Going to school in 1977
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- čas přidán 17. 03. 2023
- Footage of High School students attending Andover High School in Bloomfield, Michigan.
Go Barons!
Shots of kids driving to and leaving school, inside the gym and hallways.
This video from September of 1977 last around 6 minutes or so.
#andoverhighschool
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This video actually brought tears to my eyes. The slamming of the lockers, the kids talking and laughing. There were no cell phones back then. Tik Toc was non-existent. I actually miss the good old days.
People were also much much more stupid, I remember if you wanted to do a project on white rhinos you would have to make a trip to the library, or if you didn't know something you would have to go get an encyclopedia. Nowadays, you can access literally any information you could possibly want, from making a bomb, to what Alzheimer's disease is, to current events, or what soy sauce is made out of. I guess you are right though, why would people do any of that when they can sit on youtube or watch tikky toks.
You missed the sucky ol' days too!
When up your nose with a rubber hose and off my case toilet face were the catch phrases of the day. There were no school shooters back then either
@@smokeskull Damn! I haven't heard or even THOUGHT about those old phrases since... well, probably the 70's!! Thanks for the memories. See ya in a while crocodile.
Stop. Kids still laugh and smile and slam lockers in school... you're just not there to witness it. Ffs, selective memory is what you have.
We are blessed to have been teenagers in the 70’s. We just didn’t know it.
The best musical decade by far.
You're so lucky to experience the 70s as a teen. I wish I was born a little earlier. I was born in '73 so I experience a little of it.
Was it mandated to go to get indoctrinated school like today?
@@johnmicheal3547 - nope…..you actually learned the basics, as you should have ❗️🥊
Absolutely - altho I would have been in 7th grade, 1977. I watch this and think - wow - we were a civilized people. No fears of idiots shooting up our classes, beating up the teachers, etc. Yes, we were blessed.
This was defiantly a golden age of America.Everything was better like the music, schools, sports, people in general. So simple I love this
They all look healthy and in great spirit. All of these kids must be nearing 65 by now.
I graduated from Grover Cleveland HS in Reseda, CA in 1977. I'm 64. I will echo what others said. Despite some bad things (there are ALWAYS bad things in every era) the good was great. The phone that I am using right now is a marvel. I can play this video and time travel. I can listen to ALL the music from back then. But these phones are also disconnecting kids from each other now. Nothing better than just normal human interactions. Which is what you see from my contemporaries here.
@@daveschlom4033 Hey man! I just graduated this year in 2024. I really enjoyed the video and your comment. I saw a lot of people in the comments section talking about how much things have changed for the worse. A lot of people will tell you we are being indoctrinated or that we are obsessed with cell phones, but those people just want to stress you out and gain votes for their political BS. The classes are still classes, and we mostly just use our phones to schedule times to hang out in person. But I'll be honest, the 70s seem like a much cooler time.
@@hudsonbaycompany4653 Where did you graduate from? SoCal? Whatever, congratulations and keep on being you. In 70s lingo...I dig your vibe! (Might be a bit of 60s in there too...)
@@daveschlom4033 Ciao dll'italia, ho 40 anni e in famiglia abbiamo un camaro del 1978, è betto vederla nell'uso quotidiano contestualizzata all'epoca, l'epoca dei miei genitori. ciao
Those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s hit the sweet spot.
Ah the 90's were pretty great too. Still no cells phones, school shootings (other than Columbine) and all that stuff. We pretty much did all the same stuff in the 90's as the 70's and 80's. After that though...things seem to have severely declined.
Certainly did - I wouldn’t have wanted to be a teenager in any other decade.
The music, the fashions and there were thousands of us - plenty of friends.
@@terri639agreed, however the 90’s were the beginning of the end.
Dam right 🎉
angela ~ l think so!
No shootings, no metal detectors, no cell phones and no Tik Tok.! Ahhhh.... nice life!
Graduated in 1978, and so glad I did. Loved the parking lot at the beginning!!
No fat people🤣
Less than 1% of gun homicides occur in mass shootings. Also there were more gun related homicides in the 1970's than the past decade.
How will you reacted if you saw a student with a cellphone back then in 1978?
You had shootings then...it just was usually not reported the way it is today.
1970s had lots of riots and more racial violence.
Schools don't have metal detectors (Houston TX)
No Piercings No Tattoos Decent Clothes Normal Voices No Bulling No Fear No Surveillance
Bullying has existed for ever, so don’t fabricate the past.
And plenty of condoms in your packets 😅❤
@@babyprince8923 I just love how people think that previous decades did not have the issues that we have today. No smartphones or social media? Oh, that must surely mean they had no problems with self esteem, no depression.. list goes on. All problems today existed back then, but for some reason people think they did not. I dont get it.
There were bullies. The kid at 2:07 could probably tell you a thing or two about bullies. Social media has just extended the bullies' reach into the after school hours.
I'm not sure what reality you lived in, but that wasn't the reality in my world. Learning to deal with bullies was a big, important part of growing up back then. As a boy growing up in the '60s and '70s who walked to and from school from K -12, dealing with bullies, overcoming my fear, sticking up for myself and others, interacting with all kinds of kids and adults, and in general learning to get myself to and from school, be on my own and responsible for myself, and making good decisions were some of the most valuable life lessons I ever learned.
I graduated in 84….. we were proud to be Americans, we respected our teachers, our hearts, minds, spirits were light hearted, we pushed our comfort zones, found ourselves through that, we have epic stories…….how lucky, fortunate we are, were.
I graduated in ‘84 also. Long before everything and everyone turned ghetto. 😢 American schools now are nothing more than indoctrination centers filled with ghetto trash. The great America we once knew is dead and gone. Very very sad.
Graduated in 1987. I hear ya
I was class of 80
Times have changed for the worst!
I sure miss those days even tho I'm fine today!
Thanks!
@@scottsinger273 I'm Class of '80 too. There was so much optimism and hope. Wish I could go back.
We left our cars windows down in parking lots at school and about, and left our Rifles in ranks in our pickup trucks unlike you people today. We had and still have Respect for ourselves and bodies unlike many of you to day.
Whoever shot this had top tier video gear for 1977.
lol and it was probably huge! We got our first 'VCR' camera in 1979...had sound and all...but was heavy.....came in a suitcase! heck...what came before it....super 8?
It sure looks like 16mm film.
Super8 film
@@KimmyGibson I still remember betamax lol. My mom got .E.T. which was probably the first "tape" movie I saw as a kid.
@@deanevangelista6359 Yeah, looking closely I see the lint and dust on the film. Plus other small imperfections that's seen when watching film.
I graduated in 1977. I'd give almost anything to go back to those days. Hard to believe that those kids would be in their 60s by now. Time marches on.
My dad went to the army in 77,he was 17
I graduated that year too! Class of '77!
This video proves that we were better off without being diverse.
My mom is Class 1977!
@@annagarcia1527 is she hot? Got a picture of her?
Hearing the locker slams brings you right back.
What a great time to be in school. No social media, no cell phones. Real human connections.
You can go outside anytime you want and make a human connection... No one is stopping you... Try finding out the first name of your neighbors? Ask them their gender, don't assume!
"cell phone bad" - old guy who uses cell phone
If you were born after 2000 I feel really bad. That’s when I was born, and I was able to avoid most of social media stuff until high school. I feel terrible for kids these days who are given an iPhone at age 5 and never experience the outdoors and making friends the same way as I did as a kid. I talk to friends who work with children and when given the opportunity, most of the kids will choose their iPhone or iPad over playing with the other kids. It’s sad.
just disgusting-no internet-no porn-no cell phones-what a bad time to live and yet you come here and praise that BORING LIFE
@@vapordreams983not that cell phones are bad, but OVERUSE of cell phones is bad.
Boy, my heart aches looking at this. The cars, the clothes, the hair styles, the young people. This was every high school across this country back in 1977. Man, do I miss these times. My heart just aches!!!
You're right. This is a pretty typical highschool back then. I graduated in '77 in Iowa.
me too i graduated in 82 every fall our hallways were full every freshman class stared with 1,000 students
Ya it’s like I’m in my High School in Montreal Canada 🇨🇦.
No fear of someone walking in with a semiautomatic.
My have times changed in such a short while. 🤓
Please note the incredible LACK of obesity in this video. We looked like an entirely different species back then. Yes.. the girls were far more attractive and the guys were allowed to have testicles.
i did see a student 2 seats up from me in 1979 had a gun i was going tell the teacher i was new to this high school i didn't really know any one students says he just mean kid
I graduated in 77. Best time to grow up. No cell phones No internet no computers. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. The music we had was the best.
I graduated in 1980 and DESPERATELY wish I could have the '70's back. I know there were things that were already getting pretty messed up, but I still miss those days!!!
Narrator: There were computers. And the internet (Arpanet). And while cell phones weren’t a widespread thing yet, they did exist.
@@MrTangent not like today. People are always looking at their phones no matter what they’re doing. Social media has ruined human interaction. We never cared about it. Yea there were cell phones but mostly they were bricks and car phones only owned by the upper class. And the computers were trash. Lemmings was the most you could play on them. Again owned by businesses or those with wealth. And as far as the internet it was nothing like it is today.
@@MrTangent ?????????????????????????????//
The '70's were dreadful. Record high gas prices and inflation (kind of like now), gas lines, Viet Nam, Nixon, Ford, and Carter, really ugly clothes, furniture, and cars . . . There was some good music though.
These were far better days than today & we didn't know it ! Things got Worse ! 😔
Probably none of us in the comments actually attended this school…and yet we ALL did didn’t we?? I graduated in 79 and this is a perfect representation of high school back then. It can literally bring you to tears as seeing this brings back all the memories of an awesome time to be a Kid!
For me too, even though it wasn't exactly my year and i was 1000 miles away. That vibe was the same across the country for over a decade
I'll say it again: I'm everyday grateful for growing up in the 70's.
I was 11 in 77. What a great time to be a kid. Hands-off parenting, banana seat bikes (with no helmet), muscle cars, knee-high tube socks, and mop hair styles. We caused havoc in an innocent sort of way. We knew where all the convenience stores were who would sell us dirty magazines and cigars, and spent our summers in camp or on the street soaking in life with no filter. Damn. I wish we could go back to those days.
@@jimbarrofficial yeah, before they taught how to be a panzy. God what a much better life we had in the 70's and even 80's. Miss those days for sure. Feels like a different world or definitely country. We've surrendered this country now though. It's over!
@@jonburrows2684 Yes, indeed.
Me too!
Me too! I was in elementary school, though. Lol.
No one looking down while walking. No cell phones. No social media. The best times.
Hi u are so right
i can tell youve never been to any modern high school...
You are a cliché
I did. Wasn’t part of the crowd and was picked on. I hated high school.
Amen to that God bless all of you guys on here I love ye all in Jesus Christ the Lord
TBH, this makes me wanna cry. I graduated in '82 and it was just like this. I eventually became a teacher thinking this was the way it was gonna be.
I was wrong. Dead wrong.
After 25 years of hell, I came to realize the America we knew and loved...no longer exists.
Wow.......sighs....so true. (Class of '78 here)
Class of '83 here. The big changes came around 2000.
@@kurtfrancis4621 i would say 2007, everything changed.
blame digitalization and liberals, not us
@@filteredvitaminsubstance5302nah we were still happy, ambitious and normal in 2007, 2012-onwards was when everything went downhill with all the unnecessary "extra" technology (which made us lazy and introverted) & woke/lgbtq insanity
The clothes, the hair, the happy memories. This is the year I graduated and I remember it all like it happened yesterday. Happier, easier times. ♥️♥️♥️
The best time ever, can we go back to these days. Notice them all interacting and laughing. Today they just stare at phones.
I love how non-Americans like to say: "Americans are always chit-chatting with strangers in public. I don't get that at all!". It's such an antiquated view of America. Sure, it still happens, but basically everyone under 30 is on their phone. And they DONT want some stranger coming up to them and chit-chatting. For better or worse, society has changed in this regard. And its far from just the under-30s, too.
@@erikstorm8935 they still are chitchatting with strangers just in person so you can still say that!
@@erikstorm8935 Before COVID I used to be one of those chit-chatters in line. But now I'm like get away lol. Really changed my behavior that stupid pandemic.
They Stare because they can't READ and all the depression pills they are on You have LESS to say.
Reading the comments of so many fellow high schoolers in the late 70s. We may have attended different schools, but we will forever share the same reflection of just how lucky we were to have grown up in that era.
Too bad y'all did such an awful job raising your kids.
@@loloholmes2793 You got that right.
@@loloholmes2793I blame it on the education system going woke in the nineties. My kids got all their wacky ideas from school, so my wife and I had to be proactive with them regarding what they were being taught - much more than my parents were with us…
I feel REAL lucky to have grown up then. I graduated a bit before this and by THIS time I was already in the Air Force and overseas in Germany.
@@loloholmes2793 Not quite. It was the high schoolers of the 50s, not 70s, who mostly raised Gen X, with divorce becoming commonplace, latchkey kids who felt alienated, etc. These were the kids born from the mid-60s to early 80s. Whereas those of us who graduated high school in the late 70s raised Millennials who, by and large, had a great childhood, but many of whom are facing a challenging world in their 20s and 30s. But it's not that we didn't raise them well. Parenting became a renewed passion starting in the late 80s.
Class of '82. Raised in the suburbs in the South. It was just like this, amazing. The student parking lot filled with mom cars and the occasional camero. Ford Mustangs were the thing in Raleigh. In '77 you could pick up a 1965, fair condition for $600. Crazy great time. Thanks for posting.
The 70s were the best years. Life was simple and uncomplicated. Everyone knew the same songs and games. Families had dinner together. Music was amazing. Now electronic gadgets separate people. Common threads are almost gone. People are isolated. I haven’t seen a kid mowing a lawn or playing outside in 15 years. They’re all inside in their isolated bedrooms on their phones rotting their brains. They will never know how open and free the people were before the internet.
I want to go back in a time machine to those great days of the 70s.
You should make a YT channel teaching this stuff. Could get popular like this channel did. Ultimately, this time died because older people took the technology route as well.
80s and 90s was great too. I also miss those days, that was my teenage years
Just because we have smartphones today, does not mean the 60s, 70s and 80s did not have electronic items that did not isolate people and stopped them from socializing. TV's, Stereo systems in general, arcades, portable music players, even cars had the same impact as of today, in which a kid would be swallowed by his or her car. Books and magazines and personal computers to some extent in the 80s. I dont get how you lot think or forget about the problems that were present back then aswell? Atleast today we can still connect with people through our electronic devices. Back then it was a one way street.
@@MrBa143 I would write a whole paragraph fooling you but nah, what I will say is this.
It's literally not comparable. You're an idiot.
I was 16 in '77. I remember those days. We had problems with occasional fights but no guns, no garbage on social media, no sexting and beating up of teachers. You were more afraid of what would happen to you at home if you got in trouble at school. The pressure to get good grades and your driver's license at 16 was pretty high. No one wanted to ride the bus. We either walked or got rides to school from parents or friends. Those who did ride the bus were picked up at one location, and after school, were dropped off at the same location and walked home. Those were simpler times with different responsibilities. Alway had a job in the summer to save for a car or some other thing needed. We were not rich but we had 3 squares and I had to share my room with my bratty brother 😀. I remember the black and white tv with the rabbit ears.
@@nealraulston7055 plenty of school shootings from the 70's including kids slaying others for example. Feb 22, 1978 Lansing, Michigan After being taunted for his beliefs, 15-year-old Roger Needham, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, killed one student and wounded a second with a pistol at Everett High School.
Plenty of schools in the 70's saw constant gang fights with bats knives, and chains being used. Plenty of bullying, and harrassment going on with no one caring about it. Teen sex, and drug use were at their zenith in the 70's with the results of the Vietnam war eventually leading to a teen baby boom in the 90's. Everything looks good from a distance, and in our minds where we can look at it selectively, but the same social ills were taking place. You were just young, shielded and not paying attention; like most of us were while growing up in a stable home.
@@fluffy1931Being embarrassed about your generation you quickly googled for school shootings in the 70’s and found one. Typical. America is screwed. Its over.
@@fluffy1931 This is an example of "picking gnat shit out of black pepper." Your example of one incident has already been outdistanced exponentially by a single day's news and will be again tomorrow and a great many tomorrows to follow...
@@robertboydiiido-bolsa7531 let the circle jerk begin incel.
Born in 64'. The seventies were like something we will never see again for many reasons.
77 grad here! We dressed like ladies, hair and makeup were natural, guys had respect! No social media, we had freinds from all walks of life but that too was just a natural thing in our school. Jocks, hippies, black, white, nerds, no one cared. Life was better without identity groups. Where did it all go so wrong?
I graduated in 1991. I am so glad I was part of the last generation to live in a semi-normal America.
No cell phones, internet, none of it. We LIVED. We hung out at parties with hundreds of kids. Sometimes
a fight would happen, but no shootings of gang problems. We lived the same existence as these kids,
just with slightly different music and clothing. But 70's music was still popular. Aerosmith and Ozzy
osbourne are proof of that. As big or bigger in my day as they were in the 70's. I miss that. I think
we thought ourselves so far removed from the 70's but in reality there was only a few years difference.
I began high school only 9 years after this was filmed.
I would not want to be a kid in the 21st century.
That's your opinion, but I had pretty good memories as a kid playing on the PlayStation 2 in the 2000s.
@@qekruxt5089 Lol!
Very good but i was a shy nerd but smart..i graduated in 1989 . I agree with you but for me it was a little bit different ..like all people here say there was no cell phones and internet ..but late 80s different from 70s ..fear of aids , soy no to everything like no lovemaking , crack and judgemental talk shows adults judging teenagers lifestyles so id rather played the first nintendo after high school or watch cable tv ,but there was good music at time of my senior year or my first years in college !! for my existence it was skinny puppy ,faith no more, NIN and indie like pixies or primus yess you catch my drift so i was cool , since i was nerdy and shy maybe i prefer today ! now like from nerd or hipster point of view, i like tech ! it motivates you to go to college !! ok now a as a grownup ..internet is for adults not for kids it makes them lazy or watch bad things ..but today for our reality of bieng an adult and with a lot of responsibities, internet makes it exciting like to escape , we nerdy people find today is very exciting .but again not from a kids point of view . So as a kid i would like to be in 70s a good sense when sex drugs and rock and roll ruled ,,disco era !! or todays cause nerdy, lgbtq are not made fun of like the 80s or 90s!! our gen x was like we were on the brakes ..and we were born too late but also too early.. without a "consistent" road for vivid mindset
@@qekruxt5089 I graduated in 1990. Plenty of us had been glued to video games from Pong to Super Nintendo, then to the 8 bit/16 bit PCs that took over.
I graduated in '85 and hadn't touched a computer or video game (except for PacMan or something on occasion). Life in the analog age was hands-on. I was active and fit. I left the house a LOT
I graduated in 1977. Fun times. You can even kinda tell the types of kids as they walk past, like who are the jocks, who are the cool kids, the nerds, the misfits. LOL Takes me back. (Seems like yesterday to me though.)
Just did the 45th reunion a few months ago. Lot of old people there. Ha. Be safe
I graduated in '77 too. Those were good times.🙂
Yes, and the guy wearing a tie probably because it was game day.
Graduated in 78...
I graduated in 1977 also, high school was the best part of my life, lots of good memories and music.
I graduated in 1977. It was a wonderful time. I am just so grateful that no one has any evidence of some of the shenanigans I pulled and could post them on Facebook. Praise God for that.
Being born in ‘94, I would have loved to experienced life like this it seemed so pure, what a trip.
Ahhh... the pre-backpack era. Yes, we actually CARRIED our books! We had backpacks, but they were used to go camping! What a trip! Thanks for uploading.
no Trump no January 6 no mass shootings no KKK no Republicans
scott thomas💯👍
@@jimmylieb5225 Back when being a Republican was honorable like Lincoln. Now they are the party of KKK.
@@PhukTrump2024Republicans and the kkk have been around longer than you have been alive. Definitely past the 70s
@@PhukTrump2024 Since, like a typical leftist, you're making it all about politics, I figured I'd remind you that Communist filth hadn't yet infiltrated every institution in the nation and the Leftist Democrats knew better than to try and make everything gay and tranny. Oh, and in 1977, Reagan was just a couple years away from winning the presidency after a progressive Democrat had almost completely ruined the nation. Then, a few short years later, he won his second term with *FORTY NINE* states! Cope and seethe.
Wow……1977, my senior year in high school. This brings back a flood of fond memories.
Oh lord …….never thought I would miss these sane , normal times .
Todays world has changed so much and not for the better.
"We never miss our water til our well runs dry". C/O "79" ✌️
Wow . . .Thanks for posting this! I graduated HS in 1976 so the cars, the hair, the clothes take me right back. What a trip down memory lane!
Absolutely love this! Thanks for the memories. What a great time to be a teenager!!
I was 20 in 1977. I had already been married 3 years and had a 2 year old. We will celebrate our 50th anniversary next year and I just spent the morning going over his medications with his V.A. Dr. 🙂
This sure does take me back to a simpler time. We had a 1976 4 speed, burnt orange Pinto. To this day, that was my favorite car. Loved it!
I was a junior in 1977. I had a Mercury Comet, looked a lot like what I think is that gold Maverick. But mine was two-tone red and white, much cooler car. I loved that car.
Pinto was probably the ugliest car ever made by Ford Motor Co.
@@panamacitybeachbum Only a Bum would say such a thing.
@@panamacitybeachbum thats what made them epic.
Happy Anniversary:)
This is so amazing and shows how life was before the damage of social media! I was 7 in 77
Me too. Great cartoons, huh? And the Sears catalog at Xmas!
Absolutely spot on, Sash. Social Media destroyed Faith and Humanity. Always a double-edged sword in almost anything. It was inevitable because of tech always moving. It was bound to happen. A Reboot is coming for humanity. May take 50 years or less but it is coming. No way out of it.
Put your devices away then 😂
@@Devogor it's not going to matter 😂 lol
@@Devogor too far gone bruh no going back ✌️
Some of the best times of my life, High school! This took me right back to the 70’s when I was in high school!!
I graduated high school in 77. I also had a 72 Ford Maverick. The kids dressed way better back then too. Theres no way my Mom would let me go to school with holes in my clothes. And we were a middle class family. People had more pride back then
True, and yeah, this video made me chuckle. I went to a large suburban high school in the mid '70s, roughly 450 students in each grade level, so we had all types, including a significant numbers of kids who routinely WAY overdressed. It was like a fashion show, mostly girls in their their lovely sun dresses and etc but also some guys with quite a wardrobe. I'm talking dressed like they were going to a disco, or some in business type suits. There was one kid who every day dressed like a businessman going to work in an office, full suit and tie, even carried a briefcase. Unsurprisingly, he was very smart, well organized, and got good grades. I sometimes wonder what happened to him. I'd be surprised if he didn't go far. I was somewhere in the middle. Most days jeans or similar with Cons or the ever popular Earth shoes, but other days a little fancier with pleated front baggies and bumper toed platforms. Good times.
I graduated in 79, thus is exactly what it was like. Much better times than today.
Hey, I was also Class of 1979 I have wonderful memories of my high school year's... The best era in my opinion on many levels
Also graduated in 79! Massapequa High School long island ny!!
@@mayplace1961same class as Rex Heuermann
@@armandoacevedo6978 he went to berner high school. At that time there were 2 high schools in massapequa
I am a 79 grad too.
Not many of us had cars.
I did because I worked too much.
That kid with the new Chevy Blazer had to be rich.
Nobody at my high-school had a new anything!
We moved to the USA in 1977. I was in 5th grade. I was so happy to be here and become All American! No desire to change the country!
Where did you.move from?
@@lorettadavid8253 Guyana.
You are unique. Too many coming here want the US to look like where they came from (which I ask, why come here?). And too many that are spoiled and hate this great country won't leave to live in a place that suits their communist ideologies. We are a great nation, we will defend our way of living.
@@monty4336 that also happens in the vice verse. Americans going to other countries and not being able to comply/ respect the culture.
@@alysskennedy8661 some people can't be satisfied !
Class of 77 here.
Those were the best days, thanks for posting this!
Most weren't obese/morbidly obese. Everyone dressed nice. Respectful. Loved high school. Loved being in the band. '76!:)
I graduated a year before this (class of 76) but the sights, the sounds, the cars, the kids, were still the same. It was a great time to be alive.
Carson High-Bi-Centennial Graduate 1976 Carson City, Nevada
Now you are retired
Same. The things our parents taught us continue to be more important as time goes on.
Same here class of 76.....how i miss those days .....my 71 Buick skylark gs455.....cb's no aids......18 years could buy beer.....
same here we did not have to worry about school shooting just go to school have a good time be with yoor friends it was easy to stay out of troubles things were good ...GAS WAS CHEAP !!!!
I was a senior and graduated in 1977. Life was so much better growing up in that decade. I miss the music, friends and the feeling of endless possibilities of my future.
Vietnam kinda sucked tho (just sayin')
@@moistmike4150 Vietnam was over by then.....
@@juliemnm8273 Not for Rambo it wasn't. You just don't turn it off.
1974. Would go back in minute.
Me to those were good days
Class of 1979 here. This brought back so many memories. Life was so different then. Today it's all a mess. Thanks for sharing. Hello to all the 70's graduates.
Awesome video - I’m class of 1981 - so can totally relate. Thanks for the memories !!
I remember this like it was yesterday. I thought I built a false memory of how it was back then but this is exactly what I remember. I'm blown away at how simple things we're. It teared me up because this was a precious time and we had FUN!.
How much skinnier everyone was too.
@@teleguy5699 Now that you pointed it out, I don't think I saw even one. At my high school we had 2, one boy and one girl. The car park area rang true, but otherwise this must have been filmed in some nice fairly affluent conservative neighborhood, I only saw a handful of pairs of jeans and no hair past the collars.
@@TheKim369they had a video camera back then not too many people did you probably came from a rich family if you had a video camera in the 70s👍😎🇨🇦
@@anthonybelyea1964 Yeah, the closest I ever got to one was a relative who married a gal who's father had a slide projector! 🏴☠ (Cdn flag dressed as a pirate, mouse issues, it was easier to find Har, har)
@@anthonybelyea1964 True....and this one was high end. The video quality is excellent....
70s and 80s was the greatest time....we were going in to space , we were building computers, kids were playing sports, reading books like Lord of the Rings, learning musical instruments because we wanted to be in a band, building fast cars, secretly playing DnD. The Golden Age of Creativity.
Wish I could upvote you like 50 times. 👍👍👍👍👍
90's were great also. A decade of transition.
90's was better
I agree, but I could not understand why I was always having anxiety attacks from simply walking in the hallways. It was probably from all the girls I had crushes on.
@@trigfizzle6876 only 1990-1994 was good
Great vid man!!! memories of simpler times, better.
Brilliant! THANK YOU for sharing!
I was a sophomore in 1977-78. The best thing about being a teenager in the 70s (aside from the great music) was that there was no internet or social media. Everything said and done is and will remain a secret.
@Yuck Foutube I’d gladly trade the advantage of “crimes being caught in video” in current day America for the 1970s
I sure hope you do not have children, That is a problem for anyone who has children.
Could people today survive life without plugging into a computer?
Those born in the 90’s or later have no idea how different life was back then.
Except for what’s contained in old videos that make it to CZcams 56 years later.
And no closed circuit t.v.'s and video cams round either! How else could we go "parking," LOL! Whatever happened there stayed there!!
I graduated HS in '75, but this is what it looked like, everything about it looked like this. Students transitioned from using Slide Rules to a Texas Instruments Calculator ! We also used graphite pencils to write with in our spiral notebooks ! Bic pens were quickly converted to spit wad tubes - a favorite past-time in middle school.
I graduate in 1976 and we had to use slide rules in my tenth grade chemistry class. Calculators had just come out, but they were still expensive and our teacher wouldn't let us use them anyway.
Haha yes spit wad tubes.
Class of '75! 🍻
That spitball thing started fights in my school. Bell had not even rung yet. 😂
(Junior High School) and it sounded better than middle school. Of all things, why was the name change necessary ? When you left Elementary school for Junior High, it felt like a bigger step up, than what they have now in, middle school, which is almost, irrelevant sounding.
I was Class of 74, my first car was a 57 Chevy, gas was in the 30 cent range, no gangs, no violence, girls were hot, kids were pretty safe to be out at night, we’ll never see those times again and I’m grateful I grew up in that era
I bought my first car in 1974 - a beater, 4-door 1957 Chevrolet "grandma car" for $75 ! I drove that car all through high school until I graduated in 1977 and went in the
military. My dad sold the car while I was gone - also, for $75. Guys that had cars always had girlfriends ! I even had a couple girlfriends from the cross-town rival
high school ! that really made those guys jealous ! It was a very sweet time ! I enjoyed high school and made the most of it - even though I was a "hippie" and smoked
pot - I had some jock friends too - so I got along with just about everyone ! Got in a fist fight one time with a kid over a $2 hit of acid....very dumb.....
@@urbanurchin5930 me too. CO79.
I’m so happy that you got to experience that I’m gen z and currently a rising senior and my high school is nothing like this covid ruined a lot of things for me
Know what I love about these high school girls? I get older they stay the same age
I was in high school at this time. Thank you for sharing
I miss the good old times, still reliving them in my memories and it makes me feel good. Thanks for the vid.
Went to high school from 78-81, had better hair styles,clothes,music,hot rods. Better times.
It's kind of funny, but it seems that every generation seems to look back 15 or 20 years and yearn for the "good, old, days". We tend to forget the bad things. I will agree that there are way too many distractions today... cell phones, video games, etc.
@@lindafoofoo or perhaps the 70s and 80s were actually better times to grow up in.
@@Gamesso1slO0l They were better.
@@harrylongabaugh7402 Of course they were better times, we had those tube socks that almost went to your knees.
Same identical years here. Welcome,or soon to be welcome to the 60+ club,and if you're like me just glad to be alive,and yes we all got along together where I lived as well. It was like heaven for some of us.
This was my junior year in HS. It is just like I remember. Laughing and having some good times with your friends. No distractions, no Twitter, and no Tik Tok. Blessed.
We had more fun when there wasn't Facebook, Twitter, or having a computer or a cell phone. We always had things to do and places to go. And most importantly, we had friends to hang out with. These days kids are either playing video games or always texting.
@@davidpanetta6400 It sad the way the society went.I am now 58 and have a flip phone what kills me is that people have to follow the leader and most kids own an iPhone in which they are junk my girlfriends daughter has to have an iPhone because her friends have them just like the lulu leggings sad society we live in.
Truth.
@David Panetta Kids must of had it made back then. I graduated about 8 yrs back but seeing everything now after covid unless kids are into winter sports or have some kind of property with things to do there isn't anything left that's actually open. Even the mall and bowling alleys close at 7-8pm. Wages stay the same and prices go up it's tough for a kid in school
Class of 79
Atwater Ca
No tattoos!! No weird hair!! And BOOKS!! I was born in 1962, I was 14 and a half and 15 in 1977.....they were the best years of my life. If I could only do it all over again I would cherish every minute of it! Life is incredibly short. Thank you for the video. 🤜🤛
1977 was my first year in high school, just watching this video teleported me to so much better times. I wish some of the cars in the parking lot were playing their stereos because mid to late 70's music was the best in history.
I was 11, but I remember how cool the teenagers seemed. This is beautiful.
✨💎 We were pretty cool 'teenagers in the 80s, you know
I realize how spaced out kids are on their phones. My god- - 5 teens sitting in the same living room & theyre not even talking out loud, theyre texting the person right in front of them! So it is very different. But don't attribute that to what Im about to say next, 'cause there are parents & children every generation who are "cool," "talkative," "quiet," or just "nerds"
My children have been out of the nest for years now. When she was about 18, two neighboring kids came over to meet my daughter after school- - a girl & a boy both about 11. I imagined they were brother & sister. I had only met them once before. And Jess wasnt home just yet. When the boy asked me how I was doing, I said "Pretty good I guess- - for a lowdown donkey nobody loves" trying to sound like Eeyore. He responded by introducing himself as "Christopher Robin," but he used a voice that was t o o effeminine. I went dead quiet & the girl standing by him just looked at me as if we mutually understood the problem
So I said "Whatever you do, dont use that voice around school!" After some casual talking back & forth for a minute, eventually I realized he still didnt get it. I wasnt going to be blunt with "because your classmates will seriously think youre a fruitcake & kick your a**, thats why!"
I was trying to think of a delicate way to put it, when the girl spoke up: "You know what the problem is, Jim?"
- No, what?
- "This is the moment when you realize your grandparents are c o o l e r than you are!"
- He's not my grandparent, stupid (motioning toward me)
- " E x a c t l y , " clueless!
I wanted to say "Who's the grandparent? You? 'Cause it cant be me!" But they just ran out the front door 😂😂😂
I was 11/12 and I was WAAAY cooler than my 18 y/o sister. Class of 84 RULED.
@@magnificentmuttley154 🤣 😂
@@wildwoodandonyx class of 84! 👍🏻👍🏻
@@xxfox 👌👌👌Rah rah rah! Class of '89. So everybody's an 80s 'teen today
I graduated in 1977 as well , and this is exactly what it looked like. The clothes, hair and cars all look good to me! These were the years, no metal detectors, no mass shootings, and the only drill was a fire drill! All were real good kids except for "the few" and don't forget the best music ever! I'd go back in a NY minute and stay! Yep, I can spot the school jocks and the popular kids in a heartbeat! Lol
Hello how are you doing?
Class of 83 attending my 40th class reunion in October,how time flies by.
You definitely hit the nail on the head with "The Best Music" Couldn't find a bad song back then and if you did it's far better than anything out in the last 25+ years.
Funny how you mentioned mass shootings. In 1977, a kid could keep a shotgun or hunting rifle on a rack in the cab of their truck and no one would bat an eye. Today it would cause a lockdown and a SWAT team to arrive in short order!
@@nottabidenfan1228 Right, I'm old and I miss my 70s! I'm bumming, that's how I'm doing. 🤧
1977 - my first year of Jr. High. The laughing and socializing, clanging lockers, this video really took me back. I've forgotten how lively that time was.
Being a kid in the '60s, a teen in the '70s, a twenty-something in the '80s, and I would even add a thirty-something in the '90s, was the best of all worlds.
It really was 😊
This is hard to watch,, but thank you for it.. most of the memories are just that and by seeing stuff like this it confirms it wasn’t a illusion.. crazy how messed up our world has become .. these were the best of times 🤝🍻👏👏👏
thanks to globalization/new order, diversity and acceptance/h(o)m0(s).
I graduated in ‘88 but it was still very much like this, no cell phones, 14 year olds weren’t covered in 2 tons of full face makeup. Good times.
Class of '88 too.🍻
I graduated in 89, 14 yr olds were definitely covered in makeup and hairspray lol
Everyone looked nice, not overweight with messy buns and hoodies.
I graduated in 2004 and it was still like this. Looks exactly like my experience really because my school was built in the 60s and was not renovated. Also, no phones yet etc. I feel lucky to have lived at the cusp of this madness, probably the last generation, perhaps even the last year or two, before things went to shit.
Uh I wore tons of makeup in the 80's haha
Seeing this footage is a nice time capsule. I had older cousins that were in high school during this time. I was either in 2nd or 3rd grade depending on the day this was filmed.
I love the effect in video / audio in the cuts in the hallway.
It's crazy to think all these kids in this video had their whole life in front of them. Now its 2023 and these same kids are in their mid 60's. They're entering the last chapter of their lives. I hope all of you have great retirements. My mom graduated in 77.
65 here and loving retirement.
The world as we knew it and know it is rapidly deteriorating.......rapture ready here. 69 years....we are the last generation.
A lot gone unfortunately.
@@Sailor_Tom truth bomb
You always feel like a young person, it's the mirror that makes us all feel old😢😅😂
I'm 62 years young and graduated in 78. I still have more energy than my kids -- ages 20 and 21. I love early retirement and I'm actively involved in volunteering. Life is good but Jesus Christ is the ONLY way. Repent before it is too late. Read "The Late Great Planet Earth" -- a book written in the 70s. The things written in the book have either come to pass or are coming to pass now.
I graduated in '82, so still pretty much in this era.
I'm so glad I grew up then. Must suck to be a teen nowadays.
It really sucks to be a high school teacher now.
@@girasoljardin3314 I resemble this!
Just retired from teaching in Kalifornia last June. 25 years was enough.
Ditto. Grad 82 also. Better times, better life.
@@beyondonethousand 83! I Ditto your Ditto! The 80s and the 90s and even the early 2000s were such a Blast!! We had so much fun.. I guess there wasn't any left for nowadays kids!!
Nowadays kids have no idea on how to have fun
thanks for that play back!! lighting wasn't good in the halls but that made me remember ty!!!
I was a freshman in high school. I forgot my gym shorts were that awesome lol! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I was in Junior high at this time, I graduated in 83, I have zero regrets of growing up in those years. Kids today have no idea how cool we were in those days!!
And how much more White the US was!
I’m a 83 girl too! Best times ever😊
Yep. I'm class of '83 !
Nah we get it, my dad graduated in 1981 and was the coolest dad ever. After he passed away I got ahold of his yearbooks and those party’s (quotes on the books I read) sounded insane! Rest easy dad you where a legend 🤙
no Trump no January 6 no mass shootings no KKK no Republicans
I graduated high school in 1975. We didn't realize how sweet life was back then! Couldn't wait to get on with the rest of our life...I thought life was stressful, school, working after school, homework, ball games, dances, field trips etc. HA! What fool I was. Those were some of the best days of my 66 years of life!!!
Is it true none of the girls shaved their pubic hair back then?
@@JoePedo true story, I was 'there', lol
@@doninmichigan Was it like.. scary?
@@JoePedo More bush than the first Penthouse magazines. The plucked ducks didn't come along to later on, probably as a result of more promiscuity causing lice and other VD's.
@@JoePedo very scary 😳😄 but when you're young, horny, and inebriated, you don't let that deter you. 👍
I love watching these and seeing how fit everyone was I always ask my dad about this stuff and how life was back then, he just turned 70 in November and I’m gonna be 20 in March 2024.. so it’s nice to have someone older to ask😭
It was just like this for meeeee ! Thanks for sharing.
This is so nostalgic. I was 17 and remember the sights and sounds so well. It’s amazing to hear the kids going about their day, mainly worrying about their hair and not obsessing about cell phones and social media. A different era indeed. Hope they’re all still around and enjoying life in their 60s.
I'm 63 now and WOW did this video bring back memories.
Bell bottom pants, lots of long hair on us guys (I don't have any hair now - lol), Ford Galaxy 500, Pinto, old style Camaro, woody station wagons -- Baahhahahaha.
Thanks for posting.
@@canadianoddy8504 I’m 63 and fortunately have hair, albeit quite white. 😃
@@yaronsteinbuch3956
Me too and put on a few pounds. lol
59 and loving it! Good memories....
I was also 17 in 1977. Where did the time go? Just wow….😢
1977 was my freshman year. I just traveled back in time. I even saw a few kids in this video that looked like kids I went to school with, although of course they weren't. By my Junior year, I had a silver 77 Firebird Formula, that looked a lot like the Firebird shown here. The parking lot scenes, the lockers slamming, all the background noise, wow. We had a dress code that was similar to the one this school must have had. No jeans, no goofy T-shirts, just nice, presentable clothing. This video is a national treasure, and I saved it and will watch it again, pausing often. What I wouldn't give to go back to those days for a while (or forever). Had I known how the world would be now, I would have savored every single second back then. I probably would have married my high school girlfriend too! I wonder how many of these kids were leaving school and driving directly to their after school jobs like I did (True Value Hardware). Every kid had a job back then. When you met a new kid, it was normal to ask "where do you work?" almost immediately. We earned our own money, respected adults, and knew how to drive a 4-speed or even a "three on the tree". That's just the way it was back then. Watching this, it's hard to believe how fast 46 years went by. It seems like yesterday to me.
agree, but we did wear jeans and our hair was longer
Agree on some points you made but T shirts with crazy sayings were very much worn at my HS in 77-81 and hardly any kids drove a year old vehicle we were lucky to have a 8 year old car haha .
And now this video would be shown by liberal teachers, activists, and professors , telling your grand kids this is white privilege and the school needs more diversity and other ethnic groups to have a “chance” now nobody works after school, so many job openings, all the kids do is play on their phones and video games, and watch illegal aliens take over all the jobs in every industry
Hahaha, yeah, I did a double-take at the kid with the jean jacket getting out of the black, Blazer type vehicle thinking, "Wait, was that ME"? 😂
Yep well said, I worked at a full service Standard station, worked midnights, got out of work than went to school, didn't have a lot of time for sleeping and getting my playing in, man those were the days, I graduated in 77.
I graduated in 1981, the sound of locker doors slamming is forever ingrained in my brain. 45 years later, I can still remember my locker combination!
Class of 1980 here, this is a blast from the past and took me right back to high school. Crazy.
Wow, people actually talked to each other and were paying attention to the world around them instead of looking down at a screen in a mindless daze. Fascinating.
Yet here we are...watching social media right now...
All by design
Why does it bother you? Are you jealous of the people they are watching on their phones?
I was a Junior in 1977 walking around campus in a mindless daze!
@@ExploringAlabama , Excellent point. I find myself having to remember to to cut the damn compute and phone off, too, and just go live life.
I was Class of '77. This is so nostalgic. I like how it's not trying to do anything but record these moments in time. It's not trying to make any kind of point or prove anything. Just slices of life.
Great comment David!
I was in High School that year. Thanks for bringing back memories.
I was a freshman in 1977. I must say the parking lot scenes, the clothing and the hairstyles brought back many memories. We were fortunate and didn't even know it.
I was an 80's teen, but this brings back memories. We were very lucky to grow up in that time.
At that time i didn’t think of it as lucky or unlucky to be growing up then, but looking back i can see we were lucky in so many ways!
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them" I think of that quote often when I think back on "the good old days". Ugh I hate getting old lol.
I have horrible memories of high school between 1984-88 I don't miss it 😭😂
Dang yes I can smell that gym, the old sweet wood and cinnamon rolls baking in the kitchen.
@@KOSMICKEN09 I don’t miss school either but looking back there were many good things about that time period that are gone forever. For example no TSA. It was a time when traveling by plane was very relaxing and enjoyable. Customers we treated with respect not like potential terrorists. Children could still play outside all day without parents hovering over them. Stores and schools didn’t need security cameras and staff. Society was not divided and full of hate and violence. Where I lived most people still had gardens and were raising their own food. Even pets were more free back then. You didn’t see pets put in crates to live. The sky was still filled with fireflies and stars. Divorce was just creeping in so almost everyone I went to school with still had intact families with their biological parents. And it was a time where kids were not being medicated with heavy psychotropic drugs. Those drugs like divorce were just entering into society but hadn’t become a problem to society yet. School was boring but we didn’t have gangs and all the politicized social engineering that kids have today. I never felt unsafe going to school. There is so much more that that time period had to offer that just seems more wholesome and free than what society has to offer young people today.
This video is stellar! I was born in 1977. What "Karen Bell" commented is the absolute truth. Even in the 1980's it was still this way. People do not even want to talk face to face these days or even on the phone. All they want to do is text. Cell phones are a double edged knife. It's a tool (which is a good thing to an extent), but it has ruined humanity with all the social media.
Totally agree with your comment,
I was in the 8th grade in 1977. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Awsome video! Love the bell bottoms, and clothes wish it would come back
This is pure gold. Simpler times gone forever.
My high school years were from 1975 - 1979. This brings back many memories.
Class of ‘79, saved the best for last.
1980-84 diverse decade for English pop music.
Mine were 1966-1970 - even better but so similar.
SAME HERE
@@ekimp252 THATS WHEN I GRADUATED, WISH I COULD GO BACK
The video quality is amazing!
I was 8. This footage reminds me of some of my cousins who were teens in the 70's. I always thought they were so cool
Seriously, they all looked SO good. The clothes, the hairstyles, the colors, ... Everyone looks so fresh and stylish! Slim and happy people :) Just a bunch of young people talking to each other, sharing stories, laughing and interacting together. HUMAN interactions, no virtual contacts whatsoever, I truly envy them as a young woman myself (24yo). I know that the 70s weren't perfect but I can't help but fantasize about living at this time. Because you know, at least people were living.
Get a group of your friends and make a pact to ditch your cell phones and all social media
I agree. I'm a 32-year-old male. Are you born in 1999?
@@amazinggirl95 That's right, 1999! In January so I'll turn 25 in a few months haha
I was born in 1991~
Are you American?
Born in 1999, mid 20s
So...
I can't believe it. Time really
It seems fast.
I got rid of my smartphone 3 months ago. Best decision I ever made
Who wouldn’t miss times like this The 70s is a reminder of just how rich life was and how genuine people were… now everyone is filled with hate and anger and controlled by social media and what the internet tells them…. I’m only 26 but I’m constantly glued to 70s culture and 70s music….. I wish I was there
I blame our parents for not keeping the 70s-90s alive when we were growing up
@@80s_GenLover it’s honestly the times and media man, a lot of changes and new ideas and an even more hateful world was upon us after the 70s it’s a god awful shame how wholesome things were to how bad they are now… makes me want to cry
I graduated in 1977. The long row in the back of the parking lot was filled with pickups that had gun racks and yes, even guns. Muscle cars, grocery getters, second-hand and family owned vehicles filled the lot, 8-track was upgrading to cassette, a bottle o' wine in a brown paper bag was 1.59 in the sweetest flavors ever created. Lynyrd Skynyrd was still alive. It was a great time to be a teenager.
That sound of banging lockers ♥️. Class of ‘79. We didn’t know how great we had it!
Back then I thought high school was hell somedays but looking back they really were the best times ever....what memories
Same here man! Me and most of my peers hated going to high school and couldn’t wait to get out. Now I look back and see how we had it made. Hanging out with your friends all day and meeting new people etc etc. the girls were in abundance as well 😝
I loved watching this video from 1977. I couldn't help but notice how clean-cut everyone looked. I also noticed how slender most of the kids were. Today one third of American youth don't qualify to enter the armed forces because they are too fat. Even the heavier kids in the '70's would be considered "slim" by today's standards. My heart aches watching this flashback of the America I grew up in. I would go back there in a heartbeat.
Me too, it was a safe and fun time to be a teenager. Totally different.
Yep, this was just before computer games and kids went outside to play. I graduated in 1977 and it certainly was a much better time then. Just for example, the music that was coming out back then was amazing.
I saw a lot of long hair.
I got behind a school bus about a month ago I noticed every kid that got off was fat
Before Costco slobs❕
class of 2024 here and this looks wonderful ♥️ love nostalgia from before i even existed .
Class of “76” here and telling you this brings back memories to say the least Lol 👍