Inside a McDonald's restaurant in 1984
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- čas přidán 21. 09. 2022
- Video of customer's eating and smoking at a McDonalds location in Florida.
Footage of customer's ordering food and employee's preparing orders.
This video last around 10 minutes.
#mcdonalds
I feel bad for anyone who didn't see the world before 2000. Such a different world back then.
Ok whatever
much better times back then.
@@rachel_espinoza jealous much?
@@tomloft2000 yeah right. 😂
@@rachel_espinoza You proved his point.
This is the time when all the ice cream machines actually worked
This was the last time the ice cream machines worked
@@muffycrosswire lol
🤣🤣🤣
I was going to make that comment, but you beat me to it!😂
Damn I'm hungry for some mickyDees now
I was 17 in 1984 and I didn't realize how much more respectful people were then, cause it was the only reality that I knew. But living today, I see the difference
It is just nostalgia. Ignoring the bad things of that time.
same here. We thought all people were well mannered and thus, we were too
I was 15 life was so good then.
I was actually waiting for someone smoking?
Come to Germany, the Most grocery stores or even the most Fastfood Restaurants like McDonald's or Burger King are stil places with Peace, yelling karens or criminal violence is pretty low in comparsion to the USA. Germany and USA are two complete different worlds
I worked at McDonald's in 1990, and I can tell you without doubt: The people, registers, environment etc, was just like this! How has McDonald's (and the rest of the world) changed so dramatically for worse?! I'm so glad I experienced life in the 80s. Thank you for uploading this gem!
How..corporate greed...i have a lot of private restaurants where I live and they are very much like the old days.
Wow. Nobody yelling, screaming, cussing or throwing. Everyone clean, groomed, well and dressed, well spoken. Everyone carrying their self with dignity. Now society is a toilet.
Japan is still like that though... But yeah, I live in latin america, and is the same though, people are rude, kids are brain dead and zombyfied, and everything beautiful is somehow tried to be destroyed. I truly wish God or something really big happens soon, so everything can just reset itself, this cannot continue any longer like this really. My best.
Not a toilet 😂💀
yes it íß
Which society?
@@MB-gd6beYours
I was a young kid during this era. This is when having a birthday party at McDonalds was every kids dream. A Happy Meal was a big deal. It was actually something to look forward to. I enjoy aspects of technology but I do miss how people interacted before the smart phone era. I got to experience childhood in the 80s and teens in the 90s. I miss those days.
Very true. My dad never let me eat fast food unless I was getting a shot at the doctors. After my appointment I would get some McDonald’s fries and I was happy with that. To have your birthday party there was a dream.
Back then, the food was still real too so was the their coffee. Tasted so much different
@@temporarybackup5077 mmm I could imagine the taste of some real good coffee from McDonald’s in the 80’s.
@@Smurfyis730happy meal, the kids meal even had the coolest toys for crying out loud!! All it took was one rotten scoundrel raised by crooks looking to catch a case that ruined that forever
@@Smurfyis730 seriously, the aroma filled the entire space. I remember vividly the older folks, it were mostly polish seniors in my area back then, and they'd be the early birds with the freshest brew all sitting together in a row gossiping about everyone and themselves.
I was a manager from 1978 to 1987 and we were SOOO busy back then. The lobby would be packed at lunch and dinner. Quarter pounders and quarter pounders with cheese were 55 and 65 cents respectively when I started. There was a big emphasis on workers being fast and always saying “thank you, come again.”
Those that now work registers treat paying customers as an inconvenience.
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I worked back, front, and drive-thru 1992. Question, would you be able to drop in any McDs today and work your shift like it was in 1980? I know, it might take me an hour to get used to what's changed, but the processes remain unchanged IMO.
@@anonanon7235 they should make a video series out of this idea
@@user-ho5gh4wh7x Big Marge with the cigarette breath yelling "wadduyah want?" through the speaker and practically throwing your food out the window as you drive past. 😂
The internet and the smartphone has ruined society. How sad.
The internet was invented in the 80s
And you’re on the internet crying. Ironic.
@@Jacob630 ...no availability until well into the 9os
Exactly! And fast fashion
Trump ruined this country get it straight
I had forgotten how well dressed and respectful people were. Society has really declined.
well, ok I dressed like a metal band person in the 80s and still do, in black with leather and stuff, but I get your point. A lot of people now just go out in pajamas or just don’t dress well in public no matter what style they have, and a lot of employees don’t do their jobs now, Lots of rude people everyone is angry i guess in 2023. I love technology but I’d give up everything we now have in technology the internet, smartphones, streaming TV, VR etc to be back in the 1980s though.
Obama killed America
Well dressed? Everyone looks old and haggard.
Pantyhose sucked. If you call me having to shove my feet into pointy toed shoes that gave me bunions in my 20s society at its apex, you can have it.
Respect, yes. But compare this to the era when everyone wore suits and dresses, and you could say this was already an era of decline.
This is like walking into a time machine. I was a little girl in 1984. This is my memory of McDonald's at that time. Cashiers at each register, lobby full of people eating, enjoying each other's company. I'll be 45 this month. It's almost scary looking back and remembering a world that wasn't cold.
@Jason Shoots I was too 🙂
I was in my 20s loved big Macs, Carl's Jr & taco bell, now they don't taste the same. I still do McDonald's every now n then for nostalgic reasons I guess
I'm 45 as well. I remember those times. The first thing that stuck out to me was the ash trays on the tables. I remember loving the playground and going into the Bigmac Policmen's jail thingy. Anyone my age will know what I'm talking about.
Ironic you say cold since the Cold War was still going on but I get what you’re saying
See you talk about the world, but lots and lots of messed up stuff was going on around the world in the 80s.
"Hi, can I take your order?" "Yeah, give me about a thousand apple pies, because I need to make up for the lousy baked ones that are coming in the future."
Why aren't the women twerking
LOL, you're right, the deep fried apple pies were awesome! And BIG too.
Omg I was just saying how they used to have the best apple pies. Thought I was the only one who remembered 😂
@@anonanon7235 yup! Only time you can actually get them again is at Popeyes but you have to ask for them to not put cinnamon on them. It's the closest to those McDonald's pies, or at pizza hut, ask for no cinnamon, but they are very small.
I remember when I was just 5 in 1992... my dad always brought home their baked apple pies and it's a memory I will always cherish. Today, I am 37, it just does not feel the same anymore~
oh look at that, the workers actually did their job rather then just look at you like they hate you.
Yep. You walk up to the counter these days and the employees perform like confused zombies.
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Facts! They actually worked! See hw many employees were back there and they were actually moving! Today there 5 employees on break and everybody else standing around. Then have the nerve to want higher pay?
Back in the 80s and even early 90s, highschool students REALLY WANTED to work for McDonalds. It was a logical first job, and kids worked hard to earn money to spend at the malls, arcades, clothes, hanging out, movies etc. Today, teens shun working at McDonalds.....
@@onfirejayjay2529sounds like the average Taco Bell worker
For 1984, the quality of this footage is incredibly good.
6.22 PUFFING A CIG
GOOD TIMES
CANT DO THAT TODAY
@@ekop1778 *Gross* times you mean ... I did not like dealing with smokers while eating. That goodness that is not allowed today! Everything is subjective!
@@dannydougin3925 Weichei!
VHS Quality, it wasn't as good quality as the free-to-air stations though.
Probably a big ass VHS camcorder when used to put them on our shoulder. The little ones came in like 1992.
You probably weren’t aware of it back then but you have made an important historical deed when you recorded this. Giving us a glimpse into a gone past era. Thank you for your work!
I'm adding this to my 80s nostalgia playlist. 🙂
CZcams is the closest thing we have to a time machine
The ladies at 7:09 were thinking that maybe they were going to be on the news on TV. They never could have guessed that they were going to be CZcams famous nearly 40 years later!
SO TRUE!!
A gone past era when people had basic common decency.
Calm, normal, no yelling, no crap. That is the 80's. People actually talk to you like a person, not fear.
Last year something interesting happened at my office job: the internet went out for the last hour of the day. The offices slowly came to life and everyone was just chatting and socialising since we couldn’t do any work. It’s also inappropriate to have your phone out at work so nobody whipped them out.
I really appreciated it and tried to take the experience in, even walking through the corridor looking into each office everyone was just hanging out, smiling and laughing: just for the sake of it. It was an organic, unplanned social occasion and it reminded me of the good old days like this video. The sound of people being with eachother.
Ofcourse the next morning the internet was up and running and it was amazing how stuffy, cold and void of human life the office became again.
Extrapolate that one hour without screens and internet into decades and entire lifetimes and that’s where the magic lies.
Yep, I remember even in the 90s people would wall around the office to socialise a bit, take little breaks. It was normal, everyone did it. Computers were still just for work, really.
There is nothing stopping anyone from leaving their phones at home. I have done just that for the past 10 years and low and behold...the world is social again as I meet many people like me out there. Phones are NOT in everyone's pocket as it turns out.
@@stoneneils no idea where you live but everywhere I've lived it's everyone, even seniors now.
I was a Crew trainer back then. I don’t miss the smoking section, but miss the flavor of actually searing and seasoning the 1/10 patties. Also the soft serve machine always worked, because at least 3 people on any given shift were qualified to strip it down and rebuild it. There was real pride in the work we did there. We were serving guests who deserved our best efforts. Every time.
Mickey D's was truly under golden arches back then 🎉
Thank you for your service. 🙏🏻
It honestly looks like a really nice job to have in this video.
Aren't clogged arteries just as much to blame for strokes and heart attacks as cigarettes are. Self righteous hypocrites are always great for a good laugh 😂😆...keep em entertained
@MaryjaneSmith-dm8co The difference is that French fries smell fantastic and cigarettes smell like shit but you guys can’t smell it because you’re addicted and you never get away from the foul stench. Good luck with your health. 😉
I was 20 back in 1984! I remember McDonald's looking exactly like this, employee's dressed well , food was good and cheap! The good old days
I was only 13 if I could get in that video I would I worked in McDonald's in 1989 only had 1 crazy lady come in asking for 🧀 on chicken nuggets got very upset when I told sorry mam but we don't that she went ballistic and her hen pecked husband come on sweetie let's go😂
A value meal is over $10 these days. 2020 changed everything and everybody.
I was 19 in '84 and yes it was exactly like this. What a difference comparing it with today's society.
Food is stil cheap, No wonder 69% of the americans have overweight Problems, too much cheap Fastfood.
High percentage of White people, low crime, high trust. All completely unrelated, of course
Listen to all the "Thank-you's". I grew up in that era. What a wonderful world we had. I really miss those days. I really believe we have de-evolved as a society since the 70's & 80's.
And then trump showed up and ruined our country
@@luv2bbq yeah that’s it 🤡🤣
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😂
I don't get the weird replies like this, most people still say thank you when they get their food or drink at any restaurant lol.
Man do I missed those days!! People were respectful, hard-working, took pride in their work, good quality food, and so much more!
Damn I was 14 years old in 1984 I really wish I could just climb inside this video screen and go back to that year
likewise buddy, i was born in 71
Though I was born in 2006, I feel that.
1984💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖I WAS 16 OMG💔💔
Likewise 1970 I miss the mcdlt
I was 12 in 1984.. I remember going to McDonalds with friends on a Saturday.. It makes me feel kind of sad to think back that long ago.. Life passes by so quickly.
People were so calm , discreet , polite and socially respectful
the good ole days jen
Yes
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@@user-mz8ld3ud4v Oh gosh no!!!!
Thats Just a small part of the past, 80s was punks, vandalism, Graffiti, skinheads Hooligans, same problems Like today
I was born in 1979 so i have memories. I’m guessing this is in Florida. I hear English and Spanish, people of different races and cultures. Yet everyone is so civil and respectful! No yelling, insults, physical fights, etc. Just pure civility and respect !!! 🙄
Notice how everyone is friendly, smiling and having a good time. The 80's and 90's was such a simpler and happy time to be alive. Social media, smart phones and reality television ruined society IMO. I would literally give ANYTHING to go back in time to being younger in this era 😢😢
The plague of narcissism hadn't taken over yet.
Bruh, this is one video. Get off the internet. People are still chill
@@destinjones6624 Nah they actually aren't and you just proved my point with this remark. Society has gone to dog 💩
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When people who didn't even know each other, smiled at one another and talked to each other in line
Thanks trump
I try to talk to people in line sometimes still, and they look at me like I'm crazy. I miss the old days.
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You still see that. It's called nostalgia.
@@luv2bbq In 2020 Trump supporters were violently attacked in the streets by your allies. You need to take responsibility like a man and stop blaming Trump for your actions.
I kinda cried a bit watching this. In 1984 I was 14 and I used to work at McDonalds from 1983-1987. I actually really liked working there! I made my way into making $5.75 an hour (not bad back then!). I even remember the manager making a real good living too; I want to say about $45,000 a year. Back then that was a lot! I had to go to high school and the company respected when I could and couldn't work! Imagine that! This was my favorite high school job! Thank you Vampire Robot for putting this on YT!
I worked there in 95 when i was in high school. It was still a great job at that time. We took pride in being fast and clean almost like sports lol
Yeah that 5.75 is the equivalent of making $30 an hour now in today's money
@@Jim26Dit would be the equivalent of $14.68, which for 1984, still you got you far. Considering the average minimum wage was around $2.75.
$5.75 back in 87 thats around $15.50 in today money, and you didn't have to deal with nearly as many taxes!
Hi Stephanie,
I was also thinking about how genuine people were in those days and I miss them. I’m in my mid 40s but I am old enough to remember those days and wish that we could see some of that same kind of human spirit these days. A lot of those young workers there are now at retirement age which is hard to imagine. Time is so precious and yet so fleeting makes you think about the bigger picture or at least it does for me!
Omggg I remember the Styrofoam boxes, the flat cash registers, the plain light-up menus, the smoking section, and the swivel chairs 😩
Remember the decent toy giveaways? Some of those things were better than collectibles in Toys R Us!!
Nowadays, it's just some crappy rainbow colouring book!
@museonfilm8919 yeeess! I also fondly remember reusable plastic cups that you could get with combos and they promoted a movie out in theaters.
Oh yes, the little stackable gold colored tin ashtrays those fast food joints had. I totally forgot about those until I read your comment. Crazy how the mind works.
They had a smoking section...
I feel homesick now for a bygone era. People dressed nicely and treated each other with respect. Real conversations without a screen in everyones face.
BRUHHH you literally typed this message with a screen in your face.
@@sneksteppy if you didnt understand his comment, you are a part of the problem.
@@gilson1982 bro I'm 34 and while I like the convenience, our society has gone to dog shit. People are rude, dress like whores or trailer trash and have zero shame. I see zero land whales or screaming kids.
I'd give up all my tech so my daughter could live in the 90s society I experienced.
Not In Compton.
Bro I miss when everybody had personality. Not hearing what media tells you to or how to look/ dress. All unique individuals that aren’t sensitive to gender/ roles.
No self-service machines, no customers (or workers for that matter) shouting or making noise that no one wants to hear, nobody in pajamas, paper on trays, man I miss these days
If you miss eating at McDonalds, then your life must have taken a very dark turn.
@@texaswunderkind Wow. Somebody having a bad day? Or are they mad they voted for Biden? I can eat at McD's anytime, I just miss the way it was. Am I not allowed to have memories?
Self service machines are good. Who wants to wait in line
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
@@jasonvoigt We all miss the way it was. The food was real, smell and tasted better.. Politics has nothing to do with people being mean. People are going to become more mean, selfish as the years go by. Yes, it doesn't matter who is elected
I was born in 1984. Things were still like this in the early 90s. Man how times have changed.
In the 90's another thing really changed. Music.
Look how DARK hip hop became, all full of cussing and bad vibes. Early hip hop and electro was actually uplifting - it was meant to be that way, to lift the spirits of those in the ghetto.
I was born in 1983 December to be exact..wish I could enter my screen and revisit my loved ones including myself and look a 1 year old me lol. Would be so cool to do that..I love the old 60s TV show "the twilight zone" for that reason..
@@museonfilm8919early hip hop meaning the 90s for me was speaking truth about what rappers either seen or went through in their lives .people hate the music because either they don't understand or haven't lived or seen that life..I was born in 83 and thank God I was not raised in a terrible place although murders and bad things still happened I really didn't see much or little at all..I still was mature enough to know even at an early age that bad things we're happening in the world..I took a lot of hip hop music for what is was worth which was a lot of story telling, true story telling..you can be upset for an artist speaking what's on their mind or what they been around or worse even witnessed..if you don't like hip hop because of profanity then why even watch movies most movies are riddle with foul language..if you haven't noticed movies are just as dark as music and even more graphic when you can actually see the visual..so what's the difference between hip hop and dark movies?seems hip hop gets a bad name more for the color of their skin then the actual verbal language..you mind explaining this to me sir? if not I understand God Bless you my friend
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Me too. But I have these memories from early 90s as well.
I love the ashtrays on the table. Lol. You could smoke and.... no one pitched a fit!
I don't think anybody misses people lighting up right next to them.
I smoked then and yes, I noticed that. So different from today.
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Whoot, smokers lost!
Look! Evidence that their ice cream machine worked at one time! I love watching footage like this. I'm so glad people thought to even document just "everyday" life at a fast food restaurant like this.
I worked at McDonalds in 1984. The ice cream mix came in a big bag with a tube and was easy to put in and take out. Every evening you took the machine apart and sanitized it then the morning shift is supposed to assemble it . And THAT'S where the problem started . Poorly managed crews would put it off during breakfast , get busy and never assemble it or maybe didn't know how. We used to call out sundaes by "male" or "female" , with or without nuts. Pretty sure that wouldn't go over today , ha ha
@@MrByaeger Haha, we had a code for when a good looking woman came in, for example if there was someone worth checking out waiting at register 8, we'd say "McChicken on 8." I think the girls used "Big Mac".
That's because McDonald's wasn't all over the place like it's Today... Back in the 1970s the Ice Cream makers were always working because it was Real Ice Cream.... Than the 1980s was when McDonald's and Burger King went to War and the Vendors supplying these machines couldn't keep up.. at that time the average radius of a McDonald's was 30 miles... Grand population Radius.... Today the grand population Radius is 3.07 miles.... It was easier to get a Polish sausage in Chicago than a Big Mac in the 1970s. But the expanse of fast food was Soo great... That the Ice Cream makers today is more Artificial... Than Real Ice Cream. If you notice the majority of the employees are young.... The Manager was mostly the only one above 25 years.... Nowadays the Employees are Upto Elderly.... That's a result of sending jobs overseas to take advantage of the cheap Labor.... The American people are mostly Service Sector and the really good paying jobs disappeared overseas. Back then you could work 4 days and pay the Rent... Car... Food.. utilities... And go to the ballgame.... Today you work 48 hours and never get above water.... Lower wages and less benefits.
That's what happened in the last 40 years.... Corporations stripped themselves of the Highly Qualified and Skilled American worker.... To a Highly Qualified and Skilled foreign worker... With No Benefits.... No Union... No Environmental Regulations.... And very Cheap Labor Costs.... Cheap Wages.
I loved the 1970s and 1980s.
@@ricardosoto5512 Well, no... the ice cream machines just did the ice cream cones and shakes. Today they have McFlurries and THOSE are the machines that are always out of order.
@@MrByaeger Me too, twice 1978, and 1984. Way different back then. We made the food constantly. After 11 minutes under the heat lamps, and into the trash it went. No old pre made crap sitting around half the day.
Does anyone my age (45) or older remember this time period, but it just feels and seems like a different lifetime, or like it is hard to relate to because you've seen the changes in cars, styles, prices, etc. and you are used to the modern times? It just seems surreal. I was recently going through pictures from my early twenties in the late nineties, and I was like, "wow, look how young I looked". Time has moved so swiftly that it's not like you notice the change as much until you look back through pictures or video.
Definitely feels like a completely other life.
It's called evolution, and the changes you notice now are relative, the RELATIVITY paradigm: There is no change until or unless you have a previous element to compare to
I am 52 years old, and honest to God, 1984 it feels like yesterday, even though it was 39 years ago now. And I agree with you, that it feels like it was another world, and not the same world we are in now. Very strange!
@@22lilacsky It's a strange feeling. Must also have felt even more strange for people living from 1900 to the 1970s, seeing going from horse drawn carriages to early automobiles to changes in style to even rockets.
@@mysteriousjz I see what you are saying, but it feels like time is moving faster the past 20 years than my first 25 years.
Anything without smart phones and social media was a better life. That's what ruined society.
Even the ambience was nice and presentable
For the person that recorded this, you’re an amazing human being for having done this back in the 80s. How I long for the 80s 90s again. People were real and genuine.
No they weren’t. It’s just not as bad as it is now and days
sure if u think being hyper transphobic, homophobic, racist, etc is “real and genuine”. oh, and having no consideration for smoking in a lobby full of people and food
@@joshua_drennen Phobic means fear. I think you are confusing fear with contempt.
Go away with your negative comments
@@joshua_drennenproduct of what they tell you to think. I miss the OLD days.
I was 5 in 84’ and I can tell you, going to McDonald’s was a treat. Everyone was nice and calm.
Same! I was 5 as well, and I remember people treating each other politely and with respect. Adults were adults. I miss that world.
Ha! I was six! Im older and therefore superior to both of you 1979ers! 1978 ftw!!! ..... oh wait.... that just means im old. My back hurts. Im going to sleep now...
We are the same age! I remember when going to McDonald’s my mom rewarded us with for being good. Now there are screaming brats in every McDonald’s
Same, it was so calm I don't remember eating at a Mcdonalds that young.
1978 too and 5, lol@@pleasuretokill
Thank you for this awesome flashback video. Sweet memories of the simple days. 🍟🍔🥤
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I lived and worked in that year but it’s fascinating to see it. No phones, no screens, no overweight people. Everyone is nicely dressed and the apple pies were still fried! I miss it.
In 1984 I was 11-years-old. Seeing this video was like hoping into a time machine to a by gone era! Feeling nostalgic for the 80’s almost hurts. I miss this era so much. If I could I would go back in a heart beat and wouldn’t even miss having a smart phone. Look at how nice and cozy this McDonald’s restaurant was compared to how they look today. Look at their uniforms back then, how every staff covered each register, everyone polite, and no fighting.
Same!!!! God bless
I know how you feel when you say it almost hurts....it does hurt.
They look like doctors offices these days.. I think there are maybe a handful or less in my area that haven't been remodeled yet.. I'm born in 1978 and the one I use to live near with my mother growing up (who deceased in 2016 from cancer) is still there and looks the same with the same floors, and it was around 1984 when my mother would take me there.. I'm sure it's going to be replaced at some point in the near future.. Some of them were completely torn down and replaced while others were gutted to the 4 outer walls..
Same here! I feel sad seeing the 80s because I want to be a little kid again. Such a great time to be a kid.
I worked at a few of them during that decade as a teen. Some of the co-workers that I worked with were so nice and treated me as if I were part of the family. Nowadays when going to some of them they have that funeral home look and feel with mostly computerized kiosks that takes your orders now. One time this cashier just stood there for a long time not letting us know what the heck the hold up is with a blank zombie stare staring into space before finally taking my order. And my food was so badly made that I was thinking was this actually a cook or a monkey that made my meal?
I would go back to the 80s in a heartbeat... EVEN at the age I am NOW (56)... SO GLAD I was able to experience this decade!!! 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
Me too! (53)
Fire up the DeLorean! 🚗
I would totally go back!! Life was fun back then and it didn't cost a fortune to have a good time. Now days you have to worry about guns, undiagnosed people with mental issues, and prejudice political people!
Me too, there was a better spirit and more hope back then. People didn't have a impatient sound to their voice. I would even say that people had a more innocent look back then, its hard to explain but you know it when you see it.
no thanks. the 80's were awful, aside from the music.
This is the year I was born. It looks like a beautiful time. The McDonald’s now is full of cashiers who just stare back at you like you’re interrupting something 🤦🏾♀️😂. Great video! 84’ ❤
I was also born in 1984 :)
Awww 1984 was a great year l was 11 years old and in the 5th grade. People smiling, laughing, and talking to each and having a great time. We don't see that in today's society unfortunately. The nastalgia of the early 80's will never ever be duplicated. Life was simple and family oriented back then. Awww after watching this video l thought about my childhood memories. Thanks for posting.
I’m shocked at how nice everyone is. Even the staff look happy. And no music blasting out of phones. Good times.
And no rap music blaring. No one hopping the counter demanding their chicken nuggets
Lmao, another nostalgic simp.
I say this as a 90’s kid who loved my childhood..
Nostalgia is such a cheap emotion that clouds critical thinking.
I'm not saying I don't fall into the trap, but but it is easy to take a past situation where you have fully made it through to the other side, and conclude that since all the variables in play have played out, and since it's familiar territory now, it must have been some less complicated, wholesome time, in the same way people are susceptible to thinking that history wasn't complicated, messy, or nuanced for the people living through it at the time.
Every generation becomes nostalgic. So, just because we entered the 21st century everyone suddenly became “less nice”? 🤡😂🤣🤦♂️
@@cbgg1585
“so, just because we entered the 21st century, everyone suddenly became “less nice”? 🤡
“Another nostalgic simp”
You said it.
After reading through your boring drivel it’s not difficult to conclude that people were nicer back then. And not as boring. 😁
Even they spoke Spanish, and nobody complained.
No kidding. Now a days everyone has a chip on their shoulder.
First thing I noticed was how respectably everyone was dressed. People still took some pride in their public appearance then. 👍
Absolutely. Now people just go out in their pjs with flip flops or crocs. 😢
This could have been recorded n Sunday after church
@@sheep4521 no, this was every average day attire. These were better times. I was there
You got all that from the video huh
Exactly. The women all wore dresses and skirts, even the employees had actual uniforms then. Not tattooed trash like today😢.
Wow, what a different time. I was a junior in high school. I hardly remember this. I’m glad there’s no smoking inside, but everything else is welcome back in a heartbeat.
8:40, actual salt and pepper shakers. People trusted people back than more.
I was born in 1963, and feel so blessed to have such great memories of living in the 70’s and 80’s. Technology has its advantages, but knowing how much it has changed our overall way of life, I’d vote to go back to ‘the good old days’ every single time.
I also was born in 1963. I miss taking the old trolly to go shopping in downtown Pittsburgh. The variety of stores was amazing and always a trip to McDonald's afterwards.🥰🍔
I was born 87 I really miss the way things were back in the day 😢
@@bargeld09seem like good times
I wish I was alive in the 70s I missed out!
65 I agree. The small things like lunch mattered more. Not just a hurried task.
No arguing..fully clothed...smiles..class...jeez this world has gone to complete utter shit.
What gets me is that people nowadays can't even say "Excuse me" when walking in front of someone. No proper upbringing
So yes complete and utter shit with no common decency.
Those days months years is when America was still great. Reaganomics going strong, $5,000 brand new cars, $1.25 a gallon gasoline. $1.50 for a real Big Mac that was bigger than today's. You could still live good and make it in that America that's long gone and never to return again. 40 years later and it's all gone to crap.
No overweight people,
Don't forget no face tats, nose bolts, body mutilations, or green hair.
Ok this is good now if I can some how fit my body through my phone screan I could travel back to the 80s.
I love footage like this! Look how much staff they have! Also, these establishments seem smaller now compared to then
I cannot fathom this was 40 years ago. I was 4 years old but I remember visiting McDonalds back then very clearly. Those swivel chairs especially. The prices are crazy and it seems they were in that vicinity for decades after this. Amazing time capsule - thanks for sharing.
Back when it was fully staffed and managers up front making sure everything was going smoothly. The staff actually look happy doing their job.
I REMEMBER THAT
GO TO MCDS NOW PEOPLE SCREAM HONK HORNS TEXT TOO
KRAP NOW
@@ekop1778 STILL CAN'T believe how many people are working the counter back then. Now you're lucky to see 1. 2 at the MOST.
@Monica Cabrera You could still make a living working at McDonalds at the time that’s probably why….
I spent 5 minutes at a kiosk today only to find out the payment thing didn't work, so I had to pay at the counter anyway. And then wait 10 minutes for a simple order.
@@bst6791 Lmao 😂!
It’s the building. The sign out front. The tile. The ordering board. The outfits. 1984 was a tremendous era.
It was clean, wholesome food on the fly. I love how everybody is calm and chill and taking they're CLEAN trays to sit and eat some McDonald's❤
Watched this twice, I just couldn't believe the nostalgia that swept through me. It was even better back then than I recalled.
I miss the 80's. I wish I could go back and live through it a second time.
We didn't appreciate what we had. Graduated in 85. I wish the same.
If the time machine existed i wish i could go back in time
Why aren't the women twerking
This was 40 freaking years ago and that’s a traumatic thought. 40 years...
A different world back then.
People are relaxed, aware and communicate without distraction.
That vibe - it will never be the same.
No kids making brainless TikTok’s.
Clean, the lighting is calming, the whole picture is not what it is today, it’s a shame, but I won’t forget these years. Things were simpler and appreciated.
What a surprise, another Karen clutching pearls about TikTok teens. Do you know what we did in the 80's as teenagers? We got wasted on drugs and alcohol, we scammed on intoxicated girls, and we crashed our cars. Teens today are far more responsible, but oh no TikTok!!!
@@texaswunderkind Yeah but we didn't bitch about our feelings, being offended at everything, Whinging self entitled people everywhere, mass psychosis of the commies and LGBT wiggling their todgers in kids faces at drag queen story hour. Social Media and Marxism has destroyed society. They've flooded our countries with mass immigration which has increased crime and drugs exponentially and destroyed industries and businesses. Yeah. We had drugs but no where near the levels it is today. The difference is we enforced drug laws back then. Now we just give them it and include a paraphernalia kit to go along with it.
You know nothing about what it was like back then compared to now. Today, society, culture, businesses and family values have all been vapourised. We are a shameful shell of what was once great. Let's face facts here, The small hat tribe of so called "chosen" people have killed our countries. VERMIN!
@@texaswunderkind Stop the cap
@@texaswunderkind You might be the key to an unsolved cold case. Guys like you eventually get caught.
@@texaswunderkind slow down superstar and act your age . The teenagers are doing what you did as well with drugs and crashing cars and scamming etc but also even more ridiculous stuff on tik tok and instagram reels. I was partying and bar hopping in the 80s and early 90s and it is totally more stupid in 2023 than ever before. Big diff in dumbing down of society. I've lived enough before social media and during it to see the difference
I'm jealous that my father got to experience the 80's/90's. Life truly isn't fair.
Why aren't these women twerking
The nostalgia of these videos take me back to a better, simpler time.
Everyone looked like they cared about themselves. Everyone dressed nicely. Employees look great. No rudeness just a lovely din of a busy store!!! I miss this way of life so much. 😢
Most employees were latins, I am, and in those days they were immigrants who took pride in what they did, they feed their family sometimes in another country because of that work!! But still, people simply had their feet on the ground and there wasn't this "brainwash" done by the media, everyone had a different opinion as it should be, but no one killed each other because of it, unlike today, with this pathetic weak generation.
And they looked happy, and heck -- thin.
Even fast food looked better back then, enough to fill you up and not bankrupt you. Probably healthier ingredients too.
@@maccagrabme thin people at fast McDonalds, says a lot about the quality of their food back then.
@@ignacio6454most McDonald employees are “Latins” too what your point?
This was when food tasted real good and when people didn't try to just jump over the counter and fight or kill the workers .
Since the smart phone became more prevalent..society has become inadvertently barbaric
@@typop I noticed that also. Makes you wonder about the cell phones and the internet, computers. The more technology the more stupid and silly people become
This restaurant contributed the obesity epidemic that has only risen substantially since the 80s
@@kaiser1963 How? People were eating McDonald's in the 1970s and people were not overweight, and eating at other fast food chains. I have seen others that are overweight that never eat out
@@kaiser1963 no. People contributed to their own obesity.
It’s sad - I stopped going out to eat at fast food places for many years but I went to one in a pinch recently. No one worked there - it was a self check out kiosk with 1 guy manning the grill. We were the only people sitting inside the restaurant. So eerie how time has completely changed the culture. McDonald’s was always such a big deal and really cool / special to me as a kid!
I remember *The Grimmuss*
The smiles between the cashier and the customers. It’s alien. Is there any more simple piece of evidence that ppl don’t know how to interact anymore?
Back when we really connected with each other and weren’t glued to a screen. I wish it was still like this. What a time to be alive ❤️
Back when Conservatives were in charge of the nation. Ever since liberals have gotten hold of this country, its gotten significantly worse for everyone.
Yes it was a great time back then, life and social connections were natural especially for us kids at the time
we still talk to each other just no one likes talking to an old person always saying back in my dad after all did you love it when old people told you about the hill they had to go up to get to school when you were younger
social media has increased our talk..
see now i can talk with u around the world😂
@@coolmonkey5269 "Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." -Mike Tyson
I still remember my senior year in HS in 1996, a medium double quarter pounder meal was $3.18.
Now the same meal with smaller portion sizes plus worse tasting food is $11.25. Ain’t that some shit?
20 pce nuggets are $4. actually pretty expensive back then compared to the 20pc nuggets now lol
It's $13.99 now in California. After Ronald Reagan left, America fell apart fast.
I REMEMBER GETTING A HAMBURGER 1982- FOR 35 CENTS
FRIES AND COKE HAPPY MEAL 80 CENTS
PEOPLE WERE SO CALM NICE TOO
NOT ITS KRAP
I was just mentioning that.
I could get a quarter pounder with cheese value meal in 1994 when I was in my teens (I graduated 1995) for $3.14 and that includes the tax.
The fries definitely are not as fresh or as thick as they used to be. The burgers don't taste as good. The Big Mac has shrunk in size and become mostly bread with super thin beef patties.
With a family of four, you're spending over 40 dollars for ONE fast food meal. It's no wonder that people are struggling when food costs so much and everything else keeps going up, yet salaries have barely nudged, comparatively speaking.
@@waltchan Reagan is the major reason why America fell apart in the first place
2:55 - McDonald's used to have the *BEST* french fries (changed ingredients) & apple pies (changed pies entirely since then). They're still good, but definitely doesn't compare to how they used to be. I'll *NEVER* Forget!
The fries were cooked in lard. That's why cholesterol was such an issue back then. Now, they are dipped in beef stock and fried in chemicals.
Ugh. I am so envious of people who had an adult life before smart phones.
No, you are not. You ever have to carry a map in your backpack or car 24/7 anywhere you traveled somewhere you didn't know? Ever try and find a payphone that worked because you needed to contact someone last minute and hope they were at home? The amount of times this "minor inconvenience" could ruin a day is insane, and cell phones only became mainstream. Then you have the phone camera which has made life sooo much more convenient for record keeping and capturing memories. Remember when you had to carry a giant boombox/camcorder/camera? Disposable cameras were so expensive. Batteries didn't last for shit either on those type of equipment. Also, medicine wasn't as advanced as today...sooo...I don't miss the 80's/90's too much.
@@rosealvi that sounds amazing
Thank you to whoever decided to film this back in 1984, not realizing how many people in 2023 and beyond would watch it and what it would mean, for those of us in our mid 40s who can barely remember these times it brings back memories
We didn’t know we’d be looking at in 2023 lol
A film who were instructed to for TV?
Everyone was so attentive at the register…no cell phones, Apple Pay, etc. Cashiers knew how to count cash lol. Everything was so clean and organized 🤩😬
I remember the days of more than one register AND all of those registers taking orders. So strange seeing that being done. You never see it nowadays
Watch this gives such an amazing feeling of nostalgia! 😩🙌 Reminds me of the good ol’ days, when life was so much enjoyable and easier 😢
Watching these good people almost makes my cry. what happened to this world today?
What happened to America. Plenty of places in the first world and "third world" still looks like this.
This world is about finished. Lol.
@@BigChapDidNothingWrong not in America.
@@thaistomp and rightly so.
It is everyone's job to champion goodness in one another. Most people are good people. "Be the change you want to see in the world"
The biggest difference between now and then is everyone is actually present . There is no way to see or reason to worry what your friend is doing across town, or something political to get mad about online, or people calling and texting you constantly. You just lived your life in the moment.
I couldn't agree with you more. There's nothing better then just sitting down and enjoying a nice meal with no crazy distractions.
100% spot on, there is so much and too much social pressure on people from a very very young age these days and its causing so much stress amongst many other issues because of it ... Life is too fast paced now
Yeah, technology doesn't always make things better!
Social media kind of ruined everything ngl
@@floppydong295 Its put lots of pressure on people which wasnt around back then....
My grandparents are in their 70s born in the 1950s, people in their 70s here would be born in the 1910s and that is CRAZY to think about.
An era of genuine conversation and no bogus interaction!
Why aren't these women twerking
Notice how differently everyone dressed back then. They took pride in their appearance. And look at all of the employees! All lines open, everyone working fast and courteous. What a different time. I was 21. I miss those days so much.
yes, america was mostly still white.
I was 21 in ‘84 too! 60 now, it went by so quickly. Funny thing is, I still feel the same!
my mother was 8 at the time
The cashier telling the customer "have a great weekend"... now ur lucky if they even make eye contact with you lol
@@ov7spears I have not heard “ have a great weekend” in decades 😹
Hard to believe how nicely dressed, well mannered, and overall how nice people look. Nobody is morbidly obese. No rude remarks or comments. Crazy how times have changed.
Well said! My thoughts exactly 💯
🤣🤣👏👏
It is shocking at the high rate of obesity today. I’ll go shopping and we’ll over half of the people(young and old) are overweight or obese. I saw a picture of a high school female bowling team and 90% were obese. What has happened? I have to blame technology on a lot of it
@@brandonthesigma6447 I think it must be that too - people nowadays just don’t move around enough .they are home staring at their phone
@Brandon The Sigma I was 19 in 1984 and even though I was out of the house, McDonalds was still a 1-2x a month treat. I mostly ate at home and cooked for my roommates. We also walked everywhere.
There are so many employees! And live plants, flowers on the tables, and nice music playing.
Two things that surprised me: The prices and seeing people smoke inside McDonalds.
The last time I went inside a Macdonalds I couldn't believe what a dismal, dark, cold, unfriendly, and impersonal place it was. I felt as if I were in a mausoleum. I actually ended up leaving. The remodeled Macdonalds' feel like asylums not restaurants. This was a year ago. Ive only gone to Macdonalds twice since for breakfast through the Drive-thru. I heard a man say about the 50s that he wished he would have realized he was living through The Good Old Days. I feel the same way about the 80s. I was 20 years old for the most part of 1984. It was a grand time!
Life today seems so angry and miserable. Everyone wants to be on their devices, they dont want to go out to shop, eat or work. They dont want to speak to people in person. All they want to do is be on tiktok making very stupid videos or sell themselves on Only Fans. Its really an ugly time!!
Great comment 👍👍
Everything you said ...100% so true
The 80’s was probably the best era ever!
The only thing I would object to is the smoking inside that's going to be a no for me I hate 3rd hand smoke
In -n- Out burger has a very similar feel to McDonald's back in 70's. Simple menu, great atmosphere, and happier customers & employees.
Crazy how the employees actually looked like they care about doing a good job! Those were the good old days, and we didn’t realize it at the time. 😢
It’s bc now ppl get paid terrible and ppl don’t care abt work ethic anymore
Yes you worked and addressed people may I help you
@@Stopwar1234 😂 I was making $5 an hour at my first job in 1986.
@@mtnbums2000 And today people are making 7. But in 1986, you could live comfortably at 5 bucks an hour. Can you on 7 today?
There are tons of fast food restaurants where the employees care about their jobs. Go to any Chick-Fil A. It also depends on the region, pay, and culture. Has nothing to do with "good old days."
40 Years old...crazy how fast time went by
All decently dressed, polite, clean, well mannered …appreciate what we have lost forever 😢
Why aren't these women twerking
Old videos of fast food restaurants are further proof of the past actually being superior in many ways. Everyone's better dressed and better behaved, and the restaurant's cleaner and more efficient. I'd expect the food _quality_ to be superior as well
Back when I was a kid we went on a school field trip and stopped at McD's for lunch. I remember you could smell McD's blocks away as we approached. And it tasted soooooooo good. The fries were awesome. My most recent trip the burgers just taste like chemicals and the fries turn to plastic after a few minutes.
@@Anarchist86ed Dear God are you right! Another thing I remember from 80s McDonald's is that they would frequently employ genuine clowns to play Ronald and he'd just be walkin' around in the place!
@@flutebasket4294 They also ruined the design of the restaurants making them current year eyesores. That classic look is gone forever.
@@Anarchist86ed 100% agreed
And every night they would join hands and sing We Are The World.
This is awesome footage! Thank you! No rude customers, pleasant customer service, friendly cashiers, no hair bonnets, no sagging pants with dirty hair, etc...everything and everybody looked clean and respectable.
Absolutely
Before the Internet and Cellphones made everyone an impatient A-hole!!!
No pajama pants either.
Only downside that I could see here was the second-hand smoke!
🙌🙌 💯 your right about that
This was when it was a treat to get McDonald's. People actually sat down and had conversations during this time.
I was a high school junior in '84. Watching this I realize what a dystopian world we're living in now
I cant get over how slim and polite everyone seems.
People were slim because they smoked cigarettes which was an appetite suppressant.
@@doloresbeam8022 Right, I mean, I was only seven at the time but I was on two packs a day.
Food now is full of chemical and hormones. That's why people have so much mental and emotional problems.
Trumpsters didn't exist.
@@doloresbeam8022 And they don't smoke cigarettes today? Plenty of fat and obese people smoke. Not to mention these people are already at MCDONALDS! They don't seem to have a problem with appetite.
Could you imagine going back in time and asking “ is this gluten free ?” 😂😂🤣
Sadly I feel like as now foods are unhealthier
Some people have actual issues with gluten though. Its a health issue
People were still gluten-intolerant back then. It wasnt just invented by millenials.
Good point! Everyone became so entitled!
What is gluten???
McDonald's is now the polar opposite of this!... What a bummer!😢
Yeah, overpriced and full of antisocial delinquents!
Before people thought they'd be a celebrity based on a reality TV show or Tik Tok views they actually went to work and did a job.
I was at a Micky Ds recently and it was pretty sad. Most people were ordering from the self help menus. They had tons of orders coming in from what must have been from their app and delivery services like Uber Eats. The one guy that was waiting at the register was ignored even though he said excuse me several times and eventually left. They could just not handle the amount of orders. They weren't even slacking off they were all working as fast as they could. Technology can be a blessing but it can also really take away from the human experience. Eventually they really will need robots to work at the fast pace that's being demanded from the workers. People don't want to experience anything anymore they just want convenience.
I really miss these days. I was a kid in the 80s/90s and I remember you'd wait at the register for them to go get your food. Things still hadn't gotten messed up yet. It really does suck that the newer generations really never got the chance to experience life offline. Everyday life was pretty great. We just didn't know it at the time.
The online delivery services have really screwed everything up. Instead of sitting on their backside ordering everything through their phones people should take the time to leave the sofa now and again.
You've hit the nail on the head. The last time I was in Maccas in London I popped in just for an order of fries to tied me over till I got home. I waited over 15 minutes just for the order and kept getting shoved around at the counter as I was getting in the way of delivery riders in dirty overalls collecting food orders to take out - food orders being delivered in dirty filthy looking carrier boxes. Is this progress?
I certainly miss those days ugh
I still order the old fashioned way, person to person and with cash!!!
Young people dont want or value these forced and fake interactions. And I don't blame them.
Back when people actually dined in at fast food restaurants. Nowadays you can walk into almost any fast food restaurant anywhere in the U.S. during peak dinner hours and be the only customer inside, assuming the dining room is even open.
Hard to believe. Look how many workers they had. Corporate greed killed fast food.
Depends on where you live. In Hispanic neighborhoods you still see a lot of people dining in.
yea depends where you live. I live in the suburbs now and it's pretty dead but when I'm traveling for work on the cities, it's very packed.
That are some drunk bums yelling at you from the corner while you try to scarf down a big mac
@@musicalmelodies3595
That's what I'm saying. I'm from l.a. and interior of the McDonald's is scary AF. They have armed guards at the one in Santa Monica
ah, back when you could have a SMOKE right after your McDs in the restaurant.
Just like it ought to be!!
This was my first job and I was happy to work at McDonalds…The job taught me: how to work, customers service, and working together (co-workers and supervisors) towards a goal… There was one owner, and one assistant manager-- everyone else were worker bees…I was earning minimum wage because (1976) I was still in High School…. McDonalds was a good learning working and learning environment…🖤
As a kid I remember those "computer" registers where every item had it's own physical button. So awesome.
Computer registers, I miss them very much.
The small fry, small coke, cheeseburger push buttons plastic worn off
What a sad, disgusting world we live in now.
Ikr
Early 80's had their issues too.
Together we can make our world better just by being nice to each other.
Why? I love itty
We truly live in a society
The year I was born, I was a baby, absolutely amazing these videos were saved, so people can get a glimpse into the past 💕💕
Omg this about to make my tear up, I wanna go back. Life was so much easier when I was a kid