The year was 1967…my friend and I (2 young naive 20 y.o girls) hitchhiked across the United States, from a small town in central Pennsylvania to San Francisco, CA and ended up in the Haight Ashbury right before the Summer of Love…..what a beautiful time of my life. Unfortunately, by the end of that summer, it became too dangerous to ever hitchhike again. So blessed that I had that experience. Groovy man and peace and love. 😃
had some great hitching experiences -- once in Wales, law student picked me up and took me home for tea with her mum before taking me on to my destination. And I picked up a 40something artist outside Philadelphia, she'd gone to art school with an illustrator hero of mine, a Caldecott winner. Interesting lady to talk to. It was fine. And you may not know that at the lido by Parliament Hill in London there used to be topless sunbathing, used to be totally normal, nobody would bother anyone about it. Right into the 90s.
My dad was 2 blocks away when Patty Hearst robbed that bank in San Francisco. He said it was crazy. My mother in law had a Pacer. No people just couldn't go around naked lol if they could catch you, you could be arrested 😂. It was a huge thing in the early 70s. Great reaction ❤
It was a veritable sea of polyester in the 70s. Streaking was running through an event or group of people. They ran fast before they could get caught, mostly.
💓 Streakers did get charged, it was a huge disruption at tons of events with security or police chasing them. Disrupted lots of sporting events and even the Academy Awards
Streaking wasn't something everybody did. It was something a few people did. It was kind of funny though when you were hanging out at some event and somebody turned up running across the scene naked. It was quick and then they were gone.
@@exodore2000 That is what we did until there was talk about possibly swallowing or choking on it. We started hanging the tab at the point & bending the ring towards the can to hold it in place.
In 1977 I was 23 and I hitchhiked with my boyfriend from North Carolina to the Florida Keys. We camped on an island. Good times. I would not have hitchhiked alone, even then.
I hitch hiked to get to my boyfriends house in 1985. I stuck out my thumb and suddenly heard, "What in the hell are you doing?" It was my boyfriends older brother. He pulled up and said, "Get in. Don't ever let me catch you doing that again" I promised never to that again and kept that promise.
Unfortunately, I did something even worse. In 1984 when I was 15, I hitchhiked from San Diego to Fort Wayne, Indiana (over 2100 miles) by myself. Why you ask? Why does any teenage girl do something so stupid... A flippin boy.
Unfortunately, I did something even worse. In 1984 when I was 15, I hitchhiked from San Diego to Fort Wayne, Indiana (over 2100 miles) by myself. Why you ask? Why does any teenage girl do something so stupid... A flippin boy.
It may sound boring to watch a neighbor's slide presentation of their vacation, but people today still display photos of their vacations and other activities online. Same desire to show everyone what you've been doing. At least now, you can view it all from the comfort of your own home. If you are even interested.
Beer cans also had those sharp edged pop tops. Jimmy Buffett told his producers he didn't have a song available yet for that album because he was having a terrible day. Jimmy said he stepped on a beer can top and it ripped through his flip flops. The producer said, "Great! Make a song out of it." 😂
There are some really gruesome stories involving hitchhiking from the 70s. Any one of them would make a sane person never hitch a ride with a stranger again. Schoolhouse Rock was amazing! I'd watch any reaction(s) to those songs you want to do. I thought the American history songs were the best, but some of what they passed on as history hasn't aged well. Patty Hearst is the first story from the news that I remember. I was around 5 yrs old when that all went down, and what I remember about it is that every time it came on the news, every adult in the room would give their opinion and then some degree of arguing would ensue. After that is was the gas shortage that I remember because my grandmother became borderline hysterical every time it came up. And, yeah, every single person I knew had burnt orange or avocado kitchens and living rooms. Shag carpet, wood paneling. velvet paintings, macame, console TVs, Colonial furniture, beanbags, plastic runners down the hallways. Good times 😄 Edit: 💗
At 15/16 we used to hitch from Brooklyn to NJ to see bands we liked if they were playing out there. A lot easier than going into Manhattan to get a NJ bus or train. Sometimes the guy would take us to a diner to get a bite.. thankfully, we never had a bad experience.
Those big-collar shirts weren't always worn with the topmost button undone - because many of them had their top button four or five inches below the collar! You couldn't button it at the neck if tou wanted to.
It’s really weird how much I enjoy watching these. It brings back mostly good memories. I was lucky and came from a pretty good family but I know many do not have good memories from past.
Hitchhiking and a young heart was a bad combination ... November 1984, I was 15 and hitchhiked from San Diego California to Fort Wayne Indiana (2170 miles) over a boy.❤️
Hahaha. 'Interjections' is one of my favorites of the Schoolhouse Rocks! From "The Shot Heard Round the World" to "I'm just a Bill", we learned in spite of ourselves, lol. I would love to know which ones were the favorites of your other viewers....Interplanetary Janet? Energy? Conjunction Junction? Damn, we had some good TV.
We had that last wooden coffee table. Our neighbors had the first brown sofa with matching chairs. *I had written first born sofa instead of first brown sofa...yes, the furniture hung around forever.
@@michellelarsen5399 my parents bought my childhood living room set in 1971, when theu moved into their new house. I was born in '72. I had that same set in every apartment and in our first house. We gave it up in 2018. After my grandparents passed, I got their stuff. I've never bought furniture and only traded or gained from elders in our family. Furniture certainly was made to last.
I had that 4-piece couch set, the one with the wood down the front of the arm rests. I had the couch, the loveseat, the rocking chair and the ottoman. SO comfy! 💓
13:26 All this, neighbors getting together and telling about their trip and sharing photos, it was real life Facebook. You know, where you post all the pictures for your friends end neighbors to see and read the stories of the trip. Socializing use to include actual human interaction. I’m not suited for this new world of virtual friendships, it’s very empty and sad.
I used to hitchhike around the city I grew up in and sometimes to towns around the city or up to the mountains. (Alberta, Canada). We had rules; unless absolutely necessary don't hitch alone, don't get into the front seat-especially if alone, no trucks, no vans. Others I met while out and about had hitched from farther away and were still heading on down the road after a quick stop in Calgary. I didn't care for disco either, I was listening to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath--just different taste. Oh, and discotheque's were nothing but pick-up spots. 😁
Streakers were often arrested. It was a dare or rebelliousness. Streakers often concealed their identity by wearing ski masks. Also athletic shoes since they generally ran fast.
One time at our high school during lunchtime, 3 guys with paper bags over their heads with just eye holes cut in them streaked through the cafeteria. A few girls said they recognized them......oookaaay? 😆 They were caught at the other end because the doors were locked and they couldn't get out.
Fortunately, my family never had shag carpet, floral living room furniture or wallpaper or wood paneling. Some of my relatives have the wood paneling and my sister had shag carpet in her place. In my family home, one wall of the dining room was covered in mirrored tiles we also had hanging beads in two of the doorways that lead into the kitchen
My sister’s elementary school teacher got arrested for “streaking” in the 70’s. He lost his job. My first car was a red 1972 Ford Pinto, just like the red one pictured here.
Yeah, schoolhouse rock were catchy little 3-min songs that taught us 70’s kids a lot. Check out “I got 6” to see how we learned math or “No More Kings” to see how we learned about getting our independence from England lol 🩷
Kids in the 70s would collect those pull-tabs to turn in at school where they would be recycled and the money for returning them used to fund field trips.
Back in the 70's, my buddy and I hitchhiked from Columbus, Ohio, to Dallas, and then Los Angeles. There is a lot of stories to tell, but coming back, we got stranded in Bartow, California, broke, with about twenty other hitchhikers on the on-ramp. We were out there for hours, and it must have been 110. Someone had some pot, and the whole lot of hitchhikers went underneath the overpass to light up. My friend and I stayed on the on-ramp. It paid off because we caught a ride from two cousins, from Ohio, who were transporting two large RVS for their company back to Ohio. They bought our meals and took us all the way to our doorsteps. The Unger Cousins.
I’m old enough to remember when the tv went off , usually in Memphis at 12 midnight. The only nights we would ever see it was in Friday or Saturday night when there was no school the next day( or all summer of course). It would scare us because they would 1st, do a news brief, 2nd, have shot of a criminal they were looking for, 3rd , have a brief prayer video with a minister, , 4th , tell the viewers that they can listen to there favorite radio station of they can sleep( showing a pic if a few cars on the road late at night) , then the national anthem, then the test screen, then the just static. But was fun was waking up early in the morning and seeing all of that again for the tv sign on, usually beginning programming with a cartoon.
Hitchhiking exist it's just different now. Ride services like UBER and LYFT. Your thumb is your phone. It's still a stranger that picks you up and and you just trust they won't do anything. I guess it's all perspective.
Except you didn't pay when you hitchiked and the person driving didn't ask for pay and could've been anyone. I picked up one person and within 10 minutes I was concerned about the person's state of mind and was happy to have dropped them off and not been robbed or worse.
🤣 😂 🤣 the video started off with streaking...running through a public area naked. 😂 My sister had known kids who were trying to get into a frat house and during "hazing" week, the freshman had to streak through the cafeteria. They wore a sock and a ski mask and nothing else. Then, they lost their socks on their way out of the building. 😂😂😂😂😂
I LOVED the Disco era! It was a trend that faded as we aged into the 1980’s, but this was a great time for music….disco and funk is my favorite music genre. 😊
I was born in 1969. Though just a child during the 70's, it's always been my favorite decade of music (probably due to having an older sister). I've always gravitated mostly to rock from the era (so many greats), but I also love a lot of disco, funk, R&B, and even some of the folk music. I think I was one of very few teenagers during the 80's that was asking, "what the F is this crap?" When it came to all the synth pop and hair bands. Rockers went from practically swimming in testosterone during the 70's to looking like they had more estrogen pumping through them than my teenage self in the 80's. I never saw the appeal in guys who more makeup than I did.
@ I’m a 69 baby too…. My favorite artist of all time is Prince and as a HUGE fan, I absorbed everything he put out. He taught me to appreciate the funk bands of the 70’s and I have always loved disco music. My first 45 was a KC and The Sunshine Band single. Earth Wind & Fire, Donna Summers, Le Chic, and anything by The Bee Gees were on repeat in my room. 💃 🪩 😊
@@tracyface69 Despite mostly leaning towards 70's rock, my ALL TIME FAVORITE song is actually by Earth, Wind & Fire... "Fantasy". The 1st time I ever heard it was on the jukebox at a pizza place I'd gone to with my best friend and her family when I was sleeping over... I was 9. It's a moment I'll never forget because the sound of it hit me in a way no song ever had before... The feeling was so profound and intense it actually made me cry. I still can't explain why it affected me like that, but it's been my favorite song ever since. It'll still make me cry, but now it's because I understand the lyrics and feelings... 9 yr old me didn't have a clue.
@@tracyface69 Despite mostly leaning towards 70's rock, my ALL TIME FAVORITE song is actually by Earth, Wind & Fire... "Fantasy". The 1st time I ever heard it was on the jukebox at a pizza place I'd gone to with my best friend and her family when I was sleeping over... I was 9. It's a moment I'll never forget because the sound of it hit me in a way no song ever had... The feeling was so profound and intense it actually made me cry. I still can't explain why it affected me like that, but it's been my favorite song ever since. It'll still make me cry, but now because I understand the lyrics and feelings... 9 yr old me didn't have a clue.
Streakin and moonin werent legal but rebelious and exciting for some people. I felt disco lasted a good while, my friends, cuzins would practice doing the hustle, electric slide etc in our apartments b4 goin to Studio 54 NYC😂
I used to hitch hike and pick up hitch hikers into the 90's, especially in Europe. Never once regretted it, always worth it (though there was one drunk fellow I drove twenty miles in a snow storm I didn't much enjoy being with; still I was glad to get him home and out of the snow). There's no reason not to hitch hike; the tremendous fear around it is completely unnecessary.
If you lived in a big city, you might have an option with late night television, such as the late late show which might be on after other stations were off the air at midnight.
I would LOVE for you to react to the LIVE 1985 concert video of Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton singing, Weve Got Tonight!!!! It is Epic and Iconic for so many reasons. Please consider reacting to it.
Hitchhiking didn’t quickly end. It had been practiced for decades before the 70s. One particular incident in the 70s that probably helped the decline was a young lady by the name of Mary Vincent was hitchhiking in California and was picked up by a total crazed lunatic. He lopped off her forearms from the elbow down. She managed to get away and walk towards the highway where a motorist saw this young girl, she was 15 at the time, walking along the highway naked with missing arms. The crazed lunatic was given such a short sentence that it wasn’t even funny. And he later on if I’m not mistaken, murdered young lady after being released from prison.
I LOVED Little House on the Prairie!! I read all of the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder countless times. I still watch the TV show reruns. I wanted to be Laura 😊 My birthday is on the same date as her wedding anniversary ❤
@@kristie825 It's just crazy that she had seen that much of a change in the world from what we know in the books to what life would of been like in the late 50's.
Oil crisis and oil scare. 1st was the creation of OPEC and its control over oil supply testing its power. The second was a panic due to rumors that oil would be restricted again causing shortages.
There is a very good reason why you haven't heard of quite a few of these, and why they're gone forever. It's because they never should have existed in the first place. The same generation who thought covering perfectly good hard wood floors with Linoleum, was a good idea! 🤣
The 70s was a dangerous time as well. Hitchhiker’s risk being murdered or assaulted. The driver who picked up hitchhiker was at risk as well. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy got some of his victims through hitchhiking.
I was born in 1975, even as a toddler the styles felt old, weird and artificial. My house had inch deep oscar the grouch green shag carpet in the living room, red shag carpet in a bathroom, sunflower wallpper in the other bathroom and kitchen. Our couch when I was really young was sort of white, brown and black squares with a texture of shredded wheat cereal, it also was itchy and gave horrible rug burn. I remember getting yelled at when I was really young for sucking on shirt collars... with the things flapping off my shoulders, what else are you going to do to stop that while playing on a swing set? Celebrities on game shows seemed hyper-sexual and creepy, I didn't really know what they were talking about but it often felt pedatoory and female stars would just kind of play along, but clearly didn't like the aggressive flirting. It often feels very weird growing up in that era where most women stayed home, and men could afford a house and 2 new cars every few years along with vacations boats and summer homes. All that was really common in my middle class suburb. As an adult though now, everybody works, everyone's in debt, every house has the same beige, white tan, grey walls and carpet, and sexual jokes are a great way to get yourself fired. The male/female social dynamics of the 70's were entirely gone by the mid 80's and we didn't really have realistic role models for dating or married life. TV treated us like it was 1950's but we were also under the terror of aids.... sex was a scary thing for my generation. It could kill you.
4:37 you really should check out the schoolhouse Rock there is a whole series of them there's multiplication, grammar, America which covers a lot of stuff about the government as well, then there's science, computer, money and Earth. If you had the grammar Rock memorized which most of us that watched Saturday morning cartoons every week had it memorized you could get through about 10th grade English, with that knowledge. Even now for common knowledge stuff or when somebody's asking how something happens within the government all think back to schoolhouse Rock and the songs come to me and I can sometimes even sing them the answer. Between the cartoons there were a lot of learning / teaching things that would come on in amongst the commercials, there was "Time for Timer", he usually taught things about health, of course that was in the form of songs as well, because kids just tend to remember songs, as do adults really.
I never hitchhiked always thought of safty being a woman my brother picked up a hitchhiker her slashed his wrist stole his car robbed a bank was caught i herd stories of serial killers early 70s onwards and rapes they glamorized it in movies dont do it
You know you say you could never imagine hitchhiking. In reality you probably use Uber or one of those type of car rideshare things and how is that so different except you're paying for it you call some stranger on your phone they show up you get in their car you don't know them you don't know what the background check has been you don't know if they've been doing this for years or if you're their first ride, the only real difference is is that you said where you're going that doesn't mean you're going to get there, and you're paying them. I never hitchhiked when I was younger and I've never taken an Uber either because I feel it's just as dangerous. I have essentially caught a ride with a stranger one time but it was after spending 4 days at a convention working the booth right next to their booth, and I could either rent a car or catch a ride because she was going to the next convention that I was also going to and it was 300 mi away, I offered to pay for the gas but she said that her company was expecting her to pay the gas anyway so it didn't matter. I made a good story when I got back to my company who had told me to try to save a little bit of money and get to the next convention as cheaply as possible, so when I didn't have any kind of expense reimbursement for the travel they asked me how I got there and I said "well, you told me to do as cheap as possible so I hitchhiked" they kept saying no really how did you do it and I just kept saying I hitchhiked, they never asked me to do something as cheap as possible again.
@AveragePicker in most places taxi drivers have to have a special license, they have background checks, their picture and name are displayed inside the car on the taxi drivers license and you can identify the car as a taxi. Uber can be any car, they pull up and say I'm your Uber and you get in... Unless things have changed Uber doesn't do background checks or minimal checks, you didn't use to get a picture of your driver, do you now? I could become an Uber driver in my town in a day or two, possibly with false or stolen information, then start picking people up looking for a victim to kidnap, rob, rape, kill, or some combination of terrible things... Hmmm just like I would do if I was a bad guy picking up hitchhikers, the biggest difference would be the people getting in my car without a struggle or needing to be tricked. So yeah it is similar to uber or another ride share, and a taxi would be much safer
Streaking even made it to the Oscars stage in 1974 when some guy ran naked across the stage during the ceremony on live tv. You can still find the hilarious clip on TH-cam 🩷
I picked up hitchhikers in the 90's, never hitchhiked myself, used my creep radar first before stopping🩷 I❤🪩 Streakers😂😂😂 Niagara Falls been there several times🩷 Maybe we should hit the 90's videos🩷 ✌️🌞💕
🎶 “I'm just a bill. Yes, I'm only a bill. And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.” 🎶
🎶🎵"Conjunction junction. Whaat's your function?"🎵🎶
…”hooking up words, phrases and clauses”
@@unixdiva …’Conjunction Junction, how’s that function? ‘
With just the pics from Schoolhouse Rock, the songs started going through my head!!
Who remembers the bumper sticker that read - Gas Grass or a Piece of A- - Nobody rides for free!
I had that t-shirt in the 70s
I always thought it was just “ Gas, Grass, or Ass” 😂😂😂😂
@@Lovejazz01 It was.
The year was 1967…my friend and I (2 young naive 20 y.o girls) hitchhiked across the United States, from a small town in central Pennsylvania to San Francisco, CA and ended up in the Haight Ashbury right before the Summer of Love…..what a beautiful time of my life. Unfortunately, by the end of that summer, it became too dangerous to ever hitchhike again. So blessed that I had that experience. Groovy man and peace and love. 😃
had some great hitching experiences -- once in Wales, law student picked me up and took me home for tea with her mum before taking me on to my destination. And I picked up a 40something artist outside Philadelphia, she'd gone to art school with an illustrator hero of mine, a Caldecott winner. Interesting lady to talk to. It was fine. And you may not know that at the lido by Parliament Hill in London there used to be topless sunbathing, used to be totally normal, nobody would bother anyone about it. Right into the 90s.
My grandmother had a Gremlin until the early 1990s.
I would love to sit down for a slideshow one more time. That is such a specific memory.
My dad was 2 blocks away when Patty Hearst robbed that bank in San Francisco. He said it was crazy.
My mother in law had a Pacer.
No people just couldn't go around naked lol if they could catch you, you could be arrested 😂. It was a huge thing in the early 70s. Great reaction ❤
It was a veritable sea of polyester in the 70s.
Streaking was running through an event or group of people. They ran fast before they could get caught, mostly.
And now they throw paint or soup on paintings.
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Streakers did get charged, it was a huge disruption at tons of events with security or police chasing them.
Disrupted lots of sporting events and even the Academy Awards
You should totally do a Schoolhouse Rock reaction. Those cartoons slapped, they were really well made.
Do you want to be even more mindblown?? Think about this, if they were old enough to do this in the early mid 70's it means they were Boomers.
Streaking wasn't something everybody did. It was something a few people did. It was kind of funny though when you were hanging out at some event and somebody turned up running across the scene naked. It was quick and then they were gone.
My Aunt still has her white Pacer in her Garage from the 70’s …
Those soda can pull tabs were an advancement over a plain top that we had to open with a can opener.
He said they dropped them on the floor the people I knew with them dropped the tab back inside the can after opening them.
@@exodore2000 Yeah, me too. Most people did not drop them on the floor.
@@exodore2000 That is what we did until there was talk about possibly swallowing or choking on it. We started hanging the tab at the point & bending the ring towards the can to hold it in place.
In 1977 I was 23 and I hitchhiked with my boyfriend from North Carolina to the Florida Keys. We camped on an island. Good times. I would not have hitchhiked alone, even then.
I hitch hiked to get to my boyfriends house in 1985. I stuck out my thumb and suddenly heard, "What in the hell are you doing?" It was my boyfriends older brother. He pulled up and said, "Get in. Don't ever let me catch you doing that again" I promised never to that again and kept that promise.
Unfortunately, I did something even worse. In 1984 when I was 15, I hitchhiked from San Diego to Fort Wayne, Indiana (over 2100 miles) by myself. Why you ask? Why does any teenage girl do something so stupid... A flippin boy.
Unfortunately, I did something even worse. In 1984 when I was 15, I hitchhiked from San Diego to Fort Wayne, Indiana (over 2100 miles) by myself. Why you ask? Why does any teenage girl do something so stupid... A flippin boy.
Lol -- streaking was hilarious!
It may sound boring to watch a neighbor's slide presentation of their vacation, but people today still display photos of their vacations and other activities online. Same desire to show everyone what you've been doing. At least now, you can view it all from the comfort of your own home. If you are even interested.
We did have rules!! Never take a ride from a van! 😂
My aunt and uncle used to take me to my ballet lessons via hitch hiking. ❤️✌️
In the song Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett mentioned stepping on a pop top and blowing out a flipflop and that referred to the can tops.
Beer cans also had those sharp edged pop tops. Jimmy Buffett told his producers he didn't have a song available yet for that album because he was having a terrible day. Jimmy said he stepped on a beer can top and it ripped through his flip flops.
The producer said, "Great! Make a song out of it." 😂
Anyone else remember the made for tv movie about hitchhikers getting kidnapped😅
There are some really gruesome stories involving hitchhiking from the 70s. Any one of them would make a sane person never hitch a ride with a stranger again.
Schoolhouse Rock was amazing! I'd watch any reaction(s) to those songs you want to do. I thought the American history songs were the best, but some of what they passed on as history hasn't aged well.
Patty Hearst is the first story from the news that I remember. I was around 5 yrs old when that all went down, and what I remember about it is that every time it came on the news, every adult in the room would give their opinion and then some degree of arguing would ensue. After that is was the gas shortage that I remember because my grandmother became borderline hysterical every time it came up.
And, yeah, every single person I knew had burnt orange or avocado kitchens and living rooms. Shag carpet, wood paneling. velvet paintings, macame, console TVs, Colonial furniture, beanbags, plastic runners down the hallways. Good times 😄
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At 15/16 we used to hitch from Brooklyn to NJ to see bands we liked if they were playing out there. A lot easier than going into Manhattan to get a NJ bus or train. Sometimes the guy would take us to a diner to get a bite.. thankfully, we never had a bad experience.
Those big-collar shirts weren't always worn with the topmost button undone - because many of them had their top button four or five inches below the collar! You couldn't button it at the neck if tou wanted to.
the Pacer looked like a fishbowl
We made chains out of the pull tabs
It’s really weird how much I enjoy watching these. It brings back mostly good memories. I was lucky and came from a pretty good family but I know many do not have good memories from past.
Hitchhiking and a young heart was a bad combination ... November 1984, I was 15 and hitchhiked from San Diego California to Fort Wayne Indiana (2170 miles) over a boy.❤️
Hahaha. 'Interjections' is one of my favorites of the Schoolhouse Rocks! From "The Shot Heard Round the World" to "I'm just a Bill", we learned in spite of ourselves, lol. I would love to know which ones were the favorites of your other viewers....Interplanetary Janet? Energy? Conjunction Junction? Damn, we had some good TV.
I can sing you the preamble to the constitution. good times.
Memories ... 🕊☮
I love disco to this day
I had the first sofa they showed. I also had the matching chair, end tables and coffee table!!💗💓
We had that last wooden coffee table. Our neighbors had the first brown sofa with matching chairs.
*I had written first born sofa instead of first brown sofa...yes, the furniture hung around forever.
@ And you couldn’t kill that furniture. Pretty sure it was made to withstand a nuclear blast!
@@michellelarsen5399 my parents bought my childhood living room set in 1971, when theu moved into their new house. I was born in '72. I had that same set in every apartment and in our first house. We gave it up in 2018. After my grandparents passed, I got their stuff. I've never bought furniture and only traded or gained from elders in our family.
Furniture certainly was made to last.
I had that 4-piece couch set, the one with the wood down the front of the arm rests. I had the couch, the loveseat, the rocking chair and the ottoman. SO comfy! 💓
I had the couch, rocking chair and ottoman and the coffee table. Granted, I got them in the 90s, bc I was born in ‘74. Lol
13:26 All this, neighbors getting together and telling about their trip and sharing photos, it was real life Facebook. You know, where you post all the pictures for your friends end neighbors to see and read the stories of the trip. Socializing use to include actual human interaction. I’m not suited for this new world of virtual friendships, it’s very empty and sad.
Well done young man
I used to hitchhike around the city I grew up in and sometimes to towns around the city or up to the mountains. (Alberta, Canada). We had rules; unless absolutely necessary don't hitch alone, don't get into the front seat-especially if alone, no trucks, no vans. Others I met while out and about had hitched from farther away and were still heading on down the road after a quick stop in Calgary. I didn't care for disco either, I was listening to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath--just different taste. Oh, and discotheque's were nothing but pick-up spots. 😁
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Streakers were often arrested. It was a dare or rebelliousness. Streakers often concealed their identity by wearing ski masks.
Also athletic shoes since they generally ran fast.
One time at our high school during lunchtime, 3 guys with paper bags over their heads with just eye holes cut in them streaked through the cafeteria. A few girls said they recognized them......oookaaay? 😆 They were caught at the other end because the doors were locked and they couldn't get out.
Fortunately, my family never had shag carpet, floral living room furniture or wallpaper or wood paneling. Some of my relatives have the wood paneling and my sister had shag carpet in her place.
In my family home, one wall of the dining room was covered in mirrored tiles we also had hanging beads in two of the doorways that lead into the kitchen
I wad born in 76. This is real early childhood memories 😂
My sister’s elementary school teacher got arrested for “streaking” in the 70’s. He lost his job. My first car was a red 1972 Ford Pinto, just like the red one pictured here.
Yeah, schoolhouse rock were catchy little 3-min songs that taught us 70’s kids a lot. Check out “I got 6” to see how we learned math or “No More Kings” to see how we learned about getting our independence from England lol 🩷
I vividly remember the Patty Hearst kidnapping story. I was a teenager. Since I was living in Northern California, we heard about it quite a bit.
Kids in the 70s would collect those pull-tabs to turn in at school where they would be recycled and the money for returning them used to fund field trips.
Hitchhiking ended in the 70s.
In the 60s , I often hitchhiked to work.
Back in the 70's, my buddy and I hitchhiked from Columbus, Ohio, to Dallas, and then Los Angeles. There is a lot of stories to tell, but coming back, we got stranded in Bartow, California, broke, with about twenty other hitchhikers on the on-ramp. We were out there for hours, and it must have been 110. Someone had some pot, and the whole lot of hitchhikers went underneath the overpass to light up. My friend and I stayed on the on-ramp. It paid off because we caught a ride from two cousins, from Ohio, who were transporting two large RVS for their company back to Ohio. They bought our meals and took us all the way to our doorsteps. The Unger Cousins.
I’m old enough to remember when the tv went off , usually in Memphis at 12 midnight. The only nights we would ever see it was in Friday or Saturday night when there was no school the next day( or all summer of course). It would scare us because they would 1st, do a news brief, 2nd, have shot of a criminal they were looking for, 3rd , have a brief prayer video with a minister, , 4th , tell the viewers that they can listen to there favorite radio station of they can sleep( showing a pic if a few cars on the road late at night) , then the national anthem, then the test screen, then the just static. But was fun was waking up early in the morning and seeing all of that again for the tv sign on, usually beginning programming with a cartoon.
Hitchhiking exist it's just different now. Ride services like UBER and LYFT. Your thumb is your phone. It's still a stranger that picks you up and and you just trust they won't do anything. I guess it's all perspective.
Except you didn't pay when you hitchiked and the person driving didn't ask for pay and could've been anyone. I picked up one person and within 10 minutes I was concerned about the person's state of mind and was happy to have dropped them off and not been robbed or worse.
🤣 😂 🤣 the video started off with streaking...running through a public area naked. 😂
My sister had known kids who were trying to get into a frat house and during "hazing" week, the freshman had to streak through the cafeteria. They wore a sock and a ski mask and nothing else. Then, they lost their socks on their way out of the building. 😂😂😂😂😂
I LOVED the Disco era! It was a trend that faded as we aged into the 1980’s, but this was a great time for music….disco and funk is my favorite music genre. 😊
I was born in 1969. Though just a child during the 70's, it's always been my favorite decade of music (probably due to having an older sister). I've always gravitated mostly to rock from the era (so many greats), but I also love a lot of disco, funk, R&B, and even some of the folk music. I think I was one of very few teenagers during the 80's that was asking, "what the F is this crap?" When it came to all the synth pop and hair bands. Rockers went from practically swimming in testosterone during the 70's to looking like they had more estrogen pumping through them than my teenage self in the 80's. I never saw the appeal in guys who more makeup than I did.
@ I’m a 69 baby too…. My favorite artist of all time is Prince and as a HUGE fan, I absorbed everything he put out. He taught me to appreciate the funk bands of the 70’s and I have always loved disco music. My first 45 was a KC and The Sunshine Band single. Earth Wind & Fire, Donna Summers, Le Chic, and anything by The Bee Gees were on repeat in my room. 💃 🪩
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I worked in two. Fun times.
@@tracyface69 Despite mostly leaning towards 70's rock, my ALL TIME FAVORITE song is actually by Earth, Wind & Fire... "Fantasy".
The 1st time I ever heard it was on the jukebox at a pizza place I'd gone to with my best friend and her family when I was sleeping over... I was 9. It's a moment I'll never forget because the sound of it hit me in a way no song ever had before... The feeling was so profound and intense it actually made me cry. I still can't explain why it affected me like that, but it's been my favorite song ever since. It'll still make me cry, but now it's because I understand the lyrics and feelings... 9 yr old me didn't have a clue.
@@tracyface69 Despite mostly leaning towards 70's rock, my ALL TIME FAVORITE song is actually by Earth, Wind & Fire... "Fantasy".
The 1st time I ever heard it was on the jukebox at a pizza place I'd gone to with my best friend and her family when I was sleeping over... I was 9. It's a moment I'll never forget because the sound of it hit me in a way no song ever had... The feeling was so profound and intense it actually made me cry. I still can't explain why it affected me like that, but it's been my favorite song ever since. It'll still make me cry, but now because I understand the lyrics and feelings... 9 yr old me didn't have a clue.
We grew up in the country and as teenagers we hitchhiked all the time. People are different nowadays, I wouldn't dare now
Ring tabs and tin beer cans. Tougher to crush in your hands than aluminum.
To this day and I’m 59 years old I still remember the preamble to the US Constitution because of Schoolhouse Rock
FYI, the first after hours broadcast on the BBC, was the moon landing. It wasn't just America who didn't have overnight TV shows.
Streakin and moonin werent legal but rebelious and exciting for some people. I felt disco lasted a good while, my friends, cuzins would practice doing the hustle, electric slide etc in our apartments b4 goin to Studio 54 NYC😂
Conjunction junction whats your function? Lol
Short-lived does not mean unpopular. Disco was extremely popular. It was basically a worldwide phenomenon.
70s were the best of times
It was one person here(streaking )and there.. not like masses of people were doing it and, no, it wasn’t legal 😂
I used to hitch hike and pick up hitch hikers into the 90's, especially in Europe. Never once regretted it, always worth it (though there was one drunk fellow I drove twenty miles in a snow storm I didn't much enjoy being with; still I was glad to get him home and out of the snow). There's no reason not to hitch hike; the tremendous fear around it is completely unnecessary.
Yeah off the air around 2am
I think we might yet bring a few of these things back. It would be a sign of tremendous cultural progress.
Definitely check out and react to School House Rock, loved them then and love them now
Saw people hitchhiking in USA into the ‘90’s, but fewer over time.
I last saw it in Vermont in the early 80s.
If you lived in a big city, you might have an option with late night television, such as the late late show which might be on after other stations were off the air at midnight.
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I would LOVE for you to react to the LIVE 1985 concert video of Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton singing, Weve Got Tonight!!!! It is Epic and Iconic for so many reasons. Please consider reacting to it.
If you dive into the oil crisis of 1974, you won’t believe the lines of cars waiting for gas.
Me and friends got around hitch hiking
Streakers still got fined by the police.
Hitchhiking didn’t quickly end. It had been practiced for decades before the 70s.
One particular incident in the 70s that probably helped the decline was a young lady by the name of Mary Vincent was hitchhiking in California and was picked up by a total crazed lunatic. He lopped off her forearms from the elbow down. She managed to get away and walk towards the highway where a motorist saw this young girl, she was 15 at the time, walking along the highway naked with missing arms. The crazed lunatic was given such a short sentence that it wasn’t even funny. And he later on if I’m not mistaken, murdered young lady after being released from prison.
When i was a kid in 70s there was a soda called TAB. Never again!!! People wouldn't buy a soda in a pink can
They wouldn’t buy it because it sucked.
You know what's really crazy? Laura Ingalls Wilder died in 1957 just 13 years before the 70's.
I LOVED Little House on the Prairie!! I read all of the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder countless times. I still watch the TV show reruns. I wanted to be Laura 😊 My birthday is on the same date as her wedding anniversary ❤
@@kristie825 It's just crazy that she had seen that much of a change in the world from what we know in the books to what life would of been like in the late 50's.
We replaced hitchhiking with Uber.
If you think about streaking in 2024 you're gettin Registered!
John Wayne Gacy got some of his victims through hitchhiking.
Oil crisis and oil scare. 1st was the creation of OPEC and its control over oil supply testing its power. The second was a panic due to rumors that oil would be restricted again causing shortages.
I'm a boomer, and the furniture in my family home didn't look like that.
There is a very good reason why you haven't heard of quite a few of these, and why they're gone forever. It's because they never should have existed in the first place. The same generation who thought covering perfectly good hard wood floors with Linoleum, was a good idea! 🤣
Besides the technology and form factors, how much is really different?
People got charged back then too for running around with no clothes on.
It is too dangerous to do anything these days.
The 70s was a dangerous time as well. Hitchhiker’s risk being murdered or assaulted. The driver who picked up hitchhiker was at risk as well.
Serial killer John Wayne Gacy got some of his victims through hitchhiking.
I was born in 1975, even as a toddler the styles felt old, weird and artificial. My house had inch deep oscar the grouch green shag carpet in the living room, red shag carpet in a bathroom, sunflower wallpper in the other bathroom and kitchen. Our couch when I was really young was sort of white, brown and black squares with a texture of shredded wheat cereal, it also was itchy and gave horrible rug burn. I remember getting yelled at when I was really young for sucking on shirt collars... with the things flapping off my shoulders, what else are you going to do to stop that while playing on a swing set? Celebrities on game shows seemed hyper-sexual and creepy, I didn't really know what they were talking about but it often felt pedatoory and female stars would just kind of play along, but clearly didn't like the aggressive flirting. It often feels very weird growing up in that era where most women stayed home, and men could afford a house and 2 new cars every few years along with vacations boats and summer homes. All that was really common in my middle class suburb. As an adult though now, everybody works, everyone's in debt, every house has the same beige, white tan, grey walls and carpet, and sexual jokes are a great way to get yourself fired. The male/female social dynamics of the 70's were entirely gone by the mid 80's and we didn't really have realistic role models for dating or married life. TV treated us like it was 1950's but we were also under the terror of aids.... sex was a scary thing for my generation. It could kill you.
4:37 you really should check out the schoolhouse Rock there is a whole series of them there's multiplication, grammar, America which covers a lot of stuff about the government as well, then there's science, computer, money and Earth. If you had the grammar Rock memorized which most of us that watched Saturday morning cartoons every week had it memorized you could get through about 10th grade English, with that knowledge. Even now for common knowledge stuff or when somebody's asking how something happens within the government all think back to schoolhouse Rock and the songs come to me and I can sometimes even sing them the answer.
Between the cartoons there were a lot of learning / teaching things that would come on in amongst the commercials, there was "Time for Timer", he usually taught things about health, of course that was in the form of songs as well, because kids just tend to remember songs, as do adults really.
Those cars weren't terribly ugly, that's a stupid thing to say!
I loved Those cars
It’s not they we didn’t like the disco scene. Us rockers just thought the music was cheesy.
I never hitchhiked always thought of safty being a woman my brother picked up a hitchhiker her slashed his wrist stole his car robbed a bank was caught i herd stories of serial killers early 70s onwards and rapes they glamorized it in movies dont do it
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I'm sorry but the caption on your video should be, "I've Never", not "I've Have Never." Saying, 'I've Have' is redundant since 'I've' is I have.
Disco SUCKED!
You know you say you could never imagine hitchhiking. In reality you probably use Uber or one of those type of car rideshare things and how is that so different except you're paying for it you call some stranger on your phone they show up you get in their car you don't know them you don't know what the background check has been you don't know if they've been doing this for years or if you're their first ride, the only real difference is is that you said where you're going that doesn't mean you're going to get there, and you're paying them. I never hitchhiked when I was younger and I've never taken an Uber either because I feel it's just as dangerous. I have essentially caught a ride with a stranger one time but it was after spending 4 days at a convention working the booth right next to their booth, and I could either rent a car or catch a ride because she was going to the next convention that I was also going to and it was 300 mi away, I offered to pay for the gas but she said that her company was expecting her to pay the gas anyway so it didn't matter.
I made a good story when I got back to my company who had told me to try to save a little bit of money and get to the next convention as cheaply as possible, so when I didn't have any kind of expense reimbursement for the travel they asked me how I got there and I said "well, you told me to do as cheap as possible so I hitchhiked" they kept saying no really how did you do it and I just kept saying I hitchhiked, they never asked me to do something as cheap as possible again.
You could make that same argument about taxis which existed back then as well if you're going to try to compare hitching to Uber.
@AveragePicker in most places taxi drivers have to have a special license, they have background checks, their picture and name are displayed inside the car on the taxi drivers license and you can identify the car as a taxi.
Uber can be any car, they pull up and say I'm your Uber and you get in... Unless things have changed Uber doesn't do background checks or minimal checks, you didn't use to get a picture of your driver, do you now? I could become an Uber driver in my town in a day or two, possibly with false or stolen information, then start picking people up looking for a victim to kidnap, rob, rape, kill, or some combination of terrible things... Hmmm just like I would do if I was a bad guy picking up hitchhikers, the biggest difference would be the people getting in my car without a struggle or needing to be tricked.
So yeah it is similar to uber or another ride share, and a taxi would be much safer
Streaking even made it to the Oscars stage in 1974 when some guy ran naked across the stage during the ceremony on live tv. You can still find the hilarious clip on TH-cam 🩷
My dad would show his slides he took in vietnam and his time in the army and doing ham radio in the peace corps in africa.🩷🩷🩷🩷
I picked up hitchhikers in the 90's, never hitchhiked myself, used my creep radar first before stopping🩷
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Niagara Falls been there several times🩷
Maybe we should hit the 90's videos🩷
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School House Rocks are great. Does anyone know if YT allows the cartoons for reactions? 🩷
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