This video actually brought tears to my eyes. The slamming of the lockers, the kids talking and laughing. There were no cell phones back then. Tik Toc was non-existent. I actually miss the good old days.
People were also much much more stupid, I remember if you wanted to do a project on white rhinos you would have to make a trip to the library, or if you didn't know something you would have to go get an encyclopedia. Nowadays, you can access literally any information you could possibly want, from making a bomb, to what Alzheimer's disease is, to current events, or what soy sauce is made out of. I guess you are right though, why would people do any of that when they can sit on youtube or watch tikky toks.
@@smokeskull Damn! I haven't heard or even THOUGHT about those old phrases since... well, probably the 70's!! Thanks for the memories. See ya in a while crocodile.
Absolutely - altho I would have been in 7th grade, 1977. I watch this and think - wow - we were a civilized people. No fears of idiots shooting up our classes, beating up the teachers, etc. Yes, we were blessed.
lol and it was probably huge! We got our first 'VCR' camera in 1979...had sound and all...but was heavy.....came in a suitcase! heck...what came before it....super 8?
I graduated from Grover Cleveland HS in Reseda, CA in 1977. I'm 64. I will echo what others said. Despite some bad things (there are ALWAYS bad things in every era) the good was great. The phone that I am using right now is a marvel. I can play this video and time travel. I can listen to ALL the music from back then. But these phones are also disconnecting kids from each other now. Nothing better than just normal human interactions. Which is what you see from my contemporaries here.
@@daveschlom4033 Hey man! I just graduated this year in 2024. I really enjoyed the video and your comment. I saw a lot of people in the comments section talking about how much things have changed for the worse. A lot of people will tell you we are being indoctrinated or that we are obsessed with cell phones, but those people just want to stress you out and gain votes for their political BS. The classes are still classes, and we mostly just use our phones to schedule times to hang out in person. But I'll be honest, the 70s seem like a much cooler time.
@@spencebear Where did you graduate from? SoCal? Whatever, congratulations and keep on being you. In 70s lingo...I dig your vibe! (Might be a bit of 60s in there too...)
Boy, my heart aches looking at this. The cars, the clothes, the hair styles, the young people. This was every high school across this country back in 1977. Man, do I miss these times. My heart just aches!!!
Ya it’s like I’m in my High School in Montreal Canada 🇨🇦. No fear of someone walking in with a semiautomatic. My have times changed in such a short while. 🤓
Please note the incredible LACK of obesity in this video. We looked like an entirely different species back then. Yes.. the girls were far more attractive and the guys were allowed to have testicles.
i did see a student 2 seats up from me in 1979 had a gun i was going tell the teacher i was new to this high school i didn't really know any one students says he just mean kid
Ah the 90's were pretty great too. Still no cells phones, school shootings (other than Columbine) and all that stuff. We pretty much did all the same stuff in the 90's as the 70's and 80's. After that though...things seem to have severely declined.
Certainly did - I wouldn’t have wanted to be a teenager in any other decade. The music, the fashions and there were thousands of us - plenty of friends.
I graduated high school in 77. I also had a 72 Ford Maverick. The kids dressed way better back then too. Theres no way my Mom would let me go to school with holes in my clothes. And we were a middle class family. People had more pride back then
True, and yeah, this video made me chuckle. I went to a large suburban high school in the mid '70s, roughly 450 students in each grade level, so we had all types, including a significant numbers of kids who routinely WAY overdressed. It was like a fashion show, mostly girls in their their lovely sun dresses and etc but also some guys with quite a wardrobe. I'm talking dressed like they were going to a disco, or some in business type suits. There was one kid who every day dressed like a businessman going to work in an office, full suit and tie, even carried a briefcase. Unsurprisingly, he was very smart, well organized, and got good grades. I sometimes wonder what happened to him. I'd be surprised if he didn't go far. I was somewhere in the middle. Most days jeans or similar with Cons or the ever popular Earth shoes, but other days a little fancier with pleated front baggies and bumper toed platforms. Good times.
I graduated in 1980 and DESPERATELY wish I could have the '70's back. I know there were things that were already getting pretty messed up, but I still miss those days!!!
@@MrTangent not like today. People are always looking at their phones no matter what they’re doing. Social media has ruined human interaction. We never cared about it. Yea there were cell phones but mostly they were bricks and car phones only owned by the upper class. And the computers were trash. Lemmings was the most you could play on them. Again owned by businesses or those with wealth. And as far as the internet it was nothing like it is today.
The '70's were dreadful. Record high gas prices and inflation (kind of like now), gas lines, Viet Nam, Nixon, Ford, and Carter, really ugly clothes, furniture, and cars . . . There was some good music though.
No shootings, no metal detectors, no cell phones and no Tik Tok.! Ahhhh.... nice life! Graduated in 1978, and so glad I did. Loved the parking lot at the beginning!!
I graduated in 1991. I am so glad I was part of the last generation to live in a semi-normal America. No cell phones, internet, none of it. We LIVED. We hung out at parties with hundreds of kids. Sometimes a fight would happen, but no shootings of gang problems. We lived the same existence as these kids, just with slightly different music and clothing. But 70's music was still popular. Aerosmith and Ozzy osbourne are proof of that. As big or bigger in my day as they were in the 70's. I miss that. I think we thought ourselves so far removed from the 70's but in reality there was only a few years difference. I began high school only 9 years after this was filmed. I would not want to be a kid in the 21st century.
Very good but i was a shy nerd but smart..i graduated in 1989 . I agree with you but for me it was a little bit different ..like all people here say there was no cell phones and internet ..but late 80s different from 70s ..fear of aids , soy no to everything like no lovemaking , crack and judgemental talk shows adults judging teenagers lifestyles so id rather played the first nintendo after high school or watch cable tv ,but there was good music at time of my senior year or my first years in college !! for my existence it was skinny puppy ,faith no more, NIN and indie like pixies or primus yess you catch my drift so i was cool , since i was nerdy and shy maybe i prefer today ! now like from nerd or hipster point of view, i like tech ! it motivates you to go to college !! ok now a as a grownup ..internet is for adults not for kids it makes them lazy or watch bad things ..but today for our reality of bieng an adult and with a lot of responsibities, internet makes it exciting like to escape , we nerdy people find today is very exciting .but again not from a kids point of view . So as a kid i would like to be in 70s a good sense when sex drugs and rock and roll ruled ,,disco era !! or todays cause nerdy, lgbtq are not made fun of like the 80s or 90s!! our gen x was like we were on the brakes ..and we were born too late but also too early.. without a "consistent" road for vivid mindset
@@qekruxt5089 I graduated in 1990. Plenty of us had been glued to video games from Pong to Super Nintendo, then to the 8 bit/16 bit PCs that took over.
I graduated in '85 and hadn't touched a computer or video game (except for PacMan or something on occasion). Life in the analog age was hands-on. I was active and fit. I left the house a LOT
I was 11 in 77. What a great time to be a kid. Hands-off parenting, banana seat bikes (with no helmet), muscle cars, knee-high tube socks, and mop hair styles. We caused havoc in an innocent sort of way. We knew where all the convenience stores were who would sell us dirty magazines and cigars, and spent our summers in camp or on the street soaking in life with no filter. Damn. I wish we could go back to those days.
@@jimbarrofficial yeah, before they taught how to be a panzy. God what a much better life we had in the 70's and even 80's. Miss those days for sure. Feels like a different world or definitely country. We've surrendered this country now though. It's over!
Reading the comments of so many fellow high schoolers in the late 70s. We may have attended different schools, but we will forever share the same reflection of just how lucky we were to have grown up in that era.
@@loloholmes2793I blame it on the education system going woke in the nineties. My kids got all their wacky ideas from school, so my wife and I had to be proactive with them regarding what they were being taught - much more than my parents were with us…
@@loloholmes2793 Not quite. It was the high schoolers of the 50s, not 70s, who mostly raised Gen X, with divorce becoming commonplace, latchkey kids who felt alienated, etc. These were the kids born from the mid-60s to early 80s. Whereas those of us who graduated high school in the late 70s raised Millennials who, by and large, had a great childhood, but many of whom are facing a challenging world in their 20s and 30s. But it's not that we didn't raise them well. Parenting became a renewed passion starting in the late 80s.
You are unique. Too many coming here want the US to look like where they came from (which I ask, why come here?). And too many that are spoiled and hate this great country won't leave to live in a place that suits their communist ideologies. We are a great nation, we will defend our way of living.
✨💎 We were pretty cool 'teenagers in the 80s, you know I realize how spaced out kids are on their phones. My god- - 5 teens sitting in the same living room & theyre not even talking out loud, theyre texting the person right in front of them! So it is very different. But don't attribute that to what Im about to say next, 'cause there are parents & children every generation who are "cool," "talkative," "quiet," or just "nerds" My children have been out of the nest for years now. When she was about 18, two neighboring kids came over to meet my daughter after school- - a girl & a boy both about 11. I imagined they were brother & sister. I had only met them once before. And Jess wasnt home just yet. When the boy asked me how I was doing, I said "Pretty good I guess- - for a lowdown donkey nobody loves" trying to sound like Eeyore. He responded by introducing himself as "Christopher Robin," but he used a voice that was t o o effeminine. I went dead quiet & the girl standing by him just looked at me as if we mutually understood the problem So I said "Whatever you do, dont use that voice around school!" After some casual talking back & forth for a minute, eventually I realized he still didnt get it. I wasnt going to be blunt with "because your classmates will seriously think youre a fruitcake & kick your a**, thats why!" I was trying to think of a delicate way to put it, when the girl spoke up: "You know what the problem is, Jim?" - No, what? - "This is the moment when you realize your grandparents are c o o l e r than you are!" - He's not my grandparent, stupid (motioning toward me) - " E x a c t l y , " clueless! I wanted to say "Who's the grandparent? You? 'Cause it cant be me!" But they just ran out the front door 😂😂😂
I was Class of '77. This is so nostalgic. I like how it's not trying to do anything but record these moments in time. It's not trying to make any kind of point or prove anything. Just slices of life.
I graduated in 1977. Fun times. You can even kinda tell the types of kids as they walk past, like who are the jocks, who are the cool kids, the nerds, the misfits. LOL Takes me back. (Seems like yesterday to me though.)
It's just nostalgia buddy nothing much.. I'd much rather living in todays technology than living in the past with no phones/internet/video games etc... You think you want to go back in time but trust me you don't.
I disagree. Not on any interpersonal level. In terms of institutional level yes, but outside of segregated areas people generally related well. People touched each other. The suicide rate was relatively miniscule compared to today.
I graduated HS in '75, but this is what it looked like, everything about it looked like this. Students transitioned from using Slide Rules to a Texas Instruments Calculator ! We also used graphite pencils to write with in our spiral notebooks ! Bic pens were quickly converted to spit wad tubes - a favorite past-time in middle school.
I graduate in 1976 and we had to use slide rules in my tenth grade chemistry class. Calculators had just come out, but they were still expensive and our teacher wouldn't let us use them anyway.
(Junior High School) and it sounded better than middle school. Of all things, why was the name change necessary ? When you left Elementary school for Junior High, it felt like a bigger step up, than what they have now in, middle school, which is almost, irrelevant sounding.
I was a senior and graduated in 1977. Life was so much better growing up in that decade. I miss the music, friends and the feeling of endless possibilities of my future.
I was 20 in 1977. I had already been married 3 years and had a 2 year old. We will celebrate our 50th anniversary next year and I just spent the morning going over his medications with his V.A. Dr. 🙂 This sure does take me back to a simpler time. We had a 1976 4 speed, burnt orange Pinto. To this day, that was my favorite car. Loved it!
I was a junior in 1977. I had a Mercury Comet, looked a lot like what I think is that gold Maverick. But mine was two-tone red and white, much cooler car. I loved that car.
Reading the comments is sweet to see the enjoyment of those reliving their youth, but a lot of comments bashing the internet even though the internet is what is helping you relive these moments. Anyway, I graduated high school in 2009, and even then, cell phones weren't as advanced as they are now; things were similar to this, just a different dress style and subtler cameras.
Who wouldn’t miss times like this The 70s is a reminder of just how rich life was and how genuine people were… now everyone is filled with hate and anger and controlled by social media and what the internet tells them…. I’m only 26 but I’m constantly glued to 70s culture and 70s music….. I wish I was there
@@2008WasPeak it’s honestly the times and media man, a lot of changes and new ideas and an even more hateful world was upon us after the 70s it’s a god awful shame how wholesome things were to how bad they are now… makes me want to cry
This was my junior year in HS. It is just like I remember. Laughing and having some good times with your friends. No distractions, no Twitter, and no Tik Tok. Blessed.
We had more fun when there wasn't Facebook, Twitter, or having a computer or a cell phone. We always had things to do and places to go. And most importantly, we had friends to hang out with. These days kids are either playing video games or always texting.
@@davidpanetta6400 It sad the way the society went.I am now 58 and have a flip phone what kills me is that people have to follow the leader and most kids own an iPhone in which they are junk my girlfriends daughter has to have an iPhone because her friends have them just like the lulu leggings sad society we live in.
@David Panetta Kids must of had it made back then. I graduated about 8 yrs back but seeing everything now after covid unless kids are into winter sports or have some kind of property with things to do there isn't anything left that's actually open. Even the mall and bowling alleys close at 7-8pm. Wages stay the same and prices go up it's tough for a kid in school
Wow……1977, my senior year in high school. This brings back a flood of fond memories. Oh lord …….never thought I would miss these sane , normal times . Todays world has changed so much and not for the better.
I had an after school and weekend job at an auto parts store . Saved enough money to buy a “Smokey and the bandit trans am”. So cool …..brand new $7800. Out the door. My dad was so aggravated with me because I could have had a new GMC “Beau James”truck loaded out for $6500. He said “not only do you need a haircut but you need your head examined while their at it” I miss him , the trans am and my hair ……lol
I graduated in "79" drove a 66 four door Oldsmobile Cutlass to school for 3 years. High school football games on Friday night, party till dawn, No cell phones, no worries. The music was the best ever. I am 63 now, Sure wish I could jump in a time machine and go back. Best times ever. Love this video.
Absolutely spot on, Sash. Social Media destroyed Faith and Humanity. Always a double-edged sword in almost anything. It was inevitable because of tech always moving. It was bound to happen. A Reboot is coming for humanity. May take 50 years or less but it is coming. No way out of it.
I was 16 in '77. I remember those days. We had problems with occasional fights but no guns, no garbage on social media, no sexting and beating up of teachers. You were more afraid of what would happen to you at home if you got in trouble at school. The pressure to get good grades and your driver's license at 16 was pretty high. No one wanted to ride the bus. We either walked or got rides to school from parents or friends. Those who did ride the bus were picked up at one location, and after school, were dropped off at the same location and walked home. Those were simpler times with different responsibilities. Alway had a job in the summer to save for a car or some other thing needed. We were not rich but we had 3 squares and I had to share my room with my bratty brother 😀. I remember the black and white tv with the rabbit ears.
@@nealraulston7055 plenty of school shootings from the 70's including kids slaying others for example. Feb 22, 1978 Lansing, Michigan After being taunted for his beliefs, 15-year-old Roger Needham, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, killed one student and wounded a second with a pistol at Everett High School.
Plenty of schools in the 70's saw constant gang fights with bats knives, and chains being used. Plenty of bullying, and harrassment going on with no one caring about it. Teen sex, and drug use were at their zenith in the 70's with the results of the Vietnam war eventually leading to a teen baby boom in the 90's. Everything looks good from a distance, and in our minds where we can look at it selectively, but the same social ills were taking place. You were just young, shielded and not paying attention; like most of us were while growing up in a stable home.
@@fluffy1931Being embarrassed about your generation you quickly googled for school shootings in the 70’s and found one. Typical. America is screwed. Its over.
@@fluffy1931 This is an example of "picking gnat shit out of black pepper." Your example of one incident has already been outdistanced exponentially by a single day's news and will be again tomorrow and a great many tomorrows to follow...
I remember those days. Class of 1982. Especially the sound of the banging lockers. Brings me right back to right before homeroom in the morning. The cars, the fashion, no social media, those were the days. I would go back to 1982 in a heartbeat. Thanks for the memories.
I was Class of 74, my first car was a 57 Chevy, gas was in the 30 cent range, no gangs, no violence, girls were hot, kids were pretty safe to be out at night, we’ll never see those times again and I’m grateful I grew up in that era
I bought my first car in 1974 - a beater, 4-door 1957 Chevrolet "grandma car" for $75 ! I drove that car all through high school until I graduated in 1977 and went in the military. My dad sold the car while I was gone - also, for $75. Guys that had cars always had girlfriends ! I even had a couple girlfriends from the cross-town rival high school ! that really made those guys jealous ! It was a very sweet time ! I enjoyed high school and made the most of it - even though I was a "hippie" and smoked pot - I had some jock friends too - so I got along with just about everyone ! Got in a fist fight one time with a kid over a $2 hit of acid....very dumb.....
I’m so happy that you got to experience that I’m gen z and currently a rising senior and my high school is nothing like this covid ruined a lot of things for me
same here we did not have to worry about school shooting just go to school have a good time be with yoor friends it was easy to stay out of troubles things were good ...GAS WAS CHEAP !!!!
This video is stellar! I was born in 1977. What "Karen Bell" commented is the absolute truth. Even in the 1980's it was still this way. People do not even want to talk face to face these days or even on the phone. All they want to do is text. Cell phones are a double edged knife. It's a tool (which is a good thing to an extent), but it has ruined humanity with all the social media.
I remember this like it was yesterday. I thought I built a false memory of how it was back then but this is exactly what I remember. I'm blown away at how simple things we're. It teared me up because this was a precious time and we had FUN!.
@@teleguy5699 Now that you pointed it out, I don't think I saw even one. At my high school we had 2, one boy and one girl. The car park area rang true, but otherwise this must have been filmed in some nice fairly affluent conservative neighborhood, I only saw a handful of pairs of jeans and no hair past the collars.
@@anthonybelyea1964 Yeah, the closest I ever got to one was a relative who married a gal who's father had a slide projector! 🏴☠ (Cdn flag dressed as a pirate, mouse issues, it was easier to find Har, har)
I love how non-Americans like to say: "Americans are always chit-chatting with strangers in public. I don't get that at all!". It's such an antiquated view of America. Sure, it still happens, but basically everyone under 30 is on their phone. And they DONT want some stranger coming up to them and chit-chatting. For better or worse, society has changed in this regard. And its far from just the under-30s, too.
@@erikstorm8935 Before COVID I used to be one of those chit-chatters in line. But now I'm like get away lol. Really changed my behavior that stupid pandemic.
70s and 80s was the greatest time....we were going in to space , we were building computers, kids were playing sports, reading books like Lord of the Rings, learning musical instruments because we wanted to be in a band, building fast cars, secretly playing DnD. The Golden Age of Creativity.
I agree, but I could not understand why I was always having anxiety attacks from simply walking in the hallways. It was probably from all the girls I had crushes on.
Probably none of us in the comments actually attended this school…and yet we ALL did didn’t we?? I graduated in 79 and this is a perfect representation of high school back then. It can literally bring you to tears as seeing this brings back all the memories of an awesome time to be a Kid!
😂 Crazy i was born 79 rite about the time u were graduating but i tell ya the 90's still werent much different just the clothes an cars an we had this music thing called rap an loud radios this looks familiar to me tho at 45yr old
Ahhh... the pre-backpack era. Yes, we actually CARRIED our books! We had backpacks, but they were used to go camping! What a trip! Thanks for uploading.
@SCOTThomas14 Since, like a typical leftist, you're making it all about politics, I figured I'd remind you that Communist filth hadn't yet infiltrated every institution in the nation and the Leftist Democrats knew better than to try and make everything gay and tranny. Oh, and in 1977, Reagan was just a couple years away from winning the presidency after a progressive Democrat had almost completely ruined the nation. Then, a few short years later, he won his second term with *FORTY NINE* states! Cope and seethe.
Yes! I was going to say the same thing- no backpacks anywhere, which is exactly how it was. Backpacks were for long overnight hikes like the Appalachian Trail or whatever.
They are grandparents now. Man, what an awesome childhood they had. Actual social lives IRL. No cyber bulling. No gender confusion. No covid lockdowns. Normal, healthy childhood which prepared them to be functional adults.
Some are great grands. My daddy graduated in 77 and I have a child that’s old enough to have her own kids. So he’d be not just a grandaddy but a great granddaddy had he been alive.
I graduated high school in 1975. We didn't realize how sweet life was back then! Couldn't wait to get on with the rest of our life...I thought life was stressful, school, working after school, homework, ball games, dances, field trips etc. HA! What fool I was. Those were some of the best days of my 66 years of life!!!
@@JoePedo More bush than the first Penthouse magazines. The plucked ducks didn't come along to later on, probably as a result of more promiscuity causing lice and other VD's.
I was 17 a senior in high school and this video is like a little window into the "daily grind" that was school then.That right now is like the long-lost feeling of being so young! A wonderful memory of what is was like.
My school year of 1976-77 was when I entered the 7th grade of junior high school. The Eagles album “Hotel California” came out that same year, although no one could understand the title track (song) and what it was about. I miss those days too. The Friday night football games.
This is hard to watch,, but thank you for it.. most of the memories are just that and by seeing stuff like this it confirms it wasn’t a illusion.. crazy how messed up our world has become .. these were the best of times 🤝🍻👏👏👏
My dad was 15 years old in 1977. He bought a 1966 Ford fairlane used at $175, he talks about it all the time, he talks about being the class “ clown” and making everyone laugh at once, he said you studied hard out of the books if you didn’t the teacher would fail you, no technology. Etc My dad hardly knows how to use them. Cellphones and laptops. My dad said he’s old school, his mindset is reversed he still thinks it’s this time period. He said times were easier and he wishes he could go back. I look up to my dad I think he’s awesome for growing up in the 1970’s. He was born in 1962. He just turned 62 in April. I love the 1970’s because of him. Thank you for posting this video, it’s very interesting to see how people looked, talked and acted compared to nowadays. It’s much different to what we see now. He graduated in 1980.
This is one of the coolest things I have watched on TH-cam in a long time. The simplicity of it is beautiful. No politics, no bs...just plain reality. I wasn't old enough for high school in 1977, but I am so glad this is the decade I was born in.
Same here. I was 4 going on 5 in September of 77 when this was filmed. But I'm old enough to remember the clothes' and cars etc. Good times. I really miss the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Your pont is mute. You comment is after the fact. I can guarantee you that in 2060 TH-cam will have a video of kids in school from 2023 and TH-cam comments will say the same thing. « Ahhh 2023 was much simpler and everyone was happy than today in 2060 »
Agreed. It's interesting because it's real, not staged, not produced...the fashions and hairstyles bring you right back,,,the books under the arms, hurrying to class before the bell, so important...
OMG, the cars, the hair, the short-shorts in gym class, and almost no overweight kids to be found. Took me right back to my suburban high-school in '77. Man, how times have changed. What a great video!
@@daisydukes8252 Yeah, I was about 9 and a bit too young to attend (bummer!) when Woodstock made History in '69. I was amazed not long ago looking at pictures of the event, thousands of young people having the time of their life. Anyway, the thing that struck me the most was that although there were thousands of kids in those photographs, I couldn't find ONE fat one in the bunch! Try that today. 50 years later, we now have CHILDRENS Obesity and Diabetes Centers. An awful lot has changed for the worse.
This is so nostalgic. I was 17 and remember the sights and sounds so well. It’s amazing to hear the kids going about their day, mainly worrying about their hair and not obsessing about cell phones and social media. A different era indeed. Hope they’re all still around and enjoying life in their 60s.
I'm 63 now and WOW did this video bring back memories. Bell bottom pants, lots of long hair on us guys (I don't have any hair now - lol), Ford Galaxy 500, Pinto, old style Camaro, woody station wagons -- Baahhahahaha. Thanks for posting.
I graduated in 1977 as well , and this is exactly what it looked like. The clothes, hair and cars all look good to me! These were the years, no metal detectors, no mass shootings, and the only drill was a fire drill! All were real good kids except for "the few" and don't forget the best music ever! I'd go back in a NY minute and stay! Yep, I can spot the school jocks and the popular kids in a heartbeat! Lol
You definitely hit the nail on the head with "The Best Music" Couldn't find a bad song back then and if you did it's far better than anything out in the last 25+ years.
Funny how you mentioned mass shootings. In 1977, a kid could keep a shotgun or hunting rifle on a rack in the cab of their truck and no one would bat an eye. Today it would cause a lockdown and a SWAT team to arrive in short order!
I am a 79 grad too. Not many of us had cars. I did because I worked too much. That kid with the new Chevy Blazer had to be rich. Nobody at my high-school had a new anything!
Graduated from Robert E. Lee H.S. in Springfield, VA in 1989. Although a decade later from this video, It was EXACTLY like this. Great time to grow up!
I'm class of 77, it was terrific! Notice how we walked with our heads up, not looking down into a cell phone. We're actually looking where we're going. Oh the music in 77 and the muscle cars. I miss the 70's so much.
Jim, I also graduated in 1977 from a small school. I think I graduated with about 90 in my class. I knew everyone of them. Great music, clean fun. If you had a Cutlass or Monte Carlo you were in! Your problems were few and the future looked bright. Miss those days too.
@@corkyrose9011 Spot on correct. I had a 71 pickup truck with a CB radio and surfboards in the back. So much fun. I had a job running the projectors at our local theater while in high school, the coolest job in town while in High school. Damn I miss the 70's. (You could buy a full four finger ounce for $20!) The 70's was one huge party and we didnt even know it. Platform shoes, bell bottom pants, blacks had some serious afros! We were stylin!
It's crazy to think all these kids in this video had their whole life in front of them. Now its 2023 and these same kids are in their mid 60's. They're entering the last chapter of their lives. I hope all of you have great retirements. My mom graduated in 77.
I'm 62 years young and graduated in 78. I still have more energy than my kids -- ages 20 and 21. I love early retirement and I'm actively involved in volunteering. Life is good but Jesus Christ is the ONLY way. Repent before it is too late. Read "The Late Great Planet Earth" -- a book written in the 70s. The things written in the book have either come to pass or are coming to pass now.
It was a simpler time. As others have noted, no cell phones or social media garbage and lock downs in school were unheard of. How I long for those days.
Being a teen in the 90s and graduating in 2000, whenever I thought of what going to school in the 70s must have been like, I always assumed that Foghat was playing as you drove thanks to dazed and confused lol. Id love to have some of these old cars. Truly a cool decade.
Like many of the other commenters, I graduated HS in 1977, so this was a real blast from the past! I wish the film quality were better so I could see more of what the kids were wearing in the hallway shots. I wore those high-waisted flared pants as well as the bib pants seen in the video. The way the guys were wearing their hair is just as I remember. Interesting that they had coed gym; at my school the girls and boys were separated save for a couple of weeks each year when we'd do ballroom dancing. That parking lot must've been a terror to navigate! I noticed the cars parked haphazardly, and the one dude pulled out into the street without even looking. I was lucky to have the use of my sister's VW Beetle my junior and senior year. Every once in a while my mom would let me drive her 1966 Lincoln Continental to school. That car was a magnificent beast -- I gave ALL my friends a ride home on those days!
@Sarah Renz Yes - I graduated in 1977 too ! And the P.E. class was segregated also - except for the square dancing a couple weeks a year. All the students had to have specific clothes for gym class - every thing had the school logo on it. The most noticeable thing at this high school (as with mine) there were no black kids. I remember we had one Mexican kid - no Asians or black kids. There was a hang-out across the street where kids could go to get a hamburger and fries for lunch (and the "cool" kids could smoke cigarettes) and also buy candy and bubble gum. Once in awhile a fist fight - but mostly a good time.
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them" I think of that quote often when I think back on "the good old days". Ugh I hate getting old lol.
@@KOSMICKEN09 I don’t miss school either but looking back there were many good things about that time period that are gone forever. For example no TSA. It was a time when traveling by plane was very relaxing and enjoyable. Customers we treated with respect not like potential terrorists. Children could still play outside all day without parents hovering over them. Stores and schools didn’t need security cameras and staff. Society was not divided and full of hate and violence. Where I lived most people still had gardens and were raising their own food. Even pets were more free back then. You didn’t see pets put in crates to live. The sky was still filled with fireflies and stars. Divorce was just creeping in so almost everyone I went to school with still had intact families with their biological parents. And it was a time where kids were not being medicated with heavy psychotropic drugs. Those drugs like divorce were just entering into society but hadn’t become a problem to society yet. School was boring but we didn’t have gangs and all the politicized social engineering that kids have today. I never felt unsafe going to school. There is so much more that that time period had to offer that just seems more wholesome and free than what society has to offer young people today.
Wow, people actually talked to each other and were paying attention to the world around them instead of looking down at a screen in a mindless daze. Fascinating.
I graduated in ‘76, walked to school mostly except senior year my friends mom took us. Bell bottoms and smock tops, and long straight hair parted in the middle was the style. No cell phones, carried my books to and from school every day. Never worried about shootings. Oh, and disco music!!
I was 8 years old when this was filmed. Watching it brought tidal waves of nostalgia in my mind and made me incredibly sad to see the simplicity of life in the past.
Same time period for me. I had older brothers and sisters and can remember all of this. I picked up all the hand-me-downs.😅😅. The interactions from that time were so personal. Talking on the phone meant being at home. And, conversations were face to face. The idea of recording was even strange! Messages were notes passed in class or in the hall. I wonder how this compares to today.
Same here man! Me and most of my peers hated going to high school and couldn’t wait to get out. Now I look back and see how we had it made. Hanging out with your friends all day and meeting new people etc etc. the girls were in abundance as well 😝
I graduated in 84….. we were proud to be Americans, we respected our teachers, our hearts, minds, spirits were light hearted, we pushed our comfort zones, found ourselves through that, we have epic stories…….how lucky, fortunate we are, were.
I graduated in ‘84 also. Long before everything and everyone turned ghetto. 😢 American schools now are nothing more than indoctrination centers filled with ghetto trash. The great America we once knew is dead and gone. Very very sad.
We left our cars windows down in parking lots at school and about, and left our Rifles in ranks in our pickup trucks unlike you people today. We had and still have Respect for ourselves and bodies unlike many of you to day.
I was in Junior high at this time, I graduated in 83, I have zero regrets of growing up in those years. Kids today have no idea how cool we were in those days!!
Nah we get it, my dad graduated in 1981 and was the coolest dad ever. After he passed away I got ahold of his yearbooks and those party’s (quotes on the books I read) sounded insane! Rest easy dad you where a legend 🤙
The clothes, the hair, the happy memories. This is the year I graduated and I remember it all like it happened yesterday. Happier, easier times. ♥️♥️♥️
I was a sophomore in 1977-78. The best thing about being a teenager in the 70s (aside from the great music) was that there was no internet or social media. Everything said and done is and will remain a secret.
I graduated in 2004 and it was still like this. Looks exactly like my experience really because my school was built in the 60s and was not renovated. Also, no phones yet etc. I feel lucky to have lived at the cusp of this madness, probably the last generation, perhaps even the last year or two, before things went to shit.
Like hell it was. I grew up during that time, and if you were gay, your life was hell. I saw it for myself. People then were just as biased and hateful as they are now.
I was born in 71 and can honestly say that I am SOOO glad that I was! I had the opportunity to live in a time where cell phones and social media did not exist. A time that when computers did happen, we controlled them, they didn't control us. To see people walking around always in the moment not being consumed brings an amazing feeling of nostalgia. I feel sorry for the current generations and future for not being able to experience the same.
You were so lucky to be born during those times! I'm a young woman (24yo) but I wish I was born a lot earlier and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only young person who's sort of "nostalgic" of a time I didn't even know. I watch a lot of youtube videos like this one because it allows me to travel through time somehow :) I'm sorry for my english btw, it's not my first language
@@balletxcaroline I feel for ya. I was born a year earlier than John there.. But I have to say there is something YOU can do. I find myself doing it more and more. I simply quit looking at emails most of the time meaning. I may look at the file once or twice a month.. and maybe look at a couple days worth lol. But I don't care anymore. I don't carry my cell phone at home most of the time. If I hear it I have to run for it. People "and work" expect you to be available all of the time. The people I truly care about know to call me if they want to contact me. I'll call back if I miss it. Texting is hit or miss.. Sometimes I look.. Most of the time idc and miss it till a few days later lol!! I know you can't get others to do the same.. but I think I enjoy things more w/o the stupid phone on me all of the time. "I also hate the fact it allows the govt. the ability to track us all constantly". So there is that!
@carolineinthe60s You're English is much better than 99% of the people your age whose only language is English! It's not so odd to be nostalgic for a time that you didn't experience. I was born in '67, and in '87, I became OBSESSED with the 60's. The music, the fashion, the culture. I work with people your age who rib me because I'm old, and I tell them I'm grateful to have been born in the Sixties, and that they're just jealous that I got to experience life at a time when everything didn't totally suck. Like it does now.
Class of 1977 here. Great nostalgic memories! The clothes, the cars, the lockers...! As an educator today, I marvel at the quiet hallways during class changes, no bookbags, & no hoodies. Best of all, we respected our teachers and teachers loved their jobs!
And we feared our parents too. Teachers and parents paired up for the sake of the child. We didn't have Karens running to scream at school boards and main offices because of immunization requirements and telling their kid to put their phone away during class. People today are nuts.
@@tycanuck Sounds like he thinks parents should allow poison to be injected into their kids without saying a word. What a dimwit. People today are SHEEP, and like this guy, don't even know it
You can't just lose hope in these kids nowadays they're still always hope that's what God wants us to do have hope it's never too late even though kids nowadays can't get off the phone so it's never too late
I was only 9, I loved being a kid in the 70s, best time !!! What stood out for me in this video was the "kids" appeared as young adults, mature... walking with their heads up, being present, in the moment and it wasn't LOUD, even in the gym class. Boys were boys and girls were girls. God Help us ! 😢 💔
Absolutely. And there's nothing wrong with that. Then boom, the world goes woke and we're suddenly very confused and annoyed when others state simple biological facts😢
Yep, that's what it looked and sounded like to go to high school in 1977. I've gotta give whoever was smart enough to record this 46 years ago some serious props. I guess I should pat myself on the back for living long enough to see it also. Many were lost along the way.
@@maidahaltrecht6577 That was apparently a pretty wealthy school because I noticed many of the cars were almost new. There was a time when turning 16 or 18 meant your parents bought you a new car in certain economic stratas but my parents were not in that economic class. I'm not sure if that's still how things go these days but if it is that's very expensive. I had an old VW Beetle and most my friends had something about the same as my old Beetle.
@@Cartier_specialist Funny, I was looking at the cars in the video and being reminded of how all we had back then were hand-me-down cars that we had to fix all the time lol I assumed all of these cars were older models too.
@@maidahaltrecht6577Yep, we walked EVERYWHERE. That in itself was fun. Dad at work, mom never learned to drive. We actually got out and did things! Not sitting in front of a monitor for hours. Probably why we were so thin lol.
I don't remember the hall lockers being so noisy. We had lots more people hanging in the hall especially before the 1st bell rang. That probably muted the locker noise. Otherwise it looks very close to my high school.
My graduation year! At the ceremony speech the phrase “ Today is the first day of the rest of your life” was used. In Ten years my late husband & I purchased a larger home, because we were having a second child. Then we moved again because we had a third boy 😅. Today when I talk with young people, most of them are so negative and depressed. I try to encourage them to give them hope. I don’t remember anyone feeling that way in 1977, because everyone I knew felt like the world was up for grabs. It didn’t matter if we were from poor, middle class or rich families. Watching this short video, I can feel that same enthusiasm and energy in the air. It was the same in my School. It was like we all couldn’t wait to “grab the brass ring”.
@@strnglhld The interest rate was 17 1/2 percent. I remember. My oldest bought a house at 36 and my youngest is saving & he’s 30. My Father built the house I grew up in. It took him over two and a half years while he was working and finishing College. Now explain again how being depressed is an excuse. My nephew has two rental properties and he’s 35. He’s worked multiple jobs at the same time. There are no guarantees in life, so these young people better stop comparing to someone else thinking they had it easy, because it’s foolish and a complete waste of time. When my husband died, we had very little money. I sold the house. Family members helped us.
Before, life was easier. With 2 years of work or less you could already buy a house, in the summer you had a job that today all immigrants get for pennies, life really is much more difficult.
I thank God everyday for my childhood; no cell phones, playing outside w/my friends, seven TV channels, ice cream man, playing on the swings, THANK YOU, GOD.
Only seven channels and an ice cream man, that is what you call a great childhood? Kids don't play outside with friends today? You are a stupid old fart, that is your generation
I was a sophomore in High School in 1977. 😊 It was a blast watching this time capsule of a video. Brings back lots of good memories. The clothes - the cars - the hair styles, etc….
I was a freshman in 1977/78 in Southern California, and even though this was filmed in Michigan it reminds me of my high school. What a different time it was!
California was the best in the 70’s-80’s! I visited and it was all I thought it would be. I visited again recently and it has changed a lot! Like the rest of the country, not for the best.
Being a kid in the '60s, a teen in the '70s, a twenty-something in the '80s, and I would even add a thirty-something in the '90s, was the best of all worlds.
I grew up in the 90s. In many ways I feel that it was similar to the 70s in regard to the world still being relatively “small”. During the vast majority of my time in school, there was no social media and cell phones were either nonexistent or extraordinarily rare. It was a far simpler time to grow up. We learned interpersonal communication skills and entertained ourselves outside because we weren’t buried in phones. The 90s were the last of the simple times, and I’m thankful I got to experience life before all these big changes. I truly feel for the kids coming up today and I have fears about their/our futures.
1977 was my freshman year. I just traveled back in time. I even saw a few kids in this video that looked like kids I went to school with, although of course they weren't. By my Junior year, I had a silver 77 Firebird Formula, that looked a lot like the Firebird shown here. The parking lot scenes, the lockers slamming, all the background noise, wow. We had a dress code that was similar to the one this school must have had. No jeans, no goofy T-shirts, just nice, presentable clothing. This video is a national treasure, and I saved it and will watch it again, pausing often. What I wouldn't give to go back to those days for a while (or forever). Had I known how the world would be now, I would have savored every single second back then. I probably would have married my high school girlfriend too! I wonder how many of these kids were leaving school and driving directly to their after school jobs like I did (True Value Hardware). Every kid had a job back then. When you met a new kid, it was normal to ask "where do you work?" almost immediately. We earned our own money, respected adults, and knew how to drive a 4-speed or even a "three on the tree". That's just the way it was back then. Watching this, it's hard to believe how fast 46 years went by. It seems like yesterday to me.
Agree on some points you made but T shirts with crazy sayings were very much worn at my HS in 77-81 and hardly any kids drove a year old vehicle we were lucky to have a 8 year old car haha .
And now this video would be shown by liberal teachers, activists, and professors , telling your grand kids this is white privilege and the school needs more diversity and other ethnic groups to have a “chance” now nobody works after school, so many job openings, all the kids do is play on their phones and video games, and watch illegal aliens take over all the jobs in every industry
Yep well said, I worked at a full service Standard station, worked midnights, got out of work than went to school, didn't have a lot of time for sleeping and getting my playing in, man those were the days, I graduated in 77.
No metal detectors, shootings and very few fights. I remember those days when we had to unlock the car door with a key LOL. The 70s were a great time to be young. We didn't have cellphones or internet and we had plenty of fun. It was a simpler time, we got a good education and people respected each other.
Parents then probably: "All the young men now have long hair, how uncivilized!" Me as a parent now: "All the young men then wore shorts & ties, how civilized!" Edit: I meant shirts, not shorts
Since I graduated high school in 1977, this brought back some memories. It also made me laugh! Life was so different for a high schooler back then and for the better.
@@beyondonethousand 83! I Ditto your Ditto! The 80s and the 90s and even the early 2000s were such a Blast!! We had so much fun.. I guess there wasn't any left for nowadays kids!!
Man..the good old days. Brought back lots of good memories. When you asked if you could carry a girls books for her, it meant you were seeing each other lol. Please..I wanna go back
It’s almost like your generation raises messed up kids and blames it on the kids. Congrats on being a middle school teacher and blaming the kids for your screwups.
This video actually brought tears to my eyes. The slamming of the lockers, the kids talking and laughing. There were no cell phones back then. Tik Toc was non-existent. I actually miss the good old days.
People were also much much more stupid, I remember if you wanted to do a project on white rhinos you would have to make a trip to the library, or if you didn't know something you would have to go get an encyclopedia. Nowadays, you can access literally any information you could possibly want, from making a bomb, to what Alzheimer's disease is, to current events, or what soy sauce is made out of. I guess you are right though, why would people do any of that when they can sit on youtube or watch tikky toks.
You missed the sucky ol' days too!
When up your nose with a rubber hose and off my case toilet face were the catch phrases of the day. There were no school shooters back then either
@@smokeskull Damn! I haven't heard or even THOUGHT about those old phrases since... well, probably the 70's!! Thanks for the memories. See ya in a while crocodile.
Stop. Kids still laugh and smile and slam lockers in school... you're just not there to witness it. Ffs, selective memory is what you have.
We are blessed to have been teenagers in the 70’s. We just didn’t know it.
The best musical decade by far.
You're so lucky to experience the 70s as a teen. I wish I was born a little earlier. I was born in '73 so I experience a little of it.
Was it mandated to go to get indoctrinated school like today?
@@johnmicheal3547 - nope…..you actually learned the basics, as you should have ❗️🥊
Absolutely - altho I would have been in 7th grade, 1977. I watch this and think - wow - we were a civilized people. No fears of idiots shooting up our classes, beating up the teachers, etc. Yes, we were blessed.
Whoever shot this had top tier video gear for 1977.
lol and it was probably huge! We got our first 'VCR' camera in 1979...had sound and all...but was heavy.....came in a suitcase! heck...what came before it....super 8?
It sure looks like 16mm film.
Super8 film
@@KimmyGibson I still remember betamax lol. My mom got .E.T. which was probably the first "tape" movie I saw as a kid.
@@deanevangelista6359 Yeah, looking closely I see the lint and dust on the film. Plus other small imperfections that's seen when watching film.
They all look healthy and in great spirit. All of these kids must be nearing 65 by now.
I graduated from Grover Cleveland HS in Reseda, CA in 1977. I'm 64. I will echo what others said. Despite some bad things (there are ALWAYS bad things in every era) the good was great. The phone that I am using right now is a marvel. I can play this video and time travel. I can listen to ALL the music from back then. But these phones are also disconnecting kids from each other now. Nothing better than just normal human interactions. Which is what you see from my contemporaries here.
@@daveschlom4033 Hey man! I just graduated this year in 2024. I really enjoyed the video and your comment. I saw a lot of people in the comments section talking about how much things have changed for the worse. A lot of people will tell you we are being indoctrinated or that we are obsessed with cell phones, but those people just want to stress you out and gain votes for their political BS. The classes are still classes, and we mostly just use our phones to schedule times to hang out in person. But I'll be honest, the 70s seem like a much cooler time.
@@spencebear Where did you graduate from? SoCal? Whatever, congratulations and keep on being you. In 70s lingo...I dig your vibe! (Might be a bit of 60s in there too...)
We are! Graduated in 1976, turning 66 next month😊
@@BonnieVolkle Happy upcoming Birthday!
Boy, my heart aches looking at this. The cars, the clothes, the hair styles, the young people. This was every high school across this country back in 1977. Man, do I miss these times. My heart just aches!!!
You're right. This is a pretty typical highschool back then. I graduated in '77 in Iowa.
me too i graduated in 82 every fall our hallways were full every freshman class stared with 1,000 students
Ya it’s like I’m in my High School in Montreal Canada 🇨🇦.
No fear of someone walking in with a semiautomatic.
My have times changed in such a short while. 🤓
Please note the incredible LACK of obesity in this video. We looked like an entirely different species back then. Yes.. the girls were far more attractive and the guys were allowed to have testicles.
i did see a student 2 seats up from me in 1979 had a gun i was going tell the teacher i was new to this high school i didn't really know any one students says he just mean kid
Those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s hit the sweet spot.
Ah the 90's were pretty great too. Still no cells phones, school shootings (other than Columbine) and all that stuff. We pretty much did all the same stuff in the 90's as the 70's and 80's. After that though...things seem to have severely declined.
Certainly did - I wouldn’t have wanted to be a teenager in any other decade.
The music, the fashions and there were thousands of us - plenty of friends.
@@terri639agreed, however the 90’s were the beginning of the end.
Dam right 🎉
angela ~ l think so!
I graduated in 1977. I'd give almost anything to go back to those days. Hard to believe that those kids would be in their 60s by now. Time marches on.
My dad went to the army in 77,he was 17
I graduated that year too! Class of '77!
This video proves that we were better off without being diverse.
My mom is Class 1977!
@@annagarcia1527 is she hot? Got a picture of her?
I graduated high school in 77. I also had a 72 Ford Maverick. The kids dressed way better back then too. Theres no way my Mom would let me go to school with holes in my clothes. And we were a middle class family. People had more pride back then
True, and yeah, this video made me chuckle. I went to a large suburban high school in the mid '70s, roughly 450 students in each grade level, so we had all types, including a significant numbers of kids who routinely WAY overdressed. It was like a fashion show, mostly girls in their their lovely sun dresses and etc but also some guys with quite a wardrobe. I'm talking dressed like they were going to a disco, or some in business type suits. There was one kid who every day dressed like a businessman going to work in an office, full suit and tie, even carried a briefcase. Unsurprisingly, he was very smart, well organized, and got good grades. I sometimes wonder what happened to him. I'd be surprised if he didn't go far. I was somewhere in the middle. Most days jeans or similar with Cons or the ever popular Earth shoes, but other days a little fancier with pleated front baggies and bumper toed platforms. Good times.
I graduated in 77. Best time to grow up. No cell phones No internet no computers. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. The music we had was the best.
I graduated in 1980 and DESPERATELY wish I could have the '70's back. I know there were things that were already getting pretty messed up, but I still miss those days!!!
Narrator: There were computers. And the internet (Arpanet). And while cell phones weren’t a widespread thing yet, they did exist.
@@MrTangent not like today. People are always looking at their phones no matter what they’re doing. Social media has ruined human interaction. We never cared about it. Yea there were cell phones but mostly they were bricks and car phones only owned by the upper class. And the computers were trash. Lemmings was the most you could play on them. Again owned by businesses or those with wealth. And as far as the internet it was nothing like it is today.
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The '70's were dreadful. Record high gas prices and inflation (kind of like now), gas lines, Viet Nam, Nixon, Ford, and Carter, really ugly clothes, furniture, and cars . . . There was some good music though.
No shootings, no metal detectors, no cell phones and no Tik Tok.! Ahhhh.... nice life!
Graduated in 1978, and so glad I did. Loved the parking lot at the beginning!!
No fat people🤣
Less than 1% of gun homicides occur in mass shootings. Also there were more gun related homicides in the 1970's than the past decade.
How will you reacted if you saw a student with a cellphone back then in 1978?
You had shootings then...it just was usually not reported the way it is today.
1970s had lots of riots and more racial violence.
Schools don't have metal detectors (Houston TX)
I graduated in 1991. I am so glad I was part of the last generation to live in a semi-normal America.
No cell phones, internet, none of it. We LIVED. We hung out at parties with hundreds of kids. Sometimes
a fight would happen, but no shootings of gang problems. We lived the same existence as these kids,
just with slightly different music and clothing. But 70's music was still popular. Aerosmith and Ozzy
osbourne are proof of that. As big or bigger in my day as they were in the 70's. I miss that. I think
we thought ourselves so far removed from the 70's but in reality there was only a few years difference.
I began high school only 9 years after this was filmed.
I would not want to be a kid in the 21st century.
That's your opinion, but I had pretty good memories as a kid playing on the PlayStation 2 in the 2000s.
@@qekruxt5089 Lol!
Very good but i was a shy nerd but smart..i graduated in 1989 . I agree with you but for me it was a little bit different ..like all people here say there was no cell phones and internet ..but late 80s different from 70s ..fear of aids , soy no to everything like no lovemaking , crack and judgemental talk shows adults judging teenagers lifestyles so id rather played the first nintendo after high school or watch cable tv ,but there was good music at time of my senior year or my first years in college !! for my existence it was skinny puppy ,faith no more, NIN and indie like pixies or primus yess you catch my drift so i was cool , since i was nerdy and shy maybe i prefer today ! now like from nerd or hipster point of view, i like tech ! it motivates you to go to college !! ok now a as a grownup ..internet is for adults not for kids it makes them lazy or watch bad things ..but today for our reality of bieng an adult and with a lot of responsibities, internet makes it exciting like to escape , we nerdy people find today is very exciting .but again not from a kids point of view . So as a kid i would like to be in 70s a good sense when sex drugs and rock and roll ruled ,,disco era !! or todays cause nerdy, lgbtq are not made fun of like the 80s or 90s!! our gen x was like we were on the brakes ..and we were born too late but also too early.. without a "consistent" road for vivid mindset
@@qekruxt5089 I graduated in 1990. Plenty of us had been glued to video games from Pong to Super Nintendo, then to the 8 bit/16 bit PCs that took over.
I graduated in '85 and hadn't touched a computer or video game (except for PacMan or something on occasion). Life in the analog age was hands-on. I was active and fit. I left the house a LOT
Born in 64'. The seventies were like something we will never see again for many reasons.
People were more attractive inside and outside. I really don't care for people today.
@@user-or6yn8pm3c Or the world as it is today.
@@wadewatson2751 ewww old man is typing unless it’s his granddaughter or grandson typing for him LMFAO 🤣 old man can’t use his rotten fingers 😭 😂
I'll say it again: I'm everyday grateful for growing up in the 70's.
I was 11 in 77. What a great time to be a kid. Hands-off parenting, banana seat bikes (with no helmet), muscle cars, knee-high tube socks, and mop hair styles. We caused havoc in an innocent sort of way. We knew where all the convenience stores were who would sell us dirty magazines and cigars, and spent our summers in camp or on the street soaking in life with no filter. Damn. I wish we could go back to those days.
@@jimbarrofficial yeah, before they taught how to be a panzy. God what a much better life we had in the 70's and even 80's. Miss those days for sure. Feels like a different world or definitely country. We've surrendered this country now though. It's over!
@@jonburrows2684 Yes, indeed.
Me too!
Me too! I was in elementary school, though. Lol.
Reading the comments of so many fellow high schoolers in the late 70s. We may have attended different schools, but we will forever share the same reflection of just how lucky we were to have grown up in that era.
Too bad y'all did such an awful job raising your kids.
@@loloholmes2793 You got that right.
@@loloholmes2793I blame it on the education system going woke in the nineties. My kids got all their wacky ideas from school, so my wife and I had to be proactive with them regarding what they were being taught - much more than my parents were with us…
I feel REAL lucky to have grown up then. I graduated a bit before this and by THIS time I was already in the Air Force and overseas in Germany.
@@loloholmes2793 Not quite. It was the high schoolers of the 50s, not 70s, who mostly raised Gen X, with divorce becoming commonplace, latchkey kids who felt alienated, etc. These were the kids born from the mid-60s to early 80s. Whereas those of us who graduated high school in the late 70s raised Millennials who, by and large, had a great childhood, but many of whom are facing a challenging world in their 20s and 30s. But it's not that we didn't raise them well. Parenting became a renewed passion starting in the late 80s.
We moved to the USA in 1977. I was in 5th grade. I was so happy to be here and become All American! No desire to change the country!
Where did you.move from?
@@lorettadavid8253 Guyana.
You are unique. Too many coming here want the US to look like where they came from (which I ask, why come here?). And too many that are spoiled and hate this great country won't leave to live in a place that suits their communist ideologies. We are a great nation, we will defend our way of living.
@@monty4336 that also happens in the vice verse. Americans going to other countries and not being able to comply/ respect the culture.
@@alysskennedy8661 some people can't be satisfied !
Graduated class of 76, America's 200th birthday. That time is long gone. But I still have my memories.
Me too 🇺🇸”76”
I was 11, but I remember how cool the teenagers seemed. This is beautiful.
✨💎 We were pretty cool 'teenagers in the 80s, you know
I realize how spaced out kids are on their phones. My god- - 5 teens sitting in the same living room & theyre not even talking out loud, theyre texting the person right in front of them! So it is very different. But don't attribute that to what Im about to say next, 'cause there are parents & children every generation who are "cool," "talkative," "quiet," or just "nerds"
My children have been out of the nest for years now. When she was about 18, two neighboring kids came over to meet my daughter after school- - a girl & a boy both about 11. I imagined they were brother & sister. I had only met them once before. And Jess wasnt home just yet. When the boy asked me how I was doing, I said "Pretty good I guess- - for a lowdown donkey nobody loves" trying to sound like Eeyore. He responded by introducing himself as "Christopher Robin," but he used a voice that was t o o effeminine. I went dead quiet & the girl standing by him just looked at me as if we mutually understood the problem
So I said "Whatever you do, dont use that voice around school!" After some casual talking back & forth for a minute, eventually I realized he still didnt get it. I wasnt going to be blunt with "because your classmates will seriously think youre a fruitcake & kick your a**, thats why!"
I was trying to think of a delicate way to put it, when the girl spoke up: "You know what the problem is, Jim?"
- No, what?
- "This is the moment when you realize your grandparents are c o o l e r than you are!"
- He's not my grandparent, stupid (motioning toward me)
- " E x a c t l y , " clueless!
I wanted to say "Who's the grandparent? You? 'Cause it cant be me!" But they just ran out the front door 😂😂😂
I was 11/12 and I was WAAAY cooler than my 18 y/o sister. Class of 84 RULED.
@@magnificentmuttley154 🤣 😂
@@wildwoodandonyx class of 84! 👍🏻👍🏻
@@xxfox 👌👌👌Rah rah rah! Class of '89. So everybody's an 80s 'teen today
I was Class of '77. This is so nostalgic. I like how it's not trying to do anything but record these moments in time. It's not trying to make any kind of point or prove anything. Just slices of life.
Great comment David!
That's what makes it so magical.
I graduated in 1977. Fun times. You can even kinda tell the types of kids as they walk past, like who are the jocks, who are the cool kids, the nerds, the misfits. LOL Takes me back. (Seems like yesterday to me though.)
Just did the 45th reunion a few months ago. Lot of old people there. Ha. Be safe
I graduated in '77 too. Those were good times.🙂
Yes, and the guy wearing a tie probably because it was game day.
Graduated in 78...
I graduated in 1977 also, high school was the best part of my life, lots of good memories and music.
These were far better days than today & we didn't know it ! Things got Worse ! 😔
It's just nostalgia buddy nothing much.. I'd much rather living in todays technology than living in the past with no phones/internet/video games etc... You think you want to go back in time but trust me you don't.
Worse how? People were way more sexist and racist back then.
I disagree. Not on any interpersonal level. In terms of institutional level yes, but outside of segregated areas people generally related well. People touched each other. The suicide rate was relatively miniscule compared to today.
@@zorashki yea me too with the mid life oil crisis in the 70s
Ya think?!😮
I graduated HS in '75, but this is what it looked like, everything about it looked like this. Students transitioned from using Slide Rules to a Texas Instruments Calculator ! We also used graphite pencils to write with in our spiral notebooks ! Bic pens were quickly converted to spit wad tubes - a favorite past-time in middle school.
I graduate in 1976 and we had to use slide rules in my tenth grade chemistry class. Calculators had just come out, but they were still expensive and our teacher wouldn't let us use them anyway.
Haha yes spit wad tubes.
Class of '75! 🍻
That spitball thing started fights in my school. Bell had not even rung yet. 😂
(Junior High School) and it sounded better than middle school. Of all things, why was the name change necessary ? When you left Elementary school for Junior High, it felt like a bigger step up, than what they have now in, middle school, which is almost, irrelevant sounding.
I was a senior and graduated in 1977. Life was so much better growing up in that decade. I miss the music, friends and the feeling of endless possibilities of my future.
Vietnam kinda sucked tho (just sayin')
@@moistmike4150 Vietnam was over by then.....
@@juliemnm8273 Not for Rambo it wasn't. You just don't turn it off.
1974. Would go back in minute.
Me to those were good days
I was 20 in 1977. I had already been married 3 years and had a 2 year old. We will celebrate our 50th anniversary next year and I just spent the morning going over his medications with his V.A. Dr. 🙂
This sure does take me back to a simpler time. We had a 1976 4 speed, burnt orange Pinto. To this day, that was my favorite car. Loved it!
I was a junior in 1977. I had a Mercury Comet, looked a lot like what I think is that gold Maverick. But mine was two-tone red and white, much cooler car. I loved that car.
Pinto was probably the ugliest car ever made by Ford Motor Co.
@@panamacitybeachbum Only a Bum would say such a thing.
@@panamacitybeachbum thats what made them epic.
Happy Anniversary:)
Reading the comments is sweet to see the enjoyment of those reliving their youth, but a lot of comments bashing the internet even though the internet is what is helping you relive these moments. Anyway, I graduated high school in 2009, and even then, cell phones weren't as advanced as they are now; things were similar to this, just a different dress style and subtler cameras.
It's not the internet it's social media that's the problem
Who wouldn’t miss times like this The 70s is a reminder of just how rich life was and how genuine people were… now everyone is filled with hate and anger and controlled by social media and what the internet tells them…. I’m only 26 but I’m constantly glued to 70s culture and 70s music….. I wish I was there
I blame our parents for not keeping the 70s-90s alive when we were growing up
@@2008WasPeak it’s honestly the times and media man, a lot of changes and new ideas and an even more hateful world was upon us after the 70s it’s a god awful shame how wholesome things were to how bad they are now… makes me want to cry
This was my junior year in HS. It is just like I remember. Laughing and having some good times with your friends. No distractions, no Twitter, and no Tik Tok. Blessed.
We had more fun when there wasn't Facebook, Twitter, or having a computer or a cell phone. We always had things to do and places to go. And most importantly, we had friends to hang out with. These days kids are either playing video games or always texting.
@@davidpanetta6400 It sad the way the society went.I am now 58 and have a flip phone what kills me is that people have to follow the leader and most kids own an iPhone in which they are junk my girlfriends daughter has to have an iPhone because her friends have them just like the lulu leggings sad society we live in.
Truth.
@David Panetta Kids must of had it made back then. I graduated about 8 yrs back but seeing everything now after covid unless kids are into winter sports or have some kind of property with things to do there isn't anything left that's actually open. Even the mall and bowling alleys close at 7-8pm. Wages stay the same and prices go up it's tough for a kid in school
Class of 79
Atwater Ca
Wow……1977, my senior year in high school. This brings back a flood of fond memories.
Oh lord …….never thought I would miss these sane , normal times .
Todays world has changed so much and not for the better.
"We never miss our water til our well runs dry". C/O "79" ✌️
I had an after school and weekend job at an auto parts store . Saved enough money to buy a “Smokey and the bandit trans am”. So cool …..brand new $7800. Out the door. My dad was so aggravated with me because I could have had a new GMC “Beau James”truck loaded out for $6500.
He said “not only do you need a haircut but you need your head examined while their at it”
I miss him , the trans am and my hair ……lol
Rarely can you hear "Oh Lord" these days. Even the language has changed.
I graduated in "79" drove a 66 four door Oldsmobile Cutlass to school for 3 years. High school football games on Friday night, party till dawn, No cell phones, no worries. The music was the best ever. I am 63 now, Sure wish I could jump in a time machine and go back. Best times ever. Love this video.
Millenials rule the world.. yall just a speck of dust now.
This is so amazing and shows how life was before the damage of social media! I was 7 in 77
Me too. Great cartoons, huh? And the Sears catalog at Xmas!
Absolutely spot on, Sash. Social Media destroyed Faith and Humanity. Always a double-edged sword in almost anything. It was inevitable because of tech always moving. It was bound to happen. A Reboot is coming for humanity. May take 50 years or less but it is coming. No way out of it.
@@Devogor it's not going to matter 😂 lol
@@Devogor too far gone bruh no going back ✌️
I was also 7 in 77.Life was so much better in the 70s and 80s before unsocial media
I was 16 in '77. I remember those days. We had problems with occasional fights but no guns, no garbage on social media, no sexting and beating up of teachers. You were more afraid of what would happen to you at home if you got in trouble at school. The pressure to get good grades and your driver's license at 16 was pretty high. No one wanted to ride the bus. We either walked or got rides to school from parents or friends. Those who did ride the bus were picked up at one location, and after school, were dropped off at the same location and walked home. Those were simpler times with different responsibilities. Alway had a job in the summer to save for a car or some other thing needed. We were not rich but we had 3 squares and I had to share my room with my bratty brother 😀. I remember the black and white tv with the rabbit ears.
@@nealraulston7055 plenty of school shootings from the 70's including kids slaying others for example. Feb 22, 1978 Lansing, Michigan After being taunted for his beliefs, 15-year-old Roger Needham, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, killed one student and wounded a second with a pistol at Everett High School.
Plenty of schools in the 70's saw constant gang fights with bats knives, and chains being used. Plenty of bullying, and harrassment going on with no one caring about it. Teen sex, and drug use were at their zenith in the 70's with the results of the Vietnam war eventually leading to a teen baby boom in the 90's. Everything looks good from a distance, and in our minds where we can look at it selectively, but the same social ills were taking place. You were just young, shielded and not paying attention; like most of us were while growing up in a stable home.
@@fluffy1931Being embarrassed about your generation you quickly googled for school shootings in the 70’s and found one. Typical. America is screwed. Its over.
@@fluffy1931 This is an example of "picking gnat shit out of black pepper." Your example of one incident has already been outdistanced exponentially by a single day's news and will be again tomorrow and a great many tomorrows to follow...
@@robertboydiiido-bolsa7531 let the circle jerk begin incel.
I remember those days. Class of 1982. Especially the sound of the banging lockers. Brings me right back to right before homeroom in the morning. The cars, the fashion, no social media, those were the days. I would go back to 1982 in a heartbeat. Thanks for the memories.
If you went back you'd make state, i know it! Keep the dream alive!!!!!!!
كانت ايام جميله
English!!!!!!! @@VHj-pj8py
Going back during the Cold War looks good in your neck of the woods.
Me in 83.lol.i.agreee
Being born in ‘94, I would have loved to experienced life like this it seemed so pure, what a trip.
I was Class of 74, my first car was a 57 Chevy, gas was in the 30 cent range, no gangs, no violence, girls were hot, kids were pretty safe to be out at night, we’ll never see those times again and I’m grateful I grew up in that era
I bought my first car in 1974 - a beater, 4-door 1957 Chevrolet "grandma car" for $75 ! I drove that car all through high school until I graduated in 1977 and went in the
military. My dad sold the car while I was gone - also, for $75. Guys that had cars always had girlfriends ! I even had a couple girlfriends from the cross-town rival
high school ! that really made those guys jealous ! It was a very sweet time ! I enjoyed high school and made the most of it - even though I was a "hippie" and smoked
pot - I had some jock friends too - so I got along with just about everyone ! Got in a fist fight one time with a kid over a $2 hit of acid....very dumb.....
@@urbanurchin5930 me too. CO79.
I’m so happy that you got to experience that I’m gen z and currently a rising senior and my high school is nothing like this covid ruined a lot of things for me
Know what I love about these high school girls? I get older they stay the same age
Class of 91 no worries
I graduated a year before this (class of 76) but the sights, the sounds, the cars, the kids, were still the same. It was a great time to be alive.
Carson High-Bi-Centennial Graduate 1976 Carson City, Nevada
Now you are retired
Same. The things our parents taught us continue to be more important as time goes on.
Same here class of 76.....how i miss those days .....my 71 Buick skylark gs455.....cb's no aids......18 years could buy beer.....
same here we did not have to worry about school shooting just go to school have a good time be with yoor friends it was easy to stay out of troubles things were good ...GAS WAS CHEAP !!!!
This video is stellar! I was born in 1977. What "Karen Bell" commented is the absolute truth. Even in the 1980's it was still this way. People do not even want to talk face to face these days or even on the phone. All they want to do is text. Cell phones are a double edged knife. It's a tool (which is a good thing to an extent), but it has ruined humanity with all the social media.
Totally agree with your comment,
Awesome video - I’m class of 1981 - so can totally relate. Thanks for the memories !!
I remember this like it was yesterday. I thought I built a false memory of how it was back then but this is exactly what I remember. I'm blown away at how simple things we're. It teared me up because this was a precious time and we had FUN!.
How much skinnier everyone was too.
@@teleguy5699 Now that you pointed it out, I don't think I saw even one. At my high school we had 2, one boy and one girl. The car park area rang true, but otherwise this must have been filmed in some nice fairly affluent conservative neighborhood, I only saw a handful of pairs of jeans and no hair past the collars.
@@TheKim369they had a video camera back then not too many people did you probably came from a rich family if you had a video camera in the 70s👍😎🇨🇦
@@anthonybelyea1964 Yeah, the closest I ever got to one was a relative who married a gal who's father had a slide projector! 🏴☠ (Cdn flag dressed as a pirate, mouse issues, it was easier to find Har, har)
@@anthonybelyea1964 True....and this one was high end. The video quality is excellent....
The best time ever, can we go back to these days. Notice them all interacting and laughing. Today they just stare at phones.
I love how non-Americans like to say: "Americans are always chit-chatting with strangers in public. I don't get that at all!". It's such an antiquated view of America. Sure, it still happens, but basically everyone under 30 is on their phone. And they DONT want some stranger coming up to them and chit-chatting. For better or worse, society has changed in this regard. And its far from just the under-30s, too.
@@erikstorm8935 they still are chitchatting with strangers just in person so you can still say that!
@@erikstorm8935 Before COVID I used to be one of those chit-chatters in line. But now I'm like get away lol. Really changed my behavior that stupid pandemic.
They Stare because they can't READ and all the depression pills they are on You have LESS to say.
We've lost the wholesomeness and kindness back in the day- but we've got google and apple_ -how's that workin' out? - emotional poison today yuk!
It's amazing how far we've fallen.
70s and 80s was the greatest time....we were going in to space , we were building computers, kids were playing sports, reading books like Lord of the Rings, learning musical instruments because we wanted to be in a band, building fast cars, secretly playing DnD. The Golden Age of Creativity.
Wish I could upvote you like 50 times. 👍👍👍👍👍
90's were great also. A decade of transition.
90's was better
I agree, but I could not understand why I was always having anxiety attacks from simply walking in the hallways. It was probably from all the girls I had crushes on.
@@trigfizzle6876 only 1990-1994 was good
Probably none of us in the comments actually attended this school…and yet we ALL did didn’t we?? I graduated in 79 and this is a perfect representation of high school back then. It can literally bring you to tears as seeing this brings back all the memories of an awesome time to be a Kid!
For me too, even though it wasn't exactly my year and i was 1000 miles away. That vibe was the same across the country for over a decade
😂 Crazy i was born 79 rite about the time u were graduating but i tell ya the 90's still werent much different just the clothes an cars an we had this music thing called rap an loud radios this looks familiar to me tho at 45yr old
Ahhh... the pre-backpack era. Yes, we actually CARRIED our books! We had backpacks, but they were used to go camping! What a trip! Thanks for uploading.
scott thomas💯👍
@SCOTThomas14Republicans and the kkk have been around longer than you have been alive. Definitely past the 70s
@SCOTThomas14 Since, like a typical leftist, you're making it all about politics, I figured I'd remind you that Communist filth hadn't yet infiltrated every institution in the nation and the Leftist Democrats knew better than to try and make everything gay and tranny. Oh, and in 1977, Reagan was just a couple years away from winning the presidency after a progressive Democrat had almost completely ruined the nation. Then, a few short years later, he won his second term with *FORTY NINE* states! Cope and seethe.
@SCOTThomas14Given your profile pic it sounds like you’re saying that like it’s a bad thing lol “😢 no Trump no Jan 6”
Yes! I was going to say the same thing- no backpacks anywhere, which is exactly how it was. Backpacks were for long overnight hikes like the Appalachian Trail or whatever.
They are grandparents now. Man, what an awesome childhood they had. Actual social lives IRL. No cyber bulling. No gender confusion. No covid lockdowns. Normal, healthy childhood which prepared them to be functional adults.
Some are great grands. My daddy graduated in 77 and I have a child that’s old enough to have her own kids. So he’d be not just a grandaddy but a great granddaddy had he been alive.
True enough!
Not cyber bullies, real ones. What’s the difference? The parents from the 60’ s and 70’s.
Yes, everything was perfect! ;) No one had any problems! ;) Human suffering did not yet exist! ;)
I graduated high school in 1975. We didn't realize how sweet life was back then! Couldn't wait to get on with the rest of our life...I thought life was stressful, school, working after school, homework, ball games, dances, field trips etc. HA! What fool I was. Those were some of the best days of my 66 years of life!!!
Is it true none of the girls shaved their pubic hair back then?
@@JoePedo true story, I was 'there', lol
@@doninmichigan Was it like.. scary?
@@JoePedo More bush than the first Penthouse magazines. The plucked ducks didn't come along to later on, probably as a result of more promiscuity causing lice and other VD's.
@@JoePedo very scary 😳😄 but when you're young, horny, and inebriated, you don't let that deter you. 👍
I was 17 a senior in high school and this video is like a little window into the "daily grind" that was school then.That right now is like the long-lost feeling of being so young! A wonderful memory of what is was like.
Same
You mean to have that much energy? 😂
My school year of 1976-77 was when I entered the 7th grade of junior high school. The Eagles album “Hotel California” came out that same year, although no one could understand the title track (song) and what it was about. I miss those days too. The Friday night football games.
This is hard to watch,, but thank you for it.. most of the memories are just that and by seeing stuff like this it confirms it wasn’t a illusion.. crazy how messed up our world has become .. these were the best of times 🤝🍻👏👏👏
thanks to globalization/new order, diversity and acceptance/h(o)m0(s).
My dad was 15 years old in 1977. He bought a 1966 Ford fairlane used at $175, he talks about it all the time, he talks about being the class “ clown” and making everyone laugh at once, he said you studied hard out of the books if you didn’t the teacher would fail you, no technology. Etc My dad hardly knows how to use them. Cellphones and laptops. My dad said he’s old school, his mindset is reversed he still thinks it’s this time period. He said times were easier and he wishes he could go back. I look up to my dad I think he’s awesome for growing up in the 1970’s. He was born in 1962. He just turned 62 in April. I love the 1970’s because of him.
Thank you for posting this video, it’s very interesting to see how people looked, talked and acted compared to nowadays. It’s much different to what we see now.
He graduated in 1980.
This is one of the coolest things I have watched on TH-cam in a long time. The simplicity of it is beautiful. No politics, no bs...just plain reality. I wasn't old enough for high school in 1977, but I am so glad this is the decade I was born in.
Same here. I was 4 going on 5 in September of 77 when this was filmed. But I'm old enough to remember the clothes' and cars etc. Good times. I really miss the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Your pont is mute. You comment is after the fact. I can guarantee you that in 2060 TH-cam will have a video of kids in school from 2023 and TH-cam comments will say the same thing. « Ahhh 2023 was much simpler and everyone was happy than today in 2060 »
Agreed. It's interesting because it's real, not staged, not produced...the fashions and hairstyles bring you right back,,,the books under the arms, hurrying to class before the bell, so important...
agreed :)
@@BeatlesTranscriber nah they will all be looking at phone screens not each other
OMG, the cars, the hair, the short-shorts in gym class, and almost no overweight kids to be found. Took me right back to my suburban high-school in '77. Man, how times have changed. What a great video!
They didn’t live on food stamps so they didn’t eat continuously. Forced integration brought on the food stamp dependency.
@@daisydukes8252 Yeah, I was about 9 and a bit too young to attend (bummer!) when Woodstock made History in '69. I was amazed not long ago looking at pictures of the event, thousands of young people having the time of their life. Anyway, the thing that struck me the most was that although there were thousands of kids in those photographs, I couldn't find ONE fat one in the bunch! Try that today. 50 years later, we now have CHILDRENS Obesity and Diabetes Centers. An awful lot has changed for the worse.
No one looking down while walking. No cell phones. No social media. The best times.
Hi u are so right
i can tell youve never been to any modern high school...
You are a cliché
I did. Wasn’t part of the crowd and was picked on. I hated high school.
Amen to that God bless all of you guys on here I love ye all in Jesus Christ the Lord
The 70's were awesome way before the 80's
This is so nostalgic. I was 17 and remember the sights and sounds so well. It’s amazing to hear the kids going about their day, mainly worrying about their hair and not obsessing about cell phones and social media. A different era indeed. Hope they’re all still around and enjoying life in their 60s.
I'm 63 now and WOW did this video bring back memories.
Bell bottom pants, lots of long hair on us guys (I don't have any hair now - lol), Ford Galaxy 500, Pinto, old style Camaro, woody station wagons -- Baahhahahaha.
Thanks for posting.
@@canadianoddy8504 I’m 63 and fortunately have hair, albeit quite white. 😃
@@yaronsteinbuch3956
Me too and put on a few pounds. lol
59 and loving it! Good memories....
I was also 17 in 1977. Where did the time go? Just wow….😢
I graduated in 1977 as well , and this is exactly what it looked like. The clothes, hair and cars all look good to me! These were the years, no metal detectors, no mass shootings, and the only drill was a fire drill! All were real good kids except for "the few" and don't forget the best music ever! I'd go back in a NY minute and stay! Yep, I can spot the school jocks and the popular kids in a heartbeat! Lol
Hello how are you doing?
Class of 83 attending my 40th class reunion in October,how time flies by.
You definitely hit the nail on the head with "The Best Music" Couldn't find a bad song back then and if you did it's far better than anything out in the last 25+ years.
Funny how you mentioned mass shootings. In 1977, a kid could keep a shotgun or hunting rifle on a rack in the cab of their truck and no one would bat an eye. Today it would cause a lockdown and a SWAT team to arrive in short order!
@@nottabidenfan1228 Right, I'm old and I miss my 70s! I'm bumming, that's how I'm doing. 🤧
I graduated in 79, thus is exactly what it was like. Much better times than today.
Hey, I was also Class of 1979 I have wonderful memories of my high school year's... The best era in my opinion on many levels
Also graduated in 79! Massapequa High School long island ny!!
@@mayplace1961same class as Rex Heuermann
@@armandoacevedo6978 he went to berner high school. At that time there were 2 high schools in massapequa
I am a 79 grad too.
Not many of us had cars.
I did because I worked too much.
That kid with the new Chevy Blazer had to be rich.
Nobody at my high-school had a new anything!
Graduated from Robert E. Lee H.S. in Springfield, VA in 1989. Although a decade later from this video, It was EXACTLY like this. Great time to grow up!
I'm class of 77, it was terrific! Notice how we walked with our heads up, not looking down into a cell phone. We're actually looking where we're going. Oh the music in 77 and the muscle cars. I miss the 70's so much.
Jim, I also graduated in 1977 from a small school. I think I graduated with about 90 in my class. I knew everyone of them. Great music, clean fun. If you had a Cutlass or Monte Carlo you were in! Your problems were few and the future looked bright. Miss those days too.
@@corkyrose9011 Spot on correct. I had a 71 pickup truck with a CB radio and surfboards in the back. So much fun. I had a job running the projectors at our local theater while in high school, the coolest job in town while in High school. Damn I miss the 70's. (You could buy a full four finger ounce for $20!) The 70's was one huge party and we didnt even know it. Platform shoes, bell bottom pants, blacks had some serious afros! We were stylin!
a little Boston playing in the background "More Than a Feeling"
It's crazy to think all these kids in this video had their whole life in front of them. Now its 2023 and these same kids are in their mid 60's. They're entering the last chapter of their lives. I hope all of you have great retirements. My mom graduated in 77.
65 here and loving retirement.
The world as we knew it and know it is rapidly deteriorating.......rapture ready here. 69 years....we are the last generation.
A lot gone unfortunately.
@@Sailor_Tom truth bomb
You always feel like a young person, it's the mirror that makes us all feel old😢😅😂
I'm 62 years young and graduated in 78. I still have more energy than my kids -- ages 20 and 21. I love early retirement and I'm actively involved in volunteering. Life is good but Jesus Christ is the ONLY way. Repent before it is too late. Read "The Late Great Planet Earth" -- a book written in the 70s. The things written in the book have either come to pass or are coming to pass now.
It was a simpler time. As others have noted, no cell phones or social media garbage and lock downs in school were unheard of. How I long for those days.
Being a teen in the 90s and graduating in 2000, whenever I thought of what going to school in the 70s must have been like, I always assumed that Foghat was playing as you drove thanks to dazed and confused lol. Id love to have some of these old cars. Truly a cool decade.
We lived in a very special time. I am so grateful to have been there. Unimaginable today
It was your generation that invented the smart phone. My generation was born into it... Didn't have a choice but to live with the BS technology.
@@DavesRange We apologize. But then again, no one forced anyone to buy them.
The slamming of the locker doors. Their talking & laughing. So much energy.🙂
Yea. Nothing changed in that regard.
@@4.7m_viewsI’d disagree with that.
schools don't have locker doors anymore?
@@TonyDracon
Surely they do. Where do the kids store their assault rifles?
@@tompriceusmc In their baggy drooping jeans?
Like many of the other commenters, I graduated HS in 1977, so this was a real blast from the past! I wish the film quality were better so I could see more of what the kids were wearing in the hallway shots. I wore those high-waisted flared pants as well as the bib pants seen in the video. The way the guys were wearing their hair is just as I remember. Interesting that they had coed gym; at my school the girls and boys were separated save for a couple of weeks each year when we'd do ballroom dancing. That parking lot must've been a terror to navigate! I noticed the cars parked haphazardly, and the one dude pulled out into the street without even looking. I was lucky to have the use of my sister's VW Beetle my junior and senior year. Every once in a while my mom would let me drive her 1966 Lincoln Continental to school. That car was a magnificent beast -- I gave ALL my friends a ride home on those days!
Is it kinda weird to think all the girls had like super hairy bush back then??
@@JoePedo I was only 9 years old back then, that's not something I would have known about....
@@musikmaniavids They never showed you?
Yeah man back when you could drive by learning and it wasn't committing a felony.
@Sarah Renz Yes - I graduated in 1977 too ! And the P.E. class was segregated also - except for the square dancing a couple weeks a year. All the students had to have
specific clothes for gym class - every thing had the school logo on it. The most noticeable thing at this high school (as with mine) there were no black kids.
I remember we had one Mexican kid - no Asians or black kids. There was a hang-out across the street where kids could go to get a hamburger and fries for
lunch (and the "cool" kids could smoke cigarettes) and also buy candy and bubble gum. Once in awhile a fist fight - but mostly a good time.
🙌🏼 The 80’s and 90’s were good enough for me ♥️😎 I respect the times before me too 🪩🕺🏻
I was an 80's teen, but this brings back memories. We were very lucky to grow up in that time.
At that time i didn’t think of it as lucky or unlucky to be growing up then, but looking back i can see we were lucky in so many ways!
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them" I think of that quote often when I think back on "the good old days". Ugh I hate getting old lol.
I have horrible memories of high school between 1984-88 I don't miss it 😭😂
Dang yes I can smell that gym, the old sweet wood and cinnamon rolls baking in the kitchen.
@@KOSMICKEN09 I don’t miss school either but looking back there were many good things about that time period that are gone forever. For example no TSA. It was a time when traveling by plane was very relaxing and enjoyable. Customers we treated with respect not like potential terrorists. Children could still play outside all day without parents hovering over them. Stores and schools didn’t need security cameras and staff. Society was not divided and full of hate and violence. Where I lived most people still had gardens and were raising their own food. Even pets were more free back then. You didn’t see pets put in crates to live. The sky was still filled with fireflies and stars. Divorce was just creeping in so almost everyone I went to school with still had intact families with their biological parents. And it was a time where kids were not being medicated with heavy psychotropic drugs. Those drugs like divorce were just entering into society but hadn’t become a problem to society yet. School was boring but we didn’t have gangs and all the politicized social engineering that kids have today. I never felt unsafe going to school. There is so much more that that time period had to offer that just seems more wholesome and free than what society has to offer young people today.
My high school years were from 1975 - 1979. This brings back many memories.
Class of ‘79, saved the best for last.
1980-84 diverse decade for English pop music.
Mine were 1966-1970 - even better but so similar.
SAME HERE
@@ekimp252 THATS WHEN I GRADUATED, WISH I COULD GO BACK
Wow, people actually talked to each other and were paying attention to the world around them instead of looking down at a screen in a mindless daze. Fascinating.
Yet here we are...watching social media right now...
All by design
Why does it bother you? Are you jealous of the people they are watching on their phones?
I was a Junior in 1977 walking around campus in a mindless daze!
@@ExploringAlabama , Excellent point. I find myself having to remember to to cut the damn compute and phone off, too, and just go live life.
I graduated in ‘76, walked to school mostly except senior year my friends mom took us. Bell bottoms and smock tops, and long straight hair parted in the middle was the style. No cell phones, carried my books to and from school every day. Never worried about shootings. Oh, and disco music!!
Class of 77. Those were the best days
I was 8 years old when this was filmed. Watching it brought tidal waves of nostalgia in my mind and made me incredibly sad to see the simplicity of life in the past.
Same time period for me. I had older brothers and sisters and can remember all of this. I picked up all the hand-me-downs.😅😅.
The interactions from that time were so personal. Talking on the phone meant being at home. And, conversations were face to face. The idea of recording was even strange! Messages were notes passed in class or in the hall. I wonder how this compares to today.
@@ronniestanley75 Me too amigo. I’m the youngest of six and was given the beautiful gift of amazing music from all of my older siblings.
i was minus 11 and I loved it
I wasn't even born when this was filmed.🤷🏽♀️
nice, you're 2 years older than me. remember the snow storm of '78?
I graduated in 1978. This is a true "slice of life" recording. We had it made and didn't know it-
Back then I thought high school was hell somedays but looking back they really were the best times ever....what memories
Same here man! Me and most of my peers hated going to high school and couldn’t wait to get out. Now I look back and see how we had it made. Hanging out with your friends all day and meeting new people etc etc. the girls were in abundance as well 😝
I graduated in 84….. we were proud to be Americans, we respected our teachers, our hearts, minds, spirits were light hearted, we pushed our comfort zones, found ourselves through that, we have epic stories…….how lucky, fortunate we are, were.
I graduated in ‘84 also. Long before everything and everyone turned ghetto. 😢 American schools now are nothing more than indoctrination centers filled with ghetto trash. The great America we once knew is dead and gone. Very very sad.
Graduated in 1987. I hear ya
I was class of 80
Times have changed for the worst!
I sure miss those days even tho I'm fine today!
Thanks!
@@scottsinger273 I'm Class of '80 too. There was so much optimism and hope. Wish I could go back.
We left our cars windows down in parking lots at school and about, and left our Rifles in ranks in our pickup trucks unlike you people today. We had and still have Respect for ourselves and bodies unlike many of you to day.
I was in Junior high at this time, I graduated in 83, I have zero regrets of growing up in those years. Kids today have no idea how cool we were in those days!!
And how much more White the US was!
I’m a 83 girl too! Best times ever😊
Yep. I'm class of '83 !
Nah we get it, my dad graduated in 1981 and was the coolest dad ever. After he passed away I got ahold of his yearbooks and those party’s (quotes on the books I read) sounded insane! Rest easy dad you where a legend 🤙
@SCOTThomas14 totally agree
The clothes, the hair, the happy memories. This is the year I graduated and I remember it all like it happened yesterday. Happier, easier times. ♥️♥️♥️
I was a sophomore in 1977-78. The best thing about being a teenager in the 70s (aside from the great music) was that there was no internet or social media. Everything said and done is and will remain a secret.
@Yuck Foutube I’d gladly trade the advantage of “crimes being caught in video” in current day America for the 1970s
I sure hope you do not have children, That is a problem for anyone who has children.
Could people today survive life without plugging into a computer?
Those born in the 90’s or later have no idea how different life was back then.
Except for what’s contained in old videos that make it to TH-cam 56 years later.
And no closed circuit t.v.'s and video cams round either! How else could we go "parking," LOL! Whatever happened there stayed there!!
I graduated in ‘88 but it was still very much like this, no cell phones, 14 year olds weren’t covered in 2 tons of full face makeup. Good times.
Class of '88 too.🍻
I graduated in 89, 14 yr olds were definitely covered in makeup and hairspray lol
Everyone looked nice, not overweight with messy buns and hoodies.
I graduated in 2004 and it was still like this. Looks exactly like my experience really because my school was built in the 60s and was not renovated. Also, no phones yet etc. I feel lucky to have lived at the cusp of this madness, probably the last generation, perhaps even the last year or two, before things went to shit.
Uh I wore tons of makeup in the 80's haha
This was defiantly a golden age of America.Everything was better like the music, schools, sports, people in general. So simple I love this
Like hell it was. I grew up during that time, and if you were gay, your life was hell. I saw it for myself. People then were just as biased and hateful as they are now.
It really wasn’t. But if that helps you feel better… sure
@@demophys4883sounds great.
If you were upper middle class and white maybe.
You barely had any music 😂
I was born in 71 and can honestly say that I am SOOO glad that I was! I had the opportunity to live in a time where cell phones and social media did not exist. A time that when computers did happen, we controlled them, they didn't control us. To see people walking around always in the moment not being consumed brings an amazing feeling of nostalgia. I feel sorry for the current generations and future for not being able to experience the same.
You were so lucky to be born during those times! I'm a young woman (24yo) but I wish I was born a lot earlier and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only young person who's sort of "nostalgic" of a time I didn't even know. I watch a lot of youtube videos like this one because it allows me to travel through time somehow :) I'm sorry for my english btw, it's not my first language
I hate our present generation😡
I wish things could come back like this 😭
@@balletxcaroline I feel for ya. I was born a year earlier than John there.. But I have to say there is something YOU can do. I find myself doing it more and more. I simply quit looking at emails most of the time meaning. I may look at the file once or twice a month.. and maybe look at a couple days worth lol. But I don't care anymore. I don't carry my cell phone at home most of the time. If I hear it I have to run for it.
People "and work" expect you to be available all of the time. The people I truly care about know to call me if they want to contact me. I'll call back if I miss it. Texting is hit or miss.. Sometimes I look.. Most of the time idc and miss it till a few days later lol!!
I know you can't get others to do the same.. but I think I enjoy things more w/o the stupid phone on me all of the time. "I also hate the fact it allows the govt. the ability to track us all constantly". So there is that!
@carolineinthe60s You're English is much better than 99% of the people your age whose only language is English!
It's not so odd to be nostalgic for a time that you didn't experience. I was born in '67, and in '87, I became OBSESSED with the 60's. The music, the fashion, the culture. I work with people your age who rib me because I'm old, and I tell them I'm grateful to have been born in the Sixties, and that they're just jealous that I got to experience life at a time when everything didn't totally suck. Like it does now.
to bad your little kids are not worthy enough to wield school homework
Class of 1977 here. Great nostalgic memories! The clothes, the cars, the lockers...! As an educator today, I marvel at the quiet hallways during class changes, no bookbags, & no hoodies. Best of all, we respected our teachers and teachers loved their jobs!
And we feared our parents too. Teachers and parents paired up for the sake of the child. We didn't have Karens running to scream at school boards and main offices because of immunization requirements and telling their kid to put their phone away during class. People today are nuts.
Sounds to me like the class of '77 raised their children poorly. No one to blame but yourself.
@@tycanuck Sounds like he thinks parents should allow poison to be injected into their kids without saying a word. What a dimwit. People today are SHEEP, and like this guy, don't even know it
Was se* more common in those times or is it more common now a days?
A homeless person was a rarity back then.
Not hiding behind cellphones and laptops. Communication was more real and relaxed. Grateful to be a teenager of the 70's. We were the lucky ones!
Right on! ✌️
It's a shame the kids of today will never enjoy the magic we had back then.
You can't just lose hope in these kids nowadays they're still always hope that's what God wants us to do have hope it's never too late even though kids nowadays can't get off the phone so it's never too late
@@Cooltommy1980s exactly there is hope in gen alpha
Jen alpha is impossible
I was only 9, I loved being a kid in the 70s, best time !!! What stood out for me in this video was the "kids" appeared as young adults, mature... walking with their heads up, being present, in the moment and it wasn't LOUD, even in the gym class. Boys were boys and girls were girls. God Help us ! 😢 💔
That happens when you don't have bad influences from the (media).
Absolutely. And there's nothing wrong with that. Then boom, the world goes woke and we're suddenly very confused and annoyed when others state simple biological facts😢
Yep, that's what it looked and sounded like to go to high school in 1977. I've gotta give whoever was smart enough to record this 46 years ago some serious props. I guess I should pat myself on the back for living long enough to see it also. Many were lost along the way.
I remember all that too except for the cars. None of us had them so we either walked, took the bus, or got driven there by our parents.
@@maidahaltrecht6577 That was apparently a pretty wealthy school because I noticed many of the cars were almost new. There was a time when turning 16 or 18 meant your parents bought you a new car in certain economic stratas but my parents were not in that economic class. I'm not sure if that's still how things go these days but if it is that's very expensive. I had an old VW Beetle and most my friends had something about the same as my old Beetle.
@@Cartier_specialist Funny, I was looking at the cars in the video and being reminded of how all we had back then were hand-me-down cars that we had to fix all the time lol
I assumed all of these cars were older models too.
@@maidahaltrecht6577Yep, we walked EVERYWHERE. That in itself was fun. Dad at work, mom never learned to drive. We actually got out and did things! Not sitting in front of a monitor for hours. Probably why we were so thin lol.
I don't remember the hall lockers being so noisy. We had lots more people hanging in the hall especially before the 1st bell rang. That probably muted the locker noise. Otherwise it looks very close to my high school.
My graduation year! At the ceremony speech the phrase “ Today is the first day of the rest of your life” was used. In Ten years my late husband & I purchased a larger home, because we were having a second child. Then we moved again because we had a third boy 😅. Today when I talk with young people, most of them are so negative and depressed. I try to encourage them to give them hope. I don’t remember anyone feeling that way in 1977, because everyone I knew felt like the world was up for grabs. It didn’t matter if we were from poor, middle class or rich families. Watching this short video, I can feel that same enthusiasm and energy in the air. It was the same in my School. It was like we all couldn’t wait to “grab the brass ring”.
They might be depressed because back then you could actually afford to have bought two houses by age 28…
@@strnglhld The interest rate was 17 1/2 percent. I remember. My oldest bought a house at 36 and my youngest is saving & he’s 30. My Father built the house I grew up in. It took him over two and a half years while he was working and finishing College. Now explain again how being depressed is an excuse. My nephew has two rental properties and he’s 35. He’s worked multiple jobs at the same time. There are no guarantees in life, so these young people better stop comparing to someone else thinking they had it easy, because it’s foolish and a complete waste of time. When my husband died, we had very little money. I sold the house. Family members helped us.
@@strnglhld not really. It wasn't that easy then. What we did have then was a grounding in reality. You should have seen interest rates on loans then.
@@NuNugirl that is exactly how I remember it.
BTW, I'm a widower, want to go out for coffee?
Before, life was easier. With 2 years of work or less you could already buy a house, in the summer you had a job that today all immigrants get for pennies, life really is much more difficult.
That is when America was great with dignity all the kids that had class
I thank God everyday for my childhood; no cell phones, playing outside w/my friends, seven TV channels, ice cream man, playing on the swings, THANK YOU, GOD.
Amen!
u had 7 channels... lucky.. we had only 5,ABC,NBC,CBS,PBS,and a independent station.. and they all shut down at midnight
Only seven channels and an ice cream man, that is what you call a great childhood? Kids don't play outside with friends today? You are a stupid old fart, that is your generation
🥰We had to go outside and turn the antenna then one of us would knock on the window It's in so we could watch wrestling LOL@@rjwise66
Going fishing working in the garden so much more.
I was a sophomore in High School in 1977. 😊 It was a blast watching this time capsule of a video. Brings back lots of good memories. The clothes - the cars - the hair styles, etc….
I was bron in 2008 but I really like the 70s more than arther decades i know that the 70s are have lots of bad times but I stell like it
Me too!🏑🎯♟️
@@notfamilyfriendlylol5777 Same bro I was born in 2006 but I love hearing 70s songs and any other stuff related to 70s
The high percentage of White people… it’s ok, you can say it.
I was a freshman in 1977/78 in Southern California, and even though this was filmed in Michigan it reminds me of my high school. What a different time it was!
California was the best in the 70’s-80’s! I visited and it was all I thought it would be. I visited again recently and it has changed a lot! Like the rest of the country, not for the best.
Wouldn't happen to be Kennedy or Granada?
Being a kid in the '60s, a teen in the '70s, a twenty-something in the '80s, and I would even add a thirty-something in the '90s, was the best of all worlds.
It really was 😊
I grew up in the 90s. In many ways I feel that it was similar to the 70s in regard to the world still being relatively “small”. During the vast majority of my time in school, there was no social media and cell phones were either nonexistent or extraordinarily rare. It was a far simpler time to grow up. We learned interpersonal communication skills and entertained ourselves outside because we weren’t buried in phones. The 90s were the last of the simple times, and I’m thankful I got to experience life before all these big changes. I truly feel for the kids coming up today and I have fears about their/our futures.
Wrong 90s werent the last simpler times thats shits gets annoying.
@@skywishr1313 Maybe use a comma or something next time.
@@skywishr1313 I think all times are probably simple times for you, bud.
So true
@Conway Twitter you talk about convenience. Thats something different... Todays world is much more complex than 40 years ago
That was so fun! A trip down memory
lane.Graduated in "79".So much better before cell phones and we certainly were safe at school!😊
1977 was my freshman year. I just traveled back in time. I even saw a few kids in this video that looked like kids I went to school with, although of course they weren't. By my Junior year, I had a silver 77 Firebird Formula, that looked a lot like the Firebird shown here. The parking lot scenes, the lockers slamming, all the background noise, wow. We had a dress code that was similar to the one this school must have had. No jeans, no goofy T-shirts, just nice, presentable clothing. This video is a national treasure, and I saved it and will watch it again, pausing often. What I wouldn't give to go back to those days for a while (or forever). Had I known how the world would be now, I would have savored every single second back then. I probably would have married my high school girlfriend too! I wonder how many of these kids were leaving school and driving directly to their after school jobs like I did (True Value Hardware). Every kid had a job back then. When you met a new kid, it was normal to ask "where do you work?" almost immediately. We earned our own money, respected adults, and knew how to drive a 4-speed or even a "three on the tree". That's just the way it was back then. Watching this, it's hard to believe how fast 46 years went by. It seems like yesterday to me.
agree, but we did wear jeans and our hair was longer
Agree on some points you made but T shirts with crazy sayings were very much worn at my HS in 77-81 and hardly any kids drove a year old vehicle we were lucky to have a 8 year old car haha .
And now this video would be shown by liberal teachers, activists, and professors , telling your grand kids this is white privilege and the school needs more diversity and other ethnic groups to have a “chance” now nobody works after school, so many job openings, all the kids do is play on their phones and video games, and watch illegal aliens take over all the jobs in every industry
Hahaha, yeah, I did a double-take at the kid with the jean jacket getting out of the black, Blazer type vehicle thinking, "Wait, was that ME"? 😂
Yep well said, I worked at a full service Standard station, worked midnights, got out of work than went to school, didn't have a lot of time for sleeping and getting my playing in, man those were the days, I graduated in 77.
No metal detectors, shootings and very few fights. I remember those days when we had to unlock the car door with a key LOL. The 70s were a great time to be young. We didn't have cellphones or internet and we had plenty of fun. It was a simpler time, we got a good education and people respected each other.
As a class of 1977 senior, we seemed radical……I look back now and see how civilized we were. Indeed, a great time to be a senior .
Parents then probably: "All the young men now have long hair, how uncivilized!"
Me as a parent now: "All the young men then wore shorts & ties, how civilized!"
Edit: I meant shirts, not shorts
Since I graduated high school in 1977, this brought back some memories. It also made me laugh! Life was so different for a high schooler back then and for the better.
We've allowed the DEMONcrat party to destroy our once great country.
I graduated in '82, so still pretty much in this era.
I'm so glad I grew up then. Must suck to be a teen nowadays.
It really sucks to be a high school teacher now.
@@girasoljardin3314 I resemble this!
Just retired from teaching in Kalifornia last June. 25 years was enough.
Ditto. Grad 82 also. Better times, better life.
@@beyondonethousand 83! I Ditto your Ditto! The 80s and the 90s and even the early 2000s were such a Blast!! We had so much fun.. I guess there wasn't any left for nowadays kids!!
Nowadays kids have no idea on how to have fun
Man..the good old days. Brought back lots of good memories.
When you asked if you could carry a girls books for her, it meant you were seeing each other lol. Please..I wanna go back
This is pure gold. Simpler times gone forever.
I remember those days. They were better times. The 80s was cool too.
80s were BOMB
I graduated in 1978. I'm a middle school teacher now. This was back when students minded their teachers and showed some respect.
It’s almost like your generation raises messed up kids and blames it on the kids.
Congrats on being a middle school teacher and blaming the kids for your screwups.
@Jacob How do you know if she even has kids ?
@@tias.6675 teacher(s) have a responsibility to the children in their classroom, there for every year or so they have approx 30 kids.
@your problem yes we can. It's called accountability. It starts early on.
Agreed, I miss those days, I graduated in 1980.
Floor hockey in PE. We remember the bruises. But I was in 2nd grade in 77. I had to wait for my floor hockey days.