Brit Reacts to Remembering The 1970s in America!

[@gladyswilliams1148]

In the 70's you could ride your bike for literally miles from home along with a pack of kids.

[@TruthIsTheNewHate84]

I was doing that in the early 90s. Internet and cell phones ruined that pretty quick though.

[@darkamora5123]

We rode 15 miles on our bikes to get to the best Ice Cream shop in a neighboring suburb at least once a week back then (AND NO ONE CARED). Ah the halcyon days of youth .

[@eastsideterri25]

I miss that. As long as you were in the house by dark

[@TheRepublican777]

70s and 80s the freedom kids had, even a bit of the early 90s, then it tapered off and parents realized how dangerous it really was with the up in kidnappings, murders and sex trafficking

[@WilliamHoke-h2p]

had a planet of the apes

[@flothetonia5960]

We had sooo much fun in the 70s. Glad i was there

[@subliminalphish]

And the music!!! Still the best.

[@a2ndlife877]

Completely agree, we used to play this game called frisbee tag on bikes….hurt like hell but I’d play it today!

[@dl00076]

Yesssss❤

[@dona4him942]

Yes! Same here😊

[@TomBoyChic79]

We also had a PSA at 10pm every night before the news that would say "It's 10 o'clock, do you know where your children are?"

[@who-steals-your-lighters]

The TV shut off at midnight and played the National Anthem. "THIS IS the End Of Your Broadcast Day."❤

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

Why does that sound familiar, yet I was born in 99?​@@who-steals-your-lighters

[@johneastmond9092]

@@who-steals-your-lighters, Our stations said; "We have now come to the conclusion of our broadcast day. Thank you for being with us. We will resume broadcast programming for your viewing pleasure tomorrow morning at 6:00 with Captain Kangaroo. We leave you now with the national anthem, goodnight."

[@dobermanownerforlife3902]

Because our parents didn't want us around. A government funded ad campaign had to remind them they had children.

[@justshay]

That was the 80's

[@JoanCrabtree-by1gn]

Those slides and other playground equipment was awesome in the 70s. It was before everything was ruined with safety regulations.

[@Arthur-hy1nf]

I may be wrong but i believe that "white out" was invented by the mother of one of the members of a famouse T.V. band...The iconic "Monkeys" ''s, Mickey Dolence.

[@subliminalphish]

Parents TRIED to ruin EVERYTHING back then. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Today the gov just does it , no parents added.

[@dawnsutton2231]

Those slides in Texas summers were no joke! And you couldn’t be afraid of the burn you knew you were going to get because all of your friends were using it too! 😂 🔥 🩳

[@fancydancer2016]

Baby oil for tanning, no helmets, lawn darts and hitchhiking. We lived on the edge (and are still here to talk about it!) Character building.

[@TeriNkc]

Baby oil mixed with iodine 😂

[@angelastewart2420]

Yes, in the 70's and 80's we had to think for ourselves..

[@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x]

Yes, M'am. Oh yes.

[@jewels82718]

That is for sure.

[@The_Crucible714]

Exactly, nobody tried to force their beliefs on young people in the 70s, 80s or even 90s. 9/11 changed everything.

[@dalehood1846]

@angelstewart,. That's definitely a forgotten trait these days.

[@TemT8]

I wouldn't give up my childhood in the 70's for anything. It shaped my whole life. To this day I am still spending my free time outside, and meeting people.

[@tyger2101]

Me NEITHER I grew up in the S F VALLEY, Ca! I had an TIME for 22YRS, 1970-1990 I was 1-20yrs old so I had FUN!!

[@Demensemen]

That’s my dad he’s an alien to my mom and me he’s so outgoing he will talk to the most random people for 30-40 minutes anywhere it’s crazy

[@savannah7375]

My mom grew up in the 70's and I grew up in the 90's. I always love both and it's cool what we had in common.

[@natsinthebelfry]

@@savannah7375 Same! I was born in late '88 but I lived with my grandparents a lot growing up. I watched so much Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Munsters, The Brady Bunch, Bewitched, etc. They were a huge part of my development.

[@Bellastrega1960]

Me neither

[@-KingOfKhaos]

Dude!!!! The smell of a fresh DITTO was heaven!!!! It had the best chemical smell ever! Everyone including teachers sniffed the papers nonstop! 😂😂😂

[@garycamara9955]

It was called a mimeograph

[@rockyroad7345]

The paper was always damp at first too.

[@pamelajohnson7813]

Loved it!

[@nancyt2848]

Ah yes. I remember that smell. We always immediately held the paper up to our noses as soon as they were passed out.

[@terriemartinez9989]

Yes! I can still smell it. awww...mmmmm....

[@fireball1518]

🎶 Conjunction Junction, what’s your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses. 🎶 🎵

[@davefarley4318]

I am from the 70's. "What did not kill you. Only made you stronger"

[@Reno_Slim]

The three prominent colors of the 70s were avocado, harvest gold and burnt orange.

[@OkiePeg411]

Brown was a major color, too. When I bought my house in 2006 it was like walking into a 1970s TV show. Brown carpet, linoleum that had all the 70s colors in it (brown, yellow, green, orange on a tan background). The refrigerator was green!!! The only thing the house didn't have was wood paneling!

[@greeneyedlady5580]

​@@OkiePeg411 I bought one of those houses in the mid 80s. The carpet was rust color. The countertops were a hideous mustard color, which went with the linoleum. The drapes were easy enough to change, and repainting was cheap. I eventually replaced the carpet and ugly linoleum. I was really thankful that I didn't have to deal with a gold or avocado green bathtub. I'm pretty sure the kitchen appliances had already been replaced, since they were white.

[@who-steals-your-lighters]

Burnt Orange= Cars ans Tupperware 😂

[@bowmanbk1]

I've got some avocado club pans

[@carriemilito2851]

I remember all of those colors being in our house. I also remember some rather interesting patterns on the kitchen hand towels. My mother had some towels with a mushroom pattern done in all three colors.

[@misslora3896]

Just a little trivia about "White Out" for those who may not know... It was invented by a woman from Dallas Texas named Bette Nesmith, mother of Micheal Nesmith of 60's TV show and music group The Monkees.

[@jamesmclaughlin3460]

I read or seen something about that.

[@jamesmclaughlin3460]

Muhamid Ali George Forman rumble in the jungle fight. I was the youngest. I stood across the living room my brother Bob was at the top of the steps John was hanging out the second story window. And dad would say alittle more I would relay to Bob yhen to John. Actually every one I new did it lol.

[@misslora3896]

​@@jamesmclaughlin3460Yep, made her a VERY wealthy woman. After the Monkee's Micheal was incredibly successful too, he'd gotten into the tech industry in it's early days. Sadly he died not too long ago. Mickey Dolenz is now the only Monkee left.

[@jeffreyokrzynski8039]

Made it in her kitchen sink

[@HuskerGram]

I forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder.

[@luonajgarroutte212]

Those metal slides were brutal in the summer time. They would get blistering hot to the touch. Your legs in the short shorts would burn all the way down. Loved growing up in the 70's. 😆

[@Cowgirl4God]

I remember competitions of who could run the farthest up the slide! 😂

[@hstohr1]

I remember taking wax paper and rubbing it all over the slide so we could go faster. 😄

[@girl_overthinx]

Some slides had a bar on top of the arms at its highest point. Being typical 70's kids, many of us used that bar to jump on, similar to the lower bar of uneven bars, and then do a forward flip onto the slide. It wasn't that we had no fear. We just had too much confidence.😅 In my hood, during the summer break, we all took trampoline lessons, archery, and basketball for free at the junior high school on our block. Before lawsuits became a big thing. We were a bunch of annoying kids who added flips and precarious stunts on and off of everything. Great times.

[@Michael-ly7vt]

My legs are burning, go down again. I loved my childhood

[@davidrios1731]

Your Channel is giving me a nostalgia high. In High School there were classes for work related skills. Coke was used in automotive class to clean car parts. I some how; as a male, got into secretary class. I was the only male in the class. What a blessing I thought a curse. Learned to flirt. Learned I could type out a class schedule that looked identical to the class schedule you were required to carry. The rub was you were only allowed out of school during set time periods. You could only go to lunch during the time period your schedule mandated. I had access to a type writer that I could make any schedule I wanted and even sold modified schedules to other students. I made hall passes. I made alternate grade papers. I even rewrote papers for dollars. Meaning, If an A student handed in a paper with an A. I could reword, mimic the wording for a D paper. Got the D paper up to an A in a heart beat. If memory served it was about five dollars for about an hour's work. I even got free stuff when there were whatever given to the students. Like free books, plants, toys - basically whatever the school gave for incentive. You had to present a schedule and they would write down the name and give you whatever the flavor of the week. I would retype numerous schedules with numerous names and get numerous items. Off school, I once got a free pool stick using Randy Rhodes as an ID. Yeah, pool hall for high schoolers. You would submit a report card in a raffle and you would only be allowed to enter if your report card had all A's. Well, 50 report cards with all A's stood a good chance to win. I can't believe to this day they didn't notice the same telephone number 50 times.

[@VeraHuden-mj5bt]

I graduated from high school in 1973 but I remember all of that. Due to younger cousins, neighbor kids and my own kids the sesame street song will probably be in my head forever. School House Rock was like a commercial; time for the kitchen or bathroom break.

[@johnmorghuhn8505]

Saturday morning cartoons was when my mom got peace and quiet as she knew i was gonna be stuck in front of the TV from 7am to noon.

[@mikeeckel2807]

My mother never could figure out how we couldn't get up early and get ready for school but on Saturday mornings we would be up and have eaten our cereal and be ready for cartoons by 7:00 AM.

[@GeraldWalls]

23:25 "Bro, that is DANGEROUS." Welcome to the Wonderful World of the 70s. Somehow we all survived, and learned from our mistakes.

[@Mytommyj22]

We also had less predators trying to kidnap us. They existed and they did ride in vans. We were outside morning to evening and our parents did GAF. We raised ourselves. Now we are in our 50+. Dude watch the conjunction junction. Everyone knew every song and cracked jokes because that's all we had. Everybody loved Farah Faucet and Bo Derrick. They were the top of actresses and models. Look it up. 😊

[@GeraldWalls]

@@Mytommyj22 I watched the hell out of School House Rock. My wife can still sing the Preamble. And never forget: "I hope and pray that he will but today I am still just a bill."

[@whodat3700]

Well, most of us did. We at least developed pain tolerance.

[@stevenruvolo499]

as a kid from the 70s it was the best decade to grow up in. the music was awesome, the movies were great, and just the whole feeling was so much better then today. i wish i could go back.

[@TeriNkc]

💯🔥

[@rickywilson2983]

I love the 70s had so much fun I had a Dukes of Hazzard lunch box those days was great sure wish we could go back there.

[@steveandtammyb]

In the 1970s where I lived, you only had 3 TV channels. Yes, at midnight, they played the National anthem and then announced it was the end of the broadcast day. And then you would get those color bars on the screen. I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. The best time and the best music. I’m with you on the Coca-Cola! I love it!!

[@TeriNkc]

Yes 60's & 70's, wish everyone could experience those times. Kids weren't spoiled either, great Music Cars Food. Dare l say safer drugs, it's true tho.

[@tina7984]

Dude your comments, are cracking me up!! The 1970's was so much fun

[@notmyrealname1730]

Being a kid in the 70s was great, particularly in the summer. I would get up in the morning, Mom would make breakfast. Doing chores sucked, but when I had finished, Mom made me lunch, then sent me outside and told me she didn't want to see me until the sun went down. Good times.

[@jessieshepherd6642]

Yes. Rules from adults as they were pushing you out the door cause no trouble! rules that I followed, what adults don't know won't get my ass beat !

[@beckystrohl5539]

And don't EVER say "I'm bored" around mom. Then here came the bucket of soapy water and a rag or a finger pointing to all the weeds that needed pulled or a myriad of other chores that we could be doing.

[@1coketogo554]

Now days for most kids if they were sent out and told not to return until sunset it would practically be a death sentence. I have felt sorry for the kids for years. They are trapped inside and then people complain because all they do is stare at the internet but what else do most of them have.

[@Stevie2014]

I had a Flipper the Dolphin lunchbox. “Flipper was a very popular TV in the 1960s

[@TeriNkc]

I love Flipper

[@pamjones247]

Great years, get up early in the morning find your friends ride your bikes all day. Didn’t have to be home until the streets lights came home. The best years

[@Fuphyter]

I was 13 in 1970. Best music decade EVER! Lots of concerts too. I've been to almost 60 so far. To name a few; James Taylor, Bob Seger, Bonnie Raitt, Muddy Waters, Bad Co., ELP and hung out with Foreigner and Cheap Trick. I grew up on the east end of Long Island. It was paradise back then. It's now more "Lifestyles of The Rich and Famous". My family goes back to the late 1600s there. My dad was a Police Officer for 28 years, Chief for 11 of them. My family included a Lighthouse keeper after the Civil War and Whalers out of Sag Harbor.

[@TeriNkc]

Concerts were great and very cheap !!!!

[@GryphonDes]

Evil Kineval was a legend as I was growing up - even saw him live once -- very cool - and YES we did do crazy Bike stunts w/jumps/ramps etc lol! Such fun back then!

[@karenblevins1562]

Yup He started it! 😂 My dad called my brother "Awful Kinawfel" 😂

[@patkaiser7177]

Yes, we used baby oil all over our body and sat out in the sun to bake. You would put "sun in" in your hair or lemon juice to lighten your hair. And yes, all we old people are dealing with skin cancer now. There were 3 channels on tv to watch. The stations went off at midnight and came back on at 6:00 am. That slide you saw was how it was. It was tall, made of metal, and HOT in the summer. Best decade ever!

[@a2ndlife877]

I think we grew up in the same neighborhood, hahahahahaha cuz that was my life!

[@LJBSullivan]

Also pbs Station but no one watched it. Black and white TV, my dad refused to buy a color one until the black and white one died.

[@johnhouchins3156]

Growing up in L.A., we had 7 stations and then they added KCET 28 on UHF. I had no idea how lucky I was to have them until I spent a summer in Iowa!

[@MySunshine0315]

Omg! Baby oil with coke! That was amazing!

[@subliminalphish]

Yeah all the old people I know has skin cancer 🤣🤣🤣🤣 why to not buy SPF anything.... My daughter would disagree. But she burns easy. I never have . I just say I'm so white I reflect the sun back. 😏 But I rarely burn easy.

[@jaycee330]

13:22 Saturday mornings were an event in the USA for a child. You got up at 7am, got your big bowl of cereal and stayed in your pyjammas planted in front of the tv with your sibs or friends and you stayed there from 7am-12noon.

[@whodat3700]

Super Friends started at 6 am. Got up then.

[@unapologeticallyJax]

1970 baby here... and here in Canada same thing. We canadians kids learned more about your USA political system ... to this day more of us know more about the States than Canada! Great times adventuring tho... dangerously and we all survived ( well most of us). The younger generations are coddled now but my hubby is a 1968 baby and we raised our 4 kids.. now 26 thru 32 OLD SCHOOL... except we taught stranger danger etc and needed to know where they were going of course and were strict but also let them adventure and experience life so that they could learn. They are all very strong ppl with good work ethics and they dont relate with many of their peers.. only the ones who were raised old school with values and morals etc like them.

[@MariS1980]

Same

[@trice5880]

it was so funny how easy it was to wake up early on saturdays vs. having to wake up monday-friday to go to school haha

[@Faceless_b0y]

70s kid here!!! The ditto paper!!!!! 🤤🤤🤤 best smell on the planet!!!!! Loved it!

[@caracoidwren944]

I think every kid who grew up in the 70s had that moment when Dad let them sit on his lap and steer the car. Unforgettable.

[@Eugene-pt5lu]

Yes I was 5 in 1976,and my uncle always let me steer the car.

[@Eugene-pt5lu]

Yes I was 5 in 1976 and my uncle always let me steer the car.

[@TeriNkc]

Don't they still do that, like around the block. My grade school child had to drive us home, because of some crazy med the Dr put me on. But he had a small dirt bike and a four wheeler so he did fine.

[@michaelairheart6921]

I lived through the 60s and 70s. Those were the best times. I jumped over a lot of bike ramps. A 10 year old could walk in a store and buy a pack of cigarettes for 35-40 cents, no questions asked. Kids were pretty safe out on their own, not like today. Grownups looked after kids even if they didn't know them. Most people did not lock their doors at night. Shows you how morals and respect for others has disappeared today.

[@a2ndlife877]

My mom used to make me go in and get her smokes, I’d love to see a kid try that now….too funny

[@LJBSullivan]

We always locked doors, but stayed outside forever. Until street lights came on and her it was after 9 pm in the summer.

[@LJBSullivan]

​@@a2ndlife877Used to get some money run into the bowling alley and could buy cigarettes from vending machine.

[@SuperSushidog]

They had cigarette vending machines back then too, usually in bowling alleys, bars, etc. Of course, there was a sign on them saying you had to be 16 to buy cigarettes, unless of course it was for your parents, which is what you would claim if caught.

[@warrenhammelbacher6321]

Same here , never had to Lock the doors , roamed all over it was the best times

[@PurplePanda1105]

Jimmy Buffett' stepped on a pop top"!! 🎶

[@briankirchhoefer]

Cut his heal, had to cruise on back home.

[@floydiandreamscapes5145]

But there's booze in the blender, and soon it will render. That frozen concoction that helps me hang on.

[@ginacollins1275]

Hence the reference in Margaritaville…”stepped on a pop top…”

[@williamscoggin1509]

When you had a pet rock, you didn't have any veterinary bills, you did not have to buy pet food, you did not have to have somebody to stop by and give them water when you're out of town. They were great!

[@sullivanmaxwell6764]

My grandpa taught mine to sit and stay 😅 I still have it in its litt box kennel, and the can of "dehydrated water" grandpa gave me to feed it! ❤

[@debbers]

We went to the library when we wanted information! You could have much worse addictions! My mother gave my brother the bowl haircut many times when he was young! She even got made at me once for getting her comb caught in my hair so she did the bowl cut to me! Then she sold my long beautiful hair to the local beauty shop who was also a wig maker! I personally kept myself covered up because I got such a bad sunburn once that I never wanted that to happen again and we didn't have sunscreen! I used to hitchhike all the time, drove my mother crazy!

[@tina.clafferty]

I’m so glad I grew up in the 70s. It was so much fun.

[@JS-TexanJeff]

Do a deep dive on "School House Rock".....a staple every Saturday morning in the 70s. Learned quite a bit, and still have the songs in my head!

[@windsorhnd]

Remember hanker for a hunka cheese? 😂

[@Myomer104]

Would be nice if they brought it back. Bonus points if it started on the 50th anniversary.

[@savannah7375]

I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill 🎶 I grew up in the 90's and we watched them in elementary school

[@a2ndlife877]

@@savannah7375oh my god! Now it’s stuck in my head!

[@carriehv740]

school house rock helped me graduate grade school ...we had to write the preamble to the US constitution to pass 8th grade....I was first one done cause "We the people" was playing in my head...Thank you SHRock

[@alisadiaddezio2832]

My favorite thing about the seventies was being able to sit in the back of the station wagon no seatbelts and also sit in the back of the pickup truck and run around town just sitting in the back with your friends and the dogs out in the wide open air.

[@markcundiff1697]

I was 16 in 1970. I can't remember what lunch bucket I had, but I had one. Cars were every thing. My family home was within a bike ride away of a drag strip. Seat belts were new. I played drums in a band which got good enough to play over several states around us. The early 70s was university. There were no cell phones and computers were bulky and slow. The internet barely existed and all was DOS based. We didn't really worry about locked doors and friends were plentiful. It was majic.

[@janetguittard4115]

Born in the 50s, grew up in the 60s-70s. I thank god everyday for the many experiences I’ve been through. Kids today have no idea what they’ve missed. If I could go back in time , I’d go back to the 60s just to relive it all again .

[@bonnielucas1941]

Lol! Me too! I wanted to go be a hippie when I saw a report about Haight Ashbury action. Thankfully, I was too young! But I wouldn't want to live it over. At 15, I got drunk for the 1st time and soon became alcoholic. I had deep trauma and was very insecure. Got sober at 26 though and have been since except a lapse for a few months til I was 27.

[@michaelbrazelton5132]

@@bonnielucas1941 aaaaaaamen sister

[@TeriNkc]

Home life was brutal, thankfully we were allowed to be gone most of the time

[@edschultheis9537]

Don't forget shag carpet and water beds. They were very popular in the 70s.

[@davefarley4318]

I still sleep on a waterbed. I can not help it. I love them. I just rebuilt mine. I am 60

[@edschultheis9537]

@@davefarley4318 I'm 60 in a few days. I still use a waterbed. It's always the perfect temperature.

[@Jo-oq4vt]

I have had 2 different water beds. Happy with a traditional mattress now.

[@dl00076]

I wish I still had mine !!!

[@miraclehands9040]

They started with being crazy wavy motion, hard getting out. Then they made the waveless I think it was which was much better. My x hubby sold those at his first job.

[@philstone3859]

I was a kid in this era just like you see in this video. Yeah, we did all that stuff and more! We’d play hard outside all day until dinner time. We would play dangerous, unsupervised games that weren’t over till someone was crying or bleeding. No joke! It was a blast! Ha Ha! We would compare scars as a badge of honor!

[@missyvinson5355]

He asked what we did at night, we slept.

[@a2ndlife877]

We had 4 kids in our family and my dad would let out a huge wolf whistle from the back deck and you’d hear four voices yell “Coming!” Dinner time! Then my dad would set up a huge 12 man tent in the yard in summer and all the neighborhood kids would sleep out there.

[@keelsmac01]

This shit has me laughing so hard…I can’t stop. Ain’t it the truth! If you didn’t break an arm or a leg you weren’t living!

[@BalokLives]

The 70's were amazing. I rode my bicycle all over town. My parents never even knew I was gone, or where I was. We rode our bicycles miles away to the hills and jumped them as high as we could. So high in fact, that my brother and I frequently broke our bike frames. My brother had an unfortunate accident after my father tried to weld his bike and it broke at the forks. There was no such thing as a BMX bicycle at that time, we all rode a Scwinn. But the BMX came soon after.

[@gerryrepash6706]

That yellow was called "Harvest Gold". My house was done in the early 70s and we had all that brown, orange, avocado green and harvest gold. We did that too. We built ramps and ride big wheels and bikes on them. I had the Star Wars Lunch Box!

[@drew65sep]

Lol, I'm a retired truck driver and kids would get on their parent's CB radios all the time. And yeah, the CB could get pretty vulgar at times. But, I can't count the number of times that it saved me from trouble (road conditions, accidents, weather, etc). I wouldn't operate a truck without one.

[@malcolmschenot6352]

In the US, HOMELY means ugly in a specific way, usually referring to a person's face. It spans very plain to mildly ugly, but doesn't go all the way to very ugly. HOMEY means comfortable, unpretentious and inviting. Usually refers to interior spaces. You're the first UK reactor that I've seen ask about this.

[@viewer-8396]

Lmao finely someone else cought that too 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@juliemccauslin5807]

And there's homie 😂😂

[@PhillipManganaro]

He meant homey as it has a very homey feel to it lol

[@jhinson9595]

Exactly

[@TeriNkc]

​@@PhillipManganarowe know

[@NeuroPedsDad]

Reminds me of growing up in the 70's and 80's. Man that was a mad but awesome time to be alive.

[@Soulchyne]

Lewis: I'd fall off that slide and break my arm. We did Lewis, we did. Even if you could successfully get to the top and slide down, the darn thing got heated up to 2000° F So you would get second degree burns for your trouble.

[@cathyo3965]

The trick to it was get wax paper and slide down really fast.

[@greeneyedlady5580]

​@@cathyo3965Brilliant!

[@marythomson5251]

The slides were so tall and the steps had metal studs that stabbed your feet when barefoot.

[@Soulchyne]

Oh yeah, those steps were awful!​@@marythomson5251

[@marshalljones3341]

​@@cathyo3965 The wax covered cups that 7-11 had for icee-s were the best for waxing the slide. I almost broke the sound barrier once.

[@KevinKerrigan-uc2xj]

In heavy snow storms we got around by bumper hoping car's trucks and busses!

[@carolynwoodrow3092]

I lived in the 60 & 70's and my husbands family are farmers, they had CB radios on their tractors to communicate with the other equipment (grain trucks, planters etc. ) in the field, and they all had handles, like my bro-in-law was Roy Rogers so his wife was Dale Evans. Our whole rural area had CB and it was fun choosing your handle. One neighbor was Beechnut (I think he used Beachnut tobacco )and his wife was juicy fruit.

[@jonathanwilson9042]

I'm 58 years old and I can't remember a better time for music, entertainment and life. I can't say much for the fashions and decor though. But, good with the bad I guess ❤

[@TeriNkc]

In high school our clothes were pretty cool. Bell-bottoms worn jeans with patches, leather, army, suede fringe jackets.

[@sheiilablackwell1626]

I loved this time of my life

[@ladybee883]

The 1970's was my high school period. I graduated in 1974, worked for a while and then joined the military.

[@sheiilablackwell1626]

I graduated in 1975

[@christenwarner7558]

This whole reaction cracks me up!!!! I was born in 71 so I remember ALL of this stuff...... you're killing me 😂😂😂😂😂

[@williamturk2330]

12:28 Hannah Barbera, creators of Scooby Doo and the Flintstones, did several teen-centric shows, all in the same style.

[@lancelessard2491]

I was 12 years old when the 70s came to an end. I can tell you that most of this stuff is absolutely true. Nobody had bicycle helmets. I never even heard of them back then. No seat belts, we rode in the back of the truck for hours sometimes. Kids could buy cigarettes. Sun screen wasn't a thing. I never heard of it until the 80s. When we would stay over night at a friend's house, we would usually sneak out and wander the neighborhood in the wee hours of the morning doing things we could never dream of during the day. We had 5 channels on T.V. back then, the 3 networks, one independent channel and then public broadcasting. All the teenyboppers listened to am radio. Walkie talkies were highly prized by all kids. Kids did have more freedom back then.

[@TeriNkc]

Ah yes sneaking out at night...haha

[@JS-TexanJeff]

CB radios were everywhere in the 70s (still used today, but maybe 5% of the use in the 70s). My aunt even had a CB in her car...she would talk with the truckers!

[@dScribe]

In the U.S. "homely" means "ugly," or at least "very plain."

[@bluflaam777LSA]

He means homey. LOL

[@markhamstra1083]

That’s also been one of several meanings of “homely” in Britain ever since they were speaking Middle English. Most of them have lost track of that meaning, though, and now they only use another of the word’s longstanding meanings, which is essentially synonymous with “homey” (but not in the more recent slang sense.)

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

Not in the midwest it doesnt. Never heard anybody use “homely” to mean ugly. Im 37 and have only heard it used to describe being comfortable.

[@jimmy_wang_]

All depends on the context and which part of the US you're in

[@larimejohnson]

​@jimmy_wang_ my homey disagrees with you 😆

[@alexdaman.]

12:39 that’s Speed Buggy my friend. The Patty Hearst story is an example of the condition called Stockholm Syndrome. Where a captive inevitably becomes sympathetic to their captors cause or reasons.

[@georgemetz7277]

There was a long concrete wall in my town and during the Hearst thing someone spray painted ''SLA lives'' on it. This was Concord in the Bay Area. A couple days later someone came along and added ''cole'' to the front of it. ;-)

[@janetbaker645]

@@georgemetz7277😂😂😂😂😂

[@georgemetz7277]

@@janetbaker645 They left out the punchline! Patty ended up marrying her security guy she had during her trial, had two kids! I kinda remember SNL which had just started getting some mileage out of her story, you know, back when it was funny.

[@janetbaker645]

@@georgemetz7277 I was laughing at the wall and the added word

[@georgemetz7277]

@@janetbaker645 Oh I know. It's actually how I learned about the SLA, I was like, who...? Just wanted to finish the Hearst story. Hey, coming back here the YT commercial was for Foreigner, Feels Like the Last Time tour. Some of those '70s bands are still rockin! Made me sad seeing the Tom Petty album, never got to see him.

[@debramoore1428]

At 68 yrs I'd rather whistle past that graveyard, but its funny with a Brit spin.😂PS my granpa and daddy worked for cocacola plants!

[@Joe-nz5if]

Pain is a great teacher. What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger. Get up and walk it off. Put some dirt on that to stop the bleeding. Words of advice from the 70s.

[@williamscoggin1509]

I think you meant to say that that looks very warm and home'y, as in comfortable. That is not scooby-doo, it is another cartoon called speed buggy. The car had personality and could talk. 👍🏻

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

I'm guessing it was also by Hanna Barbara, because their 70s and 80s cartoon designs were pretty similar, and they made multiple Scooby Doo ripoffs because it was super popular.

[@MrCPPG]

I think it was inspired by Love Bug movies. I recall the game we'd play while traveling in a car. You punch your brother in the arm every time you saw a VW beetle and shout "Love Bug".

[@ruthkey-copeland1874]

We said slug bug 😅

[@kdrapertrucker]

When the T.V. went off at night it was usually late like 1a.m.

[@claranielsen3382]

My dad was just a block away when Patty Hearst robbed the bank in San Francisco with the SLA. He watched the whole thing. Lol we could even smoke in the grocery store. I had lunch boxes for Partridge Family , Brady Bunch, and many others. I fell off a slide like that one in the video. I had a blood blister from the smallpox vaccine and it busted open. It was really traumatic. The 70s and 80s was the best era to live in. We definitely had the best music. Great reaction!

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

Back in my elementary school days, I would use a Spiderman lunchbox.

[@pamelajohnson7813]

And, best cars in the 70s!

[@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x]

A. Block. Away.

[@claranielsen3382]

@@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x ??? city block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets, not counting any type of thoroughfare within the area of a building or comparable structure. City blocks are the space for buildings within the street pattern of a city, and form the basic unit of a city's urban fabric. He was just down the street I guess I should say. Forgive my Texas slang.

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

@@pamelajohnson7813 Gotta disagree on the cars, but a LOT of stuff was better then. Personally, 70s to 90s music is my favorite era. NSync, Backstreet Boys, Michael Jackson, and that is only scraping the very surface.

[@davidterry6155]

The high school I went to had a smoking section for the older kids in the mid 70s

[@RichFrye]

same here, also a juke box in the cafeteria and a full snack bar for before school for all sorts of donuts and sweetened edibles and drinks

[@whodat3700]

The automotive wing in my high school was an indoor smoking area until 1986. You could smoke literally at the door leading outside after that. When it was cold you would open the door to get a warm breeze on you. Now you can't smoke anywhere near the school.

[@TeriNkc]

Damn 😂

[@janflewelling6277]

By far the greatest thing about the 70's was THE MUSIC!! SO much to choose from, no auto tune, massive creativity, had so much to say. Is there any wonder that a huge proportion of music reaction videos feature 70's classic rock.

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

We got new lunch boxes every year. First one I had was space 1999 and last one was Knight Rider. I did have a Star Wars one at some point.

[@kimberlyhicks3644]

I would LOVE you to react to Schoolhouse Rock! They were great! I suggest "I'm just a Bill" and "Conjunction Junction" to start and "Verb, That's What's Happening" is good too.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

Lolly, lolly, lolly, get yer adverbs here.

[@CeridwenKeeley]

Conjunction Junction, Sufferin' til Suffrage, Little Twelve Toes...

[@Paradigm-change]

I got to see Bob Dorough locally because he lives pretty close. It was fun. We even got to talk to him afterward, really cool.

[@gotham61]

The word "homely" is a euphemism for plain or ugly in American English, usually in reference to people. "He's pretty homely looking"

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

But it is not very common.

[@reginafetty6374]

Yes, homely was poorly made and unattractive. Homey was comfortable and safe.

[@lindiharris-axon8167]

Growing up in the 50s and 60s, a neighbor was Welsh but married to an American (war bride). When she first arrived, she went to a wedding and attended a wedding where she commented that the bride looked very homely. What she meant was that she looked like she'd make a good wife, mom, housekeeper, whatever (which wasn't an insult in the 50s, I guess) but people quietly gasped because they thought she was calling the bride ugly. And American equivalent of the UK "homely" would be "homey" back then but it's not used much here.

[@slugdeth]

Hell YES we use to build bike ramps out of scraps of wood and we would lay down infront of them and jump over our friends. I had a couple land on me... no big deal, we were small kids and didn't weigh a lot. I had the Hurculoids Lunchbox, and I had a pet rock, my mom sold Tupperware, Avon & Caroline Emmonds. I was one of the millions of kids that was horribly disappointed after buying "Sea Monkeys" and they were almost microscopic. Nobody wore helmets or knee/elbow pads... except for the weird kids. I do remember around 1977 when PopRocks got huge, then disappeared due to the "Urban legend" of the kid who died from eating a couple packs of pop-rocks and drank a pepsi causing his stomach to explode.. which was total bs. That was the standard slide that all of us kids burned our legs on when the sun was out.

[@Michael-ly7vt]

Yeah,never forgot pop rocks.

[@Britcarjunkie]

I'm 58, and I still have my "Man From U.N.C.L.E." lunch box. 😁 Pet rocks were a gimmick, just like Chia Pets. Yes - we used to jump our bicycles over anything & everything - and we did the same with skateboards! The pulltabs: some of them had notches on either side of the pin on the ring: if you took the spring part & stuck the end in a notch, then pulled back on the ring and let go, the ring would fly about 30 feet! I remember Patty Hearst: police tried to raid a house in Watts, and they got into a gunfight, and subsequent standoff: police ended up burning down the house, but she wasn't there. Polaroid cameras are making a comeback! When we were kids (8 years old) , we could buy alcohol & cigarettes for our parents at the local store - they'd give us money and a note for the cashier, and off we went! Steel playground equipment - nothing beats it! I have two friends that have hitchhiked clear across the country. Great times!

[@marknelson9819]

Those slides were the best. You would grab some wax paper from home, go down the slide sitting on it a couple times, and wax it up. Then you would slide down at lighting speed after that.

[@AnitaLonski]

The 70s was the best decade ever. Really good tv shows back then & music too I had a Beverly Hillbillies lunchbox my cousin gave me

[@georgemetz7277]

I was always intrigued by how he started an oil well with a shotgun.

[@acampomft]

We went to the library! There was no Google😂😂😂 And we typed our papers on a typewriter. It's how I got through college.

[@wonderbubbles4092]

Yes, we did have to climb on the roof and adjust the antenna. If the signal came in well not only did you have to stay up there. You were told “DON’T MOVE”. You had to literally hold that position until the news was over.

[@TeriNkc]

Never saw that

[@candymae1215]

Yes we all rode bikes and now that I look back we all did crazy things with them including riding with no hands

[@kevinmarshall854]

My little brother in law told me that when his dad wanted to turn the channel he would have to go outside and manually turn the antenna on top of a pole connected to their house. And during the winter his father would make him go out and turn the antenna even with 3 feet of snow on the ground.

[@kathleenedens7953]

I was a teenager in the 70's. It was awesome. 😅 As far as believing everything, I spent a lot of time reading. The library was a weekly thing.

[@georgemetz7277]

High five! Class of '77. Remember looking at the card to see who else had checked out that book? For some the great inspiration was Carl Sagan, and he was, but even more so was Jacques Cousteau. I liked the narration by Rod Serling and of course watched all the Twilight Zones. Oh and, Joan Embery on Carson.

[@cindybednar6997]

Loved going there. I remember we were not allowed in the adult section till a certain age.

[@catseye1009]

Hey, with you. I walked to the library in the summer and come home with an arm full of books. Had to use the Dewey Decimal System.

[@lorij9309]

The 70s were amazing! Everything in that video is absolutely true, if kids today only knew😂

[@silentrage5425]

One thing he missed in the video and one of my favorite thing from the 1970's, homemade ice cream. If you were luck (and we weren't) you had the electric ice cream maker. We had to crank that joker by hand in the summer heat while dad would pack ice and salt in the bucket.

[@reginafetty6374]

We had a hand crank freezer as well. Oh but the ice cream was so good!

[@keelsmac01]

God I remember that…dad yelling crank it, harder! Lol

[@theresehowlett7112]

We had so much fun building ramps, out of left over wood my dad had laying around. We jumped over everything. Some kids didn't end the day with the same smile they started the day with.

[@theeclecticmemah]

I had "the Fonz (Happy Days)" and "Dukes of Hazzard"!

[@PurplePanda1105]

I was born in 1965 and am loving this video, Lewis!! I was the only girl on my street to jump over 3 guys with my purple bike! None of the other girls wanted to try... their Barbies were more important! 😂 Can't remember my lunch box but, we all had one! I think mine was Evil Kenievel.. yea, loved motorcycles. Never had sea monkeys but, friends did! My handle on the cb radio was Pinky! Dad was Pigpen. The best music!!! My high school had a smoking area called the commons! I've held many rabbit ears for hours 🙄 and we tried wrapping them in aluminum foil to make them work! It's 10 o'clock, do you know where your children are? I had the Dorothy Hammill haircut. We despised learning the metric system.. then they stopped teaching it! Typical slide. No sunscreen, I used copper tone and baby oil!! Keep on Truckin'! Stood in line for 2 hours to see Star Wars

[@OkiePeg411]

Your childhood sounds a lot like mine!!! Born in '65!!!

[@PurplePanda1105]

@@OkiePeg411 it was epic!!! Raised my son the same way I was raised, with a few adjustments. His buddies thought we were the coolest and weirdest parents!! 😂 He's 22 now.

[@PurplePanda1105]

@@OkiePeg411 raised in the USA? Or somewhere else? I'm in Pennsylvania!

[@debbiedoughty]

When Star Wars was first released, I wondered why anyone would want to watch a movie about wars in outerspace. Didn't we have enough wars here on earth? Obviously, I was clueless but went to see it anyway. I loved it so much that I sat through it twice. Ya, you could do that back in the day.

[@PurplePanda1105]

@@debbiedoughty exactly!!

[@pinkstarphoenix6182]

From 1970-72 I hitchhiked around the US. I was 18-20 yo female. Mostly hitched with a bf. Record was 1 day from Cleveland NY to Cleveland OH. 1 day from Cleveland OH to Chicago. 1.5 days from Chicago to SF. 3.5 days total to cross the country. Such freedom, such kind people! Can't do that now 😢

[@MelanieAF]

I did that in my late teens/early 20s only just closer to home. I lived in the country but not too far from Gulf Coast where the action was but didn’t have a car so hitched rides down all the time. Never had a problem but only did it for about a year because after that I had a boyfriend with a motorcycle.

[@juliepollock8289]

I was a kid in the 70s and we would go outside early in the morning and not come home until night no supervision

[@revgurley]

Our kitchen growing up in the 70s had avocado-green everything - fridge, dishwasher, phone on the wall. And the only way I can describe the color of our shag carpeting was "cat puke." I totally remember having to rake the carpet so the pile stood up after vacuuming. My elementary school didn't allow boxes, only paper lunch bags. But my mom would make a little drawing on the bag and put a note in it. She did the alien in E.T. once...I wish I could find that. I do recommend watching a video on the Patty Hearst story. It ended in a huge fire fight with police. There's still debate if she really agreed with her captors, or if it was a Stockholm Syndrome situation. Now do Schoolhouse Rock! They came on during Saturday morning cartoons. Please!

[@hollycook5046]

We had the mushroom contact paper

[@Yubl10]

School house rock was still being played on tv in the 90s and early 2000s because I remember seeing it on Saturday morning cartoons on some channels.

[@greeneyedlady5580]

Iirc, Patty Hearst ended up in prison for her part in the robberies.

[@susanengel-ix8bl]

Mine did too, I always thought it got dirty so quickly.

[@savannah7375]

I have avocado green shag carpet from the 70's now! I'm living in my late grandmother's house 😝

[@fishdaddy35]

“Homey” is the word you’re looking for. It means comfy and pleasant, like a home. Homely means ordinary-looking, plain.

[@kevinmarshall854]

The cartoon was called "SPEED BUGGY'" and I watched it every Saturday morning. I had to ride my bike a mile up hill to my grandparents house because I didn't have a TV.

[@Faceless_b0y]

I freakin loved speed buggy!

[@subliminalphish]

And the other one was Pebbles and Bam Bam the Flintstone kids all grow to young adulthood. Speed buggy was a knock off of Scooby Doo they tried a lot of Archie and gang stuff back then after Scooby Doo made it so big. I remember it too even though I was a teen with more interest by then. It was nice being a teen in the 1970's

[@distantsmoke4493]

I was born in 1961, and I was absolutely my father's "remote control". But ensuring the picture was crisp and clear was my father's responsibility. He had 3 daughters, and while we could be trusted to switch from ch 3 to ch 7, we could not be trusted with the important matter of ensuring the picture was xlear.

[@savannah7375]

I grew up adjusting the "rabbit ears" in the 90's. I was good at it too 😂

[@DoranneB]

My brothers and I were my dad’s remote control in the 70’s. I still can remember his voice saying “click it” then waiting and “click it” again until he found something to watch. 🥰

[@user-uw4wb7qo3i]

Great decade-best rock music too. 70s was high school and joining the military for me. Would go back to the 70s in a heartbeat- better times than today.

[@KentuckyLadyLiberty]

Okay, I confess the car interior at 6:16 made me laugh. I remember what it felt like to sit on that in a pair of cut-off shorts. First, it'd burn, then when you got out, your legs would stick to the seat and be sweaty. No doubt there were wing windows as well.

[@nancyfried7239]

I grew up in the 70s. So much freedom!

[@deanchynoweth4373]

I was 8 in 1970. Lived in a small town. Good times.

[@michaelbroska3144]

Louis, your reactions to the 1970's are precious. It was a great time to be a kid!!!!

[@eddiebennett2994]

The yellow was called Harvest Gold

[@OhTerrful1]

I thought it was goldenrod

[@QWERTY-ov9tm]

We did those things without safety gear. No helmets,.no knee pads etc. It was awesome. I remember riding in my dad's truck standing on the front bench seat. My seatbelt was his arm. We'd blow crap up. I'd go to the lake in the summer time as a kid for hours without adult supervision. There was NO Internet and it was an absolute blast. I honestly feel sorry for kids who didn't experience my type pf childhood.

[@kathyolney4083]

Conjunction junction..what's your function...a song..😂😂

[@tinanichols203]

I graduated from high school in 1970. Another cool thing about the 70's were the fast cars.

[@tankyou4204]

I broke my shoulder jumping off a ramp over a bunch of kids. I crashed on the way down. I had a Star wars lunch box

[@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x]

I escaped bone break free. But,.. shh.. mine: pink Barbie vinyl covered cardboard.

[@stoveboltlvr3798]

I landed and busted my chin on the gooseneck of the bike. Got yelled at, cleaned up and was back at it. I had a Starsky and Hutch lunch box.

[@tankyou4204]

I had to wait 4 hours to go to the hospital because my mother thought I was faking it. Then waited a couple more hours for the doctor cuz he was out playing golf and it was on a Sunday morning when I got hurt.

[@stephaniemccarthy1676]

Born in 1962. Fun kid times for me. I am grateful for my living in this decade. Many great times.

[@teerat8451]

We set up ramps and jumped over people and garbage cans all the time. My brother landed on the curb and flew into a fire hydrant breaking his collar bone. I remember my dad yelling "don't move" during football games when we adjusted the antenna.

[@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x]

Awesome! The time of our lives though. Same at our house. My bro drove bicycle directly into back bumper of parked car. Me then: oh, I guess King Tim's Not perfect then? 😁

[@juanalucio79]

I grew up in the 80s, and those were the playground equipment, and we did have that slide.

[@SwyzlStyx]

It's Jabber Jaws cartoon with the bugy.