Ahhh... metal lunch boxes. They kept your lunch safe, and when a bully started up, it would knock him upside his head. And that kids, is why you can't have metal lunch boxes.
Everything in this was a part of my childhood, from metal lunch boxes to wacky packages, mood rings, and school house rock. Wow, what a childhood trip 😸✌❤
I had a mood ring, a pet rock, a metal lunchbox, bell bottoms, the Farrah hairdo, Wacky Packages, a super comb, drank Tab, saw every Schoolhouse Rock, & loved disco. Time for my nap now 😁
Shakeys pizza and root beer, Moonlight sales, S n H stamps, Happy days on Wednesdays, POP rocks, Spencers, huge KISS posters, school with no refrigerated air classrooms, just windows. Cheap, better tasting, bigger hamburgers, Millers Outpost, And Alice in a tube top. Wearing Candies and Avon perfume. 😍
OddRods stickers & Ugly Stickers and Buttons began in the late 1960’s… I Still have many. CB Now 1970 car cards ( pro stock, dragsters, etc. ) were 1970.
This video brings me back to days gone by in the 70's! Metric didn't catch on in the U.S. but, I still remember having to learn to convert measurement of it from standard here in Canada. They should have kept it the way it was.
I'm glad this video brought back those nostalgic 1970s memories for you.The metric system sure was a big change, especially in Canada. Did you have any favorite memories or experiences from that time?
I remember my Laugh-In lunchbox from the '70s. I also remember how comfortable shag carpeting was, My grandparents had that in their living room; it was green, and I remember laying on it a time or two.
Thanks for sharing this video I'm was a 1970's child I remember the bike clips that stopped your flares getting caught in your bike chain, my lunch box was plastic with a plastic flask snoopy & Woodstock was on the front, the colours were red and yellow, I had a mood ring to.
I was in school during the 70s. All of this was familiar. The thing that sticks out to most was when the teachers would hand out copies from the “Ditto” machine, every kid would pick them up and smell the papers because of how weird the solution that was used smelled!👍🏻
The movie DUEL 1970. It was a tv movie that was directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Dennis Weaver and an old semi truck. It became a theater movie later on. It was a horror film. Why did you not mention that?
It's a padded list! 😁 Banana seats, themed metal lunch boxes, bell bottoms all came out in the mid-60s. Tab came out in '63 and was popular by '66. H.R. Pufnstuf ran for only one season: 1969-70. And they were called Wacky Packages, not Wacky Packs.
Knick Knockers. An obnoxious toy. Two glass balls connected by a thin rope. They were outlawed in my school district because kids walked down the hallway from class to class knocking the balls together making noise, or beating the crap out of one another with them. Banana seats on your Schwinn Stingrays were nothing without a "sissy bar" and a raccoon tail tied to the top of it.😊
Sounds like Knick Knockers caused quite a ruckus back then! And yes, those Schwinn Stingrays with banana seats and sissy bars were the epitome of cool. Thanks for sharing those memories! 😊
Right! This is the 3rd nostalgic site that has made that mistake. They must be reading it somewhere. A girl living in the 70s wouldn't say that. Maybe guys just didn't care, lol.
I had a Pet Rock 🪨 and 5 mood rings 💍 and I also had a bicycle with long handle bars and Banana seats And bell bottoms jeans and tube Sox and all the other stuff OK the 70s Era of clothes and all other stuff
You're right. I was born 1969 and I had a Farrah hair style in middle school. I had the hair and my mom would help me put it together in the morning. Through my AS degree, I woke up an hour early just to blow my hair out... then I started doing it the night before.
Absolutely, the early '80s definitely had a lot of carryover from the '70s. It wasn't until the mid-'80s that we really started seeing the full-blown '80s trends take hold."
I was a teen throught the 70s. It was a time of many trends but I wasn't really into trends. I never had a leisure suit, a metal lunchbox, pet rock, mood ring, Pong or tube socks.
The only memorable thing of the 1970s was that I got married. 1974. My wife died in 2021. Bowl haircuts were a trademark of the 3 Stooges.(Moe). Way back in the 1930s . So they weren’t just popular in the 1970s
I'm so sorry for your loss. 1974 must hold many special memories for you. And you're right about bowl haircuts they did have quite a history before the 1970s!
Man! I really miss those days🤔except Watergate. I don’t miss watergate interruptions “We interrupt this program with breaking news” and it was always during the best part of TV viewing hours, 8pm right when Brady Bunch or Star Trek was about to air. (FYI -The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation. It originated from attempts by the Nixon administration to conceal its involvement in the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters located in the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C.)
My grandmother had a pet Rock. After a while I never seen it again. Perhaps she thought it was silly after a while. She died in 1988 so I will never know.
Just remember with waterbeds that every 1 lb equines 10 lbs or close and they were crashing through seeings or floors. Not only that if you had a cat they would make leaks.
@@OldGloryDays77 I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and the reason moms and dads weren't making school lunches for their kids anymore is because they were too busy going to work after the divorce
"Schoolhouse Rock" didn't work. Everybody remembers "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here," but hardly anybody remembers what an adverb is. As for math, that's why the full conversion to metric didn't happen: people panicked, not wanting to learn how to measure all over again. Tube socks only work with denim cutoffs or gym shorts (the bootie kind with hems curved to a point at the sides). Sid and Marty Krofft taught a generation camp, and not the summer kind. Oh, and those "After School Specials." They were always the same: a shy kid, moved to a new neighborhood by Dad who only cares about his job, has trouble making friends, except for a saintly handicapped (you said handicapped back then) kid, whom our little hero(ine) originally rejects: "I don't want to play with you. You're handicapped!" The kid soon falls into a bad crowd that has him/her doing terrible things like smoking and shoplifting; and gets into serious trouble the unaccountably loyal, angelic handicapped kid gets him/her out of, sometimes dying in the process. If Handicapped doesn't die, the two now inseparable friends become the most popular kids in the class. There was a lesson there for all of us. The problem with metal lunch boxes is that the interiors got to smell after a while if you didn't clean them out regularly. It was the late-ish seventies when teenagers began to invade two domains of the housewife (which there still were): soap operas and shopping malls. By the '80s they had taken over completely as the housewives got jobs outside the house. Who else remembers getting high on ditto paper ink? I think they still make Wacky Packages. In any event don't look them up; they're not as funny as you remember them. "You can't go home again."
Great point! SNL has definitely stood the test of time. Some of its skits and characters from the '70s might be less remembered today, but the show itself remains iconic.
Fairly accurate, but dependent where you lived and 10 years is a long time you could be a kid in 1970 or a kid in 1978, 2 totally different experiences. SNL PONG and DISCO were a late 70's Hated shag rugs. Called mimeograph copies not ditto. Polaroid cameras were popular. Metric was not. mood rings were earlier and metal lunchboxes even earlier Never saw those trading cards, 60's -72 were bell bottoms I never saw, nor that bike which was late 70's?
Absolutely, growing up in the '70s offered vastly different experiences depending on when and where you were. SNL, Pong, and disco were definitely late '70s icons. Shag rugs weren't everyone's favorite, but Polaroid cameras were a hit. Mood rings and metal lunchboxes were earlier trends, and those trading cards and bikes became popular toward the end of the decade. It's fascinating how the '70s evolved over the years.
Which of these 1970s things do you remember or have used? Share in the comments!
Ahhh... metal lunch boxes. They kept your lunch safe, and when a bully started up, it would knock him upside his head. And that kids, is why you can't have metal lunch boxes.
Thanks for sharing your memories.
@@OldGloryDays77keep up the good work enjoy the content ⌚🙏🏿💯
Everything in this was a part of my childhood, from metal lunch boxes to wacky packages, mood rings, and school house rock. Wow, what a childhood trip 😸✌❤
First Wacky Packages
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Still have them all. CB
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@@EmmyPierz-ek7hi right on 🙂✌❤
@@EmmyPierz-ek7hi that is so cool. I wish that I still had mine. I moved so many times that I left so many childhood keepsakes behind
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I had a mood ring, a pet rock, a metal lunchbox, bell bottoms, the Farrah hairdo, Wacky Packages, a super comb, drank Tab, saw every Schoolhouse Rock, & loved disco. Time for my nap now 😁
Wow,Then Sounds like you have the full '70s experience.
@@OldGloryDays77 70s & 80s.....miss those times.
Shakeys pizza and root beer, Moonlight sales, S n H stamps, Happy days on Wednesdays, POP rocks, Spencers, huge KISS posters, school with no refrigerated air classrooms, just windows. Cheap, better tasting, bigger hamburgers, Millers Outpost, And Alice in a tube top. Wearing Candies and Avon perfume. 😍
Wacky stickers were so cool the we used to bring them into school to trade them fun to collect
Thanks for sharing your memories.
I have schoolhouse rock on dvd.... I still love them all. 😊
I was a big collector of Wacky packages , Odd Rod and School Daze bubble gum cards back in the day. Fun times.
OddRods stickers
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the late 1960’s… I
Still have many. CB
Now 1970 car cards
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were 1970.
This video brings me back to days gone by in the 70's! Metric didn't catch on in the U.S. but, I still remember having to learn to convert measurement of it from standard here in Canada. They should have kept it the way it was.
I'm glad this video brought back those nostalgic 1970s memories for you.The metric system sure was a big change, especially in Canada. Did you have any favorite memories or experiences from that time?
Oh my God! I loved our waterbed! It was huge fun when you had "relations"!
I remember my Laugh-In lunchbox from the '70s. I also remember how comfortable shag carpeting was, My grandparents had that in their living room; it was green, and I remember laying on it a time or two.
Laugh-In lunchboxes were a blast from the past! Green shag carpet sounds so cozy it must have been a comfy spot to relax.
I remember all of these things.
Sounds like a trip down memory lane
2:49 I had that same metal Star Wars lunch box. I kept all my action figures in it.
Cool!
Thanks for sharing this video I'm was a 1970's child I remember the bike clips that stopped your flares getting caught in your bike chain, my lunch box was plastic with a plastic flask snoopy & Woodstock was on the front, the colours were red and yellow, I had a mood ring to.
Those bike clips were definitely practical! Snoopy and Woodstock lunch boxes sound adorable. Did your mood ring change colors often?
I was in school during the 70s. All of this was familiar. The thing that sticks out to most was when the teachers would hand out copies from the “Ditto” machine, every kid would pick them up and smell the papers because of how weird the solution that was used smelled!👍🏻
The Ditto machine’s proper name was the Mimeograph if my old brain remembers correctly.
I remember that too.The smell of those Ditto copies was so distinct. It's funny how certain things from school days stick with us.
You're right. It was called the Mimeograph machine.
Loved the mimiograpgh machine tests.
Ditto!😉
I remember all of these things . Different times. Way better. I Hated the bowel hair cut.😂
Ah, memories. What hairstyle did you prefer back then, then?
Do not forget the sea monkeys,magic rocks and ant farms
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll definitely include that in an upcoming video. Stay tuned.
Those were more 50s to 60s than 70s.
Yes and don't forget the black posters that lit up in the dark those was so cool
@@TinaRobinson-qf1dh black light posters
I remember Wacky Packages from the 80s too… man I miss those. They were awesome and funny 😊
I had a mood ring back then.
Cool.Did your mood ring ever surprise you with its accuracy?
You could always tell when i was in a bad mood, because my mood ring would leave a mark on my husband's forehead. 😉👍
Bell bottoms still look pretty cool 😎
Totally. Bell bottoms have that timeless flair.
Except you had to wear bell bottoms if you were in the navy. It was part of the navy uniform.
The movie DUEL 1970. It was a tv movie that was directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Dennis Weaver and an old semi truck. It became a theater movie later on. It was a horror film. Why did you not mention that?
Even with warning labels people still smoke. Too.
What about Hee Haw and Rowan and Martin Laugh In? They were both on in the 70s.
Dido machines? We always called it a mimeograph.
Ditto
You're right. It was called the Mimeograph machine.
The Brady Bunch oh!
That's Great you remember Brady branch.
Oh wow i just remembered now, i did indeed have whacky packs, that was such a long time ago i had completely forgotten until Now...
I think the banana seats were more comfortable.
Absolutely! Those banana seats were all about comfort and style.
You could also ride someone on the back. I even had one with a high bar in the back which made it easier.
It's a padded list! 😁 Banana seats, themed metal lunch boxes, bell bottoms all came out in the mid-60s. Tab came out in '63 and was popular by '66. H.R. Pufnstuf ran for only one season: 1969-70.
And they were called Wacky Packages, not Wacky Packs.
Thanks for your comment! You're right, it's Wacky Packages, not Wacky Packs. Thanks for pointing that out!
It was a great time. Yes, it was quirky but a vastly better time than now.
I'm still sleeping on/in a waterbed 😂
Wow!
Mine is in my guest room and even with a $15k tempurpedic I love my waterbed!
Speilberg sporting tube socks while being an appetizer for Bruce the shark
That sounds like a humorous visual! Spielberg's style and Jaws references definitely capture the essence of the '70s.
I miss my waterbed! My parents sold waterbeds at one point
I have fond memories of mine too! 🌊🛏️
6:29 You forgot tie dye t shirts and clothes
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll definitely include that in an upcoming video. Stay tuned.
CPO jackets. CB
I remember catching the leg of my bell bottom jeans in the chain of my high rise bike which had a banana seat.
Glad you enjoyed the trip down memory lane!
Knick Knockers. An obnoxious toy. Two glass balls connected by a thin rope. They were outlawed in my school district because kids walked down the hallway from class to class knocking the balls together making noise, or beating the crap out of one another with them. Banana seats on your Schwinn Stingrays were nothing without a "sissy bar" and a raccoon tail tied to the top of it.😊
Sounds like Knick Knockers caused quite a ruckus back then! And yes, those Schwinn Stingrays with banana seats and sissy bars were the epitome of cool. Thanks for sharing those memories! 😊
@@OldGloryDays77 Lest we not forget the ol' playing card in the spokes thing held in place via clothespin.
I got a mood ring one year for Christmas.
That's so cool! Mood rings were such a fun part of the '70s. Do you remember what colors yours changed to?
I’m 60 years old and I still have my collection of wacky pack stickers.
That's awesome. Those Wacky Pack stickers were such a fun part of the '70s. It's great that you've held onto them all these years.
Spielberg was wearing tube sox.
Got it! Spielberg's tube socks were a notable part of his style back then.
I had a 3 ring binder with 10 pages of wacky packs lol
Indeed,Wacky Packs were so much fun to collect.
Dorothy’s hair was a WEDGE, NOT a BOWL.
Thanks for pointing that out!
Right! This is the 3rd nostalgic site that has made that mistake. They must be reading it somewhere. A girl living in the 70s wouldn't say that. Maybe guys just didn't care, lol.
HR Puffinstuff indeed.
Classic choice! HR Pufnstuf was such a unique show. It really captured the whimsical spirit of the '70s!
I hated and still hate diet soda.
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I had a Pet Rock 🪨 and 5 mood rings 💍 and I also had a bicycle with long handle bars and Banana seats And bell bottoms jeans and tube Sox and all the other stuff OK the 70s Era of clothes and all other stuff
Then Sounds like you have the full '70s experience.
@OldGloryDays77 and I loved the 70s Era of everything ❤️. That us Kids could ever want ....and still looking for in this day and age
Some Wacky Packages cards are worth a good dollar today.
Absolutely!
My workmate told once, that when his papa passed away, he found enormous collection of 8 mm xxx - rated movies...
I'm sure those are classics omg.
That must have been quite a surprise! It's interesting what people collected back then.
I remember everything here..never did have a pet rock...even as a kid I just thought it was ridiculous 😂
Glad you enjoyed the trip down memory lane!
The early 80s were basically left over 70s... I was born in 78, and all of these I had before 1985, that's when the 80s really set in I think
You're right. I was born 1969 and I had a Farrah hair style in middle school. I had the hair and my mom would help me put it together in the morning. Through my AS degree, I woke up an hour early just to blow my hair out... then I started doing it the night before.
Absolutely, the early '80s definitely had a lot of carryover from the '70s. It wasn't until the mid-'80s that we really started seeing the full-blown '80s trends take hold."
I was a teen throught the 70s. It was a time of many trends but I wasn't really into trends. I never had a leisure suit, a metal lunchbox, pet rock, mood ring, Pong or tube socks.
Sounds like you had your own style! The '70s were definitely a time of diverse trends.
The only memorable thing of the 1970s was that I got married. 1974. My wife died in 2021. Bowl haircuts were a trademark of the 3 Stooges.(Moe). Way back in the 1930s . So they weren’t just popular in the 1970s
I'm so sorry for your loss. 1974 must hold many special memories for you. And you're right about bowl haircuts they did have quite a history before the 1970s!
The one I remember from the Wacky Packs is the Big Muck.
Thanks for sharing your memories.
You forgot the mini shirts and the movie of the Godfather with marlo brando. Folk and disco music. 7 up soda. And many more things
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll definitely include that in an upcoming video. Stay tuned.
I Can Help a song by Billy Swan 1974.
Glad you enjoyed the trip down memory lane!
I put so many wacky packages on my skateboard. I wonder what ever happened to that board?
Sounds like a rad skateboard setup! Any chance it's still around?
Oh some of us used the metric system when dealing with certain grams.
Yes!Using the metric system for grams was quite common, especially in certain contexts during the '70s.
I absolutely loved my waterbed 🌟❤️ ……I had it from 1977-87✊ I’m now 61 💫
Waterbeds were such a cool trend back then! It must have been a comfy decade with yours.
Man! I really miss those days🤔except Watergate. I don’t miss watergate interruptions “We interrupt this program with breaking news” and it was always during the best part of TV viewing hours, 8pm right when Brady Bunch or Star Trek was about to air. (FYI -The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation. It originated from attempts by the Nixon administration to conceal its involvement in the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters located in the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C.)
Absolutely. Those interruptions were the worst right when we were about to enjoy our shows. But the 70s had so many great moments to remember.
Those weren't the Rolling Stones!!!
Those were the Bee Gees!!!!
Eather do your homework or get your photos straight!!!!
Anyone remember pee chee's. Kept your school papers in them. Of course, you had to customize yours with your own special doodles.
Absolutely.Pee Chee folders were a classic for organizing schoolwork. Doodling on them was half the fun.
Do u remember Pet rock, TV bricks and disco balls..do u know what happened when they built them shopping malls..
Yep, I remember Pet rocks, TV bricks, and disco balls. Shopping malls changed how we shopped and socialized!
A low cost Pontiac 455 SD? Damn.
My grandmother had a pet Rock. After a while I never seen it again. Perhaps she thought it was silly after a while. She died in 1988 so I will never know.
That’s a sweet memory. Pet Rocks were definitely a quirky trend. It’s funny how some things stick around, and others fade away. Thanks for sharing.
The metric system what a scam that was!
Yeah, the metric system sparked quite a debate! Did you prefer the old way of measuring things?
@@OldGloryDays77 absolutely it works just fine no need to change
I believe they were called Wacky Packages, not Wacky Packs. I know because I collected them. Ragetty Ant was my favourite.
Ah, thanks for clarifying! Wacky Packages were such a hit for collectors. Ragetty Ant sounds like a classic choice.
Just remember with waterbeds that every 1 lb equines 10 lbs or close and they were crashing through seeings or floors. Not only that if you had a cat they would make leaks.
Thanks for sharing your memories.
Oh , I used grams. Kilograms even...
Then in the 80s and 90s parents stopped making lunches for their kids so lunch boxes went away
That's a good observation! The shift in lunch habits did impact the popularity of lunch boxes over time.
@@OldGloryDays77 I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and the reason moms and dads weren't making school lunches for their kids anymore is because they were too busy going to work after the divorce
We forgot them for a good reason: INTERNET!!!
True!
You were doing great until you flashed an 80s model TransAm up there...😂
Bell Bottom jeans came out in the 60’s!! NOT the 70’s!! It was carried over into the 70’s!!
You're right! Bell bottoms did start in the '60s but really took off in the '70s. Thanks for the clarification.
"Schoolhouse Rock" didn't work. Everybody remembers "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here," but hardly anybody remembers what an adverb is. As for math, that's why the full conversion to metric didn't happen: people panicked, not wanting to learn how to measure all over again.
Tube socks only work with denim cutoffs or gym shorts (the bootie kind with hems curved to a point at the sides).
Sid and Marty Krofft taught a generation camp, and not the summer kind.
Oh, and those "After School Specials." They were always the same: a shy kid, moved to a new neighborhood by Dad who only cares about his job, has trouble making friends, except for a saintly handicapped (you said handicapped back then) kid, whom our little hero(ine) originally rejects: "I don't want to play with you. You're handicapped!" The kid soon falls into a bad crowd that has him/her doing terrible things like smoking and shoplifting; and gets into serious trouble the unaccountably loyal, angelic handicapped kid gets him/her out of, sometimes dying in the process. If Handicapped doesn't die, the two now inseparable friends become the most popular kids in the class. There was a lesson there for all of us.
The problem with metal lunch boxes is that the interiors got to smell after a while if you didn't clean them out regularly.
It was the late-ish seventies when teenagers began to invade two domains of the housewife (which there still were): soap operas and shopping malls. By the '80s they had taken over completely as the housewives got jobs outside the house.
Who else remembers getting high on ditto paper ink?
I think they still make Wacky Packages. In any event don't look them up; they're not as funny as you remember them. "You can't go home again."
I can still sing the preamble to the Constitution because of School House Rock! 😘😍
How could SNL fade into history since it will start its 50th season this fall? Would be more like Sonny & Cher or Donny & Mary.
Great point! SNL has definitely stood the test of time. Some of its skits and characters from the '70s might be less remembered today, but the show itself remains iconic.
Had a lunch box
Sounds like you had a lunch box. Did you have a favorite design or character on it?
Had one too.
PING?! 😢
Tube 🧦 over 🤼Tights!
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I accidentally bought a Tab when I was in high school in a Sears store....it tasted like metal 🤮
Yikes, that must have been a surprising experience! Tab's taste definitely wasn't for everyone.
They resurrected Tab. So gross. Pepsi lite was way better
Pepsi Lite had its fans for sure! Everyone seems to have strong opinions about these classic sodas.
I hated The Brady bunch.. never liked the show I like the bell bottoms pants
Bell bottoms had a great look.
Fairly accurate, but dependent where you lived and 10 years is a long time you could be a kid in 1970 or a kid in 1978, 2 totally different experiences.
SNL PONG and DISCO were a late 70's
Hated shag rugs. Called mimeograph copies not ditto.
Polaroid cameras were popular. Metric was not.
mood rings were earlier and metal lunchboxes even earlier
Never saw those trading cards, 60's -72 were bell bottoms I never saw, nor that bike which was late 70's?
Absolutely, growing up in the '70s offered vastly different experiences depending on when and where you were. SNL, Pong, and disco were definitely late '70s icons. Shag rugs weren't everyone's favorite, but Polaroid cameras were a hit. Mood rings and metal lunchboxes were earlier trends, and those trading cards and bikes became popular toward the end of the decade. It's fascinating how the '70s evolved over the years.
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