What about the 976 Phone numbers!? I called Freddy Krueger’s 976 number a dozen times for 99 cents a minute. My parents almost killed me when they got the phone bill!
Also, using road maps. If you're making a road trip to 5613 Whatever St, New City, you need to pull out of a paper map of New City, find Whatever St, look for the block north of 56 Ave, and basically guess the fastest route to get there. Keeping track of your cardinal directions while driving helps.
In the 80's I had one of those map wheels that you could set the scale of the paper map and roll it down the road you were travelling on and it would tell you the distance in miles. I remember my wife (then 16 yo girlfriend) taking our first trip to the beach in 1984 and trying to roll it on the map while driving lol.
I remember my Mom would buy the TV Guide at the grocery store every week. She knew it was cheaper to just subscribe but she liked picking it up in the store and flipping through it in the check out line.
I believe the hand granade balloons were slighlty thinner than regulars, making them a guarantee blow up on impact, or from squeezing too hard, or throwing too fast haha
Those wigs are awesome haha. I sure do miss the 80s! And I still once in awhile watch and listen to 80s or 90s weather channel videos here on youtube as background noise.
The funny thing I remember about T.V in the 80's, was before remote controls, we had a channel box. It was attached to a wire that ran to the t.v, It was a big box with a row of buttons and each button was a channel. There was a switch at the end you flick up or down, and it would make those buttons a different set of channels.
Oh man that sounds complicated lol no thx i jus had da big bulky TV's maybe like 25 or so inch screen that had a turn knob on it 2 change da channel b4 i ever got a remote control 1 oh the sounds of static that used 2 destroy my ears trying 2 hook up Nintendo or sega lol
@@relicdad88 It wasn't complicated. It was kind of a necessity because there to many channel starting to pop up and it would be impossible to keep going up to the T.V and turned the knob to go through all them. It was just an eye sore...lol.
For a while in 1989, I would watch quite a lot of The Weather Channel. Now, the channel is a lot different and with meteorologists who definitely make it easy to watch. I remember a preview channel in the late 1980s, channel 19, that was black and full screen before ads and stuff were added to it.
Remember having to hide the Thomas Guide in your car since thieves will steal those too? Detachable stereo face, The Club wheel lock, sun visor - getting out of our cars was a chore!
Since I’m a big movie buff, I always liked to call the movie theatres just to hear the recording of what movies were playing and what time the show started.
That water balloon fight footage is hilarious😂 Remember when dialing zero on your phone connected you to the operator and it was basically like calling 911? One time they called me back because I hung up and they were lecturing me.
Don't forget the trick with payphones. You could pick up a receiver, dial #1579 and the last 4 digits of that phone's number, hang up and it would start ringing like someone was calling. Was fun watching people answer it. 😂
#5: Started off w/ baggies and worked up to grocery bags. All chucked out a third-floor window. #4: Used to prank the video store's payphone. #3: Dialed NERVOUS (Boston area). Also could call it collect from a payphone (i.e. free). #2: There were also a separate weather number. #1: That or the "TV book" that came w/ the Sunday paper. Also, when we got cable, it included a monthly printed "Cable Guide" that was mailed to our house.
I remember all of these I used to do every last one of them as well and that weather channel are used to love turning it on just so I can hear the smooth jazz on there
Getting push ups and bubble gum cigarettes from the ice cream truck then cruising around the neighborhood on bikes and big wheels with no parental supervision, then you come home and play some super mario/ duck hunt, the next day at school you have a 20 kid all out wrestlemania match out in the field where the yard duties can't see you. Those were the days.
Wow! You have brought back some amazing memories dude. I'm 46 and these things were cool, the water balloons we always had fun with them things especially during the summer. 😊❤ Thank you
Love the topics and look forward to the newer videos. Best thing about this video was you dressing up as the 411 operator. Also the slow-mo hitting your son with the balloon. Made me chuckle.
In the late '90s in Australia, I had a fancy VCR that could pick up a few of those special broadcast channels. By default, regular VCRs and TVs couldn't pick up the Australian weather channel. For some reason it was broadcast differently than regular TV. The channel looked like an old internet bulletin board. There weren't any pictures. All we saw was a plain background (I think it was either grey or blue) and huge text saying the weather forecast. We had a couple of similar channels, too. One showed the Lotto (lottery) results and I think it showed sports results, too. I seem to remember there being at lease three of those special channels, but I don't remember what the other's were. With the TV guides, some of the printed ones had barcodes next to each programme time. One of my VCRs (I had a couple of them) had a barcode scanner built into it for scanning the barcodes in the TV guides. I never used it though, because the barcodes only told the VCR to record from exactly when each show was supposed to start and finish. That's something we still can't rely on. There wasn't a way to add a recording buffer to each recording timer, so it would have missed parts of shows as they started early or finished late.
- I never knew "water" balloons existed. Maybe that's why they mostly didn't explode unless dropped from a building. - TV in general, and especially TV Guides were for seniors and soccer moms. Most of us were having way too much fun in IRL to watch TV, and the few times we did, we just flipped through channels.
Pretty awesome Kurt, I remember all these. Do you remember "On TV" & "Select TV" ? We couldn't get it in my city, but we had "Adelphia Cable" it was our first cable TV in Oxnard in the mid-70s, Early 80s, there was a movie channel called "Channel 6" that showed the same two movies a week, then two more would be shown in week two & so on & so on, that's where I saw of the "R" Rated movies I couldn't watch at the theaters, like "The Betsy", "The Exorcist", "Rancho Deluxe" ect. "Channel 6" was active til "Adelphia" became "Jones Intercable" and more channels were available like HBO, Cinemax. Good memories, shoot... I was still in high school when this was going on [I'm 61 years old now]
@@NickL951 Same here, do you remember that Select TV would show Adult Movies late at night and it was also scrambled, but you still try to watch it to see some female nudity LOL
Back in the early 80s my job was to visit homes and collect the Select TV boxes. This was from people who stopped paying for it. I got paid $10 for every box I collected.
Did you know! The time lady was Majel Barrett the 1st officer on Star Trek the original USS Enterprise pilot episode, Luxanna Troy in Star Trek the Next Generation and the computer voice on the Enterprise D!!!
If you didn't have The Weather Channel like me and were into fishing and needed to know when low and high tide were there was a phone number for that. The tides mattered for fishing,crabbing, etc. but if you had a boat with a motor. and if the water was to low at the boat ramp,dock the boat, boat motor might hit the mud and that was a deal breaker,had to wait for the tide to RISE.
I remember buying TV Guide as a teenager and realizing that the channels and programs didn't change from week to week, so I used the same TV Guide for about a year.. it was occasionally off. lol
That was fun, I remember all of that, My parents always said the first thing I learned to read was the TV guide. Calling the video store not for the the time they closed but to see if the VHS movie was in before making the few mile walk or bike ride. Bekind, please rewind. I still remember sitting on the couch with my sister as MTv started up video killed the radio star. my colecovision my fav. game Zaxxon loved the 80's
YES ! The water balloon grenades were so cool lol I used to call information for everythingggg too lol The time number in the SouthBay area in the 1980s and 90s was 853-1212 . That was the number i used to use then one day when i was in high school (in the 90s) my friend showed me that all you had to do was dail 853 - _ _ _ _ and then any number you wanted for the last 4 numbers lol my mind was blown . Speaking of the weather channel remember "976-SURF" where you could get the local surf forcast for like a dollar lol ?
Here in the UK, the Time Lady or as we call it, the 'Speaking Clock' and the 411 which we call 'Directory Enquiries' still exist. Apparently, the Speaking Clock still gets millions of calls each year!
They didn't install cable in our neighborhood (Ontario, CA) until 1984 (lots of trucks and digging up of the street, cool for my 9-year-old self), so no Weather Channel (we had Select TV for movies, but that was it). We had to look in the paper or watch the local news for the weather.
also we had lotta phone # memorize to call someone, I would called the operator to find out info "Pay Phone", by the way, all the way on top of "Mt. Wilson" they still have a pay phone and works too..
I still see working pay phones from time to time. Very rare though. Makes sense that they would have one in the mountains. Probably no cell service up there.
Everything in the 90s had a more relaxed pace. You could focus on the moment and at what was in front of you. It was healthy.
Real life.
Absolutely!!
the only thing that was "bad" in the 90's was other than the obvious crime was "dont Ask Dont tell"
What about the 976 Phone numbers!? I called Freddy Krueger’s 976 number a dozen times for 99 cents a minute. My parents almost killed me when they got the phone bill!
Good times were simple times.
Also, using road maps. If you're making a road trip to 5613 Whatever St, New City, you need to pull out of a paper map of New City, find Whatever St, look for the block north of 56 Ave, and basically guess the fastest route to get there. Keeping track of your cardinal directions while driving helps.
I'm seriously amazed we found half the parties we went to back then. I clearly remember having to drive around listening for loud music some nights.
In the 80's I had one of those map wheels that you could set the scale of the paper map and roll it down the road you were travelling on and it would tell you the distance in miles. I remember my wife (then 16 yo girlfriend) taking our first trip to the beach in 1984 and trying to roll it on the map while driving lol.
Good ol days 👍💯
Keep hitting us with this 80’s and 90’s 411!
Absolutely!!
I remember my Mom would buy the TV Guide at the grocery store every week. She knew it was cheaper to just subscribe but she liked picking it up in the store and flipping through it in the check out line.
I believe the hand granade balloons were slighlty thinner than regulars, making them a guarantee blow up on impact, or from squeezing too hard, or throwing too fast haha
Bring back old memories
Used to love reading the TV Guide. My favorite part was Cheers and Jeers. And also doing the crossword puzzle.
One HUGE thing I remember...COLLECT CALLS! I would call home from summer camp.
Those wigs are awesome haha. I sure do miss the 80s! And I still once in awhile watch and listen to 80s or 90s weather channel videos here on youtube as background noise.
Maui and Sons T...you rock Kurt Crucial
Blast from the past!! Nice video!
Thank you for this great video! Not from the USA but spot on the same Australia ,one day our kids will watch these videos to look back.
Great video
Brought back so many memories. Enough left to do a part 2..
I love these kinds of vlogs. Takes me back memory lane! Looking forward to seeing more topics like this
Great video. Brings back alot of memories. Thank you.👍
Thank you so much. More on the way
Things were just better back then. Everything down to the weather🐸🍺🔪🔥
I remember the time lady,thanks for another great vid - Merry Christmas (gotta love them 80s baby!)🌲🌸💯🤍👍✌!
I loved The Weather Channel back then. I had a huge crush on Jill Brown. I wish they would go back to that format.
Wow, the memories!
The funny thing I remember about T.V in the 80's, was before remote controls, we had a channel box. It was attached to a wire that ran to the t.v, It was a big box with a row of buttons and each button was a channel. There was a switch at the end you flick up or down, and it would make those buttons a different set of channels.
Oh man that sounds complicated lol no thx i jus had da big bulky TV's maybe like 25 or so inch screen that had a turn knob on it 2 change da channel b4 i ever got a remote control 1 oh the sounds of static that used 2 destroy my ears trying 2 hook up Nintendo or sega lol
@@relicdad88 It wasn't complicated. It was kind of a necessity because there to many channel starting to pop up and it would be impossible to keep going up to the T.V and turned the knob to go through all them. It was just an eye sore...lol.
For a while in 1989, I would watch quite a lot of The Weather Channel. Now, the channel is a lot different and with meteorologists who definitely make it easy to watch.
I remember a preview channel in the late 1980s, channel 19, that was black and full screen before ads and stuff were added to it.
So crazy that this fun nostalgic video is pretty much historical record now too. Great videos!
Thank you for bringing those memories back!!!
Remember having to hide the Thomas Guide in your car since thieves will steal those too? Detachable stereo face, The Club wheel lock, sun visor - getting out of our cars was a chore!
TV Guide crosswords were the best.
Since I’m a big movie buff, I always liked to call the movie theatres just to hear the recording of what movies were playing and what time the show started.
Awesome that you included a clip of Dr. George Fischbeck from back in the day, LA legend.
That water balloon fight footage is hilarious😂
Remember when dialing zero on your phone connected you to the operator and it was basically like calling 911? One time they called me back because I hung up and they were lecturing me.
Great video Kurt!
Thank you!
As far as tv goes, I have significant memories of USA Up All Night with Rhonda. That and my 13in tv with skateboard stickers all over it.
Ever try filling up a punching balloon with water? It's massive! 😂😂😂
Kurt iam glad you did this video I really miss the 80's and 90's and it's good to remember how life used to be before cellphone 's
Yay!!! Was having a bad day and saw you posted! Just what I needed, your videos always make me smile!
Never watched the weather channel in the 80’s or 90’s . La always had the same weather lol warm and sunny
If we could have some of the technology of today but with the easier going life of the 90’s it would be almost perfect.
Love this channel!!!
National anthem on TV at the end of the broadcast day !!!
I've been using my phone less and less for these things. Time to go back to simpler times.
Don't forget the trick with payphones. You could pick up a receiver, dial #1579 and the last 4 digits of that phone's number, hang up and it would start ringing like someone was calling. Was fun watching people answer it. 😂
What's a payphone?
Those things that have been removed from so many film locations. " The pay phone/phone booth is gone now"
Great idea for video thanks for helping fight my depression
Absolutely my pleasure. More to come. Thank you for watching
#5: Started off w/ baggies and worked up to grocery bags. All chucked out a third-floor window.
#4: Used to prank the video store's payphone.
#3: Dialed NERVOUS (Boston area). Also could call it collect from a payphone (i.e. free).
#2: There were also a separate weather number.
#1: That or the "TV book" that came w/ the Sunday paper. Also, when we got cable, it included a monthly printed "Cable Guide" that was mailed to our house.
Your videos are some of my favorite on all of CZcams. Keep up the great work !!
Awesome!
I remember all of these I used to do every last one of them as well and that weather channel are used to love turning it on just so I can hear the smooth jazz on there
If you have a shortwave radio you can listen to time stations to get that old time lady nostalgia. 5000 kHz is an example.
"send 'em a twack" 😆😅😆
Getting push ups and bubble gum cigarettes from the ice cream truck then cruising around the neighborhood on bikes and big wheels with no parental supervision, then you come home and play some super mario/ duck hunt, the next day at school you have a 20 kid all out wrestlemania match out in the field where the yard duties can't see you. Those were the days.
Wow! You have brought back some amazing memories dude. I'm 46 and these things were cool, the water balloons we always had fun with them things especially during the summer. 😊❤ Thank you
Love the topics and look forward to the newer videos. Best thing about this video was you dressing up as the 411 operator. Also the slow-mo hitting your son with the balloon. Made me chuckle.
Haha. Thank you. Thank you for watching
pls keep up doing these videos
Absolutely. Thank you for watching
In the late '90s in Australia, I had a fancy VCR that could pick up a few of those special broadcast channels. By default, regular VCRs and TVs couldn't pick up the Australian weather channel. For some reason it was broadcast differently than regular TV. The channel looked like an old internet bulletin board. There weren't any pictures. All we saw was a plain background (I think it was either grey or blue) and huge text saying the weather forecast. We had a couple of similar channels, too. One showed the Lotto (lottery) results and I think it showed sports results, too. I seem to remember there being at lease three of those special channels, but I don't remember what the other's were.
With the TV guides, some of the printed ones had barcodes next to each programme time. One of my VCRs (I had a couple of them) had a barcode scanner built into it for scanning the barcodes in the TV guides. I never used it though, because the barcodes only told the VCR to record from exactly when each show was supposed to start and finish. That's something we still can't rely on. There wasn't a way to add a recording buffer to each recording timer, so it would have missed parts of shows as they started early or finished late.
I just miss having a real conversation with a stranger... None of that anymore.
What about Z Channel, ON TV and SELECTV? Kids will never know the struggle 😊
Time number in southern cal was 853-1212. No area code needed. Great video..
Those were the days...
Very nice Kurt ty
I remember making prank phone calls. That was fun.
I used to watch the Weather Channel a lot back in the day.
I used to like the smell of the pages of the tv guide 😂
Inside voice, Kurt. Inside voice. LOL
- I never knew "water" balloons existed. Maybe that's why they mostly didn't explode unless dropped from a building.
- TV in general, and especially TV Guides were for seniors and soccer moms. Most of us were having way too much fun in IRL to watch TV, and the few times we did, we just flipped through channels.
I remember having to program my VCR!! I was an expert at it!
Those who could program a VCR was very valuable to the family.
That was tricky back in the day
I miss the grenade water balloons
They were awesome. Thank you for watching
Best part
Got a flash back when the information scene popped up
Time travel bro I'm telling you
You have a good reason to call , you wake them up and then your about your business lol cool dude 80s don't stop
Pretty awesome Kurt, I remember all these. Do you remember "On TV" & "Select TV" ? We couldn't get it in my city, but we had "Adelphia Cable"
it was our first cable TV in Oxnard in the mid-70s, Early 80s, there was a movie channel called "Channel 6" that showed the same two movies a week,
then two more would be shown in week two & so on & so on, that's where I saw of the "R" Rated movies I couldn't watch at the theaters, like "The Betsy",
"The Exorcist", "Rancho Deluxe" ect. "Channel 6" was active til "Adelphia" became "Jones Intercable" and more channels were available like HBO, Cinemax.
Good memories, shoot... I was still in high school when this was going on [I'm 61 years old now]
I remember on ONTv , I would try to tune it in but as a non subscriber, it would be just scrambled enough 😆
@@NickL951 Same here, do you remember that Select TV would show Adult Movies late at night and it was also scrambled, but you still try to watch it to see some female nudity LOL
Back in the early 80s my job was to visit homes and collect the Select TV boxes. This was from people who stopped paying for it. I got paid $10 for every box I collected.
The grenade water balloons were the best.
Loved it man, I'm in hat 80s 90s need for nostalgia age. my obsession right now is Gi Joe.
That TV guide channel sure does bring back some memories.
Memories😢
I always hated when you would throw the water balloon at another kid and it would bounce off him and then explode on the ground.
I think in the 80's we used to call POP-CORN to get the time
We filled the newspaper bags w water foe our water balloons. 😁
The Weather Channel Lives!!
You wondered if it might rain in Los Angeles?
Did you know! The time lady was Majel Barrett the 1st officer on Star Trek the original USS Enterprise pilot episode, Luxanna Troy in Star Trek the Next Generation and the computer voice on the Enterprise D!!!
Can’t forget the Spice channel 😂
If you didn't have The Weather Channel like me and were into fishing and needed to know when low and high tide were there was a phone number for that. The tides mattered for fishing,crabbing, etc. but if you had a boat with a motor. and if the water was to low at the boat ramp,dock the boat, boat motor might hit the mud and that was a deal breaker,had to wait for the tide to RISE.
Speaking of weather, I recall calling into get ski conditions and mountain pass status on a recording
Most people didn't know how to set the clock on their VCR, it would permanently flash 12:00am
frikin sweet
I remember buying TV Guide as a teenager and realizing that the channels and programs didn't change from week to week, so I used the same TV Guide for about a year.. it was occasionally off. lol
Dude I’m wearing the exact same shirt you are right now!
That was fun, I remember all of that, My parents always said the first thing I learned to read was the TV guide. Calling the video store not for the the time they closed but to see if the VHS movie was in before making the few mile walk or bike ride. Bekind, please rewind. I still remember sitting on the couch with my sister as MTv started up video killed the radio star. my colecovision my fav. game Zaxxon loved the 80's
Im 58 years old i didnt know the weather channel no longer exists. Lol
YES ! The water balloon grenades were so cool lol I used to call information for everythingggg too lol
The time number in the SouthBay area in the 1980s and 90s was 853-1212 . That was the number i used to use then one day when i was in high school (in the 90s) my friend showed me that all you had to do was dail 853 - _ _ _ _ and then any number you wanted for the last 4 numbers lol my mind was blown . Speaking of the weather channel remember "976-SURF" where you could get the local surf forcast for like a dollar lol ?
Here in the UK, the Time Lady or as we call it, the 'Speaking Clock' and the 411 which we call 'Directory Enquiries' still exist. Apparently, the Speaking Clock still gets millions of calls each year!
Ha. That's cool. I wonder why so many people are still calling it, considering everyone has a cell phone. Thank you for watching
Loce your GPK collection behind you!
They didn't install cable in our neighborhood (Ontario, CA) until 1984 (lots of trucks and digging up of the street, cool for my 9-year-old self), so no Weather Channel (we had Select TV for movies, but that was it). We had to look in the paper or watch the local news for the weather.
Awesome video Kurt! Love how the water ballon color you hit your son with went from yellow, to blue, yellow and hit with pink 😆
circle gets the square
Remember when you used to be able to call a Joke line to hear the daily joke. I think it was free too
The Weather Network is still a thing here in Canada 🤣 Funny though it's mostly American weather stories cause Canada weather sucks lol
I had no idea about the time lady
Oh, no way. Dang it. You missed out. Thank you for watching
I did forget about the time lady, after a power outage
In the SF Bay Area, the 'time lady' was P-O-P-C-O-R-N. I'm kind of surprised that wasn't universal.
also we had lotta phone # memorize to call someone, I would called the operator to find out info "Pay Phone", by the way, all the way on top of "Mt. Wilson" they still have a pay phone and works too..
I still see working pay phones from time to time. Very rare though. Makes sense that they would have one in the mountains. Probably no cell service up there.
dial popcorn for time!!!
Phone company would call and say 976 or other toll calls were 'excessive' before the end of billing.