16 Things People Couldn’t Live Without in the 1970s

[@platterjockey]

I would add that watching American Bandstand and Soul Train were the highlights of my 70s weekends.

[@JanTraveler]

Soul train was amazing..I still watch it!

[@platterjockey]

You mean that train wreck is still in the tracks? I stopped watching it sometime back in the early 80s after Don Cornelius was forced to run a rap video.@@JanTraveler

[@saminaneen]

@@platterjockey I remember, in the 1970's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@angelagoodwin5758]

Oh yeah!😎

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

Super friends, Isis, Land of the Lost…

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was born in 1961 and enjoyed all the 70s stuff. 50s, 60s and 70s were GREAT times to be a kid. I wish I could turn back time and start over again.

[@greta3315]

Me too Carlos, 1961. All the best to you

[@platterjockey]

We were the last generation to actually enjoy a real, carefree childhood.The only thing that still hung over our heads was the Cold War with the USSR. We didn't have to deal with Viet Nam in the same way our older siblings and fathers did. Our older siblings fought for sex, drugs & rock & roll. We got to enjoy it.

[@juanitablackwell9418]

Me too!

[@Lovejazz01]

Same, 1961, my parents tried to make sure we enjoyed our life as kids, so they emphasized kid stuff and not a lot of bad things that were happening in the 60’s..

[@ThePoobears]

wouldn't it be nice if we could...

[@anitalonski2126]

The 70s was the best time to be a kid . It was so much fun

[@daveheel]

yeah, i think giving cell phones ruin childhoods. as a kid, you find things to do when you're bored.

[@jasonrodgers9063]

'60's was best to be a kid, '70's best to be a teen!

[@mikeywid4954]

I'm 73 yo and just love your channel and don't miss a one. Looking back at the good old days warms me with nostalgia.

[@rayinpau.s.a.6351]

We had a lot of Mom & Pop grocery stores in my Town in the 70's . We used to collect pop bottles to buy Candy , Pop , Toys , Kites and some times cigarettes , (You did not need a note in them days) .

[@3DJapan]

In the 80s there was a "can bank" machine in the supermarket parking lot. My friends and I collected cans and the machine would give us change for them. I usually got less than a dollar but that was enough for a couple of candy bars.

[@veronicaferguson8548]

So many memories of my Dad.He loved his Station Wagons and Radio Shack.Who else remembers the Radio Shack battery club?

[@paul16451]

Another great use of the garden hose was for the Slip N Slide. I had a supervised group I went to the local park with a couple of times during the summer and that makeshift flat ground slide was loads of fun in hot weather! Another unforgettable water toy of the period were those hollow plastic rockets you would fill with water and mount on a pump, pump it up, then flick a release switch to get an instant water-powered rocket that would spray not only the launcher but everyone around you. Always fun with friends to see who would pump it the hardest.

[@gregwasserman2635]

Cassettes came about in the 70s as well. Big Wheels were popular with the younger kids, but having a bike was the way to go. Of course, in the latter part of the 70s, Star Wars toys were the rage, and I still have all my original Star Wars figures. CBs were also big in the 70s, especially after "Smokey and the Bandit" was released.

[@keithbrown7685]

Well they took their time coming about, but they were born in 1962. They weren't even meant for sale initially. Philips had them for in-house dictation decks.

[@gregwasserman2635]

@@keithbrown7685, I was never sure when they came out but I knew it was likely earlier than I would have guessed (and I wouldn't have guessed 1962!).

[@mordechai-]

I think the very first cassette player I ever saw must have been in 1970, when my big brother got one for a bar mitzvah present. A few years later I got a different model, but I don't recall how I got it.

[@nomadbrad6391]

Don't forget about LOCKING gas caps. I know in 1975 after having our gas siphoned in our own driveway while we slept was enough for dad to buy one for each of our cars.

[@jrebecca0195]

I had a locking gas cap on my 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. 😊

[@willhorting5317]

I still use a locking gas cap on my vehicle.

[@emmalancaster2013]

Lol Carter. he tried but Big Oil was too mighty.

[@youtubecarspottersguide1]

1975 was first. yr for catalytic converters and gm /Chrysler. did the first rebates

[@sharonbraselton4302]

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[@barbaraborgia3289]

During the gas crisis, my sister and I learned how to pump our own gas. One day we tried to put gas in the Buick Electra. We ran around and around the car trying to find the gas cap. It was pouring down rain. The guys in the gas station were laughing their asses off at us. Finally my sister went in to ask where the gas cap was. Answer: under the license plate 😅

[@slim-oneslim8014]

Lol 👍

[@SJHFoto]

It's so weird-I was JUST talking about how we had a '73 Buick Electra, and my Dad let me pump gas on road trips "if I was good" I heard stories about parents stopping cars to give spankings, but my parents a lot of times instead used the carrot instead of stick for road trips (meaning, they made up little rewards I could have "if I were good")

[@annhernandez8808]

Chinese fire drill...sorry, I didn't make up the name, but that's what I pictured when you said you got out and ran around and around the car.

[@SJHFoto]

@@annhernandez8808 What is a Chinese fire drill? Running around pumping gas? I don't understand

[@barbaraborgia3289]

@@SJHFoto You’re in a car with a bunch of friends. The stoplight turns red. Everyone gets out of the car and runs around it until the light turns green. Then you rush back in the car, many times in different seats. And yes, I did this a few times.

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

We had Pong and it rocked. But eight-tracks sucked. Cassettes were the way to go. What about water beds, pet rocks, and mood rings?

[@paulhazel5754]

and lava lamps

[@keithbrown7685]

lava lamps!

[@rooky55]

Cassettes were a great format. 8 tracks beat the old car record player. My 76 Olds Tornado had a Bose 8 track that sounded good.

[@zsigzsag]

@@paulhazel5754 Lava Lamps are popular today again. My grand daughters both have one now, they love them!

[@angelo8424]

Yeah, I never had an 8 track in my car, only cassettes, *tracks had lousy sound quality, and often the 8 tracks would switch in the middle of songs.

[@leesashriber5097]

Loved my Tiger Beat magazines!! Oh i want to go back!! Happy memories. Roller skating was a must do for a Friday night!! Thank you so much for another great upload. Happy Sunday 😊

[@JimJones-gd2jy]

1965 model, 10 years old in 75 ✌️ absolutely the best times as a kid . . I miss the beautiful clothes, people in general didn’t look like complete slobs

[@bearforce187]

We are the same age, for me the 70's was Saturday Morning cartoons and then afternoon matinees at the local theatre.

[@saminaneen]

@@bearforce187 I remember, in the 1970's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@GenXamerica]

Me too!!!

[@qmnnvrdyz8965]

Can you believe the way some people leave the house, these days?? It's like they don't have a mirror!

[@SusanMarie3]

Same! Born 1965 - 70s were awesome

[@hotartesian4163]

The seventies was a time like no other. I would go back and stay there, if I could!

[@lisascountrycreations334]

Me too. Especially if I knew then what I know now!!

[@ms.tep_]

I remember 8Track Tapes and the Saturday Morning Cartoons and Schoolhouse Rock, and Tiger Beat! Oh, how that brings back memories! Thanks for sharing!!

[@luisreyes1963]

The 70's was a great decade for candy. I sure do miss those Charms hard candies that were like the competitors to Life Savers.

[@drusmith3480]

When I was in the Army during the 90s, those were in the MREs.

[@sweetkitty3249]

They sure were! I have the cavities to show for it!

[@keithbrown7685]

Great decade for dentists, too.

[@MrDan708]

I was a child of the 70's who drank from the hose, rode a bike without a helmet, rode in my parents' station wagon without a belt (sometimes in the third seat if others were going along) - how the heck did I make it this far?!

[@deanford1795]

Me too lot's of hose water 😂

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

@deanford1795 , my brother, sister, and I had a range of several miles around the house. If on-bike, we would tell Mom/Dad where we were off to; and on foot, our limit was earshot of the big brass bell they would ring on the shed to call us. Goodness! the things we would do; Crawling through culverts under the road; "frogging" & catching "crick-chubs" (minnows), pollywogs (tadpoles), and crayfish in the neighborhood creek; climbing HUGE trees: dirt-clod fights with each other; building forts; exploring abandond houses/places; ice skating on a nearby pond; playing in our neighbors' barns. All of this _unsupervised_ mind you! (Rural Upstate NY)

[@billmelater655]

I was a child in the 50's and 60's. I remember riding in mom and dad's station wagon. I drank from a garden hose and rode a bike without a helmet. And at 70 years of age, I still do!

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

We (neighborhood kids from about a mile around - a dozen of us) would play "Ghost in the Graveyard," a combination of hide & seek and tag, played at dusk. Of course, after dark, our parents knew roughly where we would be, and we wore reflective bits on our clothes to warn night drivers as we biked to and from our gatherings. Summers were _grand_ in this regard since we did not have to do homework nor wake-up early for school.

[@lynny5510]

I ask myself that same question every time I watch my daughter anchor car seats in her car then straps down her children into the car seats. They literally cannot move. It always makes me think she is strapping them in for a ride on the space shuttle LOL How did we manage to survive the 70s?? LOL

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

*_Charms Pops_* were all the rage in our junior high in those years; it was a big deal to get the newest color/flavor and we'd trade them with each other in the hallways between classes. 🍭🍭🍭 (Our "Dealer" here was the local Penny Candy place: _The Toy Peddler._ 😊)

[@trontosaurusrex9532]

I like charms,but I feel like the flavors were better back then.

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

@@trontosaurusrex9532, I remember "everyone" would have a colored tongue 👅 by the time we'd resume classes from lunch.

[@trontosaurusrex9532]

​@@brettany_renee_blatchley ah yeah that was fun,I'd try to have a different color from time to time.

[@melissastruxness512]

I was in grade school and turned 12 in 1980. Pop rocks was what it was all about and those cigarette candies in my school

[@shnibby69]

Loved Levi’s Super Bells! Had to keep a rubber band in my pocket so I wouldn’t get the jeans caught in the 10 speed bike chain/sprockets.

[@carlavision6143]

Thanks for the memories! We had an Atari, 8 tracks, and fun with the water hose, and sitting in back of the station wagons, Saturday mornings, school house rock and blo pops. Those were truly the good old days!

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

The 70s were a great time to jump on my Bigwheel and fly down the block and pull that lever and do a 360 spin! What a rush! Great times to live in. I miss those times and the people, not to mention everything in this video. These children today, of the 21 century have no childhood.

[@jedidrummerjake]

School House Rock saved me from failing math. ❤

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

SHR was amazing - the tunes and lessons still go through my head in my sixth decade! What a way to teach!

[@brianbumgardner8704]

I'm just a bill....

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I remember when I was in first grade in 1983. My teacher would play those record albums. I still have a few of the songs memorized! 😊

[@jenniferhansen3622]

​@@StarFleet_Tech1701I bought it too.❤

[@luisreyes1963]

Those songs they had about American History served me well in junior high social studies. 🇺🇸

[@zoom539]

We had it made and didn't even know it I wouldn't trade my childhood for nothing today's kids don't know what they missed.

[@sweetkitty3249]

With autotune they don't even know what real music sounds like now a days.

[@zoom539]

@@sweetkitty3249 Exactly

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

Autotunes for us was singing into a box fan in the window. That was never considered anything near music! Just fun! Too bad for these children today.

[@fredlandry6170]

Those were the days I miss them.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Another GREAT video!!

[@JSFGuy]

It hasn't even played yet. How do you know it's great?

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Because all of these recollection ones are great, that's why, smart A$$!@@JSFGuy

[@JSFGuy]

​@@NunofurdambiznezNo need to deflect the name call you just made a claim you couldn't have possibly known. Makes me a smart-ass or you a liar? Now, can you answer that without deflecting or name calling?

[@sweetkitty3249]

You kids stop your fighting!

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

AAAAWWWWWWW is widde JSGguy all upset cuz someone stood up to him the comments... pooooooor thiiiiiiiiiiiing.. must be TOUGH to be you ALL alone in your crazy world.. @@JSFGuy

[@Boom-b7q]

It is good to reminisce!

[@bavery6957]

Anybody remember the, "It'll burn an image into the TV screen!" reasoning for not getting an Atari system...?

[@JustMe99999]

Yes! lol

[@saminaneen]

@@JustMe99999 I remember, in the 1970's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@aprilrich807]

It may be a regional thing, but with the exception of roller skating, answering machines and TV gaming to a small extent, the items listed felt far more ‘60’s to me. Love you channel!!!

[@mickieg1118]

I agree. He seemed to include the mid to late 60s and early 80s in this vid.

[@saminaneen]

@@mickieg1118 I remember, in the 1970's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@jasonwomack4064]

A lot of stuff on here is regional with the timeline. I was born in '81. But being from a Midwest town of a 1,000 people, many late 60's and 70's items apply to my childhood. Fashion, car purchases, and home decor moved a bit slower there.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

I played my first video game in either 1981, or possibly 1980. I'm pretty sure I didn't even know about them in the 70s, or the phrase didn't mean anything to me yet.

[@flowerfaeri]

I don't remember answering machines in the 70's - or beta max - at lest they weren't common till later.

[@patbecker333]

Oh my goodness! I remember everything that was shown here, from Atari, family station wagon, charm pops, the cartoons that I saw growing up. Super cool…

[@stevedolesch9241]

Yep. I miss those days, from '50s, '60 and '70s. Those days we had fun. The yearly fairs, going on picnics, drive-ins,, corn roasts, who knows what else. A song, you've lost that lovin feeling could be re-titled "We've lost that fun feeling"! Now, we're hung on cell phones even when being with family, friends! Have we really progresse?

[@sharonbraselton4302]

ñopé

[@jwb52z9]

My older brother had an Atari in the early 80s when I was a kid. My late parents still had their 8-track player that was combined with a turntable for records then.

[@marko7843]

👍 My entertainment system still has an 8-track wired to a cassette wired through the CD to the surround sound system...

[@JSFGuy]

It's shake & bake and I helped.

[@jennifer7330]

😂😂😂😂

[@sweetkitty3249]

The Charms Blow Pops you mentioned made me remember Charms Sweet & Sour Pops. I don't think they make them anymore. I liked how half the pop was sweet & the other half was tart. Maybe the sour side cultivated my tongue to like New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc now as an adult. LOL

[@katyafan]

They still make them!

[@sweetkitty3249]

@@katyafan 😊

[@morganm9040]

D batteries were absolutely enormous compared to AAA batteries today. I use Hamburger Helper today but use ground turkey instead. It's great for next day lunch at work. Atari console as shown on the ad for $149 is equivalent to around $850 in 2023. No wonder my dad never got us one.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

They have a lot more power, which was, and is, the point of them.

[@hewitc]

@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER They certainly weren't just part of the 1970's. Most battery-powered toys from the 1950's-60's used them and tey are still used today.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

My dad wouldn't either, lol.

[@keithbrown7685]

@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER They're still around, too, just harder to find.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

@@keithbrown7685 Yes definitely. And 6-volts as well. Not hard to find at all.

[@rugged1509]

I'm 62 and I still remember watching Saturday morning cartoons, when I was a kid. Do my few chores, then head to the ice skating rink, with my friends, for a fews hours.

[@model-man7802]

I remember all of this!❤❤❤❤

[@slim-oneslim8014]

Loved those station wagons. My brothers and sisters always wanted the back seat. Dad would get annoyed we always gave the truck drivers the signal to use their air horn. 😅 Can't forget men wore platform shoes in the disco era, shiny shirts and trying to look as good as you could. Love the memories. Thanks again Recollection 👍

[@SJHFoto]

I'm sorry your Dad got annoyed. We had a CB radio, so my Dad let me play with it and talk to the truckers. This was a different time-when they knew a kid was on the air, they cleaned up their language and told all about the fun they had driving all over North America

[@kkarllwt]

One word. paisly

[@SJHFoto]

@@kkarllwt Do you mean "paisley" or is there something else you are trying to say?

[@Tiger-Heart]

Married at 15 years old, 1 son born 1977 and another son born 1979. The boys had an Atari but forget Nintendo they were too expensive! We had Hamburger Helper a lot, and I loved my bell bottoms! Answering machines were nice for call screening, because it never failed you’d sit down to dinner and the phone would ring- yes Telemarketers ugh!! Yep always had an 8-track cause I love music. The hitchhiking wasn’t that smart or safe. Being 15 when I got married, I didn’t have too much of fun teen years, but I loved having my boys and wouldn’t trade! I never had a Beta-max, but did have a VCR. The batteries- OMG YES and they weren’t cheap. Anyway I was a teen and a grown up at the same time. ❤

[@lenevee4925]

That looks like Nick Nolte in the fashion ad @ 2:36. My mom had the full VHS School House Rock set; all of the students use to stop by her class during their lunch breaks just to watch them in the 70s and 80s❤

[@lfader]

Thankyou I was certain + your comments the 1st to back me up .... The 70s were fun ...

[@thankthelord4536]

I was about to say that.

[@DaymianMarin]

I love the 70s from fashion to music & cartoons & good video

[@angelagoodwin5758]

Magazines like Tiger Beat and 16 were our guides to the "intimate" details of our favorite crushes. Mine was David Cassidy. He was plastered all over my bedroom walls.

[@keithbrown7685]

I think that's pretty sick. I hope you got over it. 🙂

[@angelagoodwin5758]

@@keithbrown7685 😄

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

He was on my walls too. Also Peter Tork of the Monkees.

[@thankthelord4536]

Donny Osmond

[@keithbrown7685]

Oops! I didn't read far enough. I thought you said he was plastered! And I thought, cripes!! Did she party with that guy?? Cool! 🙂

[@hopehamby9287]

This video brings back good memories, my dad would pile us, and our cousins in his station wagon on the weekends, and we went on many adventures. We would just ride to wherever. I miss those days.

[@OldDood]

Don’t forget Shake-N-Bake. The line in the commercial was : “ shake and bake, and I helped”.

[@rhuephus]

and it was usually good .. but you could make your own a lot cheaper and better tasting

[@itube1893]

The 1970’s brought the biggest decade in consumer electronics, particularly with High Fidelity home stereo. The “Receiver Wars” made companies like Pioneer, Marantz, Sansui, Kenwood, Sherwood, Technics, and many others household names.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

We actually have a Sansui flat screen TV. I didn't even know they made anything but stereos til I saw it.

[@kkarllwt]

The GIs in asia sent home huge amount of stereo equip. from japan using the Pacex and Nex catalogs. About 1 inch thick filled with almost everything japan made. I still have my pioneer 990, sekio watch and a great hitachi 16 inch fan. I used it this morning 53 years on.

[@zeroceiling]

I remember getting into road hockey games after school…while wearing my powder blue elephant pants, an orange shirt with big round collar and billowing sleeves, capped off with a wide, white belt. The thing that really completed the look though…were black platform shoes with perhaps a gold star stitched in on the top. Despite this, we would run up and down the road..yelling:”hey I’m open”…while we all wobbled around like enthusiastic circus clowns.

[@sicilianmama1000]

I just love your videos! Especially the 70s ones 🥰

[@johndemeen5575]

I am working on my way back machine, going back to the 1970s see ya.St.Paul,Minnesota.

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

See ya Queens, NY!

[@williamhild1793]

My sister and I would ride in the back of our Pinto hatchback. But instead of waving at the other drivers, we'd flip them the bird. Dad could never figure out why the other drivers on the road were always honking at him.

[@deanford1795]

Bad kids 😂

[@sweetkitty3249]

So you were those kind of kids.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

Lol! I would've never dared to do that.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

Wow, that was double trouble riding in the back of a Pinto. If someone rear ends you- Boom!

[@Jim-ie6uf]

Man I miss Radio Shack, remember them well. From leather kits to electronics kits, project boxes and components, from the late 60s to about 10 years ago. My buddy was the manager of the one at Sabal Palm Plaza , Ft Pierce, Fl for years. He’s still not over it

[@keithbrown7685]

We lived a bit far from the nearest Radio Shack, but I'd go through the catalogs, mark down the numbers of the stuff I wanted (mostly accessories), and I would mail that, along with a cheque (check) to RS. They'd send back most of the things I wanted. It was a lovely time.

[@David-sc2ir]

When 10 speed bikes came out and you got one for Christmas it was like you got a BMW LOL, you were the envy of the neighborhood. You'd wash your bike and wax it like it was a car! In urban America, a bike for a kid was EVERYTHING! I knew every Schoolhouse Rock jingle there was (it actually helped me). Johnny Quest was my favorite cartoon and don't forget setting up your hot wheels all over the house with those loop de loops and powerhouse stations that would propel your cars. GOOD TIMES :) I'm in my mid 60's now and I wish things were as exciting now as they were then. Too bad we didn't realize then that we were living the dream :)

[@salemslotandmore8278]

Thanks for the Video (and memories) 😀

[@GenXamerica]

Still have my 8 track collection and a player that still works. The 70s were the best and 80s so much fun. Great memories

[@bp39047]

I think the 80's were the last very great decade. Fun and laughter in the work place existed. 90's things went straight downhill with all good things going away.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

@@bp39047 I agree with you 100 percent!

[@dorisbrinkerhoff8124]

i love all this stuff. if only i could go back

[@keithbrown7685]

Anyone remember "Merlin" ? We had one in grade nine class. What it was doing in school, I don't know, but if you wanted to play with it, forget it. There were about twenty other kids ahead of you. I liked it because it was red and it made sounds like I'd never heard before. I wanted it for that reason alone.

[@willhorting5317]

Hmm...I don't remember seeing those "Merlin" handheld games in the '70s. But I certainly recall buying one for my kids, in the '90s. I bought it for the kids to share. But I think I played it more often than any of them did. Hahaha

[@keithbrown7685]

@@willhorting5317 I saw my first one in 1979, just at the start of grade nine. I think they were something of a rage for a while.

[@willhorting5317]

@@keithbrown7685 I see.

[@keithbrown7685]

I swear I can hear that sound, see that loud red color the toy had. And I want to go back.@@willhorting5317

[@vanessadobbins2963]

Such great memories!!!!!! I love to recall my youth!!!!! Some of the best times had!!!!!! Thank you sharing with us!!!!!!

[@janetgies8698]

In the 70s used to Hitchhike through Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles- San Fernando Valley) to the beach or to the Topanga Plaza Mall ice rink with my hockey skates. Fun times. 🍂 Janet

[@stevedaniell7643]

I’d like this one twice if I could. Thanks for the memories!

[@JIMBAYRIDGESCOTT]

Yeah I remember everything here , especially Atari , I begged my parents to get me that game system , and what happened after I got it ,,,,,,, after about three days it got old and there it stayed on top of the TV collecting dust , only to be played with every once in a while for 20 minutes or so , after a year or so I remember giving it to a friend who did the same thing , I think a lot had to do with the fact we were still use to being outside the house and doing things away from the house , we weren't use to sitting in front of the TV all day playing games , I'm so lucky to have grown up during the 60s ,70s and 80s .

[@thecrafteaneighbor5177]

We had a trundle seat in the back of our station wagon. I remember watching for a semi truck to approach our car and then, make my hand go up and down at the window in an effort for the driver to toot his horn. Heard quite a number of toots while we traveled! 😊

[@jeremy1350]

Hello. I grew up in the 70's and 80's. (55 today) We had an Atari box, at the same time when CABLE came into homes in Miami. My parents had a station wagon, we'd drive between Miami and New Britain Ct. on Summer vacations. I got my first stereo system with an 8-track player in it. Roller skating was a weekend/birthday party event. We had a rink right near where we lived. Things were much simpler then !!

[@sixbladeknife44]

Sounds very familiar, same age and lived on the east coast back then also.

[@andyvonyeast332]

Another wonderful job Recollection Road! The music is also so wonderful. It perfectly captures the emotion of the segment you are covering. This is my favorite channel.

[@lowlifeangler]

Radio Shack ARMATRON , came out in the early 80s, I had one. Now in 2023 , programming basic 5 axis robots is part of my job description 😂 I folks had a station wagon in the 70s , now I feel complete with my Subaru Outback wagon lol

[@NASCARFAN93100]

70s Nostalgia is the GOAT

[@keithbrown7685]

a lot of fiction in it... what we call nostalgia. 🙂

[@JohnAranita]

I lived in Huntington Beach, California in the latter-half of the '70s. I had fun trying to pick up television stations as far as San Diego.

[@joeheid2776]

Schoolhouse Rock Ruled! My favorite was the "I'm just a Bill!"

[@Spike-m2p]

Conjunction Junction...what's your function

[@joeheid2776]

@@Spike-m2p That might be my second favorite!!

[@kreh1100]

I grew up in the 70s, it was the best experience ❤❤❤❤

[@kristycartwright4743]

This was fantastic!! I was born in 1965, so this brought back wonderful memories and smiles 😁😀

[@angelo8424]

Most younger folks would probably be shocked at the thought of hitchhiking being a normal every day occurrence, back then, for both males and females- I started around the age of 11 and never had any problems.. For anyone too late to live through the 70's, I'd recommend watching the movie Dazed and Confused, which is pretty accurate- It came to mind when this video mentioned the jeans, like the bell bottoms; The part that wasn't mentioned is that both males and females usually wore their jeans and pants TIGHT- In the movie I mentioned, there's a short scene of a girl lying on her back and her friend's pulling up her zipper with a pair of pliers, lol.

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

In the 80s as a young adult, I thought nothing of picking-up folks as I made my hour commute to college. I'd often have a little bag of traveling goodies to give them when we parted.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

​@@brettany_renee_blatchleyThat was so nice.😊

[@saminaneen]

@@brettany_renee_blatchley Thanks for giving the hitchhikers', GREAT weed, and LSD, and quaaludes, we all thank you, for the great HIGH

[@saminaneen]

@@jenniferhansen3622 I remember, in the 1970's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@julenepegher6999]

We girls hitchhiked to get places, we had a blast. I lived in my blue jeans. Still do!

[@ScottRandolph-dd7dr]

🎉 greetings from coastal Mississippi. Ah the 1970's, as a child and teenager in the 70's , I remember all of these and even have most of them . Thanks for the flashback of memories....😅

[@nancybarta8167]

Still have 3 of my daughters clay school projects and id never let them go!Im 73 and still have never eatten hamburger Helper!Never wore bell bottom pants...horrible.I bought my first VCR for $1200 at Circuit City in 1979..I wish they would bring them back!!

[@sharonbraselton4302]

tgey dó

[@lindah6954]

My dad's 1977 Chevy wagon. Tail gating at Andersons was the best on Friday night.

[@jayhostettler1260]

Toledo Anderson's?? If so I miss that store so much! It was a Walmart before Walmart 😂!! Went there alot around Christmas time was the best!!!

[@footballlvnlady]

Tiger Beat, drinking from the hose, riding in the station wagon, hamburger helper and water beds. My husband and his brother built our water beds in our basement in 1979. We had ours until 1992 when it got a leak.

[@karinwade]

HiC cans of Fruit Punch and Fanta Grape and Orange. Cameras with flash cubes. Westerns on Sundays with Dad. Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars. Frosted tip furry skate pom poms. Sherbet push ups from the ice cream truck. Slip n slide. Jarts. Staying outside until dinnertime. Shag carpets. Feathered bangs.

[@hopemoreland396]

I was born in 1970 and it was the best time to be a kid!!💛✌ I agree with the bike with no helmets, no seatbelts, no locking doors, and riding on the back of tailgates just didn't seem dangerous back then!! Wow we made it far. Skating rinks, the movies, and the malls a little later were our highlights and joys. Life was the best..no cell phones, people still actually talked to other people and you could walk to places that you sadly can't now.😂And the candy..we can't forget Big League Chew and ballpark bubblegum..grape and sour apple. And Wacky Wafers were the absolute BEST!!! The 70s was just so iconic..the coolest time to be a kid and into the 80s as a teenager...simply the best!!!💛✌💜💙miss those days so much!!! I tell my son all about them and that the world was a much better place back in those days !! Everything was better!!!💜💙💚✌Along with American Bandstand and Soul Train yes, yes, YES!!,🚴‍♀️🍭💃🪀💯🎟🔮😎✌🤟

[@nberrypatch02]

Hey, is that Nick Nolte in the ad for men's shirts (2:35 mark)? I know he did some modeling before he became a well known actor...

[@meleze3382]

My favorite hamburger helped variety was the one with the minced potato. I did but blow pops, but I'd much rather have a tootsie roll pop.😊

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I always keep tootsie roll pops in the house. 😊

[@saminaneen]

@@jenniferhansen3622 I remember, in the 1970's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@debbiemullen2574]

I loved the day each month, when my Tiger Beat arrived. And, Yes, I had Donny Osmond and Vince Van Patten posters, from the magazine, all over my bedroom wall. And, Yes, we loved hanging out the back of our Country Squire station wagon. Thank-You for sharing these 70's treasures. 🤗😊

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

The best thing for me was the skating rink. We practically lived there, lol. I was so excited to get my speed skates for Christmas when I was 12. Great times!🎉😎

[@tonycollazorappo]

I so enjoyed showing off my bell bottom pants in the early 70s in school. I was about 10 when I got my first pair, groovy!

[@pongop]

Great stuff!

[@nancyblizzard7295]

I was a young mom in the 70’s and remember all those things, but bellbottoms which actually became popular in the late 60’s, we’re my favorite. I had a red, white, and blue striped pair that showed my patriotism. Also popular with working women were wigs and falls that made it easier to get ready in the mornings. My husband and I learned to disco dance and had disco parties almost every weekend. It was a great time to be young!

[@luvnalaska44]

1962 baby here. Ah, fond memories of those days.

[@SkyeID]

the Atari console at 0:50 is the one my sibling and I had growing up in the 80's. Wow! Blast from the past!

[@marksimonds13]

I'll never forget the frustration of hearing your 8-track ALWAYS changing tracks right in the middle of a song...

[@jerrynehmelman5269]

For jamming, a match book at the top or bottom to make it play right

[@tmscheum]

Saturday mornings with Johnny Quest, his Dad Dr. Quest, Race Bannon, Hadji, and Bandit. Best ever!

[@DukesMusic84]

The vinyl record player in house. They bringing those back today. Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Yes, The Who, there was some great music around then to choose from on vinyl.

[@timroot4207]

Thank you !

[@ClarkieandJoseph]

I definitely remember even tho I was little then. In the tristate area we had school house rock, but after that came on “In the news” with Christopher Glenn on channel 2 after the cartoons. We also had a beta bc it was the only one at the time that had HiFi sound. My brother got an Atari for Xmas in ‘79. This was a great video! It’s nice to get nostalgic, but at the same time it’s also sad bc I realize that we can’t get those days back. It was a great time to be a kid😊

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

It was a wonderful time to grow up in. I wish that we could go back even for a day.

[@ClarkieandJoseph]

@journeytothemosthigh5021 Me too! I would luv to ride a big wheel and a hippity hop again. We used to turn our big wheels upside down and pretend to make ice cream..don’t ask me why, must of been a nj/ny thing heheh😊

[@keithbrown7685]

Sometimes I imagine I'd like to die in my sleep, while in the midst of a dream about being back in that time.

[@wesmcgee1648]

Best decade of my life.

[@SJHFoto]

Both Atari and Hamburger Helper were frequent things we used in my home as a kid!

[@rho91]

My dad had a 77 Ford Gran Torino Station Wagon that we took on summer road trips. Thanks dad.

[@henrywilson9928]

Nothing was better than an eight track tape player in my car and paired with some Mind Blower speakers….really loud!! My friends knew when I was coming.

[@snaomi67]

My mom worked at NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR back in the late ‘70’s in Silicon Valley before it was. We had the game council and all the neighborhood kids were at our house😊 great times!

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

One big one that you missed was the hand-held electronic pocket calculator. The first ones arrived in the U.S. around 1971. They became big hits, replacing desktop calculators and slide rules.

[@timmmahhhh]

In 1980 my 7th grade teacher talked about the amazing calculator he bought probably 1971 that could add subject multiply and divide. It cost him $80. By 1980 they could do more but still had the red numbers, then 2-3 years later the more efficient LCD and solar calculators were becoming common.

[@keithbrown7685]

@@timmmahhhh And getting quite affordable. 🙂

[@keithbrown7685]

There was a wringing of hands in our school system, at least here in Canada. Something to do with the ethics of allowing kids to use the calculator for problem solving, instead of working it out on paper or on the board. It took years for the fear of the new to go away. Meanwhile, calcs were infiltrating everywhere.

[@hounddog4363]

I remember riding in the station wagon to get our atari 2600 right after pac-man came out. My brothers were geeked out!

[@RonaldSpicer-yp3sx]

Miss those days 😊

[@leonardcroft1467]

Remember it All … Great Memories !!😂

[@enricodrubio6645]

My highlight in the 1970s was on Friday nights on wabc-tv was The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Nanny and the professor and Love american style. Saturday night was The love boat and fantasy Island

[@jons.6216]

Funny thing about jeans fads back then! At the end of the 70s there were commercials for "Soft & Fade" to make your pants looked broken in - but just a few short years later "designer" jeans took over and you didn't dare fade those on purpose! Haha!

[@raywood8187]

The 70's were my teen years and I sure was proud of my bell bottoms. Also those saddle boots were a favorite with bell bottoms or straight leg jeans. And on my neck a big pendant of some type, before there was bling. I do remember that bicycle chains were the enemy of bell bottoms 😂