The America We Knew: February 1978

[@tubekxb]

I was five. Everyone remembers Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and Charlie's Angels. The cars were memorable for different reasons.

[@michaelrochester48]

In fourth grade in 1978 we were given an option by the gym teacher that was put to a vote, we would either learn Square dancing or disco dancing. Overwhelmingly the class wanted disco dancing and we learned how to disco dance in gym class and that has been helpful for my dancing my entire life With weddings and other events.

[@jm1551701]

It amazes me how much of this is still fresh in my memories, I was 12 years old that year, boy am I getting old, in a heartbeat I would go back,

[@tinamckenna7514]

I was 13 years old that year and couldn't agree with you more. 😊

[@slactweak]

I was 24 in Feb of '78. I was in Advanced First Term Avionics, (AFTA), school at Naval Air Technical Training Center, Millington TN, (NATT Center, Memphis), and was two months away from graduation and assignment to the Fleet. Trust me when I tell you, you are NOT "old".😎😎 And yeah, those were GREAT times.

[@tinamckenna7514]

@@slactweak That's fascinating. You must have a lot of great stories to share. I know you're top tier in the brains department to have been in that field 😉.

[@clifftanton8385]

Thanks Iam your age turned thirteen in December that year wish we were there bro hope you are well miss those times drive in theaters hot wheels and Lay down Sally

[@davinawonderling9361]

I was 12 back then, as well. Such memories ❤

[@ultimatevintagefan7747]

Been having a horrible Monday and am currently going through a very rough time. A new Fredflix video is just what I needed to escape to the past for a bit. Thank you Fred! ❤

[@FredFlix]

Sorry about your day, UVF.

[@tinamckenna7514]

I don't know you, but I truly hope things get better for you. ✨️

[@ultimatevintagefan7747]

@@tinamckenna7514 Thank you for your kind words. 💕

[@tinamckenna7514]

@@ultimatevintagefan7747 You're welcome. 🤗

[@dennisdeleo74]

Thanks for the FredFix… and thanks for some great memories from a then 20 year old…and to you Fred, and all those who served to protect this great nation, I Thank You!

[@FredFlix]

Much appreciated, Dennis.

[@clifftanton8385]

I used to put the Be gees down and then I realized their great thanks

[@billwilson1079]

My mom loved the bee gees. RIP Mom❤

[@thegoldendog7991]

RIP to your mom. I lost mine the day after Mother’s Day 2016. I miss her every day.

[@billwilson1079]

@thegoldendog7991 I lost mine in August 11th, 2023, then I lost my dad in November 8th, 2023 so the day and month are literally switched around.

[@thegoldendog7991]

@@billwilson1079 I’m guessing that your parents were together for a very long time. Mine passed nine months apart. My dad passed August 3rd 2015. They were married for 59 years.

[@elifoust7664]

All fans of Fred ,Happy Veterans Day.

[@FredFlix]

Thank you, Eli. This is your day,

[@nongthip]

In February 1978 I was 14 and living in Hawaii for three months while my Dad was leading a marine biology study. It was long enough for me to enroll in King Kamehameha III Elementary School ("Kam3") in Lahaina, Maui as one of seven "Haoles" in the 8th grade. Totally life-changing experience, learned to scuba dive, smoked some weed, and lived with 30 college students who taught me a lot about life. Oh and I won the President's Physical Fitness award in a very short time, so chicks liked me and got some respect with the locals. I returned during springtime back in Olympia, Washington to cold cloudy skies but with a deep tan and blond hair so more attention from girls - yay! My brother had a similar experience and to this day agree it was one of the best "coming of age" chapters in our lives. Since then I've scuba dived all over the world and now live in Thailand, no doubt with some of the influence from those early years. 1978 is/was awesome!

[@FredFlix]

I'm impressed, nongthip!

[@bettyir4302]

Sad about the Lahaina fire.

[@Foxonian]

I am from Mass. and I remember when that blizzard hit back in '78. It paralyzed the whole eastern part of the state and is still considered one of the worst snowstorms we ever had. When the first Van Halen album came out it was the death knell for all things Disco.

[@RaymondPolin-m1k]

Onboard the USS John F Kennedy cruising the Mediterranean.What a time to be alive!!

[@susanjohnson7679]

I grew up in Massachusetts and remember how bad the blizzard of 78 was! I loved the commercials in this of all those crime series. It was a time when you spent time with family to watch those shows. Another great Fred.

[@michaelodonnell9756]

I was in elementary school. In 7th grade to be exact. Talk about some fun memories. I especially enjoyed the music during that time period.

[@tinamckenna7514]

Thanks, Fred, for these great recorded memories of our collective past. 😊

[@BlaineBinkerd]

Once again the universe is back in order. Thanks for the reupload!!!!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, BB.

[@tomklock568]

Thanks Fred! Yes, the National Inquirer would stand equal to today's news media! Ha. Thanks for the memories of my freshman year of college.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Tom.

[@bettyir4302]

It'd stand above. Way above.

[@provost5752]

Thanks for another ride in the time machine Fred. I look forward to the next one.

[@dawnjensen5615]

Love it! My cousin, Keith was born February 6 that year. Passed away under mysterious circumstances February 15 2017. He is missed dearly.

[@brendajeanproffitt6919]

This is really great happy veterans day to all thank you Fred things sure have changed

[@thelieeffect6119]

ofc i’m only 20 & loan for such a simple time

[@FredFlix]

They have, friend Brenda, but we remember the good times.

[@brendajeanproffitt6919]

@thelieeffect6119 yes

[@brendajeanproffitt6919]

@FredFlix always my friend Fred

[@michaelrochester48]

Emotion by Samantha Sang, everybody thought was by the Bee Gees because whoever mixed the song put the Bee Gees vocal so prominently that she was a guest star on her own single. To this day, I think of the song as the Bee Gees featuring Samantha Sang.

[@jaydouglas5847]

Michael, wow you just threw me for a loop. Being 16 years old when this song came out I must've heard it hundreds and hundreds of times then and over the ensuing decades. Always loved it and had NO IDEA it was not a straight up Bee Gee's song. I just looked it up and read all about it as well as watching the original music video with Samantha Sang. It was just so Bee Gee to my ears that I never heard her voice as a lady but as a falsetto Gibb bro style done for a song. I'm still stunned that I didn't know this....but then again I went for decades thinking that "Dreamweaver" was an Aerosmith tune.

[@antsforall]

Wow! A lot packed into that one! Funny how stuff you've forgotten for 46+ years comes right back to you when you see it again! Thanks!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, ants....

[@merce10554]

Disco Inferno. 🎶🎵🎶 Coming Home, really moving film. Thanks, Fred-ssi. 💜🤟

[@FredFlix]

With great songs, Mercedes-ssi.

[@merce10554]

@@FredFlix Indeed. ☺️💜🤟

[@waynejeffries4647]

I always enjoy these 😊… its takes me away from current catastrophes. 😩 Thank you for fixing the audio!

[@matthewbaduria]

The Boys in Company C is a great movie. It is a very underrated military movie that was ahead of its time. Charlie's Angels and Eight Is Enough is one of my favorites.

[@susanb2015]

I remember kissing potion. A few years later.

[@thomasd7967]

I was a kid when the blizzard of Boston hit in 78.

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

I completely forgot about the show, Quark hahaha, it didn't last long but it was goofy fun. Thank you Fred!!!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Bridget.

[@michaelrochester48]

My friend Misty Rowe from Hee Haw was on the pilot

[@simplysteve68]

Yup it only lasted 8 episodes and is viewable here on YT.

[@joelcda6883]

Never heard of this TV show ... but those of us who worked in newspapers roughly 25 years ago remember Quark as a page layout program.

[@domenickmacri7936]

Thank you for another beautiful trip down memory lane fred. happy veterans Day!❤️❤️😊😊

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Domenick.

[@peternighswander9629]

A good friend of mine was in a cigar store in California not so long ago and a gentleman beside him asked his opinion about a certain type of cigar and they started chatting and the guy said “my name is Erik by the way” as in Estrada. My friend knew who we was immediately but didn’t want to make a thing of it. Anyway, he couldn’t have been a cooler guy. I love stories like that

[@FredFlix]

Me too.

[@dougmorris9317]

Fred, what awesome stuff--thank you! I was 17 then and already feeling out of date when I saw Shaun Cassidy on my sister's Tiger Beat magazines and asked what happened to Donny Osmond and Tony DeFranco. Well, aside from Disco Duck there was some great music and kickass movies then, loved these times! ☺🎸🍕🍔

[@Ij-jan]

Shortly after the blizzard of 78, my husband and I decided to buy a truck and plow. He figured he could make some extra money on the side. Then, as luck would have it, we barely got any snow. We kept the truck, but we did not make much money at all.😅 thanks for the memories!😊

[@FredFlix]

Jan, I know it was a typo, but you wrote, "my husbands and I." (Hope you didn't get caught! 😀)

[@Ij-jan]

@ definitely a typo, thanks for pointing it out lol. I will see if I can edit it now.😀

[@RobertR3750]

Great look back, Fred. I'm fascinated by what a different world it was. We got our information from paper publications and news broadcasts. Now it's all internet. I haven't watched a broadcast series since Big Bang Theory. I loved my VHS machine back in the day.

[@FredFlix]

I haven't watched network series in many years myself, Robert.

[@ernestcruz6316]

Coming Home was written by Nancy Dowd, the same woman who wrote Slap Shot. She got her brother Ned a part in the movie as Ogie Ogilthorpe, owing to the fact that the movie was largely based on his experiences as a minor league hockey player.

[@michaelrochester48]

I hope eventually you can use to Yvonne Elliman song if I can’t have you in your video for 1978 somewhere because that song was so grand and expansive. It was even better than any of the Bee Gees songs, and I love the Bee Gees during Saturday night fever!

[@michaelrochester48]

Laserblast was the film debut of my friend Eddie Deezen, most famous for being in the movies, Greece and war games!

[@Ghostgetter]

This is cool. I do the same thing on my online radio station in-between songs. Time travel. Love your channel. It gives me ideas for my station

[@FredFlix]

Nice to know, Ghostgetter.

[@markventresca5371]

Love your feed and what you do!

[@Laine2539]

You fixed the sound, from this morning!

[@jehobden]

Nice job, Fred! I remember spending a lot of Jan. & Feb. 1978 at home, as schools & roads in TN couldn't handle snow & ice. We lost so many school days that every day was a half-hour longer for the rest of the school year. 9:30 - IMO, no one plays creepy better than Bruce Dern. 10:04 - Those CBS shows were aired Mon. Feb. 6. I still see that MASH episode every couple months on MeTV. 11:52 - I got to see Jan & Dean in person once back in the 1990s. 19:42 - QUARK was a rare sci-fi show I liked since it made fun of sci-fi. 20:25 - TWA's promo would never be allowed today. :(

[@FredFlix]

Thanks again, Jon!

[@luisreyes1963]

I saw that goofy Sci-fi movie Laserblast on MST3K. It's got that "so bad, it's good" vibe. 👽 Thanks, FredFlix.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Luis.

[@dustermaniac]

I lived in Salem Massachusetts during the blizzard of 78

[@michaelrochester48]

That newsweek cover was a huge bone of contention for the cast of three‘s Company. Because it looked like she was the star when it was actually John Ritter. I asked Joyce DeWitt about that cover and she says to this day she was pissed off about her showboating, she made peace with Suzanne Summers before she died

[@tomservo56954]

That was posed because NEWSWEEK didn't think any scenes with Somers were sexy enough

[@JEM133]

Street Hassle,,,,,, Great album. Knew Jill Kinmont very well.

[@asimplehorseman4648]

Saturday Night Fever(LOL) I loved disco! Hot chicks grooving out on the floor and cocaine in the B-room. It was fun for a while... Then we grew up(LOL). I loved Ali and Howard Cosell. My neighbor has 2 Fiesta's, "that run". 50 mpg!! Thanks Fred. We appreciate you.

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, ASH.

[@gregggoss2210]

I see the KZbin police were at it again. Some good movies and music again. The Boys In Company C was a sleeper. Snuck in under the Radar. This was back when Cher still looked like a beautiful woman and not the abomination she made herself into. Grow old gracefully, not with chemicals. Great one Fred.

[@FredFlix]

Well said, Gregg. Growing old is not a crime against nature.

[@AngelaGoodwin-fh6fw]

Happy Monday, Fred!

[@FredFlix]

Thank you, Angela.

[@Agwings1960]

I was a junior in high school and didn't know if I should admit that I liked disco music lol

[@dantheman5745]

1:55 "[The Ford Fiesta] goes from zero to 50 in 9.1 seconds..." Hilarious that this was considered a selling point. There are 47-car trains that would just about get up to 50 MPH faster than that! 🤣

[@azmike1]

I didn't watch much TV in 1978. I was fooling around with an 18 year old, 5'4" blonde girl in Feb. '78. I will never forget her. And I went skiing in Jackson Hole Wyoming in March as well. I was working as a manager for 8 self service gas stations in So. California. Lots of sex. I was 23 and foolish.

[@dwaynecoy1871]

I can't believe Ford actually advertised that the Fiesta went from 0 to 50 mph in 9.1 seconds. I had to watch it again to make sure I actually heard it correctly. How could they possibly think this is a selling point?

[@Onteo1]

It was the 70s and that wasn’t bad. I worked at a dealer at that time and you could do burnouts and 2nd gear rubber in those cars .

[@tomservo56954]

​@Onteo1 The first front wheel drive car Ford sold in the U.S. It would have been more successful if they had the room in the drivetrain for an automatic transmission

[@ChrisN1344]

Fun one, Fred. I picked up both that Spidey issue as well as that first issue of “Man from Atlantis.” As a kid I thought “any chance Man from Atlantis meets Subby?” Even crossover crazy Marvel couldn’t pull that one off!… sigh. “Deadman’s Curve” I credit with starting my life-long fascination with musical or artistic biographies - either in book or movie form. I suppose as a creative myself I find them inspiring. And wouldn’t ya know it - I just picked up a jar of Skippy last week. 😄

[@thomasbryant6512]

One of the things that stands out in this video is the ABC voice over announcer. It's that of the late Ernie Anderson. (1923 - 1997) Cleveland , OH Boomers remember him best as Ghoulardi, host of Shock Theater from 1963 to 1966. Ernie's son is the director Paul Thomas Anderson. (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, The Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza)

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

I was 18 that year, the disco sucks movement was in full swing, although there were some cool songs that came out, I just couldn't admit it back then, Led Zep and Floyd Skynyrd were my favorites, soon I would have two beautiful children and a divorce from my wife, I missed my kids badly, her, not so much.

[@NickvonZ]

FIRST! (For the reload!😅)

[@flicewatter]

Awesome

[@simplysteve68]

I forgot that Dan Hill sang "Sometimes When We Touch" in the late 70s, as I didn't hear it again until the late 80s. 🤷 The Kraft Cheese commercial would've been much better with Penny Singleton doing Blondie's voice (as she was the original live action Blondie in the 50s), but I guess she was still busy with the Jetsons, or other voice projects at the time. Another great Feb Flix Flight, Fred. 👍

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, Steve.

[@Litauen-yg9ut]

The Boys in Company C was one of the better 'nam movies. Good selection today, Fred..

[@gingerhammond6446]

I was a freshman in college...

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

DISCO RULES!!!!!!

[@mrwoodandmrtin]

If only Lazerblast was as good as the few special effects scenes shown in the trailer. The hairstyles get me... so much hard work to look that way. That little RSO pig logo seemed to be on everything popular at the time... Who was Robert Stigwood anyway. no internet to find out back then. mysteries remained open questions.. According to Wiki.. Some Japanese friends gave me a papier-mâché cow, which is a symbol of good fortune, that's appropriate. Just write RSO on it.

[@elifoust7664]

Mal Hombre,Ted Bundy,Jail shown,City Police,Pensacola,he was held for a short time at Escambia Co.Jail,En route to face charges, Gainesville...I placed him in his cell,while a Corrections Officer ,he was a chameleon,stared at cell light .He was transported with rigid leg brace,he was termed a Rabbit runner .Strange times for Florida

[@Shawn666Hellion]

StIned Class,an excellent Judas Priest album

[@bettyir4302]

That was 2 years before Richard Pryor played with fire. Last week Harvard cancelled classes over the election and they gave crayons and Legos to the wee ones. How times have changed. Not at Harvard, but we had a little of that snow. My bf's friends kidnapped me out of Western Civ. Thankfully, the prof thought it was so funny she dismissed the class to go play in the almost never snow. We drove around campus in bf's Pacer with a pitiful snowman on the roof getting pelted by equally pitiful snowballs. Can't do that now days without some bozo chunking a rock, smh. Those were better times.

[@JEM133]

I was 15 then

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

I forgot, when Bundy was executed my local McDonald's gave out free French fries.

[@dougbrowne9890]

The Winter of 1977-78 was murder. Thankfully, Ted Bundy was caught and eventually executed for his crimes. I remember watching Dead Man's Curve that night. Thought Jan was a jerk. I think 1978 was the year I first heard of Kate Bush. Saw her on The Kenny Everett Video Show. Still love her. To this day I have avoided Laserblast. Don't remember the Zip Code PSA, which I see is a shame, LOL. Oh my word, was Quark crap. Just another attempt to cash in on Star Wars, like Laserblast, LOL. Out of all the peanut butter samiches I have eaten over the years, I don't believe one of them was made with Skippy Peanut Butter. *shrugs* Oh, one last thing, there was nothing in February 1978 that would have made me listen to that Judas Priest album. Today, I listen to songs off it about every two months. How times change, Thanks Fred.

[@PeterGriswald]

Senior in HS. I Had a bad ass '69 GTO, had a cool job working at a gas station in Annadale VA, where my boss was cool AF, and let me use the lifts and tools. Girls were HOT and good times and party's were all the time! Good times, no real cares or responsibilities but the thoughts of "grown up" life lay just around the corner! Thanks Fred. Oh yea, Disco SUCKED then and it still sucks today! lol

[@thomaschristopher8593]

the checkout counter is not as fun as it used to be.

[@jackneidinger9544]

None of this happened.