This was my childhood. I think about kids today and I don't envy them. Yes , they have the internet, smartphones, and every kind of high tech thing you can think of. I had a creek. I had had freedom. I could ride my bike the few miles to the movie theater, and did so many times. My only constriction was I had to be home in time for dinner. Kids today can't even camp out in the backyard anymore. I feel bad for them. And most have no idea what they're missing out on. I'm gratefull I grew up when I did.
We all need regular connection with nature and the great outdoors for good mental health. I'm 71 and ride my mountain bike almost daily even in winter. Seeing a young person outdoors is as scarce as a sighting of bigfoot.
Most kids these days won’t camp in the backyard they don’t wanna give up the internet i grew up in a great time 60s and 70s life was great I had a Banana seat Bicycle I road all over my small town delivering newspapers those was the good days
The spirit of Christmas just isn't the same anymore. You would see the coolest window displays at department stores and the whole atmosphere was just different. I wish my children could go back in time and experience what I did.
I 100% agree with you. I'm 36 going on 37 in a few weeks. Let me tell you when I look at Christmas now and think to myself, as a tear rolls down my cheek, "Yup, just another day on the calendar." Seriously, the meaning of it all has vaporized. People would try to tell me every now and then that just because I'm old enough now where the meaning shouldn't be what it was when I was a kid, that I should be thankful for the roof over my head, the food on the table, the clothes on my back, and the little bit of family and friends that I still have. Yes, I can agree with that, and along with that, my gifts go from "want" quota to "needs". No one today will EVER feel that kind satisfaction. Christmas for me now, and the few years gone back, I was eternally grateful whenever now I receive socks, shirts, pants, deodorant, body sprays, you name it. I look at it now and go "Yes, just want I NEEDED."
I will be 60 this July and you are 100% right Christmas is just not the same it seems like how much money I can spend family and friends are no longer celebrated just taken for granted and the TRUE meaning of Christmas is forgotten!
Me either! That's when things were good & wholesome. When people cared about 1 another & gave from the heart ❤️. Today kids r so much different. If they don't like it they give it back, or return it to get the money & do whatever. To me, it's ungrateful & disrespectful!! If we ever acted like that! Well, let's just say that wouldn't of happened! We knew better!
it was us that started them down that road , so dont pity or anything like that , its our fault , but if you look at the little ones during christmas you see the joy. I am tired of people dumping on the kids of today when its us that put them on whatever road you see
@@hiredgun7186 Yeah, & life is having common sense! & yes common sense is just knowing yourself or is learned by u growing & going to school, & seeing how others interact. Now, whether they choose to use it or not? That's up to them! U no how u want to be treated. So, why would u treat somebody else different in a way that's not nice? & knowing u wouldn't want to be treated that way yourself!🤔. Because they don't care or they r selfish! So, they get what comes back to them in life. & back then they had screwed up families too.
'65 too!! The magic and the memories made with my family warms my heart each season. I try to convey this to my grandchildren and hope, in the crazy world we are now living in, I have instilled in them the core family values and specialness the holidays bring. Can't beat the Sears catalog and the Kodak experience though...
I was born in 1960. The 60s and 70s are something hard to explain to those who weren't there. But Christmas, let me tell ya, my mom and her Kodak Disc???.... For me, it was all about Hot Wheels and Major Matt Mason space toys. Hell, I was 10 and men were walking on the moon. Nothing was more incredible. What a time to be a kid!! (Plus, we had the coolest bikes ever.)
I was born in 1993, and I didn't grow up with popular toys, as I usually made my own. I can assume that it's similar to the late 90's early 2000s, minus certain technologies, like computers, video arcades, VHS and cell phone. I had a landline until 2008. I would watch TV, read books, play with toys, draw etc.
I was born in 61 and Christmas then was a special time. I never got much but what i got I really liked. I could not sleep at all that night and after all of that Christmas now means nothing to me. It is like doing the best drugs you can get and then going to aspirin. It just wont do the trick anymore. I can still smell a new Hot Wheels.
I'm crying and smiling, as well. I'm 61 now, lost my dad in November of 2021; Christmas has not been the same without him. I fondly remember all my Christmases from my childhood because dad always made it special. I would go back in a heart beat, if I could, to a much simpler time of no internet, cellphones nor social media, but a time that family got together and enjoyed the season.
i was born in 1970 and let me tell you, from i'd say 1976 to 1982, it was absolute pure magic. sadly, holidays started losing that 'feeling' once more relatives would pass on, and i can say now as a 51 year old without kids i feel none of the magic i did as a kid. my family still totally celebrates and i still get many presents but it's just not the same as being a kid. but...the 70s and early 80s man...there was nothing like it. we were still steeped in old time values but times were changing; pop culture, electronics, music (i was and still am a huge KISS fan). we were certainly not spoiled or rich but i almost always got what was on my list ( i never asked for anything too crazy) and of course got many surprise gifts. the house would be filled with classic christmas music ( johnny mathis, andy williams, robert goulet), cookies, and my favorite was filling out my christmas coloring book. but, the one absolute favorite thing was the Sears Christmas Catalog!!! we looked at that like it was the Bible. i studied those pages like it was my job. indeed, nothing like being a kid in the 70s!!
Even tho I was born in 1977...I am so feeling your comment! Christmas was just more magical back then...and time seemed to be slower! The Sears catalog was amazing...I would go to the men's section and circle guys that I thought I would marry one day! 😂
@@jenniechurch5337 haha that's awesome. i won't say what i was checking out in the womens pages in the 'big' sears catalog hahahaha. but yes, i think only gen x'ers get it. it was just such a wonderful time to grow up, i wouldn't change it for anything
I am a Gen x born in ‘66. This video hits home as a Canadian from that era as well. Pouring over the Sears Christmas catalog every evening, still has me smiling to this day. I have some toys and other artifacts from this era still… Great holiday times with my family. :)
What I miss the most about Christmas in the 70s is family. There were 17 Aunts, Uncles, Parents, and my sister. Out of 17, my sister, myself and one cousin are all that remain from the original family. We have our own families now. I have nine grand children and hope the memories they have of Christmas as kids, are as fond as the memories I have today.
Good point. I miss the days that all my cousins, aunts and uncles would meet at my grandparents house every X-MAS. Today, I only see them during funerals...sad.
Same with me, Wade. Those huge family Christmas Eve parties with all the aunts, uncles, and my gang of cousins running amuck! Out of all those people there are only three of us left now.... thankfully we make sure to get together two or three times a year for a get-together and we remember back to these golden days. How the heck did we end up getting old?
Christmas in the 60's and 70's, although highly commercialized, still had a luster of tradition to it. You knew that you were going to be watching 'It's A Charlie Brown Christmas' and 'Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer' with the family. You knew that you were going to be visiting your grandparents on your mother's and father's side of the family. You knew that the Christmas decorations your parents had since before you were born were coming back out of the attic. Just a few of the cherished memories of Christmas past....*sigh*.
I too grew up in the 60’s and 70’s, watched the same Christmas programmes as you, with the addition of How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Had the same Christening traditions as you as well! Such a magical time!
Wow, how we loved looking through the Sears and Roebuck catalog with such big dreams of Christmas. Thanks for this look back and Merry Christmas everyone ✌
The Sears Wish Book - my sisters and I would fight over it, the pages were thoroughly worn and earmarked by December, the toy section was completely memorized, and the excitement was incredible. Years later it was a joy to watch my kids on Christmas morning but nothing compares to those Christmas' of the 60's and 70's.
Technology happened. It brought out the ugly in people and cultivated it. And for those of us who could not care less about those things, get left in the dust. I surround myself with all things 70s and 80s, i keep that way of life ALIVE.
it was the dawn of big time consumerism. tasted like sugar back then, but now we see how it has rotted us. even so i was a kid and they were the best years of my life. id go back in an instant
@@Sarah-lb8cs I sometimes think it is not technology itself that has caused this harm but the extremely fast pace with which it has been unleashed on us. We are nearly helpless to keep up or to protect ourselves.
During the seventies money was tight in my family, but Mom always made sure that we kids had a nice Christmas. She always did some nice Christmas decorations and made nice Christmas dinners, sometimes substituting game hens for turkey. I spent one Christmas in Denver with my Dad. We went to a Christmas tree farm where you could cut down your own tree. I helped his wife make stained glass cookie ornaments. One day during my visit Dad grilled fillet mignon steaks on his hibachi grill on his small balcony, when it was snowing.
My parents always made Christmas wonderful for us and exciting.I am glad that I was born in the 60s life was simple life was good i am glad I am at the age I am.I would not want to be a kid today.People were different back then They loved and cared more about each other.They help one another at least were I lived they did.I lived on a place I called heaven on earth.
People lived a more simple life back then despite many companies going on strike (unlike today), but I think family and neighbors helped one another more during tough times.
I was born in 1967 and grew up in the 70's and 80's. During the 70's Christmas's were the best. I now know my parents did not make a lot of money but my half brother and me made out like bandits. Those were the best Christmas memories of my life except the ones with my wife and kids. Some of the best presents of my life. Wish I had some of them back. There were my grandparents, aunts, uncle and cousins.
Being born in 1967 . . . It's great . . . Think about this . . . Good 1970s were your childhood because in 1980 you became a teenager . . . 13 teen in 1980 and so you were off to a good start for the '80s by being a teenager at the start of the 80s . . . So being born in 1967 is pretty good . . . You got to couple years of the '60s and your childhood was through the 70s and you became a teenager in 1980. . . And starting off the 1980s as a teenager was pretty damn nice . . . It sure was for me anyway .
There is nothing I’m more grateful for than being born in 1967. Being a 70’s kid was EVERYTHING. It was a vibe. It was the best. I’m so grateful I was in my 30’s before getting a cell phone and the Internet started. As for Christmas, what makes it special for me today is keeping the traditions and spirit and memories of 1979’s christmases alive in my heart and home.
I remember my parents playing The Carpenter's Christmas album on 8 track every year until they bought the CD player finally in 1992 LOL! Come to think of it it's amazing that tape made it that many years without breaking or being ate.
My kids were born in the 70's. Best Christmas I ever had was with those kids. I worked for a company that made boxes for Tonka toys. They offered us a discount on Tonka toys. I got my 4 year old a giant Tonka Toy fire truck and he absolutely loved it.
My parents really went all out for Christmas in the 60s and 70s. They started their Christmas shopping in July. With six brothers and sisters half the living room was filled with presents. But before the presents we would wake up and find a stocking on the nightstand packed to the brim with goodies. Every year my mother made the most impressive gingerbread houses that we couldn't touch until Christmas Eve. My favorite Christmas was Christmas 1967. I thought we were all done opening gifts and here come my dad walking up the stairs with a brand new Stingray bike with a leopard skin banana seat and multi-colored tassels on the handle bars. I was so happy I screamed. 🎅
That video brought tears to my eyes remembering how Christmas morning used to be when I was a child in the 70's. Our country has changed so much since then. I never thought I'd be that person sitting around reminiscing about those good old days. Thank you so much for that wonderful trip down memory lane. It truly warmed my heart.
What special years they were. My parents were loving, generous, kind and wonderful. I will always be grateful for the great holidays I experienced growing up a child of the 70''s
Born in 1971. At school, we made angel wings out of construction paper and decorated them with glitter. We wore our angel wings in a Christmas pageant where we sang Christmas carols for the parents. This was before people were offended by Christmas in schools. 🏫🎄
Yeah! I remember having Christmas parties in the school classroom just before the two week Christmas holidays started. I remember buying a Christmas present for my teacher and having to pick a name out of hat and buying that student's Christmas present. I remember having chips and popcorn and cookies and cake at the Christmas party and I remember my grade 4 teacher taking us students down the street from our school to buy a real Christmas tree at tree 🌲 lot and setting it up in our class room and decorating the tree with homemade decorations we made for the tree including a cut out star from a box that we wrapped it up in tin foil and put it on the top of tree. Those happy days with children laughing and being excited about about Christmas coming closer. Now a days none of this would happen in today's time because it might upset some teachers and students who don't celebrate Christmas. The same can be said of Halloween party in the school classrooms too no more of that or no more Valentine's day party and exchanging Valentine Day cards with other students. A lot of these traditions and parties were taken out of the schools. But it's perfectly okay to teach the children from kindergarten to grade 4 about transgenders and tell the students that there are like 67 genders. This is the type of society that we live in now. 😔
We did the exact same thing. I had the thrill of finding the wings in a closet a couple of years ago in the church i grew up in. They were selling it because attendance was low, and a woman who was in a Bible study at the new woke church coming in took the wings and said she was going to use them for her students at a pageant. It never happened. She took the wings and they were gone. Still breaks my heart to this day. She knew I had made them in Sunday School; I told her. She saw how thrilled I was to find them. Oh well.
I had great 70´s Christmas memories as a kid. In the 70s we lived the transition from "traditional" to electronic. It was truly magical. Thanks for this video.
I remember my first calculator and digital watch in 1977 and 78. They cost a mint back then. Now I can pick up both at a dollar store for less than 4 bucks.
Born in '66, so all my best Christmas morning memories well represented in this video. Nice work. Nothing better than wearing out the Sears and Wards catalogs in anticipation. Loved going to those stores at Christmas time, getting a buzz from all of the decorations and Christmas music piped in.
I grew up in the 60's and 70s. Part of the Star Wars generation, I guess.. LOL.. My memories are filled with family gatherings and the feeling that all was good in the world, regardless of the News. Hope is eternal.. I so wanted a 10spped bike but on Christmas morning, after the excited 2 brothers, myself and my little brother, race down the stairs in the wee hours, upsetting out parents to no end...LOL. I didnt find that bike and felt a bit of disappointment through that morning. Then our "Gramps" (our Dads Father, so our Grandfather) showed up and we started to open the presents under the Tree. A tradition that lasts to this day. After all the presents were opened and I have another set of underwear and "spiffy" pants and shirts, my Gramps left to go to his car. When he returned, he brought with him an Orange Huffy 10 speed,,, I had no words,,,, I miss those days and the people and family I had then... God Bless and Thank You..
Receiving a bike for Christmas, back then, was equal to receiving a new car today! I received a Team Murray BMX bike, for Christmas, in 1978 or 79? - My first new bike!! Bikes cost A LOT back then!
Being born in 62, I got to experience Christmas as a kid in both decades. I don’t think it matters much which decade you were born in, your Christmas memories as a child are always going to be magical and the best.
Yep, everyone's era is always the best and worth remembering year after year. Our Christmases back home in a 3rd world country were so simple, that having a bottle of coca cola on Christmas was a big big feast to our eyes. Having a loaf of bread with a margarine was already fabulous Christmas, no gifts , no santas. I am in America now where i can have access to all the luxuries of Christmas i want, but this is not the Christmas i grew up with. I always desire to celebrate it the way it was back then, simple. I have Jesus Christ now, HE is the one that matters to me now whether it's on Christmas or Easter. Jesus Christ is my Christmas every moment of my life.
@@Jesus-The-Everlasting-Father Ain’t that the truth! It’s family traditions/celebrations around the birth of Jesus that makes Christmas so special. As a young child, and the baby of the family, it was my job to put baby Jesus in the cradle in our nativity set. I felt like a big shot. The memories we have are priceless.
Christmas of 71 I got my new trumpet. It was great going from a student to a pro horn. Only thing under the tree for my that year, but it was more than enough. Merry Christmas, and may God bless!
Born in '69, I remember many of the toys I received. Mostly now, I remember the "feeling" of Christmas. My parents were the ones that made it so magical, especially my mom. Also, going to midnight mass AND Christmas morning mass! Beautiful times. Miss you mom and dad❤
I circled everything I wanted in the JCPenneys catalog. Didn’t get anything from there unfortunately but just to be back in those times even just for one day, would be my wish now. Great memories!
Yes!! That was my experience as well and it was understood that we more appreciated whatever we woke up to... I guess it was more about the dreaming of what if you could just have these things. Here we are decades later when kids can do so online.. haha
And I believe the toy section was in the back of the catalog so I would start there and work my way to the front....until I got to the clothes section - BORING!!ha ha!
My cousin and I went through my grandmother's Sears and JC Penny catalogs every year and circled our wishes, with the same results, but it didn't matter. The dreaming was its own gift. Lying on the floor in front of her tree looking through those books together was amazing. That time of year is literally magic when you are a child. Besides, millionaire kids couldn't have gotten all of the things we circled! :P
The 70s were my childhood. I remember toss across the game and getting Lincoln Logs. It was so magical. I Loved all of the old Christmas shows like Rudolf and Year Without a Santa Clause and all the rest. Very sweet video.
Im an 80s baby. The 70s looked just as amazing as the 80s. What a great 20 years we had of memories. Thank you parents, for all the amazing christmas mornings!
I sure loved the Carpenter's Christmas Album (I still do) and my Kodak instamatic camera. One Christmas my parents gave me a ring with tiny diamond chips. I was so impressed. I still have it. Now that my parents are gone, these are some of my most cherished memories.
My brother and I would fly down the stairs, on Christmas morning, to find an abundance of gifts. Our parents didn't make a lot of money. However, they always managed to buy us the toys that we so desired. I have wonderful memories of those days. Thank you, RR, for your well produced videos. You always manage to bring a tear to my eyes. Merry Christmas !!!
Same here!! My mother wouldn't buy us anything - ever. I wouldn't even ask out of fear - she'd get pretty mad! Birthday's we're pretty lame, gift-wise, too. But Christmas...!! My Mom never failed to impress! Three days after Christmas, I'd find a gift or two, I forget about - never removed from the package, buried under the abundance! I will never forget how my Mother softened, and became child-like on Christmas day. She was more like a best friend than a parent! I'd give about anything to go back for one day!
As a family of six small children...My lovely Mother would bundle us up to meet the bus and travel to downtown Indianapolis to enjoy the Christmas experience of the lights and the windows of the season. Thank you Mom for these wonderful experiences. You are missed ❤️😊
I was born on Christmas Eve so I REALLY cleaned up then. But I lived in a cold climate so when I got a baseball mitt and a bike I had to wait MONTHS to use them, Real torture for a kid!
It was a different time for sure and I feel pretty lucky to have grown up in that era, free of cell phones and social media. This video captures that feeling very well. I miss the 70’s the most.
I miss those days.. waiting all year for the sears and JCPenney wish book, kids will never know that feeling.. everything now is instant gratification and it’s sad.. makes me tear up thinking of those days..
I grew up in the 70S and I love the Christmases all of them sometimes we had a lot of toys sometimes we only had a few it depended on the year and if we had money or not but the late seventies from 1976 until 1980 was absolutely wonderful I thank God for the lovely memories and the lovely memories you're making recreate right now thank you so much for your videos❤️🤗
I was a child growing up in the 70's and Christmas was always so special, 2 weeks off from school, great holiday food and the toys then were the best. I had everything from Atari to the Lone Ranger to Batman and Six Million Dollar Man, but my favourite toy all times was getting a table top hockey game that came with 8 teams and the plastic figures had player stickers you had to place on each one to build each team. These memories are ones I will never forget.
I was born in 1970 so my grade school years were the 70's. We gathered at mom's side of the family on Christmas Eve and dads on Christmas day. We still do. I love Christmas and it's my favorite holiday to this day, even for a grumpy old middle age guy. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!
As I looked at the family photo taken at 7:50, it occurs to me that everyone is looking up at the camera, or at each other. Everyone is talking and interacting with each other. In all such photos nowadays, you will find about half the people, looking down absorbed in their cell phones. What a blessing to have lived in the world for a span, prior to cell phones.
So "connected" with the world and so called "friends" nowadays while being utterly disconnected from flesh and blood reality surrounding us. Kyrie eleison.
I grew up during the '70s, and in 1977 I got one of the best Christmas gifts ever, a two-volume set of books about birds from National Geographic. Not only did they have some beautiful text and illustrations, they also each came with a set of clear plastic records with various birds sounds and songs. When spring came I would put the phonograph on the window sill in my bedroom and play the records hoping to attract birds. I still have those books to this day, minus the jackets but still with the records, although I don't have anything to play them on. Thank you, Recollection Road, for yet another wonderful post!
Christmas in the 70’s meant my mom baking cookies for weeks. And giving trays of cookies to friends and neighbours. It meant decorating the whole house, and putting lights on the outside, we had a fake cardboard fireplace as well. I never felt anywhere near as much magic with my own children, to the point that I haven’t even wanted to put up a tree for the past 5 years. We spent time with our entire family, grandparents, aunts, uncles, everyone. My dads work used to throw a Christmas party for the employees children, and I recall going and watching a magic show followed by seeing Santa and being given these giant candy canes as a gift. I can’t imagine a company doing that nowadays.
i am #5 of nine kids, born in 1955. by this time i was helping the folks assemble bikes and what-not for my little brothers. i had also taken over tree duties - shopping for one down around the corner at the church lot, getting my punk brothers to tote it home. fetching the decorations out of the attic. and, geez, i can smell each and every tree, cookie, cake, ..... here in this video .....🎄
If I could go back to the 70s and be a kid again but change one thing, I would get my Mom gifts that were for her rather than household items. Of course I learned this (and did it) later but what I wouldn’t give for a do-over. RIP Mom - I love you forever ❤️
I've been saying that for years, only I would like to return as the middle-aged adult I am so I can enjoy the decade more and give my younger self some good advice! Thankfully most of my family is still living, and I would gladly take them with me in the time machine
So funny!! I bought my mom a Black and Decker Scum Buster one year. She complained, constantly, how much scrubbing the shower hurt her shoulder. I thought it was a fantastic gift! She examined the wrapped gift, placed under the tree, for weeks! She was sooo excited while unwrapping, but what utter disappointment once the wrapping paper was removed!! She didn't say anything - but even as dense as I am, could read her expression. I never bought her a practical gift again.
Born in 1971! I remember those Christmas’ very well. Mom read Jesus stories to us, and she played those Christmas albums on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. She never spoiled us with gifts, but I remember that digital hand held football game with the “dashes”. I played that sucker until my fingers bled. All the Christmas lights and decor were so cool. We didn’t know it, but Dad was on the roof stomping with bells! Mom made us hide so as to not scare the reindeer! Lol! She would open the bedroom door, and we sprinted to the living room…Santa struck again! Oh yeah!
@@KnightOnBaldMountain I remember that crazy little blippy game, we would get in trouble in grade school on account of playing that thing during class. The Nuns would confiscate the game and we wouldn't get it back until after school, sheeeeesh, ha-haa
Christmas of 1979, I was 12. I wanted an Atari soooo bad, but we were poor and it was $100 + games so I wasn’t holding out much hope. Thanks Mom. Best Xmas gift I have ever rec’d.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. I truly believe we lived in the last best decades in America. I had my first job in a mall at the Gap and remember Hickory Farms always had a cheese stand every Christmas. Those days the malls were packed all the time. I have many memories of Sears! The last of the American stores that went under. We shopped there for cloths, tools , appliances and even car maintenance. I remember well the new electronic toys to the TV shows that were on all of November and December. And we all watched the Waltons because it was a what reflected America and the basic importance of family values at the time. We had real TV back then. We had to wait for Everything, even pop corn. I remember having the toys and computers as they were starting to emerge. I even remember that wrapping paper in this video ! And then Star Wars …OMG! I had all the models hanging in my room. It was also the beginning of all of the legacy moves that the new generation enjoy like Star Trek, Star Wars, Superman Predator, Aliens to name a few. It was truly the last of the best decades in America!
Funny you mention Sears. I have a theory: I believe Sears was undermined from within, by a series of really bad CEO's, with golden parachutes. Funny how Sears died and Amazon took over so precisely... If anyone doubts this theory, consider this: Sears always hired the brightest people out of College. There is ZERO chance that Sears did not see the internet coming!! I wish Sears was still the Sears of my childhood! What an amazing place during Christmas!!
I was in my tween years and married by the end of the 70’s. Looking at these pictures I see furniture we had, styles of clothes I wore, hair styles, the console TV’s and big family gatherings. I remember my sisters getting Pong in 1977 for Christmas.
I was born in 1965 so this video really hits home for my Christmas Memories. Our best Christmas was 1973, my father was deployed to South Korea to the remilitarized zone for a year. He came back October 73 so it was our first Christmas with him since 1971. It was a great decade. Thank you for the video
I remember on Christmas Eve we could open up one gift, then waking up Christmas morning to so many gifts under the tree! My favorite gifts were an Easy Bake Oven, a Frosty Sno-man snowcone machine, a Pizza Hut pizza oven, and a record player to play my Disney read along books on. Such wonderful childhood memories!
Ah, the 1970's! My favorite Christmas toy was the Sears Karosel Kitchen made for Barbie sized dolls. It had a dishwasher, light up stove with a rotisserie chicken that turned, a sink and came with a bunch of little dishes and canned foods. The 1970's really had some cool toys!
I got lots of the usual toys for Christmas as a 70's kid. But, I'll never forget the Christmas of 1974. I was 6 and my grandfather thought it was time I started learning financial things. He gave me stock in Hasbro, saying I'd learn more by keeping track of them, than I would getting Hasbro toys. I WAS HEARTBROKEN (as little ones get when we don't quite understand). He assured me in his way, that I'd understand as I got older. Oh how right he was! Those stocks have saved my financial bacon a few times and taught me invaluable life lessons. That giving is from the heart, patience really is a virtue, and we may not understand those gifts, no matter what they are, until we mature.
I was born in 1962 so growing up in the 70's were so magical! Especially Christmas! There was an open mall near us and in the corner was a little red Santa house , it was so adorable and cozy inside all decorated with lots of lights and we would walk in and get to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what we wanted! The funniest thing happened I was 6 years old and after telling Santa what I wanted I got off his lap and my coat caught his beard and it came off well I cried because I thought he got hurt! I do remember my Mom and the Santa helpers with a big smile and a little bit of laughter ! Thank you for sharing another great magical video of Christmas in the past!
I loved Christmas growing up in the 70’s . Born in 68 . We always strung popcorn and gathered acorns out of our back yard for the Christmas tree. Going to my grandparents house to open gifts with all my cousins is a cherished memory forever. Thanks for the wonderful video I truly enjoyed !
I was born in '65 and my warmest Christmas memories are from the late 60's to mid 70's. Back then the highlight of my year, other then Christmas and my birthday, was the the day the Sears Wish Book arrived. Damn I miss those times SO much. Miss you mom & dad.
What can I say? I watch your videos and it saddens me that I can remember the joys of christmas at home with my parents, but I can't bring the same joy to my own children. Merry Christmas everyone. KM
This video was a nice treat to my inner child. As a child of the 70's, this brought back a boatload of memories! I vividly remember all the ornate decorations and lights on the trees of my grandmothers, the Christmas-themed music that would play on the radio, and of course, all the cool toys that made me giddy! The early years meant lots of those Fisher Price toys for babies and toddlers, and by elementary school, there was Star Wars, Shogun Warriors, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, The Six Million Dollar Man, Energized Spider Man, my Huffy Thundertrail 78 bicycle, the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, Lionel trains, slot car sets, comic books, board games, and God knows what else! It was a great time to be a kid, and I consider myself very fortunate to have experienced childhood in that decade.
Wonderful memories! Makes me happy recalling them and sad that they are gone. Every Christmas Eve we continue the tradition of putting out luminara along the curb of my parent’s home where I grew up along with all the neighbors. Beautiful sight riding through the neighborhood.
It's hard to imagine how my parents were able to give us these wonderful gift filled Christmases. Great memories that we all cherish. Thanks for sharing.
I was born in 1965, i grew up in the 1970's and 80's and i can still remember those times with vivid memory. I often miss those times...before the world went all crazy like it is today. I remember the Sears Wishbook, as well as the Eaton's one. Circling the toys i wanted Santa to bring me..carefully writting down the page number and the item number in a list. Getting the Sears Wishbook, meant Christmas season had started!
Wonderful, warm memories.I'm sitting here, Sunday, day after Christmas, feeling nostalgic, so im going through 70s videos on youtube. Growing up in Chicago, in the 70s we had Ray Raynor, Family Classics, Hardrock,Cocoa & Joe, the great malls in their heyday (including the outdoor ones), the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials,etc. I remember grabbing a blanket, loading up the station wagon with the family, and Dad driving us around to look at Christmas lights, it seemed like every house was lit up. The toy catalogs were amazing. I must've put an X by everything! Star Wars, Evel Knievel, Micronauts, Matchbox, Legoland, Battlestar Galactica. Going sledding, record albums, moon boots, snow days, picture albums. I loved growing up in the 70s!
Reading the comments of other people's happiness in the 70's and 80's just makes me remember when there weren't any shootings in the department stores, holiday spirit was overflowing in the majority of people. Watching a small town Christmas parade, and the news showcasing different parades around that media stations area. Helping Mom and Dad put up the tree and all the decorations. And like a lot of people said, studying the sears wish book for all the toys, then jumping back a few pages and looking at the lingerie section real quick. I remember sharing my new toys with the neighborhood kids and almost everyone in the neighborhood taking a moment to wish each other Merry Christmas. Sad now that the fun of Christmas is dwindling away, and not because we have become adults, because we forgot the fun part and we have let generation's after the 80's tear away at what Christmas meant to us. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
As a child, Christmases from 1976 - 1985 were the best memories for me. In the late 70's - early 80s, I got Star Wars toys, Six Million Dollar Man toys and his spaceship that converted into an operating table, those electric slot car race tracks, Atari games, Evel Knevel stuff, roller skates and so much more. It was a wonderful time to be a kid in those years. It was so sprecial looking thru the Sears Christmas catalog and daydreaming for hours with excitement. Kid @7:24 racked up!! Sheesh! As someone else posted, we were the kids that went from traditional toys to electronic ones. God I miss those times and the family I shared them with.
Christmas 1978 , the best , got the Star Wars Death Star, X- Wing fighter, and about 5-7 Star Wars action figures. Not to mention a Hot Wheels race set. The Christmas classics of Rudolph and Charlie Brown were shown and you set your watch to it. Now you can see them whenever, kind of takes the fun out of it
Agreed, the specials back then no longer are "special" anymore, which is kind of a shame. Christmas 1978 was a very very bittersweet one for me. My Dad had died suddenly and unexpectedly in Mid July 1978 when I was just 11. I remember Christmas Eve night turning to my Mom and I asked her "How am I ever supposed to feel happy at CHristmas ever again?" and without missing a beat, she said "Because that's what your Dad would have wanted for you." Little did she realize at that moment, that she gave me the best and most healing Christmas gift of my entire life. I will love her forever for that. It's already been 21 Christmases since my Mom passed and 44 since my Dad. I am grateful to have had them while I did and more grateful to have had parents like that TO miss...
@@willmack5909 ....I was 8 years old in 1974 and my father committed suicide and I have been fearful in life ever since. It just felt scary to not have a father when you're a kid.....I wish I could have a do-over
When you mentioned the Rankin Bass Christmas specials, it brought up the memory of the SADDEST sound I ever heard as a child: that short musical bit at the very end of the specials that accompanied the Rankin Bass Production logo. It signified that it would be another whole YEAR before we could see the special again! A year to a child is like about 7 years to an adult! VHS and DVD's, and video recorders didn't exist; if you missed it, YOU MISSED IT!
Thats so true but in a way it made it more special , the whole family would plan the day around watching it together . Such a special time i wish i could go back to
Born mid 60's but grew up in the 70's and like we didn't have much but what Christmas was about and special was visiting uncle's aunt's and grandparents on Christmas eve and Christmas day will always cherish those memories and moments cause most of my aunt's and grandparents and uncles passed on since then 😢 but will always cherish the memories ❤️
I just want to thank you for taking time to put these videos together. Watching your videos brings back such great memories on being a kid growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, I remember seeing and having several of the toys in these pictures! Christmas was truly a magical time as a kid!
Some of the best times of my life. We opened presents on Christmas Eve then the following morning Santa came, more presents but unwrapped. Simply amazing
I remember those Christmases. I was born in 1964 and my younger sister in ‘67. We had 3 older brothers with the youngest being 6 years older than me. I remember the silver tree on the table in front of the windows. The electric candles in the window sills and a color wheel. I had this gold ornament with an angel face on it. I nearly died when I dropped it and it broke. My sister and I would write notes to Santa telling him where to leave our stuff. Boy it was exciting to wake up to the stuff. They were wrapped. Lol! One year I got a pair of 6 Million Dollar Man pjs. I ran around the house in slow motion. We had to take our things to our room and display like a museum for when our grandmother came. Gave tours. Lol! I miss those days.
I am so thankful this was my childhood, I would not change it for anything. They were happy days and I miss all of it. I would go back in a heartbeat. The 70's were the best decade. We didn't have much but we had each other and grandparents and we were happy. God bless. Merry Christmas.
I totally echo your thoughts and feelings shannon w. Glad to know I am far from alone in feeling so nostalgic and wistful....it's hitting me harder than usualy tnoight, May 1, 2022.
@@willmack5909 I had one of those nights last week. I was actually watching a movie that just brought me back and I actually started to cry and wish soooo bad I could turn back time, back to before social media and all of this technology, a simpler time. But then again thank God we do have this technology (in a way) because it is like a time machine that can bring us back to those times if even for a few minutes 😔
This was my childhood. I think about kids today and I don't envy them. Yes , they have the internet, smartphones, and every kind of high tech thing you can think of. I had a creek. I had had freedom. I could ride my bike the few miles to the movie theater, and did so many times. My only constriction was I had to be home in time for dinner. Kids today can't even camp out in the backyard anymore. I feel bad for them. And most have no idea what they're missing out on. I'm gratefull I grew up when I did.
So did I at Schofield Barracks 1977-80
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You took the words right out of my mouth.
We all need regular connection with nature and the great outdoors for good mental health. I'm 71 and ride my mountain bike almost daily even in winter. Seeing a young person outdoors is as scarce as a sighting of bigfoot.
Most kids these days won’t camp in the backyard they don’t wanna give up the internet i grew up in a great time 60s and 70s life was great I had a Banana seat Bicycle I road all over my small town delivering newspapers those was the good days
This makes an old timer like me want to cry. Those were the days.
Those were the days!!
Agree
I was totally thinking the same thing!
I'll be 60 in July. Where has the time gone.
We were blessed
The spirit of Christmas just isn't the same anymore. You would see the coolest window displays at department stores and the whole atmosphere was just different. I wish my children could go back in time and experience what I did.
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I 100% agree with you. I'm 36 going on 37 in a few weeks. Let me tell you when I look at Christmas now and think to myself, as a tear rolls down my cheek, "Yup, just another day on the calendar."
Seriously, the meaning of it all has vaporized. People would try to tell me every now and then that just because I'm old enough now where the meaning shouldn't be what it was when I was a kid, that I should be thankful for the roof over my head, the food on the table, the clothes on my back, and the little bit of family and friends that I still have. Yes, I can agree with that, and along with that, my gifts go from "want" quota to "needs". No one today will EVER feel that kind satisfaction. Christmas for me now, and the few years gone back, I was eternally grateful whenever now I receive socks, shirts, pants, deodorant, body sprays, you name it. I look at it now and go "Yes, just want I NEEDED."
I feel the same. I miss those days
I will be 60 this July and you are 100% right Christmas is just not the same it seems like how much money I can spend family and friends are no longer celebrated just taken for granted and the TRUE meaning of Christmas is forgotten!
It was definitely magical. Residential areas were into it too. Lights everywhere.
I wouldn’t trade my 70’s childhood for anything kids have today. 😊
Me either! That's when things were good & wholesome. When people cared about 1 another & gave from the heart ❤️. Today kids r so much different. If they don't like it they give it back, or return it to get the money & do whatever. To me, it's ungrateful & disrespectful!! If we ever acted like that! Well, let's just say that wouldn't of happened! We knew better!
Porn is better today, though😂
Agreed!!
it was us that started them down that road , so dont pity or anything like that , its our fault , but if you look at the little ones during christmas you see the joy. I am tired of people dumping on the kids of today when its us that put them on whatever road you see
@@hiredgun7186 Yeah, & life is having common sense! & yes common sense is just knowing yourself or is learned by u growing & going to school, & seeing how others interact. Now, whether they choose to use it or not? That's up to them! U no how u want to be treated. So, why would u treat somebody else different in a way that's not nice? & knowing u wouldn't want to be treated that way yourself!🤔. Because they don't care or they r selfish! So, they get what comes back to them in life. & back then they had screwed up families too.
The 70s was the best decade to be alive as a child. Didn't realize it then... But I realize it now. Everything was great.
That era had a lot of unsolved crimes that have been uncovered in current era.
So agree
Christmas these days just don't have the same spirit.
Born in 65 so the 70s are my best & most memorable Christmases ever!
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Also born in 65. We got to see how great things were back then but looking at life today it makes me sad.
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Same here. I was born on Christmas Day in 1964. Those childhood Christmases were magical!
Same here...born in 65...loved Christmas with my family back then
'65 too!! The magic and the memories made with my family warms my heart each season. I try to convey this to my grandchildren and hope, in the crazy world we are now living in, I have instilled in them the core family values and specialness the holidays bring.
Can't beat the Sears catalog and the Kodak experience though...
I was born in 1960. The 60s and 70s are something hard to explain to those who weren't there. But Christmas, let me tell ya, my mom and her Kodak Disc???.... For me, it was all about Hot Wheels and Major Matt Mason space toys. Hell, I was 10 and men were walking on the moon. Nothing was more incredible. What a time to be a kid!! (Plus, we had the coolest bikes ever.)
I loved Major Matt Mason!!! Those toys are expensive on eBay!!! I have a mint/unused Major Matt Mason coloring book.
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I was born in 1993, and I didn't grow up with popular toys, as I usually made my own. I can assume that it's similar to the late 90's early 2000s, minus certain technologies, like computers, video arcades, VHS and cell phone. I had a landline until 2008. I would watch TV, read books, play with toys, draw etc.
I was born in 61 and Christmas then was a special time. I never got much but what i got I really liked. I could not sleep at all that night and after all of that Christmas now means nothing to me. It is like doing the best drugs you can get and then going to aspirin. It just wont do the trick anymore. I can still smell a new Hot Wheels.
I was born in 60 also. Great memories.
I was 10 in 1970. Mom and Dad are gone now. This brought back a lot of memories.
I was 5 in 1970. My parents are gone too, but this will be my first xmas without my mom.
Same here :(
I was also 10. My Mom and Dad are also gone along with other family members. But the memories are for a lifetime
I was 14, and my mom and dad are gone now too. Sure did bring back a lot of memories.
This makes me smile and cry all at the same time. I am so grateful I grew up in this era. Best days of my life. ❤️
one year i made a dvd from all of our old home movies from christmas; talk about smiling , laughing and crying :)
I wish I could go back to that era
I agree. Take heart in remembering that our parents and grandparents would lament the loss of the Christmas they remember so fondly.
Agreed!
I'm crying and smiling, as well. I'm 61 now, lost my dad in November of 2021; Christmas has not been the same without him. I fondly remember all my Christmases from my childhood because dad always made it special. I would go back in a heart beat, if I could, to a much simpler time of no internet, cellphones nor social media, but a time that family got together and enjoyed the season.
I grew up in the 1970's. Christmas in 1970's was magical. I cry at the same time.... most people then are now gone.
It's ok, some are still around.
i was born in 1970 and let me tell you, from i'd say 1976 to 1982, it was absolute pure magic. sadly, holidays started losing that 'feeling' once more relatives would pass on, and i can say now as a 51 year old without kids i feel none of the magic i did as a kid. my family still totally celebrates and i still get many presents but it's just not the same as being a kid. but...the 70s and early 80s man...there was nothing like it. we were still steeped in old time values but times were changing; pop culture, electronics, music (i was and still am a huge KISS fan). we were certainly not spoiled or rich but i almost always got what was on my list ( i never asked for anything too crazy) and of course got many surprise gifts. the house would be filled with classic christmas music ( johnny mathis, andy williams, robert goulet), cookies, and my favorite was filling out my christmas coloring book. but, the one absolute favorite thing was the Sears Christmas Catalog!!! we looked at that like it was the Bible. i studied those pages like it was my job. indeed, nothing like being a kid in the 70s!!
I was born in 1970 also. I absolutely agree with you.
I agree 💯
I was born in ‘72 in the south, everything about the 70’s seemed like a nice wish for me. Now I wish it could be the 70’s again
Even tho I was born in 1977...I am so feeling your comment! Christmas was just more magical back then...and time seemed to be slower! The Sears catalog was amazing...I would go to the men's section and circle guys that I thought I would marry one day! 😂
@@jenniechurch5337 haha that's awesome. i won't say what i was checking out in the womens pages in the 'big' sears catalog hahahaha. but yes, i think only gen x'ers get it. it was just such a wonderful time to grow up, i wouldn't change it for anything
I am a Gen x born in ‘66.
This video hits home as a Canadian from that era as well.
Pouring over the Sears Christmas catalog every evening, still has me smiling to this day.
I have some toys and other artifacts from this era still…
Great holiday times with my family. :)
66 here too. Go class of 84! The late 60s 70s Christmases had a feel to them that is gone now.
What I miss the most about Christmas in the 70s is family. There were 17 Aunts, Uncles, Parents, and my sister. Out of 17, my sister, myself and one cousin are all that remain from the original family. We have our own families now. I have nine grand children and hope the memories they have of Christmas as kids, are as fond as the memories I have today.
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I love the patch !! My dad had one too. He was 101st screaming eagle 🦅
Exactly, I'm the same. I remember the HUGE family Christmas dinners don't really remember the presents
Good point. I miss the days that all my cousins, aunts and uncles would meet at my grandparents house every X-MAS. Today, I only see them during funerals...sad.
Same with me, Wade. Those huge family Christmas Eve parties with all the aunts, uncles, and my gang of cousins running amuck! Out of all those people
there are only three of us left now.... thankfully we make sure to get together two or three times a year for a get-together and we remember back to these
golden days. How the heck did we end up getting old?
Christmas in the 60's and 70's, although highly commercialized, still had a luster of tradition to it. You knew that you were going to be watching 'It's A Charlie Brown Christmas' and 'Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer' with the family. You knew that you were going to be visiting your grandparents on your mother's and father's side of the family. You knew that the Christmas decorations your parents had since before you were born were coming back out of the attic. Just a few of the cherished memories of Christmas past....*sigh*.
Are you in your 80's now?
We also watched The Grinch!
I too grew up in the 60’s and 70’s, watched the same Christmas programmes as you, with the addition of How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Had the same Christening traditions as you as well! Such a magical time!
May their Memory be Eternal!
Same!
This was my childhood and I loved every moment of it. Unfortunately, the kids of today are really missing out on what we adored.
Wow, how we loved looking through the Sears and Roebuck catalog with such big dreams of Christmas. Thanks for this look back and Merry Christmas everyone ✌
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You had to have lived it to explain it to these twenty somethings today the look in their eyes is like what are you talking about.... good memories
The Sears Wish Book - my sisters and I would fight over it, the pages were thoroughly worn and earmarked by December, the toy section was completely memorized, and the excitement was incredible. Years later it was a joy to watch my kids on Christmas morning but nothing compares to those Christmas' of the 60's and 70's.
It was the Sears and Montgomery Ward catalog for me.
The Sears Wish Book in my house of 12 kids was more then one book could take..
These videos of growing up in the 70s actually bring tears to my eyes. What happened to these wholesome and innocent days of youth….😢
Technology happened. It brought out the ugly in people and cultivated it. And for those of us who could not care less about those things, get left in the dust. I surround myself with all things 70s and 80s, i keep that way of life ALIVE.
it was the dawn of big time consumerism. tasted like sugar back then, but now we see how it has rotted us. even so i was a kid and they were the best years of my life. id go back in an instant
@@TheUnFairAdvantageCrypto that’s a good point
@@diabeatit5189 I agree. Technology has done the human race serious harm for sure especially our children.
@@Sarah-lb8cs I sometimes think it is not technology itself that has caused this harm but the extremely fast pace with which it has been unleashed on us. We are nearly helpless to keep up or to protect ourselves.
The 70s are some of the most memorable Christmas's to me being a teenager and starting my young adult life. Thanks for sharing
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Me too
I was born in 1950, started my family in 72, great memories.
The anticipation and joy of watching treasured Christmas classics will never be forgotten.
During the seventies money was tight in my family, but Mom always made sure that we kids had a nice Christmas. She always did some nice Christmas decorations and made nice Christmas dinners, sometimes substituting game hens for turkey.
I spent one Christmas in Denver with my Dad. We went to a Christmas tree farm where you could cut down your own tree. I helped his wife make stained glass cookie ornaments. One day during my visit Dad grilled fillet mignon steaks on his hibachi grill on his small balcony, when it was snowing.
The trip to Denver sounds fun and bless your mama for trying to make Christmas nice for you.
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Same with my mom. She passed away in June and I'll never recover from it.
My parents always made Christmas wonderful for us and exciting.I am glad that I was born in the 60s life was simple life was good i am glad I am at the age I am.I would not want to be a kid today.People were different back then They loved and cared more about each other.They help one another at least were I lived they did.I lived on a place I called heaven on earth.
People lived a more simple life back then despite many companies going on strike (unlike today), but I think family and neighbors helped one another more during tough times.
I was born in 1967 and grew up in the 70's and 80's. During the 70's Christmas's were the best. I now know my parents did not make a lot of money but my half brother and me made out like bandits. Those were the best Christmas memories of my life except the ones with my wife and kids. Some of the best presents of my life. Wish I had some of them back. There were my grandparents, aunts, uncle and cousins.
I was born dec 66, I get it.
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Exactly that as I'm Aug. 66 . Great Xmas days with all the family friends
The tree &gifts dinner ect. Video games were the huge item ☆☆☆☆☆
I was born October 1969...great times.👍
Being born in 1967 . . . It's great . . . Think about this . . . Good 1970s were your childhood because in 1980 you became a teenager . . . 13 teen in 1980 and so you were off to a good start for the '80s by being a teenager at the start of the 80s . . . So being born in 1967 is pretty good . . . You got to couple years of the '60s and your childhood was through the 70s and you became a teenager in 1980. . . And starting off the 1980s as a teenager was pretty damn nice . . . It sure was for me anyway .
Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s we had wonderful Christmas’s !!! My parents always made sure of that!! Miss those times❤️
Was born in 1970... happiest decade of my life . Too many good memories!!!
There is nothing I’m more grateful for than being born in 1967. Being a 70’s kid was EVERYTHING. It was a vibe. It was the best. I’m so grateful I was in my 30’s before getting a cell phone and the Internet started. As for Christmas, what makes it special for me today is keeping the traditions and spirit and memories of 1979’s christmases alive in my heart and home.
Karen Carpenter deserved better. One of the best voices to ever exist, full stop.
Her voice was a unique MUSICAL INSTRUMENT....not to be duplicated.
Mama Cass should have shared that sandwich :)
I remember my parents playing The Carpenter's Christmas album on 8 track every year until they bought the CD player finally in 1992 LOL! Come to think of it it's amazing that tape made it that many years without breaking or being ate.
@@onefatstratcat haha. Beat me to it.
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My kids were born in the 70's. Best Christmas I ever had was with those kids. I worked for a company that made boxes for Tonka toys. They offered us a discount on Tonka toys. I got my 4 year old a giant Tonka Toy fire truck and he absolutely loved it.
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My parents really went all out for Christmas in the 60s and 70s. They started their Christmas shopping in July. With six brothers and sisters half the living room was filled with presents. But before the presents we would wake up and find a stocking on the nightstand packed to the brim with goodies. Every year my mother made the most impressive gingerbread houses that we couldn't touch until Christmas Eve. My favorite Christmas was Christmas 1967. I thought we were all done opening gifts and here come my dad walking up the stairs with a brand new Stingray bike with a leopard skin banana seat and multi-colored tassels on the handle bars. I was so happy I screamed. 🎅
I am glad you were happy with your bike.
That video brought tears to my eyes remembering how Christmas morning used to be when I was a child in the 70's. Our country has changed so much since then. I never thought I'd be that person sitting around reminiscing about those good old days. Thank you so much for that wonderful trip down memory lane. It truly warmed my heart.
What special years they were. My parents were loving, generous, kind and wonderful. I will always be grateful for the great holidays I experienced growing up a child of the 70''s
Born in 1967 so this definitely brings back good Christmas memories of the 1970s.
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Born in 1971. At school, we made angel wings out of construction paper and decorated them with glitter. We wore our angel wings in a Christmas pageant where we sang Christmas carols for the parents. This was before people were offended by Christmas in schools. 🏫🎄
Yeah! I remember having Christmas parties in the school classroom just before the two week Christmas holidays started. I remember buying a Christmas present for my teacher and having to pick a name out of hat and buying that student's Christmas present. I remember having chips and popcorn and cookies and cake at the Christmas party and I remember my grade 4 teacher taking us students down the street from our school to buy a real Christmas tree at tree 🌲 lot and setting it up in our class room and decorating the tree with homemade decorations we made for the tree including a cut out star from a box that we wrapped it up in tin foil and put it on the top of tree. Those happy days with children laughing and being excited about about Christmas coming closer.
Now a days none of this would happen in today's time because it might upset some teachers and students who don't celebrate Christmas.
The same can be said of Halloween party in the school classrooms too no more of that or no more Valentine's day party and exchanging Valentine Day cards with other students. A lot of these traditions and parties were taken out of the schools. But it's perfectly okay to teach the children from kindergarten to grade 4 about transgenders and tell the students that there are like 67 genders. This is the type of society that we live in now. 😔
A very sweet memory :')
Remember the Valentines parties? Can you imagine the shear confusion and fear of 'offending' if they had one these days?
Marxist have taken over every aspect of life in the United States.
We did the exact same thing. I had the thrill of finding the wings in a closet a couple of years ago in the church i grew up in. They were selling it because attendance was low, and a woman who was in a Bible study at the new woke church coming in took the wings and said she was going to use them for her students at a pageant. It never happened. She took the wings and they were gone. Still breaks my heart to this day. She knew I had made them in Sunday School; I told her. She saw how thrilled I was to find them. Oh well.
I had great 70´s Christmas memories as a kid. In the 70s we lived the transition from "traditional" to electronic. It was truly magical. Thanks for this video.
We had the best of both worlds - that's for sure!
"Generation X" was the FIRST generation to have ANYTHING digital as a child. It was a defining era.
I remember my first calculator and digital watch in 1977 and 78. They cost a mint back then. Now I can pick up both at a dollar store for less than 4 bucks.
Man I remember getting the Atari 2600 Christmas Eve 1979 , my mom and dad got me a Donkey Kong Cartridge, I played till 3-4am into Christmas Day
@@carriagecrestkid5626 it was probably Christmas 1982, as Donkey Kong for the 2600 wasn't available until around the Fall of '82. Great memory though!
Born in '66, so all my best Christmas morning memories well represented in this video. Nice work. Nothing better than wearing out the Sears and Wards catalogs in anticipation. Loved going to those stores at Christmas time, getting a buzz from all of the decorations and Christmas music piped in.
I grew up in the 60's and 70s.
Part of the Star Wars generation, I guess.. LOL..
My memories are filled with family gatherings and the feeling that all was good in the world, regardless of the News. Hope is eternal..
I so wanted a 10spped bike but on Christmas morning, after the excited 2 brothers, myself and my little brother, race down the stairs in the wee hours, upsetting out parents to no end...LOL. I didnt find that bike and felt a bit of disappointment through that morning.
Then our "Gramps" (our Dads Father, so our Grandfather) showed up and we started to open the presents under the Tree. A tradition that lasts to this day.
After all the presents were opened and I have another set of underwear and "spiffy" pants and shirts, my Gramps left to go to his car.
When he returned, he brought with him an Orange Huffy 10 speed,,,
I had no words,,,,
I miss those days and the people and family I had then...
God Bless and Thank You..
Receiving a bike for Christmas, back then, was equal to receiving a new car today! I received a Team Murray BMX bike, for Christmas, in 1978 or 79? - My first new bike!! Bikes cost A LOT back then!
One thing we can definitely forget about the 70s is the Star Wars Holiday Special
@@ericw1314 I loved it! "We" were so hungry for more Star Wars, no one (I knew) criticized the Special.
I was a freshman in high school in 1970 and wish that I could relive Christmas of 1970 very much
We had a small, Sears catalog store in our area and seeing the Christmas catalogs at the counter was always exciting.
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One of our neighbors was a manager at the Sears store and would always bring one to us.
Being born in 62, I got to experience Christmas as a kid in both decades. I don’t think it matters much which decade you were born in, your Christmas memories as a child are always going to be magical and the best.
Yep, everyone's era is always the best and worth remembering year after year.
Our Christmases back home in a 3rd world country were so simple, that having a bottle of coca cola on Christmas was a big big feast to our eyes. Having a loaf of bread with a margarine was already fabulous Christmas, no gifts , no santas.
I am in America now where i can have access to all the luxuries of Christmas i want, but this is not the Christmas i grew up with.
I always desire to celebrate it the way it was back then, simple.
I have Jesus Christ now, HE is the one that matters to me now whether it's on Christmas or Easter.
Jesus Christ is my Christmas every moment of my life.
@@Jesus-The-Everlasting-Father Ain’t that the truth! It’s family traditions/celebrations around the birth of Jesus that makes Christmas so special. As a young child, and the baby of the family, it was my job to put baby Jesus in the cradle in our nativity set. I felt like a big shot. The memories we have are priceless.
Yup, i was born in 1999 and the year 2006 to 2012 is the most magical year for me
I miss my Mom and Dad 👨👩👧
Looking back now, 50 years later
They were the real Santa 🎅 and Christmas 🎄
Christmas of 71 I got my new trumpet. It was great going from a student to a pro horn. Only thing under the tree for my that year, but it was more than enough. Merry Christmas, and may God bless!
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Do you still have it?
Born in '69, I remember many of the toys I received. Mostly now, I remember the "feeling" of Christmas. My parents were the ones that made it so magical, especially my mom. Also, going to midnight mass AND Christmas morning mass! Beautiful times. Miss you mom and dad❤
right there with you, I still get that 'feeling' at Christmas time
I circled everything I wanted in the JCPenneys catalog. Didn’t get anything from there unfortunately but just to be back in those times even just for one day, would be my wish now. Great memories!
Yes!! That was my experience as well and it was understood that we more appreciated whatever we woke up to... I guess it was more about the dreaming of what if you could just have these things. Here we are decades later when kids can do so online.. haha
Same here. Had the Sears, Wards, JcPenny all circled. Maybe got one or two items. Money was tight, one or two was all anyone needed.
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And I believe the toy section was in the back of the catalog so I would start there and work my way to the front....until I got to the clothes section - BORING!!ha ha!
My cousin and I went through my grandmother's Sears and JC Penny catalogs every year and circled our wishes, with the same results, but it didn't matter. The dreaming was its own gift. Lying on the floor in front of her tree looking through those books together was amazing. That time of year is literally magic when you are a child. Besides, millionaire kids couldn't have gotten all of the things we circled! :P
The 70s were my childhood. I remember toss across the game and getting Lincoln Logs. It was so magical. I Loved all of the old Christmas shows like Rudolf and Year Without a Santa Clause and all the rest. Very sweet video.
Im an 80s baby. The 70s looked just as amazing as the 80s. What a great 20 years we had of memories. Thank you parents, for all the amazing christmas mornings!
I sure loved the Carpenter's Christmas Album (I still do) and my Kodak instamatic camera. One Christmas my parents gave me a ring with tiny diamond chips. I was so impressed. I still have it. Now that my parents are gone, these are some of my most cherished memories.
I asked for a diamond ring every year and never got one 😁 - I’m glad you have this memento to cherish!
My brother and I would fly down the stairs, on Christmas morning, to find an abundance of gifts. Our parents didn't make a lot of money. However, they always managed to buy us the toys that we so desired. I have wonderful memories of those days. Thank you, RR, for your well produced videos. You always manage to bring a tear to my eyes. Merry Christmas !!!
Same here!!
My mother wouldn't buy us anything - ever. I wouldn't even ask out of fear - she'd get pretty mad! Birthday's we're pretty lame, gift-wise, too. But Christmas...!! My Mom never failed to impress! Three days after Christmas, I'd find a gift or two, I forget about - never removed from the package, buried under the abundance! I will never forget how my Mother softened, and became child-like on Christmas day. She was more like a best friend than a parent! I'd give about anything to go back for one day!
I was a child of the seventies, thanks for the memories 👍
As a family of six small children...My lovely Mother would bundle us up to meet the bus and travel to downtown Indianapolis to enjoy the Christmas experience of the lights and the windows of the season. Thank you Mom for these wonderful experiences. You are missed ❤️😊
Born in 1971! I remember having fun with a key car. That was my favorite toy growing up!
The 1960s and 70s Were the Best Christmas ⛄🎄 Times of my Life. I will definitely Never forget it.PERIOD
I love this "Christmas in the" series. Super fun to watch. Thanks RR.
See also, his Halloween and Thanksgiving series that are the same genre! Great stuff! 👍😊👍
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Born in '65. It was always Christmas eve at G'parents w/family and friends. Fond memories.
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I was born on Christmas Eve so I REALLY cleaned up then. But I lived in a cold climate so when I got a baseball mitt and a bike I had to wait MONTHS to use them, Real torture for a kid!
It was a different time for sure and I feel pretty lucky to have grown up in that era, free of cell phones and social media. This video captures that feeling very well. I miss the 70’s the most.
I miss those days.. waiting all year for the sears and JCPenney wish book, kids will never know that feeling.. everything now is instant gratification and it’s sad.. makes me tear up thinking of those days..
I grew up in the 70S and I love the Christmases all of them sometimes we had a lot of toys sometimes we only had a few it depended on the year and if we had money or not but the late seventies from 1976 until 1980 was absolutely wonderful I thank God for the lovely memories and the lovely memories you're making recreate right now thank you so much for your videos❤️🤗
@ Bianca Grade - wonderful memories...I can remember.🌄☺️
I loved wearing the shiny polyester shirts from the 70's
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I just close my eyes and play "Silent Night" to help remember what X-MAS used to be. It used to be the birth of Jesus, today it's just another day.
I totally forgot about that! Wow. Thank you.
I was a child growing up in the 70's and Christmas was always so special, 2 weeks off from school, great holiday food and the toys then were the best. I had everything from Atari to the Lone Ranger to Batman and Six Million Dollar Man, but my favourite toy all times was getting a table top hockey game that came with 8 teams and the plastic figures had player stickers you had to place on each one to build each team. These memories are ones I will never forget.
I was born in 1970 so my grade school years were the 70's. We gathered at mom's side of the family on Christmas Eve and dads on Christmas day. We still do. I love Christmas and it's my favorite holiday to this day, even for a grumpy old middle age guy. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!
We didn't even know how awesome it was at the time and how fortunate we were, makes it sweeter now 💗
As I looked at the family photo taken at 7:50, it occurs to me that everyone is looking up at the camera, or at each other. Everyone is talking and interacting with each other. In all such photos nowadays, you will find about half the people, looking down absorbed in their cell phones. What a blessing to have lived in the world for a span, prior to cell phones.
So "connected" with the world and so called "friends" nowadays while being utterly disconnected from flesh and blood reality surrounding us. Kyrie eleison.
I grew up during the '70s, and in 1977 I got one of the best Christmas gifts ever, a two-volume set of books about birds from National Geographic. Not only did they have some beautiful text and illustrations, they also each came with a set of clear plastic records with various birds sounds and songs. When spring came I would put the phonograph on the window sill in my bedroom and play the records hoping to attract birds. I still have those books to this day, minus the jackets but still with the records, although I don't have anything to play them on.
Thank you, Recollection Road, for yet another wonderful post!
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I'm 70's kid ❤️❤️❤️🥂 great list
The 70s were my kid growing up years. Christmas was always the best!🎄
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Christmas in the 70’s meant my mom baking cookies for weeks. And giving trays of cookies to friends and neighbours. It meant decorating the whole house, and putting lights on the outside, we had a fake cardboard fireplace as well. I never felt anywhere near as much magic with my own children, to the point that I haven’t even wanted to put up a tree for the past 5 years. We spent time with our entire family, grandparents, aunts, uncles, everyone. My dads work used to throw a Christmas party for the employees children, and I recall going and watching a magic show followed by seeing Santa and being given these giant candy canes as a gift. I can’t imagine a company doing that nowadays.
i am #5 of nine kids, born in 1955. by this time i was helping the folks assemble bikes and what-not for my little brothers. i had also taken over tree duties - shopping for one down around the corner at the church lot, getting my punk brothers to tote it home. fetching the decorations out of the attic. and, geez, i can smell each and every tree, cookie, cake, ..... here in this video .....🎄
If I could go back to the 70s and be a kid again but change one thing, I would get my Mom gifts that were for her rather than household items. Of course I learned this (and did it) later but what I wouldn’t give for a do-over. RIP Mom - I love you forever ❤️
That is so sweet. I'm sorry for your loss.
@@jamesfrost7465 : Thank you so much, James - happy holidays
I've been saying that for years, only I would like to return as the middle-aged adult I am so I can enjoy the decade more and give my younger self some good advice! Thankfully most of my family is still living, and I would gladly take them with me in the time machine
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So funny!! I bought my mom a Black and Decker Scum Buster one year. She complained, constantly, how much scrubbing the shower hurt her shoulder. I thought it was a fantastic gift!
She examined the wrapped gift, placed under the tree, for weeks! She was sooo excited while unwrapping, but what utter disappointment once the wrapping paper was removed!! She didn't say anything - but even as dense as I am, could read her expression. I never bought her a practical gift again.
So good I almost started to cry.
Born in 1971! I remember those Christmas’ very well. Mom read Jesus stories to us, and she played those Christmas albums on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. She never spoiled us with gifts, but I remember that digital hand held football game with the “dashes”. I played that sucker until my fingers bled. All the Christmas lights and decor were so cool. We didn’t know it, but Dad was on the roof stomping with bells! Mom made us hide so as to not scare the reindeer! Lol! She would open the bedroom door, and we sprinted to the living room…Santa struck again! Oh yeah!
I loved that Mattel football game.
@@KnightOnBaldMountain I remember that crazy little blippy game, we would get in trouble in grade school on account of playing that thing during class. The Nuns would confiscate the game and we wouldn't get it back until after school, sheeeeesh, ha-haa
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I still have a Mattel football game like that. Wore the buttons out on it.
Oh yes, I loved driving around at night looking at all of the houses lit up! Always hated to see them taken down, wanted it to last longer. :)
Christmas of 1979, I was 12. I wanted an Atari soooo bad, but we were poor and it was $100 + games so I wasn’t holding out much hope. Thanks Mom. Best Xmas gift I have ever rec’d.
Awesome!
I’ll always remember growing up in the eighties. It was 1984 and me and my brother got a hockey game for Christmas. We were so unbelievably happy.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. I truly believe we lived in the last best decades in America. I had my first job in a mall at the Gap and remember Hickory Farms always had a cheese stand every Christmas. Those days the malls were packed all the time. I have many memories of Sears! The last of the American stores that went under. We shopped there for cloths, tools , appliances and even car maintenance. I remember well the new electronic toys to the TV shows that were on all of November and December. And we all watched the Waltons because it was a what reflected America and the basic importance of family values at the time. We had real TV back then. We had to wait for Everything, even pop corn. I remember having the toys and computers as they were starting to emerge. I even remember that wrapping paper in this video ! And then Star Wars …OMG! I had all the models hanging in my room. It was also the beginning of all of the legacy moves that the new generation enjoy like Star Trek, Star Wars, Superman Predator, Aliens to name a few. It was truly the last of the best decades in America!
Funny you mention Sears. I have a theory: I believe Sears was undermined from within, by a series of really bad CEO's, with golden parachutes. Funny how Sears died and Amazon took over so precisely...
If anyone doubts this theory, consider this: Sears always hired the brightest people out of College. There is ZERO chance that Sears did not see the internet coming!!
I wish Sears was still the Sears of my childhood! What an amazing place during Christmas!!
Hickory Farms and JCPennys 👍
I was in my tween years and married by the end of the 70’s. Looking at these pictures I see furniture we had, styles of clothes I wore, hair styles, the console TV’s and big family gatherings. I remember my sisters getting Pong in 1977 for Christmas.
That's cool
I loved wearing the shiny polyester shirts from the 70's
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I was born in 1965 so this video really hits home for my Christmas Memories. Our best Christmas was 1973, my father was deployed to South Korea to the remilitarized zone for a year. He came back October 73 so it was our first Christmas with him since 1971. It was a great decade. Thank you for the video
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What is really great about this video is that for a brief moment we can go back in time!! Love it!
I remember on Christmas Eve we could open up one gift, then waking up Christmas morning to so many gifts under the tree! My favorite gifts were an Easy Bake Oven, a Frosty Sno-man snowcone machine, a Pizza Hut pizza oven, and a record player to play my Disney read along books on. Such wonderful childhood memories!
So great miss those times. I remember my sister received the Pizza Hut oven
Ah, the 1970's! My favorite Christmas toy was the Sears Karosel Kitchen made for Barbie sized dolls. It had a dishwasher, light up stove with a rotisserie chicken that turned, a sink and came with a bunch of little dishes and canned foods. The 1970's really had some cool toys!
Wish I had the foresight to save all my toys back then! Wow 🤩 it would be so cool to have them now
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Oh my gosh! I had that too!!!!
I loved that Karosel kitchen! So neat how the whole thing rotated. Loved the little spinning chicken. Really unique toy.
I got the Barbie Townhouse one year and I was never so happy!
I got lots of the usual toys for Christmas as a 70's kid. But, I'll never forget the Christmas of 1974. I was 6 and my grandfather thought it was time I started learning financial things. He gave me stock in Hasbro, saying I'd learn more by keeping track of them, than I would getting Hasbro toys. I WAS HEARTBROKEN (as little ones get when we don't quite understand). He assured me in his way, that I'd understand as I got older. Oh how right he was! Those stocks have saved my financial bacon a few times and taught me invaluable life lessons. That giving is from the heart, patience really is a virtue, and we may not understand those gifts, no matter what they are, until we mature.
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Ha! Mine was stock in Baltimore Paint & Chemical. God bless Gram, never forget her.
I was born in 1962 so growing up in the 70's were so magical! Especially Christmas! There was an open mall near us and in the corner was a little red Santa house , it was so adorable and cozy inside all decorated with lots of lights and we would walk in and get to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what we wanted! The funniest thing happened I was 6 years old and after telling Santa what I wanted I got off his lap and my coat caught his beard and it came off well I cried because I thought he got hurt! I do remember my Mom and the Santa helpers with a big smile and a little bit of laughter ! Thank you for sharing another great magical video of Christmas in the past!
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Yes, I think I remember that mall, or at least one similar. What kid's remember from Christmas's many years ago is amazing. I was born in 62' also.
Megan I was also born in 1962 my brother 66 - so the 70s were prime time in our childhoods. 😊
very well put together. Thank you so much!
I loved Christmas growing up in the 70’s . Born in 68 . We always strung popcorn and gathered acorns out of our back yard for the Christmas tree. Going to my grandparents house to open gifts with all my cousins is a cherished memory forever. Thanks for the wonderful video I truly enjoyed !
Was born in 68 too..tomorrow my birthday
I was born in '65 and my warmest Christmas memories are from the late 60's to mid 70's. Back then the highlight of my year, other then Christmas and my birthday, was the the day the Sears Wish Book arrived. Damn I miss those times SO much. Miss you mom & dad.
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What can I say? I watch your videos and it saddens me that I can remember the joys of christmas at home with my parents, but I can't bring the same joy to my own children. Merry Christmas everyone. KM
I was born in the early 60s, but the seventies are my favorite Christmases. My favorite present? A Coleco table hockey game in 1975.
I had one of those too! Awesome stuff.
I still have one of those, along with a cheesey Oculus VR version.
This video was a nice treat to my inner child. As a child of the 70's, this brought back a boatload of memories! I vividly remember all the ornate decorations and lights on the trees of my grandmothers, the Christmas-themed music that would play on the radio, and of course, all the cool toys that made me giddy! The early years meant lots of those Fisher Price toys for babies and toddlers, and by elementary school, there was Star Wars, Shogun Warriors, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, The Six Million Dollar Man, Energized Spider Man, my Huffy Thundertrail 78 bicycle, the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, Lionel trains, slot car sets, comic books, board games, and God knows what else! It was a great time to be a kid, and I consider myself very fortunate to have experienced childhood in that decade.
Wonderful memories! Makes me happy recalling them and sad that they are gone. Every Christmas Eve we continue the tradition of putting out luminara along the curb of my parent’s home where I grew up along with all the neighbors. Beautiful sight riding through the neighborhood.
It's hard to imagine how my parents were able to give us these wonderful gift filled Christmases. Great memories that we all cherish. Thanks for sharing.
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I was born in 1965, i grew up in the 1970's and 80's and i can still remember those times with vivid memory. I often miss those times...before the world went all crazy like it is today.
I remember the Sears Wishbook, as well as the Eaton's one. Circling the toys i wanted Santa to bring me..carefully writting down the page number and the item number in a list.
Getting the Sears Wishbook, meant Christmas season had started!
Baby Boomer born in 1959 & grew up in the 60's & 70's those were the best decades to grow up in for me..
Wonderful, warm memories.I'm sitting here, Sunday, day after Christmas, feeling nostalgic, so im going through 70s videos on youtube. Growing up in Chicago, in the 70s we had Ray Raynor, Family Classics, Hardrock,Cocoa & Joe, the great malls in their heyday (including the outdoor ones), the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials,etc.
I remember grabbing a blanket, loading up the station wagon with the family, and Dad driving us around to look at Christmas lights, it seemed like every house was lit up. The toy catalogs were amazing. I must've put an X by everything! Star Wars, Evel Knievel, Micronauts, Matchbox, Legoland, Battlestar Galactica. Going sledding, record albums, moon boots, snow days, picture albums. I loved growing up in the 70s!
Reading the comments of other people's happiness in the 70's and 80's just makes me remember when there weren't any shootings in the department stores, holiday spirit was overflowing in the majority of people. Watching a small town Christmas parade, and the news showcasing different parades around that media stations area. Helping Mom and Dad put up the tree and all the decorations. And like a lot of people said, studying the sears wish book for all the toys, then jumping back a few pages and looking at the lingerie section real quick. I remember sharing my new toys with the neighborhood kids and almost everyone in the neighborhood taking a moment to wish each other Merry Christmas. Sad now that the fun of Christmas is dwindling away, and not because we have become adults, because we forgot the fun part and we have let generation's after the 80's tear away at what Christmas meant to us.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
And nobody locked down or masked up because of colds and flue.
As a child, Christmases from 1976 - 1985 were the best memories for me. In the late 70's - early 80s, I got Star Wars toys, Six Million Dollar Man toys and his spaceship that converted into an operating table, those electric slot car race tracks, Atari games, Evel Knevel stuff, roller skates and so much more. It was a wonderful time to be a kid in those years. It was so sprecial looking thru the Sears Christmas catalog and daydreaming for hours with excitement.
Kid @7:24 racked up!! Sheesh!
As someone else posted, we were the kids that went from traditional toys to electronic ones. God I miss those times and the family I shared them with.
Christmas 1978 , the best , got the Star Wars Death Star, X- Wing fighter, and about 5-7 Star Wars action figures. Not to mention a Hot Wheels race set. The Christmas classics of Rudolph and Charlie Brown were shown and you set your watch to it. Now you can see them whenever, kind of takes the fun out of it
OH YEAH, it was ALL about Star Wars stuff then, Battlestar Galactica stuff got real popular around 78--79 too.
Agreed, the specials back then no longer are "special" anymore, which is kind of a shame. Christmas 1978 was a very very bittersweet one for me. My Dad had died suddenly and unexpectedly in Mid July 1978 when I was just 11. I remember Christmas Eve night turning to my Mom and I asked her "How am I ever supposed to feel happy at CHristmas ever again?" and without missing a beat, she said "Because that's what your Dad would have wanted for you." Little did she realize at that moment, that she gave me the best and most healing Christmas gift of my entire life. I will love her forever for that. It's already been 21 Christmases since my Mom passed and 44 since my Dad. I am grateful to have had them while I did and more grateful to have had parents like that TO miss...
@@willmack5909 ....I was 8 years old in 1974 and my father committed suicide and I have been fearful in life ever since. It just felt scary to not have a father when you're a kid.....I wish I could have a do-over
When you mentioned the Rankin Bass Christmas specials, it brought up the memory of the SADDEST sound I ever heard as a child: that short musical bit at the very end of the specials that accompanied the Rankin Bass Production logo. It signified that it would be another whole YEAR before we could see the special again! A year to a child is like about 7 years to an adult! VHS and DVD's, and video recorders didn't exist; if you missed it, YOU MISSED IT!
Yes I vaguely do remember the sound you're talking about.
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Thats so true but in a way it made it more special , the whole family would plan the day around watching it together . Such a special time i wish i could go back to
I wish I could go back to these better times!❤️
Born mid 60's but grew up in the 70's and like we didn't have much but what Christmas was about and special was visiting uncle's aunt's and grandparents on Christmas eve and Christmas day will always cherish those memories and moments cause most of my aunt's and grandparents and uncles passed on since then 😢 but will always cherish the memories ❤️
I just want to thank you for taking time to put these videos together. Watching your videos brings back such great memories on being a kid growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, I remember seeing and having several of the toys in these pictures! Christmas was truly a magical time as a kid!
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Some of the best times of my life. We opened presents on Christmas Eve then the following morning Santa came, more presents but unwrapped. Simply amazing
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I remember those Christmases. I was born in 1964 and my younger sister in ‘67. We had 3 older brothers with the youngest being 6 years older than me. I remember the silver tree on the table in front of the windows. The electric candles in the window sills and a color wheel. I had this gold ornament with an angel face on it. I nearly died when I dropped it and it broke. My sister and I would write notes to Santa telling him where to leave our stuff. Boy it was exciting to wake up to the stuff. They were wrapped. Lol! One year I got a pair of 6 Million Dollar Man pjs. I ran around the house in slow motion. We had to take our things to our room and display like a museum for when our grandmother came. Gave tours. Lol! I miss those days.
I am so thankful this was my childhood, I would not change it for anything. They were happy days and I miss all of it. I would go back in a heartbeat. The 70's were the best decade. We didn't have much but we had each other and grandparents and we were happy. God bless. Merry Christmas.
BIG THANK YOU to all those Parents that made those Christmas' such magical times.
Finally my decade!!! I used to get sooooo excited when the Sears Wishbook came and I could circle what I wanted! God I miss those times horribly ☺️
I totally echo your thoughts and feelings shannon w. Glad to know I am far from alone in feeling so nostalgic and wistful....it's hitting me harder than usualy tnoight, May 1, 2022.
@@willmack5909 I had one of those nights last week. I was actually watching a movie that just brought me back and I actually started to cry and wish soooo bad I could turn back time, back to before social media and all of this technology, a simpler time. But then again thank God we do have this technology (in a way) because it is like a time machine that can bring us back to those times if even for a few minutes 😔