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

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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

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

This is the video that gets me.

 

I have this permanently saved.  So crazy.

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

I call bullshit on the Burger King video.

No one works that hard at a Burger King.

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.

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

 

 

1 hour ago, Willfully Horn said:

This is the video that gets me.

 

Satin Rules.

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.

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.

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.  

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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"

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.

56 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

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

You see dead people? 

2 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

You see dead people? 

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

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?

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."

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!

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

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 by Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand

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"

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:

If you lived here in the 90's and 00's... : r/Austin

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:

If you lived here in the 90's and 00's... : r/Austin

Man, I saw this almost every day growing up.

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. 

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