Yup! A moment in time that would've been forgotten Seco ds after it happened. Very fortunate this creator took videos back then!

maybe he really has a time mashine :o

@@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.

Dear heaven above, I MISS THE 80's!

Great comment 🙌🏽

Or the Aquanet - white can, baby! 😉

I loved that stuff. Apple was the best smelling!

CLOUDS of it

And the Drakkar and Polo in the air.

Everyone in the video is now in their 50s, with the exception of the small but significant minority who have died.

@@davidz3879 that’s exactly what I was thinking! I’m class of 89

Class of '90 here! 🙋🏻‍♀️

My freshman year too! I see a mullet or two I was rockin'.

Was born a year after, class of 05 tho miss those days

Without cell phones in every hand.

Absolutely!

It's lowkey heartbreaking to realize they're all gone now, kinda gives me the chills tbh.

​@@rodmunch69 - Gone? You mean dead? I graduated in 1985. I'm still here.

@@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.

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…….

That generation created mass shooters.

​@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.

@@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.

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.

You’re absolutely right!

Totally 🙌🏽

Agreed! It’s very educational!

agreed too❤

I thought the same thing! It's the food we're eating IMO.

Facts

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.

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.

It's the "food".

Genuinely looks like everyone was happy, and not bitter and depressed like they are today.

@@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

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

Isn't it ironic how back then we couldn't wait for the future? Now many of us wish we could go back!

@@andydhillon1977 Back then 1 year felt like 5. Now 5 years feels like 1.

@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.

@@chris7077 yeeeessss!!!! Make it stop!!!

​@@andydhillon1977😄

In the video they didn't look like kids or they weren't.

Yes we are :(

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.

That would be me as I graduate in 1987 the best time no cell phones

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.

Would be nice, I remember my grandmother saying during this time that these were the best years of your life

Yes, No mutilated and defaced bodies and faces.

@@johnsmith-ug5tp I went to Berkeley High School in California, class of 86. Many of my classmates had tattoos and were punks with piercings.

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. 😂

Technology is ruining life.

​@@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.

@@trevour we carried our books with NO WATER bottle. That was it!! Gym day we used a bag for our shower and change up.

Agreed! And.... RUSH RULES! lol😎

@jonathanbirch2022 nothing has replaced smartphones either. they even function basically the same way they did 15 years ago.

Time flies! 🥏

I'm from the class of 89 and still feel as young as I did then....hell, probably even feel a bit younger.

What was the 80s like? I was born in 91 so didn't experience that decade at all but it all looks awesome ❤

@@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.

@@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.

Prior to kids being doped up on big pharma loser meds.

I know it's really hard to imagine a world where everyone wasn't suffering from an attention seeking disorder. Good old times.

We weren't as self centered so a camera meant nothing.

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.

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.

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.

@@alvreyes28 It was a very different time.

@@phyllischaffin4052same here - I am class of 86. The haircuts and clothing here look so familiar!

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.

​@phyllischaffin4052 I'm the Class Of 1986 too.

That kinda goes against the stereotype of the 80s fashion being all about standing out and flashy clothing.

0:18 yeah we all rocked mustaches in HS

@@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.

​@@poldarkpirahna5809 that probably depends on the location, and time period in the 80s .

@@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.

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.

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.

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! 😊

@@Yo_DynamoJoe Damn that makes sense. I'm sure he finds it funny how many of us assume he's a time traveler.

yeah but who in a Kansas HighSchool carried a big ass camcorder? That's the real champ

80s and early 90s

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").

@@Theonetruewonderfly yes, I like everything from the late 60s to late 2000s

GnR " Sweet child of mine"

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.

Well you haven't been in a school in 40 years then

@@skywishr1313 I grew up in the 2000s

You can 100% Blame technology, the internet specifically for the doom of society

@@richardlacey4923 there’s bigger problems in this world than the internet. You don’t have to use KZfaq or the internet.

@@richardlacey4923 1000%!!!

No one said “literally” back then.

Totally

We used it back then that way too.

@@TheBOG3 we did, but not every other word.

@@stratonovich-qx2ir radical!

Maybe in China

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.

@@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.”

@@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.

@@atlantic_love other countries do not have nearly the mass quantities of processed foods as the U.S. Not even close.

That is the solid truth

Feral and latchkey. We. Were. Awesome!! 😂

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.

Well look at the parents today compared to the parents of back then there's your answer

No. They don't

Grandparents in their early 50’s is too young 😬

Grandparents? 😂😂😂 They aren't even that old. OP do the math sweetie

​@@diabolusvincityou're happy about that?😢

​@@diabolusvincitSame. Can't stop having fun. Going snowboarding against next week.

​@@diabolusvincitA proud dead end on the family tree. Interesting. When did you end up infected with that sort of genetic nihilism?

At least they got to live in a normal sane country with awesome music & movies etc., unlike today's youth.

And getting real close to retirement. Crazy!

I spent the early 80s going to see FRANK ...Some of my best memories

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. 😢

@Gus_Magnus Shit happens.

“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.

​@@MrEkzotic last night i had a hard time and created some strong men in my boxers when i was tryna sleep

@@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

​​@@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.

Your 80 year old father would tell you a similar story if he saw this video.

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.

@@douglasdixon524 I can't remember what I did yesterday LOL but I can see 1987 clear as a bell

*cue 'don't forget about about me' song*

OMG was that your high school locker combination?! I still remember mine too. 36-14-0. And I'm 55!!

Yes, so was I. Great time to grow up.

​@@GremmPaltakinIt's a good comment. It bears repeating. All these flavours and you chose to be salty ☺️

@GremmPaltakin so what? It's true, isn't it? Are you triggered? 🤣

Me too!!

You started school during what's supposed to be Summer break?

This and Rinse & Repeat. The other one uploads Saturday Morning cartoons and classic shows.

@@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

AMEN or LIKEWISE!

That's what people will be saying about the 2030s and every decade from now on

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.

@WADESGOATED not true. Do your research.

@@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

@@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

The snack and fast food industries super sized everything in the 90s to make more $$$$

Or overweight.

@@andydhillon1977 the American food supply back then was not as toxic, and fewer people depended on processed junk food for every single meal.

We didn't see looking raggedy as some form of liberation. I picked out my outfit and ironed my clothes every night for school.

​@@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!

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.

The girl at 2:48 ish maybe?

I think you're confused. This was 1987. All of those movies had already come out.

@@vio2112 I was mistaken, I thought this vid was from 1983. Appreciate u

You just recently got a phone? Did you graduate in 1993?

@@andydhillon1977could have meant “smartphone”. I didn’t get mine until 2007, and that feels like two days ago.

I should have clarified. I meant a smartphone. I had the brick phones and flip phones for years. @@andydhillon1977

@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.

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

37... but I know what you're saying.

@@andydhillon1977 Oops... yea.. 37 years lol

Most were dreaming of appearing on MTV back then.

America's funniest home videos was also a chance at 15 minutes of fame.

Maybe the problem is you?

@@braidena1633Nah tik tok is trash. I don’t mind all other social media but tik tok is cancer.

No that's a you problem I have gen x friends there very lovely.

LOL, i was going to say, "Where's Johnny Depp?"

It wasn’t flawless. We had different issues going on back then.

@@rebeccaa2433 exactly. Nostalgia always makes people romanticize and idealize the past. Every era has its problems.

@rebeccaa2433 compared to This centuries standards ,It still pretty Flawless and Amazing! I would know because I lived thru it✅️

Head and eyes up looking forward. Social butterflies abound.

The world went to trash with the boom of smartphones and social networks.

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.

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

Acid washed jeans too?

@@szzk7937 I've seen some young women/girls trying to bring back those huge 80s glasses. Ick.

It's called being mature.

It’s all the chemicals in the food,it’s killing our hormone levels and stunting us.

@@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.

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".)

😂

Low-key racism there bud?

@@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?

Why? Just.....why?

You repeated yourself A LOT but I like the sentiment.

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.

@@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.

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.

@@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.

Well said. You just channeled your inner John Hughes

I'm curious if he actually went to Harvard or was he just being douchey wearing that shirt? lol