This is the Part 1 of a multi-part series. Part 2 is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M25pNg6nWu4.html Were you around in the '70's? What were some of the fads that you remembered, liked or disliked? Not every fad from the 70's is represented in the film; there were tons more. Love to see your comments... Thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed this '70's flashback retrospective!
I still have clothes from the 70's, are you telling me they are out of style? My macramé plant hanger from the 70's is still brand-new, never could decide what plant I wanted to put in it!
I remember the Big Wheel trikes, “Chrissy” dolls that had “growing hair,” the Screamin Demon & Evel Knievel toy bikes you ran a strip through, then set it on the floor. They ran briefly and then fell over. I also remember “Mr. Microphone” and its lurid commercial: “Hey, good lookin’! We’ll be back to pick you up later!”
I was there, too, and wish I could go back. Loved the decorator colors and arts and crafts of that era. Mark my words -- that's going to return someday soon, as people get bored with the industrial look and only being able to get their appliances in white, black, stainless or almond. We're living in homes, NOT factories!
I grew up as a 70's kid. Playing outside in the summer and didn't have to worry about much, except to make sure I came inside to eat lunch and then go back outside to play and then come back when the street lamps came on. Those were the days.
Ours was the house where all the neighborhood kids would meet up to play. I still remember how we'd all stop and listen when one or more of us heard a voice ring out from somewhere in the neighborhood. First one to recognize it would report it to the rest of us. "Your mom is calling you for dinner." Once dinner time was over, we'd all gradually meet up again and continue where we left off. The lines of communication we had back then we're far more effective than the ones they have now. lol
So many good memories from the 70s! Simpler and sweeter times. Dynamite 8 track player, golden harvest colored appliances. Brown and orange plaid furniture. Carefree summers and the best music of all times!
Oh yeah, "golden harvest"! The '70s were almost monochromatically yellow, everything was a shade of "golden harvest", "avacado green", brown, orange, mustard yellow.... You might occasionally spot the occasional powder blue or red, but mostly it was yellows, oranges, and "puke" greens! I couldn't stand the clothing: I didn't want to wear anything but jeans and cotton t-shirts, but I outgrew everything too fast, and my parents could only afford hand-me-downs from my older cousins or stuff from garage/yard sales, so I was constantly getting stuck with awful polyester stuff with fly-away collars and freakishly big bell-bottoms... and it seemed like once every year I had to get a new rust-brown of powder-blue leisure suit to wear just once to a funeral before it got handed down to my younger brother because it would end up being a couple sizes too short a few weeks after wearing it. The long-sleeved fly-away-collar shirts were mostly in a country-western style and plaid, and had to be worn with sweater vests - you didn't argue with your parents about that one! But damn, the music was great stuff between the '60s, '70s and the '80s. They don't make 'em quite like they used to! I can find good music from almost any era, but I can always find something new to like about the music back then, even the stuff I didn't like at the time, like country/western, disco, R&B, or whatever (my family listened almost exclusively to rock at the time.)
Riding in the family station wagon and "calling" for a window seat, and coming how to mom. Adults smoked everywhere but church. Open land where we could play. Walking or riding my bike miles away from home as long as mom knew when I planned to come home. Playing sports with the other kids without an adult anywhere around.
@@eddarby469yes, sounds like we grew up in the same small town, Camillus NY small Hamlet west of Syracuse NY. Yet you've described tens of thousands of small town whom grew up exactly as you've described. How I truly miss the 70s. Being a car guy I've collected some great old land yachts. 73 T-Bird, 78 Lincoln MK V , 71 Mercury Marquis 2 door Brougham, 1970 Mercury Marauder X 100 to name a few and when I drive one of these Im back in the 70s.
Does anyone remember "invisible dogs"? It was a wire leash connected to a wire collar that we would walk around with as though we had a dog on a leash. Yes, we actually paid for those!
Amen! I hit my young adult years in the early 80’s and had a blast the entire decade but my growing up years were the 70’s and if I could go back to any decade it would be that one! Started them as a wide eyed innocent child and ended them as a very young man eager to find my place in the adult world! If you come across that time machine let me know!
My dad was a trucker back in the 70s.... When the trucks were TRUCKS and not mini-motel rooms lolol. He took me in a couple of his long-haul trips, taught me how to use the CB and the lingo and even gave me a 'Handle'... He's passed on now but I treasure those memories....he was St. Sebastion and I was Tiny Driver... Out of Newark NJ...
sarah nightwing Same! In the late 70s/80s my dad was also a lorry driver, he even had a CB in his car.. he would allow me to say some things on it which always made me nervous I’d mess it up lol.. His handle was headbanger, and he gave me the name leatherneck.. which to this day I’m still unsure why..
Eric Smith Ah, I never heard “seat cover”. In Ireland we were called “smooth legs” which was very funny cos leg hair removal wasn’t a thing yet (at least not where I lived), and smooth or rough, we daren’t let a boy touch the legs anyway....
Rotary phones, sponge hair curlers, Pinto car, drive in movies, Cartoon lunch boxes, requesting songs on the radio and then waiting for hours with a tape recorder to tape it, prank calling, TPing houses, party lines
Is your refrigerator running? Why don't you go out and chase it? 🤣those were the prank calls. Gone are the days where we would call the pizza delivery for our neighbors and watch the pizza guy show up at our neighbors 🤣
I was born in '62 also. And when I was 14 I shook Ronald Reagan's hand and spoke a few words to him at a campaign rally. He was my hero, and of course I voted for him at my first presidential election in 1980. Guessing you did too!
Ghost of Reagan: My girl friends and I would did that in the late 40's and into the 50's...Pop and Beer bottles, and take them into the beer store in a Red Flyer wagon, and an old black baby buggy. We would go in the alleys behind all the bars in the neighborhood where empties were in a huge wooden box with a lid on it to wait for the "Sheeny Man" and his horse that pulled the wagon. The store owner had a deal with the Sheeny Man, that the "SM" would sweep out the store twice a week for all the bottles, but we cut into their business arraignment until he caught us, and told our parents. Punishment was a "damn good beating," as it was called back in the day. Anyway, we all lived through it, and are still alive today and in our mid 80's. Yup!!! Those were the days that made so many memories for today's life. Thanks for your story...
One good thing, now, if you have friends and family overseas, an international phone call doesn't cost $100 an hour like it did back in the day. Now you don't have to say 'hi, love you, bye' and hang up. My husband was in Australia when we met in 2008, and after a month of phonecalls back and forth on our landlines, we both terrified to get our respective bills, remembering what it was like back in the day. It ended up being about $20 for both of us, thank God.
Ha, ha! My first job right out of HS was with Pacific T&T, Oakland, CA, as a "information Operator!". Loved it. Became good friends with girl I trained with who was from Olympia, WA. Through her I met my sailor husband and moved to Atlanta, GA. Im still in Atlanta. Dial 411! "Good Morning, Information!" 🤗♥️
yes and being able to call the operator to "cut in" on a phone call when the number was busy. We used to make up a lie saying we were broke down and needed to get a hold of our friend. We used to have a number for the time and temperature too, oh and party lines.
We were in awe of those things, they always knew I was lying when I said I wasn't jonesing for that cute brunette across the classroom.and that blond .and that redhead , too
Around the year 2000, I met a man who sold hemp fiber products; hats belts, etc. I bought a dog leash from him. He told me he got out his mother's old macrame books, and made the leashes himself. Each one unique.
The poster of the cat hanging from a tree limb with the caption “Hang in there baby”, troll dolls, velvet posters that glowed in the dark and the Dorothy Hamil haircut.
@T.E.M. 4491 , I remember going to my gynecologist for the first time and seeing that cat poster hanging on the ceiling. Every time I saw that poster afterwards, I thought of the first time I saw it and I was TrAuMaTiZeD! Especially at the dentist. lol
Remember paper football with a triangle shape folded paper you slid to the goal line and kicked field goals by flipping it through you opponent's "field goal: made by touching index fingers and pointing thumbs up?
Yep, I played it quite often at school and at home. A lot of people remember it. A local sports radio station where I live sponsors a Paper Football tournament each year during football season.
We kids had a good time in the early 70s. Remember running home to Batman. Saturday cartoons. American bandstand on Saturday at 12 noon. Columbia Record club. F.M. Radio years. Tarzan movies on Saturday. Pizza Hut restaurant and smelling burnt cheese. Roller skate rinks juke box’s.bottle top candy. Lick stick candy. and smokie and the bandit movie. Hundreds of things. Don’t forget duck and cover under your desks for nuclear attack
My mom refused to buy me a pet rock. Told me to go dig up as many pets as I wanted for free. She probably just remembered my disappointment from the Sea Monkeys ordeal. Lol
Can't believe that a guy becomes rich thinking up this stupid idea. Or rather that so many bought into it. How can it be a novelty item when all one has to do is go outside and take your pick for free?
I'm glad they didn't have video when I was a teen. My dad would have wore my ass out had he seen some of the things we did. Plausible deniability is a dying concept.
I did that one day in 1970 and some neighborhood kids stopped me and claimed that wasn't allowed. Told my Dad when he got home from work ~ he said get in the car. We drove to the kids house and Dad spoke to them at their front door. They didn't bother me anymore..lol
I remember decoupage was all the rage back then, bell bottoms, headbands, black light posters, Banana bike seats with a sissy bar. choppers and of course Malls.
@@jaynestag95 Painter's pants? I had a pair in middle school. They were off-white with a bunch of pockets and even a loop on the side of one leg to hang your...hammer? I think?
When I was a kid (in the 70's) I never heard the phrase "paper fortune teller". They were called "cootie catchers", but they did exactly what's shown here.
The 70’s a great decade. High School was great in the 70’s.I wore the Earth shoes,My girlfriend wore Dr.Scholls sandals with skirts & tights,jeans & socks,shorts in the summer,my wife still does too !! Great music too,Lead Zeppelin,The Who,Rolling Stones etc..car radios with tape cassettes,great cars too...
@@moeball740 When other kids were OOOing and AAAHing the Beatles, I was enjoying the Tijuana Brass, Bert Kaempfert, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, country music when it wasn't cool to like it. I also got hooked on "Jesus music"
Thanks for the stroll down memory Ln. When the skies were blue, the creeks were a hot days play ground and a winter's outdoor ice skating rink, no skates required. Fishing was free, full service stations.. I could go on and on.. I think most can agree, life was much simpler & the world had morals, family had meaning & elders were respected & people could be trusted. Miss those days.
You must have lived through a different 70s than I did... "the world had morals"? Watergate, wars in the middle east, Viet Nam, ... we humans have always had questionable morals.
same here (grandma named ethel) which is why when you drove into a gas station you always asked them if they pump ethyl, then hassled them when they said yes
tdsm 1 9: And, thats my name, too!!! I hated it because people used to tease me by saying that to me. That is a very English name from long ago that was somewhat popular in the late 1890's. That was my Aunt Ethel's name. She was with my mother when I was born and helped with my birthing at home. When I was growing up I always said I would change my name...but when the time came to do it, life got in the way with marriage and having children. So I still have and use the name for legal purposes.
I recently calculated what one of those K-Tel "Greatest Hits" compilation offers really cost, adjusted for inflation. It was, like, $2.20 per song -- vs. a few cents for an Internet download of any song today.
I did too! 🎸 Great deals on vinyl albums. Get 12 (free / paid shipping) buy 5 or 6 more to fulfill Club requirements. Not a bad deal *Richard* 🍀 Great time period! Hands down! or High Five!. The best time/ Great Concerts/ Outdoors times! Clubbing or Bar hopping!
Oh yes! I had one that went completely around my bedroom ceiling! Still have a small piece of it tucked away... Also we made pop top chains from coke and beer cans!
I remember all these things. Other stuff? Avocado colored kitchen appliances. The Bicentennial craze. Weird hanging lamps with oil drops that dripped down wires. Lava lamps.
My bathroom has an avocado bathtub, sink and toilet. The refrigerator and electric stove were the same color (they're long gone). They just came with the house like that. Glad it wasn't pink or yellow. I also have a couple of lava lamps - red. Can't leave them on too long. They start looking like a mess. They now live in a storage box. The first hanging oil drip lamp I ever I saw was in a shop window in Burlingame, Calif, in the early 1970's. It looked like rainwater dripping down. It was a pretty unique looking knickknack. They had it priced at $150. I've seen a few around recently, mostly at garage sales or thrift shops.
My mom put 6 of those oil rain lamps hanging from the ceiling in a corner in her place near Pismo Beach, Calif in 1976. She passed away at 90 years old in 2016 but we left the place unchanged. I changed the bulbs to LED's and topped the oil off with coconut tanning oil. They all work and smell great. There's a 1965 green Lava Lamp on the fireplace hearth and harvest gold appliances, yellow shag carpet still in there. AND.... Dick Smothers (of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Team) old Dodge Travco motorhome still sits parked behind the place. My dad bought it from him in 1968. The place is a time capsule from the 70's.
What I remember from the 70s that I don't think has been said were the pull tabs from the soda cans we collected them and made them into a long chain. I also recall commercials for new cars selling for $1,999! They did all they could to keep it under $2,000. Thanks for the flesh back!
When I was discharged from active duty in 1970, I wanted to buy a new Pontiac Bonneville convertible for $3600. I ended up with a '64 Ford Fairlane for $400. Now I have a 2017 Malibu that cost close to $20,000. Times have changed.
@@austinklein1172 Yep til people started choking to death on them and the federal gubmint made the companies switch to the "modern" style pop top cans with the built in tab.... Later! OL J R :)
@@naedatanner8832 Yep! My older brother & my cousin used to get spiffed up in those leisure suits to go out dancing to meet ladies. They looked quite different than in their regular work clothes! Pretty snazzy!
+1 My father could rock one like nobody’s business, except when he was in his vestments and collar. 😊 Miss ya, Dad. Love ya. (And, despite what anyone says, the ‘70s were great, because I can dig it!) Mom looked pretty damned snazzy herself, too! Miss ya, Mom. Love ya. ❤️
Frisbee at the park, penny arcades, those rubber band powered airplane models, Estes model rockets until I caught the field next to our house on fire, lol. Mood rings, Saturday morning cartoons! Yep, it was a pretty cool childhood!
I’m not gay, but I have one. Stunning! She was simply gorgeous (and it turns out, a decent actor). LOVE that poster! Love & Light from Miami🦚✌🏼 Stay safe everyone🌎🙏🏼
@Debbie Ptak: And pants that didn't drag the ground and had wide legs like bell bottoms were called "high waters"? Those were the "good old days".🤔🤔🤦♀️🤦♀️ Btw, I still have the pet rock my sister gave me back in 1975.😁😁
Denim vests. If you were anti-Disco you were a Rocker and you had to wear a denim vest. My high school year book (1977) is 30% to 40% denim vests. And mullets. Awesome mullets.
We NEVER saw a mullet ("business out front, party in the back") until the 80s. Long hair down to our asses, navy surplus peat coats, army surplus rain coats or Levi's jackets with the fake fleece. I'd rather get a crew-cut than a mullet.
Light Brite, Pong, Drive-In movies, School House Rock, Sid & Marty Kroft, SNL (when it was actually funny), Dolfin shorts, Cherokee wedge shoes, playing outside & using your imagination and you could run a lemonade stand without harassment or permits lol. It was awesome to grow up in the 70’s! I’m so grateful to have those memories! Oh, and cartoons were only on Saturday morning. Also, remember the Mutual of Omaha tv show; I think it was on Sat or Sun nights.
And the Wonderful World of Disney. But I did prefer the Mutual of Omaha show - it was today's National Geographic and Nova. I loved it. Wasn't his name Marty Perkins or something?
@@judeflowers2813 - Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with host Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler ... fond memories of Sunday nights (for BOTH shows) ... thanks
Jeanette Cole I remember most of the million fads listed here in comments. I was born in 1955, so in the 70s I was age 15 to 25. Some of the best and worst times of my life occurred during that decade. But when I think of the fads, I try to focus on the memories of fun and good times rather than the bad.
I grew up in the 1970’s and remember all of those things. I even made macrame plant hangers! Other fad products: bean bag chairs; painting (on velvet) of dogs playing poker; hanging strings of beads in interior doorways instead of doors; dark wood paneling on interior walls.
Oh yeah! A blue velvet painting of Elvis (he had to have a bead of sweat running down his face). The deluxe version had a quartz clock in the upper corner. Very tasteful.
Ugh...wood paneling... I totally forgot how popular that was. We had one paneled wall in our living room. And green shag wall-to-wall carpeting. What a memory... LoL
Heck we played outside during the late 60 all summer , we were free range kids would you come in for lunch, drink out of the hose, god forbid go in the house and grab a bottle water from the fridge, in the afternoon we were back out til dinner ( not sure how we knew what time it was) then back outside til lights came on. No phones, no pagers, no nothing.
Yep. I remember Earth Shoes! Everyone had a pair. And we made so many macrame plant hangers. My great friend streaked across our football field. My dad wore a lime green leisure suit to my wedding. Never had a pet rock, but mood rings were everywhere. CB radios were in all my guy friends cars. Never did the hustle! Ugh! Paper fortune tellers were a staple with all girls. My mom still has her 8 tracks, I played Carol Kong’s Tapestry till it broke. The 70s were crazy! Fads are all around, even today. Thanks for the upload! Good times!
I enjoyed making the video and glad to know you had fun watching it! Thank you and everyone who took time to leave comments and share their experiences!!!!
The Earth Shoes (I had a pair) were supposed to stretch out your calves and be a more natural walk. Actually they did, but got uncomfortable quickly. RadioShack practically survived selling CB. Never did the Hustle but enjoyed watching it. That’s Carol KING, a song writer who finally broke out with her own album. 😲
I came back from the Vietnam war and had a hard time adjusting, plus there was no honor for a lot of us. I'm glad the 70s are over. The best thing I got from the 70s is my best friend, my wife and we are still together ✝
@@jackallen6261 Me neither, but my cousin from the Det area was into them, couldn't figure that out either with all that real rock around her. Ahhh youth!
Yes, mood rings for sure! Those were a must!...and then there was fake puke and fake spilled drinks, a lucky rabbit’s foot, Sea Monkeys and Magic Rocks, cone incense, stick pins, gauchos...tight, fluffy sweaters, cowl neck sweaters, high heel sandals with carved wooden heels in flowers or lions, etc., Roman-style high-heeled sandals that laced up the leg to just below the knee, and Candies shoes, Zodiac boots, Jordache, Sassoon, and Bonnie Bell flavored lip gloss (Dr. Pepper was the most popular, you can still get it, too, though might be under another brand now, not sure)... and their essential white under-eye concealer makeup that went on underneath regular base/foundation, with a bit to highlight the center of the eyelid and the browline before the rest of the makeup went on, and hooker-blue eyeshadow (for some girls), and of course, short, skinny skateboards. Those took way more talent to master than the longer, wider, modern ones today. And 10-speed bikes. And most people were acclimated to being outdoors and in the sun, so tanning was common, and most people they didn’t marinate and then bake their skin with the chemicals in sunscreen. Cocoa butter and coconut oil was (and is) sufficient. Smells wonderful, deepens tan, and contrary to all the warnings and screeching of the sunscreen sellers... people who did that instead do not have leathery, aged skin. There’s a mild element of natural sunscreen in coconut oil without the cancer-causing chemicals that people have been slathering on their skin to “protect themselves“ “from the sun”. Some people recognized the stupidity of that and didn’t do it, and at some point they finally confessed that the chemicals that cause cancer so they “changed them“ and now have new chemicals to bake into the skin and soak into every cell. No wonder skin cancer rates keep going up...they keep putting that crap on their skin, their largest breathing organ. Funny how the entire plant and animal Kingdom has not needed the same “protection“ from the sun, rather, if they had such “protection“ from the sun, they would not get what they need from the sun...and they’d die. For the people that do burn, all they need is coconut oil and cocoa butter, with some lavender added, because lavender essential oil heals burns super fast (I’ve put straight Lavender essential oil on people with a bright red sunburn, and before the end of the day, they don’t have a sunburn anymore). If you have Lavender mixed into your coconut oil for being in the sun, it will heal the skin before you get a burn, *if it’s the real stuff* (I use Ananda Apothecary because they are not an MLM (MLM=ripoff), and they GCMS-test their oils AND post the results for every batch, and every bottle they sell has the batch number on it, so you can look at the exact chemical profile of every single oil you buy...before and after oh buy it). Add a little cold-pressed aloe vera and maybe some spring water and shake it up in a glass spray bottle, and you’ve got better sunscreen than any crap you can buy...and it smells better and actually has nutrients your skin needs and nothing that your body does not need. I don’t need the lavender, I don’t burn. I’m good with coconut oil and cocoa butter. Then there’s Dr. Demento, who played the song “The Streak“, as well as “Pencil Neck Geek“, “Fish Heads“, “Dead Puppies“, “They’re Coming To Take Me Away”, and other such songs...and the classic, cheesy, bleeding-heart, dead-or-rejected-loved-ones songs, like “Seasons In The Sun”, “Honey”, “The Night Chicago Died”, “Indiana Wants Me”, “Tie A Yellow Ribbon”, and “Diary”, “Time In A Bottle” , which was hands-down the “wedding song” of the 70’s, ...and dance/music shows like Soul Train...and American Bandstand.
My third grade teacher in 1976 was a little bit of a hippy and she filled the classroom with macrame plant holders. I remember bell bottoms and girls with the Dorthy Hamill hair style.
I was a kid back then and remember every single one of these! What about those rainbow knee high socks with individual toes? Roller skating/roller disco and the afro pic comb everyone needed to have?
@@sherylF5610 lol, in Canada we call those toques, Americans have so many funny words for this one article of clothing! But yes I do remember that craze!
The older I get, the more I realize I was a birth year lottery winner. My years of youth straddled the 70s and 80s. I got a good taste of the 70s, a nibble of the 60s, and a full helping of the 80s. As Chic sang then, _Good times, these are the good times..._
Born in 64, I remember hippies when we went to Grass Valley and Nevada city, Ca. Also at Sacramento city park. I had angel flights in the 70’s, cruised the Birdcage walk in the 80’s. Had a CB in my 74 Blazer, and no back seat.🥰Great memories.
@@CryptidWalks Hey I live in Grass Valley now. I didn't move here till 79 though. But I was born in 63. There were plenty of hippies where I grew up in SanFernando valley. Including my parents of course.
K-tel ? I didn't know anyone else remembered that. In never bought the records but l ordered a couple 8-traks, then a bunch of cassette tapes in the early to mid 80s.
Hey man, is that Freedom Rock? Well, TURN IT UP! :D K-Tel records had all the hits and all the stars, on 8-track, LP, and (later) cassette! Call now, operators are standing by! Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.
I remember ordering ktel records every time they came out. Most popular songs on one album. The world's first original mix tape. Anyone else remember Dr demento on Sunday nights?
My waterbeds were made out of mahogany at my Dad"s House.My mother's family made Doodle Art Posters, macrame, and beaded curtains. I had a tan bean bag chair and a green corner group, compete with table and green tweed colors.
My husband bought a waterbed in 1975, when he moved here. We had it until 2013, when it finally fell apart. It was great for sleeping and temperature controlled for warmth or coolness. I just hated making iy because of its size (6'×7'--a California King-size; hubby was 6'4" tall.
As a child of the 70's, my favorite memory of the decade was a toy line called Shogun Warriors. To me at the time, nothing was cooler than 2-foot-tall robots that could shoot projectiles. Too bad parent groups bitched and complained about how those little plastic missiles could take an eye out, because they were discontinued by 1980. The 70's were a great time for kid's toys now that I think about it -- Star Wars, Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Tonka, slot cars, Lionel trains, RC vehicles, etc. So glad I got to grow up during that time.
Do you remember the Screamin Demons and Evel Knievel toys you ran a strip through and then set down so they could briefly “run” across the floor, before falling over? They were popular for about a year or so in the 1970s. And my younger sister had one of those dolls with growing hair - “Chrissy.”Also had a Baby Tender Love.
The 70s rules! I graduated from high school in 1976 (Bicentennial class) and I spent the next couple of years working and partying. Met my first boyfriend because of a CB radio. There was no political correctness, SNL was actually edgy as well as funny, standup comics were never asked to apologize for a joke they told, people had a sense of humor and understood what satire meant.
I was right behind you (and Libby), loved my Kraco Delux CB and worked and partied as well. Back then, there was always an informal network to know where and when the parties were. The best one ever (for me) was an individual in our graduating class put the word out for an informal "5 year Reunion", summer of '84 and it was a blast! They had keggers, music and ran it out of the pole barn they rented. It was awesome seeing how many of the class showed up and to see and talk to them 5 years later and most of the others were from guests and those within a year or two of our own graduation and were most welcome.
Saw a pair of Earth Shoes in the opening scenes. My trendy brother-in-law had a pair of those. Also recall swag lamps and shag carpet and mirrored walls.
@@Cocobeachhippie I used to do that with left over craft paint, sure could come up with some pretty neat abstract thingys. lol I did mine on card stock.
How about the single serving cereal where you had to lay the box on the side and cut it open, pour in the milk and eat? Maybe that was the sixties though.
You know, in the last year or so, I was reminded of DR. Scholl's, and I was able to find them, and I did order--I guess in my youth I had forgotten how LOUD they were. And I suppose my feet have change a lot in 20-30 years ago, they were extremely uncomfortable! Oh well, they always say "don't go back", "they" are probably right.
Lol, I had that exact red 8 track player that J.J. Evans was advertising. It was one of my favorite things ever, and I remember wearing out my Vanhalen 1, and my KISS " rock and roll over" tapes! Thanks for the thrill of just letting me see this thing again that brought sheer joy to a 10 year old in the good old days, when real people were your friends, and you had to communicate face to face!
@@justme8837 Anybody else have any of those big flat plastic fans that hang on the wall and go with those sconces from Home Interior? Or those crazy molded Mushroom 🍄 wall art thingies? Heck. I even have the Last Supper on black velvet! Lol!
Anyone remember the tiny dolls called "Liddle Kiddles" by Mattel? Many were based on storybook characters, came with fancy hair and teeny beautiful gowns or costumes. I'm 61 and still have mine. They came with names like Peter Paniddle, Sleeping Biddle, and Cinderiddle.
You know what we had in the 1970's that we don't anymore? A sense of fun and silliness...the ability to joke about anything and everything without overly sensitive types complaining and getting offended! We didn't realize how good we had it back then...no social media (which daily I realize was a GOOD thing) and the understanding that you could make a joke about someone or something without being ostracized. I swear, people today have literally sucked the joy out of every single thing. They wake up in the morning thinking "what can I be offended about today?" It's sad...and our country is the worse for it. (and btw...nobody called 8 tracks "cassettes". They may have been a kind of cassette...but they were called 8 track TAPES, (or just 8 tracks) Cassettes were the smaller things that came later...lol Also, this list could have been SO MUCH LONGER!!! What about Fry boots? L'Eggs pantyhose in the plastic eggs...platform shoes....the horrible color scheme of avocado green, brown, burnt orange and gold...the list goes on and on and on. (and btw...I STILL like macrame plant hangers.)
You raise a good point. Things that were said on sitcoms like “All in the Family,” “The Jefferson’s,” “Good Times” and other shows would NEVER get past the censors today. A shame, because the objectionable language and situations were almost always educational, to show the stupidity of some people. “All in the Family” probably did it the best. Conservatives weren’t the only people the show poked fun at. Liberals got their share, too. Mike Stivic positioned himself as a great, enlightened liberal, but he was often supercilious, annoying & insulted good people like his wife, Lionel and Archie, who, for the most part was ok. He was ignorant, and he was a product of his past. Unlike Archie, Mike never really learned to understand other people’s ideas and positions that were contrary to his. Sure, Archie was grumpy, but he had a much harder life than Mike. Remember the “Shoe-Bootie” episode? He truly loved his wife, even though he didn’t always show it and made mistakes. Mike, on the other hand, fully cheated on Gloria, leading to their divorce. I think Norman Lear beautifully contrasted the positions of these two and pointed out their good and bad points, but in the end, their humanity.
I was a teen in the late 70's and I can honestly say I miss it sometimes! Things were so simple and the rules were simple. It was rare to get grounded and if you did it was short lived because your working parents needed help, lol!
The many great comments from "the peanut gallery" made this such a great read. We know how much fun these times were and how funky . Alot of water under the bridge but still a fun era.
Man, this takes me back. Even though I was quite young, all these things and more, made an indelible mark on my brain! I miss those days. Heck I miss the 80s too.
I wore Famolare platform shoes, ditto jeans, mood rings and had a Dorothy Hamill haircut. I was the epitome of the 70s. Also my legs never looked so long.
Charlie’s Angels, those “feathered bangs”, Fantasy Island, Donny and Marie, Santana, Elton John, Earth Wind and Fire, Chicago, Swabbies, Star jeans, wedgie shoes, Converse, Earth shoes, *69 for call waiting, push button phones, Disco!
@@stephenpowstinger733 Still better than the old rotary! LOL....So funny cleaning out my in-laws house and came across their old rotary phone... my grandkids had no idea how to make a call on that thing but they have their own cell phones
Serai3 Roach clips were actually named Alligator clips. I remember before heading out to a dentist appointment . My oldest brother pulled me aside. And told me to snag the clips for him. My dentist or the hygienist must of seen I was trying to figure out how to take them without being noticed. So after the dentist left the room the hygienist said I was to young to steal the clips. Who wanted them??? So I lied and said the neighbor kid. That was good enough. She looked out the door to make sure no one was looking. She pulled out the little box full of them. And she reached in and grabbed THREE sets. And she told me not to be a stupid little kid and to charge who ever asked me to steal them. $5 a pair. Every time I went to the dentist for the next 10 years I reached in and grabbed 3 pairs. That was a great way to make money three times a year. Lol
Well, you nailed it. Dumb fads , horrid clothes ...and I was an eye-witness (and Ah hailped!(Shake and Bake) . That was great...thank you. Don't forget "The Bump", Gremlin/ Pintos, the dogless leash,Granny dresses... well ,you know your business. You have a wonderful voice. Kind of like the midnight jazz man on a newly-minted ( or pirate ) FM radio station c. 1974. Raise your hand if you remember vests and floppy-brimmed hats made of beer cans crocheted together ? Maybe it was a regional thing...I remember Olympia and Rainier cans. I' m glad someone finally took Grandma's needles away...ah, the 70's.
Thank you for the comment and reminiscences! I do remember the crocheted beer can hats! Fun! Rainier Beer?! Yes. There is a photo of Janis Joplin holding a can of Rainier Beer. (search for it) Thanks for the comment about the narration voice. I try and keep it 'tight & bright' as they say in radio.
@@samanthab1923 Close Encounters was also a part of a bizarre scandal taking place at Columbia studios in the late 1970s. David Begelman was riding high as a top executive at the studio because Close Encounters was his baby. He was the one who pitched the studio on undertaking the film and when it became a big hit it made millions for the studio and resulted in huge bonuses for several people including Begelman. So he was a very popular guy at the time. When he started embezzling money from Columbia and engaging in other bizarre behavior such as forging actor Cliff Robertson's signature on checks, some at the studio didn't want to press charges against Begelman because he was making everyone rich. There was a huge battle among the top executives at Columbia before he was finally fired.
Thank you so much for the memories. I remember everything on this video. Kids today will never understand all this. Believe it or not, we didn't need cell phones or video games or social media. Our social media was actually talking to our friends face to face. We used to play outside and make our own fun. What a great time to grow up! Don't get me wrong though, I can't go anywhere without my cellphone today!
I grew up in the 70's. I remember all of these fads. I told my daughter when she was growing up, we didn't have bookbag/backpacks for school. She laughed so hard then asked, how did you all carry those heavy books everyday? My reply, in our arms, shifting them from the left side of the body and the right side and we survived.
I tied mine together with a belt. I remember my science book was so big that one winter while walking home, I used it to stand on and slide down an icy street. Pretty sure I invented snowboarding. Lol. Also rap music. Me and my friends would site made-up rhymes to a beat as we walked. That was (1974ish) before anybody ever heard of a thing called rap music.
One thing I could never get was backbacks. Makes kids resemble turtles, what if they fell on their backs. They look so restricting of movement. For us if we got ready for a fight just drop your books in a second and go at it since we carried them on the side with our arm. If they got heavy just switch sides. Only had 2 books max though. They were avg size, not big. Some days I only walked around with a folder, or even just a piece of paper. I was a minimalist!
Something you rarely see now are wine skins . We used them all the time when going to concerts hiking , camping , festivals etc... I still have one and my kids were amazed at this prehistoric technology
Oh my goodness. I loved those. Especially skiiing or sneaking into the movies. I paid $14.50 for one small plastic cup of wine from the movie concessions stand. Just two weeks ago. I thought how wonderful it would have been to have one of those skins.
forget Shaun Cassidy he was a joke and a dork I was a child in the 1970s the best ever ever legendary music came out of that. Of time will never see the likes of again legendary guitarist Jimmy McCulloch of Paul McCartney and Wings he was truly gorgeous and Beyond talented and hot he played with wings once again Jimmy passed away in 1979 of a heroin overdose he also was accustomed by Sid Vicious for doing a rough act so Jimmy decked him,! rock n roll!David Cassidy and David Patton of pilot another Scotsman who looks similar to Jimmy McCulloch my all the three were my first crush has real rock and rollers
@@anaparada7219 I was a small kid like 7-8 in late 70's. I watched all the shows with the heartthrobs: Parker Stevenson, Shaun and David Cassidy, and Greg Evigan from BJ and the bear lol!! It all seems like a long lifetime ago!! I remember those Shaun Cassidy bell bottoms and the crocheted shawls! Those were good times!
OMG! Major flashback! Also, sloe gin. And in our area we primarily drank Busch beer as this was in Missouri. My bff and I were just talking about how when we were teenagers in high school the guys that had already graduating would rent a place with a band and kegs. The place would be crawling with drunk and stoned teenagers out in front of God and everyone and we never got caught!
@@JohnSmith-mw2hh Wow, that's the first time I've heard an American call chips "crisps". "Pringles, the popular snack food in a tube, are not potato crisps, a High Court judge has ruled. Their packaging, "unnatural shape" and the fact that the potato content is less than 50% helped Mr Justice Warren make his crunch decision". Curious..
And don't forget colorforms. Those were awesome. Bright colorful background scenery and all kinds of characters and items to go with them. A kid could make up new pictures and create their own story to go with them. The last one I had was a Smurfs one when my kid was young. Wish I still had it but it got lost.
