20 Things Your Parents Definitely Did in The 1970s
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- 20 Things Your Parents Definitely Did in The 1970s
Take a nostalgic trip back to the 1970s with this fun video highlighting 20 things your parents definitely did! From groovy fashion trends to quirky hobbies, explore the weird, funny, and relatable moments that defined a generation in the USA. Perfect for anyone looking to relive the retro vibes of the '70s.
Even kids back in the day wore bell bottoms occasionally. Tupperware was used mostly for food
Absolutely! I don't really recall parents wearing bell bottoms and platforms as much as younger people.
I wish it was the 60's and 70's.
There was never a happier time in this country. We had the best styles and weren't afraid to use colors. Everything was so Groovy...except the early American furniture styles. They didn't appeal to me.
Bring back groovy colors...shag carpets...wild wallpaper...avacodo green and harvest gold kitchens...and all the other Boss stuff. But leave the cigarettes out of the picture.
I found out years after using Tupperware...it was very toxic. I got rid of it all.
I wasn't into the Jello salads. I never made them.
I had a bunch of 8 track tapes...until a fire set by druggies burned my totally vintage 1965 trailer down. I miss it. Cant replace an orange velvet couch or the green shag carpeting and paneling with gold and orange drapes on the windows...or the multicolored plastic beaded curtains. Just to name a few of my memories. I also had a white dial princess phone. All gone.😢
I hate that cars today are white, black or gray. I see pictures of lots in the 70s and every color was available. I’m a fan of color. lol my dad says I was born in the wrong time. I do love vintage 70s decor. I find nice pieces on eBay. Love it ❤
I use a crockpot quite often and do 90% of my cooking from scratch. As for a waterbed, I still use my waterbed frame, although it has a regular mattress in it these days - but only because when mine finally gave out (about 10 years ago) I couldn't find a replacement. I also collect and restore old phones. But I don't miss jello salads at all.
They sure did make good products in the 70's. Everything has a life span these days. Works for so many hrs and dies like clock work.
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I did the same with the waterbed. When we moved, we dismantled the whole thing, and had a lovely cabinet made out of the six drawers!😊
We had a 1971 Chevrolet Greenbriar stationwagon. Gold exterior with black interior. No A/C, no FM radio, no power brakes, no power windows. One night In 1978, the wiring under the hood caught on fire and essentially totaled the car.
Sounds scary!!!!!😮
@@kat35lulu88 When we woke up at 4 AM, the car was in flames and two city firetrucks were starting to spray down the car. Total loss.
There was a grocery store that I knew had generic brands. It was Pantry Pride. My late parents had Crock pot, and Tupperware.
You dont think people use crock pots today?
I have 3 crock pots of different sizes l use regularly. They are still sold at Wal-Mart, Target, etc. They call them slow cookers now though. Same thing. They are a life saver for large family dinners.
And in the seventies, we didn't have robot voices narrating videos. LOL.
Mom and I into my high school years in the mid 70’s would make chocolate chip cookies from scratch using the back of a bag of chocolate chips for the recipe. We had everything we needed. We’d make brownies and I’d take those back to school(boarding high school) for night snack. And before there was ever packaged hamburger, mom would get meat from the butcher, it was wrapped in white paper, mom would get out her grinder she’d attach to the table and grind her own ground beef. With other strips of meat mom got out her bumpy mallet and you’d hear her pound away. Then packaged meat came. No metal grinder no pounding. Mom got a wok and had a great time trying out things in it. Dad changed from a charcoal grill to an electric one. Mom taught me how to make cakes. She’d not do it, she’d tell me what to do as she watched. And the best part was licking the bowl and beaters that had frosting. There’s nothing like home made chocolate chip cookies from scratch. No such thing in our house as cookie dough you cut and bake and call it home made. All from scratch. Mom had her ring of metal measuring spoons and glass measuring cup and baking pans. It was fun. And I used to watch on TV the Galloping Gourmet who was an Englishman and when he made radishes cut like roses I did that as I was the official dinner salad maker.
When I was a kid we would hang up blankets and sheets and make living room forts. We had so much fun doing simple things. 😊
I am so happy that the cigarettes and dirty ashtrays are gone !
Not me! 😂
I've been through miles and miles of Texas in the back of a pickup truck.
Same in Ohio!
What fun watching this. All those memories, some good others yuck. The one I got the best smiles is the rotary phone. My kids were born in the '80's so those phones were gone. I took my kids antique shopping in the early '90's when one of my daughters saw a rotary phone. She pointed & asked what's that mom? Couldn't hold in the laughter. 😅
My dad would wear his platform boots when my parents went dancing. My mom said he always jumped on her toes 😅
I still got a Tupperware problem lol I love it
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Unfortunately my parents didn't do any of these things but I did. I'm of the baby boomer generation. So by the 1970's I was a kid for the first part and a teenager in the 2nd half. I love growing up in the 70's it was fun.
Crock pot meals & Tupperware were definitely in my childhood home. Other relatives had shag carpeting, big console tvs & the avocado green(yuck!) & harvest gold. We had copper tone, which I loved.
Living room TV? Nope. Basement TV on a metal stand, and a TV in the Den. Now my Scranton grandparents had the TV you’re showing. But we never had that at home. We only had three channels. We had a roof arial so no need for rabbit ears. But when wind hit, you’d get a hiss of static. Yup. No remote. And a TV guide we’d get in the mail. My brother had a whole collection.
I remember all of this. Gone are these days for our generation we had experiences kids today will never know freedom in a way kids today can’t understand and never will ….too bad simpler easier times
They didn’t leave babies in the car. Only older kids.
You are so right. There was never anything sinister about it and parents didn't end up on the news or in jail.
We had one black rotary phone. Then we got the push button ones. Saved your fingers if you weren’t quick enough and got your finger stuck. I still have my a black rotary phone for sentimental value.
My grandmother had a black rotary phone that she used to bring out to the patio in order to have a photo outside while we swam in the pool. (Years before cells) There was also one in the basement, white. My grandma passed away in 2013. The phones we still I use and working. Things just lasted better back then.
@@DanniTheMagicJunkDrawer That’s great!
My parents both passed away from complications from smoking. I’m a smoker unfortunately. My parents would rip butts everywhere. Car no windows. I remember the teachers smoking in the nurses office
I owned and drove a 1964 Dodge Dart but I do remember our Rambler station wagon and I remember my dad letting me drive it. I was only 12 at the time so I couldn't get my driver's license. But it was fun to have a preview of coming attentions. I got my first driver's license at the age of 25, in 1986.
Parents or at least mine didn't leave me or my siblings in the car as they went shopping.
Lucky you! Mine did, and I was always afraid.👀
We had the station wagon but no classic rock, it was more like classic country music which is way better than modern country music... and we skipped the 8-tracks in favor of cassette tapes.
Earth shoes. Cake cutter Afro comb in your back pocket.
How you talk about me in my 30s! (I'm 82.)
Same here! Im 69yrs old
When we used to drive in the 60’s to Pennsylvania to visit mom’s folks my brother and I had either coloring books or we’d play a card game or Go Fish or Old Maid the latter I can’t remember how to play. Then we both discovered we got nauseous playing in a moving car have no idea why, so we would listen to mom and dad talk or yes, another baseball game. But in the 70’s, we’d just look out the window while listening to the folks talk or the baseball game or sleep.
I was always interested in the countryside and other cars on the road when I went on trips with my parents. I've been in every state west of the Mississippi river. Always have lived in Nebraska.
@@johnehlert4366 Interesting. We would visit relatives in Pennsylvania, mom’s parents, and we’d visit cousins on dad’s side in Boston. We did go to Florida twice, San Diego California once, Toronto Canada once and Tijuana once. My brother lives in New Hampshire.
Many happy memories, but I hated the smoking. I would complain and was told to go outside. And we always made ashtrays for parents' presents. Did anyone else?
Yes, and my parents didn’t even smoke!
When I was little, in the 50's, I liked the smell of cigarette smoke unil they started putting preservatives in tobacco, then they took on a different odor.
Oh platform shoes. When I got to high school in ‘75 they were the rage. Mom never wore those, she was a fancy sandal type with normal heels or she wore her high heels. Never saw her wear tennis shoes. I didn’t know they were called sneakers until I was an adult.
I’m traumatized over jello. My brother thought it funny to strain it through his teeth. He only liked lime and he’d do that to gross me out. It worked! So we never had anything jello again. Seeing those jello things gave me a bad flash back. 🤣
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I guess we had what you’d call a station wagon but no wood on the outside. We would take Sunday drives out to the corn and tomato sellers or just drive. My state has dairy farms so it was cool to see cows. Dad had what he called the way back which was behind the back seat. If you pulled to floor of it off the spare would be there. If the drive was too long I climbed into the way back for a nap.
My old Crock Pot is on my kitchen counter cooking our dinner right now. It’s not fancy, only a high and low setting, but it’s still going strong after 30 years. Made a whole lot better than the lousy appliances of today. Our huge Colony Park station wagon left everybody in the dust on the Interstates.
The title of this video references the 1970s. What they show, however, are scenes from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
We would get up early and take our bikes, stay out all day, return when the alarm sounded for curfew!
Dad was a big movie maker. He never got the fancy movie cameras you show. He had this camera with two huge lights and he’d take home movies of our birthdays, my brother’s snowball fights. He used that same movie camera to take movies of my brother and I after we were brought home after we were born. Buck naked! How embarrassing! He used to splice and do all his movie stuff and then we’d all watch them on a double reel projector. But he stopped after my brother and I hit our teens. Dad loved taking home movies. He never got the newer movie cameras. He liked his old one with the two big lights that were blindingly bright.
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I remember one Christmas getting a movie camera, lining up all us grandchildren and saying, "now move". We didn't know what to do. We were used to being lined up for pictures and being told to say" cheese". And freeze in place.
@@PennyHays44 funny.
LOL, helicopter parents of today would have lost their minds in the 70's.
My brother and I played outside until dark in the 60’s. In the 70’s he was out of school and I was in the early 70’s in Junior High and I loved riding my bike all over. But in the mid 70’s I was at boarding school. But when I came home on weekends I still had my bike and tooled all over until it got dark.
Now you know why Generation X is the strongest generation ever! My parents did all of the mentioned in this video. Smoked in the house around my brother and I. Left us in a car when we were kids while they went shopping etc.
But all windows were crank windows so kids can get air while they wait.
White counter tops and white fridge. My parents weren’t into trends in the 70’s. They were too busy paying the bills and working. Our thrill? Whole house air conditioning to replace window air conditioners. And in 1973 my parents went ‘wild’ by getting a Den color TV. 🤣
Mom and dad had the window air conditioner in their room. Us kids had fans in the windows. I didn't even know there was whole house air conditioning in the 70's
@@roseseifert8939 I think it was ‘68 or ‘69 we had whole house air conditioning. Before that we had window air conditioners in our bedrooms. By the 70’s we already had whole house a/c because we had his accordion looking ‘door’ we’d pull where the kitchen led to the side door to keep the cool air in. I never had my first fan until a few years ago. I have whole house air but I put on my bedroom fan more for the sound than the air.
My parents owned a Rambler station wagon all through the early 60’s. My husband and I drove a Pontiac Grand Safari station wagon in the 80’s. 😂😂
Did any of you have cheese fondu meals? Or engage in macrame to hold pot filled plants? Sangria pitchers filled with fresh fruit in the summer. Or Bartle and James wine coolers? Boone's Farm anyone?🤪
The Exorcist was way before the hockey face Michael Myers and Freddie Krueger. Mode rings might still be found in an old shoebox right next to a pet rock. 😊
Some times eh?😉
Only one grandparent made it to the 70’s and she lived out of state. Who knows if grandma, mom’s mom, had Tupperware. After grandpa passed she visited once a year and not one bit of Tupperware. Now I feel deprived. 😅
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All my exposure to second hand smoke..led me to be a non smoker my whole life... except for MaryJane❤... Restaurants ..homes..cars.. cigarette smoke permeated EVERYTHING...The clincher was a trip up Pikes Peak c.1973..i was 8 ..My parents chain smoked with the windows up in that dreaded Station Wagon...Never let us get out at top of mountain...Traumatic memories❤
I still have my tipperware. Nostalgic , of far better times! I sold my orange beautiful couch about six years ago. Had a queen hideabed. I miss it, good for grandkids!
I was young. I’d go interrupt my mothers Tupperware parties and go get attention from all the ladies. Candies gifts. I miss those damn things lol😅
Omg! I still regularly use my Rival crock pot, Tupperware and even have a jello cook book. In fact when I had first left my parents home My mom told me a crockpot is a woman's best friend.
I use all 3 as well. Tupperware is better quality than most of what's out there today. I used my Jell-o cookbook last month! My Rival will be coming out for fall soon.
16:35 I grew up in the VHS and DVD era but I have been learning how to use these cameras. Pretty interesting to mess with. The Canon ones make really good images 👍
There were video cameras too as I have a couple examples from the 70s (my earliest example being a 1965 Sony model) but the image quality of video cameras then was quite poor (then using a vidicon tube as opposed to the later CCD for the image sensor) compared to their film counterparts.
LOL! Crock pots? On a steady diet of steak, lamb and pork chops we had no crock pot. I have my uncle’s crock pot. Have no idea how to use it. It was a struggle to get mom to get let alone open a can of pork and beans.
My parents never dressed in bell bottoms. Mom was prim pantsuits and dad did begin to wear jeans. Mom had her own fashion of once she put her apron on in cooking she didn’t take it off. Every home movie there was her famous apron. I was surprised when dad started to wear jeans with straight pant legs and went from dress shoes to what he called his white bucks. Not dress shoes not exactly tennis shoes. Hard to describe. My parents came of age in the late 40’s the 50’s.
You're parents sound like mine!
@@Dani92670 Cool! 👍
We never left children in the car while shopping. Never. No one did this!!
I didn’t sleep in a water bed until a guy I dated in the mid 80’s. Too used a regular mattress. Never a waterbed at home. We were old fashioned. No shag, waterbeds or 8 track tapes.
Green Kitchens
And orange counter tops! 🇦🇺
A lot of what is shown is before the 70's.
We never had Tupperware. Tin foil put over what something was cooked. But we had few leftovers.
I was going to cook some alligator but discovered I only had a Croc-pot. I have green laminate countertop with faux brick backsplash and wood sheet paneling on one wall. For some weird reason it does not bother me.
Mom for a long time was a smoker before she quit. And yes back then there was no such thing as a smoking section. My brother and I grew up around her smoking so it didn’t matter. Dad never smoked outside the home. He later had to quit. He only smoked half a pack a week but got lung cancer in 1980 and passed of it in ‘89. I didn’t smoke until I was 30. I’m a chain smoker.
My parents did not wear platforms in the 70s 🤣🤣🤣
I still have some Tupperware. Use them all the time
My parents were squares 😂
My ‘rents were early 60s babies and 70s teens so I guess some of this applies to them…
I had naturally curly hair so no perms or curlers. Any hair cuts I’d be taken to mom’s beauty parlor. I cut my own hair and it looks like someone else did it. I used to watch the beautician do it. Having naturally curly hair in a time where straight hair was in fashion in the 60’s where I am, mom would take me as a tot to neighbors. To this day don’t you dare rub your hands through my hair. When that wasn’t happening mom used to tell me which I don’t remember her taking me to a neighbor who had a German Shepherd and I’d ride it. I was that tiny. I’m still short so probably could ride a Great Dane with ease. Mom never did her own hair, it was Saturday beauty parlor day. She was a brunette naturally but liked blond so she’d get touch ups.
Daddy lighting up a cigarette with his car's cigarette lighter.
Boy am I glad my parents didn’t wear those horrid fashions of the 70’s. But then my parents were from a different era.
Nope no shag. Just regular flat carpet. When we did get new carpet which was blue, my brother and I would rub our feet on it and touch something for the thrill of a minor shock. Dad thought that amusing. But the older the carpet got you couldn’t get any more electricity.
Ever "rake" your carpet or degauss your TV?
If I acted up I’d be left in the car. Window all the way down. But other than that, my brother and I were left home or went in wherever my parents were going.
I get it; jello is gross because it’s collagen. So is the bone broth snd collagen creams. And there’s no flavored collagen dry mix. There items are costly. But’s effective. jello doesn’t seem so bad after all,
My Dad was a smoker in the 70s and I hated it
Mom made many a meal in her Crockpot.
You have no idea what you're talking about. My parents didn.t do ANY of those things.
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It's true, they left us in cars unattended. Except we didn't play pretend we actually got on the CB and trolled truckers.
that jello with shrimp and peas...oh yeah..my mouth is watering.....NOT !!
In fairness i grew up in the 70s but i lived qith my grandparents so a lot of this wasnt how they lived.
Dog food cereal
Which set of parents does this video propose to discuss? Part of the video -- such as discussions of bell bottoms and platform shoes -- are what TEENAGERS did in the '70s. Other sections that discuss, for example, the color of kitchen appliances would be what the '70s teenagers' did. Is this about the people who were kids in the '70s and are now parents or parents in the '70s, who were teens in the '50s and '60s? Also, by at least 1972, we had hot rollers, which replaced sleeping on curlers. Dialing a phone didn't require patience; refusing to today demonstrates aa lack of patience and a sense of entitlement.
Yeah, this isn't a well-researched presentation. There are more authentic and genuine channels on YT who do really fantastic work.
Please stop saying quirky.
Thank you. I thought I was being picky.
This is not even close to what my parents did. Some of sister's friends sorta did some of this.
I'm more than half a century old, so most of this is way off for my generation.
Lol!! I'll be 54 on 9/26 and I struggled to relate to most of what was presented. Quite a few aspects didn't line up. My parents weren't cool by any stretch. Now, they DID wear a lot of polyester, but no bell bottoms or platforms. Us girls wanted the fad fashions. They made this video for clicks because it's become quite a trend since everything is so awful anymore. They are jumping on the bandwagon and not everyone can be fooled.