Flashback to 1979 - A Timeline of Life in America

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  • @pamcornelius9122
    @pamcornelius9122 2 года назад +75

    I graduated from high school in 1979 and got married to my HS sweetheart the following year in Miami. He interviewed Henry Winkler for our school newspaper (of which he was the assistant editor)! We were married for 41 years before he died very suddenly and unexpectedly in August of this year. The memories in this video feel like they happened only yesterday. Life is short.

    • @sdmurphy20
      @sdmurphy20 2 года назад +3

      My mom also graduated this year. Her and my dad started dating soon after 😊

    • @notyourconcern17306
      @notyourconcern17306 Год назад +4

      So sorry for your loss. I was born this year, and is great to look back at what it was like back then. I have heard plenty of stories .

    • @tommyboy1653
      @tommyboy1653 Год назад +3

      1978 grad married 1981,and lost about 6 friends by different causes ,and sorry for your loss .Time goes by like the wink of an eye.

    • @ntvypr4820
      @ntvypr4820 Год назад +4

      Graduated 1978, Married June 1979. While you are living it mostly life seems to go at a measured pace, but I have to say the last 20 years were like lightning. All the guys I ran with in HS are gone. Far too soon, and most of my class is gone. Life IS short. It doesn't seem that way when you start but at the other end oh, can you ever see it. I am sorry for your loss.

    • @DanteVelasquez
      @DanteVelasquez Год назад +2

      My condolences 😞

  • @sabrinapittsley2304
    @sabrinapittsley2304 2 года назад +16

    On April 9 , 1979, I started my long time employment with Martin Marietta which later became Lockheed Martin. I just retired from that job about 2 weeks ago.

    • @pegs1659
      @pegs1659 2 года назад +1

      Congratulations!

    • @mmaranta785
      @mmaranta785 2 года назад

      I worked at Lockheed in Sunnyvale from 1982 to 1988. I should have stayed longer.

    • @josephanderson7237
      @josephanderson7237 2 месяца назад

      Impressive. Do you know Robert Cock or David Cook?

  • @Blaze_1961
    @Blaze_1961 2 года назад +21

    I was 18 in 79. What a generation to be part of, I wouldn't want to be a teenager in any other decade.

    • @kristie7146
      @kristie7146 Год назад +2

      Me either. It was such a different time. My brother and I were saying the other day how blessed we were to grow up in this time. No cell phones no twitter or facebook. People actually talked face to face. I really miss those times. Also the best music ever !!!

    • @timothylawson3262
      @timothylawson3262 Год назад

      Facts.

    • @jc4388
      @jc4388 Месяц назад

      I was 8 and daisy duke could have had any man in the USA in 79.

  • @stillaboveground2470
    @stillaboveground2470 2 года назад +129

    1979 was a great year for me... I miss being young.

    • @Hoovie9596
      @Hoovie9596 2 года назад +3

      I was 5. I recall a few small things

    • @model-man7802
      @model-man7802 2 года назад +6

      Except for Jimmy Carter 1979 was a great year.Lots of Memories. 👌

    • @charlesbaldo
      @charlesbaldo 2 года назад +13

      @@model-man7802
      I would even take Jimmy Carter back to be 23 again.

    • @model-man7802
      @model-man7802 2 года назад +3

      @@charlesbaldo me too.

    • @deborahchesser7375
      @deborahchesser7375 2 года назад +5

      I turned 13 that summer, one of the best.

  • @HerAeolianHarp
    @HerAeolianHarp 2 года назад +60

    This is a wonderful series, and it gives me an adult perspective on the backdrop to my childhood.

  • @rr8960
    @rr8960 2 года назад +8

    I married the love of my life in 1979. #42YearsStrong. ❤️

  • @Truly1Tom
    @Truly1Tom 2 года назад +13

    1979 was a great year for me. I was a teenager during the '70s. I believe we'll never see the like again. I know I'm old. I can remember when Michael Jackson was ⚫ black ⚫.

    • @jackson5116
      @jackson5116 Год назад

      he was still black in the 80's!

  • @encompassvideo5429
    @encompassvideo5429 2 года назад +11

    I was 14 then and went from a small middle school to a large high school. That was tough for me. I was not prepared for this change. My grades were bad and my dad was pissed at me. He owned several businesses and was trying to support my whole family of 8 people. He was a shrewd guy and he succeeded. He died last year. We had a great relationship for most of his life. He was dedicated to his family and helped us all.

  • @jackforbes826
    @jackforbes826 2 года назад +7

    I remember all this stuff. Inflation, out of control crime, Gas prices and energy crunches, Concert tragedies, OMG I am stuck in a time loop

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner 2 года назад

      Sounds familar, right? There were even concert deaths recently (for an artist not comparable in greatness to The Who!)

  • @speckledhen409
    @speckledhen409 2 года назад +5

    I was Twenty seven year old and I thought I was getting old. Didn’t know what old was,haha! I sure do now.

  • @troylowe814
    @troylowe814 Год назад +2

    This was the best year of my childhood. I can remember sitting in the backseat of my dad's monte carlo on a Sunday night after we left Sunday night church services. On the way home dad stopped at Kroger's to grab a few snacks for us to munch on while watching the NBC Sunday Night Movie, while waiting on dad my mom turned the radio on and "Minute by Minute" was playing. Never before or since did I feel more at peace. I miss my dad, my mom, the monte carlo and the peace I felt in 1979.

  • @warrenwhitman3005
    @warrenwhitman3005 2 года назад +7

    Graduated High School that year. I remember that is snowed on May 9th on Long Island that year.

  • @bearforce187
    @bearforce187 2 года назад +44

    I was 14 in 1979, what a year, met my first girlfriend then thought it had to be real love LOL. There were some things I would love to go back and change that year, but it was still a good year for the most part, Much simpler times, the Sony Walkman was high tech stuff back then. Part of me wishes to go back to those times.

    • @paposwing2925
      @paposwing2925 2 года назад +5

      My cousin from NY gave me his Sony walkman. And I tell you, I remember the incredible sound even from the foam covered headphones. I remember it was very solid and well built. As a stupid 16 year old, I let one of my friend borrow it and one of his "friends" end up stealing it. I was so mad. At first I thought he made that up. But I ran into him recently. He's a well know Real Estate agent, and he seriously confirmed that's what really happened. That guy end up in jail for stealing credit cards.

    • @jedidrummerjake
      @jedidrummerjake 2 года назад

      Same thing happened to me!

    • @briansacksteder8524
      @briansacksteder8524 Год назад

      Ah yes times were different then

    • @Sam-blackwidow7329
      @Sam-blackwidow7329 Год назад

      very simple back then, not like today

  • @anthonypsomas1183
    @anthonypsomas1183 2 года назад +33

    I graduated high school in June 1979. This was an excellent 8 minute summary that drilled down quickly of the events of 79. Thank you for the memories! Great series on all the years! Keep them coming!

    • @Afib95
      @Afib95 2 года назад

      I graduated 1879 too.

    • @MIMIDSH
      @MIMIDSH 2 года назад

      I started high school in Sept 1978, so the majority of my freshman year was 1979

  • @doloreshuntoon7698
    @doloreshuntoon7698 2 года назад +13

    In the spring of 1979, the late John Wayne made his final appearance and created an overnight sensation at the 1979 Academy Awards Ceremonies in Hollywood, California. Good times, baby, good times.

  • @mariamercy7317
    @mariamercy7317 2 года назад +65

    One of my best years, if not maybe the utmost best! It was the year I ran to the alter of a church, to give my heart and my whole life to The Lord. I had gone through torture before that! Thank You Lord! God bless all of you here in this site ❤️

    • @deborahpellerito6117
      @deborahpellerito6117 2 года назад +7

      Amen

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 2 года назад +2

      @@deborahpellerito6117 I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay

    • @okd521
      @okd521 2 года назад +2

      I gave my life to the Lord that year as well, and actually studied for the ministry for a while. Thank God I grew out of my childhood fantasies.

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 2 года назад +2

      @@okd521 You have been reported, for "hate speech" & "inciting violence", your account will be deleted and banned.

    • @robertwhite9898
      @robertwhite9898 2 года назад +2

      Amen !

  • @Russ113
    @Russ113 2 года назад +2

    I turned 18 in the military in 1979. I was on bivouac at Ft. Benning, GA. They brought me in from the field for KP duty, lol. I miss the 1970’s. Thank you for these videos.

  • @timcarroll490
    @timcarroll490 2 года назад +22

    1979 had a lot of different things. I was 13 and live near Pittsburgh and remembered Three Mile Island well. It was also the year my We Are Family Pittsburgh Pirates won it all. Willie Stargell was Mister Everything. It was also Disco Demolition Night At Comiskey Park in July. Sadly, also, we lost Thurman Munson of the Yankees on August 2nd that year. R.I.P. Thurman

    • @julenepegher6999
      @julenepegher6999 2 года назад +3

      I was 20 in 79, I live in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, I was a big fan of the Pirates for most of the Seventies. Roberto Clemente was my favorite and Richie Hebner. Cheers to the good old days.

    • @dougthompson5449
      @dougthompson5449 2 года назад +2

      I was there at the last WS game ever played in Pittsburgh.

  • @footballlvnlady
    @footballlvnlady 2 года назад +42

    I moved into a new home that my husband and I helped build in January. That summer I found out I was pregnant with our first child.

  • @Mike4metal
    @Mike4metal 2 года назад +7

    I was 14 Years old and Loving Life music and youth!🔥✨

  • @jimnoe406
    @jimnoe406 2 года назад +2

    I was a senior in high school. Man to be young again

  • @barrybebenek8691
    @barrybebenek8691 2 года назад +9

    I was 8 in 1979. I remember all of this. I so enjoy all these flashbacks on this channel. Right back to early seventies. 🇨🇦👍🏼

  • @anthonydio7829
    @anthonydio7829 2 года назад +16

    I remember that plane crash at O'Hare. That plane barely missed a trailer park.

    • @starmnsixty1209
      @starmnsixty1209 2 года назад +2

      Yeah -- I was watching TV waiting for a series when the news of this terrible plane crash came on. Sadly, not all of our memories of the past can be good ones.

  • @ShawnCaldwell11
    @ShawnCaldwell11 2 года назад +15

    I was born on October 11th, 1979. My dad would always tell me stories of the 70s and how good life was back then. Yes there were problems, but nothing like it is now.

    • @1954shadow
      @1954shadow 2 года назад +2

      Oct. 11, 1954 for me.

    • @matrox
      @matrox 2 года назад +2

      America's best days were over by 79' it was well on its way to being the sh!thole it is today.

    • @ShawnCaldwell11
      @ShawnCaldwell11 2 года назад +2

      @@matrox i couldnt agree more....

    • @ShawnCaldwell11
      @ShawnCaldwell11 2 года назад

      @@1954shadow NICE

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 2 года назад +1

      @@matrox You have been reported for "hate speech" &" inciting violence", and your account will be banned & deleted, that is all, you are now dismissed

  • @davidsquires154
    @davidsquires154 2 года назад +7

    I remember the year 1979, it was my 4th year of living on my own. It was also my 4th year of working for Hudson's Eastland Mall. I also remember the long gas ⛽ lines at the gas stations. The Dukes of Hazzard came on TV 📺. The Disco group The Village People. The TV 📺 Sitcom Good Times starring John Amos and Esther Rolle. Good Times was a spin off the TV series Maude.
    I was 22 years old at the time.

  • @joebrown1382
    @joebrown1382 2 года назад +2

    I was 34 in 79. Your historical stories & videos should be required viewing by the young people of today.

  • @sonyafox3271
    @sonyafox3271 2 года назад +5

    My dad could not miss and wouldn’t miss the Dukes of Hazard, on Friday night my mom bowled, but, my mom didn’t start till 9pm, my parents would socialize some before she got started and my dad would sit there and watch the clock, he’d go back home to watch the Dukes and return back to watch mom bowl once the Dukes went off.

  • @allan9603
    @allan9603 2 года назад +22

    1979 was an interesting year for me. I spent the majority of it in South Korea in the US Army.
    The nightclubs in the "ville" dancing to disco music, the long summer days of the monsoon season, the endless cold nights pulling guard duty on the DMZ, and 12-14 hour work days.., are all etched forever in memory.
    As I look back today, I would do it all again.., minus the hangovers!🤣👍🇺🇸

    • @mrdraper4633
      @mrdraper4633 2 года назад

      I was 3 but living at Ft. Campbell, my birthplace, but spent the other half at Ft. Polk, LA. Thank you for your service

  • @Chilly_Billy
    @Chilly_Billy 2 года назад +26

    Oh man, seeing Alien in a dark theater at all of 12 years of age... scary stuff for sure!

    • @starmnsixty1209
      @starmnsixty1209 2 года назад

      That's for sure! Did you know science fiction writer A. E. Van Vogt successfully sued Alien's makers for plagerzation of at least one of his stories? Settled for a ridiculously small sum considering all the revenue the "Alien" franchise has generated since 1979.

    • @randygreen007
      @randygreen007 2 года назад +2

      No kidding! My best friend and I were too young to drive so we convinced my mother to take us. She stayed to watch with us (needed an adult to get in plus my mom was just fun that way) but my friend and I went to the bathroom to smoke a cigarette right before the alien burst out of Kane’s chest. When we returned that scene was playing on the screen and my mother had her feet up on the chair with her head tucked between her knees screaming her lungs out. It took a whole lot of convincing just to get her to stay. She refused to take us to anymore movies like that though.

  • @scratchdog2216
    @scratchdog2216 2 года назад +4

    Born in '65. Great times growing up.

  • @TenOrbital
    @TenOrbital 2 года назад +9

    My last year of high school. I remember thinking on the last day of school it was like stepping off a high-dive tower.

    • @equalopportunityoffender6732
      @equalopportunityoffender6732 2 года назад +1

      Graduated in 1979; thought holy shit, now what ? What a strange ride it's been. I can see The End off the conveyor belt from here. Oh my !

  • @DrumWild
    @DrumWild 2 года назад +4

    I was at The Who concert in 1979. It was my 15th birthday. Nobody was rushing in to get seats. Rather, it was a general admission show with no seating. The doors were opening late, the band stayed a sound check, too many people thought the concert was starting, and all hell broke loose.
    My feet didn't touch the ground the entire time.

  • @GuyPipili
    @GuyPipili 2 года назад +6

    Was a freshman in high school. What a year. There was a teacher's strike my first year. As well as current events of the year.

  • @Tiberius291
    @Tiberius291 2 года назад +24

    I was 21 and went to my first concert to see Prince inside an auditorium, front row seats, Teena Marie opened for Prince. Huge fan of "This Old House" and Bob Vila. Travis Scott and "The Who" have something in common. "Alien" a great well acted movie i went to see with my girlfriend, i enjoyed 1979.

    • @matrox
      @matrox 2 года назад +4

      This Old House still in production after 43 years.

    • @danityvanityinsanity
      @danityvanityinsanity 2 года назад

      So famous musicians were doing Satanic sacrifices back then too.

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 2 года назад +2

      @@danityvanityinsanity I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner 2 года назад

      @@matrox Is it? I am going to look that up, thank you for the reference.

  • @MidKid61
    @MidKid61 2 года назад +6

    MAJOR MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR 1979:
    Man of the Year (Time) = Ayoatollah Khomeini
    Playmate of the Year (Playboy) = Dorothy Stratten
    Pet of the Year (Penthouse) = Cheryl Rixon
    Sportsman of the Year (Sports Illustrated) = Terry Bradshaw and Willie Stargell
    Car of the Year (Motor Trend) = Buick Riviera Turbo Coupe
    Import Car of the Year (Motor Trend) = Datsun 280ZX

  • @Bigchet1223
    @Bigchet1223 2 года назад +23

    I turned 9 in December of 79. I was playing with hot wheels and legos then and didn’t have a worry in the world.

  • @marywilliamson1260
    @marywilliamson1260 2 года назад +4

    high school memories-- THANK YOU!

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 2 года назад +5

      @Mary Williamson, These were the days, when, there were not soyboys, or snowflakes, or Karins' and every boy and girl, in America, knew which bathroom, to use

  • @paulwicklund5044
    @paulwicklund5044 2 года назад +4

    My dad bought a 1979 Chevy Malibu station wagon new for $6,000. Gave me his 1970 Dodge Dart . President Reagan came to Luther North high school and filmed a TV commercial for his campaign. He's in my high school yearbook. Jane Byrne became Chicago's First women mayor after the city of Chicago got over 90 inches of snow.

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner 2 года назад

      Was that your high school?

  • @rexsexson5349
    @rexsexson5349 2 года назад +6

    Pinwheel was first broadcast as a channel on the Qube cable box in Columbus, Ohio in 1977. Turned into Nickelodeon in 1979. While airing, in the morning, Pinwheel for around 5 hours which later became Nick Jr.
    I was born 1977 in Columbus, Ohio. 😉👍🏻

  • @johnblaze5252
    @johnblaze5252 2 года назад +8

    I was 11 years old .. I would give up all the technology in my life if I only could just for a one way ticket back to 1979.

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner 2 года назад

      Just curious, why do you prefer that year?

  • @1985OldSkool
    @1985OldSkool 2 года назад +13

    The number 1s on the US Billboard Hot 100 during 1979:
    1/6-13 The Bee Gees - "Too Much Heaven"
    1/20-2/3 Chic - "Le Freak" (also #1 on 12/9 and 12/23-30 in 1978)
    2/10-3/3 Rod Stewart - "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"
    3/10-17 and 4/7 Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive"
    3/24-31 The Bee Gees - "Tragedy"
    4/14 The Doobie Brothers - "What a Fool Believes"
    4/21 Amii Stewart - "Knock on Wood"
    4/28 Blondie - "Heart of Glass"
    5/5-26 Peaches & Herb - "Reunited"
    6/2 and 6/16-23 Donna Summer - "Hot Stuff"
    6/9 The Bee Gees - "Love You Inside Out
    6/30-7/7 Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell"
    7/14-8/11 Donna Summer - "Bad Girls"
    8/18 Chic - "Good Times"
    8/25-9/29 The Knack - "My Sharona"
    10/6 Robert John - "Sad Eyes"
    10/13 Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
    10/20-27 Herb Alpert - "Rise"
    11/3 M - "Pop Musik"
    11/10 The Eagles - "Heartache Tonight"
    11/17 The Commodores - "Still"
    11/24-12/1 Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer - "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)"
    12/8-15 Styx - "Babe"
    12/22-29 Rupert Holmes - "Escape" (also #1 on 1/12/1980)

  • @Lyle_918
    @Lyle_918 2 года назад +4

    11 June 79: John Wayne passed away at age 72. News hourly via AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio & Television Service) at Hellenikon Air Base, Greece.

  • @ShiftingDrifter
    @ShiftingDrifter 2 года назад +6

    You missed a lot of influential events that defined the year - Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall made #1 on billboard charts, Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols died of a drug overdose, John Wayne died that year of cancer, and the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.

    • @briansacksteder8524
      @briansacksteder8524 Год назад

      wow pretty heavy for a year, miss the simpler times. i was in the late 80's

  • @TheDhammond
    @TheDhammond 2 года назад +17

    Thank you so much for this.♥️ This was a very special year for me.

  • @dougmorris9317
    @dougmorris9317 2 года назад +22

    This was the year I graduated high school, I remember this stuff like it was yesterday but I just turned 60 a couple weeks ago and it seems like a century ago too... time sure flies!

    • @donaldculp3759
      @donaldculp3759 2 года назад +4

      Me too! What a great year! And 60 is pretty damn cool these days!

    • @mbankslje0nk
      @mbankslje0nk 2 года назад +1

      I too was graduated in 79 and joined the Marine Corps.

    • @briankreezan7843
      @briankreezan7843 2 года назад

      @@donaldculp3759 Yes it is was my year as well . " And can't believe it but two thirds of my life have gone by sentence." ( So keep that in mind all you out there thinking about quitting DON'T life is short )

    • @donaldculp3759
      @donaldculp3759 2 года назад

      @@briankreezan7843 on my Harley vest..."Don't Fear Dying....Fear Not Living"

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 2 года назад +1

      @@briankreezan7843 I will NEVER quit smoking cigarettes', my doctor, told me, in 1972, that they are great for my health, I've been smoking for 45 years, and I have never felt better.

  • @evierodriguez82
    @evierodriguez82 Год назад +1

    My younger older brother and cousin were born in '79. Brother: New Year's Day. Cousin: New Year's Eve! ❤❤😘😘

  • @BrianRetro
    @BrianRetro 2 года назад +2

    July 12th brought us Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park. It is widely known as the beginning of the end of the popularity for Disco music.

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 3 месяца назад

      It was a great moment in Chicago history. 😁

  • @jasoncataldi2053
    @jasoncataldi2053 2 года назад +4

    Long live The Dukes. Really a shame , my favorite show growing up & can no longer watch it.

    • @jrussellcase
      @jrussellcase 2 года назад

      John Schneider has a great RUclips channel. If you've never seen it, it's worth checking out.

    • @noble604
      @noble604 2 года назад +1

      Maybe you’ll consider getting the entire DVD set. It’ll take you right back.
      🙂

  • @booth2710
    @booth2710 2 года назад +3

    If there was a door with a sign over it saying 1979 I would go through that door in a shot

  • @kotysuefawcett6538
    @kotysuefawcett6538 2 года назад +1

    This channel ROCKS! Thank you. 👍🤗✌️

  • @LegendaryDCC
    @LegendaryDCC 5 месяцев назад +1

    My birth year in the May of '79. Thanks for showcasing noteworthy events on that particular year. 👍

  • @stealthyBLK
    @stealthyBLK 2 года назад +2

    this is a great series PLEASE DONT STOP!

  • @paulakpacente
    @paulakpacente Год назад +1

    I remember it well. I was 25 years old... I lived in the Chicagoland area then and recall watching EVERYTHING about Flight 191. Such a tragedy caused by human error.

  • @stanbertmotors6817
    @stanbertmotors6817 2 года назад +3

    Thanks a lot for the memories, 1979 is a special year for me since it was the year i came to the USA, i was 16 years old. so it was like a new
    beginning for me, i keep playing the play 4 lotto ( which i still have not won ) and the numbers are 1979. but you can count on it that soon i will
    win it.

  • @timcarroll490
    @timcarroll490 2 года назад +7

    By the way, loving your series also there, Recollection Road. This is so great especially restaurants and years, especially 60's and 70's. I watch a new one every day and can't wait for a newer one. I'm constantly checking in 😆

  • @dw8840
    @dw8840 2 года назад +6

    I had a Walkman

  • @pdennis93
    @pdennis93 2 года назад +30

    The Dukes of Hazzard was my favorite show growing up and I was born in 1979.

    • @Kelle0284
      @Kelle0284 2 года назад +1

      I was born in 74. I didn't start watching it until the fall of 81. I caught up by seeing reruns later on.

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner 2 года назад

      I was born in 1979 also. My younger brother Luke (born in 1981) was named after Luke Duke. I thought a lot about that show for about 18 years, it was really big on my area.

  • @davidperry7271
    @davidperry7271 2 года назад +2

    I turned 16 in 1979 and started driving fun year had a job making pizza and went to voc - tec for automotive wich I still do

  • @morganbrittany3962
    @morganbrittany3962 2 года назад +6

    My husband Jack Gill was the stunt double for John Schneider in “Dukes”! He drove the General Lee and did those incredible car jumps. Great times.

  • @williammoseley17
    @williammoseley17 2 года назад +2

    The year I graduate High School. Was the best of times with nothing matching it since.

  • @brett4264
    @brett4264 2 года назад +11

    Wish these were longer and more detailed...

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 2 года назад +1

    Fantastic video, thank you so much for making it.

  • @Exotic3000
    @Exotic3000 2 года назад +2

    Thanks for posting!

  • @Chilly_Billy
    @Chilly_Billy 2 года назад +16

    From an economic standpoint, 2021 feels an awful lot like 1979. Lots of "malaise" both years.

    • @tearosy
      @tearosy 2 года назад +2

      Inflation, high gas prices too. I was 23 in 1979. Now I'm 65 and on what my dad called Social Insecurity.

    • @Paramount531
      @Paramount531 2 года назад +3

      You aren't kidding, I feel the same sense of rage over current events that I felt in 1979 and 1980, Jimmy's recession was brutal and it took me years to recover. Hopefully, we will have the same result in the election of 2024.

    • @fenian123
      @fenian123 2 года назад

      @@Paramount531 Ronnie's 82 recession was far worse than 79

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner 2 года назад

      Yes, very similar.

  • @Madness832
    @Madness832 2 года назад +6

    Now I'm gettin' anxious; you're closin' in on the 80s!

  • @Nieve_1231
    @Nieve_1231 Год назад +1

    This is so fascinating to watch! I was born on New Year's Eve 1979!

  • @MikeBrown-ii3pt
    @MikeBrown-ii3pt 2 года назад +11

    Catherine Bach (the REAL Daisy Duke!) was my first love! She was too old for me though so I married my second love in 1987. We were both 18 and we're still married!

    • @jasoncataldi2053
      @jasoncataldi2053 2 года назад +1

      Met her at Dukes convention at Cooter’s in Nashville for the 40th Anniversary of the shows debut. She is still a beautiful , sexy, charming woman. A dream come true.

  • @DMS-pq8
    @DMS-pq8 2 года назад +2

    Also on April 10th a mile wide tornado devastated the North Texas city of Wichita Falls killing 44

  • @davecerrillo4186
    @davecerrillo4186 2 года назад +3

    I Always Say
    1979 Was The Last Great Year on Earth ❤️

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 3 месяца назад

      Could have been, thanks to 3 Mile Island...☢️

  • @molinalong3468
    @molinalong3468 2 года назад +7

    Celebrities which age in 1979
    Ariana Grande =0
    John Davidson =38
    Bill Cullen =59
    Gene Rayburn =61
    Eva Longoria =4
    Angelina Jolie =4
    Katie Holmes =1
    January Jones =1
    Sarah Michelle Gellar =2
    Prince =21
    Madonna =21
    Michelle Pfeiffer =21
    Valerie Harper =40
    Michael Landon =43
    Garry Moore =64
    Jack Lord =59
    Cameron Boyce =0
    Cameron Diaz =7
    Farrah Fawcett =32
    Natalie Wood =41
    Richard chamberlain =45
    Richard Dawson =47
    Whitney Houston =16
    Mariah Carey =9
    John Travolta =25
    Donna summer =31
    Sigourney weaver =30
    Fred Astaire =80

    • @digitalporch2062
      @digitalporch2062 2 года назад +1

      Ariana Grande (-14) Cameron Boyce (-20) 🤣

    • @pernelldh
      @pernelldh 2 года назад +1

      Lisa Whelchel =16

    • @1985OldSkool
      @1985OldSkool 2 года назад +2

      Richard Dawson was hosting "Family Feud" at the time on both ABC and in syndication, and Donna Summer had three number one hits on the US Billboard Hot 100 that year, including a duet with Barbra Streisand late in the year.

  • @alexpeters3548
    @alexpeters3548 2 года назад +1

    1975 / 1979, The bestest time ever, Good people, friends, laughs, smiles and pretty girls. and a kegger or 2 for good measure

  • @bostongirlsandy
    @bostongirlsandy 2 года назад +5

    I won a Walkman in an art contest in '96. The only thing I have won to this day. It was a drawing of Rio de Janeiro.

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner 2 года назад +1

      Like winning a piece of history. Cool prize.

  • @thinkingoutloud6741
    @thinkingoutloud6741 2 года назад +7

    In ‘79, we only thought government was evil. Looking back from today, after witnessing an evil government for real, ‘79 wasn’t so bad at all.

    • @okd521
      @okd521 2 года назад

      Tell me you've been a lifelong Republican, without using the words I've been a lifelong Republican!

    • @thinkingoutloud6741
      @thinkingoutloud6741 2 года назад +2

      @@okd521 I’ve been a life long Independent.

  • @frankrizzo4460
    @frankrizzo4460 2 года назад +33

    It's almost as if history is repeating itself with economic and inflation problems today. Sadly it will probably continue for some time. I was only a little kid but I do remember the gas shortages, when we had to do odds and evens license plate numbers to get gas.🤔

    • @joeheid4757
      @joeheid4757 2 года назад +10

      I came down here to comment the same thing. History truly does repeat itself.

    • @charlesbaldo
      @charlesbaldo 2 года назад +9

      Go even farther back to1919. You will see pandemic, communists attempting to change the government, and even an attack on the government.

    • @allenmcgee6061
      @allenmcgee6061 2 года назад +10

      Yea we had a Democrat president then too. I went to the Indian Ocean on CV-64 the Connie 2 months short of a year we made it back to San Diego. Democrats seem to always run the country down a s#it hole. If anyone was to wonder pelosi is the devil’s bi#ch, l hate that Cu#t. Allen

    • @charlesbaldo
      @charlesbaldo 2 года назад +2

      @@allenmcgee6061
      Thank you for your service, what were you rated on the Constellation? I was on the Zippo CV59, a little bit after that.

    • @rockabillykidd3085
      @rockabillykidd3085 2 года назад +4

      @@allenmcgee6061 Why does some Idiot like you always have to drag politics into these Recollection Road Flashbacks? 😂😂😂

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 2 года назад +9

    Catherine Bach should've taken out a patent or trademarked those shorts!
    Roscoe was at first mean, but Jim Best wanted him to be more comical.

    • @jdtractorman7445
      @jdtractorman7445 2 года назад +1

      I don't know if Catherine ever did, but she sure should have. Denim jean shorts for the ladies have even been deemed "Daisy Dukes" for the most part. Who can forget the image of her in those shorts, high heels and suntan pantyhose😘. Roscoe and Boss Hogg should have won Emmys for their comical humor, I miss those two guys. Even my grandfather used to laugh at them.

  • @djbigpean
    @djbigpean 2 года назад +13

    I remember that album, Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, I was four at the time, listening to it over my cousin's house. Great year for Pittsburgh, the Steelers won the super bowl, and the pirates won the world series.

    • @model-man7802
      @model-man7802 2 года назад +2

      I bought that album too,I was 18.

    • @veronicagallo2035
      @veronicagallo2035 2 года назад +2

      Our Ma ma actually took all 4 of us kids to see ** The Jacksons* that yr a few months b4 Off the Wall hut the charts with A BuLLET !! EVERY song on there was just superb ! Saw RodStewart Barry Manilow and many more that yr also thanX to a great Mom who took us all to many shows , plays etc🤗🤗💖💖Yes , even besides music 😁📻 79 was one great year ☮️✨🌛 Beach in daytime 📻😃Drive Ins st night all bundled cozily + Very happily into our* beach wagon* ! WaitAminut I still do the same thing now come to thinking it but 79 WaS one GREAT YEAR! 🎵📻✨🌛

  • @zymaymyn
    @zymaymyn 2 года назад +4

    Also in 1979:
    Magic Johnson's Michigan State Spartans beat Larry Bird's Indiana State Sycamores to win the 1979 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.
    The "We Are Family" Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1979 World Series. The Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl earlier that year as well.
    Christopher Cross released his self-titled album. Contains the hits "Ride Like the Wind", "Sailing", "Never Be the Same" and "Say You'll Be Mine". It won an 'album of the year' Grammy.
    ESPN was born.
    Disco Demolition Night forced the Chicago White Sox to forfeit the 2nd game of a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers.

    • @darrylh1971
      @darrylh1971 2 года назад +1

      And CBS debuted the game show "Whew!" hosted by Tom Kennedy (April 1979).

    • @1985OldSkool
      @1985OldSkool 2 года назад +1

      As of November 2021, it was the last time that an MLB game was forfeited in the American League.

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner 2 года назад

      ESPN being born is really important today.

  • @JT-sz7xc
    @JT-sz7xc 2 года назад +6

    I was a 10 year old kid in Indiana when that plane crashed, every time something came on the news I wanted to watch. I’m sure this has some influence on me becoming a pilot. When you look at 1979 and 2021 it’s strange how much they have in common?

    • @jrussellcase
      @jrussellcase 2 года назад +1

      I was a smidgen younger, I turned 8 in '79. I also found myself paying WAY too much attention to the news for a kid that age. That hostage crisis hit home for us, one of them was from our small city.

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 2 года назад

      @@jrussellcase I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner 2 года назад

      There is a lot in common. We had gas lines recently and are certainly in a recession (soon to be a depression).

    • @briansacksteder8524
      @briansacksteder8524 Год назад

      what is that plane crash @ 3:20'sh?

  • @robertabrams8562
    @robertabrams8562 2 года назад

    Wow…I was 19 in ‘79 - thanks for the recap 👏🏼

  • @dwaynecoy1871
    @dwaynecoy1871 2 месяца назад

    This was the height of my "mixed tape" era. My best friend had a huge record collection and a great stereo system, which I had none of. I would get him a bunch of blank tapes and he would load them up with music from his collection of LP's. Also the year I graduated from HS, great times.

  • @dano336
    @dano336 2 года назад

    wow!! that was great.. thank you

  • @allisonchancey7590
    @allisonchancey7590 2 года назад +7

    On June 29, 1979 I married the love of my life. Being young and in love, we thought nothing of driving to Miami Beach for our honeymoon. Gas rations and lines were just unusual things we remembered to tell our children. This was one of the best years of my life!!

  • @pernelldh
    @pernelldh 2 года назад +5

    Also in 1979...
    WRTV and WTHR in Indianapolis, Indiana had swapped networks. WRTV formerly an NBC affiliate, now ABC affiliate. WTHR formerly ABC affiliate, now NBC affiliate.

  • @MisterMikeTexas
    @MisterMikeTexas 2 года назад +1

    I turned 16 in November of 1979. I remember much of those events.

  • @molinalong3468
    @molinalong3468 2 года назад +7

    Number one in that year
    Hot stuff
    Bad girls
    Reunited
    Babe
    Sail
    The pina cola song ( final number one song for 1970s )

    • @1985OldSkool
      @1985OldSkool 2 года назад +1

      So too did My Sharona, I Will Survive and What a Fool Believes.

    • @smorgasbordtv4092
      @smorgasbordtv4092 2 года назад

      and... Don't Stop til You Get Enough

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 2 года назад +1

      @@smorgasbordtv4092 I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay

  • @aandc2005
    @aandc2005 2 года назад +8

    Tensions in the Middle East imagine that....guess what? still is! Over 40 years! Btw daisy was so danm hot let's face thats why most of us guys watched it like bay watch...

  • @timjohnson2186
    @timjohnson2186 10 месяцев назад +1

    Well done

  • @redwandennaoui4508
    @redwandennaoui4508 2 года назад

    Very informative documentary on 1979, thanks

  • @doloreshuntoon7698
    @doloreshuntoon7698 2 года назад +13

    In the spring of 1979, Kiss released their next album which was entitled "Dynasty." It featured two hit songs including "I was Made for Loving You, Baby!" and "I Sure Know Something." Then on Halloween night of the very same year, the four original long-haired kabuki guys appeared on NBC-TV's "The Tomorrow Show" which was hosted by the late Tom Snyder himself.

    • @mikeyvicious2399
      @mikeyvicious2399 2 года назад

      ❤️

    • @okd521
      @okd521 2 года назад

      I had a friend at that time who really liked kiss and the band thin Lizzy and meatloaf. I thought they all sucked but I never said anything!

  • @pameladunn7785
    @pameladunn7785 2 года назад +2

    . Thanks for the memories! On my birthday March 28, three mile island happened. That was right after the movie The China Syndrome came out. Scary stuff!

  • @charlesbaldo
    @charlesbaldo 2 года назад +32

    In 1979 Michael Jackson was still black.

    • @smorgasbordtv4092
      @smorgasbordtv4092 2 года назад +2

      MJ was always black it was a disease that turned him white

    • @randygreen007
      @randygreen007 2 года назад +1

      @@smorgasbordtv4092 you’re absolutely right. It’s called vitiligo and it really sucks. My mother has it and it’s pretty tough psychologically.

  • @joshct9426
    @joshct9426 2 года назад

    Really love these shows about each year

  • @gillboardman8998
    @gillboardman8998 2 года назад +10

    Wow did my hair stand on end when that first pic of Flight 191 flashed on the screen. Seeing that jet sideways still makes my emotions sink and my eyes tear up.
    I flew on one of those new fangled DC-10s a few months later and was petrified the whole flight, Seattle to Anchorage. I literally left fingerprints on the seat arm.

    • @RZ350NC
      @RZ350NC 2 года назад +3

      A friend from work was on that plane. RIP Rebecca.

    • @timjones7547
      @timjones7547 2 года назад +1

      An error in maintainence (engine change) damaged the pylon attacking the engine to the wing.

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 2 года назад +1

      @@timjones7547 You have been reported for "hate speech" &" inciting violence", and your account will be banned & deleted, that is all, you are now dismissed

    • @squalli1297
      @squalli1297 2 года назад +1

      I worked for a funeral home that received 4 of the crash victims. American Airlines paid for all expenses. When something like this goes wrong, there's no time to prepare due to the shock & confusion. I've heard that the sheer terror of an event like this would cause heart failure & death before a crash. These things I cannot forget.

    • @melrose9252
      @melrose9252 2 года назад

      The DC 10 wasn’t “new fangled” and had been out since the early 70’s,

  • @tomjonas7384
    @tomjonas7384 2 года назад +2

    Love the 70s so much simpler than now

  • @Lousybarber
    @Lousybarber 2 года назад +3

    Another 1979 event from Chicago was disco demolition night at Comiskey Park. A promotion that went horribly wrong and caused lots of mayhem.

    • @robertshaw3711
      @robertshaw3711 2 года назад

      Another event that year was an accident at the final day of the Texas State Fair when two gondolas collided and fell to the ground killing one man and injuring a few others. People were stranded for as long as three hours before they could be rescued. The fair was forced to close six hours early. The gondola ride was then dismantled and never used again.

    • @doloreshuntoon7698
      @doloreshuntoon7698 2 года назад

      What a pity!!!

  • @doloreshuntoon7698
    @doloreshuntoon7698 2 года назад +1

    On Sunday night, December the sixteenth, 1979, movie & TV star Joseph Bottoms became the caped-crusading superhero himself called Major Effects on NBC-TV's "Disney's Wonderful World." It also featured Cybil & Tricia Barnstable (from the short-lived science-fiction comedy series "Quark") as themselves.

  • @rrice999
    @rrice999 2 года назад +3

    Well, now, I would have thought the Dec. release of Star Trek TMP much more culturally significant than KvK.

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner 2 года назад

      I was born on the day it was released to theaters.

  • @ElDuderino84
    @ElDuderino84 2 года назад

    You have a good narrative voice

  • @ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary
    @ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary 2 года назад

    In 79 I was in Middle School.. How the world has gone down hill from there.. Sad..

  • @malamuteaerospace6333
    @malamuteaerospace6333 2 года назад

    Awesome. Alien how couldn't I miss that one.
    H.R.Gigers master piece
    and the Who's trample.