Great memories! I had just turned 20 years old that May. I got engaged the following August to my girlfriend, and married in January 1977. Yes, I got married young, but I had known her since 7th grade and we were in love. We're still married to this day. I can just see us back in 1976. Those were magical times. 😊
I was so glad to see this clip when I turned RU-vid on my tv in my living room - I watch faithfully every other day to see your new videos and I hope you stay on the air and keep making these videos - they make my day every time and take me back to good memories - God bless you and keep up the great work!!!!! 👍😃
@user-du2sk7pc9e: I'm 60 as well. Of course, the 70s were 'great' for me because I was ages 5 to 15. I do agree, for my part, that life was best in 1989...being 25 was awesome.
Have been severely depressed, but every time I view one of these trips down memory lane(born in 1965, I was 😊) it always makes me feel better, if only for a little while 😊🐱 Thanks so much for posting, Fred!
That was the summer of discovery that girl next door all of sudden wouldn't just a friend All of a sudden she had a figure that couldn't be ignored 😂 and I got my learners licence that summer and the game was on in both situations 😊❤
That was the summer that I realized I was homosexual, my Black Father despised me for it and threw me put of the house. A family friend took me in for 3 years until I finished High school.
@@sarahsilverlight2064 Could be the sweetener. Dr. P now sells at higher prices a flavor that advertises itself as "with pure cane sugar" supposedly harking back to more of the original flavor. I don't think it tastes at all like what it did in my day.
Wow! That 1976 “K Mart Graduation Sale Ad” had a transistor radio, watch, typewriter, calculator, AM/FM radio, wallet & alarm clock. Now, just buy the grad a smart phone!
Great video as always... I had completely forgotten the TV guide commercials 😂 ... BTW could you by any chance run across the live action children's musicals about the bicentennial?
@4:15 Was it just me or did that "TV Guide music" make you think the nukes were inbound and we were all about to die? Duck and cover, get under your desk, like we were told to do at school in the guise of "earthquake drills". Even in primetime it was like giving kids a heart attack.
3:50 - Amazing how many times Julia was the title of a film. I thought this was the classic with Jane Fonda & Vanesa Redgrave, I thought it was odd that Sylvia Kristel would get top billing. 😆😆 Great job as always.
I'm remember Mister Kurt Russel ! As beginning in Disney and as a fidel husband of Goldie, i'd admire them. I remember Dextrose Reily in Disney But is roles remember the Thing (1982) i remember Captain Ride. So thanks WFLS, chanel 6 in Charleston to remind our souvenirs, on media That's so important to preserve our media productions
I remember that strange TV Guide theme during this era. Sounds like the soundtrack to "Andromeda Strain" or "2001" or something. Weird choice! On the movie front: Brando and Nicholson together sounds great, but it wasn't. Not really a fan of Bronson, but his movie looks much better (never saw it). This country could probably stand a reboot of This Day in History or whatever that was.
6:08: Johnny Rutherford becomes the first driver to walk into Victory Lane at Indy. That's because the race was cut short by rain for the second straight year.
The Missouri Breaks was a terrible, misguided movie with a very nice music score by John Williams in between Jaws and Star Wars. the song More More More (instant nostalgia) was recorded by the XXX porn '"actress" Andrea True. Ah, how I miss the 70s
Fred, thank you for taking us back to 1976. That was a significant year for me as I had just moved to the other side of town and was in the 8th. grade. I had a terrible 7th grade (hard adjustment from grade school to Jr. H.S.), but things were looking better in 1976. I was in a school that excelled in athletics and if you had no athletic ability you felt left out. I tried out for the baseball team and was the last kid to make the team. From that year on, my life got a lot easier and fun. Made lots of new friends. Even the morning air seemed fresher, as I recall waiting for the bus to go to school, on one of many early September mornings. The future seemed so bright. But now, it seems like a dream as I wake up to the cold reality of this world in 2024.
Ah, memories of my middle school years, what a great way to start the week. Thanks Mr. FredFlix. And love that "New York Rocker" mag with Blondie on the cover. That was at least 2 years before their first big hit in the US, "Heart of Glass" was released in Jan 79.
A difficult time. I was saving to build a house for cash. Struggling but actually doing much better than I thought. In the Fall of that year my fiancee and I drifted apart. I was devastated. Five years later I met a beautiful young woman, and married just ten months later. We’ve been madly in love for more than forty years.
I have no idea what "patrician politics" might be, but there's no reason to invoke false nostalgia about some imaginary "good ol' days" version of SNL -- they have always done politics.
On what planet should Chevy Chase beat out Tim Conway or Harvey Korman for an Emmy? Not this one. The 70s Emmy voters should have given their heads a shake...
Now, I would love to go back and return to those days, BUT NOT TO MY original childhood family, or house where I lived. I would like to visit, but maybe not stay too long. Still , I miss the culture and the merchandise of those days, along with the movies and TV entertainment. I do not miss my life at school or with the neighborhood where we lived.
mitch ryan ! the black and white original "burke devlin" ! but thats 10 years earlier what a good role though i wonder if he did that bicentennial skit daily ?
Found myself singing along, especially to “More, More, More.” It was played so much on the radio (77 WABC, 66 WNBC, 97 DJ (WWDJ), et al. Movies, never heard of most. Fred, thanks for taking me back to 19 years old!!
There are no more Sears, so it was nice to see the commercial. Back then, comedians had the freedom to be comedians. It was great to see Red Foxx & Chevy Chase. I miss Ebony and Right On, and TV Guides magazines. I'm blown away, Reggie Jackson. 😀
Just watched "Deep Water Horizon" with Kurt Russell. What an underrated actor. In all the movies he's been in, you can't imagine anyone else playing him. He's Mr. Jimmy, Snake Pliskin all rolled into one.
Wow! To have seen Blondie in 1976 would have been so awesome (even though I was only 11) and Bad Company with Kansas opening....oh my. The truck crash of ammonia would have been terrifying (having worked with it in metal plating, just a whiff was terrible. That Blue Oyster Cult album I got for Christmas in 1977 (because it wasn't a Beatles album) and Jeff Beck's Wired in 1978. Oh how I long to go back. Well, at least we get trips back with you Fred. Thanks again my friend.
When that Ultra Brite ad aired, Reggie Jackson was in his one and only season with the Baltimore Orioles. By the end of the year, he was among the first of the high-end free agent signings, signed to the NY Yankees and about to give his controversial "I'm the straw that stirs the Yankee drink" interview in Sport magazine that upset most of the Yankee locker room, particularly team captain Thurman Munson and third baseman Graig Nettles. Of the members of the '77 Yanks World Champion team, only Reggie and starting pitcher Jim "Catfish" Hunter would be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Right before what is still my most favorite summer ever. Great time to be a kid. Great family vacations and the Marvel Comics that summer were tons of fun - The Man Called Nova and Jack Kirby’s Eternals - among others! 7-11 did Marvel ICEE Cups around this time, too.
This was the first time in my life that I was ever doing well for myself, a complete change from the previous year. Saw Blue Oyster Cult at a Day On The Green at Oakland Colosseum, went straight to Tower Records and bought that album. Jeff Beck's Wired, too. Ah, the ubiquitous slide carousel! They went on to haunt thrift stores and rummage sales until the end of time -- nobody wants to just throw them away. And speaking of thrift stores, I still have a fat roll of campaign stickers for "President Ford" that I found in a thrift decades later. Poor Gerald Ford (I share a birthday with him), I think Carter benefited from his pardon of Nixon even more than Nixon did! And Chevy Chase didn't do Ford any favors with his portrayal of the Ford stumble either. I voted for Carter, but tend to question my youthful judgement now. Still, he made a good EX-president, and he's still hanging in there.
Now you're talking my kind of music, Fred. BOC. I've seen them at least 15 times in every conceivable kind of venue, including an airport runway! Got Buck Dharma's autograph at a little cabaret they played at. Got to open the door for the whole band as they entered an old movie theater they were playing at( the Colonial Theater where the Blob was filmed). I guess you can tell I love Blue Oyster Cult.
Awesome music and great memories! I bet more than a few baby girls born about '76-'78 were named Rhiannon! Don't know why, just a strange feeling I have! 😉 Anyway, thanks for the great video!😀
