@@luisalfonsoalba9730People are addicted to them. They can’t function without having one in their hand. Friends abs families get together and don’t even talk like decades past because they just sit and stare at their phones
I remember growing up in the 70s. Many many skating parties, bike riding, model kit building, arcades. record stores .. We lived out of doors summer and winter! So many things kids don't do today ,
I was a subscriber to both it and the RCA music service and got alot of records and tapes that way in the 80's. I believe my dad was a member of Columbia House back in the 60's.
The music was so vastly superior than anything now. Foreigner, the Spinners, The Stylistics, Queen, KC and the Sunshine Band, ELO, Abba, Led Zep, the Stones, The Sweet, Styx, Jackson Five, Tommy Roe, Boney M, The Who, The Partridge Family, Deep Purple, Linda Ronstead, Elton John, Donna Summer, Neil Diamond, Blondie, The Guess Who, Bee Gees, T Rex, April Wine... damn we were spoiled!!
Absolutely, I am with you 100%! I live in the beautiful state of Florida, and I am very active in the fight. We have been able to lock down just about everything here, as we don't go for any leftist nonsense at all. Addendum - Even though I didn't really get to experience the 1970's...I was here for the 1980's and 1990's. So, I got to see America firsthand at her absolute best and we're taking it back.
@@armandodimarzio1136 No, it's not about missing being young, it's about us being able to be uniquely American with our own distinct culture. Go be Dr. Phil somewhere else🤦🏻♂️
@@brucecollins7424Arcades were a 1980s pastime, not 1970s. The only electronic game was space Invaders, and there were absolutely 0 electronic games until 1978 , and they were only in big cities. Mall Ratting was also a 1980s not 1970s pastime. In the 1970s Discotheques were the popular choice. I wasn't there, but I have read a lot about it. I am really into 1970s music and counter culture ( pre Disco , pre Punk Rock). I only watch 1970s films , and television shows. I wish I could have been there for it
@@Hecatecrossways Computer Space was the first arcade video game, in 1971. Video game arcades started in the 70's, hit their peak in the early 80's, before the 1983 crash. My local mall had an arcade in the late 70's, if not before. And Merritt Island, FL was, and is still, not a big city. I didn't watch this video, but feel confident saying this was also pretty much Friday night in the 80's.
@@Hecatecrossways Yep. Now, there were arcades in the 1970s but they were full of pin ball machines. I remember being a kid and seeing my first video game in an arcade. It was "Night Driver" in 1976. We had "Pong" at home, but never saw anything like "Night Driver" to that point. Then games started dropping fast like "Asteroids" and "Space Invaders".
57 years young, how could i not be drawn in by this? if i had a time machine i'd live the 1970s over and over in a loop and then when i got tired of it drop back into Liverpool in the 60s and catch some early Beatles gigs!, cheers for this great slice of nostalgic Americana!
I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I feel sorry for kids today. They don't know how this country used to be, when adults acted like adults and kids could be kids.
I miss the 70s & 80s. Entertainment in various forms were so much better back then. And yes, the social life was booming. Used to make tons of friends everywhere you went practically...Todays life doesn't make sense at all. And its a whole lot easier to get shot or arrested just for talking to people out there now. And kids have to be watched like a hawk cause of the dangers. Neighborhood streets used to be filled with big groups of kids on bikes, playing games, planning sleep overs from morning till night. Parents couldnt keep their kids in the house. Best times ever.
Ah, riding in the back seat of a car with the windows up because it was raining and Dad's cigarette smoke choking me, Mom spanking my brother with a flip flop, drinking and driving wasn't illegal (just stupid and dangerous), Neil Diamond singing "Girl you'll be a woman soon" (what??), parents not knowing where we were or who we were with, and the Vietnam war was pretty unpopular. to. I feel lucky just to have survived the 70s.
The music was different,Kids could play outside till the street lights came on. And I was 10 in 1977 and I tell my grandkids. That is how we socialzed back then.
Perhaps the public housing poor neighborhoods have somethings right, the kids are always on the streets there till the lights come on and beyond the parent(s) no where to be seen/found except when it's time to feed them or let them back in to sleep.
I was born in 71 so we actually hung out with ppl and played outside when I was a kid and as a teenager hung out and did things. I miss those days with no cellphones and fb
@@zcam1969 The cultural decades are staggered. I think the 70s actually started with the end of America's involvement in the Vietnam War in 1973. The 80s didn't really begin until like 1984.
@@zcam1969 I'd add that "the 60s" was the decade of protest that ended with American involvement in the Vietnam War. The 70s ended with the decline/disappearance of certain popular forms of entertainment (the 70s was an escapism decade) like Atari and disco. The 80s were largely about Neo-Conservatism (Reaganism) and the 90s were primarily about the Clinton presidency (social and economic policies...socially liberal-economically conservative).
@@zcam1969 I'll stick to my original statement. The real thing that ended "the 60s" was the end of the protest movements. Watergate and the resignation in '74 further sealed the deal. So, I guess, you could also say the 60s ended in the late summer of '74.
Screw cell phones how bout a time machine back to the 70s!! Cant Imagine a better decade for kids ! Friday night's were awesome but saturdays was our adventure time for me,and my buds! And night time was all of us in my moms station wagon heading to the skating ring, drive in movies etc. , and sundays in the sumertime was pops day to take all of us for a day at the lake where he would work the grill while me and my friends swam all day until we were starving! Man i wish i could go back... i still smell summertime in the 70s occasionally and can almost hear mom calling us in to eat dinner as a family at the table. What a time.....
Soooooo glad I grew up when the mall scene was going on. No parents, no curfews, no cell phones , just being with friends , smoking and checking out guys lol. I feel so bad for kids today. They have no idea what they've missed. I loved Deb, Lerner, Old West for my Levi cords, hickory farms..i could go on and on....😊
OMG Hickory Farms! I forgot all about that place. Remember Papa Gino's, Bradlee's, Thom McCann Shoes, and Weathervane? And yeah my girlfriend at the time would always smoke in the mall. Times were so different back then. We would even go to Dream Machine after shopping. It was a video arcade only found in malls.
@@LKVince11 You bet I did. Massachusetts to be exact. Just outside of Boston. Remember Jack in the Box, Sbarro Pizza, Waldenbooks, and Strawberries Records?
there was that certain smell of cigarettes as you walked outside the high school door by the smoking area for students ! imagine teens being allowed to smoke on school grounds ! i wonder when that got kiboshed ?
I see a lot of people complaining about pics from the 50s, 60s and 80s being used. Even a 78rpm record player is shown. I'm willing to overlook it because these were ALL good times, compared to now. American culture, and "living the good life" went down the toilet after 2000, and is heading to the bottom fast, with smartphones and Facebook leading the way. Gone are the drive-ins, the bowling alleys, the skating rinks, the amusement parks that we enjoyed. Now the young walk around like zombies with a 3x5 screen jammed in their face. In this dystopian age, seeing ALL these pictures is comforting. As a teenager of the 70s, all I know is I wouldn't want to be one today.
Well, U don’t know how people think videos like this otherwise would be made, that’s how they document are world’s history and, everyone uses them! That would be weird if people created new video for a look at the past! Aka/ People always want to and, have to constantly complain about something or they aren’t very contented or happy!
@@sonyafox3271 Do we always have to be recording every little thing? It's bad enough the young do not value their privacy and freedom, and have to post every minute detail of their lives on FB, while they sell your personal info and monitor your activity. And you're cool with that? Only a sheep would be, or a peasant trapped in a communist country that knows no better.
@@DanaTheInsaneThis, exactly. I've seen kids of today who treat me far better than my own generation did when I was a kid back in the 1970's. It was not all rosy for everybody back then!
Grew up in th 80's. Frogger,Qbert Pacman,Space Invaders and Donkey Kong. Frequented Northland Mall in Southfield,MI.Feasted on Hot Sams soft pretzels and shopped at Sam Goodys. Went to the Americana on 9 and Greenfield to see latest movies. Neighbors came over on Friday Nights to watch the Incredible Hulk and Fantasy Island with My family and I. Friends and I played football and basketball until either darkness fell or parents called a stop to it. Sense of togetherness and comraderie that's missing Today and likely wont be returning anytime soon 😔.
As someone who spent all my teen years in the 1970s, the Disco Craze is so overstated. It didn't last that long, and the cool kids listened to Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, etc.
@@erikb8979 Mostly because it was the homogenized/shallow bastard child of Funk and of course the racists and homophobes hated that it was mostly made by Hispanics, African Americans and LGBT musicians/producers not the "good ol' boys" tough guys who didn't dance.
Sophie. No. None of those things. It just sucked. U contradict yourself because modern music all has its roots from those very things u just listed. Rick and roll Blues. Soul. R and b. Country. It’s all had roots from African American culture. Don’t hate those. Disco is the only music I ever truly hated. Even some rap I don’t mind mainly old school rap
I was 13 in 1970 and in the army in 1975. I remembers girls, great music, cruising in my 1970 Cuda and lots of beer drinking. Way to much fun in California.
I was 12 in 1970. By the time my friends and I were around 15 we had all of Manhattan to play in during the 70’s. From Columbia University all the way downtown on the Westside, all of Central Park, the 80’s on the Eastside, The Village, but never the Lower Eastside or Times Square. We knew all the best spots.
Yes we had better concerts back then better bands and musicians didn't costs a lot of money for tickets like it does now the most I ever paid for a ticket is 12 dollars
friendly, family events and get togethers, and respectable and kindness to others, could not wait till Friday to let loose and do it all over again on Saturday (those days are long gone now)
I'd give my life up for today's kids/ teenagers to live like I did in the late 70s thru 80s. We played outside until our parents called for us or until the street lights came on. Rode our bikes all over the place. Arcades, bowling alleys, camping overnight in our friends backyard, every kid on our block and even in the neighborhood would get together for baseball or hide-n-go-seek, kick the can. It was such a safer time! We would get a dollar and ride to the nearest store to buy candy bars that cost 25 cents! On rainy days it was all about board games and renting vhs or beta movie tapes. Fast food was a weekend thing only. Dinner was ate as a family at the kitchen table. We were fit, all of us were! People helped someone in need right away ( instead of standing there and filming from their phone) if you smarted off to your parents, you'd get one hell of a Crack across the face and the parents wouldn't get sent to jail. The way this world is today, I'm sorta glad my life is most likely past the halfway point.
I used to enjoy bowling back in the 70s. I was a pre-teen and our school used to take us bowling as our part of our gym class a few times a week. I truly sucked at it but I enjoyed it because it was fun with friends, lol. I was born in 1961.
In the 90s they started to crack down on the weekend cruising., and started to put up ordinances to ban it. We couldn't do that today with gas prices up😅
@kevincharbonneau5953 I'm not saying no about game arcades in the 70's, but they were dominated by pinball machines and target shooting style games, etc. Other than Pong and similar types, there weren't too many other video games... You're using a movie reference, but I'm using my childhood memories(Great Eastern Department stores games arcade Elmont,NY)because I was a child of the 70s and a High Schooler/College student through most of the 80s(1981-1986)... Besides, the images of video arcades in this video are clearly from 1982, and the participants are more or less my same age... Just curious, what is your experience?
Uh. There era’s in this video are messed up, talking about 70’s dance, but showing what is obviously known 80’s footage. If your gunna do it, do it right…
Yes. Dad telling us we was going drive in. U never seen 5 boys load the station wagon up so fast. Threw in a mattress in the back and we was on our way
I graduated from high school in 1971. There were no cruising in my town. When I got out of the Navy in 1975, there was cruising down the main drag. Skating rinks and bowling alleys were at their peak. The cruisers were outed in the late 1980s. Bowling down and ice skating still around these days. The glitter ball is a relic from the "roaring" 1920s revived in the 1970s. Arcade video games started in the late 1970s with the first home Pong game followed. Roller rinks was hip in the 1950s with the girls wearing poodle dresses, down a bit in the 1960s but up probably from Melanie's (may she rest) song "Brand new Key" in 1971.
High school days in the 70s, dragging Main in the area's big town, with all the other kids from all the other little towns who were our sports rivals, listening to 8-tracks, CB radios, $2 movies in cool old art deco, 30s era theaters. Different times back then.
Great list I remember it all. Our go to store at the mall was Spencer's Gifts - lava lamps, blacklight posters and every t- shirt known to man. I would add minature golf, the music and light show at the planetarium, the company softball tournament craze and the ever popular midnight movie (Rocky Horror, anyone). I grew up in Florida so hanging at the beach was also an option.
Well, all those video games were released in the 1980s. Defender, in particular was 1981, as was Centipede. Even missile command was released in 1980...so.....
at 11:50 you say: "This was the era of Flower Power, The Age of Aquarius," NO! It's absolutely wasn't. Flower Power and The Age of Aquarius were long OVER by then. The term "Flower Power" was coined in 1965, as an anti-war protest, and the world-famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Bernie Boston entitled "Flower Power" of the 18-year old hippie and gay activist George Edgerly Harris III (also known as Hibiscus) with long blonde hair and a white turtleneck sweater bravely inserting a flower into the barrel of a National Guardsman's assault rifle, was taken at an anti-war rally in 1967. That photo really epitomized the high water mark of "Flower Power." Similarly, the Age of Aquarius comes from the musical HAIR!: The Tribal Love Rock Musical, which opened in 1967 off-Broadway, and 1968 on Broadway and was a huge smash hit in productions all over the USA. Many many musical artists had hit records with songs from that musical, and even that 5th Dimension album, which you showed, and which came fairly late in the chronology was nevertheless still released in 1969. One MIGHT, if you really want to stretch the truth for some weird reason, say that some of late-60s counterculture extended into the very early 1970s, but that's not how people NORMALLY report on cultural trends. You are supposed to report on them based on when they first emerged and when they hit their peak, and not when they are in decline and fading out of style. What you are saying here is like claiming "The 2000s was the time of Grunge" when it actually hit it's peak in the early 1990s and was already falling into decline after 1994 in the aftermath of Kurt Cobain's death. Or, it would be like saying "The 1930s was the age of the Flapper and the Charleston" when all that was really happening in the 1920s. If anything, we need to acknowledge the 1970s is most associated with "The Me Generation," and certainly not "Flower Power." You'd be considered a walking anachronism if you were STILL saying "Flower Power" in the 1970s. It's a shame you went so off the rails there, because otherwise what you were saying about the trends of 1970s was fairly accurate. Except what you called and showed as "High Heeled Boots" were in fact called "Platform Shoes." Also incorrect, when when you showed what was clearly 1980s New Wave and New Romantic kids dancing while you were talking about 1970s music those kids would never have danced to The Dells and Al Green in a million years. New Wave kids with green hair would have regarded The Dells as tragically unhip by then. Then you went on to talk about 1970s record albums while showing photos and records from earlier eras for who knows what reason. Also, while Punk Rock did begin in the mid 1970s with bands like The Ramones, Dead Boys, Sex Pistols, and X-Ray Spex. the band you showed when mentioning punk was certainly not a punk band at all. That was an arena rock band, which would be the very antithesis of punk rock When you discussed disco, you did at least show disco dancing.
@@reallifelebowski4732 ....or... how about a BETTER idea? Instead of just not caring about such "minor" details like historical facts and accuracy, maybe have some pride in the art of storytelling START to care? Yeah, how about that?
I miss the arcades there use to be a store down the street from me when I was a kid and they had a back room full of arcades from Moon Patrol, Pac Man, Centipede and pinball games too and use to play the games all the time. I would go around and collect pop bottles and return them for the deposit money and go play the arcades. I miss those days it was great.
Oh my gosh, I lived in my roller skates in those days. Spent every Friday and Saturday night at the roller disco from 6-11….it was the greatest place on earth.
Technology got a little better when you could turn on your radio to a AM station and get sound 🔊. The intermission between films was pretty cool when you you went to the popcorn or snack stand.
The best of the 70s was the best era in rock and soul music with electronic music raising it's head to morph to trance, techno, house, chill out lounge and space music. The downside we Vietnam vets were not welcomed home until the 1982 when the Wall was inaugurated in DC.
I definitely bowled in leagues all throughout the 70's and into the 80's. Oak Park Mall is the only mall left in Johnson County, KS and is still thriving.
The 70s & 80s Rocked!! We had Great Fun!!! No Cell Phones, No Computer Games for Us, the Rich Kids got them in the 80s, we had Drag Star Bikes, Played with other kids in the Street. Every one knew each other, be home when the Street lights came on. Burgers, pizza, or KFC, was an Occasional Treat, which you Appreciated & looked forward too. It was a Far Better Time, than Today’s Insanity!!. I’m grateful for my Childhood/ Teenage upbringing, Great memories 👍👍👏👏
over here in australia when we went to the movies intermission we used to hear herp albert the lonely bull when i hear it now i think back when we used to go to the movies
I remember practicing dancing during the week to go out on the weekend. We ironed our jeans and shirts, glitter gelled our hair, blow dry it feathered back with the middle part. Take a nap to be fresh and go out about 10:30 when others started to look ragged already after several hours of dancing. Any disease you could get was treated with a few shots. The good times rolled.
The malls were really thriving in the 80's and 90's. I spent many hours in them in the 90's. I don't remember how much they differed from the 70's because I was just a kid then and I don't think our mom took us there that often.
The 1970s was before my time , but i will tell you that life was alot better than today that's including the 1980s and the 1990s life was so easy simple and pleasent to live all i did was ride my mountain bike to lake michigan and back to wineka illinois that is the suburbs i lived in , oh yeah Saturday morning cartoons that's when kids were kids we threw parties had fun how i miss those days .....
😢yeah I miss my days of being able to watch those cartoons on tv 😢especially the 70’s to the 80’s cartoons which unfortunately have yet to be released on blu-ray 😢well they did remaster Scooby Doo, etc 😮
Even though there were some kinds of video games around earlier, video arcade culture is very much an 80s phenomenon, beginning with PAC Man in 1980. In the 70s in most places, arcades were all about pinball machines. The kind of mall culture the video portrays was also very much a 1980s thing. Did whoever made this video even live through that era?
@@christineobrien7707 indeed. I live in Gary Indiana but because of the crime we had to close our drive in and turn it into a storage unit... have to drive over a hour to a different city just for their drive in... the last movie I seen there was in 1994...
@@vashtikelly6837 I live in CT. I think there's 2 active drive ins. Such gfun memories. My mom would throw pj's on my sister and I. So,all she had to do was throw us into bed when we got home! Smart thinking, huh?!
@@christineobrien7707 hell yeah and our drive in had a playground to play before the movie started 😁. The best time to go to drive in was 70/80s during Jaws, and Friday 13th
@@vashtikelly6837 Yes!! I remember seeing the dumb movie The Swarm(killer bees) I remember closing the windows of my mom's brady bunch station wagon!! I was @ 9 yesterday old .What a dumb ass,huh??!!😄
There was ALOT more good than bad back then!!! At that time I was in grade school & I could remember how Comic books & Baseball cards were two of the biggest blazing trends among kids!!! I wasn't immune!!!! I could remember how my passion for Comics & Pro Wrestling created for me a network of friends!!!! Some of whom I'm still in contact with today!!!! EVERYTHING was "hands on" opposed to the culture of today!!!! I MUST confess that I do miss it ALL!!!!!😢😢😢
