Remembering Gen X Items!
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2024
- Each generation experiences changes and some of those are good while others are not so much. Many of the things Generation X did may seem old or outdated to younger generations. In this video we will take a look back at some Gen X Things That Seem Old!
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It was a privilege to grow up Gen-X.
You are 10000% correct!
Yes!!!
We were a great generation
@@mpsportt1704 If you think about it, we hear people complain about the "Boomers," the "Millennials," and "Gen Z," but no complaints about Generation X. WE are the ones that keep America moving, grinding, & succeeding regardless of the turmoil that the world throws at America. We are the quiet "cogs" that keep America afloat 365/366 (in honor of 2024) days a year.
An awesome life experience that the newer Gens are obviously jealous of.
All they can do is call us "old", pathetic...
The 70’s and 80’s were a great time to grow up. Social media and cell phones ruined society.
Thank you for watching Chopped02!
Is it just me or anyone else feels like life seem more wholesome back then?
It ain't just you.
Thank you for watching lovepets2781!
You are not alone. Different world.
That's because it was.
I agree! Life now days life is too fast with all this technology.
Nowadays, the commercials on TV are almost nothing but big pharma!
Because everyone is sick and dying from all the junk pushed on us in previous generations.
And colonial Penn life insurance 😂
or fast food. EDIT to add, and all are done with very poor taste. zero imagination, or actual humor.
Yes! And medicare, life insurance, burial insurance, car insurance, appliance insurance, car repair insurance. Hmmm...
And accident lawyers..
I'm a Gen x and those days are I really miss those days.
Same here some of the greatest memories of my life were from those days. I miss them now more than ever before.
Those days were heaven compared to today.
Yea seemed liked they sucked when it was happening but looking back technology is great but simple life was so much more fun. Get on a bike and ride
Agree completely! It was such a great time for the most part!😊❤
Also a Gen-X here, would love to go back and revisit for a few weeks. If that was even possible, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I miss the 80"s.
When MTV used to actually be music television.
It was great then. Thank you for watching!
I miss my 80s childhood so much sometimes. Those carefree days of playing outside all day, climbing trees, riding bikes, building forts in the snow in the Winter time. Those were the days! I miss video rental stores. There was just something magical about going in and picking out a movie. 😊
Every generation does wonder how the prior survived, but there are a few things the newer ones are missing, that can't be replaced. Like the bonds formed between friends when we talked and didn't have a phone, and the ability to read faces. We learned patience, and how to look forward to, and appreciate little things. We also had to learn about others, by talking to them, not though facebook or snapchat. And we also knew, we better respect adults, all adults, or our lives could be cut very short by our parents. And thanks Rhetty for another great walk down memory lane.
Yeah that's one thing I noticed about facebook, the kids these days, every single one of them would be picking their teeth up off the parking lot if they tried that crap in the 80s!! You just could run your mouth like that and expect to not get your mouth caved in with a hockey stick after school.
With the increase in dependence to technology, kids these days have trouble forming the proper social skills that was prevalent generations prior.
Well that's exactly it, just look at some of the comments here in CZcams. People have real attitudes now and there are no consequences. And it's not just kids. It was different back when everything was in person so if you pulled an attitude you might get a swift "adjustment" 😂
They can't even form a proper sentence!@@cloutmuzikbeats
I think you're right, @karenmiller2642, but I also think that many of the newer ones are yearning for the things you mentioned without necessarily knowing what those things are. Deep down, they will know it when they experience it.
I miss Saturday morning cartoons the most.
As do i. 😟
Here in Oklahoma, we also had the tornado siren test on Saturday at noon after the cartoons ended.
Thank you for watching Alberto!
My favorites were Super Friends, Looney Tunes, and Scooby Doo.
No dating apps. No text messaging. No social media. We had to talk to the person you wanted to ask out. You had to call and speak with a person. A newspaper was the media along with local and national news on TV.
Oh how I miss speaking with an actual human when calling a company! Now it all seems to be AI.
Yes, newspaper and evening news, that was it. We had a whole day to process news. Now with 24/7 news, constant feed updates, we don't even have a chance to really think about what the media is feeding us.
And most,if not all of it is garbage!@@BigBadJohn7
Thank you for watching Michael. A lot has changed!
Why people forget, we also had a radio, better than newspaper or TV, at best we could even up with the breaking news every half-an-hour.
I still cherish the postcards I got as a kid from my grandparents. They would send me one whenever they went on a trip.😊
❤ me too I saved my postcards in my photo albums
Those were always fun to get. Did you save them Shannon? Thank you for watching!
@RhettyforHistory Yes, I still have them. They are all signed Grandma and Grandpa, but I can tell which ones were written by who by the handwriting and what's said. Gramps always through in a joke or two.😆
Using traveler's checks when traveling on vacation
I remember running out of money on spring break and was just screwed because no college kids had bank cards or credit cards back then, not to mention ATM's were far less common.
Yep, my parents used those when we went on vacation in 85!
I definitely remember when those were big to use. I haven't seen those in a long time. Thank you for watching!
I my first real job after college was for the federal government. They would give us traveler's check as an advance to pay for hotels, rental cars, etc. I don't think young people these days know what a check is, let alone traveler's checks.
@johnp139 1985. My agency loved travelers checks. We didn't start getting cash advances until 1992.
GREAT episode.....Back in the day we actually memorized important phone numbers. Now ??? 🥴
I don't even know my husband's phone number nowadays 😂
Yeah back when you actually had to use your brain to figure things out.
I barely remember my own cell number now.😂
Back in the day...
@@Lone-wolf-1982 that's why I have an easy 1!
Movie Theaters and Drive In Theaters were also huge back in the day.
I live in an area where there’s two drive-in’s that are still open at a fairly reasonable distance away. One is on Warren, Ohio and the other is in Reynolds, PA.
I can remember when there were a lot more drive ins and they were all packed all the time. That is no longer the case. Thank you for watching!
80s music, fashion, movies, technology vehicles were less complicated than today's! Wouldn't trade that for today's complicated world!
🎵Blinded by the light. Wrapped up like a douche in the river of the night🎶
Right?! And on the song, I am so into you by Atlanta Rhythm Section instead of "there was voodoo in the vibes" I thought he said "there was doo doo in the back" my 8 year old self though he had a dog.😂
You made me laugh on that because many though the lyrics went something like that. It was actually "Revved up like a deuce", a reference to a type of 30s Ford.
Best comment 👍
In the Jimmy Buffett song "Margaritaville" my mom thought he was saying he stepped on a Pop-Tart. 😂😂
Elton John's 'Hold me closer, Tony Danza.' thanks to Phoebe.
I used to think Whitney Houston was singing "How will I know if he's stinking ugly"! 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
I just found out Michael Jackson was singing "I'm melting like hot candle wax" from Don't Stop Til You Get Enough. I always sang "melting like hard candy." Cause I'd carry candy in my purse, forget about it, & discovered it had melted, lol. 😅
As a little kid, I thought Kenny Rogers was singing 400 children when it was actually "4 hungry children" in his classic country hit Lucille! 😂🤣
Billy Ocean..go and get stuffed 👍😁
@@gmwcfhg 🤣🤣
I miss Vogue magazine with all the free perfume samples as well as interior design mags. It was exciting getting a new mag in the mail or gosh even a letter from a far away friend.
Vogue magazine is still around hun..I subscribe to print fashion magazines..they r so cool for inspiration..they still have perfume samples on the paper..was it different.?
@@Thefashiongoddessnyc well I suppose because I no longer live in the US I'm out of the loop. Haven't seen a Vogue in a few years.
@Thefashiongoddessnyc Sometimes included would be a small, slim pouch of a certain fragrance within its pages.
Mail used to be a big thing for sure. Now it doesn't seem anywhere near that but I guess it is all of our fault. Thank you for watching!
Gen - X
Raised on hose water & neglect!😂
nah, not neglect, i look at it as we were raised to be very independent. want an allowance? here's the lawnmower and snow shovel, and between times? get a paper route.
@@garycarpenter2932 Amen ! Now we have a dual role in society! Upholding the aging baby boomers and leading the millennials! We're called "The Saviors Of Society" for a reason! We earned it! And, now we get to rule the world for the next few decades!( And, I still wear my sunglasses at night!)! 😎😁
@@garycarpenter2932Well, to be fair, we were as feral as children could be without someone going to jail for it.
@@LarsonPetty that brought a smile thanks.
I have that t-shirt! 😆
The best way to defeat the generations that came after gen-X is a car with a physical key you have to turn and a stick shift.
I don’t know, I’m a teenager and my mum’s car has both of those things and it’s not super old.
I have a 2019 Subaru with stick and a key. Try harder at making relevant jokes.
@@jeltoninc.8542your case is extremely rare. probably less than .01% of cars still have a stick shift or key. try again. oh, to add i bet it only has one key too. unless the airbags or council has a lock. my '01' silverado has one key for ignition and airbag, but a seperate key for the council. and my moms 2018 acadia has no keys.
So funny I was just thinking about that very same thing today.
Nobody born after 1980 is familiar with those things? Really? I'll admit to failing at manual transmission, but every car I've owned (spanning model years from 1987-2016), has had physical keys. I have seen hand-cranked car windows confuse Gen Alpha, though.
We had VHS auto rewinders in two rooms of the house.
Before CDs, everyone had a Sony cassette walkman.
I remember several late night drives down to Blockbuster to return a rental before they closed to avoid the late charge.
We always wrote notes on envelopes from the mail. You'd open your mail and save the envelope for notes next to the phone.
Standalone caller IDs were common in my house.
Yeppers and I still do write my groceries list on them haha. Born in 1980 and absolutely loved being a 80's kid/90's teenager. Looking back I wouldn't trade that 20 year span from 80-00 for anything
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you had.
@@iinemesisii8964 Yep, the late 70s through the 80s were the favorite time of my life!
I still have my old Walkmen lol 😆 and after that it was a portable one! ☝🏻 my big brother gave me his Sony Walkmen yup 👍🏻 it would handle Sony Mini Discs like the PSP Sony’s Game player? Well it turns out that that’s where they got there idea 💡 from! 1988-2025- yes Sony has another portable version on the way to the market next year!
I feel blessed to have experienced all of this - wish it didn’t change so fast
I know what you mean Scott. Thank you for watching!
I don’t even see or hear the ice cream trucks nowadays. Hearing the icecream man coming down the street was such a delight!
Every once in awhile I hear one where I'm at. But like twice a summer. Back in my days it was like twice a week.
Mr. Softee - That iconic tune.
The constant flow of junk food kids nowadays consume would make them turn their nose up at the thought of actually running down the street for ice cream.
We still have ice cream trucks in Austin.
I see them every so often but not near as much as I used to. I definitely don't see anyone buying from them though. Thank you for watching Rahbinah!
I always felt the CD clubs (Columbia House, mainly) were worth it. Helped grow my collection. I dont remember having to return crappy mandatory albums very much.
Oh, I returned a lot of albums to them, and the thing is, is that they were perfectly cool about it, too! They would just credit me after I wrote to them a kind letter stating that some of the CDs just weren’t worth the money. I loved Columbia House at the time, and I was able to build my collection to my liking through them, too.
My husband and I did the Columbia tape club for a few years in the late 80’s. Funny story, we got an album Best of Roy Orbison. When we listened to it, we were very disappointed. It was in no way his best stuff. We were thinking of sending it back, but it was late and I was still in college. The next day, Roy Orbison died. We have carried that guilt with us ever since.
I was a member for over 10 years. In the early years they sold so much more than just music: concert t-shirts, decor, posters. I actually have a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" shot glass I bought from them for $4.95!
Weren't those things usually mastered poorly on poor quality disks that were highly susceptible to disc rot? I feel like I learned that somewhere in the last year.
@@D-Fens_1632I still have all mine and they still sound great.
I miss my MTV😢
Also Matt Pinfeild, Kennedy, and Kurt Loder @@luke5100
It definitely used to be good. Thank you for watching theonlyonestanding8079!
They still have throw back channel's here in sanantonio Texas I still watch them..
@@RhettyforHistory I miss my Head bangers Ball 🤘😎🤘🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thank you Rhetty for History for another great stroll down memory lane. Yes the commercials on tv were actually entertaining. Oh how I miss the better, simpler times.
You're welcome and thank you for watching Mikey. I enjoyed a lot of those older commercials and I remember singing along with them. Double mint gum or Coca-Cola were just a couple big ones to mention.
My magazine of choice was "Nintendo Power" and when DVD was coming in from VHS tapes the rental place would put that "Please be kind, rewind" stickers on the DVD or case!! 😂😂 Really smart!! 😂😂
Wish I'd had a subscription.
@@TheInkPitOx my first issue I got when I subscribed to the mag was vol. 24(1990) with the cover for "Vice Project: Doom"… and I collected until some time after the 200th issue 😉😉 that magazine was chock full of great information!! 😁😁
@jescis0 Did you ever read any of the other gaming mags too?Electronic Gaming Monthly, GamePro, or any of the many others that came and went?
@@stanford-nf4jk I did, but I didn't read them as much as I did Nintendo Power… I even saw the Sega Master System but I didn't have one, my father bought our NES because he wanted to play "Duck Hunt" and my Aunt (one of his sisters) bought the Sega Genesis when it came out… and the games she had that I remember that I liked was "Sonic The Hedgehog 2" and "ToeJam And Earl" 😁😁
@@TheInkPitOxI got mine a month late, my friend would give me his when he was done with them and the new one came out 😂
I often think about younger people today saying they've never heard a song or seen a show because it's from before their time. I thought that was crazy because I grew up in the 80s with lots of media from before my time. Then I realized there are so many options today that it makes sense. When I was a kid almost everything on TV in the daytime was reruns of old shows. Now you have to purposely seek those out if you want them.
So blessed to be Gen x. I really do miss those days. So thankful I live through it ❤
Thank you for watching user-ne4bj6nt8z!
I remember going to blockbuster with my family to rent movies on VHS and later DVDs
Thank you for watching and sharing what you used to do kierahenley2335!
So many memories!
Thank you for watching treyenglish9369!
Ah, the days when we always laughed when we heard the intercom call for someone that their mom is there to pick them up. Running through the sprinkler then drinking from the same hose, good times.
Thank you for watching ghyein!
Arcades!! They were the best for a 12 year old in the 80’s! And the arcade pizza somehow tasted good too. 😂
Thank you for watching drewblue1164!
I remember playing House of the Dead on an Arcade game and my mom said "Let's go, it's too violent, and I don't like this."
I'm so glad that I was born in 1972...🤘
1977 here 😊😊
@@jescis0 Hell yea! \m/
1973 here🤘🏻
74....👍
1972 as well! 👍
Poor BMG and Columbia House 😂😂😂… I can’t even remember how many names I used to get the penny CDs! 😂😂😂
Same here and my dad was a mailman and kept telling me "You're gonna get caught"...I'm under 18
Thank you for watching GenXfrom75!
Youd send someone a post card and they wouldn't get it until a few days after you got back from vacation 😂😂.
That's true bedmand2124. Thank you for watching!
Thise candy/toy machines are still around. But they're A DOLLAR NOW!
.75 here 😂
We can thank the Fed. for that.
And they hit rid of the candy ones…
I haven't seen any in a long time unless it is at an old arcade. Thank you for watching!
@RhettyforHistory That's wild. They're still in most grocery stores in Michigan.
I still buy post cards and mail to people from my vacation
That's great that you do that user-hb6vn9ym6e! Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistory your welcome
I just bought some, too!
@@nickimontie cool
I miss Morris the cat! 😸
Did you know that the voice actor for Morris the Cat in 1970s 9 Lives Cat Food commercials was John Erwin, who was also the voice actor for the He-Man character in the television series in the 1980s.
Thank you for watching AL-T!
Ah, but the satisfaction of filling up both sides of a radio mix tape.
Thank you for watching playerthirteen9695!
Yes, love the radio mix tapes!
Gen-X made the great music that Gen-Y and older millenials grew up listening to.
I agree 👍🏻
Gen Y and millennials are the same thing
@@wwedestroysaew866 wrong. We were first called Gen-Y, then some economists in the 90s came up with the (now derogatory) term Millennials. Since I was born in the very early years of this generation, I will keep using the term Gen-Y.
Thank you for watching Lone-wolf-1982!
The fact that most Gen X'ers are now in our 50's says we're getting old.
You're right about that John. Thank you for watching!
Yeah it is truth but I hope I won’t have to worry about ending up with cancer as well because my parents had cancer plus my dad died from it as well as my baby brother who past away from Leukemia at the age of 3 years old- I’ll be turning 51 years old in October of this year on the 26th- messed up 😱
@@X7393I will be 57 October 9th gotta try & stay positive as we age!
when CD's came around, it wasn't the quality that got me, it was not having to turn it over
Don't forget infomercials
I do remember when those came along. Thank you for watching Mary!
Great video! As a Millennial on cusp of Gen X, I can relate to everything here. I still have VHS tapes, including Disney and some of the CDs shown. The best part of going to the video store was getting the hookup from friends who worked there. =) Thanks for the fun memories.
Columbia House was 100% worth it. I went through two CH phases: 1st was building a collection of several hundred cassettes, 2nd was building a collection of over 1000 CDs. I loved Columbia House! 😂
Thank you for watching and sharing your experience with them Brian!
@@johnp139 100% accurate
When we were calling a friend or person just a few towns over it was actually long distance. My mom would say don't talk too long since you are calling long distance. A girl I dated in high school lived 30 minutes away from me. But it was a long distance phone call if we called each other. Also looking through phone books to find phone numbers. Getting that giant phone book once a year at your front door was always a thrill.
Remember listening to the music cycle to record a song you loved? The one that sticks out for me is Tonight, Tonight by Smashing Pumpkins
For me it was Boston - Don't Look Back
@@jazzcatjohn awesome!! I love it!
@@luke5100 classic bro! “Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness And cleanliness is godliness, and God is empty
Just like me” that hit my angsty teen brain like a damn bucket of bricks
@@luke5100 I was blown away by it when my cousin introduced me to it at 9 years old in 1978. :)
Oh hell yeah,used to record all the Alternative/Grunge/Metal songs whenever they came on rock 92 or 100.3 the Buzz down here in NC back then. Still got rock 92 and the funny thing is they used to play on 100 3 back then they now play on Rock 92 which is a classic station so all that music is now considered classic rock damn I feel old now lol.
As a kid of the latter 60s and the 70s we didnt worry about germs,germs worried about us as we were wide open,didn't have helmets,spent more time outside than in,cept for school days,knew the quickest shortcut to anywhere(lol),knew a drink of water was as close as the nearest houses outdoor faucet, knew every kids name within 5 miles of us,rode more miles on our bikes than we did in automobiles most years,knew to be home by the time the security lights came on,ate at whatever kids house we were visiting,shared whatever we had amongst the group,climbed trees without fear,rode 2 strokes, dove in and swam without fear of drowning as we all knew how to swim,ran barefoot most everywhere at least 9 months of the year,every dog was our friend,we had zero fears,and zero cares other than the switch bushes,and not getting to go somewhere if we misbehaved,sassed,or back talked elders... We lived,and didn't hide out in video games,or indoors,or in ac,or in "safe places".. We'd jump any ramp built over anything,or any one,or even group of kids.. Our parents wouldn't helicopter around us preventing us from falling down,or getting skint knees,broken arms,having whatever we brought home as pets,but did do their best to raise us as normal,well educated(compared to todays kids),well balanced,able to survive on our own adults.. I really do miss those days of hanging out with any kids who came around and wanted to talk,play,run,climb,jump,be kids... That whole adulting thing sucks... 😮
All I needed as an 80's kid was video games, MAD Magazine junk food & the many watchable cartoons that were on TV at the time.
Good Times. 😊
Those were all great things! Thank you for watching!
All I needed were some tasty waves and a ritious buzz and I was fine
Gen X here as well. I can feel the plastic and hear the squeak of opening up a Disney movie. If you think about it, many of our days off were spent running a lot of errands like dropping off our film, spending way too long at blockbuster, organizing the CDs in the tower. I’d love visiting my friend, knocking on the door only for their mom to tell me, they just left for the mall. Darn! Good times, I miss those simpler days.
One of my hobbies in the '70s was reading maps.
Thank you for watching JohnAranita! That's an interesting hobby!
Honorable mention goes to the Sears catalog. My sisters and I would pour through that catalog when it came out every fall just to check out all the cool toys that would be in the brick-and-mortar stores by December of that year. We also made a lot of cassette mixtapes back in the day, so much so that Maxell and Memorex owe us an endorsement! LOL! Or how about having a tape deck, 8-track player or CD player in your car? Talk about a throwback to times gone by! That all went away and was replaced by smartphones, streaming services and satellite radio.
Uff! I miss those. The screen in my car won't work anymore so I can't change the channel, go through the menu, etc. Sometimes it randomly switches channels & I can't change it back.
I sang: “In the western town of Danwalsh(?)
The Eastern boys and Western girls”
Reality: In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls”
Love that band.
Thanks, never knew what he was saying there.
The Pet Shop Boys! I definitely remember them being on the radio all time 👍🏻 and to this day there still touring which is cool 😎
It sounded like to me when he was singing Eastern Sound to western boys yes, confusing 🫤 but this was the early 80’s and I was pretty young like 10 years old going on 11 - what year was this?! Like 1983-1985? Not sure though but I do remember this hit song! And I remember the announcer mentioning it as well👍🏻 sad because he passed away in the late 90’s
Fortunately the local grocery store still has the gumball machine and the ones that have the temporary tattoos
Oh that is great to hear! I haven't seen them in a really long time. Thank you for watching crazyviking24!
I saw a bunch of them at the mall, it seems they are bringing them back like the one in this video and also an arcade and record stores. Feels nice like when I was a kid.
This is Columbia House, you ALL owe a balance for them cassettes! 😂🤣😂🤣
The amount of back interest is terrifying....
Thank you for watching thebackrooms7511!
Dec 1969 here. Feeling extremely lucky to have been a part of the most forgotten and the most memorable time ever. Proud to be a Gen X. Awesome time in history.
Thank you for watching Kevin-Murphy-007!
1966 for me & agree
One of my favorite pastimes now ( other than watching videos from this nostalgic channel) is watching old commercials on CZcams , go figure. It’s like a virtual Time Machine , from the 50’s, 60’s , 70’s ,80’s , 90’s , even 2000’s are nostalgic because so many things have changed even since then…
I love watching those old commercials as well. I do have some from the 80s and 90s I should probably edit into a video of some sort. Thank you for watching Lovejazz01!
I had a little address book I kept back then.
Those were great to have. Thank you for watching kimbrey65!
Thanks Rhetty for the memories. Even though I don't know them, these photos look as if they could have been my family and friends. Gen X is great!
You're welcome ginib6350! Thank you for watching!
I miss Blockbuster.
I miss them and all of the other video stores. Thank you for watching Jared!
There are corner shops, food trucks and delis in NYC that only take cash, so we have to carry money if we want to buy food from them. That also means you have to know math which a lot of Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids don't.
It's interesting to see places like that still exist. I don't know of too many like that. Thank you for watching eggie1978!
I'm early gen z (2002) and yes you're right about our generation to some degree. many of us prefer to use card/apple/google pay for transactions. in nyc however there's still some of us who use cash for bodegas, delis and food trucks but even some of those places are starting to accept card but charge fees to make up for the cost of implementing those card readers.
I'm a 38-year-old millennial all the stuff applies to us as well.
Thank you for watching and letting us know jasongunningham9545!
Yep, I'm officially old
Thank you for watching topofthepalm!
Millennial here. I thought these was the bees knees, the wonderful thing. It is just a shock to see it on old. I often wondered why old people always talked about the past and now I do it too....soon the Rotary Landlines and satellite dishes will be added to the list since, they be obslete next year
They are certainly in the old category for most people. Thank you for watching andeeharry!
“Where’s the Beef?”
You know, looking back on those commercials, I realized it’s not just what she says that makes it funny, it’s also the way she looks around aimlessly while saying it! 😂
That was a great commercial! Thank you for watching jgringo5516!
As a boomer, some of my teen years overlapped with Gen X kids. I have to say that the 60s was the best decade of TV there has ever been. Late 60s muscle cars were awesome. As for directions, I always carried a huge paperback road atlas in the car because there was NO WAY I was stopping and asking. My wife would get so angry about it but, although I'd have to doubleback here or there sometimes, I always found our destination.
Two more things to add to the list: I remember the 1-900 numbers that were advertised on TV, anywhere from .50 per minute to maybe 1.99 or so. Usually you had to have a touch-tone phone for these. And they had credit cards back then, but I remember using that carbon paper slip to make copies of the transactions when I worked at a hardware store in 1987. No machines to swipe them in back then!
What really makes me feel old is the fact that I watch these videos...and enjoy them. 😂
This just proves we're officially old now, what would our younger selves say!
Thank you for watching and commenting thatderek! I'm happy to hear you are enjoying the videos.
Being 57 I just say wow!!!!
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
Was that burger king 😅
Speaking of pictures, i remember taking rolls of film to those drive up photo kiosks. I imagine those were turned into drive up ATMs.
In a parking lot recently the car next to mine had a ton of cassettes in it, strewn everywhere and in little containers. It was like a trip to the past. No idea that ppl still drive around playing cassettes in their cars.
That is definitely a rate sight now days. Thank you for watching LythaWausW!
😁👍 All true. It’s funny to look back and remember we really did all that! Ha!!
Hi Jodie! 👋😁🇦🇺
Hi Paul 👋😁🇺🇸
Thank you for watching Paul!
I think the Liberty Mutual are the only commercials that have the jingle/memorability that old commercials had.
And that's a good thing? 🤨
@@luisreyes1963 As long as it is amusing and not confusing to the point you have no idea what they are selling or pushing politics... absolutely not.
Thank you for watching girlgamergear. They commercials are meant to get in your head and that one definitely does.
Regarding the part about manually writing things down, I was on the board of our homeowner associate a few years ago and the others were in their 30s. They thought I was a genius for placing a dry erase board at the clubhouse door for people to read its message (they only thought in terms of sending a text message). Furthermore, I just wrote regular print, but they complimented my neat penmanship, when it was just ordinary!
Wow Rhett, you never disappoint !! Cant get enough of these memory lane vids 👍 you rock !! ✌️❣️ Joined... finally
Thank you for watching and always commenting as well! I'm happy to hear you are enjoying the channel!
Almost everyone I know owns Columbia house money to this day!
I bet a lot do. Thank you for watching Erika!
I didn't expect to see a Childrem of Bodom album in this video hahahaha. Great video by the way. Lots of nostalgia here.
Thank you for watching and I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the video stormrideroftheli!
Had most of the cassettes featured in that drawer 😎
Thank you for watching TH-hy9kr!
Getting postcards was always pretty cool back in the day. My grandparents would send them from Yellowstone and other "far away" places. I simply had to go there myself someday (which I eventually did). I still think it is amazing that I can send a postcard from a place like Hawaii to anywhere else in the US for less than a dollar. Of course, I can take a picture of something and send it via a text message today for free (well, not exactly, as I still get a bill for the use of the cellphone). Many vacation spots today are far too commercial for me. I like the "quaintness" of those tourist traps we stayed at growing up. Those old mom and pop motels are mostly gone now. The rooms had a real unique scent to them after they were cleaned. Ever notice how all the gift shops had the same trinkets in them no matter where you were? But that is a story for a different segment I think!
You say old, I say *vintage* 💞
Definitely true! Thank you for watching GenXfrom75!
@@johnp139 ok 🤣 my grandparents were 97 and 107 when they died… I’m not even middle aged yet 🤪
I grew up with VHS and the great outdoors indoor fun was playing with my action figures on the ancient splinter infested wooden floor. Dad would always rent movies before the weekends
Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories with us GoonieLord!
Who else still owes those guys money? 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Several years ago I was working for a newspaper, got a call from customer service to redeliver a missed paper. I was driving at that moment, grabbed a pen and wrote on my left hand as I drove. 😂 Brought back a lot of memories. 😂🤣
Thanks Rhett ❤️ I miss it all 😢
Thank you for watching -Thauma-!
Using a land line phone to call the weather, information, local time, movie information, or to have a robo dialer call you back to test your line.
Hello, and WELcome to Moviephone!
Thank you for watching and sharing a few things we used to do wmonger!
The smell of a payphone will always stay with me. Just disgusting, but yeah.. still used it. LOL
We had to. Thank you for watching pheona1164!
1:09 anyone else remember the machine that would have a chicken lay a plastic egg with a prize inside after spinning and bawking a little diddy? I think there was also a Flintstones one where Fred was signing about Dino laying you an egg, but…yeah, didn’t make much sense. Lol
Yes, that rang a bell in the far recesses of my mind! Lots of colourful eggs.
I just googled 'chicken toy capsule machine', and it brought up a whole bunch. I used to love them!
I remember those and the Flintstone one was a bit odd. Thank you for watching!
Music clubs got scammed all the time. One guy I partied with in the 90’s sent 50 membership cards in and used a different persons name and address he never paid a dime for about 300 cds. The extra songs from artists make sense because not every song that is written either fit an album or was just something random they came up with. I remember as a kid going in and grabbing beer and cigarettes for family because they were to lazy to get out of the car and of course the clerk would sell it to me because they knew who it was for. That changed around the time I started driving because the drink and drive laws had changed.
All the grocery stores here have the little vending machines at the front. Temporary tattoos, gumballs, or cheap little toys. My kids always want me to get them something out of those😂
That is awesome to hear they are still around where you are. I haven't seen them in years. Thank you for watching SavaFiend!
in the 90's Mtv got simpler, for my music, Headbanger's Ball, and 120 Minutes, late at night..then after i could watch Rhonda Shear, on USA "Up All Night" horror movies
Oh, man, you actually had to learn how to re-fold a map when you were finished. There was only ONE WAY to fold those things! 😲
Yeah they could be quite messy if you tried to fold them differently. Thank you for watching mudvalve!
Just makes me think of Twister.
"I didn't fold the map!"
"Yeah? Well Kansas is a big mess, there's a huge fold right through Wichita. ROLL. THE. MAPS!"
🎶🎶GO GO JASON WATERFALLS🎶🎶
Thank you Rhett ,for taking all us down memory lane fun times . .I thought it was the coolest thing when cordless phones came out remember pay phones in our high school an no cellphones an we had a smoking area .❤❤I love these episodes Rhett
You're welcome and I'm glad you are enjoying these episodes. I loved getting those cordless phones. I remember walking all over inside and outside of the house testing the boundaries. Thank you for watching mszahn1995!
@@RhettyforHistory thank you Rhett .I do really like your channel , definitely brings me back to my childhood times in the 80s .when we appreciate the small things in life
I still have a bunch of CDs from BMG and Columbia House. The trick was to cancel the subscription before they started charging you.
That was what my brothers did! We got a lot of free CDs!😂
Great video as always. This is my favorite nostalgia channel and brings back great memories. One thing that came to mind was when you were a kid, you had the cool birthday cakes. They had those molded pans of cartoon and comic book characters. I remember having a scooby doo cake, a batman cake, and a superman one as well. I never see those anymore. My mother use to make those cakes and decorate them with frosting herself. Anyway, keep up the great work. Love the channel.
I’m on the cusp of Gen X/Millennial. One thing I’ll never give up is owning my own media. I have no problem with streaming, but I just hesitate to depend on the House of Mouse and others to determine which movies are appropriate for me to watch. And the same goes for my music.
Another great video! Thanks!
I *STILL* have a Discman and most of my CD collection. I had a couple towers. One of them was even featured in the video! (The squiggly ‘S’ shaped one).
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had and still have stanford-nf4jk!
Thank you! Ah the good old days! I loved reading magazines. I enjoyed Seventeen and Teen Beat, Tiger Beat etc. Totally had CD towers💿📀
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you had and loved Brenda!
Your videos take me back I'm Gen X 1979 and I want to Cry looking back on simpler times and things
When I was 12 and I was a "latch key" kid. One VERY important rule was that I was not allowed to answer the phone unless my parents called. How we did that before answering machines was what my parents called the "2 ring system". My parents would call, let the phone ring twice, hang up, and the call right back. That was their way of checking up on me.
Oh yeah! 6th grade took a brown bag lunch, about 8 books, and my house key.
Thank you for watching and sharing a memory with us mudpiemutt8305!
Cheech and Chong when Cheech called Chong and told him not to answer the phone. "Dave's not Here man"