The United States of America in the 1970s - Footage only - HQ
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2015
- Awesome color footage of America in the late 1970s. It shows the cities of;
- New York City
- San Francisco
- Chicago
- Los Angeles
-Toronto (Canada)
Music: Bob James - Take Me to the Mardi Gras
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It's amazing to see all these cars and trucks being driven in the 70s, because most of them are scrapped by now which is a shame.
Most were scrapped by the mid-late 80s. I think rust was the biggest factor in their demise. The cars would rust away even if the motor and everything else was still running ok.
Most cars driven now will also be scrapped by the next mid-late decade.
remember 8 track tape players ? I had one in my car in 1973 ! I bought a 68 Dodge coronet and my car payments were $15.00 a month, try that today !
man watch CHIPS for cool good 70's car Footage.
Depends on what part of the country. In the northeast, midwest, and anywhere you get snow, they would last about 10 years on average because rust would just eat through the floors, the trunk, everything. The powertrains kept running forever, especially in large cars and trucks, but the bodies never lasted. If you lived down south or in the southwest, you could get 20 years or more out of a car if you kept them up because they didn't rust as much.
I was a kid in the 70's and distinctly remember those older than me saying how shitty times are and wish they could go back to the good ol days, the 50's. I am sure those in the 50's were wishing they could go back to the good ol days. Perspective and nostalgia are very interesting.
AFTERBURNER 20 year lag
Right, I realize it really is a matter of perspective, no matter what generation you grew up in. I used to believe that pretty much everyone was happy until the 21st century, but I realize, all decades and eras have/had the same issues. Depression, anxiety, drug addiction etc. are just a few examples. People born in the mid to late 2000's will remember the 2010's as a very peaceful time, even though we may not.
50s Rock & Roll was one of the biggest trends of the 1st. 1/2 of the 70s. After 75 performers such as Neil Sedaka, Frankie Valli with and without the 4 Seasons in the Bob Gaudio era, Dorothy Moore and Ben E. King had hits. Older folks during those times hated current 70s music. The more things change, the more they stay the same!
Kenny SL G You are exactly right. I will view the 2010’s in a very different way than my kids will. Some day they will call those times as the good ol days.
@@kennyslg8914 but at least back in the days there was no iphones whatsapp, facetime etc so life was much better those days
RUclips is the best time machine we have.
Yes, until Rightspeak using PC accepted linguistics is approved. By the way, it's here !! Example #1: herd immunity, "We would like it if you would...", which means comply. #2 More then...(used in many ads decreeing the loss of anything including animals, crops, humans, jellyfish, scabs, crabs, loss of ice caps, elephants (being the latest), snails, whales, wolves, bears, the ice shelf, trees, bees, frogs, radon exposure, and ticks in your soup. #3 (my favorite), The 6 foot rule... Yes!! I will not pass, gaze upon, acknowledge or make eye to eye contact with anyone who looks, acts of a seemly behavior, and discharges chunks of material resembling a red, round, spiked material......
Absolutely
Totally agree!
It's not
Amen🫶💙🖤💙🖤💙
All people here commenting "look how they didn't spend their time looking at their phones", while commenting on their smartphones. Oh, the irony.
Mathieu Clement Lol
You juts have to be that person
Just*
Jaden Pina even worse that means you’re a lazy shit that sits down all day
I'm using my computer here, you little bitch.
who else wishes they could time travel
Peter Productions me
Peter Productions The greatest invention of Islam is 15 century time machine of AKBAR'barianism 💀,... You don't need to go back.
me, I would go back 500 years to be able to see a blue sky and smell air with no pollution
I do, although I would definately not go back to the 1970s, I would probs go back to the early 2000s/late 90s tbh
I'd love to see White america like this. And Jesus
I love '70s cars.
Félix Veilleux-Ouellet cars in the 50s and 60s were better
Early 70s cars were awesome, but they began to be lackluster after 1974. Once unleaded gas came out and emissions equipment began being installed, horsepower and compression ratios suffered, causing reliability problems until carmakers could adjust the the changes. Quality suffered as automakers sought to cut costs, so interiors became cheap and flimsy.The 1970s and 1980s were not particularly kind to American cars, and US automakers are STILL recovering from the horrible reputation their cars earned during this period. Early 70s muscle cars were awesome, and you could still get pretty powerful engines installed in mundane cars if you wanted a sleeper. But late 70s vehicles were ugly, bloated, overgrown tanks without the power to get out of their own way. There's something strangely endearing about the big land yachts, though. Imperials, Lincolns and Cadillacs of the 1970s are about the smoothest riding and quietest vehicles out there, except maybe for high dollar Rolls Royces or Bentleys. That is, if you don't mind 10 MPG!
The big cars were awesome. I always thought the American congress sabotaged the industry with 5mph bumper regulations which required such massive bumpers the styling was ruined, plus the smog stuff which rendered big V8s pathetic until they managed to sort it out. Im in Australia, when we were kids in the late 60s early 70s American cars were lusted after. We were influenced both by European cars and the American ones and by the 80s our cars were beginning to be a combination of both - American toughness and style, European sophistication. I suspect that winning combination eventually filtered back to the USA.
Spot on Dale! Aussie cars really are the best of both worlds: American power and style, European refinement and handling. That's why GM had to go to Holden to create the GTO, G8 GT, Chevy SS from an Aussie platform. You fellows got it right down under, you make some great cars. I'm still partial to our 60s and 70s muscle cars, but when I see an Aussie Falcon or Charger I have much respect for them. Shame what's happening to the auto industry down there.
Yep. Those cars you mention were really the end result of the twin influences, developed in Australia for Australians and then rebadged and exported as Chevy SS ect. I believe some of the Holden executives behind those cars then subsequently went to head US divisions (Cadillac I think), and then the same type of cars came out from them. Absolutely tragically - at the moment the cars from Australia such as the Caprice Police car, the Vauxhall Monaro in the UK, the Chevrolet Caprice in the Middle East ect were beginning to see serious success a 'perfect storm' of the 2008 financial crisis. a very high fuel price spike and unexpected sudden changing preferences as a result to small cars, and a very ideological right wing anti subsidy government resulted in a very short sighted decision by GM to stop manufacturing in Australia, so the current great cars will be the last. It is what it is..
1970s- Big Cars Small People.
2010s- Small Cars Big People.
Blaze Shredz Severo ma giusto
😂😂😂😩😩😩
Nailed it!
hello archie excuse me，i am English learner，could you please help me check out this sentence？ “China International agricultural products processing technique equipment exhibition”
2050s- Super-intelligent humans and AI.
At 3:15, the girl in blue probably had just left home to do an errand, on an average day----a moment of complete ordinariness in her young life. And yet that moment has now been viewed by 100's of thousands of strangers approx 40 years later and might be for many decades henceforth. How shocked she would've been, right then and there, to learn it would become the most public moment of her life, and if she's still alive, she probably still has no idea.
That's deep🤔
I think like that as well !! Especially when i watch old war footage. Like that dude in WW1 just collapsed running up a hill which surely he was shot. And that millions of people would view it 100 years later. Yikes !!!
Bryan Burnap woww
Gay
@Bryan Burnap same! And sometimes when i see people taking videos / when I indirectly photobomb other people, I wonder how many different cameras I have ended up being in, or if they’re gonna upload it anywhere else.
Nice to see no one staring down at the cell phones!
And standard of living was worse and GDP was lower and there was a fuel crisis, but I guess 70s were better because people couldn't use highly useful and entertaining gadgets that fit in their pockets
dsuchmiel lul too poor to afford a good cellphone XD
GDP in relation to inflation was lower. you kind of completely missed my point. for instance, around 1980 in the UK, £12000 was considered a really good salary. toady, that's more like £35000 and that is considered mediocre.
And if you are not entertained by the videos you can watch on the internet with a phone, then why are you here?
Right. Human interaction.
yo mamma what you smoking? and where are your commas and paragraphs.
i cried watching this, so many memories. i wish i can turn back time😔
Me too!
I'm sorry
How old are you?
Im Thrillz he's probably like 20 if he remembers this
Max Imum lol dude the 1970's were 38-47years ago
WOW!! Great memories. I was 17 in 1970 and turned 26 in 1979. One of the best decades of my life.
@Trini Brown - Ha, yep, 68 years old. Lot of fond memories of the 70's.
Happy 68 years man. You're not that old. Hope you have enjoyed a great life and keep living well, friend
Where did you live during that time?
I'm from down south in the state of Mississippi.
Sometimes I wish I was older and able to experience life in the 60's-70's...
@@jaquaveonandress649 lol
same but i’m gay so i’d get killed xx
@@goku9791 if u wanna still get killed go to middle east
Dime Fever it was a hard time, believe me.
Vietnam...
Be happy boy, u life in an awesome century
build time machine and take me hahaha
Id rather live then than now
Same man
Logan Spence same tho
The scary thing about living in the present is that you don't know what's going to happen next.
Both eras have their benefits and their downsides.
2010's has highly advanced technology and the cold war has been done and over, but the risk of climate change and terrorism is lurking.
1970's was an overall, more simple and easier to understand, but there was the looming dread of nuclear annihilation and terrorism (again)
exactly i have a hard life in the new world i want to commit suicide + before it looked beautiful and the twin towers were still there and the cars were also really nice
I loved that there was no social media
You could just throw away all your technology and boom. No social media for you ;)
I PG But social media would still exist.
Social media have indeed brought quite a lot of good for democracy
trueboss926 Exactly man, that's what gives me a good feeling.
Social media came around 2004/05, not sure what you're doing here with this comment, kinda misplaced.
Who was the genius that recorded everyday average things knowing it would blossom into a video time capsule for future generations to cherish. Life is truly amazing
Back when every car has some character to it
teslas look like trash cans next to these
They still do idiot.
@@AM-bv8iu they most certainly do not they all look very similar and are almost all white black or grey
@@jays5926 Even though I'm an Elon Musk fanboy, I have to agree. These cars make any car today look like garbage bins.
@@rocketman1969
I like Elon musk as well. He’s not really the one to blame. It’s more so the government who have imposed a lot of regulations on automakers (safety standards, taxes , tariffs , emissions standards etc..) which has made it harder to build a car in this form
The 70s were truly a golden era of fashion, culture, and entertainment. I wish I had the luxury to have experienced it.
anya I prefer the 50s
The music was amazing
@Orange Fort 70s are insanely better regarding art. You had the golden era of cinema and music both at the same time.
Maybe in the USA but in the UK it was a terrible time in general
Umm... literally every single decade has great fashion, culture, and entertainment. The "gold" status is just what we say when we miss something. The art and and fashion today will be looked upon the same way by younger generations. Don't romanticize the past, especially if you weren't even there. There were many awful things about the 70s, just like there are with every decade.
This is super cool. The 70's were the best, period.
Adam's Co.
damn straight.
Chet were there any major wars in the 70s? No and the 60s was nam so 60s wasn't much better don't forget the cold war
The 70s were the best? No, not really. That honor would go to the 50s.
Now hold on, what?, the 80's dud what about those?
Nixon being forced to retire, huge inflations, the oil crisis, The rising crime rates in America which could be compared to a 3rd world country in terms of violence. 70s has the highest fatal car accident rates, the war on Vietnam, then we lost the war in Vietnam... The good side of the 70s were that it was a fun time even if with all the craziness that was going on. and the 1970s had such great music/movies!
Love the 70's cars. Cars today don't look bad, they just all look very similar.
On a side note, my dad has been there through the late 70's and some 80's. He said you'd have to be ready for a fight at a moments notice living in New York City in those days. Some streets were better than others, but some you wouldn't even feel safe going down in the back seat of a police car.
@Vita est an valebat you probably do same shit. Shut up
Damn.
Your Dad is right, and it's even worse now. If you don't live there, be VERY glad.
Copper Man 42nd street and Times Square was dangerous and the Bronx looked like a middle eastern country at war.
@@hadihatab3126 Like I said: if you don't live there, be very glad.
The 70s were fucking lit. I lived in New York in the late 70s. 1977 is when I moved there I was 17 lol. I'm now 58. The 70s and 80s were the best .
Why not 90s are the best ?
If you were white it was ......
Oknice65 Wow well you sound like a teenager when your grammar involves “lit”
@@sahabrandon1 because 90's sucked ;)
Sure, AIDS was fun
no obesity, wow how beautiful
Maggie Zumwalt That's because back then food companies didn't used to put sugar into everything we eat like they do today.
And Super-Size everything.
give us 2 examples
There weren't any fat Mexicans waddling across the border back then. Also processed foods.
Sorry about your fat ass Maggie.
When we get into the 2020's the 1970's will be 50 years old! :(
TexasDragon 1995 Less than 3 years left to go
+juststr8up he was able to add 50 to 1970 to get the answer 2020. So his comment is NOT an indication of being retarded. Sure, most people could do the computation themselves but no-one has time for that crap LOL
TexasDragon 1995 Half a century old
TexasDragon 1995 Half a century old
juststr8up he wasn't just doing simple math for the fuck of it. If you just turned your brain on, maybe you would realize that him and the people that liked it are realizing that 1970s felt like 10 years ago but it's actually gonna be 50 years in case no one realized
Damn, all these Polaras, Monacos, Caprices, Impalas, Crown vics, GMC vans, bel airs...
Thinking the same do😎😎
Yeah. American 70’s cars were so clunky and made lots of emissions. Air quality was bad back then in North America.
@@justinbligh lol obviously not a car enthusiast. DMV doesnt force me to smog my 70 camaro :) straight pipe headers no cat just how i like it
Did I see a Datsun?
Datsuns and firebirds everywhere and to think everybody drove those but they are so hard to find now and expensive
Although on time period is perfect or innocent, I remember the joys of my Childhood in the 70s and 80s:). I remember being a child going to Kiddie City and Kay Bee Toy and Hobby Shop. I remember my Late Grandparents and my Late Dad. I am not from New York or California, but this is a nice video and I am remembering people who I love, but have passed on. Nice Video:).
Oh, I meant to say that no time period is perfect or innocent. Sorry about the typo.
Wanting One Angel : Great music.
Wanting One Angel what ur age
I concur. Plus that getting cancer back then, no matter what form, always meant a certain death sentence. Medicine was quite less advanced and sophisticated.
This comment is so wholesome :)
before you complain about the current generation, please take a second to remember who raised it.
The decline was well underway by the 1970s.
Robert Johnson ”The children today love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter instead of exercise.”
Do you know who said that? Socrates did, in around 400BC. Has the decline been underway for almost 2500 years, or are you just full of shit?
Martin Solomon Macedonian empire. Hellenistic civilization. Rome was still centuries away.
Martin Solomon Hellenic civilization would continue to flourish until the 1400s at the same time the west was languishing in backwardness. But I get your point
Martin Solomon or if like Nietzsche you bemoan the coming of a rationalized Hellenism characterized by Socrates and Euripides. Greece turning away from the tragic, the dramatic, the visceral, in his view.
Everyone was well dressed
Screw you. I make sure I wear nice clothes not some cheap Walmart rags.
Aleksandr Trex clothes don't make the man
Will Plays I know but I wanna look good. I don't wanna look like a poor person.
Aleksandr Trex i guess my idea of Not looking like a poor person would be having your own clothes tailored for you
no one cares and it's spelled rOmania
The reflection of neon lights on a chrome parts of those cars.. FEELINGS.
Best part, no cell phone. People actually interacting with each other
SUPERMAN51878 I think the same, no internet, no computers, the best years without a doubt with 60's, 50's...
then.. why are you on the internet?
Horrible isn`t it? As an introvert Northern European smartphones saved me.
It has its positive and negative. I just don't like when people use it while driving, as I was a victim of a rear end collision while waiting at a red light and she was going about 40mph. Change my life for the worse. In pain for the rest of my life
Geviper aren't we mature. That's the point, there was no cell phone
Funny how California hasn't changed at all except for the cars.
And the pedestrians glued to their mobile toys.
California was around 70% white back then, now its around 35%, its changed plenty, not that theres anything wrong with diversity
Diversity is a cancer on society.
There's something wrong with diversity when your crime rate goes up cause the hispanics and blacks want a race war.
You mean 90% Siberian. And it was a scalping, raping shithole back then.
no cell phones! man what a luxury!
And not internet.
k3ith29 i love it
Unless you're not near a landline and there's an emergency! Or for 100 other scenarios... But yes, what a luxury!
Call for help on your CB radio.
Ahh, good point- I forgot about the multitude of CB Radios, especially on the Interstate Highway System! I still don't understand how those went out of fashion...
For anyone searching; the music is called Take me to Mardi Gras by bob james
Well thank you so much. Now I'm obsessed with this song. I found it on Tidal. Thank you for listing the song and artist in the description!
This music is AWESOME! I grew up in the 70s and it instantly brought me back
It's an elevator version of Paul Simon's "Come and Take Me to the Mardi Gras"
Evan J Not an elevator music version, just a Bob James version of the same song
This ain't no elevator music, it's f***in' BOB JAMES, SON! With the legendary Steve Gadd on drums.
I hope you all can find in in your hearts to forgive me. I appear to have pulled some emotional strings on this comment.
I still think it's a hokey version of the original tune even if it was well played by well known musicians famous for tunes I do like who could most certainly play me under a greyhound any minute of any day.
Be clear, I have an unhealthy joy for this stuff and I love that the first four measures of this song are one of the most iconic hip-hop drum samples known to man (thank you Mr. Gadd) so that alone makes this version worth the existence. But once the melody kicks in, it becomes the same odd endearing love I have for a brown plaid jumpsuit with corduroy patches or a toilet clothed in orange carpet. Once the melody kicks in it contains all of the decade appropriate kitch of a fine grit wet sanded, smoothed out, sans vocals and string sectioned version of an original tune often heard by many during that decade following the phrase: "please hold."
Unless you've got an advanced sense of humor, you're probably not drunk dancing to this at a wedding and you're probably not blasting this in your car. I have blasted the Swamper's version.
If it's diner food, it's certainly organic, gourmet, neck beard hipster kissed diner food but aside from the great use of Gadd's beats, when held up against Simon's original tune, diner food it remains. To ME, maybe not you and that's okay. No offense to Bob or Steve meant..
Evan, to be honest, I totally agree with you. It really is kind of a hokey tune. I mostly just like the opening drum break. After that, I'm kinda like "ok, fuck this." But Bob's BJ4 album? Now, that's some wild shit. Or his album "One".
Cars were huge, people not so much.
fastnbulbouss When the cars where poorly designed.
Cars are huge today. Have you seen a new Honda Civic? It's as big as an Accord from 10 years ago.
Depends on the car.
fastnbulbouss
PEOPLE actually moved around more walking n FOOD was better.
Healthy.
Great point! I was a teen in the late 70's and the food was different. Kids today eat foods with high fructose corn syrup, corn feed cows (cow should graze and eat grass) that are diabetic and hormone grown chickens.
Great Footage! Takes me back in time, thanks!
Thanks for the upload. Great audio and visual !
Bob James: Take me to the Mardi Gras, from his Album... Bob James: Two, released in the in the spring of 75.
I love the music on this video. lol
Lissette T the song is "Take Me To The Mardi Gras" by Bob James. Excellent Jazz fusion artist of the 70's.
And to think that the first 20 seconds of that song was one of the seeds planted in the creation of the hip hop culture. Obscure to most people in the hood, but when Kool Herc played the first 20 seconds of it, people lost their minds. Overall, that record got me into listening to Bob James and that style of jazz. By the way, that song was produced by Paul Simon.
Albert Rosa yeah man, the break sounds like it's from a Funk song with that drum pattern. I believe "Peter Piper" by Run-DMC was the first song to sample Bob James in Hip-Hop.
Whats so funny😑
And to think that during this time you had some of the best rock artists of all time living/ hanging around in the city. You had the punk rockers/art punk(The Ramones, Television, Talking heads, and Blondie) down in CBGB, Glam rock with Bowie and Lou Reed, John Lennon hanging out making records, what a great time to be alive.
LOVE all those bands! 70's punk and glam were the best.
Don't forget Paul Mccartney being big in his wings band in 70s too
So much more relaxed then. Miss it
Before Wall Street wealth made the city unaffordable for everyone but the rich. Back then a social worker, electrician, school teacher, etc could afford a small apartment in the heart of Manhattan.
I wish that I could have had the freedom to live there at that time. I was not born until 20+ years after this was filmed.
Joshi The Yoshi You can thank Giuliani and Bloomberg for that.
I know. There is too much gentrification.
The 70's had its perks, but you also have to include that medicine was far from what it is today, you had mental hospitals that were overly full, the patients were mistreated. Then we come to basic medicine like dentistry work, pain medicine, psychiatric treatment just labeled you crazy and were quite often put away for life, taken away from your family, or your family decided to get rid of you and then forget you.
That's true, but Manhattan was kind of in a bad place during that era.. Decay, sense of giving up on NYC like it couldn't be fixed.. NYC nearly went bankrupt in the 1970s.. NY Post headline: "President Ford to NYC: 'DROP DEAD' " Tough times.. Manhattan was affordable because people didn't want to live there then the way they do now. Manhattan was a dump back then, crime, police corruption and indifference.. Bad cars, bad music.. some very good music, but most the pop music was horrible. Hair and clothing styles looked like ass.
Cheers for uploading this! Great times that unfortunately we can't go back to.
Good memories. How is your day going?
The cars of the 1970s were sooooo good-looking.
The cars just looked epic
Groovy music , love it
*Totally rad* brother!
Cool music. Sounds like the theme from "Taxi."
MJT It's from the same guy. Bob James.
It's amazing how everything was back in the days great video thanks for sharing!👍💗
The period of time from 1967-1977 (I use the Summer of Love as my beginning and Saturday Night Fever as my end point lmao) is really really fascinating to me. I've never been a "wah wrong generation" type, but if I ever had to live in a different time period that would be it. The art, the aesthetics, the fashion, the music, the sports were all so amazing. People were in a revolt of the boring 50s and early 60s. Everything was colorful, things were just shady enough to keep you on your toes, Pintos were exploding, etc. It was a really cool time that I wish I got to experience, especially things like watching the Oakland A's win three World Series in a row, seeing bands like The Doors, Boston and Uriah Heep live in their heyday (weird choices but whatever) and just being a damn hippie and enjoying life. With that being said, Im glad I get to live in comfortable times like these. After all, I'm watching this video on a powerful computer that fits right in your pocket, which, despite what many believe, is not the devil. I don't have a draft to worry about in a year when i'd be eligible, we've pretty much got the energy crisis sorted out (although the current administration isn't really helping with that), a lower crime rate and overall life is easier. Just remember that the next time you pine for a time such as this. We've improved a lot
You wouldn't have cared about your powerful computer, because you would be out living life, most Vietnam soldiers were volunteers, not draftees, so you wouldn't have had to worry about that too much, the energy crisis was over by 1980, the issue of crime rate and ease of life is debatable, considering much fewer people can afford good standards of living compared to the 1970s, and the crime rate hit a low in 2015 but has since then been continually rising.
‘79.
OMG IT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!
1970s when women had big hair on both ends
when there was only 2 genders
Its Just an Apple still are only 2
and no condoms needed whatsoever
Hahahaha
Eric S haha keep dreaming
Everything was more charming, vibrant, elegant and unique.
Thanks for the video... excellent music choice!
wow absolutely beautiful way better than today
why?
Yeah, and let's not forget 42nd street, 9th ave. Time square full of whores ,pimps, drug pushers, junkies ,thieves , corrupt cops ,bookies and so on,
In other words it was great, wasn't it?
Son of Sam misses it very much.
you want to se better 70's footage than this watch CHIPS. first 3 seasons.
you forgot about the Iran hostage situation. there was talk of the climate & the environment.there was Fat people but not too many on TV. "lots of Jobs"? man where did you get you info from?the 70's were Great but far from perfect.
Toy Fan Calm Doon
This is pretty awesome, I felt I was there enjoying the scenes of 1970's in America. Woooooooohooooooo!!!!!!
50s, 60s and 70s were the best decades for car designs.
was life in the 50's better than 60 and 70's ?
@@Gencturk92 50s were pretty similar to the 60s
@@metube4584 yeah i guess, if you ask me i think life was still good up to early 2000 until social networking sites and mobile phones took over
@@Gencturk92 Same 2003 and 2004 were the peak years
Thank you very much for not putting watermarks over the footage like 90% of uploaders do. I’ll subscribe!
The America (and, for 9 months, the City) I experienced as a young man. Cheap rents, affordable restaurants, no desktop computers, cheap beer, smoky bars, VCRs and answering machines just beginning, internet and cell phones were science fiction dreams. Long distance calls were unpleasantly expensive. The MSM was still trusted. Polyester content of clothing made me sweat a lot. There was a major economic downturn in 1974-75, but somehow it did not feel as bad as the USA post-2007. The dividend yield on the S&P500 was often > 5%. We all danced to disco music.
There were a lot of tensions and recriminations arising from the fact that the rules for premarital sex were unsettled and changing rapidly. Many intellectual women of that era were angry feminists, a stance which received very little pushback.
Most jobs came with decent health insurance. A BC/BS policy with a $3000 annual deductible cost less than $1000/year. If you were flat broke, you qualified for Medicaid. Affording health care? Pretty simple, actually.
@My Nameis Medicare parts B and D cost about $200/person/month. That's very expensive if your only income is a Social Security benefit from 45 years of ordinary work.
@My Nameis The only part of Medicare that is "free," namely Part A, only covers hospital room rates and a few diagnostic procedures.
@SoniGui Even with Watergate, it was a less disturbing time than now.
Healthcare for all those in the smoke filled bars
@@kozicki4 I breathed a lot of second hand smoke in those days, yet have never had flu or bronchitis. Had asthma for many years, but that mysteriously cleared up 15 years ago.
Most of those people walking around in this footage are probably taking a dirt nap by now : (
+M Howard You're probably right. I graduated high school in 1975, went to college and got married in 1979. The scenes in this video are very familiar to me. The music is annoying however.
+Eddy Secco The music is "take me to the Mardi Gras" by pianist Bob James. He composed the music to the television show Taxi. I think this music is perfect in typifying the decade of the 1970s.
+rockintetster Exactly.
Add 40 years to their current age. So perhaps 40 years old now they are 80. Not necessarily but I get what you are saying
+M Howard I am not. Still here. And those were the best days of my life.
Back when America was truly America
Burak Coskun Oh everybody smoked weed then my brutha
Back when the fucking immigrants didn't come
Old Camper you mean non European immigrants. They fit in the culture and ideology of America so much better. They wanted to make the country better instead of living off welfare like a lot of immigrants do now. I miss the old immigrant
Kaboomerty yep.
Cliff Yablonski you left out Asians where i live in California they dominate they are taking over
Back when there was still romance in the world :(
Marriage is dead now
Romance was the same then as it is now
if you can't get laid now, you probably couldn't have gotten laid then
Romance is still in the world wtf are you talking about.
@@AM-bv8iu dude wtf are they on about smh
Tower Records back then!
Ruff Riders My dad grew up in Upstate NY when this was filmed. They even had tower records up there. It's been around for a while 😂
70s, back when America was actually great
Danny Pitre America is still great
Bob Gratton 70's, back when everyone was killing eachother "great".
Yeah, I love the "back when America was great" or the "back before cellphones". I don't think they realize they're looking through SLIGHTLY rose colored glasses, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows in ANY generation.
But now it's all rainbows. Mentally ill liberals and trash streaming in.
Actually people bought into the trickle down theory of economics in the 80's and for the average Joe its been downhill ever since. Unions died. Guaranteed pensions went by the wayside so Wall Street could gamble with 401K's and your retirement fund. Tax breaks for the rich under Reagan and Bush created a huge national debt which stand at 20 trillion now.
Great job on the footage! Well done.
My grandparents have a thermostat from 1977. AND IT STILL THERE AND STILL WORKS!!!
the twin towers looked so beautiful, just perfect
friedchicken1981 that's what bush said before he blew them up
I don't care who did it. Humanity did it. We all suck equally
friedchicken1981 I wouldn't call bush and his Friends humans ! They kill over 3000 people on 9-11 for more wars and In slave USA population with big brother spying . U learn history
you seem like one of those people who always win. Conversation ended TY xD
friedchicken1981 you seem like those people who are told what to do , and a follower sorry I can't save you
I grew up in the 70s and it SUCKED! Crime was terrible, hospitals overcrowed, scumbags walking around, cities were dirty, politicians more corrupt than now (if that's even possible ), people rude,drugs and tons of unemployed. The only thing good that came out of the 70s was the 80s.
Dont know how refreshing comments like these are
EthnicallyMixed Oh yeah, no doubt..It was horrible. .It wasn't until "tough on crime" was Instituted, things started to get better.
cogen651, Ya, I hate to admit it, but the 70s weren't so good, but it just looks like it now, LOL 😂
Mihail Antoniu. That's true too. There's always bad and good 😏
Loved the video though...
The 60's and the 70's were the age of amazing cars. The 50's had some beautiful unique cars as well but i wouldn't say they beat these chunks of pure gold.
I love the 70s cars my first car in 1978 was a 1972 Olds 98 a 2 door coupe silver and black Thank You for posting.
Wow!! now that was fun to watch.. I don't think I am the only one that when watched your video, wanted to return to those days if not for a moment. Great music, love the cars.. seeing the people hang off the tram cars in numbers cool to see, I doubt that is allowed today? I enjoyed seeing the old buses and viewing from buses too. Great stuff! :)
"We all have our time machines dont we ? , The ones that bring us back are memories , And the ones that carry us forward are dreams "
😍🎥🎶 really love the music on this short trip to 70's 👍
It's like I can feel, smell, hear all these things. Surreal.
Color in the 70's, who would have thought? (sarc.)
In my view, when I think of the 50s, the mood was nice and colorful, but the 70s seem black and white and dark to me....
+NeuPommern Same
Most television programs were running in color by 1966. The same with color film by the late 60's.
The reason why I added 'color footage' to the title is that it is still pretty rare to see original color "home movie" footage from the 70s. I'm sure there are many other home movies from the 70s in color, but not so much here on RUclips.
and dirty..
I enjoyed reading the comments for this video, but I am surprised at how many posters declared the '70s a perfect time, or the present is the perfect time? I can say I enjoy something from every decade.
I wish we still had the housing and rent prices of the '70s. And the ability to get a good paying, often union job, with no college education. My brother got an amazing high paying job when he was only 16 because the railroads needed workers.They paid for his upgrading. I wish that we were still relatively naive when it came to kids playing outside. They often stuck together and were relatively safe, but with internet spreading the news of abductions - even if it's one child - that's one too many and kids may not play outside anymore.
From what I gather - I do not miss that many women were date raped by men if they did not know them very well, or failed to get friends to meet/inspect the guy prior to the date. I do not miss that women who were raped were accused of 'asking for it'. I do not miss the lack of DNA where some men/women were sentenced to life after being found guilty of murder even though they didn't do it, or were set up by crooked police who just wanted the case solved. I do not miss the influence of the mob in running New York in the '70s, nor the new craze of daily 'muggings'.
All in all - there was a lot of great things from each decade (and a lot of not-so-great things).
That comment was spot on - every decade had it's pros and cons, even the current one. Most people say it's nothing special, but looking back 20 or 30 years from now people will admire us for having cars that don't drive itself and run on gas and the freedom to do basically anything without constantly being monitored by the government for example. On the flip side they will look back and think how terrible it must have been to not have a cure for Cancer and AIDS and North Korea threatening to launch a dirty bomb etc.
Luckydawg - excellent point about the future generations pitying us for our lack of 'cures'. I just read Canadian researchers have developed a progressive "Ninja" medication that will protect the cells that are attacked brain cells during altzheimers. It's due out in 2025. Something to look forward to?
Nelson hahahaha
Oh, man...I remember Tower Records at Columbus and Bay. I bought a lot of vinyl there. Records were $3.98... I loved San Francisco in the 70s. Great times.
i wish i could go back in time to see the things i couldnt see
Back when Lennon used to live in America...
Lennon/ McCartney what did he
@@johnbriancatedrilla4028 Yes, he lived in NYC.
@@Alaprine thank you took so long to someone respond me in a year
John Brian Catedrilla Hello from 10 months into the future
@@Sychaotix hey friend hello to you from 1 month ago
It feels so good to be alive!
I wanna go back to the 70s and experience it
Many cities, especially New York, are much nicer now than they were in the 1970's. Much more expensive, but nicer. Cleaner and less crime.
@@scarecrow2885 but this is the golden era of serial killers appearance right?
@@scarecrow2885 nyc is going back too it’s 70s ways just look at this current year
Back when there was amazing cars,outfits,Actors,Music and Chinese.😋😉Wish I was alive in the 70s.
I wish I could of spent my time as a teenager at that time. Maybe the 80s would be good too.
The eighties were great too! America's last great decade.
Wish I was during the 80s
Seeing people being aware in the moment and looking forward instead of down is quite bizarre sadly.
Thanks for the memories, I subbed.
Back then when life was chill, money was not the main objective of life.
It was the same back then.
I love how you're literally speaking for everyone that existed back then to make yourself sound cool but end up sounding like a hipster.
Money was and will always be the objective of life for most people. This is no different. Nothing has changed. Life might have been more chill however.
It was the same, except there was more opportunity
oscar dighton What made you think there were more opportunities?
Back when the video game "Pong" was high tech.
Loved the 70s. Especially seeing all the vintage American cars! Now, you
can't call much of anything made in the USA. Sad.😎
Bonnie Sanders You mean all the very poorly designed 1 mile a gallon going boxy sardine cans with far too much metal to ever keep costs down looking killer of rubber trees?
Anyone else tripping over that rather tiny Fiat 128 (3:14)?
Allegro Assai also the fiat 124 in the beginning
Allegro Assai che occhio di falco !!! Complimenti!!! Ma l'hai visto il cartello agenzia viaggi al minuto 4:23 incredibile
Nice music and video !
lol@everyone saying "No smartphones!! No social media!!"
Had any of these things existed back then, it would have been the same thing
- Posting from a Desktop
I remember Elementary School, Jr. High School and High School in the 1970s. The cars were beautiful in the 1970s too.🚘🚗
I like the cars , maybe not as safe as todays cars but much much cooler to drive and look at.
I don't enjoy looking at boxes. Plus they're slow cars.
Good for you, we can't all have the same taste.
70s cars were utter trash, the only good cars i see here are from the late 60s/early 70s
I PG slow cars? Most of these stock daily vehicles would shit on Toyota Corollas or your Hyundai Elantras lol. Sure there's pros and cons but you can't tell me that a Ford Focus or a Honda Civic looks cooler then anything in the 70's lol.
Thanks! Fun to watch.
Love the footage. Anyway I could some of these clips in an upcoming video documentary I'm making?
I wish I had this song accompanying me every where I went
I was born in '81. I missed the 70s by two years. I think women looked better during this time. They looked more natural and feminine without all of the tattoos and piercings. Not having any makes more of a statement. Personally, I think America's best days are behind her. People are living in bubbles today.
People today want to look like a subway car with all the nasty looking ink
I was born in 58 so I can't really speak for the 50's but the 60's and the 70's was a great time growing up in NYC! Yes I think our best years are behind us, sad really
Lanae Marie 1950s, 1960s, 1970s were the pinnacle of U.S culture.
Lanae Marie Women can look great with tattoo and piercings. They just have to style it right. And they can look great as they were back in the 70s.
It seems the best is indeed behind us.
This brings back some memories! Although I was a small child at the time I have a very strong recollection of that time period.
Looking back from 2020...oh my...
this is so peaceful and beautiful. My soul belongs in the 70s. At heart, I'm as old school as it gets.
My grandpa was stuck in the 50’s he was real old school 😢😢
This is the most beautiful thing I've seen all day!!!
The 1970s were some of the best times of my life. Everything was just perfect. I had my grandchildren in the 70s. Now I’m 100 years old, thank god for this wonderful life I’ve been given.
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Are you alive??☠️☠️
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