The Office Christmas Party at a Cadillac Dealership in 1973
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Which nobody viewing this video ever attended...
Or did you??
.. 🤔
Regardless, let's step out of the Deloren a bit for some fun with this video and a throwback to when big cars used to be both expensive and a luxury.
Also, the alcohol appears to be flowing here generously at this very flashy local Michigan Holiday party.
This short video last around 3 minutes or so.
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#christmasparty
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This is what makes UA-cam as wonderful as it is.
Without UA-cam this video would just be sitting on a shelf someplace gathering dust.
Yep. I said the same thing.
You are so right! People are able to share their interests with the world to also enjoy.
either that or long gone
Got to love the 70's, especially the cars😊
Indeed
The black gentleman at the punch bowl is Dick Gidron. He owned a Cadillac dealership right off of Fordham road in the Bronx. Right across from the Bronx Zoo.
I worked with my dad on Webster ave in the Bronx back in the early to late 70’s and we would always pass his dealership. Fast forward like 10 years later and I got a job fixing NEC phone systems and Dick Gidron was one of our customers. I met him a few times over the years. He was a good guy. A straight up businessman but a nice person to work with.
Wow, thanks. That's wild
I thought it was him. Do you think this a party at his dealership?
@@73coupedeville26you know what, I didn’t even think about that but I think it is. I kind of remember that waterfall thing in the lobby of the dealership. When I saw it for the first time it was over 10 years after this was filmed.
It does look like his old dealership.
Oh wow. Good call! I remember he had a Cadillac dealership in my hometown of Yonkers NY until the early 00s as well.
Is he still alive?
I know this is over 50 years ago, but this feels like a parallel universe compared to today.
Facts 💯
Because it is ... :(
Cause the people were real people without Botox or silicone.
It’s cool, imagine being able to attend that party for a few hours 😊
@@capricetony Yeah, that would be cool 😃
If I had a time machine, I wouldn't want to try changing things or experiencing the biggest moments of history for myself... I'd just want to sneak into little moments like this, experience the pleasant atmosphere, and then maybe try to make off with that sweet brown Eldorado convertible to take back to my timeline. Videos like these really are a window into a different world. I hope the people enjoying this early 70 Christmas party have had long and fulfilling lives, and that a few of them might be preparing for Christmas festivities in the upcoming weeks.
Thank you so much for a short but sweet vide.
Excellent observation.
0:44 man's laugh from 51 years ago travelling in time makes me feel happy.
I want to say hi to him. 😮
Civility. Gosh I miss those days.
This truly was a different time. An office Christmas party was an event with people who were well dressed and at least acted civil. I can smell the perfume, after shave, and yes, cigarettes. I can hear a live band in the background. Someone, please invent a time machine.
Oh there were folks who hated the office holiday parties as much then as now.
@@NCVBflo I was always the one to avoid parties all together (not my thing) if I did go I would only stay for a few minutes then dip out
None of them were mandatory it was more of you can come if you want
Back when owning a CADILLAC meant something! 😘
I agree. I had a 66 ,69 and a71.
100% - I've only been with Cadillac 46 years, a lifetime well spent. Beautiful women, perfume & cigarettes.
Partly because they didn’t just look like ugly trucks or small blobs. Lincoln has gone down the tubes too. We had late-‘70s Lincolns. Gorgeous cars, stately and masculine. Never mind huge and useful for anything. But they’re all just indistinct and downright ugly now.
@@theOlLineRebel I totally agree with you.
My grandfather worked for a Lincoln-Mercury dealership from 1968-1997. After years of being away, I finally got to visit him and I showed him this video today and I asked him if this is how pure and simple times were back then in the 70s.. I’m not kidding, my old man looked at this video in silence and you can see he was taken back to a core memory as he was only in his early 20s at the time. He just said to me: “Son, I can assure you, I have lots of great memories from Christmas/NY parties at work and 4th of July events that I’ll never forget from back then”
Thanks for uploading this! It made my grandfathers day! He’s rarely ever on UA-cam and I don’t think he realized he can watch throwback home made videos like this, so it was very special for him to watch this as it related to him in a unique way.
How old is your grandfather if you don't mind me asking?
@@gator9339 79
Cars still had classy American styling back then. Those old Caddys would float down the road like on a cloud.
It's called blown shocks that can't handle a car that heavy! LOL!
Was born on Christmas day 1973! It's neat to see life when I was brand new back then!
I almost came Christmas day; I came about a month later LOL.
This is Christmas of 72, you weren’t even a shot in the dark yet.
My wife was born Christmas eve '73.
I was a young kid in 73 and remember when my parents would dress up and go to my Dad’s Christmas party. They looked exactly like these people in the video, young and carefree. I would watch my Mom get ready, putting on makeup, Dad would be slicking his hair back with his black comb. We kids would wait for the babysitter. RIP Dad. 😢I miss you
My uncle was a GM at a pretty large Cadillac dealer in the 70s, he once told me that the owner spent like $4000 on the Christmas party. Incredible food, tables all over the showroom free bar and all kinds of gifts for employees and their families.
He must of done great for himself. Prior to the internet and invoice transparency the automotive business was quite profitable from what I’ve been told
I was in college then but when I graduated a couple of years later and went to work for a bank I remember lavish parties where everybody ate to their hearts content and people could "hold their liquor" as they used to say. A world where in the Midwest Nobody drove an import except college kids with VWs - dads all drove Buicks or Caddys unless they were Ford/Lincoln or Chrysler families cuz families were brand loyal then and of course your dad traded in for a new car every three or four years. Not just Upper Middle Class, even Blue Collar Workers were homeowners and everyone expected to stay with the company until retirement. 73 was the Arab Oil Embargo when it all started to go to heck!
That's $4000 1970's dollars too.
I spent 35 years in the auto industry as a salesperson and ultimately as a sales manager. There was another salesperson who worked with me and I remember him once telling me that his uncle was a Cadillac salesman in the 1950's and 1960's and was earning around $50k per year back then. Is that really true? Just curious......thanks
@@marshallrosen498 50 or 60k was a corporate VP or a successful doctor's salary in those days. One of my schoolboy friend group had a dad who owned a local Chrysler and Imperial dealership and in addition to their house in our Chicago suburb they had a summer cottage on a Wisconsin lake and a condo in Fort Lauderdale they used the week between Christmas and New Years. I think his top sales guys (all guys of course back then) could have done that - they definitely made good money.
Seems to be a diverse crowd enjoying each others company.
and yet no DEI policy…
just like trump rallies right, but that one black guy on camera and think everything is great.
All these people are only in their 30s.
@@christopher3963 All that DEI stuff has made race relations worse. They would have us believe that early 70's America was like 1930's Germany but this video completely debunks that.
Delightful, civil, elegant-if only this were still so.
I was 10 years old. The '70s and '80s were AWESOME!
The '70s & '80's were Not awesome, actually those years were the beginning of the end, for America, in '71 Nixon took the dollar of the gold standard which signaled that America was bankrupt.
Not only was she bankrupted financially but also morally, the fall of Humpty Dumpty started in the '60s, the USA started squandering her pot of gold
that she had accumulated after WW2, the 50's & early '60s was America's "Awesome years, btw, I was 11 yrs old in 1973.
In 1973 I was 9 years old, the 70s were awesome 👍🏾
Rose tint
These are my favorite finds on UA-cam……people from the past acting naturally and just going about their lives.
Everything in the past had a charm a gleam and a satisfying feel about it. You were alive and felt the moment.
& got lung cancer from second-hand smoke
Love it! I was 12 years old in 1973 and my mother always had a new Cadillac every year. (Note the plastic over the white leather seats to keep them immaculately clean--he, he). As I recall, this Fleetwood Eldorado looks as if it was ordered in Firethorn Red with a Cotillion White top and White leather with red carpets and dash. While these times didn't have the exuberant glamour since the early 1960s--people were still elegant, polite, we had great fun. The fashions had gotten "bloated" and exaggerated by this time, but the elegant behavior and treatment of everyone was still there. Nowadays, you can't even say or think of an office Christmas party. How far we've fallen. Thanks SO much for posting.
Great times back then. I was 12 then but loved cars and went to auto shows. Best part of this video….no phones. People had to speak with each other. Class act with the band playing.
What a time! I loved 1973! I wish I could go back . . . Today sucks, especially the cars.
You got that right.
Same here I wasn’t alive at that time I was born in 2000
@@marylanddagotti8338 Life was more enjoyable. No cell phones, email, people needing constant attention. Things were made well and people seemed to be more classy (clothes, personalities).
Depends on the car
Rose-tinted glasses.
This video made me smile. 😊 They really knew how to throw an office party back in the day!
I swear, watching these types of videos makes me feel like I just stepped out of a time machine into this scene, and I'm able to observe everything without anyone knowing I'm there.
Oooh! Pickpocket time!
👍🤠
@@JohnShinn6078 LOLOL!!! The Time Traveling Pickpocket 🤣
Back in the day when office Christmas party’s were fun and you actually wanted to stay. You could drink alcohol, dance, and everyone dressed in their best attire.
I entered the workforce in the early 90s one year after the company I worked for banned alcohol at their Christmas party. They also ended it promptly at 8PM sharp where before it was midnight. Two years later they were no longer held. I was told liability reasons.
And now you're not supposed to say Christmas unless someone gets offended, you're supposed to say holiday party.
@@DCI226 nobody gets offended over Christmas. The idea is just to be inclusive to other people like Jewish people. You know those ones the ones who have been around forever Jesus there’s no war on Christmas calm down.
@@JosephMusgrove lawyers ruin everything
Where I work they still have a yearly Christmas party and everyone gets 2 free drinks
Sounds like a fun place to work.
I remember visiting a Cadillac dealership in the Los Angeles area in 1973. There was a new Eldorado on the showroom floor. Light blue metallic with white landau top & white leather interior. It was one of the most beautiful cars I had ever seen
This feels like b roll for a Godfather movie
The Mad Men years, drinking, smoking groping. What a time to be alive!
That fountain contained mineral oil to make the drops slow down as they descended the thin, fishing line-like wires. I thought they were the coolest thing when I was a kid. The Cadillac crest was a nice touch of class!
My grandparents had one of those pil lamps in theor house. In the center was a little statue.
Kids...it's the real deal. Office parties back then we're actually fun. Some got a little crazy but wouldn't trade those years for anything. Final years of my work career saw the demise of office parties. Glad I was around to enjoy the old days.
yep, excessive drinking, inappropriate touching, it was a blast! And people were fine with it, nobody got hurt (for the most part).
Great video. I was 9 in '73. The '70s were a great time to grow up in.
They were rough in NYC but we survived.
Especially pre 74. Befire the 55 mph speed limit
Thanks for always uploading all these great videos from the past. It's such a good relief. Anything without smart phones and social media was a better life. The simple basic times back then. I'll do anything to go back in time and relive those great moments again.
That!!! 100%
@tashalynn29 So true, here we are today with smart phones glued to our hands and ears 24/7 non stop. The simple times back then.
You can still relax without any technology around you, go camping out in the wild. Good luck!
@bardo0007 yea good luck when the idiots around you still bring all of their gear and disrupt the peace.
@tashalynn29 Here we are today where technology took everybody in.
What a time! I can smell & taste that room thru my phone screen.
what smells and tastes come to mind? I wasn't around during this period so I'd like to know haha
Polyester and Marlboro with a splash of Aqua-Net
@@BiometricFileHasBeenCorrupted thanks
@@BiometricFileHasBeenCorrupted Hai Karate?
@@xx_kuus_xxit’s just a figure of speech
My parents would always have parties like this!
God, I miss those days!
My brother and I wood sneak down and steal the hors-d’oeuvres and hang out at the top of the stairs to watch and listen. The greatest time to be a kid!
I love this! Thank you for the time capsule!
This is fantastic! Great vibe, wish they filmed the entire party.. I’d stay there for hours, what a calm, friendly atmosphere.
I wouldn't in a million years attend a work party today. I would attend this, though. Looks like a great time.
An actual band!!! Wow! 🤗😀🐶
The big collared shirts of the 70s. Groovy man!
Thank you Mark!
Dagger collars is what they were called
THIS is what UA-cam should be. If it was nothing but this kind of content I would never watch anything else. Thanks for uploading! 👍🏼
Exactly. Very authentic content here.
I was fully lost in this video. And then it ended and startled me, lol. I could have kept watching it for a while. Missing these types of carefree days immensely.
Me too. When it ended I jumped wondering what the hell had happened?
@paulbedford9816 Yes, lol. I thought I did something by mistake
Wow
When you see this stuff you realize how much we have fallen
Live music and dancing!
Wow…couples not only dancing, but knowing specific dances! Plus, a live band at a company Christmas party?!? Big spenders as they used to say!😅You get NOTHING from work for the holidays now…everyone is too cheap! I was turning 3 around the time of this party…this was truly a different world.
Yeah and I'm sure all the employees got a nice Christmas bonus. You don't get shit now
Cool video! This might actually be Christmas '72 because there was a sign for the '73 Fleetwood hanging from the ceiling and December '73 would be a few months into the '74 model year. They would probably have signs out for the '74s by Christmas '73.
That explains the 72 Eldo at the beginning. The top line of the fender on the 72 is more rounded like the video, whereas the 73 is more straight.
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that! (The sign appears at 2:08 if you want to go back and check.)
Nice keep posting these gems of a time that is no longer here. Kids now a days will know nothing about NO pre 9/11, internet and smart phones. After we're gone these videos will survive. THANK YOU FOR KEEPING HISTORY ALIVE!👍🏻🇺🇲
70’s. The best decade.
The 80's were pretty good!
What an awesome find. To see a brand new Cadillac Eldorado on the showroom floor. The car was so new I saw the factory plastic covering on the seats. What a time to have such a prestigious car.
Time to work on that sales pitch. "What's it gonna take to get YOU under the mistletoe today?"
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby
That song was younger then than I am now!
My dad had a beautiful 73' Cadillac and I enjoy driving my Cadillac CTS-V3. Cadillac has always set the bar for the vehicle industry!
I was born in September 1973. I feel old now.
That rainlamp was on Antiques Roadshow. From what I understand there's only like 2 in existence.
Also, back in the day where you could pack a picnic lunch in the engine compartment and still have room for more. I watched my boyfriend at the time literally sit in the engine bay working on his truck. RIP, dude. Nowdays you open the hood and can't even see the ground!
I was also born in September 1973. As much as it feels like “life is short,” seeing this type of thing also makes me feel like it’s been pretty long.
@@tomaskuehn1142 Sometimes I feel nostalgic for red shag carpeting and, in the house I grew up in olive green fake fur on the basement walls. Ya gotta admit, we have seen quite a bit of history.
That man's laugh at 0:44 gives me life
I was 13, in 8th grade. 73 was a transition year, as was '72. Pull out of Nam, Moving from hippie culture into polyester hell. Watergate investigation. Music was "pop". Such a big change from just a few short years earlier. Just a few short years before the disco revolution.
Thank you for recording throughout the years it’s a blessing to see history as it happened ❤
Thanks for posting -- this just means something because this was the year my parents got married (and they're still married today :)). Just makes me feel like I had a glimpse into their world in that moment of time when there was so much in front of them.
even tho I was 10 yrs old in 1973, would love to go back now, at 61, walk into that party, and have some Champagne!!!
Oh the lavishness....
I swear I can smell the wood office panels, cigar and Aramis fragrance from here
I smell Hai Karate and English Leather too!
Pass the Courvoisier 🍹
More civilized times.
Less than 10 years after the Civil Rights Act, over 40 years before same-sex marriage was legalised, imminent threat of nuclear war...sometimes rose-tinted glasses aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Not necessarily, simply different.
I’m talking about the way people behaved and interacted in public.
@@RidgelinePatriotAgain, not true. You’re watching a party of a bunch of rich old folks, setting matters
Cigarettes, booze and great cars that got 8mpg. I miss the 70's.
I'm with you friend.
And no whining.
I was a body man back then miss thoes days more than anyone will ever know.
I was 2 yrs old. I wonder if that Cadillac is still owned by someone or has it been scrapped? I forget that people used to smoke inside. I loved the couple dancing. Life is but a vapor.
What a beautiful time.. and is that a Cadillac floor to ceiling oli lamp? Just WOW.. magnificent 🥂🍾🎄
I'd really like to know what happened to that lamp!
I was waiting for the 'Lamp Shades' to come out. LOL
I enjoyed watching this. Back in the day, you knew a luxury car from an inexpensive, "work" car. Today, every car looks the same. There is no such thing as a luxury car.
The only actual luxury car out there that remains is Lexus.
But even a Lexus gets blended in with a new KIA.
@@Roadrage1588 Exactly. I can't tell one car from another. In the '60s, '70s, even '80s ... you knew a luxury car when you saw one.
@@HamBrine you mean the fancy Toyota?
In addition to all modern cars looking the same they are also so ugly looking.
This was amazing, but I feel so sad knowing most of these beautiful people are in a grave somewhere 😢
My uncle worked for GM for around 35 years (late 70s to about 2013) and said they had some wiiiild Christmas parties (especially in the mid-late 80s)
Thank you for posting this video!!!! I own that Cadillac rain lamp in the video.
Great video -- that massive brown Eldorado steals the show. What a stately sight it is under the showroom lights! It knows nothing of the thousands of tiny Datsuns and Subarus that will multiply around its hubcaps in the decades to come. The last of the grand American convertibles, the kind you'll find transporting Homecoming queens for decades to come.
One of the most beautiful Eldorado's I've seen. And while I was only 13 at the time, I noticed all cars. So much better than the convertibles in that gaudy cherry red.
An era when each car had it's own distinction. Now they all look the same.
Just had my Toyota/KIA dealership Xmas party here in Miami and yes, it was very different!
What one is better ?
@@-What-are-your-thoughts
Ha!
Back when Cadillac had prestige now it’s just run of the mill
Right. Tell that to a CTS-V Blackwing.
I didn't come around until the early 80s. But listening to my parents, Aunts/Uncles and even older co workers over the years. All have told me how different jobs were back in the 70s, 80s and even early 90s working at Corporations.
Back when people dressed up for an event. No panjama pants, pink hair, tattoo sleeves and nose rings.
Everyone had class back then ....what a different world , things sure have gone downhill
Just 2 months after the Arab Oil Embargo started. Must have been some interesting conversations. Those 500 cube V8s are thirsty.
No pink hair or nose rings. No cell phones. No sweatpants or Crocs. No walking on eggshells or obsessing over skin color. No one is ripping out anyone's weave. People actually showered and combed their hair. They held conversations and knew how to interact with others like a human.
No dogs.
I think you covered all the bases. %100
Apparently you’ve never met a hippie from the 70s.
@@ajvintage9579I guarantee you this person is younger than 20 and has no direct experience with this decade
@ajvintage9579 I did, but they didn't attend social engagements like this.
Beautiful 😊😊
Thank you for putting these videos out.
I do miss the days before smart phones.
I turned 2 that month, LOL! What a great video discovery!
I was still in the oven, I almost was born Christmas Day 73. but came out in January LOL.
I was 3, and a 1/2
I was 26 at the time, remember Christmas 1973 very well - it wasn't a good time, economically. OPEC had started the oil embargo, gasoline shortages caused many stations to reduce hours when they were open, etc. But...that was all the more reason to party hardy! This particular one was pretty sedate, very nice. I remember office Christmas parties like the ones in the beginning of "Die Hard". Yup, people drank too much, inhibitions came down, and if the two of you went looking for, um, an unused room, you knocked first, and usually had to go through two or three before you found one. Ah, the good old days.
I was 21 at Christmas 1973. The new year of 1974 would see odd even gas rationing and long gas lines. Cadillac sales would drop dramatically in the first months of '74 before rebounding. Still a Cadillac dealership was very elegant and opulent. Everything changed in the years that followed.
That womand at 1:51 getting her cigarette lit...
Wow. I see oil lamp. I smile. Definitely a relic of that era.
I want to thank you so much for your channel. You are my favorite UA-camr because you preserve the past and in a way that makes me feel as though I can step through the screen and I’d be home again.
Great party! LOVE the car!!!! BIG BLOCK baby!
500 V8 nothing but the biggest and best!
Back in 1973 everyone had class and respect.
Started my career at Heritage Cadillac in Atlanta Georgia 1973. Worked at GM Dealerships all the way until 2008.
Cars changed into space pods on wheels from actual cars.
a lot more good looking women than my last Christmas party LOL
So amazing I feel like I'm there
Now you’re lucky if you get a slice of cold pizza and told to get back to work
I turned seven that past July.
What a time, to be a kid or an adult!!😀👍
1980 was magic enough for me but that must have been otherworldly.
I was a freshman in 73, But I was sporting my bad ass bell bottoms on the west coast! I'd love to to enter a time portal back to 73, and attend that Xmas gig, test dive that BAD ASS 73 Eldorado rag top Caddy. I'd pop in my Marvin Gaye's 8-track, and jam to "Make Me Wanna Holler" oh yea, spark up my bong, hit the snow, and enjoy the ride......................
wow, it must have been awesome to be a Cadillac salesman fifty years ago, this is fantastic look at that 1974 Eldorado Convertible, if I were to travel back in time, that is the first place I would visit, the Cadillac dealership.
Being a car salesman was and still is a cut-throat business. Nothing glamorous about it.
'73
@@bertram46 Pretty sure that's a '74, remember the 74s released in the fall of 73
Ahhh...smoking indoors; drinking; everybody skinny...the good ole days
Everybody was not skinny in the 70s. Or ever, for that matter.
Everybody was not skinny back then why are you lying and being weird?
You do know they had things that can make you look skinny
Women had gerdals and men had suspenders on underneath their coat and wearing big clothing can hide their stomach
Then again you’re probably young and don’t know much of anything and/or are still learning but at a much slower rate
Thats when a cadillac was a cadillac. Back then cadillac had exotic names for their colors. Especially the optional "firemist" colors which that Eldo was. I follow cadillacs i think that color was Ember-moondust. I was 12 then.
I had an Aussie Chrysler Valiant from 1978 and the yellow was called lemon twist.
That glorious Eldorado convertible is in Burnt Sienna.
@paulbedford9816 yes! After I posted that I think ember moon dust was a lincoln color
Yes Moon Dust was Lincoln's version of Cadillac's Firemist. Those colours. It was magical.
@paulbedford9816 now pearl white is a big deal
Nobody looking at stupid cell phones. Beautiful.
everybody getting along with one another, no drama, no fights, no gossip, what a wonderful time.
You're out of your mind if you think people didn't have lots of drama, fights and gossip back then.
It’s a shame things are the way they are today
Small world that’s Dick Gidron
My father used to buy a new car from him from Gidron Ford or Gidron Cadillac. Our entire family bought all their vehicles from there from my uncles to my aunts to my cousins.
God, someone knows when those Cadillacs were the new cars I was a little girl.