Anyone else wax down the slide with a wax paper cup like from 7-11?

The submarine sanchwiches was a staple at every trip...husky pants is where my parents bought my my pants for school....lolo

I grew up in the 70s in suburban Texas…and we were out morning till dark most summer days. All the local dogs followed us kids around unleashed. We drank water out of the garden hose. Mosquito spray trucks came through regularly. Our dad would whistle for us to come home, like dogs. It seems so magical to me now in comparison to today.

I loved their lay away. Only way I could afford Christmas for my kids.

As a child in the 1970's the scent of popcorn and candy hit me when entering my local Kmart. I loved going through the 45's/records to find a song that I had heard on the radio and during the summer I stocked up on paperback books to read from the book department. And Christmas time was so fun with decorations for the tree and house. Years later we had a Kmart in our area until about 20 years ago and miss the store.

We had rock wars we made homemade bows and arrows we made great sling shots with a forked stick and inner tube strips or surgical tubing we hung out in the park all day no pervs no gangs we built tents with bed sheets a cord between two trees and had wagon races me put the two smallest in a radio flyer then the two fastest kids would push them on my parents smooth patio lots of crashes lots of wipe outs so much fun 😢😢

I grew up in the 90s and so much of this rings true!! Only the rich kids had some of the big first non-smart cell phones by the time we hit grade 12. Out playing with the neighborhood kids, exploring, adventures, no phones, no video games, biking and walking everywhere! Calling friends on their landline house phone (which is all everyone had back then) or stopping by their house and asking if they could come play. The only rule, come in when the streetlughts come on. One of the early comments about not saying you had nothing to do cause mom would find you something - lol oh yes, absolutely! We never said we were bored around our parents! This video is awesome! So glad my childhood was slipped in before the modern wave of digital childhood kids have now!

It was mostly safe, the climate was perfect and kids were being kids. Kids of this generations could be happier too without the bullshittt they feed them today. Has anyone noticed how kids today lack a sense of humor? It's creepy.

Almost no one was fat then. Kids are sedentary now.

my phone doesnt control me

Ditto jeans. Got a boner right now thinking about it😂

The last great childhood. So glad I got to be there.

A lot of Brave and die hard man. Just imagine if Emperor Haile Selassie was there. They probably would have to salute him or making breakfast or dinner.

We had a good childhood in the 70’s.

you labeled a 55 ford a 59 and a 53 mercury a 53 chevy

Great job! The one thing I noticed that you missed was the Noxzema on your burnt skin at night time.

So who or what is to blame for the loss of this freedom? It was a great era overshadowed now by technology, safety and lawsuit concerns and Big Bros watching. Lets cut Gen Z some slack and hope they can have some freedoms too and their Alpha gen come-alongs!❤

I would hitchhike home from high school in 1971 and little old ladies would always stop to give me a ride

My memory of my suburban childhood in the 1970’s is that everyone’s parents were getting divorced and that’s why kids had so much “freedom”.

7:23 Tacoma Washington the building is gone now

I loved Jerry Baker in the Kmart garden sector, advertising garden equipment!

Man I never saw one of those rocket slides.

It sure was nice going to school back then. Don't recall any woke teachers pushing their radical ideas on innocent teenagers.

Alcoholic parents and then off to an orphanage. The seventies weren't soo great for everyone. Personally, I think this world is a miserable suffering pit of hell. I actually want vengeance on god.

So glad I grew up in the late 60's and 70's

you really fucking needed to say 19?????

As soon as we got home from school, my parents loaded us up and took us to our grandparents house 2 hours away, they'd pick us up a week before school started again. My grandparents lived on the reservation and so we had cousins to hang out with. Our swimming pool was the old reservoir across the road from my grandparents house. I had a bike called the Moon Buggy, we did use the hose and if we had to use the bathroom, you better go, or you got in trouble for lying.

This is surprisingly accurate.

All us cousins would meet up at Grandpas farm in New Mexico. Cousinn Roxanne used to drive her vw bug from Idaho by herself.(16 yo). We worked till everything was fed and off we'd go. We would ay out back and eatch the barometer at night to get to "45". Time to bale hay! Sad those days will never be re-lived.

That was so accurate. What a great decade to grow up in. ❤

Neighbors moved out and had let me take an old stingray girls bike named “Puny.” I cleaned it up, sanded it, repainted it, replaced the tires, and put on a pair of motocross handlebars that I had painted black. Puny became the baddest ass motocross bike in the neighborhood. I could do crossover jumps with style off of any hill in town. I felt like a king.

Summer felt like forever.

The ford at 8:23 is not a 59 it’s a 55

As kids...we lived at the pool .sunup .to sunset

Just don’t know how these Americans survived years of this ecological disaster

Whaaaaat?! I had that EXACT green Schwinn Stingray! ‘Oh what a time it was; it was… a time of innocence. A time of confidences.’

My friends and I used to climb on top of Rose Hamilton Elementary School in Richmond, In. at night and smoke Marlboro's, cherry stag cigars, and drink whatever beer we could get our hands on while watching porn movies on a drive-in screen that was a little over a quarter mile away. Good times ..... 🍻😄

We were fortunate.

There is a happening where I live in Huntington Beach. Every kid has an Electric bike and they are doing weelies even on the busy streets. I don’t mind kids being radical but be safe. A 14 year old girl had her air pods on and ran a red light was killed By some poor driver. The EV bikes go up to 40 miles an hour.

The most shocking thing about this video is the lack of obesity in the folks in the pictures. I don't remember many overweight kids at school with me in the 1970's and early 1980's. Now, I see many, many kids going to the local HS that are obese. What changed that this obesity epidemic has happened? Yikes...

When you extended the forks on your stingray to make a chopper!

I’m only 30 and I really think we need to start letting kids figure things out on their own with less supervision, helicopter parents, and over coddling is ruining the younger generations

How I miss those days. Makes me want to cry

Can’t let your kids out these days. Too many perverted pedophiles creeping around.

Air-conditioning ,girls, junk food and movies incase you have a girl. Oh and fist fights because she had a boyfriend.

Back when i was a small boy, the only so called internet was used by Strategic Air Command to keep the Soviets in line. A phone came with a cord, all T.V. used vaccum tubes (CRT) Cable did not exist, Radio in a car was a big thing. So if you wanted to get entertained you went to the mall.

You nailed all the memories. A couple others I remember are: - Coppertone vs. Banana Boat - Ice cream trucks - Saturday morning cartoons

I hope conversation pits make a come back

WTF is up with that slide at 3:23!?!?!?!?!

The summer's in the 70's were magical. I was more of an 80's kid...but I remember hanging out with my cousins and sister who were all about the 70's. So many great memories. Times were better in the 70's, 80's and 90's.