If you grew up in the 1970s...you remember this - PART 2 

Big 70’s fan here. I’m very grateful I was able to experience being a child during this time.

Growing up in the 70's was heaven. 🤗 We were blessed to be a child in the 70's: Freedom, but a solid home. Education, but not much indoctrination. We had actual adventures, we didn't need cell-phones, computers and tablets. I clearly remember reading 📚❗😃 Thank you for taking us back to a much better, wonderful time...💫🙏

Sad to say, but I do remember those times and realize how good I had it growing up. Makes me ask in full sincerity "what the hell is the world coming to?"

Greatest decade, to me. Life was a lot simpler and it seemed to move at slower pace. Great time to be a kid.

It's been over 40 years and I still remember when my cousin came home from Vietnam. My mother and I were over at her sisters house and they were in the kitchen. The rest of us kids was sitting on the couch watching TV. The door opened and my cousin walked through the door in his Marine dress blues. Without a word went right up the stairs and into a bedroom and shut the door. He stayed in that room and only came out to go to the bathroom down the hall, meals left outside the bedroom door. After about a month he did start to leave the room and that was down the stairs and out the front door without a word. He would just disappear for weeks or months on end. Then one day a knock at the door and there he would stand asking for a place to stay. He traveled the country hobo style working the fields and carnivals. He never said a word about his time in or what happened in Nam. After I got out of the military I could relate to that day he walked through the door and his actions. I lived in the same small town as he did, he had a trailer on his mothers land by her house. I went over there with my mother when cousin walked over from the trailer and simply said " Come with me." I followed him back to his trailer and we sat down over a beer. " It was goddamn rough over there" he started out. I knew at that point that he had accepted me as a fellow veteran and we let everything hang out.

This is the best way to forget about the last 2 years.Pure nostalgia for a world we’ll never see again.

My family ticked ALL the boxes for a 70s family..shag carpet, a "woody" station wagon, macrame plant hangars, a bean bag chair, a huge console stereo (which I actually still have, and it still works great to this day! Thank you Zenith), a pink rotary party line phone, hideous flower print fabrics everywhere..the couch, the curtains, the dining room chairs. Mom did ceramics (still have a giant green frog and a 3 foot high christmas tree, both dated 1974) a z-brick wall on the stairwell, Avocado green appliances, pressed wood paneling in the basement rec room.. A Heathkit TV my dad built (for our 3 local channels, and sometimes as many as 5, depending on the weather and how you had the rabbit ears positioned), the fuzzy toilet tank and seat covers. We really should have gone all the way and changed our last name to "Brady", then we would have been 70's complete.

Halter tops, CCM banana bikes, brown refridgerators/stoves, Disco, soft rock and Abba, Good Times and Waltons, faux fur/leather bomber jacket, satin sporty jackets, clogs, multi colored suede shoes, colorful clothes, Farrah Fawcett haircut, Kristy McNicol, Robbie Benson, Scot Baio, Pamela Sue Martin, Linda Carter. 1970s, so much fun stuff. Riding in the back of a truck feeling the wind in your face.

Born in '61 and the '60's & '70's were the greatest 2 decades ever!!!!!! Miss those days!!!!

Funny how a lot of the "disco sucks" music of the 70's sounds so good compared to most of the crap heard on Top 40 radio today.

I used to go to bed on a Friday night, then get up again a few hours later just to watch The Midnight Special. After Saturday morning cartoons, I'd watch American Bandstand, then Soul Train. One of my favorite episodes of Soul Train was when the special musical guest was Elton John. He performed his hit, "Benny And The Jets", accompanying himself on a glass piano. Yes, I did own a pair of earth shoes.

I could be here commenting all day long but I won't. Sure is nice reading everyone else's comments because they reflect the same life that I remember living. It can be easy to forget that you weren't the only one that lived it. Happy memories everyone.

Most memorable thing from the 70s, first girlfriend, first kiss, junior high school dance, Stairway to Heaven playing, the fragrance of Clairol Herbal Essence and Love's Baby Soft Lemon. That and my 5HP mini bike with the fragrance of Liquid Wrench.

Some of my favorite things to do back then was building Revell models along with slot car racing. Good times.

I Remember inserting baseball cards in the spokes of my bicycle. Very popular back then.

I remember going to the s/h greenstamp store to turn in those books to get toys and stuff those days were the best still wished I had an old red banana seat bike too!

I grew up with Kiss, Aerosmith, and Boston! 3 of the greatest bands in the history of rock n roll!!! Btw Evel Knievel is and always will be a America icon!

I'd love to go back to the 1970s it was my favourite decade ..

Absolutely the best decade for being a teen, but nothing can top some of the best music ever! 70’s Rocked!

In 76 we drove to Florida in our big brown station wagon which was the mini van of the 70s. My dad threw a foam mattress in the back and us kids laid with our feet out the back window the whole way, for those not born yet there were no seat belt laws in the 70s. We stayed at Daytona beach for a couple of days then drove to St. Petes for the rest of our vacation because my mom didn't want us kids playing on a beach cars could drive on. Of course we went to Disney World and I remember the bicentennial parade at the end of the day was amazing, that was the best summer of my life, I miss the 70s so much.

I grew up in the 60’s-70’s in Southern California and oh my goodness what I wouldn’t give to go back. The absolute best time to be alive. Thank you for the walk down memory lane ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I remember all of that, in 1976 I was 11 years old. This was my Decade.

This takes me back to a more peaceful and happy time. I miss these days. Watching these old movies and shows help to make feel at peace.

This brings back many good memories growing up as a teen in the 70's. Would like to take a trip back in time to experience some of those times again. Thanks for keeping this time period fresh on our minds. I have so many good memories of the 70's growing up in a small town. Thanks again...

"Hee Haw" was so huge in the 70's, my Mom's favorite show.. so I'd be watching.. Buck and Roy, Grandpa Jones, the beautiful country girls, and the great skits, "Where oh where are you tonight?", and "Doom, Despair and Agony on Me"..

Best decade for music!

Four words that no mother in the 60’s or 70’s wanted to hear from their sons and their sons’ friends: “Let’s build a ramp….” I loved being a kid in the 60’s and a teenager in the 70’s. What a blessed time that was for me. And probably millions of others.

Thank you for the memories! I was born in '68, but grew up in the seventies and eighties. Tank tops!! Oh my! Takes me back. Great music era, as well. 😊

I graduated from high school in 1979. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Wow! I grew up in the 70's what a time it was!!!!!

In 78-79, among some of my high school peers, it was cool to have a component- based bedroom stereo system. I had a used Marantz 2216 receiver, JVC turntable and Altec-Lansing loudspeakers. Great for listening to all that memorable music of that era. No one has mentioned Steely Dan’s contributions to the sonic landscape of that time, so I will.

The 70's! 7 to 17! What a time to grow up! And 1976 was simply the BEST year EVER in the U.S.A.!!!!! :)

Definitely magical times! I was born in 62. Your videos make me happy! Love going down memory lane!

What a great piece! Thanks for the memories in these troubled times. Maybe there should be a part 3?

Brings back so awesome memories. The time passes so quickly!

I grew up in the 90s and I loved the following things from the 70s: I enjoyed listening to ABBA and Queen; I loved watching That 70s Show; my father used to collect side pieces from the Marlboro lights cigarette boxes and exchange them for Marlboro jackets; growing up we had pink and light yellow bathroom staples in our rental apartments; my parents used to change the water on their water bed because they believed the water became dirty; as an Elvis fan I enjoyed visiting Graceland and I highly recommend it for Elvis fans; my older brother and his friends used to love skateboarding as teens; and I never had a lava lamp but I will purchase them for my children.

Yes I am a child from the 70s. And boy do I miss that time.

I'm so glad that I was in my teens in the 70's. What a great time back then. Everyone was having fun, none of this crap today in 2022.

When we were on vacation to California in '75 I still remember that moment pulling into a gas station and my dad driving off cuz the gas was 57 cents a gallon. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Cactus, Lou Reed, Montrose, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad, Alice Cooper, Yes, Jethro Tull, Captain Beyond, Budgie, Jeff Beck, UFO, Blue Oyster Cult, Rush, and Aerosmith (to name a few) was the shit in our household. The family across the street were more like the jocks and they had their Neil Diamond, Chicago, Three Dog Night, The Carpenters, etc, (which is all good to). I still remember walking up the street and one of the neighborhood kids telling us that Elvis had died. Just something that stuck with me all the years.

I'm so thankful I came of age in the 70's. HS Class of 77, perfect timing. I remember all of this. If you weren't there, you missed one heck of a party.

I loved every minute of the 70s me and my buddies riding around on our mini bikes playing touch football at the playgroundAnd just hanging out together it was so much simpler back then

Radio Shack, Licorice Pizza, Miller's Outpost, Love's Barbecue Pit, Ferrell's Ice Cream Parlor, lousy Pic N Saves, Hughes Market, Alpha Beta Markets, Gemco, Pioneer Chicken, Marshall's.. So many memories!!

Loved harvest gold and orange together........that was my house in the 70s!

The song. “Convoy” probably did more to popularize CB Radios.

That "large comb" was universally known as an "Afro Pick". We weren't afraid to say that because we weren't (and still aren't) racist.

What! You forgot Little House on the Prairie!!! That was a very important show in the 70s, and immensely popular! Everyone wanted parents as understanding as Pa and Ma! Plus, it inspired styles of dress for little girls and ushered in an interest in things of that era.

Ahh harvest gold and avocado green. The good ole 70s! 😁

You just took me back to Junior High with the Big Comb in the kids back pocket! 😊 What a Great memory. Such a Wonderful, much Simpler and Sweet time. I feel bad for kids these days with the way the world is now. I am Forever Grateful to be a Baby Boomer and to have grown up in the 60's and 70's! Thank You for another trip down memory lane!😊💕👍

I remember the odd and even days. If you had an odd number on your car license plate then you got gas on every other day and if your license plate was even then you got gas on different days and I remember those wacky packs. So many memories.

Growing up in the 70s was such a great time to grow up, we had so much freedom as children and teens

Dittos jeans for women, OP shorts and swimwear, platforms, roller disco - which I never got into, but would got roller skating on the boardwalk in Mission Beach. Every concert was 'festival seating' --- In southern California you could easily see a couple concerts a week between San Diego and the L.A. area --- Cal Jam I --- Incredible concerts at the Big A in Anaheim --- ZZ Top, Ted Nugent, Pink Floyd, Bob Seger, Lynyrd Skynyrd ---- Everyone I knew started working part time while still in high school - as much because of helping with the family budget, as to save up for a being able to get a car or move out soon as they graduated. Yet we all still managed to find time to enjoy life --- go to beach, concerts, movies. Every generation has good and bad times -- This is just life. But for the tears I shed for friends lost in Vietnam I also knew joy for those who came home --- Like the man who was my best friend and who became my husband and I shared this life with. No matter what your age or generation -- Find the good -- It's there. I admire the way younger people are so comfortable with technology -- Having libraries and museums at their fingertips thanks to the internet -- But try to not get so overwhelmed with the ease and accessibility of technology that you forget to find time to enjoy the real world: Spend an afternoon with friends at a BBQ or taking a hike. Reconnect with people and this beautiful, crazy, wonderful world we share.

Another great video. I was a teen in the 70s. We were definitely into the CB craze, even having a base station at home to see how far we could reach my father when he traveled. I had one in my cars until the mid 80s!

I have a harvest gold Hotpoint stove which I believe is from the 70s - came with the house we now live in when we moved in. Still works and I love the extra storage in the THREE storage drawers! I loved growing up in the 60s/70s and have such precious memories that I just don't think my kids and esp grandson will have.

Best time of my life..... the 80s too. I was young, my parents were healthy and pretty fun .......music was varied and awesome. TV was fantastic...... even before cable and MTV. The cars were "out of site"........roaming the malls for cool clothes, shoes, and accessories was the best. It was a big deal to hang at the mall.

All the last of the tall ships( ships powered by sails) came from all around the world from every country to New York to celebrate our bicentennial. It was televised and breathtaking !

The 1970s DID seem to have the WIDEST selection for music genres that could be hits. If you listen to an "unscoped" aircheck of a random "top 40" station from 1975, They styles were ALL OVER THE MAP. Disco, Funk, Motown, Country, Hard Rock, Soft Rock, Southern Rock, Glam Rock "Novelty songs", Even Jazz and Classical. Hell, a big hit in the 70's was a Scott Joplin "Ragtime" number! (A "cover" of "The Entertainer"). ALL on the SAME STATION! It was a GLORIOUS TIME to be a Radio fan!

I collected Wacky Packages in late 1973 into 1974, but never had a full set. I rediscovered them in 1995 and now have the full 1-16 complete sets with puzzles as well as many of the offshoots and collect the current Old School Wackys. My prized possessions are two artwork pieces that Wacky Package artist Jay Lynch did for me back in 2001

Oh yes, you certainly took me back and I remembered it all! Thanks for the memories!

Well done. A third installment is warranted. I had multiple "black light " posters on my wall I bought at a head shop in West Covina, Calif. near the WESCOVE Mall. The "head shops" were wonderful stores with water beds, tapestries, flavored rolling papers, pipes, posters, and incense. The smells. The lights and the psychedelic genres burned into my memory. It was great!

Who here remembers when you could drive around in your Pickup truck with a gun rack in the back window and actually have your rifle mounted there?

Midnight Special on Friday and SNL on Saturday. Didn’t get out of that late night groove until I was about 30. Now I’m up before 5 and in bed by 9. Old!!

You forgot to mention the Schwinn/ Western Auto "Buzz" "Chopper Style" bikes that every kid wanted to own

You brought back such 👍 memories. I miss the 70's. The good all old Days wish I can bring 😪 them back. And your show I ❤. Please show more stories I Love them all.

Ahh yes the 70's. I still have the bruises from "Klackers".

You make the best videos of their kind on all of RU-vid and I appreciate them imeasurably because I suffer from a severe mental illness and the majority of good feelings that I get are from my childhood. Thank you for what you do.

I, was born in 1957. I, remember the 1960's and the 1970's. I remember all the Sitcoms, all the music 🎶 🎵. I, even remember Disco Music 🎶 🎵. I did Disco Dancing 🕺 🎶. I, miss the good old days. This, is a very good channel 👏 👍 👌.

Grew up watching Evel Knievel. He was a childhood hero. Years later I met him in a restaurant bar in Vegas. What a jerk. He was rude to everyone. Just a bitter, angry old grouch.

The greatest decade ever😁

OMG this brings back so many memories ... leisure suits, platform shoes, the comb, Wackys, the bicentennial, water beds, Elvis, Lava lamps, Stretch, Mad, ... you nailed it

The 70's a great time in life where there were no cell phones, girls didn't have more tattoos than a sailor and they didn't look like they fell face first into a tackle box on a great lakes fishing charter boat, guys knew how to wear a hat and pulled up their pants. A time when a red or blue handkerchief was used to blow snot into not to show what side of the street you think you own. A time when music was something you could understand the words to and had a good meaning. If it wasn't for the Vietnam war it was the best time to grow up in my opinion. I sure do miss that time of my life.

The best decade to live EVER!

I grew up just south of Atlanta Georgia and was 7 when Smokey and the Bandit hit the theaters. Many of the scenes in the movie were filmed in my home county and I always thought it neat to recognize them in the film.

Also, stereos! OMG! The speakers, receivers, turntables and cassette recorders/players!! Lights, gadgets, and a knob or switch for everything. My husband used to call the more lights you saw on someone’s stereo tower “high FPD”. (F***s per dollar). Huge cabinets and large speakers that doubled as end tables were the norm.

Best time to grow up was the 70s and 80s.

Man I wish we could go back. So much innocence and fun !!

Love this channel! 🤗

So much of the 70s was great, i was 8 in 70 and turned 17 in summer of 79. Too much good times!

Oh yes, I can remember a 1972 candy apple red, with chrome, three speed Savoy bicycle. With the mandatory folded up baseball card in the back wheel spokes to sound like a "motorcycles", I was the man.🤭

I remember when it was the neighbor's turn to drive us to (elementary) school...we would pile 6 to 8 deep into a Ford Pinto.

We were blessed growing up in the 70s!!!!

Mom was happy with the two part of the 70’s, she got married in 1976, she wanted to be married during the bicentennial year, she also picked July. Great Job again👍

Great times. As a young teen, I stood in line for hours in cold weather, to watch the Exorcist. I always say, the 70s was a great decade and I was so lucky to have been so young and full of energy, to enjoy it so much in NY.

Bazooka bubble gum and the little cartoon strip that came in it I'll never forget it and occasionally I still buy it my local Smart & final Just For The memories 😋

For me there was never a decade like it before or after. 👍❤️

The 1970s was my favorite decade, by far. The narrator didn't cover the introduction of Star Wars, Roots, and Saturday Night Fever - the seminal events of the decade. But this was pretty good.

Farrah was the golden girl. Still remember having her poster, the trips to the local 7/11 to buy Wacky Packs and I think I still have my old Dynamite and MAD magazines buried somewhere. It was great growing up in the 70's.

I graduated HS in 1979. My 1st car was a 1972 Impala. We had orange shag carpet in the living room and a wood paneled basement den. The kitchen appliances were avocado green and the bathroom was gold & white.

I loved watching the New Zoo Review, The Magic Garden and Wonderama; sometimes the 4:30 movie on abc. Many children, unfortunately were hit by cars and didn’t make it and many suffered broken bones from playground equipment. In NYC although we lived in the suburbs, the son of Sam was a scary thought even more so than Charles Manson… or maybe the same. I remember everything being “ chic” or “ sophisticated”. Riding my big wheel down the block and pulling the handle to make the 360 spin was priceless!!!! I loved wacky packages and now and laters candy… playing outside, everyone was outside all day long! Catching fireflies, the smell of spring from the trees inn my neighborhood and the super high snow that looked so beautiful the first day or two .. just looked! The food tasted better, the people were better, definitely happier and life was fun!!! I remember our old Italian neighbor making me zepolis I remember watching game shows and soaps with my grandma. I remember wishing that those days would never end. Who knew we’d end up here today. Good and bad those were our memories and I’m so happy to have them! I feel so sorry for children in today’s times.

I remember my friend and next door neighbor Robert playing Evil Kenival doing bike jumps . Many Fond Memories of Robert

Ahh, feeling freedom on my Schwinn Lemon Peeler and cruising with my friends - building tree forts with scrap lumber from all the new homes being constructed, swimming in country creeks and hunting for frogs and crawdads - but to NEVER upset Mom and ALWAYS be home before the Streetlights came on! So much more, but thank you for your list.

Great shows great music great times,a blast from the past.we where blessed 2 have lived in this time period

So rare to smell someone smoking a cigarette these days.

I was a child from the '70s and to the 80s. I do remember seeing on the family with Donald O'Connor and Jean Stapleton which I watched with my parents. I also remember watching as a child the reruns of the Brady bunch, reruns of the Waltons, and Mash. And my Brother saw the Amityville horror and could not sleep for 3 days. I I still have my Holly hobby dolll and snuggles doll from back in the day. My brother had one of those stretch doll like toys too. I think his stretch toy might have been the Incredible Hulk, but I'll have to ask him. And I do not remember wacky packages, but my brother used to read and collect Mad magazines. And I so remember those halter tops because even though I was a very young Child, I had one which sparkled and I enjoyed wearing it that summer. Thanks for sharing this really fun blast from the past!!

From a teen to a young man the 70s was a wild ride for me.

It was so incredible to be a young teen in the seventies . I started right by seeing Chuck Berry in the very early seventies . Then The Eagles with Joe Walsh just before Hotel California came out . Chicago with Terry Kath , Alice Cooper , Bob Seger , Kiss , AC/DC , Ted Nugent , Aerosmith , Fleetwood Mac , Led Zeppelin and ALL for under 8 dollars a ticket ....the 70' were amazing and life was good !

As part of the Bicentennial celebration, "The Freedom Train" traveled across America. When it came to our town, we stood in line for hours to tour it.

Good Times was a funny show that put Jimmy Walker on the map. Also introduced up to a young Janet Jackson.

I turned 13 in Aug of 76 and that’s my real love of the 70s from 76 to 79 I felt lucky to be in that time! Star Wars , Happy Days. Charlie’s Angels on TV Kiss , Boston, Foreigner Eagles and Bob Seger on the radio ! Flaired leg jeans and riding my Schwin stingray bike!

I had three older brothers and I grew up listening to all their albums and 8 tracks; Chicago, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Edgar Winter (and Johnny), Steely Dan, Marshall Tucker Band, Allman Bros., Joe Walsh, etc. Thankful for ad-free youtube on my cell phone and my little 600w. bluetooth amp and my vintage Bose 301 speakers, I can punch in any of those old albums and listen outside (without commercials!) while I'm grillin' and chillin!

I was at a gas station in Rialto, Calif. at around 9:pm when I learned of Elvis' death.