I’d go back in a second and stay there. You can have all your modern technology and computers and cellphones. Back then we actually talked to people. We went out to eat and talked to each other, not stare at our cellphones ignoring one another. We didn’t have text alerts going off all day, we actually had to wait to get home to hear the latest. And we didn’t have phones pressed to our ears in stores and other places on speaker phone, we had common courtesy. Life was much more family oriented. Now? You can have now, if you like today’s world that’s great, good for you. Enjoy. As for me, I’d go back in a second
That's right. I was 12 in '74. The bands were great, the musicians real, they didn't get a record deal by singing on tv after a mini documentary about how terrible their life has been. We actually rode bikes every day, played Frisbee, walkin the tracks shootin our guns off. Always something to do.
Agree 👍. Happy 😊 healthy birthday 🎂 Susan. Love the 70s. I am a writer and one poem I wrote a while ago was named glad you had me in the 50s. Went to college in 1974 to 1978. The best. High school early 70s no social media crap. No technology. The best. Lived in boston 1986 to 1996. No social media or technology either just an answering machine. Loved it that way. Moved to California in 1996. Not much changed in terms of technology for me. Don't care for it. Still don't have email or a computer. Using my phone. 😊😊😊. Miss you 70s. 😢
I remember seeing Emerson Lake and Palmer at 14 the drum solo I will never forget.... And Carl Palmer is still playing in his 70's...Emerson committed suicide.......and Lake died of cancer RIP.
Agree 👍. I remember when I was in college in Buffalo living off campus on Elmwood Ave. My rent for my room was 75 dollars or less than 100 a month. No technology. We used typewriters to type our papers. Grad school graduated to electric typewriters. 😊. We didn't care how we dressed jeans. Comfortable shirts. Great music 🎶 cute guys. Fun times. Remember resames. Miss everything 😢😢😢😢
I too hitchhiked around the country then. 1972-1974. Settled in the New Orleans area. Worked in the oil fields and related industries. I had a nice little apartment for $120 Per month. I bought a nice 1959 Chevy pick up for $400. Life was good and simple.
It was a much simpler life back then . I was 9 years old . It was so much fun. Riding your bike , playing street games , going to McDonald's was a treat and the only pizza place we had was Pappy's . I sure miss those times 😊
If people had taken heed back then, ended their dependence on oil and other natural resources, they wouldn't be whining about the price of gas at the pump in 2024. We would have been so much better converting to wind/solar power for heat, electric. Land and Texas and elsewhere sink when oil is taken out of the ground.
I met my wife in 1974 when I was 17 married her in 78, we had a great time back then but now things are good too! Really glad I can still remember like it was yesterday. Yep still married with kids and grandkids! I do miss the loved ones who are gone though.
I grew up in southern California and saw Zeppelin three times in one week - Once in San Diego at the Sports Arena, then in L.A. and then again at the S.D. Sports Arena -- And there was Cal Jam I. All day festival seating concert with ELP, Black Sabbath, Seals and Croft, Deep Purple and the Eagles. Crime was lower - No school shootings and it wasn't unusual depending on if you live out in the country, to see pick-up trucks with a gun rack in the back window with a rifle in it. People were a lot more responsible and didn't put up with nonsense. Cars may not have lasted as long but they were easier to work on and most folks knew someone who could help them work on their car - Plus you could go to the junk yard and pull and buy parts if you needed something like a carb to rebuild. Wages weren't as high - True - But my first little studio apartment cost me about $60 a month including electric, gas and water --- And it was only two blocks from the beach. An Enchirito, side of frijoles and small soda was maybe 90 cents at Taco Bell. A double feature at the local theater was 75 cents and they used to have a special of a soda and bag of popcorn for a quarter. It wasn't all good news and there were problems with the era - but overall I would gladly go back and live through it all over again. Not just for the Levi Big Bells, incredible concerts or freedom - But to appreciate that I was in a special time and not take it all for granted.
@@harleydavid4064 I’m with you on that. I graduated high school in 1974. We managed to do without cell phones and lap tops. I would go back in a second.
Also in the class of ‘74. Hard to believe it’s been 50 years. 68 now with a 16 year old Daughter, I need 15 more years so I can pick out her Husband. Or at least approve of him!
Best year ever. The music, the prices,the people. Swimming and tire tubing,streaking,camping,just having good times with friends.I can remember woolworths had a fountain counter where you could have the waitress pop you a balloon of your choice to get a banana split at discount prices...the store was noisy w canarys chirping in the back and they would sell baby turtles also.It just seemed like a happy time from what i remember.I was only 11 but that specific year always felt magical to me.
Got my driver's license in 1973 and my first car was a 1972 Oldsmobile 4-4-2. I would go over to North Dallas and race it on Forest Lane. I graduated high school in 1975. Got my first real girlfriend in 1974, times were good. Went to the second concert at Texas Stadium to see the Allman Brothers and Joe Walsh. In 1974. Lots of the greatest bands were playing back then and I got to see a lot of them. Would I rather live in those times? Hell Fing YES! My first apartment cost $210 ,in 1977 and all bills paid. My first house in 1979 cost $25,000. Life was so much easier back then. I don't think most kids today would understand that. Thank for the tour down memory lane.
Graduated h.s. 1974. To college 1974 to 1978. Buffalo state isn't it great. Then volunteers in service to America. Grad school 1980. Boston 1986 to 1996. Then Cali. 2008 n.y. 2012 new york city. Eventually florida. Miss the 70s. ❤
I took typing in high school in 1971. As I became an engineer and worked with workstations and computers my entire career, typing was one of the most beneficial high school classes I took. The others were my math classes.
Do you remember the REALLY OLD typewriter keyboards⁉️. They didn't have separate keys for the numbers one and zero or the exclamation point 😮‼️ We had to use the "l" key for one and the "O" key for zero. For the exclamation point we had to type a period and then backspace and type an apostrophe 😠😡🤬‼️. And kids today think that THEY have it hard 🤣😆😂‼️
Oh yeah...My high school typing class meant that since the '90s, I was able to type emails, etc., at a decent speed without looking at the keys all the time...aka "hunt and peck.
my dad owned a service station from 1958, the year i was born, to 1995. he owned one of THE LAST service stations in the country. the oil companies conspired to drive all the service stations out of business. i remember the gas shortages well. they were, IN FACT, caused by american oil companies who wanted to drive up prices and put independently owned gas stations out of business. soon self-serviice stations were the norm and service-stations were phased out. these service stations not only did matintance and car repairs but also pumped your gas, washed your windows, checked your oil and the air pressure in your tires. now you have to do most of this stuff yourself and go to 15 different places to do the rest. TECHNOLOGY HASN'T MADE THE WORLD BETTER! but try telling that to ALL the brainwashed, corporate minions who fall for the lie.
I was 16 in "74 and one of 11 kids!Mom&dad were great parents.We didnt have a lot,but we always had food on the table and conversation!Dad would send 2 of us to the store for a gallon of milk.he made sure there was enough change to buy penny candy,Great memories!!
I started 74' in NYC then back to FLA. Born Again October, 1974. Delayed enlistment in the military for the next year. 74' was a wonderful, life changing year! ❤️
1974, I just graduated from college. Yes, it truly was better back then. Come on all the "wait, what about the bla, bla, bla, bla" group. No, you're wrong. It really was better back then. Great video, you did a fantasstic job.
@@alyceclover Which is why so many of us say that we would love to go back in time 50 years. What we really mean is including getting our 1974 bodies back. Either way, before long, we'd be whining and bitching about "I miss RUclips" and having to go to the library rather than "just google it."
Number 6, the avocado green I know all too well! As a teenager I lived in a mobile home with EVERYTHING green!! Furniture, rug, appliances. To this very day, I do not like green, except in nature. 😅😊
So many memories... I was 15 in '74. Seeing all these images brings back alot of memories. One memory is that nearly every Sat. our mom would pack me and my two brothers up in the car, and take us across town to see grandma (mom's mom). Most times we would meet her somewhere, for a bite to eat, either Lums or Dunkin Donuts. When we went to Dunkin Donuts you sat on stools. I would always order an old fashioned plain donut and a drink. Back then the old fashioned plain Dunkin Donuts had a small handle on them. Such great memories of growing up in the 60's and 70's. 😊
My firstborn arrived in 1974. He is 50 years old now. Wow! All my Grandparents & Parents were alive. Wow. The automobiles back then WERE AWESOME! Did you notice the Corvette Convertible?… 1957-8?????
I graduated from high school in '75. Gas was 55 cents per gallon ($3.67 in today's money) Everyone on future college track was urged to take typing class. Am so very glad I did - even as a guy! As a history major, my college typewriter was a Royal manual portable. I still have and use it! 👨🏻🎓 ⌨️
Actually a new car could be bought for around $5000 at least under $10,000.. a good used car $500 maybe $1000.. and yes the new Curtis Mathis tv ran around $1000 or so.. that was when we had huge floor models and yes you could buy a car for what they cost
I was in high school in 1974 and owned my first car (a $200 beater), the gas lines really didn't last that long but gas did jump from around .25 cents a gallon to a couple of bucks, THAT hurt because many of the cars back then were land yachts and got around 4-5 miles to a gallon if that. I took typing in HS because I was going to college, it's a skill that I'm still using right this minute because a keyboard is a keyboard whether it's on a typewriter or a PC. When they lowered the speed limit to 55 the saying that went around was; "55 mph; slow enough to feel safe but fast enough to kill you".
my dad owned a service station from 1958, the year i was born, to 1995. he owned one of THE LAST service stations in the country. the oil companies conspired to drive all the service stations out of business. i remember the gas shortages well. they were, IN FACT, caused by american oil companies who wanted to drive up prices and put independently owned gas stations out of business. soon self-serviice stations were the norm and service-stations were phased out. these service stations not only did matintance and car repairs but also pumped your gas, washed your windows, checked your oil and the air pressure in your tires. now you have to do most of this stuff yourself and go to 15 different places to do the rest. TECHNOLOGY HASN'T MADE THE WORLD BETTER! but try telling that to ALL the brainwashed, corporate minions who fall for the lie.
When I was 15 my Dad bought me a 56 Chevy for $100 😂 I didn’t have my license yet,but my parents would let me drive it to school 😂 No so sure that was a good idea . No seatbelts, no insurance , even got pulled over . The cops told me to make sure I drive straight Home 😂😂😂😂 THE GOOD OLD DAYS !!!!!!!!!
@@cjmacq-vg8um. My dad also owned a full service gas station and when he retired my brother-in-law took over. It’s still full service to this day. I never pump my own gas, check the tires or wash my windshield.
@@kimmurrell7204 ... cool. i haven't seen a service station in over 30 years. glad to hear there's still some around. but they used to be the rule rather than the rare exception. DOES ANYONE REMENMBER "GAS WARS?" competing service stations would engage in "contests" to see who could charge the lower gas prices. this, too, became extinct as a result of the sham "oil crisis" of the early 70s.
Who remembers collecting comic books, wearing Hang Ten T.-shirts with the bare feet logo or shopping at Zodys Department store or Riding a bike with the banana seat. How about, playing outside all day until it got dark or watching the Brady Bunch (favorite episode Hawaii trip}. How about watching Jaws at the drive in or reading Encyclopedia Brown books or Wearing knee high socks with stripes around the top with OP shorts and Vans. 😀
NOT ONE photo from the MASSIVE entertainment value of STREAKING in 1974????? And NOT ONE photo about Patty Hearst, and her “adventures” with the SLA in 1974??? THIS “video” SHOULD have been done by someone WHO WAS ALIVE then!!!!!
I can remember when the speed limit dropped to 55 mph and it took forever to get where you were going on a road trip. The Big Mac was actually big and couldn’t be eaten at once. The double whopper from Burger King was quite large too. I miss the good old days when everything was just simple. Who remembers the rotary dial phone? 😂😂
Miss the 70s. The best😊😊. Had so much the music 🎶 clothes cute guys no social media. No technology. People talked to each other. Fun in college. Cheap rent. Generous guys. Easy to get jobs. Frisbee in the park. Volunteer work. Fun. Travel. Now unbelievable we are going to have a felon in the white house. What happened to America. Well there is always 2029 to look forward ✌ to.
that was a bit of a stretch wasn't it? growing my family refused to eat at mcdonalds or any fast food joint. they were FOR KIDS! and this is how fast food corporations took over american culture. they first HOOKED THE KIDS who grew up thinking that crap was actually good because its what they ate as kids. people, consumers, are blubbering idiots. they fall for corporate commercial lies generation after generation. I STILL HATE MCDONALDS! like wal-mart, they're a gangster organization. today, this country sux beyond comprehension because IDIOTS are so easily brainwashed by corporate lies and propaganda.
In 72 I was a Jr in High School and bought a 69 GTO Judge Carousel Red 4 Speed with 49,000 miles for $1250 which was crazy expensive then, car was like new & all original - today I have a 66 GTO and 69 442
My hourly rate to wait tables was .75/hour. You read that right. And most people could not figure out a 10% tip. But 1974 was wonderful. I am 70, and yes, I was there.
I took a semester of typing in 1980, not because I wanted to become a secretary, but because I was interested in computers and programming and knew that was going to require a huge amount of key banging, I wasn't wrong. The added benefit I didn't think of, I was the only guy in the class and got a lot of dates as a result! Also, back then McDonald's was actually tasty (when it was single digit millions served), the fries were some of the best ever made until the whole health craze hit forcing them to change their fry oil and they've never been the same. Today I wouldn't give you 65¢ for a Big Mac or anything else there, been calling them McNasty's and avoiding them for over 20 years now for a reason.
I was discharged from the Navy May 26. My first car was a new 1973 Ford Gran Torino, pastel lime, I bought through Ford Military sales, Subic Naval base. It cost $3,470.75 and paid it off in 1 year thanks for all that tax free Vietnam income I made on a minesweeper. Back then the Curtis-Mathes TV sets were the Rolls-Royce of TV sets, and brother ,they lasted. I had two and they both went over 20 years, perfect color. I was lucky, I never had to get in a gas line. The music was super! I'm 74 this New Year's Eve, and I'm glad I'm old, I'm glad I was born when and where I was. I have no use for this tech, all this nosey crap everywhere. The public phones, no problem, dirt cheap, and you weren't being recorded, big brother was not here.
I graduated from high school in 1974. It was a great time in the USA. The lines at the gas station did not last long. Only a couple of weeks. The economy was resilient.
We lived in Fresno and my husband was finishing college at Fresno State. We were so dang poor. Thankfully we had generous parents when we needed them..❤. I was working thankfully
My parents said life was better in their day. Funny because my grandparents said life was better in THEIR day. I think things are really great right now in my day!
Ah, Jimmy Carter and the gasoline crisis. In my diary from 1979 I wrote about how my mom bought gas on an odd day when we were even, and I wrote, "She cracks me up! She's such a nutball!" We were in our 1976 VW Bus, and I was still driving on a permit. Back then I was a big embarrassed that we had a VW Bus instead of a regular car. STUPID ME!
We've Lost many more Good things ....and we've Gained much more Bad things! As President Harry Truman said..Machines have developed so much; and Morals have declines so much 😟
6:26...Looks like that might be one of my beloved vintage Volkswagens, specifically, a '58-'63 "Herbie Generation" sunroof bug. I was driving my first car, "Howard," a '62 sunroof bug, back in 1974.
Mary Wallace was beautiful! I was 10 years old in 1974, and in May I turned 11. Expo 74’ was going on in the city where I lived and I got job there wearing a sandwich board advertising the Whitworth College Children’s Theatre. The cool thing about working at Expo is you got to go on all of the amusement park rides free. I had a blast! My mother worked in a food hut for people from Taiwan, and that was next to the theatre.
I was 17 y/o in 1974. My first car was a 68 turquoise colored Mustang fastback. Loved that car, even though it was had damage from saltwater flood! Backseat was not very comfortable however for smashing with girls, because they were bucketseats. Also remember my Flyers winning Stanley Cup in 74! Great memories as a teen boy!
Having lived as a teenager during the 70's I can 100% guarantee that no one walked around in the grocery store with boxes of items proximately displayed. Actually most people didn't buy much in the way of premade food or meals. One of the ways food cost less was people purchased ingredients and cooked at home.
Quite true. I worked in a grocery store as a teenager in the 60s. The difference is visible - a lot more premade food and meals today than there was then.
Back in 1974 the dunkn donuts in my town had all the cops hanging out and SMOKING. You would buy some donuts there take them outside take a bite and they tasted like cigarette SMOKE. I dont miss that
I was 10 years old in 1974 I remember it very distinctly Times have never been simpler we really need to retire that gruesome phrase. There are things about that time I miss mostly my youth and innocence and the fact that the people that I loved were still alive That's what people really miss. I am a deeply sentimental person But those rose colored nostalgia goggles are deadly dangerous Beware
What I miss the most is the loved ones that are no long with us.
WTF is "no long with us"....always proofread😅
@@maximusmorphine2418 I would've left that one alone considering the sensitive nature. We don't want to prove people right now do we?
Me too
Thank you. I understand missing loved ones. I believe in heaven. We will see them again.
I’d go back in a second and stay there. You can have all your modern technology and computers and cellphones. Back then we actually talked to people. We went out to eat and talked to each other, not stare at our cellphones ignoring one another. We didn’t have text alerts going off all day, we actually had to wait to get home to hear the latest. And we didn’t have phones pressed to our ears in stores and other places on speaker phone, we had common courtesy. Life was much more family oriented. Now? You can have now, if you like today’s world that’s great, good for you. Enjoy. As for me, I’d go back in a second
AMEN!!!
The 70s were better I was a teenager in the seventies and it was way better than this crap
However, this WAS modern at the time, compared to the 1930s and 1940s. So how far does a person wish to go back?
That's right. I was 12 in '74. The bands were great, the musicians real, they didn't get a record deal by singing on tv after a mini documentary about how terrible their life has been. We actually rode bikes every day, played Frisbee, walkin the tracks shootin our guns off. Always something to do.
@ for me, it would be before computers cell phones etc etc
i just turned 65 on the 21st of this month and i remember 1974 like it was yesterday. good times!
65..Absolutely glad I was a kid in the 60's and a teen in the 70's..
Agree 👍. Happy 😊 healthy birthday 🎂 Susan. Love the 70s. I am a writer and one poem I wrote a while ago was named glad you had me in the 50s. Went to college in 1974 to 1978. The best. High school early 70s no social media crap. No technology. The best. Lived in boston 1986 to 1996. No social media or technology either just an answering machine. Loved it that way. Moved to California in 1996. Not much changed in terms of technology for me. Don't care for it. Still don't have email or a computer. Using my phone. 😊😊😊. Miss you 70s. 😢
I'm 64 and would love to go back forever
I am also 65. The 70’s were my best decade. I had a blast in my teens 💥
I just turned 65 on the 20st on this month too. I remember the great music, clothes and cars. We were in the 9th grade then. 😂
No password/no passcode no user ID. Love it.
Those were simpler times!
I loved the 70s! The music, the clothes, cheap rent! Great memories ❤
All i can say is The Music back then was Unbelievable! Still IS !!!
The best Ever!
I remember seeing Emerson Lake and Palmer at 14 the drum solo I will never forget.... And Carl Palmer is still playing in his 70's...Emerson committed suicide.......and Lake died of cancer RIP.
It was due to real musicians with real talent.
I was a teenager in the 1970's and I do think it was fantastic. Peace out!✌
Take me back ! I would go back to 1974 in a second. A much better time. The mid 1970's - great times.
Agree 👍. I remember when I was in college in Buffalo living off campus on Elmwood Ave. My rent for my room was 75 dollars or less than 100 a month. No technology. We used typewriters to type our papers. Grad school graduated to electric typewriters. 😊. We didn't care how we dressed jeans. Comfortable shirts. Great music 🎶 cute guys. Fun times. Remember resames. Miss everything 😢😢😢😢
I agree. The 1970's were a great time for many people.
I was in my early 20s in 1974. Life was an amazing adventure and I wish I could go back!
Same
So do I.
Amen
I miss the 70's! 😔
We had terrible inflation during the Carter years.
LOVED growing up in the 70s!!! My grandmother used to smoke while shopping at Stop n Shop!! Merry CHRISTMAS 🎅 EVERYONE.
The only place my Grandmother didn't smoke was Mass.
Those were the days! Merry Christmas to you too!
@gordon3186 I know!!!!!......lol. Merry Christmas, Gordon. Jeff
I don’t remember smoking EVER being allowed in GROCERY STORES, and I was born in 1967. Could have varied by state.
@johnp139 I grew-up in Wyckoff, NJ in the 70s. Merry Christmas 🎅.
I hitchhiked across the country in 1973. Try doing that today. The 70s was a great time to be young.
I too hitchhiked around the country then. 1972-1974. Settled in the New Orleans area. Worked in the oil fields and related industries. I had a nice little apartment for $120 Per month. I bought a nice 1959 Chevy pick up for $400. Life was good and simple.
I was too busy working and trying to make a life on $100 a week.
Give me my 3 tv channels and a phone attached to the wall....
1 channel & a party line here.
3 Channels , don't forget UHF ....👍
Harvest gold or avocado green wall phone? 😜
@@Will-lk9cs Black & Purple!!!
The best thing about 1974 was there were 121,047,934 million LESS people in the US.
You could actually travel without being in a herd.
I think it was much more populated then than now...
@@godbluffvdgg I think you're wrong! Population of US in 1974 was 217,076,476 sheeple. In 2024 it is 340 million worthless biomasses.☢
@@godbluffvdgg Are you seriously saying there were more people in the USA in 1974 than 2024?
That’s what I’m talking about! There are just too many people in the world.
And this is the BEST comment!
It was a much simpler life back then . I was 9 years old . It was so much fun. Riding your bike , playing street games , going to McDonald's was a treat and the only pizza place we had was Pappy's . I sure miss those times 😊
What you're missing is childhood. Adulthood in 1974 had its challenges and hardships.
"No more oil in the ground" ! That was one of the major lies we were told by celebrities on commercials
If people had taken heed back then, ended their dependence on oil and other natural resources, they wouldn't be whining about the price of gas at the pump in 2024.
We would have been so much better converting to wind/solar power for heat, electric.
Land and Texas and elsewhere sink when oil is taken out of the ground.
Like the stories celebrities told us about the jab. 🤬
@@alyceclover Go back to 1974 to preach doom and gloom. That's all you people do.
@@alyceclover We've still had decades to make those energies viable but failed.
1 million Covid 19 deaths is a fact not a story.@@sophiacromwell8017
1974 was a very livable time. I could transport back there and function much easier than someone from 1974 being forced to exist in 1924.
That is an interesting perspective!
I met my wife in 1974 when I was 17 married her in 78, we had a great time back then but now things are good too! Really glad I can still remember like it was yesterday. Yep still married with kids and grandkids! I do miss the loved ones who are gone though.
Thanks for sharing your story!
When I came to the US in 1972, a Big Mac was $.63. The following year, I bought a new car for $2,400.
That is so interesting!
Adjusted for inflation that is $ 4.38 and $ 16,000 thereabouts
I remember buying a burger, fries, small coke for 85 cents at McDonalds. I also remember their "change back" slogan.
I grew up in southern California and saw Zeppelin three times in one week - Once in San Diego at the Sports Arena, then in L.A. and then again at the S.D. Sports Arena -- And there was Cal Jam I. All day festival seating concert with ELP, Black Sabbath, Seals and Croft, Deep Purple and the Eagles.
Crime was lower - No school shootings and it wasn't unusual depending on if you live out in the country, to see pick-up trucks with a gun rack in the back window with a rifle in it. People were a lot more responsible and didn't put up with nonsense.
Cars may not have lasted as long but they were easier to work on and most folks knew someone who could help them work on their car - Plus you could go to the junk yard and pull and buy parts if you needed something like a carb to rebuild.
Wages weren't as high - True - But my first little studio apartment cost me about $60 a month including electric, gas and water --- And it was only two blocks from the beach. An Enchirito, side of frijoles and small soda was maybe 90 cents at Taco Bell. A double feature at the local theater was 75 cents and they used to have a special of a soda and bag of popcorn for a quarter.
It wasn't all good news and there were problems with the era - but overall I would gladly go back and live through it all over again. Not just for the Levi Big Bells, incredible concerts or freedom - But to appreciate that I was in a special time and not take it all for granted.
Great examples. Great perspective. You were definitely there!
I was a Senior in high school in 1974. Wouldn’t trade being a teenager in the 70’s for anything.
@@harleydavid4064 I’m with you on that. I graduated high school in 1974. We managed to do without cell phones and lap tops. I would go back in a second.
Also in the class of ‘74. Hard to believe it’s been 50 years. 68 now with a 16 year old Daughter, I need 15 more years so I can pick out her Husband. Or at least approve of him!
me too Class of 74 Saugus MA with 427 in our senior class alone
Class of 1974. I miss halter tops and hot pants. 😢😅
Best year ever. The music, the prices,the people. Swimming and tire tubing,streaking,camping,just having good times with friends.I can remember woolworths had a fountain counter where you could have the waitress pop you a balloon of your choice to get a banana split at discount prices...the store was noisy w canarys chirping in the back and they would sell baby turtles also.It just seemed like a happy time from what i remember.I was only 11 but that specific year always felt magical to me.
Got my driver's license in 1973 and my first car was a 1972 Oldsmobile 4-4-2. I would go over to North Dallas and race it on Forest Lane. I graduated high school in 1975. Got my first real girlfriend in 1974, times were good. Went to the second concert at Texas Stadium to see the Allman Brothers and Joe Walsh. In 1974. Lots of the greatest bands were playing back then and I got to see a lot of them. Would I rather live in those times? Hell Fing YES! My first apartment cost $210 ,in 1977 and all bills paid. My first house in 1979 cost $25,000. Life was so much easier back then. I don't think most kids today would understand that. Thank for the tour down memory lane.
Graduated from high school in 1974.
I was a freshmen in 1974.
Me too.
Me too , boy those 50 years flew by , I'd go back in a heartbeat ❤
Graduated from Akron North HS, Class of 1974... Great times! Would hate to be a teenager nowadays!!!
Graduated h.s. 1974. To college 1974 to 1978. Buffalo state isn't it great. Then volunteers in service to America. Grad school 1980. Boston 1986 to 1996. Then Cali. 2008 n.y. 2012 new york city. Eventually florida. Miss the 70s. ❤
1974 was one of the greatest years of my life...I'll leave it at that, but yeah,...
Those were the Good Old Days!!!!
Typing classes were GOOD. I'm so grateful I took a typing class, taught by a nun, about 1972.
I took typing in high school in 1971. As I became an engineer and worked with workstations and computers my entire career, typing was one of the most beneficial high school classes I took. The others were my math classes.
So, learned by the "ruler" method.
Do you remember the REALLY OLD typewriter keyboards⁉️. They didn't have separate keys for the numbers one and zero or the exclamation point 😮‼️ We had to use the "l" key for one and the "O" key for zero. For the exclamation point we had to type a period and then backspace and type an apostrophe 😠😡🤬‼️. And kids today think that THEY have it hard 🤣😆😂‼️
That’s so cool!
Oh yeah...My high school typing class meant that since the '90s, I was able to type emails, etc., at a decent speed without looking at the keys all the time...aka "hunt and peck.
The GAS companies did NOT have the odd/even rules. The various STATE GOVERNORS did!!!!
And? The service stations sure did have odd/even days to buy gas where I lived back then.
@@alycecloverI believe the comment is referencing OVER-REGULATION.
I was a junior in high school in 1974. Good times, for sure!
Me too. I quit to get married. I sure don't regret it either.
my dad owned a service station from 1958, the year i was born, to 1995. he owned one of THE LAST service stations in the country. the oil companies conspired to drive all the service stations out of business.
i remember the gas shortages well. they were, IN FACT, caused by american oil companies who wanted to drive up prices and put independently owned gas stations out of business. soon self-serviice stations were the norm and service-stations were phased out. these service stations not only did matintance and car repairs but also pumped your gas, washed your windows, checked your oil and the air pressure in your tires. now you have to do most of this stuff yourself and go to 15 different places to do the rest. TECHNOLOGY HASN'T MADE THE WORLD BETTER! but try telling that to ALL the brainwashed, corporate minions who fall for the lie.
I was 16 in "74 and one of 11 kids!Mom&dad were great parents.We didnt have a lot,but we always had food on the table and conversation!Dad would send 2 of us to the store for a gallon of milk.he made sure there was enough change to buy penny candy,Great memories!!
I was 17 one of 10 kids, not a lot of money big round dinner table!
I started 74' in NYC then back to FLA. Born Again October, 1974. Delayed enlistment in the military for the next year. 74' was a wonderful, life changing year! ❤️
1974, I just graduated from college. Yes, it truly was better back then. Come on all the "wait, what about the bla, bla, bla, bla" group. No, you're wrong. It really was better back then. Great video, you did a fantasstic job.
It really depends upon your personal situation. Was not better for me, other than being a lot younger with more life ahead of me than behind.
@@alyceclover Which is why so many of us say that we would love to go back in time 50 years. What we really mean is including getting our 1974 bodies back. Either way, before long, we'd be whining and bitching about "I miss RUclips" and having to go to the library rather than "just google it."
Yes it was better back then.
@@nonelost1I would not.
@@jameshhenderson8243 Well said Sir.
Me & my better half tied the knot on August 17, 1974! Still together, till death do us part!
My next door neighbors were married on August 9, 1974. That's right, Resignation Day.
Life was so much better. I’m glad we had that, before political correctness, DEI, illegal immigration, identity politics, socialism, etc.
Number 6, the avocado green I know all too well! As a teenager I lived in a mobile home with EVERYTHING green!! Furniture, rug, appliances. To this very day, I do not like green, except in nature. 😅😊
I know that feeling!
So many memories...
I was 15 in '74.
Seeing all these images brings back alot of memories.
One memory is that nearly every Sat. our mom would pack me and my two brothers up in the car, and take us across town to see grandma (mom's mom).
Most times we would meet her somewhere, for a bite to eat, either Lums or Dunkin Donuts.
When we went to Dunkin Donuts you sat on stools.
I would always order an old fashioned plain donut and a drink.
Back then the old fashioned plain Dunkin Donuts had a small handle on them.
Such great memories of growing up in the 60's and 70's. 😊
"Don't rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby..."
Summer '74 heard it every time in the car with my folks.
Billy dont be a hero.. Come back and make me your wife.... Bad bad Leroy Brown..I was 17 in 1974
Don't want to believe that was 50 years ago. Wow.
I was 21 and in the Army. It was GREAT!
Vietnam was essentially over, so you were lucky, assuming that you just started then!
@rongendron8705 I was lucky. I didn't have to go to Vietnam. I was in the last year of a 3 year inlistment.
My firstborn arrived in 1974. He is 50 years old now. Wow! All my Grandparents & Parents were alive. Wow.
The automobiles back then WERE AWESOME! Did you notice the Corvette Convertible?… 1957-8?????
I graduated from high school in '75. Gas was 55 cents per gallon ($3.67 in today's money) Everyone on future college track was urged to take typing class. Am so very glad I did - even as a guy! As a history major, my college typewriter was a Royal manual portable. I still have and use it! 👨🏻🎓 ⌨️
I would go back to that year in a heart beat! The 60's and 70's were the greatest time to be a kid!
Remember it well...for young folks it was freedom and enjoyable!
Loved that time!
Yep..took typing class 1968...the 70s were my twenties... college backpacking in summer and so much great music❤
TVs were NOT as much as a car. Do NOT lie!!!
I paid $75 for my first car.
Gunther beer upstate NY 99 cents a six pack !!!!!@@deadname...
@dreuxgreaney3454
That's about what we paid for Old Style beer here in Chicago.
Yes they were. Bought a brand new car for $2395 and first color tv was 1999
Actually a new car could be bought for around $5000 at least under $10,000.. a good used car $500 maybe $1000.. and yes the new Curtis Mathis tv ran around $1000 or so.. that was when we had huge floor models and yes you could buy a car for what they cost
I had just gotten my Driver's license in 1974 and would go back in a second!! Year and a half later I joined the Navy.
I was 22 yrs old
Had a great motor cycle, BMW R69s
Traveled the U.S. for 4 months on it!!!
Life was great!!!
Everyday was an adventure!!
Sounds like an amazing time!
I graduated high school in 1974. Great times!
I was in high school in 1974 and owned my first car (a $200 beater), the gas lines really didn't last that long but gas did jump from around .25 cents a gallon to a couple of bucks, THAT hurt because many of the cars back then were land yachts and got around 4-5 miles to a gallon if that.
I took typing in HS because I was going to college, it's a skill that I'm still using right this minute because a keyboard is a keyboard whether it's on a typewriter or a PC.
When they lowered the speed limit to 55 the saying that went around was; "55 mph; slow enough to feel safe but fast enough to kill you".
my dad owned a service station from 1958, the year i was born, to 1995. he owned one of THE LAST service stations in the country. the oil companies conspired to drive all the service stations out of business.
i remember the gas shortages well. they were, IN FACT, caused by american oil companies who wanted to drive up prices and put independently owned gas stations out of business. soon self-serviice stations were the norm and service-stations were phased out. these service stations not only did matintance and car repairs but also pumped your gas, washed your windows, checked your oil and the air pressure in your tires. now you have to do most of this stuff yourself and go to 15 different places to do the rest. TECHNOLOGY HASN'T MADE THE WORLD BETTER! but try telling that to ALL the brainwashed, corporate minions who fall for the lie.
When I was 15 my Dad bought me a 56 Chevy for $100 😂
I didn’t have my license yet,but my parents would let me drive it to school 😂
No so sure that was a good idea .
No seatbelts, no insurance , even got pulled over . The cops told me to make sure I drive straight Home 😂😂😂😂
THE GOOD OLD DAYS !!!!!!!!!
I was 28 then & no cars got as little as 4-5 mpg, but I do miss $.25 a gal. gas!
@@cjmacq-vg8um. My dad also owned a full service gas station and when he retired my brother-in-law took over. It’s still full service to this day. I never pump my own gas, check the tires or wash my windshield.
@@kimmurrell7204 ... cool. i haven't seen a service station in over 30 years. glad to hear there's still some around. but they used to be the rule rather than the rare exception. DOES ANYONE REMENMBER "GAS WARS?" competing service stations would engage in "contests" to see who could charge the lower gas prices. this, too, became extinct as a result of the sham "oil crisis" of the early 70s.
All about the great music!! Good time's
Heck yeh grew up then, the best of life in my whole life. Wish we could go back in time. Food, cars clothes , TV, Ect. 💯🇺🇸✌️❤️😺🙀
I was born October of 74. I miss growing up in the 3 best decades ever.
Born in July of 74. Totally agree! Best 3 decades ever!
Who remembers collecting comic books, wearing Hang Ten T.-shirts with the bare feet logo or shopping at Zodys Department store or Riding a bike with the banana seat. How about, playing outside all day until it got dark or watching the Brady Bunch (favorite episode Hawaii trip}. How about watching Jaws at the drive in or reading Encyclopedia Brown books or Wearing knee high socks with stripes around the top with OP shorts and Vans. 😀
My kids wore vans in the late 80s to mid 90s.
NOT ONE photo from the MASSIVE entertainment value of STREAKING in 1974????? And NOT ONE photo about Patty Hearst, and her “adventures” with the SLA in 1974??? THIS “video” SHOULD have been done by someone WHO WAS ALIVE then!!!!!
Nobody can cover all things.
News and entertainment vs. daily life for average citizens in 1974?
Remember the song “The Streak”? 😂😂😂
@@sophiacromwell8017Gotta love Ray Stevens. 😂
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I was born in 1950. Love living in the 21st century!
I was in nursery school in 1974. I remember getting up early on Saturday mornings to eat my sugary cereal and watch Saturday morning cartoons.
The best times! I was 15 in 1974. Hanging out with friends and listening to the best music ever!! I like to say:Boys, Beer and Bad Company. 😅
I can remember when the speed limit dropped to 55 mph and it took forever to get where you were going on a road trip. The Big Mac was actually big and couldn’t be eaten at once. The double whopper from Burger King was quite large too. I miss the good old days when everything was just simple. Who remembers the rotary dial phone? 😂😂
Take me back and let me stay!
The good old days! I was a teenager! Wonderful memories of those years!
Even with Nixon and Watergate and the oil embargo people still felt confident about the future. That's not common fifty years later.
Give me the entire decade of the 1970's.
I was 21 years old in 1974 and got married and witnessed the birth of my first son!
I don’t think a Big Mac could ever feed a family???
Miss the 70s. The best😊😊. Had so much the music 🎶 clothes cute guys no social media. No technology. People talked to each other. Fun in college. Cheap rent. Generous guys. Easy to get jobs. Frisbee in the park. Volunteer work. Fun. Travel. Now unbelievable we are going to have a felon in the white house. What happened to America. Well there is always 2029 to look forward ✌ to.
"A Big Mac could feed a family, and leave room for seconds"?
WHAAA??? 2:55???
I guess because people were much thinner back then.
@@jamessherosick2747 our plates were smaller and we did not have a lot of all you can eat.
The AI could not remember 😂
that was a bit of a stretch wasn't it? growing my family refused to eat at mcdonalds or any fast food joint. they were FOR KIDS! and this is how fast food corporations took over american culture. they first HOOKED THE KIDS who grew up thinking that crap was actually good because its what they ate as kids. people, consumers, are blubbering idiots. they fall for corporate commercial lies generation after generation. I STILL HATE MCDONALDS! like wal-mart, they're a gangster organization. today, this country sux beyond comprehension because IDIOTS are so easily brainwashed by corporate lies and propaganda.
The cars were so beautiful back then...
And much easier to service and maintain than the look alike jellybeans we drive in 2024.
In 72 I was a Jr in High School and bought a 69 GTO Judge Carousel Red 4 Speed with 49,000 miles for $1250 which was crazy expensive then, car was like new & all original - today I have a 66 GTO and 69 442
My hourly rate to wait tables was .75/hour. You read that right. And most people could not figure out a 10% tip. But 1974 was wonderful. I am 70, and yes, I was there.
I took a semester of typing in 1980, not because I wanted to become a secretary, but because I was interested in computers and programming and knew that was going to require a huge amount of key banging, I wasn't wrong. The added benefit I didn't think of, I was the only guy in the class and got a lot of dates as a result! Also, back then McDonald's was actually tasty (when it was single digit millions served), the fries were some of the best ever made until the whole health craze hit forcing them to change their fry oil and they've never been the same. Today I wouldn't give you 65¢ for a Big Mac or anything else there, been calling them McNasty's and avoiding them for over 20 years now for a reason.
I was discharged from the Navy May 26. My first car was a new 1973 Ford Gran Torino, pastel lime, I bought through Ford Military sales, Subic Naval base. It cost $3,470.75 and paid it off in 1 year thanks for all that tax free Vietnam income I made on a minesweeper. Back then the Curtis-Mathes TV sets were the Rolls-Royce of TV sets, and brother ,they lasted. I had two and they both went over 20 years, perfect color. I was lucky, I never had to get in a gas line. The music was super! I'm 74 this New Year's Eve, and I'm glad I'm old, I'm glad I was born when and where I was. I have no use for this tech, all this nosey crap everywhere. The public phones, no problem, dirt cheap, and you weren't being recorded, big brother was not here.
I was 6 to 7 back then, and the bands/singers listed on that festival poster were all awesome 👏, wish I could have gone.
I'm glad you enjoyed the photos!
I was 18, a Senior in high school. My Dad was still alive and life was good.
I was 16 in 1974. It was a magical year.
I want to go back, too!
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be
I graduated from high school in 1974. It was a great time in the USA. The lines at the gas station did not last long. Only a couple of weeks. The economy was resilient.
We lived in Fresno and my husband was finishing college at Fresno State. We were so dang poor. Thankfully we had generous parents when we needed them..❤. I was working thankfully
I’m glad you made it through those tough times!
We purchased an RCA 25" color TV for $500.00 in 1975.
Early 1971. It was really easily close to 1000 to buy console TV...
I still shop at a locally-owned family grocery store. I pay higher prices but I will not shop chain stores, especially WalMart. NO WAY!
Loved typing class and I got an “A”! Never thought I’d use typing till computers came along.
Thanks for the memorirs Margaret!
My parents said life was better in their day. Funny because my grandparents said life was better in THEIR day. I think things are really great right now in my day!
Ah, Jimmy Carter and the gasoline crisis. In my diary from 1979 I wrote about how my mom bought gas on an odd day when we were even, and I wrote, "She cracks me up! She's such a nutball!" We were in our 1976 VW Bus, and I was still driving on a permit. Back then I was a big embarrassed that we had a VW Bus instead of a regular car. STUPID ME!
The first crisis started in 1973, well before Carter.
Driving 55 is torture.
We've Lost many more Good things ....and we've Gained much more Bad things! As President Harry Truman said..Machines have developed so much; and Morals have declines so much 😟
1974, when you could get a full meal at McDonalds for less than $5.
While you EARNED $1.85 an hour!!!
Less than 2 dollars.
I can still get a full meal at Wendy's today, for $4.00, i.e. "Biggie Bag"!
A burger, fry and a coke was 79 cents so you probably couldn't eat 5 bucks worth of McDonalds' back then.
6:26...Looks like that might be one of my beloved vintage Volkswagens, specifically, a '58-'63 "Herbie Generation" sunroof bug. I was driving my first car, "Howard," a '62 sunroof bug, back in 1974.
Mary Wallace was beautiful! I was 10 years old in 1974, and in May I turned 11. Expo 74’ was going on in the city where I lived and I got job there wearing a sandwich board advertising the Whitworth College Children’s Theatre. The cool thing about working at Expo is you got to go on all of the amusement park rides free. I had a blast! My mother worked in a food hut for people from Taiwan, and that was next to the theatre.
The KOOL Jazz Festival was something to attend.
I was 17 y/o in 1974. My first car was a 68 turquoise colored Mustang fastback. Loved that car, even though it was had damage from saltwater flood! Backseat was not very comfortable however for smashing with girls, because they were bucketseats. Also remember my Flyers winning Stanley Cup in 74! Great memories as a teen boy!
Thanks for sharing your memories!
Mine was a 67 Dodge Dart 225 slant 6 , 3 on a tree !!
Having lived as a teenager during the 70's I can 100% guarantee that no one walked around in the grocery store with boxes of items proximately displayed. Actually most people didn't buy much in the way of premade food or meals. One of the ways food cost less was people purchased ingredients and cooked at home.
That is an interesting point!
Quite true. I worked in a grocery store as a teenager in the 60s. The difference is visible - a lot more premade food and meals today than there was then.
Take me back!!! I need a Delorean!
Yep. I learned to drive when the speed limit was 55. I was terrified when it went back up to 70.
Back in 1974 the dunkn donuts in my town had all the cops hanging out and SMOKING. You would buy some donuts there take them outside take a bite and they tasted like cigarette SMOKE. I dont miss that
Back in the 60s, after evening rush hour traffic, about 6 o'clock there were hardly any cars on the streets.
Thanks for sharing that!
This was the time that gas went above $1.00. Before then, gas was $0.29.
Best year for the good old Grateful Dead. Wall of Sound! Alas I was too young and didn't get to see the band until 1979.
I was 10 years old in 1974 I remember it very distinctly Times have never been simpler we really need to retire that gruesome phrase. There are things about that time I miss mostly my youth and innocence and the fact that the people that I loved were still alive That's what people really miss. I am a deeply sentimental person But those rose colored nostalgia goggles are deadly dangerous Beware