Brit Reacts to 1970s Things Found Inside Every Home In America 

Remember hanging bead curtains? You could hang them in doorways, on windows, as partitions or as closet doors? They were so fun to walk through. 🤗

I graduated high school in 1974. We wore bell bottom pants and wore shirts with ruffled cuffs!. We had one television set, it only got 3 channels. There were no computers, we played board games and listened to records. A group of us would go to the drive-in movies every weekend, a car load of kids watching movies from inside your car, was a lot of fun.

I think that the most important thing to teenagers in the 70's was music and a good stereo system. In both your room and your car.

The wood paneling walls, shaggy carpet and the gaudy flowered couches brought back a lot of memories. Never lose a jack in that carpeting. Stepping on those things hurt and were impossible to find in it. 😂😂

I'm 65 and still have separate audio equipment and vinyl records and player. I actually made one of my spare room as a 70s room and another into a sports room. I graduated from high school in 1977. The 70s were awsome with Farah on the wall. 😊

He wasn't joking when he said appliances were built to last. The gas dryer in my house is from the late 60s and is still going strong. The matching washer went about 5 years back only because I could not get the replacements for some worn-out parts. The appliance repair center told me to hang onto it as long as I could because the stuff they make today breaks down all the time and has a much much shorter lifespan.

The 70's was really known for "Flower Power" as shown by objects in this video. 🌻

Lava lamps, rain lamps, strobe lights, black lights and posters. Remember all of those, also loved to go to find them at Spencer's!

We were excited when those console TVs started coming with a turntable installed on top! The whole family sat around it on Friday night for TV shows, music and usually ice cream.😊

Wow..we had most everything seen here, but that kitchen and flooring with that wood paneling are EXACTLY the ones we had. So nostalgic watching this. Thank you. Televisions were extremely expensive in those years. You certainly wouldn't see them in poor households unless , if you were lucky, had a very old hand-me-down television set.

Bean bags: "Once you got in them you were there to stay because they were so comfy" Yes, but mostly because they were so hard to get up out of.

Dude. No computers. No internet. No microwave. Good times!

Fondue is a hot cheese or chocolate sauce that you dip veggies,fruits,bread and meats in using a long forked metal or wood stick . You put a big pot of that sauce on the table with a “stern o” open flame under it to keep it hot. It was messy, mouth burning, sometimes ER going experience that none of us will ever forget.

Wood paneling was VERY common, especially if your house had a "Finished Basement". In my home, the basement was paneled and carpeted. It had a pool table in one area and an entertainment area with couches, a TV and a bar. That's NOT grass. That's green "Shag Carpeting". You saw those TV sets. Well, there were even larger pieces of furniture called "Home Entertainment Centers" that had a TV/Stereo with a Record Player and an AM/FM radio all in one cabinet against a wall. The largest ones could be more than 6 feet wide. Some pod chairs even had built in stereo speakers for music. I never had one, but I certainly knew people who did. Fondue pots were for dipping. They were usually filled with melted cheese. The table would have plates filled with various items for dipping. Each person would have their own fondue fork. A different variation was to fill the pot with hot oil and deep fry items at the table It's 2023 and I STILL have a Mr. Coffee machine in my kitchen. It even has a timer. I can fill it and set it the night before so there's a fresh pot of coffee waiting for me when I get up. I STILL have a 1970s dial telephone sitting on my desk. Pulse dialing no longer works, but I can still talk on the phone.

Macrame basically it's using knots to tie shapes. Lots of people were into making their own items and there were commercial things you could buy. I grew up in the 60s and 70s.

We literally had every single item discussed on this video at some point during the 70s!😂😂😂

Man I love watching you. You are so funny. As an old guy from the 1950's and 60's seeing your reaction to things I grew up with is so funny. Personal computers started at the end of the 70's; IBM PC first came out in 1981 and the end of the 80's they had caught on in the home and really boomed. As a geek I started building computers in the 1970's. Still building today, last one was a PC to run Microsoft Flight Simulator that I built last year

My parents had almost that exact mushroom pottery things and my grandparents had all the patterned dishes and tablecloths and stuff. My grandma taught me to crochet and she made us blankets like that and I make them now. Different patterns and softer fabric though haha.

I was a little too young to remember much of the 70's, but I do remember the early 80's and a lot of this stuff was still around at that time. In my house we had the bright green shag carpeting. It feels good to walk on until you step on something sharp that can easily get hidden in the fibers!

This was indeed a great trip down memory lane! And since you asked for comments... I was born in 1962, so effectively grew up in the 70's. I remember ALL this stuff (heck, there are TWO lava lamps in my home to this day). The earth tones, shag carpet, crazy floral furniture, wood paneling, the omnipresent river-rock fireplace, and macrame EVERYWHERE! Then there were the cars. Skip anything after about 1974 and stick to the early 70s...big chrome boulevard bruisers. Indeed, I still have a 1970 Olds 442 and its in full ADVOCADO GREEN, baby! 😎 Things were built to last longer for sure...the aforementioned 54-year-old car is factory OEM original-equipment and still a daily-driver. Even our 1970s kitchen refrigerator is still running in my garage (in Harvest Gold, of course). Those pulse-dial phones were pretty much indestructible and were often a centerpiece of design once the old "Ma Bell Black" started getting updated to new colors. Of course, those colors were limited to green, gold, or brown, but...very cool! I kept and maintained the family slide projector, the home movie projector, and the roll-up screen. My grandkids are gratifyingly fascinated by this stuff, and it's a periodic fun family night even in 2024. I definitely remember feeling super slick when I got an alarm clock with a RADIO that would kick on your FM station. For my Dad, a big home stereo was THE centerpiece to any well-appointed living room. Reel to reel, LPs, and then 8 tracks. You might even go full boat for the "Quadraphonic" system if you were big league. And no, the home PC really was more an 80s thing, with dial-up (at least for me) being an early 90s thing. (anyone else recall when 28.8 was blazing fast internet...?) So take care, young man, and thanks for all your work putting this video together!

Macrame was everywhere. I still love it.

"Do not tell me you have grass in your homes! Is that grass?" Your reactions are so funny to me. I'm not a child of the 70s, my childhood was in the 90s. Yet some of these I can remember being in my home as a child: Wood panel walls, linoleum floors, bean bag chairs, floral sofas, crochet blankets, fiber optic glowing lamps (that you said you had once), my house now has old and modern pyrex dishes (bowls, plates, food storage), vinyl tablecloths, huge coffee machines & colonial furniture were things in my childhood home. I can confirm all of these were common in the US during the 70s and lingered about in the 80s and 90s even as other styles came out after the 70s came and went. I don't think computers began entering homes until the 1990s thought computers have been around longer. Often things are made before becoming available to the public. TVs for example have been around since roughly the early 1900s but didn't become publicly available until about the 1950s and movies have been around since somewhere in the 1900-1920s range. But stage & film theaters were still more popular for socializing and being cheaper than buying a tv set.

Dude some people haven't left the 70s design yet, lol. We still have paneling and MAN do I want it and the textured ceiling gone. You're not wrong. Computers didn't really become a thing in homes until the 90s. Still have dad's Pioneer speakers from the 60s and them bad boys still work and will blow you out of the room. He had to replace the receiver but we still have a reel-to-reel and 8-track players. Don't know if either of them still work but given the way they made stuff back in the day, they probably work just fine, lol.

My grandparents had many of these items, etc. in their home. The bright furniture, yellow kitchen appliances, the big console television, the record player inside of a console, the rotary telephone, the wacky patterned wallpaper, the wood paneling. I remember when they got their first microwave. The entire family came into the kitchen to look at it. They even had a hanging oil lamp. Just about everything that was mentioned. Their home was comfortable & cozy, although very brightly colored!

Even though it came out in 1972, we got the first video game I ever saw for the home called Pong in like I think in 1975 and it was in black and white. It was something special when we later got Breakout in 1976 and it was in color!

Born in the late 50's. Loved the 70's. I can relate to all the things shown in this video. TV remote controls were very rudimentary with channel up and down; volume and on/off. Televisions had limited channel selections and if you didn't have a remote control you had to get up off the couch and turn the channel by hand. Personal computers came later around the early 80's; cell phones after that. I remember 8 track tapes but cassette tapes were more the norm. Black lights and black light psychadelic posters were in most teenagers bedrooms. We had Kodak Instamatic cameras with film cassettes that you had to take to the pharmacy or photo store to have the pictures developed and that took upwards of a week to get back. Yes, shag carpet was everywhere and the colors in this video are spot on. Those were great times though.

What a trip down memory lane.

I grew up in the '70s, and I can verify that a lot of these things were present in homes at the time. And yes, even the egg chair with the built-in speaks was around... A guy that lived a couple of doors down from me had one. As far as my personal decorating taste was concerned, it was wall-to-wall posters! KISS, Rush, Aerosmith, and BLACKLIGHT posters! They were a true '70s staple.

The house I grew up in was made in the late 70s, we had brown shag carpet, the fridge was yellow, the dishwasher was green, so was the washer and dryer. We had yellow and orange flooring in the kitchen and a brick fireplace. The furniture for the living room was a burgundy corduroy couch with a lime green chair. My brother's room had the wood paneling for the walls. So it was kinda like the 70s but the walls and ceilings where all white. We also had a green rotary phone on my parents room and a yellow cord phone in the kitchen.

I was born in 1952. We always had pets so we never had shag carpets. We didn't have the time or energy to keep them clean. Though I have seen those "floating" stairs on TV, I never actually saw a home with them, even the new homes in our area being built in the 1970s. Either the owners were planning to have children or maybe our local building code didn't permit them. When my sister married, her kitchen appliances were two tone, dark tan on the edges with an almond color in the middle. I thought they were cool looking back then! My apartment was set up with the colonial furniture, macrame and beads. My bathroom was bright orange and yellow!

My grandmother had chrome living room furniture with zebra print cushions. It was super funky and I wish I had it.

I am 68 years old and I had almost all of the items mentioned..shag rug ,8 track tapes (still have some), stereo record player with amplifiers and 8 track slot (still have them working), vinyl records LPs and 45s still playable with original covers, rotary phones (not in use but in new condtion), analog tv (still working), original board games (candy land, hangman (Vincent Price on the box cover), original Mr. Potato toy, Original Battleship game, optic fiber lamp, etc. Etc. These were the best times...most of the things you bought then did not need an Extended Warranty because they lasted forever and the warranties were not for a year like they are now, the warranties were for 10 to 15 years. In fact, I still use the 1978 refrigerator ( in avacado green) that my parents gave me as a wedding gift..IT STILL RUNS!!!!

Yes, we got hurt on the stairs. We walked it off and it was fine. My sister used to push my brother down the stairs. We had green shag carpet, wood paneled walls, a console that had TV, record player, and 8-track player in it. We didn't have pods, we had bean bag chairs, and my parents had a water bed. The 70s were cool!

We had that exact gold velvet chair! The first one. And the shag carpet. And the avocado green kitchen, including the linoleum. The blankets were called granny square afghans. I crocheted them, and also did a little macrame. I still have a granny square afghan I made in 1976. The pod chairs were a holdover from the mod '60s. Favorite decor colors were avocado green, harvest gold, and burnt orange.

Best thing about the 70s was the music. If you have not heard Jefferson Airplane White rabbit, and even though these came earlier it's still worth looking at Janice Joplin summertime, all kinds of music check it out! I think everyone should have a musical and film education and for film check out my favorite film noir Black Angel! Another best thing about the 70s is the Bee Gees Heaven And other songs and of course the movies they appeared in Saturday night fever, and I think it was one or two films after that also. My favorite, Donna Summer, thank God it's Friday and her movie of the same name. I also love on the radio by Donna Summer beautiful beautiful music, That makes you want to dance. That's what it was all about in the 70s, DANCING! By the way, my son had two beanbags and nothing ever happened to them and they were very nice, I think they were from Amazon.

The small transistor Radio you would buy from "Radio Shack'" was a must! It went everywhere with me! my friends and I would call the radio station, request a song, and hang out waiting to hear that song play while laying out in the sun trying to catch that tan!!! The 70's was the most AMAZING time to grow up!

Had an egg chair that was wired with the short lived quadraphonic(early surround sound) speaker system. 4 speakers mounted in a way that when you leaned back it sounded like today’s high end surround headphones. Also had a black light. Couldn’t hear anyone or anything without leaning your head out of the whole. Wish I still had one.

My mom and sister both made macramé stuff. It's basically yarn, jute, or other string-like materials tied, woven, crocheted into funky hanging items, often with beads, especially large wooden ones stuck in there. This whole video is a walk down memory lane for me, although some of these things you really only saw in magazines.

14:34 The first home computers came into use in the 80's. Before then, the earliest computers usually took up the space of an entire room

LOL - When you asked if the green shag carpeting was grass! I almost wet myself. "Shag" carpeting (yes I know what it means in the UK, and it meant the same thing in the US in the 70's) is carpet with a very thick, but loose weave. It was everywhere, didn't hold up well over time, and in the 80's came to represent poor or not well-kept homes. In the 70's people would even put this carpeting in their big panel vans and turn it into a "Shaggin' Wagon" used for exactly what you think!! The big TVs with the wooden cabinet housing everything was called a "console TV" and was considered a piece of furniture. There was a whole industry of manufacturers that made art pieces, called statement pieces, that were designed to sit on the top of a console tv. Macrame is making art by tying different types of knots using yarn. Nearly EVERY home had the macrame owl - they showed a photo of one in this video.

2:40 "Is That Grass?" Actually Lewis, that's shag carpet, but that color makes it look like it could've been grass

The first house I bought in 1992 was a 1973 brick rancher that still had orange shag carpet in one bedroom, blue shag in another and purple shag carpet in the master bedroom. Also had black, gold, and silver flocked wallpaper in the bathroom, plus wood paneling on all four walls in the family room with the brick fireplace, plus paneling on all four walls in the living room. I still miss that house for the one level living.

What's funny is that most homes had most of that stuff into the 80s. It really wasn't until the 90s that home decoration styling changed. We had shag carpet in house until 1990. To which then we installed regular short tight carpet, or whatever you call it. But we ripped out all of the carpet about 10 years ago. But yeah man, our house had many of those items. We had a brown refrigerator, but now we've just got a boring stainless steel one like you see everywhere now. Our cabinets were brown up until about 2016 or so. We had brown paneling on at least one wall in our Family Room. And it was only removed about 10 years ago. Little hint here...my mom died 10 years ago, and when we cleaned up the house afterwards (got rid of all her decorative decisions, flowers, etc, etc) we did a lot of remodeling. And stripping out the carpeting, wall paneling, and stuff like was a part of trying to modernize the house a bit. But sadly, my dad has been nearly confined to an electric wheelchair thing for the past few years and he keeps banging into things and there's battlescars all over the house to prove it. Gonna need to do a lot of repairs once he too passes.

I still have a large stereo system with $2,400 dollar speaker cabinets, a 1000 watt per channel power amp twin turntables and a 16 track preamp/mixer with dual 4 track tape machines and a rack of sound effects gear, like equalizers, reverbs, limiters, and audio compressors. And there are over 500 albums in my record collection as well as a over 500 audio CD's and a CD changer. I also have an 8mm projector and camera, as well as 2 carousel slide projectors and a portable screen. The screen is just sitting in storage ever since I got my projector and 100 inch electric roof mounted screen and the 8 speaker surround sound system with 2 subwoofers to go with my home theater system and twin 55 inch plasma flat panel televisions. My home has a floor to ceiling brick fireplace with built in bookshelves on either side that take up the entire 24 foot wall. My dining room set is a colonial style made from solid maple wood. My living room furniture is a large leather sofa with electric recliners and a matching love seat with recliners as well as a single overstuffed matching leather recliner. My kitchen has two ovens and two microwaves and a convection oven as well as solid oak cabinets and counters that are built right into the walls. The house was built in 1966 and the cost for the land [1/2 city block] the house and the in-ground swimming pool was $15,000. Today it is appraised at almost 1/2 million dollars! I currently pay more in yearly property taxes than the entire place originally cost to build. So yeah, it is safe to say that I love my 70's style stuff as well as the latest in electronic tech. I just cannot get used to the cheap, disposable plastic and chinesium crap that has been foisted upon the US population

Ashtrays, even people who didn't smoke would have ashtrays in the house for guests who came over.

It is true. In 1970 I was 10 years old...So from ages 10 to 20, my parents let me redecorate from little girl pink and white with a little vanity set, Jackson 5 and other stars photos all over the closet doors, bedroom walls, ceiling (and) stuffed animals, to a twin bedroom/sofa set with a living room style (brown, mustard and green plaid),fully decked out with a stereo system, TV, phone, shelves for my personal library, and a desk for doing school work, then I redecorated for the last time with a full sized bed with matching bright yellow and white sunflowers bedspread and curtains, a yellow phone, medium sized TV, bookshelves and a dresser with a mirror. My brother had a lava lamp in his room. He also fully paneled his walls while I had wallpaper.

The static shock you could build up wearing socks on shag carpet! So much time zapping siblings and friends! Lol

Black lights and fluorescent posters, bead curtains, turntables and stereo systems, huge speakers. My first car was a '67 Ford Mustang, with wide tires, mag wheels, and air shocks to jack it up in the back. 😅 Awesome memories. ❤

I remember those big 3 ft. long wooden spoon and fork deals that people hung on the walls.

I was born in 1971. We lived in a single wide mobile home that had wood paneling on every wall and shag carpet in every room but the kitchen and bathroom. Our kitchen appliances were Harvet Gold. We had a green, orange and yellow plaid soda, wood console TV and a wood console stereo with AM/FM radio, turn table, and cassette and 8 track players. It seems every house plant we had was hanging from the ceiling in a macrame plant hanger. Macrame is a type of yarn art. People made plant hangers, belts, or just wall hangings with this technique. In fact I remember making a plant holder myself when I was a kid. I still have some of my mother's Pyrex. Oh man, rotary telephones. So much fun to start over when you messed up and selected the wrong digit. Back in those days you had to memorize everyone's phone number unless you carried a personal address/phone book. The Commodore 8-bit home computer didn't come out until 1982. It cost $595 then which would be about $2,000 today. Most people couldn't afford them. They were basically just word processors. You had to go to an arcade to play video games. The only video game console was Pong a table tennis themed video game which was released in 1975. It cost $98.95 which is about $550 today.

There are lava lamps on Amazon. Macrame is a style of yarn work. I was born at the very end of the 70s, so my parents had some things, but were transitioning style in the 80s

Yes, everything showed in this video was around in the 1970's. If it wasn't in your home, you knew someone who had it. The floating stairs were absolutely hazardous, and there were accidents. Mainly it was an inconvenience to take you to the hospital if you fell off them, so we just didn't or never told our parents when we did. Everything and I mean everything was avocado green, bright orange, copper tone brown or harvest gold. They forgot to mention the Tupperware parties! Those 70's colors were there too. I still have a rotary phone in my office. Produced in 1956. If the power goes out, I can still make and receive calls from it. It's fabulous! The 1970's were definitely FUNKY!!

I remember ashtrays, they were a big thing in almost every house in the seventies. Nice ornate ashtrays with matching cigarette lighters on top of the coffee table in the living room.

I was a teenager in the 1970's and this was very accurate. I remember big flowery patterns, paneled walls and avocado green appliances. BTW, macramé was a weaving technique using knots. I learned it at camp and made wall hangings. Fondue was fun. Usually melted cheese, but sometimes chocolate , and you would gather around and dip in bread, vegetables, marshmallows, etc. One thing that he did not mention was inflatable furniture. I had a blow-up chair in my bedroom. Definitely funky furnishings!

Absolutely had most of these at home. Pyrex cookware is worth some $$$ to collectors.

Our floor model TV had a record player on the top. You just had to lift up the wood panel and there was the player. The speakers were on the sides of the TV. We had many house parties with that thing. Plus, we had a weekly Saturday morning Soul Train Line competition as we watched Soul Train on the floor model TV. LOL! The good old days!

Ohhh, the Pyrex of the 70's was so well made it came with a lifetime guarantee. It's a very coveted piece of kitchenware among cooks of today... Pyrex today doesn't distribute heat or hold up under use the way it used to. LOL... No computers in the homes until the late 80's early 90's. There were phone restrictions in my house. The phone wasn't for the kids, if you wanted to talk to your friend, you went to their house, found them in the neighborhood or waited till you saw them at school the next day. I was 15 before I was allowed to use the phone for anything except talking to grandma and making "important calls". That was when I got my first "real job". Life was much different back then. We weren't forced to grow up fast, we were encouraged to be the kids we were. And were actually blessed by the firm boundaries set that we pushed so hard against. The thing we had in the home in the 70's that I miss the most was respect for authority and an understanding of your place in life... I tell you what, you really want to have fun?, learn how to play the card game "spoons" and invite your friends over... By the time you've played 3 rounds, you'll have people diving across the table to get a spoon...LOL video games got nothing on a good round of spoons... People land in your lap, your hands come away scratched and its not rare to see 2 people wrestling over the last spoon...LOL Somebody goes down in every round.... lol

I bought my mom those mushroom dishes and i made those macrame owls. They had beautiful colorful beads for eyes! ❤️❤️❤️. What a blast from the past!

😂😂😂 That green room is similar to my childhood bedroom! Only in 1971, they were too cool to call it green and called it chartreuse! 😅 In my case, the accents weren't blue but turquoise. That's okay...it blended with the avocado-colored kitchen!😂😂😂

something im surprised wasnt mentioned was that homes often had "parlor pits" or "conversation pits" which were essentially living rooms built into the ground. you had to walk down like 2-3 steps of stairs and sit in the couch that was built into the floor. so if anyone wasnt in the pit and they were walking by their feet would be at like shoulder level for anyone sitting on the couch down there. it was so weird and to me that is the by far the funkiest feature from any 70's styled home.

I had an 8 track in my first car. Cassette tapes were the new things. Microwaves weren't really in homes til the late 70s. Also, back to the phones, they were installed by the phone company and the phone company owned it. It was sometime in the late 70s, I think, when you could buy your own phone and the phone company would put a plug in spot in the room you wanted. And there was ONE phone company. If you didn't like it, too bad. It wasn't until the AT&T monopoly was broken up in the 80s that you started having a choice. People today take so much for granted, seriously. Love your posts.

The vinyl flooring in our house looked like tiny rocks. The shag rug caught everything in it. Kitchen appliances were avocado green. All walls were dark wood paneling. Macrame is a heavy yarnish quality made of rope fiber. We had fondue parties as a “gathering.” We had two pots. One full of hot grease with cut up meats around it, so you could cook your dinner one bite at a time. The second pot was heated cheese for dipping good bread or cut up veggies into the pot. Some folks used a hot chocolate dip with bread and fruits. Our coffee pot looked like your video one. That replaced our electric percolator! Open stairs were dangerous. But one got used to it. The phone was on a little shelf with a chair nearby. Definitely no computers. We got an early computer in the mid-eighties. We had a typewriter for letter writing via US Postal Service. Our family had a rotating letter sent from our house to my various aunts and uncles in a regular circle. When your family had the letter you could add a page of family news. Each house added a page. When it was returned to you it was a wholly news letter from family spread from California to Pennsylvania, with multiple stops along the way. Yes, the clock always clicked. In the late 80s we upgraded our house alarm clocks and my husband took the old clicky one to work as office humor. My family had a station wagon as pictured, but my husband and I had not had children for the first years of our marriage. We had a Pontiac Firebird. We were beginning our 20s. We had our photos developed on slides, which had a projector of about 40 slides to a case, and a separate movie screen. The Carousel Projector looks like ours. The home stereo is also familiar, with a vinyl record table. We had a unit with a small tape player in a different case and two loud speakers to place around the room for stereo sound. We had about 100 Long Play (33 1/3 rpm), about 25 78 rpm from my childhood, and a precious box of our 45 rpm vinyls, about 6” across with a large hole in the middle for the spindle. These were songs from the 60s when we were in high school and early college dating. We were married in 1967 and the 70s were building a home together, then having two children. Yes, we also had a lava lamp. Hanging bead doorway covers, and I sewed most of our clothes. We were married for five years before we had a washer and dryer in our home. During the decade we had eight different homes during Air Force active duty years, so it was time to keep up with the trends. I’m now 77.

Macrame was/is braided jute. You can still buy it or make them yourself. People made amazing things with it. This video pretty much summed up what was in homes at the time. Usually there was a wall phone in the kitchen and you could attach a 10ft cord to the receiver so you could talk on the phone while you were across the room doing dishes. haha There were no home computers at that time. People had friends and family over all the time. Your home stereo and car stereo were important items. Albums were treated with respect because they would warp if not cared for. 8 track tapes were before cassette tapes. They were much bigger than cassettes but made your music more portable. Good old days! An amazing time for music. Probably the best decade ever.

I had to watch this one! I was born in 1971. I can tell you that I lived in a house during my early years that had wood paneling all around the living room. I also remember the wild wallpapers in other houses. And shag carpeting was everywhere! And dear god, I remember flowers on sofas, too. Interestingly, my dad must have spent what was a fortune in about 1976-77 to buy a HUGE, top-loading, Betamax VCR. It even kinda had wood paneled accents on it. Video rentals stores would not come along for years, either. And fondue pots usually had melted cheese and you'd dip bread and other things in. Then you'd have a second one with melted chocolate and dip stuff in that. Some fondue restaurants still exist and also have pots with some oil so you can cook meat.

Home computers were available in the states in the late 70’s but you really would only see them in some businesses. By the 1980s you started seeing them in select homes of tech enthusiasts or rich people, then they became common in most homes starting around 1989-1995 (depending on what part of the country you were living). We got our first computer in 1990. And my elementary school had a computer lab by 1991. I wasn’t around in the 70’s but being an 80’s baby the remains of the 1970’s were all around me in my home and my friends m/families homes. I enjoyed this blast from the last thanks for watching it with us!

We had all of it. I am 68. The 70s were great! Peace dude!

Star burst mirrors was a big thing in the 70s along with hanging oil drip lamps . Animal print furniture was also popular and water beds

My brother and I both had to have surgery because of shag carpet. Me, a toothpick broke off deep in arch, brother had a needle totally impaled into heel. Macramé was rope made items. I still use my 70s pyrex glass cooking pans. Fondue cooking pot held hot cooking oil and everyone cooked each bite or it was use to dip food into a melted savory or sweet sauce. The stairs are dangerous to fall thru. Home computers were 80s. The clicking clock was no louder than a ticking clock of old, and somewhat quieter than some older ones. i owned that exact set of colonial furniture

As a teen in the 70s the biggest thing for the home was the stacked component stereo system with really larger speakers for the bedroom. This was a must-have, especially if it had either an 8 track or a cassette player. I kept mine (it was a gift purchased from Montgomery Ward) until I was in my late 20s when I finally swapped out for CDs. Now, I'd love my old record collection back.

brings back to my childhood, I also remember my aunt and Uncles house in the country. Their basement had the wood paneling, had a swing chair, and they had these cups that were that were made out of Aluminum in different colors. I think of the things were left off were CB radio that you could put in the car, Mineral Oil rain drip lamps (my favorite), I remember my grandma had this white table cloths with little circles. I used to a pen and fill them in.

We had a floor model TV with a record player and radio. It held on top, my mom's best vase, her best looking medium sized plant, and her best table lamp. The TV was so big that it held all of them comfortably with space between each item. It took up one whole wall in the living room.

This brings back so many memories. I had a water chair that my dad built a plastic lined frame for. I made my own plastic bead curtains. Flower power was a big deal. I found some stickers I got in the 70’s. Shape of a flower with red, white and blue Stars and Stripes. I put one on my car bumper and I don’t like bumper stickers. And I also did macrame. Plant hangers, wall hangings, hanging tables and hanging shelves.

The stereo, elaborate candles, rattan furniture, black lights, lava lamps and macreme hangings were everywhere. In the kitchen a crockpot, Pyrex cookware, the phone on the wall with a long cord and electric carving knives.

A rite of passage for all young men in the 70s was replacing the am/fm radio in their first cars. Required the installation of new speakers in the front doors, and some woofers in the flat space beneath the rear glass. I went with a cassette deck - AudioVox IIRC in my 74 Corolla I bought in 78. Wall paneling was popular in part because it was the cheapest/easiest way to address failing plaster and lathe in homes built before drywall. The green appliances were "avocado" IIRC.

Yes, we had an orange shag carpet in our house, two orange walls - not bright orange, more of a dark shade - and one wall with wallpaper in a floral pattern. Lots of windows to break up the orange, this was an older house in the southern USA. My wife did ceramics and macramé as hobbies. Macramé is a craft in which decorative and useful objects were made by tying knots with different colored cords according to a pattern. We had a coffeemaker and still use one, though the one we now have is much newer. Our current home, built in the 1970s, has a fireplace with a brick surround. We had, and still have somewhere, a fondue pot, which you basically use to dip food in heated sauce or melted cheese, sometimes even in hot oil to cook - no double dipping! It's a fun way to eat and entertain with family or a close group of friends. We still have Pyrex baking dishes from that period that we continue to use all the time.

Yes, this was absolutely what the 70s was all about. Loved the bricks around the fireplace.

Hello! This is just such a blast from the past. I was born in 69 so this would be my elementary school days. We had one of those banana yellow telephones on the wall in the kitchen. So you could talk anywhere in the living room or whatever but there was no privacy. My mother got into macrame is what it's called. She had a macrame lamp and one of the rooms and it was so ugly. I was so happy when she finally got rid of it a few years ago. My mother could never get rid of anything. We also had the big TV console for the longest time into the late '80s I believe. I grew up in the military so we couldn't decorate our walls and that kind of stuff like we wanted. But we definitely had the flowers sofas in the '70s. One thing I don't think was mentioned was record players. We had a huge album collection from my dad and my mom and then me and my sister. We had the big huge stereo system. Also our TVs console was huge. No remote. We were the remote me my sister and my brother. I think we got cable toward the late '70s. I remember this little box on top of the TV that had like a little slider on it that changed the channels for cable. I know it was the late '70s because we moved to Germany in 81. And I remember when we moved to Germany that's when VCRs came out that's when Atari came out. I missed the beginnings of MTV but that came to Europe fairly quickly. UK music, call the second British Wave was huge in Germany. But man the '70s were so much fun. They should do one on school playgrounds. We had metal slides. We had swing sets where we would test each other on who could jump from the highest swing while we were swinging still in the air. I won. I remember I was doing the football thing with the tires. Where you would put one foot in every tire and I hit the front of the tire and it flipped on my ankle and I broke my ankle when I was about 8 years old. We used to play King of the mountain big round metal jungle gym things. We also had those bars that you would go across that were also made out of metal. And we also lived in North Central Texas or sometimes we would get heat waves of almost 120°. You'd have to remember not to wear shorts when going down the slides. My dad had this huge Ford Fairlane car. I loved that car. No seat belts and we had a CB radio in the '70s. In the car. When we go on trips we could talk to the 18 wheel truck drivers and there was a special language. Then we got a smaller car in the '70s called a Ford Granada and we put the CB radio in that and our handle was the silver bullet. Lol. Thank you for these videos because they're so fun and a walk down memory lane. The '80s ones are just as funny because those are my teenage years. I had so many perms so I could have high hair. Lol oh those were the days. Great reactions. I've been a sub for quite a while I just don't comment very often but I want to give you some credit today for making me smile

banana seat bikes with cards clipped on the front frame to make the spokes sing that sweet motor sound

Had a lot of these growing up in the 70s (born in the 60s). Floral couches, at least two different ones that I remember, plus a plaid love seat. Most of our downstairs had that dark brown paneling (dining room & family room, plus an addition with the brick wall fireplace). We didn't have any long shag carpet in the house, when we first moved in ~1970, most of the floors were hardwood which my folks promptly covered in white, textured carpeting. Fondue was for anything you could melt and then dip food in that was on a long, narrow skewer/fork thing. Savory fondues usually had a plate of cut up pieces of meat or breads that were then dipped in the warmed fondue pot that could have melted cheese, or warm BBQ sauce, etc. And afterward you could do a dessert fondue where you had cubed melons, strawberries, or sweetbreads that you would dip into warm chocolate, caramel, or melted marshmallows. I *LOVED* when we did fondue parties, but it was rare because they were an absolute pain to prep for and to clean up afterwards.

My mom and I painted and fired our own ceramic beads and bowls for the macrame plant hangers we made. Yes, we painted and fired our own ceramic Christmas trees.

I learned how to macrame in grade school in the 70s. It’s like fancy braiding hemp cord and you made wall art or plant holders. Also learned how to crochet. When my metal swingset started to rust, my mom painted it brown with different colored daisies on it.

Fondue was basically an electric fryer, warmer. You could deep fry meat in it, heat cheese for dip, heat chocolate for dipping etc. You cooked or heated your food at the table and ate it directly. We use to Fondue all the time. Computers were 1970's but to expensive for most people to purchase. Pretty sure most people had CB Radio's, we did and we would talk to truckers regularly. Everyone's household I went to had a set of Encyclopedia's. If you wanted to know something you looked it up in those books. They were our internet lol. 8 track was like a large cassette. There were record players, 8 track players, and cassette players to play music on.

Macrame is a craft similar to braiding. Fondue has made a come back in the last decade. Cheese is a popular fondue, you make a melty cheese sauce on the stove then keep it warm in your fondue pot on the table. You cut up pieces of bread that your guests put on their long forks to dip into the cheese. You can also cook small cut up beef or melt chocolate and dip fruit, marshmallows etc..

our living room had a stereo system. The top opened up and inside was a record player with an FM AM stereo. The speakers were built into the ends of the full size cabinet. When the top was closed it looked like a piece of furniture.

There was a wide variety of paneling, many colors and textures. My bedroom had textured paint. It was simply very thick plaster that you added your paint to. You applied it to your sheetrock ad then shaped it kind of lie cake icing.That way if it got chipped, there was no white paint showing through. I had a TV just like the one in the video. It lasted forever. Dude, the vinyl tablecloths were not all wild colors. Some were very conservative and even classy looking. No home computers in the 70’s. My sons were teens in the seventies. For Christmas one year we got them clock radios, just like the one in the picture. My older son still has his. He keeps it on the bedside table in the guest room,beside the iron bedstead from his childhood bedroom. And no the click was so soft you would not hear it while asleep.

When I turned 14 in 1972 my parents let me re-do my bedroom. We painted it dark yellow, added orange and gold shag carpet, made a quilted headboard with brown, gold and orange flowers and added white curtains with little ball fringe. I even had an orange lava lamp. I hung some cool posters and my bedroom was the coolest! I loved the warm bright colors back then.

1. "Company" was very common. Parents were constantly having friends over. 2. Wood paneling, shag carpeting & wallpaper was EVERYWHERE. 3. Fireplaces aren't common now? New one on me. 4. What's weird about a flowery couch? 5. There wasn't a basement fun room that didn't have bean bags. Very comfy & fun. Great for listening to records. 6. I still have a TV that's deeper than it is wide. 7. I still use TV trays. 8. Macrame & crochet are 2 things I don't miss. 9. When did pottery go out of style? I thought it was always in style. 10. Fringe was very hippie. 11. Pod chairs were cool AF. Loved mine. 12. Pyrex casserole dishes lol. Yes everywhere. 13. My mother had many many vinyl table clothes. 14. Yea, we didn't do the fondue. 15. Who doesn't gave a coffee maker? 16. Floating stairs? Never heard of 'em. 17. You could certainly kill someone with a rotary phone lol. 18. Computers were only on Sci-Fi shows. 19. I had a Star Wars alarm clock. R2 & 3PO 20. My current fridge is green & at least 40 yrs old. 21. Stereo systems were something to take great pride in. 22. I still do vinyl. Nothing like laying back & listening to an album. Especially if extras & lyrics were involved. 23. 8-tracks were useless. Other stuff everyone had: Fish tanks with Oscars & Siamese fighting fish, black lights with fluorescent posters, Venus fly traps, La Machine, trash compactors, basement bars with chrome barstools, bead curtains, super8 film projectors, pool tables (standard & bumper), air hockey tables, foosball tables, tabletop hockey games, strobe lights, every manner of ash tray you could possibly think of & yes, lava lamps ✌

My parents entire house was paneling. It was actually great. No painting. Just dust it. My brother lives in the house now. He loves it. Not grass, carpet. My parents living room was green carpet, brown, golden yellow and orange couches and orange curtains. Doilies were popular. My Mom crocheted them with the tiny thread. She was good and fast. She crocheted while watching tv. She made some with flowers and even names on them. She also made a blanket and tablecloth. Macrame (Mac-ra-may) is crocheted. Mom’s lamps had a big eagle on the bottom and it was yellow gold. The shade was beige. My son has them now. Fondue you dip food into the pot. All this is true. The kitchen was green. Kitchen Curtains had weird shapes and all colors. Watching this made me cry. 😢. My parents are gone. 💜

I love our old home movies from the 70's. We have some fairly rare footage of the 1st year of the original "Main Street Electrical Parade" at Disneyland and the special Bi-Centennial parade they had in 1976. Most of our old Super 8 footage is from Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm, Magic Mountain and our cross country road trips to visit our family in Indiana. We lived in San Diego. Those family trips to the theme parks and road trips are my best memories from childhood. I'm so incredibly grateful they're documented on film. It's wild to see my parents so young and myself and my siblings as children in live action. No sound, but that's okay.

The home I live in was built in the 70s, and there are still some signs of the time left: Popcorn ceilings almost throughout, one room has a shag carpet, another has wood paneling (We use that one as a library.), and two rooms (the bedrooms without the carpet) have old tiles.

1970s kid here 🙋‍♀️ we had a bright red marble looking linoleum kitchen floor 😂, paneling AND wallpaper in the living room and sitting room, a console tv (the only tv in the house), no cable yet and no remote, that blanket on the back of the couch WAS scratchy and we called it an afghan. I remember learning how to macrame when i was a kid in the 4-H club. We made plant holders. Ohhhh yes the Pyrex dishes! Those babies last FOREVER! I still have one that was my grandmother’s. It HAS to be at least 50 years old 😳 we definitely did fall on those stairs but remember from your previous video on Generation X? Our parents didn’t worry so much about safety back then lol kids coming up in the 70s & 80s are Gen x-ers 😊 we had one of those wall phones in the kitchen. With a long cord. Best thing about those phones is that you could slam the receiver down if you wanted to hang up on someone 😆 Also, even tho you had your own house phone number, you might still be on a “party line” which shared the telephone line with other households in the area. You had to take turns of someone else was already on the line. A lot of ppl would listen in to others’ conversations. I’m not exactly sure when computers became popular in homes but it wasn’t in the 70s. I remember having just one at my school in the 80s. Plus they were expensive whenever they first became available for the home. I remember having a pink refrigerator for part of the time when I was a kid lol they didn’t mention waterbeds. They were also big in the 70s and 80s. If you had one, you prayed it didn’t spring a leak! Funky is a very good word to describe the aesthetic of the 70s for sure! Our clothing also reflected that era 😳 and for SOME reason, parents would dress their kids in matching outfits even if they weren’t twins 😳 my sister is a year older than me and we have so many pictures of us in identical outfits 🤦‍♀️

Fondue pots were used for things like warm cheese dips or hot pot of oil. In the 70's the pot sat over a small pot of Sterno (a fire and heat source for buffet chafing dishes). Nowadays (yes, fondue is still around), they are electric or battery powered or rechargeable. In larger cities in the US, there are restaurants specializing in Fondue.

I graduated High School in 1976 and got my first flat in a four family flat in 77 and had almost none of this old folk stuff. The only new thing in my apartment was the stereo which cost more than the rest combined. When I wasn't working or going to school it screamed out Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Van Hallen.

What was this guy doing in my house? He showed everything we had. Where I lived wood paneling was in the rec room in the basement, not upstairs. Yes, we had macrame all over the house. It was very decorative. My mom had silver and black leaves wallpaper in the entry hall. I smile when I think of the 70's.

My Mom used to macrame, and she taught me a little. It is basically crochet, but with string or jute. You could basically make anything from clothing to utility items like a hammock.

Every family with a TV had a remote. Dad was always telling me to get up and change the channel, only had five depending on which way the antenna was facing. My daughter just bought a lava light off Amazon just last week. I still remember spending a few hours under the dash of my car installing my 8-track player and Jensen speakers. Always hated the flip number alarm clocks as it was a pain in the royal azzs to reset the numbers if power went out.

Macrame was a textile art that used weaving and knots to make decorative pieces. It was big with housewives. It gave them something to do after the housework, while they waited for their husband to come home from work.

This was spot on. Born in 72, we had all of this, the paneling, the textured walls, the avocado color scheme, macrame, etc. They missed the carpet that many people had in their kitchens and bathrooms though (shudder). They also forgot that everything was covered in 2nd hand smoke because everyone smoked indoors (shag carpet was great at trapping odors) 😩 When I was around 6, we took turns trying to pull each other up through the floating staircase with rope, needless to say, I was dropped about halfway up onto my head and was unconscious for like an hour. I woke up on the neighbors couch, no hospital, no doctor, just "well, she's awake, must be ok, send her home". Gen X is made different 🤷

The fondue thing was a pot of melted cheese ..sometimes mixed with a bit of wine, and using special long thin fondue forks, you'd dip pieces of various breads and veg's into the hot cheese.

My parents' house still has the wood paneling! I still have my orange bean bag, stereo, 8-track player, reel-to-reel, and slide carousel. The '70s were a great time! I loved my childhood! Even better...teenage years in the '80s!!