Born in 1957. Childhood in the '60's, teen years and college in the '70's. I'd go back in a heartbeat. I feel sorry for today's kids. They'll never know what they missed out on.
I too was born in '57. I remember walking to my elementary school just over half a mile away in the winter, sliding/skating my lunchbox on the ice along the way. Opened my thermos at lunchtime and found broken glass when I poured out some milk. Well, 7yo me took a minute or two to figure out why and how that happened!
Same here. I was born in 58 on a small farm in Ireland. A childhood of imagination. Never inside. We created our own wonder world out in the fields and bogs. Chasing trout in small streams and rivers. The never ending summers of the seventies. The sounds of the farmyard. Mass on a Sunday. Discos on the weekend. It wasn’t all fun you had to do your chores but what a great time to have grown up. I feel blessed to have experienced it.
Parachute pants were the rage in the late 1970 and early 1980s also the ones made from ripstop nylon fabrics in weird kinda bright or flourescent shimmery colors that had a ton of pockets that all zipped up with tiny thin zippers @@nhmooytis7058
I totally agree, I was born in "63" also, I actually found a couple of 70's radio stations apps that I listen to at work from time to time when I get sick of my music or the radio station I usually listen to, I actually switched over to that today! I even have a 50's and 60's station!🍻
the 70s were the best you could put a floor fan in front of the front door and have just the screen door closed and enjoy the night air camped out in the living room! today you do that addicts and thieves have like a spider sense and before you know it you have a gun in your face or someone trying to rape you, my son just bought himself a shotgun because his neighbor was shot twice and the only thing taken was his cell phone, figure someone though he either had pics or video of drug deals taking place in the area, the 70s were safer than kids today could imagine there was only one school shooting and that took place after the atheist O'hairs got prayer removed from schools resulting in the Sodom and Gomorrah Godless schools we have today! although that time frame wasn't perfect you could go to a Kiss concert without drug dealers pushing drugs on people they weren't welcome people were there for the gang bags and free love, and people had the intelligence to know if i do drugs i dont get to enjoy anything, even today people dont care to be around some idiot who's so stoned they would eat dog shit if you told them it was candy! i knew a man in the 70s he got the unintelligent idea to hag glide off his roof! i told him not to first it wasn't high enough2nd all that you have on a roof top is down currents that would pull a kite out of the sky, his name was Tracy had a wife and daughter who had a big crush on me and she was about 11 at the time, anyways he tried to fly, he ended up in a coma for a while when he came out of the coma he wasn't the same he was slow not quite simple minded because he did have hi memory, his wife at the time was Calus and self-centered and left him, last time i saw his daughter she was beautiful and she was in the army today hard telling where she is because that was back when Regan was in office trying to straighten out carters mess,
It was a pretty special time. I loved playing outside. Hide and seek, tag, duck duck goose. My father was in the military so I always had plenty of kids to play with outside. And Halloween was an absolute blast!
You’re a smart guy/girl because the 70’s were awesome. The music, movies, school, social scene, technology (or lack of/primitive), etc. I would go back in a second. The 80’s were also great…
@@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes My Dad was a mechanic, our cars lasted to over 300k miles. They don't make them like that anymore, such a shame. Our dryer, fridge were both from 1964. Had them both till my mom passed in 2004. Things just aren't made to last anymore. My Dad fixed both once.
Yes it was a really fun time to be a kid back then, I would never give up those memories for anything. And we'll probably never see that kind of society ever again. I miss those days now more than ever before.
I was born then. Much better era and just a small thing to mention there was usually only one car in the family (or none) so roads quieter! Why teenagers need them I really can’t understand. They should walk or get public transport.
I so miss my childhood of the 70's.😞💔 People genuinely connected with each other. You went and visited their house, went to the library and took out books, wrote letters, listened to music on your transistor radio, and for $5, four people could go to the movies and get popcorn and snacks. You played outside till it was getting near dark, and hung out with your friends on the stoop..played double-dutch, needed a "key" for your roller skates, watched Saturday morning cartoons..I could go on and on.😥 I know a lot went on behind the scenes that we as children were oblivious to. The world is never perfect. But your childhood (barring unfortunate circumstances 😞) "always" feels so "light" and simple.. and authentic.. and I just wish I could go back there.😞 I just turned 59 and I hate these times. The world feels so "heavy", and the internet is both a blessing and a curse. I'd gladly give it up to go back to my childhood world again.🥺😓💔
I totally get you! I feel exactly the same. I turned 60 in November. This Christmas was one of reflection. My kids are all gone and live far enough away that together activities are rare, so we were mostly by ourselves this year. Phone calls to my father and siblings were filled with the excitement of my baby sister FINALLY finding her biological family! Hearing her read through the adoption papers and social worker's report from 1969 really took me reeling through time ... Christmases past, school, various homes we lived in, how simple our lives were ... I'm glad I had it. I was able to give a little of that to my own children , but I ache for my grandchildren and how live for them is, and will be. I'd go back in a minute.
I couldn't have said it better myself! We didn't even know how good it was, did we? We played OUTSIDE AT NIGHT of all things! We had a blast. What a great time to grow up. I miss it, too.
@@nancy9704 We took a lot for granted. Then again maybe it's because we expected the world to be that way and didn't put with anything less. In other words it was that way because we made it that way.
I was born in 1960, so I was a typical 70s teen. I cherish the fond memories of that era. It wasn't perfect, but it was much, much different times than the sad times we're living in today.
Some of my favorite memories of the 70's not covered in other comments: 1. Riding in the back of the station wagon. Some even had the flip up seat that faced the back. 2. Covering school text books with grocery bags and decorating them. 3. Three ring binders with Led Zeppelin and Kiss emblems drawn on them. 4. Eating as a family. 5. Telephone party lines. 6. Absolute best decade of music.
@scottmorton2927 I tried the grocery bag thing once...it was ok...we could buy covers at our bookstore that had our school letter, "C" and the mascot, a Polar Bear. But that stuff was in the 60s high school. I think we still had a 2 family party line in the late 60s...and then there was the "beep line."
@@jq8974 Our car (A 4 door Falcon, with a full bench seat in the back and front) had a back dashboard between the top of the seat and the back windshield. We made a 5 hour drive to see the grandparents, nearly every weekend, leaving at night, after Dad got off of work. We would arrive at grandma's house around Mid Night. So, older brother slept stretched out on the back seat, and I -- much younger -- slept on the back dash, right against the windshield. I love it, because I would fall asleep looking up at the night sky. That was the late 60's. I got to be a teenager in the 70's and it was great.
Now it's ugly SUVs, for the same money you could buy a sweet cool old station wagon again. There's still a bunch of them out there for sale mint or restore one from dry western state's.
I graduated high school in '72...I hitch-hiked all over the USA and Canada for a few years. Stop and work somewhere until I got enough money to last a few months and hit the road again. Go to where the weather suited my clothes. Best years of my life.
@@flyingtoaster1427 I'm 58 I think I know, the record store I was in the amount of vinyl they had would take me all day to count how many they have. Yes I get it a hobby shop has little bit of nostalgia and other things it's not a music store, that's probably one of the people that go in a store and see records and think they're calendars lol
I still remember the distinct smell of the milk from the thermos in that lunch box😂. I also remember the looks my mother gave me after “ forgetting” to empty out aforementioned lunchbox and thermos🤢
I remember being able to ride my horse anywhere - often with a group of other riders- no one even thought of suing anyone. Riding in the bed of pick up trucks , hitchhiking - all sorts of freedom. There wasn’t an army of bureaucrats and experts to evaluate , diagnose, and medicate everyone . Also - working was important.
It also didn't help that a lot of devious, evil people showed up around this time, which played a huge part in ruining those innocent times ...ie/eg... Son of Sam, Zodiac, BTK, Gacy, Gaines, Bundy, Dahmer, Ottis Toole & Henry Lee Lucas, etc... :'( :'( :'(
People don’t sue in New Zealand except for slander. Medical issues are covered by ACC, and pay you a percentage of your wage while you recover from say, a broken leg while playing sport on the weekend. This is covered by taxes. Health is mostly free but you still can have private health insurance if you want to pay for it. Otherwise you go onto a list until it’s your turn.
@@tsunamis82 that can work when you have borders and a few million people . The USA has millions of dependents pouring over the borders non- stop on top of the 300+ million . Totally different story.
As as 70's kid I personally know every one of these experiences. The time moves by fast and faster now...what I experience with young people now is a resurgence of respect for the older and experienced people my age. I'm talking about young adults 19-23 yrs old, they seem to enjoy my tales and relate, perhaps because I'm their parents age. I also experience this same remanences for my parents generation...I think every kid looks back on what it was like for their parents (or grandparents) and imagines what it was like, I know I do. They could never experience it but from videos and photos like this they can and I can get a glimpse of what it felt like to be a kid in their parents generation.
I think the biggest WTF kids today can’t understand is just walking to knock a friends door to see if they were in, and just meeting somewhere you’d arranged to earlier.
I think the 70s were the greatest years for music. A Lotta great bands came out in the late 60s and early 70s that’s what inspired me to be a guitar player. Especially with the Beatles the eagles Creedence Clearwater Revival and a few others really inspired me to play guitar like I say it brings back old memories. Those were for sure of the good old days. I sure miss them.
@ozzymandius666 - See, that’s the awesome point of music during that time period- something hit everyone’s soul. Today- I can’t really think of anyone…sigh.
When you hear Jimmy Buffet sing "I blew out my flip flops, stepped on a pop top..." he was talking about the pull tabs on soda or beer cans. I'll bet a lot of younger folk never made that connection. I'm loving these videos! And for the record, I was born in 1955.
I was born in 1960 and watching the 70's videos brings back memories both good and bad,mostly good. Wonderful music to listen on my tape deck,do all of you remember the Columbia record and tape club? Remember going out trick or treating with my friends and no parents anywhere except for the little tykes. Great tv shows also !
Crazy how today's generation is so addicted to their cell phone. In my line of work, I've seen teenagers have complete meltdowns, anxiety attacks, panic attacks, etc...all because they misplaced that little electronic device. More addicting than anything we had in the 1970's for sure!!
Imagine when all those cell phones get turned off and shut down. Be a great day for me, but pure Hell for all the kids today. In the 70's NOTHING controlled us 100 percent like that garbage does to this dumb down generation.
@@standtallvets5386 I agree, today's youth cannot function without social media and the cell phone. I hope at least some realize in a SHTF situation that basic survival skills will be needed.
Graduating H.S. in 1979, my class and I were perfectly positioned to enjoy the best of the 70s, and young enough to be oblivious of the turmoil of the 60s. The 1970s are a decade I think about often; and I miss, miss, miss, miss that wonderful, enchanted time! Schooldays - you could smell homemade food being made in the school kitchen, wafting down the halls and under the doors of your classroom. Homemade humongous rolls; warm, with slices of turkey and fresh gravy, “lunch lady” brownies or cinnamon rolls; homemade everything! Absolutely no processed/packaged foods. Empty roads. With only 3.5 billion people in the world (compared to 8 billion today,) the world felt clearer, safer, with endless opportunities and possibilities… People we’re much nicer; we all understood that, and took care of one another. If something happened in the neighborhood the entire neighborhood stopped and helped. It was an amazing, marvelous time. Take me back there!
Our lunch ladies used to bake small loafs of bread to sell for a dime after school. My mom always gave me a dime to buy her a loaf, which rarely made it home.
A few things this reminded me of: Thermos bottles had glass liners. I was always falling and breaking those, always getting my watch wet so my dad had to take the back off and dry it...even wearing a watch, or reading analogue clocks. Ash trays central on everyone's coffee tables, wanting glasses because Elton John had them, happy face logos everywhere, wearing wool sweaters, cable bindings on skis, galvanized steel garbage cans that my brother and I lugged out every week - a kid on each handle, crystal radios, transistor radios under the pillow, ticking alarm clocks, watching the Spiderman and Rocky & Bullwinkle, JP Patches in the mornings, Osmonds and Jacksons on Saturday mornings, Speed Racer and Gilligan's Island after school. Macrame wall hangings, shag carpet (even around the toilets which were sometimes mauve, harvest gold, green). the sound of coffee perkers, fondue on special occasions, jellied salads, popcorn ceilings, single pane windows.....I could go on.
I was 13 by 1980 so…I remember all of the things discussed here in this clip pretty vividly. I also remember Macrame hanging in every kid’s’ house I’d visit after school. It was everywhere back then! I can remember hanging with my friend up in his older brother’s room and listening to Foreigner Double Vision over and over. We thought it was just coolest and best thing going! We’d steal pot too from the stash that was in the top drawer!
Well the most important thing about being a kid then NOT mentioned in the video was our freedom. We went where we wanted, walked, rode bikes anywhere with NO adults. They had no idea where we were. As long as we came home in time for dinner, no problems.
The top drawer weed stash! So funny!! I didn't realize my brother was doing the same thing until my dad finally called a little meeting. I think I was about 14. Thanks for sharing! Haven't thought about that in a long time. 🤗
I was a little girl during the 70's, and I would go back to that decade in a heartbeat if I could, just to relive the good times and get out of THIS crapfest of a decade! Oh, if only time travel was possible!
Funny how it was the fast & loose Disco Era yet still innocent in its way. 60's ideals were put into law & after all the skirmishes folks just wanted to have fun.
I would gladly join you. Let me know when you get that time machine working. Oh, and I will need a dip in the fountain of youth to wash all this grand pa off.
im 70 in December and i always say to friends around my age ide love to go back in a time machine to the 60ts and 70ts and stay there i don't like this modern society
Most of my childhood was in the 70s with a smidge in the late 60s and early to mid 80s. It was a realatively good time. I feel sorry for kids now and all the crap that's thrown at them, and all the cool stuff we had that they will never know..
Oo, I'm the same. I was a teenager in the 70's and I wouldn't trade it for anything! I would go back to the 70's and enjoy the time. I miss those days.
Also, we would gather all our household glass coke bottles, took them to the local small grocer and sold each of them for 10 cents. Some of the bottles were bigger and they traded for 25 cents. Also the 70s had a lot of ice cream trucks that played music and kids would rush to find that 10 cents under the couch cushions or in a junk drawer. One last memory was the beaches in the 70s. In our city they always smelled like two things combined. That was cotton candy and Coppertone tanning oil:)
I remember in the 60s you got 2cents for the small bottle and 5cents for the large one. Some stores left them out behind the store and we would get them and take them to a different store that had pinball machines and play them all day. I don’t remember but it was 3 games for a nickel or 1 game for a nickel. You would put your money on the machine for the next play.
I was born in 81 and a lot of these things sound like my childhood. I also like a lot of old music my parents listened to. Very grateful to grow up when I did!
I was born in 1992, but I enjoy videos like this. I just like to see what things are unique to each decade. Push buttons for the phone were introduced then. Modern computing and video games began in the decade. Color TV began to be the norm in the 1970s.
The 70s of childhood in the USSR were different from what is shown here. The TV was watched by 2 or 3 black-and-white TV channels. There were more channels in Moscow. We didn't bring breakfast to school. There was a buffet or canteen where lunch cost 1.5 dollars for a week (6 days of training). Lunch had soup and a second course with meat, unlimited bread and tea. There were tape recorders, but reel-to-reel ones. Cassette tapes are exotic. Not everyone had home phones. We listened to the radio, walked and read a lot. We liked to watch TV, they didn't eat cereal. Almost all TVs were tube ones. There were records, but the electrophones were quite primitive, sometimes tube ones, few had stereos. Thank you for the video!
I'm 67 now graduated in 74, had some pretty darn good times than. I remember all these things and many more as you all do. No doubt when we get older we remember our youth fondly and wish we could return to a simpler time, but I mostly read on these sites the 50s 60s and 70s were the best and I agree. If you're reading this think back to our folks, there times we're the 30s and 40s , by the time my pop was trying to enjoy his 18th birthday he was trying to run a beachhead in Normandy before that most families were just trying to put food on the table. Here's my point although our folks shared their fond memories with us I never heard them say I wish I could time travel and go back or anyone else of their generation. Yes ours was good,,,,,real good.
I remember the freedom of not having to be annoyed by constant texts or emails from a cell phone no pagers either. It was a joy not having your parents or other sales people constantly bothering you. You just knew you were expected at home for dinner at 5:30pm because that’s when the family ate so you had better be there. People were more authentic no one had plastic surgery unless it was for a good reason like a car accident. If you wanted better tv reception you just put tin foil on the rabbit ear antenna…. At midnight or shortly there after the tv station would shut down but not before praying the “ Our Father Prayer”….So different now….. And who can forget that portion sizes at restaurants were not large enough to feed three people like nowadays. Very few young people were over weight.
You could link those pull tabs together into a chain of really cheap and fun jewelry. I had a Hot Wheels lunchbox but with a regular cylindrical Thermos, not one of those funky square ones. My bicycle was everything. I promised my mom I would call if I got into any trouble (which was a joke, because if I got hit by a car, how could I call?). Guys fashions were something else. The extra wide lapels, bright colors, a big velvet butterfly bowtie, and platform shoes. I was convinced at the time that our fashions were quickly trending toward clown clothes.
Take a look at some of the so-called "trendy" clothes out today. I'd have to say that if clown clothes were what we were striving for, then today's generation definitely succeeded...
I LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT GROWING UP In the 60's & 70's!...We had the best music, best TV shows, spent HOURS playing with the neighborhood kids, swimming at the Public Pool with HiGh DIVES, & body surfing at the Beach!❤
Before ring pulls, you had to carry a can opener to pierce the solid metal top of the drinks can. One pierce either side as the holes were small and air had to get in through one hole so that the drink could flow freely out of the other.
I HATED When The Skinny Cassette TAPE Got All WRINKLED & Tangled - Even When It Got Rewound - It Never Sounded Right!!!😡🤬🤬🤬 I'm STILL Trying To Remember Who Was On My Lunchbox....🤔🤔🤔 Maybe....Bobby Sherman??🤷 That Was A "Few" Years Back...🤭 Working @ The Vinyl Records Store Was FUN! It Was All About The Biggest & Best Rock Bands Back Then🎶🎸
I was a 1970's kid. We had 13 TV channels. No cable, no VCR, no cell phone. You do not miss it if you do not have it. My friends and I were outside a lot playing baseball, football and soccer. We also still had a few big phone booths to call home with. Plus, Yes Hitchhiking was still in, and kids could walk a long way to school like I did without parents' supervision. Yes, I had lunch box, Polaroid camera and the Slinky toy. I saw Saturday morning cartoons and loved the toys in cereal. Especially the dinosaur toys. My dad was a school principal back then with much free time off in the summer and my family travelled the United States a lot. The 1970's is still my favorite decade! I had a ton of fun with family and friends back then! People were friendlier back then also!
I remember no AC, cable, cell phones, internet, cable tv, microwaves, color tv, fast food delivery, internet shopping, violence on tv, and many other things that we take for granted and could not live without today!
Before the Trapper Keepers folders for school in the 80's, we used to have the yellowish/orange PeeChees to hold our homework and the corners of the paper would always get bent. Some people would put pictures or draw on it and sometimes put clear contact paper on it, to make it last, but the tough guys would always fold it in half lengthwise to carry it in their back pocket.
I remember being in grade one with my lunch box and at 6 years old walked about 2 and a half miles home at recess thinking the school was over. When I showed up at our front door knocking my Mom was in utter shock. What I cant understand is how the teacher didn't phone her noticing I was missing from the classroom. I must have a good sense of direction to be able to figure out how to get home. It definitely wasn't one straight road as we lived near a busy freeway. 🤔
I always loved in the morning time at school when the teachers would hand out our assignments on a ditto sheet, the smell of the copies back then. The kids today will never know the smell of the ditto sheets.
I remember going to a local motocross race track with my parents and picking up aluminum pull tabs from all the beer cans. I would fill up paper bags with them and when I got home I would chain them together and adorn my room with the shiny new garland that smelled like stale beer. Good times indeed.
I'll always remember fondly my first pair of blue suede platforms and roller skating on Friday nights. Playing pinball in the arcades and buying 45's and lp's at the record store. Those were the days.
Anyone else remember: Your buddy coming over and you SHH him and mouthed ‘I’m recording’😂. When it didn’t make a difference since you were recording thru the stereo from album to tape.
Excellent video - brought back so many fun and wholesome memories! Thank you! A couple of somewhat less wholesome things I feel that were missed: nearly everyone smoked and drank, a lot. To further compound this, people were a lot skinnier, and women, in particular, were not afraid to show off their bodies. Just saying, because I remember well and got to live it, though time always makes the past seem better! 😎
My sons are completely horrified that : When making arrangements to hang out with friends, I was totally unreachable during the 45 minute drive to the city. Explaining to them that I’d chat on the landline to make arrangements of where we’d meet up. Then the outrageous thought that we’d actually have to follow thru and meet where we’d previously planned. Instead it’s all a text stating the changes.
I remember "Shrinky Dinks" I'm pretty sure that's what they were called. You colored them and then cooked them in the oven and they'd shrink and harden. I also remember another thing that was like a kid version of making your own stained glass picture. You'd have some stencils to choose from that I think you could punch out. Then you had a tray with different colored clear plastic pellet thingy's. You would fill the stencil parts with the colors of your choosing and bake em in the oven. They would melt giving an end product that resembles a cheap stained glass window. and I guess everyone remembers the lite brite. i was more of an 80's kid (born in 76). The remote control... I feel like when they first came out you had to be rich to have a set that had one. So most of us never had that really really early version of just a big on off button. Our first remote that I can remember was pretty advanced in comparison. I think by the time they became main stream and affordable most remotes had an actual button pad. An on and off button/channel up and down button and a number pad. I could be wrong but I think the first "remote controller's" were on a wire that was tethered to the TV set. Which brings me to something I very much do remember...The first time I saw cable TV. My Grandparents had it at their house. It was super rare when it first came about. They had this device that looked like....hmm Well it looked like a small atari 2600 box in shape, size and material. On it was about 15 unmarked thick, 1 inch raised, legit pressing buttons in one long row. These were for each different cable channel. It was on a long black cord that was connected to the tv. Enough slack to reach the couch and around a coffee table. When you pressed a channel button it would click into place and stay depressed while the previously selected one "popped" back up. The memory is just a funny one because I can still distinctly recall that constant sound of button pressing when we were flipping through the TV stations.
You triggered my sense of smell with the Loves Baby Soft perfume…I loved that stuff…Can’t seem to find it in any stores anymore… haven’t tried on line though…. Sun In never did work for me though.
There was actually 6-7 T.V. channels,(3 national syndicated), there was; Channels 2,4,5,7,9,11, and 13 and THEY Were ALL FREE, Plus Alot of Really Cool stuff 😊
Nostalgia is a peculiar thing. Most people remember the good things & experiences & fade out the bad ones - 1970‘s? How about Vietnam & its repercussions, the cold war, Watergate anyone? As Buz Luhrmann put it in his brilliant song „Sunscreen“: „Accept certain inalienable truths Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too, will get old And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young Prices were reasonable, politicians were noble And children respected their elders“
@@jickie511it's not remembering the good times that's the problem. It's putting down today's kids that is. When you start doing that you're just a hop, skip and a jump away from old and bitter.
@@Denidrakes69 I have a 26 year old, so I speak from experience, I went through this. There are a few exceptions, but my son is not one of them. He falls into this category: FOR THE MOST PART kids barely leave the house. They don't find ways to amuse themselves, ride bikes, play games outside with other kids, play or watch organized sports, play an instrument or have any interest in music. They use all their free time sitting in front of a computer playing video games and not interacting with anyone else in person. That's what my son does. He could care less about going to a live sporting event or concert, who won the Super Bowl, going and doing things with his actual, real world friends, or God forbid us.
@@hockeyinWA I have five kids 17, 15, 11 & twin 8yo. That is not my experience with them at all. My 17yo does spend more time on the internet - HOWEVER, she has used it to learn to play guitar beautifully, taught herself to speak fluent Chinese, a little Finnish, and a fair bit of Russian, reads hard to find books, and speaks to people from all over the world. She's also in a band, receives straight A's in school, attends art classes, and has been an exchange student in Japan. Yes, kids have access to the internet, and they spend less time outside (given we live under the largest hole in the ozone layer on earth, we have little choice) - but YOU can teach them what to value on the internet. You can show them that it can be an incredible library, in which you can both read and watch tutorials. Anything you wish to learn, study, understand, is available. YOU, let your son down. He can't learn what he doesn't know.
You may have less channels in the 1970’s but at least you had something to watch every night! Today there is thousands of channels but nothing to watch!
Social media has ruined the kids today... Kids today don't play outside or exercise... Mental health is not good... Its sad what has happened to America...
Born in '68. Things I remember from the 70's. Saturday morning cartoons and a bowl of cereal. Riding bikes and skateboards with friends. Climbing trees. Going camping on weekends, and summers with family/friends. Sneaking into my sister's room when she wasn't there and listening to her records. I lived on a street filled with kids who were all in the same grade +/- 2 years. We had the best times. Little League baseball/football/soccer. Going to the movies/bowling ally/city pool. The music was better. The girls were better. The cars were better. The people were better. Can I go back and redo the Summer of '76?
Re: "The cars were better." -- I have to disagree. They always seemed to either be in the shop, or leaking something. I learned to ride my bike to school as a back-up. Bad 70's cars are why Japanese cars kicked Detroit's butt in coming decades. Fast and powerful, maybe, reliable, hell no!
@@econecoff1725 Bingo about the cars. I was born in 1977 and even I know that cars back then were garbage that required incessant maintenance and repairs. Today, people buy a car and that's it. They drive it for 5+ years with close to zero maintenance besides oil changes, brake pads and tires. Pre-'80s cars were crap and I didn't even drive back then, I wasn't old enough.
I graduated from high school in 1972 and went to the best rock concerts throughout the decade! I went to tons of them and the prices were usually under $10.00 for a top band. I sure miss those good times.
I graduated from high school in 1977. I saw my favorite bands at NBC arena in Honolulu, Hawaii. Foreigner, Kiss, Deep Purple, Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Eagles,etc. Tickets were $5.50, $6.50, and $7.50. I sure miss those great times. Good memories !
How to scare the new generation of kids today? Put them in a room with a rotary telephone, an analog watch, a television set with no remote, a folded paper map (no gps) a vacuum tube radio with dials on the front, then leave the directions on how to use these things on a piece of lined notebook paper in cursive writing, they will go nuts!
I can't imagine even showing these kids of today how to play "kick the can" or "hide and go seek". They'd probably get PTSD and need to be put on Xanax or Prosac!
100% agree. It's sad that Today's generation will never experience Vietnam, Watergate, double digit inflation, high unemployment, and the Iran hostage crisis
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 And life was still 100 fold better than this world the children are being raised up into now…and you forgot Bay City Rollers.
@@vicepresidentmikepence889double digit inflation, wars, pos president?? WTF do you think we’re currently living in? This is the worst time in history. And none of your responses could ever change my mind, so don’t even bother.
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 For adults, there were some hurdles, though they weren't unsurmountable, but it was a good time to be a kid and a great time to be a teenager especially when compared to 2023.
It was a really good time and what I miss the most being 65 now is the fact my folks and most of my relatives and friends were still around. I miss them all so much , it just isn’t the same.
I know, my grandparents, parents and all my aunts and uncles are gone and two of my brothers and I just turned 66 in October. Even some cousins are gone. I miss them, it isn’t the same.
@@kimerleviccaro1957 sorry for your loss of family and I agree, it really isn’t the same. I have some aunts and uncles left that I talk with once in a while. My wife is the one that really keeps me going.
56 years old in NYC...still living in the same building...family is all gone...the old timer neighbors are gone...everyone I grew up with moved away...in a city of 7+ million, feel alone all the time...go to work, and come home to my CDs/DVDs from the 1970's...🤔
Nothing was rushed in the 70s. Not learning about life or growing up. Kids today have been robbed of the slower pace and the simple pleasures that we enjoyed.
You are kidding?Or you are living somewhere about wh idk! The meme around here is "nobody wants to work," and, believe me, nobody does! We have young folks who just fritter away their lives stalking and tormenting ppl and, when you confront or admonish them, they just laugh, like the old Moonies. We think the whole state is on drugs, mentally ill or deficient, ŵas raised by crack moms, or the spawn of Satan. But whatever it is, they sure weren't cheated out of anything, they are given everything and anything they want. It's bizarre, but it's very real. You can talk to kids in college and they go around like zombies, seemingly unaware that they are supposed to be learning, not just drifting through the days. Idk much about drugs but I do know these folks are very much more gone than the pot smokers of the 70s. It's no wonder that our leaders are in their 70s/80s. They may be the last generation w a brain that's still functions at all. Maybe this is why JB is bringing in the Chinese grads who have no jobs in their country. Maybe this whole illegal immigration stunt does make sense. Maybe it's to ensure America will have a future, after all?
Me too, 5.5 miles every day on my Schwinn. As a 13 year old, learned how to manage money as I had to collect each month’s payment & if you were kind, sometimes you’d get a 50 cent tip!
Ahhh those Sunday morning newspapers were a drag, had a paper route as well. We were truly lucky to be young in this era. 55 now where does the time go 😮😮😮😮. Peace.....
I so love these videos about the 70s and 80s. I don't think I could have grown up in better decades! They take me back to a time of being young and remembering forgotten memories. My kids are so jealous that I grew up in one of the best decades ever. I can't say I blame them lol
Same here. I had so much freedom- I walked to school with friends, stopped at the drugstore for an ice cream on the way home. My best.friend and I rode our.bikes to the local horse stable and mucked stalls in exchange.for riding. We were 12 then. We walked to the mall to meet up.with our pals. We just had to be home when the streetlights came on.
Wow... I hadn't thought of the lunch box smell for 40 years. But when he mentioned it, suddenly it came back! It wasn't horrible, it was just a combination of odors, banana, peanut butter, grapes, maybe cold cuts and mustard. . . but it all merged together over time into its very own scent.
You missed: 1) knee high striped socks and 'short-shorts' that were worn for gym class and basketball, 2) plastic covered furniture and plastic roll-out walkway to protect new carpet which was gold, avocado green or burnt orange shag, 3) manual toys like Tip-It, Battling Tops, Rock'em Sock'em Robot, Mousetrap, SuperToe and Operation were very popular, 4) every kid in my neighborhood wore canvas Converse, Keds, PF Flyers or what ever canvas sneakers Buster Brown was selling ... later in the decade, suede PUMA and ADIDAS took over, 5) almost every kid had strap on adjustable roller skates with metal wheels ... the more serious skaters had Chicago or Roller Derby boot skates where wheels evolved quickly from metal to wood to poly-urethane, 6) in the big cities with limited grass fields, boys played a lot of Stickball, Wiffle ball and foot hockey ... girls jumped rope and played hopscotch, 7) in the public parks we had bigger swings, push and jump-on merry-go-rounds, very high slides and complex monkey bars with limited padding or safety gravel, and, of course, Tether-ball, 8) we drank A LOT of sugary Kool Aid, Fanta and Nehi fruit sodas... in my neighborhood Yoo Hoo chocolate drink was very popular, 9) when my family traveled for the summer we would always hit the Big (3-story) Slide and the nickel / dime arcades where the games were all manual (air hockey, NHL hockey with rotating players that you manipulated manually, golfing, baseball and shooting arcade with steel balls) AND ... MOST IMPORTANTLY... 10) eating as a family ... a good home-cooked meal and 11) we got to play outside with our gang of friends after chores and homework were done. We did not need helicopter parents playing with us nor protecting us. The 1970s were a wonderful decade to be a kid.
When I was in High School back in Hawaii in the 1970's, looking back in retrospect, I have a deeper appreciation of the 70's girls and women. No Tattoos, Natural hair color, nice make up. No body piercings.
True and most girls and women were not fat. Being fat was rare and fat people were social rejects. But there was no cure for acne or oily hair and young people who suffered from acne were stuck with it. There were few career opportunities for women and even fewer for blacks and latinos. So the 70’s were great for white males of all ages but no one else.
@@kaysmith5495that’s baloney : affirmative action ( racial preference) was signed into law in 1965 and was in full force so that any halfway “qualified “ minority was pushed to the front of the line . If you weren’t smart enough to take advantage of those major bonus points then you know what they say :” you can’t fix stupid “.
I was born in 68 . I agree with you. I think it was somewhere in the 90s that I started to realize how lucky I was.We got to enjoy both 70s and 80s moments and memories.You just can't beat that!😎👍👍
The music in the 60s was much, much better than the music in the 70s. I spent a lot of money on records in the 60s, but I saved a lot of money in the 70s because there was so little music that I wanted to buy - until the end of the decade when punk and new wave appeared.
Our musical tastes differ a lot. New Wave and Punk were in the same category as Disco for me. Garbage. Each to his own. My base argument was that back then, 60's and 70's, the majority of the music was not "manufactured". Similar to AI music today. Artists were nurtured and given time to hone their craft now it's we are not interested unless you are already viral.@@larsedik
I REALLY miss what record stores were back then. It was so great to ask a person much older than me what they would recommend, and then let me listen to some of it, then help me find other stuff that worked with that record. It was a great time, and it's really sad that people don't get to experience the smells and social greatness of real record stores. Sure, there are some around now, but, since there is not the same amount of traffic, it's definitely not the same.
Look for a used book store in your area. They often have record sections. Half Price Books Stores in my area have great record album sections where you can get the experience.
My granddaughter asked how we knew our friends' addresses and phone numbers. When I described phone books, she thought the idea of people having their numbers and addresses put into a giant book that's delivered yearly, free, to everyone's home would be a huge invasion of privacy. How our impressions of privacy have changed over the years!
I totally forgot about this one! And also never thought about the privacy issue, such different times! With that said, you can find just about anyone today (anywhere, and a lot more about them) on the internet!
@@ssoffshore5111 I found one site, Spokeo that when I looked up my name they had my name address, previous addresses, phone number, estimated income and a picture of my house with my car in the drive way and the license plate easily read. Oh they also mentioned I lived alone. Blew my mind and scared the hell out of me.
Even more amazing, before phone books there were so-called City Directories, that listed not only your name but your spouse's, as well as your occupation. They did include phone numbers for those who had them.
And the same people who worry so much about privacy today, share their whole fucking boring life on social media. Imagine showing strangers a picture of your breakfast in the 70s... they would have sent you to the nuthouse.
There’s not so much wrong with life today; it’s that we’re not young and naive anymore. Our parents wouldn’t agree those were such great times at all. Vietnam, Nixon, Watergate, double-digit inflation…not so great.
