I’d go back in a second and stay there. You can have all your modern technology and computers and cellphones. Back then we actually talked to people. We went out to eat and talked to each other, not stare at our cellphones ignoring one another. We didn’t have text alerts going off all day, we actually had to wait to get home to hear the latest. And we didn’t have phones pressed to our ears in stores and other places on speaker phone, we had common courtesy. Life was much more family oriented. Now? You can have now, if you like today’s world that’s great, good for you. Enjoy. As for me, I’d go back in a second. ** I had to add this on. I never realized how many other people longed for the old days besides me. I think it’s great. I wish there was a way we could all get together and relive or reminisce About those days. I enjoy seeing all the great responses. Thanks so very much
That's right. I was 12 in '74. The bands were great, the musicians real, they didn't get a record deal by singing on tv after a mini documentary about how terrible their life has been. We actually rode bikes every day, played Frisbee, walkin the tracks shootin our guns off. Always something to do.
I was so young, my son was a baby😅, San Diego California was so affordable for everyone. No homeless. I live in northern California now, my son is a NFL coach. Merry Christmas!!🎄🏈🍁🌿🏕️
That’s what I think of constantly, all the grandparents, aunts and uncles that are gone. When you are young you don’t understand the cycle of life. It’s blissful ignorance.
But look what in 1974 the public got cheated out of: transgenders…smartphones(Snapchat,instagram, e-mail, blog,sexting,tik tok, etc.)…covid….EV cars…..illegal immigrant explosion….luxury gas ($0.53/gal. Vs. $3.19)…federal debt (#3.5 Billion. Vs. $36 TRILLION)…college tuition Harvard ($5,350. Vs. $56,550)…Presidents that perjure,violate laws without consequence…legalized recreational marijuana…JUST THINGS TO THINK ABOUT.
Agree 👍. Happy 😊 healthy birthday 🎂 Susan. Love the 70s. I am a writer and one poem I wrote a while ago was named glad you had me in the 50s. Went to college in 1974 to 1978. The best. High school early 70s no social media crap. No technology. The best. Lived in boston 1986 to 1996. No social media or technology either just an answering machine. Loved it that way. Moved to California in 1996. Not much changed in terms of technology for me. Don't care for it. Still don't have email or a computer. Using my phone. 😊😊😊. Miss you 70s. 😢
I remember seeing Emerson Lake and Palmer at 14 the drum solo I will never forget.... And Carl Palmer is still playing in his 70's...Emerson committed suicide.......and Lake died of cancer RIP.
I too hitchhiked around the country then. 1972-1974. Settled in the New Orleans area. Worked in the oil fields and related industries. I had a nice little apartment for $120 Per month. I bought a nice 1959 Chevy pick up for $400. Life was good and simple.
@@michaelfinley9988 I totally agree with you. I grew up in the 70’s myself. Born in 63, I’d love to go back to the times of the late 60’s thru the mid 80’s. That 20 yr span was the best I can recall. If I could just stay in that era I’d be as happy as a lark. Not that I want to redo my life or have any regrets. I don’t. Those 2 decades were just the most peaceful times in America. I’d love to go back. Music was the absolute BEST in those 2 decades as well. Every genre was fabulous. Thinking about the music calms my spirit. There is just nothing to compare.
Agree 👍. I remember when I was in college in Buffalo living off campus on Elmwood Ave. My rent for my room was 75 dollars or less than 100 a month. No technology. We used typewriters to type our papers. Grad school graduated to electric typewriters. 😊. We didn't care how we dressed jeans. Comfortable shirts. Great music 🎶 cute guys. Fun times. Remember resames. Miss everything 😢😢😢😢
Yes and going back I could see my friends who passed away. Too many. 😢😢. No family. Mostly gone.😢.miss the music 🎶 friendships. Not many left either. Basically dress the same 😊. Own now. Atleast now no kids. No thanks. Happily 😊not married. Happy Hanukkah. Everything will be fine in 2029.😊
I’m watching this Christmas Day, 2024. I remember this time. I graduated high school in 1976. I joined the Navy in 1979. This video brought me so much happiness because it reminded me how grateful I am to have been there.
life really sucks today , I was born in 1974 so I am 50 now & everyone is so uptight , & everybody get's offended today about any little thing , & honestly things started going down hill after September 11, 2001
I can remember when the speed limit dropped to 55 mph and it took forever to get where you were going on a road trip. The Big Mac was actually big and couldn’t be eaten at once. The double whopper from Burger King was quite large too. I miss the good old days when everything was just simple. Who remembers the rotary dial phone? 😂😂
You could actually watch that flame-broiled whopper being flame-broiled while you waited. Now they're cooked in a central location and microwaved at the shops.
I met my wife in 1974 when I was 17 married her in 78, we had a great time back then but now things are good too! Really glad I can still remember like it was yesterday. Yep still married with kids and grandkids! I do miss the loved ones who are gone though.
Got my driver's license in 1973 and my first car was a 1972 Oldsmobile 4-4-2. I would go over to North Dallas and race it on Forest Lane. I graduated high school in 1975. Got my first real girlfriend in 1974, times were good. Went to the second concert at Texas Stadium to see the Allman Brothers and Joe Walsh. In 1974. Lots of the greatest bands were playing back then and I got to see a lot of them. Would I rather live in those times? Hell Fing YES! My first apartment cost $210 ,in 1977 and all bills paid. My first house in 1979 cost $25,000. Life was so much easier back then. I don't think most kids today would understand that. Thank for the tour down memory lane.
@@brienperkins901 1977's $210.00 rent would be $1,106.82 in today's money. I was 19 years old, and filled up my '69 GMC truck with 62¢ gas. (Today it would be $3.27) But did we have a good time? KC and the Sunshine Band urged us "to get down tonight!" 🎺🎵 🎶 🎸
It was a much simpler life back then . I was 9 years old . It was so much fun. Riding your bike , playing street games , going to McDonald's was a treat and the only pizza place we had was Pappy's . I sure miss those times 😊
I was ten and we would ride out bike down the road. It was a four mile road and only had I think seven houses so pretty remote. Never worried about someone hurting us. Now it's a very busy road with many houses and wouldn't be safe to rise on. I miss those days, life was more simple and more mom's were able to stay home and take care of the kids and household.
@@harleydavid4064 I’m with you on that. I graduated high school in 1974. We managed to do without cell phones and lap tops. I would go back in a second.
Also in the class of ‘74. Hard to believe it’s been 50 years. 68 now with a 16 year old Daughter, I need 15 more years so I can pick out her Husband. Or at least approve of him!
The 70s were awesome. Life was much better in the 70s. If things would go back like they were then, people would be much happier and the world would be a better place.
I was 16 in "74 and one of 11 kids!Mom&dad were great parents.We didnt have a lot,but we always had food on the table and conversation!Dad would send 2 of us to the store for a gallon of milk.he made sure there was enough change to buy penny candy,Great memories!!
Best year ever. The music, the prices,the people. Swimming and tire tubing,streaking,camping,just having good times with friends.I can remember woolworths had a fountain counter where you could have the waitress pop you a balloon of your choice to get a banana split at discount prices...the store was noisy w canarys chirping in the back and they would sell baby turtles also.It just seemed like a happy time from what i remember.I was only 11 but that specific year always felt magical to me.
Streaking was before my time, but I would run around the block or go ride my bicycle naked at night in the '80s. Back then you didn't feel like you had to watch what you say and do all the time.
I can't believe someone else remembers the Ballon popping for a banana split!!! Your the first one I've ever heard mention it.!Remember it like it was yesterday. I got a banana split for 10 cents! Thanks for that memory!!!
One of the Great Decades of all time! Wish we would have had a camera and video recorder in the palm of our hands back then, to capture even more Memories!
@@CheckFacts360 I'm not much of a cook, it's crazy how you can find anything on Google , UA-cam videos now I can make meatloaf and if I'm sick you check out your symptoms and find out what you have , you go to the ER or the drugstore . It is amazing technology . No one would believe the things we have . But I'm disappointed that we don't have flying cars , maybe it's good thing we don't.
I grew up in southern California and saw Zeppelin three times in one week - Once in San Diego at the Sports Arena, then in L.A. and then again at the S.D. Sports Arena -- And there was Cal Jam I. All day festival seating concert with ELP, Black Sabbath, Seals and Croft, Deep Purple and the Eagles. Crime was lower - No school shootings and it wasn't unusual depending on if you live out in the country, to see pick-up trucks with a gun rack in the back window with a rifle in it. People were a lot more responsible and didn't put up with nonsense. Cars may not have lasted as long but they were easier to work on and most folks knew someone who could help them work on their car - Plus you could go to the junk yard and pull and buy parts if you needed something like a carb to rebuild. Wages weren't as high - True - But my first little studio apartment cost me about $60 a month including electric, gas and water --- And it was only two blocks from the beach. An Enchirito, side of frijoles and small soda was maybe 90 cents at Taco Bell. A double feature at the local theater was 75 cents and they used to have a special of a soda and bag of popcorn for a quarter. It wasn't all good news and there were problems with the era - but overall I would gladly go back and live through it all over again. Not just for the Levi Big Bells, incredible concerts or freedom - But to appreciate that I was in a special time and not take it all for granted.
Southern California native, here -- north San Diego County, and the string of towns along the way -- Del Mar, Solana Beach, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Encinitas, Leucadia, Carlsbad, Oceanside -- I was very familiar with all of them. Lived in Oceanside for nearly 20 years. Further inland was Vista, San Marsos, Olivenhain, Escondido, Rancho Santa Fe, Bonsall, Fallbrook -- I knew or worked in all of those towns at one time or another. Going south enroute to San Diego was La Jolla (pronunced La-Hoya), Pacific Beach, Ocean Beach and finally, Imperial Beach. El Cajon, Santee, all of those towns I had driven in while living in southernmost California. I still miss the climate down there.
You lucky 🐾was looking for a black dog but couldn't find it on my phone. I'm a huge Led Zeppelin fan... Congrats on seeing the greatest band ever imo... three times in a week.
I went to Hollywood High School and graduated in '71 , I remember us kids going to Hollywood Blvd. after school to this little mom and pop taco shop, tacos were 25¢ each and they were full of ground beef and delicious!
I graduated class of 74. These were all great reminders. My mom loved avocado green. My father recovered our love seats in avocado green, and the kitchen appliances were avocado green, too. I worked two jobs the summer after I graduated, and was able to pay for my freshman year in college - staying in a dorm at a private college. No one can do that now.
I was a 24 yr old, divorced, raising a 6 yr old girl. Hard times but but the 70's were full of fun and good music. When I think of good days the 60's & 70's were the best. I'm now 77!!
my dad owned a service station from 1958, the year i was born, to 1995. he owned one of THE LAST service stations in the country. the oil companies conspired to drive all the service stations out of business. i remember the gas shortages well. they were, IN FACT, caused by american oil companies who wanted to drive up prices and put independently owned gas stations out of business. soon self-serviice stations were the norm and service-stations were phased out. these service stations not only did matintance and car repairs but also pumped your gas, washed your windows, checked your oil and the air pressure in your tires. now you have to do most of this stuff yourself and go to 15 different places to do the rest. TECHNOLOGY HASN'T MADE THE WORLD BETTER! but try telling that to ALL the brainwashed, corporate minions who fall for the lie.
I do remember service stations in the late 70's I was 5 years old in 1979, but I remember being with mama going to a gas station in our 1973 ford pinto station wagon mama would drive up & told the man to fill her up & then he did that washed our winshield, checked our tires & oil , we had so many problems with that pinto , then 1980 Dad got rid of it & bought a new 1980 Ford Granada ,
@@bigwillietheb ... wasn't the pinto infamous for bursting into flames upon rear-end collisioins? isn't it odd how as technology grows our freedoms and rights decrease, logic and reality have no meaning, we're forced to do more things for ourselves and idiots continue to believe the corporate lie that we're better off? the internet proves one thing - humanity is still as stupid and gullible as ever and corporate propaganda is more powerful and corrupting as ever.
@@robertdesantis6205 ... we sold quaker state oil but i never heard of a quaker state service station before. ours was a "skelly" station for about 20 years which was later bought out by "getty oil." we were getty for a few years then went INDEPENDENT with no corporate oil company name at all. a few years later we became "phillips 66." odd, but we continued to buy our gas from the same source regardless of what oil company we were associated with. it got to a point where my dad wasn't allowed to BUY his gas cheaper than the self service station down the street sold their's. my dad probably had the highest gas prices in town. people stopped buying gas from us which also dried up our service business. but he hung on from 1958 to 1995.
I took typing in high school in 1971. As I became an engineer and worked with workstations and computers my entire career, typing was one of the most beneficial high school classes I took. The others were my math classes.
Do you remember the REALLY OLD typewriter keyboards⁉️. They didn't have separate keys for the numbers one and zero or the exclamation point 😮‼️ We had to use the "l" key for one and the "O" key for zero. For the exclamation point we had to type a period and then backspace and type an apostrophe 😠😡🤬‼️. And kids today think that THEY have it hard 🤣😆😂‼️
Oh yeah...My high school typing class meant that since the '90s, I was able to type emails, etc., at a decent speed without looking at the keys all the time...aka "hunt and peck.
If people had taken heed back then, ended their dependence on oil and other natural resources, they wouldn't be whining about the price of gas at the pump in 2024. We would have been so much better converting to wind/solar power for heat, electric. Land and Texas and elsewhere sink when oil is taken out of the ground.
Thank you God that I was part of the 1970s, my next door neighbor had a 1971 Mach 1 mustang painted pearl white with rw&b and stars pinstripes. Loved that car.
Graduated high school 1974, Olivia Newton John had just started her career and was at our graduation party at Disney in Southern California. What a time to be alive.
So many memories... I was 15 in '74. Seeing all these images brings back alot of memories. One memory is that nearly every Sat. our mom would pack me and my two brothers up in the car, and take us across town to see grandma (mom's mom). Most times we would meet her somewhere, for a bite to eat, either Lums or Dunkin Donuts. When we went to Dunkin Donuts you sat on stools. I would always order an old fashioned plain donut and a drink. Back then the old fashioned plain Dunkin Donuts had a small handle on them. Such great memories of growing up in the 60's and 70's. 😊
Number 6, the avocado green I know all too well! As a teenager I lived in a mobile home with EVERYTHING green!! Furniture, rug, appliances. To this very day, I do not like green, except in nature. 😅😊
I graduated from high school in '75. Gas was 55¢ per gallon ($3.67 in today's money) Everyone who was clearly bound for college was strongly urged to take a year of typing class. Am so very glad I did - even as a guy! As a history major, my college typewriter was a Royal manual portable. I still have and use it! 👨🏻🎓 ⌨️
Graduated h.s. 1974. To college 1974 to 1978. Buffalo state isn't it great. Then volunteers in service to America. Grad school 1980. Boston 1986 to 1996. Then Cali. 2008 n.y. 2012 new york city. Eventually florida. Miss the 70s. ❤
I started 74' in NYC then back to FLA. Born Again October, 1974. Delayed enlistment in the military for the next year. 74' was a wonderful, life changing year! ❤️
1974, I just graduated from college. Yes, it truly was better back then. Come on all the "wait, what about the bla, bla, bla, bla" group. No, you're wrong. It really was better back then. Great video, you did a fantasstic job.
@@alyceclover Which is why so many of us say that we would love to go back in time 50 years. What we really mean is including getting our 1974 bodies back. Either way, before long, we'd be whining and bitching about "I miss UA-cam" and having to go to the library rather than "just google it."
Having lived as a teenager during the 70's I can 100% guarantee that no one walked around in the grocery store with boxes of items proximately displayed. Actually most people didn't buy much in the way of premade food or meals. One of the ways food cost less was people purchased ingredients and cooked at home.
Quite true. I worked in a grocery store as a teenager in the 60s. The difference is visible - a lot more premade food and meals today than there was then.
Thank you for the video, I remember the 70's well. I remember the car hops and the movie drive ins... The 50's cars that were for sale on peoples front lawns for cheap... I was walking to school one day and I saw a kitten hanging from a tree branch, I stood under until she fell, I cached her, that was 1978, she lived 21 years!! My dad didn't like cats but he loved the one I bought home. I got to skip school for the day, I didn't go back because I would have been too late at that point, lol.
@@CheckFacts360 I remember waiting in the gas lines with my dad around 1973 or 74...didn't get along with him too well, I think he took me so he wouldn't get bored but those were some of the longest hours of my life!!
Being a teenager in the 70s was great dam I wish I could go back I’m 63 now and I still jam to the 70s music and break out the old photo albums just to put a smile on my face like I had back then.
BACK THEN, believed that I would have a great life by being able to provide for my future, thinking the dress factories would be there forever, and I could wake up go to work every day to get the job done and be proud of a good days work at a good job!!! Then most all the factory jobs went overseas 😢
@sandyjuntunen4088 Did you get into That 70 Show? Because I was a 70s kid, when that 70s Show first came out, I started watching it, but I could never get into it. I think I watched maybe 10 episodes. I couldn't get into it.
Note: there were two gas crises, 73 and 78-79. I remember standing inthe dark with my mother and brothers outside gas station. Most pushed their car to gas station once close. Also, prices for food became inflated. Coffee skyrocketed, also walnuts. Pepperidge farms had a popular cake, a walnut cake, that got discontinued because of the jump in price of walnuts. Halloween candy shrank. Companies started selling miniatures. Before, we were handed full size candy bars.
Graduated in ‘72, you omitted the Arab oil embargo in the fall of 75. This caused a depression in most parts of the country because people were not buying cars. My mom was the only one who had a job, my dad and I were both out of work. And don’t forget the weather, biggest snowstorms ever, 76,77 and 78.
Who remembers collecting comic books, wearing Hang Ten T.-shirts with the bare feet logo or shopping at Zodys Department store or Riding a bike with the banana seat. How about, playing outside all day until it got dark or watching the Brady Bunch (favorite episode Hawaii trip}. How about watching Jaws at the drive in or reading Encyclopedia Brown books or Wearing knee high socks with stripes around the top with OP shorts and Vans. 😀
This brings back many memories, I was a teen in the 70s, this was before so much technology changed so many things. I worked at McDonalds and you could get a hamburger, small fries and a small soda for 1 dollar, and the fries were really hot because they were made in trans fat. I remember getting our first color TV and it was a big deal. I had typing in high school, then when I went to college in the late 70s I had a Sears manual typewriter. Things are so different now.
I’d go back in a second and stay there. You can have all your modern technology and computers and cellphones. Back then we actually talked to people. We went out to eat and talked to each other, not stare at our cellphones ignoring one another. We didn’t have text alerts going off all day, we actually had to wait to get home to hear the latest. And we didn’t have phones pressed to our ears in stores and other places on speaker phone, we had common courtesy. Life was much more family oriented. Now? You can have now, if you like today’s world that’s great, good for you. Enjoy. As for me, I’d go back in a second. ** I had to add this on. I never realized how many other people longed for the old days besides me. I think it’s great. I wish there was a way we could all get together and relive or reminisce About those days. I enjoy seeing all the great responses. Thanks so very much
AMEN!!!
The 70s were better I was a teenager in the seventies and it was way better than this crap
However, this WAS modern at the time, compared to the 1930s and 1940s. So how far does a person wish to go back?
That's right. I was 12 in '74. The bands were great, the musicians real, they didn't get a record deal by singing on tv after a mini documentary about how terrible their life has been. We actually rode bikes every day, played Frisbee, walkin the tracks shootin our guns off. Always something to do.
@ for me, it would be before computers cell phones etc etc
I loved the 70s! The music, the clothes, cheap rent! Great memories ❤
I was so young, my son was a baby😅, San Diego California was so affordable for everyone. No homeless. I live in northern California now, my son is a NFL coach. Merry Christmas!!🎄🏈🍁🌿🏕️
Bell bottom pants, I got my first pair when I was about 10 in 1971.
@ bjwilliams, i had my first child at 20. We moved to San Diego shortly after! Stayed until 1985, now living in Oregon.
Laying on the beach in Ocean City New Jersey listening to Bubble Gum music in the early 70’s.
@@RitaRiley-w4d I was a teen in the 70’s! It was the best time of my life. I loved my hip hugger bell bottoms and the best music ever. 🔥👏
What I miss the most is the loved ones that are no long with us.
WTF is "no long with us"....always proofread😅
@@maximusmorphine2418 I would've left that one alone considering the sensitive nature. We don't want to prove people right now do we?
Me too
Thank you. I understand missing loved ones. I believe in heaven. We will see them again.
That’s what I think of constantly, all the grandparents, aunts and uncles that are gone. When you are young you don’t understand the cycle of life. It’s blissful ignorance.
I would go back to that year in a heart beat! The 60's and 70's were the greatest time to be a kid!
Me too!!
Melinda Lawley
@@JohnDoe-ot3zd Lord yes!60's as a kid,70's as teen.
Well don't forget the 80's!
But they call it progress😅
Those were best times in America. The 2020s are now the worst times ever in America. You can't make a living and have a good time that much anymore.
No password/no passcode no user ID. Love it.
Those were simpler times!
And no constant threat of identity theft!
@@latinainwpb AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!
Noo email they drive me Nuts
But look what in 1974 the public got cheated out of: transgenders…smartphones(Snapchat,instagram, e-mail, blog,sexting,tik tok, etc.)…covid….EV cars…..illegal immigrant explosion….luxury gas ($0.53/gal. Vs. $3.19)…federal debt (#3.5 Billion. Vs. $36 TRILLION)…college tuition Harvard ($5,350. Vs. $56,550)…Presidents that perjure,violate laws without consequence…legalized recreational marijuana…JUST THINGS TO THINK ABOUT.
i just turned 65 on the 21st of this month and i remember 1974 like it was yesterday. good times!
65..Absolutely glad I was a kid in the 60's and a teen in the 70's..
Agree 👍. Happy 😊 healthy birthday 🎂 Susan. Love the 70s. I am a writer and one poem I wrote a while ago was named glad you had me in the 50s. Went to college in 1974 to 1978. The best. High school early 70s no social media crap. No technology. The best. Lived in boston 1986 to 1996. No social media or technology either just an answering machine. Loved it that way. Moved to California in 1996. Not much changed in terms of technology for me. Don't care for it. Still don't have email or a computer. Using my phone. 😊😊😊. Miss you 70s. 😢
I'm 64 and would love to go back forever
I am also 65. The 70’s were my best decade. I had a blast in my teens 💥
I just turned 65 on the 20st on this month too. I remember the great music, clothes and cars. We were in the 9th grade then. 😂
I graduated high school in 1974. The best time ever to be a teenager. The music, clothing and hair. My grandkids love the music I grew up with.
Me too !!!
Me too
I graduated in 1974 too. Getting old really sucks.
Me too!
Me too, I miss those days. At least the parts I remember 😆
All i can say is The Music back then was Unbelievable! Still IS !!!
The best Ever!
I remember seeing Emerson Lake and Palmer at 14 the drum solo I will never forget.... And Carl Palmer is still playing in his 70's...Emerson committed suicide.......and Lake died of cancer RIP.
It was due to real musicians with real talent.
yes, they're all classics now and far better than the crap played today.
So true!
I was a teenager in the 1970's and I do think it was fantastic. Peace out!✌
How about those teenagers in the 60s?
Turn 18, and you most likely got a free trip to Vietnam.
@@RickyO-e5g Sometimes, without a return ticket😪
I hitchhiked across the country in 1973. Try doing that today. The 70s was a great time to be young.
I too hitchhiked around the country then. 1972-1974. Settled in the New Orleans area. Worked in the oil fields and related industries. I had a nice little apartment for $120 Per month. I bought a nice 1959 Chevy pick up for $400. Life was good and simple.
I was too busy working and trying to make a life on $100 a week.
Yup, hitched around the country 1975-80. Glad I did! Would not do it now.
@AnAmericanGirl4Sure That was very courageous of you. I did have a couple of strange experiences.
@@michaelfinley9988 I totally agree with you. I grew up in the 70’s myself. Born in 63, I’d love to go back to the times of the late 60’s thru the mid 80’s. That 20 yr span was the best I can recall. If I could just stay in that era I’d be as happy as a lark. Not that I want to redo my life or have any regrets. I don’t. Those 2 decades were just the most peaceful times in America. I’d love to go back.
Music was the absolute BEST in those 2 decades as well. Every genre was fabulous. Thinking about the music calms my spirit. There is just nothing to compare.
Take me back ! I would go back to 1974 in a second. A much better time. The mid 1970's - great times.
Agree 👍. I remember when I was in college in Buffalo living off campus on Elmwood Ave. My rent for my room was 75 dollars or less than 100 a month. No technology. We used typewriters to type our papers. Grad school graduated to electric typewriters. 😊. We didn't care how we dressed jeans. Comfortable shirts. Great music 🎶 cute guys. Fun times. Remember resames. Miss everything 😢😢😢😢
I agree. The 1970's were a great time for many people.
I'd go back to the 70s in a hot second, and I wouldn't miss a thing from the present.
Yes and going back I could see my friends who passed away. Too many. 😢😢. No family. Mostly gone.😢.miss the music 🎶 friendships. Not many left either. Basically dress the same 😊. Own now. Atleast now no kids. No thanks. Happily 😊not married. Happy Hanukkah. Everything will be fine in 2029.😊
@@CheckFacts360, I turned 9 in 1970. I was born in 1961, I would go back in a heartbeat 😊👍🏻
I’m watching this Christmas Day, 2024. I remember this time. I graduated high school in 1976. I joined the Navy in 1979. This video brought me so much happiness because it reminded me how grateful I am to have been there.
Christmas 2024 here. Teen in the seventies here. The times were simpler. 63 now, where did time go.
Hey Mike, Merry Christmas 🎄 and yes we were very lucky. New Jersey here
Hey Anthony I also graduated high School in 1976... The Bicentennial year
I also graduate 1976 I'm going to retire 2025 it's been a good run want to go back in time and do the stuff I used to do when I was in high school😂
@@anthonymastrando9299 Also a teen in '76. Best years of my Life! What I would'nt give to go back to the 70's. Phia.Pa. here.
I miss the 70's! 😔
We had terrible inflation during the Carter years.
I would go back to 1974 in a heartbeat. Much better life than today's.
life really sucks today , I was born in 1974 so I am 50 now & everyone is so uptight , & everybody get's offended today about any little thing , & honestly things started going down hill after September 11, 2001
I was in my early 20s in 1974. Life was an amazing adventure and I wish I could go back!
Same
So do I.
Amen
Me too!❤
Me too
I can remember when the speed limit dropped to 55 mph and it took forever to get where you were going on a road trip. The Big Mac was actually big and couldn’t be eaten at once. The double whopper from Burger King was quite large too. I miss the good old days when everything was just simple. Who remembers the rotary dial phone? 😂😂
My parents moved to Florida.Went to visit 1250 miles. Took forever at 55 miles an hour .Thanks to President Carter. Blah!
@ Yeah that fake oil embargo. Looking back at it I don’t think it helped much at all.
Rotary dial phone on a party line! Gawd Yes I Remember.
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You could actually watch that flame-broiled whopper being flame-broiled while you waited. Now they're cooked in a central location and microwaved at the shops.
I was 16……..what a privilege to grow up in this era!
Same here❤
Melinda Lawley
Me too. Life was so much better and simpler!
Give me my 3 tv channels and a phone attached to the wall....
1 channel & a party line here.
3 Channels , don't forget UHF ....👍
Harvest gold or avocado green wall phone? 😜
@@Will-lk9cs Black & Purple!!!
Yes……….
The 70s greatest years of my life .wish I could redo the 70s again great time to be alive !!!!
I met my wife in 1974 when I was 17 married her in 78, we had a great time back then but now things are good too! Really glad I can still remember like it was yesterday. Yep still married with kids and grandkids! I do miss the loved ones who are gone though.
Thanks for sharing your story!
God bless you and your family. Sounds like lots of love there.
I try not to think about those who are gone. I’m in denial.
Yes me too, I would love to go back but only on weekends.
The best thing about 1974 was there were 121,047,934 million LESS people in the US.
You could actually travel without being in a herd.
I think it was much more populated then than now...
@@godbluffvdgg I think you're wrong! Population of US in 1974 was 217,076,476 sheeple. In 2024 it is 340 million worthless biomasses.☢
@@godbluffvdgg Are you seriously saying there were more people in the USA in 1974 than 2024?
That’s what I’m talking about! There are just too many people in the world.
And this is the BEST comment!
LOVED growing up in the 70s!!! My grandmother used to smoke while shopping at Stop n Shop!! Merry CHRISTMAS 🎅 EVERYONE.
The only place my Grandmother didn't smoke was Mass.
Those were the days! Merry Christmas to you too!
@gordon3186 I know!!!!!......lol. Merry Christmas, Gordon. Jeff
I don’t remember smoking EVER being allowed in GROCERY STORES, and I was born in 1967. Could have varied by state.
@johnp139 I grew-up in Wyckoff, NJ in the 70s. Merry Christmas 🎅.
"Don't rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby..."
Summer '74 heard it every time in the car with my folks.
Billy dont be a hero.. Come back and make me your wife.... Bad bad Leroy Brown..I was 17 in 1974
Also Rikki Don't Lose That Number by Steely Dan was popular then.
I loved Hues Corporation. I was responsible for picking them up at airport for a concert at my College. Great memories!
@@kaydeedidI didn't like those songs. But who asked me anyway?
I graduated in 1974. The music, concerts every week, just the atmosphere was fantastic. Everybody got along .
I was 14 years old in 1974, loved it😊
Me too! Turned 15 that September.
Me too!
Got my driver's license in 1973 and my first car was a 1972 Oldsmobile 4-4-2. I would go over to North Dallas and race it on Forest Lane. I graduated high school in 1975. Got my first real girlfriend in 1974, times were good. Went to the second concert at Texas Stadium to see the Allman Brothers and Joe Walsh. In 1974. Lots of the greatest bands were playing back then and I got to see a lot of them. Would I rather live in those times? Hell Fing YES! My first apartment cost $210 ,in 1977 and all bills paid. My first house in 1979 cost $25,000. Life was so much easier back then. I don't think most kids today would understand that. Thank for the tour down memory lane.
7ntilncorporate greed took over and sakssmen lured you to buy crap
I graduated high school in 75.
I was also racing on Forest Ln. during that time.
Life was great.
My first house cost 25,000 , today you can't buy that 4 4 2 with that.
@@brienperkins901 1977's $210.00 rent would be $1,106.82 in today's money. I was 19 years old, and filled up my '69 GMC truck with 62¢ gas. (Today it would be $3.27) But did we have a good time? KC and the Sunshine Band urged us "to get down tonight!" 🎺🎵 🎶 🎸
@@brienperkins901 had a 68 Corvette 427 in 76.
It was a much simpler life back then . I was 9 years old . It was so much fun. Riding your bike , playing street games , going to McDonald's was a treat and the only pizza place we had was Pappy's . I sure miss those times 😊
What you're missing is childhood. Adulthood in 1974 had its challenges and hardships.
Of course it seems simpler. You were in third grade.
I was a 3 rd grader also. Coke was a social drink for Friday night with our popcorn in or family popcorn bowls. Jello was an art.
I was 9 also and remember going to Pappy's with the styrofoam hats and player piano 😊
I was ten and we would ride out bike down the road. It was a four mile road and only had I think seven houses so pretty remote. Never worried about someone hurting us. Now it's a very busy road with many houses and wouldn't be safe to rise on. I miss those days, life was more simple and more mom's were able to stay home and take care of the kids and household.
I was a Senior in high school in 1974. Wouldn’t trade being a teenager in the 70’s for anything.
@@harleydavid4064 I’m with you on that. I graduated high school in 1974. We managed to do without cell phones and lap tops. I would go back in a second.
Also in the class of ‘74. Hard to believe it’s been 50 years. 68 now with a 16 year old Daughter, I need 15 more years so I can pick out her Husband. Or at least approve of him!
me too Class of 74 Saugus MA with 427 in our senior class alone
Class of 1974. I miss halter tops and hot pants. 😢😅
74 here also miss the freedom we had back then and don't get me started on the Music we had
The 70s were awesome. Life was much better in the 70s. If things would go back like they were then, people would be much happier and the world would be a better place.
Back to the future 😊
I was 16 in "74 and one of 11 kids!Mom&dad were great parents.We didnt have a lot,but we always had food on the table and conversation!Dad would send 2 of us to the store for a gallon of milk.he made sure there was enough change to buy penny candy,Great memories!!
I was 17 one of 10 kids, not a lot of money big round dinner table!
Best year ever. The music, the prices,the people. Swimming and tire tubing,streaking,camping,just having good times with friends.I can remember woolworths had a fountain counter where you could have the waitress pop you a balloon of your choice to get a banana split at discount prices...the store was noisy w canarys chirping in the back and they would sell baby turtles also.It just seemed like a happy time from what i remember.I was only 11 but that specific year always felt magical to me.
Streaking was before my time, but I would run around the block or go ride my bicycle naked at night in the '80s. Back then you didn't feel like you had to watch what you say and do all the time.
I can't believe someone else remembers the Ballon popping for a banana split!!! Your the first one I've ever heard mention it.!Remember it like it was yesterday. I got a banana split for 10 cents! Thanks for that memory!!!
I also remember the pets too. I'm going to be 68 on January 5th 2weeks! Happy New Year to you!
One of the Great Decades of all time! Wish we would have had a camera and video recorder in the palm of our hands back then, to capture even more Memories!
Can you imagine if you could go back and show them the camera and the phone . No one would believe you. 😂
It’s hard to imagine life without a smartphone, isn’t it?
@@CheckFacts360
I'm not much of a cook, it's crazy how you can find anything on Google , UA-cam videos now I can make meatloaf and if I'm sick you check out your symptoms and find out what you have , you go to the ER or the drugstore . It is amazing technology . No one would believe the things we have . But I'm disappointed that we don't have flying cars , maybe it's good thing we don't.
I grew up in southern California and saw Zeppelin three times in one week - Once in San Diego at the Sports Arena, then in L.A. and then again at the S.D. Sports Arena -- And there was Cal Jam I. All day festival seating concert with ELP, Black Sabbath, Seals and Croft, Deep Purple and the Eagles.
Crime was lower - No school shootings and it wasn't unusual depending on if you live out in the country, to see pick-up trucks with a gun rack in the back window with a rifle in it. People were a lot more responsible and didn't put up with nonsense.
Cars may not have lasted as long but they were easier to work on and most folks knew someone who could help them work on their car - Plus you could go to the junk yard and pull and buy parts if you needed something like a carb to rebuild.
Wages weren't as high - True - But my first little studio apartment cost me about $60 a month including electric, gas and water --- And it was only two blocks from the beach. An Enchirito, side of frijoles and small soda was maybe 90 cents at Taco Bell. A double feature at the local theater was 75 cents and they used to have a special of a soda and bag of popcorn for a quarter.
It wasn't all good news and there were problems with the era - but overall I would gladly go back and live through it all over again. Not just for the Levi Big Bells, incredible concerts or freedom - But to appreciate that I was in a special time and not take it all for granted.
Great examples. Great perspective. You were definitely there!
No refills on the pop, though! But that was probably a good thing!
Southern California native, here -- north San Diego County, and the string of towns along the way -- Del Mar, Solana Beach, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Encinitas, Leucadia, Carlsbad, Oceanside -- I was very familiar with all of them. Lived in Oceanside for nearly 20 years. Further inland was Vista, San Marsos, Olivenhain, Escondido, Rancho Santa Fe, Bonsall, Fallbrook -- I knew or worked in all of those towns at one time or another. Going south enroute to San Diego was La Jolla (pronunced La-Hoya), Pacific Beach, Ocean Beach and finally, Imperial Beach. El Cajon, Santee, all of those towns I had driven in while living in southernmost California. I still miss the climate down there.
You lucky 🐾was looking for a black dog but couldn't find it on my phone. I'm a huge Led Zeppelin fan... Congrats on seeing the greatest band ever imo... three times in a week.
One thing that was great about 1974 is we didn't have these annoying computer-generated voices for narration.
Me & my better half tied the knot on August 17, 1974! Still together, till death do us part!
My next door neighbors were married on August 9, 1974. That's right, Resignation Day.
Congratulations! And God bless you.
Hubby and I married in 1978 and we're still together, today, 47 years later.
I was born a month after you got married , good to know that your still married happy 50th anniversary
Same day but 1990
When I came to the US in 1972, a Big Mac was $.63. The following year, I bought a new car for $2,400.
That is so interesting!
Adjusted for inflation that is $ 4.38 and $ 16,000 thereabouts
I remember buying a burger, fries, small coke for 85 cents at McDonalds. I also remember their "change back" slogan.
@@alyceclover1974 you could buy 5 kwiky burgers for a dollar
I went to Hollywood High School and graduated in '71 , I remember us kids going to Hollywood Blvd. after school to this little mom and pop taco shop, tacos were 25¢ each and they were full of ground beef and delicious!
I graduated class of 74. These were all great reminders. My mom loved avocado green. My father recovered our love seats in avocado green, and the kitchen appliances were avocado green, too. I worked two jobs the summer after I graduated, and was able to pay for my freshman year in college - staying in a dorm at a private college. No one can do that now.
It’s amazing how much things have changed since then!
The best times! I was 15 in 1974. Hanging out with friends and listening to the best music ever!! I like to say:Boys, Beer and Bad Company. 😅
We were all cool. We accepted everyone, partied with anyone.
I was a 24 yr old, divorced, raising a 6 yr old girl. Hard times but but the 70's were full of fun and good music. When I think of good days the 60's & 70's were the best. I'm now 77!!
Good for you! You sound like a good person
I loved the 70s, I wish I was back there. A very happy time in my life...
my dad owned a service station from 1958, the year i was born, to 1995. he owned one of THE LAST service stations in the country. the oil companies conspired to drive all the service stations out of business.
i remember the gas shortages well. they were, IN FACT, caused by american oil companies who wanted to drive up prices and put independently owned gas stations out of business. soon self-serviice stations were the norm and service-stations were phased out. these service stations not only did matintance and car repairs but also pumped your gas, washed your windows, checked your oil and the air pressure in your tires. now you have to do most of this stuff yourself and go to 15 different places to do the rest. TECHNOLOGY HASN'T MADE THE WORLD BETTER! but try telling that to ALL the brainwashed, corporate minions who fall for the lie.
I remember waiting in line for gas in 1973.
I do remember service stations in the late 70's I was 5 years old in 1979, but I remember being with mama going to a gas station in our 1973 ford pinto station wagon mama would drive up & told the man to fill her up & then he did that washed our winshield, checked our tires & oil , we had so many problems with that pinto , then 1980 Dad got rid of it & bought a new 1980 Ford Granada ,
@@bigwillietheb ... wasn't the pinto infamous for bursting into flames upon rear-end collisioins? isn't it odd how as technology grows our freedoms and rights decrease, logic and reality have no meaning, we're forced to do more things for ourselves and idiots continue to believe the corporate lie that we're better off? the internet proves one thing - humanity is still as stupid and gullible as ever and corporate propaganda is more powerful and corrupting as ever.
My father in law owned a gas station run by Quaker State. Shell oil bought them out.
@@robertdesantis6205 ... we sold quaker state oil but i never heard of a quaker state service station before. ours was a "skelly" station for about 20 years which was later bought out by "getty oil." we were getty for a few years then went INDEPENDENT with no corporate oil company name at all. a few years later we became "phillips 66." odd, but we continued to buy our gas from the same source regardless of what oil company we were associated with. it got to a point where my dad wasn't allowed to BUY his gas cheaper than the self service station down the street sold their's. my dad probably had the highest gas prices in town. people stopped buying gas from us which also dried up our service business. but he hung on from 1958 to 1995.
Typing classes were GOOD. I'm so grateful I took a typing class, taught by a nun, about 1972.
I took typing in high school in 1971. As I became an engineer and worked with workstations and computers my entire career, typing was one of the most beneficial high school classes I took. The others were my math classes.
So, learned by the "ruler" method.
Do you remember the REALLY OLD typewriter keyboards⁉️. They didn't have separate keys for the numbers one and zero or the exclamation point 😮‼️ We had to use the "l" key for one and the "O" key for zero. For the exclamation point we had to type a period and then backspace and type an apostrophe 😠😡🤬‼️. And kids today think that THEY have it hard 🤣😆😂‼️
That’s so cool!
Oh yeah...My high school typing class meant that since the '90s, I was able to type emails, etc., at a decent speed without looking at the keys all the time...aka "hunt and peck.
I'd go back in a heartbeat 😢 I grew up in the 60s, 70s ...the best of times ..
I had just graduated high school. It was a great time to be young. We had some great music back then and no cell phones or internet!
"No more oil in the ground" ! That was one of the major lies we were told by celebrities on commercials
If people had taken heed back then, ended their dependence on oil and other natural resources, they wouldn't be whining about the price of gas at the pump in 2024.
We would have been so much better converting to wind/solar power for heat, electric.
Land and Texas and elsewhere sink when oil is taken out of the ground.
Like the stories celebrities told us about the jab. 🤬
@@alyceclover Go back to 1974 to preach doom and gloom. That's all you people do.
@@alyceclover We've still had decades to make those energies viable but failed.
1 million Covid 19 deaths is a fact not a story.@@sophiacromwell8017
Thank you God that I was part of the 1970s, my next door neighbor had a 1971 Mach 1 mustang painted pearl white with rw&b and stars pinstripes. Loved that car.
All about the great music!! Good time's
Graduated high school 1974, Olivia Newton John had just started her career and was at our graduation party at Disney in Southern California. What a time to be alive.
Women were so much better back then .No tattoos, no body piecing.
Women were so much thinner back then. They saved the backsass for when you deserved it.
Also no land whales, fat shaming was real and people were much healthier.
This made me feel so good yet also sad bc it’s a bygone time
I was sweet 16 in 1974 and didn’t know those were the good ole days. But I remember clearly now.
Only because you've forgotten the bad parts.
@@robertd9850Oh no I haven’t. 😥
Carly Simon told you they were.
@@floycewhite6991 😂
I graduated high school in 1974. Great times!
1973.
Should of graduated 1971 got kick out of school for having long hair 1969 still got the long hair now 71 years old ,,missouri
I do miss growing up in the 70s, it was so much to simpler.
So many memories...
I was 15 in '74.
Seeing all these images brings back alot of memories.
One memory is that nearly every Sat. our mom would pack me and my two brothers up in the car, and take us across town to see grandma (mom's mom).
Most times we would meet her somewhere, for a bite to eat, either Lums or Dunkin Donuts.
When we went to Dunkin Donuts you sat on stools.
I would always order an old fashioned plain donut and a drink.
Back then the old fashioned plain Dunkin Donuts had a small handle on them.
Such great memories of growing up in the 60's and 70's. 😊
The good old days! I was a teenager! Wonderful memories of those years!
I had just gotten my Driver's license in 1974 and would go back in a second!! Year and a half later I joined the Navy.
Number 6, the avocado green I know all too well! As a teenager I lived in a mobile home with EVERYTHING green!! Furniture, rug, appliances. To this very day, I do not like green, except in nature. 😅😊
I know that feeling!
1974 was a very livable time. I could transport back there and function much easier than someone from 1974 being forced to exist in 1924.
That is an interesting perspective!
You meant 2024?
@@Blessedhomeschoolinggrannyof1 No that's not what I meant.
@@peterjohnson1734oh 🤓
Yep..took typing class 1968...the 70s were my twenties... college backpacking in summer and so much great music❤
Those were the Good Old Days!!!!
Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never and we'd sing and dance forever and a day
Even with Nixon and Watergate and the oil embargo people still felt confident about the future. That's not common fifty years later.
I think it was the beginning of no confidence in modern politics.
I graduated from high school in '75. Gas was 55¢ per gallon ($3.67 in today's money) Everyone who was clearly bound for college was strongly urged to take a year of typing class. Am so very glad I did - even as a guy! As a history major, my college typewriter was a Royal manual portable. I still have and use it! 👨🏻🎓 ⌨️
Graduated from high school in 1974.
I was a freshmen in 1974.
Me too.
Me too , boy those 50 years flew by , I'd go back in a heartbeat ❤
Graduated from Akron North HS, Class of 1974... Great times! Would hate to be a teenager nowadays!!!
Graduated h.s. 1974. To college 1974 to 1978. Buffalo state isn't it great. Then volunteers in service to America. Grad school 1980. Boston 1986 to 1996. Then Cali. 2008 n.y. 2012 new york city. Eventually florida. Miss the 70s. ❤
I was thinking of Arthur Treachers' fish & chips the other day, great fast food. Wish they were still around.
There are a (very) few still around. (Maybe only one, it’s hard to tell). I’m thinking, “Road Trip!”
The GAS companies did NOT have the odd/even rules. The various STATE GOVERNORS did!!!!
And? The service stations sure did have odd/even days to buy gas where I lived back then.
@@alycecloverI believe the comment is referencing OVER-REGULATION.
Okay, okay! Calm down Beavis.
@@alyceclover Didn't have it in Louisville, KY. What we did have were 10 gallon limits, and stations with NO GAS signs in the drive ins.
I was in nursery school in 1974. I remember getting up early on Saturday mornings to eat my sugary cereal and watch Saturday morning cartoons.
I started 74' in NYC then back to FLA. Born Again October, 1974. Delayed enlistment in the military for the next year. 74' was a wonderful, life changing year! ❤️
1974, I just graduated from college. Yes, it truly was better back then. Come on all the "wait, what about the bla, bla, bla, bla" group. No, you're wrong. It really was better back then. Great video, you did a fantasstic job.
It really depends upon your personal situation. Was not better for me, other than being a lot younger with more life ahead of me than behind.
@@alyceclover Which is why so many of us say that we would love to go back in time 50 years. What we really mean is including getting our 1974 bodies back. Either way, before long, we'd be whining and bitching about "I miss UA-cam" and having to go to the library rather than "just google it."
Yes it was better back then.
@@nonelost1I would not.
@@jameshhenderson8243 Well said Sir.
Don't want to believe that was 50 years ago. Wow.
Having lived as a teenager during the 70's I can 100% guarantee that no one walked around in the grocery store with boxes of items proximately displayed. Actually most people didn't buy much in the way of premade food or meals. One of the ways food cost less was people purchased ingredients and cooked at home.
That is an interesting point!
Quite true. I worked in a grocery store as a teenager in the 60s. The difference is visible - a lot more premade food and meals today than there was then.
I was born in 1950. Love living in the 21st century!
Thank you for the video, I remember the 70's well.
I remember the car hops and the movie drive ins... The 50's cars
that were for sale on peoples front lawns for cheap...
I was walking to school one day and I saw a kitten hanging
from a tree branch, I stood under until she fell, I cached her,
that was 1978, she lived 21 years!!
My dad didn't like cats but he loved the one I bought home.
I got to skip school for the day, I didn't go back because I
would have been too late at that point, lol.
It's amazing how many memories you have from that era!
@@CheckFacts360 I remember waiting in the gas lines with my dad around 1973 or 74...didn't get along with him too well, I think he took me so he wouldn't get bored but those were some of the longest hours of my life!!
So much i miss from those days.. family and friends. It's ok. Will see them again in Heaven❤
Heck yeh grew up then, the best of life in my whole life. Wish we could go back in time. Food, cars clothes , TV, Ect. 💯🇺🇸✌️❤️😺🙀
I still remember taking typing class in high school. I had some great times back then!😊
I’m glad you have great memories from that time.
I graduated from high school in 1986. We still had typing class.
1974 was one of the greatest years of my life...I'll leave it at that, but yeah,...
Had my first daughter in 74…She is 50 now
We purchased an RCA 25" color TV for $500.00 in 1975.
Early 1971. It was really easily close to 1000 to buy console TV...
My aunt had one of those giant RCA console TVs with a record player she bought in the '60s. I shudder to think what it cost.
who remembers the plastic covers for the couch cushions? Your avocado green couch could last forever. 😊
Being a teenager in the 70s was great dam I wish I could go back I’m 63 now and I still jam to the 70s music and break out the old photo albums just to put a smile on my face like I had back then.
I wanna go back.
BACK THEN, believed that I would have a great life by being able to provide for my future, thinking the dress factories would be there forever, and I could wake up go to work every day to get the job done and be proud of a good days work at a good job!!! Then most all the factory jobs went overseas 😢
I was a junior in high school in 1974. Good times, for sure!
Me too. I quit to get married. I sure don't regret it either.
@sandyjuntunen4088 Did you get into That 70 Show? Because I was a 70s kid, when that 70s Show first came out, I started watching it, but I could never get into it. I think I watched maybe 10 episodes. I couldn't get into it.
@dalejohns2758 no. I saw very little but I thought it was stupid.
@sandyjuntunen4088 For me I thought they left out tons of wild stuff I did in the 70s. I thought. Maybe they couldn't Air that stuff. Hahaha
Thanks mom and dad for my awesome childhood growing up in the 70s ✌🏻
I was 8 years old It was a mesmerizing time. I feel blessed to have part of a much better time.
I remember "time to make the doughnuts" and those doughnuts were fresh!
I made the doughnuts
If any time, that history repeats itself, I sure wish the 70s would come back, and repeat that time,
70s were a great fun time for my teenager years ❤❤
Note: there were two gas crises, 73 and 78-79. I remember standing inthe dark with my mother and brothers outside gas station. Most pushed their car to gas station once close. Also, prices for food became inflated. Coffee skyrocketed, also walnuts. Pepperidge farms had a popular cake, a walnut cake, that got discontinued because of the jump in price of walnuts. Halloween candy shrank. Companies started selling miniatures. Before, we were handed full size candy bars.
Graduated in ‘72, you omitted the Arab oil embargo in the fall of 75. This caused a depression in most parts of the country because people were not buying cars. My mom was the only one who had a job, my dad and I were both out of work. And don’t forget the weather, biggest snowstorms ever, 76,77 and 78.
Loved typing class and I got an “A”! Never thought I’d use typing till computers came along.
We loved each other and SO much less entitlement and hate!
My first real and only job started in 1974. The 70's were the greatest years of my life.
I graduated from high school that year, had the time of my life would go back in a sec and do it again.
I'm 75 years! Great memories in the 70's!❤
Remember it well...for young folks it was freedom and enjoyable!
Loved that time!
The 70's was the greatest time in my teenage life. 💞
I wish someone had told me these were the times of my life. What an era.
Who remembers collecting comic books, wearing Hang Ten T.-shirts with the bare feet logo or shopping at Zodys Department store or Riding a bike with the banana seat. How about, playing outside all day until it got dark or watching the Brady Bunch (favorite episode Hawaii trip}. How about watching Jaws at the drive in or reading Encyclopedia Brown books or Wearing knee high socks with stripes around the top with OP shorts and Vans. 😀
My kids wore vans in the late 80s to mid 90s.
This brings back many memories, I was a teen in the 70s, this was before so much technology changed so many things. I worked at McDonalds and you could get a hamburger, small fries and a small soda for 1 dollar, and the fries were really hot because they were made in trans fat. I remember getting our first color TV and it was a big deal. I had typing in high school, then when I went to college in the late 70s I had a Sears manual typewriter. Things are so different now.