10 Popular Things From The 1970s… That We’ve Abandoned | REACTION

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[@cee8mee]

What would I bring back? Real musical talent. There's precious little of it now.

[@jonnuanez7183]

There's a ton of it out there but you have to search for it now. It's not the norm anymore, but trust me it's there. I used to say the same thing and don't anymore because of what and whom I have found.

[@cee8mee]

@@jonnuanez7183 No, very, VERY little. I have looked for good current stuff, but its not worth it. Life is too short to wade through oceans of dreck to get to tasty crumbs. Same goes for visuals, like TV. The problem isn't that good doesn't exist at all, the problem is it may as well not be for as scarce and difficult it is to find.

[@Oldschoolnana]

I agree.

[@mduncan65]

I was a child in the 70's and had an absolute blast during that decade! The one thing, all be it a show, would be to bring back Wolfman Jack and The Midnight Special tv music show, it was awesome seeing all the bands and comedians of the day on there. Love these videos Jamal!!!

[@AngelaGoodwin-fh6fw]

Love these trips down memory lane! "Smokey and the Bandit" was one of the funniest movies at the time. It starred Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, two of that decade's biggest actors.

[@dawnstone610]

I think they were married.

[@bongodave13]

@@dawnstone610 Almost ,but no.

[@ChefBarb58]

Don't forget Ralph 😊

[@kenhobbs9251]

I was born in 1963 and graduated in 1981. If you didn’t have a Schwinn bicycle you probably had a huffy which was a cheap Sears model We had dial phones and remembered numbers by heart. We wore big bell bottoms and tucked them in our socks so they wouldn’t get caught in the chain. My little league manager would give us all a ride home from practice in the back of his pickup. We drank out of the hose. Listened to Cheech & Chong albums😂

[@buggiebuild1]

What’s really funny is that I was born in 73, and from the time I can remember, everything you just said was still going on in my life, and that would’ve been 1978 / onward, I absolutely adore those memories, from drinking out of the hose, not being allowed in the house until it got dark , we lived on a big, big farm, when I got older, I absolutely had everyone’s number memorized, I still remember the phone number from when I was 9,and oh my goodness, the fashion, my favorite shoes were the ugliest, cowboy boots ever, but darn it I loved them💯😂, wherever you are right now, happy new year🎉✌🏻💕

[@kenhobbs9251]

Happy new year to you too🎉😂

[@sabrinapittsley2304]

I had a 1979 Pontiac White Firebird. It had red vinyl seats that were really well made. It didn’t have the big bird on the hood , but nice pinstripes. I traded it in for another car and within a couple of days, regretted it. I really miss those days and now I’ll be 66 next month and I get really sentimental about how great my life was. Plain and simple and most of all happy.

[@sallyphillips9175]

I had a 1979 red Firebird with a spoiler on the back!

[@JKevinCarrier]

Other things from the '70s I miss: Customized vans with wizards and dragons painted on the outside (and shag carpet on the inside!). Beanbag chairs -- although at my age, if I sat in one now, I probably wouldn't be able to get back up! (see also: water beds) Cartoons on Saturday mornings -- between breakfast time and lunch time, that TV was OURS!

[@tahoemike5828]

Bing back the Farrah hair. Loved that '70s look. They left out the Angel Food Cake cutter/ afro-comb version of the comb in the pocket. Definitely had the "Stingray" bike. We modded them into what became the BMX style.

[@almostyummymummy]

I still have my Farrah hair. With more than a touch of Lindsey Wagner / Karen Carpenter. I'm 53, and I can still rock the look.

[@NFT_Artist]

I’d want to bring back Classic Rock, with new bands and new songs that have that 70’s feel. Maybe rock will come back around, or something similar but innovative. Also bring back food quality, remember how most people were slim in the 70’s? Look at a 70’s beach photo, much different than today. It’s all about the money, so much crap in the food supply since then, preservatives, chemicals, etc.

[@LaptopLarry330]

People were slim because there was a depression taking place in the 1970s. Fuel prices were very high, interest rates were 20 percent to borrow money to buy a home. Factories were closing up left and right. The 1970s were a lot like what we are going through today.

[@markjones4457]

We had the same in the UK. Rubbish piled up in the streets cos of the bin men striking. Mass unemployment. Created the climate for punk rock here and in the U.S. As a small kid at the time, those things never affected me really. I just thought being poor was normal. @@LaptopLarry330

[@keetahbrough]

I love Recollection Road channel The voice is so soothing to me.. it's almost as favorite as the Timeline Series.. I'd suggest you get into that series! Timeline goes through year by year, each decade. News, movies, pop culture, politics. IT's a fascinating series for sure.

[@davidbarnes1113]

I remember a lot of these items. I was 10 in 1974 and I remember my cousin had a super 8 movie camera. I also had a Charlie’s angels poster, and a Farrah Fawcett t shirt as well as a Jimmy Walker “Dy no mite” tee and mork and mindy suspenders. Also had an Evil Knievel figure and car, Talking G.I. Joe and a Six Million Dollar man figure. I had wacky package stickers all over my school notebooks . I miss those days .

[@trhansen3244]

I watched the entire Six Million Dollar Man on dvd last year. Much better than I expected. A rare show whose best season was its last, which made me wonder why it ended. I guess the main actor wanted to move on? I have not watched those other shows. But I am watching Barnaby Jones, a surprisingly well done PI show. I really wanted to watch Ellery Queen but that's an expensive show to find.

[@dewancoffman7912]

We all got in so much trouble with our parents over the super combs! We always had them our back pockets and they scratched up the dining room chairs! So many memories with all of these!

[@rrosedame-martin290]

Someone taking it out of your back pocket and popping your butt with it Ouch

[@jentommyontheroad8089]

Hard to believe we were out from dawn until dusk with no cell phone on our banana seat bikes (with playing cards pinned to the spokes so it would sound like a motorcycle) and our parents had no idea where we were! That was freedom!

[@baird5776mullet]

I'm 66 and the 70's were the best times, Happy New Year Jamal!

[@lilskywalker4491]

My older brother had a Firebird, and it was awesome! I remember Tab, but it was nasty. Love these videos about the 70s and 80s, great memories!

[@gerardroll6468]

“Short shorts for men”… 😵😵😵. As Robin Williams once said: “Men wearing pants so tight you could tell what religion they were” 😆😆😆

[@MollieC-uc1fk]

Trends back then went worldwide, so they had to last awhile, LOL and not all could pull some of this stuff off either. I had a black goodie comb, back when I had more hair! Watch Back to the Future movie where Marty asked for a Tab in the 1950s. I was already out of high school and college in most of the 70s but do remember this stuff. My brother had a red Firebird in high school and college, I had a Javelin that was sweet too. Happy new year to you!

[@monyx2926]

Oh my, I remember Tab and banana seats on bicycles. My first ever boyfriend drank Tab. Wow, thanks for some fun memories.

[@henryhyzer]

Disco roller skating. Friday or Saturday night going to the roller rink and skate the night away making friends and wasting your money on snacks, soda, and memories.

[@trhansen3244]

I've seen that on the tv show Chips. It looks awfully dangerous.

[@mariawest1484]

I would bring back the shows the music, the Great feeling of the 70's.

[@abmqa]

Being born in 1960, the 70s were prime time for me😊

[@Dleefrlula]

I loved that feathered hair!

[@at9362]

John Denver, C.W McCall .. Sounds of the 70's.. I named my oldest daughter after Fleetwood Macs "Sara".. Good times

[@benjohnson1633]

Jamel, your reaction to the Super 8 camera had me on the floor!! "Super 8???"😂🤣

[@Randy-fx1rm]

Schwinn bicycle company would be awesome to have up and running again.

[@chrislaustin]

I was born in 71, so I was younger during the decade, but most of my likes and memories are more from the 80's for sure, but some of this did bring me back.

[@psu7276]

Grew up in the 60s, so I can really appreciate these walks through memory lane. Thanks

[@HeavenlyPresley-Tonya]

Evil Knievel - Wow -- My Dad & Brother Loved Evil Knievel - I remember all of this!!!!! I was 10 in 1977 So My Childhood -- but much of this played over into the 80's too -- I Miss the 70's & 80's Music --- and these artists that are "Trying" to bring that time period back with Music --- Suck!!!!! My son 27 Loves the Older Music but too loves these comeback singers - for that time period -- I don't - Farrah Fawcett Wow I remember my younger brother wanted me to train his hair with wings --- like I had mine -- I remember using a curling iron on his hair well blowing it out then using it -- and spraying it with hairspray Good Times

[@CrAck-MoNey]

At a local truck stop near me. They gave away an exact replica of the Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am. I wanted it so bad. I'm not even a car guy at all. But a Trans Am with T Tops is just so iconic.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

I'd like to see the cool bikes return, I loved those...

[@donstewart9164]

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOU. FAMILY.

[@sallyintucson]

I remember getting up at 4am to dry my feathered hair in High School. Perfect hair was a must!

[@buggiebuild1]

This was an absolutely perfect, walk down memory lane for myself, there is one trend I’m glad is gone , the rotary phone, that sucker took a full three minutes to ring your friends, even calling 911 took at least a minute and a half😂😂, Jamal thank you for all that you do, honestly, it always puts me in such a great headspace, keep up the great work, happy, happy happy new year to you and yours🎉🎊🎉, collectively, I do believe I can say, we all appreciate you, and you are a very good human💯😇✌🏻💕

[@12gochenaurb]

I was born in the 90s, but I have a truck from the 70s and a camera from the 70s along with a bunch of power tools. All great!

[@fenderfox5080]

I was born in 83, i have pictures and memories of Oshkosh b'gosh shoes and clothing, Teddy ruxpin talking doll, pound puppies bed set, and corderoy pants 😂, I just got myself a pair of corderoy pants a few weeks ago and they're so dam comfortable. And I remember getting super Nintendo for Christmas the year it came out. Such a great time to grow up😢

[@Uriahjw]

I would like to bring back Space Chews. They were a snack by Pillsbury. Originally made for the space program at the time, they became very popular in stores. They were almost always sold out. I remember my mom asking the store manager when they would have more on the shelves.

[@normanbrunhammer9825]

I would bring back the music

[@markjones4457]

You nailed it Jamel. Born in 1971 in the UK but so many things carry over. We fully adopted metric the year i was born, but we use a mix of both metric and imperial here. Still M.P.H . I remember my sis and i had Muppet show tee's. I had a Raleigh Chopper with a car battery and C.B radio strapped to the rear rack.I loved muscle cars and rods so much, when i passed my driving test a decade later i bought a Vauxhall Firenza, which was a Brit version of a muscle car.

[@LaptopLarry330]

In elementary school in the 1970s in Math class, we were taught both the US/British standards of measurement, and the Metric standards of measurement. From my own experience, it was more important to know the Metric system in order to know what tools and parts a person needed to repair his/her imported car. Today, American-assembled cars, trucks, and SUVs are all made with foreign-made parts. If you want to one and operate one, knowing the Metric system is an absolute must.

[@LaptopLarry330]

I meant “own”.

[@markjohnson4217]

Vinyl record albums with conceptual artwork, unfolding gatefold sleeves and lyrics...

[@derekseven1647]

Another great blast from the past.

[@LaptopLarry330]

If there was one thing that I would like to bring back, it would be the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. It was a sister car to the Chevrolet Camaro, and was a serious competitor to the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Charger.

[@bln3576]

I still have a super 8. Watched 60 year old videos over Christmas. Good times

[@y0uknowmysteez]

My dad played college basketball in the 80s, and to this day still plays and wears short shorts and long socks on courts lol

[@rittherugger160]

I'd bring back the short shorts. I'm a short guy. I cannot find shorts that come anywhere above my knees in today's world.

[@glennandadriansrocktalk]

Yep, I remember the Tab thing for sure. And we bought pretty much all the Wacky Packages 😁

[@greg2976]

We called them Spider bikes back then! Because of the spider like handles.

[@morganm9040]

I had a Goody comb in jr high; wish I still had a use for it. Banana seat bikes with dual shifters meant you were stylin. My buddy had one with butterfly style handlebars. The Pontiac Trans am was also featured on The Rockford Files with James Garner. 70’s Station wagons with the backwards back seat and the Chevy/Buick models where the window went up in the roof;the door lowered down into the car body. Cool stuff.

[@jmfloyd23]

Is super 8 a motel or am I tripping 😂😂😂😂 love ya Jamel!

[@ShirleyHardyAu]

I'd bring it all back. Such good and carefree times growing up in the 70s and 80s.

[@ShirleyHardyAu]

Jamel, I think there's a scammer pretending to be you, who left a comment to my comment.

[@ShirleyHardyAu]

I reported him using the spam option.

[@RENfan1265]

I was born in '65, I remember the 70s very well.

[@RENfan1265]

I would bring back the Wacky Packs and Feathered hair

[@Andy-wl6xy]

My decade! Six Million Dollar Man, Wonder Woman, Columbo, Kojak, Doctor Who, Monty Python, Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Black Sabbath, ABBA, Jaws, Star Wars etc! etc!...

[@shannonmcdougall478]

I remember all of those...I would bring back THE AGE OF AQUARIUS.

[@kenhobbs9251]

Station wagons were the suv in the 70s We could put a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood and shut the back door. My sister had a little record player and I remember her playing Summer breeze by Seals & Crofts. All your friends watched the same programs because we had like 3 or 4 channels. Skating rink on Friday night in jr high was a big deal. I remember going to see Jaws when I was about 12. And I remember seeing Rocky and jogging home with my friend feeling like I could conquer the world

[@donjackson5522]

I loved my Wacky Packs cards. There was also a spin off set that made fun of car names.

[@juanita5723]

I tried to learn how to drive with a Roadrunner . Awesome car.

[@LindaB651]

If I could, what would I bring back? Gremlins (the car,) and Love's Baby Soft lemon perfume! Also, we didn't have Lyme's disease in my area back then.

[@greg2976]

This is Tom bodet, Motel 8, And We'll leave the light on for you. I think that was the commercial.

[@snakeinthegrass7443]

Motel 6

[@greg2976]

I thought about that after I made the comment! Thank you!@@snakeinthegrass7443

[@KlippityKlop1]

I’m from Canada, and we converted to the metric system. It took awhile to get the hang of it.

[@JayTor2112]

AFL (Australian Football League) never stopped wearing the short shorts.

[@mikeadams2677]

I think they should bring the wacky pack cards back, and there was so much going on in 2023 we didn't really have time to watch our clocks and calendars as close as we used to.

[@dawnstone610]

I miss the cool paint jobs of cars. My dad had daisies on his red Volkswagon Beetle.

[@karencolley-smidt864]

The first car that I bought with my own money was a 1976 Chevy Camaro. I bought in in 1982 in my senior year of high school. I wish I still had it sometimes.

[@ericarachel55]

the only thing I'd bring back is my age then!

[@esmeraldapooner751]

My siblings were trying to get me to ride with them on that banana seat bike. My brothers would collect mad magazine and comic books. My sisters would look for Craker Jacket prizes, other food items had stickers and prizes in them. (and coupons) Cereals and Wonder Bread had coupons in it.

[@realitycheck5376]

I had a 75 Formula 400 Firebird. It had pretty much the same body with a different front end scoop and the same engine as the Trans Am of the same year. In 1976 they cut the engine size down and mandated catalytic converters. I also remember Tab.

[@WmTRiker]

You don't remember "Tab" soda, Jamel? Then I guess the joke in "Back To The Future" (from 1985, BTW) where Marty goes into the soda shop in 1955 and says "Give me a Tab" (to which Lou replies "I can't give you a tab unless you buy something") went over your head?

[@briankirchhoefer]

I got a super 8 movie camera in 1977 for Christmas when I was 13. It didn't have sound but I thought I was a movie producer/director.

[@rebeccabalch4524]

Reverend Heaton heat , devils chasing me! Super fun!

[@jeanstrickland2445]

I had the feathered hair style 😂 and I still use a big tooth comb to this day, especially since I have long hair.

[@lisaa6755]

Tab is actually diet Coke - in that it was the Coke recipe with the sugar substituted with a sugar substitute. official Diet Coke (1982) came out, it was the first diet soda recipe built from scratch. so when coke was losing market share to pepsi, it decided to reverse the process (change fake sugar for real) and that's how they got New Coke.

[@yvonnepeters1914]

I don't know if you're referring to just the things in this video, but, I'd like pay phones back costing a quarter is fine. And this banana shape seat bikes would be good to have out there again. And the feather hairstyles are still good. Tab pop can stay off the shelves lol. And there's a Super 8 hotel over here in my vacinity.

[@Birdhouselady]

I wore the Farah hair for a couple of years

[@andrewdonatelli6953]

The picture of the dudes in the cut off shorts must have been in Ontario. Blue Jays hat, Oshawa t-shirt and a stubby beer bottle.

[@kenbozu1]

I would bring back the banana seat Schwin bikes. I also used to have one of those super combs both the long and short versions of it and it was useful when you went to the video arcades to play the track & field game where you had to slam the buttons in alternating hits to simulate you running on the track, but the easier trick was to put the comb between your finger so each end of the comb would hit the buttons so you could run faster in the game.

[@BWhicherPhotography]

Sleestaks from The Land of the Lost used to scare me…

[@randymoore8336]

By the time 1970 Hit I was 9 graduated in 1979 from high school at 18.

[@gripitandripit]

Back to the Future Lou: You gonna order something, kid? Marty McFly: Ah, yeah... Give me a Tab. Lou: Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something. Marty McFly: Alright, give me a Pepsi Free. Lou: You want a Pepsi, PAL, you're gonna pay for it.

[@nightmoves60]

Totally unrelated but I was scrolling through KZbin and ran across a video of a couple dudes roller skating and dancing. I thought, that looks like Jamel's brothers and it said Griffin brother's It was pretty cool.

[@markjohnson4217]

Bubble gum with a tiny little comic strip inside the wrapper, I think it was Double Bubble or something like that. Also, there was a pecullar fixation in tbe early mid 70s for a thing called 'streaking' which must have carried over from the 60s counterculture. It was when a brave or crazed person would shock people with a sudden naked sprint through any public place, down a busy sidewalk, a shopping plaza, through a park, whatever. It must have been happening often enough that there was a houshold name for it. We called tbem 'Streakers' and it wasn't seen as dangerous or threatening, i don't remember any conservative outcry over it,: just mischief makers being silly, annoying cops and churchgoers...

[@LaptopLarry330]

In 1974, at the Academy Awards Show, actor David Niven was about to read the nominees list and winner for an award. A male streaker ran out across the back of the stage area behind Niven. The police immediately arrested the streaker, and took him to jail.

[@webstah2]

I grew up in the 60s and 70s. I had a banana seat bicycle, but when I was old enough to drive, we were drooling over GTOs and Ford Mustangs. I can remember the first time I saw my mother cry. I was watching Captain Kangaroo, when there was an important news break announcing the assassination of JFK.

[@snakeinthegrass7443]

Never thought I'd say this, but I'd bring back Jimmy Carter

[@redgarcia1427]

I still use a big comb and I'd give anything for a Pontiac Trans Am Firebird!! Tho a Camero was just as good!!✌🐢

[@bozmerz4358]

Well made clothes, unadulterated music, and the cost of living! But there are two things I could wish for now.... that Madalyn Murray O’Hair and Norma McCorvey never existed.

[@Birdhouselady]

Happy New Year

[@chrisjarvis2287]

Apparently Jamal has never seen the movie Super 8 lol. Tab was every woman on a diet or diabetic go to drink, it was god awful.

[@trhansen3244]

I think there is a movie called Super 8, though.

[@aussiepie4865]

Tab was a great drink. In Australia it was advertised by model Elle McPherson in a bikini and it worked very well. I’m a diabetic so it was one of the first diet sodas I could drink. My friends mum always had some in her fridge for when I came over to play.

[@kenhobbs9251]

We would cut off our Levi’s and make shorts & then wash them so the cuts would look frayed & wear tube Sox with them😅 Drive in movies were great we would bring our own popcorn & candy and sit in the car for 2 movies I can still remember the corny intermission commercials. Old people who probably had some type of dementia were called senile then. We played a game called smear the queer You would throw a football up and whoever caught it would run until he was tackled & then he would throw the ball up and someone else would catch and run with it. We would stay up late on Saturday night and watch horror movies

[@jonnuanez7183]

What would I bring back? Nothing. That was then; this is now. And I'm living now. We don't always have to "like" everything, something us older kids complain about the younger generation but then do it ourselves (because it's different when we do it). I guess record stores would be what I would bring back. In order for that, though, you'd have to change how the present day music industry is run and that certainly is not going to happen.

[@aaronshackelford6106]

I remember Having one And a BMX bike

[@rachelcordova1110]

I would bring back the fine cars and the badass music...not dumb Donnie n Marie or bubble gum. The real brassy music of Earth Wind & Fire. All music from the Bay Area YESS!. Most of all I wod bring back my loved ones who were all alive then still. I remember the hellified parties with vats of food and jamming the tunes with live music in my Parents' living room. Life was good. Cars, petrol and cigarettes were cheap then. So was the weed. Two joi ts for a buck. Pease love n happiness, my Brother. Blessings light and love 🙏🏿🌟💜

[@matthewearnest4760]

Mad magazine made a cartoon saying (your old when you can remember when the latest do or never been seen fashion and or tren was popular the 1st time

[@stephenpublicover8818]

Hey Jamal, check out another great Canadian Rock band,(April Wine) Used to record in the same studio as RUSH(Le Studio)👍✌

[@ChefBarb58]

WHERE I GREW UP .. IN NEW ENGLAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY UNIT PROJECTS WITH ALL DIFFERENT RACES.. REAL GOOD NEIGHBORS MEN HELPED OTHERS AND WOMAN HELPED ANY WOMAN THAT NEEDED HELP.. WHEN SOMEONE PASSED AWAY ..EVERYONE CHIPED IN TO HELP WITH WHAT WAS NEEDED . WELL YOU KNOW THE SONG.. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL. HAVING HOPE LOVE AND PURPOSE IS A GOOD THING. TAKE CARE FRIENDS, PLEASE OFFER A HELPING HAND❤ DON'T FORGET YOUR ELDERS...⚘️⚘️⚘️

[@340rps]

Four speed transmissions

[@nitachance4238]

In my opinion you didn’t miss a thing by missing Tab. Of course I was a skinny little thing at that time so diet drinks didn’t mean a thing to me!

[@randymoore8336]

I had a banana seat and raised handle bars by the time I was 9-10 so 1970-1971. I was born in 1961.

[@fenderfox5080]

And I had a banana seat bike and it had a shifter knob like a car, 5 gears maybe and a speedometer? I think it was a 70s bike and I was maybe 7 or 8, it was a Schwinn stingray and these days they're expensive

[@mariainman3618]

Jamal I have a strange question have you changed your channel? Do you still do reactions to music? I haven't seen any of your videos for a while. Thanks to KZbin… I actually had to search for your channel and then I started seeing you were showing and commenting on videos…… Did you stop doing music reactions?

[@Oldhogleg]

Had the trans-am back then. Definitely miss that!

[@rebeccabalch4524]

Have you come across ✨Reverend Horton Heat?!? Go for big sky into babdesset of the bad! $400 bucks!