Going to school in 1977 

People were also much much more stupid, I remember if you wanted to do a project on white rhinos you would have to make a trip to the library, or if you didn't know something you would have to go get an encyclopedia. Nowadays, you can access literally any information you could possibly want, from making a bomb, to what Alzheimer's disease is, to current events, or what soy sauce is made out of. I guess you are right though, why would people do any of that when they can sit on youtube or watch tikky toks.

You missed the sucky ol' days too!

When up your nose with a rubber hose and off my case toilet face were the catch phrases of the day. There were no school shooters back then either

@@smokeskull Damn! I haven't heard or even THOUGHT about those old phrases since... well, probably the 70's!! Thanks for the memories. See ya in a while crocodile.

Stop. Kids still laugh and smile and slam lockers in school... you're just not there to witness it. Ffs, selective memory is what you have.

The best musical decade by far.

You're so lucky to experience the 70s as a teen. I wish I was born a little earlier. I was born in '73 so I experience a little of it.

Was it mandated to go to get indoctrinated school like today?

@@johnmicheal3547 - nope…..you actually learned the basics, as you should have ❗️🥊

Absolutely - altho I would have been in 7th grade, 1977. I watch this and think - wow - we were a civilized people. No fears of idiots shooting up our classes, beating up the teachers, etc. Yes, we were blessed.

I graduated from Grover Cleveland HS in Reseda, CA in 1977. I'm 64. I will echo what others said. Despite some bad things (there are ALWAYS bad things in every era) the good was great. The phone that I am using right now is a marvel. I can play this video and time travel. I can listen to ALL the music from back then. But these phones are also disconnecting kids from each other now. Nothing better than just normal human interactions. Which is what you see from my contemporaries here.

@@daveschlom4033 Hey man! I just graduated this year in 2024. I really enjoyed the video and your comment. I saw a lot of people in the comments section talking about how much things have changed for the worse. A lot of people will tell you we are being indoctrinated or that we are obsessed with cell phones, but those people just want to stress you out and gain votes for their political BS. The classes are still classes, and we mostly just use our phones to schedule times to hang out in person. But I'll be honest, the 70s seem like a much cooler time.

@@hudsonbaycompany4653 Where did you graduate from? SoCal? Whatever, congratulations and keep on being you. In 70s lingo...I dig your vibe! (Might be a bit of 60s in there too...)

@@daveschlom4033 Ciao dll'italia, ho 40 anni e in famiglia abbiamo un camaro del 1978, è betto vederla nell'uso quotidiano contestualizzata all'epoca, l'epoca dei miei genitori. ciao

You're right. This is a pretty typical highschool back then. I graduated in '77 in Iowa.

me too i graduated in 82 every fall our hallways were full every freshman class stared with 1,000 students

Ya it’s like I’m in my High School in Montreal Canada 🇨🇦. No fear of someone walking in with a semiautomatic. My have times changed in such a short while. 🤓

Please note the incredible LACK of obesity in this video. We looked like an entirely different species back then. Yes.. the girls were far more attractive and the guys were allowed to have testicles.

i did see a student 2 seats up from me in 1979 had a gun i was going tell the teacher i was new to this high school i didn't really know any one students says he just mean kid

My dad went to the army in 77,he was 17

I graduated that year too! Class of '77!

This video proves that we were better off without being diverse.

My mom is Class 1977!

@@annagarcia1527 is she hot? Got a picture of her?

I graduated in ‘84 also. Long before everything and everyone turned ghetto. 😢 American schools now are nothing more than indoctrination centers filled with ghetto trash. The great America we once knew is dead and gone. Very very sad.

Graduated in 1987. I hear ya

I was class of 80 Times have changed for the worst! I sure miss those days even tho I'm fine today! Thanks!

​@@scottsinger273 I'm Class of '80 too. There was so much optimism and hope. Wish I could go back.

We left our cars windows down in parking lots at school and about, and left our Rifles in ranks in our pickup trucks unlike you people today. We had and still have Respect for ourselves and bodies unlike many of you to day.

Ah the 90's were pretty great too. Still no cells phones, school shootings (other than Columbine) and all that stuff. We pretty much did all the same stuff in the 90's as the 70's and 80's. After that though...things seem to have severely declined.

Certainly did - I wouldn’t have wanted to be a teenager in any other decade. The music, the fashions and there were thousands of us - plenty of friends.

@@terri639agreed, however the 90’s were the beginning of the end.

Dam right 🎉

angela ~ l think so!

I graduated in 1980 and DESPERATELY wish I could have the '70's back. I know there were things that were already getting pretty messed up, but I still miss those days!!!

Narrator: There were computers. And the internet (Arpanet). And while cell phones weren’t a widespread thing yet, they did exist.

@@MrTangent not like today. People are always looking at their phones no matter what they’re doing. Social media has ruined human interaction. We never cared about it. Yea there were cell phones but mostly they were bricks and car phones only owned by the upper class. And the computers were trash. Lemmings was the most you could play on them. Again owned by businesses or those with wealth. And as far as the internet it was nothing like it is today.

@@MrTangent ?????????????????????????????//

The '70's were dreadful. Record high gas prices and inflation (kind of like now), gas lines, Viet Nam, Nixon, Ford, and Carter, really ugly clothes, furniture, and cars . . . There was some good music though.

Bullying has existed for ever, so don’t fabricate the past.

And plenty of condoms in your packets 😅❤

@@babyprince8923 I just love how people think that previous decades did not have the issues that we have today. No smartphones or social media? Oh, that must surely mean they had no problems with self esteem, no depression.. list goes on. All problems today existed back then, but for some reason people think they did not. I dont get it.

There were bullies. The kid at 2:07 could probably tell you a thing or two about bullies. Social media has just extended the bullies' reach into the after school hours.

I'm not sure what reality you lived in, but that wasn't the reality in my world. Learning to deal with bullies was a big, important part of growing up back then. As a boy growing up in the '60s and '70s who walked to and from school from K -12, dealing with bullies, overcoming my fear, sticking up for myself and others, interacting with all kinds of kids and adults, and in general learning to get myself to and from school, be on my own and responsible for myself, and making good decisions were some of the most valuable life lessons I ever learned.

You can go outside anytime you want and make a human connection... No one is stopping you... Try finding out the first name of your neighbors? Ask them their gender, don't assume!

"cell phone bad" - old guy who uses cell phone

If you were born after 2000 I feel really bad. That’s when I was born, and I was able to avoid most of social media stuff until high school. I feel terrible for kids these days who are given an iPhone at age 5 and never experience the outdoors and making friends the same way as I did as a kid. I talk to friends who work with children and when given the opportunity, most of the kids will choose their iPhone or iPad over playing with the other kids. It’s sad.

just disgusting-no internet-no porn-no cell phones-what a bad time to live and yet you come here and praise that BORING LIFE

​@@vapordreams983not that cell phones are bad, but OVERUSE of cell phones is bad.

lol and it was probably huge! We got our first 'VCR' camera in 1979...had sound and all...but was heavy.....came in a suitcase! heck...what came before it....super 8?

It sure looks like 16mm film.

Super8 film

@@KimmyGibson I still remember betamax lol. My mom got .E.T. which was probably the first "tape" movie I saw as a kid.

@@deanevangelista6359 Yeah, looking closely I see the lint and dust on the film. Plus other small imperfections that's seen when watching film.

No fat people🤣

Less than 1% of gun homicides occur in mass shootings. Also there were more gun related homicides in the 1970's than the past decade.

How will you reacted if you saw a student with a cellphone back then in 1978?

You had shootings then...it just was usually not reported the way it is today. 1970s had lots of riots and more racial violence.

Schools don't have metal detectors (Houston TX)

For me too, even though it wasn't exactly my year and i was 1000 miles away. That vibe was the same across the country for over a decade

😂 Crazy i was born 79 rite about the time u were graduating but i tell ya the 90's still werent much different just the clothes an cars an we had this music thing called rap an loud radios this looks familiar to me tho at 45yr old

I was 11 in 77. What a great time to be a kid. Hands-off parenting, banana seat bikes (with no helmet), muscle cars, knee-high tube socks, and mop hair styles. We caused havoc in an innocent sort of way. We knew where all the convenience stores were who would sell us dirty magazines and cigars, and spent our summers in camp or on the street soaking in life with no filter. Damn. I wish we could go back to those days.

@@jimbarrofficial yeah, before they taught how to be a panzy. God what a much better life we had in the 70's and even 80's. Miss those days for sure. Feels like a different world or definitely country. We've surrendered this country now though. It's over!

@@jonburrows2684 Yes, indeed.

Me too!

Me too! I was in elementary school, though. Lol.

Too bad y'all did such an awful job raising your kids.

@@loloholmes2793 You got that right.

@@loloholmes2793I blame it on the education system going woke in the nineties. My kids got all their wacky ideas from school, so my wife and I had to be proactive with them regarding what they were being taught - much more than my parents were with us…

I feel REAL lucky to have grown up then. I graduated a bit before this and by THIS time I was already in the Air Force and overseas in Germany.

@@loloholmes2793 Not quite. It was the high schoolers of the 50s, not 70s, who mostly raised Gen X, with divorce becoming commonplace, latchkey kids who felt alienated, etc. These were the kids born from the mid-60s to early 80s. Whereas those of us who graduated high school in the late 70s raised Millennials who, by and large, had a great childhood, but many of whom are facing a challenging world in their 20s and 30s. But it's not that we didn't raise them well. Parenting became a renewed passion starting in the late 80s.

Wow.......sighs....so true. (Class of '78 here)

Class of '83 here. The big changes came around 2000.

​@@kurtfrancis4621 i would say 2007, everything changed.

blame digitalization and liberals, not us

⁠@@filteredvitaminsubstance5302nah we were still happy, ambitious and normal in 2007, 2012-onwards was when everything went downhill with all the unnecessary "extra" technology (which made us lazy and introverted) & woke/lgbtq insanity

Just did the 45th reunion a few months ago. Lot of old people there. Ha. Be safe

I graduated in '77 too. Those were good times.🙂

Yes, and the guy wearing a tie probably because it was game day.

Graduated in 78...

I graduated in 1977 also, high school was the best part of my life, lots of good memories and music.

I graduate in 1976 and we had to use slide rules in my tenth grade chemistry class. Calculators had just come out, but they were still expensive and our teacher wouldn't let us use them anyway.

Haha yes spit wad tubes.

Class of '75! 🍻

That spitball thing started fights in my school. Bell had not even rung yet. 😂

(Junior High School) and it sounded better than middle school. Of all things, why was the name change necessary ? When you left Elementary school for Junior High, it felt like a bigger step up, than what they have now in, middle school, which is almost, irrelevant sounding.

You should make a YT channel teaching this stuff. Could get popular like this channel did. Ultimately, this time died because older people took the technology route as well.

80s and 90s was great too. I also miss those days, that was my teenage years

Just because we have smartphones today, does not mean the 60s, 70s and 80s did not have electronic items that did not isolate people and stopped them from socializing. TV's, Stereo systems in general, arcades, portable music players, even cars had the same impact as of today, in which a kid would be swallowed by his or her car. Books and magazines and personal computers to some extent in the 80s. I dont get how you lot think or forget about the problems that were present back then aswell? Atleast today we can still connect with people through our electronic devices. Back then it was a one way street.

@@MrBa143 I would write a whole paragraph fooling you but nah, what I will say is this. It's literally not comparable. You're an idiot.

I love how non-Americans like to say: "Americans are always chit-chatting with strangers in public. I don't get that at all!". It's such an antiquated view of America. Sure, it still happens, but basically everyone under 30 is on their phone. And they DONT want some stranger coming up to them and chit-chatting. For better or worse, society has changed in this regard. And its far from just the under-30s, too.

@@erikstorm8935 they still are chitchatting with strangers just in person so you can still say that!

@@erikstorm8935 Before COVID I used to be one of those chit-chatters in line. But now I'm like get away lol. Really changed my behavior that stupid pandemic.

They Stare because they can't READ and all the depression pills they are on You have LESS to say.

no Trump no January 6 no mass shootings no KKK no Republicans

scott thomas💯👍

@@jimmylieb5225 Back when being a Republican was honorable like Lincoln. Now they are the party of KKK.

@@PhukTrump2024Republicans and the kkk have been around longer than you have been alive. Definitely past the 70s

@@PhukTrump2024 Since, like a typical leftist, you're making it all about politics, I figured I'd remind you that Communist filth hadn't yet infiltrated every institution in the nation and the Leftist Democrats knew better than to try and make everything gay and tranny. Oh, and in 1977, Reagan was just a couple years away from winning the presidency after a progressive Democrat had almost completely ruined the nation. Then, a few short years later, he won his second term with *FORTY NINE* states! Cope and seethe.

✨💎 We were pretty cool 'teenagers in the 80s, you know I realize how spaced out kids are on their phones. My god- - 5 teens sitting in the same living room & theyre not even talking out loud, theyre texting the person right in front of them! So it is very different. But don't attribute that to what Im about to say next, 'cause there are parents & children every generation who are "cool," "talkative," "quiet," or just "nerds" My children have been out of the nest for years now. When she was about 18, two neighboring kids came over to meet my daughter after school- - a girl & a boy both about 11. I imagined they were brother & sister. I had only met them once before. And Jess wasnt home just yet. When the boy asked me how I was doing, I said "Pretty good I guess- - for a lowdown donkey nobody loves" trying to sound like Eeyore. He responded by introducing himself as "Christopher Robin," but he used a voice that was t o o effeminine. I went dead quiet & the girl standing by him just looked at me as if we mutually understood the problem So I said "Whatever you do, dont use that voice around school!" After some casual talking back & forth for a minute, eventually I realized he still didnt get it. I wasnt going to be blunt with "because your classmates will seriously think youre a fruitcake & kick your a**, thats why!" I was trying to think of a delicate way to put it, when the girl spoke up: "You know what the problem is, Jim?" - No, what? - "This is the moment when you realize your grandparents are c o o l e r than you are!" - He's not my grandparent, stupid (motioning toward me) - " E x a c t l y , " clueless! I wanted to say "Who's the grandparent? You? 'Cause it cant be me!" But they just ran out the front door 😂😂😂

I was 11/12 and I was WAAAY cooler than my 18 y/o sister. Class of 84 RULED.

@@magnificentmuttley154 🤣 😂

@@wildwoodandonyx class of 84! 👍🏻👍🏻

@@xxfox 👌👌👌Rah rah rah! Class of '89. So everybody's an 80s 'teen today

Carson High-Bi-Centennial Graduate 1976 Carson City, Nevada

Now you are retired

Same. The things our parents taught us continue to be more important as time goes on.

Same here class of 76.....how i miss those days .....my 71 Buick skylark gs455.....cb's no aids......18 years could buy beer.....

same here we did not have to worry about school shooting just go to school have a good time be with yoor friends it was easy to stay out of troubles things were good ...GAS WAS CHEAP !!!!

Vietnam kinda sucked tho (just sayin')

@@moistmike4150 Vietnam was over by then.....

@@juliemnm8273 Not for Rambo it wasn't. You just don't turn it off.

1974. Would go back in minute.

Me to those were good days

"We never miss our water til our well runs dry". C/O "79" ✌️

We had more fun when there wasn't Facebook, Twitter, or having a computer or a cell phone. We always had things to do and places to go. And most importantly, we had friends to hang out with. These days kids are either playing video games or always texting.

@@davidpanetta6400 It sad the way the society went.I am now 58 and have a flip phone what kills me is that people have to follow the leader and most kids own an iPhone in which they are junk my girlfriends daughter has to have an iPhone because her friends have them just like the lulu leggings sad society we live in.

Truth.

​@David Panetta Kids must of had it made back then. I graduated about 8 yrs back but seeing everything now after covid unless kids are into winter sports or have some kind of property with things to do there isn't anything left that's actually open. Even the mall and bowling alleys close at 7-8pm. Wages stay the same and prices go up it's tough for a kid in school

Class of 79 Atwater Ca

Great comment David!

That's your opinion, but I had pretty good memories as a kid playing on the PlayStation 2 in the 2000s.

@@qekruxt5089 Lol!

Very good but i was a shy nerd but smart..i graduated in 1989 . I agree with you but for me it was a little bit different ..like all people here say there was no cell phones and internet ..but late 80s different from 70s ..fear of aids , soy no to everything like no lovemaking , crack and judgemental talk shows adults judging teenagers lifestyles so id rather played the first nintendo after high school or watch cable tv ,but there was good music at time of my senior year or my first years in college !! for my existence it was skinny puppy ,faith no more, NIN and indie like pixies or primus yess you catch my drift so i was cool , since i was nerdy and shy maybe i prefer today ! now like from nerd or hipster point of view, i like tech ! it motivates you to go to college !! ok now a as a grownup ..internet is for adults not for kids it makes them lazy or watch bad things ..but today for our reality of bieng an adult and with a lot of responsibities, internet makes it exciting like to escape , we nerdy people find today is very exciting .but again not from a kids point of view . So as a kid i would like to be in 70s a good sense when sex drugs and rock and roll ruled ,,disco era !! or todays cause nerdy, lgbtq are not made fun of like the 80s or 90s!! our gen x was like we were on the brakes ..and we were born too late but also too early.. without a "consistent" road for vivid mindset

@@qekruxt5089 I graduated in 1990. Plenty of us had been glued to video games from Pong to Super Nintendo, then to the 8 bit/16 bit PCs that took over.

I graduated in '85 and hadn't touched a computer or video game (except for PacMan or something on occasion). Life in the analog age was hands-on. I was active and fit. I left the house a LOT

If you went back you'd make state, i know it! Keep the dream alive!!!!!!!

كانت ايام جميله

English!!!!!!! @@VHj-pj8py

Going back during the Cold War looks good in your neck of the woods.

Me in 83.lol.i.agreee

I was a junior in 1977. I had a Mercury Comet, looked a lot like what I think is that gold Maverick. But mine was two-tone red and white, much cooler car. I loved that car.

Pinto was probably the ugliest car ever made by Ford Motor Co.

@@panamacitybeachbum Only a Bum would say such a thing.

@@panamacitybeachbum thats what made them epic.

Happy Anniversary:)

True, and yeah, this video made me chuckle. I went to a large suburban high school in the mid '70s, roughly 450 students in each grade level, so we had all types, including a significant numbers of kids who routinely WAY overdressed. It was like a fashion show, mostly girls in their their lovely sun dresses and etc but also some guys with quite a wardrobe. I'm talking dressed like they were going to a disco, or some in business type suits. There was one kid who every day dressed like a businessman going to work in an office, full suit and tie, even carried a briefcase. Unsurprisingly, he was very smart, well organized, and got good grades. I sometimes wonder what happened to him. I'd be surprised if he didn't go far. I was somewhere in the middle. Most days jeans or similar with Cons or the ever popular Earth shoes, but other days a little fancier with pleated front baggies and bumper toed platforms. Good times.

How much skinnier everyone was too.

@@teleguy5699 Now that you pointed it out, I don't think I saw even one. At my high school we had 2, one boy and one girl. The car park area rang true, but otherwise this must have been filmed in some nice fairly affluent conservative neighborhood, I only saw a handful of pairs of jeans and no hair past the collars.

​@@TheKim369they had a video camera back then not too many people did you probably came from a rich family if you had a video camera in the 70s👍😎🇨🇦

@@anthonybelyea1964 Yeah, the closest I ever got to one was a relative who married a gal who's father had a slide projector! 🏴‍☠ (Cdn flag dressed as a pirate, mouse issues, it was easier to find Har, har)

@@anthonybelyea1964 True....and this one was high end. The video quality is excellent....

I bought my first car in 1974 - a beater, 4-door 1957 Chevrolet "grandma car" for $75 ! I drove that car all through high school until I graduated in 1977 and went in the military. My dad sold the car while I was gone - also, for $75. Guys that had cars always had girlfriends ! I even had a couple girlfriends from the cross-town rival high school ! that really made those guys jealous ! It was a very sweet time ! I enjoyed high school and made the most of it - even though I was a "hippie" and smoked pot - I had some jock friends too - so I got along with just about everyone ! Got in a fist fight one time with a kid over a $2 hit of acid....very dumb.....

@@urbanurchin5930 me too. CO79.

I’m so happy that you got to experience that I’m gen z and currently a rising senior and my high school is nothing like this covid ruined a lot of things for me

Know what I love about these high school girls? I get older they stay the same age

Hey, I was also Class of 1979 I have wonderful memories of my high school year's... The best era in my opinion on many levels

Also graduated in 79! Massapequa High School long island ny!!

@@mayplace1961same class as Rex Heuermann

@@armandoacevedo6978 he went to berner high school. At that time there were 2 high schools in massapequa

I am a 79 grad too. Not many of us had cars. I did because I worked too much. That kid with the new Chevy Blazer had to be rich. Nobody at my high-school had a new anything!

Same here. I was 4 going on 5 in September of 77 when this was filmed. But I'm old enough to remember the clothes' and cars etc. Good times. I really miss the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Your pont is mute. You comment is after the fact. I can guarantee you that in 2060 RU-vid will have a video of kids in school from 2023 and RU-vid comments will say the same thing. « Ahhh 2023 was much simpler and everyone was happy than today in 2060 »

Agreed. It's interesting because it's real, not staged, not produced...the fashions and hairstyles bring you right back,,,the books under the arms, hurrying to class before the bell, so important...

agreed :)

@@BeatlesTranscriber nah they will all be looking at phone screens not each other

Wish I could upvote you like 50 times. 👍👍👍👍👍

90's were great also. A decade of transition.

90's was better

I agree, but I could not understand why I was always having anxiety attacks from simply walking in the hallways. It was probably from all the girls I had crushes on.

@@trigfizzle6876 only 1990-1994 was good

Hello how are you doing?

Class of 83 attending my 40th class reunion in October,how time flies by.

You definitely hit the nail on the head with "The Best Music" Couldn't find a bad song back then and if you did it's far better than anything out in the last 25+ years.

Funny how you mentioned mass shootings. In 1977, a kid could keep a shotgun or hunting rifle on a rack in the cab of their truck and no one would bat an eye. Today it would cause a lockdown and a SWAT team to arrive in short order!

@@nottabidenfan1228 Right, I'm old and I miss my 70s! I'm bumming, that's how I'm doing. 🤧

@@nealraulston7055 plenty of school shootings from the 70's including kids slaying others for example. Feb 22, 1978 Lansing, Michigan After being taunted for his beliefs, 15-year-old Roger Needham, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, killed one student and wounded a second with a pistol at Everett High School.

Plenty of schools in the 70's saw constant gang fights with bats knives, and chains being used. Plenty of bullying, and harrassment going on with no one caring about it. Teen sex, and drug use were at their zenith in the 70's with the results of the Vietnam war eventually leading to a teen baby boom in the 90's. Everything looks good from a distance, and in our minds where we can look at it selectively, but the same social ills were taking place. You were just young, shielded and not paying attention; like most of us were while growing up in a stable home.

@@fluffy1931Being embarrassed about your generation you quickly googled for school shootings in the 70’s and found one. Typical. America is screwed. Its over.

@@fluffy1931 This is an example of "picking gnat shit out of black pepper." Your example of one incident has already been outdistanced exponentially by a single day's news and will be again tomorrow and a great many tomorrows to follow...

@@robertboydiiido-bolsa7531 let the circle jerk begin incel.

65 here and loving retirement.

The world as we knew it and know it is rapidly deteriorating.......rapture ready here. 69 years....we are the last generation.

A lot gone unfortunately.

​@@Sailor_Tom truth bomb You always feel like a young person, it's the mirror that makes us all feel old😢😅😂

I'm 62 years young and graduated in 78. I still have more energy than my kids -- ages 20 and 21. I love early retirement and I'm actively involved in volunteering. Life is good but Jesus Christ is the ONLY way. Repent before it is too late. Read "The Late Great Planet Earth" -- a book written in the 70s. The things written in the book have either come to pass or are coming to pass now.

Is it true none of the girls shaved their pubic hair back then?

@@JoePedo true story, I was 'there', lol

@@doninmichigan Was it like.. scary?

@@JoePedo More bush than the first Penthouse magazines. The plucked ducks didn't come along to later on, probably as a result of more promiscuity causing lice and other VD's.

@@JoePedo very scary 😳😄 but when you're young, horny, and inebriated, you don't let that deter you. 👍

I'm 63 now and WOW did this video bring back memories. Bell bottom pants, lots of long hair on us guys (I don't have any hair now - lol), Ford Galaxy 500, Pinto, old style Camaro, woody station wagons -- Baahhahahaha. Thanks for posting.

@@canadianoddy8504 I’m 63 and fortunately have hair, albeit quite white. 😃

@@yaronsteinbuch3956 Me too and put on a few pounds. lol

59 and loving it! Good memories....

I was also 17 in 1977. Where did the time go? Just wow….😢

Hi u are so right

i can tell youve never been to any modern high school...

You are a cliché

I did. Wasn’t part of the crowd and was picked on. I hated high school.

Amen to that God bless all of you guys on here I love ye all in Jesus Christ the Lord

And we feared our parents too. Teachers and parents paired up for the sake of the child. We didn't have Karens running to scream at school boards and main offices because of immunization requirements and telling their kid to put their phone away during class. People today are nuts.

Sounds to me like the class of '77 raised their children poorly. No one to blame but yourself.

@@tycanuck Sounds like he thinks parents should allow poison to be injected into their kids without saying a word. What a dimwit. People today are SHEEP, and like this guy, don't even know it

Was se* more common in those times or is it more common now a days?

A homeless person was a rarity back then.

Me too. Great cartoons, huh? And the Sears catalog at Xmas!

Absolutely spot on, Sash. Social Media destroyed Faith and Humanity. Always a double-edged sword in almost anything. It was inevitable because of tech always moving. It was bound to happen. A Reboot is coming for humanity. May take 50 years or less but it is coming. No way out of it.

Put your devices away then 😂

@@Devogor it's not going to matter 😂 lol

@@Devogor too far gone bruh no going back ✌️

Yea. Nothing changed in that regard.

@@4.7m_viewsI’d disagree with that.

schools don't have locker doors anymore?

@@TonyDracon Surely they do. Where do the kids store their assault rifles?

@@tompriceusmc In their baggy drooping jeans?

And of course... Rush!

@Yuck Foutube I’d gladly trade the advantage of “crimes being caught in video” in current day America for the 1970s

I sure hope you do not have children, That is a problem for anyone who has children.

Could people today survive life without plugging into a computer? Those born in the 90’s or later have no idea how different life was back then.

Except for what’s contained in old videos that make it to RU-vid 56 years later.

And no closed circuit t.v.'s and video cams round either! How else could we go "parking," LOL! Whatever happened there stayed there!!

agree, but we did wear jeans and our hair was longer

Agree on some points you made but T shirts with crazy sayings were very much worn at my HS in 77-81 and hardly any kids drove a year old vehicle we were lucky to have a 8 year old car haha .

And now this video would be shown by liberal teachers, activists, and professors , telling your grand kids this is white privilege and the school needs more diversity and other ethnic groups to have a “chance” now nobody works after school, so many job openings, all the kids do is play on their phones and video games, and watch illegal aliens take over all the jobs in every industry

Hahaha, yeah, I did a double-take at the kid with the jean jacket getting out of the black, Blazer type vehicle thinking, "Wait, was that ME"? 😂

Yep well said, I worked at a full service Standard station, worked midnights, got out of work than went to school, didn't have a lot of time for sleeping and getting my playing in, man those were the days, I graduated in 77.

Is it kinda weird to think all the girls had like super hairy bush back then??

@@JoePedo I was only 9 years old back then, that's not something I would have known about....

@@musikmaniavids They never showed you?

Yeah man back when you could drive by learning and it wasn't committing a felony.

@Sarah Renz Yes - I graduated in 1977 too ! And the P.E. class was segregated also - except for the square dancing a couple weeks a year. All the students had to have specific clothes for gym class - every thing had the school logo on it. The most noticeable thing at this high school (as with mine) there were no black kids. I remember we had one Mexican kid - no Asians or black kids. There was a hang-out across the street where kids could go to get a hamburger and fries for lunch (and the "cool" kids could smoke cigarettes) and also buy candy and bubble gum. Once in awhile a fist fight - but mostly a good time.

Class of '88 too.🍻

I graduated in 89, 14 yr olds were definitely covered in makeup and hairspray lol

Everyone looked nice, not overweight with messy buns and hoodies.

I graduated in 2004 and it was still like this. Looks exactly like my experience really because my school was built in the 60s and was not renovated. Also, no phones yet etc. I feel lucky to have lived at the cusp of this madness, probably the last generation, perhaps even the last year or two, before things went to shit.

Uh I wore tons of makeup in the 80's haha

Same

You mean to have that much energy? 😂

My school year of 1976-77 was when I entered the 7th grade of junior high school. The Eagles album “Hotel California” came out that same year, although no one could understand the title track (song) and what it was about. I miss those days too. The Friday night football games.

And how much more White the US was!

I’m a 83 girl too! Best times ever😊

Yep. I'm class of '83 !

Nah we get it, my dad graduated in 1981 and was the coolest dad ever. After he passed away I got ahold of his yearbooks and those party’s (quotes on the books I read) sounded insane! Rest easy dad you where a legend 🤙

no Trump no January 6 no mass shootings no KKK no Republicans

Yet here we are...watching social media right now...

All by design

Why does it bother you? Are you jealous of the people they are watching on their phones?

I was a Junior in 1977 walking around campus in a mindless daze!

@@ExploringAlabama , Excellent point. I find myself having to remember to to cut the damn compute and phone off, too, and just go live life.

Jim, I also graduated in 1977 from a small school. I think I graduated with about 90 in my class. I knew everyone of them. Great music, clean fun. If you had a Cutlass or Monte Carlo you were in! Your problems were few and the future looked bright. Miss those days too.

@@corkyrose9011 Spot on correct. I had a 71 pickup truck with a CB radio and surfboards in the back. So much fun. I had a job running the projectors at our local theater while in high school, the coolest job in town while in High school. Damn I miss the 70's. (You could buy a full four finger ounce for $20!) The 70's was one huge party and we didnt even know it. Platform shoes, bell bottom pants, blacks had some serious afros! We were stylin!

a little Boston playing in the background "More Than a Feeling"

The 60’s was social engineering, leading to the society we see today.

Class of ‘79, saved the best for last.

1980-84 diverse decade for English pop music.

Mine were 1966-1970 - even better but so similar.

SAME HERE

@@ekimp252 THATS WHEN I GRADUATED, WISH I COULD GO BACK

At that time i didn’t think of it as lucky or unlucky to be growing up then, but looking back i can see we were lucky in so many ways!

"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them" I think of that quote often when I think back on "the good old days". Ugh I hate getting old lol.

I have horrible memories of high school between 1984-88 I don't miss it 😭😂

Dang yes I can smell that gym, the old sweet wood and cinnamon rolls baking in the kitchen.

@@KOSMICKEN09 I don’t miss school either but looking back there were many good things about that time period that are gone forever. For example no TSA. It was a time when traveling by plane was very relaxing and enjoyable. Customers we treated with respect not like potential terrorists. Children could still play outside all day without parents hovering over them. Stores and schools didn’t need security cameras and staff. Society was not divided and full of hate and violence. Where I lived most people still had gardens and were raising their own food. Even pets were more free back then. You didn’t see pets put in crates to live. The sky was still filled with fireflies and stars. Divorce was just creeping in so almost everyone I went to school with still had intact families with their biological parents. And it was a time where kids were not being medicated with heavy psychotropic drugs. Those drugs like divorce were just entering into society but hadn’t become a problem to society yet. School was boring but we didn’t have gangs and all the politicized social engineering that kids have today. I never felt unsafe going to school. There is so much more that that time period had to offer that just seems more wholesome and free than what society has to offer young people today.

Same time period for me. I had older brothers and sisters and can remember all of this. I picked up all the hand-me-downs.😅😅. The interactions from that time were so personal. Talking on the phone meant being at home. And, conversations were face to face. The idea of recording was even strange! Messages were notes passed in class or in the hall. I wonder how this compares to today.

@@ronniestanley75 Me too amigo. I’m the youngest of six and was given the beautiful gift of amazing music from all of my older siblings.

i was minus 11 and I loved it

I wasn't even born when this was filmed.🤷🏽‍♀️

nice, you're 2 years older than me. remember the snow storm of '78?

They might be depressed because back then you could actually afford to have bought two houses by age 28…

@@strnglhld The interest rate was 17 1/2 percent. I remember. My oldest bought a house at 36 and my youngest is saving & he’s 30. My Father built the house I grew up in. It took him over two and a half years while he was working and finishing College. Now explain again how being depressed is an excuse. My nephew has two rental properties and he’s 35. He’s worked multiple jobs at the same time. There are no guarantees in life, so these young people better stop comparing to someone else thinking they had it easy, because it’s foolish and a complete waste of time. When my husband died, we had very little money. I sold the house. Family members helped us.

@@strnglhld not really. It wasn't that easy then. What we did have then was a grounding in reality. You should have seen interest rates on loans then.

@@NuNugirl that is exactly how I remember it. BTW, I'm a widower, want to go out for coffee?