No cell phones, personal computers, or social media. We had each other. Face to face. We talked, laughed, rode our bikes, climbed trees, watched Saturday morning cartoons, and Saturday Night Live at night, roller skated or skate boarded, and danced to some of the best music ever made. We didn't even realize how good we had it until it was gone.
@@wmarkdyer Yeah he was wrong about the tv going off after 12 am, they use to have those late night monster movies up to 2 am, they were in black and white but still really cool for its time.
we were spoiled by the music fleetwood mac , rolling stones ,are still making music 50 years later drop 50 years from the seventies and music couldnt translate to the times
@cynthiacar ter532 Wow! Congratulations. Today... I visited the place I once knew...back in 1972 then my home One Pettigru... It was a house of Flower Children Hippies back then. I got to sit on the floor in my old room and write my memories... in a poem it came out of me. Wow! One of the most Groovy scenes that came to be...it was in another Century! ✌️🌻
Spencer Gifts black light posters, muscle cars, smoke filled rock concerts, banana-seat bikes, Circus Magazine and watching Combat! That was my 70's and I loved it.
There was nothing like the "back room" of Spencer's. Wall to wall blacklight posters and not a single colour that was found in nature. Boy, do I miss that store. It's unspeakably lame now.
I remember Spencer's, i have another living room downstairs and all of the walls have different blacklight tapestry and i leave the lights on all of the time @@cainealexander-mccord2805
Born in 1960. My fondest memories of the 70s were my friends and all the great fun we had together. Miss those days immensely and would go back in a heartbeat if possible. Those were carefree and simpler times for sure.
Born in 1961. I loved the seventies. I loved everything about it. I thought the clothes were the best of all generations since. Loved my Earth Shoes. Tell my children and grandchildren and great grandchildren that I wish I could take them there. 😢
@@alexshatner3907 I think about it all the time. People around me are dropping like flies. Mostly males in there late 50s and 60s. I'm now 65 and I have health issues. Did you know they lowered the average lifespan for a male in the United States down to just 73. Some states It's now 71. My entire past is being erased.
I'm a late stage Boomer (1959) and was 11 in 1970. I Spent my Whole Teen Age years in the 70's. Best Music, Best Friendships, Best Experiences in my Life.
@@coldlakealta4043 I was born in 1955, I'm a mid boomer it went from 1946 - 1965. I signed up for the draft as did all others born when I was. My number, via the draft lottery, was too high for the last three years of the war and then the war was over. So 1959 isn't a late stage boomer and was subject to the draft.
The original Not Ready For Prime-Time Players did things on that show that you couldn't get away with anywhere today, especially on the 1979-1980 season.
I can name every cast member from the original SNL. They were all brilliant, iconic actors and people. After the original series left, it only went downhill from there. May Gilda Radner and John Belushi rest in peace. We will always miss them.
@@bobblowhard8823 Same here! I can name all of them. Dan Ackroyd and favorite guest Buck Henry played the ultimate sleazebags. Once they were gone, the show was awful untol Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo came on. That was pretty decent until they left. I haven't really watched the show since. And, when I do see it, it's unfunny. Today, they even apologize when they do go over the line. Producer Lorne Michaels and the original cast never apologized for anything.
I had tears in my eyes watching this, in this awful world we live in today its nice to go back and just see how good it really was, everybody helped each other, there was peace, and you could go anywhere without feeling threatend, kids today will never have this, im glad I was born when I was.
Well, not complete peace. There was the draft and Vietnam War. Riots at college campuses. But I'd still go back because it was the best time of my life.
I'd like too go back, sit on the crush velour couch with my mom's green shag carpeting in the living room watching tv. Having to physically get up to change the channel. Click, Click, Click.
Graduated high school in 1976 and let me say the 70s and 80s was unbelievable. Here it is now 2024 and it seems like a different world. Not sure I want to be around by the end of this century.
I was 16 in 76 also we definitely won't be around at the end of this century 2099 even our children are unlikely to be either but likely our grandchildren will just about make it
The 70's were a great time to be a kid. I miss those days hanging out with friends, going to Saturday Matinees and we were always outdoors on our bikes or playing games.
We sometimes had no choice but to be outside all day. As soon as breakfast was over, you left, and the doors were locked! Loved every minute! That's why there's so many obese kids today. They're not made to go outside. They wouldn't know what to do if they had to be. I call video games a parents free babysitter!
Stole the words out of my mouth! Before that, I would sneak to my bedroom doorway to spy on The Johnny Carson Show. If I was discovered, I would claim that I was up to get a glass of water, or to use the bathroom.
I Was born in 1959. Was a kid in the 60s and 70s and a young man in the 80s. Great times/memories. Wouldn't trade places with a kid today for all the money in the world. Incredible original music: 60s, 70s and 80s.
Same here, but that was a totally alien world depicted to how I experienced it. It seems that I was lucky when it came to music and culture.
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The 70s was such a nice simple time. You never knew who was on the phone when it rang. Cartoons on Saturday mornings. Sundays and Holidays when everything was closed and people actually relaxed. Going outside to actually play or bike ride.
Born in 1960, My entire Teen Years were the 70,s ! Best time to grow up! The Music, Cars, Girls, parties, and everything else in this video! Thanks for the Memories!
We were fortunate enough to grow up in the ABSOLUTE BEST era in which humans have ever existed. We had modern conveniences, we were outside playing all day, getting dirty was a given and imagination ruled. We learned to use our brains and our hands to fix problems and had to actually remember the phone number of every person you knew. The American dream was still attainable on a single middle class income, and yes we made plenty of buffoon moves but there was not a camera pointed at you 24/7, and NONE of our dumb assed mistakes live in eternity on the internet. Your word meant something, things were built to last, and fixing the national deficit and balancing the budget was an actual possibility. I feel blessed as hell to have grown up between the 60s and the 80s, as in my mind it is the GOLDEN AGE of human existence!!!!
@@splashpit if only that were true. I see adults (that were kids in the 70s) all around me that worship the new big brother culture. They are happy to watch their adult children walk over your rights.
I have a time machine, that only takes you back to 1965 and you can start there and get a second chance of life, to make better decisions, wouldn't that be great?
The gangster LBJ was much worse than Nixon; but never got caught! Vietnam is how I remember the early 70's!! 2024 is just as nuts with Ukraine v Russia!! Biden or Trump? WTF kind of choice is this?!! This Republic is over; as Franklin said: "If you can keep it"?!😢
Richard Nixon was a Boy Scout compared to Trump. Nixon left office because he lost the support of his party. Those Republicans back then had some ethics…
70’s were the best times of my life. Jr high and HS and 2 years of single fun after graduation then married in 79’. I wish I could go back and stay in the 70’s!
I grew up in the 70s. I'm not GenX. I'm a Boomer ('63). I loved the 70s, and to this very day, 1970s music is still the best ever. That's my humble opinion. 😁✌️🤗🎶
@@kayeb7809 I just did. It said they didn't grow up with WWII fathers. Well I did. My dad was a WWII U.S. Marine who served in the South Pacific and also in the Korean war. 🇺🇸🫡
Always remember that it is not the youth who create the laws and policies. It is the kids that grew up in the 60s and 70s who are now homeowners and parents and taxpayers who elect the governing body. The people around you who once played on slip and slides and rode bicycles until dark are the ones who now love the big brother censorship mentality that provides "safety" to society.
If you recall when we became parents we started hearing about all the free range kids and the parents being condemned for it and also daycare or babysitters were kidnapping or brainwashing our children and that was all for our benefit to draw our children safely to us which was probably wrong and And nefarious to start this process of kids not being raised the way we were
GO TEXAS! Just by chance stumbled onto this channel. Subscribed it of course. Born in 50's and enjoyed 60's 70's and most others. Fun memories 90% good. Grew up outside of Los Angeles and must have missed the racism. I didn't see any until later on when the Left and their Media started hard pushing it on us. I still don't see it with my eyes but they make sure my ears are full of it. Semper Fi USA and all the good memories.
From Houston born in December '69 so barely made it in the "60's". What got me was the Wacky Packages. I forgot all about them but I know in elementary school we boys loved those stickers. It was a flash back alright.
Great time to be a teen Graduated in 75 bought a 56 mustang installed a 8 trak craig tape player . Married my high school sweet heart and still her one and only. Now retired have 4 grand children life has been good . And the music was great.
Sir: Just wanted to say how very much I enjoy your channel. As someone who as born in the mid-1960s, you have allowed me to look back fondly, even wistfully, on past decades when America wasn't gripped in the insanity it struggles with today. Thank you for what you do.
Born 62, and i had the very special time portal in life to go through elementary, intermediate, and high school all in the 70s. Wouldn't change a thing.
@@wknight5595 isn't that the sad truth 😔 there's so much division and hatred and we all need to find a way to come together, strength in unity. Much peace and love to all my brothers and sisters out there ☮️❤️
@@debbiescott6732 yes, here in the south it's that but where I grew up in NYC area it's intermediate and either a number follows it or the school is named after a person.
I can just imagine someone coming up to me in the park in lower Crescent Hill in '79 when I was 15 telling me about cell phones & the world wide web. I would have thought they were high on qualudes!
@@ClaireTR-p3i Right? Remember Dick Tracey, and his "watch" phone. I'm sure that's not far away, either. But the individual transportation methods haven't really changed much. I thought by 1984, we'ld all be flying in the "Jetsons" machines. We're still on the ground, on 4 wheels, and a steering wheel. Not that I'm complaining. People can't even drive on the gound, never mind putting morons in a flying machine. Can you imagine? :O
Graduated HS in 75! Mini, midi,and maxi skirts for girls! I drove my dad’s dune buggy or Moms Tbird to school. Friends drove Mustang, Camero, and Capri! Had my own phone number with a dial up phone in my room. Babysat for .50 cents an hour. Bought my clothes on layaway. Loved Elton John, BTO, Peter Frampton (before he came alive!) Best of Bread and the Stones. Great times. We had it good!
Born in 57. Although 60’s was my grade school the 70’s was high school and marriage. Wide bell bottoms, earth shoes, mood ring, disco dancing on a lighted up floor, bf had a muscle car, mom had owl macrame wall hangings and plant holders, we had two rooms of shag carpet. One was black/orange and the other my sisters bubble gum room. Shag carpet mixed of three colors pink. My bf (future husband) loved Fonzie. He and buddies wore leather jackets. Then the end of the 70’s were many weddings. Every wedding the men had different colored tuxes.
Many guys wore leather jackets like Fonzie's. I wanted one too but was too young. People who had natural wooden floors in their house would buy shag carpets to cover them. We did too.
The thing I remembered about the 1970ies was the feeling of gratitude. Ww2 vets were still very commonplace. Any adult or authority figure was yes Sir/No ma'am. Now the gratitude feeling is replaced with " I DESERVE IT."
@@John-t1j2u A friend of the family had been a bomber pilot in WWII. Probably early 1990's I tried to talk to him about that time. He told me what he flew but quickly changed the subject. I could tell by the look in his eyes he didn't want to remember and couldn't forget.
Got my first job pumping gas in 1976 thanks to a WWII vet named "Ski". We could never get him to talk about the war. Every single veteran I ever met has helped me along in life and I am proud to have been their friend.
Exactly! I'm pretty damn sure if I had ever muttered I deserve it my parents would have smacked me so hard upside the head that I would have seen stars!!!! Let me pop off with I'll call CPS...my mom would've called them for me, handed me the phone, & stared me down begging me to say something stupid!
Every car had a cigarette lighter, no one wore a seat belt, a bike helmet or checked their Halloween candy and yet, here we are, in our mid 60s and going strong.
As a man born in 1957, the 1960's and 1970's were the best decades I've ever lived in and I grew up in the country 8 miles west of Lodi California where the nearest neighbor was a mile away.
Those klackers HURT!!!!! I remember every part of the 1970''s. Wish we could all go back to that time!!!!! I miss the roller rink, disco, bell bottoms, platform shoes, and KC and the Sunshine Band!!!!!!! ❤❤ Thanks for the memories!!!!!
The best years of our lives! Grew up playing with my Matchbox cars, Tonka trucks & Viewmaster to name a few. Learned a lot from watching Sesame Street & Electric Company. Rockin those bell bottom pants & Hang Ten t-shirts! Turned 5 years old in 1970. 14 by 1979.
We're the same age! Great memories of growing up in the 1970s! Life was simple. Being originally from Flatbush, Brooklyn, during those days, for me it was The Godfather films, MARVEL COMICS, candy stores, baseball and football cards, GI JOE dolls, FUNKADELIC, and my Ten Speed bike.
@@mindysmith3683 I lived thru 60's 70's 80's etc... and the 70's was the most fun ..the music...it was all great. It is not only because I was a teenager.
People smiled so much in the 70's. Old folks had wisdom and they were an important part of the experience. Young people were a positive and always doing something. Adventures abounded. Backpacking and hiking. Desert camping parties. Motorcycles. Crazy cars and vans. Hard drugs not popular. Pot was everywhere. Fun was in. Concerts all the time. Outdoors was where most hung out. We were in shape without even trying.
I was born in 1971. I remember all of this and wish I could go back! Back then, no cell phones, no internet, email or social media. If you wanted to talk to a friend, you called them on your "land line" and then rode your bike or had your parents drop you off. Great memories!
70’s was an awesome decade to be a kid. 80’s was great for jr. High and high school. I still have my original Farrah Fawcett poster framed to this day 😍😍
I remember my sister and I getting crochet vests. They were all the rage. I loved shagged carpets, I still have them today. Mood rings, pet rocks, bike riding without a helmet, earth shoes, clackers, cartoons, Tiger Beat magazine, playing in construction zones (we knew to avoid the wooden planks with 6 inch protruding nails, no one had to warn us), going out on Halloween without an adult. We had freedom that no kid today could possibly imagine.
As a teen in the 1970's, we went to the local arcade to play video games for hours. When a friend got Pong, his home became the place to be. As basic as that game was, having it on a home TV felt like technology had reached its PINNACLE. What could be greater? Nobody imagined everybody would soon have games on their phones. Or even phones that weren't attached to a wall. Only in the world of the Jetsons!
I was born in 81, and have always been thankful that 70's teens were such a large demographic. It made their interests, TV shows (in reruns), and trends stick around longer. It made my childhood an interesting blend of the new, and the best parts of the previous decade.
Heck, we had game rooms in the early 80s, me and, my friend always went every change we could get, ( lol, in the 80s I was in my pre-teens) and, sure enough older teenagers and young adults ended up getting them shut down because, they came in their and, started stealing and, they became in festered with drugs.
I was born in 72 and remember a lot of the 70s as a kid. And that plastic that zipped around sofa's hell people were still using that nonsense in the early 90s and past! I HATEED THAT! You get a sofa to use not be a museum piece with sticky thick mold forming plastics that zipp it all shut!
This made me cry. Good times long gone. Geeze. 67 years and counting. Life was better back then for sure. We have survived things here that nobody else did. Why? Because no one under the age of 45 could now. Thank God we made it thru together. Peace.
@royboy 69 years old here, you are so right, i remember the hair blowers, and high heeled shoes, going for banana splits on a hot Sunday night. oh, those were the day's!!!!
Yes I remember all these times and enjoy all those long hot summer holidays. We had a orange colour kitchen dining table with orange vinyl and chrome chairs 💺
I remember every bit of the 70s there will never be another time like it one of my favorite memories is as simple as going to the mall and getting a slice of pizza and yes I had a pet rock Fred
I remember when we got cable TV in the 1970's. We got stations that had afternoon movies, late night movies, late-late night movies, morning movies and noon-time movies. It was great having the ability to watch movies form 1940's to late 1960's.
Born mid 50's. The 70's were the best for me and my teen age friends. SNL was the best back then. Concerts 7$ for the greatest bands and best music. I wouldn't trade it with any teenager now. We had it better
Our carpets were rust brown and orange countertops in the kitchen. 3 channels on the TV. We watched Waltons as a family and Mom watched Carol Burnett and Sanford and Son for comedy.😊
Never forget The Poseidon adventure at the movie theater, that giant wave capsizing the boat! I didn't see it until a few years after it came out but the very scary "The Exorcist" also came out in the early 70's 😬 I believe it came out in 73 but I don't think I saw it until 76 or so
Watching Little House on the Prairie before our “school night” bedtime; Getting to stay up late on a school night to watch the Roots miniseries; running home from school to watch the ABC After School Special; wonderful Saturday nights watching Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett with our parents who laughed constantly to the writing we’d appreciate when we were older. Oh, can’t forget Starsky and Hutch…had a big crush on Starsky!!😂 Thanks for this video!!
Born in 1962 and I grew up in the 1970's . I love it!!!!!!! I wore hip hugger bell buttem jenes and clogs and I carryed a mental lunch box, I went to the drive in movies with my mom and dad and a friend of mine. Boy did I love growing up then. Lol, we watched that movie up in Alaska. My dad kept putting his hands over my eyes and it wasn't until I was a lot older that I found out why, scary as heck. I miss those days.
The annual family vacation was a long road trip using paper maps where you didn’t know if your family car would overheat or break down when you got there (both happened to us, on separate trips). Flying was a special treat where you actually used the barf bag during turbulence. It was the best of times. 😊
6 mouths to feed and just 1 salary, we couldn't even afford summer road trips. But I remember my uncle having a large Rand McNally map book with one State per page.
Born in 64. Thanks for this amazing look back. I remember every single bit of it. It was all but forgotten before I watched this video. How I would love to do it over again. Just the same as the first time !
I was born in May of 1967, so I remember all of this and more. I had just turned 10 when "Star Wars" was released. I'll never forget it. I collected everything about the movie, and I still have all my old Star Wars action figures (including the original telescoping lightsabers). I also collected Wacky Packages, and later Star Wars cards. Kids road Big Wheels and Green Machines but when you got old enough, you had a bike. And for a real blast from the past - Sears and Kmart were a big deal! Now, good luck finding one. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Van Halen...so many great rock bands.
I actually sat through Close Encounters yesterday, lol, and not for the first time. Movies like that one and Jaws were great to see on the big screen back in the day. I also still like the Eagles. What's great is to be able to see a lot of these oldies via my Roku device. Yeah, I haven't advanced beyond that, but it works for an old gal like me.
At the beginning of your video you showed a custom van which peaked my interest because everybody wanted a custom van. Between all the customer accessories you put on the van you also had a bed in the back which came in very handy at the drive-in theater. Call vanners join van clubs and went to van runs to party for the weekend.
Lord, yes. You brought back a memory! I found the lamp in the early 80s at a church rummage sale after I'd bought myself a house. My dad hung it for me, and it actually worked. I also bought a glass and metal etagere (a 4-shelved open thing) to match. I eventually sold the glass stuff at a garage sale. I grew up with the Early American furniture in the 70s and actually prefer the warmer woods even now, the stuff that was made well back then. (I truly don't like much of the modern furniture I see, seems like it's just crap, ditto the modern appliances).
No cell phones, personal computers, or social media. We had each other. Face to face. We talked, laughed, rode our bikes, climbed trees, watched Saturday morning cartoons, and Saturday Night Live at night, roller skated or skate boarded, and danced to some of the best music ever made. We didn't even realize how good we had it until it was gone.
All true! Thanks for the memories! 🙌🏼🤩🤘🏼
Yeah way better when there were only 6 channels and the whole family had to share 1 TV and bathroom
I am so grateful to have been born in '66. Life is a roller coaster and I cherish the high points.
Yeah compared to those days, the day in age we live in now is a living hell.
@@wmarkdyer Yeah he was wrong about the tv going off after 12 am, they use to have those late night monster movies up to 2 am, they were in black and white but still really cool for its time.
We really didn't understand just how good we had it. I'd do it over again in a heartbeat.
I know same here
100%
If you were a kid in the 70's yep, but if you were draft age, not so much.
Absolutely would!
Hell yeah brother!
I feel so privileged to have lived in the 70s in my childhood and early teens.
Early 70s were college years-. But those were also very formative.
Oh Ohh, I know how old you are
Not in the uk…
we were spoiled by the music fleetwood mac , rolling stones ,are still making music 50 years later
drop 50 years from the seventies and music couldnt translate to the times
Casey Kasem kept us up to date with the top 40 hits every week.
Yes!😊
American Bandstand is what I watched.
Watching The Brady Bunch everyday after school
Yep! ❤
And Cousin Brucie in NYC
Born in 1957, being a kid during the 60's and 70's was the best of times. The best music, TV, no internet, no cell phones, etc. Please take me back!
Love Ya! Born 1957.I hear you.
Love Ya! Born April 1957.I hear ya and miss ya.
August of 57 what a great year, huh
I was born in 1957 also. 60s and 70s what a great time to be alive.
@@DonnyLumpkinx1 Love you all.Miss ya!
Not to date myself, I'm currently 62 years old and, man let me tell you, I remember EVERY thing in this video. THANKS SOOO much for it !
It was great being 20 in the 70's , not so great being 70 in the 20's .... 🌎✌️🌍
That's my husband and me. Married in 1972 when I was 21. Looking at 73 this month.
Congratulations, something seldom seen these days ✌️
Isn't that the truth
Joe Walsh
@cynthiacar
ter532
Wow! Congratulations.
Today... I visited the place I once knew...back in 1972 then
my home One Pettigru... It was a house of Flower Children Hippies back then.
I got to sit on the floor in my old room and write my memories...
in a poem it came out of me. Wow! One of the most Groovy scenes that came to be...it was in another Century! ✌️🌻
Spencer Gifts black light posters, muscle cars, smoke filled rock concerts, banana-seat bikes, Circus Magazine and watching Combat! That was my 70's and I loved it.
There was nothing like the "back room" of Spencer's. Wall to wall blacklight posters and not a single colour that was found in nature. Boy, do I miss that store. It's unspeakably lame now.
I remember Spencer's, i have another living room downstairs and all of the walls have different blacklight tapestry and i leave the lights on all of the time @@cainealexander-mccord2805
When you mention "smoke filled" rock concerts, um, I think I remember what _kind_ of smoke.
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mmMMM why yes...puff, puff, pass!
Cool incense burners brass water pipes boones farm wine custom vans hitchhiking across the US etc etc.
Born in 1960. My fondest memories of the 70s were my friends and all the great fun we had together. Miss those days immensely and would go back in a heartbeat if possible. Those were carefree and simpler times for sure.
"Seasons in the sun" "Never rains in southern California" "gypsy, tramps, and thieves"
Born in 1961. I loved the seventies. I loved everything about it. I thought the clothes were the best of all generations since. Loved my Earth Shoes. Tell my children and grandchildren and great grandchildren that I wish I could take them there. 😢
Sadly most of my male friends from the 1960s and 70s are now dead. Two just died in the past year. 😢
@@jeffhampton2767 Wow Sad and scary are we next?
@@alexshatner3907 I think about it all the time. People around me are dropping like flies. Mostly males in there late 50s and 60s. I'm now 65 and I have health issues. Did you know they lowered the average lifespan for a male in the United States down to just 73. Some states It's now 71. My entire past is being erased.
The Midnight Special and Wolfman Jack! Oh Yeah!
Great show with live performances
Midnight Special 😮
MAN,you are the first to remember that show. Everyone I asked had no idea what the heck I was talking about, that was my favorite show,😂❤❤😊
@@ralgal-67 There's a lot of Midnight Special clips on YT if you want to go down a rabbit hole Lol.
@@mikeywid4954 thankyou I think I will😊😁
I'm a late stage Boomer (1959) and was 11 in 1970.
I Spent my Whole Teen Age years in the 70's.
Best Music, Best Friendships, Best Experiences in my Life.
I was born in '58. Being a teen in those days was awesome! I bought Tiger Beat and 'Teen magazines. I had a huge crush on David Cassidy!
@@angelagoodwin5758 I read Cream and had Barbra Carrara on my wall.
That and A Few of the Black Light Velvet Posters.
congratulations. you obviously never had a draft card like the 55000 young Americans who died in Viet Nam during the 70s. do you even remember them?
@@coldlakealta4043 I was born in 1955, I'm a mid boomer it went from 1946 - 1965. I signed up for the draft as did all others born when I was. My number, via the draft lottery, was too high for the last three years of the war and then the war was over. So 1959 isn't a late stage boomer and was subject to the draft.
The war was over in 73, so some one born in 59, would have been 14. I don’t think they drafted 14 year olds.
Grew up and graduated from high school in the 70’s. How I wish I could go back!
Got married in 71 and had a dumpy apt but loved every minute of it! Still married!!❤❤✌️
Congratulations to you and your missus!
That's awesome! Congratulations.
Congratulations!
Congratulations on your long marriage. We got married in 1974. We're having our 50th this month.
I love the song "Mustang Sally" by Wilson Pickett.
Man, you guys are old.
Who remembers “Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific” shampoo?
You can still get it from a company called Vermont Country Store
Or the sophomoric joke in response.
Or I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!
Two two two mints in one.
Biden
I did grow up in the 70’s. And it was so great. Wouldn’t change it for anything.
"Seasons in the sun" "Never rains in southern California" "gypsy, tramps, and thieves"
There will NEVER be a show like the original shows and cast of Saturday Night Live
Indeed
Yeah now it's a left wing political hit show.
The original Not Ready For Prime-Time Players did things on that show that you couldn't get away with anywhere today, especially on the 1979-1980 season.
I can name every cast member from the original SNL. They were all brilliant, iconic actors and people. After the original series left, it only went downhill from there. May Gilda Radner and John Belushi rest in peace. We will always miss them.
@@bobblowhard8823 Same here! I can name all of them. Dan Ackroyd and favorite guest Buck Henry played the ultimate sleazebags. Once they were gone, the show was awful untol Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo came on. That was pretty decent until they left. I haven't really watched the show since. And, when I do see it, it's unfunny. Today, they even apologize when they do go over the line. Producer Lorne Michaels and the original cast never apologized for anything.
I had tears in my eyes watching this, in this awful world we live in today its nice to go back and just see how good it really was, everybody helped each other, there was peace, and you could go anywhere without feeling threatend, kids today will never have this, im glad I was born when I was.
Same here
We will bring it back!
Well, not complete peace. There was the draft and Vietnam War. Riots at college campuses. But I'd still go back because it was the best time of my life.
Me too.
I'd like too go back, sit on the crush velour couch with my mom's green shag carpeting in the living room watching tv. Having to physically get up to change the channel. Click, Click, Click.
Graduated high school in 1976 and let me say the 70s and 80s was unbelievable. Here it is now 2024 and it seems like a different world. Not sure I want to be around by the end of this century.
No worries; you won't!
I'm with you! The world has gone down the toilet!
You'll be 142 years old.
Keep taking your vitamins. 😊
Yes 😃So did I !! It sure was an AWESOME & INCREDIBLE era!!😁👍🏻💯
I was 16 in 76 also we definitely won't be around at the end of this century 2099 even our children are unlikely to be either but likely our grandchildren will just about make it
The 70's were a great time to be a kid. I miss those days hanging out with friends, going to Saturday Matinees and we were always outdoors on our bikes or playing games.
Thing s 😢
We sometimes had no choice but to be outside all day. As soon as breakfast was over, you left, and the doors were locked! Loved every minute! That's why there's so many obese kids today. They're not made to go outside. They wouldn't know what to do if they had to be. I call video games a parents free babysitter!
I remember when watching TV late and the station would play our National Anthem then shut-down for the evening with a test tone and image.
And the announcement,” It’s 10:00 pm , do you know where your children are?”
@@tamb7587 And on a black and white 13" TV with no remote control.
Oh yeah, I remember that. Thanks for reminding me.👍
Stole the words out of my mouth! Before that, I would sneak to my bedroom doorway to spy on The Johnny Carson Show. If I was discovered, I would claim that I was up to get a glass of water, or to use the bathroom.
yeah, me too brother! love hearing that😁
We really did have it all. To all my generation...the 70s really rocked!!!
I Was born in 1959. Was a kid in the 60s and 70s and a young man in the 80s. Great times/memories. Wouldn't trade places with a kid today for all the money in the world. Incredible original music: 60s, 70s and 80s.
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Yes! SAME HERE! The MUSIC! SOOO EXCELLENT😊🎉🎉❤
Me too! June 26th we're the same age🤠
I'm 3yrs behind you brother. ❤
Same here, but that was a totally alien world depicted to how I experienced it. It seems that I was lucky when it came to music and culture.
The 70s was such a nice simple time. You never knew who was on the phone when it rang. Cartoons on Saturday mornings. Sundays and Holidays when everything was closed and people actually relaxed. Going outside to actually play or bike ride.
Nowadays we work ridiculous hours , 6 day working week 24 hour rotation.
Born in 1960, My entire Teen Years were the 70,s ! Best time to grow up! The Music, Cars, Girls, parties, and everything else in this video! Thanks for the Memories!
"Seasons in the sun" "Never rains in southern California" "gypsy, tramps, and thieves"
70’s was fun and carefree! Graduated High School in 81! 70s also was the best decade for Rock music!!!!
loved Three Dog Night!
Humble Pie
Led zepplin
I'm just a bill was my favorite
Hell yeah
We were fortunate enough to grow up in the ABSOLUTE BEST era in which humans have ever existed. We had modern conveniences, we were outside playing all day, getting dirty was a given and imagination ruled. We learned to use our brains and our hands to fix problems and had to actually remember the phone number of every person you knew. The American dream was still attainable on a single middle class income, and yes we made plenty of buffoon moves but there was not a camera pointed at you 24/7, and NONE of our dumb assed mistakes live in eternity on the internet. Your word meant something, things were built to last, and fixing the national deficit and balancing the budget was an actual possibility. I feel blessed as hell to have grown up between the 60s and the 80s, as in my mind it is the GOLDEN AGE of human existence!!!!
@@darlamccracken4062 indeed 👍🏻☺️
Hell yeah I'm with that
And Johnny Law wasn't around every damn corner, thinking you look suspicious.
Kids in the 70s: As a punishment you were banished to your room.
Kids today: Threats of being punished if you don't come out of your room.
@@smcdonald9991 right 😂
I'm going to be 70 in January, how fast the years have gone.
Me too!!! January will be 70!!!
@cathyledger-n4y January 4th 🎂
Happy birthday, I also will be 70 in January
Everything from the 70’s was eventually banned but we all survived it. What a great era!
Not all of us survived it but the ones that did are the ones that the younger generations shouldn’t fuck with !
Lawn Darts!
@@splashpit if only that were true. I see adults (that were kids in the 70s) all around me that worship the new big brother culture. They are happy to watch their adult children walk over your rights.
@@warrenny they were obviously the ones that survived because they spent their youth in their lockers
Music was everything…always
GenX here, I completely remember ALL these things! I cherish the 70’s and I’m so glad I got to be a part of it! 🙌🏼🤩🤘🏼
For Genx the 1980s were as good as the 70s. In 1980 Preppy destroyed everything 1970s
@@hugoglenn9741 punk and wave, too😁🍻
Best birthday gift ever was an Easy Bake Oven when I turned 5 in 1971.
I used to wear tube socks and now that I’m older I’m wearing something similar called compression socks🤣
Just put stripes on the top of them!
@@tiffanyvalencia8415 🤣
Ha! hA!
Lol
🤣absolutely!🤣
What I'd give to go back in time
same here
Me too better back then .
I have a time machine, that only takes you back to 1965 and you can start there and get a second chance of life, to make better decisions, wouldn't that be great?
Absolutely!🎉
The times and things I remember in the 70's were better than what I
See today.
American Bandstand, Soul Train, Midnight Special. We were always groovin', day and night!
Also ‘’ in concert ‘’ on ABC friday nights.
Puff the magic dragon, the banana splits cartoon & The Monkees!
I remember pretending I was a train and reaving up with my arms as S..o..u .l..t..r .a..i..n came on. Also would be howling the intro tune.
Marsha Marsha Marsha. And Oh my nose were my favorite sayings of the Brady Bunch.
Ya know what's crazy? Marie Osmond is HOT in 2024.
Watergate is nothing compared to now.
The gangster LBJ was much worse than Nixon; but never got caught!
Vietnam is how I remember the early 70's!! 2024 is just as nuts with Ukraine v Russia!!
Biden or Trump? WTF kind of choice is this?!! This Republic is over; as Franklin said: "If you can keep it"?!😢
That is for D*MN sure!
Richard Nixon was a Boy Scout compared to Trump. Nixon left office because he lost the support of his party. Those Republicans back then had some ethics…
I was thinking the very same thing !
You got that right
Loved growing up in the 70’s!!! My best memories ever!!!
"Seasons in the sun" "Never rains in southern California" "gypsy, tramps, and thieves"
1976 was the best! Bicentennial, country wide patriotism! Not like today!
Bicenteial minute by Shell
yeah I got my driver's license and bought my first car in 76. not sure what you mean about everyone was patriotic then though.
Yea the pride was everyway! Progressives today are about division, hate with a repetitive mantra. Not walking to safely today.....
@@Hobodeluxe007flag waving and other American activities.
@@williambenner701 oh that stuff. yeah there was a lot of that going on too I suppose. that's not real patriotism to me but I guess it is to some.
70’s were the best times of my life. Jr high and HS and 2 years of single fun after graduation then married in 79’. I wish I could go back and stay in the 70’s!
I do, too!
It truly was the best time to grow up in. I really miss those days. Born in 58
I grew up in the 70s. I'm not GenX. I'm a Boomer ('63). I loved the 70s, and to this very day, 1970s music is still the best ever. That's my humble opinion. 😁✌️🤗🎶
Doesn't everyone love careless kid hood ?
@@mindysmith3683 Typical, leftist, Democrap, RACIST comment.
I agree
@@kayeb7809 I just did. It said they didn't grow up with WWII fathers. Well I did. My dad was a WWII U.S. Marine who served in the South Pacific and also in the Korean war. 🇺🇸🫡
I'm a Boomer too~ '64
Pretty safe to say that the youth growing up now are much more troubled than we were back in the 60s and 70s
Always remember that it is not the youth who create the laws and policies. It is the kids that grew up in the 60s and 70s who are now homeowners and parents and taxpayers who elect the governing body.
The people around you who once played on slip and slides and rode bicycles until dark are the ones who now love the big brother censorship mentality that provides "safety" to society.
You mean more options
@@JamesDonovan-p5r its hilarious you call worse options take your L and move on
@@JoyceTillman-jj3yp 😂
If you recall when we became parents we started hearing about all the free range kids and the parents being condemned for it and also daycare or babysitters were kidnapping or brainwashing our children and that was all for our benefit to draw our children safely to us which was probably wrong and And nefarious to start this process of kids not being raised the way we were
What a great period to grow up in! Like it was yesterday! I miss those days.
Generation X kid here! I was born June 18,1967. Loved the 1970's! Hello from Tyler Texas!
Same here. November of 67.
GO TEXAS!
Just by chance stumbled onto this channel. Subscribed it of course.
Born in 50's and enjoyed 60's 70's and most others.
Fun memories 90% good.
Grew up outside of Los Angeles and must have missed the racism. I didn't see any until later on when the Left and their Media started hard pushing it on us.
I still don't see it with my eyes but they make sure my ears are full of it.
Semper Fi USA and all the good memories.
July 30th 1967 here
From Houston born in December '69 so barely made it in the "60's". What got me was the Wacky Packages. I forgot all about them but I know in elementary school we boys loved those stickers. It was a flash back alright.
Hello brother. Anyone born in the 1960's knows how great it was growing up when we did.
Great time to be a teen Graduated in 75 bought a 56 mustang installed a 8 trak craig tape player . Married my high school sweet heart and still her one and only. Now retired have 4 grand children life has been good . And the music was great.
I grew up with my dad driving a ‘67 olive green Mustang convertible also with 8 tract tape player. 🙌🏼🤩🤘🏼
There was no 56 Mustang
@@stevebobamerican8635 I think they meant ‘65? 😂
the Mustang didn't come out until 62 i think, you must mean 66.
The 70s were the best, we had the best of everything, cars, girls, music ah the good ole days
@@jamespolucha8790 Thank you.
Never happen again
For what its worth if given a time I could go back to; it would be the 1970's.
Disco fever
3:35 School House Rock vids were WONDERFUL. They should be run again nowadays.
Considering my fear for our educational system they would probably learn more than what is being taught😤😡😠
They are all available on UA-cam. My grandkids enjoy them.
Yes exactly. It should be shown again on Saturday am
No doubt better than what passes for today's educational system.
I have them all on DVD which I bought for my kids. I don't think it's available anymore.
I remember absolutely everything with great fondness. Those were some great times.
Sir: Just wanted to say how very much I enjoy your channel. As someone who as born in the mid-1960s, you have allowed me to look back fondly, even wistfully, on past decades when America wasn't gripped in the insanity it struggles with today. Thank you for what you do.
Born 62, and i had the very special time portal in life to go through elementary, intermediate, and high school all in the 70s. Wouldn't change a thing.
I was born in 62 also 👍☮️
Me too, and i'm sure none of us can even recognize what's happened to this country today, and not in a good way.
@@wknight5595 isn't that the sad truth 😔 there's so much division and hatred and we all need to find a way to come together, strength in unity. Much peace and love to all my brothers and sisters out there ☮️❤️
We called it Junior High not intermediate. Junior High was 7th 8th and 9th grades.
@@debbiescott6732 yes, here in the south it's that but where I grew up in NYC area it's intermediate and either a number follows it or the school is named after a person.
Boy, these sure were the days.. Nice going down memory lane. Times were far much better then.
I remember chasing the mosquito truck down the street on my bikes with my friends and running home from school and watching Dark Shadows.
Wow 2 memories I remember well, every summer the mosquito truck and Dark Shadows 😳 Barnibus Collins 😬 not your average soap opera
I would never in a million years, thought I'ld be watching stuff like this, more than 50 yrs later, on a plastic computer.
Same.
And here you are so enjoy the trip.
I can just imagine someone coming up to me in the park in lower Crescent Hill in '79 when I was 15 telling me about cell phones & the world wide web. I would have thought they were high on qualudes!
@@ClaireTR-p3i Right? Remember Dick Tracey, and his "watch" phone. I'm sure that's not far away, either.
But the individual transportation methods haven't really changed much. I thought by 1984, we'ld all be flying in the "Jetsons" machines. We're still on the ground, on 4 wheels, and a steering wheel. Not that I'm complaining. People can't even drive on the gound, never mind putting morons in a flying machine. Can you imagine? :O
Graduated HS in 75! Mini, midi,and maxi skirts for girls! I drove my dad’s dune buggy or Moms Tbird to school. Friends drove Mustang, Camero, and Capri! Had my own phone number with a dial up phone in my room. Babysat for .50 cents an hour. Bought my clothes on layaway. Loved Elton John, BTO, Peter Frampton (before he came alive!) Best of Bread and the Stones. Great times. We had it good!
I forgot about layaway! At Hills!
Crochet ponchos were very popular. Drive-in movies also.
And iron-on t-shirt places in the mall. Band names, logos, sayings: "Hang in there, Baby!", "Keep on Truckin'!", "Peace"... ✌️
@@laureencriss8220 EXCELLENT!
I loved going to the drive-in with my Dad! There is still one functioning near my home and I go sometimes.
@@thelittlegreenball6813 very nice!
@momsher1 Same here! ❤️ We grew up at the best time!!
Born in 57. Although 60’s was my grade school the 70’s was high school and marriage. Wide bell bottoms, earth shoes, mood ring, disco dancing on a lighted up floor, bf had a muscle car, mom had owl macrame wall hangings and plant holders, we had two rooms of shag carpet. One was black/orange and the other my sisters bubble gum room. Shag carpet mixed of three colors pink. My bf (future husband) loved Fonzie. He and buddies wore leather jackets. Then the end of the 70’s were many weddings. Every wedding the men had different colored tuxes.
To start over again 😢😢😢
Same
Many guys wore leather jackets like Fonzie's. I wanted one too but was too young. People who had natural wooden floors in their house would buy shag carpets to cover them. We did too.
Oh how I miss those years!! Some of the best, simple, fun, easy going times!❤
The 70s and 80s were the best years of my life!! ❤❤
And I want them back!
.....Now , go back and watch the 1946 , Academy Award winning film , The Best Years of Our Lives . . . see if your memories are as good as those .
The thing I remembered about the 1970ies was the feeling of gratitude. Ww2 vets were still very commonplace. Any adult or authority figure was yes Sir/No ma'am. Now the gratitude feeling is replaced with " I DESERVE IT."
Yeah, I wish I had spent more time talking with the WW2 vets. Now I am a Desert Storm vet and as old as those WW2 vets were in 77
@@John-t1j2u A friend of the family had been a bomber pilot in WWII. Probably early 1990's I tried to talk to him about that time. He told me what he flew but quickly changed the subject. I could tell by the look in his eyes he didn't want to remember and couldn't forget.
Got my first job pumping gas in 1976 thanks to a WWII vet named "Ski". We could never get him to talk about the war. Every single veteran I ever met has helped me along in life and I am proud to have been their friend.
@@John-t1j2u TY for your bravery. I am sorry this nation now treats illegal aliens better then you now.
Exactly! I'm pretty damn sure if I had ever muttered I deserve it my parents would have smacked me so hard upside the head that I would have seen stars!!!! Let me pop off with I'll call CPS...my mom would've called them for me, handed me the phone, & stared me down begging me to say something stupid!
School house rock was awesome. I'm 59 years old, and I still remember most of them. My absolute favorite was "Interjections"
70's kid here. I remember the news paper 📰 when Elvis died in 77.
I remember us all in the car right after Elvis died and I remember how sad my Dad was.
and John Wayne in 79
I was watching a TV movie when it was pre-empted with the News Flash.......ELVIS IS DEAD.
I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news of Elvis' death.
I was 19
Every car had a cigarette lighter, no one wore a seat belt, a bike helmet or checked their Halloween candy and yet, here we are, in our mid 60s and going strong.
You somehow reminded me of the Son of Sam. It must have been the Halloween candy (my mother did check it).
I remembered my Dad yelled at me for put my seatbelt on. Son! You are making us look like whimps!!! 😀😀😃😃😃
Amen
Damn Right. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
The seat belt in our car was my mother's arm going across my chest if she saw fit. She still does it to this day! 😅
As a man born in 1957, the 1960's and 1970's were the best decades I've ever lived in and I grew up in the country 8 miles west of Lodi California where the nearest neighbor was a mile away.
I loved the 70s. The music was great. Rock and roll and Motown music.
"Seasons in the sun" "Never rains in southern California" "gypsy, tramps, and thieves"
Wish i could go back to the 70s. Simple living, playing outside with friends. Thise were the days.😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Those klackers HURT!!!!! I remember every part of the 1970''s. Wish we could all go back to that time!!!!! I miss the roller rink, disco, bell bottoms, platform shoes, and KC and the Sunshine Band!!!!!!! ❤❤ Thanks for the memories!!!!!
The best years of our lives! Grew up playing with my Matchbox cars, Tonka trucks & Viewmaster to name a few. Learned a lot from watching Sesame Street & Electric Company. Rockin those bell bottom pants & Hang Ten t-shirts! Turned 5 years old in 1970. 14 by 1979.
I put down my G.I. Joe's from the 60's and all of a sudden Evel Knievel was the man. I really got into bicycles and jumping them.
Big Wheel!
We're the same age! Great memories of growing up in the 1970s! Life was simple. Being originally from Flatbush, Brooklyn, during those days, for me it was The Godfather films, MARVEL COMICS, candy stores, baseball and football cards, GI JOE dolls, FUNKADELIC, and my Ten Speed bike.
Hot Wheels, Lego, and making my own kart.
Washing dad's car on Saturday afternoon and looking at that cute neighbor taking the sun in her bikini.
The 70's were very interesting in all aspects. My pre teen and teenage years were all in the 1970's. AND I MISS EVERYTHING !
Why ? Give up , because you were a kid , no responsibility. That's all every generation misses childhood . Not me .
Me too!
If I could go to the past....and knowing about the 80's, the 90's, the 2000's and the 2010's .... I WILL CHOOSE THE 70's to be a teenager AGAIN.
I remember my first kiss. Something that lasted less than one minute 50 years ago and yet it's crystal clear in my mind.
@@mindysmith3683 I lived thru 60's 70's 80's etc... and the 70's was the most fun ..the music...it was all great. It is not only because I was a teenager.
I was born in 1959. Thank you for bringing me back to my teenage years. This video is spot-on and brought a big smile to my face!
People smiled so much in the 70's. Old folks had wisdom and they were an important part of the experience. Young people were a positive and always doing something. Adventures abounded. Backpacking and hiking. Desert camping parties. Motorcycles. Crazy cars and vans. Hard drugs not popular. Pot was everywhere. Fun was in. Concerts all the time. Outdoors was where most hung out. We were in shape without even trying.
I was born in 1971. I remember all of this and wish I could go back! Back then, no cell phones, no internet, email or social media. If you wanted to talk to a friend, you called them on your "land line" and then rode your bike or had your parents drop you off. Great memories!
If you were born in 1971, you were too late for the party and still a snot nosed lil kid ! By the time your balls descended, the 70's were over !
@@bennym1956 I missed most of it, unfortunately. It grieves me deeply.
Holy shit, 100% remembered everything here. Nice stroll down the old days road.
70’s was an awesome decade to be a kid. 80’s was great for jr. High and high school. I still have my original Farrah Fawcett poster framed to this day 😍😍
I had that same poster. I would still love to have that poster today. May she rest in peace.
I hope she rests in peace knowing that 😮
I remember my sister and I getting crochet vests. They were all the rage. I loved shagged carpets, I still have them today. Mood rings, pet rocks, bike riding without a helmet, earth shoes, clackers, cartoons, Tiger Beat magazine, playing in construction zones (we knew to avoid the wooden planks with 6 inch protruding nails, no one had to warn us), going out on Halloween without an adult. We had freedom that no kid today could possibly imagine.
We had blood red shag carpeting in our living room. It was quite a sight.
My sis and I had them also hers was pink and blue ,mine was brown and gold😊😊😊
My sister's boyfriend had shag carpet in his CAR. Even on the ceiling. I kid you not.
We learned how to make a crocheted vest in the sixth grade, our church group taught us
On Point with this 68yr old. I want to go back.
As a teen in the 1970's, we went to the local arcade to play video games for hours. When a friend got Pong, his home became the place to be. As basic as that game was, having it on a home TV felt like technology had reached its PINNACLE. What could be greater? Nobody imagined everybody would soon have games on their phones. Or even phones that weren't attached to a wall. Only in the world of the Jetsons!
I was born in 81, and have always been thankful that 70's teens were such a large demographic. It made their interests, TV shows (in reruns), and trends stick around longer. It made my childhood an interesting blend of the new, and the best parts of the previous decade.
Heck, we had game rooms in the early 80s, me and, my friend always went every change we could get, ( lol, in the 80s I was in my pre-teens) and, sure enough older teenagers and young adults ended up getting them shut down because, they came in their and, started stealing and, they became in festered with drugs.
My Favorite cartoon!
Arcades - pin balls and shooting pool. And I remember when Pong came out and how amazed we were.
There will never be an era such as the seventies. And we survived!!!!!
I remember just about everything. I was apart of the 70's and I loved it. So many memories!
It was slot better than now!
the 70s was a great decade to be a teenager! i was 10 in 70, so i had the full brunt of the decade!
Me too - that makes us late boomers not gen X! ❤❤❤
Me too
Me too !
Me too. Born in 1960
Yes you did, how awesomely cool lol
Don't forget the plastic that coverd the sofa, love seats and chairs!!
Remember that plastic in summer with no AC
I was born in 72 and remember a lot of the 70s as a kid. And that plastic that zipped around sofa's hell people were still using that nonsense in the early 90s and past! I HATEED THAT! You get a sofa to use not be a museum piece with sticky thick mold forming plastics that zipp it all shut!
I was born in 1970's, this brings back a lot of memories indeed. I loved SNL and Johnny Carson.
This made me cry. Good times long gone. Geeze. 67 years and counting. Life was better back then for sure. We have survived things here that nobody else did. Why? Because no one under the age of 45 could now. Thank God we made it thru together. Peace.
Amen!
@royboy 69 years old here, you are so right, i remember the hair blowers, and high heeled shoes, going for banana splits on a hot Sunday night. oh, those were the day's!!!!
Still recall helm's bakery trucks and the milkman delivering to the porch
@@charlesford1893 The old Helms bakery building is still there on Venice blvd. In Culver city. Historical building 😊
@@berzerker1100 Yes, I recall they would slide out that wooden tray full of freshly made donuts.
I loved the 70's! So many wonderful memories of much younger days.
Yes I remember all these times and enjoy all those long hot summer holidays.
We had a orange colour kitchen dining table with orange vinyl and chrome chairs 💺
I remember every bit of the 70s there will never be another time like it one of my favorite memories is as simple as going to the mall and getting a slice of pizza and yes I had a pet rock Fred
I hope Fred is still doing OK, wherever he may be.
Is Fred still with us?
@starmnsixty1209 I would imagine but where who knows 😆
I remember when we got cable TV in the 1970's. We got stations that had afternoon movies, late night movies, late-late night movies, morning movies and noon-time movies. It was great having the ability to watch movies form 1940's to late 1960's.
08:36 He shows the modern TV test card but we had the Indian head in the first half of the 70s here.
Born mid 50's. The 70's were the best for me and my teen age friends. SNL was the best back then. Concerts 7$ for the greatest bands and best music. I wouldn't trade it with any teenager now. We had it better
Our carpets were rust brown and orange countertops in the kitchen. 3 channels on the TV. We watched Waltons as a family and Mom watched Carol Burnett and Sanford and Son for comedy.😊
1970's had great disaster films like Earthquake, Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, Airport, Airport '75, Black Sunday just to name a few.
Never forget The Poseidon adventure at the movie theater, that giant wave capsizing the boat! I didn't see it until a few years after it came out but the very scary "The Exorcist" also came out in the early 70's 😬 I believe it came out in 73 but I don't think I saw it until 76 or so
I remember that Poseidon Adventure song: "the morning after."
Don’t forget Charlie and the chocolate factory. And the movie the Cowboys with John Wayne and Bruce Dern
You forgot the big one that scared us all.......the movie JAWS. I never went in the ocean after that.
@@SusanWelte We saw The Poseidon Adventure at a drive-in too!! Mom, Dad, 6 kids and lots of homemade popcorn 🍿!!
Watching Little House on the Prairie before our “school night” bedtime; Getting to stay up late on a school night to watch the Roots miniseries; running home from school to watch the ABC After School Special; wonderful Saturday nights watching Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett with our parents who laughed constantly to the writing we’d appreciate when we were older. Oh, can’t forget Starsky and Hutch…had a big crush on Starsky!!😂
Thanks for this video!!
Saturday Night Live debuted just when I started college. I’ll never forget sitting in the packed dorm TV lounge, all of us roaring in laughter.
I was 11 when SNL came on. I was sleeping over at a friend's house and her parents let us stay up to watch it. I saw the very first episode!
Born in 1962 and I grew up in the 1970's . I love it!!!!!!! I wore hip hugger bell buttem jenes and clogs and I carryed a mental lunch box, I went to the drive in movies with my mom and dad and a friend of mine. Boy did I love growing up then. Lol, we watched that movie up in Alaska. My dad kept putting his hands over my eyes and it wasn't until I was a lot older that I found out why, scary as heck. I miss those days.
You nailed this. I just want to cry. I remember ALL of this. I am still a huge KISS fanatic!!! Thanks for this.
Generation X kid here! Born on the 5th of July, 1969!!!!!!!!! We had a Pet Rock lol!
The annual family vacation was a long road trip using paper maps where you didn’t know if your family car would overheat or break down when you got there (both happened to us, on separate trips). Flying was a special treat where you actually used the barf bag during turbulence. It was the best of times. 😊
6 mouths to feed and just 1 salary, we couldn't even afford summer road trips.
But I remember my uncle having a large Rand McNally map book with one State per page.
Born in 64. Thanks for this amazing look back. I remember every single bit of it. It was all but forgotten before I watched this video. How I would love to do it over again. Just the same as the first time !
I was born in May of 1967, so I remember all of this and more. I had just turned 10 when "Star Wars" was released. I'll never forget it. I collected everything about the movie, and I still have all my old Star Wars action figures (including the original telescoping lightsabers). I also collected Wacky Packages, and later Star Wars cards. Kids road Big Wheels and Green Machines but when you got old enough, you had a bike. And for a real blast from the past - Sears and Kmart were a big deal! Now, good luck finding one. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Van Halen...so many great rock bands.
My favorites from the 70's: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Bionic Woman, Star Wars, Electric Light Orchestra, The Eagles, and America.
I actually sat through Close Encounters yesterday, lol, and not for the first time. Movies like that one and Jaws were great to see on the big screen back in the day. I also still like the Eagles. What's great is to be able to see a lot of these oldies via my Roku device. Yeah, I haven't advanced beyond that, but it works for an old gal like me.
Loved Steely Dan, Ambrosia, Elton John, Neil Young, Little River Band..just to name a few
At the beginning of your video you showed a custom van which peaked my interest because everybody wanted a custom van. Between all the customer accessories you put on the van you also had a bed in the back which came in very handy at the drive-in theater. Call vanners join van clubs and went to van runs to party for the weekend.
The mineral oil rain lamps. Does anyone else remember those?
Lord, yes. You brought back a memory! I found the lamp in the early 80s at a church rummage sale after I'd bought myself a house. My dad hung it for me, and it actually worked. I also bought a glass and metal etagere (a 4-shelved open thing) to match. I eventually sold the glass stuff at a garage sale. I grew up with the Early American furniture in the 70s and actually prefer the warmer woods even now, the stuff that was made well back then. (I truly don't like much of the modern furniture I see, seems like it's just crap, ditto the modern appliances).
@@cynthiamurphy3669 I agree. By the way if you ever need a replacement motor for the lamp, Amazon sells them.
I still have one 😊
Is that a lava lamp?
@@jojorey6886 No