

D@mn, forgot about that! :-D. And like someone else said, moving the antenna around.... :-P

Lol so true

You still can Just dial *67

Joshua Crispin that wasn’t a thing until the mid nineties.

Or calling 867-5309 and asking for Jenny!

"Is your fridge running?"

What kid now an adult doesn't still remember the lyrics to snow - " informer" 😂

The TV stations shut down around 11 o' clock. At least the 2 stations we had did. We watched them on a little 12 inch black, and white with the tinfoil on the rabbit ears.

Who doesn't? Especially if you have a well.

George Echeveste I love to do that

Heck yeah

Just remember to let it run first ... otherwise you’d burn your mouth!

Mmm that metal tint.....loved it

Or use a address book.

I still remember my childhood phone number and my best friend's number from the time.

How about using a telephone with a rotary dial?

Lol you nailed it with that one! So many numbers memorized

Not that many, but I still remember the number we had when I was in high school- and now the area code for that town is changed!

And having to practically wait all day just see a video you've been looking forward to seeing. 🙄🙄😊

Lol and then it became a maternal channel.

First time seeing thuggish ruggish bone was on mtv

I remember having to stay up really late to watch Michael Jackson videos.

Yo! MTV Raps &. Headbangers Ball

Now my parents won’t even let me go for a walk And it’s not like it’s our parents fault People just have just changed and so as time we have creeps and weirdos and kids going missing nearly everyday so I see why parents would be a bit worried back in the early 2010s for some reason I had a bit more freedom when I was little I’m almost 15 now and I can’t really do anything Like that anymore it’s sad

Yes. Just as long as made it home before the street lights I was good.

Again this is not a good thing you are pointing out.

i was born in 2006 and i used too and still play with the neighborhood kids until its dark we play soccer, hang out or bike racing

We played ghost in the graveyard until really dark. You could play it on the front sidewalk.

True

Shakies Pizza?

Book-It!

@@list25 yes

We still had a dine-in PH in my hometown right up until COVID. It was great.

I learned cursive in fourth grade and promptly forgot it. To this day I can barely read the shit but luckily almost no one uses it anymore. We aren't using quills to write anymore so cursive isn't necessary. It's like calligraphy, it may look good (subjective) but it isn't needed.

@@SonOfTheDawn515 most historical documents were written in cursive. Its important to be able to read them

@@matthewsmith2979 Absolutely. Cursive doesn't have a real use today, though. It's more of an elective thing, like calligraphy, and doesn't have modern use.

@@SonOfTheDawn515 true, but it does look good

@@matthewsmith2979 That's subjective. I'm not a fan of it although I like the appearance of some calligraphy.

Party lines/Private lines

*Phone rings* 5yo me: hello? Caller: Hi, is [mom's name] there? Me: Are you a salesman? Caller: Yes, is your mothe- Me: my Mom doesn't like salesman *click* Mom: wtf lolololol

Telemarketing was a thing

Prank calls

@@pdarn27 That was totally one I thought would go on the list.

I was born in 68 also & remember most of this from the 70's.

Recording mix tapes from songs on the radio.

@@scottyellis3442 '68 was the best year for contemporary music.

80s metal music was awesome.

And great music of the '70's! ✌🏻

Ok boomer

That shit started with kids born in the late '90s and early '00s! Thank God I was born in 1990, and was raised like a kid in the '80s!

Right, you knew that you wouldn't always get your way and that everyone wasn't always going to agree or be like you.

Ohhh you got that right. These kids today are a bunch of pansies ( I'm being polite).

Yeah because it was less depression and insecurity

Me and two neighbour kids used to ride about a half-hour away from home to a bridge where we could catch crayfish and that sort of thing. And in the winter, we'd bring our skates to the middle of the woods and play ball hockey on the ice clearings. Nary an adult in sight.

And NOBODY wore a helmet.

@@charlesritter6640 Exactly! Good point!

Me too with my 4 friends

We actually went on adventures. We would ride all around town or to the woods and hang out. After cartoons on Saturday we would go fishing. I miss those days.

My mom did that. Mom never really cared if us kids sat in front.

Riding in the back window deck 6 in the cab of pickup

Hahahaha.... same... I swear I have a bruise across my chest my entire childhood because of that damn arm... lol

My mom did that and bruised my chest. All good. Yep.

My dad would just let us go.

Hell yeah. I hated Count Chocula but his toys were good. Same with Smack (the cereal with the frog on the front and it tastes like styrofoam coated with fake honey). I still see Smack in grocery stores and I can't believe its lasted this long.🤢

OMG yess

I remember that when Microsoft was advertising on cereal boxes. for xbox 360 and had small hand on made in china little games and it around my little sister was born. We found them by accident in a box of corn pops.

Even in the 2010s i miss that

I did

What ever you do, don't pore out three pixie sticks into your Peanut Butter Captain Crunch, mistakes were made. Eat sugar cereal in the eighties, have diabetes in the twenties. It might be best to make sugar cereal only a Saturday morning thing, and avoid pixie sticks on Saturday.

@@Zenas521 That’s what I was thinking, lol

Playing Knock and run

My kids and their friends do that still.

Lol I still say that 2day. I will send a message 2 a bud on ps4 and be like " hey bud you coming out 2 play 2nite, need 1 more for the raid" and he would send back what r we 10 now".

@@sgtnutnut2466 I'd be like yes! Yes we are! Now get your butt over here! I have hot pockets and jolt!😎🤣

Being able to go all the way across town on foot or bike. You still can. It's different now, though.

Street lights come on = We best be on our way home. Also, the city was treacherous but certainly not dangerous. Maybe there were some stabbings, but I never remember all the fatal shooting that we have now.

Home before the street lights came on

All facts dinner time and street lights was literally a alarm clock for us in the 80’s my fuckin kid wont even leave the damn house let alone come in at a certain time Smfh

I remember my childhood being that way (in the 2000's). I guess in some areas of the US, we hadn't yet moved on to the newer aspects. Just ride bikes with neighborhood kids all day, buy sodas at the cornerstore (literally on corner lol), play hide 'n' go seek, play tag. Big difference here, we'd eventually go back to my house or another friends house to play Gamecube games. If you had a videogame system, you were the cool kid 😎

Street lights meant come home

I had to be home by the time Dad got home because if he had to come find me it would be very bad

loved those days

Its like the Invasion of the Body Snatchers happened. Kids are not allowed to play outside anymore. How many hold kite fights anymore? . :(

80's had cell phones and pagers.

@@informationoverload2487 ya but not everyone and especially not kids

Learning from experience.

None of this helicoptering then.

That is so true. Back then we actually had three prizes first second and third place and if you didn't win you didn't get a prize. Now with these millennials they get a prize for showing up so they have no idea about what it's like to have strive

THIS

@@tdotsmooth ok then

I hear that ,I totally agree , everything you mentioned is everything I loved and miss today about those times,I personally wished that my kids would be able to enjoy all of those things but it's all been banned,removed ,buried,and steered away from ,these poor kids these days just aren't living,nor are they educated.

As well I was born in 72

I was born in '73, so I feel ya! I think my favorite thing was getting to take offon my bike with all my friends who had bikes, and LITERALLY roam for miles around our side of town! As long as we were home when the streetlights came on, none of our parents cared what we did and where we went, as long as they didnt get any complaints from the neighbors about our "manners"!

Totally agree

I'm with you! I miss all that stuff!

Same here!! My god the miles I put on my bike!!

And no phone, but you had a dime/quarter just in case.

Exactly. With just 10p in the pocket for your Funny Feet break.

Razum I remember when the fucking NRA and the feds outlawed Super-Soaker plastic water guns, claiming these large, bright, multi-colored fake guns were dangerous and could be mistaken for the real thing. Typical hypocrites.

We played outside ALL day and came home when the street lights came on 😂

@@teamcougars same here. We walked or rode bikes all over town and no one thought anything bad of it.

Why would you play hide and seek with the guns?

@@incorporeal7614 Hide and seek/cops and robbers. Kids are creative. They'll mix it up. :) Call it an early form of laser tag, but without the lasers, or the admission fee. :)

Fk YEAH..The Final Frontier before the pansies era.

I agree joel.

1971 here.....absolutely agree!!

Me too totally agree best time to live.

Lucky !!!

Oh man, I STILL catch myself getting ready to ask for ", non-smoking" tables in restaurants. Thank heavens most if the wait staff greeting customers today are in too much if a hurry to get you to table and out of their faces. If given 3 seconds more, I KNOW I would be asking for non-smoking everytime...just ingrained in me.

I remember going into arcades and seeing ashtrays screwed into the games kids were expected to smoke

Cigarette vending machines!

I used to steal ash trays from fast food joints; my one man war against smoking.

Airplanes too. Hospital Rooms too!

We knew everyone on our block and in our neighborhood back then.

💯% agreed. Just to have everyone at the same dinner table (not just on holidays); Watching TV in front of the SAME TV; Walking the block (with the family dog, or followed by the cat) to have spontaneous conversation with neighbors; Tennis or volleyball matches at the local park; Playing LP's & 45's until midnight Saturday night while playing "Tank" or "Asteroids" on Atari; A night socializing at the town hub (in my hometown it was burgers & shakes at Braum's Ice Cream Store, or Frito pies at an old Taco Bueno); or Friday or Saturday nights having burgers on the patio while the adults played cards & dominos at our house or a neighbor's house :') It's terrific that the Internet has us chatting with our British, French, Italian, Greek, & even Russian neighbors worldwide. But to not even know the people living on the same street with you, or in your same town? That's pitiful I haven't forgotten the "old" ways of socializing, but it sure is harder to get people together in the same place at the same time, these days. What a sad social dichotomy where young folks only seem to want to communicate through electronics! I must believe that eventually, as they mature, they'll finally put those contraptions down & realize there's no substitute for just BEING THERE. Your physical presence is infinitely better than your image on a video or an impersonal text typed through a computer!

That's still weird to me when you're in a waiting room and everyones trying to be invisible.

@@jimmyduncan7650 4 or 5 'teens & 20-somethings sitting in the same living room, chatting to one another through their phones instead of simply talking 🤷

Thats because everyone started suing everyone else for everything and nothing ALL AT THE SAME TIME so people dont interact with strangers much anymore. Its too socially risky.

LOL To be honest comparing society of March-May 2020 to the entire 1980s is rather unfair. Spring 2020 is a strange time indeed, where many kids in urban areas weren't allowed to go to school, shopping, friends, or even literally outdoors.

@@2isceez Ah, you mean we are meek and silent. NO!

3. We didn't hyperventilate when we were grounded from the phone and call the Police claiming child abuse.

@@2isceez I know. If I told my mom someone insulted me, she'd look at me and said, "You'll live".

I'm 16 today and I can relate to all of these things besides the old technology!!!

No one had valuables either like today lol

@@oo0RECON0oo yes we did.. they were just too heavy to steal back then. Tv’s & stereos weighted 200-500 lbs!! 🤣😁🙏

@@lisade5643 lol lol lol soooo true!!

I heard my dad whistle after the street lights came on, I knew I was in trouble, he could really whistle! I'd be say 10 blocks away and I heard him whistle, ran my ass home so fast lol.

People didn't put so much emotion in material objects then, now a days people love crap human life is basically dog shit to people now.

yes it drewdiñm beßt

I told my son about the 80s. He wishes he could experience my childhood. He hates this generation. He wishes to be a feral child like we were. The freedom we had was phenomenal.

Or worrying that your girlfriend would get pregnant at 16 and your Dad would knock you into next week.

yeah.new shows on mtv.im 16 and prolapsed

Amen!

TDM, good rockin tonight, stue jeffries, Samantha taylor.

They had shows but they were like Beavis and Butthead and Headbangers ball the goodshit yo

Shawn Carr oh yes!!

Here in Europe we had to pay if you didn't rewind VHS when you returned it

Icefyre Dragon same here

Going to the video store was the biggest treat!!! It was so exciting and if you were even luckier a stop at McDonald's or pizza on the way home too! I VERY much miss slumber parties n going to pick out the videos and snacks

I used to tape over it with “be kind please do me from behind”.

Scholastic book fairs are still around??

Us gen z also had scholastic book fairs.

Bro we still have the parachutes and scholastic book fairs

Overhead projector and acetate sheet slides. OH! Oh wow heres one 80s kids did that future kids wont. SNOW DAYS. Close the school ? Oh well, everyone on Zoom please.

As a gen Z, I had all of those except for the mobile star dome. And scholastic book fairs are still a thing today, albeit less popular

United colours of benneton

Golden

WORD!!!!! Life wasn't as confusing or chaotic as it is today. It feels like the younger generation/s growing up now has/have a lot more uncertainty and difficulties to contend with, my hat's off to all of you. I'm glad I grew up in the time I did.

Yeah, where I'm from, we are cca 15years behind, so even I'm 90's kid, I still know most of those things very well

Born in 78, I remember the 80's and 90's quite fondly. Growing up as a kid and a teenager in this era, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

TheVosack yep same here. Born in ‘71

Born in the 60's; same deal.

'77 here. Those were awesome times.

So true lol

@TheVosack, You were allowed to come home after dark!😲 I had to be home before dark...my mom's phrase was if the street lights are on your butt better be in the house! 😂😂😂

I’m 14 and love that movie

I'm 46 and I'm still 10 when I watch that movie! Saw it in Michigan summer 85 on a family vacation . great times to be a kid .......80s had it all! New and cool too....not remakes !

@@phildodson6141 I really don’t care, but was I was saying is that kids these days still like the content you 80s kids like

Yeah I know ....i get ya!

@@phildodson6141 𓆏

Omg Casey Cassum!! I was absolutely obsessed with the countdown growing up. And I would get SO Mad if one of my brother's turn off my stereo or pulled my attention away before I'd gotten to hear number 1

Casey Kasem is buried in Oslo, Norway because of a feud between his wido and Casey’s children - so sad they’re fighting over his money!

One of 3 channels

Casey Kasem and Wolfman Jack was my favorite Radio Hosts, Dick Clark American Bandstand was one my favorite Dance Show, Soul Train was my other favorite, Donald Cortez Cornelius was another unique host that no one could replace, I loved watching both shows as a kid, Loved the music, The Dancers, And Fashion !😊

The Countdown with Casey Kasem while reading the lyrics in Song Hits.

and then when they play the station name or talk over the start grrrrr hahaha

The start(for the first 2 minutes) and the end of the song(last 2 minutes) about the next song, he'd talk through.

Did this a lot especially when I was lucky enough for the dj to announce they were going to play one of my favorite song(s) next

😂Im from the 90s and did that as well lol

oh my god yes

I remember the projector! Being half blinded when the film was over and the tape ran out...the brightest light ever!!! 😂😂

That was the 90's in school too

that was early 2000s school too

Right- - the 16mm projector was a pleasure. Or if you were pre-80s the self-contained projector. It was just like a big screen TV on wheels. Our schools used them from the 50s through the 70s. By the early 80s they were gone, replaced by VCRs the size of a small coffee table... When the SLIDE projector came into the classroom we knew it would be instructional & boring 😴

I forgot about this ;)

Hahaha! Speaking TRUTH

And sometimes accidentally overwriting a favorite song you recorded earlier lol.

All the memories of taping songs off the radio are spot on for me too. For me i will always associate some songs with another because of recording. e.g when i hear like a prayer by madonna it always reminds me of pink sunshine by fuzzbox just because i had a tape where one followed the other and i listened to it for YEARS. I aways wondered why the shops all sold blank cassettes and all the stereos had record buttons considering the fact that home recording was illegal!

Yep.

@@alexc6324 Really?

Ohhh boo hook they have an easier time communicating stfu

Then teach them. I have an 18 and 15 year old and I've taught them to socialize in person. They have always, as a group, go out and do adventures. Build forts etc. You have to teach them. They will LOVE it!

What is weird is ppl don't know how to talk to ppl anymore. Its depressing. I still do it the old school way

@@Frostymemer It's deppressing. Chances are you are less than sixteen years old. No amount of your brainwashing public school can hammer even basic punctuation into your head. 1 in 5 of your friends are obese. 1 in 10 are deppressed. 1 in 3 have introverted personalities. Don't make me tell you what those numbers were in the 80s. It's tragically ironic that the internet was supposed to bring us closer together. Seems like it did the complete opposite. Honestly, most kids parents should be ashamed of what they've done to our world.

I miss the 80s too! Class of 1985.

That is because most of us had a rifle in the gun rack in the truck, in the school parking lot!

We don’t have them now either.

You guys are the parents not giving the kids freedom

Perfectly said!

@Dale Poncy I’m with you! We ran BUCK WILD outside without our parents needing to do more than have us check in for lunch and when the street lights came on. The words “ NOT IT” we enough to start a RIOT, playgrounds were essentially leftover construction equipment, and your mode of transportation defined your place in the complex hierarchy of neighborhood leadership (tricycle to Big Wheel to first bike w/training wheels to first bike w/o training wheels to COOL gender specific bike to ten speed). 😎 To be fair, though, we had a different level of social responsibility then. You made sure everyone was okay when you played because if someone got hurt or complained, you’d NEVER get to do what you wanted without adults around again. Plus, the early 80s is when all the dangerous stuff (child abduction/abuse, toy recalls, candy & medication tampering, etc.) started making national news. Combine that with the rise of video gaming and you can see why kids will never be able to experience the times we did. Even if we ditched the tech & made the world safe, we seem to have effectively stamped out that individual creative spark that made play so exciting. We’d almost have to TRAIN kids to play make believe/pretend. 😞

I wasn't born in the 80's, but I know what it was like. The freedom. I miss it. Just like when people could roam around whenever they wanted on horseback.

most of these things are still normal😅

Those were the best days

Every day all day yes sir!!

Mrs Russ, I wish things were like that now, I am 41 now and have two teenage daughters, who have no clue what to do without their stupid cellphones. The world was a much better place

Yup once that light went off it's like all the kids in the neighborhood knew and we all scattered home. And All the moms had dinner ready at the same time..

I mean I’m 13 and still do

"Drunk or sober Dead or alive We're the class Of '85!"