If You Grew Up in the 1970s - You Remember...
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Join me for a nostalgic look back at what summer was really like for kids of the 1970s.
In the glorious days before cell phones and social media, American kids experienced a level of freedom and independence that today's kids would just not understand.
Generation X were the original latch-key kids. Our adventures began after a big bowl of cereal in the morning and came to an end when the streetlights came on.
In this video, we'll saddle up on the banana seat of the ol' Schwinn Sting-Ray for a visit back to the playground, community pool, and roller rink, ending the day with some night games in the neighborhood.
I really appreciate you watching these videos and reading this far in the description. I know there's plenty more that could have gone into this one. Please feel free to share your 70s memories in the comments so we can all be reminded of those great times when we were kids.
(NOTE: As of Sunday, June 16th Early AM - Comments are occasionally shutting off automatically. I've contacted RUclips for assistance and hope to get this issue fixed ASAP. I really do want to hear your comments and stories...)
Thanks,
Kevin
#1970s #1980s #genx
I really miss that era. No internet , social media, phones. Just being a kid without worrying about anything . I’m sad that the kids today will never experience that feeling.
It was a magical time. Movies at the mall. Going to the beach by ourselves. Freedom was ours!
@@TMendocino but who do you blame I mean you would be the parents of the children that you're complaining about. Perhaps you are the grandparents of those that you are complaining about.
So I mean if you wouldn't have been helicopter parents then guess what things wouldn't have changed.
@@American-Motors-Corporation I am a Grandparent, helicopter is not my parental style. My grandson got a hickey and the drama was over the top. When they asked me, I said, he is 16, that is what happens. 😳 😐 😑 😆 🤣
I sure do miss those days. I tell my grandchildren the stories of my childhood so often. The expressions on their faces is priceless when I talk about things that are pretty much obsolete now. Like calling to get the latest weather updates or if you were really bored, calling to get the correct time. My 36 yr old daughter grew up in the 90's with her brothers and always tells her kids how they played outside all the time. My husband and I couldn't afford a computer until 1998. So no internet but they did have video game consoles. They just didn't play nonstop like kids now or even their parents do. No kid had it better than us 70's kids, though. I'm sure kids that grew up in other decades say the same thing.
Anyone is welcome to still live like this. We all happily adapt to the benefits.
Reminds me of the old saying, 'At one point in your life, you and all of your neighborhood friends played together for the last time, and nobody knew it'.
I remember that day. For me it was mid 1985. We frequently played games like hide and go seek and “phantom” (a reverse versions of sardines). That night we instead got an offer to play D&D from the new kid on the block, and that was the end of those games. Then again we were just finishing up 8th grade; I guess we wanted to be more “serious” and hence move on from childhood. Alas, that D&D phase for me ended less than two years later - and after that point life got a lot more formal. Not just for me, but also the generation of kids behind mine.
Oof...that hit me hard.
@@janakafka4427 Right? Like a ton of bricks! This was the comment I wanted to leave but you beat me to it!
@@ericclark133 Did you pronounce it Hinggoseek?
@@eunoiavision7567 Nah...we called it hide and seek but I am from the South and we tend to shorten things up a bit. lol
Also, I remember being so young playing "hide and seek" and not being able to find a good spot? But the oaks we played under were large enough not to be seen. You could keep circling behind the tree, keeping behind it as the person seeking moved. Thing was, you had to be careful not to stumble on the roots or the noise would be a dead give away.
If you managed to stay hidden long enough for someone else to get flushed out, you could race to "home base" and be safe to hide again in the next round.
FUN TIMES!
If I could go back, I'd run!
Great comment.
You and me both. I had that bike.
Same here!! Those were the days
Me too!
God help anybody in my way, it was AWESOME...I would hate to be a kid today...its horrible.
Has no one picked up on the fact that there are no Obese people in any part of this film NONE!!! this is what our country has done to us with shit food.😢😢😢
Well, I agree, but we were also much more active. Don't know about you, but our rabbit ear antenna on the B&W crap TV with 2 or 3 channels wasn't too attractive. We spent all of our days (and into the nights sometimes) outside. Always active and burning calories.
We also weren't enabled by our parents to let us lay around the house & eat garbage food all day.
I don't care what anyone says. We had a better childhood than the kids today!!
TRUE! CELL PHONES AND PROGRESSIVES HAVE DESTROYED THE USA TODAY! BUT, I THINK A SHOWDOWN IS COMING!
@@claudedalton8970 Yeah - I'll wait until you can handle the caps lock before I worry about a showdown.
@@Redandranger "TUFF GUY", I USE CAPS FOR MY EYESITE! SEE YOU AT
12 NOON IN TOWN! LOL! GET A JOB!
@@RedandrangerBully much?
The 70's was a great time to be a kid.
There’s absolutely no doubt that the smartphone is the single most powerful weapon to destroy your entire life.
As we watch this on our smartphones
@@KRAZEEIZATION yet here we are all destroyed
No on a tablet.
Have Parkinson's so this is.my connection to the outside world.
I'm a.70:'s kid, loved summer!
3 words....THE GREAT DISTRACTION 📱
@@theresehill1660 hope you’re having a great day 😘 from one 70’s girl to another!! 🙋🏼♀️❤️
I feel so sorry for kids today. They have NO IDEA. Life was way better without cell phones and video games, and we are smarter and healthier for it. The one thing I wish you would have mentioned was how we were told to "come back home when the street lights came on". Great video!
@@desireeclarins5491 I feel sorry for them too, but you know what they feel. Sorry for us. The differences we’ve seen those days and these days they haven’t, but they know better than we do.
Notice how, in the 70's, the teens, before high fructose corn syrup ( which started being used in the 1989's) are mostly lean, normal size. It's not body shaming, just an observation.
I’m 59, my daughter is 28 and she can’t believe when I tell her we didn’t have water bottles and only drank from the hose or a water fountain. We survived on concrete playgrounds, no bike helmets, no seatbelts, no parental guidance. We basically raised ourselves. It was awesome growing up in the 70’s!
The BEST drink of water I’ve ever had was from a garden hose. You had to let the warm water get pushed out in the summer.
We had Charlie Manson and Jim jones back then.
@@jonburrows2684And we still have serial killers, cult leaders, and undesirables around today! Whether it's past, present, or future, the dark side of human nature will also follow along from generation to generation unfortunately.
Yes !! I'm 67 so we rode to the parks on our bikes, no worries! We would go to the grocery store in our own from about 8 years old, with a list of what to buy. We played imaginative games, roamed the neighborhood, not a worry. I have a 23 year old daughter and often feel sad she never was able to experience these things.
I always say I'm so lucky to have experienced the 60s 70s and 80s.
And of course, let's not talk about the cool bands lol
@@15Beaches 23 year old daughter? You started late didn’t you sister?
The older I get, the more it hurts to see these scenes and memories...we are all longing for a place that doesn't exist anymore.
Let’s rebuild it!!
@@valeriewedel2775 They won't let us. We've been trying but unfortunately this generation cannot comprehend the idea of outside as anything other than the space between two buildings.
@@sid2112 do you go outside? My kids got a fair lot of outside time and are doing interesting things now as adults.
It still exists. Also, my kids did not get cell phones until they were in middle school, and we used them as communication devices.
@@valeriewedel2775 Yeah, that's how I know the only people out there other than me and mine are tourists who couldn't survive a night out in my woods.
@@emmettjones5165 Very well said. It’s hard mourning for something that can never be replicated.
Beautiful girls with no nasty tattoos!
Girls were actually beautiful then. No nasty tattoos and they spoke without using the F word in every sentence.
Way to many tattoos and piercings for this kid 🧒
All the make up now! Yuck
And no obesity or blue hair!
What did your grandparents think about you in the 70s!!!?? And I bet you are a hotie now.
Right on MAN!
The lack of tattoos, lack of body piercings, the lack of green hair, the lack of Ugly clothing, the lack of fake celebrities, the lack of political screamers, the lack of hatred, the lack of violence, --good TV shows, good movies, good music, intelligant books, good cars, affordable food, affodrdable houses....Yes, I remember very well.
Men were real men and women real women. And no preferred gender pronouns.
I have to contest the good cars comment.. it was the early days of emissions Control when most cars ran like crap.
Those are all mostly good points, but there was some dark points then that still exist today that I and my siblings and mom would rather forget and probably many others did too! But all in all that era was amazing and I’d love to go back to visit!! This video is a perfect depiction!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Where are all of the fat kids
The thing that stuck out to me the most, was the smiles on ALL of the kids faces. Kids today look like zombies with their faces buried in their phones.
Exactly,not to mention no color to their skin.. Vitamin D is good for the skin!! Hint Hint 🌞🌞
When America was normal
Yup!
Amen!
Don't forget about the ice cream truck that came into the neighborhood. Oh, and snowcones too!
You guys are killin' me with the memories...and the comments, lol! Lord, I lived so far out in the exurbs growing up in the 70's, the ice cream man didn't even make it out that far. I sought friends where they did go! We are all longing for a place that doesn't exist anymore...
What a great time to be young. I’m so glad I grew up when I did.
I am so glad I got to grow up in this era.
We definitely we a lot tougher than the kids today.
The women were prettier and we could even eat nuts and gluten. Kids are so damn monitored and controlled now that we have 30 year old "people" that have no idea how to take care of themselves.
Absolutely correct!
I grew up in the 70s. I was born in the 60s. I miss it. It was simpler.
That's because life is simpler when you're a kid.
@@dinodiciolli7519 it was human and humane. What we have now is a mild version of the digital prison. Still mild, but getting less mild every day.
Who put cards or store bought ‘clackers’ in their bike spokes?
Who played badminton in the back yard?
How about family game night with Probe or Life?
Good times, good times 😊
I’m 62 yrs old. Brought tears to my eyes. Made me remember all those good times. It was so much fun. As the video mentioned…we taught ourselves how to have fun. And how to figure things out. And yes…I had a schwinn sting ray. I remember the day my dad took me to our towns bicycle shop. I wanted the candy apple red sting ray so bad. My dad bought be a gold one. It was $6 cheaper than the candy apple one. I loved my bike and all the freedom and adventures me and my sting ray had.
I'm 61 and I got a purple one, because the purple ones were cheaper for some reason!
No wokeness. No obesity.
No GMO
wokeness was an embryo at university
THIS IS WHEN THE LADIES LOOKED LIKE LADIES! MUCH MORE SEXY WITH NATURAL BEAUTY! MY WIFE IS *STILL* ONE OF THOSE BEAUTIES!
OMG! CAN WE CLONE YOU? WOW! YOU ARE SO SPECIAL TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUE MEANING OF BEING A LADY. MY DEAR SOUTHERN MOTHER...A TRUE LADY IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD, RAISED MY TWIN AND I TO UNDERSTAND THE WORD VERY WELL. TODAY, YOUNG GIRLS DON'T HAVE A CLUE WHAT THAT MEANS. IT IS NOT THEIR FAULT...FAULT OF PARENTS, OUR PROGRESSIVE WORLD. SO GLAD THAT YOU LOVE AND RESPECT YOUR LIFE THE WAY YOU DO! SHE IS SO BLESSED FOR SURE! BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOUR WIFE~~BEV~~
P.S. SORRY ABOUT THE SILLY TYPE..."LIFE" SHOULD HAVE BEEN "WIFE"
@@beverlyhill9947 THANK YOU BEVERLY, YOU DEFINITELY FIT MY CATEGORY OF BEING A LADY TOO AND DESERVE BEING CALLED SO! I'M WHAT IS KNOWN AS A "SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN" MYSELF AND I WAS RAISED TO RESPECT A LADY. I AGREE ABOUT TODAY'S YOUNG LADIES AND THE YOUNG MEN TOO! AS IT STARTS IN THE HOME AND THE MORALITY BREAKDOWN IN THIS NATION IS THE CAUSE. AS A SENIOR, I STILL OPEN THE DOORS, OFFER HELP IF NEEDED AND GIVE UP MY SEAT TO ALL THE LADIES. IF WE ALL DID THIS, 'GENTLEMEN", THE FAVORS WILL BE RETURNED ALTHOUGH I DON'T EXPECT THEM, AS IT WAKES UP SOME OF THOSE SLEEPING ON THEIR CELL PHONES. AND "GENTLEMEN" *IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO!* BLESSINGS TO YOU BEVERLY.
@@beverlyhill9947 I'VE GOTCHA DARLING.
It was a great time to be a kid, we were never inside.
@@ChrisJohnston-z7u Yup and after awhile we would get kicked out back into the yard.lol
I grew up in a small town in Massachusetts, everybody knew each other and we didnt dare get into any trouble. Christ we even knew who owned every dog that got loose.
Ah, '70s girls. No tattoos, no shrapnel in the face, no cattle rings, and long hair in a natural color.
and giant pubes
You're sooooo right! Sighhh
We put lemon juice and peroxide in our hair to highlight 🤣
@@amypope9098 Wasn't that called Sun In you could just spray on your hair?
@@larrytheableguy3441 forgot about that. Yes, they started selling it sometime in the 80s but, my click kept using the lemon juice and peroxide with baby oil and iodine mix on our skin. Hahaha! Oh I MISS those times.
Real girls, no tattoos, no piercings (just ears)!!! The whatsists of today are a pale comparison!!!
Amen
Notice, they all look normal, healthy. Outdoors all day, fresh air and sunshine. Learned to interact with people, I long for some of that today, but sadly, it’s gone forever
Yep, we stayed skinny because we were always moving. I miss that.
We also had food that wasn't tainted.
@@lynneb8639 Agree. The food tasted better, too.
@@VelvetJazz It was a real treat then to get a burger n fries out somewhere. Mom cooked every meal. I did the same with my kids. Too many moms these days r drive thru cooks! Too many obese children because of it.
Because of plastic (and other) contamination, low-protein diets, as well as lack of vigorous exercise, testosterone levels have been in free fall since then. Look at the boys pictured: lean, hard-muscled torsos, even on most little boys. Look at the girls with flat, even concave, bellies and sharply defined waists/hips. It's almost like looking at a different sub-species of Man.
@@VelvetJazz “Be Home Before Sunset! Or you’re in big trouble….”
70s and 80s were the best of times. If Time Machines were real i'd take a one way trip back, along with the knowledge i have now.
Green metal flake Stingray was mine. Best bike ever. Cards in the spokes for added fun.
No tattoos, no internet, no cell phones, no gender dysphoria, less anxiety for kids, less depression, freedom to play without omnipresent parents. Life was better than. I got to grow up then. What a great childhood!
"Gender Dysphoria"--
trans people
--have always been with us.
They existed & were recognized & Honored in all Indigenous cultures of which I'm aware.
They just didn't feel safe to come out openly,
in American culture,
until now.
I promise that these humans have been around pretty much since there's been humans.❤
@@redwoodrebelgirl3010 uhhh no.Its a mass trend that is nothing but attention seeking and fake.I will never support it.I also dont support mutilation to minors based on fantasy or delusions.There have always been gay people and I dont care if people are gay.I dont care if you "identify" as a unicorn either but it will not be pushed on me to accept it.Nobody deserves "special" rights for any of these things! Its gotten ridiculous!
@@redwoodrebelgirl3010 That's a complete lie little girl. But then you are a little propagandist aren't you? And not a good one at that. The 70s was the first decade that gay people were free to come out and they did. Anita Bryant was public enemy #1. If you don't know who that is then you're pathetic. But in truth, I see the liar that you are.
@@Runswithwolves6323 Rebel girl is a political propagandist. They are easily identifiable by the fake way they talk and by silly names like rebel girl. Nothing more than a propaganda bot.
@@redwoodrebelgirl3010No, now they are like a stain.
I watched a video of Lynard Skynard from a concert in Oakland a couple of months before the plane crash. I was at that concert. As the camera was sweeping over the crowd, I saw no obesity, none! We moved and had fun. I maintained a healthy lifestyle and at 76, jog and work out, all things I started in the 70s and continue to this day.
Correct..! so many videos of our days back then, and people were generally in shape. Now...., video games & tic-tock fat non-communicating young people.
That is all spot on. I recall the bike ramps, and catching lightning bugs at night, and building the tree fort. Great times that kids today will never experience.
FM radio was much better in the 1970s. Radio stations played deep cuts and sometimes played an entire album at midnight. Now its just the same songs over and over and over and over with 100 commercials to sit through.
Casey Kaysum top 40.
I grew up in the 60's and it was pretty much as you've described the 70's. Pretty much all of the time we were outside. Unsupervised. I'm glad that I had the experience of growing up in the 60's.
I was in kindergarten when President Kennedy was killed in 1963. So yeah, this video applies to the Sixties as well. Strange that there was no mention of the US Bicentennial in July 1976. 🇺🇸
I remember there weren't any fat kids back then. There was one 'designated' fat boy but, he wasn't even fat-- just a little bigger. Today fat is FAT.
Didn’t see any overweight kids in this video.
No fake nails, no fake boobs, no fake eye lashes, no tats, no internet, no cellular phones...what a great time !
There was fake nails ffs. In 1962, Cronin and Gerow reported the use of the first silicone gel breast implant, which marked the beginning of the modern era of breast augmentation.
In the modern era, body modifications gained popularity in the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Groups like the punk movement which started in the 70's - Ramones, Sex Pistols used piercings, tattoos, and other body modifications from tame Mohawk to nose piercings, safety pins thru lips. And tattoos during the 70's went from full sleeves tattooed, and the artwork itself became more detailed, including elements like shading and depth. Members of “seedy” groups like biker gangs rocked skeletons and Grim Reapers, while hippies rocked fairies and space-themed tats.
There is no way no one had tattoos at that time..
@@layisslay. Horseshit fella. Got my dope leaf tat in '73 at 16.
I was born in 1964 growing up in the 60’s and 70’s was a blast ! I would not trade it for anything .. think god I didn’t grow up in the 2000’s and up !!
Me too it was so much fun I feel sorry for these kids today. I'm a Grandfather now and wish my grandkids could experience the 60's - 80's
April 7,1964
Graduated in 78. I am so blessed to have been a teen in that era! I wish my gkids could have that same experience!
This is exactly my life in the 70s… great job. Also we had the BEST MUSIC!!!!!
@@LLEGG5087 I graduated in ‘77 and still listen to my classic rock. My millennial son, 38, loves it too!
@@LLEGG5087 oh yes, I graduated in 78 as well
and my eight track Pioneer super tuner that I had in high school in my car played some really good music back then which is still popular today :) good times were made and had and we will never forget 😌
@@LLEGG5087 The music of the 70’s is still here. Just as it was in the 70’s. This generation has the advantage of listening to all the 70’s music PLUS all the great music of their generation. They probably feel sorry for you.
@@danielinsactown8987 I bought my first new car when I was 20, a 77 Monte Carlo with an eight track. LOL Doobie Brothers Greatest hits I remember wearing it out. LOL. I loved CD players but having Alexa and apps like Spotify now are wonderful! I remember when we'd have to sit by the radio waiting for our favorite song to come on, and hated it when the tail end just finished playing. Good times.
Yes, we absolutely lived in the era of the best music! I have all my favorite songs from the 1960s to now saved on Spotify and play them when driving. It's so nice when every song is a favorite! LOL
No obesity and not a they them in sight! Joyous.
What an incredibly ignorant comment.
Freshly picked products and no additives that’s killing us today
Notice no one was obese back then.
I just got through saying the very same thing before I spotted your post..truly sad in today's culture
There was a couple of fatties but not like today
I want to go back to the 70's!!!😭
I wish my granddaughter would have the same freedom that we did. It was a great time to grow up.
@@lowen9778 me too!
We had 3 tv stations and the only time we really got to veg out was Saturday morning cartoons.
Yep! And as soon as Soul Train came on, it was time to go outside and play!
True, but if you didn’t go out and play or go shopping with Mom, you would have found that Soul Train had some pretty cool acts on it.
🎶My Hero Zero🎶
🎶Good Good Good Good 11🎶
🎶So I Unpacked My Adjectives 🎶
🎶Verb! That’s what’s happenin’ 🎶
On Sunday’s my father and I would watch Abbot and Costello movies together from from 11:30 am til 1:00 pm in the ‘70s. In the ‘80s, we’d sometimes watch kung-fu movies together at 3:00 pm.
@67Stu And all for free on regular TV. What a glorious time it was then, and most of us took it for granted.
I was born in 1960 & we stayed outside until dark! Except if we had chores.
The worst thing in the world was to be sent to your room and denied permission to go outside
God, I miss it! We were feral😂. We would be out all day with our friends, and our parents had no idea where we were or what we were up to. We were tough and knew how to handle ourselves. When did society start getting so soft on kids? What a shame😢
We were feral? LOL!!! Man, THAT is so damn spot on!
I'm 67 and my Mom who is 98 always tells me that we grew up in the greatest time ever and I 100% agree.
@@thomasm9139 god bless our mothers, they don’t make them like that anymore and yes, she was right. We grew up in a wonderful era 😌🙏🏻
Same age. Same comment.
Born in 1963 and fell in love the first time in the summer of 79, I held her hand twice and kissed her once. I still remember her today.
I miss the days almost no one was fat.
Exactly we didn't sit on our buts and play video games we were active outside all day.
@@Icemanracing1969 Exactly, a class room had the lone fat kid.
@dirkfrazier9779 yes maybe 1 or 2 was fat I would say that 95%of kids then were slim and fit, we had to fist fight back then we didn't negotiate.
Exactly!!!
@dirkfrazyes!!!ier9779
62 years old here and boy did you hit the nail on the head and hit the memory button. I am sad right now watching this video for SO many reasons. One I wish I was a kid again as this world we live in is really F up, and two I am sad that kids today will never get to experience what we did. That is beyond SAD.
Amen, this country has been given over to a reprobate mind.
You're breaking my heart man!! I love this ai much. I grew up in many ways just like this. It was awesome. I wouldn't trade my childhood with anyone. Especially today's kids
Wow, my heart breaks when I see that and compare it to today. There was still innocence and people worshipped God, and knew He was the reason for why America was free and asked Him to bless America.
Wow I knew once there was just males and females.
Calling the operator to break into your mom's phone call with the neighbor lady because she forgot to pick you up. Also, haha, listening in on your siblings phone call from the rotary phone upstairs
Life was so rich back then. The beauty in simplicity and the reward of making your own fun that cost next to nothing is something that is sorely missing in these modern times. Where did the world go so wrong that now our kids are over medicated, increasingly obese, not resilient and have so many mental issues ? I think we all know the answer...
Big corporations
Halleluiah you said "Lightning bugs"! NOT Fire Flies! Also, no one catches them with a butterfly net! You catch them in your hand!
And put them in a glass jar! Well, at least that's what we did, but then we would let them go. Just wanted to see the free light show.
@@dennistarrant3174one true example of climate change. At least in my neck of the woods there are none in my area now or should I say a stray one or two same goes for the birds and the bees
@@dennistarrant3174 yep!
the girls were actually female too
Heehee!
@@robertwood5831 i heard a comedian the other day with this description:
In the 80's women had a bush
In the 90's it was a landing strip
In the 2000's nothing
2024....a c.ck
Imagine that!
Watching this just makes me sad for todays world. I mean it. Legitimately sad.
I want to go back more than anything. My parents would still be alive as would my sister. My siblings and I would be all together again. Best years of my life .
This was my childhood sooo many great memories. I wish my children could have experienced this.😢
Stubbed toes, bloody nose, drinkin out the hose yup those were the days😂
So grateful to have been part of this...
Best days ever..😊to grown up in!
Living on a street with many of the kids you went to school with, playing running bases, fast pitch, ghost in the graveyard until dark. Summers seemed like they lasted forever. No internet no cell phones. We used our Imagination and were never bored. Best times of my life.
Forgot to add the part about hearing the ice cream truck coming down the street and watching creepy movies late at night.
Anyone remember running behind the mosquito spray truck thinking it was safe?
Classic!! Born in ‘63…experienced everything mentioned in the video! Summers were absolutely great! Never broke a bone 😄!
Same here! 63 class of 81!!!! I never went grocery shopping with my mom… she would tell me to go outside and play and come back for dinner🤣🤣🤣we would go in the woods find a stream and help dig out waterfalls!!!! And bring our barbies to make a resort for them!!!! Ahhhhh what a time to be a kid. I feel sad for these kids now. I tried to have my own kids experience at least some of what we had… but the world got very creepy .. fast ..
Spot on!! Back when we were all rough on each other and nobody was offended. Friendships were lasting.
Man… the 70’s and 80’s were the best. Most things just plain suck now. I wish I could take my kids and grandkids back to when things made sense.
There’s an ad for an online company recently. One of the t-shirts says “I may be old but I was alive before the world went to shit!” 💩
Or something like that. Enjoy life as much as you can, because once you’re dead…..
If you could take them back you would find that things didn't make quite the sense you thought they did.. your kids will be why is there a line at the gas station.. who is this Charles Manson guy? Who's the son of Sam. Why did daddy lose his job.. the 70s weren't all that great don't get me wrong I grew up then and I have great childhood memories.. but also remember everything else too.
@@B1B904 i agree. There lots that weren’t as great as I remember. I just feel that the world made more sense back then. Lots of things suck now and our kids have to live with it. I’m just being nostalgic
@@s.patrick6136 I completely understand.
Born in '56, so 14 in 1970. All so true. Bikes, go carts, forts, war with the kids across the brook (like they were a rival tribe!), cannonballs off the high dive at the community pool, etc. I would be out from 10:00am (there were always chores to do before), till 6:00 for dinner. Then out to the field to play capture the flag until 9:00. I chipped teeth a dozen times, broke my nose twice, stitches on my head three times and on my arms and fingers four times, a compound fracture on the ring finger of my left hand (I tried to catch a cheap, Voit football that was like a frozen brick of ice). Good clean fun. So many Boomer kids everywhere, all the time, day and night. It was a fabulous time to grow up. I don't envy the kids today. I feel sorry for them. Even my own grand kids.
The America we lost,
WOW! YOUR WORDS GAVE ME CHILLS! TRUTH CAN BE VERY EMOTIONAL. YOUR POST...SIMPLISTICALLY PROFOUND! THANKS FOR SHARING TRUTH. I AGREE WITH YOU...I WISH I DID NOT HAVE TO...
"Laying out" in the backyard, Sun-In or lemon juice in our hair and baby oil all over to get that perfect tan
Kids are waaaaayyy too babied now. We didn't have snacks and sippy cups everywhere we went, little to no supervision, being home alone at a young age was normal. Now and for the last 2 or 3 decades, parents raise their kids to think the world revolves around them and it's screwing up our society.
None of these kids are fat. What the hell have we done to our kids.
There were fat kids, they just sat inside and watched television. If they came out, their life was nothing but hassle for being fat.
Almost nobody was fat
This needs a million likes. It was so true
I noticed the same thing
We were always active!
Right! LOL!❤
@@Esico6 fat kids had no friends, makes them hard to remember
The seventies was the best time in life to live, I wish I could go back and stay there.
Age 14-19, 1970-1976. Fantastic time to be a young teenager and just barely young enough to miss Vietnam. I feel lucky.
Unbelievable. The 70s childhood in Soviet Union was exactly the same to every little detail. Yes, we even watched illegally imported movies with Evel Knievel and tried light versions of his performances just the same. I would have never believed how similarly we grew up.
That's awesome so far apart but doing the same things as kids.
It's such a small world and we are so much the same no matter what color of skin; where does all the hatred come from?
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Technology has destroyed the world 🌎 I wanna go back
Back then each class had one fat kid, and no one was confused which bathroom to use.
Incorrect. No one with gender issues was allowed to talk about it. Similar to ... There is not more racism today, just more cameras.
It was the best of times. So much better than a tablet in your face 24/7.
Born in 63. The 70s was great. Play outside all day and watch good tv at night. Only 6 channels and it was better.
The only thing missing from this video is the Ice Cream Truck you could hear coming from 3 blocks away
Loved the ice cream man!
YES!!!
I swear I saw an ice cream truck tinkling along a side road in Palo Alto around a week ago. A month ago there were six year-old girls selling Kool-Aid in front of a nice house. Except for the swarm of parents looming within eight or 10 feet. Still, we bought little 50 cent paper cups of colored water and left five dollar tips. The kids didn’t understand why.
What was it stopped parents from trusting little kids on their own? When did it start to seem dangerous? When abductions were covered in the paper? Is that it?
I hate to say it, but it looks like those kids were completely homogenous ethnically. I saw only two kids who might’ve been Jewish Arab, or Italian :-).
I've got a little story, I lived in Southern California. I happened to get employment with an ice cream truck. We went thru town with traditional ice cream music, until one day I had a cassette tape and started blasting " Hey DJ won't you play that song along with the Mary Jane girls. It was so funny 😁 everyone coming out there house dancing in the streets.
And the mosquito fogger truck ! We used to run behind it. Duh . . .
That’s exactly how it was! No mention of listening to music on AM transistor radios…that was the extent of our technology 😊
I'm more of a '60s kid, but we used tube radios into the '70s. Mostly AM until FM took off in the early '70s.
Grateful to have experienced my youth in these years.
Moms were WORKING at home! It wasn't considered valuable, essential work, but, guess what, homemaking, housekeeping is ESSENTIAL!
Little darlings clustered around snowflake parents? I'm so thankful to have been born before cell phones and the internet. I really feel badly for kids at a meal with everyone buried in a devise. None of them ever climbed a tree or played on a dirt play ground. Is it any wonder the world is so screwed up..........
Notice how NONE of the kiddos in this video had weight problems? This is why.
you forgot sneaking into your parents bedroom with your friends to use the phone and make crank calls with the phone book. That was me. 😁😁
Me too. I recorded some of mine on cassette tape.
60s too. Grab your bike and be home when the street lights came on. And in those days, any parent could hit your reset button if needed.
I like how you phrased that "...hit the reset button" . My reset button got pushed alot, lol! 😂
Halfway through this, I realized I was smiling. Did everything on this list. It was truly a time of joy.
1964 born. Too poor for bikes. Walked MILES everywhere. Tag, dodge ball, red rover, mother may I... Spending EVERY weekend with cousins, aunts, uncles. Miss it sooo much. Thanks sooo much for the video. 😢
We had a good childhood in the 70’s.
NO HELICOPTER PARENTS, NO HELMETS, JUST PURE "FREEDOM"!
Was the best time to grow up, we were lucky to be kids in this era.
Born in '66 and I remember everything. Dear God I hate the modern world.
Me too.
I agree. This modern world sucks. Why is everything so complicated?
I was born in ‘67. I want keys for the car, and a manual 5-speed transmission and a clutch. 😎
(it was even better in the early and mid 60s).😊
@@67Stu I hate automatic transmission. Sure it will get me from point A to point B. But if all I'm looking for is a ride, I'll just take the bus.
Saturday morning cartoons. Water balloon fights. Summer camp at school. Fishing. Building forts. Mowing lawns for money.
I’m a 1963 baby. Loved my summer - overnight camp, family vacation. Sunscreen (what the heck is that?).
Me too! Technically a boomer but relate more to the 70s than 60s.
No tattoos no fat chicks no social shit Good times I was a 70’s kid If I could go back I would.
Graduated 77
Gen Xers have more tattoos than all the generations before us. I love my tattoo. You can't see it unless I want you to but I love my tattoo 😂
And we rode in the back of pickup trucks to go see the drag races.
Sacramento Raceway to go see the "Fox Hunt" drags where all girls and women got in free!
The last great childhood. So glad I got to be there.