I was born in ‘64, and remember the 70’s with nostalgia and fondness. Time seemed to pass a lot slower back then.

@platterjockey

3 жыл бұрын

I am also about your age, but I remember a lot of times in the 70s that were downright boring with nothing going on, like watching paint dry. With all the crap that goes on today on a daily basis, i'd gladly trade it for a boring 70s day.

@EricPetersen2922

3 жыл бұрын

66 here, and yes, yes & yes

@LynxSouth

3 жыл бұрын

Time does pass more slowly when we're younger. Our brains measure it compared to how long we have lived. For example, when we're 8, a year is 1/8 of our life; when we're 16, a year is 1/16 of our life, so it seems to take half the time, to pass twice as fast as a year did when we were 8.

@carolyncarter2615

3 жыл бұрын

"The days seem long, but the years are short."

@peterbelanger4094

3 жыл бұрын

As we get older each year is a smaller and smaller fraction of our lives. At 5, 1 year is 20% or your life, but at 50, 1 year is only 2% of your life. But that's not the only thing that determines perception of the flow of time. The saying 'time flies when you are having fun' is also (sorta) true. When you are 'having fun' or absorbed in something like work, you are not observing what time it is. After decades of experience, I have found that every time I look at the clock, time gets slower. Jobs where I am busy, the day flies by, but jobs that just require sitting there (with opportunities to look at the clock), are painfully slow. Back in school, sitting there in class, looking up at that clock all day, no wonder life was so slow back then. School had us continuously pre-occupied on what time it is. So, it's not really "time flies when you are having fun", it's "time flies when you are not paying attention to the clock"

We won't ever be that free again, miss the 60s and 70s so much.

@barbaraness4507

3 ай бұрын

I totally agree!

@luanloud9454

2 ай бұрын

​@@barbaraness4507 I miss more the 70s because of the hippies

Any guys remember corduroy pants? When you walk and your legs rub together, you hear; swish-swish-swish all the way down the hall at school.

@sixbladeknife44

3 жыл бұрын

My mother made me wear toughskins, all I wanted were some Levi’s! 😭😭

@irishstock2108

3 жыл бұрын

Some claimed that if you rub the corduroy fast enough, your pants would catch fire...only to discover that the corduroy would peel off...lol

@scrappyjunk8793

3 жыл бұрын

the parachute pants in the 80s were real loud the miami vice look lol

@nicholasschroeder3678

3 жыл бұрын

Wore them throughout middle and high school

@keithwilson6060

3 жыл бұрын

I still have corduroy pants. What does that make me?

I was a teen in the 1970's and it was all about the music! some of the very best music came out of the 1970's!!!

@luisreyes1963

3 ай бұрын

Even the Disco Era...? 😣

@luanloud9454

2 ай бұрын

​@@luisreyes1963 80s

Different world back then... I feel lucky to have lived it. Thanks for another great video.

@frankrizzo4460

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I believe that we were truly blessed to have experienced those days 🤔

@jiaconis

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 54! Which puts me right in the middle of the 70’s, I feel very fortunate to have experienced this amazing decade first hand!! Everything has SUCKED since 2000....

@Melinda8162

3 жыл бұрын

@@jiaconis I agree. I had so much of my fun times in the ‘7O’s. Sure there was the economic rough patches, but, every decade has some upheaval. But, it was just a great time....still had pretty good TV , movies, music, and the cars! (Except for the Vega and the Pinto, UGH!). You could go to bars, dance and nobody effing with you so much! I loved it!

@leospring6264

2 жыл бұрын

I'm right there with ya Tiffany.

@garychambers5850

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. Id go back in a heartbeat! 🤎

Ahh, the 70’s. I was 16 at beginning of that decade and just leaving home to be on my own. I got my first apartment. Life was good. I had an old Dodge van that I was fixing up and bought my first new Harley in 75. The gas shortage really didn’t affect me because I was working at a Sunoco gas station and the owner always allowed us to fill up either before we opened or after we closed. I don’t remember any of the trouble times during this decade. I’m not sure if life was that easy or if it was just me not caring about what was going on. As long as I had a roof over my head, beer in the fridge, a full tank of gas, and a couple of bucks in my pocket I was in good shape. Great memories.

@oldcountryman2795

3 жыл бұрын

How did you miss Vietnam?

@scrappyjunk8793

3 жыл бұрын

yep good times in the 70s if u lived near a river crab traps shrimp cast nets would allways put money in your pocket oysters pick up a quick 50 whith crab traps

@hazcat640

3 жыл бұрын

@@oldcountryman2795 He was too young. By the time he was draft age the draft had ended.

@theactualdarthvader

3 жыл бұрын

that’s so cool. i wish nowadays were like back then. no social media, no media and fake news, no crazy inflation, no corrupt politicians, no easily offended snowflake liberals. everyone just getting along living in the moment, i truly wish i were raised in that generation

@garychambers5850

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I too had great memories of the 70's..My girlfriend and her parents moved to Daytona in 74'. They allowed me to stay with them for a while. Left Hartford Ct. when they got a snow storm the next day. And The Next day, I was swimming in Daytona beach April 74'. What a time I had I was 18 years old! we finally married in 76'

I was born in 62, so the 70s was a great time to be a kid

@BuzzcutGtr

3 жыл бұрын

'66 here, and I agree 100%.

@wendykean6664

3 жыл бұрын

62 also, 8 to 18 some of the best years of my life. Ahhhh yeah... the 70s

@SoapinTrucker

3 жыл бұрын

Well then, don't forget how awesome the 80's were too, hitting the teens midway through the 70's, so you know we were prime time ready for the 80's!!!!! LOL :)

@BuzzcutGtr

3 жыл бұрын

@@SoapinTrucker I gotta give ya that one. So tell me... what happened in 1988, 89 and 1990, 'cuuuuuuuuz I can't remember shit. LOL

@wendykean6664

3 жыл бұрын

@@SoapinTrucker Oh Yeah The 70s is where I learned how to get away with everything we did in the 80s. Ha ha 😉

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, it took my mind off 2021 for 8 minutes at least. ♥

@jrussellcase

3 жыл бұрын

@John Bold Well put. 👍

@jrussellcase

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It was a nice 8 minutes while it lasted.

@necroslair

2 жыл бұрын

Well put...

@BlackNAVYAmericanVET

2 жыл бұрын

NCC-1701-F here

No doubt the best decade of my life. I started high school in 1972. Started college in 76. Parents, siblings, both grandmothers all alive and well. High school sweetheart lived across the road. Now they're all gone. Bittersweet to watch this.

@samanthab1923

2 жыл бұрын

Oh that’s tough. I’m the same age & have my mom still with us but all my aunts & uncles have passed along with family friends we grew up with. It’s hard 🙏🏻

@ednowalk4538

8 ай бұрын

One of my greatest achievements then,was i came up with our class slogan."Sin and sex,man alive,we're the class of '75".The common theme of sex,drugs and rock and roll was the mainstream saying.It didn't roll off the tongue as well.Ha,the 1970's was the greatest decade ever.

I was born in 1960 and grew up in the 70's. Great era. I remember we all had banana seat bikes.

@mackermaldrill2656

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, I remember those seats. Usually you could ride two on them.

@Patrick-jx1yo

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, my seat was yellow with gold flakes. I road that bike everywhere 👍🏼

@bonnie3937

Жыл бұрын

Lol, yes!

As a teen in the 70;s I lived by led Zeppelin and the boat my Father gave me to travel off Clearwater Beach, FL. to a private island called Anclote Island. Girls, Zeppelin and boating. How did I make it out of high school! I'm glad I was born in the 1960's and grew up in the 70's and 80's . No Internet and pure family values.

@pandaprada6437

2 жыл бұрын

Then you must have heard the oldies songs in my channel! Can you still remember them? Come and see: kzread.info/dron/LzO_wAREGTLriVwoA0EDFw.html

@MP-zf7kg

2 жыл бұрын

"pure family values"??? What a load of crap.

@bryanj7063

2 жыл бұрын

What are “pure” family values? Same crap happened then as it does now. My dad had affairs, my parents got divorced…it wasn’t any different.

Saturday morning and a bowl of cereal.

@irishstock2108

3 жыл бұрын

Fluffed Wheat (Puffed Wheat)....if you were the first to open the bag...you'd get the Viking Warrior Action Figure. lol

@noble604

3 жыл бұрын

That’s it. And that’s the entire post. Oh how I miss that simplicity.

@luisreyes1963

2 жыл бұрын

Good times.

@julenepegher6999

2 жыл бұрын

Watching cartoons

@johnswarski1142

2 жыл бұрын

Bugs Bunny....Lucky Charms...School house 🏡 Rock😀

I was born in 1957, and I remember the 1960's and the 1970's.I also remember the Bell Bottoms and I also remember disco music. I also graduated from high school and I also remember the sitcoms of the 1970's. P.S., I just loved the 1970's and the 1980's.

@JohnB-dr8sk

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's interesting because as a Gen Xer who went to elementary school in the 70s, even though my generation was younger, we shared that wild 70s experience with younger Boomers like yourself. The 70s were just insane (in a good way) from an elementary school kid's perspective. I remember riding with my teen aged Boomer uncle in his brand new 77' Camaro listening to Heart, Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac, and Steely Dan. Man what a mind blowing experience. Then Fantasy Island and CHIPs would come on while visiting my grandparents house - wow! I also got to watch the news report of Elvis dying- so sad. Most of my same aged friends had the same experience. We all lived through one of the most significant decades in American history - a time where everything we know and enjoy today was perfected - fashion, music, film, TV, space technology, medical technology, airline technology, you name it. Women still wear a lot of the fashion that was invented then. News reporters still report in the same style today as was invented in the 70s. People still love the style of Jeeps and Pickups that were invented in the 70s. All the TV shows, music makers, films (Star Wars anyone?), magazine writers and actors still use the same techniques that were perfected in the 70s. Satellites still use technology that was invented in the 70s. I can go on and on. Sadly, technology improved after the 70s but American culture declined and never recovered. I'm just happy and blessed that I witnessed it all. Wow

I was born in 1961, and the 1970s was by far my favorite decade. We had great music, stylish clothes, big cars, cheap gas and the dollar had real purchasing power.

@luisreyes1963

3 ай бұрын

At least I agree with you on the affordable gas & a strong dollar.

I turned 7 in 70. Lived in N.J., Maryland, N.C. mountains and Miami, FL. Kids PLAYED outside - everyday or we heard "get outside and out of my hair". Fun board games, playground toys, transistor radio, if lucky meet in field with many kids - TAG!, touch football, roller skating, and most important - the 70s girls!

@monkeywkeys3916

3 жыл бұрын

Yah

@gertexan

3 жыл бұрын

We are in the same age bracket. My older brother and I just had the same discussion last weekend. Mom, would chase us kids out of the house after breakfast and that included the dog. We would run the neighborhood. Lunch was eaten at different houses everyday and all of the moms would call each other to let everyone know where "the gang" was that day. Moms were the network before cell phones. Mom would leave the door unlocked for the milkman. Dad always insisted that we were home for dinner and we could go outside to play until the street lights came on. The whole family would sit in front of the TV to watch The Carol Burnett Show and the Friday or Saturday night movie; Dad would make his infamous root beer floats. Simpler times.

@lindasue4237

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, riding my bike around the neighborhood by myself at about 8 or 9. Parents didn't worry, nor did I, about weirdos lurking about. Just seemed more slower and innocent. Childhood.

@jpeek1009

2 жыл бұрын

@@lindasue4237 Same here. Born in 62 and I remember the solitude and freedom of riding my bike around the neighborhood before the street lights came on, during the summer. Those memories are etched in my mind.

@AnniePA1960

2 жыл бұрын

Saddest thing these days is to drive thru a neighborhood on a Saturday and see NO children out playing 😥 big yards, small yards, city, country. No kids.

The 70s had a funk and a flavor that was undeniable.

@elliottpeabody1287

3 жыл бұрын

What flavor?

@regsun7947

3 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed the last few years of resurgence of some of the 1970s styles, especially decorative owls. Those did not last nearly long enough the first time.

@Soul-cry1

3 жыл бұрын

@@elliottpeabody1287 flavor as in style, be it clothing or come decor not to mention all that amazing music that came out of that decade just to name a few

@thedreadtyger

3 жыл бұрын

@@elliottpeabody1287 purple shag! so kinda like a hairy grape.

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

@@elliottpeabody1287 Plaid.

The walnut paneling, the wallpaper with the huge bright flowers. I think I appreciate them more now than I did then. Anyone else watch "Fat Albert" every Saturday morning? "Hey, hey, hey!" We had a Pong console. And we got our first color TV around that same time, right around 1972. And you know what? No one needed Caller ID back then. My mom knew who was calling just by what time it was. She and all her friends had schedules, and her phone had a 50-foot cord on it so she could take it along as she did her housework. Perish the thought of soap operas, though. No one in our family liked those things. I loved watching game shows when I was home sick from school though.

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

Big yes to Fat Albert.

@bonnie3937

Жыл бұрын

I loved Dark Shadows. It came on right after school. We rushed home to watch it.

AH! I miss the smell of newly printed stuff from the ditto machine.

@eemupitts9962

3 жыл бұрын

ditto!!

@samanthab1923

3 жыл бұрын

eemu pitts Very funny 😆

@samanthab1923

3 жыл бұрын

Liked that smell, Magic Markers & Leaded Gas. I sound like a huffer smh 😆

@lorensims4846

3 жыл бұрын

I remember those mostly from the sixties.

@RaneMP2016

3 жыл бұрын

I remember the ditto machine still being used up until 1987 @ my elementary school. I was there from K-6. We didnt even have a Xerox machine yet.

I remember giving my mom a hard time getting up for school Mon-Fri but I was up 6am every Saturday watching cartoons.

@jenniferhansen3622

3 жыл бұрын

Well, Saturday morning cartoons were very important 😁

@nickhill8612

3 жыл бұрын

@@jenniferhansen3622 Oh yes watching and having your favorite cereal.

@junkyarddog2228

3 жыл бұрын

I would get up so early on Saturday morning the test pattern would still be on just waiting for supper friends speed buggy Scooby Doo Bugs Bunny and the road runner.

@Lemoncatsf

2 жыл бұрын

This and for us having to go to 9am Mass on Sunday was pure hell. My siblings and I did our best to make going to church as difficult as possible. We were usually slithering in through the side door at the last second 🤣

@trackrunner11

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickhill8612 and getting the free toy surprise in the box ?

I remember a happy childhood! Felt so safe and content. No worries. How every child should grow up.

@terrythomas790

3 жыл бұрын

When you went outside to play and come home when the streetlights went on

@billjones3868

2 жыл бұрын

Adulthood sucks ass.

The 70s were my teenage years. Graduated high school in 77. I loved the music from back then… still do, actually! I’m originally from near Philadelphia and the soul sound out of Philly was incredible. Plus the (now classic) rock and folk music was also great. Thanks for the dose of nostalgia!

@matrox

3 жыл бұрын

By the 1980s ....music was on a slipperly slope to the crap we have today.

@mylesross5712

3 жыл бұрын

I was from New Jersey so the drinking age dropped to 18 in 1973. Man, the club scene! City Gardens in Trenton came in around 1979. New York was the real scene. Go in around 11pm and get home around 6am. Don’t forget “odd-even” days for gas. That problem was solved with two sets of license plates. I’m surprised I’m still kicking. Kids today, screwed!

@julenepegher6999

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, I graduated 77, the music was incredible, going to concerts and keg parties, blasting our 70’s rock. I’m From Pittsburgh. Cheers!

@samanthab1923

2 жыл бұрын

@@mylesross5712 Yup, drinking age was 18 in NJ. Went to visit my BF at college in PA & had to load up on booze for the trip to Lancaster 😆

The 1970's were the BEST times of my life. I had a good job and made enough money to buy a house, and a new car and take the family in our new station wagon on a trip across the USA from Md to LA, and SF, and back. In 1973 when we made the trip I found that after we left Md there was no real gas shortage in the rest of the country; we had NO problem getting gasoline fill ups. The 1970's had disco's, house parties, card parties, and cabarets and plenty of good Funk music to go with all of the Motown R&B music already recorded. I loved the bell bottom pants that came in all styles and colors. If I could go back in my life it would be to the 1970's.!!!

@terrythomas790

3 жыл бұрын

They were my best years as well as the early 80's I was 18 in '76

@billjones3868

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, if i could take my wages of today back to the 70s i would have 2 cars: a 1970 Impala for the weekdays and a Thunderbird for the weekend. But my 2006 Impala is still pretty cool lol.

I'm 64 years old now and am fortunate to have lived through the 70's, it was the best time ever in my life. We all got along then.

The 70s were the best decade of my life. I’d give anything to re live it !

@ERTChimpanzee

2 жыл бұрын

Medicine and technology is better in 2022.

@nastcar6351

2 жыл бұрын

@@ERTChimpanzee eh...but WaaAaaY more inefficient! 😌

@luisreyes1963

3 ай бұрын

Gas shortages, Disco, Any group demanding liberation...good times. 😒

@luanloud9454

2 ай бұрын

​@@luisreyes1963 Disco is from the 80s more likely

Watching cartoons on Saturday mornings with a bowl of cereal while my parents were still asleep was a memory I will never forget. Playing outside all day until the street lamps came on and then doing it all again the next day during the summer months was amazing too!

@bonnie3937

Жыл бұрын

I remember when it was safe to play outside and ride bikes all over the neighborhood. Didn't come inside til supper time.

I was born in 67, I remember all of what you showed. My favorite was my banana seat bike, the winter snow in 78 ( I lived in MA) and just a simpler way of life. No social media.

@Allisnotlostyet

2 жыл бұрын

Blizzard 78 was amazing in Massachusetts but at one point I remember fearing is this going to actually stop ...then having no power and then the snow drifts were something I got worried my baby sister would get lost in the snow .

My favorite decade ✌☮

@dannyboswell7188

2 жыл бұрын

Bro we have the same first n middle name

Loving the 70s! Had fun as a kid

@samanthab1923

3 жыл бұрын

We were always outside. A garage full of bikes, athletic equipment of all kinds & just freedom.

@monkeywkeys3916

3 жыл бұрын

@@samanthab1923 The best

@davidpearson3304

3 жыл бұрын

Born in 71, I agree. Though I probably had a little more fun in the 80’s as I was old enough to enjoy more “things” 😉

@tonycollazorappo

2 жыл бұрын

@@samanthab1923 Exactly, outside was the magic word. Outside biking, play with the kids from the same block, in the park. I was always riding my bike. Getting a ton of natural vitamin "D" and yes, exercising and getting healthy. Kids today will never enjoy that as they sit behind their gaming consoles..

@samanthab1923

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonycollazorappo Thank goodness I had moved to PA by the time I had my son. Although there weren’t any neighbor kids he grew up with woods & a creek w/dogs around. Can’t tell you how many bike wheels I’ve replaced. I didn’t want him inside on a commuter. He probably had too much freedom but so did we. 👋

Great time! I was born in 67 so the 70's and 80's were great times!!

My mother was a teenager in the '70's and she loved listening to the BeeGees.

@luanloud9454

2 ай бұрын

Almost 80s

Born in 75 so I missed pretty much everything. The 80’s was awesome (especially music wise), so I can’t really complain.

@davidpearson3304

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. (Though I am a little older, born in 71). The 80’s were certainly fun though. Still listen to my 80’s music to this day.

@matrox

3 жыл бұрын

You missed nothing...we are talkin 1970s...not 1960s.

@Madness832

3 жыл бұрын

'73 here; but still a proud 80's child!

Some of my favorite toys in the 70's: train sets, big wheel, connect 4. You only had 3 stations(Memphis didnt have any UHF channels until 78), My favorite shows in the early 70's was Mannix, mid-late 70's:Good Times, 1st season of What's Happening, Diff'rent Strokes, Baretta, Sanford and Son. My family had a rotary phone until we moved in 1977 and our new home was all touchtone. I was in daycare and elementary school most of the decade(1972-80). Oh yeah, Saturday morning cartoons. I watched CBS SAT morning cartoons: The Archies, Fat Albert, Batman, Bugs Bunny show, the New Popeye, etc. It seemed so long ago. And yes, i had an afro too✌🏾🤣

@BuzzcutGtr

3 жыл бұрын

OHHHHH, how could I forget about Dif'rent Strokes?!?!? "Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?" Did you ever watch "Ark II" on Saturday mornings? LOL Pretty sure it was CBS, it only lasted 1 season if that. Hot Hero Sandwich, Kids Are People Too, Zoom... Good times!

@susanbender2953

3 жыл бұрын

@@BuzzcutGtr Ark II was a favorite along with Planet of the Apes. Very weird shows about the future.

@elwin38

3 жыл бұрын

@@BuzzcutGtr after school, it was Sesame St, Electric Company, and Zoom.

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

The Big Wheel was the greatest toy vehicle ever. I wish they made an adult version. I'd buy one in a second, race to the end of the street, pop the hand brake, and slide around the corner.

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

@@susanbender2953 Yes those were fun. There was a short-lived Bermuda Triangle show with Roddy McDowell, don't remember the name.

To me, the seventies was when America started to decline, but I would still take them over today. Better to live during the fall of Rome than during the Dark Ages. I also think talk shows were at their peak during the seventies.

@Rogue849

3 жыл бұрын

@Seventh Anubis maybe that's why I prefer the late 40s, 50s and 60s.

@platterjockey

3 жыл бұрын

Nah! America started its decline just a few years ago. Nuff said!

@matrox

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@matrox

3 жыл бұрын

@@platterjockey When were you born?...in 1990?

@LynxSouth

3 жыл бұрын

Nixon illegally and unconstitutionally took the country the rest of the way off the gold standard in August 1971. 1972 was the high point of the average earner's buying power. The constant inflation began in 1973.

Was a crappy decade economically, but as a kid we didn't feel the pressure too much. Remember lots of talk of inflation, gas shortage and high taxes.

@sockydotson9580

3 жыл бұрын

Life was exiting.Now its awful

@nicholasschroeder3678

3 жыл бұрын

And there were a lot of bizarre religious movements

@sockydotson9580

3 жыл бұрын

Even then all that was government propaganda

@SpicyTexan64

3 жыл бұрын

@@sockydotson9580 Compared to now? Only when Carter was in office.

@ricoz2016

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't that funny? We struggled with inflation and wage stagnation, yet people were in fact happier. The nostalgia craze was weird though.

actually 8 tracks were being phased out in 1973.. cassettes came into fashion quickly in the mid 70's

@regsun7947

3 жыл бұрын

I remember 8-tracks popular until at least pretty close to 1980.

@monkeywkeys3916

3 жыл бұрын

That format wasn't very good. Either the players or the tapes themselves. Seems I never came across a good 8 Trax system.

@timmmahhhh

3 жыл бұрын

In 1985 my mom bought a 1972 Buick Electra 225 with an 8-track player and we went to the local rescue mission to buy used 8-tracks to play in it. Sucked at gas mileage but man that thing drove like a dream!

@cyclenut

3 жыл бұрын

In 77 I got a home stereo from Jefferson Ward. It had turn table, AM FM stereo, 8-track and cassette. By then 8-tracks were in the marked down displays. By 80 8-tracks were all one could find were used.

@onefatstratcat

2 жыл бұрын

All I remember is I had to drive 30 minutes each way in my 1975 Mazda station wagon to finish my senior year in 78 and I torched the four cassettes I had...lol

The best time of my life. Went from a child to a teen. I love everything about the 70s. The music, the fashion, the colors, and the lots of hair.

@billjones3868

2 жыл бұрын

Farrah Fawcett pioneered the "Farrah-Doo" in the 70s; just lovely.

@julenepegher6999

2 жыл бұрын

I loved the long hair on the guys.

@nastcar6351

2 жыл бұрын

yep LOTS of HaiR & blowdryers 🤭😄

I graduated high school in '75. The war was winding down. Even though they had halted the draft, I still had to register, my friend who was born four months later than I didn't even have to register. This became a problem for him a decade later when he applied for student financial aid and he had to explain why he wasn't registered as was required for the aid. That stuff about family vacations was our story through the sixties and seventies, especially as the interstate highway system came closer to completion. David Bowie was a major influence on the kids in my high school. Never cared for 8-tracks, we were all about cassette tapes. My first car was a Vega hatchback. It completely sold me on the versatility of a hatchback. I do so miss the flared jeans, but didn't care at all for disco. Then, with the eighties, everything went to hell.

@lorensims4846

3 жыл бұрын

Jaws came out in the summer. "Who releases a big movie in the summer?!" Now they all do. When we went to see the biggest movie of the year, Network ("I'm mad as Hell and I'm not going to take it any more!"), when my friends and I came out of the theater the ONLY thing we could talk about was that preview they ran before the movie for something called "Star Wars." And they said "Coming this summer"??!! That's still eight months away!! Who does that??

@firstnamelastname6171

3 жыл бұрын

Everything went to hell in 1990.

@lorensims4846

3 жыл бұрын

@@firstnamelastname6171: The nineties were the beginning of a very slow recovery from the pure Hell of the '80s.

I was born in '53. The 70's was definitely my favorite decade. The music, the muscle cars, cruising 4th street in Santa Rosa California in my '70 Dodge Charger. Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead said it best; "If you didn't grow up in the sixties and seventies, you really missed the party. "

@jamesrecknor6752

Жыл бұрын

70 Charger, epic car.

Born in '65. lol We had a '72 Gremlin and a '76 Pinto. Good times. Great post. Thanx.

I remember the gas lines and the owner of the Texaco station where I worked turning people away who weren’t regular customers. Instead of finishing high school I decided to join the army in 1974 when I was 17 years old. Toward the end of the 70’s I got married. That was a very busy decade for me. This was another good video.

@trentpettit6336

3 жыл бұрын

Did the Texaco near you become Shell eventually?

@Dave-hc6pp

3 жыл бұрын

@@trentpettit6336 no, it was independently owned. It was eventually torn down.

@trentpettit6336

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dave-hc6pp Thanks for letting me know!

Two phrases you might have heard in the 70's that you'll never hear again: "I'll get it!" and "I wish I had a camera".

@monkeywkeys3916

3 жыл бұрын

Good call

@davidpearson3304

3 жыл бұрын

Or the dial tone when you took the phone off the hook so you’d not be disturbed.

@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736

3 жыл бұрын

I'll get it is still used when getting the door.

@katherineraina7344

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for reminding me about "I'll get it!!"

@TKOin2life

2 жыл бұрын

And turn the channel...

I was born in 1960, so this was decade of my teen years. For all the turmoil, inflation, gas shortages, I prefer that time over today. People were genuine, there were real causes to support. People were braver then. I fear for my children in this era of division, the rise of the authoritarian state, the intentional resegregation of society along race lines, and the tyranny of 'oppressed', who dictate to the rest of us our speech, destroy history, and use contrived grievances to drive an agenda of polarization.

@siggyretburns7523

8 ай бұрын

I was born at the end of '60. I would trade my smartphone for life for just the summer of '69 again. My Pop retired from the marines and all 5 of us went to Texas and Louisiana for the summer in a VW to visit family. I'll! tell you it was magic. the best time of my life and it seemed to last forever. 70s were cool 80s were stupid, 90s were cool, and everything after that pretty much sucked for me anyways. lol The 60s no doubt were the best.

the best decade ever to be a teen

@eemupitts9962

3 жыл бұрын

early 60's Late 50's

@onefatstratcat

3 жыл бұрын

@@eemupitts9962 perhaps so but you didn't have the Pet Rock...lol

@davidpearson3304

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know about that…. The 80’s were a pretty good time to be a teen as well. 😎

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidpearson3304 Right there with you. The best.

I was born in 1969. I remember going to the movie theatre and playing Asteroids and Space Invaders. Fast forward to 2021, I now own both of those coin operated arcade games.

@samanthab1923

2 жыл бұрын

I was in college in 78 & went home to a friends house. They had both those arcade games in their redone basement. I never saw anything like it. Juke Box too.

So glad I grew up a kid of the `70s, instead of a kid now. Groovy decade.

Roller skates, fluffy hair, and Archie Bunker. That's all you need to know.

@scottdunn2178

3 жыл бұрын

Stifle!

@maggiemae7539

3 жыл бұрын

Wrong! There is a world out there! Not television!

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

Disco

@klausr8700

3 жыл бұрын

Can't even imagine Archie Bunker on in prime time today. PC doomed comedy.

@scottdunn2178

3 жыл бұрын

@@klausr8700 As soon as Archie blurted out; "England is a fag country"... it's over. The left would lose their shit. Wait until they find out The Andy Griffith Show never once had one black person on the show in it's entire run from 1960-67.

One of my fondest memories was the 1976 HUGE Bi-centennial celebrations all over the country and in our hometown. It seemed to go on for at least of week after the 4th and the pre-party planning was off the hook! It was really something to partake in. Does anyone remember the community pools? What happened to those?

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

Community pools, bring your towel and a quarter for a coke from the machine. It's funny you hring this up. I just moved to a neighborhood with a community pool. Took my kids there the other day, and was reflecting that I hadn't been to a community pool in 45 years. Maybe they're making a comeback. Cokes are a dollar now, though, and I had to bum one off my 10 year old.

@hyacinthbucket3803

3 жыл бұрын

I remember the bi-centennial minutes on tv. And the schoolhouse rock commercials.

@jpeek1009

2 жыл бұрын

@@hyacinthbucket3803 The bicentennial minutes started me on my love of American history. I was 14 in ‘76. I went on to get my Bachelor’s in History.

@MillerMeteor74

2 жыл бұрын

I remember the Bicentennial really well. I saved every magazine and newspaper from that time, and still have them. I remember watching "Op-Sail `76" on TV, which was when all the sailing ships came to New York Harbor from all over.

@nastcar6351

2 жыл бұрын

yep_ we had a "saved" piece of the bicentennial Birthday 🎂 from Big City celebration_ ate it several yrs later 🤭😄 _ community pools 🤭😆_yep ~peekin the girls showers😆🥵

Born in 64. The 70s was my childhood. Good good times.

Thank you.. RC! Oh, how I miss thise days.

The best time ever to be a teenager. I was born in 1958 and graduated from high school in 1976. We got away with so much that would never be allowed today. Underage drinking, parking at Post Road near MSP and more freedom than anyone young today would believe. Worked part time at BK which was a nearly endless supply of new girls to meet and date. What I wouldn't give to go back for a week or two.

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

Say what do you think of the m9vie Dazed and Confused, since you graduated in 76?

@edculle

3 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed it greatly. We didn't have the hazing thing but the rest was spot on.

@frankrizzo4460

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I totally agree with you we definitely were blessed to have experienced those days I miss them now more than ever before 🤔

@smith1958b

2 жыл бұрын

I, too, was born in 58. Experienced my teen years in St. Paul, MN. I remember going to Phalen Park, it was an open air drug market. Cruising on 7th street just like the movie American Graffiti. There was a head shop/record store in practically every neighborhood. Police would not arrest kids, just take away our beer and send us home.

@reesedaniel5835

2 жыл бұрын

And the only moribidly obese people you saw back then were in the circus.

Born in 1960. My first car, which I bought with my dad's help the end of my junior year of high school (1977), was a copper-color '74 Ford Pinto "Runabout" hatchback, 4-speed with tan pleather bucket seats and a Delco AM radio. Purchase price: $1497. Both the car and my dad are now long gone...

Born in 1966 I grew up in the 70s and 80s....the 70s were such great times for a kid and I remember them well. If I could go back I would in an instant.

@JohnB-dr8sk

Жыл бұрын

Yep. We lived through a very special time in history that will never be repeated. Very lucky indeed

My parents had really big cars. My mom had a ‘74 Buick Electra 4 door and my dad had a ‘72 Coupe de Ville. Although my mom’s car was a 4 door I think my dad’s car was even a touch bigger! Those were the days of the great American land yachts!

@nastcar6351

3 жыл бұрын

Galaxy 500 2 door white Vinyl top whitewall tires 450 engine Babyeee😎 Car was like a mobile apartment. REAL GOOD Times in that Baby

@diatribe5

Жыл бұрын

My parents had a Vega, and then a few years later, a Nova. But anyone remember the vans with naked women in space painted on the side. A shaggin wagon…if the van’s a rocking don’t come a knocking.

The 70's... my childhood! My favourite toys were the full sized GI-Joe (Action Man in the UK), all steel Tonka Mighty series (dump truck, loader, grader, fire truck) and of course my awesome Schwinn banana seat bike! Star Wars in theatres, The Muppet Show on TV, CB's everywhere , ugly as sin clothes and everything brown, avocado or dijon yellow. :)

@cyclenut

3 жыл бұрын

Everything you listed was for me too.

@samanthab1923

3 жыл бұрын

I believe that was referred to as Harvest Gold. We had the full package of appliances along with the matching wall phone. Push button of course.

@BuzzcutGtr

3 жыл бұрын

@@samanthab1923 PUSH-BUTTON!?!?! Wow, my parents had to be dragged away from their rotary-dial phones! LOL

@samanthab1923

3 жыл бұрын

BuzzcutGtr I have to tell you a funny story. We moved to that house from a Levitt house. Only the next town over but light years in what people thought of as moving up. A friend came over & all our light switches were push button & dimmer switches. She thought that was the height of richness! 😆

@BuzzcutGtr

3 жыл бұрын

@@samanthab1923 LOL!!! That's awesome!!

born in 58 graduated in 77 grew up in the 60s and 70s best 19 years of my life remembered everything

@terrythomas790

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. I wish I could go back.

My adolescent years. I finished elementary school and began junior high school in 1971. My Mom not only had a shag rug but also a special plastic rake to keep it fluffy. Those years were very special to me. It's my favorite decade.

I was born in 1972 Great Decade!❤️

@johnbockelie3899

3 жыл бұрын

The Vega was said to have started rusting on the assembly line.

The 70's were a great time to be a kid, so many fond memories such as Saturday matinees at our local theater, I think it was maybe $1.25 and you got 2-3 movies, during summer break they often had free movies for kids.

Avocado Green, Harvest Gold and Burnt Orange appliances replaced the Coppertone appliances of the late '60s. The '70s were my High School and College years, the best memories!

We played outside - all the time! We only came home when it got dark or mom called us for dinner. We had NO safety equipment at all! And we, pretty much, all survived the scrapes and broken bones. The neighbors could punish you if you did something wrong and drag you home to tell your mother. The music was great! We had fun! People smoked everywhere. Like it was another planet compared to now. My brother and I would hide under the back seat in our pajamas, so my mom only paid for 2 instead of 4 for the drive-in. Mom made popcorn and we had a can of Hi-C. We were crashed out by the time the adult movie came on.

@nastcar6351

3 жыл бұрын

😄😆Yep those big cans HI-C & Hawian Punch...oh yeh & the orange drink Tip Top😋

Pet rocks, mood rings, bean bag chairs, lava lamps, Sanford and Son, and Good Times. just as everybody remembers where they were when president Kennedy was assassinated in ‘63, in the seventies, everybody remembers where they were when they heard Elvis died in ‘77. President Ford was the joe biden of that decade, as featured in several SNL skits. No political correctness, no 24 hr fake news channels, no politically-biased talk show hosts (Johnny Carson reigned), just a beautiful decade to grow up in. I miss it so much.

@matrox

3 жыл бұрын

I remember where I was when Kennedy died but not when Elvis died.

@necroslair

2 жыл бұрын

Also All in the Family and the Jeffersons. And yeah you weren't constantly bombarded with news and politics like today. Better times indeed...

@AnonYmous-jp8uu

2 жыл бұрын

@@matrox get your priorities straight then

Man, this made me miss the 70's!

@thegeeg1751

3 жыл бұрын

Except that moronic "women's movement"....as girls we were perplexed why women would want to have to go to work like men! We wanted to be home like our moms and aunts!

I can’t forget our Silver color aluminum Christmas Tree. Every year we put that AWESOME tree up

You left out Streaking, The Odd Couple, The Bicentennial, Grand Funk, Cheech and Chong, Jim Croce, The Guess Who, Alice Cooper, and Mark "The Bird" Fidrych. I could go on but I guess you can't fit everything into an eight-minute video. We had Pong, which made our place one of the cooler places to hang out. I remember All in the Family and Mary Tyler Moore were regular viewing as well as Carol Burnette and The Muppet Show. I remember my old man falling in love with Linda Ronstadt when she sang with Kermit. And of course the original "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" remain the best of SNL (who could forget the Samuari skits or "Jane you ignorant...I'll stop there to keep it clean 😉) I know there was a lot wrong with the decade (Disco and Watergate come to mind right away) but we had some fun. It was the beginning of the slow decline though that landed us where we are today. But it was the decade of my teenage years so here's a hat's off to it. And I didn't have a Farah poster. Stevie Nicks was the sweetie on my bedroom wall. 👌

AH YES!!! MY CHILDHOOD DECADE!!✌🏾 20mos old at the start of the decade, 11 1/2yrs old New Years Eve, 1979.😁

Born in '66. I think us Gen Xers are the luckiest... we had the best music (Rush!), the best tv shows, movies, and the best times as kids!

My partner saw Star Wars at the local country cinema with was a tin shed with a screen at the end and the chairs were like beach loungers. Run by a couple; he sold tickets and she opened a small candy counter with lollies and ice creams. Then he ran the movie. Once a week he would go in the nearest big town to get the latest movie reels. Then after the movie everyone would walk home in the dark under the stars talking about the movie. Simpler times.

Got my first pair of Dingo boots in 76 and they still fit and I still wear them today. MADE IN USA.

@samanthab1923

2 жыл бұрын

Frye’s were big my senior year 77

@JohnB-dr8sk

Жыл бұрын

Holy cow!

Best decade to grow up to 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

The homemade paper bag book covers, the Duck Wing shirt collars, the simulated fruit juice in a palm sized bag with straw, not forgetting the pen with 4 ink colors...Red, Black, Blue and Green.

The 70s was the time to be on this earth I would love to go back to the best music the best neighborhoods and the best Saturday nights.

Loved growing up in 70s. I remember my parents wouldn't allow us to watch the movie Saturday Night Fever. We used to have that boring video game too. 😄 I loved watching Soul Train and American Bandstand. My dad had a Ford Pinto, and he let me drive to high-school with him as the passenger, every morning. I remember sitting in line at gas stations. This video brings back so many good memories. ❤

I graduated in 1970 some of the artists in the music industry David Bowie queen Blondie Peter Frampton pat Benatar Elvis Costello a whole new wave music some great stuff came out in the 70s

I was born in the 70s what an amazing year. I feel blessed I was born in the 70s everything was great back then

I remember the Oakland A's winning 3 straight World Series titles and the dominance of the Cincinnati Reds, The Big Red Machine, The New York Yankees coming back to life in the late 70's, the Los Angeles Dodgers had great teams as well, the We Are Family Pittsburgh Pirates winning the 1979 World Series, they also won it in 1971, not to mention the Kansas City Royals, Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox had some good teams in a memorable decade for baseball.

What I remember most was CB radio. I am still a CBer today.

@jrussellcase

3 жыл бұрын

👍👍

@JohnB-dr8sk

Жыл бұрын

Convoy!

Born in '59. I spent a lot of time in the bowling alley playing pinball. I remember I had a mood ring but I lost it and I didn't know how to feel about that. Heart, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin were my groove. No thanks on the polyester disco thing.

@matrox

3 жыл бұрын

You should have got a pet Rock.

@nastcar6351

3 жыл бұрын

"didn't know how to feel about that" = 😄😆😆😆😆😆

I Graduated High School In 1977, it was a great decade to grow up in😁👍❤️.

1970's. That awesome poster of Farrah Fawcett hung on my wall was a great way to wake up every morning👌

@lindasue4237

3 жыл бұрын

Mine was Andy Gibb. Silly shit

Back when the world was still naive in many ways. As hard as my life was growing up, I'd be happy to go back to those times again as it's much better than the world we are in now.

Leisure suits and platform shoes - oh what a fashion statement...lol! Other than embarrassing clothes it was a great decade to grow up in, excellent TV shows and fantastic music.

@JimAllen-Persona

3 жыл бұрын

I owned both. I still cringe when I think of them today.

Oh yes the 70’s! How good we had it from TV shows to hit movies ! Aliens, Jaws, Close Encounters, Super Man, Star Wars, Star Trek, Halloween, Friday the 13th, and then their was the Trans Am… we just had it made back then and I really believe it’s because we did not have all that technology. We were the last of the decades that had to wait for pop corn , dinner and Everything ells. We had a TV guid book to know when shows would come on and we would all take our showers and baths and get ready for the NBC night at the movies , ABC special night at the movies and so on ….We even had to dial a round set of numbers to make a phone call and their were real operators on the line. We had pull tabs on can soda and did things outside all the time from camping, playing in the forest and in winter went ice skating on the local pond. We did not lock or cars or homes at night and we always were together during meal times and actually talked about what happened that day. I truly would take a time machine and go back if we had one. I HATE this world and what has happened to America…

I LOVE THIS!! MY Generation!! 😁💝

Being born in 1964 and growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s I remember Summer vacations where we would drive from Maryland to Louisiana to visit the relatives and the interstates in many states were not completed. We took many different back roads. Our Mom would fry 2 chickens for all of us & put in a big plastic tub for us 4 kids and Dad and her, she made so much food at home before we left on vacation including making batches of our favorite cookies - Oatmeal cookies with Chocolate Chips vs raisins - we called them Cowboy Cookies. In 1972 we got a pop-up RV trailer and we had great times camping on so many trips including going to Myrtle Beach for a week, many weekend trips camping in State Parks and we even drove cross country two times - 1 year going across the Northern States and next Summer going across the Southern States, camping at Walt Disney World and beaches in Florida was really cool too Other things my friends and I got into was Dirt Bikes plus fixing up our older trucks and cars. Great memories.

Boy do I feel old now..lol

America was so great back then. I was born in 69 so I was lucky enough to live in the 2 greatest decades of America. 70s & 80s. The 90s weren’t bad (compared to now I mean) but that’s when the decline began and American family values and structure has been under attack ever since.

Mood rings, clackers, Kiss, David Bowie, the music, muscle cars, drag racing, platform shoes, bell bottoms, long hair. Summer fun BBQs, picnics. Times were good even with some of the stuff going on. I miss those days

Music was the best. Even today, my kids rock out to it. I would go back in a heart beat.

We had several rotary phones in our house during the '70's (I had a Princess phone in my bedroom) and there was also call-waiting in the early '70's.

@skylilly1

3 жыл бұрын

My mom sold real-estate in the 70's so we had to have it with 4 girls in the house. We also had our own line as to not tie up Mom's business calls.

@thankthelord4536

3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: call waiting was invented by a woman of color. I was 16 in 1977 and that was the I met my husband. Still together today with 2 kids and three grandchildren. Seems like yesterday. 😊

For some of us who were born in the early 50's don't share a fondness for the 70's. Sure there were many new discoveries, but those struggling as young adults went through many challenges, lower wages, gas shortages, the protests (early 70's). I alway felt government and corporate America held back the potential for the American spirit and drive. I'm in my early 70's and if I had to rank decades from best to worst, I'd put the 70's closer to the bottom for prosperity, but near the top for arts, entertainment and the ability to laugh at ourselves.

@JohnB-dr8sk

Жыл бұрын

Hi Lucian, having went to elementary school in the mid to late 70s, I think you answered the question of why people my age miss the 70s in the last part of your comment. Yeah, my parents struggled with the inflation, but what I miss are all the Silent Generation and older (people born between 1900 to 1945) back then. They weren't perfect, but they were a glue that held society together. They were kinder, more patient, more empathetic and had stronger belief systems than Boomers and later generations. Boomers minds were destroyed by 60s pop culture that told them God didn't exist and nothing really matters, so just "do it cause it feels good." Yes, there were also tough turds among the older generations that said ignorant things sometimes, but the world they created was still a much better place from this kid's perspective. All of my friends that are my age agree with me. The Boomer's world of sex, drugs, narcissism, horrible diet foods (that turned out to be more dangerous than eating natural sugars, etc), "LIfestyles of the Rich and Famous," "zero tolerance" and horrible child rearing just destroyed American culture and society and gave us the dystopic world we live in today. Despite some of the negatives of the 70s, I would jump at the chance to go back again if I could and hang out with all the olds folks that were still fairly young back then. After about 1983-85, America just turned uglier and less kind and has never recovered. At least that's my perspective form a 1970s Gen X'er

Good vid as always. Some stuff I remember (I was 3 - 13) from the 1970's: All In The Family, streaking, Smiley Faces, striped jeans 🤮, Maude, The Jeffersons, Spirit Of '76, Nadia, Nadia's Theme, 8-track tapes in the car, Partridge Family, Brady Bunch, KISS, Village People, Cheap Trick, Chic, The Knack, Tony Orlando & Dawn, "Like a rhinestone cowboy..." Jim Croce, Frampton Comes Alive (and "talking guitars"), The Carpenters, Eddie Van Halen, Helen Reddy, Debbie Boone, Studio 54, Captain & Tennille (my first "rock" concert), Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific, Three's Company, Mork & Mindy, spin-art, mood rings, REAL shorts, Heart of Glass, KISS releases 4 solo albums on the same day, "KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park," the "trauma" of having to shower after gym class in 7th grade LOL, tube socks, TAB, RC and Fresca, "I'd like to buy the world a Coke...", earth shoes, Donnie & Marie, Sonny & Cher, scented stationery, Amityvile Horror (the book, not that movie crap), The Muppet Movie... Then the 70's ended / the 80's started with the Iran Hostage Crisis, John Lennon was murdered, and then everything else went to shit in a huge domino effect. But that's another story.

@K1OIK

2 жыл бұрын

vid?

Nobody was fat and nobody had ink all over their body’s

@SoapinTrucker

3 жыл бұрын

Now that you mention it, I don't remember people being fat either!!!!!! :O

@JohnB-dr8sk

Жыл бұрын

Glad you mentioned tats. Man I hate those ugly marks all over people's bodies. Now even women are COVERED in them. It's like waking up into Mad Max or something

We still drive our Pinto and Vega so they are not that unreliable of vehicles .My wife has a collection of older cars she owns including her favorite her 1964 Chevy Impala and 1968 Plymouth Fury being her favorites .She has been offered to trade her 1964 Chevy for newer vehicles .She looks at them like they have lost their minds .She says it has been reliable for the 40 plus years she has owned it why get a new one ? If hers tears up she can fix it herself .She does her own restoration and engine work who needs a mechanic or shop ? Yes we know about he gas tank issue on the Pinto so it doesn't get driven very often just enough to keep it in good shape .

@mistermusic140

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!!

@pegs1659

3 жыл бұрын

That's really great.

@peterbelanger4094

2 жыл бұрын

That is the one down side to the 70's, the cars were REALLY lame. We had an AMC Gremlin.

We actually had 3 phones in our house in the seventies!

@timmmahhhh

3 жыл бұрын

Wow you were rich! 😅

@AuroraBD0618

3 жыл бұрын

We did too! But we had a relative who worked for Bell Tel and he’d hook us up ☎️

Some great music came out of the early and mid seventies! Every style! 😊

🙋‍♀️ born in '67 ... Most of my memories are around '75. Such fond memories for sure. The TV shows, toys, clothes & Sat morning cartoons! The Best!

Born in 1960 and I miss the 70's! So much fun!Seattle was still a beautiful place and so peaceful (before big tech ruined it). It is a shell of it's former self now. Loved disco and saw Star Wars on opening night! Would go back and relive if I could!☺

I was born in 1970, and i very much miss childhood; especially just spending time with my mom at our old house. Life and society today is a joke.

@JohnB-dr8sk

Жыл бұрын

I agree Bill. I'm the same age. The 70s were mind-blowing. I miss all of those older folks with larger than life personalities and big hearts. Basically most people born before the Boomers (before 1945). The Boomers absolutely sucked and eventually gave us the 80s to 2000s world of garbage. But back in the 70s, all of those people born between 1900 and 1945 were just incredible. People had differences, but they also still had love and empathy and amazing charisma. And most of all, they had authority, so that when they spoke, it had an effect unlike today's weak people who have to scream at people to make a simple point. I think the perfect example of this is the movie "Escape to Witch Mountain" with older actor Eddie Albert as "Jason" who drove the kids in the RV. There were so many people like him back then that have completely disappeared now. Just kindly, charismatic people with a strong belief system who held the world together like glue.

In my area growing up, it was not the ABC soaps but those on CBS (and one--Another World--on NBC) that ruled the women. During her day spent doing housework, my mom would pause long enough to watch Guiding Light, Another World and As the World Turns. When her 'stories' ended, it was off to finish the housework and get dinner ready before my dad came home. Although we didn't know it, our lives--at that time--were filled with love and joy and a real appreciation for the little things. I like your little trips down Recollection Road and look forward to them.

I was born in `63, so I remember and miss the 70s the most. That phone on the wall that you showed at 1:14 is the exact phone we had. The color was the same too. It was on the kitchen wall by the doorway to the living room. We had a Zenith console TV and a stereo from the `60s, with no cassette or 8-track. In fact no one in our household ever owned an 8-track player, not even in the cars. I had a nice GE cassette player and a Grundig shortwave radio that I got for my 14th birthday. Sometime in the very early 70s my brother and I got Sears 3-speed bikes with banana seats. We had two Chrysler station wagons in a row- a `72 and a `75, and we did all our family road trips in those. My brother and I always rode in the "way back". We always watched the other cars and the road, and the scenery. I'm pretty sure we ate at Howard Johnson's on our trips.