I bet back then none of these people had a clue that one day thousands of people would have watched this and could watch it any time they like, from anywhere in the world.
Crazy that my mom graduated 3 years before this. It makes me feel like I'm looking at what she'd be like in her teenage years. My mom passed away 6 months ago, this is exactly what I needed, thank you.
You think life was simple. That was during the Cold War. Challenger and Chernobyl just happened. Your friends were not available all the time, you had to call them, and the phone was often in the living room of your parents, no privacy. No internet, no wikipedia.
Class of ‘87 here! South High school Salt Lake City , Utah. No metal detectors, no discrimination, no racism, no CRT, no trans cults, very few fights, no shootings, and my grandmas Oldsmobile station wagon. These were the best of times! Thanks for the vid , Wayne! Hello mom!
The best way to summarize all of these classic 1980's high school videos is teenagers knew how to be teenagers back then. Most kids were healthy, a bit gawky and unsure of themselves (which is normal) and very good sociability in those days too. They were not trying to grow up fast like the ones today.
@@MaYeRsNoLife well yeah we would be 50 but everyone eventually grows old but our "younger years" would have been more meaningful and fun and looking back you would be much happier with the 80's years
Graduated high school in 87. I have almost no pictures and definitely no videos of myself or my friends from this time. Taking pictures of ourselves just wasn't something we did much back then. We also didn't have these little amazing pieces of technology in our pockets all the time. In some ways I think 'thank God', since preserving those awkward teenaged years could be really cringeworthy. But it would be cool to have more photos from my youth. It's gone before you know it.
Hey I'm embarrassed it has taken 10 years to reply Lisa but yes, it feels like time travel for sure! Everyone looked at me so weird that day for bringing the camcorder but I'm so glad I did!
0:37 Wow! I started watching this thinking, “What are the odds that I will see myself on this video.” That’s me in the Alabama jacket with the red sleeves standing in the lunch line waiting for radioactive pizza. 😂 Thanks for sharing, Wayne!
Wow the year 1987. I remember when eazy e boys in the hood song was a hit and wrestlemania 3 event was great. Also, the video game metal gear on Nintendo came out too. Nostalgia 😎
This is such a great time capsule, Wayne. I vaguely remember you shooting this, and I think someone gave me a copy for a video I edited for c/o ‘88’s 10-year reunion. -Wayne Franklin
How cool, right, the 80s, 1987, you have a video of your high school days, this is one of the best memories a person can have of their school days and a lot of watching videos of those on youtube
Time travel is so sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like seeing the introverts and can't help to wonder where are they now....kinda breaks my heart in a way bc I was glued to my highschool sweetheart .. the innocence is all gone :(((((((((((
Why do you people always say you wish you were BORN in the 80's when your watching teenagers in high school on the video. If you were BORN in the 80's you would be a baby or a toddler or a little kid. I was born in the 80's in 1982. I was an infant, a toddler and a little kid back in the 80's. I did not have the same experience as the teenagers did back then. They were much older then me and in high school. I on the other hand was really little and was in nursery school and preschool. Two different age groups, two different experiences.
My graduation year. Tennessee. great times for some and sad times others. But I wouldn't change my live for anything. 80's music, clothing, the cars and movies.
people were generally too shy for cameras back them. Now that everyone is so in love with themselves today with selfies they eat up the camera every opportunity they have
The mullet did peak in popularity between 1985-1989 but it was never the dominant hairstyle. Probably only about one in 10 people had some form of a mullet.
So that's what the cafeteria looks like from the inside! I went four years to this high school and never ate inside, just a soda and a Whatchamacallit for 4 straight years outside, haha!
I always think that. I graduated in 1990 and cannot believe I covered my body with baggy clothing when I had the best body of my life. Haha. I guess it left a lot to the boys' imaginations, which is kind of cool.
Wow, how different it was all that time with what little technology there was. I think if I would travel again at that time, I would only entertain myself with saries to come like The Simpsons or Alf 🙄
I used to think the same about females being stuck up and unreachable in modern times, but then again, these days guys are too afraid to approach and talk to women. I blame social media for both sides of the spectrum
I'm not familiar with your high school, but the construction screams 1970's like my high school. Really cute girl at 3:10. You went back to your high school in your freshman year in college? That's kind of sad and tells me you hadn't found a girlfriend yet.
Watching videos like this is the closest thing we have to a time travel.
OMG I was literally thinking the same thing as you when I saw this. Wow
Danillo Fleetwood People of the future gonna access to total immersion into the 2010s thanks to CZcams
I went to my sons final day late last year and everyone was standing around on there mobiles lol
I bet back then none of these people had a clue that one day thousands of people would have watched this and could watch it any time they like, from anywhere in the world.
Lol! So true!
Wayne Gautney Why girls use to hate being in front of the camera?
@@wgautney thank you for filming some of my senior year at THS!!!
@@illianagarcia4826 because they didn't have a camera pointed at them since birth?
@@andrewcrenshaw2904 Lol
I'm a '87 graduate. This is so awesome!!!!!!
Bigcat34 I’m a ‘88 graduate.those were awesome times!!!!.
How was life in the 80's?
So am I !! I wish that I could go back ; even for just a day !!
Crazy that my mom graduated 3 years before this. It makes me feel like I'm looking at what she'd be like in her teenage years. My mom passed away 6 months ago, this is exactly what I needed, thank you.
❤️🌎💙 ✝️🌤️💕
@John Bold thank you so much!
I understand how that feels. I hope that you can live in peace and love your mother always. ^_^
Im so sorry about your mom. Really thats heartbreaking. Hugs to u and yours.
My mom graduated in 1984 too! I thought the same as you did 💓
It's true 80's girls and early 90's girls really hate video cameras back in those days.......
I am one of those kids and still hate being in front of a camera
foxman362 Wonder why
they where camera shy these vhs cameras where pretty big about size of xbox between playstation 2.
*As a 16 year old I just wish I could hop into that video where things just seemed much more simple.* 😩
You think life was simple. That was during the Cold War. Challenger and Chernobyl just happened. Your friends were not available all the time, you had to call them, and the phone was often in the living room of your parents, no privacy. No internet, no wikipedia.
There was a aids crisis Alexis
Things were indeed very simple. I am one of those 80s kids
@Brian Jones we used creativity and our imagination. We played outside most days. I could go on
@@leokorn1629 lool life was still better back then so fuck off
Class of ‘87 here! South High school Salt Lake City , Utah. No metal detectors, no discrimination, no racism, no CRT, no trans cults, very few fights, no shootings, and my grandmas Oldsmobile station wagon. These were the best of times! Thanks for the vid , Wayne! Hello mom!
This is our people!!! So many familiar faces. The way we responded to a camera vs the way this generation responds to a camera......amazing.
Penny Penny Why girls being in front of the camera
Yes! We didn't have a selfie fixation. Girls would run and hide when I showed up with the gigantic camcorder on my shoulder!
The best way to summarize all of these classic 1980's high school videos is teenagers knew how to be teenagers back then. Most kids were healthy, a bit gawky and unsure of themselves (which is normal) and very good sociability in those days too. They were not trying to grow up fast like the ones today.
Class of ‘87 here. Seems like it was just yesterday. I’d give anything to go back.
I wish I was around in the 80s or 90s too in High School it really sucks now and I'm going into senior year
I felt I took a step back in time. I'm actually born in 1987. Would be nice if I can travel back in time to see how life was back then
I was 5 years old in 1987. I started kindergarten that year.
Those were THE good old days long long gone.
Robert Copeland I agree. Even though I wasn't born then, seeing these videos makes me want to travel back to the 80s.
Robert Copeland how old are you now?
Hey it is just as good to relive them
This is something the next generation of kids can look back on.
Long live the 1980s
Thanks Wayne, loved seeing this after all these years. Those were the good old days!
Angela Serigny were you in this video?
Thanks! I decided to make the video on a whim one day and it almost didn't happen. So glad I did!
holy crap those computers!! it’s insane watching this video i graduated from Theodore in 2017.
2:04 is my uncle!!
I wish I would've grown up in the 80s.
xfreaky girlx me too
you'd just be a pissed off adult now, enjoy being young
you would be old by now like 50 years old is that a good thing ?
@@MaYeRsNoLife well yeah we would be 50 but everyone eventually grows old but our "younger years" would have been more meaningful and fun and looking back you would be much happier with the 80's years
Same
Graduated high school in 87. I have almost no pictures and definitely no videos of myself or my friends from this time. Taking pictures of ourselves just wasn't something we did much back then. We also didn't have these little amazing pieces of technology in our pockets all the time. In some ways I think 'thank God', since preserving those awkward teenaged years could be really cringeworthy. But it would be cool to have more photos from my youth. It's gone before you know it.
WOW that was like traveling back in time. Seen so many old friends. Thank you sooo much.
Lisa Lundy ( now Pelletier )
Hey I'm embarrassed it has taken 10 years to reply Lisa but yes, it feels like time travel for sure! Everyone looked at me so weird that day for bringing the camcorder but I'm so glad I did!
@@wgautney did you forgot you password.
Going into the library, headed for the card catalog to use the Dewey Decimal System. One of the most dating aspects of this video... haha
This was my freshman year at Theodore. Ugh
wow i cant believe the place i go to now looks like that then!?!?!?!?!
Ceelyn wow and then your comment was 7 years ago. Someone comment to me in 7 years..
sunshine 849 only been two years lol
Must be depressing lol
And you said that 10 years ago
i go to theodore now
1:25 he's a real cutie.
ok..?
🤣😂😂🤣😂 they all ugly tbh like they look older than they actually are idk 😐
@@leeloostickum973 IMO, teenage boys today look immature and effeminate.
Agreed
0:37 Wow! I started watching this thinking, “What are the odds that I will see myself on this video.”
That’s me in the Alabama jacket with the red sleeves standing in the lunch line waiting for radioactive pizza. 😂
Thanks for sharing, Wayne!
Fast forward to today, everyone looking at their phones
People today are more plastic, need social skills, etc....
Big Worm ok and
High school kids back then looked like they could be In the early to mid 30s
That’s a fallacy. You’re judging them by their hair and not their facial features.
@@asherouk7308 no they had higher testesrome.
Their Social maturity is generally much higher than today's teenagers. It's blatantly obvious.
Wow the year 1987. I remember when eazy e boys in the hood song was a hit and wrestlemania 3 event was great. Also, the video game metal gear on Nintendo came out too. Nostalgia 😎
This is such a great time capsule, Wayne. I vaguely remember you shooting this, and I think someone gave me a copy for a video I edited for c/o ‘88’s 10-year reunion. -Wayne Franklin
Very cool! When I think back on it, I did it on a whim one day when I was bored! I'm so thankful to have it now.
I remember the Wayne and Jay show on the announcements, yall were so funny. I graduated in 90 and my brother and best friend graduated in 88.
Fascinating stuff. I started high school a mere 5 years after this, but by then fashion styles had already changed profoundly.
I wonder how many saw The Lost Boys at the movie theater that year
I go to Theodore and I wish it was like that today.
joshuabrewton how is it like now?
I was in grade 7 in 1987. This brings back memories of the 80s
This is my School 😲😲....I'm class of 98💪💯...... Bobcat Nation💯💯💯
How cool, right, the 80s, 1987, you have a video of your high school days, this is one of the best memories a person can have of their school days and a lot of watching videos of those on youtube
80s was best decade ever
A lot of these high schoolers look 25.
Funny how they look older in the 80s. Not the first video I notice that.
It was because of the hairstyles and the shitload of makeup. Back then it was cool to put on makeup to look like Tammy Faye Bakker
Annette Melnychuk the opposite for girls tho everyone had a natural look until kylie jenner had to go crazy
@juneaug Lok True
Cool video I graduated from deland high school in florida in 1987 those were definitely the days 90s were good too
Time travel is so sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like seeing the introverts and can't help to wonder where are they now....kinda breaks my heart in a way bc I was glued to my highschool sweetheart .. the innocence is all gone :(((((((((((
I reported to basic training at Ft.Riley KS in the Fall of 1987. How time flies....I'm in my late 50s now.
Wow I was a junior in 1987 , good years 👍
Those computers 💀
I was in kindergarten then. Man do I feel old now. These people are in their 50's now.
I wish this was when I was born a decade I could actually fit in
Why do you people always say you wish you were BORN in the 80's when your watching teenagers in high school on the video. If you were BORN in the 80's you would be a baby or a toddler or a little kid. I was born in the 80's in 1982. I was an infant, a toddler and a little kid back in the 80's. I did not have the same experience as the teenagers did back then. They were much older then me and in high school. I on the other hand was really little and was in nursery school and preschool. Two different age groups, two different experiences.
as a dude who goes to theodore i just have to say this the coolest video to watch ! :D
Odd how people used to stand around and talk vs being on their phones
Good grief, I thought I had forgotten all that LOL.. c/o '89 here. Nice video.. thanks for posting! :D
Great video, Baker was my school. Would have graduated that year but dropped out.😔
When being on camera was not the norm and everyone just having fun
This is great!!! I love it!
This video is so wholesome 💕
My graduation year. Tennessee. great times for some and sad times others. But I wouldn't change my live for anything. 80's music, clothing, the cars and movies.
i go there now and it still looks the same. i love seeing videos like this!
These schools reminds me of jacksonville nc back in 1989-1991
This has the feel of like a real documentary lol ~ Wayne.
ha! ha!
I love watching videos like this. I was 5 years old LOL ❤
I was 5 years old too.
Theodore class of 87! 4 ever!
So cool to see those computers and printers and that student making a call from the phone outside..the best of times for sure!!
Wow... Before they ruined the ampitheater with gum. Crazy.
The strangest feel i had that i were there before, but i doesn't born in this time.
Started my freshman year there 10 years later in 1997 and this is exactly how I remember it. Well...the clothes were a lot different haha.
people were generally too shy for cameras back them. Now that everyone is so in love with themselves today with selfies they eat up the camera every opportunity they have
My mom was a senior in high school at this time :)))
Brings back so many nightmares.
the 80s were magical
This is gold
I was born in 87...yet this is nostalgic AF
This video looks like the cast of Family Ties, Square Pegs and Growing Pains wrapped all into one single digitalized home video.
people say "school sucks". Wait for real life, then...
Back in the days when everyone had a mullet
zepps88 thats actually a fact
My dad had one
The mullet did peak in popularity between 1985-1989 but it was never the dominant hairstyle. Probably only about one in 10 people had some form of a mullet.
@my dad
this is crazy to see that my school is almost the exact same as it is in this video
it looks so clean
It’s weird how little that school has changed since then
My mom works at this school now days!
So that's what the cafeteria looks like from the inside! I went four years to this high school and never ate inside, just a soda and a Whatchamacallit for 4 straight years outside, haha!
Lol 1:51 " Where are you gonna show this at" answer "Nowhere" 37 years later, being shown to the entire world 😂
Man, what a baggy decade. Love it!
I always think that. I graduated in 1990 and cannot believe I covered my body with baggy clothing when I had the best body of my life. Haha. I guess it left a lot to the boys' imaginations, which is kind of cool.
Life was a dream back then
I was in JR high in Philadelphia. things were way different.
Great time to be in High school
My left ear enjoyed this video
Is it not in stereo? 😂
Same. 🤷♀️
Wow, how different it was all that time with what little technology there was. I think if I would travel again at that time, I would only entertain myself with saries to come like The Simpsons or Alf 🙄
7:30 I have seen a bunch of these High School vids, and wow. Nothing like that.
The girls were much nicer back in lated 80's and early 90's nothing like these days.
+foxman362 Have you heard of Chanty Binx before? She representative of what so many girls are like now.
foxman362 because the dudes aren't offing chicks
foxman362 i agree girls this days are unreachable care only about your money no heart left
I used to think the same about females being stuck up and unreachable in modern times, but then again, these days guys are too afraid to approach and talk to women. I blame social media for both sides of the spectrum
Clayton Thomas Yes but teens from the 70s-80s are the ones who created these piece of shit smartphones that ruined everything.
It's amazing how the U.S. is years ahead. I wouldn't have computers in the classroom in 1987 not even in dreams.
Do you have the yearbook for 1986 or 87?
i go to theodore rn for my second year and wow there’s no gum everywhere at the amphitheater’s
0:54 "It's still radioactive."
your soul mate
Theodore food here is still radioactive
Lol!
wow. anyone notice that there aren't any gum spots all over like there is now?
Yeah I did
Must have been a 2000s thing. I attended from 1997-2001 and the amphitheater was clean.
This is my first year
Ah yes the year of the *perm*
The camera quality looks like it's from 2007.
It's the 80s dumbass what do you expect
@@lkxnqno woah chill, they were just saying the vid's quality looks pretty good for 1987.
The senior class is entering their mid 50’s.
The guy holding the video recorder sticks out like a soar thumb unlike today when you don't see everyone that is recording you
1:20 wonder if they were together for a while
Where's all the mullets?
woooooo i have no idea who u are but HIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!
me and most of my family graduates of theodore
I'm not familiar with your high school, but the construction screams 1970's like my high school. Really cute girl at 3:10. You went back to your high school in your freshman year in college? That's kind of sad and tells me you hadn't found a girlfriend yet.
Class of 87'