I graduated from high school in 1979 and got married to my HS sweetheart the following year in Miami. He interviewed Henry Winkler for our school newspaper (of which he was the assistant editor)! We were married for 41 years before he died very suddenly and unexpectedly in August of this year. The memories in this video feel like they happened only yesterday. Life is short.

@sdmurphy20

2 жыл бұрын

My mom also graduated this year. Her and my dad started dating soon after 😊

@notyourconcern17306

Жыл бұрын

So sorry for your loss. I was born this year, and is great to look back at what it was like back then. I have heard plenty of stories .

@tommyboy1653

Жыл бұрын

1978 grad married 1981,and lost about 6 friends by different causes ,and sorry for your loss .Time goes by like the wink of an eye.

@ntvypr4820

Жыл бұрын

Graduated 1978, Married June 1979. While you are living it mostly life seems to go at a measured pace, but I have to say the last 20 years were like lightning. All the guys I ran with in HS are gone. Far too soon, and most of my class is gone. Life IS short. It doesn't seem that way when you start but at the other end oh, can you ever see it. I am sorry for your loss.

@DanteVelasquez

Жыл бұрын

My condolences 😞

1979 was a great year for me... I miss being young.

@Hoovie9596

2 жыл бұрын

I was 5. I recall a few small things

@model-man7802

2 жыл бұрын

Except for Jimmy Carter 1979 was a great year.Lots of Memories. 👌

@charlesbaldo

2 жыл бұрын

@@model-man7802 I would even take Jimmy Carter back to be 23 again.

@model-man7802

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesbaldo me too.

@deborahchesser7375

2 жыл бұрын

I turned 13 that summer, one of the best.

This is a wonderful series, and it gives me an adult perspective on the backdrop to my childhood.

I was 18 in 79. What a generation to be part of, I wouldn't want to be a teenager in any other decade.

@kristie7146

Жыл бұрын

Me either. It was such a different time. My brother and I were saying the other day how blessed we were to grow up in this time. No cell phones no twitter or facebook. People actually talked face to face. I really miss those times. Also the best music ever !!!

@timothylawson3262

Жыл бұрын

Facts.

@jc4388

Ай бұрын

I was 8 and daisy duke could have had any man in the USA in 79.

On April 9 , 1979, I started my long time employment with Martin Marietta which later became Lockheed Martin. I just retired from that job about 2 weeks ago.

@pegs1659

2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations!

@mmaranta785

2 жыл бұрын

I worked at Lockheed in Sunnyvale from 1982 to 1988. I should have stayed longer.

@josephanderson7237

2 ай бұрын

Impressive. Do you know Robert Cock or David Cook?

I married the love of my life in 1979. #42YearsStrong. ❤️

This was the best year of my childhood. I can remember sitting in the backseat of my dad's monte carlo on a Sunday night after we left Sunday night church services. On the way home dad stopped at Kroger's to grab a few snacks for us to munch on while watching the NBC Sunday Night Movie, while waiting on dad my mom turned the radio on and "Minute by Minute" was playing. Never before or since did I feel more at peace. I miss my dad, my mom, the monte carlo and the peace I felt in 1979.

I was 14 then and went from a small middle school to a large high school. That was tough for me. I was not prepared for this change. My grades were bad and my dad was pissed at me. He owned several businesses and was trying to support my whole family of 8 people. He was a shrewd guy and he succeeded. He died last year. We had a great relationship for most of his life. He was dedicated to his family and helped us all.

I was Twenty seven year old and I thought I was getting old. Didn’t know what old was,haha! I sure do now.

I turned 18 in the military in 1979. I was on bivouac at Ft. Benning, GA. They brought me in from the field for KP duty, lol. I miss the 1970’s. Thank you for these videos.

I remember all this stuff. Inflation, out of control crime, Gas prices and energy crunches, Concert tragedies, OMG I am stuck in a time loop

@btetschner

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds familar, right? There were even concert deaths recently (for an artist not comparable in greatness to The Who!)

Graduated High School that year. I remember that is snowed on May 9th on Long Island that year.

I moved into a new home that my husband and I helped build in January. That summer I found out I was pregnant with our first child.

1979 was a great year for me. I was a teenager during the '70s. I believe we'll never see the like again. I know I'm old. I can remember when Michael Jackson was ⚫ black ⚫.

@jackson5116

Жыл бұрын

he was still black in the 80's!

In the spring of 1979, the late John Wayne made his final appearance and created an overnight sensation at the 1979 Academy Awards Ceremonies in Hollywood, California. Good times, baby, good times.

I graduated high school in June 1979. This was an excellent 8 minute summary that drilled down quickly of the events of 79. Thank you for the memories! Great series on all the years! Keep them coming!

@Afib95

2 жыл бұрын

I graduated 1879 too.

@MIMIDSH

2 жыл бұрын

I started high school in Sept 1978, so the majority of my freshman year was 1979

1979 had a lot of different things. I was 13 and live near Pittsburgh and remembered Three Mile Island well. It was also the year my We Are Family Pittsburgh Pirates won it all. Willie Stargell was Mister Everything. It was also Disco Demolition Night At Comiskey Park in July. Sadly, also, we lost Thurman Munson of the Yankees on August 2nd that year. R.I.P. Thurman

@julenepegher6999

2 жыл бұрын

I was 20 in 79, I live in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, I was a big fan of the Pirates for most of the Seventies. Roberto Clemente was my favorite and Richie Hebner. Cheers to the good old days.

@dougthompson5449

2 жыл бұрын

I was there at the last WS game ever played in Pittsburgh.

I was a senior in high school. Man to be young again

I was 14 in 1979, what a year, met my first girlfriend then thought it had to be real love LOL. There were some things I would love to go back and change that year, but it was still a good year for the most part, Much simpler times, the Sony Walkman was high tech stuff back then. Part of me wishes to go back to those times.

@paposwing2925

2 жыл бұрын

My cousin from NY gave me his Sony walkman. And I tell you, I remember the incredible sound even from the foam covered headphones. I remember it was very solid and well built. As a stupid 16 year old, I let one of my friend borrow it and one of his "friends" end up stealing it. I was so mad. At first I thought he made that up. But I ran into him recently. He's a well know Real Estate agent, and he seriously confirmed that's what really happened. That guy end up in jail for stealing credit cards.

@jedidrummerjake

2 жыл бұрын

Same thing happened to me!

@briansacksteder8524

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes times were different then

@Sam-blackwidow7329

Жыл бұрын

very simple back then, not like today

I was 14 Years old and Loving Life music and youth!🔥✨

@donnamarsh3474

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@Mike4metal

2 жыл бұрын

@@donnamarsh3474 Awesome!🔥🔥✨

1979 was an interesting year for me. I spent the majority of it in South Korea in the US Army. The nightclubs in the "ville" dancing to disco music, the long summer days of the monsoon season, the endless cold nights pulling guard duty on the DMZ, and 12-14 hour work days.., are all etched forever in memory. As I look back today, I would do it all again.., minus the hangovers!🤣👍🇺🇸

@mrdraper4633

2 жыл бұрын

I was 3 but living at Ft. Campbell, my birthplace, but spent the other half at Ft. Polk, LA. Thank you for your service

Born in '65. Great times growing up.

I was 8 in 1979. I remember all of this. I so enjoy all these flashbacks on this channel. Right back to early seventies. 🇨🇦👍🏼

@TheValkryie

2 жыл бұрын

I was age 8 too :)

I was born on October 11th, 1979. My dad would always tell me stories of the 70s and how good life was back then. Yes there were problems, but nothing like it is now.

@1954shadow

2 жыл бұрын

Oct. 11, 1954 for me.

@matrox

2 жыл бұрын

America's best days were over by 79' it was well on its way to being the sh!thole it is today.

@ShawnCaldwell11

2 жыл бұрын

@@matrox i couldnt agree more....

@ShawnCaldwell11

2 жыл бұрын

@@1954shadow NICE

@saminaneen

2 жыл бұрын

@@matrox You have been reported for "hate speech" &" inciting violence", and your account will be banned & deleted, that is all, you are now dismissed

I remember the year 1979, it was my 4th year of living on my own. It was also my 4th year of working for Hudson's Eastland Mall. I also remember the long gas ⛽ lines at the gas stations. The Dukes of Hazzard came on TV 📺. The Disco group The Village People. The TV 📺 Sitcom Good Times starring John Amos and Esther Rolle. Good Times was a spin off the TV series Maude. I was 22 years old at the time.

My dad could not miss and wouldn’t miss the Dukes of Hazard, on Friday night my mom bowled, but, my mom didn’t start till 9pm, my parents would socialize some before she got started and my dad would sit there and watch the clock, he’d go back home to watch the Dukes and return back to watch mom bowl once the Dukes went off.

I turned 9 in December of 79. I was playing with hot wheels and legos then and didn’t have a worry in the world.

@michaelblaine6494

2 жыл бұрын

Right on,that’s the month I was born

I remember that plane crash at O'Hare. That plane barely missed a trailer park.

@starmnsixty1209

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah -- I was watching TV waiting for a series when the news of this terrible plane crash came on. Sadly, not all of our memories of the past can be good ones.

Oh man, seeing Alien in a dark theater at all of 12 years of age... scary stuff for sure!

@starmnsixty1209

2 жыл бұрын

That's for sure! Did you know science fiction writer A. E. Van Vogt successfully sued Alien's makers for plagerzation of at least one of his stories? Settled for a ridiculously small sum considering all the revenue the "Alien" franchise has generated since 1979.

@randygreen007

2 жыл бұрын

No kidding! My best friend and I were too young to drive so we convinced my mother to take us. She stayed to watch with us (needed an adult to get in plus my mom was just fun that way) but my friend and I went to the bathroom to smoke a cigarette right before the alien burst out of Kane’s chest. When we returned that scene was playing on the screen and my mother had her feet up on the chair with her head tucked between her knees screaming her lungs out. It took a whole lot of convincing just to get her to stay. She refused to take us to anymore movies like that though.

One of my best years, if not maybe the utmost best! It was the year I ran to the alter of a church, to give my heart and my whole life to The Lord. I had gone through torture before that! Thank You Lord! God bless all of you here in this site ❤️

@deborahpellerito6117

2 жыл бұрын

Amen

@saminaneen

2 жыл бұрын

@@deborahpellerito6117 I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay

@okd521

2 жыл бұрын

I gave my life to the Lord that year as well, and actually studied for the ministry for a while. Thank God I grew out of my childhood fantasies.

@saminaneen

2 жыл бұрын

@@okd521 You have been reported, for "hate speech" & "inciting violence", your account will be deleted and banned.

@robertwhite9898

2 жыл бұрын

Amen !

Was a freshman in high school. What a year. There was a teacher's strike my first year. As well as current events of the year.

I was 34 in 79. Your historical stories & videos should be required viewing by the young people of today.

My birth year in the May of '79. Thanks for showcasing noteworthy events on that particular year. 👍

I was 21 and went to my first concert to see Prince inside an auditorium, front row seats, Teena Marie opened for Prince. Huge fan of "This Old House" and Bob Vila. Travis Scott and "The Who" have something in common. "Alien" a great well acted movie i went to see with my girlfriend, i enjoyed 1979.

@matrox

2 жыл бұрын

This Old House still in production after 43 years.

@danityvanityinsanity

2 жыл бұрын

So famous musicians were doing Satanic sacrifices back then too.

@saminaneen

2 жыл бұрын

@@danityvanityinsanity I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay

@btetschner

2 жыл бұрын

@@matrox Is it? I am going to look that up, thank you for the reference.

I was at The Who concert in 1979. It was my 15th birthday. Nobody was rushing in to get seats. Rather, it was a general admission show with no seating. The doors were opening late, the band stayed a sound check, too many people thought the concert was starting, and all hell broke loose. My feet didn't touch the ground the entire time.

@btetschner

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds wild.

Thank you so much for this.♥️ This was a very special year for me.

My last year of high school. I remember thinking on the last day of school it was like stepping off a high-dive tower.

@equalopportunityoffender6732

2 жыл бұрын

Graduated in 1979; thought holy shit, now what ? What a strange ride it's been. I can see The End off the conveyor belt from here. Oh my !

high school memories-- THANK YOU!

@saminaneen

2 жыл бұрын

@Mary Williamson, These were the days, when, there were not soyboys, or snowflakes, or Karins' and every boy and girl, in America, knew which bathroom, to use

My younger older brother and cousin were born in '79. Brother: New Year's Day. Cousin: New Year's Eve! ❤❤😘😘

MAJOR MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR 1979: Man of the Year (Time) = Ayoatollah Khomeini Playmate of the Year (Playboy) = Dorothy Stratten Pet of the Year (Penthouse) = Cheryl Rixon Sportsman of the Year (Sports Illustrated) = Terry Bradshaw and Willie Stargell Car of the Year (Motor Trend) = Buick Riviera Turbo Coupe Import Car of the Year (Motor Trend) = Datsun 280ZX

11 June 79: John Wayne passed away at age 72. News hourly via AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio & Television Service) at Hellenikon Air Base, Greece.

My husband Jack Gill was the stunt double for John Schneider in “Dukes”! He drove the General Lee and did those incredible car jumps. Great times.

@donnamarsh3474

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Awesome!!

I was 11 years old .. I would give up all the technology in my life if I only could just for a one way ticket back to 1979.

@btetschner

2 жыл бұрын

Just curious, why do you prefer that year?

The Dukes of Hazzard was my favorite show growing up and I was born in 1979.

@Kelle0284

2 жыл бұрын

I was born in 74. I didn't start watching it until the fall of 81. I caught up by seeing reruns later on.

@btetschner

2 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1979 also. My younger brother Luke (born in 1981) was named after Luke Duke. I thought a lot about that show for about 18 years, it was really big on my area.

Pinwheel was first broadcast as a channel on the Qube cable box in Columbus, Ohio in 1977. Turned into Nickelodeon in 1979. While airing, in the morning, Pinwheel for around 5 hours which later became Nick Jr. I was born 1977 in Columbus, Ohio. 😉👍🏻

My dad bought a 1979 Chevy Malibu station wagon new for $6,000. Gave me his 1970 Dodge Dart . President Reagan came to Luther North high school and filmed a TV commercial for his campaign. He's in my high school yearbook. Jane Byrne became Chicago's First women mayor after the city of Chicago got over 90 inches of snow.

@btetschner

2 жыл бұрын

Was that your high school?

I remember it well. I was 25 years old... I lived in the Chicagoland area then and recall watching EVERYTHING about Flight 191. Such a tragedy caused by human error.

Now I'm gettin' anxious; you're closin' in on the 80s!

Thanks a lot for the memories, 1979 is a special year for me since it was the year i came to the USA, i was 16 years old. so it was like a new beginning for me, i keep playing the play 4 lotto ( which i still have not won ) and the numbers are 1979. but you can count on it that soon i will win it.

This channel ROCKS! Thank you. 👍🤗✌️

You missed a lot of influential events that defined the year - Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall made #1 on billboard charts, Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols died of a drug overdose, John Wayne died that year of cancer, and the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.

@briansacksteder8524

Жыл бұрын

wow pretty heavy for a year, miss the simpler times. i was in the late 80's

This was the year I graduated high school, I remember this stuff like it was yesterday but I just turned 60 a couple weeks ago and it seems like a century ago too... time sure flies!

@donaldculp3759

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! What a great year! And 60 is pretty damn cool these days!

@mbankslje0nk

2 жыл бұрын

I too was graduated in 79 and joined the Marine Corps.

@briankreezan7843

2 жыл бұрын

@@donaldculp3759 Yes it is was my year as well . " And can't believe it but two thirds of my life have gone by sentence." ( So keep that in mind all you out there thinking about quitting DON'T life is short )

@donaldculp3759

2 жыл бұрын

@@briankreezan7843 on my Harley vest..."Don't Fear Dying....Fear Not Living"

@saminaneen

2 жыл бұрын

@@briankreezan7843 I will NEVER quit smoking cigarettes', my doctor, told me, in 1972, that they are great for my health, I've been smoking for 45 years, and I have never felt better.

Long live The Dukes. Really a shame , my favorite show growing up & can no longer watch it.

@jrussellcase

2 жыл бұрын

John Schneider has a great KZread channel. If you've never seen it, it's worth checking out.

@noble604

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you’ll consider getting the entire DVD set. It’ll take you right back. 🙂

The year I graduate High School. Was the best of times with nothing matching it since.

this is a great series PLEASE DONT STOP!

If there was a door with a sign over it saying 1979 I would go through that door in a shot

By the way, loving your series also there, Recollection Road. This is so great especially restaurants and years, especially 60's and 70's. I watch a new one every day and can't wait for a newer one. I'm constantly checking in 😆

I had a Walkman

July 12th brought us Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park. It is widely known as the beginning of the end of the popularity for Disco music.

@luisreyes1963

3 ай бұрын

It was a great moment in Chicago history. 😁

Thanks for posting!

This is so fascinating to watch! I was born on New Year's Eve 1979!

I turned 16 in 1979 and started driving fun year had a job making pizza and went to voc - tec for automotive wich I still do

The number 1s on the US Billboard Hot 100 during 1979: 1/6-13 The Bee Gees - "Too Much Heaven" 1/20-2/3 Chic - "Le Freak" (also #1 on 12/9 and 12/23-30 in 1978) 2/10-3/3 Rod Stewart - "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" 3/10-17 and 4/7 Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive" 3/24-31 The Bee Gees - "Tragedy" 4/14 The Doobie Brothers - "What a Fool Believes" 4/21 Amii Stewart - "Knock on Wood" 4/28 Blondie - "Heart of Glass" 5/5-26 Peaches & Herb - "Reunited" 6/2 and 6/16-23 Donna Summer - "Hot Stuff" 6/9 The Bee Gees - "Love You Inside Out 6/30-7/7 Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell" 7/14-8/11 Donna Summer - "Bad Girls" 8/18 Chic - "Good Times" 8/25-9/29 The Knack - "My Sharona" 10/6 Robert John - "Sad Eyes" 10/13 Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough 10/20-27 Herb Alpert - "Rise" 11/3 M - "Pop Musik" 11/10 The Eagles - "Heartache Tonight" 11/17 The Commodores - "Still" 11/24-12/1 Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer - "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" 12/8-15 Styx - "Babe" 12/22-29 Rupert Holmes - "Escape" (also #1 on 1/12/1980)

@williamshea4425

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Great music memories.

In 1979 Michael Jackson was still black.

@smorgasbordtv4092

2 жыл бұрын

MJ was always black it was a disease that turned him white

@randygreen007

2 жыл бұрын

@@smorgasbordtv4092 you’re absolutely right. It’s called vitiligo and it really sucks. My mother has it and it’s pretty tough psychologically.

I Always Say 1979 Was The Last Great Year on Earth ❤️

@luisreyes1963

3 ай бұрын

Could have been, thanks to 3 Mile Island...☢️

Wish these were longer and more detailed...

Fantastic video, thank you so much for making it.

This was the height of my "mixed tape" era. My best friend had a huge record collection and a great stereo system, which I had none of. I would get him a bunch of blank tapes and he would load them up with music from his collection of LP's. Also the year I graduated from HS, great times.

On June 29, 1979 I married the love of my life. Being young and in love, we thought nothing of driving to Miami Beach for our honeymoon. Gas rations and lines were just unusual things we remembered to tell our children. This was one of the best years of my life!!

I remember that album, Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, I was four at the time, listening to it over my cousin's house. Great year for Pittsburgh, the Steelers won the super bowl, and the pirates won the world series.

@model-man7802

2 жыл бұрын

I bought that album too,I was 18.

@veronicagallo2035

2 жыл бұрын

Our Ma ma actually took all 4 of us kids to see ** The Jacksons* that yr a few months b4 Off the Wall hut the charts with A BuLLET !! EVERY song on there was just superb ! Saw RodStewart Barry Manilow and many more that yr also thanX to a great Mom who took us all to many shows , plays etc🤗🤗💖💖Yes , even besides music 😁📻 79 was one great year ☮️✨🌛 Beach in daytime 📻😃Drive Ins st night all bundled cozily + Very happily into our* beach wagon* ! WaitAminut I still do the same thing now come to thinking it but 79 WaS one GREAT YEAR! 🎵📻✨🌛

Also on April 10th a mile wide tornado devastated the North Texas city of Wichita Falls killing 44

I won a Walkman in an art contest in '96. The only thing I have won to this day. It was a drawing of Rio de Janeiro.

@btetschner

2 жыл бұрын

Like winning a piece of history. Cool prize.

I turned 16 in November of 1979. I remember much of those events.

Also in 1979: Magic Johnson's Michigan State Spartans beat Larry Bird's Indiana State Sycamores to win the 1979 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. The "We Are Family" Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1979 World Series. The Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl earlier that year as well. Christopher Cross released his self-titled album. Contains the hits "Ride Like the Wind", "Sailing", "Never Be the Same" and "Say You'll Be Mine". It won an 'album of the year' Grammy. ESPN was born. Disco Demolition Night forced the Chicago White Sox to forfeit the 2nd game of a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers.

@darrylh1971

2 жыл бұрын

And CBS debuted the game show "Whew!" hosted by Tom Kennedy (April 1979).

@1985OldSkool

2 жыл бұрын

As of November 2021, it was the last time that an MLB game was forfeited in the American League.

@btetschner

2 жыл бұрын

ESPN being born is really important today.

Wow…I was 19 in ‘79 - thanks for the recap 👏🏼

1975 / 1979, The bestest time ever, Good people, friends, laughs, smiles and pretty girls. and a kegger or 2 for good measure

Celebrities which age in 1979 Ariana Grande =0 John Davidson =38 Bill Cullen =59 Gene Rayburn =61 Eva Longoria =4 Angelina Jolie =4 Katie Holmes =1 January Jones =1 Sarah Michelle Gellar =2 Prince =21 Madonna =21 Michelle Pfeiffer =21 Valerie Harper =40 Michael Landon =43 Garry Moore =64 Jack Lord =59 Cameron Boyce =0 Cameron Diaz =7 Farrah Fawcett =32 Natalie Wood =41 Richard chamberlain =45 Richard Dawson =47 Whitney Houston =16 Mariah Carey =9 John Travolta =25 Donna summer =31 Sigourney weaver =30 Fred Astaire =80

@digitalporch2062

2 жыл бұрын

Ariana Grande (-14) Cameron Boyce (-20) 🤣

@pernelldh

2 жыл бұрын

Lisa Whelchel =16

@1985OldSkool

2 жыл бұрын

Richard Dawson was hosting "Family Feud" at the time on both ABC and in syndication, and Donna Summer had three number one hits on the US Billboard Hot 100 that year, including a duet with Barbra Streisand late in the year.

wow!! that was great.. thank you

Catherine Bach (the REAL Daisy Duke!) was my first love! She was too old for me though so I married my second love in 1987. We were both 18 and we're still married!

@jasoncataldi2053

2 жыл бұрын

Met her at Dukes convention at Cooter’s in Nashville for the 40th Anniversary of the shows debut. She is still a beautiful , sexy, charming woman. A dream come true.

Also in 1979... WRTV and WTHR in Indianapolis, Indiana had swapped networks. WRTV formerly an NBC affiliate, now ABC affiliate. WTHR formerly ABC affiliate, now NBC affiliate.

In ‘79, we only thought government was evil. Looking back from today, after witnessing an evil government for real, ‘79 wasn’t so bad at all.

@okd521

2 жыл бұрын

Tell me you've been a lifelong Republican, without using the words I've been a lifelong Republican!

@thinkingoutloud6741

2 жыл бұрын

@@okd521 I’ve been a life long Independent.

Catherine Bach should've taken out a patent or trademarked those shorts! Roscoe was at first mean, but Jim Best wanted him to be more comical.

@jdtractorman7445

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if Catherine ever did, but she sure should have. Denim jean shorts for the ladies have even been deemed "Daisy Dukes" for the most part. Who can forget the image of her in those shorts, high heels and suntan pantyhose😘. Roscoe and Boss Hogg should have won Emmys for their comical humor, I miss those two guys. Even my grandfather used to laugh at them.

In the spring of 1979, Kiss released their next album which was entitled "Dynasty." It featured two hit songs including "I was Made for Loving You, Baby!" and "I Sure Know Something." Then on Halloween night of the very same year, the four original long-haired kabuki guys appeared on NBC-TV's "The Tomorrow Show" which was hosted by the late Tom Snyder himself.

@mikeyvicious2399

2 жыл бұрын

❤️

@okd521

2 жыл бұрын

I had a friend at that time who really liked kiss and the band thin Lizzy and meatloaf. I thought they all sucked but I never said anything!

From an economic standpoint, 2021 feels an awful lot like 1979. Lots of "malaise" both years.

@tearosy

2 жыл бұрын

Inflation, high gas prices too. I was 23 in 1979. Now I'm 65 and on what my dad called Social Insecurity.

@Paramount531

2 жыл бұрын

You aren't kidding, I feel the same sense of rage over current events that I felt in 1979 and 1980, Jimmy's recession was brutal and it took me years to recover. Hopefully, we will have the same result in the election of 2024.

@fenian123

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paramount531 Ronnie's 82 recession was far worse than 79

@btetschner

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, very similar.

. Thanks for the memories! On my birthday March 28, three mile island happened. That was right after the movie The China Syndrome came out. Scary stuff!

im 55 yrs old so i was 11 in 79 when all this was goin on i remeber most of it like it was yesterday cant help but feel sad a lil bit my mom was my best friend and she was the best mom a fella could ever have i miss her every day. and just to let u guys know whos moms are still alive with ya! u learn to live with it..u have too but that heart felt pain never goes away its just stored away.. in the basement.

I was a 10 year old kid in Indiana when that plane crashed, every time something came on the news I wanted to watch. I’m sure this has some influence on me becoming a pilot. When you look at 1979 and 2021 it’s strange how much they have in common?

@jrussellcase

2 жыл бұрын

I was a smidgen younger, I turned 8 in '79. I also found myself paying WAY too much attention to the news for a kid that age. That hostage crisis hit home for us, one of them was from our small city.

@saminaneen

2 жыл бұрын

@@jrussellcase I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay

@btetschner

2 жыл бұрын

There is a lot in common. We had gas lines recently and are certainly in a recession (soon to be a depression).

@briansacksteder8524

Жыл бұрын

what is that plane crash @ 3:20'sh?

Really love these shows about each year

Well done

Very informative documentary on 1979, thanks

Love the 70s so much simpler than now

At 1:21, that image of the General Lee flying through the air with a trail of dust behind it is iconic.

Wow did my hair stand on end when that first pic of Flight 191 flashed on the screen. Seeing that jet sideways still makes my emotions sink and my eyes tear up. I flew on one of those new fangled DC-10s a few months later and was petrified the whole flight, Seattle to Anchorage. I literally left fingerprints on the seat arm.

@RZ350NC

2 жыл бұрын

A friend from work was on that plane. RIP Rebecca.

@timjones7547

2 жыл бұрын

An error in maintainence (engine change) damaged the pylon attacking the engine to the wing.

@saminaneen

2 жыл бұрын

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@squalli1297

2 жыл бұрын

I worked for a funeral home that received 4 of the crash victims. American Airlines paid for all expenses. When something like this goes wrong, there's no time to prepare due to the shock & confusion. I've heard that the sheer terror of an event like this would cause heart failure & death before a crash. These things I cannot forget.

@melrose9252

2 жыл бұрын

The DC 10 wasn’t “new fangled” and had been out since the early 70’s,

I worked at a gas station during the gas crisis and crazy price increases. Our family moved from cold snowy northern Ohio to North Carolina and I headed off to college. I’ve been in NC ever since. I loved the Dukes of Hazard. Not just for Daisy but for the car chases and corny southern humor (since that was new to me). Surprisingly, my mother was a fan of The Village People.

@starmnsixty1209

2 жыл бұрын

Watch what you're callin' "corny," my man!

@saminaneen

2 жыл бұрын

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@saminaneen

2 жыл бұрын

@@starmnsixty1209 I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay

Singer Diana Ross appeared at the 1979 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, New York State. While she was on the Big Apple float, she sang her latest hit song which was entitled "Who was the Boss?".

Another 1979 event from Chicago was disco demolition night at Comiskey Park. A promotion that went horribly wrong and caused lots of mayhem.

@robertshaw3711

2 жыл бұрын

Another event that year was an accident at the final day of the Texas State Fair when two gondolas collided and fell to the ground killing one man and injuring a few others. People were stranded for as long as three hours before they could be rescued. The fair was forced to close six hours early. The gondola ride was then dismantled and never used again.

@doloreshuntoon7698

2 жыл бұрын

What a pity!!!

On Sunday night, December the sixteenth, 1979, movie & TV star Joseph Bottoms became the caped-crusading superhero himself called Major Effects on NBC-TV's "Disney's Wonderful World." It also featured Cybil & Tricia Barnstable (from the short-lived science-fiction comedy series "Quark") as themselves.

I wish it was 79 such a great year

I graduated high school that year and saw a new band called Van Halen. Life was never the same.

my last yr as a teenager, some great some not so great memories