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- British Couple Reacts to If you grew up in the 1970s...you remember this - Life in America
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“My mom was born in the 70s.” That one stung a little 😂
I grew up in the 70's ! Those were great years!! We always played outside with friends until sundown!!!
When it was dinner time, my dad would stick his head out the front door of our suburban home, put his index finger and thumb in his mouth, and give this piercing whistle that could be heard blocks away. That was our version of the dinner bell-time to go home!
@@kathyastrom1315 Yours too huh it must have been in the Dad's manual.
Our parents would hit the street lamp pole to bring us home.
I was born in November of 1967, so my childhood years were the Seventies and my teen years were the Eighties. This kind of video brings a lot of nostalgia.
April 1967
I was born January 1967
June 1958. The Eisenhower Administration! 😂
I had to go on CZcams to find people born the same year as me , lol , All my friends were born in 1969 on lol
Right there with you born in May of 67
You should definitely watch some Schoolhouse Rock videos, especially since you are expecting. The history is American, but the math, grammar, science and some of the social studies are applicable to any kid. The tunes are smart and catchy, and the 70’s animation is highly amusing.
Plus I'm pretty sure that all of the Schoolhouse Rock videos are right here on CZcams for the watching!
Definitely! I can not even recite the preamble to the Constitution without singing! I think with Millie being a teacher, she’d really appreciate the concept of learning to music. Seriously, I can name all of the British monarchs from William The Conquerer thanks to the Horrible Histories song.
School house rock still gets shown to kids in school in the present day. It made English and History fun. Abc just did a school house rock special too.
They are up on CZcams and available on DVD.
Some of my 8th grade class went to DC in May 1980. When we were lined up waiting to get into the National Archives building, someone in line starting singing The Preamble song. That was the song you could hear being hummed during your constitution test in 8th grade since one of the questions was writing the entire Preamble. “We the people / In order to form a more perfect union…”
@@kathyastrom1315 In 7th grade American history class we had a teacher who as a final test, everyone had to learn the preamble in order to get a passing grade for her class. What she didn't know was that everyone in my class grew up on school house rock and would sing the preamble with no issues. 15:21
I can honestly remember EVERY detail of seeing Star Wars in the theater in 1977. As a 10 year old boy, it totally changed my life... but I'd have to say that the 80's were my most influential times, being that I was 13-23 during that decade...
I had clackers. They were fun. I graduated from high school in 1976. I had a mood ring and puka shell necklace which they left out of this. The 8 track tapes took up a lot of room in your car being so big so you couldn't carry a lot of them. We wore hip hugger, bell bottom jeans/pants. the bigger the bell the cooler they were. We had the best music of any decade past and present. Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, The Bee Gees, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, Bread, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, and the list goes on and on because there were so many great bands that had talent. They didn't have things like auto tune so they had to have real talent to make it and there was so much competition and unbelievably amazing songs came out that people still love today. Who doesn't know Queens We Will Rock you or We are the Champions? Oh and we knew which bathrooms to use and if we were a boy or a girl. There were more important things to do back then than argue about things like that. There were gay people and trans people and we didn't care how they lived and they didn't push it on us and we seemed to all get along fine. On your movie channel if you haven't seen it yet please watch a movie called idiocracy (2006) You can see the world moving towards that now. It's a comedy and worth watching. Thank you for the reaction. It was great as always.
I remember every single thing mentioned. This was literally my childhood and a great list. I can still sing the conjunction junction song along with all the School House Rocks songs.
I was born in 1963 and grew up in the70s and it was the best time to be alive! I played outside until it was dark. I can honestly say I would not wanted to grow up in a different time.
Hi guys! I turned 14 in 1970, and I remember all of these things. It was at this age that I was allowed out after dark unsupervised, and I made the most of it. Chasing girls, finding out how to get alcohol and other things that were popular. I was out almost every night, though Friday and Saturday nights were big party nights. I had a lot of fun and surprisingly didn't get in too much trouble.
Cruising for the opposite sex and parking at the lake (with a designated lookout for the law)! Getting into all kinds of fun.
In 1970.....I was 9 years old.
I was a teenager in the 70's. I turned 20 in 1977. It was a great decade to come of age. I had clackers and a mood ring. I also had a Vietnam POW/MIA bracelet. We didn't have shag carpet, but we did have paneling in almost every room. I remember playing pong at my now husband's brother's house. We also played with metal lawn darts. I was already 13 in 1970, so I brown bagged it instead of using a lunch box. Loved listening to vinyl record albums and cassette tapes. This video is my whole teenage experience. Thanks for posting it
Same age as my mom.
@@lawabernathy9256 I'll bet she agrees that was the best decade, along with the 60's
@@lorigrimaldi194 i liked the 80’s and eatly 90’s. I caught the tail end of genx. Best generation ever.
I was born in 1957, was a kid in the '60s, a teen in the '70s, and had left college for a job in a factory in the '80s. A lot of the references in this video pertained to life in American cities. My life was a touch different since my family bought a farm in the country in 1970. In the '50s and '60s, we lived in moderate-sized cities. In the '70s we had the wide-open spaces of the countryside, dirt roads, High School parties at the houses of friends whose parents were out of town for the weekend, or College parties in town or out in the country. Music was very important, and we were able to make friends with other teens who had similar musical tastes. In college in Athens Georgia, I was old enough to go to nightclubs and parties where I could see REM, the B52s, Love Tractor, Pylon, and many other local bands who would shortly become famous. After 1975, about once a month a group of us would get together and drive 90 miles to Atlanta to go to midnite movie showings of Rocky Horror, Phantom of the Paradise, and loads of other cult classic movies. There were also the local Drive-In movie places where I got to see tons of Godzilla movies, Disney movies, and others. There were video game arcades, record stores, used book stores, movie theaters, bars, nightclubs, restaurants, and whatnot to hang out in. The '60s were full of music, the '70s were innocent and magical, the '80s were full of romance, the '90s saw the introduction of corporate greed and truly dangerous drugs, the '00s on you've lived through. The only constant has always been change. Nothing stays the same forever. Remember the fun, learn from the sad and tragic, celebrate all the good times along the way. Whenever your childhood and teens were, you'll always remember them as the "good old days."
Well said
Being born in 1967, this entire video describes my childhood!
April 1967
Thanks Millie and James for 15 minutes of nostalgia that brought back many fond memories of my childhood!!
I grew up in the 70’s and it was great being able to play outside all over the neighborhood sunrise to sunset and during the summer a couple more hours into the night.
Two things not mentioned was watching the latest motorcycle jump made by daredevil Evel Knievel wondering how bad his injuries would be this time.
The Bicentennial craze in 1976 when everything was red, white & blue, from beer cans to bread.
We had all that same freedom in the 80s, but everyone had more money. 80s > 70s. 😊
I had completely forgotten about Evel Knievel. Hadn't thought about him in decades.
@@jettslappy702880s had less freedom than the 70s at least in Texas, could you have guns in plain sight in truck in the student parking lot at highschool ? Could you legally buy alcohol at 18 ? Could you legally drink and drive ? We also didn't have to wear seatbelts
@@rohan1970b and Creature Feature Saturday night
@@JustMe-gn6yf I graduated in the 80’s and yes we had shotguns in the back window of trucks. Lots of kids went hunting before school. It was no big deal back then. We definitely ran the neighborhood until dark lol. Our parents didn’t want us underfoot.
Born in 1960 in the US, great childhood…Shag carpet (shuffle your feet and you can shock people 😂), played outside until dark everyday, rode bikes all over the place, roller skating, talked on phone with long cord attached to wall, I Loved my Clackers! 8 track tapes, records, one tv in the house. When Saturday night live came on, it was hilarious. Drive in movies. It still seems like the best of times even if we had little. So much easier. So many things meant so much more than todays spoiled teens with high expectations and throw away attitudes.
I was born in '63 and remember all of it. The video was very accurate. The key was the music! 70's rock was electrifying and people loved the music. TV was okay, but we spent hours listening to music! One of my sister's job was to rake the shag rug on Wednesday and Saturdays. We actually had a plastic rake!
In my family tube socks and a bowl haircut weren't things we kids asked for. Parents decided for us based simply on what they could afford and what was available. We didn't have a say in it. You did as you were told back then and didn't talk back. If you didn't like something...tough.
Yeah, but there were always 2 options. Take it, or leave it.
I had the original clackers. They were made of glass and could shatter and injure anyone close. They made some out of plastic but were not as popular.
I had the glass ones too. When they broke it was like shrapnel flying.
@jackies5481 mine never broke. It was Either because I could never get them going fast or because my mom threw them away the first time she heard that someone was injured by them.
Even the plastic ones would split in time leaving 2 sharp edged hemispheres flying through the air at high speed. Anyone for lawn darts?
I had them too. Never broke them but they sure hurt if they hit your arm.
I used to be both mortified and mesmerized by these! I knew several girls who were adept at using them, and man, when they got to going really well, it sounded like gunfire!
Beesleys School House Rock would make a fantastic reaction video series!! You could pick a block of short videos and do a series on the hits. They played Saturday mornings during the cartoon commercial breaks. Learning the basics in a fun way while eating you're favorite breakfast in front of the TV before going out to play. All this stuff brings back great memories for me, the world was a much larger place before the internet.
This was fun! I was born in 1960, so the 70's were my teenage years, which was a great time. Great music and great cars. This was the time of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple and the beginning of heavy music. Great muscle cars. We all hated disco, which was also even fun to hate. In Chicago, a local radio personality started a riot when he blew up a stack of disco records in center field at a baseball game!
Dazed and Confused is my favorite movie ever! I always watch it and wish I grew up in that time. I was born in 1982, and loved the Care Bears, Cabbage Patch Dolls, and the music I remember from the 80’s, but I mostly grew up in the 90’s (graduated high school in 2000). If I had a Time Machine, the 70’s is where I would go!
Although somehow the entertainment industry did its best to make disco mainstream, it was really a fabulous phenomenon of the gay community in certain big cities like LA, NY, San Francisco, Atlanta and Miami. These towns had mega-discos with multiple floors, live entertainment as well as recorded and were packed on Friday or Saturday nights.
Disco WAS fun to hate!
@@barbk2324 😄😄😄😄👍
@@barbk2324 If you were straight and white. You are making my case that the effort to take this subcultural phenomenon and make it mainstream failed. But it was very popular in the subculture that invented it.
The 70s were an awesome time to grow up. We had so much fun then!
Loved growing up in the 70's. Was 10 in 1970. Had almost all of the things shown. Never saw Star Wars, not one single movie to this day.
I remember feeling so grown up when I was allowed to stay up to watch Saturday Night Live, back when it was still funny.
I lived for Roseanne Roseannadanna lol😂
Oh my gosh y'all, you brought back great memories for this Grandma!❤❤
I was born in 1966, and every single one of these was part of my childhood. By the way, I love how James says "fluffy". To learn more about Watergate, I'm wondering if Oversimplified has a video on it. I think you both would find it an interesting part of our history.
Oversimplified doesn’t, but Simple History has a 9-minute video on the topic that is a good overview.
I bought my first new car in 1975. It was a Ford Mustang II and it cost $3800. Gas was 48 cents a gallon. Don't forget Nehru jackets, which were a carryover from the 60s. Groovy, man!
I did too. I decided on the car that I wanted and that I was going to get a demo as they were a lot cheaper. Unfortunately, the only demos they had left were standard transmission and I had learned to drive with automatic. Rather than trying to convince me to purchase a new car (automatic), the owner of the dealership took some time to teach me how to drive standard. I got my car and have been driving standard ever since.
I think it is great that you go back and learn about past decades.
For me (But I'm old as dirt), as an Army Brat, the 70s began with dad being deployed to Vietnam, and the Apollo Moon Landings when I was 5 yrs old. I grew up on US military bases around the country and in Germany, so the Cold war, Vietnam, and NASA defined my 70s until 1975. Making care packages to send dad, and the guys in his platoon in Vietnam 1971. Watergate all day and night, the fall of Saigon, the Jim Jones tragedy, Patty Hearst kidnapping, and more Cold war news, meant more deployments for dad. I went to 7 schools in 7 years between 1971 to 1979, moving twice in one year because of the military. I went through puberty during the Disco days, and Benny Hill was my first introduction to British TV. The 70s definitely defined my childhood and tween years, and the 80s my late teen and young adult years.
Heck yeah. This is when I became a teen and graduated in '79.
Had clackers, a pet rock, a mood ring, bell bottoms, halter tops, a metal lunchbox. Spent every weekend night either at the roller rink or the drive in movies.
I’ve never seen jaws and I would recognize the theme song anywhere. It’s really transcended beyond the movie itself as far as pop culture goes!
I was born in 1968, I remember all of these things. I got to watch star wars at a drive'in you watch a giant screen while in your car and had a big metal speaker that hung on the car window, those are pretty much gone now. I had gotten most of the star wars figures and the millennium falcon, luke skywalkers sand strider the death star and so much more. It was a fun time to grow up. but in 1978 we had a very scary time too. I was 9 yrs. old when we (I lived in ohio, USA and still do) had a blizzard. by the time it was over we were digging our way out of the house, our front door was completely covered in snow and my dad had to go out the back door and walk through a lot of snow so he could uncover the front door. People were found in their cars. but it hit so fast and people were caught in it. a lot of people were found but some were not until it melted.
I was born in 1968 and grew up on the west side of Cleveland, Ohio, and I remember going through the blizzard, too. I think I was too young to realize how scary it was.
I was born in 1970 and I remember a lot of these things. I remember seeing Star Wars at a Drive-in movie theater when I was about 7. There was a roller rink near my home and some kids had their birthday parties there.
During the later 1970s, my dad would wake us up on Saturdays and tell us to go out and play until the street lights came on. We were not allowed to stay inside or at home on weekends. He would tell us what time was dinner and not to be late at all. If we were one second late, we did not eat until breakfast the next morning. If my parents ever heard me talk to adults with their first names, I would get into huge trouble. If I every disobeyed any adult, I would also get in big trouble. Back in the 1970s, parents could punish children as they wanted. Parents did not care about their children's opinions unless they asked for their opinions.
I was 18 years old in 1970, and married for a year. I remember every one of those things. Our four daughters were born in the 70s. (We had two sons in the 80s.) Platform shoes were very popular, and bell bottoms, and cassette tapes.
I remember all these things. I was born in 1962. My sisters and I would get the Tiger magazine for the posters to hang on our bedroom walls.
I graduated in 1981, so yes, I grew up in the 70s. This was basically spot on. Except, I used cassette tapes and not 8 track. My older sister still has her pet rock.
I feel sorry for people who didn’t grow up in the 70’s and lived through it. It was decadence you can’t even dream of
So true
I guess that depends on your identity and financial circumstances.
@@bentighe4811 I don't remember decadence. I remember huge lines at gas stations, high interest rates and a lot of ticked off Americans with the politics of the times.
Spoken like a rich boomer who had money and clueless to what's actually happening. 👌
@@tylerstewart2474 allow me;
The draft ended in 1972. (much of which is attributed to Muhammad Ali) rich people could buy their way out or get a college deferment. The end of the draft affected poor people the most.
What do you think was going on?
Wow. I remember all these things and so much more since I was born at the beginning of 1948. I remember my grandpa saying " I've seen enough.". At this time I do know what he meant. Stay strong. We'll get through and move on to better.
Yeah, every kid in my neighborhood got Clackers/Knockers. And all of us paralyzed our forearms using them. The only toy we had access to that was more dangerous was Lawn Darts.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. It was the best time.
I was 18 in 1980, which between the 60s, 70s and 80s, I literally had the best life a young man could possibly ask for in America. It was a very special time and place and will never return.
I was born in 1975 but really I grew up in the 80’s. I remember almost everything in the video because most of it lingered throughout the 1980’s as well. Great video!
Life was so much simpler back then. People had block parties and huge family reunions. Volley ball and croquet on the front lawns had people outside in the fresh air, not with their noses glued to a computer. And yes crackers were dangerous, I still have mine from back then. Also dangerous that everybody had was a set of lawn jarts. They were large pointed spear like throwing darts that you threw across the yard towards the other team to get the jarts in a ring on the lawn. It was another banned toy when people started getting hurt. Good luck with the pregnancy. You guys look great! Thanks for the reaction. Brought back memories!🐢
I was born in 1962 and grew up in the 1970s. I remember all of those things mentioned in this video! I was 15 when Star Wars came out and I watched it 5 times in the movie theater.
I was born in 1959 so I grew up in the 1960s. I remember Klackers as a teenager and Yo Yos were big then 😊. I started driving in 1974😮😅
Bell bottoms! Perms! Adidas! Track suits! Aww my teens!! ❤ from 🇨🇦
I graduated from high school in '75' and the seventies were some crazy tumultuous years with many upside and downs. It did make us all more resilient and able to adapt to the situation. Our music was a multifaceted jewel that introduced and influenced so much of the music that come after it. Wasn't Troll dolls part of the seventies. And I can remember the crackers and the temporary comeback of yoyos because my sister worked at a plastics company that molded them and she would bring home many of the rejected pieces that could be corrected by trimming and scraping the overflows or mold marks off of them.
I graduated high school in 1977. So I was there for everything. A lot of these are according to geography and class.
Did have a Volkswagen 2x,3 if you count the be Vw Bus my mom flipped on a dirt road with me in it. All roads paved now
“Conjunction junction, what’s your function?”
“Hooking up words and phrases and clauses!”
Born in 67 so I was kid in the 70s then teen in the 80s as well great times Saturday morning cartoons house league hockey in the winter time on Saturday afternoons then watching Hockey Night In Canada with my Dad on Saturday Nights. Wide World of Sports on Saturday the Agony Of Defeat intro.
I was born in 1967, I know the 70's and up , I remember so much from those amazing days, it was the best years of my life , no rules, great games, I remember roller skating everywhere, grabbing a fender on car driving by to get to my friend's house faster , mood rings, clackers , drive in theaters , with playgrounds for kids to hang out. Candy cigarettes, dolls you put makeup on and different hair styles.8track tapes, I loved my lunchbox, Scooby Doo, Barbie, baby alive , and so much more.
It was a blast growing up in the seventies…lovelovelove ❤️✌🏻🌸🌈
Born in 65, this brought back a lot of old memories.
I grew up in the 70’s just watching this video brought a lot of nostalgic memories and I just teared up. Thank you for memory lane…
Great Great!!!! I was born in 1959....I definitely grew up in the 70's.......Cheers from Mississippi!!!!
They forgot the metal lunch boxes. Picking out your lunch box for the new school year was very important
Metal lunchboxes were in this video starting at 5:15.
@@Joe_Okey oh Lord.......getting old
One of my summer jobs while in college was working for the Thermos Company. I had jobs stamping the decal on the plastic lunch boxes or packing the store displays with both plastic and metal lunch boxes.
Born in 1973. The 70s were a time when listening to music was the thing to do. Unfortunately, most homes, including mine, had one record player/stereo and one television. If one was being used, the other was off because you couldn't hear it if you tried. If a parent wanted to listen to their music, you better go play outside with your friends. And if the president was giving a speech, both television and radio were ruined because every radio station and television channel covered it. At least where I grew up. Oh, and don't forget we only had three English channels, one Spanish channel, and PBS (Public Broadcasting System). Mostly political news or British plays and drama in the evening. Nothing a child wants to see.
Negatives aside, I have some very fond memories of that time. Most of the language we used, things we did for fun, and jokes we said would not fair well at all today. It was a time you didn't need much of a filter, but you did need respect for your elders. Something that is missing today. But School House Rocky and Saturday morning cartoons and the early morning cartoons before school during the week were something every child got up at 5 am for all week long. Those were the days. That reminds me.....Good Times, Archie Bunker, CHIPS, Welcome Back Kotter, Taxi, Wonder Woman, Incredible Hulk, The Jeffersons, Captain America, and others, were all shows we looked forward to seeing every week. Ahhh! the simpler times. Anyone have a time machine?
This was very accurate. We had shag carpets and a rake to fluff up the heavy traffic areas. I had Clackers, a pet rock, lunch box, eight track cartridges for my music and wore shiny shirts and bell-bottoms. I played Pong on our tube television and Space Invaders at Disney World. I danced at discos, but hated the disco music. I remember thinking 15 dollar tickets to see the Eagles in concert was expensive, but I bought two anyway. Music was played on instruments and not computer simulations. Music was dynamic and controlled, not clipped and distorted by design.
So much has changed since the 60s and 70s. I can remember whole communities having block parties ice skating and sled riding. In the summer families spent weekends BBQing swimming camping. It was a time of freedom and creativity. We were safe and connected. Great times. Oh those clackers were fun but hurt like hell when you messed up. Lots of broken arms and head injuries.
Born in 1963. Still have a few of my father's 8-track tapes. If you played them too many times, sometimes the sound quality would get distorted. So, we'd carefully pull out a small length of the magnetic tape from the exposed end with a pencil tip then tug on it quickly, causing it to rewind itself and tighten up, and the music would usually play normally again. Also, if your TV picture got wavy or the color distorted, we'd hit the side of the television with the palm of our hands a few times to restore it. But too many hits might damage one of the tubes inside, causing a visit from the TV repairman. Ah, those were the days!
I was born in 1962. For me, the 70s were much like you see in the tv show, "That 70s Show". I also have an older sister who snuck me into a couple of bars with her and her friends. It was the days before people's pictures were on driver's licenses. It was a lot of fun because it was during the disco era. A lot of great music and dancing! Good times!
The only bad part about the 70’s for our family was that I was so afraid that my older brother would get drafted to go to Vietnam. Luckily it ended before that could happen.
My oldest brother was drafted. Such a horrible time for my family. My parents were afraid they would see him on the evening news fighting. I wasn’t allowed to watch the news.
Born in 1956; graduated in 1974 married in 1978. I remember all OF these!! We were Living in the UK from 1978-1981 ias we were in the the air force & came back to the UK in 1985-1989 still in the Air Force!! Really loved luving there!!
I played Pong at my cousins house all the time. Would be considered boring now but it was amazing back then. Oh wow! I had clackers. Two large acrylic or glass balls tied at each end of strong twine run through a loop in the middle of the twine. Great weapon too. It could totally give someone a black eye, split their lip or chip or knock out a tooth. I still remember the smell of my sandwich in my lunchbox. I still don’t go into the ocean partly because of Jaws and I’m 60 now. My 6th grade teacher, Miss Wagner, spent a whole class period teaching us to do the Hustle. If you want to hear/see the hustle, watch the movie Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta. Google Watergate. Huge scandal for the time but it’s turning out now to have been a set up to get Nixon to resign from the presidency.
I was a little kid in the 70's, so my best memory is my parents trying to wake me and my sister up so we could watch Saturday Night Live with them. This didn't always work because sometimes we were too tired to get back up, but what a sweet thing to do.
Born in 1968 and was a kid in the 70’s. Loved it.
I graduated high school in 1977, K. C. & The Sunshine band started in Florida. That brought back great memories!
The last picture was from The Brady Bunch, a 70s TV show about 6 children, their parents, and a housekeeper.
Yep, born in 1958 had the clackers. Really loved them. Definitely remember and did a lot of those fads.
The bad thing about shag carpet is that it produced a ton of static electricity. If you drag your shoes across the carpet and touched something metal or brass, like a door knob, it would arc across and shocked the hell out of you. In the dark, you could actually see the big spark it made from your finger to the object. LOL
I was born in 1965, so the 70s were my childhood. This brings back so many memories.
I was born in 1966 so I was 4 in 1970, and 13 in 1979. I remember standing in a line that wrapped around the theater, in the rain to see Star Wars in 1977.
The 70's were awesome. People went OUTSIDE and played for hours. In the summer you were told to get out of the house and be home by 6 for dinner. We would get on our bike and ride to the school to play baseball or basketball. Or we would go to the pool all day long. We would drink from the hose outside. We caught snakes and frogs and later let them go. We played PONG on our tv. Yes, kids probably broke more bones back then but they also learned to do things without being afraid. You tested yourself. Me and my four siblings all broke at least one bone playing sports or being outside and we are all fine today 50 years later. We walked a mile to school starting in first grade (No I'm not exagerating - I measured it). 8 track takes were stupid - they would sometimes go to the next track in the middle of a song. Cassettes were much better, until CD's came along in the mid 80's. Love your channel guys.
I was born in the late 50's, child in the 60's and mid 70's and teen in the late 70's. It was a wonderful time to be a kid. BTW, some of the items were carried over into the 80's.
I was born in 1977. I remember some of these. Our family car growing up was a station wagon and it had an 8 track player. I don’t remember it ever being used, but my brothers once found a stack of cassettes in the coat closet.
Clackers.. oh yeah! I was in second grade in '69-'70 when these got very popular. Most of them at our elementary school were hand made by a guy down the street in his garage, and sold them to any kids that walked up.
I still remember the heavy acrylic resin or chemical smell as he was making and letting them cure on tables in glass molds. Bigger size than any store bought version and he had really cool solid and mixed color combos. At recess we would be outside slamming them into our heads or hands when they got out of control when clacking too fast...hah hah. Some kids were going to the nurses office from bruises. The principal banned them at the school a short time later. But they never did anything about the schoolyard solid steel play equipment, which also toughened up kids back then! 😂 No such thing as a "safe space" back in the 60's-70's. And better for us. 😁
I was born in the 60's but grew up in the 70's. We had so much more freedom. We played outside until dark, explored, had parties in fields, no one was staring at screens, we were much more sociable. Bell bottoms, fantastic rock music which has never been surpassed - That 70's Show really was my teenage years, even down to the kitchen wallpaper! We drove around in giant station wagons with bench seats so three could fit in the front. $2.00 gave us a quarter of a tank of gas!
Oh my this all takes me back!!! “I’m a bill sitting here on Capitol Hill” from School House Rock! Still have my mood ring. We used to put rubber bands around the bottom of our bell bottom pants when we rode our bikes so our bell bottoms wouldn’t get caught in the chain of our bike. We had a ton of Star Wars figures and the trash compactor, land speeder, etc. Jaws was terrifying and made you scared to go in the water. We had to learn to do the Hustle, the Bus Stop and other popular dances when I was in Jr. High for PE class because those dances were such good exercise and popular. Everyone loved learning the dances in PE.
13:06 I wasn’t born until 1982, but I sure do remember washing MASH reruns with my dad! I loved that show!
Jumping beans.. they came from Mexico.. little larvae inside seeds of a certain tree.. and the whole seed pod jumps.. so fun to watch them.
The 70s were a rough time but SO much good stuff many good memories!
I was born in 1971 and things I remember from 1970s and early 80s are: Kangaroo shoes, the Montreal Canadiens winning 4 Stanley Cups in a row (my sister's grade 1 teacher had a son play for them- Brian Engblom. He came to my school a couple of times which was really cool), Fisher Price toys, my first Lego sets, tv shows- Three's Company, Maude, Barney Miller, All in the Family, Carol Burnett show and Canadian shows Wayne and Shuster, the Beachcombers and Front Page challenge; cheap candy; and hearing about Beirut Lebanon getting bombed constantly. I remember wondering what was left of the city since it was bombed so much. The 1970s were the best!
I was a 60s baby, grew up in the 70s. What a great time to be a kid. The carpet was very “fluffy” seems almost everything in the homes was either brown, orange, tan and very little white. Paneling was so popular, they even added it to the outside panels of station wagon cars and VW. 😂 Clackers hurt!! However, we kept swinging them. 😅 Lunch boxes were the best. No more smashed sandwiches and the thermos inside allowed you to bring either hot soup or a cold drink. Playing outside in the summer was from 7 am until 9 pm. Only coming inside to use the restroom or get lunch. We drank water from the garden hose. Most nights we could play outside after dark for an hour or so under the street light and just in to the edge of darkness if you were brave. We played “ghost in the graveyard, hide and seek and red Rover “ My English teacher used Star Treck as a learning tool. She would bring in movies, ( reel to reel) and we would watch star treck every Monday through Thursday, Friday we were tested on it. I loved English. 😊😊Those were the days!
Still know all the lyrics to Schoolhouse Rock! I had a mood ring . Heck, everything on here is familiar! Lol
I have an anniversary edition of Schoolhouse Rock on dvd. I homeschool and my children watched it when I was sick and couldn’t do their lessons that day.
Born in 1960, I remember all of this. Great memories.
Born in 1966 in Chicagoland. We didn’t have shag carpeting nor a Pong player, but we did have wood paneling in the basement tv room, at least one macrame owl, I had a pet rock (got it for Christmas, and it was a hard one for my parents to find, no pun intended), a Snoopy lunchbox, bell bottom jeans, and a Dorothy Hamill wedge haircut (NOT a bowl cut-there was a lot of feathering going on the sides and back of the head). I really wanted a mood ring but never got it. I saw Jaws with my family (no nightmares from me, but my 11 year old sister had one), and saw Star Wars three times that summer of 1977. Hung out at Rosalie’s Roller Skating rink in Joliet on Saturday afternoons, finished off the day with SNL at night. Watergate was definitely on my radar as an 8 year old, but even more was my reaction to the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and her subsequent joining in with her kidnappers’ criminal activities. When she was on trial, I was reading the transcripts of her phone calls to her father in the paper and was horrified that a girl could talk like that to her daddy.
Gotta love lawn darts..The real ones. I used to have my Evel Knievel wind up and release stunt bike. Of course there was the Huffy Thunder road bike. I also had the Schwinn stingray. My mom telling me to go outside and play until the street lights turned on or even later. Life was soo much similar back then. If you got hurt by something or by like someone from school,there was no suing and just the encouragement of dad telling us to defend ourselves. Where have those days gone??? Come back late 60s and 70s
Great look back guys I was born in 59 and the 1970's was a great time to grow up.
My Star wars story. First time I saw it, I went with a group of friends. At the time, the movie had been out for 2-3 months. We went on a week night for the 7:00 o'clock showing. When we got there, they were already sold out. We had to buy tickets for the 9:30 showing. We had to take 2 sisters in our group back home because they were still in school and they couldn't stay out that late on a school night. That movie was incredibly popular at the time.
I was a teenager in the 70s. I still have clackers and we played lawn jarts and didn't die. I wore elephant leg pants, tunics, and tube socks. We saw Star Wars when it first came out but at the local drive-in. We got our 8-track tapes through one of those record clubs. I think you got 6 for a penny and then had to buy 3 at full price within a certain time frame. We had green shag carpeting and it had to be raked after vacuuming. Our TV was in a big cabinet and came from Sears. Dad mounted an antenna on top of the house and we made it tn using a little box that had a dial. Bubble gum cigars, lollies, candy cigarettes, and candy necklaces were available at your nearby drugstore. Lots of wonderful memories from that time!
Yep, I was a child in the '70s and remember all that stuff. Also running all over the neighborhood from dawn till dusk unsupervised, riding in the back of pickup trucks (and even in the car no one wore seatbelts), building crazy ramps to jump our bikes, adding length to the front forks on our bikes to make them choppers, climbing tall trees, playing lawn darts (by tossing them toward each other and trying to dodge them, lol), and a million other things.
Clackers? Hah, they were one of the least dangerous things. And the vast majority of us survived just fine. If we had a busted arm or something it was a badge of honor and we couldn't wait to go to show off our cast to our friends and tell the battle story.
The music is still my absolute favorite music, from the AM soft rock and soul stuff to the iconic hard rock of that decade.
Most people, btw, actually didn't like 8-tracks. They sounded like crap and songs were interrupted by the click over to the next track. But they were the only portable option until cassettes became more affordable and widespread in the later '70s. Mostly we listened to records and radio.
Vans were very popular for a while too. People painted murals on the outside and fitted the inside with shag carpet, paneling, killer stereos, psychedelic lights, a bed... I think you can see where that's going. If the van's rockin' don't come knockin'... as the saying went.
That reminds me of the "Keep on truckin'" bumper stickers everyone had. Also the one that said "Ass, gas or grass - no free rides."
I remember going with my parents to the local swimming hole at the river (where my Dad taught me to swim by throwing me in) and seeing hippie girls skinny dipping. I remember the streaking craze. I remember Nixon, and my Uncles coming back from Vietnam.
In any case, it was a great time to be a kid.
I was born in 1966. I loved being a kid in the 70s! Saw Jaws with my cousins at the theater, and nearly peed myself. I saw it on a later release in 1976, I was not quite 10. Saw Star Wars in 1977 i was close to 11. I had a huge crush on Luke, but in The Empire Strikes back in 1980 I became a Harrison fan! He was such a fox!
I did have a set of Clackers, they were super fun, very dangerous, and very loud.
Mine were a beautiful purple set. They looked like giant marbles attached to two strings. It took a bit of practice to work them without injury to your hands, arms, or face. Also if you let go of them they would fly, so you could really hurt someone. Best played with outside.
I knew each thing!!
I still have my clackers.
Two sky-blue glass balls on two white strings with a metal circle in the center of the strings.
I loved them.
The only thing I hurt with them were my own hands.
Starting and stopping them was the danger zone.
I was a teenager in the 70's. Best time for me was 1970-1975. I graduated high school in 1975. I remember all those things. My mom never went for the shag carpet. My friends had it and I remember that once it got old or if you didn't keep it clean it was really gross to even look at let alone make carpet angels. And I think you had to get a "rake" to rake it. For me the rock music was the best. Going to the record shop to get the latest Album from your favorite band and making a mental wish list. Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Mot The Hoople are some of my favorites. And for me, the worst music of the decade was disco. Yes, I was one of those that said "Disco Sucks!' and I guess I still think that. Wow, seems like it was only yesterday. I wish I could return to those days, I am stuck in the (early) 70's. Love to watch young people react to videos about that era. Thank you, awesome reaction.
Now that you are going to be parents, School House Rock is essential. It's educational and fun. We didn't have shag carpeting or the cheese ball, but we did do the Hustle and go to the roller disco. It was a great time to be young.
FYI: That last picture was The Brady Bunch (Jan, Greg, Marsha, Bobby, and Peter; that might be Cindy's legs),
Adam Rich, the kid with the bowl haircut, recently passed. I had a Six Million Dollar man lunch box. The first movie I remember seeing was Rocky, even though I was 3.
TV stations would shut down about midnight, except Friday nights on NBC. At that time, they had a show called the Midnight Special. It would have some of the big musical acts of the time come on and do one or more of their current or recent hits. It also helped several comedians reach more people.
Those were the good ole' days. Things seemed so innocent back then. I was 5 in the 70's. All Kids were playing outside until the street lights turned on, or in the country where I was, at dusk. Kids sitting inside was unheard of. Watching TV on Saturday mornings with cartoons was common, and Sunday nights in your PJ watching Animal Kingdom before bed, but rarely were we inside. I have to admit, I got a pet rock for Christmas and that was then best. Oh, have to have Sea Monkeys as well. Roller skating was many weekend activities with friends. What a wonderful time
I was born in 1964, so the 70's were a fun time to grow up. I remember all those things.