The '70s were definitely much, much better than today!

@MothGirl007

12 күн бұрын

Totally.

@carolynking1625

12 күн бұрын

Hell is nicer than the 1970's as far as I'm concerned. And I was pleasantly surprised when I read a newspaper article saying how hated the 1970's are! I'm not the only one who doesn't love the 1970's!!

@user-kf8wb2cq4f

12 күн бұрын

​​@@carolynking1625... Our Current society is nothing but destruction, anger and the Crime rate is worse than ever before. Research it.

@stevenpike7857

12 күн бұрын

@@carolynking1625 It was a filthy decade full of trash and std's. People wax nostalgic about it, but forget about the child and spouse ab*se that was tolerated, to say nothing of the workplace s*xual harassment. I had a beautiful childhood with great parents, so I remember it fondly. There were children and wives that weren't so lucky.

@ysthafellgynghori8423

12 күн бұрын

@@carolynking1625 You probably weren't even born then! Do you love living in the 21st century? A time when freedom of speech is restricted thanks to political correctness and the world ravaged by wars? Don't forget the pandemic? Millions died. And you think the 70's were worse? You're weird!

Sat morning cartoons. Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, loved Johnny Quest. The old pre-internet time, when we played OUTSIDE! Have a scar from a rock fight. Banana seat bikes with a card in the spokes attached with a clothes pin. Yeah, I remember.

@JosephMartin-sj3kz

12 күн бұрын

Man, I LOVED my Bugs Bunny cartoons. Also, my Fat Albert & (after cartoons) watching “American Bandstand” or “Soul Train” (depending on who was on that weekend). We had to choose one or the other. No taping back then! 👍😊

@SuV33358

11 күн бұрын

Josie and the Pussycats

@timlabell

11 күн бұрын

You are 💯 correct

@richardplume3212

8 күн бұрын

Chopers or drop handle

@socksumi

6 күн бұрын

And the greatest music ever.

Born I 1961. All of these things were a part of life that we never gave a second thought. Change is inevitable, but it ruins a lot of good things.

@townhall05446

6 күн бұрын

There are a lot of great things about today and technology but I don't think they made up for what it used to be like being a kid. Hey people, when you watch Leave It To Beaver, that was not just some idealized portrayal, that is what life was like for MANY of us. Exactly. In fact the story lines came from the writers' own family experiences.

@teresewecker

5 күн бұрын

I too was born in 1961.. Does anyone remember wearing puca shells?? Forgive me for the spelling...

@ThePumpin1

5 күн бұрын

@@townhall05446 What "many" would that be? Your mom cooked dinner and cleaned house in high heels and wore a set of pearls? There may have been SOME life situations just like on the show. But the 1950s and 60s in real life was NOTHING like a Beaver episode. Especially if you were a person of color. Back in those days People of color (mostly black people) couldn't do things which we take for granted now. We were (and somewhat still are) discriminated against in employment, housing, voting and education. Back then in some cities, blacks and whites were segregated in public spaces. Why would you want to go back to days like that?

@davidleavitt3804

4 күн бұрын

@@ThePumpin1 knock off your racists talk you whiner.Besides white is a color two non genius.

@mread958

2 күн бұрын

I am a 1961 baby too. EVERYONE had puca shells! I wonder how kids born today will handle their future when so much is done for them by parents. I remember not wanting the phone to ring at dinner because he would try to listen in and ask me " who calls at dinnertime?" That 70s show was so right on. All the clothes Jackie wore, I did too! Remember when white jeans were popular in high school? Why, now that I think about?

You came home when the street lights came on

@townhall05446

6 күн бұрын

By the time I was in high school (1970) my parents had already tired of raising my older brother and I had a lot more freedom. He used to say 'Mom and dad would have killed me if I did (this or that).'

@LittleMilton1972

3 күн бұрын

Yup. Especially during the summer. It was breakfast and out the door we went. Parents had no idea where we were or went. As long as we came home at that magic street light time. Great memories.

@annabellelee4535

2 күн бұрын

Oh yes, it was a good time to be a kid.

@betsybarnicle8016

Күн бұрын

We even had a street siren.

The 70’s & 80’s were absolutely the best. Decades. Feel sorry for today’s kids.

@gregmcclelland3488

Күн бұрын

I was born in 1969 and I remember both the 1970's and 1980's! Great times and so much easier and less complicated than today!

1970s: Mom I’m taking the penny jar to flatten penny’s on the rail road track. Response: Don’t get run over.

@georgetubbs8211

12 күн бұрын

LOL RIGHT!!!

@bonesg3385

11 күн бұрын

I could never find them after the train was gone.

@jgringo5516

10 күн бұрын

👍

@larsedik

6 күн бұрын

@@bonesg3385 Neither could I.

@davidduff5123

5 күн бұрын

Went to college with a guy we called The Claw. He didn’t get his hand out of the way on time.

And we all survived ❤ have manners, show respect to our elders.. go figure

@aaronthomas3740

7 күн бұрын

Because if we didn't we knew we would get beat😅

@starmnsixty1209

5 күн бұрын

​@@aaronthomas3740a great many of today's youth could use a tanning like that.

@ivandemiguel8607

5 күн бұрын

Absolutely, this society makes no sense anymore, when you need to tell people that a hamburger wrapper is not to be eaten, or ice is cold …🤷🙈🙈

@ivandemiguel8607

5 күн бұрын

@@aaronthomas3740😂😂😂😂

@gertibell

4 күн бұрын

I still have no idea what any of the other parents first names are. I lived in the same neighborhood with them for 20 yrs. To this day they are Mr. & Mrs --------.

60-something here. There is no common sense in society anymore.

@Leon-ym9qm

12 күн бұрын

Zero!

@criddyla696

3 күн бұрын

Indeed, everyone is scared to fart these days, herd mentality of fear

@angelacooper2661

3 күн бұрын

I am 54 and spent my formative years during that decade. My grandparents lived locally, so not far to travel. Being English, things were different over here!

@American-Motors-Corporation

2 күн бұрын

Because your generation ruined it you became idiot safety bugs especially by the time the 90s rolled around so nobody can do anything you have only yourself to blame.

@betsybarnicle8016

Күн бұрын

​@@criddyla696 Also, too many lawyers, so fearing lawsuits changed life...worst of all, health insurance through the roof due to excessive malpractice costs.

The new book paper smell is a thing that only a 1970's kid can appreciate.

@tomasviane3844

12 күн бұрын

I think in this video they meant the smell of freshly hand-stenciled papers at school, but the smell of book paper is very soothing as well.

@townhall05446

6 күн бұрын

@@tomasviane3844 In grade school the mimeograph machine was in the room right next to my 1st and 2nd grade classrooms; we often got mimeo sheets passed out which had JUST come off the hand-cranked machine; they were cool to the touch because so much copy fluid was on the paper, evaporating. Being 1st or 2nd in a row in class meant you got to sniff the stack as the teacher handed you 5 or 6 and you passed them back - it was great. We didn't realize we were basically abusing chemical substances right in class!

@jefflilyea4669

2 күн бұрын

Oo. Mimeograph.

@lamarw7757

Күн бұрын

It was more the ink smell, not the paper.

@PugLover9955

13 сағат бұрын

Now it's that weird 'plastic-y' smell when you open most items, js.

I feel home sick for the 70s

@alwaystrustinthelordone

Күн бұрын

💯 Those truly were the good ol days.

@SandraBWard

Күн бұрын

OMG YESSSSSS. LOVED THE 70's

@kauffrau6764

Күн бұрын

I do too sometimes, there are lots of movies from the 70s on KZread! Sometimes I binge them.

Ahhh...the ecstacy of closing your eyes and inhaling the moist ink of freshly mimeographed paper.

@amypetra5021

12 күн бұрын

Why don’t I remember that 🤷🏻‍♀️🤔. I was born in 59’ so I definitely should…

@alwaystrustinthelordone

Күн бұрын

Money (paper bills) used to smell that way too, remember ?

@juliemoore6957

Күн бұрын

I loved that smell!!!

Being a teen in the 70's was pretty cool looking back.

@SMELLGOODER

11 күн бұрын

I was born in the early 70's(72).......but I remember thinking how cool older kids looked to me!!

At work when us 70s kids are laughing over stuff like getting piled in the back of the station wagon and sliding everywhere when we made a turn, or going into the corner store to pick up our parents' cigs, or just being left to head out on our own and making sure we got back home when the streetlights came on, all the younger set look at us like they can't believe we're still alive. Some also give us that envious look and I do feel sad that they missed out on so many experiences that help shape a person.

@annabellelee4535

2 күн бұрын

That's the truth.

@alwaystrustinthelordone

Күн бұрын

Playing Frozen Tag until we all got called to go in a little after dusk and the streetlights came on.

@jaysky2000

Күн бұрын

@@alwaystrustinthelordone I wonder if your Frozen Tag game is like Spud. That's what we played until the lights came on. Good times!!

@betsybarnicle8016

Күн бұрын

​@@alwaystrustinthelordone...and kick-the-can and spotlight.

Awe the 70's, I am a survivor and I was so blessed to grow up in that era. Fun Fun Fun.....

I was born in 61, for my 11th birthday my grandma got me a POW-MIA bracelet, had the name of a Vietnam soldier on it who was missing in action. Came with his parents address. You were encouraged to write them. Does anyone else remember these?

@pennybourban3712

12 күн бұрын

I wasn't allowed to have one. My mother told me they were BS and would not help the soldier or his family and it was morbid. I was so disappointed. I was opposed to war but support military of course and had a cousin serving at the time. What do you think became of all the POW bracelets? Do you still have yours?

@someoneelse6934

12 күн бұрын

I still have mine. “Col. WAYNE BENJAMIN WOLFKEIL” MIA 8/9/68. He is still MIA

@georgetubbs8211

12 күн бұрын

YES! I REMEMBER AT NIGHT MOM,MY SISTER,AND ME WATCHING THE WAR ON TV. MY DAD HAD A FEW TOURS OVER THERE.

@dougmorris9317

11 күн бұрын

@@pennybourban3712 I lost mine many years ago. I wrote the family a couple times, and fid get a letter thanking me.

@dougmorris9317

11 күн бұрын

@@someoneelse6934 Wow., incredible.

I so miss these days

@ShanecaRene

12 күн бұрын

I miss the old days too

@happyhatkilinski1457

12 күн бұрын

Me too! I'm very grateful I got to grow up in the 70's & 80's. THE best times.

@carolynking1625

12 күн бұрын

I don't miss them one bit! Recession, Brunswick moving to Chicago leaving my father unemployed at the too old age of 50 and getting drunk, me getting panic attacks I called Dream Feelings I was afraid would never end, fear my father would die any minute now since he turned 50 and everyone dies at 50 the obituaries looked like. Adolescence starting and my friends outgrowing childish activities I still loved to do. Hitch hiking!? We were told in the 1960's not to do that or we'd get kidnapped! One classmate is still missing who was foolish enough to hitch hike to her family's beach home in the 1970's.

@lylecoglianese1645

12 күн бұрын

@@carolynking1625, wow! You certainly choose to remember bad things that have happened. Do you intentionally opt to not recall good times in your life?? Come on, think of a few good times! Have a great night! 🤔 🤗

@carolynking1625

12 күн бұрын

@@lylecoglianese1645 Bad things are just what the 1970's were. Now go to the 1960's, and I recall all the happiness and great times and forget about the not so wonderful things of that decade! The great music, every no school day being excitement with my friends or alone riding bikes, wandering around town at nine years old with no adults not being seen as worth a police call, (except when we shot off firecrackers!), getting candy cigarettes, watching my friends with siblings argue over who gets to sit up front in the car, looking forward to becoming a teenager and get to scream and run after rock stars as the older girls were doing with the Beatles then, and loads of other life that Ended with the 1970's coming to Be.

in 1958 my mother walked me to kindergarten on the first day after that i walked myself to school for the rest of my life ,and we lived in chicago .

@amypetra5021

12 күн бұрын

Me too ❤, I went Nixon grade school in Chicago on keeler avenue, K-8. We walked because my mom didn’t drive. Which was common. Women didn’t drive because usually the family car was the dad’s. One car. Or, as in the case of my mom, women never learned to drive. Ah the good ole days ❤

@jerdog8335

6 күн бұрын

I was born in 1958. Nice to know some of us are still alive and causing problems with the Maga morons.

@townhall05446

6 күн бұрын

My wife said she walked almost a half mile to and from Kindergarten every day by herself. When I was in 1st grade my mom usually picked me up at school but some days she would say 'start walking home and I'll pick you up.' It was two miles and sometimes I made it the whole way on my own. Nothing bad happened to me.

@kellyshomemadekitchen

4 күн бұрын

Right! I walked a mile to and from school every day beginning in 2nd grade through alleys in a town near Columbus, Ohio. We never thought a thing about it and nothing ever happened to me.

@LE64SAM-IAM

4 күн бұрын

​@@amypetra5021 What, the good ole days, when there were fewer women drivers?😏

The 70s made me who I am today. My parents dropped me off at the mall with 75 cents to go to afternoon movies, and would come back to pick me up. I was 9 years old 😂. But, I learned how to problem solve and grew up fast, which served me well.

@Kinikia95

Күн бұрын

I had to take the city bus

Those days were the best of times and the most fun times. I would go back in a heart beat if it was possible. The world was a lot more exciting back then. Good times indeed!

@zapkvr

7 күн бұрын

The Vietnam war was so much fun. Jesus

@carolynking1625

7 күн бұрын

@@zapkvr So was the Recession and the gas shortage!

@carolynking1625

7 күн бұрын

I feel that way about the 1960's. Although when I was then I cried I missed out on the 1950's, when there were no hippies and everyone in America didn't hate America like it felt like they did in the 1960's! I forget all that when the nostalgia hits and I want to go back to the fun and exciting 1960's!

@chillivodka01

7 күн бұрын

@@zapkvr I know, not much fun the US getting beaten by a bunch of rice farmers. But hey, the music was great!

@townhall05446

6 күн бұрын

@@zapkvr Wow, some real Debbie Downers here. No era was perfect. But we didn't have 'smash and grab' store lootings, homeless people living and crapping on the sidewalks, child sex trafficking, drugs in grade schools, men in lipstick, high heels and pasties 'celebrating' themselves in parades, and on and on. Yeah Vietnam was BS, I could go on about that, but that just happened then. War happens now too.

I’m a Boomer, so I remember, and miss those days. Oh, and I never got seriously injured 😄

@margaretthatcher6828

12 күн бұрын

Once us boomers are gone... common sense will be a thing of the past.

@paulthiessen6444

12 күн бұрын

So you didn’t have any fun if you didn’t get injured!

@teresahooks3746

12 күн бұрын

I got skinned up quite a bit.

@astra6712

12 күн бұрын

@@margaretthatcher6828the most privileged generation to have lived. And you can’t even take it all with you 😂

@JosephMartin-sj3kz

12 күн бұрын

I still have scars from falling out of the tree I would climb in the ol’ backyard (& I’m still proud of each one)! Love hearing your voice. LOL & you have my best wishes (now go out & get an injury, will ya’? It’s never “too late”. You can do it!). 👍

We played lawn darts lots in the mid 80s. For some reason we knew not to throw them at each other.

@GM-vf7px

12 күн бұрын

Today's kids probably would - they shoot fireworks at one another!

@paulthiessen6444

12 күн бұрын

@@GM-vf7px my older brother had pellet gun wars….. We had to dig one out of his back once

@timlabell

12 күн бұрын

Amazing isn't it? We were not that smart???? to not throw those darts at each other. Im kidding...😊 then the government had to change it for us. Because what the new generation , brought to life,🤦🤦🤦🙈is so dumb.

@johnwolfe9694

12 күн бұрын

I remember the real lawn darts . It was like 4 lb of death. But they were great . I remember my poor dog getting hit in the side of the head by lawn dart. He was Doberman Pinscher and lab. He never did that again.not because he was dead he just learned not to get in the damn way We called him horse cuz he was huge . If I remember right now he was probably 85 lb of dog

@bonesg3385

11 күн бұрын

We never threw them at each other. We did throw them straight up in the air then ran.

Kids today have no idea how much more fun it was back then,!!

Ahhh, the good ol’days. Life was so much simpler, wholesome and fun back then! ☮✌

Kids then learned how to wait, and not expect to always get what they wanted. They learned that they can fail. That adults and elders were to be respected.

@bettyir4302

12 күн бұрын

They got blue ribbons for winning. None of this participation ribbon hooey.

@AllisonCorona-nv7ov

12 күн бұрын

Today, "respect" is ALMOST a dirty word‼️ If children don't show respect, perhaps it's because they were never taught how to.

This baby boomer really enjoyed this - thank you!

Born 1961. I miss National Geographic Magazine, Wide World of Sports, Bob Ross, Bob Vila, character telephones, and shutting down all household activities for The Olympics. Saturday afternoon movie matinees, afternoon concerts in the park, owning your own set of power tools at age ten, scavenging the neighborhood for junk wood and junk in general to create your own hide-out in the back yard, and inventing your own after school snacks for the After School Specials. We didn't play our adventure on a phone, we LIVED our adventures each day.

@zoeras121

3 күн бұрын

Those were the days my friend.

I was born in 1961. I was born in an era where you said the pledge of allegiance in class, You rode bikes and stayed out 'till dusk, you rode in the back of pickup trucks or station wagons, you couldn't wait for Saturday cartoons, you watched tv as a family, you ate supper as a family. You went to the drive-in movies with your folks. You respected your elders. No cell phones, personal computers, or internet. You played outside. It was an era of exploration but also innocence. In grade school, we found out that a kid found his dad's condoms and brought one to school. That was a big deal. There were no school shootings. You found out about your changing body and sex when given "the book." So many good memories. I wish I could go back for a day. We've advanced so much with technology but we went backwards as a society.

Born in 66, so I grew up doing everything but 3 of these things. To young to hitchhike, wasn't sent in to buy liquor or cigarettes and my hair was to short to iron. I sure miss those days❤

@frankbrodie5168

12 күн бұрын

I definitely remember going to our local shop for a 5 pack of cigarettes for my dad back around the start of the 1970's. But I also know it was sort of frowned upon even back then. Just sort of tolerated if you explained to the shopkeeper (who would know your parents) that it was because he was in bed ill or something.

@EducatedSkeptic

12 күн бұрын

Oh, you're such a youngster! I graduated from high school the year after you were born!

@Dh-rp7gg

12 күн бұрын

@@EducatedSkeptic Thanks, haven't been called that in a long time 🙂

@cjhoward409

12 күн бұрын

Born in 1965…. My parents didn’t smoke but I remember every restaurant had a cigarette vending machine at the entrance. While we waited for a table after Sunday church, my brother and I would pull on all the tabs of that machine. Lol And of course those gum ball machines for 1 penny. Horrid gum balls. They were hard as a rock.

@georgetubbs8211

12 күн бұрын

DID ALL BUT THE HAIR IRONING

Sometime I miss the old days. ✌️🙂 The 70's was a good time..

I was born in 1964 and I remember all of these! My worst memory was when we had a pool party and my dad walked outside with a new perm wearing a a pair of Speedos and Elvis sunglasses 😮. I’m amazed that I didn’t need therapy after that! 😂

@justmejenny7986

12 күн бұрын

🤣

@tomasviane3844

12 күн бұрын

I had a friend who all of a sudden had a perm as well. He told me that he woke up in the morning and had this hair in a natural way. LOL

@georgetubbs8211

12 күн бұрын

OH DEAR LORD!! LMAO!!

@kimgrattage6049

11 күн бұрын

The mind boggles, help, get me a therapist stat. Lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉

I'm a 60s kid but all of my brothers and my sister was 70s kids but I tell you the mid 70s was the best for older teenagers

Can you imagine what a McDonald's ashtray would bring on the collectable market?

@elhombrebilingue

11 күн бұрын

I probably threw away 100 of them when I worked there 😂

@carlsaganlives4036

9 күн бұрын

My gramps collected ashtrays from places he had been, starting in WWI with one from a Belgian cafe, when he was only 17...growing up we had ashtrays from all over - motels, businesses, restaurants, marketing promos, you name it. I guess 'pilfering' is what it was, lol

@haveanicedave1551

8 күн бұрын

I worked at McDonald's 1984-87 and I remember we could smoke in the break room, which was next to the manager's office, which was next to the kitchen. They were all open spaces, no office door or breakroom door. I don't recall seeing ashtrays in the dining area but smoking was still allowed. They probably used their trash as ashtrays.

@southernmermaid2526

4 күн бұрын

Couldn’t help but look it up. Currently around $4 - 5 🤣😂🤣

@mikemancini3907

2 күн бұрын

Yeap and still have a pile of them from the 70s

Those bubble gum Lucky Strike cigarettes puffing that fine sugar powder were THE BEST! Especially walking around the mall, people thought some 9 year olds were getting their nicotine fix!

@johnwolfe9694

12 күн бұрын

I remember those .lol fake ciges.then you chew them .

@Alicia5217

12 күн бұрын

It was the Popeye brand I remember the most from my childhood in the 1980’s

@johnwolfe9694

12 күн бұрын

@@Alicia5217 I remember Popeye the sailor Man and spinach. Ate so much spinach and it probably was good for me when is corn cob pipe and is one eye.

@Alicia5217

12 күн бұрын

I just remember it was a stick of chocolate wrapped in white paper but it was such a long time ago I’m just going off on memory lol, I was born in ‘81

@johnwolfe9694

12 күн бұрын

@@Alicia5217 no sire that's the wrong thing. Give it some time thinking about it some more you'll remember the it look like a 20 pack of cigarettes even had a red end on one end like you smoking it but it was bubble gum. Are the hard sticks that were just powdery sugar with a bit of different taste.

I remember the best of, born in 68, the waiting for Saturday morning cartoons... followed by Abbot and Costello ... and of course Godzilla!!

@starmnsixty1209

5 күн бұрын

We had both Shock Theater for the monsters, and something called Popcorn Theater that I believe ran Sunday afternoons. Abbott and Costello played frequently on it 😊

THE 70'S & 80'S WERE THE BEST. I REMEMBER ALOT OF THESE THINGS ESPECIALLY THR GLASS CLICK CLACKS LOL

Those packets of colored pure sugar that we ate with a stick made of sugar, Pixie Sticks in paper wrappers that we poured in our mouths that were just pure sugar, the wax shaped like soda bottles that had liquid sugar flavored drink; it was all about the sugar

@mexicanspec

12 күн бұрын

Fun Dip you mean?

@bettyir4302

12 күн бұрын

1972. Candy Man who ruined Halloween by putting poison in Pixie Sticks.

@badmoodana6532

12 күн бұрын

@mexicanspec I really don't remember the name. It was just flavored sugar and it came with a stick made of sugar and you dipped the stick in the powder and licked it off. I remember the powder being lemon and lime. You could be correct on the name, it was so long ago

@mexicanspec

12 күн бұрын

@@badmoodana6532 Fun Dip is still around.

@duncandmcgrath6290

9 күн бұрын

😂Yep . Fun dip was sugar overload

Hitchhiking while chewing on Bazooka Joe and smoking Marlboro in the box. Those days are long gone. Bummer.

@margaretthatcher6828

12 күн бұрын

I hitch hiked to wood stock...that was outta sight!!!

@larsedik

6 күн бұрын

I hitchhiked to San Francisco in 1972.

I miss the 70s I remember great times.

BEING ON THOSE MATERIAL LIKE RAFTS/ FLOATS..... GOING WAAAAY OUT OF THE SHORE OF THE BEACH! NO FEAR....... TILL JAWS 😂 ☆ this was a fun time watching these memories. thanks 😊

@SlickArmor

12 күн бұрын

Since then, sharks have nearly gone extinct after Jaws came out. That is the #1 regret of the story writer.

We had so much freedom without fear. My mom worked all the time. She had no idea where we were all day long. We rode our bikes. Ate candy bars and drank bottled Coke. We would walk two miles to the library during the summer and check out ten books and go home and read them!

@juliemoore6957

Күн бұрын

Me too!

Oh how i miss the 70s greatest time to be a kid back then.

At 67, a few scars from the 70s are still visible. And I'm proud of it.

I remember, but I was born in 1946… My Mom had me go buy cigarettes for her…and I NEVER smoked!! Rode my bike, everywhere… Never hitchhiked… Trick or treating, WITH MY DAD until we were old enough to go out on our own… Had shag carpet in our first house…

@alancrisp1582

12 күн бұрын

🤔 Do , do you really ?. Especially with out even bothering to actually watch the video first !!..

@corinnepmorrison1854

12 күн бұрын

@@alancrisp1582 I knew I’d remember, Alan. My children were children of the 1970’s, and I was a responsible parent.

@margaretthatcher6828

12 күн бұрын

Bought smokes and was pulled by a truck on a snow sled. Never wore a helmet and I hitched to Woodstock. Those were the best days EVER!

@corinnepmorrison1854

12 күн бұрын

@@margaretthatcher6828 Didn’t live in an area that had snow, until 5 years ago…and I’m 78 years old now… Had lived in homes that had AC up til then!!

@EducatedSkeptic

12 күн бұрын

Oh, yeah. My first head-to-head confrontation with my parents came when my stepmother asked me to get her two packs of cigarettes when I went to the grocery store for some other items. (She couldn't drive and I rode my bike the two miles to the store.) I told her I wouldn't buy cigarettes for her, and she angrily said "You'd better!" When I got home, I didn't have them - and did the lava hit the ceiling! And I got it from my father as well when he got home from work, but I was never asked to buy cigarettes again. The tobacco ultimately killed them both - and I became the "patriarch" of the family while in my mid-20s.

what kids are missing is the social aspect of the arcade situation!

@tomasviane3844

12 күн бұрын

Where I used to live, the arcade was the ideal hangout for bullies... 😅

Oh how I loved the smell of fresh ditto sheets. They'd still be a little warm, and a touch damp when distributed to the class. I had some awesome teachers!

I was expecting the video to mention playground 'merry go rounds'. As a kid even I realized how incredibly dangerous they were

Just need to bring back the respects we gave our elders when were kids from that era.

Anyone remember the "Bell Hop" I think that's what we called it , a plastic ring you wore on your ankle and you would swing a plastic bell around and jump over it. ❤

@bostonwhofan

4 күн бұрын

Yes. And also "Romper Stompers".

@Kinikia95

Күн бұрын

You can get a version of that Bell thing at the Dollar Tree. If romper Stompers are what I think, people are probably afraid of the lawsuits from broken ankles.

Oh, perms stayed around through to the end of the 80s with "spiral perms" being the last form! Haha!

@zapkvr

7 күн бұрын

I had my last perm in 88

I was born in the 70's..I remember the old days 😊

@jason75

12 күн бұрын

You where just a baby I was born in the 60s I was a kid in the 70s. I remember the 70s

@Orbit_Corona

12 күн бұрын

Wasn't it such an awesome time! I miss it.

@kimgrattage6049

11 күн бұрын

​@@jason75I was born in the 50s and was married with a child in the 70s.

@RJS1974

6 күн бұрын

You had to be born in the 60s to be a kid in the 70s.

@jjharson7344

4 күн бұрын

@@RJS1974 not really, I was born in 71, so I was a kid by 76, I do remember the last part of the decade. I remember my dad taking me to see Star Wars when I was 6 years old in 77 and he got me one of those plastic lightsabers, I was the first kid around my way to have one.... I felt like a king in the playground as all my friends circled around to have a go and get a look... The Banana Splits Tv Show was great, my favourite chocolate bar was the Texan bar, now long gone, made obsolete, I think they stopped making them by 1984.... I wish I could have another one, it's been 40 years since I tasted one, but still remember them fondly. I also was a big fan of the tv show Space 1999 when I was 6 - 9 years old, which was from 77 - 81. so yeah some born in the early 70's will have memories, like me... it was a cool decade and lots of the 70's stuff spilled over into the early eighties, such as disco, punk, tv shows, foods of the time etc.. Artic rolls, fish finger sandwiches, smash mash potatoes, Beef Griddles (I wish they still did these they were great), to name a few...

I introduced my grandkids to Karate Kid and they actually were shocked that he did not wear a helmet or a seat belt. I cracked up.

reinforced knees in pants. always stiff and uncomfortable, but mothers would insist it would make your pants last longer.

@--Skip--

12 күн бұрын

Yes. Sears had these reinforced at the knee jeans and my brother had to wear them because he was so ruff on clothes...and his own boy. These jeans were not made for girls, only boys.

@jamiecobb5066

8 күн бұрын

Tuffskins lol

@aaronthomas3740

7 күн бұрын

Oh I hated those.

@larsedik

6 күн бұрын

@@--Skip-- My mother would never shop at Sears, except to buy overalls and underwear for my father. She bought our clothes at boutiques only - she thought Sears was too low class for us, and I never wore jeans as a child - only slacks and shorts. In the 1950s and 60s, the Sears where we lived had separate "Colored" restrooms and water fountains - segregation was very much enforced, and this confused me as a child.

@Kinikia95

Күн бұрын

​@larsedik Doesn't sound very fun.

I actually missed my childhood of the 1970s, watching SWAT, Wonderbug, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, Adam 12, Lidsville, the Bugaloos, HR Pufnstuf, the hippies, Emergency, School House Rock, Romper Room, Laugh In, Lost Saucer, Dr Shrinker, Magic Mongo, etc.

@LindaZeno

10 күн бұрын

I was born in the 50's and I still have my Romper Room ring!

@haveanicedave1551

8 күн бұрын

@@LindaZeno I was on Romper Room in 1970 in LA.. I still have my diploma and some footage of me on the show.

In the 70's, I did all of that except hitchhike and loved my glass clackers!

@bettyir4302

12 күн бұрын

I never knew anyone who was dumb enough to hitchhike but it seems every nostalgia video has to mention it. Must be a yt rule.

@Kinikia95

Күн бұрын

I did. Just around town though, not on the highway. It was stupid. I was lucky.

When I was 7 (1970), my mom used to write a note I would give the cashier at the corner store to - that said "please sell my daughter a pack of cigarettes:) Times have indeed changed.

"how many of these things did you do?".... YES! All of them! 😁

I also remember when the street light came on it was code for "get home right now" even if you were next door or even half a block away.

@JST-bc5te

12 сағат бұрын

I remember it is 10:00 do you know where your kids are.

While we were all riding bikes and roller skating and walking around, it was rare to see an overweight kid. If they were overweight, they were usually inept at social gatherings or just plain scared to go outside. I want those times back again.

I still get a perm to give my hair a little curl and body. My Dad’s wife would send us out all over the neighborhood collecting for the HEART FUND EVERY FEBRUARY before we were 11 years old. The neighborhood was over four and one-half miles long, not counting all the side streets and we walked the entire way and carried all the money we collected.

Great time to be alive. Bring me back

Yep. That's exactly how I remember all of it to. The only thing you left off was the craze that was " JAWS ". The movie at the drive-ins, .........hey that's another thing you left off.......and watching Jaws in theaters, playing the games in arcades and of course we can't forget the T-SHIRTS. I had like 4 or 5 different ones. I tell my kids all the time about how bad I wish I could've raised them the way I was raised. Everything had either already disappeared or were in the process of leaving as I got married and started having kids. And by the time they were 8yrs old and older, then home computers were coming out. We still has VHS tapes but they were being replaced by DVD's oh and we already had cordless phones so rotary phones were already gone. Whew, I digress. Sorry guys. I guess I could keep on going for several hours at least. So happy trails down memory lane. 😅.

Being a kid in the 70s was awesome.

Riding bikes from town to town just to see what’s there.

@user-wy1dl2me2p

11 күн бұрын

Schwinn Stingray

@David-qo7lz

11 күн бұрын

@@user-wy1dl2me2p yep, banana seat and everything. Mine was yellow.

@user-wy1dl2me2p

11 күн бұрын

@@David-qo7lz mine was blue , 1970

I miss those day .. and kids now days have no clue what fun is going outside

@bettyir4302

12 күн бұрын

We were supposed to have our nephews for a while one summer. They were too scared to do anything. Wouldn't go to the attached garage to see the new kittens because it was almost "outside." Couldn't help pick some vegs for dinner from the "outside" garden. Couldn't walk down the street to grandma's house because they'd have to exercise their feet "outside." Found out they didn't play in their own backyard at home. They were tween aged.

@Kinikia95

Күн бұрын

​@@bettyir4302😂

McDonald's used to have little tiny spoons for sugar for their coffee. They discontinued stocking those after the spoons got used for more illicit products.

Kids back then were creative and spent a lot of time outdoors unencumbered by a cell phone! - Oh no what would kids do today in an area where there was no cell phone service or if the electricity went out - well that'll affect us all even today!

Yes I miss these days

I was born in 1964 in Columbia, MO and grew up with all of things mentioned and had the time of my life back then and today like Tim McGraw sings I miss back when and I surely do.

I was in around high school when my parents got a home phone! And only because of my 2 remaining grandparents 1 on each side of the family!

I did pretty much all on that list, except for hitchhiking. My mom didn't work, neither did my friends' moms, so we always had a ride somewhere. I think we all pretty much huffed those memos coming back from the office 😂 The best time to be a kid was definitely the 70s ☮✌🏻 Imagine, still having to get off your butt to change the channels!? 📺 No way!! What a fun video to watch, so thank you!

I made many a trips for cigarettes for my parents 😂 my sister and I also used to sit on my dads tailgate on his pickup truck with our legs dangling when we were up north…safety be damned!! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 good times, good times 💜

@margaretthatcher6828

12 күн бұрын

My dad used to pull us on a snow sled with his truck...great times!

Our language changes as well. Today, candy cigarettes would be called grooming 😂😂😂

@margaretthatcher6828

12 күн бұрын

No doubt🤣

@Kinikia95

Күн бұрын

I bought some with my granddaughter. I had her pose for a picture with one. She didn't like it, but my daughter had a good laugh.

@msharmony2001

Күн бұрын

@Kinikia95 They never did actually taste good, especially for candy.

This was all true lol. Worst part of Saturday Cartoons was choosing which show to watch

When I was a kid I used to go up to the corner store and buy my mom's cigarettes . She's always let me keep the change and I would buy Penny Candy

@haveanicedave1551

8 күн бұрын

I would tell the cashier it's for my parents when really it was for me.

@bostonwhofan

4 күн бұрын

I remember cigarette vending machines. Seems like they were everywhere.

@U.S.A..

4 күн бұрын

@@bostonwhofan I remember them too they were in every restaurant every lobby you went to.

@Kinikia95

Күн бұрын

​@@haveanicedave1551You beat me to it!

I remember them all. Did most of those things except there was no way I was going to pay good money for a damn rock. I could get one off the ground if I needed one. Sometimes I wonder how we survived. Would love to go back for awhile. But now just getting old. Thanks for the trip back..

I absolutely loved the Saturday Morning Cartoon preveiws that were aired the week before the new catoons debuted. I would look forward to this day all year long maybe even more than the actual cartoons themselves. What a time to be a kid!!!😁

Basically if it tastes good, looks good, feels good and is alot of fun it's frowned upon these days.😂😂😂

@AiMR

12 күн бұрын

Fent, meth and extasy would like to have a word with you.

DoYouRemember?, awesome content keep it up

l was born in 1965 and miss most of those things. A special treat was riding in the back of a pick up truck and going over a bumpy road. What fun! Only thing missing that l really loved were those ABC Weekend Specials. Loved the opening to those things.

@JST-bc5te

12 сағат бұрын

I remember riding in the back of a pickup truck to.

Everything in this video I remember fondly...except buying booze for my dad. Smokes, yes. Booze, no. Kids today will also never know gas at 50 cents a gallon or when during the energy crisis gas lines. Or the president being on every channel on the TV...especially when you only got 3 channels. Now your thumbnail had McDonald's ashtrays but does anyone remember McDonald's coffee stirrers being used a coke spoons?

Life was so much more fun back then. We relied on ourselves and made our own decisions, like adults should. I miss that.

I remember HBO only being on the air from about 6PM until Midnight or so. They had a very cute cartoon sign-off then went to color bars until the next evening.

@southernmermaid2526

4 күн бұрын

Hmmmm in my area they were on all day but they only showed R rated movies at night.

I'm from 1959, and grew up in the '70s. It was a wonderful time. I'd sure hate to be a kid today. I road thousands of miles in the back of pickup trucks. My parents didn't drink, but I started smoking at age 12, and was able to buy my own cigarettes with no problem. I finally quit at age 42. Yes I watched Saturday morning cartoons, starting in the mid '60s. Usually while eating a bowl of very sugary cereal. And cartoons were a million times better back then. I grew up on a farm, and rode my bike all over the countryside, by myself or with friends. My parents would let me stay gone all day, as long as I was home in time for dinner. I still ride bikes with no helmet. There is no way on earth I would ever wear a helmet to ride a bicycle. That's just insane. Yes I crashed a lot, doing stupid things, like jumping off ramps. I'm still here. We never had a phone in the house until I was 17, and then it was because my younger sister wanted one. I have a serious aversion to phones. I have never in my life worn sunscreen. Not mentioned, but I got my first .22 rifle at age 10, and by age 14 was allowed to go duck hunting with friends using a shotgun, with no adult supervision. Nobody ever got hurt or killed. The insane push for 100% safety at all costs has completely destroyed what life is all about. Might as well live inside a plastic bubble. Even at 65, I still take risks most younger people would consider completely unacceptable. And like I said earlier, I'm still here. Still living MY life.

@DebbiHobbs

2 күн бұрын

1959, too. I didn't like guns (still don't) so that was not on my list. Everything else you wrote sounds about right. I started smoking at 19 and quit 30 years later. One thing I did as a child of 7 and 8 was walk my one year younger brothers home from school. We moved across town and we stayed in our old school to finish out the year. Dad drove us to school and I was charged with making sure the three of us made it home safely. That mile walk would turn into longer walks as we went off path and visited relatives who lived somewhat near our house. I call the 70s my 'golden years' because I did jr. high, high school and college in those 10 years. I loved to learn and school was my safe place.

@gregmcclelland3488

Күн бұрын

I was born in 1969 and we kids played with our chemistry sets back in the late 1970's and early 1980's and we managed to survive!!

Ya know what’s odd a Huge amount of this stuck around up till 95’

I'm 66 yrs old and this brought back sooooo many memories!! Thank you

Anyone remember waiting in the parking lot with the windows down in the summer? One day I was waiting for my mom to come out of the Farmer Jack grocery store in the 1977 Dodge Aspen when John DeLorean pulled into the spot next to us. He stood out in my memory because of the fancy 3 piece suit and the uniqueness of how the DeLorean's car door opened. I didnt know who he was at the time, but put 2 and 2 together many years later.

I came along at just the right time to appreciate the style of programming that would air overnights shortly after tv stations switched to 24hr programming. Classic horror movies, local pro wrestling, the beginning of SCTV... What great memories.

Nostalgic Nick - thank you for bringing these memories back!

Thank God for School House Rock! ❤

@BADD1ONE

2 күн бұрын

"I'm just a bill on capitol hill"

We definitely had it best. Before our generation, parents were a bit stricter, you had to dress up for school, dating was stricter & kids had to do more chores or get jobs. What's sad is, even back when kids had to work in factories, they were still better off than what's happening to today's kids.

In the late 1990s McDonald's restaurants in Kentucky allowed patrons to smoke inside and provided ashtrays.

@josebro352

11 күн бұрын

The malls in Massachusetts did the same. I remember the Cambridgeside Galleria Mall in Cambridge, Massachusetts allowing smoking in the food court well into the mid 90s.

@josebro352

11 күн бұрын

The malls in Massachusetts did the same. I remember the Cambridgeside Galleria Mall in Cambridge, Massachusetts allowing smoking in the food court well into the mid 90s.

Slug Bug when seeing a VW Beetle, pre-recorded 8-track tapes, riding in the back of a pick-up truck, drinking from a garden hose, running barefoot, vinyl albums, playing baseball with imaginary runners, steady pitchers when you couldn't get two full teams, automatic outs since there was no right fielder and nobody was left-handed, moms & dads at every house that can discipline you (you said Mrs. and Mr. so they wouldn't call your parents!), the sound of the bell when pulling into a gas station so the attendant could fill your tank, the smell of Mom's kitchen vent when WALKING back from school, watching Rudolph, The Wizard of Oz, Charlie Browns" Halloween/Christmas, etc. ONCE A YEAR, weekend trips to the campgrounds in a pop-up camper, AM radio, using cash to buy groceries, eating dinner in a restaurant with cigarette smoke all around you, throwing a roll of toilet paper when your team scored a touchdown, no seatbelts, Stuckey's rest stops with the bees flying right in front of your face, being nervous when your dad offered you a glass of wine at a Thanksgiving Dinner, wearing a suit/sports jacket on an airplane, family reunions, Catholic weddings that took forever, but plenty of food, a cookie table, and a Polka Band at the reception. I'll stop now and try to see if Mr. Peabody and Sherman can get me a Wayback Machine! (Another memory...)

@JST-bc5te

12 сағат бұрын

I called them a Doodle Bug

I remember you didn't mention it yo-yos and spin tops end slingshots

@amypetra5021

12 күн бұрын

That was 60’s.

@bostonwhofan

4 күн бұрын

And Sea Monkeys.

I remember the McDonald's ash trays n I used 2 have 2 empty them when I worked 4 McDonald's.

@markcollins2666

12 күн бұрын

Much worse than the ashtrays, were the Mc D's plastic coffee stirrers, prized by cocaine users during the 80's. Mc D's got rid of those very quickly, once they caught on!

@tomasviane3844

12 күн бұрын

We had them in Belgium till the 90s. Same with smoking in separate train-compartments and airplanes.

I remember thumbing rides from San Diego to Los Angeles and even to San Fransico to watch concerts. Too dangerous to do so now!

Thanks for reminding me how old I am.

Wish it could be like that again forever 😮. Missed those days very immensely.

Remember all, born in late 1970

The Glory days of unsuspectingly risking, imagining, waiting and wandering for the joys and fears of your childhood.

I'm Canadian but grew up on American TV and still use what I learned from Schoolhouse Rock almost daily.