It was so ran down and grim then, it's a lot better today

0.58 Looks like the road to Fishermans walk with Elliotts caravan park to the right.

I was 5 years old. Living in The Bronx! These were the best of times. If I could start again with what I know now.

I was 14 then and about to enter high school that fall, in Scituate, Mass.

We're in Jersey, but we were going into NYC once or twice a year in those days. Cool footage.

❤😊

Great soundtrack.

At 24 second mark, there's a clip of my hometown of Fitchburg. This was in the lower Main St section. Fitchburg Music Store was to the right. It's now a CVS. The parking lot on the left is now the parking garage for the intermodal bus and train station. Dead center was originally Worcester North Bank. It's now empty, after Santander Bank moved to a smaller building on Water St, just over the bridge.

Amazing NYC

My fist job after leaving school in 1969 was in Goods Inwards at Ceag, working with Malcolm Bishop. A few of the faces I remember in the film are Pat Farrar (nee Robinson), Idris Rimington, Ann Dickinson, Mick Phelps, Maurice (the handyman) and ......? Thomas, the Irish woman who worked in the stores. Other familiar faces, but forgotten names. I also remember Jack and Linda Betchetti, George Farrar, Eli Leach, Ken Wigglesworth, Tommy the lift man, Maureen Wilson, Carol Holland, Kath Nickerson, Dawn Frazer, Denise Curley, Alan Swaine, Christine Bone, Jack Devonport, Jack Arscott and a few others. Well, it was a long time ago!

I remember it all.

left after 55 years, better back then

They were knitting a joint 🤣🤣

That brings back memories.

Seems like it's non stop. I barely recognise Barnsley now from how it was back in the 80's.

I used to go to the Poly to see bands from 76 onwards, it was a wild time then.

0:21 there's my Harvard dorm 5 years before I was born.....nice

This brings back so many memories of when I explored Boston in the summer and on school holidays from Scituate High School 🥰

Big Broadway in the 70's was magical for a kid.

That view of the old Harborough Hills, with Burton Bank in the background is fantastic. Remember feeling scared when my grandad drove his car up there.

Coca Cola, Nedicks, Sony, Schaeffer.

Pay phones & cars built like tanks. People hanging out on porches in the summer. The last generation too uphold WW2 values.

When I came with my mom

I was working in the combat zone area in 75. Can we go back ? If you didn't have to go to Vietnam it was a pretty good time. Maybe being young helped. They should bring back the observation deck in the John Hancock tower.

Is :17 Central Sq in Cambridge? The order of this is kinda weird. Looks like it goes: Central Sq, Harvard Sq, Memorial Drive, Storrow Drive, Tobin Bridge (?) Not really sequential.

Cool. I lived in Waltham 1975.

I was one of the four Apprentices sitting on the machine on the back of the NCB float

I love that dirty watah!

Black Horse is still there. Cracking pub, was there a few months ago.

20 Beach Street, Rockport MA @2:09

Great footage. Loved these machines! The new ones are much quieter, so less exciting!

We used to holiday in Southsea in the 70s. I used to love watching the SRN6 hovercraft. It was the best bit of my holiday. I could spend hours sat watching them. The smell of the avgas fuel was very strong in the air. I loved the smell. A treat was a trip across the solent to the IOW. Not to stay, but a trip straight back. I work with helicopters now. When walking across the site during flying hours, I get that smell from the fuel again bringing back all those memories.

I was in elementary school up in Essex County at this time. Great flashback to a different, and much simpler time.

and cambridge...

I’ve been working for Hovertravel for 4 years now and working with hovercraft is something that will stay with me forever

Found this KZbin accidentally (via www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2019/may/watch-life-at-dmu-1970s-style.aspx) AND HAPPY TO VIEW IT. I did my pharmacy in Harthorn Building, next to James Went Building in 1974-8. Memories are distant now but happy to have been there - first year was difficult settling in.

Great choice of music for this fun video 🙃

Super 8!

put down your cigarette and drop out of BU. alright.

Does anyone remember Castle Armoury on Braunstone Gate?. It sold martial arts gear and some serious weaponry.

Yep, that's right, kids, you DID actually used to be allowed to smoke indoors before the anti-smoking Stasi went berserk...and the little cameo of David Berkowitz at 1:34 a couple of years before he became famous was kinda amusing too...😂

I used to drink in the Earl Howe from 1976 when I first moved to Leicester, an Irish chap ran it, we all called him PJ...always good for a lock in, a pub full of characters one of them being a fella we all called Baggy..Happy Days.....I was known as Cockney Pete back in the day.

The good old days.

I was born in the pub at the start of Hinkley Road, The Shipstone's Arms. I remember visiting the place shortly before it got demolished in 1976, as part of the slum clearance works. Thanks for posting this video, pity it didn't show The Shipstone's Arms but it did show the view of over the road, it was like looking out of the living room window again..

Getting married that year

Wow, these bring back some memories, though I wasn't around in the 70s, much of the views existed right upto the early 90s 1967: We have high hopes for our James Went Building 2004: Time to demolish the James Went Building

I was a semi pro musician in 1974 and our lead guitarist , lived on Hayling Island. I was regularly stopped by the police late at night having dropped off our guitarist and on my way home to north Portsmouth. They were surprise surprise 'pigs'

I was able to escape the insanity in 1980 out to California before the lunacy (Plymouth/carver 77)

Ironically there was less traffic before the big dig than there is now. Wow!

My dad worked in the Prudential building in 1975. I remember going to the observation lookout many times in 1975 as I was 10 years old. I would have laughed if I was in the video.