THIS is What Friday Nights Were Like in The 1970s!

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  • THIS is What Friday Nights Were Like in The 1970s!
    Take a nostalgic trip to the 1970s in my latest video, "THIS is What Friday Nights Were Like in The 1970s!" Relive the iconic moments and activities that defined Friday nights during this groovy era. From disco fever to cultural phenomena, dive into the vibrant and unforgettable Friday night scene of the '70s. 🕺📺
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  • @midcenturymodern9330
    @midcenturymodern9330 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +362

    Life without smartphones was wonderful.

    • @luisalfonsoalba9730
      @luisalfonsoalba9730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      smartphones are a great thing, the problem is that way too many are on the hands of not so smart people

    • @QuaaludeCharlie
      @QuaaludeCharlie 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I have Never Used one yet and I'm 56 :) QC

    • @bigwillietheb
      @bigwillietheb 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      yeah it was

    • @shiroibasketshoes
      @shiroibasketshoes 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@QuaaludeCharlie I am 59, I've never owned a smartphone and never will.

    • @brich6875
      @brich6875 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@luisalfonsoalba9730People are addicted to them. They can’t function without having one in their hand. Friends abs families get together and don’t even talk like decades past because they just sit and stare at their phones

  • @noelhernandez363
    @noelhernandez363 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +359

    In the 70's I only cared about two things: riding my bike all over the neighborhood and Saturday morning cartoons!!

    • @jpbusker7943
      @jpbusker7943 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Pretty much the same for me… Hot Wheels & Sizzlers rounded out my top 3.

    • @hugostiglitz8465
      @hugostiglitz8465 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@gargantuaismsugarsmacks!

    • @whosaidthat4299
      @whosaidthat4299 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Crunching away that terrible cereal and cartoons 😂.

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too. How is your 401k today? Roth? Retirement plan? Getting regular colonoscopies? Any new skin growths?

    • @tomkat9557
      @tomkat9557 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@randymillhouse791your bumming me out 😂😂😂😂

  • @jeffreyknight3884
    @jeffreyknight3884 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

    Thank God I was born at the right time, to experience all of this. Take me back...

    • @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717
      @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was born in '76...wish I had been born around '65. 70s -> 90s were pretty good times.

  • @melbel1990
    @melbel1990 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I am so glad I grew up in the 70’s! Best time of my life. No cell phones, no computers, no social media!

    • @irenebecker4815
      @irenebecker4815 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ah, riding in the back seat of a car with the windows up because it was raining and Dad's cigarette smoke choking me, Mom spanking my brother with a flip flop, drinking and driving wasn't illegal (just stupid and dangerous), Neil Diamond singing "Girl you'll be a woman soon" (what??), parents not knowing where we were or who we were with, and the Vietnam war was pretty unpopular. to. I feel lucky just to have survived the 70s.

  • @luisalfonsoalba9730
    @luisalfonsoalba9730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +259

    How many remember Columbia House?

    • @FoxRivers778
      @FoxRivers778 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I was a subscriber to both it and the RCA music service and got alot of records and tapes that way in the 80's. I believe my dad was a member of Columbia House back in the 60's.

    • @luisalfonsoalba9730
      @luisalfonsoalba9730 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and dont forget how we talked our younger brothers to join to get extra albums @@FoxRivers778

    • @maryyoung4046
      @maryyoung4046 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I remember that. I was a member of the record and tape club. Later I was a member of the video or movie club also both Columbia House.

    • @faridajackson
      @faridajackson 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      10 cds for a penny offers came in the mail

    • @Rest65432
      @Rest65432 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Bought 8 tracks from them!

  • @Nunofurdambiznez
    @Nunofurdambiznez 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +177

    I was 10 y.o in 1970 and 20 y.o in 1980 - my life was at its BEST in that decade!!

    • @zcam1969
      @zcam1969 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      it the 60s didn't end until 1975 .as i remember

    • @LoydKline-uw4no
      @LoydKline-uw4no 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ❤️ 1970s great music , tv & movies & 🎬 & mall life

    • @jsdad48
      @jsdad48 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Best time of my life....

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A very sad statement regarding your current life, don't you think?

    • @zcam1969
      @zcam1969 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@randymillhouse791 is that a joke

  • @sew66
    @sew66 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    The magic of the 60s and 70s is gone the kids nowadays will never know what we once had at that time. A lost jewel.

  • @margielyons6282
    @margielyons6282 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    No cellphones, the telephone stayed home where it belonged. 😊🌿

  • @detroitboy65
    @detroitboy65 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    I remember growing up in the 70s. Many many skating parties, bike riding, model kit building, arcades. record stores .. We lived out of doors summer and winter! So many things kids don't do today ,

  • @jond1965
    @jond1965 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    So much fun being a kid in the 70s. Pizza, Pepsi and FAMILY.

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Orange Bowl?

    • @user-lh9pj5px3i
      @user-lh9pj5px3i 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No no no....Dr. Pepper

    • @jond1965
      @jond1965 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-lh9pj5px3i nah RC then Pepsi

    • @peterhendricksen6946
      @peterhendricksen6946 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      1 slice and a Pepsi .65cents?

    • @shawnettezaccaria2462
      @shawnettezaccaria2462 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I agree! Those were definitely good times! 💖👍

  • @norwegianblue2017
    @norwegianblue2017 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I feel sorry for kids today. They don't know how this country used to be, when adults acted like adults and kids could be kids.

  • @superdave7241
    @superdave7241 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    There are people that hate this about America and our freedom & are working very hard to take it away...Don't let them win
    🗽🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

    • @Sinn0100
      @Sinn0100 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Absolutely, I am with you 100%! I live in the beautiful state of Florida, and I am very active in the fight. We have been able to lock down just about everything here, as we don't go for any leftist nonsense at all.
      Addendum - Even though I didn't really get to experience the 1970's...I was here for the 1980's and 1990's. So, I got to see America firsthand at her absolute best and we're taking it back.

    • @armandodimarzio1136
      @armandodimarzio1136 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It sounds like you miss being young not that time era

    • @superdave7241
      @superdave7241 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@armandodimarzio1136 No, it's not about missing being young, it's about us being able to be uniquely American with our own distinct culture. Go be Dr. Phil somewhere else🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @Sinn0100
      @Sinn0100 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@armandodimarzio1136
      Well no, he absolutely speaks the truth.

    • @armandodimarzio1136
      @armandodimarzio1136 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Sinn0100 would you want to go back to that time era at your present age?

  • @michaelp_42
    @michaelp_42 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    I wish I had a Time Machine to go back to those good ole days 🙏

  • @ThouSwell-zx3fd
    @ThouSwell-zx3fd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    The music was so vastly superior than anything now. Foreigner, the Spinners, The Stylistics, Queen, KC and the Sunshine Band, ELO, Abba, Led Zep, the Stones, The Sweet, Styx, Jackson Five, Tommy Roe, Boney M, The Who, The Partridge Family, Deep Purple, Linda Ronstead, Elton John, Donna Summer, Neil Diamond, Blondie, The Guess Who, Bee Gees, T Rex, April Wine... damn we were spoiled!!

  • @vh2owall
    @vh2owall 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Growing up in the 70s, I will never forget Friday nights with Bert Sugarman’s Midnight Special. Wolfman Jack used to host.

  • @Sith_dude
    @Sith_dude 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

    I had fun as a kid in the 70s.

    • @MrMark2024
      @MrMark2024 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Same here. It was a great decade to be alive.

    • @maryyoung4046
      @maryyoung4046 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      same.

    • @LoydKline-uw4no
      @LoydKline-uw4no 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Great music& tv 📺 & movies 🎬& going to the mall

  • @TheGravygun
    @TheGravygun 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    A lot of those arcade games didn't come out till 80 or 81.

    • @brucecollins7424
      @brucecollins7424 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yeah, I was going to say, I don't think Defender was around until the 80s

    • @Hecatecrossways
      @Hecatecrossways 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      ​@@brucecollins7424Arcades were a 1980s pastime, not 1970s. The only electronic game was space Invaders, and there were absolutely 0 electronic games until 1978 , and they were only in big cities. Mall Ratting was also a 1980s not 1970s pastime. In the 1970s Discotheques were the popular choice. I wasn't there, but I have read a lot about it. I am really into 1970s music and counter culture ( pre Disco , pre Punk Rock). I only watch 1970s films , and television shows. I wish I could have been there for it

    • @rodjohnson3045
      @rodjohnson3045 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Hecatecrossways Computer Space was the first arcade video game, in 1971. Video game arcades started in the 70's, hit their peak in the early 80's, before the 1983 crash. My local mall had an arcade in the late 70's, if not before. And Merritt Island, FL was, and is still, not a big city.
      I didn't watch this video, but feel confident saying this was also pretty much Friday night in the 80's.

    • @yerkeskid
      @yerkeskid 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Hecatecrossways Yep. Now, there were arcades in the 1970s but they were full of pin ball machines. I remember being a kid and seeing my first video game in an arcade. It was "Night Driver" in 1976. We had "Pong" at home, but never saw anything like "Night Driver" to that point. Then games started dropping fast like "Asteroids" and "Space Invaders".

  • @russelleads2145
    @russelleads2145 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Yep, I would go back in a heartbeat.

  • @m3talentagency680
    @m3talentagency680 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Arcades were awesome during the 70's & 80's.

  • @mattdylan664
    @mattdylan664 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    57 years young, how could i not be drawn in by this? if i had a time machine i'd live the 1970s over and over in a loop and then when i got tired of it drop back into Liverpool in the 60s and catch some early Beatles gigs!, cheers for this great slice of nostalgic Americana!

    • @kenfrievalt7826
      @kenfrievalt7826 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      57 . What state did you grow up in?

    • @mattdylan664
      @mattdylan664 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@kenfrievalt7826 Southern California first in the San Diego (Santee) area then later Orange County (Seal Beach,Huntington Beach)

    • @chrisehrhorn4160
      @chrisehrhorn4160 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too !

    • @chrisehrhorn4160
      @chrisehrhorn4160 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      You never realize that you are living n the “ good ole days” until they are gone

    • @kenfrievalt7826
      @kenfrievalt7826 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Dreaming about the future was better than living it.

  • @tcwhite0104
    @tcwhite0104 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Best decades EVER!!!! EVER!! Glad I was in HS then, never will be able to replace those experiences.

  • @jIMwILLIAMS-im7kk
    @jIMwILLIAMS-im7kk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Screw cell phones how bout a time machine back to the 70s!! Cant Imagine a better decade for kids ! Friday night's were awesome but saturdays was our adventure time for me,and my buds! And night time was all of us in my moms station wagon heading to the skating ring, drive in movies etc. , and sundays in the sumertime was pops day to take all of us for a day at the lake where he would work the grill while me and my friends swam all day until we were starving! Man i wish i could go back... i still smell summertime in the 70s occasionally and can almost hear mom calling us in to eat dinner as a family at the table. What a time.....

  • @cyrysvonnachtseite4546
    @cyrysvonnachtseite4546 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    I would sell my soul to return to those days. Especially Halloween and Christmas…. Long lost friends and relatives…

    • @starmnsixty1209
      @starmnsixty1209 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yeah, I know what you mean. Bittersweet to have only the memories now we're old ourselves...

    • @armandodimarzio1136
      @armandodimarzio1136 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You mean you sell your soul to be young again

  • @Operator_68
    @Operator_68 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Those sure were good times.

  • @svenmartin840
    @svenmartin840 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    The music was different,Kids could play outside till the street lights came on. And I was 10 in 1977 and I tell my grandkids. That is how we socialzed back then.

    • @sophiepooks2174
      @sophiepooks2174 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Perhaps the public housing poor neighborhoods have somethings right, the kids are always on the streets there till the lights come on and beyond the parent(s) no where to be seen/found except when it's time to feed them or let them back in to sleep.

  • @bobkay5088
    @bobkay5088 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    I see a lot of people complaining about pics from the 50s, 60s and 80s being used. Even a 78rpm record player is shown. I'm willing to overlook it because these were ALL good times, compared to now. American culture, and "living the good life" went down the toilet after 2000, and is heading to the bottom fast, with smartphones and Facebook leading the way. Gone are the drive-ins, the bowling alleys, the skating rinks, the amusement parks that we enjoyed. Now the young walk around like zombies with a 3x5 screen jammed in their face. In this dystopian age, seeing ALL these pictures is comforting. As a teenager of the 70s, all I know is I wouldn't want to be one today.

    • @sonyafox3271
      @sonyafox3271 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Well, U don’t know how people think videos like this otherwise would be made, that’s how they document are world’s history and, everyone uses them! That would be weird if people created new video for a look at the past! Aka/ People always want to and, have to constantly complain about something or they aren’t very contented or happy!

    • @bobkay5088
      @bobkay5088 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sonyafox3271 Do we always have to be recording every little thing? It's bad enough the young do not value their privacy and freedom, and have to post every minute detail of their lives on FB, while they sell your personal info and monitor your activity. And you're cool with that? Only a sheep would be, or a peasant trapped in a communist country that knows no better.

    • @DanaTheInsane
      @DanaTheInsane 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      On the other hand unlike 40 years ago I'm allowed to exist now.

    • @napoleon-sk5oc
      @napoleon-sk5oc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cock a doodle doo

    • @cnnw3929
      @cnnw3929 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@DanaTheInsaneThis, exactly. I've seen kids of today who treat me far better than my own generation did when I was a kid back in the 1970's. It was not all rosy for everybody back then!

  • @marleyboy7732
    @marleyboy7732 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    I miss the 70s & 80s. Entertainment in various forms were so much better back then. And yes, the social life was booming. Used to make tons of friends everywhere you went practically...Todays life doesn't make sense at all. And its a whole lot easier to get shot or arrested just for talking to people out there now. And kids have to be watched like a hawk cause of the dangers. Neighborhood streets used to be filled with big groups of kids on bikes, playing games, planning sleep overs from morning till night. Parents couldnt keep their kids in the house. Best times ever.

    • @erikb8979
      @erikb8979 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Well people respected each other more so than now. That’s for sure

    • @marleyboy7732
      @marleyboy7732 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@erikb8979 very true

    • @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717
      @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The dangers were always there....but, back then, you didn't have omnipresent media reminding you of them 24/7.

  • @deborahchesser7375
    @deborahchesser7375 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I remember the anticipation before a big house party or going to the drive-in and still love the magic of a bowling alley.

  • @shawnamcdonald2463
    @shawnamcdonald2463 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    I was born in 71 so we actually hung out with ppl and played outside when I was a kid and as a teenager hung out and did things. I miss those days with no cellphones and fb

    • @zcam1969
      @zcam1969 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      the early 70s were still the 60s things changed in 1975.i was born in 64

    • @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717
      @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@zcam1969 The cultural decades are staggered. I think the 70s actually started with the end of America's involvement in the Vietnam War in 1973. The 80s didn't really begin until like 1984.

    • @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717
      @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zcam1969 I'd add that "the 60s" was the decade of protest that ended with American involvement in the Vietnam War. The 70s ended with the decline/disappearance of certain popular forms of entertainment (the 70s was an escapism decade) like Atari and disco. The 80s were largely about Neo-Conservatism (Reaganism) and the 90s were primarily about the Clinton presidency (social and economic policies...socially liberal-economically conservative).

    • @zcam1969
      @zcam1969 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 i lived through it and things changed after 1974

    • @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717
      @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zcam1969 I'll stick to my original statement. The real thing that ended "the 60s" was the end of the protest movements. Watergate and the resignation in '74 further sealed the deal. So, I guess, you could also say the 60s ended in the late summer of '74.

  • @SuV33358
    @SuV33358 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

    Soooooo glad I grew up when the mall scene was going on. No parents, no curfews, no cell phones , just being with friends , smoking and checking out guys lol. I feel so bad for kids today. They have no idea what they've missed. I loved Deb, Lerner, Old West for my Levi cords, hickory farms..i could go on and on....😊

    • @josebro352
      @josebro352 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      OMG Hickory Farms! I forgot all about that place. Remember Papa Gino's, Bradlee's, Thom McCann Shoes, and Weathervane? And yeah my girlfriend at the time would always smoke in the mall. Times were so different back then. We would even go to Dream Machine after shopping. It was a video arcade only found in malls.

    • @LKVince11
      @LKVince11 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@josebro352 Papa Ginos and Bradlees? You must have grown up in the northeast like me😊

    • @josebro352
      @josebro352 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LKVince11 You bet I did. Massachusetts to be exact. Just outside of Boston. Remember Jack in the Box, Sbarro Pizza, Waldenbooks, and Strawberries Records?

    • @brewcrew5854
      @brewcrew5854 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      there was that certain smell of cigarettes as you walked outside the high school door by the smoking area for students ! imagine teens being allowed to smoke on school grounds ! i wonder when that got kiboshed ?

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@brewcrew5854 In my Middle School there was a smoking area for chrissakes.

  • @whyamiheredlb
    @whyamiheredlb 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I’m 56 and I still have shapely legs because of roller skating so much when I was a kid! I would have slept at the roller rink if I could have, some of the best childhood memories I have. Loved my ditto bell bottom pants and Shakey’s pizza ! Thanks for allowing me to reminisce ✌️

  • @godstomper
    @godstomper 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I remember the late 70s. It was a fun time

  • @lsrose
    @lsrose 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Spent my teen years in the 70s. It was a great time to grow up in the 70s. Sometimes I wish we go back..

  • @JasonStutz
    @JasonStutz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Born in the early 70's and I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything

  • @fgjr96way
    @fgjr96way 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    friendly, family events and get togethers, and respectable and kindness to others, could not wait till Friday to let loose and do it all over again on Saturday (those days are long gone now)

  • @user-ts3mi4zk2n
    @user-ts3mi4zk2n 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Muscle cars cruising, rock and roll blasting on a hot summer night. Remember "Chinese Fire Drills" ?...😂... I truly miss it all !....❤

    • @jayhawkjd8565
      @jayhawkjd8565 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Haven't thought of "Chinese Fire Drills" in forever! Nowadays, kids not only don't do them, they would be afraid to say it. Thanks for reminding me.

    • @user-ts3mi4zk2n
      @user-ts3mi4zk2n 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jayhawkjd8565 It's fun thinking back, isn't it. It kind of makes me happy and sad at the same time. Thanks for responding ..... 🙂

  • @mdunawaym
    @mdunawaym 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I was waiting for the concerts to be mentioned! I went to so many of the great bands' shows in the 70s! It defined the decade for me!

    • @TinaRobinson-qf1dh
      @TinaRobinson-qf1dh 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes we had better concerts back then better bands and musicians didn't costs a lot of money for tickets like it does now the most I ever paid for a ticket is 12 dollars

    • @mdunawaym
      @mdunawaym 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TinaRobinson-qf1dh I saw KISS, with Montrose opening, for $5!

  • @EdEhren-be6hr
    @EdEhren-be6hr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Grew up in th 80's.
    Frogger,Qbert Pacman,Space Invaders and Donkey Kong.
    Frequented Northland Mall in Southfield,MI.Feasted on Hot Sams soft pretzels and shopped at Sam Goodys.
    Went to the Americana on 9 and Greenfield to see latest movies.
    Neighbors came over on Friday Nights to watch the Incredible Hulk and Fantasy Island with My family and I.
    Friends and I played football and basketball until either darkness fell or parents called a stop to it.
    Sense of togetherness and comraderie that's missing Today and likely wont be returning anytime soon 😔.

  • @peterjohnson1734
    @peterjohnson1734 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    As someone who spent all my teen years in the 1970s, the Disco Craze is so overstated. It didn't last that long, and the cool kids listened to Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, etc.

    • @erikb8979
      @erikb8979 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Disco definitely sucked

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      DISCO, DISCO DUCK!

    • @YOUR-LOCAL13
      @YOUR-LOCAL13 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep!

    • @sophiepooks2174
      @sophiepooks2174 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@erikb8979 Mostly because it was the homogenized/shallow bastard child of Funk and of course the racists and homophobes hated that it was mostly made by Hispanics, African Americans and LGBT musicians/producers not the "good ol' boys" tough guys who didn't dance.

    • @erikb8979
      @erikb8979 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sophie. No. None of those things. It just sucked. U contradict yourself because modern music all has its roots from those very things u just listed. Rick and roll Blues. Soul. R and b. Country. It’s all had roots from African American culture. Don’t hate those. Disco is the only music I ever truly hated. Even some rap I don’t mind mainly old school rap

  • @The-Noc
    @The-Noc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I'd give my life up for today's kids/ teenagers to live like I did in the late 70s thru 80s. We played outside until our parents called for us or until the street lights came on. Rode our bikes all over the place. Arcades, bowling alleys, camping overnight in our friends backyard, every kid on our block and even in the neighborhood would get together for baseball or hide-n-go-seek, kick the can. It was such a safer time! We would get a dollar and ride to the nearest store to buy candy bars that cost 25 cents! On rainy days it was all about board games and renting vhs or beta movie tapes. Fast food was a weekend thing only. Dinner was ate as a family at the kitchen table. We were fit, all of us were! People helped someone in need right away ( instead of standing there and filming from their phone) if you smarted off to your parents, you'd get one hell of a Crack across the face and the parents wouldn't get sent to jail. The way this world is today, I'm sorta glad my life is most likely past the halfway point.

  • @79tazman
    @79tazman 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    My father was in a bowling league in the 70's I remember going with him as a child and watching him bowl

    • @louishaddon4351
      @louishaddon4351 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same here! Saturday night with my parents in a league mid 70s. They would have me go get them cigs from the machine 60 cents. Crazy what they cost now

  • @williamschlenger1518
    @williamschlenger1518 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    My son's enjoyed the games and,we all enjoyed the drive in .We have sunk into a nightmare.

  • @keithcooke3154
    @keithcooke3154 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Goin bowling or off to the roller rink on Saturday night in the 70's. Back home early enough to catch SNL and The Midnight Special. 👍💯👍

  • @tonycollazorappo
    @tonycollazorappo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I used to enjoy bowling back in the 70s. I was a pre-teen and our school used to take us bowling as our part of our gym class a few times a week. I truly sucked at it but I enjoyed it because it was fun with friends, lol. I was born in 1961.

    • @midcenturymodern9330
      @midcenturymodern9330 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hear you. The site of my favorite bowling alley is now a boring beige condo complex. 🥹

    • @spankynater4242
      @spankynater4242 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm right there with you. My highest game ever was a 128 fluke. Usually I hovered around 90, but I loved bowling.

  • @79tazman
    @79tazman 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I remember the Drive in more then the movie theater when I was young

    • @erikb8979
      @erikb8979 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes. Dad telling us we was going drive in. U never seen 5 boys load the station wagon up so fast. Threw in a mattress in the back and we was on our way

  • @mayahigginbotham9873
    @mayahigginbotham9873 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I was a child of the 80s. Never get those days back. 😫

  • @christopher5585
    @christopher5585 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Gen Xer here: The 1970's was a good time. I reluve it everyday.

  • @Starphot
    @Starphot 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I graduated from high school in 1971. There were no cruising in my town. When I got out of the Navy in 1975, there was cruising down the main drag. Skating rinks and bowling alleys were at their peak. The cruisers were outed in the late 1980s. Bowling down and ice skating still around these days. The glitter ball is a relic from the "roaring" 1920s revived in the 1970s. Arcade video games started in the late 1970s with the first home Pong game followed. Roller rinks was hip in the 1950s with the girls wearing poodle dresses, down a bit in the 1960s but up probably from Melanie's (may she rest) song "Brand new Key" in 1971.

    • @mikenuyen4441
      @mikenuyen4441 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ever see "Brand new key" video? Brings back memories.

  • @islandbee
    @islandbee 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    In the 90s they started to crack down on the weekend cruising., and started to put up ordinances to ban it. We couldn't do that today with gas prices up😅

  • @toddjackson164
    @toddjackson164 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    To be clear, this is the mid to late 70s. Early 70s was an entirely different era.

  • @Jonsey-lm5sv
    @Jonsey-lm5sv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Oh my gosh, I lived in my roller skates in those days. Spent every Friday and Saturday night at the roller disco from 6-11….it was the greatest place on earth.

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ...to meet the opposite sex and lose something.

    • @Jonsey-lm5sv
      @Jonsey-lm5sv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@randymillhouse791 , huh??

  • @macca9392
    @macca9392 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The 70s & 80s Rocked!! We had Great Fun!!! No Cell Phones, No Computer Games for Us, the Rich Kids got them in the 80s, we had Drag Star Bikes, Played with other kids in the Street. Every one knew each other, be home when the Street lights came on.
    Burgers, pizza, or KFC, was an Occasional Treat, which you Appreciated & looked forward too.
    It was a Far Better Time, than Today’s Insanity!!. I’m grateful for my Childhood/ Teenage upbringing, Great memories 👍👍👏👏

  • @tammydetrick6279
    @tammydetrick6279 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I miss my innocence in those days.

  • @kayeragdull217
    @kayeragdull217 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Great list I remember it all. Our go to store at the mall was Spencer's Gifts - lava lamps, blacklight posters and every t- shirt known to man.
    I would add minature golf, the music and light show at the planetarium, the company softball tournament craze and the ever popular midnight movie (Rocky Horror, anyone). I grew up in Florida so hanging at the beach was also an option.

    • @craigbrown8984
      @craigbrown8984 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And the smell of incense when you entered Spencer's gift shop.😊✌️

  • @markkalfahs1047
    @markkalfahs1047 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    ...the first thing I thought of was The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family were on TV tonight...

    • @peterjohnson1734
      @peterjohnson1734 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't forget Nanny & The Professor

  • @brianr7726
    @brianr7726 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    That coffee table at 11:17 is EVERYTHING!

  • @79tazman
    @79tazman 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I miss the arcades there use to be a store down the street from me when I was a kid and they had a back room full of arcades from Moon Patrol, Pac Man, Centipede and pinball games too and use to play the games all the time. I would go around and collect pop bottles and return them for the deposit money and go play the arcades. I miss those days it was great.

    • @user-hb4zx8ve3j
      @user-hb4zx8ve3j 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don’t say “pop” around any youngins their head may explode!!

  • @FoxRivers778
    @FoxRivers778 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I definitely bowled in leagues all throughout the 70's and into the 80's. Oak Park Mall is the only mall left in Johnson County, KS and is still thriving.

  • @ugaais
    @ugaais 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Born in 1970 loved being a kid in the 70’s and a teen in the 80’s

  • @kevinray5636
    @kevinray5636 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I was 13 in 1970 and in the army in 1975. I remembers girls, great music, cruising in my 1970 Cuda and lots of beer drinking. Way to much fun in California.

    • @NuNugirl
      @NuNugirl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was 12 in 1970. By the time my friends and I were around 15 we had all of Manhattan to play in during the 70’s. From Columbia University all the way downtown on the Westside, all of Central Park, the 80’s on the Eastside, The Village, but never the Lower Eastside or Times Square. We knew all the best spots.

  • @nick-rp2do
    @nick-rp2do 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Roller skating started in the sixties. I used to go to the rink every Saturday night in 1968 69 when I was a senior in high school.

  • @michaelstallings5824
    @michaelstallings5824 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    and there was'ent as much fear,of someone walking into a rink and shooting up the place.

  • @chrisehrhorn4160
    @chrisehrhorn4160 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I used to work at chess king ! The mall was more for socializing than shopping

  • @Aeroguy-ob9eb
    @Aeroguy-ob9eb 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I'm 60 now. What a great time I had growing up. Young people of today have no idea.

  • @gravityisgone2539
    @gravityisgone2539 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Earth, Wind & Fire is one band. You have the Eagles for the "Earth" picture.

    • @thomasventiquattroii7249
      @thomasventiquattroii7249 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This vid has lots of clips from a concert by the acoustic group, "America" (Bunnell, Beckley & Peek). RIP Dan Peek.

  • @jamesalexander3530
    @jamesalexander3530 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The best of the 70s was the best era in rock and soul music with electronic music raising it's head to morph to trance, techno, house, chill out lounge and space music.
    The downside we Vietnam vets were not welcomed home until the 1982 when the Wall was inaugurated in DC.

  • @jeroenvangastel9079
    @jeroenvangastel9079 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Hardly no obesity in the 70’

    • @FoxRivers778
      @FoxRivers778 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Most people got out more back then.

    • @missybelmont9830
      @missybelmont9830 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Before fructose corn syrup was in everything..

  • @westtexas7
    @westtexas7 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The 70s were cool but the 60s were mind blowing.

  • @codzy3532
    @codzy3532 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    over here in australia when we went to the movies intermission we used to hear herp albert the lonely bull when i hear it now i think back when we used to go to the movies

  • @tnpatriot7468
    @tnpatriot7468 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    As individuals from a diverse background came together for a collective joy? Really. wow...how beautifully written.

    • @copsondonuts
      @copsondonuts 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lol as if we were all separated with no contact

    • @erikb8979
      @erikb8979 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly. But that’s exactly what the left is doing. Separation and labeling. Literally threw us back decades. They want us divided and fighting each other

  • @Anthony-pn4cl
    @Anthony-pn4cl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The good old days of the drive in theaters with the big speaker on your driver side roll up window. The bugs would get in your vehicle.

    • @ACDZ123
      @ACDZ123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Don't forget when it rained heavy and had to put a towel in there to block up the hole 😅

    • @Anthony-pn4cl
      @Anthony-pn4cl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Technology got a little better when you could turn on your radio to a AM station and get sound 🔊. The intermission between films was pretty cool when you you went to the popcorn or snack stand.

    • @annesacilowski-wq8jd
      @annesacilowski-wq8jd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You’d have to remember to hang the speaker back before you drove off! 😆

  • @Qboro66
    @Qboro66 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    The video arcade era was the 80's not the 70's...
    Pinball was big in the 70's...

    • @kevincharbonneau5953
      @kevincharbonneau5953 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      There were arcades in the 70s. The 1975 movie Jaws shows kids in a small arcade near a boardwalk and one of the games was called Shark Hunter

    • @Qboro66
      @Qboro66 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @kevincharbonneau5953 I'm not saying no about game arcades in the 70's, but they were dominated by pinball machines and target shooting style games, etc.
      Other than Pong and similar types, there weren't too many other video games...
      You're using a movie reference, but I'm using my childhood memories(Great Eastern Department stores games arcade Elmont,NY)because I was a child of the 70s and a High Schooler/College student through most of the 80s(1981-1986)...
      Besides, the images of video arcades in this video are clearly from 1982, and the participants are more or less my same age...
      Just curious, what is your experience?

    • @kevincharbonneau5953
      @kevincharbonneau5953 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Qboro66 👍

    • @user-lh9pj5px3i
      @user-lh9pj5px3i 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Loved pinball!

    • @CarolBurke-ig2lb
      @CarolBurke-ig2lb 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      70's arcades near us had ski ball and pinball, fun.

  • @MoneyGrip70
    @MoneyGrip70 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Drive Ins were awesome.there was no mosquitos back then either

  • @donaldcurtis9229
    @donaldcurtis9229 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I used to go roller skating every friday and saturday night was wonderful

  • @miltonrivero1017
    @miltonrivero1017 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The 1970s was before my time , but i will tell you that life was alot better than today that's including the 1980s and the 1990s life was so easy simple and pleasent to live all i did was ride my mountain bike to lake michigan and back to wineka illinois that is the suburbs i lived in , oh yeah Saturday morning cartoons that's when kids were kids we threw parties had fun how i miss those days .....

    • @X7393
      @X7393 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😢yeah I miss my days of being able to watch those cartoons on tv 😢especially the 70’s to the 80’s cartoons which unfortunately have yet to be released on blu-ray 😢well they did remaster Scooby Doo, etc 😮

  • @nickhill8612
    @nickhill8612 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Great video.
    Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
    You deserve more likes and subscribers.

  • @user-rw2uh5bv3o
    @user-rw2uh5bv3o 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I miss those days 😢❤

  • @matrox
    @matrox 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Most of those clips are from the early 80s not 70s.

  • @kenhobbs9251
    @kenhobbs9251 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I remember the spring of 1975 my baseball manager bringing us all home from practice in the back of his Chevy pickup. Going to the drive in movies was so fun

  • @davegalea6689
    @davegalea6689 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    early Saturday mornings TV was so brilliant in the 60's and 70's in the UK and all the music was so much better in those days too.

  • @UncleDavesKitchen
    @UncleDavesKitchen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember practicing dancing during the week to go out on the weekend. We ironed our jeans and shirts, glitter gelled our hair, blow dry it feathered back with the middle part. Take a nap to be fresh and go out about 10:30 when others started to look ragged already after several hours of dancing. Any disease you could get was treated with a few shots. The good times rolled.

  • @josebro352
    @josebro352 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've only been to a drive in movie once in my life. It was in Salisbury, Massachusetts and I was six and we were on our way home from a day at the beach. We saw Airport '75. I'll never forget that.

  • @gilbertflores4341
    @gilbertflores4341 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I was a kid back in those days. :) Now..I'm a 54yr old fart. :/

  • @ski874
    @ski874 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    the drive inn when you would put your buddies in the trunk so they wouldn’t have to pay lol

  • @cavecookie1
    @cavecookie1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    High school days in the 70s, dragging Main in the area's big town, with all the other kids from all the other little towns who were our sports rivals, listening to 8-tracks, CB radios, $2 movies in cool old art deco, 30s era theaters. Different times back then.

  • @thegood9
    @thegood9 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Well, all those video games were released in the 1980s. Defender, in particular was 1981, as was Centipede. Even missile command was released in 1980...so.....

    • @smith1958b
      @smith1958b 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Yes, that's true. Video games didn't come out until the early 80s. I remember the 70s being associated with pinball and foosball.

    • @suepeteking743
      @suepeteking743 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@smith1958b And drive in theaters.

    • @daved1535
      @daved1535 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      The arcade was definitely more of an 80s thing than the 70s

    • @brewcrew5854
      @brewcrew5854 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      how about coleco hand held football and baseball beep beep beep

    • @mikerothouse79
      @mikerothouse79 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@smith1958b not true. Atari 2600 came out in 1977 and I was the first kid on the block to have it.

  • @markbrown7103
    @markbrown7103 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those were the good old days the 70s were a great decade. Music was my thing back then and it’s still today. I love playing guitar I started playing in 1974 and still play today. I love it. It was a song of the 70s but inspired me to play. Thanks for the video. It brings back old memories but good ones.👍👍😁🎸❤️

  • @tonyc7025
    @tonyc7025 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I miss the good old days

  • @vx4982
    @vx4982 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I grew up in the 80’s & 90’s thank God.

  • @kevincharbonneau5953
    @kevincharbonneau5953 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Playing frisbee in the drive-in at dusk before the main feature began 🤗

    • @maxp9598
      @maxp9598 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And yoyo's

    • @kevincharbonneau5953
      @kevincharbonneau5953 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@maxp9598 🤗

    • @user-lh9pj5px3i
      @user-lh9pj5px3i 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Clackers were fun too

    • @bdown
      @bdown 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glowsticks and pajama jumpsuits

  • @wonderwinder1
    @wonderwinder1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Dancing was so important.

  • @PioneerCity1767
    @PioneerCity1767 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    And in the 1970's before Grease Olivia Newton-John was a huge Country Music Superstar in the U.S.A.

  • @tonyduncan4875
    @tonyduncan4875 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Uh. There era’s in this video are messed up, talking about 70’s dance, but showing what is obviously known 80’s footage. If your gunna do it, do it right…

  • @rickferrari9042
    @rickferrari9042 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    These were the best I used to go to the roller skating rinks

  • @marniebaker-winnick2296
    @marniebaker-winnick2296 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember going to the roller rink in Santa Barbara CA, starting in 1976, when I was 5 years old. I remember dancing to Parliament, Chic and Donna Summer. Oh how I miss those days.

    • @marc108
      @marc108 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are fortunate..I didn't find SB until 2005...awesome place ...enjoy ✅💯

    • @marniebaker-winnick2296
      @marniebaker-winnick2296 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@marc108 I was born and raised there. My whole family still lives in SB. I moved to L.A. when I was 19. I didn't appreciate SB until I was much older. I had always thought it was small and boring! Now I wish I could live there again, but it's too expensive!

    • @marc108
      @marc108 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@marniebaker-winnick2296 hey Marnie,..I remember seeing a bumper sticker on State Street it read " keep LA 99 miles away"... But I can see as a young lady growing up there the allure of los Angeles. So to put a wrap on my love affair with SB. I actually discovered it when a fella I know here in Florida bought a place there ...I partnered into the property consequently he got divorced and had to sell ...I couldn't carry ..quick end of story..cottage went from 1.4m to just under 4m....dammit, oh well, i will find my way back there

  • @BobSebring
    @BobSebring 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Damn, I'm old!

  • @vashtikelly6837
    @vashtikelly6837 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    THE DRIVE IN IS STILL MY FAVORITE......THE DREAMS I MADE COME TRUE OUT THERE!!!!.....LOL

    • @christineobrien7707
      @christineobrien7707 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good for you! The dreams came true under the beautiful star filled sky. What great memories we have& will always have.😎👍

    • @vashtikelly6837
      @vashtikelly6837 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@christineobrien7707 indeed. I live in Gary Indiana but because of the crime we had to close our drive in and turn it into a storage unit... have to drive over a hour to a different city just for their drive in... the last movie I seen there was in 1994...

    • @christineobrien7707
      @christineobrien7707 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@vashtikelly6837 I live in CT. I think there's 2 active drive ins. Such gfun memories. My mom would throw pj's on my sister and I. So,all she had to do was throw us into bed when we got home! Smart thinking, huh?!

    • @vashtikelly6837
      @vashtikelly6837 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@christineobrien7707 hell yeah and our drive in had a playground to play before the movie started 😁.
      The best time to go to drive in was 70/80s during Jaws, and Friday 13th

    • @christineobrien7707
      @christineobrien7707 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@vashtikelly6837 Yes!! I remember seeing the dumb movie The Swarm(killer bees) I remember closing the windows of my mom's brady bunch station wagon!! I was @ 9 yesterday old .What a dumb ass,huh??!!😄

  • @redfeildre349
    @redfeildre349 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Each time he says JOY take a shot. 😄

    • @edpoe1108
      @edpoe1108 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Or canvas, tapestry, stage, community, social gathering... We've got ourselves a potent drinking game here.

  • @SharonElizabethWhitfield
    @SharonElizabethWhitfield 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Every Friday night me and my best friend went roller skating. Her mom would drop us off at the skating rink and then pick us up when it closed at 2am. I got blisters every time.

  • @spankynater4242
    @spankynater4242 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My 70s record player had a 78 setting, although I have never actually seen a 78 record.

    • @rhondaeverett8284
      @rhondaeverett8284 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      78 records are thicker than 33s