If you grew up in the 1970s...you remember this - PART 1

[@zoom539]

My black and yellow three speed banana seat bike, staying out till the street lights came on than running all the way home. No computers, cell phones just good fun.

[@debbiemullen2574]

OMG, I had a three speed banana seat bike and had to race home when the street lights came on also. Great times.

[@noble604]

So much fun in the playground where everything was made of metal. Lol you’d burn your legs on the scorching hot sliding board reflecting that burning summer sun, then go sit on the burning hot metal swing seat and swing as high as you could then ride the “merry go round” where you stood and held on to the bar that came up from the floor while soneone pushed you fast around and around (holding onto those hot handles) ... LOL when I think of playgrounds then ... being outside... nothing padded .. nothing plastic ... ...just fun

[@montibarnett6740]

Where I live there were no streetlights but once it starts getting dark you better get your butt home

[@zoom539]

@@debbiemullen2574 i hope you made it home in time..lol I often wish we could turn back the hands of time and go back but we can't let's be grateful for the time we had.

[@penguinsfan251]

I had a one speed purple banana bike. Wore it out.

[@TheTommyboy63]

I remember each Holiday season, looking forward to "The Charlie Brown Specials" "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" " The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" "Frosty the Snow Man". These were part of what made Christmastime so fun and special.

[@zim1966]

brought to you by Dolly madison cakes

[@calisongbird]

@@zim1966 yes!!!

[@savannahday3178]

Shit I'm 59 years old and I still watch Rudolph every year! And the Grinch!

[@Pops-km8xt]

Don't forget the Sears catalog

[@kevinpayton2664]

@@Pops-km8xt Yes. We all looked through the Sears Christmas catalog and knew exactly what we wanted. I never got what I always wanted but that's life.

[@mikearmstrong8483]

I could be out on my own during summer, wandering hills, going miles to town, swimming in the surf, gone for 12 hours with no contact with my mother who had no idea where I was or what I was doing, and there was no cause for concern; that was just normal childhood then.

[@Ladyharlem]

But you had to get back when the street lights came on

[@abolishwelfare]

Y’all had street lights? Dang, y’all were fancy. Out here in the country, we came home when we couldn’t see Jack shit.

[@mikearmstrong8483]

@@abolishwelfare Who was Jack Shit, and why did you want to see him? Was he handsome?

[@peterbelanger4094]

Life was great up until cellphones came and ruined it all.

[@JohnDLeo-rg8tc]

@@mikeh1473 WTF are you trying to say by "weren't diverse"? Just thought you'd sneak that one in dog whistle style eh?

[@ronaldspiegelberg7791]

Probably the last decade that a kid could truly be a kid without any parental supervision, your friends looked after you, and everybody knew where to meet, no time for cell phones because we didn't need them.

[@WeezyJeffersonYo]

Yeah, because all those child abductions didn't really happen in the 70s. Data shows the decades before the 90s were actually more dangerous.🙄

[@dogetaxes8893]

Yea, I don’t know why the boomer/Gen X generation were such helicopter parents despite not growing up with it. In some states in US for example it’s illegal for a kid under 14 to be outside by themselves. The boomer/Gen X generation complains the younger generations are soft, despite them being the ones giving out the participation trophies and coddling their kids to the point they won’t go outside.

[@amb163]

Nah, the 80s and early 90s were like that, too.

[@astrinymris9953]

Cell phones hadn't been invented then; it wasn't like people made a principled decision to abstain from using them because we were morally tougher or something like that. That being said, parents seemed to be a lot more relaxed in the 1970s. This was before the great Stranger Danger moral panic of the 1980s, which began the trend of progressively chipping away at childhood freedom. Greenstick fractures, sprained ankles, and stitches were just part of the territory of being a kid. The resigned comment, "Well, you can't wrap 'em up in cotton wool" was invoked whenever some such essentially-minor injury occurred.

[@Gord1812]

Back when you " Called" on your friend by walking to their house and knocking on the door.

[@JT-lt5gr]

The Wonderful World of Disney, Jacques Cousteau, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, ABC's Wide World of Sports (the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat), 70s game shows, and 70s TV shows -- too many to mention. 70s TV was THE BEST!

[@tonytygrrHI]

Do you remember Challenge of the Sexes on ABC World of Sports?:D

[@tonyallen6510]

@@tonytygrrHI yes

[@jeffreyelliott622]

WCW RASTLIN on saturdays along with the American Bandstand and Soul Train and of course The Osmond Family and can't forget the Jackson Five show as well and later on Wide World of Sports and all of this made for a real good saturday day of memories !!! Oh yeah and the cartoons before all this classic programming was on saturday mornings !!!

[@LauraS1]

Carol Burnett and Hee-Haw. Disney's Sunday Night Movie. The Sonny and Cher show. LOL

[@timvandenbrink4461]

I remember it well!

[@dukemetzger3784]

I was born in 64 and I can tell you that unless you actually grew up during those years, there is no way anyone could truly understand just how amazing they were. You would have to hear the difference in sound, from LP's vs. Eight track and even cassettes, to know the difference. Seeing Star Wars in the theater the day it came out, was...well, spectacular! There just was nothing like it in the whole world! And the freedom we had as kids is perhaps the saddest change to have ever occurred. I loved growing up during that time. It was life and it was fun!

[@deborahpatterson3145]

Yes me and my sister 61and64 great times

[@LadyGreenEyes964]

Know just how you feel! Kids could be free to play, there was so much to learn and explore, and the world was saner. Not perfect, of course, but so much different.

[@jalaneperry7643]

I was born Dec 7 1964 I can relate

[@tonygville2969]

I'm with ya 👍 But We The People are here right now for a purpose 👍 We have seen some radical, completely insane changes and it just doesn't jive with what's going on out there. I knew good FBI agent's who would be so ashamed of what is happening. The shooting in the early eighties took place right outside my Dad's office building. I'm sure that there were Clown's in the FBI and the other letter agencies, but not like it is now 🧐 When We The People can't trust our so called leadership with 🤔😞 We The People better Wake Up and Defend Our Country 🙏 Until We The People demand TERM LIMITS NOW 👍, nothing will ever change. Too much temptation and they All end up taking the Blood Money 🤨 A good Swamp Draining might help usher in some more better times 👍 2 Chronicles 7:14 is a Promise 👍 Viva Cristo Rey 🙏

[@anitaharris9095]

I was born June 24, 1964. I wish life was still that easy going and children could be as free as we were. I had a set of clackers. I don't know how many times I hit myself with them. They taught me pain control and perseverance. I had a mood ring, blue corduroy platform tennis shoes, and yellow elephant pants. Those were the day. American Bandstand with Dick Clark and Soul Train.

[@keithwilson6060]

Born in ‘62, so I spent nearly all my primary school career in the 70’s. It was a great, relatively safe decade for kids. In the Summer breaks, we’d stay out all day in the neighborhood, without modern communication, and only came home for meals. If our parents needed us home, somehow, they’d know where we were - there was a covert network of stay-at-home moms who would monitor us discretely and communicate with all the other moms they knew in the community. It’s a tragedy that this has been largely lost.

[@jamesslick4790]

"There was a covert network of stay-at-home moms who would monitor us discretely and communicate with all the other moms they knew in the community...." And our mums did this feat without cellphones or video cameras! 👍😊👍

[@blueeyedsoulman]

I was expected to call if I would NOT be coming home for dinner but eating at a friends house and then hanging out. Then it was reversed and the friend would eat at our house and hang out. Probably listening to records and/or playing board games or, ahem.........playing OUTSIDE.

[@smartysmarty1714]

Same here Keith. Born in '63. We'd camp out in each other's yards on summer nights. Sit on the floor talking on the only phone in the house, quietly to not be overheard! I'd give anything to go back to those times. We made our own fun. Now look what the hell happened. 50 years later, and I realize I don't belong here anymore. My mind looks to the past, never to the future because things get worse with each passing day. But, they can never take the past away from us and we won the growing up lottery by being able to be a kid in the 70's and enter into adulthood in the 80's. I wouldn't trade that for anything.

[@painkillerjones6232]

Born in 62.. Me too, and the 70's died with us, as we turned 18 in 1980...

[@JimJones-gd2jy]

You have to have kids to make that happen. The divorce rate is over 80% initiated by women. The marriage rate is at a all time low ! Men understand it’s a raw deal nowadays.

[@carolstella6776]

To me, the 70’s was a time when people interacted with each other. Every Sunday we would visit relatives, especially the elderly ones who didn’t get out much. If we weren’t visiting, we were having someone over for Sunday dinner. It’s very sad that the art of visiting has all but vanished in our society. Even phone calls have been replaced by impersonal text messages. In a time when communication is so easy, most of us have never felt so isolated.

[@hearttoheart4me]

Absolutely agree. Now that I am older and live in a senior apartment complex, the first complaint from others here is no one comes to visit. I am lucky that I never had kids, married and siblings so not much has changed from 1970s to 2022.

[@nielszindel1151]

Yes even friends, we visited, no texting all day. Delia Morris

[@lisaburke2778]

My parents and their friends got together often for dinner parties🙂

[@brianharleg4175]

Amen to this... definitely the anti-shutdown society.

[@emmalancaster2013]

Social media has ruined us.

[@festushaggen2563]

This makes me happy and sad at the same time. Life should be simple and kids should be free and innocent of the troubles of the day. It's tragic that life will never be like that again.

[@bryanj7063]

Kids today will have the same bittersweet memories about their lives now. They will look back fondly about today like u do about the 70s.

[@festushaggen2563]

@@bryanj7063 Yeah. I'm sure in 20-30 years they'll fondly look back on having politics, a million false gender options and everyones sexual preferences forced into every possible thing in their lives. Memories.

[@cordybluejeans]

@@festushaggen2563 And the biggest decision they will ever have to make, ‘What are their Pronouns’. 🤮

[@amyreynolds3619]

Unless you were not white, it was a good time. My best friends were Black or Hispanic. I notice a lot of these stories have few of the real people.

[@KB-ke3fi]

@@bryanj7063 Doubtful. They better start learning how to speak Chinese if they get off their cell phones long enough...and twitter.

[@soundsister1]

Nobody ever mentions The Midnight Special television show featuring Wolfman Jack and iconic performances by classic musicians and comedians. I was under five but I loved music so much that my mom and dad let me stay up and watch it every Friday night! One of the greatest performance shows on television.

[@zim1966]

saw Kiss, aerosmith and other cool bands on Midnight special I remember seeing the sex pistols on there too, Don Kirshners in concert also

[@troyarthur9342]

I remember watching that show now that you mention it. I wasn't very old either but I remember liking Wolfman Jack.

[@deannealbrecht774]

I just heard a song with him in the background.

[@mikearmstrong8483]

Anyone remember Dr Dimento on the radio?

[@pureblood8712]

That was the first place I ever saw Fleetwood mac, David Bowie, basically all of the greats started on midnight special, loved Friday night, us kids would stay up late and watch it with mom,mom loved the show she was a true rocker, we even played queens ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST at her funeral, been thinking about her a lot today and this took me back to good times thank you for the memory

[@rpc717]

The Bicentennial was HUGE. That definitely needed a mention.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

Definitely.

[@anonygent]

And the 1976 Olympics.

[@alysiareid6659]

And the freedom train.

[@anonygent]

@steven milstead No, I remember Bruce Jenner, back before he lost his f'ing mind.

[@anonygent]

@steven milstead He's not, he's a guy who got his dingus cut off. If a soldier has his dingus blown off, is he any less a man?

[@Fischize]

The annual Sears Christmas Catalog was always a world-stopping event when it was delivered. My brother, both sisters, and myself had almost every page earmarked with circles around items we hoped would end up under the tree.

[@manicangel7796]

Yes! I loved looking through that thing. It was oddly magical.. to see so many new toys and things I had to have that I didn't even know existed lol..

[@rhondareese1607]

I had one of the last issues of the catalog but moving several times it was either thrown away or lost. I enjoyed looking through them

[@patrickgodinefz6316]

Books of blue chip stamps

[@sonjaroberts2723]

Me and my sister did this too…

[@spaztekwarrior]

Yes, us too. We had the Canadian version of the Christmas Wish Book. I poured over the toy section after school and again in the evening, felt pen in hand to circle current wishes. :)

[@kenflagler635]

To be a kid in the 70's was awesome. My God, it was wonderful.

[@SoapinTrucker]

Hear Hear! :)

[@pazuzu-gb7ok]

I was a little kid in the late 70s ,my fondest memories were during that time.

[@jussayin4858]

I agree completely. Having the internet now has its “upside”, but life in general was better without it.

[@AnthonyPHicks-kk4ez]

😎👍 EXACTLY 😀👍

[@gabrielleangelica1977]

Yes, the best!

[@galaxieman1964]

Best cars, best music, best times. I loved being a teenager in the 70s!!

[@dannyjacobs6734]

Also some of the absolute worse cars ever made! Especially mid-late 70's!

[@kmjr2400]

Me too. Would love to go back!!!

[@dcore64]

@@dannyjacobs6734 Right?! AMC Pacer comes to mind. Pinto's and Gremlins oh my. lol

[@jimoconnor6382]

@@dcore64 WHOOA WHOOA WHOOOOOAA there!!! Those fine Kenosha gems especially my orange Gremlin with the pioneer 8 track....still going....yeeehaaaw

[@dcore64]

@@jimoconnor6382 Hahahaaa. I had a 73 Celica ST, looked like a little Camaro. Great car. Let my idiot Bro in law borrow it, told him just make sure to check the oil. He didn't. Now I'm the idiot. Moral... NEVER, loan anyone a car! Would still be running. I could peel out in 3 gears in that car. Oh wait... Japanese car. oops. 70's car though. 76 was the swing year I think? Props to your Grem.

[@altoncrane9714]

Born in 1956, I have some memories that make me amazed at how this world has fallen. I would go back to those days in a second, as I sit here with tears on my grateful old face.

[@aquaseahorselove3939]

I just wish things would go back to the way they were before 2020. 😔

[@letsbereal9455]

@Mark rapacki Before 1992.

[@jayfoulke2903]

I was only born in 1963, but I can still relate to your comment ...... I would love to go back and stay back, and get lost, stranded where I couldn't get back again. Im such an old romantic for nostalgia

[@altoncrane9714]

@@jayfoulke2903 Thank you. I would love to join you in that epic adventure, if only life were like that...

[@ronniemeeks6166]

I was born in 1967 . . My childhood was the 1970"s . . . so I do remember the 70's and for me that was some of the best days of my life . . And yes I would go back in a heartbeat and stay . . I don't care for this new millennium crap . . So yes I definitely agree with you .

[@Sith_dude]

Born in 68 I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Those were the best years of my life. If I could, I would go back to those days in a heartbeat.

[@tommcdonough6086]

68 as well for me also, I was born whan my dad was in Vietnam. All of us were truly lucky to be young in this era the 70's and 80's! Sucks getting older but I wouldn't trade places with any young person! Today's society is so upsidedown, today's youth are being cheated big time!! Where does the time go.........Peace.

[@DavidJDavis-wd1oy]

Also born in 68...

[@MontagZoso]

Same here!

[@MontagZoso]

@@tommcdonough6086 Same here. Born in 67 and my Dad was in Vietnam when I was born too. 😊

[@MrJacMac1968]

Wouldn’t not have wanted to be a kid in any other decade.Would have hated being a 90’s kid.also born in 68

[@elizabethrodriguez7363]

I truly cried watching this. I am so greatfull to have been brought up in the 70s. There will never be a time like this again. People were different and kind. Nothing like today! I remember dancing the hustle with my sister and all the posters on the wall! Also, the drivein theaters!! I have so many memories of the 70s. Oh and I Will never forget my Holly Hobbie! Young people today think they got it good. The technology today cannot compare to the fun we had growing up in the 70s. It was magical!

[@samuelschick8813]

Mom would always save her tips to buy school clothes/supplies and gifts for birthdays and Christmas. But when a new Disney came out ( when Disney was actually worth something) she would take us to the drive in to see it. She would get a big paper sack and pop enough popcorn to fill it almost half full. Before the movie started there were swings, teeter toters and merry go round up by the screen where we would play. Then the lights would go out as the signal to go back to the car and watch the 2 cartoons that were shown before the movie started. It was a set price per car no matter how many in the car. Now they charge per person. Remember every Friday night at 11PM the TV stations would show a scary movie?

[@buffdaddy2032]

We were lucky definitely.

[@shellyscott9613]

It was a magical time to be growing up in the 70's! I loved everything of this decade.

[@RameyRocks]

I remember my Holly hobbie! I also had a Mrs Beasley doll which I loved to death! I've been missing the 70s a lot here lately. Everything is just crap nowadays. It's so depressing.

[@barryhessel6078]

Yes I remember Al of that too

[@scottfulps2065]

This took me back to my childhood...ABBA, Asteroids, Saturday Night Fever, Fat Albert, KISS...such a great, innocent time to be alive. Life will never be the same. Thank you for the memories.

[@jimmyarmijo792]

Let's don't forget Led Zeppelin.

[@jmead2294]

@@jimmyarmijo792 Led Zeppelin, The Stones, Black Sabbath, Oh and Iron Butterfly (Ina-goda-da-vida) I had over 300 albums of top hard rock bands.

[@jimmyarmijo792]

@@jmead2294 Any Grand Funk Railroad!?!

[@jmead2294]

Oh yes, I had the first Grand Funk album (Red cover) then I had “Closer to Home”, “ Grand Funk Live”, and “E-Pluribus Funk”.

[@nightfangs2910]

Saturday morning cartoons marvel pj's and big bowl of sweet cereal ... absolute bliss

[@paulinehicks7932]

The 60’s and 70’s were great times for childhood. So many memories, and we were blessed to be growing up during that time.

[@luke125]

Agreed

[@gabrielpowers766]

The 80's, at least the early 80's, were pretty good too. Things really started to go off the rails in the 90's and 2000 and beyond has been a sheet show.

[@larciabella]

yes The Golden ages,The 1960's my childhood the 1970's my teen years.Would not have it any other way.Thanks Dad and Mom in heaven.

[@bestillandknow2986]

@@gabrielpowers766 Have you ever thought that the times we lived in back then have prepared us for now? Something to think about in so many ways.....like are we the last generation who really knows right from wrong?

[@tonyadenton9196]

@@gabrielpowers766 100% true, that's what i think exactly.

[@LittleGidget1]

Makes me sad that so much has changed. I’m blessed to have these memories

[@boughtbythecross]

When the pet rock came out my siblings and I wanted one so bad but we were dirt poor sooo... we went out to the creek and picked out our very own 'special' pet rock. We might have been kids but we weren't dummies!

[@digitalporch2062]

I need a time machine, I want to go back 😊

[@onecoolcat2478]

Yes! Take me with you!

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

I’m on the constant lookout!

[@Thebrothaisback]

Yeah. All of the schools i had gone to either got knocked down amd rebuilt in a hi-tech fasion, or got a futuristic upgrade, so none looked as i remembered, only the names and locations.

[@lesliehill332]

WAAAAY AHEAD OF YA'....dang, can you believe we are now considered OLD MIDDLE AGE....I'm LIKE HOLD THE HELL UP.....NOT THAT...!!!!!

[@johndavid8815]

I’m working on that.

[@phoenixrising2268]

I remember every one of these things. The 70's and 80's were the decades of my youth and young adulthood. It's mind boggling how different times are today.

[@Viola5501]

My soul craves the 70, it’s like if I could I would relive the 60s 70s over and over.

[@eydie57]

I feel like I was born at an awesome point in history. I was born in 1957, which means I was a kid in the 60s, a teen in the 70s, a young woman in the 80s and a mom in the 90s. I love all those eras.

[@kat35lulu88]

Me too!!!!!! I was born in Dec 57. Huge crush on David Cassidy. Had to find all the outfits at Casual Corner that Charlie's Angels wore. LoL.......

[@dolorescompean1507]

My store was Judy’s

[@57Jimmy]

1957 ROCKS!

[@cynthia8343]

@@kat35lulu88 loved Casual corner!

[@artpalombo4126]

Me born 1959 . So the 70s and late 60s was a blast!!

[@lorraineglantz3204]

I grew up in the 70's. And that was the best times ever. I wish things would go back to what they were in the 70's.

[@57Jimmy]

I especially liked mini-skirts and hot-pants! Who could forget the tank-tops! The girls made it damn near impossible for a boy to focus on schoolwork!😍😂

[@lisamckennon3025]

@@57Jimmy And remember the girls' tie-behind-the-neck halter tops??

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

I left my heart in San Francisco: I'm more of a sixties kid!✌️

[@bmw3842]

Not going to argue with a clueless idiot. Have a good one.

[@jamesrobert1464]

@@lisamckennon3025 This s beautiful how're you

[@JimJones-gd2jy]

Beautiful memories ! Big shout out to the 70’s kids ! ✌️ I still cherish those simpler times.

[@elwin38]

Proud to be a 70's kid✌🏾✊🏾

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

@@elwin38 me too!

[@bridgetc.taylor257]

Me too!

[@justme8837]

They were fun!

[@Soul_Education]

Best days of my life❤️❤️

[@reginastock5546]

Lots of great memories from the 70’s. Osmonds, Jackson 5, Neil Diamond, Carpenters, Jim Croce, John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, David Cassidy, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Donny and Marie Show, Paul McCartney and Wings, Elton John, Three Dog Night, Abba, the list goes on. Also cassette tapes and transistor radios, American Top 40 with Casey Kasem, Love Story (cried my eyes out), Billy Jack, Carrie (kept me from ever watching a horror movie again!)! Saturday morning cartoons, Dark Shadows. With only 3 networks to watch on TV, some of the best shows were from the 70’s. Too many to list but I bet we can all sing their theme songs! Let’s not forget double knit pants suits and leisure suits. They could last forever! And sadly, remembering where we were when we heard Elvis Presley had passed away.

[@Helen-mh8mq]

My sister and I loved Dark Shadow's! Barnabas Collins! 😂

[@stephendacey8761]

Don't forget Saturday night at 9PM was The Love Boat, followed by Fantasy island at 10PM.

[@bonjourtoi3894]

La musique était incroyable. Je me souviens qu'à chaque semaine il y avait une publication du classement des groupes et chansons. Une feuille que nous retrouvions chez le disquaire. Que la musique était bonne.

[@billofrightsamend4]

@@stephendacey8761 Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 21st Century, Six Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk, Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley, and Charlie's Angels... not in that order.

[@anneturner2759]

YES!

[@tikitavi7120]

No, the 70's were not perfect, but I would still take that time over this in a heartbeat.

[@NJP76]

Right there with you. Gawd I miss those days.

[@penelopelopez8296]

Me too. I miss Kaboom cereal, Libby Land TV dinners and the Howard Johnson frozen chicken croquets. I miss Howard Johnson’s. I loved those chicken croquets…you can’t get them anymore.

[@Tanji20251]

Same.

[@tobascoheat6582]

@Tiki Tavi You and me both!!! 👍

[@fjr70]

@@penelopelopez8296 LOL - Kaboom cereal!! So much sugar, so bad for you, yet incredibly good!!!

[@wesmcgee1648]

Best decade of my life. Puberty, driver's license, high school sweetheart, college. Parents, siblings, grandmothers all alive and well. The future ain't what it used to be.

[@allrise3056]

Nor is nostalgia.

[@peterbelanger4094]

Great, but not so great for me, I was younger. I had rules, parents, teachers, homework, bedtimes, chores, parents divorce, moving every year, not getting along with other kids. It may seem nice in hindsight, but remembering my head space I was in then, it wasn't that great. But that's just me. Still better than anything in the 21st century though. I was just highlighting that sometimes feelings of nostalgia can cloud the actual memories of the frame of mind you were in back then, having no knowledge of future events.

[@Pickle_Zero]

Same here!

[@cmont4064]

Wes, Thank you , your comment , a family picnic at the Russian River in California, just hit me , the smell, the heat, the laughter, yes those were the best days, As a teenager the Kegs ...😁

[@57Jimmy]

Me too! Add drunk-tank from being completely wasted at the grade 10 school dance!🥃🥃🥃🥃👮🏼‍♂️👮🏼‍♂️🚔 My brother bootlegged some 5-Star whiskey for me…he was Aux RCMP at the time!🤣

[@lionroar7190]

Loved the 70s ! Saturday mornings were cartoons til noon , playing outside til your parents stood on the front porch and hollered for you to come home for supper. Saturday nights were watching the Love Boat and Fantasy Island. During the week before school was Captain Kangaroo. Sundays were watching NFL football and of course Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football. Casey Kasem's Top 40 countdown on the weekends and all the great music of the 70's.

[@Stephen-ob3ij]

Oh yea, waking up at 6:30 a.m. and watching the bars until bug bunny or whatever came on at 7, haha.

[@proudamerican2133]

@@Stephen-ob3ij that tone at night though. Ugh.

[@Cinnamun52]

❤

[@kellynorvell5714]

You are so on point. Can I add TV shows like Zoom, The Magic Garden, Sesame Street, Joya's Fun School, Bozo the Clown. THANKS for sharing great memories of the 70's.

[@pixelvnce]

Awesomeness! I remember Mr. Rourke on Fantasy Island “Da plane! Da plane!” Captain Kangaroo was another one I remember that brought back some memories,also. I remember one episode on Capt. Kangaroo , that warned kids about getting in cars with strangers and being kidnapped. I don’t know if you might have remembered this, I grew up in Cali; on late Saturday afternoons we had Channel 2 (“There’s only one,Two”) and they played Chiller Diller theater. Also, on the weekend, out in California, we had Bob Wilkins hosting Creature Feature Theater.

[@kaitiscarlett9022]

The 70s were just.... special. The difference between the 70s and the 80s is like day and night, and no decade after the 70s holds the same nostalgia for me. I don't want to re-live this time, because every era has its problems, but this is the only time where I truly would not mind observing from a time machine :)

[@stephendacey8761]

1976 was the Country's 200th Birthday. What a party!!!

[@pjjj8117]

I was born in 1957 so the 60s late 60s and 70s definitely were my time. And I loved it and I miss it. Just wish I was smarter if I ever had to go back but at least I’m still alive. These days if I did the same things there’s no way I would still be around. Thank God for the 60s and 70s.

[@karyntaylor4934]

The sweet wonderful days of my innocence. I miss so very much. This touched me in a way I cannot describe. Made me cry with a soulful , heartfelt smile on my old face.

[@proudamerican2133]

I'm with ya🥲

[@kawaiinelson8419]

Ditto! you took words out of my mouth. Sooo glad this was shared to me!💞wonderful memories

[@drusmith3480]

Recollection Road nailed it with this installment. At the part about the lunch boxes, I still remember the smell of bologna sandwich when my lunch box was opened.🥪

[@noble604]

When your 10 gallon hat was feeling 5 gallons flat, didn’t you hanker for a hunk of cheese?

[@JHChannel35]

I will never forget that nauseating feeling I got when I had dropped my lunch box and heard the broken glass in the Thermos ☹🤢

[@tomw3473]

I had a Hot Wheels lunchbox. And, oh yeah!, ditto on dropping the lunchbox

[@5DNRG]

omg!! I smelled the same bologna when they showed those lunch boxes! Amazing memory trigger...

[@happylittletrees5668]

Yep, even if mom packed you peanut butter and jelly sammy, you could still smell the bologna from days ago.

[@rickyweston8153]

one of the best decades of my life. even though we had the most basic technology back there was always something to do . everyone in our neighborhood knew each other and socialized. time seemed endless. our summer holidays seemed to go on forever miss those days

[@deannealbrecht774]

Lawrence Welk on Sunday nights. Soul Train. Scooby-Doo. HR Puf-n-Stuf.

[@ttgyuioo]

We were ALWAYS playing outside...I was playing in the mud one day, it was fun 😊

[@starmnsixty1209]

👍👍👍

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Greatest era of my life (at least so far)! I was 10 in 1970 and 19 in 1979.. would LOVE to go back and re-visit each and every day of that entire decade!

[@denisebartoszewski8625]

Me too

[@rrf6747]

Yep

[@gldesigns348123]

Same here. Born in '60.

[@suespony]

Same, 1960, sometimes bothers me time is almost up.

[@David-sc2ir]

I was born in '60 too.... we were the last generation to live like true kids! Sometime in the 80's something happened, things changed and life was never the same again. It seemed like society became so materialistic... it was all about what you had, to flaunt the newest and best. Gone are the days of $1.99 keds sneakers and blue jean cutoffs for the summer. We didn't care about material things as much, we were much more into creating fun with our imagination and with our friends. We could spend days with nothing more than a cardboard box that the new refrigerator came in, or making a go-kart out of a discarded baby carriage :) A neighborhood monopoly game could go on for two days, and 'kite season' was a 10 cent purchase that would keep you entertained for a week or more! Remember those days?

[@diannawilson5743]

I was born in 1959 and remember all of this - especially the tube socks, the movies Jaws and Star Wars when they came out, the bellbottom jeans and dances. It was fun. The music was great with the discos. Teens were out with friends more in those days.

[@charleshugh9140]

Hello Dianna I see happiness all around you, please can I share from it??

[@raydelrosario2366]

There should be a 70s convention. It would be like a reunion for all of us!!!

[@screenplayhouse4932]

My wife and I never got to see the Bee Gees. But we did get to see Barry Gibb and family at the Hollywood Bowl. There was a bus from our town that took you there, these buses exist to reduce traffic. On that bus was the reunion you're talking about. I was like, holy shit, everyone on this bus is roughly the same age. Even better? This was an end of Barry's tour and he hasn't really toured much since. If I took a peanut and threw it gently over my shoulder -- it would have hit Olivia Newton John. I'm serious. Because of some last minute cancellation miracle I had better seats than her. And if I stood up, turned, and threw a peanut fairly hard -- it would have hit Barry Manilow. I'm not making any of this up.

[@raydelrosario2366]

@@screenplayhouse4932 That's a great story! Must've been SURREAL! I wish I was there!

[@screenplayhouse4932]

@@raydelrosario2366 Super Crazy Surreal. My wife and I are moving an hour out of town and this will be our 'When we were in LA' story. Since you liked it, a bonus detail. (Oh, shoot, I already forgot it. Umm.) (Oh yeah!) So, remember, I'm like dead center about 6 rows back. You need to know the Hollywood Bowl is like a picnic affair, where if you get there early you eat in the lovely LA summer eve as the sun starts to set. I was done eating, got up to stretch my legs, and saw a skinny LA aspiring actress type. She had a perfect figure but weighed nothing. She's eating some serious steak, Mac and Cheese, and has a beer in tow. I thought something but had no one to say it too. I approached a rock and roll lady in her 60's and said, "I just witnessed something that doesn't happy. See that girl over there? Look at what she's eating and look at her weight. I thought all 'those' girls out here ate nothing but salad." This 60 year old 'groovy' looking women smiled and said, "Being that thin can make you really hungry sometimes." But she said it with this funny look, as if to say, "Are you flirting with me or just shooting the shinola?" She was... smirking. A day later I learned why she was smirking. I had been talking to Barry Gibb's wife... but didn't know it.

[@raydelrosario2366]

@@screenplayhouse4932 one of those days huh...lol.

[@elizabethrodriguez7363]

That would be sooooo cool.........

[@terryrollins1973]

All us neighborhood kids always loved when we heard the music from the ice cream truck, had to hurry and run to get money from your mom before it passed. I loved the Superstar and Snocones, push-ups were always good too. There was no better time to be a kid 🙏❤️

[@peggyl2849]

And you scouted for empty bottles to return for the deposit money, to buy ice cream on your own :)

[@lorainefleeman6011]

@@peggyl2849 And tried collecting aluminum cans to be recycled just to have spending money.

[@paulazemeckis7835]

Like in Chicago in the 60's the Good Humor truck.

[@dst1311]

Minnesota ice cream trucks were fast

[@karenholladay2612]

@@dst1311 I remember the first ice cream "truck" was just a big aluminum cooler on the back of a bicycle. Iowa here.

[@dragonwithagirltattoo598]

I remember looking forward to back to school shopping every year. My mom couldn’t afford too much but I always got about 3 new outfits, school supplies and most importantly, a new lunchbox. Good times.

[@stephendacey8761]

"Barbie" lunchbox?

[@margaretsilva196]

And wondering if you would have any "cute boys" in your class.

[@toddmo1]

What a great time to be a kid...my friends and I played outside the whole weekend and after school. There were so many songs, games and activities we enjoyed and looking back on that time I would love to be able to relive that whole decade!

[@caroledefelice8972]

Me too !!! Best of times !!!

[@su-rv2uq]

Why do people think that playing outside every waking moment makes them special or something? I have heard it so many times and I don't get it. Playing outside was fun but playing inside was fun too, reading, listening to music, playing games etc.

[@johndough23]

@@su-rv2uq Because it was real. The bruises, scraps and blood were hard earned. The adjusting to changing weather was real. The smells, the noise, the sheer scale of experience could never be matched sitting inside. We didn't have safe spaces we ran. We didn't have reality shows we chased firetrucks instead.

[@zoom539]

And we didn't know what we had when we had it. Lets be grateful for the time we did have!

[@codyluka8355]

@@su-rv2uq At my house, if you stuck around the house any longer than an hour after breakfast, you were either chased outside or put to work. The same was true for my friends as well. The house was all of our mother's domain. Mom or Dad always had a "special" job that needed to be done so, reading, listening to music or watching TV was just not done during the day. Unless it was raining, you were outdoors burning off energy and getting plenty of fresh air. It was great growing up during the 70s and 80s.

[@billtate6962]

I still remember taking the constitution test in 8th grade...and singing the preamble as I filled it out in the test....a great testament to school house rock . 🎶

[@bryanj7063]

🤣I remember singing the preamble to the school house rock tune for that same test in 8th grade. Loved school house rock.

[@deborahcox9387]

Didn't sing the pream le for a test but instead mine was Conjunction Junction for a 7th grade English test. I remember our teacher telling us to turn our papers over and begin the test and the entire class started singing this song. All our teacher could do was laugh and say that she knew what we all did on Saturday morning g and that she expected all of us to pass with no trouble..

[@ladydawgfan4832]

OMG!! I did the same thing!! It sure helped me out with that test!!

[@maryannturton9830]

Conjunction,junction,what's your function? Hooking up words,and phrases,and clauses...🎶😅

[@ladydawgfan4832]

@@maryannturton9830 Thanks a lot!! Now I'll be humming that little ditty all danged day!! 😜

[@gregsmith7949]

I was born in 1969. The 70's were an awesome time to be a kid. I'm glad you mentioned Schoolhouse Rock. I can still recite the preamble to the Constitution thanks to the cartoon. Wore tube socks, saw Star Wars, had a metal lunchbox, our TV was a console, parents had an 8 track in the car, remember disco and Kiss. Watched Mash and Happy Days. This video is my childhood. 👍

[@uncletony6210]

I was born in 69 too. You can get the same tube socks on amazon.

[@lynnisaman588]

Oh how I miss that decade. I remember nearly everything. In the same way that trauma leaves you remembering everything, well so does absolute bliss

[@pattisimmons67]

It really was such a great time. Hang out with your friends knowing you were fine no matter what. No fear. I miss that time so much.

[@michelewilliams8657]

LOL Lived with it all, wore it, bought it, read it, watched it, learned it, had it, was given it, danced it, etc, OH MY, What memories!!!! Even the tvs, carpet, funiture, lights. Thank you for this video!!! :)

[@michelewilliams8657]

ate it, too LOL LOL LOL LOL

[@bessburkhardt6631]

Yes it is awesome! I can't wait to show my daughter

[@TheRhNegative]

Ah the outfits. Remember them all. The macrame plant holders, the plaid skirts, the tube socks, the gym shorts, The Dorothy Hammill haircut fad, the Captain & Tenille show. The Sonny & Cher variety hour, the Smothers Brothers, Every weekend we gathered in the livingroom to watch The Love Boat & Fantasy Island. Laugh-In, and went to Gramma's to watch her color tv when the Wizard of Oz was on at Easter(so we could gasp at the ruby slippers in color). Every girl in the 7th grade had Lip Potion flavored lip gloss, their moms had Avon samples, everyone's hair was bleached & shiny from swimming all day & night in the summer...what a time to be growing up with the best memories of a simpler, slower and definitely more wholesome time .

[@jillv4006]

Yep, and all of us can still sing the preamble that we learned through watching School House Rock to this day. 🎶 We the people, in order to form a more perfect union…🎶 Come on, sing along!

[@Yesica1993]

"establish justice ensure domestic tranquilityyyyyy! "

[@jillv4006]

@@Yesica1993 you got it! Yay!!!

[@dandejoux2622]

Conjunction Junction was a good one.

[@littlejoe9381]

Thanks for the memories. This was the best time of my life because all of my family members were alive and well and I had no bills to pay.

[@harperstacey9604]

I know how you feel. My entire family was alive in the seventies. Now, all of them have now passed away. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

[@robertsmith9397]

Being born in '68, I was a little kid in the 70s and a teen in the 80s. I am so thankful that I was born when I was. The 70s was such a fun decade for kids. Coming home from school, eatin cereal and watching Speed Racer. Charlie's Angels on Thursday nights. Dad bought me my first Kiss album. Hot Wheels at Toys R Us. Tastee Freez served in baseball cap bowls. I feel bad for kids today. They have no idea what it's like to really be a kid.

[@sbeers88]

I was born in 69 so I know what you mean. What a time to be alive.

[@JCVerseTv]

AGREED! Born in 70 and heck it was amazing.

[@robertpreston2220]

agree 100 percent!

[@greedo2660]

Born in 70. Saw Star Wars in the theater at age 7... the perfect age!

[@pazuzu-gb7ok]

@@greedo2660 same here, my parents took me to see Star wars at the drive inn movie theater remember those ? They also took me to see close encounters later that year. I was 4 and still remember the latter part of the 70s.

[@kellyc2425]

I was born in 1961, so the 70s were my prime years. Love this walk down memory lane! I finally got to show my son what Clackers were!

[@ingridlinbohm7682]

I remember playing Clackers (which we called knackers) on St Ives beach in 1971with my brother.

[@LadyGreenEyes964]

Awesome fun is what those were!

[@InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder]

@@ingridlinbohm7682 We called em "Knockers".

[@codyluka8355]

I still have a set of Clackers! They were pretty popular at school but they were sure deadly.

[@samuelschick8813]

@@ingridlinbohm7682, For some reason I do not remember we called them "knee knockers".

[@markcollins2666]

I now live in the Philippines, where so much of this still exists! Kids still play jump rope, hopscotch, fly kites, play badminton in the street, because they can, a great place to raise a kid! They get to interact, without their noses in devices!

[@onecoolcat2478]

I am so lucky to have been a kid in the 70"s. Was born Dec 1969. How different life was then. So carefree.....

[@EricPetersen2922]

I’m Dec 66

[@Doncolorado]

Aug 66

[@elainecruz5606]

Sept.69

[@charlesprice7608]

Sept 67

[@kevinmitchell4018]

I don't know. I wz born in 1968.i remember sum of this stuff,but I don't really consider myself a 70s kid. I went to middle & high school in the 80s.every thing I like & relate to is more from the 80s.i consider myself more of an 80s kid & even the 90s a young adult

[@bearforce187]

I was a kid growing up in the 70's ages 5 to 14, best decade ever to be a child and so happy I got to experience it. I remember it all, Saturday morning cartoons, Saturday matinee movies at the local theater, the music, the toys we had then, such great memories. I wish I could someone go back to that time and relive it again, yes there are somethings I would have done differently, but for the most part it was the best of times.

[@elwin38]

Was also a 70's kid from age 2 to 11. Fun times.

[@l.s.a1990]

I'm from the 90s but I'm sure the feelings are the same....I often reminisce about the good times.

[@denniseldridge2936]

Good lord, you must be almost exactly my age hehe. I was about 6 in 1970, and even here in the small island of Bermuda I can remember quite a bit of these references, being so physically close to the US (we're a British colony). Personally I'd also love to be able to relive a lot of those things, and someday I'll have the space to create a special 70's room, containing the decor (shag for days!) and a classic sound system (some of the best audio gear ever made came from later in the decade).

[@katiebice3905]

The best was BEING ABLE TO PLAY OUTSIDE all day long without fear of being shot or kidnaped. Walking to and from school with your friends without fear. Disney entrance fee so cheap you could go all summer long until you got bored with it. Going camping and fishing at the last minute and not having to worry about making reservations or even a park fee.

[@kenlompart9905]

I was born in 64 so I was definitely a 70s kid too. Like most boys my hero's were Evel Knievel, Steve Austin and of course The Fonz and my favorite movies were Star Wars, Superman and Smokey and the Bandit, my mom wouldn't let me see Jaws because she thought it would make me afraid of swimming but I saw it anyway and didn't tell her, I was not afraid to swim afterwards BTW. The 70s were definitely a great time to be a kid.

[@floydbrennan9789]

My favorite movie of all time, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", came out in 1977, the same year as "Star Wars". "The Bionic Woman" was awesome, too!

[@a.v.-anthoula2600]

My grade 5 class went o see Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I still remember the anticipation of waiting to watch it, my first going to a theatre. Great memory and great movie. Jaws was 2nd movie I watched at theatre..

[@LittleTut]

Yup, me too and Close Encounters, and I loved loved Bionic Woman!

[@btetschner]

I once stopped by the monument that was in the film (it is in Wyoming).

[@danielemmons3513]

We seen Close Encounters at the drive-in. Wearing our onesies with footies and laying in the bed of Dads truck.

[@proudamerican2133]

Saw Star Wars 13 times in the local theater to which we could walk. Back when you had only 1 or 2 movies at a time, and they held movies over several weeks so long as they were pulling in the cash. It never got old. As soon as I hear the opening notes I'm instantly back there. We all are.

[@jimmylorang995]

I was born in 1966...so my earliest memories were the incredible 1970's. Man...there were SO many great rock and roll bands throughout that decade. I feel truly blessed to have been exposed to such significant music while growing up...

[@colleenterry5458]

I was born in 1970 and watching this made me cry! I miss being a carefree kid!!

[@tommcdonough6086]

Makes two of us born in 68 my sister in 70, If you think about it just seems like the other day! Where does the time go......... don't cry we all miss those days I get sentimental sometimes myself our generation was truly lucky to be young in this era, imagine being young modern day no thank you! Peace to you...

[@nibunion]

Me too July 21st

[@JohnLedford]

Me too. May 11.

[@lisagilbert5709]

Me too May 30th

[@ConwayTruckload]

I kinda became emotional watching this because it reminded me of when I was a kid and when all my family was still living. But my time was the late 60’s to the early 70’s.

[@nancyholcombe8030]

The 1970s were also the era of many great musicians and bands: Elton John, John Denver, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Abba, Cher, Gordon Lightfoot, Dan Fogelberg, Genesis, the Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt, Heart, and Black Sabbath (Ozzy Osborne) were all a part of the 70s. Some of the best music EVER!

[@nightisright1873]

And ELO

[@nygrl6102]

The Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker band, Wet Willie, Lynyrd Skynyrd...

[@madma19]

Loved Gordon Lightfoot, Ten years After, Badfinger, Bad Company, Steppenwolf, Guess Who, Deep Purple, Byrds, Cream and on and on

[@lorainefleeman6011]

They are legends.

[@mesomemore97]

Waylon Jennings

[@Coy393]

I remember watching Heehaw, Sonny and Cher, playing with Lincoln logs, the game spinning tops, and the creepy crawler molds, and the tootsie roll molds.Many other things but these stood out to me...

[@dandejoux2622]

When Lincoln Logs were real wood.

[@dex.cameron1855]

And don't forget the barrell of monkeys... Fun game😊

[@biancagerade4229]

Proud to say I'm a '70s child grew up as a teenager in the '70s I experienced it done it all the shag carpets, hamburger helper, the Disco the bell bottom pants. Mom's old station wagon. Sneaking into a drive-in theater, reading tiger beat magazine and plastering tons of posters of Sean Cassidy and don't forget, Bay City rollers the bubble gum band of that time❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Bigger-Than-Jesus]

is this my sister? thats when Saturday morning cartoons RULED!

[@kenlompart9905]

In our house it was Donny Osmond. I remember my oldest sister and her friends hanging out and playing Donny Osmond records over and over for hours, in the 70s I knew the words to puppy love off by heart.

[@noble604]

Gull. Look. What. You’ve. Done. To. May. May. And. My. Whole. Wuhld. ... as Marcia Brady watched

[@debbiemullen2574]

Tiger Beat was the best. I had Donny Osmond and Vince Van Patten all over my bedroom walls. Good memories.

[@robichj]

S-A...T-U-R...D-A-Y NIGHT!!

[@UsurpersAndAssassins]

I was born in 1974, and I agree it was the sweetest time to be alive. 1965-1985 seems to be the nicest period. Everything was so exciting and politics hadn't ruined everything.

[@stevieray6216]

Isn’t it funny how for those reminiscing the 50ies (like in American Graffiti and Happy Days) the good times have ended in 1963 (JFK, Vietnam, British invasion)? I guess it just depends on when you grew up. Therefore, even if we don’t envy today’s youth, they will probably have fond memories of the ‘good old 2020ies’ when they are grown. 🤔

[@salbo5248]

I think our culture peaked and “ jumped the shark” after the 70’s. After the postwar period through the late 70’s was probably prime time for the American dream. Look at aviation for example- the huge and luxurious 747 came out in 1971, then the Concorde started flying . Bigger, faster, more luxury . Then the gas crunch and cramming people in like sardines became the norm. No frills flying. Two engines instead of four. Same with cars- compact cars took over from the “ land yachts “ of years past. It was a great time to grow up- I think kids today are missing out on the simple things and isolating themselves in computers and phones.

[@proudamerican2133]

Born in 66, 4th grade for the bicentennial, every high-school and college year in the 80s. Class of 84!! Year of Springstein Born in the USA, and VanHalen Jump was there for our graduation. Wish I could have 1 1984 spring day back. We are the oldest class of Gen X and we are still awesome.

[@sdmurphy20]

I was born in 85 so I just missed out smh

[@bryanj7063]

There was lots of political corruption back then too, we just weren’t aware of it while we were riding our big wheels.

[@phukyergreennewdeal1053]

I can still hear Mr. Softee's music playing a couple of blocks away. We scrambled into our houses digging in couch cushions, moms purses in the closet just to get 30 or 40 cents

[@EKEACRES]

I did the same. I can still hear the generator running on the decorated truck waiting for my turn to get some ice cream. Those days were another world back then.

[@proudamerican2133]

Visited my neices once, heard ice cream man, instinctively knocked them down and took off running up the road in my sock feet.

[@sacandagaguy2646]

You really took me back with Mentioning Mr,Softee. That was the best part of a hot day on my block in Queens N.Y. And who could forget that music!

[@larciabella]

spent my paper route money on Mister Softee.

[@sandygrimes7196]

I was in elementary in those days, Saturday morning cartoons, play outside, fun toys, we didn’t wear protective gear, trick or treating with only 1 parent watching like 10 kids, how I miss those days..❤️

[@ttgyuioo]

We went by ourselves..and we were safe

[@stephendacey8761]

The Monkees.

[@norwegianblue2017]

I was born in the late 60s, so I caught just enough of the 70s to say I lived through it. Saw Star Wars in the theaters, went roller-skating with the disco ball and black lights, loved my crushed velvet glow in the dark poster of a jaguar in the jungle, the metal lunch boxes, watch Land of the Lost, played Space Invaders and Asteroids they had at the grocery store. Just a great time to be a kid.

[@eldorado1830]

We were so lucky to grow up in the absolutely best times.

[@tonydavis2672]

Even born in the late 60's . . . the point is you seen everyday of the 70's even if you were young . . That's why it's called growing up in the 70's . . . There's a lot of people who only wish they could have seen just one day of the 70's . . . And you seen everyday of the 70's . . . Be happy about that . . . Like the old saying goes . you were either here during the seventies or you wasn't . . . There's no maybe in this . . You were there or you wasn't .

[@mordechai-]

I awe young adults today when I tell them I saw the first Star Wars movie in the theater on the big screen, back in '78.

[@norwegianblue2017]

@@mordechai- To them that is as far back in time as WWII was to us when we were young. Remember how that seemed pre-historic? Well that's us now. LOL

[@sashad8204]

I totally forgot about those crushed velvet glow in the dark posters!!! Omg you just brought back major nemories lol

[@randymiller3949]

I'm 53 yrs old, born in 1969, but I have a good memory of the 70s...especially 1975 thru 1979. I specifically remember riding around with my dad & listening to 8-track tapes on his 8-track player in his truck, getting to see Star Wars, Jaws, Saturday Night Fever, Smoky & The Bandit, King Kong, & getting to watch all the Saturday morning cartoons, The Shazam/Isis Hour, The Land Of The Lost, Ark 2, BigFoot & Wildboy, The Incredible Hulk, Logan's Run, CHIPS, The 6 Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, & B.J. & The Bear. Great times & Great memories!!! Much love from Mobile Alabama.

[@proudamerican2133]

Omg, King Kong, who could forget that one! And Body Snatchers scared the crap out of me. Can't hear a garbage truck without being taken back. Back when theaters showed only 1 movie, and if it was making money, they held it over another week. Saw Stars Wars 12 times. Never got old. Will never like anything more than those first 3. 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade. Still get the same chills when the first 3 notes start on the big screen. Those movies blew our socks off. And yep, Jaws freaked us all out too!

[@davidlemons5650]

Same year 1969, age 53. Same everything, only from the Panhandle/South Plains of West Texas.

[@InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder]

1967. I remember pulling my feet up into the seat, during 'Jaws'. Blount county, Alabama.

[@ml5955]

Born in 71. My favorite show of the 70’s was Battlestar Galactica. I also had a Space 1999 lunch pal in 76 in kindergarten. The 80 were more my time, but the late 70’s were pretty awesome too.

[@davidlemons5650]

@@ml5955 Battlestar Galactica and Space 1999 were great!! Lorne Greene talking about Earth!!!

[@joolslaloosh]

I remember fondue, our old green metal Coleman ice chest and my Schwinn Orange Krate bicycle. I miss those days so much, it was such a great time to be alive! I'm so lucky.

[@denniscosban6145]

I wish I can send you a picture. In 1977 at 10 years old. I bought a Schwinn Orange krate bicycle. At a garage sale. I paid $80 for it. I made payments and worked it off. After all they lived five houses down. There are two small scratches on it. From where the forks hit the frame. Other than that it looks like it rolled right out of the factory. It was in my bedroom for over 10 years. And then when I was renting an apartment it was in my bedroom for 10 years. It's been in my bedroom in my house for over 20 years. Everybody knows.You don't mess with Dad's Bike. I still ride it a couple of times a month. I guess that's why I'm still 158 lb s. My bike turns more heads than a Ferrari. It's a hell of a conversation piece. And it's been in probably hundreds of pictures. People love my bike. ✌️

[@luish777]

Oh shit we also had that metal green coleman ice chest lol

[@davidlemons5650]

@@luish777 Us, too same green Coleman, lasted my whole life. I know Mom had it into my twenties, and they got it before I remember, spanning from the 60s to 90s, at least!!!

[@InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder]

@@denniscosban6145 I suspect the heads turning are due to a 53/54 year old man riding an 'Orange Krate Schwinn bicycle. Does it still have the banana seat, with a cb antenna / orange flag flying behind it? I was born in June of 67, so we both went through the same changes in this country. If only I had known what this country was going to become, I would have enjoyed that life a heck of a lot more. I remember riding in the car with my dad in 79, and him telling me that he heard the 80s were going to make the 50s, look like the 40s. Man was he right! RIP Pah.

[@johnstudd4245]

I had a yellow "Banana split" model, I think it was called. It was a three speed with the stick shift mounted on the frame in front of the seat. My friends were envious, everyone else just had a one speed stingray. Then there was the ultimate model, the five speed!! I don't remember any of the kids having one but we drooled over it at the Schwinn shop, which just happened to be just behind the house I grew up in.

[@kcindc5539]

Awww man - this really hit home. I was 4 to 13 during that decade. Got me thinking about: - the day glo posters at Spencer’s gifts - those bright orange safety flags on flexible poles that attached to your your bicycle and were so tall they’d smack the ceiling of the garage when you’d pull in. - a new CB radio we installed in Dad’s 1972 Oldsmobile for long trips. It was a big deal! - getting our first touch-tone phone, and liberating ourselves from the torture of rotary dialing. - That first pack of Bubble Yum - the game-changing soft, squishy, flavor-saturated cubes of bubble-blowing bliss (even now the thought makes me salivate) - seeing which of us was going to disprove the rumor that ingesting PopRocks and Coke at the same time would make you explode. …. and so many other uniquely ‘70s things. It was an awesome decade to be a kid

[@noble604]

Keep going! This is great!

[@jamesslick4790]

Spencer's and Radio Shack were the only stores at the mall that I was interested in as a '70s kid, LOL.

[@sergioleone3583]

Great list!!!

[@smartysmarty1714]

I watched a video a few months ago where they gave a rotary phone to some present day teen-agers and asked them how it would work. It wasn't scripted. They had no clue, and it was hilarious to watch. I'd love to have an old rotary phone again.

[@noble604]

Smarty smarty - that’s funny. And people try to explain pay phones to them ... there’s also a test to see how old you are based on if someone says “pretend you’re on the phone.” Kids now place a flat palm to their ear. Generations born before cellphones put a thumb to their ear and a pinkie finger to their mouth. Lol times have changed

[@elwin38]

MY CHILDHOOD DECADE!! Yes i wore my fro, bell bottoms, trapeze(or leisure suit). Schoolhouse Rock was on ABC, In the News was on CBS. Didnt like the pet rock, loved the mood rings(some of my sisters wore mood rings). Loved my tube socks, wore those things into the 80's. I liked disco but was way too young for the clubs, we still had school dances(sock hops) and house parties.

[@noble604]

I would actually sing the Preamble to the Constituon to myself in the rythym of Schoolhouse Rock when I had to remember it...lol 🎵🎶weeee the peeeeee ple..... in order to form a more perrrrr fect uuuuuuuunion.... establishjusticeinsuredomestictranquility.... eeeee....... eeeeee🎶🎵

[@jamesslick4790]

"Tube" socks should really be a "thing" again!

[@johnbockelie3899]

Don't forget the " Feathered style " hair cuts.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Surreal to see Nixon leave the White House ?, hey it was real. Gerald Ford was next President.

[@knowsbest123]

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[@robwebnoid5763]

I was a pre-teen in that decade & I remember practically all of what was shown in the video. But what was most memorable for me is the comfort, stability & youth of my family, where mom & dad were in their 30's & the whole nuclear family was intact. Dad had since passed away about 4 years ago, my sister has her own family & mom is now 80. And we even had a pet dog who lived for 10 years, passing away in the mid 1980's. We still have a lot of stuff that we have kept over the years from those times, including one old red shag carpet, Star Wars & other toys (I have the first set of Star Wars toy figurines), several board games, some bellbottom pants, other 1970's clothes, magazines/cookbooks, Atari 2600 & Coleco video game consoles, Dad's early 1970's stereo system with several 8-track tapes, typewriters, & even a small piece of wood paneling that I still have. We were also able to hold onto our mid-1970's Chrysler & Chevrolet cars up until the mid 1990's. But again, it was our youth & happiness as a family for which I will remember the 1970's for... & subsequently the 1980's as well.

[@Mongo_Only_Pawn]

Born in 67. I had my childhood in the 70s. I remember everything he talked about her. And more! It was a great time to be a kid.

[@jimwoodman8158]

I was five years old at the start of the 70's and 15 when they ended. I will cherish my memories of the 70's for the rest of my life and would go back there today, if I could. I grew up in a small town in Canada and could spend all day during the summer outside with my friends with no problems, home in time for supper, then back out 'till well after dark, all without my parents freaking out over my whereabouts or panicking over my safety. Times have changed, but not always for the better.

[@debbiemullen2574]

Wow, I loved this. Thank-You. I grew up in the 70's and this video is spot on. I thank The Good Lord every day that I was blessed to live in the times I've lived. I'm 61 now and wouldn't trade our generation for any other.

[@jaygrey1212]

Hear Hear!! It was the best!!

[@robertabrams8562]

I’m 61 also, and agree with you 1000%

[@uekiguy5886]

I'm also 61. Back then, we were all what is now called "Free-range children". "Be home by supper." "Be home by dark."

[@peterbelanger4094]

It was a good decade to be a kid in.

[@lauriebradbury6553]

Hi Debbie ! I’m a 60 yr. old 70’s kid too. 😂😂😂 your name sounds familiar, did you go to Stamford h.s. In Stamford Ct. ? I remember the the last name. My sister in law Pat Bradbury was the P.E. Teacher.

[@deedeegreen8338]

I loved everything about the '70's, even the bright orange wall to wall shag carpet we had in our parlor. Yes, my parents used the word "parlor" instead of living room. We didn't have a basement, we had a coal cellar. There was a hatch at the side of the house, where the coal was dumped into the cellar. Coal was dirty and often left its' black soot everywhere throughout the house. There was nothing that compared to '70's music. There are very few songs that I really love, that came out after the 1970's. Ahh, take me away Calgon. 👩

[@andrerone8208]

Haven't heard that in years well said and spot on🤣👍

[@sherrystephens9729]

Love this! I turned 3 years old in 1970, and I remember all this time era nostalgia. Still have my Metal lunchboxes from kindergarten to 5th grades. Loved riding in the back of the station wagon where you could make the last bench face backwards while listening to the Partridge Family and Osmond 8 tracks...while eating a chocolate snack pack that came in a can that had the pull off top!

[@AudiophileTubes]

ROCK music was HUGE, and this was the 'golden age of stereos and Hi-Fi'! We had huge speakers that shook the house, large 'boat anchor' stereo receivers and amplifers, and the great analog sound of turntables! I drove my parents nuts cranking the likes of Rush, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elton John, The Doors, Steely Dan, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Kiss, Blue Oyster Cult, The Who, The Beatles, The Scorpions, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, The Outlaws, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.... the list goes on and on! Concerts were affordable too.

[@woohunter1]

Judging by your user name, some of that vintage gear is still pretty sweet till this day, I’d love to get my hands on a Pioneer sx1980! The vu meters and the big bright analog displays!!!

[@karenwagner451]

One of the first concerts I ever went to was in 70 or 71. It was Grand Funk Railroad. Tix we're $6. Now I don't think you can get in for under $75.

[@AnniePA1960]

Marshall Tucker, Billy Joel, Jackson Browne, Yes, Alice Cooper....

[@Noah1997callahan]

The Beatles and rush 🤘🤘

[@dwandersgaming]

The talent from that decade was phenomenal. Listening to the radio as a kid really formed my love for classic rock and even softer stuff like Paul Simon.

[@stephb3321]

I was in elementary school during most of the 70’s. All of this really brings back so many good memories. I laughed seeing the Mood ring. I had one and thought it was so cool. 😊

[@laylah4710]

I still have my mood rong

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was born in 1961 and in 1970 I was 9, so yes, the 70s was a GREAT time for me. In the 70s I grew into the man I am today. I enjoyed those years very much and learned a lot about myself and the world around me. I would give anything to travel back in because I miss life in the times. Today's world is very different than it was those days.

[@EricRedbear]

*HA HA! You're old!* Sincerely, 1973

[@chrishoey61]

Im 61 and still watch them also. it what keeps us young. Much love to my generation.

[@elwin38]

Use to buy those wooden planes from the stores, put them together and throw them and they would fly. Put your kites together, big or small and those things would go high in the air. So many memories.

[@geraldboykin6159]

Remember the Cox airplanes?

[@mcc28joe]

Yes! theplanes were cool & remember getting those "Vampire" kites from the supermarket where you stuck the eyes on--they didn't last long, but they definitely flew really high! so much fun

[@davidrogers0717]

I had forgotten about those wooden planes. Yes, the paper and plastic kites.

[@tony--james]

@@mcc28joe yeah, those were Gayla Kites, very popular in the 70's, Ebay has a few of them on there, was looking recently , the memories!

[@tony--james]

@@geraldboykin6159 yup, good times, had 2 of them , PT-19, and a X-Wing fighter StarWars, control line .049 Engine planes, in 1979,

[@isabelcoates2759]

I grew up in the 70s. Best decade of my life. Will always remember it with great nostalgia.

[@richardgrayson6351]

Hello how are you doing ?

[@shisley4]

The best decade ever ❤😭😭😭😭!!! Staying up on Saturday nights to watch Soul Train was a treat for my siblings and I. I loved Charlie's Angels, Eight Is Enough, What's Happening, The Rookies, All In The Family, One Day At A Time, Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman. The Alex Haley's family history documenentary "Roots." We loved Saturday morning's cartoon lineup. Sitting up watching tv in the summer until it signed off. Walking to the store to by some Now & Later candy. Music was awesome back them. Went from the afro to the flip hairstyle. Going to the 5 & 10 cent/ dime stores to get popcorn and those cold icees. My mother buy $2.00 worth of gas to go wherever and back to the house, that the store owner would pump for you, check your oil and clean your windshield. We had so much fun back then. People used manners and respected each other. When someone passed away in the community everyone showed respect to the family, by doing a kind gesture. Kids could pretty much walk or ride their bikes anywhere in their neighborhoods and no one would bother them. Last, but surely not least, reading Ebony, Essence, Jet and home magazines, such as Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Better Homes and Garden, House Beautiful, Red Book, Sears Wish Book and the JCPENNEY big book.

[@amysbees6686]

Watching "Roots" is what most of the country did! I remember it well! So much variety on TV! Comedy, drama, mini-series. Watching re-runs over summer vacation! Cartoons followed by "The Little Rascals" and "The Three Stooges" on Saturdays. Big candy bars for $.25! I had my "Dorothy Hamill haircut"!

[@amysbees6686]

I am white, but grew up watching "Sanford and Son," "The Jeffersons," and "Good Times". So many magazines for any/all interests and types of people. "People had manners and respected each other." ABSOLUTELY!!!

[@MrXminus1]

So glad I grew up when I did. In the summer, out from dawn to dusk ridding our bikes.

[@tommykirwan6764]

I turned 18 in 1970. So for Me, it was All About The Music 🎵! LedZep, Deep Purple, Eagles, Doobie Brothers, ZZ TOP, Clapton, Jeff Beck, etc, etc. It was a decade Defined by Incredible, Great Rock 'N Roll!!!

[@waitn4theharpazo]

I was born in 1963 but grew up basically in the 70's. Pretty much everything mentioned here was a part of my life. Best time ever.

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

Schoolhouse Rock is on DVD. I was gifted the full set when my son was a toddler. He grew up with those songs and they helped him learn grammar, times tables, government, and science. We still watch them. Awesome.

[@noble604]

Aw that’s great. It sounds like a man and a woman had a little baby, Oh yes they did. Then there were three in the family. !!!!!!3️⃣!!!!!!! _that’s a magic number_

[@noble604]

Zolar - Lets go up to the mountains. Or down to the seas. You should ALWAYS say thank you. Or, at least, say _pleeeeeeeeeease_

[@noble604]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@noble604]

There must have been many kids asking their mom for a vd. Very strange message, indeed

[@leesalawitch1386]

I have a Schoolhouse Rock sleeve tattoo. I'm a bad ass nerd!

[@jeffreyknight3884]

Oh how I miss the simple days in the 70's. I'm glad I was old enough to experience all of these things.

[@sammott8557]

I must be old as I remember everything in this video. Everything. I was only a child in the 70s and then a teenager come the next decade. But, memories of roller skating thru my 1970s childhood are strong. Disco even influenced me although I was too young to date, but yes, Shaun Cassidy and John Travolta - and Farrah Fawcett- and Xanadu- posters were plastered on my bedroom walls My metal lunch box was of a school bus. Oh, yes, how TV was different then. I could go on and on but you already did it so well. Nostalgic here, yes.

[@yogib37]

yes I remember the metal lunch box.. I think I had wild wild west one. I remember going to see Star Wars.

[@xaenon]

Xanadu was a cheesey, schlocky movie. But I loved it. The Electric Light Orchestra soundtrack, Olivia Newton-John was just stunning, Gene Kelly was bringin some serious old-school dance talent, and the visuals - especially that Bluth-animated segment. I was seriously groovin when the Muses painted on that wall came to life, set to the tune 'I'm Alive'.... Even the quote Kira chose was just superb..... "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea." It was literally a feature-length 'music video' before MTV ever lit up. Sad to hear what happened to Pan-Pacific theater (the structure that got converted to Xanadu). Such a beautiful building, such iconic styling, built in the 1930s. Burned in 1989 and demolished. I would have killed to have a poster of that '7 Sisters' album cover, with Olivia Newton-John skating in front of the theater. The one Sonny was 'enlarging' early in the movie.

[@uekiguy5886]

Sam Mott -- My lunch box was a school bus with Disney characters waving out the windows.

[@EE-ie9gm]

@@yogib37 I Rem going to see dumb and dumber in 93 and laughing my ass off

[@sammott8557]

@@yogib37 I saw the opening premier of Star Wars in my home town then. What a time!

[@alandickerson3379]

I remember absolutely everything you mentioned!! I remember the 1970's as happy times, and my son was born in 1975. Thank you for the sweet memories!!

[@hunglikejesus6097]

Man, did I love the 70’s more so looking back than when I was there for sure. Life was just carefree and I was so alive.

[@hbennett5640]

Most of us had depression era parents who taught us a multitude of things, mainly common sense❤. Loved the greatest generation.

[@thomasglunt5925]

Born in 1961, so I hit the double digits in the 1970's. With great legendary music being written by Rush, Areosmith, Kansas, Pink Floyd, the Runaways, and Queen, who had time for disco. The shag carpet when in on my 10th birthday and came out more than 20 years later. As for the network of stay at home parents, who always seem to rat us out, they were invincible. If we collected pop bottles to get some candy money, we were in trouble. Built a fort in the woods behind the school, we were in trouble. Cut through yards to go fishing in a private pond , we were in trouble. Any childhood concocted brainiac idea that we came up with, we were in trouble.

[@bradellis3855]

BTW- your mom called... you're still grounded! lol

[@2degucitas]

Those sound like great ideas!

[@dwandersgaming]

What happened to the music? We were absolutely blessed by the sheer talent of that decade.

[@ronniemeeks6166]

I was born in 67 . . And I also hit double digits in the '70s . . Hahaha 😂 .

[@kkatmom]

I was a teenager in the 70’s. It was the best decade. Thank you for these videos, they’re like watching my entire childhood.

[@avalerie4467]

Class of 1980 here. Best days of my life ! Thank you for this. Healing somehow. Going to Sam Goody's to listen to music in the booth w the big head phones on the weekends was great !

[@Dirty_Squirrell]

Peaches. Loved the smell of the place, too!

[@RC-lb6hk]

Class 1980 Abilene High Abilene Texas Awesome times

[@sharimedleyed.s.166]

Class of 1980, Ocean Springs, MS. We had our belated (Covid delay) 40th reunion this weekend.

[@avalerie4467]

@@sharimedleyed.s.166 🙌🎉 also happy 60th to all celebrating with me !!! As I literally was contemplating going to go buy big giant headphone for my BD next week LOL you posted this. Happy reunion y'all I guess your vibe does attract your tribe. Peace out

[@notmyrealname6150]

Another Class of 1980 saying I totally agree.

[@geylekinfraire8596]

I remember the Beads Decor for doorways in the 70's & also the fun after-school cartoons we would watch! great memories.

[@AnthonyPHicks-kk4ez]

I'm not sure... But maybe they were called "HIPPY-BEADS". ???

[@devodootie]

I remember our parents taking us to the drive-in movies in our dark green station wagon. They’d put our sleeping bags, snacks & drinks on the roof of the car & we’d watch the movie from there, while they set up lawn chairs & the ice chest. The movie I remember seeing the most was ‘Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind’.

[@penelopelopez8296]

The best drive-in movie I saw was Bruce Lee’s last movie, “Game of Death”. It played with a double feature movie called “Embryo”, with Rock Hudson …..it was crazy.

[@tomy.1846]

Born in 71, so my earliest memories are from the 70s! I instantly can feel the chill vibe of that era. I remember having to write 1980 on my dittos at school. Great times! :)

[@AnovaLisaDragonfly]

‘69 baby here. I totally forgot the term “ditto sheets, LOL!! If I recall correctly, the teachers’ original copy would be white with blue ink, and they’d run off the copies. They’d have that inky smell. And the paper would almost be moist until the copies dried after a few minutes. Your comment brought that totally buried memory up. :-)

[@deltatango5765]

I remember those days well. Rockers despised disco, and some of us were terrified that it might kill rock music and we would be forced to suffer through that audio torture for the next several decades. Star Wars was the most incredible experience I had ever had in a movie theater at that time. Hard to explain, but I remember leaving the theater, walking to my car with my friends, and feeling so primitive! Saturday Night Live was also amazing, although if you didn't live back then you wouldn't get most of the jokes today. Trust me, they were hilarious!

[@Dirty_Squirrell]

Instead it was rap and hip-hop that killed rock.

[@NJP76]

Let's not forget the Midnight Special. That was the high point of my week ... when I could stay up late to watch it.

[@deltatango5765]

@@NJP76 That's right! Wasn't that on after SNL? I remember feeling guilty about sleeping until noon the next day if I stayed up for that.

[@NJP76]

@@deltatango5765 Actually, the Midnight Special came on Fridays right after Carson (the Tonight Show). Some stations did replay Midnight Special on Saturdays after SNL.

[@penelopelopez8296]

I went to see Star Wars with my two older brothers when it first came out. We waited on line for an hour to get tickets, then we sit down to watch the movie and it was so boring that I fell asleep. My brothers woke me up at the end to tell me how great the movie was. I didn’t agree with them….the first half hour put me to sleep. I went to see Jaws with my mother and it was great. My mom took me to see, “Diamonds Are Forever, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Song of the South, the Aristocats and other movies of the time but I never fell asleep during any movie, except Star Wars. My older sister took me to see the Exorcist and I almost fell asleep during that movie until Linda Blair grabbed the doctors crotch and made him scream….that woke me up for the rest of the movie. The year before she took me to see “Tales from the Crypt”, which gave me nightmares about Santa Claus and crashing into ditches and burning my face off.

[@gern7535]

TV would sign off around 1am or 130am always with the National Anthem. It came back on around 6am also with the National Anthem. Then one night in 1979 I was watching WTBS and it didn't sign off. And that changed everything.

[@missmable6015]

The 70's we're the best. My how I wished i could go back in time !!!!!

[@samuelschick8813]

Miss Mable, Flashback: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXOufJSBicSXqq8