Footage from Lawrence High School located in Lawrence, Kansas from early December 1987. Shots of the various students in the hallways as they parade along their daily lives. This video last around 3 minutes or so. #GOLIONS
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@papierdolls7 ай бұрын
The closest thing there is to a time machine for viewing a small glimpse of the past. Great times! 😊
@andydhillon19777 ай бұрын
Yup! A moment in time that would've been forgotten Seco ds after it happened. Very fortunate this creator took videos back then!
@MrMekelund7 ай бұрын
maybe he really has a time mashine :o
@atlantic_love7 ай бұрын
@@andydhillon1977 This creator didn't take those videos. From what I've read he makes requests for footage from news stations who have this stuff in their archives.
@AngelofAnguish2 ай бұрын
Dear heaven above, I MISS THE 80's!
@avenginggoddess7 ай бұрын
I could almost smell the Salon Selectives hairspray through my screen. ❤
@kel75887 ай бұрын
Great comment 🙌🏽
@calisongbird7 ай бұрын
Or the Aquanet - white can, baby! 😉
@22lilacsky4 ай бұрын
I loved that stuff. Apple was the best smelling!
@gilwood75304 ай бұрын
CLOUDS of it
@frankrizzo44604 ай бұрын
And the Drakkar and Polo in the air.
@Natschke_Family_Adventures7 ай бұрын
My freshman year. This almost brought me to tears feeling old lately, not even my school but thank you for the memories brought back. I saw a shirt that I actually had. lol
@davidz38797 ай бұрын
Everyone in the video is now in their 50s, with the exception of the small but significant minority who have died.
@shanonofre2017 ай бұрын
@@davidz3879 that’s exactly what I was thinking! I’m class of 89
@jrebecca01957 ай бұрын
Class of '90 here! 🙋🏻♀️
@rightwired7 ай бұрын
My freshman year too! I see a mullet or two I was rockin'.
@WADESGOATED7 ай бұрын
Was born a year after, class of 05 tho miss those days
@mulry1017 ай бұрын
There is something fascinating about watching videos of people in the past just going about their everyday lives.
@CadillacToothdeville7 ай бұрын
Without cell phones in every hand.
@caprissocialnetwork12617 ай бұрын
Absolutely!
@rodmunch697 ай бұрын
It's lowkey heartbreaking to realize they're all gone now, kinda gives me the chills tbh.
@Mary_O7 ай бұрын
@@rodmunch69 - Gone? You mean dead? I graduated in 1985. I'm still here.
@nathan_the_barbarian79747 ай бұрын
@@rodmunch69 It's been almost 40 years but the majority of these kids are more than likely still alive. A few more gray hairs and wrinkles by now but still kicking.
@tom11zz8847 ай бұрын
No cell phones, no social media, and high school students acting like normal kids..
@Ju4nnx7 ай бұрын
Werent y’all the ones with beepers and with phones inside cars and have phones outside on every corner?? There might’ve been no social media but teens in the 80’s- 90’s were the most rebellious out of any generation…….
@gilson19826 ай бұрын
That generation created mass shooters.
@thecensoredmuscle5634 ай бұрын
@Ju4nnx teens in the 50s and 60s were very rebellious. Teens today are so consumed with their phones and themselves that have. So obviously they aren't going to do the same stuff people in the past did.
@gilson19824 ай бұрын
@@thecensoredmuscle563 - At least there will hopefully be more peace amongst today’s youth. If the worst thing most teenagers do is use their phones often, then we might be halfway to world peace.
@kd68364 ай бұрын
There has always been rebellion. What we didn’t have were teachers being beaten by students, school shootings and constant disrespect and constant anxiety and mental health crises. We didn’t have blue hair either.
@inhale277 ай бұрын
You are the greatest KZfaqr ever. I have enjoyed so many of your videos, and have so many more to explore. I think I speak for us all when I say, we can’t thank you enough!
@deltapapa827 ай бұрын
You’re absolutely right!
@kel75887 ай бұрын
Totally 🙌🏽
@jackkavanagh63377 ай бұрын
Agreed! It’s very educational!
@terciolivio98936 ай бұрын
agreed too❤
@GothDogs7 ай бұрын
To me, it seems like high schoolers back then looked like older adults, and high schoolers now look so much younger
@andydhillon19777 ай бұрын
I thought the same thing! It's the food we're eating IMO.
@keyahninaylor49747 ай бұрын
Facts
@TheBOG37 ай бұрын
I think it’s the other way around. Girls mature faster, look way older and wear too much makeup now. Guys look older because more have “Dad bods” at a young age vs. back then.
@rebeccaa24337 ай бұрын
It’s so true! My son is a senior in hs and I teach college freshmen. They look like babies still. My son keeps telling me it’s the food and water. It’s proven testosterone levels are much lower in kids today.
@pamalapurplepantys41847 ай бұрын
It's the "food".
@ChawkletStudios7 ай бұрын
I can never get enough of these videos, especially seeing the way people would carry themselves, you could tell it really was a magical time. Kickass.
@trophyscene50157 ай бұрын
Genuinely looks like everyone was happy, and not bitter and depressed like they are today.
@ChawkletStudios7 ай бұрын
@@trophyscene5015 Absolutely! Another reason why it’s all so hard to believe but here’s the evidence that people weren’t always so spiteful and nasty and classless
@vladbej9597 ай бұрын
These people partied way harder yet looked and behaved 100x more mature while doing it. Amazing.
@eightiescalled3116 ай бұрын
No they didn’t pop a bunch of pills or buy drugs that were stupid and laced with stuff that can kill you they partied smarter not harder
@Derek-no8fu7 ай бұрын
I'd give anything to go back...Absolutely anything.
@andydhillon19777 ай бұрын
Isn't it ironic how back then we couldn't wait for the future? Now many of us wish we could go back!
@chris70777 ай бұрын
@@andydhillon1977 Back then 1 year felt like 5. Now 5 years feels like 1.
@andydhillon19777 ай бұрын
@chris7077 Funny you say that. I still remember my dad warning me of thar when I was 18. It has to do with the proportion of a year to your age. So the older you get, the shorter a year will feel to you. Funny thing is I can vividly remember the 90's. Everything after started to be a blur. 91-99 was my high school through college years.
@calisongbird7 ай бұрын
@@chris7077 yeeeessss!!!! Make it stop!!!
@caprissocialnetwork12617 ай бұрын
@@andydhillon1977😄
@movieedge73707 ай бұрын
All these kids in this video are in their 50s now Wow, time flies.
@Constanzaaaaaaaaaaaa7 ай бұрын
In the video they didn't look like kids or they weren't.
@atlantic_love7 ай бұрын
Yes we are :(
@Galidorquest4 ай бұрын
In 1987, most of the students were born from 1969 - 1973. Basically, this means they're around the same age as Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah, 2pac, Eminem and Pharrell Williams.
@Lostforwords123453 ай бұрын
That would be me as I graduate in 1987 the best time no cell phones
@shaneskyrunner37037 ай бұрын
I love these videos of everyday life in the 80's. Keep 'em coming!
@DMS-pq87 ай бұрын
Was a senior from Sept 1987 until June 1988. At the time I couldn't wait to graduate now I wish I could go back and see my old friends one more time
@douglasdixon5247 ай бұрын
I was also a senior in December of 1987. I couldn't wait to leave. Now it seems that every time I look up old friends, 75% of them have passed away too young. I knew the 1980s were a good time, I just didn't realize how great it really was.
@RetroreviewsPlus4 ай бұрын
Would be nice, I remember my grandmother saying during this time that these were the best years of your life
@thatjpwing7 ай бұрын
Self expression without permanent tattoos, a seemingly higher pride in one's appearance, and no smartphones.
@johnsmith-ug5tp7 ай бұрын
Yes, No mutilated and defaced bodies and faces.
@calisongbird7 ай бұрын
@@johnsmith-ug5tp I went to Berkeley High School in California, class of 86. Many of my classmates had tattoos and were punks with piercings.
@themasterrogerdelgado7 ай бұрын
The contrast that strikes me looking at this is at today's schools every student carries a backpack but nobody has any books. Everyone has books in this video but no backpacks and they are aware of their surroundings and not mentally trapped by their phones.
@trevour7 ай бұрын
Maybe it's because I went to a relatively small high school, but we kept everything in our lockers and the backpack was only for hauling homework to and from school. It wasn't until college that I took a backpack to every class, and that took a while to get used to. 😂
@MRRR307 ай бұрын
Technology is ruining life.
@vio21127 ай бұрын
@@MRRR30It's true, sadly. As amazing as the technology we have now is, I am now certain it is doing more harm than good. I fear it's eventually going to cause humans to go extinct. 😢 For all this technology has given us, it is simultaneously taking away our humanity.
@stevensweet88347 ай бұрын
@@trevour we carried our books with NO WATER bottle. That was it!! Gym day we used a bag for our shower and change up.
@seanpovilaika93217 ай бұрын
Agreed! And.... RUSH RULES! lol😎
@ckrtom27 ай бұрын
Priceless footage. Just think, those kids are in their 50’s now! We thought the way things were back then would be forever…The internet brings us so much. But it has destroyed so much too!
@bunberrier7 ай бұрын
The year I graduated. Almost everyone looking up and not at their hands.
@douglasdixon5247 ай бұрын
I was a senior in December 1987, class of 1988. I remember thinking that the year 2000 was so far away, only 12 years. Now here in January 2024 we're twice that distance from the year 2000. Damnit time goes by way too fast.
@user-lg9sf9jv4n27 күн бұрын
@jonathanbirch2022 nothing has replaced smartphones either. they even function basically the same way they did 15 years ago.
@daved15357 ай бұрын
I was finishing up 9th grade in 1987. It seems like yesterday. I'm 51 years old now. It's hard to believe that most of those students are older than me
@georgehenderson77837 ай бұрын
Time flies! 🥏
@MrEkzotic7 ай бұрын
I'm from the class of 89 and still feel as young as I did then....hell, probably even feel a bit younger.
@tennillej96017 ай бұрын
What was the 80s like? I was born in 91 so didn't experience that decade at all but it all looks awesome ❤
@MrEkzotic7 ай бұрын
@@tennillej9601 It was very relaxed, great pop culture, great pride in our country, citizens shared a core set of values, our government wasn't weaponized against us (either that, or it wasn't obvious), we would hang out in person with friends and actually talk and physically engage, we were more respectful of each other because we didn't have the anonymity of social media, we'd actually have to go out and engage with the world, it seemed that more people were spiritual and their lives had a purpose greater that themselves. Of course, nothing is utopia, but it was still a much happier and meaningful era in my opinion.
@szzk79377 ай бұрын
@@MrEkzotic You realize thats because their parents were religious right, like even carl sagan the athiest of the time in the 70s and 80s, god was the cosmos and it all had purpose, that's called having religious parents. He just called it the cosmos, everybody still had religious morals they didnt know.
@andydhillon19777 ай бұрын
One thing i love to see is how most people in all these videos seem happy. Another surprising thing is most didn't even acknowledge the camera. That's surprising.
@johnsmith-ug5tp7 ай бұрын
Prior to kids being doped up on big pharma loser meds.
@trophyscene50157 ай бұрын
I know it's really hard to imagine a world where everyone wasn't suffering from an attention seeking disorder. Good old times.
@HisbeautifulTruth-nl1ch7 ай бұрын
We weren't as self centered so a camera meant nothing.
@norwegianblue20177 ай бұрын
Video cameras were something only your weird uncle or the geeks in the AV club used on a regular basis back then. Partly because people in the past were much more into enjoying the moment than documenting it and partly because video cameras were pretty expensive and somewhat bulky at the time. It's a shame though, because I have almost no photos, let alone videos of me and my friends when I was this age. Just fading memories.
@jimmymartin19024 ай бұрын
We interacted with friends face to face daily. There wasn't any texting or social media. Very few narcissistic people in those days. In general, yes we were happy, healthy kids.
@phyllischaffin40527 ай бұрын
I graduated in 1986. Brings back memories.
@alvreyes287 ай бұрын
and I was born in April of that year. I wish I could time travel to those times and live there for at least a week.
@phyllischaffin40527 ай бұрын
@@alvreyes28 It was a very different time.
@calisongbird7 ай бұрын
@@phyllischaffin4052same here - I am class of 86. The haircuts and clothing here look so familiar!
@DepDawg5 ай бұрын
Me, too. Class of ‘86. I worked as a cashier for a few years to save up money for college. Couldn’t afford more than city college, but it was enough.
@jamosh1967Ай бұрын
@phyllischaffin4052 I'm the Class Of 1986 too.
@Cake...7 ай бұрын
Everyone looked and dressed so normally. Amazing!
@poldarkpirahna58097 ай бұрын
That kinda goes against the stereotype of the 80s fashion being all about standing out and flashy clothing.
@alexrekzu40797 ай бұрын
0:18 yeah we all rocked mustaches in HS
@Galidorquest4 ай бұрын
@@poldarkpirahna5809 Every decade has its weird, flashy subculture -- Hippies in the 60's, Disco in the 70's, 'New Wave' in the 80's & 90's, Emo/Scene kids in the 2000's, and hipsters in the 2010's.
@thecensoredmuscle5634 ай бұрын
@@poldarkpirahna5809 that probably depends on the location, and time period in the 80s .
@poldarkpirahna58094 ай бұрын
@@thecensoredmuscle563 true but this video being filmed at the end of 1987 in Kansas in the middle of America where trends take the longest to reach, captures just a glimpse of what 80s style and life was.
@Wyattinous7 ай бұрын
You are an absolute mystery. So many videos over an extensive period of time, across different parts of the country, all more or less with the same observer's personailty of hanging back and zooming into scenes of people's lives. And so many people who dont even seem to pay the recorder any mind at all. This channel is almost a Twilight Zone on KZfaq. I feel so lucky to have found your uploads. It's easy to take for granted how many recordings you've given to all of us. Hope you're having a great start to the new year ❤
@jptang17017 ай бұрын
I've had the same thought too. Time Traveller? The people don't seem to notice someone standing there with a huge video camera. It would be huge for the time period.
@Yo_DynamoJoe7 ай бұрын
I'm fairly certain the OP was a camera person for a local news broadcast. These videos are unedited footage shot for news reports, hence the slow pans and zooms. So in many instances, the people being filmed would have been informed beforehand to expect the camera crew.
@trevour7 ай бұрын
Some might even call it an exhaustive library of B-roll footage, but hey, if it's the same observer in your eyes, whatever brings joy! 😊
@Wyattinous7 ай бұрын
@@Yo_DynamoJoe Damn that makes sense. I'm sure he finds it funny how many of us assume he's a time traveler.
@alexrekzu40797 ай бұрын
yeah but who in a Kansas HighSchool carried a big ass camcorder? That's the real champ
@dougr.67347 ай бұрын
The absolute pinnacle of the U.S.A. was 1988 IMO. Boy do I miss the 80's.
@robroy63747 ай бұрын
80s and early 90s
@Theonetruewonderfly7 ай бұрын
I suppose 1988 could be the pinnacle. I just like everything from 1977 to 2007. Older than that, we get into "Boomer years", more recent than that, we get into "social media" years (aka "idiot years").
@robroy63747 ай бұрын
@@Theonetruewonderfly yes, I like everything from the late 60s to late 2000s
@22lilacsky4 ай бұрын
GnR " Sweet child of mine"
@citrus.mixer14 ай бұрын
Every Millennial would fight you on that. Their perfect 90s childhoods was the peak of America, the world, and humanity. Somewhere around 1998-99 when they were 8 years old. Even Gen Z'ers would agree the late 90s was the peak of America/world/humanity/universe.
@Goldenwoodz7 ай бұрын
These people all looked so genuinely happy back then, this is not the sight you see In schools today.
@skywishr13136 ай бұрын
Well you haven't been in a school in 40 years then
@Goldenwoodz6 ай бұрын
@@skywishr1313 I grew up in the 2000s
@richardlacey4923Ай бұрын
You can 100% Blame technology, the internet specifically for the doom of society
@amuroray9115Ай бұрын
@@richardlacey4923 there’s bigger problems in this world than the internet. You don’t have to use KZfaq or the internet.
@GoldenwoodzАй бұрын
@@richardlacey4923 1000%!!!
@coconamia7 ай бұрын
@0:50 i like the way she used _’I was dying’_ in the same way we use it today to describe something that made us laugh hard.
@TheBOG37 ай бұрын
No one said “literally” back then.
@stratonovich-qx2ir7 ай бұрын
Totally
@thenightporter7 ай бұрын
We used it back then that way too.
@calisongbird7 ай бұрын
@@TheBOG3 we did, but not every other word.
@lionelhutz51374 ай бұрын
@@stratonovich-qx2ir radical!
@gilwood75304 ай бұрын
I graduated in '84 ...this is so cool to see
@calisongbird7 ай бұрын
I’m class of 86. This brought me back. Besides the obvious “no cell phones,” I also noticed very little obesity compared to today. The American food supply has gotten worse - more high fructose corn syrup and chemicals in processed “food” that interrupt the human endocrine system. We had chemicals back then, but fewer of them.
@stevenhopkins4297 ай бұрын
Maybe in China
@atlantic_love7 ай бұрын
It's not that, what is happening is that Americans by and large do not make "meals" anymore. Back in the day we actually had things to do before and after eating. We'd all sit down and eat at the dinner table. Nowadays we do things while eating. Eating has become our routine away from the dinner table.
@calisongbird7 ай бұрын
@@atlantic_love that’s part of it. But our food supply has definitely changed in the last 40 years also. And lifestyles have changed. The obesity problem is complex and multifactorial, it’s not as simple as “no one eats dinner together anymore.”
@atlantic_love7 ай бұрын
@@calisongbird It really is as simple as eating less throughout the day, and healthy foods/cooking being part of your culture. The food supply is an issue throughout the world, but other countries do NOT have the problem that we have with obestity. Not even close. It's not debatable. I've been around for a long time, this lack of planned meals and eating better stuff was not nearly the problem then that it is today.
@calisongbird7 ай бұрын
@@atlantic_love other countries do not have nearly the mass quantities of processed foods as the U.S. Not even close.
@callmesteve47367 ай бұрын
This must’ve been a good camera because the visual comes in clean for ‘87. Better than a lot of older vids I’ve seen
@davidnihart77637 ай бұрын
Students appear at least 10 years more mature than students of today.
@Goldenwoodz7 ай бұрын
That is the solid truth
@HisbeautifulTruth-nl1ch7 ай бұрын
Feral and latchkey. We. Were. Awesome!! 😂
@NW73867 ай бұрын
They were actually experiencing the world around them. People now are locked in the matrix of some sort. Dealing with people has become an option and many times a waste of time. It's amazing and not in a good way.
@RetroreviewsPlus4 ай бұрын
Well look at the parents today compared to the parents of back then there's your answer
@danacoleman40074 ай бұрын
No. They don't
@mr.horseshoe23017 ай бұрын
Hope all these young people found happiness and success in their lives. They all should have grandchildren by now.
@damitzdesign7 ай бұрын
Grandparents in their early 50’s is too young 😬
@EmoryLandswk7 ай бұрын
Grandparents? 😂😂😂 They aren't even that old. OP do the math sweetie
@EmoryLandswk7 ай бұрын
@@diabolusvincityou're happy about that?😢
@MrEkzotic7 ай бұрын
@@diabolusvincitSame. Can't stop having fun. Going snowboarding against next week.
@POVwithRC7 ай бұрын
@@diabolusvincitA proud dead end on the family tree. Interesting. When did you end up infected with that sort of genetic nihilism?
@Gravyballs20117 ай бұрын
My era. Gen-X. A bunch of 50 somethings today. Sad but some of those carefree people are now dead.
@damageinc57524 ай бұрын
At least they got to live in a normal sane country with awesome music & movies etc., unlike today's youth.
@jimmymartin19024 ай бұрын
And getting real close to retirement. Crazy!
@gilwood75304 ай бұрын
I spent the early 80s going to see FRANK ...Some of my best memories
@teresapflaumer57174 ай бұрын
I graduated in 1990 and lost many high school friends. I am approaching 52 and I am on permanent disability. I wish I was 16 again. 😢
@jimmymartin19023 ай бұрын
@Gus_Magnus Shit happens.
@MegaBlackley7 ай бұрын
Kids were happier then.
@perapelman10377 ай бұрын
I was in 2th grade in 1987(age 8) I live in Norway from Norway I am. This is how I remember my childhood,nice and carefree❤🎉😊
@rightwired7 ай бұрын
[sees ESPIRT shirt] oh there goes the rich kid
@RazorFriendly7 ай бұрын
This makes me feel like I'm in HS in the 80's all over again. I'm 50 now, and I don't even recognize the country I grew up in anymore. It's all gone so......terribly.......wrong.
@MrEkzotic7 ай бұрын
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” We are at the part of the cycle where hard times are creating strong men, so we do have something to look forward to.
@elpugboy7 ай бұрын
@@MrEkzotic last night i had a hard time and created some strong men in my boxers when i was tryna sleep
@RazorFriendly7 ай бұрын
@@MrEkzotic I think you’re right, but I also don’t think I’ll live long enough to see our society on the other side of this
@elliecherise19687 ай бұрын
@@MrEkzoticNot sure about that, culture creates strong people that weather the storms and do better because of their culture. Culture can override things and create better people or systems. 80s had alot of week boomer men and there won't be any boomer old ladies handing out candies.
@anonanon72353 ай бұрын
Your 80 year old father would tell you a similar story if he saw this video.
@stephb33217 ай бұрын
I graduated in 1985, my 40th reunion is in two years. This brought back a lot of memories.
@Droodog1277 ай бұрын
Class of 87' , I can still feel that energy back then. Locker #10 16-06-42 Interboro High School PA
@douglasdixon5247 ай бұрын
We all knew that the next 10 years would be great, we just knew it. I haven't felt that way in 20 years unfortunately.
@Droodog1277 ай бұрын
@@douglasdixon524 I can't remember what I did yesterday LOL but I can see 1987 clear as a bell
@lionelhutz51374 ай бұрын
*cue 'don't forget about about me' song*
@josebro3523 ай бұрын
OMG was that your high school locker combination?! I still remember mine too. 36-14-0. And I'm 55!!
@ryansmurda15527 ай бұрын
Whoa! No one walking around like zombies glued to their iPhones. 😂 I was in grade school in 87. It was a fun time to grow up. Enjoyed the video! Thanks for posting!
@deltapapa827 ай бұрын
Yes, so was I. Great time to grow up.
@POVwithRC7 ай бұрын
@@GremmPaltakinIt's a good comment. It bears repeating. All these flavours and you chose to be salty ☺️
@ryansmurda15527 ай бұрын
@GremmPaltakin so what? It's true, isn't it? Are you triggered? 🤣
@donnytucker7 ай бұрын
This is awesome. I was 10 and in 5th grade in 87 but my sister was in high school.
@pokerchip12314 ай бұрын
I started the 8th grade in 87', thanks for posting this
@ChrisRoth19727 ай бұрын
I started my Freshman Year of High School on August 20,1987 God do I feel old watching this.Flash forward we are now in our 50’s.
@user-nj6wb8cn9z4 ай бұрын
Me too!!
@lionelhutz51374 ай бұрын
You started school during what's supposed to be Summer break?
@ImaFattyCat7 ай бұрын
Greatest channel ever
@franklin86187 ай бұрын
This and Rinse & Repeat. The other one uploads Saturday Morning cartoons and classic shows.
@ImaFattyCat7 ай бұрын
@@franklin8618 I just hate how there’s dozens of retro channels in tiktok or insta that steal his archives and put the dk music over it without credit, this channel seriously is the greatest time machine
@user-yp7ue7im8q7 ай бұрын
Hundreds of normal, mentally stable kids. Wow.
@AngelofAnguish2 ай бұрын
AMEN or LIKEWISE!
@kenlompart99057 ай бұрын
The 80s, the best decade.
@MystiCmeshtool3 ай бұрын
That's what people will be saying about the 2030s and every decade from now on
@pearllee087 ай бұрын
No wonder we didn't have weight issues, carrying all those books. ❤
@WADESGOATED7 ай бұрын
Weight issues has always been a thing man can yall stop with this whole notion that weight issues became a thing post 00s or after 2010 it’s always been a issue, there just wasn’t no social media at the time.
@pearllee087 ай бұрын
@WADESGOATED not true. Do your research.
@WADESGOATED7 ай бұрын
@@pearllee08do my research? I lived through those decades I have seen a good amount of dudes struggling with weight problems it’s always been an issue so once again stop spreading my false narratives
@WADESGOATED7 ай бұрын
@@pearllee08 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44656/#:~:text=The%20prevalence%20of%20obesity%20changed,children%20during%20the%20same%20period. Do my research lmao ok if u actually did ur research you knew by the 80s had gone up way more compared to the 70s and 60s
@jimjohnson7245 ай бұрын
The snack and fast food industries super sized everything in the 90s to make more $$$$
@imnotfunnybro7 ай бұрын
Your channel is such a treasure, these good times should always be known about even nowadays
@juliepetersen79747 ай бұрын
OMG I love this! I was 16 in 1987…I feel like all my friends are walking by the camera!!💞
@johnsmith20467 ай бұрын
Thanks for this! I turned 14 years old in September 1987, so, I am a couple years younger than them (I was in 8th grade). I turned 50 a few months ago, and there is probably nothing I like more than seeing these old school videos. It's especially nice when a professional camera person like that one captures things, because of the picture quality. ... That was when school was simply school, no complications from social media. I miss the 1980's! Cheers from northeast Ohio! :)
@andreasantoro62925 ай бұрын
I was a month old when this footage was taken. I’d give anything to have been that age back then. That’s the world I belong in. 😭 Thank you so much for posting all these true gems!
@poptarget7 ай бұрын
Wow, look at all the normal people.
@bluebonnet10147 ай бұрын
I was a senior in 1987. I miss it. Sigh…
@Topshelf872 ай бұрын
This could have been my HS, junior year. Thanks for posting
@s.sflower7 ай бұрын
Everyone looks well put together and well dressed, no one with sweatpants or pajama pants with Crocs 😒
@andydhillon19777 ай бұрын
Or overweight.
@calisongbird7 ай бұрын
@@andydhillon1977 the American food supply back then was not as toxic, and fewer people depended on processed junk food for every single meal.
@jayalexander33567 ай бұрын
We didn't see looking raggedy as some form of liberation. I picked out my outfit and ironed my clothes every night for school.
@jayalexander33567 ай бұрын
@@calisongbirdthat's not true. We had multiple vending machines in my school. There was plenty of processed food everywhere. One difference is we didn't sit on our butts all day!
@vdubb47517 ай бұрын
There is always one person making a comment like this times change people change I bet folks that went to high school in the 60s were saying the same thing you are saying about these kids that you are saying about the current batch of kids hell I graduated in 2003 and I'm saying this about high schoolers now it's generational I'm almost 40 I can't expect things to stay the same forever in other words I realize I'm getting old and out of touch it is what it is.
@davecarter51132 ай бұрын
I am so grateful that I got to experience and be part of the 80s. The greatest of times!!! If I had a time machine, I would be back in the 80s right now...
@evo25007 ай бұрын
i was there. at 2:45 i was in the back left in the green shirt
@douglasdixon5247 ай бұрын
The girl at 2:48 ish maybe?
@dmc4141417 ай бұрын
I miss those days. If I could go back with what I know now...
@chillmurray75297 ай бұрын
So many great movies were about to come out over the next couple of years…..Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, breakfast club, Ferris Beuller….and so much good rock and roll too, that it felt like it would last forever. We took for granted there would always be another great thing to come along and entertain us. We’re always in some golden-age that we won’t recognize until retrospection.
@vio21127 ай бұрын
I think you're confused. This was 1987. All of those movies had already come out.
@chillmurray75297 ай бұрын
@@vio2112 I was mistaken, I thought this vid was from 1983. Appreciate u
@EuqinimodArt7 ай бұрын
I was born in the 90's, so it's crazy seeing how kids lived in the 80's!
@MRaadesign5 ай бұрын
I am a 85 grad and my wife is a 88 grad. So this vid hits BOTH of us in the feels. We miss the 80's!
@marytermini1381Ай бұрын
Class of 88 here. This is not my high school, but it's definitely the way I remember kids looking and acting. I loved seeing the girl with the photo collage on the inside of her locker door. Now, it's all on people's phones and social media.
@82dorrin7 ай бұрын
I love how 1980s high school students look like they're in their mid-30s.
@Yesica19937 ай бұрын
My childhood. Wow. It really is bizarre to imagine a world without phones. And yet I lived in that world up until just a few years ago.
@andydhillon19777 ай бұрын
You just recently got a phone? Did you graduate in 1993?
@leonardticsay80467 ай бұрын
@@andydhillon1977could have meant “smartphone”. I didn’t get mine until 2007, and that feels like two days ago.
@Yesica19937 ай бұрын
I should have clarified. I meant a smartphone. I had the brick phones and flip phones for years. @@andydhillon1977
@andydhillon19777 ай бұрын
@leonardticsay8046 Oh, I figured she meant smartphone. I still hear of people finally getting smartphones. Pretty neat. Smart phones are those technologies that once you get used to it, it's hard to live without.
@Yesica19937 ай бұрын
Yep. I got mine around 2016-17, due to a family medical situation. If not for that, I would've happily stayed with a flip phone forever.@@leonardticsay8046
@LKVince117 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting these. Im caught between look at this I was 15! And thankful to have lived decades beyond that time.
@rockinsteady4067 ай бұрын
I miss this so much.
@Nickg2227 ай бұрын
just think about it... not a single person in this video would ever know they would be on something called the internet 27 years later.
@andydhillon19777 ай бұрын
37... but I know what you're saying.
@Nickg2227 ай бұрын
@@andydhillon1977 Oops... yea.. 37 years lol
@Im_Tellin_Ya7 ай бұрын
Most were dreaming of appearing on MTV back then.
@Im_Tellin_Ya7 ай бұрын
America's funniest home videos was also a chance at 15 minutes of fame.
@cellogirl787 ай бұрын
So it says in the description that this video was shot in December of 1987. I would've been in fourth grade then, so I had five years to go before starting high school, lol! Nevertheless, this was a really cool and intriguing video to watch. As always, thanks for yet another interesting video upload! 😊👍
@Chaos_7 ай бұрын
Wow. No fat people staring at their phones. How times have changed.
@Detective_L7 ай бұрын
Time stole everything from me and I want my old life back. I hate this era I’m living in and I hate the entitled people and the stupid Tik Tok trends.
@braidena16337 ай бұрын
Maybe the problem is you?
@bbc_junior48632 ай бұрын
@@braidena1633Nah tik tok is trash. I don’t mind all other social media but tik tok is cancer.
@gavinproduction74332 ай бұрын
No that's a you problem I have gen x friends there very lovely.
@90xolove7 ай бұрын
My eldest sister would have been in high school that year. I was born during her senior year in 1990. Too bad I didn’t get to experience the 80s but at least I can watch it! 😁
@ToeTag98997 ай бұрын
It's like watching 21 jump street but it's real life.
@Theonetruewonderfly7 ай бұрын
LOL, i was going to say, "Where's Johnny Depp?"
@RETROOBLIVION7 ай бұрын
LMAO! This is like looking through a wormhole into the past. It's really insane how cool this video is. Thanks for the laugh and memories.👍👍
@kirkhathaway49747 ай бұрын
where are all the trapper keepers?
@Turtlepower1987.7 ай бұрын
Smartphone less , Smartwatch less, Tik tok less, commonsense is All Around!!! Just Flawless and simply pure✅️
@rebeccaa24337 ай бұрын
It wasn’t flawless. We had different issues going on back then.
@calisongbird7 ай бұрын
@@rebeccaa2433 exactly. Nostalgia always makes people romanticize and idealize the past. Every era has its problems.
@Turtlepower1987.7 ай бұрын
@rebeccaa2433 compared to This centuries standards ,It still pretty Flawless and Amazing! I would know because I lived thru it✅️
@bache724 ай бұрын
Head and eyes up looking forward. Social butterflies abound.
@Luisito-id1bx2 ай бұрын
The world went to trash with the boom of smartphones and social networks.
@UnlimitedTimeOnly7 ай бұрын
All of what they're wearing is back in style again.
@szzk79377 ай бұрын
No its not lol, some of the retro colors and stripes maybe, but not tight and tucked into your belt like they are doing there. Also that hairspray they used then isnt made anymore, so nobody's hair is going to look like that. But yes the retro colors and stripes from the 80s and early 90s are in again.
@user-s0m30n36 ай бұрын
Some of it is kinda but not all of it. younger people mostly dress like y2k style when they do go “vintage”, sometimes 90’s, but rarely 80’s
@lionelhutz51374 ай бұрын
Acid washed jeans too?
@citrus.mixer14 ай бұрын
@@szzk7937 I've seen some young women/girls trying to bring back those huge 80s glasses. Ick.
@rebeccaa24337 ай бұрын
Students look so much older than they do now.
@albear9727 ай бұрын
It's called being mature.
@bugloverspiderlover84907 ай бұрын
It’s all the chemicals in the food,it’s killing our hormone levels and stunting us.
@calisongbird7 ай бұрын
@@albear972 no it’s not. Teenagers are teenagers in every era. It’s just that the fashions then are probably still worn by many people in their 50s now, who were teens in 87.
@strengthandbulkMadness7 ай бұрын
Girls actually wearing sweaters in the winter. Now, it’s belly shirts year round even when freezing out , haha.
@raiderfan712697 ай бұрын
Year I was supposed to graduate from high school. 80s were great. Thanks man.
@robrob70117 ай бұрын
If you didn't tell me, i would assume this is the 90s These kids are ahead of their time
@Theonetruewonderfly7 ай бұрын
Eh, they kinda look early 90's, but not late 90's (where everyone looked like the cast of "I Know What You Did Last Summer".)
@Lucas-DX7 ай бұрын
3:19 Homie covered his face like he didn’t want the cops to recognize him on the footage 💀
@caprissocialnetwork12617 ай бұрын
😂
@tom11zz8847 ай бұрын
Low-key racism there bud?
@nostalgia93387 ай бұрын
@@tom11zz884Oh God take a joke. You’re part of the problem today. Are you now going to complain how this video isn’t diverse enough?
@HisbeautifulTruth-nl1ch7 ай бұрын
Why? Just.....why?
@JoCoVet-537 ай бұрын
Your channel is a treasure trove of nostalgia. Thank you for that!
@XJordanx897 ай бұрын
Ever noticed or feel like every video this person uploads is the same person filming, I’m convinced this person is a time traveler.
@tennillej96017 ай бұрын
This makes me wish that I grew up in that decade
@andrewwilks51557 ай бұрын
I went to Cranberry High School here in Pennsylvania starting in 1988 and graduated there in 1992. The old cranberry high school I went to looked much like this with the big lockers in hallway with lots of room and huge classrooms with these same exact styles of clothes back then as well. Back then, all disciplinary matters were handled by the schools regardless of severity and only on rare occasion where things truly need police, police and criminal justice system getting involved. Now today, for many things that were handled strictly by school and parents back then now get outsourced unnecessarily to police departments with juveniles being charged with things us students were never charged with back at time I went to high school and with sometimes the whole students of today's lives being unnecessarily ruined through the criminal justice system over the same issues that were once handled only between school and parents back in day I went to high school. And also now a high school students life sometimes even being ruined through the criminal justice system just for doing the natural things teens do which didn't happen back in my high school days either. Also now, schools look much more prison like compared to back then as well with security guards monitoring the hallways just waiting for a student to "act out" so they can have the student charged, arrested, and even sometimes have their whole lives destroyed on top of charge and arrest over just doing the natural things teens tend to do as I said above. Back when I went to high school, it was teachers only acting as hall monitors with things kept between school and parents as the schools back in 1980s and before here looked much more welcoming and much less prison like compared to today. It is ashame how schools have changed here in USA over these last 40 years and feel bad for today's students having to have it so rough in school today compared to back then having to walk on eggshells to protect themselves from falling into the justice system over the pettiest of things that can still be handled strictly by the school and parents only. On a note: One watching this video can absolutely sense how much more free high school was back then and see how the students were very free spirited then without seeing a security guard in sight and the stress and anxiety this would cause and whatever adult would be present in these friendlier looking hallways of back then, would only be the school staff doing hall monitoring.
@SquadJuiced7 ай бұрын
You repeated yourself A LOT but I like the sentiment.
@twiff3rino287 ай бұрын
Agree 100%. I was born in '89, and during the mid/late 90s a lot of laws became more punitive and a number of states actually dropped their juvenile ages, so if a 17 year old was charged with a non-violent crime like weed possession, he'd get an adult record and end up sharing a jail cell with someone 30. One of the states that did this was Wisconsin, and apparently two 17 year olds sexting would result in them getting charged as "adult" sex offenders for distributing CP. It's insane.
@andrewwilks51557 ай бұрын
@@twiff3rino28 ABSOLUTELY!!! Most certainly is! I was thinking of these things when I typed my comment above without mentioning these things. Speaking of the SO registry for texting, back in the 1980s and before when there was no SO registry nor many things either that schools to this day could of still handled on their own without getting outsourced to law enforcement, if two teens were consensually having sex with each other at school back in the 1980s and before and caught by school staff then, the school staff and parents would handle that themselves without getting law enforcement involved and all involved then would also educate the teens about safe sex giving helpful advice. Now to this day still here in USA since the late 90s early 2000s, if two teens now are caught doing the same thing here by school staff, this now gets outsourced to law enforcement with these teens life being TOTALLY DESTROYED being forced to register as a SO, sometimes even for life ALL over the two teens here naturally experimenting in their pubic stages and consensually having a sexual relationship! I have even heard and read about little kids being forced to register as a SO just for "playing doctor" with their whole lives destroyed as well for something that a little child doesn't fully understand yet! From how it was in the 80s here and before and how it is now with these things ABSOLUTELY PROVES how MAD and CRAZY of a society the USA has become over the decades! I should also add that Though USA society may not of totally "lost it" yet, those anti marijuana and drug laws and the start of trying of Children as adults were all red flags I feel that prove that even in 80s, USA society was just starting to go off a deep end. These bad laws of the 1980s here refused to consider that children don't think like adults and with these bad anti drug laws, even if one was with someone with an illegal substance of then, they would go down and get charged as an accessory, even if they didn't know about their friend or relative having the substance on them! Thank you for your reply! On a note: I came up with a name for people like you who were born between the years 1989 and 1991: Children of the Winds Of Change hence the Winds Of Change that occurred with the collapse of Eastern European dictatorships/Communism, Berlin Wall falling, Germany reuniting, Western things coming to Russia such as the historic moment when the first McDonald's in Moscow Russia opened up in 1990, and collapse of the USSR with Russia becoming a democracy in 1991. And the song Winds Of Change from the Scorpions that sang and made a video of this wonderful beautiful historic time just before society here in States decided to go off the deep end with all its madness. Winds of Change from the Scorpions was a very beautiful song and video as well. It is REALLY ASHAME and SAD what things have come to decades later not only in USA, but also in certain parts of the world in recent years as well.
@MMoses877 ай бұрын
I agree. I graduated from a suburban high school around 25-30 miles from Cranberry Twp in the same era as yourself. Columbine changed the way suburban schools protected the premises. There wasn't a THOUGHT of guns being brought to school in my area, but now there are metal detectors and police on campus.
@andrewwilks51557 ай бұрын
@@MMoses87Which cranberry TWP were you near? Venango county cranberry or Butler Cranberry? Speaking of guns, to my understanding, if one carried a gun to school in the 1980s, this was still dealt with between parents and school only.
@joshstephens36507 ай бұрын
These kids are now in their early 50's.
@Theonetruewonderfly7 ай бұрын
I love it, it looks perfectly "late 80's". Not early 80's (with the Luke Skywalker haircut on every guy), and not early 90's (with everyone becoming "grunge").
@citrus.mixer14 ай бұрын
Wow, these kids are so energetic and happy. Are high school kids still like this? I really have no idea.
@briank.89257 ай бұрын
Remember when you'd be waiting for class to start, sitting at your desk, and someone not even in your class loops in and drops a folded up piece of paper. The run-on diatribe within was written not by the messenger, but someone else. Now you've got the contents of that note in your head for the next 40 minutes. Today you text message before class.
@mattfontes36027 ай бұрын
Well said. You just channeled your inner John Hughes
@IsmailAbdulMusic7 ай бұрын
Real cool. I was 7 years of age during this time
@rrb4kids19 күн бұрын
The year I graduated.... wonderful 1987!
@bluesky53847 ай бұрын
I was -2 years old. Times were better back then!
@Jesus_Saves_Believers7 ай бұрын
Great video!
@Kgio-21127 ай бұрын
My first year of High School. The old days.
@neilfeinberg78257 ай бұрын
1:40 wondering what the kid in the Harvard sweatshirt thinks of his Alma mater now!😅
@citrus.mixer14 ай бұрын
I'm curious if he actually went to Harvard or was he just being douchey wearing that shirt? lol
@ghostdogzx-1474Ай бұрын
1:24 - 1:31 cameraman knew which person in the crowd truly embodied 1987.
@gts30045 ай бұрын
This reminds me of how blessed we were to have lived through such a time.
@karicastanza52167 ай бұрын
I was just in junior high then! I don't have kids, so to me this still seems so normal to me!
@guinnevere1004 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed this video. 1987 was the very year that I graduated high school.
@ghostdogzx-1474Ай бұрын
To all my fifty-something friends… knowing what we know now, could you imagine how mind-blowingly fun 1987 would be to relive. My God we had it so good. 😢
@Jendromeda7 ай бұрын
the sweaters! I was in my 30's but my sisters graduated in '87. The hair, the clothes, the colors....it actually reminded me of the 50's in a way...perky kids! I grad in the early 70's and the kids were not looking like this at all....lol We were hippie bums.