"X-Tra Drive," shot in 1987. Watch the video.

Some of you might remember flipping around local TV stations, only to find yourself stopping on Chippewa Valley Community Television because you saw some mesmerizing video –  a POV driving tour around Eau Claire's city streets and nearby country roads. It looked like someone in the 1980s had simply slapped a video recorder onto their dashboard, hit record, and started driving around. Because someone had (more or less). You could see the hood of the car and hear the radio playing whatever happened to be on at the time. The videos – there were many – were oddly addicting, not only because you got to see local streets, buildings, and landmarks the way they looked decades ago, but also because the lazy, meandering trip around town was just kind of calming.

"This was recorded with a 6 pound camera with a 22 pound home VCR running on a 110 volt AC gasoline generator in the trunk with proper ventilation."

Well, now those videos have been given new life – on Facebook. The page  Our Old Town Eau Claire started last February and it's been posting these videos, shot by Roy Hoff Sr., for a while now. You'll see scenery of yore from all over Eau Claire (like the downtown area or Water Street) and its surrounding towns, and even some video shot on foot in places like the old train depot in Menomonie.

To give you an idea of how the driving videos were made, Hoff says, "This was recorded with a 6 pound camera with a 22 pound home VCR running on [a] 110 volt AC gasoline generator in the trunk with proper ventilation."

Quite the set up for what most people's telephones can do in 2014. Hoff says he made the videos for CTV prior to 1991, and that he just wanted to "save the world as I saw it, and If I had children, I could pass my world that I saw on to them." Now, as he did then, Hoff is offering the 30-year-old videos simply to share the memories they invoke.