The last day of school in 1977
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- Footage from a neighborhood in Michigan where it's the finale day of school for these group of lucky kids.
Shots of them outside at recess, in the classroom and finally leaving the school and going home for summer!
This video last around 6 minutes.
#lastdayofschool
#mcdonalds
So many of us homesick for a place that doesn't exist anymore.
Why? Because your current life is disappointing for you? Nostalgia is weaponized by politicians. The world will never be like this again and you know it. Make today just as happy for yourself…you can do it. Yesterday is gone. It is a very cute video, tho!! Here’s to your future, my friend. 😊
@@Mister_Listener My current life is wonderful, far more than yours, I'm sure. BTW: I'm not your friend, got it!
@@Mister_Listener Pick a metric, the vast majority of them are objectively worse today.
Try eating more Ivormectine today. See if that helps.
@Mister_Listener why would you shit all over someone's totally innocuous comment, which, by the way alot of us agree with.
back when being middle class meant you could afford a house
If you are middle class and can't afford a house you are doing something wrong..................like spending more than you make and LOADED with debt..............back in the 70's people didn't live on credit cards, cars they can't afford and refinancing houses to go on vacation
and often on 1 income as mom was home at recess to make your peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wonder bread and kool aid with about 10 scoops of sugar
@@MB-rr1fb Your delusional. An apartment costs 10 times these houses now. They've moved the goal post almost out of the stadium.
You're dead wrong. 64% of Americans owned homes in 1977, 65% own homes today. In 1977, 45% of the homeowners were middle-class. In 2024, 43% of homeowners are middle-class. The rates of home ownership have fluctuated but have changed very little over the past 50 years.
@@kj475 Yea but the average house was like $45,000 and the average single person wage was $9,000 in 1977. Where I live you could buy houses all day for the $30K range back in 1977, now its over $300K and wages are just a little over 3X more than in 1977. It was much easier in the 70's to own a home and especially on a single income. Most people that worked in the textile mills, in my area, could afford their own homes. Now sales taxes are higher, more special taxes, medical and education cots have way outpaced inflation etc...
Back when kids walked home from school. No wonder they’re not fat.
So did I in my childhood+I biked a lot too 365 days a year😊
After school we all played out outside me with the waterhose during the spring and summer+a lot of water toys to go with😊
Plus our food wasn’t totally poisoned with corn syrup in every single bite of it… along with all the preservatives that are literally killing us 😢
Their food was still better.
unlike now !
Because you also had a phone on every corner, and if it rained, snowed or whatever you went and walked 5 blocks to get to one, also you physically did EVERYTHING!!, when they played, they played!! Their mindset was on moving.
Look at all those happy skinny kids
Happy White skinny kids*
Cute kids. I was imagining how fat they all became, since this was filmed in America.
@@xada2397 apparently you don’t see too good. Rewatch the video.
@xada2397 pretty sure I spotted a few brown ones too
At 0:05 there are 15 kids in the frame, 2 of which are African American, which is about 13%. That's more than the black population percentage of 12.1% in 1977. Blacks are over-represented in the film.
Hey! Look you guys! Normal people doing normal things. I miss it. Normal genuine people
Nah, late 1970’s, USA?? No, their parents were screaming things at them and making them feel worthless because everyone was striving to become middle class with a house and car and toys. As if that was a worthy goal. Mischief and graffiti was a real problem with this generation of kids. They were bored and had angry parents who neglected them. Matt Dillon was in a campy but horrifying movie about this back in 1979, i think. The riot scenes are pretty scary…bunch of clueless white kids get anger and hostility passed down to them via crappy parenting.
The world is so sh*tty now that even people who werent alive then - miss life from then.
GEN-X:
OUCH!!! 😩😬🫢😭💞🇺🇸
So it would seem.
I remember this time period, arrived at my first duty station for the Air Force after basic training and tech school, bought a Bronco and left it everywhere with no alarm, camera or steering wheel lock,I thank our Heavenly Father for letting me be born the year and day I was born.
There was a middle class, its all gone now. Started to disappear around this time. Reagan started it, Bush and Clinton made it worse, and every president since then done nothing to fix it. The supreme court ruled today that politicians can get large donations now too legally. Its over
And every, last one of those kids is smarter, tougher, wiser and infinitely more creative than most current western kids today.
No cell phones, No video games, No smash and grab. Life was good back then when we were kids. I would go back in a heartbeat!
Hi,oh so would I anytime😊🎉❤
I love the 1970's all the way😊🎉❤
Although I could have sworn I saw a smart phone in one of the girls pockets who had wide leg jeans, I had to do a double take lol 😆
oh man...me too!
same. And who would think that the Soviet Union would collapse and we would be a thug nation overrun with guns and dangerous crime.
I'll go with you!
I was 11 in 1977, so about the same age as these kids. What _innocence_ we had! How I wish we could go back...
It was my best year 1977. I was also 11. What a great school year and summer. Notice NO PHONES as distractions. Just being outside in the sunshine having true fun.
I was 10 and looking forward to seeing Star Wars. Life was good.
I was 10. Good times. Worry-free. :)
Smartphones and social media have destroyed the childhood of today's kids. They don't know better ....... I was 5 years old in 1977
I was 11 too, the summer Elvis died, it was the talk of the neighborhood.
Man, kids just having fun without all the stupidity the world is forcing on them now, I turned 12 in the summer of 1977, all we cared about was how much fun could we cram into the next 3 months before school started again. Oh yeah, and how many times could we watch Star Wars, the 70's were a great time to be a kid.
It really was. We're the same age.
I was running around horse back riding
It was a great time! I'm glad that I had a 70s childhood! 😎
The 1970s was my childhood years, I turned 10 years old in 1977.
And Jaws,😁😁
I'm the same age as you. I played little league baseball and had a paper route that year. Good times for sure.
Man,.......we never knew how good we had it growing up back then.....
You got that right! I remember my parents (RIP) telling me how much I was going to miss those times one day. Man, were they RIGHT.
You mean when teenage boys were forced to die in an illegal war?
It’s hard to believe I was one of those happy kids back in ‘77. Good times long gone.
Kids all dressed well, and no cell phones.
Just some of the ugly rezponses on here show how twisted the world has become. NO INTERNET back then either.
Clean. No matter what, kids were clean and polite.
They weren’t dressed well compared to the kids of the 1950s. You wore pants, no jeans. And girls wore dresses or skirts. So I would say by 1977, the decline was well underway.
@@EmilyTienneYou are definitely correct. I grew up in the 70’s, my siblings and various family members grew up in the 50’s. I wore jeans, tshirts and sneakers throughout my childhood. My 50’s siblings wore dresses and dress shoes and coats. The quality of clothes was not that great when I was a kid, and wearing nice dresses wasn’t affordable for some people. If you want to talk about well-dressed kids, you have to go back to the 50’s. The decline definitely started in the 70’s.
Task: Watch a video of the past without making a comment about cell phones.
Difficulty: Hard.
Anyone want to time travel back to then, Wonderful times
Yes! Wonderful times! I was 13, healthy, strong and super active. This worn out old man would love to be 13 again for ONE day! Stop by and pick me up in your time machine Mark. 😁
I was 6 in 1977. I’ll go 🙋♂️
Yes me anytime😊🎉❤
@@budb.8560Do you remember the disco music era back then😊
As long as I'm not forced to die in an illegal war.
I was 10 at this time. Back when kids actually EXERCISED all day via sports, swimming, & riding bikes!
I was 9 yrs old in 1977, I relate so much to this.
Kids just being kids. No cell phones, no obnoxious adult micro supervision required.
Just kids on their own, doing kids things. How much I long for that time.
I wasn't even alive back then, and i want to go back to this.
I work at a school and the kids now just stare at their phones…I almost forgot that kids used to raise their hands and actually got involved with the lessons. Due to “grade inflation “ and district pressures they all pass with good grades regardless of not knowing anything related to the subject. That’s 2024 😢
This September they're banning cellphones in classrooms in my province. G.H
Blame Washington DC and the Dept of Education. Blame Teachers Unions. Blame parents. Lots of blame to go around.
No wonder Doctors and Lawyers are getting stupider and stupider! Which fears me of how smart people will be in the next 15 to 20yrs.from now.
Yep. George HW Bush got the whole “No Child Left Behind” program put into place… now it’s “No Child Gets Ahead” as everyone graduates even tho they’re totally incompetent 😞
@@calvinhobbes6118 Blame!...Blame!....Blame!, the younger generation loves to blame the older generation for everything instead of taking responsibility of their own lives.
5:35 The Schwinn Stingray! I had one :)
And a bright red Stingray too! Corvette that is. It zipped across the screen fast.
Had one in 1969, elem school.
I am 51 today and if I got deep in thought and reflection, I think I could shed a tear from thinking how the world has changed. I loved my childhood, I was fortunate to be raised in a good home. I loved the innocence and freedom that was in our neighbourhoods. The internet really changed the world and in many different ways, namely how a person brought into this world lives their life. Today and the future are bright, there should be excitement, always.... but there is also a looming sadness there as well.
I couldn't agree more, and happy birthday! 😀👍
Yes happy birthday to you😊🎉
I'm age 45 and every evening I often sit in my couch in my livingroom thinking back how everything was in life before year 2000.I'm almost all alone now,family and other's have passed away😢so the loneliness is hard to bear on my shoulders😢
I live in Norway from Norway😊
It seem's like the loneliness are everywhere now,people have enough with themselves too😢
Daily I wonder:why are so many people so damn busy all the time??😢😢
@@perapelman1037… for real. Busy with what? I know people who were their “busyness” like a badge! People stopped listening -really and truly listening to each other quite some time ago… they’re too busy and rush to get on to the next thing. It’s lost on me 😢
I graduated high school on June 10, 1977. We were the last of the free range kids. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything!
Naw man, free range kids lasted through the 80s. I graduated in 1987.
@@valdivia1234567 True. I graduated H.S. in 1986
At 11 in 77, I had to be home when the street lights came on😅
I graduated High School in1978.
It lasted into the early 1990s.
I hope all those kids grew up to have nice happy lives ❤❤
I remember those days! We all played outside from morning till dark, no phones and if someone had a video camera we thought we were going to be in a movie! Lol! Fun times!
If you wasn't home by the light on at night your azz was had ✋🏻🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This video brought back so many memories, and I do remember playing outside,making games ,building forts.The thing that I think was so different, the lack of all the social media telling us /dividing us.Its hard to believe how fast it all has gone,everyone has grown up,moved away.All the things socially maybe were a bigger deal,but that could be just me, going to the movies as example..fun times!
Did you guys ever did pranks with your video camera? Or went looting for free stuffs?
@@davidrynberk1533Kids today and those born in 1999-2000 will never understand the real and innocent joy of living an simple childlife like we did😊
Hard to belive we are in June-2024 now,I wonder what will happen the rest of this sad and tragic decade,what do you think😊
At this age I thought the bat phone was neato. All I can say is praise Jesus we got the phone INSTEAD OF THE FLYING CARS…..,WE ALL TALKED ABOUT…..THE PHONE is destructive enough Can you see today’s idiots with flying cars..? Hell they can’t even drive the ones my parents had now with out a finger. Or a loaded gun out the window. It’s sad nowadays. 😢
No one looking down at a devise. Just playing, learning, negotiating. It was such a good, good time . . . the way we were ❣️
I was 7 yrs old in 1977. Such a beautiful beautiful time.
i was in 7th grade in 1977, this brings back a lot of memories. I spent my summer listening to my friends new 8 track player he got for his birthday.
You were still born too late. I was born in 1957
@@rascal211 Yes, i always though i was born too late, my brother was 11 years older than me, and it seemed like he had even more fun that I did growing up in the 50s/60s. Also, you know 8 Track sounded great...
@@rascal211 Nah anyone born after the year 2000 was born too late. Born between 1940 to 1999 seems like the perfect time frame for the 20th century.
Every singe one of those kids in the video (myself included) would give anything to go back to those years. No internet, no smartphones, no stolen identies, no pandemic , no home computers !
Agreed. I was not in the video, but I am close in age to the kids being filmed. What a great time!
Same here I still remember watching woodsy owel cermercial In 79..lol
No shootings no dumb election from a real estate agent,no one starring down at thier phones
Facts!!! ✋🏻💀🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
i hate what it's become. I voted for Ron Paul and Ross Perot so don't blame me. NAFTA and your federal overregulating government ruined everything
Those tube socks 🧦😂😂
Sweat socks, Chuck, sweat socks. We all wore them along with cut-offs and tank tops.
@@gregdolecki8530 I stand corrected! 😁
We carried our stuff home in PAPER BAGS!!! No plastic! Fantastic 😊
And then the Boomers took over and turned everything plastic because it was cheap, profitable, and convenient
They came out with plastic to "save the trees" now were right back where we started
I wonder how many of those kids went to see Star Wars soon after.
All of them did.😂
I went and saw Star Wars at a drive thru at night. The opening seen in a clear night with the stars shining made the special effects stand out.
Saturday Night Fever 😂🕺
There is more to life than Star Wars. I'm sure all of them saw it, but there were some damn good movies that came out in 1977: "Sorcerer"; "Smokey And The Bandit"; "Rollercoaster"; "Black Sunday"; and "The Spy Who Loved Me".
@@philiphatfield5666rollercoaster was a good movie?
The year I graduated from high school and the year my father died. I was 17 years old but 1977 was a blur. I still would go back in a second.
sorry you lost your dad so young..
Crazy to think that a few miles away I was walking home from school at the same time on that obviously gorgeous Michigan day.
I knew it was some place up northern because of the teacher's accent.
The last day of school in 1977 I finished First Grade: Field Day! So much fun. And the boy wearing the “Up your nose with a rubber hose” shirt from Welcome Back Kotter! OMG, I remember a boy I knew back then who wore that shirt every Friday. And I knew a girl with the “Jeans Jeans Jeans” t-shirt. How fun to see those things I had long forgotten about.
carrying the famous bag of stuff leftover from the desk !!!
I noticed that there are no issues between the kids of different backgrounds or genders - everyone is playing together
Yes and no tantrams and excessive strange "high pitch squealing" we hear from young kids today.
Yes! My best friend and first little crush was the white boy in my 1st grade class. He used to ride his bike down my block and do little tricks and I would sit on my porch like “that’s bae right there”🥰🥰
I thought he was the coolest kid ever 😂😂❤
The good ol days …
You’re living in fantasyland if you think that race relations were better back then than they are now.
And no rainbow flags....
@@spaceorbison so u think the LGBTQ were just recently discovered? Ur funny 😂😂
Just playing outside and talking with each other.
Imagine that !
I remember! Let’s go back PLEASE!!
And no shooting at eachother,,amazing
not staring at a phone. following their own thoughts and feelings.
no effing phones! looking each other in the face to talk! it's so out of control now
now 1977 I was only 3 years old but growing up in the 80's was great , & what is funny Summer vacation only lasted 11 weeks , i don't know where your from but me here in Florida we got out the first week of June & went back the last week of August , we always went the first full week & then the next Monday was Labor day our first day out of school
If we could have seen how the world turned out, I think a lot of use would have tried to stay as kids back then. For as long as we could. And cherished each day.
Not a mobile phone in sight. Kids actually being social.
I miss those days
Oh,💩! 😳
You do realize that Gen Z looking at this video now is the equivalent of Gen-X looking at a film from the 1930's! 😱
This nation took our youth away and we didn't feel it until we got old! 😮💨🥺😣🇺🇸
@@bloodmooncomix457 how did the nation take your youth away?
It's not really a video of the past until someone cries about phones.
Kids were very respectful to their friends and Teachers and parents back then. That is my generation THE 70 one !
And now they bully people who are thirty years younger than they.
Even though I loved the 70’s, there were terrible bullies and plenty of rude behavior towards peers and teachers. 😢
I wonder if any of these kids, now in their 50s, know this is up on youtube :)
Wow. I was 9 back then. Brings me back. What a great time to be a kid.
I too was 9
The year Star Wars premiered, and Elvis died. I was 17.
Oh yeah? I was 17 too so you were born in 59/60 ! Wow congrats were still around! I remember the day Elvis died like it happened yesterday!
The Son of Sam murders, Smokey and the Bandit, The Spy Who Loved Me, the 77 Yankees, Star Wars, Elvis' death in August.
77?
@@AlisaPowerDashaREDVVVBriga-e4v 1977
The thing I always remember about 1977 is the Pink Floyd concert where Roger Waters spat on that guy.
I was 10. And I can say that that "Up Your Nose With a Rubber Hose" shirt 0:39 was a hit!
See you later alligater came out in the 60's or 50's I think.
I had one!!!!!! 😂
it really hits home when you're breathing on the machine :/
And twice as far with a chocolate bar!!!
I know that wind-up model plane provided just as much enjoyment to that boy as a thousand-dollar drone would today. I put together many of those kits and a lot of the fun was in assembling them. There was also satisfaction in repairing them after they would crash-land and getting them air worthy again.
Didn't the ice cream man also bring some of those around? And the parachute man that you could throw from a balcony?
They are about my age now, 60, time flies. But I'm still listening to 70's music ❤
Same here. I will be 62 next month. I have been listening to 60s and 70s songs for quite a while now. I can't ever get enough of them. The nostalgia is incredible. 😀👍
Very nice!
I was 10 in 1977, watching those kids walk home in a group brought back great memories!
I was starting my Senior year in High School and driving a 69 Plymouth Roadrunner with a 383 V-8 Motor , man what a ride , I paid $850.00 cash for that car !
I was 1..lol
I was 10 also. What I would give to go back to that time, I miss it!
@@bluevictory1010 We used to walk a little less than a mile home. There would be about 8 or 9 of us walking together, then each kid would leave as we got to their street until it was just me who lived the farthest. So much fun on those walks. I would love to be able to relive that walk just 1 more time.
We had a free-range childhood with fresh air and little conflict.
They look unhappy without rainbow flags.
@@sharksport01Being non-straight back then was some places dangerous being an pride person(gay/lesbian/bi or drag)
@@perapelman1037
Who told you that?
@@sharksport01 Hi,well nobody,just my guess and thought,hope you and your's are well.
@@perapelman1037 nobody knew who was gay because everyone was in the closet. That's why it wasn't dangerous.
I was 6 in 77. This vid is spot on. That's all we 60s and 70s kids did was play. Afterschool and all weekend long. Dusk was our alarm that told us it was time to come in.
Yup. As soon as the street lights came on it was time to return home for supper.
Was 17 in '77, great times. Feel bad for todays young
Thanks so much. I was 17 in 1977, but this brought back some smiles.
I was 12yo in 1977. My favorite game was kickball. The 70's were the best!
Oh yeah. Kickball was cool. And Dodge ball too. Some football in the yard action was popular and roller skates.
And the choice of music can't be beat!
We had it all for the asking. Oh my it was so good!
Swimming was definitely on the agenda and stereos. Hot rods. Filp flops. Pull top cans. Cut off shorts. Side burns and mustaches. Vinyl records. Polyester and bell bottoms. Longer hair. Stripes and colors. Custom vans and cb radios. Shag carpets. Hot summer days, but not too hot. Glistening lakes and picnics. FUN. Lots and lots of endless fun. The laid back atmosphere. The get togethers, house parties. The common decency among nearly everyone you met. The smell of Kmart as that cold AC air hit you when you walked inside. Linoleum tile and lots of wood trims, browns and greens and yellow kitchens instead of stainless steel.
A million times a million times better!
And the Ladies were real ladies too. Classy. Lean and fit. No tattoos or trash clothes or metal rods protruding from their three hundred pound faces.
Thanks for sharing. Takes me back to a time we thought would never end, our friends would always be there, and life would be simple forever.
Very, VERY true.
Boy every summer when I was a child is filled with great memories.
I was 14 years old in 1977. I watched, this and all I could hear in my head was the theme song to the TV show "Eight is enough". Now, it's in your head. You're welcome.
My theme song was from Threes Company.
Now try to get that one out of your head! 😂
Come and knock on our door...
Take a step that is new...
I graduated from a private school and was getting ready to head into high school in 1977. Exciting and scary year!
I can relate. Going from catholic school to public middle school that year too.
❤ actually teaching math
No phones and everyone is still alive and happy too!. Kids getting along and being polite and respectful in the classroom.
I was 17 and my second year in college at NCSU in the summer of 1977, From 1975 to 1979 were the absolute best years of all time. Magical. Real. I would give everything to go back there.
The teacher's Michigan accent☺️.
Was trying to figure out where this was until that lesson.
Great to see some real teaching on useful subjects.
Oh to be 11 again!
Sounds like Wisconsin or Illinois possibly as well
No cell phones, social media, or video games. What a concept
We had pinball
We had video games. There were lots of arcade games. They were just timed games like 380Zzzap, Gun Fight '75, Super Bug, Tank, etc. You got like 3 minutes to play and when timer was up, that was it. Super Bug was the first arcade game I ever played, in '77 when it first came out. It had a steering wheel and gas pedal. Also the Atari VCS home game (later renamed to 2600) came out that year. I had one of the original VCS's (Video Computer System) that year.
I was their age in 77 and my school was very similar...it was another time and another world, very happy going to school
It's funny how we turned into our parents........an then into our grandparents. I could say how it sucks being old but I'm thankful for the ride. ( class of 77 ) T.
That's the year I started kindergarten.... wow... I swear tho.... I feel like we're living in another dimension.... when I have my blurry memories of the 70s.... it almost feels like I'm totally separated from it... like it was a dream....
I miss those days....we were allowed to play outside during school....heck we were encouraged to play outside. I can almost feel that sunshine on me and drift back to those days🥲. BTW i would of been 9 years old in 1977.
Riding double on those banana seats while leaning on the sissy bar was so common.
maybe carrying a gallon of milk or a bag of bread from the store.
@0:38 a Vinnie Barbarino “Up your nose with a rubber hose” T-shirt. (Welcome Back Kotter)
I had that shirt. Mine was a baby blue color
You hit my nostalgia ✋🏻💀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks. The t shirt looked familiar. Welcome Back Kotter. Those were the days..
That was the best moment seeing that Shirt..I wish I could find an original one and get John T to sign it..
You had a choice then of Barbarino, The Fonz Ayyye shirt or the JJ Dyno-Mite Shirt
Notice there are no fat kids !!
Wow. You’re right! Before the food and drug industry knew how to poison us for profit. 😢 well and a largely technology based life.
The kids with a bit of weight on them were “Husky” 😂
Yep, that was the word they used back then! 😂
From what I remember, there was always one, maybe two max. But that's it!
That’s because they’re poisoning our food
I remember trying to do those pyramids when I was a kid. Fun times!
Ahhh, the LAST day of school! 13 of the best days we'll ever have!
02:40 when the teacher showed those math problems on the board i instantly froze. I have no clue what you are talking about lady. There was a time when i was good at that, but it seems like the longer you go not using math the more you lose it!
The denumerator goes into the expositor divisible by liberty and justice for all.
Multiplying fractions.
Perfection. I'd go back in a heartbeat.
Who remembers Ditto Jeans, Angel Flight pants, silk shirts, mood rings, and puka shell necklaces?
Ditto jeans and later Dolphin shorts are branded into middle and high school boy's brains!!!
@patrickbrowder6857 Oh yeah, that's for sure!
OP shorts. Vans shoes. Sears tough skin jeans, alligator shirts,
Garanimals
@user-bl6ne3hc6n oh wow, totally forgot about Sears tough skin jeans! So cool that you mentioned that 👍
Last day of school and the teacher is cramming their minds with three months of math. C'mon teacher, leave them kids alone.
It's hard to believe that the math lesson was really filmed on the last day😂
@@brentsummers7377 Good point. Now the whole clip is suspect of really being just another Spring day.... Maybe in 1978 as well , lol
Miss those days. We made eye contact and we truly loved each other and our hearts were
free and we had bright hopes for the future. When I see todays kids they seem lifeless and flat
as if there is no spirit inside them. They rarely make eye contact and they rarely smile and look
as flat as their parents.
I was 18 going on 19!! Graduated high school 1975!! It was the age of innocence and will never return once we find out now how we were lied too for centuries!! I'm so glad I had the opportunity to live as a youngter and young adult!! Even the food was delicious especially vegetables and fruit! Now we have mold and nothing tastes good with no nutritional value even organic!! Our world has crumbled and it's only getting worse!! Buckle up for the big reveal!! You might not be able to handle the real truth!! ❤ God bless
Lots of nostalgia here. Yes, those were good times. Sad that we cannot relive those times. Many of those adults teaching them or doing other stuff have long passed away.
Had a job in the local mill waiting for me after graduation. No job application to fill out. No back ground check done. Miss those simple things I experienced. And yes I saw star wars. Everyone did
This was me, only I was in Santa Barbara, CA. It was every bit as awesome as it looks!
No fat kids.
We were riding our bikes everywhere. I was 14yo the last day of school
or fat adults
None of the poison in the foods then that they deliberately put in it today. Shameful
Yep. Was before the "fat free" products hit hard adding a ton of processed chemicals and carbs
but dang i was neurotic about it. my girl put on five pounds i thought i was gonna die.
one time this eskimo chick hit on me, god i was so confused.
i don't know how i learned to go so crazy over five pounds. twenty years later i still wake up sweating over that eskimo. i blame society.
I was 12 that year. Really miss those days. Simpler times.
WOW! This may be going back a bit, but I remember the last day of Jr. High in 1972 and Alice Cooper's "School's Out" was played over the intercom before we left and dispersed.
I never see that many kids outdoors now. Even when you see a group of them they are staring at their phones.
I took a still-camera to school that day. We had a teacher, Miss Brandt, who would theatrically rip off her glasses as a warning that one of us was very close to getting into real trouble. I got my closest friend, Kevin, to egg her on. She seemed almost confused. It was the last day for cyin' out loud. Why would he be giving her crap now? Anyway, she eventually swiped away the frames, threw her patented stern look, saw my flash go off, and broke into a smile because she knew she'd been set up. We all laughed. She asked for, and enjoyed, a print.
I was 7 years old. So much fun. No damn phones, social media, tic tok. We went to school to learn, no cursing out our elders,we had manners and respect. And we got whoopings if needed.
I was also 7. Do you think it was better back then for black folks than it is now? What about job opportunities? I'm genuinely curious, although I already know what my wife would say.
SKOOLS OUT FOR SUMMERRRRRRRRR
SKOOLS OUT FOREVERRRRRRRRR
SKOOLS BEEN BLOWN TO PIECESSSSSSSSSSSS
SKOOLS OUT COMPLETELY
The greatest anthem song of all time good job, I couldn't think of word to rhyme, 🤣🤣🤣
I was getting out of 6th grade when school let out in the spring of '77.
When this went into the math class segment, I heard exactly the same things that I heard in class back then.
"Blah blah, blah blah blah blah. Blah blah: blah blah blah?"
The teacher might just as well have been speaking Klingon for all the sense that number problems made to me. English was more my forte'.
The only two things that mattered at that time were Star Wars and KISS.
Oh, and girls. They definitely mattered too. 😁
Great time to be a kid !
This was me. I was just exiting 8th grade in 1977. Magical time.
Wow 1977, I was 13, I'll be 60 next month. What a time it was.
Edit.. had a turn knob TV and an Atari too. Momma never left 70/80s. She drug her 90s daughter through the decades. From Green acres to mork and mindy. I am seasoned ✋🏻💀
Well congrats yall are now in yall fifties and sixties.. what a life it was before technology and phones 🫡🤙🏻
Those are the healthiest looking kids I’ve seen In decades!
Sheer genius for recording this way back. Brings back the look, feel and experience of when I was 9. Summer of Star Wars!!
I was 11..it was the absolute best
In 1977 I was 9yrs young and passing 4th Grade! We would play Baseball,Football. And ride our bikes on the weekends from sun up till the street lights came on. Kids Today have no idea what fun is! F'n Pussies!
I also was 9 yrs young in 77, passing 4 th grade myself in Camillus NY . That day we were let out after lunch, got home and rode our bikes to the Park Pool till sunset. Ahhh the 70s how I miss you!
The last day of Elementary School (Grade 8) in 1977 was an especially glorious time of year before the advent of high school and the awkward teenage years. When teachers still had control of the classrooms and they respected and took a certain responsibility for the young people in their classes. In-turn the students felt a sense of accomplishment for another school year completed. It was euphoric as a kid to know school was done and you had the whole summer to ride your bike, stay-up late and watch TV and see your first KISS concert.
Excellent video.
I graduated in 1991, a classic GenX latchkey kid. There are three things that changed in the mid-1990s: the internet, cell phones, and video games. Yes, we Atari and those systems in the 1980s, but the best games remained in the arcade until the 1990s. You still had to go somewhere to play them, each turn was 25¢, and you usually had to stand while playing. You’d play until you felt like you spent enough and then you would go do something else. Once home gaming caught up in quality, it was as impactful on society as the internet and cell phones.
I was born in '70. There was about a 4-year window where the arcades made sense, like 1980 - 1983. Then I started using a C-64 and dialing into bulletin boards, and the games I could get were about as good as the arcade. I never went back.
@@em7dim9 Well then you were an advanced exception, like Matthew Broderick in War Games. 🤣
To me these were the big kids, I was finishing kindergarten at this time. I was about to be influenced for life by going to see Star Wars.
I was born in 76. Certainly old enough to remember those styles.
I've been thinking about this 100 different ways and from 100 different angles... and what we've gained is not worth what we've lost.
When i see the year 1977 i always think of Star Wars
Not the death of Elvis, Charlie Chaplin nor release of the Atari 2600?