Vault: Working at WABC-TV Eyewitness News on Christmas 1981

Forty years ago this Christmas, Eyewitness News reporter Maxene Black drew the best assignment of the day. She didn't have to venture out in the cold. In fact, she barely had to leave her desk.

On Dec. 25, 1981, she covered her own co-workers at Eyewitness News as they put out New York's top newscast on the one day of the year nobody likes to work, except for at least one legendary producer Maxene interviews. This piece is an enjoyable flashback to the days of rotary phones, typewriters and teletype machines, to a time when "working from home" was a technological impossibility.

[mariaalexander]

1981... When a kiss & hug between coworkers was considered JUST a kiss & a hug!🤗❤

[samuelgriffin]

Mark Haines and Maxene Black the good old days of New York news

[mrmikeceo]

Life was so simple and better in 1981 😢

[-gs]

Before social media, cellphones, and the madness that encompasses our world today. People just respected one another on a broader scale back then.

[samuelgriffin]

Being 13 years old in 1981 remembering this

[nedwart]

0:26 Alan Weiss, better known as the man who broke the John Lennon murder story

[PEPSIMAX]

share this GEM !!!! ma gosh flashback more more !! that was spectacular .. random, eyes watered for the "real people" from before 2005

[samushunter]

Half of the things in this classic clip would be illegal today in the workplace lol

[mariaalexander]

Ahhh...1981. Ataris, Cabbage Patch, Name That Tune.😪

[vcastik]

And all that shrinking to just Android, iPhone, and training how to publish faster!

[Maysworldforever]

Bittersweet 😕 that some of these hard working folks🎄, would have passed to the beyond thank god for archives so people can see how life was before all the new Technology .💕