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

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[@gregwasserman2635]

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

[@keithbrown7685]

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

[@gregwasserman2635]

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

[@mordechai-]

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

[@platterjockey]

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

[@JanTraveler]

Soul train was amazing..I still watch it!

[@platterjockey]

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

[@saminaneen]

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

[@angelagoodwin5758]

Oh yeah!😎

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

Super friends, Isis, Land of the Lost…

[@paul16451]

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

[@nomadbrad6391]

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

[@jrebecca0195]

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

[@willhorting5317]

I still use a locking gas cap on my vehicle.

[@emmalancaster2013]

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

[@youtubecarspottersguide1]

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

[@sharonbraselton4302]

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[@luisreyes1963]

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

[@drusmith3480]

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

[@sweetkitty3249]

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

[@keithbrown7685]

Great decade for dentists, too.

[@JSFGuy]

It's shake & bake and I helped.

[@jennifer7330]

😂😂😂😂

[@barbaraborgia3289]

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

[@slim-oneslim8014]

Lol 👍

[@SJHFoto]

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

[@annhernandez8808]

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

[@SJHFoto]

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

[@barbaraborgia3289]

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

[@JimJones-gd2jy]

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

[@bearforce187]

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

[@saminaneen]

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

[@GenXamerica]

Me too!!!

[@qmnnvrdyz8965]

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

[@SusanMarie3]

Same! Born 1965 - 70s were awesome

[@rayinpau.s.a.6351]

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

[@3DJapan]

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

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

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

[@paulhazel5754]

and lava lamps

[@keithbrown7685]

lava lamps!

[@rooky55]

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

[@zsigzsag]

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

[@angelo8424]

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

[@leesashriber5097]

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

[@mikeywid4954]

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

[@jedidrummerjake]

School House Rock saved me from failing math. ❤

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

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

[@brianbumgardner8704]

I'm just a bill....

[@jenniferhansen3622]

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

[@jenniferhansen3622]

​@@StarFleet_Tech1701I bought it too.❤

[@luisreyes1963]

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

[@tonycollazorappo]

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

[@greta3315]

Me too Carlos, 1961. All the best to you

[@platterjockey]

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

[@juanitablackwell9418]

Me too!

[@Lovejazz01]

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

[@ThePoobears]

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

[@aprilrich807]

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

[@mickieg1118]

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

[@saminaneen]

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

[@jasonwomack4064]

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

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

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

[@flowerfaeri]

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

[@karinwade]

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

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

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

[@trontosaurusrex9532]

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

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

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

[@trontosaurusrex9532]

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

[@melissastruxness512]

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

[@MrDan708]

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

[@deanford1795]

Me too lot's of hose water 😂

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

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

[@billmelater655]

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

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

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

[@lynny5510]

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

[@veronicaferguson8548]

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

[@hopehamby9287]

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

[@bavery6957]

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

[@JustMe99999]

Yes! lol

[@saminaneen]

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

[@shnibby69]

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

[@Name-ps9fx]

Conjunction junction, what's your function?

[@hotartesian4163]

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

[@lisascountrycreations334]

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

[@angelo8424]

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

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

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

[@jenniferhansen3622]

​@@brettany_renee_blatchleyThat was so nice.😊

[@saminaneen]

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

[@saminaneen]

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

[@julenepegher6999]

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

[@bb302777]

Platform shoes to go with the bell bottoms😂

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

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

[@anitalonski2126]

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

[@daveheel]

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

[@jasonrodgers9063]

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

[@zoom539]

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

[@sweetkitty3249]

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

[@zoom539]

@@sweetkitty3249 Exactly

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

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

[@MomentsInTrading]

“I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never ever let you forget you’re a man” 😂

[@SkyeID]

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

[@Whoozerdaddy]

Using "simple and accepted" to describe hitchhiking is a little misleading. First it was illegal and second, it was dangerous then, too. People just rolled the dice more often.

[@ms.tep_]

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

[@Tiger-Heart]

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

[@zeroceiling]

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

[@morganm9040]

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

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

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

[@hewitc]

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

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

My dad wouldn't either, lol.

[@keithbrown7685]

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

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

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

[@ClarkieandJoseph]

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

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

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

[@ClarkieandJoseph]

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

[@keithbrown7685]

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

[@WysteriaGuitar]

Still have my Atari 2600 lol

[@sweetkitty3249]

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

[@katyafan]

They still make them!

[@sweetkitty3249]

@@katyafan 😊

[@cmsweitzer1]

So was that Nick Nolte in the clothing section of the video? 2:39

[@carlavision6143]

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

[@nancyblizzard7295]

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

[@jwb52z9]

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

[@marko7843]

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

[@Gratefulman1965]

Two words…….Lawn Darts!

[@vintageguy6520]

Hahaha.. They were dangerous fun.

[@sweetkitty3249]

Jarts to be precise.

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

😂😂😂

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

Wasn't that the one that had the advertising slogan, "...Because a hard head is a terrible thing to waste!" 😂 Yes, lawn darts were fun. I think they should be used on the lawyers that got rid of them. And everything else that was ever fun.

[@Gratefulman1965]

@@sweetkitty3249 Yep, Jarts lawn darts. Summer of 75’ I was having fun with those…….Good times! 🤣

[@williamhild1793]

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

[@deanford1795]

Bad kids 😂

[@sweetkitty3249]

So you were those kind of kids.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

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

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

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

[@meleze3382]

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

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I always keep tootsie roll pops in the house. 😊

[@saminaneen]

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

[@bungeycord5971]

Getting your firet 10 speed schwinn bicycle was a big deal, as you could go farther distances. We used to race each other through rhe neighborhood un and down steep hilla going to the swimming pool. After a day swimming, it was brutal having to bike home.

[@jasonrodgers9063]

Hitch-hiking was ALWAYS dangerous as Hell!

[@sweetkitty3249]

Yes, hitch hiking is nothing to be nostalgic about.

[@searcymasonry]

i ' thumbed ' a lot when i was a kid ( even when i was home on army leave in 78 - 79 ) . only once a pedo picked me up and convinced me to stop by the " ouse " . he still gave it up when i stood firmly behind my heterosexuality . it could have ended differently i suppose but pedo's generally prey on kids who are weak . this same man ( and his wife ) foster cared for my male cuz years earlier and ive no doubt that he sexually abused cuz . cuz fell for the fancy home and generousity . cuz ate a bullet at the age of 34 . cuz had no integrity . not as a teen , not as an adult . he liked shiny things and instant gratification .

[@sweetkitty3249]

@@searcymasonry When I was a kid a neighbor who was a pedo (no one in the neighborhood knew he was at the time) picked up a runaway teenager & brought the kid to his house. He tried molesting the kid & that teen went into survival mode. He threw chairs & all kinds of items at him. Beat the heck out of him. Blood everywhere in that house & the pedo ending up in the hospital. So, I don't think that kid was so weak.

[@searcymasonry]

'ats swat im talkin about maam . after my first comment i had to go give a listen to reo's " only the strong survive " . you feel bad for victims but goddamnit -- only the strong survive . @@sweetkitty3249

[@jasonrodgers9063]

DAMN! SO very sorry about the loss of your cousin! Very glad YOU'RE ok!@@searcymasonry

[@claudiaaguilar6845]

For a while we girls wore fringed mocassins with our bell bottom jeans.

[@kellycunningham9920]

We wore clogs too

[@larryjex6485]

Cassettes actually overtook 8-Tracks in 1974 and became the most popular form of recorded music for the '70s. Quadraphonic stereos with 4 speakers were also big in the "Me Decade" and VHS was introduced in 1976, LaserDisc in 1978 and the Sony Walkman in 1979. Another 1979 invention was the CD player, but these wouldn't become commercially available until the mid '80s and most people didn't have one until the '90s. Lastly, cellphones were invented in 1973, but most people would have one until 25 years later.

[@marko7843]

Duuuude... I still have my 1973 Popular Science magazine with the forerunner of the Motorola brick on the cover! So sad that Motorola invented the entire cell phone system, but has lost so much market share.

[@BeautifuluglyDTES]

Conjunction junction, what's your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses. Sat morning memories.😊

[@joeheid2776]

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

[@kellycunningham9920]

Conjunction Junction...what's your function

[@joeheid2776]

@@kellycunningham9920 That might be my second favorite!!

[@annhernandez8808]

Candy cigarettes and shake and bake😊

[@suppylarue220]

candy cigarettes were tasty confections made of the same concoction as those tiny hearts.

[@JSFGuy]

It was shake and bake and I helped.

[@saminaneen]

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

[@keithbrown7685]

I liked the fake Camels.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

"Candy cigarettes and shake and bake" Never tried them together like that. But it sounds good. 😂

[@hilltopmachineworks2131]

I kept my "Battery of the Month" card in my pocket so whenever we went to the mall I could hit up the Radio Shack and get my free battery.

[@andyjulian5379]

I love watching, the three stooges, and Superman, on Saturday mornings great times in history!

[@timebong8366]

Wish I could go back to them days.

[@Angie2343]

Schoolhouse Rock! YEAH!! =D

[@justintyme7213]

If vinyl records are “in” again, can 8 tracks be far behind? 🤣 just kidding

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

You're hopefully not wrong. You can't play a record in a car. And analog is better than digital. Plus I think the bands are figuring out that you can't easily steal physical media. So, all that remains is...that they learn to play their own instruments (and well!), learn how to sing, and give up Auto-tune. Oh, and learn how to write and pick great songs, as opposed to what they record now. Piece of cake, right?? 🤣 Well, at least they've discovered analog. I'm not holding my breath for the rest of that list.

[@johndemeen5575]

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

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

See ya Queens, NY!

[@Boom-b7q]

It is good to reminisce!

[@jeffnaslund]

I remember all of this, being born in late 1959

[@GeoffryWK]

5:55 Ford's "Magic Tailgate" on a station wagon. Opened like a normal door or like a pickup tailgate. My parents had one in the 1960s. Also had opposing rear seats that folded down to to make a cargo bay.

[@BamBamBigelow.]

70's music dominates Rock N Roll...IMO. Edit: I still make Hamburger Helper by the lbs to eat for work.

[@platterjockey]

It's one of the few foods that survived from the 70s.

[@BamBamBigelow.]

@@platterjockeyThe simplicity of it is right up my alley. Granted I add veggies, peppers, etc. to it

[@sweetkitty3249]

Yes, I stretched it out with onions, mushrooms, & frozen mixed veggies. It helped cut down on the sodium content per serving.

[@platterjockey]

I'm not sure that cut down the sodium content unless you added a lot. I don't remember my mom adding anything more than extra seasoning and sometimes cheese. I used to add ketchup to some of them. Otherwise, the stuff is too bland.@@sweetkitty3249

[@jenniferhansen3622]

It's not bad for a quick meal. Like you said, you can add things to it and make it your own!

[@NASCARFAN93100]

70s Nostalgia is the GOAT

[@keithbrown7685]

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

[@docsavage8640]

Homemade arts and crafts are STILL the best gifts. Anyone can buy sh*t.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

wríngß

[@m1t2a1]

A member of battery of the month club at Radio Shack.

[@stevedolesch9241]

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

[@sharonbraselton4302]

ñopé

[@keithbrown7685]

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

[@willhorting5317]

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

[@keithbrown7685]

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

[@willhorting5317]

@@keithbrown7685 I see.

[@keithbrown7685]

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

[@peggysmyth6110]

1972 I worked in a store called Tops and Trousers. Wore caftans and beaded sandals. I drove VW bus.

[@itube1893]

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

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

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

[@kkarllwt]

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

[@RitaS0831]

I loved my Oldsmobile station wagon. Kids always loved sitting in the back.

[@TeddyStrongBear]

What happened to all of the Candy Shops!!! Yes, I lived on bag loads of candy…..

[@keithwilson6060]

One of the most popular after-school destinations was a little sundry store that had a large candy showcase at the front register. The “candy store” was right across the street from school, and it was packed with kids when school let out as well as on weekends.

[@saminaneen]

@@keithwilson6060 I remember, in the 1970's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

So did I, and not one cavity ever! We also had the ice cream trucks, one called, the general store which we actually got to go inside and pick out what we wanted, that didn’t go over well with the parents. Especially with news in the early 80s about the Atlanta child murders. We were in NY and just coming out of the son of Sam era in the 70s. Both still great times and I truly miss those days.

[@keithbrown7685]

And I'll bet none of your teeth are your own. 🙂

[@keithbrown7685]

​@TerryCloth You mean those things we called "jawbreakers" ?

[@lancecoleman7440]

sounds like the soundtrack from a eulogy and i'm tired of being sad

[@patbecker333]

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

[@lenevee4925]

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

[@lfader]

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

[@thankthelord4536]

I was about to say that.

[@fredlandry6170]

Those were the days I miss them.

[@jacksak]

Today drinking from a water hose would be illegal due to PVC and other hose chemicals and punishable by California state law where it would be classified as a juvenile felony with life imprisonment plead down to theft of a public utility where all felons of any kind are set free in public to do it again.

[@angelagoodwin5758]

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

[@keithbrown7685]

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

[@angelagoodwin5758]

@@keithbrown7685 😄

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

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

[@thankthelord4536]

Donny Osmond

[@keithbrown7685]

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

[@nancybarta8167]

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

[@sharonbraselton4302]

tgey dó

[@JIMBAYRIDGESCOTT]

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

[@model-man7802]

I remember all of this!❤❤❤❤

[@lynny5510]

I also use to love the cartoon Jabber Jaw!! Anyone rem that one???

[@sweetkitty3249]

That one was crazy in a good way. A giant shark walking around on a tiny tail. Seriously, who that that one up?

[@lynny5510]

@@sweetkitty3249 My thoughts exactly! Same with H.R. Puffnstuff and Sigmond and the Sea monsters! 🤣🤣🤣🤣Who thought of all this?? Made for some good memories though!

[@sicilianmama1000]

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

[@janetgies8698]

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

[@tonycollazorappo]

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

[@marksimonds13]

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

[@jerrynehmelman5269]

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

[@jeffleduc1398]

Is that a young Nick Nolte in the middle around 2:39?

[@KimmyGibson]

Cameras with the cube revolving flashes :) How far could you stretch the cord on your kitchen wall phone without pulling it off the wall? Any one else have the 52" bell bottoms?

[@keithbrown7685]

We also used the phone cord to show someone in the same room how badly we wanted to get off the line with whomever. We'd rap it round our necks as if to hang ourselves.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

@@keithbrown7685 😂

[@vetgirl71]

Blow pops still sold at some stores. I bought some in the past to give out for Halloween trick or treaters

[@miketaggart3803]

Those metal swing sets. He had one one with two swings, one of thes swinging “carts” that held 4 kids at once , and a slide. And they only lasted two seasons tips for the frame would rust into nothing. Was a gamble if the frame would hang onto the chains of the swing or the slide ladder would give after the winter months.

[@jenx5870]

Wow, that's bad luck. I had a metal swing set in my backyard growing up in the 80s as a child from 9 yrs old upwards. It lasted forever. My children used it, and it was still there when my parents moved out when I was in my 40s. It was dangerous as heck, though. I almost cut my finger off goofing around standing and swinging on the four person swing you described, and I broke my front tooth and had to get it filled in 3/4 (great dentist - still can't tell at 51 yrs old). My finger is doing fine, too, thankfully. We had some dangerous toys back then, but we survived, and we didn't sue when we did something stupid.

[@miketaggart3803]

@@jenx5870 did u live in the rust belt too? Or we had cheap stuff.

[@lesliebeebe-o6e]

Dad had to stake ours down or it would flip

[@hounddog4363]

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

[@keithbrown7685]

Jim Rockford was the first PI to have an answering machine. Bet no one here knew that! :-)

[@kellycunningham9920]

Something else we could not live without... 70s detective shows! There were a ton of them!

[@MomentsInTrading]

I loved that show. I even liked the spin off - Richie Brockleman Private Eye 😂

[@MomentsInTrading]

“$200 a day plus expenses”

[@keithbrown7685]

@@kellycunningham9920 Oh yeah. Let's see. Cannon Manix Dan Tana (from "Vegas") Columbo McMillan Kojak Harry O Ironside Owen Marshall Marcus Welby Serpico Rockford Files (but of course : )) Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys Quincy I know I forgot a bunch. There's probably a comprehensive wiki out there. : )

[@keithbrown7685]

​@@MomentsInTrading That's right!!! LOL I forgot that. : )

[@slim-oneslim8014]

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

[@SJHFoto]

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

[@kkarllwt]

One word. paisly

[@SJHFoto]

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

[@DaymianMarin]

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

[@connor_flanigan]

our first answering machine actually recorded calls on a wax cylinder - you had to have a new cylinder for each new message. it was powered by a water wheel in the creek beside our house.

[@1redfox]

I learned the Preamble to the Constitution watching School House Rock

[@bmoshareholderappleshareho855]

The 70s is when I discovered the music of Barry Manilow.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I've always liked "Mandy." ❤

[@saminaneen]

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

[@sweetkitty3249]

"I made it through the rain" is my favorite.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

@@sweetkitty3249 That's a good one. I think I'll listen to Barry while I cook dinner tonight. 🤗

[@saminaneen]

@@sweetkitty3249 "Suicide Solution", by Ozzy Osborne, is always', the greatest song, ever

[@TinaS-u8f]

I remember my mood ring and a pair of bell bottoms pants that said love and peace on it.

[@JSFGuy]

We are checking it out... I'm fixing to do the legacy box thing because well I've got plenty of archive DVC and such.

[@stanleybest8833]

VHS beat Betamax by 2 months. The Flintstones and the Jetsons were 1960's phenomenon.