Cars nowadays are much much more powerful and last longer and are safer. Most cars then were worn out and barely driveable if you were lucky enough to make it to 100k miles. The fumes were something else as well lol
@@mr.sanford8588 You can see a picture of me with the car back then, in the same driveway from which this film began--AND a picture of my car and me today (well, 2018)--here: www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/garage-mercedes.htm
1976’ I was 12 years old if I could go back in time it would back to the 70s we had the best music clothes and cars ! I drive a 63’ Chevy and listen to the great music of the 70s times were simpler
I got my license in 1993. I bought a 1973 AMC Hornet in 1993. And I was listening to 1970's music in it. Along with the first wave of 1990s grunge and alternative music
November 14th, 1976 was a Sunday. I was eight years old and most likely watching an Abbott and Costello movie on WPIX channel 11, a New York station that we got in central PA, and smelling the pork chops my mom was baking for supper. I was probably thinking that tomorrow is a school day, but Thanksgiving vacation was coming soon. There is no way I could have ever imagined that, perhaps at that precise moment a few states away, someone was making a film that I would be viewing on the screen of my wireless TELEPHONE 44 1/2 years later. Edit: I was hoping to see the inside of that mall. I'll bet it had a lot of the same stores our local mall used to have.
Oh yeah, I WISH I had filmed the inside of that mall. It would be great to see that now. Thank you for your comment. Somehow I find it a reminder that, hey, we're all in this together--let's try and enjoy it and be nice to each other. We never can know how things might intersect in the future.
Hah! I thought the same way watching this. I wasn't too far from you, Freeport, NY, watching the same thing you were and already drooling for Christmas. I was in 3rd grade, just about a month shy of turning 8. Meanwhile, cool dudes with a cool toy in a cool car were putting their trip in the can for me to watch decades later and smile about it.
@@shanemarcotte2062 I’m the same age, so I’m right there with you buddy. Don’t you wish we were still riding our bikes to the pool and arcade and running around all night in the summer. I miss it too, bad.
@@EYE_GOTCHA I lived through the 50's and enjoyed it so dearly, starting at age 13 and leaving as a man at 23. In nineteen hundred and fifty nine. Anything you need to know that you most likely won't ever know with my generations dwindling population, just ask just the same as you.
They talked different back then. The teens were able to communicate really well, now a days unfortunately most have social anxiety. I feel like phones are a big reason for that
We live in a world where people are becoming a bunch of hunched over, masturbating gremlins. And then they wonder why people have poor communication skills & social anxiety.
Cars were bigger then. But they’re way heavier now. Look it up if you think I’m wrong. The “steel” then was thin sheet steel. Not that heavy. Today’s cars are basically bank vaults due to crash standards. It’s one of the reasons they aren’t as fuel efficient as they could be.
@@failranch9542 No, they are plastic piles of garbage. They are heavy because of all the airbags, electronics, miles of wiring, all of the sound deadening, and everything else they added to the cars. Sure, airbags made them "safer", but they had air bags in the early '70's and nobody wanted them. If they where optional now, nobody would buy them. I still do appreciate you pointing out how bloated modern cars are, and, you're also correct that their MPG is garbage too. People get the false impression that plastic is light, but they don't consider how much thicker it has to be in order to replace steel.
Yeah, they're beautiful. Before democrats mandated that the only legal car to build is something that looks exactly like a Honda Fit. A hundred million Honda Fit lookalikes, all the same, all look like melted bars of soap, so boring. I wish I still lived in a country that wasn't such an assault on aesthetics
Vintage film clips from the early-mid 1970’s, especially ones as rare as this one, are totally fascinating to me. I was alive when this was shot, but a 5 year old is only just starting to process memory in any significant way. So thanks for this!
How else did people virtue signal and show how great of a time that they had without instantly uploading it 🤷♂️ the whole purpose of going to a destination is to post it online and brag about how great of a time it was as they mindless scroll through their messages oblivious to the actual good time that they’re having…
Ever since I saw Back to the Future when I was 6, I've been obsessed with time travel. Since it will never happen, at least not in my lifetime, I'm so happy that people post videos like this. It really is amazing to see, and so much better than just a picture. Thanks for posting!
Because common sense should tell you that it's physically impossible to go back in time, outside of movies, what about traveling to the past seems even minutely doable? and if it were possible don't you think everyone would be traveling back and altering the future? so nothing would ever be the future, it would be constantly changing, plus to go back in time you would have to be able to bring back dead people, replace structures that may or may not be there, go back through all the days in between, keep hoping, but not gonna ever happen, simply impossible.
Sadly the driver of the car went last year to that great Mall in the sky. I, the out-of-focus guy with the camera, am doing fine. Thanks. ... Oh, and I still have that car.
This is probably the most pristine home video footage from the 70s that I have ever seen. Amazing. I do have to admit though, one of my favorite documentaries is the Thin Blue Line, and when I saw the date of November 14 It hit me that 14 days after this footage was shot - the life of a man by the name of Randall Dale Adams will forever be altered when he decides to pick up a teenage hitchhiker and would be murderer Ray David Harris. Sorry, I mentioned that, but I love the footage since I like cloudy looking skies.
the 70s were full of those hitchhiking murder type stories, as well as a lot of kidnappings, abductions, that's the reason I'm here watching (think John Wayne Gacy, or Norris Bittaker)
I was 3 days old when this was filmed, yet I feel that I am much more suited to have been born in my parents or even grandparents era. I just love everything retro.
The footage quality is surprisingly good. Better than some feature films from the time. It's really cool to catch a glimpse of my home a couple of years before I was born.
Omg thank you thank you thank you. I always wondered what things/places/people/outdoors looked and sounded like other than just being in pictures. This is so special to me, the closest thing I'll ever get to knowing what the 70's looked and sounded like! I bet it was beautiful living through those times.
What a treasure this is! You had fun playing with that zoom. :) I'm writing a story that takes place in a mall in the 70s. So great to have this image on hand. Thank you for sharing
This really is incredible. I feel like I physically got into a time machine and went back. Tears of joy and sadness. Those were simpler times. I miss it
I was born in 1963 in upstate NY - @45 miles where the Woodstock festival was held on Farmer Brown's farm. I vividly remember my mother not letting me play in the front yard. She told me "Hippies could come and kidnap me." Part of me thought that might be a great thing. The 70s we really didn't worry about much, had amazing music of all types, and people had a live and let live attitude. Sad to say today that is no longer true. I think social media has gotten a lot of people to feel their opinion is always right and many have become a bigot. Also, a lot of the media now wants to divide us. Sad, very sad in what is gone now.
I practically lived at 100 Oaks Mall..I turned 18 that year & bought a 73 M.G miget across the street on Thompson Ln..Then moved to Anchorage Ak & worked on the pipe line for over a year. ..Guitar Center is about the only thing open at 100 Oaks i heard...Peace.
Amen to peace, brother. Oh yeah, I looked at the MGB and the Midgets. Almost bought an MGB but it was thoroughly thrashed. I remember looking at the new Midgets around this time. I forget the name of the dealer. Across from Beaman Pontiac, I think. I bought my only new car--a Fiat 850 Sport Spyder--at Madison Smith in '74. As small as a midget. Wasn't there a Woolco on the far side of the mall? I remember Giant foods. But I remember little else about what was IN the mall. Just a piano store where I bought a Yamaha piano that was (slightly) used at Opryland on opening day.
Wow! I've lived in Nashville for over twenty years. This was filmed on my fourth birthday. So cool to see what it looked like back then. It's crazy how much of the early drive hasn't changed (other than the tall skinnies here and there).
I was in Nashville at that time--3 years old--almost 4--grew up there and then moved to TX. I remember 100 Oaks Mall by name mostly--didn't go there much. I think we usually went to Rivergate and Hickory Hollow.
So fascinating. I've been to 100 Oaks a few times and crossed those bridges there on Woodmont many times. I didn't realize how different it used to look. If only you'd gotten a shot of the traffic on I-65 below. This was back before everyone started moving to Nashville, and I'm sure I'd like to have the traffic from that time back!
To. I'm. Ouch. Jakkew. When. I. Lived. On. Battlefield. Dr. I. Watched. Them. Move. House. After. House. On. My. Street. In. The. Late. 60s. And. Early. 70s. I. Watched. Them. Take. Out. The. Tenn. Central. Rail. Road. And. Interstate. 440. Came. In. What. A. Headache. My. Friend s. Back. Yard. Was. Cut. In. Half. Your. Traffic. Is. Un. Real. Now. I. Guess. They. Call. That. Progress. S0. Many. People. Danny Malliard
Just wanted to give you a shout out from capital records here on music 🎶 row this was the year l graduating from Hillsboro high school l sure miss the good old days 100 oaks was the place to shop we go from reality to a memory some times it sad , this video was taken on my brothers birthday ,
Having a camera back then especially with sound was expensive. Very few people even back in the 70's had personal hand held video cameras and the ones that did spent a pretty penny. It wasn't until the mid 80's when video cameras for the regular American grew.
Yes! In January 1982, my Dad bought a vhs system, but in the 70's most people had 8mm or super 8 silent. This is probably 16mm at 24fps. Never seen anything like this.
2 companies made a very rudementary camcorder back in. Sony and panadonic. It had a carrying case and a shoulder mounted camera. It retailed for about 2000$ in 1976 almost 10,000$ today. The camcorder as we know it where a vcr tape was physically in the camera was introduced in 1983 shoulder mounted
@@richardsussman5446I was going to say, whoever they are they already had to be making a pretty handsome living. that area has always been known as well to do. I was born in 77 and grew up in the berry hill area right across from the 100 oaks mall
The intro/beginning affect was so ahead of it's time. I'm only 35 but my role model father figure graduation was in '74 so I've had a deep fascination with this time period and how it was/looked. Hey thanks so much this is really cool.
Looks like they weren't as to do the editing they intended - they shot the guy leaving from a distance and then reenacted the footage from inside the car. The part of him backing up and should have been cut.
In 1979 I was in 10th grade in upstate NY where I grew up. My 1982 I was in Nashville and 100 Oaks Mall still looked that way, but there were few early 70s cars like I saw in the video. Today, the mall still has a few retail stores, but the majority of it houses Vanderbilt Medical Centers clinics and outpatient services to do various procedures. When I've been there for appointments, I can't help but walk through the main hallways and recall the stores that were once there.
That was actually cool. I was just 16 when this was filmed, had my driver's license for 5 months by November. Amazing how different things are from today. One almost forgets how things have changed until you watch these videos.
1976 was a good year for me. I graduated high school,got my first car and my first full-time job.I'm a bit north of you guys (Baltimore MD). I want to go back!!
I grew up in Nashville and remember the robot in that malls food court then I went to a college fair there AND THEN it was my doctors office hahah this was so awesome to see it and to see where walmart is now. Thanks man!
Born and raised in Nashville. Had family in all parts of the town from Madison, Inglewood, East Nashville, Greenhills and West Nashville in the nations. Knew the roads like the back of my hand in those days.
That must have cost a lot of money even back in the 1976 when sound for a video camera and very few people had them. As the top comment said, it wasn't until the mid 80's when the average American bought these camera. Hell my parents didn't get a video camera until I was born in the mid 80's.
Great video. I remember shopping at this mall as a kid & I also remember this area (before) the Walmart, Carmax, Wendy's, Logan's & everything else came along. Lol.
Great Video from back in the happy days of life the 70’s !😊. Love seeing the cars from back then was hoping to have seen my favorite kinda car a 70’s Lincoln Town Car on the highway or in the mall parking lot.
Why ? You'd be old. I was 15 in 1968, and I'm 70 living just outside Nashville. My wife and I, lived in Berry Hill from 1980 to 2012, so I have seen quite a few changes myself, while we lived there, including the building of I-440 in back of our house.
When my uncle first immigrated to the US in 1974 he lived in Nashville TN, drove a Chevy nova. He would have been somewhere in the vicinity as a young man when and where this was filmed
So cool!! I love this video! I was 5 when this was made. I grew up in Nashville and remember going to 100 Oaks and The Mall at Green Hills all the time in my teens and early 20’s. The mall building is still there (at Powell Ave), but it is now part of Vanderbilt Health. Woodmont doesn’t look the same at all as it did here. I was looking on Google Earth to see if I could find this house. With all the new construction that has replaced older homes, I was shocked it hasn’t been demolished. The address is 1497 Woodmont Blvd. It looks like the owners sold it 5 years after this video, in 1981. The pool/backyard is featured more in another of this channel owners videos.
I've driven that stretch of road hundreds of times.. going to the mall.. Franklin.. Green Hill's.. where I worked in the 80's/90's.. wow ..what good memories
When going to the mall was cool, fun, and even... Safe. Btw, the year I graduated high school. Great great great times and no the cars weren't great then. Big, heavy, handled like crap, and barely stopped. 😉
Great trip down memory lane. It wasn't visible in this movie, but I know the statue with the horses was still there just north of Woodmont, just before the bridge.
Oh man, too bad you did not film inside the mall! Seeing a 1976 mall with sound? That would have been priceless footage. In the 80's when camcorders came out, it was a lot more common, but in 1976? That would've been something.
1976. I was a 16 year old high school student. I had shoulder length hair, and wore flared denims alot. I can remember Rick Dee's hit song Disco Duck on the radio. Quack , quack !.
Oh, I like the Big Boy. I don't recall a Shoney's there. I think we went to one in Green Hills maybe? I remember I bought a piano at that mall--in some music store. They had pianos that were "slightly" used at the grand opening of Opryland. I also remember the Cain-Sloan, the Castner-Knott (?) and another department store that started with the letter "H." Like "Harvey's" or something.
Yes, it's the same for me. The mall was our "downtown," or mine anyway. Being from the outer suburbs, I felt drawn to it. The REAL downtowns were still there, of course, but they were pretty far away from the suburbs. And from the time I was young I was scared away from the real downtowns by the fears and prejudices of my elders. Now that the "mall as surrogate downtown" has ceased to be viable, I think it may be time to give the real downtowns another look. Sadly, so many of them are half empty.
