13 Things Every High Schooler Did In The 1970s!
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- 13 Things Every High Schooler Did In The 1970s!
Relive the nostalgia of high school in the 1970s with "13 Things Every High Schooler Did In The 1970s!" This video explores the common experiences shared by American high schoolers during that era, from fashion trends to school activities. Join us as we take a trip down memory lane and revisit the iconic moments that defined a generation.
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Would probably have helped a bit if the person who made this was actually around then. I graduated high school in '74. This ain't even close.
@MichaelWitkowski-dq1nr
I agree 100%...
I don't think the person who made this video even lived thru those days..
Huge FAIL! 😱
A LOT of scenes from the 60s.
And too much from the 80s.
@@traybern
my guess is that the person compiling this... was Not even alive in those eras... perhaps someone born in the 90's.. a millennial... or gen X'er.. so they did Not know really what to include in the video...
We did not have sock hops in the 70’s. This was in the 50’s. You have mixed so many things into the 70’s that were not in the 70’s.
Agreed. There were no sock hops in the 70’s. There was a 50’s revival with American Graffiti, Happy Days and The Lords of Flatbush
@@tross1222 absolutely correct.
Yes, a lot of this is garbage. Dodge ball was elementary school, not high school. No one cared about locker decorations, particularly band posters. Eight tracks were still around, but never portables, just in cars. Maybe 2% of students used planners to any extent (parents used to buy them for kids who then didn't use them). Bell bottoms, yes, but platform shoes? Not so much. Lots of these video examples are not from the 70's, and some looked to be from the 40's. Poor research.
Dodge ball wasn’t called dodge ball at my school it was called Murd** Ball and it wasn’t fun for everyone. The shoes that were popular at my 1970s high school were Candies and clogs. We didn’t decorate our lockers either.
Yes Katy, I'm STILL wearing my clogs but now they're Crocs lmao!!!
Sock hops and poodle skirts were not from the 70'!
True, but there was a huge love of 1950's nostalgia.
Pretty Woman? Footloose? Not the 70s......
I also saw, in the "personalized lockers" section, a poster for the movie Ghost. That movie didn't release until 1990.
Same for Jane's Addiction.
A movie projector IS NOT a film strip projector. Get your images straight.
Film strips were no longer used in the '70s, either. Those went out even before the end of the '60s.
@@jacklow9611 No, we still had them in the 70s.
@@phoebeflanders Maybe you did where you went, but we had video tape and TVs (though VHS cassettes were still a few years off) when I was in High School, and film projectors for our filmmaking classes, but film STRIPS were a thing of the past. Slide projectors, however, were still used sometimes, but even they were on the way out.
@phoebeflanders @jacklow9611 Yup, I went to school from 1969 to 1981, and viewed lots of filmstrips. I even made one by using colored grease markers.
The filmstrips were sometimes accompanied with an audio track that had tones to tell you when to flip to the next frame.
@@jacklow9611 We had filmstrips all the way up until the mid 80's... in a suburb of Chicago.
I graduated in 1978...Never saw anyone bringing 8 track tapes to school, dodgeball was brutal, I remember bell bottoms and elephant bells, nope never decorated my locker nor did my friends, I do remember the film strip being shown, no walk outs or sit ins, yep, I took typewriting classes, oh yes, we had a designated smoking area behind our cafeteria, sock hops were from the 60s not the 70s, although we did disco dance. Why did they throw in 60s stuff? Planners? WTF?
@lisakarageorge7085
You actually had designated smoking areas.. for students when You went to school?... I graduated in 1973.... and if any student was caught smoking in or near a school... it was automatic detention.. or suspension...
the smokers I knew about in high school had to wait to light up either on their walk hone... or in their cars driving home... I suppose some snuck them in the bathrooms.... but they were in NO way prevalent...or out in the open...
Yep my school had a smoking 🚬 area mid and late 70s.
@@jeffcarlson3269 I changed schools freshman year. 1973. The school I moved from had no smoking on school grounds. The school I moved to had a smoking area.
@@jeffcarlson3269I graduated in 1975 and we had designated areas for smoking but they were outside. The only exception to that was the senior class who had this “seniors only” room where you could smoke. If you got caught smoking anywhere else inside the school, you got in trouble
They were ONLY used in CARS.
That guys doesn't know what he's talking about, all of us, except the bullies in class, HATED dodgeball, HATED it.
Just one of the many pieces of misinformation this post is packed with. Dodge ball gave bullies permission to slam us with balls while gym teachers cheered them on. There was nothing positive about this "game".
I graduated in 1976. I think whoever created this video was living in a parallel universe. Way off from my experiences!
And we NEVER played dodgeball!
How absurd! This is the media/TV series version of the 70's. Cranking music and rocking out in the halls? What schools did that?
Not mine! The closest I ever saw to that was when, on the last day of school, the music teacher (who had already been told he wasn't being rehired next year) blasted "School's Out For Summer" on the huge PA system in the music room.
Class of '77. Obviously the creators of this video, saw too many disney and other musicals. They probably also believe our bedrooms were painted with several clashing bright colors.
@@figmo397 In my grade school, the principal played School's Out For Summer over the PA system, the last day of my fifth grade year. In high school there was one guy that had really long hair, wore an army field jacket and a Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt, carried a one-speaker boombox and hitchhiked to school everyday.
Belly bottoms?!?! It is was n shall ever be BELL Bottoms!!! Big mistake on your narrators part!!! Turned me off, dude!!
I couldn't believe my ears when I heard that one. Belly bottoms! What the hell?!
Ahhh...no on many of those things in HS in the early 70s. (I graduated in 74')
So many its hard to list them all. We did not gave sock hops and poodle skirts. We did not have widespread typing classes. Typing was a vocational class for those female students that were not in the college prep track. No to locker decorations, our lockers were simply a place for books and your coat. No to smoking areas. There may have been an area for teachers, none for students. Students were expected to go through a school day without smoking as they were legally unde age to smoke. No to fashion, especially the platform shoes. We did not have uniforms, however we had a pretty strict dress code and it was late 72 when girls were allowed to wear slacks to school. No to going to the library to look up textbooks. The whole intent of library research was to use other sources. Nobody in my school tried to snag a textbook, those were things you used in class and for homework nothing else. No to sit ins or walk outs. In my area, those were college activities not hs. Since almost all students were underage, such protests were hard to get going. No to note passing. We did that when we were younger; in hs, we simply caught someone in the hall between classes. No to dodge ball or coed gym classes. Gym classes were divided by gender and boys gym focused on developing skills for one of the athletic teams. Dodge ball simply was not intense enough in skill building. Girls gym was simply some social activities such as bowling or square dancing (with other girls).
There is so much wrong with this video, it is hard to describe what is right.
A lot of these things may have just been by state and/or school district, or mid- to late 70s as you suggested. There was dodge ball as part of gym (yes even in HS - but as you said, more for movement and socializing and not so much for skill, many "activities" only lasted a couple weeks and rotated to the next activity). Gym was co-ed (but of course each had their own locker rooms). Typing classes existed for college track as our papers were required to be typed in HS. Smoking areas for students did exist for the over 18 (so usually seniors). Fashion was huge in the 70s for the HS student - so many platform shoes and bell bottoms.
Smoking was most definitely allowed on school grounds and age for smoking was not 18. Don’t know where you went but northern Indiana was allowed with the percentage weed to tobacco about 50/50
I had typing class in 8th grade in 1974, and we were all encouraged to do so.
The one I absolutely never saw was kids with planners. We did have 50s themed dances called "sock hops," but they weren't the only kind of dances we had. Gym was mostly not coed (they tried doing coed touch football, and it was a disaster). We mostly did dodge ball for elementary school recess, and it was the "Indian Club" version (a bowling pin, or if you didn't have one, an emptied bleach bottle filled with sand).
My (private) HS required typing because we needed to be able to type our papers in HS and later on in college. In the public schools, typing was for girls in the "business" (read: secretarial) track. My HS decided to ban smoking altogether, whereas the public schools ignored laws about smoking ages and designated areas on the HS campuses for smoking. I'd say about 20%-30% of the kids smoked.
Textbooks were for classes. You're right; nobody wanted to snag one for keeps (eeeuw). The only textbooks that were "cool" to own, and only if you came by them legally, were the teacher's editions with all the answers to the homework assignments.
I swear those that make these vids don't actually check to see wat went on in the era they're making their vids for.. especially the imagery.
I graduated in 1979, and I sure do miss those days
Same, I miss those days as well.
Same here
1978 here
I graduated in 1975. Served in the Airforce 1976-1980.
Thank you for your service 🇺🇸@@lancerevell5979
Class of '71.
We had dances, we had few greasers, but never ever had a sock hop.
7:48 It would be nice if the section of filmstrips were edited by someone who knows what a filmstrip is.
Got a friend who works in films. She shoots and edits. At 40 years old she has NEVER seen a roll of film. Though she's heard about them. All her work - filming and editing is done on computerized disc
Some of this is not the 70s
When I was learning to type I used "all" my fingers not just two, lol. And I still use all my fingers on my desktop keyboard.
Good for you. I managed to pass a 40 wpm 90% accuracy typing test having never taken keyboarding class. Not too bad...
Good job! wink@@chiarac3833
8-tracks were more a 1960s thing. I was in high school 1971-1975, and casettes had already taken over. We had an 8-track as part of our home stereo system, but my sister and I had our casette players, and I had casette players in my cars in the late 1970s - I owned four cars during the 1970s, all had casettes.
I got my first 8-track player in the 1970's. I do remember in the early 1970's a kid bringing a Cheech and Chong cassette tape to school. He bought it, but he didn't have a cassette player. We listened to it on a school library cassette player. My 8-track player was part of a stereo receiver and it could record from the radio.
Yes, 8 tracks were more late 60s, but I remember playing them early 70s.
It must be another regional thing. My father had an 8-track in his office. He liked it because it could loop continuously. We used cassettes because you could record your albums onto them. Cassettes were around before 8-tracks, and they hung around long after.
In order to play them in your car you had to buy a player and have your pal help install it. Later after they were getting stolen often, they had one on a slider so you could remove it and lock it in the trunk when you were at work or wherever.
You show pictures of the 1970s but were actually from the 1940s to the 1960s. Most of the "1970s" was a carry over from the 1950/60s.
Probably the only examples he could find. It's the point that counts.
@@pattyepperson3908 But what was the point? Much of what was told about in the video was not from the '70s, specifically, and what was from the '70s was not entirely the way it was made out to be.
I was in high school from 75 - 79. Wonderful memories but none of these are them.
I loved dodge ball. If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.
The Sock Hop was NOT the 1970s. The sock hops were 1950s. Those passing the smoke from a "tube" where smoking Marijuana and not tobacco. There are more irregularities in this film. Quite a few. No one wore petti-coats in the 1970s. That was from early 1950s. I can't even watch the entire film.
It is really bad, so many inaccuracies. The guy writing this never did any research, certainly didn't live the 1970s.
I watched the whole thing, just to see how much they'd get wrong. I regret it, though.
We used to have "sock hops," but they were 1950s themed dances. Disco sucked, and the good music being made wasn't good for dancing. I never saw petticoats at any sock hops, but some girls did make poodle skirts or get them from a costume shop.
Talks about film strips while showing 16mm projectors.
Film strips were not motion pictures.
The decorating of lockers was a thing that we started in the mid to late 80's.
As a kid I lugged around those 8-tracks, and then cassette players...they took 8 D batteries and were heavy as fk.
Not in the schools I was in did they allow music during lunch. Actually most of what was on this one, didn't happen at the schools I had attended.
Dodge ball sucked. Libraries are still special places to go. We should teach our kids to use the library.
While talking about 8-tracks, it would help if you didn't show cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes like you don't know the difference.
Smoking was never allowed at my high school.
We did not use "planners" in the 70's. That's why they showed a planner from 2005.
Buying eggs then spending the night driving around with your friends tossing them at cars and houses.
...when eggs were really cheap, and toilet paper...😁🤭🤫😉😆
TP yes, eggs no
@@jfwm
not to mention 25 cent burgers...
@@jeffcarlson3269 I remember...I suddenly feel ancient...relic status! LOL
Ahh dodge ball high school combat at its best before lawyers and the over protective to control. And when Portable had a different meaning, meaning your machine was under 50 pounds.
We did dodgeball last in middle school. In junior high and high school, we played volleyball.
Correct no sock hops.
No Planners, no sockhops - graduate of 78
I saw the title of this video and got excited to reminisce, since I was a high schooler in the 70s. But this piece was a major disappointment. There are so many things that are totally wrong! Images are from the 50s through the 90s. Sock hops? That was the 50s. An open locker had a “Ghost” poster…that movie came out in 1990. I won’t be watching the channel anymore.
My high school did not allow decorations in lockers. What you showed where is the place for books and a jacket or coat?
I had my whole door decorated and even had a stick on mirror.
They barely allowed crepe paper and the like to celebrate a sporting/dances activities.
@@hearttoheart4me we were allowed a photo. They would often have us come out of home room and open our lockers stand next to it and down the hall would come a German Shepherd going from locker to locker sniffing for weed. There were 2 boys who had great connections to buy a nickel or 10 bag from. Once the dog passed your locker you closed it and went back to your home room .
In my grade school they made the girls wear dresses. I hated dodge ball! When the boys lobbed that ball at us it really stung when it hit our legs.
Well excuse me but I don't remember the sock hops...we danced three feet away from each other until The Disco era came through with The Bee Gees!And while some of us rocked out with Deep Purple or The Steve Miller Band to The Osmond's and The Carpenter's! No poodle skirts but a variety of skirt lengths and platform shoes!Oh and McDonald's Big Mac's! I don't remember having a smoking place at my Highschool but I didn't smoke either!😊 "Have A Good Day!" 😊
I remember the smoking area when I went to highschool, it was between the lunch room and the hall way. At the highschool that I went to also had a designated area for the students who smoked pot. Ah, the 1970's, my era. Love from Marysville California
Our smoking area was in the middle of the quad at my HS. Got in trouble by my coach just standing at the 'Smokers Hill' talking to my friends who smoked (I didn't).
In my high school, 1971-1975, the smokers did it in the student parking lot.
@@lancerevell5979 lol, I wish. Ya, at Nevada Union highschool if you wanted to go to the lunch room you had to go between the smoking and pot area. I'll bet that it's way different now. I went there from 1977 until 1978. I then moved to the little town of Dobbins and went to Marysville highschool. Love from Marysville California
In my school they either snuck in the bathroom or snuck across the street to the store on the corner that was called The Pickle Barrel.
We weren't allowed to decorate the lockers... we had cassettes at school. The portable 8-track was a quick in and out fad. We had a 'Smokers Hill' (a grassy mounds where students could smoke) in the middle of the quad area. We were allowed to leave campus at lunch. Typing classes were done in Jr. High. Driver's Ed was required. Lot's of interesting elective classes/Clubs in HS... including Surf Club, Science Club, Ski Club, German Club, etc... (this was Southern CA).
Dodgeball was more popular in gym class in the '60s than in the '70s. I went to two different high schools in the '70s, and neither one ever had any students playing dodgeball. And neither one had students lugging around 8-track players and tapes, either.
Belly bottoms? Where did THAT come from?
Smoking areas for students in schools? Students weren't supposed to smoke at all, and if they did smoke, it was always where they wouldn't be seen by a teacher or administrator. Cigarette ads on TV were on their way out before the decade had even really begun. The last one was in late 1971 or early 1972.
Petticoats had pretty much been done away with by the '70s, so they were rarely, if ever, seen and school dances had usually been eliminated, except for proms and football homecoming celebrations, and those were considered to be formal affairs.
No, no, no. The only kids who looked forward to dodge ball in school were the sadistic jerks who'd steal your Ding Dongs from your lunch box.
At my HS (71-75) every boy had a pocketknife (or more if he was a trader), juniors and seniors who drove pickups had gun racks with a rifle and/or shotgun in the parking lot, where we listened to 8 tracks like Cheech and Chong, Alice Cooper..., and smoked... Without teachers or the principle Freaking Out. "Schoooool's Out For-ever...."
We also had gun racks. If we were going hunting after school it had our shotgun in it. Great days.
I remember buying that Radio Shack 8-track in 76.
I went to started Jr. Hight School in 1974, at age 13. And for high school, I started in 1977 at age 16 - age 18. I enjoyed those times; I know there were not many dangers in school as in today's schools. Kids today will not know how it is to go to school without fears, sadly.
Initiation for Freshman, braces(railroad tracks), lunch, phys. ed.; library, study hall(auditorium). Algebra, Chemistry, Consumer Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Government, Band, and other classes.
I learned how to type in the early 60s, never expecting to use it again. But, here I am today sitting in front of my computer typing out this message while watching the words appear on the screen. Typing may have been the best thing I learned in highschool.
In 1965 the US surgeon General announced officially that smoking directly caused lung cancer (and up to that time there had been over 7000 peer-reviewed scientific papers published to verify that fact). It's mind numbing to think that the Education Authority didn't see this as anything unhealthy. We weren't allowed to smoke at school until 1974 when the school reserved a designated "smoking room" for students although it only lasted a few years...mondo bizarro.
4:20 An appropriate time to mention "belly [sic] bottoms".
Hahaha! I caught that too. Hilarious
As someone who was from the 90s "I don't think so Tim."
I see somebody had good taste with the Waylon Jennings 8 track.
Belly bottoms???
Nobody used the word "groovy" in the 70s!
That was the 1960s!
Yes, I was a teenager in the 70s!
Why dont you actually talk to someone who lived it?
Oh, yes, we used the word "Groovy"! Whenever we started a class, we all said, "Hey, you far-out teacher! What kind of GROOVY knowledge are you gonna lay on us today? How about some psychedelic, groovy homework?" Just kidding.
Graduated In 1978. Remembered Everything In This. The Smoking Pit! Remember Racing To Typing Class To Get On If The Two Electric Typewriters! What A Great time To Be A Teenager!
Whoever made this video was not around in the 70's.
I was too busy in high school trying to learn to do any of that stuff. I don't remember seeing people decorate their lockers either.
Maybe 8 to 10% of people in my area where into 8 tracks. Most of us were laughing at them for listening to the only thing that sounded worse than am radio.
Did anyone else wear Ditto pants, Earth shoes, or crop tops?
The guys folded notebook paper into small triangles and would hold it with one hand and flick it with the index finger on their other hand. It was very popular at my high school.
In UK we had weekly music newspapers. These were in newspaper format not glossy photo mags. The big three were New Musical Express (NME) , Melody Maker and Sounds. Aimed at the post comic, pre newspaoer reading age group. We studied these publications as seriously as 'The Times' and they were often confiscated in class. Mail Order record companies were our equivalent if Amazon or eBay.
2:38...I remember playing dodgeball during the '60s in elementary school. I once got hit in the head thrown by a teacher (unintentionally) by one of those little 7" rubber balls. No harm done. But the rule was to throw below the waist. Otherwise you're out. Also, if you caught the ball that was thrown at you, the person who threw the ball is out.
Hated dodge ball and gym all through high school!
I was in high school from 1969 to 1973. The only way we could really do what we wanted was by going to rock concerts at Cleveland Public Auditorium where everyone was passing joints around so at least there was free ganja. When we were home we were typically being spied upon by our square parents. It was in college that we came into our own and morphed into true party animals.
I graduated in 1973.... I do Not recall smoking as ever being accepted when I was in school... did things change sometime in the 1970's...?
smoking areas for students in or around schools?.. REALLY?,,,
This made me remember a place called the pines. Just off the parking lot. The smokers went there on breaks and the school staff just looked the other way. Class of 74 here.
@@greghamann2099
when I went to school students were Not allowed to leave the building except for field trips.. or drivers ED.. there were guards at the door... that would question anyone leaving the school early or without a pass or excuse given to them by a teacher...
when I was in 8th grade.... a friend of mine got me to start cutting some classes at the end of the day... but we had to leave through a side door...that was Not guarded... and there was NO way to get back in thru that door...once it closed... kind of a fire exit door....
maybe some schools were more liberal than others... I went to a public school.. but perhaps... it was more old fashioned than the rest...
I lived in a small town and it sounds like you lived in a big city and that would explain it. There was no security concerns. We had drive your tractor to school day once a year. We had shotguns in our cars so we could go hunting after school. @@jeffcarlson3269
@jeffcarlson3269 Yes - things did change in one year at my high school. After a summer break the Jr. and Sr. High schools had been re-designed and included a
student common area - out side - between buildings. I graduated in 1977 and this change-over was right around '74 or '75 .
No doubt a lot depended on where you were. I graduated in 76 and there was a covered walkway between two of the buildings that was called the "Smoking Flats", which was the designated smoking area. North Carolina was, and is, a big tobacco growing state, so it's not surprising it resisted banning smoking anywhere.
Head to the library and discover for yourself what someone already knew. The contribution of a library is previous knowledge upon which to build, which means we no longer have to discover for ourselves what was already discovered before we could expend on that knowledge.
49-year old guys playing dodgeball.
Yeah, which screwed up high school had a designated smoking area for students?
Ours did - it was called the "can".
@@kateyare4708 That's just bizarre.
Platform shoes--which I never would have worn, ever--and filmstrips were way out of style by the time I got to high school in the latter seventies. I didn't decorate my locker, participate in protests--I don't even remember any protests--or take any typing classes. Smoking has always been disgusting, and Sock Hops and clubs have too many people in them. As for daily planners, I've never used one--not even on my phone. So, I guess that 4 Thing Every High Schooler Did. 1977 - 1981
Hated gym class n hated any ball game especially one that forcefully hit me hard anyplace on my body, ergo, flunked gym class 3 times!!! I was s hippie, then a glammer, then a high fashion diva throughout my junior high n high school life!!!
I hated gym class too!!
Talking about 8 tracks and showing cassettes & dodge ball was middle school not High School - who ties this guys shoes?
While some of these videos are a bit outdated, all I need to look at are my high school year book pictures and yeah it’s pretty accurate with my experiences.
Sock hop? LOL
I slept 😴 💤 through most of it 😆
In my school we played a more intense version of Dodge Ball called Prison Ball. All I remember is it was more violent. My high school in the 80s had designated smoking areas. I have never been to a 1950s-style sock hop. Dang, im not that old!
I wonder how many people twisted an ankle or tripped on those platform shoes and the long pants they wore.
There were some broken ankles.
Well.. this is somewhat accurate, but some flaws. The invention from William Lear (the one who developed the Lear Jet) had his 8-Tracks. Radio stations used a modified version for station IDs, PSAs, and those pesky adverts! The cassette tape came out in the early 70's thus relegating Lear's system for public use, obsolete. Hop Sock!? NEVER HEARD of it!
They did have typing classes at my school, and one major thing what the local media back then sort of simply glossed over, was a major 'Code Brown' situation.
Apparently one school staff member in the cafeteria had a grudge re money (but of course!) and poisoned one day the lunch food. As my school is to this day large, can accommodate about 1000 peers or so, about 80% of us wound up getting sick, throwing up all over the place and producing massive amounts of diarrhoea, especially in the original building,the admin building. It was a stench hell, I was among those who got ill! The stench did not help but made things worse. I started puking my guts out! They had a special curfew that once in that building, as a record number of ambulances were out on Texas Ave. about 20 to 30 within one block, carting my sick peers all over LA County, I almost wound up in one of them as well! I pleaded to their triage, that as I only lived one block from campus to allow me to go home. Fortunately this one medic capitulated and I walked home albeit that I did indeed have a public urgent diarrhoea accident more than half way home!
The next day was a day of diarrhoea, stomach pains, and vomiting. But as I had two nights of virtually no sleep, the following early afternoon, the symptoms began to wane. My dad almost was going to have me see my paediatrician, but that turned out not to have been necessary. I stayed an extra day home just to make sure I was over with that food poisoning incident before returning back to class. I shall never forget this major chapter in my high school days! (BTW, what happened to the rest of this documentary?)
Sniffing the mimeograph papers
Now, there's a 70's memory!
THAT was a treat.
Look, I get and understand that the '70s wanted to BE the '50s more than ANYTHING after the disastrous late '60s. This does NOT mean taking clips FROM the '50s and portraying them as being FROM the '70s. They aren't. And neither are the inserts from the 1980's and '90's. As far as the platform shoes goes, they were "in" when I was in high school 9th-12th grade (1971-'75) peaking in '73-'74, but were out when my sister was in 9th to 12th, 1975-'79. The '70s (like the '60s) had 3 distinct "sections" to them that had some overlap, but were quite different also. For example a lot of the fashions, TV shows, etc. when I was in high school, were long gone, out of date and old fashioned by the late '70s, yet it WAS still the same decade. So poor work went into this video. Sorry.
You could look in the index at the back no need to look through the whole set of Encyclopedia's no different than typing into google but no adds to sift through.
I went to high school in the 70s. We didn't have 8 track players in the "school yard" or play dodge ball in gym.
Kids still pass notes. Sock hops, poodle skirts!? Uh, NO!!
We had MINI skirts, MICRO mini skirts, halter tops, hot pants, hip huggers and bell bottom pants!
And long hair on girls and facial hair on boys.
I remember in high school in the 70s we used to breathe this gas called "Oxygen" and we would drink liquids in order to stay hydrated. It was a different time the 70s.
I graduated in 1977, so I was there for all the seventies high school stuff. This showed so many things that were so dated we laughed about them in high school. Also stuff I laughed at from my parents’ yearbooks. C’mon. As you pointed out, research is so much easier these days.
I graduated in 1976, I don’t know what sort of school some of these commenters went but in my jr high and high school in the Chicago burbs these were all a fact of life.
We never had enough time to decorate lockers much less "start conversations" . Dis you?
Dodge ball was played in Elementary School, not high school!! And we didn't have planners!
It's funny because I do remember friends in high school in the 70s with 8-track tapes and players but I was never into them. I was always about cassettes. They were more durable. In fact I probably still have a box or two of them around and I'll bet they still playing correctly.
Sad to hear this guy thinks a lot of this stuff disappeared just cause it got digitized. Younger generations can help those of us willing to listen so we can remain in society
Yeah graduated 76 never saw the lockers decorated or the posters in the hall yes bell bottoms and platform shoes films and typing class and there was no sock hops they were in the 50’s
You need to improve your research. Your talking about and showing stuff that are 10+ years before and 10+ years after 70’s. On what planet did you go to high school?
A Ghost poster? That came out in 1990 not the 70s
I never saw anyone with an 8-track boom box in HS in the '70s. I never even saw one period. I grew up in the Detroit metro area.
I had 1 (just 1) 8-track tape player. I plugged it into a stereo. What I didn't like about them was that they'd switch tracks in the middle of a song. There was this buzz before the song resumed. I much preferred vinyl records or cassettes.
"...Grass roots activism and civic engagement in effecting meaningful societal change. This spirit seems to be lacking in many colleges today." Columbia and Duke students protesting over Gaza have entered the chat!
no 8 track players actually in the school itself out in the student cars yes but in my High School they weren't allowed in school itself. Our PE uniforms were black shorts and a white shirt. I graduated in 1976
this guy is ignorant he don't know what he's talking about. yeah posters on lockers weren't allowed
What the hell were belly bottom pants ? Lol
Typing transferred very well to computers all good computer people are good typists and don't look at the keyboard.
I was in toking class in the 90's in high school freshman year, by some year that was gone.
You could smoke in designated areas in the 80's.
We had a smoking hall in school
Poodle skirts?? That was the 50s. Mini skirts were the length in the early 70s. Every student had a textbook for every class. We didn't call our dances sock hops either.
Highly exaggerated, flamboyantly described.
Good thing a zombie apocalypse didn't happen at the height of the bell bottoms craze. You can't run very good in those stupid things.
8 tracks were more of a 60s thing. Only a couple people had them in early 70s and then only in the car. Cassettes had replaced them. Dodge ball was a middle school thing. Not high school and certainly no adults! A few girls might put a couple pictures on inside door of their locker. I never once saw anything on the outside of one. So much is wrong in this.
I don't remember any sort of team dodge ball. When we played one person was it and the rest circled around that one who threw at anyone and everyone and when they hit someone they traded places.
Why is it that the 1970's is the decade of disco. I never liked it, I can tolerate it some today, but back then we listened to metal. I still don't know anyone that liked disco. It's kind of like rap, only certain people like it or listen to it. and it was good to dance to. We were not allowed to smoke at school ever, not sure where the kids in the video's lived, but it wasn't in Irving Texas.
Enjoyed the video though, thanks.