The last day of school in 1977
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Footage from a neighborhood in Michigan where it's the finale day of school for these group of lucky kids.
Shots of them outside at recess, in the classroom and finally leaving the school and going home for summer!
This video last around 6 minutes.
#lastdayofschool
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So many of us homesick for a place that doesn't exist anymore.
@@Mister_Listener My current life is wonderful, far more than yours, I'm sure. BTW: I'm not your friend, got it!
@@Mister_Listener Pick a metric, the vast majority of them are objectively worse today.
Try eating more Ivormectine today. See if that helps.
@Mister_Listener why would you shit all over someone's totally innocuous comment, which, by the way alot of us agree with.
@@Dragonflylane77 re read what i wrote. I didnt personally attack anyone. Do you literally want to scratch everyone’s eyes out 24/7? Why?
Man,.......we never knew how good we had it growing up back then.....
You got that right! I remember my parents (RIP) telling me how much I was going to miss those times one day. Man, were they RIGHT.
You mean when teenage boys were forced to die in an illegal war?
Speak for yourself!!
That would have been crap.
@@patrickm.8425 True, not everyone had a pleasant childhood.
Not a mobile phone in sight. Kids actually being social.
I miss those days
Oh,💩! 😳
You do realize that Gen Z looking at this video now is the equivalent of Gen-X looking at a film from the 1930's! 😱
This nation took our youth away and we didn't feel it until we got old! 😮💨🥺😣🇺🇸
@@bloodmooncomix457 how did the nation take your youth away?
It's not really a video of the past until someone cries about phones.
The internet was the doom of society
@@bloodmooncomix457 How is that the equivalent? They didn't mindlessly stare at a film all day long, they went for the entertainment with their friends for an hour, and then got on with the rest of their lives
I was 10 in 1977. So thankful I got to grow up in the 70’s/80’s. What a time to be alive❤
I was 8 and this reminds me of my school. Having a chance to get out and enjoy the weather. I teach 7th grade and we do this at the end of the year. 12/13 yo need to let loose and run around sometimes.
@@shrapnel77 Same here, i was 8 in 77 and so glad i grew up in the 60's 70's and 80's. GREAT times when life was so much kinder.
Solid!
Exce
I was also 10 in 77' and still have some friends from back then in Orlando. Good Times!
Growing up in 70s were the best times. Never bored always something to do. I miss those times.
I was 12yo in 1977. My favorite game was kickball. The 70's were the best!
Oh yeah. Kickball was cool. And Dodge ball too. Some football in the yard action was popular and roller skates.
And the choice of music can't be beat!
We had it all for the asking. Oh my it was so good!
Swimming was definitely on the agenda and stereos. Hot rods. Filp flops. Pull top cans. Cut off shorts. Side burns and mustaches. Vinyl records. Polyester and bell bottoms. Longer hair. Stripes and colors. Custom vans and cb radios. Shag carpets. Hot summer days, but not too hot. Glistening lakes and picnics. FUN. Lots and lots of endless fun. The laid back atmosphere. The get togethers, house parties. The common decency among nearly everyone you met. The smell of Kmart as that cold AC air hit you when you walked inside. Linoleum tile and lots of wood trims, browns and greens and yellow kitchens instead of stainless steel.
A million times a million times better!
And the Ladies were real ladies too. Classy. Lean and fit. No tattoos or trash clothes or metal rods protruding from their three hundred pound faces.
@@JerryCalvert-x9u Yeah, but no Shag carpets, lol. I bet those were full of snakes, roaches, and ghonorea, lol. No way to clean those, right? How would they get cleaned? I guess there's a video of this some where around these part, lol.
I use to LOVE playing kickball at recess, and sometimes during lunch.
Just be careful catching that high fly, you'll back into a tetherball pole!
@@philsmgb4393 oh yeah! Tetherball! I'd almost forgotten about that game. I was never good at it lol
Hey! Look you guys! Normal people doing normal things. I miss it. Normal genuine people
Nah, late 1970’s, USA?? No, their parents were screaming things at them and making them feel worthless because everyone was striving to become middle class with a house and car and toys. As if that was a worthy goal. Mischief and graffiti was a real problem with this generation of kids. They were bored and had angry parents who neglected them. Matt Dillon was in a campy but horrifying movie about this back in 1979, i think. The riot scenes are pretty scary…bunch of clueless white kids get anger and hostility passed down to them via crappy parenting.
@@Cmunic8 I see that often when I go outside
@@amuroray9115 well you’re my hero then
I still get that every day where I live
If there was no internet and just 3 tv channels still …your life would be 10 times better than it is now!
I was 11 in 1977, so about the same age as these kids. What _innocence_ we had! How I wish we could go back...
It was my best year 1977. I was also 11. What a great school year and summer. Notice NO PHONES as distractions. Just being outside in the sunshine having true fun.
I was 10 and looking forward to seeing Star Wars. Life was good.
I was 10. Good times. Worry-free. :)
Smartphones and social media have destroyed the childhood of today's kids. They don't know better ....... I was 5 years old in 1977
I was 11 too, the summer Elvis died, it was the talk of the neighborhood.
I was 10 in 1977.
Not a cellphone ANYWHERE!...Just kids playing and figuring it out! Resilient. Resourceful. Mentally healthy. Reasonably happy.
...and a GOOD teacher on the job!
I miss those days wow! Who else wishes for a time machine to go back to the best decade and the 80's too?
Man, kids just having fun without all the stupidity the world is forcing on them now, I turned 12 in the summer of 1977, all we cared about was how much fun could we cram into the next 3 months before school started again. Oh yeah, and how many times could we watch Star Wars, the 70's were a great time to be a kid.
It really was. We're the same age.
I was running around horse back riding
It was a great time! I'm glad that I had a 70s childhood! 😎
The 1970s was my childhood years, I turned 10 years old in 1977.
And Jaws,😁😁
I'm the same age as you. I played little league baseball and had a paper route that year. Good times for sure.
Look at all those happy skinny kids
Happy White skinny kids*
Cute kids. I was imagining how fat they all became, since this was filmed in America.
@@xada2397 apparently you don’t see too good. Rewatch the video.
@xada2397 pretty sure I spotted a few brown ones too
At 0:05 there are 15 kids in the frame, 2 of which are African American, which is about 13%. That's more than the black population percentage of 12.1% in 1977. Blacks are over-represented in the film.
back when being middle class meant you could afford a house
If you are middle class and can't afford a house you are doing something wrong..................like spending more than you make and LOADED with debt..............back in the 70's people didn't live on credit cards, cars they can't afford and refinancing houses to go on vacation
and often on 1 income as mom was home at recess to make your peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wonder bread and kool aid with about 10 scoops of sugar
@@MB-rr1fb Your delusional. An apartment costs 10 times these houses now. They've moved the goal post almost out of the stadium.
You're dead wrong. 64% of Americans owned homes in 1977, 65% own homes today. In 1977, 45% of the homeowners were middle-class. In 2024, 43% of homeowners are middle-class. The rates of home ownership have fluctuated but have changed very little over the past 50 years.
@@kj475 Yea but the average house was like $45,000 and the average single person wage was $9,000 in 1977. Where I live you could buy houses all day for the $30K range back in 1977, now its over $300K and wages are just a little over 3X more than in 1977. It was much easier in the 70's to own a home and especially on a single income. Most people that worked in the textile mills, in my area, could afford their own homes. Now sales taxes are higher, more special taxes, medical and education cots have way outpaced inflation etc...
OMG!!! I was literally there!!!! This is the Glenn Schoenhals Elementary School in Southfield, MI, just outside Detroit (16500 Lincoln Dr.). In the background (seen from the parking lot) is the Thompson Middle School. I was in kindergarten at Schoenhals when this movie was made. My sister was in the third grade. Neither of us is actually in the movie, but we were there that day. Both Schoenhals and Thompson are no longer used by Southfield Public Schools, but both remain standing are used for other educational purposes. More importantly: Yes, that is what it was like!! Life was good, then!! It was a great time to be a kid and grow up. Metropolitan Detroit was also a great place to grow up. Both the time and the community. We would roam around on our bikes and on foot, on our own, with the hordes of neighborhood kids, the kids of the Baby Boomers. We would tell our mothers, "We're going down the block." They would respond, "Be home for dinner." Good times. Yes, it was a thousand times better than today. Demographically, the neighborhood around Schoenhals was heavily Jewish. Within about five to ten years, most of the community would move to West Bloomfield. In the movie, you can see a few black children. The black middle class in the city of Detroit had just begun to flee the chaos there, moving to Southfield, mainly because the Jews were the one of the few people who would sell to blacks. By the mid-eighties, the Schoenhals neighborhood would be almost all black. This is just part of the peculiar racial history of Metro Detroit. Also of note, Vampire Robot has another video from 1977 from nearby Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills (which I attended years later). You can find that here: ua-cam.com/video/FpmXz1e6IjQ/v-deo.html
Thank you for sharing. Metro Detroit was the best place to grow up.😊
Thank you so much for sharing. I grew up in Ann Arbor, and I was thinking this has to be Michigan!
Wow 😅 I graduated from Farmington Hills, MI in 1977, I was 17 y o. Oh, those were the days.
Okay, I’m so intrigued. Do you know who was filming this and why?
@@SheilaKaneDecoy Looks like some kids were playing with their cameras, having fun on the last day of school.
I lived in another state, but with a similar scenario as this comment. In my school, it was the Jewish kids who were usually the ones who would’ve had those nicer things like cameras, those, or maybe some of the Italians (just if they had mob dads, in which case we were not allowed to play with them, which was OK, because they usually played too rough/bullied way younger kids anyway, so no one wants to be like that), or those who went to Cape Cod or the Hamptons for the summer, and the Jews had the attitude that a community is only as strong as its weakest link.
So, they always made sure the schools we’re good, the quality of education was high, and students were actually encouraged to work together and kids doing better in a subject would be grouped with kids struggling, so they would “teach” each other, work together, explain things to each other, help each other when “stuck”, but it was never pointed out.
So it wasn’t divided into this side and that side. It was divided into three groups, so it was not obvious to the kids. Care was taken to not have any of this somebody being better than somebody else thing.
But if we were a lot ahead of the other kids, we would just be unceremoniously sent down the hall to a different classroom for that subject.
That was the way did not keep the advanced kids back, but whatever topic you might just go spend that bit of time in a different classroom and then go back to class and not really have it be explained to anyone.
Quite a contrast to today, we weren’t taught about racial issues, though we learned about the underground railroad, but that was taught as history, something that was over, and now everyone got along great. Tell them that and they live up to it.
And today, apparently they forget to teach what people group rose up to free them, what people risk their lives to hide them in their homes, and even build homes for the specific purpose of hating people on their way north and out of the country, getting other people groups on board, but that would’ve been those Christian Europeans, who decided that since everyone’s made in the image of God, they would need to stand up for them, and get others to join in, which they did… so actually, far more European Christians died to free them, than ever owned any.
Without interference from grown-ups, and the indoctrination day camps, children categorize people into nice, or mean; sharing, or greedy; and clean, or smelly. That’s it.
That being said, we did still had security guards. And they were there, not just to keep the high school and middle school students from coming each other’s schools and the elementary school to pick on anyone, as they were all 3 situated on the corner, so all 3 schools shared one track and field, which makes sense, but the guards were also just to protect the children from perverts coming in the school. And they were nice to the students, friendly protectors.
And for decades, nobody said anything nationally about school shootings, that was totally ignored, but now it gets the national spotlight, as if it hasn’t been going on for over half a century, especially in inner cities. They would always complain that they couldn’t get any media coverage and get any help, and now, it’s the opposite.
So, I don’t know why anyone would make a big deal about having security guards, that would be a helpful thing. A couple of security dogs wouldn’t be amiss, either. Children are priceless, and really should just be protected from outsiders wandering around in general.
The Jews contributed a great deal to the school system, and actually other charities, and they still do. They just do it without making a big production out of it, they do it anonymously. People have no idea how much they quietly give.
One has to wonder about the less intelligent people who make comments about rivers and seas and “freedom” when they don’t have any idea what that really means to the people saying it initially, nor do they realize that everything from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean, and down to the upper Nile originally belongs to the Israelites.
There are thousands of ancient copies, and millions of modern copies, very detailed land records. Every river, stream, hill, MOUNTAIN, cities, sometimes even boulders and trees, outline land, rightfully belonging to each of the 12 tribes that comprise the nation of Israel. And Garza is very old, as is Jerusalem. They are named by name as belonging to the tribe of Judah, which is the Jews.
And any archaeologists can corroborate that when they go digging in Judea, a part, but not all of which, which was renamed “Palestine” by the Romans, so it’s just another name for Judea, which is another name for the Jew’s portion of the ancient nation of Israel, so a true “Palestinian” is a Judean, not an Arab. talk about appropriation…
And they originally cleared some of that land from some very dangerous, cannibalistic people who were terrorizing people everywhere they went, and the Israelites were the only ones brave enough to go wipe them out. It’s got to be done to protect everybody, not many modern people have to face invading cannibalistic tribes. maybe if they did, they might start changing their attitude a little bit.
So, of course, once they made it safe to travel through that area, other people groups tried to come and say they would “live peacefully among them”, but inch by inch, they take their land from them, which has been going on for thousands of years now. There is no question who is land it rightfully is. And the people that can’t about rivers and seas, they don’t even know which river or see they’re talking about, but since those people have already taken from the Euphrates to the Jordan, they want everything left from the Jordan to the Mediterranean, because they know it doesn’t belong to them, but they want it anyway.
They try to say it is rightfully theirs, when we have copies of the ancient land records, and everyone from Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Ethiopia, and more fully acknowledged that it was their land.
Their historical records corroborate all of the Israelite’s claims. They interacted with them, so their histories match up.
If Israel actually took back what rightfully belongs to them, there would be no Syria, Jordan, or even parts of Kuwait and upper Egypt.
Every time they made concessions and allowed people to live among them, it was kind of like squatters coming in and sitting in your house, and suddenly saying it’s theirs, not yours. What little they have now is the result of them being too gracious, and having their hand constantly bitten by those that they have fed.
Give them an inch, they take a mile, give them an inch, they take a mile. They should never have given any inches.
I graduated high school in 1977 I was 17. There will never be another time like that again.
I was 10 at this time. Back when kids actually EXERCISED all day via sports, swimming, & riding bikes!
I lived on a bike back then. Left the house in the morning - no one had a pager or cell phone yet we all managed to find each other and found our way home half exhausted around dinner time. Wrestled, baseball, hunted snakes, tag, I think we were impervious to humidity. I was.... 15 I think when we went to Connecticut one year - I walked around in amazement these people in the evening often wore a light jacket IN SUMMER! I couldn't believe it, we all thought Connecticut was an Indian word meaning paradise! We were all going to go to UCONN or Yale when we got older, I wanted to transfer to Choate or Hotchkiss or any school so as not to have to leave this wonderland where a/c was OPTIONAL not life sustaining as it was in South Carolina LOL.
Same. Born in 67.
@@cwegers3 Same....
Same here, turned 10 in July '77
I was 7
No cell phones, No video games, No smash and grab. Life was good back then when we were kids. I would go back in a heartbeat!
Hi,oh so would I anytime😊🎉❤
I love the 1970's all the way😊🎉❤
Although I could have sworn I saw a smart phone in one of the girls pockets who had wide leg jeans, I had to do a double take lol 😆
oh man...me too!
same. And who would think that the Soviet Union would collapse and we would be a thug nation overrun with guns and dangerous crime.
I'll go with you!
The world is so sh*tty now that even people who werent alive then - miss life from then.
GEN-X:
"If you can't say Amen you can at least say ouch!!!" 😩😬🫢😭💞🇺🇸
✝️ Pastor Voddie Baucham
So it would seem.
I remember this time period, arrived at my first duty station for the Air Force after basic training and tech school, bought a Bronco and left it everywhere with no alarm, camera or steering wheel lock,I thank our Heavenly Father for letting me be born the year and day I was born.
There was a middle class, its all gone now. Started to disappear around this time. Reagan started it, Bush and Clinton made it worse, and every president since then done nothing to fix it. The supreme court ruled today that politicians can get large donations now too legally. Its over
And every, last one of those kids is smarter, tougher, wiser and infinitely more creative than most current western kids today.
The 70’s was absolutely the best decade especially for kids ! l was 12 in 77. Gen X had it the best !!!!!
yup pretty much the last generation that could play outside safely
Wow that takes me back. I was a child of the 70’s/80’s. What a wonderful time to grow up
Kids were very respectful to their friends and Teachers and parents back then. That is my generation THE 70 one !
And now they bully people who are thirty years younger than they.
Even though I loved the 70’s, there were terrible bullies and plenty of rude behavior towards peers and teachers. 😢
HELL YEAH!
Should've seen kids 10 years earlier; girls all wore dresses and the boys had collared shirts. You'd've thought they were at an academy in comparison.
It's like Japanese Culture existed in 1970s America
I was 7 yrs old in 1977. Such a beautiful beautiful time.
I was 6
same brother.
I was 8, Growing up, I wish I would have saved ALL my toys, never opened them and kept them in the original packages along with a few other things
I was 1, lol
Those are the healthiest looking kids I’ve seen In decades!
Wow. This actually made me cry. What have we become?
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We all wish for these simpler times again. I'm just glad I was one of the ones who grew up in the 70's and 80's. Best time to be a kid!
Anyone want to time travel back to then, Wonderful times
Yes! Wonderful times! I was 13, healthy, strong and super active. This worn out old man would love to be 13 again for ONE day! Stop by and pick me up in your time machine Mark. 😁
I was 6 in 1977. I’ll go 🙋♂️
Yes me anytime😊🎉❤
@@budb.8560Do you remember the disco music era back then😊
As long as I'm not forced to die in an illegal war.
I was 9 yrs old in 1977, I relate so much to this.
Kids just being kids. No cell phones, no social media, no obnoxious adult micro supervision required.
Just regulars kids on their own, free and careless, doing kids things. How much I long for that time.
I am exactly your age. I would've preferred to have access to technology like UA-cam and the internet..imaging what we could've learned watching video about life that our parents didn't or wouldn't tell us... plus, learning history would've been much more interesting watching the history channel than reading 1000 page books.
I was as well and for some reason I was moved emotionally watching this.😊
@@thailam8621 That is why kids are doing that now! oh.... no, they are not. Neither would you.
No gender confusion
Not being indoctrinated about gender in classrooms too!
It’s hard to believe I was one of those happy kids back in ‘77. Good times long gone.
Which one?
What did they do to our country?
The good old days
Damn. I was 8. What an innocent time. On the last day of school (late June on the East Coast), we had a "half day". I remember three of my friends and me packing into my mom's 1966 Ford Mustang and heading to a matinee of Star Wars: EpIV - A New Hope. *sigh*. I'm 55 now, an empty nester, and winding down my career toward an early retirement. Life is good, but back then, it was special.
I was ten in 1977 and this is just the way I remember it. Don’t forget the great music we had back then as well.
I was 9 in 1977, pero vivía en Colombia 😂😂😂👍👍👍👍
Kids all dressed well, and no cell phones.
Just some of the ugly rezponses on here show how twisted the world has become. NO INTERNET back then either.
Clean. No matter what, kids were clean and polite.
They weren’t dressed well compared to the kids of the 1950s. You wore pants, no jeans. And girls wore dresses or skirts. So I would say by 1977, the decline was well underway.
@@EmilyTienneYou are definitely correct. I grew up in the 70’s, my siblings and various family members grew up in the 50’s. I wore jeans, tshirts and sneakers throughout my childhood. My 50’s siblings wore dresses and dress shoes and coats. The quality of clothes was not that great when I was a kid, and wearing nice dresses wasn’t affordable for some people. If you want to talk about well-dressed kids, you have to go back to the 50’s. The decline definitely started in the 70’s.
Task: Watch a video of the past without making a comment about cell phones.
Difficulty: Hard.
I graduated high school on June 10, 1977. We were the last of the free range kids. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything!
Naw man, free range kids lasted through the 80s. I graduated in 1987.
@@valdivia1234567 True. I graduated H.S. in 1986
At 11 in 77, I had to be home when the street lights came on😅
I graduated High School in1978.
It lasted into the early 1990s.
Thanks so much. I was 17 in 1977, but this brought back some smiles.
I grew up in Fullerton, CA and was 7 in 1977. I remember vividly walking barefoot and shirtless to buy sodas with real sugar, the distant song of the ice cream truck driving nearby, flashlight tag in the cul-de-sac and watching Disneyland fireworks from Parks Peak every night during the summer, BMX bike races at the Parks Jr. High School track, all the neighborhood kids over to play Marco Polo in my parents swimming pool for HOURS, skateboard catamaran races down the closest hill, neighborhood full tackle with no pads or helmets mud football games where, seemingly, no one got hurt and 3 SOLID MONTHS OF SUMMER BREAK! What a time to be a kid.
I tried walking down the street barefoot. It was painful. It's a good thing I was carrying my sandals just in case.
We didn't realize that we were the last generation.
Boomers and gen x are posting. Gen x is called the forgotten generation.
Back when kids walked home from school. No wonder they’re not fat.
So did I in my childhood+I biked a lot too 365 days a year😊
After school we all played out outside me with the waterhose during the spring and summer+a lot of water toys to go with😊
Plus our food wasn’t totally poisoned with corn syrup in every single bite of it… along with all the preservatives that are literally killing us 😢
Their food was still better.
unlike now !
Because you also had a phone on every corner, and if it rained, snowed or whatever you went and walked 5 blocks to get to one, also you physically did EVERYTHING!!, when they played, they played!! Their mindset was on moving.
Yep no sitting or laying around mindlessly scrolling on their devices. Better quality food that wasn't processed garbage. And walking running physically playing at recess, after school when homework and chores were done, and on weekends. And all that every day pretty much from sun up til sun down during the 3-month summer vacation.
I am 51 today and if I got deep in thought and reflection, I think I could shed a tear from thinking how the world has changed. I loved my childhood, I was fortunate to be raised in a good home. I loved the innocence and freedom that was in our neighbourhoods. The internet really changed the world and in many different ways, namely how a person brought into this world lives their life. Today and the future are bright, there should be excitement, always.... but there is also a looming sadness there as well.
I couldn't agree more, and happy birthday! 😀👍
Yes happy birthday to you😊🎉
I'm age 45 and every evening I often sit in my couch in my livingroom thinking back how everything was in life before year 2000.I'm almost all alone now,family and other's have passed away😢so the loneliness is hard to bear on my shoulders😢
I live in Norway from Norway😊
It seem's like the loneliness are everywhere now,people have enough with themselves too😢
Daily I wonder:why are so many people so damn busy all the time??😢😢
@@perapelman1037… for real. Busy with what? I know people who were their “busyness” like a badge! People stopped listening -really and truly listening to each other quite some time ago… they’re too busy and rush to get on to the next thing. It’s lost on me 😢
im 50, and all this shit was planned it s satanic
I'm 52, so I get it. I could also drink a few beers and just watch videos of days long ago but I guess so can every generation. My dad is in his 80s and looks at the 1950s as his golden time. Where I disagree with you is I don't think there is a bright future for this country in particular. My little nephew is 6 yrs old and I get depressed knowing he likely will never have the same level of happpiness his father and I had growing up in the 80s. Not to bring race into it but I also think if you're a young white boy/teen, you're going to have a much tougher time in life than we ever had. Discrimination will become a real thing. And a BAbba boeey to you all!!!!
That last shot of all the kids riding bikes. I remember getting my first bike, and it was like getting a car. It enabled you to go places.
Whoever recorded this had no idea how much this would mean to all of us honestly, watching this makes me wish I was born in that time. I was a late 80s kid. Almost the same. ❤
I remember those days! We all played outside from morning till dark, no phones and if someone had a video camera we thought we were going to be in a movie! Lol! Fun times!
If you wasn't home by the light on at night your azz was had ✋🏻🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This video brought back so many memories, and I do remember playing outside,making games ,building forts.The thing that I think was so different, the lack of all the social media telling us /dividing us.Its hard to believe how fast it all has gone,everyone has grown up,moved away.All the things socially maybe were a bigger deal,but that could be just me, going to the movies as example..fun times!
Did you guys ever did pranks with your video camera? Or went looting for free stuffs?
@@davidrynberk1533Kids today and those born in 1999-2000 will never understand the real and innocent joy of living an simple childlife like we did😊
Hard to belive we are in June-2024 now,I wonder what will happen the rest of this sad and tragic decade,what do you think😊
At this age I thought the bat phone was neato. All I can say is praise Jesus we got the phone INSTEAD OF THE FLYING CARS…..,WE ALL TALKED ABOUT…..THE PHONE is destructive enough Can you see today’s idiots with flying cars..? Hell they can’t even drive the ones my parents had now with out a finger. Or a loaded gun out the window. It’s sad nowadays. 😢
I work at a school and the kids now just stare at their phones…I almost forgot that kids used to raise their hands and actually got involved with the lessons. Due to “grade inflation “ and district pressures they all pass with good grades regardless of not knowing anything related to the subject. That’s 2024 😢
This September they're banning cellphones in classrooms in my province. G.H
Blame Washington DC and the Dept of Education. Blame Teachers Unions. Blame parents. Lots of blame to go around.
No wonder Doctors and Lawyers are getting stupider and stupider! Which fears me of how smart people will be in the next 15 to 20yrs.from now.
Yep. George HW Bush got the whole “No Child Left Behind” program put into place… now it’s “No Child Gets Ahead” as everyone graduates even tho they’re totally incompetent 😞
@@calvinhobbes6118 Blame!...Blame!....Blame!, the younger generation loves to blame the older generation for everything instead of taking responsibility of their own lives.
I hope all those kids grew up to have nice happy lives ❤❤
Even if they didn't they had the purest childhood around!
Odds are favorable. They at least grew up not only knowing algebra but not believing it was racist. Halfwits were the exception not the norm even in California.
I was eight years old in 1977, and this time in my life was my happiest, though I didn't know that at the time.
Now that I am 55 years old, and looking back, I want to cry at the innocence of that oh so brief moment in time, when everything seemed possible.
All of us, including those kids are in our FIFTIES now!! 😄
Time passes faster the older we get. , I was only 4 in '77 and I'm now senior at 51. Lol
I was 10 in 1977, it is very difficult to watch this without crying. This seems like a far away magical, mythical place that feels so distant now. I never knew how much I would miss those days. How could we have ever predicted we would be where we are now, it is so heartbreaking.
Perfection. I'd go back in a heartbeat.
I wasn't even alive back then, and i want to go back to this.
something important was taken from us... I don't know how to get it back
I was 10 in '77,' and I would give nearly ANYTHING to go back to those days. Those days hold the GREATEST memories of my life.
relatable lol
@@ChrisAthanasthe way you said that is so poetic and tragic.
Im a 93 baby and i remember 98 and 99 to 2003 being similar. I still mourn the loss of those days. It feels like it was a dream.
No phones and everyone is still alive and happy too!. Kids getting along and being polite and respectful in the classroom.
WOW, did that ever capture that moment so perfectly..THANKS that was awesome!
I was 6 in 77. This vid is spot on. That's all we 60s and 70s kids did was play. Afterschool and all weekend long. Dusk was our alarm that told us it was time to come in.
Yup. As soon as the street lights came on it was time to return home for supper.
I was 5, but this lifestyle went well into the 80s.
@@magamaga1827 A little bit yeah. It was still pretty decent in the 1980s and even in the 1990s too, but still not as good as the 1950s 60s and 1970s.
What made the 60s bad was the drug scene. The war protests stuff too. In the 1970s is was the gas crisis and recession. High insurance premiums and lots of kidnappings that carried over into the 80s, with the murders and crime increasing. The heat wave too. The economy struggled. But mostly is was good and by far better than today by a trillion miles better in every shape and form.
You and I caught the tail end of that dragon. Just enough to get a taste of it in order to know that it was damn good times indeed!
Just imagine if we had been older, in our teens or twenties back then. We could've had an even better time!
I noticed that there are no issues between the kids of different backgrounds or genders - everyone is playing together
Yes and no tantrams and excessive strange "high pitch squealing" we hear from young kids today.
Yes! My best friend and first little crush was the white boy in my 1st grade class. He used to ride his bike down my block and do little tricks and I would sit on my porch like “that’s bae right there”🥰🥰
I thought he was the coolest kid ever 😂😂❤
The good ol days …
You’re living in fantasyland if you think that race relations were better back then than they are now.
And no rainbow flags....
@@spaceorbison so u think the LGBTQ were just recently discovered? Ur funny 😂😂
I miss those days....we were allowed to play outside during school....heck we were encouraged to play outside. I can almost feel that sunshine on me and drift back to those days🥲. BTW i would of been 9 years old in 1977.
Were the
I was 11 in 77. Simpler days. No smart phones, social media, Tik Tok. Men were men, women were women. People weren't getting offended about everything. Wish life was like that today.
Indeed. Back before white standards were erased.
There were a lot of men who looked like women back then.
@@kelle0285 No. They may have had long hair, but that’s where it stopped. They were still fully masculine.
GenX kids in their natural habitat; growing up in a pre-internet world was a blessing.
then cursing my generation (gen z) with the internet...
@@21YearOldLonerVirgin Thank the boomers for the Internet.
We carried our stuff home in PAPER BAGS!!! No plastic! Fantastic 😊
And then the Boomers took over and turned everything plastic because it was cheap, profitable, and convenient
They came out with plastic to "save the trees" now were right back where we started
I remember I had a tin lunch box for school. I forget what the picture on it was though.
@@timmyt1232 I can remember hot wheels, speed racer, South Carolina, and maybe the Citadel but I'm sure I had other lunchboxes with a thermos I never used.
It's funny how we turned into our parents........an then into our grandparents. I could say how it sucks being old but I'm thankful for the ride. ( class of 77 ) T.
Couldn't agree more. (class of 79)
The last day of school in 1977 I finished First Grade: Field Day! So much fun. And the boy wearing the “Up your nose with a rubber hose” shirt from Welcome Back Kotter! OMG, I remember a boy I knew back then who wore that shirt every Friday. And I knew a girl with the “Jeans Jeans Jeans” t-shirt. How fun to see those things I had long forgotten about.
Field Day! Now that was a good time!
Yes, Field Day!!! Three legged races!
Last day ‘77 I was 7th Grade. Field Day sports and all the Watermelon you could eat. A Better, vanished time
No cellphones = real fun.
Math = still no fun
Before GMO's foods , before cell phones, before computer games. I miss those days.
And no cared in the world
No one looking down at a devise. Just playing, learning, negotiating. It was such a good, good time . . . the way we were ❣️
No cell phones, social media, or video games. What a concept
We had pinball
We had video games. There were lots of arcade games. They were just timed games like 380Zzzap, Gun Fight '75, Super Bug, Tank, etc. You got like 3 minutes to play and when timer was up, that was it. Super Bug was the first arcade game I ever played, in '77 when it first came out. It had a steering wheel and gas pedal. Also the Atari VCS home game (later renamed to 2600) came out that year. I had one of the original VCS's (Video Computer System) that year.
The video games were at home, Atari!!!
No gender confusion
nothing wrong with video games boomer!
i was in 7th grade in 1977, this brings back a lot of memories. I spent my summer listening to my friends new 8 track player he got for his birthday.
You were still born too late. I was born in 1957
@@rascal211 Yes, i always though i was born too late, my brother was 11 years older than me, and it seemed like he had even more fun that I did growing up in the 50s/60s. Also, you know 8 Track sounded great...
@@rascal211 Nah anyone born after the year 2000 was born too late. Born between 1940 to 1999 seems like the perfect time frame for the 20th century.
I was 17 in 1977, i was Blessed to have been there in the 60's and 70's! I saw the introduction of the slip&slide, the Water Wiggle, Hot Wheels, the Frisbee,the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and too many Fantasic things to list! It was a Great time to be alive!🙏🙋♂️🙏
The original Hot Wheels. Beatnik Bandit was my favorite!
Dont forget STAR WARS
@Curlyheart Right! That was 70's also lol!😁👍
They are about my age now, 60, time flies. But I'm still listening to 70's music ❤
Same here. I will be 62 next month. I have been listening to 60s and 70s songs for quite a while now. I can't ever get enough of them. The nostalgia is incredible. 😀👍
Very nice!
I will be 60 in July it is depressing what has happened.I an fortunate to be 59 and not 29.Greed killed America.
They ain't THAT OLD. These kid's are probably between (8-11) THEN!
@@RansomHollywoodAgreed. I was seven years-old in 1977 and I’m 54 now. Those kids are in their early-mid 50’s.
I was 10. And I can say that that "Up Your Nose With a Rubber Hose" shirt 0:39 was a hit!
See you later alligater came out in the 60's or 50's I think.
I had one!!!!!! 😂
it really hits home when you're breathing on the machine :/
And twice as far with a chocolate bar!!!
Also I can't believe I ate the whole thing!
Wow 1977, I was 13, I'll be 60 next month. What a time it was.
Awesome! One kid is wearing a Vinnie Barbarino "Up your nose with a rubber hose" tee shirt! Oh my god, the memories. I'm roughly the same age as these guys. Back then it was playing outdoor games, now we get the 55+ senior discount at Denny's. Time moves so fast.
Ahhh!!! Those were the days! Videos like this sure bring back the memories of a much simpler and way better time.
I was 14 years old in 1977. I watched, this and all I could hear in my head was the theme song to the TV show "Eight is enough". Now, it's in your head. You're welcome.
My theme song was from Threes Company.
Now try to get that one out of your head! 😂
Come and knock on our door...
Take a step that is new...
I was 12. I'm hearing 'Sunday, Monday Happy Days 🎵🎵🎵🎵😁' Ayyyyyeeeee 👍👍
Yep 9th grade in 77...good ole days.
I was 14 too. So many good memories from the 70's. I wish we had time machines so we could go back to that time. 😢
Thanks for sharing. Takes me back to a time we thought would never end, our friends would always be there, and life would be simple forever.
Very, VERY true.
5:35 The Schwinn Stingray! I had one :)
And a bright red Stingray too! Corvette that is. It zipped across the screen fast.
Had one in 1969, elem school.
Right on.I got my stingray Christmas '68 I believe. Ran paper routes,always had MONEY.No allowance,my parents had more important things to spend $$ on.Like rent and food...
Yup. Banana seat, 5 speed nut buster shifter on the top tube, slick tires. I rode that bike 100 miles one weekend in 7th grade on a Boy Scout trip.
Yep, I still have one. My profile picture is the back wheel of one. We used to play cops and robbers everyday after school.
Those of us that grew up in the 70's and 80's had no idea how good we had it. Neighborhood ball games, hide and seek, long bike rides and just needing to be home before the street lights came on. I'm so glad we grew up then. Just like Eddie Money says, I wanna go back.
Tube socks, banana seats and the best music ever!!!!! The 70s was the greatest decade!!!
I was 10 in 1977, watching those kids walk home in a group brought back great memories!
I was starting my Senior year in High School and driving a 69 Plymouth Roadrunner with a 383 V-8 Motor , man what a ride , I paid $850.00 cash for that car !
I was 1..lol
I was 10 also. What I would give to go back to that time, I miss it!
@@bluevictory1010 We used to walk a little less than a mile home. There would be about 8 or 9 of us walking together, then each kid would leave as we got to their street until it was just me who lived the farthest. So much fun on those walks. I would love to be able to relive that walk just 1 more time.
carrying the famous bag of stuff leftover from the desk !!!
From their lockers!😄
I wonder how many of those kids went to see Star Wars soon after.
All of them did.😂
I went and saw Star Wars at a drive thru at night. The opening seen in a clear night with the stars shining made the special effects stand out.
Saturday Night Fever 😂🕺
There is more to life than Star Wars. I'm sure all of them saw it, but there were some damn good movies that came out in 1977: "Sorcerer"; "Smokey And The Bandit"; "Rollercoaster"; "Black Sunday"; and "The Spy Who Loved Me".
@@philiphatfield5666rollercoaster was a good movie?
Was 17 in '77, great times. Feel bad for todays young
Ironic considering the boomer generation is responsible for this mess, as a gen X'r I followed in their footsteps as their generation burned every bridge and sealed every door shut behind them by giving corporate terrorists more and more political power.
Good times watching those with every possible advantage use it to deny those behind the same advantages.
I was 6
so you didn't experience race riots? Back in the 70s we whi te kids were beaten up by the black kids, for being wh ite. And this was going on decades before that, too.
I was 15. Just finished the 10th grade. Had the world by the balls for the following decade or so and did it without much money either. Just good times.
@@barefoot191 Wow, I was just entering high school at that age and the black kids were beating up on his kids who had come from the all wh ite junior high. it changed me forever. I never thought about race before all that. And it sure wasn't "good times". High school was miserable!
gotta love that "Creepy guy staring from the bushes" camera angle 😆
Cinematic
I was chuckling about that as well.
Some of them definitely died by now. Feels weird to think about how fast time passes once you stop being a kid. When I was a kid, every school day felt like an eternity. After school, every day passed by like it was an hour.
The year I graduated from high school and the year my father died. I was 17 years old but 1977 was a blur. I still would go back in a second.
sorry you lost your dad so young..
I graduated the same year and my father also passed away in ‘77. I too would go back in a second……What a coincidence .
Boy every summer when I was a child is filled with great memories.
And i bet a person younger cant even understand how every sensory thing felt so much more exciting and powerful in those days. Even if its just wandering places with friends..
Also college and uni was actually educational not political propoganda and worth almodt nothing in terms of expanding yiur mind and debating opposing opinions.
The year Star Wars premiered, and Elvis died. I was 17.
Oh yeah? I was 17 too so you were born in 59/60 ! Wow congrats were still around! I remember the day Elvis died like it happened yesterday!
The Son of Sam murders, Smokey and the Bandit, The Spy Who Loved Me, the 77 Yankees, Star Wars, Elvis' death in August.
77?
@@AlisaPowerDashaREDVVVBriga-e4v 1977
The thing I always remember about 1977 is the Pink Floyd concert where Roger Waters spat on that guy.
The banana seat bike brings back memories. Those bike seats were perfect for riding two on a bike. That's why we were so slim. The teacher is actually teaching fractions on the last day of school. That's amazing!
To put this in context: I was 11 in 1977. In 2024, I have an 11 year old son. He's a tall kid, but heavy, about 170 lbs. I probably weighed 80 lbs at 11. If I could get him to play outside more, like I did.
Man, watching this video brought back some good memories of playing outside when I was that age.
Consider mtn biking with him, it's a fun way to get him in shape. Speaking of banana bikes, my profile picture is one (sting-ray) or the back wheel of one.
ten in 1977; can only figure teacher is reviewing with the fractions cos there's no way they could give new material on last day. and in our school, there's really no way they could have done/taught anything.
your 11 year old son: take him into the yard and be all "you're going to do this that other" and work out there with him so he can't slither away.
mtn biking: cos his friends are all on xbox, you may need to make him join you for game of "i'm eleven today, so we're going to ride together the next five towns over and back"
do try to figure out a physical activity he'd enjoy enough to do on his own. left unchecked, he's going to be a blimp by the time he graduates (no offense)
I was only 5yrs old but most of my school days would come in the 80s and were very similar in the NY burbs. A time when kids were mostly christian, spoke English and loved their flag and country! Now we're doomed.
If we could have seen how the world turned out, I think a lot of use would have tried to stay as kids back then. For as long as we could. And cherished each day.
Those tube socks 🧦😂😂
Sweat socks, Chuck, sweat socks. We all wore them along with cut-offs and tank tops.
@@gregdolecki8530 I stand corrected! 😁
They may be making a comeback. Apparently Generation Alpha won't be caught dead in flat socks. The opposite extreme beckons, and what was old may be new again...
That's the year I started kindergarten.... wow... I swear tho.... I feel like we're living in another dimension.... when I have my blurry memories of the 70s.... it almost feels like I'm totally separated from it... like it was a dream....
Something valuable was taken from us... I dont know how to get it back
I too was in kindergarten ... at that very school when the film was shot. This is the Glenn Schoenhals Elementary School in Southfield, MI, just outside Detroit (16500 Lincoln Dr.)
We were so lucky to grow up in the 70’s it was a total different world that will never be experienced again by anyone . I would despise growing up in this day and age.
I miss those days best times of my life
@0:38 a Vinnie Barbarino “Up your nose with a rubber hose” T-shirt. (Welcome Back Kotter)
I had that shirt. Mine was a baby blue color
You hit my nostalgia ✋🏻💀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks. The t shirt looked familiar. Welcome Back Kotter. Those were the days..
That was the best moment seeing that Shirt..I wish I could find an original one and get John T to sign it..
You had a choice then of Barbarino, The Fonz Ayyye shirt or the JJ Dyno-Mite Shirt
I wonder if any of these kids, now in their 50s, know this is up on youtube :)
I know that wind-up model plane provided just as much enjoyment to that boy as a thousand-dollar drone would today. I put together many of those kits and a lot of the fun was in assembling them. There was also satisfaction in repairing them after they would crash-land and getting them air worthy again.
Didn't the ice cream man also bring some of those around? And the parachute man that you could throw from a balcony?
1977. I was 14 about to enter 9th grade. No worries. Both parents in the house. Two loving parents. Family & Friends. Playing sports year round, interested in girls, & just carefree.
I was 10 in 77. About the same age as these kids. Life was simple back then.
Most kids these days ( especially boys) are on some kind of prescription drug to strip them of their boy- ness. Sad times we're living in
Every singe one of those kids in the video (myself included) would give anything to go back to those years. No internet, no smartphones, no stolen identies, no pandemic , no home computers !
Agreed. I was not in the video, but I am close in age to the kids being filmed. What a great time!
Same here I still remember watching woodsy owel cermercial In 79..lol
No shootings no dumb election from a real estate agent,no one starring down at thier phones
Facts!!! ✋🏻💀🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
i hate what it's become. I voted for Ron Paul and Ross Perot so don't blame me. NAFTA and your federal overregulating government ruined everything
I graduated in 1991, a classic GenX latchkey kid. There are three things that changed in the mid-1990s: the internet, cell phones, and video games. Yes, we Atari and those systems in the 1980s, but the best games remained in the arcade until the 1990s. You still had to go somewhere to play them, each turn was 25¢, and you usually had to stand while playing. You’d play until you felt like you spent enough and then you would go do something else. Once home gaming caught up in quality, it was as impactful on society as the internet and cell phones.
I was born in '70. There was about a 4-year window where the arcades made sense, like 1980 - 1983. Then I started using a C-64 and dialing into bulletin boards, and the games I could get were about as good as the arcade. I never went back.
@@em7dim9 Well then you were an advanced exception, like Matthew Broderick in War Games. 🤣
@@biffboffo A lot of kids and families had Commodore 64s in the early 80s. The games were outstanding. The system wasn't even crazy expensive. US$595 ($1,880 ish today) new. And it could do incredible things. The C64 came out in 1982 and that wasn't even their first system. They had the Vic 20 before that which came out in 1980 and could play hundreds of video games and the PET came out in 1978 and could play hundreds of video games too! Thousands of video games for the C64. You could learn programming on it. The Commodore was far ahead of its time. If cards had been played differently, Commodore could have been like Windows and MS. ColecoVision had arcade quality graphics at home by 1982, beating Atari's quality and beating NES and Sega by several years.
Also 1991 grad in the NY area. Agree but I put heavy emphasis on the Internet as the main technology that has killed social activity amongst kids/teens/young adults. My crew were in the park every night hanging out with dozens of other teens, cruising the strip in our cars and hitting the beach in the summer, playing sports all winter, you name it. My 15yr old nephew, in the same neighborhood, runs home from the train after school to "hang out" with his friends in his room on the fucking computer and just wastes away! He was even a solid college soccer prospect up until about 13yrs old when he got addicted to video games and has all but quit the sport, sadly.
There's Pong Console in 1970s which play similar to Arcade Pong. In fact the Fairchild Channel F is more fun than the Arcade Pong
Crazy to think that a few miles away I was walking home from school at the same time on that obviously gorgeous Michigan day.
I knew it was some place up northern because of the teacher's accent.
I was actually right there!! This is the Glenn Schoenhals Elementary School in Southfield, MI, just outside Detroit (16500 Lincoln Dr.) I was in kindergarten. I don't see myself (or my sister) in the film, but I was right there!! And it was a glorious time to be alive!! Both the time, and in Metro Detroit. Wish I could go back. The best of times.
@@JerryCalvert-x9u This is the Glenn Schoenhals Elementary School in Southfield, MI, just outside Detroit (16500 Lincoln Dr.) I was there that day, in kindergarten. That teacher must have been from New York. Probably Jewish from Long Island.
@@LawrenceThompson-n9n Wow. Interesting. I know Detroit was a slum of slums not long after that so this must have been right before the downfall.
I suppose then most every single place was great back then in our western world because most say the same. You're slightly older than me by a few years I think. Or very close to the same age give or take.
I'm from Dallas, TX mid 1970s and I can attest, better times indeed and by a very long shot!
I suppose too that the Bible is right and it's all going to come to an end soon because it never has gotten better, but each year worse and worse and worse and I can't possibly see it suddenly out of nowhere just magically getting better.
Guess it's eternal hell for this guy because God rejected me a very long time ago.
Anyway. Life was once great though. We were all raised and educated to live in a world that no longer exists.
Cheers!
@@JerryCalvert-x9u Agree that we were raised and educated to live in a world that no longer exists. I equate it with the Fall of Rome. A great civilization that is collapsing from within. As to Detroit, its downfall began in the 1960s. Southfield, where this film was shot, was in 1977 a gleaming new suburb where so many from Detroit fled, to live a great life. But by the mid-1980s, Southfield, which borders Detroit, had effectively become another Detroit, and "the nice suburbs" moved farther out. My family left Southfield a year after this film was made, to West Bloomfield, a further suburb.
Wow!.. my family disposed of all my super 8mm films from this time because they had nothing to "play" them with. Thanks for posting this memory, 1977 summer was one of my best at 14... the music -Kiss Destroyer, the cars.. and everyone just basically got along... the ones that didn't, got punched out and came back better people. I guess it was the simplicity that makes it appealing.. but we're never goin back. The 70's as a young kid was phenomenal.. probably one of the best generations.
So cool. We had field day like that on the last day elementary school when I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s. Hope all these folks are doing well today. Love these videos🙂
I want to turn back time. I miss those carefree days as a child. Being an adult sucks!
Wow. I was 9 back then. Brings me back. What a great time to be a kid.
I too was 9