25 1970's Fads You Almost Forgot, i need this now....

25 1970's Fads You Almost Forgot, i need this now....
From iconic toys to fashion statements, this video will take you on a trip down memory lane like never before. Don't miss out on reliving the magic of the past - watch now!
#1970sFads #NostalgiaTrip #ThrowbackThursday

[@meryldykstra2538]

At age almost-72 now, I gotta say I miss those days. Life's never been simple,but it's almost unbearably complicated now. Beam me up!

[@eileenryan2248]

Same here.

[@auntieclara1811]

Same here. I miss my purple, hip hugger bell bottom cords. ​@@eileenryan2248

[@lindasmith1865]

I'm 58 and feel the same, life was worth living back then.

[@gabrielagarciamayagoitia1599]

Yes please, take me back.

[@plantlvr]

The 70's were awesome, best music!

[@TrevorMom]

Yeah, we had some silly products and fads in the '70s, but at least we didn't have our heads buried in a cell phone 24 hours a day. We actually talked to the people we were WITH. We made new friends. We had fun TOGETHER.

[@FrednBunny]

You said it Mom

[@FrednBunny]

But actually I read your comment on a tablet that I must have had my head buried in In fact how did you make your comment..?..?

[@christineduffy3113]

Agree 100%

[@rh.645]

​@@FrednBunny I'm 64 and didn't get a cellphone till I was 51 I never had a computer or tablet and the cellphone was a little cool when I first got it but now with all this social media stuff and people getting scammed and even murdered due to cell phones they are causing more negativity than they are worth so I'm going back to a flip phone only to make phone calls It was a nice fad while it lasted

[@LovelyAbyssinianCat-ye6bd]

These cell phones are killing our kids

[@hannakinn]

**Warning** long comment. I wrote a lot about my favorite decade. It was great to be a teenager and young adult in the 1970s. I graduated from High School in the middle of the decade. A lot of my favorite memories are from the 70s, it was a fun and exciting era. Oh the things I remember. My highschool boyfriend wore ugly Earth shoes, I thought they looked really stupid oh him and they caused him to lean back a bit. I had a mood ring (loved it). I owned pink click clacks with silver glitter in them. I owned several different colors of corduroys like beige, light blue and my favorite pair were mauve with tiny dark blue stars. I had a beloved very well behaved pet rock. I thought Steve Martin was so funny I especially loved his The Great Flydini performance. I had several pairs of awesome platform shoes and my husband had platform men's dress shoes. My father had a few horrible wide labeled foamy polyester leisure suits in tan and some terrible pastel colors like a pale blue, the least horrible of them was army green. My father wore his leisure suits with super wide ties. I had spandex, skinny straped body suits with matching wrap skirts. My father had a CB radio and so did my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law used her CB radio to hook up with guys. My hillbilly Uncle and cousins bought Beatle wigs and boots in the 1960s not the 1970s and came to my grandmother's wearing them and it was hysterical. I remember the Grizzly Adam's TV show but don't think we watched the show because my father ruled our one TV and he hated that show. I knew how to do macrame and made and sold macrame plant hangers, bracelets, cigarettes pack covers, small purses, pouches and belts. My family had an avocado green colored fondue pot with wooden handled fondue skewers, we had exactly one fondue party. I had male friends with beautiful hair down past their waist, I still love how a handsome guy with long beautiful hair looks. I belonged to an Earth Club that celebrated the very first Earth Day by cleaning up part of our small California town and my sister and I were in a parade wearing our home-made Planet Earth T-Shirts to bring attention to ecological issues. I remember the Bionic Man and Woman TV shows because of how ridiculous they were and how I hated the characters running in slow motion. My father was totally in charge of the only TV we had in our home so we watched what he decided to watch. i remember being embarrased by my mom wearing super short sizzle suits which were a mini dress so short that they had matching panties. My mom would wear her sizzle suits with high heels and look like a street walker. My mom had 2 work suits with Naru collars in the 1970s but it wasn't a popular style, it had been a 60s thing. When I was first married my husband worked and I did not but it wasn't long before I had to go to work too to help cover the bills. I wore low rise bell bottoms and flared leg pants in the 70s. There was also a fad of high waisted pants, button fly Levi's and Peanuts brand superlow rise pants and shorts.The first refrigerator my husband and I had in 1976, was copper colored and matched our electric stove, we gave that fridge to my mother-in-law to store drinks and fruit in in 1996 and it was still running in 2005 as was the window AC my mother-in-law had purchased for her home in the early 1970s. Some things were so well built back then that they lasted for decades. That fridge still worked when it was tossed out in the 2010s after my mother-in-law passed away and my sister-in-law inherited the home and turned the basement into an apartment. You missed some 1970s fads like Puka shell necklaces, Dr. Scholl sandals, Clogs, Fringed jackets, Army jackets, Rubics Cubes, desert boots, Peasant tops, Striped toe socks, Buffalo sandals, Jack Purcell tennis shoes, High topped sneakers, Tube socks, daisy Duke shorty shorts, Hang Ten T shirts 👣, Head shops, Feathered roach clips worn in people's hair. Patchouli scented perfume and incense., bowl cuts on kids, the mullet, feathered hair styles, Jordache jeans, Dianne Van Furstenberg wrap dresses. Boones Farm alcoholic drinks, Sangria..I'll stop now..

[@DevoutLove]

Thanks, love ❤ Your beautiful story brought back lovely memories for me. I enjoyed the seventies, too! I was born in late 1969--so during the 70's, I was an elementary school kid. Watching ALL of that colorful culture happening around me, and I remember being so MESMERIZED by it. Lol!! Yes, ma'am... It is nice remembering the good times and your story was just as delightful as the video. 💖✨🌺

[@fourthgenquilter9801]

This is AMAZING! Thank you!!!👏👏👏👏

[@CQ-369]

Wow, do you have a good memory!! I've forgotten so much about that time except that it was a wonderful time to be young. I loved the 70's although it wasn't always roses.

[@scottbubb2946]

It's amazing how being reminded of one thing can open the floodgates and all the memories pour out. I started thinking about roller rinks and drive-ins and lava lamps and black light posters and The Brady Bunch... Then I realized, if I got started, I wouldn't be able to stop.

[@georgewheeler193]

Sister of that< picture. You forgot Superballs!! Throw it down, and it bounced 3 houses away!! Teachers took them from us every day!! Don't know what they were made of, but damn, they would fly!!!😅

[@debidaigle7921]

My uncle passed in the mid 70’s, at his funeral in the middle of prayer.we heard “Breaker Breaker, anybody out there!?” I could hear my uncle laughing!!

[@VintageTVShows]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂

[@user-hr3tx6uu9o]

My then husband had a CB! " What's your handle?"

[@sebastianmineo1313]

Breaker breaker one nine. This is WKRP ovah. Anyone gotta smokey report on eye ninety-five? Commin up on yadda yadda exit.

[@user-hr3tx6uu9o]

@@sebastianmineo1313 10 4 good buddy. Lol.No smokies right now. See ya on the flipside.😃

[@Suebear6157]

I didn't realize how many 70's stuff I had. From the clackers to my feathered hairstyle! Those were some very good times. Thanks for the memories!

[@joanrobinson9193]

I miss the 70’s. The music was great and we went to awesome parties nearly every weekend. I wish I’d saved my elephant leg jeans. The best thing was no internet or cell phones; we actually talked to each other face to face and I remember we laughed a lot! Of course I was in my teens and had endless energy and the best friends to hang out with.

[@deborahstone9696]

Those were the days😂 remember rollerskates. I got huge blisters and still couldn't stop. Soo much fun. A and w roller skating with your meal on a tray that hung on dad's window. Lol😂😂

[@hannakinn]

@@joanrobinson9193 I remember stopping by people's houses to leave notes on their door if they were not home. There were no answering machines or voice-mail. I also remember being out and about and if you'd see a friend's car parked in town or at the mall you'd leave a note on their window under the wiper. Pay phones were everywhere but if people weren't home there was no way to let them know you'd called. Family members would take messages for one another which could be infuriating if lazy siblings would not tzke someone's message or if nosey parents wanted to know just who so and so was, lol. The only good thing about the era before cell phones was that when you left your house you were actually away from your parents. That type of freedom from other people ended with beeper in the 1990s.

[@TKaePetras]

YES! Elephant leg jeans!!

[@gabrielagarciamayagoitia1599]

We’ll, I now own a pair of elephant leg black pants. Seems bell bottoms are making a comeback and even though I am 68 years old, I will wear them. Lately, the last couple of years I’ve been a bit ill, but it had a good side effect and I am now back in a small size.

[@jeanettemarkley7299]

@@gabrielagarciamayagoitia1599 I was diagnosed with kidney disease and lost 1/3 my body weight. Turns out the kind of kidney disease it is is not caused by being obese. Oh well, I'm 5'5" and 135 now.

[@jennymartindale6786]

I WISH I could find some 70s Earth Shoes!! I wore mine out until they split across the ball of my foot. I wish I'd bought another couple of pairs! They were SO comfortable!!!

[@LazyIRanch]

I have bought them new on eBay. I love those shoes. I bought the three pair I wear about 18 years ago, though. They have held up really well, even though they are from the early 2000s.

[@pinklady5017]

I agree completely!! I loved mine, and like you, worn them out.

[@janc8199]

The Earth company still exists..they just don't sell that type of shoe.

[@LazyIRanch]

@@janc8199 I know Walmart sells a brand they call Earth Origins that are cheap rip-offs of the original brand name, but nothing like the shoes made by the original Kalso Earth Shoes. They don't have the negative heel, and are made of cheap plastic materials. I'm sad to learn that the original Kalso Earth Shoes are no more! Beginning in November 2022, Marc Fisher Footwear took ownership of the design, production, marketing, and distribution of earth® branded footwear. BOO! HISS!

[@TheJwlasichuk]

Earth shoes is still in business! Just different style.

[@Merm35]

“Toughskins” were a brand of jeans/pants from Sears for boys. They were marketed as being strong enough to withstand rough play by young boys. It had nothing to do with corduroy (which is a type of fabric) or Levi’s.

[@jasonself783]

The toughskins knees always wore out quickly, mom would put those iron on patches to cover them only the result was sweaty knees

[@WillowMurdock]

Correct! Not how "tough your skin was" 🙄

[@pwallace5359]

I remember those

[@petuniasevan]

There were girls' Toughskin jeans also. I wore them as my dad worked at Sears and we got a discount. Plus, I wore the knees out and we got replacement jeans often.

[@robertthomas1569]

@@petuniasevan My mom also worked at Seats. I got tough skins everybody else had Levi's

[@michellet.2432]

One thing I remember well from my 70's childhood is the popularity of playing marbles at school. Every day we competed against each other in an attempt to get the coolest marbles and have the biggest collection... I LOVED my marbles!!! 😁

[@DarrenReetz]

I remember playing marbles at school in the 60s!

[@pershingii2424]

Another fad was Yo-Yo's .

[@hannakinn]

@@michellet.2432 I played marbles in the first and second grade at school every chance I got. At first the boys did not want to let me play marbles with them because I was a girl (eww ick a girl) and nome of them wanted a girl to play with them..then what I thought was my hero came forward. The tallest boy in the class, handsome dark-haired, Dennis and he told the other boys to let me play or else. And they let me play. At the time I thought Dennis was being a gallant gentleman but in retrospect I think he wanted to win some of my steelies. I loved my marbles too. We moved when I went to 3rd grade and no one played marbles at the new school. I hadn't thought about my marbles in years.

[@hannakinn]

@@pershingii2424 My father had been a yo-yo champion in the 1940s and early 1950s he taught me a lot of yo-yo tricks. I carried around a yo-yo all of the time in the late 60s primarily in 7th grade and coukd do a lot of tricks, walk the dog, around the world, rock the crsdle are 3 I recall the names of. I had a semi-transparent Duncan yellow yo-yo and a sort of tie dye like butterfly yo-yo. The yellow Duncan was the easiest and best to do tricks with. I discovered the merits of boys in the 8th grade and put aside my yo-yo's for more feminine pursuits. Lol I remember yo-yoing inside the house and my mother always telling me to go outside because I was going to break something, but I never did break anything. High-five fellow yo-yoer of yore!

[@twatts1523]

And Jacks!

[@elvisneedsboats3714]

Oh no no no…Nehru jackets were strictly late 60’s. They came and went very quickly. If you were still wearing one in the 70’s you were way outdated.

[@VintageTVShows]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂

[@WillowMurdock]

Came here to say this! They made a comeback in the mid-late 80's, too!

[@lrajic8281]

The movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid helped the fad to wear western clothes, take pictures by a photographer while wearing Victorian clothes, and so on. That was the fad in clothes.

[@zippetydodahday]

Nehru jackets were STRICTLY 1968-69. Gone 💨 in 1970.

[@scottbubb2946]

I remember those brow/tan leather jackets with the fringe on the sleeves.

[@CjP-wb7yq]

I loved my black corduroys, and the sound they made walking down the halls :) zip zip zip. Same as my snow pants. Can you tell I grew up in Canada 😁

[@coldlakealta4043]

you're sure about that, eh?

[@jazzander5314]

I grew up in Canada 🇨🇦 too! We were so bundled up in the wintertime, that you couldn't tell who anyone was. We had ski hats pulled down past our ears, and scarves pulled up over our noses. Little kids had mittens on a string. If one mitten was loose, some weasel would come up and yank one, and you'd hit yourself in the face. Great times! 🇺🇸🇨🇦

[@Gretabpooh]

​@@jazzander5314I grew up in Northeast Ohio, so on the other side of Lake Erie from Canada. We had these terrible winters too where we were bungled up like snowy astronauts. We don't get those same winters anymore, so kids today don't understand how cold it was and how much snow we had.

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

In the '70s, I was known as a bit of a pinball wizard in my hometown... I loved them and still do. I am now 72 and still can't resist playing a pinball machine whenever I see one.

[@davidmitchell6873]

Were you that deaf dumb and blind kid I've heard so much about?

[@lrajic8281]

And Elton John had that song “Pinball Wizard”!

[@CamelotQueen]

Remember the movie "Tommy"?

[@Msfeathers7]

@@lrajic8281 ...sure played a mean pinball! I remember.

[@spiderlily4386]

​@@lrajic8281Pinball Wizard - That was The Who. Pete Townsend

[@randilevson9547]

Transistor radios that used a 9-volt battery. Always crackled until you found your favourite station on the dial.

[@charmaynebruce6215]

I loved taking a short wave radio to the beach at night and listening to other countries' broadcasts.

[@chuckoaks6756]

Cords were standard issue in high school.

[@user61512]

I hated the sound effects of cords, so glad my mom bought me jeans. In junior high, I was one of a few that our moms were still making us wear dress clothes.

[@jonnaborosky8836]

Pinball machines were also popular in the '50's and '60's.

[@sebastianmineo1313]

He didn't mention the WHO. Pinball Wizard.

[@russward2612]

I'll be 60 soon. I remember all these. I had a lot of them. I've still got a beard and my hair (what remains of it) goes halfway down my back. A big one that wasn't mentioned: Water beds.

[@WillowMurdock]

Ugh, remember the ROUND beds?! 😂

[@Imanimal-lover]

Or Members Only jackets... Lol nice.

[@BustedFlush7096]

Oh, I loved my waterbed!!! I kept the California King until I moved into a condo in 2000. I got it in 1975.

[@robertthompson5445]

Black lights, posters, incense burners, bean bag chairs.

[@kenstrauss5841]

I grew up in the 70s. Graduated high school in 73 . I had bell bottoms , couderoy pants . Long hair. And a leisure suit ( robins egg blue and platform shoes) and a cb radio in my car. Funny thing , in 1999 my 20 year old son came home from the thrift store with a robins egg blue leisure suit that he was going to wear for Halloween !!!

[@user-hr3tx6uu9o]

Lol

[@charmaynebruce6215]

Irony

[@BC-ev4hl]

I had a pair of elephant bells that were 72" around on the bottoms.

[@wendyhamm9722]

😮 Holy cow!

[@InnocentAquaticWhale-iw7gg]

That's all I would were, hide me bare feet. Went everywhere that way

[@LazyIRanch]

I've always been a klutz. I used to get my toe caught in my other pant leg bell bottom and fall on my face!

[@GiftSparks]

you couldn’t ride a bike with them because your pant leg would get caught in the bicycle chain.

[@ann-mariemeyers9978]

​@@GiftSparksThat's what wide rubber bands were for.

[@giorgiopalmas7934]

Frye boots.

[@hannakinn]

@@giorgiopalmas7934 I still have my Frye boots.

[@paulettebuchignani9784]

I loved my Frye Boots!

[@lisaholtzclaw4947]

Roller skates and rainbow everything

[@BustedFlush7096]

Rainbows in the 70’s? I had those beautiful white leather skates!

[@julienielsen3746]

Late 70s early 80s. I liked the early 70s better.

[@charmaynebruce6215]

​@@BustedFlush7096 Not the stupid rainbows of these daze; just good old beautiful rainbows.

[@wayne1290]

All of us old timers know what to do, if the van's a rockin ... 👀

[@WillowMurdock]

What NOT to do! (come a'knockin'! 😂)

[@sebastianmineo1313]

I thought that old saying when the vans were brought up.

[@bananie2383]

I LOVED click clacks as a kid. My dad made mine using chestnuts. Wow, that goes way back as I’m almost 70 yrs old.

[@donnkloepfer1316]

I had click- clacks as well but mine were made with the big grape resin molds available at the time. damn sure hurt when it all went awry.

[@julieannemichelle]

I loved earth shoes! They were one of the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever had.

[@rogerphillips2063]

70s was disco. i still love disco music.

[@frankcunningham5972]

Lol. I am 62. I regularly wear a shirt that says "disco sucks" . My granddaughter has one that says "disco still sucks " we made them up ourselves, it was her idea. She should have been a 70's kid.

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

My grandmother had a pet Rock purchased by one of her grandchildren. I don't think she had it long. I was her favorite grandchild. She died in 1988 from cancer. Lord do I miss that woman. It seems like yesterday she was still here.😢

[@michaelquinones-lx6ks]

Sorry for your lost, I miss my mother and grandmother too. 😥

[@jeanettemarkley7299]

It was never enough to have one income in a working class household. My mother worked full time as a waitress, working her way up to the fanciest seafood restaurant on Wall St. She cooked dinner every night for 7 people and a roast on Sundays, did all the house work, did all the laundry including ironing, took care of us 5 kids a bit and did the finances. In the 70 women went to work in mass from the middle class. Women of the working class always worked and had many children due to not having birth control.

[@VintageTVShows]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂

[@mariekatherine5238]

There were nine of us and Mom held down the fort AND worked part-time while Dad was deployed. Of course, we kids all had our regular chores.

[@jeanettemarkley7299]

@@VintageTVShows More then thoughts. This was my life.

[@tonysmith5650]

Poor mum did any of you seven help her

[@au_barb]

My mom was always a single mom so she always worked. But I was an only child.

[@cherriaydelotte8327]

I absolutely loved this video 🤗 Took me back to my youth🥰 My how things have changed!!!! OK….back to reality now 😁✌️🕊☮️

[@hildevandingenen-md4jy]

We used to love the two colored kickers shoes with the red dot in the sole. And the wooden swedish clugs.

[@melaniesharp397]

Clogs!!! A wardrobe must!!

[@charmaynebruce6215]

​@@melaniesharp397 I loved leather 'Jesus' sandals

[@rhondaflesher8313]

No mention of the tube tops? I remember in the late 70s during my painting class in college bending over to pick up some of my art supplies and when I stood back up my tube top came down, exposing my bare chest. Thankfully I was facing away from everyone else at the time and quickly pulled it back in place. If anyone had noticed, they never said anything, or I would have felt like dying. lol

[@ROHM53]

Earth 👞 shoes and Levi cords were my thing in high school during the mid-1970s. I wore a different color pair of cords each day of the week. Loved it!! 😊

[@CheCosaTesoro]

Yo-yos were huge. Competition and soda promotions.

[@thaismatsumoto]

Duncan ones were the ones you had to have.

[@joemuncie9187]

Polyester leisure suits were the biggest joke in history. Nerdy teachers and college professors of the mid 1970's thought they made them look cool.

[@rickhartman2106]

And sans-a-belt pants !

[@giorgiopalmas7934]

I worked with a guy whose wife made him blue ones. So ugly.

[@lrajic8281]

They were cool. But how about the shirt open to the navel with necklace chains? That was funny!

[@drunkensquirrel7545]

And those elbow patches, remember those?

[@sebastianmineo1313]

I made them look good. They worked in clubs and weddings.

[@bigbadbillb]

Everyone in the library could hear you comin' when you wore corduroy pants.

[@mariekatherine5238]

Before the ‘70’s, they had corduroy knickers for boys in the 1930’s. My Dad wore them and grandpop called them “whistle britches.”

[@WillowMurdock]

Schwoop schwoop schwoop

[@WillowMurdock]

@@mariekatherine5238 that HAD to be SOOO uncomfortable!! 😳

[@wendyhamm9722]

I miss pinball! They forgot one CB radio movie, Convoy!

[@irishrover4658]

I'll be 80 in a month and corduroy pants were part of my life until high school.

[@sebastianmineo1313]

I was a teen in the 70s. What a great time! Left out was the 18 year old drinking age. I'm Italian, I grew a mustache at 16. Never got carded. Concert clubs, bars ... I miss the long hair, my hair left my head. I had a few polyester leisure suits. Bell-bottoms... gotta be careful of the bike chain.

[@TKaePetras]

Funny you brought up the drinking age. We used a pencil to change the date of birth on our IDs so we could get in to the bars. Don't know how but somehow it worked!

[@charmaynebruce6215]

​@@TKaePetras At 16, I was never asked for proof ag age but my 21 year old friend always was 😅

[@jeanettemarkley7299]

Click Clacks were NOT glass. They were a hard brittle plastic that chipped and was a danger to the eyes. They really hurt when you missed.

[@VintageTVShows]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂

[@garyszewc3339]

They were acrylic.They had a short life because were banned, due to flying peices, that caused injury, when they shattered.

[@jeanettemarkley7299]

@@garyszewc3339 I know, I was hit by one of the chips. They didn't completely shatter. They used to chip and those chips did fly at a pretty good speed.

[@user-wu3bh3jg6g]

I still have mine!

[@rhondaflesher8313]

They were all the rage when I was in junior high. Kids would be walking between classes with those things a clacking away. That is until several students got hit by them when walking to close to someone playing with them in the crowded hallways. Didn't take long for them to get banned in school after that.

[@paleocon777]

*16* Earth Shoes were the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever owned. I would buy them again if they were still in business.

[@nedraleggett6837]

Me too.

[@mariekatherine5238]

I made lots of macrame plant hangers in home ec. and plant pots in pottery class. I gave most of them to my Mom and Grandma, and when they each passed, I have them back! All new plants, however!

[@gretaberry4983]

The 70’s was a great era to grow up in. I had my Earth shoes, wore bell bottoms . I had click clacks, holla hoops, footsie . Man , I miss those days 😌

[@VintageTVShows]

thanks for sharing your thoughts

[@pameladunn7785]

We had a pinball game at our house. My brothers and I spent HOURS playing it. Oh, the good old days…

[@lrajic8281]

And we loved the Japanese game pachinko!

[@BustedFlush7096]

@@lrajic8281I had a pachinko machine, I loved it.

[@sebastianmineo1313]

I had a bumper pool table. A buddy and I got really good. One of the clubs had a table. We'd hustle for drinks. The 70s were great for 16 year olds!

[@TKaePetras]

We did too. It was some fancy type of pinball from Japan. We also had a pong game. I remember my Mom bringing it home and all us kids gathered round to watch how it worked. So simple compared to today's games, but so much fun!

[@evalinawarne1337]

Earth shoes were the best. I wore mine every where. Best shoes while pregnant

[@rhondaflesher8313]

I graduated from high school back in the 70s. At least where I grew up, I can remember each school year had their own color of "cords" (corduroy pants). Seniors wore yellow, juniors had light blue, sophomores were pink, and freshmen wore green. Only seniors were allowed to paint or decorate their cords. The cords would be a "must have" for school pride days. It was also a trend towards the end of your senior year to have friends sign their names in permanent markers on your cords (while you stood there wearing them). For my senior year I could not find any store locally that had yellow cords in stock - so my best friend and I bought sewing patterns and fabric and got the old sewing machine out and made ours. They turned out pretty decent. At an assembly at the end of the year our senior class president in a symbolic gesture of passing on the baton to the next years seniors, stripped off his cords and handed them to the junior class president (he was wearing tied dyed long john's underneath). And no, this wasn't part of the traditions. He just took it upon himself to do so. But then our senior class was known as one to push limits and brake traditions - lol.

[@lorrainelowes2070]

My favorite decade. Miss all those innocent times.

[@centralscrutinizer7374]

I owned almost all styles of Earth Shoes and still have a pair of boots. I wore them exclusively for years, even into corporate business. I had sandals too!

[@pdd60absorbed12]

I had a pet rock but it escaped when I left the lid open. No amount of "missing" signs posted on telephone poles ever brought my rock back. Some years later I did see a guy in the U-District holding a placard that read, "help I'm a rock."

[@WillowMurdock]

👏🏼underrated comment 🏆

[@sebastianmineo1313]

That must have been some good dope!

[@beadcutter8644]

I had earth shoes. I loved them. they were comfortable. i wish I had them today.

[@barbarat5729]

They still make them. Earth Origins.

[@au_barb]

​@@barbarat5729those are not the same

[@matthewotremba9230]

Jumping Beans

[@CanMoose]

Thanks for the memories

[@nygrl6102]

Orange Julius, Chess King, 8 track tapes, Frye boots...

[@IrishStock3]

Corduroy pants, back in the 70's, if you rubbed them vigorously...they would begin to smoke...lol

[@deborahchesser7375]

Lol yeh and that sawing sound when a larger person walked 😆

[@janc8199]

You can hear a person wearing cords a mile away.

[@IrishStock3]

@@janc8199 , when I was a teenager in Foster Care, we often got word from neighbors, that so and so had thrown out bags of clothing at the local landfill...so, my Foster parents would drive us there, in order to find the loot... the following day, I happened to be in class when a classmate approached me, and said... did you know that if you rub them long enough they'll create smoke...so he wearing new corduroy pants and I these well used ones began the process... he then looked at me in a very weird way, and said " Wait a minute, those are my old worn out pants, where did you get them?"... we were buddies, so I confessed to him about the find, and he said...cool man... lol 😂

[@james-xm6ub]

Yo-Yo's made comeback,pop rocks,Slinky,Table Hockey was Big,8-tracks, PSYCHEDELICS, Playboys,COSELL'S MNF,FRISBEES,tie dyes,crush soda, 3 dog night. Done

[@peggywoods4327]

In '78 I worked on an assembly line making 8-track tapes. In high school I was on Frisbee team 😊🎉

[@TKaePetras]

Oh wow, Three Dog Night! Jeremiah was a bullfrog!

[@charmaynebruce6215]

​@@TKaePetras ... Was a good friend of mine

[@mepucket3029]

Click clacks are definitely better than eating tide pods. Earth shoes were so comfortable.

[@scootjohn777]

My ex wife had a mood ring, when she was in a good mood it was blue but when she was in a bad mood it made a red mark in the middle of my forehead. 😊

[@rynwin1]

I owned numerous pairs of Levi's corduroys in the 70's, including the coveted powder blue!

[@MissRoseLily]

I still love & wear mood rings ❤❤❤

[@rhondaflesher8313]

I recently bought one - for old time's sake. lol

[@MissRoseLily]

@@rhondaflesher8313 ❤️

[@melaniesharp397]

Me too!

[@hannakinn]

@@MissRoseLily I have a mood thumb ring, love it.

[@MissRoseLily]

@@hannakinnNice ❤️ I have on both thumbs & upper middle fingers & love how they all change colour & sometimes different colours wearing them all ❤️

[@DancingArmadillo]

If you’re going to do a video on 1970’s trends, then double check your source material. Most if not all of the platform shoes pictured are modern stripper platforms. There were only one or two that were from the’70’s. The “leisure suits” represented in this video were merely blazers and sports jackets. A couple of actual ones but not many. After that I couldn’t watch anymore because of the poor research. The video is comparable to 5-Minute Videos. A quickly put together video for $$. Do better please.

[@LazyIRanch]

Earth Shoes are still around, I have several pair and I love them. They cured my plantar fasciitis. I agree, poor research.

[@Jason-sx6su]

Raleigh choppers were pedal cycles,not motorcycles.

[@LazyIRanch]

Also, the clackers were only made of glass (tempered glass) very briefly, in 1968. The ones most of us had were made of acrylic, which shattered into sharp pieces. I was one of those kids hurt, but not seriously. What a dumb toy! The inspiration for clackers was an actual weapon, the bolo used in S. America. BTW, I still have a set of Jarts, lawn darts, in the original box! I can't sell them, they are illegal. Any day I worry that the Jart police will break down my door and rip my Jarts out my hands!🎯

[@fleursoleil1222]

Yes! So much cringe and quite a bit WRONG 😂

[@keithgriffiths9864]

Men wore Safari suits, even James Bond aka Roger Mooore.

[@LillikoiSeed]

I don’t remember Earth shoes, but I certainly remember desert boots. They were light tan suede and so damn comfortable. I wish they were still around.

[@coldlakealta4043]

agreed. desert boots were great.

[@LillikoiSeed]

@@coldlakealta4043 Yay! I’m not the only one!😄

[@julienielsen3746]

I had some called shoes Waffle Stompers.

[@pattysims7236]

​@julienielsen3746 those were really just hiking boots, I had them too! My brother Terry lived in his desert boots, and I saw them still available!

[@julienielsen3746]

@@pattysims7236 My friend bought some. I think I was 10 and she was 11. I always wanted to get what she had because she was older. My parents took us to a friend's farm and I was wearing them. Mom hated them. So when they got muddy she told me to take them off while we were still at the farm. I never saw them again. I think mom cleaned them up and returned them. She told me at the farm that they couldn't find them. Ha!

[@janc8199]

I still have a pair of black leather platform shoes I bought from Thom Mccann in 1974. ..they're practically in brand new condition..unfortunately my foot was still growing at the time and I cant wear them, otherwise I would. I miss the 70s.

[@PremiumUp]

I’ve been seeing platform shoes around recently. If you really want, you could find them too.

[@CatherineBirch-m5r]

I remember loving platform shoes. I walked tall in them. I had a pair of bright yellow ones when I was 20. I wore them to work every day at my job as a supermarket stockist. I was on my feet all day and now I'm paying the price with bunions.

[@michaelmcmasters7181]

I loved my Earth Shoes! Wore out a couple of pair! 😊

[@janetsides901]

I had those earth shoes,wish they were available now

[@mrlafayette1964]

I rocked a pair of Earth Shoes circa '78.

[@keithgriffiths9864]

Bay City Roller socks ❤

[@susanfaulkner2304]

I was crazy about those fellas!

[@LuvMyDogFam]

I had Fonzie socks 🤣

[@charmaynebruce6215]

​@@LuvMyDogFam I still have Felix the Cat socks stashed with my treasures 😊

[@GenerationJonesi]

Earth shoes were so comfortable! We were just talking about them the other day...and clacking my brother in the head...accidentally. 😬 Good times! 😂

[@lrajic8281]

These lumberjack Swede, high ankle boots, called “Wallabees” were the rage in the 70s. Even the teen girls wore them. Nobody liked oatmeal until the introduction of granola at the Woodstock. Then oatmeal bar recipes came out, and they were a fad. So was gorp, a type of trail mix. And musile, a type of cold oatmeal and nut breakfast food. We started going enjoy vegetarian foods, like ground chickpeas instead of meat. I loved chickpea “meatballs,” in sandwiches and spaghetti. We started to eat yogurt more, homemade yogurt even. And we liked homemade peanut butter and spread instead of mayonnaise. We gathered new recipes with avocado: avocado bread, avocado soup, avocado pie. We used to get avocados for free from our friends who had too much avocados! We learned to eat zucchini in new ways. Nobody used to know you can put a stick in it and batter it up and deep fry it! We learned to grate it and make zucchini bread! We had gotten zucchini for free because we had friends who had too much growing! And lots of free lemons, oranges and grapefruit! Hardly get anything free now. We learned about alfalfa spouts, radish sprouts, and etc., and it was put in sandwiches and salads! We learned how to grow our own sprouts!

[@melaniesharp397]

I loved my Wallabees! I wore the boys style that were way cooler.

[@gabrielagarciamayagoitia1599]

You know what I also miss terribly? My Dr. Scholls sandals.

[@VintageTVShows]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂

[@catherinewheel4851]

silent spring is coming to fruition. it should be mandatory reading for everyone.

[@Large011]

I still remember buying my earth shoes ( Excersoles they were called). With a wavy sole. I loved those shoes. I was thinking about them as I do from time to time and tried to find a company that still made them.

[@megb9700]

I remember going to a van show at the local mall. The best vans had…shag carpeting going right up on the walls and all over the ceiling too.

[@coldlakealta4043]

yeah, the good old shagging wagon

[@charmaynebruce6215]

"Shaggin' Wagons"

[@MaryCook-ss2we]

Tube tops

[@monicawarner4091]

Aka Boob tubes.

[@zippetydodahday]

I wish they still had Earth Shoes - They were SOoo Comfortable, especially if you worked on your feet, which I did back then.

[@annalisagentile6028]

I loved my mood ring.

[@darrellcook8253]

I miss the voop voop corduroy pants made when you tried to walk anywhere in them.

[@annhutcheson5770]

*Famolare Ladies Shoes *Sbicca Ladies Shoes *Sizzler Dresses (the ones with a matching panty) *Flasher Doll

[@katjay3125]

Wasn't there those feather roach clips also?

[@james-xm6ub]

Yup+you could send away for a water pipe that was Advertised on the thick E-Z papers! I had one.

[@melaniesharp397]

Yes - there was a head shop in the same mall as the Ice Capades Chalet I trained at. My Mom thought the Bongs were ‘pretty lamps’ 😂😂😂

[@melissapinol7279]

My late husband and his friend made "bullet roach clips" to protest the War.

[@CjP-wb7yq]

Yike, those platform shoes I would not have worn, but I did wear bell bottoms, turtle necks, and butterfly collars. 😁

[@monicawarner4091]

Most of the platform soles shown here are modern ones, made for drag artists.

[@cuseyeti_one8three]

They were called “Toughskins” because that was a brand name of Sears for pants with a patch in the knees to keep kids from wearing them out easily.

[@VintageTVShows]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂

[@missanne2908]

Gas was cheap in the 1970s!!! Apparently the announcer forgot about the US energy crisis in the 70s, causing fuel shortages and very long lines at the gas station (and no guarantee that the line wouldn't shut down while you were waiting). I remember someone I worked with who was able to get gas before work, and she said 'it was better than sex!' Also, gas prices quadrupled at the time.

[@tdr9204]

I remember sitting in line a block from the gas station with Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty" blaring from the cassette deck.

[@veraobrien3597]

OMG those Earth shoes made my calves hurt SO BAD for about a week. I wore them out though.

[@candicewitzkoske3155]

I made my own halter tops! Easy sewing.

[@melaniesharp397]

Me too!

[@susanfaulkner2304]

Oh my goodness.My Dad had so much to say about some of these items of the 1970's! I was allowed to have platform shoes, with much "please, ALL the girls in school wear them."😊

[@jphzzzz]

vans you can live in have made a comeback because great ideas last!

[@Estee.Ar.6869]

Classic memories!

[@KatyReminiec9399]

I had platform shoes as a teenager We had a CB radio What really killed the CB Radio was that the novelity had worn off by 1977

[@VintageTVShows]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂

[@charmaynebruce6215]

I still had a CB in the 90s.

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

How soon they forget indeed. (Okay, it was a half century ago.) The "invisible dog leash" was actually called Ralph the Invisible Dog. It was based on a Flip Wilson gag.

[@julienielsen3746]

I didn't know that. The only time I saw one of those was at the state fair or in a parade.

[@charmaynebruce6215]

Playing pinball was the BEST entertainment. I LOVED it!!

[@lisasimons5848]

OMG I had a pair of earth shoes I wore till they fell apart. I still have my mood ring.The 70s were a great decade to be young so lucky.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@VintageTVShows]

thanks for sharing your thoughts

[@RWildekrav66]

Earth shoes were great , very comfortable. Closest thing I did to becoming a hippie ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Also a buddy of mine had Platform Converse All Stars !

[@leahwhiteley5164]

To this day I love corduroy pants and in the 70's I wore Levi's cords.

[@rhondaflesher8313]

I remember a pair of bell bottoms that I wore to school that did not go over very well with the principal. The pants had wide red and white vertical stripes with a wide exposed zipper in the front (about an inch and a half wide) with a large round pull ring at the top. The back laced up corset style. I guess he thought they looked too risqué for school wear.

[@leniere309]

In the early 1970s I managed two pinball parlors, it was a great meeting place for old friends and to make new ones. I was in my 20s in the 70s so I remember most of the things in this video. Great stuff, Cheers.

[@cmtippens9209]

You wore your regular or platform thongs (aka flip flops) with the rainbow striped toe socks under your bell bottom jeans; the more thread ragged the hems, the better. I was not allowed to wear tank tops or crop tops, and they went against school dress code, but some of the girls got away with them. I wore my hair parted in the middle and down to my waist. It wasn't a simpler time or a better time, but our perspective has changed.

[@LazyIRanch]

Boy, that takes me back! Loved my rainbow toe socks! Did you also wear an old army jacket in the Winter? Mine had a Woodstock patch with a rainbow over it I sewed on one shoulder, Sgt. Pepper patch on the other. Stringy straight hair parted down the middle, and wire rim John Lennon glasses. I was so naive then, I got a free t-shirt from a new jeans store that had the slogan, "I Got Into Their Pants!" I was ready to wear it to school one morning, my mom just about had a cow. She asked me, "Do you know what that even MEANS?!" I was so dumb, I thought it just meant they had cool jeans, and I was "into" them! Yeah, being that ignorant and innocent got me in trouble several times!😒

[@melaniesharp397]

I had the rainbow striped toe socks - made a lot of halter tops from a simple pattern. Fun revisiting so many of these trends

[@LazyIRanch]

@@melaniesharp397 I probably had the same pattern! I loved those halter tops, wish I'd kept the pattern. I remember mine was McCalls, and Marlo Thomas was the model. She was so pretty! It also came with a pattern for some big bell bottoms which I made in purple velvet to go with my paisley halter top. HA! ☮

[@tomhammer1784]

Bio-rhythms tracked physical (23 days), emotional (28 days), and intellectual (33 days) cycles. When they peaked together…things were great, but when they bottomed out together…stay in bed. I remember writing a basic computer program that would chart them all on the same graph to make it easy to see what was coming ahead. This was back in the early eighties on an Apple II Computer.

[@monkeybusiness1999]

Great memories! 😊 I remember every single trend & fad shown in this video. And owned Klick-Klacks, a mood ring, corduroy bell bottom pants, a Pet Rock, Steve Martin comedy 8 tracks & a pair of those weird looking Earth Shoes. Among other things here. Influencers like Elton John drove many of these fashion styles. And movies/books like Jaws, Night of the Grizzly & The Amityville Horror made us terrified to go into the water, woods & NY suburbs, lol...

[@normcoker9399]

Like most that have commented here,I as well at 70 years young remember all these . I also had a 78 Dodge van with shag carpet,bed and a great sound system with Bose 301 speakers that could be set outside when a bunch of us would go camping and water skiing. It was a good time and no cell phones.

[@monkeybusiness1999]

@@normcoker9399 🙂🧡

[@Msfeathers7]

Good times!

[@epluribusunum1460]

Excuse me, my Beatles wig (jet black, fiber like cotton candy) was no joke, mister.

[@annafiorentin7120]

I remember the moon shoes. The plastic sandals if you left them outside on a hot day they would melt Remember the sandals that had a 3to 4 inch heel that went from the front to the back on the bottom of the of the Sandals. We would run up and down the steps in school and those sandals I remember the Orange and White Oxford with the 2 inch orange heal. Also the glass Knockers/Klackers with the two glass balls on the end of the string and we would go through the hallway Clacking them. We had maxi skirts and dresses. There's so much more but I can't wait to think about it right now. This is from a graduate of 1977

[@karenandcatz2915]

My brother wore high heel shoes and I went to my first day of college in earth shoes!!! Oh, and I still have my pet rock!!!

[@Jason-sx6su]

Where were the Raleigh choppers? Not shown anywhere on here,no idea at all

[@rhettg24]

Raleigh makes bicycles right?

[@NeilDeal2023]

OMG! I'm almost laughing at how accurate these descriptions are. 🤣

[@VintageTVShows]

Glad you think so!

[@dsantamaria713]

Good times! ❤❤❤❤