Memorable School Supplies Of The ‘70s, ‘80s, And ‘90s
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2024
- When those dog days of summer were near an end, we knew the school year loomed ahead. We made sure to head to our local department store to get prepared. New notebooks, rulers, pencils, toppers, a lunch box, a new backpack... we dove headlong into the back-to-school shopping craze.
In this video we look back at some of the most memorable school supplies from our childhoods in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. So roll up a shopping cart and load it to the top with nostalgia.
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RetroDaze is a nostalgia related channel that celebrates EVERYTHING from our childhoods, mostly from the '70s, '80s, and '90s. This includes movies, TV shows, video games, toys and action figures, comics and magazines, music, and much more!
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"Totally Awesome 80s: Rad school memories that will take you back to a gnarly, wicked time." WBRC. www.wbrc.com/2023/08/10/total...
LOVELLE, STEPHANIE. "16 Back to School Throwbacks Kids from the '90s Will Never Forget." Hello Giggles. hellogiggles.com/back-to-scho...
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When I started school in the 70s, schools provided the supplies, nowadays, parents or students have to buy them. It’s now a huge sale industry
They’re always looking for ways to make money aren’t they?
@@RetroDaze yep. I remember my son started school in Colorado in 98, he brought home a school supply list, that was the first time I learned us parents had to buy the supplies. I literally lost my cool, mainly because we were really poor at the time. I still am poor, by the way lol
@@abbygirl4375eeee
When I was a kid, the cool thing was the big 64 pack of Crayola crayons with the built-in sharpener.
Oh yeah! It was like you had every color in existence and no fear of losing that pointed tip. Pure artistic heaven for a kid. 😆
I had to confront our babysitter over a brand new box of 64 Crayolas for school...
I loved my Lisa Frank design. ❤❤
Miss the smell of Smurf and Strawberry shortcake toys.
Lisa Frank ruled the universe when it came to girls' school supplies!
I remember getting my first Trapper Keeper in 3rd grade- I was so proud of that binder!! Novelty wore off in middle school (canvas covered binder with the clipboard in the front- how sophisticated! 😅)
It is true that at a certain age you felt required to move on to less child-centric school supplies. Then after a few decades we realized that those child-centric supplies were WAY cooler!
@RetroDaze and when, at 51y old, I walk into any Staple's and envious of current kids!! Lol!! 3M has awesome stuff for Big Kids (as myself- ditto Sharpies)
Child versions of us would be blown away today!
I was hoping to see the multicolor retractable pens. You were cool to have one.
Perfect for making your friends jealous of all the colors at your command. 😆
The thing that I wanted all through my garage school years was a box of 64 Crayola Crayons,because they had all sorts of cool colors that you could not
get anywhere else. I did not get one, so I always had to settle for the box of 16 crayons,drat it.
Oh no doubt. The range of colors in those boxes was amazing. My favorites… Burnt Sienna and Turquoise Blue.
I still have a box of 64 Crayolas...
I had some metal lunch boxes in my early days but the lunch box I remember most is the plastic PAC Man one.
A solid classic. There some great metal Pac-Man ones as well.
Pencil breaking was the shit !!! And don't even get me started on Pogs
Ahhh Pogs. What an odd fad.
Someone just recently shared a meme making fun of those toppers shown around 6:15 with a caption like "never worked and tore a hole in the paper"! Haha! The opening about the stress of school was spot on, but for me it was hearing the Jerry Lewis Telethon theme that played all Labor Day knowing school started the next day!
Oh gosh yes! For me (Tony G), it was the fact that our county fair preceded the first school week. So it was a high point followed immediately by a low one. 😆
For me it was on Sunday night when America’s Funniest Home Videos would come on. I would get terrible anxiety from that show lol.
Oh no! That stinks… a great show!
They NEED to bring back those cute thermos’s
They were so much fun.
I had a plastic Lion King Lunch box back in 1995 and my pride and joy which was my 101 Dalmatians backpack a year later.
Don't even get me started on the pencil grippers and gel pens when I was in Middle School.
Ha! Those pencil grippers were a Godsend.
For me it was all about the new backpack with a character from my favorite cartoons
That and the lunchbox were huge gets for the upcoming school year.
WOW!! Dang man, your production quality is top notch! Loved the video and look forward to future videos! Great work!
Mohawk Gorilla! Hey man. Thank you for checking it out. Really glad you dug it!
Still have my LL Bean backpack from all those years ago! I wonder what I left in it? And if it came to life? 🤣
Oh man. Don’t look in it. Don’t!!!
L. L. Bean are the best backpacks. Both my sons got one at the start of 7th grade and they are now 43 & 50 and those backpacks are still in great condition.
Good times. 🙏
Indeed. It would be amazing just to experience one day of it again.
Ooooo… the Little Professor! I had one, forgot all about it until reminded here!
Awesome! I had one myself actually.
@@RetroDaze Did you use yours to type “7734” and then view it on the calculator upside down… ? 😹🤦🏼♀️
@@katmacoconnor 😂 There were a few of those I remember everyone doing
@@katmacoconnorMostly 80085. 😂
@@RetroDaze🤦🏼♀️😹
Wish you would have gone back to the 1960's when I was in grade school. Back then there were standard supplies EVERY year EVERY kid had to have up through 6th grade. The desk top size oil cloth you bought and was cut from a long roll for you at the art supply store for arts n crafts, book covers, either printed in the Barbie, Hot Wheels, Jetson's or Bewitched or any other popular cartoon characters or toys that were the popular programs of the times. Then if you couldn't afford book covers already printed, your Mom would make book covers out of brown paper grocery bags, which actually became more cool to have the older you became, just like metal lunch boxes were coolest ever when younger, but when you hit Jr. High you only carried obscure brown paper lunch bags. Pencil toppers or before the topper my Mom used to order packs of super cool specialty erasers like fruits that were scented n Peanuts characters that were erasers, not just toppers, that we would get in our Christmas stockings every year that were status symbols n coloured pencils n the 64 pack of Crayola Crayons that had a built in sharpener n if you were really lucky you had boxes of oil pastel crayons that had beautiful deep colours that were smooth like chalk instead of waxy like crayons. Pencil boxes were the bomb when younger, then you moved up to zippered colourful pencil ✏️ bags. Cigar boxes in grade school were on every kids list of supplies sent home to Mom to hold your Elmer's n LePages glued, protractors, erasers, scissors pens n pencils n crayons n your oil cloth would fold up n fit on top inside the cigar box. For writing, we hade notebook paper with 3 hole binders n paper folders with pockets in different colours for different subjects!!! It was the biggest thrill back then to acquire the correct and cherished school supplies, which obviously, I so thoroughly enjoyed as it is STILL a fabulously exciting memory, n I am 66 yrs old!!!. GREAT video subject n walk down memory daze lane!!! Thank you for posting!!!
Awesome memories! Thank you for sharing all of those classic school items. The brown paper bag book covers were great because you could decorate it however you wanted!
What's a oil cloth and why did you have to have one??
In high school Trapper Keepers were an essential. College as well. I ended up reusing them for my bills and bank statements for my wife and I.
Shame this video did not come out last week. I just threw out the same exact green Jansport backpack shown in this video.
I (Tony G) repurposed my Lamborghini Trapper Keeper to hold my old drawings from my youth. 😆
Who remembers “The Bag” backpack? Usually in bright colors?
@@TheBertLocker Sounds delightful! Need to go look this up!
@@RetroDaze Hopefully you can find something, unfortunately the generic brand name makes it hard to pinpoint. Mine was fluorescent orange and had a black label on it like the JanSport logo, that simply said “The Bag.”
Was that also the brand name?
@@RetroDaze Yes the brand was “The Bag”
Love this ❤❤
@@gailmckenzie8291 So glad you enjoyed it Gail!
I want a trapper keeper!
They should still be available at Walmart. Though you may have to wait until back-to-school sales start back up again.
Amazon has them.
If I took a shot every time he said Lisa Frank I'd be drunk
😆 Her brand was inescapable in those days.
A notebook covered in Wacky Packs stickers. The older ones were some form of fabric, the newer ones paper.
Older led display calculators were also theremins, if placed near an am radio....
Interesting. Can’t say I knew that about those calculators. Wacky Packages though… I definitely remember them.
@@RetroDaze It wasn't by design, they just created a lot of radio noise. The display was " flickered" at a very rapid rate to extend battery life. If it's in for a thousandth of a second, and off that long, you can't see a flicker rate that fast, but the display is off half the time, saving on energy. Batteries of the time weren't all that good
Different calculators made different noises. If the calculator had a vacuum fluorescent display, it just made a buzzing noise. The Novus Mathbox brand calculators made the best noises. Tuning the radio to a distant weak station sometimes helped.
This is all news to me. Now I want to test this out. 😆
Hah! “Go, Tony, go!” 😄
Going… going… gone 😆
Retrodaze
Yes. That’s us.
The lunch box I had was G-Force.
G-Force?
It's an adaptation of the Japanese cartoon Gatchaman from the 70s.
Nice! Thanks for the awesome memories and entertainment.
You are most welcome.
Let’s not forget the Evern necessary pee Che folders
Gotta look that up!
If you don’t know what a pee Chee folder is, you’re not old enough
Just saying
😂😂
I had a red plaid lunch box, 1970s
A metal plaid lunchbox? Wild.
Someone said that when they went back to school in fall, that they had to bring oil cloths. What are oil cloths and why did they need them??
I never understood the kids who enjoyed going back to school. I hated it. All of my siblings hated it to some degree, brothers and sisters alike. My brothers and their buddies used to pick on the other kids who said that they liked school.
Some of the memorable things I had were the pencil case/bag, the big rubber eraser, multi folder “Trapper Keeper” binder, backpack, and spiral notebook that I would tear out the pages to torment certain teachers whom I didn’t like.
In my day, my classmates would draw boners or hand-standing swastikas in their textbooks…and no they did not condone that ideology, it was just to be “edgy”.
Yeah, basically anything that might get a rise out of some authority figure was fair game, regardless of what it stood for.
As far as liking/disliking school, it was bittersweet. Great to be amongst friends again on a daily basis… crappy because it was school.
I had a Flipper lunchbox. I loved watching Flipper and l loved my lunchbox. Someone stole my lunchbox and when I found it, they had stomped the crap out of it and broke my thermos. It broke my heart.
Aww, that stinks. Have you tried reclaiming that box from EBay or elsewhere?
Yes, I have gone on eBay, but Flipper Lunchboxes are worth a fortune. I have a Partridge Family lunchbox in good condition but no thermos. I had a Peanuts lunch too. I have collected Peanuts since I was a kid. I have a sizeable collection. My step dad ruined it when he decided to use it to store all his nuts, bolts, screws, various sizes of nails etc. Needless to say, it totalled it. He had a bad habit of taking things that weren't his to take. I was 16 when he married my mom. He was never a father to me. He was more like irritating little brother, who needed to be swatted.
The only thing I had to bring to school was me!!
The one thing you wish you could leave at home. 😆
What do you mean 1981?? I graduated from high school in 1980. I had one before that!!!
Had one what?
Back in the early’60’s wasn’t there a note book called Nifty?
I think they are still being made.
What's a oil cloth and what was it for?? I was in elementary school in the sixties and have no memory of an oil cloth whatsoever!!
Oil cloth?
@@RetroDaze Someone said they had to take an oil cloth to school with them. I guess neither of us know. Oh well 😵💫😵💫
😆 Oh well. Who knows what oddities some schools required.
It’s cloth treated with oil or paint and it used for table or shelf covering.
Maybe a favorite school lunch for a future video? I remember it was under $2 but we had to pay milk separately. I always got the chocolate milk.
That’s a great idea for a video. Though we’d probably spend an inordinate amount of time on the pizza. 😆
Lisa Frank is the Thomas Kinkade of Trapper Keeper. 🧉🦄
School supplies:
- Paper or plastic covers for school books.
- The surge of mechanical pencils.
- Pink Pearl erasers.
- Pencil box or pencil pouch.
- The tricolor ballpoint pens (moving onto pens from pencils seemed like a big deal at the time).
- With the introduction of pens, we were introduced to Liquid Paper.
- Speaking of moving onto permanent writing instruments - permanent markers: Crayola and - gasp! - Shaaaaarpie.
Ha! That’s a perfectly accurate statement… regarding Lisa Frank.
Wow! Great list of additional supplies. Sooo glad we don’t need liquid paper as much these days!
What about Ed Hardy?