Memories of 1978 Where Were You ? 

nearly 40 yrs ago now but seems like last week after seeing this. Damn !!! lesson to the young... don't blink!!!!!!

What a great time to be a kid.I was 13 in" 78".Thanks for the memories John,made my day!

15 years old in 78 .... I Wish I Could go back and STAY in the 70's

We had three channels on our tv & the knob broke off so we had to use a pair of needle nose pliers to change channels.

I remember the blizzard of 78. Also remember the news talked about the concern of a colder climate and the possibility of a new ice age.

I was in the 10th grade, getting high, trying to get lucky?! And loving everything about growing up in the 70's. best music of all time!

1978... the year I was born, during a horrible snow storm in February, and the year of the all-time best horror movie EVER made... "Halloween".

When I watch your videos, I love reading the comments from those before me. They seem like a legend to me when they talk about the good Ole days. Oh I was born in 94.

I was 13years old. What a wonderful ride it has been.

Thank you so much for taking the time to compile these histories. I can't help thinking the 60's and 70's were the two best decades of the 20th century.

TV was free! So were people!

It was a wonderful time. I saw Grease 12 times that summer.

I was 11 yrs old at the time !& I remember the blizzard of 78 as well ! What a storm .

I was 26 and hubby was 29 and we had just bought a fixer up house in the small city, then, of Yorba Linda, California. Still fixing it up 41 years later but it is paid for. Wow, we both worked and watched movies and tv and read books and listened to music and went on vacations and danced to disco music and ballgames and our lives were never dull! America Rules !

1978. 16 years old and in 11th grade in high school. Met and fell madly in love for the first time. I still think of him to this day. :)

I remember all this well. I was 18 years old.

My first year of middle school, such an awkward time but boy I am I ever so happy to have the memories of these 1978 days!! Love the music! Thanks for posting!!

I remember all these shows. God I feel so old.

Dallas was my favorite program from 1978-1987 and i remember watching Halloween at the drive in in 1979

GREASE DOMINATED 1978 ! Disco and Grease.

40 years ago...I would love to go back...

I was 11 years old Wayne NJ living the good life. Some of the greatest movies and sitcoms. Looking back we really enjoyed life. It seems to me the new generation is never satisfied with anything. Hate to be them.

Oh lordy...in '78 I was 13, couldn't get enough of Grease, horses, and Halloween! Everything was all about the beach here in Florida, and life was good...

Man Johnny, I wish we could go back. I was in 10th grade, growing up in Massapequa, NY. I miss those days but I especially miss the people, so many people gone now.

All are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks

Just like '76, '78 was another great year for Television and Movies.

1978 was pretty cool. Never forget I was 11 years old and my Aunt Jill let me stay up late for the first time ever to watch her favorite show, Midnight Special, with her and was introduced to my future favorite rock singer, Steve Perry in Journey. Also Las Vegas at that time really did look like what people saw on Vega$. I just LOVE all of your videos, they cheer me up when I need a little visual pick me up :)

Steve Rubel predicted influencers and reality stars! Who knew! I love your videos! I laugh, I cry, I find who I am.

Kids today have no idea how amazing it was to be able to record a show at home

Thank you for making these videos. What's really weird is watching this and realizing how so many of those you saw on the Tube back then ended up, like Sadat being assassinated, Pete Rose being barred from baseball, etc. Sometimes you get so caught up in where you are right now that you forget where you've been, and how you lived. Like life itself, these are bitter-sweet reminders.

In 1978 I was right here.

thank you so much . I just spent 27 min with a big grin on my face

Ah, 1978. I was in second grade. My friends and I were still reenacting scenes from Star Wars in the neighborhood, and we were all looking forward to the new Superman movie with great anticipation. Mr. Potato Head and Earthquake Tower were the most fun toys in my room and later that year I would begin a never ending love affair with video games when my folks got us an Atari for Christmas. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

This was the year my youngest was born. To see her grow like a flash in the pan, this video seems to take me back where it all began for her. Time is the thief and it moves so quickly.

I remember the "Special Report" interruption about Jim Jones aired right after Saturday Night Live and how the people & I who were watching (and partying) with thought it was just another SNL skit at first. Such is life.

All of ten. First pair of rollerskates. Finally no more stinky skates. Lol. Saw Grease at the drive in. Ended up sitting by myself, thank you. Sometimes me myself and I really were better company...but was hard to take the things going wrong:(

The blizzard was awesome. I skitched during the whole thing. Must have logged 100 hours on the bumper of a UPS truck. Those were the days!

Ah the memories!!....I was 8 years old..All I wanted to do was watch Saturday morning cartoons...go fishing....and play football!!

I was only five years old in 1978 but still remember some of these things, especially the TV shows. I remember being scared by the Jonestown images on TV, loved the Incredible Hulk and Battlestar Galactica, and had the time of my life during the great Blizzard of '78, when the snow piles were taller than I was! What an era to be a kid.

Jerry Brown makes me sick after all those years..

I was in Toledo, Ohio and Denver Colorado having the best times of my life! 1978, the best year ever!

I was 13yrs old.......without a care in the world. Most I worried about was who was on my kick ball team. Miss those days and thank you for allowing us these great lasting memories. I can't lie watching all this makes me a bit teary eyed.

These videos are fabulous! So many wonderful memories. Even the ones I didn't remember, lol. I remember Pop and Ma taking us to see Animal House. I was 13, LOL!!! Oh, and thanks for putting in the Thurman Munson Aqua Velva commerical!! So much fun!!!!!

oh you can call me Ray,or you can call me Jay...…..haven't heard that in a long time.

Hey to all the 1978 high school graduates who drop in.. Happy 40th!! :)

I was 16. My mother got me a cassette of Grease soundtrack as one of my Christmas presents:) I also got a small, handheld radio (Norelco?) anyway, I had so much enjoyment from that little thing that I carried with me everywhere! Used to really like the Nancy Drew shows... I remember "Ready to Take a Chance Again" (Barry Manilow) was so pretty, from the movie "Foul Play," Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. I had a total crush on Andy Gibb with the Shadow Dancing song, and oh my God, I thought I would die if I couldn't meet Robby Benson (saw him in t.v. version of "Our Town" that June) and they came out with "Ice Castles" movie in December. Loved "Have you Never Been Mellow," "Time Passages" (Al Stewart) and Y.M.C.A. songs.

I was 17 ,and I'm from worcester ma, and remember the blizzard of 78 very well...we didn't have school for almost a week

I'd rather be young then than now

During the storm, Cars were abandoned along Route 128 now 95. for abut a week. No school, snow everywhere in 6 to 10 foot piles after plowing and shoveling, I was 10. Many memories.

I was18 and starting college abroad. Great time.

I remember the "blizzard of "78" we were out of school for the entire month of January due to snow and freezing temps .I believe that winter was the one that whad the most snow and digits like 30 below zero that I can remember even now as an adult I still haven't experienced that type of weather again. Anyway "77-78" were both kick ass winters.

Schools were closed on my birthday because of that blizzard! I graduated high school and went to college in New York City--saw National Lampoon in a midtown movie theater where there was a smoking section in the balcony. Where I grew up, there was no smoking in movies, and no balconies either! Boy, I didn't know anything! Thanks for the memories.

Another awesome upload sir!! Thank you for sending us back in time!! Take care.

I was 6 six years old. I remember most of that, but I didn't realize how much of a memorable year that was for both television and movies. Of course, I remembered that being the year for Grease and Animal House, but I forgot about the other movies that year. What young boys could forget The Incredible Hulk and Battle Star Galactica released on television, especially on the heels of the Star Wars popularity. This was also the year that I remember the first Star Wars action figures hitting the market, which changed everything. On a more serious note, I couldn't read very well, but I was certainly fascinated with the Jim Jones tragedy being all over the news and magazines.

My better years of my life tk somuch

I was 12. My friends and I would act out Grease songs in my next door neighbors garage during the summer of ‘78 *GOOD TIMES*😁

I remember when the head popped out of the boat underwater in Jaws, i got up out of my seat in the theater, and went screaming down the aisle to get the hell out of there. Of course i was 12...but man, embarrassing!

I was 10 in 1978 and it was the best year of my life. Thanks for the memories.

Hardy Boys used to give me nightmares when I was small. Used to watch Taxi all the time in re-runs.

I was 12 years old and sneaking into the theaters to see all these movies.......

High sophomore. Halloween was so scary. After the movie was over, people ran to their cars.

Great video of 1978. I was 8 in 78 in Queens NY

I was 18 in 1978 and remember every bit of what's in this video.

Ha! Watched Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys....had poster of Shaun Cassidy on my wall, until Nadia won the Olympics in 76, down came Cassidy & up went Nadia. I started watching these because I dreamed I was in the house I grew up in...but other than Dallas, I see TV shows I wasn't allowed to watch & music I had no idea was so old.

This was memory overload. How time flies! Also, no Van Halen?? They released their first record in February 1978, and changed everything.

Not to sound morbid, but I just noticed the "final recount" of the people who died in Jonestown was 911 people. strange (911)

Getting married at age 20. Just in time to miss the Disco craze. We need more studio 54's today! Like the news man said; "a lot of people are having a lot of fun"! I'd like to see Facebook junkies turned back into the dance floor loving fun seekers that young people of all ages have always been in time past. "Smart" phones have cheated the youth out of living life!

I was with my dad at the Ford dealer when he took delivery of a brand new Bronco on 4/20/78.

I so appreciate your work Johnnyboy79. I was 16. Got my my drivers license, my first job, my first kiss. I was coming of age and it was wonderful! Thank you so much!

Oh, and my favorite song of that year, "Hold the Line" by Toto!

april 20 i turned 18 asked my wife out on our first date, still very happily married lucky me. In addition I bought a candy apple red chevy red camero. I had to sell the car in 1993. I miss the car but we bought our second home in a nicer area. I miss my camero.

I was 10 living in Anaheim, California. Things were good back then in comparison to now. The music was the best, nobody was overweight you Notice? I even think that people were better looking. I would love to just take a whole day, get comfortable on the couch and watch old shows. Thanks for your videos. 🤣

Highschool is where I was in 1978, the last 2 years. I was 17 and enjoying school.

This was great! I turned 10 in 1978 and still regard it as one of the best years of my entire life.

I was 5 years old in 1978 and remember very little of the things from the first half of the video, yet remember most of the things from the second half. It's so weird because the video over 1977, when I was 4, I remembered most of the things in.

I was 8 years old in 1978. Looking back I can hardly imagine how we survived without all todays technology. Somehow we did and I wish we could go back to those simpler times. I guess that makes me old. Great memories. I remember crushing on the Hardie Boys.

I was 16 yrs old and ran away from home,,i ended up in nyc,,I got to go in studio 54 with new friends,,none of us were 18 and none of us got carded,,steve let us in when my friend took off his shirt,,i lived in the Tremont section of the Bronx for 3 yrs,,then came back to texas,,,,,,I MISS NEW YORK!!!!

Love how you put this together! I was 8 yrs. old back then! Great job my 70's brother!

Where was I in 1978? Graduating from high school, that's where!

Wonderful times, no burkas on sight!

I love your videos! I was 7 yrs old in 1978 and this brings back so many memories ~ sometimes I wish I could go back in time & do it all over again, things were so much simpler back then. Thank you for posting and keep them coming! ❤️

Another great blast to the past! The old TV hand dial channel changing is a nice style! The accuracy of the timeline of these shows and events is amazing. Very entertaining watching!

LOVED the Disco intro!!! Wow, it brings back memories as a kid in rollerskating rinks playing disco music underneath a discoball.

I want to go back.

Now we are getting into the era's I remember clear as day.....awesome

omg I remember seeing animal house for the first time, it was hysterical then and still funny today

1978 was one of the coolest.

WHAT A DREAM JIMMY CARTER,MENACHEM BEAGIN,AND ANWAR SADAT HAD,JUST A DREAM.SAD AT AND RABIN KILLED FROM WITHIN,NOT THE OUTSIDE.

1978 was actually a pretty fun year for me. I turned 13 in June. we lived in a small town 100 miles from Chicago. I was attending a Lutheran school in Rockford IL where we went to church. I went to Branson MO with my aunt and uncle in July, got sick! my aunt said maybe there was something in the water that didn't agree with me. went to vacation bible school with my friend and ran into a kid from my old school and teased him! I called him "batman" because he had worn a batman costume for trick or treat when we were younger! drove my friend crazy because I wouldn't stop talking about it and giggling over it. a lot of good tunes on the radio, always had it on (WLS Chicago). we got new neighbors so I had more kids to hang out with. visited Chicago's field museum and saw the ruins of Pompei in the fall of '78.

I miss my mother..

Really well done! I just watched 1977 and brought back great memories!

Thanks for letting me relive my teen years... I have so many memories and you have me thinking of more. Thanks again keep up the good work!!!!

I was a child in '78 and the Jim Jones massacre effected me gravely. I remember seeing all the bodies lying face down. First time I had ever heard of Guyana.

geez I feel old I've watched all these shows

Thank You Johnny Always the best! So great to look back and laugh To remember how it was....

Married that year, Was living overseas (Europe) in the military, didn't come home for 2 years, missed the blizzard (okay by me!), news was late except on the radio (AFRS), got the Stars & Stripes military newspaper, heard about Jonestown, remember seen the pictures of all the bodies in the newspaper around Thanksgiving, also the Moscone/Milk assassinations in SF around that time.

Thank you for posting.

jaws came out in '75. some of these are off year wise..still fun to look back..need to Double checkyour time line

I actually have some little memory of this year, I was 5 and loved Andy Gibb ❤️

My dad took my brother and I to see Grease and Up in Smoke (the whole theatre smelled like pot). We were kids, but hey, it was the '70s.