I have to tell you, though…by the time I started my journey of growing up in the 70s, San Francisco had already lost its innocence a good 8-10 years earlier, as sex, drugs and rock and roll had overtaken the city as well as all of the Bay Area.
August 1975 was a great month, and I missed most of the things in this video. I was in Germany visiting my grandparents, aunts, uncles and assorted cousins on my mother's side. 14 year old me was delighted to find out that there was no minimum legal drinking age (back then at least). 🍻🍺😁👍👍👍
Love Charles Bronson. Charlotte Rampling....what a great pair of legs and I loved her in that episode of The Avengers she was in (The Superlative Seven) and, of course, Zardoz. The two drive-ins my family would go to back then are long gone. One Ford expanded their plant onto the lot and the other is mostly parking lot for a strip mall. Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton were terrific character actors. Oates died far too soon. And KC and the Sunshine Band could be heard everywhere one went. Keep'em coming Fred.
Fred, I'm proud to say that here in Rhode Island we have a drive-in that does pretty good business, the Rustic Drive-In on Route 146 South in North Smithfield (aka Eddie Dowling Highway). They run from April to late September and show in-demand first-run movies.
I was 16 yrs old and a junior in high school,,no worries,,just wake up and get ready for school,,and go to the high school dances which was a big thing for us,,without no problems at all,,just having a good time..and ofc good music..
The end of one of my greatest summer's. Turned 11 this month. Got the Original soundtrack to Tommy and Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare albums for my birthday. Learned how to water ski and tubing. Spent time with my neighbor Laurie who played Magic by Pilot over and over again.
This was a special time in my childhood. I was 5 years old, and my parents were getting ready to surprise my kid brother & I with our new split-level house in Vallejo, CA that we bought for all of $34,000 (!). We moved in just the next month, over Labor Day Weekend. My parents still live in that house, and it will be 49 years this September.
I especially love it that you chose to focus on memories from the Bay Area and Sacramento. Northern California is where I grew up & where most of my family still lives.
Fred, GRAMANIMALS, OMG. I was 7years old in 75’. My mom would take me to SEARS to buy them with myBuster Browns. Holly Cow. I completely forgot about them. Thank you for the memory. I love your channel and subscribed. 👍🏿👏🏿🙏🏿
There is still a local drive-in theatre here in Auburn, NY as well, the finger lakes drive-in. I turned 18 on August 25th 1975, Bruce Springsteen's album Born to Run was released on my 18th birthday. I was a fan of his back then but not anymore.
One of the movies on TV that year was “Rhythm on the River,” in which Bing Crosby mourns that he’d never written a song as good as the never-heard “Goodbye to Love.” When Richard Carpenter saw this film, it inspired him to borrow that title for the Carpenters’ hit song.
Captures the times very well. Thanks, Fred. Rough summer thanks to a camp I hated … and was about to only get rougher with a move to a new school in September. Christmas would be tough, too. 1976 would be much better. But for now - thanks to a kid’s ability to enjoy the present (probably instilled in all of us by God as a survival mechanism) - life was good. Always enjoyed War’s Latin flavored r&b.
I was almost certainly conceived in a drive-in theater -- that's something that is pretty hard to do in an indoor theater! I wouldn't go back to 1975 for any amount of money, not unless I could make some very different decisions about my life. By August, I was staying in my sister's spare room, then in my car. The one bright spot was that I saw Monty Python on PBS tv for the first time.
As a little kid growing up in San Jose, CA in the 70s, thank you for posting the TV Guide pages. I remember watching the cartoons on Channel 44 with the voice of the late and great Dr. Don Rose announcing the upcoming shows with all of his crazy sound effects.
Five Easy Pieces wasn't a great movie, but the diner scene is gold! "Wait a minute, I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes on the plate, a cup of coffee and a side order of wheat toast." "I'm sorry we don't have any side orders of toast, I can give you an English muffin or a coffee roll." "What do you mean you don't make side orders of toast, you make sandwiches don't you?" "Would you like to talk to the manager?" "You've got bread. And a toaster of some kind?" It gets real good from there.
@@FredFlix OK, I'll have to rewatch the movie. Nicholson was great in A Few Good Men with Tom Cruise and Demi Moore in which he played Col. Jessup, and in Terms of Endearment with Shirley MacLaine in which he plays a retired astronaut.
Good old KBHK Channel 44 in San Francisco! Transmitted from Sutro Tower and ironically had to be cable channel 12 for residents! My mom would give us a hard time when we wanted to watch afternoon cartoons on the UHF channel on TV because of the picture quality we would often get! Haha!
In Playboy that month, it was back to the beach with it's centerfold, actress Jean Manson, all wet and almost swept away by the waves. The previous issue featured Laura Blears (Ching) on the beach surfing in her birthday suit. The magazine focused a lot on the beach while the movies made it scary to go there because of Jaws.
Love the look back, Fred. Charles Bronson was once the #1 boxoffice draw. Kodak: They TOTALLY blew it. They dominated the world of taking pictures, but they ignored the digital revolution, and paid the price. Now they're but a shadow of what they were. I have fond memories of the drive in in the 60s. My sister and me played on the swings before dark. The last movie I saw there was Mandingo, with my mom and grandma. There's a drive in a mile from me. Still in business!
@@FredFlix That's sad to hear, Fred, but I'm not surprised. With only an occasional exception (such as Christopher Nolan), movies are no longer shot on or projected on film. You have to go to as revival theater to see film. I do live in an area where I can see old movies on film.
Entered basic training Aug 4 th at Lackland AFB after a month of concerts and hard partying. Life was so much simpler then. I feel bad for the kids now growing up in this insane world. Exposed to so much filth and garbage in the media, in the schools, big tech. We were lucky enough to be able to have a childhood. Those days I'm afraid are gone
We have the SUNSET DRIVE IN in COLCHESTER VERMONT that does a brisk business in the summer because of all the Canadian Boaters that come to LAKE CHAMPLAIN every year.
Thanks Again Fred…for “ Spring Cleaning “ my memory…My first summer out of High School , working at Creative Day Camp in Yonkers NY…did a lot of growing up at that time…as for drive-ins, we had one a mile from my house…the Whitestone, and by’75, they added a second screen to make money, they were gone a few years later…
i know the Eagles got their start with Linda but i guess they were bigger then her in 75 - 8 bucks for best seats on a summer night in august - not bad plus a buck fifty for gas and parking !
It was my heyday and there were great times and music , but I also remember the Viet nam mistake and Nixon had left the place divided and unstable . The good old days are rarely exclusively good as your use patriotic symbols would suggest.
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I graduated from college in 1975. I still think the 70's was the best decade.
Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight. The innocence of 1975.
Do a little coke...
And all that music was announced by the late great Dr. Don Rose on The Big 610, KFRC. Those were the days!😎
I have to tell you, though…by the time I started my journey of growing up in the 70s, San Francisco had already lost its innocence a good 8-10 years earlier, as sex, drugs and rock and roll had overtaken the city as well as all of the Bay Area.
Zekeonstormpeak,
How do you make a tissue dance?
Put a little boogie in it.😵💫😆
@@mananimal3644 I'm your Boogie Man
TV Guide! I remember that! 🥴
As usual Fred, a episode of memories that makes you long for a time that was wonderful to be alive.
Glad you enjoyed it, Eric.
August 1975 was a great month, and I missed most of the things in this video. I was in Germany visiting my grandparents, aunts, uncles and assorted cousins on my mother's side. 14 year old me was delighted to find out that there was no minimum legal drinking age (back then at least). 🍻🍺😁👍👍👍
Love Charles Bronson. Charlotte Rampling....what a great pair of legs and I loved her in that episode of The Avengers she was in (The Superlative Seven) and, of course, Zardoz. The two drive-ins my family would go to back then are long gone. One Ford expanded their plant onto the lot and the other is mostly parking lot for a strip mall. Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton were terrific character actors. Oates died far too soon. And KC and the Sunshine Band could be heard everywhere one went. Keep'em coming Fred.
I'm on it, Doug. Special edition coming Saturday from 1970.
Going to bed in 1975, waking up tomorrow in 2024. Thanks for the brief escape.
Who would ever think we would go from a great era to one that stinks today! We were more relaxed and not high strung and people had respect.
It seems that l recall the commercials more so than the T.V. programs of said year.
Thanks Fred 😊
We didn't like the commercials when they first aired, Gary. Now we miss them.
Born in 1970 it was fun being a child of the 70s. I love all these videos from that era.
Fred, I'm proud to say that here in Rhode Island we have a drive-in that does pretty good business, the Rustic Drive-In on Route 146 South in North Smithfield (aka Eddie Dowling Highway). They run from April to late September and show in-demand first-run movies.
I am from Rhode Island also. While I was watching this, I was wondering if the drive-in was still open. 😊
I love drive ins
That's great, Ernest. I have to travel 60 miles. And the picture is blurry because it's a projected computer file and not film.
Been to the Rustic many times.....what a true American gem.
@@Ij-jan yes it is
Dang! I haven't heard Why Can't We Be Friends for a looooooooooooooong time! 🥴
I was 14 for half the year and then 15 - GREAT time to be alive AND a teenager! Thanks Fred, for the awesome memories!
You're welcome, Nunetc.
Better Days and Times Indeed! Thank you Fred!
You're welcome, Robert.
I was 16 yrs old and a junior in high school,,no worries,,just wake up and get ready for school,,and go to the high school dances which was a big thing for us,,without no problems at all,,just having a good time..and ofc good music..
Its call living at home .
Another fun trip down memory lane!
Thank you, Sir!
You're welcome, Nick.
The end of one of my greatest summer's. Turned 11 this month. Got the Original soundtrack to Tommy and Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare albums for my birthday. Learned how to water ski and tubing. Spent time with my neighbor Laurie who played Magic by Pilot over and over again.
I miss those days so much. Thank you.
You're welcome, lj-jan. Or is it just Jan?
@@FredFlix you are absolutely correct it is Jan. Thanks for asking.
@@Ij-jan Good to know, Jan.
Thank you Fred! I love these videos!❤
I think I'm doing my best work here, Chantelle. Special edition coming Saturday: 1970!
I turned 29 in 1975😊
This was a special time in my childhood. I was 5 years old, and my parents were getting ready to surprise my kid brother & I with our new split-level house in Vallejo, CA that we bought for all of $34,000 (!). We moved in just the next month, over Labor Day Weekend. My parents still live in that house, and it will be 49 years this September.
I especially love it that you chose to focus on memories from the Bay Area and Sacramento. Northern California is where I grew up & where most of my family still lives.
As always Fred............Thanks..
You're welcome, Rick.
Riding BMX with my buddies.
RIP drive in movies. They saw the future perfectly on that one
Great video ❤️❤️
Thanks, Eric.
Fred,
GRAMANIMALS, OMG.
I was 7years old in 75’. My mom would take me to SEARS to buy them with myBuster Browns. Holly Cow. I completely forgot about them. Thank you for the memory.
I love your channel and subscribed.
👍🏿👏🏿🙏🏿
Welcome aboard, mananimal.
Was 15 the summer of 75. Looking back it was probably the best summer of my life. The music was great that summer.
What great memories. I would have loved to have seen the Eagles. Thanks much.
Geezus, haven't heard Garanimals in forever...
They sell Granimals at Walmart
Emergency,The Munsters,Mod Squad,Truth or Consequences,Concentration,Good Times,EJ, KC,Born To Run,and KC.Great year!
I was 12 yrs old. I remember all this ❤❤
Man, what great music! I could listen to your tunes all day Fred, thanks for another fun show. Love reliving 1975 😊❤
You're welcome, Doug. So much more in the pipeline.
I was 11. Living in a huge old house and waiting for Friday night tv and Saturday's for Creature Double Feature. What a great life.
There is still a local drive-in theatre here in Auburn, NY as well, the finger lakes drive-in. I turned 18 on August 25th 1975, Bruce Springsteen's album Born to Run was released on my 18th birthday. I was a fan of his back then but not anymore.
One of the movies on TV that year was “Rhythm on the River,” in which Bing Crosby mourns that he’d never written a song as good as the never-heard “Goodbye to Love.” When Richard Carpenter saw this film, it inspired him to borrow that title for the Carpenters’ hit song.
Thanks Fred 👍
That news report was SOOOO right about drive-ins. There were six in my area at one time and they were all gone by the mid 1980s.
I used to drive to Berkeley from Antioch & listened to these tunes on my long-ass drive
Captures the times very well. Thanks, Fred. Rough summer thanks to a camp I hated … and was about to only get rougher with a move to a new school in September. Christmas would be tough, too. 1976 would be much better. But for now - thanks to a kid’s ability to enjoy the present (probably instilled in all of us by God as a survival mechanism) - life was good. Always enjoyed War’s Latin flavored r&b.
Chris, I had many struggles and challenges during the '70s and the only way to survive was to compartmentalize and immerse myself in pop culture.
@@FredFlix Absolutely! Fortunately some great comics, music, movies and television happened along at the same time. 👍
Ahhh, I just got my Fred Fix!
I'm sure you mean FRED fix, Borella.
@@FredFlix I did - I just edit - thanks for the pick up!
1975…. 14 years old and starting high school in a small town in central Illinois. Thanks for the memory jog, Fred!
My pleasure, Dave.
Great Fred. That little snippet about the future of the drive-in theater was definitely foretelling. Thanks again Fred 👍
Sure thing, Gregg.
I was sooo hooked on Elton John. 🎶🎵🎶 We'll have to wait til '77 for James Taylor's JT. No worries, I'll be around. 💜🤟
I trust you will, Mercedes.
I loved the drive inn, I got my license in 1974.
Those TV Guide listings are classics. I grew up with TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly etc.
I was almost certainly conceived in a drive-in theater -- that's something that is pretty hard to do in an indoor theater!
I wouldn't go back to 1975 for any amount of money, not unless I could make some very different decisions about my life. By August, I was staying in my sister's spare room, then in my car. The one bright spot was that I saw Monty Python on PBS tv for the first time.
My family had a week or 2 of vacation in Maine this month. Bar Harbor, ME, is still the farthest East I've been so far.
Remind me what state you're in, Jon....
@@FredFlix I live in TX now, but I was born in NY State and lived there until I was 11.
Concert tickets costing $6 to $8 each is just mind-blowing to people that go to concerts these days.
5 finger OZ , 25.00
As a little kid growing up in San Jose, CA in the 70s, thank you for posting the TV Guide pages. I remember watching the cartoons on Channel 44 with the voice of the late and great Dr. Don Rose announcing the upcoming shows with all of his crazy sound effects.
Happy to oblige, someguy.
Know what year I'm waiting on? 1976. I'm sure the Bicentennial was fun.
I've already made that video, HFTC, and I'm going to arrange the postings so that the Bicentennial edition will be posted July 4.
Five Easy Pieces wasn't a great movie, but the diner scene is gold!
"Wait a minute, I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes on the plate, a cup of coffee and a side order of wheat toast."
"I'm sorry we don't have any side orders of toast, I can give you an English muffin or a coffee roll."
"What do you mean you don't make side orders of toast, you make sandwiches don't you?"
"Would you like to talk to the manager?"
"You've got bread. And a toaster of some kind?"
It gets real good from there.
I know it by heart too, George. It's my favorite Nicholson movie, even over Cuckoo's Nest, Chinatown, Batman and the rest.
@@FredFlix OK, I'll have to rewatch the movie. Nicholson was great in A Few Good Men with Tom Cruise and Demi Moore in which he played Col. Jessup, and in Terms of Endearment with Shirley MacLaine in which he plays a retired astronaut.
@@georgehenderson7783 Loved both those performances, as well as Carnal Knowledge. He's my all-time favorite.
Good old KBHK Channel 44 in San Francisco! Transmitted from Sutro Tower and ironically had to be cable channel 12 for residents! My mom would give us a hard time when we wanted to watch afternoon cartoons on the UHF channel on TV because of the picture quality we would often get! Haha!
Love how current music at the time are added..Great job Fred!
The JC Penney $6 jeans commercial is fantastic! Thank you, FredFlix
You're welcome, KK.
Thank you once again Fred and have a blessed day🙏
You're welcome, Bridget. You as well.
Sad to hear about the decline of the Drive-in Theater in 1975. And I sure remember that weirdo jeans ad from JC Penney.
Thanks, FredFlix. 😁
You're welcome, Luis.
In Playboy that month, it was back to the beach with it's centerfold, actress Jean Manson, all wet and almost swept away by the waves. The previous issue featured Laura Blears (Ching) on the beach surfing in her birthday suit. The magazine focused a lot on the beach while the movies made it scary to go there because of Jaws.
I loved Ryan's Hope
Left San Jose, California for Naples, Florida that August.
What a weird feeling of different cultures.
FREDDY... 9:15, past your bedtime. Now scoot!
You sound just like my mom. RIP.
Love the look back, Fred. Charles Bronson was once the #1 boxoffice draw. Kodak: They TOTALLY blew it. They dominated the world of taking pictures, but they ignored the digital revolution, and paid the price. Now they're but a shadow of what they were. I have fond memories of the drive in in the 60s. My sister and me played on the swings before dark. The last movie I saw there was Mandingo, with my mom and grandma. There's a drive in a mile from me. Still in business!
Robert, I've found that at drive-ins today the picture is not sharp. They're using a projection from a computer file, I guess, instead of film.
@@FredFlix That's sad to hear, Fred, but I'm not surprised. With only an occasional exception (such as Christopher Nolan), movies are no longer shot on or projected on film. You have to go to as revival theater to see film. I do live in an area where I can see old movies on film.
Entered basic training Aug 4 th at Lackland AFB after a month of concerts and hard partying. Life was so much simpler then. I feel bad for the kids now growing up in this insane world. Exposed to so much filth and garbage in the media, in the schools, big tech. We were lucky enough to be able to have a childhood. Those days I'm afraid are gone
I was 18 and living in San Gabriel valley.. Great times and great place at that time. Drive Ins everywhere.
Adore your videos!
We have the SUNSET DRIVE IN in COLCHESTER VERMONT that does a brisk business in the summer because of all the Canadian Boaters that come to LAKE CHAMPLAIN every year.
Thanks Again Fred…for “ Spring Cleaning “ my memory…My first summer out of High School , working at Creative Day Camp in Yonkers NY…did a lot of growing up at that time…as for drive-ins, we had one a mile from my house…the Whitestone, and by’75, they added a second screen to make money, they were gone a few years later…
Dennis, two of our drive-ins turned to porn to survive. I think they were gone by 1980 or so.
@@FredFlix …but porn lives forever…
Good one Fred
2nd year out of high school
ready for action lol
Thanks, James.
Good one, Fred.
7:56 Looks like the late Philip McKeon, who would go on to play Tommy on "Alice" (and was the brother of Nancy McKeon, Jo on "The Facts of Life").
Wow. A double bill with the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt. It doesn’t get any better than that
YESSSSSSSS
Fred, you did it again.
Aw, shucks, Evan....
The bee? That is a newspaper name?
Now it's a website, the Babylon Bee lol.
Modesto Ca the newspaper is the Bee as well
Sacramento Bee.
i know the Eagles got their start with Linda but i guess they were bigger then her in 75 - 8 bucks for best seats on a summer night in august - not bad plus a buck fifty for gas and parking !
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just saw the politically incorrect advertisement vid, you're still uploading? dedication
1,000 videos and counting.
@@FredFlix nice.
6:29
I dont like disco music but I must admit KC and his band had some sweet tunes
Why don't you like disco? It has a GREAT beat and you can definitely dance to it!
@@Nunofurdambiznez I am no dancer more of a metal head banger
@@junkersish , I'm with you on that. BUT, I did love the movie and the soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever. Guilty pleasure I suppose.
I was not a disco fan at the time, but it has grown on me over the years, probably for nostalgic reasons.
@@thegoldendog7991 I can understand that but unlike all/most disco KC had funk, I kinda like ABBA too not sure they are really disco though.
It was my heyday and there were great times and music , but I also remember the Viet nam mistake and Nixon had left the place divided and unstable . The good old days are rarely exclusively good as your use patriotic symbols would suggest.