12 Things Gone FOREVER...1970s - Life in America

[@johnnygee4206]

Another thing you'll probably never see again are station wagons packed full of free roaming toddlers flying down the highway. I remember me and my siblings having a blast in the back without a second thought about seat belts or car seats. To my Dad's credit, he did occasionally glance up at the rear view mirror to do a quick head count. As long as the number wasn't too far off, he kept driving.

[@hearttoheart4me]

LOL

[@bostongirlsandy]

I grew up with the Ford Taurus wagon. I would like station wagons to come back.

[@tonycollazorappo]

My foster mother had Ford Fairlane green station wagon with no A/C. It was so hot in the summer that I often became ill during long rides. What I liked about it was that I grew up listening to the AM radio with a lot of wonderful songs that I still l listen to and remember. I drove that same wagon when I graduated from high school in 1979, lol.

[@retrogamestudios7649]

We used to make help kidnapped signs to hold in the back window

[@tonycollazorappo]

@@retrogamestudios7649 LMAO!!! Those where the good old days 👍🏻👍🏻

[@emkkahn]

I love that I grew up in the 1970's. Kids were free to learn and explore on their own and the streetlights were the signal to be back home....

[@javiermori1710]

So true on the streetlights. I had to be home for family dinner at about 630pm and in wintertime especially the streetlights went on bout 530pm. So i knew i had bout 45 min to finish whatever sport we were playin out in street and didnt matter the score sometimes i just had to bail haha.

[@vincecarnevale4406]

Back in the 50's in my city we had utility workers come down the street and light the gas street lights.

[@goldenager59]

Such delightful lunch-boxes for school, too. (My first was Kung Fu, graduating to Space: 1999; I envied a classmate who had a Hardy Boys Mysteries.) 🙃

[@mikeclifford8360]

Kids aren't free to learn and explore on their own now?

[@schechter01]

@@mikeclifford8360 No, they're all captives of their phones...even more so than the rest of us.

[@charles-y2z6c]

School house rock probably taught more about government and civics than your average public school education does today.

[@john_paul]

Definitely was more catchy and memorable. To this day I can perfectly recite the whole preamble to the constitution because of its School House Rock song.

[@1mespud]

School House Rock is how I got my diploma!

[@leesashriber5097]

School House Rock was the best!! I'm just a bill... Conjunction junction what's your function?

[@jayalexander3356]

@@john_paul Me too!

[@saminaneen]

@@1mespud Your UTube account will be deleted and banned, for being a professional Burnout and weed Racist

[@franksmodels29]

The 70’s was the best decade to grow up in..👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@lennomenno]

And possibly the worst decade if you were old enough to get drafted. 😁

[@saminaneen]

@@lennomenno Your UTube account will be deleted and banned, for being a professional Burnout and weed Racist

[@mal1465]

I graduated in 1977….fun times

[@matrox]

By mid 70s we were beginning the slippery slope into the Sh!thole we now reside in called America.

[@peterbelanger4094]

It was good to be young in the 70's. kinda, the divorce stuff sucks, we kinda got shafted there. They didn't really get around to major environmental cleanups until the 80's, that probably did some toxic damage. I played around some really "cool" (as it seemed at the time) stuff, that probably was not exactly healthy. There was a lot of waste in my city. The adults were actin kinda crazy, a lot of them were pretty wasted. But hey, yeah man, the 70's were rad! Some of the best true rock and roll, bright colors, crazy tv and movies, minimal supervision for kids, toys that didn't electronically "do it for you", you actually had to use your imagination to play.

[@robertabrams8562]

I was a teenager in the 70’s, and remember everything in this video, very fondly! One thing that wasn’t mentioned here were 23 channel CB radios - Base Stations/Mobil Units/Walkie-Talkies! Every adult male in my family seemed to have one, and I remember my dad setting up my first base station in my bedroom! The Roller Derby was also a big thing in my neighborhood in the early to mid 70’s as well! I miss those fun times during my teens!

[@janismacolley2395]

And everybody had a "handle. My ex husband had a cb in his booger green Nova - another ugly car LOL!

[@peterbelanger4094]

I was about 7 or 8 around the cb radio days. I was a little young to have one, but 'Smokey and the Bandit' and 'Convoy' had me all excited about it. I really wished I was old enough to drive. I loved all the gadgets though, Radio Shack was a wonderland to me. That's back when it was doing quite well.

[@CarsandCats]

Yeah, we had them in our muscle cars and a home station as well to harass the truckers and tow truck drivers.

[@DrumWild]

We had a base station at home, and a 23 channel CB radio in every car. I remember the day they were phased out in favor of the 40 channel digital. Everyone hated it. The CB was a great way of finding an impromptu party. I went to more than a few with my dad, as a teenager. My handle was "High Pockets" because I had gone through a growth spurt. As for my dad, his handle explains itself: "Empty Pockets." Ah, dad life.

[@smokeydoke100]

I still remember my call sign. KAKZ 8191.

[@gulfgypsy]

The 70's were a wonderful decade --- I was in my teens and early 20's and living in southern California which meant I was able to go to concerts pretty much weekly. Between San Diego and the L.A. area there was a constant stream of concerts and festivals. Saw Zeppelin four times in the space of a week............ One of my favorite was Cal Jam I -- Incredible line up --- ELP, Seals & Croft, Deep Purple, Eagles, Black oak Arkansas --- The weather was perfect and the mood of the people was incredible --- It really was like an all day and night party with a couple hundred thousand friends. For all the troubles and heartbreak of the decade there were also moments of pure wonder, still untouched by life's harsher realities, everything seemed possible. Levi's were still 100% cotton, shrink to fit and made in America -- You could afford to work part time and go to school --- I joke I have my 'bona fide' hippie credentials; I lived in an artists commune in the Bay Area for a summer. It was amazing to be around so many truly talented and creative artists. Yes - I look back and wish for life could return to simpler times -- I'd gladly do without cell phones, computers, 24 tv with hundreds of channels and all the anger I see today. But every decade, every generation will have its moments of glory and moments of heartache - That's the nature of life.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

The Free Form FM Radio of the early 70's was replaced by Corporate Rock Radio later that decade. That mix on Free Form FM has never come back, not even on Sat Radio.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Now, the add on fees that Ticketmaster conjured up with the venues, are more than the entire price of tickets in the 70's. My first Zeppelin ticket in 1970 was $6.50, and the last ones in 1977 were $10.00.

[@carystorm1863]

Yeah you had a damn good time indeed, I started high school in 79 but still enjoyed the 70's just not quite as good as you

[@carystorm1863]

@@HardRockMaster7577 that's crazy, I saw Rainbow and B.O.C in the fall of 79 can't remember the price lost all my ticket stubs years ago " damn storage Co. But I know it was less then 20 bux

[@rickloera9468]

I couldn't have summed it up better. You hit all the right notes in your comment. I am from the Bay Area (Silicon Valley) as it's known now and those were some great times. Although the kids today will probably look back on their Era, I just don't think you can replicate the magic that were the 60's through 80's.

[@kimcat3760]

Born in 1960, I was a teenager in the 70’s. I remember everything on this list. In high school we would hitchhike everywhere. In 1978 When I got my first car it was a 1971 brown Ford Pinto that I paid $425 for. When you drove it it made a wing, wing, wing, wing sound that you could hear for blocks! LOL Life was so much simpler back then. Met my husband on Sep 15 1978. We were married for 40 years before I lost him to cancer just a few years ago. Still have our working blue lava light on my bedroom dresser to this day. Got to keep a few things from the 70’s‼️ ❤️fromOregon🇺🇸

[@josephgaviota]

@Kimcat Thanks for that great story !! 😀

[@polarbear353]

Kim, we’re you born on March 7th, 1960? The reason I ask is that is my birthday.

[@kimcat3760]

Hi PolarBear, I was born on December 25, 1960. What state did you grow up in? Do you remember the things on the “12 Things Gone FOREVER…1970’s-Life in America” list?

[@perrybarton]

A typical sign-off sequence would begin with a “this concludes our broadcast day” announcement with a still shot of the station’s logo and call letters. Next would come the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” (that’s where the video of the flag would appear), followed by a test pattern, and finally video static (“snow”) and white noise until the station signed back on.

[@HenryODonovan]

Yeah! Just watch "Poltergeist" from 1982!

[@pegs1659]

I remember a jet pilot flying high and some cheesy poem talked about touching the face of God. Then the test pattern came on.

[@peterbelanger4094]

@@HenryODonovan That was just about when I remember seeing local stations sign off at night. Everyone got cable soon after that.

[@troylowe814]

In Indiana in the mid 70's to about 1980 you would start the tv viewing day at 5am with the farm report on one station. By 6am the other three stations would wake up and have either local news or local talk shows that did little to encourage you to wake up. Then the tv at 7am would come to life with either cartoon show reruns or Bozo's Circus and before you knew it you were on your way to school. If you were sick or good at convincing your parents you were sick you would continue your tv viewing with either some creaky old movie that would only appeal to your mom or you would watch a local boring talk show or one of several soap operas. Those hours were better spent reading comic books or watching paint dry. As it became afternoon things would start to liven up on the tv front, reruns of 1950's and 1960's tv shows, mostly sitcoms, would start playing. Old cartoon shows would also be in the mix. By 5pm you would be watching reruns of Star Trek. At six dad would be home and take control of the tv viewing selection so you would be watching the local and national news shows, dad's preference was the CBS one with Walter Cronkite. After that it was new or newish episodes of sitcoms like The Jeffersons or Threes Company or hour long cop shows or dramas like Dallas until things slowed down with the late evening local news shows. If you were still conscious by 11:30pm and your folks were feeling generous, you would get to see at least the monologue from the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. If it was a Friday night and you were allowed to stay up later you would see all of Johnny and Ed's showbiz friends sit on the Tonight Show couch and play off Carson until 1am. By then the tv selection was slim, either some creaky old horror movie would play on the local independent tv station or you would watch shows like Tomorrow with Tom Snyder. Then all tv station except the local independent would sign off with the national anthem. If you weren't already asleep you would finish the viewing day with the last hour or so of the horror movie. Then you were more than ready to pass out for the day. And that's the way it always was, until cable tv showed up in late 1979 and slowly changed all of that.

[@DrumWild]

@@troylowe814 I also grew up in Indiana. I'm sure you may remember Cowboy Bob or Sammy Terry. I also remember the "Moment of Inspiration" that would play at some point before the station shut off the signal for the night. It would always be some preacher telling the strangest stories. The weirdest one was this female preacher who said she had proof that god is a woman. She then tells a story of seven gold coins that this woman owned, but she couldn't find one. So her neighbors helped her look, they eventually found it, and they rejoiced. The end. I never did understand that story.

[@kennydunlevy9644]

AS I get older I love these videos about the good o days.

[@karenhackney9920]

I have many memories of my 70's childhood, and all of them great!

[@georgemarcello5153]

Hello Karen! How are you doing?

[@declansills1614]

I remember getting the video game 'Pong' one Christmas. That was state of the art back then. No matter where you went, people smoked. People would give an ashtray as a gift.

[@VonFisch1]

I remember playing Pong, and then later we got Atari, I think it had Pong on it.

[@pamelamays4186]

School House Rock helped me pass a test I needed to pass in order to graduate highschool.

[@donnabanks7656]

What subject did it teach you to help you pass a test?

[@pegs1659]

I used to go to HS with a girl who had your same name.

[@verucasalt2391]

Did you sing the songs while answering the questions? ☺️

[@chrishowell4845]

I drove a 1974 AMC Gremlin X for around 3 years during my college days, and to be honest, it was actually one of the most reliable cars I ever owned.

[@Formerlywarmer]

School house rock was something I’ll never forget from my 70s childhood. Thanks 🇺🇸😎

[@bedazzled64]

Still have our slide projector from the 60s and still works! Have the original screen as well.

[@Shawn666Hellion]

The music and toys were awesome back then

[@carlavision6143]

I remember making chains with those pull top rings from the pop cans. Loved our paneling and shag carpet. I also remember when there'd be 25¢ under those pull tops from the cans. Those were the good old days! My sister in law Judy back then had an orange pinto and my brother Bobby had a blue one.

[@nancydemoss608]

My bff had a black one that she called "The Black Bitch". Her mechanic husband changed the entire motor out twice and the car still wouldn't die. I think it was the Pinto equivalent of "Christine". Ooo, scary car reference!

[@shelley6595]

I remember my boyfriend had a Gremlin, and we went to great concerts at the Forum in So. Cal. #1 best was the Rolling Stones with Stevie Wonder as the side! I have great photos of this concert sitting 4 rows back from stage.

[@jenniferbaldini3527]

Walked into my American Government class in high school to find a very large and VERY pissed off teacher. No one knew why and I never learned why. About ready to burst blood vessels in his head, he yelled "Books under your desk, get out a piece of paper and write the preamble to the constitution. We all just sat there staring until he screamed *"NOW!"* I just sat there until suddenly, like music from heaven, School House Rock popped into my head. Wrote out the whole song. We passed the papers forward and I was the only one who knew it. Big, angry, mean teacher accused me of cheating and I told him it was Saturday morning School House Rock. He made me sing it infront of the class before he let me off the hook. Years later, I made sure to buy the complete volumes of School House Rock for my little girl on DVD before she started school. Every little bit helps.

[@emmgeevideo]

I was born in 1953. I tell people that I grew up in the 50s and 60s. So these videos about those decades have been hugely fun. I graduated from high school in 1971, graduated from college in 1975, and got married in 1979. So I became an adult in the 1970s. This was one of my favorite episodes of Recollection Road. Ugh.. Those colors and those collars...

[@christophermyers3758]

Love this one... it's a keeper! 😀 My mother was proud of our floral sofa and loveseat, green avocado wing chair, and heavy "Colonial style" coffee/end tables set on shag carpeting! I remembering volunteering to "rake it" after she vacuumed, but it left "footprints" if you walked across! 🤣😂🤣

[@cm1133]

My mom had a lemon yellow Ford Pinto back in the 1970s. My favorite picture of my mom was taken in 1975. She was 27 years old and standing beside her Pinto. She was so pretty in that photo. I miss my mom so much!

[@kimquinn7728]

Precious memories. I miss mine also. Sleeping since 1991. Cant wait to have them back.

[@thewanderingpinto5979]

Thanks for the memories! But, cars from the 70's weren't ugly, just unique. I am still driving my 78 Ford Pinto that I bought new!

[@renocool1558]

no way! thats awesome. Post picture

[@thewanderingpinto5979]

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[@jeffnaslund]

The 70s were my 10-20 years. It was fun coming of age then

[@julenepegher6999]

Me too, they were the best years and times.

[@mal1465]

Don’t know if you remember but after the pull ring on cans, they came up with the two hole punch buttons. A small push button was used for aeration (sp) and a large push button was used to drink from. Women were complaining about breaking their nails with that method. Then they came up with what we had today

[@Timinator62]

Yep, kids had a hard time with the two buttons too, we would break the lead off our school pencil put the can between your legs on your chair and two hands press the pencil to punch out the buttons.

[@starmnsixty1209]

Thanks for reminding me of those! I'd totally forgotten the two punch hole can tops.

[@Rigel_Chiokis]

I remember those!

[@paulweston8408]

Thank you so much for including the pull ring on soda/beer cans! I always look to see if they get that small detail right in anything set before 1980 in shows and movies.

[@angeladay1534]

People used to make necklaces & belts out of the beer rings. Others strung them in cars, vans, doorways, if they couldn't afford beaded curtains, some people, just thought it was cool. Many houses had them hanging like streamers. I guess it was a hippie/stoner thing. Yeppers, black light posters! No end to the imagination! 😄🥫💡🧠🤔💭

[@hughjass1044]

What a time to be alive!

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

Thanks RR😍

[@keithwilson6060]

In the mid 70’s when I was in my early teens, my parents bought me a canary yellow polyester leisure suit. I wore it to church with a satin shirt. It was HIDEOUS!

[@davidkastin4240]

My condolences. That could be considered a form of child abuse nowadays 😂

[@keithwilson6060]

@@davidkastin4240 I look back and have a laugh with my siblings, but at the time it was demoralizing.

[@saminaneen]

@@davidkastin4240 Your UTube account will be deleted and banned, for being a professional Burnout and weed Racist

[@mal1465]

I loved my two polyester Angel Flight suits…tan and baby blue. Polyester was great, it didn’t wrinkle. Wish my waist was that size again ;)

[@348Tobico]

Yes it was yellow but it was MEMORABLE for everyone including you!

[@VonFisch1]

One of my favorite things we did on occasion when I was a kid, was when my dad would get out the slide projector and we'd always view them on this empty wall divider between the kitchen and sunken family room. They had slides going back to the fifties, when they were first married, to the then current times. They're still there and I will have to come up with a way to preserve them as we're not throwing out pictures. My dad also had a film camera, probably one of those Super 8s, and he'd film every holiday and other occasions. I remember when I was little I could not look at the bright light he held up. They did get those transferred to video cassettes but I will have to transfer those again to something that isn't obsolete.

[@cnance1972]

I remember standing up in the backseat and my parents picking up total strangers sooooo many times , all of which is silly today. I met so many really cool people. Peace and love to all

[@averagewhiteguy8648]

In other words, remember when the country was full of Americans not all these others skipping the line to get here for free resources that should be for American citizens only.

[@cnance1972]

@@averagewhiteguy8648 Humans I think

[@saminaneen]

@@averagewhiteguy8648 Your UTube account will be deleted and banned, for being a professional Burnout and weed Racist

[@348Tobico]

I think hitchhiking shrunk because of all the car drivers killed off by maniac serial killers. Took all those kind people out of the gene pool!

[@stephendacey8761]

@@averagewhiteguy8648 Just keep raising taxes for us Americans b/c lots of illegals are counting on that money to support their huge families.

[@Lemoncatsf]

I was lucky enough to meet Jack Sheldon (Conjunction Function and I’m Just a Bill creator) in 1989 when he was a guest speaker at the CSSSA at Cal Arts. He was an accomplished jazz musician etc but as we were all kids from the 70s we were just 🤩 over meeting the creator of Schoolhouse Rock songs. He was a really nice person! Warm and friendly. Thanks RR for touching on nostalgia from my early childhood! I remember those pull top tabs on cans. So sharp! I also remember when all of the soda bottle were still glass and the invention of plastic bottles and the ads that came along with that. Now we’re drowning the world in all of our plastic.

[@josephgaviota]

I'm just a Bill is _SUCH_ a classic.

[@angeladay1534]

Lara, that's was wonderful! I appreciate your sharing on this post. Thanks. 😄🎉

[@Foxonian]

TV test patters were from the early days of the all tube television set. They were to help tv owners re-calibrate their sets(adjusting horizontal and vertical hold controls as well as sharpness controls), due to them sometimes going out of phase due to the tubes aging.

[@glennso47]

What about the color bars that came along with color tv? They would alternate the test pattern with color bars. At least the stations in my area.

[@luisreyes1963]

How I miss those on late night TV, now it's just wall-to-wall infomercials. 😞

[@WorgenGrrl]

The Family Car when I was growing up was a Ford Pinto Stationwagon. It was Goldenrod Yellow with Faux Wood Paneling. My brother and I went to school, and went to Miami every year from Mississippi with the Christmas Tree tied with Bungee Cords to the roof. My brother and I even sat on the roof of the car at the drive in one summer to see our first movie....STAR WARS.

[@starmnsixty1209]

We had the Pinto awhile.

[@hillbillydeluxe27]

My father bought a brand new 1965 Plymouth Fury lll station wagon to move us to a remote northern British Columbia mountain town. That sucker was the size of an house…lol. It went up and down the Alaska highway for at least 5 years every summer before he traded it in for Chevy Nomad station wagon. It was still running in 1993 when a friend saw it in Stewart B.C. For those interested, it was powered by a 318 V8.

[@angeladay1534]

I wanted a Gremlin when I got big. They had discontinued them. 😢😭💔

[@hillbillydeluxe27]

@@angeladay1534 knew a guy that bought one and souped it up…he ended up blowing the engine whilst quarter mile racing but I remember it had quite a bit of room considering the size of it

[@joeheid4757]

My dad swore by the slide craze. We always had slide shows when I was growing up.

[@rickg882]

My dad also, I still all the slides in boxes.

[@motofunk1]

I just had all 25000 of the family slides scanned. The quality of those Kodachrome pics blow away every camera of today.

[@danbaumann8273]

Oh yeah, we have tons of slides. My mother was a photographer, so. Even tried watching them a couple of years back. Some really great shots. Unfortunately our old Rolleiflex projector isnt that reliable, easy to use, anymore. Still, good fun, good memories. Will be doing it again.

[@danbaumann8273]

@@motofunk1 True. They're beautiful.

[@joshuarobinson2990]

I was just spring cleaning my house and found slides from the 60-70s along with photos. It brought back very boring memories from childhood. we usually had to dress up because people were coming over to watch the slides.

[@elwin38]

My childhood decade!! I remember everything in this video.✌🏾👊🏾

[@genxskeptic5816]

Good times. ❤️

[@cynthiablandford6213]

🙂👍

[@ds70bonneville]

beeing 52 now, growing up in switzerland, i vividly still remember me to this day, the pistacio green wallpaper i had in my room, and i didnt asked for it....holiday projector evenings were a thing, but rather seldom due to one has to have a better income to own a projector, but i remember me those endless hours when a couple retourned from their holidays in spain and they were eager to share their 4"x5" paper photos with us they took...

[@pamelamays4186]

My brothers made decorative chains out of pull tabs. They hung them from their bedroom ceiling.

[@blup1sx991]

Me too we used also use them to for projectiles using a rubber band attached to a board to shoot them

[@saminaneen]

@@blup1sx991 Your UTube account will be deleted and banned, for being a professional Burnout and weed Racist

[@blup1sx991]

@@saminaneen huh?

[@blup1sx991]

@Patrick Brannon No worries... sometimes posting on here and the replies I get keep me entertained LOL.

[@DeannaPiercy]

I had one that looped around three sides of my room by the time we moved.

[@discostu5426]

back when people actually enjoyed each other

[@angeladay1534]

💖🎉😄

[@teresadbrownbrown3785]

Yes

[@luisreyes1963]

The only thing I miss from that garish decade is the TV Test Pattern after sign-off. Now those were iconic. 😁

[@kevinroberts1888]

Thanks for the nostalgic look back. I remember a lot of those things, especially getting up early on Saturdays to watch cartoons and how hard it was for a child to pull those tabs off of soda cans. My first car was actually an AMC Eagle which shared a lot of similarities with the AMC Pacer except it was a 4-wheel drive. It had better milage than the car I own now. It was also my most fondly remembered car.

[@Kevin-yh9yt]

The VW van...especially when you were hitchhiking and saw one coming. You were pretty guaranteed to get a ride.

[@jeffbengert2863]

My teenage years...best time of my life.

[@hoppas77]

That was awesome!! THANK YOU :)

[@markdodd1152]

So many great memories. Hitchhiked a lot. And the lyric don't look Ethel. But it was too late she already got a free shot

[@scratchdog2216]

We all rode around in the back of the pick-up truck. Don't see that much now.

[@bostongirlsandy]

That;s something I still haven'r experienced.

[@348Tobico]

Most places it is against the law.

[@swirlblue4626]

I loved Schoolhouse Rock, Conjunction Junction being my favorite. Also remember those pull tabs on pop cans , TV going off air and I liked disco music.

[@tonycanabal1659]

I miss those TV sign offs. There would be short news recaps, a religious message, station I.D's then the National Anthem.

[@bostongirlsandy]

I would like to have tv sign offs nowadays.

[@348Tobico]

I think the late nite shows are worth wiping off in favor of test patterns.

[@tonycanabal1659]

NBC sign offs were really late due to Johnny And Tom Snyder's shows on weeknights & Midnight Special on ealy Saturday morning.

[@carolynridlon3988]

Having been born in 1960 (a lot of fond memories then also!) The 70's was my favorite time to grow up! Everything you posted and more keep coming back to my mind. The music, comics, cartoons, TV shows, movies,....the best time for being a teenager! 😊😊😊😊

[@pamelamays4186]

My best buddy Charles had a Pinto. Once he got his license, no more yellow school bus for him. And just how did he pay for gas and car upkeep? Charles was a teen model for one of the local department stores. Not only that he got to keep the clothes he modeled. I had three other friends who had done the same thing.

[@HenryODonovan]

You have to wonder what he's doing now!

[@rhondahancock96]

Pinto was like sitting on the ground! Lol

[@davemckolanis4683]

The 70's, With NO MASS Gun Killings Or Road Rage, And The Terrible Vietnam War Was Winding Down. Muscle Cars Of The Late 60's And Early 70's Were Popular, And The Snowy Cold Winter Of 77-78 Was A Time When We Would Snowmobile For Hundreds Of Miles In The Pennsylvania Mountains, for 10- Miles Between Tavern Breaks.

[@rickloera9468]

@@rhondahancock96 Yes they were. I had two of them. The second Pinto I installed seats out of a 1982 Mustang. Bolted right in and it raised the seat up about three inches which helped greatly. Looking back most cars were lower. Getting in my 1985 Thunderbird is the same way. Yow have to step down to climb in and it is a factory stock car. Parked next to my 2011 Prius, the Prius is taller and looks bigger and way easier to get in and out of.

[@marktweet7395]

Pintos were dangerous if rear-ended. I had one

[@thetraveler2561]

I liked my 76 Pacer...black on black....it was fast with a big V-6, captain's chairs which were very comfortable as I am 6"4 (at that time anyway)......plenty of room in back for hauling anything.... and groceries as well. .

[@MikeBrown-ii3pt]

Straight six and bucket seats, not V-6 and captains chairs. I'd love to have a Pacer wagon today.

[@saminaneen]

@@MikeBrown-ii3pt Your UTube account will be deleted and banned, for being a professional Burnout and weed Racist

[@kcindc5539]

Hahahaha that last one about sitting through slides of a trip to the Grand Canyon, just staring at the dust in front of the projector lens and hoping at least one slide was upside down…. Classic

[@davidsquires154]

I remember the 1970's, very well. I graduated 🎓 from Osborn High School in 1975, and I turned 18 years old. I went on my own, and got a full time job at Hudson's Department Store 🏬 at Eastland Mall in Harper Woods, Michigan. I, even remember hitch hiking, and just don't forget about the streak by Ray Stevens.

[@348Tobico]

Hey there! That was a lovely mall. Especially the big bronze lion with the mouse on his nose! My dad took me there in the late 50's to meet the guy who invented the geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller. There was a demo dome in the parking lot with a kiddy park with toys inside. Loved it!

[@robertabrams8562]

I’m from NY, but I had family in Southfield and East Detroit (now called Eastpoint I think)! As a kid, we went to Northland Mall in Southfield! Hudson’s was the main store there too!

[@rtking1969]

The Eastland mall is getting torn down this year and they started with the Hudson store

[@starmnsixty1209]

Don't look, Ethel... too late!

[@starmnsixty1209]

@@rtking1969 lot of places here from the old days are being torn down, too. "Progress" I guess.

[@BeachsideHank]

Remember those crushed velvet portraits by "starving artists" sold on the weekends at closed gas stations, always with at least one Elvis picture.

[@angeladay1534]

Yeppers! 🤣😂😵😂🤣

[@cleaningtim]

I really enjoy these walk down memory lane videos. I grew up in those times and it is warming to look back on what life was like then. Thank you for sharing these videos!

[@bungeycord5971]

Heres a few more things. Bicentennial, watergate. Soap operas, smokey and the bandit, jaws, skateboarding building models, machreme knitting, station wagons, vw beetles, british sports cars, stamp and coin collecting, winabegos, pototo chips delivery in a big can, home trash compactors, comic books, 55 mph speed limits, customized vans, cb radio, Farrah Faucett, six million dollar man, evil kenievil, clogs, nack nacks, bell bottoms and earth shoes, Jimmy Carter and his brothers beer.

[@peterbelanger4094]

Sid & Marty Krofft characters

[@garylangley4502]

That was Billy Carter.

[@bungeycord5971]

@Keef Dichards yes clackers couldnt remember the name. I forgot corduroy pants, afros and afro picks, jacked up cars keystone and crager mags.

[@HeronCoyote1234]

I found, and purchased, Charles Chips metal canned potato chips, from my local mom and pop grocery store. (I’m looking at the now empty can right now.) In the ‘60s, our next door neighbor was a distributor for Charles Chips. We always had a can in the house.

[@stephendacey8761]

Also, every family had a record player to play music on, lots of malls existed, stores now gone (like Woolworth's), and popular restaurants gone (like Howard Johnson's), their were great actors like Bruce Lee, John Wayne, and many others. Also, great movies like The Godfather, Poseidon Adventure, Saturday Night Fever, Rocky, and many others. T.V. had great shows like All In The Family, The Jefferson's, and Good Times. GREAT TIME to be growing up!!! R.I.P. to those actors and actresses that made my early years entertaining.

[@falcon664]

Disco was a return to real music. Disco brought back big brass, strings, orchestrations and dancing. Consider it an update of the big band era. And, it was FUN.

[@DrumWild]

Grew up in Indiana, from the mid-60s to the mid-80s. My best concert experience of the 1970s was in 1978. The main act was ROADMASTER, which was a huge band in Indiana. Their opening acts were Cheap Trick and AC/DC [Bon Scott!!!!]. That was some experience.

[@lordofthestings]

It was the end tube type TV's as well. I remember going to the drug store with my dad. They had a display with the different silhouette shapes of the tubes for sale. It had a flat top where you plugged your tube in to test it to see if it was good. Sometimes, when our big, 20" console TV went out, we had a smaller TV sitting on top it that we had to watch until the TV was fixed🙂 The 70's was the last of the good Ole days.

[@VonFisch1]

I remember that, we had two consecutive console TVs, the first one had two rolled wood covers that closed the TV when not in use but it was rarely closed. I always thought it was such a big TV but the screen was actually much smaller than most today's TVs. Later we had small black and white TVs in our bedrooms.

[@CarolStJohn-ev9ry]

I had to chuckle at the clothes and furniture, my Mom was proud of her avocado appliances and floral couch. We had the worst fashion back then but we sure had fun, a lot of freedom, and besides disco we still had great rock and roll.

[@thereseember2800]

Thank you for these sweet memories.

[@wadewells808]

A part of me remembers these things with great fondness. I miss the times, but I don't miss the styles. My Lord, I survived disco. Still listen to "classic" rock every day.

[@julienielsen3746]

I love the styles.

[@pegs1659]

Disco was an embarrassment to the 70's. I refused to hang out with disco ducks. Rock still rocks.

[@julienielsen3746]

@@pegs1659 I agree.

[@VonFisch1]

I was still in elementary when disco was popular in Ohio later 70's and got a few 45s, but my older teen brothers were into Southern Rock and what's now Classic Rock, and did NOT like disco.

[@JohnDoe-ny1wp]

I remember all of that since I was there....having said that...I'm lucky to remember any of it.

[@ponchoman49]

12 things gone from the 1970's- superior music and movies, not having to lock our doors at night in our neighborhoods, loads of cool and interesting cars, 5 and dime stores with loads of cool items, no crt in the classrooms, station wagons, personal luxury coupes and loads of cool choices in an automobile, color choices that often didn't involve black and 50 shades of grey, well made appliances, great sitcoms like All in the family, the Jeffersons, Maude, Sanford and Son and loads of others, Disco, beautiful architecture from old downtown buildings, barns and historic bridges that have all but obliterated in the name of progress and so many other things.

[@goldenager59]

One could add, "Peanuts" specials with Dolley Madison commercials. (In fact, I think I will.) 😏 📺

[@jakevendrotti1496]

You liked the Jeffersons, Maude, and Sanford and son, but are anti critical race theory?

[@janineboitard6492]

Other things I remember as a teen in the 70s included those Fotomat Huts, Earth shoes, car 8-track players, Super 8mm movies, tie-dye shirts, shag haircuts, huge TV/stereo consoles, those enormous Pontiacs, green metal Coleman coolers, Trivial Pursuit, Rubik's Cube, original game shows (Dating Game, Newlyweds, Match Game, Let's Make a Deal)...

[@wesmcgee1648]

Best decade of my life. Puberty, high school, 4 years if college. All packed into the 70s.

[@pjhey947]

You must be the same age as my husband (1957) who graduated college in 1979. I’m four years younger so I spent my middle and high school years in the 70s…more like the Dazed and Confused movie.lol We all had the best times 💕✌️

[@itzcaseykc]

This brought back some good memories. Every so often my dad would break out the projector & screen and would talk about what had happened when capturing scenes that the old slides portrayed from before 1970. Several decades later, I would find myself driving a used AMC Pacer. After it was smashed into, I was able to buy an '88 Mercury Tracer which stayed with me from 1990 - 2003 as we traveled back-n-forth from the west coast to the east coast a few times.

[@lourias]

I owed FIVE different Pintos in years past. I got 30 miles per gallon on a regular basis. I miss them, all, especially my Pinto Wagon!

[@richardbenke9687]

I remember my family driving in our Ford Pinto to some peoples’ house to watch a slideshow of their vacation to Hawaii.

[@donnabanks7656]

I loved School House Rock. It made learning multiplication and other subjects easy. 🙂

[@goinbananers]

and it worked. Now we have common core.

[@nancydemoss608]

🎶Conjunction junction what's your function? 🎶

[@josephgaviota]

I wonder if a modern School House Rock would do computer stuff, like using Excel or programming in Python or something. I might enjoy that!

[@VonFisch1]

Yup, and I remember Super Sugar Crisp cereal and this cartoon band that I recall seeing on TV, too. Then my mother sometime became a health nut and stopped buying the sugar cereals and then it was bran and wheat germ, as well as wheat bread. We were devastated. I remember one older brother when he started working bought his own sugar cereals. When did Afterschool Specials start, late 70's?

[@conniebaker1958]

I miss the 70s the times were more simpler then.

[@GoodVideos4]

With those rings on the cans, I also remember the cans before the Aluminum ones, being Tin cans. They were harder, and were like cans of food still now.

[@nannettemueller5672]

Slide shows - Lots of pictures of relatives I didn't know and would never meet. I sure remember those!

[@gregtheredneck1715]

The Ford Pinto kind of canceled itself in explosive fashion.

[@luisreyes1963]

Funny. 😑

[@kimmariefaber4636]

I loved school house rock, can still remember most of the songs!

[@betsyduane3461]

Slide projectors have been around since the 1800's and are still available today.

[@troot0331]

One of my cars I have now is a 1973 Monte Carlo. It has just over 50,000 original miles and everything is the same as when it was new. It still has the original spare tire! I love it. I used to have the same car in the early 80’s.

[@goinbananers]

Also in the 70's we used to grab up the multi colored wire from overhead Telephone installers and make rings and bracelets plus collected all the Sparkletts man Bottle caps on the street when he delivered.

[@mikecee3058]

Tight fitting shirts are still in! Every couple of years I realize my shirts have morphed into the tight fitting variety.

[@DavidLS1]

Same here. I blame the dryer.

[@robertrussell5948]

I've read a lot of your comments on the 70s and I remember all of those things and I remember wearing men's platform shoes in high school and my sister had a red pinto. Great time to be a teenager.

[@nancydemoss608]

I forgot about platform shoes! My ex had a pair and I had several pairs. How could I forget that?? Too many drugs and too many years! 😂

[@jchow5966]

Thank you for this. I sure remember all of it. I would like to go back for a summer…… maybe in my next life i can go back….. 💟☮️

[@whip57]

I never thought the Gremlin or Pinto was ugly...now the Chevette was, I also liked the Chevy Vega. Disco was fun times at the Bar, a lot of innocence still...things started to change in the late 70's, early 80's and now there is so much hate, corruption. Just glad I got to live through those days.

[@Rigel_Chiokis]

The hate and corruption has always been there, you just didn't hear as much about it in the 1970's. You hear a lot about it today because of the internet and social media.

[@goldenager59]

I'm certainly glad someone out there likes the Vega - a car that, to quote LIFE magazine (Oct. 1983) redefined "depreciation". 😒 🍋

[@angeladay1534]

My first brand new car was a white Chevy Chevette. I couldn't afford the automatic, so I bought a 4 speed, had to learn how to drive a stick shift. To this day, I prefer driving a stick, 4 or 5 speed! The clutch, brake and gas pedal, keep your legs and calves fit! No pun intended. Honestly, it really does, especially in heavy traffic.😄💖

[@angeladay1534]

@@goldenager59 Had a few friends that had Vega, hatchbacks and one of my co-workers Owned a VW Karman Ghia in the 1980's. One night around Christmas, she was drunk and full of weed. She almost wiped out an entire gas station pump! Thank GOD the pump was elevated! She hit the concrete. I stopped riding with her to and from work. 😵⛽🚗

[@goldenager59]

@@angeladay1534 I'll wager she could be a real gas to be around. Still, I can see why you wouldn't be too pumped about riding with her again. 😏🤭 😒🙄😣

[@PropheticCoachTheresa]

My first car was an AMC pacer, two door, 5 speed. Hands down my favorite car of all time. Was like driving in a small space ship, huge windshield had a great view of the road. I would totally buy one if they started manufacturing them in the same way again.

[@Greyteam4291]

Had friends with a Vega, pinto gremlin and a pacer. The Vega died after a couple of years but the others soldier on for year's. The pinto and pacer lasted into the late 80s

[@danielulz1640]

The Pacer was a goofy car,but it was a really good goofy car.

[@Greyteam4291]

@@danielulz1640 like riding in a aquarium but yes a good car

[@Vincent_Sullivan]

@@Greyteam4291 Riding in a aquarium had the advantage of really good vision all around! I drove a '75 Pacer for over 20 years.

[@mattgiguere5638]

I always appreciate your videos and thank you God bless 💋❤🥰

[@bryanj7063]

Lol streaking… I remember my older cousin had a record and it was called the streak and he played it for us younger cousins and we would shriek with laughter…

[@rickg882]

Don't look Maybel, it's too late

[@danielulz1640]

@@rickg882 she had been insensed...and it was Ethel.

[@rickg882]

@@danielulz1640 My mistake, it was still funny to think about it. What a great time to grow up in compared to today.

[@bryanj7063]

He’s just in the mood to run in the nude!😂

[@garywagner2466]

Mentioned in the video. Ray Stevens had a few funny hits. “Flashed her right there in front of the shock absorbers.”

[@dguy0386]

1:00 due to a really good DVD purchase 20 years ago, my older brother, me and now my little brother have watched school house rock

[@mikephalen3162]

I owned a couple Pintos and a Vega and I didn't consider any of them ugly.

[@michaelkullas2031]

I would say the new Fiats or the Prius is alot uglier than those older cars.

[@348Tobico]

You missed the point. AMC cars were ugly Pinto and Vega were deadly because of rear gas tank explosions. I wrecked a Dodge Omni to avoid rearending a Vega with a rag in the gas tank. I still think I could have made it out of the Omni and the insurance company would have given me a "total" on the Omni.

[@jefftuttrup2596]

Great video, fantastic memories, thanks.

[@matrox]

Who here remembers a thing called can opener to open your soda can?😂

[@lottamiles5510]

I don’t remember cans but do remember using a can opener to open glass soda bottles. Then taking the empties back to the store for $. Not much but my sisters and I would take turns.

[@tonycanabal1659]

We used that kind of opener for big cans of Hi-C and TreeSweet juices

[@jollydata4299]

My youth can be added to this list

[@missmajestic2158]

70's Best Times on Earth !!!! 🌎

[@inv-u9b]

This is my new favorite channel 🙂 I miss the old days!!

[@johnphantom]

Yeah by my early beer drinking days in the mid to late 1980s (born in 1969) the pull tabs were gone. I don't remember drinking from a can before then, though I must have as a kid. The earth tones of the 1970s caused the TV show Miami Vice. My parents didn't listen to disco thank god. My dad's cousin was the road manager for The Doors. He gave my dad a Super-8mm color film recorder around 1971 that we used, we didn't have slides, my dad spliced together whole movies.

[@pegs1659]

That's so awesome that your dad got to hang out with the Doors.

[@robertbritton7556]

Thanks for the show always 🇺🇸 God bless America and our Veterans 🇺🇸 Donate to the show

[@zoom539]

I learned to drive on a Gremlin....lol the 70's HOW SWEET IT WAS!

[@DeannaPiercy]

I did, too. Our high school had a drivers ed course complete with Gremlins and an elevated control tower. Our radios were tuned to the control tower so the instructor could talk to us as we navigated the course.

[@MillerMeteor74]

I remember all these things very well. Back then I didn't care for disco at all, but I appreciate it now, at least some of it. One time while picking up shells on the beach, just a few years ago, I found a soda can pull tab, which I kept, just for the nostalgia of it.

[@smokeydoke100]

I hated disco. It ruined one of the best radio stations here when they changed their format to that horrid thumping.

[@angeladay1534]

@@smokeydoke100 Hate Heavy Metal and Rap. Yuk! 😫🤢🤮

[@artmoss6889]

In college, I drove an orange Pinto, while my girlfriend had a yellow Pacer. The reason they ceased production was not that they were ugly, but because they were poorly made and expensive when compared to what the Japanese were building. Nevertheless, my Pinto got me through college and grad school.

[@josephgaviota]

I think the Pinto was actually a pretty good car. So long as you weren't rear-ended. I think part of the premise of Fight Club, the part about "the bean counters decided a $5 per car fix cost more than the 15 or 20 lawsuits that they would have."

[@wantingoneangel8976]

I was a child from the '70s into the 80s. I do remember the Schoolhouse Rock when I was very young and I like Abba, and the Bee Gees🌈💖💖💖😊!!! I also remember Holly hobby dolls, Little House on the prairie, and the Snuggles Dolls!! And I so remember the floral couch in my Late Grandparents house 🏵️🏵️🏵️🏵️🏵️!!!