Your dose of nostalgia: B-roll videos of how life used to be

[Guest]

This YouTube channel posts B-roll videos of mundane life, heavily focused on around 1975-2005. Ride the bus in 1978, shop at Wal-mart in 1992, hang out at McDonald's in 1997.

https://www.youtube.com/@vampirerobot/videos

 

 

 

[Parliament 14368]

Well music was so much better back then for sure.

[Willfully Horn 8088]

This is the video that gets me.

 

[Biff Tannen 45763]

3 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

This is the video that gets me.

 

I have this permanently saved.  So crazy.

[texasdago 7589]

15 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I have this permanently saved.  So crazy.

Oddly fitting he's playing the Lemonheads later on in the video

[Superhero 8890]

I call bullshit on the Burger King video.

No one works that hard at a Burger King.

[gyroprotagonist 2595]

nostalgia, greek roots meaning return + pain, was considered a mental illness way back in the day.  meaning has definitely shifted to have a positive connotation and we tend to associate fond memories now.   1996 was right in my wheelhouse around campus.  great vid.

[Trey3216 15380]

and this song always brings a little tear to my eye...

 

 

[RDCanecutter 26551]

1 hour ago, Willfully Horn said:

This is the video that gets me.

 

Satin Rules.

[Guest]

Going through some of those shopping videos, the amount of cash being handled is what jumps out to me.

That and the lack of phones.

[Willfully Horn 8088]

Just now, RDCanecutter said:

Satin Rules.

Velvet rut, ftw.

[RDCanecutter 26551]

Just now, Willfully Horn said:

Velvet rut, ftw.

First time I ever heard that term was after leaving Austin. Heard it from a guy who was a house-flipper in Austin and Atlanta before making his life's work the restoration and inhabitation of a huge historical building in Selma Alabama.

His velvet rut story involved being back in Austin and watching 5 guys try to figure out how to move one table. It took time, maaaan.

4 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Going through some of those shopping videos, the amount of cash being handled is what jumps out to me.

That and the lack of phones.

More cash, fewer phones. I could handle that.

[YGIFS 19453]

2 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

This is the video that gets me.

 

It'd be time consuming for someone, but they'd make thousands of bucks at $5-$10/download...remix this video with the exterior scenes/walk-n-talks in 'Slacker' and same from 'Austin Stories' lone season on MTV in geographic order from North to South..............  Could just remove dialogue track and overdub Austin musicians hits from that era.  Comes in at about 25minute run time.  Folks our age light one up and drink one down and watch that thing on a loop and they'd gladly hand over $20.  For it's money we have and peace we lack.  

Edited October 10, 2023 by YGIFS

[SimonBolivar 10961]

54 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Going through some of those shopping videos, the amount of cash being handled is what jumps out to me.

That and the lack of phones.

Am I the only one thinking "that dude was probably born around 1920 so he's dead....she's probably dead...he's definitely dead"

[RDCanecutter 26551]

Just now, SimonBolivar said:

Am I the only one thinking "that dude was probably born around 1920 so he's dead....she's probably dead...he's definitely dead"

I think those same things when I walk through a crowd of people now.

[Bozo_Casanova 26676]

soothing

[Dahobbs 17807]

56 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

I think those same things when I walk through a crowd of people now.

You see dead people? 

[RDCanecutter 26551]

2 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

You see dead people? 

Ugly... bags... of mostly water.

[South Austin 52687]

17 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Going through some of those shopping videos, the amount of cash being handled is what jumps out to me.

That and the lack of phones.

No phones? How did they take the videos?

[Deej 77170]

18 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

Am I the only one thinking "that dude was probably born around 1920 so he's dead....she's probably dead...he's definitely dead"

I do that every time I watch an older movie or tv show that has a dog in it. 

"That dog is dead, now."

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13596]

Not a video, but Sign Bar is essentially based on nostalgia.

 

[BabaYaga 15371]

As a kid, with a refined palate second to none, my jam was Night Hawk, Threadgills, and....drumroll please....Marimont Cafeteria!  Damn I loved that place!

[YGIFS 19453]

Silly question, but are those signs replicas or the actual ones removed from defunct spots and restored ? 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13596]

8 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Silly question, but are those signs replicas or the actual ones removed from defunct spots and restored ? 

The only one that isn't original is The Continental Club that was used on the set of either Kimmel or Fallon (I forget which) when they broadcast from Austin for sxsw.

Edited October 11, 2023 by Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand

[texasdago 7589]

I'm curious to see the place.  I know the Dry Creek sign is there now.  I think the idea is cool... now the R.I.P. Austin shirt?  That is lame.  Can't imagine wearing that.   It screeeeeeaaams "Old Austin whiner"

[Guest]

I refused to go to Sign Bar until it has that yellow car that was atop the insurance building on Mopac for years. Ah, here it is:

[Biff Tannen 45763]

2 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

I refused to go to Sign Bar until it has that yellow car that was atop the insurance building on Mopac for years. Ah, here it is:

Man, I saw this almost every day growing up.

[NorthLoop 14302]

Ha - my old neighbor used to claim to be part owner of Ski Shores. Then I went there one day and he was in the back flipping burgers. Found out that his brother was the owner and let him work there from time to time.