This brings back so many memories for me. This was a year after I graduated from Copley Square High School. I still can hear the Hancock Tower dropping it's glass to the ground. We called it the Plywood Building while it was still half built. So many changes since then. High tech hadn't reached the toll booths yet. It was a year of many changes and challenges for Boston.
Wow, what clear, sharp images and strong colors for a 1975 8mm film! Hard to believe we once drove cars that big and fancy. Or that the Boston skyline had so few skyscrapers. Or that the John Hancock Tower had just been finished. Or that life was so simple. That mellow guitar music is perfect for this record of mellower times. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I was just going into Medford High School in 1975. What a long Strange trip it’s been. Great video. I remember the windows falling out of the Hancock Tower as well.
Born in Brighton in 93. It’s so cool to see the city before my time. It’s very interesting to witness it as my parent’s and grandparent’s did . Even since the 90’s, it’s changed so much
Wow i love these kind of classic videos, 1 year before i was born, the music goes so perfect with this, you get the feeling of an innocent simpler time.
Walking to the Boston Garden from Everett to watch a Saturday Bruins game in the late eighties which was later but PeeWee practice for the Huskies in 75. The first day that we practice.It was in early August 102° temperature at nine years old I remember that about 1975 and other great memories like the Red Sox almost winning the World Series.lol.
At 24 second mark, there's a clip of my hometown of Fitchburg. This was in the lower Main St section. Fitchburg Music Store was to the right. It's now a CVS. The parking lot on the left is now the parking garage for the intermodal bus and train station. Dead center was originally Worcester North Bank. It's now empty, after Santander Bank moved to a smaller building on Water St, just over the bridge.
I first came into Boston in 79 after being taken away because of the forced bussing - I was born in Boston and moved to Lowell - I served my country then moved back into Boston in 89
My dad worked in the Prudential building in 1975. I remember going to the observation lookout many times in 1975 as I was 10 years old. I would have laughed if I was in the video.
I see that the first two seconds of the clip are actually from Worcester, MA, somewhere between today's exits 12 and 15 by I-290, I think. I recognize the east End of Storrow Drive at one point and (possibly) a split second of the Allston/Brighton toll along I-90 East.
Is :17 Central Sq in Cambridge? The order of this is kinda weird. Looks like it goes: Central Sq, Harvard Sq, Memorial Drive, Storrow Drive, Tobin Bridge (?) Not really sequential.
I'm afraid I lost my audio tracks list when my PC decided to fall over. It's from the UA-cam audioswap library. See if hettie knows (similar question on my New York video).
Great job! What's the song? Your choice of theme music really elevates this (while making me nostalgic & a little sad)--but any good art is supposed to make people feel *something*, right? So that's a good thing. Thank you for taking your camera with you on that day(s) in 1975. Always love the authentic 8mm look. Terrific.
I was working in the combat zone area in 75. Can we go back ? If you didn't have to go to Vietnam it was a pretty good time. Maybe being young helped. They should bring back the observation deck in the John Hancock tower.
Even in 1975, the song 'Please Come to Boston' for me didn't fit, and it really don't fit in 2020. If you cotton to Joan Baez with a 'Where's Boston' like video in the background...ua-cam.com/video/fpuWg12Hw54/v-deo.html Or if you want DL himself as a soundtrack to the album cover...ua-cam.com/video/TedXFSUUboY/v-deo.html Please Come to Boston Dave Loggins Born: November 10, 1947 (age 72 years), Mountain City, TN Please come to Boston for the Springtime I'm stayin' here with some friends and they've got lotsa room You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk By a café where I hope to be workin' soon Please come to Boston She said "No-would you come home to me?" And she said, "hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?" "Boston ain't your kinda town" "There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me" "I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee" Please come to Denver with the snowfall We'll move up into the mountains so far that we can't be found And throw "I love you" echoes down the canyon And then lie awake at night till they come back around Please come to Denver She said "No-boy, would you come home to me?" And she said, "hey ramblin' boy why dontcha… Now this drifter's world goes 'round and 'round And I doubt that it's ever gonna stop But of all the dreams I've lost or found And all that I ain't got I still need to lean to Somebody I can sing to Please come to LA to live forever California life alone is just too hard to build I live in a house that looks out over the ocean And there's some stars that fell from the sky Livin' up on the hill Please come to LA She just said "No-boy, would you come home to me?" And she said, "hey ramblin' boy why dontcha settle down?" "LA can't be your kinda town" "There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me" " No, no, I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee" "I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee"
answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/362604.html Since the line about the man from Tennessee comes from the woman in the song who wants the singer to come home to her, I always assumed that, by "the man from Tennessee," the song is referring to the singer of the song, the same person referred to as "ramblin' boy." DL was born in Mountain City, TN.
So cool… imagine my parents bought their very basic starter home (wicked the lived in for 50 years)… for $12,000…. Currently in market for $950,000…. Such a joke…. How can anyone afford to live there now??? I miss the middle class so so much… now Uber rich and majority poor….only going to get worse
The closest we have to a time machine. Love looking at these old videos.
This brings back so many memories for me. This was a year after I graduated from Copley Square High School. I still can hear the Hancock Tower dropping it's glass to the ground. We called it the Plywood Building while it was still half built. So many changes since then. High tech hadn't reached the toll booths yet. It was a year of many changes and challenges for Boston.
My sister attended Copley same time
Wow, what clear, sharp images and strong colors for a 1975 8mm film! Hard to believe we once drove cars that big and fancy. Or that the Boston skyline had so few skyscrapers. Or that the John Hancock Tower had just been finished. Or that life was so simple. That mellow guitar music is perfect for this record of mellower times. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Kind of weird seeing the The Pru without any of it's broadcast equipment on the roof either.
Just imagine that film can be converted to any hd resolution because film still beats digital.
The cars were big and fancy like the Cadillacs and Buicks those cars were boats. They were also made of actual metal unlike cars nowadays
WOW Thank you for a blast to a better past. Grew up in Boston, I do miss the " Old Boston"
I was just going into Medford High School in 1975. What a long Strange trip it’s been. Great video. I remember the windows falling out of the Hancock Tower as well.
Medford High cut a record album back then. I have it.
They called it Plywood Ranch.
That's when I was in high school (Rindge Tech), and every time I go back, I feel like a foreigner in a strange place.
Born in Brighton in 93. It’s so cool to see the city before my time. It’s very interesting to witness it as my parent’s and grandparent’s did . Even since the 90’s, it’s changed so much
Music fits perfectly for some reason...it has a eerie 1970's feel to the way it sounds
THANKs. Loved it.i was born in Boston 1-2-39 moved into Worcester COUNTY in 1960.really enjoyed.gonna rewatch right now.
Wow i love these kind of classic videos, 1 year before i was born, the music goes so perfect with this, you get the feeling of an innocent simpler time.
I was in elementary school up in Essex County at this time. Great flashback to a different, and much simpler time.
This brings back so many memories of when I explored Boston in the summer and on school holidays from Scituate High School 🥰
I was 20 years old...........and life was a hell of a lot simpler and calmer.
I remember it all.
awesome! I was born in 63 in Boston..These are great pictures,and fond memories..Thanks for the video! Great job!
Walking to the Boston Garden from Everett to watch a Saturday Bruins game in the late eighties which was later but PeeWee practice for the Huskies in 75. The first day that we practice.It was in early August 102° temperature at nine years old I remember that about 1975 and other great memories like the Red Sox almost winning the World Series.lol.
At 24 second mark, there's a clip of my hometown of Fitchburg. This was in the lower Main St section. Fitchburg Music Store was to the right. It's now a CVS. The parking lot on the left is now the parking garage for the intermodal bus and train station. Dead center was originally Worcester North Bank. It's now empty, after Santander Bank moved to a smaller building on Water St, just over the bridge.
Thanks for posting this. Truly beautiful.
Halcyon days of my youth. Thanks for posting!
I was 20-years old then...........and life was so much more carefree and laid back in those days.
I'm still stuck in that same traffic jam @ 0:52 to this day. They built the Zakim around me actually.
Great video! Thank you for the memories!
I first came into Boston in 79 after being taken away because of the forced bussing - I was born in Boston and moved to Lowell - I served my country then moved back into Boston in 89
great video of a great city. I can't really connect with it like some people. I first visited Boston in 1989.
great video! thanks for posting!
0:02 is the Wachusett Reservoir in West Boylston...thanks for posting this!
love the music.
Great film i love the tolls when they had real people on the Tobin. Boston your my home
My dad worked in the Prudential building in 1975. I remember going to the observation lookout many times in 1975 as I was 10 years old. I would have laughed if I was in the video.
@:24,
Took wormhole to Downtown Fitchburg, then another back @ :28
Thats my hometown. I thought it looked like downtown fitchburg :)
This isn't from 75 the Hancock tower wasn't completed until 76
cool vid, I love that even back then, coming out of the tunnel southbound was still a clusterfart
I was certainly in Worcester, but couldn't tell you which streets!
I was 14 then and about to enter high school that fall, in Scituate, Mass.
I see that the first two seconds of the clip are actually from Worcester, MA, somewhere between today's exits 12 and 15 by I-290, I think. I recognize the east End of Storrow Drive at one point and (possibly) a split second of the Allston/Brighton toll along I-90 East.
Big Broadway in the 70's was magical for a kid.
00:1 Burncoat Street looking north. Even the toll booths on the Pike are a memory now.
goo.gl/maps/qPDg1zCS6YFKFnDJ7
Is :17 Central Sq in Cambridge? The order of this is kinda weird. Looks like it goes: Central Sq, Harvard Sq, Memorial Drive, Storrow Drive, Tobin Bridge (?) Not really sequential.
all the cars were so much better then, the skyline is so small then too, about 5 times that size now, wish i was around then
Mystic River Bridge tolls both directions I recall. Also the year that Hancock building had all the issues with windows falling out.
"Issues?"
Is that what you call it?
@KML0224 Yes it's the Burncoat St bridge over I-290 in Worcester
goo.gl/maps/qPDg1zCS6YFKFnDJ7
In '75, I was 4 years old living in Boston
Looks like Fitchburg again at 1:08 - top of the stairs (Wallace Ave) leading to Fitchburg High School.
That is def FHS steps. Sat there often
Pru looks really weird without a radio antenna. why did it not have that from when it was built?
That was really neat! And the Paramount theater was actually .... the Paramount theater!!
I want my life back
The good old days.
Cool. I lived in Waltham 1975.
I'm afraid I lost my audio tracks list when my PC decided to fall over. It's from the UA-cam audioswap library. See if hettie knows (similar question on my New York video).
Great job! What's the song? Your choice of theme music really elevates this (while making me nostalgic & a little sad)--but any good art is supposed to make people feel *something*, right? So that's a good thing. Thank you for taking your camera with you on that day(s) in 1975. Always love the authentic 8mm look. Terrific.
Barely recognize Boston anymore… it used to be so quaint and rich in history. Now it’s just like any other major city.
I was working in the combat zone area in 75. Can we go back ? If you didn't have to go to Vietnam it was a pretty good time. Maybe being young helped. They should bring back the observation deck in the John Hancock tower.
Ironically there was less traffic before the big dig than there is now. Wow!
This was two decades before the Big Dig. By the time the Big Dig began, there was a LOT more traffic than you see on this video.
Isn't this the time Hancock was having trouble with their windows? Too bad there's no footage of the elevated roadway.
The year I was born! Very cool!!!!!
were you on burncoat street in worcester?
Good year too.
Somehow Fitchburg's Depot Square appears at 0:24 - 0:28
Noticed that right away
Look, nothing but American cars. And you paid-off your car with a 3 or 4 year loan. You could buy yourself a used car for a few hundred bucks!!
Can’t be 75 Hancock was finished in 76
0:21 there's my Harvard dorm 5 years before I was born.....nice
@beenie3 the Paramount theater is once again The Paramount Theater ( I was there about an hour ago)
I was able to escape the insanity in 1980 out to California before the lunacy (Plymouth/carver 77)
felt like nothing was changed, I wasn't even born in 1975
What???!! No pickup trucks???
Looks the same as in 2012 except the cars have changed.
Not bad...
Shoulda played some music from Boston - The Group.
0:14 alright lady your walking with your child right in the street when the sidewalk is right there!
Bet they are still around nearly 40 years later
I'll take that over these godamn bicyclist any day!
prudencial center era el eje de la ciudad
and cambridge...
Getting married that year
HA... the expressway still same traffic after Big Dig
No it's not.
Even in 1975, the song 'Please Come to Boston' for me didn't fit, and it really don't fit in 2020.
If you cotton to Joan Baez with a 'Where's Boston' like video in the background...ua-cam.com/video/fpuWg12Hw54/v-deo.html
Or if you want DL himself as a soundtrack to the album cover...ua-cam.com/video/TedXFSUUboY/v-deo.html
Please Come to Boston
Dave Loggins Born: November 10, 1947 (age 72 years), Mountain City, TN
Please come to Boston for the Springtime
I'm stayin' here with some friends and they've got lotsa room
You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk
By a café where I hope to be workin' soon
Please come to Boston
She said "No-would you come home to me?"
And she said, "hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?"
"Boston ain't your kinda town"
"There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me"
"I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee"
Please come to Denver with the snowfall
We'll move up into the mountains so far that we can't be found
And throw "I love you" echoes down the canyon
And then lie awake at night till they come back around
Please come to Denver
She said "No-boy, would you come home to me?"
And she said, "hey ramblin' boy why dontcha…
Now this drifter's world goes 'round and 'round
And I doubt that it's ever gonna stop
But of all the dreams I've lost or found
And all that I ain't got
I still need to lean to
Somebody I can sing to
Please come to LA to live forever
California life alone is just too hard to build
I live in a house that looks out over the ocean
And there's some stars that fell from the sky
Livin' up on the hill
Please come to LA
She just said "No-boy, would you come home to me?"
And she said, "hey ramblin' boy why dontcha settle down?"
"LA can't be your kinda town"
"There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me"
" No, no, I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee"
"I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee"
answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/362604.html
Since the line about the man from Tennessee comes from the woman in
the song who wants the singer to come home to her, I always assumed
that, by "the man from Tennessee," the song is referring to the singer
of the song, the same person referred to as "ramblin' boy."
DL was born in Mountain City, TN.
put down your cigarette and drop out of BU. alright.
I love that dirty watah!
Pay phones & cars built like tanks. People hanging out on porches in the summer. The last generation too uphold WW2 values.
When I came with my mom
Wicked cool
So cool… imagine my parents bought their very basic starter home (wicked the lived in for 50 years)… for $12,000…. Currently in market for $950,000…. Such a joke…. How can anyone afford to live there now??? I miss the middle class so so much… now Uber rich and majority poor….only going to get worse