1970s Things That Are No Longer Allowed!

Growing up in the 1970s and growing up now are two completely different propositions. Cell phones, cable tv, and the internet have revolutionized what it means to be a child, which means kids these days are missing out on a slew of experiences that we all had back in the day. I’m Nostalgic Nick for Doyouremember, and today, as you might have guessed, we’re going to be looking at 25 things 70s kids could do but today’s kids can’t. Be sure to hit the thumbs up icon if you enjoy our trip to the past, and subscribe to our channel for more retro content, but now let's dig into both the good and bad of being a kid back then!
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[@eldutcho3576]

The 70’s & 80’s were absolutely the best. Decades. Feel sorry for today’s kids.

[@gregmcclelland3488]

I was born in 1969 and I remember both the 1970's and 1980's! Great times and so much easier and less complicated than today!

[@nevermind5321]

@@eldutcho3576 I totally agree 💯💯💯

[@radiocontrolled9181]

Born in 1972 here. Seventies and eighties - less technological, less materialistic and much simpler and funnier times. Smartphones and tablets robbed today's kids of their childhood. They don't know and will never know better.

[@carolynking1625]

@@gregmcclelland3488 Because you were a child.

[@randallbell8887]

Pish Posh.

[@jthoen61]

I was born in 1961. I was born in an era where you said the pledge of allegiance in class, You rode bikes and stayed out 'till dusk, you rode in the back of pickup trucks or station wagons, you couldn't wait for Saturday cartoons, you watched tv as a family, you ate supper as a family. You went to the drive-in movies with your folks. You respected your elders. No cell phones, personal computers, or internet. You played outside. It was an era of exploration but also innocence. In grade school, we found out that a kid found his dad's condoms and brought one to school. That was a big deal. There were no school shootings. You found out about your changing body and sex when given "the book." So many good memories. I wish I could go back for a day. We've advanced so much with technology but we went backwards as a society.

[@buzzwaldron6195]

Pledge was ruined in 1954 when religious shiiite was added to it...

[@rockyroad-hq7hz]

Most high schools were open campuses. You always showed off with your clique of friends by returning from lunch with a McDonald's labeled cup. Some high school's in the 70's had assigned outside area's for smokers on campus.

[@hbennett5640]

well said❤

[@misslora3896]

​@@rockyroad-hq7hzI was class of 87' and it was still the same then. Grew up in SoCal where the schools aren't contained within large buildings like other regions. All the classrooms open to the outside and a covered hall/walkway. There weren't indoor lunchroom's at the Jr. High and High schools either, just a cafeteria window and an outdoor "lunch area" with benches and tables. In High School the campuses weren't fenced and we could pretty much go wherever we wanted during lunch, whether that was leaving campus, hanging out on the front lawn of the school, the athletic field, parking lot etc. The only rules were no food indoors, couldn't be in a classroom or lab without an adult present and making it to your next class on time. Our smoking area (sounds so crazy even just to say now) was conveniently located right in the center of campus, with several benches and large metal astray stands like the ones you'd see in airports and malls. We moved to N.E. Indiana for 2 yrs when I was 13 so, I did one year of Middle and one year of High School (8th & 9th grade) there. I was so happy to move back "home" and get to have the fresh air, sunshine and relative sense of freedom that "California Style" school campuses afforded. I learned how fortunate I was to get to have that kind of school experience and be genuinely grateful for it.

[@Nickyeyes]

​​@@rockyroad-hq7hz I graduated high school in 86. By the time I left there was still a huge smoking area outside. You were supposed to be 18 in order to utilize it, but there were way too many kids smoking for the school to police that area, and they really didn't care anyway. Never underestimate the power of apathy.

[@HBTwoodworking]

At 10 PM, the TV stations would broadcast, “It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your children are?”

[@juliemoore6957]

I remember that!

[@JST-bc5te]

@@juliemoore6957 Me to!!

[@jefferyschic]

I, FL, would visit my grandma in NY and remember hearing this. It wasn't played in FL, we just knew to be home at dusk or else.😅

[@frankmerrill2366]

A TV station in Detroit regularly broadcast that message, but it was at 11:00 because Detroit is in the Eastern time zone. I remember having a big laugh one night when that station turned that phrase upside-down and instead asked "Children, do you know where your parents are?"

[@berlinkozyreva]

And no one knew or cared!

[@mikebritton8798]

Born I 1961. All of these things were a part of life that we never gave a second thought. Change is inevitable, but it ruins a lot of good things.

[@townhall05446]

There are a lot of great things about today and technology but I don't think they made up for what it used to be like being a kid. Hey people, when you watch Leave It To Beaver, that was not just some idealized portrayal, that is what life was like for MANY of us. Exactly. In fact the story lines came from the writers' own family experiences.

[@teresewecker]

I too was born in 1961.. Does anyone remember wearing puca shells?? Forgive me for the spelling...

[@ThePumpin1]

@@townhall05446 What "many" would that be? Your mom cooked dinner and cleaned house in high heels and wore a set of pearls? There may have been SOME life situations just like on the show. But the 1950s and 60s in real life was NOTHING like a Beaver episode. Especially if you were a person of color. Back in those days People of color (mostly black people) couldn't do things which we take for granted now. We were (and somewhat still are) discriminated against in employment, housing, voting and education. Back then in some cities, blacks and whites were segregated in public spaces. Why would you want to go back to days like that?

[@davidleavitt3804]

@@ThePumpin1 knock off your racists talk you whiner.Besides white is a color two non genius.

[@mread958]

I am a 1961 baby too. EVERYONE had puca shells! I wonder how kids born today will handle their future when so much is done for them by parents. I remember not wanting the phone to ring at dinner because he would try to listen in and ask me " who calls at dinnertime?" That 70s show was so right on. All the clothes Jackie wore, I did too! Remember when white jeans were popular in high school? Why, now that I think about?

[@onestarabove7027]

We had so much freedom without fear. My mom worked all the time. She had no idea where we were all day long. We rode our bikes. Ate candy bars and drank bottled Coke. We would walk two miles to the library during the summer and check out ten books and go home and read them!

[@juliemoore6957]

Me too!

[@poll2dock]

My parents both worked. Walked home from school with a key in my pocket. Often stopped at 5&10 for some candy. A quarter bought a whole lot. After getting home I would watch one of only 3 TV channels or ride my bike to play with friends. No one called the house to see if I made it home ok. My parents might not see me till dinner time. It was all about trust, respect and manners. I miss it so much.

[@poll2dock]

Lawn darts, clackers, metal jungle gyms over concrete. Real powerful fireworks, pools without lifeguards, I could go on. Only the tough survived. 😂

[@pamelag7553]

@@poll2dock 😄👍having common sense and plain good will got us all through!

[@Donna-zc9ii]

​@poll2dock You pretty much just described my childhood. Mom didn't work, but our house was always clean because we were outside all day. Once we were old enough to leave on our bikes, she never knew where we were. We would ride all over town, downtown to Woolworths, they had a great candy counter and penny candy. Never had a helmet, don't think they were even around then. Never had any accidents. We climed trees, played in the woods and went to other friends houses. With 3 channels, you never heard about kidnappings or all the bad stuff now. It was such an innocent time.

[@JoeRay-uj1ee]

I'm 66. If you didn't live in the 70s..... you really missed the best decade to live in. Far better than today's trash.

[@thecajunphoenix]

Don't underestmate those of us who had childhoods during the 1980s because we're not that far behind. My older sister Carol was definitely a 1970s kid.

[@sharonsettle9079]

Absolutely.

[@Flagrazi]

Absolutely

[@shuster1921]

So Right!! I was 12 in 1970, so my teen years were the 70's and the best years of my life!! Times were simple, all we thought about was Girls our dirt bikes and gettin high!,,, Anybody seen that time machine?🤣

[@kat35lulu88]

Going to the record store......The "dime stores"......vacations staying at Holiday Inns......Charlie's Angels.....Pizza Hut restaurants.....the smell of library books..... The Midnight Special...... Soul Train......

[@bostonwhofan]

Getting excited to watch The Wizard of Oz on the one night a year it was broadcast on national TV.

[@laurachristianson1688]

At least the record store is making a return….my husband and I who both managed record stores back in the day can now revisit our dating profile again. Like they say everything old is new again, and we have been lucky enough to experience it again.

[@LimeSherbet-sl6bx]

Yes, all of these things! I got a pet duck at a dime store

[@Lightsngear]

Looooooove that Soul Train opening! AND those many, many nights staying at a Howard Johnson's!!

[@thecajunphoenix]

I actually miss being able to sit down at a Pizza Hut restaurant and go to the record stores for music. We still have actual library books to borrow.

[@jerdog8335]

Sat morning cartoons. Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, loved Johnny Quest. The old pre-internet time, when we played OUTSIDE! Have a scar from a rock fight. Banana seat bikes with a card in the spokes attached with a clothes pin. Yeah, I remember.

[@JosephMartin-sj3kz]

Man, I LOVED my Bugs Bunny cartoons. Also, my Fat Albert & (after cartoons) watching “American Bandstand” or “Soul Train” (depending on who was on that weekend). We had to choose one or the other. No taping back then! 👍😊

[@SuV33358]

Josie and the Pussycats

[@timlabell]

You are 💯 correct

[@richardplume3212]

Chopers or drop handle

[@socksumi]

And the greatest music ever.

[@Traderjoe]

Kids then learned how to wait, and not expect to always get what they wanted. They learned that they can fail. That adults and elders were to be respected.

[@bettyir4302]

They got blue ribbons for winning. None of this participation ribbon hooey.

[@AllisonCorona-nv7ov]

Today, "respect" is ALMOST a dirty word‼️ If children don't show respect, perhaps it's because they were never taught how to.

[@quieteducatee9063]

@@bettyir4302 My grand son got a "certificate of awesomeness" for turning up to play footy. What does that even mean? 🤣

[@mothersruin9058]

Yup!!!

[@poll2dock]

I’d give anything to go back to my child/teen years in the 70s. They weren’t always easy but the freedom and fun were worth it

[@KillerNetDog]

Being a teen in the 70's was pretty cool looking back.

[@SMELLGOODER]

I was born in the early 70's(72).......but I remember thinking how cool older kids looked to me!!

[@Prieze868]

Born 65, the fashion flared pants in the early 70s Miller shirt treads.jeanswrap around skirts sharpy cardigans. Lee.levi 501

[@rascalferret]

We are blessed to have experienced the 70's...

[@billsanders5067]

I grew up in the 1950's-60's. If Child Protective Services had been around back then, every parent in town would have had some splaning to do, and most likely parents would have told the investor that "how I raise my kids is none of your damn business", and slamed the door in their face.

[@WrenFaithBridger]

I think you mean "investigator", unless they were paying your parents to take care of you. LOL

[@dabneydee9109]

1. Using your portable cassette recorder to tape your favourite songs off the radio. 2. Reading TV Guide blurbs of your favourite shows to see what that week's episode will be about 3. Having to wait for TV networks' hiatus season to catch a rerun of a show you missed 4. Banana seats on bikes 5. Writing letters to summer camp friends and waiting weeks for their reply 6. Making a long distance phone call and timing the call because it was, like, $5.00 per minute I could go on and on.

[@WrenFaithBridger]

To this day, whenever I hear Steve Miller's "Swingtown", in my head I can hear my cough in the background; when I recorded it off the radio I had a bad cold. Oh, and speaking of long-distance calls, remember after a certain time long distance was cheaper so it was always best to make those calls at night.

[@pennierkaide4985]

I want a banana seat for my bike. Idc how it looks. I stopped riding bc I can't stand the hard little sattle seats all bikes now have😡

[@jetcarddude]

Awe the 70's, I am a survivor and I was so blessed to grow up in that era. Fun Fun Fun.....

[@ITcanB]

Anyone remember the "Bell Hop" I think that's what we called it , a plastic ring you wore on your ankle and you would swing a plastic bell around and jump over it. ❤

[@bostonwhofan]

Yes. And also "Romper Stompers".

[@Kinikia95]

You can get a version of that Bell thing at the Dollar Tree. If romper Stompers are what I think, people are probably afraid of the lawsuits from broken ankles.

[@WayneShulson]

We called them Skip-its and the ones that had a Lemon instead instead of a Bell were Lemon Twists, you could get them and other Toys by collecting Popsicle wrappers and sending them into Popsicle Pete.

[@TinaRobinson-qf1dh]

I had one of those they were called lemon twist

[@lindamcnamara7803]

I had skib it , loved it I wore through a couple of them

[@byronedwards5828]

Kids today have no idea how much more fun it was back then,!!

[@WrenFaithBridger]

Kids do have some advantages these days. When my daughter's bestie moved to Colorado from NH, they were able to stay connected through socials. When I was in 2nd grade my family moved across town. It was 50 years later - almost to the day - when I was able to contact my bestie. And how did I do that? Social media!

[@chillivodka01]

Those days were the best of times and the most fun times. I would go back in a heart beat if it was possible. The world was a lot more exciting back then. Good times indeed!

[@zapkvr]

The Vietnam war was so much fun. Jesus

[@carolynking1625]

@@zapkvr So was the Recession and the gas shortage!

[@carolynking1625]

I feel that way about the 1960's. Although when I was then I cried I missed out on the 1950's, when there were no hippies and everyone in America didn't hate America like it felt like they did in the 1960's! I forget all that when the nostalgia hits and I want to go back to the fun and exciting 1960's!

[@chillivodka01]

@@zapkvr I know, not much fun the US getting beaten by a bunch of rice farmers. But hey, the music was great!

[@townhall05446]

@@zapkvr Wow, some real Debbie Downers here. No era was perfect. But we didn't have 'smash and grab' store lootings, homeless people living and crapping on the sidewalks, child sex trafficking, drugs in grade schools, men in lipstick, high heels and pasties 'celebrating' themselves in parades, and on and on. Yeah Vietnam was BS, I could go on about that, but that just happened then. War happens now too.

[@lebenswasser4224]

At 67, a few scars from the 70s are still visible. And I'm proud of it.

[@gpwcowboy]

Lets you not be thin skinned.

[@notsosilentmajority1]

@@gpwcowboy Lol, love it.

[@MovingOndaisy]

My sister fell off a v high 70's slide aged 4yrs. At 53 she had a brain aneurysm.......

[@toots810usa6]

Crabapple fights with the kids across the street. One time we had a hose fight and I dragged the backyard hose through the house to get it to reach....then Mom came home. LOL

[@stevenbaer5999]

I feel home sick for the 70s

[@alwaystrustinthelordone]

💯 Those truly were the good ol days.

[@SandraBWard]

OMG YESSSSSS. LOVED THE 70's

[@kauffrau6764]

I do too sometimes, there are lots of movies from the 70s on KZbin! Sometimes I binge them.

[@clairdelunefan]

@@kauffrau6764 ~ Yup! My faves are the ABC Movies-of-the-Week. Do you enjoy those? 😊

[@Michael9-23-15]

I'm grateful for growing up in that era.

[@MSinistrari]

At work when us 70s kids are laughing over stuff like getting piled in the back of the station wagon and sliding everywhere when we made a turn, or going into the corner store to pick up our parents' cigs, or just being left to head out on our own and making sure we got back home when the streetlights came on, all the younger set look at us like they can't believe we're still alive. Some also give us that envious look and I do feel sad that they missed out on so many experiences that help shape a person.

[@annabellelee4535]

That's the truth.

[@alwaystrustinthelordone]

Playing Frozen Tag until we all got called to go in a little after dusk and the streetlights came on.

[@jaysky2000]

@@alwaystrustinthelordone I wonder if your Frozen Tag game is like Spud. That's what we played until the lights came on. Good times!!

[@betsybarnicle8016]

​@@alwaystrustinthelordone...and kick-the-can and spotlight.

[@clairdelunefan]

"...sliding around everywhere..." Right! We never wore seat belts back then. Heck, we'd cut 'em out of the car cuz they were dead weight. 😉

[@lindabaker667]

Ahhh...the ecstacy of closing your eyes and inhaling the moist ink of freshly mimeographed paper.

[@amypetra5021]

Why don’t I remember that 🤷🏻‍♀️🤔. I was born in 59’ so I definitely should…

[@alwaystrustinthelordone]

Money (paper bills) used to smell that way too, remember ?

[@juliemoore6957]

I loved that smell!!!

[@chellybabyme]

I still have a deep appreciation for newspaper ink

[@gailmorgan2556]

1964 here. No idea about mimeographed paper smh. But if it smells how money used to smell, i get it. Always used to sniff money. Never heard of clackers and we did use lots of sunscreen. Otherwise, thanks for the memories. What a time..😢

[@davidbigbee3556]

I was born in 1964 and I remember all of these! My worst memory was when we had a pool party and my dad walked outside with a new perm wearing a a pair of Speedos and Elvis sunglasses 😮. I’m amazed that I didn’t need therapy after that! 😂

[@justmejenny7986]

🤣

[@tomasviane3844]

I had a friend who all of a sudden had a perm as well. He told me that he woke up in the morning and had this hair in a natural way. LOL

[@georgetubbs8211]

OH DEAR LORD!! LMAO!!

[@kimgrattage6049]

The mind boggles, help, get me a therapist stat. Lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉

[@allison471]

Too F'N funny 😂😂😂

[@SovereignFighter1]

The new book paper smell is a thing that only a 1970's kid can appreciate.

[@tomasviane3844]

I think in this video they meant the smell of freshly hand-stenciled papers at school, but the smell of book paper is very soothing as well.

[@townhall05446]

@@tomasviane3844 In grade school the mimeograph machine was in the room right next to my 1st and 2nd grade classrooms; we often got mimeo sheets passed out which had JUST come off the hand-cranked machine; they were cool to the touch because so much copy fluid was on the paper, evaporating. Being 1st or 2nd in a row in class meant you got to sniff the stack as the teacher handed you 5 or 6 and you passed them back - it was great. We didn't realize we were basically abusing chemical substances right in class!

[@jefflilyea4669]

Oo. Mimeograph.

[@lamarw7757]

It was more the ink smell, not the paper.

[@PugLover9955]

Now it's that weird 'plastic-y' smell when you open most items, js.

[@BADD1ONE]

Back when mistakes weren't considered failure. But a learning experience

[@sometimes988]

in 1958 my mother walked me to kindergarten on the first day after that i walked myself to school for the rest of my life ,and we lived in chicago .

[@amypetra5021]

Me too ❤, I went Nixon grade school in Chicago on keeler avenue, K-8. We walked because my mom didn’t drive. Which was common. Women didn’t drive because usually the family car was the dad’s. One car. Or, as in the case of my mom, women never learned to drive. Ah the good ole days ❤

[@jerdog8335]

I was born in 1958. Nice to know some of us are still alive and causing problems with the Maga morons.

[@townhall05446]

My wife said she walked almost a half mile to and from Kindergarten every day by herself. When I was in 1st grade my mom usually picked me up at school but some days she would say 'start walking home and I'll pick you up.' It was two miles and sometimes I made it the whole way on my own. Nothing bad happened to me.

[@kellyshomemadekitchen]

Right! I walked a mile to and from school every day beginning in 2nd grade through alleys in a town near Columbus, Ohio. We never thought a thing about it and nothing ever happened to me.

[@LE64SAM-IAM]

​@@amypetra5021 What, the good ole days, when there were fewer women drivers?😏

[@michaelg.1786]

The 70s made me who I am today. My parents dropped me off at the mall with 75 cents to go to afternoon movies, and would come back to pick me up. I was 9 years old 😂. But, I learned how to problem solve and grew up fast, which served me well.

[@Kinikia95]

I had to take the city bus

[@frankmerrill2366]

Heck, my mom would go shopping on Saturdays, as that was a day that my dad could take over the housekeeping duties because he didn't work on weekends, and because stuff wasn't open on Sundays! She would drop me off in Ann Arbor and I'd just wander all over the place, and it would be arranged that she'd pick me up at (say) 5:00 at some location like Krazy Jim's with the money she gave me, which was enough for the hamburger, fries, and pop [soda]. This is when I was 14 or 15, and I would often see how many states I could see on license plates. I think there was one day that I counted 46 states which is, of course, insane. Nothing ever happened that was bad, and somehow we never missed connections.

[@badmoodana6532]

Those packets of colored pure sugar that we ate with a stick made of sugar, Pixie Sticks in paper wrappers that we poured in our mouths that were just pure sugar, the wax shaped like soda bottles that had liquid sugar flavored drink; it was all about the sugar

[@mexicanspec]

Fun Dip you mean?

[@bettyir4302]

1972. Candy Man who ruined Halloween by putting poison in Pixie Sticks.

[@badmoodana6532]

@mexicanspec I really don't remember the name. It was just flavored sugar and it came with a stick made of sugar and you dipped the stick in the powder and licked it off. I remember the powder being lemon and lime. You could be correct on the name, it was so long ago

[@mexicanspec]

@@badmoodana6532 Fun Dip is still around.

[@duncandmcgrath6290]

😂Yep . Fun dip was sugar overload

[@dougmorris9317]

I was born in 61, for my 11th birthday my grandma got me a POW-MIA bracelet, had the name of a Vietnam soldier on it who was missing in action. Came with his parents address. You were encouraged to write them. Does anyone else remember these?

[@pennybourban3712]

I wasn't allowed to have one. My mother told me they were BS and would not help the soldier or his family and it was morbid. I was so disappointed. I was opposed to war but support military of course and had a cousin serving at the time. What do you think became of all the POW bracelets? Do you still have yours?

[@someoneelse6934]

I still have mine. “Col. WAYNE BENJAMIN WOLFKEIL” MIA 8/9/68. He is still MIA

[@georgetubbs8211]

YES! I REMEMBER AT NIGHT MOM,MY SISTER,AND ME WATCHING THE WAR ON TV. MY DAD HAD A FEW TOURS OVER THERE.

[@dougmorris9317]

@@pennybourban3712 I lost mine many years ago. I wrote the family a couple times, and fid get a letter thanking me.

[@dougmorris9317]

@@someoneelse6934 Wow., incredible.

[@map3384]

1970s: Mom I’m taking the penny jar to flatten penny’s on the rail road track. Response: Don’t get run over.

[@georgetubbs8211]

LOL RIGHT!!!

[@bonesg3385]

I could never find them after the train was gone.

[@jgringo5516]

👍

[@larsedik]

@@bonesg3385 Neither could I.

[@davidduff5123]

Went to college with a guy we called The Claw. He didn’t get his hand out of the way on time.

[@paulthiessen6444]

We played lawn darts lots in the mid 80s. For some reason we knew not to throw them at each other.

[@GM-vf7px]

Today's kids probably would - they shoot fireworks at one another!

[@paulthiessen6444]

@@GM-vf7px my older brother had pellet gun wars….. We had to dig one out of his back once

[@timlabell]

Amazing isn't it? We were not that smart???? to not throw those darts at each other. Im kidding...😊 then the government had to change it for us. Because what the new generation , brought to life,🤦🤦🤦🙈is so dumb.

[@johnwolfe9694]

I remember the real lawn darts . It was like 4 lb of death. But they were great . I remember my poor dog getting hit in the side of the head by lawn dart. He was Doberman Pinscher and lab. He never did that again.not because he was dead he just learned not to get in the damn way We called him horse cuz he was huge . If I remember right now he was probably 85 lb of dog

[@bonesg3385]

We never threw them at each other. We did throw them straight up in the air then ran.

[@Laszlo34]

The '70s were definitely much, much better than today!

[@MothGirl007]

Totally.

[@carolynking1625]

Hell is nicer than the 1970's as far as I'm concerned. And I was pleasantly surprised when I read a newspaper article saying how hated the 1970's are! I'm not the only one who doesn't love the 1970's!!

[@user-kf8wb2cq4f]

​​@@carolynking1625... Our Current society is nothing but destruction, anger and the Crime rate is worse than ever before. Research it.

[@stevenpike7857]

@@carolynking1625 It was a filthy decade full of trash and std's. People wax nostalgic about it, but forget about the child and spouse ab*se that was tolerated, to say nothing of the workplace s*xual harassment. I had a beautiful childhood with great parents, so I remember it fondly. There were children and wives that weren't so lucky.

[@ysthafellgynghori8423]

@@carolynking1625 You probably weren't even born then! Do you love living in the 21st century? A time when freedom of speech is restricted thanks to political correctness and the world ravaged by wars? Don't forget the pandemic? Millions died. And you think the 70's were worse? You're weird!

[@wendyschmidt4339]

And we all survived ❤ have manners, show respect to our elders.. go figure

[@aaronthomas3740]

Because if we didn't we knew we would get beat😅

[@starmnsixty1209]

​@@aaronthomas3740a great many of today's youth could use a tanning like that.

[@ivandemiguel8607]

Absolutely, this society makes no sense anymore, when you need to tell people that a hamburger wrapper is not to be eaten, or ice is cold …🤷🙈🙈

[@ivandemiguel8607]

@@aaronthomas3740😂😂😂😂

[@gertibell]

I still have no idea what any of the other parents first names are. I lived in the same neighborhood with them for 20 yrs. To this day they are Mr. & Mrs --------.

[@Snakebat]

I also remember when the street light came on it was code for "get home right now" even if you were next door or even half a block away.

[@JST-bc5te]

I remember it is 10:00 do you know where your kids are.

[@tomobrien9483]

I’m a Boomer, so I remember, and miss those days. Oh, and I never got seriously injured 😄

[@margaretthatcher6828]

Once us boomers are gone... common sense will be a thing of the past.

[@paulthiessen6444]

So you didn’t have any fun if you didn’t get injured!

[@teresahooks3746]

I got skinned up quite a bit.

[@astra6712]

@@margaretthatcher6828the most privileged generation to have lived. And you can’t even take it all with you 😂

[@JosephMartin-sj3kz]

I still have scars from falling out of the tree I would climb in the ol’ backyard (& I’m still proud of each one)! Love hearing your voice. LOL & you have my best wishes (now go out & get an injury, will ya’? It’s never “too late”. You can do it!). 👍

[@lisajones2210]

Born 1961. I miss National Geographic Magazine, Wide World of Sports, Bob Ross, Bob Vila, character telephones, and shutting down all household activities for The Olympics. Saturday afternoon movie matinees, afternoon concerts in the park, owning your own set of power tools at age ten, scavenging the neighborhood for junk wood and junk in general to create your own hide-out in the back yard, and inventing your own after school snacks for the After School Specials. We didn't play our adventure on a phone, we LIVED our adventures each day.

[@zoeras121]

Those were the days my friend.

[@josephhaddakin7095]

Wide World of Sports every Sunday with grilled cheese sandwiches & tomato soup.😊

[@TommyGirl-lk8ky]

National Geographic feeling naughty for looking at the naked black people of Africa

[@luisalfonsoalba9730]

Just need to bring back the respects we gave our elders when were kids from that era.

[@jefferyschic]

Did you drop the ball?

[@timkrouse345]

Cork it gramps 😆

[@Richard-Seekingwulf]

I'm a 60s kid but all of my brothers and my sister was 70s kids but I tell you the mid 70s was the best for older teenagers

[@vegasblt]

You came home when the street lights came on

[@townhall05446]

By the time I was in high school (1970) my parents had already tired of raising my older brother and I had a lot more freedom. He used to say 'Mom and dad would have killed me if I did (this or that).'

[@TFTO1973]

Yup. Especially during the summer. It was breakfast and out the door we went. Parents had no idea where we were or went. As long as we came home at that magic street light time. Great memories.

[@annabellelee4535]

Oh yes, it was a good time to be a kid.

[@betsybarnicle8016]

We even had a street siren.

[@berlinkozyreva]

TV ending was wonderful. It was like an alarm clock when the TV turned to snow you went to bed.

[@argylegirl9953]

I was a teacher's assistant in high school, and I ran the mimeograph machine for tests and other papers she needed for her classes. That smell was the best!

[@marymoran8859]

Life in the 1970s sure was FUN!!!!!!!

[@davidcheung7789]

Wish it could be like that again forever 😮. Missed those days very immensely.

[@johnleeson6946]

Slug Bug when seeing a VW Beetle, pre-recorded 8-track tapes, riding in the back of a pick-up truck, drinking from a garden hose, running barefoot, vinyl albums, playing baseball with imaginary runners, steady pitchers when you couldn't get two full teams, automatic outs since there was no right fielder and nobody was left-handed, moms & dads at every house that can discipline you (you said Mrs. and Mr. so they wouldn't call your parents!), the sound of the bell when pulling into a gas station so the attendant could fill your tank, the smell of Mom's kitchen vent when WALKING back from school, watching Rudolph, The Wizard of Oz, Charlie Browns" Halloween/Christmas, etc. ONCE A YEAR, weekend trips to the campgrounds in a pop-up camper, AM radio, using cash to buy groceries, eating dinner in a restaurant with cigarette smoke all around you, throwing a roll of toilet paper when your team scored a touchdown, no seatbelts, Stuckey's rest stops with the bees flying right in front of your face, being nervous when your dad offered you a glass of wine at a Thanksgiving Dinner, wearing a suit/sports jacket on an airplane, family reunions, Catholic weddings that took forever, but plenty of food, a cookie table, and a Polka Band at the reception. I'll stop now and try to see if Mr. Peabody and Sherman can get me a Wayback Machine! (Another memory...)

[@JST-bc5te]

I called them a Doodle Bug

[@rockyroad-hq7hz]

Which reminds me of the Charmin toilet paper commercials. Mr. Ripples squeezing the toilet paper rolls. We were to innocent to understand the subliminal perverted message.

[@johnleeson6946]

@@rockyroad-hq7hz First off, it's, "Mr. Whipple" and secondly, what was the "message?", and thirdly, "too"!

[@cc1k435]

Vinyl records are big business again, but they cost about THIRTY BUCKS new. 🤯

[@Tlebeau421]

⁠@@johnleeson6946are you ok John?? Yes you are correct on Mr. Whipple #2 innuendo was sexual in nature…don’t squeeze the charmin…don’t squeeze her breast or butt take your pick. #3 to versus too you are correct but no one like a grammar nazi.

[@teri6949]

I'm 66 yrs old and this brought back sooooo many memories!! Thank you

[@gilpidgeon7944]

I am so down brother! I wrote a line up above and I have never even done in my 62 years! Awesome! Jus wanted to share! Happy 4th of July!

[@Dh-rp7gg]

Born in 66, so I grew up doing everything but 3 of these things. To young to hitchhike, wasn't sent in to buy liquor or cigarettes and my hair was to short to iron. I sure miss those days❤

[@frankbrodie5168]

I definitely remember going to our local shop for a 5 pack of cigarettes for my dad back around the start of the 1970's. But I also know it was sort of frowned upon even back then. Just sort of tolerated if you explained to the shopkeeper (who would know your parents) that it was because he was in bed ill or something.

[@EducatedSkeptic]

Oh, you're such a youngster! I graduated from high school the year after you were born!

[@Dh-rp7gg]

@@EducatedSkeptic Thanks, haven't been called that in a long time 🙂

[@cjhoward409]

Born in 1965…. My parents didn’t smoke but I remember every restaurant had a cigarette vending machine at the entrance. While we waited for a table after Sunday church, my brother and I would pull on all the tabs of that machine. Lol And of course those gum ball machines for 1 penny. Horrid gum balls. They were hard as a rock.

[@georgetubbs8211]

DID ALL BUT THE HAIR IRONING

[@danny_the_K]

You missed the mood ring 😂. I did all these things. I was born in 1956 and was a teen in the 1st half of the 70s… These were all just normal to us. Oh, and watching the Ed Sullivan show to see the latest stars. Great memories than I wished I could have given my kids, but the internet and a very changed society stole that from them. I think delayed gratification is the biggest actual loss in the conversation. Thanks for the memories… oh wait, that’s Bob Hope’s line. 😄

[@GSXK4]

Those bubble gum Lucky Strike cigarettes puffing that fine sugar powder were THE BEST! Especially walking around the mall, people thought some 9 year olds were getting their nicotine fix!

[@johnwolfe9694]

I remember those .lol fake ciges.then you chew them .

[@Alicia5217]

It was the Popeye brand I remember the most from my childhood in the 1980’s

[@johnwolfe9694]

@@Alicia5217 I remember Popeye the sailor Man and spinach. Ate so much spinach and it probably was good for me when is corn cob pipe and is one eye.

[@Alicia5217]

I just remember it was a stick of chocolate wrapped in white paper but it was such a long time ago I’m just going off on memory lol, I was born in ‘81

[@johnwolfe9694]

@@Alicia5217 no sire that's the wrong thing. Give it some time thinking about it some more you'll remember the it look like a 20 pack of cigarettes even had a red end on one end like you smoking it but it was bubble gum. Are the hard sticks that were just powdery sugar with a bit of different taste.

[@geraldscott4302]

I'm from 1959, and grew up in the '70s. It was a wonderful time. I'd sure hate to be a kid today. I road thousands of miles in the back of pickup trucks. My parents didn't drink, but I started smoking at age 12, and was able to buy my own cigarettes with no problem. I finally quit at age 42. Yes I watched Saturday morning cartoons, starting in the mid '60s. Usually while eating a bowl of very sugary cereal. And cartoons were a million times better back then. I grew up on a farm, and rode my bike all over the countryside, by myself or with friends. My parents would let me stay gone all day, as long as I was home in time for dinner. I still ride bikes with no helmet. There is no way on earth I would ever wear a helmet to ride a bicycle. That's just insane. Yes I crashed a lot, doing stupid things, like jumping off ramps. I'm still here. We never had a phone in the house until I was 17, and then it was because my younger sister wanted one. I have a serious aversion to phones. I have never in my life worn sunscreen. Not mentioned, but I got my first .22 rifle at age 10, and by age 14 was allowed to go duck hunting with friends using a shotgun, with no adult supervision. Nobody ever got hurt or killed. The insane push for 100% safety at all costs has completely destroyed what life is all about. Might as well live inside a plastic bubble. Even at 65, I still take risks most younger people would consider completely unacceptable. And like I said earlier, I'm still here. Still living MY life.

[@DebbiHobbs]

1959, too. I didn't like guns (still don't) so that was not on my list. Everything else you wrote sounds about right. I started smoking at 19 and quit 30 years later. One thing I did as a child of 7 and 8 was walk my one year younger brothers home from school. We moved across town and we stayed in our old school to finish out the year. Dad drove us to school and I was charged with making sure the three of us made it home safely. That mile walk would turn into longer walks as we went off path and visited relatives who lived somewhat near our house. I call the 70s my 'golden years' because I did jr. high, high school and college in those 10 years. I loved to learn and school was my safe place.

[@gregmcclelland3488]

I was born in 1969 and we kids played with our chemistry sets back in the late 1970's and early 1980's and we managed to survive!!

[@gertibell]

We definitely had it best. Before our generation, parents were a bit stricter, you had to dress up for school, dating was stricter & kids had to do more chores or get jobs. What's sad is, even back when kids had to work in factories, they were still better off than what's happening to today's kids.

[@georgeskate78]

Socially and economically the 90’s actually was the best decade and I was born in 2002. However the Cold War had ended and terrorism hadn’t become major thing. The internet was still available and was used for consuming information. Music was shite. I’ll give that point to the 80’s but films were at their greatest. I think if we had the technology we have today, consumed it the way we did in the 90’s and brought back the music of the 80’s we wouldn’t go far wrong culturally

[@delli3283]

I remember the best of, born in 68, the waiting for Saturday morning cartoons... followed by Abbot and Costello ... and of course Godzilla!!

[@starmnsixty1209]

We had both Shock Theater for the monsters, and something called Popcorn Theater that I believe ran Sunday afternoons. Abbott and Costello played frequently on it 😊

[@Shaun-sn6nn]

Laurel & hardy on tv Saturday 😂

[@WestCoastGem-vj8eo]

Ahhh, the good ol’days. Life was so much simpler, wholesome and fun back then! ☮✌

[@abh3land]

I miss those day .. and kids now days have no clue what fun is going outside

[@bettyir4302]

We were supposed to have our nephews for a while one summer. They were too scared to do anything. Wouldn't go to the attached garage to see the new kittens because it was almost "outside." Couldn't help pick some vegs for dinner from the "outside" garden. Couldn't walk down the street to grandma's house because they'd have to exercise their feet "outside." Found out they didn't play in their own backyard at home. They were tween aged.

[@Kinikia95]

​@@bettyir4302😂

[@AnthonyHarris-dy8pi]

Sometime I miss the old days. ✌️🙂 The 70's was a good time..

[@collettesaxe9718]

I remember my mom always had our clocks set 15 minutes fast, so she wouldn’t be late. I would use the phone and dial to listen to …at the tone the time will be 4 o’clock and 30 seconds….

[@oceanasong]

This baby boomer really enjoyed this - thank you!

[@dalecorne3869]

While we were all riding bikes and roller skating and walking around, it was rare to see an overweight kid. If they were overweight, they were usually inept at social gatherings or just plain scared to go outside. I want those times back again.

[@carolmartin6719]

THE 70'S & 80'S WERE THE BEST. I REMEMBER ALOT OF THESE THINGS ESPECIALLY THR GLASS CLICK CLACKS LOL

[@adrastos761]

loved my click clacks, for sure!!

[@kerensabirch5214]

I still have my set of 70s click clacks, though they're not glass. I can still work them properly too but make sure I wear oven gloves so I don't crack my wrist bone.😄

[@ronsaunders7294]

I remember as a kid in the 70's waking up just before 6 on Saturdays to watch cartoons and having to stare at that black screen with the rainbow bars until the shows started.

[@corinnepmorrison1854]

I remember, but I was born in 1946… My Mom had me go buy cigarettes for her…and I NEVER smoked!! Rode my bike, everywhere… Never hitchhiked… Trick or treating, WITH MY DAD until we were old enough to go out on our own… Had shag carpet in our first house…

[@alancrisp1582]

🤔 Do , do you really ?. Especially with out even bothering to actually watch the video first !!..

[@corinnepmorrison1854]

@@alancrisp1582 I knew I’d remember, Alan. My children were children of the 1970’s, and I was a responsible parent.

[@margaretthatcher6828]

Bought smokes and was pulled by a truck on a snow sled. Never wore a helmet and I hitched to Woodstock. Those were the best days EVER!

[@corinnepmorrison1854]

@@margaretthatcher6828 Didn’t live in an area that had snow, until 5 years ago…and I’m 78 years old now… Had lived in homes that had AC up til then!!

[@EducatedSkeptic]

Oh, yeah. My first head-to-head confrontation with my parents came when my stepmother asked me to get her two packs of cigarettes when I went to the grocery store for some other items. (She couldn't drive and I rode my bike the two miles to the store.) I told her I wouldn't buy cigarettes for her, and she angrily said "You'd better!" When I got home, I didn't have them - and did the lava hit the ceiling! And I got it from my father as well when he got home from work, but I was never asked to buy cigarettes again. The tobacco ultimately killed them both - and I became the "patriarch" of the family while in my mid-20s.

[@kimmoore6445]

70's and 80's thanks for the memories. Happier times

[@robinbates6230]

I so miss these days

[@ShanecaRene]

I miss the old days too

[@happyhatkilinski1457]

Me too! I'm very grateful I got to grow up in the 70's & 80's. THE best times.

[@carolynking1625]

I don't miss them one bit! Recession, Brunswick moving to Chicago leaving my father unemployed at the too old age of 50 and getting drunk, me getting panic attacks I called Dream Feelings I was afraid would never end, fear my father would die any minute now since he turned 50 and everyone dies at 50 the obituaries looked like. Adolescence starting and my friends outgrowing childish activities I still loved to do. Hitch hiking!? We were told in the 1960's not to do that or we'd get kidnapped! One classmate is still missing who was foolish enough to hitch hike to her family's beach home in the 1970's.

[@lylecoglianese1645]

@@carolynking1625, wow! You certainly choose to remember bad things that have happened. Do you intentionally opt to not recall good times in your life?? Come on, think of a few good times! Have a great night! 🤔 🤗

[@carolynking1625]

@@lylecoglianese1645 Bad things are just what the 1970's were. Now go to the 1960's, and I recall all the happiness and great times and forget about the not so wonderful things of that decade! The great music, every no school day being excitement with my friends or alone riding bikes, wandering around town at nine years old with no adults not being seen as worth a police call, (except when we shot off firecrackers!), getting candy cigarettes, watching my friends with siblings argue over who gets to sit up front in the car, looking forward to becoming a teenager and get to scream and run after rock stars as the older girls were doing with the Beatles then, and loads of other life that Ended with the 1970's coming to Be.

[@jond1965]

Being a kid in the 70s was awesome.

[@sonyagraske376]

BEING ON THOSE MATERIAL LIKE RAFTS/ FLOATS..... GOING WAAAAY OUT OF THE SHORE OF THE BEACH! NO FEAR....... TILL JAWS 😂 ☆ this was a fun time watching these memories. thanks 😊

[@SlickArmor]

Since then, sharks have nearly gone extinct after Jaws came out. That is the #1 regret of the story writer.

[@stevenbaer5999]

I actually missed my childhood of the 1970s, watching SWAT, Wonderbug, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, Adam 12, Lidsville, the Bugaloos, HR Pufnstuf, the hippies, Emergency, School House Rock, Romper Room, Laugh In, Lost Saucer, Dr Shrinker, Magic Mongo, etc.

[@LindaZeno]

I was born in the 50's and I still have my Romper Room ring!

[@haveanicedave1551]

@@LindaZeno I was on Romper Room in 1970 in LA.. I still have my diploma and some footage of me on the show.

[@SHEEPLESUCK]

I was on Romper Room in Toledo 74​@@haveanicedave1551

[@onecoolcat2478]

Life was so much more fun back then. We relied on ourselves and made our own decisions, like adults should. I miss that.

[@manonanisland2712]

I became a Paramedic because of Emergency show, Squad 51. I used to watch every episode in the 70’s and something about it really captured me, I still remember how unreal it felt the 1st time I picked up to call an Emergency room Physician. I almost said Squad 51 😂

[@really5448]

I became a RN because of that show also. I was going towards a Paramedic until I found out I could do more as a RN.

[@kevinunger433]

I remember when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s gathering up soda bottles and take them down to the liquor store to get money those were the days. I definitely remember every single thing on this video awesome stuff. Oh yeah and click clacks they would break your wrist. Lol

[@Monica-rs8ih]

My return bottles kept me in Partridge Family cards. What a great memory. I can still smell the bubble gum from the cards.

[@brentmouton3172]

Born in 1960. Hands down, the best time to grow up!

[@awakeningalchemy5744]

I still ride a bike without a helmet ...and ... I''m ALIVE! Glad only 70s kids are watching this.❤

[@josephhaddakin7095]

I rode my bicycle from California to Missouri 3 years ago. No helmet. Just a straw hat.

[@donyoung7874]

McDonald's used to have little tiny spoons for sugar for their coffee. They discontinued stocking those after the spoons got used for more illicit products.

[@chriscoleman6956]

I miss the 70s I remember great times.

[@Last_Vestiges]

Not just cars, but most things in general were built to withstand the elements. Driving was definitely a whole lot safer then. Sniffing a fresh, out-of-the-printer, sheet of paper…….and yes, play doh……..aaaaahhhhhh, I know the joyous smells!!!!!!! Everything smelled, and smells were a big part of life growing up. In my case, they still play a big part!!!!! After School & Saturday Morning Cartoons, and riding my bike without a helmet or knee pads!!!!!! Lol!!!!!!!! In those days, “call waiting” made you tops.😆 And my pair of white roller-skates that I wore indoors!!!!! I remember sooooo well the McDonald’s “ashtray” in the video’s opening still!!!!! How I never failed to bend those things into a Gyro shape!!!! Sadly, no arcades existed in my neighborhood. YEAH! SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK, LOLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!👍🏻 CANDY SMOKE CIGARETTES!!!!!!! Ahhhh, prelude to a future bad habit that was a long time yet, to be frowned upon by society….😂🤣 I was always attended by an adult when Halloween Trick or Treating. No sunscreen for me in the ‘70s or ‘80s, and no boring Pet Rock. Yes, I had a permanent. It was kinky, so I stuck a pick in it. I moved my head. The hair moved seconds later. Shut up. Stop laughing.😐 How I disliked learning the Metric System!!!!!! Pain in the rear.😯 Pop Rocks were fun and so were my CLACKERS💥CLACKING!!!!!!! Never shag carpets, no more regular carpets. Straightening irons? No, I stick with my natural hair. TV was sheer static, after the nation’s TV time allowance was officially over. Yes, it was official. P.S. *dot shrinks and vanishes in the center of a black screen*🫤

[@ThomasGidley-kv2uj]

Hitchhiking while chewing on Bazooka Joe and smoking Marlboro in the box. Those days are long gone. Bummer.

[@margaretthatcher6828]

I hitch hiked to wood stock...that was outta sight!!!

[@larsedik]

I hitchhiked to San Francisco in 1972.

[@jenniferanne4143]

Most smokes were soft pack back then,

[@ambrosemackinnon8314]

Oh how i miss the 70s greatest time to be a kid back then.

[@ShanecaRene]

I was born in the 70's..I remember the old days 😊

[@jason75]

You where just a baby I was born in the 60s I was a kid in the 70s. I remember the 70s

[@Orbit_Corona]

Wasn't it such an awesome time! I miss it.

[@kimgrattage6049]

​@@jason75I was born in the 50s and was married with a child in the 70s.

[@RJS1974]

You had to be born in the 60s to be a kid in the 70s.

[@jjharson7344]

@@RJS1974 not really, I was born in 71, so I was a kid by 76, I do remember the last part of the decade. I remember my dad taking me to see Star Wars when I was 6 years old in 77 and he got me one of those plastic lightsabers, I was the first kid around my way to have one.... I felt like a king in the playground as all my friends circled around to have a go and get a look... The Banana Splits Tv Show was great, my favourite chocolate bar was the Texan bar, now long gone, made obsolete, I think they stopped making them by 1984.... I wish I could have another one, it's been 40 years since I tasted one, but still remember them fondly. I also was a big fan of the tv show Space 1999 when I was 6 - 9 years old, which was from 77 - 81. so yeah some born in the early 70's will have memories, like me... it was a cool decade and lots of the 70's stuff spilled over into the early eighties, such as disco, punk, tv shows, foods of the time etc.. Artic rolls, fish finger sandwiches, smash mash potatoes, Beef Griddles (I wish they still did these they were great), to name a few...

[@ravisehgal1018]

I was born in 1964 in Columbia, MO and grew up with all of things mentioned and had the time of my life back then and today like Tim McGraw sings I miss back when and I surely do.

[@cjadams7434]

what kids are missing is the social aspect of the arcade situation!

[@tomasviane3844]

Where I used to live, the arcade was the ideal hangout for bullies... 😅

[@Fuff63]

Enjoyed this. My mom and dad used to let me steer the car. All of my major injuries to this point, are from my daredevil kid bicycle stunts. I rode miles from my house on my bike all alone. I miss the music and TV shows especially. Don’t miss all of the smoking everywhere. Also, I went ahead and learned metric, voluntarily. Finally, I miss my family and older people that I grew with and that taught me well. I owe so much to them. Cheers.

[@sundayoliver3147]

I remember being taught the metric system in school, then being puzzled because I never had to use it except in science class or, later, when I traveled to other countries.

[@thefamouspeopleus]

Watching this video really takes me back to the good old days of the 1970s!

[@nanabutner]

I still get a perm to give my hair a little curl and body. My Dad’s wife would send us out all over the neighborhood collecting for the HEART FUND EVERY FEBRUARY before we were 11 years old. The neighborhood was over four and one-half miles long, not counting all the side streets and we walked the entire way and carried all the money we collected.

[@jons.6216]

Oh, perms stayed around through to the end of the 80s with "spiral perms" being the last form! Haha!

[@zapkvr]

I had my last perm in 88

[@Bubbs88]

​@@zapkvr89 for me! And lots of extra super hold aqua net😂

[@jackscruggs1536]

access to the open Internet is much more dangerous than riding a bicycle without a helmet

[@br0wn3y3dgurl7]

THIS⬆️

[@whatsreal7506]

60-something here. There is no common sense in society anymore.

[@Leon-ym9qm]

Zero!

[@criddyla696]

Indeed, everyone is scared to fart these days, herd mentality of fear

[@angelacooper2661]

I am 54 and spent my formative years during that decade. My grandparents lived locally, so not far to travel. Being English, things were different over here!

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

Because your generation ruined it you became idiot safety bugs especially by the time the 90s rolled around so nobody can do anything you have only yourself to blame.

[@betsybarnicle8016]

​@@criddyla696 Also, too many lawyers, so fearing lawsuits changed life...worst of all, health insurance through the roof due to excessive malpractice costs.

[@lisalynnmarie2448]

I did pretty much all on that list, except for hitchhiking. My mom didn't work, neither did my friends' moms, so we always had a ride somewhere. I think we all pretty much huffed those memos coming back from the office 😂 The best time to be a kid was definitely the 70s ☮✌🏻 Imagine, still having to get off your butt to change the channels!? 📺 No way!! What a fun video to watch, so thank you!

[@SuV33358]

Great time to be alive. Bring me back

[@JBuchmann]

I was expecting the video to mention playground 'merry go rounds'. As a kid even I realized how incredibly dangerous they were

[@kerensabirch5214]

I remember sliding off one and ending up on the ground with my head under the edge as it went round. I can still see the other children's feet coming around at speed while I tried to avoid being kicked in the head. I wouldn't go on one after this.

[@iflick7235]

Can you imagine what a McDonald's ashtray would bring on the collectable market?

[@elhombrebilingue]

I probably threw away 100 of them when I worked there 😂

[@carlsaganlives4036]

My gramps collected ashtrays from places he had been, starting in WWI with one from a Belgian cafe, when he was only 17...growing up we had ashtrays from all over - motels, businesses, restaurants, marketing promos, you name it. I guess 'pilfering' is what it was, lol

[@haveanicedave1551]

I worked at McDonald's 1984-87 and I remember we could smoke in the break room, which was next to the manager's office, which was next to the kitchen. They were all open spaces, no office door or breakroom door. I don't recall seeing ashtrays in the dining area but smoking was still allowed. They probably used their trash as ashtrays.

[@southernmermaid2526]

Couldn’t help but look it up. Currently around $4 - 5 🤣😂🤣

[@mikemancini3907]

Yeap and still have a pile of them from the 70s

[@Orbit_Corona]

Oh how I loved the smell of fresh ditto sheets. They'd still be a little warm, and a touch damp when distributed to the class. I had some awesome teachers!

[@paisleydreamzz]

The damp ones were the best😂

[@midbc1midbc199]

I'm glad this is my era......the 70's were the best

[@vegasblt]

I introduced my grandkids to Karate Kid and they actually were shocked that he did not wear a helmet or a seat belt. I cracked up.

[@viggycat8592]

In the 70's, I did all of that except hitchhike and loved my glass clackers!

[@bettyir4302]

I never knew anyone who was dumb enough to hitchhike but it seems every nostalgia video has to mention it. Must be a yt rule.

[@Kinikia95]

I did. Just around town though, not on the highway. It was stupid. I was lucky.

[@cathyhendrix7552]

Yep. That's exactly how I remember all of it to. The only thing you left off was the craze that was " JAWS ". The movie at the drive-ins, .........hey that's another thing you left off.......and watching Jaws in theaters, playing the games in arcades and of course we can't forget the T-SHIRTS. I had like 4 or 5 different ones. I tell my kids all the time about how bad I wish I could've raised them the way I was raised. Everything had either already disappeared or were in the process of leaving as I got married and started having kids. And by the time they were 8yrs old and older, then home computers were coming out. We still has VHS tapes but they were being replaced by DVD's oh and we already had cordless phones so rotary phones were already gone. Whew, I digress. Sorry guys. I guess I could keep on going for several hours at least. So happy trails down memory lane. 😅.

[@georgeburnett358]

My pop took me to see Jaws the first week it hit theatres. I was 11 and and I still won't get in the ocean. I live in central Florida and don't care if I ever see a beach again .

[@TooTallForPony]

I was one of 4 kids. One afternoon when our Dad was at work, our Mom got sick of our shenanigans and told us to "get out of the house and don't come back until you're ready to behave!" So we went to the library, because that was fun for us. Then we went to get ice cream. Then we decided we still weren't ready to behave (despite the fact that our behavior was objectively good), and just started walking around town. Eventually our Dad came home and had to drive around town to find us. When we explained how we weren't ready to behave, we got in real trouble - but our Mom never said that to us again!

[@FrankStein1]

Saturday morning cartoons with best friend that stayed overnight and bowl of cereal. Who remembers Jabber Jaw , Speed Buggy, Grape Ape? Or how about the Sleestacks from Land of the lost from sid and marty Kroft?

[@jangles1839]

"how many of these things did you do?".... YES! All of them! 😁

[@_Fake_Rolex]

Back in the day, what was on TV was on when it was on, and everyone watched the same thing and were on the same page. We discussed how cool last night's episode was of whatever cool show we were watching, and with only the big three networks, plus PBS, we pretty much watched the same thing. Better times.

[@myplane150]

I absolutely loved the Saturday Morning Cartoon preveiws that were aired the week before the new catoons debuted. I would look forward to this day all year long maybe even more than the actual cartoons themselves. What a time to be a kid!!!😁

[@johnlopez3996]

You could play dodgeball and every part of your body was target. Many kids had calluses on their hands from playing on park and school equipment. You would rub a bit of sand between your hands and have fun on bars. Did anybody during the 70s make ash trays in class with clay?

[@edwinhageman9377]

I was in around high school when my parents got a home phone! And only because of my 2 remaining grandparents 1 on each side of the family!

[@Peace-lr7mt]

When I was 7 (1970), my mom used to write a note I would give the cashier at the corner store to - that said "please sell my daughter a pack of cigarettes:) Times have indeed changed.

[@clairdelunefan]

LOL! My note was for a carton of cigs.