What was daily life like in the 80s/90s/00s?

[Cuzz09]

Oh man Macca that sounds very very familiar to me

Remember normal season double headers at Footy Park they were great.

A Farmers Union choccy milk a Balfour's pasty and you had a whole bay of seats to yourself too

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[Gough]

Drink driving was only really seen as a problem if you got caught.

 

[Kram]

 

[PT Bar None]

Drink driving was only really seen as a problem if you got caught.

I grew up in a podunk country town with 3 pubs, 5 licenced clubs and zero taxis

 

[bresker]

I was born in 1974 in Northern Ireland

- dogs roamed freely & there was dog shit everywhere

- we watched Tv all the time. It was rarely switched off. But there was no tv except schools programs for a few hours in the morning


- A team, battle of the planets, sport billy, cities of gold were big

- we played soccer at school and after school until it got dark

- we hung out in half built houses and waste ground, built huts , hung out at school after school

- drank from 15 onwards at the golf course and beach, regularly caught by the cops who poured it all down the drain

- there were punks, skinheads, goths, skaters, Christian kids . Christian girls were hot but hard to pick up.

- You went into the record store and bought some albums because the sleeve art was interesting . I still have all of them.

- Going to Belfast with your mates was an exciting and slightly dangerous adventure.

- we went to the cinema pretty much every other week. There were loads of shit movies in the 80s.

 

[Gough]

I was born in 1974 in Northern Ireland

- dogs roamed freely & there was dog s**t everywhere

- we watched Tv all the time. It was rarely switched off. But there was no tv except schools programs for a few hours in the morning


- A team, battle of the planets, sport billy, cities of gold were big

- we played soccer at school and after school until it got dark

- we hung out in half built houses and waste ground, built huts , hung out at school after school

- drank from 15 onwards at the golf course and beach, regularly caught by the cops who poured it all down the drain

- there were punks, skinheads, goths, skaters, Christian kids . Christian girls were hot but hard to pick up.

- You went into the record store and bought some albums because the sleeve art was interesting . I still have all of them.

- Going to Belfast with your mates was an exciting and slightly dangerous adventure.

- we went to the cinema pretty much every other week. There were loads of s**t movies in the 80s.

The whole my god is better than your's thing going on at the time would've created a few issues for you growing up that we didn't face here.

 

[DickieKnee]

The whole my god is better than your's thing going on at the time would've created a few issues for you growing up that we didn't face here.

I grew up in the UK in the 70s. I remember bomb evacuation drills at school.

 

[Lets Roar like '44]

Going to the video shop and mum getting an overnighter instead of 7 weekly’s. Must have had a good pay week that one.

 

[Chris_6678]

Pre 00’s:

No responsible service of alcohol rules and cheap drinks at bars - plenty of $1 shooter or cheap beer promos, and even all you can drink packages at some places.

Saturday and sunday mornings watching Rage and/or Recovery.

No internet, 4 tv stations, channels 2, 7, 9 and 10. Wanted to watch something different, Blockbuster or Video EZY were your only options. And most houses didn’t have a VCR until the mid-80’s.

Music was expensive, $30 for an album.

Actually, everything except booze and petrol was expensive. TVs, cars, sports equipment was expensive.

No email so work had a mailroom, need to send a form to another department, into the internal mail envelope.

Yeah i remember as a kid in the 90's Videogames were still 70-80 a pop.

 

[bresker]

The whole my god is better than your's thing going on at the time would've created a few issues for you growing up that we didn't face here.

I did but I left that out as it’s too specific. We lit a lot of bonfires .

 

[offtherails9]

I think sometimes about what life would have been like back in say the 90s as a guy in his mid twenties which I am now.
It's cool to read this thread.
Obviously there are many positives and negatives, first negative that comes to mind is obviously can't access most tv, movies or music at the click of a button.

However the idea of appointment viewing is something I've always liked, although we wouldn't be getting a HBO show like The Sopranos very quickly compared to the USA. However, without the internet I probably wouldn't even know of it's existence until it aired here.
Following something like American Football would be much harder and I'd love to hear some insight from others as to what it was like, but again maybe I would never be interested in that as it's mostly been due to the Internet.

Obviously society seemed a lot freer, don't think people were shamed for their opinion as much.
Dating is something that interests me. Another poster said you rarely would go outside that medium kinda circle you have, which I feel is still true to an extent for a lot of people but not all. I do like the idea though of contact only being via phone call or seeing each other irl. Would make the early stages more interesting and mysterious, but also generally. I remember saying to an ex of mine that I wish it was like the 80s and you didn't feel compelled to reply to a bunch of someones bullshit messages all day. It's not healthy.

Lastly the idea of piss being so cheap is very appealing but also kinda concerning. Wouldn't have minded snapping up a house for f*** all too. Another thing I should probably ask my parents as they'd be honest about it but, say a day like this Saturday just gone, JJJ Hottest 100, did people just go to a mates, drink 20 cans of piss then drive home that night at 2am? Were taxis a thing like that? What's the deal?

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Oh yeah in the 90's a lot of people (and school!) still didn't even have basic exaporative cooling let alone alone a proper refrigerated system which was rare.

A lot, probably a majority, still don't.

 

[kickazz]

I think sometimes about what life would have been like back in say the 90s as a guy in his mid twenties which I am now.
It's cool to read this thread.
Obviously there are many positives and negatives, first negative that comes to mind is obviously can't access most tv, movies or music at the click of a button.

However the idea of appointment viewing is something I've always liked, although we wouldn't be getting a HBO show like The Sopranos very quickly compared to the USA. However, without the internet I probably wouldn't even know of it's existence until it aired here.
Following something like American Football would be much harder and I'd love to hear some insight from others as to what it was like, but again maybe I would never be interested in that as it's mostly been due to the Internet.

Obviously society seemed a lot freer, don't think people were shamed for their opinion as much.
Dating is something that interests me. Another poster said you rarely would go outside that medium kinda circle you have, which I feel is still true to an extent for a lot of people but not all. I do like the idea though of contact only being via phone call or seeing each other irl. Would make the early stages more interesting and mysterious, but also generally. I remember saying to an ex of mine that I wish it was like the 80s and you didn't feel compelled to reply to a bunch of someones bullshit messages all day. It's not healthy.

Lastly the idea of piss being so cheap is very appealing but also kinda concerning. Wouldn't have minded snapping up a house for f*** all too. Another thing I should probably ask my parents as they'd be honest about it but, say a day like this Saturday just gone, JJJ Hottest 100, did people just go to a mates, drink 20 cans of piss then drive home that night at 2am? Were taxis a thing like that? What's the deal?

70s was drink driving time

90s people got cabs or more likely slept on the floor

 

[blueboy25]

Following something like American Football would be much harder and I'd love to hear some insight from others as to what it was like, but again maybe I would never be interested in that as it's mostly been due to the Internet.

You would watch channel 9 for Wide World of Sports on a weekend to get a run down on all the different sports. The Hawaiian ironman specials they did once a year were always a favorite of mine.

SBS/ABC would have a Premier League soccer round up usually shown on a monday (from memory) which showed 3-4 mins of highlights of each game.

 

[Kram]

Only surfers wore rashies, now almost every kid and a lot of adults wear them at the pool/beach

 

[GreyCrow]

Accessing overseas sports results relied on Grandstand on the ABC radio dial.

Or getting Monday/Tuesday paper for the results page.

Some sports ie soccer were well covered in highlight shows.

 

[Gough]

70s was drink driving time

90s people got cabs or more likely slept on the floor

I never drove when I was pissed but sometimes my car followed me home.

 

[Butters and Pepper]

During primary school in early 80s, would be lucky if the teacher allowed tv viewing.

This was usually "Behind the News" (from memory we watched this weekly.....there was another show we watched regularly but I can't remember it....may have started with "M"), or perhaps watching a show such as "The Colonials").

I can also remember teacher allowing us to watch footage of Cliff Young running his ultra-marathon in '83, as well as Dean Lukin winning Gold in '84.

Up until around '87, in SA "Hey Hey It's Saturday" meant an early morning cartoon show hosted by Robin Roenfeldt, Joey Moore and Winky Dink (also hosts of Ch9'ers and later C'Mon Kids)...
that was until we got the Daryl Somers version in I think '87.

Associated shows with Winky Dink etc, were The Curiosity Show and Animals Animals Animals.

On other channels could watch other shows when getting home from school - Wombat, Now You See It (Mike Mead version, then Sophie Formika), Simon Townsend's Wonderworld, or on the ABC you could watch Metal Mickey, Roger Ramjet or Super Gran.

A few other notable/obscure shows during the 80s were Alf, Catch Us If You Can, Play Your Cards Right (game show hosted by Dave Gray). There was also "The Great TV Game Show" hosted by Richard Stubbs, which I was disappointed didn't get a longer run.

In the 70s, I can remember the original Blankety Blanks which was classic television. I can also remember The Banana Splits which was on the weekend, and which hoped I'd always be home for.

 

[Chicago1]

I grew up in the UK in the 70s. I remember bomb evacuation drills at school.

I was in 3rd grade in a school right in the city of Chicago proper in '60/'61. We had air raid drills in class in case those nasty Russian Commies dropped a nuke on Chicago. I was confident that by crouching under our desks and covering the back of our necks with our hands that we would survive it. However, I was relieved when we moved to a suburb in Sept 1961, forty miles from the city. Nothing could touch us that far from downtown Chicago!

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[Lets Roar like '44]

Watching tv waiting for footy scoreboard at about 8:25pm on a sat night. Other than the league you were interested in I always waited for Primrose in the MCDFL, they always got belted.

 

[Gough]

I feel sorry for the modern day pizza dude with harsher speed limits, gps, mobile phones and roadside drugs tests. When I worked in pizza bar the drivers were an even mix of pot heads and boy racers who'd last about five minutes these days.

 

[bresker]

I was on the train coming home from uni a bit worse for wear when the conductor came and said we'd have to walk home by the leisure centre cause there had been a bomb.

I found it difficult to walk past parked cars at night for a while.

That was just a small bomb. There were much bigger ones.

 

[Billy ray]

You’d walk past dog shit and it would be white

 

[Macca19]

During primary school in early 80s, would be lucky if the teacher allowed tv viewing.

This was usually "Behind the News" (from memory we watched this weekly.....there was another show we watched regularly but I can't remember it....may have started with "M"), or perhaps watching a show such as "The Colonials").

I can also remember teacher allowing us to watch footage of Cliff Young running his ultra-marathon in '83, as well as Dean Lukin winning Gold in '84.

Up until around '87, in SA "Hey Hey It's Saturday" meant an early morning cartoon show hosted by Robin Roenfeldt, Joey Moore and Winky Dink (also hosts of Ch9'ers and later C'Mon Kids)...
that was until we got the Daryl Somers version in I think '87.

Associated shows with Winky Dink etc, were The Curiosity Show and Animals Animals Animals.

On other channels could watch other shows when getting home from school - Wombat, Now You See It (Mike Mead version, then Sophie Formika), Simon Townsend's Wonderworld, or on the ABC you could watch Metal Mickey, Roger Ramjet or Super Gran.

A few other notable/obscure shows during the 80s were Alf, Catch Us If You Can, Play Your Cards Right (game show hosted by Dave Gray). There was also "The Great TV Game Show" hosted by Richard Stubbs, which I was disappointed didn't get a longer run.

In the 70s, I can remember the original Blankety Blanks which was classic television. I can also remember The Banana Splits which was on the weekend, and which hoped I'd always be home for.

BtN and Read All About It were great to watch at school.

80s post school tv watching as a kid was all about Mighty Mouse, Roger Ramjet, Trapdoor, Inspector Gadget.

Then it was all about Degrassi. God bless Degrassi. A*mazing was awesome. Rugrats, Doug were good.

Summer Sunday tv was so ****ing boring outside of WWOS. Sunday nights all i remember is Golden Girls, Perfect Strangers and The Nanny.

The Sports yachting was always interesting in summer, watching the Xerox yacht kick ass.

 

[Butters and Pepper]

I remember The Golden Girls being on Friday nights.

Then there was 21 Jump Stteet on Saturday nights.

Comedy Company and the Simpson's on Sunday nights.

Going back to early 80s/late 70s, The Wonderful.World of Disney was on Sunday nights - sometimes it was a live action episode, although I preferred the cartoon episodes.

I think "In Search Of" was onSunday nights. Leonard Nimoy was the narrator - I loved the sound of his voice.

I can recall ABC put heaps of cartoons during afternoons on school holidays. Ones like Squiddly Diddly and a heap of others.