Brit Reacts to Remembering The 1970s in America! 

In the 70's you could ride your bike for literally miles from home along with a pack of kids.

Yes, in the 70's and 80's we had to think for ourselves..

Dude your comments, are cracking me up!! The 1970's was so much fun

We did those things without safety gear. No helmets,.no knee pads etc. It was awesome. I remember riding in my dad's truck standing on the front bench seat. My seatbelt was his arm. We'd blow crap up. I'd go to the lake in the summer time as a kid for hours without adult supervision. There was NO Internet and it was an absolute blast. I honestly feel sorry for kids who didn't experience my type pf childhood.

We had sooo much fun in the 70s. Glad i was there

I wouldn't give up my childhood in the 70's for anything. It shaped my whole life. To this day I am still spending my free time outside, and meeting people.

Those slides and other playground equipment was awesome in the 70s. It was before everything was ruined with safety regulations.

70s kid here!!! The ditto paper!!!!! 🤤🤤🤤 best smell on the planet!!!!! Loved it!

We also had a PSA at 10pm every night before the news that would say "It's 10 o'clock, do you know where your children are?"

The three prominent colors of the 70s were avocado, harvest gold and burnt orange.

I am currently 52 years old and spent hours holding the antennas on the TV as a kid....no joke. Love your content btw...

I was 13 in 1970. Best music decade EVER! Lots of concerts too. I've been to almost 60 so far. To name a few; James Taylor, Bob Seger, Bonnie Raitt, Muddy Waters, Bad Co., ELP and hung out with Foreigner and Cheap Trick. I grew up on the east end of Long Island. It was paradise back then. It's now more "Lifestyles of The Rich and Famous". My family goes back to the late 1600s there. My dad was a Police Officer for 28 years, Chief for 11 of them. My family included a Lighthouse keeper after the Civil War and Whalers out of Sag Harbor.

as a kid from the 70s it was the best decade to grow up in. the music was awesome, the movies were great, and just the whole feeling was so much better then today. i wish i could go back.

Just a little trivia about "White Out" for those who may not know... It was invented by a woman from Dallas Texas named Bette Nesmith, mother of Micheal Nesmith of 60's TV show and music group The Monkees.

Your Channel is giving me a nostalgia high. In High School there were classes for work related skills. Coke was used in automotive class to clean car parts. I some how; as a male, got into secretary class. I was the only male in the class. What a blessing I thought a curse. Learned to flirt. Learned I could type out a class schedule that looked identical to the class schedule you were required to carry. The rub was you were only allowed out of school during set time periods. You could only go to lunch during the time period your schedule mandated. I had access to a type writer that I could make any schedule I wanted and even sold modified schedules to other students. I made hall passes. I made alternate grade papers. I even rewrote papers for dollars. Meaning, If an A student handed in a paper with an A. I could reword, mimic the wording for a D paper. Got the D paper up to an A in a heart beat. If memory served it was about five dollars for about an hour's work. I even got free stuff when there were whatever given to the students. Like free books, plants, toys - basically whatever the school gave for incentive. You had to present a schedule and they would write down the name and give you whatever the flavor of the week. I would retype numerous schedules with numerous names and get numerous items. Off school, I once got a free pool stick using Randy Rhodes as an ID. Yeah, pool hall for high schoolers. You would submit a report card in a raffle and you would only be allowed to enter if your report card had all A's. Well, 50 report cards with all A's stood a good chance to win. I can't believe to this day they didn't notice the same telephone number 50 times.

I graduated from high school in 1973 but I remember all of that. Due to younger cousins, neighbor kids and my own kids the sesame street song will probably be in my head forever. School House Rock was like a commercial; time for the kitchen or bathroom break.

Dude!!!! The smell of a fresh DITTO was heaven!!!! It had the best chemical smell ever! Everyone including teachers sniffed the papers nonstop! 😂😂😂

Those metal slides were brutal in the summer time. They would get blistering hot to the touch. Your legs in the short shorts would burn all the way down. Loved growing up in the 70's. 😆

Lol, I'm a retired truck driver and kids would get on their parent's CB radios all the time. And yeah, the CB could get pretty vulgar at times. But, I can't count the number of times that it saved me from trouble (road conditions, accidents, weather, etc). I wouldn't operate a truck without one.

I was 12 years old when the 70s came to an end. I can tell you that most of this stuff is absolutely true. Nobody had bicycle helmets. I never even heard of them back then. No seat belts, we rode in the back of the truck for hours sometimes. Kids could buy cigarettes. Sun screen wasn't a thing. I never heard of it until the 80s. When we would stay over night at a friend's house, we would usually sneak out and wander the neighborhood in the wee hours of the morning doing things we could never dream of during the day. We had 5 channels on T.V. back then, the 3 networks, one independent channel and then public broadcasting. All the teenyboppers listened to am radio. Walkie talkies were highly prized by all kids. Kids did have more freedom back then.

Being a kid in the 70s was great, particularly in the summer. I would get up in the morning, Mom would make breakfast. Doing chores sucked, but when I had finished, Mom made me lunch, then sent me outside and told me she didn't want to see me until the sun went down. Good times.

I’m so glad I grew up in the 70s. It was so much fun.

The 70s were amazing! Everything in that video is absolutely true, if kids today only knew😂

By far the greatest thing about the 70's was THE MUSIC!! SO much to choose from, no auto tune, massive creativity, had so much to say. Is there any wonder that a huge proportion of music reaction videos feature 70's classic rock.

13:22 Saturday mornings were an event in the USA for a child. You got up at 7am, got your big bowl of cereal and stayed in your pyjammas planted in front of the tv with your sibs or friends and you stayed there from 7am-12noon.

Saturday morning cartoons was when my mom got peace and quiet as she knew i was gonna be stuck in front of the TV from 7am to noon.

That yellow was called "Harvest Gold". My house was done in the early 70s and we had all that brown, orange, avocado green and harvest gold. We did that too. We built ramps and ride big wheels and bikes on them. I had the Star Wars Lunch Box!

My little brother in law told me that when his dad wanted to turn the channel he would have to go outside and manually turn the antenna on top of a pole connected to their house. And during the winter his father would make him go out and turn the antenna even with 3 feet of snow on the ground.

Yes, we used baby oil all over our body and sat out in the sun to bake. You would put "sun in" in your hair or lemon juice to lighten your hair. And yes, all we old people are dealing with skin cancer now. There were 3 channels on tv to watch. The stations went off at midnight and came back on at 6:00 am. That slide you saw was how it was. It was tall, made of metal, and HOT in the summer. Best decade ever!

23:25 "Bro, that is DANGEROUS." Welcome to the Wonderful World of the 70s. Somehow we all survived, and learned from our mistakes.

Baby oil for tanning, no helmets, lawn darts and hitchhiking. We lived on the edge (and are still here to talk about it!) Character building.

We went to the library when we wanted information! You could have much worse addictions! My mother gave my brother the bowl haircut many times when he was young! She even got made at me once for getting her comb caught in my hair so she did the bowl cut to me! Then she sold my long beautiful hair to the local beauty shop who was also a wig maker! I personally kept myself covered up because I got such a bad sunburn once that I never wanted that to happen again and we didn't have sunscreen! I used to hitchhike all the time, drove my mother crazy!

The 70's were amazing. I rode my bicycle all over town. My parents never even knew I was gone, or where I was. We rode our bicycles miles away to the hills and jumped them as high as we could. So high in fact, that my brother and I frequently broke our bike frames. My brother had an unfortunate accident after my father tried to weld his bike and it broke at the forks. There was no such thing as a BMX bicycle at that time, we all rode a Scwinn. But the BMX came soon after.

Jimmy Buffett' stepped on a pop top"!! 🎶

I lived in the 60 & 70's and my husbands family are farmers, they had CB radios on their tractors to communicate with the other equipment (grain trucks, planters etc. ) in the field, and they all had handles, like my bro-in-law was Roy Rogers so his wife was Dale Evans. Our whole rural area had CB and it was fun choosing your handle. One neighbor was Beechnut (I think he used Beachnut tobacco )and his wife was juicy fruit.

I love the 70s had so much fun I had a Dukes of Hazzard lunch box those days was great sure wish we could go back there.

The high school I went to had a smoking section for the older kids in the mid 70s

I'm 58 years old and I can't remember a better time for music, entertainment and life. I can't say much for the fashions and decor though. But, good with the bad I guess ❤

We had so much fun building ramps, out of left over wood my dad had laying around. We jumped over everything. Some kids didn't end the day with the same smile they started the day with.

I loved the 70s. Born in 62 i was a teen in the 70s. Lived with my C.B. my handle was Shamrock. We skateboarded everywhere. Men and women wore bell bottoms not just girls. My first car was a 73 Plymouth Satellite Sebring, 73 Duster, 73 Dart custom, 73 Dodge Deamon.

In the US, HOMELY means ugly in a specific way, usually referring to a person's face. It spans very plain to mildly ugly, but doesn't go all the way to very ugly. HOMEY means comfortable, unpretentious and inviting. Usually refers to interior spaces. You're the first UK reactor that I've seen ask about this.

Do a deep dive on "School House Rock".....a staple every Saturday morning in the 70s. Learned quite a bit, and still have the songs in my head!

I am from the 70's. "What did not kill you. Only made you stronger"

Pain is a great teacher. What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger. Get up and walk it off. Put some dirt on that to stop the bleeding. Words of advice from the 70s.

I was a kid in this era just like you see in this video. Yeah, we did all that stuff and more! We’d play hard outside all day until dinner time. We would play dangerous, unsupervised games that weren’t over till someone was crying or bleeding. No joke! It was a blast! Ha Ha! We would compare scars as a badge of honor!

Evil Kineval was a legend as I was growing up - even saw him live once -- very cool - and YES we did do crazy Bike stunts w/jumps/ramps etc lol! Such fun back then!

Dude, we're gonna need a bigger boat! This is a great podcast walking down memory lane!! ❤ Banana bike seats

🎶 Conjunction Junction, what’s your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses. 🎶 🎵

Reminds me of growing up in the 70's and 80's. Man that was a mad but awesome time to be alive.

I lived through the 60s and 70s. Those were the best times. I jumped over a lot of bike ramps. A 10 year old could walk in a store and buy a pack of cigarettes for 35-40 cents, no questions asked. Kids were pretty safe out on their own, not like today. Grownups looked after kids even if they didn't know them. Most people did not lock their doors at night. Shows you how morals and respect for others has disappeared today.

I'm an 80's kid and love the 70s style. The homes do look more cozy, homey, and inviting (homely to you hahha). My home is all about colors, browns, mustard, fall colors for me is it!!

Those slides were the best. You would grab some wax paper from home, go down the slide sitting on it a couple times, and wax it up. Then you would slide down at lighting speed after that.

I loved this time of my life

I think you meant to say that that looks very warm and home'y, as in comfortable. That is not scooby-doo, it is another cartoon called speed buggy. The car had personality and could talk. 👍🏻

I was 16 in 1970. I can't remember what lunch bucket I had, but I had one. Cars were every thing. My family home was within a bike ride away of a drag strip. Seat belts were new. I played drums in a band which got good enough to play over several states around us. The early 70s was university. There were no cell phones and computers were bulky and slow. The internet barely existed and all was DOS based. We didn't really worry about locked doors and friends were plentiful. It was majic.

I had and still have an oversized Woody Woodpecker lunchbox, I use it for a toolbox these days! I sold Avon in the 1970's and won an award for applying make-up for my customers! I still have the award, it's a trinket box with colorful birds on it!

12:39 that’s Speed Buggy my friend. The Patty Hearst story is an example of the condition called Stockholm Syndrome. Where a captive inevitably becomes sympathetic to their captors cause or reasons.

I was a teenager in the 70's. It was awesome. 😅 As far as believing everything, I spent a lot of time reading. The library was a weekly thing.

Didn’t grow up in the 70s but definitely jumped over friends on bikes, skateboards, scooters. Anything we could find.

I grew up in the 80s, and those were the playground equipment, and we did have that slide.

Lewis: I'd fall off that slide and break my arm. We did Lewis, we did. Even if you could successfully get to the top and slide down, the darn thing got heated up to 2000° F So you would get second degree burns for your trouble.

My dad was just a block away when Patty Hearst robbed the bank in San Francisco with the SLA. He watched the whole thing. Lol we could even smoke in the grocery store. I had lunch boxes for Partridge Family , Brady Bunch, and many others. I fell off a slide like that one in the video. I had a blood blister from the smallpox vaccine and it busted open. It was really traumatic. The 70s and 80s was the best era to live in. We definitely had the best music. Great reaction!

I graduated from high school in 1970. Another cool thing about the 70's were the fast cars.

I'm 58, and I still have my "Man From U.N.C.L.E." lunch box. 😁 Pet rocks were a gimmick, just like Chia Pets. Yes - we used to jump our bicycles over anything & everything - and we did the same with skateboards! The pulltabs: some of them had notches on either side of the pin on the ring: if you took the spring part & stuck the end in a notch, then pulled back on the ring and let go, the ring would fly about 30 feet! I remember Patty Hearst: police tried to raid a house in Watts, and they got into a gunfight, and subsequent standoff: police ended up burning down the house, but she wasn't there. Polaroid cameras are making a comeback! When we were kids (8 years old) , we could buy alcohol & cigarettes for our parents at the local store - they'd give us money and a note for the cashier, and off we went! Steel playground equipment - nothing beats it! I have two friends that have hitchhiked clear across the country. Great times!

In the U.S. "homely" means "ugly," or at least "very plain."

The word "homely" is a euphemism for plain or ugly in American English, usually in reference to people. "He's pretty homely looking"

Great years, get up early in the morning find your friends ride your bikes all day. Didn’t have to be home until the streets lights came home. The best years

In heavy snow storms we got around by bumper hoping car's trucks and busses!

I broke my shoulder jumping off a ramp over a bunch of kids. I crashed on the way down. I had a Star wars lunch box

I would LOVE you to react to Schoolhouse Rock! They were great! I suggest "I'm just a Bill" and "Conjunction Junction" to start and "Verb, That's What's Happening" is good too.

The cartoon was called "SPEED BUGGY'" and I watched it every Saturday morning. I had to ride my bike a mile up hill to my grandparents house because I didn't have a TV.

The 70's in America was a great time to grow up.

Don't forget shag carpet and water beds. They were very popular in the 70s.

The yellow was called Harvest Gold

I grew up in the 70s. So much freedom!

The letter with the drawing of the potato just killed me, I laughed with tears running down my face! Had to screenshot that!

From 1970-72 I hitchhiked around the US. I was 18-20 yo female. Mostly hitched with a bf. Record was 1 day from Cleveland NY to Cleveland OH. 1 day from Cleveland OH to Chicago. 1.5 days from Chicago to SF. 3.5 days total to cross the country. Such freedom, such kind people! Can't do that now 😢

Our kitchen growing up in the 70s had avocado-green everything - fridge, dishwasher, phone on the wall. And the only way I can describe the color of our shag carpeting was "cat puke." I totally remember having to rake the carpet so the pile stood up after vacuuming. My elementary school didn't allow boxes, only paper lunch bags. But my mom would make a little drawing on the bag and put a note in it. She did the alien in E.T. once...I wish I could find that. I do recommend watching a video on the Patty Hearst story. It ended in a huge fire fight with police. There's still debate if she really agreed with her captors, or if it was a Stockholm Syndrome situation. Now do Schoolhouse Rock! They came on during Saturday morning cartoons. Please!

12:28 Hannah Barbera, creators of Scooby Doo and the Flintstones, did several teen-centric shows, all in the same style.

My brother and I had the "Evil Knievel" bike, looked like his motorcycle but it was just a bike. Yes, we all took turns jumping a row of kids, usually 3-5 kids lined up. Not too many kids got hurt 😂

One thing he missed in the video and one of my favorite thing from the 1970's, homemade ice cream. If you were luck (and we weren't) you had the electric ice cream maker. We had to crank that joker by hand in the summer heat while dad would pack ice and salt in the bucket.

The reason for the change in pull tabs on cans was wrong. They didn't have sharp edges, so stepping on them was not dangerous. However, it was very common to just drop the pull tab into the can after pulling it off. On rare occasions, it would manage to come back out while they were drinking, becoming a choking hazard. So they developed a "pull tab" that didn't pull off.

The yellow kitchen, thats my mom's, it was called Harvest Gold. And the telephone matched! Mom had the 1st pushbutton telephone on the block/ street. It came with a booklet, U could play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and a few others, using the tones with the phone number buttons! Me & friends would go on all day bike rides. We'd end up 15 miles from home. But as long as we were home by time the street lights came on,, all was just fine. And parents never asked what we did or where we were. I graduated the year of the bicentennial, 1976. And yes EVERYTHING was about the bicentennial. I always felt that it took away from our graduation ceremony experience. My adult son still has his Star Wars metal lunchbox. It missing the handle, but he'll never get rid of that.! I love watching Ur reactions to our country, family lifestyles and cultures.

i didn't grow up in the 1900's but growing up in the early 2000's, i shared many of the same experiences from this. like the no sun screen and playing outside until the streetlights came on.

I was born in 1965 and am loving this video, Lewis!! I was the only girl on my street to jump over 3 guys with my purple bike! None of the other girls wanted to try... their Barbies were more important! 😂 Can't remember my lunch box but, we all had one! I think mine was Evil Kenievel.. yea, loved motorcycles. Never had sea monkeys but, friends did! My handle on the cb radio was Pinky! Dad was Pigpen. The best music!!! My high school had a smoking area called the commons! I've held many rabbit ears for hours 🙄 and we tried wrapping them in aluminum foil to make them work! It's 10 o'clock, do you know where your children are? I had the Dorothy Hammill haircut. We despised learning the metric system.. then they stopped teaching it! Typical slide. No sunscreen, I used copper tone and baby oil!! Keep on Truckin'! Stood in line for 2 hours to see Star Wars

Homely means ugly. Homey means comfortable. My parents rolled their eyes at the "pet rock", and my mom glued eyes on a rock and put it in her garden. We had lots of pets, including mom's own pet rock. I had a Buggles lunch box when I was little.

My dad and his friends all put CB radios in their cars and they would play hide and seek all over the Wichita Falls (city in north Texas) driving around talking to each other and looking out for their buddies cruising by. It must have been crazy fun because he still talks about it to this day. Always wanted a CB radio since I was a kid.

1970 baby here... and here in Canada same thing. All the things you have shown in different Gen X vids we did as kids and then as teens in the 80s! Great times adventuring tho... dangerously and we all survived ( well most of us). It taught us risk taking, resilience, critical thinking, common sense , courage and more. The younger generations now are more coddled sadly but my hubby is a 1968 baby and we raised our 4 kids.. now 26 thru 32 OLD SCHOOL... except we taught stranger danger etc and needed to know where they were going of course and were strict but also let them adventure and experience life so that they could learn. They are all very strong ppl with good work ethics and they dont relate with many of their peers.. only the ones who were raised old school with values and morals etc like them. It was a fine line between how we were raised to instill all the strengths I listed above BUT be a present parent. I cleaned houses on my own so I could be home in time for my kids after school as I didnt want them to be a latchkey kid. ( And dad worked til 5 or 6 so I was home by 330 for them. ) They also had chores and discipline and learned to respect their elders. But we also were very loving to our children and unlike our parents our kids could come talk to us about anything .. ANYTHING ( love and communication wasnt a large part of our childhoods for me and hubby at least so we strived to be better parents yet not CODDLE our children. We didnt want them to grow up to be WEAK ppl.. because to survive in this world you need to be STRONG ( mentally, emotionally and physically ) AND Yes in the 70s you could totally go buy smokes for your mum with a note.. God help you if tried to forge their signature! lol. But Like I always say now.. CONCRETE IS A TEACHER lol.. we learned really quick what not to try again as kids.. but we werent afraid!

Not only were the metal play equipment pieces hot in the summer and cold in the winter, but, we had metal patio furniture, too. Same with the vinyl car seats. We'd have to put towels on them before we could sit on them. Even if you could sit on them in shorts, you'd start to sweat on them and slide around. You'd get out of the car, and your legs would be all sweaty!

I remember all this stuff growing up. we lived in the country so CBs were useful to keep in touch with our friends while we were away from home, usually coordinating where to meet up for the evenings fun... you had ones in the vehicles, but there were also 'home' units. -we had one of the wall decoration and one of the owls that were macramé. -we used to jump other kids or anything we could find to put in front of the ramps. I think the record for my group was 11 kids (around 11 years old). -I had a lunchbox with the "6 Million Dollar Man". -I didn't have a 'pet rock' the way all the others did. my father told me to go out into the yard and pick one out from our gravel rock pile. it wasn't the same for me, so I never did it. (we already had 4 large dogs and 3 cats as, again, we lived out in the country and the dogs kept wild animals away) -my step-mother sold tupperware for a few short years. -I never liked Tang. but I grew up with ovaltine and have loved it my whole life. -we didn't actually have seatbelts in my parents 3 vehicles (dad's work truck, dad's personal truck, and step-mom's car). and once we finally got one that did have them, we never used them anyways. I also remember my little brother laying on the back dash of the car whenever we drove anywhere. -I had a huge comic book collection up until the mid-90s when it was stolen by the neighbors kids when they broke into my house (as an adult while married). EVEN THOUGH I knew it was them, as they were ratted out by their little friend who came to me to apologize about knowing about it and not stopping them., The cops REFUSED to do anything about it because they didn't feel they were worth anything. I kept track of the value over the years and at the time they were stolen, the collection was worth around $450,000, and now it would be worth $6.7 Million..... yeah, not worth much... -since we lived in the country, we had cows, horses, chicken, sheep, and even a large pond with bass and carp that my father had stocked after he dug the pond himself (and somehow turtles and water moccasin that were never supposed to be there). So, I never had a desire to buy something I had to 'grow' as we were already doing that all the time. I can't count how many chickens we hatched and raised.... we even killed, plucked, and cooked our own. -we used to take the old pull tabs from cans and make 'chains' out of them. we used to drink as much soda as we could and get tabs from relatives and neighbors in order to make the longest chains we could. -I suffered some sever injuries when riding my bike. took the skin off both knees (still have the large scars) and one time the handle bar forced between two ribs (didn't break the skin or break bones though). I pulled the handle bar out of my body and there was an indentation between my ribs that lasted for over a week before finally smoothing back out. I never had a broken bone growing up, but as an adult, riding a bike, I broke my elbow. -my parents would never buy a polaroid AND rarely got the the actual film developed, we had lots of rolls of film that were never developed. -as a child listening to music, I was clueless what the lyrics meant. listening to them later as an adult, it was clear that almost all the songs were about sex. -we had a massive tv antenna that was mounted on the roof. I remember my father having to climb out onto the roof a couple of times to adjust it after a big storm. we were always 'helping' him to tell him with it was clear. I also remember not being able to stay up late enough to watch the tv 'go off the air' but would sneak a few times and saw it happen when my parents went to bed also. I also remember getting up early enough that it wasn't 'back on the air' in the mornings sometimes. -thankfully I never had a bowl cut. my mother couldn't actually cut hair, so we went to the barber that my dad went to. -I remember helping the teacher make copies with the ditto machines. -I wasn't allowed to watch Jaws, so of course I saw it. it created a phobia in me as I had a waterbed at the time and couldn't sleep on it without having nightmares. I still have the phobia today. (I can't be in water where I can't see the bottom AND there has to be someone around nearby. I don't take baths because of this, instead I take showers) -I used to burn even with suntan lotion, so I never tanned much gowning up. I usually avoided. -we lived around 25 miles to the nearest town. I remember walking there a back a few times and even got rides from strangers sometimes. -growing up, my step-mom would kick us out early in the mornings on the weekend and we weren't allowed back in the house until supper was ready. same from when we got home from school. we did homework after supper. Our nearest neighbor was over a mile away through thick forest and my nearest friend was 8 miles away. I would ride my bike to his house all the time.

I was born in 1968. I grew up as a kid in the 70's and was in Highschool during the 80's. Best times ever!!

Born in 70 and loved it and the 80s was unbelievable. My cb handle as a kid was half pint haha

Born in 1962. Fun kid times for me. I am grateful for my living in this decade. Many great times.

I remember going to the Drive -in theater to see Star Wars when it came out! A drive-in was when you drove up to the box office and purchased your ticket, found a place to park, and put the connecting speaker on your car window. BTW, I did manage to see Star Wars again at the regular theater when it was re-released in the 1990s.

lewis you'll appreciate this. when star wars came out in 1977, my sister & i had gone to the movie theatre to watch some film only to discover it was sold out. we figured 'well, we're here. we should see SOMETHING' the theatre was a multiplex playing several films, and while neither of us knew anything at all about SW (no one did at that point) for some reason we opted to watch that. everyone in the darkened theatre sat there just IN AWE. i remember barely being able to even describe it to my friends afterwards. i'm sure whatever i was saying made no sense. all i could do was INSIST they go see it. i returned to the theatre the following weekend bc i wanted to see it again without being so dumbstruck...but all the seats were sold for every showing. for the ENTIRE WEEKEND! obviously i wasn't the only person telling their friends they had to watch it! it was just SO unlike anything we'd ever seen. it was fantastic.

I had a CB radio in my Scout 4x4. It was a Pierce Simpson Bobcat 23 (23 channels) I had a 13ft whip antenna. After tuning the diodes I could get great reception. I once talked to a trucker on the freeway (101)on the Cotati grade. I was on Middle Two Rock Road. Thats 10 or 15 miles. The guy responded "wow you just about blew my wheels off" I guess I was broadcasting pretty well.

I was born in 1960 and spent my entire teenage years in the 70s in north Texas, we had great music from all genres and a lot more freedom to just be kids and the legal drinking age was 18 And the metric system experiment was a failure and a waste of our time all it was was just comparing the two which is dumb we should have just switched to metric and made learning easier

Yes, us kids were dad’s tv antennas. The reception was so persnickety. He’d have one of us go stand in the kitchen doorway or at the mid point on the stairs, or by the bathroom door. And get this, we were happy to do so! lol

I was 8 in 1970. Lived in a small town. Good times.

CB radio was completely open to the public airwaves, There were no private conversations. The trucker channel was 19, that's why you hear "breaker one-nine” when someone wants to talk on the channel. CB was a huge fad in 1975-1977, and most people had one in their car.