Ha! Too true. I remember being 6 years old in 1966 and on Fridays the fam would watch 'Gomer Pyle, USMC' - but in Boston, the reception could be flaky, but it improved if someone went to the TV and held the rabbit-ear antennas at a certain angle. Every other week it was my turn to hold the antenna. I am not making this up.
cant tell you how many times my dad called me out of my room or from the yard just to turn the channel on the TV lazy butt head LOL Now i did it to my kids except made them find the remote which they always hid from each other
I was born in 1960 and grew up in the 70's. All the stuff they were talking about I remember like it was yesterday. It was truly a magical time to be a kid. I do miss those days.
I often tell me grown kids: "I actually have more in common with people born in the 1800's than you." No car pools, you''d be on your own after school (until the streetlights turned on) and your parents didn't have a clue as to where you were or what you were up to. Yeah, it was great! 👍😄
I was born in '56. 3 network stations. 4 local stations. It was a great time to grow up. We had such freedom. Riding our bikes for miles. A California kid. You can not understand the freedom and no worries back then. It's sad that kids can't experience this nowadays. A different time.
Born in the 60's and grew up in the 70's - spot on all of it! Being a kid in the 70's was great! During summer vacation when there was no school or on a Saturday, we would play outside *all day*. We had a pretty far range too with our bikes - so we could be anywhere within a 5-mile radius or so, at the park, at a playground, at X, Y, or Z kid's house or back yard. As long as we were home for dinner - no one was concerned.
We had "head shops" into the 70's. Yes a record store, but also a place to purchase all manner of counter-culture items. There were bins of "love beads", and black light poster rooms. And of course many featured all manner of weed/pot smoking apparatus. Before even bongs became popular, there was the "hookah".
Schoolhouse Rock during Saturday morning cartoons were the best. Y'all should react to some of those! It was educational TV, done in cartoon and song form. You could learn your multiplication tables, grammar, and US history.
Born in 1963 and growing up in the '70s and '80s was the greatest of times!! We would play outside all day long in the summer when school was out, rode our bikes everywhere and our parents never worried about us. Every generation thinks differently about the time they grew up but I would never ever change the time I grew up!
Born in 1970. 1) The channel knobs on those TVs were plastic. Eventually they would break, requiring pliers or an adjustable wrench to turn the metal post underneath. When the tool was needed for a job, it would be "put back" next to the TV rather than in a tool chest. 2) I loved Underoos! It was even better if you had a "bed tent" that matched the theme of your Underoos. 3) I remember adults talking about the dangers of hitchhiking, but not actually seeing people do it. I suspect it died out earlier in urban and suburban areas. 4) Missing a phone call was an unforgivable sin to my mother when I was a kid. Age 82, she now screens her calls like the rest of us. 5) I don't remember anyone having a mushroom-themed decor in the kitchen. That might have made ours less ugly. 6) Some people would put those detachable pull tabs into the can. I remember being told to not do this because of the choking hazard. 7) Aside from the thermos, the contents of your lunchbox would be warm by lunch time. They weren't insulated and there weren't any cold packs. It's a miracle (sarcasm) we didn't all get sick from food poisoning!
Yes! "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." I truly believe we were ALL much tougher back then. AND, we were all better because of it.
@@claranielsen3382Ignorance is bliss. You were born less than 10 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, right in the middle of the civil rights movement. Back when Christian schools started for the sole purpose of being proudly whites only. Just years after whites only water fountains were everywhere, along with all the other segregation that entails. Maybe you were too young to remember, but the movement wouldn’t have happened if minorities didn’t feel oppressed. Maybe you were from the more accepting north or west, but don’t forget racism was heavily accepted there also.
Same. Born 64. 70's was the BEST. My brother had a Buck Rogers lunch box. He passed in 2013,and my SILsold it for $200 in 2014. I remember ALL theses things. Good times for sure 😊
I turned 5 in 1970 and 14 in 1979. Awesome decade for growing up. Very carefree time. I don't know about the UK but today's American youth rarely leave the house. In my small town they would test the emergency siren 4 times a day. It served as a click for the kids. 8am whistle we were off to school. Noon whistle we would rush home for lunch. 6pm whistle was dinnertime and the 9pm whistle was either bed time or curfew depending on your age.
I grew up in the 90's & even then you still had to wait a whole week for the next episode of a TV show instead of just binging & you had to definitely wait alot longer to see movies out of theaters but going to the movies was a fun cheap experience....I remember record stores too....I miss that satisfying ability to slam down the phone receiver on someone to hang up when you were upset but don't really miss people prank calling but I did enjoy that show lol....I loved getting a toy in cereal & Cracker Jack box....Saturday morning cartoons were the best....they outlawed hitchhiking cus too many people started getting kidnapped & murdered & carjacked in the late 70's & 80's unfortunately
Ah, good memories. You could go all over the place, as long as you were home when the streetlights came on. I still have my old mix tapes. And since we didn't have VCRs yet, I'd put my tape recorder next to the TV to record my favorite shows (like The Captain and Tennille, the Walt Disney movie hour, etc.). Regarding hitchhiking, quite a few serial killers preyed on the abundance of hitchhikers throughout the '70s. But I was too young for that, thankfully.
In the 70’s, there really wasn’t any telemarketing. If the phone rang, it was 95% likely it was for someone in the house. That being the case, everyone ran to answer any phone call.
I was born in 1951. The 70's were our party days, lol. My dad was the first on his side of the family to get a black and white tv, in the early 50's. We got our first color tv when I was a senior in high school..1968. I've still got my old stereo, albums and cd's. I got rid of the cassettes. Our milk and 7up were delivered, to the house.
The thing he didn't mention about the metal lunch boxes, is that we had things within them that "should" be refrigerated, but never did back then. Aside from the rust on the thing, eating your lunch at room temperature (and had been all day) no matter what was in it may not have been the safest food practice. But we lived through it, anyway.
Now the Fun Police has taken over Saturday Morning children's television shows. There is always this intro on every children's show "E/I, means this show is Educational and Informational." I say it means "Hey Kids, ya ain't gonna see any toy or cereal commercials, nor Wiley Coyote running into a fake tunnel painted by the Road Runner." I do not regret my childhood.
I was born in 70, and remember all that stuff. The biggest change for me is the number of channels and streaming movies at your fingertips now. Crazy to think how kids today would probably have a fit if they only had 3 channels LOLOL
I was born in 1960. I remember being taught how to use a touch tone phone. I remember when TVs went from BW to color. I remember when we went from two broadcast TV stations for three broadcast networks to cable TV. We went from TV stations signing off at midnight and signing on at six a.m. to 24 hour broadcasting. Oh, at midnight the stations would play the national anthem and show the flying US Flag and then sign off their broadcasting day. Some would also include some type of prayer.
They also had what was called a party line, usually 6 or 8 telephones all on the same line. That was more common in rural areas. When the phone rang it could be for anyone of those phones. Also if you missed a call you could just dial 0 and the operator would reverse dial the last number to call you. Or sometimes if you called and got no response or a busy line they would break in on that call to let the person know you were calling them.
MY grandparents had a party line... Their ring was 3 longs and a short... You had to listen close when you answered to see if a neighbor might pick up to listen in... You could hear it click when someone else on the line picked up... Sometimes you would go to make a call and pick up the phone and hear talking, then you would have to wait for the neighbor to finish their call before you could make yours... Those were the best days...
There are also videos about 13 things from the 50's and 60's that kids today wouldn't understand that are even stranger to the current generation than this one. I hope you give them a try.
I was born in 1974. And I remember all of that beside the pop tabs and all the ppl that would hitchhike. We would buy pop in the glass bottles then we would take them to the grocery store to be recycled. I can’t remember if they gave us money for them or not.
I was born in 1955. I graduated high school in 1973. In 1975 my mom let me go visit a young man I knew who was in college in the state of Maine. He lived off campus and didn't have a car. He hitchhiked to and from campus and downtown. My mom didn't know that part, she wouldn't have let me go. It was safe. I believe that it helped that I was with a rather large man.
Life was so much simpler in the 70’s. I remember making belts out of those soda tabs. My mother called the TV the ‘idiot box’ and made us play outside ALL DAY. She wasn’t always sure where we were but had some idea, we were safe though. I feel sorry for kids today.
I was born in 1952. From 1969-72 I hitchhiked around the country, mostly with my boyfriend. At one point, we also brought my cat, Jedediah Smith, with us across country. We would tie his leash to our backpacks and go into a truck stop leaving our "guard cat" outside. When we came out he would be surrounded by people and at least one would be going our way. Truckers loved Jed because he was clean and quiet and loved semis. Many offered to buy him. Great people. Great memories
Soda pull tabs were made into long chains for necklaces, belts, and some people many them into hanger for plants. Sitting backwards in the rear seat of a station wagon. Using suntan oil to get a dark tan. Tube and halter tops, platform shoes. Some cool fashions and lots of “What was I thinking” fashion. I mean, why on earth would I ever want to wear hot pants (now called daisy dukes) with tube socks, a beaded headband, halter top, and platform saddle oxfords, but I did and so did many others.
I was born in the 1950s, so I was already in my teens when the 70s came round. One of the things I've noticed about Recollection Road is that the channel gives a very nostalgic view of the period they're looking at. All the things in this video are things that I experienced, but I also remember a friend of mine was sexually assaulted when he was hitchhiking. He was pretty messed up about that, and I never hitchhiked after I learned about his experience. Also, when I was in college, drugs were a HUGE problem! I remember my first year in a college dorm, three men on my floor had to be taken to the hospital because they had psychotic breaks from the drugs they were taking. As for the polyester suits, you can keep them. They were so hot! They didn't breathe at all. After five minutes I was sweating like a pig!
I was born in 1964 the last year of the Baby Boomers. I remember those things from the Video. I also remember the All Night Skating at the Skating Rink. It was a great time to grow up in the 70's.
ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS were all we would get. There was no cable TV. No remote controls and you had rabbit ears TV antennas.. The 70's were cool except for bell bottom pants and platform shoes which need never make a return We used to drink from the hose, ride without seatbelts, we seemed to survive just fine. Also there was the Helping Hand which was put in window so children would know it was a safe house to go to if there was a storm or some danger you could go to the Helping Hand house.
I grew up in Western NY, so in addition to those four (channels 2, 4, 7 and 13), we got two stations from Toronto (channels 3 and 6) and one from Hamilton, Ontario (channel 11). It added to the variety, especially with the mandated "Canadian content" shows. And it was a really big deal when an independent station (Channel 29) started up. Almost all reruns, but I liked it. Re the shoes - I knew a guy in high school who wore the same shoes every day. Black body with silver star on the top, and they were three inch platforms - the bottom and top inches were black and the center inch was silver. You could hear him clunk down the stairs (four story building) every time. Very KISS-inspired.
Also born in the 1960's, and the reality is that we were kids so of course, if you didn't have a terrible background, it seemed like the best time ever. The reality was that Princess Catherine would likely die and the word "cancer" would not have been used. Cancer survivors were rare. The number killed annually in car accidents in the forties, was roughly equal to today with tens of millions more people and cars. As if turns out, even in the 70's, a lot of kids didn't survive even relatively minor accidents as they sailed through windshields and those big heavy boats our parents were driving were not that safe. You get the picture.
my mom got me ,a pair of saddle shoes, I only wore them once, as I took a shortcut home and had to cross a small bridge that was over a tiny river and oops one of the shoes came off and went into the water and disappeared
If you ever heard of the killing fields in Texas, many teens and young adults, mainly women and girls, lost their lives hitching hiking down in that area. I was a kid in the 70s.
Mushrooms were rarely on more than one or two sets of items in most home. Also I don't recall any of my relatives having any items with them, I'm sure that some had them, it was just decoration. That with six set of aunts and uncles, cousins. etc. We could have 40 relatives get together for Thanksgiving and Christmas. and that many that didn't come.
Soda tabs were more dangerous than you think. A lot of people would put those tabs inside the can and drink the soda. Some people ended up choking on that sharp tab!
Oh we'd get the toy out of the cereal box as soon as we got it home. We would dig through that box until we got the toy! The absolute best memories ever. I was born in 1963. The best years in the whole world.
Underoos was bought out by fruit of the loom in the late 80s. Fruit of the loom is kinda the king of kids undergarments while Hanes is more adult sizes. Fruit of the loom is bringing back Underoos although as limited runs as nostalgia for adults. Mostly of hero designs they look ok although the designs are modernized as hero costumes change over time.
I was born in Canada in 1982, and tho i missed the 70s, some of these things were still common in the mid to late 80s of my childhood, and some even reaching the early 2000s of my young adulthood. Lunch boxes were still a thing up to the early 90s, tho by the 80s they were more often plastic than metal. I was still making mixtapes on cassettes in the mid 90s, and even in the late 90s-very early 2000s you could still listen to full albums on cds in the record stores, til those stores disappeared (by the end of the 2000s). Fun fact about one of the pics of the record store in the vid, the guy in the hockey jersey was wearing a Winnipeg Jets jersey, my hometown team! And being that it was the 70s, that was when they were still in the WHA, before they joined the NHL (following the folding of the WHA in 79) Even though cable tv existed by the late 90s, my family could only afford the "basic" tv package of 13 channels, half local network affiliates and half nearby American network affiliates. And yes, Saturday morning cartoons were still a ritual well into the 90s. The earliest telephone i remember in our house wasn't a wall model, but it was a small and heavy rotary tabletop unit. The touchtone unit that replaced it by the late 80s was another tabletop deal that looked exactly the same, save for the different faceplate/interface. That's about all i can remember atm. Sorry for the essay lol
Best part about growing up in the ‘70s-no cell phones. Imagine having face to face conversations, no social media to distract from reality, paying cash and receiving change from a cashier who didn’t need a calculator, phone numbers didn’t require an area code for local calls, buying a car when fuel economy wasn’t a priority.
The more i see people react to this video the more it occurs to me that in my school years in the 70s, 2nd grade to 11th grade, there were MAYBE a handful of kids that brought their lunch. Nobody actually had or used those lunch boxes, the kids that brought their lunch usually just brown bagged it and buy a milk for a dime. You would always see the display of those boxes in the department stores in the month before school started but they would rarely be seen anywhere else. We all bought our lunches from the cafeteria.
Superhero underwear? That's fancy stuff. As a kid in the 90s, my brother and I used to use towels and underwear. No joke. The towels were our cape and the underwear served as a silly mask. We were poor and didn't have all this name brand stuff, but we made do and we were the Underwear Superheroes.
My mom would get so mad at us if she walked in and saw us jamming our hand down to the bottom if the cereal box rooting around to get the toy! Captain Crunch would scratch your arm up!
I was a teen in the 70s, we were so busy enjoying the simple pleasures of life that we had no time to even think about all the things people get offended about these days.
Also I used Sun-in. All you had to do was spray a little and then sit out in the sun for a bit, instant blonde highlights. Probably awful for your hair, but hey, if you're a teen why not? It looked so sick back then
I still have the red wall phone they showed - but now that we use DTMF instead of the old dial method, I can't use it. As for the kitchen, what I remember most was the AWFUL appliance colors like burnt orange or olive green. No joke, those were common colors in the Earth-tone times. In the living room often have wood paneling or brick (indoors).
Because of caller ID, kids today will never know the fun of crank calling. They'll also never know what it's like to keep putting coins on the record player arm until the skip in your 45rpm stops. They'll also never know what it's like for their parents to smoke at home and in the car with them or smoking in restaurants. People smoked everywhere, and because we all smelled like smoke, no one really noticed. LOL
The beginning is wrong because we had remotes by Kate 60’s. Plus we had three network channels in NY plus channel 11 woix, fix 5 air channel 9 and pbs channels. By 1973 we had cable TV. I had as a very little kid color TV.
Born in 1958. Remember all that stuff. And I heard the other day that..brace yourself..the word "Cassette" was being removed from the dictionary. Seriously. Aaand the polyester clothes! Yeeessshh
There us an old movie called Empire Records that is all about the life of a record store to the employees and customers. A lot of fun to watch and a very young Liv Taylor from lord of the rings
Back in the day land lines are what made teenage boys, men. If they wanted to talk to a girl, they had to dial that number and had no idea who was going to answer. If it was her Dad, you better be prepared to answer some serious questions. The time between the phone starting to ring and the person on the other end answering were some of the most nerve-wracking moments of my puberty.
We had 2,5,7,9,11 and eventually 32 and nothing else until I was 16 in the mid 80’s. The city of Chicago thought cable would be bad for poor people so they banned it. Going to a friends house blocks away in the suburbs to watch tv a whole different experience. Around 12 we could rent movies for a VHS player. But they had a limit on how long you could keep them. Eventually owning favorites was a thing. The first few movies were Davey Crockett and Dial M for Murder and Benji. It was a paid to go back and forth. The regular channels like 5 and 7 would have movies made for tv time slots. Or miniseries that would play over a period of days in the evenings. At midnight the flag would appear and star spangled banner would play. Then nothing for a few hours. It was still the Cold War after all.
In 1974, when i was 13, i was sent to boarding school in Maine. I got into trouble for smoking and the punishment was cutting off my long hair and workcrew. I didnt mind the workcrew but I was not letting my hair get cut off so i left. I packed all my stuff into a backpack and hitchhiked home, to Maryland. It took me two full days and i was robbed in Baltimore. Did i mention that i wss 13.
Actually teenagers hung out in basements if they had them. Usually away from parents. It’s where the music culture and umm other culture are from. It was a lot like that 70s show. Teens experimented a lot with random stuff until they found what they liked. New York City was a cesspool of crime back in the 70s as the city experienced a major addiction to coke and heroin. People could easily buy a burned out apartment building for back taxes and live to the fullest while those same apartments cost millions today. Anthony bourdain lived through that time mostly in Hell’s Kitchen near restaurant row. Times square was just a bad red light district of drugs, gambling, sex, and pure sin. It was cleaned up in the 80s while the 90s brought Disney which every store and restaurant started from. Now times square is a family friendly area that is quite nice. The area was very close to becoming another skid row.
I did not go outside. I just watched adult content. After Sesame Street and the like it was Julia Child cooking. At lunch time during the week there were cartoons as well. The sandwich sat in the locker in a metal lunchbox with no way to keep cool until lunch time. Warm juice and ham mayo sandwich and 1 bag of chips. Yum. When I had a child in school 30 years later I was told to pack way more food. Cause they had chances to snack in the morning. He got a bottle of water. I had Hawaiian Punch from home or milk from school. We had 3 seconds at the water fountain and no water bottle. They get refills all day for their water bottles. Not much fit in that metal lunch box. Kids ate better portion sizes but less food groups. Maybe two kids had a cutie orange out of 60 in the grade. It was twinkies and potato chips for everyone else. Further there was not midweek shopping. The bag of 12 chips had to last the week at school so you rationed with your sibling and your least favorites went in the lunch box on Friday.
Back in the 70s, we had voice-controlled remote controls to change the channels on our TVs. They were called "children."
Ha! Too true. I remember being 6 years old in 1966 and on Fridays the fam would watch 'Gomer Pyle, USMC' - but in Boston, the reception could be flaky, but it improved if someone went to the TV and held the rabbit-ear antennas at a certain angle. Every other week it was my turn to hold the antenna. I am not making this up.
cant tell you how many times my dad called me out of my room or from the yard just to turn the channel on the TV lazy butt head LOL Now i did it to my kids except made them find the remote which they always hid from each other
Yeah, we had a dishwasher too...10 of them.
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When I saw that Entry I immediately thought this very thing. I always think my parents had slave aka children for those type of tasks. 😂
I was born in 1960 and grew up in the 70's. All the stuff they were talking about I remember like it was yesterday. It was truly a magical time to be a kid. I do miss those days.
Agree. Verbatim.
I often tell me grown kids: "I actually have more in common with people born in the 1800's than you." No car pools, you''d be on your own after school (until the streetlights turned on) and your parents didn't have a clue as to where you were or what you were up to. Yeah, it was great! 👍😄
My dad was the best mechanic in town, so when he'd get pulled over for a DWI or beat up my mom, the cops would always just let it ride. Good times!
I'm a 1960 born as well and totally agree
Yep
I was born in '56. 3 network stations. 4 local stations. It was a great time to grow up. We had such freedom. Riding our bikes for miles. A California kid. You can not understand the freedom and no worries back then. It's sad that kids can't experience this nowadays. A different time.
Born in the 60's and grew up in the 70's - spot on all of it! Being a kid in the 70's was great! During summer vacation when there was no school or on a Saturday, we would play outside *all day*. We had a pretty far range too with our bikes - so we could be anywhere within a 5-mile radius or so, at the park, at a playground, at X, Y, or Z kid's house or back yard. As long as we were home for dinner - no one was concerned.
We had "head shops" into the 70's. Yes a record store, but also a place to purchase all manner of counter-culture items. There were bins of "love beads", and black light poster rooms. And of course many featured all manner of weed/pot smoking apparatus. Before even bongs became popular, there was the "hookah".
Schoolhouse Rock during Saturday morning cartoons were the best. Y'all should react to some of those! It was educational TV, done in cartoon and song form. You could learn your multiplication tables, grammar, and US history.
I was born in 68’. I can attest to this being FACTS!! I wish I could go back and do it again!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I was born 1964 and I had the Best Childhood and I wish I could go back. 😉👍❤️❤️❤️
Oh no...they were great years though
Born in 1963 and growing up in the '70s and '80s was the greatest of times!! We would play outside all day long in the summer when school was out, rode our bikes everywhere and our parents never worried about us. Every generation thinks differently about the time they grew up but I would never ever change the time I grew up!
In the 80s they came out with the dual cassette player which made it easier to make mix tapes as you could record from one tape to another.
Born in 1970.
1) The channel knobs on those TVs were plastic. Eventually they would break, requiring pliers or an adjustable wrench to turn the metal post underneath. When the tool was needed for a job, it would be "put back" next to the TV rather than in a tool chest.
2) I loved Underoos! It was even better if you had a "bed tent" that matched the theme of your Underoos.
3) I remember adults talking about the dangers of hitchhiking, but not actually seeing people do it. I suspect it died out earlier in urban and suburban areas.
4) Missing a phone call was an unforgivable sin to my mother when I was a kid. Age 82, she now screens her calls like the rest of us.
5) I don't remember anyone having a mushroom-themed decor in the kitchen. That might have made ours less ugly.
6) Some people would put those detachable pull tabs into the can. I remember being told to not do this because of the choking hazard.
7) Aside from the thermos, the contents of your lunchbox would be warm by lunch time. They weren't insulated and there weren't any cold packs. It's a miracle (sarcasm) we didn't all get sick from food poisoning!
Oh my gosh! I remember having to use a pliers to change channels, too! I had forgotten.
My brother worked in a hospital, we used hemostats. I didn't know anybody who had the underwear. We would sometimes makes chains out of the can tabs
I was born on 1963, it was a great time to grow up. We had the best music, the best cars, and we never got offended by anything.
Yes! "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." I truly believe we were ALL much tougher back then. AND, we were all better because of it.
Of course if you were white nothing offended you. If you were Native, Black or other minority it was a different story.
@@MarkCucchiara I disagree, not every minority or person felt that way. Maybe where you lived but not where I grew up.
@@claranielsen3382Ignorance is bliss. You were born less than 10 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, right in the middle of the civil rights movement. Back when Christian schools started for the sole purpose of being proudly whites only. Just years after whites only water fountains were everywhere, along with all the other segregation that entails. Maybe you were too young to remember, but the movement wouldn’t have happened if minorities didn’t feel oppressed. Maybe you were from the more accepting north or west, but don’t forget racism was heavily accepted there also.
@@MarkCucchiara Really? Nonsense.
Born in 1969. We did things that were unimaginable these days.
Like crack, and cocaine 😂❤😂
@@heywoodjablowme8120 We still have that, lol
Brought back plenty of memories.
Same. Born 64. 70's was the BEST. My brother had a Buck Rogers lunch box. He passed in 2013,and my SILsold it for $200 in 2014. I remember ALL theses things. Good times for sure 😊
I turned 5 in 1970 and 14 in 1979. Awesome decade for growing up. Very carefree time. I don't know about the UK but today's American youth rarely leave the house. In my small town they would test the emergency siren 4 times a day. It served as a click for the kids. 8am whistle we were off to school. Noon whistle we would rush home for lunch. 6pm whistle was dinnertime and the 9pm whistle was either bed time or curfew depending on your age.
I was born in 1955. Many great memories of the 60s/70s.
I grew up in the 90's & even then you still had to wait a whole week for the next episode of a TV show instead of just binging & you had to definitely wait alot longer to see movies out of theaters but going to the movies was a fun cheap experience....I remember record stores too....I miss that satisfying ability to slam down the phone receiver on someone to hang up when you were upset but don't really miss people prank calling but I did enjoy that show lol....I loved getting a toy in cereal & Cracker Jack box....Saturday morning cartoons were the best....they outlawed hitchhiking cus too many people started getting kidnapped & murdered & carjacked in the late 70's & 80's unfortunately
Ah, good memories. You could go all over the place, as long as you were home when the streetlights came on. I still have my old mix tapes. And since we didn't have VCRs yet, I'd put my tape recorder next to the TV to record my favorite shows (like The Captain and Tennille, the Walt Disney movie hour, etc.).
Regarding hitchhiking, quite a few serial killers preyed on the abundance of hitchhikers throughout the '70s. But I was too young for that, thankfully.
I was born in 1963. As much as I enjoyed the 80s, the 70s were the funnest time to be alive❤
In the 70’s, there really wasn’t any telemarketing. If the phone rang, it was 95% likely it was for someone in the house. That being the case, everyone ran to answer any phone call.
Open the cereal box from the bottom to get the prize.
I was born in 1951. The 70's were our party days, lol. My dad was the first on his side of the family to get a black and white tv, in the early 50's. We got our first color tv when I was a senior in high school..1968. I've still got my old stereo, albums and cd's. I got rid of the cassettes. Our milk and 7up were delivered, to the house.
I was born in 1966 and I had a blast in the 70s and 80s the world was a lot better place back then
How I miss the 70's, for me they were Great!!❤😊❤
The thing he didn't mention about the metal lunch boxes, is that we had things within them that "should" be refrigerated, but never did back then. Aside from the rust on the thing, eating your lunch at room temperature (and had been all day) no matter what was in it may not have been the safest food practice. But we lived through it, anyway.
Now the Fun Police has taken over Saturday Morning children's television shows. There is always this intro on every children's show "E/I, means this show is Educational and Informational." I say it means "Hey Kids, ya ain't gonna see any toy or cereal commercials, nor Wiley Coyote running into a fake tunnel painted by the Road Runner." I do not regret my childhood.
I was a kid in the 80/90s and a lot of these were still the same.
My kids still like using sun in.
5:04 Not only did you have to worry about who was getting into your car, the hitchhikers also had to worry about whose car they were getting into.
I was born in mid 70s, but a lot of what was here was still around in early 80s for me to remember them
I was born in 70, and remember all that stuff. The biggest change for me is the number of channels and streaming movies at your fingertips now. Crazy to think how kids today would probably have a fit if they only had 3 channels LOLOL
I was born in 1960. I remember being taught how to use a touch tone phone. I remember when TVs went from BW to color. I remember when we went from two broadcast TV stations for three broadcast networks to cable TV. We went from TV stations signing off at midnight and signing on at six a.m. to 24 hour broadcasting. Oh, at midnight the stations would play the national anthem and show the flying US Flag and then sign off their broadcasting day. Some would also include some type of prayer.
Hitched from San Diego to San Francisco, when I was in the Marines ❤
Born in the 50's, grew up in the 60's. Wonderful fun times.
They also had what was called a party line, usually 6 or 8 telephones all on the same line. That was more common in rural areas. When the phone rang it could be for anyone of those phones. Also if you missed a call you could just dial 0 and the operator would reverse dial the last number to call you. Or sometimes if you called and got no response or a busy line they would break in on that call to let the person know you were calling them.
MY grandparents had a party line... Their ring was 3 longs and a short... You had to listen close when you answered to see if a neighbor might pick up to listen in... You could hear it click when someone else on the line picked up... Sometimes you would go to make a call and pick up the phone and hear talking, then you would have to wait for the neighbor to finish their call before you could make yours... Those were the best days...
There are also videos about 13 things from the 50's and 60's that kids today wouldn't understand that are even stranger to the current generation than this one. I hope you give them a try.
Yes instead of hitchhiking and getting into a strangers car now you just call uber and get into a strangers car
I was born in 1974. And I remember all of that beside the pop tabs and all the ppl that would hitchhike. We would buy pop in the glass bottles then we would take them to the grocery store to be recycled. I can’t remember if they gave us money for them or not.
I was born in 1955. I graduated high school in 1973. In 1975 my mom let me go visit a young man I knew who was in college in the state of Maine. He lived off campus and didn't have a car. He hitchhiked to and from campus and downtown. My mom didn't know that part, she wouldn't have let me go. It was safe. I believe that it helped that I was with a rather large man.
I’m a Mainer….teehee but I’m not him hahaha
Life was so much simpler in the 70’s. I remember making belts out of those soda tabs. My mother called the TV the ‘idiot box’ and made us play outside ALL DAY. She wasn’t always sure where we were but had some idea, we were safe though. I feel sorry for kids today.
I was born in 1952. From 1969-72 I hitchhiked around the country, mostly with my boyfriend. At one point, we also brought my cat, Jedediah Smith, with us across country. We would tie his leash to our backpacks and go into a truck stop leaving our "guard cat" outside. When we came out he would be surrounded by people and at least one would be going our way. Truckers loved Jed because he was clean and quiet and loved semis. Many offered to buy him. Great people. Great memories
Soda pull tabs were made into long chains for necklaces, belts, and some people many them into hanger for plants.
Sitting backwards in the rear seat of a station wagon. Using suntan oil to get a dark tan. Tube and halter tops, platform shoes.
Some cool fashions and lots of “What was I thinking” fashion. I mean, why on earth would I ever want to wear hot pants (now called daisy dukes) with tube socks, a beaded headband, halter top, and platform saddle oxfords, but I did and so did many others.
I was born in the 1950s, so I was already in my teens when the 70s came round. One of the things I've noticed about Recollection Road is that the channel gives a very nostalgic view of the period they're looking at. All the things in this video are things that I experienced, but I also remember a friend of mine was sexually assaulted when he was hitchhiking. He was pretty messed up about that, and I never hitchhiked after I learned about his experience. Also, when I was in college, drugs were a HUGE problem! I remember my first year in a college dorm, three men on my floor had to be taken to the hospital because they had psychotic breaks from the drugs they were taking. As for the polyester suits, you can keep them. They were so hot! They didn't breathe at all. After five minutes I was sweating like a pig!
This is all quite accurate. I will be 50 this year…..and this pretty close.
I was born in 1964 the last year of the Baby Boomers. I remember those things from the Video. I also remember the All Night Skating at the Skating Rink. It was a great time to grow up in the 70's.
ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS were all we would get. There was no cable TV. No remote controls and you had
rabbit ears TV antennas.. The 70's were cool except for bell bottom pants and platform shoes which need never make a return
We used to drink from the hose, ride without seatbelts, we seemed to survive just fine. Also there was the Helping Hand which was put in window so children would know it was a safe house to go to if there was a storm or some danger you could go to the Helping Hand house.
I grew up in Western NY, so in addition to those four (channels 2, 4, 7 and 13), we got two stations from Toronto (channels 3 and 6) and one from Hamilton, Ontario (channel 11). It added to the variety, especially with the mandated "Canadian content" shows. And it was a really big deal when an independent station (Channel 29) started up. Almost all reruns, but I liked it.
Re the shoes - I knew a guy in high school who wore the same shoes every day. Black body with silver star on the top, and they were three inch platforms - the bottom and top inches were black and the center inch was silver. You could hear him clunk down the stairs (four story building) every time. Very KISS-inspired.
Also born in the 1960's, and the reality is that we were kids so of course, if you didn't have a terrible background, it seemed like the best time ever.
The reality was that Princess Catherine would likely die and the word "cancer" would not have been used. Cancer survivors were rare.
The number killed annually in car accidents in the forties, was roughly equal to today with tens of millions more people and cars. As if turns out, even in the 70's, a lot of kids didn't survive even relatively minor accidents as they sailed through windshields and those big heavy boats our parents were driving were not that safe.
You get the picture.
my mom got me ,a pair of saddle shoes, I only wore them once, as I took a shortcut home and had to cross a small bridge that was over a tiny river and oops one of the shoes came off and went into the water and disappeared
The cereal company got the idea from Crackerjack with a toy in every box 9:52
Born in the 40s grew up in the 50s, great!
We did have more than three channels with cable, the TV had thirteen for the VHF dial & more for the UHF dial, plus a remote with three clickers.
If you ever heard of the killing fields in Texas, many teens and young adults, mainly women and girls, lost their lives hitching hiking down in that area. I was a kid in the 70s.
Mushrooms were rarely on more than one or two sets of items in most home. Also I don't recall any of my relatives having any items with them, I'm sure that some had them, it was just decoration. That with six set of aunts and uncles, cousins. etc. We could have 40 relatives get together for Thanksgiving and Christmas. and that many that didn't come.
Soda tabs were more dangerous than you think. A lot of people would put those tabs inside the can and drink the soda. Some people ended up choking on that sharp tab!
Oh we'd get the toy out of the cereal box as soon as we got it home. We would dig through that box until we got the toy! The absolute best memories ever. I was born in 1963. The best years in the whole world.
One of the first remote controlls for the TV had a wire.
It was a great time. It will never happen again.
It sucked, just look at the stupid clothes. People we're on drugs and it showed.
I was born in 1969 so most of those things I can relate to
I was born in 1964, and I remember things like, 8 track tapes, reel to reel movies, good music, Atari
Born in 1961 the 70s 80s and 90s were the best of times!
Underoos was bought out by fruit of the loom in the late 80s. Fruit of the loom is kinda the king of kids undergarments while Hanes is more adult sizes. Fruit of the loom is bringing back Underoos although as limited runs as nostalgia for adults. Mostly of hero designs they look ok although the designs are modernized as hero costumes change over time.
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My dad hitchhiked from LA to Chicago during the late 50s
I was born in Canada in 1982, and tho i missed the 70s, some of these things were still common in the mid to late 80s of my childhood, and some even reaching the early 2000s of my young adulthood.
Lunch boxes were still a thing up to the early 90s, tho by the 80s they were more often plastic than metal.
I was still making mixtapes on cassettes in the mid 90s, and even in the late 90s-very early 2000s you could still listen to full albums on cds in the record stores, til those stores disappeared (by the end of the 2000s).
Fun fact about one of the pics of the record store in the vid, the guy in the hockey jersey was wearing a Winnipeg Jets jersey, my hometown team! And being that it was the 70s, that was when they were still in the WHA, before they joined the NHL (following the folding of the WHA in 79)
Even though cable tv existed by the late 90s, my family could only afford the "basic" tv package of 13 channels, half local network affiliates and half nearby American network affiliates. And yes, Saturday morning cartoons were still a ritual well into the 90s.
The earliest telephone i remember in our house wasn't a wall model, but it was a small and heavy rotary tabletop unit. The touchtone unit that replaced it by the late 80s was another tabletop deal that looked exactly the same, save for the different faceplate/interface.
That's about all i can remember atm. Sorry for the essay lol
Best part about growing up in the ‘70s-no cell phones. Imagine having face to face conversations, no social media to distract from reality, paying cash and receiving change from a cashier who didn’t need a calculator, phone numbers didn’t require an area code for local calls, buying a car when fuel economy wasn’t a priority.
I graduated in 1971 from high school. It was certainly a different time. We had a lot more freedom.
That cassette tape was not really around until the 80’s.
The more i see people react to this video the more it occurs to me that in my school years in the 70s, 2nd grade to 11th grade, there were MAYBE a handful of kids that brought their lunch. Nobody actually had or used those lunch boxes, the kids that brought their lunch usually just brown bagged it and buy a milk for a dime. You would always see the display of those boxes in the department stores in the month before school started but they would rarely be seen anywhere else. We all bought our lunches from the cafeteria.
NOTE: Cartoons were ONLY aired on Saturday mornings!
I was born in 1970!
We had 10 TV stations in Connecticut, not 3.
I just opened the cereal from the bottom to get to the toy.
My parents use to be leery of hitchikers, but we would give a military a ride and would go out of our way to get them were they needed to go.
Millie, my birthday is April the 8th.
Superhero underwear? That's fancy stuff. As a kid in the 90s, my brother and I used to use towels and underwear. No joke. The towels were our cape and the underwear served as a silly mask. We were poor and didn't have all this name brand stuff, but we made do and we were the Underwear Superheroes.
1969 here
Kids today with their ice packs..... lol
My mom would get so mad at us if she walked in and saw us jamming our hand down to the bottom if the cereal box rooting around to get the toy!
Captain Crunch would scratch your arm up!
I was a teen in the 70s, we were so busy enjoying the simple pleasures of life that we had no time to even think about all the things people get offended about these days.
Also I used Sun-in. All you had to do was spray a little and then sit out in the sun for a bit, instant blonde highlights. Probably awful for your hair, but hey, if you're a teen why not? It looked so sick back then
I had one of those mushrooms cookie jar
I still have the red wall phone they showed - but now that we use DTMF instead of the old dial method, I can't use it. As for the kitchen, what I remember most was the AWFUL appliance colors like burnt orange or olive green. No joke, those were common colors in the Earth-tone times. In the living room often have wood paneling or brick (indoors).
We walked miles alone to school. Today that would get parents charged with neglect.
Because of caller ID, kids today will never know the fun of crank calling. They'll also never know what it's like to keep putting coins on the record player arm until the skip in your 45rpm stops. They'll also never know what it's like for their parents to smoke at home and in the car with them or smoking in restaurants. People smoked everywhere, and because we all smelled like smoke, no one really noticed. LOL
"Tab cola" is a thing of the past :(
the rule for hitchhiking was, "ass, grass, or gas, nobody rides free"
I made all my mix tapes from records.
Gas, Grass or Ass, nobody rides for free.
You can still buy polaroid cameras today.
I was born in 1959 so I grew up in the 60s and 70s.
The beginning is wrong because we had remotes by Kate 60’s. Plus we had three network channels in NY plus channel 11 woix, fix 5 air channel 9 and pbs channels. By 1973 we had cable TV. I had as a very little kid color TV.
There were no vcrs , no dvds, no blue rays . It was ONLY tv
Born in 1958. Remember all that stuff. And I heard the other day that..brace yourself..the word "Cassette" was being removed from the dictionary. Seriously. Aaand the polyester clothes! Yeeessshh
There us an old movie called Empire Records that is all about the life of a record store to the employees and customers. A lot of fun to watch and a very young Liv Taylor from lord of the rings
You wouldn’t think of hitchhiking but now you get in a Uber or Lyft with someone you don’t know. I’m glad I was a teenager in the 70s
Back in the day land lines are what made teenage boys, men. If they wanted to talk to a girl, they had to dial that number and had no idea who was going to answer. If it was her Dad, you better be prepared to answer some serious questions. The time between the phone starting to ring and the person on the other end answering were some of the most nerve-wracking moments of my puberty.
We had 2,5,7,9,11 and eventually 32 and nothing else until I was 16 in the mid 80’s. The city of Chicago thought cable would be bad for poor people so they banned it. Going to a friends house blocks away in the suburbs to watch tv a whole different experience. Around 12 we could rent movies for a VHS player. But they had a limit on how long you could keep them. Eventually owning favorites was a thing. The first few movies were Davey Crockett and Dial M for Murder and Benji. It was a paid to go back and forth. The regular channels like 5 and 7 would have movies made for tv time slots. Or miniseries that would play over a period of days in the evenings. At midnight the flag would appear and star spangled banner would play. Then nothing for a few hours. It was still the Cold War after all.
In 1974, when i was 13, i was sent to boarding school in Maine. I got into trouble for smoking and the punishment was cutting off my long hair and workcrew. I didnt mind the workcrew but I was not letting my hair get cut off so i left. I packed all my stuff into a backpack and hitchhiked home, to Maryland. It took me two full days and i was robbed in Baltimore. Did i mention that i wss 13.
I was born in 1969. I cam still remember the smell of my lunchbox with a tuna sandwich and a banana in there for hours at room temperature.
Actually teenagers hung out in basements if they had them. Usually away from parents. It’s where the music culture and umm other culture are from. It was a lot like that 70s show. Teens experimented a lot with random stuff until they found what they liked. New York City was a cesspool of crime back in the 70s as the city experienced a major addiction to coke and heroin. People could easily buy a burned out apartment building for back taxes and live to the fullest while those same apartments cost millions today. Anthony bourdain lived through that time mostly in Hell’s Kitchen near restaurant row. Times square was just a bad red light district of drugs, gambling, sex, and pure sin. It was cleaned up in the 80s while the 90s brought Disney which every store and restaurant started from. Now times square is a family friendly area that is quite nice. The area was very close to becoming another skid row.
That boy on the phone looks like my little brother Troy to a T
I did not go outside. I just watched adult content. After Sesame Street and the like it was Julia Child cooking. At lunch time during the week there were cartoons as well. The sandwich sat in the locker in a metal lunchbox with no way to keep cool until lunch time. Warm juice and ham mayo sandwich and 1 bag of chips. Yum. When I had a child in school 30 years later I was told to pack way more food. Cause they had chances to snack in the morning. He got a bottle of water. I had Hawaiian Punch from home or milk from school. We had 3 seconds at the water fountain and no water bottle. They get refills all day for their water bottles. Not much fit in that metal lunch box. Kids ate better portion sizes but less food groups. Maybe two kids had a cutie orange out of 60 in the grade. It was twinkies and potato chips for everyone else. Further there was not midweek shopping. The bag of 12 chips had to last the week at school so you rationed with your sibling and your least favorites went in the lunch box on Friday.