“Been drinking many sodas lately?” That just killed me. Lol! At first I thought it was just a dumb thing to say, then I realized it was shorthand for “Have you been going out on dates at the Burger Joint with other guys specifically this Siggy guy?”

@billybob9961

4 жыл бұрын

Matt Kustom Kostumes you are a master at deciphering code

@DeadDogSanders

4 жыл бұрын

kids! gotta luv the lil bastards!

@hiskishow

4 жыл бұрын

Ohhhh I see.

@blah9500

4 жыл бұрын

Lol yeah that was pretty good, as well as his playing innocent routine. I wasn’t expecting to laugh during this video haha

@gypsy52

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao that makes a lot more sense 😂

“Been drinking many sodas lately?” *Flirting +100*

@TimelapseExperimentals

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@alext818

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂 hey I might use this line myself

@ksdans1452

4 жыл бұрын

Wetness +100

@datbitxh4270

4 жыл бұрын

Haha 😂

@hiskishow

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

“Been drinking many sodas lately?”

@kptlt.phillipthomsen5973

4 жыл бұрын

y e s

@EagleLogic

4 жыл бұрын

Lots and lots of sodas

@BradThePitts

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if he more literally meant, "Have you been going to the soda shop lately?"

@ksdans1452

4 жыл бұрын

My grandpops famous catch line

@Starkl3t

4 жыл бұрын

Whaa...

Next time I call my friend I'm gonna be like hey girl been drinking many sodas lately? He's gonna be flipped.

@mathology5710

4 жыл бұрын

Just don't ask if they're on student council (Spoiler: They're not)

@melissaribeiro4173

4 жыл бұрын

@@mathology5710 oh my god😂

I grew up in the 90's and we had the same phone, in the kitchen, mounted to the wall.

@rosebelle3148

4 жыл бұрын

Patrick TAYLOR me too. I was born in ‘82.

@MrPDTaylor

4 жыл бұрын

@@rosebelle3148 I was born in 80

@1dyrfullymade

4 жыл бұрын

me too until cellphones started getting popular around 2001 I was born in 1989.

@t.j.themaddman6643

4 жыл бұрын

Patrick TAYLOR I was born in 2001. My family had the cordless house phone for a while. When I was in eighth grade, for Christmas, I got my first cell phone which was a iPhone 4.

@abdullatifalsaleh2201

4 жыл бұрын

Patrick TAYLOR my mom still calls my aunt from the kitchen phone and talk for hours 😂

In the 1950s, parents were probably saying things like, “Instead of talking on the phone all day, you should play outside!”

@yash124

3 жыл бұрын

I think it was opposite don't play too long outside

@patientzero5685

2 жыл бұрын

I like to watch old educational videos and parents really did stress their child’s social status and ability to conform.

Nowadays, I don’t even bother calling if there’s no agenda. That’s more of a text message level of communication.

@mattkaustickomments

4 жыл бұрын

jonnda, oh the guy had an agenda. He wanted to know if she was stepping out with Siggy and wanted to let her know what she was missing. He didn’t call just to talk about nothing. Sly lil bastard.

@warrenny

4 жыл бұрын

jonnda Thanks capt obvious. That's pretty much everyone now.

@jonnda

4 жыл бұрын

Warren Messer Wow. Thanks for the text message.

@bluemagic8601

Жыл бұрын

That’s sad too ,,that’s all folks no these days is just texting smh I hate social media platforms an smartphones too

@jonnda

Жыл бұрын

@@bluemagic8601 Smartphones are alright. I'm pretty much burned out on Facebook, and don't understand Twitter, Snapchat, or tick-tock. Still like KZread. I can't call people on the job, but I can sneak send texts to my wife. It's a bit of a mixed bag. Yesterday a friend called me after a few texts. It was nice.

I remember in the day , calling girls & hanging up on them because I was so shy ! Then , I would compose myself & call them back.

@forgive7449

4 жыл бұрын

you were a heathy breather ?

@ClotEastwood

4 жыл бұрын

Kemper . . .I knew that was you. .

@saucejohnson9862

4 жыл бұрын

Lol I remember doing that then getting hung up on! It was still more exciting than texting like teens do today.

@sonofage

4 жыл бұрын

oh man, i was so nervous talking to girls back then, the first girl i really like when i was 13, i called her with a freaking script ready, obviously, she didn't read the script beforehand and the convo went sideways haha. hell, i still felt anxiety talking to even my girlfriend on the phone back then. idk why.

@daryllaccount261

3 жыл бұрын

Simp

As a young adult living in the 21st century I often find myself romanticizing my parents and even grand parents for having grown up in a time void of all these smart technologies. Having a personal pocket-sized computer has its benefits don't get me wrong I just think they've rewired human interaction. This type of generational shift is inevitable but I believe that for both my generation and those to follow, having all these phones that distract us has been harmful to our society and personal relationships. I've noticed among my friends and family that often times looking at a screen is common when interacting with one another and even my younger sibling would rather watch KZread videos all day. Though I've also fallen victim to the addictive qualities of having a smartphone I try and remember to live life as if it were the 90s. It's important to keep in touch with life beyond the screen and relearn how to live life and interact with others in a way that's deeper than an almost secondary interaction next to our smart devices. Thoughts? Does anyone sometimes leave their phone at home and go out and fully immerse themselves into the world? I call it, having a 90s day :p

@clockguy2

4 жыл бұрын

Before smart technology, I remember binge watching cartoons on Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon I remember being bored out of my skull because there was nothing to do. I would go to my friends house and read comic books, bike ride , or play in the yard. I remember being bored and broke the most.

@ItsRealyReall

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'm absolutely with you on that. I intend to get better, but it is addictive and I also need to be online a lot to learn various skills right now...but I so badly want to leave my phone behind at the same time.

@knucklehoagies

4 жыл бұрын

The way we think of smartphones today is the way adults thought about Television back in the 50s-60s. Imagine how much has changed in society before TV became a normal part of everyday life. Sure living a day without technology sounds "pure" but you're never gonna be able to run away from it unless you wanna live on a deserted island all by yourself. Technology is here to stay. We have to just accept times are different and won't go back to how they were.

@LaunchPadMcQuack4Hire

4 жыл бұрын

@@knucklehoagies True, but I remember when I went to college in the late 90s, I didn't watch much t.v. and felt very tech-free on a day-to-day basis. Nowadays, I find myself pulled into my phone constantly. It has a much more addictive quality than t.v., at least for me.

@fauldurand

4 жыл бұрын

@@knucklehoagies Jay P I agree things do change, some for good and others not so much but to say it won't change is untrue. We have no idea what direction humans will lead in the future but I doubt it will be without advancements on the technology we us today. That said, my concern isn't about in your words, living on a deserted island or even purely, it's about living a balanced life. It should be evident even in your own life that most have an unhealthy relationship with smart devices. How can we change as a society that values screen time and interaction with computers less so as to not lose the magic of a life that doesn't wait for us to finish watching the latest episode?

There were seven of us in the house back in the 70's... Three teenage older sisters. And it was a freaking battle every time the phone rang! Who would survive to answer it!? Me and the others would sit and watch like it was Tuesday night wrestling. Life was great back then lol!

I could literally watch these teenage conversations for hours

I grew up in Europe in the 60s and 70s. There was no phone in my home (as with many of my contemporaries) until around 1978. It was regarded as a luxury, not a necessity; moreover, not only were calls expensive (you paid by the minute) but also the line rental was astronomical. There was quite a divide between America's phone system and the rest of the world.

@VCRider

4 жыл бұрын

Thats your country for ya lol. In Germany they had phones in house as early on

@shananagans5

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, the US had to have every luxury possible. In 1978 I was 11 and had my own phone line in my room. That was considered a bit unnecessary but not unheard of. About half of my friends had phones in their room but shared the line with the rest of the house and about half had their own line. I actually still have the same phone number. lol Yes, I did move out of my parent's house, I just had to pay a few $$ to keep the same number.

@hud86

3 жыл бұрын

Work hard and you can enjoy the fruits of your labors. Can't wait for anyone to come save you, just get out there and work

@jayjaytailor

3 жыл бұрын

@@hud86 Your point being?

@hud86

3 жыл бұрын

@@jayjaytailor if people want things they should work for them.

Mr. Hoffman, I am 45 years old. As a child of the 80’s, I see striking parallels with my parents’ generation: 1) We called each other with no agenda. Just to talk. The lucky kids had cordless phones enabling them to move out to the porch or go to their rooms. 2) Girls wore their boyfriends’ class rings around their necks too! And would you believe that as recently as 10 years ago, I was training 6 year old Tiger Scout Boys on how to answer a telephone appropriately! Great clip, thank you!

Sounds like how my dad talks on the phone lmao

@adawnhowell9256

3 жыл бұрын

LOL I was going to say that Tom's small talk reminded me of my oldest two uncles on the phone.

Asking her if she's been drinking alot of sodas lately means has she been to "the spot" alot lately. The spot being soda shop or drive-in joint.

"Sort of in the middle of something" a minute ago literally sitting on the couch waiting for the phone to ring lol

@joshlewis575

4 жыл бұрын

Gotta seem important, kinda like the people who post "look at me n how happy I am" photos on social media nowadays. The more things change the more they stay the same

@Bennevisie

3 жыл бұрын

She was in the middle of drinking many-a-soda, apparently. 😂

Thank you David Hoffman!!! There ain't sh*t on KZread interesting since I watched the last David Hoffman video this morning on Peter Thomas. I love the old footage from the 50's and 60's. Please dig deep and share with us anything you've got!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

4 жыл бұрын

I'm working every day on it Ceil. David Hoffman-filmmaker

The very first phone I remember was a rotary phone that sat in the kitchen in 1950s. Party lines, operators asking what number? Then in 61, my parents had a house built, the phone was rung in the kitchen. That same phone was still in the house when mom (2007) and dad 2014 died. We had the same phone number 1961 to 2018, when the house was sold. Much simpler, family friendly after WW2 era. Stay safe all, we live in a crazy world. At almost 70, I can understand why my parents hoarded away not food but canned so much. Really worried about not having enough in garden, 36 chicken layers, 2 hogs, a large cow. But will make due. Staying with family on their farm.

Oh man Edward, Lucy was so thirsty for ya, but you called Lucy to get Jane Patterson's phone number. Lucy is so disappointed by that!

@thedeadsealion

4 жыл бұрын

Edward is a fucking toy.

@luigialvarezproductions3563

4 жыл бұрын

Lol relatable towards us teens, it is like asking a friend for the girls snapchat/instagram to follow and take the chance🤣

@liwmld

4 жыл бұрын

lucy seemed unsure of herself, that no one would call her, then a guy calls her and she's like.... "im busy, got things to do..." and then he says something like, what's jane's number lol. maybe guys would have been interested in talking to her if she wasn't so rude. "i don't have time to talk to you, i'm busy!" "well good, i wasn't calling to talk to you anyway!" hahahaha.

@camerrill

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Unless Edward called Lucy in the pretense of getting Jane Patterson's number because he thought Lucy was out of his league but he wanted to hear her voice. Yes, this was that kind of era: shy, tentative, beating around the bush sometimes!

@camerrill

3 жыл бұрын

@@liwmld She wasn't being rude. She felt awkward and unsure of how to carry on a conversation.

Imagine traveling back in time 35 or more years and telling people, "In the future, everybody will have a phone in their pocket... but 98% of the time when they use it, it will not be for making telephone calls." That would seriously confuse the hell out of people.

@niksatt4843

2 жыл бұрын

Not really we already had giant cell phones and work computers a few even had home computers 35 years ago was the 80s not the 60s

I remember when public phones suddenly changed from a dime to a quarter.

@daniluchison

4 жыл бұрын

Brad the Pitts A whopping 150% cost increase! When inflation was probably 1% per year...

@BradThePitts

4 жыл бұрын

I also remember the time when you need to change to make a COLLECT call. You used to be able to just dial 0. That of course changed with the 1-800-COLLECT with that comedian Carrot Top doing the television commercial. "Just dial down the center!" Of course on a touch-tone phone you weren't exactly dialing...

@TheTonialadd

3 жыл бұрын

@@BradThePitts you have a call from…”mom pick me up at the pool!” Click! Did a few of those. Lol!

“You’re flipped” lol what?

@svetcovladich9996

4 жыл бұрын

I think the expression was "You've flipped," as in "You have flipped out," or now we say "You've lost it.. or You've lost your mind."

@rikustorm13

4 жыл бұрын

Svetco Vladich Oh, I see

@vaultkreeper2635

4 жыл бұрын

In the 50's that meant "You got it twisted" or "You got me all kinds of fv#%'d up!" Lmao!

@bestofreddittoday9904

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@Tommyboy80s

4 жыл бұрын

Don't go ape😁😁

I was born in 1971 and remember lying on my bed talking for hours on the phone with girls for when I was a teenager. I remember when I got my own crib one of the first things I bought was a telephone. I remember my first pager (a Motorola)and then my first rudimentary cellular phone. (A. Nokia) then I got a Motorola flip phone that was so sophisticated. I remember the first cellular phone i had that had internet access but barely could display anything. I remember my first touch screen phone that was an HTC Evo. THAT'S right about the point where cellular telephones started costing more than a decent laptop computer. Now we have literally every bit of information we could want right at our fingertips. What an interesting sickening world we live in

I remember watching a video a few years back about the evolution of the phone, from switchboard operators to those party lines to everyone getting their own private number. Absolutely fascinating.. Another great video, David.. Thank you so much for sharing❣️

Your videos, as always, continue to provide an extraordinary window into times and cultures now since past. Thank so much for this channel and all its content.

Great film ! In the UK most working class people didn't have a phone in the house until the mid 70's ,and we would get half the street knocking , asking to "borrow" the phone. I like the woman's photos , the comb in the Bobby Sox included ! It's great to hear the teens talking for real , not staged and stilted like in the teen exploitation movies of the time like Hot Rod Gang etc.

@steffenkawa8374

4 жыл бұрын

In Germany My grandpa bought the first TV in our house in the 80s. In the 50s when he moved to our village there were only 2 cars. Today we have around 2000 Cars.

@shaunw9270

4 жыл бұрын

@@steffenkawa8374 Sorry did you mean 60's, buying the TV? I think Dad bought our first Colour TV in the mid 70's just after we got a phone. It's funny ,I remember in '83 I told some friends at school ,we had just got a VHS video recorder and later they came just to look AT it ,as we had no films to watch ! 😁

I love taking my phone and calling people. When you're speaking to someone on the phone it's more genuine. There's less room for bs and "reading between the lines". I'm 23, not sure if anyone else around my age feels this way? Seems like most prefer texting. Cheers

@BobbyKeane

4 жыл бұрын

There is an episode of This American Life from the late 90s called "Telephone". You might enjoy the listen. It takes place when people did still talk on the phone and you might find it interesting how curious we sounded listening back to it now. www.thisamericanlife.org/90/telephone

@TaxEvasionUS

4 жыл бұрын

I am 16 and have really bad social anxiety so I prefer texting for that reason...

@EagleLogic

4 жыл бұрын

@@TaxEvasionUS I had very bad social anxiety in middle school and high school. I absolutely hate to say it, but the only way you can improve your social skills is to practice. And chatting on the phone is a great place to start because although it's more genuine than texting, it still isn't face-to-face so it would probably be less stressful for you.

@wowpow2263

4 жыл бұрын

While talking to someone is nicer, its kinda inconvenient a lot of the time. Texting is just fast and easy but it does get boring

Who remembers the "Party Line"?

@jaklumen

4 жыл бұрын

I do! I was on one in the very late '70s, living in a farming community town. It was an economic boom time for DOE-Hanford, and I was in a house that was constructed cheaply for the influx of workers, including my father. I can remember that we shared a line with a next door neighbor.

@karenrn6173

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaklumen I do first phone black rotary with party lines. Operators would ask number to connect to late 50s/early 60s. After my parents had a house built in 1960s, got a wall phone that was in the house until it was sold 2018.

@jackandpiper

4 жыл бұрын

We had a party line when I was young and into my teens...six households shared one line! Our ring was one long ring and two short, when it rang everyone would holler “phone”! If you were on it, there was very little privacy, I had five siblings hanging over me wanting to know who I was talking to...or about, never mind there was always someone listening in from another house!

@lindapendleton9176

4 жыл бұрын

Good old Claremont 3-3887 or 4229J2 ( party line)!

In the 80's it was a big deal to have your own phone line in your room. I guess parents didn't want the phone tied up. That of course was before call waiting.

I think the culture of 1995 had more in common with 1955 (forty years earlier) than 1995 will have in common with 2035 (forty years later) because of the exponential growth of technology during the latter. I'm a 90s teen and there wasn't that much difference, except for answering machines and pagers.

@fauldurand

4 жыл бұрын

Do you find now having grown up as a teen in the 90s that you have become addicted or dependent on needing a smart device for satisfactory stimulation as apposed to enjoying someone's company or conversation over the phone? Has the 90s carried over for you in terms of how life was lived and enjoyed or do you find that the current times and social practices have super seeded our 90s teen self? Thanks! Faul

@lindsay3793

4 жыл бұрын

​@@fauldurand Your comment makes me aware of more differences than I originally recognized between 50s vs 90s. In the 90s both parents had to work, therefore I was a latchkey kid and very isolated. Very much like today's youth, my stimulation came from Nintendo, Nickelodeon, and consumerism. So, yes, I'm guilty of dependency on screens and socially stunted, just like most millenials. Geographic and socioeconomic factors played into this, as well I'm sure (urban = less trust of others, therefore more isolated) and not much money for extracurricular activities / transport.

@batman5224

4 жыл бұрын

Stop reminding me that I’ll be forty in 2035.

@fauldurand

4 жыл бұрын

@@batman5224 don't think about age as set back think about it as a way to live, learn and love. Be free from the idea that being old is unpopular

@benjaminsnowden8626

4 жыл бұрын

@@batman5224 Same Here

Our telephone used to be on the kitchen wall also, Phone numbers were written all over the wall around the phone. If you needed to write down their number it was jotted down the wall with their name, after a while you knew right where to locate their name on the wall sometimes you had to search to locate it like a collage of phone numbers. My mom was fine with it she’s the one that started it. If our mom was searching for us if we were at a friend all you had to do was go to the wall and she’d have our friends phone number. Also I remember most phone conversations were short and usually about where and when we were going to meet to do something.

David, absolutely fascinating! I too wish you had more of these interviews. These are the children of what Tom Brocraw called, The Greatest Generation”. I was one of those kids. I still remember our phone number back then in the fifties. It was simply, 203. That number actually designated that we were the two hundred and third family to sign up for phone service. In our small town of 450 I guess that put us squarely in the middle class. As you stated, the phone was located in the kitchen, mounted on the wall. At that time we had what was called a “party line”. There were four or five families in that particular exchange on the switch board so when someone called us the phone rang in every home on the party line. Proper decorum designated that once the proper person was identified the others on the line would hang up. In reality that seldom happened which created a fairly productive gossip mill. When something of importance was being discussed it wasn’t unusual for someone listening in to offer an opinion. Regardless the communication was a boon to the town. It was a few years later that the lines went private and teenagers became obsessed with phone communication. As a boy I wasn’t inclined to spend hours on the phone as my sister did. There was also a beep signal that designated an incoming call if you were talking to someone. In that instance you were supposed to hang up in order to accept the incoming call. If I wanted true privacy I never used the home phone but went uptown to use the Phone booth on the town square. For a dime you had 30 minutes of call time. At the end of the time you had to insert another dime or the operator would cut you off.

“I can’t guarantee my presence in your future” I gasped

Thanks, David. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and the phone was it for us too.

My Dad was a teenager in the 50's and he loved to call up and talk to me on the phone, sometimes multiple times a day, just to chat or say hi. I always loved that about him, but watching this video is like a breath of fresh air, and helps me see that habit of his in a new way.

i find David truly remarkable. he reminds me so much of my father. so unbelievably smart and incredibly passionate about what he does. these videos are a joy to watch.

This was great.. so funny to see peeps using "new" technology!

@fedjadjadja

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine what Will people say 40 years from now about the millenials 😆

@Christopher-pe6zj

4 жыл бұрын

@@fedjadjadja how about any of the generations and their stupidity? Lol

@fedjadjadja

4 жыл бұрын

@@Christopher-pe6zj each one has a different type of stupid imo

@Christopher-pe6zj

4 жыл бұрын

@@fedjadjadja exactly.. Keeps things interesting for us all! :)

It seems history repeats itself. I too, like many of the others, can remember the landline telephone being king of common communication. I was lucky to get a small taste of computer modems from one of Dad's co-workers, in the early to mid 1980s. I guess the biggest shift for me was indeed seeing cell phones move from a luxury item to just about everyone having one, and it didn't help that my wife and I started out quite poor. Until the government extended subsidies to cell phones, I repeatedly ran into people that couldn't understand why we didn't have one. Even when we got one through said subsidies, we either had to tell people ONLY to call our cell in emergencies, or, we just didn't give out the number. In the past ten years, we found that if we gave out a cell phone number, everyone we knew would call that number FIRST. With crummy reception and 250 minutes a month that was only expanded recently to 350, people still defaulted to "everyone has a cell phone, everyone has a calling plan with unlimited minutes" and they seemed slow to understand "hey, we have limited minutes, and they'll run out... call the landline phone".

I was a lucky kid, in 1974-5 l worked hard on my Dad's fishing boat, 12 years old l was able to afford my on phone. For a 12 yr old it was glorious.

@David Hoffman - Many years ago I found your channel by hitting on the great clog-dance video. Since then I have been served with so many dear memories. Even though I am from Western Europe (the Netherlands), the American social fabric and styles were very relatable. Now 67 I am also pleased to see how you present these older videos. Not 'just' posting them as they are (which is already a good thing), but embracing them with your present day commentary. Precious little gifts. Thank you.

I really love your channel. Thank you for being one of the coolest “old dudes” on the internet and for preserving history with your films.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

These types of phone conversations still exist in the form of facetiming between friends and/or potential girlfriend/boyfriends. I feel like not alot has changed other than the tools we use to do the same thing. Same way everyone in public places is on their phones now instead of with a newspaper. That's just my take on it. I could be wrong. Sure the whole "drink any sodas lately" thing sounds silly to us nowadays but it's a reflection of the culture at the time. People still have the same kind of "nonsense" conversations during idle chit chat.

Never thought I’d be so excited about watching teenagers on their phones.

3:18 “Been drinking many sodas lately?...” So hey... do u want to go steady still?

Nice to see you David. I hope you and yours are safe and well In these terrible times.

Thanks David , great to remind me how innocent we were , I remember I had to go to pay phone station to call a girl I liked 25 years ago , I knew the operator was listening , then I had to put in another .25 , where we were our telephone lines were shared by 5 other partys after that . Thanks for the memories

Great seeing film of teens hanging out in malt shops in this video! I remember 'old school' malt shops still in existence in Price and Brigham City, Utah in the mid to late 1970s! There were probably scattered malt shops throughout the nation even then.

Man how I wish I could’ve just experienced the past first hand; I’m 17 years old right now in the year 2020; turning 18 in December. I’m obsessed with the past, and just wish I had friends like that back then that wouldn’t stab me in the back. People just seemed so much nicer back then, and with way more proper language pronunciation. Ugh

@medusagorgo5146

3 жыл бұрын

My friend, people backstabbed you then as well. It’s fine that you like things from the past but please don’t look at those things with rose colored glasses. Things were not always great. Trust me on that. You are only seeing the good stuff and not the sucky underbelly of society.

@sandraolson1022

2 жыл бұрын

@@medusagorgo5146 so very true!

I can imagine when phones first came out. That must have been unreal! Very exciting. New subscriber. Very happy to have found this channel. It's opened up some things for me. Now I'm looking at Nina Leen prints.

My mother-in-law still had rotary phones in her house in the 1990's. I sort of miss them!

Your videos are always a delight David, thanks so much for your charm and humour. Great content too

I’m 16 years old, so I grew up mostly in the 2010’s. It’s so fascinating to see how similar the adult reaction to teens on phones back then was to today’s adults reacting to my generation being on smartphones and tablets! I guess it just shows how the cycle repeats until the end of time, haha. I wonder how my generation will react to the new technologies of our children when we’re adults. (Probably the same way.) Thanks so much for sharing this!

I hope your videos/films with your commentary make it into the library of congress. These are VITAL to understanding our roots as a country and society.

OMG the party line. I don't mean where you call to find a rave. You shared the line with others in the neighborhood. I remember my father needing to make a call. This woman was on that yacked forever. Finally he blew his top and started yelling at her to get off the line.

I am 23 years old and it is an honor to be able to see things from the past. Awesome videos sir!

Isn't it interesting how the phone once bought us closer now it's pulling us farther apart?

Great video, thanks! It's like the girl at the end was posing without knowing perhaps. GREAT shots!!! I always imagined the earlier generation thinking about the telephone the same way we thought of cell fone when they 1st. came out. Impersonal maybe? Or self-important? We had a 2-party line in the '60s. For you younger folks, it's a shared line w/the neighbor!

Local calls were cheap, long-distance calls cost one to several dollars per minute. It would stay that way until modems became popular in the eighties.

@VictrolaJazz

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In the 1970's, when I lived in my second apartment from 1975 to 1980, you could still get a party line, but the cost was $3.00 a month--sometimes I had to wait when I wanted to make a call, though. I had someone break into my call one time saying they had an emergency, but I knew they didn't and they just hung up.

Lovely clips! Still have my pink princess phone and a landline. Phones were such an important way to connect with friends, still are.

I am 42 and when I see these films I can compare how the computer influenced my generation. The pros & cons of any advance in technology. We live in an amazing world, thank you!

Remember my Grand dads phone. Weighed what seemed to be 20 lbs as I recall. The clicks of a rotary is a sound never forgotten.

Im unsure why, but those times seemed simpler. I know they had other struggles. With much gratitude & appreciation Thank You, Mr. Hoffman Stay healthy & Safe HEALTH IS WEALTH ❤

Nina Leen is amazing. I have a mid-century fashion Facebook group and feature many of her wonderful photos. As for phones, I have an early '60s pink rotary dial in my bedroom and love it.

David, you're a very Interesting man and I orgianlly started watching u because of your connection with Maine, which is where I've grown up and am raising my two sons. U also have a vast range of other interesting subjects. Thanks

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I remember my years in Maine very well, and very fondly. David Hoffman-filmmaker

"Have you been drinking many sodas lately? What? WHAT?!" Brilliant conversationalist 😂

Many wonderful memories! Long, lingering calls lasting into the night, almost falling asleep, not wanting to hang up. Long distance calls, expensive and a real declaration of affection. Waiting and waiting for a promised call...and finally getting it with a sincere apology for the delay. And best of all...hearing great news that my brother was alive!

I used to love to just lay the receiver down beside the phone during a talk to a friend. Then.....they would have to physically come over to tell me to hang up the phone. Because back in the 80s....both parties had to hang up to "break the connection". Doing what I did made it impossible for my friend to use their phone. Ha ha

My grandfather had a private line put in our family home back in about 1934. To this day a cousin of mine lives there. Still with the same phone number. Numbers not letters as then. But yes when my mother was young back way before the 1950's teenagers had phones to take to there friends. Bell phone was founded in 1877. So shortly after that people started having phones in their homes. I would bet teenagers tuck advantage.

David, I really enjoy watching your historical content in pictures and sometimes videos. Keep up the good work. I am a Genealogist and history buff anyway, and your collections are very rich...Love it! David keep sharing, and keep up the good work. It is much appreciated.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

And now im watching you on my phone 60 years later in my room

Eddie Haskell vibes lol

I absolutely love these! Thank you.

This was very interesting. Did you talk on the phone a lot, Mr. Hoffman? That last bit about how the girl would move around so much, and then the photographer saying it was unbelievable, was quite funny.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

4 жыл бұрын

No. I mostly saw my friends in the street outside of our home in Levittown Long Island. The new suburbia. David Hoffman-filmmaker

@huyked

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Thank you.

We had a first wall phone in 1992! Unbelievable looking at it now. I felt strange talking on the phone like that girl on the video. Another fascinating thing is that 8 years later I got myself my first mobile phone.

Absolutely love this channel! 😀

When my grandparrents first got married in the LATE 1960s they moved to a small unincorporated community that still used the wooden box phones with the separate ear and moth pieces with a crank on the side. Goes to show that there can be a very long transition period from one technology to another.

(Late 1980s) As a teen, I remember switching bedrooms around. The family did that sometimes. One day I realized the was a phone jack in my room! I snuck in a cordless phone. (My penny pincher family did not have plans to ever buy one). One day I had the phone in my pocket while visiting family across the street in their upstairs apartment and the phone in my pocket rang. I answered. ...and so did my mother. Where are you? What phone are you on? Where did you get a phone? LOL I think I was maybe fourteen fifteen. He he he heeee....

LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!! Thanks David for the great content! Subscribed!

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3 жыл бұрын

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I really love your videos, I feel these videos are really hard to get by.

In the 80's we didn't have a phone. Most people I knew didn't because they couldn't afford it. So, even then, it was exciting when I got to use one. In the 90's I spent most of my time on a pay phone, with my GF. That's when beepers were popular.

When I was around 4 years old I began to memorize phone numbers. I used to call my mom at her Bridge game to tell her to come home and tuck me in. Later in life I made a living talking on the phone working for a few Nurses Registries. My early life with the phone paid off literally.

Love it!! Thank you so much David! I really enjoy these kind of videos. 😊😁

You should do a follow up and recreate this with some teens of today. This was great.

I was a teenager in the 80s every time the phone rang my mother or father would answer with strong italian accents enough to scare any future boyfriend away. Not to mention anytime a boy did call for either myself or my sister the interrogation would begin, "hoo wassa dat boy watta that boy wanta wich u" but i wouldn't change a thing. These days kid's are doing God knows what on every social media and dating site, parents havent a clue, just hope and pray they dont come across some looney.

"Have you been drinknig many soda's lately?" Man's got no rizz. NONE.

There is still nothing like slamming down the receiver on a Western Electic desk phone after an upsetting conversation. The last time I recall doing it was when there was a computer on the other end that wasn't acting right just a few years ago. And I drink sodas all the time hehe.

I grew up in the 60s. On Staten Island. The Phone Numbers started off with Letters. I’m not sure if anyone remembers that?

I want to tell you something funny about phones. My father worked with analog phones and knew their larger phone centrals and so on. Not the really old timer type phones, but the 80s kinda. During the 90s there was something called IP telephones that came into being. Which was early online type phones that would save on cost. The funny thing is that one of my fathers biggest clients for a while were IP selling phone companies that used analog phones only to sell their IP phone products. So they were basically using their "competitions tech" to sell their new "better" stuff. LoL, yeah, it wasnt really stable back in those early days of IP telephone. It was real cloak and dagger. He had to go in via the back door rather than the reception, "hide" hes company car to avoid people seeing a "analog" repair service car outside a IP phone selling company. It was pretty silly, but he indicated to them that he had a big mouth so they payed him a little extra to keep it closed. :D - - Today however analog is pretty much dead in my nation (Norway). All copper wiring, except in private houses of course, is being removed as we speak (which includes removing online ADSL tech) to be replaced with fiber. Most houses will get hybrid (fiber -> copper (limits max data upload speed)) while others will get full fiber. IP dedicated phones are also a very very small segment since its mostly just a few types of companies that use them. In house phones has fallen by 66% since the 2000. Hardly anyone has them anymore because they are replaced by living room GSM (mobile phones) types instead or strait up regular personal mobile phones and once the switch is complete. All analog phones across the nation will go silent.

The Big Bopper's Chantilly Lace (1958), the phone and rock and roll pure Americana!

This reminds me of the telephone scene in Bye, Bye Birdie, which is so much fun and one of my favorites from a musical. Thanks for sharing!

This channel is a time machine, amazing

Same convo today Guy: been drinking any sodas lately? Girl: 😡 you calling me fat!?

Even in the early 90´s, telephones (landlines) were pretty important. It was the fastest way of getting in touch and the better. Not to mention the 60´s, 70´s and 80´s in my case...

That will never change, even the 70's the girls were on the phones, couldn't even make a call without yelling for parents help

… and parents had rules on usage of the telephone.

I love these films you've captured the era extremely well.

I can’t guarantee my presence in the future either.

Interesting! I was born in 60’ and the phone definitely gave us a sense of independence. In 72’ my sister who was born in 51’ got a phone in her bedroom! That was moving up in the world. She moved out shortly after and of course the phone did too. I was 12, and figured out a few years later I could plug a phone into the jack port. LOL! I thought I was so smart!

Wow this is fascinating! Thank you for sharing.

Man I grew up with a phone on the wall in the kitchen.that was before everything went wrong in the world. There were no smart phones and some guys or girls would stay home by the phone instead of going out with friends just to hear from someone special.kids today will never understand how that feels.and I'm sorry for them.