How Teens Lived Without Smartphones in the 70s & 80s.

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
  • Ever wondered how teenagers survived without smartphones in the 70s and 80s? Explore a time when hanging out meant meeting in person, entertainment came from vinyl records, arcades, and TV. Dive into this nostalgic journey to see how creativity, social connections, and fun thrived in a world without modern technology!
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  • @greggwolffis7211
    @greggwolffis7211 16 дней назад +89

    I was 18 in 1970, when young women were slim, trim, and physically fit. No muffin tops, no bubble butts, no thunder thighs, no tattoos, no face piercings, no green and pink hair! Just natural, wholesome beauty. SIGH!! How I miss that era!!

    • @michaelloomis8762
      @michaelloomis8762 16 дней назад +16

      Society has only gotten worse, gonna leave it at that!

    • @RandyBaumery-u3g
      @RandyBaumery-u3g 15 дней назад

      And no weiner secretly tucked away!

    • @keithstory-rj6mf
      @keithstory-rj6mf 14 дней назад +4

      I hear ya man. It was the best and glad I was there. It was Far Out LOL!

    • @CiscoBudge567
      @CiscoBudge567 12 дней назад +5

      I miss the hairy boxes the most.

    • @RandyBaumery-u3g
      @RandyBaumery-u3g 12 дней назад +1

      @CiscoBudge567 most men don't get any "box" now.

  • @ScarlettFire341
    @ScarlettFire341 5 дней назад +16

    Don't be sad that the good old days are gone... Be glad that you got to live in them..

    • @74bshs
      @74bshs 4 дня назад

      You are SO right on that, I never thought of this in that perspective. Thank you for your comment, you made me really happy!

    • @norakat
      @norakat День назад

      Of course they were great - you just hung out all day while your parents did all the work.

  • @Gman8690
    @Gman8690 6 дней назад +23

    God I miss the 70’s. Playing outside with friends, Saturday morning cartoons, the great music and big cars. ❤❤❤

  • @Mountainhood-c8r
    @Mountainhood-c8r 17 дней назад +90

    The girls were lean and at 18, were more mature, independent, and classy than today's 35 year old.

    • @AdmiringLightning-hs4ow
      @AdmiringLightning-hs4ow 16 дней назад +7

      I was there!! I lived through the 70's and the 80's. I'm 63 now and still going strong 🎉!!

    • @patsalas5170
      @patsalas5170 15 дней назад +2

      Yes I sure was...paying for college and working and had very little but did it all because my parents couldn't afford it...❤

    • @74bshs
      @74bshs 15 дней назад

      @@patsalas5170 Yeah, you and me both. But I had a good job as a waiter, and somehow I had a good amount of extra $ to enjoy life. Well, we both made it work. I would not trade that 70's decade for anything. Peace! :)

    • @fifthavenuegirl
      @fifthavenuegirl 5 дней назад

      more feminine yet tougher

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 3 дня назад

      Thats for sure! Werent doped up on loser big pharma crybaby meds either.

  • @kat35lulu88
    @kat35lulu88 18 дней назад +74

    The guys were slim too!!!! We all were! Better times. Miss them😢

    • @northmaineguy5896
      @northmaineguy5896 18 дней назад +5

      I didn't know how to include men without seeming, well, you know...

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 3 дня назад

      Yep! We were outside doing something.

  • @invisableobserver
    @invisableobserver 16 дней назад +33

    I hope there are still some of us that remember these days are mature enough today to recognize what was good & beautiful. There is not much good & beauty in the world today.

    • @michaelloomis8762
      @michaelloomis8762 16 дней назад +3

      Remember, not a single person can steal those memories from you, they belong to you forever. Life is short and it’s definitely not perfect, wake up everyday and make new exciting memories of your life. Every once in a while you might just cross paths with a younger person who might want to learn about those times, and being the owner of your memories, you’ll be the perfect person to share your experiences with those who will never get the chance to live those beautiful moments that we call memories.

    • @ettaplace6716
      @ettaplace6716 3 дня назад +1

      @@invisableobserver isn’t that the truth!!!

  • @georgelevin6134
    @georgelevin6134 17 дней назад +26

    Best music of all time in the 70’s we were so lucky.

    • @lrich8181
      @lrich8181 7 дней назад

      I grew up in the same town with The Allman Brothers where Capricorn studios are. Great times!

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 дня назад

      You ask any major artist & they will say their next stuff is from the 70’s

  • @tonycollazorappo
    @tonycollazorappo 18 дней назад +69

    I was born in 1961, I turned 9 in 1970 and turned 13 in 1974. I enjoyed being a 70s teen and moved about freely without much supervision, it was a very different time. I enjoyed going to the mall down the street after school and the weekend to meet with friends.

    • @ast-og-losta
      @ast-og-losta 17 дней назад +13

      I had complete freedom at such a young age. My parents only rule was to be back by dinner time.

    • @genericman6648
      @genericman6648 17 дней назад +10

      Me too - 61'. Hey class of '79! The 60's/70's/80's - best 3 decades in American history. Amazing time to be a kid, and young adult. Simple times. Fun times. Memories!

    • @tonycollazorappo
      @tonycollazorappo 17 дней назад +6

      @@genericman6648 😃👍

    • @411Braves
      @411Braves 17 дней назад +7

      @@genericman6648 Same, class of '80 tho. Loved riding bikes all day, fishing, swimming, hiking, going to the park. The park was the town's hangout, like an in person social media hub. Mom would get green stamps from the A&P store; we filled up a bunch of books and got a free toaster.😂 Good times!

    • @BD-co3yo
      @BD-co3yo 17 дней назад +2

      @@411Braves80’s here great times!

  • @StephenLawler-ux2vj
    @StephenLawler-ux2vj 17 дней назад +81

    All the girls looked great, and guess what? NO TATOOS! It was wonderful

    • @macmclemore
      @macmclemore 16 дней назад +14

      …and no facial piercing!

    • @74bshs
      @74bshs 16 дней назад +10

      @@macmclemore Yeah, I noticed both. When women were women, and could live by their looks and personalities, not by some tacked-on crap

    • @HiTechOilCo
      @HiTechOilCo 16 дней назад +1

      WOMEN, PAY ATTENTION! MEN *DO NOT LIKE TATTOO'S ON WOMEN*!!!

    • @RandyBaumery-u3g
      @RandyBaumery-u3g 15 дней назад

      And no weiner secretly tucked away!

  • @sky173
    @sky173 17 дней назад +25

    These were the best times to be alive. I wouldn't trade them for the world.

  • @conniedexter7666
    @conniedexter7666 18 дней назад +68

    Funny, boys were boys and girls were girls. Miss that

    • @Retired88M
      @Retired88M 17 дней назад

      Even if the boys were sissy’s and the girls were Tomboys there wasn’t a question of what sex they were

    •  14 дней назад

      And you could tell which was which.

    • @joewreckingballbiden9156
      @joewreckingballbiden9156 10 дней назад

      Now boys are girls and girls are boy.😂😂🤣🤣

    • @ScarlettFire341
      @ScarlettFire341 5 дней назад

      Some people refuse to accept themselves. They need therapy to accept the body they have. They can be the other sex in their next life, but in this one, you are what you are ... and that's how it is. Allowing them to actually change is the sick part.
      How common is intersex? ...National Institutes of Health (NIH ) Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%,

  • @JosephThorne-r2t
    @JosephThorne-r2t 17 дней назад +33

    They say don't live in the past but for me the 60,s 70,s 80,s was the best years of my life with out a doubt

    • @moonraker124
      @moonraker124 17 дней назад +2

      Yup, dead right Brother..............

    • @paltro3268
      @paltro3268 17 дней назад

      Same with me. I went to one high school reunion and that was enough for me. Although I have a ton of great memories, I don't want to sit in a room with a bunch of people whining the blues about it . I was excited about the future and am now living the 3rd chapter of my life. Education / Work / Retirement.

    • @74bshs
      @74bshs 16 дней назад +1

      Yeah, me too...

    • @dmm6341
      @dmm6341 12 дней назад +1

      Me too

  • @terrystud99
    @terrystud99 18 дней назад +47

    Born in '67...the 70's were simple times...no cellphones, social media and the girls were fine!!!! Thanks for the memories.

    • @enriquemino9963
      @enriquemino9963 17 дней назад +10

      and they did not wear tattoos, they were really were much more attractive.

    • @dr.detroit1514
      @dr.detroit1514 17 дней назад +7

      @@enriquemino9963 And no face jewelry.

    • @paltro3268
      @paltro3268 17 дней назад +8

      And the dollar was actually worth something.

    • @RandyBaumery-u3g
      @RandyBaumery-u3g 15 дней назад +2

      The FINE girls were fine.

    • @trailguy
      @trailguy 11 дней назад

      @@paltro3268 yep, but I remember it was losing ground fast. I used to watch the price go up every year or two at the coke machines. It was 25 cents around 1975 and 50 cents by 1980. Now you need a credit card to park.

  • @julenepegher6999
    @julenepegher6999 17 дней назад +20

    I am that 70’s girl! Being a teen, I loved my tube top cut off jeans, hip hugger jeans! Rocking to the best Music of our Times. ❤

  • @CherylDarr-v6p
    @CherylDarr-v6p 17 дней назад +15

    I Was Born In 1960 What A Great Time To Be A Kid /Teenagers Especially The Cruising Through town!

    • @michaelloomis8762
      @michaelloomis8762 16 дней назад +3

      Depending on the size of your town, it was even cooler to go cruise in other towns. Always checking out unfamiliar muscle cars, people you had never met, especially the chics, simply making new friends and memories. Those were absolutely better times and people!

  • @andrewherold389
    @andrewherold389 11 дней назад +9

    I sure do miss those days.

  • @davedavis775
    @davedavis775 18 дней назад +27

    It was an awesome time . I spent hours on the phone with friends and girls . No texting or email no social media . You wanted to make plans you either called on the phone or made them in person . In person was the best . We had so much fun doing stuff together .

    • @soonersciencenerd383
      @soonersciencenerd383 17 дней назад +2

      life.

    • @cindyurban150
      @cindyurban150 16 дней назад

      Such a wonderful time for sure ! And we only had one phone in our house ! I'm glad I have such great memories.

    •  14 дней назад +2

      At the end of a date, you made plans for the next date. Simple.

  • @doug8525
    @doug8525 16 дней назад +7

    I remember going to get groceries with my folks, they filled 2 carts and the total was 77 bucks.Also, the girls in my high school were slim and wore nice clothes. My friends and I spent our summers working on cars, swimming in the creek, and camping. Great times!

  • @northmaineguy5896
    @northmaineguy5896 18 дней назад +155

    I miss slim women.

    • @thegood9
      @thegood9 18 дней назад +33

      I miss that, and seeing people who would actually engage you instead of being sucked into their phones all of the time. We have screwed ourselves up badly.

    • @andygossard4293
      @andygossard4293 18 дней назад +47

      With. Untattooed skins.

    • @74bshs
      @74bshs 18 дней назад +18

      @@andygossard4293 And who didn't look like pin cushions.

    • @thegood9
      @thegood9 18 дней назад +15

      @@andygossard4293 Yes! Thank you! I'm not one that ever enjoyed tattoos on me or on anyone else. It's one thing if it's your cultural norm and you live in that culture, but, it's another when it's just damned ugly. AND IT IS, ladies.

    • @andygossard4293
      @andygossard4293 18 дней назад +1

      @ If, 50 years ago marking up one's body wasn't considered desirable for the hot girls, somebody has gotten into the psychology of the youth and completely misled them. Just like with woke culture and anarchy.

  • @billkeller8412
    @billkeller8412 16 дней назад +11

    A&W had those big ice cold glass mugs of the THE BEST rootbeer, great burgers too!

    • @ettaplace6716
      @ettaplace6716 5 дней назад

      Yes a w was the best

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 3 дня назад +1

      I thought that too! So refreshing in the summertime.

    • @Jleed989
      @Jleed989 12 часов назад +1

      Remember papa burger, mamma burger, and baby burger?

  • @alicelong8028
    @alicelong8028 17 дней назад +32

    God i miss my childhood! Born in 1963, my generation had the best of everything, and I had all of it, I was spoiled. I had all the new toys that came out up until I was a teenager. The girls clothes are exactly what I wore, and bell bottoms, jelly shoes, clogs, Terry cloth rompers. It was safe to go out at night, to leave doors open all day. I feel sorry for kids who were born in last two generations. Your going to grow up in a world of hate, and violence in your own neighborhoods and churches. I would give anything to go back knowing what I know now. My advice from a 61 yrs old is time goes very fast when you're young, it doesn't seem like it until you reach 40 or so. Cherish your family and friends and treat people how you want to be treated.

    • @soonersciencenerd383
      @soonersciencenerd383 17 дней назад +1

      i wonder: would you want to grow up 5 years earlier or 5 years later? (remembering what you already know?)
      born too early or too late?

    • @jamesbolling6681
      @jamesbolling6681 17 дней назад +3

      1963 too and I couldn't agree more.

    • @keithplymale2374
      @keithplymale2374 17 дней назад +2

      1964 here and could not agree more.

    • @74bshs
      @74bshs 16 дней назад +3

      Well said, Alice. My circumstances growing up as a teen in the 70's weren't quite like yours (my father having passed away in 1971, when I was 14), but years subsequent made me who I am, and I would not trade them for anything. Peace! :)

    • @macmclemore
      @macmclemore 16 дней назад +2

      “you’re” going to grow up in world of hate… …and not knowing how to use English… …and not caring…
      Yes, it matters.

  • @burstingwithflavor
    @burstingwithflavor 16 дней назад +12

    There were so many things better about those times that I don’t even know where to begin listing them.

    • @74bshs
      @74bshs 16 дней назад

      Yeah, you are right. Just remember that we have these memories in our brain, and we can make them come alive again. 1/20/25

    •  14 дней назад

      @@74bshs 30 cents for a hamburger at McDonalds. And served by a clean-cut, smiling person, in a uniform.

  • @doug2078
    @doug2078 13 дней назад +8

    I loved growing up in the 70's and 80's Great Memories !!!

    • @keithstory-rj6mf
      @keithstory-rj6mf 5 дней назад +1

      I just loved it. No better time to be young, wild and free.

  • @jackj3542
    @jackj3542 17 дней назад +26

    Need a time machine, because this was the best time, no tattoos, cow nose rings, girls were girls, guys were guys, no texts, streaming, life was good. The best!!

  • @albertlight3797
    @albertlight3797 18 дней назад +20

    So many great pictures !!! What memories

  • @TS-jj1wi
    @TS-jj1wi 17 дней назад +10

    At 60 I sure do remember and miss the 60 and 70s the most. Especially compared to today 😮

    • @keithplymale2374
      @keithplymale2374 17 дней назад

      60 this year too. Very much feel the stranger in a strange land vibe sometimes.

  • @Marcel-fo2cb
    @Marcel-fo2cb 17 дней назад +39

    Born in 1951 the most beautiful stylish girls.No tats or crazy piercings multi color hair.Just beautiful sexy women.Greetings from Alberta Canada

  • @nygrl6102
    @nygrl6102 17 дней назад +11

    Oh that sound you heard when you realized that your cassette player was eating your favorite tape! And i remember the smell of Tinkertoys!

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 3 дня назад

      haha

    • @Jleed989
      @Jleed989 День назад

      8 track and you could hear another track in the background

  • @jgray4234
    @jgray4234 16 дней назад +5

    As a kid, when you were ready to be picked up from the movies by your parents, you would call collect from a payphone, but instead of the call going through to charging, we would hear our parent answer and when the operator says I have a collect call from so and so, you quickly say I'm "ready", meaning to be picked up, then you hang up. The person that answered could hear your quick message without being charged. Eventually the phone company stopped that to where you couldn't hear who answered until the call was put through.

  • @TheNoisePolluter
    @TheNoisePolluter 18 дней назад +27

    My Dad who was so loving, generous and kind had a corny side. He bought a Plum Crazy Plymouth Duster in the early 70's, then somehow found a pair of crushed volour slacks to match. Coolest car in the neighborhood. The pants, nope.

    •  14 дней назад

      At least he had the courage to wear them.

  • @patriciawatkins9539
    @patriciawatkins9539 17 дней назад +11

    I grew up with brother's who were into muscle cars. Obsessed is a better word. Their Saturday afternoons were spent working on their cars. Their friends would come over and spend hours hanging out while they worked on them. Talking, joking, laughing. Wonderful memories. I miss the 70's.

  • @JessicaDavis23656
    @JessicaDavis23656 14 дней назад +5

    Those were the days! Brings back so many great memories!

  • @50pinkies67
    @50pinkies67 День назад +1

    Yes. We were all THAT!! Loved the 70s. ❤

  • @2TrackMind-c6i
    @2TrackMind-c6i 17 дней назад +22

    Born in 56. The 70's were a blast. The girls weren't twirking because their butts were normal looking (and they had more self respect), the Rock was real, the cars were simple - and cheap, people could define themselves any way they wished - as long as it was male or female - and nobody raised a fuss.

    • @paltro3268
      @paltro3268 17 дней назад +3

      Girls were a heck of a lot more modest and happier. Notice all but one are walking barefoot. They were grounding themselves without realizing it which contributed to their overall health.

    • @74bshs
      @74bshs 16 дней назад +2

      I, too, was born in 1956. Ditto everything in your comment. I am a child of the 70's, I would not trade that decade for anything. It made me who I am, in spite of a lot of trials and tribulations. My wife of 40 years says that I am "stuck in the 70's." I am pleased to do so, it was a great decade in which to grow up. Peace! :)

    • @michaelloomis8762
      @michaelloomis8762 16 дней назад

      ⁠@@74bshs
      It was simply just a better time to live. We aren’t stuck in that decade, it’s that compared to what we’re living in now, humanity has lost touch with reality.

  • @BillBill-LipLipczynski
    @BillBill-LipLipczynski 18 дней назад +20

    I remember being in K-mart in the evening and waiting for the blue light specials. When they would be for the day clearing out their subs and marking them at a super price, would pick up if early enough for a night snack, could eat anything and not worry about weight, and have a couple for lunch the next day. Truly a great store chain still missing.👍👌

    • @marymoran8859
      @marymoran8859 18 дней назад +5

      I remember Kmart sold hamsters , fish , guinea pigs

    •  14 дней назад +2

      I miss K-Mart more than any other store. I also miss Mervyn's.

    • @tommystx
      @tommystx 12 дней назад +1

      My first job was at Kmart in 1970. 1.60 an hour as stock boy.

  • @Azzzclan
    @Azzzclan 13 дней назад +6

    No plastic surgery!!
    Natural beauties!

  • @I.W.439
    @I.W.439 18 дней назад +45

    No fat chicks in the 70's

  • @jerrycallo
    @jerrycallo 17 дней назад +15

    0:35 back when you sat at the bar and struck up a conversation with whoever was there. Now it's considered creepy to talk to someone without a formal introduction.

    • @michaelbeever7592
      @michaelbeever7592 17 дней назад +2

      Yeah, you gotta get a text message permission to talk anymore...😂

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 3 дня назад

      Yes, looking at the old bar photos reminded me of those days. And going to a bar to talk and meet women and have fun and hopefully get their number and ask them out for a date the following weekend. Now it's creepy online dating where women will send nudes of themselves like it's no big deal! Then come right to you house for sex! NO CLASS! The average young woman these days has already banged 50+ guys before she is 20.

  • @cassiestewart2603
    @cassiestewart2603 18 дней назад +11

    This was my parents teen years, mid to late 80's. Awesome, I would love to experience the 70's and 80's, unfortunately I was born in 2000.

    • @michaelloomis8762
      @michaelloomis8762 16 дней назад +1

      Hopefully your parents have shared many of their memories with you. Also lived during that era, such an exciting time to be young and alive. As a guy, worked after school everyday, cruised on Friday and Saturday evening, usually hit the drive in on Saturday night, hooking up with friends and spending more time talking than actually watching the movie. Finding a new girl friend and spend rest of the night cruising and listening to great music. Those are memories that will live forever!

  • @mh53j
    @mh53j 18 дней назад +52

    Halter tops, midriffs and tube tops...made it difficult to concentrate in school when the girls were wearing these.

    • @michaelrosenberg2420
      @michaelrosenberg2420 18 дней назад +15

      Difficult for a guy to stand up sometimes too........

    • @dennythomas8887
      @dennythomas8887 18 дней назад +8

      Halter tops and skin tight bell bottoms is how I met my (future) wife in Sophomore English class in 1974. Got married in 78 and still married today.

    • @noyfb4769
      @noyfb4769 17 дней назад

      @@michaelrosenberg2420 hey mikey he likes it

    • @T-Bone-Grizzle
      @T-Bone-Grizzle 17 дней назад +5

      We thought bras were gone forever!

    • @Callmeonmyshell13
      @Callmeonmyshell13 17 дней назад +2

      @@dennythomas8887Wow! Really!? I also met my future hubby in my senior year of high school and married him the same year of graduation in 1991. Still married to him today. Bless you.

  • @bluemouse5039
    @bluemouse5039 10 дней назад +2

    Back when you were a teen guy and got your first car the first thing you did was get a FM converter that would mount usually under the dash board below the radio, then you got a set of speakers that would mount on the deck panel under the rear window then put shag carpeting on to complete the look or sometimes you would put some shag carpeting on the dash board, Eventually the ultimate customization was getting a set of Cragar mag rims, cherry bomb or Thrush mufflers and some air shocks to make the rear end of the car sit up higher than the front

  • @jamesbolling6681
    @jamesbolling6681 18 дней назад +17

    1976 I was 13 , had a paper route ( 4am) had to go collect myself from the customers every other week. I was King on Pay Day. Saturday Matinée Movies Double Feature with cartoons in between. Life was good.

    • @Xeyedjohn
      @Xeyedjohn 10 дней назад

      Same here. I delivered Mon-Sat afternoon paper but on Sunday morning 4am. Those were the big papers.

  • @gregorysync
    @gregorysync 10 дней назад +5

    Back then people actually connected with each other!

  • @johnsmith-ug5tp
    @johnsmith-ug5tp 3 дня назад +1

    Thanks for posting the pictures and reminding us how great it was back then.

  • @josephpacchetti5997
    @josephpacchetti5997 18 дней назад +16

    I was born In the late 50s, fast motorcycles, beautiful girl friends, Columbian gold & red, all of my friends from the 60s & 70s have all died, bummer. 👊 😎 🇮🇹 🇺🇸 have been a subscriber for around 2-3 weeks.

    • @pitman6992
      @pitman6992 18 дней назад +4

      I say it alot! U kno ur gettin old when u gotta head to Wawa to get ur Columbian!!😂🤣😂

    • @Pimp-Master
      @Pimp-Master 17 дней назад

      That stuff about lifestyle was all promise with no delivery. How many times did you go home with a hot girl? Probably once, right? Your friends are dead because they're vacant upstairs. Ed Van Halen is dead too...why? From da drugs! No we don't appreciate you for having toxic lifestyle once. Too bad!

    • @yourmomma2995
      @yourmomma2995 15 дней назад

      @@Pimp-Master sounds like you had a lame life.

  • @karenbee1898
    @karenbee1898 2 дня назад

    As a teen in the 70's, can't get enough...thankful that some had the insight to record these memories.

  • @squidward66
    @squidward66 17 дней назад +11

    no tattoos, no piercings, no fat, no social media

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 3 дня назад

      No crybaby big pharma. Young women were mature back then

  • @ast-og-losta
    @ast-og-losta 17 дней назад +13

    There is no denying it. We lost something along the way.

    • @Callmeonmyshell13
      @Callmeonmyshell13 17 дней назад +1

      Yeah. Our brains.

    •  14 дней назад

      Our sanity.

  • @StONed-yx5qq
    @StONed-yx5qq 18 дней назад +5

    My older sisters born btwn 60 & 63 had some of the coolest looking friends from ‘76 until ‘79…😢 when they both left home for good….

  • @stankolbe6384
    @stankolbe6384 18 дней назад +10

    All that experienced this time know what great times were that weren’t cramped by smartphones. The ultimate oxymoron.

  • @Retired88M
    @Retired88M 17 дней назад +8

    No tattoos or ugly piercings on the young women YES

  • @74bshs
    @74bshs 18 дней назад +5

    We had our 50th high school reunion in June, 2024. Very cool post. Thank you so much!

    • @tonycollazorappo
      @tonycollazorappo 18 дней назад +1

      I wish we would have another class of 1980 reunion, I guess it would be our 40th one, I'm 64 born in 1961.

    • @74bshs
      @74bshs 18 дней назад +3

      @@tonycollazorappo Tony~ All it takes is someone to "take the bull by the horns", get some other classmates on board, and do some work and make it happen. It has been easier for us, since we faithfully have had reunions every five years since 1974. But you can do it, it just takes some effort. But the results are often priceless. Peace! :)

  • @SirManfly
    @SirManfly 18 дней назад +9

    I used to LOVE going to the record store in the 70's, but as a mostly broke teenager, I was never able to buy all the vinyl that I wanted !

    • @Jleed989
      @Jleed989 День назад +1

      But 45s were cheap

  • @GMCTIM
    @GMCTIM 6 дней назад +3

    1970 HERE FREEDOM, MUSTLE CARS & MUSIC THERE IS NO WAY TO TOP THAT ! ✊🇺🇸🎉

  • @Cole-b4o
    @Cole-b4o 16 дней назад +2

    I like your background cool Jazz piano music.

  • @toomanymodz
    @toomanymodz 18 дней назад +10

    I remember getting off work at midnight and I'd meet my brother at Bob's Big Boy for dinner. Good times.

    •  14 дней назад

      Same here except it was Howard Johnsons.

  • @mperson1890
    @mperson1890 18 дней назад +12

    Part it in the middle and feather it back!

  • @sevenbowls1742
    @sevenbowls1742 2 дня назад

    Great video. It brought back so many memories!

  • @markthomas2436
    @markthomas2436 17 дней назад +5

    It was better back then... than it is today.

  • @dr.detroit1514
    @dr.detroit1514 17 дней назад +1

    Great pics & memories. The 60's/70's/80's. It was a different time, a different World. The music, still hasn't been beat to this day. I couldn't get myself to wear bell bottoms until my later teens. I was always a peg legs, leather work boots, dark plastic tv set's looking glasses and crew cut kind of guy. But when I did, I went a bit whole hog. I got several pairs of bell bottoms of several different colors, where the pockets where different colors yet. Blue pants with red pockets etc. Grew my hair down to neck length. Started wearing sneakers and wire rims. Haven't seen any of those pants since the early 70's. Lived in a rural area for a few years in my late teens early 20's, hitchhiking was a normal way to get around. Wouldn't try that these days.

  • @Diana-yn2ho
    @Diana-yn2ho 17 дней назад +8

    Where I lived, I don't recall girls dressing that way back in the 70s and 80s. Yes, it was less complicated and life was simpler especially in the 60s. We could walk back and forth to school and play outside and no one would bother us kids. Now, we are living in dangerous times!

    • @patriciawatkins9539
      @patriciawatkins9539 17 дней назад +3

      I do remember girls dressing like the photos but then again I'm in California where short shorts, tube tops & jeans ruled the 70's.

    • @Diana-yn2ho
      @Diana-yn2ho 17 дней назад +1

      @@patriciawatkins9539 - Could be, especially in warmer climates. Where we lived at the time, it was very cold and it snowed during the winter.

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 3 дня назад

      As a 12 yo boy in 77/78 I still remember girls dressing that way that were 4 or 5 years older than me. Summer time all suntanned with mid driffs, halter tops spaghetti straps, short short cut off jeans or those athletic shorts with the stripe. I had longer blond hair and got teased for looking like Andy Gibb and Leif Garret and all the older girls would flirt with me and say, if only you were 4 years older as they played with me hair, hugging and play kissing me. haha It was murder on me! 😉😁🤣

  • @74bshs
    @74bshs День назад

    OK, if I may add a pair of very elementary-school jokes here, at 6:06, this explains it all. Taken from ad-lines from both companies back in the day. Why those years were the best:
    'Why don't they have bathrooms at McDonald's?" Because " 'Gino's is the place to go.' "
    "Why is there no toilet paper in the bathrooms at KFC?" Because " 'Everything is finger-licking good.' "
    This video is SO cool. Thanks for the post! :)

  • @QuantumEffectResidue
    @QuantumEffectResidue 17 дней назад +13

    This was back when life was normal, and not a cross between the Twilight Zone and a freak show like it is now. If someone were to walk around back then with a paperback book on them and was reading it as they walked, or picked it up every 5 minutes, one would say to them, " Why don't you just go home and read it, it's ridiculous for you to do that and it's weird!" It's the same principle today.

  • @mikenuyen4441
    @mikenuyen4441 15 дней назад +4

    Nice, no land whales, no blue hair and no tats. Many halter tops, short shorts and hip huggers. I loved living in the 70's.

    • @Jleed989
      @Jleed989 День назад

      Mini skirts too

  • @azpmay
    @azpmay 2 дня назад

    We just went to the A&W restaurant in sweet home Oregon a couple of months ago. It's still the same as it was in 1970, amazing still getting served in your car in 2024.

  • @janineboitard6492
    @janineboitard6492 2 дня назад +1

    As a young teen in the 70s ... all we needed was our bikes and baseball glove! We would literally run ALL DAY! Not an ounce of fat....

  • @kevincostello3856
    @kevincostello3856 17 дней назад +7

    At 11:52 Jungle Pam on the drag- strip

  • @foto21
    @foto21 День назад

    This was NOT the background music of the 70s and 80s! No cel phones was a double edged sword. You missed meeting up with people, but you also found fun and interest where you ended up. I loved the randomness of where a day or roadtrip could go. Now you take a roadtrip and you know where everything is, even what it looks like.
    In the old days, you found a place on a map, you might have seen photos in a magazine or book, but the quality was so low, that real life was always a total surprise. The surprise is gone in the modern age. I understand part of that is us getting older, but I think part of it is a lost way of life that younger generations will miss out on.

  • @stephenlnoe
    @stephenlnoe 10 дней назад +1

    What made my heart smile? The chicks...

  • @RO-dj8dp
    @RO-dj8dp 12 дней назад +2

    Girls looking so nice with no face piercings and tattoos. They could step on your foot without crushing it too. No over sized load signs needed.

  • @edwardj64
    @edwardj64 17 дней назад +2

    Even though I miss the 80s, I miss the 70s more. It was really the last era before the consumer electronic/computer revolution arrived.
    While that revolution brought wonderous things, the time before felt cozier, simpler, and like there was a lot of fun and good times to be had with much less means. Most of the 70s still had a connection with the 50s and 60s popular culture and traditions that lessened later in the 80s. Maybe its just being a kid in those days that makes that time very special.
    I remember a record shop in Queens, NY that was a trip to step into in 1975/1976. The posters, lights, glitter and sound in that shop was mesmerizing. I used to spend an hour or two in that place looking at albums. Peak rock and pop era as I see it. It wouldn't be the same a decade later with CDs.
    Going to a baseball game was so different back then. Much less fancy and costly to eat, drink, and get souvenirs. Five or Ten dollars in your pocket went a long way back then to enjoy a full ballpark experience.

    • @moonraker124
      @moonraker124 17 дней назад +1

      I could have written this myself, bang on................

  • @Fuscas-rg4dl
    @Fuscas-rg4dl 17 дней назад

    Being a kid in the 60's, I enjoyed the good vibes and the granted freedom of the following decades. What a lot of crazy things we did... Awesome time.

  • @RencoSC
    @RencoSC 7 дней назад +1

    I remember going to Burger Chef in the early 70's with my Nana. It was located on Main Street in Tewksbury, Ma. The lot it was on later became a bank. We also went to Jack In The Box in Wilmington, Ma. Located on Main Street. When it closed it became Bill & Bob's Roast Beef and now it's called Simard's Roast Beef and if you are ever in the area stop in and try a Super Beef with BBQ sauce but I would recommend getting the sauce on the side to avoid wearing it! Mmmm I think I will get one today!!! Peace to ALL!!! ✌😁👍

  • @erickort1987
    @erickort1987 16 дней назад +2

    during weekend nights we grouped together at empty lot and decied where to have a party at

  • @Arcana_Heights
    @Arcana_Heights 17 дней назад +2

    Love the music!! It has to be said..

  • @tubedude54
    @tubedude54 18 дней назад +4

    Where's my magic shoes so I can click my heels together and go back to these days?!

  • @cryptoran7777
    @cryptoran7777 17 дней назад +2

    Everyone looked healthy and in shape..

  • @northmaineguy5896
    @northmaineguy5896 18 дней назад +14

    12:00 Orange Julius with a cigarette machine -- how do you think us kids got our smokes back then?

    • @jackscruggs1536
      @jackscruggs1536 18 дней назад +4

      I would ride my bike to the store and buy them for my mom and dad. 8-9-10 years old.

    • @tonycollazorappo
      @tonycollazorappo 18 дней назад +1

      @@jackscruggs1536 , wow, so did I at the same ages. I think today that would not have happened because I would be too young at ages 8-9-10, lol. It's a very different time now.

    • @jackscruggs1536
      @jackscruggs1536 18 дней назад +2

      @tonycollazorappo yes we did grow up faster

    • @tonycollazorappo
      @tonycollazorappo 18 дней назад +2

      @@jackscruggs1536 You read my mind, Jack. She was not my mother, she was the evil stepmother who never paid her cigarette tabs at the grocery store she would send me too, embarrassing 🙄😒

    • @jackscruggs1536
      @jackscruggs1536 17 дней назад

      @tonycollazorappo oh man, sorry about that. My mom was great. Dad was a different story.

  • @mperson1890
    @mperson1890 18 дней назад +4

    Picture #37 brought me back to 1977. Was that across from Nazareth hospital?

  • @chuckwilson2301
    @chuckwilson2301 17 дней назад +5

    Miss the tube tops!

  • @keithstory-rj6mf
    @keithstory-rj6mf 14 дней назад +1

    I hated it when my 8-track player ate a tape in my 71 Firebird.

  • @mustangsandwich
    @mustangsandwich 17 дней назад

    My dad raced also, and knew "Jungle" Jim. I'm so glad I grew up in that period!!! It was so much more pleasant and simple. We had challenges, yes. But it was a great time to be growing up...

  • @warhorse1956
    @warhorse1956 16 дней назад +3

    Notice how we didn't have "big boned" people back then. And none of the girls had tattoos or tons of metal in their faces. God, I miss those days (except disco)

    • @ettaplace6716
      @ettaplace6716 5 дней назад +1

      Loooved disco .. sorry

    • @warhorse1956
      @warhorse1956 5 дней назад

      @@ettaplace6716 Nobody's perfect. ;)

  • @louisamckay97
    @louisamckay97 17 дней назад +4

    I'm so home sick only if I could teleport I would never come back

  • @timevans9529
    @timevans9529 17 дней назад +3

    Hey ,school pizza and burgers were awesome back in the day

  • @viablehealth8845
    @viablehealth8845 7 дней назад

    Born 1973. Man, like yesterday for me. Miss it. 😢

  • @rberka555
    @rberka555 16 дней назад +3

    Children's shots and pesticides have changed everything.

    • @bonzer2u
      @bonzer2u 16 дней назад

      Thank god no more polio, unfortunately purtussis is making a comeback, thx antivaxers...

    • @jimturner6131
      @jimturner6131 14 дней назад

      Not much over processed man made fake food back then. All that crap has a huge part in our obesity problem. High fructose corn syrup,coke and pepsi and all of the fake sweeteners used are far worse for people than real sugar ever was or will be.

    • @rberka555
      @rberka555 14 дней назад +2

      @@jimturner6131 Sure HFCS too. We need real science prioritizing which are the main impacters.

    • @rberka555
      @rberka555 5 дней назад

      @ Mercury was found to be in HFCS 20 years ago. I bet it is still in there.

  • @Dorthy-wx9fq
    @Dorthy-wx9fq 17 дней назад +1

    I was born in the early 60's and grew up in the 60's and 70's. By the mid 70's I was a teenager and going to highschool. Loved the 70's and wish I could go back. The fashion and cars were the coolest. I got as my first car a 1964 Dodge Dart, now I got it in the 1980's. My dad saw it in the junk yard of the automotive garage that he would go to a lot and I just got my driver's license and would need a car so he got that one and fixed it up for me and I loved that car and drove it for 8 years before I had an accident and totaled it. I miss that car and if I could find one I would get it.

    • @michaelloomis8762
      @michaelloomis8762 16 дней назад

      Maybe it’s just me but first cars are the most treasured memory from that time. Ones wheels are the doorway to experience life as a youngster. The fun, the people you meet and even some of the troubles we experienced were all centered around those first set of wheels we were given or we bought. For some of us, it was that first car that helped us decide on which of life’s highway’s we would travel!

    • @DanC-go9lc
      @DanC-go9lc 12 дней назад

      @Dorothy-wx9fq I can relate to that as I owned both 1960's Dodge Dart and a Plymouth Valiant (same car really with different body) in the 1970's. Loved those reliable and easy-to-work-on slant-6 engines - the Valiant was turqouise had a push-button transmission, cozy-wings -- all that cool weird stuff. Had almost 10 kids pack into the Dart one day after school in 1971 and drove 3 miles --- the sole reason --- to watch the car turn over 100,000 miles !! 🤣 Imagine you were like many of us at 16, had to have a car --- had to get a part-time job and needed transportation to work. Independence 😂 !!

  • @QuaaludeCharlie
    @QuaaludeCharlie 2 дня назад +1

    I was born in 1967 , Never Used a Smartphone Yet . I Miss the 1970's ! The world's population in 1970 was estimated to be around 3.6 billion people. This was a 2.08% increase from the previous year.

  • @campocaster
    @campocaster 18 дней назад +5

    The only thing missing is top hits from the 70s playing in the background

    • @michaelloomis8762
      @michaelloomis8762 16 дней назад

      They chose to go with the 70s Kmart music. I can’t believe I remember that music. Lol

  • @johnmadow5331
    @johnmadow5331 18 дней назад +2

    I was born in 1955 and moved to the US in 1972 as a young man. I understand that the picture in this clip is from the suburban life style of the US when the desecration was still enforced. The lifestyle is different between intercity and suburban Child. Back then certain group of people cannot even rent the property in suburban until the middle of 1980! When I shopped in suburban in NJ, we were followed by security personal at the store. I want to leave intercity and move to suburban so I can enjoy the safety and job prospect and I done it after I left the school in 1979!

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 3 дня назад

      I grew up in the city and we had all this and in 1976 our parents bought a house in the suburbs. But everybody's circumstances are different.

  •  14 дней назад +1

    10:36 - my living room still looks like that. Anyone who wants to revisit the 1970s is welcome to visit. I'll even play your favorite record. Or we can watch my 13" TV.

  • @georgelevin6134
    @georgelevin6134 17 дней назад +8

    Not a single overweight person in the entire video. Today sucks!

    • @samiam619
      @samiam619 17 дней назад

      That’s called editing, not reality.

    • @georgelevin6134
      @georgelevin6134 17 дней назад

      @ BS I grew up in the 70’s your ignorance if profound.

  • @jonesy4588
    @jonesy4588 17 дней назад +2

    a whole lot better than now

  • @mterrason
    @mterrason 17 дней назад +1

    I missed the hot pants. Bell bottoms jeans. Riding my bike around the neighborhood and on California beach front. Memories are the greatest

  • @adrianrodrigues4465
    @adrianrodrigues4465 5 дней назад +1

    What's with long John silver's? What about Howard Johnson's, big boys , Marshall Fields Chicago, where are your pics from, the south?

    • @ettaplace6716
      @ettaplace6716 5 дней назад

      Wow I loved Marshall fields in Chicago 😮

  • @gerryyyyy
    @gerryyyyy 18 дней назад +7

    I miss the peaceful vibes back then. I wish we can time travel back in the 70s. No woke people yet.

  • @joewiley6280
    @joewiley6280 8 дней назад

    3:51 😊miss those days

  • @joking6052
    @joking6052 17 дней назад +5

    Ahhhhhh, the fun days before obesity was a fad and we were free of the internet and the cell phone.

  • @moonraker124
    @moonraker124 17 дней назад +8

    For me, it is those blasted tattoo's on Women and Men for that matter, that really tick me off, the ruination of God's creation...