I was a teenager in the 1970's. In my view there was no better time to be alive than then. Yes, the 70's had their problems but in retrospect, nothing like today. It was a time of exploration and freedom. I miss those days.
You're looking at it through your childhood eyes. View it with your eyes now, and you would see the warts it had. The only good thing about the 70s would be the lower gas prices and inflation. But I didn't come along till 81. And having ABBA loving parents is a nightmare.
I graduated in '75 when Farrah was all the rage and so was my bad interpretation of a Farrah hairdo. I knew this for sure when a dude said to me "Who do you think you are, Farrah Fawcett?" OUCH! LOL! I loved growing up at this time. Have a healthy, happy New Year...woo hoo!💓💃🎉🕺💓
You used words like " guilty" "embarrassed", believe me my parents had a gorgeous avocado kitchen with the dark wood and huge windows in kitchen and dining area. It was lovely 😊 And we felt happy, joyous and blessed to have such a lively area to gather, as im sure many American families felt with their harvest gold or avocado stoves and fridges 😊 Those were the days my friend.
I agree. Remember, if something became a fad it meant that a lot of people liked it. At the time, those avocado and harvest gold kitchens looked really cool, fresh and new. Of course in time tastes change and what was once popular looks tacky when a new era arrives.
@@keithwilson6060 Not if you live with the same color for decades like I did...you get to the point where you want to claw your eyes out so you never see it again 😉😆
I had a leisure suit in the 1970's, but rather than polyester, mine was denim. It had bell bottom pants that mostly covered my platform shoes. At school dances, this style was more the rule than the exception. Looking back, the only thing I was "guilty of" was looking SHARP!
That was the most wonderful time of my life! Our kitchen had the avocado stove and fridge! I had an orange Pinto car. Age 16 had an amazing and handsome boyfriend we were the same age and married at age 22. Loved the 70’s Great memories!!💖
Our kitchen was copper colored. There was a wood burning stove in the kitchen in orange, Shag carpeting down the hall was light green, Dad's Pinto wagon was green with wood grain.
@@Wa3ypx My late Wife and I only bought 1 brand new car and I was a 1980 Pinto wagon. Brown, 4 speed, 4 cyl. It was certainly a basic, didn't even have a radio but loved that car. Drove it till the rust got it.
What about: - Shag carpeting - Lamb-chop sideburns - Bell-bottom pants - Perms (for both men & women) - Sequins and/or rhinestones on clothing or pillows, etc. - Disco - White tube socks with the stripes at the top - Wide ties - Plaid pants - Zippers on shirts with the round ring at the end - Dorothy Hamill’s wedge haircut - Ouija boards - Stingray bicycles with banana seats (and an optional triangular flag on a plexiglass stick on the back) - Paneled walls - Macrame plant hangers - Waterbeds - Lava lamps (actually, those are still cool) - Black-light posters (also still cool) - Pocket cameras with flash cubes (the photos were pretty grainy & with lots of red-eye) - 8-tracks & players - CB radios - Anything from Ronco or K-Tel - Pong (and all the copycats to hook up to your home tv) - Electric fry pans - Crocheted blankets and sweaters & vests - Oversized eyeglasses - Powder blue eye shadow - Decorations that included stylized flowers and rainbow designs - Silver Christmas trees - Big-collared shirts - White loafers - Wide belts with separate belt buckles (that you could buy & collect) - Index card files for all of your record albums (or books or whatever) - Donny & Marie - The Farrah Fawcett poster - Dynamite Magazine - Shag covers over the toilet lid and toilet tank top - Tank top shirts - Shorts with the narrow white stripe along the hem that curved up the side seams - Dr. Scholl’s wooden sandals or clogs - Zenith “Space Commander” 4-button tv remotes - Magic Window sand toys (2 colors/densities of sand pressed between 2 clear plastic ovals) - And last but not least, holding your the mono built-in condenser mic on your rectangular cassette player/recorder up to the tv or radio to record your favorite tv show theme or song and getting angry at your sibling or a car outside for making noise
@@isabellind1292 Oh yes the Shag Toilet Seat as a kid i use to pee on the Shag Toilet Seat just for fun until you got yourself a good old fashion AZZ whipping AKA The BELT for doing stupid stuff like that
I graduated in 1970. They were great times as well as the 60s. I bought a pet rock for my mother as a joke. They were just for fun. Mood rings were just as fun. Most of the stuff back then was just for fun something you can't do now since everyone is so sensitive. You guys don't know what you missed.
I was born in 1970. Our days were limited TV, going outside and riding our bikes, and hanging around outside with friends. Punishment for being naughty was to not be allowed to go outside or staying outside until the streetlights came on. One thing I have noticed in the last year or so is the number of kids who are playing outside in groups, girls and boys. Being cooped up in side because of the fear of covid19 may have spawned a new youth movement away from being inside on the computer for hours at a time.
I'm class of '72. We had the best high school experience possible. No shootings, awesome music (real music, with instruments), and best of all, no AIDS, no condoms.
I graduated in 68 and got out of the army in 71. I wasn’t cool, smart or very confident when it came to meeting girls. I didn’t however enjoy my time listening and learning. Would love a do over knowing what I know now.
I graduated from High School in 1979, need I say more? The disco thing was crazy and the clothing was outrageous, but was some of the funnest times I can remember. Let me see, less bullying, more friends, things to do, no social media, no cell phones, no computers (internet), life was so much fun and better. Cars were more stylish and better, despite the ones you mentioned. Music was so wonderful back then, Rock and roll, pop, soul, you name it. It wasn't this vulgar stuff they listen to now days. Real Talent has gotten lost. It is almost a shame the young folks now days can't experience the same things as we did, they just don't realize how much fun life can be. I'm sitting here with this dang laptop typing this comment when there has to be something better to do. God help us.
Just like you survived, without growing up with 1920's culture, young people, today, will survive without growing up with 1970's culture....Also, I would love for you to explain to us, how kids today have less friends, and less things to do, than when you were a kid. That would really be interesting
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 Isn't that why there's a serious epidemic of loneliness, anxiety, depression and suicidal tendencies that continue to plague our younger generation, as a consequence of the social isolation and social ineptness attributed to the rise of technology, social media and the internet?
Again, ignore the troll. He wants you to fall into the despair that he endures. People with a life, join in and share their joy. Trolls spend their lives telling you why you should despair. They should be ignored.
Bullying still took place, but it doesn't go as far as beating someone to death like as what happens today. We maned up to it and made us strong in the long run unlike today when everyone is cuddled.
I will take my strange 70’s & teenage years any day. I loved my mood ring my Kissing Potion rollerball lip gloss (bubble gum flavor) & hair ribbons, I never bought a Pet Rock (seriously, that man was genius), & although I really disliked my parents choice in kitchen decor & color, it was pretty cool at the time - there isn’t any time in life to compare. Great music, good movies, & the freedom to experience life.
I loved watching Wild World Of Sports, This Week in Baseball, and Wild Kingdom w/ Marlin Perkins. At least w/ TH-cam you can still watch the old shows.
I think these people saying that in the 1970s they had the freedom to experience Life...are just meaning that they were more promiscuous times, with sex being a sort of status symbol for younger folks...the fallout from that attitude was the resulting divorce rate, that skyrocketed in the mid-to later 1970s! And then a wave of STDs proliferated, and after that, AIDS. You played that game, you often paid the price! And let's not even talk about the trendy drugs that abounded, beginning the mess we are now in in this country. KARMA !
Thank you so much for your show. I'm a baby boomer born in '52 and these walks down memory lane bring laughter, melancholy and in some cases, tears. Like so many others I can't believe I actually did some or all of these examples. These were the best of times as well as occasionally the worst of times depending on the subject or circumstances. One thing that holds true is that they were genuine. Not like today where so much is phoney or contrived. God bless you for what you offer. It's funny how much of this that my grandkids find unbelievable. "Come on, Grandpa, did you really do this or dress like that?" or "were those things actually real ?" Life was more genuine then, simpler and a hell of a lot more freedom and fun was enjoyed by all. Thanks again
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 why do you insist on commenting on these videos in such a negative way? If you are so unhappy with the 1960s and 1970s, then stop watching these videos. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if you were not even born yet in the 1970s. You just want to virtue signal, and act like a victim.
@@willhorting5317 I never comment on the "I miss my childhood" comments. I comment on the "life was perfect, in the seventies, and I feel sorry for kids today" comments..When I was a kid, in the eighties, I remember many older people saying how " life was so much better, in the fifties, and todays generation is worthless
@@willhorting5317 There is a lot both good and bad in most decades..excepting that there was not a lot of good in the 40s or 50s and most people left or right or middle will at least agree that these past few years have sucked the big wienee! Even in these videos, it is important to recall both bitter as well as the sweet as today instead of the Fairness Doctrine or Walter, we have to weed out our true history. It is important to recall not merely nostalgia but our true history. It is possible to be both realistic and still miss some things about the past.
I was also born in 1962. I recognize some of these, but didn't own any of them. However, I agree that it was a wonderful time, except for the Viet Nam war.
CB radios were a thing for youth for a moment, along with all the jargon that came with them. In cars and home bases, they were the biggest seller of Christmas 1976. Of course they were an established, staple tool for certain occupations like trucking, but for a couple of years everyone “had their ears on”.
I was thinking about adding a CB to my current car but the way it is designed, there is no place to attach the bracket. People are still on the CB. I have VHF radio but that is not good for local traffic. In the day, the dashboard had a frame, and you could attach anything to that frame, gauges, radios, 8-Track, it didn't matter. It was a stiff piece of steel. My current car doesn't even have a bumper to attach an antenna. It is just a piece of plastic.
My nephew was born that year - a “bicentennial baby”. I remember people ringing the bells at churches and town halls on July 4 th. WOW, I was young then!!
I have to agree with some of the others. I was a kid in the 70’s, really too young to remember most of those things, BUT I would gladly go back to that time & era in a heartbeat. 😔😔Times were so much better than they are today. Honestly, you can’t be embarrassed about anything that was in during its time.
Agreed! It's all those "embarrassing" things that made the decade memorable. I turned two in 1970 so I was pretty young to really appreciate most of it, but I do have fond memories of Saturday morning cartoons and the music. Of course we still had the 80's to look forward to!!
Stated so eloquently and so poignantly perfectly. They were some of the best, and worst, of times, but they were "ours", and the memories garnered from those years can never be replicated nor replaced. Thank you.
It was a magical time to be alive. I have fond memories of playing pond hockey with light snow falling, going to the mall to buy X-mas presents, and going to the movies and watching some great T.V. shows.
Born in 55. Grew up in the 60s and 70s. The. Best. Times. EVER! Kids will never understand. Can’t explain it. It had to be experienced. Living there everyday thru the music and memories…..would go back instantly if I could……..
I went to my Junior Prom in a canary yellow tuxedo with a purple bow tie (that's what the boys on the Prom Court wore). My girlfriend (now my wife of 47 years) has NEVER let me live that one down.
I was born in 62 and I loved growing up in the 70s and would time warp back in a second if I could. Did anyone else's dad get the bright idea to add dark cheap paneling to their walls and turn a bright fun room into a dark cave? And those tangled super long phone cords that you'd use to talk on the phone in your room?
I was a teenager in the 70’s. Bell bottoms, halter tops, a suede jacket with fringe, and a suede purse also with fringe. And can’t forget the clogs and the Farrah Faucet hairstyle. I was way cool!
If I may add… the young ladies were naturally just absolutely cute as could be in the 70’s…and the Loves Baby Soft just made them all that much better.
My husband didn’t tell me that at the mall in Long Beach Ca in the 70’s he got an Afro…he came from an Irish background and got an Afro. I waited a long time for him to come out of hair salon… He had a pic for his hair too! He had brownish red Afro.
Even at 14 years old, I knew that the Pet Rock was one of the stupidest products ever made. I never had one. I never wanted one. But, every time a stupid idea like that makes millions of dollars, I slap myself for not thinking of it. LOL.
@@aliensoup2420 Well, I bought "THE NOTHING BOOK" which was filled w/blank pages, lol! What else was stupid but funny looking back was the club we used to hang out at, "DIAL A TONE" where every table had a rotary telephone so you could call up someone at another table if you wanted to meet them, lol! Hilarious concept.💃☎🕺
@@davidsandy5917 Agreed it was great for the first few years then it went down hill i Do miss Mr Bill on SNL Todays SNL is Pour TRASH should have been taken off the air years ago
@@stephendacey8761 I agree about movies but not TV. Didn't really have anything like some of the good original series shows from Netflix and others, mostly because there were so few content outlets and everyone wanted to play it safe.
I loved the 70's - Concerts were the best! Cal Jam I was incredible! Deep Purple, ELP, Seals & Croft, The Eagles and a couple others - tickets were $10 for a full day into the night of great music! Yes - we had the gas crisis and social problems but people over all treated each other better. I'd gladly go back to the 70's (so long as I could have the same body I had back then!!!) wear my 100% Big Bell Levis, platforms and peasant tops.
OMG! Me too. Back in May, 1972, WFIL (Famous 56)AM , THE top AM station in Philly in those days, hosted an all weekend FREE outdoor concert in the expansive parking lot of a local mall in South Jersey. The line up that weekend included Redbone, Jerry Butler, JoJoGunne, Frigid Pink, Climax (Precious and Few), the late Harry Chapin, and Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, who were the "surprise guests" at our Saturday night's high school dance (also courtesy of WFIL), where they performed their "then" new single, " Sylvia's Mother". It was a weekend to remember and could never be replicated. No shootings, no check points, no police involvement...just a crazy good time. How I miss those days!
Heck, I'd go back to the 70's even in this 65 year old body! People were friendlier and not so uptight then! It wasn't perfect but a helluva lot better than nowadays. I could go on and on!
Loved the 70's!!! I remember my Aunt coming to pick us up for church in her Chevy Nova!!! We thought we were riding in style!!! We lived the country life, we were poor, but we didn't know it. In those days, family and friends helped out one another, never expected anything from it, but love and gratitude!!! We had 4 generations on one piece of land. I miss those days!!! I miss the family the most!!! I would go back in a heartbeat!!!
Ahh the mood ring. My mom told my sister and me that she could watch us in the ring when her and my dad went to the movies and left us alone. It totally worked😂
My first car was a bright orange and white Ford Pinto. The interior was all orange-dash, steering wheel, seats, carpet, etc. I added some cool tires, mag wheels, a sporty sounding muffler and an 8 track stereo. I thought I was pretty cool driving that car.😊
I had a 1973 Pinto, red in color. I wish I still had that car today. For its size, it had lots of power. There was just about nothing on the car I couldn't fix with a screwdriver and a wrench. I remember putting in a CB radio with a full quarter wave antenna. The antenna was taller than the car was long. I miss that car and those days.
@@davidsandy5917 I love this!!! I would love to get my Pinto back but I sold it and bought a Camaro. My best friend's little brother bought it from me and then turned it into a candy apple blue race car with huge mag wheels, V-8 engine, hood scoop with a blower, etc.. We used to go watch him race at the 1/4 mile drag strip. It was hilarious!!!
@@birdsfan57After all these years, people still continue the story. Somebody always has to bring it up. The Pinto was no more unsafe than other small cars of the era including a Mustang. My older sister was one of the girls who was killed in the accident that caused the lawsuit. A van traveling at about 70 mph rear ended the stopped Pinto. The car caught fire and 3 girls died. Most small cars of the era would have been equally as dangerous in that accident. Even about 50 years later, that accident and lawsuit damaged the Pinto’s reputation forever. Most people who insult the Pinto are too young to know the truth, only the gossip. Considering that the car hasn’t been built in over in about 43 years, isn’t it time to put the story to rest?
In the 70's we rode bikes without helmets, and on the 4th of July we exploded everything except an actual stick of dynamite. Every single holiday was real and celebrations were full of life. We fell out of "monkey bars" played stick ball in the streets while dodging cars. We got scraped, cut, bruised, patched ourselves up and kept right on playing and having fun. Compared to today, were nothing but a cell phone is allowed, depression is now the norm.
I still have a prominent dent in my forehead for riding a bicycle without a helmet. Don't know why it wasn't a required accessory. But then there was once a time when cars didn't have seat belts.
I remember going to see the King Tut exhibition in Chicago. I couldn't wrap my head around the fact these items were around 3 or 4000 years old. They looked as if they were made last week. Just amazing!
As Steve Martin said, "He had a Condo made of stone-ah." I didn't see the exhibit but I sure remember watching SNL and all the other things featured in this video!
The 70s were a fun time to be a kid! All sorts of "fad" toys, like clackers, big combs that you stuck in your back pocket, and feathered hair (does anyone remember the perm craze?). Star Wars toys were all the rage in the late 70s, but that has been covered many times before.
Our family had a dark red (maroon) AMC Pacer with the red native american style interior. The car was so comfortable, sturdy, and you could see real well in all directions. People say it was ugly but I liked it. I had a mood ring as did most of my girlfriends. We used to compare our rings and talk about the moods the rings seemed to suggest and whether we thought that was accurate. Although our double built-in ovens at home were an earthy brown color, the kitchen sink in an apartment I rented while in college was harvest gold as was the fridge. Maxi dresses, long straight hair, and choker necklaces were "in."
YES. HR Puff n Stuff. I have the DVD collection in my library today. I loved those shows. Land of the Lost. We had a white and blue Ford Pinto. When I was in grade School, Rosa Davis was my disco dance partner. I was big into the silk shirts, Saturday Night Fever outfits. I remember one year my mother took us shopping and I got all these polyester shirt/pants sets that I wore on the first day of school. The first day of school, in the 1970's was always a big event.
Born in 2000. I loved growing up and experiencing the early internet, my parents old consoles, VHS tapes, etc. but the 70s and 80s really look unbeatably fun! Id absolutely time travel to those decades if I could. Also, nothing to be ashamed of. The 70s style is gorgeous and creative 😊 Looks like something special.
There was also the women's rights movement, which was showcased by things like "The Mary Tyler Moore" TV show, and the famous tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. There were also some TV shows that sent a powerful message yet were still considered comedy, such as "All In The Family", and others. And who could forget "Mod Squad". And let's not forget many of the cheesy songs we listened to like "Car Wash" , "Disco Duck" and "Kung Fu Fighting". And remember "Hi Karate" aftershave, and "Love's Baby Soft" perfume? I was there, in the 70's and I have to say that decade was pretty damn cool.
Man ... I miss the 70's ... humor might have been bawdy, but didn't need to be raunchy to get a laugh. Never fell for the pet rock, or mood ring craze but it sure provided some laughs in our family. Hair perms, feathered hair, 1/4" wooden paneling in houses along with stained woodwork, "quadraphonic" stereos 4 ... count 'em FOUR ... speakers, answering machines and cable. I remember when HBO premiered and Mom thought it was just the greatest thing. Could actually go to a concert for $7.50 or an all day music fest for about $22.50. Was a great time to be young and alive.
You really should have included Hollywood Squares. Paul Lyndes one liners were hilarious. In the Wizard of Oz, the tin man wanted a heart, the lion wanted courage, what did the straw man want? "He wanted the tin man to notice him".
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 You will never know the joy of being free. And as far as TH-cam is concerned, you will never know the discipline of having to do your own research, instead of letting some algorithm do it for you.
I grew up in the 60s/70s, when toys could kill you, interstate speed limit was 85. No smart anything, no Internet, no computers Ma Bell was the height of technology. I would go back in a second. 😅
Guilty of each and every one! Although it was my parents' house with the avocado green kitchen and shaggy carpet. As always, God bless you and yours. Thanks for everything you do!
The best thing about being a kid in the 70s was experiencing the 70s getting primed to experience the 80s as a young adult and taking all that awesome experience into the 90s to soak up and enjoy, then cruising into 2000 large and in charge. The next decade it all started to slow and dull, after 2010 it's not pretty. After 2020, it's sad and it is crystal clear people need to examine the past, life can be awesome if you make it awesome.
My thoughts exactly.........things were still okay in the 2000's but changed around 2010, the food started tasting bad, everything was made cheaper, seemed like there was less to do. Now so many are disconnected with life, texting and social media replaced face to face socializing.
I had a pet rock, and wish I still did. I also had a leisure suit that was bought for me to have "nice" clothes, but just so happened to double perfectly as my Six Million Dollar Man Halloween costume. The premier episode of Saturday Night Live aired three days after my seventh birthday. I remember it because I had heard my parents laughing and went to see what was so funny. Thereafter, if I did good in school, and behaved myself all week, I got to stay up late to watch SNL.
Such great times, probably the best there ever was and will ever be! I wore platform shoes with bell bottoms and polyester shirts as part of my jeans suit. I also listened to Kasey Kasem tell true stories and dedicate songs to listeners across America. My first car was an orange, oil-burning Chevy Vega but I loved it and knew that I needed to give it a quart of oil every 400 miles :-)
It kills me when people make fun of old fashioneds when in fact all old fashioned seem ridiculous now. But I must say we currently have the lousiest Fashions of my 62 years! Nothing like sausage casing leggings and jeans with holes in them and forget leisure suits nobody even wears a jacket anymore. This time will go down as the sloppiest dressers in history!
Don’t forget the common fashion ‘look’ today of dirty sweat pants, running shoes, and a hoodie everywhere, even at work. Ladies who should not wear tight clothing in their yoga pants anyway. As my grandmother used to say; “she looks like two piglets wrestling in a gunny sack!” Rare to see a woman in a dress these days, but socially acceptable for a man to wear makeup and high heels with his hairy chest in a push up bra. Better? I don’t think so.
Christmas vacation nearly 50 years ago, the Pet Rock nestled under the tree , Mood Ring on my finger and friends waiting in a Gremlin in the snowy driveway, BeeGees playing on the car sterio and All was Right in the World.
@@sondra-ht7ho The one I had was a pale diamond blue...with a standard transmission. It was kind of funny, because I got the car brand new but at a great discount because no one in Long Beach CA wanted a standard transmission!
@annies805 Aww! Lucky you! I'm glad you got to enjoy it, I remember it was about $5,000., I was 18, and thought "I'll NEVER be able to afford THAT!!" LOL!
@@sondra-ht7ho Hi! I was 19 when I bought it! Paid just under $3,000.00 for it. Took savings bonds and 3 years of payments...but I had to have a car...and the interest rate on a new car made that one cheaper than the used cars!! Crazy! Thank heavens for that standard transmission...I also got snow tires in San Diego really cheap...getting ready to go home to Colorado.😄
One thing you missed was 8-Track tapes and players. My dad had a player hooked up to the stereo and another for his Ford Fiesta (that thing was a tin can; glad we never got into an accident with it). I remember getting the Star Wars Soundtrack on 8-track and they had to bisect the Cantina Band song because of a track switch. The one hooked up to the stereo was a recorder, too, so we were record our own mixes (we had a Christmas mix-tape, for example). It was always funny to have the hiccup (track switch) in the middle of a song.
I had a mood ring but that's about it for me from this era, although I have a bathroom now with harvest gold, which I love. I miss my stove and refrigerator in harvest gold. I didn't care for the avocado green though my family rented an apartment that had a kitchen and bathroom in avocado green. Another thing I remember were platform shoes which I never had.
I bought my first house in the 1970s. It came with avocado green kitchen appliances. The color scheme had long become an embarrassment by the time I replaced them in a circa 2000 kitchen renovation.
In the 90s when my daughter would behave like a spoiled brat, I'd break out with, "when I was your age, I played with a rock and was thankful for it!" However, I never mentioned that I begged her grandma relentlessly to buy it for me! 😅😅
I saw the King Tut exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The exhibit included the death mask. Everything in the exhibit looked like it was crafted yesterday.
I saw I in the Museum of Natural History in 1994 as a young teen and thought the exact same. It looked like a cheap Universal Studios prop. Only to find out years later that King Tut wasn’t in NYC in 1994. He left in 1981 and didn’t return to NYC until 2004. So I definitely saw a replica. But it was promoted as the real deal back then. Super sketchy.
@remy333 That's not what I meant. I meant that the treasures definitely withstood the test of time. They were preserved so well that they looked like they could have been crafted yesterday when, in fact, they were crafted thousands of years before. The mask was BEAUTIFUL! I saw the real things, not cheap replicas. I am sorry that you had a less than satisfying experience.
Cool! My parents bought a new '65 Impala Super Sport. I loved that car. But once I began driving, it didn't like me. Hahaha I didn't drive it often, because whenever I did, I would break something. I just couldn't keep my foot off the accelerator! So my sibling wound up driving it to college.
There were car phones (cellular phones) in the ‘70s but most people couldn’t afford them and most rich people didn’t bother. The Charlie’s Angels women had them in their cars. Their millionaire boss bought the car phones for them because they needed them.
This is the road map of the Generation Jones, those born between 1957 and 1964, too late for the 1960s, graduated during the 70's, Woodstock, peace and love, and Vietnam were over, the Beatles broke up, we had to find our own identity. Some try to lump us into the Baby Boomers, but I had nothing in common with my even 5-year older relatives. Disco and Classic rock were side by side and determined who you hung out with. Everyone either had or knew someone who had a car, parents would let you go all weekend and not care where you were, unless the cops brought you home. 3.2 beer, weed, a buzz, but not crazy stoned. Part time job to pay for it all, and summer lasted forever. We were spoiled with freedoms that no longer exist. No wonder we miss them.
I gave my brother a Pet Rock for Christmas, and it provided a lot of entertainment on Christmas morning ... not the rock, of course, but the well-written instruction manual that came with it. It explained, for example, how to train the rock to "Sit" and "Stay", in extensive detail. Very funny.
My biggest regrets of the 70s both happened in 1970. First, I married my first wife. Other than the fact that my son was a product of that marriage, it was probably the biggest mistake I ever made. Second, I joined the Marines in Dec. of 1970. Although I survived, the memories of that period haunt me to this day. However, I am one that feels that you never want to forget your past because it is the past that makes you who you are today. I would not change anything of my past because those experiences have made me who I am...and I kinda like me. Although I witnessed others participating in all the fads and trends mentioned, the only one I participated in was becoming and avid viewer of Saturday Night Live (until the original cast all disappeared from the show).
The 70s were far and away the best decade for music. I’m still listening to it. That was my junior high-high school decade and the best years of my life.
The Ford Pinto had a very fixable flaw. It affected the first two years. The Pinto's design and look was popular. It wasn't near as gas-efficient as it could have been in that a cast-iron engine was used throughout the run instead of a better aluminium motor. I owned several of them up into the '90s. Never got blown up.
Never forget how excited I was to get a pet rock for Christmas! Had a mood ring. Loved "Land of the Lost". Loved staying up late on Saturdays to watch SNL. "Cheeburger, Cheeburger". Loved the Pacer. "King Tut, born in Arizona, got a condo made of stone a".
Things I don't regret...Posters of Farrah and Cheryl Tiegs in my bedroom, little bunny ear tiny b&w t.v. to watch baseball, skateboarding, paper route on a bike with no helmut and being outside year round and plenty more.
My mom run us outside so she could watch her soap opera, in a blizzard, she knew we would be ok, never had to check on us, the neighbors would tell her when we acted upped.
My good friend had a Vega. What a POS! 😂 My grandparents had shag carpet. It wasn't long before they regretted it. That raking to no avail got old fast!
@@Mick_Ts_Chick, I had one too! It would oil foul the spark plugs and spew black smoke for miles. I would have to clean the plugs with a portable device and put them back in so I could get to work. The timing belt broke too, absolute junk. We had green shag and we had to rake it. I mean, why not it looked grass.
I bought a new red 1974 Gremlin with white hockey stick stripes. Not a bad car at all by the standards of the day, but a little light in the rear end in winter.
I still have my mood ring. It’s in my memory box. My first car was a gremlin. Banana yellow. It was a piece of junk. But, it was my piece of junk. I drove it until the transmission fell out. 😅😅😅❤
Had the 1st lime green Pinto in Las Vegas NV. My buddies and me drove it all over the west US, several times. Never broke down , very reliable, no a/c nor radio and did we have a blast. Cost $1900, brand new and the girls in high school called us the "Green Pinto Gang."
I was fortunate to see the King Tut artifacts. Still the most amazing display I’ve ever seen and I’ve been to many museums. I enjoy these trips down memory lanes. Keep up the good work.
I was a child in the 70's. Even though some of these things may seem cringeworthy now, I would go back in a heartbeat if I could.
@@NunofurdambiznezHope there's room for me too.
Get the time machine...I'm there! None know lest they lived it! A true fantasy!
I became a teen in 1970 and by the end of the decade had graduated from college. And I would go back (esp. to the early 70's) in a heartbeat.
I had the fake silk, green shirt with flowers and green bellbottom corduroy pants..transistor radio, round peace sign on the front..desert boots etc.
see ya
Theres nothing in the 70s thats more embarrassing than the stupidity thats going on right now.
Absolutely agree 👍
Ain't that the truth!
Agreed! I'd go back to any past decade just to escape the crap we're dealing with now!
Exactly! We might have bought Pet Rocks but we knew the difference between men and women!
100% agree
I was a teenager in the 1970's. In my view there was no better time to be alive than then. Yes, the 70's had their problems but in retrospect, nothing like today. It was a time of exploration and freedom. I miss those days.
👏my sentiments exactly!
I agree w/ you 100%, but why do so many docs destroy the 70's and talk about only the negative. I think the positives far outweighed the negative.
You said it!!
The 2020s has it's problems.
You're looking at it through your childhood eyes. View it with your eyes now, and you would see the warts it had. The only good thing about the 70s would be the lower gas prices and inflation. But I didn't come along till 81. And having ABBA loving parents is a nightmare.
Born in 1961, graduated in 1979, and would live through both decades in a very happy heartbeat 💓💓💓💓
Same as you , born May of 61 , best music, movies, sports
@@mikewells1407 yep!!!! Everything!!!! Even manners, respect, patriotism, God, and family!!!!
@@mikewells1407Wide World Of Sports and This Week In Baseball were fun to watch on weekends.
Me too. Born in December 61. Graduated in 79. Best toon the world
I graduated in '75 when Farrah was all the rage and so was my bad interpretation of a Farrah hairdo. I knew this for sure when a dude said to me "Who do you think you are, Farrah Fawcett?" OUCH! LOL! I loved growing up at this time. Have a healthy, happy New Year...woo hoo!💓💃🎉🕺💓
I was not embarrassed by the 70’s. If I could go back, I would!
same here!! in a New York heartbeat!
Me too! They were my best times!
The '70s were great times , but I liked the '80s a little bit more. Actually I would go back to either one in a "sec".
@@randallkoch6215Same but only cause family hadn't passed away. That's what I miss, family 😢
@@randallkoch6215 Same, I was a kid in the 70s and in my teens and early 20s in the 80s, I couldn't have grown up in better times.
You used words like " guilty" "embarrassed", believe me my parents had a gorgeous avocado kitchen with the dark wood and huge windows in kitchen and dining area. It was lovely 😊
And we felt happy, joyous and blessed to have such a lively area to gather, as im sure many American families felt with their harvest gold or avocado stoves and fridges 😊
Those were the days my friend.
I agree. Remember, if something became a fad it meant that a lot of people liked it. At the time, those avocado and harvest gold kitchens looked really cool, fresh and new. Of course in time tastes change and what was once popular looks tacky when a new era arrives.
avOcado
I also remember the colored porcelain thrones as well 😁
I don’t know why earth tones are considered dated now. I thought it was very natural and soothing to the eye.
@@keithwilson6060 Not if you live with the same color for decades like I did...you get to the point where you want to claw your eyes out so you never see it again 😉😆
I had a leisure suit in the 1970's, but rather than polyester, mine was denim. It had bell bottom pants that mostly covered my platform shoes. At school dances, this style was more the rule than the exception. Looking back, the only thing I was "guilty of" was looking SHARP!
Oh honey! Brave of you to admit! ❤
My brother and I had matching brown leisure suits. In pictures now we look like Umpa Loompas.
An Effing Canadian Tuxedo? Wow.
😎 cool is, as cool does! 😎
@@revandenburg Fonzie cool.
The 70's were unreal. I'd go back in a heartbeat.
That was the most wonderful time of my life! Our kitchen had the avocado stove and fridge! I had an orange Pinto car. Age 16 had an amazing and handsome boyfriend we were the same age and married at age 22. Loved the 70’s Great memories!!💖
Our kitchen was coppertone. My Pinto was red. My father drove a Gremlin, but don't tell anyone... 🙂
@@davidsandy5917Our appliances were all goldtone, along with the paneled walls and rust-colored cafe curtains.
@@birdsfan57 I had Harvest Gold too, I miss it, my pinto was red too!
Our kitchen was copper colored. There was a wood burning stove in the kitchen in orange, Shag carpeting down the hall was light green, Dad's Pinto wagon was green with wood grain.
@@Wa3ypx My late Wife and I only bought 1 brand new car and I was a 1980 Pinto wagon. Brown, 4 speed, 4 cyl. It was certainly a basic, didn't even have a radio but loved that car. Drove it till the rust got it.
What about:
- Shag carpeting
- Lamb-chop sideburns
- Bell-bottom pants
- Perms (for both men & women)
- Sequins and/or rhinestones on clothing or pillows, etc.
- Disco
- White tube socks with the stripes at the top
- Wide ties
- Plaid pants
- Zippers on shirts with the round ring at the end
- Dorothy Hamill’s wedge haircut
- Ouija boards
- Stingray bicycles with banana seats (and an optional triangular flag on a plexiglass stick on the back)
- Paneled walls
- Macrame plant hangers
- Waterbeds
- Lava lamps (actually, those are still cool)
- Black-light posters (also still cool)
- Pocket cameras with flash cubes (the photos were pretty grainy & with lots of red-eye)
- 8-tracks & players
- CB radios
- Anything from Ronco or K-Tel
- Pong (and all the copycats to hook up to your home tv)
- Electric fry pans
- Crocheted blankets and sweaters & vests
- Oversized eyeglasses
- Powder blue eye shadow
- Decorations that included stylized flowers and rainbow designs
- Silver Christmas trees
- Big-collared shirts
- White loafers
- Wide belts with separate belt buckles (that you could buy & collect)
- Index card files for all of your record albums (or books or whatever)
- Donny & Marie
- The Farrah Fawcett poster
- Dynamite Magazine
- Shag covers over the toilet lid and toilet tank top
- Tank top shirts
- Shorts with the narrow white stripe along the hem that curved up the side seams
- Dr. Scholl’s wooden sandals or clogs
- Zenith “Space Commander” 4-button tv remotes
- Magic Window sand toys (2 colors/densities of sand pressed between 2 clear plastic ovals)
- And last but not least, holding your the mono built-in condenser mic on your rectangular cassette player/recorder up to the tv or radio to record your favorite tv show theme or song and getting angry at your sibling or a car outside for making noise
LOL! Brilliant list! Oh, those shag toilet seat covers!😱
puka shell neckless , hang ten shirts , chuck Taylor converse all stars with multi color shoe laces
@@youtubecarspottersguide1 And Toe Socks (usually multi-striped) w/a snug, little, toe sweater for each digit. (They were too bulky on the toes, lol)!
@@isabellind1292 Oh yes the Shag Toilet Seat as a kid i use to pee on the Shag Toilet Seat just for fun until you got yourself a good old fashion AZZ whipping AKA The BELT for doing stupid stuff like that
@@rogerstlaurent8704 ROGER!!! What the heck? You didn't need the belt. You needed to sleep on it!☺
I graduated in 1970. They were great times as well as the 60s. I bought a pet rock for my mother as a joke. They were just for fun. Mood rings were just as fun. Most of the stuff back then was just for fun something you can't do now since everyone is so sensitive. You guys don't know what you missed.
I was born in 1970. Our days were limited TV, going outside and riding our bikes, and hanging around outside with friends. Punishment for being naughty was to not be allowed to go outside or staying outside until the streetlights came on. One thing I have noticed in the last year or so is the number of kids who are playing outside in groups, girls and boys. Being cooped up in side because of the fear of covid19 may have spawned a new youth movement away from being inside on the computer for hours at a time.
i agree, the last time anybody had any real fun was the 70's
And now you, like everyone else since 1990 has either gloomy grey or boring black interior colors
I'm class of '72. We had the best high school experience possible. No shootings, awesome music (real music, with instruments), and best of all, no AIDS, no condoms.
I graduated in 68 and got out of the army in 71. I wasn’t cool, smart or very confident when it came to meeting girls. I didn’t however enjoy my time listening and learning. Would love a do over knowing what I know now.
Back when as a child, you could go out in the morning not come home all day and your parents didn’t have to worry whether you were safe or not
Be home when the street light come on.
Yes, those were the good days!!
I graduated from High School in 1979, need I say more? The disco thing was crazy and the clothing was outrageous, but was some of the funnest times I can remember. Let me see, less bullying, more friends, things to do, no social media, no cell phones, no computers (internet), life was so much fun and better. Cars were more stylish and better, despite the ones you mentioned. Music was so wonderful back then, Rock and roll, pop, soul, you name it. It wasn't this vulgar stuff they listen to now days. Real Talent has gotten lost. It is almost a shame the young folks now days can't experience the same things as we did, they just don't realize how much fun life can be. I'm sitting here with this dang laptop typing this comment when there has to be something better to do. God help us.
Just like you survived, without growing up with 1920's culture, young people, today, will survive without growing up with 1970's culture....Also, I would love for you to explain to us, how kids today have less friends, and less things to do, than when you were a kid. That would really be interesting
ignore the troll
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 Isn't that why there's a serious epidemic of loneliness, anxiety, depression and suicidal tendencies that continue to plague our younger generation, as a consequence of the social isolation and social ineptness attributed to the rise of technology, social media and the internet?
Again, ignore the troll. He wants you to fall into the despair that he endures. People with a life, join in and share their joy. Trolls spend their lives telling you why you should despair. They should be ignored.
Bullying still took place, but it doesn't go as far as beating someone to death like as what happens today. We maned up to it and made us strong in the long run unlike today when everyone is cuddled.
I will take my strange 70’s & teenage years any day. I loved my mood ring my Kissing Potion rollerball lip gloss (bubble gum flavor) & hair ribbons, I never bought a Pet Rock (seriously, that man was genius), & although I really disliked my parents choice in kitchen decor & color, it was pretty cool at the time - there isn’t any time in life to compare. Great music, good movies, & the freedom to experience life.
mmm... strawberry Lip Gloss!
I loved watching Wild World Of Sports, This Week in Baseball, and Wild Kingdom w/ Marlin Perkins. At least w/ TH-cam you can still watch the old shows.
I think these people saying that in the 1970s they had the freedom to experience Life...are just meaning that they were more promiscuous times, with sex being a sort of status symbol for younger folks...the fallout from that attitude was the resulting divorce rate, that skyrocketed in the mid-to later 1970s! And then a wave of STDs proliferated, and after that, AIDS. You played that game, you often paid the price! And let's not even talk about the trendy drugs that abounded, beginning the mess we are now in in this country. KARMA !
@@curbozerboomer1773everyone was not treated like a criminal by our gives them us what we mean.
“Gives them us” is wrong meant “govts”
Thank you so much for your show. I'm a baby boomer born in '52 and these walks down memory lane bring laughter, melancholy and in some cases, tears. Like so many others I can't believe I actually did some or all of these examples. These were the best of times as well as occasionally the worst of times depending on the subject or circumstances. One thing that holds true is that they were genuine. Not like today where so much is phoney or contrived. God bless you for what you offer. It's funny how much of this that my grandkids find unbelievable. "Come on, Grandpa, did you really do this or dress like that?" or "were those things actually real ?" Life was more genuine then, simpler and a hell of a lot more freedom and fun was enjoyed by all. Thanks again
There wasn't much freedom and fun in Vietnam, or, if you were a minority trying to move into certain neighborhoods that didn't want your kind there
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 why do you insist on commenting on these videos in such a negative way?
If you are so unhappy with the 1960s and 1970s, then stop watching these videos.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if you were not even born yet in the 1970s.
You just want to virtue signal, and act like a victim.
@@willhorting5317 I never comment on the "I miss my childhood" comments. I comment on the "life was perfect, in the seventies, and I feel sorry for kids today" comments..When I was a kid, in the eighties, I remember many older people saying how " life was so much better, in the fifties, and todays generation is worthless
@@willhorting5317 There is a lot both good and bad in most decades..excepting that there was not a lot of good in the 40s or 50s and most people left or right or middle will at least agree that these past few years have sucked the big wienee! Even in these videos, it is important to recall both bitter as well as the sweet as today instead of the Fairness Doctrine or Walter, we have to weed out our true history. It is important to recall not merely nostalgia but our true history. It is possible to be both realistic and still miss some things about the past.
I was also born in 1962. I recognize some of these, but didn't own any of them. However, I agree that it was a wonderful time, except for the Viet Nam war.
CB radios were a thing for youth for a moment, along with all the jargon that came with them. In cars and home bases, they were the biggest seller of Christmas 1976. Of course they were an established, staple tool for certain occupations like trucking, but for a couple of years everyone “had their ears on”.
I was thinking about adding a CB to my current car but the way it is designed, there is no place to attach the bracket. People are still on the CB. I have VHF radio but that is not good for local traffic. In the day, the dashboard had a frame, and you could attach anything to that frame, gauges, radios, 8-Track, it didn't matter. It was a stiff piece of steel. My current car doesn't even have a bumper to attach an antenna. It is just a piece of plastic.
"Breaker- breaker, good buddy..."
Oh, yeah! Every other friend had one and we’d listen, learn, and talk to the truckers. That was a blast!
10-4 good buddy
Back when I got my first CB, you needed a license to transmit. My call sign was KKN-1425, but never used it in actual practice. I was the "Red Max." 😁
Yeah, you missed something really big but you mentioned the year 1976! That was a huge celebration all year long. Remember?
My nephew was born that year - a “bicentennial baby”. I remember people ringing the bells at churches and town halls on July 4 th. WOW, I was young then!!
We were married that year… all the gifts were “bicentennial” themed 😂
Remember how Peter Frampton became a "superstar" and household name that year with his "Frampton Comes Alive" double album?
@@birdsfan57 A girl from Cali came to my hometown with Frampton's 8-track, we all bought it the next day, loved it, still do.
I DON"T miss the "Bicentennial Minutes" on TV that went on for two years.
I have to agree with some of the others. I was a kid in the 70’s, really too young to remember most of those things, BUT I would gladly go back to that time & era in a heartbeat. 😔😔Times were so much better than they are today. Honestly, you can’t be embarrassed about anything that was in during its time.
Agreed! It's all those "embarrassing" things that made the decade memorable. I turned two in 1970 so I was pretty young to really appreciate most of it, but I do have fond memories of Saturday morning cartoons and the music. Of course we still had the 80's to look forward to!!
Stated so eloquently and so poignantly perfectly. They were some of the best, and worst, of times, but they were "ours", and the memories garnered from those years can never be replicated nor replaced. Thank you.
This comment was in response to@donrepcon7704.
It was a magical time to be alive. I have fond memories of playing pond hockey with light snow falling, going to the mall to buy X-mas presents, and going to the movies and watching some great T.V. shows.
@@stephendacey8761 looking through The sears catolog it was not just the toy section you were looking at
Born in 55. Grew up in the 60s and 70s. The. Best. Times. EVER! Kids will never understand. Can’t explain it. It had to be experienced. Living there everyday thru the music and memories…..would go back instantly if I could……..
The 70’s I would go back in the blink of an eye. Even if it was for only the long haired 70’s guys, bell bottoms and Music the best ever! ❤🎉
The true greatness of the 70s was the music
Yes, I agree! Every fun time I had was accompanied by music. The best ever!
First half of the 70’s had the most amazing music.
And movies, with Grammy Award winning soundtracks.
I went to my Junior Prom in a canary yellow tuxedo with a purple bow tie (that's what the boys on the Prom Court wore). My girlfriend (now my wife of 47 years) has NEVER let me live that one down.
Aw!
Awesome. Wishing you many many more years of happiness together.
Beautiful! Congratulations! I love it when men wear color and jazz up their attire! How cool is that! I'm very happy for you both.👰💓🤵
I was born in 62 and I loved growing up in the 70s and would time warp back in a second if I could. Did anyone else's dad get the bright idea to add dark cheap paneling to their walls and turn a bright fun room into a dark cave? And those tangled super long phone cords that you'd use to talk on the phone in your room?
Had both and would never trade those memories for anything.
I was a teenager in the 70’s. Bell bottoms, halter tops, a suede jacket with fringe, and a suede purse also with fringe. And can’t forget the clogs and the Farrah Faucet hairstyle. I was way cool!
..and terry cloth shorts?!😊
Me too, and the jeans were hip huggers, NOT MOM JEANS LIKE NOW! They made a brief resurgence, so I hoarded mine!
@@thetruth7046And hot pants...and granny dresses...and "sizzler" micro mini dresses...and granny glasses...and earth shoes...and desert boots...and painters' pants...
@@birdsfan57 So many reasons I never skipped a day of school😂😂😂
If I may add… the young ladies were naturally just absolutely cute as could be in the 70’s…and the Loves Baby Soft just made them all that much better.
Not embarrassed or ashamed of any of it. I'd go back in a heartbeat! Great times!
My husband didn’t tell me that at the mall in Long Beach Ca in the 70’s he got an Afro…he came from an Irish background and got an Afro. I waited a long time for him to come out of hair salon…
He had a pic for his hair too!
He had brownish red Afro.
He was in good company. So did Chris Knight and Barry Williams (aka Peter and Greg Brady). Lol
Remember the white,'fro wearin',guy in that high school TV show Rm.222? Staring Michael Constantine, Karen Valentine,& others?
@@markbonner1139 Yep! David Jolliffe. Believe or not, alot of girls gad a crush on him, as he was a regular poster boy in 16 Magazine and Tiger Beat.
That was the style your right!!!
Late sixties early seventies we still had fast cars, great looking girls, good music, and the War was winding down. Take me back in a heartbeat.
Even at 14 years old, I knew that the Pet Rock was one of the stupidest products ever made. I never had one. I never wanted one. But, every time a stupid idea like that makes millions of dollars, I slap myself for not thinking of it. LOL.
Pet Rock, stupid or not, is available at Amazon. I know because I just looked it up. Haven't decided to buy yet but probably will.
Who in their right mind would think people would pay $4 for something they can find by the millions on the local river bed?
@@aliensoup2420 Well, I bought "THE NOTHING BOOK" which was filled w/blank pages, lol!
What else was stupid but funny looking back was the club we used to hang out at, "DIAL A TONE" where every table had a rotary telephone so you could call up someone at another table if you wanted to meet them, lol! Hilarious concept.💃☎🕺
In our age of dog walkers and doggy day spas, people would be kinder to their oft-ignored pets if they’d purchase a pet rock.
@@aliensoup2420 The farm I live on, I swear, GROWS them 🤣
These are always fun. I still remember seeing the very first SNL and watched it for many years. First prime time players were the best.
SNL and Steve Martin were so rad back then. No one these days can match them.
SNL was never the same when the original cast left.
It used to be funny!
SNL died in the 80s. 😂
@@davidsandy5917 Agreed it was great for the first few years then it went down hill i Do miss Mr Bill on SNL Todays SNL is Pour TRASH should have been taken off the air years ago
He was a 'WILD and CRAAAAAZY GUY!
The '70's had some GREAT music, especially southern rock but also the Doobie Brothers, Bob Seger, Eric Clapton . . . lots of great bands.
The 70's had the best music, T.V., and movies of any other decade.
That is the best part of our Era.
@@stephendacey8761 I agree about movies but not TV. Didn't really have anything like some of the good original series shows from Netflix and others, mostly because there were so few content outlets and everyone wanted to play it safe.
True. I saw the Doobie Brothers and Chicago this summer. Great shows. Two of the best concerts I’ve ever been too in many years.
So many great bands in the ‘70s, especially rock bands. Doesn’t it take you right back to those wonderful days when you hear one of those old songs?
I loved the 70's - Concerts were the best! Cal Jam I was incredible! Deep Purple, ELP, Seals & Croft, The Eagles and a couple others - tickets were $10 for a full day into the night of great music!
Yes - we had the gas crisis and social problems but people over all treated each other better.
I'd gladly go back to the 70's (so long as I could have the same body I had back then!!!) wear my 100% Big Bell Levis, platforms and peasant tops.
OMG! Me too. Back in May, 1972, WFIL (Famous 56)AM , THE top AM station in Philly in those days, hosted an all weekend FREE outdoor concert in the expansive parking lot of a local mall in South Jersey. The line up that weekend included Redbone, Jerry Butler, JoJoGunne, Frigid Pink, Climax (Precious and Few), the late Harry Chapin, and Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, who were the "surprise guests" at our Saturday night's high school dance (also courtesy of WFIL), where they performed their "then" new single, " Sylvia's Mother". It was a weekend to remember and could never be replicated. No shootings, no check points, no police involvement...just a crazy good time. How I miss those days!
So right about the concerts. I saw CCR, Boston, and the Eagles on their 77 Hotel California tour. Awesome!
BTO, ZZ Top, Aerosmith, Loggins & Messina...
Heck, I'd go back to the 70's even in this 65 year old body! People were friendlier and not so uptight then! It wasn't perfect but a helluva lot better than nowadays. I could go on and on!
@mariondelgado3827 So, you were a thief.
You had to be there to appreciate the time. More personal, less hate & fear, more fun!
I got a Steve Martin King Tut tee shirt as a Christmas gift from a childhood friend in '78 (we were 15) that I still have and treasure to this day!
I also went through my teenage years in the 70’s and those were the best years of my life. Miss those days.
Loved the 70's!!! I remember my Aunt coming to pick us up for church in her Chevy Nova!!! We thought we were riding in style!!! We lived the country life, we were poor, but we didn't know it. In those days, family and friends helped out one another, never expected anything from it, but love and gratitude!!! We had 4 generations on one piece of land. I miss those days!!! I miss the family the most!!! I would go back in a heartbeat!!!
Ahh the mood ring. My mom told my sister and me that she could watch us in the ring when her and my dad went to the movies and left us alone. It totally worked😂
LOL! Good one.
My first car was a bright orange and white Ford Pinto. The interior was all orange-dash, steering wheel, seats, carpet, etc. I added some cool tires, mag wheels, a sporty sounding muffler and an 8 track stereo. I thought I was pretty cool driving that car.😊
I had a 1973 Pinto, red in color. I wish I still had that car today. For its size, it had lots of power. There was just about nothing on the car I couldn't fix with a screwdriver and a wrench. I remember putting in a CB radio with a full quarter wave antenna. The antenna was taller than the car was long. I miss that car and those days.
@@davidsandy5917 I love this!!! I would love to get my Pinto back but I sold it and bought a Camaro. My best friend's little brother bought it from me and then turned it into a candy apple blue race car with huge mag wheels, V-8 engine, hood scoop with a blower, etc.. We used to go watch him race at the 1/4 mile drag strip. It was hilarious!!!
OMG! And you lived to tell...those things were infernos just waiting for the rear-end collision to set it off! 😅
@@birdsfan57 I know, right?!
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@@birdsfan57After all these years, people still continue the story. Somebody always has to bring it up. The Pinto was no more unsafe than other small cars of the era including a Mustang. My older sister was one of the girls who was killed in the accident that caused the lawsuit. A van traveling at about 70 mph rear ended the stopped Pinto. The car caught fire and 3 girls died. Most small cars of the era would have been equally as dangerous in that accident. Even about 50 years later, that accident and lawsuit damaged the Pinto’s reputation forever. Most people who insult the Pinto are too young to know the truth, only the gossip. Considering that the car hasn’t been built in over in about 43 years, isn’t it time to put the story to rest?
In the 70's we rode bikes without helmets, and on the 4th of July we exploded everything except an actual stick of dynamite. Every single holiday was real and celebrations were full of life. We fell out of "monkey bars" played stick ball in the streets while dodging cars. We got scraped, cut, bruised, patched ourselves up and kept right on playing and having fun. Compared to today, were nothing but a cell phone is allowed, depression is now the norm.
I still have a prominent dent in my forehead for riding a bicycle without a helmet. Don't know why it wasn't a required accessory. But then there was once a time when cars didn't have seat belts.
Could not have said it better myself. Cheers to the 1970s!
The 70's is the best decade for music.
I remember going to see the King Tut exhibition in Chicago. I couldn't wrap my head around the fact these items were around 3 or 4000 years old. They looked as if they were made last week. Just amazing!
Me too
I stepped inside the actual tomb in 1977 - of course it was empty, but I saw some of the artifacts in the Cairo Egyptian Museum.
@@aliensoup2420 That is so cool!
They may have been reproductions. Seems likely.
As Steve Martin said, "He had a Condo made of stone-ah." I didn't see the exhibit but I sure remember watching SNL and all the other things featured in this video!
We’re two wild and crazy guys!😅
That skit used to crack up my late father EVERY time. He thought Steve Martin was nuts! 😅🤣
The 70s were a fun time to be a kid! All sorts of "fad" toys, like clackers, big combs that you stuck in your back pocket, and feathered hair (does anyone remember the perm craze?). Star Wars toys were all the rage in the late 70s, but that has been covered many times before.
Oh yes i remember the Perm Craz watching my mother doing her hair with the Hot Steam Rolls machine and the Fake Wigs OMG fun times
I had light pink clackers and I was a bit afraid of them. I never hit them together too hard when I did dare to play with them.
Around the time Mike Brady got one.@@rogerstlaurent8704
Our family had a dark red (maroon) AMC Pacer with the red native american style interior. The car was so comfortable, sturdy, and you could see real well in all directions. People say it was ugly but I liked it. I had a mood ring as did most of my girlfriends. We used to compare our rings and talk about the moods the rings seemed to suggest and whether we thought that was accurate. Although our double built-in ovens at home were an earthy brown color, the kitchen sink in an apartment I rented while in college was harvest gold as was the fridge. Maxi dresses, long straight hair, and choker necklaces were "in."
I was a teen in the 70 s. Good times ! 😊
YES. HR Puff n Stuff. I have the DVD collection in my library today. I loved those shows. Land of the Lost. We had a white and blue Ford Pinto. When I was in grade School, Rosa Davis was my disco dance partner. I was big into the silk shirts, Saturday Night Fever outfits. I remember one year my mother took us shopping and I got all these polyester shirt/pants sets that I wore on the first day of school. The first day of school, in the 1970's was always a big event.
Yep, first day of school, you were stylin' big time! Ha!
Born in 2000. I loved growing up and experiencing the early internet, my parents old consoles, VHS tapes, etc. but the 70s and 80s really look unbeatably fun! Id absolutely time travel to those decades if I could.
Also, nothing to be ashamed of. The 70s style is gorgeous and creative 😊 Looks like something special.
I grew up with reruns of Match Game, and enjoy the occasional reboots. Its constant innuendo has always been worth watching.
I still watch them today on the Game Show network
Gene Rayburn was a poonhound.
Fondling and slobbering over every hot chick.😂
There was also the women's rights movement, which was showcased by things like "The Mary Tyler Moore" TV show, and the famous tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. There were also some TV shows that sent a powerful message yet were still considered comedy, such as "All In The Family", and others. And who could forget "Mod Squad". And let's not forget many of the cheesy songs we listened to like "Car Wash" , "Disco Duck" and "Kung Fu Fighting". And remember "Hi Karate" aftershave, and "Love's Baby Soft" perfume? I was there, in the 70's and I have to say that decade was pretty damn cool.
Shows like 'All In The Family" wouldn't survive today.
All in the Family re-runs still play, along with Archie Bunker's Place. Their messages are wonderfully timeless.
The women's rights movement...sigh. Repeal the 19th. Women are destroying the country with their shallow views.
@@stephendacey8761 And Blazing Saddles would never get made, most today would not get laughing at something to bring about change.
I had a crush on Peggy Lipton. What a beauty.
Man ... I miss the 70's ... humor might have been bawdy, but didn't need to be raunchy to get a laugh. Never fell for the pet rock, or mood ring craze but it sure provided some laughs in our family. Hair perms, feathered hair, 1/4" wooden paneling in houses along with stained woodwork, "quadraphonic" stereos 4 ... count 'em FOUR ... speakers, answering machines and cable. I remember when HBO premiered and Mom thought it was just the greatest thing. Could actually go to a concert for $7.50 or an all day music fest for about $22.50. Was a great time to be young and alive.
Early 70’s me and my friends got our hair cut like Rod Stewart. 🤭
I actually remember the '70's , they were great , we always had fun .
My harvest gold refrigerator is from that era and still keeps my beer cold.
You really should have included Hollywood Squares. Paul Lyndes one liners were hilarious. In the Wizard of Oz, the tin man wanted a heart, the lion wanted courage, what did the straw man want? "He wanted the tin man to notice him".
Seth MacFarlane “borrowed” Paul’s voice for his Roger character on ‘Family Guy.’
Happy New Year, everyone! Hoping we all have a fantastic and fabulous 2024.❤🇦🇺
Thank you!!! Happy New Year to you as well!
The 70s were awesome! Would go back for sure!
Like some people here I would go back to the 70's and stay there in a heart beat!
Nah, I love watching TH-cam videos. I'll stay here, thank you!!
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 You will never know the joy of being free. And as far as TH-cam is concerned, you will never know the discipline of having to do your own research, instead of letting some algorithm do it for you.
I grew up in the 60s/70s, when toys could kill you, interstate speed limit was 85. No smart anything,
no Internet, no computers
Ma Bell was the height of technology. I would go back in a second. 😅
When toys could kill you 😂 that’s hilarious- true but hilarious
Guilty of each and every one! Although it was my parents' house with the avocado green kitchen and shaggy carpet. As always, God bless you and yours. Thanks for everything you do!
The best thing about being a kid in the 70s was experiencing the 70s getting primed to experience the 80s as a young adult and taking all that awesome experience into the 90s to soak up and enjoy, then cruising into 2000 large and in charge. The next decade it all started to slow and dull, after 2010 it's not pretty. After 2020, it's sad and it is crystal clear people need to examine the past, life can be awesome if you make it awesome.
My thoughts exactly.........things were still okay in the 2000's but changed around 2010, the food started tasting bad, everything was made cheaper, seemed like there was less to do. Now so many are disconnected with life, texting and social media replaced face to face socializing.
I had a pet rock, and wish I still did. I also had a leisure suit that was bought for me to have "nice" clothes, but just so happened to double perfectly as my Six Million Dollar Man Halloween costume. The premier episode of Saturday Night Live aired three days after my seventh birthday. I remember it because I had heard my parents laughing and went to see what was so funny. Thereafter, if I did good in school, and behaved myself all week, I got to stay up late to watch SNL.
I’ll give you a rock for $10.
Such great times, probably the best there ever was and will ever be! I wore platform shoes with bell bottoms and polyester shirts as part of my jeans suit. I also listened to Kasey Kasem tell true stories and dedicate songs to listeners across America. My first car was an orange, oil-burning Chevy Vega but I loved it and knew that I needed to give it a quart of oil every 400 miles :-)
We had a King Tut photo book. And my father never changed his avocado 🥑 green kitchen since it’s first installation as I was just reminded last week 😮
SNL the way it used to be! Rest In Paradise, John B and Gilda R.
It kills me when people make fun of old fashioneds when in fact all old fashioned seem ridiculous now. But I must say we currently have the lousiest Fashions of my 62 years! Nothing like sausage casing leggings and jeans with holes in them and forget leisure suits nobody even wears a jacket anymore. This time will go down as the sloppiest dressers in history!
Don't forget the multitude of "body art" that covers both men AND women, piercings and the epidemic of "gender and/or pronoun confusion".
And the awful "droopy drawers" look hasn't disappeared yet. That's one fashion mistake that needs to go away permanently.
Don’t forget the common fashion ‘look’ today of dirty sweat pants, running shoes, and a hoodie everywhere, even at work. Ladies who should not wear tight clothing in their yoga pants anyway. As my grandmother used to say; “she looks like two piglets wrestling in a gunny sack!” Rare to see a woman in a dress these days, but socially acceptable for a man to wear makeup and high heels with his hairy chest in a push up bra. Better? I don’t think so.
I remember when we got a hole in our jeans we would patch them. I had a pair full of patches. I loved my 70’s clothes.
@@julenepegher6999 , if you really want a laugh, some people pay $1600 for a pair of jeans that are more hole than fabric.
Christmas vacation nearly 50 years ago, the Pet Rock nestled under the tree , Mood Ring on my finger and friends waiting in a Gremlin in the snowy driveway, BeeGees playing on the car sterio and All was Right in the World.
I had a Gremlin with Levi interior!
I drove my 1973 Gremlin for 14 years. I loved that car with it's Levi interior.
Oh, I wanted one of those! And I remember the denim interior!!
@@sondra-ht7ho The one I had was a pale diamond blue...with a standard transmission. It was kind of funny, because I got the car brand new but at a great discount because no one in Long Beach CA wanted a standard transmission!
@annies805 Aww! Lucky you! I'm glad you got to enjoy it, I remember it was about $5,000., I was 18, and thought "I'll NEVER be able to afford THAT!!" LOL!
@@sondra-ht7ho Hi! I was 19 when I bought it! Paid just under $3,000.00 for it. Took savings bonds and 3 years of payments...but I had to have a car...and the interest rate on a new car made that one cheaper than the used cars!! Crazy! Thank heavens for that standard transmission...I also got snow tires in San Diego really cheap...getting ready to go home to Colorado.😄
I had that same car!!!?
One thing you missed was 8-Track tapes and players. My dad had a player hooked up to the stereo and another for his Ford Fiesta (that thing was a tin can; glad we never got into an accident with it). I remember getting the Star Wars Soundtrack on 8-track and they had to bisect the Cantina Band song because of a track switch.
The one hooked up to the stereo was a recorder, too, so we were record our own mixes (we had a Christmas mix-tape, for example). It was always funny to have the hiccup (track switch) in the middle of a song.
I had a mood ring but that's about it for me from this era, although I have a bathroom now with harvest gold, which I love. I miss my stove and refrigerator in harvest gold. I didn't care for the avocado green though my family rented an apartment that had a kitchen and bathroom in avocado green. Another thing I remember were platform shoes which I never had.
I bought my first house in the 1970s. It came with avocado green kitchen appliances. The color scheme had long become an embarrassment by the time I replaced them in a circa 2000 kitchen renovation.
My condo was built in 1978. @@g0989
i have a mood ' cock ' ring . at the age of 65 its everyday like ' meh , that smelly clabbered up shit just aint worth the trouble .
The mood ring always told when your girlfriend/wife was angry by the big red lump on your head when she hit you while wearing it.
In the 90s when my daughter would behave like a spoiled brat, I'd break out with, "when I was your age, I played with a rock and was thankful for it!" However, I never mentioned that I begged her grandma relentlessly to buy it for me! 😅😅
Ha ha! You never told her that your rock was your pet? 😂😂
I saw the King Tut exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The exhibit included the death mask. Everything in the exhibit looked like it was crafted yesterday.
I saw I in the Museum of Natural History in 1994 as a young teen and thought the exact same. It looked like a cheap Universal Studios prop. Only to find out years later that King Tut wasn’t in NYC in 1994. He left in 1981 and didn’t return to NYC until 2004. So I definitely saw a replica. But it was promoted as the real deal back then. Super sketchy.
@remy333 That's not what I meant. I meant that the treasures definitely withstood the test of time. They were preserved so well that they looked like they could have been crafted yesterday when, in fact, they were crafted thousands of years before. The mask was BEAUTIFUL! I saw the real things, not cheap replicas. I am sorry that you had a less than satisfying experience.
I also saw the King Tut exhibit at the De Young Museum at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
I went to see the exhibit while in college at San Francisco State. I may be wrong but I think it was in 1962 or 1963
@@donnmckinnon I believe those dates are too early. The exhibit didn't show in SF until sometime in 1978.
The 70’s were a great time to grow up! I’d go back in a heartbeat!
I was a teenager into my 20s during the 70s. You forgot the infamous Chevy Vega with its aluminum engine that blew up all the time. I know, I had one.
Had one too, rebuilt 1 engine 6 months later installed a used engine, 1 year later I sold it to the junk yard where I got all the parts.
Vinnie Vega was the name of my buddies car that used more oil than gas rustbucket
@@daleprange4436 Vinnie Vega, LOL, I had to park mine on the street to allow the oil to run into the sewer, crap car for sure.😁
in 1976 my dad gave me a 1965 Impala super sport for graduation, still today one of the best parts of my life.
Cool!
My parents bought a new '65 Impala Super Sport.
I loved that car. But once I began driving, it didn't like me. Hahaha
I didn't drive it often, because whenever I did, I would break something. I just couldn't keep my foot off the accelerator!
So my sibling wound up driving it to college.
Feel lucky to still be alive considering those cars weren't aerodynamically designed to do those kinds of speeds.
in the 70s we didn't have internet or cell phones.....that's a good reason for loving the 70s. You actually had to talk to people face to face.
Says the person commenting on the internet
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 Until the troll give you his phone number, he should be ignored.
There were car phones (cellular phones) in the ‘70s but most people couldn’t afford them and most rich people didn’t bother. The Charlie’s Angels women had them in their cars. Their millionaire boss bought the car phones for them because they needed them.
I agree. We talked to each other on the phone or in person. We didn’t have our faces glued to a cell phone like we do today.
There are a lot of Pet Rocks in the wild to this day. Remember folks, a Rescue Pet Rock will love just as much as one you get from a breeder.
This is the road map of the Generation Jones, those born between 1957 and 1964, too late for the 1960s, graduated during the 70's, Woodstock, peace and love, and Vietnam were over, the Beatles broke up, we had to find our own identity. Some try to lump us into the Baby Boomers, but I had nothing in common with my even 5-year older relatives. Disco and Classic rock were side by side and determined who you hung out with. Everyone either had or knew someone who had a car, parents would let you go all weekend and not care where you were, unless the cops brought you home. 3.2 beer, weed, a buzz, but not crazy stoned. Part time job to pay for it all, and summer lasted forever. We were spoiled with freedoms that no longer exist. No wonder we miss them.
Great video. You pretty much got my entire teen years in there.
"He gave his life for tourism....Funky Tut"
I gave my brother a Pet Rock for Christmas, and it provided a lot of entertainment on Christmas morning ... not the rock, of course, but the well-written instruction manual that came with it. It explained, for example, how to train the rock to "Sit" and "Stay", in extensive detail. Very funny.
Recollection road, Thank you so much for your channel.❤️ Brings back so many nice memories. Subscribed.
At least here in Denver most of these 70’s fashions, accessories and deco are back with the exception of polyester suits. I love it.
My biggest regrets of the 70s both happened in 1970. First, I married my first wife. Other than the fact that my son was a product of that marriage, it was probably the biggest mistake I ever made. Second, I joined the Marines in Dec. of 1970. Although I survived, the memories of that period haunt me to this day. However, I am one that feels that you never want to forget your past because it is the past that makes you who you are today. I would not change anything of my past because those experiences have made me who I am...and I kinda like me.
Although I witnessed others participating in all the fads and trends mentioned, the only one I participated in was becoming and avid viewer of Saturday Night Live (until the original cast all disappeared from the show).
The 70s were far and away the best decade for music. I’m still listening to it. That was my junior high-high school decade and the best years of my life.
All good memories ... and lessons learned
I was guilty of everything in the 70’s, and in those days there were consequences😂.
An awesome time to be alive it was... I'd go back anytime...
Happy New Year Recollection Road🥳🎉🎊ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
The Ford Pinto had a very fixable flaw. It affected the first two years. The Pinto's design and look was popular. It wasn't near as gas-efficient as it could have been in that a cast-iron engine was used throughout the run instead of a better aluminium motor.
I owned several of them up into the '90s. Never got blown up.
My Pinto got really good milage. I was very happy with it. The car wasn't all that stable above 90 mph but in those days the speed limit was 75.
They were great when a V8 was swapped into it, I built one in 78, fast and so much fun!
You forgot the funniest fad of the 70s.....streaking
Don't look Ethel!
I had completely forgotten about that song! Thanks for reminding me.
Ethyl, you put your clothes on!!!
Never forget how excited I was to get a pet rock for Christmas! Had a mood ring. Loved "Land of the Lost". Loved staying up late on Saturdays to watch SNL. "Cheeburger, Cheeburger". Loved the Pacer. "King Tut, born in Arizona, got a condo made of stone a".
Things I don't regret...Posters of Farrah and Cheryl Tiegs in my bedroom, little bunny ear tiny b&w t.v. to watch baseball, skateboarding, paper route on a bike with no helmut and being outside year round and plenty more.
My mom run us outside so she could watch her soap opera, in a blizzard, she knew we would be ok, never had to check on us, the neighbors would tell her when we acted upped.
@@robmatlock7675 Going on in the crazy snow was a blast. Yea, no cell phones to check on us and we were just fine.
Yes, you forgot the Chevy Vega, another dog! 😂😂 Oh, and the what I think was called the sunburst orange appliances, even shag rugs were that color.
My good friend had a Vega. What a POS! 😂 My grandparents had shag carpet. It wasn't long before they regretted it. That raking to no avail got old fast!
@@Mick_Ts_Chick, I had one too! It would oil foul the spark plugs and spew black smoke for miles. I would have to clean the plugs with a portable device and put them back in so I could get to work. The timing belt broke too, absolute junk.
We had green shag and we had to rake it. I mean, why not it looked grass.
@@justmyopinion2 🤣🤣🤣
@@Mick_Ts_Chick 😂😂
The Vega made Pinto look good.
1976 was the USA Bicentennial. It as a fairly big deal.
I had a Gremlin and a Pinto. Loved them both !!!!
I bought a new red 1974 Gremlin with white hockey stick stripes. Not a bad car at all by the standards of the day, but a little light in the rear end in winter.
We live in New Mexico. What is winter??? LOL @@donthompson7889
How many of us love John Travolta playing Santa Claus walking to the music of Saturday Night Fever
Annette is in the commercial too.
My mom called it "Poly-pester". 😂
My sister called it the “P” word!
I still have my mood ring. It’s in my memory box. My first car was a gremlin. Banana yellow. It was a piece of junk. But, it was my piece of junk. I drove it until the transmission fell out. 😅😅😅❤
Had the 1st lime green Pinto in Las Vegas NV. My buddies and me drove it all over the west US, several times. Never broke down , very reliable, no a/c nor radio and did we have a blast. Cost $1900, brand new and the girls in high school called us the "Green Pinto Gang."
I'm completely good with the Pinto. It was a great car. But... Lime Green???????
@@davidsandy5917 It was what it was Sandy. Sure a fun car. Ya have to remember, a lot of things were lime green back then.
We had a lime green Pinto, too. It was actually a really good car.
I was fortunate to see the King Tut artifacts. Still the most amazing display I’ve ever seen and I’ve been to many museums. I enjoy these trips down memory lanes. Keep up the good work.
Oh, so did we at NYC's MMA. Incredible. I still have my King Tut posters, lol! I got rid of my PET ROCK and MOOD RING somewhere along the way, lol!
I saw it in SF, it was so exciting. I still remember it from when I was a kid.