In the 70’s our school made us cover our books because they were reused over and over so we used paper grocery bags and then customized them with markers
Yes! And we’d use brown paper bags so we could draw anything we wanted on them. I remember trying to make the most perfect creases and folds. Thanks for this throw back as I’d not come up with it on my own. Haha
@@blauer2551 Our Rural Electric Company made book covers for us every year...they sponsored them and printed them. Handed out at the beginning of the school year!
@@christinemaney2294 LOL.....I thought I was one of the few whose Mother did that. But yeah it was great for doodling and having friends leave comments. I'm currently 59 years old so I gotta think this is an old practice.
Them and the 80's were my growing up years. I dare say and I do mean every syllable of it...they were a VASTLY superior time to grow up in (compared to now). VASTLY...SUPERIOR.
Yes, the 70s were a great time to be a kid! FAR better than the 80s! Everything good about our culture fell apart in the 80s, and people often seem to think that was a good thing.
IMO its the last generation of people raised with need of independence and freedom inside their hearts. :( Now most ppl is educated to have the need only for comfortable golden cage of technocracy and state apparatus (welfare or social whatever they call is in USA). :(
Yes, I often feel bad four kids now adays. I feel our childhood was full of magic and wonder in comparison. Back then seeing a group of children having fun around the neighborhood was so normal. Now adays if it happens at all, it's viewed as strange.
How did we survive back then, playing outside till dark, camping in the woods without parents, semi dangerous toys, tackle football without pads, swimming in the creek.We grew up able to not be hurt by words.
@@frankdelph6677 I used to climb trees thinking I was Spiderman till one day I climbed to high and looked down and froze my neighbor came with a ladder and such and got me down
I was the youngest kid, a girl. My brothers pitched in and got me a complete football gear, helmet, pads, etc so that I could be the running back and get full on tackled. So much fun!
I was born in 1961 and remember all of these. 50s, 60s, 70s were the best times for kids to grow up in. I miss these days, and I would go back in a heartbeat. ❤👍
@@tonycollazorappo I was born in 1968, so I also remember cap guns, Atari, which for us, we were the first ones in the neighborhood to get in the late 1970s, Wonetco Home Theater (WHT) before cablevision was available, the town pool where there would about 30 of us kids replicating midnight wrestling, which came on at Saturday night at midnight at channel 11 (WPIX) in New York. In addition, our bicycles were very important, as was a football, frisbee, Wiffle ball and bat, and Stickball. Those were the days my friends and I might go fishing at a local pond, ride our bicycles through some wooded areas, rough housed, played Hide and Seek using our neighbors’ backyards as hiding spots, which is something I would never recommend anyone doing today, and it was a time when us kids would knock on each other’s doors to come out after we finished eating our overly sugar cereals after watching the good weekend cartoons like Bugs Bunny and Pink Panther. Despite real dangerous people plaguing the towns and no cameras anywhere, us kids were safe, as we traveled in packs, had awareness of who was around, and we essential knew older people nearby we knew we could always count on if need be. But back then police patrolled the area in their cars anyway, so even during the days of the Son of Sam, I think we were safe. We played with each other, where sometimes a fistfight occurred. After the fight, the two would shake hands, apologize, and resume a friendship as if nothing happened. We learned how to communicate. We had the life. When Start Wars came about, our mothers drove us kids to watch the movies by picking up five kids before going back and picking up five more. By the time the movie ended, I counted 26 of us who walked home from the movie theater. Wonderful times. I still feel bad for the generations of kids that came after us.
1959 I was born; NEVER ever did we drink from glass milk bottles in school, always the little cardboard cartons. I don't ever remember an 8-track tape cutting a song in mid play unless you pulled it out of the player or pressed the button to advance the program.
What do you mean the 50, 60, 70 were the best time for kids to grow up in? Now we have 1/3 kids self-reporting autism, 20% of children reporting (SAD) social anxiety disorder, up to 20% kids reporting ADHD, almost 10% of kids reporting gender confusion, and 15% reporting suicidal. That's 100% of kids. This IS the generation of the victim and OF COURSE, any other time would have been better to grow up in, my GOD have you seen who is going to be President!?!
I was born in 62, and actually growing up in the 70s was fantastic. Lots of fun, no worries, was not allowed in the house after School, you were expected to go out and play but be home by 5 pm for supper. This was where everyone’s at the kitchen table and ate what was put in front of you. Saturday nights was hockey night in Canada we only had two channels and one tv, times were very simple.
Kinda weird you weren't allowed home after school until 5 pm? ....In 1980 grade school, I could come straight home. Or go to a friend's house after school to play for a couple hours. I remember walking the half mile to grade school. With a group of friends in the morning. Being some of my best childhood memories. In winter ☃️ ❄️ Northern Illinois 3 or 5 of us playing in snow drifts along the way. Or "bumper skiing" to school when we got older. We would hide by stop 🛑 sign on a 20 mph snow covered street. Run out & grab a cars bumper. At the stop sign, in a skiing position & get pulled to school.
@@davidtaylor6885 Yep, lots of freedom! There was one Mom in the neighborhood who a bell on her back porch. When you heard the bell, it was time for dinner and head home!
@@michaelbrinks8089 he said wasn’t allowed INSIDE the house after school… had to go outside and play…pretty much same at my house - Mom wanted us out of her hair while she made dinner 😉
@@ResolUloseR I remember walking to the store just to buy a coke with deposit glass bottles we gathered from the trash or neighbors.....and penny candy😎 a candy bar was about 5 cents......
@@Nocha-l2rWe were living out of town and I would walk for miles collecting pop bottles and empty beer cans beside the road in the early 70s. Then I would walk miles to town to get the refund on them.
Me in 1975: Think about 50 years from now, how amazing it must be in the future... Me in 2025: Think about 50 years ago, how amazing everything was then... Just a personal reflection.
people forget some of the things that were not so much fun about back then. what really made those times magical was people treated each other far differently, and had different priorities than they do now.
You nailed it. We all thought the future would be brighter and better and now I find myself looking back at the 70s wishing I had appreciated it for what it was, probably the best time to be a white American in the history of the country. Not so much now.
Same here, when we were kids, people would make all these wonderful predictions about life beyond year 2000, but now we're here , we look back & wwish we could go back to those childhood days!
I was born in 59 also. I've lived my life already through an era of relative stability, economically and politically. It's the generation that hasn't started school yet that I feel sorry for. Woke culture, DEI initiatives, cancel culture, the Alphabet Mafia, unsafe schools, metal detectors and cops in the halls, drug epidemics, expensive rent and groceries, Jobs that pay nowhere near a career salary and/or enough to save some of that pay. Horrible healthcare, no mass transit to speak of, requiring you to buy a car and drive everywhere which costs thousands per year, open borders with no meaning of citizenship, etc, etc.
I was born in 1953 (right smack-dab in the middle of the Baby Boom) and I think that in this era of the 21st Century... "It's a very strange world we live in, master Jack..."
When we were kids in the 70's we were gone all day and didn't come home until dinner or when it got dark. All day outside with friends. No larding in front of a TV we played and stayed active and in shape. All my parents would do is have to look at me and I'd behave. I was born in 1959 too and I/we lived a life that kids today would never be able to handle
@@sueraymo3239 You're right, there. Today's pixel zombies posing as kids and young people would melt into a sobbing puddle at the very NOTION of a developed brain and physical exercise.
@@sueraymo3239 I was born in September 59. The stuff kids play on the PlayStation now we actually did back then. I remember a group of us playing gladiator in the backyard. We would use the metal trash can lids for shields and a stick with a rock tied to the end as a weapon. You were supposed to hit the other guys shield but it didn't always work out that way. Did we get hurt ? Nothing major. Mom would hit it with some iodine and back in the fight you went. Couldn't imagine today's kids doing that.
@@user-vp1sc7tt4m Same! Literally I was messing around in the “crik” (creek) turning over rocks to find and catch crawdads. Riding bikes all day…spying on other kids in the neighborhood….hide and seek and catching firefly’s after dark. Great times 💜💜💜
I used to go all over the neighborhood when I was 2 years old. One time a church bus picked up my 3 year old sister. She was found sitting up in a high chair eating snacks at the church. Fortunately a neighbor saw her get on the bus and told my mother 😄. I can remember going into the offices of factories and talking to the secretary or getting a drink out of their water fountain. My mom didn't seem to worry about where we went. Crazy!
@@pamelacolvin1417My mom cared but wasn't over protective. I did find a way to get across the street without crossing it, though. I got a ride to the police station and ice cream while they found out where I came from. There was none of this child endangerment arrests for a kid being a kid back then. Early 1960s.
@@theelephantintheroom8016 we finally got a city bus near our house and we could safely ride it and go to the mall as young teens. No one worried about getting hurt.
I grew up in the 70s and I had a great childhood. I was into BMX bikes and dirt bikes and anything that was outdoors. We drank water out of anybody's water hose that was closest and we got dirty 😊. We stayed outside until that dreaded scream from mom to come inside lol. I still have scars from those amazing years and memories galore. Grateful I grew up before social media .
We had to be home when the street lites came on,and you could find blueberries ,blackberries ,apples ,rhubarb,catch fish and frogs and bring it home and Mom would cook it for dinner or desert,rode in the back of pickups,every Tuesday in elementary school we brought our ..22 rifles on the bus to school for gun safety class and target practiceq
Kids now wouldn't know what a rotary phone was let alone how to use it I still remember our phone number and the numbers of my friends from the 60s-70s but now I don't know any of them I just look at the picture of my son or whoever I'm calling and tap the screen
The seventies were the “Wonder Years” I’m grateful my parents married in 1961 and I was born in 1962. We had the best childhood growing up. This video highlighted everything. We didn’t have any crazy technology, we had a tv without a remote, one rotary dial phone attached on the kitchen wall with a long stretchy cord, we rode our bikes everywhere. Had to come inside when the street lights came on. We used our imaginations to play and entertain ourselves. Saturday morning cartoons and after school shows on tv. The Munsters, The Addams Family, The Three Stooges, etc etc. I ❤️ the 70’s ! Thank you Mom and Dad
I was born in 1960. I remember so many things, drive in movies, pen pals, waiting on the post man, Bruce Lee, the freedom!! and of course the music and Discos 🎉
1970 Here. My parents bought a brand new house in 1971. We lived in that neighborhood for 15 years. Older kids who were teenagers in the 70's were my baby sitters so I learned about Van Halen, Eagles and AC/DC on 8 track. We started out on 70's Schwinn Stingrays but soon the early 80's came along and switched to BMX Diamondbacks and Mongoose bikes, later wide skateboards (Santa Cruz, Powell Peralta, ect.) We rode miles on our bikes, we had three parks and 4 elementary schools one Jr. high school to go off and play. Hide and go seek after dark. What a great time. Best part of that I am 54 and I still call and text a few of those older kids who watched me growing up pretty much my older brothers and a best friend who moved in when I was 7 and we still talk and visit to this day.
Who remembers just stopping by someone’s place if you were nearby? Now without calling, texting , posting or whatever if you stop by someone’s house it’s a huge situation here days……
And NOW you get to live in a decade where a Band from Japan (BAND-MAID) plays great rock music reminiscent of all the best 70's and 80s bands you ever loved with musicianship that puts many of those old rockers to shame! If you haven't tried them, you will be doing yourself a favor by doing so now. "Thrill" - ruclips.net/video/Uds7g3M-4lQ/видео.html
@@bonusbaby801 for sure By the time my older sisters were tired of their Easy Bake oven I got to play with it but by that time we didn’t have the right mix and the light bulb burnt out 😌
I remember all of this! Great memories here! We were out the door after eating breakfast on the weekends and only came home - or went to our friends house- when we were hungry. Then, back out again…riding bikes…exploring…or watching the boys play basketball or baseball. Back home at dinner time …. Back out AFTER dinner and washing dishes - and gone until dark. What a life!
Best time to be a kid. I loved the summers! We were latch key kids. I was the first one up every morning ate breakfast and out the door into the woods. We wood play in the creeks build tree forts or underground forts, build dams in the creek catching frogs, turtles and snakes. We were always outside until dinner around 6 pm then back outside to play flash light tag at night. We were active, adventurous and took care of each other!
Wow, flashlight tag, boy do I remember that. Hiding from cars also at my grandmothers house. Catching fire flies, fishing in the creek catching sun fish, going lamprey gigging - boy they were scary..., swimming in the creek in thunderstorms LOL - boy how we didn't get struck I don't know, but it was fun doing what you wasn't supposed to do :)... All this brings back so many incredible memories, plus remembering that friends were friends just hanging out and enjoying life. Where did I put my time machine?, it sucks I lost it...
It really was so much fun. Running barefoot through the grass. Hide and go seek. Being outside, playing in the creek, riding bikes. And yes, even as a girl, learning to pick up 'crawdads' as we called them, with out getting pinched. Sledding in the winter. Our then small town would fill the small gravel parking lot at the city park with water, once it was cold enough to freeze. We would walk down at night to ice-skate, then go over to a burn barrel for light and warmth. There really was true adventure then. I thank God for all the blessings we were given, even in imperfect situations and an imperfect world.
@ Yes! The sledding, snowball fights, ice skating on frozen ponds! So much is coming back to me, all that was so much fun, it has a lot to do with me trying to spend as much time outdoors that I can even now! Thanks for those memories!
Good times, I graduated high school in 1975, I have fond memories of this time. Kids today will never know the joy of slamming a rotary phone handset, hit it hard enough and ding the bell. Lets not forget Saturday morning cartoons.
Yeah it was... Especially for little kids, we didn't know about the war so much, we had bussing issues in boston....we didn't became aware until the 80's- 70s was a blast! Oh smelling the mimeograph papers! That just came up in this video. That is SO funny!
Born in 66 and that was my youth also. Best time to grew up, no nintendo no internet no cellphone and that’s what matters and made us to who we are today 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I was born in 1968. The greatest time to be a kid. And the craziest things that you can imagine we did and survived. No internet, no cell phones just having fun being kids.❤ 9:31
Born in 67 I have watched a ton of these videos on RUclips over the years. This was the best one ever! Educational and so inclusive. Excellent compilation!
This was a really fun video to watch. It'll get you away from all the disturbing things happening today. I was so blessed to have grown up in the 70s. Me, my stingray bike exploring the world with my baseball glove hanging on the handlebars.
I was born in 1970. I had the best life. The 70’s as crazy as it was and the 80’s with the amazing music. Now I’m seeing all of the things of my childhood. Wow.
Born in 1964 and getting to stay up late Saturday Nights to Watch Creature Features and Svengoolie and I remember All of these things from the 70’s for Sure. Those Were The Good Ole Days 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Creature double feature! We weren't allowed to watch TV on Saturdays when Mom was around, but our neighbors did. Their parents went out on saturdays, their TV was in the living room, they were not allowed to have friends inside So we all stood on their porch and watched from outside! Lol!
What a funny and nostalgic trip down memory lane this was. Growing up in the '70's was the best, so fun and carefree! Big wheels, passing notes in class, Frisbees, G.I. Joe's, metal lunch boxes, and Scooby Doo... those days were like no other!
I am a 61 years young retired high school teacher and I can assure you I have seen this change in teenagers during my 35 year career. Too many snowflakes! ❄️❄️
Will be 61, March 4. I find myself (when I am alone) singing about Nouns and Adjectives,Intersections, Verbs and all of the others. I have no idea why. But I loved being a kid in the 70s. Summer it was dawn till dusk. Baseball, bikes. Packing a lunch and exploring. Every kind of tag. Thank you guys.😎😎😎
So last summer there were kids in my neighborhood (I’m 58) jumping ramps in the sidewalk. No helmets, no sissy elbow pads, or knee pads. I had to pull over and shed a tear.
Wow, that's like anachronistic. It doesn't happen today. I live on a street with a very steep hill. I was told back in the day, the neighbors would park a car at the top and bottom of the street and kids could sled-ride all the way down the street/hill for a few hours after a heavy snowfall. I have barely seen any of the kids that live on this street. Parents don't let them go outside to play. Is this the advancement of society/civilization? I'm unsure.
@@contumelious-8440 It’s not that the kids aren’t playing outside. There just aren’t many kids anymore. And many families with young children these days live squeezed together in small apartments as the cost of real estate is so expensive. There are so many large houses with huge backyards with aging empty nesters and no children. Go out and talk to your neighbors. I did and was surprised how many big houses didn’t have any children.
Having a rotary phone on the wall with an immensely long curled cord was THE thing to have in a household. Along with Big Wheels was the Green Machine. The Six-Million Dollar Man, the Incredible Hulk, and Wonder Woman
The “Peechee” Folder was more of a 70s thing than the Trapper Keeper. Everyone would either draw additional images or modify the ones that were already there. My favorite was to draw the Jaws shark surfacing to bite the leg of the tennis player. Good times 😂
Well, that device reached its peak in the 1960s and were pretty well passe by the 1970s seems to me (I was born in 1956); but yeah I was still using mine through the early 1970s anyway.
View Masters were still awesome in the late ‘70’s early ‘80’s. My DOB is 11/1967 and the ViewMaster was my constant friend: the National Parks discs were my favorite, as well as “The 50 Nifty United States”. Love to all my Gen X family!!!!❤❤
@@Jewlietoo Well, maybe I just got more into comic books, cartoons, and paperback novels by then; in part because they were cheaper and much easier to find. Did have a massive collection of older reels at the time as well as newer ones however. 🙂
Born in 58 everytime I see things from this time it makes me sad that kids will never know how great a time this was! Keep your technology its done nothing! People are sad and lonely these days because of it all 😢
aw yeah mini bikes.. we use to fight over who could ride the only one we had in our gang. Cuz when you raised angle sat a certain way on it goin down the rocky hill side we had near the field. Seat just touch the sack and tip right way. Was a whole new lesson in copesetic jubilatin. We didn't really talk about it. Just kinda new why we all fought like hell to get the next turn to ride. 😳 Then remember look our one friend who was older when something first time busted but was not the bike. 😎 After that I caught him riding it first every sat as I always ended up being second to the fort..don't know how but he always beat us being first one there on weekends..
@@nasTcar6351..I have always wanted a mini bike or a gocart. My mother thought it was too dangerous...never had it. I still want them and I'm 64. 😂. I guess having a few Porsche 911s later in life made that up. 😅
@@johnwhodat8135 maybe, except now you can't drive it crazily the way you would have with your go cart. too much money invested in it to do that, and there there is losing your license and raising your insurance.
Looking back on that time, the thing that stands out most is that it was a very colorful period. Clothing, cars, interior decorations, cartoons, food--in contrast to what happened later with beige and then black (blah!). I had several pairs of striped bell-bottom slacks. I remember one was ride, white, and blue. Another was multi-colored like fruit-striped gum. Even plaid pants were kind of cool. And who remembers the "silk" shirts? That was a huge trend in the mid-70s.
My best friend growing up was Scotty!! We were going to leave Michigan and take over Australia together…..he now owns a funeral home franchise and I’m a 5th generation Kellogg employee. Does life get any better 🤨😖☺️
@@Jewlietoo One of my good friends is from Michigan, I always pick at her funny accent & she picks at mine. I grew up in a small farm town in N.C. & she sometimes has a hard time understanding my Southern draw accent.
Wow Hitch hiking girls. I remember that....can you imagine that today? How about a cop making you spill your beer onto the street? lol Much more trusting times.
60s and 70s...people didnt lock their vehicles, kids played outside outside, kids walked home from scholl without worrying about getting snatched, no computers, I phones, tablets...tv dinners on Friday nights...GI Joe, Johnny West, Captain Action w his costumes, the Silver and Gold Knights, Eric and Thor--all 12" action figures...the paddle hanging in the Principal's office...unfortunately, every adult chain smoked everywhere...dodge ball was great--now kids and their parents are whiny victims now 😂
Friday night--our once a week one glass of pop with Jiffy Pop popcorn while we watched The Flintstones. Then off to bed. We never even dreamed of arguing with a parent about bedtime either.
One correction, probably an unintentional error: It was "Jonny Quest", not "Johnny West" As for the paddle hanging in the principal's office: it was not so much something to be feared as it was a Rite of Passage.
lol no helmets riding a bike, daisy bb gun, lawn dart ( jarts ) , if you had to change channels on tv you got up and walked over to turn the dial but then to wasnt a large selection abc nbc cbs and they signed off at night after certain times
Matchbox cars, Hot wheels, disco, banana seat bikes... all things that made growing up in the 70's so fun! That and my family enjoyed playing games and going places together! Scooby Doo! T.H.
Born January 1970. My Big Wheel took serious abuse from constant drift racing on concrete, asphalt and dirt/gravel when I was five. The pedal breaks wore a flat spot on the front wheel. The hand break contact blade wore down to a nubbin. Damn I had FUN!! Watching hours of Saturday morning cartoons uninterrupted, eating chemical laced sugar (Cap'n Crunch Berries) was priceless.
gen X has the best childhood generation ever. a dark time off set by pure magic of Christmas, crazy toys, ruff outdoor play, zero safety, awesome cartoon Saturday mornings and campy tv shows!
I was born in 1960, and I am still growing up. I remember most of this stuff. Putt putt golf on Saturday morning TV. I would love to sit down and talk about this stuff with a few people my age. How did we manage without phones,computers or the internet.
What a trip! I had a Six Million Dollar Man lunch box, but I completely forgot about owning one until I saw this video. As soon as I saw it, it all flooded back to me in an instant. I had the exact same one. I haven't thought about that in about 45 years.
I'm just a Bill on Capitol Hill ... I grew up in Downey waving to Richard and Karen Carpenter as they drove by my house in their Carpenter's Van.... Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High School Downey California USA 👉♥️🇺🇲🙏🗽🦅
Hi Barbara, They always visited someone in my neighborhood and I grew up on a corner lot, Richard always drove and Karen would have her feet up on the dashboard! Always a Big Smile and a wave... she had huge hands for a petite woman. I was in the Lady's department at JCPenney with my Mom 1970 all of a sudden Mom gets this huge smile on her face " Look, Eric there's Karen Carpenter. We had all their albums. We'd ( Mom and I) drive by their house every Christmas 🎄🎁 to see their light displays...They really did it up for back then! Anyway you take care out there! 👉♥️🇺🇲🙏🗽🦅✌️
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane , I remember all of these things i definitely remember those clackers and i had the bruised knuckles and forearms to prove it. The 8 tracks were convenient for cars and the beach but i was a Vinyl records guy and who can forget the 12 albums for a penny record club ? I actually had that G-E alarm clock at 17:19 ☺ You could add Drive-in Theaters , Hot Wheels cars, Slip and Slide and Black Light Posters to name a few to the list 🤗
Thanks. I had forgotten about those record clubs. I also remember everyone quitting soon after getting their 12 chosen records. After that it was a rip off. Great additions to the list too. Technically Hot Wheels still exist but it's just not the same as it was then.
Born in 1971. Loved the kids TV shows. Mr. Rodgers, Sesame Street, CPT Kangaroo to name a few. Oh, can’t forget classic Bugs Bunny on Saturday mornings.
You can tell this narrator was not around in the 70s… -The Fonz’s “Aayyyy” at 11:21 -Scooby Doo’s “Ruh-roh” at 13:32 -pronunciation of “Spirograph” at 14:32
Farrah Fawcett lived right down the street from me when I was a Kid in Houston. It was in Champion Forest a rather well to do area of Houston. We would ride our dirt bikes past Her house in hopes of seeing Her. One day she was sitting on Her front porch doing Her nails when we rode by!! Of course we stopped and talked to Her a bit. Pretty heady stuff for an 8th grader!!! My Father rest his soul was the head trainer for the Houston Rockets at the time.
Forgot Twister , Lawn Darts , and Jiffy Pop popcorn. Elephant pants deserve honorable mention . I saw The Partridge Family concert and thought the family was behind the curtain with studio musicians. Lastly , the V12 , piston engine hydroplane.
I had a pair of clackers that I hid from the parents in the sandbox, left them there when I moved, always hoped that the next kid was happy with the find😊
I was born in 1965, the 70's was the best time of my life, next to spending 20 years in the Marine Corps, I always have many memories of having fun in the 70's.
Good Lord, (DOB 64) I remember everyone of these... what a time. A few notes: We used to use suntan lotion as opposed to Sunblock (and are getting pieces of our skin removed now because of it), we played with lawn darts, bows an arrows, jack knives and pellet / BB guns, didn't use seatbelts until it became law... Its amazing we all survived .
the vinyl seats in cars, when coupled with the sun, and tiny shorts, meant you got the living daylights burned into your legs when you got in the car during summer.
@@AmberShort Those Saturday morning cartoons were a highlight of the week. Just as pictured we were cross legged circled around the TV with that sugary cereal. Count Chocula was my favorite!
@@purplelove392 That's so sweet, but I bet they won't let the kids use it due to all the small pieces and the associated hazards. I know, I know, it's ridiculous all the safe-guarding that has ruined so much for kids. That all started in the `80s as I remember it. At least they might get to see a bit of how our childhood was by contrast and maybe they'll even get to play with it. God bless you for trying. :)
This makes me happy and sad at the same time...im generation X ,i freakn loved growing up then,i do feel like we had best childhood,basically raised feral,free,and lucky...wish i could go back and do it all over again..67XR
In the 70’s our school made us cover our books because they were reused over and over so we used paper grocery bags and then customized them with markers
Yes! And we’d use brown paper bags so we could draw anything we wanted on them. I remember trying to make the most perfect creases and folds.
Thanks for this throw back as I’d not come up with it on my own. Haha
Exactly 👍
@@blauer2551 Our Rural Electric Company made book covers for us every year...they sponsored them and printed them. Handed out at the beginning of the school year!
I looked forward to wrapping my books.
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LOL.....I thought I was one of the few whose Mother did that.
But yeah it was great for doodling and having friends leave comments.
I'm currently 59 years old so I gotta think this is an old practice.
I miss the 70s. What a great time to be a kid!
Them and the 80's were my growing up years. I dare say and I do mean every syllable of it...they were a VASTLY superior time to grow up in (compared to now). VASTLY...SUPERIOR.
Great to be a kid and come through all the years 👌👍 I feel blessed .. tbh missed any horrible wars etc
Yes, the 70s were a great time to be a kid! FAR better than the 80s! Everything good about our culture fell apart in the 80s, and people often seem to think that was a good thing.
@@marklane61 not only to be a kid, better time for everyone!!
I wish i could go back as an adult 🙏🏻
@@noahhyde8769 So true!! I had so much fun in the 70's and 80's. 💯
So happy I was a part of this generation ❤️
IMO its the last generation of people raised with need of independence and freedom inside their hearts. :( Now most ppl is educated to have the need only for comfortable golden cage of technocracy and state apparatus (welfare or social whatever they call is in USA). :(
So true
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Me too😊
Born in 67. I loved growing up in the 70's. Man do I miss Saturday morning cartoons and What's Happening Saturday nights!
Born in 65 , I love the 70s
Another 67'er here. Ridin bikes and skateboards. Going to the roller-skating rink on Saturday night.
@halfstep67 Yup! Same here. Although I really sucked on a skateboard. 🤣
@@ronhoughton5147 Me Too. I had to sit on the board! LOL.
@ronhoughton5147 me too born in 1967
Born in 1969, I had the privilege of growing up in the 70s and 80s. The best time to be a kid.
Yes, I often feel bad four kids now adays. I feel our childhood was full of magic and wonder in comparison. Back then seeing a group of children having fun around the neighborhood was so normal. Now adays if it happens at all, it's viewed as strange.
How did we survive back then, playing outside till dark, camping in the woods without parents, semi dangerous toys, tackle football without pads, swimming in the creek.We grew up able to not be hurt by words.
@@frankdelph6677 I used to climb trees thinking I was Spiderman till one day I climbed to high and looked down and froze my neighbor came with a ladder and such and got me down
Sounds like we had same childhood... 67XR
Right no one cared, you were made tough!
Some didn't .
I was the youngest kid, a girl. My brothers pitched in and got me a complete football gear, helmet, pads, etc so that I could be the running back and get full on tackled. So much fun!
I was born in 1962 and would go back to the 70s in a time capsule in a flash. What a fabulous time to be a kid. Glad I was there.❤️✌🏾
@@Dan-nt2yb I was born in 1963 and agree 100%
born in 65' and I agree
I was born 1966 and me too!
1961 Baby....Touche'
62 here, too...and yes, I would go back in a heartbeat!
I was born in 1961 and remember all of these. 50s, 60s, 70s were the best times for kids to grow up in. I miss these days, and I would go back in a heartbeat. ❤👍
@@tonycollazorappo I was born in 1968, so I also remember cap guns, Atari, which for us, we were the first ones in the neighborhood to get in the late 1970s, Wonetco Home Theater (WHT) before cablevision was available, the town pool where there would about 30 of us kids replicating midnight wrestling, which came on at Saturday night at midnight at channel 11 (WPIX) in New York. In addition, our bicycles were very important, as was a football, frisbee, Wiffle ball and bat, and Stickball. Those were the days my friends and I might go fishing at a local pond, ride our bicycles through some wooded areas, rough housed, played Hide and Seek using our neighbors’ backyards as hiding spots, which is something I would never recommend anyone doing today, and it was a time when us kids would knock on each other’s doors to come out after we finished eating our overly sugar cereals after watching the good weekend cartoons like Bugs Bunny and Pink Panther. Despite real dangerous people plaguing the towns and no cameras anywhere, us kids were safe, as we traveled in packs, had awareness of who was around, and we essential knew older people nearby we knew we could always count on if need be. But back then police patrolled the area in their cars anyway, so even during the days of the Son of Sam, I think we were safe. We played with each other, where sometimes a fistfight occurred. After the fight, the two would shake hands, apologize, and resume a friendship as if nothing happened. We learned how to communicate. We had the life. When Start Wars came about, our mothers drove us kids to watch the movies by picking up five kids before going back and picking up five more. By the time the movie ended, I counted 26 of us who walked home from the movie theater. Wonderful times. I still feel bad for the generations of kids that came after us.
I was born in 1968, and I'm with you. Seeing these things brings back great memories, and yes, I would go back to those days. Great times!
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1959 I was born; NEVER ever did we drink from glass milk bottles in school, always the little cardboard cartons.
I don't ever remember an 8-track tape cutting a song in mid play unless you pulled it out of the player or pressed the button to advance the program.
What do you mean the 50, 60, 70 were the best time for kids to grow up in?
Now we have 1/3 kids self-reporting autism, 20% of children reporting (SAD) social anxiety disorder, up to 20% kids reporting ADHD, almost 10% of kids reporting gender confusion, and 15% reporting suicidal. That's 100% of kids.
This IS the generation of the victim and OF COURSE, any other time would have been better to grow up in, my GOD have you seen who is going to be President!?!
I was born in 62, and actually growing up in the 70s was fantastic. Lots of fun, no worries, was not allowed in the house after School, you were expected to go out and play but be home by 5 pm for supper. This was where everyone’s at the kitchen table and ate what was put in front of you. Saturday nights was hockey night in Canada we only had two channels and one tv, times were very simple.
Oh, yes, home arrest and being grounded was the worse penalty ever. What a difference compared to nowadays.
Kinda weird you weren't allowed home after school until 5 pm? ....In 1980 grade school, I could come straight home. Or go to a friend's house after school to play for a couple hours. I remember walking the half mile to grade school. With a group of friends in the morning. Being some of my best childhood memories. In winter ☃️ ❄️ Northern Illinois 3 or 5 of us playing in snow drifts along the way. Or "bumper skiing" to school when we got older. We would hide by stop 🛑 sign on a 20 mph snow covered street. Run out & grab a cars bumper. At the stop sign, in a skiing position & get pulled to school.
@@davidtaylor6885
Yep, lots of freedom!
There was one Mom in the neighborhood who a bell on her back porch. When you heard the bell, it was time for dinner and head home!
@@michaelbrinks8089 he said wasn’t allowed INSIDE the house after school… had to go outside and play…pretty much same at my house - Mom wanted us out of her hair while she made dinner 😉
Eats what's put in front of you and can't leave the table til your plate was clean
If you remember all these items...CONGRATULATIONS...You hit the Life lottery for a kid.
Only if your family wasn’t messed up like mine.
@@ResolUloseR I remember walking to the store just to buy a coke with deposit glass bottles we gathered from the trash or neighbors.....and penny candy😎 a candy bar was about 5 cents......
@Nocha-l2r I remember $0.29 cheeseburgers from McDonald's. Effing HELL we're old...aren't we?
@@Nocha-l2rWe were living out of town and I would walk for miles collecting pop bottles and empty beer cans beside the road in the early 70s. Then I would walk miles to town to get the refund on them.
@@johnshaw6702 😂 can you imagine kids doing that today??
Me in 1975: Think about 50 years from now, how amazing it must be in the future...
Me in 2025: Think about 50 years ago, how amazing everything was then...
Just a personal reflection.
people forget some of the things that were not so much fun about back then. what really made those times magical was people treated each other far differently, and had different priorities than they do now.
Agree to both.
Won’t be long now and the ride will be completely over
You nailed it. We all thought the future would be brighter and better and now I find myself looking back at the 70s wishing I had appreciated it for what it was, probably the best time to be a white American in the history of the country. Not so much now.
Same here, when we were kids, people would make all these wonderful predictions about life beyond year 2000, but now we're here , we look back & wwish we could go back to those childhood days!
I was born in 1959. Those were the best days of our lives. Things were so simple, less stress, if we only knew how good we had it☺️💋
I was born in 59 also. I've lived my life already through an era of relative stability, economically and politically. It's the generation that hasn't started school yet that I feel sorry for. Woke culture, DEI initiatives, cancel culture, the Alphabet Mafia, unsafe schools, metal detectors and cops in the halls, drug epidemics, expensive rent and groceries, Jobs that pay nowhere near a career salary and/or enough to save some of that pay. Horrible healthcare, no mass transit to speak of, requiring you to buy a car and drive everywhere which costs thousands per year, open borders with no meaning of citizenship, etc, etc.
I was born in 1953 (right smack-dab in the middle of the Baby Boom) and I think that in this era of the 21st Century... "It's a very strange world we live in, master Jack..."
When we were kids in the 70's we were gone all day and didn't come home until dinner or when it got dark. All day outside with friends. No larding in front of a TV we played and stayed active and in shape. All my parents would do is have to look at me and I'd behave. I was born in 1959 too and I/we lived a life that kids today would never be able to handle
@@sueraymo3239 You're right, there. Today's pixel zombies posing as kids and young people would melt into a sobbing puddle at the very NOTION of a developed brain and physical exercise.
@@sueraymo3239 I was born in September 59. The stuff kids play on the PlayStation now we actually did back then. I remember a group of us playing gladiator in the backyard. We would use the metal trash can lids for shields and a stick with a rock tied to the end as a weapon. You were supposed to hit the other guys shield but it didn't always work out that way. Did we get hurt ? Nothing major. Mom would hit it with some iodine and back in the fight you went. Couldn't imagine today's kids doing that.
Don’t forget Soul Train, American Bandstand, Sanford and Son, Good Times and the Jeffersons. These shows also defined an era long gone.
LOVED AB and ST for the music.
@@Jojodancer1978 All In The Family... The Little Rascals. Bugs Bunny, RoadRunner...
I was a teenager in the 1970s. As kids and teens, we had a lot of freedom!
Yes, I lived a Huckleberry Finn type life when I grew up in the 70's.
@@user-vp1sc7tt4m Same! Literally I was messing around in the “crik” (creek) turning over rocks to find and catch crawdads. Riding bikes all day…spying on other kids in the neighborhood….hide and seek and catching firefly’s after dark. Great times 💜💜💜
I used to go all over the neighborhood when I was 2 years old. One time a church bus picked up my 3 year old sister. She was found sitting up in a high chair eating snacks at the church. Fortunately a neighbor saw her get on the bus and told my mother 😄. I can remember going into the offices of factories and talking to the secretary or getting a drink out of their water fountain. My mom didn't seem to worry about where we went. Crazy!
@@pamelacolvin1417My mom cared but wasn't over protective. I did find a way to get across the street without crossing it, though. I got a ride to the police station and ice cream while they found out where I came from. There was none of this child endangerment arrests for a kid being a kid back then. Early 1960s.
@@theelephantintheroom8016 we finally got a city bus near our house and we could safely ride it and go to the mall as young teens. No one worried about getting hurt.
I grew up in the 70s and I had a great childhood. I was into BMX bikes and dirt bikes and anything that was outdoors. We drank water out of anybody's water hose that was closest and we got dirty 😊. We stayed outside until that dreaded scream from mom to come inside lol. I still have scars from those amazing years and memories galore. Grateful I grew up before social media .
@@sheldon6248 And skateboarding too!
We had to be home when the street lites came on,and you could find blueberries ,blackberries ,apples ,rhubarb,catch fish and frogs and bring it home and Mom would cook it for dinner or desert,rode in the back of pickups,every Tuesday in elementary school we brought our ..22 rifles on the bus to school for gun safety class and target practiceq
Kids now wouldn't know what a rotary phone was let alone how to use it I still remember our phone number and the numbers of my friends from the 60s-70s but now I don't know any of them I just look at the picture of my son or whoever I'm calling and tap the screen
@ haha! I remember when we still opened soda pop can with a can opener punching to triangle holes in the can on opposite sides!
@kt6332 great times weren't they? 😊👍
The seventies were the “Wonder Years” I’m grateful my parents married in 1961 and I was born in 1962. We had the best childhood growing up. This video highlighted everything. We didn’t have any crazy technology, we had a tv without a remote, one rotary dial phone attached on the kitchen wall with a long stretchy cord, we rode our bikes everywhere. Had to come inside when the street lights came on. We used our imaginations to play and entertain ourselves. Saturday morning cartoons and after school shows on tv. The Munsters, The Addams Family, The Three Stooges, etc etc. I ❤️ the 70’s ! Thank you Mom and Dad
I was born in 1960. I remember so many things, drive in movies, pen pals, waiting on the post man, Bruce Lee, the freedom!! and of course the music and Discos 🎉
1967 Gen Xer here. I remember all this stuff. Loved being a kid in the 70s. One of the best times to grow up.
1967 too. I agree that growing up in the 1970s rocked!❤❤❤
1970 Here. My parents bought a brand new house in 1971. We lived in that neighborhood for 15 years. Older kids who were teenagers in the 70's were my baby sitters so I learned about Van Halen, Eagles and AC/DC on 8 track. We started out on 70's Schwinn Stingrays but soon the early 80's came along and switched to BMX Diamondbacks and Mongoose bikes, later wide skateboards (Santa Cruz, Powell Peralta, ect.)
We rode miles on our bikes, we had three parks and 4 elementary schools one Jr. high school to go off and play. Hide and go seek after dark. What a great time.
Best part of that I am 54 and I still call and text a few of those older kids who watched me growing up pretty much my older brothers and a best friend who moved in when I was 7 and we still talk and visit to this day.
Clackers were also a great weapon. Ditto on 67. And I remember all this stuff.
1969 , yep I agree best time to grow up and be a kid. I had all this stuff in the video. 😂
The last great erra children's of the 70s and 80s after that, it's been downhill.
Who remembers just stopping by someone’s place if you were nearby? Now without calling, texting , posting or whatever if you stop by someone’s house it’s a huge situation here days……
@EdGraham-e9m - Kids would come to my side door and yell my name repeatedly for me to come out.
Facts
The 70s was also by far the best decade ever for music. Not even the 60s beat it.
Born in 57, growing up in the 60s, teenage years in the 70s, married in the 80s, it didn't get better than that. People like me were sooooo fortunate.
Timing is everything brother. I'm right in your rear view mirror!! Blessed by the best!!
And NOW you get to live in a decade where a Band from Japan (BAND-MAID) plays great rock music reminiscent of all the best 70's and 80s bands you ever loved with musicianship that puts many of those old rockers to shame! If you haven't tried them, you will be doing yourself a favor by doing so now. "Thrill" - ruclips.net/video/Uds7g3M-4lQ/видео.html
1/21/57 first of the year and a best year for Chevrolet LOL do you agree
Ironic, i was last of the year, 12/31/1957.....just turned 67, yikes! GOD bless you, brother.@richardgray8939
@@mermaidmelodies1492 Puts old rockers to shame???? NEVER! Band Maid is OK but they aren't all that...
I'm STILL waiting for a cake to finish in my sister's Easy Bake Oven that I started in 1978😂
@@bonusbaby801, did you use a 300 W bulb to bake your cake? That’s the key. Anything less and the cake didn’t get done.
I ended up eating the batter everytime.😏
😂😂😂😂🍻🍻🇨🇱🇨🇱🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@bonusbaby801 that's because there was no timer!
@@bonusbaby801 for sure
By the time my older sisters were tired of their Easy Bake oven I got to play with it but by that time we didn’t have the right mix and the light bulb burnt out 😌
I remember all of this! Great memories here! We were out the door after eating breakfast on the weekends and only came home - or went to our friends house- when we were hungry. Then, back out again…riding bikes…exploring…or watching the boys play basketball or baseball. Back home at dinner time …. Back out AFTER dinner and washing dishes - and gone until dark. What a life!
Nobody knew where you were.
Nobody knew what you were doing.
And nobody could call you on your cell phone and check on you.
Best years ever, best music, best cars & hair do's !
Best time was to be a kid in the 60s and a teen in the 70s
Best time to be a kid. I loved the summers! We were latch key kids. I was the first one up every morning ate breakfast and out the door into the woods. We wood play in the creeks build tree forts or underground forts, build dams in the creek catching frogs, turtles and snakes. We were always outside until dinner around 6 pm then back outside to play flash light tag at night.
We were active, adventurous and took care of each other!
Wow, flashlight tag, boy do I remember that. Hiding from cars also at my grandmothers house. Catching fire flies, fishing in the creek catching sun fish, going lamprey gigging - boy they were scary..., swimming in the creek in thunderstorms LOL - boy how we didn't get struck I don't know, but it was fun doing what you wasn't supposed to do :)... All this brings back so many incredible memories, plus remembering that friends were friends just hanging out and enjoying life. Where did I put my time machine?, it sucks I lost it...
It really was so much fun. Running barefoot through the grass. Hide and go seek. Being outside, playing in the creek, riding bikes. And yes, even as a girl, learning to pick up 'crawdads' as we called them, with out getting pinched. Sledding in the winter. Our then small town would fill the small gravel parking lot at the city park with water, once it was cold enough to freeze. We would walk down at night to ice-skate, then go over to a burn barrel for light and warmth. There really was true adventure then. I thank God for all the blessings we were given, even in imperfect situations and an imperfect world.
@ Yes! The sledding, snowball fights, ice skating on frozen ponds! So much is coming back to me, all that was so much fun, it has a lot to do with me trying to spend as much time outdoors that I can even now!
Thanks for those memories!
You nailed my childhood weekend mornings to a T!!! I was born in 68, from Orlando Florida. 70's were the best!!!
I did the same stuff outside, especially building dams and collecting crayfish for fishing, bate. I hiked alone for miles through the woods.
Good times, I graduated high school in 1975, I have fond memories of this time. Kids today will never know the joy of slamming a rotary phone handset, hit it hard enough and ding the bell. Lets not forget Saturday morning cartoons.
@@jeffjankiewicz5100 graduated 76 Jeff and your so right ✌️
I'm a 75 grad. Loved those sat cartoons! Miss those simple times in the country in summer. Sucks getting older. Peace from Northern Michigan.
I graduated the same year but the 60s were better. America was becoming a shithole by the mid late 70s. Today its 20xs worse.
All these people born in the 60s claiming they grew up in the 70s.....lol Class of 76 here.
@@Doug-mc3dd I think you are right.
I Love These Types Of Uploads. Talk About Nostalgic...SIMPLY WONDERFUL 👌🏿!!!
What great times. I remember it all. Hanging out with friends… actually in person!!!
I grew up in the 70's and I loved it! It was the best time to grow up! EVER!💞
Yeah it was... Especially for little kids, we didn't know about the war so much, we had bussing issues in boston....we didn't became aware until the 80's- 70s was a blast!
Oh smelling the mimeograph papers! That just came up in this video. That is SO funny!
Born in 66 and that was my youth also. Best time to grew up, no nintendo no internet no cellphone and that’s what matters and made us to who we are today 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@hohenstaufen.1010 That’s my year too
@ best year ever 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@hohenstaufen.1010 I’m proud to be a 66er too! 🙂🙃🙂
@@kt6332 me to, and 666. Sixth month of 66 😁
Same here...
I was born in 1968. The greatest time to be a kid. And the craziest things that you can imagine we did and survived. No internet, no cell phones just having fun being kids.❤ 9:31
Born in 67 I have watched a ton of these videos on RUclips over the years. This was the best one ever! Educational and so inclusive. Excellent compilation!
This was a really fun video to watch. It'll get you away from all the disturbing things happening today. I was so blessed to have grown up in the 70s. Me, my stingray bike exploring the world with my baseball glove hanging on the handlebars.
I was born in 1970. I had the best life. The 70’s as crazy as it was and the 80’s with the amazing music. Now I’m seeing all of the things of my childhood. Wow.
Born in 1964 and getting to stay up late Saturday Nights to Watch Creature Features and Svengoolie and I remember All of these things from the 70’s for Sure. Those Were The Good Ole Days 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Creature double feature!
We weren't allowed to watch TV on Saturdays when Mom was around, but our neighbors did.
Their parents went out on saturdays, their TV was in the living room, they were not allowed to have friends inside
So we all stood on their porch and watched from outside!
Lol!
70s-80s growing years. Would go back again in a heart beat
You and me both and to know what we know now! Oh heck yeah!
Remember those Swanson TV dinners whenever moms were too tired to cook dinner.😂
What a funny and nostalgic trip down memory lane this was. Growing up in the '70's was the best, so fun and carefree! Big wheels, passing notes in class, Frisbees, G.I. Joe's, metal lunch boxes, and Scooby Doo... those days were like no other!
I still have (and use) my GI Joe metal lunch box, and it still has my name and phone # on it with the prefix "MElrose 1" instead of "631".
@@ddoggall hats off to ya!
I am a 61 years young retired high school teacher and I can assure you I have seen this change in teenagers during my 35 year career. Too many snowflakes! ❄️❄️
Will be 61, March 4. I find myself (when I am alone) singing about Nouns and Adjectives,Intersections, Verbs and all of the others. I have no idea why. But I loved being a kid in the 70s. Summer it was dawn till dusk. Baseball, bikes. Packing a lunch and exploring. Every kind of tag. Thank you guys.😎😎😎
Lol. I still sing the song, "I'm just a bill"
So last summer there were kids in my neighborhood (I’m 58) jumping ramps in the sidewalk. No helmets, no sissy elbow pads, or knee pads. I had to pull over and shed a tear.
Would have done the same
Wow, that's like anachronistic. It doesn't happen today.
I live on a street with a very steep hill. I was told back in the day, the neighbors would park a car at the top and bottom of the street and kids could sled-ride all the way down the street/hill for a few hours after a heavy snowfall.
I have barely seen any of the kids that live on this street. Parents don't let them go outside to play. Is this the advancement of society/civilization? I'm unsure.
Yep jumping garbage cans in the alley off a ramp.
@@contumelious-8440 It’s not that the kids aren’t playing outside. There just aren’t many kids anymore. And many families with young children these days live squeezed together in small apartments as the cost of real estate is so expensive. There are so many large houses with huge backyards with aging empty nesters and no children. Go out and talk to your neighbors. I did and was surprised how many big houses didn’t have any children.
Oh man those were the days! Taking our banana seat bikes (or if you were lucky enough your bmx bike) over homemade ramps!
I was born in 1962. I miss the 70s wish i could do it all over again !!!
'61 here. I second that!
1962 here too. I totally agree with you 😊👍
Born in 1966 and grew up in the 70s, I vividly remember each thing mentioned in the video. Thanks for starting my day off on a high note!
Having a rotary phone on the wall with an immensely long curled cord was THE thing to have in a household.
Along with Big Wheels was the Green Machine.
The Six-Million Dollar Man, the Incredible Hulk, and Wonder Woman
The “Peechee” Folder was more of a 70s thing than the Trapper Keeper. Everyone would either draw additional images or modify the ones that were already there. My favorite was to draw the Jaws shark surfacing to bite the leg of the tennis player. Good times 😂
@@pjesf The Peechee was the best! Good pull!
I was born in 1970 and watching this IS my young years of childhood. Thanks for posting. 😊 🇨🇦
Only thing those, no glass bottled milk was all in Paper cartons then.
You came on board 10 yrs too late to enjoy all the fun we had in the mid seventies.😂
@@johnwhodat8135 What is that supposed to mean? The narrator is talking about being a kid in the 70’s. Not a 30 year old.
@@kimmyhawk5612 born in70 ..missed all the fun. Nothing was happening in the 80s and on.
@@barrybebenek8691 71' here… and yeah, the 70's and 80's were the best years!
You forgot one most important one. The View Master.
Well, that device reached its peak in the 1960s and were pretty well passe by the 1970s seems to me (I was born in 1956); but yeah I was still using mine through the early 1970s anyway.
View Masters were still awesome in the late ‘70’s early ‘80’s. My DOB is 11/1967 and the ViewMaster was my constant friend: the National Parks discs were my favorite, as well as “The 50 Nifty United States”.
Love to all my Gen X family!!!!❤❤
@@Jewlietoo Well, maybe I just got more into comic books, cartoons, and paperback novels by then; in part because they were cheaper and much easier to find. Did have a massive collection of older reels at the time as well as newer ones however. 🙂
by 'GE' as Henry Fonda tooted in it's commercials!
And the crank version Fisher-Price movie viewer😅
Born in 58 everytime I see things from this time it makes me sad that kids will never know how great a time this was! Keep your technology its done nothing! People are sad and lonely these days because of it all 😢
Boomer
Roller skates with metal wheels!! We were mad terrors on those things, and we’d try to ‘skid’ our wheels to make sparks all the time!!
I can STILL see all the white marks those wheels left all up and down the sidewalk. LOL!!!
Holy moly! Remember skate keys?!
We are old!!!!! 😂😂
@tro8191 Same here!!🤣😂
I'm so glad I grew up in the 60s 70s and 80s! I did so much stupid sh!t- and there is no record of it anywhere!
Yes , brilliant 😂
Did not have to worry about your green being spiked or made by a person.
Bikes with high rise handlebars, banana seats and sissy bars. Mini-bikes. roller skates. Super balls. Slinkies. Yo-yos.
aw yeah mini bikes.. we use to fight over who could ride the only one we had in our gang. Cuz when you raised angle sat a certain way on it goin down the rocky hill side we had near the field. Seat just touch the sack and tip right way. Was a whole new lesson in copesetic jubilatin. We didn't really talk about it. Just kinda new why we all fought like hell to get the next turn to ride. 😳 Then remember look our one friend who was older when something first time busted but was not the bike. 😎 After that I caught him riding it first every sat as I always ended up being second to the fort..don't know how but he always beat us being first one there on weekends..
And yet they didn’t even show them, but used them as the thumbnail
Kids imitating Evel Knievel jumping over sh!t 😂
@@nasTcar6351..I have always wanted a mini bike or a gocart. My mother thought it was too dangerous...never had it. I still want them and I'm 64. 😂. I guess having a few Porsche 911s later in life made that up. 😅
@@johnwhodat8135 maybe, except now you can't drive it crazily the way you would have with your go cart. too much money invested in it to do that, and there there is losing your license and raising your insurance.
Looking back on that time, the thing that stands out most is that it was a very colorful period. Clothing, cars, interior decorations, cartoons, food--in contrast to what happened later with beige and then black (blah!). I had several pairs of striped bell-bottom slacks. I remember one was ride, white, and blue. Another was multi-colored like fruit-striped gum. Even plaid pants were kind of cool. And who remembers the "silk" shirts? That was a huge trend in the mid-70s.
Best decades 70s 80s
I was born in 1967 & remember all of these, what great memories you brought back.
Thank you.
My best friend growing up was Scotty!! We were going to leave Michigan and take over Australia together…..he now owns a funeral home franchise and I’m a 5th generation Kellogg employee. Does life get any better 🤨😖☺️
@@Jewlietoo
One of my good friends is from Michigan, I always pick at her funny accent & she picks at mine.
I grew up in a small farm town in N.C. & she sometimes has a hard time understanding my Southern draw accent.
They forgot Lawn Darts. So glad I grew up in the 70s and 80s. What a great time to be a kid.
Hell yeah! As teens in the 80's, we used lawn darts to play "chicken"
i got a lawn dart through my right foot once. i had to hide it from my parents so i wouldn't get into trouble.
We used to stand against the house and fast pitch softball style lawn darts at each other! Separated a few ribs along the way. Good times, good times!
Ralphie's son got hurt by one of dose, Tony didn't care
Oh man, those things! My brother almost got blinded- stuck right in the corner of his eye!! 😂😂
As an older teen in the 70's I remember hitchhiking, girls in rabbit fur jackets, and drive-in movies
I had a rabbit fur jacket, and foot. EWWW.
Wow Hitch hiking girls. I remember that....can you imagine that today? How about a cop making you spill your beer onto the street? lol Much more trusting times.
@@carabela125 👍🥹 Now we’re talking.
I was born in 1965 and the Beatles were still a band! Never knew how special these decades were until they were over.
@@ChemWatcher 'Beatles '65' was my first album. Walked by a homeless guy recently and he had that album on top of his pile of sidewalk stuff!?💿
Loved Saturday morning cartoons!
I lived for Saturday morning
I was a teen in the 70s .. watching Saturday morning cartoons after smoking a roach. 😂
@@johnwhodat8135 Or two...
Back when kids had an imagination!
Best of times 😁
kids these days wouldn't make it back then,, was a great time to be a kid.. we actually played outside
I remember all these things but didn't realize that I was living the life😊
We didn't know what we had till it was gone.
This universally applies to everything in life
60s and 70s...people didnt lock their vehicles, kids played outside outside, kids walked home from scholl without worrying about getting snatched, no computers, I phones, tablets...tv dinners on Friday nights...GI Joe, Johnny West, Captain Action w his costumes, the Silver and Gold Knights, Eric and Thor--all 12" action figures...the paddle hanging in the Principal's office...unfortunately, every adult chain smoked everywhere...dodge ball was great--now kids and their parents are whiny victims now 😂
😅😂😅😂!!!
And they left out Space 1999 😂😅
Moon base Alpha 😅😂
I liked them flying box trucks.....😊
Friday night--our once a week one glass of pop with Jiffy Pop popcorn while we watched The Flintstones. Then off to bed. We never even dreamed of arguing with a parent about bedtime either.
One correction, probably an unintentional error:
It was "Jonny Quest", not "Johnny West"
As for the paddle hanging in the principal's office: it was not so much something to be feared as it was a Rite of Passage.
lol no helmets riding a bike, daisy bb gun, lawn dart ( jarts ) , if you had to change channels on tv you got up and walked over to turn the dial but then to wasnt a large selection abc nbc cbs and they signed off at night after certain times
@@SteelKokopelli no truer words
Matchbox cars, Hot wheels, disco, banana seat bikes... all things that made growing up in the 70's so fun! That and my family enjoyed playing games and going places together! Scooby Doo! T.H.
my mom turned hot wheels tracks into a deadly weapon.
@@ThHu-ov8rh I still have my banana seat bike and I'm 62 lol
Me and friends played with matchbox cars all the time. Built roads in the dirt, got nice and dirty.
We used to put playing cards in the spokes of our bike tires to pretend the noise it made was a motorcycle!
@@ThHu-ov8rh We didn't wear helmets, and we're still alive
. Lol
Kids played outside AND they walked to school……..what a novel concept !!!!
The best decade to be a kid. ❤️
Born January 1970. My Big Wheel took serious abuse from constant drift racing on concrete, asphalt and dirt/gravel when I was five. The pedal breaks wore a flat spot on the front wheel. The hand break contact blade wore down to a nubbin. Damn I had FUN!! Watching hours of Saturday morning cartoons uninterrupted, eating chemical laced sugar (Cap'n Crunch Berries) was priceless.
@@PatrickKydland-f5u I was a big fan of Cap’n Crunch Berries!
When they included the Big Wheel on the list, I just knew the Green Machine would be there too. Oh well I guess it didn't make the cut😂😢
Mine had that little metal nob on the back that made it sound like a "motorcycle"..drove my mother nuts, told my dad to take it off... Lol
Born in ‘56. 70’s were my teenage years. Really miss naturally beautiful girls.
And being young enough not to be considered a creeper for just looking at them casually.
@ of course. For when I was a teen.
Boomer
@ thank you👍
My mom was the fastest rotary dialer in the west back in late 70s..won multiple contests on radio every week..all the Djs knew her name😅
you know why a woman's lady part is like a rotary phone? cause you put your finger in the hole and make circles
After school specials. Flintstones, Land of the Lost and HR PuffandStuff.
Fragle Rock
gen X has the best childhood generation ever. a dark time off set by pure magic of Christmas, crazy toys, ruff outdoor play, zero safety, awesome cartoon Saturday mornings and campy tv shows!
What years?
Boomers have you topped!
Ohhhhh, if I could only go back ❤❤❤
Have at it. I rather not.
Lego Blocks are a real treat to step on with bare feet. 😱
I’m not one of those good old days types but not having moon-bases and flying cars in 2025. I’ll go back in a second. 🫡
Model year 65 here. Life was great then. I remember all this. I have schoolhouse rock on dvd!
I was born in 1960, and I am still growing up. I remember most of this stuff. Putt putt golf on Saturday morning TV. I would love to sit down and talk about this stuff with a few people my age.
How did we manage without phones,computers or the internet.
If u think going back in time isn't possible, think again, watching this just took me back in time, I wish I could go back to those times again,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I'm glad the video brought back those special memories for you!
I graduated in 1977. Classic cars, cruising the boulevard, keg partys, black light posters and the girls were girls. Imagine that.😂😂😂😂
Tattoos were rare. I look at old photos of when we were teens and videos of concert crowds of the mid and late 70s and you just don’t see them.
Oh yeah the blk light poster. I had one that was Bruce Lee.😂
@@Mr_PNW..only on bikers, soldiers and excons.
I wish we could go back !!!
@@Corvetteguy816 agree with you 💯% .
I partly agree; from a healthcare perspective, I would prefer this era.
We’re all Goonies - and Goonies NEVER give up!!!!!
Brown weed with seeds. Using a record album cover that opens up to sift the seeds with the package of papers. God, I miss tube tops.
LMFAO so true
Wow, hadn't thought about this stuff in years.
10 dollar three finger bags , mostly Mexican or mohecan weeds...and then came 30 dollar one finger Columbian weed. 😂
Cheech and Chong's album 'Big Bamboo' came with a rolling paper in it that would take an entire lid to fill. If you know what a "lid" is, you know!
@dougrobinson8602 LMFAO it was twenty bucks when I was young
I wish all of us here could get together! We should have a
70's party.
I'm already crumpling my flared trousers and looking for my shirt with the brightest colors and the longest collar tips.
I’ll be wearing my bell bottom jeans
Yes❤❤❤
And the guys must have 3 or 4 buttons open with some gold chains.
@@proam2928 That is very commendable!
What a trip! I had a Six Million Dollar Man lunch box, but I completely forgot about owning one until I saw this video. As soon as I saw it, it all flooded back to me in an instant. I had the exact same one. I haven't thought about that in about 45 years.
I had a Hee Haw lunch box 😅
Did you keep it? Could be worth $$$.
about $75 in todays money
I still have mine! My brothers had 1 Adam 12 and Welcome Back Carter!😅😅 Good times!
@StringofPearls55 lol, I think you mean, Welcome Back Kotter. But I would watch Welcome Back Carter 😅
I loved 1 Adam 12...and EMERGENCY!
I'm just a Bill on Capitol Hill ...
I grew up in Downey waving to Richard and Karen Carpenter as they drove by my house in their Carpenter's Van....
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High School Downey California USA 👉♥️🇺🇲🙏🗽🦅
@@EricUnderwood-v2x oh wow. I was such a huge fan!
Hi Barbara,
They always visited someone in my neighborhood and I grew up on a corner lot, Richard always drove and Karen would have her feet up on the dashboard! Always a Big Smile and a wave... she had huge hands for a petite woman.
I was in the Lady's department at JCPenney with my Mom 1970 all of a sudden Mom gets this huge smile on her face " Look, Eric there's Karen Carpenter.
We had all their albums.
We'd ( Mom and I) drive by their house every Christmas 🎄🎁 to see their light displays...They really did it up for back then! Anyway you take care out there!
👉♥️🇺🇲🙏🗽🦅✌️
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane , I remember all of these things i definitely remember those clackers and i had the bruised knuckles and forearms to
prove it. The 8 tracks were convenient for cars and the beach but i was a Vinyl records guy and who can forget the 12 albums for a penny record club ?
I actually had that G-E alarm clock at 17:19 ☺ You could add Drive-in Theaters , Hot Wheels cars, Slip and Slide and Black Light Posters to name a few
to the list 🤗
Thanks. I had forgotten about those record clubs. I also remember everyone quitting soon after getting their 12 chosen records. After that it was a rip off. Great additions to the list too. Technically Hot Wheels still exist but it's just not the same as it was then.
This is the second video saying how painful stepping on a Lite-Brite peg was, everyone knows it was Legos that hurt like hell
Aw, it just toughened you up. Today's kids get all buthurt if you use the wrong pronouns.
@@ValleyProud916 stepping on Jacks was even worse than Legos!
Oh yeah! Mom would throw them away , she would get so mad if we didn't pick them up!
Born in 1971. Loved the kids TV shows. Mr. Rodgers, Sesame Street, CPT Kangaroo to name a few. Oh, can’t forget classic Bugs Bunny on Saturday mornings.
Puffnstuff?
@@marshalltille7770 Lassie, gunsmoke, my favorite Martian 😂
Life was so good in the 1970s.
Fun, less stress and active.
You can tell this narrator was not around in the 70s…
-The Fonz’s “Aayyyy” at 11:21
-Scooby Doo’s “Ruh-roh” at 13:32
-pronunciation of “Spirograph” at 14:32
Was looking to see if someone called these out! "Roo-roh, raggy?" Seriously? Still, some great nostalgia - born in 1960!
Hey, the other generations can’t be as cool as we were!
Macrame and Shirley Jones' motherly demeanor
"10 & 4" vs 10-4
@@probuilder961 Yup! That's a big 10 & 4 good buddy!
I enjoyed the stroll down Memory Lane. Thank you.
Ahhh.....THE GOOD OLD DAYS! 😊
1963 here and that was a great throwback video thanks
Farrah Fawcett lived right down the street from me when I was a Kid in Houston.
It was in Champion Forest a rather well to do area of Houston.
We would ride our dirt bikes past Her house in hopes of seeing Her.
One day she was sitting on Her front porch doing Her nails when we rode by!!
Of course we stopped and talked to Her a bit.
Pretty heady stuff for an 8th grader!!!
My Father rest his soul was the head trainer for the Houston Rockets at the time.
Was she wearin that famous bathing suit in the poster?
@@PaulFormentos
🤣 I Wish!!
Whatever she was wearing it must not have been to revealing or I would have remembered.
She was very nice though.
A awesome nostalgic ride 99% used/owned/ watched everything on this list. Thank You 👍🏽
Forgot Twister , Lawn Darts , and
Jiffy Pop popcorn.
Elephant pants deserve honorable mention .
I saw The Partridge Family concert and thought the family was behind the curtain with studio musicians.
Lastly , the V12 , piston engine hydroplane.
👍WOW ! Good old days, jiffy Popcorn over the stove top of camp ⛺️ fire 🔥 I still own a pair of Elephant pants and quite a few bellbottom 🤣😂
I had a pair of clackers that I hid from the parents in the sandbox, left them there when I moved, always hoped that the next kid was happy with the find😊
Growing up during the 70s was the greatest.
I was born in 1965, the 70's was the best time of my life, next to spending 20 years in the Marine Corps, I always have many memories of having fun in the 70's.
Good Lord, (DOB 64) I remember everyone of these... what a time. A few notes: We used to use suntan lotion as opposed to Sunblock (and are getting pieces of our skin removed now because of it), we played with lawn darts, bows an arrows, jack knives and pellet / BB guns, didn't use seatbelts until it became law... Its amazing we all survived .
@@JB-sc6io And much of that suntan lotion was actually suntan coconut oil. We were literally cooking ourselves with that stuff 😅
We put on baby oil and laid on silver mats to get a tan. @@duhdims
the vinyl seats in cars, when coupled with the sun, and tiny shorts, meant you got the living daylights burned into your legs when you got in the car during summer.
Yup I grew up in PR and Miami in the 70s and 80s. Hope I don’t get skin cancer.
Born in 1980, some of these were still around. The Lite Brite was pretty good and of course watching those Saturday morning cartoons.
@@AmberShort Those Saturday morning cartoons were a highlight of the week. Just as pictured we were cross legged circled around the TV with that sugary cereal. Count Chocula was my favorite!
I just gave my 4 sided Lite-Bright to the day care center behind my house when we moved.
@@purplelove392 That's so sweet, but I bet they won't let the kids use it due to all the small pieces and the associated hazards. I know, I know, it's ridiculous all the safe-guarding that has ruined so much for kids. That all started in the `80s as I remember it. At least they might get to see a bit of how our childhood was by contrast and maybe they'll even get to play with it. God bless you for trying. :)
@@WhoWouldWantThisName Hopefully they'll put it in one of the classrooms for the older kids.
Despite what some say, the 70's, 80's and 90's were the last great decades.
Thank you for taking me back to some amazing memories ❤
1971 baby here…. I’d give anything to go back to those years to do it all over again! Kids today just don't know what they missed out on!
Omg!! My childhood was wonderful!
👍👍❤️
This makes me happy and sad at the same time...im generation X ,i freakn loved growing up then,i do feel like we had best childhood,basically raised feral,free,and lucky...wish i could go back and do it all over again..67XR