Cars nowadays are much much more powerful and last longer and are safer. Most cars then were worn out and barely driveable if you were lucky enough to make it to 100k miles. The fumes were something else as well lol
@@mr.sanford8588 You can see a picture of me with the car back then, in the same driveway from which this film began--AND a picture of my car and me today (well, 2018)--here: www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/garage-mercedes.htm
Ever since I saw Back to the Future when I was 6, I've been obsessed with time travel. Since it will never happen, at least not in my lifetime, I'm so happy that people post videos like this. It really is amazing to see, and so much better than just a picture. Thanks for posting!
Because common sense should tell you that it's physically impossible to go back in time, outside of movies, what about traveling to the past seems even minutely doable? and if it were possible don't you think everyone would be traveling back and altering the future? so nothing would ever be the future, it would be constantly changing, plus to go back in time you would have to be able to bring back dead people, replace structures that may or may not be there, go back through all the days in between, keep hoping, but not gonna ever happen, simply impossible.
November 14th, 1976 was a Sunday. I was eight years old and most likely watching an Abbott and Costello movie on WPIX channel 11, a New York station that we got in central PA, and smelling the pork chops my mom was baking for supper. I was probably thinking that tomorrow is a school day, but Thanksgiving vacation was coming soon. There is no way I could have ever imagined that, perhaps at that precise moment a few states away, someone was making a film that I would be viewing on the screen of my wireless TELEPHONE 44 1/2 years later. Edit: I was hoping to see the inside of that mall. I'll bet it had a lot of the same stores our local mall used to have.
Oh yeah, I WISH I had filmed the inside of that mall. It would be great to see that now. Thank you for your comment. Somehow I find it a reminder that, hey, we're all in this together--let's try and enjoy it and be nice to each other. We never can know how things might intersect in the future.
Hah! I thought the same way watching this. I wasn't too far from you, Freeport, NY, watching the same thing you were and already drooling for Christmas. I was in 3rd grade, just about a month shy of turning 8. Meanwhile, cool dudes with a cool toy in a cool car were putting their trip in the can for me to watch decades later and smile about it.
@@shanemarcotte2062 I’m the same age, so I’m right there with you buddy. Don’t you wish we were still riding our bikes to the pool and arcade and running around all night in the summer. I miss it too, bad.
@@EYE_GOTCHA I lived through the 50's and enjoyed it so dearly, starting at age 13 and leaving as a man at 23. In nineteen hundred and fifty nine. Anything you need to know that you most likely won't ever know with my generations dwindling population, just ask just the same as you.
1976’ I was 12 years old if I could go back in time it would back to the 70s we had the best music clothes and cars ! I drive a 63’ Chevy and listen to the great music of the 70s times were simpler
I got my license in 1993. I bought a 1973 AMC Hornet in 1993. And I was listening to 1970's music in it. Along with the first wave of 1990s grunge and alternative music
They talked different back then. The teens were able to communicate really well, now a days unfortunately most have social anxiety. I feel like phones are a big reason for that
We live in a world where people are becoming a bunch of hunched over, masturbating gremlins. And then they wonder why people have poor communication skills & social anxiety.
Cars were bigger then. But they’re way heavier now. Look it up if you think I’m wrong. The “steel” then was thin sheet steel. Not that heavy. Today’s cars are basically bank vaults due to crash standards. It’s one of the reasons they aren’t as fuel efficient as they could be.
@@failranch9542 No, they are plastic piles of garbage. They are heavy because of all the airbags, electronics, miles of wiring, all of the sound deadening, and everything else they added to the cars. Sure, airbags made them "safer", but they had air bags in the early '70's and nobody wanted them. If they where optional now, nobody would buy them. I still do appreciate you pointing out how bloated modern cars are, and, you're also correct that their MPG is garbage too. People get the false impression that plastic is light, but they don't consider how much thicker it has to be in order to replace steel.
Yeah, they're beautiful. Before democrats mandated that the only legal car to build is something that looks exactly like a Honda Fit. A hundred million Honda Fit lookalikes, all the same, all look like melted bars of soap, so boring. I wish I still lived in a country that wasn't such an assault on aesthetics
Vintage film clips from the early-mid 1970’s, especially ones as rare as this one, are totally fascinating to me. I was alive when this was shot, but a 5 year old is only just starting to process memory in any significant way. So thanks for this!
How else did people virtue signal and show how great of a time that they had without instantly uploading it 🤷♂️ the whole purpose of going to a destination is to post it online and brag about how great of a time it was as they mindless scroll through their messages oblivious to the actual good time that they’re having…
Sadly the driver of the car went last year to that great Mall in the sky. I, the out-of-focus guy with the camera, am doing fine. Thanks. ... Oh, and I still have that car.
What a treasure this is! You had fun playing with that zoom. :) I'm writing a story that takes place in a mall in the 70s. So great to have this image on hand. Thank you for sharing
This is probably the most pristine home video footage from the 70s that I have ever seen. Amazing. I do have to admit though, one of my favorite documentaries is the Thin Blue Line, and when I saw the date of November 14 It hit me that 14 days after this footage was shot - the life of a man by the name of Randall Dale Adams will forever be altered when he decides to pick up a teenage hitchhiker and would be murderer Ray David Harris. Sorry, I mentioned that, but I love the footage since I like cloudy looking skies.
the 70s were full of those hitchhiking murder type stories, as well as a lot of kidnappings, abductions, that's the reason I'm here watching (think John Wayne Gacy, or Norris Bittaker)
I'm a Nashville native, born in '82. It's really cool to recognize this area and see how different it looked. My son and I go to 100 Oaks every Monday for his appointments. The mall is now part of Vanderbilt Medical Center. I remember when the mall was "rebirthed" for a while in the mid 90s too.
yeah i was trying to figure out intersections. And i loved the 90's 100 oaks kinda comeback. Big Tex singing in the food court. Nothing like eating cheap food as a robot sings Garth Brooks.
Omg thank you thank you thank you. I always wondered what things/places/people/outdoors looked and sounded like other than just being in pictures. This is so special to me, the closest thing I'll ever get to knowing what the 70's looked and sounded like! I bet it was beautiful living through those times.
The footage quality is surprisingly good. Better than some feature films from the time. It's really cool to catch a glimpse of my home a couple of years before I was born.
This really is incredible. I feel like I physically got into a time machine and went back. Tears of joy and sadness. Those were simpler times. I miss it
I was 3 days old when this was filmed, yet I feel that I am much more suited to have been born in my parents or even grandparents era. I just love everything retro.
Just wanted to give you a shout out from capital records here on music 🎶 row this was the year l graduating from Hillsboro high school l sure miss the good old days 100 oaks was the place to shop we go from reality to a memory some times it sad , this video was taken on my brothers birthday ,
So fascinating. I've been to 100 Oaks a few times and crossed those bridges there on Woodmont many times. I didn't realize how different it used to look. If only you'd gotten a shot of the traffic on I-65 below. This was back before everyone started moving to Nashville, and I'm sure I'd like to have the traffic from that time back!
To. I'm. Ouch. Jakkew. When. I. Lived. On. Battlefield. Dr. I. Watched. Them. Move. House. After. House. On. My. Street. In. The. Late. 60s. And. Early. 70s. I. Watched. Them. Take. Out. The. Tenn. Central. Rail. Road. And. Interstate. 440. Came. In. What. A. Headache. My. Friend s. Back. Yard. Was. Cut. In. Half. Your. Traffic. Is. Un. Real. Now. I. Guess. They. Call. That. Progress. S0. Many. People. Danny Malliard
I was born in 1963 in upstate NY - @45 miles where the Woodstock festival was held on Farmer Brown's farm. I vividly remember my mother not letting me play in the front yard. She told me "Hippies could come and kidnap me." Part of me thought that might be a great thing. The 70s we really didn't worry about much, had amazing music of all types, and people had a live and let live attitude. Sad to say today that is no longer true. I think social media has gotten a lot of people to feel their opinion is always right and many have become a bigot. Also, a lot of the media now wants to divide us. Sad, very sad in what is gone now.
Wow! I've lived in Nashville for over twenty years. This was filmed on my fourth birthday. So cool to see what it looked like back then. It's crazy how much of the early drive hasn't changed (other than the tall skinnies here and there).
I was in Nashville at that time--3 years old--almost 4--grew up there and then moved to TX. I remember 100 Oaks Mall by name mostly--didn't go there much. I think we usually went to Rivergate and Hickory Hollow.
Having a camera back then especially with sound was expensive. Very few people even back in the 70's had personal hand held video cameras and the ones that did spent a pretty penny. It wasn't until the mid 80's when video cameras for the regular American grew.
Yes! In January 1982, my Dad bought a vhs system, but in the 70's most people had 8mm or super 8 silent. This is probably 16mm at 24fps. Never seen anything like this.
2 companies made a very rudementary camcorder back in. Sony and panadonic. It had a carrying case and a shoulder mounted camera. It retailed for about 2000$ in 1976 almost 10,000$ today. The camcorder as we know it where a vcr tape was physically in the camera was introduced in 1983 shoulder mounted
@@richardsussman5446I was going to say, whoever they are they already had to be making a pretty handsome living. that area has always been known as well to do. I was born in 77 and grew up in the berry hill area right across from the 100 oaks mall
The intro/beginning affect was so ahead of it's time. I'm only 35 but my role model father figure graduation was in '74 so I've had a deep fascination with this time period and how it was/looked. Hey thanks so much this is really cool.
Looks like they weren't as to do the editing they intended - they shot the guy leaving from a distance and then reenacted the footage from inside the car. The part of him backing up and should have been cut.
I practically lived at 100 Oaks Mall..I turned 18 that year & bought a 73 M.G miget across the street on Thompson Ln..Then moved to Anchorage Ak & worked on the pipe line for over a year. ..Guitar Center is about the only thing open at 100 Oaks i heard...Peace.
Amen to peace, brother. Oh yeah, I looked at the MGB and the Midgets. Almost bought an MGB but it was thoroughly thrashed. I remember looking at the new Midgets around this time. I forget the name of the dealer. Across from Beaman Pontiac, I think. I bought my only new car--a Fiat 850 Sport Spyder--at Madison Smith in '74. As small as a midget. Wasn't there a Woolco on the far side of the mall? I remember Giant foods. But I remember little else about what was IN the mall. Just a piano store where I bought a Yamaha piano that was (slightly) used at Opryland on opening day.
I grew up in Nashville and remember the robot in that malls food court then I went to a college fair there AND THEN it was my doctors office hahah this was so awesome to see it and to see where walmart is now. Thanks man!
I’m so fascinated and love the cars from the 70s. These cars that where once 2k are up in price in CA so hard to get a classic now ridiculous how much people ask for there old school cars
1976 was a good year for me. I graduated high school,got my first car and my first full-time job.I'm a bit north of you guys (Baltimore MD). I want to go back!!
That was actually cool. I was just 16 when this was filmed, had my driver's license for 5 months by November. Amazing how different things are from today. One almost forgets how things have changed until you watch these videos.
Why ? You'd be old. I was 15 in 1968, and I'm 70 living just outside Nashville. My wife and I, lived in Berry Hill from 1980 to 2012, so I have seen quite a few changes myself, while we lived there, including the building of I-440 in back of our house.
In 1979 I was in 10th grade in upstate NY where I grew up. My 1982 I was in Nashville and 100 Oaks Mall still looked that way, but there were few early 70s cars like I saw in the video. Today, the mall still has a few retail stores, but the majority of it houses Vanderbilt Medical Centers clinics and outpatient services to do various procedures. When I've been there for appointments, I can't help but walk through the main hallways and recall the stores that were once there.
Great video. I remember shopping at this mall as a kid & I also remember this area (before) the Walmart, Carmax, Wendy's, Logan's & everything else came along. Lol.
Born and raised in Nashville. Had family in all parts of the town from Madison, Inglewood, East Nashville, Greenhills and West Nashville in the nations. Knew the roads like the back of my hand in those days.
That must have cost a lot of money even back in the 1976 when sound for a video camera and very few people had them. As the top comment said, it wasn't until the mid 80's when the average American bought these camera. Hell my parents didn't get a video camera until I was born in the mid 80's.
So cool!! I love this video! I was 5 when this was made. I grew up in Nashville and remember going to 100 Oaks and The Mall at Green Hills all the time in my teens and early 20’s. The mall building is still there (at Powell Ave), but it is now part of Vanderbilt Health. Woodmont doesn’t look the same at all as it did here. I was looking on Google Earth to see if I could find this house. With all the new construction that has replaced older homes, I was shocked it hasn’t been demolished. The address is 1497 Woodmont Blvd. It looks like the owners sold it 5 years after this video, in 1981. The pool/backyard is featured more in another of this channel owners videos.
When my uncle first immigrated to the US in 1974 he lived in Nashville TN, drove a Chevy nova. He would have been somewhere in the vicinity as a young man when and where this was filmed
Great Video from back in the happy days of life the 70’s !😊. Love seeing the cars from back then was hoping to have seen my favorite kinda car a 70’s Lincoln Town Car on the highway or in the mall parking lot.
Oh man, too bad you did not film inside the mall! Seeing a 1976 mall with sound? That would have been priceless footage. In the 80's when camcorders came out, it was a lot more common, but in 1976? That would've been something.
Great trip down memory lane. It wasn't visible in this movie, but I know the statue with the horses was still there just north of Woodmont, just before the bridge.
I've driven that stretch of road hundreds of times.. going to the mall.. Franklin.. Green Hill's.. where I worked in the 80's/90's.. wow ..what good memories
Imagine if you actually got to live back then and have the memories and experience to juxtapose against today. Now'd be like being time traveled into a dystopian nightmare future because you can literally still feel and remember how it used to be just like it was yesterday. We were so much more important to each other back then, it made things matter and have meaning. It was such a vibe! So much more simple, fun and free. Life was easier. More jobs and better jobs, and things were cheap! Even college, homes and cars were cheap then. I was watching Corvette Summer, a silly but great movie from the 70s the other day and it made me miss the spirit of the way things were. Dazed and Confused is another good movie that brings back some memories.
Well, yes. I DID get to live back then. And I have the memories. And I'm still kicking today. I am, in fact, the owner of the car in the video, and the out of focus guy shooting most of the film as my friend drove the car. I do not live in a dystopian nightmare today. I think some do, but I do not. We were NOT more important to each other back then. Things matter as much now as then and have as much meaning now as then. Things were no more simple, fun, or free than they are today in most respects. Life was most certainly NOT easier for me or most people then. Good jobs were tough to find then, as now. Some things were wildly more expensive then, compared to today. A mediocre 19" TV set would cost you $300 then, which is comparatively WAY more than today. But I paid $6 a month for health insurance in 1976. Six dollars! College was way cheaper then because state colleges were essentially free. Homes and cars are roughly the same today as then. Use an inflation calculator and see the real, inflation-adjusted numbers. It was NEVER easy to buy a house. NEVER. I've bought 4 and each time it seemed I was going WAY out on a limb. The "spirit" of the '70s is a delusion. I was there. It was a confusing time in America--of high inflation, uncertainty, shameful politics in Washington, illegal political meddling in Central and South America, a recent defeat in Vietnam. We even had a name for it: "malaise." I love nostalgia. I have many times been accused of "living in the past." But I can tell you firsthand, that the past that was the '70s is nothing to aspire to. Enjoy what you can of it, as nostalgia, but it's no substitute for today. Don't waste today dreaming of something gone. Use your todays to make THEM worth remembering 50 years from now.
@@ClassicHomeMovies I was 15 in 1976 , we live in a complete different world today , 218 million Americans back then , now 335 million and the internet and cellphones, how many could afford a moving picture camera back then , not many another reason to cherish the past , and as far as today , Our society has gone to hell ,Example a piece of metal in the shape of a gun is more valuable then the lives of their Children .
@@fritterfoof5146 Yes, many changes. Some good, some bad. I bought that movie camera back then because it was a priority for me. Many more people could have had such cameras but they had other priorities instead. I refuse to accept that "our society has gone to hell." Oh, it sure seems like it's headed there! But it's up to US to change the direction of our society. All of us people of goodwill need to make that change happen wherever we can: Call out the violence that riddles our society--violent films and "entertainment" such as video games, football, boxing. I'm not kidding. Our society is so steeped in this casual violence that it can't even see that the position I just advocated is not extreme, THEIR position is extreme. The status quo is extreme. Next, call out the inept and bought-off politicians who fail to deliver for us and engage us in war after war. We need to point out the blood on the hands of the gun nuts who enable the ongoing slaughter in our schools and streets. None of this will not make you any friends, I can tell you that. But it is the right thing to do and it will give you the peace that comes with knowing you are a part of the solution and no longer an enabler of the problems. And for God's sake refuse to vote for any politician who offers only "thoughts and prayers" for gun violence victims or who votes to raise our obscene Pentagon budget. This means, of course, that you will be voting for very few Ds and absolutely NO Rs. But those politicians made their choices. They are free to do so. And we are free as well, free to send them a resounding "No!" by email, town hall, and the ballot box.
1976. I was a 16 year old high school student. I had shoulder length hair, and wore flared denims alot. I can remember Rick Dee's hit song Disco Duck on the radio. Quack , quack !.
Oh, I like the Big Boy. I don't recall a Shoney's there. I think we went to one in Green Hills maybe? I remember I bought a piano at that mall--in some music store. They had pianos that were "slightly" used at the grand opening of Opryland. I also remember the Cain-Sloan, the Castner-Knott (?) and another department store that started with the letter "H." Like "Harvey's" or something.
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A 1970s vlog. This was a treat.
Home movie, not a vlog.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar HoMe MoViE, nOt A vLoG.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar
1st it was a joke comparing to the vlogs from today.
(Can’t believe that needed an explanation)
And Home Video*
@@creativesparks2164 everything needs policing these days 😂
These people had some bucks back then. A Mercedes coupe and a camcorder. Livin large. Thanks for putting this up. ❤
Cars nowadays are much much more powerful and last longer and are safer. Most cars then were worn out and barely driveable if you were lucky enough to make it to 100k miles. The fumes were something else as well lol
He pulled out of a driveway that was on Woodmont blvd. There is absolutely no cheap real estate on Woodmont.
@@Jeff-sp7bgYour statement is true, but nothing today will be memorable tmrw. Are you going to cherish a Volvo X70?
@@styldsteel1 I will cherish my 2003 tundra Terninator edition
@@Jeff-sp7bg listen. There is nothing wrong with that.
That Benz is absolutely STUNNING
I still have it!
@@sneakerfreak2002 yess
@@ClassicHomeMovies Wow that’s awesome
@@ClassicHomeMoviesGot a video of it ?
@@mr.sanford8588 You can see a picture of me with the car back then, in the same driveway from which this film began--AND a picture of my car and me today (well, 2018)--here: www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/garage-mercedes.htm
This is surreal the quality is so good. It almost seems like the present. The only thing that looks different are the cars.
And the guy's flare leg pants.
And the way that guy said “Hey man let’s go for a joy ride.”
And the way the houses and well EVERYTHING look
Ever since I saw Back to the Future when I was 6, I've been obsessed with time travel. Since it will never happen, at least not in my lifetime, I'm so happy that people post videos like this. It really is amazing to see, and so much better than just a picture. Thanks for posting!
Time travel is real the government just dont want people to know about it
@@satans120 time travel is just not physically possible
@@jonnysnipes3123
But how do you *really* know that? So much is hidden from the general public.
Living in the past through virtual reality simulations is probably a whole lot closer than actual time travel.
Because common sense should tell you that it's physically impossible to go back in time, outside of movies, what about traveling to the past seems even minutely doable? and if it were possible don't you think everyone would be traveling back and altering the future? so nothing would ever be the future, it would be constantly changing, plus to go back in time you would have to be able to bring back dead people, replace structures that may or may not be there, go back through all the days in between, keep hoping, but not gonna ever happen, simply impossible.
November 14th, 1976 was a Sunday. I was eight years old and most likely watching an Abbott and Costello movie on WPIX channel 11, a New York station that we got in central PA, and smelling the pork chops my mom was baking for supper. I was probably thinking that tomorrow is a school day, but Thanksgiving vacation was coming soon. There is no way I could have ever imagined that, perhaps at that precise moment a few states away, someone was making a film that I would be viewing on the screen of my wireless TELEPHONE 44 1/2 years later.
Edit: I was hoping to see the inside of that mall. I'll bet it had a lot of the same stores our local mall used to have.
Oh yeah, I WISH I had filmed the inside of that mall. It would be great to see that now. Thank you for your comment. Somehow I find it a reminder that, hey, we're all in this together--let's try and enjoy it and be nice to each other. We never can know how things might intersect in the future.
Hah! I thought the same way watching this. I wasn't too far from you, Freeport, NY, watching the same thing you were and already drooling for Christmas. I was in 3rd grade, just about a month shy of turning 8. Meanwhile, cool dudes with a cool toy in a cool car were putting their trip in the can for me to watch decades later and smile about it.
the closest thing to being in the 70s I'll ever be
I'm 55 years old and did most of my "growing up" in the 70s..........i wish I could go back!
Was it nice cozy and magical
@@shanemarcotte2062 I’m the same age, so I’m right there with you buddy. Don’t you wish we were still riding our bikes to the pool and arcade and running around all night in the summer. I miss it too, bad.
@Jacey P. - I lived through the decade and survived it…if there’s anything you’d like to know, just say the word lol.
@@EYE_GOTCHA I lived through the 50's and enjoyed it so dearly, starting at age 13 and leaving as a man at 23. In nineteen hundred and fifty nine. Anything you need to know that you most likely won't ever know with my generations dwindling population, just ask just the same as you.
1976’ I was 12 years old if I could go back in time it would back to the 70s we had the best music clothes and cars ! I drive a 63’ Chevy and listen to the great music of the 70s times were simpler
I didn’t turn 16 and get my license until 1994 and I drove a 63 Ford galaxie and listen to 70s music. Somethings never change! Lol
I got my license in 1993. I bought a 1973 AMC Hornet in 1993. And I was listening to 1970's music in it. Along with the first wave of 1990s grunge and alternative music
@@clasmaster1471 thats awesome
@@chryslerelectronicleanburn1676 awesome
Back when times were awesome.
Fair Park
I wish it was the 1970s right now
One of the only home movies prior to 1979 with real sound! Very well done!
I always wanted to see life in the 70s upclose. It's pretty cool when you realize people in the 70s acted and talked the way we do today.
They talked different back then. The teens were able to communicate really well, now a days unfortunately most have social anxiety. I feel like phones are a big reason for that
@@stansmith5610 mainly the kids who have social anxiety today are the ones who’s parents have sheltered them too much
We live in a world where people are becoming a bunch of hunched over, masturbating gremlins. And then they wonder why people have poor communication skills & social anxiety.
lmao what would they act like otherwise? XD
If these were people NOW, they would be on their phones the whole video. People back then had to talk to each other.
Look at all those big, heavy cars! Lots less road rage back then.
Cars were bigger then. But they’re way heavier now. Look it up if you think I’m wrong. The “steel” then was thin sheet steel. Not that heavy. Today’s cars are basically bank vaults due to crash standards. It’s one of the reasons they aren’t as fuel efficient as they could be.
@@failranch9542 No, they are plastic piles of garbage. They are heavy because of all the airbags, electronics, miles of wiring, all of the sound deadening, and everything else they added to the cars.
Sure, airbags made them "safer", but they had air bags in the early '70's and nobody wanted them. If they where optional now, nobody would buy them.
I still do appreciate you pointing out how bloated modern cars are, and, you're also correct that their MPG is garbage too.
People get the false impression that plastic is light, but they don't consider how much thicker it has to be in order to replace steel.
@@l337pwnagewhat about cybertrucks
Every car here is just fantastic
except the Vega
Yeah, they're beautiful. Before democrats mandated that the only legal car to build is something that looks exactly like a Honda Fit. A hundred million Honda Fit lookalikes, all the same, all look like melted bars of soap, so boring. I wish I still lived in a country that wasn't such an assault on aesthetics
Born in 97 here, I hate the current day and age we live in and especially being apart of this generation sort of so I love watching these lately
Same with me and I was born in 2001
Same with me! I love these old family videos. I was born in 2004 May.
@@GavinGardner2004 that sounds great man 👍
Same here born 95
mad “pick me! pick me!” energy
Remarkably high visual quality and sound? Someone paid a pretty penny for this camera.
Looks like it was restored a bit, there's some rather digital-looking artifacts. AI upres?
Vintage film clips from the early-mid 1970’s, especially ones as rare as this one, are totally fascinating to me. I was alive when this was shot, but a 5 year old is only just starting to process memory in any significant way. So thanks for this!
My earliest memories were from when I was just below 3 years old. From May 1997-now! And my bday is July 18th.
Video was shot on: November 14, 1976
Me watching it on RUclips for the first time: November 14, 2023 😮
The cars were absolutely stunning
This is my new favorite movie. Some of my favorite lines are "HUH??" and "DON'T HIT THAT GUUUYYYYYY!"
Thanks! Hard to believe these brilliant lines are entirely unscripted.
Wow, the first RUclips video was shot in 1976! Who knew?
Funny how my head just slotted right back in there. It was 1976 again, just like it's always been. Thanks for this slice of our youth.
Saab 96, Mazda RX-3 and a Pagoda Roof Mercedes (stickshift!).
Did not expect to see in Tennessee 1976. Great carspotting video.
hi hi, you spotted the Saab 96 too, just drove mine today and it's 100000000000000000 times more fun than anything produced today😎😎😎
@@ivarjonsson3458 Where else are you gonna get Four on the Tree and a V4?
No phones, no GPS. The way it should be.
No phones? How did people post to social media while driving??
@@joeysplats3209 I think you're in the wrong decade
Ahh the old days of using fold out maps.
How else did people virtue signal and show how great of a time that they had without instantly uploading it 🤷♂️ the whole purpose of going to a destination is to post it online and brag about how great of a time it was as they mindless scroll through their messages oblivious to the actual good time that they’re having…
Just a friend and a dashboard cigarette lighter
47 years ago.
Hope these guys are doing well.
Thanks for the videos
Sadly the driver of the car went last year to that great Mall in the sky. I, the out-of-focus guy with the camera, am doing fine. Thanks. ... Oh, and I still have that car.
@@ClassicHomeMoviesI was born in Nashville 13 months after this was filmed.
What a treasure this is! You had fun playing with that zoom. :) I'm writing a story that takes place in a mall in the 70s. So great to have this image on hand. Thank you for sharing
This is probably the most pristine home video footage from the 70s that I have ever seen. Amazing. I do have to admit though, one of my favorite documentaries is the Thin Blue Line, and when I saw the date of November 14 It hit me that 14 days after this footage was shot - the life of a man by the name of Randall Dale Adams will forever be altered when he decides to pick up a teenage hitchhiker and would be murderer Ray David Harris. Sorry, I mentioned that, but I love the footage since I like cloudy looking skies.
the 70s were full of those hitchhiking murder type stories, as well as a lot of kidnappings, abductions, that's the reason I'm here watching (think John Wayne Gacy, or Norris Bittaker)
I'm a Nashville native, born in '82. It's really cool to recognize this area and see how different it looked. My son and I go to 100 Oaks every Monday for his appointments. The mall is now part of Vanderbilt Medical Center. I remember when the mall was "rebirthed" for a while in the mid 90s too.
yeah i was trying to figure out intersections. And i loved the 90's 100 oaks kinda comeback. Big Tex singing in the food court. Nothing like eating cheap food as a robot sings Garth Brooks.
this is higher in quality than most 70s footage i’ve seen
Guy was using an expensive camera. Film is higher quality than digital 1080p if preserved. I mean just watch 70s movies
@@introsation9411 that's a movie, not a home video
Because it's clearly VHS/Betamax footage, not Super 8 film reel like most 70s Home movies.
@@BlackSabbathfanclearly the opposite film is much better as you can scan it as hd, tape is always locked at low res
@@ambivalentonion2620 Huh?
Omg thank you thank you thank you. I always wondered what things/places/people/outdoors looked and sounded like other than just being in pictures. This is so special to me, the closest thing I'll ever get to knowing what the 70's looked and sounded like! I bet it was beautiful living through those times.
Man if only they had gone in and filmed that… nostalgia overload
You just blew my mind. Will never see guitar center the same 😂
I didn't see the Guitar Center.
The footage quality is surprisingly good. Better than some feature films from the time. It's really cool to catch a glimpse of my home a couple of years before I was born.
This really is incredible. I feel like I physically got into a time machine and went back. Tears of joy and sadness. Those were simpler times. I miss it
I was 3 days old when this was filmed, yet I feel that I am much more suited to have been born in my parents or even grandparents era. I just love everything retro.
I was 11 months old when this was shot. Great vintage video. Love the old cars.
I was in the navy back then but I love these old cars still
Just wanted to give you a shout out from capital records here on music 🎶 row this was the year l graduating from Hillsboro high school l sure miss the good old days 100 oaks was the place to shop we go from reality to a memory some times it sad , this video was taken on my brothers birthday ,
So fascinating. I've been to 100 Oaks a few times and crossed those bridges there on Woodmont many times. I didn't realize how different it used to look. If only you'd gotten a shot of the traffic on I-65 below. This was back before everyone started moving to Nashville, and I'm sure I'd like to have the traffic from that time back!
To. I'm. Ouch. Jakkew. When. I. Lived. On. Battlefield. Dr. I. Watched. Them. Move. House. After. House. On. My. Street. In. The. Late. 60s. And. Early. 70s. I. Watched. Them. Take. Out. The. Tenn. Central. Rail. Road. And. Interstate. 440. Came. In. What. A. Headache. My. Friend s. Back. Yard. Was. Cut. In. Half. Your. Traffic. Is. Un. Real. Now. I. Guess. They. Call. That. Progress. S0. Many. People. Danny Malliard
I was born in 99 but a 70s enthusiast. Seeing this right here is really astonishing, yet I always wonder how would it be like growing up in this era.
Lol....As a kid back then....Best of times....Worst of times lol.....Wish I could go back and re live those times.
@@davemardon6756 best music came in that era in my opinion 👌
@@chrisalugbuo467 My 1st concert in 1976 was 15 ZZ tops world wide Texas tour , tickets 5 bucks .
I was born in 1963 in upstate NY - @45 miles where the Woodstock festival was held on Farmer Brown's farm. I vividly remember my mother not letting me play in the front yard. She told me "Hippies could come and kidnap me." Part of me thought that might be a great thing. The 70s we really didn't worry about much, had amazing music of all types, and people had a live and let live attitude. Sad to say today that is no longer true. I think social media has gotten a lot of people to feel their opinion is always right and many have become a bigot. Also, a lot of the media now wants to divide us. Sad, very sad in what is gone now.
How is this not a national treasure it's probably first vlog ever made
Thank you! You made my day!
Wow! I've lived in Nashville for over twenty years. This was filmed on my fourth birthday. So cool to see what it looked like back then. It's crazy how much of the early drive hasn't changed (other than the tall skinnies here and there).
I was in Nashville at that time--3 years old--almost 4--grew up there and then moved to TX. I remember 100 Oaks Mall by name mostly--didn't go there much. I think we usually went to Rivergate and Hickory Hollow.
@@countreekidd Same. I recall 100 Oaks, but I seem to remember Rivergate and Hickory Hollow much more clearly.
This 1970s video is freaking awesome old cars old homes and the way they used to talk back in the day 1976 rock on 🤘 Fantastic and great video 🤘
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Having a camera back then especially with sound was expensive. Very few people even back in the 70's had personal hand held video cameras and the ones that did spent a pretty penny. It wasn't until the mid 80's when video cameras for the regular American grew.
We had an 8mm in 73 but no sound
Yes! In January 1982, my Dad bought a vhs system, but in the 70's most people had 8mm or super 8 silent. This is probably 16mm at 24fps. Never seen anything like this.
That car was expensive too, so probably could afford the camera no problem.
2 companies made a very rudementary camcorder back in. Sony and panadonic. It had a carrying case and a shoulder mounted camera. It retailed for about 2000$ in 1976 almost 10,000$ today. The camcorder as we know it where a vcr tape was physically in the camera was introduced in 1983 shoulder mounted
@@richardsussman5446I was going to say, whoever they are they already had to be making a pretty handsome living. that area has always been known as well to do. I was born in 77 and grew up in the berry hill area right across from the 100 oaks mall
I was on the street s at that time going from friends house to house trying to find food now I am almost retired life’s crazy got to love it
The intro/beginning affect was so ahead of it's time. I'm only 35 but my role model father figure graduation was in '74 so I've had a deep fascination with this time period and how it was/looked. Hey thanks so much this is really cool.
Looks like they weren't as to do the editing they intended - they shot the guy leaving from a distance and then reenacted the footage from inside the car. The part of him backing up and should have been cut.
I practically lived at 100 Oaks Mall..I turned 18 that year & bought a 73 M.G miget across the street on Thompson Ln..Then moved to Anchorage Ak & worked on the pipe line for over a year. ..Guitar Center is about the only thing open at 100 Oaks i heard...Peace.
Amen to peace, brother. Oh yeah, I looked at the MGB and the Midgets. Almost bought an MGB but it was thoroughly thrashed. I remember looking at the new Midgets around this time. I forget the name of the dealer. Across from Beaman Pontiac, I think. I bought my only new car--a Fiat 850 Sport Spyder--at Madison Smith in '74. As small as a midget. Wasn't there a Woolco on the far side of the mall? I remember Giant foods. But I remember little else about what was IN the mall. Just a piano store where I bought a Yamaha piano that was (slightly) used at Opryland on opening day.
I really thought the shot would come into focus when he put his glasses on. :(
Just got my drivers license in June of 76. Made that drive from belle meade thousands of times. Crazy cave would have been the destination!
I grew up in Nashville and remember the robot in that malls food court then I went to a college fair there AND THEN it was my doctors office hahah this was so awesome to see it and to see where walmart is now. Thanks man!
OMG! the video suddenly became about that 250SL.
I have that exact blue diecast model sitting on a shelf in my collection.
A wonderful machine.
I love this. Beautiful car. Thanks!
Thank YOU!
I’m so fascinated and love the cars from the 70s. These cars that where once 2k are up in price in CA so hard to get a classic now ridiculous how much people ask for there old school cars
This was filmed a month and 3 days before I was born. Pretty crazy to see how it was just another day for these guys, and I was in my mother’s womb.
This is great 😄 I was 14 in 76, (turned 15 in early October) Jacksonville Florida, I remember so much.
1976 was a good year for me. I graduated high school,got my first car and my first full-time job.I'm a bit north of you guys (Baltimore MD). I want to go back!!
The cars are what I love most of the 70s & 80s
That was actually cool. I was just 16 when this was filmed, had my driver's license for 5 months by November. Amazing how different things are from today. One almost forgets how things have changed until you watch these videos.
Wow, this is old! Beautiful cars.
I took a lot of silent home movies in the 60's-70's. I sure wish I had purchased the sound equipment. Thanks for posting.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I wish I could've lived through that era. You were doing it right with that gorgeous MB!
I agree with you and me too
Why ? You'd be old. I was 15 in 1968, and I'm 70 living just outside Nashville. My wife and I, lived in Berry Hill from 1980 to 2012, so I have seen quite a few changes myself, while we lived there, including the building of I-440 in back of our house.
If anyone has home movies with sound recording TV programs from the 60s & 70s, please post them here on RUclips
In November 76 i was in 2nd grade. Hard to believe this filmed then
In 1979 I was in 10th grade in upstate NY where I grew up. My 1982 I was in Nashville and 100 Oaks Mall still looked that way, but there were few early 70s cars like I saw in the video. Today, the mall still has a few retail stores, but the majority of it houses Vanderbilt Medical Centers clinics and outpatient services to do various procedures. When I've been there for appointments, I can't help but walk through the main hallways and recall the stores that were once there.
Where upstate? I’m up by Syracuse
RUclips really is the closest thing we have to time travel
Transmission whine typical of that time love it
Great video. I remember shopping at this mall as a kid & I also remember this area (before) the Walmart, Carmax, Wendy's, Logan's & everything else came along. Lol.
Born and raised in Nashville. Had family in all parts of the town from Madison, Inglewood, East Nashville, Greenhills and West Nashville in the nations. Knew the roads like the back of my hand in those days.
It’s a crazy little video but I had to watch it twice! Couple months before I was born.
That must have cost a lot of money even back in the 1976 when sound for a video camera and very few people had them. As the top comment said, it wasn't until the mid 80's when the average American bought these camera. Hell my parents didn't get a video camera until I was born in the mid 80's.
I live near Nashville so this was a treat to see!
So cool!! I love this video! I was 5 when this was made. I grew up in Nashville and remember going to 100 Oaks and The Mall at Green Hills all the time in my teens and early 20’s. The mall building is still there (at Powell Ave), but it is now part of Vanderbilt Health.
Woodmont doesn’t look the same at all as it did here. I was looking on Google Earth to see if I could find this house. With all the new construction that has replaced older homes, I was shocked it hasn’t been demolished. The address is 1497 Woodmont Blvd. It looks like the owners sold it 5 years after this video, in 1981.
The pool/backyard is featured more in another of this channel owners videos.
When my uncle first immigrated to the US in 1974 he lived in Nashville TN, drove a Chevy nova. He would have been somewhere in the vicinity as a young man when and where this was filmed
Great Video from back in the happy days of life the 70’s !😊. Love seeing the cars from back then was hoping to have seen my favorite kinda car a 70’s Lincoln Town Car on the highway or in the mall parking lot.
This is very clear. It looks like it could’ve been taken today with one of those iMovie filters on after
Oh man, too bad you did not film inside the mall! Seeing a 1976 mall with sound? That would have been priceless footage. In the 80's when camcorders came out, it was a lot more common, but in 1976? That would've been something.
Awesome. How this has only 1k views I'll never know.
GOD BLESS
Thanks! Tell your friends! . . .
Cars looked so much better back then
Great trip down memory lane. It wasn't visible in this movie, but I know the statue with the horses was still there just north of Woodmont, just before the bridge.
I was a senior in West Nashville I drove Woodmont Blvd many times
I've driven that stretch of road hundreds of times.. going to the mall.. Franklin.. Green Hill's.. where I worked in the 80's/90's.. wow ..what good memories
WOW! This is the BEST home movie footage I've ever seen. This must be 16mm/ 24fps, it's really clear.
Thanks. No, it's Super 8 at 18fps.
I work at an EMS station near this mall and it’s surreal to see this, and know it’s exactly the same spot.
Imagine if you actually got to live back then and have the memories and experience to juxtapose against today. Now'd be like being time traveled into a dystopian nightmare future because you can literally still feel and remember how it used to be just like it was yesterday. We were so much more important to each other back then, it made things matter and have meaning. It was such a vibe! So much more simple, fun and free. Life was easier. More jobs and better jobs, and things were cheap! Even college, homes and cars were cheap then. I was watching Corvette Summer, a silly but great movie from the 70s the other day and it made me miss the spirit of the way things were. Dazed and Confused is another good movie that brings back some memories.
Well, yes. I DID get to live back then. And I have the memories. And I'm still kicking today. I am, in fact, the owner of the car in the video, and the out of focus guy shooting most of the film as my friend drove the car. I do not live in a dystopian nightmare today. I think some do, but I do not. We were NOT more important to each other back then. Things matter as much now as then and have as much meaning now as then. Things were no more simple, fun, or free than they are today in most respects. Life was most certainly NOT easier for me or most people then. Good jobs were tough to find then, as now. Some things were wildly more expensive then, compared to today. A mediocre 19" TV set would cost you $300 then, which is comparatively WAY more than today. But I paid $6 a month for health insurance in 1976. Six dollars! College was way cheaper then because state colleges were essentially free. Homes and cars are roughly the same today as then. Use an inflation calculator and see the real, inflation-adjusted numbers. It was NEVER easy to buy a house. NEVER. I've bought 4 and each time it seemed I was going WAY out on a limb. The "spirit" of the '70s is a delusion. I was there. It was a confusing time in America--of high inflation, uncertainty, shameful politics in Washington, illegal political meddling in Central and South America, a recent defeat in Vietnam. We even had a name for it: "malaise." I love nostalgia. I have many times been accused of "living in the past." But I can tell you firsthand, that the past that was the '70s is nothing to aspire to. Enjoy what you can of it, as nostalgia, but it's no substitute for today. Don't waste today dreaming of something gone. Use your todays to make THEM worth remembering 50 years from now.
@@ClassicHomeMovies I was 15 in 1976 , we live in a complete different world today , 218 million Americans back then , now 335 million and the internet and cellphones, how many could afford a moving picture camera back then , not many another reason to cherish the past , and as far as today , Our society has gone to hell ,Example a piece of metal in the shape of a gun is more valuable then the lives of their Children .
@@fritterfoof5146 Yes, many changes. Some good, some bad. I bought that movie camera back then because it was a priority for me. Many more people could have had such cameras but they had other priorities instead. I refuse to accept that "our society has gone to hell." Oh, it sure seems like it's headed there! But it's up to US to change the direction of our society. All of us people of goodwill need to make that change happen wherever we can: Call out the violence that riddles our society--violent films and "entertainment" such as video games, football, boxing. I'm not kidding. Our society is so steeped in this casual violence that it can't even see that the position I just advocated is not extreme, THEIR position is extreme. The status quo is extreme. Next, call out the inept and bought-off politicians who fail to deliver for us and engage us in war after war. We need to point out the blood on the hands of the gun nuts who enable the ongoing slaughter in our schools and streets. None of this will not make you any friends, I can tell you that. But it is the right thing to do and it will give you the peace that comes with knowing you are a part of the solution and no longer an enabler of the problems. And for God's sake refuse to vote for any politician who offers only "thoughts and prayers" for gun violence victims or who votes to raise our obscene Pentagon budget. This means, of course, that you will be voting for very few Ds and absolutely NO Rs. But those politicians made their choices. They are free to do so. And we are free as well, free to send them a resounding "No!" by email, town hall, and the ballot box.
I went to college and lived in this neighborhood from 2003-2014. It wasn't much different then.
So neat seeing this! 1497 Woodmont Blvd... house is still there - about the only one left. All the others are new McMansions
It was a stone house. Built like a... rock.
The quality is Mint👍Totally enjoyed it!!! Nice ride😎✌
My dad lived off Springbrook Dr.They pass it in this video. I was 5 years old. Pretty cool.
I live in Nashville, first time seeing 100 oaks in the 70’s 🤯🤯
Wow I was three years old
I was 6 months old. 😅😅😅 Didn't move to Tennessee until '78.
Enjoyed the video 😊 I was 15 in 1976
Ours doesn't have sound. Very cool. Thanks for sharing
Malls. Stores. You could buy stuff. Whenever you wanted to. Wow.
Beautiful old Benz. I always park away from other cars too. Saves on door dings and forces me to walk a bit.
Flashback! I can’t count how many times I have driven that stretch of road.
My family and I. Had just moved to nashville in Sept 1976. Lived on ocala ct north. Off nolensville rd.
Was 14 years old in 76, the bicentennial summer, was drinking alcohol and smoking pot on a daily basis .
1976. I was a 16 year old high school student. I had shoulder length hair, and wore flared denims alot. I can remember Rick Dee's hit song Disco Duck on the radio. Quack , quack !.
I remember you!
@@ClassicHomeMovies I remember you too !
This is Great ! Thanks for sharing
Thank you.
I was 7 yrs old. I lived about 2 miles away. Was at the mall often eating at the shoneys big boy!!
Oh, I like the Big Boy. I don't recall a Shoney's there. I think we went to one in Green Hills maybe? I remember I bought a piano at that mall--in some music store. They had pianos that were "slightly" used at the grand opening of Opryland. I also remember the Cain-Sloan, the Castner-Knott (?) and another department store that started with the letter "H." Like "Harvey's" or something.